The Huron News-Record, 1895-02-20, Page 2'fie Huron News -Record
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V\'it.h t11,• •,u:L& tit \ nice null the gentles
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Ti111. «ill c:r.rry eoilifort everywhere;
With 1.tiry footfall au"eug the sick ;
Cir:.idel.1 i., plush:, ill was s quick
To s. 1le• g mel in her neighbor's face;
Quietus;;,
8e,e ottinge full of grace,
Wish 0 to i et face mill loviu;; heart,
The het 1 1' t•; set, het• chosen part ;
A1e'1•-A' hi gkiNS1 ), dainty herd nice,
She es;1 e: ui ear to this common vice ;
A "Lnly h.>iiltiful" to the pair ;
Nee ,\ ice :Sian I say, anything more?
She 1.1 11..•e tier holm. It heavl'u of re: L
For him. hes' chosen, whom she loves
Lcsl ;
Au ely-.i'n.1 on c,ttth, pure and bright,
Full of :l&:1•••iliue; ;111 eginsrte sight ;
Like (';a': r1.r's wife, chive eppieion,
E'en to t he in; distorted visicu ;
Io
truth, .jut a guild «i:'e; that is all,
Such :is was to your Owtl lit befall.
Consuii1 pi ion fi I its neglected colds,
NI/'11'.1\- 1itl(' Sys up cures cou is,
asthma, sire throat, breech:Ieo,d
lung t snarls'.
West street Methodist church, Owen
Sound, was d unaged by fire last week
to the extent of three hundred dollars.
For Over Fifty Vents
Mao, \\'Inr't,'w's SOOTaISO SYRUP has been used by
millions or nr'.hors for the i r children while t ethi ng.
itdlstotboo st l.kht and b.oh. n of our rest bye stoic
ohiid unfferr':g and 0r1't111 wL,h- pain of Cabling Teeth
saw. et ,rum, e' d get, a bottle of "Ate. \t'!uslow's
Stio,hing Syrup” i._ruhildr; n Tootling. It will relieve
the ;,,or slits. surf rer immediately. Depend upon it,
mot bolo, tlu.ro is no mistake about it. It ewes War.
theca, r'r.'lb,t' 9 the Stoualch and Bowels, .tires wiled
C„I'r, s,dt. us the Gum". reduces iudaulnlat.ion, and
gives Luc 881181 a"'r,'y t0 the wh,do system. '•Mrs.
slow w's nth lig Syn.." 10r children t' .thing 1:
plea. ant te'he 188'60 and is the prescription of one of
the. West soil bast fenrlle physte1ans and nurses 10
the United Slates, Prier. twenty Ilse cents a b .ttle
Sold by ail droggkts throughout the world. Ile euro
and ask lel' '}las. WINSLOOW'0 001111\O SYRUP."
Sir William Van Horne attributes
the depression in part to low prices.
Yet the Liberals want to make every-
thing cheaper. They will never be
satisfied until they get all they need
for nothing.
JULES D'ESTIMANVILLE CLE-
MENT
writes from Montreal : "I was suffer-
ing from skin disease, and after all
drugs failed tried Burdock Blood
Bitters, of which three bottles restored
me to good health. I recommend it
also for dyspepsia."
The annual meeting of the members
Of the Tln'ontoIndustrial Exhibition was
held last week. The annual report arid
linanicial statement showed the affairs
of the association to be in good condi-
tion.
(2) SHILOH's CURE is sold on a guaran
tee. It cures Incipient Consumption.
It is the best Cough Cure. only one
cent a dose ; 25 cts., 50 cts. and $1.00
per bottle. Sold by J. H. Combe.
Mr. Angers, Dominion Minister of
Agricull tire, made a veru important
declaration before a meeting of the
butter and cheese exporters in Mont-
real. He said the. Government would
purchase the winter butter manufac-
tured between January and April, and
that it would be shipped to England
and disposed of through the depart-
ment. agents.
REASONS FOR SUCCESS.
TIie success of Norway Pine Syrup
as a cure for coughs, colds, asthma,
bronchitis and all throat and lung
troubles is due to the fact that it is the
best and pleasantest remedy' ever
discovered, and bacanse its action is
prompt and certain.
At McMullan & Winn's saw mill,
True o, N. S., Edward Brenton's coat
became in some way entangled with
they machinery, causing him to be
thrown across the circular saw in such
a manner that his limbs were mangled,
and he lived but half an hour.
3) CAPTAIN SWEENEY, U. S. A., San
Diego, Cal., says: "Shiloh's Catarrh
Remedy is the first medicine I have
ever found that would do me any
good." Price 50 cents. Sold by J. II.
Combo
Sir Oliver Mowat, p;•esided at Gen-
eral Booth's farewell meeting in Mas-
sey hall, Toronto, last week, at whit h
the general outlined his social scheme.
Hon. Geo. NV. Ross and Chancellor
Burwash also spoke in praise of the
Salvation arrny's effort to remove
poverty.
Ctinada Should Retaliate.
Dr. Montague's utterances the other
day on the alien labour question were
unofficial, still they show the (Hive: inn,
in which the minds of our leading pub-
lic men are turning. While the Unit-
ed Stabse authorities are harassing
such Canadians as find it profitable to
pursue their occupation in the United
Stales, no restraint, whatever is placed
by Canada upon the employment of
alien labour in this country. The lat-
est phase of the American persecution
is the sentencing of a citizen of I3uf1'-
alo, like a common criminal, to peni-
tentiary for a year for employing :in
alien. From the way the law is en-
forced south of the boundary, it is
evidently a greater offence there to
employ the subject of a neighbouring
and friendly nation than to commit
murder, a crime which is very often
visited with no penalty whatever.
There are 80,015 persons of United
States birth in Canada. It will be
well if this cmintr'y is not forced in
self-defence to adopt the same cruel
policy towards these of them who
have not sworn away their allegiance
as is pursued in the United States
against Canadians.
NOT CRUDE MATERIAL.
Scott's Emulsion is Cod Liver Oil
perfected and is prepared upon the
principle of its digestion and assimil-
ation in the hutnan system; hence it is
given without disturbing the stomach.
A STACATTO PAS O1
80 DR. TALMAGE DESCRIBES THE
WORDS OF HIS TEXT.
"As We flees Therefore Opportunity
Let IIs Do Good"—The Importance of
Making the Most of Our Opportuulttes.
NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—Rev. Dr. Tal-
mage again found hhnself facing a vast
audience at the Academy of Music this
afternoon, while thousands surged
around the entrances, unable to gain
admission, The Academy was crowd-
ed shortly after 8 o'clock, and the pre-
litnivary service of song was participat-
ed in by the throngs that filled the cor-
ridors and by many of those at the
doors on both Irving Place and Four-
teenth street as well. The distinguish-
ed divine took for his subject : "Oppor-
tunity," the text selected being, Gal. 6,
10: "As we have therefore opportunity,
let us do good."
At Denver, Colorado, years ago, an
audience had assembled for divine wor-
ship. The pastor of the church for
whom I was to preach that night, in-
terested in the seating of the people
stood in the pulpit looking from sole to
side and when no more people could be
crowded within the walls he turned to
me and said, with startling emphasis:
"What an opportunity!" Immediately
that word begun to enlarge, and while
a hymn was being sang, at every
stanza the word "opportnnity" swiftly
and mightily unfolded, and while the
opening prayer was being made, the
word piled up into Alps of Himalayas
of meaning and spread out into other
latitudes and longitudes ot'sigenficance,
until it became hemispheric and it still
grew in altitude and circumference
until it encircled other worlds andswept
out, and on, and around until it was as
big as eternity. Never since have I
read or heard that word without being
thrill' d with its magnitude and momen-
tum. Opportunity! Although in the
text to some it may seem a mild and
quiet note,in the great Gospel harmony
it is a staccato passage. It is OI10 Of
the loveliest and awfulest words in
our language of more than one hun-
dred thousand words of English voca-
bulary. "As we have opportunity, let
us do good."
"'What is an opportunity? The lexi-
cographer would coolly tell you it is a
conjunction of favorable circumstances
for accomplishing a purpose ; but words
cannot tell what it is. Take a thousand
years to manufacture a definition. and
you could not successfully describe it.
Opportunity ? The measuring rod with
which the Angel of the ,Apocalypse
measured Heaven could not measure
this pivotal word of my text. Stand on
the edge of the precipice of all time and
let down the fathoming line hand under
hand, and lower down and lower down,
and for a quintillion of years lot it sink,
and the lead will not strike the bottom.
Opportunity ! But while I do not at-
tempt to treasure or define the word, I
will, God helping mo, take the respon-
sibility of telling you something about
opportunity.
First, it is very swift in its motions.
Sometimes within one minute it starts
from the throne of God, sweeps around
the earth, and re -ascends the throne
from which - it started, Within les$
than sixty seconds it fulfilled its mission.
In the second place, opportunity never
comes back. Perhaps an opportunity
very much like it may arrive, but that
one never. Naturalists tell us of insects
which are born, fulfill their mission, and
expire in an hour ; but many opportuni-
ties die so soon after they are born that
their brevity of life is incalculable.
What most amazes me is that opportuni-
ties do such overshadowing, far-reaching
and tremendous work in such short
earthly allowance. You are a business
man of large experience. The past
eighteen months have been hard on busi-
ness men. A young merchant at his
wits' end came into your office or your
house, and you said, "Times are hard
now, but better days will come. I have
seen things as bad or worse, but we got
out. and we will get out of this. The
brightest days that this country ever
saw are yet to come." The young man
to whom you said that was ready for
nuicii!e, or something worse—namely, a
fraudulent turn to get out of his despair-
ful position. Your. hopefulness inspired
him for all time, and thirty years after
you are dead he will be reaping the ad-
vantage of yottr optimism. Your oppor-
tunity to do that one thing for that
young man was not hall, as long as the
time 1 have taken to rehe' rse it,
In yonder third gallery you sit, a man
of the world, but yon wish everybody
well. While the clerics aro standing
round in your store or the men in your
factory are taking their noon spell,
some one says : " Have you heard that
one of our men has been converted at
the Methodist church?" While it is
being talked over you say: " Well, I do
not believe in revivals. Those things
do not last. People get excited and join
the church, and are no better than they
were before. I wish our men would
keep away from these meetings." Do
you know, oh man, what you did in that
minute of depreciation? There were
two youug men in that group who would
have gone to those meetings and have
been saved for this world and the next,
but you decided them not to go. They
aro social natures. They already drink
more than is good for them, and are dis-
posed to be wild. From the time they
heard you say that they accelerated
their steps on the downward road. In
ten years they will be through with
their dissipations and pass into the
Great Beyond. That little talk of yours
decided their destiny for this world
and the next. You had an op•
portunity that you mis•improved ,
and how will you feel when you
confront those two immortals in the last
judgment, and they tell you of that un-
fortunate talk of yours that flung them
over the precipice? Oh, man of the
world, why did you not say in that noon
spell of conversation, "Good, I am glad
that man got religion. I wish I had it
myself. Let us all go tonight. Come
on ; I will meet you at the church door
at eight o'clock." You see, you would
have taken them all to heaven, and you
would have got there yourself. Golden
opportunity gone!
'rhe day I left our country home to
look after myself, we rode across the
country, and my father was driving.
Of course I said nothing that implied
how I felt. But there are hundreds of
men here, who from their own experi-
ence know how I felt. At such a time
a young man may be hopeful, and even
impatient, to get into the battle of life
for himself, but to leave the homestead
where everything has been done for
you ; your father or older brothers
taking your part when you were
imposed on by larger boys i and
e
your mother always around, whertilitora
got the cold with mustard applica-
tions for the chest or herb tea to snake
you sweat oft the fever, and sweet,rIrIx-
tures in the cup, by the bed to atop the
cough, taking sometimes too much of
it because it was pleasant to take; and
then to go out with no one to stand be-
tween you and the world, gives one a
choking sensation at,the throat, and a
homesickness before you have got three
miles away from the old folks. There
was on the day I spoke of a silence for
a long while, and hien my rather began
to telt how good the Lord had been to
him, in sickness and in health, and
when times of hardship came how Pro-
vidence hadalwa,y provided the means
of livelihood for the large household ;
and he wound up by saying: "De Witt,
I have always Lound it sate to trust the
Lord," My father has been dead thirty down to your work, how much farther
years. but In all the crises of my life— would it be to the bottomless pit?" The
and there have been many of them—I Christian miner responded, "I do not
have felt the mighty boost of that lesson
in the farm wagon: "De Witt, 1 have al-
ways found it safe to trust the Lord." The
fact was.my father saw that this was hie
opportunity, and he improved it. This
is one reason why I am an enthusiastic
friend of all Young Men's Christian As-
sociations, They get hold of so mans
young 111011 just arriving in the city,and Friend, Jesus Christ." Seven years
while they are very impressionabie, after this same clergyman was on his
and it is the bust opportnnity, Why, way to the General Assembly of the
how big the houses looked to us as we Presbyterian Church at Philadelphia,
first entered the great city ; and so when a young minister addressed him,
many people ! It seemed some meet- and asked Line if he was not on a sloop
ing must have just closed to fill the on the Hudson River seven sears be -
streets in that way ; and then the big fore? The reply was in the affirmative.
placards announcing all styles of amuse- "Well," said the young minister"I
menta, and so, many of thein on the same was the man whom you corrected for
night, and every night, after our boy- uttering that oath. Itledme to think
hood had been spent in regions where and repent, and I and trying to atone
somewhat for my early behavior. I am
a preacher of the Gospel, and a dele-
gate to the General Assembly." Seven
ity. Start that innocent young man in years before on that Hudson River
the right direction. Six weeks after sloop was the clergyman's opportunity.
will be too late. Tell ole what such a I stand this minute in the presence of
young man does with his first six weeks many heads ot families. I wonder if
in the great city, and 1 will tell you i they all realize that the opportunity of
what he will be throughout his life on influencing the household for Christ and
earth, And where he will spend the heaven is very brief, and will soon be
ages of eternity. Opportunity ! I gone ? For a while the house is full ot
We all recognize that commercial. voices and footsteps of children. You
and literary and political success de- 1 sometimes feel that you can hardly
pend upon taking advantage of oppor- ' stand the racket. You say, "Do be
tunity. The great surgeons of Eng- quiet ! It seems as if my head would
11111(1 feared to touch the tumor of King split with alt this noise.') And things
George IV. Sir Astley Cooper looked get broken and ruined, and it is,
at it and said to the king, ''1 will cut Where's my hat!" " Who took my
your majesty as though you were a books?" " Who has heen busy with my
plowman," That was Sir Astley's op- I playthings?" And it is a -rushing this
portunity. Lord Clive was his father's ! way, and a rushing that, until father
dismay, climbing church steeples and and mother are well-nigh beside them -
doing reckless things. His father sent , selves. It is astonishing how much
him to Madras, India, as a clerk in the
service or an English officer. Clive
watched his time and when war broke
out came to bo the chief of the host that
saved India for England. That was
Lord Clive's opportunity. Pauline
Lucca, the almost matchless singer,
was but little recognized until in the
absence of the soloist in the German
choir she took her place and began the
enchantment of the world. That day
was Lucca's opportunity, John
Scott, who afterward became Lord El-
don, hod stumbled his way along in the
practice of law until the close
of Ackroyd vs. Smithson was to be tried,
and his speech that day opened all
avenues of success: That was Lord
Eldon's opportunity. William H. Seward
was given by his father a thousand
dollars to get a collegiate education.
That money soon gone his father said,
"Now, you must fight your own way ;"
and ho did, until gubernatorial chair,
and United States senatorial chair were
his, with a right to the presidential
chair, if the meanness of American
politics hed not swindled him out of it.
The day when his father told him to
fight his own was was William H.
Seward's opportunity. John Henry
Newman,•becalmed a whole week in an
orange boat in the Strait of Bonifacio,
wrote his immortal hymn, "Lead, Kind-
ly Light." That was John Henry New -
man's opportunity. You know Kirk
White's immortal hymn, ''When Mar-
shalled on the Nightly Plain." He
wrote it in a boat by a lantern on a
stormy night as he was sailing along a
rocky coat. That was Kirk White's that there arc: innumerable fingers
opportunity, pointing to it, and it is haloed with a
The importance of making the most glory all its own. It is yours! It is
of opportunities as they present thcnh_ mule! It is the present hour. It is the
selves is acknowledged in all other di- now, We shall never have, it again.
rections ; why not in the matter of use- While I speak and you listen the oppor-
fulness? The difference of usefulness tunity is restless as if to be gone. You
of good men and women is not so much cannot imprison it. Tgu cannot chain
the difference in brain or social position, it. You cannot make it stay, All its
or wealth, but in equipment of Christian pulses are throbbing with a haste that
common sense; to know just the time cannot be hind rod or controlled. It is
when to Ray the right word or do the the opportunity of invitation on my
right thing. There are good people part and acceptance nn your part. The
who can always bo depended upon to door of the enlace of God's mercy is
say the right thing at the wrong time. wide open. Go in. Sit down and be
A merchant selling goods over the kings and queens unto God forever.
"Well," you say,"I am not ready." You
are ready. "Are you a sin tle.r.' "Yes."
''Do you want to be saved now and
forever?" "Yes." "Do you believe
that Christ ie able and willing to do the
work ?" "Yes." Then you are saved.
You are inside the palace door of God's
mercy already. You look changed.
You are changed. "Hallelujah, 'tis
done !" Did you over see anything
done so quickly? Invitation offered
and accepted in less than a minute by
my watch or that clock. Sir Edward
Creasy wrote a hook called "The Fif-
teen Decisive Battles of the World ;
from Marathon to Waterloo." But the
most decisive battle that you will ever
fight, and the greatest victory you will
ever gain, is this moment when you
conquer first yourself. and then all the
hindering myrmidons of perdition by
saving, "Lord Jesus, here I am, undone
and helpless. to be saved by Thee, and
where does he live?" , Saving obtained
the addresq and . written to the father,
the city missionary got a reply, on the
outside of the letter the word"immedi-
ate" underscored. It was the heartiest
possible invitation for the wanderer to
come home. That was the city mis-
sionary's opportunity. And there are
opportunities all about you and on them
written by the hand of God who will
bless you and bless those whom you
help in capitals of light, the word "TM -
MEDIATE."
A military officer very profane in his
habits was going down into a mine at
Cornwall, England, with a Christian
miner, for many of those miners are
Christians. The officer used profane
language while in the cage going down.
As they were coming up out of the mine
the profane officer said, '`If it be so far
know how far it is down to that place,
but if this rope should break you would
be there in a minute." It was the
Christian miner's opportunity. Mans
years ago a clergyman was on a sloop
on our Hudson River, and hearing a
man utter a blasphemy, the clergyman
said, "You have s oketh against my best
only once or twice in a whole year there
had been an entertainment in school-
house or church. That is the opportun•
noise five or six children can make and
not half trv. But the years glide swiftly
away. After a while the voices aro not
so many, and those which stay are more
sedate. First this room get quiet, and
then that room. Death takes some, and
marriage takes others, until after
a while the house is awfully still
That man yonder would give all
ho is worth to have that boy who is
gone away forever rush into the room
once more with the shout that was once
thought too boisterous. That mother
wbo was once tried because her little
gitl, now gone forever, with careless
scissors cut up something really valu-
able, would like to have the child come
back, willing to put in her hands the
most valuable wardrobe to cut as she
pleases. Yes! Yes ! The house noisy
now will soon be still enough, I warrant
you ; and as when you began house-
keeping, there were just two of you,
there will be just two again. Oh, the
alarming brevity of infancy and child-
hood ! The opportunity is glorious, but
it soon passes. Parents may say at the
close of life, "What a pity we did not
do more for the religious welfare of our
children while we had thein with us 1"
But the lamentation will be of no avail.
The opportunity had wings and • it
vanished. When your child gets out
of the cradle let it climb into the, out-
stretched arms of the beautiful Christ.
"Come thou and all thy house pito the
ark."
But there is one opportunity so much
brighter than any other ; so much more
inviting and so superior to all others
counter to a wily customer who would
like to get them at less than cost ; a
railroad conductor while taking up the
tickets from passengers who want to
work off a last year's free pass, or get
through at half rate a child fully grown;
a housekeeper trying to get the table
ready in time for guests, although the
oven has failed to do its work, and the
grocer has neglected to fulfil the order
given him ; those are not opportunities
for religious address. Do loot rush up
to a man in the busiest part of the day,
and when a half dozen people are wait-
ing for him, and ask, "How is your
soul?"
But there are plenty of fit occasions.
It is interesting to see the sportsman,
gun in hand and pouch at side, and ac-
companied by the hounds yelping down
the road, off on hunting expedition; but
the best hunters in this world are those
who hunt for opportunities to do good, Theo also.." That makes a panic in
and the game is something to gladden hell. That makes celebration in
earth and heaven. I will point out some heaven. Opportunity !
of the opportunities. When a soul,is in On the llth of January, 1866, a collier -
bereavement is the best time to talk of ori ran into the rocks near Weimer
gospel consolation and heavenly re- Beach. England. Simon Pritchard,
union. When a man hag lost his pro 'standing on the beach, threw of his coat
party is the best time to talk to him of
and said,." Who will help me save that
heavenly inheritances that can never
crew?" Twenty men shouted, "I will !"
h
be levied on. When one is sick is the
though only seven wnro needed.
best time to tall. to him about the super -
Through the awful surf the boat dashed,
natural latitude in which unhealth Is an and in fifteen minutes from the time
impossibility. When the Holy Spirit is Pritchard threw off his coat all the ship -
moving on a community is the best time wrecked crew were safe on the land.
to tell a man lie ought to be saved. By Quicker work to -day. Half that time
a word, by a smile, by a look, by a more than necessary to get all this
prayer, the work may be so thoroughly assemblage into the lifeboat of the Gos-
done that all eternity cannot undo it.
pet, el and ashore, standing both Ices on
As the harp was invented from
the Rock of Ages. By the l
hearing the twang of the bowstring; two strong
oars of faith and prayer first pull for
AS the law of gravitation was the wreck and there pull tor the shore.
suggested by the fall of an apple ; as
Opportunity
the order in India for the use of a
ver greased cartridges started the mutiny Josue or Naze went tflo 'ti nv !
of 1857, which appaled tho nations ; so
something insignificant may open the
door for great results. Be on the watch.
It may be gladness; it may ho a horror;
but it will be an opportunity.
A city missionary in the lower parts
of the city found a young woman in
wretchedness and sin. He said, "Why
do you not go home?" She said, "They
would not receive me at home." He
said, "What is your father's name and
Let the world go. It has abused you
enough, and cheated you enough, and
sland:•red you enough, and damaged
you enough. Even those from whom
you expected better things turned out
your assailants• as when Napoleon in
his last will and testament left five thou-
sand francs to the man who shot at
Wellington in the streets of Paris, Oh,
!t is a mean world. Take tho glorious
Lord for your companionship. I like
what the good man said to one who had
everything but religion. The affluent
man boasted of what he owned and of
his splendors of surroundings, putting
into inaignifcance as he thought, the
Christian's possessions. "Ah! said
the Christian, "man, I have something
you have not," "What is that ?" said
the worlding. The answer was,
"Peace 1" And you may all have it—
peace with God ;peace with the past ;
peace with the fture, a peace that
all the assaults of the world and all the
bombardments satanic, cannot interfere
with.
A Scotch shepherd was dying and had
the pastor called in. The dying shep-
herd said to his wife. "Mary, please to
go into the next room. for 1 want to see
the minister alone." When the two
wore alone the dying shepherd said, "I
have known the Bible all my lite, but I
am going, and I am `afoered to dee.' "
Then the pastor quoted the Psalm,
"The Lord is my Shepherd: I shall not
want." "Yes, mon,' said the shep-
herd, "I was familiar with that before
you were born but I am a•goin', and I
am ateered to deo." Then said the pas-
tor, "You know that the Psalm says,
`Though I walk through the valley of
the shadow of death, I will fear no
evil." "Yes," said the dying shep•
herd, "I knew that before you
were born, but it dors not help
me." Then said the pastor, '.Don't
you know that sometimes when you
were driving the sheep down through
the valleys and ravines there would be
shadows all about you, while there was
plenty of sunshine on the trills above ?
You are in the shadows now, but it is
sunshine higher up." Then said the
dying shepherd, "Ah ! that 0 good. I
never saw it that way before. All
is well. 'Though I pass through the
valley of the shadow of death, Thou
art with me.' Shadows here, but
sunshine above." So the dling
Shepherd got peace. Living and dying
may we have the same peace ! Oppor-
tunity ! Uuder the arch of that
splendid word let this multitude of
my hearers pass into the pardon, and
hope, and triumph of the Gospel, Go by
cotnpanies of a hundred each. Go by
regiments of a thousand each. The
aged leaning on the staff; the middle-
aged throwing off their burdens as they
pass ; and the young to have their pre-
sent joys augmented by more glorious
satisfactions. Forward into the king-
dom ! As soon as you pass the dividing
line there will be shouting all up and
down the heavens. The crowned im-
mortals will look down and cheer,
Jesus of the many scars will rejoice
at the result of his earthly sacri-
fices. D.'parted saints will be gladdened
that their prayers aro answered. An
order will be given for the spreading
of a banquet at which you will be
the honored guest. From the Im-
perial Gardens the wreaths will
be twisted for your brow, and .
from the hail of Eternal Music the harp-
ers will bring their harps, and the trum-
peters their trumpets, and all up and
down the ameth•,stine stairways of the
castles, and 01 all the rooms of the
House of the Many Mansions, it will be
talked over with holy glee that this day
while one plain man stood on the plat-
form of this vast building giving the
Gospel Call, an assemblage made
up from all parts of the earth
and piled up in these galleries, chose
Christ as their portion, and started for
Heaven as their everlasting home.
Ring all the bells of Heaven at the tid-
ings ! Strike all the cymbals at the
joy. Wave all the paten branches at
the triumph ! Victofy! Victory!
THE AGE OF DRESS.
It is the age when we care about
dress ; when we care about externals ;
it is the age of forgetting the soul : the
the age when the environment of the
soul is of little significance. We are in
danger of losing the things that are
deepest, most earnest, most lasting and
most momentous, because it is an age
of supremo material interests. And
then the age is characterized by its love
of pleasure. It is the age of sport. My
Christian friends, we want to enjoy our-
selves, but there are people who go
away from the house of God saving to a
friend, "How did you enjoy it? did you
enjoy the sermon? the singing? was
not that a lovely prayer ? Oh, my
Christian friends, when I hear these
things and see them which are charac-
teristic of the age, I ask myself, " What
are we here tor? For enjoyment, for
entertainment, for pleasure for sport 2"
Now, I say that in those very expres-
sions, "did you enjoy it, etc.." we give
utterance to what is in our being and
show what is characteristic in the
age. I want to bo instructed, lifted up.
I want to live in an age that is not a
question of entertainment, not enjoy-
ment and pleasure, but something
deeper and more momentous.
"I would say that the great aim, as
far as our usefulness in the social prob-
lem is concerned, the first great aim, is
the spirit of self -culture. We shall
have better men, better women and
more Christ.like personalities, more of
the divine image, more of the love of
God. I would say that in becoming
something, we are to be the embodi-
ment of some idea. What are we the
embodiment of? What idea has laid
hold of us? Well, this man has got an
idea, he has learned something new,
but has the idea got the man ? Has it �?
We speak of getting religion. Has re-
ligion got the man ? that is the ques-
tion. Wo want the embodiment of
some idea. some thought that will make
us a power unto others."
"Days, weeks, months are taken up
by what we call social duties. Unless
there is some grand change in this
respect, some transformation, I see no
hope for the solution of the social prob-
lem. I do not mean to do away with
social refinements, social culture, but
what I want is to do away with the
miserable annoyances which we call
society life and which destroys the best
things in society, and that I believe is
the sphere of woman, for she makes
society, she determines the character of
society and she can put Christ in the
place of frivolity which now largely pre-
vails in society. —Dr•J. W. H. Stucken-
berg in Womankind.
Are Our Moral Standards ahlftlnet
One of the evidences of a moral Shift-
ing is that so many people suppose that
private and pubic affairs have two
standards; that it is wrong to use an
employer's time for privet gain, but
right for a public officer to draw his sal-
ary and then leave the regular duties to
a deputy; that it is wrong to secure a
privilege for oneself by bribing a city
eouncil, but right to subtribe money to
a campaign fund to buy votes for a
party's advantage; or that a distinction
may be made between the private and
public character of public men.—Jantt-
ary Forum.
Dolly's Lesson.
Come here, you ignoramus 1
I'm 'shamed to have to 'fess
You don't know any letter
'Cept just your cookie S.
Now, listen, and I' 1 tell you,
This round hole's name is 0,
And when you put a tail in
It makes it Q, you know.
And if it has a front door
To walk in at it's C.
Then make a seat right here
To sit on, and it's G.
And this tall letter, dolly,
Is I, and stands for rue,
And when it puts a hat on
It snakes a cup o' T.
And curly I is J, dear,
And half of B P,
And E without his slippers on
is only F, you see.
You turn A upside down,
And people call it V,
And if It's twins, like this one,
W 'twill be.
Now, when you learn 'em.
You'll knot a great big heap—
Most much' —oh, dolly 1
I b'lieve ou've gone asleep !
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An Eiglish Physician
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NE IS PLEASED WIT11 CANADA
Talks About Cana-
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He Says we gave' Too Many
Pale and Half -Dead
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His Experience With Paine's
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Thinks it is the Right Medicine for
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In the early part of January and Eng-
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He was exceedingly well pleased with
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Sir Richard Cartwright received the
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