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SjHflK From 1863 to 1885 about
,jtilBJHil 22 years I suffered with rhcu
matism of the hip. I was cured by the use of
St. Jacobs Oil. T. C. DODD.
"ALL RIGHT I ST. JACOBS OIL DID IT."
allytnro:fr 1. Wen neenr tomed to pray
in p iMic .u groat c(-iiiiKsuro bko
dorm tumor eiuotlon. i'lte. ieoplj wore
In tears. There were soln and silences
and solemnities of Btich unnaunl power
that the worshipers looked Into each
other's faces, aa much us to say, "What
does all this mean?" And when the fol
lowing Sablmth cntne, nlthongh we were
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k VALUABLE LESSON.
EXTRACTED FROM A TEXT APPAR
ENTLY BARREN OF SUGGESTIONS.
W .....
Jr. Talmnge Gitc a Fresh Display or
f'HU Ability to Be. Eloquent and Karnrat
f W Morel Lines of riilplt uratory.
Beookltn, May 29. Dr. Talnirttfo
gie a fresh illustration this moriiing of
too power no possesses of extracting
valuable leesons from text which
preachers have generally neglected as
barren gronnd. His 6ennon was based
a K on the test realms txxxi, i, "i answered
I li thee in the secret placo of thunder."
ft-"1 T.? Tf r wiaf nit1i?frlifr rtml frr nVlrtMr iti
S'th morning, far enough from sunset
, CV and sunriso to make tho darkness very
'i thick, and tho Egyptian army in pursuit
: 4 of tho escanincr Israelites nrn en the bo!-
r I torn of the Red sea, its waters having
papphiro, for God can malio a wall aa
- solid out of water as out of granite, and
the trowels with which theso two walls
f55ro built were nono tue less powerful
U8o invisiDio. aucn wans nau never
jire been lifted.
yhen I saw the watora of tho Bod sea
agtnrougntuoauez canai tuey woro
and beautiful and flowing like
.waters, but tonight, as tho Egyp-
Flobk up to them built into walls,
6n ono sido and now on tho other,
must have been frowning watars,
"it was probablo that tho same power
fc lifted, them np might suddenly fling
pm prostrate. A great lantern of cloud
Ant? nvnr tliln clinam hot.wpon tlio twn
alls. Tho door of that lantern w.is
JJ- jponed toward tho Israelites ahead, fciv
K jtijr them light, and the back of the lan
jjiern was toward tho Egj'ptians, and it
jfgrOwled and rumbled and j.irred with
?thunder; not thunder like t.hat which
J cheera tho earth after a drought, promis
ing tue refreshing shower, but charged
and surcharged with threats of doom.
The Egyptian captains loot their pies
ctico of mind, and tho horses reared and
Buoried and would not answer to their
iiito, and tho chariot wliools got inter
locked and torn off, and tho charioteers
wero hurled headlong, and tho Red sea
fell on all tho host. Tho confusing and
confounding thundor was in answer to
(ho prayor of tho Israelites. With their
backs cut by the lash, and their feet
bleeding, and their bodies decrepit with
? the suffering of whole generations, they
had asked Almighty God to ousopulcher
their Egyptian pursuers in ono great
f earcophagus, and tho splash nnd tho
$ roar of tho Red sea as it dropped to its
j natural bod wero only tho shutting of
"tfee sarcophagus on a dead host. That
I is tho meaning of tho text when God
says, "I answered theoin tho secret placo
I of thundor."
I r A POWKR AND A MTBTEKY.
' Now thunder, all tip and down tho
LjHble, is tho symbol of power. Tho Egyp-
tiaa plaguo of hail was accompanied
t with this full diapason of tho heavens,
j While Samuol and his men wero mailing
j i a burnt offering of a lfcmb, and the Phil
) istines wero about to attack them, it was
j by terrorising thundor thoy woro dis
I icomfitod. Job, who was a combination
of tho Dantesquo and tho Miltonic, was
, leolemnized on this rovorberation of tho
, jbeavons, and cried, "Tho thunder of his
t jower, who can understand?" and ho
challenges tho universe by sayiug,"Canst
I thou thundor with a voico llko him?"
and ho throws Rosa Bonhour's "Horeo
i 'Fair" into tho ahado by tho Biblo photo-
graph of a warhorso, when he describes
1 hie Beck as "olothod with thundor. Bo-
cause of tho power of James and John,
they wero called "tho sons of thunder."
The law given on tho basaltic crags of
Mount Sinai was emphasised, with this
cloudy ebullition. Tho skies all around
about St, John at Patmos woro full of
ttfce thunder of war, and tho thunder of
Chrktly triumph, and tlio thunder of
rewirrection, and tho thunder of eternity.
Bat1 when my text says, "I answered
i'tine in tho secret placo of thunder," it
0geta thero is somo mystery about
)Mm' thundor. To tho ancients tho causo
t this bombarding tho earth with loud
J 9ad must havo been more of a mys-
.WKyiuaii n u w us, xno ugnuungs,
"which were io them wild monsters
Bging tbrough tho sldos, in our timo
iavo been domostlcated. Wo harness
Jieetricity to vehicles and wo pago it in
jkHBps,and every schoolboy knows some-
ming about tho faot that it is tho possago
jot electricity from cloud to oloud that
wakes the heavenly racket which wo
;cJl thundor, But, after all that choin
IWlry has taught tho world, Uiero aro
3ytrio3 about this skyey resonanco,
lwd my text, truo in tho time of the
SPiMlBinH.is truo now and always will bo
jfcnM, that thero is somo tecrct about tho
j4C9 of thunder.
To one thing known nbout tho thun
jier thero aro a hundred things not
(known, After all tho soioutiiio batteries
ave been doing their work for a thou-
years to come and learned men
discoursed to tho utmost about
erio. electricity nnd magnotio
city and galvanic electricity and
tic olectricity and frlctional olec-
,y and poaitivo electricity nnd nega
eloctricitv mv text will bo as suir-
jpwtivo as it is today, when it speaks of
Mm secret placo of thundor,
J RBS0LT OV X WOUAN'S rOAYEBS.
l Jfow right along by a natural law
hfre is always a spiritual law. As
Hkire is a secret place of natural thun
fimr, thero is a secrot place of uioral
jmmuct, m oinor worn, iuo rongious
that you see abroad in tho church
world has a hiding place, and in
cea it Is never discovered at iill, I
tm a slmUitttdo, I cau give only
Mm oatllae of ,a particular case, for
or tho remarkabio ctrcumstancea
kve forgotten. Many years ago thero
mrgo church. It was character-
1mA Vy stnwgo and unaccotuitable con
:, mmiom. There wero bo grout revivals,
Mri sdividiul caces of spiritual urcat
'tM InuwfortBAtlou.
A, yotwf raa sat in one of tho front
He was a graduate of Yale, bril-
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his moral errantry. To plrato nis par
cnta ho was every Sabbath morning in
church. One day thero was a ringingof
tho doorbell of tho pastor of that church,
and that young man, whelmed with re
pentance, implored prayer and advico,
and passed into comploto reformation of
heart and life. All tho noighboihood
was astonished and asked, "Why was
this?" His father and mother had said
nothing to him about his soul's welfnrc.
On another aislo of tho samo church
sat an old misor. He paid his iov rent,
but was hard on tho poor, and had no in
terest in any philanthropy. Piles of
money! And people said, "What a strug
gle he will have when ho quits this lifo
to part with his bonds nnd mortgages."
Ono day ho wrote to his minister:
"Pleaso to call immediately. I have a
matter of great importance about which
I want to seo you." When tho pastor
camo in tho man could not spoak for
emotion, but after awhilo ho gathered
self control enough to say: "I havo lived
for this world too long. I want to know
if you think I can bo saved, and, if bo,
I wish you would tell mo how." Upon
his soul tho light soon dawned, aud tho
old miser, not only revolutionized in
heart but in lifo, began to scatter bene
factions, and toward all tho groat chari
ties of tho day he becamo a cheerful and
bountiful almoner. What was the causo
of this change? everybody asked, and no
ono was capable of giving an intelligent
answer.
In another part of tho church sat, Sab
bath by Sabbath, a beautiful and talented
woman, who was a great society leader.
She went to church becauso that was a
respectable thing to do, and in tlio neigh
borhood whero sho lived it was hardly
resectable not to go. Worldly was she
to tho last degree, and all her family
worldly. Sho had at her house tho iinest
germaus that wero ever danced, and tho
co3tlio3t favors that wero over givon,
and though sho attended church sho
novor liked to hear any story of pathos,
and as to religions emotion of any kind,
sho thought it positively vulgar. Wines,
cards, theaters, rounds of costly gnyoty
were to hor tho highest satisfaction.
Ono day a neighbor sent in a siting
card, and this lady camo down thtystairs
in tears and told tho wholo story of how
she had not slept for sovoral nights, and
sho feared sho was going to loso her soul,
and she wondered if somo ono would
not como around and pray with hor.
From that timo hor ontiro domcanor was
changed, and though sho was not called
upon to sacrifico any of her amenities of
lifo, sho consecrated hor beauty, hor
social position, hor family, hor all to
God and the church aud usefulness.
Every body said in regard to hor, "Havo
you noticed tho change, and what in tho
world caused it?" aud no ono could mako
satisfactory explanation.
In tho courso of two years, though
thero was no general awakening in that
church, many such isolated cases of such
unexpected and unaccountablo conver
sions took place. The vory pooplo whom
no one thought would bo affected by
such considerations wero converted. Tlio
pastor and tho officers of tho church
wore on tho lookout for the solution of
this religious phenomenon. ' Whero is
it," thoy said, "and who is it nnd what
is it?" At last tho discovory was raado
and all was explained. A poor old
Christian woman i tending inthovesti
bulo of tho church ouo Sunday morning,
trying to got hor breath again boforo Bho
wont up stairs to tho gallery, hoard tho
inquiry and told tho secrot.
For years sho had boon in tho habit
of concentrating all her prayers for par
ticular persons in that church. Sho
would soo somo man or somo woman
present, and, though sho might not
know tho porson's name, sho would pray
for that person until ho or she was con
verted to God. All hor prayers woro
for that ono person just that ono. Sho
waited aud wuitod for communion days
to soo when tho candidates for member
ship stood up whothor hor prayers had
been effectual. It turned out that theso
marvolous instances of conversion wero
tho result of that old woman's prayers
as sho sat in tlio gallery Sabbath by
Sabbath, bont and wizened and poor
nnd unnoticed.
A littlo cloud of consecrated humani
ty hovering in tho gallories. That was
tho secret placo of tho thundor. Thero
is somo hiddon, unknown, mysterious
sourco of almost all tho moral aud reli
gious power demonstrated. Not ouo
out of a million not ono out of ten mil
lionprayers ever strikes a human ear.
On pnblio occasions a minister of reli
gion voices tho supplications of an as
semblage, but tho prayers of all tho
congregation are in silonco. Thero is
not a second In a century when prayers
are not asconding, bnt myriads of them
aro not oven as loud as a whisper, for
God hears a thought as plainly as a vo
calization. That silence of supplication
hemispheric nud iorpetual is tho so
crot placo of thunder.
TUB BECKUT I'lJlCK OF THUNDKU,
In tho winter of 1675 wo wore worship
ing in tho Brooklyn Academy of Muslo
in tlio interregnum of churches. Wo
had tho usual great audionces, but I was
oppressod beyond moasuro by tho faot
that conversions were not ;noro numer
ous. One Tuesday I invited to ray honso
ftvo old, consecrutod Cliristian men all
of them gone now, except Father Pear
son, aud no, in uimunoss ana oia ago,
waiting for tho Master's call to coroo up
higher.
Those old men came, not knowing
why I had invited them. I took them
to tho top room of my house. I said to
thorns "I have called you horo for spe
cial prayor. I am iu an agon) for a
great turning to God of Uio people. We
have vast multitude) in attendance and
thoy aro attentive and respectful, but 1
cannot boo that they ore saved. Let us
kneel down aud each ono pray and not
leave this room until wo are all assured
that the blessing will como and has
come." It was a most intense crying
unto God. I said, "Brethren, let this
mooting bo a secret," aud they said it
would bo. That Tuesday night special
servioo ended,
On tho following Friday night oc
curred tho usual prayer mooting. No
oao kiwwsf what had occurred on Too.
4y nirtt. Wt Mm vmti&s wu wwa
in a secular place, over lour uunurea
nroso for prayers, and a religious awaken
ing took place that mado that winter
memorable for timo and for eternity.
Thero may 1)0 in this building many who
wero brought to God during that great
ingathering, but fow of them know that
tho upper room in my house on Quincy
street, whero those fivo old Christian
men poured out their bouIs before God,
was tho secret place of thunder.
Tho day will come God hasten it
when people will find out tho velocity,
the majesty, tho mnltipotencoof prayer.
Wo brag about our limited express
trains which put ns down a thousand
miles away in twenty-four hours, but
hero is something by which in a mo
ment wo may confront jteople fivo thou
sand miles away. We brag about our
telephones, but hero is something that
boats tho tolephono in utterance and re
ply, for God says, "Beforo thoy call, IJ
will hear." Wo brag about tho phono
graph, in which a man can speak, and
his words nnd tho tones of his voico can
be kept for ages, and by the turning of
a crank tho words may como forth upon
tho oars of another century, bnt prayor
allows us to speak words into the ears of
6 vei lasting romombrance, and on tho Behold I
othor sido of all eternities they will bo J thunder,
minutM nt thi village graveyard and boo
the tomb- ii.r'3 of tlio parents. Yes, the
one was iM uty-four years of ago nnd
the other was soventy-t wo, and tbo epi
taph Ni s !. .t "aft r a useful life thoy
died a 'hr.lian death." How appro
priately t.it' ric ture passage cut on tho
mother's ton 'stono, "Sho hath done
what she xuid." And how beautiful
tho passogo cut on the fatlior'a tomb
stone. "Blessed are tho dead who die in
tho Lord, for they rest from their labors
and their works do follow them."
On over the country road wo ride j
looked in vain for him, nnd arterwanl
through an uudorgro.uid passage, far
out m tlio fields, he came out iu tho open
air. So this im, rial power of spiritual
influence hai . hiding place, a secrot
placo which f w know, nnd it comes
forth somct ii's in strange nnd mys
terious wi rs nnd far from tho placo
where it vu hiddon you cau find it only
by diligent MKircliing. Bnt yon may
find it, nnd lon.e of jou will find it, and
I wish you might all find it tlio secret
place of thunder.
Dlt TAUT ACE GOINO ABROAD.
tho road a little rough, for tho snrin2 At nine o'clock Wednesday morning.
wenthcr is not quite settled, and onco Juno J." next, on tho steamer City of
heard. Oh, ya who aro wasting your
breath, and wasting your brains, and
wasting your nerves, and wasting your
lungs wishing for this good and that
good for tho church and the world, why
do you not go into tho secret placo ef
thunder.
"But," says somo ono, "that is a beau
tiful theory, yet it does not werl: in my
cafe, for I am in a cloud of trouble, or a
cloud of sickness, or a cloud of persecu
tion, or a cloud of poverty, or a cloud of
bereavement, or a cloud of perplexity."
How glad I am that you told mo that.
That is exactly tho placo to which my
text refers. It was from a cloud that
God answered Israel the cloud over tho
chasm cut through tho Rod sea tho
cloud that was light to tho Israelites
and darkness to tho Egyptians. It was
from u cloud, a tremendous cloud, that
God mado reply. It was a cloud that
was tho secret placo of thunder. So
you cannot get away from the consola
tion of my text by talking that way.
Let all tho people under a cloud hear it.
"Iansweied thee in tho secret place of
thunder."
INFLUENCE OF THE OLD HOJIE.
This subject helps mo to explain somo
things you havo not understood about
men nnd women, and there aro multi
tudes of them, and the multitude is mul
tiplying by the minute. Many of them
have, not a superabundance of educa
tion. If you had their brain in a post
mortem examination, and you could
weigh it, it would not weigh any heav
ier than tho average. They have not
nnything especially impressive in per
sonal appearance. They are not very
fluent of tongue. They protend to noth
ing unusual in mental faculty or social
inflnenco, but you feel thoir power; you
are olovated iu thoir presenco; you aro a
better man or a better woman, having
confronted them. You know that in in
tellectual endowment you aro their su
perior, while in tho matter of moral and
religious influence thoy aro vastly your
suporior. Why is this?
To find tho revelation of this Becret
you must go back thirty or forty or
perhaps sixty years to the homestead
where this man was brought up. It is a
winter morning, and tho tallow candlo
is lighted, and tho fires aro kindled,
sometimes the shavings hardly enough
to start tho wood. Tho mother is pro
paring tho breakfast, tho bluo edged
dishes aro on tho tables, and tho lid of
tho kcttlo on tho hearth begins to rattlo
with tho steam, and tho shadow of tho
iudnstrious woman by the flickering
flam o on tho hearth is moved up and
down tho wall. Tho father is at tho
barn feeding tho stock tho oats thrown
into tho horses' bin and tho cattlo
craunching tho corn. Tho childron, ear
lior than thoy would liko and af tor be
ing called twico, aro gathered at tho
table.
Tho blessing of God is naked on tho
food, nnd, tho meal over, tho family
Biblo is put upon tho white tablecloth
and a chapter is read and, a prayer mado,
which includes nil tho interests for this
world and tlio uoxt. Tlio children pay
not much attention to tho prayer, for it
is nbout tho samo thing day after dny,
but it puts upou thoin an impression
that ten thousand years will only mnko
moro vivid and tremendous. As long as
tho old folks livo their piayer is for their
children nnd their children's childron.
D.iyiu nnd day out, mouth iu nnd mouth
out, year in and year out, decado in nnd
decado out tho sons and daughters of
that family aro remembered in earnest
prayer, and thoy know it, nnd thoy fool
it, and they cannot get away from it.
Two funerals nfter awhile not moro
than two years apart, for it is seldom
that thoro is more than that lapse of
timo botwoen fathor's goiug and moth
er's going two funerals put out of sight
tho old folks. But whore aro tho chil
dren? Tho daughters are in homes
wlioro thoy aro incarnations of good
sonso, industry and piety. Tho sons,
perhaps ouo a fnrinor, nnothcr a mer
chant, nuotlier a mechanic, another a
phyaician, another a minister of the
Gospel, useful, consistent, admired, hou
ored. What a powor for good thoso
sovon sous aud daughters! Wlioro did
thoy get tho power? From the schools,
and tho seminaries, nnd tho colleges?
Oh, no, though theso may Iiuyo helped.
From thoir superior montnl endowment?
No, I do not think thoy had unusual
raontal calibor. From accidental cir
cumstances? No, they had nothing of
what is called astounding good luck.
THE FOUNTAIN OF H0U3 INFLUENCE.
I think wo will tako a train nnd ride
to tho depot nearest to the homestead
from whioh thone men and women start
ed. Tho train halts. Let us stop a few
down in a rut it is hard to get tbo whetls
out again without breaking tlio shafts.
But at last wo come to tho lane in
front of tho farmhouse. Let mo get out
of the wagon and open tho gate while
you drivo'through. Hero Is the nrbor
under which thoso boys and girls many
years ago used to play. But it is quite
out of order now, for tho proporty is in
other hands. Yonder is tho orchard
where thoy used to thrash tho trees for
apples, sometimes beforo thoy wero
quite ripe. There is the mow where
they hunted for eggs beforo EastoT.
There is tho doorsill upon which they
used to sit There is tho room in which
they had family prayers aud where they
all knolt tho father there, the mother
thero and tho boys and girls there.
Wo liave got to tho fountain of pious
and gracious influences at last. That is
the place that decided thoso seven earth
ly nnd immortal destinies. Behold!
That is tho secret place of
Boys are seldom more than
their fathers will let them bo. Girls
aro seldom more than their mothers will
let them be. But thero como times
when it seems that parents cjvnnot con
trol their children. There come times
in a boy's lifo when ho thinks ho knows
moro than his father does, and I remem
ber now that I know moro at fifteen
years of ago than I havo ever known
since.
Thero como times in a girl's lifo when
sho thinks her mother is notional and
does not understand what is proper and
best, and tho sweet child sa)s, "Oh,
pshaw!" and sho longs for tho timo when
sho will not have to bo dictated to, and
sho goes out of the door or goe3 to bed
with pouting Iip3, and these mothers re
member for themselves that they knew
more at fourteen years of age than they
have ever known since. But, father and
mother, do not think you havo lost your
influence over your child. You havo a
resource of prayer that puts tho sympa
thetic and omnipotent God into your
parental undertaking. Do not wasto
your time in reading flimsy books about
the best ways to bring up children. Go
into tho secret pl3co of thunder.
PRAY FOR THE PREACHERS.
The reason that we ministers do not
accomplish moro is because others do
not pray enough for us and we do not
pray enough for ourselves. Every min
ister could tell you a thrilling story of
sormous sermons hasty and impromptu
because of funerals and sickbeds and
annoyances in tho parish, yet thoso ser
mons harvesting many souls for God.
And then of sermons prepared with great
care and research and toil uninterrupted,
yet those sermons falling flat or power
less, or of tho same sermon mightily
blessed on ono occasion and useless on
another. How well I remember a ser
mon I preached at a great outdoor meet
ing in tho upper part of this state. For
sevoral days in that placo prayers had
been offered for the success of the serv
ico, aud 1 had myself been unusually
prayerful, aud wo had a Pentecostal
blessing while I was preaching it.
That afternoon I took the train for a
great outdoor meeting in Ohio. I said
to myself, "This sermon was blessed to
day and it is fresh in my mind, and I
will preach it tomorrow in Onio." And
I did preach it, but not in as prayerful a
Bpirit, and I think no ono else had been
praying about it, and it turned into tho
most inuno and profitle&a discourse that
I over delivered. It was practically tlio
samo sermon, but on Wednesday it had
on it a powor that comes from tho secret
place of thunder, and on Thursday it
had on it no such power at all.
Oil, pray for us! Poor sermons in tho
pidpit aro tho curso of God on a prayer
less parish. People say: ""W hat is tho
matter with tho ministers in our timo?
So many of them seem dissatisfied with
the Biblo and they are trying to help
Mosos and Paul and Christ out of in
consistencies nnd contradictions by fix
ing up tho Bible." As well lot tho mu
sicians go to work to fix up JIadyn's
"Creation," or Handel's "Israel in
Egypt," or lot tho painters go to fixing
up Raphael's "TransLjuration," or archi
tects go to fixing up Christopher Wren's
St Paul's. But I will tell jouwhatis
tho matter. Thoro aio too muny uncon
verted ministers. Their hrarts have
never boon changed by tho grace of
God.
A mere intellectual ministry is tho
deadest failure this sido of perdition.
Alas for tho Gospol of icicles! From
apologetics and hormeneutics and dog
matics, good Lord deliver us! They aro
trying to get from transcendental the
ology, or from profound exegesis, or
from tho art of splitting hairs between
north and northwest side instead of get
ting their power from tho secret placo
of thunder. Wo want the power a man
gets when ho is nlouo, tho door locked;
on his knees; nt midnight; with Bueha
burden of souls upon him that makes
him cry out, first in lamentation and
then in raptures.
Lot all tho Sabbath school teachers
and Biblo class instructors aud all re
formers and all evangelists and all min
isters know that diplomas and diction
aries and encyclopedias aud treatises
and libraries are uot the source of
moral and spiritual achievement, but
New York, I expect to sail for Liverpool,
to bo gono until September. It is in ac
ceptance of many invitations that I am
going on a preaching tour. I expect to
devote my timo to preaching tho Gospel
in England, Scotland, Ireland and
Sweden. I want to seo how many souls
I can gather for tho kingdom of God.
Those countries havo for manyyears be
longed to my parish, and I go to speak
to them nud shako hands with them. I
waut to visit more thoroughly thun be
foro thoso regions from which my an
c&jtord came, Wales and Scotland.
But who i3 sufficient for tho work I
undertake? I call upon you who havo
long been my coadjutors to go into tho
secret placo of the Almighty, and every
day from now until my work is dono on
the other sido of the sea, to havo mo in
your prayers. In proportion to the in
tensity and continuance and faith of tho
prayers, yours and mine, will bo tho re
sults. If you remember mo in the do
votionnl circle, that will bo well, but
what I most want is your importuning,
your wrestling supplication in tho secret
placo of thunder.
God und you alone may mako mo the
humblo instrumentality in tho redemp
tion of thousands of souls. I shall
preach in churches, in chapels and in
tho fields. I will make it a campaign
for God and eternity, and I hope to get
during this absence a baptism of power
that v;ill mako mo of moro service to
you wiien I return than I ever yet havo
been. For, brethren and sisters in
Christ, our opportunity for usefulness
will soon bo gono, and wo shall havo
our faces uplifted to the throne of judg
ment, befoio which wo must give ac
count. That day thero will be no 6ecret
placo of thunder, for all tho thunders
will bo out. There will be tho thunder'
of tho tumbling rocks. Thero will bo
tho thunder of tho bursting waves.
Thero will be the thunder of the de
scending chariots. There will be tho
thunder of tho parting heavens. Boom!
Boom!
But all that din and uproar and crash
will find us unaffrighted, and will leave
us undismayed, if wo have made Christ
our confidence, and as after an August
shower, when tho whole heavens have
been an unlimbered battery cannonad
ing tho earth, tho fields are moro green,
and tho sunrise is the more radiant, nnd
tho waters aro the more opalino, so the
thunders of the last day will make the
trees of lifo appear moro emorald, and
tho carbunclo of tho wall moro crimson,
and tho sapphiro seas the more shimmer
ing, and the sunriso of eternal gladness
the moro empurpled. The thunders of
dissolving nature will be followed by a
celestial psalmody the sound of which
St. John on Patmos described, when ho
6aid, "I heard a voice like the voice of
mighty thunderings!" Amen!
Spiders That Sail Ilalloous.
There aro two minute animals, usual
ly called insects, which produce gos
samer. These are tho gossamer spiders,
and therefore, according to the later zo
ological classification, thoy aro not.
strictly speaking, insects, but form part
of a distinct class of animals called the
arachnida. Tho ascent of the gossamer
balloons made by theso 6piders only
takes placo in bright, terene weather,
and is invariably preceded by a produc
tion of gossamer on tho ground. When
impelled by a desiro of traversing the
air, tlio gossamer spiders climb to tho
summit of various objects, and thence
emit the viscous threads in such a man
nor as that they may be drawn out to a
great length and fineness and when
sufficiently acted upon by the ascending
current, they quit hold of the objects on
which thoy rested and commence their
aerial flight by floating away, tho gos
samer acting exactly in the same way as
a balloon.
The threads of gossamer are so deli
cate that a singlo ono cannot bo seen
unless tho sun shines on it. The viscid
fluid is ejected by the spider with great
force, becoming a thread, and several
such threads aro produced at onco in a
radiating form, which facilitates their
being caught by tho current of heated
air and borne upward, carrying the
spider along with them. The spider is
said oven to have tho power, to somo
exteut, of guiding in the air tlio balloon
liko web by which it is wafted up.
London Tit-Bits.
Haiti Heads rulialied.
"Do you want your skull polished?'
asked tho barber of the bald headed man.
"Skull? How much?" demanded tho
latter.
"I havo here," said tho barber, "a
French preparation which has just come
on the market, and which puts a beau
tiful shine on bald heads. The polish
lasts three or four days and is not re
moved by water. It wears off or cor- !
rodea eventually by the action of tbo
atmosphere, nnd then another applica
tion can be made.
"Some men object to the shine on
paid heads, and in Germany they take it
off with a dilute acid. But in France
the vvowning glory of a well dressed
bald head is an immaculate polish which
reflects the light like a dazzling dia-
"German
SvruD
Martinsville, N.J., Methodist Tad
sonage. " My acquaintance with
your remedy, Boschee's German
Syrup, was made about fourteen
years ago, when I contracted a Cold
which resulted in a Hoarseness aud
a Cough which disabled me from
filling my pulpit for a number of
Sabbaths. After trying a Physician,
without obtaining relief I cannot
say now what remedy he prescribed
I saw the advertisement of your
remedy and obtained a bottle. I
received such quick and permanent
help from it that whenever we have
had Throat or Bronchial troubles
since in our family, Boschee's Ger
man Syrup has been our favorite
remedy and always with favorable
results. I have never hesitated to
report my experience of its use to
others when I have found them
troubled in like manner." llBV.
V. H. Hagoarty,
of the Newark, New j Safe
Jersey, M.E. Confer
ence, April 25, 'go. Remedy.
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G. G. GREEN, Sole Man'fr.Woodbury.N.J.
Dn.KII.ES Wk
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CURE. W31irW?
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HEART DISEASE!
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Statistics rtiowthnt ono In four lias a weak
ordlsented Uoart. Tho first pjmiptoms ors liort
breath, oppression, fluttering, fhtnt find
hungry spells.pHtn Iu slue, t hen amotherlnir,
anrollen ankles, dropsy (uml clcutli.) tor
which UK. MILKS' JEW IIEA11T CtTKK
Ian marvelous remedy. "I have been troubled
with heart dlBcase for rears, cir left pulo wns
Terr weak, could at times re trcclr feel It, tho
smallest excitement would ulwayB weaken tar
ncircs and heart end n rear of Impending death
stared mo In tho face for hour. ItJZ. Mll.r.S'
JVT.nVlMJ nnd NEW liEAKT CUKE
Is tbo only rnedlclno that has proved of r.ny bene
fit and cured rue. L. M. Dyer, Clorerdalo, lid.
Jr. Miles' Z.lTerIllli are a euro remedy for
lSlltousnees nnd Torpid Xlrer. HO Hoses
CO cents. Flno book on Iloatt Disease, wltk
wonderful cures l'reo at drustlsts, or address)
OR. MILES' MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Inde
Bold by D. J. Fry, druggist,Ralem.
LOOSES lljrjf
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Act on niiew principle
ruguiaio ma uvor, eromacn
and bowels through (hi
nervfs. Dn. Hilks' I'ilui
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torpid liror and constipa
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enri'.itl 60dOB8B,25otB.
Srmoks iiee at lru(rciflt8.
C- .u Esi. Co., ElUiiit. lad.
Sold by D. J. Fry, druggist, Salem
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Don't bs deceived If a dealer, for the tike
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Is "just a good "'tis false. No imiution
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If you would bo dean nnd haye your clothes done up
in tho neatest and dressiest manner, take them to the
S1LEM STEAX LAUNDRY
wlioro rII work is done by white labor nnd in tho most
prompt manner. COLONEL J, OLMSTED.
Liberty Stteat
thut tho room of prayor, where no onoimona- -Aeff 1 one iioraia.
but God i presrtit and no 0110 but Gd I
hears, is the Eecrot place of thunder, j ' Keptiies Tbn rurmrriy.
Becret? Ah, yesl So secret that com- The variety of forms which reptilian
parntircly fow ever find it. life now pretests is esi&H indeed qmb-
At Boscobel, Englaud, we visited a ' pared with what existed darns tost
honso whero a king was once hid. No rat period of time -alticls jurruw3
ono, unless it was pointed out to hint, 1 befroen the goal forsst&ouat f &e ou&l
could find tho door in the floor through j deposit sad tfee lormuiui of ifee yity
which the king entered bis biding place. ) vthiek cxhu4(4 tb ir-jn.'a tM bvii
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Sas and Gasoliai
ENGINES
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MAKES SO SJCEU. OK DIET..
Xo 6oGZt or Ulst npytott.io trvptnl wSbtbii
iWttatir a tuts,
Cb&mbHiU' Ctork fmAy a
oUolateJy tb Utt" vj Mr, F. B.
Kemp,iwMaW tciim mang-rof
the YMHsptovs, Ohf, DIIy TVl.
ram 0Brf the moat inflaentlal nnd
valuable newspaper In the Buokeye
state. Mr. Kemp also ya: "I have
fouml It a certain cure for the cough
usually following an attack of the
grippe, and always keep a bottle of
it lu the bouse." 60 cent bottlea for
Wlo by G. E, Good, Druggist,
Tor Bbsplicit it Beat tho TVortd.
It OH liir .Aolomfttlcally,
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Columbia Poultry Yards,
J. M. BRENTS, Mjmager.
Lck Box 1210, Seattle, Wash
Breeder ot Thoroughbred Poultry of fol
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hern, White 1'lyieontU Kooka, Barred
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THE WILLAMETTE,
SALEM, OREGON.
Hntra, $2.50 to$5.00 per Day.
Tho best hotel between Portlnnd nuiUViii
PrnnoUoo. Klrst-claM in all Its appoint,
merits. Its table are served Willi tlio
Choicest Fruits
drown In tho Willamette Vnllejr.
A. I, WAGNER, Prop.
ritOFKSHIONAI. CARDS.
T J.SHAW, M. W. HUNT. BFTAV,
O , HUNT, attorneys nt law. Ufflcoov t
Capital National bank, Bnlom, Oregon
GEO. II. BUKNBTT, Attorney at U
Huleni, Orcgan. Otllco over Lndil n.
Bush's bank.
Q T. H1CUAHDBON, Attorney nt 1h ,
O, olllce up stairs In front rooms of 11 ,
ITiiHli block, corner Commercial and Co'i 1
strecU, hiilein, Oregon.
JOHN A. CAltTON, Attorney at Iw
Booms 3 and 4, Lndd & Bush's b.. it
building, Salem, Oregcu, Hlljt
B. K. BONUAM. W. II. HOLM1 -.
BONHAM A Hot.mkH. Attorneys at ll .
Ulllcolu Bush's block, between 8U.U
and Court, on (,'om'l at.
nilliMON KOItU, attorney ut law, Bak 1
X Oregon. Otllco uptulrs In 1'altou 1
block.
BH. BBAD31IAW, I'llYfilCIAN AM
, Burgeon, bulom. Oregon. Otllco i-.
tiarldge block, upitnlrs oer Williams
Knglaud's bank. Residence corner bt-i.
and H. K. corner inter street.
WH. YOUNG, iM. D.. Otllco formu
, occupied by Dr. llowliind, com 1
Court and Liberty streets. Telephone I
45. Olllce heurs: 8 a m. to 12; 2 to i p. i:
und 7 to tf p. m. Residence Hth street
electric car line. Telephone No. 9.
MoAKEK. fc BROOKS. I'hyslclft..
nnd surgeons, Murphy blclc, a
stairs, Commercial street, bnlem. Or.
R. V. B. MO XT, physician nnd su,
L'eon. Otllco In Lldrldge Block, t
era, Oregon. Olllce hours 10 to 12u. m
2 to lp. iu.
EB. lMIlLBROOK.M.IMlomcopathh.:
, Ofllco 155 Court street; Residence S
High street. General practice. bpcUu
attention given to diseases of Womoii uu i
children.
DR. MINTA B. A. DAVIS. Office honw
tf a. m. to 11 a. m.; 2 p. m. to 5 p. n.
uay or night calls promptly attended V
Special attention given to diseases of wju
eu aud children. Otllco in New Bank iiltt
805 Commercial strict. iicMdenco saii
fR. T. 0. SMXTU, l)cntlst,W 8talo stx er
XJ Hulem, Or. luihhcd dental oj-i
tlons of every description. I'alulessopoi.t
tlons a specialty.
w.
all cla
1). l'UGH, Architect, Plans, Sl'"
llcatlons aud sunenntendenco io
classes of butldlucs. Olllce 2U0 Co i
uiercial bt., up stairs.
(7 J. JIcOAUSTLAND.Clvll Sanitary kui
Jl, Hydraulic Knglneer. U. S. lleput'
mineral surveyor, tlty surveyors otlici
Cottle-Parkhurst Block. Salem, Oiegou.
n A. ROBKRT, Architect, room 421, Mo
j, quaui building, Poitlaud, Oregon,
UUSINKSS U.UtDS.
HOKYK A MILLS, Proprietors tho I'oi to
lnln BathandHhavlngl'mlors, Ha-
tne only Porcelain Bath Tubs In tho city.
2UU Commercial street, Salem, Oregon.
C1PRAGUK A ALLEN. Blacksmiths in. '
O horeshoelng and repairing. Onlyth
best workmen emplojed. Opposite bta o
Insurance building
4B. SMITH t CO., Contractors, Sewci -,
ing, Cement Sidewalks, Excavating,
: AH work promptly done, Bnlem, Or.
Leave orders with Duzau Bros. 4:16-lm
CAKPET-LAYING I make a specialty oi
cuiiei-huulug nnd laying; carie'-i
taken up and relaid with great care. Ilm.-s
cleaning. Leave orders with .). H. Lu. j
or Buien A Son. J. G. LUURMAN.
JOHN KNIGHT, Blacksmith. Horsa
shoeing and repairing a specialty. Shot'
at the foot of Liberty street, Salem. Oroon.
Z20tf
PJ. liARBEN & CO,, Manufacture of all
, kludsof vehicles. Repairing a peclal
ty. Shop 11 StHto street.
500
mMm.
mwwft
Al t-r
$ 0" L9 ESeliatt'fl
w -. -, eininnn
I
.WiCAM
Qte
UAS
HEALTH.
Lo Rlcliaa'a Golden Balsam No. J
Cures Chancres, tlrst and second sta'es
Sores on tho Lees and Bsdyj Sore Ka's,
Eyes, Noso, etc., Copper-colorcd Blotchei,
SyphlUtlo 04 tarrh, diseased Scalp, ard all
primary form of the dlseaso known a!
Sjphilis. Price, S5 OO per Ilottlu.
Le Rlclinu's Golilun Rulsinu No. 8
Cures Tertiary. Mercurlaigyphllitie Rhcu
matism, Pains in tho Bones, Pains in tht
Head, back of tho Nk, Ulcerated Sort
Throat, SyphlUtlo Rash, Lumps and con.
traded Cords, Stiffness ot the Limbs, an 1
eradicates all disease from the sjstem,
whether caused by indiscretion or abusf
ot Mercury, leaving tho blood pure anu
healthy. Price $5 00 per Bottle.
IjO lllclinu's Golden Huanltli Anil.
doto for tho cure of Gonorrhoja, Gleet,
Irritation Gravel, and all Urinary or Ger.l
tal dlsarrangemsnta. Price 9'i SO nor
Dottle.
Ia Hicltau's Golden Spanish In
jection, for severe oases of Gonorrhoea,
Inflammatory Gleet, Strictures,4c Price
61 50 per Bottle.
Lo Itlchnu'a Golden Ointment
for the ellcctlve heallngof Syphilitic Sc re
and eruptions. Price 31 00 per Box.
Le Kichnn'D Golden Pills Nrn
and Brain treatment; loss ot physical pov
r. excess or over-work. Prostration, eta
Prloe 83 00 per Boxs.
Tonlo and Nervine,
Bent everywhere, 0,OiD, Boourelr packed
per express.
THE RICHARDslmUS CO.,Agcui?
09 511 BTAURET ST.,
Sjm nrrasseie, Civ,,
THE YAnjJINA ROUTE,
OREGON TACIFIC RAILROAD
And Oregon Development compir v'f
stramshlp line. 223 miles shorter, 20 houw
I8 time than by any otbet joule. KIiti
class through passenger and freight Bn
from Portland and all nnlnfji In thnWIi.
Umette vnllov to and lrom Bau r'rnnoli
TIME SCHEDULE, (Kxcept Bundays).
Leave AIDauy 1:00 PM
Leave Corvall Is 1.-J0PM
Arrive Ynqulna S.-'WPM
Leave Yaqulna 6:-." V M
l.ive Corvalli letf'SA?!
Arrive Albany 1L10A M
O. A 0. train b connect at Albany and
Corvallts.
The above trainB connect at YAftUIN V
with the Oregon Development Cors Ur
JfStenrnshlpsbi'tweiin Yanulna and Ba
Franplsco
N. II. Passengers lrora Portland and all
Willamette Valley points can make close
connection with the trains of th
VAOUINA lUlliTRat Alhanv nr(!orVftllifl
I sndlf destined to San Francisco, should
arrange mj arrive at equina tne evening
before date of sailing.
. ruienrrr sal Prelgst Katti Always U
Uwrst. For lnformatlun apply to Messrs
HULMAN & Co., Freight and Ticket
Agenu 200 and 202 Front at.. Portland, Or.
o.a uoquk Ao't aeni rn.
P;us. AgL, Oregon Paclflo R. R. Co.,
Corvallls,Or
(J.H.HABWtaAJr.Gen'l Frt; A
fWM. AgL Oregon Development
Co,, 9ii Montgomrry iL;
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