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It, SAVIOUR, IS • NITt US
iii,- 'i'A4.MAGR PRSAQHES ON THS'
CQN.-11NU P MISSION OF CHRIST.
IrblEgeene in the Cararrensary--Tice Quoe-
t fiAdeg of the Doctors in the Temple—,
The Teletptftion, Betrayal, Cruoliixiotr
and Mission of To -any,
"'Ota lI s Wad Were Many Crowns,"
HeVelatipn xtx, 12.
This to the subject of an eloquent
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Talmage, He
sppke as follows:
May your ears be alert and your
thoughts concentrated and all the pow -
ors of your soul aroused while I speak
to you of "the march of Christ through
the centuries." You say, "Give us,
then, a good start, in rooms of ver-
Millian and on floors of mo.elao and
amid corridors of porphyry and under
canopies dyed in all the splendors of
the setting sun." You can have no
such starting place. At the time our
Chieftain was born there were castles
on the beach of Galilee and ;places at
Jerusalem and imperial bathrooms at
Jericho, and obelisks at Cairo and the
Paulen at Rome, with its Corinthian
port, and its sixteen grr.nite col-
umns, and the Parthenon at Athens,
With its glistening coronet of temples,
and there were mountains of fine ar-
chitecture in many parts of the world,
but none of theim was to be the start-
ing place of the Chieftain I celebrate.
A cow's stall, a winter month, an
atmosphere in which are the moan
of camels, and the baaIng of sheep, and
the barking of dogs, and the rough
banter of hostelries. He takes his first
journey before he could walk. Arm-
ed desperadoes, with hands of blood,
were ready to snatch him down into
butchery. Rev. William H. Thompson,
the veteran and beloved missionary,
whom I saw this last month in 1)en-
ver, in his eighty-sixth yeor, has de-
scribed; In his volume entitled "The
Land and the Book," Bethlehem as he
saw it.
Winter before last I walked up and
down -tile gray hills of Jura limestone
on which the city now rests. The fact
that King David had been born there
had not during ages elevated the vil-
lage into any special attention. The
other fact that it was the berthpreze
of our Chieftain did not keep the place
in after years from special dishonor,
for Hadrian built there the grove of
Adonis, and for one hundred and eighty
years the religion there observed was
the most abhorrent debauchery the
world has ever seen. Our Chieftain
was considered dangerous from the
start. The world had put suspicious
eyes upon him because at the time of
his birth the astrologers had seen stel-
lar commotions—a world out oi. its
place and shooting down toward a
caravansary. Star divination was a
solAs late as the eighteenth cen-
tuhad its votaries. At the court
of Catharine de Medici it was honored.
•Kepler, one of the wisest philoso-
phers that the world ever saw, declared
it was a true science. As late as the
reign of Charles II{ Lily, an astrologer,
was called before the House of Com-
mons in England, to give his opinion
as to future events. For ages the
bright appearance of Mars meant wag,
of Jupetir, meant power, of the Ple-
iades, meant storms at sea. And, as
history moves in circles, I do not
know but that after awhile it may be
found that, as the moon lifts the tides
of the sea and the sun affects the
growth or blasting of crops, o,'cher
worlds besides these two worlds may
have something to do with the destiny
of individuals and neetions in this
world.. 2 •
I do not wonder that the commotions
In the heavens excited the wise men
on the night our Chieftain was born.
As he came from another world and af-
ter thirty-three years was again to
exchange worlds, it does net seem
strange to me that astronomy should
have felt the effect of his coming. And
Instead of being unbelieving about the
one star that stopped, I wonder that
all the worlds in the heavens did not
that Christmas night make some spe-
cial demonstration. Why should they
leave to one world or meteor the bear-
ing of the news of the humanization
of Christ? Where was Mars that night
that It did not indicate the mighty
wars that were to come beween right-
eousness and iniquity? Where was
Jupiter that night that it dill not
c .ebrate omnipoten a incarnated?
e were the Pleiades that night
the they did not announce the storms
of" perseeutlon that would assail our
Chieftain?
In watching this march of Christ
through the centuries, we must not
walk before him or beside him, for
that would not be reverential or wor-
shipful. So we walk behind him. We
follow him while not yet in his teens,
up a Jerusalem terrace, to a building
six hundreed feet long and six hun-
dred feet wide, and under the hovering
splendor of gateways, and by a pillar
crowned with capital chiseled into the
shape of flowers and leaves, and along
b ywalls of beveled masonry and near
a marble screen, until a group of white
haired philosophers and theologians
gather around him, and then the boy
bewilders and confounds and over-
whelms these scholarly septuagenar-
ians with questions they cannot an-
swer, and under his quick whys and
whyfors and hews and whens they pull
their white beards with embarrass-
ment and rub their wrinkled foreheads
in confusion, and, putting their staffs
hard down on the marble floor as they
arise to go, they must feel like chid-
ing the boldness that allows -twelve
years of age to ask seventy-five years
of age such puzzlers.
Out of this building we follow him
into the Quarantania, the mountain
of temptation, its side to this day
black with robbers' dens. Look! Up
the side of this mountain come all the
forces Of perdition to effect our Chief-
tain's capture. But although weaken-
ed by forty days and forty nights of
abstinence, he hurls alt Pandemonium
down the rocks, suggestive of how he
can hurl into helplessness all our tem-
ptations. And now we climb right
after him up the tough sides of the
"Mount of Beatitudes," and on the
highest pulpit of rocks, the Valley of
Hatin before him, the Lake of Galilee
en the right of him, the Mediterranean
sea to the left of him, and he preaches
a gedfi" that yet will transform the
word with` its applied sentiment. No
we folio* our Chieftain on Lake Gali-
lee. We nitast keep to the beach, for
our feet are not shod with the super-
natural, and we remember what poor
work Peter made of It when he tried
to walk the water.
Christ our leader 1a on the top of
the tos».ing waves, and it Is about haat
Pa$t three in the tlterrling, and It to the
darkest time just before daybreak. Pet
by the flashes of lightning we see 1tJniA
Putting his feet on the crest of the
wave. stepping from crest to erect,
Walking the white surf, solid as though
it were greaten anew. The sailors think
a ghost is striding the tempest, but he
ere thele Tinto plaoldity, showing
himeelf to be agreat Christ for sail-
ors, And he walks the Atlantic and
the Pacific and Mediterranean and Ad-
riatic now, and 1f exhausted and af-
frighted voyagers will listen for his
voice at half peat three o'clock in the
morning on any sea, indeed at any
hour, they will hear his voice of corn -
Passion and encouragement.
We continue to follow our Chieftain,
and here is a blind man by the way-
side. It is not ffom cataract of the
eye or from ophthalmia, the eye -extin-
guisher of the east; but he was born
blind. "Be opened!" he cries, and at
first there is a smarting of the eye-
lids, and then a twilight, and then a
midnoon, and then a shout. "I see! I
see!" Tell it to all the blind, and they
at least can appreciate it. And here is
the widow's dead son, and here is the
expired damsel and here is Lazarus!
"Live!" our Chieftain cries, and they
live. Tell it through . all the bereft
households; tell It among the graves.
And here around him gather the
deaf, and the dumb, and the sick, and
at his word they turn on their couches
and blush from awful pallor of help-
less illness to rubicund health, and the
swollen foot of the dropsical sufferer
bedtimes as fleet as a roe on the moun-
tains. The music of the q, rove End
houehold wakens the deaf ear, and lu-
natic and maniac return into bright
intelligence, and the leper's breath be-
comes as sweet as the breath of a child
and the flesh as roseate. Tell it to all
the sick, through all the homes,
through all the hospitals. Tell It at
twelve o'clock at night; tell it at two
o'clock in the morning; tell it at half
past three, and in the 1st watch of the
night, that Jesus walks the tempest.
Still we follow our Chieftain until
the government that gave him no pro-
tection insists that he pay tax, and, tdo
poor to raise the requisite two dollars
and seventy-five cents, he orders Peter
to catch a fish that has In its mouth a
Roman state, which is. a bright coin
(and you know that fish naturaly bite
at anything bright), but it was a mir-
acle that Peter should- have caught it
at the first haul.
Now we follow our Chieftain until
for the paltry sum of fifteen dollars
Judas sells him to his pursuers. Tell
it to all the betrayed. If for ten thou-
sand dollars, or for five hundred dollars
or for one hundred dollars your inter-
ests were sgld out, consider for how
much cheaper a sum the Lord of earth
and heaven was surrendered to humil-
iation and depth. But here, while fol-
lowing him on a spring night between
eleven and twelve o'clock we see the
flash of torches and lanterns and we
hear the cry of a mob of nihilists.
They are breaking in on the quietude
of Gethsemane with clubs—like a mob
with sticks chasing a mad dog.
It is a herd of Jerusalem "roughs"
led on by Judas to arrest Christ and
punish him for being the loveliest and
best being that ever lived. But rioters
are liable to assail the wrong man.
How were they to be sure which one
was Jesus? "I will kiss him," says
Judas, "and by that signal you will
know on whom to lay your hands of
arrest," So the kiss which throughout
the human race and for all time God
Intended as the most sacred demon-
stration of affection, for Paul writes
to the Romans and the Corinthians,
and' the Thessalonians concerning the
"holy kiss," and Peter celebrates the
kiss of charity, and with that conjunc-
tion of lips Laban met Jacob, and Jos-
eph met his brethren, and Aaron met
Moses, and Samuel met Saul, and Jon-
athan met David, and Orpah parted
with Naomi, and Paul separated from
his friends at Ephesus, and the father
in the parable greeted the returning
prodigal, and when the millenium shall
come we are told righteousness and
peace will kiss each other, and all
the world is invited to greet Christ as
ingpiration cries out "Kiss the Son,
lest he be angry and ye perish from
the way"—that most sacred demon-
stration of reunion and affection was
desecrated as the filthy lips of Judas
touched the pure cheek of Christ, and
the horrid smack ofr that kiss has its
echo in the treachery and debasement
and hypocrisy of all ages.
As in December, 1889, I walked on the
way from Bethany, and at the foot of
Mount Olivet, a half mile from the
wall of Jerusalem, through the Gar-
den of Gethsemane and under the
eight venerable olive trees now stand-
ing, their pomological ancestors having
been witnesses of the occurrences
spoken of, the scene of horror and of
crime came back to me, until I shud-
dered wlth the historical reminiscence.
In further following our great Chief-
tain's march through the centuries, I
find myself in a crowd in front of
Herod's palace In Jerusalem, and on a
moveable platform placed upon a tas=
selated pavement, Pontius Pilate sits.
And as once a year a condemned crim-
inal Is pardoned, Pilate lets the people
choose whether it shall be an assassin
or our Chieftain, and they all cry out
for the liberation of the assassin, thus
declaring they prefer a murderer to
the salvation of the world. Pilate took
a basin of water in front of these peo-
ple and tried to wash off the blood of
this murder from his hands, but he
could not. They are still lifted, and I
see them looming up through all the
ages,elght fingers and two thumbs
standing out red with the carnage.
Still following our Chieftain, I as-
cend, the hill which General Gordon,
the great English explorer and arbiter,
made a clay model ot. It is hard
climbing for our Chieftain, for he has
not only two heavy timbers to carry
on his back, the upright and horizontal
pieces of the cross, but he Is suffering
from exhaustion caused by the lack of
food, mountain chills, desert heats.
whippings with elmwood rods and
re
years of maltreatment.
It took our party In 1889 only fifteen
minutes to climb to the top of the hill
and reach that limestone rock In yon-
der wall, which I rolled down from the
apex of Mount Calvary. But I think
elle Chieftain must have taken a long
time for the ascent, for • he had all
earth and all heaven and all hell on
his back as he olirribed from the base
to summit and there endured what
William Cowper and John Milton and
Charles Wesley and Isaac Watts and
James Moirtgomerer and all the other
sacred poets habe attempted to put in
verse, and Angelo and Raphael and Ti-
tian and Leonardo da Vinci and all the
great Italian and German and Spanish
and *CPO artlgt4 b.ave attetzlllied to '
Paint., and Zpssuet and *Willett and
averse Whltelleid and Themes. Ohala+
era have attempted to preach.
Something of Lits overwhelming aw-
fulness you may estimate from the
fact tit the sun which Shines in the
heavens oouid'not endure it; the pun
which unflinchingly looked upon the
deluge that drowwned, the world, which
without blinking looked upon the rules
of earthquakes which swallowed
bon and Caraecas, end bas,looked un -
blanched on the battlefields of Arbela,
Bleheim,'-Megiddo and Esdraelon, and
all the scenes of carnage that have ever
scalded and drenched the earth with
human gore—that sun could not look
upon the scene. The sun dropped over
its face a veil of blond. It withdrew.
It hid Itself. It said to the midnight,
"I resign to thee this spectacle aeon
which I have no strength to gaze, thou
art blind. O midnight ! and for that
reason I commit to thee this tragedy!"
Then the nighthawk and the bat flew
by, and the jackal howled in the ra-
vines.
Now we Follow our Chieftain as tl.ey
carry his limp and lacerated faun
amid the flowers and trees of a garden,
the gladiluses, the- oleanders, the
lilies, the geraniums, the mandrakes,
down five or six steps to an aisle of
granite, where he sleeps. But only a
little while he sleeps there, for there
is an earthquake in all that region,
leaving the rocks to this day in their
aslant and ruptured state, declarative
of the fact that something extraordi-
nary there happened. And we see our
Chieftain arouse from his brief slumb-
er and wrestle down the ruffian Death,
who would keep hire imprisoned in
that cavern, and put both heels on the
monster, and coming forth with a cry
that will not cease to be echoed •'hntil
on the great resurrection day the door
of the lost sepulchre shall be unhinged
and flung clanging into the debris of
demolished cemeteries.
Now we follow our Chieftain to the
shoulder of Mount Olivet, and wl`.hout
wings he rises, the disciples clutching
for his robes too late to reach them,
and across the great gulfs of space
with one bound he gains the world
which for thirty-three years he had de-
nied his companionship, and all heaven
lifted a shout of welcome as he enter-
ed, and of coronation as up the medi-
atorial throne he mounted. It was the
greatest•day heaven had ever seen.
They had him bac$ agin from tears,
from wounds, from ills, from a world
that never appreciated him to a world
in which he was the chief delight. In
all the libretto of celestial music it was
hard to find en anthem enough con -
jubilant to celebrate the joy saintly,
seraphic, arch angelic, deiflc.
But still we follow our Chieftain in
his march through the centuries for
invinsibly he still walks the earth, and
by the bye of faith we still follow
him. You, can tell where he walks by
the cjturches, and hospitals, and refor-
matory institutions, and houses of
mercy that spring up along the way.
I hear his tread in the sick room and
In the abodes of bereavement. He
marches on and the nations are
gathering around him. The Islands of
the sea are hearing his voice. The con-
tinents are feeling his power. America
will be his ! Europe will be his ! Asia
will be his ! Africa will be his ! Aus-
tralia will be his ! All the earth will be
his ! Do you realize that until now it
was impossible for the world to be con-
verted ? Not until very recently has
the world been found.
The Bible talks about "the ends of
the earth" and the uttermost parts of
the world" as being saved, but not
until' now have the "ends of the earth"
been discovered, and not until now
have the "uttermost parts of the
world" been revealed. The navigator
did his work, the explorer did his work,
the scientist did his work, and now for
the first time since the world has been
created has the world been known,mea-
sured off and geographized, the lost,
hidden and unknown tract has been
mapped out, and now the work of
evangelization will be begun with an
earnestness and velocity es yet unima-
gined. The steamships are ready; the
lightning express trains are ready; the
printing presses are ready; the tete-
graph and telephone are ready; mil-
lions of Christians are ready and now
see Christ marching on through the
centuries. Marching on ! Marching on!
One by one governments will fall
into line and constitutions and litera-
tures will adore his name. More honor-
ed and worshipped is he In this year
of 1895 than at any time since the year
one, and the day hastens when all na-
tions will join one procession, "follow-
ing the Lamb whithersoever he goeth."
Marching on ! Marching on !
This dear old world whose back half
been scourged, whose eyes have been
blinded, whose heart has been rung,
will yet rival heaven. This planet's
torn robe of pain and crime and de-
mentia will come off and the white and
spotless and glittering robe of holiness
and happiness will come on. The last
wound will have stung for the last
time; the last grief will have wiped its
last tear; the last criminal will have
repented of the last crime and our
world that has been a straggler among
worlds, a lost star, a wayward planet,
a rebellious globe, a miscreant satel-
lite, will hear the voice that uttered
plaint in Bethlehem and ago-
nised
o-
g
nised prayer in Gethsemane and dying
groan of Gologotha, and as this voice
cries "Come," Our world will return
from its wandering never again to
stray. Marching on - Marching on 1
Then this world's joy will be so great
that other worlds besides heaven may
be glad to rejoice with us. By the aid
of powerful telescopes, year by year
becoming more powerful, mountains In
other stars have been discovered and
chasms and volcanoes and canals, and
the style of atmosphere, and this will
go on, and mightier and mightier tele-
scopes will be Invented until I should
not wonder if we will be able to ex-
change signals with other planets. And
as I have no doubt other worlds are
inhabited, for God would not have
built such magnificent world houses to
have them stand without tenants or
occupants, In the final joy of earth's
redemption all astronomy, I think, will
talce part, we signaling other worlds
and they in turn signaling their stellar
neighbors. Oh, what a day in heaven
theft will be when this march of Christ
is finished 1 I know that on the creed
Chr'fst said, "It is finished," but he
meant his aaeriflelal work was finished.
All earth and all heaven known that
evangelisation is not finished, but there
will come a day in heaven most rap-
tiiro}ia, '7t 4ta'b. ,a>•,ter, ' t4' .Wealth:
Which. 1i thotif;ht ":to hays about r*.
teen hundred rilillipll people, .shall have
on 1t r dodkst%vicp lta preeent popuia,
tion. namely, three thousaiad million
Bettis.. and all redeemed, and it will be
after this wgrlr1 shall be so de:triaiied
by oonilaSratlon that no human foot
can tread .its surface and no human '
being can breath its air, but most cer-
tainly the day will come"when heaven
will be finished and the last of the
twelve gated of the eternal city shall,
have clanged shut, never to open ex.
cept for the admission of some celes-
tial embassage returning from some
other world, and Christ may strike his
scarred but healed hand in emphasis
on the arra of the amethystine throne
and say in substance, "All my ransom-
ed ones are gathered; the work is done;
I have finished my march through the''
centuries."
When in1813, after the battle of Leipa
sic, which decided the fate of the Nine-
teenth century, in some respects the
most tremendous battle ever fought,
the bridge down, the river incarnadtn-
ed, the street choked with the wound-
ed, the fields for miles around strewn
with a dead soldiery from which all
traces of humanity had been dashed
out, there met in the public square of
that city of Leipslc, the allied con-
querors and kings who had gained the
victory—the king of Prussia, the em-
peror of Russia, the crown prince of
Sweden—followed by the chiefs of their
armies With drawn swords these
monarchs saluted each other and
cheered, for the continental victory
they had together gained. History has
made the scene memorable.
Greater and more thrilling will be the
spectacle when the world is all con-
quered for the truth, and in front of
the palace of heaven the • kings and
conquerors of all the allied powers 'of
Christian usefulness shall salute each
other and recount the struggle by
which they gained the triumph, and
then hand over their swords to him
who is the chief of the conquerors, cry-
ing : "Thine oh Christ, is the kingdom.
Take 'the crown of victory, the crown
of dominion, the crown of grace, the
crown of glory. "On his head were
many crowns."
MRS. T, DE WIT TALMAGE DEAD,
The Wife of the Noted Preacher Passes
Away After n Year's Illnes.,.
Since the burning of the Brooklyn
Tabernacle last year Mrs. Talmage
has suffered from nervous prostra-
tion, and she has never fully recov-
ered from the shock sustained then.
The fire broke out while the Doctor
was holding his usual Sunday recep-
tion, and a large number of parish-
ioners and visitors were in the church
when the fire broke out. They all
made good their escape, but Dr. Tal-
mage went back into the burning edi-
fice for something he had left behind.
During his absence Mrs. Talmage,
who with other members of the fami-
ly was outside awaiting his reappear-
ance, became greatly excited and
alarined for the doctor's safety. As
soon as she was ipformed that he was
all right she broke down completely,
MILS. TALMAGI5.
her overwrought nerves being unequal
for such a strain. Her doctors sug-
gested a European trip to build up
her falling health. She was accom-
nnied by the Misses Maud and Daisy
Talmage.
While in Rome she became ill with
Roman fever and, accompanied by one
of her physicians, she returned home.
While staying at the family residence,
near East Hampton, L.I., she appeared
to improve and her friends had hopes
for her speedy recovery. This was not
to be, however, as she soon had a re-
lapse of the spells of exhaustion and
nervous prostration. The sufferer was
removed to the Dansville Sanitarium
about a year ago. While Dr. Talmage
was absent on a lecturing tour in the
west last week he received a telegram
summoning him to his wife's bedside.
He at once canceled all his engage-
ments and hastened back, to find that
there was very little hope for the pa-
tient's recovery, and he remained with
her until the end came.
Mrs. Talmage was the second wife of
Dr. Talmage. His flrst wife was
drowned while boating In 1862, leaving a
daughter,Mlss Jessie,and a son,who has
since died. Dr. Talmage at that time
lived In Philadelphia and the accident
occured at Fairmount clam. Two years
afterwards the doctor marrlhd Miss Su-
sie Whittemore of Brooklyn. Sire be-
came the mother of five children, Rev.
Frank de Witt Talmage, Mrs. Perin,
Mrs. Mangan, Miss ?,Saud and Miss
Daisy Talmage.
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Pickles, Gillard's, Cross & Blackwellsand Mostons, Canadian Pickles in bulk. Pure Spices
Essences and Extracts, Garden, Field and Plower Seeds, warranted fresh and put up by
the most reputable dealers. Tea, Dinner and Toilet sets at bottom_ prices.
Cash or Marketable Produce.
N. Robson, - Albert St., Clinton.
CLINTON SASH, DOOR AND BLIND FACTORY
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S. S. COOPER, - - PROPRIETOR
General Builder and Contractor.
This factory has been under the personal supervision and one owner for eight
years. We carry an extensive and reliable stock and prepare plans and give
estimates for and build all classes of buildings on abort notice and on the closest
prices. All work is supervised in a mechanical way and satisfaction
guaranteed. We sell all kinds of interior and exterior material.
Lumber, Lath Shingles, Lime Sash Doors, Blinds, Ete.
Agent for the CELEBRATED GRAYI3ILL SCHOCL DESK, manufactured
at Waterloo. Call and get prices and estimates bcicro placing your orders,
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Don 9 t Borrow Becausethen you put yourself under
it obligation to somebody. When you
want
Fine or Staple Groceries, Crockery, Glassware, &c. You will find
that our Store, our Stock, and our Equitable Cash System, ready to give
you all the assistance you require, and you won't owe us anything for the
accommodation.
The Food Comm issioners of Clinton have report-
ed'bn forty-nine different brands of Baking Pow-
der and find that COOPER'S DAISY BAKING•
POWDER of the highest efficiency and purer
than any other sold in the Town of Clinton. For
Sale only by us.
The Cash Grocery,
FARM fRODUCE TAKEN AS CASH.
Telephone 23.
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THE HUB GROCERY.
ALWAYS RIGHT.>.
Our Stock is complete in canned goods such as SALMON, HADDIE,
FRESH HERRING, LOBSTER, BEEF, DUCK
CHICKEN rURKEY,.
Canned Vegetables—TOMATOES, PEAS, CORN, PUMP-
KIN.
Canned Fruit—PEACHES, STRAWBERRIES, APPLES, &c.
In jams we have PEACH, STRAWBERRIES, RASPBERRIES, CUR-
RANTS, &c.
In Pickles—MoCARRY ONIONS, CUCUMBERS, CAULIFLOWER, and
WALNUT.
All kinds of Spices, quality pure. Tea, all grades; we push the sale of Ben
Her Blend which draws very fine. We have a big assortment of Crockery.
GEORGE SWALLOW, Clinton,
ENLARGED BUSINESS.
We have just resumed control of the Whole Store and have enlarged our Stock to meet the
demands of our increasing trade. All goods marked down to a Cash Basis. Special cuts in
CROCKERY and GLASSWARE. Inspection Solicited. Highest prices paid for good Butter
and Eggs. Agent for Celebrated Monsoon Teas.
G. J. STEWART, Grocer, - Albert St., Clinton,.
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