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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1897-12-24, Page 2REAL ESTATE FOR *SALE. evAIIM FOR SALE- Good farm for sale, with 8 J acres a fait whoa, 8 acres of rye, most of the fall ploughing down. Tamest= eeven st once. Apply for pattioulare to THOMAS MOORE, Brussels. 1565x4 'LURKS FOR SALE. -The undenigned has twenty X Choice Farms for sale in East Burma the ban. ner Comity of the Itrovinee; *11 sizes, mat prices to suit. For full Information, write or call personally. No Worthiest° show them. P. S. SCOTT, Brussels 1.301,41 P. O. y '1019ESIDENCE IN BRIMFIELD FOR SALE. - .1S/ For side the fume dwelling house and lot near the nilway station in Bmseflele. The house oon. tablet -en rooms, a stone cellar and hard and soft water in the house • also a good (stable. There is a starter acre of land: Apply to ALEX. eit181AR), model& 151641 ••••••••••••••1••••••••MMENNIOF • f.011,=•••••••• 'VINE PROPERTY FOR SA, .tt-For sale, adjoin. 0 X Ing the town of Clinton, on soutlibank of Bay. field river, containing 14 *ores, five sores of whicia is a bearing orchard of choiceet fruits and benies. The buildings consist of frame hoasebank barn poultry house, etc., nearly al1 new and in good repair. This lea rase chance for a farmer wishing to retire, or for a person wanting a trait farm. For hither particulars apply to HENRY JOYNER, Jr., Clinton, Ontario. 1565x1 TTOUSE FOR SAL; OR TO RENT. -Mr. John OUSE- will sell er rent his fine new Ted ence in Egmondville, which was built last sum- mer. Thia is in every respect a fird-class house, with good brick and well tinishea, bard and soft water, combined coal or wood furnace, cereenti floor' in cellar, and every- modem conversience. Apply to JOHN LANDSBOROUGH, Seaforth. 15841 1 WARM FOR SALE. -For male, Tot 6, concession 12, X township of Hibbert, containing 100 acres of good land in a good state of cultivation. Well fenced; good briok house ; good bank barn and out buildings; lasting of fall went, and ploughing all done; 2 good wells and 2 never failing springs; 85 sena cleared; mansion at any time. For further apply to PETER MELVILLE,-OroMsoty P. O., Ontario. 152541 VIARM IN ALGOMA FOR SAL1L-For sale the X South East quarter of section F. township of Laird, oontainiag 180 sorer. Then are forte acres cleared and free from stumps and under crop. Com. fortable log builchngt. Tho balance is well timbered. It is within fourmiles of Echobay railway station, and six miles of the prosperoue village of Port Findlay. Thiele a good lot, and will be sold cheap, and on nay terms. Apply to WILLIAM SIMPSON on the premiset, or to ALEX. MUSTARD, Bruce - field. 1516-11 WARM FOR SALE. -A rens chance. Being the X S. E. Section 20, Township 2, .R. 20, W. let P. 31. in the Daupldn District, Province of Manitoba. This fanxt promises to be ane of the best in the provinoe. ft contains 160 acres of land, more or las, aB of wbich is lit for cultivation It is one mile from a school houseand one mile and a half from Spruce Creek post cilia. 'There are 53 acres fenced and under cultivation. There is a good hewed log house„ one and a half story, 16x20 feet, and s good, Io g stable, 18x24 feet. There are about 12 or 14 acres of good popular bush on the farna, soil is a iich black loam surface, with a clay imbsoil. It is well tdtuated, lying between. two creeks, neither of them touching the farm. There is also good water within twelve feet of surface. My reason for selling is failing health. I ail" take $10 per acre for it if sold before Christmas, it is well worth $15 per *ore. Apply to W31. MURRAY, Preprietor, Box 33„ Douphin, Man. tbs. 1558-11 THE MAN With The Book This most excellent work should be in every house in the county of Huron. -PRIOR, $1.00 PER COPY. Copies- can be had from Mr. B.alt. Higgins, Bruce - field, or Mi. David Ross, fee Church greet, Toronto. Rev. Dr. 31eViosr, Principal of the Presbyterian _College says :- I am profited and greatly pleased with what 1 have res4, and I intend next Monday to advise ail our students to put it into their libraries and to study it deligently as affording rich in- struction in pastorial theology and practical godli- ness. I shell read them a few passages that they may see that it is far from being dull or dry. Mr. N. Drysdale of Wm. Drysdale &Co., Publishers and Rookeellers, Montreal, says :-Itev. John Ross was a grand man, and the writkig of his life 4ould not have been plsced in better hands. What we need to -day more and more are books of this class The reading of which tends to the better circulation of the blood,and stiring one's soul. 1585-11 Notice to Debtors. In the Estate of Charles McDonald, de- ceased. All pereons indebted to the above Estate by Pro- missory Note or otherwise, are reqaired to call and settle the same with the undersigned, on or before the 7th clay of January, 1898. R. If. FERGUSON, Executor, Walton P. 0. Dated, the 7th day of December, 1897. 1585-4 Notice to Creditors a ' In the Estate of Reuben Clark, late of the _Township of Hallett, farmer, deceased. All persons claiming to be creditors on the above Estate, are required on or before the 71h day of Jan. nary, 1898. to send or deliver to the undersigned, -Solicitor for the Executors of the Estate, full parti- cuTars of their claims, and of the security, (if any) held by then', duly verified by affidavit. After the said date the said Executors will proceed to distri- bute the assets of tee Estate among the parties en- titled thereto, having reference only to the claims of which they have received notice, and after such dis- tribution the Executors will not be accountable for - any part of the Estate to any peraon of whose claim they shall not have received notice. This notice is given pursuant to the statute in that behalf. i F. li0L31E3TED, Seaforth, Ontario, Solicitor for the Executors. Dated this 7th day of December, 1897. 1565-4 Notice to Creditors. In the matter of the Estate of Elizabeth Garvie, late of the Township of Stanley in the Couity of Huron, spinster. Notice is hereby given pursuant to the statute in that- behalf: that all oreeitors and othere having claims Agatrat the Estate of the said Elizabeth Garvie, deceased, who died on the third day of July, A. D., 1897, aro required to deliver or send by post repaid to Garrow & Proudfoot, of the T earn of -oderich, in the County of Huron, and Province of Ontario, solioitor for Mn Jessie Robertson, the administratrix of the deceaeed, on or.before the lst day of February, A. D., 3898, a statement in writing containing them names, addresses and descriptions, and, full particulars of their Wei us and accounts of the security held by them. Aue father take notica that all,persons hadebted to the said Estate are ra gaited to forthwith pay the amount due to them to the said firm of Garrets & Proudfost, so as to enable them to wind up the safe Estate. Dated at Gederich, this 80tio day of November, A. D., 1897. GARROW &tPROUDFOOT, Solicitors for the said Estate. - 15614 GODEF4ICH Steam Boiler Work& (ESTABLISHED 1880.) Milmomminsmommoimi. A. CHRYST 14 Successor to Chrystal & Black, Manufacturers of all kinds of Stationary Marino, Upright & Tubular BOILERS bait Pansoto ke Stacks, Sheet Iron Works, etc., eto. ligim•momil•MIN Also dealers n Upright and Horizonte' ends Valve Automatio Cut -Off Engines a 'medalist. All see of pipe and piptefitting constantly on hand Estimates turntehed on short -with*. Works--OnPoefte G. T. R. Station. Goderieh. Blaillop Directory for 1896. JOHN MORRISON, Reeve, Winthrop P. 0. , WILLIAM ABCH1BALD, Depeto-Reeve, Lead - bury P. 0. WM. MoGAVIN Oonnclllor, Leadhury P. 0. - JOSEPH 0. MORRISON, Councillor, Beechwood le. DANIEL MANLEY; 0ounoillo ,r Beeohwood P. 0. JOHN 0. MORRISON, Clerk, !Winthrop P0. WNW M. ROSS, Treasurer, Winthrop P. 0. WM. EVANS Ammo, Beeohwood 0 CHARLES DODDS, Colleotor, Seaforth P. 0. RICHARD POLLA.I1D, Sanitary Inspector, Lead. O. TESTIMONY OF ROOKS REV. DR. TALMAGE ON THE GEo4o0' OF THE BIBLE. * A Sermon of Interest to All, Showing That Geology Confirms the Truth of the Word of God -The Rock of Ages. [Copyright, 1897, by American Press Awed - anon.] Washington, Dee. I9. -The throngs coming to Dr. Talmage"s preaching sine- vicea at the First Presbyterian church are all the time increasing and. far beyend the capacity of his church to hold. In this sermon he discusses a subject inter- esting to all -viz "The Geology -of the Bible; or, God .A.Mong the Hocks." The text is X. Saramel vi,_6, 7: "And ; when they came to Nachon's threshing. floor Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and God 'smote him there for his error, and there he died by the ark Of Goel.P A band of music is coining.sdown the road, cornets blown, timbrels struck, harps thrummed and cyrabals clapped, all led on by David, who was himself a musician. They are ahead of a wagen on which is the sacred. bqx called. the ark. The yoke of oxen drawing the wagon imperiled it. Some critics say that the oxen kicked, being struck with the driver's goad, but my knowledge of oxen leads me to say that if on a hot day they see a shadow of a tree or Wall, they are apt to suddenly shy off to get the coole- ness of the shadow. I think these oxen so suddenly turned that the sacred box seemed about to upset and be thrown to the ground. Uzzah rushed forward -and - "laid hold of the ark to keep it upright, But -the had no right to do So. A special command had been given by the Lord that no one save the priest under any circumstances should touch that box. Nervous and excited and irreverent Uz- zah disobeyed when he took hold of the ark, and he "died as'a consequence. In all ages, and never more so than in our day, there are good people all the time afraid that the Holy 'Bible, which is the sacred ark of our time, will be upset, and they have been a long while afraid that seat vice, and especially geology, would over- throw .it. While we are not forbidden to touch the holy book end, on the. contrary, are. Urged to fondle and saiely It, any one who is afraid. of the overthrow cif the book ie greatly Offending the Lord with hie -unbelief. The oxen have not yet been yoked which ca,n upset that ark of .the world's salvation. ' Written by the Lard Almighty, he is going to protect it until its mission is fulfilled and there shall be no snore need. of a Bible because all its prophecies will have been !fulfilled and the inunan race will have exchanged worlds. A truro.pet and a violin are very different instruments, but they may be played in perfect accord. So the Bible account of the creation of the world and the geologi- cal account are different -one story writ- ten on parchment and the other on the rocks and yet in perfect and eternal ac- cord. The word "day," repeated in the first chapter of Genesis, has thrown into paroxysms of criticism many . exegetes, The Hebrew word "yone." of the Bible means sometimes what we call a day, and sometimes it means ages. It may mean 24 hours -or 100,000,000 years. The order Of creation as written in the book of Genesis is the order of creation dis- covered by geologists' crowbar. So ninny lizzahs have been. nervously rushing about for fear the strong oxen of scientific discovery would upset the Bible that I went somewhat apprehensively into the -matter, when I found that the Bible and. geology agree in saying that first were built the rocks, then the plants greened the earth, then, marine creatures were ereatedtfrom minnow to whale then the wings and throats of aerial Choirs were colored and tuned, and the quadrupeds. began to bleat and bellow and neigh. What is all this fuss that has been filling the church and the *Old concerning a fight between Mosta and Agassiz? There is no fight at all. But is not the geologi- cal impression that the world was mil- lions of years building antagonistic to the theory of one week's creation in Genesis? No. A great house is to be biilt. Aanan takes years to draw to the sjt the found- ation stone and the heavy ti4lbers. The house is about done, but it is ot finished for comfortable residence. SMIdenly the owner calls in upholsterers, plumbers, gas fitters, peper bangers, and. in one Week it is ready or occupancy. Now, it reqatres no stretch of imagina- tion to realizeithat God could hav6 taken millions of years for the bringing of the rocks and the timbers of this world to- gether, yet onite ono week more' to make it inhabitable kid to furnish it for human residence. Remember also that all up and down the Bible the language of the times was used -common parlance -and it was not always to be taken literally. Just as we say every day that the world is round when it is not round. It is spheroidal - flattened at the- poles ktid protuberant at the equator. Professor Snell, with his chain of trialigles, and Professor Varin, with the shortened pendulum of his clock, found it was not round. But we do not become critical of any one who says the world is round. Let us deal asfairly. with Moses or Job as we do with each other. Everlastingly Right, But for years good peoPle feared geo- logy, and without any imploration on their part apprehe.nded that the rocks and mountains would fall on them, until Hugh Miller, the elder of St. John's Presbyterian church in Edinburgh and parishioner of Dr. Guthrie, came forth and. told the world. that there was no con- tradictien between the mountains and the church, and 0. 4. Mitchell, a brilli- ant lecturer before he became brigadier - general, dying at Beaufort, S. C., during our civil war, took the platform and spread his map of the strata of rock in the presence of great audiences, and Professor Alexander Winchell of Michigan univer- sity and Professor Taylor Lewis of Union college showed that tbe "without form and void" of the first chapter of Genesis was the very chaos out of which the world was formulated, tho hands of God packing together the land and tossing up the inountains into great heights and flinging down ,tho seas into their great -depths. Before God gets through with this world there will hardly be a book of the Bible that will not find confirnmtion either in archaeology or geology. Ex- huined Babylon, Nineva.h, Jerusalem, Tyre and Egyptian hieroglyphics are cry- ing out in the ears of the world: "The Bible is right! All right! Everlaetingly right!" Geology is saying the erne thing, not only confirming the truth about the original creation, but confirming so many passages of the Scriptures that lean only slightly refer to them. But you do not really believethat story of the deluge and. the- sinking of the mountains under the wave? Tell uesome- thing we can believe. "Believe that," says geology, "for how do you account for those seashells and seaweeds and. skel- etons of sea animals found on the top of seine of the highest mountains? 1.1 tho waters did not sometimes rise about the mountains, how did those seashells and seaweeds-and skeletons of sea animals taet there? Did you Dat them there?" THE IITIRON EXPOSITOR now, you do' -ndt really believe that story about the storm of fire and. brhnstone overwhelming • Sodom and Gomorrah, and enwrapping Lot's wife in such saline inerustrations that she halted, • sack of salt? For the confirmation of that story the'geologist goes to thatre- gion and after trying in vain to take a e swiliin the lake, so thick with salt he canna sWine if.,-.-•the.lake beneath which Sodom and Gomorrah lie -burled, one drop of the water ,se full of sulphur and brini-. stone that it stings your tongue, and for hours you catnot get rid of the anauseat- , ing drop --the scientist then digging down and finding sulphur on top of sulphur, brimstone on top of bilmstone, while aU round there are jets and crags and peaks of salt, and if one of them did not be - •come the sarcophagus el Lot's wife, they show you how a human being might in that tempest have been halted and packed into a white monument that would defy the ages. But, now, you do not really believe Shat New Testament story about the earthquake at the time Christ was cruci- fied, do you? Geology digs down into • Mount Calvary and finds the rocks rup- tured and. aslant, showing the work of an especial earthquake'for that mountain, and an earthquake which did not touch the surrounding reigon. Go and look for yourself, and see there a dip and cleav- age of rocks as nowhere else on the planet, geology thus announcing- an especial earthquake for the greatest' tragedy of all the centuries --the assassin- ation of the Son of God. Confirmed by Geology. But • you do , not really believe that story of the burning of our world at the last day? -Geology digs down and finds that -the world is already on fire and. that the center of this globe is incandescent, molten, volcanic, a burning coal, burn- ing out toWard the surface, and the in- ternal fires have SQ far reached the out- side rim that I do not see how the world is to keep from complete .conflagratima until the prophecies concerning it are fulfilled. The lave poured forth from the mouths of Vesuvius, Mount Etna and Cotopaxi anaa.ilauea is only the regur- gitation from an awful inflaratnation thousands of miles deep. There are mines in Penasylvania, and in several parts of the world. that have been onfire for many years. These coal mines burning dowel. and the internal fires of the earth burn: ing up, after awhile these two fires, the descending and the ascending, will 'meet, and then will occur the universal conflagration of which the bible speaks when it says, "The elements shall melt with fervent hat, the earth also, and the works that are therein shall. be burned. • Instead of disbelieving the Bible story' about the final conflagration, since Ihave looked a little into geology, finding that its ,explorations aro all in the line of con- firmation of that prophecy, -I wonder how this old craft of a world can, keep sailing on much longer. It is like a ship on fire at sea, the fact that the hatches are kept down the only reason that it does not be- come one complete blaze -masts on fire, e ratline on fire, everything from cutwater .tostaffrail on4ire. After geology has told. us how near the internal fires have A- rcady burned their way toward the sur- face, it ought not to be- a surprise to us at any time to hear the ringing of the fire bells of a universal conflagration. Oh, I am so glad that geology has been born! Astronomy is grand because it tells us about other worlds. But I must say ' that I am more interested in our world than in any other world, and.geology toll - us all about what it was, its cradle and what will be its grave. And this glorious geolqgy is proving itself more and more the friend of theology:. Thank God for the testimony of the rocks, the Ten Com- mandments/announced among the split rocks of Sinai the greatest sermon of Christ preached on the basaltic rocks of' the mount of beatitudes, the Saviour dying on the rocks of Golgotha and buried amid the limestone rocks of Joseph's sepulcher, the last day to be ushered inWith a rend- ing of rook's and our blessed Lord sug- gestively- entitled the -"Rock of Ages" I this day pioclaith the banns of a mar- riage between geology and theology, the rugged bridegroom and the fairest of brides. Let them join their hands, and "whom God hath joined together let not man put asunder." Never Yet Upset. . If anything in the history or con- dition of the earth seems for the time contradictory of anything in geology,. yOU must remember that geology is all the time correcting itself and more and more coming to harmonization with the great book. In the last century the French Scientific association printed a list of 80 theories -of geology which had been adopted and afterward 'rejected. 14%11, the scientist, announced 50 theories of geology that had been believed in and afterward thrown overboard. Meanwhile the story of the Bible has not changed at all, and if geology has east out between' 100 and 200 theories which it once con- sidered established we can afford to wait until the last *theory of geology autagon- izIng divine revelation shall have teen given up. . Now, in this discourse upon the geo- logy of -the Bible, or God among the rocks, I charge all agitated and affright- ed I7zzahs to calra their poises about the upsetting of the Scriptures. Let me see! For several hundred years the oxen have been jerking the ark this way and - that and pulling it' over rough places and try- ing to stiok it -in the mud of derision and kicking With all the power of their hoofs against the sharp goads and 'trying to pull- it into the cool shade away from the heats of retribution' from a God "who will by no means clear the guilty." Yet have you not noticed that the book has never been upset? The only changes made in it were by its learned friends in - the revision of the Scriptures. The book of Genesis has been thundered agatnst by the mightiest batteries, yet you cannot to -day .find in all the earth a copy of the. Bible ivhich has not the 50 chapters of the firti copy of the book of Genesis ever printed, starting with the words "In the b ginning God' ' and closing with Joseph's coffin. Fierce attack on the book of Exo- dus has been made because they said it vets cruel to drown Pharaoh and. the story of Mount Sinai was improbable. But the book of Exodus. remains intact, and not axe of us, considering tho cruel- ties which he would have continued among. the brick kilns of Egypt, would have thrown Pharaoh a plauk if we had leen him drowning. And Mount Sinai is to -day a pile of tossed and tumbled basalt, recalling the cataclysm of that mountain when the law was given. And, as to those Ten Comnumdments,- all Roman law, all German law, all English law, all Ameri- can law, worth anything are squarely founded on them. - So mighty assault for centuries has been made on the book of Joshua,. It was said that the story of the detained sun and moon is an insult to modern astronomy, but that book of Joshua may be found to -day in the chapel of every university in • America, in de- fiance of dny telescope projected from the tea of that university. The .book of Joshint has been the target of ridicule for the small :wit, of ages, but there it -stands, with its four chapters 'inviolate, while geology putt up in its museums remains of sea monsters capable Of doing more than the one which swallOwed the recreant 111111111111111 phophet. There staufl. The 1089 chapters. of the Bible notwithstandinug all the attacks of ages, and there they will stand Until they shrivel up in the final fires, which geoloigsts say are already .kindled mad glow hotter than the furnaces of an ()Man steamer as it puts out from New York Narrows for Hamburg or South- ampton, . • I should notyonder if from the okypt of ancient cities the inspired manuserlpts of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, In their own chirography, would be taken, and the epistles which Paul dictated to his amanuensis as well as the one in the apostle's own handwriting. At the same ratio of archaeological and. geological 'confirmation of the Scriptures the time will come when the truth of the Bible will no more be doubted than the eom- mon almanac, which tells you the days and the months of the year, and the un- believers will be accounted harmless lunatics. Forward the telescope and the spectroscope and the chemical batteries and critically examine the ostracoids of the ocean depths and the bones of the great mammals on the gravelly hilltops! And the mightier, and the grander, and the deeper, and the higher the explora- tions the bettor for our cause. As sure as the 'thunderbolts of the Almighty are etronger than the steel pens of thea,gnes- tics the ark of God will ride on unhurt and Uzzah need not fear any disasters upsetting. The -apocalyptic 'angel flying through the mist of heaven proclaiming to all nations and kindred and people and tongues the unsearchable riches of Jesus Christ are mightier than the shy- ing o'ff of a yoke of oxen. - The God of the Rocks. The geology of the7 Bible shows that our religion is not 4 namby . pamby, nerveless, dilettantish religion. It was projected and. has been protected by the God of the rocks. Religion a balm? .0h, yes. Religion a soothing power? Oh, yes. Religion a beautiful sentiment? Oh, yes. But we must have a God of the rocks, a mighty. God - to defend, an omnipotent God to achicie, a force able to overoome all other forces in the universe. _Rose of Sharon and L o_of the, Valley is he, a combination all gentleness and. tender: ness and SW00 ess? Oh, •yes. But if the mighty forces now arrayedfor the destruc- tion of the nations are to be met and conquered, we =lit have a God of the rocks. The "Lion of Judah's tribe," as well as the "Laanb who was slain." One hundred and. thirty times does the ,Bible speak of the rock as defense, as arma- ment, as refuge, as overpowering strength. David, the psalmist, lived among the rocks, and they reminded him of the Almighty, and he ejaculates, "The Lord. liveth; blessed be my rock." "Lead he to the rock that is higher than I." And then, as if his prayer had. been answered, he feels the strength .come into his soul, and he cries out, "The Lord is ray rock." "He shall set me up upon a rock." Would the Bible present a sublime pic- ture of motherly desperation in defense of her children'it shows Us Rizpah on throe rock for ree months with disheveled hair and wild.screams fighting back vul- tures and jackals from the corpses of her sons. Would the Bible set forth the hard- ness of the heart and the power of gospel to overcome it, it tells us of the "ham- mer that breaketh the rocks .in pieces." Would our Lord represent the durability- -of his church against all assault he says, "Upon this rook will I build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Would he close his sermon on the mount with 'a peroration that would resound through centuries, stand- ing on a rock so high that it overlooks Lake Galilee to the right and on a clear day overlooks the Mediterranean to the left, I hear him stamp his foot on the rock beneath him as he cries to the surg- ing multitudes at the base of that rock, "Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doeth them I will liken him unto a wise man, which builthis house upon a rock, and tho rain des nded, and hint upon that house, and it f 11 not, T and the floods came'and. the wind blew or it was founded upon a rock." Ah, my tiends, we want a swarthy, a stalwart, a brawny religion. We have a great many people Who can sit and gently rock the cradle of their infantile hopes, and can faintly smile when good is accomplished, and walk softly through a sickroom, and live inoffensive lives, and manage to tread on no one's prejudices, and 'their religion is at the best when the wind is from the northwest and the thermometer at 70 degrees F., and they have their sp-heres2 and may tied prosper them. But we want in this great battle for God against the allied forces of perdition some John Knoxes, some Martin Luthere -men of nerve and faith and prowess, like the Huguenots, and the Pilgrim Fa- thers, and the Dutch at Leyden keeping back the enemy until the tides of the sea came in. Lord, God of the rocks, help us In this awful struggle, In wbich heaven or hell is bound to beat! How much the rocks heve had. to do with the cause of God in all' ages! In the wilderness God's Israel were fed with. honey Out of the rock. Ilow the reek of Horeb paid Moses back in gushing,' rip- pling, sparkling water for the two stout strokes with which lie struck it! And there stands the rock with name -I guess the longest word. in the Bible:--sela-hem- malilekoth, and it was worthy of a re- sounding, sesquipedalian nomenclature, for at that rock Sa,u1 was compelled to quit his pursuit of David and go home and look after the Philistines, who were making a flank movement. There were the rocks of Bowe and Seneh, between which Jonathan climbed up and sent fly- ing in retreat the garrison of the imelr- emucised. And yonder see David and his men hidden in the rock of Adullam and En gedi. . Divine Deliberation. . But while I go on with my study of the geology of the Bible, or God among the rocks, I get a more intelligent and help- ful idea of divine deliberation. These rocks, the growth of thousands of years, and, geology says, of millions of years, ought to show the prolongation of Gotri plans and cure our impatience because things are not done in short order. Men without seeing it become critical of the Al.nighty and think, Why does he not do this and do that and do it right away? We feel sometimes as if we could not wait. Well, I guess we will have to wait. God is never in a hurry except about two things. His plans, sweeping through eternity, are beyond our comprehension. They have such wide circle, such vastness of revolution, such infinitude that we cannot compass them. Indeed he would not be much of a God whom we could thoroughly understand. That would not be much of a father who had no thoughts or plans larger than his babe of one year could compass. If God takes millions of years to make one rock, do not let us be- come critical if he takes 20 years'or a century or several centuries to do that which we would like to have done imme- diately. Do not repeat the folly of those who conclude there is n,o God or that he is not in sympathy with the right and the, good because he does not do certain things in the time we set apart /or their performance. Do not let•us hold up our little watch, with its tiny hour hand and minute hand, and. by it try to correct the clock of the universe, its pendulum tak- ing 500 years to swing this way and 500 years to swing that way. De not let us set un our pule spinning wheel beside a the him in which God weaves sunrises . and sunsets and auroras. We have the best of autherity for Ewing that "one day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one 'day." Do not expect that Uzzah's oxen, even if they do not shy off, but go straight ahead, can keep up with the fire shod lightnings. But that was nota slip of the rtongue when I said that God le neyer'in a hurry except in two things. Those two things aro when be goes to, save a repentant • sinner and comfort a praying mourner. The one divine hurry Was set forth in the parable of thd prodigal son when it says, • 'the father ran." • He was old, and I suppose had as much as he could do to walk, but the sight of his bad boy com- ing home limbered the stiff knees and lengthened the shortened pace of the old: man in an athletic Arid°. "The father: -rani" Put it into your oratorios, Sound it with full orchestra. 'Repeat it through all heavens, "The father ran!" 0 soul - farthest off, oome back, and God, your Father, will come out to meet you at full run! The other time when God is in a hurry is when a troubled soul calls for comfort. Then - the Bible represents the divine gait and swing and velocity by the reindeer,saying, "Pe thou like a roe or a young heat on the 'Mountains of • Bether." That parenthesis I put in think- ing that there may be some repentant sinner who wants to Rho pardon or some mourning soul who needs comfort, and therefore I'mention the two things about which God is in a great hurry, .• Truth of the Onmipotent. But c,oncernIng all ttho vast things of Rod's government of the universe be pa- tient with the carrying out of plansebe- yond our measurement. Naturalists tell us that there are inseets that are born and die with in an hour and that there are several generations of them in one day, and if one of those July insects of an hour should say: "How slow everything goes! I was told in the chrysalis state by a wondrous instinct that I ivould find in this world seasons of the. year -spring, summer, autumn and winter. But where are the autmnnal forests upholstered in fire, and where are the glorious spring- times'with orchards waving their censers of perfume before the altars of the morn- ing? 1 de not believe there are any au- ttunns or epringtimes." lf, then, a golden eagle, many years old, in a eage nearby, heard the hum of that complaining in- sect, it might well answer, "0 summer insect of an hour, though your life is so short you cannot see the magnificent turn of the seasons I can testify as to their reality, for I have seen them roll. 'When Was young, and before I was impri- soned in this cage, 1 brushed their gor- geous leafage and their fragrant blossoms with my own wing. You live an hour. I have lived 30 years. But in one of my flights high up, the gate of heaven open, for a soul to go in or a seraph to come out, I heard the choirs chanting, 'From everlasting to everlasting thou art God!' Anti it was an antiphonal in whichall. hea- von responded, 'From everlasting to ever- lasting thou art God.' 0 man! 0 woman! So far as your earthly existence is con- cerned, only the insect of an hour, be not impatient with the workings of the Omnipotent and the Eternal!" Apd now, for yoUr solace and your safety, I ask you to cine under. the shel- ter, and into the deep clefts, and the almighty defenf3e of a rock that is higher than you, higher than any Gibraltar, higher than the Ilimalayas-,-the Rock of Ages -that will shelter you from the storm; that will hide you from your enemies; thatrwill stand when the earth- quakes of the last day get their pry under the mountains; and hurl them into seas boiling with 'fires which are already burning their Way out from redhot cen- ters toward the surfaces which- are al- ready here and there spouting With fire arnid the quaking of the mountains under the look and touch of him of whom it is said in the sublimest sentence ever written: "He laaketh upon the moun- tains, and they tremble. Ile toucheth the hills, and they smoke," Hie you one and all to the Rock of Ages. And now as before this sermon on She rocks I gave out the significant and appropriate hymn "How firm a founda- tion ye saints of the Lord," I will give out after this- sermon on the rocks the significant and appropriate hymn:- Rock of Ages, clefts for me, Let 1310 hide myself in thee! • An Irish Witness. • An Irish witness was being examined as to his knowledge of a shooting affair. "Did you see the Shot fired?" the magis- - trate asked. "No, sorr, I only heard it," was the evasive replye "The evidence is not satisfactory," replied the magistrate sternly. "Stand down!" -'The witness stepped down to leave he box, and, directly his back was turned he laughed derisively. The maglstrate,:indignant at bo eontempl of court, called him back and asked him how he dared to laugh in court. "Did ye see me laugh, your Hon -- or?" queried the offender. "No, sir, but I heard you," was the irate reply. "That evidence is not sadsfactorve" said Pat quietly. but with a twinkle in his eye, and this time everybody laughed except the magistrate. Heist. One of the sweetest 'conceptions of heaven to my mind is that of rest. "There remaineth, therefore. a rest to She people of God." Labor, anxiety and care are the fruits of sin; but when the effects of sin shall have been entirely removed, then will come the sweet and endless rest of heaven. -Rev. John Scott, D. D. • --;-A serious accident took place at the G. T. R. shops, Stratford, on Monday afternoon, last week. Charles Battley, a fitter, and his mate, were engaged in hoist- ing an axle -box, weighing about 125 pounds, when' by some mischance the fastenings gave way,and the huge mass cti iron drop- ped to the ground. In the Aireet path of its fall was Mr. Battley's left foot, which he instinctively drew away, not, however, be- fore it had been crushed to such an extent that amputation of one of the toes was necessary. Coughs and colds need not be endured; they can be cured, and that quickly. Many mixtures are tem- porary in effect, but Scott's Emulsion , of Cod-liver Oil with 'Hypophosphites is a permanent remedy. The oil feeds the blood and warms the body; the hypophosphites tone up the nerves; the glycerine soothes the inflamed throat and lungs. The combination cures. This may prevent serious lung °troubles. 50s- an4 f;.00; all druggist SCOTT & WE. amaKte TIT%t°1.-- • DECEMBER 24 1897. if Slave df Your Foot! Such should be the Shoe -created to protect it from the rough rite& of life. But tnany feet to -day are slaves to the shoe, because their owners will not consult their feet, when buying footwear! Here is a shoe Weald give a springyfoot-step even to old age, because in the building of the sole no peg or stitch under the, foot destroys its elasticity. It is a foot conforming shoe, titid every variety of feet has been considered in Its construction, Goodyear welt process -Same as hand -made at half the price. Stamped on the sole $3.00, fet.00, $5.00te't'rFtir. CEM fa, HAM, rearinti able yearly. on firm IMPORT DS VI J.MOKENNA, Dior gurevor,Xembei, Stumm, Dublin, all FOR 1 b74-1:0"gell:hil: A ureter -failing S -the!ots.ppryilwfbexsossid.at ure EATT1 C1 lifti".111;"%itecia:441rS':;610e13enirS1 Undfitn:. -0:1"114°114:0tUlliT:::61:411: 3101••••••1111.1M.... VV wgefl tearing 44Wil AB in cao have the san ying ethergee. Mt! DEANS AND BUTTI 7143EIlk& 6007,4fiesintitio *rth,f ttly of Irst-otssil the Wheat Lash es siso be paid for k, ,-7Fratatesilearledit "Woirth:talmnsixe731. Orehard. For terms Oelsiortable house, gc melon 9. Itellide. ideated, and in 4 good "HT? leesID trR Liteer fie/reel I 411DI eep c otudtra. -Weedy en poeiSlikleeds liretwerheznechlith ly .eeeite ThEWQBLD lan,don,Ontai F7psejaiteedceratielidterestZteMe?lblrl.: ,10,eal value; Weight loans' Anent. 10 5011. honowei door -eouth of Jacks° The Slater Shoe Olitatoau.c Pets eaaamea_ ROBERT WILLIS, SOI. AGENT FOR SEAFORTH. DOMINION memo 1 BANK. CAPITAL' (PAID UP) $45005000000,00, REST, .. SEAFORTH BRANdli. MAIN STREET, A general banking business transacted. Draft .on all parts of the United States Great Britain and Europe bought and sold. Letters of credit issued, available in all part - of Europe,' China and Japan. Farmers' Sale Notes. collected, and Mystifies made on .am • at lowest rates. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT*, pr . to incii.twice each year -at the end of June and December Deposits of One Dollar and;snrwards reoeived, and interest_ ailowed at highest emu ratesInterest added s No notice of withdrawal,is required for the'whole or any portimi of a deposit. W. It. i'EAROE, .Agent, SEAFORTH, R. S. HAYS,:Solicitor. galftrilleletsuerulfulll. 404. 'FF:AF " *V4:2&• -Pc • _ • t•t".7-;-•7.'" Is the quickest remedy ever known to cure Burns, Bruises, ;Scalds, Clits, Sores, Boils, Sprains, Strains, etc' The many well luiown people, of high standing in the community, who • have spoken and written of the merits of Quicircure, show that it is an honest iemedv of reat "trt ^re n n rtn refartetrtiarixtreruartrtn_rers a erne! nei ti n toesertemr- PIE1 CANADIAN BANK, OF eelgMERCE, ESTABLIIIRED 1867. HEAD OFFIOi, /TORONTO. OAPITAL (PAID UP) SIX MILLION DOLLARS - 88,000,000. REST B. t. '-WALkER, .GENERAL MA/4021t1 1,000g000 SEAFORTH BRANOH.. A General Banking Rusinees Transacted. Farmers' Notes discounted, Drafts issued, payable at all points in Oanada and the Orincipal cities In the United Sates, Great Britain, France, Bermuda, dre. SAVINGS BANK CIEPARTMENT. Deposits of 81.00 and upwards received, and current rates of Interest allowed. garInterest added to the principal at the end Of May and Novem- ber in each year. Special attention given to the collection of Cominercial Paper and Far. niers' Salsa Notes. F. HCLMESTED, Solicitor. F. 0 a, MINTY, Managbr. Pointing Out the Opportunity. Christman is the opportun- ity to irapriyve your home by increasing itS attractiveness. You want bOtter furniture, bet- ter styles, had more comfort- able shapes, ClaTistmas offers the opportniiity to select such gifts, as will add to that home and rnake the life there more pleasant, Don't fail to call and See our Christnias stock of Vockers and Easy Chairs. Our Undertaking Department is complete and strictly up-to-date, with a larger selection than ever before, and prices to suit every one's needs. , We have . a quantity of suitable 'chairs to be used at funerals) which we will lend free of charge, and any orders that we are favored with shall peeive our best attention. Night calls promptly attended to by our undertaker, 11r. S. T. Holmes, Goder- ich street, Seaforth, opposite the Methodist church, BROADFOOT, BOX & bO., 8mA_FORTI=1_ THE QUALITY Is the first thing to ennsider in Clothing, t he price comes next. Quality means good material well made up, it Means a good fit; it means good wear; it means a genteel appearance. Our clothing is distinctively quality clothing; the /nice is only a little more than you would pay for the shoddy goods, but you'll find a vast difference in the wear and looks. THREE POINTS. _ There is a good deal of satisfaction in knowing that your clothes fit you and look well. 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