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REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES IN NEW YORK ON THE HOLY GHOST.

Another Great Throng: Turned Away From

the Academy of Tilusic—The Wonderful Power of tho Omnipotent Hoiy Gliost.

Tongues of Fire.

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NEW YOP.K, March 24.—When Dr. Talmago ascended tho platform of tho Academy of Music this afternoon, ha faced an audience quito as large as any that had assembled in the great building .since these services began, while several thousand others "were outside iiuablo to securo seats or even standing room. lie took for his subject "Tongues of Fire, tho text .selected being Acts xix, 2, "Havo yo received tho Holy Ghost?''

Tho word ghost, which means a soul, spirit, litis boon degraded in common parlance. We talk of ghosts a.-s baleful and frightful and iu a frivolous or superstitious way. But my text speaks of a Ghost who is omnipotent and diviuo and every where present and 01 times in tho .New Testament called the Iioly Ghost. Tho only timo I ever heard this text preached from was iu tho opening days of my ministry, when a glorious old Scorch minister camo up to help mo in my village church. On tho day of my ordination and installation ho said, "If you gee into tho corner of a Saturday night without enough sermons for Sunday, send for mo, and I will come and preach for you. Tho fact ought to be known that the first three years of a paster's life are appallingly arduous. No other profession makes tho twentieth part of (lie demand on a young man. If a sccular speaker prepares one or two speeches for a political campaign, it is considered arduous. If a lecturer prepares one lecture for a year, he is thought to have done well. But a young pastor has two sermons to doliver every Sabbath before the samo audience, bosides all his other work, and tho most of ministers never recover from the awful nervous strain of tho first three years. Bo sympathetic with all young ministers and withhold your criticisms.

The Holy Ghost.

31y aged Scotch friend responded to my first call and came and preached from tho text that I now announce. I remember nothing but tho text. It was the last sermon he ever preached. On the following Saturday he was called to his heavenly reward. But I remember just how ho appeared as, leaning over tho pulpit, ho looked, into tho face of the audience, and with earnestness and pathos and electric force asked them, in tho words of my text, "Have ye received tho Holy Ghost?" The office of this present discourso is to open a door, to unveil a Personage, to introduce a force not sufficiently recognized. Ho is as great as God. Ho is God. Tho second verso of tho first chapter of tho Biblo introduces him—Genesis i, 2. "The Spirit of God moved upon tho face of tho water- "—that is, as an albatross or eagle spreads her wings over lier young and warms them into lifo and teach: them to fly, so tho Eternal Spirit spread his great, broad, radiant wings over this earth in its callow and unfledged stato and warmed it into lifo and Muttered over it and set it winging its way through immensity. It is the tip top of all beautiful and sublimo suggestiveness. Can you nut almost seo the outspread wings over tho nest of young worlds? "Tho Spirit of God moved upon the face of tho waters.

Another appearance of tho Holy Ghost was at Jerusalem during a great feast. Strangers speaking 17 different languages were present from many parts of the world. But in one liouso they hoard what seemed like tho coming of a cyclono or hurricane. It made tho trees bend and the houses quake. The cry was, "What is that?" And then a forked flamo of lire tipped each forehead, and what with tho blast of wind and tho dropping fire a panic took place, until Peter explained that it was neither cyclono nor conflagration, but the brilliance and anointing and baptismal power of tho Holy Ghost.

That scene was partially repeated in a forest when Rev. John Easton was preaching. Thero was tho sound of a rushing, mighty wind, and the people looked to tho sky to seo if thero were any signs of a storm, but it was a clear sky, yet tho sound of tho wind was so great that horses, frightenod, broke loose from their fastenings, and the whole assembly felt that the sound was supernatural and pentecostal. Oh, what an iniinito and almighty and glorious personage is the Holy Ghost 1 He brooded this planet into life, and now that through sin it has become a dead world he will brood it the second timo into life. Perilous attempt would bo a comparison between the threo persons of the Godhead. They are equal, but thero is some consideration which attaches itself to tho third person of the Trinity, tho Holy Ghost, that does not attach itself to oither God tho Father or God the Son. W may grieve God tho Father and grieve G.od tho Son and be forgiven, but we are directly told that there is a sin against the Holy Ghost which shall never be forgiven either in this world or in tho world- to come. And it is wonderful that whilo on the street you hear the name of God and Jesus Christ used in profanity you never hoar tho words Holy Ghost. This hour I speak of the Holy Ghost as Biblical interpreter, as a human constructor, as a solace for tho broken hearted, as a preacher's re-en-forcemont.

Tbe Bible is amass of contradictious, au affirmation of impossibilities, unless the Holy Ghost helps us to understand it. Tho Bible says of itsolf that the Scripture is not for "private interpretation," but "holy men of God spake as they were moved by tho Holy Ghost" —that is, not private interpretation, but Holy Ghost interpretation. Pile on your study table all tho commentaries of the Biblo—Matthew Honry and Scott and Adam Clarke and Albert Barnes and Bush and Alexander, and all the

ologies, and all the Bible dictionaries, and all the maps of Palestine, and all the international series of Sunday school lessons. And if that is all you will not understand the deeper and grander meanings of the Biblo so well as that Christian mountaineer who, Sunday morning, after having shaken down the fodder for tho cattle, comes into his cabin, takes up his well worn Bible, and with a prayer that stirs the heavens asks for the Holy Ghost to unfold the book.

No more unreasonable would I bo if I should take up Tho Novoo Vremya of

thrilling every time he went through it. In the saddiebngs that hung across my horse's back as I rode from Jerusalem down to the Dead sea and up to Damasens I had ail the books about Palestine that I could carry, but many a man on his knees, in the privacy of his room, has had Hashed upon him more vivid appreciation of the word of God than many a man who has visited all the scenes of Christ's birth, and Paul's eloquence, and Peter's imprisonment, and Joshua's prowess, and Eli jah's ascension, I do not depreciate any of the helps for Bible study, but I do say that they all together come infinitely short without a direct communication from tho throne of God in response to prayerful solicitation. We may find many interesting things about tho Biblo without especial illumination, as how many horses Solomon had in his stables, or how long was Noah's ark, or who was tho only woman whoso full name is given in the Scriptures, or which is the middle verse of tho Bible, and all that will do you no more good than to bo able to tell how many beanpoles there are in your neighbor's garden.

Tho learned Earl of Chatham heard tho famous Mr. Cecil preach about tho Holy GUiosfc and said to a friend on tho way homo from church: "I could not understand it, and do you suppose anybody understood it?" "Oh, yes," said his Christian friend, "thero wero uneducated women and some little children present who understood it. I warrant you that the English soldier had under supernal influence read tho book, for after tho battle of Inkermann was over ho was found dead with ids hand glued to tho page of the open Bible by his own blood, and tho words adhered to his hands as they buried him, "I am the resurrection and tho life ho that beliovcth in mo. though dead, yet shall ho

A Il^consti-iictor k:k1 Koia.ce.

Next consider tho Holy Ghost as a human recoustrnotor. We must bo mado over again. Christ and Nicodeiuus talked about it. Theologians call it regeneration. I do not. care what you call it, but wo have to be reconstructed by the Holy Ghost. We become new creatures, hating what wo once loved and loving what we. onco hated. If sin wero a luxury, it must become a detestation. If wo preferred bad^ssociations, we must profer good associations. In most cases it is such a complete chaugo that tho world notices the dirrerence and begins to tisk: "What has comoover that man? Whom has ho been with? What has so affcctod him? What has ransacked his entire nature? What has turned him squaro about?" Take two pictures of Paul—one on tho road to Damascus to kill the disciples of Christ, tho other on the road to Ostia to dio for Christ. Como nearer homo and look at the man who found his chief delight in a low class of clubrooms, hiccoughing around a card table and then stumbling down tho front steps after midnight and staggering homeward, and that samo man, ono week afterward, with his family on tho way to a prayer meeting. What has done it? It must bo .something tremendous. It must be God. It must bo tho Holy Ghost.

Notice the Holy Ghost as the solacer of broken hearts. Christ calls him the Comforter. Nothing does tho world so much want as comfort. Tho most people havo been abused, misrepresented, cheated, lied about, swindled, bereft. What is needed is balsam for the wounds, lantern for dark roads, rescue from maligning pursuers, a lift from the marble slab of tombstones. Life to most has been a semifailure. They have not got what they wanted. They have not reached that which they started for. Friends betray. Change of business stand loses old custom and does not bring enough custom to make up for tho loss. Health becomes precarious when one most needs strong muscle and steady nerve and clear brain. Out of this audience of thousands and thousands, if I should all thoso who have been unhurt iu tho struggle of lifo to stand up, or all standing to hold up their right hands/ilot. one would move. Oh, how much wo need tho Holy Ghost as comforter! He recites the swoet gospel ju finises to tho hardly bestead. Ho assures of mercy mingled with the severities. Ho consoles with thoughts of coming rolease. Ho tells of a heaven where tear is never wept and burden is never carried and injustice is nover suffered. Comfort for all the young people who are maltreated at home, or receive insufficient income, or are robbed of their schooling, or kept back from positions they earned by tho putting forward of others less worthy. Comfort for all these men and women midway iu the path of lifo, worn out with what they havo already gono through, and with no brightening future. Comfort for these aged ones amid many infirmities and who feel themselves to be in the way in tho homo or business which themselves established with their own grit.

The Holy Ghost comfort, I think, gen-

St. Petersburg, all printed in Russian, find that those who have to struggle for and say, "There is no sense in this themselves say, iaero is no sense newspaper, for I cannot understand one. li.no of all its columns, than for any mar: to take up the Bible, and without getting Holy Gho»t illumination as to its meaning say: "This Book insults my common se :.-e. I cannot understand it. Away with tho incongruity!" No ono- j': but the Holy Ghost, who inspired tho" Scriptures, an explain the Scriptures. Fully reali ::e that, and you will bo as enthusiastic a lowr of tho old book as my venerable friend who told me in Philadelphia last week that he was reading tho Bible through tho fifty-ninth time, and it became more at Tractive and

erally comes in the s'oapo of a soliloquy. You find yourself saying to yourself: "Well, I ought not to go on this way about my mother's death. She had suffered enough. Sue had borne other people's burdens long enough. I am glad that father and mother are together in heaven, and they will bo waiting to greet us, and it will be cniy a little while anyhow, and God makes no mistakes." Or you soliloquize, saying: "It is hard to lose my property. I am suro I worked hard enough for it. But God will take caro of us, and, as to the children, the money n.igbt have spoiled them, and we

generally ruin out best,

it will all be well if this upsetting :bf our worldly resources leads us to lay up treasures in heaven. Or you soliloquize, saying, "It was hard to give up that boy when the Lord took him. I expected great things of him, and, oh, how We miss him out of tho house, and there are so many things I come across that mako one think of him, and lie was such a splendid fellow! But then what an escape he has mado from tho temptations and sorrows which cumo to all who grow up, and it is a grand thing to havo him safe from ail possible harm, and there are all those Bible promises for parents who havo lost children, and we siiaii feel a drawing heavenward that wo could not havo otherwise experisnced." And after you have said that you get that relief which comes from au outburst of tears. I do not say to you, as some say, do not cry. God pity people in troublo who have tho parched eyeball and the dry eyelid and cannot shed a tear. That makes maniacs. To God's people tears aro the dews of tho night dashed with sunrise. I am so glad you can weep. But you think these things you sav to yourself aro only soliloquies. No, no they aro tho Comforter, who is the Holy Ghost.

Help to the Preacher.

Notice also the Holy Ghost as the preacher's re-enforcement. You and I have known preachers encyclopedic in knowledge, brilliaut as an iceberg when the sun smites it, and with Chesterfieldian address and rhetorical hand uplifted with diamond big enough to dazzle an I assembly and so surcharged with vocabulary that when they left this lifo it might be said of each of them as Do Quincey said of another that in the act of dying ho committed a robbery, absconding with avaiuablo polyglot dictionary, yet no awakening or converting or sanctifying result, whilo some plain man, with humblest phraseology, has seen audiences whelmed with religious influence. It was tho Holy Ghost. What a useful thing it would bo if every minister would give tho history of his sermon Years ago at an outdoor meeting in tho statoof New York I preached to many thousands. There had been much prayer on tho grounds for a great outpouring of the Iioly Ghost at that service, and tho awakening power exceeded anything I over witnessed since I began to preach, with perhaps the except ion of two or three occasions. Clergymen and Cnristian workers by tho score and hundreds expressed themselves as having been blessed during the service. That afternoon I took the train for an outdoor meeting in tho state of Ohio, where I was to preach on tho night of the next day. As the sermon had proved so useful the day before and tho thomo was fresh in my li.'nd, I resolved to reproduce it, and did reproduce it as far as I could, but tho result was nothing at all. Nover had I seemed to havo anything to do with a flatter failure. What was the difference between tho two services? Some will .say, "You were tired with a long journey." No, I was not tired at ali. Somo will say, "Tho temporal circumstances in tho first caso wero more favorable than in tho last." No, they wero moro favorable in tho last. Tho difference was in tho power of the Holy Ghost—mightily present at the first servico, not seemingly present at ali at the second. I call upon tho ministers of America to give the history of sermons, for I believe it will illustrate as nothing elso can tho truth of that Scripture, "Not by might nor by power, hue by my Spirit, saitli tho Lord."

On tho Sabbath of the dedication of ono of our churches in Brooklyn, at tho morning service, 328 souls stood up to profess Christ. They wero the converts in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where we had been worshiping. Tho reception of so many members—and many of them baptized by immersion—had made it an arduous service, which continued from half past 10 in the morn- I ing until half past 2 in in the after- I noon. From that servico we went home exhausted, becauso there is nothing so exhausting as deep emotion. A messenger was sent out to I obtain a preacher for that night, but tbe search was unsuccessful, as all the ministers were engaged for some other place. With no preparation at all for the evening service, except tho looking in Cruden's Concordance for a text and feeling almost too weary to stand up, I began the service, saying audibly while tbe opening song was being sung, although because of tbe singing no ono but God heard it: "O Lord, thou knowest my insufficiency for this service! Come down in gracious power upon this poopie.'' The place was shaken with the divine prosonce. As far as we could find out, over 400 persons were converted that night. Hear it, all young men entering the ministry hear it, all Christian workers. It was the Holy Ghost I

In the Second Reformed church of Somerville, N. J., in my boyhood days, Mr. Osborno, the evangelist, camo to hold a special service. I see him now as he stood in tbe pulpit. Before he announced his text and before ho had uttered a word of his sermon strong ien wept aloud, and it was like the day of

Another read, "Dear Mother, the work continues, and I, too, have been converted." Another read, "At last faith and

judgment. It was the Holy Ghost A Wonderful Power. I In 1857 the electric telegraph bore strange messages. One of them read, "My dear parents will rejoice to hear that 1 have found peace with God."

peat.? In Vermont a religious meeting was singing the hymn, "Waiting and Watching For Me." The song rolled out on the night air, and a man halted and said, "I wonder if there will beany ono waiting and watching for mo?" It started him heavenward. What was it? Tho Ploly Ghost. In that 1857 Jayues' hall, Philadelphia, and Fulton street prayer meeting, New York, telegraphed eaeii other tho number of souls saved and tho rising of the devotional tides. Noonday prayer meetings were held iu all the cities. Ships camo into harbor, captain and all the sailors saved on that veyage. Police and lire departments met iu their r"oi is f^r divine worship. A'J Albany tho legislature of tho state or' New York as.-embled in the rooms of the court of appeals for religious services. Congressional union prayer meeting was opened at Washington. From ia.i the pcvxvr? From the Holy ('it T'\t power shook New York. That- 'power shook America. Thai: powt shook the Atlantic ocean. That power shock the earth. That power con Id take this entire audience into tho peace of the gospel quit ker than yon coahl lift your eyes heavenward. Come, Holy Ghost! Come, Holy Ghost! He has come! He is here! I feel him in my heart. Thero aro thousands who feel him in their Ivarts, convicting some, saving some, sanctifying some.

Tho difference in evangelical usefulness is not so much a difference iu brain, in scholarship or elocutionary gifts aa in Holy Ghost power. You will not have much surprise at the extraordinary career of Charles G. Finney as a soul win nor, if you know that soon after his conversion he had this experience of the Paraclete. He says: "As I turned and was about to take a seat by tho fire I received a baptism of tho Holy Ghost. Without any expectation of it, without ever having tho thought in my mind that thero was any such thing for me, without any recollection that I had ever heard the thing mentioned by any person in the world, the Holy Ghost descended upon mo in a manner that seemed to go through mo, body and soul. Indeed, it seemed to come in waves and waves of liquid love, for I coukl not express it in any other way. It seemed like the very breath of God. I can recollect distinctly that it seemed to fan mo like immense wings. No words can express the wonderful love that was shed abroad in my heart. I wept aloud with joy and love. These waves came over mo and over me and over me, one after tho other until, I recall I cried out, 'I shall dio if these waves continuo to passover me.' I said, 'Lord, I cannot bear any more.'

Now, my hearers, let 500 of us, whether clerical or lay workers, got Kuch a divine visitation as that, and we i:oul tako this world for God before tho clock of tho next century strikes 1.

A Toiijmi of Fire.

How many marked instance: of Holy Ghost power! When a black trumpeter took his place in Whiteueld's audience proposing to blow the trumpet at a certain point in tho service and put everything into derision, somehow ho couid not get lie trumpet to his lips, and at the close of tho meeting he soug'nt out the preacher and asked for his p-ay rn. It was the Holy Ghost. What was tho matter with Medley Vicars, tho mem urablo soldier, when he sat. with his Bihie before him in a tent, and his deriding comrades came in and jeered, saying, "Turned Metiiodist, eh?" And another said: "Youhypocrite! Bad as you I wero I never thought you would como to this, old follow." And then ho becamo tho soldier evangelist, and when I a soldier in another regiment hundreds of miles away telegraphed his spiritual anxieties to Hodloy Vicars, saying, "What, shall I do?" Vicars telegraphed as thrilling a message as ever wont over tho wires, "Believo on tho Lord Jesus

Christ and thou shalt bo saved." What power was being felt? It was tho Holy Ghost. And wdiat more appropriate? For tho Holy Ghost is a "tongue of fire," and tho eloctricity that ilies along tho wires is a tonguo of fire. And that reminds mo of what I might do now. From tho place whero I stand on this platform thero aro invisible wires or lines of inliuenco stretching to every heart in all tho seats on tho main floor and up int-o tho boxes and galleries, and there are other innumerable wires or lines of influence reaching out from this place into the vast beyond and across continents and under the seas, for in my recent journey around tho world I did not find a country where I had not been preaching this gospel for many years through the printing press. So as a telegraph operator sits or stands at a given point and sends messages in all directions, and you only hear tho click, click, click of the electric apparatus, but the telograms go ou their errand, God help me now to touch tho right key and send the right message along the right wires to the right placeH. Who shall I first call up? To whom shall I send the message? I guess I will send the first to all the tired, wherever they are, for there are so many tired souls. Here goes tho Christly message, "Come unto me, all ye who are weary, and I will give you rest"

Witnesses For tlv« Truth.

Who noxt shall I call up? I guess tbe next messago will be to the fatherloss and widows, and hero goos God's message: "Leavo thy fatherless children. I will preserve them alive, and lot thy widows trust in ma Who next shall I call up? I guess my next message will bo to those \vho have buried members of their own families, and hero it goes, "Tho trumpets shall sound, and the dead shall rise." Who next shall I call up? I guess the noxt message will go to those who think themselves too bad to bo saved. Here it goes, "Let tho wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, who will have morcy, and nnto our God, who will abundantly pardon. Who next shall I call up? I guess it will be thoso who may think I havo not yet touched their case. Here it goes, "Whosoever, whosoever, whosoever will let him come."

And now may God turn on all the

electric power into this gospel battery for the last tremendous messago, so that it may thrill through this assemblage and through all tho earth. Just six words will compose the message, and I touch tho key of this gospel battery just six times and the message has gone! Away! Away it fiie-s! And the message is, "Have yo reeeiwd tho Holy Ghost?" —that do you f. el Ids power? Has he enabled you to sorrow over a wasted life, a: take full pardon from tho crncilied Christ, and turned your faco toward rbo wido open gates of a welcoming heaven? Wo appeal to thoo, O Holy Ghost, who didst turn tho Philippine. jailer and Saul of Tarsus and Lydia of Tijyatira and helped John Bnnyan out of darkness when, as ho describes it, "Down fell I as a bird short from tho top of the tree, into fearful despair, but was relieved by tho comfortable word, 'Tiio iod of Jesus Christ cleansoth from all sin,' and helped John Newton, when standing at tho helm of the ship in a midnight hurricane and mightier than tho waves that swept tho decks camo over him tho memory of his biaspkvnanus and licentious liie, and he cried .-ai, "My mother's God havo mercy on mo!" and helped ono nearer home, even me, Do Wilt Talmago, at about ?y years of age, that Sunday nigho in tho lovely village of Blawenburg, N. J., when I could not sleep beeaaso tho questions of eternal destiny seized h.oid of me, and has helped mo ever since to uso as most expressive of my own feeling:

A:: a:'.iny grace, how sweet tho bound Th:'.t s:tv,-d a vivt'-h MI:" rit 1 ISS I nee w::- !ort. but- now I'm found '"£V

YOLS Mind, but now 1 see. roujrh ninny dangers, toils and snari I have already como. 'lis Ki'aee iais brought 1110 safe thus la.r.

And grace will lead me homo. $S§

TEMPORARY ABSENCE OF SOUL.

Soino of the Kemarkahle Experiences of Psychical Investigators.

Ghostly experiences wero the order of tho evening at a recent meeting of the Society For Psychical Research. William James of Harvard university presided and said that it was well to receive experience's narrated with judicial impartiality* as to tho source and significance.

Secretary Kiehard Hodgson read ex*® tracts from a revised proof of F. W. lawyer's second paper on "Tho Experiences of W. St-aint-on Moses. Ono extract was as follows: "On ono occasion Mr. Moses, while iu a trance, got out of his body and stood looking at it with no surpriso whatever at his singular situation. Suddenly ho became conscious of tho presence of a venerable, bearded prophet, who stood beside him. The ghostly visitor was clad in a very bright blue garment.

his head was a coronet, over which was a star. With the prophet as a guide, ho left tho apartment. His first sensation of surprise was caused by the ease with which ho passed through the wall. Tho pair traversed bcautifuI gardens till they came to' a small cottage. Thero Mr. Moses saw Iris aged grandmother, much idealised, but still looking as sho did during her earthly existence. Sho tried to speak to him, but his guide hurried him away. Ho afterward received spiritual information that the interruptions was due to tho unfavorable condition existing at the time.

Another communication contained the. following experience of Mrs. Connor, who was also accustomed to leaving herbody: "At a hotel in New York, on ono occasion, sho mado ono of these extracorporeal excursions. Sho could feel her spirit passing out through her head. Sho was whirled about tho room, several times touching the walls. She hesitated whether to pass through the roof or out of the window, but finally choso the window. Sho noticed that tho sky was very red. Finally sho crawled back into her body. When sho awoke, tho sky wore tho samo red appearance sho had noticed whilo on her strange excursion. Mrs. Connor conveys tho gratifying as1 surance that tho passago from tho body was attended by no pain or discomfort, but was much like putting one's arm in a sleeve."

Still another experience was as follows: -cy 'A private soldier in a Kansas regimont was onco taken sick and reluctantly went into a hospital, where ho apparently died. His friend, Dr. Chandler, despito tho regimental surgeon's ridicule, tried to restore him, and succeeded, after pouring somo ammonia through his lips. The soldier stated that all tho whilo Dr. Chandler was working at his body his spirit was soated on the mantelpiece, trying to decide whether to return to tho body or tako its final departure from it. Noticing how anxious Dr. Chandler seemed, ho at last determined to re-enter his body and did so."—Boston Transcript

A Historic Paue of Glass.

Thero aro soveral interesting^nementos of Lincoln and Booth kept iu asmall case in the rooms of the judgo advocate general at Washington. Among these the most interesting is a comrnou pane of window glass. In August, 1864r the country was startled with the announcement that Prosident Lincoln had been poisoned. On that day Booth wa» a guest at tho McHenry House at Meadvillo, Pa. With the diamond of bis ring ho scratched the following on one* of tho glasses of his room window: "Abe Lincoln departed this lifo Aug. 18, 18(54, by the offeot of poison.

Aftor the great tragedy of April 14* 1865, Miss McHenry removed the pane and sont it to be preserved in the collection of relics xnontionedL—St Louis Republic.

Antique.

Auctioneer—This picture is by ono

tho old masters. Miss Elderly (decisively)—I'm suro it isn't

Auctioneer (sarcastically) WoII^ madam, as I presume you wero personally acquainted with tho old master*' and thoir works, I will not dispute you# word!—London Tit-Bits.