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happy. Carr, dl L'tl him aor000 the with malaria boll •grin, ! of water
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t your x!011(1 tt' i o obtcic at tbo corner up ono ctrl + r th 1 +phi 1 uta!-• and
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:aztt o ony 1 f l l L l llrnnd dnaG lin dnlu 1Ll + sinalow •.f Lhn
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lip. lInw tb,w utast pity no as'
they 10"lir over :uhd tool down mot
', Bao un, andalio. : "lout thing away
1,Iwtl i., t]r1 l+i 1 11'::1 .3,.::1
tanto Christi in i� herbal tutu a fatal
IiIEA 18th. the Dol nrr t ,1(l L „ rex and I, F ,
way, and o;a ilio agliulsu pv r;k 1 lar ':w tal,r!t, tilt etas „'flood, ho to 1I
tx Caleb, ilia gamer, gave anima 41 al. egnomiae. Your hankers, your in tho groin' of orn•ribl, Um Mita of 1 coming 1" 1 a d when we ',tend
leelable x.,md 10 Llre 1n, HO Gad ItaxI suranca men, your importers. your sardonyx, Hai fire of j niiutll: nrnund the email! of s ,1(h+a lov+ 1 unu
jtv11Ap1oxalery -!Lod y�.nr rataiinrs, as a { (whose strength 1 :;oino, away) and
10 sig Allo We w,trld,a Goodly Ai01aC I 1tAl'Pr IN Lim
ANI,
GLAb 1S LV.AriI.
.vlAlett to 6Nre1t' I elle,+— av 0 ulaos, are the happy ? w0 shako 'O1 eelslo forebodingly, „
r stege pnud, 1 wish T. ^null muk • yott under- they sty : ' I am glad h+' i.+ wosso ; 1110 und(reigu(•41 hating e•imp1-tt•d the halal ro noon tli, .44 4. to
Tho ltuv. T. Do Witt Talmage, No. Coro d..„a th.l i ,
makin_, no nppn Ll to God for help J l le 11ao boon down then long uuon•.1h.
D. I)., pre"Naw on Suuda3+, oMayy,' or comfort, they aro tweed Avory. 1 l There, ho is dead 1 Conmo home 1
18th, on "Now Springs of Joy. I wlnther. How hits 11 been with you, Conte home !” 011, if we would only
The tort was : "Thou haat given mo my hearer ? AN yon luoro eon• A got our blotto about that future
a squill land ; give mo also speiuge touted in the house of fottrtenn rooms fi world untwioted oar thought of
of water. And he gave Ler the upper than 1(u w• re in the two rooms you transfer from hero to there would be
springs, and tine Mother springs." — yi !" I Its pleasant to Ms as it was to a little
had in a house whoa you started ? i 1
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stand the .n r,ai:ti .n in 1,, SMSt. of
IIS 11 010100 1 n (1801( ntnpv n'i; e
he livoa aid glad wh a lin dios.
With two teat upon 1. chair and
burotiu with ilrnp+1�'s, I heard 01(
old man in the poorhons.* cry out,
"Bless the Lord, oh. my soul
looked around and said, "What hag
this man to thank God for?" It
makes the lamo matt to len as a
hart and tho dumb to Hint;. They
any that the old Put•ita n religion is
a juiceless and joylsse religion, blit
I remora er reading o r. oo -
Joshua 15 :1a. 13nve you not Uttd morn acro and
Tho oity of Dobie was the Boston worriment ohm you won that fifty "Papa, when will I go home ?"
of antiquity—a great pisco for brain thousand dollars than you slid be- A And he said : "To•day, Floronee,"
and books, Caleb wanted it, and the torn ? fiomn „f the l,.:nrost mon 1 "To -duty ? so 9000 ? 1 and 10 glad."
offend his daughter Achim!' as 14 have ever Iwown have been those of
for Caleb to do, and you the man that w c , a l t x ,
could take tho city would have, a1 but the to of all ombarrays• to the hightail pogsiblo exhilaration.
Huy rate, two elements of manhood dying Why my bow nbules In Tho day of your dolivoranee is
--braver and patriotism. With g coming, is coming. It is rolliug ole
S 1 mh i f of y g with the shining wheels of the day
for,
ero1 Otdaughteb ie 'L prize ntfight Ii f and the jet wheel; of the night.
for, General Otll ie9 rod.a into werere t 1 3 I 1 p A Every thntup of the heart is ony a
battle, Tho gates of Dolor hammer drake striking all anothsr
tbuutlnred into the dust, and the city 1 the
left. 1 l l ' 11 d chain of 010y. Better auour the
q books lay a the feat of the Dolt• T deck and coil tho rope, the harbor
comes s. The warm done, O Hey- 11 3 is only six m'tle1 away. Jeune will
ing Lack to claim chity,
bride - Ira oomo down in the "Narrows" to
b conquered too oncj0 it it the great p d b d P t f t t meet you. "Now is your salvation
job for him to conquer girl's wealth al s y nearer than when you believed."
holm ; for however be, elm
faint-hearted s 11 b] Unforgiven man, unpardonod
woman herself may be, oho always eighty th passed 'th man, will you not to clay make a
loves an exception
in a man. 1 novoe choice between these two portions,
saw an exception to that. The out a y g
wedding festivity having gone by, of body and fatigue d great between the "Booth land" of tine
T1s e world, which slopes to the desert,
01Umer and home.opeHo about to go f 1 th future e and
l 1't 1' anti this glorious iand which thy
to their new However an . thedly m 1 th 1 land,"
" T can supply Father offers thee, running with
the hymUan may clash and the S eternal water courses ? Why let
laughter a o, ly cherents aro always 11 e your tongue bo consumed with thirst
sad goes
a fondly cherished ab, Ili when there aro the nether springs
ter goes off to stay and An11snh, tin father Caleb U
y' motto tUxn G d P U 0 1 U and the upper springs, comfort here
daughter of Caleb, avows that now and glory hereafter ?
1s tho time to ask almost anything 1
she wants of her father. It seems
that Caleb, the good old man, had
given as a wedding present to Uig
daughter a piece of land that was
mnuotaiu0ua, and sloping southward
toward the deserts of Arabia, swept
with some very hot winds. It wee
called 'a south land: But Aclhsah
wants an addition of property ; she
wants a piece of lend that is wall
watered and fertile. Now, it 1s 1110 TIIE PURE J)Y al, RELIGION. world ; but, more than All, 1 thank
wonder that Caleb, standing amidst Whore shall 1. find words onouttl1 thee for the upper springs in heaven.
the bridal party, his eyes so full of t threaded with i, light 1c sot forth ilia
prize t0 any one who would
chfid that was dying. She said :
Oaptur0 TUU INH Ul' 001,LVIMINCis' Id GUM MI.
great fortune. A. man of small moans I tvisil I could stimulate you with
that city. It was a strange thingb d' f D G d ties th0u(11a ell Christian loan
may be put in great business straits, i 1 the celebrated Paritan, who, fu
moots is that of the man who hat his last momenta, said, "Is this
strength 1 I am swallowed up in
God 1" "Her ways are ways o
leaeltutncas and all her ttha are
1)0000 " Oil, .you who havo been
trying to satisfy yourse vas with
'south land' ofthis world, c. o you
not fool that you would, this morn-
ing,litre to have 0ooese to the nothor
springs of spiritual comfort Would
you not like to havo Jesus Christ
bend over your crate andase your
table and heal your wounds, and
strew flowers of oousolation all up
and clown the grayss of your dead ?
religion that can give
,5'weotest pleasures while a w0 ive.
isreligion
Swoetost oomfort when we die.
But 1 have something better to
toll you, suggested by this text. It
seems that old Father Oaleb on the
woddtng day of hie daughter wanted
to moire her just as happy as pos
Bible. Though Othniul woo talking
the nether spriuge." her away, and lids heart w09 almost
Blessed he God. Wo have more broken because alio wat going, yet
advantages giveu us than tvo con ho gives her a'south land ;' not only
really appreciate. We have spiritual that, but the nether springs ; not
largo estal01. Tho loon who com-
mit 0010110 because a monetary
losses aro those who cannot bear the
bunion on all ' more because they have
only a hundred tllensand dollars
OnBJwlitlg Groot, Now York,
there 1s a house whore 'i1 eyraod
used to go. Ho was a favorito man.
All the world knew lm, an he a
!not unlimited' et at tho
close of his life he says: "Behold,
• rex years have wl •
u practical result, save fatigue
u ue ofmind,
discouragement for e u ur
groat disgust it tho pox
friends, this is "a son a ,
and it slopes off toward deserts of
sorrows ; and the prayer w io
Achsa1 made to her a er n o we
dayto our Father o :
"Thou bast given me a southland;
give me also spring) of water. And
ho gavo them tea upper springs, and
blessiugs offered us i0 this world,
which I shall pall the nether springs,
and glories in the world to came,
which I shall call tho upper springs.
only that, bat tho upper springs.
O God I my Fattier, I thank thee
that thon 111114 given rue 1. 'south
land' in this world, and the nothor
springs of spiritual comfort in thio
tears because she was going awaypleasure of roligion 9 David, unable ono caoares o1(•• R ACEN.
that he 001(1(1 hardly see her at all, I to describe it i1( words, played it on It io very fortun:Lt:., we cannot BOO
gives hes more than she lolls. She `a harp. 1Irs. humans, not finding betweu uutil we get iuto it. Oh,
said to him : "‘Thou haat given me
enough power m prase, sings that Christian wan, 1f you could sec
of southand
Audgive
hmegaalso
her tho
pratse i0 a canto. Christopher Wrou, whet a plae0 1t ds, WO ,10111(1 never
get you back again 1 i 1110 office or
upper springs, and the nether
spriog1.'
non RA:: GWWEN lis T1111 210(11. 1.
What a suggestive paesag0 1 The
faot te, that as Galsb, the father, goats
Achsah, the slaughter, :t south laud,
so God gives to us his world. I ant'
very thankful ho has given 1t to us.
But I am like Ached' in the foot
that I want a larger portion. Trees,
and flowers, and grass, and bluo
skies are very well in their places ;
but 11e who has nothing bot this
world for a portion has no portion at
all. It is a mountainous land, stop•
ing oil toward the desert of sorrow,
swept by fiery siroccos ; it ia'.L south
land,' a poor portion for 0uy man
that. tries to put his trust in it. What
las boon your experience? What
has boon the experience of every
man, of every woman, that has tried
this world for a portion ? Queen
Elizabeth, amidst the surroundings
-of pomp, is unhappy beoause the
painter sketches too minutely tho
wrinkles on her face, and she in-
dignantly cries out, 'You must strike
offmy likeness without any shadows.'
Hogarth, at the very height of his
artistio triumph, is stung aimost to
death with chargin because the paint-
ing he had dedicated to the king
doos no seem to bo acceptable, for
George II cries out, "Who is this
Uogarth ? Take his trumpery out
of my presence." Briusley Sheridan
thrilled the earth with his eloquence,
but hail for his last words, "I am
absolueoly undone." Walter Scott,
fumbling around the inkstand, trying
to write, says to his daughter, "Oh,
take me book to my room; there Is
no rest for Sir Walter but in tho
grave." Stephen Girard, the tvealtht-
est man in kis day, or, at any rate,
only second in wealth, says, "I live
the life of a galley elavo ; when I
arise in the morning my one effort
is to work so hard that I Dan sleep
when it gots to be night." Charles
Lamb, applauded of all the world,
in
tho very midst of his literary
triumph, hays, "Po you remember,
Bridget, when we used to laugh from
the shilling gallery of the play ?
There aro now no good plays to
laugh at from the boxes." But why
go so far as than? I used to go no
farther than your atroet to find an
illustration of what I am saying,
unable to describe it in language,
sprung it into !.U, sheens of tit. Paul's.
2ORL0INee AM NOT 12EAL01 nark.
Pick me out.ton sitoeessful world•
lingo --without any religion, and you
know what I moan by thoroughly
sticoessfttl worldlings—pick ole out
ten suocesefttl worldlings, and y1,,
store or shop, and the datum you
John Bunyan, no able to prosont it ought to perform would go uogleoted.
in ordinary phraseology, takes all I am glad I s11a11 not see that world
the fascination of allegory. Mandol,
with ordinary 1)1001c unable to reach
the height of tho theme, rouses it up
in an oratorio. Oh, there is 110 lifo
on earth so happy as a really Chris-
tian life 1 1 do not mean a sham
Christian life, but a real Christiau
life. Where there is a thorn, there
is a whole garlaud of moos. Where
there is olio groan, there aro three
doxologies. Where there 11 one day
of cloud, than is a whole soasou of
snnehiue. Tales fila humblest Cbris
tiau man that yon know—augols of
God canopy lint with their whitdi
whip ; tho lightnings of hoaven aro
1118 armed a1110s; tho Lord is his
shepherd, picking out for him green
pastures by still waters ; if ha walk
forth, heaven is his body guard ; if
he lie down to sleep, ladders of light,
angel blossoming, aro lot into his
dreams ; if be be thirsty, tho potent-
ates of hoaven are his coup boners ;
if he sit down to food, bis plain table
blooms into the kiug'e banquet.
Men say, "Look at that old fellow soul apreacle! out both wings, and
with the worn out coat ;" the angels claps them in triumph at the
of God cry, "Lift up your heads, yo
everlasting gates, and let him 0010
in 1" Fastidious people Dry, "Get
off my front stops;" the doorkeepers
of heaven cry, "Oome, you blessed
of my Father, inherit the kingdom 1"
When ho domes to die, though ho
maybe carried out in a pins Vox to
the potter's field, to that potter's field
theohariots of Christ will comp down,
and the cavalcade will crowd all the
boulevards of heaven.
until I enter it. Snppnsa tv0 woo
allowed to go on an escnraion to
that good land with the idea of re-
turning. When too got there and
hoard tho song and 1101(0d at their
raptured faoos and 01iaglc(1 in the
supernal society, We would cry out :
"Let us stay 1 We aro coming hero
anyhow. Why talo the tenable of
going back again to that old world ?
Wu tura hero now ; lot us. stay Aud
it would take angelic violouoo to
put nB out of that world, if 01)00 we.
got thnro. But its pooplo who can-
not afford to 1)03' for au outartitiu-
moot sometimes C 000 arauud tt
and look thronail the door ajar, or
through a holo in the fence, so wo
come and look through 11x0 evokes
into that good laud which God luta
provided for, Wo can just o0tc11 a
glimpse of it. We oomo near
enough to hoar the rumbling of the
eternal orchestra, though not near
enough to know who blows the
cornet or fingers the harp. My
10 SIAKES A 0141,1 'ALL RIUMT.'
1 bless Ohrist for the present satis-
faction of religion. It makes a man
all right with reference to the past ;
it makes a man all right with refer.
ono .to the future. Oh, these nether
springs of comfort 1 They aro por-
onnied. The foundation of God
standetlh sure having this seal, "The
Lord knoweth them that aro hiss"
Tho mountains shall t'lopart and the
hills bo removed, but my 1012(111oss
shall not depart from thou, neither
shall too covouant of my peace be
removed, smith tho Lord, who haul
moot; np0n them," Oh, duster of
diamonds sot in burnished gold 1 Oh,
nothor springs of comfort bursting
through all the va11oys of trial and
tribulation 1 When you ea, you of
tho world, what satisfaction there is
en earth in roligion, do y011not thirst in ovary chalk. There' is spring -in 1 out new. Care must, however, be
after it as tho daughter of Caleb Ivory foot.. There is majesty .,on taken to have it proj�orly dont, 'Pilo
thirsted aftor tho water springs ? 11 ovory brow. There is joy in every i .,urot lies in quickly drying and
• canno', find more than ono that loots is 110, stagnant Pond, scummed over heart. 1.1.1tot is hosanna on evo1'y pressing.
thought of those upper springs. Ono
of them breaks from beneath the
throne ; another breaks forth from
beneath tho altar of the temple ;
another at the door of "the house
of many mansions," Upper springs
of gladness 1 Upper epringo of
light I Upper springs of love 1 It
is no fancy of mice. "The Lamb
ehich 18 in the midst of the throne
s11a11 lead them to living fountains
of water." 011, Saviour divine, roll
in upon ottr souls one of thoso an-
ticipated rapturos 1 Pour around
the roots of tho parched tongue ono
drop of that liquid life • 1 Toss bo -
fore our vision those fountains of
God, raili1toweil with eternal
victory. Hear it, They are never sick
there ; not so mu* as n headache,
or 121111gle rhoumatic, or tbrtist
neuralgic, The inhabitant never
says : "I aro sick." 'Lilley 11r0
novor tired there. Flight to fat.
Stoat world is only tiao play of a
holiday. Thoy never 44,i! there. It
is as easy for them to 1t' ' oly as 11
is for us to stn. They tovar die
thorn. You might go through all
the outskirts of the great c. iy 1411(1 mutton ohop, before cooking them.
find not ono plan whore the ground,and you will not Cavo the woolly colo 1larrtl. Wo fief:
was broker for a grave. The oyes taste that so Many complain of.
eight of the rodeotytod is novo l 11 your black eashmoro 'is much •1'U1?1! O.t3T+,1111.N'I' SERVANTS,
l.),.» o.1 tvftli tears. .there is hoalt11 soiled, have it toothed. It will come
00 NOT REJECT 0101100.
Let mo tell you, my dear brother,
that the silliest and wickedest thing
a man 0110 does is to reject Josue
Obrist, The loss of the soul is a
mistake that can never ho corrected.
It is a downfall that lkllowa no al-
leviation ; it is a rum that is rema-
diless ; it ix a sleknass that has 1(o
medicament ; it i:, a grave into
8/111011 a luau g001 but nom. comes
out. Therefore, putting my haute
on your shoulder as ono other puts
his hand on tho shoulder of a
brother, I soy Ibis day, bo maul,• AJ]
and surrender your heart to Midst.
You have been long enough eorviug
the world ; now begin to sorve the
Lord who bought you. You havo
tried long enough to carry these
burdens ; lot Jesus Christ putt Ula
shoulder under your burden. Do I
hear any ono in tin audience say :
"1 mean to att4ncl to that after a
while ; it ie not just the timo 9"
It 18 the time, for the simple mason
that you aro stun of no other ; nal
God feud) you hose this morning,
and ho sent me here to confront you
with this tnoseage ; and y0C must
hat Christ clioelt
thocelobrltt0tl 11lili;l0ria11 system 0i 110 (111111g, 1:1'14 1311. 111 2,1 ill in
First -Class Running :der
a1ht1 will bo glad to s0cs all his 091 customers and as Iu:t:'r new
021 tui! as 1iussible.
271,our and reeds s t rays oD,
Highest Priya paid for :tut• qu:0 tit;- of Good Grui 1.
MILNE.
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ons
CARTS, CROQUET SETS
and. liana 3askets
"nu POST" 1�OIi(STORE0
hear now t o save
your soul, and that i' you want to
bo savod you may ba saved. "Who.
soovor will, let him coo o." Yon
will novo find any mora convem1ut
00119011 than 111i1. `Some of you
have been waiting ten, twenty,
thirty, forty, fifty mod s1:ty 3•o•tro {
0a some of you the hum had 1(11,11), '
1 Boo it on your brow, and yet you
have not attended to those clotted
which belong to the very springtime
of lifo. It is September with you
now, it is October with you, it is
Decombar with you. I am no alarm-
ist. I simply know this ; if a man
door not repent 1n this world ho
novor reponts at all, and that now
is the accepted time, ,and now is the
day of salvation. 011, put off thin
matter no longer. Do not turn
your back on jeans Christ, who
comes to 5510 37041, lest you should
loose your, soul,
Ono Monday morning a friond of
mine started from New York to cele•
brats her birthday with her dangh•
tor in Virginia. On , Saturday of
the same week, just after sunrise, I
stood at 111e gate of Greenwood
waiting for her silent form to 0olno
In. It is a long journey to take in
one week—from New York to Phila-
delphia, from Philadelphia to Balti-
more, from Baltimore to Washing-
ton, from Washington to Virginia,
from Virginia into the great star'
nity 1 "What thy band flndelh to
do, do it."
Clothespins boilod a tow minutos
and quickly dried, once or twico a
month, 1000010 morn durable.
Silverwaro can bo kept bright for
months by being placed i1( au air
tight 0as0 with a gond-sisod piece of
oamp11or.
Out the thin shin from tiro out-
side of the leg of mutton, or tho
the necessary Schoo Supplies
kept in Stook.
TIP NEWS
1
�. THE
The Brussels Woolen Mill
wants to g e d..F
500 F WOOL
either for CASH or, in exchange
torr Goons.
The Highest Market Price Paid in Cash
and a Few Cents fore in Trader
We have a rine Ass®rt-
ment of T'eet s, Cottons,
Flannels, Blankets, Sheet-
ing, Enitted Goods,
Tarns, Sgo.
eoogotosotratoortootottot
All Wool left with as for manufacturing, whether rolls or other-
wise, will have our prompt attention.
SA'TISFACT'ION GUARANT'D
h We wish to romiud the Farmers that the "Woolen Mill
Store" in Brussels is not connecter) with THE BRUSSELS WOOL-
EN MILL, but is selling Goo tis front the Listowel aiidl, tvhicll tvo
consider a groat advantage to the Farmers of this Locality, as the
Iwo 8'tore1 aro sidle by si110 and the Goodsand Prices eon easily b1
GEO1 HOWE & Oo
L3R US$ELS,