Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 21 June 1890 — Page 5

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SUPPLEMENT.

ORAWFORDSVILLE INDIANA

THE United StateB Government ordinance works at Boston are to be r©|jnovod to East Chattanooga, Tenn. Over 500 skilled workmen are to be .employed. Competition of cheap Southern iron forced the removal.

Two receivers of stolen goods were given a good, healthy dose of medicine at Boston tho other day. They were each sentenced to twenty-five years in the penitentiary. Tho receiver of stolen goods is on a level with the thief and should have as severe punishment.

C. M. BUHT and his bride, of Fairfield, Neb., arrived at Grand Jsland Junction, a few days ago, and took rooms at a hotel. The next morning Mrs. Burt was found dead in bed, and the husband unconscious. You may believe it or not, in this newspaper ago, but they had blown out tho gas.

ICE dealers at Indianapolis are in a combination and demand $1 per 100 for ice. It is an outrageous price, but until relief comes from some source the consumer will be required to pay it. Probably some day there will bo a reckoning, when Indianapolis dealers .'•rill not have a monopoly of ice—in fact there will be very little if any ice .where they will be corraled.

ANDREW SIIUMAN, editor of tho Chicago Journal, and at one time Lieutenant-Governor of Illinois, was one of the best, known editors in the Country. He gave to his conservative publication such vigor and discretion as to place it higher than the avert ge 3ournal of its kind. There was nothing sensational or shoddy about Mr. Shuman, and the world is better for -Ills having lived-iiritr

POWDERLY sees in the 75,000 idle men in California a force that will' j, render abortive the eight hour movement but there aro not 75,000 idle men in California. After all the fuss in San Francisco, only about 1,000 men were found so much in need of work as to labor in the park. Tramp labor can not be relied upon to break the force of organized effort, as its very unreliability is the chief cause of it being tramp labor.

STANLEY seems to be on the slate for the governorship of the Congo country. He is undoubtedly the beBt man that could bo secured to subdue Central Afrioa and bring it under the dominion, of England, but when he does tt the' people of America will not be so proud of him as they were when he went in1 Search of Livingstone, or even when he was seeking t® rescue Enjin—as was supposed. Even now his fame is tarnishing under the electrlo light being1 cast upon his motives in undertaking his last expedition.

THE refusal of the Chicago Board of Trade to allow quotations to be furnished the bucket shops is proving the (death of the latter "industry." 8. 8. Lloyd & Co. is one of the latest firms |f§!-to go under. One is lead to wonder 'what constitutes the moral difference between dealing with the bucket shops land the regular board of trade, as the business of eaoh is founded solely on taargins, and not a bushel of grain or pound of meat is owned or handled by either. Candidly and honestly margin dealing is gambling, simply and purely, and ought not to be permitted.

THE 4j-por-cent bonds now outstanding amount to $112,521,250 and the 4s aggregate $606,551,000, or a little over $719,000,000 in all. Prac--c ..tioally speaking, this comprises all of Sv'Hhe country's indebtedness. It is all £'?£the debt which bears interest except the Pacific Railroad bonds, which are Imd •vnot, in the sense in which the 4Js and are, an obligation of the Governfc^V.i'ment. This debt is being reduced a^ (h'the I'ate of more than $100,000,000 a ij&^fjjyear. If the revenues be not largely ^/reduced in the interval the nation will *":j enter the new century without a dollar a«f indebtedness.

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JONATHAN HUTCHIHSON attempts to

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cive to leprosy. He arrives at this .conclusion because investigation has

^ifjiclisclosed that leprosy is indigneous to /only sea-coasts or river or lake towns. Hutchinson doesn't know what *|||^jpart of the fish or what kind of fish /G," .contains the germ of the taint, but he

Y'"'(thinks the fieh of equatorial regions ^aro more likely to possess it than any

other, and raw fish is more dangerous -|tha» cooked fish. There is a large iand phosporescent Assure in Mr.

IHutohinson's theory whioh makes IV «lmoBt valuelaaa.

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nil(. no longer with a sweet and peaceful face Pittsburgh is enforcing the Sunday law.

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einor Burleigh, of Maine, by acslamation.

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dians have been having a sun danco 100 indefinitely postponed. A bill extending miles from Pierre, S. Dak. the criminal jurisdiction of tho cirouit and The B. & G. Railway Company have district courts to the groat lakes and their notified its employos that they must not connecting waters, was taken from the become intoxicated, under penalty of dis» calendar "and .passod. The silver bill was charge. debated. The bin to prohibit monoply iu

Harvard students have raised oidy$50 the transportation of cattle to forejgp to repair the damage done ^y d'&iibihg the countries Was passed. Tho bill to provide statue of John Harvard and the dollege for the inspection of live cattlc and beef entrances with red paint. products intended for export was passed-

At a railroad crossing in Cleveland It requires the Secretary of Agriculture 011 the 13th, a freight train locomotive to cause to be made a careful inspection of crashed through one of tho cars of a £as all live cattle and beef produces intended senger train, injuring several people. No for export to foreign countries from tho one killed. United States, with a view to ascertain

Word has been received from Lascruces) whether such cattle and beef products are N. M., stating that not less than 100 deaths free from disease and for this purpose he from smallpox have occurred there within may appoint inspectors, who shall beau the past few weeks, and that tie disease thorizfed to give an official certificate clearis still raging. ly stating the condition in which 6uch

If New York failes to raise the money animalB and beef products are found, and for the Grant mopum^nt by Sept. 1, a no clearancc shall be given to any vesse number of ex.-confederates propose to raise naving^on board cattle or beef product the amount "by subscriptions, exclusively for exportation to a foreign cftuijtpy unless from southerners. the oWner or shipper of such cattle has a

One of the robbers of the Northern oe|ti|c^t'e from the' inspectors stating that Pacific train (at New Salem) wascaptured said cattle end beef products are sound on the 11th. He gave valuable informal and free from disease. Seventy-tive pns

tion of the affair, and offered the Sheriff •51,000 to releaso him. Tho National Typographical Union, in session at Atlanta, on the 11th decided to locate and maintain a home for aged printers, at Colorado Springs, Col. The work on the home will be begun at once.

A desperate attempt was made to assassinate Dr. James |Newton Matthews, the poet, at Macon, 111., on the evening of the 15th. He was sitting in his office reading, when three shots were fired,

Wesley Harris, a farmer residing two miles east of Memphis, has a son James, with whom he can not get along amicably. In fact, tho young man, 011 two different occasions, has attempted to take his aged father's life. 'dnesday he became en raged, and, scixing a bludgeon, dealt the old man a blow across the face, breaking his nose and injuring one of his eyes. The elder Harris says he is afraid to prosecute the boy for fear of being beaten.

The committee on credentials at the Christian Endeavor Convention, on the 15th, reported that 7,023 delegates were actually registered and present. The nominating committee recommended the re-election of President Rev. Francis E. Ciark, Secretary Baer and Treasurer Shaw to their respective offices, and presented names for a vice president for each State of the Union, Province of Canada and other foreign countries represented in the convention. A more earnest and enthusiastic convention was never held in St. Louis. The next meeting will be held in Minneapolis.

A Miles City, Mont., dispatch of thc 13th says: The attitude of the Cheyenne Indians continues to be menacing, though no overt act has occurred since tho killing of Ferguson. Owing to the fact that the Indians have left their reservation and are scattered over the country in small parties, settlers are thoroughly alarmed and are sending women and children into town in large numbers. Indian lookouts are on all high points and are constantly signalling by mirror flashes and thc blanket code. Friendly Indians have reported to whites that there are to be outbreaks, and that they are now "making medicine" which is generally accepted to mean that they are

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At Marion, O., a horso was scared to ,, ,! the presentiment. A sea of evil is abont Unath at sight of a traction engine.

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The Sac and Fox Indians have signed the treaty coding their lands to the Government.

The lose by the storm on Sunday in Cincinnati, ana within a radius of fifty miles, is estimated at $200,000.

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NATIONAL CONGRESS

I11 the Senate an the 11th adverse reports were made from the finance committee on Mr. Stanford's bill for government loans on liens of real estate arid on the bill to abolish metal money, and the bills were

ate pension bills were passed. The House took up and considered the depondent pension bill. Mr. Morrill, in explanation of thc report, stated that the conference committee had struck out the dependent feature of the Senate bill and the service feature of the House bill. The measure, as determined upon, was not ex actly what he would desire, but it was the best that he could obtain, It would distribute 935,000,000 among the poor soldiers of N a O

againsi-wKTconierence repofi. noiau «f inar. it ignored the demands of the soidier^Ieft hitfprayers unanswered, and buried in the bafle'fnent of the Capitol his petition for a per di«m rate of pensions. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, favored the bHl on the ground that it would place on tfie"pension r6lis 250,000 names, ana would increase the pension of 50,000 men now on the rolls, other men bcrs made statements and the report was adopted by ayes 145, nays 50.

rapid succession—none tgMng effect. aga^nstSi^TOTiTerenTTC report, holding that. The principgJ.fxitfitfgM transacted at the "Endeavor Convention in St. Louis on the l^th was the receiving of the reports from the different States, which showed the society flourishing withalarge number of societies and big membership in each State and Canadian province.

Two hundred people stood on a frail bridge in Beyerle's Park, at Cleveland, Sunday afternoon, waiting to see a man jump 100 feet from a cliff. The structure suddenly gave way and men, women and children were precipitated into a gulley sixty feet below. All but ten were enabled to go to their homes, these being taken to the hospitals. No deaths.

Iu the Senate on the 12th Mr. Davis presented the conference report on the de pendent pension bill, after explaining which, tho discussion of the silver bill was continued.

In the House the anti-trust bill was passed with tho following amendment: "Every contract or agreement entered into for the purpose of preventing competition in the transportation of persons or property from one State or Territory into another, so that the rates of such transportation may be raised aoove what is ju6t and reasonable, shall be declared unlawful within the meaning of this act. And nothing In this act shall be deemed or held to impair the powers of the several States iu respect of any of the matters in this act mentioned." The agricultural appropriation was passed also a few unimportant bills. The Presis dent returned to the House without his approval the bill for the erection of public building at Tuscaloosa, Ala. In his veto message the President said: "In the present uncertain state of the public revenues and expenditures resulting from pending and probable legislation, there is, to my mind, an absolute necessity that expenditures for public buildings should be limited to cases where the public needs are very evident and very imperative. It is clear that this is not such a case."

In the Senate 011 the 13th the Senate silver bill was taken up, and after a short discussion it was agreed, by unanimous consent, that tho Senate bill should belaid on the table and the House bill, as amends ed by the finance committee, substituted for it.

The House went into Committee of the Whole on the 13th and discussed the civil appropriation bill. Among the amend ments adopted was one appropriating $10,000 for an elevator in the public build ing at Peoria, 111.

In the Senate, Saturday, bills on the calendar were passed The educational fund bill was laid aside. t'hirt.y.flve

niting to be joined by allies from the private pension bills were passed, and the tanding Rock, Sioux and Pine Kidge Senate adjourned. In tho House, conferees Chcyenncs, to whom messengers have on the antitrust bill were appointed. The been sent. The Northern Cheyennes sundry civil service bill was considered themselv-es only number about 200 bucks._ until lp. m., when eulogies were delivered At the »ency of the Rosebud, Major in memory of the late Samuel J. Randall Cairoll, ur the First Cavalry, has three until adjournment. troops of cavalry—about a hundred and

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Senate on the 16th passed the defi-

foity men. Dotachments of a troop of ciency appropriation bills for pensions and cavalry and three companies of infantry, the census. The silver bill was debated. 150 all told, left for Fort ICoogh. Friday, The House briefly considered the sundry to proceed up the Rosebud and cooperate civil appropriation bill.

with Carroll. Three companies more .it FortlCcogh could be sent out. but there is no transportation. In compliance with the request of the Sheriff of this county a hundred rifles and ten thousand rounds of ammunition arrived here Saturday .in charge of Colonel Curtis, aiac to Governor Toole. 1

FOREIGN.

THEY WANT TO BE CURED.

Ton Thousand People Visit a Pittsburg Prieit to Be Treated for Their Ilia.

At least 10,000 afflicted people from all parts of the country gathered at Father Mollinger's church, in Allegheny City,

..—.w.-.. Friday, to be healed and take part in the

The municipal authorities Wednesday celebration of St. Anthony's day. It was presented the freedom of the city of Edin- a curious assemblage of the lame, deaf and burgh to Henry M. Stanley. blird, drawn together by the reports of

Reports have beenrecelvodatSt. Peters Father Mollinger's marvelous cures. The burg of disastrous conflagrations and great afflicted began to arrive Thursday, and loss of life and proporty in the mining five thousand were camped about the districts of tho Ural mountains. The iron church, sleeping 011 floors, door steps works at Ufaleisk and Newjansk, a thous porches and the ground. The services sand dwelling houses, four school houses began at daybreak, and was continued all three churches, the hospitals and the day and until late in the evening. Thoumagazines wore completely destryed. Forty sands were unable to gain admission to persons were burned to death and 18,000 tho church, and all day they stood in the were made homeless by the destruction of hot sun awaiting their turn to be cured. the towns. Father Mollinger is a physician, as well as

Catholic states that the priest, and does not claim any miraculous .ty5 Congratulations of powers, but he is a firm believer in faith r- "ffiP YaUcan, qxpreslbeld hinrjsclf coupled with works. He charged nothing ae slityupi? of thp_n6Jj[ef t^&t g£9at punish- for prescription, but few left without

Itnftendmg on SomStV for its giving to the church from 9C cenis to f5.

THE FATHER'S KISS.

THE BITTER PAST WIPED OUT BY THE PRODIGAL'S RETURN.

"And He i^ell Upon His Neck'anil Kissed Him."—Sermon Delivered Last Sunday at Brooklyn, N. Y., by

Rev. T. DeWitt, Talmage, D. D.

Dr. Taimagd preached the following sermon at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday, from the text, Luke xv., 20: "When he was yet a great way off his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck and kissed him."'

One of the deepest wells that inspiration ever opened is this well of a parable which we can never exhaust. The parable, I suppose, was founded on facts. I have described to you the going away of this prodigal son from his father's house, and have shown you what a hard time ho had down in the wilderness, and what a very great mistake it, was for him to leave so beautiful a home for such a miserable desort. But he did not always stay in the wilderness he came back after a while. We do not read that his mother came to greet him. 1 suppose she was dead. She would have been the first to come out. The father would have given the second kiss to the returning prodigal the mother tho first. It may have been for tho lack of her example and prayers that he became a prodigal. Sometimes the father docs not know now to manage the children of the household. The chief work comes upon the mother. Indeed, no one ever gets over the calamity of losing a mother in early life, Still, this young man was not ungreeted when he came back.

However well appareled we may be in the morning when we start out on a Journey, before night, what with the dust and the jostling, we have lost all cleanliness of appearance.

But this prodigal when he started from the swine-trough, was ragged and wretched, and his appearance, after he had gone through days of journeying' mid. ..exposure** you can more easily imagine tllati -describe. As the people see this prodigal coming on homeward, they wonder who he is. They say: "I wonder what prison he has broken out of. I wonder what lazaretto he has escaped from. I wonder with what plague he will smite the air." Although theso people may have been well acquainted with the family, yet they do not imagine that this is the vory young man who went oft only a little while ago with quick step, and ruddy-cheok, and beautiful apparel. The young man, I think, walks, very fast. HQ looks as though lie were intent upon something very important. The people stop. They look at him. They wonder where he is going to.

You have heard of a son who went off to sea and never returned. All the people in the neighborhood thought tho son would never return, but the parents came to no such conclusion. They would go by the hour and day and sit upon the beach, looking off upon the water, expecting to see the sail that would bring home the long-absent boy. And so I think this father of my text sat under the vine looking out toward the road on which his son had departed but the father has changed very much since wo saw him last. His hair has become white, his cheeks are furrowed, his heart is broken. What is all his bountiful table to him when his son may be lacking bread? What is all the splendor of the wardrobe of that homestead when the son may not have a decent coat? What are all the sheep on that hillside to the father when his pet lamb is gone? Still he sits and watches, looking out on the road, and one day he beholds a foottraveler. He sees him rise above the hill first, the head and after awhile the entire body and as soon as he gets a fair glance of him he knows it is his rccreaut son. He forgets the crutch, and the cane, and the stiffness of the Joints, and bounds away. 1 think tho people all around were amazed. They said: "It is only a foot pad. It is only some old tramp of the road. Don't go out to meet him.'' The father 'cnew better.

The change in tho son'sv''appeararice could not hide tho marks by which tho father knew the boy. You know that persons of a great deal of independence of character are apt to indicate it in their walk. For that reason the sailor aim "st always has a peculiar stop, not only because he stands much on shipboard amid the rocking of the sea, and ne has to balance himself, but he has lor the most part an independent character, which would show in his gait, even if he never went on the sea and 0 know from what transpired afterwards. and from what transpired before. that this prodical son was of an independent and frank nature and I suppose that the characteristics of his mind and heart were the characteristics of his walk. And so the father know him. He puts out his withered arms toward him he brings his wrinkled face against the pale cheek of his sou lie kisses the wan lips he thanks God tiiat the long agony is over. "When he was yet a great way off his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell 011 his neck and kissed him."

Oh, do you not recognize that Father? Who was it? It is (od! 1 have no sympathy with that iron-clad theology wVuc'h represents God as hard, severe aijd vindictive. God is a Father— lcii d, loving, lenient, long-suffering, patient—and He Hies to our immortal rescue. Oh, that we might realize it! A wealthy lady in one of the Eastern countries was going off for some time,

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flower.) nor tablet, but hero is my heart. I have inscribed it all over with your name, and wherever you go it will go with you." The mother rccognized it as the best of all tho mementoes. Oh, that our souls might go out toward our Father—that ourliearts might bo written all over with the evidences of his loving kindness, and that we might never again forsake Him. In the first place, I notice in this text the father's eyesight in tho second place, I notico tho father's haste, and, in tho third place, I notico the father's kiss.

To begin: the father's eyesight. "When ho was a great way off his father saw him." You have noticed how old people sometimes put a book off on the other sido of the light. They can sec a distance a great deal easier than they can close by. I do not know whether this father could see well that which was near by, but I do know he could see a great way off. "His father saw him." Perhaps I10 had been looking for the return of that boy especially that day. I do not know but that he had been in prayer, and that God had told him that that day the recreant boy would come home. ••The father saw him a great way off."

I wonder if God's eyesight can descry us when we aro coming back to Him? Tho text pictures our condition —we are a great way off. That young man was not farther off from his father's house, sin is not farther off from •holiness, hell is not farther off from heaven than we have been by our sins away iff from our God aye so far off that *"o could not hear His voice, thougi vehemently He has called us year alter year. I do not know what bad habits you may have formed, or in what evi^ places you have been, or what false notions you may have entertained but you are ready to acknowledge, if your heart has not been changed b/ the grace of God, that you are a great way off—aye, so far that you can iot get back of yourselves. You woui.i like to come back. Aye, this moment you would start, if it were not foi- this sin, and that habit, and this disadvantage. But I am to tell •you. o£ the Father's eyesight. "He saw himVA.great way off." He has soen all your miilties, all your- struggle, all your disadvantages. He has been longing for your coining. He has not boen looking at you witrr* 'd critic's eye or a bailiff's eye, but with a Father's eyo and if a parent e^er pitied a child, God pities you. You say: "Oh, I had so many evil surroundings when I started life." Your Father sees it.

You say: "I have so many bad surroundings now, and it is very difficult for me to break away from evil associations." Your Father sees it, and if you should start heavenward—as 1 pray you may—your Father would not sit idly down and allow you to struggle on up toward Him. Oh, no! Seeing you a great way off. He would fly to the rescue. How long does it txke a father to leap into the middle of thc highway if his child be there and a swift vehicle is coming, and may destroy him? Five hundred times longer than it takes our Heavenly Father to spring to the deliverance of a lost child. "When he was a great way off his Father saw him.

And this brings me to notice the lather's haste. Tho Bible says ho ran. No wonder! No He did not know but that the young man would change his mind and go back. He did not know but that he would drop down from exhauston. Ho -did not know but that something fatal might overtake him before he got up to the doorsill, and so the Father ran. The Bible for the most part speaks of God as walking.

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eternal Father have met. 1 remark upon the father's kiss. -He fell upon his neck." my text says, "and kissed him." It is not every father that would have done that way. Some would have scolded him, and said: "Here, you went off with beautiful clothes, but now you are all in tatters. You went off healthy, and como back sick and wasted with your dissipations.'1

He did not say that. Thc son, all haggard, and ragged and filthy and wretched, stood before his father. His father charged him with none of his wanderings. He just received him. He just kissed him. His wretchedness was a recommendation to that fathers' love. Ob, that father's kiss! How shall I describe tho love of God?—the ardor with which He receives a sinner back again? (Jive me a plummet with which I may fathom this sea. Give me a ladder with which 1 may scale this height. Give me words with which I can describe this love. The apostle says in one place, 'unsearchabio in another, -past finding out." Height overtopping all height depth plunging beneath all depth breadth compassing all immensity.

Oh, this love! God so loved the world. He loves you. Don't you believe it? Has He not done everything to make you think so? He has given you life, health, friends, home, the useof your hand, tho sight of your eyo, the hearing of your ear. He has strewn your path with mercies. He has fed you, clothed you, sheltered you. defended you, loved you, importuned you all your life long. Don'ti you believe He loved you? Why, now you should start up from the' wilderness of your sin, He would throw both arms around you. To make you. believe that He loves you, He stooped to manger, and cross, and sepulcher. With all the passions of His holy nature roused, He stauds before you today, and would coax you to happiness and heaven. Oh, this Father's kiss! There is so much meaning, and love, and compassion in it so much pardon in it so much heaven in it. I pro-' claim Him the Lord God) merciful, gracious, and long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth. Lest you would not believe Him, He goes up toGoltrotha, and while the rocks are rending, and the graves are opening,. I and the mobs are howling, and. the sun is dying. He dies for you. See Hiffl! See Him 011 the Mount of Crucifixion, the sweat on His brow tinged with the blood exuding from His lacerated temples! See His eyes swimming in death! Hear the loudbreathing of the Sufferei^as^BfrjW^ts, with a world on His heart! HarktJ^ the fall of blood from brow, and hand, and foot, on the rocks beneath—drop! drop! drop! Look at the nails! How wide the wounds are! Wider do they gape as His body comes down upon them. Oh! this crucifixion agony! Tears molting into tears. Blood flowing into blood. Darkness dropping on darkness. Hands of men joined with hands of devils to tear apart the quivering heart of God!

Oh! Will He never speak again? Will that crimson face never light up a.gain? He will speak again while the blood is suffusing His brow, and reddening His cheek, and gathering on nostril and lip, and you think He is exhausted and can not speak, He cries out until all the ages hear Him: "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do!" Is thei'e no emphasis in such a scene as that to make your dry eyes weep, and your hard heart break? Will you turn your face back upon it, and say by your actions what tho Jews said by their words: "fl»blood be on us, and on our children? What does it all mean, my brother, my sister? Why, it means that for our lost race there was a Father's kiss. Love brought Him down, Love opened the gate, Love led to the sacrifice, Lovo shattered the grave, Love lifted Hiin up in resurrection. Sovereign love! Omnipotent "love! Infinite love! Bleeding lovo! Everlasting love!

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the fourth watch of the night," it says, "Jesus came unto them walking on the sea," "He walketh upon the wings of the wind." Our first parents heard tho voice of the Lord, walking in the garden in the cool of the day but when a sinner starts for God the Father runs to meet him. Oh! if a man ever wants help it is when lie tries to become a Christians The world says to him: "Back with you. Have more spirit. Don't be hampered with religion. Time enough yet. Wait until you get sick. Wait until you get old." Satan says: "Back with you you arc so bad that God will have nothing to do with you or "You are good enough and need no Redeemer. Take thine ease. eat. drink and bo merry." Ten thousand voices say: "Back with you, God is a hard master, the Church is a collection of hypocrites. Back into your sins back to your evil indulgences back to your prayerless pillow. The silliest thing a young man ever does is to come homo after he hits been wandering." Oh! how much help a man does want when he tries to become a Christian. Indeed, the prodigal can not find his way to his father's house alone. Unless some one comes to meet him he had better have stayed by the swine troughs. When tho tide comes in, you might more easily with your broom sweep back the surges than you could drive back the ocean of your unforgivon transgressions. What are we to do? Are wo to light the battle alone, and trudge on with no one to aid us, and no rock to shelter us, and no word of encouragement to cheer

Now, will you accept that Father's kiss? The Holy Spirit comes to you wilh His arousing, melting, alarming, inviting, vivifying influence. Hearer, what creates in thee that unrest? It is the Holy Ghost. What influence now tells thee it is time to fly, that morrow may be too late that th one door, one cross, ones one Jesus? It is tho Holy Ghd

Your worldy business has go reconstructed. The church of going to rejoice over your discipleship. Your are not Gospel hardened. You have not heard or read many sermons during the last few years. You do not weep, but the shower is not far off. You sigh, and you have noticed that there is always a sigh in the wind before the rain falls. There are those who would give anything if they could find relief in tears. They say, "Oh, my wasted life! Oh, tho bitter past! Oh, the graves over which I have stumbled! Whither shall I fly? Alas for the future! Everything is dark— so dark, so dark. God help me! God pity me!" Thank the Lord for that last utterance.' You have begun to pray, and when a man begins to petition, that sets all heaven flying this way, and God steps in, and boats back: tho hounds of temptation to their ken-

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us? Glory be to God, we have in the nel, and around about the poor wound text the announcement: "When he ed soul puts the covert of his pardonwas a great way off, his father ran." ing mercy. Hark! I hear something When tho sinner starts for God, God fail. What was that? It is tho ba starts for the sinner. God does not of the fence around the sheep-fo come out with slow and hesitating The shepherd lets them down, and pace. The infinite space slips beneath hunted sheep of the mountain His foot, and He takes worlds at a in some of them their fleece torn bound. "The father ran." O, won- the brambles, some of them theii derful meeting, when God and tho soul lame with the dogs but boundir come together. "The father ran." Thank God! Saved for tim You start for God and God starts for saved for eternity.

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