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J Wirr lrt rtlioVd MuM nfid Miff tthl tKftM wofnffl (rf film llko fi fjrrtit ttiniMlMf fniHt fttotlrit lilli( filtrrf ttioiii ulioro dim rciotri rIIvpf A)ti tct,Un nllvrr pHUtt, AMtt windows of MlWf ntnl tioorfl of RllYfrff fiN1 ttirroN nttd ditiucs of oil' ref lr(lH Inlrf tli) lininrtnqltiM, nml tliu ptoiAifV (Wfiotlrtod ItiiMKlnntlort Vrtlk thrrrtihd thut f(rcut rilvcf l-nlncti of tin) HiilVtfM, (lirotifjh tlifl flrat Klory, tliroiigli tlm Mconri story, thronli tlio third utory, tliroittth tlio twcnUotli fitory, tliniiiRh tlio limidrciHli tory, throtitf the tboiiMiidtli utory, niul realizing tlmt Gmt Im tlio nruliltect mid cnrpentur (ttid Jimoon of All that upheaved fplondor, ha cries out in tlio words of tlio text, "It Ih he tlmt bulldoth hin stories in tho hfiftven." . THE r.LBV ATINO BCinJJCEfl. My licurorn, It Is tiuia that wo widened ' out and heightened our religious thoughts. In our pulpits nnd Sabbath classes nnd Christian work of nil sorts wo ring the changes on n fow verses of Scripture until they excite no interest Mauy of tho best parts of tho Bible have never yot been prenchod from or indued even noticed. Henco I today begin a Bu ries ofsermons, not for consecutive Sab bath mornings, but as often as I think it best for varioty'fl Bake, on tho astronomy of tho Bible, or God among tho stars; tho geology of tho Bible, or God among the rocks; tho ornithology of tho Bible, or God' among tho birds; tho ichthyology of tho Bible, or God among tho fishes; tho pomology of tho Biblo or God among the orchards; tho precious stones of the Biblo, or God among the amethysts; tho conchology of the Biblo, or God among the shells; tho botany of tho Bible, or God among the flowers; tho chronology of the Bible, or God among the centuries. Tho fact is that wo have all spent too much timo on ono story of the great mansion of God's universe. Wo need occasionally to go up stairs or down stairs in this mansion; down stairs and in the cellar study tho rocks, or up stairs and see' God in some of the higher sto ries and learn tho meaning of tho text when it says, "It is ho that buildeth his stories in tho heaven." Astronomy was born in Chaldea. Its mother was astrology, or tho science- of foretelling events by juxtaposition of stars. Tho orientals, living much out of doors and in a very clear atmosphore, through which tho stars shone especially lustrous, got tho habit of studying the night hoavens. In the hot seasons cara vans journeyed chiefly at night, aud that gave travelers much opportunity of stel lar information. On tho first page of tho Bible tho sun and moon and stars roll in. Tho sun, nobody nearly threo million miles in circumference and more than twelve thousand times as largo as our earth; the moon, more than two thousand miles in diameter. But God is used to doing things on such an omnipotent scale that he takes only ono verse to tell of this stellar and lunar manufacture. Yea, in threo words all the other worlds are thrown in. Tho record says, "Tho stars also I" It takes whole pages for a man to extol the mak ing of a telescope or microscope, or a magnetic telegraph or a threshing ma chine, or to describe a fino painting or statuo, but it was so easy for God to hang the celestial upholstery that tho story is compassed in ono vorso; "God tnada two great lights; tho greater light to rulo tho day and tho lesser light to rule tho night. Tho Btars nlsol" Astronomers have been trying to call the roll of them ever sinco, aud thoy have counted multitudes of them pass ing in review before tho observatories built at vast oxpense, and tho size and number of thoso heavenly bodies havo taxed to the titmost tho scientists of all agos. But God finishes all he 1ms to say about them iu threo words, "Tlio Btars alsot" That is Mars with its moro than fif ty-iivo million squnro miles, and Venus witU its moro than ono hundred and ninety-one million square miles, and Saturn with its "moro than nine teen billion square miles, aud Jupi ter with its moro than twonty-four bil lion square miles, and all tho planets of our system of moro than seventy-eight billion squaro miles, nnd thoso stars of our systom, whon compared with tho stars of tho other systems, as a handful of sand compared with all tho Booky mountains aud nil tho Alps. "Tho stars nlsol" For brevity, for ponderosity, for splendor, for suggostivonoss, for sublim ity piled on sublimity, theso words excel all that human speech over uttered or human imagination ever soared after, "Tho stars ulsol" It is put in as you writo a postscript somothing you thought of aftorward, as hardly worth putting into tho body of a letter. "The Btars also!" JOU AND 1SA.UII KNEW, Read on in your Bibles, and after awhile tho Biblo Hashes with tho aurora borealia or northoni lights, that strange Illumination, as mysterious aud uudo lined now as whon in tho book of Job it was written; "Men seo not tho bright light which is in tho clouds. Fair weath er cometh out of tho north." Whilo all the nations supposed that the earth was built on a foundation of some sort, and uiauy wpposod that it stood on a hugo Mnf. ft tf tlfwt 6ii Im n ItfPlMtrtH firm nf ItiffAlftifitM, ilffUr'iftff I irtl "ft ItilfitfVflt lit Mflll HjffifrHftflilrtrf " WiiifrfrtUniiiffrfiiiHiflHRM IfifJ itf III Wrt4 fitf M, liter ok t)fKl ff If life rt (Ml pff ft flrtf iifrifAf hafntf i f f (i nif iif Mf i, imibii mth Id l Kl'ffmMC f If t!6frtftf fttrf mm Id W nlfttmMC f If HitMf, Mflftlf fif ll!i "IM MMMH fllWfl Ittlf AlMfOdf lliftMHtf." H'tl Hlfliirtfllifrf UilhGMUAMA Uf -Attliiffl, Ortort, Hi IMfilflilM Arid lliff "UMt tfltll hP! ffifitltf WfllM fdftfiflftf frtff flfitfnrn Hfnfifif flirt iMfM of yoifffllhtrt Willi III rlfttff hmfilrrtl lliotfrthl In yotlf inlml, jrml tti mi Woflflff At Iff" AHfi ntid IlifJ tfifKitt, Jhtt Wlirtl (1fH llfrtt GliflntMn- know nlrfifit tliril Ifilrriefft whrf t1 lint findff Mind ffitdflflillltf rjf Ihfritf CtVrt llffilltirl flMt ttfilMif jroil TfAfelf ffffufrfh'mlron Mil Juil llifinfl twff mitUU In t fM fnttU ntnl Wffglf (liftfif jroii nrfl ft lii rnfiCrtihll'ollPfilotrttMitltlhoifltit'Pfitioii fifiM of tlmt oconrt In llio llf of JoMiiln, Tim 11111 Otfif (lifpfi htifidfpd tlioAfi1 flfii6 Art Iioat" f ni otiC CAfih ntid tfoftiit ihotlmtfiilffof fnllM Ati hour. Think of Mopfiltitf tlmt find stflttlng Itngnln with out tho shipwreck of tho universal Bui I rrtil oiiolly bollovo It. What confound tiio In not tlmt ho could stop ntid star! nKftlfi thoso two worlds In Joslnm's tlnif, but liint ho could Imro limdo tho wheel of worldx of which tho sun and moon nro only cogs, nnd keep tlmt wheel roll ing for thousands of years tho flywheel of nil eternity. If an onglncor can sfnrt a long train, His not surprising that no can stop it If God could mnko nnd movo tho tint- wse, which 1a nn express trnln drnwn by nn omnipotent engine, I nm not stir prised thnt for n pnrt or a day no could put down tho brakes on two pieces of tho rotnting machinery. Infidelity L hard up for ground of complaint ngains tho Scriptures when it finds fault with that cossntion of stollnrnnd lunar travel. Hero is my wntch. I could not mnko a watch if I tried, but I can stop it and start it again. iMy difficulty is not that God could stop two worlds and start them ngain, but that ho could mako them at all as he did mako thorn. What pleases mo nnd astounds mo moro is that each one of tho millions of worlds has a God given name. Only a comparatively small num ber of them havo names givon thorn by scientists. If astronomeis can give n namo to a whole constellation or galaxy they think thoy do well, but God has name for each star in all immensity Inspired David declares of God, "flu telleth tho number of the stars; ho call eth them all by their names." They aro not orphans that havo nover been christened. They aro not waifs of the night. They aro not unknown ships on tho high seas of immensity. Thoy belong to a family of which God is the Father, and as you call your chil dren Benjamin or Mary or Brtha or Addison or Josephine so ho calls all tho infant worlds and all tho adult worlds by their first name, and they know it as well as though there were only one child of light in all tho divino family. "Ho call eth them all by their names," and when ho calls, I warrant they come. Oh, tho stars! Thoso vestal fires kept burning on infinite ultars. Thohe light houses on tho coast of etorniry. The hands and weights and pendulum of tho great clock of tlio uni verso. According to Herschel, thf bo called fixed stars are not fixed at all, but each ono a sun with a mighty systom of worlds rolling round it, and this whole system with all tho other systems rolling on around home other great center millions and mil lions, billions aud billions, trillions nnd trillions, quadrillions and quadrillions! THU INHABITED WOKLDS. But what gladdens mo, and at th same time overwhelms me, is that those worlds aro inhabited. Tho Biblo s.iys so, and what a small idea you must havo of God and his dominion if you think it only extends across this chip of a world which you and 1 now inhabit. Havo you taken this idea of all tho other worlds being inhabited as human guess work? Read Isaiah, forty-fifth chap ter, eighteenth verso, "Tims saith the Lord tlmt created tho heavens, God himself thnt formed the earth and made it; ho hath established it, he croated it not in vain, ho formed it to be inhabited:" Now, if ho inhabited tho earth so that it would not be created in vain, would ho make worlds hundreds aud thousands of times larger and not havo them inhabited? Spoaking of the inhabitant' of this world, ho says, "Tlio nations aro as tlio drop of a bucket." If all the inhabitants of this world aro as a drop of a bucket, where are tho other drops of tho bucket? Again and again the Biblo speaks of the host of heavon, and the word "host" means living crea tures, not inert masses, aud tho expres sion "hosts of heaven" must mean in habitants of othor worlds. Tho psalm ist cries out, "Thy mercy is groat abovo tho heavens." If thoro wero no inhabi tants abovo tlio heavens, what use of uny mercy? Again, the Bible oxclaims, "Tliy goodness is great above the heav ens." What could bo tho use of his goodness above tho heavens if there wero no inhabitants to enjoy it? Again, tho Biblo cays, "no has set thy glory abovo tho henvons," And hero my toxt comes iu witli its idea of a mansion of many stories, "It is ho that buildeth his stories in tho heavon." Is it possible thnt wo who livo on tho ground floor of this many storied build ing nro tho only tenants, mid that tho larger rooms, and tho moro gorgeously upholstered rooms, and tho moro bril linntly chandolierod rooms nbovo it aro uninhabited? Besido this wo are posi tivoly told in tho Biblo that two other worlds aro inliubited tho world angolio and the world diabolic. Thoso two worlds added to our own .make it posi tive tint threo worlds nro inhabited. Why thou stop with threo worlds of liv ing beings when there nro not only mil lions but billions of worlds? Aro they all standing Uko expensively furnished houses in timo of financial pjnio marked "To Lot," and no ono to tako them? All around us in this world wo see economy of omulpotonco, It Christ was going to food tho hun- fi!ii rm fmfjwdMr Better than a Government Bend, higher rate of interest, indemnity in old age or at' doath. You cannot loso a dollar in a Massachusetts company. Cash and paid up values guaranteed eachjyear. Mr. IT. G. Colton, Gen'l Agent of tho Massachu setts Mutual. Life Insurance company, is in tho city and if you aro thinking of carry indiasurauoe he will be glad to see you. Call at tho Willamette Hotel or at the office rf MITCHELL & LUNN, Keaident Agents. MwriHWprrwRinw IfirtiMwl ih fK wilifwwM, Rrt mmf a WW f l(t iwf 4 flim mf fifw Itfn fWtW, mllfirf fin frwtM f M flfff A Jtof f illiff VfA lfW! "Wrt nnf," fl'M limit Wflffff All Tf HH fflil. Aitd 1f jtm miptiff HiAt (In fjMfi wniil Wit' wnthi hiiffffiii iff wtf mm nffft lf HiA rlfiwiifif of flint lm ItOMf fillinrtlwi iWMfffi litttnlfWI IMllloff ffilf of "did t-nntrriM, nnd nif out a fHimli ftrtfl A W)filjrtfifi Willi fltliAf AjtWM ttMAt ti W (Mitkff rif Ifil4 inifiy lAf Iwl fllrtflMflll lf HiA lA.f, Wllfffl It SATf, "II U lif) tlmt dtillilollf hU Atorlr-f lit thf Id'AVPn' lild IVnfwtf ffAflit ntid Iil4 llAf (Jrtthfflii, Iff flfidliiK worliU llffil nl worhU utilnhrtliltMl nnd A vtnU1 U OrH, wIiIaJi l'lrt!i!l i1lswivpfil III IWI WAMrd? AVpslAjImtOllifMitlsftivifMi In I'Mrf. waMmI? U IVfrffifflfiP, whffti! I'foMfWoP illlllPf itlAttriVaftMl In IWHl, wmfmlf U trAillii, which I'rnfiHMof lllud illsoovfirpit In IMI, waaImII Ia IMlidofA, dlsootfirrd In 1M by I'rofmwnf HrifJo, wnsledl' Aro the fifteen thniisfliid sliirs reoordrd lit on ynrtr In '" obiofVAtorr nl Wnshliiglfii WAstnl? In nil fvr('fit tho billionth purl fif tho uiilversn wnslfd? iMy limtrfrK, l It possible tlmt God would run such n splendid pitssnonger trnlu of parlor curs through tho lioiivoiniaiidkefp It riiiiiilnx If thoro woro no passengers' Judging from tho extont of tho unl vrrso, do you think God would put nil hU family on such limits ni this world marks? If n king ImVn n palace of ono hundred rooms, will ho put nil his prince nnd priuccsse.i in one comparatively small room? As the highest happiness is in making others happy, Is it not certain that God ' would occupy lurger places than our fitnnll earth with bcitiKS caoablo oi happiness? Besides this, why all the worlds farthest on and farthest up covered with light? What is tho use of light if there aro no eyes of Inhabit ants to enjoy nnd employ that light? OTHER WORLDS THAN OUK3. I admit that scientific exploration hns discovered that around many worlds there is an atmosphere iu which lungs Uko ours could not breathe, and there aro heats or colds that physfquo like ours' could not endure. But do you snpposo that wo have tho only kind of lungs that God can make? Do our bodios exhaust divine ingenuity, nnd must ho make all intelligent creatures with our respiration or pulsation or mastication or digestiou or habitude, or not make them nt all? Because orgau- isms like ours cannot livo iu Mercury or Qniiin ni -Tunlfot ri flia aiifi wt linvn nn Saturn or Jupiter or the sun we have no right to conclude that those globes aro lifeless. Without any telescope nnd without any observatory nnd without any astro nomical calculation, I know that tho other worlds aro inhabited, becauso my Bible and my common sense tell mo so. It has boen estimated that in tho worlds belonging to our solar system there is room for at least twenty-five trillion of population. And I bolievo it is all oc cupied or will bo occupied by intelligent beings. God will not fill them with brutes. He would certainly put into thoso worlds beings intelligent enough to appreciate tho architecture, tho color ing, the grandeur, the beauty, tho har mony of their surroundings. Yea, the inhabitants of those worlds havo capacity of locomotion like ours, for they, would not havo had such spa cious opportunity for movement if thoy had not powers of motion. Yea, they havo sight, else why tho light and hear ing; else how get on with necessary lan guage aud how clear themselves from advancing perils? Yea, as God made onr human race in his own imago he prob- ( ably made tho inhabitants of other worlds ' iu his own image in other words, it is as near demonstration as I caro to havo it, that while tho inhabitants of other worlds havo adaptations of bodily struc ture to tho particular climate in which they dwell, thero is yet similarity of mental and spiritual characteristics among all tlio inhabitants of tho uni verse of God, and m ado in his imago they are made wonderfully alike. Now what should bo tho practical re sult of this discussion founded on Scrip ture and common sense? It is first of all to enlarge our ideas of God and so in tensify our aduiiration and worship. Under 6uch consideration how much moro graphic tho Biblo question, which soems to roll back the sleovo of the Al mighty and say, "Hast thou an arm like God?" Tho contemplation also en courages us with the thought that if God mado all theso worlds and populated them it will not bo very much of an un dertaking for him to make our littlo world ovor again and reconstruct tho character of its populations as by grace thoy ure to be reconstructed. SCIENCE AND HEVULATION. What a monstrosity of ignorance that tho majority of Christian people listen not to the voices of other worlds, al though the book says, "Tho heavens de clare tho glory of God," aud again, "The works of tho Lord aro great and to bo sought out." How much havo you sought them out? You havo been satisfying yourself with somo things about Christ, but have you noticed that Paul calls you to consider Christ as tho creator of other worlds, "by whom also ho made the worlds." It is timo you Christians start on a WOrld hunt. That is tho chief reason why God makes tho night that you may tee other worlds. Go out tonight nnd look up at the great clock of the lieavons. Listen to the silvery chimo of the mid night sky. Seo that your children and , grandchildren mount the heavens with telescope for alpenstock, leaping from acclivity of ligjit to acclivity of light. What a beautiful and sublima thing tlmt John Quiucy Adams, tho ox-presi-dont, borno down with years undertook nt tho peril of his Hfo tho journey from Washington to Cincinnati that ho might lay tho cornerstone of tho pier of tlio great refracting telescope aud thero making his last oration. What n sorvico for all mankind when in 1830 Lord Rosso lifted on tho lawn of his castle, eighty miles from Dublin, a telescope that revealed worlds as fast as thoy could roll in, ami that started uu enthusiasm which this moment concen- im ifi ft f wr' iiw dm! ft' fif in dfl wff f fnn iwifffi iwlMiiil itf'iWff. TlfWif nm Hwt w ftHfl' kft MfAmrrnwtt wntvt h imfffuwi nil Aft trf rMlffM nf tftnfr, Iff- t. Af Mtf htm IfAHful in ItH 1tf ftWAffMll l (II ll' fMllffir. Illtlf - if hlrfT lfAtHf rtft fifill, Aft Afirll Iiir1-i o if iHWAfi, Uiklfijt Isft days l Alt llf M JMflll, rtwl htif Iwl out of PAf III, lAftlfttf lfl f((ifdrt)rs(ff HffllffllfdlllotH gf(iWgtiln(iWflfifilMhsfllrsf , yiMdwr41' fl,,,, f fr 'i"l wn"l'' il ffwIiffwfiliffmleflffilwiififtrAMfiHaf h'fft, TV fi!l ikS tA IA Id' lflff NSf nf Mi 1 ftiflfflf IM tlmt wn liAfrrt ffiimd offt lliitfrnr world U (nit lulf WAV liAfwiwfi Ihmrffi mid hull, hill U In n tlstofhwid nf llglif, Atiil tlinl fhM nUlfitl'fifKl jfdiiA nil thfiofhsrslslcrhtfocUof WnHd4, tnof ln round somo grrnt IioimmIi nd, whUdi l no ilniilil liwtVMf. whfro (lot! Is and our rifiinffril ChrMlnti frlnids nro, nnd wk fmrwivp a fiiroitgn pardoning inordy oxiifipl lo Itecotiio prrinniiMil reolilffilA, riirtliHritinrfi, 1 get now from nil this nt! iinswpr to tho ipirsllofi whlrli nvnry InMlltfnni man nnd woiiimi slure tho inrih liiH stood has nskrd Add rmdved no answer why did God let sin and sorrow poiiio Into tho world whon ho could havo proveiilcd them from com li I wish rnverently to tny I think 1 havo foi""1 tho reason, To keep tho imlvprso loyal to a Holy God, It was lm portuul Hi soma world somowhero to demons! rnto tho gigantic disasters thnt would ennui niton nny world thnt allow cd sin to enter. Which world should it be? Well, tho smaller tho world tho bet - tor. fur ks.i numbers would RiilTnr. So . . ' , 1 ,..! mi i 1 our worm vtiin Boiecieu. 111a siogo vran plenty largo enough for tho enactmont t tho tragedy. Enter on tho stage sin, followed by murder, pain, theft, fraud, Impurity, falsehood, massaoro, wnr nnd nil the abominations nnd horrors and agonies of centuries. Although wo know comparatively littlo about tho other worlds lest wo become completely dis satisfied with our own, no doubt tho other worlds havo heard and nro now hearing nil about this world in tho aw ful experiment of sin which tho human race has been making. In some way interstellar communica tion is open, and all worlds, either by wing of flying spirits or by direct com munication from God, aro learning that disloyalty and disobedience doom and damn everything they touch, nnd tho spectacle practically says to all other werlds: "Obey God, keep holy and stay j tlio orbit whero you wero intended to .....:... ,tA. .... ...Ill nITn.il.A. ...1.: 1. j.1..... swing, or you will suuer tnat wnicn tlmt recreant world out yonder has been suf fering for thousands of years." It is no longer to me a mystery why bo small a world as onrs was chosen for tho trag edy. A chemist can demonstrate all the laws of earth and heavon in a small laboratory, ten feet by five, and our world was not too small to demonstrate to tlio universo the awful chemistry of unrighteousness, its explosive and riving and consuming power. I do not beliove that thero is a world that has been in existenco from the time when Copernicus tho astronomer knocked on the door of heaven, to the world that last week came within sight of tho observatory at Greenwich, but has heard of our terrific terrestial exper iment, and the aw.ful object lesson has thrilled the multimillions of stellar pop ulation, especially when they heard that in order to arrest the disaster of centuries the World Maker and the World Starter and the World Upholder must give up his only Son to assassination to expiate and restoro nnd save tho victims of the planetary shipwreck. 'run TOWER OF PIIAKOS. On tho tower of Pharos, Egypt, a me tallic mirror was raised which reflected all that occurred both on land and sea for a distance of three hundred miles, and so Egypt was informed of tho com ing of her enemies long before their ar rival. By what process I know not, but in somo way this ship of a struggling earth, I think, i? mirrored to distant worlds. Surely this ono experiment of a world unloosing itself from God will bo enough for all worlds and all eter nities. But notice that as othor worlds rolled into the first book of tho Bible, the book of Genesis, they also appear in the last book of the Bible, tho book of Rovelation. They will tako part in the scenes of that occasion, which shall bo the earth's winding up and a tremen dous occasion for you and me person ally. My father was on tho turnpike road botween Trenton and Bound Brook, Now Jersey. He was coining through tlio night from the legislative halls, whero ho was serving his state, to his homo, whero there wns sickness. I often heard him toll about it. Itwa3 tho night of the 12th and the morning of the lath of November, 163J. The sky wns cloudless and tho air clear. Suddenly tho whole heavens be came a scene never to bo forgo ten. From the constellation Leo meteors be gan to shoot out in all directions. For tho two hours between four and six in tho morning it was estimated that a thousand meteors a minute flashed and expired. It grow lighter than noonday. Arrows of lira. Balls of fire. Trails of fire. Showers of fire. Somo of tlio ap pearances woro larger than tho full moon. All around tho lieavons oxplo Fion followed explosion. Souudsaswoll as sights. The air filled with uproar. All tho luminaries of tho sky seemed to have received marching orders. The heavens ribbed nnd interlaced and gar landed with meteoric display. From horizon to horizon everything in. com bustion and conflagration, Many a brain that night gnvo way. It was an awful strain on strongest nerves. Millions of people fell on their knees in prayer. Was tlio world ending, or was thero somo great event for which all heaven was illuminated? For eight mo mentous hour tho phenomenon lasted. East, west, north, south it looked as though tho heavens wero in maniac dis order. Astronomers watchiug that night said, that thoso meteors Btnrted from O.liOO miles nbovo tho earth's surf nee and moved with ten times the speed of a cannon ball. , Tho owner of a plantation iu South iwm m I id urn fotMffllMtlf f m fitful "("Wl Ml M ftM-fanf? ftwtewfl tnicifiifxt liMf fatf pffptf fffAt mt Ml a mf pam, flhflfkAf" iffiffAf Ainl aHm if HHfy I Pflfll'l llMf ffir1 ffWf Af III" UAtff"Mf HlfPA fuVfAF HlftWIflflflff If! fill f AlKifit nl ?fltM fmiftlfrM, Wh'tA Prlf Ifritll flsfAfrttM ff Hip paha f hPrtfd A fAllit ttilPfl nPrtf flifl itnof mrtllfiif ftiy flrtffirt. I trt, rtful (aklfirf fur Utfofd Xffioil Af tUn !'(, Af Hil ffiniMsnt t llfrtfll HfA lff" T-fPA Allll liPUfWdlfflrf Miff Ih flsP, rtft'f sAflflif, 'fHf. Uif Godl fhA World lftfiflrf I thPli opcnml Ihfldoof, And II l (HnVflll ffi fl? whlrli Pftplfttt flirt fllOAl, flirt rtWfnlflPlM of flirt SPPIlA of titer itlf rptl crl" of llio tiAitf.iP. Up Wrthl fif fw lifliwlrrd lay fifosffAfo otl thrt tfrotifid -iih uppff'lilfjw nnd sotnrt fiflrtrlfttf 'ho Miiorpsl urlM, hut most wlfh tliflr Imnds raNrd Iffiplof lux God lo sava tho world nnd IIipih, Tho scpno was truly nwfiili for iievef did riln fall tiiucli Ihlckrr Hum tlm itiofpors fell Io wa rd tho pflHli." Hill thet ptplfpiiirnt tlinsdfscrlbcd by tho soiilhern plniifrr ran ninorif; tlio whites ns well ih tlio bhicksi ainiiiig tho Intelligent as well n tllO StlHTKll!l)tl, Tlltt BT,!t HflOWRIt Ot 18!MI. Tlio specfaclo ceased not until tho rl lug sun of tho November morning eclipsed it, nnd tho whole American na tion sat down exhausted with the agita tions of a night to bo memorable Until tho earth Itself slmll become a falling star. Tlio Bible olososwilh such n scene of fulling llrflits not only fidgety indo ors, but univii old stnrB. Ht. John saw ! jt n prosfiect aud wrote, " i'ho stars of heaven fell unto tho earth, even as n fig troo castoth her untimely figs whon sho is shaken of n mighty wind." What a timo thnt will be when worlds drop! Ruin of plnnots. Gravitation lotting looso her grip on worlds. Constellations flying apart. Galaxies dissolved. Tho great orchard of tho universe, swept by the last hurricane, letting down tho stars like ripened fruit. Our old earth will go with the rest, and lot it go, for it will have existed long enough to completo its tremendous experiment. But thoro will be enough worlds left to mako a heaven out of, if any moro heaven needs to bo built. That day finding us in CI ist, our natnro regen erated, nnd our sms pardoned, and our hopo triumphant, wo will feel no moro alarm than when in September, passing through an orchard, you hear the apples thump to tho ground, or through a con servatory and you bear an untimely fig drop on tho floor. You will only go up stairs into another story, a better lighted story, a hotter furnished Btory, a better ventilated story, a better pictured story, and into a story whero already many of your kin dred are waiting for you, and whero prophets and apostles and martyrs will pay you celestial visitation, aud whore, with a rapture beyond the most radiant anticipation, you shall bow before him that "buildeth his stories iu the heaven." Tho Ilcason for nn Action. "Oh, papa, I know what makes peo ple laugh in their sleeves 1" "Well, my son, what makes them?" "'Cause that's where their funny bono Is!" Exchange. mt MRS. ELMIRA HATCH. HEART DISEASE 20 YEARS. Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. Vzx.it Bies: For 20 years I was troubled with heart disease. Would frequently have falling epells and tmothering at night. Bad to sit up or get out of bed to breathe. Had pain In my left aide and back most ef the time; at last I became dropsical. I was very nervous and nearly worn out. Ilia least excitement would cause mo to THOUSANDS Ek3 with fluttering. For the last fifteen years I could not Bleep on my leftside or back until began taking your Au Heart Cure. I had not taken it very long until I felt mnch better, and I can now sleep on either side or back without the least discom fort. I have no pain, smothering, dropsy, no wind on stomach or other disagreeable symptoms. I am able to do all my own housework without any trouble and consider myself cured, Elkhart, Ind., 1BS3. Mrs. Elvira IIatcb. It is now four years sinco I have taken any medicine. Am in better health than I have boen In 40 years. I honestly Mll W , & llove that Dr. mie Kno CURED Ueart Cure soved my lite w W n fc- IW and made me a well woman. I am now 62 years of age, and am able to do a good day's work. May 2Stth, l$2. Mas. Elmiea IUtcu. 0OLD ON A POSITIVE GUARANTEE. TRY DR. MILES' PILLS, 50 DOSES 25 CTS. cioiu by i. J, Fry, drugn st, ralera. DEK'S FMK fiWll Ml LATEST PATENTS HCCT WITH ELEC7nO MACHETIC SUSPENSOilV. IMPROVEMENTS. '" Will eor Without Utile' il tTeituru re initio from oreriftifctloD of brlt, nerr rrtci,eseuea or (nlicrc llou. " w-tvn( visiai, ivri,i iiivvi uruilllT, Fflp itmni. Uwuor. rboumulim, kiflney, llm and LUddr cmrUiat,Um back, lumbago, tclalica, ftntrt! 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OREGON PACIFIC RAILROAD And Oregon uevelopmeut company' neumshlp line, as miles shorter, iu houn . .-.....c ,Uuu u any oiuei louie. rira iass through passenger unit freight lln rom Portland aud all points In the Wl uuiette ullevjto aud Irom Sau 1-wucls" TIME SCHEDULE, (Except Huudayd). Lt'Jtve Albany . . L).e(J)rvalils vrrlve Yau,ulnu . ivtave Yamilrm l:lfl P lit 1:10 P 11 6:1 P W I5A M utuvo .iriuii8 Vrrivo Albany 11:10 AM Kr.J5AU .orklllC' ,ra,nS nnect ot Albany and ?itle,1trve trulnn connect at YAQUINA JmJ:. ,eon l-Ve,opruenl Co's Lln llbUianiNhilMlbQtWIUlll V.niiln. nn.l Ua "'rKnolseo. vJiiii,,!nsff Den ,n,lu Portland nnd li i55f " Vulil7 pu'uu C4iu male tlost erurf date of sailing. Ageuu auiand ittl font nt,, r.rtUind, Or aO. HOQTJK Atfl Oen'l Krt. ft Pas. Agu, Oregon Paolflo R, U. Co., 0r;iiB.,f'UWS0' rM. Aft OfMM UvTrioAawt ir-iij i mi ii i I I CD CO S CD .1 V.1 CD CO 1 0 I o o CO go caMM&,, rrp,ur,B .v. fairt'i