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The Exeter Advocate, 1898-12-16, Page 3••••1•1•••••••••••••••M.1111. ANY SHUT IN BY DISASTER. Rev. Dr. Talrnage Sermonizes on the Com- pensations of Sickness. fhe Case of Noah and the Ark—Disasters Are God's Designs for Our Betterment --Men Saved by Being Shut In—A Sermon to Invalids. Wasieneton, Deo. 11.--Th19 diseoerse et Dr. TeImage, which is helpful to all wbo find life a struggle, is especially ad - deemed to a elass of persons meltable never before aedressed in a sermon. The text is Genesis vie 16, "Tile Lord shut him in." Cosmogony bag no more interestieg •hater than the one which spans cif that catastrophe of the agesthe submer sion at our world be time of Noah, the first ship carpenter. Many of the nations who never save a Bible tame a flood story —Egyptian need story, Grecian flood story, of winch. Ducalion was the Neale; Hawaiian d00d story, New Zealand, flood story, Chinese need story, American Int dime flooi story—ail of which accounts agree in the immersion of the contleents Under universal raine, and that there was a ship deating with a selece taw of the human Unpile' and with specimen* of this world you hoped to meet them in dominbus seraphic, with a quiet word of advice from you to tlso who carried the memo &mut the importauce of his rot negleoting his own eon, but through Christ seeking something better than this world could give hi.—he, all the bust - nets men in tee counting room etty, "Gooll Now, that is religion." And the clerks get hold of the story and talk it over, so that the weigher and cooper and hackman, etanding on the eoerstep, say: "That is splendid! Now, that is what I call religion." It is a good. thtng to preach on a Sun- day morning. the people assembled in most resPectabie attire mid seated on soft cushions, the preacher standing in neatly upholstered pulpie surroundee by per- sonal friends, aed after an inspiring hymn has been sung, end tha* sermon, it preaelied in faith, will do geed, bee teiniegleat and erattheteginn and eeptulan the mmee effeotive serum le preedaid worlds, although 1 could base whiled one floated in dressing gown In an arm - that these 'net had been shut taut of the chair into width the Invalid bus with sak and dm:weed, mucle care been lifted, the surrounding All of these flood stories represent the ehelYee 411ed ei1t11 "led/gine bettl?e" eel" ehie tiles aueat as mettle eteeneee on a to modace sleep, some for the relief of mountain top, Huge Miller in his Eludden Pa""Sint some fl" stimulant, wlestimony of the Books" thinks that 8Qme for toilet, eelne for aumlYae awl all these flood eteriee Were infirm tredi- eolue for feerifuge, the pale preacher thins of the Biblicul account, and I be• quoting Pretuise4 a the gelPel" telling neve him. The worst thing about tbail of the glorlea of a eymnathetle Christ, great freshet Was that it struck Northnt aesuriug the One Or two or three pongee Great Eastern from above and beueathwho bear it ot the 3:nightyre-enferoe- The seabroke the obain of ebells anti. m ents of religion. You sae that to Buell a or three Wive felt. the ottt of ulo last lancet, you s crystal and reflect over the land, and the sermon there aro only elle or two will have wen e under the as loneliness, heavens opened teem °mem for wen bearer, Aye, but the visitor calling at The test week of the teneenee deluge columns of water wbiele roared and them that mon thou closing tho "or "ft.:17 COMO, the in t day, the last eour, the last demi oil the roof of the great ship for A 4134 Plug awaT• tolls the St".Y* end t e moment. The beattue of the rain en the many bankruptcies suffered? It rim' be, it is, very uncomfortable for Neale Inside the ark, for the apartment is crowded and the air is vitiated with the breathing ot BO much human and animal life, but it is not halt as bud for him tre thoefgh he were outside the ark. There is not an ox, or s °amen or an antelope, or a sheep instde the ark as badly off Ali the proudest kip g outside. Notice also that there was a linett to the shut In experience of then anoient tnariners. I suppose the 40 days of the descending and uprising floods and the 150 days before the passengers could go ashore must have seemed to these eight people in the big boat like small etern- ity. "Rain, rain, rain!" vain the wife or Noah. "Will it never stop?" For 40 mornings they looked out and paw not one tench of blue sky. Floating around amid the peaks ot mountains, Shem and Ham and Japheth had to hush the fears of their wives lest they ebould dash against the projecting roans.. But after awhile it cleared off. Sunshine, glorious suoehitiel The amending mists were folded up into olouds, whicb Instead of darkening the sky only ornamented lt. As they looked out of the windows tbese worn passengers clapped their hands and rejoiced tbat the storm was over, and I think If Ged could stop such storm as that. be could stop any storm in your lifetime experience, If he can control a vulture in mitisky, he can stop a summer bat that flies in at your window. At the right time be will put the rainbow on the °Med and the deluge of your Pais- fern:Inca Will tirn up, I preath close telne limitetign, relief and disenthralle ment At juee the right tine the min Will Celle% the bendage wIll, drop, the impremend Will be liberated, the fires will go out, the body end Mine arta sou" will ne (rem Potion:se! Au old gnglish proverb reforritig to long contlinteti in- validiem, says; "A 'evoking gate lump long cal its binges," and this may be a protracted ease of valetudinarianism, but you will have Ulm the last bitter drop, you will have Suffered the last mielnter- pretetion, you wilt feel the gnawing of the last hunger, you will have fainted the last tittle from exhauselon, you Will month and ten dant. There was one deer Whole neighborhood home it, mid it wee roof ceased, and the dIsbitig of the bil. to the elitte but there were three parts to take alt eternity to realize tile grand and lows on the ewe ef the fillip "13%1. and that aoor, one part for each of the three uplifting influence of that sermon about peecely as a Tweet move* out over stories. The Bible account says nothing tied and the meal, though preached to an quiet Leue celyum, coluu or Imam, about puts of the door belonging to twe anaienee at "1, ane "1" el' a" women' the ark with it illuetrious paeseugora of the stories, and I do not know on Tha Lord bas ordained all suit Invalids and important freight glided to its which floor Noah and his family voyneed, for a etele et ueefutheee whIen athletlge renelltein Wharfage. but my text tells us tbat the part of the and men of 200 healthy avoirdupois ean- doer ef that particular floor on wbieh not effect, It was not an enemy that Comb::: nut From th a are. Notice also that on the cessation of the Monte staid eeos closed after. 110end en. teetemel you in thet one room or sent tared, "The Lord shut him in." So there you on orutthes, the longest journey Too deluge the shut ins Came OW end the are many people now in the world who have made for nom Weeks being from built their betimes and oulturee their gar. are as thoroughly shut in, Some by sleet bed to sofa and from sofa to looleing nese, some by old ago, some by speoial glass, where you aro &molted at the pallor duties that will not allow' them to go or Your own auk eita the olooheclue" forth, some serrounded by deluges of nes. of your features; then batik again fron3 fortune and trouble, and for them I rairror to sofa, and sofa to bed, with a tem reesise, messnges, and ow semen, long elgh saying, "Bow good it feels to winch I hope may do good to others, is get back again tO my old place more espeolally intended for them. To. pillow!" Itemember who it is that an. seen Dore's pictures and many other day I address the shut in. "The Lora pointed the day when for that -met time in pictures of the entrance into the ark, 'but bine in." Immy years you could not go to buelnees two and tWO. Of the human family and h the animal creation into that ship which draw Ant/thing from the bank of heaven Itigate orafts win not be permitted to go up that harbor. If there AM those who as to heaven are to be "abut ins," there are those win) will belong eo the "shut outs." Heaven has 12 gates, and while those 12 gates imply wide open entrance for those who are properly prepared to enter tbem $hoy imply that there are at least 12 possibilities thee many will be shut out, because a gate is of no Ulit unless it can somethnes be closed, Heaven is not an unwashed mob, Show yeUr tickets or you will not get In—tickets that you may get witimat money end without prloe, tickets with a cross and a crown upon them. Let the unrepentant and the vile and tbe offscourtngs of earth enter Lea- ven as tbey now are, and they would de. preciato and demoralize it so that no one of ue would want to enter, and those who are there would. want to More Out, The Bible speaks of the "withouts" as Well as the twithins"-televelation %en, 15, "Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and wboreinongers, and nitirderers, and Idolaters, and whosoever loveth tied !Denote) a lie," Through the converting, pardoning, sanctifying grace of God may we at last be found among the shut Inc and not among the shut outs! dens and started a new world an the ' ruing of the old world that bad been drowned oue. Though Noah lived 3e0 years after this worldwide acoident and no donbt his fellow passengers survived centuries. I warrant they never gat over talking about that wimp). Now, I have The Closed Door. • Notice first of all who closed the door weary days and all the sleepless nights of salted between two worlds, antediluvian e. ah de, your exile from the world. 0 weary malt! world and the poetailuvian world, but 1 n so that they could not get out. o '''' 0 feeble woman, it was the Lord who never saw a picture of their coming out, not do it, nor his son Shona, nor did yet their embarkation was not more im- Ram, nor did edi apheth, nor d either of shut you in! Do you remember that some of the noblest and bast of Peen have been portant then their disembarkation. the four married women who were onprisonersEzekiel a prisoner, eforomiah a Many a crew bag entered a ship that ') ehlpboard, nor did desperadoes who had prisoner, Paul a prisoner, Si. John a pen never landed. Witness the steamer Porte scoffed at the Idea of peril which Nmineroah land, a short time ago, with 100 souls on had been preaching close that door. They board. going down with all Its orew and bed turned their backs on the ark and hurna'n John Bunyan a prisoner. Though teemed to have all to ough do f with them, really the Lord shut thorn in. passengers. Witness the line osunken bad in disgust gone away. I will tell you ships reaching like a submarine cable of how it was done. A hand was stretched The Women in the Ark. anguish across the ocean depths from down from heaven t3 close that door. It No doubt, while on that voyage, Noah America to Europe. If any ship might Was a divine hand as well as a kind and bis three sons and all the four ladies expeot complete wreckage, the one Noah band. "The Lord shut him in." of the antediluvian world often thought commanded might have expected it. And the same kind and sympathetic of the bright hillsides and the green Iletds But no. Those who embarked disem. being has shut you in, my reader or 3ny where they bad walked and of the homes barked. Over tha plank reaohing down hearer. You thought it was an accident, where they had lived, They bad bad the side of the ark to the Armenian ascribable to the carelessness or misdo- many years of experience. Noah was 600 cliffs on which they had been stranded No, no! God had gracious design for your years old at the time of this convulsion the procession descended. No other wharf lugs of others, or a more "happen so." of nature. He bad seen 600 springtImes, felt so solid or afforded etioh attractive - betterment, for the cultivation of your 600 summers, 600 autumns, e00 winters. nem as that height of Ararat when the patience, for the strengthening of your We ere not told how old his wife was at eight passengers put their feet on it. And faith, for the advantage you might gain this wreok of earth and sky. The Bible no Homer bad the last one, the invalided by seclusion, for your eternal :salvation. tolls the age of a great many men, but wife of Japhoth been helped down the Be put you in a schoolroom, where you only once gives a woman's age. .At one conid learn in six months or a year more time It gives Adam's a'ge as 180 years, than you could have learned anywhere ani Jared's age as 162 years, and Enoch's else in a lifetime. He turned the tattles age as 865 years, and all up and down the or pulled down the blinds of the sick- Bible it gives the age of men, but does breast, and morning lark, and chaffinch, i room. or put your 'welly !cot on an not give the age of women. Why? Be- and mocking bird, and house swallow 1 ottoman, or held you amid the pillows of cause, I suppose a woman's age is none took wing into the bright sky, while the 1 a couch which you could not leave, for of our business. But all the men and cattle began to low and the sheep to ! some reason that you may not now under- women that tossed in that oriental craft bleat and the horses to neigh far the stand, but vehloh he bas promised he will exteain to you satisfactorily, if not in this world, then in the world to come, for he has said, "Wbat I do thou know - rat after I" plank upon the rock than the other apart- ments ot the ship were opened, and such a dash of bird music never lined the air h h ti h t• f robinred- ICE OREAM'S PROGRF$S. HOW the Use of OlitiPOr Grow* in a Century. The New York "Post Boy" of June 8 1786, makes this announeeruent; "Ladies and. gentlemen may be sup - P1144 with ice creetie Wire day at the (44' totem by thetr bungee servant Joseph love," At a ball given by a hire, Johnson in New York, on Dee. 12, 1780, there Were "seretel Pyramids of red ante tvhtte has cream with puneh and ligeors, rose elm eaten and varfait amour." lee cream Was firet introducett at the natiooal capital by Mre, Alexauder Ham- ilton, who bad had it in her Mune in New Yorle. See used to tell with anmee- Meat of the delight with which President Jackson ,firet tasted lt, and how he promptly decided to have ices at the ex - Male° mansion. Accordingly, guests at the next reception were treated to the from mystery, and afforded ocessiderable fun to tile initiated by the reluctance with which they tasted Those from the rural districts eepeoially, drat eyed it euspielously, then molted email spoonful with breath before consenting it. Their distruse was eeon removed, however, and plates were emptied with great rapidity. The man who ramie tho emus Vas, oddly enough, a negro by the name of Jacesen, who, In the early part at the present century, Imo a email confection- ery BMW in Washington. Cold custards, which were cooled after being made be setting them on a cake of ice, were very fashionable, and Jaaltson, at Airs. Ham- liton'e suggestion, froze them by placing the iugredients in a tin bucket and com- pletely covering it with the ice. Each bucket contained a quart, and was sold for Si, It immediately became popular, and the lute:inter soon enlarged ins store and when he died loft a oonalderahle for- tune. A good many tried to tenant his example, and leo cream Was hawked about the streets, bolug wheeled along very rauah as the hal:my-pokey carts are now, hut none of them succeeded in obtaining the flavor that Jackson had !It his produot. had lived long enough to remember a pasture, which from the awful submerg- great many ot the monies and kindnesses enue had now begun to grow green and , of God, and they could not blot cut, and aromatic. I tell you plainly nothing in• I • h h d dis o 'ti to 131 terests me more in that tragedy from the ' TALE OF A JESTER Who Joked Pursuer Who TainlY Tried to Slay 11.1m. Lord Malmesbury used to relate a good story told Min by one of Napoleon's officers—an ineitlent ot the peninsular campaign. The Frenoh officer was reoon- noiterIng with throe or four troopere, when they came suddenly upon a young English officer similarly occupied, mount- ed on a superb thoroughbred horse. SUM- moned by the French oolonel to surrond. er, be quietly cantered away with a mock- ing smile on bis face. The Frenchman, who rode a heavy 'mese, pursued at full gallop. The Englishman allowed him to get quite close, Then kissing his hand, and leaving him behind, he shouted, pointing to his horse, "A Norman horse, alt." Again tho Frenchman pureued, threatening to shoot bis enemy if he did not surrender. He went so far as to point a pistol at him, Lut the weapon missed fire. With a roar of laughter, the young Englishman shouted again, "Made at Versailles, sir," and giving the thorough- bred his head was soon ont of sight. It was most 1 r the culonel tell this story and describe his rage, adding, however, that he had always felt glad that he had nos shot "the brave not now, but thou shalt know here- out the tnemory of those brightnesses, first to the last act than the "exit" and joker." The world bas no statistics as to the should the shut in of our time forget the "shut ins" became the "go outs." And Lord Kitchener's Christmas Present. though now they were shut in. Neither the "exeunt," than the fact that the As. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. A GIRL'S TRIBUTE. LESSON XII, FOURTH QUARTER, IN- TERNATIONAL SERIES, DEC. 18. She Tells How DeittiCr8 Kidney Pills Gave Her Health. Text of the Lesson, Jer. 111, 1-11—Mem- ory Verses, Mem-Golden Text, Jer, xxlx, 13—Commentary Prepared by the Rev. D. M. Stearns. Copyright, 1898, by D. Steerns.] 1. "Zedeitiall was One and twenty year. old when he began to reign, and he reigned 11 years in Jerusalem." Atter the death ,pf Josiah, the good king, three of hts sons end one grandson eumeetted hint, reigning altogether 22 years—Jelmehez, or shall WM tepee mouths; Elialtim, or Jelmialtim, 11 years; Coniale or Jeconlah, or Jeholachin, three months, ad Zedekteh 11 years. The first two and the last were sons en Joehile the thire was his grandson and was 37 years a captive in Sebylon (Jen lie 31). The stery of the final captivity of Judah, the topie of this lesson, is town in three other nieces (Jot xxxix, Kluge uv,, 11 Chron. xxxvieand 11.1USt therefore besorne- thtng to be po preyerfully ndered by us. e. "He did that which WAS evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Je- bel:Win had done." What a brief but comprehensive seenuare of a Melee life "evil in the eyes of the Lord," and how it confirms the statement that "tbe ert tteal mind isemuity againse God!" (Rom. vitt, 7.) The eyes of the Lord me running to and fro tbroughoue tbe whole estrth and whertwer there is a heart trueting in Him Ile wile eh°, nuresett steneg Qn menet et such (II Omen. xvi, 9), The devil is elm going to and fro in the earth eeektng to deetroy Men anti turn hint from Got 8. "lie cast them out from Ills pre* Klee," Thee the Leird did ea JereJerusalemJerusalemand Judah because of their sins, for they =coked the messengers of 3o4 and do- epised Bis words end misused Ills proph. cm, entil the wrath et tile nerd arose agaimt Nis people, till there Was no rem- edy Citron.. xxxvit EH. He earnestly pretested unto them, rising early and pro- testing, but they obeyed not nor inclined their ear and condoms.' walking ill the Imagination of their evil hearte neer. xi, 7, tie It is imposeinle to go where God cannot see us, but it is possible to lose 550sense of llis presence, when Cain went out from the presence of the Lord (Pa cxxxix, 1-4; cleto. iv, 18). The presence of the Lord is the assurance of all sure gold epee alai blessing (Bx. =sill, 14; xxiii 20). 4, 6. "So the city Was besieged unto the eleventh ye;tr of King Zed:et:Mb," The Lord had said through Jeremiah that the king of Babylon would take the city ard destroy it, and for this testimony the prophet was put in prison (.1xi er. xxv, 2. =it, 3), but thotting up a messenger of 550Lord or stopping his or even killing, him or burning up his message will not prevent the purpose of the Lord from being fulfilled. All Serlpture shail surely and literally be fulfilled, and even the enoules of God can only fulfill His pleusure, fo• He maketh even the wrath of man to praise Hine Anti the remainder doth He restrain. Tile king of liabylon was uneoneeiously God's instrument in °hastening His people at Judah and Jeru- salem, Even Hoene flute Pontius leilate and the gentiles and Israel when they combined against Christ were only bring ing to tents what Med foresaw would be (Acts iv, e7, 28), 6. "The famine n'ns sore In the Oita, se that there was no bread for the people of tho land." The study of the famines of Scripture, with their reasous and results aS far as we can judge of the same, is a rnost profitable study, for example, the famine of Gen. xii and its results to Abra- ham, the famine in Bethlehem and its effect upon Elimelech and Naomi as re corded in Huth. in Ezek. xiv, 21, famine is called one of God's four sore judgments, but in Ainos viii, 11, we read of the worst kind of famine, even a famine of bearing the words of the Lord. 7. "All the men of war fed and went forth out of the city by night." lit chute ter xxxix, 4, WO read that Zedekiah went with them. Ezekiel was at this time a captive in Babylon, but God showed him and he by an object lesson showed the peo ple just what was going on in Jerusalem at this dine, so that oven without tele- phone or telegraph the Jews at Babylon knew of events at Jerusalem the very day they happened (Ezek. ail, etc.). God has permitted man to bring to pass most won- derful things in these days in which we live, but never in any nation has been seen or heard such wonderful things as God has done and will yet do in and for Israel, His chosen people. 8. "The army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and overtook Zedekialt in the plains of Jericho." When Jonah would flee from the presence of the Lord, al- though he got off to sea and possibly fan- cied he was really on his way to Tarshish, the Lord wanted him at Nineveh and so sent two detectives after him, a storm to stop tete vessel and a fish specially pre- pared to bring him ashore. The king Zedekiah may have thoughthineself safely away from the king of Babylon and pos- sibly have ridiculed the words of Jere- miah, but if so it only proved that he did not know the Lord nor that every purpose of the Lord must be performed. 9. "Then they took the king and car- ried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah, in the land of Bernath, where he gave judgrnent upon him." Thus it came to pass as it had been foretold, but the most pitiful thing about it all, as it seems to me, was that one who should have beer) an honor to the Lord, on the throne of the Lord at Jerusalem, is found a prisoner in She hands of an enemy of God, and this enemy sitting in judgment upon him. It s was a sorry sight when Abraham was re- proved by Abimelech because he for fear - of bis life told a lie about his wife. It was s a fearful thing when David by his great sin gave occasion to the enemy to blas- e pheme; when Simon Peter by his self con. o fidence and following afar off denied his f Lord. But all these are written for our in. - struction that we may not sin as they did. 10. "And the king of Babylon slew the Sons of Zedekiah before his eyes." This might have beep avoided if Zedekiah had only been obedient to the word of the Lord by Jeremiah and had surrendered to the king of Babylon, but he thought he knew better than Jeremiah, and he would not believe God, but hardened his heart and went his own way until all this came upon him. It is bad enough to suffer oneself, but to be coinpelled to witness ettfte.ring which we have brought urn khers must be a terrible thing. Yet what s man soweth that must he also reap. 11. "Then he put out the eyes of Zede- kiah, and the king ot Babylon bound him in chains and carried him to Babylon and put him in prison till the day of his death." Thus was fulfilled all that was written by Jeremiah and Ezekiel concern- ing him—that he would see the king of Babylon, that he would go to Babylon, bat that he would never see Babylon wad net the there in peace. number of Meanie. %he physicians blessing of the past. Have you been blind know ' something about it, and the for ten years? Thank God for the time apothecaries and the pastors, but who can when e3u saw as clearly as any of us can tell us the number ot blind eyes, and see, and let the pageant of all the radiant deaf ears, and diseased lungs, and con- landscapes and illumined skies which gested livers, and jangled nerves, and you ever looked upon kindle your raptur• neuralgia temples, and rheumatic) feet, ous gratitude. Do you forget when in or how many took no food this morning child'hood you danced and skipped be - because they had no appetite to eat or cause you were so full of life you had digestive organs to assimilate, or have not patience to walk, and in after years lungs so delicate they cannot go forth you climbed the mountains of , Switzer. when the wind is in the east, or there is land, putting your alpenstock high up on a fog rising from the river, or there is a glaciers which few others ever dared and dampness an the ground or pavement jumped long reaches in competition. and because of the frost coming out It would Meer a walk of ten miles you came in be easy to count the people who meaty jetiund as the morning? Oh, you shut day go through a street, or the number ins! Thank Gnd for a vivid memory of of passengers carrled by a railroad coin • the times when you were free as the ohm pane, in a year, or the number of those mois en the rooks, as the eagle going who °me the °cell° in shies. But who straight for the sun. When the rain can give us the statistics of the great pounded the roof of the ark, the eight multitudes who are shut in? I call the voyagers on that craft did not forget the attention, of all such to their superior I thee e hea it gayly pattered in a summer opportunities of doing good. I shower, and when the door of the ark consolation of the sick. shut to keep out the tempest they did ' Those of us who are well, and can see not forget the time when the door of clearly, and hear distinctly, and partake 01 1001 of all sorts, and questions of digest or. never occur to no, and we eau waue the snowbanks,' and take an equi- nox in our faces, and endure the ther- mometer at zero, and every breath of air is a tonio anti a stimulus, and sound sleep moots 114 within five minutes atter our head tonchen the pillow, do not make so much of an impression when we talk abut the consolations of religion. The world says right away: "I guess that man mistakes buoyant*, of natural spirite for religion. What does he know about it? He has never been tried." But when one goes out and reports to the world that that morning on his Way to bueinees he called to see you and found you, after being kept in your room for two months, cheerful and Lopeful, and that you had not oue word of complaint and asked all about everybody and rejoiced in the suc- cess of your business friends, although your ovsn business had almost come to a statnistill through your absence from store or office or shop, and that you sent your love to all your old friends and told them that if you did not Incas them again in their home in Armenia was closed to keep eut the spring rains which came to till the cups of lily and honeysuckle and make all the trees ot the wood clap their hands. shut Off From Temptation. Again, notioe that during that 40 days of storm which rooked that ship on that universal ocean of Noah's time the door which shut the captain of the 5131p inside the craft kept hint from many outside perils. How those wrathful seas would like to bave got their wet bands on Noah and pulled bit out and sunk him: And do all of you of the great army of the shut in realize, though you have special temptations where you are now, how much of the outside style of tempta- tion you esuape? Do you, the 3nerchant incarcerated in the sickroom, reelize that every bour of the day you spend looking out of the window or gazing at the par - neuter figure on the wall paper or listen - leg to the clock's ticks men are being wrecked by the allurements and uncer- tainties of business life? How many for- geries are committed, how many public summer are being misammenriatel. how I now cheer with this story all the in- mates of sickrooms and hospitals, and those prisons where men and wouten are unjustly endungeoned, and all the thous- ands who are bounded on the north and south and east and west by floods, by deluges of misfortuee and disaster. The ark of your trouble, if it does not land on some earthly height of vindication and rescue, will land on the heights celestial. If you have put your trust In God, you will come out in the garden of the King, among orohaeds bending with 12 manner of fruits and harvests that wave in the light of a sun that never sets. As the eight passengers of that craft of Captain Noah never got over talking about their seafaring experiences. so you who have been the shut ins of earth will add un- bounded interest to the conversation of heaven by recalling and molting your earthly experiences, and the rougher those experiences the more thrilling will they be to yourself and others who listen. As whim we sit amid a group of soldiers and hear their story of battle or a group of sailors and Lear their story of cyclones we feel stupid because we have nothing In our life worth telling, how uninter- esting will be those souls in heaven who had smooth sailing all their lives and no accidents, while Noah tells his story of the deluge. and Lot his story of esnape from destroyed cities, and Paul his story of the Alexandrian corn ship, and you Sell your story of the days and night,' and years of the times when you were shut in. You will be interesting and sought after in heaven in proportion as you Me martyrized of persecution and pain on earth. And surely you do not want to get the adavntago of heavenly association and cionsideration without yourself add- ing some interest to the interview. I hail all the shut ins because they will be tho come outs. But ao not think that heaven is made up of an indiscriminate population. Some ef my friends, are so generous in their theology that tea), would let everybody in without reference to condition or char - actor. Do not think that libertines and blasphemers and rejeeters oe nod and his teased have "letters of :nada" that will About 20 years ago a gay young party of engineers at Chatham sat down to din- ner on Cbristmas Eve. They were the email remnants of the usual mess, the rest having gone home for the holidays. Wheu dinner was over the mess butler, approaching the president, asked permis- sion to bring some Christmas presents which had been delivered from an un- known donor addressed to the mess. He shortly after returned with a large ham- per full of paper packages, each bearing the name of 030 of the diners. The presi- dent, on opening bis package, discovered a flaxen -haired doll and the roars of laughter fecan the other officers which rose suggested that they bad found some subtle appropriateness in the present. Another nian found in his parcel a penny trumpet, which he at once began to blow himself, a fact that again awakened up roarious mirth. The last one to open hi parcel was a pale, earnest looking youth who had watched the proceedings with out a simile. His Christmas present wa contained in a parcel two feet long, and • this when unrolled was found to' contai a wooden spoon.. That young man, wh had gat into the engineers by the skin o his teeth, is now known as Lord Kitch eller of Shatelouin. Thousands ef mime Need tbe Some Wm. sidee for They Are Suffering Frees Diseases-Dmild's ee num Will cure mlitau. 'roman), Dee, 4.—T1ere ere thete. Bands of girls in this city who are pass. 50st the best years ef their lives in skit- ness and misery, when they Should be enjoying the blessings of health. etrengtet and vigor. The observer who will watch the erowde of girls gad young women streaming nomeward every evening, aft en their hard does wPrk, eaneeitalt but be struck by the many face's. -- young faces—tbat eleould be rosy with the glow of health, with sparkling eye% awl well-reunded cheelm, but vritich are pale and eare-wore. with dark circles round eyes that have lost their bright- ness. A glance is enough to show that these tired and wern-eUt girle are sufferinc- And such a speetacle is doebly sad, he. cause there is no need for it, Dothl's nidney rillos would being the brightness back to tile eyes, the bloom to the cheek, the art -ones to the stem the Agar to the entire body - No other Medicine on Went Mlle Peen dace such aMonisbiugle beneficial re. sults, In these cases, so Dedd'a Ri4g1e7 Pills can and will, 111iss Mary Dinedals, 78 Esther St., has proved the truth of this sta•teniewt. Site says; "I have been a sufferer trete Female Weakness, Nervous ad Liver Trouble, and doetered without* deriving any bettefit, I began using leiodd's ney arid ney reeovery dated from that time. They have eured m* =thoroughly." A trial will speedily convince any suf- ferer that Dodins leiduey Pills will posi- tively restore her to health. Pressure of the Ocean. There are spots in the ocean where the water is five miles deep. If it is true that the pressure of water on any body in the water is one pound to the square inch for every two feet of the depth anything at the bottom of ono of the "five -mile -holes" would have a pressure about it ot 13,200 pounds to every Muer° inch. There is no- thing of human manufacture that would resi..i such a pressure. That it exists there is no doubt. It is known that the pressnre ole well -corked glass bottle at the depth of 300 feet is so great that the water will force its way through the pores of the glass. It is also sant that plecies ot wood have been weighted and sunk in the sea to such a depth that the tissues have beconm so oondensed that the' wood has lost its huovanay and would never float again. lo could not even be made to burn when dry. ti.tptosiou. Every one knows what an explosion Is, but Its opposite, an implosion, Is les familiar. At great depths in the sea the conditions are favorable for its pro- duction. At twenty-five hundred fath- oms the pressure is, roughly speaking, two and a halt tone to the square Male —that is to say several times greeter than the pressure exerted by steam upon the piston of a powerful engine. beautiful experiment to illustrate tke enormous force of this. deep sea pressor* was made during the voyage of H.M.S. Cliallenger. We quote teem "The Fauna of the Deep Sea." Mr. Buchanan hermetically sealed an both ends a thick glass tube several inches in length full tee elr. He wrap- ped this sealed tube In flannel, and placed it in one of the wide copper cylinders, used to peeteet deep sea thermometers when they are sent down to the sounding apparatus. The copper cylinder had holes bored in it, so that the water had free access in- side, around the glass. The copner case containing the', 'soled glees tube was sent down to a dye, of two thousand fathoms and drawn up agent It was found that the cylinder 'was bulged and bent hiward, just as if It had been crumpled inward by being violently squeezed. The glass tube itself, within its flannel wrapper, was reduced to a fine powder almost like sno)v. The glass tube, it would seem, as it had slowly descended held out long against the pressure, but suddenly gave way, and was crushed by the violence of the action to a line ptwder. This proems, exactly the reverse of an explosion, is termed by Sir Wyviller Thompson an implosion. STATE OF OHIO, CiTY OF TOLEDO. LUCAS COUNTY. FRANICJ. ClIEIVEY makes oath that he Is the mentor partner of the tirm of F. J. °Jimmy & Co.. doing business in the City of Toledo, County and Stateaforesaid, and tliat said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED D wLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HAM'S CATARRH CtIRE. FRANK J. CHENEY. 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Srot to Jail for Good. A Sicilian tribunal hart just entenced a noted forger to imprisonment tor 189 years. The culprit had passed hunself off as an advocate, and in that guise committed 63 different acts of serious fraud, having even stolen for a mbort time the seal of the chancellor of the court. This seal he used to give effect to his fraudulent documents. TO 01at0 .1. COLD IN ONE DAT Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists ref tied the mone,v (fit f ai's to euro. 25e First obit 14 "I wish to goodness," exclaimed ths man who found that he was loaded up with watered stock, "that Noah lived in these times. He'd make these mod. ern speculators look silly." "Bosh!" "Bosh nothing! There's the man that floated the biggest scheme the world has ever known." Keep Minard's Liniment in the House. :11p.n ire eriiet 1 i‘scif. Dukane—What's all the noise in t3va rear of the store? GeaNve1l.---011, that's the Mesh depart.