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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1893-03-03, Page 22 READ THIS! -JOHN FAIRLEY POST OFFICE STORE, S .A.pQITII e Having decided to give up business in Seaforth, is now selling the whole of his aplendid Stock of Groceries at prices that should clear them out in short order. Remember, I -mean business as I am going to Manitoba and must clear out the whole stock in short order. Cus- tomers get goods almost at their Own prices and the stock is being reduced rapidly, but there is plenty left yet. First come, best served. Remember the Post Office Grocery, Main Street, Seaforth. JOHN FA1RLEY. ORTGAGE SALE OF A HOUSE AND LOT IN AT THE TOWN OF SEAFORTH, COUNTY OF HURON.—Under and by virtue of a power of sale contained in a certain mortgsge bearing date the seventitday of January, 1888, which will he produced M the tine of sale, there will be offered for sale by public auction by W. G. Du, auctioneer, at the Com. 3nercial Hotel, in the town of Seaforth, on Satinday, the fourth day of Merch, 1893, at. 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the following House and Lot, viz.: Town Jet number four in bloek F, Jarvis' Survey, on the north side of Elizabeth Street, in the town of Sea - forth, in the county of Huron. There is a comfort- able frame dwelling house on said lot, and a good well. Terms and Oonditiohs.—Ten per cent. of the purchate money to be paid on the day of the role, the balance to be paid within one month thereafter with- out interest, or, at the option of the purchaser, such balance rosy remain on mortgage at the rate of Fix per cent. per annum. There will be a reserve bid. Further particulars will be made known on day of male or may be ascertained• on application to J. M. BEST, Vendor's Solicitor, Seaforth, Ontario; W. 0. Duff, Auctioneer. Seaforth, February 9th, 1893. 1313-4 Every owner of a Wan to know how to e horse or cow wants keep his animal in good nealth while in the stable on dry ;odder, DICK'S BLOOD PURIFIER is now recognized ts the best Condition Powders, it gives a good ippetite and strengthens the digestion so that all the food is assimilated and forms flesh, thus suing wore than it costr,. It regulates the Bowels and Kidneys and turns a rough coat into a smooth and glossy one. Sound Horses are al- ways in demand and at this season when they are so liable to slips and strains DICK'S BUS- TER will be found a stable necessity; it will remove a curb, spavin, tplint or thoroughpin or any swelling, Dick's Lini- ment cures a strain cr lameness and removes inflam- mation from cuts and bruises, For Sale by all Drug- 1 gists. Dick's Blood Purifier 50c. Dick's Blister 50c. Dick's Liniment 25c. Dick's Ointment 25c. Send a Sound Horses Fat Cattle a book of valuable household and farm recipes will be sent free. DICK & CO., P.O. Box 482, MONTREAL, UGG IE S —AND— WAGON S The greatest number and largest as- sortment of Buggies, Wagons and Road Carts tobe found in any one house outside of the cities, ie at 0.0. WILLSON'S, TIT SM..A_MIORTI-1.. They are from the following oelebrated makers: Gananoque Carriage Com- pany, Brantford Carriage Company, and W. J. Thompson's, of London. These buggies are guaranteed first- class in all parts, and we make good any breakages for one year from date of purchase that comes from fault of material or workmanship. We do no patc,hine, but furnish new parts. I mean what I advertise, and back up what I say. Wagons from Chatham, Woodstock and Paris, which is enough about them. Five styles of Road Carts. All kinds tof Agricultural Im- plements, 0. C. WILLSON, Seaforth. The Kippen Mills. Gristing, and Sawing Cheat)er than the Cheapest. JOHN IVIVNEVIIN Pesires to thank the public for their liberal patronage in the past, and he wishes to inform them that he can now do better for them than ever before. He will do chopping for 4 cents per hag from now to the :st ofN.lay, and satisfaction guaranteed. GRISTING also a specialty, and as good Flour as an be made guaranteed. LOGS WANTED.—He will pay the highett price in cash for Hard Maple,13tuatwood and Soft Elm Logs. Also Custom Sawing promptly attended to. Mr. kleNevin gives hitt personal attention, to the business, and can guarantee the best satisfaction es ery time. Remember the Kippen Mills. JOHN MeNEVIN. FOR MANITOBA. Parties going to Manitbba should call on W. G. DUFF The agent for the Canadian Pacific Railway, Seaforth, who can give through tickets to any part of Mani- toba and the Northwest on the most leasonable terms. . Remember, Mr. Duff is the only agent for the C. P. R. in Seaforth and parties going by the C. P. R would consult their own interests by calling on him. Office—next the 0omm0..cia1 Hotel and opposite W. Pickard' s 'store. W. G.. DUFF, Seaforth. d McKOWN:, -DISTRICT AGENT FOR THE— People's Life Insurance Company, --FOR THE— Counties of Huron, Bruce, Perth and West Grey. - t%EiVitt tIAIONG POWDER tAVGILLETTrow 44,it====micotor T •114 PHEM PUREST, STRONGEST, BEST, Contains no Alum;Ammonin, Lime, s Phosphates, or any Injuriant. , E. Ws CILLETTe Toronto, Ont. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. 00D FARM FOR. SALE.—Fsr sale, north half Lot 31, Concession , 2, East Wawauosh, 100 acres • good fences, good orchard and never -falling creek: Apply to IL J. D. COOKE, Barrister, Blyth, or PHILIP HOLT, Goderich. 1278 MIAMI FOR SALE.—For sale an improved, 100 JC acre farm, within two and a half miles of the town of Seaforth. For further particulars apply on the premises, Lot 12, Concession 4, H. K. 8., Tucker - smith, or by mail to JOHN PRENDERGAST, Sea - forth P. 0. 1290 Tne People's Life iS a purely Mutual Company crganized for the purpose of insuring lives, c-onducted solely in tbe interests of its policy -holders among -about the pro5ts are divided, there being no stock- holders to control the company or to take any portion cf the surplus. The only Mutual Company in Canada ciVillg endowment insurance at ordinary life rates .s THE PEOPLE'S LIFE. Agents wanted Addre','., J. McKeown , Lox 65 Sea moigoam•••m•••• OUSE FOR SALE IN SEAFORTH.—For sale cheap a good frame house, 32x30, a storey and a half high, -with four-fifths of an acre of land, on Jarvis Street, south of the railway traok. ,There are a number of good apple trees on the place, a good well and cistern near the house and a woodshed. Apply to Edward Dawson, at his store on Main street or to the Proprietor, I Seaforth P. 0. JAMES ST.. JOHN, Proprietor. 1310x4 , LlARM IN STANLEY FOR SALE.—For sale 1: cheap, the East half of Lot 20, Baylield Road, Stanley, containing 64 acres, of which 62 acres are cleared and iu a good'itate of cultivation. The bal. ance is well timbered vrith hardwood. There are good buildings, a bearing orchard and plenty of water. It is within half a mile of the Village of Varna and three miles from Bruceffeld station. Possession at any time. This is a rare chance to buy a first class farm pleasantly eituated. Apply to ARTHUR FORBES,' Seaforth. 1144t1 SRN IN McKILLOP FOR SALE,—For sale the J south halt of lots 1 and lot 2, concession 4, Mc- Killop, being 160 acres of very choice land moetly in a g md state of cultivation. There is a good house and bank barn, a good young bearing orchard and plenty of never failing water. A. considerable portion seeded to grass. Convenient to nisrkets and schools and good gravel roads in all directions. Will be sold cheap. Apply to the proprietor on tho premises, MESSRS. DENT & HODGE, Mitchell, or at Tug !Immo EXPOSITOR, Office, Seaforth. JOHN O'BRIEN, Proprietor. 1298-tf FARM IN TUOKERSMITH FOR SALE.—For sale Lot 8, Concession 7, Tuokersmith, containing 100 acres, nearly all cleared, freecfrom stutaps, well underdrained, and in a high state of cultivation. The land is high and dry, and no waste lead. There is a good brick residenoe, two good barns. one with stonei•tabling underneath, and all 'other necessary outbuildings; two never -failing wells, and a good bearing orchard. It Is within four miles of Seaforth. It is one of the best farms in Huron, and will be sold on easy tering as the proprietor deeires to retire. Possession on the let October. Apply on the prem- ises, or addrese Seaforth 1'. 0. WM. ALLAN. 127041 --pAam FOR. SALE.—For Sale, 80 acres in Sanilac County, Michigan, 76 acres cleared and in a good state of cultivation, lit to raise any kind of a crop. It is well fenced and has a good orchard on it, and a never falling well. The buildings consist of a frame house, stabling. for 12 home with four box stalls, 86 head of cattle and 100 sheep. Ninety ewes were wtn- tered last year,sold 8680 in wool and lambs this sum- mer. There are also pig and hen houses. The un- dersigned also has 80 acres, with buildings, but not so well improved, which he will sell either in 40 acre lots or as a whole. These properties are in good localities, convenient t markets, schools' and churehee. The proprietor is foreed to sell on ac• count of ill health. It will be a bargain for the right man as it will be sold on easy terms. GEORGE A. TEMPLETON, Doronington, Sanilac County, Michi- gan. 1298x44-1 FARM FOR SALE.—For sale, that desirable and conveniently situated farm,adjoining the ',Snag of Redgerville; being Lot 14,1et Conceesion, Hay mile from Rodgerville post -office, and one and half miles south of Hensall on the London Road There are 97 ands quarter acres, of which nearly all is cleared and in a high state of cultivation. Good frame house 1 storey re 8 rooms, a large kitchen also attached with bedrooms and pantry &c. Good cellar 'under main part of house, stable holdover a car- load of horses, besides exercising stables, two barn two drive houses, one long woed-shed, good cow stable also pig and hen houses, three good wells ,WitIi pimps. Farm well fenced and underdrained. Veranda attached to house. Good bearing orchard. The farm will be sold cheap and on easy terms, as the undersigned has retired from farming. For par- ticulars apply to JAMES WHITE, Proprietor, Hen- . rsall. 12754f aenessee---essee----seessee-seve' THE HURON FXPOSITnP, 00D AligNG THE SHELLS 1, 'FOOTPRINT OF THE CREATOR' EVERYWHERE ABOUT US. Rev. Dr. Talaiitee Draws Lessons of Love ; and Graee fibni the Exquisite Rat. - monies of Nature's Forms and Colors -- I "Every everk Gate Was One of Pearl." BROOKLYN, Feb. 19, 1891.—In the Taber- nacle this forenoon, Rev. Dr. Talmage con- tinued his canine, of sermons on "God Everywhere." ti His subject was: "The Conchology of the Bible'or God -Among the Shells," the tat, being taien from Exodiss, 30th chapter, 34th verse: "And the Lewd said unto Moes, Take unto thee sweet ,spices, staete ahd onycha." You may not have noticedthe shella of the tible, althdngli in this early part of the sacred Bible God 'calls you to coesider and employ them, ;iLHe called on Moses to consider and eMploy thetn. The onycha- of my text iS &Shell found on the bank of the Iked Seat and Moses and his army must' havecrushed many of them under toot as they crossed Ithe bisected waters; onycha on the beach ahd onycha in the unfolded bed of the de0. T shall speak of this shell as a beautiful and practical revelation of God, and as ttdie Its the first chapter of Genesis and the,last chapter of Revelation or everything between. Not only is this shell, the onycha'found at the Red Sea, but in the weteril of India. It not only deleetates the ,tiye ?with its convolutions of beauty, white i and lustrous and seriated, but • blesses the hostril with a pungent autumn This eliellsfish; accustomed to feed on spikenard, ip redolent with that odorous plant, redolent when alive and redolent when dead. Itsethells, when burnt, bewitch the air with fragrance.. In my text, God commands Moses to mix this onycha with the 'perfumes of the altar in the ancient Tabernacle, and -I propose to mix some of /its perfumes at the altar of Brooklyn Taber - mete, for having spoken to you on the Astronomy of the Bible, or God among the Stars; the Chronology of the Bible, or God among the Centuries: the Ornithology of the Bible, or God among the Birds ; the Mineralofy of the Bible, or God among the Amethysts; the Ichthyology of the Bible, or God among the Fisheee I miw come to speak of the Conchology, of the Bible, or God among the Shells. It is a secret that you may keep for me, for I have never before told it to anyone, that in all the realms of the natural world, there is nothing to me so facinating, so cempletely abserbing, so full of suggestive- ness, as a shell. What? More entertaining than a bird, which can sing, when a shell cannot sing? Well, there you have made a great mistake. Pick up the onycha from the banks of the Red Sea, or pick up a biv- alve from the beach of the Atlantic Ocean, and listen, and kou bear a whole choir of marine voices—bass, all°, soprano—in an unknown tongne, but seeming to chant, as I put them to my car: "The sea is His and He made it;" others hymning' "He ruleth the raging of the sea. "What," says someone else, "Does the shell impress you snore than the star In- some respects, Yes, because I can handle the hell and closely study the shell, while I cannot handle the atm., and if I study it, must stud) it at a distance ofmillions and mil- lions of miles. "What," says someone else, "are you more impressed by the shell than the flower?" Yes; for it has far greater varieties and far greater richness of color, as I could show you in thousands of speci- - mens and beaus° the shell does not fade, as does the rose leaf, but maintains its beauty century after century, so that the onycha which the hoof of Pharaoh's horse knocked aside ein the chase of the Israelites across the Red Sea may have kept its lustre to' thls hoar. Yes, they are so parti- colored -and many colors that you might, pile them up until you would have a wall with all the colors of the wall of heaven,. from the japer at the bottom to the ame- thyst at the top. -Oh, the shells! The petrified foam of the sea. Oh, the shells! The hardened bubble of the deep. Oh, the shells! which are the diadems thrown by the Ocean to the feet of:the- continents. flow the shells are ribbed, grooved, cylinclered, mottled. iri- descent. They were used as coin by some of the nations. They were fastened in belts by others and made in handles of wooden implements by still others. Mollusks not only of the sea but mollusks of the land; Dd yon know how much they have had to do with the world's history? That saved the Church of God- from extinguishment. The Israelites marched out .of Egypt two million strong,besides flocks and herds. The Bible says: "The people took their dough betore it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in the- clothes ou their shoulders . . . . They were thrust forth out oof Egypt and could not tarry, neither:had they prepared. for them • selves any victuals." Just, think -of it ! Forty years in the wilderness. Infidelity triumphantly asks, how could they live forty years in the wilderness without food? You say manna fell. Oh, that was after a long while. They would have starved long before the manna fen_ The fact is they were chiefly kept alive by the mol- lusks of tO land or shelled creatures. Mr. Fronton and Mr. Sicard :took the same route from Egypt toward Canaan, that the Israelites took, and they give this as their testimony: • "Although the children of Israel must have consisted of about, two million of souls, with baggage and innumerable flocks and herds, they were not likely to experi- ence any inconvenience in their march. Several thousand persons might walk abreast with the greatest ease in the very 'narrowest part of the valley in which they first began to file off. IV Soon afterwards expands to above three reagues in width. With respect to forage' they would be at no iloss. The groundis covered with tamarisk, broom, clover and *Saint Foin, of whieh latter especially' camels are passion- ately fond, besides almost every variety of odoriferous plant and herb proper for pasturage. The whole sides of the valley through which the children of Israel marched are still tufted with brushwood, which doubtless afforded food for their breasts, together with many drier sorts for lighting frre, on which the Israelites could with the greatest ease bake the dough they brought with them on small iron plates, which form a constant appendage to the baggage of an Oriental traveller. Lastly, the herbage underneath these trees and shrubs is completely eovered with snails of a prodigious size and of the best sort, and however uninviting such a repast might appear to us, they are here esteemed a great delicacy. They are so plentiful in this,valley that it may be literally said that it is diffieult to take one step without treading on them." So the shelled creatures saved the host of Israelites on the march to the Promised Land, and the attack of infidelity at this point is defeated by the facts, since itis founded on ignorance. In writing and. printing, our interrogation point has at the bottom aOriark like a period and over it a flourish i like the swing of a teamster's whip, and we put this interrogation pottit at the end of a question; but. in- the Spanish lan- guage the interrogation point is twice used for each question. At the beginlitugt cf the question the interrogation point is present- ed upside down and at the close of the ques- tion, right side up. When infidelity puts a question about the Scriptures, as it always indicates ignorance, the question ought to. be printed with two interrogation points, one at the beginning and one at; the close, but both upside down. Thank God • for the wealth , cf mollusks all and down the earth, w!' -her fPeA- . FIRST CLASS FARM FOR SALE.—For sl A Lot 12 Concession 6, H. R. S Tuckerstnith, containing 100 acres of choice land, nearly all cleared and in a high sate of cultivation, with 90 acres seeded to grass. It is thoroughly underdrained and well fenced with straight rail, board and wire fences and does not contain a foot of waste land. There is ale° afl' orchard of two acres of choice fruit trees; two good wells, one at the house, the other with a wind inhll on it at the out buildings, on the premises is an ex- cellent frame house, containing eleven rooms and cellar under whole house, and soft and hard water convenient. There are two good bank barns, the one 32 feet by 72 feet and the other 36 feet by 66 feet with stabling for 50 head of cattle and eight horses. Besides these there are sheep, hen aid pig houses and an Implement shed. The farm is well adapted for grain or stock raising and is one of the finest farms in the country. /t is situated 3/- miles from Seaforth Station, 6 from Brucefield and Kippen with good gravel ro A leading to each. It is also convenient to churches, poet office and school and will be sold cheap and on easy terms. For further particulars apply to the proprietor on the pretnisee or by letter to THOMAS G. .811/LLINGLAW, Eginoedville P. O. 1285.tf cmperous •rEkRY)Avas' AIN will tittickly Cure )i13 hth rid ,quinsy, co tilizs, co kis, a „A ILLER ore _ mg tne leraelites on their way to the land flowing with milk and, honey, or, as they are better acquainted 'with the molluslue when flung to the beach of lake or sea. There are three great families of them. If I should ask you to name three of the great royal families of the earth, perhaps you would respond, the House of Stuart, the House of Hansburg, the House of Bour- bon, but the three royal families of mol- lusks are the Univalve, or shell in one part, the Bivalve, or shell of two parts, and the Multivalve, or shell in many parts, and I see God in their every hinge, in their every tooth, in, their every cartilage, in their every ligainent, in their every spiral ridge, and in their every color, prism on prism, and their adaptation of thin shell for still ponds and thick coatings for boister- ous seas. They all dash upon me the thought of the providentiel care of God. What is the use of all this archi- tecture of the shell, and why is it pictured from the outside lip clear down iuto its labryinthe of construction ? Why the in- finity of skill and radiance in a shell? What is the use of the color and exquisite fish ? Why, when the conchologist, by dredge or rake, fetches the crustaceous specimens to the shore, does he find at his feet whole Alhambras and Colosseums and Parthenons and crystal palaces of beauty in miniature. and these bring to light only ao infinitesimel part of the opulence in the great subaqueous world. Linnaeus count- ed twenty-five hundred species of shells, but conchology had then only begun its achievements. While exploring the bed of the Atlantic ocean in preparation for lay- ing the cable, shelled animals were brought up from depths of nineteen hundred fathoms. When lifting the telegraph wire from the Mediterranean and Red Seas, shelled creatures were brought up from depths of two thousand fathoms. The English Admiralty, exploring in behalf of science, found mollusks at a depth ol twenty-four hundred and thirty-five fath- oms, or fourteen thousand two hundred and ten feet deep. o What a realm awful for vastness ! As the shell is only the house and thr wardrobe of insignificant a.niinals of the deep, why all that wonder and beauty of construction? God's care for them is the only reason. And if (4od .provides se munificently for them, will he not see that you have wardrooe and shelter? Ward- robe and shelter for a periwinkle ; shall there not be wardrobe and shelter for a man? Would God give a coat of mail fox - the defence of a Nautilus and leave you no defence agasnst the storm? Does He build a stone for a creature that lasts a sea- son and,j leave without home a soul that takes hield on centnries and wons ? Hugh /Stiller found "The Footprints of the Crea- tor in the Old Red Sandstone," and I hear the harmonies of God in the tinkle of the sea shells when the tides come in. The same 0ithrist who drew a lesson of providen- tial care from the fact that Cod clothes the grass of the field instructs Inc to draw the same lessons from the shells. In almost every man's life, however well born and prosperous for years, and in al- most every woman's life, there comes a very dark time, at least, once. A conjunc- tion of circumstances will threaten bank- ruptcy and homelessness and starvation. It may be that these words will meet the earorwill meet the eye of those who are in such state of foreboding. Come, then, and • see how God gives an ivory palace to a water animal that you could cover with a ten -cent piece, and clothes in armor against all attack, a coral no bigger than a snow- flake. I do not think that God will take better care of,a bivalve than of one of his children. I rake to your feet with the Gospel rake the most thorough evidences of God's care for his creatures, I pile around you great mounds of shells, that they may teach you a most comforting theology. Oh, ye of little faith, walk among these arbors of coraline, and look at these te:A. quets of shell fit to be handed a queen on her coronation day, and see these fallen rainbows of color, and examine these lilies in stone, these primroses in stone, these heliotropes in stone, these cowslip's in stone, these geraniums in stone, these ja- ponicas in stone. Oh, ye who have your telescope ready, looking out on clear nights, trying to see what is transpiring in Alars, Jupiter, and Mercury, know thee within a few hours' walk or ride of where yon now are, there are whole worlds of which you are unconscious, andsamong the most beau- tiful and guggestive of these worlds is the conchorogical world. Take this lesson of a providential care. How doea that old hymn go? We may, like ships, by tempest be tossed On perilous deeps, but cannot be lout, Though Satan enrages the wind and the tide The Promise assures us, the Lord will provide. But while you get this pointed lesson of providential care from the shelled creatures of the deep, notice in their construction that God helps them to -help themselves. The house of stone in which they live is not dropped on them and is not built around them. The material for it exudes from their own bodies and is adorned with a colored fluid from the pores of their own neck. It is a most interesting thing to see these crustacean animals fashion their own home out of carbonate of lime and mem- brane. And all of this'is a mighty lesson to these who are waiting for others to build their fortunes, when they ought to go to work, and, like the mollusks, build their own fortunes out of iheir own brain, out of their own sweat, out of their own indus- tries. Not a mollusk on all the beaches of all the seas would have a house of shell, if it had not itself built one. Do not wait for others to shelter you or pros- per you. All the crustaceous creatures of the earth, from every flake of their cover- ing and from every ridge of their tiny castles on Atlantic and Pacific and Ai editer- ranean coasts, say : "Help yourself." Those people who are waiting for their father or rich old uncle to die and leave them a fortune are as silly as a mollusk would be to wait for some other mollusk to drop on it a shell equipment. It would kill the mollusk, as, in most cases it de- stroys a man. Not one person out of a hundred ever was strong enough to stand a large estate by inheritance dropped on him in a chunk. Have great expectations from only two persons—God and yourself. Let the onycha of my text become your preceptor. But the more I examine the shells, the more I am impressed that God is a God of emotion. Many scoff at emotion, and seem to think that God is a God of rold geome- try and iron laws and eternal apathy and enthroned stoicism. No! No: The- shells with overpowering emphasis, deny it. While law and order reign in the universe, you have but to see the lavishuns of color on t he crustacea all shades of crimson from faintest blush to blood of battle -field, all shades of blue:. all shades of green, all shades of all others from deepest black to whitest light, jr.st ()ailed out on the shells with no more ori!er ti.a.n a mother premedi- tates or calculates bow many kisses and hugs she shall give her babe Nvaking up in the morning suribglit. Yes. .Nly God is an (mc.tional God, and he says: '•Wernust Jiave colors and let the sun paint all of them ori the scroll of that shell, and we 'must have inusic,and here is a carol for the robin, and a psalm for man, and a doxology for the seraphim and a resnrrection t all for the archangel. Aye, he showed himself a God of sublime emotion when he flung him- self on this world in the personality of Christ to save it, without regorel to the tears it Avould take, or the blood it would exhaust. of, the agonies it would crush out. When I see the Louvres and the Luxem- bourgs and the Vaticans of Divine painting strewn along the eight thousand miles of coast, and I hear, in a forest, on a summer morning musical academies anti Handers societies of full orchestras, I say God it a God °remotion. and if he obaerses naathe • matics, ID is rnatnematies sec t� music, aria his figures are written, not in white chalk on blackboards, but written by a finger of sunlight on walls of *win and trumpet - creeper. In my study of the conchology of the Bible, this onycha of the text also im- presses me with tne fact that religion is perfume. What else could God have meant when he said to MOSf.IS: "Take unto thee sweet spices, stracte and onycha 7" Moses took that shell of the onycho., put it over the fire, and as it crumbled into ashes, it exhaled an odor that hung in every curtairt and filled the. ancient Tabernacle, and its sweet smoke escaped from the sacred precincts and saturated the outside air. Perfume? That is what religion is. . But, instead of that, some make it a mal -odor. They serve God in a rough and acerb way. They box their child's emit because he does not properly keep Sunday, instead of making Sunday an attractive the child could not help but keep it. They make him learn by heart a diffi- cult chapter in the Book of Exodus, with all the hard names, because he has been naughty. How many disagreeable good people there are. No one doubts their piety, and they will reach heaven, but they will have to get fixed up before they go there, or they will make trouble by calling out to us, "Keep off that grass !" "What do you mean by plucking that flower?" "Show your tickets !" Oh! how many Christian people need to obey my textand take into their worship and their behavior and their consociations and presbyteries and general assemblies and conferences more onycha. I have sometimes gone in a very gala of spirit into the presence of some die - agreeable Christians and in five minutes felt wretched, and at some other time have gone depressed into the company of suave and genial souls, and a few moments I telt exhilarant. What was the difference It was the difference in what they burnt on their censers. The one burnt onycha; the other burnt, asafoAida. In this conchological study of the Bible, I also notice that the mollusks or shelled animals furnish the purple that you eee richly darkening so many scripture chap- ters. The purple stuff in the ancient Taber- nacle the puiple girdle of the priests, the purple mantle of Roman Emperors, the apparel of Divee in purple and fine linen, aye, the purple robe which, in mockery, was thrown upon Christ, were colored by, the purple of the shells on the shores of the Mediterranean. It was discovered by a, shepherd's dog having stained his mouth by breaking one of the shells, and the purple aroused admiration. Costly purple! Six pounds of the purple liquor extracted from the shell -fishes was used to. prepare one pound of wool. Purple was also used on the pages of books. Bibles and prayer books appeared in purple vellum, which may still be found in some of the national libraries of Europe. Plutarch speaks of some purple which kept its beauty for one hundred and ninety years. But, after a while, the purple became easier to get, and that which had been a sign of imperial authority when worn in robes, was adopted by many people, and so an Emperor, jealous of this appropriation of the purple, made a law that anyone ex- cept royalty wearing purple should be put to death. 'Then, as if to punish the world for that outrage of exclusiveness, God obli- terated the color from the earth, as much as to say, "If all cannot have it. none shall have it. ' But, though God has deprived that race of that shell -fish which afforded the purple, there are shells enough left to make us glad an worshipful. Oh, the en- trancement of hue and shape still left all up and down the beaches of all the conti- nents ! These creatures of the sea have what roofs of enameled porcelain! They dwell under what pavilions, blue as the sky and fiery as a sunset and mysterious as an aurora! And am I not right in leading you, for a few moments, through this mighty realm of God so neglected by human eye and human footstep? It is said that the harp and lute were invented from the fact that in Egypt, the Nile overflowed its banks, and sehen the waters retreated, ter- toises were left by the million on all the lands, and soon these tortoises died, and soon nothing was left but the cartilages and gristle of these creatures, which tight- ened under the heat into inusical strings that, when touched by the wind or the.. foot of manevibrated, making sweetsounds, and so the world took the hint and fashion- ed the harp; and am I not right in trying to make music out of the shells, and lift- ing them as a harp, from which to thrum the jubilant praises of the Lord and the pathetic strains of human condblenpe ? But I find the climax of this codahology of the Bible in the Pearl, which has this distinction above all other gens that it re- quires no human hand to bring out its beauties. Job speaks of it and its sheen is in Christ's sermon, and the Bible'which opens with the onycha of my text, closes with the pearl. Of such value is this crustaceous product, I do not wonder that, for the exclusive right of fishing for it on the shores of Ceylon, a man paid the- Eng- lish Government six hundred thousand dol- lars for one season. So exquisite is the pearl, I do not wonder that Pliny thought it was made out of a drop of dew, the creature rising to the surface to take it, and the chemistry of nature turning the liquid into a solid. You will see why the Bible makes so much of the pearl in its siniilitudes if you know how much it costs to get it, Boats with divers sail out from the Wand of Ceylon, ten divers to each boat. Thirteenmen guide and man- age the boats Down into the dangerous depths, amid shails that swirl around them, )lunge the divers, while sixty thou- sand people anxiously gaze on. After three or four minutes' absence from, the air, the diver ascends, nine -tenths strangu- lated the blood rushing from ears and nostri-ls, and flinging his pearly treasure on the sand, falls into unconsciousness. Oh, it is an awful exposure and strain and peril to fish for pearls, and yet they do so, and is it not a wonder that to get that which the Bible calls the Pearl of Great Price, worth tnore than all other pearls put together, there should be so little anxiety, Bo little struggle, so little enthusiasm. Would God that we were all as wise as the mershaut-man Christ commended, "who, when he had found One Pearl of ,(reat Price) went and sold all that he had and b t, it." Bat what thrills me wlth suggestiveness is tl.e materials out of which all pearls are made. They are fashioned from the wound of the shell -fish. The exudation Tom the wound is fixed and hardened ind enlarged into a pearl. The ruptured ressels of the water animal fashioned the ;ern that now adorns finger or ear -ring or iword hilt or king's crown. So, out of the wounds of earth will come the pearls of heaven. Out of the wound of convic- don the pearl of pardon. Out ot the wound of bereavement the pearl of solace. Dut of the wound of loss the pearl of gain. DLit of the deep :wound of the grave the pearl of resurrection joy. Out of the wounds of a Saviour's life mud a Saviour's death, the rich, the radiant, the everlastin g pearl of heavenly gladness. "And the t we've gates were twelve pearls." Take the consolation, all ye who have been hurt, whether hurt in body, or hurt in mind, or hurt in soul. Get your troubles sanctified. If you suffer with Christ on earth, you will reign with him in glory. The tears of earth are the crystals of heaven. "Every several gate was of one oearl." —Mr. Robert Milburn, who sold hie 100 acre farm, near LiPtovvel, to Mr. George Tompkins for $4,500, has pnrchase.1 Mr. Tompkins' 50 acres for $2,900. The ex - cheep snits both parties, as Mr. Tomplsioe }Ise more help than Mr. Milburn Mr. Tompkins' fifty acres seal probatly the beet in the township. MAiten 3, 1893 The Great Bargain Monk During the remainder of February we will give an HONEST CLEARING SALE OF WINTER DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, &e. The cold season is by no means ended, and the remainder of our large stock of heavy and medium weight goods will be of advantage now as well as next winter to those who desire extra value for their money. It is better for us to dispose of these goods at very low prices than to carry them through the summer. The greater part of them are standard styles, and amongst them we might name especial bargains in Dress Goods, Mantles, OVercoats, Shawls, Millinery, Ladies' and Gents' Fur Goats, Gaps, Fur Capes, Sets, Mantle and Ulster Cloths, Unaerclothing, Gloves, ikc. We clear the balance of last sea- son's Prints at cost price. We are clearing winter goods in order to make room for Spring Goods. NEW SPRING GOODS TO HAND. A large and elegant range of New Prints, which we are holding in a side department, but can be seen by any person asking for them. New Grey anti White Cottons, New Shirtings, Cottonades, Flannelettes, New Tweeds, Worsteds, Suitings, We invite inspection at the Bargain Dry Goods and Clothing House of Seaforth. WM. PICKARD. Friends, Rowans, Country' es, Stop and Examiiie those Gro- ceries of BEATTIE BROTHERS. .••••••.. Never were we in such shape as we now are to satisfy everybody. We lead in TEAS. Also in MEATS, a large stock carefully cured by that veteran, Dorrance, which has no equal in Canada. Give us a Call. We can positively convince you that we are here solely IN YOUR INTERESTS. ea– A STORE AND ROOMS TO RENT ADJOINING. BEATTIE BROS., SEAFORTH. I-3 We have received and opened out our Spring Prints, which for vaaiety and value far exceed anything we have previously shown. R. JAMIESON, SEAFORTK 13 _A_ TR, 0-A 1444-5S AT MULLETT & JACKSON'S —RUM NG THE NEXT— p -DATYTS 30 In Cook Stoves of every description. Also Heaters for either Coal or Wood. -WILLETT Sz JACKSON, Seaforth, •STOVES, TINWARE AlCD HOUSE FURNISHING EMPORIUM. Important NW Announcement. BRIGHT --BITOTHERS, The Leading Clothiers of Huron, Beg to inform the people of Seaforth and surrounding a antry, thaa they have adtd to their large ordered clothing trade one of the Most Complete and best selected stocks of Boys', Youths' and Men's Readymade Clothing --IN THE COUNTY. Prices Unequalled. We lead the Trade. Renieml;)er the Old Stand, Campbell's Block, opposite the Royal Ho el, Seaforth. BRIGHT BROTHERS. All garment Mixed by fstric first-elas age. Orde ‘ Furs, Gloves, Repai - 1 Dye j 1309 Si A Meetie lie Hall Cor the 2441t in eiecting Di relating to ift13-4 WHO Ts 1..thari Interest at end of eget Apply at IMPOR1 - Peas salt der anti us of purehas so they art and thus SI 4teat lesS. .cieSted to sary, and i the unders alt receipt oordingly, ournparisor Amount of; oeseasional well deant desired. Si 1.0. -KI1 EXEN flatimte .*t.an ti diXerent SH The Sub shore eeda places tun self or'fros sou; SOW R. Id himself. Bar f. (In RANKI To the A. Genera owhed. On gco BOI Hos On h Wan' If you WI 0 Repoirini and She odd the settle u 1162 Mit SEA & patty, Domi 011 Ds IV The gOOd from i tusnt ConoeS muerte, PO CI Stee isi NIA Cs Stee at4