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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1897-01-22, Page 2oots & Shoes Cheaper Than Ever, 'Mgr All must be sold within the -- NEXT 30 DAYS. A Fine Assortment of all kinds of Boots and Shoes. Boys', Girls' —2•D— Children's Boots IN BICYCLES AND WATCIIESPOit ii LK N ,,s0Ap RA p : E p During the Year 189T. nalionniewemenmons Our prices bring the Buyers. Call at once. It will pay you. T V. RUTLEDGE. 1509 SE.A...VORTIEE LUMBER - YARD P. KEATING, Dealer in Lumber and Shinglet. All kinds of LUMBER always on hand and of the very best quality. Give me a call, and eee ifjICan't give you what you want. VS -Lumber yard and office on the Huron Road, near the fax 1497t J. C. Smith & 1CO., A General Banking business transacted., Farmers' notes discounted. Drafts bought and sold Interest allowed on deposits at the rate el 5 per cent. per annum. SATNOTES discounted, or taken for collection. OFFICE -First door north of Reid & Wilson's Hardware Store SEAFORTH. r A PUZZLE . . THAT IS . .i!k, PUZZLE. • To know how to suit your customers. I think that I can do it by selling the best and choicest good e at prices that can't help • but please everybody. If you will just call at the Seaforth tea and grocery store, you can buy 5 lbs currants for 25e, ditto raisins 25e, 6 lbs rice 25c, 6 lbs tapioca 25e, 5 lbs prunes 25c, 3 lbs evaporated peaches 250, 3 lbs California dried and pitted plums 25c, 10 Ds sulphur 25e, globe wash boards 15e, 5 lbs boneless fish 25e, 3 boxes metches 25e, Japan tea 15c lb, green tea 15c; blaek, green and Japan teas worth 35e, now selling for 25c; railroad lanterns, formerly $1, now 60e; lake herring by the dozen or half bar- rel, crockery, china, glassware and lamps • right down in price; dinner sets, 97 pieces.. worth $13 and $14, now $10; and sets worth $10 and $11, now selling for $8; tea sets worth $3.50 new $2.90, sets worth $3.25 now $2.75, Sets worth $3 .now $2.60, ten piece toilet sets worth $2.50 now $2 and all other goods right clown in price. dome one and all, and get some of the big bargains while they are going. - , A. G. -AULT, C4th. REMOVED. 'Ravine removed into the store formerly occupref by Mr. J. Downey, in the Cady Block, opposite the Confmereial Hotel, 110W purpose carrying a full and complete line of all kinds of Harness, Whips,. Blankets, And everything handled by the trade. Just received this week a large consignment of BLANKETS, COAT ROBES AND GOLLOWAY ROBES, Which we are now offering at astonishingly low prices. M. BRODERICK, §EAFORTH. McLEOD'S System Renovator -AND OTHER - TESTED - REMEDIES. .1••••••a...as• A specific and antidote for Impure, Weak and Im- poverished Blood, Dyspepsia; Sleeplessness, Palpate - tion of the Heart, Liver Complaint, Neuralgia, Loss of Memory. Bronchitis, Consumption, Gall Stones, Jaundice, Kt ney and Urinary Diseases, St. Vitue' Dance, Female Irregularicies and General Debility. LABORATORY-Goderich, Ontario: J. M. McLROD, Proprietor and Mann Lauren Sold by J. S. Reenters, Seaforth. 1601-tt Barr's Dye Works MARKET STREET, SEAFORTIL We Clean, Dye and Finish Ladies' Capes, Coate, Shawls and Dresses (no ripping necessary). Also Gentlemen's Suits and Overcoats, to which we give special attention. No matter how soiled -or faded clothes. may beeif the cloth is good, it will pay you to have them cleaned or dyed. We will be pleaeed to have you call and see our work. Wood taken in exchange for Work. McKillop Directory for 1896. JOHN MORRISON, Reeve, Winthrop P. 0; WILLIAM ABCHIRALD, Deputy -Reeve, Lead - bury P. 0. MeGAVIN, Councillor'Leadbury P. 0. JOSEPII C. MORRISON, Councillor, Beechwood 1'.O. DANIEL.MANLEY, Councillor, Beechwood- P. 0. OLIN C. MORRISON, Clerk, Winthrop P. 0. DAVID M. ROSS, .Treasurer, Winthrop P. O. WM. EVANS, As9e880r, Beechwood P. 0. etiARLES DODDS, Collector, Seaforth P. 0. RICUARD ror..r.ARD, Sanitary Inepector, Lead - bury P. O. For full particulars see advertiseraents, or apply to LEVER BROS., LTD., 23 Soar ST., TORONTO REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. InIARAI FOR SALE. -Lot 28, Cotkesislon 4, Town. • .11C ship of Hay, containing 100 acres. For part • milers apply to GEORGE E. -GREENSLADE, Kippen P. 0. 1510x16 MI ARK TO RkNT.- To rent, a 200 acre farm, r miles from Ringham, with first-class buildings, an dwell watered. It is all in pasture, andis an ex-- 2ellent chance for either farming or pasturing cattle. For partiouiars, apply -to Box 126, Wingham 1473ft scams VARMS FOR SALE. -The undersigned hu twenty 1: Choice Farms for sale in East Huron, the ban. ner County of the Province ; all sins, an prices to suit. For full information, write or call personally. No trouble to show them. F. S. SOO/T, Brussels P. O. 1891-tf VARA! FOR SALE -100 acres, in the township of 12 Grey, near Brussels. There is on it nearly 50 sores of bush, about half black ash-, the rest hard- wood. A never -failing spring of water runs through the lot. Will be sold at a big bewail]. For partiou- him apply to MRS. JANE WALKER, Box 219, Brussels. 1470 MURK FOR SALE. -East half Let 41, Connession `..0 2, Township of East Wawanosh, containing 100 souk This is one of the best farms in the Township, and is situated in a gaol neighbor- hood, soil of the best and no waste land. There axe on. the farm, frSme barn and stables, also two acres of orchard, pletity of good water, and within ono tulle and a half from the Tillage cif Blyth. For further particulars apply on the premises or to Box 14, Blyth P. O. 1514-tf UAW FOR SALE. -For sale, North half, Lot 20, Concession 8, Morris, containing 126 acres, 100 acres cleared and in a good state of cultivation, well under drained and well fenced with cedar, straight rail fences. There is a 0r4 -class orchard and good well; also a good bank barn 42x61, and a comfort- able dwelling house, there are about 500 maple shade trees planted on the place, it is 6 miles from Bruseele and Walton, good gravel road to each place half mile from school. For particulars apply to WI 3IcARTER, Walton; li. MeArter, Harriston. 1518x4 OPLENDID FARM FOR SALE. -Lot 26, Com , es- sion 6Township of Morris, containing 160 acres suitable for grain or stock, situated two and a half miles from the thriving village of Brussels, a good gravel road leading _thereto; 120 acres cleared and free from stump, 6 acres cedar and ash and balance hardwood. Barn, 51x60 with straw and hay shed 40x70, stone stabling underneath both. The house Is brick, 22x32 with kitchen 18x26, cellar underneath both buildings. All ate new. There is a large young orchard. School on next lob. The land has a good natural drainage, and the farm is in good condition. Satisfactory reasons tor sakes. Applia at Tait Ex- rofirrort 011103, or on the premises. *11. BARRIE, Bruseele. 1885-tf -OARS! FOR SALE. -For sale, lot 36, concession itt 2, Kinloss, containing 100 acres, 85 cleared and tne balance in good hardwood bush.. The land Is in a good state of cultivation, is well underdrained and well fenced. There is a frame barn and log house on the property, a nevenfailing spring with wIndn3111, also about 2 mos of orchard. It is an excellent farm and is within one mile of Whitechurch station, where there are stores, blacksmith shop and churches. There is a school on the opposite lot. It is six miles from Wingbarn and six from :Lueknow, with good roads leadiog in all direcrtions. This de - !Arable property will be sold on reasonable terms. Forclurther particulars apply to JAMES MITCHELL, Varna P. 0. 1495-1504-tf FOR SALE OR TO RENT ON EASY TERMS.- As the owner wishes to retire from business On account 01 111 health, the following valuable property at Winthrop, 4S miles north of Seaforth, OP leading road to.Brussels, will be sold or rented as o, _3 farm or in parts to suit purchaser: about 500 ares of splendid farming land, with about 400 under crop, the balance in pasture. There are large barns and all other buildings necessary for the implements, vehiolee, eto. This hIncltis well watered, has good frame and brick dwelling houses, ete. There are grist and saw mills and store which will be sold or rented ote advantageous terms. Also on 171h con- cession, Grey township, 190 acres of land, 40 in pasture, the balance in timber. Possession given after harveet of farm lands; mills at once. For par- ticulars apply to ANDREW GOVENLOOK, Winthrop.' 1486-tf .. .' ' I P11 I f'l ,711, _Vate.)7 Our direct connections will save you : time and money for all points. Canadian Norpth West Via Toronto or Chicago, British Columbia and California points. _ Our rates are the lowest. We have them to suit everybody and PULLMAN TOUR- IST CARS for your accommodation. Call for further information. Station G. T. R. Ticket Office. Train Service at Seaforth. Grank Trunk Railway. Trains leave Seaforth and Clinton ' stations as follows Goiso StAFORTM. Passenger 12 47 P.M. 1.03 P.M. Passenger.........10.12P. M. 10.27 P.M Mixed Train 8.45 A: M. 10.15 P.3I, Mixed Train....... -0.15 P. M. 7.05 P. 31. GOixo Leer - Passenger i55 A, M. 7.40 A. M. Passenger .. 15P.f.1.M. 2.59 P. M. Mixed Train.. 5.20 P. M. 4.85 P. M. Wellington,- Grey and Bruce Goteo Nontii---. • Ethel Brussels . Bluevale....... Wingham.. Gorsaa SerTil- Winghann Bluemle B russels Ethel P *49e war. 12.40 r. 12.52 1.5•6 1 15 Paesenger. 6.55 A.M. 7.07 7.21 7.33 Weed. 9.13A IS 9.44 10.20 11.10 eeteod. 6.30 ees 6 03 6 37 7.02 • London, Huron and Bruce. GOING NORTII- rumor. London, depart - - ... - - 8.15e. 4.45* ei Centralia • . 0.18 5.57 Exeter.. - . - - - ... — 0.30 6.07 Hensel'.. _. - ... _. - - - 9.44 6.18 Kippen.. - - ...ene.. .... - • 0.50 5.25 Brueefielde....... - eae... - - 9.58 6.33 Clinton .. .. ,.: - ... - - - - 10.15 555 Londesboro .- .... _. _ _ 10.3,1 . 7.14 , 7.23 ' Beigrave • ' 10.66 7.37 Wingham arrive._ _ _ _ 11.10 8.00 Gorso &wen- PaggeniCer • Wingharn, depart e. ..... - 6.50ene. &SOPA - Beigree e_ _ - - - - ... - : 7 04 3.45 y .... .... -. ..... -. i 7.16 400 . Lenciesboro-.... _ ... ' 7.24 4.10 (Ainton . • ....._ _ ._ .. ._7.47 Brumfield ...- ... _ _ .. _ , 8 06 Kippen _ ..,.....„. _.S.17 Ileneall - 8.24 Exeter - -• - - - - - - - - e 38 Centralia 8.5 London, (arrive) 10.00 A. a. ....:'Op.r. 4 30 4 60 4.59 5.04 5.16 MOUNTAIN HEIGHTS. THEY ARE OBSTACLES IN THE WAY OF CHRISTIAN PROGRESS. EU, new. Dr. Talton! Shen's 110W They sy buTorn Down avid rut Out of Sight Forever.‘7A Sermon of Sublime Encour- agement. Washington, Jan. • 17, -In the presi- dent's church and before an audience in Which were prominent senators and members of the house of representatives and people of all nationalities this dis- nourse of sublime encouragement was delivered. Dr. Talmage's subject was "Storming the Heights" and his tet Zechariah, iv, 7: "Who art thou, 0 great mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain." Serp.bbabel Who owned. that difficult name in which three times the letter "b" ocours, disposing most people to stammer In the pronunciation? Zerubbabel was the splendid man called to rebuild the 'destroyed temple of Jerusalem. Stone for the buildhig had been quarried, and the trowel had rung at the laying of the cornerstone, and all went well, when the Cuthaeans offered to help In the work - .They were a bad lot of people, and Zer- ubbabel declined their help, and then the trouble began. The Cuthaeans prejudiced the secretary of the treasury against Zer- ubbabel, so that the wages of the carpen- ters and masons could not be paid, and the heavy cedar timbers which had been dragged -from Mount Lebanon to the Mediterranean and floated' in rafts from Beirut to Joppa and were to be drawn by ox team from Joppa to Jerusalem had halted, and as a, result of the work of those jealous Cuthaeans for 16 years the building of the temple was stopped. But after 16 years Zerubbabel, the .mighty • Soul, got a new call from God to go ahead with the temple building, and the angel of the Lord In substance said: "They have piled up obstacles in the way Of Zerubbabel until they have become as a mountain, height above height, crag above crag, but it shall all be thundered down and made flat and smooth as the floor of a house. 'Who art thou, 0 great mountain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain.' " Not All Dead Yet. Well, the Cuthae.ans• are not ardead yet. They are .busy, in every neighbor heed and 'every eity and every nation of every age, -heaping obstacles _ in the way ef ':.the cause of God. They •have piled up hi1dealaces above hindrances untirthey _have become a hill, and, ' the hill has be- co4ne a mountain, and the mountaiu has ome an Alp, and there it stands, ri ht in the way of all movements for the w rid's.' ealvatioa.• Some people are so di mugged about the height and breadth of this'mountain.in front of. them ' that they have done nothing for 16 years, and. many of those who are at work trying to do something toward removing the moan - tam toil in such a, way that I can see they have not much faith that the nioun, tai n of hindrances will ever be removed. • They feel they mast do their duty, but they feel all the ainee-I can .hear it in ' their prayers and exhortation -that they are sfriking their pickaxes and ?hovels into the side of the Rooky -mountains. If the geod Lord Will help . me while I .i preeh, th, I will give you the names of some of he high mountains which are really . in the way and then -show you that those moientains are to be prostrated, torn doWn, ground up, leveled, -put out of sight forever. "Who art thou, 0 greet meimtain? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a, plain." .. . First, there is the . mountain of preju- dice, as lone as a range of the Pyrenees. Prejudice against the BiNe as a dull book, an inconsistent book, a t cruel book, an undlean book and in every way an unfit book. The most of them have never.read it. They think the. strata of the rocks contradiet the account in Genisis. The poor souls do not know that the Mosaic accomit agrees eXiieti$' with the geological accieunt. No violin er flute ever was in better accord. By crowbar and pickax and shovel and blasting powder the geo- logist goes down in the earth end says, "The first thing created in the furnish- inglof the earth was the plants." Moses say: "Aye, I told you that in the book of Genesis, ;The earth. brought forth grass , and'herb ivieldine seed after his kind . i - .. andithe tree yieldig fruit' 1' The nee-. logiet goes on .digging in the earth and says, 'The next thing in thp furnishing. of the earth was the making, of the crea- ture e of the sea." Moses says: "Aye, I toldyou that was next in the book of Genesis. 'God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creettuns that i hex° life, and God created great whales.' " • Tbe geologist goes on digging and says, "The next thing .in the furnishing of the earth was the creation of the cad , and the reptiles, and the beasts of the j. eld." -,, "Aye," says Moses, "I told you that was next in the filet chapter of •Genesis, - 'And. God said, Let the earth brine forth the living creature after his kind cattle and creeping thing, and beast of th earth after his kind,' " . The geo- logis goes on digging in the earth and says,1 "The next creatare was the -human faini yda "Aye,"' says Moses. "I told you that Iwas next in the book of genesis, (So qiod created man in his own image, la tl e image of ' God created he him; male end female, created he them.' " Those prejudiced against the Bible do not „know that the explorations in Egypt and PaleStine and :Syria are confirming the ScriPtureseethe same facts written on monuments and on the walls of .exhumed eitil as written in the Bible. The city of P them has been unburied, and its brick, are found to have been made with- out -traw, exactlycorresponding with the 1ible story of the persecuted He- brew, On a terra cotta cylindenrecently brou lit up from. thousands of years of buria, , the capture of Babylon by Cyrus is tol . On a Babylonian gem recently found are the figures of a tree, a man, a woma,1 and a serpent, and the . hands of the man and woman are stretched up towae0 the tree as if to pluck the fruit. Thus !the Bible story of the fall is con- firmed. - .. • I A High Mountain. In e anise= at donstantinople you see a - 3iece of the wall that once in the ancie t temple of Jerusalem separated the court of -the Gentiles and the court of the . Israelites, to which Paul refers when he says cif hrist, "He is our peace, who - hath broken down •the 3niddle wall of partition between us." On tablets recent- ly diseovered have been found the names of pro ninent men of the Bible, spelled a. little ifferent, according to the demands of i at cient language. "Adamu" for A claim, Abranin" for Abraham, "Ablu" for Abel, and so on. Twenty-two feet under- • gronne. has been found a seal inscribed with the words, "Haggai, son of She- baniale, " thorisands of - years ago out, showing that the Prophet Haggai, who wrote ia part of the Bible, was not a, myth. - The1 royal engineers have found, 8 feet below the surface of the ground at Jeaut salene Ph:maiden pottery and hewn stones , with inscriptions showing that they were furais ied. by Hiram, king of Tyre, just -en the Bible_ saYe tram' were. The great Males Orteibtrhistery, trial many sup pose are, names of imaginary beings, are found cut into imperishable stones whic have within a few years been rolled .-ti from their entombment cif ages, such Sennacheribeand;Tiglath-Pileser. On th edge of a bronzed. _step . and . on burned brick bag been found the name of Nebuc hadezzar. Renry Rawlins= and Oppe and Hicks and, Palestine exploration so &Alpe and Asyriologists and Egyptologist , have roiled another Bible up from. th depths of the earth, and lo! it corresponds exactly with our Bible, the rock Bibi Just like the printed Bible, inecriptione on oylinders and brickwork cut 8,80 years before Christ testifying to the trut of what we read 1,897 years after Christ The ?story of the tower of Babel- has bee continued by the feet that recently a Babel an oblong 'pile o4 brick 110 fee high evidences the remains of a falls tower. In the inspired book of Ezra w read of the great and noble Asnapper, name that meant nothing especial unti reoently in pried, up Egyptian sculpture we have the story there told of him as great bunter as well as a greet warrior. What I say now is.news to those_ preju- diced against the Bible. They are so far behind the times that they know not that the old book le being proved trtie by the prying eye of the antiquarian and the ringing hammer of the archaeologist. and the plunging crowbar of the geologist. No more is infidelity characterized' by its blasphemy than by its ignorande, buie ohi what a high mountain of prejudice against the Bible, against Christianity, against churches, againat all -evangelizing enterprises -a. mountain ' that casts its long black shadows over this continent and over all continents! Geographers tell us that Mount Everest ' is the highest mountain in the - world. Oh, no 1 The mountain a prejudice against Christian- ity is higher than the highest crags that dare the lightnings of heaven. Before our Zerubbabel, can it ever become a plain? The Mountain of Inobriacy. Another mountain of hindrance Is that of positive and outspoken immorals. There is the mountain of inebriacy. It is piled with kegs and demijohns and de- canters and hogsheads, on which it the victims of that traffic, whose one business Is to rob earth and heaven of the most generous and larga hearted. and splendid of the human race. If their business was to take only the mean and stingy and contemptible and: useless, we would not say much against the. work, for there are tens of thousands of men and women who are a nuisance to the - world, and their obliteration from human society would be an advantage to all that is good. The removal of these moral deficits, would net arouse in us much of a protest. But insobriety takes the best. The mosm- tain of inebriacy stands in the way of the kingdom of God, and hundreds of thou- sands of men but for that hindrance would stepe right into the ea,nks of the Lord's hest lind march heavenward; each one taking ii regiment withhim. The mountain o(f inebriacy is not itn ordinary 'mountian, but it is armed.. It is a line of fortresses continually -blazing away its destructive forces upon all our neighbor- hood, towns and! cities, . their volleys of death - poured down upon the homes and thurehes. Under this power more than 100,000 men and women are in this country every year imprisoned, and an array of 600,000 drunkards almost shake the earth with their staggering tread. It causes in this country 300 inurders and 400 suicides a year. This mountain of inebriacy has not only assaulted the land, but bombarded the shipping of the sea, . and some of the most appalling ship- wrecks on Atlantic and Pacific coasts have been the result. What sank the steamer Rothsy Castle, . on the way from Liverpool to Dublin, destroying 100 hu- man lives? A drunken sea captain. What blew up the Ben Sherrod on the Mississippi and sent 150 to horrible death? A drunken crew. What drove on the breakers a steamer .inaking its -way from New York to Charleston and 'sent whole families on the way home from summer watering places to the merciless depths of the sea? A drunken sea captain. Gather up from the depths of the rivers and lakes and oceans the bones of those shipwrecked by intoaicated captains and crews, and you .cauld build out of thein a temple of horrors, all the pillars and altars and floors and ceilings fashioned of' human skulls. Is if possible that such a mountain of inebriety; can ever be made a plain? The Mountain oT Crime. , Siiiander also is the mountain of crime, with its strata of fraad and malpractice and ' malfeasance and blackmail and burglary and :piracy and embezzlement and libertiaisin and theft, all its heights manned with the desperadoes, the cut throats, the pickpockets, the thimbleerig- gers, the corsairs, the wreckers, 'the bandits, the trickstere, the forgers, the thugs, the garroters, the fire fiends, the dynamiters, the shoplifters, the klepto- maniacs, the' pyroma-niacs, the dipso- maniacs, the smugglers, thekidnappers, the Jack Sheppards, the Robert Macaires and the Macbeths of villainy: The crimes of the world! Am I not right in calling them, when piled op together; a moun- tain? But we cannot 'bring ,ourselves to appreciate great heights except by com- parison. You think. of Mount -Washington as high, especially those of you who have ascended. as of old, on mule back, or inore recently by rail train' to the Tip Top House. Oh, no! Thatis not high. For it is only about 6,900feet, whereas rising on this western. hemisphere are . Chinlorazo, 21,000 feet high, and, Mount Sahama, 28,000 feet -high, and Mount Sarota, 21,800 feet high. But that is not the highest mountain on the western hemisphere. The highest mountain is the mountain of crime, and Is it possible that this mountain, before our Zerubbabel, can ever be made a plain? The lifountalin of War. There -is also the mountain of war, the Most Volcanic of all mountains -the Vesuvius. which, not emaciate like the . Vesuvius of Italy, with whelming two cities, ;Herculaneum and Pompeii, has covened with its fieryscoria thousandsof cities and would like to whelrn all the cities ef both hemispheres. Give this mountitin full utterance, and it . would covert p Washington and New -York and Londe his shovel at 10 o'clock at night, banks 3[1. as easily as a householder, with a grate fire. with ashes. This mountain is a pile of fortresses, barricades and arm- ories, the World's artillery heaped, wheels above wheels, columbiads above colum- biads, 74 pounders above 74 pounders, Wrecked nations above wrecked nations. Thismountain of war is not only loaded to cannonade the earth, but it is also a cemetery, holding the corpses of 30,0000,000 slain in the wars of Alex- ander and Cyrus, 60000,000 slain in Roman. wars, 180,000,000 slain i'n wars with Turks' and Saracens and holding about 35,000,000,000 corpses not Million but billion, which was the estimate made by Edmund Burke more than 100 years ago of those who had been destroyed by War, so that - you would have to add more millions now. Twenty years ago a careful author estimated that about 14 times the then population of the world had gone down in battle or in hospital after battle. Ah, this mountain of war is ' not like an ordinary mountain! It Is like Kilauea one of the Saladwich Islands; which holds the greatest volcano in all the earth, and concerning which I wrote from the Sandwich Islands a few years .. age: - "What .a hissing, bellowing, tumbl- ing, waxing force is Kilauea! Lake of T, unquenchable fire; convolutions and . 01 earcacysms of flame; elements of nature e in, torture; torridity and luridity; con- gregation of dreads; molten: horrors; _ sulphurous abysms; swirling mystery of ' A all time; infinite turbulence; chimney of _ perdition; wallowing terrors; 15 acres of s threats; glooms insufferable and Dantes- e que; caldron stirred by the champion ' witch of pandemonium; campfire of the e armies of Diabolus; wrath of the moun- tains in full bloom; shimmering incan- 0 desoenee ; pyrotechnics of the planet; h furnace blast of the ages; Kilauea!" But, . rny friends, mightier, . higher, 'vaster, 1 e hotter, more raging is the volecinicnionn- t tain of war. It has been blazing for . t hundreds of years and will keep on blaz- e ing,until, until -but I dare not hazard a e prophecy. Can it be that its fires will a ever be put out? Can it be that its roar I will ever be silenced? • Can it be that before our Zerubbabel that blazing moun- a- tain will ever become a plain? A Long Mingo. I There is also the long range of moun- tains, longer than Appalachian range, longer that Caucasian range, longer than 'Sierra Nevada range -the piled up op - °position of bad literature, bad homes bad institutions, bad amusements, bad cen- turies, bad religion -Paganism, Hindoo- ism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism and buttressed and enthroned godlessness, devoted to ambition and lust and hydra headed, argils eyed abomination as it stands with lifted ilk and mocking lips challenging Jehovah upon .the throne oi the universe to strike if he dare. Oh, it Is a great mountain, as my text declares. There is no use in denying it. The most authentic) statistics decease it. The signs of the times prove it. All Christian worker's realize it.It is a mountain, "The meuntain can never ,be brought down,// Rays 'worldly speculation. ,4 The mountain c -an never be made a plain," says a small faith intthe churches. Weil, let us see. Let us look about for the implements we can lay. our bands on. Let us count the number on our side.who are willing to dig with it shovel otbore a tuntiel or blast a rock. Let us see if thereels any foreign help that will come in to re - enforce us. I do not want to make myself absiu-d.by attempting ani impossibility. If it is only pne spade at the foot of Mount Blanc if it is only one arm, capable of lfting but a few pounds, • against a mountain that we1gh/100,000,- 000 tons, let us quit before we make our- selves the travesty and caricature of the universe. If we are to undertake this job, first of all we must have a competent engineer, one who knows all about ex- cavations? about embankments, about tunnels, about. mountains. I know engineers who have carved up mountains, cut down mound...us, removed mountains. I will do nothineunlees I know who is to be our engineer. Zerubbabel led at the rebuilding of the ancient temple, and Matthew Henry, the greatest of com- mentators, declares that our Zerubbabel is the Lord Jesus Christ. The Zerubbabel of mytextwas only a type of the gldri ous and omnipotent Jesus, and as I look up into the face of this diviae en- gineer and see it glow with all the eplen- dors of the goddhead and see that in his arm is the almightiness that flinig out all the worlds that glitter in the midnight *heavens, and. that to lift the Himalayas would cost him no more effort than for me to lift an mmce, my coinage begins to rally, and my fnith 'begins to mount, and my enthusiahnn is all aflame, and • the words of nfy text this moment just • Jit my lips and express the triumph of my soul, and I cry out: "Who art thou, 0 great mountait? Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a " Use for Shovels. My experience with -the shovel are that you cannot do much by one push of that implement, and that after you have been digging with it an hour what you have accomplished seems very little'but just go along by the place where they are building a railroad through it mountain and see whet it great work 1,000 . shovels can do and know that while there are 1,000 .shovels at work on this side of the mountain there are 1,000 busty o11 the other side, and all I have to do is to manage my own, particular shovel. It cheers me to think that against this old naountain of sin 'there are hundreds of thousands and millions of shovels this Moment busy, and we are all at work under the one engineer who 'came 'down from his throne in heaven to oversee and help the removal of that momitain and who has contracted to have it done.. I have seen the contract, and. he is well paid for it. The 'compensation promised by the throne Of heaven is, "I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession." The reason so many of. us are idle is that we -want a bigger shovel or we would like to manage seam great hydraulic engine. No, brother. Stick to your shovel. Dig away in your Sabbath classes., Dig away in your mis- sions. Dig away in ,your homes; Dig away in your pulpits. 'Do the work next to you. Do not spend too much tiine looking'at the great size of the moun- tains or at the way others use their shovels. All that you can accomplish toward the removing of that mountain will be with your Own particular shovel. Remember little David with Saul's helmet on him, dropping clear down over his ears even unto his shoulders.. But when he got in his hand the boy's sling, how well he used it! If y-on.do not understand Greek, do not attempt to tell the people what the text is in the ori- ginal. If you do not understand Latin, attempt no drafts upon Latinity. You who want to help in.the removal of , the Ihountalit hold on to your -shovel. Much time has been lest by the fact that many of the sharpest - shovels, instead of being used for the removal of the mountain, have been used in fighting each other. The great Presbyterian ehurch was mightily hindered by the fight that for years went Onbetween old. school shovels and new school shovels, and it was not until the meeting Of the general assembly at Pittsburg 30 or 40'years ago that many (Continued :on Page 3) tiviwrwerargiswatoteseasumemossouroommiiii'mummmo H. R. 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