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spring weather has brought still larger crowds to the Sunday afternoon services conducted by Rev. Dr. Ta Imago. Ho took for his subject today "The Gates of Heaven," the text being Revelation xxi, 13, "On the east three gates on the north three gates on the south three gates on the west threo gates."

The Cashrnero gate of Delhi, where converged a heroism that makes one's nerves tingle, the Lucknow gate, still dented and scarred with sepoy bombardment, the Madeline gate with its emblazonry iu bronze, the hundred gates of Thebes, the wonder of centuries, all go out of sight beforo tho gates of my text.

Our subject speaks of a great metropolis, the existence of which many have doubted. Standing on tho wharf and looking oft upon the harbor and seeing tho merchantmen coming up the bay, the flags of foreign nations streaming from the topgallants, you immediately make up your mind that those vessels como from foreign ports, and you say, "That is from Hamburg, and that is from Marseilles, and that is from Southampton, and that is from Havana," and your supposition is accurate. But from tho city of which I am now speaking no weather beaten merchantmen or frigates with scarred bulkhead have ever come. Thero has been a vast emigration into that city, but no emigration from it, so far as our natural vision can descry. "Thero is no such city, says the nndevout astronomer. "I have stood iu high towers with a mighty telescope and havo swept tho heavens, and I.have seon spots on the sun and caverns in the moon, but no towers havo ever risen on my vision, no palaces, no temples, no shining streets, no massive wall. There is no such city. Even very good people tell me that heaven is not a material organism, but a grand spiritual fact, and that tho Bible descriptions of it are in all cases to be taken figuratively. I bring in reply to this what Christ said, and he ought to know, "I go to preparo"—#not a theory, not a principle, not a sentiment, but "I go to prepare a placo for you. The resurrected body implies this. If my foot is to be reformed from the dust, it must have something to tread on. If my hand is to be reconstructed, it must have something to handle. If my eye, having gone out in death, is to be rekindled, I must have something to gaze on. Your adverse theory seems to imply that tho resurrected body is to bo hung on nothing, or to walk in air, or to float amid tho intangibles. You may say if thero be material organisms then a soul in heaven will bo cramped and hindered in its enjoyments, but I answer, Did not Adam and Eve have plenty of room in the garden of Eden? Altliough only a few miles would havo described tho circumference of that place, they had ample room. And do you not suppose that God, in tho immensities, can build a placo largo enough to givo the whole race room, even though thero bo material organisms?

The Prospect.

Herschel looked into tho heavens. As a Swiss guide puts his Alpine stock between tho glaciers and crosses over from crag to crag, so Herschel planted his telescope betweon the worlds and glided from star to star until ho could announce to us that we livo in a part of the universe but sparsely strewn with worlds, and ho peorsout into immensity until ho finds a region no larger than our solar system in which there are 50,000 worlds moving. And Professor Lang says that by a philosophic reasoning thero must be somewhere a world where there is no darkness, but everlasting sunshine, so that I do not know but that it is simply because we havo no telescopo powerful enough that wo cannot eoo into tho land where thero is no darkness at all and catch a glimpse of the burnished pinnacles. As a conquering army marching on to tako a city nightfall to tho crest of a

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tain top of prospect, I command this regiment of God to rein in thoir thoughts and halt, and beforo they pitch their tents for the night tako one good, long look at tho gates of tho great city. "On tho cast, throe gates on tho north, 4'i three gates on tho south, threo gates, £3' and on tho west throe gates. Jjf! In tho first placo, I want to examine cf tho architecture of those gates. Pro5l prietors of large estates aro vory apt to hi have an ornamented gateway. Somob5'

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sS! tho posts of the gato flanked with lions Co. in statuary, tho bronze gato a ropresen631 tation of intertwining foliage, bird haunted, until tho hand of architectural genius drops exhausted, all its life frozen into stono. Gates of wood and iron 10 and stono guarded iioarly all tho old cities. Mosloms have inscribed upon their gateways inscriptions from tho

Koran of th 3 Mohammedan. There have been a great many fine gateways, but Christ sets his hand to tho work and for tho upper city swung a gate such as no oyo ever gazed on, untouched of inspiration. With tho nail of his own cross ho cut into its wonderful tracories stories of past suffering and of gladness to come. Thero is no wood or stone or bronzo in that gato, but from top t.o baso and from side to side it is all of pearl. Not one piece picked up from Ceylon banks, and another piece from the Persian gulf, and another from the island of Margarotto, but one solid pearl

picked up from the beach of everlasting light by heavenly hands and hoisted and swung amid tho shouting of angels. The glories of alabaster vaso and porphyry pillar fade out before this gateway. It puts out the spark of feldspar and diamond. You know how one little precious stone 011 your finger will flash under the gaslight. But, oh! the bright-? ness when the great gate of heaven swings, struck through and dripping I with the light of eternal noonday. I Gate of Pearl.

Julius Ca sar paid 125,000 crowns for one pearl. The government of Portugal boasted of having a pearl larger than a pear. Cleopatra and Philip II dazzled the world's vision with precious stones. But gather all these together and lift them and add to them all tho wealth of the pearl fisheries and set them in the panel of one door, and it does not equal this magnificent gateway. An almighty hand hewed this, swung this, polished this. Against this gateway, on the ono side, clash all the splendors of earthly beauty. Against this gate on the other sido beat the surges of eternal glory. Oh, tho gate, the gato! It strikes an infinite charm through every one that passes it. One step this side of the gate and we are paupers. Ono step the other side of the gate and we are kings. Tho pilgrim of earth going through sees in tho one huge pearl all his earthly tears in crystal. Oh, gate of light, gate of pearl, gato of heaven, for our weary isouls at last swing open!

Tv'lien shall these eyes thy heaven built walls And pearly gates behold Thy bulwarks with salvation strong

And streets of shining gold? Oh, heaven is not a dull place! Heaven is not a contracted place. Heaven is not a stupid placo. "I saw tho 12 gates, and they were 12 pearls."

In tho second placo I want you to count the number of those gates. Imperial parks and lordly manors aro apt to have one expensive gateway, and the others are ordinary, but look around at these entrances to heaven and count them. One, two, three, four, five, six, I seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Hear it, all the earth and all tho heavens! Twelve gates!

Hard on Sectarianism.

I admit this is rather hard on sharp I sectarianisms! If a Presbyterian is bigoted, ho brings his Westminster assembly catechism, and he makes a gateway out of that, and he says to the world, "You go through there or stay out." If a member of tho Reformed church is bigoted, ho makes a gato out of tho Heidelberg catechism, and ho says, "You go through thero or stay out." If a

Methodist is bigoted, he plants two posts, and ho says, "Now, you crowd in between those two posts or stay out." Or perhaps an Episcopalian may say: "Hero is a liturgy out of which I mean to inako a gate. Go through it or stay out," or a Baptist may say: "Hero is a water gato. You go through that, or you must stay out," and so in all our I churches and in all our denominations there aro men who make one gate for themselves and then demand that the whole world go through it. I abhor this contractedness in religious views. O small souled man, when did God givo you tho contract for making gates? I tell you plainly I will not go in that I gate. I will go in at any one of tho 12 gates I choose. Hero is a man who says, "I can moro easily andmoro closely approach God through a prayer book." I I say, "My brother, then use tho prayer book." Hero is a man who says, "I beliuvo there is only one mode of baptism, and that is immersion." Then I say, "Let mo plunge you. Anyhow, I say, away with tho gato of rough panel and rotten posts and rusted latch, when thero are 12 gates and they are 12 pearls.

Tho fact is that a great many of the churches in this day are being doctrined to death. They have been trying to find out all about God's decrees, and they want to know who aro elected to bo saved and who are reprobated to be damned, and they are keeping on discussing that subject when thero are millions of souls who need tp havo the I truth put straight at them. They sit counting tho number of teeth in the I jawbone with which Samson slew tho

Philistines. They sit on tho beach and I see a vessel going to pieces in the offing, and instead of getting into a boat and pulling away for tho wreck, they sit discussing tho different styles of oarlocks. God intended us to know some things and intended us not to know others. I havo heard scores of sermons explanatory of God's decrees, but came away moro perploxod than when I went. The only result of such discussion is a groat fog. Hero are two truths which aro to conquer tho world: Man, a sinner Christ, a Saviour. Any man who adopts those two theories in his religious belief shall havo my right hand in warm grip of Christian brotherhood,

Empty Handed.

A man comes down to a river in time

of freshet. Ho wants to get across. He has to swim. What does ho do? The first thing is to put off his heavy apparel and drop everything he has in his hands. He must go empty handed if he is going to tho other bank. And I tell you when wo have como down to the river of death and find ifr swift and raging wo will havo to put off all our sectarianism and lay down all our cumbrous creed and empty handed put out for tho other shore. "What," say you, "would you resolve all tho Christian church into ono kind of church? Would you make all Christendom worship in tho same way, by the same forms?" Oh, no. You might as well decide that all people shall eat tho samo kind of food without reference to appetite or wear tho samo kind of apparel without reference to tho shape of their body. Your ancestry, your temperament, your surroundings, will decido whether you go to this or that church and adopt this or that ohurch polity. Ono church will best get ono man to hoaven and another church anothor rami. I do not care which one of ^tho gates you go through if you only go through ono of tho 12 ates that Jesus lifted.

Well, now I see all the redeemed of tarth coming up toward heaven. Do you

think they, will all get in? Yes. Gate the first tha Moravians come up they believed in the Lord Jesus thej* pass through. Gate tho second, ther'^jaafeers come up they have received the' ijiward light they have trusted in the Lord they pass through. Gate the third, the Lutherans come up they had the samo grace that made Luther what ho was, and thoy pass through. Gate tho fourth, the Baptists pass through. Gato the fifth, the Free Will Baptists pass through. Gate tho sixth, tho Reformed church passes through. Gate the seventh, the Congregationalists pass through. Gato the eighth, tho German Reformed church passes through. Gate the ninth, tho Methodists pass through. Gate tho tenth, the Sabbatarians pass through. Gate tho eleventh, tho Church of the Disciples pass through. Gate the twelfth, the Presbyterians pass through. But there are a great part of other denominations who must come in, and great multitudes who connected themselves with no visible church, but felt tho power of godliness in their heart and showed it in their life. Where is their gate? Will you shut all tho remaining host out of tho city? No. They may come in at our gate. Hosts of God, if you cannot get admission through ai othor entrance, como in at the twelfth gate. Now they mingle before tho throne.

Looking up at the one hundred and forty and four thousand, you cannot tel

Pouring Through Iu Throng*. While I speak an everlasting throng is pouring through the gates. Thoy aro going up from Senegambia, from Patagonia, from Madras, from Hongkong. "What,"you eay, "do you introduce all the heathen into glory?" I toll you the fact is that a majority of tho people of those climes die in infancy, and tho infants all go straight into everlasting lifo, and so tho vast majority of tlioso who die iu China and India, tho vast majority who dio in Africa, go straight into the skies—they dio in infancy. One hundred and sixty generations have been born since the world was created, and so I estimate that there must be 15,000,000,000 children in glory. If at a concert 2,000 children sing, your soul is raptured within you. Oh, tho transport when 15,000,000,000 little ones stand up in white bofore the throne of God, their chant drowning out all the stupendous harmonies of Dussoldorf and Leipsic. Pour in through tho 12 gates.

Oh, ye redeemed, banner lifted, rank after rank, saved battalion after saved battalion, until all tho city of God shall hoar tho tramp, tramp! Crowd all the 12 I gates. Room yet. Room on the thrones. Room in the mansions. Room on the river bank. Let the trumpet of invitation bo sounded until all earth's mountains hear the shrill blast and tho glens echo

which gate they came in. Ono Lord, one faith, ono baptism, ono glassy sea, one doxology, ono triumph, one heaven! "Why, Luther, how did you get in?" "I came through the third gate." I "Crammer, how did you get in?" "I I came through the eighth gate. "Adoniram Judson, how did you get through?" "I came through tho seventh gate." "Hugh McKail, the martyr, how did you get through?" "1 camo through tho twelfth gate. Glory to God, 12 gates, but one heaven!

Points of tho Compass, i'.

In the third place, notice tho*points of tho compass toward which these gates look. They are not on ono side, or on two sides, or on three sides, but on four sides. This is no fancy of mine, but a distinct announcement. On the north three gates, on tho south three gates, on tho east three gates, on the west threo gates. What does that mean? Why, it means that all nationalities are included, and it does not make any difI feronce from what quarter of tho earth a man comes up if his heart is right, there is a gate open before him. On tho north threo gates. That means mercy for Lapland and Siberia and Norway and Sweden. On the south three gates,

That means pardon for Hindostan and Algiers and Ethiopia. On the east threo gates. That means salvation for China and Japan and Borneo. On the west three gates. That moans redemption for America. It does not make any difference how dark skinned or how pale faced men may be, they will find a gate right before them. Those plucked bananas under a tropical sun. These shot across Russian snows behind reindeer. From Mexican plateau, from .Roman campania, from Chinese teafield, from Holland dik:, from Scotch highlands they come, they come. Heaven is not a monopoly for a few precious souls. It is not a Windsor castle, built only for royal families. It is not a small town with small population, but John saw it, and ho noticed that an angel was measuring it, and he measured it this way, and then he measured it that way, and whichever way he measured it it was 1,500 miles, so that Babylon and Tyro and Nineveh and St. Petersburg and Canton and Peking and Paris and London and New York and all tho dead cities of the past and all tho living cities of the present added together would not equal tho census of that great metropolis.

Walking along a street, you can, by the contour of the dress or of tho face, guess where a man comes from. You say: "That is a Frenchman that is a Norwegian that is an American. But tho giites that gather in the righteous will bring them in irrespective of nationality. Foreigners sometimes get homesick. Somo of the tenderest and most pathetic stories havo been told of those who left their native climo and longod for it until they died. But the Swiss, coming to the high residence of heaven, will not long any more for the Alps, standing amid the eternal hills, The Russian will not long any moro for the luxuriant harvest field he left now that ho hears the hum and tho rustlo of the harvests of everlasting light. Tho royal ones from earth will not long to go back again to tho earthly court now that they stand in tho palaces of tho sun. Those who once lived among the groves of spico and oranges will not long to return now that they stand under the trees of life that bear 12 manner of fruit.

it. Let missionaries tell it in pagoda and colporteurs sound it across the western prairies. Shout it to the Laplander on bis swift sled. Hallo it to the Bedouin careering across the desert. News, sews! A glorious heaven and 12 gates to get into it! Hear it, O you thin blooded nations of eternal winter—on the north three gates! Hear it, O you bronzed inhabitants panting under equatorial heats—on the south three gates!

But I notice when John saw these gates they were open—wide open. They will not always bo so. After awhile heaven will have gathered up all its intended population and the children of God will have como homo. Every crown taken. Every harp struck. Every throne mounted. All tne glories of tho universo harvested in tho great garner. And heaven being made up, of course tho gates will be shut. Russia in, and tho second gate shut. Italy in, and the third gate shut. Egypt in, and tho fourth gate shut. Spain in, and the fitth gato shut. France in, and the sixth gate shut. England in, and tho seventh gato shut. Norway in, and tho eighth gate shut. Switzerland in, and tho ninth gate shut. Hindustan in, and the tenth gato shut. Siberia in and the eleventh gato shut. All these gates are closed but. one! Now, let America go in with all tho islands of tho sea and all tho other nations that havo called on God. The captivos all freed. The harvests all gathered. The nations all saved. Tho Hashing splendor of this last pearl begins to move on its hinges. Let two mighty angels put their shoulders to tho gate and lieavo it to with silvery clang. It is done! It thunders! The twelfth gato I shut!

Open and Wide.

Once more I want to show you the gatekeepers. There is ono angel at each I one of those gates. You say that is right, Of course it is. You know that no earthly palace or castle or fortress would be safe without a sentry pacing up and down by night and by day, and if thero were no defenses beforo heaven, and tho doors set wide open with no ono to guard them, all the vicious of earth would go up after awhile, and all tho abandoned I of hell would go up after awhile, and heaven, instead of being a world of light I and joy and peace and blessedness, would bo a world of darkness and horror. So I am glad to tel 1 you that, while I theso 12 gates stand open to let a great multitude in, there are 12 angels to keep some peoplo out. Robespierre cannot go through there, nor Hildebrand, nor Nero, nor any of the debauched of earth who havo not ropented of their wickedness. If one of tlioso nefarious men who despised God should come to tho gate, one of tho keepers would put his hand on his shoulder and push him into outer darkness. There is no placo in that laud for thieves and liars and whoremongers and defrauders, and air those who disgraced their race and fought against their God. If a miser should get in there, lie would pull up the golden pavement. If a house burner should get in thero, he would set fire to the mansion. If a libertine should get I in there, he would whisper hisabomina- I tions standing on tho white coral of tho I seabeach. Only tlioso who are blood washed and prayer lipped will get through. Oh, my brother, if you should at last como up to ono of the gates and try to get through, and you had not a pass written by tho crushed hand of tho son of God, tho gatekeeper would, with one glance, wither you forever.

Thero will bo a password at the gate of heaven. Do j-ou know what that password is? Hero comes a crowd of sov^s up to tho gate, and they say: "Let mo in let me iu. I was very useful on earth. I endowed colleges,

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es and was famous for my charities, and having done so many wonderful things for tho world I come up to get my reward. A voice from within says, "I never knew you." Another great crowd comes up, and they try to got through. Thoy say: "We were highly honorable on earth, and the world bowed very lowly before us. We were honored on earth, and now wo como to get our honors in heaven." And a voice from within says, "I never knew you." Another crowd advances and says, "We wero very moral people on earth, very moral indeed, and we come up to get appropriate recognition." A voice an-

The Entrance Fee.

After awhilo I seo another throng approach the gate, and one seems to be spokesman for all the rest, although their voices over and anon cry, "Amen, amen!" This one stands at tho gate and says: "Let mo in. I was a wanderer from God. I deserved to die. 1 have como up to this place, not becauso I doservo it, but because I have heard that there is a saving power in tho blood of Jesus." The gatekeoper says, "That is the password, 'Jesus! Jesus!' And they go iu and surround tho throno, and the cry is, "Worthy is tho Lamb that was slain to receivo blessing and riches and honor and glory and power, world without end!"

I stand hero this hour to invite you into any one of tho 12 gates. I tell you now that unless your heart is changed by tho grace of God you cannot get in. I do not care whore you come from, or who your father was, or who your mother was, or what your brilliant surroundings—unloss you repent of your sin and take Christ for your divino Saviour you cannot get in. Are you willing, then, this moment, just where you are, to kneel down and cry to the Lord Almighty for his deliverance?

You want to get in, do you hot? Oh, you have some good friends there. This last year thero was some one who went out from your homo iuto that blessed place. They did not havo any trouble getting through the gates, did thoy? No, thoy know tho blessed password, and, coming up, thoy said "Jesus!" and tho cry was, "Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, and let them come in." Oh, when heaven is all done and tho troops of God shout the castle taken, how grand it.will bo if you and I are among them! Blessed arv'all they who enter in through the gates into the oifcy.

The Bandcige Removed From the Envoy's Face.

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS RESUMED.

J.il Hung Chang's Sou Appointed as a Peace

Envoy to A.s.sist. llis Father—Japan's JPropo.iit ion.s t«.» China—T'lic I.ondon Pa

pers Comment on the Oulijuct—Thinks Her Demand Kcasouahlc.

SIUMUNOSKKI, April y.—The wound iu tlie lace of Li Hung Chang, tho Chinese peace envoy, who was shot March 24 by a patriot fanatic, has now completely healed. The bandages were removed yesterday. ^Pnuce Komotsu, commander-in-chief of the .Japanese army and navy, will leave Hiroshima Wednesday next to e{}-» tablidi his headquarters in China.

It is officially stated that Liu Chang Funu' has been appointed a Chinese peace plenipotentiary to assist Li Hung

Japan has formally accepted tin envoy.

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•Japan's J'roposit ions.

PARIS, April s.—It is staled on reliable authority that .Japan has proposed the. following conditions for the conclusion of peace: The independence of Corea, the cession of southern Manchuria, including Port Arthur, the cession of the island of Formosa, the opening of Chinese ports and rivers to commerce, the payment of an indemnity of 400.000,000 yen and the occupation of a number of stragetic points until the in* dommty shall have been paid.

Comment of London Paper?). Loxi.\, April 8.—The Times in au editorial on the latest report oi .Japan's demands, says it considers that -Japan is justified iu imposing these conuitions, and adds that the British can not object to the occupation of the Liao-Tung peninsula.

The Daily News says that it thinks that the proposals are likely to meet with the treneral approval of the European powers.

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lie Kains and Snows JIavp Greatly Impiovod Crop Prospects. O.UAIIA, April y.—From all parts of the state messages have been received telling of the heavy rainsand snow, and the consequent happiness of the farmers and busii. ,'ss men. Songs of praise are especially going up from the heart of the drouth-stricken region of last year. There the rain has been the most abundant.

From Xuekols county west, taking in the vast area covered by the counties of Adams, Webs.er, Franklin, Kearney, Harlan, Buffalo, Dawson, Phelps, Furnas, Frontier, Red Willow, Lincoln, Hayes, Hitchcock, Chase, Dundy. Perkins and Ke.th, and, in 1'aer, across the" state to the northern boundary, tlie pre-• cipitation has been sufficient to satisfy the most carping critic. Where discoiiragomeur sat enthroned a week ag^:! hope has resumed her sway and driven out ev'l ?.». c.hodings, replacing thenr W-... ^iiien.-e and trust.

But i:\- iias Nebraska, been blessed by tiie c.rii.nxs showers but the dried COL. ii.es along the Kansas, Colore. i. ami South .b.ikwta bordei bee:, wet to an extent in excess ex} .• "need .! two years.

In the northwestern counties dies oi. SIMW nas fallen, greatly ine- railroad traffic.

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One Wc vian Head ami ller ill other Likely to Die.

LKVELAND, April 8.—Mrs. Elizabeth Whiteway, aged i0, died last night at her home, corner of Lorain and Root: streets, of nervous prostration, caused by fright, and her mother, Mrs. William Herr of 1599 Wilson avenue, is lying at death's door from injuries received at the time her daughter was frightened.

Two weeks ago, as Mrs. Herr was descending a flight of stairs with Mrs. Whiteway's infant child in her arms, and carrying a lamp, she fell. The lamp exploded and set lire to the child's clothing. Mrs. Whiteway extinguished the flames and saved the baby's life. Immediately she was taken ill, and never left her bed' afterward, dying, as the physicians say, from the effects of the shock. Mrs. Herr was badly hurt by the fall, and her death is expected at any time. Mrs. Whiteway was one of the myst beautiful women iu the city, having been chosen five years ago to represent Germauia in a great German day parade.

Probably a Fatal Fire.

ORTHAMPTON, Mass., April 8.—A fire broke oar at 10:45 last night in the old wooden Kirkland block. The fire started in a room occupied by .John Rackum, on the second floor. There is a strong probability that Rackum was burned to death, although it is not known for certain that he was in the yity. Wilbur F. Knowlton, who roomed on the floor above, narrowly escaped with his life. Several neighboring stores were injured by water. The loss on the building is about sjtfO.OOO insurance, $8,000. Loss on contents, $8,000 partially insured.

Hailstorms in Georgia.

TJIKNS, (*a., April 8.—This section of Georgia was visited by two destructive hailstorms within the past 24 hours. Hailstones as large as hen eggs descended and wrought great damage to fruit and garden plants. Tho rain fell heavily and was accompanied by a strong wind. Particulars as to the true extent of the damage are meager, but it is thought the storm will prove to bo one of the worst that has occv, rred in years.

Train Kohbers Fighting With I''ire.

ICHITA, Kan., April 8.—The Rock Island train robbers are now in tlie Gloss mountain regions and havo set the prairie on fire behind them in order to baffle their pursuers. There being a high wind the lire has covered au immense area of territory and the marshal's posse can not advance.

K. of 1*. I'lind Cnimpaired. IMA,

April 8.—The City National

bank of Fort Worth, Tex., contained $148,000 belonging to the Endowment Ranks Knights of Pythias, Suprem# Chancellor Ritchie says the funds are amply secured, and that the order had abuudaut funds in othor quarters to sieet all obligations.