AGL0K10US GftOWTH
REV dr. talmage shows how
CHRISTIANITY MOVES FORWARD.
Coine Stunly ni" nt Infidelity Religion
GiK"l to Llvo by ,,ml CoimolliiB to Die
,. vii KncoiirnBlnB Discourse by tho
Eloquent Pnstor.
Brooklyn, March. 18. In tho Tabcr
uaclo today Rev. Dr. Taluiago preached
, most eloquent and characteristically
timorous Eorincn in refutation of tho oft
r,.npvccl assertion of tho enemies of reli
pmi that Christianity is retrograding
miilt'v Dihlc losing its hold upon tho
ho-irts ami consciences of men. Thesub-
irt of t
no discourse m announced was
"From Conquest to Conquest," tho text
bring taken from Amos ix, 18, "Behold
thp days cmno, saith tho Lord, that tho
plowman shall overtake tho reaper."
Picture of n tropical clime, with n sea
son so prosperous that tho harvest readi
es clear over to tho planting time, and tho
swarthy husbandman swinging tho sicklo
in the thick grain almost feels tho breath
of the Imrses on his shonldcrs, the horses
hid luil to tho plow preparing for a new
crop. "Behold the days come, saith tho
Lord, that tho plowman shall overtake
the reaper." When is that? That is now.
That is this day, when hardly have you
(lime reaping ono harvest beforo the plow
wan is getting ready for another.
I know tliat many declare that Chris
tianity has collapsed; that theBiblo is an
olwilete book; that tho Christian church
U on the retreat. I will hero nnd now
blmw that tho opposite of that is true.
An Arab guide was leading a French
infidel across a desert, and ever and anon
the Arab guide would get down in tho
sand and pray to the Lord. It disgusted
the French infidel, and after awhile as
the Arab got up from one of his prayers
the infidel said, "How do you know there
is any God?" and tho Arab guide said;
"How do I know that a man and a camel
passed along our tent last night? I know
it by the footprints in the sand. And you
waiit to know how I know whether thero
is any God? Look at that sunset. Is that
the footstep of a man?" And by the sumo
process you and I have como to under
stand that this book is tho footstep of a
God.
A HEALTHY OltOWTH.
But now let us see whether tho Bible
is a last year's almanac. Let us see
whether tho church of God is in a Bull
Run retreat, muskets, canteens and hav
ersacks strewing all tho way. Tho great
English historian, Sharon Turner, a man
of vast learning and of great accuracy,
not a clergyman, but an attorney as
well as a historian, gives this overwhelm
ing statistic in regard to Christianity and
in regard to the number of Christians in
tho different centuries: In the first cen
tury, 500,000 Christians; in tho second
century, 2.000,000 Christians; in tho third
century, 5,000,000 Christians; in the
fourth century, 10,000,000 Christians; in
tho fifth century, 15,000,000 Christians;
in the sixth century, 20,000,000 Chris
tians; in tho seventh century, 24,000,
000 Christians; in the eighth cen
tury, 80,000,000 Christians; in the
ninth century, 40,000,000 Christians;
in tho tenth century, 50,000,000 Chris
tians; in tho eleventh century, 70,000,000
Christians; in the twelfth century, 80,-
000,000 Christians; in tho thirteenth cen
tury, 75,000,000 Christians; in the four
teenth century, 80,000,000 Christians; in
tho fifteenth century, 100,000,000 Chris
tians; in the sixteenth century, 125,000,
0U0 Christians; in the seventeenth cen
tury, 155,000,000 Christians; in the eight
eenth century, 200,000,000 Christians
a decadence, as you observe, in only one
century and moro than made up in the
following centuries, while it is the usual
computation that there will bo, when
tho record of tho nineteenth century is
made up, at least 300,000,000 Christians.
Poor Christianity I What a pity it has
no friends! How lonesome it must Del
Who will take it out of tho poorhouse?
Poor Christianity! Three hundred mil
lions in ono century. In a few weeks of
the year 1881 2,500,000 copies of the New
Testament distributed. Why, the earth
is like an old castlo with 20 gates and a
park of artillery ready to thunder down
every gate. Lay aside all Christendom
ami sen how heathendom is being sur
rounded and honeycombed and attacked
by this all conqueriug gospel. At the
beginning .of this century there were
only 150 missionaries; now there aro 25,
Ouo missionaries and native helpers and
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evangelists. At tue uegiunuiK "' "
century there wero only 00,000 heathen
converts; now thero are 1,750,000 con
verts from heathendom.
There is not a seacoasfc on the planet
but tho battery of the gospel is planted
and rrady to march on north, south,
east, west. You all know that the chief
work of an army is to plant the batteries.
It may take many days to plant the bat
teries, and they may do all their work in
lOmiuutes. These batteries are being
nlanted all nlontr tho seacoasts and in all
nations. It may take a good while to ,
plant them, and they may do all their
work in one day. They will. Nations ,
are to be born in ono day. But just
come back to Christendom and recognize I
the fact that during tho last 10 years ns
many people have connected themselves
wuli evangelical churches as connected
themselves with the churches in the first
60 years of this century.
A GLORIOUS BOOK.
So Christianity is falling back, and the
Bible, they say, is becoming an obsolete
book. I go into a court, and wherever I
find a judge's bench or a clerk's desk I
fiud a Bible. Upon what book could
there be uttered the Bolyinity of an
oath? What book is apt to be put in the
trunk of the young man as he leaves for
city life? The Bible. What shall I find
in nine out of every ten homos in Brook
lyn? TheBiblo. In nine out of every
ten homes in Christendom? The Bible.
Voltaire wrote the prophecy that the
Bible in the nineteenth century would
become extiuct. The century is nearly
goue, and as there have been wore Bibles
published in the latter part of the eeu
tury than in the former part of the cen
tury do yon think the Bible will become,
Mtinct in the next eix y eara?
i In-mum in
which Voltaire wrote that prophecy not
1 have to tell yu Unit
long ago was crowded iroin floor to ceil-' igm of life? If they should come up in sol
ing with Dibles from Switzerland. Sup- id phalanx, all agreeing upon onosenti
poso tho congress of tho United States nicnt and one theory, perhaps Christiani
should pass a law that there should be ty might be damaged, but there are not
no moro Bibles printed in America and bo many differences of opinion insido tho
no moro Bibles road. If there are -JO.- church as outsido tho church.
OCO.0UO grown people in tho United
States, thtro would bo -lO.OCO.O'O pro
pie in an army to put down such a law
and defend their right to read the Bible,
But suppose tho congress of the United i
States should mrtko a law ncniiist
should mrtko a law against the
reading or tho publication of any other
book, how many people would go out in
such a crusade?
Could you get 40,000.000 peoplo to go
out and risk their lives in defense ot
Shakespeare's tragedies or Gladstone's
tracts or Macaulay's "History of Eng
land?" You know that there aro 1,000
men who would die in defense of this book
where thero is not moro than ono man
who would dio in defense of any other
book. You try to insult my common
sense by telling me tho Bible is fading
out from tho world.
It is tho most popular book of the cen
tury. How do I know it? I know it just
as I know in regard to other books. How
many volumes of that book aro publish
ed? Well, you say, 5,000. How many
copies of that book aro published? A
hundred thousand. Which is tho more
popular? Why, of course the ono that
has 100,000 circulation. And if this book
has moro copies abroad in tho world, if
thero are five times as many Bibles abroad
as any other book, does not that show
you that the most popular book on the
planet today is the word of God?
"Oh," say people, "the church is a col
lection of hypocrites, and it is losing its
power, and it is fading out from the
world." Is it? A bishop of the Metho
dist church told mo that that denomina
tion averages two new churches every
day of theVear. Thero are at least 1,500
new Christian churches built in America
every year. Does that look as though
tho church were fading out, as though it
wero a defunct institution? Which in
stitution stands nearest tho hearts of the
people of America today? I do not care
m what village, or in what city, or what
neighborhood you go. Which institution
is it? Is it tho postofflce? Is it the ho
tel? Is it tho lecturing hall? Ah, you
know it is not. You know that the in
stitution which stands nearest to the
hearts of tho American people is the
Christian church. If you have ever seen
a church bum down, you have seen
thousands of people standing and look
ing at it people who never go into a
church the tears raining down their
cheeks. Tho whole story is told.
AN UNPOPULAR BULIEF.
You may taik about tho church being
a collection of hypocrites, but when the
diphtheria sweeps your children off
whom do you send for? Tho postmaster,
tho attorney general, tho hotel keeper,
alderman? No, you send for a minister
of this Biblo religion. And if you have
not a room in your house for the obse-1
quies, what building do you solicit? Do
you say, "Givo mo the finest room in the
hotel?" Do you say, "Give me that
theater?" Do you say: "Give me a placo
in that public building, whero 1 can lay
my dead for a little while until wo say a
prayer over it?" No. You say, "Give
us the houso of God."
And if thero is a song to bo sung at tno
obsequies, what do you want? What
does anybody want? "Tho Marseillaise'
hymn. "God Savo tho Queen?" Our own
grand national air? No. They want tho
hymn with which they sang their old
Christian mother into her last sleep, or
they want bung the Sabbath school hymn
which their little girl sang tho last Sab
bath afternoon she was out beforo she
got that awful sickness which broke your
heart. I appeal to your common sense.
You know tho most endearing institu
tion on earth, tho most popular institu
tion on earth today, is tho church of the
T.nr.l Jesus Christ. '
The infidels say, "Infidelity bIiows its
successes from tho fact that it is every,
whero accepted, and it can say what it
will." Why. my friends, infidelity is
not half so blatant in our days as it was
in tho days of our fathers. Do you know
that in tho days of our fathers thero wero
pronounced infidels in public authority
and they could get any political position? I
Let a man today declare himself antag
onistic to tho Christian religion, and
what city wants him for mayor, what
state wants bun for governor, what na
,tion wants him for president or forking?
Let a man openly proclaim himself the
enemy of our glorious Christianity, and
ho cannot get a majority of votes in any
state, in any city, iu any county, m any
ward of America.
REUaiO.N' IS 6C1CNCE.
Do you think that such a sceno could
he enacted now as was enacted m the
days of Robespierre, when a bhumeless
woman was elevated as a goddew and
was carried in a golden chair to a rathe
,ini wi,r incense was burned to her
and people bowed down before her as a
divmo beiug. she taking tno nmw o w ,
Biblo and God Almighty. while m the,
corridor of that cathedra 1 wer B enacted
suctiscenes oi uruu- -----
eryand obscenity
.1 nlispnnitv as nave iuei uvv.i
dfDo you believe such a thing
possibly occur in Christendom to-
No, sir! The police, whether of
witnessed
could
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I know infidelity makes a good deal or
talk in our day. It is on the principle
that if a man jump overboard from a
Cunard steamer he make moro excite
uieut than all the 500 people that stay on
SideckB. But the fact that he jumps
overboard-doesthatstopthe8h,p Do
that wreck the BOO passenger? It make
Lreat excitement when a man jum
from the lecturing Informer Irow .the
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bd overthrown by iuhdol fcoientists who
Imve 60 different theories tibout tho or
Tlh: FITTEST SLT.VIVES.
Peopleused to bay, "There are so many
different denominations of Christians
that shows there is nothing in religion."
I have to toll you that all denominations
agree on tho two or three or four radical
doctrines of the Christian religion. They
are unanimous in regard to Jesus Christ,
luid they are unanimous in regard to the
diviuity of tho Scriptures. How is it on
the other sale? All split up you cannot
find two of them alike. Oh, it makes mo
sick to see these literary fops going along
with a copy of Darwin under one arm
and a case of transfixed grasshoppers and
butterflies uiirtir the other arm, telling
about tho "survival of tho fittest," and
Huxley's protoplasm, and tho nebular
hypothesis.
The fact is that some naturalists just
as soon as they find out the difference
between tho feelers of a wasp nnd the
horns of a beetle begin to patronize tho
Almighty, while Agassiz, glorious Agas
siz, who never made any pretension to
being a Christian, puts both his feet on
tho doctrine of evolution and says, "I
seo that many of the naturalists of our
day are adopting facts which do not bear
observation or have not passed under ob
servation." These men warring against
each other Darwin warring ngainst La
niarche, Wallace warring against Cope,
even Herschel denouncing Ferguson.
They do not agree about anything.
They do not agree on embryology, do
not agree on tho gradation of the spe-
. inc Wltnt iln thpv nt'rpo nn?
Herschel
1 writes a whole chapter on the errors of '
astronomy. La Placo declares that tho ,
moon was not put in the right place. He
says that if it had been put four times ,
1 farther from the earth than it is now
there would be more harmony in tho
universe, but Lionvillo comes up just in
time to prove that the moon was put in
tho right place.
How many colors woven into the light?
Seven, says Isaac Newton. Three, says
David Brewster. How high is the au
rora borealis? Two and a half miles,
says Lias. One hundred and sixty-eight
miles, says Twining. How far is the sun
from the earth? Seventy-six million
miles, says Lacalle. Eighty-two million
miles, says Humboldt. Ninety million
miles, says Henderson. One hundred
and four million miles, says Mayer only
a little difference of 23,000,000 miles!
All split up among thomselves not
agreeing on anything. They come and
say that tho churches of JesuB Christ aro
divided on the great doctrines. All
united they aro, in Jesus Christ, in the
diviuity of tho Scriptures. While they
come up and propose to render their ver
dict, no two of them agree on that ver
dict. "Gentlemen of the jury, have you
agreed on a verdict?" asks tho court or
tho clerk of the jury as they come in aft
er having spent the whole night in de
liberating. If tho jury say, "Xes, wo
havo agreed," the verdict is recorded,
but suppose one of tho jurymen says,
"I think the man was guilty of murder,"
and another says, "I think he was guilty
of manslaughter in tho second degree,"
and another man says, "I-think he was
guilty of assault and battery, with in
tent to kill," the judge would say: "Go
back to your room and bring in a ver
dict. Agree on something. That is no
verdict."
INFIDELITY AT A STANDSTILL.
Hero these iufidel scientists havo im
paneled themselves as a jury to decido
this trial between infidelity, tho plain
tiff, and Christianity, the defendant, and
after beiug out for centuries they como
in to render their verdict. Gentlemen
of tho jury, havo you agreed on a ver
dict? No, no. Then go back for another
500 years and deliberate and agree on
something. There is not a poor, miser
able wretch in tho Tombs court tomor
row that could bo condemned by a jury
that did not agree on the verdict, and yet
you expect us to givo up our glorious
Christianity to please these men who
cannot agreo on auything.
i Ah, my friends, tho church of Jesus
Christ, instead of falling back, is on tho
advance! I am certain it is on tno au
. vance. O Lord God, tako thy sword
' from thy thigh and ride forth to the vic-
J I am mightily encouraged because I
fiud among other things that whilo this
Christianity has been bombarded for
centuries lnttueniy uas not. uesirujeu
ouo churcji, or crippled one minister, or
uprooted ono verse of ouo chapter of all
tho Bible. The church all the time get
ting the victory and the shot and shell
of its enemies nearly exhausted.
I have been examining their ammuni
tion lately. 1 have looked all through
their cartridge boxes. They have not in
tue -. . eslmugted thfeir am
the last 20 years advanced one new ltiea.
m Ul(J bllttlo agltluBt thechurch
Scriptures, while the
Lwd A mighty is as keen
ns it ovel Was. We are just getting our
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"Btil raake the earth quake
und the heavens ring with "Alleluia!" It
will be this, "Forward, me wnoio iinoi
And theu I find another most encour
... i,t,ii in tliofactthat theeecular
nrintingTress and pulpit teem liarnessed
Ko same team frte proclamation of
n. L'fMiiel. Every wan street uanKenu- b"' "-" -,., .. . ..
moiKw ta New York, every State street he was inaugurated. I deny that his in
inorrovs in ne . .mmral address was delivered. You
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wand and glorioaii work, bnt I tell yoa
there it no power on earth today equal
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to the fact that tUc American printing
press is taking up I ho trmoiis which aro
preached to a few hundred or a few
thousand people, and on Monday morn
ing and Monday evening, in the morning
and evening papers, scattering that truth
to the millions. What a thought it is!
What an encouragement for every Chris
tian man!
A GLORIOUS FACT.
Besides that, have you noticed that
during the past few years every one of
the doctrines of the Biblo came under dis
cussion in tho secular press? Do yon not
remember a few years ago, when every
paper in the United States had an edi
torial on the subject, "Is Thero Such a
Thing as Future Punishment?" It was
tho strangest thlug that thero should bo
a discussion in tho secular papers on that
subject, but every paper in tho United
States and in Christendom discussed,
"Is Thero Such a Thing ns Retribution?"
I know thero were small wits who made
sport of tho discussion, but there was
not an intelligent man on earth who, ns
the result of that discussion, did not ask
himself tho question, "What is going to
bo inv eternal destiny?" So it was in re
gard to Tyndall's prayer gauge.
About 12 years ago, you remember,
tho secular papers discussed that, and
with just as much earnestness as tho re
ligious papers, and thero was not a man
in Christendom who did not ask himself
the questiens: "Is thero anything in pray
er? May the creaturo impress tho Cre
ator?" Oh, what a .mighty fact, what a
glorious fact tho secular printing press
and tho pulpit of tho church of Jesus
Christ harnessed in the same team!
Then look at the international series
of Sunday school lessons. Do you know
that every Sabbath, between 8 and 5
o'clock, there are 5,000,000 children study
ing tho same lesson a lesson prepared
by the leading mmds of tho country
and printed in tho papers-aud then these
subjects are discussed and given oyer to
the teachers, who give them over to the
children? So, whereas, once, and within
our memory, tno ciniuren niuuieu nere
and thero at a story in the Bible, now
they aro taken through from Genesis to
Revelation, and wo shall havo 5,000,000
children forestalled for Christianity. My
soul is full of exultation. I feel as if I.
could shout I will shout, "Alleluia, tho
Lord God omnipotent reigneth!"
SCIENTIFIC CONSOLATION.
Then you notice a more significant
fact, if you havo talked with people on
tho subject, that they are getting dissat
isfied with philosophy and science as a
matter of comfort. They say it does not
amount to anything when you have a
dead child in the house. They will tell
you, when they wero Bick and the door of
the future seemed opening, the only com
fort they could find was in the gospel.
People aro having demonstrated all over
the laud that science and philosophy can
not solace the trouble and woes of the
world, und they want some other reli
gion, and they are taking Christianity,
the only sympathetic religion that ever
came into the world.
You just take your scientific coneola
tion iuto that room where a mother has
lost her child. Try m that case your
splendid doctrine oftho "survival of the
fittest." Tell her that child died becauso
it was not worth as much as tho other
children. That is your "survival of tho
fittest." Go to that dying mall and tell
him to pluck up courago for the future.
Use your transcendental phiC.eology uj
on him. Tell him ho ought to be confi
dent in "tho great to be." and tho "ever
lasting now," and tho "eternal what is
it." Just try your transcendentalism
and your philosophy and your scienco on
him.
Go to that widowed soul and toll her
it was a geological necessity that her
companion should bo taken away from
her, just as in tho course of the world's
history the megatherium had to pass out
of existence, and then you go on in your
scientific consolation until you get to tho
sublime fact that 50,000,000 years' from
now wo ourselves may be scientific spec
imens on a geological shelf, petrified
specimens of an extiuct human race.
And after you havo got all through
with your consolatiou, if tho poor afflict
ed soul is not crazed by it, I will send
forth from this church tho plainest
Christian wo have, and with ono half
hour of prayer and reading of Scripture
nromises tho tears will be willed away,
und the house from floor to cupola will
be flooded with tho calmness of an In
dian summer sunset. Thero is where I
seo the triumph of Christianity. Peo
ple are dissatisfied with everything elbe.
Thev want God. They want Jesus Christ.
Talk about the exact sciences. Thero
is only one exact scienco. It is not math
ematics. Taylor's logarithms havo many
imperfections. Tho French metric sys
tem has many imperfections. The only
exact science is Christianity tho only
thing under which you can appropriately
write, "Quod erat demonstrandum." You
tell uie that two and two make four.
I do not dispute it, but it is not bo plain
that two and two make four as that the
Lord God Almighty made this world
and for man, tho sinner, ho sent his only
begotten Sou to die.
I put on the witness stand to testify
in behalf of Christianity tho church
on earth and all the church in heaven.
, Not 50, nc
of
. the redeem
50, not a thousand, not a million,
the church on turtli and all
redeemed In heaven.
A QUESTION OF TESTIMONY.
You tell me James A. Garfield was in
augurated prebideutof the United States
on the 4th of March, 1881. How do 1
know it? You tell me there were 20,000
, who du uncUyheard hU inau.
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have never Men Christ crowned in the
hearti and they do not believe It la ever
done. There is n grouj) of men who say
they have never heard tho voico of
Christ; they havo never heard the voice
of God. They do not believe it ever
transpired or was ever heard that any
thing like it ever occurred. I point to 20,
100,000 or 1,000,000 pcoplo who eny,
"Christ was crowued in our hearts' af
fections; wo have seen him nnd felt him
in our soul, and wo havo heard his voice;
wo have heard it in storm and darkness;
wo have heard it again and agnin.
Whoso testimony will you take? Theso
men, who say they havo not heard tho
voico of Christ, havo not seen tho corona
tion, or will you tako tho thousands nnd
millions of Christians who testify of
what they saw with their own oyes and
heard with their own ears?
Yonder is an aged Christian after CO
years' oxperienco of tho power of godli
ness in his soul. Ask this man whether,
-when he buried his dead, tho religion of
Jesus Christ was not a consolation. Ask
him if through tho long years of his pil
grimage tho Lord over forsook him. Ask
him, when ho looks forward to tho fu
ture, if ho has not a peace, and a joy, and
a consolation the world cannot take
away. Put his testimony of what he
has seen and what he has folt opposito
to tho testimony of n man who says ho
has not seen anything on the subject or
felt anything on tho subject. Will you
tako tho testimony of people who have
not seen or people who havo seeu?
A BIT OF ADVICE.
You say morphia puts ono to sleop.
You say in timo of sickness it is very
useful. I deny it. Morphia nover puts
anybody to sleep; it never alleviates
pain. You ask mo why I say that. I
have never tried it; I never took it. 1
deny that morphia is nny soothing to tho
nerves or any quiet in times of 6ickuess.
I deny that morphia ever put anybody to
sleep, but hero are 20 persons who say
they havo all felt the soothing effects of
a physician's prescribing morphine.
Whoso testimony will you take? Those
who took the medicine or my testimony,
I nover having taken tho medicine? Hero
is the gospel ,of Jesus Christ, an anodyno
for all trouble, tho mightiest medicine
that ever camo down to earth. Hero is
a man who says: "I dou't beliovo iu it.
Thero is no power in it." Hero aro other
people who say: "Wo havo found out its
power and know its soothing influence.
It hns cured us." Whoso testimony will
you take in regard to this healing medi
cine? I feel that I havo convinced every man
in this houso that it is utter folly to tako
the testimony of thoso who Jiavo never
tried the gospel of Jesus Christ iu their
own heart and life. Wo havo tens of
thousands of witnesses. I beliovo you
aro ready to take, their testimony. Young
man, do not bo ashamed to bo a friend
of the Biblo. Do not put your thumb in
your vest, as young men sometimes do,
and swaggor about talking of tho glori
ous light of tho nineteenth century und
of thero being no need of a Biblo. They
havo the light of nature in India and
China and in all the dark places on earth.
Did yon ever hear that tho light of na
turo gave them comfort for their trou
ble? They have lancets to cut and jug
gernauts to crush, but no comfort. Ah,
my friends, you had better stop your
skepticism. Suppose you aro put in this
crisis: Oh, fathor, your child is dying.
What aro you going to say to her?
Colonel Ethan Allen was a famous in
fidel in his day. His wife was a very
cousecratcd woman, Tho mother in
structed tho daughter in tho truths of
Christianity. Tho daughter sickoned
and was about to dio, and sho said to her
father: "Father, shall I tako your in
struction, or shall I tako mother's in
struction? I am going to dio now. 1
must have this matter decided." That
man, who had been loud in his infidelity,
said to his dying daughter, "My dear,
you had better take your mother' ro
ligion." My advico is tho same to you
oh, young man, you had better tako
your mother's religion. You know how
it comforted her. You know what sho
Baid to -yon when sho was dying. You
had better tako yonr mother's religion.
Easlljr, Quickly,
Ptrminintlylhitsred.
WEAKNES8,
NERVOUSNESS,
DEBILITY,
nil all tho train of fvlli
(rum mrlj trruri or later
cxci'Mei. tbe remit t lit
overwoik, tlukueii,
worrv.eto. FullttreDglli,
dcTCiopintDt and lime
glvrn tu etery organ and
portion of tlm body,
hlint'l. nturnliTetlo'l
IrnmPllstMniiiriivtniriit wtn. Vulture lmpMIl
7fW refrem-ra. Ifcmlf,
explanation and proofa
mailed (aaaled) free.
ERIE MEDICAL CO,
BUFFALO, N. "
NOTICE,
Notice is hereby given that the com
mon council of the city of Halem, Ore
gon, propose to Improve Liberty street,
from the south line of (Jherueketa street
to the center of Trade street, by estab
liauluga grade and bringing the street
to that grade, by gravelling the road
way eight inches deep, and by con
structing the necessary crosswalks and
drains: Prom the south Hue of Che-
meketa street to tbe south line of Ferry
street the improvement shall extend
&r).d feet on each side of the center line
of the street: and from the south line
of Ferry street to the Center of Trade
street the top of the embankment shall
extend ten feet on each side of the cen
ter line of the street, the sided of the
embankment with a natural slope.
Done by order of the common conn-
nil of the city of Balem, this ISih day
or March, 180i.
KD. N. EDKH,
Recorder of the City of Halem, Oregon,
9 14 10 d
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BALD HEADS!
What Is tho condition of yours? Is your liafr dry, "
harsh, brittle? Doc it spilt at tho ends? Has It a a
lifeless appearance? Docs It fall out when combed or J
brushed? Is It full of dandruff? Does your scalp Itch?
Is It dry or in a heated condition ? If these are some of g
yoursymptomsbe warned in time oryou will become bald. JS,
SkookumRootHair Growers;
l whatyou new!. Its production 1 not an accident, lint the reinttof Brlentlflo J,
reiearei Knowledge of the dlscaacaot tliounlrarutiicalp led to theillsgojr-
err oflioir to treat them. "Skooknm "contain! neither minerals nor olli. It tg
the follicles, it $top falling hair, cure dumlrnlT and groat hair on bald jl
r&of
1 mm
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TI1K NEW
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rnmnleterl nnd ready to wait on customere. Horses boarded by day or weerc
meet all Uemauus. aibo Keen mo u
Bum and resilience 2 tilocR bouui oi
S. W. THOMPSON & Co.,
Always Keep on hand a largo stock of loose and unmountod
Diamonds, Rubies, Sapphires and imported Opalsr
221 Commercial Street.
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PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS
AKI -
Second Class Sleeping Cars-
Attached to all through trains.
rVestSide Division. Between Portland
and CervallLs:
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Iron. W. W. BKINNKlt, Ajent. Halem.
O.V. IUKJKIW, Aaat.U. V, and i'aaa.Afc"
IV KOKIIIjKK, Manaaar
HOUSE Painting, Decorating,
n Hard Wood Finishing,
Can give guodreforeae'M Ktlmtn furnish
d. AddrtsM, Uo. JOchstrulli. haletn. Ileal
deaee on rtalsia Motor lull way. North BaUiil
my ordrmat)UliirUlor, U-4
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at Hanih Fifth ATeone, Now lorn, n. .
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Forest Grove Poultry lards.
Established In 1877.
EGGS FOR HATCHING
FROM THE VERY BEST VARIETIES.
than Ever, but Prices Same
Usual
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and thon you will lie satisfied.
for Catalogue. Address
J. M. GARRISON,
335, Forest Grove, Or.
Cross,
ts.
Wholesale .mil Itctuil
Dealer in Fresh, Suit nntl
Smoked .11 outs of a 1 Kinds
OS Court und
110 State Streets.
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Through
PICTO
TO
SALT LAKE . DENVER.
OMAHA, KANSAS CITY,
CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS
AND ALT.
EASTERN CITIES
3
1 DAYS to
2 CHICAGO
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Thursday and Haturduy at ti:IS a. iu,
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