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JAGHlfiAWlCObMPAlTH. i ' REV. DR. TALMAGE ON RE-ENFORCEMENT AT THE TABERNACLE. How to Accomplish Tills Deilrnblo Result. Science nit a CoiMlncInc Wltnens How to 6lve Oopbl Llfo'to Frcorllic fioulii. . -BROOKLYN, S6pt. 17. In hls.sjraion nt fhe Brooklyn Tabernpqle th$s"fofenoon rant afiu&!Wltt; TaTmhge flreactied to a iWoirfent," tlio"&e subject of "Re-en-"Lord, increaso our'faith."T'nko xvil c "What n pity he lamping thero I" saia my friend a most, distinguished general of the arinj, when be raa tbld that tho reason fof my 'tfot (being present on a celebrated day in Brooklyn was that on that day I had sailed for the Holy Land. "Why do you say that?" inquired soma one. My military friend replied, "Oh, bo 'will bo disillusioned whenho gets amid tho squalor and commonplaco scenes of Palestine, and his faith will bo shaken lu Christianity, for that is often tho re sult." Tho great general misjudged tho case. I went to tho Holy Land for tho one purposo of having my faith strength ened, and that was tho result which came of it. In all our journeying, in all our reading, in all our associations, in nil our plans, augmentation rather than tho depletion of our faith should be our chief desire. It is easy enough to have our faith destroyed. I can givo you a recipe for its obliteration. Read infidel books, have long and frequent conversa tions with rkeptics, attend tho lectures of those antagonistic to religion, givo full swing to some bad habit, and your faith will bo so completely gone that you will laugh at the idea that you ever had any. If you want to ruin your faith, you can do it more easily than you can do any thing else. After believing tho Bible all nly life I can see a plain way by which, in sirweeks, I could enlist my voice and pen and heart and head and entire nature in tho bombardment of tho Scriptures and tho church and all I now hold sacred. That it is easy to banish soon and forever all respect for tho Bible I prove by tho fact that so many have done it. Thoy were not particularly brainy nor had especial force of will, but they so thoroughly ac complished the overthrow of their faith n that they have no more idea that the Bible is true, or that Christianity amounts to anything, than they have in the truth of the "Arabian Nights' Enter tainments" or tho existence of Don Quix ote's "windmills." They havo destroyed their faith so thoroughly that they never will havo a return of it. Fifty revivals of religion may sweep over tho city, tho town, the neighbor hood where they live, and they will feel nothing but a silent or expressed dis pust. Theroaro persons in this house today who 20 years ago gave up their faith, and they will never resume it. The black and deep toned bell of doom hangs over their head, and I tako tho hammei t that bell, and I strike it three times with all my might, and it sounds, wool woel wool But my wish, and tho wish of most of you, is tho prayer expressed by tho disciples to Jesus Christ in tho words of my text, "Lord, increaso our faith." STRENGTH OP THE BIBLE. The first mode of accomplishing this is to study the Bible itself. I do not be lieve there is an infidel now alive who has read tho Bible, through. But as so important a document needs to bo read nt least twice through in order that it may be thoroughly understood, and read in course, I now offer $100 reward to any infidel who has read tho Biblo through twice and read it in course. But I cannot tako such a man's own word for it, for there is no foundation for integri ty exoept tho Biblo, and the man who re jects tho source of truth how can I ac cept his truthfulness? So I must have another witness in tho case before I give tho reward. ImuBt havo tho testimony of some one who has seen him read it all through twice. In fidels fish in this Biblo for incoherences and contradictions and absurdities, and if you find their Bible you will Bee inter lineations in the book of Jonah and somo of tho chapters of that unfortunate prophet nearly worn out by much use, and some parts of II Samuel or i Kings you will find dim with finger marks, but the pages which contain the Ten Commandments, and the Psalms of. David, and tho sermon on tho mount, and the book of John tho Evangelist, will not have o single lead pencil strokein the margin nor any finger marks showing frequent perusal. The father of one of tho presidents of tho United States was a pronounced in fidel. I knew it when many years ago I accepted his invitation to spend the night in bis home. Just before retiring at night ho said in a jocose way, "I suppose yon 'are accustomed to read the Bible before going to bed, and here is my Bible from which to read." He then told me what portions he would like to have me read, and ho only asked for those portions on which he could easily be facetious. You know you can make fun nbour anything. I suppose you could take ho last letter your father or mother over rote and find something in the gram , i,. or thn Bnellinir or the tremor of the jmnanship about which to be derisively critical. The internal btiucucjuibuijt truthfulness of the BiWao 1,600,000.000 that no one royiesent population or tho of thAjxulions of the past ever read the uible in course, and read it prayerfolly and carefully, bnt wat, led to believe it John Murray, the famous book pub lisher of Edinburgh and the intimate friend of Bouthey, Coleridge, Walter Scott, Canning and Washington Irving, bought of Moore, the poet, the "Memoirs of Lord Byron," and they were to be published after Byron's death. Rut they ro not fit to be published, although "rray had paid for them f 10,000. That a a solemn conclave when eight of Jbe .ominent literary people of thoso(timea remblfidi AJbemaxJe street after By ron's dth to decide what should be dona with Um "XNDOiro," which w shargod and surcharged with defama tions and indelicacies. Tiid "Memoirs' wero read and .pondered, aiid the decision camo that they must be burned, and noi until tho last word of thoso "Memoirs" went to ashes did tho literary conipan Beparate. But suppose, now, all tho best spirits oi all ages wero assembled to decide tho fate of the Biblo, which is the last will and testan. -nt of our Heavenly Father, aud theso i .noirs of our Lord Jesus, what would be the verdict? Shall they burn, tr shall they live? The unanimous ver dict of all is, "Let them livo, though all else burn." Then put together on tho raVcio unn(l ftH tho debauchees and profli uuanimo'usTc!3!"8 of the aSea' ?,nd "?!r would be, "Let it burtf.ermnS tho Blbla Mind yoiij I do not say that an . , . aro immoral, but I do say that all the scrapegraces and scoundrels of tho uni verse agree with them about tho Bible. Let me vote with those who believe in tho holy Scriptures. Men believe other things with half tho evidence required tc believo the Bible. The distinguished Ab ner Kneeland rejected tho Scriptures and then put all his money into un en terprise for the recovery of that hocus pocus "Captain Kidd's treasures," Kneo land's faith for doing so being founded on a man's statement that he could tell where thoso treasures were buried from Ihe looks of a glass of water dipped from tho Hudson river. The internal evidence of the authen ticity of the Scriptures is so exact and so vivid that no man, honefit and sane, can" thoroughly and contmuously and prayerfully lead them without entering their discipleship. So I put that inter nal evidenco paramount. How are you led to believe in a letter you received from husband or wife or child or friend? You knowthe handwriting. You know the style. You Tecognize tho sentiment. When the letter comes, you do not sum mon the postmaster who stamped it, and the postmastej"who received it, and the letter carrierMvho brought it to your door to prove that it is a raiuine letter. Tho internal evidenco settles it, and by tho same process you can forevor settle the fact that the Bible is tho handwrit ing and communication of the infinite God. A SUBLIME PHILOSOPHY. Furthermore, as I have already inti mated, we may increase our faith by the testimony of others. Perhaps we of less er brain may have been overcome by superstition or cajoled into an acceptance of a hollow pretension. So I will this morning turn this house into a court room and summon witnesses, and you shall be the jury, and I now impanel you for that purpose, and I will put upon the witness stand men whom all the world acknowledge to bo strong intellectually and whose evidence in any other court room would be incontrovertible. I will not call to the witness stand any min ister of tho gospel, for he might bo prej udiced. There aro two ways of taking an oath lu it courtroom, one is -uy putting the lips to tho Bible and tho other is by holding up the right hand toward heav en. Now, as in this caso it is tho Bible that is on trial, we will not ask the wit ness to put tho book to his lips, for that would imply that tho sanctity and divin ity of the book is settled, and that would be begging the question. So I shall ask each witness to lift his hand toward heaven in affirmation. Salmon P. Chase, chief justice of the supreme court of tho United States, ap pointed by President Lincoln, will take tho witness stand. "Chief Justice Chase, upon your oath, please state what you have to Bay about tho book common ly called tho Biblo." The witness re plies: "There came a time in ray lifo when I doubted the divinity of tho Scriptures, nnd I resolved, as a lawyer and judge, I would try tho book as I would try anything in tho courtroom, taking evidenco for and against. It was a long and serious and profound study, and using tho same principles of ovidenco in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters I havo come to tho decision that tho Biblo is a supernatural book, that it has coino from God, and that tho only safety for , lintnun raco is to follow its teach ings." "Judge, that will do. Go Kfeck again to your pillow of dust on the banks of the Ohio." Next I put upon tho witness stand a president of the United States John Quincy Adams. President Adams, what havo you to say about tho Bible and Christianity?" The president replies: "I have for many years made it a pructico to read through tho Biblo once a year. Mycustomisto read four or five chap ters every morning immediately after arising from my bed. It employs about an hour of my time and seems to me the mostBuitablo manner of beginning the day. In what light soever we regard the Bible, -whether with reference to jey elation, to history or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of Lnnntloilrra nml vlrtUG." Next I put upon the witness stand Sir Isaac Newton, tho author of the "Prin cipia" and tho greatest natural phlloso r,fcf thn world has ever seen. "Sir Isaac, what havo yon to say concernifl the liiuler xne pnuosojiu ooaio ue iWe account thaScrMjphy," the most anbUptjD the witness stand the Nextment of letters. Sir Walter Wcott, ajad when I ask him what be thinks of the place that our great book onght to take among other books he re plies, "There is but ono book, and that is the Bible." Next I put upon the stand tho most famous geologist of all time. Hugh Mil ler, an elder of Dr. Guthrie's Presby terian church In Edinburgh, and Fara day and Kepler, and they all testify to the same thing. They all say the Bible Is from God, and that the mightiest in fluence for good that ever touched our world is Christianity. "Chancellor Kent, what do you think of the Bible? Answer! "No other book ever addressed itself to authoritatively and so pathetically to the juugiueaa w.u moral tense of mankind." "Edmund Burke, what do you think . f the Biblri" Answer! "I have read .BVJfiJNlJNGr OiflJeilAiJU the J3iblo morning,. noon and night, and have ever sinco b n tho happier and tho better mail for such reading." Next I put upon the stand William E. Gladstone, the head of tho English gov ernment, nnd I hear him saying what ho said to mo in January of 1890, when in reply to his telegram, "Pray come to Hawarden tomorrow," 1 visited him. Then and there I asked him as to wheth er in the passage of years his faith in the holy Scriptures and Christianity was on the increase or decrease, and ho turned upon me with an emphasis and enthusi asm such as no one who has not con versed with him can fully appreciato and expressed by voice and gesturo and illumined countenance his ever increas ing faith in God and the Biblo and Chris tianity as tho only hope of our ruined world. "That Is all, Mr. Gladstone, we . J ko of $our tlmo now, for, from aiTSrnowT011 inEng busy." you nro very The next man I put upon tho wiw... stand is the late Earl of Kintore, and I ask him what he thinks of Christianity, and ho replies, "Why do you ask me that? Did you not hear me preach Christ in the Midnight Mission of London?" "Oh, yesl I romomberl" But I seo many witnesses present today in tho courtroom, and I call you to tho witness stand, but I havo only n second of time for any one of you. As you pass along just give one sentence in regard to Christianity. "Under God it has changed my entire nature," says one. "It brought me from drunken ness and poverty to sobriety and a good home," says another. "It solaced mo when I lost my child," says another. "It gave mo a hope of fnturo treasures when my property was swept off by the last panic," says another. "It has given me a pearo and a satisfaction more to me than all tho world beside," says another, "It has been to mo light and mnsio and fragrance and radiant anticipation," says another. Ahl stop the procession of witnesses. Enough! Enough I All those voices of tho past and tho present havo mightily Increased our faith. TESTIMONY OK TOE ROCKS. Again, our belief is re-enforced by ar chaeological exploration. We must con fess that good men nt one timo were afraid of geologist's hammer and chemist's cru ciblo aud archaeologist's investigation, but now intelligent Christians aro re ceiving and still expecting nothing but confirmation from all such sources. What supports the Palestine Exploration, soci ety? Contributions from churches and Christian benefactors. I saw tup marks of the Bhovols of that oxplorlpg iBociety amid the rnins of ancient Jericho nnd all up and down from the. I)ead sea to Cassarea Philippi. "Dig away I" says the ohurch of God, "and the deeper you dig the better I like." The discovered monuments of Egypt havo chiseled on them the story of the sufferings of tho Israelites in Egyptian bondage, as wo find itin tho Bible there. inLimDeriahabln ntona iro. tions of the slave, of the whips and of the taskmasters who compolled the making of bricks without straw. Ex- humod Nineveh nnd Babylon, with their dusty lips, declare tho Biblo truo. Na poleon's soldiers in tho Egyptian cam paign pried up a stone, which yon may find in the British muReuin, n stone, as I remember it, presenting perhaps two feet of lettered surface. It contains words in three languages. That stono was tho key that unlocked tho meaning of all tho hieroglyphics of tombs and obelisks and tells over and over again tho samo events which Moses recorded. Tho sulphurous graves of Sodom and Gomorrah havo been identified. The ro malns of thotowor of Babel havo been found. Assyrian documents lifted from the sand and Behistnn inscription hun dreds of feet high up on tho rock echo and re-echo the truth of Biblo history. Tho signs of tho timo indicate that al most evory fact of the Biblo from lid to lid will find its corroboration in ancient city disentombed, or ancient wall cleared from tho dust of ages, or ancient document unrolled by archaeologist. Boforo tho world rolls on 8 far Into tho twentioth century aa it has already rolled Into tho ninotoenth an infidel will be a man who does not believe his own senses, and tho volumes now crit irvil and denunciatory of the Bible, if not entirely devastated by the book worms, will bo taken down frpra tho shelf as curiosities of Ignoranco or Idiocy. All success to the pickaxes and crow bars nnd powder blasting of those apos tles of archteological exploration. I like the ringing defiance of tho old Huguenots to thansaailanttfof Christianity: "Pound away, you rebelsl Your hammers break, but tho anvil of God's word stands." How wonderfully the old book hangs together. It is a library made up of 60 books nnd written by at least 89 authors. It is a supernatural thing that they have stuck together. Tako tho writings of any other 39 authors, or any 10 authors, or any 5 authors, and put them togemer.wiy how long would they stay implied Books of "elegant ext0'pr0?eri,jaiiy from many jnti5,10WOueB-nchbook short livedU8 the publisher's phrase, wjf 'life In it" for five years. Why Is it that tho Bible, made up of the writings of at least 80 authors, has kept together for a long line of centu ries when the natural tendency would have been to fly opart like loose sheets of paper when a gust of wind blows npon them? It is because God stnek them to gether and keei them together. But for that Joshua would have wandered off in ono direction, and Paul into another, and Ezekiel iuto another, and Ilabakknkinto another, and the 09 authors Into 89 direc- ti Put the writings of Bliakwpearo and Tenuyson and Longfellow, or any part t.. nrthfr. How lonirvronld they stay together? No book bindery could keep them together. But the cannon of Scripture is loaded now with the same ammunition with which prophet and apostle loaded Jt. Bring me all the Bibles of the earth Into one pile, and blindfpld me so that I capnpt telj the dlfferencojbetween day a nft,t and nnt into mv hand any one of all that Alpine mountain of aacrtd j daOK!N"ALi MOORAT, ". munr; booLSjund puVuryiinvr on tiie last page of Genesis and let mo know it, nnd I can tell you what is c.i tho noxt page namely, the first chapter of Exodus; or wink) thus blindfolded put my finger on tlio last chapter Of Matthew and let mo know it, and I will tell you what is on the nest page namely, tho first chapter Of Mark. Iu tho pile of 600,000,000 Bibles there will be no excoptiou. In other words, tho book gives mo confi dence by its supernatural adhesion of writing to writing. Even tho stoatt 't shipGoinetimes shifts its cargo, nnd th.it i3 what made our peril tho ,rro iter in tho ship Grecco of tne N.monnl lino when tho cyclono struck us off tho coast of Newfoundland, and tho cargo of iron had shifted as tho ship swung from larboard to starboard, and from starboard to larboard. But, thanks be to God, this old Biblo ship, though it has been in thousands of years of tempest, has kept Its cargo of gold and precious stones compact and sure, d in all the centuries nothing about it has Biafted. There thoy stand, shoulder o 6houlder, David nnd Solo mon nnd Lmi, and jeromlah j-f Ezekiel and Dai.i j rrusca and Joel nnd Amos and Obadiah and Jonah and Micnh and 'Nithuni and Hnbakkuk and Zephaniah bud Httggai mid Zechoriah and Malacln and Matthew and Mark and Luke nnl John and Paul and Peter, all there, alii with a certaintj of being tbero until tho hcavons and tho earth, the creation of which is describod in tho first book of the Biblo, shall havo Col lapsed, nnd itho white horse of tho con queror, described in the last book of the Biblo, shall paw tho dust in universal de molition. By that tromendous fact my faith is re-enforced. Tho discussion is abroad ns to who wrote thoso books of tho Biblo called tho Pentateuch, whether Moses Or Hilkinh or Eira or Samuel or Joremlah or another group of ancients. Nono of them wrofo it. God wroto tho Penta teuch, and in this day of stenography and typewriting that ought not to bo a difficult thing to understand. Tho great merchants nnd lawyers mid editors nnd business men of our towns nnd cities dictate nearly all their lottcrs; thoy only sign them after they are dictated. The prophet and evangelist nnd upostlo -wero Jehovah's stenographers or typewriters. Thoy put down only what God dictated; hosignod it afterward. IIo ha3 been writing his nnmo upon it all through the vicissitudes of centuries. THE PRAYER OP FAITH. But I como to tho height of my sub jeot when I say the way to ro-enforco our faith ia tp pray for it. So tho disci ples in my tpxt got their abounding faith, ''Lord, increaso our faith," Soiho onosuggosts, "Do you really think that prayer amounts to anything?' I might as well'ask you, Is thero a lino of tele graphic poles from New York to Wash ington, Is thore a line of telegrnphio wires from Manchester to London, from. Cologne to Berlin? All tho people who ur.wi.tuui vcirea messages on tnoso lines know of their existonco. So there nro millions of souls who have been in constant communication with tho cap ital of tho universe, with tho throno of the Almighty, with tho groat God hira solf, for years and years and years. Thoielus uot been n day when sup plications did not flash up and blessings did not flash down. Will somo igno ramus, who has never received a telo gram or sent ono, come nnd tell us that thero Is no such thing as telegraphic communication? Will some ono who has never offered a prayer that was heard and answered come nnd tell us that thero is nothing in prayer? It may not como as we expect it, but us euro as an honest prayer goes up a merciful answer will come down. During tho blizzard of four or fivo years ago, you know that many of the telegraph wires wero prostrated, and I telegraphed to Chicago by tho way of Liverpool, and the answer ufter nwhil came round by another wido circuit and so tho prayer wo offer may como back in a way mo never imagined, and if wo ask to Iioto our faith increased, although it maylcome by a widely dif ferent process than that which we ex pected, our confcdcnce will surely bo augmented. Oh, put it In fvery prayor you ever make between Jour next breath and your last gasp, "Lord, Increase our faith" faitS iu Christ no our personal ransom from prejent guilt and eternal catastrophe; faitl, in the omnipotent Holy Ghost; falti In the Bible, tho truest volumo evjr dictated or written or printed or reid; fultli in adverse providences, harmonized for our best welfare; faith In judgment day that will sot all thingf right which havo for ages been wrong. Increase onr fa? h, not by u fragile ad dition, but by on iiflnitudo of recupera tion. Let JK yeV'ifc in iho l Jflftt and the well had been dried, r and the cattle inoaued with thirst at tho bars, and the meadow brook bad ceased to run, and the grass withered, and the com was shriveled up, and one day there was a Krowl of thunder, and then a congregation of clouds on tho sky, and then a startling flash, and then a drenching ruin, nnd father and mother put barrels under every spout at the cor ners of the house and bet iailsand buck ets and tubs and pans and pitchers to catch as lunch as they could of the show er, For iu many of our sonls there has been a long drought of confidence and in many no faith at all. Let us set out all onr affections, all our hojxu, all our contemplations, all our prayers, to catch a mighty shower. "Lord, increase onr faith." I like the way that the inluUUr's wid ow did in ElUhu'a time, when, after tha family being very unfortuuatu, her two sons were about to bo sold for debt, and fthe had nothing in the hotino but a pot of oil, and at ElUlia's direct n the bor rowed from her uslghbor all the veosols ime could borrow, and then began to pour out the oil into thoso vessels and Upt on pouring until tbey were all full, and the became an oil tnercbant-witq more aseett than liabilities, and when the cried, "Bring me yet a rteol," tho SiJPITElviaSEBlS, 183. - BALD : liarali, brittle? Docs it split at the ends? fiaa It n,i lifeless appearance? Does it fall out when combed or brushed ? Is it full of dandruff? Docs your scalpiitch ? Is It dry or In a heated -condition ? If these aro somo of your symptoms bo warned in tlmo or you wilt become bnld, ) SkookumRoot Hair Grower i It whktTou n ent If production li not n accident, Irat tha rotult or tclanlltlA IC research. Kuowledge o tha dlseaiss o( tbo halt and acalp led to tha d licov. err of how to treat thera. "Skookum "oonutna neither minerals nor oil.' 'I t ' If not a Dy. but delightfully cooling and retretulng Tonto. llrstlraulatlnn J tha follicles, M toj failing Xair, Sure dandntf and grew tatnen.'i C . rlr Kaen the elp olaaa. healthy, and tree from lrrltatln--VPnft S tha u of &oom j&fn Soap. It deitxoji jxjruWo "u "' Jn H wIJLvlr:'2' THAnEMARK v - sUaawSiwama T. j, KRESS. OUSE PAINTING, PAPER HANGING, Natural Wood Finishing, Cor, 30th and Chemeketa Street, J. i Geo. Fondrich, i CASH MARKET Heat meat and free delivery. 136 btate Street. answer camo, "Thero is nut a vesaul more." So lot us tako what oil of faith wo havo nnd uao it until tho supply shall bo miraculously multiplied. Bring on your empty vossols, and by tho powor of tho Lord God of Elisha thoy bhall bo filled until they can hold no moro of jubilant, nil inspiring nnd triumphant faith. RESUSCITATION. What a frightful timo wo hadnfow days ago down on tho xoast of Long Is land, whoro I havo been stopping. That nrcbangol of tempest which, with its awful wings, swopt tho Atlnntio coast from Florida to Newfoundland did not spare our region. A fow miles away, at Southampton, I tmw tho bodies of four men whom tho storm hud slain and tho sea had cast" up. As I stood there among tho dond bodies I said to mysolf , and I said aleud: "These inou represent homos. What will mothor nnd father nnd wife apd children say when thoy know this?" Somo of tho victims wero unknown. Only tho first nnmo of two of them was found out Charley nnd William. I wondered thou and I wonder now if thoy will remuiu unknown and if somo kin dred far awny may bo wulting for their coming nnd never hear of tho rough way of their going. I saw also ono of tho thrco who had como in olivo, but more dead than nlivo. Tho ship had bocomo liolnless six miles out. and as ono wivn swept tho deck and wont down on tho furnaces till thoy hissed and went out tho cry was, "Oil, my God, wonro lost!" Then tho crow put on lifo preservers, ono of tho pallors saying to tho other, "Wo will meet ugain on tho shpro, nnd, If not, well, wo must nil go somo time." Of tho 23smen who put on tho llt'o preservers, only U lived to roach tho beach. But what a sccno it was as tho good nnd kind pcoploof Southampton, lod on by Dr. Thomas, tho groat and good surgeon of Now York, stood watch ing tho sailor.j struggling in tho break ers. "Arojou Etlll alive?" shouted Dr. Thomas to one of them out iu tho break ers, nnd ho ignaled yes nnd then went Into unconsciousness. Who should do tho most for tho poor fallows nnd how to resusoitato thorn wero tho questions that rau up and down tho beach a t South ampton. IIow tho men and women on tho shore stood wringing their hands, Impatiently waiting for tho sufferers to como within reach, and theu thoy wero lifted up and carried Indoors and waited on with as much kindness and wrapped as warmly an though they had been tho princes of tho earth. "Aro thoy nlivo?" "Aro tbey breathing?" Do you think they will live?" "What can wo do for them?" wero tho rapid and intense questions asked, and so much money was sent for the clothing and equipment of tho un fortunates that Dr. Thomas had to make a proclamation that no moro money was needed. In other words, all that day Jt was resuscitation. And this is tho appropriate word for us this morning as wo stand and look' off upon this awful sea of doubt and un. belief on which hundreds are this mo ment being wrecked. Somo of them were launched by Christian parentage on smooth seas and with promlts for prosperous voyago, but a Voltaire cy clone struck them on one tide, and a Tom Paine cyclone struck them on the other tide, and a bad habit cyclone struck deredFara11 b1(1c' ftnl tney haT0 'oan from God, 'anrtnnL,Uor0' ? away are washed, ashore with no'l?.J?owJI r left In them. ",1"8 But, thank God, thero aro many hero today with enough faith left to encour age us in tho effort at their resuscitation. All bands to tbe beach! With a confi dence in God that Ukea no denial, let ua lay hold of them! Fetch them out of tho breakers! Bring gotpel warmth and gospel stimulus and gospel lifo to their freezing eonlt! Itesnscltation! Resuscitation I DR.GUHH'b utyxorsB LIVER PILLS AmLinirtK OUt PILL FOR A Doae. 4 iut.iM.1 ef tfca t.U Mii dr, U iiimikj forhMllh. The pill .opKlr kil mm .7.1.01 Ug to mtk Hftjuttt. Own KatAtth.. WlMa Ik Irw 4 tUt Ik Ooaiiil U UB Hnia.il. Ttoy nlUljr. (lk.r grip mot Uosm Mkif (411 d. 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Do ysa wr them7 Whn next In need try a ftk, est In the we rid. -5.00 3.9fe MOO 42.S 3.5B 42.11 2.50 2.25 fMLAW' 2.00 1.7S- I'M BOYS 2.00 tl.7S ron SES IfYouwut aflM DRESS SHOE, nweo lotto UW iIvIm, don't pay $6 to $8, try my 13, $3.3y) UMvt $i Shoe, Thv fit equal to cuitom made tnd loojt and wear u well, I f y oil with to economu lrtyor footwaefi do o by purchasing W. L Dotiglai Sboti. Nut and price stamped on in Doitom, iook w It wntn you my W. Z DOUGLAJ3, Brockton, Mat. 60U by KitAUBSH Bnos. uOOoOUiiOuiiMU uuUujUuUjUi LuvJvV I Hair Death.' lualantly removea and forover destroy! eb- jeollonaule hair, whether upon tha hands fuc, arm or neck, wltbnnt dlacolorator, ttaafor Any yeans tbe aeoret tonnulao tCraamua Wllann. acknowledged by DllVil Qlani as tbe highest authority and Ibi morn eminent darmatoloif 1st and halrato Ictallsttbal ever lived. During bl prlvab praciio 01 a juo-ume among ids booiiii) tnd aristocracy of Europe he preeerluef ibis recipe. 1'rloe, II by mill, seaurM) imoked. Oorrvapokdenee confidential, Hpu tgenis or America. Auurow THE SK00KUM BOOT HAIR GROWER V6. Dept. K. 67Houth Fifth Avenue.New Yoni iqoonoAOnAorwv fyyono pvyirww' Fron Ttrileil orliltrk? Pki U I Is the lint toitake To all Pokts East ml SmII, It Is the dining ear rent. Itruns throat vestibule train; every day in tha yea to ct PAOL AND CHICAGO Ctompd of dlnlngoari'ift') l'ttllman drawing room Hi4. Utlataet sxjnljpsjtam TOURIST Sleeping Cars. Bt that ran be ootutrueted and la which aaeommodatlea are both tree etid lur. nUhed furhoUUreoftlrst ad aeoQad-eaMe tickets, andj ELEGANT PAY COACHES. Acontlauocs 11m Mnntlnit wltbiall llues-oaordlu d'Tttt nd unlnlerrujrte scrvlo. I'ullruan alt - '-'-"' Uoas can, Veae-, cured In adv YriU any asjeat of tha road. Through tlekeU to and front all points In Antenna, Kogland and Kurope can. it purchased at any ticket 0W00 of this 00m. pany, fall Information ennoernlna-i rata, Mm ofUainsnutM andotherdstalU faraUlie4 ou appllentlon U any aulor A. IVOHARIrON, AulaUnt Oeaeral Vwnxw Asnt.iKo, 171 Klut strett. cor. Wmulutwo! H rk UaX,Uron BHAW A DawWINa, Ageata. aaaaHn. OT' n m LfmKMrTTltW fl l dLLiffL'jtfHLT'FiTf Bfectric lights OnJUotcr Sysicm. TO CONSUMERS." ThoHalem Light and Power Company at reav expense havo equipped their Electno Igbt plont with tbe moil modi rn apparatus and ai now able to ofler the public a belt--llrtat than any ivntom Bud nt a rat-""" I than any city on the coast. Arc and lnciesccHt IIgK Ira. Electric Meters fer all parpescs where pwer is re quired. Retlitencei can be wired for as many light Mdalred and the oonsumer pity for oely tuehJichtiiarened. Trtia.beliireglteiA by an Klectrio Meter. 0oe 179 Commercial St. T.'W, THORN BURG, The Upholsterer, tlemndoK re-orwera and repairs upholstered furniture. Flrat .ol wort. Chemeketa ttreet, Btate Inanranee btoek. DnHMcKlllep, - Ski Wood Saw Leave' orders at Salem Im provement Co., 03 State ttreet. MI83 ANNIE THORNTON, Conservatory ol Muslo, Dresden. Ufrmany, Vooal Instrumental mnslo, Innrcctorcf French and Uerman at Willamette University, Rooms 6-7, Bunk Building. 0-1-ti". OREGON PACIFIC RAILROAD CO B.W.HADLEY, Receiver. SHORT LINE to CALIFORNIA OCEAN STEAMER SAILINGS- 8. B. WILLAMETTE VALLEY. Leaves Ban Krenotioo, Btpt. 18lh and 87 k. 'Le&VM Yaqulnu, BepOSth andSlrd. BATEaA-UVAYa BA'JJSFACTORY. For Irelcht and DaMentrer rates aunty to any agent or purser of ttila txraipany. it. m. mm.uAriJ, uwiaoph O. T. WAItlJLAW. T. K. & H A. O. M. 1'OWKIUJ, Agent, M em Dck. East and South -VIA- THE SHASTA ROUTE -of the Southern Pacific Company, OALirOKNIA BXPMS8 THAIMBUM XSAXX.Y TWKBH l'OBTlAHD AMU 8. f, Houth. TTtforthT Portluud Ar.l b:lia. 1 u 16 p. m. n le p. m. 10:15 a.m. XvT Lv. Haiom iw. 1 imbs. Ar. Ban Fran Lv. 7.-08 p. w Above trains sUip nt nil fitotlmis from Portland to Albany Incilutarnhout Tangent Hhodd, llalncy, llnrrlsburg, Junction Hy, Irvlnir, Kub uo and all sUtlonsfloni ItoMbnrg o Vshioud Inclusive. """ KiyncunmiMAli. 1M1LY. Xi a. in. I Lv, M7 a. tn I Lv. 50 p. tn. I Ar. It'orllund Mulein Roxebnrg Ar. I tu. Lv. I 1:40 p. m. iuv p. m. Lv. j 7rtn.M Uhtlng CHI's ou, OgdcH Jtqute TOLLMAN WET SLEEPERS AND Second Class Sleeping Cars Attached to alt through trains. rVdSide Wm, fktwwt Frttiil ail Cwalft: DAILY (xcwt awa-BAT). 7usoa.m. tan p. in. Lv. I'orilaud Ar. rkjej pTin. Ar. Dorvalia Lv. lflp. au At Albany and Oorvalus cotuaeet trains at Oregon Vantae Railroad. WlUJ KxrRittui train (daily exukituuhday :0 p. so. 7M p. in. Il.v. ""I'ortland ArT Ar. McMlnnvllle Lv. Tina.r WS.M THROUGH TICKETS To all point In the Vaatsrn JHt, Canada and aCarope can be obtained at kirn rates IroHi W. W. ukinnkk. .Agent. HaJem. Jtp. KoaKKfl. Asst.u.jr.aiida'asa.Agt t. m.jm.nnm.n. WISCONSIN CENTRAL LINES (Noririim PkKc R. R, C. Lnm.) LATEST TIME CARD, Two Through Train Rally. l!2ifm tftmam l.tlpm Tiltsm a.-2Spm TrlSpin 40ftpm 7.GSpm l.Hinuras I Htl'aul a 8:9an lt.ltw 6JWm e$S H.aSpia iMuuiuina i.Aaniana. a aUhlOflgol Hum Tickets sold and SHuaraae oheoked tkawMtfe to all points In the Untied ttUiU and OanasK Clot coaaaotloa Hiae hi Otiteag wU ail Ifales going KcM and Hootb. Ucaeetor "JA O.Him " uao. rasa, wa yks. AKin usueaaja), SH SYFHIlIsI A new JcismMr A tra SpcMo petltl 4 wMait ilhsrViaripii atl poUoo IWm Da U00J, 4 a nMcatiaB of" kltjr tgor la lb ifcsuM w c-SWI w KwrsairiBei tho Thi imiy ll care u u y Hjttgmwmml. W Kwasimta a ettttt wr mntmmm SBBMaas. MOFFAT CHEMrCAlCO., 17a vin wrrt yonyfaAU iw oil SMITH BROS., CONTRACTORS 4 FLAJaWmlUUtt. Lavov4fttC 111 fafjJfA -Maa-fa Bfsap paaBanp a - ftt,tila PaaTaVhn asalirult wniianii HnrBBjr' at a!FWBrXaaf aaaasjsapfnpajpaj M a rtawuy wmui iu wmsmwm "7" mw .. print pUmmi (or lit cm liu msm. hhasMt " u klWl.W k.HlM (.6. u K I a TTtJaaslis htSrymiiciUMUtliSUaa rhuiafc. tyn)t. UvUl &aikxhHtnkiUtfrtfi i iisi .jtsp awlnr voor tythMt vU aaawanf M aSJtar BMaaalV 1 t