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DR. C. A. BELT.

Office with D. W. R. King, West Mali. Street, Greenfield, Iud.

Practice limitsd to diseases of the

NOSE, THROAT, EYE and EYE.

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ELMER J. BINFORD.

LAWYER.

Special attention given to collection*, lettllui estates, guardian business, conveyancing, •*•. Notary always in office.

Office—Wilson block, opposite court-boiun.

ANNA L- WILSON,

HOMEOPATHIC

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.

Office 39 E. Main street,. Residence, corner Bradley and Lincoln streets.

Specialty—Diseases of Women and Children. City andcouutry calls promptly answered, dw

L. B. GRIFFI.i, M. I).,

PHYSICIAN & SURGEON

All calls answered promptly. Office and rwii Aence No. 88 West Main SI., (one-half sqvurt west of postoffice) Greenfield. Ind. 93-18-1 y\

DR. J. M. LOCHHEAD, HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.

Office at 23% W Main street, over Early's drug store. Prompt attention to calls in city or country.

Special attention to Childr^ni-', Womens' and Chronic Diseases. La it- resident physician St. Louis Childreus Hospital.

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"And the Leaves of the Tree Were for the Healing of the Natious."—Kev. JXXII-2.

MAN 0 WA,

To whom it may concern We the uu-lers! tned business men of Frankfort, lnl.. certify that we have known Dr. W F. Peffiey (Man-O-Wa) the past two years, and know him to be not o• 1 a good citizen, honorable and square in alibis dealings and reasonable in his charges, but atso as a skillful physician, and that he lias had a large and extensive practice during residence here:

G. Y. FOWLKK, Editor Frankfort Times. STALKY it HIT UN' S, Publishers News-Banner, A. D. BERRY, Pfist.or Baptist Church. T. O. DALBY, Postmaster. J. H. PA It! 3 & SONS, Irv Goods, HANNA it MATTTX. Boots and Shoes. •FI*HER BROS., Novel t.v Store. DAVID T. HILL, sheritt' of Clinton County W. P. STEVENS X, Furniture. CUSHWA BROS, ('ontectionery. A. A. LAIKD, Druggist. N. 0. DAVES, M. D. Of Anti Ilaldache Fame. L, HILSINUEU, Auiericanflixpress Agent.

DR. MAK-O-WA: Forover one year my daughter, Vira, was a constantsutferer from Cystetis. She was confined to the house, she was greatly reduced in flesh and si reugth. She was treated by several prominent physicians, but to no avail. We had •dispaired of ever having her cured. But we arc happy to say that after four months use of your Indian Herb Extracts, she is enjoying perfect health. RICHARD M. DAVIS, Geenlield, Ind., July 24, '94.

Dr. Man O-Wa treats, and cures 85 per cent, •of all chronic diseases given up by other physicians as incurable. Office in Wilson's New Block, Greenfield. Office days, Friday and Saturday of each week.

No money required of responsible parties to begin treatment. Terms $3.00 to $8.00 per month.

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W. C. Bariiartl Sues ilie County For J600. After the Supreme Court declared th« fee and salary law unconsiitutiousl, W. C. Baruard, ex-County Treasurer put a bill in the Commissioner's Court for $600 as Commission on the railroad tax which ran delinquent during his term of office. Mr. Barnard had made demands for the tax, but the companies under a restrainipg order refused to pay. After the case went against the company In the United States Supreme Courtj they paid the tax to Treasurer G. W. Ham, but then he was acting under the law that paid him a salary and all fees went to the county. The Commissioners did not allow the bill as they want it determined who is entitled to the money Mr. Barnard or Mr. Ham so it was appealed to the Circuit Court iu a friendly way on all sides.

Married or Not?

One of thf ways of telling whether a man is married or not is to examine his pockets. In the pockets of a bachelor you will find:

Half a dozen letters from girls. A tailor's bill. Three or four old checks for theatre seats.

Bills for supper. Theatrical-looking photograph. A lot of invitations to dances, dinners and receptions.

A tiny glove scented with violet. But the married man's pocket will contain:

An old bill. A couple of unposted letters which were given him to post a week pas!.

A sample of an impossible shade which he must match. A newspaper clipping telling a sure cure for croup.

A shopping list ranging from a box of blacking to three yards of lace. Bills.

More bills.

DEATHS.

As reported by C. W. Morrison & Son, ndertakers.

Alda May Smith, age 15 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, John Smith, one mile south of the city, of lung fever, Sunday morning, Jan. 27th. Fuueral at Mt. Lebanoh, time not yet arranged, but will probably occur Tuesday afternoon. Service will be conducted by Kev. J. L. Barclay.

Keliet in Six Hours.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder diseases relieved in six hours by the "New Great, South American Kidney Cure.'' This new remedy is a great surprise on account or its exceeding promptness in relieving pain iu the bladder, kidneys, back and every part of the urinary passages iu male or female. It relieves retention of water and pain iu passing it almost immediately. 1£ you v/ruit quick relief and cure this is your remedy, Sold by V. L. Early, Druggist, Greeuiield, Ind. ^24 ly

Scran at a Jtiuiice.

Allen Wallace, who lives near the creanii-ry, gave a dance at hi-j home last Saturday night, which ended iu a free-tor-all fight. It seems that Henry McKinuey went down and purchased a dance number and insisted on dancing before his time. Mrs. Wallace uml-ttook to quiet him, but as he was under the influence of whiskey, he resisted all efforts to be peaceably quieted. He commenced striking wUdly at those around him,'and in the scuttle i.e caught Mrs, Wallace by the throat and attempted to choke her. He was frustrated iu his attempted and finally ejected from the honse.

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S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis., was troubled with Neuralgia and Rheuma tistn, his Stomach was disorded, his Liver was effected to an alarming degree, appetite fell away, and he was terribly reduced in flesh and strength. Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured him.

Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, 111., had a running sore on his leg of eight years standing. Used three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and his leg is sound aud well. John Speaker, Catawba, O., had five large Fever sores on his leg, doctors said he was incurable. One bottle Electric Bitters and one box Buckleu's Arnica Salve cured him entirely. Sold at M. C. Quigley's Drug store. 14-ly

Tlie Uiiokereek A.ssessorslup ill a MUSH.

Samuel Crubaugh, a Repuolican, was last fall nominated and elected assessor of Buckcreek township for the short term. In some way the name was certified up as Edward Crubaugb, and now Auditor Boring is iu a dilemma about issuing the certificate as assessor. Attor-ney-General Ketchain writes that Mr. Crubaugh may change his name from Smnuel to Edward, take the certificate and act. This is an easy way out of the difficulty, and hereafter, if he want.s to, lie may be known as Samuel Edward Crubaugh.

IStK'klen's Armvi Salve.

The best salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by M. C. Quigley.

"Walk in the Light'' is an appropriate morning thought, but the motto of the eveuiug should be, "Read the EVENING REPUBLICAN."

Tli« Sunday Sc.liools.'^U

Sunday, Jan. 27, 1895.

Attend'e. Con.

Presbyterian. 80 ?1 21 Christian 125 2 47 M. P. Church 110 1 21 M. E. Church 14!) 3 23 Friends :.. 31 34

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SINS OF PESSIMISM.

REV. DR. TALMAGE DEPLORES THE MODERN TEfcsgENCY.

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MBW YORK, Jan. 17.—Wb*n R«R. Dr. Talmags came vpon the stags in th« Academy of Musie this afternoon, he found before him an audience such as is seldom a«en in any public building in America. The tasfc apace was orowded from auditorium to topmost gallery and the aisloe and corridors literally blocked, while many thousands who had come to hear him preach crowded Fourteenth Btreot sud Irving place, unablo to gain admission. He took for his subject "The Dangers of Pessimism." the text selected being Psalm cxvi, 11, "I said in nay haste, All moil aro liars.

Swindled, betrayed, persecuted David, in a paroxysm of petulance and rage, thus insulted the human race. David himself falsified when he said, "All men aro liars.'' He apologizes and says he was unusually provoked, and that ho was hasty wlion ho hurled such universal denunciation. "I said in my haste," and so on. It was in him only a momentary triumph of pessimism. There is ever and anon, and never more than now, a disposition abroad to distrust everybody, and bocause some bank employees defraud to distrust all bank employees, aud bocause some police officers have taken bribes to believe that all policemen take bribes, aud because divorco cases aro in the court to bolieve that most, if not all, marriage rolations are unhappy.

Thero are men who seem rapidly coming to adopt this creed: All men aro liars, scoundrels, thieves, libertines. When a now case of perfidy comos to the surfaco, theso people clap their hands in gloa It gives piquancy to their breakfast if tho morning newspaper discloses a now exposuro or a new arrest. They grow fat on vormin. They join the devils iu hell in jubilation over recreancy and pollution. If some one arrosted is proved innocent, it is to them a disappointment. They would rather believe evil than good. They are vultures, preferring carrion. They would like to be on a committee to find something wrong. The^ wisli that as eyeglasses have been invented to improvo the sight, and ear trumpets havo been invented to liolp the hearing, a corresponding instrument might be invented for tho nose, to bring noarer a malodor.

Evils of Cynicism.

Pessimism says of the church, "The majority of tho members aro hypocrites, although it is 110 temporal advantage to be a member of tho church, and therefore thero is no temptation to hypocrisy. Pessimism says that the influence of newspapers is only bad, and that they are corrupting tho world, when the fact is that they tire tho mightiest agency for the arrest of crime and the spread of intelligence, and tho printing press, sccular and religious, is setting the nations free. Tho whole tendency of things is toward cynicism, and tho gospel of Smashup. Wo excuse David of tho text for a paroxysm of disgust, because ho apologizes for it to all the centuries, but it is a deplorable fact that many have taken tho attitude of perpetual distrust and anathematization. There are, wo must admit, deplorable facts, and we would not hide or minify them. We are not much encouraged to find that the great work of official reform in New York city begins by a proposition to tho liquor dealers to break the law by keeping their saloons open on Sunday from 2 in tho afternoon to 11 at night.

Never bincc America was discovered has there been aworso insult to sobriety and decency and religion than that proposition. That proposition is equal to saying: "'Lot law and order and religion havo a chance on Sunday forenoons, but Sunday afternoons open all tho gates to gin and alcohol and Schiedam schnapps and sour mash and Jersey lightning, and tho variegated swill of broweries and drunkenness and crjine. Consecrate tho first half of the Sunday to God and the last half to tho devil. Lot the children on their way to Sunday schools in New York at 3 o'clock in the afternoon meet tho alcoholism that does more than all other causes combined to rob children of their fathers and mothers and strew tho land with helpless orphanage. Surely strong drink can kill enough people and destroy enough families and sufficiently crowd the almshouses aud penitentiaries in six days of tho week without giving it an oxtra half day for pauperism and assassination.

Power of Good.

Although we aro not very jubilant over a municipal reform that opens the exercises by a doxologyto rum, wo have full faith in God and in tho gospel which will yet sink all iniquity as tho Atlantic ocean melts a flako of snow What wo want, and what I believe we will havo, is a great religious awakening that will moralize and Christianize our great populations and maUe them superior to temptations, whether unlawful or legalized. So 1 see no causo for disheartenment. Pessimism is a sin, aud those who yield to it cripple themselves for tho war, on ono side of which are all tho forces of darkness, led on by Apollyon, and on tho other side of which :TO all the forces of light, led on by tho Omnipotent. I risk tho statement that tho vast majority of people aro doing tho best tlioy can. Nino hundrod and ninety-nino out of a thousand of the officials of tho municipal and tho United States governments are honest.

Out of a thousand bank presidents and cashiers, lnno hundrod and ninety-nine aro worthy tho position they occupy. Out of a thousand merchants, mechanics and professional men, nine hundred and ninety-nine aro doing their dotyns they understand it. Out of one thousand engineers and conductors aud switchmen, nine -hundred and ninety-nine are true to their responsible, positions. It is sel-

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ed over and over again. If the theory of the pessimist were aocurate, sooiaty would long ago have gone to pieces, and civilisation would hare been submerged with barbarism, and the wheel of the oentaries wowld have turned back to the dark ages. A wrong impression is made that because two men falsify their bank aooounta those two wrongdoers are blasoned before the world, while nothing is said In praise of the hundreds of bank elerks who have stood at their desks year in and year out until their health is well nigh gone, taking not a pin's worth of that which belongs to others for themselves, though with skillful stroke of pen they might have enriched themselves aad built their country seats on the banks of the Hudson or the Rhine.

Bluna Bather Than Praise. It is a mean thing in human nature that men and women are not praised for doing well, but only excoriated when they do wrong. By divine arrangement the mo«t of the families of -tho earth are at peace, and the most of thoso united in marriage have for each other affinity and affeotion. They may havo occasional differences and here and thore a season of pout, but the vast majority of those in the conjugal relation chose the most appropriate companionship and are happy in that relation. You hear nothing of the quietude and happiness of such homes, though nothing but death will them part. But one sound of marital disoord makes the ears of a continent, and perhaps of a hemisphere, alert.

The one letter that ought never to have been written printed in a newspaper makes more talk than the millions of letters that crowd the postoffices and weigh down the mail carriers with expressions of honest love. Tolstoi, the great Russian author, is wrong when he prints a book for the depreciation of marriage. If your observation has put you in an attitude of doploration for tho marriage state, one of two things is truo in regard to you. You have eithor been unfortunate in your acquaintanceship, or you yoursolf are morally rotten. The world, not as rapid as we would like, but still with long strides, is on tho way to the scenes of beatitude and felicity which tho Bible depicts. The man who cannot seo this is wrong, either in his heart or liver or spleen. Look at tho great Bible picture gallery, whero Isaiah has set up the pictures of arboresconce, girdling the world with cedar and fir and pine and boxwood and tho lion led by a child, and St. John's pictures of waters and troes, and white horso cavalry, and tears wiped away, and trumpets blown, and harps struck, and nations redeomed. While there aro 10,000 things I do not like, I have not seen any discouragement for the causo of God for 25 years. Tho kingdom is coming. Tho earth is preparing to put on bridal array. We need to bo getting our anthems and grand marches ready. In our hymnology wo shall have more use for 'Antioch" than for "Windham," for "Ariel" than for "Naomi. Let "Hark, From the Tombs a Doleful Cry!" bo submerged with "Joy to tho World, the Lord Is Come!" Really, if I thought tho human race wero as determined to bo bad and getting worse, as tho pessimists represent, I would think it was hardly worth saving. If after hundreds of years of gospeli/ation no improvement has bet made, let us give it up and go at i.omothuig else besides praying and preaching.

My opinion is that if wo had enough faith in quick results and could go for rightly equippod with tho gospel call tho battle for God and righteousness would end with this nineteenth century, and the twentieth century, only live or six years off, would begin the millennium, and Christ would reign, either in person on some throuo set up between tho Alleghanies and the Rockies or in the institutions of mercy and grandeur set up by his ransomed people. Discouraged work will meet with defeat. Expectant aud buoyant work will gain the victory. Start out with the idea that all men are liars and scoundrels, and that everybody is as bad as ho can be, and that society, and the church, and the world are ou the way to demolition, and the only uso you will ever bo to tho world will bo to increaso tho value of lots in a cemetery. We need a more cheerful front in all our religious work. People havo enough trouble already and do not want to ship another cargo of trouble in the shape of religiosity. If religion has been to you a peace, a defense, an inspiration and a joy, say so. Say it by word of mouth, by pen in your right hand, by face illumined with a divino satisfaction. If this world is ever to bo taken for God, it will not bo by groans, but by halleluiahs. If we could present the Christian religion as it really is, in its true attractiveness, all the people would accept it, and accept it right away. Tho cities, the nations would cry out: "Give us that! Give it to us in all its holy magnetism and gracious power 1 Put that salve on our wounds! Throw back the shutters for that morning light 1 Knock off these chains with that silver hammer! Give us Christ—his pardon, his peace, his comfort, his heaven! Give us Christ in song, Christ in sermon, Christ in book, Christ in living oxamplo!"

Religion Exemplified.

As a system of didactics religion has never gained ono inch of progress. As a technicality it befogs more than it irradiates. As a dogmatism it is an awful failure. But as a fact, as a ro-enforce-meut, as a transfiguration, it is tho mightiest thing that over descended from the heavens or touched the earth. Exemplify it in the life of a good man or a good woman, and no one can help but like it. A city missionary visited a house in London and found a sick and dying boy. There was an orange lying on bis bed, and the missionary said, "Where did you got that orange?" He said: "A man brought it to mo. He comes hero often and reads the Bible to me and prays with me and brings me nice things to eat." "What is his name?" said the city missionary. "I forget his name," said the sick boy, a a I a

sionary asked, "Was his name Mr. Gladstone?" "Oh, yes," Mid the boy, "that is his name—Mr. Gladstone!" Do you tall me a man ean see religion like that and not like it? These is an old fashioned

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haps she is somewhere in the seventies, perhaps 7S or T6. It is the early evening hour. Through spectacles No. she is reading a newspaper until toward bedtime, whea she takee up a well worn book, called the Bible. I know from the illumination in her face she is reading one of the thanksgiving psalms, or in Revelation the story of the It pearly gates. After awhile she closes the book and folds her hands and thinks over the past and seems whispering the names of her children, some of them on earth and some of them in heaven. Now a smile is on her face, and now a tear, and sometimes the smile oatches the tear. The scenes of a long life come back to her. One minute she soes all the children smiling around her, with their toys and sports and strange questionings. Then she remembers several of them down sick with infantile disorders. Then she sees a short grave, but over it cut in marble, "Suffer them to come to me. Then there is the wedding hour, and the neighbors in, and the promise of "I will," and the departure from the old homestead, then a sceno of hard timos, and scant broad and struggle. Then slio thinks of a few years with gush of sunshine and Sittings of dark shadows and vicissitudes.

This Is Piety.

Then she kneels down slowly, for many years have stiffened the joints, and the illnesses of a lifetime have made her less supplo. Her prayer is a mixture of thanks for sustaining grace during all thoso years, and thanks for children good and Christian and kind, and a prayer for tho wandering boy, whom she hopes to seo come homo before her departure. And then her trembling lips speak of the land of reunion where she expects to meet her loved ones already translated, and after telling tho Lord in very simplo languago how much she loves him, and trusts liini, and hopes to see him soon, I hoar her pronounce the quiet

and she rise3 up—a little more

difficult effort than kneeling down. And then she puts her head on tho pillow for the night, and the angels of safety and poaco stand sentinol about that couch in the farmhouse, and her face ever and anon shows signs of dreams about tho heaven sho read of before retiring. In tho morning tho day's work has begun down stairs, and seated at the tablo tho remark is made, "Mother must havo overslept herself." And tho grandchildren also notice that grandmother is absent from her usual place at tho tablo. Ono of the grandchildren goes to the foot of tho stairs and cries, 'Grandmother!" But there is no answer. Fearing something is the matter, they go up to see, and all seems right. Tho spectacles and Biblo on the stand, and tho covers of the bod are smooth, and tho face is calm, her white hair on tho white pillow case like snow on snow already fallen. But her soul is gono up to look upon tho things that the night, bei'oro she had been reading of in the Scriptures. What a transporting look on her dear old wrinkled fare! Sho has seen tho "King in his beauty. Sho has been welcomed by tlio "Lamb who was slain. "And her two oldest sons, having hurried up stairs, look and Wiiisper, Henry to George, "That is religion!" George to Henry, "Yes, that is religion!"

He Dispensed Illessinffs.

There is a New York merchant who has boon in business 1 should say 40 or 50 years. During an old fashioned revival of religion in boyhood ho gave his heart to God. Ho did not mako tho ghastly and infinite and everlasting mistake of sowing "wild oats," with tho expectation of sowing good wheat later on. Ho realized tho fact that the most of those who sow "wild oats" never reap any other crop. He started right and has kept right. He went down in 1857, when the banks failed, but ho failed honestly and never lost his faith in God. Ups and downs—ho sometimes laughs over them—but whether losing or gaining he was growing bettor all tho time. He has been in many business ventures, but he never ventured the experiment of gaining the world and losing his soul. His name was a power both in tho church and in the business world. He has drawn more checks for contributions to asylums and churches and schools than any ono, cxcept God, knows. Ho has kept many a business man from failing by lending his name on the back of a note till the crisis was past. All heaven knows about him, for tho poor woman whose rent he paid in her last days, and the man with consumption in tho hospital to whom he sent flowers and tho cordials just before ascension, and tho people he encouraged in many ways, after they entered heaven kept talking about it, for tho immortals are neither deaf nor dumb. Well, it is about time for tho old merchant himself to quit earthly residence.

As it is toward evening, he shuts tho safe, puts tho roll of newspapers in his pocket, thinking that the family may like to road thorn after ho gets homo. Ho folds up a $5 bill and gives it to the boy to carry to ono of tho car men who got his leg broken and may be in need of a little money puts a stamp on a letter to his grandson at college, a letter with good advice, and an inclosuro to make the holidays happy, then looks around the store or office and says to the clerks, "Good evening, and btarts for home, stopping on the way at a door to ask how his old friend, a deacon in the same church, is getting on sinco his last bad attack of vertigo. Ho enters his own home, and that is his last evening on earth. He does not say much. No last words are necessary. His whole life has been a testimony for (^pd and righteousness. More people would like to attend his obsequies than any house or church would hold. The officiating clergyman begins his remarks by quoting from the psalmist, "Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth, for the faithful fail froni among the children of inen." Every

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the results of his earthly benoficence and1 fidelity, whils en the street where he did business, and in the orphan asylum in which h« was a director, and in the •hurch of which he was an offioer, whenever his goniality aud beneficence and gooduwes arc rel'urifcd to, bank director will soy to bank director, and morcbanfr to merchant, and neighbor to neighbor, and Christian to Christian: "That is religion. Yes, that is religion."

Saved Fr««u Degradation.

Th«cs a man saatsd or standing rerr near you. Do not look at him, for it might be unnecessary embarrassment. Only a few minutes ago he came down off the steps of as happy a home as there is in this or any othor city. Fifteenyears ago, by reason of his dissipated habits, his home was a horror to wife and children. What that woman went through Atith in order to preserve respectability and hide her husband's disgrace is a tragedy which it would require a Shakespeare or Victor Hugo to write out in fivo tremendous acts. Shall I tell it? He struck her! Yes tho one who at the altar he had taken with vows so solemn they made the orange blossoms tremble! Ho atruok her! Ho made the beautiful holidays "a reign of terror. Instead of his supporting her, she supported him. The children had often hoard him speak the name of God, but never in prayer—only in profanity. It was the saddest thing on earth that I-. .-. can think of—a destroyed homo! Walking along tho street one day an impersonation of all wretchedness, ho saw a sign at the door of a Young Men's Christian association, "Meeting For Men Only."

He wont in, hardly knowing why he did so, and sat down by the door, and a young man was in broken voice and poor grammar telling how the Lord had saved him from a dissipated life, and the man back by tho door said to himself, "Why cannot I have the Lord do the same thing for mo?" and he put his hands, all a-tremble, over his bloated face and said: "O God, I want that! I must have that!" and God said, "Y'ou shall have it, and you have itnovj" And tho man camo out and went ho£Te a changed man, and though tho children at first shrank back and looked to tho mother and began to cry with fright they soon saw that the father was a changed man. That home has turned from "Paradise Lost" to "Paradise Regained." The wife sings all day long at her work, for sho is so happy, and the children rush out into the hall at tho first rattle of tlio father's key in the door latch to welcome him with caresses and questions of, "What have yon brought me?" They have family prayers. They aro altogether on tho road to heaven, and when the journey of life is over tiiey will live forever in each other's companionship. Two of their darling children aro there already, Availing for father and mother to come up. What changed that man? What reconstructed that home? What took that wife, who was a slave of ientf and drudgery, and made her a queen on a throne of affection? 1 hear a whisper--ing all through his assemblage. Iknow wiiat you are saying: "That's religion! Yes, that's religion!" My Lord and myGod, give us more of it!

Why, my hearers from all parts of tho earth, do you not get this bright and beautiful and radiant and blissful aud triumphant thing for yourselves, then go homo tellim,' ail your neighbors on the Pacific, or Nova Scotia, or in Louisiana, orMaiuo, or Brazil, or England, or Italy, or any part, of tho round world, that tbry may havo it too. Havo it for the asking! Have it now! Mind you, I do not start from tho pessimistic standpoint that David did, when ho got mad and said in his haste, "All men aro liars!" or from tho creed of others that every man is as bad as ho can be. I rather think from your looks that you are doing about as well as you can in tho-w circumstances which you aro placed, but I want to invite you up into heights of safety and satisfaction and holiness, as -::,- rnuch higher than thoso which tho world affords as Everest, tho highest mountaitt-.^?'ii in all the earth, is highor than your front doorstep.

The Redeemer.

Hero ho comes now. Who is it? might bo alarmed and afraid if I had not seen him beforo and heard his voice, I thought he would come before I got.- i. through with this sermon. Stand back and mako way for him. Ho comes withies, scars all around his forehead scars in the center of both hands stretched out*®** to greet you scars on tho instep of bothmv" tho feet with which ho advances scarsfe ss on tho breast under which throbs the great heart of sympathy which fools for® you. I announce him. I introduce him to you Jesus of Bethlehem and Olivets-s-and Golgotha. Why comcst thou hither this winter day, thou of the springtimes and summery heavens! Ho answers: To^ givo all this audionco pardon for guilt,5^? con dole uoo for grief, whole regiments^ of help for day of battlo and eternal?*® lifo for tho dead! What response shall Ifft givo him? I11 your behalf and in my owu|i behalf I hail him with tho ascription:®? "Unto him who hath loved us, andVv washed us from our sins in his ownf^ blood, and hath mado us kings and^ priests unto God and his Father to him.# be glory and dominion forever and evor. Amen."

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A Likeness.

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