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pend largely upon the answer we
n
3OCt.I°ll, give to that question, practioally in
our lives. I with I could impre's
—'� this fact upon yon—that religion is
a personal matter, salvation is a
personal spatter, darnuation is a per-
sonal matter. Nobody can repent
for you, Nobody will die for you,
Nobody rill appear at the judgment
omit for you. God will judge you
as personally as if you were the
only man that over lived In Canada
—its if you were the only human
being that ever lived in this world.
I wish men could see their indivld•
ual personal responsibility to God.
What most l do—not what must
Canada do—not what must Amer.
ice do—not what must Buffalo or
Toronto do—but what must I do
to be saved. Consider this term
salvatiou,ilthis torm in the text, "to
be saved."' Our terminology, some-
times our can't, confuses this, ono
of the grandest, dearest, broadest
terms in all the scripture. Salvo -
WHAT IS IT ?
Half -way in and kali-way out
Of its tiny house,
Nearly all the time, no doubt,
Still ae any mouse.
But quite suddenly, mayhap,
It will turn around,
Say abruptly "Click 1" or "Clack 1"
Make a rattling sound.
Very food of keeping still
In its little home,
It will go, too—if you will ---
Anywhere you roam .I
Keep on its right aide, and learn
'Tisa triokish sprite :
Or, perhaps, 'twill take a turn—
What you out sumo night I
Are you wondering whore and haw
This strange thing can be ?
Well—you need not puzzle now—
I'll give you the key.
PRO ooNFBSSO.
Whose writes delightful story,
True and touching, full of lore,
Shall in human nature's longing
Hold a place for evermore.
All the 'looks and mossy harbors,
Whore the sea ships come and go,
Still rehearse that spell and pleasing
Of the pages of Defoe.
Eldorado ?—still we wonder
Can there any Island lie
In the west of life's attaining,
Where our prime might never die ?
Still in secret depths of foaling
Wo escape Time's onward span ;
For rhe youth's remote tranofusion
Sirs the pulse of tho man.
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Oh 1 fo• a gun with n seven-inch bore,
All carefully loaded and set,
With its muzzle in front of the sleepless
youth
Who tortues the brass cornet.
Oh I for a olub, and a stout ono,
The biggest that man could get,
To knock the breath clean out of the
youth
Who tortures the brass cornet,
It' WE ONLY ANEW.
If we knew that forms aro fainting
For the shade that we should fling—
If we knew what lips were parohing
For the water we should bring,
We would haste with eager footsteps,
We would work with willing hands,
Bearing cups of cooling water,
Placing rows of shadin( palms,
If we knew what friends around us
Closely press to say good-bye,
Which among tho lips that kiss us
First shbuld'neath the daisies lie,—
We would clasp our arms around them,
Looking on them through our tears ;
Tender Words of love eternal
We would whisper in their ears.
If we knew that lives wore darkened
By some thoughtless words of ours,
Which had ever lain around them
Like the frost among the flowers,—
Oh 1 with what sincere repentenoe,
With what anguish of regret,
While our eyes were overflowing,
We would say, "Forgive I Forget I"
If we knew—Alas I and do we
Ever care to seek or know,
Whether bitter herbs or flowers
In our neighbor's garden row
0
God forgive us I lest hereafter
• Our hearts break to hear him say :
"Careless child, I never knew you ;
From my presence flee away I"
THE FAULTS OF PREACHERS.
Some are too weak, and some• are too
strong
Some are too short, 'and some are too
long :
Some are too stout, and some are too
thin ;
Some always out and some always in ;
Some are too good and some are too bad;
Some aro too grave and some are too
glad
Some nn their clothes are too exquisite ;
Some never study, and some never visit ;
Some aro too fine and some are too plain ;
Some preach the same sermons again
and again.
Some, spite of whatever the oritios may
saIn the midst of their most solemn ser-
mons look gay ;
And some, howe'er,pleasing the fact they
rehearse,
Are unable to smile, but look grave as a
hearse,
Some in their business transactions aro
muffs ;
Some can't keep their temper, but get in-
to huffs ;
Some are too high and some are too low ;
And soma in their first sermon toll All
they know ;
Some are too hutnblo and some are too
proud ;
Some are too faint and some are too
loud ;
Some have many faults, some have but
one ;.
But I never hoard tell of ons that had
none.
SAM JONES AT NIAGARA,
THE GEORGIA EVANGELIST PREACH-
ES IN WESLEY PARK.
Rev. Sam Jones said : I believe
wo can select no eubjeatof more in•
finite imporlaneo thou that which
we can find in this question with
its answer, "Whitt must I do to be
saved 2" Pre•ominontly a personal
question ; and the honor of Gimlet
and Ilse salvation of our souls do.
tion is not a shout, or a song, or
getting happy, or joining the
church, or being baptised,, or read•
ing good hooka, or keeping good com-
pany. Salvation is not simply be-
ing able to get up and relate a good
experience. Salvation is not pray.
ing in your families, or reacting in
your Bibles, or attending Sabbath
school. Salvation is not a sad
oountoaanee, a dejected look, What
is salvation ? 1 say can't confuses
people. People go to an experience.
meeting and hear us telling our ex•
porience, and they regard salvation
as a kind of sentiment implanted in
the soul, that makes people happy,
as something that is expressed in a
shout or in a song What must 1
do to be saved 2 How will you
answer this intelligently and wise-
ly. I have no right to advise n
man to do anything in answer to
this question that he may not die
doing and be saved. 1 might ad-
vise him in answer to this question
to read good books. I know that is
good advice. I wish there were no
other sort of books. I wish parents
would see to it that no other Bortof
books come within the scored pre-
cincts of their homes. But a man
might read good books all his life,
and die unsaved. I might advise
a man to keep good company, and
we will never know in this world
the value of good company, or the
baneful influence of bad company.
1 have said frequently 1 would
rather associate with a hog than
with a men that drinks whiskey.
You can associate with a bog until
you become hoggish, but you will
never become a drunkard by associ-
ating with hogs. (Applause and
laughter.) In any town the marsh.
aI walked around the public square
and every voter he met he asked
the question, "Which would: you
rather be a drunkard or by hog, 2"
and every man said, "A. hog:"
Then he went around (+gain, and
said, "Which would you rather have
in your parlor with your daughter,
a drunkard or hog 2" and every
follow said "A hog." (Laughter.)
He meant a four•leBfied hog. .I
would rather associate ,,,with a dog
than a swearing man, ,because you'
might associate with . a dog uutd.
you became doggish, bat you would.
never become profane; I never
heard a four•logged dog swear in
my life. No angel in Heaven is
proof against bad company. NO
being on earth but can .be,imprpved
by good company. ,Bot a man
might pink good company all his
life and die unsaved. There is but
one sufficiency, and that is faith in
Jesus Christ. Now, here is whore ^ that Clod hetet 2 The text gives
the whole question turns, tine grand the auewer, 'Believe on the Lord
central pivot, Let us get an intaili ' deans Christ and thou shalt be
gent idea of what salvation is ; then saved." That is the one sufficiency
let us get en intelligent idea of how that eaves a man. Lot us see if we
I may be saved ; then let us see eau got out the whole trutlh in this
how I may keep saved. Now, :the answer. I have read some books
definition of salvation in tho Ortho- and Beard some sermons on faith,
dox teat -books is about this : Sal- and they were as clear ae mad.
vation means deliverance from the (Laughter.) 1 have heard people
guilt, from the love and from the on their knees praying for faith.
power of sin, No orthodox evan• Do any of you reoolloot any verse in
wattle text -book puts it any lower the Bible where anybody ever pray.
than that. Then you say, it this is, ed for faith." (A. voice, "Lord in -
true there are very few;ipooplo sav- crease our faith") Yee, and Jesus
ed, and you aro about light. 1 Christ turned right round and re-
havo found out this ;diuoh—that• bilked them. What did he mean 2
there is a groat deal ofdifference r "You don't need me to give you any
between professing religion and po ' more, but use that you were born
sassing religion. Tho only sortof with." You say, "Jones that won't
religion I believe in at all is ;that do. "Faith la the gift of God."
hundred Dents in the dollar tort. Yes, and eight is the gift of God,
It is that sort of religion that make but seeing ie my job. (Applause
a man tell the truth every �•timo itis and laughter.) The power to hear
mouth flies open ; that.makee him is the gift of God, but liatenins is
a good husband, a good father,- a my job. The power to taste is the
good member of the Ohurch,• a;good gift of God, but lasting, ham and
citizen in the community in Which eggs ie my job, and I'm glad it is.
he lives. Wo have talked onbugh (Laughter.) So faith ie the gift of
about a Heaven hereafter. Let us God, but believing is my job, and
pitch in and have a little of it down God never believed for anybody.
hero before we go up yonder. No God never did anything for anybody
man ever went t0 heaven that
didn't have a little heaven to go to
Beavon in. There is too much
THE BRUSSELS POST
singiug "Ws-t.a•y Over Yonder in
the Promised Laud," anti ".S,rett
13y•aud•byo." I want to hear peo•
pie singiug "Sweet now and now."
I want to have Heaven right down
here in America and Canada today.
(A voice, "That's business," and
applause.) If never get to Heav-
en in the next world I want to he
the most decent gentleman that
ever went to hell, (Applause and
laughter.) This old idea that God
offers a premium on rascality by
making it easier for a sinner than a
decent man to got to Heaven—it is
not true. 'There is a good deal of
preaching on the doctrinal features
of Christianity. There is a IVIetho•
dist ringing the changes on infant
baptism, and all the little babes in
the town fast asleep, and all the
grown up people going to hell.
What do you think of that sort of
preaching 2 Here is a Presbyter-
ian tinging the changes of the final
perserverance of the saints—and
there isn't any one in his crowd
that has anything to persevere on.
(Laughter.) Here is an Episcop-
alian preaching Apostolic success-
ion—telling the people where they
Dome from, when he had better be
telling them where they are going
to. (Laughtdr.) A Baptist is cry-
ing
rying "water," and half of hie °rend
are going where they can't get a
drop to cool their parched throats..
We don't need a gospel of doctrines
and creeds, but we do need a gos-
pel of backLoue that says "Wrong
is wrong ; quit it. Right is right ;
you had better do it." Talk about
the doctrines of Christianity saving
a man ! Talk about baptising a
man and calling him a baptised be.
Bever, and he's all right. "Believe
and be baptised, and you will be
saved." Brother, that's a greatbig
half truth, but We only a half truth;
and half a truth is like half a brink,
only fit' to knock a fool down with.
tLaughter.) An old . man said to
me, "Mr. Jones, you balk more fool-
ishness than any man 1 ever
heard." I . said "Fooliehneee is the
stuff you rub on fools." So if you
catch me at that, it is just some-
thing I am rnbbing on yon now
about this question of .believing.
The Bible tells me that the devils
believe, and they do more—they
tremble. Some people believe and
sit still. If every man who is e
believer and is baptised is saved, all
the devil lacks is being able to Piave.
Pandemonium any morning before
breakfast is a pond of water to bap-
tise with ; for if being baptised will
save a fellow, all the devils in hell
lack of being saved is some water
to go down into. But salvation is
a great principle, which, as it enters
into the human heart, snakes it love
right and hate wrong. And the
greatest man in this country is the
man that loves everything that God
loves, and hates everything that
God hates. (Amen.) In other,
words, salvation is harmony. Sup•
note one key of that .organ is out of
tune ; it is out of tune with every-
thing in Heaven and earth that is
in tune. Put it in tune and it is in
time with everything In; Heaven
and earth that is' in tune. (Laugh'ter•) Some 'preachers will
It is setting theten commandments pat a poor old armor on the back
to music in the soul and melting and say, "Agonise, agonise." There
every Christian duty to music in is but one thing fot a'sinner ; to do,
the soul. So that when God corn- and that is to surrender, and then
mends and all the chords of your 'itis God's businese 1> do the rest.
being vibrate in response to the You find people very anxious about
command and make mueio that being born again, but that is God's
would charm the angels to hear, .part, of the wort:. Tovards the eon-
that is salvation. What must I do elusion of his address Sam Jones
in order that I may love everything mode sone ramadss about the. pay
that God loves, and hate everything of the preachers. Preaohers, he
said, did not work for money, but
stop their salaries and they would.
stop preaching. (Laughter.) Some
people objected to paying twenty.
five cents to get into Wesley Park.
Now, the Niagara people ought to
be the last people in . the worldto
object to any kind of`a charge at all.
There were some places about the
Falls where you oouldn't turn
around three times without paying
half a dollar.
order to see or hear or tattle you
must comply with the conditions oI
agoing, hearing or tatting. So, in
order to believe, you mu.et oompiy
with the condition of belief, What
is that condition 2 The aonditioa
of salvation is faith ; the condition
of faith is repentance, When a
man repents, he ouu't help but bo-
/love, to save his life, until he
does repent he can't believe, to eaves
his life, That's the whole businges,
What is repentance ? The boot
definition of repentance I ever hoard
was given mo by a good old woman.
It is being Pio sorry for your mean
nets that you are not going to do
it any more. Or, to put it in the
language of the humble speaker,
"Quit your meanness." A good
preacher was preaching repeutanoeli
ons evening, and he was splitting
/mire a mile long between evangeli.
cal and legal repentance. Byand-
bye old Uncle John Knight, a good
old Methodist preacher,, rose and
said :—"Brother Smith, will you
let me tell the people what repent-
ance is 2" "Certainly." Old Un-
cle John started up the church aisle
limping, for one log was three or
four inches shorter than the, other,
and saying as he wont, "I'm going'
to bell." Then he turned right
round and started theother way,
and as he limped along he said,
"I'm going to Heaven, I'm going to
Heaven." That's repentance. It's
just turning right round and going
the other way. There is but ono
road in the moral universe, and
Heaven is at one end of it and hell
at the other. .Every saint and ev-
ery sinner is on the .same road, and
every sinner is going towards hell
and every saint is ' going towards
Heaven. Andall the sinner's got
to do if ho wants to go to Heaven as
to turn right round in the road he's
in and go the other way, Speaking
of unconverted persons who were
ohureh members. Ur. Jones said -;
—See the old dodgers .and shirks
and sharks in the Church. Here in
one old shark gobbling np real es-
tate. He nes hie ,eye, on a parcel of
land belonging to a widow. He
get a mortgage on it. Then he
forecloses the mortgage and gets the
laud in his own name, and on ' Sun,
day morning he goes.. to, church and
singe, ',Hallelujah 'tis done'—
(Laughter)—"I've got it at last."
We have got Abe idea fill over this
country that a ,(f1(o.,w, elanrt gel re-
ligion withoutopplingi to ;an altar.
I believe in altars thoroughly.; But,
Brethren, do you know:how old the
altar is. Just 72 years old." Now
what do you reckon became of those
people who lived in the 1800th year
before an ,: oldMethodist preacher
down In Georgia thought of au al.
tar ? When Jeeiis said to Matthew
sitting .at: the :reoipt of Customs,
"Follow me," Matthew closed up
his tat: book AO went . right along,
when sonic of would have said to
him, "Matthew,- you .mush go to the
altar first. You're -not oonverted
yet." I tell you when a fellow gets
up and quits his meannee,s, it he
ain't got religion,,wbat'a the matter
with hien 2 ];s•itsoniethinghe ate •?
that any man could do for liitneelf.
God is too busy for that. Now in
There are 1,700telephones in To-
ronto.
Up in Chatham they aro going to
pave some sidewalks and roadways
with brick as au experiment.
The asphalt sidewalks lately laid
in (tali are giving every satisfaction,
and make asmooth and hard walk.
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—HANUFA C i trIt1m OF—
OARRILGES, DEMOCRATS, EXPRESS WAGONS,
BUGGIES, WAGONS, IETC,, ETC., ETC.
All made of the Best Material and finished in a Workmanlike
manner.
Repairing and Painting promptly attended to.
Parties intending td buy should Call before
purchasing.
RErgnExrcEs.—Biargden Smith, B. Laing, Jas. Cutt and Wm. Mc-
Kelvey, Grey 'Township ; W. Cameron, W. Little, G. Brewer and D.
Breckenridge, Morris Township; T. Town and W. Blashill, 'Brus-
sels ; Bev E. A. Fear, Woodham, and T. Wright, Turnberry. •
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Next Door 10 the Post Office,
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and Remember the Stand.
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Grist and Flour. Mills
The undersigned having completed the change from the stone to the
Celebrated Hungarian system of Grinding, has now the Mill in
First Class Running Order
and will bo glad to see all his old customers and as many new ones.
as possible. Chopping done.
Flour and Food .tai'wags on ?lana.
Highest Price paid for any quantity of Good Grain.
WM. MILNE.
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