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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1893-05-26, Page 2Cluj Bennett's Planing Mill. The undersigned would beg leave to thank their many customers for their very liberal support for the past and would say that they are in a much better position to serve them than ever before, as they are adding a new Enginiadind Boiler, also a dry kiln and enlarging their bantling, which will enable them to turn out work on short notice. Lumber, Sash, Doors, Mould- ings, Shingies, and Lath always on hand. Contracts taken and Estimates furnished. OIuff & Bennett. P. S.—All in arrears please pay up. 13214 f THE FARMERS' Banking - House, ouse, 8E.A.PORTE3_ (In connection with the Bank of Montreal.) LOGAN & CO., BANKERS AND FINANCIAL AGENT REMOVED To the Commercial Hotel Building, Main Street A General Banking Business done, drafts issue and cashed. Interest allowed on deposits. MONEY TO LEND On good notes or mortgages. 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Dick's Ointment25c. 1 Send a poscur Fat Cattle for fatal ll pard• ticulars, & a book of` valuable household and farm recipes will be sent free. DICK & CO., P. O. Box 482, MONTREAL. BUGGIES —AND— WAGONS. ND WAGONS The greatest number and largest as- sortment of Buggies, Wagons and Road Carts to be found in any one house outside of the cities, is at O. C. WILLSON'S, TN SEAMIORTI3_ 1 They are from the following celebrated 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 breakag s for one year from . date of purchase 'hat comes from fault of material or orkmanship. We do no birt furnish new parts. I patching, 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 of Agricultural Im- plements. 0. C. WILLSON, Seaforth, a Day Sure. Send me your address and I wrll Jctµ• you how to make $3 a day: at tic into. ty sure,- 1 furnish the work and te.+ch yo„ free; you work in the tocal,ty where five. SendAda:Tea 1 you are your ad'].es and will explain the busiess fully: rcmem- her, 1 Fura.tntee a clear profit of $3 for every day'!t work: absolutely sure; don't fail to write today. Addre&5 A. W. KNOWLES, Windsor, Ontario. FOR MANITOBA. Parties going to Manitoba 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 reasonable 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 Commercial Hotel and opposite W. Pickard's pp d s store. W. G. DUFF,Seaforth. HAN D -MADE Boots and Shoes D. McINTYRE Eason hand a large number of Boots and Shoee of hie own make, best material and Warranted, to give Satisfaction. you want your feet kept dry come and get a pair o. our boots, which will be sold CHEAP FOR CASH. Repairing promptly attended to. All kinds of Boots and Shoes made to order. All parties who have not paid their accounts for last year will please call and settle up. 1162 D. McINTYRE, Seaforth. Township of Tuckersmith. Court of Revision. The Court for the revision of the Assessment Roll of the Township of Tuckersmith, will be held at Kyle's Hotel, on FRIDAY, MAY 26th, 1883. Co mending at 9 o'clock a in. All persons interested will please take notice and govern themselves accord. ingly. S. SMILLIE, Clerk, 1326•t d PUREST STRONGEST, BEST. ' Phosphates, or any IIglu:Lot REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. FARM FOR SALE.—For sale en improved, 100 acre farm, within two and a halt miles of the town of Seaforth. For further particulars apply on the premises, Lot 12, Concession 4,H. R. S., Tucker- smith, or by mail to JOHN PRENDERGAST, Sea - forth P. 0. 1290 • OOD FARM FOR SALE.—For l sale, north half. ijr Lot 81, Concession 2, East- Wawanosh, 100 acres ; good fences, good orchard and never -failing creek. Apply to H.J . D. COOKE, Barrister, Blyth, or PHILIP HOLT, Goderich. 1278 200 ACRE FARM FOR SALE.—The 200 aore farm; being lots 11 and 12, concession 16 Grey, is offered for Sale. 120 acres are cleared and the balance is well timbered. Buildings first-class. Orchard, well, &o School house within 40 rode. Possession given at once if desired. , For further particulars as to price , terms, etc., apply to MRS. WALKER, Roseville P.O., or to NELSON BRICKER, on the farm, 1299•tf FARM FOR SALE.—For sale Lot 36, Concession 14, Goderieh township, the property of the late Robert' Philips, occupied by Mr. Joseph heard. .It contains 80 acres, nearly all cleared, a good bank barn with stone stabling, also a good house, two . good orchards and plenty of water. It is well fenced and in a good state of cultivation. It is within two miles of Clinton. It must be sold and any person wanting it can get it cheap. Apply to either of the undersigned executors. JAMES COMBES, JAMES ROWELL, Clinton. 1820x4 AFARM FOR SALE.—Situated on a main travel. led road five miles north of Bad Axe,the Huron County seat, Michigan, containing 80 acres, 50 acres improved and in a good state of cultivation. A stock andrain barn 64x40 feet, a comfortable frame house and bearing orchard. F. & P. M. Railroad running along back end. A store and flag station wile dis- tant, also 1,1 miles from store, post office, grain eleva• tor &c. For further particulars apply or address to AMOS PARENT, Filson, Huron County, Michigan. 1325x4 FARM IN STANLEY FOR 'SALE.—For sale cheap, the East halt of Lot 20, Bayfield Road, Stanley, containing 64 acres, of wvhioh 52 acres are cleared and in a good state of cultivation. The bal- ance to well timbered with hardwood. There are good buildings, a bearing orchard and plenty of water. It is within half a mild of the Village of Varna and three miles from-Brucefleld station. Possession at any time. This is a rare chance to buy a fret class farm pleasantly situated. Apply to ARTHUR FORBES, Seaforth. 1144t1 FARJM IN McKILLOP FOR SALE.—For sale the south half of lots 1 and lot 2, concession 4, Mc- Killop, being 160 acres of very choice land mostly in a good 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 markets and schools and good gravel roads in all directions. Will be sold cheap. Apply to the proprietor on the premises, MESSRS. DENT & HODGE, Mitchell, or at THE HURON ExeostxoR. Office, Seaforth. JOHN O'BRIEN, Proprietor. 1298-tf FARM FOR SALE.—For= sale, lot 5, concession 1, H. R.8., township of Tuekersmith, containing one hundred acres more or less, 97 acres cleared, 55 of which are seeded to gratia, well underdrained, three never failing wells. On one fifty of said lot there is a log house, frame - barn and very good orchard, and on the other a good frame house and. barn, stables, and good orchard. The + 'whole will be sold together or each fifty separately to suit pur- chasers. located 1} miles from Seaforth, will be soli: reasonable and on easy tennis, as the ptbprietor is re tiring from farming. For further particulars apply to the undersigned on the premises, and if by letter: to Seaforth P. 0. MICHAEL DORSET. 1323-t f FARM IN TUCKERSMITII FOR SALE.—For sale Lot 8, Concession 7, Tuckersmith, containing 100 aures, nearly all cleared, free from stumps, well underdrained, and in a high state of cultivation. The land is high and dry, and no waste land. There is a good brick residence, two good borne. one with stone stabling underneath, and all other necessary outbuildings ; two never -failing wells, and a good b In orchard.Seaforth. It is within four miles of Sea th. It is one of the beet farms in Huron, and will be sold onxeasy terms, as the proprietor desires to retire. - Possession on the 1st October. Apply on the prem- ises, or address Seaforth. P. 0. %M. ALLAN. _ _1 _ --- --- 1276 FARM FOR SALE.—For Sale, 80 acres in Sanilac County, Michigan 75 acres cleared and in a good state of cultivation, fit to raise any kind of a crop. It is well fenced and has a good orchard on it, and a never failing well. The buildings consist of a frame house, stabling for 12 horses with four box dells, 86 head of cattle and 100 sheep. Ninety ewes were win- tered last year,sold $630 in wool and lambs this sum- mer. There are also pig and hen houses. Tho un- dersigned also has 80 acres, with buildings, but' not so well improved, which he will sell either in 40 Mere lots ort as a whole. These properties are in ,good localities convenient ti markets,a schools le and churches. The proprietor is forced 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. 1295x4 t -t IRST GLASS FARM FOR SALE.—For sale Lot 12 Concession 6, H. R. 8 Tuckersmith, containing 100 acres of choice land, nearly all cleared and in a high state 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 also an orchard of two acres of choice fruit -trees; two good wells, one at the house, the other with a wind -nit!' 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 barna, the one 32 feet by 73 feet and the other 36 feet by 56 feet with stabling for 50 head of cattle and eight horses. Besides these there are sheep, hen and pig houses and an Implement shed. The farm is well adapted for rain or stock raising and is one of the finest farms in the country. It is situated 3i miles from Seaforth Station, 6 from Brucefleld and Kippers with good gravel rc 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 premises or by letter to THOMAS G. SHILLINGLAW, Egmoadvilie P. 0. 1285• tf PUBLIC NOTICE. tr Notice is hereby given that the partnership hereto- fore subsisting between us, the undersigned as fax dressers,. s re in the 'Village of ''Zurich, in u the Countyof Huron, has been this day dissolved by mutual cn• sent. All debts owing to the said partnership are to be paid to Hartman Happel and all claims against the said partnersnip are to be presented to the said Hartman Happel by whom the same will be settled. Dated at Zurich this 26th day of April, A. D., 1893. 4 H. HAPPEL Witness—M. Zeller. R. R.- JOHNSTON. 1325x4 When we assert that - Dodd's Kidney Pills Cure Backache, Dropsy, Lumbago, Bright's Dis- ease, Rheumatism and all other forms of Kidney Troubles, we are backed Ev_ y the testimony of all who have used them. THEY,CURE TO STAY CURED. By alt druggists or mail on receipt of price, ocents. Dr, L. A. Smith & Co., Toronto. THE HURON EXPOSITOR. HARP AND JAVELIN. MUSIC A MEDICINE FOR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DISORDERS. Bin Hurls Its Javelin at Elevating, God; Gillen Music—Satan and Sunday School Songs—Dr. Talmage's Latest Sermon is I;. Beautiful Discourse, BROOKLYN, May-14.—In his sermon this forenoon in the Brooklyn Taberna- cle, Rev. Dr. Talmage brought in a novel and practical conjunction thoughts sug- gested by a text perhaps never before chosen. The opening hymn, led by organ and cornet, and joined in by thou- saiids of voices, was : Before Jehovah's awful throne Ye nations, bow with sacred joy. The subject announced was : "Harp and Javelin," the text being I. Samuel, 18 chapter, 10th and lith verses : "And David played with his harp as at other tinges, and there was a javelin in Saul's hand. And Saul cast the javelin ; for he said, I will smite David even • to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice." What a spectacle for all ages ! Saul, a giant. and David, a dwarf. An un- fortunate war ballad had been composed and sung eulogising David above Saul. That song threw Saul into a paroxysm of rage, which brought on one of his old spells of insanity, to which be had been subject. If one is disposed to some physical ailment, and he gets real mad, it is very apt to bring on one of his old attacks. Saul - is a raving maniac and he goes to imitating the false prophets or sibyls, who kicked and gesticulated wildly when they pre, tended to be foretelling events. What- ever the physicians of the royal staff may have prescribed for the disordered king, I know not, but David prescribed music. Having keyed up the harp, his fingers began to pull the rhythm from. the vibrated strings. Thrum! Thrum! Thrum! No use. The king will not listen to the exquisite - cadences. He lets fl - a javelin, expecting to in the minstrel to the wall, but David dodged the weapon and kept on, for he was confident that he could, as before, subdue Saul's bad spirit by music. Again the 'javelin is flung and David dodges it and departs. What a contrast 1 Roseate David with a Saul with a harp and enrageda javelin. t Who would not rather play -the one than .fling the other ? But that was not the only time in the world's history that the harp and the javelin met. Where their birth -places was, I cannot declare. It is said that the lyre was first suggested by the tight drawing of the sinews of a tortoise across its shell, and that the flute was first suggested by blowing of the wind across a bed of reeds, and that the ratio of musical intervals was first sug- gested by Pythagoras as by the different hammers on the anvil of the slnithy, but the harp seems to mo to: have dropped out of the sky, and the javelin to ' have been thrown up from the pit. The oldest stringed instrument of the world is the harp.. Jubal sounded his harp in the book ,ef _ Genesis. David played many of his psalms on the harp while he sang them. The captives in Babylon hung their harps on the willows. Jose- phus celebrated the invention of the ten - stringed harp. Tinotheus, the Milesian, was imprisoned for adding the twelfth string to the harp, because too, much lux- ury of sound might enervate the people. Egyptian harps, Scottish harps, Welsh harps, Irish harps, have been --celebrated. What an inspired triangle ! Everlasting honors to Sebastian Erard, who,by pedals invented, called the foot as well as the hand to the harp; When. the harpsicord maker for whom he worked discharged him for his genius, the employer not wanting to be eclipsed by his subordi- nate, Erard, suffered from the same pas- sion of jealousy that threw Saul of my text into a fit during which he flung a javelin 2 the harpist. i ,t� The harp isal- Most human, as you find when you put your finger on its pulse. Other instru- ments have louder voice, and may be better for a battle charge, but what ex- quisite sweetness slumbers between the harp strings, waking at the first touch of thetips of the fingers. It . can weep. It an plead. It can soothe. It can pray. The flute is more mellow, the trumpet is more startling, the organ is more majestic, the cymbals are more festive, the drum is more resounding, but the harp has a richness of its own, and will continue its mission through all time and then take part in celestial symphonies, for St. John says he heard in heaven the harps of God. But the javelin of my text is just as old. It is about five feet and a half long, with wooden handle and steel point, keen and sharp. But it belongs toh t e great t fami ly of death -dealers and is brother to sword and spear and bayonet, and first cousin, to all the im- Pl emenia that wound and slay. It has cutits Kray through the ages; It was old when Saul,- in the scene of my text, tried to harpoon David. It has gashed the earth with its trenches. Its keen :tip is reddened with the blood of Ameri- can wars, English wars, German wars, Russian wars, French wars; Crusader wars,- and wars of all nations and of -all ages. The structure of the javelin shows what it was made for. The plowshare is rharp, but aimed to cut the earth in preparation for harvests. The light- ning rod is sharp, but aimed to dis- arta the lightnings .and secure safety. The axe is sharp, but aimed to fell forests) and clear the way for human habitation. The knife is sharp, but aimed to cut the bread for sustenance. But the javelin is sharp only to open human arteries and extinguish human eyesight and take human life and fill the earth with the cries of orphanage and widowhood and childlessness. Oh, I am so glad that my text brings thein so close together that we can see the con- trast between the harp and the ,javelin. The one to soothe, the other to hurt; the one to save, the other to destroy: tio ythe one divine, the other diabolic; the one to play, the other to hurl; the one in David's skilful hand, the other in Saul's wrath -j ful clutch. May God speed the harp; irnay God grind into dullness the sharp' edge of the javelin ! 'Tow, what does all this make you think of? It suggests to me music as a medi cine for physical and mental disorders. David took hold of the musical instru- ment which he best knew how to play and evoked from it sounds which were for King Saul's diversion and medicament. But, you say, the trtatment in this case was a failure. Why was it a failure ? 'Saul refused to take the medicine. A whole apothecary shop of curative`drugs will do nothing toward healing your ill- neseif you refuse to take the medicine. It was not the fault of DavidIs prescrip- tion, but the fault of Saul's obstinacy. David, one of the wisest and hest of all ages, stands before us in. the text admin- istering music for nervous disorder and cerebral disturbance, And David was right.Music is the mightiest force in all therapeutics. Its results may not be seen as suddenly as other forms of cure, but it is just as wonderful. You will never know how much suffering and sor- row music has assuaged and healed. A soldier in the United States army said that on the days the regimental band played near the hospitals all the hick and wounded revived and men whet se tame they couffll not walk before, got up and went out and sat in the sunshine,and those so dispirited that they never expect- ed to get home began to pack their bag- gage and ask about time -tables on steam - and rail train. Theodosius, the Emperor, wrathful at the behavior of the People of Antioch, who on some sud- den provocation tore down the statues of Emperor and Empress, resolved severely to punish them, but the Bishop knowing that the Emperor had a group of boys sing to him while eating at the table taught the boys a plaintiie song in which the people lamented their bad be- havior, and the king under the) pathos of the music, cried out; "The City of Antioch is forgiven." Thei rage of Achilles was assuaged by a harp.. As- clepiades swayed rebellious mull titudes by a harp. After the battle of 'orktown, when a musician was to suffer amputa- tion, and before the days of anaesthetics, the wounded artist called for a musical instrument, and lost not a note during the -forty minutes of amputation. Filippo Palma, the great musician, con- fronted by an angry creditor, played so enchantingly before hien that the creditor forgave the debt and gave the debtor ten guineas more to appease other creditors. An eminent physician of olden time con- tended (of course, carrying our theory too far) that all ailments of the world Could be cured by music. The medical journals never report their recoveries by • this mode. But in what twilight hour bas many a saint of God solaced a head- ache with a hymn hummed or sung or played.. Jerome of Prague . sang while burning at the stake. Over what keys of piano or organ consolation has walk- ed. Yea, in church one hymn has rolled peace over a thousand of the worried, perplexed and agonized. While there are hymns and tunes ready for the jubilant, there is a rich hymnology for the suffering—"Naomi" and `Eventide" and "Autumn Leaves." and "Come Ye Disconsolate," and whole portfolios and librettos of tears set to music. All the wonderful triumphs of surgery and all the 'new modes of successful treat- ment of physical and mental disorders are discussed in medical conventions and spread abroad in medical books, and it is high time that some of the millions of souls that have been medicated by music, vocal and in- strumental, let the world know what power there is in sweet sound, whether rolling from lio or leaped from tightened chord or ascending from ivory key. Music is a universal language. At the foot of the Tower of Babel language was split into fragments never to be again put together, but one thing was not hurt, and that is music,- and it is the same all the world over. Last summer in Rnssia at a watering -place we were greeted as we entered a great auditori- um, which was filled with thousands of Russians, whose language I could not understand any • more than they could understand mine. But after the grand band had, out of compliment to us, play- ed our two great American airs, I stepped on the platform and said to the band- master, "Russian air ! Russian air !" and then he tapped with his baton on the music rack, andh with a splendor and majesty of pow �r that almost made us quail, the full hand poured forth their National Anthem. They understood our American music, and we understood their Russian music. 'It is a universal language and so good for universal cure. I should not wonder if in the day ofudgment I should be -found out that more souls have been saved by music than by preaching. I should not wonder if, out of the one hundred and forty and four thousand ransomed souls that`John foresaw before the throne of God, at least one hundred and thirty thousand had been saved by sweet song. Why does :not the church on earth take -the hint? Heaven is the great musical center of the universe, the place -of dox- ologies and trumpets andaharps, and, in preparation for that place, we ought to make more of music on earth. The band of music at Waterloo played .the retreat of the Fourty-second Highlanders back to their places, and sacred music has re- turned many a faltering host of God into the Christian conflict with as much de- termination and dash as Tennyson's "Six Hundred." Who can tell what has been accomplised by Charles Wesley's seven thousand hymns, or by the congregational singing of his time, and could - be heard two miles off! When my dear friend, Dio Lewis (gone to rest all too soon), con- ducted a campaign against drunkenness at the West, and marshalled thousands of the noblest women of the land in that magnificent campaign, and whole neigh- borhoods and villages and cities shut up their grog shops, do you know the chief weapon used? It was the song: Nearer, my God, to Thee Nearer to Thee. They sang it at the door of hundreds of liquor saloons which had been open for years, and either at thefir first liar charge of the campaign or the second the saloon shut up. At the first verse of "Nearer, myGod, to Thee,"the liquor dealers laughed ; _at the second verse, they look- ed solemn ; at the third verse, they be- .gan to cry ; and at the fourth verse, they got down on their knees. But when in my text I see Saul declin- ing this medicine of rhythm and ca- dence and actually hurling a javelin at the -heart of David, the harpist, I bethink myself of the fact that sin would like to kill sacred music. We are not told what tune David was playing on the harp that day; but from the character of the man we know it was not a crazy madrigal, or a senseless ditty, or a sweep of strings suggestive of the melodrama, but elevat- ed music. God-given music, inspired music, religious music, a whole heaven of it encamped under a harp string. No wonder that wicked Saul hated it and could not abide - the sound, and with all his might hurled an in- strument of death at it. I know there are styles of music that sin admires, and you hear it as you pass the casino or the dance hall,and the devil has stolen most of the fiddles, though I am glad the Ole Bulls have snatched up the charming strings from their desecration; but it is a fact that sin has a javelin for sacred sounds. In many churches the javelin of criticism has killed the music, javelin flung from organ loft or from ad- joining pew of the supersensitive. Saul's javelin aimed at Davids harp. Thou- sands of people so afraid they may not sing scientifically they will not sing at all or sing with such low tone that no one hears them. In many a church the javelin of criticism has crippled the harp of worship. If satan votlld silence all the Sunday school songs and the hymns of Christian worship he would gain his greatest achievement. When the inilien- nial song shall rise (clad it is beingrnade ready) there will be such a roll of voices, such a concentered power of stringed and wind instruments, such majesty, such unanimity, such continental and hemis- pheric and planetary- acclamation, that it will be impossible to know where earth stops and heaven begins. Roll on, roll in, roll up, thou millennial harmony r See also in my subject a rejected oppor- tunity of revenge. Why did not David pick up Saul's javelin and hurl it back again =: David had a skilful arm. He demonstrated fon another occasion he could wield a sling, and he could have easily picked up that javelin, aimed it at Saul, the would-be assassin, and left the foaming and demented monster as lifeless under the javelin as he had left Goliath under a sling. Oh. David. now is your chance. No, no. Ren arid women with power of tongue, or pen, or hand, to` reply to an embittered antagonist, better imitate David, and let the javelin lie at your feet and keep the harp in your hand. Do not strike back. . Do not play the game of tit-for-tat. Gibbon, in his history, tells of Bajazet, the great Moslem general, who was brought a captive to the tent of Timur.. He had attempted the massacre of Timur and his men. Timur said 'to him: "Had you van- ' quished us, I am not ignorant of the fate which you reserved for myself and my troops, but I disdain to retaliate. Your life and honor are secure, and I shall express my gratitude to God by my clemency to man." Beautiful ! Revenge on Christian's tongue or pen or hand is inapt, and more damage to the one who employs it, than the one against whom it is employed. What ! A jave- lin hurled at you and fallen at your feet, and you not hurl it back again ? Yes, I have tried the plan. I learned it from my father, and have practiced it all my life and it works well,' and by the help of God' and javelins not picked up, I have conquered all my foes, and preach- ed funeral sermons in honor of most of them. The best thing you can do with a javelin hurled at you is to let it lie where it dropped, or hang it up in your mu- seum as a curiosity. The deepest wound made by a javelin is not by the sharp edge, but at the dull end of the handle to him who wields it. I leave it to you to say which got the best of that fight in the palace—Saul or David. See also in my subject . the unreason- able attitude of javelin toward harp. What had that harp in Davids hand done to the javelin in Saul's hand. Had the vibrating strings of the one hurt the keen edge of the other ? Was there an old grudge between the two families of sweet sound and sharp cut ? Had the triangle ever insulted the polished shaft? Why the deadly aim of the destroying weapon against the instrument of sooth- ing, calming, healing sound?, Well, I will answer that if you will tell me why the hostility of so many of the Gospel, why the virulent attacks against Christian re- ligion, why the angry antipathy of so many to the most genial, most inviting, most salutary influence under all the heavens ? Why will men give their lives to writing and speaking and war- ring against Christ and the Gospel ? Why the javelin of the world's Hatred and rage against the harp of heavenly love ? You know and I know men who get wrathfully red in the face and foam- ing at the mouth and use the gesture of the clenched fist and put down their• feet with indignant emphasis and invoke all sarcasm and irony and vituperation and scorn and spite at the Christian religion. What has the Christian religion done that it dllould be so assailed ? Whom hath it bitten and left with livdrophobiac virus in their veins that it should some- times be chased as though it were a maddened canine ? To head off and trip up and push clown and corner our reli- gion was the dominent thought in the life of David Hunte and Voltaire and Shaftesbury, and even the Earl of Ro- chester until one day in a princely house, in which they blasphemously put God on trial, and the Earl of Rochester was the attorney against God and religion, and received applause of the company, when suddenly the Earl was struck under conviction, and cried: "Good :God, that a man who walks up- rightly, who sees the wonderful works of God and has theuse of his senses and reason, should use them in defying his Creatorl I wish I had been a crawling leper in a ditch rather than have acted toward God as`I hav done." Javelin of wit, javelin of irony, javelin of scurri- lity, javelin of soph try, javelin of hu- man and diabolic h tility, have been flying for hundreds of years, and are flying now. But ai ed at what? At something that has ome to devastate the world? At somethi g that slays nations? At something tha would maul and trample under foot' and excruciate and crush the human race? No, aimed at the Gospel harp. Harp on which prophets played with somewhat lingering and un- certain fingers, but harp on which apostles played with sublime certainity, and mar- tyrs played while their fingers were on fire. Harp that was dripping with the blood of the Christ out of whose hears strings the harp was chorded and from whose dying groan the strings were keyed. Oh, gospel harp! All thy nerves a -tremble with stories of self-sacri- fice, Harp thrummed by fingers long ago turned to dust. Harp that made heaven listen and will yet make all the earth hear. Harp that sounded pardon to my sinful soul and peace over the grave where my dead sleep. Harp tllast will lead the chant of the blood -washed throng redeemed around the throne. May a javelin slay me before I fling a javelin at that. Harp which it seems al- most too sacred for me to touch, and so I call down from their throness those who used to finger it, and ask then to touch it now. "Come down, William Cowper, and run your finger,.a over the strings of this harp." He says, "I will, and he plays : There is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins. • 'Comae down, •Charles Wesley, and touch the strings." He says, "I will," and he plays : Jesus, lover of myy,soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly. "Come down, Augustus Toplady, and sweep your fingers across this Gospel harp." He says, •'I will," and he plays— Rock of ages, cleft for rhe, Let me hide myself in Thee. Ineffable harp ! Transporting harp ! Harp of earth ! Harp of heaven ! Harp saintly and seraphic ! Harp of God ! Oh, I like the idea of that old monument in the ancient church at Uliard, near Kilkenny, Ireland. The sculpture of that monument, though chiselled more than a thousand years ago, as appropri- ate to -day as then, the sculptt re repre- senting a harp upon a cross. That is where I hang it now, that is where you had better hang it. Let the javelin be forever buried, the sharp edge down, but hang the harp upon the cross, THE AND MYYCOMPLEXION IS BETTER. My doctor eve ft sets gently on the stomach, liver and kidneys, and Is apleasantlaxative. This drink is made from herbs. and is prepared for two as easily as tea. It is called LANE'S MEDICINE All druggists Nell it for 50e. and $1.00 per NU- one to -day. Lane's Family lIJedi e moves the bowel". each day. la Oraleto De Stealthy Willis necessary. MAg 26, 1893. DOMINION -:= BANK, MAIN STREET (NEAR ROYAL HOTEL), SE�PORTH, ONTAR2Q_ GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. Interest allowed on deposits of $1.00 and upwards at highest current rates. No NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL REQUIRED. Drafts bought and sold. Collections made on all points at lowest rates, Farmers' Sale Notes collected, and advances made on same ; favorable terms." BUSINESS ACCOUNTS SOLICITED.. THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE, . ESTABLISHED 1867. HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO. CAPITAL (PAID UP) SIX MILLION DOLLARS - S6000,000 REST - - - - - - - - - - - S1,000,000 B. E. WALKER, GENERAL MANAGER. SEAFORTH BRANCH. A General Banking Business Transacted. Farmers' Notes discounted, Drafts issued, payable at all points in Canada and the principal cities in the United States, Great Britain, France, Bermuda, &c. SAVINGS BAN -K DEPARTMENT: Deposits of $1.00 and upwards 'received, and current rates of interest allowed. £'Interest added to the principal at the end of May and Novem- ber in each year. Special attention given to the collection of Commercial Paper and Far- mers' Sales Notes. F. HOLMESTED, Solicitor. M. MORRIS, Manager. R. MERCER, WATCHMAKER AND - - MA] T'L7F.Ae TTTR C ING� Your own designs and ideas made to order. Only the best and newest goods kept in stock. $EE : THE.;MT_ REPAIRS. My Repair Department is so well and favorably lc/jowl' that little need be said of it, All work receives personal attention. - - MAIN STREET, - - - SEAFORTH. GET A MOVE Off. We have got a move on, and are now in our new Warerooms, ready tc wait upon you to show you one of the finest stocks of Furniture in Western Ontario. We make a ec sP y pleasing of all our customers. Now that we are in our newWa a oo sr r. o m , we are in a better position than ever to meet our friends, and show them goods that are worth buying. Come right along and satisfy .yourselves that our Furniture is all we claim for it—the latest designs, hest of workmanship, and finest finish. We sell cheap all the year round. Popular Goods, Popular Prices at the Popular Firm of The M. Robertson Furniture Emporium, STRONG'S RED BLOCK, MAIN STREET, SEAFORTIL 8PliR;01\1-111 For Tinware of every description, including a Special line of Milk Cans qream Cans, Pails, etc., Made of the old fashioned tin plate, guaranteed not to rust, go to Mullett & Jackson, Seaforth. P. S.—Those roofing will do well to inspect our Metallic Shingles, which this season are better than ever and lower in price. We have also a special Shingle for barns. Also remember, we are looking for your Eavetroughing and General Jobbing. - - MULLETT & JACKSOK, Seaforth, STOVES, TINWARE AND HOUSE FURNISHING EMPORIUM. Irnportant :-, Announcement. BRIGHT. BROTHERS,1 S .A.EOIRMIT The Leading Clothiers of Huron, Beg to infotra the people of Seaforth and surrounding country, that they have added to their large ordered clothing trade one of the Most Complete and best selected stocks of Boys', Youths' and Men's Readyrnade Clothing ----IN THE - COUNTY. Prices Unequalled. 1Ne lead th-e Trade. Remember the Old Stand, Campbell's Block, -opposite the Royal Hotel, Seaforth. BRIGHT - BROTHERS. go 6, SOD have ti the best and spouge5, -floes . supply you 1luient you dor the tue1 0006, a' g alb. In I lout. IfYI doter come be plea Opposite next door her shop• An sty' Ken's wear men's T Women's All style Goat, Doni as cheap ss The pro d. n and l� forty year and guars= Bain Street, '$ )1001 0 V ci 0 Di 2 0 tx t, Ch m t 04 5 x A Qv Far, Draft Inter SALI -eolleetk oF! ilsoi€