TALMAGE IN WISCONSIN. ! J CHRISTIANS SHOULD SEIZE. THEIR PRESENT OPPORTUNITY. Svery Place .Way Now Be a Pulpit, Kvery Workshop, Grovel Pit, Farm or Railroad Train Every Cbrlsttan May Now Do . Something for Clirlnt. Madison, July 2U. ttev. Dr. Talmaga preaclied this morning at a Chautauqua assembly on the banks of Monona lake, n$ar this city. It is a great gathering of people from all parts of the northwest. His text was Esther iv, 14, "Who knowetb whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" Esther the Beautiful was the wife oi Ahasuerus the Abominable. The time harZ come for her to present a petition to her in famous husband in behalf of the Israelitish nation, to which she had once belonged. She was afraid to undertake the work lest she should lose her own life; but her ancle, Mordecai. who had brought her up, encouraged her with the suggestion that probably she had been raised up of God for that peculiar mission. "Who knowetb. whether thon art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" Esther had her God appointed work; you and I have ours. It is my business to tell you what style of people we ought to be in order that we may meet the demand of the age in which God has c&ci our lot. If you have come expecting to hear abstractions discussed or dry technicalities of religion glorified, you have come to the wrong plufce; but if you really would ' like to know what this age has a right to expect of you as Chris tian men and women, then I am ready in the Lord's name to look you In the face. When two armies have rushed into bat tle the officers of either army do not want philosophical discussion about the chemi cal properties of human blood or the na ture of gunpowder. They want some one to lima the batteries and swab out the guns. And now, when all the forces of light and darkness, of heaven and hell have plunged into the fight, it is no time to give ourselves to the definitions ant! formulas and technicalities and conven tionalities of religion. What we want is practical, earnest, concentrated, enthusias tic and triumphant help. What we need in the east yon in Wisconsin need. In the first place, in order to meet the special demand of this age, you need to be an unmistakably aggressive Christian. Of half and half Christians we do not want : any more. The church of Jesus Christ will be better without ten thousand of them. They are the chief obstacle to the church's advancement. I am speaking of another kind of Christian. All the appli ances for your becoming an earnest Chris tian are at your hand, and there is a straight path for. you into the broad daylight of God's forgiveness. You may have come here today the bondsmen of the world, and yet before you go out of these doors you may become the princes of the Lord God Almighty. Vou know what excitement there is in this country when a foreign prince comes to our shores. Why? Because it is expected that some day he will sit upon a throne. . But what is all that honor compared with the honor to which God calls you to be sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty; yea, to be queens and kings unto God! "They shall reign with him forever and forever." A HEALTHY OPEN AIU FAITH. But, my friends, you need hot be aggres sive Christians, and not like those persons who spend their lives in huggiDg . their Christian graces and wondering why they do not make any progress. How much ro- bustness of health would a man have if he hid himself in a dark closet? A great deal of piety of the day is too exclusive. It hides itself. It needs more fresh air, more outdoor exercise. There are many Chris tians who are giving their entire life to self examination. They are feeling their pnlses to see what is the condition of their spiritual health. How long would a man have robust physical health if he kept all the days and weeks and months and years of his life feeling his pulse instead of going out into active, earnest, everyday work? I was once amid the wonderful, bewitch ing cactus growths of North Carolina. I never was more bewildered with the beauty of (lowers, and yet when I would take up one of these cactuses and pnll the leaves apart, the beauty was all gone. Vou could hardly tell that it had ever been a flower. And there are a great many Christian peo- pie in this day just pulling apart their Christian experiences to see what there is in them, and there is nothing attractive left. This style of self examination is a damage instead of an advantage to their Christian character. I remember when I was a boy I used to have a small piece in the garden that I called my own, and I planted corn there, and every few days I would pull it up to see how fast it was growing. Now, there are a great many Christian people in this day whose self ex amination merely amounts to the pulling up of that which they only yesterday or the day before planted. - Ob, my friends! if you want to have a stal wart Christian character, plant it right out of doors in the great field of Christian use- ' fulness, and though storms may come upon it, and though the hot sun of trial may try to consume it, it will thrive until it becomes a great tree, in which the fowls of heaven may have their habitation. 1 have no patience with these flowerpot . Christians. They keep themselves under shelter, and all their Christian experience in a small, exclusive circle, when they ought to plant it in the great garden of the Lord, so that the whole atmosphere could be aromatic with their Christian useful- ness. What we want in the church of God is more brawn of piety. The century plant is wonderfully sug gestive and wonderfully beautiful, but I never look at it without thinking of its parsimony. . It lets whole generations go by before it puts forth one blossom; so I have really more heartfelt admiration when I see the dewy tears in tba blue eyes of the violets, for they coine evary spring. My Christian friends, time is going by so raipdly that we cannot afford to be idle. A recent statistician says that human life now has an average of only thirty-two years. From these thirty-two years you must subtract all the time you take for sleep and the taking of food and recrea tion; that will leave you about sixteen years. From those sixteen years yon must subtract all the time you are necessarily engaged in the earning of a livelihood; that will leave you about eight years. From those eight years you must take all the days and weeks and months all the length of time that is passed in childhood and sickness, leaving you about one year in which to work for God. Oh. my soul, wake upl How darest thou sleep in har vest time and with' so few hours in which to reap? - So that I state it as a simple fact that all the time that the vast majority of you wiii have for the exclusive service of God will be less than one year! GO OCT ANI COMPEL THKM. "But." says some man, 'l liberally sup . .-port the Gospel, and the church is open Sf fflg SSSKSySiSS if they want to be saved let them come to be saved: I have discharged all my respon sibility." Ah I is that the Master's spirit? Is there not an old Book somewhere that commands us to go out into the highways and the hedges and compel the people to come in ? What would have become of you and me if Christ had not come down off the hills of heaven, and if he had not come through the door of the Bethlehem cara vansary, and if he had not with the crashed hand of the crucifixion knocked at the iron gate of the sepulcher of our spiritual death, crying, "Lazarus, come forth?" Oh, my Christian friends, this is no time for inertia, when all the forces of darkness seem to be in full blast; when steam print ing presses are publishing infidel tracts; when express railroad trains are carrying messengers o sin; when fast clippers are laden with opium and rum; when the night air of our cites is polluted with the laugh ter that breaks up from the ten thousand saloons of dissipation and abandonment; when the flres'of the second death already are kindled in the cheeks of some who only a little while, ago were incorrupt. Never since the curse fell upon the earth has there been a time when it was such an unwise, such a cruel, snch an awful thing for the church to sleepl The great audi ences are not gathered in the Christian churches; the great audiences are gathered in temples of sin tears of unutterable woe their baptism, the blood of crushed hearts the awful wine of their sacrament, blas phemies their litany, and the groans of the lost world the organ dirge of their worship. Again; if you want to be qualified to meet the duties which this age demands of you, you must on the one. hand avoid reck less iconoclasm, and on the other hand not stick too much to things because they are old. The air is full of new plans, new projects, new theories of government, new theologies, and I am amazed to see how so many Christians want only novelty in order to recommend a thing to their confi dence; and so they vacillate and swing to and fro, and they are useless and they are unhappy. New ' plans secular, ethical,. philosophical, religious, cisatlantic, trans atlantic. Ah, my brother, do not adopt a thing merely because it is new. Try it by the realities of a judgment day. But, on the other hand, do not adhere to anything merely because it is old. There is not a single enterprise of the church or the world but has sometimes been scoffed at. There was a time when men derided even Bible societies; and when a few young men met near a haystack in Massachusetts and organized the first missionary society ever organized in this country: there went laughter and ridicule all around the Chris tian church. They said the undertaking was Drenosterous. And so also the work of Jesus Christ was assailed. People cried out, "Whoever heard of such theories of ethics and gov ernment? Whoever noticed such a style of preaching as Jesus has?" Kzekiel had talked of mysterious wings and wheels. Here came a man from Capernaum and Gennesaret, and he drew his illustrations from the lakes, from the sand, from the ravine, from the lilies, from the constalks. How the Pharisees "scoffed! How Herod derided! How Caiphas hissed! And this Jesus they plucked by the beard, and they spat in his face, and they called him "this fellow!" All the great enterprises in and out of the church have at times been scoffed at, and there have been a great multitude who have thought that the chariot of God's truth would fall to pieces if it once got out of the old rut. ' MILLIONS NEVER HEAR THE GOSPEL. And so there are those who have no pa tience with anything like improvement in church architecture or with anything like good, hearty, earnest church Ringing, and they deride any form of religious discussion which goes down walking among everyday men rather than that which makes an ex cursion on rhetorical stilts. Oh, that the Church of God would wake up to an adapt ability of work! We must admit the sim ple fact that the churches of Jesus Christ in this day do not reach the great masses. There are fifty thousand people in Edin burgh, who never hear the Gospel. There are one million people in London who never hear the Gospel. There are at least three hundred thousand souls in the city of Brooklyn who come not under the im mediate ministrations of Christ's truth, and the Church of God in this day, instead of being a place full of living epistles, read and known of all men, is more like a "dead letter" postofflce. "But," say the people, "the world is go ing to be converted. You must be patient. The kingdoms of this world are to become the kingdoms of Christ." Never, unless the church of Jesus Christ puts on more speed and energy. Instead of the church converting the world, the world is convert ing the church. Here is a great fortress. How shall it be taken? An army comes and sits around about it, cuts 09 the sup plies and says, "Now we will just wait un til from exhaustion and starvation they will have to give up." - Weeks and months, and perhaps a year, pass along, and finally the fortress surrenders through that star vation and exhaustion. But, my friends. the fortresses of sin are never to be taken in that way. If they are taken for God it will be by storm. You will have to bring up the great siege guns of the Gospel to the very wall, and wheel the flying artillery into line, and when the armed infantry of heaven shall confront the battlements you will have to give the quick command: "Forward! Charge!" Ah, my friends, there is work for you to do and for me to do in order to achieve this grand accomplishment! Here is a pulpit. and a clergyman preaches in it. Your pulpit is the bank. Your pulpit is the store. Your pulpit is the editorial chair. Your pulpit is the anviL Your pulpit is the house scaffolding. Your pulpit is the mechanic's shop. . I may stand in this place and, through cowardice or through self seeking, may keep back the word I ought to utter; while you, with sleeve rolled up and brow besweated with toil, may utter the word that will jar the foundation of heaven with the shout of a great victory. Oh, that to-' day this whole audience might feel that the Lord Almighty is putting upon them the hands of ordination. Every one,' go forth and preach this gospel. Yon have as much right to preach as I have, or as any man has. Only find out the pulpit where God will have you preach, and there preach. Hedley Vicars was a wicked man in the English army. The grace of God came to bim. He became an earnest and eminent Christian. They scoffed at-him and saidt "You are a hypocrite; yon are as bad as ever you were." Still be kept his faith in Christ, and after awhile, finding that they could not turn him aside by calling him hypocrite,' they said to him, "Ob, you are nothing but a fanatic." That did not dis turb him. He went on performing his r!hriKtinn dntv nnt.ll ha had formed all his tmnn into a Bible class, and the whole en pjimnmrnt wax shaken with the nresenceol God. So Havelock went into the heathen tomnleiri India while the Emrlish . armv was there, and put a candle into the hand of each of the heathen cods that stood around in the heathen temple, and by the lit of those candles, held up by the Idols, General Havelock preached righteousness. temperance and judgment to come. And who will say, on earth or in heaven, that Havelock had not the right to preach? THE MOVING PRAYEK OF FAITH. ' In the minister's house where I prepared for college there, was a man who worked by the name of Peter Croy. He 'could neither read nor write, but he was . a man of God. Often theologians would stop in the house grave theologians and at family prayers Peter Croy would be tailed upon to lead, and all those wise men sat around, wonderstrnck at his religious efficiency. When he prayed he reached up and seemed to take hold of the very throne of the Almighty, and he talked with God until the very heavens were bowed down into the sitting room. Oh, if I were dying 1 would rather have plain Peter Croy kneel by my bedside and commend my immortal spirit to God than some heartless ecclesi astic arrayed : in costly canonicals. - Go preach this gospel. You say you are not licensed. In the name of the Lord Al mighty, this morning, I license you. Go preach this gospel preach it in the Sab bath schools, in the prayer meetings, in the highways, in. the hedges. Woe be unto you if you preach it not. . I remark, again, that in order to be qualified to meet your duty in this partic ular age you want unbounded faith in the triumph of the truth and the overthrow of wickedness. How dare the Christian church ever get discouraged? Have we not the Lord Almighty on our side? How long did it take God to slay the hosts of -Sennacherib or burn Sodom or shake down Jericho?. How long will it take God,,when he once arises in his strength, to overthrow all the forces of iniquity? Between this time and that there may be long seasons of darkness the chariot wheels of God's Gos pel may seem to drag heavily, but here is the promise, and yonder is the throne; and when Ominiscience has lost its eyesight and Omnipotence falls back impotent and Jehovah is driven from his throne, then the church of Jesus Christ can afford to be despondent, but never until then. Despots may plan and armies may march, and the congresses of the nation may seem to think Ihsy are adjusting all the affairs of the world, but the mighty men of the earth are only the dust of the chariot wheels of God's providence. . I think that before the sun of ' this cen tury shall set, the last tyranny may fall, and with a splendor of demonstration that shall be the astonishment of the. universe Cod will set forth the brightness and pomp and glory and perpetuity of his eternal government. Out of the starry flags and the emblazoned insignia of this world God will make a path for his own triumph, and returning from universal conquest he will sit down, the grandest, strongest, highest throne of earth his footstool. Then shall all nations' song ascend To Thee, our Ruler, Father, Friend, ' Till heaven's high arch resounds again With "Peace on earth, good will to men," THERE IS GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT. I preach this sermon because I want to encourage all Christian workers in every possible department. Hosts of the living God, march on! march on! His spirit will bless you. His shield will defend you. His sword will strike for you. March on! march on! The last despotism " will fall, and paganism will burn its idols, and Mo hammedanism will give up its false proph et and the great walls of superstition will come down in thunder and wreck at the long, loud blast of the Gospel trumpet. March on! March on! The besiegement will soon be ended. Only a few more steps on the long way; only a few more sturdy blows; only a few more battle cries, then God will put the laurel upon your brow, and from the living fountains' of heaven will bathe off the sweat and the heat and t he dust of the conflict. -' March on! March on! For you the time for work will soon be past, and amid the oat flashings of the judgment throne and the trumpeting of resurrection angels and the upheaving of a world of graves and the hosanna of the saved and the groaning of the lost, we shall be rewarded for our faithfulness or punishea for our stupidity. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting 'to everlasting, and let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and amen. People Who Can't Get a Pas. An Interesting monthly publication which can't be bought at any price, but would make mighty interesting reading for a' good many folks, has just reached its fortieth number. It is issued "for the ex clusive use of those persons to whom it is sent." and lest anybody else should get hold of a copy and begin a libel suit the publisher has omitted to subscribe his name and address. This publication is called the "Confidential Memorandum,1 and it is issued by the railroads for their own use. It contains the ' names of per sons blacklisted for misusing ' pass privi leges. Nineteen of its pages are devoted to blacklisted individuals and seven pages to the names of papers which have violated good faith in the matter of passes. The papers on the list are all weeklies, and in clude many trade papers and one or two of religious complexion. The "Confidential Memorandum" does not mince words. ' It describes a certain theatrical agent as a "d. b. first water," and boldly calls a citizen of Houston fraud." There are numerous Clergymen on this black list.. There is one from St, Francis, Minn., who" got there because he altered and loaned the half fare- permits given him by a railroad. Another clergy man, this one from Santa Fe, is x-harced with altering his permit so as to" include his wife, and a former memberofeongress got on the list for . loaning his -pass, a fate shared by a member of the Ohio legislature") for a similar reason. A Missouri clergy man transferred his pass to another, and businessman of Wichita, Kan.; is on the list, charged with trying to personate passbolder. None of these gentlemen will ever get more favors from - any railroad in the country. New York bun. . ; . , Found Something to Admire. ' Marshall P. Wilder is telling Londoners this rather good story about a Hebrew who climbed up two flights of stairs to room where Jones & Brown had set up bankrupt sale of gloves.- The gloves had been marked down to $1.50 a pair, Jones was present. . "Give you -seventy-five cents," said Moses. "No? Call it a dollar? No? Dollar ten? No? ' Now we'll be reasonable; call it one fifteen?" , ; "No, Biree!" exclaimed Jones thoroughly exasperated. "Not a cent less than- $1.50. Get out!" and he seized the Hebrew cus tomer and fired bim down stairs. . . It so happened that Brown was coming up just then, and supposing it was right be fired Moses down the second night. There he chanced to fall against the porter, who conceived it to be the proper thing to ( assist matters, and he fired Moses down the steps into the street. " The Hebrew lauded on all fours, sat up and looked back at Jones & Brown's establishment with evident admiration. "Mine gracious!" he exclaimed, "what a system!" New York I Telegram. Trfe SPIRIT OF WORK. Steadfastness to Ideals Is the Traa Prin ciple of the Higher Life. On the part of faithful workers the spirit of work must, ever consist of a constantly careful adherence to the truth. This is not the lightest way to work. It is always easier to copy the work of others than to work from nature, whether the creation belongs to the 'highest art or the lowest kind of manual labor. . - The usual aim of a worker is to follow the best accepted models, and to secure a. perfect imitation is his highest ambition. He has no belief in his own thought sim ply expressed. He takes his idea from this authority, and bis method of transferring It to the minds-of others from that. 'He tries to please the eye, and creates forms striking, showy, even beautiful with the beauty of skillful imitation. He tries to charm the ear, and utters fine, fanciful phrases, sonorous sentences, words which appeal to the imagination and show a wide knowledge of the produc tions of other people. But this is never the way to reach the heart, for the heart is satisfied only with the truth, and if the ex pression is not true to the thought, then it is falsehood, and the nobler the thought the worse the guilt of the caricature. . Such work answers for passing human needs. It has often a fair body. But if it has no soul of its own it cannot live, and though used in lieu of that which is better, when the need that used it dies it dies too. The other sort of work is slow and pain ful. Once begun, there is no more rest for the worker. Though he labor with un ceasing effort, he sees more and more clearly how feeble is his expression of the truth he would have it declare. He works with a heart that falters and with hands that tremble as they move. Ahl very poor and weak must be our best attempts, yet to work nearer to the truth in each mo ment of our working lives is the divinest blessing we can ask. To reach it is of the things hoped for not seen. But it is the things not seen which are eternal. The. work is slow. It is a life work. What better life work can there - be? The work is painful. It is through much trib ulation we enter the kingdom. For a mo ment, is the struggle to be compared to the victory? The work is - difficult. Again and again are we thrown back, bruised and faint, to cry, "Who can endure to the end?" : But hard, and toilsome and slow though it be, we must labor. Steep and stony though the path, we must climb it. By and by, when no longer through a glass darkly, but face to face, we read the mean ing of all the hardship, the slow growth and the bitter suffering, then out of the temple our human hands have built shall shine out the spirit of truth, which we waited for. with an inexpressible longing. For we must sow with painstaking zeal and patient abiding. We must water of ten wiA tears. It is only God who giveth the increase. Harper's Bazar. 'There are no flies on your papa," re marked a gray haired Detroit widower to his lively and lovely daughter. 'Yes, papa," she responded softly, as her pretty fingers tangled in his silver locks; "yes there are time flies." Detroit Free Press. In just 24 hours 3. V. 8. relieves constipation and sick headaches. After it gets the system under control an occasional dose prevents return. We refer by permission to W. H. Marshall, Bruns wick House, a P.; Geo. A.Werner, 581 California St, 8. F.; Mrs. C. Melvin, 136 Kearny St., S. F., and many others who have found relief from constipation and sick headaches. G.W. Vincent, of 6 Terrence Court; S. F. writes: "1 am 60 years of age and have been troubled with constipation for 25 years. I was recently induced to try Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparllla. I recognized in it at once an herb that the Mexicans used to give us in the early 60's for bowel troubles. (I came to California in 1839,) and I knew it would help me and it has. . For the first time in years I can sleep well and my system is regular and -in splendid condition. The old Mexican herbs In this remedy are a certain cure In constipation and bowel troubles." Ask for , InnV Vegetable OUy O Sarsaparilla For Sale by SNIPES & KINERSLY. THE DALLES, OREGON. A Revelation. Few people know that the bright bluish-green color of the ordinary teas exposed in the windows is not the nat ural color. Unpleasant as the fact may be, it is nevertheless artificial; mineral coloring matter being used for this purpose. The effect is two-; fold. It not only makes the tea a bright, shiny green, but also permits the use of " off-color " and worthless teas, which, once under the green cloak, are readily worked off as a good quality of tea. ' ' ' An eminent authority writes on this sub ject: "The manipulation of poor teas, to give them a finer appearance, is carried on exten sively. Green teas, being in this country . especially popular, are produced to meet the demand by coloring cheaper black kinds by glazing or facing with Prussian blue, tumeric, gypsum, and indigo. Tltia method is so gen- eral that very little genuine uneolored green tea is offered for tale." It was the knowledge of this condition of affairs that prompted the placing of Beech's Tea before the public. It is absolutely pure and without color.- Did you ever see any genuine uneolored Japan tea? . Ask your grocer to open a package of Beech's, and yon will see it, and probably for the very first time. It will be found in color to be just be tween the artificial green tea that you have been accustomed to and the black teas. It draws a delightful canary color, and Is so fragrant that it will be revelation to tea drinkers. Its purity makes it also mors economical than the artificial teas, for lest of it is required per cup. Sold only in pound packages bearing this trade-mark: . BEEC r just 24, -fJiildhobd? If your grocer does not have it, he will gel It for you. pticedOo per pound. For sale at Xieslie Sxxtloir'is, . : THE DALLES, OREGON. The Dates is here and has come to stay. It hopes to win its way to public favor by eneur gry, industry and merit; and to this end we asK mat you give it a iair trial, and it satisfied with its surraort. The four pages of six columns each, will be issued every evening, except Sunday, and will be delivered m the city, or sent by mail for the moderate sum of fiftj cents a month. Its Objects will be to advertise the resources of the city, and adjacent country, to assist in developing our industries, in extending and opening up new channels for our trade, in securing an open river, and in helping THE DALLES to take her prop er position as the Leading City of The paper, both daily and weekly, will be independent in politics, and in its criticism of political matters, as in its handling of local affairs, it will be JUST. FAIR AND IMPARTIAL "We will endeavor to give all the lo cal news, and we ask that your criticism of our object and course, be formed from' the contents of the paper, and not from rash assertions of outside parties. THE WEEKLY, sent to any address It will contain from four to six eight column pages, and we shall endeavor to make it the equal of the best. 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