The Exeter Advocate, 1898-1-15, Page 3IN TIME OF LEISURE.
REV- DR. TALMAGS ON THE INFLU-
. ENCE OF THE CLUB.
Be Shows the Ffregt of Ilea Ciabs—Tis•
Test of merit of •a Olub—The Struggia
Against Peva tiebiu and now to Cell-
i ,quex.
leapyrigla net, by Americen Pressesseele-
tiona
Washington, Jen, 9.—This discourse of
Dr, Talmage will be helpful to those who
want to and nieces with healthful mad
improving surroundings and to avoi4
places deleterious, His text i IL Saimuel
11, 14, "Let the young melt ROW Arise az.*
play before us,"
There are two armies encamped by the
pea of Olbeoa, The time bangs beavily
on their hands. One army pzeiposes a
game of sword fencing. Nothing could, be
more bealthful and innoeent. The other
anny aecepts the challenge. Twelve men
against 12 ram, ithe &Tad °Pena. But
something went adyersely. Perlsaps este
Q f the swordsmen got an unlueley clip or
iP Kano way- bed bieire arouSeal, and that
which opetwd 1 sportfulaese ended in
vloleeee, eh one taking his contestant
by the hair and then evitlt the swolv.1
thrusting him in the se, to that that
Sthicb openea tat ianocene fan ended. trt
the umeeaere et all the 24 sportemen,
Was there eve a bettee illastratien of
what was true then awl istrue now, -geed)
that which Is inieocent may be made de.
etruetive?
At this season ot the yew the club.,
Ionises a our tows ami(titles are in fall
play. have found out that there le
legitimate =I an Illegitimate) use of the
olublionse, In the one %tee it row beCOnle
a healthfulrecreatioo like the contest ot
the .24 men in the teA whoa thOY befelta
their play; in the other cue it becomee
the massacre of body, mincl and Soul, as
In the case at these contestauts a the text
wbeu they had gone too far with tbeir
apart. All lutelligent ages larva bad their
gatlaerings for poIie&. oeiaL artietio.
literary purposes—gatherings chemeter,
ized. by the blaut old Anglo-Saxon Otitis
luttion of "club."
Ir emelt, Cluba
If you have mad bistory, you knew
that there was a Hills's Heed club, a
Ben Jenson. club, a Brothera' club, to
Vlach Swift and Bolingbroke belonged;
• Literary elub, which. Burke and Gold-
eMith and Jobneon mai. Boswell made
immortal; a J'aeobin. club, a Benjamin
Franlelin Junto club—some of these to
indicate justlee, some to favor the arta
swine to promote good manner% some to
despoil the habits, some to destroy the
soul. If one will write) an honest history
o tho elide/ of England, Ireland, Scot-
land, France and the 'United States for
'the last 100 yore, he will write the his-
tory of the world, The club was an In
stitutiou born on English sell, but it bas
thrivea well Ite American atmosphere.
Who ;shall tell haw many belong to that
kind ef club where raen pet purses to-
gether and open house, apportioning the
expense of caterer and servitutsend room,
and having a sort of domestio establisb-
ment—a style of clubhouse width in my ,
opinion is far better than the ordinary
hotel or boarding house? But ma objecit
mow Is to speak of clubhauees of a differ-
ent sort, such as the Cosmos or Chevy
Chase or Lincoln club of this capital, or
the 'Union League of many deice. the
United Service club of London, the Lotos
of New York, where journalists, drawate
ists, seulpters, painters and artists from
11 branehei gather together to discuss
newspapere, theaters end elaborate art,
like the Americus, wheal camPS out in
summer tare, dbupling the peel with its
hook Ana Arousing the forest, with its
stag hunt; aka the Century club, whieh
has its 'area group of venerable lawyers
and poet- like the Arzny and Navy
club, evie those who engaged in warlike
service tei on the land or the sea now
come tt. etater to talk over the days of
carnage. ice the New York aneht club,
With its to ding palaces of beauty ttphel-
stored wiaa velvet and paneled with
ebony, lug all the advantages of elea-
tric bell, Lod of gaslight, awdt ef king's
pantry, .1%j pit:est/ea heat eosting $8,01110,
another e.-1,000, another 230,000, another
$65,000. 1 -to fleet of pleasure boats belong-
ing to elm club having cost over $2,000,-
000; like the American jockey club, to
Which belong men who have a passionate
foncitu•ss for horses, fine horses, as had
Job alum, in the Scriptuees, he gives us
a sketch of that king of beasts, the arch
of its neek, the nervousness or its foot,
the majesty of its gait, the whirlwind of
its power, crying out "Hest thou clothed
his neek with thunder? The glory of his
nostrils is terrible; he paweth in the
valley and rejoiceth in his strength, he
Beath among the trumpets ha l hal and
he stnelleth the battle afar off, the thuns
tier of the captains, and the shouting,"
like the , Travelers' club, the Blossom
club, the palette club, She alomuutecial
club, the Liberal club, the Stable Gang
• club, the ,Amateur Boat club, the gambl-
ing °lune, the wine clubs, the clubs of all
sizes, the clubs of all morals, clubs as
good as good:can be and clubs as bad as
bad can be, clubs innufaerable. During
the day they are comparatively lazy
places. Here, and there an aged man
reading a newspaper, ,or an employe dust-
ing a sofa, or a clerk writing up the
accounts, but when' the eurtain ot the
• ingailalle 'tin the natural day :then the
eitirtain of the clubhouse hoists for the
entertainment. Let us hasten up now the
marble stairs. What -aa initerleaballway!
'See, ,Itere,„ are parlors ota the side, with
the upholtitery of the Kienslin and. the
• Tuileries; andhere are dining belle that
challenge you to mention,: any luxery
• that ther,Oannot afford, • and there., are
• galleries • with.. sculpture' aod paiatiags."
:and lithographs and drawings front' the
best of uistt, Cropsey and Bierstadt-
end :•Church and Hart and,,' Giffoed.—piee
r"tures for (work mood, Whether' . you are
lanpassioned or placid;' ehipweeck or stin-
- light over the sea, Shandan s 'rule, or the
noonday party of the farmer's under -the'
trees 'foaming deer pursuedhy the hounds
In the; Adirondacks or the,,sheep on the
.lawn. On this side there ere reading
rooms where you iindal1 newspapers and
magazines. On that sidee there IS a
• library; where you find all books, from
. hermeneutics to. the fairy tale. Coming
•Iii and out ,etteite'llite geotlemien, •some of
•whom • stay 1,ten minutes', 'others "stay
tnanY hours. Some of •these are from aux-
endear; 'home, . and they have excused
thenaseives for awhile from' the domestic
circle that they may enjoy •the 'larger
sociability of tha, clubheuse, , eThose • are
from dismenelepra. .heimphade, and'tbey
attae'. a plain elodging somewhere, but
elm come to thie club retina - to have
their chief :enjoyment One bleekball
•amid ten vote� will defeat g man's be -
ming a 'member, leer rowdeisra, for
druukeoness, for gambling, for any kind
of misdemeanor, a member is dropped
out. 13r4lliant olu,bhouses from top to
bottom.. The chandeliers, the ylaae the
tor/Alter°, the companionship, the
the social Preetige, a aamPlate en-
chantment.
But the evening is passing on, And do
we hasten through the ball and down the
steps and luta the street and from blogle
to block until we come to another style
of clublanese. Opening the door, we find
the fumes of strong drink and tobacco
something almost intolerable, These
young emu at this table, it is easy to
anderstend what they are at from, the
flushed elteek, tbe intent look, the almost
angry way of tossing the dice or of move
nig the "thipsS* They are gambling. At
another table aro men who are telliug vile
stories. They are three-fourths intoxi-
cated, and between 12 and 1 o'clock they
will go staggering, booting, swearing,
sbouting on their way home. That is an
only son. On aine all landuese, all care,
all caliber° has been bestowed. He is pay,
iug his parents in this way for their
kindoess. That is a young snerried mart
-who only a few Months ago at the altar
made promises of kindness awl fidelity,
every cone of watch he has broken. Walk
through, and sea for yourself. Here are
all the implemeute et dissipatiou and, of
Tuck death. ,As the hours a tho
go away the conversation becentes ime
beoile and more debasing, Now it is tittle
to shut up, Those who mei able t stead
will get Qat ep the pevemeatand, bale.1100
themselves agaioet the lacuppoet or
against Oa manage of the fence. The
young Miitu Whe is not eble to stood will
have a bed improvieed for ittni be the
clubbouse, or two not quite SO overcome
with liquor will rot:duct him te bte
father's house, and they will ring the
doothell, and. the door evtli open, and, the
two Imbecile °scorn; will introduee tato
the hallway the ghastliest aud most hell.
Ish speetacle that ever enters a front door
—a drunken son. If the diesipat_tn °lab -
houses of this country wouldanake a con -
treat with the inferno to provide% 10,000
men a year, mad for tte year, ou tb� eon-
litiou that no more ehould be Asked of
them, the elulahouses could afford to
;Ilene tbet contraet, ter they would save
bonteSteada save foeltmes, sieve bandies,
minds and bottle. 10,000 men who
would be sacrificed by tbat contreet
would be but a small aart of the enielti-
nide seerificee wIteeut filo eoutraet.
But 1 melte a vest eafference between
*lobs. 1 have belonged to four olubs—a
theological elub, a tall elub and two lit-
ermat clubs. I got nom them physical
rejuvenation and 11- wet beeltb, What
Shall be the principle!' If Ciod will help
MO, 1 Will lay down thane principles by
which you may judge whether tbe club
evbere you are a meinher or the club to
which you have been Invited is a legiti-
mate or an illegitimate clubhouse.
Mot of all I want a az to test the oltd)
by its influences on Irene, if you bave a
home. !I have been told by a prominent
gentleman In club life that threlefourths
of the members of tee great clubs of
these cities are meal men. That wit°
s iou loges her influoneo husband
who nervously ana feallsbly looks upon
all evening absence a( an assault on
domesticity, 'How are the groat enter-
prIsee of art andlitern' retina bonefteenca
aucl public weal to be 1' irried on 11 every
roan Is to have his nee I bounded on ono
side by Ills front doeeetep and on the
ether side by his back window, knowing
nothieg higher than his own attic or
nothing lower than bis nen eellar? That
wife who becomes si ious nf bet' hus-
band's attention to ;tr. or literature or
religion or eberity is breaking ber own
scepter of conjugal pi 41', 1 know an
inetance where a wits , touglit that her
lin-'band was giving roci many nighte to
Christian service, to ele.ritahle service, to
prayer meeting.; and to religious oonvo-
catien. She eystemat, aly decayed him
away until. ziow 120 .., tends no taurell
aud is on it rapid way destructiou, Ida
murals gone, his :Inouc:. gout, and, I fear,
biti soul gone, Let eat' tlbristian wife
neolce wbon her hu ;hand consecratee
•eamings to the sena,. of God, or to
cletrity, or to art, or to anythina ele-
vated, but let not meu saeritice home life
to (dub life. I eau •eta out to you a
goett many names of L.en Who aro guilty
0, this sacrilege. They are as genial as
angels at the clubbou a and as ugly as
Sia at home. Slaw art generous on all
subjects of wine supper., yachts and fast
horses, but they are saugy ebout the
a de's dress and the elithiren's shoes.
',that man has made that which might be
& healthful recreatiou it usurper of his
atteotions, and he has married it, and be
is guilty of moral bigamy. Under this
process the wife, whatever her features,
becomes uninteresting and homely. He
becomes oritical of her, does not like the
dress, does not like the way she arranges
her hair, is amazed that he ever was so
unromantic as to effer her hand and
heart. She is always wanting money,
money when slie ought to be disonssing
Eclipses and Dexter and Derby day and
English drags with six horses, all an-
swering the pull of one "ribbon."
Clubbed to Death.
I tell you there art( thousands of
houses iue.. the cities being clubbed to
death. There are clubbouses where mein -
borstal) always involves domestic ship-
wreck. Tell me that a man has joined a
certain club, tell me nothing mere about
bim for ten years, and Itwill write his
history if be be still alive. The man is a
wine guzzler, his.wife broken hearted or
prematurely old, his fortune gone or re-
• timed and his home a mere name in a
directory. Here are six secular nights en
the week. "What shall I do with themP"
says the father and the husband. "I Will
give four of these nights to the improire-
inent and entertainment .of nay familf,
either at home or,in good. neighborhoed.
1 wilidevote ono to chatitable , institu-
• Lame. I avill deeote omen) the cilub." I
congratulate you. Here ia a men who.
Says: "I Will nialta a different division of
the six nights, I will take three, for the
club and three for other purposes." I
trenible. Here is a an who says, "Qat
of the six secular nights -of the, week -I
win devote live , to the elubhonewited ene
to the herne, ,Which night I will' spend in
scowlin,gaikeat `March siiafl,wishing
was out spending it as r had. Spent' the
other five.",kylaat man's obituary is writ-
ten. Not one eut 10,900 that ever gets
so far on , the wrong raid aver stops.
balidually his health.' through
late hours andthrough too much stiinu-
lus. He will be first rate prey for erysipe-
las and rheumatiere of the heart. The
dootoraooming in, will at a glance see it
Is not only present disease he must fight,
but years of fast living. The clergyman,
for the sake.f the feeliegs of the family, •
on the funeral day will'only talk 'hi re-
ltgious generalities. - Then naen who got '
hie yaeht in the eternal, rapids • will not
be at the obsequies. They will have press-
ing engagemente that hey. They will send
flowers to the cohilu lid and send their
wives to utter words of sympaehe; but
they will have eugagenaents elsewhere.
They never come. Bring me mallet and
chisel and I will cut ou tite tombstene
that melee epitaph, "Blessed arethedend
who die in the Lord," "No," you saya
"that would not be appropriate." "Let
me die the deaeh of the righteous, and
let my lest end be like his." "No," you
say, "that --Koala not be appropriate,"
Then give nee the mallet and the ebisel
and I evill out ou honest epitaph, "Here
lies the *Ocala ot a dissipating club-
house."
I think that damage is often done by
the scions ot some aristocratic family
who belong to oue of these dissipating
clubhouses, People coerting upfront hone
-
bier ()lasses feel it an honor to belong to
the saute club, forgetting the fact tbat
many of the sons and grandsons of the
large conunemial eetabliehments- of the
last generation are new, as to naiad, ITO,
be0118; as to body, diseased; asto morals,
rottere They would have gee through
their property long ago if they bad. bed
full posSeeston of it, but the wily ances-
tors, who earned tbe money by bard
knooks, foresaw how it was to h'e and
they tied up everything in thewile. Now
tbew is nothing of tbat unwerthy descend-
ant but hie graudfather's nauie and roast
beef rotundity. And yet how many
steamers there are which feet honored te
lash fast that woreu eaten tug, though it
drags them straight into the breakers.
Another test bywhich you atin find
i
whether your club s legitunatsoriliegitl-
15 bas on your seeular
OCetnaltion, I MU understand how theoeigh
suet an institution a matt van reach
commercial sueeeetees. I know Settle 111011
have formed their best inteinees relations
through such a chanuel. If the club bas
advantaged you in an houorable
It ts a legitimate club. But bas yoar
credit felled? Are bargain makers more
cautions how they trust you w402 a bill
et goods? Have the men whose names
were down in tho cemmercial agency Al
before they eutered the elub been going
down ever since in commercial standing?
Then look out! You and 1 every clay
• know of commercial establishnienrsgolug
to ruin through the social excesses of one
' or two members, thole fortunes beaten to
death with ball players' bat, or vat amid-
. ships by the frout prow of the regatta, or
going down under tile swift hoofs of the
fest leozses, or drowned in large potatioue
of tvaime and mm101)01,41+, Their club-
/Mese. WaS the "Loth Earp," Their Wei-
ne-s lioase Was the "Ville du Havre."
Tbey struch, and the "Villeeln Havre"
• went under.
•
A, Test et Zderit.
third test by WhiCh, you may know
whether tbe club to which you belong, or
the club to whose membership 7011 ate
Invited, is a legitimate (dub or an illeglti.
mate club is title: What is its effect on
your pope° of moral mud religious oblige.
tion? Now, if 1 thoUld take the names of
all the people in my audience and put
them ou a wall and then I shouldlay that
roll bale st iete organ and 100 years from
now smile doe should take that roll and
call it from A to th, there would not one
of you auewer. I say that any aesoelation
Mutt makes nee forget that feet is a had
assoolation. Now, to many of the cities
there are but two routes, and you (tall
I Mee the Pennsylvania renroad or the
t Baltimore and Ohio; but suppose thet
beta that on one route the nee* is torn
up, and the bridges are torn clown, oral
She switebes are unlocked? It will not
take me a great evidle to decide which
rem to take. Now, hero are two roach(
into the future, the tehristian anti th.
un -Christian, the safe and the unsafe.
• .An institution or nay association that
cautusee my idea in regard to that fact is
• a bad iostitution and a bad ie.:iodation.
I had prayers Wore I joined the eluo,
Diti I have them after? I ettencial the
house of Goa Wore I conneeted myself
with the elute Since that union with tho
ell!) do 1 abeent myself from religions
innueneese ttbieh would you nu bee'
have in your imuil wh you come to lite
• a pack of ciente or 14 Bible? Which would
• you rather have po....e.d. to ,yeur 111H in
the (eosins; 1110111011i, 111., pup Belehaz
zarean wee -ail or the eil illee of Christian
communioe? Who wetiid y' it rather 11 e.e
• for your pallbearers. the ehicirs of a 1'hr'-
tiufl
ehureh or the companions evlia, eon
eersation frill of slang and intitiemaa
Who would you rather have for :teen.
eternal romptutions, those menwho speed
their evenings betting. gamblJug, swear-
ing, carousing mid telling vile stories,
your little ehild that bright girl whom
the Lord took? Oh, you would not nave
been away so much nights, would you,
if you had. known she was going away so
soon? Dear me, your house has never
been the same place siuce. Your wife has
never brightened up. She has not got
oyer it; she never will get over it. Holy
long the evenings are, with no oneto put
to bed and 110 One to tell the beautifta
Bible story! Whae a pity itis that you
cannot 'spend more evenings at aorae In
trying. to help her bear that sorrow] You,
can never drown that grief in the -wine
• cup. You can never, break -away from the
little arms that useh to be flung around
your neck when she used to say, "Papa,
do stay home to-night—do stay home to-
night." You will never be able to wipe
away from your lips the dying kiss of
your little girl.
The fascination of a dissipating club-
house is so great that sometimes a• man
hue timed his back' on his home when
his child. was dying a scarlet fever- He
went away. Before he got back at naid-
enight the eyes aadbeen closed, the under-
taker had done -his, work, ' and the wife,
worn out yvitli three weeks' watching,
lay unconscious. in the net room. Then
there is a rattllng of the night key in the
door, anti the returned father comes up-
stairs and. sees the empty cradle and the
window up. He says; "What is than:lat-
ter?" In iode judgment • day he will
and out whet was the matter. Oh, than
*stray, -Goa help you! t
• The infinence which some of the club -
are exertingtis the mons to be de-
plored because tit' takedown the veii-
boatmen. The admission fee.sifts 'out the
• 'tellurians' and. leaves' only the, best fel-
lows. tThey are frank, they, are generoas,
they are whole -seined, hey -are talented.
Oh. I begrudge the devil such a prize!
Afterawhile the feank look will go out
of the face and the features Will be hag-
gard, and wheu talking to you, instead
of looking you in the eye, they will look
down, and every morning the mother
will kindly ask "My son, what kept you
out se latelast night?" and he will make
no answer, or he will say, "That's my
business..',',. Then ,sonie time hill e wcome
• to the store or the bank ,crose and be-
fegged, and he , will • neglect some :duty,
and after awhile he , will lose his place,
• and then with nothing to do he will come
,'-daven 1t 10 o'clock in the morning to
'eurse the servant because the breakfast
Is cold. The lad who wes a clerk in the
cellar has got • to be altieftelerk in the
great eoranaercial estelehaltment; the
young man who ran eeraisds for the
bank has got to be etteldee; thousands of
She young nten who were at the foot of
She ladder have got to the top of the Wi-
der, but here goes the 'victim of the dissa
patiug elabbouse, with satagerieg step
and bloodshot eye seed eaml beepattered
bat set 61(10W/se OA a SIM* of greasa
hair, hls Cravat ditelied With -cigar ashee.
Look at honi Pure hearted young mall,
look at Mn'i The elubliouse did that, I
knew one melt who went the whole
routed, and, turned out cif theligher data
houses, went into the 'elver clublioaSos,
and on dame, uutfl one aight be leaped
out of a third story window lo and his
weetehedaess.
A. Terrible Struggle.
Let me say to tethers who are becom-
ing dissipated, your sons will follow you,
You think your son does not know. He
knows all about la I have heard Amu
who sey, "1 am profane, but never in the
Presence cif my children," Your cltildren
know you swear. I bay° heard Men, Say,
"I drink, bat never iu thepresenee of uw
children." rour children know you
drink. I describe now what occurs in
huadreds of households en this country.
Tim tee boar bas arrived. The fandia aro
seated at the tea. table. Before the rest of
She family arise from the table the father
shovea back his chair, says he has an
comment, lights a elgar, goes out,
conies hack after midnight, and that is I
the hisecay of 865 nights of the year.
DoesAny man want to etultify himself ley.
stsylog tbat that Is healthy, tbat thet
right, that thae is honorable? Weuld your
wife have married Ton with such pros.
peets?
Time 'wit pass on, and the son will he
16 er 17 years of age, and you will be at
the tea table, and he will shove hack and
Levu au engegernent, and be will light
itis eigttai and he will go out to the eine-
house, and 7011 win bear nothing a him
until your hear the uight key in the door
after midnight. But his physical eoustl.
eaten is not quite so strong ae
and the liquor he driuke is more terriflea
ally drugged than that width you drink,
and so he will catch up with yon oil the
road to death, though you got such a long
start a him, and so you will both go to,
hell together.
The revolving Drummond light in
trout of a botch; in Mat of a locomotive.
122*27 flash We way awl dash that upon
Sho mountains, arm the =men upen
the elty, but 1 take tbe lamp et Ood's
eternal truth, tuul I flash it upon all the
olubhouses of these -cities, so that no
young muu shall be ileeeieed, By these
tests try them, try them: Oh, leave the
diaelpatingl Pahl your mousy, have you?
Better sacrifice that than your soul. Goode
fellows, are they? Under that process they'
evill not remein such. Alollasca may be
found 200 fathoms dome beneath the
Norsvegatu seas; Siberian stag get fat on
the stinted growth of Altaian peaks;
bedeearlum grow omid the deeolatIon of
Selena; tufts of osier and birth grow on
the hot lips of -vetoed° Snechatmo, Inft a
pure heart and tut honest life thrive in a
dissipating elubbouse—nover I
Tile way to conquer a wild beast Is to ,
keep your eye on him. but the way for
yo*2 to conquer your .temptations, 157•
friend, is to turn your back on them and,
ily for your lite. •
Oh, my heart ache! 1 seo mien struggl-
ing against evil habits and they want
belp, have knelt bCside thew, ami 1
have heard them. ery for help, and then
we haverlseu, atul Ite has put One hand
on my right shoulder and the other hand
cn my left shoulder and looked into nay!
Awe with an inanity ofearneetness which:
the judgment day will Imo() no power to I
make me forget. as he has cried out witit!
las lips scorched in ruin, "Goa help mar '
Ear alai there is no help eneept, in the
Lord God Alitilehty. I ant going to make
a very some rope. Yon know that some-
time -6 a reponlaker will take 1'1,17 Small
threads and wind theto together until
after awhile they beeme ship male. And E
I am going to tale- some vere small, deli-
cate threads and wind them together !
until they make a very eteut rope. I will '
take all the memories of "the marriage
day, a thread of laughter, a thread of
light, a thread of 3111:510, a thread el ban-
queting, a thee.,d of congratulation, and
I twist them tegether and I have one
strand. Then I take a thread of the hour
of the first advent in your house, a thread
of the tiarkreez-z that preceded, and a
thread a the liela that followed. and a
thread of the thantiful scarf that little
child used to wear when she bounded out
at evelitide to greet you, and theu a thread
of the beautiful dress in which you laid
her away for the resurrection. And then
/ twist all these threads together, and I
have another strand, Then X take a
thread of the scarlet robe of a suffering
Christ, and a thread of the white raiment
of your loved ones before the throne, and
a string of the harp cherubic, and" a
string of theharp seraphic, and I twist
them all. together, and I have a third
stranct. "Oh," you say, "either strand
Is strong enough to hold fast a world!"
No.. I will take these strands and/I will
twist them together, and one end of that
rope I will fasten, not to the communion
table, for it shall be removed, not to the
pillar of the.organ, for.that will ortirabla
in the ages, but I wind it round and
round the oross of a sympathizing Christ,
and baving fastened one end of the rope
to the cross I throw the other end to you.
Lay hoId of it! Pan for your life! Pull
for heaven!
I Hod a eat,
r The domestic eat is said to have affec.
Sion for places and not for persons. I ant
strongly Inclined to think that thie is a
misapprehension. ,A.s a schoolboy I had e
pet cat which would. follow me to • school
just Sike a dog, and,, remaining- in the
shrithberees ariarect, avouldewait to Madan
with me.- .My father at one period always
returaed hornefrand his duties at • a per-
tain hour In the'd•Veli hog. ,.This eat would
Wait for'bitu at i6 certeinepoiata in the
road, and as soon as heapproachea would
spring out, gambol- a, little round him
and thee trot a yard or two in front of
.hinator the quarter of a mile between
the r,neetingspotnt and holue. •Later in
life, I had e cat wheel attsompabiecl my
familyduringthree menovels. Ob each
occasion he tans carried in the arms
through, the open' neat frOm the old house
to the new one. Not came did he desert
US or return to the forme* dwelling. My
experience is that the eat is aot a selfish
creature,—Chicago Times.
Mighty Niagara.
One hundred million tons of water porn.
over Niagara Falls every hour. This is
said to -represent 16,000,000 horse power.
Some idea of this enonnous amount of
water may be had by understanding that
She coel produced be the world would not
make enough eteam to pump a stream
of equal size,•
,
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
leESSON 111, FIRST QUARTS% INTafl-
NATIONAL SERIES, JAN, 10.
Text or the Lassen, Hata, iv,17-26—Xem-
e1y Verses. Text, exam
lv l�—Commentery by the goy. P.
Stearns.
IT. "Prom that time Jesus began te
preach, and to say, Repeat, for the king -
dent of heaven is at hand." The expense-
elori "from filet time" is said to be found
in this gospel only here and in tahapter
xvi, 21, this beginning the motion about
His ziature and person, and tliat aboutillis
work and ours as itis followers. The her.
Ald being imprisoned (rem Laadesus Hine -
self begins to shoe Himeelf, and first es a
light to Galileo to futfill the words of
Isalaa in chapter iet, 1, 9, and as sorely as
those were literally fulfilled so shall the
weeds of verse 7 of thee eanee ehapter be,
and the teingdorn that was at hand he the
days of John awl Jesus, but now poste
poued beeauseof therejection of the mpg;
001 yet beeetabilsbed upon the throne of
David iu the person of Jesus Cheese the
Son of David, and of the iacrease of His
government and peace there shatl be uo
end. The zeal of tne Lord of Hosts veal
perform. it. "Behold, a king shall reign
50 rightveusuess, and prinees sbail rale in
Judgment. And the work of righteousnees shall be peace, and the effect ef
eausne.ee,quietnees and assurenee ferever."
18.- "And eTzanat wailtiag ley the Sea el
Oaltlea saw two brethreu, Simon, called
Peter. and Andrew, his brothel- elletieg a
net into the sea, for they were fishers."
Itt John 1, 85-4e, we read of the firet meet -
Lan of Jesus with these two, how that one
day when John the itlaptIst cried, "Be-
hold, the Lamb of God!" two of johnhi
diseiples foLlowea Jesus and Wag invited
by Him oboe° with film that day. One
of the two was Andrew (the other prela
ably John, who wrote the gospel), whO
found his brotherSimon mid brought, him
to Jesus, end Jesus called him Oephas, or
Peter. It was the day after that on which
Jesus feaud Philip and Plitlip found Na-
thaueel, who saki to Christ, "Thou ort
the on of Ood, Tleeu. are the Snag of Is-
rael," and to film Jesus spalee et the won-
drous eke/animal) of Jacob's ladtler.
19. "And lie eaitia unto there, Follow
hie, owl I will make you fishers of revues
10 would seem *bet after the events juet
referred to as rereorthal by John, Andrew
and Simon, although baying evidently ne
calved guest as the Ales -stela returned to
tbelr occupation as ilehermen. This was
itt accordance with what Paul afterward
taught, "Let every man abide in the saute
calling wherein he was called" (I Cor
vii, 20). Our Lord glorified the Father
first as a carpenter in tette.aretle. When
wo recelve Christ, we must fir -et glorify
Hint at home mid In our ordinary weave
tione
20. "Autl they straightway left their
nets and followed Him." ‘.rbe time may
cone when, if Ile sees us faithful. at horao
In ordinary things, Homey call us out to
follow Him 7110131 fully. Thewhole Chris-
tian life should be a steadily Increasing
"following Him," as lie more and more
fully reveals Himself untea us. We aro
saved when we receive Him (John 1, 12),
for salvation is nee glvIng up this or that,
but wholly a receiving. We repent, or turn
round, forsake idols and weiceme Him and
have eternal life as a gift (Rom. vi, 20).
Then day by day He more and more takes
the place of even lawful things, mid tbey
lose their hold upon us until Christ is all.
21. "And teem; on from thenee. He saw
other two beetlaren, James, the sun of 'Zell
edee and John, his brother, in a ship with
Zebed.ce, their noher, mending their nets,
zeid. He called there." As we have Kcal,
John was no doubt the other disciple of
tbe napilet who followed the Lamb of
God that day with Andrew, and as Andrew
Lound hie own brother and brought him
to Jesus, it is more than proeeble tliet
John Mond his owu brother and brought
bine to Jeens. Perhaps the words "lie
first findeth his own brotber" (John 1, 41)
may bulleete that Andrew was just a lit -
tie abead of .101in in this brother iluding
bu.sinesso euliesi brotherlwociof
Philip and Andrew confine therneolves to
winning:ends, they will be bleesetiof God
but a hen they step aside to the social auti
entertainment businees they are no longer
in the service of Christ. He came to save
22. "And they immediately left the ship
and their father and followed Him." Thu
following Him of these four at this time
was soon followed by even a more wlole
hearted following as recorded in Lake v,
11, when they forsook all, ships, nets, fish
and everything and followed Him. This
also after the resurrection was made to
mean even more to Peter, when he was
told to follow Jesus, regardless of even
what John might do (John xxi, 22). Thus
the life becontes an ever increasing sepa-
ration from the nearest and dearest unto
Him alone, and WO sing with a meaning
perhaps undreamed of before I'll go with
Him, with Him, all the way.
28. "And Jesus went about all Galilee,
teaching in their synagogues, and preach-
ing the gospel of the kingdom, and heal-
ing all manner of sickness and all manner
of disease among the people." When the
kingdom shall have fully come and God
shall dwell with men on eaith, there shall
be no more death, neither sorrow, nor cry-
ing, neither shan there be any -mere pain
(Ren xxi, 4). The inhabitant shall not
say, I am sick; the people that dwell
therein shall be forgiven their iniquity,
They shall obtain joy and gladness, and
sorrow and sighing shall flee away (Ism
=sill, 24; xxxv, 10), As Jesus preached
the kingdom He atm manifested some-
thing of the nature of it asit bad been de-
scribed in the writings of their prophets.
• 24. "And His fame went throughout all
Syria, and they brought unto Him all sick
people, * * * and He healed them." So we
read in chapter tria la, "Great multitudes
followed Him, and He healed them all."
Tae 'manner of the disease mattered not,
for Healed all power, • It had been writ-
ten by the prophet, '`The eyes' of the blind
shall be opened and the eats of the deaf
Shall be unstopped, then shall the lame
'man leap as an haat, and the toogueof the
dumb sing" (ha, aexv,' 5, 6). It had also
, beti written of the Messiah that H&should
die these things, bind up the brokenheart-
ed, proclaim liberty to the- captives and
the opening of the prison to the bound
(1sa5"And .. lxi7 1). t
• 2here followed Hina great
multitudes of people from Galilee and De-
• capons and .Terusalent and .tticItea and be.
yond Jordan." Many followed .Hisia be-
cause He healed them, many txtbre because
He fed them. When he said thiiigs they
did notlike, many forsook Him (John vi,
26, 66), and after He had gone back to the
Father the number of the disciples assem-
bled in' Jerusalem was only about 120
(Acts i, 15). Yet the redeemed who shall
share His glory when He shall reign over
• the leaved nations of the earth shall be a
multitude that DO man can number of all
nations and kiudreds and people and
tongues (Rev. v, 9; vii, 9, 15; rad, 24),
PAIN PAST ENDURANTE
0-# W. COON liorravssis
wall RHEUXATISIL
.conia Not Hedge. Either Head or Foot'.
and Had to be Fed -and Dressed—Thv
Meters Told Hint a Core Was Impeee
gible. Yet He. Attends to fils 11.3ttsineee
TotDayt
From the Milibrook Reporter.
..Rheirmatisto has claimed. many'.
tims and has prehabl.e ,eattseil More
pain than any other ill affecting 15*222-
iPsi.
41.1noug those who have been its
'victims fewhare suffered more than
Mr. Or..• W. Coon. now:proprietor of a
flourishing bakery, in liampton. but or
o nunther Of years a resident of Ponty-
pool, when his severe illness occurred.
TOa reporter wbo interviewed hint 1Xr.
Coon gave the following particulars of
his great suffeeing and tiatmate tane
"Some seven or :eight years ago," eaia
Mr, Coon. "I felt a touch of rheuma-
tism. At 6rst I Ilisi not pay mu1 at.
tention to it, but as it was ettadily
growing worse I began to doctor for it.
but to cm effeet. Tho trouble went from
bad to worse, until three years after
the Arst. symptoms had manifested
thereseires became utterly helpless,
and could .40 P0 more for Mewlf than
a young ehild, I Could not lift my
-
hands from ray side, and tray wife Wee, .
obliged to eut my feed and feed me
when I felt like eating, which was not
often considering the torture 1 was un-
dergoing. My hands were swollen Ont
of shape, and for weeks were tightly
bandaged, My legs and feet were also
SWollen and a could not lift my foot
two inches front the floor. I could not
change toy elotito and mywife had to
dress and wash me- I grow so- thin
that I looked more like it skeleton then
anything else, TIM pain I suffered
was almost past endurance and I got
no rest, either day or night. I doctored
with malty .tiectors, but they ditl me n�.
good, and some Of them told me it was
not possible for me to get better.
believe 1 took bestdes almost <wenn^
thing that was reeoneeneutied tor
rheumatism but instead of getting,
better I Wel eoustaatkx getting worse,
and I.wished many a, tunethat dead*
would tad ray sufferings. One .4.47
Mr. :Perrin, storekeeper at Pontypote
gave mea box of Iht 'Williams! Pia
'ills and urged me to try there.. I
so somewhat reluctantly as 1 did not
thinkany medicine . could help Mo.
Bowever 1 used the rlis'then I got
.another hex and before thev were gone
I felt a trifling relief. Before a third
box was .anished there wasno longer „
any doubt a the improvement they
were making in ray condition, and by
the .tinte 1 bad used three boxes more
began' to feelin view a my former
condition, that 1 Was growing quitoie
strong,. awl the pain was rapidly sub-
siding. From that .out there was te ,
steady improvement. .and for the first
time in long weary- years 1 was ,,free.
from, pain and once more able to taka.
my place.among The world's workers.
1 have Uot now ti4e slightest pain, and
I feel better than I felt for eevenyears,
previous to taking the Pine. I thank
God that Dr. Wi(liams' Pink Pills cacao.
in my way as 1 beileve they .sayed uy
life. arid there is no doallt
that they rescued me from years
torture.
Dr. 'Williams' Pink strike at
the root of ti;e diteate:.. th.',v,114 t frone
the :Tenon and reetorine. ti;(' Icut ;e
health foal strength. In 24' ooar-
aiveltespinal trodletteateeeetteteeetexie,
thiotieu, rieatiuticieite, ere:the-lea serve!
ulous treat:de% toe„ *teat- piles arta
sal a vier to iil oti,er 1143Y
al% Ii60 .12 'ti.' ft.,1- the
wbidi mair,•) the 1! v4s of scita,4ny
women a burlen, an,i rcs.oro
the.ridt glom Of teeth t,pe.e end
sallow eheelts. Men lgoken etown ten
overworie. warree o eneetaae. wil time
iu Piule Pills a 'o::, 112 cure, eieli
all dealore or eeir. ay mail, a e 1matt
50e, a box or she 1.(etea• fer iat ad-
dressing the tar. thdiiimes' leceiteue
Camlatuata t att., er,
neetaily. N. I. le -ware at. lath, t, e•ens
a.nd substitutet alteeed to be "just as
good."
Thu Late Czar's ahytacian need,
Moscow, Jan, a —Dr. nacelle/en, the
faramm physioian of Czat, Alexander III.,
Is .dead.
D -O -D -D -S
THE PECULIARITIES OF II"
THIS WORD.
No Name on Earth So Famous
—No Name • More Widely
Imitated.
• No name on earth, perhaps, is so well
known, more peculiarly constructed or
more widely. imitated than the word
DODD. It possoeses a peculiarity that
makes it stand cent prominently and fast-
ens it in the memory. lb contains four
letters, but only two letters of the alphreet
bet. Everyone knows that the first kid-
ney remedy ever patented or sold in pill
form was nanted DODDat. Their discov-
ery startled the medical profession the
world over, and tavolutionized thb treat-
ment of kidney diseases.
No imitator has ever succeeded in
constructing a name possessing the pecu-
liarity of DODT), though they near1p. all
adopt names as similar as possible in
sound 'and construe t ion to this. Their
foolishness prevents them realising that
attemptsno imitate increase the fame of
Doaci's Kidney Pills.
'Why is the mune "Dedd's Kidney
Pills" imitated? As well ask why are,
diamonds and gold imitated, Because,
diamonds are the most precious gems .
gol& the most precious metal. Dada's• '
Kideey- Pills are imitated because they',
are the most valuable medicine the world,
has ever kriOW73. NO medicine ever cured
Bright's disease except Dodd's Kidney.'
Pills. No other medicine has curecl ael
many eases of Itheumatism, Diabetes,
Reese Disease, Lumbago, Dropsy, Fea,
male Weakness avid other kidney diea
eases as 1)odd's Kidney/lilts have. It ist
aniversally known that they have never
felled to euro these diseases, hence they
are so widely and shamelessly imitated„'