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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1901-01-18, Page 20 REAL ESTATE FOR SALl. ly sitiutted in Sealoreh, elnatese new, h..0 _ Will buy good 7.rooneed houseiTk); Moue ot- Good hard and soli water. Apply to SCOU BROS,- &earth. 1721.0 FOR SALR.—Nine ;wee nf land for sele, bong Lob 12, Oonoeadore 8, Hey. There Is a frame home and barn also smell orchard. Putative npon applicatien. MRS. ROBERT KYOD, Zurich, 160041 eL-Ultel FOR. SA.L.E.—Let 11, L. R. W., Saueile Line: • Staaley, eenseling- of 12) acres, 110 intros undoP good state of miltivation, 10 (corgi fall wheat, Good atone Muse, kitchen and wood ehed, cellar full gee of house and kitehee with (acme eistern, go id hard water well. Bern end (Amble oonvenient well and creek, poi orohard and 10 aores good ash aad maple grove. F. r oterticulare apply on promisee, HERBERT fe, JOEIN3 ION, hayfield. 1723-0 MIAMI IN STANLEY FOR SALF.—For sele Let 11 U and Settle hell of Let 12, Concession 4. Stanley. _ conteining-160 acres, 00 acres °leered and hive faie gate of eultivatien. There is &frame dwelling house with cellar, bank barn with stone stabling, stone piee pen, stave silo, two good wells also a riser runs at the briek of thalferin. It to convenient to church:or, schools and markets, belng 3 miles fame Brneefleld and 9 miles from Seaforth. Apply on the premises or adclrees THOMAS GEMMELL, Brucelleld. 1722tf FARM IN STANLEY FOR SALE —For sale Lot 9, IN 1, London Road, near the village. ofBrueetieldl containing about 100 acree, 90 acres cleared and in a pod state of cultivation, the ro. toainder is hardwood bush, There are good build- ings, 12 acres at wheet, 30 seeded to grass, a. good °milord and plenty of water. Will be sold cheap lead on easy terms. Apply to A, 3. ROSS, Brim- field la 0. 167041 -r_TOLtsE AND THREE t+CREB FOR SALE.—The Al undersigned offers for sale his cottage in Hale purhey with 3 scree of land in good state of cultivre- tioreplanted with fruit and ornamentel tress. There is * good steble on the place, with plenty of hard and soft water. Fencer( are in geed ardor. There aro seven rooms in the /vein whioh is good repatr. The promisee my be viewed at any time. .10.11EPII P. BRINE 169541 ereiReIR,ABLE PROPRRTY SEAFORTH FOR 11 SALM—Beautifully eituated on Centre Street :Mottling Boattigs Give°. There are two lots plented with the choicest of fruit trees of all kinds and &rube. A frame holm, stone cellar underneath the whole house, a sitting room, dining room, summer and winter kitchens and four bedroom, hard and soft water. It is one of the most pleasantly loeatei, -eomfortable and convenient residences in Seahrth and will be Hold °heap. Apply to JOStAH WAT- SON, Segorth. 170041 'Eskitst IN HULLETT Fort SALE.—For sale, Lot U 4, Coneeseion 13, Huliett, oonteining 76 acres, all cleared, underdrained, well fenced, and abut 40 .ores seeded to grime There are fair building's. There is &good orchard, and a never -failing spring °reek runs through the farm and a good well at the house. It le near school and pose office, and eon. venient to the beet markets. It le a splendid farm, not a foot of waste land on it, and le well adapted for stock raising. It will be sold cheap and on easy terms. Apply to the undereigned, Seaforth P. 0. JANE ROBTSON. 1669 11 tITYLISE AND LOT IN HARPURIIEY FOR SALE.—For sale the comfortable frame cot, tage in Harpurhey belonging- to the undersigned. It contains three bed rooms, sitting' room, dining room, kitehon and pantry. His on a alone founds. Eon with a geed oollar; also hard and soli water. Thi) lot contains of an acre of land, has on it a good stable and is well platted with varlet* kinds of large and small fruite 11 1. pleasantly situeted and will be sold cheep. Apply to the owner, MM. GEORGE faleLLERY, Beaforth, or to JAMES W sTEION, Sea. "the_ MIAMI FOR SLE.—oz gala reit to, 001101149t01 7 Stanley, containing 100 acres more or lose, 93 acrea cleared and 7 acres of bulb, Kt acres under o tivation, 8 MOW in fall wheat and the balling) see to gran. The farm is well fenced and undordrained with plenty of good water convenient to buildings of which there are &good frame home with kitchen and wood shed attached, two large hank bung with done walla underneath, largo drive shed and pig house with eemont floor, a large orchard of choice fruit. It is convenient to ehurah, post gibe and schools. It is 6 miles from Brueefield station with good gravel road* leadingen all dire:Alone. This is a first class farm and in good °audition and will be sold cheap. For :full particulars apply to WM. lideALLISTER, Varna. P. 0. 171141 VIARM IN TUCKER3MITH FOR SALE.—For sale J Lot 11, Concession 8, Tuokersmith, ooniaining 100 auras, all cleared but about 8 cores of good bush. 11 1* uederdrained, well fenced, and in a high state of oultiestion. There is a good gone nom ; good barns, stables and out -houses. le adjoins a good echool ; is within Ave milee of Seater* end three miles from Kippen. There le plenty of rod water, Will be told with or without the crop. It is ono of the beet farms in the township, and will be sold on easy terms, as the proprietor wants to retire, Also fie acres within a mile and a quarter & good grasing lot, well fenced, but no buildings. Will be sold to• gether or separately. Apply on the premises, or ad• dress Eginondville P. 0. JAMES MeTAVISEL 163911 MIARM IN STANLEY FOR SALE.—For sale, Lot JU 9 and the west half of Lot 8, on tho 12th comms. gen, or Browneon Line, of Stanley. This farm con- tains 150 acres, all of which is geared, except four bores. It la in a state of (trete:ilexes cultivation, well fenced and all underdrained, mostly with tile. There is a large frame dwelling house se good as now, with good stone foundation and cellar, large beakbarn efth atone stabling underneath, and numerous other beitclings, including a large pig house Two good orchards of choice fruit, also nice shade and area - mental trees. There are two spring creeks running hrough the farm, and plenty of good water ail the year rooted without pumping._ It Is well situated for markets, churches, schools, post offie,e, aro., and good gravel roads loading from it in all directions. It ts within view of Lake Huron, and the bogs oan be Been passing up and down from kh house. This is one of the beat equipped farm= al the county, and will be sold on easy term, as the proprietor wants to retire on account of 111 health. Apply on the prom- isee, or address Blake P. O. JOHN DUNN, _ 1619-tf MIARel IN HAY TOWNSHIP FOR BALE.—For r sale, -Lot 22, on she North Boundary of Hay Township. This farm contains 100 scree, 86 acmes cleared, the rest good hardwood bush. It la well un- derdrained and fancied. There is a good stone house with a No. 1 cellar; large bank baro; implement abed; sheep house 70x76, with &steels,u stabling and root cellar underneath; aood orohard ; 2 good ( wells and cistern. There is 12 acres- of fall wheat • sowed nn Jr, rich fallow, we manured ; 40 acres sceded clown reeently, the rest in good 'thane for crop. This Is a No. 1 farm, well situated for markets,. ehurehes, schools, post office; eta., and will be eold reasonably. Apply on the premises, or address ROBERT N. DOUGLA.S,Blake,Ont,1608x8tf Special Attention to Horseshoeing and General Jobbing. Robert Deverettx BLACKSMITH/ and CARRIACE Opp. MAKER Cala Ceoderiah street, - • - • - Seaforth. THE SEAFORTH S.A.."SAT •. AND . . Chopping Mills RL. CLARii Wants any gna4ity of 'good logs and heading bolts, 40 inches long, For whish the highest price will be paid. Custoble sawing done on short notice and at reasouable prices.Satisfaction guaran- teed. R. L. CLNRK, C4th. eee-tf Store And Grocery Business• For, Sale. For sale in the thrlvide town of Seaeorth ; good brick store, with dwelling above, ani goed Wick etable at the hack, aItio'e. fireacaties stoek of gra:mete) all fresh, best pert of t nen and (bine buitrielg, good reams- for sellinpe Apply iuikty to box 372, Seeferth, Ontario. 1700 M. JORDAN. AN ITEM OF INTEREST. p Atria F21,111 !Mali taken at lo eestr rates; payments te get borrower ; satlefaction guaranteed; all corre. epondenee cheerfully anewered. ABNER. C33ENS. Wingham, Ont. .Office—At corner of Minnie and Patriee Weds ery Saturday all day. 1067 ELCOM1111 1, 0 HEAVEN hat 'MaY Be Eitlected lythe Tru.e Disci le Of.Chfiet, ABUNDANT EN RANCE FOR FIM •Rev.Dr. 'Paining(' Tolle Ills efearere of Different ('lams*, , . 'telt() Vs ill Get Os Christians, Taos° into lienven With a *Petal " Push and .1 ',wee Velio W111 Bound en Amid Salutations 1 efinlre. • WaShington, ..11 it, , 3, ---In a vvy novel way Ina Ti linage in ins alisa cot) rse describes Vhat may • 1-. e ex - peel ed in the n ..xt 8 -orld lay these wiks here bend . al ti4ir energies 1 in the right, , direetio is to ts II Peter i, 11,, "For KO an entrtnce Shall be mietstered unto y u a; undiently," . Different styles Of welcome at he gate! of Heaven ". re here Sugsseet d. It ce all hope to enter- that, super 141 caili tal through the grace that i •ready tosave care the chief of sin- ner* But ,not n w. NO man, h al - thy of body and 'rind wants to go no*. 'Phe man svhca hurls him elf out, Of this life is either non agnostic ., . or es- demented +5 finds We ineuff r - able • and . does ot eare where , he hinds. . This is ha best - world e ever got . into, 11.1t1 '-c,ve- want to stay here as long as God w 11- et us'• stay. - But wh n -i• the last p go Of the volume of stir earthly life is ended-. we want enrollment 1 tit a- senlY citizenship. Ye want to get in easily., We do lib t want, to be eh 1- lenged . at tlict rate and asked to showour posso or t a We do i ot Want the gatekeeper in dotibt la.s to whether We ()Ugh.. 1. o go in i.t nal, We do . not Want co be Scot ii the portico of the ten'Ple until em sulta- 1, Ha on is , made as- thaeliere NV( 41111e from and who w• are and whether it is safe. to adet t, tis, lest w , 'be a cliscord . in the et .:rnal harmon [es or caste. the spirit of heavenly -Wor- ship. When t he postle Peter in the text addresses, 1 e people, "I, or so nn- entrance sh di- be administered u.ot ers Will ha e to i unto yda ou ' abunntly," he i nplies t hat some ' will tad- a'dmissio i in to Heaven easy, ,rap urous and ,aaclana entry, while squeeze 'through he gate Of • Ilea, von,. If they get 1 at all. Thely will . arrive anxious ar d excited, and ap- prehensivt and ses uderlag whether it. 1%111 be "come!" ora"Go!" The Bible -speaks . ot such persons as . scarcely saved, ' and in another pl es, as; "saved::: s ,by fire," end in. 'a. ,i her place aS atscaPed ''by the skirt of the teeth." • Carrying out,: th suggestion of my text, I propose t a show you' what elasees - of, Christ'ans will "gets into Heaven with a hi: rd push and those who will bound i amid salute lions infinite; In the fit st class. I pet that inan vaho getsinto the kingslcmi :of God atathe dose f a life all .given to worldliness an l sin.. \'-cors ago he made the resol- tion that he wotild serve himself at d serve -_ the world mail body, mind and out -were ex- latuated and' then, :just Mere going out of thig. life, e ould seek God and prepare:to enter Ileaven. He pirates out his resolution. Ile genuinely re- pentS the- last day or the last hour or the last minutia of his life, Ile takes t e last -sett . in the last car Of the 1 'Ilis tele sed and hinniortal spirit as- st train heavenward. boundheavenward.cend. Not one wing bears down to- ward him with a "Welcome. No sign of gladness it Ills arrival, Neste 1 here obligated , to •i him for kindness done or alms; distributed or Apielt- nal help administered. He will find -some place, to stay, but I do not envy that Masa-his 'Heaven. Ile got in, but it was riot anabundant en- trance. _Somotirnes in our pulpits we give a wrong tura tee the story of the eying thief to Whom Christ said, "This' day ,shalt thou be with , me in paradise." We ought to admire the mercy of the Chriet that pardoned Jilin in the last hour, but do not let us admire the dying thief; When he was ' arreSted, I think hisA)oekets. were fullof stolen coin, and the coat ho had on his back was not his own. He stole right an until he was arrested- for ,his crimes; He repent. ed, and through great mercy_ arose to paradise, but he. was no feminine 10 follow. . s Again, the . bigot- will not have what my- text calls an abundant en- trance, He .has his bedwarfed opin- ion as to what all twist, believe and do in 'order to gain celestial resia dence. He has his creed in ono pock- et end IIIH catechism in another pock.; et, and it may be a good creed and a good cateehiem, , but. he AlSeS them. as sharp swords against those who will not accepthis theories-. You MUM: be baptized in his way or come to him -through apostolic shccession or be foreordained of eternity, ' or you are in an awful way. He shriv- :Is up and Shrivels up and becorhes. more' splenetic until the time Of his ieparture is at hand. He has' en - )lush 'of tho. salt of grace to Save iiin, buthisentre-ince into Heaven ivill be something worth watching. + Vhat do ' they wiint with him in 1 ies,Vall, where they have all gona in - o eternal - Satholicity, one. grand 'ommingling of :Methodists and flap- tist q allCi EpiSCOP01i1t118 and Tat tiller - ins and Congregationalists and Pres- .\ t (TIMIS and IL SCOW 'of other ilenOmie net ions jtist ak- good as any 1 litive u en t i onedi They all join in 1 he ialleluliah eh orns, _ accompanied : by nerpers on their harps .and trunikte Ws on their triunpets, "Worthy: is he Lamb -that was slain to ree eye (aa. ding end riches, and honor ind lin•y and power!"- : The bigot Leer:elide . With Just ' en - ugh grace to , StiNT him.: As lie ()Ines up to the' shining gate' he s )es landing inside of it sothe whom he ts3s4(1to .ineet every Sunday morning )11 the streel going to some other !line% of Sonic' Ot her denomination, int he cries. out: "Are Y011 here? I ever expected (e see you in SurTl a 1 b _ 1 11 aa/Seets place. You WVI*0 1111 wrong our religious theoeies on . ea *Or ,;,,c1 in your form of church govern - 11 !nit. Ifoev did you get in?" ea, ay grace," is the heavenly reply. "Saved by grace!" The bigot is emharrassed and teels for his creed Out his catechisia, and, 10, they yore left.' ()it the banks of • the river _ or - dun as .he missed through, and he cries out: think I will have • to . enter on the same. terms. Saved grave!. Saved by grace!" Benominations - bf Christians on earth. : were nkessary in order to better work and to suit preferences THE KLTON ii • t 11 11.1'ho ,, , liti liV)0(!(1 MIA) 0,01.31011.8; QII 4.-W tunas. ns a [nigh- ' horhn ood 'est: lie diVided into ftnulit- t„ 'lough *one neighbOrhood. n there s no nittl ft).. such die -114101 8 In heaven, stmh l therefore stil belong to one denomination or 8ainth nal, ("hrist "odd 111 011t• 01 his sem one that, there would bc laughter .in h:•av- en, "Blessed are se that- weep row, eh SOr ye all laugh," , An 1 whatsc )uld cause mere - - inert mien • among the glorified than u, rekearsal of the 0 1 r tidy ' differences . between Ch ist- inns, c ifferences once seeinitig of ueh vest ftnportance, Ind, clifferenees un-- 1010WS1 amid the heavenly worship- ers? 'What- will be the bigot's amize- n eat ',viten se he es .seated side by 5 1 de on the banks of the river of life (` ilvin and A rin I I We, Arehbis top C '111)11101' and eons, lissenting pre Leh - e of the gospel wl o never gradnat- e , One- who On earth was a robed. and surpliced ecchesiastic, and . a beckWoods minister who, in the log c&tbin meetinss house preached in a 1inn duster? A111011g the great. ur- prises of heaven -for the bigot ivill be :the •celestial friengliness of, ' II ose Who On ea.-rth opposed each othei in wrathiest polemics, He will get tbrough. the gate,. for he has a spark .of divine grace in • his heart, but, there will not be aa inch of room to m . sPare ( either side of 11(111.,ni, rL w 4t take -long for a heaven tocdiul-1 ' eate him into a; glorious big hearted- . P.or :30 years this man has been Practicing an economy Which prided itself on never pail:ill* a, pin without picking it, up, and if he responded at all in churcht.11-011 1 d put, on the al:01- leetion plate so insignikant a :. coin that -lic held Ns handover it so't-tat na one could_ discover the smallress of -the denomination. Somewhere in tre lift -es -or sixties of his life, dur- ing, a, sevival of religion, he beeame H a Christian. e is very much chang- ed in Most respects, but his all ab- sorbing acqu is i tiveness still in 1,31- .1.1s ten ees him. To extract from I-. 1111 a gift or an orphanage or a ehusch or it floor moinan who lute just bsen bioned out 'is an achievement. , N ou and I know very good rnen, t1eis- 1:Is/es1i:3.1) character beyond dispute, and yet they 'are prononnced by all -1351.s. penurious-, -and they know it them- selves and pray against it. We , all have ot r had habits, and yet, (ixpsct to got to:heaves, and this skinflint has his tnighty temptation,- The pas- sion et •axeriee well illustrated,- its -st re ngt li when in one of • the houses of ' exhumed Pompeii was found the sk Oct on of a man who was tryng to. ('SCO 1113 with (30 coins and a silver seemliet sFor those valuables he dared the ashes and seoria, of Vesuv- ius - 'wh ,ch overwhelnied him, and 11101V a:good man has been held mikhtil by aVt1r1CC, But the day is coining for that penurious Christian's &Tartu e from the world, He has an awful sruggle in giving up' his gov- ernment securities,- The , attorney -who drew his last will and testa - Ment saw how hard it waa foem .hi to leave his farrn or his storehouse or ,investments, . especially thoeethat in the markets aro called gilt edged, • Bsilstered up iii bed, knowing'. he has got to sign il, he Neale the dOeu- Aleut over and over again,andthen,. with a manner that seems to ssay, "Well, if I must, 1 must," he Signs his name- to tat surrender of -' • his Ie 1st' farthing of arthly posseseiOns. )le eenters heaven; but he has pot an b aundant .entrance. The 'fortune - that Won !Or h (111 in this world much atteation makes no idapressioa in that country,where the. gold is SO common that they make. streets . out of it arid precious stones are -so usual -that they build them into walls,- jas- per at the 'bottom, amethyst at the top. emerald and rubies between.. He • will gel in, for he has enough grace to Strtre him-, but his place in hea:Ven will not be so high up or so brilliant as that of the WOMatl whose goner - °s(3,1' apd self sacrificc. have been eele- twitted for thoeaands of years -- the widow of the two Mites. No room for his severe economies up there, Where everything is so lavish and so impr eial and ' so- infinite that the -humblest man is a king and the poor- est woman a queen, and the stars of heaven • which bespangle our mid- nights are only the dewdrops on, the lawn of our Father's house. - I am_ glad that the old man got in, but 1 w+t ish - that en his heart was con- verted his pocketbook hid been con- verted, se that a thousand souls who might have preceded him into heav- en 1 hrOugh his Christian charities -.might have kept a speeial holiday on- the Occasion of his arrival. 'Liiei'e is another kind of spirit who. will have radiant admission• to the upper dominion. .There is a fact which oughtto have most emphatic pronouncement. Al] over the wOrld- ta-day there are men and women of consecrated wealth. They are mul- tiplying by the day and hour—peo- 'Pie who feel themselves the Lord's stewards,i and from their opulence they are making a. distribution which pleasres the heavens. The checkbook in the office drawer of that man has on it, stubs a story of beneficience clear • up into the sublime. In all the -mend .of the. world'a suffering and ignorance and -woe yOu cannot mention one Worthy objectito which that prosperous and good 141 -Ian has hot made contribution, lle is not irritated, as many are, by Solitations for alms. .In some poor Woman in . thin shawl,holding in heis f1rIng a child with rheum in its eyes, this good man sees the Christ who said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least, of theses ye have done it unto me." - Well, this man of af- ilueiice is about. to go out of this world. He feels in brain and nerve the 'Strain of. the early struggles by Which he won his fortune, and at 60 or 70 years collapses .undei the ex- banstions of the twenties and thirties of his lifetime! When the mortal.= -- papers announce that he is gone, there is eicitement not 'only, on the •avennes where -the nansions stand, hut all through the IhospiUtls and asylums and [the horn of those .who will henceforth have to helper. But the excitement of sa bless :on earth 15,a very tame affair compered with the ,excitement of gladness in Hea- ven.' The. guardian 'angel of -that good , man's life swept by his dying Pillew the night -before, and on see ift, wing upwardannounced that In a .few ,hours he would arrive, and there . a mighty stir in Heaven. "Ile .comest" cae.es seraphto seraph. The- Hing's heralds are at, the' gate to say, "Come, .ye hiessed," ax!cl 501118 , whoi were saved threugh the churches that good_nian supported and- .hun- dredia who went up after being by him helped- in their earthly struggle will come own off their thrones and EXPOSITO 'oue of tiner palaces and through tn streets ,to hail him into the Ian -Which, they- cached some Uwe before ( ,,,, : through hi Christ Ian philanthropy "Why, t tat is the man who, when 1 was a - tun 'erect, gave me bread!" 1 "Why, Oat is the man," says an - I other, " ho encournged me when 1 was in the Jay]. striggle of bunines that., IA 1:110 IM.111," 8114' another, "w to paid my rent when had not ling with which to payl' • i'WhY!, tha , • is the Man througl Wit Ofee. el 181ii Mary feilri t; -I heard th goepel, call in Bombay!" ''Why, the, is the n an," says another, "wh helped s nd the gospel of Christ t the abor gin is of America and cause • me to e el tge the ' .war whoop o the fflaVa TO f r the song of Christie, del iverance 1 ' ''Htand back," ' com - monde the gatekeeper of I Te awn "all ye t rongs 1a:deemed throng this man's inetrume ttalitiest Ma,ke way: for him to the feet' of the King, where hc, will east his crown, and then in lie way for him, to the thro le, bele he shall reign. forever and eve'!" Now, that is what I call an a nind ant entrance. You see, it is no necessary to be a fail- ure n! earth in order to be a suc- cess in- Hen, en. . . 131.1 1 Pro iise thee; all those who have lived 1 • r others and been truly Old" tian w tether on a large suale or a stnall cale, Will have illustri- ous Int:1'011e ion int ) the . impended gate vity.1 I- ere and ' there in some larg ,family you bite an attraztive demi; tier wh declines marriage that she ma Y t ke care of father and mat er 1 01 days. This ienot an abst acid x . 1 have known such. 'You have probably known s-uch. Thar tt.e in this WOrid womanly as that . They cheerful - he whirisfettlities and which 9ometimes char- ged, and watch nights )/1111, IS I) reatened, and le blind, and sit in close the sep uagenarlan , be mint out the right num- at the right time. The o - -My a tentlon was first attraetedl,to the d subject in 1898, through the peculiar 01- d 18 I bvan to receive from an old eus- er bad been !taking an occasional e ,to flie • in Cotton ever since I had been in Inkiness He knew nothing obout the int Icael s of the market himself ami gen- era ly a ked my tulvice before investing. of a uddein however, he °hanged hie les ompletely, and would omit! in 1 Dr:chic, and definite instritetions, eh h insisted on having caviled oat to lette At the eame time he switehed i the bull to the liver 141(10 Of the 111111`" I inferred, of course, that he hail ) Inv :sting in some of the reedy made ' th 1 are hawked about the country, bei g curious to knew the source of infor nation, I subjected him to a lit• mum ng. He filially admitted in rail - she e faced fashion that he bed be- e a 0 lent of a. Boston astrologer who d hi iself Zobariri and sent him a cly 1 tter of advice supposa(1 to be compiled from observations .of the plan- ets. I I oked over the fellow's,eireulnes and othe literature, and a mord amazing lot 1 ba derdash I never laid eyes on. It svas a eird jumble of astronomical tern s, ' ccult' gibberish and modern Ste lc E -change slang, and I defy any hut an b +big to tell what he was_ driving at— The was -probably the thing that made it nipressive. "1 trio to point out the gross absurd- ity of th whole proposition," continued the brok a "'This fakir,' said I, 'is talk ng a out planets that are thousands of (Ines larger than this little earth of out T1 ey are billions upon billions of miles away and rush `through space in orbits of immeasurable vastness. , The human mind can never begin to conceive the! gra ideur and their immensity, and all ye k ow is that they have been fol- lowing 0 t some great universal law since the lasgin ing- of time; yet here is a little tinatens- ha'penny confidence man in Boston who asks you to believe that this sI upend() is procession orworlds is set in inetion 1 _govern the manipulations of a ham ful 1 paltry etoelijobbers in Liver- pool and New Orleans! It's the craziest and -itost comical idea ever 'broached out - Fide of asylum.' The old gentleman ehrtigged - his shoulders. 'IIe's hit it right a p werful lot of times,' he replied. "I 'gay . him up as a hopeless case, but the ueident caused me to look into the malt r, nd upon a little. inquiry I found 18 0 20 speculators here in the city who .were i11V isting their money regularly on the dvi •e of Zobaria and other profes- sion' 1 a trologers of the same stamp. Of e nirs they represented a mere frac- tion if tie total number 01' local clients. The aki 'F3 sent out tips on cotton, sugar, r Tice, wheat and industriall stocks', all the Jetteis beginning in about the sante way. For xample, 'I find Mare in the ascend- ant, indileating impending change; Ura- nus utl Jupiter in the third plane, indi- catin .,' riging market; Sirius conjoSins left wingLof last horoscope,' and so on and so on. It is hard to believe that sol.ne peo- ple cim possibly swallow such a palpable fraud, but I found to my surprise that a: good flinty of the dupes were Men and women or superior education and, ap- parently, more than average intelligence. "L ter on I had a clerk in my office who ad formerly worked for an astrolo- ger o so e note in New York city, and lie to)d e many amusing things about the busi ss behind the scenes'. His 'hose w e an ex -medicine man Who for ji years ha managed a big tent show, in the %est for a liver regulator company. He h d picked up a smattering-of-seien- tific t rmsein the role of long haired doc- tor, a d, being naturally a smart, bright fella , hit on the 'astrology graft,' ea he called it, and launched out for himself. He g31 the forms for horoscopee from an' ol English almanac or 'ephemera,' and s business increased he had four or fiv girls grinding them out 11 the time. My young man told me at his mail a's enormous and that mos of his dupes were residents of small towns in the e uth and west. The ex -medicine man as ehrewd enough never tolaccept any money for investment himself, but confined his operations strictly to, giving advice for which he charged $2 a letter. The market tips were prepared for the concern by a picturesque dipsomaniac who used to be a prominent figure on change, bUt had gone to the dogs and was glad tie pick up an odd dollar wher- ever he could. Being an expert, hie opin- ions had some real value, and he fre- quently hit It right. That was the gang who 'read it in the stars.' This is a queer •age we are living in." 1 s All a tac 1 wit s -wit .), the O froi t lief. 0 6 'tip d ;II', `4 1 tie n er _ .... cw0o,tI: call souls as big ly (imbue ellen lotteries actor tze the when pncurn are 0 'es 10 t room Lest _Chilled, a d i ber f dr ps inoth.o. o a. Min chil has her hands full, but IA e clang rter who stays home to „ilk care of an aged father 01' 1-11 Abel!' h s her laa 14 .111141. as full, Aft r year of filial fidelity on the part of this self, saver tieing (laughter the o11 folks go h me. Now the, (taught r free fro marital alli- ance, but the dam sic rose in her cheek I .1ad id, and the crow's feet have eft their ma k on' the fore- head, alri4.1; e gracei ilness is gone out o thdfiure, and the world calls her by u, !me n and -ungallant name, But, in, 1 T.e rd and 1 y God, surely thou w Iti make it 0) for that girl in -Ilea enly reward! On all the banks o !the rivets of life there is no caetle .of 6111 raid and carbuncle rich- er th tilltliat which a aits her. Its windcw llo li right sut upon the King' 'let!. , and. the white horse Ofj t e chanio are being liar - nesse 10Int et her at the gate, and if the •e aire o others eo meet her, fa- t ther And im • titer will be there to thankher! for all she did for them when their trength . 1 tiled and -- the, grassl oPp r became 0 burden, andl they vill ay: "My 'laughter, how, kind on Wei e _to • u$ e en- until the; last! Holes god it is to be together; in hes .vea ll T tat is th King's chari- ot co ife for you. 111 unt and ridei to yo ir everlasting ome!" Now, 1 that s .vbat I call a, abundant en- -franc:C. i 1, But iinakins one of these "smile- ly saved" Ci ristians entering the shining realm' He •asses in a stranger! Sant says o saint, "Who comes there?' And a gel to angel, ,"Who is !that " He moves up and down the str et and •leets no one WI10111 he hel eel to g q there. :He goes into the great Le nple and flnds among the th ongs of he white rob- ed not one soia whom ha tielped to join the doxo ogles. le goes into the "house of many mtnsions" and finds not One spirit voiom he helped to start for that higl resid.ence. ' I am glad that he got n, but I am amazed that in the 3 or 40 or 70 years of his lite he di nothing for God and 't)ac bet termen of 1 he world which wihke tho heaven y echoes Oh, child • of ! Goc, if y u had never thought -kif it before, I resent the startling' fact :hat yot are now de - 1 ciding n t: only the 511. le cf your heavenly reception, but the grade of I your ass diation and e joyment of 1 the - World wit tout en , Are you satisfi .ci -With yourself fbat you can . afford to throW away- aptures and ignore 'heaven...y pos ibilities and eleCt -3 ou Self to lowe . status end cla.ssif ourself anildi the less effi- cient viten you may m heave ? But I an to -lay -chic y addressing those Who ar start d for heaven and , (mid ha e then -know that while ve are apt to sp,ttk of a Lan- phier, the foun ler of 1 ulton etreet prayer meeting:, as ha big an abun- dant ntrance; and Alf •ecl Cookman, the fl ming eve gelist, ts ,having an a,humilii nt entr nee; 'a d Thomas Welch, and Fletcherhe glorious preachers Of the gospe , as having an abundant lntrancc, and John Rogers and La liner a,1 d Ridley as- cending, like El jail, in chariot of fire, a, having n abundant entrance, you al p, if you love a d serve the Lord ! nd , fill fill your mission, wheth- er it e applanc ed or utknoWn, will have, , viten your work on earth is ended 1 andyou are called to come up big er, an el sy'. a blissful, an en- raptur ng, an al diulant en t ranee. -iweesol tint a higher AS GY FAKIRS. THE ODERNS MPLESHARPERTHAN E OF TH MIDDLE AGES. Readers of the Con; cation 11 and the Stoe :La.:. No Trou "Ast ology as a ly mor flonrishin it was in the mit well k •wli cotto city. o, I'm n earnestly. "It's i the six eenth cent erally Ian his tele riekety old tower, Bide pa ener, and succeeded in clod wind 00. At • , rooms in a metro). 1 ales his eerresp 1 yne wri ter ho n ri s busines in market postage prepaid: know, but million doubtei ily invested immedi ass directio ,„tend to 'read the fi Stars Who Pind a tweeu the Planets Market and Who Ile In Hooking Vie - professicn is in avast - condition today than dle ages," declared a futnre broker of this t joking," he went on cold fact. , Back in ry an Lstrologer gen- Tope folindry in some with a black cat as a as migl-ty lucky if he ring th( stake as a Tut he has a suit of st yecraper, die- nidence to beautiful Ind doer a land ()Ike foreeasts at $2 a head, 1 seems inertelible, 1 of dollars 00, un - every y.eu. under the 1 of fakirs who pre - litre thestarkl.' StOteh All Thraingh. 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