Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1893 — Page 11

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THE MARCH OF YEAES

AN ANNIVERSARY SERMON BY DR. TALMAGE. Chronology of th Bible XeTer Has liern and Cannot He Impeached -Evo-) lotion of the Almanac Time Was. Time : It, but Time Will End. I Bp.OOKLTN, Jan. 1. Her. Dr. Talma this morning appropriately took for the ubject of bis New Year's day sermou 'The Chronology of the Bible, or God 'Among the Centuries." Before the discourse the great audience which fully crowded the Tabernacle sang the hymn: Onr God, our help in aes rast. Our hofe for years to com. The text chosen wa.t Deuteronomy xxxii, T, "Consider the years of many generations." At 12 o'clock last night, while bo many good people were watching, an old friend parsed out of our homes and a stringer entered. The old friend making valedictory waa 1S'J2; the strauzer arriving U lStT-i. The eld friend was garrulous with the occurrences of many days, but the trauter put his finder over his lip and wild nothing and seemed charged with many secrets and mysteries. I did not we either thedeparture or the arrival, but wa- sound asleep, thinking that whs for me the best way to be wide awake uow. Goodhy, Welcome, 1! As an army is divided into brigades and regiments and companies, and they observe this order in their march, and their tread is majestic, sonhe time of the world'" existence is divided into an army divinely commanded. The eras are the brigades, the centuries are the regiments, and the years are the companies. Forward into the eternity past, out of the eternity to come! Forward is the command, and nothing can halt them, even though the world should die. While olieyiuu my text, "Consider the years of many generations," 1 propose to speak of the ""Chronology of the Bible, or God Among tLs Centuries." THK IMVlNi; HUONOLOOT. "We make a distinction between time and eterniiy. but time isoniya piece of eternity, and chronology ban been em;agHl in the sublime work of dividimr up this portion of eternity that we crtll time into compartment and putting events in their right compartment. It is aa much an injustice against the pat to wrongly arrange its svents as it would l.-ean injustice if, through neglect of chrctologicrd ac uracy, it should, la the fir distant future, be said that America was discovered iu 177(5, and the Declaration of Independence v;is signed in 1492, aul Washington born on the 2-Jd of March, and the civil war of the United ßtate.s whs fo'vuht in 140. As God puts all the events of time in the right place, ht us be careful tL.ut we do cot put them in the wrong place. The chronology of the Bible takes six steps, but they are steps ko long it makes us hold our breath as we watch the movement. From Adam to Abraham. From Abraham to the exodus out of Kgypt. From the exodus to the foundation of Solomon's temple. From the foundation of Solomon' temple to the destruction ol that temple. From the destruction of the temple to then-turn from Eahvlonish captivity. From Babylonish captivity to the birth of Christ. Chrouology take- pen and pencil, and calling astronomy and history to help says: "Iet u.s fix one event from which to calculate everything. Let it be a star, the Bethlehem star, the Christmas star." And from that we go back and see the world was created 4,004 years betöre Christ; the deluge came '2,'M6 years before Christ; the exodus otit of Kgypt occurred 1,4'.1 years before Ciiri-t, ami Solomon's temple was destroyed !3 years before Christ. Chronology enters the lirst chapter of Genesis and says the day mentioned there is not a day of twenty-four hours, but of aires, the word there Ix-ing translated as "day" la otlier places meaning ages. And so the Bible account of the creation and the geologists account of the creation ae completely harmonious. Chronology enters the book of Daniel und says that the words "time and a half mean a year atid a half. Chronology enters it another point and shows us that ths season of the year were thi-n only two Ummer and winter. We find that the Bible year was SM days, instead of ."; that the day w.o. calculated from 5 o'clock in the morning to o'clock at night; that the n'.$,Lt was divided into four watches namely, the late watch, the midnight, the cock crowing, the eiirlf watch. The clock and watch were invented so long after the world began their mission that the day was not very b rply divided in Bible times. THK MAL OK A1IAZ. Ahaz had a sundial, or h flight of stairs with a column at the top, and the shadow which that column threw ou the steps botenth indicated the hour, the shadow lengthening or withdrawing from step to step. But the events of life and the events of the world moved so slowly, for he most part, in Bible times that they h.ul no need cf such timepii-ce as we stand on our mautels or carry in our pockets in ;uj age whrn a man may have a half dozen or a dozen engagements for one day and cet-ds to know the exact minute for wu.u one of them. The earth itself iu Bible times was the chief timepi.-ce, and it turned on its own axis and that was a day, and once nround the mil and tbat was a year. It was not until the Fourteenth century that the almaunc Was horn the almanac that we toss carelessly r. bout, not realizing that it took the accumulated ingenuity of more thau 5,0i0 years to make one. Chronology L;id to bring into its service the monuments .f Kgypt. and the cylinders cf Assyria, and the bricks of Babylon, and the pottery of Nineveh, and the medals stft'uck at Antioch for the battle of Actiunt, and all the hieroglyphic that could le deciphered, and had to go into the extremely delicate business of asking the ng-s of Adam and Seth and Fnoch aid .Methu elah who, after their 'th year, wanted to be thought young. I think, it must have been in recognition of the stupendous werk cf making an almanac that a!! the days of the week are nan.-! after the rds, Sunday after the sun. which wa of old worshiped a.s a god. Monday, after the moon, which was also Worshija-il as n g,!. Tue-dy, after 'lues co. tae god of war. Wednesday, after Woden, thech:! g.xl of t lie Scandinavians, Thursday, after Thor, t hi- god cf thunder. Friday, after Fit a, the goddess of marriage, and Saturday after Saturn. The old Bible year began with the 'i-Mu of March. Not until I7.V,' did the first of the month of January get the honor in legal documents in England of bei; g calltd Die lirct d ly of the year. Improvements v.'A along have leen made in chronol .gv until the calendar, and the almanac, and t!:e clock, an 1 the watch eem to .have n;w u perfection, and all the nations of Chri.-teiiilom have similarity ot time calculation ai.d have adopt eI what 1 called "new stvlr." except I'tis,ja, which keeps what i culled the "old style," and is twelve day different, so that, writing from there, if you wi-h to be accunito, you date your lei tor Jau. 1 and Jan. 13, or Dec. 1A and Der. " It Is something to thank Grxl for that the modes ure so complete for calculating the cycles, the centuries, the decade, the years, the months, the day.. the hours, the seconds. Think of making apKintments, as la the Bible day, for the time of the new moon. Think of making one of the watches of the night iiT Bible time a roo-der's crowing. The Bible says, "Before the cock crow thou shall deny me thrice," "If the MasU-r Cometh at cockcrowing," and that was the sr a r the mid night watch was indicated. The crowing of that barnyard bird has al ways Ix-eu most uncertain. The crowing is at the lowest temperature of the night, and the amount of dew and t he direction of the wind may bring lb lowest temperature at II o'clock at :.;-! t or 2 o'c'otk in the morn

ing and at any one of six hours. Jost be- . fore a rain the crowing of chanticleer in the tight is almost perpetual. THE MEASUREMENTS OT TIME. Compare these modes of marking time with our modes of marking time, when 12 o'clock is 12 o'clock, and 6 o'clock in 6 o'clock, and 10 o'clock is 10 o'clock, and independent of all weathers, and then thank God tbat you live now. But notwithstanding -all the imperfect niesle of marking hours or years or centuries Bible chronol ogy never trips np, never falters, never con tnulicts itself, and here is one of the hst arguments for the authenticity of the Scriptures. If yon can prove an alibi in the courts, and you can prove lieyoad doubt that you were In some particular place at the time yon were charged with doing or saying something in quite another place, you gain the victory, and infidelity has tried to prove an alibi by contending that events ana cir cumstances in the Bible ascribed to certain times must have taken place at some other time, if they took place at all. But this book's chronology has never been caught at fault. It has been proved" that when the Hebrews went into Kgypt there were only seventy of them, and that when they came out there were 3.OU0.OO0 of them. "Now." says infidelity, with a guffaw that it cannot suppress, "what an absurdity! They went down into Kgypt seventy and came out 3,)00,0H That i a falsehood on the face of It. Nations do not increase in that ratio." But, my skeptical friend, hold a moment. The Bible says the Jews were 4S0 years in Egypt, und that explains the increase from seventy persons to 3.000.000, for it is no more, but nit her lew, than the ordinary in crease of nations. The Pilgrim Fathers came to America in the Mayflower one small shipload of passengers loos than SCO years ago. and now we have a nation of 60, 000.000. Where, then. U the so called impossibility that the seventy Jews who went into Kgypt in 4:J0 years hrenme 3,000,000 Infidelity wrong and Bible chronology right. Now stop and reflect. Why is it that this sublime subject of Bible chronology has been so neglected, and that the most of you have never given ten minutes to the consideration of it. and that this is the first sermon ever preached ou this stupendous and overwhelming theme? We have stood by the half day or the whole day at grand n-views and seen armies pass. Again and again and agaiu ou the Champs Elysees Frenchmen by the hundreds of thousands have stood and watched the bannered armies go by, and the huzza has been three miles long and until the populace were eo hoarse they could huzza no longer. Agaiu and again and aiun the Germam by hundred of thousands have stood on the palucvd and statued Unter den Linden, Berlin, and strewu garlands under the feet of unformed hosts led on by Von Moltke or Blu" Fnderick the Great When Wellington sid I'onsocby and the Scota Grey came Iwvck from Waterloo, or Wolseley from Kgypt, or .Marlborough from Blenheim, what military processions through Itegent street and along by the palaces of London and over the bridges of the Thames! What almost interminable lines of military ru the streets of all our American capitals, while mayors and governors and presidents, with uueovrn'd be.-.ds, looked on! But put all thos grnnd reviews together, and they are tame compart! with the review which on this New Year's day you from the pew and 1 from the pulpit witness.' Hear theiu pass iu chronological orderall the years before the flood; all the years since the f:o;l. decades abreast; centuries abreast. epochs abreast; millenniums id. rtast; Kgypti);!) civilization, Babylonian populations, Assyrian dominions, armies of Persian. Grecian, Pcloponaesian and Roman wars, Byzantine empire, Saracenic host, crusader of the first, the second, third and ttie Inst avalauche of men; Dark Ages in somber epaulets and brighter ages w'th shields of silver and helmets of gold. Italy, Spain, Krane, Kussia, Germany, Knghuid and America, past and prtsent djnastK'i. feudal domains, despotisms, monarchies, republics, ages ou ages, ages ou ages, passing today in a chronological review, until one has no more power to ! K)k ujx.-i the advancing column, now brilliant, :ov squalid, now garlanded with p.Hte, no.v trnnson with slaughter, now horrid with ghastliness, now radiant with love and joy. THK WORLD GETTING I-KTTF.lt. This chronological study affords among many practical thoughts especially two the one encouraging to the last degree and the othi-r startling. The encouraging thought isthat the main drift of the centuries has Irt-en toward betterment, with only here and there a stout reversal. Grecian civilization w;is a vist improvement on Kgypt iaii civilization, and Kornau civilization a vast improvement on Grecian civilization, and Christian civilization is a vast improvement ou Hornau civilization. What was the Insisted age of Pericles coin pared with the age of Longfellow and Tennyson? What was Queen Klizalieth as a specimen of moral womanhocxl compared with Q aei u Victoria? What were the cruel warrior tif olden time compared with the most distinguished warriors of the la&t half century, all of them a much distinguished for kindness nud good morals as for prowess the two military leaders of our civil war ou northern and southern side com municant meinla-r of Christian' churches and their honw lifs; as pure a.s their public life? Nothing impresses me in this chronological review more than the fact that the regiments of yeai-s are Utter and better regiment. a the troop move ou. 1 thank God that you ami I were not lorn any soon er than we were loru. How could we have endured the disaster of being lairn in the Eighteenth or Seventeenth or Sixteenth century? Glad am I that we are in the regiment now passing the reviewing stand and that our children will pass the stand in a still better regiment. God did not build t his world for a slaughter house or a den of infamy. A fc jixl deal of cleaning house will be necessary la-fore this world Incomes as clean and sweet as it ought to lie, but the broom?, and the scrubbing brushes, and the uphulatcrers and plautta-rs are already busy, and when the world gets fixed up as it will be, if Adam and Kve ever visit it, as I expect they will, they will sty to each other, "Well, this lieats paradise when we lived there, and the pears and the plums are better than we plucked from the first trees, and the waidrolws re more complete, and the climate is better." Since I settled hi my owa miad the tact that God was stronger than the devil 1 have never lost faith iu the tmparndisntion of the planet. With the exception af a n-t regression in the Dark Ages tLe move.ueiit of the world has leen on ami on, and up and up, and 1 have two jubilant hosamnia one for the closing year and the other for the new year. NOW IS VOIK ONLY CERTAIN TIME, But the ether thought coming out of this subject is that Biblical chronology, and iudted all chronology, is urging the world to more punctmdjty and immedial eness. What an unsatisfactory and indefinite tLiug it must have been for two business men in the time of Ahoztomake au appointment, saying. "We will settle that business matter tomorrow when the shadow ou the dial of Aha, reaches the tenth step from the top," or, "I will meet you in the street called Straight in Damascus in the time of the ucw moon," or when asked in a courtroom what time an occurrence took place should answer, "It was during the time of the latter rain," or, "It was at the time of the third crowing of the barnyard." You and I nmember when ministers of the Gospel iu the country, giving ou a notice of an ereuing service, instead of saying at ft or 7 or 8 o'clock, would say, "The service will begin at early candle light." Thank God for chronological achievements which bare ushered in calendars and almaDacs and clo'' je'' '. . .it! at so cheao a

rate all may possess them. Chronology, beginning by appreciating the value of years and the value of days, has kept on until it cries out, "Man. immortal; woman, immortal, look out for that minute; look out for that secondJ" We talk a great deal about the value of time, but will never fully appreciate its value nntil the last fragment of it has passed out of our possession forever. The greatest fraud a man can commit is to rob au other of his time. Hear it, ye laggards, and repent!. All the fingers of chronology point to punctuality as one of the graces? The minister or the lecturer or business man w ho comes to bis place tea minutes after the appointed time commits a crime the enormity of which can only be estimated by multiplying the numlcr of persons present by ten. If the engagement be made with five persons, he has stolen fifty minutes, for he is ten minutes too late, and he has robbed each of the fire persons of ten minutes apiece, and ten limes five are fifty. If there are .W persons present, and he be ten minutes too late, he has committed a robbery of 5,000 minutes, for ten times 500 are R.00G, and 5.000 minutes are 83 hours, which make more than thrte days. The thief of dry goods, the thief of bank bills is not half so bad as the thief of time. Dr. Hush, the greatest and busiest physician of his day. appreciated the value of time, and when asked bow he had been able to gather so much information for bis books and lectures he replied: "I have been able to do it by economizing my time. I have not spent one hour in amusement in thirty years." And taking a blankbook from his pocket he said, "I fill a book like this every week with thoughts that occur to me and facts collected in the rooms of my patients." THK PERI15 OK PF.EAT. Napoleon appreciated the value of time when the sun whs sinking upon Waterloo, and he thought thst a little more time "would retrieve his fortunes, and he pointed to the sinking sun and said, "What would Jnottn'veto I this day possessed of the power of Joshua and enabled to retard thy march for two hours!" The good old woman appreciated the value cf time when at ninety-three years of age she said, "The judge of all the earth does not mean that I shall have auy excuse for Dot being prepared to meet him." Voltaire, the blatant infidel, appreciated the value of time when in his dying moments he said to his doctor, "I will give you half of what I am worth if you will give me six months of life," and when told that he could not live six weeks he barst into tears and said. "Then I shall go to hell." John Wesley appreciated the value of time when he stood on bis steps waiting for a delayed carriage to take him to an appointment, saying, "I have lost ten minutes forever." Ijord Nelson appreciated the value of time when he said, "I owe everything iu the world to being always a quarter of an hour beforehand." A clockmaker In oue of the old English towns appreciated the value of time when he put on the front of the town clock the words, "Now or when?" Mitchel. the astronomer, appreciated the value of time when he said, "1 have been in the habit of calculating the value of a thousandth part of a second." That minister of the Gospel did not appreciate the value of time who during a season of illness, instead of employing his time iu useful reading and writing, wrotea silly religious romance, which in some unknown vay came into the possession of the famous Joe Smith, who introduced the Look a a di vi:. e revelation, which became the foiindatiuu of Mormonism, the nu t beastly abomination of all time. They best appreciate the value of time whose Sal tx:ths have feeu waited, ami whose opportunities of repentance and usefulness ;.re all gone, and who have nothing left but memories, baleful and elegiac. They stand iu the bleak September, with bare let t. on

the sharp stubble of a reaped wheat field. crying. "The harvest is pa? and tlu? slough of an autumnal equinox mou:is foitb iu echo. "The harvest is past !" TilK F.NI Ml "ST COME. But do not It t us get tai impression from chronology that because the years of time have been o long in procession they are to go ci' forever Matter i not eternal. No, no! It you watch half a day, or a whole day, or wo days, ;u- 1 once did, to see a military processi.. n, you remember the last brigu.ie, ai'd hi last rgimeiit. i;::d tLe hist lo'iiimnj finally passed on, and as we rose to go we aid to each other, "It is all over" So this mighty procession of earthly jearswill terminate. Just when I have no power to progntstictite, bt.t science coufirms the Bible prophecy that the earth cannot always last. Indeed there has b,tn a fatality of worlds. The' mi .on is mtn-ly the corpse of what it once was, and scientists have again and aain gone up in their observatories to attend the deathUtl of dying worlds and have seen them cremated. So I am certain, both from the word of God and science, that the world's chronology will sooner or later come to its last chapter. The final century will arrive and p:iss on, and then will come the final decade, and theu the litial year, and the final mouth, and the final day. The last spring will swing its censer of apple blossoms and the last winter bank its snows. The last sunset will burn like -Moscow and the last morning radiate t he hills. The clocks will strike their last hour, and the watches will tick their last second. No incendiaries will be needed to run hither and yon with torches to set the world on fire. Chemistry teaches us that there is a very inflammable element in water. Whileoxygen makes up a part of the water the other part of the wr.tcr is hydrogen, and that is very combustible. The oxygen drawn out from the water, the inflammable hydrogen will put instJHitly into conflagration the Hudson and Savannahs and Mississippis aal BhlnosanJ Urals ,. nd Danube??, and Atlantic aitd Pacific and Indian and Mediterra lean seas. And then the Angel of God descending from the throne might put ono foot in the surf of the sva and the other on tb.-; Ix-acb and cry to the four winds of heaven: "Time was! But time shall 1 no longer!" Yet found in Christ, pardoned and sanctified, we shall welcome the day with more gl.t Jnev than you ever welcomed a Chrituiis or New Yew's nioi n. When wrapt in tire the minis of ether glow And heaven's L.sl thunder Lukcdthu earth 1hlov. Thou, nndisniaycd, shalt o'er the ruin mi!e And liuht thy torch nt nature's funeral pile. PERPETUITY. "It matters not that I must die," on ald. "All evil de ds and ceo 1 I hut I ha vo done Will Is; furgxt. A century hence then? will b none To say that e'er I lived or I am dead. There is no thing f curt h that can w ithstand Decay, the great rvleiiiles. All the temples planrad And built by man must -onic time fall; E'en God's own image withers i.t his cull." Yet carved he bis nunie Ujjii a tin ut bowlder's Mi; Ami, last remaining of his race, be liel. A thousand cen'aries of time fped round. Arid on an Hand, -ieft iu twain, they found A name carved on broken bi of stouc; Thus erst existence of a vanished race wua known. Cora Chaso Walsh in Harper's Bazar. An Aim. Give me a man w h says. "1 will il something eil. And make the fleet i hit days A btory of Ulxir tell." Though 'lie aim he hns le srnnll. It is better than none at all; With bomel hing todo the whole year through, II will not stumble at all. Better to strive and climb Aad never racli the goa Than to glldo along wltb time An aimless, worthless soul. Aye, better to climb and fall, ... And sou, ilniiiuli the yield he small. Thau to thro-.v away, day after day, And :': .. r t:h :.t cH.

THE TEMPLE BEGUN. LESSON I!, FIRST QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, JAN. a

Text ot 4he Lesson, Csra 111, 1-13 Memory Verses, 10, 11 Golden Test, Kara Iii, 11 Commentary by the Her. D.M. Stearns. We need to bear in mind that the key to this book seems to be "The House of the Lord," mentioned fifty times. The second chapter gives the numbering of the nearly 50,000 who at this time returned to Jerusalem. Verses 61, 62 tell of some whose names could not be found on the register, and they had to be cast out,' fcjgcesting to us the necessity of having our names in the Book of Life (Luke x, . Rev. xx. 15). Verses CS, C9 tell of thoSe who offered freely after their ability, and Is suggestive of Math, x, 8; Acts xx. So; II Cor. viii. 12. 1. ''The people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem." When in after years the church, which is the temi le of God, began to be built at Pentecost, it is said, "They were all with one accord iu one place" (Acts ii, 1). 2. "And builded the altar of the Lord of Israel." The patriarchs had no building called temple or tabernacle, but they had their altars and offerings, symbols of atonement, for without a sacrifice sinful man cannot draw near to God. See Lev. xvii, 11; Heb. ix, 22, as proofs of the necessity of the shedding blood. As to the altars, see Gen. viii, 20; xii, 7, 8; xiii, 4.18. It is eident from this verse that ther,e people had no doubt as to who wrote Pentateuch. It will be well for us to be like them. 3. "And they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the Lord." This stands first among all the offerings in the law, and is the oldest kind mentioned in the Word (Lev. i, 4; Gen. viii, 'JO; Job i, 5). Among the many offerings of Lev.' i to vii this, the first, seems suggestive of the sacrifice of Christ as fully meeting all the require- ' ments of God. 4. "Tbey kept also the feast of tabernacles." The first verse Bays that it was in the seventh month that they set up the altar. By rc-fcrrins: to Lev. xxiii, in which is found a full account of all the feasts of the Lord, it will be seen at verse 23 and onward that in this month there were three convocations, trumpets, atonement and tabernacles, beginning on the 1st, 10th and 15th days of the month. 5. "And of everyone that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the Lord." The importance and the necessity of a will ing offering is seen in connection with the building of the tabernacle and temple (Ex. xxv, 2; xxxv, 5. 21, 22, 29; I Chron. xxix, 6, 0, 17). When any one brought a burnt offering he was to offer it of his own voluntary will iLev. i, 8). It is written of Jesus that He said, "My meet is to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to tinish His work. (John iv, 31). As to His life ho said, "I lay it down of myself" (John x, 16). As to us it is written, "Whosoever will," "If any iruu will' (Ilev. xxii, 17; John vii, 17). 0. "From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the Lord." The outward aud visible n tion;J history of Israel began when they were redeemed from Hgypb by the miylity power of Go 1 and the blood of the passover l:ui:b (K.. xii, 1. 2). 7. ".isous. carpenters, them of Zidon and ot" Tyic, according to the grant of Cvrus, ki;g of IVrsi;." Many months seem to have passed bv without any attempt to build the temple, but now they l-gin ;.nu .lev. s r.i:d Oatiles take part iu providing the unten il. S. "To set forw ard the work of the house of the Lor I. It was for this they came to Jer'.T -a '::.!. nud now it is the second month of the second year, at leüst. ft-yvn months alter their arrival. How slow we an. jn the Lord's wori It would take time to get cedar from Iebanon, but that v.;:s not needed for th" foundation, and verse d s;tys the foundation was not laid, -n iK' of us tie tried by slow jwople, but thin'; of t!.e p:iti-Mic; of the Lord over 1 v:ki ve.'rs ini e lie left the command to prcnehthe fins pel to every creature, r.nd bu idrui.s cf millions .still in heathen darkness 'II The:, ii!, 5, margin,). 9 "To set forward the workmen in the house cf vi .'' The work will not go forward without the workmt-n. When Go J created ti-e world lie spake and it was done, but in the redemption of Israel, mid in the gathering out of the church, while the power is nil His, He sees fit to manifest that power through human instruments, lie asks, "Who will go for us" ami yet when we go "it is God who worketh" (Isa. vi, ; l'iiil. ii, 13). 10. "To praise the Lon! after the ordinance? of David, king of I.-rael." This the priests and Levites were to do with trumpets and cymbals as the builders laid the foundation of the temole. When the foundat i ns of the earlti were laid the morning stars Fang together, and all the ions of God shouted for joy (Job xxxviii, 4, 7). When Jesus was born in Bethlehem the angels sang, "(iiory to God in the hi-h-.est" (Luke ii, 13, 11). When the headstone of all the work is brought forth it shall be with shoutings, crying Grace. Grace unto it (Zcch. iv, 7). 11. "And they sing together by course, and all the people shouted with a great shout." All in order, and yet most heartily. God is not the author of confusion, and lie will have all thir.ars done decently and in order (I Cor. xiv, 3a, 40). Neither is He the author of half hearted work or negligent work. See Jer. Ii, 10, margin; Isa. xii. 0. Cursed be he that docth the work of the Lord negligently. ''Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for Kreat is the Holy One cf I-t:i1 in the midst of thee." 12. "Many wept with a loud voice, and many slouted aloud for joy." Those who were old men and had seen the glory of the fo-mer house wept as they thought of it and now beheld the desolation, while others shouted for joy at the thought of a temple of the Lord being builded. Does the interest you have iu the welfare of the Lord's house make you cither laugh or w eep? Ho you sigh and cry because of the abominatious done in the laud? Or is it nothing to you? (Kzek. ix, 4; bam. i, 12). Does the glory to 1? revealed cause you to rejoice even in tribulation because you are u partaker of that glory, ami therefore perfectly willing to be a partaker of His sufferings (Rom. viii, 13; I Pet. iv, 13)? 13. "The people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the roiseof weeping." There shall be no such mixture iu the new Jerusalem, nor in the Jerusalem ou earth restored. Head Isa. Ix, 1S-22: Uev. xxi, 1-4. The best days are yet to come, lotti for Israel and the church aud the whole creatiou. The restoration from Babylon, and even the great redemption from Kg pt, shall be as nothing compared with Israel's future restoration and glry. iseo Jer, xvl, 14, 15; xxiii, SS. Then shall the ends pf the ertb see the salvation of tl? Lord and the whole earth be tilled with His glory. Let the question be, What am I doing to set forward the Work and the workmen? Al vantage of Summer Life. It is one of the advantages of life at.', summer re sort t hat people of different sorts are brought together. Men may live sideby side in the city for years without ever fc peaking to each other, but when they meet in the mountains or on some seaside piazza, they will very likely become uiutu ally communicative at very short notice.Kew York Press. More Light on It. The convere itlon had drifted to the "Where am I atf" episode. "Xaow, d'ye knaow," said the Englishman, slightly pcrplexesl. 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has been e.xrrcieed in describing the practical worklntrs of the povemment in Its various brancber, and nutuc rens lists of the more prominent c ülcials are lurnished. There will al?o bei'oundaecountscf the orijsrin and meaning of political elang expressions, famLiar name of persons and localities, famous phrases, and the like.

A FEW OF THE MANY Alat rr.a Claire.!"

Pnris- Wado Vanlfento.

Alien hiiJ S1ition American Party. Antl-Monoi'olT Party. Ares of the I'mteci Statfi. Army of the United Staiet. Hirbary Finite. Han.burrr. )Ul or K bt. HIark Corksda. lilack Kri'lry. Black Bloodv hirt. Blue li?n. H!up Laws. Hon. lie. Harder Rnfflnn. Broad Seal V.'nr. Jin t her Jonathan. Brown. John. Bnekihot Wiir. Hurl in frump Trty. Üurr 'en5ircy. ('anadmn Rebellion. Cannl Km?. fiut an Anchor to V."lnd ward. C'enitnres of the Preldent. e'net'SPparine. Cherokee t se. rhi'.MP Question. Cipher IeppHtrNu. Civil lütt-.: Bill. Civil r"vicc ltofiirm. f lay v(i!ks. Coiiüii. ( or. protrifO of 1S10. Conciii'd Moh Cunfi'iei'cs WhiRf. 'eri!i-raiive. Ci.rstiluih.nal t'nion Party. (invention of l'. v. Contral-ard i f Wir. Corner M Ii" Speech, ("relit M .b iier. Cre"l ' :e" Cm t?nrtrr e'omironii. IrU Hore. V .ri.E. r Ma"aere. Thl book i n treasury

I'obt of the I mt"j Stales. lie Golyer Contract. I'einoeratii -liepublican Party. IlIuted Elections. l..n-t (Üve Cpth SMp. Korr, Hbe!Ii jii. lraft Hints. lr?d Scott Cnse. Electoral CoauulMlon. Knit arpo Act. Kt-xex Junta. farewell Adoreaaes. t pJe-ral Party. Fenian Brotherhood. Fifty-four, forty or fight "f iiibunters. Pi!herv Treaties. iorty Siner. Free Sil 1'arty, Kutfttive Slave I.awa. (i&tl lJIP. iprrjtnander. Granzer. ;retil a''k-Lahiir Party. Hard Ci'ter e'HmpaiBn, H. ir; for i fouveutiun. In !'fin Win. Jay's Treaty. Iuipis-Nf 'rnoka Bill. Kii-K!nx Klun. I ar.ij llraiii. I. econi ptoii Constitution. . Liberty 1'a.ty. lAICleFoC.'H. J,n U.iliirirf. ! cm art't Dlinn'i T.tna. Mi l.e-od C.ie. V'irr ': Iocrrina. iinrey Letter. Mrn.or. M sl!ian I f -f tprs. .xtiuiitl Republican Party. N-lvi.-tf loii l.s vs. N' r'iiwp.t Ilu3darr. .Nll'.liilliltioll.

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everr stau, -io::an und child who Uvea in the Initn' wtatci, -who ougui 10 Kues fill ihr! I posfdtiloftliont aur glorlons iustltutSous and iulltljnl history. Cloth Bindins, Price l.OO. Paper, 50 Cents SENT POSTPAID. UN KKCEU'X OF PlilCl-:, BY" INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.. INDIANAPOLIS. IND.

tWASHBURW A -,i Gjitars, 'liar.Joüns & Zither m olLiiie aud qunliiy rf ion.' are Hie BST IN TUE WORLD. W :irrrr.t -d to Trar la any c!!ir.a;-. f -Id hjru'l li-adlLKii-'aUrs. luatlfully iliustra.td fuveclr catalogue vrUh porfrnln of funmus aititts will be Mailed FREE, HEALY, CHSCACQ. Pi n P'alPiruc-s, Srcalter. for E:hoel. ThCluli bi.,1 Parlor, 'ntnlo-iiifi frn. VT. i. DtfüSQN, I'ubaoücr. Chicago. Your wife will bein ewmca AnticioatiniT the demand, cpecial arrangements to supply

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We will tarnish the Famous SENTINEL SEWING MACHINE (No. 4) and the STATE SENTINEL for one year lor

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This Machine is fully warranted and money will be refunded 3, same as No. 4, except with two drawers instead of four, will SENTINEL one year ior $16.00.

POiNTS OF SUPERIORITY. INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL SEWING MHCHINE Has the latest dosipn of bent woodwork, with ekeleton drawer cases, made iu both walnut and oak, highly finished and the most durable made. The Btand ii rini i and strong, having brace from over each end of treadle rod to table, has a larpu balance wheel with belt replacer. a very asy motion of treadle. The head ia free of plate tensions, the machine id so set that without anv change of upi er or lower tension you cm ew Irom No. 40 to No. 150 thread, and by a very elightchanpe of disc tension on fare plate, you can new from the coarnest to the fineet thread. It has a self-petting needle and loose pulley device on hand wheel for winding bobbins without running the machine. It is adjustable in all its bearinca and has lees eprin? than any other sewing machine on the market. It is the quickest to thread, being eelf-tbreadinp, except the eye of needle. It is the easiest machine in changing length of stitch, and is very quiet and easy runniug.

Address all orders to THE SENTINEL, Indianapolis, Ind. P. S. This Machine is shipped direct from the manufactory to the purchaser, saving all saiddle men's profits.

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SOAR WeVe bio usin It? riönt srrrr.aodtbeViin folks W'jiiSt as 100035 I kin cf ih i I r!? Wort p?sferrr;e about csittir? a Vasbm rnashecp.A lof uoufeiirs keep I rtKor. f youjorjfc J Kir; set?d b r American Politics. a n.iui..i n..i.'ir..n.'

comprising accounts oi x oniicai x hi iiri iurus tires aud Men; Explanations of the Constitution; Divisions and PracticaMVorkinfrs of the (iorernwent, together with Political Phrases, Familiar Names of Persons and Places. Noteworthy Sayings, etc, etc. By Everit Brown asd Albert Strauss. This book contains 656 Parjes and Over 1,000 Subjects.

It is for those who are more or less interested in the polities cf the United States, but w ho hn ve neither time nor opportunity for seeking information in variousand out-of-the-wav places, that tins took has been prepared. The main facts in the political history of the federal government from its foundation to the present moment are tnven under appropriate headinirs and in alphabetical order. The formation of the Constitution, its growth and interpretation, have been explained. The rise and fall ot parties have been recounted. Famous measures, national movements and foreign relations have received fuli attention. Especial care

SUBJECTS IN 7H!S BOOK: Pan K'.'ctrie Sinndal. Pna Monetary Conference, Peace Cougrea. Poaaiuns. Personal Liberty Party. lVruvmn ruano Troubles. Pewter Minuter. Party Platforcis. Popular S(jvrei(intT. Potuiation of t utted Slates. , Precidenttal Vote. Progressive Labor Party. Prohibi'lon. Protect ioi;. P.pcintruc'in. Ilelundirj l'u'.tl States Debt. P.eeublicaD P.irty. Hot Urning nourd. Hum. Komanisai and Rebellion. Hilary Ural. rMeesiir). Hliinp!aater. !- i er ve'-ion. SlHvery. Holid !nuth. Mai wins. Star Kfitire Triala. frate Povarelgniy. Subsidies. r'iffr.".se. urj-lus. Ta.-pniany. Turins of ;':e United Etat. 'T'),:r't Tern . Toiedo Wer. Trrattes of the United States. Tub titiiracy. '1 weed Itlnii. l'n!t'"1 Lator Party. t'nit Kuic. V'irf inn: Cie. '. f the United State. Wl.ic Piny. Wh:kv Insurrection. U huiv't t'reviso. WerjiB'- nffriue. X. ..-i.iut.. I ni uu Fr.av. 1.

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a voter, for un:rn s ho may be voters. for iio.mf.s w.wir.D. HOMi-S WAKTRD-THK CORB )P CiriRDia:iHO Mar on comity, Indiana, di rei to 3-cn-eifood linnie in In 1 an. for the chiidren in its care, api-r.cmt i"n to bo a: coniTiBnl'd by r erencc-s. A;l.ire J. F. Wright, Via tor, Plymouth Charch. Ind anapol;, Ind. Oct I.-.iuio AXXOl'XfKMIlMS. M)MKI lIl Mi Pit i TICAL riifcl U- , proved )m.y Fi-nce Idachin and the Now I)(.isT Wire Reel. Äddreca Z.egier Harmon. Acderon. Ind. 11 33 Eoih btXr-s- riiKiii: hf.as shük househod artictes in the world. Incloae stimp for circulars to A. J. Idea, Mllwautco, W i. IS lw7 want of a First-Class mm THE SENTINEL has made your wants.

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ATTACHMENTS Accompanying Each Machine ARE 'AS FOLLOWS:

One Ruffler, with Shirrer Flate, One Set of 4 Plate Hemmers, One Hinder, One Prefer Foot. Oue Hemmer and Feller, One Hraider Foot,

One Tucker, One Quilter, j One Plate (lauge, One Mide for Praider, One Oil Can (with Oil), One Thread Cutter,

HS'dij'SBreauiisiüitüaiunarf POUTICAL ami I'MTED STATES k Double Wo',1 Map, f feet 0 Inches by 8 feet J O liicLfs. mounteU on roller . top and bottom, ready to JiangEettsr than an Encytloiiedin. A ri.orinct imcrlcaa lliaccry priiitetl in 11 bsaotiful colors.

AVerth 51 Given Fres. A Comploto History of oar Coveranent by Acmir.iltrations, Folitic&l Par- j i tie: and Ccngress Cj Jl toHarrieoa. sjn on e;a tne LarpTt ana Later t U. S. Mp. thoiEg all hr-tates, Coantl?, liailroadsand Town. (Pri sloce f,.S, And ti on the Other Side, a Dif aifsm, eUowlrj ail tb PoiltiUcM Parties, 1U. A Diagram SQow'rg all rresidents and CaMaew, fx, A Plagram showing Political Complexion C- ef each Concrees. A iiirram mm Showing t redsof the World, aa Hi 10. A Diagram tholn mlm Standing Arm:es of each naen tion, ISilO. A OijfrrsLQ showIn? Naval Totnan of. eaca -sUoa, 13x10. A Complete IC Map t l the World. 13xa. A ri ilap of Central America, lOrll. A llap ot Alaska. 10x15. A Lu Van ot Soth Afrira, lOxlS. A Map of I'pper :ihia an Haoepü or AMesir.ia,10i5rt. x Rl Ti t Map of Persia, Aff banistci. P and Ileloochietan, loxlj. Complet9 ilip cf Solar SysÖL tem. teet ever ttfti. Id it. i a laensmos oi ail e an.'net t'm&M cers. with lectth of term. PlcrV tiire of all the hreiidenta frorV aaliicgtoa to Uarrison. ' Q INDOPSEMEXTS. .it IaI Bit pow J. Loshko L. L. D-. fV"5 tfm Mirror 11 rpJi?rtl ,0 single If? lit-J tial element of o::r tistinnal f history, showlnp ries'i- at a elance the propres s of it rift tion from Us Infancy to i i jreeent rerlod of inaturlty." A. It. SrorrenD, Librarian of Con cress : "TbeworkmsT fa'rly be termed a breviary cf American Poiiticr." AGENTS' KEPOBT8. u Received r arcple; sold I mar trat hoar." " Majniftcent map; B.y boy Bold Vi the- fir?' C-ar." "I sell ttesch dsT.'' m M I sold 6 maris in onehocr.' " I have rauvaieed one-halt 3 day; took Ii o:dcrä." t l Th Tnft IT. S. Man. TrictS J in i-iturt rniAm V a r.ttr ack and Is tb hest p'iKlebi. AVtt If rl. ro (.ill fnr "ifl TS ri Jtm compete Heversible Mart tmm (prir.Uvion both sidfe is 8 fel 1j li) Inchsa by '5 fet 0 inches, K Ä fJ counted on rollers tcp and 'IS Ivutorj. with tins cn sides i i TLe- two mapseU separately 5 ior i;iu.i This GREAT DOrBLE sort by erprds. prend eaf rlellrenr gnaran- . J. a J a 8. it tsa'l mtlled, bnt is mnch safer by expres. Name yonT n are?t exprts oT.ca. Tlie money-will bercftindeil t any oa not perfectly stiüft-d aftr receivlcc t'lcnian. Vt, Jerstand fully, that na mi.tter which offer ym arpa all charges u prpf-id !' ex, re9 or mtll and safa delivery and perfect estislartion cuaxatecj. ot u.ocey efar.d-d. vS- , OUR OFFER I.)ib!o r'roe byaapr 'r9aiii t auf uuj in liu u to.ir aliiarLbers for Th lod ana4titi i -uliaei wae,y) f r nt rear with Four DoIUrt la c-h,ortT jhoribri fsr ThiS inJar jjatinel f.ir oa roar, wit'". Four D illrs ineaih. or i jar uro-ib-ri (jr Tn Sialir null. Bel for six iaoth.wii.i F", ir Iilariia ub, or four ub-ribrü i r T.'is l'.f Sjat.a! for tw month, with Four D .!:a'i In oaa, Fjr TiV LLt.4P..- yo i can get thUnap and Tue In t ana "Unto nituul (i-e.T. pt one, year, or Ths " n iiy Siiuuel (iiteea tt twsttfV parf-0 tic m tiths, or T.i D.ly aaatloel (eight paseito ui intii. Ii the map ii uot tii'tetory It msy b rstarnsi Uli 1UUU.7 1 111 uj isiuu icj, THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL. CANCERS PER.VANEI.rLY CURED. Kol rife, no aci I, no a'.ist i", no pin. Flrthranplic.itlur. f our osnoer cure, mot faithfu ly I Kuaranu caacer will come out br root. i-aT:n I penn'ient cur -. K it f U m ite afi Uvil, protierly j attc:r 1, an I 1 ri;i refund ui n.-T. l'rio of ramW ; wl:h J irection for S"li'-treal:u'!rit In a irnno , J-'X Desaril- canctr iu:nut!y wi.en rji?riag. 1 refer Vt any bunk or n. .pv r in Futa t. JOHN b. IlAHKIS, hoi 5?. Eutaw. Ala. WEAK EVI EN INsTAN'T IJFLIKF. Cnro in IS davh. Siw ftTt'rs.-i rrii-riiiT i' rno cnlurtr litt mAil ak ora tn A f ur c for I mi! n. I.o-1 iu.üoxlt rrou IkiIj: ity. Vrii'o-"l."tf. Aiior L. 6. a racKlio, IIumc lcaitr.HiO-itiall, MJciGANGER: 'rt. Pirtaian tiraur.rot for Csnrrr. A uabai. O. k.vva boieuw cur rvoovcr. r X-A 1 No. 4. if it is not as advertised. No. be furnished with the STATE 1 i Attachments in bracket are all interchangeable into hub ou presse r bar. Hit Bobbins, Jeven Needles, One Laree Screw Driver, One Small Screw Driver, One Wrench, One Instruction Book.

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WARRANTY. Every Machine is fully warranted for five years. Any part proving defective will be replaced free of charge, excepting needles, bobbins and shuttled.