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REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES FROM A
TEXT NEVER BEFORE USED.
Tho Eloquent Frcnclier Defines and Ana
lyze a Orent Vurloty of Ifs Only Four
Steps From n Stout Truth to a lllntant
yuliollef AOninil rrnyer, i
Brooklyn, Nov. 10. In tho Tnbenm
clo this morning Rov. Dr. Talmago de
livered one of his inofltunlquo and useful
sermons from a text nevor before preach
ed from. Subject, "Tho 'Ifs' of tho Bi
ble" Thetoxtswas" Exodus xxxii, 32, "If
thou wilt forgive their sin and if not,
blofine, I pray thoe, out of thy book.;
There is in our English language a
small conjunction, which I propose by
God'd help to haul out of its present int
significancy and set upon the throne
whero it belongs, and that is the conjunc
tion "if." Though mado of only two let
ters, it ia the pivot on which everything
turns. All timo and all eternity are at
its disposal. Wo slur it in our utterance,
we ignore it in our appreciation, and
none of us recognizes it as the most tre
mendous word in all th'e vocabulary "out
sido of those words which describe deity.
"If I" Why, that word wo take as a
tramp among other words, now appear
ing hero, now appearing there, but hav
ing no valuo of its own, when it really
has a mlliionairedoni of worlds, and in
its train walk all planetary, stellar, lunar,
solar destinies. If tho boat of leaves made
watertight, in which the infant Moses
sailod the Nile, had sunk, who would
havo led Israel out of Egypt? If tho Bed
sea had not parted for the escape of one
host and then como together for the sub
inergenco of another host, would tho
book of Exodus ever havo been written?
If tho ship on which Columbus sailed
for America hadgono down in an Atlan
tic cyclone, how much longer would it
have taken for tho discovery of this con-
tinent? If Grouchy had como up with
re-enforcements in timo to give the
French tho victory at Waterloo, what
would have been the fate of Europe? If
tho Spanish armada had not been
wrecked off tho coast, how different
would have been many chapters in Eng
lish history! If tho battle of Hastings,
or tho battle of Pultowa, or the battle of
Valma, or the battle or Mataurus, or the tion to tho rule that a man will sink to
tAAi i.-i .11... i Ai.i nu- .. .. i i .- a t e
niljiic uoes not' choko'his laughter or
hasten his step forward.
She has tried coaxing and kindness and
sou sacrificing arid all tho ordinary pray
ers that mothers mako for their children
and all havo failed. Sho Is coming t
ward the vivid and venturesome and ter
rific prayer of my text. Sho is going to
lift hur f wn eternity and set it upon that
oiio "if," by which sho expects to decide
whether yon will go np with her or sho
down with you. She may bo this mo
ment looking heavenward and saying,
"O Lord, reclaim him by thy grace," and
then adding that heart rending "if of
my text. "If not, blot me, I pray thee,
out of thy book."
After thrco' years of absence a son
wrotd his mother in oho of tho Now Eng
land whaling villages that he was com
ing homo in a certain shin. Motherliko.
sho stood watching, and the ship was in
tho offing, but a fearful storm struck it
and dashed the ship on the rocks that
night. All that night tho mother prayod
for tho safety of tho son, and just at
dawn there was a knock at the cottage
door, and tho son entered, crying out,
"Mother, I knew you would pray mo
homel" If I would ask all those in this
assemblage who have been prayed home
to Uod by pious mothers to stand up,
thero would be scores that would stand,
and if I should ask them to givo testi
mony it would bo the testimony of that
New England son coming ashore from
tho split timbers of the whaling ship
"My mother prayed mo homel"
THE "IFS" OP INCREDULITY.
Another Bible "if is tho "if ' of in
credulity. Satan used it when Christ,
vitality wa3 depresbed by 40 days' absti
nence from food and the tempter point
ed to some stones, in color and shape
like loaves of bread, and said, "If thou
be the Son of God, command that these
stones be made bread." That was ap
propriate, for ' Satan is tlie father of
that "if ' of incredulity. Peter used that
same "if" when, standing on tho wet
and slippery deck of a fishing smack on
Lake Galilee, he saw Christ walking on
the sea as though it were as solid as a
pavement of basalt from the adjoining
volcanic hills, and Peter cried out, "If
it be thou, let me come to thee on the
water."
What a preposterous "iff" What hu
man foot was over so constructed as to
walk on water? In what part of tho
earth did law of gravitation mako excep-
battlo of Arbola. or the battle of Cha
lons, each one of which turned tho
world's destiny, had been decided the
other way I
If Shakcsneare had never been born
for the drama, or Handel had never boon
born for musio, or Titian had never been
born for painting, or Thorwaldsen had
nevor been born for sculpture, or Ed
mund Burke had never been born for elo
quence, or Socrates had never been born
for philosophy, or Blackstono had never
been born for the law, or Copernicus had
never been born for astronomy, or Luther
had never been born for the reformation!
Oh, that conjunction "if I'1 How much
has depended on it! The height of it,
tho depth of it, the length of it, the
breadth of it, the immensity of it, the
infinity of it who can measure? It would
swamp anything but omnipotence. But
I must confine myself today to the "ifs"
of tho Bible, and in doing so I shall
apeak of the "if of overpowering ear
nestness, tho "if of incredulity, tho "if
of threat, the "if" of argumentation, tho
"if of eternal significance, or bo many
of these "ifs" as I can compass in the
time that may be reasonably allotted to
pulpit discourse.
THE EAItNEST "IF.
First, tho "if of overpowering ear
nestness. My text gives it. Tho Israel
ites havo been worshiping an idol, not
withstanding aU that God had done for
thenvand-nowIMosea offers the most
vehement prayer of all history, and it
turns upon an- "if." "If thou wilt for
give thoir sins and if not, blot me, I
pray thee,.out of thy book." Oh, what
an overwhelming "if?" It was as much
as to say: "If thou wilt not pardon them,
do not pardon me. If thou wilt not
bring them to the promised land, let me
never boo the promised land. If they
must perish, let me pensn wun mem. j.u
that book where thou recordest their
doom, record my doom. If they are shut
out of heaven, let me bo shut out of
heaven. If they go down into darkness,
let mo go down into darkness."
What vehemenco and holy reckless
ness of prayer I Yet there are those here
who, I have no doubt, have, in their all
.I....M.I, ,ix.iv tn have others saved,
UUDUl l--J vv.w.- v. - .
risked the same prayer, for it is a flsK.
You must not make it unless you are
.TTnr, fn tininnpB vour eternal salvation
on such an "if." Yet there have been
cases where a mother has been so anxious
fortha recovery of a wayward son that
her prayer has swung and trembled and
poised on an "if like thatof the text, If
not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book.
Write Ws name in the Lamb's Book of
Life, or turn to the pages where my
name was written 10 or 20 or 40 or 60
years ago, and with the black ink of
everlasting midnight erase my first
name, and my last name, and all my
. it i tn m into shipwreck, let
me bo tossed amid the same breakers. It
he cannot be a partne in my bliss, let
., . oBr in Mb woo. I have for
many years loved thee, O God, and it
has been my axpectation to sit wun
Christ and all the redeemed at the ban
quet of the ukiea. but I .now give up my
promised place at the feast, and my prom
ised robe, and my promised crown, ana
my promised throne unless John, unless
George, unless Henry, unless mdarling
son can share them with me. Heaven
will be no heaven without him. O uoo.
cave my boy or count me among uib
lost!"
the elbows when ho touches a wave of
river or lake, and will sink still farther
unless he can swim? But here Peter looks
out upon the form in the shape of a man
defying the mightiest law of tho uni
verse tho law of gravitation and stand
ing erect on the top of tho liquid. Yet
the incredulous Peter cries out to tho
Lord, "If it be thou." Alas, for that in
credulous "if!" It is working as power
fully m the latter part of this nineteenth
Christian century as it did in the early
part of the first Christian century.
Though a small conjunction, it Is tho
bluKest block today in the way of tho
gospel chariot "If!" "If!" We have!
theological seminaries wnicn spenumosi
of their time and employ their learning
and their genius in the manufacturing
of "ifs." With that weaponry aro as
sailed the Pentateuch, and tho miracles,
and the divinity of Jesus Christ. Al
most everybody is chewing on an "if."
When many a man bows for prayer, ho
puts his knee on an "if." The door
through which people pass into infidelity
and atheism and all immoralities has
two doorposts, and tho ono is mado up of
tho letter "I" and the other of tho let
ter "f."
There are only four steps between
strong faith and complete unbelief: First,
surrender the idea of the verbal inspira
tion of the Scriptures and adopt the idea
that they were all generally supervised
by tho Lord. Second, surrender tho idea
that they were all generally supervised
by the Lord and adopt tho theory that
they were not all, but partly, supervised
by the Lord. Third, believe that thoy are
the gradual evolution of the age, and
men wrote according to the wisdom of
i ftm in which thev lived. Fourth,
i.i!n f nut the Bible is a bad book and
not only unworthy or sreuence, uui, -
nicious and deposing aim uruci.
Only four steps from tho stout faith in
which the martyrs died to the blatant
caricature of Christianity as tho great
est sham of the centuries. But tho door
to all that precipitation and horror is
made out of an "if." The mother of
unrests in tho minds of Christian people
and in those who regard bacred things
is the "if or incrcuuiuy. -
Scotland, I saw a letter which had been
written many years ago by Thomas Car
J! Thomas Chalmers. Curlyle, at
,jo ,., 4, lorrnr. was a
the time Ol wnu i-v ;.
voung man. The letter was not to bo
Shed until after the death of Car-
lyle His death having iuj i"-""
letter ought to be published.
It waTa letter in which Thomas Car
yl ISresses the tortures of to own
2nd while relaxing his faith in Chris
Snlt? while at the Bame time be ex
SSbfa admiration for Dr. Chalmers,
Eta which Carlyle wishes that he had
So same faith that the great Scotch mln
er eridentlv exercised. Nothtogthjt
Thomas Carlyle ever wj teg
RX.r7XorU,to-
0 -4..1 RMflvs " had in it more won-
eession " tbe person by whose
So I took it bacK wit jxtaamu
1 P" J.KS Vanished, I wUb
firm grip the oldoo.mVnn Ki .V-it
and the unmooring, bestormingand tor''
taring "if of incrcdulitv on thn nfW
I like tho positive faith of that sailor boy
that Captain Judkins of tho steamship
bcotia picked up in a hurricane. "Go
aloft," said Captain Judkins to his mate,
"and look out for wrecks."
Before the mate had gono far np the
ratlines he shouted:"A wreck! Awrockl"
"Whcro away?" said Captain Jtidkins.
"Off the port bow," was the answer.
Lifeboats were lowered, and 40 men vol
unteered to put out across tho angrj bea
for tho wreck. They came back with a
dozen shipwrecked, and among them a
boy of 13 years.
"Who aro your' said Captain Judkins.
Tho answer was: "I am a Scotch boy.
My father and inothor are dead, and I
am on my way to America." 'What have
you here?" said Captain Judkins as he
opened the boy's jacket and took hold oi
a ropo around the boy's" body. "It is a
rope," said the boy. "But what is that
tied by this rope under your arm?"
"That, sir, is my mother's Bible. She
told me never to lose that." "Could you
not havo saved something else?" "Not
and saved that." "Did you expect to go
down?" "Yes, sir, but I meant to take
my mother's Bible down with me."
"Bravol" said Captain Judkins. "I will
take care of you."
That boy demonstrated a cortainty and
a confidence that I like. Just in propor
tion as you have few "ifs" of incredulity
in your religion will you find itacom
fortablo religion. My full and unques
tioning faith in it is founded on the faot
that it soothes and sustains in time of
trouble. I do not believe that any man
who ever lived had more blessings and
prosperity than I have received from God
and the world. But I havo had trouble
enough to allow me opportunity for find
ing out whether our religion is of any use
in such an exigency. I havo had 14 great
bereavements, to say nothing of lesser
bereavements, for I was tho yonngest of
a large family. I have had as much per
secution as comes to most people. I have
had all kinds of trial, except sovero and
prolonged sickness, and I would havo
been dead long ago but for tho consola
tory power of our religion.
Any religion will do in timo of pros
perity. Buddhism will do. Confucian
ism will do. Theosophy will do. No
religion at all will do. But when tho
world gets after you and defames your
best deeds, when bankruptcy takes the
place of largo dividends, whon you fold
for the last sleep the still hands over the
still heart of your old father who has
been planning for your welfare nil these
years, or you close tho oyes of your
mother who has lived in your life, ever
since beforo you wero born, removing
her spectacles because she will have dear
vision in tho homo to which sho has
gone, or you givo tho last kiss to tho
child reclining amid tho flowers that
pile tho casket and looking as natural
and lifelike as she over did reclining in
the cradle, then the only religion worth
anything is the old fashioned religion or
tho gospel of Jesus Christ.
I would give more in such a crisis for
one of the promises oxpressed in half a
verse of tho old book than for a whole
library containing all the productions of
all tho other religions of all tho ages.
Tho other religions are a sort of cocaine
to benumb and deaden tho Boulwhilobe
reavement and misfortunodo their work,
but our religion is inspiration, illumina
tion, imparadisation. It is a mlxturo of
sunlight and halleluiah. Do hot adul
terate it with one drop of the tincturoof
incredulity.
A 6IONinOAKT "IF."
Another Bible "if is tho "if of eter
nal significance. Solomon gives ua that
"if twice in ono sentence whon ho says,
"If thou be wise, thou shalt bd wise for
thyself, but if thou scornest, thou ulono
shalt bear it." Christ gives us ithat "if
when he Bays, "If thou tiadst Known in
this thy day tho things which belong unto
thy peace, but now thoy aro hidden from
thine eyes." Paul gives us that "if
when he says, "If they shall enter iuto
my rest." All thoso "ifs" .and a ecore
more that I might recall put the whole
responsibility of our salvation; on our
selves. tlirlSl S WllllUgUUBB Winuuuu
no "if about that Christ's willingness
to help no "if about that. Eealms of
glory awaiting tho righteous-no "if
mJoriy'irin all the case worth a
moment's consideration is the'"if that
attaches itself to the question as to
whether we will accept, whether we will
repent, whether wo will Wiere, whether
,i will risa forever. Is it not time that
yu ...- ...
we take our eternal tuiuro .
gwivel? Is it not time that wo extirpate
that "if ."that inUerablo "if,"'tbat haz
ardous"if?" Wo would not allow this
uncertain "if to stay long in.anythlng
filse of importance. Let eomo ono say
in reSrdT a railroad bridge, "I have
S for asking if that bridge is safe
Zi you would not cross it. Jfi
one say, "I have reasons to ask if tha
BtoLmer 1 trustworthy," and you would
not take passage on it.
Let BOine one subk-t" " a -
property that you are about to purchase,
F.ffie re to ak If they can give a
trood title," and you would not pay a
Lmlof von have allowed for years of
W , Hfetime art V ' to stand towing up
ffdSqneSoniof eternal destiny.
Oh dStot Perhaps your arrival here
Sav may decide. Stranger thing, than
toaay uuj m-v iTf,tux the "if
jjave pu w "' '
That la a terrific prayer, and yet wew f" rivaoy having va
Is a young man sitting in the pew on tne ju. r uWuhed.
-.y .a " . 4l.1.o-rrallerV. Orln It nil f ....--nl?NT.
the top gallery, who ba already crushed , Knn011, finding iU .way
auchanraver from hla mother"! heart. ..""LottUh home, may nggestM
... lfwlnl IULU "
that
nnfiirtainty.
A few tsauDaiu
nights agd
church a man, passings
nnlnif.aaidtome,"Iai
In this
at the foot of the
dtn a miner irum
ffi.M flii U Pushed backhU.
jm". -. n,n ...no yon k thai
coat sieevo ---. ' ....yea. You
.car on iJfta wound there
1TT1M LAU4V
shaft, where I was lifted to tho top, and
whon that newspaper was taken off my,
wound I read on it something that
saved my soul, and it was ono of your
sermons. Good night," he said as ho
passed on, leaving mo transfixed with
grateful emotion.
And who knows but tho words I now
speak, blessed of God, may reach some
wounded soul deep down in tho black
mino of sin, and that these words may
be- blessed to tho stanching of tha
wound and tho ctrrnal life of the soul?
Efttlo this matter instantly, positively
and f oi over. Siay the last "if." Bury
t'ccpthol.isfif." How to do it? Fling
body, mind aud soul in a prayer as ear
nest as that of Moses in the text. Can
you doubt tho earnestness of this prayer
of the text? It is so hoavy with emotion
that it breaks down in tho middle. It
was so earnest that the translators in
the modern copies of tho Bible word
obliged to put a mark, a straight line, n
'dash, for an omission that will never be
filled up. Such an abrupt pause; such
a sudden snapping off of the sentence.
You cannot parso my text. It is on
offense to grammatical construction.
But that dash put in by tho typesetters
la mightily suggesthe. "If thou wilt
forgive their sin" (then comes tho dash)
"and if not, blot me. I pray thee, out of
thy book." Somo of the most 'earnest
prayers ever uttered could not be parsed
and wero poor specimens of language.
They halted; they broke down; they
passed into groans or sobs or silences.
God cares nothing for tho syntax of
prayers; nothing for tho rhetoric of pray
ers. Oh, tho wordless prayorsl If thoy
wero piled up, they would reach to the
rainbow that arches the throne of God.
A deep sigh may moan moro than a whole
liturgy. Out of tho 110,000 words of the
English language there may not bo n
word enough expressive for tho soul.
The mo3t effective prayers I havo ovor
heard havo been prayers that broke
down with emotion tho young man for
tho first time rising in a prayer meeting
and saying, "O Lord Jesus!" and then
sitting down, burying the faco in tho
handkerchief; the penitent in the in
quiry room kneeling and saying, "God
help me," and getting no further; tho
broken prayer that started a great re
vival in my church in Philadelphia, A
prayer may have in Btyle tho graceful
ness of an Addison, and tho sublimity of
a Milton, and the epigrammatio forco of
an Emerson, and yet bo a failuro, hav
ing a horizontal power, but no perpen
dicular power; horizontal power reach
ing the ear of man, but no perpendicular
power reaching the ear of God.
USE OP "IP" IN PRAYER.
Between tho first and tho last sen
tence of my text there was a paroxysm
of earnestness too mighty for w6rds. It
will take half Of an eternity to tell of all
the answers of earnest'and faithful pray
er. In his last journal David Living
stono, in Africa; records the prayer so
soon to bo answered: "10 March Birth
day. My Jesus, my God, my Life, my
All, I again dedicato my wholo solf to
thee. Accept mo and grant, O gracious
Father, that ore this year is gono I may
finish my task. In Jesus' name H ask it.
Amen."
When the dusky servant looked into
Livingston's lent nnd found hiin dead on
his knees, ho saw that tho prayer had
been answered. But notwithstanding
the earnestness of tho prayer of Moses in
the text it was a defeated prayer and
wa3 not answered. 1 think tho two "ifs"
in tho prayer defeated it, and one "if is
enough to defeat any prayer, whatever
other good characteristics it may have.
"If thou wilt forgivo their Bind and ii
not, blot mo, I pray thee, out of thy
book." God did neither. As the follow
ing verses show, he punished their sins,
but I am sure did not blot out ono lottoi
of tho namo of Moses from the book oi
life.
There Is only ono kind of prayer in
which you need to put tho "if," and that
is tho prayer for temporal blessings.
Pray for riches und they may engulf us,
or for famo aud it may bewitch us, or for
worldly success of any aort and it may
destroy us. Better say, "If it bo best,"
"if I can mako proper uso of lt,""lf Thou
seest I need it." A wife, praying for tho
recovery of her husband from illness,
stamped her foot and said with frightful
emphasis: "I will not have him die. God
shall not tako him." Her prayer was
answered, but a few years after tho com
munity was shocked by the fact that ho
had in a moment of anger alain her.
A mother, praying for a son's recov
ery from illness, told the Lord ho had no
right to take Uim, anu iuo ooy rvuurereu,
lmt nlnnired into all abominations and
died a renegade. Better in all such
prayers and all pniyerapertaiuingtoour
temporal welfare put an "if," saying,
"If it be thy will!" uui praying ror
spiritual good and the salvation of our
soul wo need never insert an "if." Onr
spiritual welfare is Bure to bo for the
best, and away with the "Ifs."
Abraham's prayer for the rescue of
Bodom was a grand prayer in Home ro-
Bpects, but there wero six -u" in k, or
"peradveutures," which mean the eamo
thing. "Peradventuro thero may bo 60
righteous in the city, peradventure 45,
peradventure 40, peradventuro 80, per
idventnre 20, peradventure 10." Those
elx peradventures. those six ifs," killed
the prayer, and Sodom went down and
went under. Nearly all the prayer,
that were answered bad no "ifs" in them
the prayer of Elijah that changed dry
weather to wet weather, tho prayer
that changed Hezeklah from a aick man
to a well man, the prayer that halted
iran and moon without shaking the uni
verso to piece.
Oh. rally your soul for a prayer with
no "ifs" in it. Bay in substance, ira,
thou hast promUed pardon, and I take it.
Here are my wounds; heal them. Here
la my blindness; irradiate it. Here are
my chains of bondage; by the goepel
i.,np, strike them off. I am fleeing
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er's dash of tbo text, and with a word
less silence implore pardon and comfort
and lifo nnd heaven. For this assent
blago, all of whom I shall meot in tho
last judgment, I dare not offer the prayer
of my text, nnd so I chaugo it and Bay,
"Lord God, forgivo our sina and write
our names in tho book of thy loving re
membrance, from which they shall nevor
bo blotted out."
Robert Mnntell .intends to havo "Far
rlmaius" reconstructed so as to mako a
four act play. Tho piece, when com
pleted, is to be produced with olaborato
ecenio effects.
A. W. Pinero has sold tho rights to
perform a German version of "Tho Soc
ond Mrs. Tanqueray" for ilvo years. The
pioco is being translated and will short
ly bo presentod in Bqrjin.
.UOUUUOUOUOoO UUOUuUUUlIUU uuujo,
Hair Deatti
flnitantly remove nnd forevor destroy ob-E
Jectlonable linlr, whether upon tbe bands, J
race, artua or neck, without discoloration !
.or Injury to tbe most delicate skin. It
was for any years tbe secret formula oi
Krasmus Wilson, acknowledged by Dhysl.
clans as the blKbest authority and tho S
most eminent dermatologist and hair spe- J
olallst that ever lived. During his prlvato I
practice ol a lire-tlmo among tho nobility B
and aristocracy of Kuropo he prescribed t
tbla recipe. Price, (1 by .mill, seourelyfj
nnnvnn iyinMiviniianraiinnnnaniiai Hnfl
Agents ior America. Aaareus
THE SK00KUM ROOT HAIR GROWER '0,
lOepU II. 67Houth Klfth Avenue.New York
looooooonoooono ooMorn ortoonnnn
HOWARD,
The House Mover.
451 Marlon Street.
lias the best facilities lor moving and rais
ing houses. .Leave order at Uruy llros., or
addres Balsra, Oregon.
From Terminal or JnUrior Wi the
W. L. DOUGLAS
S3 SHOE NoTO
Do you wear then? When next In need try ptlr.j
BVBl III Ills nvriiu
JIW.
4.00
3.50
2.50
2.25
2.00
.GO
:.5ft
2.Q0
'roftuDiU'
42.00
41. 7S.
ron BOYS
41.75
m
If vouwinl aflns DRESS SHOE, mit IntheUtetl
ity!e, dos't piy $6 to $8, try my $3, $3.50, $4,00 of
ti Shoe, ml At equal to cuttom msde and look and
wir wsll, If yon with to economlic In your footwttr,
i to by purchasing W. L. Douglas Shoet. Nam and
prlc itamped on the bottom, look for It when you buy
W. X DOTJaiJlB, Brockton, Mass. Sold by
KllAUSSK BllOB.
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PWJLl
PKOFEHSIONAI. AND 1IU8INE8S OAHDS.
v. n. d'abot. oo. o. uiwan am.
S'AIWY 4 IlINOllAM, Attorneys i at lAW.
ltoomsl,2 and 8. ll'Arcy Jlulldlpg, Ml
streeu Bpechu attuntlon given W husl
nesa In the supreme and circuit court of the
state.
3 11
rnlt.10N KOKD, Attorney at law, Balem,
L Oregoa. umce up stairs In l'alton block
HJ. HiaOKIl, Attorney at lwalem,Ore
, gon. Office over Hush' bank.
pneu " -' -. newppr from
death, and he too a " ft
show taon
"vTrVTa cirahowmucb print ng. . - , taT? ?ver reaa
lohoVeBheV Her tears .J- W bcWn ?;& X SS-S
rqpreto uila than me raw " -r7 p,.nl m& the "1 w ,'.nn d tha around mj won, ""wwmd to tht
frm i,.ra. nr . home on a dark Wn,t" ', aninmft.Clialraert, "". " ,t mllw raclrrgrouna to w
tothe city of ref o ;e. ond I am wre thU
U the right way. ThnuV, be to God. I
ainfre." . .
One, tr Uw, .! r aW.
Botio. In CbrUm Ur. wain.
With t Mosaic carneatueM of my
UJd wllhout it. Moaaio "if-," M vm
ontforOod. Aye. word, fall tu,
tetoaw. . n "'-nsniynw
T J.BIIAW.M.W.11UNT. HUAW4IIUNT
.1 . Attorney nt law. Orare over utpitoi
National bank, Balem, Oregon.
TOHN A. OAIWON, Attorney at low, rooma
tf nna , uuau iu mw.im, w.-.",w.
(I
hi tho line to take
To all Points East and South.
It la the dining cor route, it run a through
vestibule trains; every day Inthelyearto
ST. PAUL AND CHICAGO
J(No ehange of oars.)
Composed of dining car unsurpassed,
Pullman drawing room sleeper
Of latest equipment
TOURIST
Sleeping Cars.
llsat that can b constructed and tn whloh
occommodalUD are both tree and lur
ntshed for holders of first and second-doss
tlckel,and
ELEGANT DAY COACHES.
Aoontlnuor line connecting with all
lines. aOordlng direct nnd uninterrupted
service.
l'ullman sliffvi frv' Ion scan be sc
oured In ndvirji .viish any agent o
tne roua.
TheLondon
Medicaland
Through tloket to and from all point
in America, Kngmna ana rcurope can ue
purchased at any tlnket ofllco of this ocm-
nanv.
Kull Information oincertilOK, rates, time
of trulns,rout and other details furnished
on i:Dlloatlon to any uirent or
A. D. OHAJILTON,
Assistant General Iuini;or Agent, Mo.
121 First fltruol, cor. Wasblricrou; tort-
lanu.OroKim
Bkaw & Downing, Aseuts.
ttHH
(Hm TICKETS
TO
SALT LAKE, DENVER,
OMAHA, KANSAS CITY,
CHICAGO, STA0UIS
Inotitufa
Surgical tf"lul-'
719
MARKET- STREET
San Francisco, Gal,
IB A MUlill'Al AND HURUlOAli INBTI.
TUTE, located permanently at719 Market
nireei, Dan r ruucisoo, uai., tur vna uuro ui
diseases, aflllctlnn and deformities. A staff
of pbyslciansaad surgeons, having-diploma
and the endorsement of tbo best college of
America and Kurope, sklllo.1 speola'lsls who
havo had long eiptirieuce In treutlng snecla).
and chronic diseases, aro In constant at tend
ance. A pnarmicy is attacnoa ana an pre
scriptions tilled Iroo of charge,
$1.0t Trial IfoiHo
$5.00 Full t'otuxo
Huflerer from Asthma. IUinoutuin, Con-
xumptlon, Catarrh, Pystejisla,v Indigestion,
horofuls, Kpllepsyi iftmajo w"s.i.aucr,
Henri Disease, lliouchllls. Kruntlona. Halt
llbeuin. llalsness.l'ftpeworiri, Ueafnesa, any
Huxual Ulseato, JMt Manhood, Malaria, Uri
nary Troubles, Vllea, llowcl Troubles, should
consult at onco. Low charts, within the
reach ol all. combined with tho best medical
and surgical skill.
Young, Middlo Aged and Old Men
Who msy be sullerlnif from YOllTHKUIj
KOl.i.ll'-.v or the excesses of matured III.
should ro.isult t one, lwr.ro It is too late)
thuseveturnu uractitirirMwiin'iiaveiiocquHi
In the Uuited Mstes, as they can and. will re
store to vnu perfect healiu vrheu ail oinrr
bave failed.
Broken Down Constitutions
are rejuvenated and manly vigor restored vr
their new and wonderful method of tret
tin miuiious aruga
en. can ror aavio
- -- --r-. -... r .. ' C M..
power, or any aiseaso 01 tue nye, r-ar.iiiriw
AMD ALL
EASTERN CITIES
31
DAYS to
CHICAGO
H.K.WON1IAM. W. II. JIOLMKH.
BON 1 1 AM A llOlMtOi, Aliorneja j iw.
Offlce In llnsh block, between Bute nnd
Court,
, on Commercial street.
OHW WAYNE. ATTQUNKV-AT-I-AW.
" ? raa., wai''YU.TSmia
slreeu.Halem, Oregon 9"-
i
WCKMUHTOW-Arcbltecl and superin
tendent. Offlee, room t and
ureyau niw
B-lD-tt
E. rOOUK, Htenograpber and Tjpe--,.,.
nt nulnmid trrxwrltlag of.
m tot oue In Oregon. Over liush' bank,
rlalem, Oregon.
D
Tt A. OAV W. IMU. Ll'rt Graduate of K.w
XOrk. gives special vufcw --
nr-mnen and children, nose, throat,
lungs, kidneys, skin disease and surgery,
omSatr-ldehee.loIlitaUi street. OoosulU.
Uc-fromtoWa.m.and3to5p.in. 7-1 4ta
a llltOWNK. M. Dm I'hyswlanandHur.
. gion; omci, fciorpny bioek, residence,
, Commercial street.
1T O SMITH, JXntltl, nM sjreev
mi 1. w7nn? VlnUhlld dIlUl OtXr.
na of every dtMrtptwn. aine vyviw
Uon a specialty.
Oom
tar U.i'Uaii, Areblteet, pUn. speelflca-
VV lions and supertnteiiaenca lur ii
' . "rt" .7i.T 7i Mi flnmmarcloi
rfnttm ol building.
street, upstairs.
)BLe W) Oommarcla
Wo.
ur.
I.T
vlted
a llaowjs, CapU
eBto?lai,"d
BO-t Qu,tker i0JmWy. mi KM'
Through Pullman and Tourist Sletptr Fre
Reclining Chlr Can, Dining Can,
or rale and general Information call on
oraddn-s,
W. . HOBt-BUItT, Asst, O. V. A
M W-kingtoD tiu.VarM
PiiTtUKr, on-rwa
men I.
business men
Worn oct
ou
MONEY TO LOAN
Onitrisrived IUal KsUU. in amotinlaff
UmelosalU flodelay In oo14rlng(n
FEAR l FORD,
Boom 12. BbU Han. bloe. i M
nnua nv vtrrHUANH Humpter Camp
&'?'vHd''.Ao!
Sr.,TW.7riVi.Viih.M ... MudiAllr In
uait. .....-a-'.'-""--
tuatUnd. us..
rJuitdinr. w wr .v.. u
j, a. ii.vyooP. vwf f .
KIIRTN RROTMKitg
Manulactur Rtandard Pressed llrlck,
Molded Prick In all I'atUrn. Ibr front
and upply tUebrlek tor 'the NiWHaleru City
Uall and nearly all tk fine buUdlngs erected
In tbe Oapiui City,
Yard near fenlU-tlary, B4im. vr. fra w
THE PACIFIC
DETECTIVB AN. CflUJBCTING BDHBA0
iA.KM, - - Oregon
l'rlrate work plly,
C,m. ;utT,'KiiDr.
.nMltlw l,.
UUBlUeiMI IUBU. ftll IWf UMIIWi vYmmlj .. J
are suffering from Nervous Debility or lallle;
Pjwer, or any aiscaso 01 wnajn, w,.sn-ta
unes, Heart, Htomach, Hkln, Kidneys, or
Bladder,
Blood Diseases
Cared in tbe shortest time by vege
table rtmedtei,
ADC Vfil l Irong.heallhy and vlgoroua
ftftt. TUU a you should lwT Are you
frea from every trara of disease or ileknesat
lo you look weilT Io yon feci wellT or 1 lhr
aomaChrouloTroublsj which, like a ranker
worm In the budding flower, U rapidly de
stroying jour very vitals.
LADX2E3
Who suffer from Nervou froatr-tlos, .
len-s, xJespondsncy, bdtgetlo,Uostlp
tloo, Lassitude, l"alDs in the M-ett or lsjs4
disease peculiar to their bet, etmmH lhM
pnysiemns wun tn aiuiosv ihmvw.
$1,00 TRIAL BOTTLE
$5.W FULUCOURSt
THE LONDON MEDICAL a.
SURGICAL INSTITUTE
719 Mark Strct
SatFrwK;ifC0, Cl.
E.W.HADtKV, 14v.
gHMRT LINK t GAUMKXU.
OCEAN STEAMER SAlUMtt. h
B. S. WILX-VM-TTK VAU-KY,
f-Ave tan Vi-neUco. Nov.h. HtU 4
U-va YaoBlBA, K, , WHfc, Mh,
JUTH ALWAYS MAI JsHTAOWRT,
Vut If sight and b-s-8w rt r
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