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RHEUMATISM,
Sprains, Bruises, Cote, YoudcJs, Soreness,
Sil'Jecss, Swellings, Backache, Nea-
ralgta, Sciatica, Bsrsa.
AT THE TABERNACLE.
W. TALMAQE SCOtlES THE IDLERS,
THJFLER3 AND FLOATER&
(heir bodily constitution that all tho
work of their life ban been accxiraplMhed
with this lethargy hanging on their back
or treading on their heels.
Yon Bometixncs behold it in childhood.'
Tho child moping and lounging within
doors while his brothers and sisters are
The HIM In Many ria Denounrr, nt play, oHf he join them bo is behind
Xdleaesa a a ln, and Modern Ministers m crcry raco and beaten in OTCTy game.
Koon Dlfx-ortr Tiiat the Idler la ZfotiHi nervof, his muscles, his bones aro
.guteepflblo to Religion Troth.
BsooKLT.f, April 2L A risitor to tho
Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning
would have no difficulty in understand
ing tho secret of the attraction
fills the vast building Snnday after 8uu-
ilay with throngs of eager listeners.
Avoiding atetrawj theological subject.
Dr. Talmage preached a sermon on a
practical tojrfc giving shrewd commm
eenw Iobbobh of inestimable valno to Ins
hearer, eHpecfnll' to the young pr ople
who make up a large twrt of his congre
gation. His text was Proverbs xii, 27,
"Tho slothful man rooAteth not that
which be took in hunting."
David and Jerotniah and Kzckiel and
Micnli und Solomon of the text showed
that at some time they had been out on
a hunting expedition. Spears, lancet,
swords atid nets wero employed in tins
cervif-e. A deep pitfall would bo diggpd.
In tho center of it thoro was eonio raisud
ground, with a polo on which a lamb
would bo fastened, and tho wild beast,
not seeing tho pitfall, but only feeing
tho lainb, would plungo for it prey and
dash down, ibtelf captured. Birds werj
caught in gins or ntarcetl with arrows.
The iiuntors in olden time had two mi
sions mo to clear tho land of ferocio.u
beitHts, and the otli.T in obtain meat for
1 am tf Ives and their fafiiilfes. Tlio oc
rnp,'iUii and habit of hunter nre a fa
MKiio Liblu oiinilo. David Haiti ho was
hiinttd by his enemy like a partridge
riKn tho mountain. My text is a hunt
ing b&itiSt .
A tinfirnnnan nrrayed in a garb appro
prfnto to tho wild chase lets slip tho
bloodthirsty hounds from their kennels,
una mounting his ileet homo, with a hal
loo and tho yell of tho groyhouud pack
they aro off and away, through brako
and doll, over marsh and moor, ncrocii
' charms whore a misstep woidd hutl
liorso and rider to douth, plunging into
miro up to their haunches or into swift
htremiiH up to tho bit, till tho game in
trucked by dripping foam and blood and
the antlers crack on tho rocks and tho
hunter has just timo to bo in at the
death.
Yet after all the hasto and peril of tlu
chaso, my text represents tills sportsman
as boing too indolent to dress the game
and prepare it for food. Ho lota it lio in
tho dooryard of Ida homo and becoino a
portion for vermin and beaks of prey.
Thus by ono master stroko Solomon
gives a picturo of laziness, when ho
Bays, "Tho slothful man roastoth not
that which ho took in hunting." Tho
most of hunters havo tho game thoy
shot or entrapped cooked tho samo oven
ing or tho next day, but not ho with thin
laggard of tho toxt. Too lazy to rip
oil'tho bldo. Too lazy to kiudlo tho fire
and put tho gridiron on tho coals.
A tlEAUTII'UIi PICTUnU.
Tho first picturo I ever bought was an
engraving of Thorwaldson's "Autumn."
Tho cluBtoru of grapes aro ripo on tho
vino of tho homestead, and the returned
hounds, punting from tho chase, aro ly
ing on tho dooraill, and the huntor is
unBhouldoring tho gamo, while tho
housowifo islibout to take a portion of
it and prepare it for tho evening moal.
Unlike tho person of tho toxt, sho was
enough industrious to roast that which
had boon taken in hunting, lint tho
world has had many a specimen since
Solomon's timo of tlioso whoso latitude
and irnprovidonco and nbsurdity wero
depicted in my toxt. Tho most of thoso
who havo mado u dead failuro of life
can look back and soo a timo whon n
great opportunity oponod, but thoy did
not know it.
Thoy wero not as wiso as Gconro
(Stephenson, "tho father of railways,"
who, when at slxtcon years of ago ho re
coived an nppolntmont to work a pump
ing ongino for twelvo jihilllnga a week,
criod out, "Now, I am a made man for
life." God gives to most mou at leant
ono good opportunity, A groat Grocian
general was mot by u group of beggars,
and ho said to thern: "If you want
beasts to plow your laud, I will lend you
Boroo, If you want land, I will give
yoit Bomo. If you want sood to bow
your land, 1 will boo that you got it,
,lrat I will oucourage nono in idleness,"
Bo God gives to moat people an oppor
tunlty of extrication from rioprotwod clr
oumstnucca,
i As if to creato in us a hatred for in
dolence, God has mude thoso animal
which aro sluggish to appear loathsome
in our eyes, while those which aro ileet
and activo he has olothod with attract
iyouoaa. Tho tortoiuo, the ninth, tho
snail, tho crocodile roiet us, while tho
door nud the gazollo are aH pleasing an
thoy aro fioot, and from tho swift wings
of innumerable birds God has spared no
purploor gold or jot or crimson or snowy
whiteness. Besides all this tho IJlblo ii
constantly assaulting the vice of lazl
moss. Bolomou seems tt order tho idler
out of his Right as being beyond all hu
man instruction when he nays, "Go to
Hko tint, thou tduggurdi considor her
; smitten with this palsy. lie vegetates
rather than lives, creeps rather Uian
j walks, yawns rather than breathes. The
animal in his nature is stronger than tho
i intellectual. He is cencrallv a irreat
which cater and active only when ho cannot
IHAtAva ntwl Itn ivltvik A vwl lentil nrai-attiu fit
drivo him up from his dining table, bo.
jfore ho gots through with tho first courso
of food, with tho asaortiou, "If any -vill
jnot work, neither shall ho eat."
I Now, what aro tho causes of lazinesa
Mid what aro its evil results? I knew a
Ma who wns novcr up to time. It
'jpWMMcd ltupoaaiblo for him to meet an
wwagenient. When ho was to bo man
'xiH ho missed tho train. His watch
wwod to tako on tho habits of its ownct
awl was always too slow. Ho lutd u
otMtitutional lethargy, for which ho dM
Mi seem responsible Bo indolenco often
,tam4 from the uiiturul temperament, I
W not know but that there is a const!-
tendency to this vice In every
Howovor active you may goner
Ujr be, hvo you not on eomo warm
dy felt a touch of tins feeling on
ww, although you may havo sluikon it
M you would ft rentiier uut omo
mm a jmrmMly twptd la tbis W
digest what ho has eaten. It requires as
much effort for bim to walk as for others
to run. Languor and drowsiness are his
natural inheritance. He is built for a
slow sailing vessel a heavy hulk and
an insufilcient cutwater. Place an auti vo
man in suuh a bodily structure and tho
latter would be shaken to pieces in ono
day. Every law of physiology dennnds
that ho te supine. Such a one is not re
sponsible for this powerful tendent-y of
his nature. His great duty is resistance.
When I see a man fighting an unfor
tunate temperament, all my sympathies
aro aroused, and I think of VictorHngo's
account of a scene on a warship where,
in tho midst of a storm at sea, a great
cannon got loose, and it was crashing
this way and that and would havo de
stroyed tho ship; and tho chief gunner,
at the almost certain destruction of his
own life, rushed at it with a handrpiko
to thrust between tho spokes of tho
wheel of tho rolling cannon and by a
fortunato leverage arrested tho gun till
it could bo lashed fast. But that strug
gle did not seem so dishcartenim; as
that man enters upon who attempts to
fight his natural temperament, whether
it bo too fast or too slow, too nervous or
too lymphatic. God help him. for God
only can.
1ND0LKKCE AND WEALTH.
Furthermore, indolenco is often a re
sult of easy circumstances. Bough ex
perience in earlier life seems to do neces
sary in order to mako a man activo and
enterprising. Mountaineers aro nearly
always swarthy, and thoso who havo
toiled among mountains of troublogot
tho most norvo nnd musclo and brain.
Thoso .who havo becouio tho deliverers
of nations once had not whero to lay
their heads. Locust and wild honey
have been tho faro of many a John tho
Baptist, while thoso who have been fon
dled of fortuo nnd potted and praised
havo often grown up lethargic.
Thoy have none of that heroism which
comes from fighting one's own battles,
Tho warm summor sun of prosperity has
weakened nnd rolaxed them. Born
nmong the luxuries of life exertion has
been unnecessary, and thereforo thoy
spend their timo in taking it easy. They
may enter into business, but they are
unfitted for its application, for its hard
ship, for its repulses, and after having
lost tho most of that which thoy have
invested go back to thorough inaction.
Tills costly yacht may do well enough
on tho smooth, glassy bay, but cannot
llvonn hour amid a chopped sea.
Another causo of indolenco is severo
discouragement. Thoro aro thoso around
us who started lifo with tho most nan
guiuo expectation. Their enterprise ox
citcd tho remark of all compoors. But
Bomo sudden nnd overwhelming misfor
tune mot them and henceforth thoy
havo boon inactive. Trouble, instead of
making thorn moro determined, has
overthrown them. Thoy havo lost all
self reliance. Thoy imagino that all
men and all occurrences aro against
them. Thoy hung their hoads whore
onco thoy walked upright. Thoy novor
look you in tho eyes. Thoy becorao
misanthropic and pronounco all men
liars unM scouudrels. Thoy go melan
cholic and throadbaro to their graves.
You cannot rouso thorn to action by tho
most glittering offer.
In most cases thoso persons havo been
honorablo and upright all thoir lives,
for rogues novor got dlscouragod, as
thoro is always nouio other plot thoy
havo not laid and somo other trap thoy
have not sprung, Thoro aro but fow
saddor nights than a man of talent and
tact and undoubted capacity giving up
life as a failuro, liko a lino of magnifi
cent steamors rotting against wharves,
from which thoy ought to havo boon
carrying tho oxportations of a nation.
Every great financial panic produces a
largo crop of ouch men. In the great
establishments where thoy wero part
ners in business thoy uro now woighors
or drnymon or clorks on small salary.
Hovorie is also a causo of indolenco.
Thoro aro multitudes of men who ox
poct to achiove great succoss in life who
aro entirely unwilling to put forth any
physical, moral or intellectual effort.
Thoy have a groat many oloquont theories
of lifo. Thoy aro all tho while expecting
something to turn up. Thoy pass thoir
life in dreaming. Thoy havo read in light
llteraturo how men suddenly and unex
pectedly camo to largo estates, or found
a pot of buried gold at tho foot of tho
rainbow of Good Luck, or had somo
groat offor mado them. Thoy havo
passed their lives in reverio.
Notwitlistanding ho is pinched with
poverty nnd any other man would bo
downcast at the forloni prospect, he is
always cheerful and sanguine and jovial,
for ho does not know but that he may
bo within a day or two of nstouudiutr
success, You cannot but bo entertained
with his cheerfulness of temper, All
tho world winhos hint well, for ho novor
did anybody any harm, At last ho dies
in just tho samo condition in which ho
lived, sorrow ful only becauso ho must
leave tho world just at tho timo when
his long thought of plans wore about to
bo successful, Lot no young man begin
lifo with reverio. Thoro is nothing no
compllshed without hard work. Do not
in idleness expect Bomethiug to turn up,
It will turn Uown. Indolence and wick
edneaa always make bad luck, These
people of roverio aro always about to
begin. Tbey say, "Wait a littlo."
So with tho child who had a cago con
uuuiuk n uuauwiui ihuuh, uhu uiu uoor
of the cago was open and a cat was in
tho room. "Better shut tho door of tho
cage," said the mother, "Wait a mlu
uto," wld tlio boy, Wbllo ho wu wait
p$ tbf Wtno wtwf Vrtth ono tftfng
took the canary. Tho way that many
low sh i . H-tunity of a lifeiirca is by
Uio some pri.cip!e. Tltey M7, "Wait a
minute." My advice is not to wait at
alL
srxnn, ixddloesce a.td imxxek.
Again, bad habiU aro a fruitful source
of indolence. Sinful indulgences shut a
man's shop and dull his tools and steal
bis profits. DisfiolnteneM is generally
the end of iiMlnMry. There are thoso
who havo the rare faculty of devoting
cccasbmally a day or a week to loose in
dulgence, and at the expiration of that
time go back with bleared eyes and
tremulous hands and boated cheeks to
the faithful and successful performance
of their duties. Indeed, their employ
ers and neighbors expect this amuse
ment or occasional season of frolic and
wassaiL
Some of the best workmen and most
skillful artixans have this mode of con
ducting themselves, but, as the time
rolls on, the season of dissipation be-
j comes more protracted and the season
j of steadiness and sobriety more limited,
until the employers become disgusted
and the man is given up to a continual
and ruinous idleness. When that point
has arrived he rushes to destruction with
astonishing velocity. When a man with
wrong proclivities has nothing to do, no
former self respect or mitral restraint or
the beseechings of kindred can save him.
The only safety for a man who feels
himself under the fascination of any
form of temptation is an employment
which affords neither recreation nor
holiday. Nothing can bo more unfortu
nate for a man of evil inclination than
an occupation which keeps hint exceed
find men prwni-ig under burdens, as in
thecdttbe t i .la stagger under their
loads betv.ecn Aleppo and Damascus.
Life is crn-.iinl out every day at counters
Mid t. orkl - and anvili. But there
are other tu ihudes who die from mero
inertia. In ; alencea every day are con
tracting !k tma beyond the catholicon
of alloja!'., and homeopathy and hy
dropathy and eclecticism. Rather than
work tbey rush upon lancets and scal
jlfi. Nature has provided for thoo who
vioUto her laws by inactivity what
rheum for the eyes, and what gout for
tho feet, and what curvature for the
spino, a,nd what strictures fur the chest,
and what tubercles for the lungs, and
what rheumatisms for the muscles, and
what neuralgias for tho nerves. Nature
in time arraigns every such culprit at
her bar and presents against him an
indictment of ono hundred counts, and
convicts hun on each ono of them.
The laws of nature will not stop their
action becausefnen may bo ignorant of
them. Disease, when it comes to do its
work, does not ask whether you under
stand hygiene orflathology or materia
mediea. If there were not so many lies
written on tombstones nnd in obituaries
you would see what multitudes of the
world's inhabitants are slain in their at
tempts to escape, tho necessity of toil.
Men cross oceans and continents, and
climb the Alps, and sit under the sky of
Italy or tho shadow of Egyptian pyra
mid, and go down into ancient ruins,
and bathe at Baden Baden, and come
home with the same shortness of breath,
and tho samo poor digestion, and the
same twitching of the nerves, when at
home with their own spade they might
ingly busy during a part of the year and have dug health out of the ground or
then leaves him for weeks and months j with their own ax hewn health out of a
entirely unemployed. There aro many ' log, or with thtir own bej the garnered
men who cannot endure protracted . health from the gram field,
leisure. They are like fractious steeds ' fooijbii rntoR about wohk.
that must constantly be kept to the load, There are many who estimate tho
for a week's quiet makes them infract- .respectability of an occupation by tho
able and uncontrollable. Bad habits mile exertion it demands, and would
produco idleness and idleness produces not have their children enter any em-
la(l liaoltS. i Tilnvrnpnt whflrn thflir hnniia mar ha
may
soiled; forgetting that a laborer s over
alls are just as honorable as a priest's
robes and an anvil is just as respectablo
as a pulpit. Health flies from the bed
of down and says, "I cannot sleep here;"
and from the table spread with ptar
migan and epicurean viands, saying, "I
cannot eat here;" and from the vehicle
of soft cushions and easy springs, say
ing, "I cannot ride here;" and from
houses luxuriously warmed and uphol
stered, saying, "I cannot live hero;" and
someday you meet Health, woo declined
all these luxuriant places, walking in
the plow's furrow, or sweltering besido
tho hissing forge, or spinning among the
looms, or driving a dray or tinning a roof
or carrying hods of brick up the ladder
of a wall.
Furthermore, notico that indolence
endangers tho soul. Satan makes his
chief conn fiesta over men who either
blasting tho miasma of swamps, and have nothing to do, or, if they have, re-
nf f..,. i.A .in i rn.A.n i !.-.. .i i.i i. Pi
The probability is that you will either
have to give up your loose indulgences
or elfo give up your occupation. Sin
will take all enthusiasm out of yonrwork
and make you sick of life's drudgery,
and though now and then between your
seasons of dissipation, you may rouse up
to a sudden activity and start again in
the chase of some high and noble end,
even though you catch tho game, you
will sink hack into slothf illness beforo
you have roasted that which you took
in hunting. Bad habits unfit a man for
everything but ixriitics.
Now, what aro tho results of indo-'
lence? A marked consequence of this
vico is physical disease. Tlio healthi
ness of tho wholo natural world depends
upon activity. Tho wiudu, tosbed and
driven in endless circuits, scattering tho
mista from tho mountains, and scooping
out death damps from the caves, and
hurling back tho fetid atmosphere
groat cities, are healthy just becauso of
their swiftness and uncontrollableness
of sweep. But after awhile the wind
falls, and tho hot sun pours through it,
and when tho leaves aro still, and tho
grain fields bend not once all day long,
then pcstilenco smites its victims and
digs trenches for tho dead.
Tlio fountain, born far up in tho wild
wood of tho mountain, comes down
bright for every obstacle against which
it is riven, and singing a now song on
every shelf of rock over which it bounds,
till it rolls over tho water wheels in tho
valloy, not ashamed to grind corn, and
runs through tho long grass of tho
meadow, where tlio willows reach down
to dip their branches and the unyoked
oxen coino at eventide to cool. Healthy
water! Bright water! Happy water!
Whilo some stream, too lazy any moro
to run, gathers itself into a waysido pool
whero tho swino wallow, and filthy in
sects hop over tho surface, and reptiles
crawl among tho oozo, and frogs utter
thoir hideous croak, and by day and
night thero rises from tho foul miro nnd
groen scum fever and plague and death.
Thoro is an ondlesa activity underfoot
and overhead.
Not ono four o'clock in tho flower bod,
not ono fly on tho window pane, not ono
squirrel gathering food from tho cones
of tho whito pino, not ono rabbit feeding
on clover tops, not ono drop falling in a
shower, not ono minnow glancing in tho
sen, not ono quail whistling from tho
grass, not ono hawk cawing in tlio sky,
but is busy now nnd is busy always, ful
filling its mipsion as cortninly as any
monarch on earth or any nugol in heaven.
NATURE NKVEIl IDLE.
You hear tho shout of tho plowboys
busy in tlio field nnd tho ruttlo of tho
whlfllctrecs on tho harrow, but you do
not know that -thero is moro industry in
tho enrth upturned nnd in tho dumb
vegetation underfoot than in all that
you boo. If you put your oar to a lump
of riven sod you may hear nothing in
tho roots nud spicuhu of grass, but there
are lit work spades and cleavers and pilo
drivers and battering rams and intor
necini) wars. 1 do not wonder that tho
lively fancy of tho ancients saw in tho
inauimntu creation around Floras and
Pomonas and Graces and Fauns and
Fairies and Satyrs and Nymphs. Every
thing is busy. Nothing is inanimate,
except tho man who cannot eeo the life
and bear tho music.
At tho creation tho morning stars sang
togothor, but tnoy wero only the choir
which was to lead all the stars, and all
tho mountains, nnd all tho seas in God's
worship. All natural objects seem at
ouo and the samo time uniting in work
nnd joy ami worship. In God'H creation
thoro is no ponso in either tho worship,
or tho work, or tho joy. Amid all nat
ural objocta ut ono and the game timo it
is Halloween and Whitsunday and Ash
Wednesday and All Saints' Day. All
tho healthy beauty of that which wo seo
and hoar in the natural world is depend
ent upon octivity and unrest. Men
will bo healthy intellectually, morally
and physically only upon tho condition
of on active industry. I know men die
every day of overwork. They drop
dow in coat pits, and among tho spindles
of northern factories, nnd on the cotton
plantations of tho south.
In every city nnd town and villago you
fuse to do if. There is a legend that St.
Thomas, years after Christ's resurrec
tion, began again to doubt, and ho
went to tho apostles and told them
about his doubts. Each apostlo looked
at him with surpriso and then said he
must be excused for he had not time to
listen any longer. Then St. Thomas
went to tho devout women of his timo and
expressed his doubts. Thoy caid thoy
were sorry but that thoy had no timo to
listen. Then St Thomas concluded
tliat it was becauso thoy were so busy
that tho apostles and tho devout women
had no doubts.
Idleness not only leads a man into
associations which harm his morals, but
often thrusts upon him the worst kind
of skepticism. Loafers aro almost al
ways infidels, or faft getting to bo.
Consummate idlers novenead tho Bible,
and if thoy appear in church can bo
distinguished in nn uudienco of a thou
sand by their listlessness, for thoy aro
too lazy to hear. It is not so much
among occupied merchants, industrious
mechanics and professional men always
busy that you hear tho leligion of Jesus
maligned, as in public lounging places,
givon up to profanity and dissoluteness.
Thoy havo no sympathy with tho Book
that says, "Lot him that stole steal no
more; but rather let him labor, working
with his hands the thing which is good,
that Ho may havo to givo to l.im that
npcdcth."
I never know a man given up to thor
ough idleness that was converted. Si
mon and Androw wero converted whilo
fishing and Lydia while selliui purple,
and tlio shepherds of Bethlohc m watch
ing their flocks heard thovoicot f angels,
and Gideon wns thrut hiug ou the thrash
ing floor, but no ono v is ever cmvorted
with his bauds in his p.ickets. Let mo
tell tho idler that thoic is no hope for
him either in this world or fio world
which is to como. If tho Sou of God,
who owned tho wholo universe, worked
in tlio carpenter shop of Joseph, surely
wo, wtio own so uttlo yet want so much,
ought to bo busy. Tho rodoomod in
hoaveu are uover idlo. What exciting
songs tiioy Ring I
On what messages of lovo they fly
through all tho universo, fulfilling God's
high behests and taking worlds in ono
circuit, rushing with infiuito fierceness
against sin and cruelty and oppression,
und making the gates of holl to quako at
tlio overthrow of the principalities of
darkness, and in tho same twinkle of an
eyo speeding Kick to their thrones with
tlio news of sinners repentant. The
River of Lifo is ever flowing, and tho
palms over waving, and the hallolujalis
ever rising, and tlio harps over sound
ing, nnd tho temple always open, and
tho golden streets always a-rusk with
chariots of solvation, and the last place
which you ought over to want to go to
is heaven unless you want to be busy.
SOlUt NEED OF WOUKERS.
Alas, my hoarors, that in this world
thoro should bo so many loungers nud so
fow workors. Wo go into tlio vineyard
of the church and wo hoar tho arbor
groan under the heft of the vines, and
mo clusters hanging down, largo and
thick nnd ripo, cluster against cluster,
fairer than the bunches of Ethcol and
Engedl, and at n touch thoy will turn
into wino moro ruddy than that of Lib
anus and Helbon. But where are the
men to gather the vintage and tread tho
wine piw Thero comes to your ear
a sound of a thousand wi.eat fields ready
fur the sickle. The grain is ready. It
is tall, it is full, It is golden. It waves
in the sunlight It rustles in the wind.
It would fill the harus. It would crowd
the garners. After awhile it will lodge,
or the mildew and the rust will smite it
Oh, where arc the reaier to bind tie
sheaves? The enemies of God are mar- i
shaled. You nee the ulitter of their
bucklers. Yot hear the pawing of their
chargers, aud all along the line of battle ,
is beard the houtof their great captain,
ard at the armies of the living God they
hurl their defiance. They come not in
numbers, like the hosts of Sennacherib,
but their multitude is like the leaves of
the forest and the sound of their voices
like the thunder of tho sea. Mailed in
hell's impenetrable arbor, they advance
with the waving of thoir banners and
tho dancing of their plumes. Their
ranks are not easily to bo broken, for
the batteries of hell will open to help
them, and ten thousand nugels of dark
ness mingle in the fight. Where are the
chosen few who will throw themselves
into tho jaws of this conflict?
King James gave to Sir John Scott,
for his courage, a charter of arms with
a number of spears for the crest and tho
motto, "Ready! aye, readyl" and yot
when God calls us to the work and tho
cause demands oar espousal and inter
ests dreadful as tho judgment and sol
emn as eternity tremble in the balance,
how few of us are willing to throw our
selves into tho breach, crying, "Readyl
aye, readyl" Oh, I should like to see
God arise for the defense of his own
cause and the disenthralment of a world
in bondage. How the letters would
snap and how the darkness would fly
and how heaven would sing.
You have never seen an army like that
which God shall gather from tho four
winds of heaven to tight his battles.
Thoy shall cover every hilltop and
stretch through every valley and man
tho vessels on every sea. There shall
neither be uproar, nor wrath, nor smoke,
nor bloodshed. Harvests shall not lio
waste in the track nor cities bo con
sumed. Instead of tho groans of cap
tives shall come the song of thoso re
deemed. Yet the conquest shall be none tho less
complete, for, if in that hour when all
should bo vigilant, tho church of God
should neglect to seize the prizo nnd the
causo should seem to fail, from tho
gravoyards and cemeteries of all Chris
tendom tho good and faithful of the
past would spring to their feet in time
to Bave the cause, and though tho sun
might not again stand still abovo Gib
eon, or tho moon in the valley of Aja-
lon, tho day would bo long enough to
gain a decisive victory for God and the
truth.
But my text is descriptive also of
thoso who hunt for opportunities and
when they get them do not use them.
The rabbit they overcome by an early
morning tramp lies for weeks uncooked
in tho dooryard. The deer that thoy
brought down after long and exhaust
ing pursuit in the Adirondacks lies on
their doorsill undressed, and the savory
venison becomes a malodorous carcass.
They roast not that which thoy took in
hunting. Opportunities laboriously cap
tured, yet useless, and that which came
in invitingly, liko a string of plover and
quail and wild duck hung over a hunt
er's shoulder, turns to something worse
than nothing. So with Ain-inna when
almost persuaded to bo a Christian. So
with tho lovely young man who went
away from Christ very sorrowful.
So with tens of thousands who have
wholo hands full, whole skies full of
winged opportunities which profit them
nothing at all, because thoy roast not
tliat which they took in hunting. Oh,
mako out of this captured moment a
banquet for eternity. Tho greatest prize
in the nniverpo to bo won i& tho lovo and
pardon of Christ. Win that mid you can
say:
Now I havo found a Friend
Who&o lovo slmll never end,
Jesus is mine!
"Aug
ust
99
lower
Perhaps you do not believe tliese
statements concerning Green's Au
gust Flower. Well, we can't make
you. We can't force conviction in
to your head ormed
Doubting icine into your
throat. We don't
Thomas. want to. J.ne money
is yours, and the
misery is yours; and until you are
willincr to believe, and spend the one
; for the relief of the other, they will
stay so. John H. Foster, 1122
Brown Street, Philadelphia, says:
" My wife is a little Scotch woman,
hirty years of age and of a naturally
delicate disposition. For five or six
years past she has been suffering
rrora uyspepsia. one
became so bad at last
that she could not sit
down to a meal but
she had to vomit it
as soon as she had eaten it. Two
bottles of your August Flower have
cured her,-after many doctors failed.
Shecan now eat anything, and enjoy
it; and as for Dyspepsia, she does not
know that she ever had it " 9
Vomit
Every Meal.
Cultivating Pearls.
It is interesting to know that quite re
cently a distinguished Frenchman, M.
Bouchon-Brandoly, has discovered what
he believes to be a practical method of
procuring the manufacture of theso
gems of tho ocean through artifice.
Now that the pearl market of the world
is seriously menaced by tho threatened
exhaustion of tho fisheries it is high
timo for human ingenuity to step in and
supply tho demand. The process adopt
ed is simply to bore holes in tho shells
of tho pearl oyster with a gimlet, intro
ducing through theso perforations littlo
balls of glass, aud stopping them her
metically with corks.
After four weeks' timo the balls of
glass aro found to bo covered with a thin
layer of pearl. In six months tho laver
has become of sufficient thickness to be
permanent, and tho bigness of tho jewel
thus manufactured is in proportion to
tho period allowed to elapse. Of courso,
this has its limitations, inasmuch as tho
mollusk will not deposit nacro indefi
nitely, its only object being to protect
itself from irritation by tlio intruder.
Tho oxpert quoted believes that pearls
can bo mado of various colors to order
by selection. Cor. Boston Transcript
A Great Rooiter Story.
Tho rooster of Mrs. Samples, of West
Fork, Ark., was a Leghorn, and she
chopped off his head and throw him on
the ground. He only struck, when ho
jumped up again and ran off, leaving
Mrs, Samples paralyzed with astonish
ment. Making his way to tho station,
ho sought protection of tho agent He
Is still headless, but allvo aud well to
day. Ho la fed through a tube and
seem to enjoy his food. The truth of
this story is vouched for by tho neigh
bors, nnd some say ho still crows. New
York Evening Suu.
Mr,
CLEAN!
If you would be clean nod haye your clothes dono
in the neatest and dressiest manner, tako them to tho
SALEM STEAM LAUNDRY
whero all work ia dono by whito labor and in tho mcuit
prompt manner, COLONEL J, OLMSTED.
Liberty Street
CutniialguliiK lth Theatrical.
The village of Ashby is in n great
stato of excitement over the comiug
electiou on account of tho license ques
tion. Tho temperance people presented
tho play "Ten Nights in n Barroom" last
night with a view to influencing votes.
Cor. Minneapolis Tribuue.
Strength and llenlih.
Tfyouarenot feeling Blrontr rd
healthy, try Electrio Bitterc, If "La
Grippe" baa left you weak and weary
use Electric Bitters. This remedy
ncta directly on the liver, stomach
and kidneys, generally aiding these
organs to perform their functions.
If you nre afllcted with plok head
ache, you will find speedy aud per
maueiit relief by taking Electrlo
Bitters. One trial will convince you
hat this Is the reiuedv you need,
Large bot'les only 60e. at Fry's
drugstore, S2& Couimolda) street.
RESTORATIVE m
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Ksa
Thoro Is nothing like tho RESTORATIVE
NERVINE dUcorcrcd tir the (Treat pcclatlit,
OR. MILCS, to euro all norroui disease, a
Headache, tho Blues, Nervous Prostra
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Dance, Fits and Hysteria. Many physicians
tuettln their practice, and eny the results ara
wonderful. Wo bare hundreds of testimonials
liko these from druggists. "We have nerer known
anything; like It." Know & Co., Syracuse, N. V.
Erery bottle sold brings words of praise," J. O.
Wolf, Hillsdale, Mich. "The best seller wa erer
bad." Woodwortu A Co., Fort Wayne, Ind.
"Aerrlito soils better than anything wa ever
had." II. F. Wyatt & Co., Concord, N. II. Trial
bottle and book of testimonials Pree at druggists.
OR. MILES' MEDICAL CO., Elkhart.lnd.
TKIAJL BOTTLE FREE.
Bold byD. J. Fry, druggist.Salem.
mm liver pi us
Act on a new principle
regulate the liver, stomach
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surest! SOdoaea,25cta.
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gold by D. J. Fry, druggist, Salem.
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Outfit that very properly contains a supply of
Hires' K
which adds to the enjoyment of all the other
dainties, and makes a picnic a picnic inde ".
A 25 cent package makes 5 gallons cf ti t!
very popular beverage.
Don't be deceived If a dealer, for the sale,
pi larger profit, tells you some other Und
Is "just as good "-'tl, fnlje. No jmf J,
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Unw, at tho gateway ta thiTV?.r.??n,l
region which extend North to i1
tupr1or, dlslAticc 01 anrj mllcx withimt !
eata. TIM W Inmosta Itlver to whteh "ii,'.
lumbermen imve given the familial ?.5
omewbAtnirertlonato title o' -m Jr
cooa" not nlorie acta nun lumber fli, A
thecUy by turnlahlna; tbronghlw 2nT,?
ooa trlWrlea nn outlrt torUonafndS'o,
here or pine In the nppur country, but ?t
turnlsbe a watr rower that Ja JiZL'l
only to that of Nnh and MeSih,?
which citle are aUo located on the"rt'
trw." Million, or rt or lumber ,reCSt
every year, giving- employment, to hmi
rhtNd.o men. In nddltbn to the lumb
trade, it baa numerous other miiSfc?
torlea; It Ii here where the terp. ??
of the Wlacmsln Central UnAnioXi!
or tlckeu. map, pamphleta and iv,
Information apply to Q. F. Mcell) r 1.
and T. A., Jllnueupolla, Minn- and t.i i-
a i"ond,,OeneralPMkn(fe?Vnd TlfTy:.
Agent, Chicago, III. " 1.15$' '
TRUCK AND EXPRESS.
Ryan &. Co,,
(Sucespor toj
MORGAN & MEAD.
Truck & Dray Line.
Good Teams, Piompt and Careful
Work, Satisfaction in all Cases.
Office at tbe old stand, opposite 8tat
Insurance building. Alsohaenne Clr.u
8U1UI0D at the stable for erviee.
White's No. 60,
SALEM'S FINEbT TRUCK.
Now read for business. Careful work i
sp-claltj. J,P. WHIli.
SUTTON &SON,
Express ami Baggage.
Do hauling and quick delivery to hit
parts of the city with promptness nn.l
care. Leave orders at It. il. VadefcCi,r,
LIVERY AND FEED STABLES.
ELLIS & WHITLEY,
LIVERYMEN .
South of Willamette Hotel,
SALEM - OREQCN
W. M. DeHAVEN,
Boarding - and - Sale - Stalk
One door west of Lunn's Dry Doods ston
on State street. Quiet family teams, bote
lal attention paid lo transient stock. 6:111
M. L. CHAiinEULIN, O. M. SMITH,
fiesldent. hecretHry.
H. St. IJItANbON, GEO, H. BOUBEJt) ,
Vice President. TrejiKunr
UNION TITLE ABSTRACT CO.
275 Commercial Street.
Makes the neatest and best Abstracts In
the country.
FEAR & HAMILTON,
Loans negotiated on Improved farm and
tlty property.
3-A.IkE.N7, Oregon
Boom M, Buh Bank block. 5 I2dw
Capital City Restaurant
Jas. Batchelor, Prop'r,
WarmMeah at All Houis oi tlieDay
None but white labor employed In this
establishment.
A good substantial meal cooked In flist
class style.
Twenty-five cents per meal.
R. S D IfRONT,
Court Islreet, between Opera .House Hnd
Mlnto's IJvery
J. H. HAAS,
THJS WATGHMAKEK,
215K Commercial St,, - talem, Oregon
(Nest door to Klein's.)
Specialty ol Spectacles, and repair tm
Clocks, Watches and Jewelry.
THE ELEGANT NEW
Barber Shop and Bath Rooms,
247 Commercial St.
Two doors north Bed Corasr drugstore,
JOSEPH FUSEE, Propr.
Salem Abstract and Loan Co.
The only Abstract booka of Marlon
count j. Keal estate orders
.tilled promptly nnd
safely.
W. H. H. WATERS,
MANAOIta
DUG AN BROS'
Pliimbiog and HcatJDg Co.,
Wholesale and retail dealers In
STEAM AND PLUMBING GOODS,
2 Commercial street Telephone S3
PRiNTING.
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n,n u in Uit Slate. Jwr rates was
feittaud. LiirvMit mtm,U 1h Ulnk IP
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