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THE REPUBLICAN.
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GREENFIELD INDIANA
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Tbe States of Montana and Washing* ton are very fully described in two folden lMued by the Northern Pacific Bail* wad, entitled "Golden Montana" and 'Fruitful Washington." The foldera Son tain good county maps of the States named, and information in reference to elimate, lands, resources, and other subject* of interest to capitalist*, business men or settlers.
Holders of second-class tickets to North Pacific Coast pointB, via Northern Paeiflc Railroad, are allowed the privilege of stopping over at Spokane, Washington, and points west thereof, for the purpose of examining all sections of this magnificent State before locating. Northern Pacific through express trains carry free colonists sleeping cars from St. Paul and Pullman tourist sleepers from Chicago (via Wisconsin Central Liae) to Montana and Pacific Coast Points daily.
California tourists, and travelers to Montana and the North Pacific Coast, can purchase round trip excursion tickets at fates which amount to but little more than the one fare way. Choice of routes Is allowed on these tickets, wh'ch are good for three or six months, according to destination and permit of stop-overs.
Tho elegant equipment on the Northern Pacific Railroad the dining car service the through first-class sleepiug cars from Chicago (via both Wisconsin Central Line and C. M. & St. P. Ry.,) to Pacific Coast, and the most magnificent scenery of seven States, are among the advantages and attractions offered to travelers by this line.
The "Wonderland" book Issued by the Northern Pacific Railroad describes tbe country between the Great Lakes and Pacific Ocean, with maps and illustrations.
For any of the above publications, and fates, maps, time tables, write to any General or District Passenger Agent, or Chas. B. Fee, G. P. & T. A., N. P. R. R-, St. tauL MinTv 4®'*
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A good road is always to be desired, and i6 a source of comfort and convenience to every traveler. Good roads altiact population, as well as good schools and churches. Good roads improve the value of property, so that it is said that a farm lying1 five miles from market connected by a bad road is of less value than an equally good farm lying ten miles awav from market and connected by a good road. A larger load can be drawn by one horse over a good rorid than by two over a bad one. Good roads encourage the greater exchange of products and commodities between one section and another. Good roads mean for you and me better business. Good roads enoourage riding, driving and sale of our vehicles, while bad roads mean less business for you and for me, f#r where the roads are bad the traffic must of necessity be much less. As a nation we are a remankably patient and an easy-going people, considering the enterprise and business activity for •which we are noted the world over and rather too apt to fall into the way •f doing things as a matter of course. As a result of this, very strenuous and •ontinuous efforts are frequently necessary to bring about the farthest reaching and most desirable reforms. From a business point of view, we can not afford to neglect any opportunity to ftelp along the present movement. Fifty years ago there was some excuse for bad roads, for our country is poor. Now it is rich there is no ex-
-c. She Was Unusually Discreet.
A little Maine girl recently visited New York and wont to the theatre two or three times. On her return home she was i*eluctunt to go to church on Svrnday and made the remark that "she Klced those meetings bust where tha mirtain rose." Her father who was a Inading church member, cautioned her about making that remark when callers were present. Shortly after tlia minister was shown iu and the littlo
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entertained him awhile alone. hen her father entered the room she said: "Papa, I've told Oie minister all afeout my visit to New York, but I did not say anything about the meeting where the curtain rose and I ain't agoing to either." The little rogua •vas just about as discreet as her pa •was when he told her to keen mum. Why mumness?—Rockland Free Press.
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the Subject of Dr. Talmage's Sunday Sermon
••God Moves la a MysWioniiWsjr Hta Won. ders t« Perform"—Ant Interesting and Instructive Discourse.
Now casting lots is about the most solemn thing you can do. It should r.ever be done except with a solemnity like that of the last judgment. It is a direct appeal to the almighty. If after earnest prayer you do not peem to get the divine direction, I think you might without sin write upen one slip of paper "Yes" and upon another "No," or some other decisive words appropriate to the case, and then obliterating from your mind tho identity of the slips of paper, draw the decision and act upon it. In that case 1 think you have a right to take that indication as the linger of God. But do not do that except as the last resort, and with a devoutness that leaves absolutely all to God.
For much that concerns us we have no responsibility, and we need not make appeal to the Lord for direction. "We are not responsible for most of our surroundings. We are not responsible for the country of cur birth, nor for whether we are Americans or Norwegians or Scotchmen or Irishmen or Englishmen. We are not responsible for the age in which we live. We are not responsible for our temperament, be it nervous or phlegmatic, bilious or sanguine. Wo are not responsible for our features, be they homely or beautiful. We are not responsible for the height or smallness of our stature. We arc not responsible for the fact that we are mentally dull or brilliant. For the most of our environments we have no more responsibility than we have for the raollusks at the bottom of the sea.
Oh. I am so glad that there are about five hundred thousand things that we are not responsible for! Do not blame us for being in our manner cold as an iceberg, or nervous as a cat amid a pack of Fourth of July firecrackers. If you are determined to blame somebody, blame our greatgrand fathers or great-grand mothers, who died before the Revolutionary war, and who may have had habits depressing and ruinous. There are wrong things about us all, which make me think that one hundred and fifty years ago there was some terrible crank in our ancestral line. Realize that, and it will be a relief semi-infinite. Let vs take ourselves as we are this moment, and then ask "Wnich way?" Get all the direction you can from careful and constant study of the Bible, and then look
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Stranger—"Ilow much do yo« get for the golden rule?" .Jeweler (wearily)—"Young man. stop right there. I recognize you as the desperado who wauls to jn'ice a pair of ruby lips."— "JemvAtf Weekly. mm
and lookout and look around,
and see if you ean find the finger of God. A most interesting as well as a most useful study is to watch the pointing of the finger of God. In the Seventeenth century Scuth Carolina was yielding rosin and turpentine and tar as her chief productions. But Thomas Smith noticed that the ground near his house, in Charleston was very much like the places in Madagascar where had raised rice, and some of the Madagascar rice was sown there and grew so rapidly that South Carolina was led to make rice her chief production? Can you not see the finger of God in that incident?
Rev. John Fletcher, of England, many will know, was one of the most useful ministers of the Gospel who ever preached. Before conversion he joined the army and bad bougJit his ticket ou the ship for South America. The morning lie was to sail some one spilled on him a kettle of water, and he was so scalded he could Rofc'go. He was very much disapuoiuted, but the ship he was going to sail on went out and was never heard of again. Wlio can doubt that God was arranging the life of John Fletcher? Was it merely accidentul that Richard Rodda, a Cornish minor, who was on kis knees praying, remained unhurt, though heavy stones fell before him and behind kim and on either side of him .and another fell on the top of these [so as to make a roof over him?
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Rer. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Text, Exodus viii, 19: "The Finger cf God." The preacher prefaced his remarks by announcing, soon, a series of sermons on
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To most of us gesticulation is natural. If a stranger accost you on the street and ask you the way to some place, it is as uatural as to breathe for you to level your forefinger this "way or that. Not one out of a thousand of vou would stand with ycNr hands by your side and make no motion with your finger. Whatever you niay say with your lips is emphasized and reinforced and translated by your finger. Now God in tho dear old Book says to us innumerable things by way of direction. He plainly tells us the way to go. But in every exigency of our life, if we will oniv look, we will find a providential gesture and a providential pointing, so that we may confidently say, "This is the finger of God." Ttvo or three times in my life, when perplexed on questions of duty after earnest prayer, I have cast lots as to what I should do. In olden times the Lord's oeople cast lots. The land of Canaan was divided by lot. The cities were divided among the priests and Levites by lot. Matthias was chosen to the apostleship by lot.
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way and in the night as wandering about when a firefly fl, shed and revealed a precipice over which in a moment more he would have been dashed. F. W. Robertson the great preacher of Brighton, England, had his life work,decided by the barking of his dog. A neighbor, fhose daughter was ill, was disturbed by the barking of that dog one night. This brought the neighbor into communication with Robertson. That acquaintance kept him from joining the dragoons and going to India and spending his life in military service, and reserved him for a pulpit, the influence of which for Gospelization will resound for all time and all eternity.
Why did not Columbus sink when in early manhood he was afloat six miles from the beach with nothing to sustain him till he could swim to land but a boat's oar I wonder if bis preservation had anything to do with America Had the storm that diverted the Mayflower from the mouth of the Hudson, for which it was sailing, and sent it ashore at Cape Cod, no divine supervisal Does anarchy rule this world, or God?
Nations also would do well to watch for the finger of God. What does the cholera scare in America mean? Some say it means that the plague will sweep our land next summer. I do not believe a word of it. There will be no cholera here next summer. Four or five summers ago there were those who said it would surely be here the following summer because it was on the way. But it did not come. The sanitary precautions established here will make next summer unusually healthful. Cholera never starts from where it stopped the season before, but always starts in the filth of Asia, and if it starts next summer it will start there again—it will not start from New York quarantine. But it is evident to me that the finger of God is in this cholera scare, and that he is pointing this nation to something higher and better. It has been demonstrated as never before that we are in the hands of God. He allowed the plague to come to our very gates and then halted it.
The quarantine was right and necessary, but, oh, how easily the plague could have leaped the bar riers lifted against it! Thanks to the President of the United States, and thanks to the health officers, and thanks to the Thirteenth regiment, and tbaritcs to all who stood between this evil and our national health, but more
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than all, thanks to God! Outof that solemnity we ought to pass up to something better than anything that has ever yet characterized us as a nation. We ought to quit our national sins, our Sabbath breaking, and our drunkenness, and our impurities, and our corruptions of all sorts as a people. The tendency is in self gratulation at our prosperity to forget the mercy of God th^ kept us from being blotted out for our crimes, and that still multiplies our temporal prosperity. Forward and upward! See you not the finger of God is this protecting mercy?
I rejoice "that there are many encouraging signs for our nation, and one is that this presidential campaign has less malignity and abuse than any presidential campaign since we have been a nation. Turn over to the pictorials and the columns of the nolitical sheets of the presidential excitements all the way back and see what contumely Washington and Jefferson and Madison and Monroe and Jackson went through. Now see the almost entire absence of all that. The political orators I notice this year are apt to begin by eulogizing the honesty and good intentions of the opposing candidate and say that he is better than his party. Instead of vitriol, camomile flowers. That we seem to have escaped the degradation of the usual quadrennial billingsgate is an encouraging fa.ct.
Perhaps this betterment may have somewhat resulted from the sadness hovering over the home of one of the candidates—a sadness in which the whole nation sympathizes. Perhaps we have been so absorbed in paying honors to Christopher Columbus that we have forgotten to anathematize the prominent men of the present. No man in this country is fully honored until he is dead. Whatever be the reason, this nation has escaped many of the horrors that usually ac company presidential contests. But let us not pause too long in hilarity about the present and forget the fact that there are not only temporal possibilities far greater than those attained, but higher moral and religious possibilities. The God of our fathers is the God of their children, and his finger points us to a higher national career than many have yet suspected. For our churches, our schools, our colleges, our institutes of mercy, the best days are yet to come.
But notice that this finger of God almost always and in almost everything points forward and not backward. All the way through the Bible, the lamb and pigeon on the altar the pillar of fire poised above the wilderness, peacc offering, sin offering, trespass offering, fingers of Joseph and Isaac and Joshua and David and Isaiah and Micah and Ezekiel, all together made the one finger of God pointing to the human, the devine, the gracious, the glorious, the omnipotent, the gentle, the pardoning aud suffering and atoning Christ. And now the same finger of God is pointing the world upward to the same Redeemer and forward to the time of his universal domination. My hearers, get out of the habit of looking back and looking down, and look up and forward. It 19 useful once in awhile to look back, but you had better, for the most part of your time,
stop rafiiniscence and begta anticipation^ Wehava none of us hardly begun yet. "Oh. but, says someone, "I
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getting old, and I have a touch of rheumatism iu that foot, and I believe something is the matter with my heart, and I cannot stand as much as I used to." Well, I congratulate you, for "that shows you are getting nearer to the time when you are going to enter immortal youth and be strong enough to huri off the battlements of heaven any bandit who by unheard of burglary might break into the Golden City. "But, says some one, "I feel so lonely. The most of my friends are gone add the bereavements of life have multiplied until this world that was once so bright to me has lost its charm.
I congratulate you, for when you go there will be fewer here to hold you back and more there to pull you in. Look ahead The linger of God is pointing forward. We sit here in church, and by hvmu and prayer and sermon and Christian association we try to get into a frame of mind that will be acceptable to God and pleasant to ourselves. But what a stupid thing it all is compared with what it will be when we have gone beyond psaimbook and sermon and Bible, and we stand, our last imperfection gone, in the presence of that charm of the universe—the blessed Christ— and have him look in our face and say: "I have been watching you and sympathizing with you and helping you all these years and now you are "here. Go where you please and never know a sorrow and never shed a tear. There is your mother now— she is coming to greet you—and there is your father, and there are your children. Sit down under this tree of life and on the banks of this river and talk it all over."
I tell ycu there will be more joy in one minute of that than in fifty years of earthly exultation. Look ahead! Look at the finest house on earth and know that you will have a finer one in heaven. Look up to the healthiest person 3'ou can find and know you will yet be healthier. Look up the one who has the best eyesight of any one you have ever heard of and know you will have better vision. Listen to the sweetest prima donna that ever trod the platform and know that in heaven you will sing a more enrapturing song than ever enraptured earthly auditorium. My friends, I do not know how we are going to stand it— I mean the inrush of that splendor.
All heaven ajjlow and all heaven a-ring, not in the sunset, but in the sunrise. Voices of our own kindred mingling with the doxologies of empires. Organs of eternal worship responding to the trumpets that have wakened the dead. Nations in white. Centuries in coronation. Anthems like the voice of many waters. Circle of martyrs. Circle of prophets. Thrones of cherubim. Thrones of Christ. Throne of archangel Throne of Christ. Throne of God. Thrones! Thrones! Thrones! The finger of God points that way. Stop not until you reach that place. Through the atoning Christ all I speak of may be yours and mine. Do you not now hear the chime of the bells of that metropolis of the universe? Do you not see the shimmerin' of the towers? Good morning.
Earning His Money.
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