Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 15 July 1895 — Page 3

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PL.KASURK TRIPS,

Numerous Excursions the Coming Summer at Reasonable Kates.

Whether th-i tourist's fancy directs liim to the New England States or the Atlantic seaboard to the South or to the lake region of 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 railroud fare this vear. In Aug exeursion tickets will be on sale over the Pennsylvania Lines to Boston, account the Knights Templar Conclave. The sale of I low rate tickets will not be restricted to I. members of the organizations mentioned, but the public generally may take advantage of them.

The Asbury Park excursion will doubt less attract many to that delightful ocean resort. Atlantic City, Cape May, Long Branch and 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 will be just the thing for a sigtit-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 Missouri rivers. Variable route privileges will also be accorded Boston excur sionists, enabling them to visit. Niagara Falls, Montreal, Thousand Islands 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 toe Cape Cod resorts to Ne.v York and thence tMrough the agrii-ulcu \al paradise of the Keystone State, along the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers, over the Allegheuies, around famous Horse Shoe Curve, through historic Johnstown and the coke and iron regions ofWcs'ern Pennsylvania. It is also expected that Boston excursionists over the Pennsylvania Lines will be privileged to return via BI^timore and Washington if they so desire.

In addition to the above, there will be plenty 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 agent of these s# lines, or by addressing F. VAN DXJSEN,

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REDUCED RATES.

Excursions over Pennsyluanla Lines During Season ot 18i)5.

Liberal concessions in fare over the Pennsylvania lines have been granted for numerous events to take--place this summer in various irts of the United States. In addition to local excursions tiokets at reduced rates will be.sold j[over these lines as given in the following'paragraphs. Excursion tickets may be obtained at ticket offices on the Pennsylvania System and will also be sold over Vs this route by connecting railroads: Some of the points to which tickets will be sold and dates of sale as follows:

To Baltimore July 16fch and 17th good returning until August 5 inclusive account the Convention of Baptist Young People's Union of

A.merica.

To Boston August 19th to 25th inclusive account Triennial Conclave Knights Templar. Return limit extended to October 3d by special arrangement.

To Louisville, Ky in September, for National Encampment, Q. A. R. One cent per mile. Reasonable return lin?it.

The reduced rates over the Pennsylvania lines will not be restricted to members ot the organizations mentioned, but may be taken advantage of by the public generally. Any Pennsylvania Line Ticket 'br Passenger Agent will furnish desired information concerning rates, time of trains and other details to applicants, or the same may be obtained by addressing

W. H. Scott,, ticket ascent, Greenfield, Ind., or F. Van Dusen, Caief Asst. Gen. ft Pass. Agt Pittsburg, Pa. may21dwtf

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THE UNPARDONED SIN

REV. DR. TALMAGE THINKS IT IS NOT COMMITTED TODAY.

No One Now Swears by the Holy Ghost. But There Are Other Sins That In Some Respects Are Irrevocable—A Category of Awful Sins.

NEW YORK, July 14.—In his sermon for today Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is still in the west on his annual summer tour, chose a subject which has been a fruitful theme of theological disputation for centuries past—viz, The Unpardonable Sin." The texts selected were:

All manner of sin and blaspnemy shall be forgiven unto men, but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of Man it shall be forgiven him, but whosoever speaketh again.st the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.— Matthew xii, 31, 33.

He found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. —Hebrews xii, 17.

As sometimes you gather the whole family around the evening stand to hear some book read, so now we gather, a great Christian family group, to study this text, and now may one and the same lamp cast its glow on all the circle.

You see from the first passage that I read that there is a sin against the Holy Ghost for which a man is never pardoned. Once having committed it, he is bound hand and foot for the dungeons of despair. Sermons may be preached to him, songs may be sung to him, prayers may be offered in his behalf, but all to 1.0 purpose. He is a captive for this world and a captive for the world that is to come. Do you suppose that there is any one here who has committed that sin? All sins arc against the Holy Ghost, but 11 ly text speaks of one e.spoc ially. It is very clear to r.:y own mind that the sin against the Holy Ghost was the ascribing ef the works of the spirit to the agency of the devil in the time of the apostles.

Indeed the Bible distinctly tells us that. In other words, if a man had sight given to him, or if another was raised from the dead, and some one standing there should say, "This man got his sight by satanic power the Holy Spirit did not do this Beelzebub accomplished it," or, "This man raised from the dead was raised by satanic influence," the man who said that dropped down under the curse of the text and had committed the fatal sin against the Holy Ghost.

Not Possible Today.

Now, I do not think it is possible in this day to commit that sin. I think it was possible only in apostolic times. But it is a very terrible thing ever to say anything against the Holy Ghost, and it is a marked fact that our race has been marvelously kept back from that profanity. You hear a man swear by the name of the eternal God, and by the name of Jesus Christ, but you never heard a man swear by the name of the Holy Ghost. There are those here today who fear they are guilty of the unpardonable sin. Have you such anxiety? Then I have to tell you positively that you have not committed that sin, because the very anxiety is a result of the movement of the gracious Spirit, and your anxiety is proof positive, as certainly as anything that can be demonstrated in mathematics, that you have not committed the win that I have been speaking of. I can look off upon this audience and feel that there is salvation for all. It is not like when they put out with those lifeboats from the Loch Earn for the Villo de Havre. Th^y knew there was not room for all the passengers, but they were going to do as well as they could. But today we man the lifeboat of the gospel, and we cry out over the sea, "Room for all!" Oh, that the Lord Jesus Christ would this hour bring you all out of tho flood of sin and plant you on the deck of the glorious old gospel craft!

But while I have said I do not think it is possible for us to commit the particular sin spoken of in the first text I have, by reason of the second text, to call your attention to the fact that there are sins which, though they may be pardoned, are in some respects irrevocable, and you can find no place for repentance, though you seek it carefully with tears. Esau had a birthright given him. In olden times it meant not only temporal but spiritual blessing. One day Esau took this birthright and traded it off for something to eat. Oh, the folly! But let us not be too severe upon him, for some of us have committed the same folly. After he had made the trade he wanted to get it back. Just as though you tomorrow morning should take all your notes and bonds and government securities and should go into a restaurant and in a fit of recklessness and hunger throw all those securities on the counter and ask for a plate of food, making that exchanga This was the one Esau mada He sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, and he was very sorry about it afterward, but "he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears."

There is an impression in almost every man's mind that somewhere in the future there will be a chance where he can correct all his mistakes. Live as we may, if we only repent in time God will forgive us, and then all will be as well as though we had never committed sin. My discourse shall come in collision with that theory. I shall show you, my friends, as God will help me, that there is such a thing as unsuccessful repentance that thero are things done wrong that always stay wrong, and for them you may seek some place of repentant and seek it carefully, but never find it.

Irrevocable Mistakes.

Belonging to this class of irrevocable mistakes is the folly of a misspent youth. We may look back to our college days and think howiwe neglected chemistry or geology or botany or mathematics. We may be sorry about it all our days. Can we ever get the discipline

the advantage that we would have had had we attended to those duties in early life? A man wakes up at 40 years of age and fiuds that his youth has been wasted, and he strives to get back his early advantages. Does he get them back—the days of boyhood, the days in college, the days under his father's roof? "Oh," he says, "if I could only get those times back again, how I would improve them!'' My brother, you will never get them back. They are gone, gone. You may be very sorry about it, and God may forgive, so that you may at last reach heaven, but you will never get over some of the mishaps that have come to your soul as a result of your neglect of early duty. You may try to undo it you cannot undo it. When you had a boy's arms, and a boy's eyes, and a boy's heart, you ought to have attended to those hings. A man says at 50 years of age, "I do wish I could get over these habits of indolence." When did you get them? At 20 or 25 years of age. You cannot shake them off. They will hang to you to the very day of your death. If a young man through a long course of evil conduct undermines his physical health and then repents of it in after life, the Lord may pardon him, but that does not bring back good physical condition. I said to a minister of the gospel one Sabbath at the close of the service, "Where are you preaching now?" "Oh," he says, "I am not preaching. I am suffering from the physical effects of early sin. I can't preach now I am sick.'' A consecrated man he now is, and he mourns bitterly over early sins, but that does not arrest their bodily effects.

The simple fact is that men and women often take 20 years of their life to build up influences that require all the rest of their life to break down. Talk about a man beginning life when he is 21 years of age talk about a woman beginning lift when she is 18 years age Ah, no! In many respects that is the time they close life. In nine cases out. of ten all the questions of eternity are decided before that. Talk about a majority of men getting their fortunes between 30 and 40! They get or lose fortunes between 10 and 20. When yon. tell me that a man is just beginning life, I tell you he is just closing it. Tho next 50 years will not be of as much importance to him as the first 20.

Cannot Uc Undone.

Now, why do I say this? Is it for the annoyance of those who have only a baleful retrospection? You know that is not my way. I say it for the benefit of young men and women. I want them to understand that eternity is wrapped up in this hour that the sins of youth we never get over that you are now fashioning the mold in which your great future is to run that a minute, instead of being 60 seconds long, is made up of everlasting ages. You can see what dignity and importance this gives to the life of all our young folks. Why, in the light of this subject life is not something to be frittered away, not something to be smirked about, not something to be danced out, but something to be weighed in the balances of eternity, Oh, young man, tho sin of yesterday, I the sin of tomorrow will reach over 10, 000 years—aye,over the great and nnending eternity. You may after awhile

say: "I am very sorry. Now I have got I to be 30 or 40 years of age, and I 1 wish I had never committed those sins.

What does that -amount to? God may 1 pardon you, but undo those things you 1 never will, you never can.

In this same category of irrevocable mistakes I put all parental neglect. We begin the education of our children too late. By the time they get to be 10 or 15 we wake up to our mistakes and try to eradicate this bad habit and change that, but it is too late. That parent who omits in the first ten years of the child's life to make an eternal impression for Christ never makes it. The child will I probably go on with all the disadvantages, which might have been avoided by parental faithfulness. Now you sea what a mistake that father or mother I makes who puts off to late life adherence to Christ. Here is a man who at 50 years of age says to you, "I must be a

Christian," and he yields his heart to God and sits in the place of prayer today a Christian. None of us can doubt it He goes home, and he says: "Here at 50 years of age I have given my heart to the Saviour. Now I must establish a I family altar. What? Where are your children now? One in Boston, another in Cincinnati, i«§-ther in New Orleans, and you, my brother, at your fiftieth year going to establish your family altar? Very well, better late than never, but alas, alas, that you did not do it 25 years ago!

Too Late.

When I was in Chamouni, Switzerland, I saw in the window of one of the shops a picture that impressed my mind very much. It was a picture of an accident that occurred on the side of one of the Swiss mountains. A company of travelers, with guides, went up somo very steep places—places which but few travelers attempted to go up. They were, as all travelers are there, fastened together with cords at the waist, so that if one slipped the rope would hold him, the rope fastened to the others. Passing along the most dangerous point, one of the guides slipped, and they all started down the precipice. But after awhile one more muscular than the rest struck his heels into the ice and stopped, buj the rope broke, and down, hundreds and thousands of feet, the rest went.

And so I see whole families bound together by ties of affection and in many cases walking on slippery places of worldliness and sin. The father knows it, and the mother knows it, and they are bound all together. After awhile they begin to slide down steeper and steeper, and the father becomes alarmed, and he stops, planting his feet on the "rock of ages." He stops, but the rope breaks, and those who were once tied fast to him' by moral and spiritual influences go over the precipice. Oh, there is such a thing as coming to Christ soon enough to save ourselves, but not soon enough to save others.

How many parents wake up

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latter part of life to find out the mistake The parent says, "I have been too lenient-," or I "have been too severe in the discipline of my children. If I had the little ones around me again, how different I would do!" You will never have them around again. The work is done the bent to the character is given the eternity is decided. I say this to young parents, those who are 25 and 30 or 35 years of age—have the family altar tonight. How do you suppose that father felt as he leaned over the couch of his dying child, and the expiring son said to him: "Father, you have been very good to me. You have given me a fine education, and you have placed me in a fine social position, you have done everything for me in a worldly sense but, father, you never told me how to die. Now I am dying, and I am afraid.

Unkindness to the Departed.

'?#In this category of Irrevocable mistakes I place also the unkindnesses done the departed. When I was a boy, my mother used to say to me sometimes, "De Witt, you will be sorry for that when I am gone." And I remember just how she looked, sitting there with cap and spectacles and the old Bible in her lap, and she never said a truer thiirj than that, for I have often been sorry since. While we have our friends with us we say unguarded things that wound the feelings of those to whom we ought to give nothing but kindness. Perhaps the parent, without inquiring into the

matter, boxes tho child's ears. The little one, who has fallen in the street, comes in covered with dust, and as though the first disaster were not enough she whips it. After awhile the child is taken, or the parent is taken, or tin? companion is taken, and those who arc left say: "Oh. if we could only get back those r.nkir-d words, those unkind d"eds If Ave couid only recall them But you cannot• got them back. You might bow down over the grave of that loved one and cry and cry and cry. The white lips would make, no answer. The stars shall be plucked out of their sockets, but these influences shall not be torn away. Tho world shall die, but there are some wrongs inimortal. The moral of which is, take care of your friends while you have them. Spare the scolding. Be economical of the I satire. Sinit tip in a dark cave from which they shall never swarm forth all the words that have a sting in them. I You will wish you had some day—very I

Lost Opportunities.

There is one more class of sins that I put in this category of irrevocable sins and that is lost opportunities of usefulness. Your business partner is a proud man. In ordinary circumstances say to him, "Believe in Christ," and he will say, "You mind your business and I'll mind mine." But there has been affliction in the household. His heart is tender. He is looking around for sympathy and solace. Now is your time. Speak, speak, or forever hold your peace. There is a time in farm life when you plant the corn and when you sow the seed. Let that go by, and the farmer will wring his hsuids while other husbandmen are gathering in the sheaves. You are in a religious meeting, and there is an opportunity for you to speak a word for Christ. You say, "I must doit." Your cheek flushes with embarrassment. You rise half way, but you cower before men whose breath is in their nostrils, and you sag back, and the opportunity is gone, and all eternity will feel tho effect of your silence. Try to get back that opportunity! You cannot find it. You might as well try to find the fleece that Gideon watched, or take in your hand the dew that came down on the locks of the Bethlehem shepherds, or to find the plume of the first robin that went across paradise. It is gone—it is fjone forever. When an opportunity for personal repentance or of doing good passes away, you may hunt for itjiyou oannot find it. You may fish for i£ it

soon you will, perhaps tomorrow. Oh, 1

yes. While with a firm hand you administer paiental discipline also administer it very gently, lest some day there be a little slab in the cemetery and on it chiseled, "Our Willie," or "Our Charlie,'' and though you bow down prone in the gravo and seek a place of repentance and seek it carefully with tears, you cannot find it.

Thero is another sin that I place in tho class of irrevocable mistakes, and that is lost opportunities of getting good. I never come to a Saturday night but I can see during that week that I have missed opportunities of getting good. I never come to my birthday but I can see that I have wasted many chances of yetting better. 1 never go home on Sabbath from the discussion

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a religious theme without feeling that I might have done it in a more successful way. How is it with you? If you take a certain number of bushels of wheat and scatter them over a certain number of acres of land, you expect a harvest in proportion to the amount of seed scattered. And I ask you now, Have the sheaves of moral and spiritual harvest corresponded with the advantages given? How has it been with you? You. may make resolutions for the future, but past opportunities are gone. In the long procession of future years all those past moments will march, but the archangel's trumpet that wake.^the dead will rot wake up for you one 01 those privileges. Esau has sold his birthright, and there is not wealth enough in the treastire houses of heaven to buy it back again. What does that mean? It means that if you are going to get any advantage out of this Sabbath day you will have to get it before the hand wheels around on the clock to 12 tonight. It means that every moment of our life has two wings, and that it docs not fly like a hawk in circles, but in a straight line from eternity to eternity. It means that, though other chariots may break down or drag heavily, this one never drops the brake and never ceases to run. It means that while at other feasts the cup may be passed to us and we may reject it, and yet after awhile take it, the cupbearers to this feiist never give us but one chance at the chalice, and rejecting that we shall "find no place for repentance, though we seek it carefully with tears.

will not take the hook. You may dig for it you cannot bring it up. Remember that there are wrongs and sins that can never be corrected that our privileges fly not in circles, but in a straight line that the lightnings have not

swift feet as our privileges when they are gone, and let an opportunity of salvation go by us an inch—the one hundredth part of an inch, the thousandth part of an inch, the millionth part of an inch—and no man can overtake it. Fire winged seraphim cannot come up with it. The eternal God himself cannot catch it.

I stand before those who have a glorious birthright. Esau's was not so rich as yours. Sell it once, and you sell it forever. I remember the story of the lad 011 the Arctic some years ago—the lad Stewart Holland. A vessel crashed into the Arctic in the time of a fog, and it was found that the ship must go down. Some of the passengers got off in the lifeboats, some got off on rafts, but 300 went to the bottom. During all those hours of calamity Stewart Holland stood at the signal gun and it sounded across the sea—boom, boom! Tho helmsman? forsook his place the engineer was gone, and some fainted, and some prayed, and some blasphemed, and the powder was gone, and they could no mors set off the signal gun. The lad broke ill the magazine and brought out moro powder, and again the gun boomed over the sea. Oh, my friends, tossed on the rough seas of life, some have taken the warning, have gone off in the lifeboat, and they are safe, but others arc not making any attempt to escape. So I stand at tliio signal gun of the gospel, sounding the alarm, beware, beware! "Now is the accepted time. Now is tho day of salvation." Hear it that your soul mav live.

31 r. I -aos' Imported Cactus."

That ardent student of floriculture, Colonel AIL

Isaacs, is not so passion

ately absorbed in the flora of foreign lands as he used to be. The poppy and tho pallid pelargonium are good enough for him, he says. Mr. Isaacs is a government collector in the office at the foot of Main street. Along the top of his desk sits a row of alligator pears and some sweet potatoes blooming in bottles of water. The other day this display was increased by the arrival of a queer looking plant in an earthen flowerpot. A note attached to the plant described it as a Hawaiian cactus and very rare. "Those fellows at tho Oceanic dock are getting good in their old age," remarked Mr. Isaacs as he poured a cup of water on the cactus and placed it in the warm sunlight.

In size and shape the Hawaiian cactus resembled a penholder covered with a thin grayish white foliage. The upper end of the plant was tied to a stick inserted in tho soil of the pot. Taken as a whole, the cactus was not a promising object, but Mr. Isaacs attended to it with loving care. Twice a day he watered it, according to instructions, yet tho cactus did not appear to thrive. "It must be the climate," said Mr. Isaacs.

But the hot weather of the past two days aroused the latent energies of the Hawaiian specimen to a remarkable extent. It began to shed a fragrance roundabout that made Mr. Isaacs sick and drove sea captains out of the office. The aroma of that imported cactus was simply asphyxiating, so much so that the sagacious collector said: "1 am beginning to smell a rat.

Mr. Isaacs was right. He pulled the cactus up by the roots and exposed a rat, which should have been buried deeper or thrown overboard two weel'S ago, and now Mr. Isaacs is trying to find out who palmed off a rat's tail as a Hawaiian cactus.—San Francisco Chronicle.

What the South Can Do.

It is evident that the south has at hand, and therefore cheap, all the raw materials entering into manufactures that its labor and cost of living are cheaper than at tho north that it can, in consequence, manufacture goods of all kinds at less cost than the north or the west that it cannot only supply tho home demand, but also export goods with profit that in the finer lines of manufactures it is extending its operations with success, and that, to compete with it, wages in the north must bo reduced. With all these advantages on its side tho fault will be with tho south if it fails to reach out its hands and take what nature has so kindly offered.— From "Industrial Future of the South," by Frederic G. Mather, in North American Review.

A Porcine Oddity.

D. K. Persons, a farmer of Red Mills, Ark., is the owner of a pig that completely lays all other freak porkers in the shade. It is perfectly devoid of hair and has a double set of eyes, feet like human hands—even to the nails—one very large ear and a face which looks more like that of a young baby than it does liko that of a regulation pig. From between tho upper set of eyes projects a proboscis like that of a young elephant. This proboscis has two holes through its entire length, and it is through them that piggy gets his supply of air. Mr. Persons values tho freak at $1,000, and his neighbors say that ho takes greater caro of it than all of the rest of the stock 011 tho pliiee.—St. Louis Republic.

l'rcparlug For a Big Blast. Preparations are being made at Long Cove, Me., for one of the biggest quarry blasts ever made in this country. The object of attack is a miniature mountain of granite 75 feet in perpendicular' height. In the face of this ledge, at the foot, a tunnel is being driven, which, when completed, will beT shaped, the main stem 55 feet long, with two cross arms some 80 feet in length each. Eight tons or more of powder are to be put in those side tunnels, the main tunnel cemented up and the big charge touched off. It is expected the explosion will make a rock pile of the mountain.—— Boston Herald.