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A COOL KETUEAT,

Has Every Desirable Facility for an Enjoy-

ablfl Summer Sojourn.

Persons desiring to combiue recreation, -entertainment, instruction and devotion with their summer outing will find Eagle Lake, on the Pensylvania Lines, near "Warsaw Ind., the ideal spot. This pretty resort is site of Wii.ona Assembly and Summer school, the youngest of the •Chautauqua Assembly?. The grounds have been well and favorabley known as Spring Fountain Park. They constitue about two hundred acres of romantic woodland st etching nearly two miles alog the eastern shore of Eagle Lake, a beautiful sheet of water. The grounds "ha^e been platted and.pretty cottages constitute the summer homes of persons who here find rest aiul liealthgiviug recreation in invigorating air, amid attractive surroundings. Some desirable cottage sites areytt obtainable. In addition to the portion laid out for building purposes, a fine park has been ni'ide. There is also a race track with overlooking amphitheatre furnishing splendid facilities for outdoor athletic sports. The large auditorium lias a seating capacity of 3,000, and the several college lialls are use 1 fo Assembly purposes. A good ho!el, xestanrants am? supply stores furnish means of living at re -i sou able rates. A large fleet of row beats with two steameis will permit indulgence in boating, and persons fond of fishing may enjoy that pastime to satisfactory extent, as the lake teems with fish. The low tourist rates over the Pennsylvania Lines place these pleasures within easy reach. The rate will be in effect all season from ticket stations on these lines In addition to the season tourist ticket*, a low rate will also be in effect for round trip tickets good fifteen days. Ticket agents of the Pennsylvania Lines will furnish them, and they may be obtained from agents of connecting lines. The Assenbly Department opens July 1st and continues four weeks during which time prominent speakers will discuss live topics. During August there will be educationel work under Prest John M. Coulter, "of Lake Forest University,in connection with the Assembly. For details regarding rates of fare, time of trains, etc., apply to nearest Pennsylvania Line Ticket Ageut, or address F. Van Dusen, Chief Assistant General Passenger Agent, Pittsburgh, Pa. Applications for information concerning the resort should ba addressed to Secretary E. S. Scott, Eagle Lake, Ind.

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4 PL.EASUKK TRIPS,

^Numerous Exrursions tne Coming Slimmer at Reasonable Kates.

"Whether the tourist's fancy directs him to the New England States or the Atlantic seaboard to the South or to the lake region ot the North or to the Rocky Mountains and the wonderland beyond the Mississippi, he will be given opportunity to indulge his tastes at a small cost for railroad fare this vear. In Aug excursion tickets will be on sale over the Pennsylvania Lines to Boston, account the Knights Templar Conclave The sale of low rate tickets will not be restricted to members of the organizations mentioned, but the public generally may take advantage of them.

The Asbury Park excursion will doubtless attract many to that delightful ocean resort. Atlantic City, Cape May, Long Branch aad all the famous watering places along the New Jersey coast are located on the Pennsylvania Lines, hence this will be a desirab.e opportunity to visit the seashore. The Denver excursion I will be just the thing for a sight-seeing jaunt thro' the far West, as tickets will be honored going one way and returning a different route through the most romantic scenery beyond the Mississippi and M.s.jouri rivers. Variable route privileges will also be accorded Boston excur eionists, enabling them to visit Niagara

Falls, Montreal, Thousand Islauds and St. Lawrence Rapids, the White Mountains, the Hudson River territory, and to return by steamer on Long Island Sound, after sight-seeing at Newport. Narragansett Pier, Nantucket and the Cape Cod resorts to New York and thence through the agricultural paradise of the Keystone State, along the Susquehanna and JunViata rivers, over the Alleghenies, around famous Horse Shoe Curve, through historic Johnstown and the coke and Iron sregions of Western Pennsylvania. It is also expected that Boston excursionists over the Pennsylvania Liues will be privileged to return via Baltimore and Washington if they so desire.

In addition to the above, there will be pleuty of other cheap excursions over the Pennsylvania Lines to various points. As -the season is some weeks away, arrangements in detail have not been consummated, but it is certain that no railway will offer better inducements than the liberal concessions in rates and privileges that may be enjoyed by travelers over, the Pennsylvania Lines. This fact may readily be ascertained upon application to any passenger or ticket ageut of these lines, or by addressing F. VAN DUSEN, Chief Assistant Gen. Pass. Agt., Pittsburg, Pa. apr6wd-t-s-tf

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GOSPEL OP CONTENT.

REV. DR. TALMAGE ON THE RELIGION FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE.

He Asks Attention to the Rank and File Rather Than to the Few—The Disadvantages of Being Conspicuous The

Blessing of Content.

NEW YORK, July 21.—Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is still absent on his annual midsummer tour, preaching and lecturing, has prepared for today a sermon on "Plain People," a topic which will appeal to a very large majority of readers anywhere. The text selected was Romans xvi, 14, 15, "Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hennas, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia."

Matthew Henry, Albert Barnes, Adam Clark, Thomas Scott and all the commentators pass by these verses without any especial remark. The other 20 people mentioned in the chapter were distinguished for something and were therefore discussed by the illustrious expositors, but nothing is said about Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hernias, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia. Where were they born? No one knows. Where did they die? There is no record of their decease. For what were they distinguished? Absolutely for nothing, or the trait of character would have been brought out by the apostle. If they had been very intrepid or opulent or hirsute or musical of cadence or crass of style or in anywise anomalous, that feature would have been caught by the apostolic camera. But tliey were good people, because Paul sent to them his high Christian regard -. They were ordinary people, moving in ordinary sphere, attending to ordinary duty and meeting ordinary responsibilities.

What the world wants is a religion for ordinary people. If there be in the United States (Jo,000,000 people, there are certainly not more than 1,000,000 extraordinary, and then there are 64.000,000 ordinary, and we do well to turn our backs for a little while up ii the distinguished and conspicuous peopie of the Bible and consider in our text the seven ordinary. We spend too much of our time in twisting garlands for reniarkables and building thrones for magnates and sculpturing warriors and apotheosizing philanthropists. The rank and rile of the Lord's soldiery need esI peeial help. I The vast majority of people to whom this sermon comes will never lead an army, will never write a state constitution, will never electrify a senate, will never make an important invention, will never introduce a new philosophy, will never decide the fate of a nation.

You do not expect to you do not want to. You will, not be a Moses to lead a nation out of bondage. You will not be ance "wheels' of health a Joshua to prolong the daylight until you can shut five kings in a. cavern. You will not be a St. John to unroll an apocalypse. You will not be a Paul to preside over sin apostolic college. You will not be a Mary to mother a Christ. You will more probably be Asyncritus or Phlegon or Hernias or Patrobas or Hermes or Philologus or Julia.

Heads of Households.

Many of you are women at the head of households. This morning you launched the family for Sabbath observance. Your brain decided the apparel, and your judgment was final on all questions of personal attire. Every morning you plan for the day. The culinary department of your household is in your dominion. You decide all questions of diet. All the sanitary regulations of your house are under your supervision. To regulate the food, and the apparel, and the habits and decido the thousand questions of homo life is a tax upon your brain awl nerve and general health absolutely appalling if there bo no divine alleviation.

It does not help you much to be told that Elizabeth Fry did wonderful things mid the criminals of Newgate. It does not help you much to be told that Mrs. Judson was very brave among the Bornesian cannibals. It does not help you much t© be told that Florence Nightingale was very kind to the wounded in the Crimea. It would be better for me to tell you that the divine friend of Mary and Martha is your friend, and that ho sees all the annoyances and disappointments and abrasions and exasperations of ail ordinary housekeeper from morn till night, and from the first day of the year to the last day of the year and at your call he is ready with help and re-enforcement.

They who provido the food of the world decide the health of the world. One of the greatest battles of this century was lost because the commander that morning had a fit of indigestion. You have only to go on some errand amid the taverns and the hotels of the United States and Great Britain to appreciate the fact that a vast multitude of the human race are slaughtered by incompetent cookery. Though a young woman may have taken lessons in music and may have taken lessons in painting and lessons in astronomy, she is not well educated unless she has taken lessons in dough. They who decide the apparel of the world and the food of the world decide the endurance of the world.

An unthinking man may consider it a matter of little importance—the cares of the household and the economies of domestic life—but I tell you the earth is strewn with the martyrs of kitchen and nursery. The health shattered womanhood of America cries out for a God who can help ordinary women in the ordinary duties of housekeeping. Tho wearing, grinding, unappreciated work goes on, but the same Clirist^vho stood on the bank of Galileo in tho early morning and kindled the fire and had the fish alrejidy cleaned and broiling when the sportsmen stepped ashore, chilled and hungry, will help every woman to prepare breakfast, whether by her own hand or the hand of her hired help.

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for Samuel, her son, and carried it to the temple every year, will help every woman in preparing the family wardrobe. The God who opens the Bible with the story of Abraham's entertainment of the three angels on the plains of Mamre will help every woman to provide hospitality, however rare and embarrassing. It is high time that some of the attention we have been giving to the remarkable women of the Bible—remarkable for their virtue or want of it or remarkable for their deeds—Deborah and Jezebel and Herodia and Athaliah and Dorcas and the Marys, excellent and abandoned—it is high time some of the attention we have been giving to these conspicuous women of the Bible be given to Julia of the text, an ordinary woman amid ordinary circumstances, attending to ordinary duties and meeting ordinary responsibilities.

Premature Old Age.

Then there are the ordinary business men. They need divine and Christian help. When we begin to talk about business life, we shoot right off and talk about men who did business on a large scale, and who sold millions of dollars of goods a year, but the vast majority of business men do not sell a million dollars of goods, nor half a million, nor a quarter of a million, nor the eighth part of a million. Put all the business men of our cities, towns, villages and neighborhoods side by side, and you

Many of these business men have bodies like a neglected clock to which you come, and you wind it up, aud it begins to buzz and roar, and then the hands start around very rapidly, and Mien the clock strikes 5 or 10 or 40, and strikes without any sense, and then suddenly stops. So is the body of that worn out business man. It is a neglected clock, and though by some summer recreation it may be wound up still the machinery is all out of gear. The hands turn around with a velocity that excites the astonishment of the world. Men cannot understand the wonderful activity, and there is a roar, and a buzz, and a rattle about these disordered lives, and they strike ten when they ought to strike five, and they strike 12 when they ought to striko six, and they strike 40 when they ought to striko nothing, and suddenly they stop. Post mortem examination reveals the fact that all the springs aud pivots and weights and balare completely deranged. The human clock has simply run down. And at the time when the steady hand ought to be pointing to the industrious hours on a clear and sunlit dial the whole machinery of body, mind mid earthly capacity stops forever. The I cemeteries liavo thousands of business men who died of old ago at iK), 35, 40, 45. I

The Best Kind of Grace.

Now, what is wanted is grace—divine grace for ordinary business men, men who are harnessed from morn till night and all the days of their life—harnessed in business. Not grace to lose $100,000, but grace to lose |10. Not grace

to supervise 250 employees in a factory, but grace to supervise the bookkeeper and two salesmen and the small boy that sweeps out the store. Grace to invest not the $.SO,000 of net profit, lmt the $2,500 of clear g:- in. Graee wot to endure the loss of a whole shipload of spices from the Indies, but grace to endure the loss of a paper of collars from tho leakage of a displaced shingle on a poor roof.

Grace not to endure tho tardiness of the American congress in passing a necessary law, but grace to endure the tardiness of an errand boy stopping to play marbles when he ought to deliver the goods such a grace as thousands of business men have today, keeping them I tranquil whether goods sell or do not sell, whether customers pay or do not pay, whether the tariff is up or tariff is down, whether the crops are luxuriant I or a dead failure, calm in all circumstances and amid all vicissitudes—that is tho kind of grace we want. Millions of men want it, and they may have it for the asking. Some hero or heroino comes to town, and as the procession passes through the street the business men come out and stand on tiptoe on their store steps and look at some one who in arctic clime or in ocean storm or in day of battle or in hospital agonies did the brave thing, not realizing that tliey, the enthusiastic spectators, have gone through trials in business life that are just as great before God. There are men who have gone through freezing arctics and burning torrids and awful Marengos of experiences without moving five miles from their doorsteps. Now, what ordinary business men need is to realize that they have the friendship of that Christ who looked after the religious interests of Matthew, the custom house clerk, and helped Lydia of Thyatira to sell the dry goods, and who opened a bakery and fish market in the wilderness of Asia Minor to feed the 7,000 who had como out on a religious picnic, and who counts the hairs of your head with as milch particularity as though they were the plumes of a coronation, and who took the trouble to stoop down with his finger writing on the ground, although the first shuffle of feet obliterated the divine caligraphy, and who knows just how many locusts there were in the Egyptian plague and knew just how many ravens were necessary to supply Eli jail's pantry by the brook Cherith, and who as floral commander leads forth all the regiments of primroses, foxgloves, daffodils, hyacinths and lilies which pitch their tents of beauty aud kindle their camp fires of color all around the hemisphere that that Christ and that God know the most minute affairs of your business life, and, however in-

will find that they sell less than §50,000 A^ii'th of goods. All these men in ordinary business life want divine help. I You see how tho wrinkles are printing on the countenance the story of worriment and care. You cannot tell how old a business man is by looking at him. Gray hairs at -30. A man at 4.3 with the stoop of a nonogenarian. No time to attend to improved dentistry, the grinders cease because they are few. Actually dying of old age at 40 or 50 when they onght to be at the meridian.

considerable, understanding all the affairs of that woman who keeps a thread and needle store as well as all the affairs of a Rothschild and a Stewart.

Tillers of the Soil.

Then there are all the ordinary farmers. We talk about agricultural life, and we immediately shoot off to talk about Cincinnatus, the patrician, who went from the plow to a high position, aud after he got through the dictatorship in 21 days went back again to the plow. What encouragement is that to ordinary farmers? The vast majority of them, none of them, will be patricians. Perhaps none of them will be senators. If any of them have dictatorships, it will be over 40 or 50 or 100 acres of the old homestead. What those men want is grace to keep their patience while plowing with balky oxen and to keep cheerful amid the drought that destroys the corn crop and that enables them to restore the garden the day after the neighbor's cattle have broken in and trampled out the strawberry bed and gone through the lima bean patch and eaten up the sweet corn in such large quantities that they mast, be kept from the water lest they swell tip aud die grace in catching weather that enables them without imprecation to spread out the hay the third time, although again and again and again it has been almost ready for the mow a grace to doctor the cow with a hollow horn, and the sheep with the footrot, and the horse with the distemper, and to compel the unwilling acres to yield a liveliI hood for the family, and schooling for tho children, and little extras to help the older boy in business, and something for the daughter's wedding outfit, and a littie surplus for the time when the ankles will get stiff with age and the breath will be a litile short, and the swinging of tho cradle through, the hot harvest field will bring on the old man's vertigo.

Better close up about Cincinnatus. I know 500 fanners just as noble as he was.

What they want is to know that they have Iho friendship of that Christ who often drew his similes from the farmer's life, as when lie said, "A sower went forth to sow," as when he built his best parable out of the scene of a farmer's boy coining back from his wanderings, and the old farmhouse shook that night with rural jubilee, and who compared himself to a lamb in the pasture field, and who said the eternal God is a farmer, declaring, "illy Father is the husbandman.

Those stonemasons do not want to hear about Christopher Wren, the .'irehitect, who built St. Paul's cathedral. It would be better to tell them how to carry the hod of brick up the ladder without slipping, and how on a cold morning with the trowel to smooth off the mortar and keep cheerful, and how to be thankful to God for the plain food taken from the pail by the roadside. Carpenters standing amid the adz, and the bit, and the plane, and the broadax need to bo told that Christ was a carpenter, with his own hand wielding saw aud hammer. Oh, this is a tired world, and it is an overworked world, anil it is an underfed world, and it is a wrung out world, and men and women need to know that there is rest and recuperation in God and in that religion which was not so much intended for extraordinary people as for ordinary people, because there are more of them.

Hoalerrt of the Sick.

The healing profession has had its Abercronibies audits Abernethys and its Valentine Motts and its Willard Parkers, but the ordinary physicians do the most, of the world's medicining, and they need to understand that while taking diagnosis or prognosis or writing prescription or compounding medicamentor holding the delicate pulse of a dying child they may have the presence and the dictation of tho almighty doctor who took the case of the madman, and after he had torn off his garments in foaming dementia clothed him again, body and mind, and who lifted up the woman who for 1S years had been bent almost double with tho rheumatism into graceful stature, and who turned the scabs of leprosy into rubicund complexion, and who rubbed the numbness out of paralysis, and who swung wide open

Come, now, let us have a religion for ordinary peoplo in professions, in occupations, in agriculture, in the household, in merchandise, in everything. I salute across the centuries Asyncritus, Ph logon, Hernias, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia. I

First of all, if you feel that you are I ordinary, thank God that you are notextraordinary. I am tired find sick and bored almost to death with extraordinary people. Tliey take all their time to tell us how very extraordinary tliey really are. You know as well as I do, my brother and sister, that the most of the useful work of the world is done by unpretentious people who toil right on, by people who do not get much approval, aud no one seems to say, "That is well done.'' Phenomena are of but little use. Things that are exceptional cannot be depended on. Better trust the smallest planet that swings on its orbit than ten comets shooting this way and that, imperiling the longevity of worlds attending to their own business. For steady illumination better is a lamp than a rocket. Then, if you feel that you are ordinary, remember that your pos'tion invites the less attack.

Conspicuous people—how they have to tako it! How they are misrepresented and abused and shot at! The higher the horns of a roebuck tho easier to track him down. What a delicious thing it must be to be a candidato for presi

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the closed windows of hereditary or ac- I cidental blindness until the morning light came streaming through the fleshly casements, and who knows all the diseases and all the remedies and all the herbs and all the catholicons, and is monarch of pharmacy and therapeutics, and who has sent out 10,000 doctors of whom the world makes no record, but I to prove that they are angels of mercy I invoke the thousands of men whoso ailments have been assuaged and the thousands of women to whom in crises of pain they have been next to God in I benefaction. I

dent of the United States! It must be so soothing to the nerves! It must pour into the soul of a candidato such a sense of serenity when he reads the blessed newspapers!

The Abused.

!'I came into the possession of the abusive cartoons in (.he time of Napoleon I, printed while he was yet alive. The retreat of the army from Moscow, that army buried in the snows of Russia, one of the most awful tragedies of the centuries, represented under the figure of a monster called General Frost shaving the French emperor with a razor of icicle. As Satyr and Beelzebub he is represented, page after page, page after page, England cursing him, Spain cursing him, Germany cursing him, Russia cursing him, Europe cursing him, North and South America cursing him, the most remarkable man of his day and tho most abused. All those men in history who now have a halo around their name on earth wore a crown of thorns.

Tako the few extraordinary railroad men of our time and see what abuse comes upon them while thousands of stockholders escape. All the world took after Thomas Scott, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, abused him until he got under the ground. Thousands of stockholders in that company. All tho blame on one man. The Central Pacific railroad. Two or three men get all the blame if anything goes wrong. There are 10,000 in that company.

I mention these things to prove it is extraordinary people who get abused while the ordinary escape. The weather of life is not so severe on the plain as it is on the high peaks. The world never forgives a man who knows or gams or does more than it can know or gam or do. Pari nts sometimes give confectionery to the children as an inducement to take bitter medicine, and the world's yugar plum precedes the world's aqua fortis. The mob cried in regard to Christ, "Crucify him, crucify him!" 'tj and tliey had to say it twice to be understood, for they were so hoarse, and they got their hoarseness by crying a little while before at the top of their voice,"Hosanna!" The river Rhone is foul -j| when it enters Lake Leman, but crystalline when it conies out on the other, side. But there are men who have entered the bright lake, of worldly pros--perity crystalline and came out teiribly riled. If, therefore, you feel that you are ordinary, thank God for the defenses and the tranquillity of your position.

A Contented Spirit.

Then remember, if you have only what is callcd an ordinary home, that the great deliverers of the world have all come from such a home. And there may be seated reading at your evening stand a child who shall be potent for the ages. Just unroll the scroll of men mighty in church and state, and

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will find they nearly all came from log cabin or poor homes. Genius almost always runs out in the third or fourth f§ generation. You cannot find in all history an instance where the fourth generation of extraordinary people amount to anything. Columbus from a weaver's hut, Demosthenes from a cutler's cellar, Bloomfied and Missionary Carey from a shoemaker's bench, Arkwrigbt from a barber's shop, and he whose name is high over all in earth anil air and sky from a manger.

Let us all be content with such things as we have. God is just as good in what ho keeps away from us as in what he gives us. Even a knot may bo useful if it is at the end of a thread.

At. an anniversary of a deaf and dumb Asylum one of the children wrote upon the blackboard words as sublime as the "Iliad." Iho "Odyssey" and tho "Divina Commedia" all compressed in one paragraph. Tho examiner, in signs of the mute language, asked her, "Who made the world?" Tho deaf and dumb girl wrote upon the blackboard, "In the beginning God created the heaven and

tho earth." The examiner asked her, "For what purpose did Christ come into the world?" The deaf and dumb girl wrote upon the blackboard, "This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ. Jesus came into the world to save sinners." The examiner said to her, "Why were you born deaf and dumb while I hear and speak:" She wrote upon the blackboard, "Even so, Father, for so it seemeth good in thy sight." Oh, that we might be baptized with a contented spirit! The spider draws poison out of a flower tho bee gets honey out of a thistle, but happiness is a heavenly elixir, and the contented spirit extracts it not from the ffe rhododendron of the hills, but from the lily of the valley.

Stratagem» of Parisian Shoplifter*.

Outside one of the big Paris stores there were lately grouped a lady, a nursemaid with a baby in her arms and an inspector of police in tho execution, of his duty. The lady had just been given into custody on a charge of unlawful sampling off the counters. She was protesting her innocence in tho most eloquent and moving terms. The nursemaid was too far gone for words, but she sobbbed in a highly effective manner upon tho baby's shoulder. Tho great heart of the peoplo that stood around was stirred. It found voice anon in cries against tho inspector.

Abused indeed ho might have^ieenhad he not shrewdly and suddenly unwaterproofed his prisoner, for underneath slio was all overproof, fluttering with fans and fancy articles, festooned witli lace and ribbons and fallals of all sorts and hung round with natty boots and^neat umbrellas. It was a sight to giv®tlie abasers pause. A cortain revulsion of feeling in favor of constituted authority began to set in. But when constituted authority proceeded to uncloaks*' tho nursemaid also aud she in her agita-»B tion let the baby fall a roar of execration arose from the bystanders, for the. baby fell upon its head and stove it in. The inspector had to go down upon his knees and pick up the fragments of that fractured skull and show them around. Then there ar»se another sort of roar. Fragments of wax they were. The very baby was a shoplift. —Pall Mall Gazettes

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