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ItICKLInp• Too late for last week. A. large number from McKillnp in- tend going to Clinton next "j'ueedav to see and hear Sir John Thompson, and his colleagues. A goodly number of Conservatives and Reformers from here attended the 'demonstration in Mitchell last weelc. We were treated to t. big dose of braid Scotch ye ken by three or four of the lfpeakere. Mr. Laurier had nothing; new to tell. Many ot the adherents of his own party felt disappointed. A couple of bears were seen prowl. ing through the woods in the northern part of McKillop last weelr. A violent thunder etorttt, accompan- ied with hail, passed oyer chis township on • Thursday night last. The hail stones were not numerous but they were large. Rev. Mr. Buggin, of Myth, preached in the Walton Methodist circuit last . S•tbbath . A harvest home temmeeting was held on the lawn adjoining the resi- donee of Mr. Swallow on Thursday afternoon last. It was fairly well attended and terminated with speeches and music in the church close by. • Chiselhurst. Too late for last week. Dr. D. McLeod, of Detroit, was re• oently appoiuted health inspector for that city at a salary of $5,000 a year, and not $4,000 as the Expositor stated, for a term of three years. The Dr. ght school at one time at No. 9 keremith. ]:Ie is brother to Mrs. McTeggart gg rt of this place. A. L. Bell recently doue big work in the threshing line, he threshed 20 acres of plias iu 5 hours. Chiseihurat will be represented at the demonstration held at Clinton on the 26th Sept. The Expositor and Mr. Dawson, M. P. P., will,just have to nurse their wrath to keep it warm. John Shepherd is making weekly shipments of sheep to Toronto and other places. John Hicks is attending the model at Clinton. Jack says the gide in Clinton are even fairer than they aro in Chiselhurst. Beware, John, we aro afraid you will have to take that back. -----..w -► aa. RBELIVATISIII CURED TNA DAY.-S.nth'American Rheumatic Ciao, for Rheumatism arid Neuralgia, radically ernes in 1 to 3 days. Its action upon the systemis remarkable and mysterious. It removes at once the cause and the disease immedeate'y dis- appears. The first dose gren•ly benefits. 75 cents. Sold by Watts it Co., Doggiest. THE QUEEN THANKS THEM. SIR JOHN THOMPSON AND SIR C. H. TUPPER. The splendid service rendered to the empire by Sir John Thompson as one of the arbitrators appointed by Her Majesty on the Behring sea tribunal haltbeen r'oeoguized in a very friendly manner by a communication which the Premier received last Wednesday from Lord Roseaery, Her M tjesty's Secretary for Foreign Affairs. It reads as follows : "Folmar' OFFICE, August 29, 1893. "SIR,—The Mors of the tribunal of arbitration appointed under the treaty of Washington of the 29th February, 1892, having been now closed and their award delivered on the 15th inst., I have received the Queen's commands toy convey to you Her Majesty's ac- knowledgement for your services as ono of the arbitrators, and her appreoia• tion of the zeal and ability you have shown in that office. "Her Majesty recognizes that your duties, involving as they have done the closest attention during a prolonged period of time, were undertaken at (considerable personal inconvenience 'atm from a strong souse of public duty. "I have pleasure in asking yon to kept also the sincere thanks of Her /Majesty's Government for the valuable Services you have rendered to the dottintry on thie important occasion. I have the honor to be, sir, your most Obedient humble servant. "(Signed) ItOSEBERv." The following letter was received by Sir C. I -L Tupper to -day. rJ tOREIGN OFF1OE, August 29, 1898. :riSir,- -I have to acknowledge the reoaipt of your despatch Not 111 t f the 16th hast.; euolcseflg the award de• livered on that day by the Behring sea tribunal of arbitratitn, and of your further despatch No. 112, in which you cell attention to the services of the several gentlemen associated with you in the proceedings before the tribunal. I have received the Queen's cownfanda to signify to you and to thous who have worked with you, Her Majesty's gree• sous approval of the zeal end al,ility with which yen have maintained the iuterrests of this country, and of Her Majesty's subjects in the intportent matte's which were submitted for de• Melon. 1 have eouveyed to the Attor- ney General bud to Sir Richard Web ster the cordial ackuowledgenntete of Her Majesty's Guvernweut for the manuer.tu which they have presented the case of Her Mejesty's Goverument before the tribunal, and I must request you to oiler the same acknowled.owouts ort their behalf to Mr. C. Rubinson, Q,C„ of the Cauadiuu her. I note with entire sympathy and agreement the tribute which you pay to the abil ity of the late Mr. W. II, Cross, whose prernature death is n subject oI deep regret. I have to request that yon will assure Dr. Dawson of the gre 1 value attached by Her Majesty's Gov• erument to the tteeistance which he has rendered throughout tie arbitration and their appreciation of the learned ability and patient industry which he has shown in collecting and placing at the disposal of those charged with the, conduct of the Brili:•h case, the intoe - Illation required for the elucidation of the various questions of geography and natural history involved iu the argu- ment. I shall offer a similar aokuowl edgmont to Sir G. Baden-Powell. It has afforded ole sincere gratification to road the testimony you hear to the effi• cieut aid received by you from the other gentlemen employed at Paris, and to the assistance which has been rendered to you by various matnbers of this department. I am, sir, your wort obedient humble servant.tl (Signed) ROSEBERY," •e English Spavin Liniment removes all hard. soft or calloused Limps and Blemishes from hursos, Blo..d bpavin, Co-bs, Splints, Ring Bone, bweeney, Stifles, Sprains, Sore and swollen 'Throat, Coughs, etc. Save 510 by nos of one bottle. Warranted the most wonderful Blemish Cure ever known. Sul. by Watts ,k Co., Druggists. SACRILEGE AT ST. THO\IAS' CHURCH. CROSSES TURNED UPSIDE DOWN AND CANDLES SIIASIIED. An act of sacrilege such as is seldom heard of was committed in St. rhowas' church, Huron street, Toronto, on Monday afternoon of last week be- tween two and Live o'clock. Some person entered the sacred edi• fico, the doors of which are never lock• ed in daytime, and turned the crosses upside clown, broke the candles on the altar from their sockets and hid them away. The altar cloths and hangings were also removed and hidden. Nothing was taken away, destroyed or permanently injured. RELIGIOUS FANATICISM. The perpetrator was evidently actu- ated only by the wildest kind of reli gious fanaticism. The insult to the church was either the act of an anti - ritualist or of some person of anti - Emmen. Catholic tendencies who was laboring under the impression that St. Thomas' is a Roman Catholic church. EXTREMELY ]RITUALISTIC. St. Thomas' church is of the ex- teenie ritualistic order, and might easily be taken for a Roman Catholic edifice. In fact there is little to dis• tinguish it from the edifices of the groat Roman body. It in surmounted by a largo cross—perhaps the largest that appears on aoy city church. Ltside, crosses are prominent at the altar, and candles are lighted like at Roman Catholic services. AN OPPONENT OF RITUALISM. However, it is quite as probable that the offender is some over zealous op- ponent of ritualism. It will he remembered that fifteen to twenty years ago when ritualism was growing in England with such rapidity several acts of sacrilege was the result of feeling between the High and Low church parties. REV, MR. ROPERS OPINION, "It was merely en act of sacrilege after an ignorant Protestant fashion," said Rev. J. C. Roper, the rector. "It was just such an insult as would come from some religious fanatic of the Jumbo Campbell type It was evi dently perpetrated by a person with some intelligence as to how to offer the most effectual insult to the church. " The doors of the church are never locked during the day, and persons are at liberty to walk in. I never believed in having a church locked up. " A HEAVY PENALTY. Mr. Roper said he was euro it was none of the people who resided in that neighborhood who had done this. Their exists the most friendly and Chrietian•like feeling between the oth- er sects and St. Thomas' Church. There is a heavy penalty for church encrilege and it will not be wall if the offender is caught. Ayer'e Sarsaparilla rives what no other blood medicine in existanoe can do. It searches out all the impurities in the system and expels them harmlessly through the proper channels. Tnia is why Ayer'a Sarsa- parilla is so pro -eminently effective as a remedy for rheumatism, OFFERS A REWARD OF $100 FOR AN INFIDEL WHO HAS READ THE BIBLE THROUGH TWICE.' Dr. Talmage Makes This Offer Rut Will Not Aeeeltl the Heathers Own Wool For 11t --Where the InterlIttentlous and Finger Markx',•%ppear. BROOKLYN. Sept. 17. --.In his sermon at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, this fore - 110011, Rev. Dr. DeWitt Talmage preach- ed to a vast audience on the subject of "Reinforcement," the text being Luke 17: 4, "Lotcl increase our faith," "What it pity he is going there," said my friend, a most distinguished general of the ariny, when he was told that the reason for shy not being present on a celebrated day in Brooklyn was that on that clay I had sailed for the Holy Land, "Why do you say that?" inquired some one. My military friend replied : "Oh, be will be disillusioned when he gets amid the squalor and comunor.place scenes of Palestine, and his faith will be shaken lit Christianity, for that is often the result." The great general mis- judged the case, I went to the Holy Laud for the one purpose of having my faith strengthened, and that was t,te re - stilt which came of it, in all our jour- neying, in all our reading, in all our as- sociations, in all our plans, augmenta- tion, rather than the depletion of our faith, should be our chief desire. It is easy enough to have our faith destroyed. I can give you a receipt for its oblitera- tion. Read infid«•1 books, have•lohg and frequent convereetioets with sceptics, at- tend the lectures of those auta,ouistic to religion, give full swing to bottle bad habit, and your faith will has so eotn- pletoly gone that you will laugh at the idea that you ever had any. Il; you want to ruin your faith, you can do it more easily than you can do anything else. After believing the Bible all my life I can see a plain way by which in six weeks I could enlist my voice and pen and heart and head and entire na- ture in the bombardment of the !Scrip- tures and the Church and all I now hold sacred, That 1 is easy to banish soon and forever all respect for the Bible, I prove by the fact that so many have done it. They were not particularly brainy, not' had especial force of will, but they so thoroughly accomplished the overthrow of their faith that they had no more idea that the Bible 1s true or that Christianity amounts to anything than they have in the truth of the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments," or the existence of Don Quixote's "wind- mills." 'l hey have destruyed their faith so thoroughly that they never will have a returu of it. Fifty revivals of religion may sweep over the city, the town, the neighborhood where they live, an 1 they will feel nothing but it attest or ex- pressed disgust. There are persons in this hone to -day whc,20 years ago. gave up tlieir faith, and tuey will never re- sume it. The black and deep -toned bell of doom hangs over their head, and I take the haminer of that bell and I strike it three times with all my might and it sounds, Woe! '-Noel Woe! But my wish, and the wish of roost of you, is the prayer expressed by the disciples to Jesus Christ, in the words of my text: "Lord, increase our faith." The first me de of accomplishing this is to study the Bible itself. 1 do not believe there is an infidel now alive who has read the Bible through, But as so im- portant a document needs to be read at )enact twice through in order that it may be thoroughly nuderatood, :and rend in course, I now offer $100 reward to any infidel who has read the B,bteo through twice. and road it in course. But 1can- not take such a man's own word for it, for there is no foundation for integrity*. except the Biide, and the man who ro- jects the source of truth—bow can I accept las truthfulness? So I must have another witness in the case before I give the reward. I must have the testimony of some ono who has seen him read it all through twice, Infidels fish in this Bible for incohereucies and contradic- tions and absurdities, and if you fine! their Bible, you will neo interliueations in the I3uok of Jonah, and some of the chapters of that unfortunate prophet nearly worn out by much uce, and some parte of Second Samuel or First Kings, you will find dim with fitigerrnarks, but the pages which contain the Ten Com- mandments and the Psalms of David and the Sermon on the Mount and the Book of John the Evangelist, will not have a single lead pencil stroke in the margin, nor any finger -marks showing. frequent perusal. The father of one of the Presidents of the United States was a pronounced infidel. I knew it when many years ago I accepted his invita- tion to spend the night in his horse. Just before retiring at night, he said, itt a jocose way: •,I suppose you are ac- customed to read the Bible before going to bed, and here is my Bible from which to read." He then told me what por- tions he would like to have me read, and he only asked for those portions on which he could easily be facetious, You know you can make fun about anything, I suppo'e you could take the last letter your /:ether or mother ever wrote and find something in the grant mar or spelling, or the tremor of the penmanship about which to be derisively critical. She internal evidence of the truthfulness of the Bible is so 'nighty that no one man out of the sixteen hundred 'million of the world's present popula- tion or the vaster millions of the past ever read the Bible in coM•se, and read it prayerfully and carefully, but was led to believe it. John Murray, the famous book publisher of Edinburgh, and the intimate friend of Southey, Coleridge, Walter Scott, Canning, and Washington Irving, bought of Moore. the poet, the "Memoirs of Lord Byron," and they were to be published after Byron's death. But they were not fit to be published, although Murray had paid for them $10,000 This was a solemn conclave when eight of the prominent literary people of those times assembled in Alberniale street after Byron's death to decide what should be done with the "memoirs," which were charged and suri>harged with defamations and iude!icacies. The "Memoirs" were read and pondered, and the decision camp that they must be burned, and not until the last word of those "Memoirs" went to ashes did the literary company separate. But, sup- pose now all the best spirits of ail ages were assembled to decide the fate of the Bible, which is the last Will and Testa- ment of our Heavenly Father, and these Memoirs of our Lord Jesus, what would be the verdict? Shall they burn, or shall they live? The unanimous verdict of all is, "Let it live, though all else burn." Then put together on the other hand all the debanchees and profligates and aits.asins of the ages, and 'their unanimyus verdict concerning the Bible rYould be, "Let it burn." Mind you, I do not say that all infidels are immoral, tint I do say that all the ecapegraoes and scouudrejs of the universe egret) with Sherri about the Bible. Let ;me vote with those who believe in the lioty Scriptures. bleu believe other things with half ti.e evidence required to believe the Bible. The internal evidouco of the authenticity of the Scriptures is set exact and s0 vivid that ito man, honest and sane, can thor- oughly and continuously and prayerful- ly Pearl them wtthout entering their dis- cip.eship. So I put that internal evi- d. nee pltranutunt.,. 'low are you, led to believe in a letter you receive from bus - Sand or wife or child or friend ? You know the style. You recognize the eentitltent, %Viten toe letter comes you du nut summon the postmaster who tttmhped it and the postmaster who re- ceived it am! the letter•carrier who brought it t your door to prove that it IN 0 t loin•, ,utter. Thu Irtter,tal evi• deice sett es it, arae! by the aline process you cin forever settle the fact that the J1i1, • e+ tee handtv1111tl; and Cot1120U111- cat101i of the infinite God. hurt,+ertu.,t -, a- 1 hat ve already it ti- )u:11ed, we may increase our faith by tite testimony of others, Perhaps the of less 'r brain may have been overcome by superstition or cuj .led into alt accept- ance of a hollow pretension. S I will, this meriting, turn this house into a court -roots and 0utntnun witnesses, and you shall be tee jury, and I now em- panel you fur fu:+tpttpuse, 0.111d I will 1•I11 t1p111 the witness 1,t_1nd then whom :ch the world acknowledge to tee strung iutellecteully and whose evidence in any other court -room would be incontrosertibl>. 1 will uut call to the wilue+s stead any minister of the (:tie mel, for he might. 1)0 PIOJit hcftd. S.i I Neat! as ettclt writhes: to oft !i.+ hand t,vetent 11. avert itt animation. Samuel P. Chase, Chief Justice of the Supretne C 11rt of the United States, appointed by P1esi tent Liucoin, will tel e lite witness stand. "C..ief Jus, ice Chase, upon your <•at,h, please to state what you have to ser a. out the eek commonly called the leeks, The 0 ittes+ replies : -There e.tm+. a flim i:t n)y eft when I doubted t .e di itsity of the Scripture,, and I re- se,lved 04 It lawyer attd it judge, 1 would try tele bolt 33 I wou:d try anything in the conn -rooms, ta. ing evidence for and :tgteitt;t. It was it lung and serious and profound study, and usiu:; the sante priaeipleeso1 evidence in this religious matter as 1 always do itt seeulur natters, I have conte to tl:e deeitiuu that the Bile -to a supern:itttrol hunk, that it has corse torn teed, unJ that the o:tly safe• ty for the huuutu race is to follow its teachings." "Judge, that will do. Go back again to your 'Lame of dost on the banes of the Ohio," Next 1 put upon the witness stated a President of the United States—John Qui, c r Adams. -President Adttins, what nave you to say. about the Blew and Ct.risttenity?" The President replies: -I cave for many years made it a practice to read thiouglt the Bible uhce ;t year. 1Iy custom is to read four or ti 1•e chapters every morning immedi- ately atter arising front my bed. It em- ploys about au hour of tiny time and 8001119 to Inc the most suitable !Manlier of begiuning the day. In what light so - ever we regard the Bible, whether with I'etetenee to revelation, to hist• ry or to morality, it is alt iitv:dual1.1 and inex.- ltaustihle thine of knowledge and virtue," Next I put uputt the witness stand Sir Isaac Newton, tl.e author of the Priticipia and the greatest statural pitiiosuplter the world has w r )f d tin e e seen, -Sir 1saetv h t have you to nay concerning the Bible? Toe phil:wi he•r's reply is: ' 4Ve aece.unt the Scriptures of Gud to be the most sublime philosophy." Next I put upon tine tt•ituess-stand the enchantment of lettere, Sir Walter Scott: and when 1 ask hint what he thinks of the place that our great book ought to take among other nooks he replies: •'Tltare is but one bouk tinct that is the Bible." Next I pct upoh Ilse strand the most fa0110115 geolugiat uf• all time, Hugh Sillier, an eider of Dr. Guthrie's Presbyterian Ciuttelt, iu Edin- btttg, and Faraday, and Iieiepler, and they all testify to the same thing. They ail say this Bible is f:otn Gud, rued teat the mightiest influence fur good that ever touched our world is Christie itity. "Chancellor Kew. ! lutist do you think of tee Bible?' Anse er : • Nu other book ever audressed itself so author.tat.t•ely and so pathetically to the judgment and mono sense of 11)unlcind.. -Edmond Burke ! 11 hat do yutt think o: the Bible?" Answer: "1 have r, ad the Bible Inurnin_,-'noun and ni_ht, and have ever sisece t e• n the happier and the better titan for such reading." Next I put upon the shln.i Wil a i E. Glad- stone, tee head of the Ei•.,ll;h Govern- ment, and 1 !:ear hint saying what ho said to 100 in January, lee°, when, in reply to his tee -gram, "fray come to llawurdeu te-mefruw," I visited lsirn. Than and them I asked hint as to whether, in the paseitgo of years. his faith in the lioly `criptures at.d Chris- tianity was 011 the increase or decease, at d lee turned upon ine with an emphasis aid enthusiasm :.u.rlt as no one who has n, t conversed with hien can fully appre- ci:.u•, and expressed by voice and gesture and illuuhiu. d countenance his ever- it,ereasieg faith in Clod and the Bible and Cnt'hstianity as the telly hope of our rained world. Tlhe next man I put upon I he t•. i nems stand is the Late Eau l of kiu- lure, amid I tisk bins tyhat lie thinks of Christianity uu.i he replies, ••ti,1y do you risk enc.• that? 1).d you 1101 hoar me preach (,oriel in the 'ileint;;ht ,.fission' of Lonalon?" "Oh, yes 1 1 root•tnki r?" But 1 roe many .5iutestait presen' today the court room, and i c;,ll you to the wyitucss stand, i,ut 1 have only a second of time fur any ono of you. As you pass along jelo regi ve ono sen tense in re- gard to Curistiauity• "Maier Gud, it }eats changed my entire nature," 811318 one. "It brought rue from drunkenness and poverty to sobriety and a good home," says smelt, r. "11 solaced sae when I lost my child," says another. "1t gave ale hope of future urea -urea when toy property was swept off by the last. panic," ettya another. "It has given 1110 u peace and a satisfaction more to me than Ail the world beside," gays another. -It has been to nae light, and music, and fragrance, and radiant anticipation," Bays :mother. Alt ! stop the' procession of witnesses. Enough 1 Enough 1 All t1.ose voices of the past and the present have mightily increased our faith. / Again, our belief is reinforced by nrchrclogical expler•ntiun. We must con- fess that good men at one time were. afraid of geologist's haminer and chest. ist's crucible and areharologist's investi gatie,ut, but now intelligent Christians are receiving and still expyctiong no- thing but confirmation f,6m all such sot revs, What supports the Palestine Exploration Society?" Contributions from churches and Christian benefac- tors. I saw the marks of the shovels of that Exploring Society amid the ruins of. ancient Jericho, and all up and down from the Dead Sea to Camera Philippi. "Dig nwny1' says the Church of Clod, 11:uxt the deeper you dig the better 1 like." Tnu di.icosered monument of Et yppt have c issued on them the story of •ho 0ufierirtga of the Isratnlitee iA E vpt t+, h, mange, as we find it ire the l i b-: t e, n imperishable stotle,rS- p. es •n;•....vie of tt,e sieve, of the whips and ot t ••• 1• aaii of bricks without straw. Exhumed Nineveh and Babylon, tt ith their dusty lass, declare the Bible true, N .poftsoles n /Mere in the ,Egyp' ti:ut citett a en pri.•i up•it settle, which you rt ay thhil in the Braish Museum. a cisme. us 1 retie/hoer it, presenting per. hetet t w., feet of 1. tt .red surface. It tear a ss wordy io Lams ItungUege s. That Ston., was the key that uutocicell the tee ttitq; of itis the hieroeeypit.ce of t mad and ui.elisk• and te1.s ttv« r and over again the serum events which Moses recut -dal. '1'uc. sulphurous graves of Sodom tied Gomorrah laltt•0 best identified. '1•h.: remains or the T.,s'ee of Babel lave been 1. olid, Asssriart 'Iocuuset,tt lifted from t. e nun.! 111(1 Behlsuut utocrlleti,.n, humer.•u8 of feet high up ort the ruck, echo suet re eche the truth of Bible history. Tile situs ois t tr titer indicate 'lett t:inlet every fact of tit • Bible from 11,! to Let will find ion corrole 011100 111 aeeleet city di •en W1mU1. ed or ancient wile cleared from the trust of ages or nucio111 ducumatit uu11 11.1 ley melee/dog, s , L' tee 1. a world rolls on as far into the liUth vest as it tins :ti- re/11)y, Font Toto the 11 tleteettth century an im1ldel will be a 111111 WItO dues not telieve }.i+ utwu 8eesee, and the volumes now critical and deumi0111,ry of the Bible, if not eneirely devastate 1 by the book worms, will he 14e11 dc,wtt from the shelf as curionities of ignorance or i.iio:v. Why is it tinct the Untie, made of the writin_.t of at 101151 thirty -Niue authors, has kept together for a lugg lice of Cettruteiee, when the nature! ten- dency would have seen to fly apart like luose sheets of paper when a gust of wind blows upon thele? It i, le melee Gout stuck them together; and keeps thent together. But fur that Just.ua would have wandered in one die, cthmt, and Paul into another, and Elpkiel into enotlher, told Luke into •Inull•�,•r, and Hltbbakue into another, and the thirty- nine authors into thirty-nine directions. Put the wtitiul.;s of Shakespeare and Tennyson and Longfellow or any part. of ti•om, together; }tow long would they stay togetl:et? No book bindery could keep them together. But the Cannon of Serip.cre is bladed now with the Same 02)11tit unrti< n with which prophet anti a;t 'c: to loaded it. Tile book gives ole confidence by the supernatural adhesion of w ritutt; to w rltiag. Even the stoutest ship sometimes shifts its cargo, and that is what shade our peril the greater in the ship Greece of the Neetional Lit e when tthecyc tetestruck us off the coast Of Newfoundland, and the cargo of heal had shil101 as 11.0 ship awing from I -.r le opt to A i:tato1 d and from at .rboard tv .arb >c r 1. But thanks be to God, this old Bible ship, though it has been in thousands of years.•f tempest, has kept its cargo of gold and precious stones compact and sure, and in all the centuries nothing about it has shifted. By that tremendous fact my faith is re- inforced. The discussion is broad as to who wrote those ueoks of the Bible call - tel the Pentateuch, whether Moses or Hilkiah or Ezra or Samuel or Jeremiah or another group of ancients. None of thent wrote it. God wrote the Pentateuch, and in this Clay of steno• graphy and typewriting that ought not to be a difficult tiring to understand. The great uterchanta and lawyers and editors and 1 uceansa 11100 of our towns and cities dictate nearly all their letters; they only'vsign them after they are dic- tated. The prophet and evangelist and apostle were ehot•alt'e stenO,;rapitere or typewriters. They put down only whit God dictated. He signed it after- ward. Ho bus Leen writing 1 -lis name upon it all through the vicissitudes of centuries, But Leonie to the height of my sub- ject when I say the way to rein- force our faith' is to pray for it. So the disciples in 1"r next got their abounding faith: "lewd, increase our faith." Some u1:e suggests: "Do you really think that .prayer anlotttits to anything?" I might as well as you is there a line of telegraphic poles from New York to Washington, is there a line of telegraphic 0110r from Man-• chester to Louden. from Cologne to Ber- lin. Alt the people who haves. lit and received ml0ssagee of those Iines know of their existence. So there are millions of out who have been in constant coiu- ntunicatioie with the Capital of the Uni- verse, with the Throne of the Almighty, with the Great God bine-elf, for years and years and years. There has not been at day when supplic;ttions did not flesh up and blessings did 1101 flash down. Oh, put it in every prayer you ever make between your next breath and your last gasp : Loral, in- crease our faith"—faith in Cl:riot •1a our personal ransom from prese11t guilt and eternal catastrophe ; Faith i11 the omni- potent IIuly G.eost : Faith in the Bible, the truest volume ever dictated or writ- ten or printed or read ; Faith m adverse providences, harmonized for our best welfare; faith in a Jit lenient Dee that will set all things rig it white heves for ages been wrong. Increase our faith, not by a fragile admiiiun. but by an infini- tude of recuperation. Let us wet out all our 01 foot ions, all our hopes, all our con- templations, all our playel•5 to catch a nhielt y shower. ••Lord, increeee 001 faith," San Mara',, 1'.111100 This sirguiar c'dirch built in the 11th century, Stands as a monument <ef the ancient ntagniltcencee of Venice. It was erected in honor of St. Mark tl:o evan- gelist, and it stands on tee oast side of the piazza or spume of 131. Marr, wt 111011 the greet center of bnsine•11lull 00 mobil. and the locality most freque tiv visited by travelers in Venice. The tour ltrenzu horses which stand outside the 1.0)1100 are as c•e;e:waled for thei1 it)tlen- tures as for their beimtv. 'They were pre tinted to Nero, who had them harnest/al to the chariot of Inc Sun, which surmounted Lis triumphcl siren in home. They were remove,/ by Constantine to his rl •w capital, and at the conquest of Constentiuople they formed part of the veritable spoil which felt to the share of the Venetians. ',Vixen Venice was talton by Bonaparte these horses were conveyed to Paris, but at the peace of 1814 they were restored to Venice. The ceiling of the church is almost entirely composed of mosaic, the ground of which 1 ming gold gives an in - .,conceivable splendour to the edifice. The floor is also of mosaic in mtlrule. The forni of the church Is a Greek cross, and the high niter is ornamented with the richest and most precious stunts.— F.B.E. ° London's Breathing Spots. During the last four years an addition of no less than a thcusand acres hag been made to the London parks, The County Council now possesses fourteen parks, thirty open splices and twenty- two g wentytwo' gardens, the annual cost of main- tenance of whfoli is £32,022. an v) �y+► y ••F VeBE Arte CURB ��� � BuCHOLER:11711:11:5:4,::ELPR ERYkll41t +15o Ct1Ij REN0TA,DULTS pace .�,r E3L•WARE of INITA'TIa!'f S (JITY BBAKEHY. OPPOSITE FAIR'S MILL. The endeteigned leaving bought out the bakery busiuoae so successfully carried on by 51r. Henry Morrish, sill combine the business at the old wand. He will iudeavor, by supplying a Bret clave article, to' merit the liberal support of the people. Bread de- livered anywhere in town. Wedding Cakta, Fruit or Sp mge Cates, supplied on short notice, JAMES YOUNG, - - Clinton. New Pllotograrfi Callers. J. W. COOK, the leading photographer, has bought and fitted up the pieuhises next Young's Bakery, Albert Sheet, Clinton, and is prepared to execute all orders. Everything tram a SUNBEAM to a LIFE- SIZE PHOTO on the shortest notice and first class workmanship guaranteed Tintypes taken. Pictures taken on cloudy days equally as well as on sunny days by the new process. Prices as low as any and superior work. Call at the new gallery. J.W. COOK, Practical Photographer Albert t., Cli nton. John DunninftaiTt, GREEN GROCER, :r -: CONFECTIONER AND Canadian Express Agent, ALBERT ST., CLINTON. Fresh H eddies and Bloaters. Oystete constantly on hand. Also some Canadian Cranberries, cheap. x=-1-- x=i-= : — x=+--F=x=x= :It Y)oesi;i't take a very smart person to catch cold but a man or firm must be wide awake and enter- prising to catch trade. Newspaper advertis- ing is the surest way. OTICE. There being some misunderstanding with re- gard to wreckage, let it be distinctly understood that if any person takes possession of any kind of wreckage and fails to repert to me I shall at once take proceedings. Remember this is the last warning I shall give. CAPT. WM. BABB. Receiver of Wrecks, Ooderich. Ooderich, Sept. 7th 1591. fibs Mcl�illop Mutual Fire Insurance Company Farm and Isolated Town Proper- ty only Insured. OFFICERS. Thou. E. hays, President, Seatorth P. O. ; W. J. Shannon, SocyTreae., Seatorth P, 0. ; John Hannah, Manager, Seaforth P. 0. DIRaOTOR5, Jas, Broadfoot, Seatorth ; Donald Ross, Olin ton ; Gabriel 1011.tt, Clinton ; George Watt Harlock; Joseph Evans, Beechwood; J. Shan non, Walton ; Thos. Garbort, Clinton. AGENTS. Thos. Nellane, Harlock ; Roht. McMillan, Sea - forth ; S. Carnochan Seatorth. John O'Sullivan and Geo. 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