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fcirm a i wmii ii r -inmT """"" WWA3t H a m OOKiHNDi n - e X yaasgauHr JL. JHL ST-A-TIE STREET S-A-I-jIEIM:, OREG-ON. j. Fine Printing a Specialty. Largest Stock of LEGAL BLANKS in the State, and the BIGGEST DISCOUNT. No one can cut my rates for Printing, and keep clear of the Sheriff. T 7 me. eB -Sp l-B T"k TKT frsf JL JH JL J2L Q2 CD CD o I. CO . CO CD LanLnM "sa!! CD CD INFIDELITY SCORCHED, DR. TALMAGE'S ELOQUENT REVIEW OF AGNOSTICISM. Tlie Mint tlomnrkalile of a Tory Jte mnrknblfl StIi-h of Sermon on "The riftgum or tho Cltle" IJoc tho Ulble Jimtlfj I'olysnniyT Nicw Yokk. April 5. Continuing his course of sermons on "Tho Ten Plagues of tho Cities." Itov. Dr. Talmago today took for his subject "Tho Plnguo of In fidelity." The discourse was delivered to large and appreciative audiences at tho Hrooklyn Academy of Music in the forenoon and tho Now York Academy of Music in tho evening. Tho toxt was Romans III. 4, "Let God bo truo, but every man a liar." That is, if God saysono thing and the wholo human raco says tho opppslto, Paul would ncocpt tho divino veracity. But there nro ninny in our timo who havo dared arraign the Almighty for falsehood. Inlldellty is not only a plnguo but it is the mother of plagues. It seems from what wo hear on all sides that the Christian religion is a hugo blunder; that tho Mosaic account of creation Is an absurdity largo enough to throw all nations into rollicking guf faw; that Adam and Hvonover existed; that tho ancient Hood and Noah's Ark wero Impossibilities; that thcro novcr was a miracle; that tho Biblo is tho friend of cruelty, of murder, of polyg amy, of all forms of bnso crime; that tho Christian religion is woman's tyrant and man's stultification; that tho Bible from lid to lid is a fablo, a cruelty, a humbug, a sham, a Ho; that tho mar tyrs who died for its truth wero miser ablo dupes; that tho church of Jesus Christ Is properly gozotted as a fool ; that when Thomas Carlylo, tho skeptic, said "Tho Ulblo Is a noblo book," ho was dropping Into imbecility; that whon Theodore Parker declared in Music Hall, Iloston, "Nover a boy or girl in (ill Christendom but was profited by that great book," ho was becoming very weak minded; that it is something to bring a blush to tho chcok of ovcry putriot (lint John Adams, tho father of American indopendonco, do dared, '"xho Iliblo is tho best book In all tho world ;" and that lion hearted Andrew Jackson turned into a snivel ing coward when ho said, "That book, sir, is tho rock on which our republia rests;" and that Daniel Webster abdi cated the throne of his intellectual power and reslgnod his logic, and from being tho great oxpoundcr of tho con stitution and tho great lawyer of his age, turned into an idiot when he said, "Aiy heart assures and reassures mo that tho gospel of Jesus Christ must bo a divino reality. Prom tho timo tlmt at tny mother's feet or on my father's knoo I first learned to lisp verses from tho sacred writ Ings they havo been my daily study and vigilant contemplation, and If there is anything in my stylo or thought to bo commended tho credit is duo to my kind parents in instilling into my mind an early lovo of tho Scriptures;" and that William II. Sew ard, tho diplomatist of tho contury, only showed his puerility when ho do dared, "Tho wholo hopo of human progress Is suspended on tho ever grow ing Influences of tho Ulblo;" and that It Is wisest for us to tako that book from tho tlirono in tho affections of uncounted multitudes, and put It un dor our feet to bo trampled upon by hatred and hissing contempt, and that your old father was hoodwinked nnd cnjolod and cheated and befooled whon ho leaned on this as a staff after his hnlr grew gray, and his hands were tremulous, and his btcps shortened as ho eamo up to tho verge of tho grnvo, and that your mother sat with a jmok of lies on her lap whilo rending of tho better country, and of tho ending of all her aches and pains, and reunion not only with those of you who stood around her, but with tho children she had burled with infinite heartache, so that she could read no more until she took off her spectacles and wIjkmI from them tho heavy mist of many tears. TIIK UI.01MOU8 CONSOLATION. Alas I that for forty and fifty years they should havo walked under this delusion, and had It under their pillow whon they lay n-dylng In tho baok room, and asked tlmt sumo words from tho vile page might bo cut upon the tombstone under tho shadow of tho old country meetinghouse, where they sleep today waiting for a resurrection that will novor como. This book, having deceived thorn, and having deceived tho mighty Intellects of tho post, unut not bo allowed to deceive our larger, mightier, vaster, more stupendous In tellects. And so out with tho book from the court room, where it is und in the noloiunlzntlon of testimony. Out with It from under the foundation of ulmroh nnd asylum. Out with It from tho do mestic olrele. Gather together all the nib!ot-tlio uhilditm's liibles, tho aim lly lllbles, those newly bound and thoso witli lid nearly worn out and pages almost obliterated by the fingers long ago turned to ilut bring tbrm nil together, and let us make n bonfire of them, and by It warm our oold orit Icisin, and after that turn undttr with tho plowshare of public Indignation the polluted nshtw of that lontliMime, ftduUerous. ouMMtno, cruel and death fulbool whluh U m antagonistic to man's liberty, nnd woman's honor, and tho world' hunpluoss. ! Now that U tho substance of what j Infidelity propoe and deolnres, and the attack on the Ulblo U accompanied by great Joocwity, nnd there U hardly any subject about which more mirth Is kindled than about tho Diblo. I liko fun; no man was over built with n keener appreciation of it Thcro is health in laughter instead of inrm physical health, mental health, moral health, spiritual health provided you laugh at the rigiit thing. Tho morning is Jocund. Tho Indian witli its own mist baptizes the cataract Minnehaha, or Laughing Water. You havo not kept your eyes open or your cars alert If you have not seen the sea smile, or heard the forests clap their hands, or tho orchards in blossom week agleo with redolence. But there is a laugh ter which Is deathful, there Is u laugh ter which has tho rebound of dospair, It is not healthy to giggle about God, or chuckle-about eternity, or smirk about tho tilings of tho immortal soul. You know what caused tho accident yearsago on tlio Hudson River railroad. It was an intoxicated man who for a Jolco pulled tho string of tho air brake and stopped tho train at tho most dan gerous point of tho Journey. But the lightning train, not knowing thero was any Impediment in tho way, came down, crushing out of tho mangled vic tims tho immortal souls that went speed ing instantly to God and Judgment. It was only a Joke, lie thought it would bo such fun to stop tho train. lie stopped itl And so infidelity is chiefly anxious to stop tho long train of the Bible, nnd tho long train of tho churches, and tho long train of Christian influ ences, whilo coming down upon us are death, Judgment and eternity, coming n thousand miles n minute, coming with more forco than all tho avalanches that over slipped from tho Alps, coming with more strength thuu all tho lightning express trains that over whistled or shrieked or thundered across tho conti nent. TIIK LAUailTKH 01' FOOLS. Now, In this Jocularity of infidel thinkers I cannot Join, nnd I propose to give you hoiuo reasons why I cannot bo mi infidel, and so I will try to holp out of this present condition any who may have boon struck with tho awful plnguo of skepticism. First, I cannot bo nn infidel becauso infidelity has no good substitute for the consolation it proposes to tako away. You know there are millions of peoplo who got their chief consolation from this book. What would you think of a crusado of thissort? Supposo n man should resolve that ho would organize a conspiracy to destroy all tho medi cines from all tho apothecaries and from all the hospitals of tho earth. Tho work is done. Tho medicines are taken and thoy are thrown Into tho river, or the Inko, or tho sen. A patient wakes up at midnight In a paroxysm of distress and wants nn nnodyno. "Oh," snys tho nurso, "the nnodynes are all destroyed; wo have no drops to givo you, but instead of that I'll rend you a book on tho ab surdities of morphine and on tho ab surdities of nil remedies." But tho man continues to writhe in pain, nnd the nurso snys: "I'll continue to read you some discourses on anodynes, tho cruel ties of nnodynes, the Indecencies of nnodynes, tho nbsurdlties of nnodynes. For your groan I'll givo you a laugh." Hero In tho hospital is a patient having agangroned limb amputated. Ho says: "Oh, foretherl Oh, for chloroform 1" Tho doctors sny: "Why, thoy are all destroyed; wo don't havo nny more chloroform, or other; but I havo got something n great deal better. I'll read you n pamphlet against James Y. Simp son, tho discovorer of chloroform us nn anaisthetlo, and against Doctors Agnow nnd Hamilton nnd Hosnck nnd Mott nnd Harvey nnd Abernethy." "But," says the man, "I must hnvo souio nntesthotles." "No," Bay the doctors, "they nro nil destroyed, but wo hnvo got something n great deal better." "What Is thut?" "Pun." Pun about medicines. Lie down, nil ye patients In Bellevue hos pital, nnd stop your groaning; nil ye broken heurtod of nil tho cities, nnd quit your crying; we havo tho cnthol Icon at lust I Hero U n dose of wit; horo la a strengthening plaster of sar casm; here is u bottlo of ribaldry that you lire to keep well shaken up, and tako n spoonful of It after enoh nionl, nnd If that does not euro you, hero Is n solution of blasphemy In which you may bathe, and horo Id a tincture of derision. Tickle tho skeleton of death with n repnrteol Muko tho King of Terrors cackle I For nil tho ngonlos of nil tho ngw, n Joko I Millions of people willing with uplifted hand toward heaven to alllnu that tho gospol of Jesus Christ Is full of consolation for thorn, and yet Infidelity proposes to take It away, giving nothing, nbso lately nothing, except fun. Is there any greater height or dopth or longth orbrendth or luunomity of meanness In all God's unlvorsol MUKltY Of IUNOKANT NO-KAITH. Infidelity Is u religion of "Don't know." Is there a Godl Don't kuowl Is the miuI Immortal f Don't know! II wo shtnild lUttut uuoh other in tho fut ure world will wt ivuognlxe enoh otliorl Don't know! A rellon of "Won't know" for tin religion of "I know," "1 know In whom 1 hnvo believed," "I know tliut my Redeemer llvoth." In fidelity prupoMtf to substitute a religion of Hwful utitfutlvttt for our religion oi glurtous pwlUvtM showing right before us a world of reunion and otMnsy nnd high companionship and glorious wor ship and stnixsnduus victory; the inltfhtkftt Kv rUt "ot "W womigb to nmoli to the but of tint llhunliiyw ot untl(td splendor nwnltiug nil tliuw who on wing of OhrUtlun faith will soar toward It. Hhvo you hoard of the ooiwpimey to put out nil tho lighthouses on thf const I Do you know that on a certain night of next month Eddystono lighthouse, Bell Rock lighthouso, Shorryvoro light house, Montauk lighthouse, llntteras h'ghthouoO, Now London lighthouse, Bamegat lighthouse, and tho six hun dred nnd forty lighthouses on the At lnntlc nnd Pacific coasts oro to bo ex tinguished? "Oh," you say, "what will become of tho ships on that night? What will bo the fate of tho one million sailors following tho sen? What will be tho doom of tho millions of passen gers? Who will arise to put down such n conspiracy?" Every man, woman and child in America and tho world. But that Li only a fablo. That is what infidelity is trying to do, put out all tho lighthouses on Uio coast of eternity, letting the soul go up the "Narrows" of death v, ith no light, no comfort, no peace nil that coast covered with tho blackness of darkness. Instead of tho grent lighthouso, a glowworm of wit, n firefly of Jocosity. Which do you liko tho better, O voyager for eternity the firefly or the lighthouso? What a mission infidelity has started on I Tho extinguishment of lighthouses, the breaki.ig up of lifeboats, tho dis missal of nil the pilots, the turning oi tho inscription on your child's grave into a fr.ro and a lie. Walter Scott's Old Mortality, chisel in hand, went through the land to cut Into plainer letters tho half obliterated inscriptions on tho tombstones, and it was n bouu tiful mission. But infidelity spends its timo with hammer nnd chisel trying to cut out from tho tombstones of your dead nil tho story of resurrection and heaven. It is tho Iconoclast of every village gravoyard, and of every city cemetery, and of Westminster Abbey. Instead of Christinn consolation for the dying, a freezing sneer. Instead of prayer, a grimace. Instead of Paul's triumphant defiance of death, a going out you know not where, to stop you know not when, to do you know not what. Thut is infidelity. FOLLY OK TIIK POLYQAMIST'S CLAIM. Furthermore, I cannot bo an infidel becauso of tho false charges infidelity Is all tho time making against the Biblo. Perhaps tho slander that has mado tho most impression and that soino Christians havo not been Intelli gent enough to deny is that the Biblo fnvors polygamy. Docs tho God of tho Biblo uphold polygamy, or did ho? How many wives djd God muko for Adam? Ho mado one wifo. Does not your common sonso toll you when God started the marriage institution ho started it as ho wanted it to continue? If God had favored polygamy ho could havo created for Adam flvo wives, or ten wives, or twenty wives, Just as easily ns lie made one. At tho very first of tho Biblo God shows himsolf In favor of monogamy nnd nntngonistio to polygnmy. Gen esis il, 2 J, ''Thoreforeshnll u man leave his father nnd mother, and shall cleave unto his wifo." Not his wivos, but his wifo. I low many wives did God spare for No;Ui in tho ark? Two and two thu birds; two and two tho cnttlo; two nnd two tho lions; two and two tho human race. If tho God of tho Biblo had favored n mulUplIclty of wivos ho would hnvo spared a plurality of wives. When God first launched tho human ruco ho gave Adam one wife. At the second launching of tho human raco ho spares fpr Noah ono wifo, for Ham one wifo, for Shout ono wifo, for Jnphot one wife. Does that look as though God favored polygamy? In Loviticus xvlii, 18, God thunders his prohibition of more tliun ono wife. God permitted polygamy. Yos; Just ns ho permits today murder nnd thoft nnd arson nnd nil kinds of crime. Ho permits these things, ns you well know, but ho does not sanotion them. Who would dare to sny ho sanctions thoin? Becauso the presidents of tho United States have permitted polygamy in Utah you are not, therefore, to con clude that thoy patronized it, that thoy approved it, when, on tho contrary, ,thoy denounced it All of God's un dent Israel know that tho God of tho Bible was agnlnst polygnmy, for in the four hundred nnd thirty years of their stay In Egypt tiiore Is only ono case of polygnmy recorded only ono. All Uio mighty men of tho Bible stood nloof from polygnmy oxeopt those who, falling Into the crime, wore chastised within an inch ot their lives. Adam, Aaron, Noah, Joseph, Joshun, Samuel, monogamists. But you say, "Didn't David nnd Solomon favor polygamy ?" Yos, and did they not got well punished for Itl Read tho lives of those two men, and you will come to tho conclusion that all tho attributes of God's nature were against their bo hnvlor. David suffered for his crimes In the onvorusof Adullam and Mnsadu, In tho wilderness of Muhuuulm, in tliu bereavement of Ziklng. Tho Uedouhu after him. slekness after him, Absalom after hhu, Ahithopel after him, Aduui Jail utter him, the IJdoniltes .'.iter him, tho Syrians after him, tho Moabites after him, death nftor hhu, tlio Ird God Almighty after him. Tho poorest jwosant in nil tho empire married to tho pluinust Jew was happier than the king in hU marital misbehavior. How did Solomon gut along wttii polygamy. lUwul his warnings In I Proverb, rend his self dWjust In Reol&l I ustivi. Ho throws up his hnnd in lonth-' lug and cries out, "Vanity of vanities, ' nj) Is vanity." UU won hundred wives nearly pestered tho Ufa out pf "hhn. Suluman got well paid for his crimes well iwUd. I rttpwnt tlwt all the mighty men of the Scripture were nloof from iwlygnmy, save as they wore ' pqunded and Hulled nnd out to pieoes for their insult to holy uwrrlHge. II the Bible Is a frloud of KlyKftmy why U it that In all the lands where the Hi ble predominates polygamy Is forbid den, nnd ha all tho lands where there is no Biblo it is favored. Polygamy all over China, all over Indin, nil over Af rica, nil over Persia, all over heathen dom, buvo us tho missionaries have dono their work; whilo polygamy does not exist in England nnd tho United States, except in dcflnnco of law. Tho Biblo nbrond, God honored monog mny. Tho Biblo not abroad, God nbhorrcd polygnmy. BKAUTIKUL BIBLK I'lCTtntKS OF WO MAN. Another falso chargo which infidelity has made nguinst tho Biblo' is that it is antagonistic to woman; that it enjoins her degradation nnd belittles her mis sion. Under this impression many women havo been overcome by the plague of infidelity. Is the Biblo tho enemy of woman? Como into tho picture gallery, the Louvre, tho Lux embourg of the Bible, nnd see which pictures are tho more honored. Ilero is Eve, a perfect wornnn, ns perfect n woman as could bo made by a perfect God. Hero is Deborah, with her womanly arm hurling a host into the battle. Hero is Miriam, leading tho Israelitish orchestra on tho banks of tho Red sea. Hero Is motherly Han nah, with her own loving, hand replen ishing tho wardrobe of her son Samuel, tho prophet. Here is Abigail, kneel ing at tho foot of tho mountain until tho four hundred wrathful men, at tho sight of her beauty nnd prowess, hnlt, holt a hurricane stopped at tho sight of a water lily, a dewdrop dashing back Niagjrra. Hero is Ruth, putting to shumo nil tho modern slang nbout mothers-in-law as she turns her back on her homo and her country, nnd faces wild bejusts and exilo and dentil, thut sho niny bo witli Nnomi, her hus bnnd's mother. Ruth, the queen of tho harvest fields; Ruth, tho grand mother of David ; Ruth, tho ancestress of Jesus Christ. Tho story of her vir tues and her life sacrifico the most beautiful pastoral over written. Hero is Vnshti defying tho bncchanal of a thousaud drunken lords, nud Esther willing to throw her Jifo awny tlmt she may deliver her peoplo. And here is Dorcas, tho sunlight of eternal fume gilding her philanthropio needle, nnd tho woman, with perfume in a box made fiom tho hills of Alabastron, pouring the holy chrism on tho head of Christ, tho aroma lingering all down tho corridor of tho centuries. Hero is Lydiu, tho mcrohnntess of Tyrian pur ple, immortalized for her Christian be havior. Here is tho widow with two mites, nnre famous than tho Peabodvs nnd tho Lenoxes of nil tho nges, whilo hero comes in, slow of gait nnd with curcful nttendunts and with espe cial lienor and high fnvor, leaning on the nrm of inspiration, pno who is the Joy nnd prido of any homo so rarely fortunate to havo one, nn old Christinn grandmother, Grandmother Lois. Who bus more worshipers today than nny being that ever lived on enrth except Jesus Christ? Mary. For what pur pose did Christ perform his first miracle upon earth? To relievo the embarrass ment of u womanly housekeeper nt tho fulling short of n beverage. Why did Christ break up tho silence of the tomb, nnd tear off tho shroud, and rip up the rocks? It was to stop tho bereavement of tho two Bethany sisters. For whoso comfort was Christ most anxious in the hour of dying oxeruclation ? For a woman, an old woman, a wrinkle faced woman, a woman who in other days had held him in her arms, his first friend, his last friend, as it is very apt to be his mother. All the pathos of tho nges compressed into ono utterance, "Behold thy mother." Does tho Bible antagonize womnn? CII1USTIAN AND PAdAN WOMAN CON TIIASTKD. If the Biblo is so nntngonistio to womnn, how do you account for the difference in woman's condition in China nnd central Africa, nnd her condition in England nnd America? Thero is no difference except that which tho Biblo makes. In lauds where thero Is no Bi blo she is hitched liko n beast of bur den to tho plows, sho carries the hod, sho submits to indescribable indigni ties. 'ie niusi no Keptin a private npartinont, and If sho como forth she must bo carefully hooded nnd relig iously veiled, ns though it wero a shame to bo a woman. Do you not know that tho very first thing tho Biblo does when It ootnoe Into a now country is to strike oil tho shnoklos of woman's serfdom I 0 woman, whore are your chains to day? Hold up both your nrms nnd let us see your handcuffs. Oh, wo seo the handcuffs! Thoy nro bracelots of gold bestowed by husbandly or fatherly or brotherly or sisterly or loverly affec tion. Unloosen tho wnrm robo from your nock, O womnn, nijd let us soe the yoke of your bondage. Oh, I find the yoke a eureenet of silvor, or n string of ournellnns, or u clustor of pearls that must giil I you very tuuoli I How bad you must nil have Itl Sinoe you put tho Biblo on your stand in the sitting room has tho Biblo lioen to you, U woman, u curso or n blessing? Why Is it that n wpman, when sljo Is troubled will go to her worst enemy, thu Biblo? Why do you not go for oumfort to souio of tho great Infidel books Spinoza's "Ethics," or Ilumo's "Natural History of Religion," or Pnine's "Age of Heason," or Dedro's "Dramas," or nny one of Uio two hun dred nnd sixty volumes of Yoitalro! No; the billy, deluded woman persists In hanging about the Bible verses, '"Lot not your heart be troubled," "All things work togethor for good," "Weoplug may endure for a ulght," "I am thohurretion,H "Peace, be still." Furthermore, rather than Invite I re sist tlda plague of infidelity because it f has vrought no positivo good for the world, and is nlwayB a hlndKLaca. I ask you to mention tho names of tho merciful and tho educational institu tions which infidelity founded and is supporting, and bus supported all tho way through institutions pronounced against God and tho Christian religion, and yet pronounced in behalf of suffer ing humanity. What are tho nnmes of thorn"? Certainly not tho United States Christian commission or tho sanitary commission, for Christian George H. Stuart was the president of the one and Christian Henry W. Bellows wns tho president of the other. Where uro tho .or ylums nnd merciful institutions founded by infidelity nnd supported by Infidelity, pronounced ngainst God and tho Bible, nnd yet doing work for tho nllovintion of suffering? Infidel ity is so very loud in its bragga docio it must hnvo somo to men tion. Certainly, if you come to speak of educational institutions, it is not Yule, it is not Harvard, it is not Prince ton, it is not Middletown, it is not Cam bridge or Oxford, it is not nny institu tion from which a diploma would not bo n disgrace. Do you point to tho German universities ns exceptions? I havo to tell you that all tho German universities today are under positive Christian influences, except the univer sity of Heidelberg, where the ruffianly students cut and maul nnd mnngle and murder each other as a matter of pride Instead of infamy. Do you mention Girard college, Philadelphia, as an ex ception that collego established by tho w ill of Mr. Girard, which forbado religious instruction nnd tho entrance of clergymen within its gates? My re ply is that I lived for seven years near that collego and know many of its pro fessors to bo Christian instructors, nnd no better Christinn influences nre to be found in any collego than in Girard college. INFIDELITY A ICVOW-NOTIIING AND A DO-NOTHING. There stands Christinnity. There stands infidelity. Compare what they havo dono. Compare their resources. There is Christianity, a prayer on hdr lip, a benediction on her brow; both hands full of help for nil who wnnt help; tho mother of thousands of col leges; the mother of thousands of asy lums for the oppressed, tho blind, the sick, tho lame, tho imbecile ; tho mother of missions for tho bringing back of tho outcast; the mother of thou sands of reformatory Institutions for the saving of tho lost; tho mother of innumerable Sabbath schools bring ing millions of children under a drill to prepare them for respectability and usefulness, to say nothing of the great future. That is Christianity. Hero is infidelity; no prayer on her lips, no benediction on her brow, both hands clenched what for? To fight Christianity. That is tho entire busi ness. Tho complete mission of infidel ity to fight Christianity. Where are her schools, her colleges, her nsylums of mercy? Let me throw you down n wholo ream of foolscap paper that you may fill all of it with tho names of her beneficent institutions, tho colleges nnd tho nsylums, the institutions of mercy nnd of learning founded by infidelity nnd supported alone by infidelity, pro nounced nguinst God and the Christinn religion nnd yet in fuvor of making the world better. "Oh," you say, "n ream of paper is too much for tho names of thoso institutions." Well, then, I throw you a quire" of paper. Fill it up now. I will wait until you get nil tho nnmes down. "Oh," you say, "that is too much." Well, then, I will Just hand you a sheet of letter paper. Just fill up tho four sides whilo we nro talking of this matter with tho names of tho merciful institutions and the educa tional institutions founded by infidelity and supported nil nlong by infidelity, pronounced ngainst God nnd tho Chris tinn religion, yet in fuvor of humnnitv. "Oh," you say, "that is too much room ; wo don't wnnfc'h wholo sheet of pnper to write down tho nnmes." Per haps I had hotter tear out ono leaf from my memorandum book, nnd ask you fill up both sides of it with tho nnmes of such institutions. "Oh," you say, "thut would bo too much room; I wouldn't wont so much room ns that," Well, then, supposo you count them on your ten fingers. "Oh," you say, "not quite so much ns that." Well, then, count them on tho fingers of ono hnnd. "Oh," you sny, "wo don't wnnt quito so much room ns thut" Supposo, then, you hnlt and count on ono finger tho nnmo of any In stitution founded by Infidelity, sup ported entirely by infidelity, pronounced, against God nnd tho Christinn religion, yot tolling to mako tho world better.' Not ope I Not onol Is infidelity so poor, so starveling, so mean, so usoless? Get out, you miser ublo pauper of tho universe I Crawl luto some rathole of everlasting noth ingness. Infidelity standing today amid tho sufforing, groaning, dying nations and yet doing absolutely nothing, save iryiug io unpoae tnoso who are toiling i until they foil exhausted into tlioir ' gruvee in trying to mako tho world bot-. ter. Gather up all the work, nil tho merciful work, that infidelity has over done, odd It ail together, and there is ' not so much nobility in it ns in Uio smallest bead of Uiat Slstor of Charity , who last night went up the dork alloy ! of the town, put a Jar of Jelly for an in-' Talld nppotito on a broken stnn.i r..i thou knelt on tho bare tloor, praying tho mercy of Christ upon Ue dyinc soul. TIIK PLAQUE WILL BR STAID. Infidelity scrapes no lint for the wounded, bakes no bread for the hun. gry, shakes up no pIUow for Uio sick, rousea no comfort for the bereft, glldt no grave for tho dead. Whilo Christ, our Christ, our wounded Christ, our risen Christ, the Christ of this old fash toned Bible blessed bo his glorious name f -revert our Christ stands this hour pointing to tho hospital, or to tho asylum, saying, "I wns sick nnd yo gavo mo a couch. I wns lame nnd yo gave mo u crutch, I was blind nud yo physiciuned my eyesight, I was orphan ed and yo mothered my soul, I was lost on tho mountain nnd yo brought me homo; inasmuch ns ye did it to onu of tho least of these, yo did it to mo." But I thank God thut this plnguo of infidelity will bo staid. Many of thoso who hear me now by Uio Holy Ghost upon their hearts will cease to bo scoffers nnd will become disciples, und the day will arrive when nil nntions will ncccpt tho Scriptures. The Book Ls going to keep right on until tho fires of tho Inst day nro kindled. Somo of them will begin on ono sido nnd somo on tho other side of tho old Book. They will not find n bundle of loose manu scripts easily consumed liko tindor Uirown into the fire. When tho fires of tho last day are kindled somo will burn on this side, from Genesis toward Revelation, nnd others will burn on this side, from llevelntion toward Genesis, nnd in nil their wny they will not find u single chnpter or n single verso out of plnco. Thnt will bo tho first time wo can afford to do without Uio Bible. What will be tho uto of tho Book ot Genesis, descriptive of how tho world wns made, when the world is destroyed ? What will bo the uso of the prophecies whon they are all fulfilled? What will bo tho uso of tho evangelistic or Paulino description of Jesus Christ when wo see him face to face? What will hothouse of his photograph when wo havo met him in glory? What will be tho uso of the Book of Revelation, standing ns you will with your foot on tho glassy sea, and your hnnd on the ringing hnrp, nud your forehead chaplotod with eter nal coronation, nmid tho nmethystino nnd twelve gated glories of heaven? The emerald dashing its green ngainst the beryl, nnd tho beryl dashing its blue ! ngainst tho sapphire, and the sapphire throwing its light on tho JacinUi, nnd tho Jacinth dashing its lire ngainst tho chrysoprassus, nnd you and I standing in tho glories of ten thousand sunsets. Tlmt Third Tarty. The constant presence of a third per son nt the fireside nnd table is especially disastrous in tho earlier years of wed lock. Tho presenco of ono who is not "of ourselves" may often restrain what is worst in us; butnlas! it nlwuys re strains what is best. Thcro must nl ways be in tho most perfect unions nnd tho best ordered lives some little fric tion which will onco in a while find ex pression. Tiio gentle protest with which, if nlono with your husband, you would disarm his fractiousness dies in your throat becauso of the third per son. The loving caress with which you would close his lips nnd mako hhn ashamed of 'himself is us impossible to you ns if you wero paralyzed. If misunderstood, prido will not lot you explain, and you retort indignnnt ly, or at best keep silent with an nett ing heart, nnd in time you grow to hate tlmt third person, who may be an nngel of light, but who is none tho loss eating holes in your mnrringo garment. It may not be possible without neglect in;r a sacred duty to have your house entirely to yourself, but I chargo you, ns you valuo your mutual lovo and happiness, be intlexibio in your resolu tion to keep somo waking hours out of evory twenty-four when tho fireside shall bo sacred to you and your hus band; when you can toll each other your thoughts, your hopes and fears, with no stranger intermeddling with your joy. Mrs. P. T. Bnrnum in Ladies' Home Journal. A Successful Seance. Mr. Charles Bertram fairly outri valed himself in u private seanco given before Dr. Walsh, tho archbishop of Dublin. Bertram presented a pack of eurds to ilia graco, requesting him to draw one. "The card you havo drawn, your graco, said Bertram, "is Uio king of hearts." "No," replied tho archbishop, "it Is tho five of clubs." "Well," said Bertram, in nn aston ished tone, "it is the first timo I ever failed in that trick. Would you look nt tho card again?" Ills grace looked, nnd instead of the flvo of clubs ho saw a portrait of him solf. "I wasn't so much wrong after all," remarked Bertram gayly, "for surely your graco is the king of hearts hi Ire land." London Tit-Bits. How a Keptlle Trapi FUhes. There is n species of terrapin at the London Zoological e-nrdens wbtoli I. in tho fortunate position of not having to wont tor a living, uko the children In tho fairy talo. it has shnnlv tA r.n Its mouth and food will drop in. In tho mouUi of this reptile is a little tag of flesh which is In conUnuul vibration and nearly always visible, for tho creat ure remains open mouthed for hours together. It Is believed that the sight of tills Is particularly alluring to Uie piscine mind. Tho fish commits Uie vory pardonable though fatal error of mistaking tho process for a wriggling worm. In trying to take tho bait it it caught In tho trap and- swallowed. -London Tit-Bits. A Luxurious fellow. Messenger Boy Call, sir? Cadsby Scadds Ya-asw Just stop across Uie room there, and touch the electric button,' I want me valet-Puck, l'ropTCapeorrowa,4, Ar H, . . '""'I. ing extra euro of tin.? .i hi f. lends is ncccssarv. le i,. . itttii 8i.ou,u ne in u god, ro " "' kl.lll. Ir.iMf .!,... .. . VI Dot . ... . " "C )l tin light nor too dark. pL.,d gJJJ,1' ns" light as possible fur .., , " two weeks befnii. n "' " event Ifti nMinial Is already p,,,,!', r.ctity ot good, fruai! Wl - hav or straw nru ii..ii.. ..' ,!l 1'ilt amount of rout f .,;, ""iiisat)!e the bowels "I"-" MlowancMil glum iitu must ne tut down I much its inmsil.li. ic i. '1 ...!., i....l . . . i runs in a ptiitureniimv ,.. ., xl atiM runs in u pusture ninny of t,f8f " cautious nre not me led, excentfc ft iMIttlMfl fnl Li.nln.-1,. .. ', tion In feed rations. L Orditmrily tbe uniuml will into labor nud give birth In time, if not too tut, or if it j,,,! receiveu nny luternal IuIum I there should be any trouble In LI i.... uinfi. i. i . I...... ... i"'! ug ..w., .i ia uioi. u uuve (be jj, I vicpsoi u competent veterlnm,, ....., 'IM.lt. I.. i Vf v,..-. . i DU important (j,. many auinmls nnd their fc, are to be saved, if iutelll uuue is leiHieren ui once. ItijUi to form the acquaintance. ,L potent veterinary before lieW asu'weli-equipped scion title . i almost indispensable ut times, fes nny stock Is kept. Avoid all pttf. tious quacks, especially jgnir- ones, or bucli as piofess to lun, recipe for every ailment. It ghotj bo uorue in nana in all nnimnl or human, that nature fan, great ueuler, una niuiicinecun only chungo conditions slightly, j or accelerate developments or pw esses, wuicu in nature are nlreaij proceeding, au intelligent person who hns had experience villi tick cows or horses can give betteradnce than nny quuck, nnd sucba person should be culled in if a veterimrt uuiinuk ue unuuKeu. vutet, patience, common sense unci caretul nnrsiw uru u ijumiuL ui more vuiue than tit hands of the unskilled, or ty j urt'uouiugs ot urasuc drugs ail , cueiulculs. 'i no young delivered, nature tiS In most cases attend to & The diet must be kept! ligblfoufa days nud the bowels own. 1 cows a small quantity of flu ted, boiled up nud given with the masi for one or two days, will lieJp tbt animal to clean herself thorough!;, If she refuses to tnljet,ltBbouHU administered as n drench. As sim ple a wuy as any is to stir up a fev ouuees of flax-seed meal with watt! to the consistency of cream, whicl will net usa physlcand emeuagogue Great care should be exercised that tho animal not fail to dellvertbt afterbirth. If not delivered witbit twenty-four hours after, it must 1 removed, and u veterinary surjtoi should bejcalied. If there is tit-Isj the danger of blood-poisouiug, fev and death is very great. If ret tion of the afterbirth does not em death, its absorption into tbe tj tern of the utiiinal will destroy its usefulness for months if notentlrelr Wo consider these instruclioun essential that we have given Ihn in detail, us we believe if follmri great suffering nnd loss will tt averted, und wo know that nuij good and humaue people Ignoranty allow domestic unimtils to saflff f when human intelligence sboaM 1 come to thdr aid. CJ r CO 33K3E3 pTfi mmrti A S82?2?k i9l 3722Jte us:r."" 2S Dr. Clmrltto 1'. 1 twert, lnte Dr. Charles lM;wer,w land, bus passed hi" uw'-t ii itlon, rtcoivliiP' first PVj3 ihenuMlmal flail nttbe iii.!Ih1. .! Tholce In the l'tvfV nns s i iar uisappc. - f a,- tion will soon be refuted. W trip from Rev. " t y- great river n-lll he "'blli day. AliliomrU llw"'" , ohwd but n sh-rt '' , ascnmpareiwitho'' KCtRllt '" . ,.,pnl, " ope,, rive ' Aj CD Oi jcri m&. MnnnniMa m m SSSUBSSSi. I' 5&as V - JlkKitt3fr il.)jt--Mjs-