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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1894-05-02, Page 2M. Hammerlyy,� a well-known business man of Hillsboro, Va., sends this testimony to the merits of Ayer's Sarsaparilla: "Several years ago, I hurt my leg, the injury leaving a sorewhleh led to erysipelas. Hy sufferings were extreme, my leg, from the knee to the ankle, being a solid sore, which began to ex- tend to other parts of the body. After trying various remedies, I began taking Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and, before I had finished the first bottle I experienced great relief; the second bottle effected a complete cure." y • Ayer's Sars Prepared by Dr.3.0. Ayer $ Cures ethers,faf ill aparmmma Co., Lowell, Mess. cure you • The Huron News- Recora $1.10 a Yeec—$1.?? in Advance WEDNESDAY, MAY 2nd, 18 1. The Latest Snake Story. Said a well-known reconteur of snake stories the other day to an edi- tor, by way of a wind up to several good ones: I can't call any more to mine just at present. My wife knows a lot of snake stories, but I've forgot 'em. By the way, though, I've got a regular living curiosity down on my place. One day my eldest boy was sitting on the back stoop doing 'his sums, and he couldn't get them right. He felt some- thing against his face, and there was a little snake curled up on his shoulder and looking at the slate. In four min- utes he had done all those sums. We've tamed him, so he keeps all our accounts, and he is the quickest head at figures you ever saw. He'll run up a column eight feet long in three sec- onds. I wouldn't take a prize cow for him." "What kind of a snake is he?" in- quired the editor, curiously. "The neighbors call him an adder." "Oh, yes, yes l" said the editor, .a little disconcerted. •'I've heard of the species." KEEP THE DOCTOR FBO3I THE DOOR. (Editor duelph Mercury.) DEAR Srn,—I am pleased to add my statement to the great number you have already received, recommending in the highest terms Williams' Royal Crown Remedy and Pills. A Mr. Scott called at my home about six years ago and told my wife of the virtues contained in this marvellous liquid, and my wife and he persuaded me to buy two bottles of the remedy. It did me so much good that I bought Hix bottles, and we have found it a remedy for many complaints and has been of great benefit to us and our friends, and has lessened our doctors' bills from those of former years. We have keep some of the Royal Crown Remedy on hand ever since we first tried it (over six years), and we highly recommend it to all who suffer from any curable disease. Take no substi- tute. Get the genuine. Price, $1, Pills 25c, or 5 bottles of Remedy, 5 boxes Pills for $5. Sent by express by Isaac Williams' Co., London. Ont., or druggists. Yours truly, A. SWEETMAN, 24 Charles St., Guelph. (2) SHILOH'S CURE is sold on a guaran- tee. It cures Incipient Consumption. It is the best Cough Cure.. only one dent a dose ; 25 cts., 50 els: and $1.00 per bottle. Sold by J. H. Combe. A Washington squaw has secured a divorce. She did not take the neces- sary action until she had reached the age of ninety, showing that the Indian, even if a little slow in mastering the details of civilization, is st ill approach- ing the point of actual culture. "If all the gold in mint or bank, • All earthly things that men call wealth Were mine, with every titled rank, I'd give them all for precious health." Thus in anguish wrote a lady t.eachei to a near friend, telling of pitiless headache, of smarting pain, of pain in back and loins, of dejection, weakness and nervous, feverish unrest. The friend knew both causes and core and. flashed hack the answer, "Take Dr. • Pierce's Favorite Prescription." The distressed teacher obeyed, was restored to perfect health, and her daily duties cmce more became a daily pleasure. For lady teachers, salesladies anti others kept long standing, or broken down by exhausting work, the "Pres- cription' is a most potent restorative tonic, and a certain cure for all fema'e weakness. Guaranteed to cure in every case or money returned. See printed guarantee around each bottle. Fibroid, ovarian and other Tumors cured without resort to surgery. Book, with numerous references, sent on re- ceipt of 10 cents in stamps. World's Dispensary Medical,Association, Buf- falo, N. Y. The Russian Government has pre- pared a law making it compulsory for all Russian ship owners to place their vessels at the disposal of the Govern- ment whenever demanded in time of war. A child was cured of croup by a dose or two ofAyer's Cherry Pectoral. A neighbor's child died of the same dread disease, while the father was getting ready to call the doctor. This shows the necessity of having Ayer's Cherry Pectoral always at hand. FAIREST OF TWW FAIR„ DR. TALMA.GE'S ELQQUENT SERMON ON JESUS CHRIST. "He is Altogether Lovely "—Christ Love, ly is His Countenance and In HIS Habits, In His Sobriety, In Ills Syrups. thy—He Was Lovely in His Sermons and In Ills Chief Life's Work. BROOKLYN, April 92.—Mrs. Prentiss' hymn; "Mere Love to Thee, 0, Christ," was never more effectively rendered than this morning, by the thousands of voices in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, led on by organ and cornet, while by new vocabulary and fresh imagery, br, Tal- mage presented the Gosppel. The sub- Fject of the sermon was, "Fairest of the air," the text chosen being Solomon's Song 5 : 16 : "Ho is altogether lovely." The human race has during centuries been improving, For awhile it deflect- ed and degenerated, and -from all I can read, for ages the whole tendency was towards barbarism. But under the ever widening and deepening influence of Christianity the tendency is now in the upward direction. The physical appear- ance of the human race is seventy-five per cent, more attractive than in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, From the pictures on canvas and the faces and forms in sculpture of those who were considered the grand looking men and attractive women of two hundred years ago, I conclude the superiority of the men and women of our time. Such looking people of the past centuries as painting and sculpture have presented as flue specimens of beauty and dignity, would be in our time considered• deformity and repul- siveness complete. The fact that many men and women in antediluvian times were eight and ten feet high tended to make tae human race obnoxious rather than winning. Such portable moun- tains of human flesh did not add to the charms of the world. But in no climate and in no age did there ever appear anyone who,in physical attractiveness could be compared to Him whom my text celebratee,thousands of years before He put his infantile foot on the hill back of Bethlehem. He vas and is altogether lovely. The physical appearance of Christ is, for the must part an artistic guess. Some writ- ers declare Him to have been a brunette or dark complexioned. and others a blonde or light complexioned. St. John of Damascus, writing eleven hundred years ago, and so much nearer than our- selves to the time of Christ, and hence more likelihood of an accurate tradi- tion, represents Him with beard black and curly, eyebrows joined together,and "yellow complexion, and long fingers like His mother." Another, writing fifteen hundred years ago, represents Christ as a blonde. "His hair the color of wine and golden at the root; straight and without lustre, but from the level of the ears curling and glossy, and di- vided down the center after the fashion of the Nazarenes ; His forehead is even and smooth, His•face without blemish, and enhanced by a tempered bloom ; His countenance ingenious and kind. Nose and mouth are its no way faulty. His beard is full, of the same color as His hair, and forked in form; His eyes blue and extremely hralliaut. My opinion is it was a Jewish face. His mother was a Jewess, and• there is no womanhood on earth more beautiful than 'Jewish womanhood. Alas 1 .that He lived so long before time Daguerreau and photographic arts were born, or we might have known His exact features. I know that Seulpure and Painting were born long before Christ, and they might have transferred from olden times to our times the forehead, the nostril, the eye, the lips of our Lord. Phidias, the sculptor, put down his chisel of enchant- ment five hundred years before Christ came. Why did not someone take ap that chisel, and give us the side face o full face of our Lord? Polygnotus, time painter, put down his pencil four hun- urod years before Christ. Why did not someone take it up, and give us at lease the eye of our Lord. the eye, that sot,. ereign of the face ? Diunysius, the literary artist, who saw at Heliopolis, Egypt, the strange darkening of the heavens at the time of Christ's crucifix- ion near Jerusalem, and not knowing what it was, but describing it as a peculiar eclipse of the sun, and saying, "Either the Deity suffers or sympathizes with some sufferer," that Dionysius might have put hie pen to the work, and drawn the portrait of our Lord. But no 1 the fine arts were busj perpetuating the form and appearance of the world's favorites only, and not the form and ap- pearance of the peasantry, among whom Christ appeared. It was not until the fifteenth century, or until more than fourteen hundred years after Christ, that talented paint- ers attempted by pencil to give us the idea of Christ's face. The pictures be- fore that time were so offensive that the Council of Constantinople forbade their exhibition. But Leonardo Da Vinci, in the fifteenth century, presented Christ's face on two canvasses, yet the one was a repulsive face and the other an effem- inate face. Raphael's face of Christ is a weak face. Albert Durer's face of Christ was a savage face. Titian's face of Christ is an expressionless ,face. Tim mightiest artists, either with pencil or chisel, have made signal failures in at- tempting to give time forehead. the cheek, the eyes, the nostrils, the mouth of our blessed Lord. But about His face I can tell you something positive and beyond contro- versy. I sun sure it was a soulful face. The face is only the curtain of the soul. It was impossible that a disposition like Christ's should not have demonstrated Itself in His physiognomy. Kindness ae an occasional impulse may giye no illumination to the features, but kind- ness as a lifelong, dominant habit will produce attractiveness of countenance as certainly as the shining of the sun produces flowers. Children are afraid of a scowling or haul -visaged man. They cry out if he proposes to take them. if be try to caress them, he evokes a slap rather than a kiss. All mothers know how hard it is to get their children to go to a man or woman of forbidding appearance. But no soon - nor did Christ appear in the domestic group than'there was an infantile excite- ment, and the youngster began to strug- gle to get out of their mother's arms. They could not hold the children balk, "Stand back with those children!" scold- ed some of the disciples. Perhaps the little ones may have been playing in the dirt, and their faces may not have been clean, or they maynot have been well clad, or the discipes may have thought Christ's religion was a religion chiefly for big folks. But Christ made the in- fantile excitement still livelier by His saying that He liked children better than grown people, declaring. "Except ye heciar le ea R littl t oh ld� OjltltuRt enter into the kingdom, Of qod 41ae1 for thos0 people rvlto de not like, Oh[ld, rep, They baq better star out of Heaven, for the piles ie full' of them. That, I think, is 'one reasoq 'why the vast Majority of the bumatn race die in infancy, thriet is so fond of children that He takes them to Himself before the world haw time to despOii and hard- en them, and so they are now at the windows Of the Palace, and on the dear• steps, and playing on the green. Some- times Matthew or Mark, or Luke tells a story of Christ and only one tells it, but Matthew, Mark and Luke all join In that pictures of Christ girdled by child- ren,and I know by what occurred at that time that Christ had a face full of gen- Not only was Christ altogether. lovely in His countenance, but lovely in Hie habits. I know, without being told, that the Lprd who made the rivers, and lakes, and oceans, was cleanly in Hie appearance. He disliked the disease of leprosy, not only because it was distress- ing but because it was not clean, and His curative words were, "I will; be thou clean." He declared Himself in favor of thorough washing, and opposed to superficial washing, when Ile de- nt•mtced the hypocrites for making clean only "the outside of the platter," and He applauds His disciples by saying, "Now are ye clean," and giving direc- tions to those who fasted, among other timings He says, "Wash thy face;" and to a blind man whom He was. doc- toring, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam." And He Himself actually wash the disciples' feet, I suppose not only to demonstrate His own humility, but probably their feet needed to be washed. The fact is, the Lord was a great friend of water, I know that from the fact most of the world is water. But when I find Christ in such constant commendation of water. I know He was personally neat, althcugh He min• gled much among very sough popula- tions, and took such long jour neys on dusty highways. He wore His hair long, according_to the custom of His land and time, but neither trouble nor old age had thinned or injured His locks, which were never worn shaggy or un- kempt. Yea, all His habits of personal appearance were lovely. Sobriety was always an established habit of His life. In addition to the water, Ile drank the juice of the grape. When at a wedding party tuffs beverage gave out, He made gallons on gallons of grape juice, but it was as unlike what the world makes in our time `as health is different from disease, and ire calm pulses are different from the paroxysms of delirium tremens. There was no strychuiue in that beverage, or logwood, or aux vomica. The tipplers and the sots who now quote the wine -making in Cana of Galilee as an excuse for the fiery and daunting beverages of the nineteenth century, forget that the wine at the Ne .v Testauiment wedding had two characteristics, the one that the Lord made it, and the other that it was made sympathetic) "Jeans wept," Why do LOP uot try' that ineehl of words," Why, you dear soul, words aro not necessary. Imitate your Lord, with them Jolui ilurphy1 Well, you did not know him, Onoe, when was in great bereavement, he came to my house, Kind ministere of the Gospel had come and talked beautifully and prayed with us, and did all they could to commie. But John Murphy, one of the best friends I ever had, a bigesouled, glorious Irishman, came in and looked into my face, put out his broad, strong hand,and said not a word, but sat down and cried with us. I am not enough of a philoso- pher to say how it wae, or why it was, but mionaehow front door to door and from floor to ceiling;the roomed was fill- ed with au all-prevading comfort. "Jesus wept." I thfnk that is what makes Christ such a popular Christ. There are so many who want sympathy. Miss Fiske, the famous Nestorian missionary, was. in the chapel one day talking to the heathen, and she was in very poor health, and so weak she sat upon a mat while she talked, and felt the need of something to lean against, when she felt a wonimin's form at her back, and heard a wornan's voice saying, "Lean on me*" She hutted a little, but did not want to be too cumbersome, when the woman's voice said, "Lean hard, if you love me, lean hard." And that makes Christ so lovely. He wants all the sick,and troubl- ed, and weary to lean against Him, and He says, ,"Lean hard, if you love Me, lean hard." Aye, He is close by with His sympathetic help. Hedley Vicars, the fainous soldier and Christian of time Crimean war, died beCause when he was wounded his regiment was too far off from time tent of supplies. He was not mortally wounded, and if time surgeonn could only have got at the bandages and the medicines, he would have re- covered. So much of human syinpathy and hopefulness comes too late; hut Christ ni always close by if we want Him, and has all the medicines ready, and has eternal life for all who ask for it. Sym- pathy ! Aye, He was lovely in His doctrines. Self•sacritice, or the relief of the suffer- ing of others by our own suffering. He was the only physician that ever pro- posed to cure Efis patients by taking their disorders. Self-sacrifice 1 And what did He uot give up for others ? The best climate in the universe, the air of heaven, for the wintry weather of Palestine ; a sceptre of unlimited domin- ion for a prisoner's box in tin earthly court-roomn ; flashing tiara for a crown of stinging brambles ; a palace for a cattle pen ; a throne for a cross. Self- sacrifice What is more lovely ? Mothers dying for their children down with scarlet fever ; railroad engineers going down through time open drawbridge to save the train ; firemen scorched to death trying to help some one down the ladder from the fourth story of the con- suming house ; all these put together ouly faint and insufficient similes by which to illustrate the grander, mightier, farther -reaching- self-sacrifice of the "Altogether Lovely." Do you wonder that the story ef His self -samitice has led hundreds of thou- sands to die for Him ? In one series of persecutions over 200,000 were put to death for Christ's sake. For Him Blan- dine was tied to a post and wild beasts were let out upon her, and. when life continued after the attack of tooth and paw, she was put in a uet, and that net containiug her was thrown to a wild bull, that tossed her with its horns till life was extinct, All for Christ! Hu- guenots dying for Christ ! Albigenaes dying for Christ 1 The Vaudois uying for Ciirist Smithfield fires endured for Christ 1 Time bones of martyrs, if dis- tributed, would make a path of moul- dermng life all around the earth. The loveliness of the Saviour's sacrifice has inspired all the heroisins, aud all time martyrdoms of subsequent centuries. Christ has had more men and women die for Him than all the other inhabi. tants of all the ages have had die for thermore, He was lovely in His sermous. He knew when to begin, when to stop, mind just what to say. The longest sermon He ever preached, so far as the BiLle reports Hun, namely, the Sermon •on the Mount, was about six- teen minutes in delivery, at the ordinary rate of speech. His longest prayer re- ported, commonly called "ThetLord's Prayer," was about half a ",iiininute. Time them by your own watch and you will find my estimate accurate. By which I do not mean to say that ser- mons ought to be only sixteen minutes long, and .prayers only half a minute long. Christ had such infinite power of compression that He could put enough into His sixteen -minute sermon and His half -minute prayer to keep all time fol- lowing ages busy in thought and action. No one but a Christ could afford to pray or preach as short as that, but He meant to teach us compression. At Selma, Alabama, the other day, I was shown a cotton -press, by which cotton was put in such shape that it oc- cupied in transportation only one car, where three cars were formerly neces- sary ; and one ship where three ships had been required, and I imagine that we all need to compress our sermons and our prayers into smaller epacee. And His sermons were so lovely for sentiment and practicality, and simpli- city, and illustration ; the light of a candle. the crystal of the salt ; the cluck of a hen for her chickens ; the hypo- crite's dolorous physiognomy ; the moth in the clothes -closet ; the black wing of a raven ; the snow bank of the white lilies ; our extreme botheration about the splinter of imp: rfection in some one else's character ; the swine fed on the pearls ; wolves dramatizing sheep; and time peroration made up of a cyclone in which you hear time crush of a tumbling house uuwisely constructed. No technicalities ; no sp itting of hairs between North and Noithwest side; no dogmatics; but a great Christly throb of helpfulness. I do not wonder at the record which says, "When He was come down from time mountain great multitudes followed Him." They had but one fault to find with His sermon; it was too short. God help all of us in Christian work to get down off our stilts, and realize there is only one th'ng we have to do : there is the great wound of the world's sin and sorrow, and ere is the great healing plaster of the Gospel. What you and I want to do is to put the plaster on the wound. All-su client is this Gospel if it is only applied. A minister preaching to an audience of sailors concerning the ruin by sin and the rescue by the Goe- pel, accommodated 'himself to sailor's vernacular, and s id, "This plank bears." Many years after, this preach- er was called to see a dying sailor, and asked him about his ho e and got the suggestive reply, "This plank bears." lire's work. There were a thousand Wings for Mei to (IN but ,grent work was to get ear ehiawrecked World Out of tile breakers, ',Mat Be came to do, and that He did; and Ife did it hi three yeare. lie took thirty years to, prepare for that three years activity. From twelve to thirty years of age we hear uothiug about Him, That inter- vening eighteen years I think lie was in India. But He mune hack tu Palestine and crowded everything into three yeers; three winters, three springs, three summers, three autumue. Our life is short, but would Goa we 'night see how much we could do in three 'rears. Concentration ItatensidoationY Three years of kind words I Three years of living for others ! Three years of self-sacrifice. Let us try it. Ayel Christ was lovely in His de- mise. He had it right that last hour to deal iu anathematizatton. Never had anyone beeu so meauly treated. Cradle of straw among goats and camels—that wits the world's reception of Him! Rocky cliff, with hammers pounding spikes through tortured nerves—that wee the world's farewell salutation! The slaugh- ter of that scene sometimes hides time loveliness of the Sufferer. Under the sat- uration of tears and blood we sometimes fail to see the sweetest face of earth and Heaven. Altogether lovely!. Can cold- est criticism find an unkind word He ever spoke; or an uakiud action that He ever perfortned, or an unkind thought that He ever harbored?, What a marvel it is that all the nations of earth do not rise up in raptures of affection for Him? I must say it here and now. I lift my right baud in solemn attestation. I love Him ! and the grief of nay life is that I do not love Hitn more, le it an imper- tinence for me to ask, do you, my hear- er—yout my reader, love Him? Has He become a part of your nature ? Have you committed your children on earth into His keeping, as your children in Heaven are already in His bosom? Has He done enough to win your confidence? Can you trust Him, living and dying, mind forever ? Is your back, or your fac.s, toward Hun? Would you like to imave His hand to guide you? His might to protect you ? His grace to comfort you? His sufferings to atone for you ? His arms to welcome you? His love to encircle you? His Heaven might all have something of time great German reformer's love for this Ciaist, which: led him to say, "If anyone knocks at the door of my breast and says, 'Who lives there ?' my reply is 'Jesus Christ lives here, not Martin Luther ?' " Will it not be grand if. when we get through this short and rugged road of life, we can go right up into His presence and live with Him world without end ? And if, entering the gate of that heavenly city, we should be so overwhelmed with our unworthiness on the one siae, and the supernal splendor on the other side, we get a little bewildered. and should for a few moments be lost on the streets of gold, and among the burnished temples, aud time sapphire thrones, there would be plenty to show us time way, and take us out of our joyful bewilderment; and perhaps the womeu of•Nain would say, "Comne, let nie take you to the Christ who raised my only boy to life," And Martha would say, "Corne, and let. me take you to the Christ Who brought Op my brother, Lazarus from time tomb." Amid one of time disciples would say, -Caine, and let me take you to time Christ Who saved our sinking. ship in the hurri- cane on (i'eunesaret." Anti Paul would say, "Couto, and let me lead you to the Christ for Whom I died on the road to Ostia." Aud whole groups uf mar- tyrs would say, "Come let us show you the Christ for Whom we rattle the chain, and waded the flood, and dared the fires," And our own glorified kin- dred would flock around LIS, say ing. "We have been waiting a good while fur you, but before we talk over old times, and we tell you of what we have enjoyed since we have been here, and you tell us of what you have suffered sinee we parted, come, come, and let us show you time greatest eCight in all the place. the most resplendent throne, anis upon it the mightiest Conquesonthe Ex- altation of Heaven,the Theme of the im- mortals, the Altogether great, the Alto- gether good, the Altogether fair, the Al- together lovely I Well. the delighful morn will come, When my dear Lord will bring ine home, And I shad see His face: Then with my Saviour, Brother, Friend, A bleat eternity 1.11 spend, Triumphant in His grace. THE SKIN CANOE. A Rather Primitive Boot in Which to Go Out Seal Fishing. There is no trailer bark than the' kaiak, which, indeed, is simply a piece of boat shaped costume. Time seal hunter stows his legs away beneath something. like a carriage apron, tucking it in tightly around his waist by way of making the craft water -tight. He can take that skin canoe of his under his arm and walk away with it. Yet lie will put out to sea in any ordinary weatuer, and will handle it with the ut- most coolness amid ice drift and !surging Sometimes lie may have to make for shore in storm and blinding snowflalces, aud if the fishing chances to have been fortunate, with two or• more seals in tow, If he has comrades they will al- ways come to his assistance, and he is loath to cast off save in the last extrem- ity. Yot such are his cool courage and dexterity that, on the whole, fatal ac- cidents are by no means common. When he had brought MS prizes to the land at peril of Ids life, hie neighbors used to share with him as a matter of right : but latterly, with the adveut of the traders, timings are said to have been greatly changed for, the worse. The seals, which were secured by time deadly but silent cast of the harpoon, have be- come frightened and slay with the use of firearms, which are difficult besides to handle in a dancing kaiak.—Black - wood's Magazine. Deficient In Domestic Knowledge. "Talk about a camel's going through the eye of a needle," mused Jefferson Woodward, whose wife is spendiug some time at Virginia Beach, as he painfully and laboriously attached a button to his second best pair of trou- sers, "camel, indeed !" as he tried to push the thread into the eyo of the needle, which was too sizes too small for it, and which persisted in leaving the thread behind it at nearly every "That author knew nothing abmt dour taic economy, or he would have said teat it was at hard for a rich Blau to evier the kingdom of heaven an it Is to thread a needle with linen Then he broke it off viciously, forget- ting to fasten it on the other side.—De. trait Tribune. TWO Galan OtKilt pump y where all ethers tau, coughs. croup, len Throat, Bootee:Wes, Whooping Cough amid Asthma.. P'or Consumption it nes no Oval; bus cured thongs:2(18,4nd will <Amin YOU lr takenIn thee. Bold by Drugelsta on a guar., antee. For a Lame Dux or Chest, use 61111.01i18 BELLADONNA PLAST4R.250. ILO WS.A.,,,CATAAR Vave yon • ? Tide remedy Is gums. teed to cure you. Price,60ote. Injectoegree. Sold by J. H. COMBE. Passed the Plate Three Times. THE BENEDICTION WITHELD TILL $1,150 WAS RAISED. The members and congregation of Broadway Methodist tabernacle, Tor- I onto, have concluded that the next occasion on which their pastor, Rev. J. C. Speer, asks for a certain sum bf money the easiest way out of it will be to give it to him at once. A little ex- perience they had the other Sunday has taught them this. Sixteen hundred dollars were requir- ed to meet a certain debt, and of this the members of the trust board agreed to supply $600 provided the congregation would come forth with the balance. The pastor in- formed them they could safely write Out their checks, as he would see tha' the congregation did their' part. Sunday morning came and the an- nounceinent was nia,cle that $1,000 would be required in the collections of the day. When the evening collection was taken Mr. Speer requested the congregation to remaeindihnotwhetihrepilraficens. until it was ascertain ances stood. The count revealed tbe fact that the two collections totalled $460, or $540 short of the required amount. The pastor politely intimat- ed that when he asked a congregation for anything he usually got it, and having no desire to have this an excep- • tion to the rule, he would pronounce the benediction when the amount was raised and not a moment sooner. The collection plate went around, once more the count ,was made, but the amount of money did not materialize and the usual words of dismissal were still unsaid. A third canvass was made, sufficient being sulascribed this time to meet the emergency with $150 to the good. The pastor thanked the congregation for doing their' duty and dismissed them' with the benediction. When fevers and other epidemics are around, safety lies in fortifying the system with Ayer's Sarsaparilla. A person having thin and impure blood, is in the most favorable condition to "catch" whatever disease may be float- ing in the air. Be wise in time. S. HURON ORANGE DIRECTORY. 1894. Names of the District Masters, Primary Lodge Masters, their post office addresses and date of meeting. BIDDULPH DISTRICT. John Neil, W.D.M., Centralia P.O. 210—Robt. Hutchinson, Greenway, Fri- day on or before full moon. 662—Thos. H. Coursey, Lucan, Satur- day on or before full moon. 493 — Richard Hodgins, Saintstbury, Wednesday on or before full moon. 890 — George Walden, Maplegrove, Wednesday on or before full moon. ,921—Edward Gill, Exeter, 1st Friday in each month. 1087—James Kenniston, Parkhill, Mon- day on or before full moon. 1210—Win. Mowsen, Moray, Thursday on or before full moon. 1313—James Boyce, Centralia, Tuesday on or before full moon. 610—A. Nevins, Centralia, Friday on or after full moon. CODER ICH DISTRICT. James Colwell, W.D.M., Goderich P.O. 145—James Cox, Porter's Hill, 1st Mon- day in each month. 153—Addrew Million, Saltford, Friday on or before full moon. s. 182 -Geo. M. Cox, Goderich, last Tues- day in each month. 180—F. McCartney, Hohnesville, Mon- day on or before full moon. 262—James McLean, Saltford, 3rd Wednesday in each month. 300—Thos. 11. Cook, Clinton, 1st Mon- HULLETT DISTRICT. 710—David Cantelon, Clinton, 2nd on - day in each month, 813—Robert Scarlett, Winthrop, t Wednesday before full moon. ' 928—Joseph Hopson, Summerhifl, 1st Mond.ay in each month. 793—Wm. Homey, Seaforth, 1st Mon- day in each month. STANLEY DISTRICT)..., Robert Pollock, W.D.M., Hayfield P.O. 24—James Pollock, Hayfield, 1st Mon- day in each month. 308—Wm. Consit, Hillsgreen, 1st Tues- day in each month. 833—Robert McKinley, Blake, 1st Wbdnesday in each month. 733—Wm. J. Clarke, Hensall, 1st Thurs- day in each month. 1035- --Wm. Rathwell, Hayfield, 1st Thursday in each month. itirsrese.-ans imlesicns or Mlle. more will be romptly corrected on writing direct to the Count aster, Bro. A. M. Todd, Clinton P. O.