TAU1A0E ON THUCKEEDSi
ME GIVES HIS .OPINION'. IN ANSWER.
TO MANY QUESTIONS.
Himself Is the Chief Instigator ot
tlM Controversy Now Raging In Many
Cknrehes, and Earnest Work for Christ
la the Remedy.
BROOKLYN, June 14. Dr. Talmage .dealt
ia his sermon this morning with the very
tamely topic the Battle of Cret-ds After
ao long and exhaustive a discussion in
clerical circles and in the secular press
here seemed not li inn more to lie said on
the subject. ' Dr. Talmage, however. Iius
Ilia own way , of looking at ll subjects, and
even people who thought they knew all
that could he said on both sides received
light from the fresh ami original contrib'.i
tion which he made to the controversy
His text was taken from Proverbs jexvi. 1?
"He that passetb by and medd loth with
strife belonging not to him is like one that
taketh a dog by the ears." ' '
Solomon here deplores the habit of rush"
teg in between contestant!;, of taking part
fa the antagonisms of others; of joining in
fights which they ought to shun. They do
xto good toothers and get dutnage forthem
aebrea.: He compares it to 't he. experiment
of taking a dog by the ears Nothing so
'Irritates the canines as to be clutched by
the lags. Take them by the back of the
neck and lift them and it does not seem to
.Jart or offend; but .you take the dog by
' the ear, and he will take you with bin teeth.
In all the history of kennels uo intelligent
or spirited dog will stand that. 'Now.'
.aays Solomon, "'you' go ' into quarrels or
controversies that are not yours and you
will get lacerated and torn and bitten
-"H that passetb by and meddletb with
strife belonging not to him is like one that
taketh a dog by the ears." '
THIS IS THE AGK OF CONTROVERSY.
This is a time of resounding ecclesiastic
ai quarrel. Never within your memory or
nine has the air boen so full of missiles
The Presbyteriau church has on haud a
controversy so. great that it finds it pru
r dent to postpone its settlement for at, lenst
one more year, hoping that something will
tarn op. Someltody minut die or a new
general assembly may have grace tQ ban
4le the exciting questions. The Kpiscopal
church has cast out some recalcitrants; and
, its digestive organs are taxed to t he ut
.most in trying to assimilate others. "Shall
-women preach?" "Or be sent as delegates
to conferences?" are questions that have
IJUt many of our Methodist brethren on the
"anxious seat." And the waters' in some
of the great baptistries are troubled wa
ters. Because of the controversies through
-out Christendom the uir is now like an
August afternoon aliout 5 o'clock, when it
lias been steaming hot all day, and clouds
i are gathering, anl there are lions of tbun
-Ier with' grumbling voices and d.-ishing
eyes coming forth from t heir cloudy lairs,
and people are waiting for the full burst of
the tempest. I am not much of a weather
- 'prophet, but the clouds look to me mostly
like wind clouds It may be a big blow,
but I hope it will soon be over. In regard
to the Battle of the Creeds. I am-every -day
, sked what I think about it. I want to
make it so plain this morning what. I think
that no one will ever ask again.
Let those who are jurymen in the case
. I mean those who in the different ecclesi
astical courts have the questions put di
' lectly before them weigh and decide. Ijet
the rest of us ke-p out The most dam
Aging thing on eart h is religious coutro
ersy No one ever comes out of it as good
a man as he goes iu. Some of the miuisters
. in all denominations who before the pres
-est acerbity were good and kind and use
fal, now seem almost swearing mad.
i These brethren I notice always open their
violent meetings - with prayer before de
vturing each other, thus saying grace be
fore meat. They have a moral hydropho
bia that makes us tuinK tlipy have taken a
dog by the ears They never read the im
precatory Psalms of David with such zest
as since the Briggs and Newton and Mac
Vueary and Bridgmau and Brooks ques
tions got into full swing. May the rams of
Xhe sheepfold soon have their horns sawed
off! Before the controversies are settled a
. good many ministers will, through what
they call liberalism, lie landed into prac
tical infidelity, and others through whut
they call conservatism will shrink up into
bigots tight and bard as the mummies of
-Egypt which got through their contro
versies three thousand years ago.
SATAN STII1UEII IT DP.
This trouble throughout Christendom
was directly Inspired by Satan. He saw
that too much good was being done. lle
ruits were being gathered by hundreds of
thousands to the Gospel standard. Tuo
victories for God and the truth were too
Mar together. Too many churches were
being dedicated. Too many ministers were
being ordained. Too many philanthropies
. "'"were being fostered.. Too many son Is
were being saved, it had been a dull time
in the nether world, and the arrivals were
too few. So Satan one day rose upon his
throne and said, "Ye powers -of darkness,
hear!" And all up ami down the caverns
the cry was, "Hear! Head" Satan said:
""There is that American Board of Com
missioners for Foreign Missions. It must
ither be demolished or crippled, or the
. first thing you know they will have all
-nations brought to God Apollyon the
Younger! You go np to Andover and get
the professors to discussing whether the
' -J heathen can be saved without the Gospel.
Divert them from the work of missions
-and get them in angry convention in a
room at Young's hotel, Boston, and by the
time they adjourn the cause of foreign
missions will be gloriously and magnifi
cently injured. Diabolus the Younger!
You go up and get Union Theological
Seminary of New York and the general
assembly of the Presbyterian church at
Detroit at swords' points and diverted from
the work of making earnest ministers of
religion, and turn that old Presbyterian
church, which has been keeping us out of
customers for hundreds of yenrs, into a
-splendid pandemonium on a small scale.
Abaddon the Third! You go up and as
sault that old Episcopal church, which has
been storming the heavens for oentnries
v with the sublimest prayers that were ever
uttered church of Bishop Leigbton, Bish
op White and Bishop Mcllvaine, and get
that denomination discussing men instead
of discussing the eternities. Abaddon the
. BVnirthl You go up to that old Methodist
church, which has, through her revivals,
' sent millions to heaven which we would
otherwise have added to our population,
the church of Wesley and Matthew Simp
on, against which we have an especial
gradge, and get them so absorbed in dis
cussing whether women shall take part' in
her conference that they shall not have so
much time to discuss how many sons and
-daughters she will take to glory."
What amazes me most is that all people
do not see that the entire movement at this
time all over Christendom is satanic. Many
of the infernal attacks are sly and hidden
-and strategic and so ingenious that they
-are not easily discovered. But here is a
bold and uncovered attempt ot tha powers
of darkness, to sp)it.np the churches, to tret
ministers to take each other by the lhrn.it
to make religion a laughing stock of eart h
and hell, to leave the Bible -with no', more
respect or authenticity than an old alinan '.if
of 1822. which told what would be i he'
change of weather six. months ahead and
in what quarter of the month it is best to
plant turnips. In a word,' the. effort is in
stop the evangelization of the world. Ii
seems to me very much like this. There
has lieeu a railroad accident and many are
wounded anil dying There are several
drng storeR near the scene of casualty. All
the doctors and druggists are needed and
needed right away. Bandages, stimulants,
anaesthetics, medicines of all sorts. What
are the doctors and druggists doing? Dis
cussing the contents of some old bottles ou
the top shelf, bottles of . medicine which
some doctors and druggists mixed two or
three hundred years ago "Come doctors!'
"Come druggists!" cry the people, "and
help these wounded .and dying -that are
being brought from beneath the timbers of
the crushed rail train tn a little while it
will be too late. Come for God's sake'
Come right away!'" ."No," says the doctor,
"dot- until we have settled whether the
medicine on that top shelf was rightly
mixed.' 1' say there were too many drops
of laudanum in it, and this other man says
there were.t.xi many drops of camphire
and we must get this question settled be
fore we can attend to the railroad accident."
DOCTOKS llISPdTK WHILE PATIENTS DIE
And one doctor takes another doctor by
the collar and pushes him back against the
counter, and one of the druggists says, "'If
you will not admit that I am right about
that one bottle 1 will smash every bottle in
your apothecary store" and be proceeds to
-smash Meanwhile, on the lower shelf,
plainly marked and within easy reach arc
all the medicines needed for the helping of
the sufferers by the accident, and in that
drawer, easily opened, are baudages and
splints for the lack' of which fifty people
are dying outside the drug store. Before I
apply this thought every one sees its appli
cation Here is this old world, and it is oil
track. . Sin and sorrow have collided with
it The groan of agony is fourteen huu
dred million voiced. God has.-opened for
reli"f and cure a great sanitarium, a great
bouse of mercy, and all its shelves are
filled with balsams, with catholicous, with
help ylorious help, tremendous help, help
so easily administered that you need not
get upon any step ladder to reach it. You
can reach it on your. knees and then band
it to all the suffering, and the sinning, and
the dying. Comfort for all the troubled!
Pardon for all- the guilty! Peace for all
the dying! But. while the world is needing
the reuef and perishing for lack of it, what
of the church? Why, it is full of fight.ng
doctors. On the top shelf are some old
bottles, which several - hundred years ago
Calvin or Armiuius, or the members of the
synod of Don, or the .formers of the Niceue
creed filled with holy mixtures, ami until
we get a revision of these old bottles and
find out whether we must take a teaspoon
fill or tablespoon fu I, and whether before
or after meals, let the nations suffer au-J
groan and die. Save the bottles by ail
means, if yon cannot save anything else.
Now. what 'jmrt shall yon and I take iu
.this controversy which tills all Chrisieu
dom with ciangor? My advice is, take no
part. In time of riot all mayors of cities
advise good citizens to stay at home or in
their places of business, and in this time of
religious riot I advise you to go about your
regular work for God Leave the bottles
on the higher shelves for others to tight
about! and take t he two bottles on the shelf
within easy reach, the two liottles which
are all this dying world needs; the one
filled with a potion which is for t he cleans
ing of ail sin, the oilier filled with a o
tion which is for the soothing of all sulier
ing Two gospel bottles! Christ mixed
them out of bis own tears and blood. In
them is no human admixture. Spend uo
time on the mysteries! You, a man only
five or six feet hih, ought not try to wade
au ocean a thousand feet deep. My own
experience has been vivid. 1, devoted the
most of my time for years iu trying to un
derstand God's eternal decrees, and I was
determined to find out why the Lord let
sin come into the world, and I set out to
explore the doctrine of the Trinity, and
with a yardstick to measure the throne of
the Infinite. As with all my predecessors,
the attempt was a dead failure. . For the
last thirty years I have not spent two
minutes in studying the controverted
points of theology, and if I live thirty
years longer I will not spend the thousandth
part of a second in such exploration. I
know two things, and these I will devote
al. the years of my life iu proclaiming
God will through Jesus Christ pardon sin.
and he will comfort trouble.
K.KEP OCT OF THE SQUABBLE.
Creeds have their uses, but just now the
church is creeded to death. The young
men entering the ministry are going to be
launched iu the thickest fog that ever set
tled on the coasts. As 1 aiu told that in all
our services students of Princeton and Un
ion and Drew and other theological semi
naries are present,. and as these words will
eome to thousands of young men who are
soon to enter the ' ministry, let me say to
snch and through them to their associates,
keep out of the bewildering, belittling, de
stroying and angry controversies abroad.
The questions our doctors of divinity are
trying to settle will not be settled until the
day after the day of judgment. It is such
a poor economy of time to spend years and
years in tryiug to fathom the unfathoma
ble, when in five minutes in heaven we will
know all we want to know. Wait till we
get Our throne Wait until the light of
eternity flashes, upon car newly ascended
spirits. It is useless for ants on different
ides of a mole hill to try to discuss the com
para i ve heights of Mount Blanc and Mount
Washington. Let me say to all young men
about to enter the ministry that soon the
greatest novelty in the world will be. the
unadulterated religion of. Jesus Christ.
Preach that and you will have a crowd.
The world is sick to regurgitation with the
modern quacks in religion. The world has
been swinging off from the old Gospel, but
it will swing back, and by the time you
young men go into the pulpits I lie cry will
be coming up from all the millions of man
kind, "Give us the bread of life; no sweet
ened bread, no bread with sickly raisins
stuck here aud there into it, but old fash
ioned bread as God our mother mixed it
and baked it!" -
. Yon see, God knew as much when be
made the Bible as he knows now. He has
not learned a single thing in six thousand
years. He knew at the start that the ha
man race would go wrong and what would
be the best means of its restoration and re
demption. And the taw which was tbun
dered on Mount Sinai, from whose top I
had the two tables of stone in yonder wall
transported, is the perfect law. And the
Gospel which Christ announced while dy
ing on that mount from which I brought
that stone in yonder wall, and which Pan!
preached on that hill from which I brought
yonder granite, is the Gospel that. is going
to save the world. Young man, put on
that Gosfel armor! No other sword will
trinmph like t&at. No other shield will
protect Uke Uutt. No other helmet will
glance off the battle axes like that. Our
theological seminaries are doing glorious
work-, but.if ever such theological semina
ries shall cease to prepare young men for
this plain Gospel advocacy and shall be
come mere philosophical schools for guess
ing about "God-and guessing about-the
Bible and guessing about the. soul, they
will cease their usefulness, . and young
men, as in olden time, when they would
study for the Gospel -ministry, will put
themselves under the care of some intelli
gent and warm hearf-d pastor and kneel
with him in family prayer at the parson
age. aul go with him into the room of the
sick and the dying, and see what victories
the grace of God can gain when the conch
of the dying saint is the marathon. -VITAL
RELIGION IS THE REMEDY.
That is the way the mighty ministers of
the Gospel were made in olden times. Oh,
for a great wave of revival to roll over our
theological seminaries and our pulpits and
our churches aud our ecclesiastical courts,
and over all Christendom! That would be
i the end of controversy. While such a del-,
j age would float the ark of God higher and
I higher, it would put all the bears and
i -tigers and reptiles of raging ecclesiasticism
fifteen cubits under
Now. what is the simple fact that you in
the pew and Sabbath achool class and re
formatory association and we in the pul
pits have to deal with? It is this: That God
has somewhere, and it matters not where,
but somewhere, provided- a great heaven,
great for quietness for those who want
quiet, great for Vast assemblage for those
who like multitudes; great for architecture,
for those who like architecture; great for
beautiful - landscape for those who like
beautiful landscape; great for music for
those who. like music; great for processions
for those who like armies on white horses,
and great for anythiug that one especially
desires in such a rapturous dominion; and
through the doings of one who was born
about five miles south of Jerusalem and
dieil about ten minutes' walk from its east
ern gate all may enter that great heaven
for the earliest aud heartfelt usking Is
that ail? That is all. What, then, is your
work and mine? Our work is to persuade
people to face that way and start thither
ward aud finally go in. But has- not reli
gion something to do with this world as
well as the next? Oh, yes; but do you not
see that if the people start for heaven on
their way there they will do all the good
they can? They will at the very start of
the journey get so much of the spirit of
Christ, which is a spirit of kindness and
self sacrifice and gcuerosity and burden
bearing and helpfulness, that every step
they take .will resound with good deeds.
Oh, get your religion off of stilts! Get it
down out of the high towers! Get it on a
level with the wants aud woes of our poor
human race! Get it out of the dusty theo
logical books that few people read, and put
it in their hearts and lives. Good thing is
it to profess religion when you join the
church, but every day, somehow, we ought
to profess religion.
A peculiar patchwork quilt was, during
the civil war, made by a lady and sent to
the hof, pi tals at the front. She had a boy
in the army, and was naturally interested
in the welfare of soldiers. But what a
patchwork quilt she sent! On every block
of the quilt was a passage of Scripture or a
verse of a hymn. .The months and years of
the war went by. On that quilt many a
wounded man had lain and suffered and
died. But one morning the hospital nurse
saw a patient under that blanket kissing
the figure of a leaf in the quilt, and the
nurse supposed he was only wandering in
bis tnind. But no; he was the son of the
mother who had made the quilt and he
recognized that figure of a leaf as part of a
gown his mother used to wear, aud it re
minded him of home. "Do you know where
this quilt came from?" he asked. The nurse
answered, "1 can find out, for there was a
card pinned fast to it, and I will find that."
Sure enough, it confirmed what he thought.
Then the nurse pointed to a passage of
Scripture in the block of the quilt, the
passage which says, '"When he was yet a
great way off his father saw him and ran
and fell on his neck and kissed him."
"Yes," said the dying soldier, "I was a
great way off, but God has met me and had
compassion ou me." "Shall I write to your
mother and tell her that the lost one is
found and the dead is alive again?" He
answered, "I wish you would, if it would
not lie too much trouble.'"' Do you sup
pose that woman who made that quilt and
filled it with Scripture passai;:is had any
trouble about who Mulchizedek was, or
how the doctrine of God's sovereignty can
be harmonized with man's free agency, or
who wrote the Pentateuch or the incon
sistencies of the Nicene creed? No, no; go
to work for God and suffering humanity
and all your doubts and fears and mysteries
and unbeliefs put together will not be heavy
enough to stir the chemist's scales, which
is accustomed to weighing one-fiftieth part
of a grain of chamomile flowers. Why stop
a moment to understand the mysteries
when there are so mauy certitudes? Why
spend our time exploring the dark garrets
and coal boles of a great palace which has
above ground one hundred rooms flooded
with sunshine? .It takes all my time to
absorb what has been revealed, so that I
have no time to upturn and root out and
drag forth what has not been revealed.
The most of the effort to solve mysteries
and explore the inexplicable and harmonize
things is an attempt to help the Lord out
; of theological difficulties. Good enough in
; tention, my brother, no doubt; but the Lord
I is not anxious to have you help him. He
j will keep his throne without your ass is t
: ance. Don't be afraid that the Bible will
I fall apart from inconsistencies. It hong
i together many centuries before you were
i. born, and your funeral sermon will be
preached from a text taken from its undis
turbed authenticity.
LAY BOLD ON OOD'8 WORD.
Do you kuow that I think that if all
ministers in all denominations would stop
this nonsense of ecclesiastical strife and
take hold the word of God, the only ques
tion with each of us being how many souls
we cau bring to Christ and in how short a
time,. the Lord would soon appear for the
salvation of all nations? When the young
queen of England visited Scotl.tnd many
years ago great preparations were made
for her reception. The vessel in which she
Bailed was far out at sea, but every hill in
Scotland was illumined with bonfires and
torches. The uigbi was set on fire with ar
tittcial illumination. The queen, standing
on ship's deck, knew from that that Scot
land was full of heartiest welcome, and the
thunder of the great guns at Glasgow and
Edinburgh castle woke np all the echoes.
Boom! they sounded out over the sea,
Booml tbey sounded up among the hills.
Do you know that i think that, uar King
would land if we were only ready to receive
him? Why not call to him from all our
churches, from all our hospitals, from all
our homes? Why not all at once light all
the torches of Gospel invitation? Why not
ring all the bells of welcome? - Why not
light np the long night of the world's sin
and suffering with bonfires of victory?
Why not unlimber all tbe Gospel batteries
and let them boom across the earth, and
boom into the parting heavens. Tbe King
is ready to land if we are read? to receive '
him. . Why cannot wo who are now living
see his desceat? M.tst it all be postponed
to later ages? Has not onr poor world
groaned long 'enough in mortal agonies
Have there uot been martyrs enough, acd
have not the lakes of tears and the rivers
of blood been deep enough? Why cannot
the final glory roll in now? Why cannot
this dying century feel the incoming tides
of the. oceans of heavenly mercy? Must
our eyes close in death and our ears take
on the deafness of the tomb, and these
hearts beat their last throb before- the day
comes in? O Christ! Why tarriest thou?
Wilt thou uot, before we go the way of all
the earth, let us see thy scarred feet under
some noonday cloud coining this way? Be
fore we die let us behold thy bands that
were spiked, spread out in benediction for
a lost race. And why not let us, with our
mortal ears; bear that voice which spoke
peace as thou didst go up, speak pardon
and emancipation and love and holiness
and joy to all nationsas thou contest down?
Bui tbe s.kies do not , part I hear no
rumbling of chariot wheels oomjngdown
over the sapphire. There is no swoop of
wings I see uo flash of anyeiic appear
ancas All is still. I hear dothing but the
tramp of my own heart as I pause between
these utu-ruiices. .The king does not land
because t he world is not ready, and the
church is nol ready To clear the way for
the lord's coming let us devote all our en
ergies of iHirly, mind and soul. A Russian
general riding over the battlefield, his horse
treading amid the dying and dead, a wound
ed soldier asked bun for- water, but the
officer did uot understand his language
and knew not what the poor fellow wanted.
Then the sol:! ier cried out "Christos," and
that word meant sympathy and help, and
the Russian olficer dismounted and put to
tbe lips of the sufferer a cooling draught.
Be that the charmed word with which we
go forth to do our whole duty;' In many
languages it has only a little difference of
termination. Christos! It stands for sym
pathy It stands for help . It stands for
pardon. It stands for hope. It stands for
heaven. Christos! In that name We were
baptized. In that name we took our first
sacrament. That will lie the battle shout
that will wiu the whole world for God!
Christos! Put it on our banners when we
march! Put it on our lips when we die!
Put it in lbs funeral psalm at. our obse
quies! Put it on the plain slab over our
grave! Christos! Blessed be his glorious
name forever! Amen! -
Great Men versus Cliange of Name.
I notice the revival of the old story of the
change j-ouuk John Rowland made in bin
name and fortune when he substituted his
Rowland with Stanley, aud dropped John
for I.le.ury M., being now known to the
world as the great African explorer. This
reminds me that several of the great men
known to science, literature, war and art
were originally known by names almost
wholly unkuowu to the world at large.
Henry Wilson, vice president under
Grant, was christened as Henry Colbath,
and w;ts known by that name until after
the end of his nineteenth year.
By a curious coincidence U. S. Grant,
who was president at tbe time Wilson was
vice, as above mentioned, was also a hero
with a changed name. Prior to young
Grant's eighteenth birthday "U. S. Grant"
was a term unknown even in the embryo
general's family. "H. U. Grant" would
sound odd if written ou tbe pages of his
tory, but. in fact, would be perfectly
proper. The great general was christened
Hiram Ulysses Graut, and by the name of
Hiram or "Hi" was known to all his school
fellows..
Hon. T. L. Harmer, au ex-member of
congress, is responsible for "U. S." Grant
being thrust upon the world. It came
about iu this way: When the name of the
aspiring younv-'aau was sent in as candi
date to West Stint. by some oversight on
the part of Mr. Harmer it was sent as "U.
S." in place of "H. U." Grant "U. S."
Grant was appoi nted. When he graduated
in 1818 bis commission and diploma were
both made out to "U. S." Grant, therefore
he was forced to ace:;t the inevitable.
Julis Grevy, so well known as tbe late
presiaenc of the French republic, is neither
"Jules" nor "Grovy." but Judith Fancoir
Paul Greviot. '
Frank leslie was plain Henry Carter
until after he was twenty -seven years old,
adopting the new name on his arrival in
America. St. Louis Republic.
The Key to Victory In War.
No inventions, no changes iu arms, can
alter the maxims of strategy. These are
immutable Their use depends on the
character of the captains. But tactics
change with inventions in firearms. The
maneuvers of the battlefield must depend
upon the weapons of tbe enemy, upon tbe
danger zones of his fire. From close we
have gone to open order, only to find that
scattered groups are apt to weaken dis
cipline; and today more than ever before
we nved morale and cobesiveness on the
battlefield.
That commander who, despite the fear
ful decimation of modern artillery and
small arms, can keep his battalions the
longest in heart, will wiu the day. Many
intelligent essays are published to prove
this or the ot her system to be the one to
govern the maneuvers of the coming bat
tlefield, but in troth no one knows or can
argue out what is to be. A theory sound
today is discarded tomorrow. But a few
facts are patent. Reliance can be placed
only on a strictly national army.
That nation tbe breasts of whose citizens
are bared for ber defense with honest pa
triotism, and which baa leaders who leave
no stone unturned to keep abreast of war,
will remain the strongest. No nation, in
the present condition of armed expectancy
which pervades all Europe, will, by better
arms or more recent invent'.sna, be able to
dispense with this foundation. The rule
held good in the days of the burgess soldier
of Koine. It holds good now. Colonel T.
A- Dodge in Forum.
Praying Away a Plag-ne. -
A regular lawsuit with creatures obnox
ious and hurtful was a common procedure
until the Eighteenth century. In 1338 an
immense inroad of grasshoppers came from
Asia into middle Europe. Austria and
Italy suffered most. Everything was eaten
np. The swarms seem to have been about
as thick and destructive as those in Kansas
in 1874. The people used all possible de
vices against the eggs and the insects. Id
despair they took to prayer and the priests.
The following judgment was pronounced:
"As grasshoppers are obnoxious to the
country and to men, be it resolved by the
court that the priest shall, by candles burn
ing from tbe pulpit, condemn them iu the
name of God, of his Son, and of tbe Holy
Ghost."
As all such creatures have tbeir natural
cycle of development, and pass away at the
end of it, it is likely that some one's male
dictions bit it at the right moment. But
the trouble was that when expelled pre
te mat u rally tbey must go to some other
land to be an equally bad curse. This
struck upon the conscience of some, and
they refused to join in prayers to any such
end. Mary E. Speucer in St, Louis Globe-Democrat.
Tie Dalles
is here and has come to stay. It hopes
to win its way to public favor by ener
gy, industry and merit; and to this end
we ask that- you give it a fair trial, and
if satisfied with its course a generous
support.
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THE DALLES.
The Gate City of the Inland Empire is situated at
the head of navigation on the Middle Columbia, and
is a thriving, prosperous city.
ITS TERRITORY.
It is the supply city for an extensive and rich agri
cultural an grazing country, its trade reaching as
far south as Summer Lake, a distance of over twe
hundred miles.
THE LARGEST WOOL MARKET.
The rich grazing country along the eastern slope
of the the Cascades furnishes pasture for thousands
of sheep, the -wool from -which finds market here.
The Dalles is the largest original -wool shipping
point in America, about 5,000,000 pounds being
shipped last year.
ITS PRODUCTS.
The salmon fisheries are the finest on the Columbia,
yielding this year a revenue of $1,500,000 which can
and -will be more than doubled in the near future.
The products of the beautiful Klickital vaUey find
market here, and the country south and east has this
year filled the -warehouses, and- all available storage
places to overflo-wing -with their products.
ITS WEALTH
It is the richest city of its size on the coast, and its
money is scattered over and is being used to develop,
more farming country than is tributary to any other
city in Eastern Oregon.
Its situation is unsurpassed! Its climate delight
ful! Its possibilities incalculable! Its resources un?
limited! And on these corner stones she stands.
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