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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-12-21, Page 3worthy to blacken yuur, oldest shoes. from batteries of war anal pouring I When the brid e at Ashtabula broko out from ortholes of shf s will van- iT V (, TRUTI and let down the most of the carload ish, p ships t jff of passengers to instant death, Mr. A distinguiehcd general of our civil P. P. Bliss' was seated on one side war told me that Abraham Lincoln of the aisle of the car writing down proposed to avoid our civil conflict a Christian song which to was wotxi- by, purchase of all the slaves of the posing, and on the other side a group south and setting them free. IIe cal- of men were playing Bards. Whose eulated what would be a reasonable 1andieg place in eternity would you price for thein, and, when the nun- prefer.. that of P. P. Bliss;, the gos- ber of millions of dollars that would pel singer, or of the card players? be required for such,' e. purchase was A great complaint conies from the . announced, the. proposition was theatresabout the ladies' high hats ' scouted, and the north would not because they obstruct the view of have made the offer, and the south the stage, and a lady. reporter asked would not. have accepted it if made. me what I thopght about it, and I "But," said my military friend, "the told her that if the indecent pictures war went on, and just the number of of actresses in the show windows millions of dollars that Mr. Lincoln, were accurate pictures of what goes calculated would have been 'enough on in many of the theatres night by to make a reasonable purchase of all night then it would be well if the the slaves were spent in war, he- ladies' hats were a mile high, so as sides all the precious lives that were to completely obstruct the vision. If hurled away in the 2.;0' battles." Iii professed Christians go to such piaeee other words there ought, to be sone during the week, no one will ever other way for men to settle their persecute them for their religion, for controversies without butchery. they have .none, and they are the The church of God will yet become joke of hell. But let them live a con- the arbiter of nations. If the world secreted and Christian life, and they would allow it, it could to -day step' will soon run against sneering oppo- in between Germany and trance and sition. . settle .the troubles about Alsace and For et compromise Christian chat- Lorraine, and between England and rater an easy time now, but for con- 'her antagonists, and between all the secreted • behavior grimace and cavi other nations that are flying at each cature. For the body, thanks to the other's throats and command peace God of free America. there are now and disband armies and harness for no swords or fiery stakes, but for the plow the war horse now being the souls of thousands of the good, hitched to ammunition wagons or in a figurative souse, rack and gibbet saddled for cavalry charge. That and Torqueniadae The symbol of the time inuet coxae, or through the in, domestic and soeial and private and creased facility for shooting men and public suffering of jt great multitude blowing up cities and whelming hosts' of God's dear chitchat), pillars of to instant death, so that wo can smoke. What an er:riling scene in kill ,a regiment easier than wo could India when during the Sepoy rebel- once kill a company and kill a bri- g r •, ,kill a regiment of .11i.,hl..nd. rs carne gado easier than we could ogee i 1 ,•h ue and found the deed bods; of one a regiment, the patent offices of the of General Wheeler's daughters, who world more hese• than ever in recog bad bean insulted and mauled and niziug neav c•u• bleary of destruction, slain by the :'cloys. So great w.ui the.ittuitan areae will after awhile go the wrath against the'e nunrderers lighting with one arm, and hobbling that the Seoteh ref intent sat down, with one foot, and sttumiiling along and, cutting off the hair of this dead with one eye, and some ingenious in - daughter of General Wheeler. they 'rentor, inspired of the archangel of t divided it among them. and each one all mischief, will contrive a machine' counted the nunnlaer ,it heir; g;it+•n that will bore a holo to the earth's him, and each took an e'::t'f. whii•it center, and some desperate nation was executed, that for r•.aa:h hair of will throw into that hole enough dy- the murdered daughter Alen would nzlrite to blow this hulk of a planet dash out the life of o. brsl:ial Sepoy. into fragments, dropping the meteor - But as we look over the story of ie stones an surrounding stellar habi- those who in all ages have suffered tations. for the truth, while Me leave e'en- But this shall not be, for whatever geance to the Lord, let us band to I let go I hang on to my liihle, gether in one solemn. vow, one tri which tells me that the blacksmith's inendous oath, after having counted shop shall, yet comae to irs grandest the host of luartyre. that for each use when the warrior and the bus - one of these glorious i and wo- b n dutan s1111 enter at side by side, .rtes who died for the truth au inn, and the soldier shall throe into its. Mortal shall live --live with God and bank of fires his sword, and the far - live forever. mer shall pick it up as a plowshare, But, as I already hinted in the first and the straight( at spear shall he sentence of this sermon, nothing can bent into a. crook at each end and be moro beautiful than the 'figures of then .cut in two, and what was one smoke of a clear sky. You can see spear shall he two pruning hooks. what you will in, the contour of this Down wifh Moloch and up with volatile vapor, now enchanted cas- Christ? Let no more war horses eat ties, now troops of horsemen. now out of the manger where Jesus was bannered procession, now winged born. "Glory to God in the highest, couriers. now a black angel of wrath and on earth peace, good will to under a spear of the sunshine turned men!" to an angel of light, and now from 'It is demonstrated to all honest horizon to Horizon the air is a plc- Hien that it is not so certain that Lure gallery '.Filled ssith masterpieces William Cullen Bryant wrute "'l"h.en- of which God is the artist, morning atopsis" or Longfellow wrote "Vitt - input's of smoke born in the sunrise watha" as that (rod, by ;the hand of and evening clouds of smoke laid in prophet and apostle, wrote the Bible the burnished sepulchers of the sua- All the wise men in science and law set, a'ui medicine and literature and nmr- The beauty of the transfigured ohandiso axe gradually coming to be- eniuke is a divine symbol of the lievo in Christianity, and soon there beauty of the church, The fairest of will be no people who disbelieve in all the fair is he. Do not call those it except those conspicuous for lack persecutors of ss' hum I spoke the of brain or men with two families, church. They are the parasites of who do not like the Bible because it the church, not the church itself. Ilcr rebukes their swinish propensities. mission Is to cover the earth with a The time is hastening when Chem supernatural gladness, to open al] will be .no infidels left except liber - `prison doors, to balsam all the tines and harlots and murderers. wounds, to moss all the graves, to Millions of Christians where once f ds • fireplace o i s gds. and thousna burn. up the night in thethere were thousands u , e. great morning, to change iron hand- where once there were hundreds. cuffs into diamonded wristlets, to What a bright evening this, the turn the whole race around, and evening of the nineteenth centuryi whereas it faced death commanding And the twentieth century, which ie it, "fright about face for Heaven!" about to dawn, will, in my opinion, Accordiug to the number of the spires bring universal victory for Christ of the churches in all our cities, and the church that now is ine rch- tawns and neighborhoods, are the ing on with step double quick or, if good homes, the worldly prosperities, you prefer the figure of the text, is and the pure morals, and the happy being swept on in the mighty gales souls. of blessing imposing and grand and Meet me at any depot the world majestic and swift like pillars of over, and with my eyes closed take smoke, mo by the hand and lead <me so that Oh, comp into the church through my feet will not stumble, and with- Christ the door, a door more glori out my once looking down or looking ous than that of the temple of Her- on the level take me to some high cotes- which had two pillars, and one roof er tower and let me see the was gold ' and : the other emerald tops of the churches, and I will tell .Come in to-daysI The world you you the proportion of suicides., of leave behind is a poor world, and it arsons, of mui'dders, of thefts. Ac- will burn and pass off like pillars of cording as the churches are numer smoke. Whether the final contlagra- ous are the crimes few. According tion will start in the coal mines of as the churches are few the crimes Pennsylvania, which, in some places, are numerous. The most beautiful have for many years been burning organization the world ever saw or and eating into the heart of the ever will see is tho much maligned mountains, or whether it shall" begin church, the friend of all good, the foe near ` the California geysers or moon andfurnaces •of "f• ' thefrom out the of all evil, air aswhether clear as the sun:." Beautiful in her Cotopaxi and Vesuvius and Strom - Author, beautiful in her mission,, the boli it shall burst forth upon the as - heroine of the centuries, the bride of tonished nations I make no pro- Christ, the queen of the nations! phecy, hut all geologists tell us that You lying and hypocritical world, we stand on the lid : of a world, the shut up those slanders about . the heart of which is a raging, roaring, church of , Christ, an •institutihn awful flame, and some day God will which, far" from being what it ought let the red monsters out of their ira- te be, and never pretending to be prisonment .of centuries, and New perfect, is 500 times better than any York on fire in 1835, and Charleston other institution, that the world ever on fire in 1865, and Chicago on fire saw or ever dreamed of. The high- in 1872, and Boston on fire in 1873 est honer I ever had, and the high- were only like one spark from a est honor I shall ever receive, and blacksmith's forge as, oompared: with want .is to blazewhich will the highest honor :I ever that lash universal i h. have my name on her records' asa be seen in. other worlds: But gradu- member. At her altars I repented. any the flames will lessen, and the At her sacraments I believed.. In her world will become a great living service let me die. From her doors coal, and that will take on ashen let, mo be buried, 0 church of God! hue, and thou our ruined planet will Thou home of the righteous! Thou begin to smoke, and the mo`tintains harbor from tempest! Thou refuge will smoke, and the. valleys • will forthe weary! Thou lighthouse of smoke, "and .the islands will smoker many niatioas! Thou type o'f heaven! and the seas will smoke, and, the cit- I could kiss thy very ,dust with iey will smoke, and the five. conte- ecstacy .of affection. penis will be five pillars of smoke. `Victor Hugo in .hie book entitled But that will not interfere with "Ninety-three," says.: "Nothing' calm your investments if you have taken er than smoke,,, but nothing more Chrise as your Sae -lour. Secure. startling.• There are peaceful .awakes, heaven as your eternal home, and and there. are . evil ones. The ihielc- you can look down upon a diaman- xiese and color of a line of smoke tied, disrupted and demolished earth make the . hole ,:difference .leetween without any perturbation. war and peace, between frater'iity and hatred. The whole ,happiness of When wrapped in fire the realme of man or his cocaiplete misery is some- ether glow, times, expressed in this : thin vapor And heaven's last thunders shake the which the mind scatters at will." earth below, The; great Frenchman wag right, but 'Thou, undismayed, • shalt o'er the I go further bend say that as the ruins smile • And light thy torch at Nature's fun- eral pile. Qlllars of Smoke Typify God's Power and: Mercy. THE FIRES OF PERSECUTION, Er. Talmage Tells 9t Trin,pplia,iI souse cies for the Sake tf Trete -God'e. Sus- taIuiur Gr;aes.Can Carry Aft Through tee 'rime of pureness wet Despair. Washington, Dec. 17. ---The trials through which the truth, has strug- gled are by Dr. Talmage here set forth under a Bible seinbol of great suggestiveness and epower, text, Solomon's Song iii, 6, "Who is this that eoutcth out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke?" The architecture of the smoke is wondrous, whether God with his finger curves it into a cloud, or rounds it into a douse, or points it in a spire, or spreads it in a ruing; or, as in the text, hoists it itt a. pillar. Watch it ssinding up from the country farmhouse in the early morn- ing, showing. that the pastoral in- dustries have begun, or see it as- tending from the chimneys of the city. telling, of the homes fed, the factories turning out valuable fab- rics, the printing presses+ preparing book and newspaper, and all the 10,- 000 wheels of wore itt notion. On a clear day this vapor spol;en of mounts with such buoyancy and rereads ouch a delicate veil across the eky and teems such graceful fines of circle anti semicircle and waves and tosses and sinks and soars rind scatty's with such alike -ewe of shape and color and atimestfveness that if you bavo never no- ticad it you are like a. than who has all his life lived in Paris and yet never seem the Lux- exnbourg, or all his life is) Dome and never seen the Vatican, or all his. life at Lockport and never seen Nia- giarp.. Forty-four e hues the Bible speaks of the smoke, anti it is about time that Setnebedy preached a aer- mon recognizing this strange, weird, beautiful, elastic, changing. terrific and fascinating vapor. stress the I3ible Blau goats the smoke of Sinai, the smoke of Sodom, the smoke of JiJ, the smoke of the pit, the smoke of the vlcaic hills when towel - ea ou t- ea them, and in my. test the glor- ious church of God coming up out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke. In the first place, these pillars of *make in my text indicate the suf- tering the church of God leas eudured,. What do I mean by the Church? I mean not a building, not a. sect, but those who in all ages and all lands and of all beliefs fate God and aro trying to do right. lair many ecu- torics the beaveus have been black with the smoke of martyrdom. If set side by side, you could girdle the earth with the fires of persecution— Rowland Taylor burned at Hadleigh, IlkLatimer burned at Oxford, John Rogers burned at Smithfield, John Rooper burned at Gloucester, John Huss burned at Constance, Lawrence Saunders burned at Coventry, Joan. of Are burned at Rouen. Catholicism as well as Protestant, lam has had its martyrs. It does neem as if when any ono sect got complete domination in any land the devil of persecution and cruelty took possession of that sect. Then see the Catholics after the Hugue- nots. See the gentiles after the Jews in Touraiue, where a great pit was dug and lire lighted at the bottom of the pit,and 1 00 Jewish victimsims were consumed. dee the Presbyterian Parliament of England, more tyran- nical in their treatment of opponents than had been the criminal courts. Persecution against the Baptists by Paedo-Baptists. Persecution of the Established church against the Me- thodist church Persecution against the Presbyterians. Under Emperor Diocletian 141,000 Christians were massacred, and 700,000 more of them died from banishment and ex- posure. Witness the sufferings of the Wal- denses, of the Albigenses, of the Nes- torians. Witness tit. Bartholomew's massacre. Witness the Duke of Alva driving out of life 18,000 Christians. Witness Ilerod and Nero and Decius send Hildebrand and Torquemada. and Earl of Montfort and Lord Clever - house, who, 'when told that he must gide account for his cruelties, said : • "I have no need td account to man, d, as for God, 2 will tate him in iy own hands." A red line runs 'through the church history of 1,900 years, a line of blood. Not by the hundreds of thousands, but by the millions must we count those slain for Christ's sake. No wonder John Wilton put the groans of the martyrs to an immortal tune, writing: Avenge, 0 Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mount- ains cold. The smoke of martyrs' homes and martyrs' bodies if rolling up all at once would have eclipsed the aoon- daysun and turned the brightest day the world ever saw into a midnight. this thatcoin upu "Who is comethout of the wilderness like pillars of smoke?" Has peresecution ceased? Ask that young man who is, trying to be .a Christian in a store at factory, where from morning to night he is the butt' of all the mean witticisms of unbelieving. employes. Ask that wife whose husband makes her fond- ness for the house of God and even her kneeling prayer by the bedside a derision and is no in fit for her holy companionship tllab a filth y'cosd would be a fit. companion for a robin or a golden oriole. Compromise with tho world and surrelader to its ,con- ventionalities and it. may let you alone, but all who will live godly in Jesus Christ must suffer persecution. Be a ,theatre going,: card, playing, wino drinking, round dancing Christ - !an, and you may escape criticism and social pressure. But be an up and down, out and out follower . of Christ, and worldling will wink:: to worldling as he speaks your name, and you will be put in many a dog - kingdom of Gocl advances like pillars gerel` and snubbed by those not of smoke, the black volumes belching 1 SCS '-�F &6SeDelV4C W SEMS4SSSS&6 L?ll re .Nothing Succeeclo Lille $ttrccss." k>tt est► to ts.ti..tstaaf..a e• aoc pays for a DOLLAR nt• $.% MONTHLY MAGAZINE. for ,p le one year, to any adaress. IS EASIER TO US TEIAN s.• Last week we offered a Dollar Magazine 'Monthly for aid per year, We had such a rush of subseribers that the November and December issues were quickly exhausted. We made this extraordinary offer solely to reach a cer- tain figure in circulation Leforc the end of the year. We have reached that point already. We now raise the price to 30 cont$, and next week we may raise to 35c. 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A ¶ONERFIIL FEAT All Toronto is Talking of a Most Remarkable Occurrence, Are, the Days of Miracles With Us Again `: —Regent Events in Certain Directions Would Seem to Indicate That They .Are. Toronto, Deo. 13.—A few weeks ago the press of this city gave the partic- ulars of a successful case of skin -graft- ing, a large number of patients in the hospital voluntarily permitting the surgeons to take from their arms and chests small pieces of skin, which were "grafted" on the back of a young lad who had been terribly burn- ed some time previously, and whose baok was entirely covered with these engrafted pieces, which have "taken root" so to speak, in the most satis- factory manner. Now comes the report of a still more wonderful triumph of medical skill—a man who was horribly mangl- ed. and broken by a fall of forty-five feet, and who has been an almost tot- ally helpless cripple in consequence, having restored to him the compara- tively full use of his limbs; and fully all his wonted strength and health. The narrative is a most interesting one and shows clearly the wonderful extent of modern medical resources, The man who has had this ram ex- perience is George Roberts, a well- known bricklayer, who lives at 82 Armstrong Avenue. At the time of the accident he was working on one of the walls of the building now known as the Toronto Opera House, but which was then the Adelaide Street Roller Skating Rink. The bones of both his legs Were broken at the ankles, the joints in his left foot were dislocated and other injuries equally severe, were inflicted. For six months the victim lay in the hos- pital, his legs in splints, and his foot in a plaster of Paris cast. The most skilful medical men in Toronto attend- ed him, and succeeded in setting the fractured bones in the legs, but the dislocated joints of the foot defied all their skill. It was found utterly im- possible to 'keep the bones in their places, and at the end of six months Mr. Roberts left the hospital a help- less cripple, with little prospects of e%er recovering the use of the foot. After a time, however, the bones grew together and he was thus enabled to move about, though there was not the least semblance of movement in the joints. But withthis change came new troubles. Rheumatism of the most agonizing nature set in, and his nervous system became a source of continual torture. Day after day, ex- periments intended for his relief were made, doctor after doctor treated him, one kind of medicine after another was used, but all efforts Were fruit- less. For two yews he cutin*cad in- creasing torment, and, as lie told the reporter, had it not been for t9ie tin fulness of the petition, he would have prayed that he might die. This piti- able suffering continued: until a few weeks ago, when what many of his neighbors look upon as a genuine r r d to miracle hewas tom letol caro e mp y health: In a -voice broken and quiver- ing with emotion, ho told .the reporter how this happened. "0f late my sufferings had grown almost unbearable:. The lower portion of my body was entirely without feel- ing, except that of the burning agony caused by my rheumatism, and my quivering nerves I was at this time,. watching with interest the case of a young girl, Laura Sheehan, Who had been brought home from. St. Michael's hospital to dig, but who was steadily getting better. ,since her mothg how giving her Dr.Arnold's.In f sh Toxin Pills. So Wonderful was ber improve- ment that I thought I would try the medicine myself: I did so, and thank God, it made a new man of me. My terrible, agonizing rheumatio pains are gone. My nerves are now as sound, strong and steady as over they- were, heywere, and I am . enjoying the best of health and can eat and sleep naturally, and do a full day's work. I have used, I believe. every remedy you can name, but they did me not a particle of good. Dr. Arnold's English Toxin Pills alone benefitted me, They have given me new life—made me a new man in fact—and I earnestly and hon- estly urge every man or woman who suffers from rhumatism or broken dowel nervous system to take this mast excellent medicine. When it cured me, it will eure anyone." Dr. Arnold's English Toxin Pills are made to cure disease in the only rational way—by killing the germs that cause it. They stand alone in this respect, for no other medicine made destroys the germs of disease in the system. Dr. Arnold's English Toxin Pills are sold by all first-class druggists at 75 cents a box, sample box 25 cents, or sent postpaid on receipt of price, by Tho Arnold t''hemieal Co., Limit- ed, Canada Life Building, 42 Xing West, Toronto. Not Worth Hie Salt, This is an expression that we often hear, but few people realize its antiq- uity or its original meaning. It is handed down to us from ancient Roman days when the soldiers used to receive a portion of salt as part of their pay. "Sal" is the Latin for salt, and when in the course of time the salt was commuted for money the amount was called "salarium," or salt money. Hence our word salary, and hence also the expression, "Not worth his salt." Canadian Fruit for Paris. The exhibit of Canadian fruit at the Paris exposition promises to be ea attractive feature. Great care has been shown in selecting the sped - mens, and it will require fully 1,000 jars to hold them. More cargo is. being offered for the Albanian, the first vessel to carry the exhibits, than had been counted on. Aocordingiy a second shipment will be made by the steamer Assyrian, which will leave Portland on; December 8. There is some comment that Portland has been chosen for winter shipments, but it is explained that the Leyland line . has the contract for carrying all the. Can- adian exhibits, It is stated that good rates have been secured over the rail- ways from Antwerp to Paris, the com- panies having made reduction to the extent of 50 per cent. on the rates' for exhibits destined for Paris. Peat of Bog InCanada. u t: A bog of 40,000 acres of peat 20 feet thick has been discovered in Canada, which, when compressed, makes s hotter fire than coal. The peat is on* and dried and pulverized and put into a hopper, and then forced through s, two-inch tube and formed into three- inch hrewinch cubes, and is then as heavy' as anthracite. It is free from sulphur, makes no soot, smoke, dust or clink- ers, needs but little draft and burns well in locomotives. The owners think they have a bonanza. Where. Dentistry FamIs. Patient—That sign of yours is nod Pert'' encouraging. Dentist—Why so? I guarantee to extract teeth without pain. Patient—Yes but I want the pais extracted. I'd rather keep the tooth. Sworn Testimony Dominion of Canada, In the matter of cure • Province of OntarioTO WIT: by E L. E O T I IN E County ofWentworih, KIDNEY BEANS of Pattie]; J. wee 11ama;of Dundee. Ont. e I, PATRICK ICK ,TAMES WILLIA1tS,ofeheTown of Dundas, in the County of wentwortb, shoe- maker, do solemnly de- clare and swear that the statement I have made this day is true and cor- rect• P. J. 'WI/ALL/MS. Boot end Slay. Manufae- tnrer. Age rtes y,earse I have been troubled with kidney and bladder diaeas for five years, rc,wing w,.rse, merli- cinos failing, to reileva nye, eivinguehnee of re- ���� lief. August 1.5th a sem- '" pie of Electine Kidney Beane was left at my place of business. I tool: them The burning, scalding sensation which was ao painful when I made water began to • be relieved, althnu-•h I had suffered in that way fofa year, and the pain in my hack that I could at times scarcely turn over in bed. I bought four boxes of ilte Kidney Beans from the Dun- das Drug Company, and now feel that I am cared—no haelraohe, no pains when I urinate, I cheerfully recommend Electine Kidney Beane to ail sufferers of kidney and bladder disease which prevails among men of my age. Your remedy is a sure, a quick and great cure. Declared before me at the Town of Dundas, in the 0ounty of Wentworth, this nth day of 1`Tov., A.D. 1895. A. M. WARDELL. Electine Kidney Beans for side at all drug, tfists, 95e. per box, If your druggist has not got hem in stock; take' nu other. Send case direct, 250. per box, or five boxes one dollar. 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