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Clinton New Era, 1894-11-09, Page 3ld3tr 3 1 c; (t MUSICAL EXCELLENCE; ARTISTIC DESIGN DURABLE CONSTRUCTION CATALOGUES SENT FREE ON APZLIOATAON. Morris-Feild -Rogers-Co LISTOWEL. Some Aspects of Christ's Work REV, A. S. G. ANDERSON, OF ST. HELENS, AT THE C. E. CONVENTION IN CLINTON. 1 wish to notice as briefly as possible, two or three of the features of Christ's ministry, features that may be sugges- tive and that may be of practical bene- fit to you. In the first place, at the opening of Christ's public ministryHe had to fight the same battle which we have to fight when we enter the Kingdom of God. That battle which decides what place self or self-will is nowto have. On the mount of temptation, Christ is tempted first to make an entirely selfish use of His divine powers for His own bodily gratification. Having resisted this, the next trial reverses the temptation and refines it. Christ is now teinpted . to risk rather than save Himself and the end He is tempted to seek, though still selfish is spiritual. Bather than ma- terial. This too, having been resisted. the lasttemptation invites Him to take His own way of securing the success of his ministry rather than wait the slower working of the Father. Temptations kindred to these meet us also as we enter the Christian life. The devil tempts us on the threshold, for he knows that his power over us lies in the place we give to self. Sin is selfish- ness. T ke somewhat analogous temp tations. ", Have not many men with high inte lectual gifts, deep emotive power, rare spiritual intuitions, sacri- ficed there for mere money -getting, debased them for the sake of filling the kettle? Is not that selfishness? Have you not known men to whom God has given larger revelations of his truth than to others, style these into oblivion that they might not lose their situation and with it their bread and butter? How the devil must laugh to see powers thatcould shake his King- dom, used only for the gratification o the lowest desires of their possesso Is not this sin, selfishness, want o trust in God? Then again there is th reverse and more refined temptation It egate ::to,<tha.:mzIl sice. ritireitetter w ose trust in God is strong, a tempta- tion to rush on where angels fear to tread. It says: You know how strongly you trust in God, you know His promises to protect His own, there is no danger for you, come now, indulge this dangerous habit, coquette with this questionable habit. show the world that though they would perish if they did this, yet you being a Christian can do it unharmed. Then you will see 'them glorify God because of you. Here again is sinful selfishness: The taking upon yourself to say in what way God shall show his glory, it would be t:, make God do your will instead of you doing His. This is beyond trust, it is experimenting. The promises of God are only to those who do accord- ing to His will.: There is no promise of. protection to those experimenting after their own will. Thor shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Then there is that Last temptation, to der evil that good may corse. How many have 'stumbled over this and sinned. How egotistical we are! How self-cdnceited! We dream that we can find a better way of doing things than God. We think that we can out run the footsteps of the Deity. We dream that we have found a short-cut to the u)illeninm. We use means than we discover when too late are but a worshipping of the devil and his ways. For the Christian there is no other road to spiritual growth than that trod by Christ Him- self, perfect submission to the Father's will. 1f any man will come after me, let him deny himself. The next feature of Christ's ministry which I Would notice is that which shows the true relation of virtue and vice. It has been the way .of many to cast out.of fellowship and of recogni- tion those who have been convicted of sin. The call to come oflt from among them and be clean, has been interpret- ed that the righteous are to have no dealings or communication with the wicked, the latter are to be ostracised and left to their own devices and punishment. This belief gives birth to the Pharisee who prides himself: •"1 am holier than thou;" and weer) gathers his skirts about him lest he touch the wicked and be defiled. Does not the life of Christ, teach that Christianity is only gepiiiine and developed when it • -retie 0,tywiles touch pitch and yet is not defiled. No one more than Christ allowed Himself to come in contact with sinners. It was His pride that. the end and purpose of the mission had them largely on its view. The truly virtuous and Christ -like man is never indifferent to the sin: His word is one more of sorrow than of anger; his attitude is one of compassion ratherthan of judgment. His desire too is to seek and to save the lost. We are not to think that this means in the slightest degree that the virtuous man underestimates the heinousness of sin; or that, he has become less sensitive to loathsomeness. To think so wonicl be to hold that sorrow is legs sensitive than aversion and tears less synpin he - tic than a frown. Christ, though gentler to men who had sinned one sin than to those who had sinned another, though he judged by motive, and ad- vantages, or the want of them, had no sympathy whatever with the view that holds sin to be e mere unintentional mistake on the part of tnan, with no moral significance. To Him sin was intensely real. It was the one think ' that defiled the Almighty.. Christ id AN IMPORTANT INCIDENT the ile a- te rd ri- he an On 1o t t- ke t- er ns re of sh n or it h s - d s- plays of feeling is viewed as bein slightly vulgar. Take anger for i stance. Men had been used to see mostly in the form of what we call ba temper, that they came to look upon i as a vice in itself, This is a mistake Sin is never original, It never invent ed an evil. It has made evil simply b abusing or debasing the good. Ange is a virtue, it may be made a vice We have run to the opposite extrem and, we have made a vice of tolerance Look at Christ scourging the money changers out of the temple; hear Hi in a burst of righteous indignation de nouncing the Pharisees. Whet ou age needs is to learn to feel deeply, t have intense convictions, to have th virtues of righteous indignation burn ing at the sight of wrong and injustice. True auger is only the other side of sorrow. Be angry and sin not. Another important feature of Christ's work is the method of conveying im- portant truths. We know how much we learn by the eye. The child at first learns more by the pictures than from the words. Examplis mostly strong- er than precept. The disciples journey- ed long with Christ; we would have expected that He would have care- fully explained at the outset who He was and what His mission was. He didlneither. He left them to discover for themselves who He was, from their companionship with Him and their acquaintance with His works. There are truths you can never tell to others. They may hear fair words, they may understand the meaning, of them, and vet they have no idea whatever of the impression yon wish to convey to them. They will never know it till they pass though spiritual experiences similar to your own. Have we not in this an explanation of the want of power in the Christian church at the presentdav? We are to "disciple" all nations. Christ taught his disciples of living the truth before them. We will not teach our disciples only in the not beheve,as some do to -day, that t inillenium would come by changing form of government, er of mercant contracts. To taim no plan of reform tion would ever come to anything th did not take into account the inns and persistent tendency of man tows selfishneeeand evil.. So real and ter ble was sin to ()hoist that He saw t doom of hell meted out to a rich m against whom there was no accusati of a vile life, but who had situp neglected to do his duty as a man thapoor and needy. The imitation of Christ in this ma ter would save us from anothermista prevalent in our age. Men are cultive mg a philosophic indifference to ever thing. They are becoming shallow and More superficial in their emetic and spiritual energies. If they a moved deeply, it is in most cases some purely selfish interest. Unselfi enthusiasm is .less to -day than whe men were ready 'to defend or die f principles. We have begun to think a virtue to view everything wit scientific calmness, to.»measure it, di sect it, criticise it, no matter how sacre its associations. To give way to di n- it It d t y r m 0 e f same way. It is the life that tells. rs-1 Unless your life is a picture to illin- f strate your words there is almost e none who will ever listen to them. See e_ _hoax -..mist ehimsele brings areighfirto .ear on conduct. It is of our conduct that we are at last to be jaded, wheth er our faith has shown itself living of our deeds. The • very fact that only late in His ministry did Christ reveal His divinity to His disciples and only at its very close did He reveal the full meaning of the atonement, teaches us that he lays far more stress on behalf of the heart than on behalf of the head, in actual faith and acceptance of Him- self than in, theological dogmas about His nature and work. We must re- member that religion is not an attri- bute. any more than the love of God is an attribute. All the attributes of God summoned together make up the love which in His nature as the seven color's compose the perfect white light. We do not "get" religion. Our religion is the sum of all our actions, thoughts and words. It .is the spirit that irn- piesses the life manifested in conduct. This being so it is easily understood why faith yithout words is dead—dead so far as it can bring us any blessing ourselves, and dead so far as produc- ing effect for good on others is con- cerned. To teach othersspiritual truths most effectively, we must, pro- ceed as Christ did, live these 11 uths before them and lead thein of our own lives to understand the mysteries. Thereetre many other features of our Lord's work that one would like to speak of, but time will not allow of others at present. Those I have men- tioned may suggest others to you and may at the same time help to show how much we have yet to learn of our Lord's work and of his will, that it is not only bis precepts that we have to obey, but his example as well. Children Cry for -Pitcher's Oastorlad VA A sac eat :.'i c: i'.;• ALL MEN Young, old or middle-aged, who find them- selves nervous, weak and exhausted, who are broken down from excess or over -work, resulting in many of the following symp- toms :—Mental depression, premature old age, loss of vitality, loss of memory, bad dreams, dimness of sight, palpitation of the heart, emissions, lack of energy, pain in the kidneys, headache, pimples on the face and body, itching or peculiar sensation about the scrotum, wasting of the organs. dizzi- ness, specks before the eyes, twitching of the muscles, eyelids and elsewhere, bash- fulness, deposits in the urine, loss of will power, tenderness of the scalp and spine, weak and flabby muscles, desire to sleep, failure to be rested by sleep, constipation, dullness of hearing, loss voice, desire for solitude, excitability of temper, sunken eyes, surrounded with LEADEN Craters,, oily looking skin et are resile symptoms tome )f N , y p c n.r• vows debility, that lead to insanity, unless cured. The spring or vital force having lost its tension, every function wanes in consequence. Those who through abuse committed in ignorance, may be perma- nently cured. Send your address and 10c i t stamps for book on diseases peculiar to man, sent sealed. Address M. V. LU BON, 24 Maedonnell Ave., Toronto, Ont., Canada. PI ase mention this paper. After a rnost exciting chase in the early niornidg hours the Hamilton po- lice caught Joseph Rollinson in the act of breaking into aiid robbing stores. Ile was sent to the penitentiary for threeycre's. While entering the Americ.un Hotel, at Strathroy, Mr Timothy Howe drop- ped dead. Cause of death, rheumatism of the heart. He was 84 years of age. Seventy-two typhoid cases were re- ported in Winnipeg in October. w e '. , + 'J ` s.--..1 . ,IA...i...- AT A CPUNTRY AUCTION SALE. Quite re:ently a ooentry store stook wait sold off by auotion in lots to suit purchasers. The sale, which had been largely adver- tised by cirtfulars distributed throughout the country, drew a large orowd of sturdy farmers and their good wives; the bidding was fast and spirited, and good prices were realized for all useful and staple goods. Amongst the vast variety of articles put up for sale were two lots of package dyes for household dyeing. The auctioneer an- uounoed that he would first dispose of the "Diamond Dyes," goods that every farmer and tarmer's wife knew well and favorably. The women, being most interested in these goods, did the bidding, and in ten minutes time some ten gross of the Diamord Dyes were sold to anxious. buyers. The other dyes were then brought for- ward, and introduced by some oriental name. Said the auctioneer: "I give you the name of these dyes, but I know little about their manufacture or qualities; Dome give me a bid, any price." There was no response—not a bid to en- courage the auotioneer,'e heart. Seeing that time was being lost, and anxious to get rid of these dyes at any prioe, the auctioneer, in a joking way, said: "You surely want your garden fences and barns painted; if these dyes are not good enough to color your,dresses, shawls, jackets, coats, silks, and ribbons, they will surely do for com- mon wood painting." The idea was a novel one—it was a rev- elation—and seemedto meet with the favor of a few, and for a small price, the entire stock designated by a high sounding name, was sold to one farmer, who was heartily laughed at. There is an important moral to be de- ducted from the results of the auction Bale just referred to. Tha moral taught is, that poor and worthless dyes, wherever sold, are dear at any price—even when used for com- mon fence painting. The "Diamond Dyes" are well known, popular and always reliable; they sell everywhereetnd under all circumstances, and give wonderful results in restoring to beauty and usefullness, old and faded ar- ticles of wearing apparel, "Diamond Dyes" save many dollars each year in every farmer's home. SMALL SHOT. Little sins cause big troubles. • Confession of sin is impossible until there is a willingness to forsake it, If you would he able to do great things, be faithful in little ones. It is a sign of backsliding when a Christian begins to be afraid to read his Bible. If there were no devil, everybody would believe in God's goodness, but nobody would know its meaning. If von don't kill your doubts they will be sure to kill you. God will hear no prayer that does not come from a heart full of good will for everybody. Nothing will more quickly awaken a spirit of self-righteousness than finding fault with others. "Turn the rascals ;oat"—theWfuntiliar party'' eth P e applied to microbes as well as to men., The germs of disease that lurk in the blood are "turned out" by Ayer's Sarsaparilla as effectually as the old post- masters are displaced by a new adminia- tration. We all need more of that kind of charity that will make us thick well of those who differ with us. Two men praying the same prayer anywhere on earth will raise a com- motion in heaven. The only money with which we can buy anything for ourselves is that which we have first given to God. The less a preacher knows God, the more he depends on his own head in the preparation of his sermons. W.'e.'STERN PEOPLE SAY UIi STARK'S POWDERS. For Sick Headache, Billiousness, Neur- algia and Liver: Mr Wm Gray, foreman of G.T.R. Ham- ilton: "I suffered for ten or twelve eeare from severe headaches. Nothing did me good until I got Stark's Powders. , Mr Horace Wiles, Chief o! Police,Wood- stock.—Stark's Powders are a sore cure every time. Mr Maynard, Woodstock: — They are wond erful. else Mary Keats, 88 Main street, Hamil- ton:—Suffered for ,years from dreadful headaches; tried number of remedies and doctors without much result, but Stark's Powders did the work. She says: They have been of the greatest blessing to me, in fact they are wonderful. Price 25e a box; sold by all medicine dealers. SMILES. Caller—Wonder if I can see your mother, little boy? Is she engaged? Little boy — Engaged? Whatcher givin' us? She's married. Dickey was overheard saying his prayer the other evening at bedtime in thisfashion:—"0 Lord, bless .Iohnny and Billy Holliday and me, and don't let any of us die, hat if any of tis has got to die, I'd ruther it was them. Amen." "Stay!" ci ied Pocahontas. The obedient father, paused. "Dc you realize," said she, "that if you under- take the job of killing oaf all the John Smiths you won't even have time to eat?" Johnnie—The minister must have been feeling pretty cross about the way the people sang in church to -day. Mamma—Did lie say anything about it? .Iohnni — e i ea m just as soon as he stood up and opened the Bible he said, "Go and sing no more." Young husband (in a low tone to his wife, who meets him at. the •railroad depot with her mother)—Didn't I tele- graph you not to bring your another to the station? Young wife—That's just why mam- ma has come along. She wishes to speak to you about it. She opened the telegram. HOW TO GET A SUNLIGHT PICTURE. Send 25"Sunlight" Soapwrappers wrap- per bearing the words “Why Does a Wom- an Look Old Scarier Than a Man")to Levee Snore, Ltd., 43 Scott St., Toronto, and you will receive by post a pretty picture, free from advertising and well worth fram- ing. This is an easy tvay to decorate your home. Tho soap is the beet the market and it will only nest lo poets; elto send in the wrappers if you leave th., ends open. Write your address • eareful1y. SAME FUGITIVE PARAGRAPHS Austrian police are regttired to un derstand telegraphy. Canton, China, exports 12,000,000 fans every year. • Easter will not again come in March during this century. ;,Audiences are forbidden. to applaud in Russian theatres. Hungary raises principally wheat, corn, horses and cattle. Cowper was allhie days overshadow. ed by the gloom of insanity. A single oyster in season produces about 1,000,000,000 young. Last year 18,207 horses were killed in Vienna for human food. Holland is the land of flatness, wind. mills, dykes, canalsand cheese. Live fish have been safely transmit- ted by mail from India to London. Fully one-third of the female popu- lation of p'rance,are laborers on farms. There • are about 230 John Smiths named In the New York city directory. China's national hymn is so long that people take half a day to listen to it. If one could sell the sea at 1 cent per 10,00 gallons it would bring $25,- 030,00,000. Kentucky is first in tobacco, fourth in whisky, sixth in hogs and eighth in rye and mules. Florida produces over 60 varieties of. the orange. The annual crop is about 2,250,060 boxes. An old woman was brought before the Magistrates of Manchester, Eng., recently on the charge of drunkenness for the 191st time. A storm overturned a large oak tree on the farm of M. D. Cartright, of Ripley, Miss. While squirrel hunting B. S. Sanders, of Indian Bay, Ark., discovered a pot of gold and silver coin amounting to $10,000. "Only the Scars Remain," Says IIENEY HITDsoN, of the James Smith lVoolen Machinery Co.s Philadelphia, Pa., who certi: fies as follows: "Among the many testimoni- als which I see in regard to cer- tain medicines performing cures, cleansing the blood, etc., none impress me more than my own case. Twenty years ago, at the age of l8 years, I bad -swe-Ringseecorae' on my legs, which broke and became run. ning sores. Our family phy. sician could do it was feared that the affected. At last, my me no good, and tones would be good old Mother !Urged lYle try Ayer's Sarsaparilla. I took three •talcs, tie sores healed, and I have not m troubled since. Only the soars remain, and the memory of the lust, to remind me of the good .'.y r's Sarsaparilla has done me. row'weigh two hundred and twenty p• iiwls, and ata in the best of health. 1 !Jove heen on the road for the past •I 0 3 ears, have noticed Ayer's Sar- •"-Itlia advertised in all parts of the Statos; and always take pleas- .tr, In telling what good it did for me." 1 j;er's Sarsaparilla r r,pai ed by Dr. J.C. Ayer 3r Co., Lowell,Mass. t;ir es others, will wire yoM Berkshire Boar for Service. Subscriber has for service a thorobred Berk- st ire Boar, raised by the well-known stock- breeders -Snell Bro., of Edmonton. Terms 81, if paid at time of service', $1.25 if booked. WILLIAM SNELL, Gravel road, Hullott. CHESTER WiIITE BOAR. Subscriber hoops for service, at his premises, lot 28, Con. 13,Hullett, a pure thoro-bred Chester White Boar, with good pedigree; (has taken first prize at fairs) Tereus, 8l at time of service, with privilege of returning, if necessary. JOHN GlARRETT, Jr. Tamworth Pig for Service. Subscriber keeps for service a Tamworth hoar, at his premises, lot 30 Ccn. tits God( rieh Towushi9. Tonns 81 cash or 881.2.; if booked, with priveloge of returning, if necePwb•v. A. ltc(1UIHE Berkshire Boar l'or Service. h •ih .gll eCll Y lumpsfOY nervier', at 0t i, hisr m'. p c uses lot 19, 9 Con. of finliett, a thorn prod Berkshire hoer, purchased from Rogerson Bros., of Hallett. Terms 81, at timo of service, with privilege of returning, If necessary. JAS. CA RTWRIGITT. Berkshire Pigs for Sale and for Service. Forsalo,six thorn -bred Birkebire boars, eligible for registration, aged 3i tnnnths,wlIl be soldohonp. Also, keep for sorvic,, an improved, rogictorod Yorkshire Boar; also a registered, Tamwnrtb. Terms 81 at time of service, with privilege or to - turning. JOHN IIOARE, Auburn, lot ,28, "nd Con., East Wawanosh, Poland China Pig For Sale. A number of boars and sows, otall ages, rang- ing from 6 weeks to months of Age; shred by i]leet 498,a hoar that has never boort hen.ren in n show ring yet. Rio Sire talented 8873 befnebeing imported 'to Canada, won at the Indiana state fair the first prize, also sweep'takes'fcr the best boar and five of his get and in 1833211e won the let prize at Toronto and Loudon shows' tie oral of the above a }ung boars 6 menthe old ha o beets prize ig ble for rbglthis stratton elso will he SOWS, MI b Stil.rd Addrods W. W. FIS} 18R 8egrnillerr net i . t What is TORI Vie.. e,, Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Wan* and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nee other Narcotic substance. It Is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. Its -guarantee is thirty years' use by ,bfllio-ns of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cares Diarrhoea and Wind Colie. Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas. toria is the Children's Panacea—the Mother's Friend. Castoria. "Castoria Is an excellent medicine for chil- dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of its good effect upon their children.'• Da. G. 0. Common, Lowell, Mase. "Castoria Is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope the day is not far distant when mothers will consider the real interest of their children, and use Castoria in- stead of the various quack nostrums which are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby sending them to premature graves." Du. J. F. KnronTLoz, Conway, Ark. Castoria. " Castoria is so well adapted tochlldren that • I`recommend it assuperior toany prescription known to me." H. A. Aitornrs,M. D. 111 So. Oxford St.. Brooklyn, N. Y. "Our physicians in the childreay depart- ment have spoken highly of their experi- ence in their outside practice with Castoria, and although we only have among our medical supplies what is known as regular products, yet we are free to confess that the merits of Castoria has won us to look with favor upon it." UN1Tan HOSPITAL AIM DISPENSARY, Boston. Mas& ALLEN C. Serra, Pres., The Centaur Company, TI Murray Street, New York City. Long Waist, Correct . Shape, Best Material; Combined with the besf filling in the world, makes the " Featherbone Corset " unequalled. TRY A PAIR. i HubGr cry in. Tea Just arrived, a consignment of the celebrated BEE BRAND TEA, put in half pound and pound packages. Thissie the only package Tee put up where it is grown. The Bee Bran,i rea is grown in the Palamcotta Gardens, Ceylon. and is no mixture, but a pure Tea of very fine flavor and strength. This Tea took the first place at the World's Fair, Chicago. We have the sole agency for this town. Come and get a sample and try it. (-4-1FX) dV A 1_411_Ic) vv, OS Peo 1 Clinton ive :air A ted In order to do so they want the very best they can get. We have anticipathd their desire by purchasing the choicest GROCERIES, TEAS, SUGARS, CANNED GOODS, :FRUITS, Sze,. Having had 35 years experience, think we know the wants of the people pretty well. Our stock embraces everything found in a first -clops grocery, ard we will not bo undersold. We have a Beautiful Assortment of FANCY GLASSWARE anti CROCKERY. Special Cuts on S1J(x<ri➢iv•': and TEAS in. large lots J. W. Ir .} , Grocer MACKAY BLOCK, -- - - CLINTON. THE SMALL END OF NOTI-IING.— Is necessarily small. Just so small are the benefit :+ to be derived from attend- ing some se called "Business College." The Forest, City itti sines & Shorthattt; f'c,l"eg'e, of Leri(lon, on the contr)try is noted for t preetict:l chnearlcv of its work. Yon need soinething practical, why not correspond with tis,tl once. J. W. WES'1'k RI' leLT. Principal. t t �;�'.YY .i ^ E "{ s VERY OTHER, : INES it Her children to be strong and healthy. All doctors agree that the "HEALTH BRAND " Combinations do mere than anything elso fo insure this. Lady Aberdeen writes to us strongly in favor of the Health Brand. " Ask your dealer to show you these goods. You will never buy any other after seeing thein.