Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1893 — Page 11

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1893-TWELVE PAGES.

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AT THE TABEENACLE. THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST AND HIS WITNESSES.

pr. T Almas Point Out That Ther Is 2fo Intelligent Explanation of the Goapela I 6ve to Accept Them as literal Truth. Wnd Attempts at Evasion. BKOOKLT5T, April 30. In tho Tabernacle this forenoon the largo audience listened Kith rapt attention to a powerful discourse by Rev. Dr. Talmage, who choose for his ubject, "Over All Forerer," the text selected being Romana ix, 5, ''Christ came, who i3 over all." For 4,000 years the world had been waiting for a deliverer waiting while empires rose, and felL Conquerors came and made the world worse Instead of making it better; still the centuries watched and waited. They looted for him on thrones, looked for him in palaces, looked for him in imperial robes, looked for him at the head of armies. At last they found him in a barn. The cattle stood nearer to him than the angels, for the former were in the adjoining stall while the latter were in the clouds. A parentage of peasantry. No room for him in the inn, because there was no one to pay the hotel expense. Yet the pointing star and the ansehe cantata showed that heaven made up In appreciation of his worth what the world lacked. "Christ came, who is over all, God fcleesed forever. Amen." "ICE CENTRAL AND VITAL TRUTIL But who is this Christ who came? As to the difference between different denominations of evangelical Christians I have no soncem. If I could, by the turning over of sny hand, decide whether all the world shall it last be Baptist or Methodist or Congrerational or Episcopalian or Presbyterian, f would not turn my hand. But there are loctrines which are vital to the souL If Christ be not a God, we are idolators. To khis Christological question I d?vote myself this morning and pray God that we may think aright and do aright in regard to a question in which mistake is infinite. I suppose that the majority of those here today assembled believe the Bible. It requires as much faith to be an infidel as to be a Christian. It is faith in a different direction. The Christian has faith in tho teachings of Matthew, Luke, John, Paul, Isaiah, Moses. The inlldel has faith in the free thinkers. We have faith in one class of tnen. They have faith in another class of men. But as the majority of those perhaps all of those here assembled are willing to take the Bible for a standard in morals and in faith I make this book my starting point. I suppose you are aware that the two generals who have marshaled the great armies against the deity of Jesus Christ are St rauss and Ilenan. The number of their slain will not be counted until the trumpet of the archangel sounds the roll call of the resurrection. Those men and their sympathizers saw that if they could destroy the fortress of the miracles theycouid destroy Christianity, and they were right. Surrender the miracles, and you surrender Christianity. The great German exegots says that all the miracles were myths. The great French eiegete says that all the miracles were legends. They propose to take everything supernatural from the life of Christ and everything supernatural from the Bible. They prefer the miracles of human r.on-B-uise to the glorious miracles of Jesus Christ. vAnr DiAGrsrxGS of infidelity. They say there was no miraculous birth In Bethlehem, but that it is all a fanciful story, just like the story of Romulus said to have been born of Rhea Silvia and the god Mars. They say no star pointed to the manger; it was only the fia.su of a passing lantern. They say there was no miraculous making of bread, but that it is the corruption of the story that Elisha gave 'JO loaves of bread to a hundred men. They say the water never turned into wine, but that it is a corruption of the story that the Egyptian plague turned the water into Llood. They eay it is no wonder that Christ sweat great drops of blood; he had been out in the night air and was taken suddenly ill. They eay there were no tongues of lire on the heads of tho disciples at the Pentecost; that there was only a great thunderstorm, and the air was fall of electricity which snapped and flew all around about the heads of the disciples. They say that Mary and Martha and Christ felt it important to get up an excitement for the forwarding of their religion, and so they dramatized a funeral, and Lazarus played the corpse, and Mary and Martha played the weepers, and Christ was the tragedian. I put it in my own words, but this is the exact meaning of their statements. They 6ay the Bible is a spurious book, written by superstitious or lying men, backed up by men who died for that which they did not believe. Now, I take back the limited statement which I made a few moments ago, when I Baid it requires as much faith to be an infidel as to be a Christian. It requires a thousandfold more faith to be an infidel than to be a Christian, for if Christianity demand that the whale swallowed Jonah, then skepticism demands that Jonah g-.ral-lowed the whale! T can prove to you that Christ was Gcd not only by the supernatural appearances on that Christmas night, but by what inspired men said of him, by what he says of himself and by his wonderful achievements. "Christ came, who is over all." Ali, does not that prove too much Not over the Caesars, not over Frederick, not over Alexander the Great, not over the Henrys, not over the Louises! Yes. Pile all the thrones of all the ages together, and my text overmans them as easily as a rainbow overspans a mountain top. "Christ came, who is over all." Then he must be a God. BY THE WORD OF IIIS POWER. The Bible says that all things were made by him. Does not that prove, too much? Could it be that he made the Mediterranean, that he made the Black sea, that he made the Atlantic, the Pacific, that he made Mount Lebanon, that he made the Alps, the Sierra Nevadas, that he muds the hemispheres, that he made the universe? Yes. The Bible says so, and let-t we be too stupid to understand John winds up with a magnificent reiteration and says, "Without him wa not anything made that was made." Then he was a God. The Bible says at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow. All heaven must corse down on its knees. Martyrs on their knees, apostles on their knees, confessors on tLiir knees, the archangel on his knees. Before whom a roan? No. He is a God? The Bible says every tongive shall confess liornesian. MAylayan, Mexican, Italian, Spanish, Persian, English. Every tongue shall confess. To whom? God. The Bible lays Christ the same yesterday, totlay and forever. Is that characteristic of humanity? Do we not cfcaost? Dots not the body entirely change in seven years? Does not the mind change Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. He mu&t be a rod. Philosophers say that the law of gravitation decides everything, and that the centripetal and centrifugal forces keep the wona irom elastung and from demolition. But Paul says that Christ's arm is the axle on which everything turns, and that Christ's hand is the socket in which everythics Is set. Mark the words', "Upholding upholding all things by the word of his power." Then he must be a God. THE BAVIOCP.'S OWif WOHDS. Then look at what Christ says of himself. Now, certainly every one mu.t understand himself better than any one else can understand Lim. If I ask vou whrre you were born, and you tell me, "I was bom in Chester, England," or "I was born in Glasgow, Scotland," or "I was born In Dublin, Ireland," or "I was born In New Orleans, the United States," you being Jl man of integrity, I should believe you. If I asked you how xaanr rounds you could lift and you should

ay you could lift 100 pounds or 200 pounds or 800 pounds, I should believe you. It is a matter personal to yourself. You know better than any one else can tell you. If I ask how much estate you are worth and you say $10,000 or $100,000 or 000,000, 1 believe what you mv. You know better than any one else. Now, Christ must know better than any one else who he is and what he is. When I ask him how old ho is, he says, "Before Abraham was, I am." Abraham had been dead 2,028 years. Was Christ 2.0C8 years old? Yes, he says he is older than that. "Before Abraham was, I am." Then Christ says, "lam the Alpha." Alpha the first letter of the Greek alphabet, and Christ in that utterance declared, "I am the A of the alphabet of the centuries." Then he must be a God. Can a man be in a thousand places at once? Christ says he is in a thousand places at once. "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I la the midst of them." This everywhereativeness, is it characteristic of a man or of a God? And lest we might think this everywhereativeness would cease he goes on and he intimates that he will be in all the cities of the earth he will be in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America the day before the world burns up. "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." Why, then, he must be a God. Besides that he takes divine honors. He declares himself Lord of men, angels and devils. Is he? If he is, he is a God. If he is not, he is an impostor. A man comes into your at ore tomorrow morning. He says: "I am the great shipbuilder of Liverpool. I have built hundreds of ships." He goes on to give his experience. You defer to him as a mau of large experience and great possessions. But the next day you find out that he is not the great shipbuilder of Liverpool; that he never built a ship; that he never built anything. What is he then? An impostor. Christ says he built this world; he built all things. Did he build them? If he did, he is a God. If he did not, he is an impostor. EARTIILY IMPOSTORS. A man comes into your place of business, with a Jewish countenanco and a German accent, and says: "I am Rothschild, the banker of London. I have the wealth of nations in my pocket. 1 loaned that largo amount to Italy and Austria in their perplexity." But after nwhile you find that he has never loaned any money to Italy or Austria; that he never had a large estate; that he is no banker at all; that he owns nothing. What is he? An impostor. Christ snys he owns the cattle on a thousand hills; he owns this world; he owns the next world; ho owns the universe; he i3 the banker of all nations. Is he? If he is, he is a God. Is he not? Then he is an imposUr. A man enters the 'White House at Washington. He says: "I am Emperor William of Germany. I am traveling incognito. I hato come over lure for recreation and pleasure. I own castles in Dresden and Berlin." But the president finds out the next day that he is not Emperor William; that he owns no castles at Berlin or Dresden; that he has no authority. What is he? An impostor. Christ says he is the king over all, the king immortal, invisible. If he is, he is a God. If he is not, he is an impostor. FOOLISH THEORIES OF UNBELIEF. Strauss saw that alternative, and he tries to get out of it by saying that Christ was sinful in accepting adoration and worship. Renan tries to get out of it by saying that Christ not through any fault of his own, but through the fault of others lost his purity of conscience, and he slyly intimates that dishonorable women had damaged his soul. Anything but believe that Christ is God. Now, you believe the Bihlo to be true. If you do not, you would hardly have appeared in this church. You would have gone over and joined the Broadway Infidel club, or you would go to Boston and kis the foot of thestatueof Thomas Paine. You would hardly come into this church, where the nio-t of us are the deluded souls who believe ia a whole Bible and take it all down as easily as you swallow a ripe ßtrawberry. I have shown you what inspired men said of Christ. I have shown you what Christ s;iid of himself. Now, if you believe the Bible, let us go out and see his wonderful achievements surgical, alimentary, marine, mortuary. Surgical achievements! YThere is the medical journal that gives any account of such exploits as Christ wrought ? He used no knife. He carried no splints. He employed no cornpr'ss. He made no patient squirm under cauterization. He tied no artery. Yet behold him! With a word he stuck fast Malchus' amputated car. lie stirred a little dust and spittle into a salve and with it caused a man who was born blind and without optic nerve or cornea or crystalline lens to open his eyes on the sunlight. He beat music on the drum of the deaf ear. He straightened a woman who through contraction of muscle had been bent almost double for well nigh two decades. lie made a man who had no use of his limbs for 28 years shoulder his mattress and walk off. Sir Astley Cooper, Abernethy, Valentine Mott stood powerless before a withered arm; but this doctor of omnipotent surgery comes in and he sees the paralytic arm u?rless and lifeless at the man's side, and Christ savs to h im, "Stretch forth thine hand," and he stretched it forth whole as the other. Be was a God. THE MIRACLE OF THE LOAVES. Alimentary achievements! He found a lad who had come out of the wilderness with five loaves of bread for a speculation. Perhaps the Ltd had paid 5 pennies for the five loaves and expected to sell them for 10 pennies, and so he would double his money. Christ took those loaves of bread and performed a miracle by which he fed 7,000 famishing people, and I warrant you the l id lost nothing, for there were 12 baskets cf fragments taken up, and if the boy had five loaves at the start I warrant you he tad at least 10 at the close. The Saviour's mother goes into a neighbor's house to help get up a wedding party. By calculation she finds out that the amount of wine is not sufficient fur the guests. She calls in Christ for help, and Christ, not by the slow decay of fermentation, but by a word, makes 130 gallons of pure wine. Marine achievements! He turns a whole school of fish into the net of men w ho were mourning over their poor luck until the boat is so full they have to halloo toother boats, and the other boats co;ne up, and they are laden to the water's edxe with the f,arne, so tliat tne sailors Lave to be cautious in going from larboard to - 'arboard lest they upset tho 6hip. Then there comes a squall down through the mountain gorge, and Gennesaret, with long locks of while foam, rises up to battle it, and the boat drops into a trough and ships a sea, and the looccned sails crack in tho tornado, and Christ rises from the back part of the boat and comes walking across the staggering ship until he comes to the prow, and there he wipaa the epraf from Lis brow and hushes the crying storm on the knee of his omnipotence. Who wrestled down that turoclydon? Whose feet trampled the rough Galileo into a smooth floor? HE CAN" RAISE THE DEAD. Let philosophers and anatomists go to Westminster abbey and try to wako up Queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII. No human power ever wakened the dead. There is a dead girl in Capernaum. What does Christ do? Alas, that sue should have died so young and when the world' was so fairl Only 12 years of age. Feel her cold brow and cold hands. Dead, deadl The house is full of weeping. Christ comes, and he takes hold of the hand of the dead girl, and instantly her eyes open, her heart Etarts. The white lily of death blushes into the rose of life and health. She rushes into the arrx.fi of her rejoicing kindred. Who woke up that death? Who restored her to life? A man? Tell that to the lunatics in Bloomicgdale asylum. It was Christ the God. But there comes a test which more than anything elso will ehow whether he was God or man. You remember that- great

passage which says, "We must an appear before the judgment seat of Christ." The earth will be stunned by a blow that will make it stagger in midheaven, tho stars will circle like dry leaves in an equinox, the earth will unroll the bodies, and the sky will unroll the spirits, and soul and flesh will come into incorruptible conjunction. Day of smoke and fire and darkness And triumph. On one side, piled up in galleries of light, the one hundred and forty and four thousand yea, the quintillions of the Eaved. On tho other side, plied tip in galleries of darkness, the frowning, the glaring multitude of those who rejected God. DEFORE THE ETERNAL THROVE. Between these two piled up galleries a throne, a high throne, a throne standing on two burnished pillars justice, mercy a throne so bright you had better hide your eye lest it be extinguished with excess of vision. But it is an empty throne. "Who will come up and take it? Will you? "Ah, no!" you say. "I am but a child of dust. I wouid not dare to climb that throne." "Would Gabriel climb it? He dare not. Who will ascend it Here comes one. Iiis back is to us. Ho goes up step above step, height above height, until he reaches' the apex. Then he turns around and faces all nations, and we all see who it is. It is Christ the God, and all earth, and all heaven, and all hell kneel, crying: "It is a Godl It is a God!" We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. Oh, I am so glad that it is a divine being who comes to pardon all our sins, to comfort all our sorrows. Sometimes our griefs are so great they are beyond any human sympathy, and we want Almighty sympathy. Oh, ye who cried all last night because of bereavement or loneliness, I want to tell you it is an omnipotent Christ who is come. When the children are in the house and the mother is dead, the father has to be more gentle in the home, and he has to take the office of father and mother, and it seems to me Christ looks out upon your helplessness, and he proposes to be father and mother to your soul. He comes in the strength of the one, in the tenderness of the other. He says with one breath, "As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pltieth them that fear him," and then with tho next breath he says, "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you." Do you not feel the hush of the divine lullaby? Oh. put your tired head down on the heaving bosom of divine compassion while he puts his arms around you and says: "O widowed soul, I will be thy God. O orphaned soul, I will be thy protector. Do not cry." Then he touches your eyelids with his fingers and sweeps his fingers down your cheek and wipes away all the tears of loneliness and bereavement. Oh, what a tender and sympathetic God has come for us! I do not ask you to lay Lold of him. Perhaps you are not 6trong enough for that. I do not ask you to pray. Perhaps you are too bewildered for that. I only ask you to let go and fall back into the arms of everlasting lo re. Soon you and I will hear the click of the latch of the door of the sepulcher. Strong men will take us in their arms and carry us down and lay us in the dust, and they cannot bring us back again. I should be scared with Infinite fright if I thought I must stay in the grave, if even the body were to stay in the grave. But Christ will come with glorious iconoclasm and split and grind up the rocks and let us all come forth. The Christ of the manger is the Christ of the throne. A Steam Heated Flat.

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Life. ' The Army of English Barristers. At the Wells trial the other day Mr. Justice Hawkins remarked that there arc 4,000 barristers. That was the approximate number about 30 years ago, when the learned judge was at the bar, but'the number now is nearly 5,Gö0. It must give pause to not a few ambitious young men to find the order of tho Coif double its members in SO years. The first "law list" was published in 17!n. The "king's counsel" were !i0, and the whole bar of England but 420. The recorder of London was then paid 000. It took 40 years for the bar to be as numerous again as at that date. At the beginning of her majesty's reign in only 11 years the Q. C.'s numbered 70, and the lar had with astonishing rapidity grown from 1)00 to over 2,000. It was in 1801 (in the day of Henry Hawkins, Esq., Q. C.) that there were 4,000 wigs and gowns and 125 "silks." Iu another 10 years the latter class had become ISO strong, and the rank and file of the long robe totaled 5,800. Now there are 2U0 queen's counsel, and the members of the four inns of court could be mustere! at alout 10,000 strong. And yet the cry is "Still they come!" London Chronicle. THE LIGHTHOUSE. Oft shall henven's sentries sleep. Lodged la cioudy donjon keep; I)ark or bright yon starry host, till the ilcier of our roast Watches over weltering miles Stt with treacherous reefy Isles. When tbe seaman on black nights lias no cheer from heaven's lights. Be nnblamed shall heed its ray Constant thrown upon his way. Karthly Lands the beacon trim. Let it shall not fail to him. What if sailing from afar Without grai-e of moon or etar, I at length withdraw mine eyes From the masked, unmoved bkics, Turning from the blank above Toward the Btar of human love All the lujht the night vouchsafes To the wild soa's driven waifs! Edith M. Thomas In Lippincott's. Do ot Eat Too Much. Do not eat too much. It is better to eat too little. Tho rule to get up with an appetite, though hardly an inviting one, is not without reason. Habitual repletion is much to be depreciated. If people would or could always attend to these simple directions, the benefit to health would be enormous. The gain in economy, too, would be greater than many of us think. It is astonishing how little food a man requires to do hard work and remain in health, if that food is proper in quality and properly taken. Improper food improperly taken is not only to a greatv extent wasted, but will In-the end lead to serious disaster. Boston Courier. Smooth Face Getting to Be Common. There are signs among the youngest ol young men that the smooth face is returning. It is growing perceptibly more common than 10 or even 5 years ago, particularly among men under 30 or less, and it would not be surprising if mustache and beard disappeared once more, as taey have In the nat. Philadelphia Press.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON VI, SECOND QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, MAY 7.

Text of the Leison, Prov. ill, 11-24 Memory .Tcne. 13-17 Golden Text, Prov. Ill, 6 Commentary by the Hey. D. M. Stearns. 11. "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of His correction." The apostle, in his epistle to the Hebrews, quotes this and the next verse also in connection with his admonition to run with patience looking into Jesus, and to consider Him that endured such contradiction lest we be wearied and faint in our minds. He tells us also that all God's chastenings are to make us partakers of His holiness (Heb. xii, 5, 10). It is interesting to notice that the word translated "chasten" in these verses in Hebrews is in Eph. vi, 4, translated "nurture," and in II Tim. iii, 16, "instruction." . 12. "For whom the Lord loveth hecorrecteth, even 83 a father the son in whom he delightcth." In Rev. iii, 19, we hear Jesus saying from heaven, "As many as I love I rebuke and chasten," and this also agrees with Heb. xii, 7, "If ye endure chastening, God dcaleth with you as with eons, for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?" But we must never forget the end in view, which is to make us more holy, more conformed to the image of God's dear Son (Rom. viii, 28, 20), whom tome day we shall be like (I John iii, 2). 13. "Happy is the man that findeth wisdom and the man that getteth understanding." For she says again, "Wnoso findeth me findeth life and shall obtain favor of the Lord" (viii, 85). Now it is also written, "He that hath the Son hath life, and ho that hath not the Son of God hath not life" (I John v, 12). And again, "Christ our Life" (Col. iii, 4). So we see that wisdom and Christ the Son of God are synonymous, as shown in the last lesson Christ the wisdom of God (I Cor. i, 24). 14. "For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver and the gain thereof than fine gold." Paul counted all things but los3 for the excellency of the the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and David says that his judgments are more to be desired than gold yea, than much fine gold (PhiL Hi, 8, 9; Ps. xix, 10). 15. "She is more precious than rubies, and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her." Sea almost the same words in chapter viii, 11, and compare Job xxviii, 13, and the context. Then coneider this wonder of wonders that wisdom is God's gift to sinful man. "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, and it hall be given him" (Jas. i, !). "The gift of God is eternal life" (Rom. vi, 23). Rubies must bo left behind if we die, and all we can desire, even if Ave could obtain, would prove unsatisfying. The preacher says, "Whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit" (Eccl. ii, 10, 11). 10. "Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and honor." Or, as it is in chapter viii, 18, "Riches and honor are with me yea, durable riches and righteousness." Our Lord Jesus says from the glory, "I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire that thou mayest be rich" (Rev. iii, 18). As to length of days we shall have in these mortal bodies, all that He pees we can use for Him, and yonder it is true that when we have been there ten thousand thousand years, bright shining as the sun, we've no less days to sing His praise than when we first begun. Christ Himself our Life, our wealth and our glory. 17. "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths aro peace." Being paths of righteousness, they cannot but be paths of plc-isantncss and peace. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep His covenant and His testimonies. The path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day (Ps. xxiil, 3; xxv, 10; Prov. iv, IS). The whole difliculty is in our ways and paths of our making or choosing. But if we follow closely and fully in wisdom's ways we shall find it ns written. IS. "She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her, and happy is every one that retaineth her." To lay hold and hold fast is our part or, in other words, to receive and cleave unto, or enter and abide, or believe and continue. Be does not force Himself upon any one, but offers Himself for our acceptance and will increasingly reveal Himself where He sees a longing for Him (Heb. vi, 18; Rev. ii, xxv; John i, xii; Acts xi. 23; Isa. ii, 10; John 2, xxviii; John V, 24; viii, 31). 19. "The Lord of Wisdom hath founded the earth. By understanding hath lie established the heavens." Hear llirn in chapter viii, 12-14: "1 wisdom dwell with prudence. I am understanding. I have strength." And in verses 27, 29: "When He prepared the heavens, I was there. When He strengthened the fountains of the deep." Compare John i, 3, "All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made." And also Col. i, xvi, and see how conclusive the proof that Wisdom is none other than Jesus Himself. 20. "By His knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew." See the proof of this in Gen. vii, 11; Job xxxvi, 27. Nothing in heaven or earth can be dona without Him, and there is nothing too hard for Him (Jer. x, 12, 13; yxxii, 17; Job xlii, 2). Se Him divide the Red sea before Israel, and the Jordan three times before Israel, Elijah and Elisha. Be also can bring water from the rock and send or withhold rain at His pleasure. 21. "My son, let not them depart from thine eyes; keep sound wisdom and discretion." We need to pray, "Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity," and to obey the command, "Run with patience looking unto Jesus" (Ps. cxix, 37; Heb. xii, 1). Happy the people who see "Jesus only" and who can truly say, "One thing have I desired of the Lord; that will I seek after to lehold the beauty of tho Lord and to inquire in His temple." 22. "So khall they be life unto thy soul and grace to thy neck." Life within and beauty without. Moses taught the people, 6aying, "Love the Ixird thy God, obey His voice, cleave unto Him, for He is thy life and the length of thy days" (Dent. xx.x,20). Paul's determination was that Christ should be magnified in his body, and he could say, "For me to live is Christ" (Phil, i, 0, 1). 23. "Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not 6tumble," When our way is Hi3 way, it must be a safe way, and since He is able to guard us from stumbling (Jude 24, R. V.). He surely will if we let Him. That He will hold us by the hand (Ina. xii, 13) is surely an assurance that He will not let us fall, but that we need not even stumble goes beyond this. 24. "When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid. Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet." Safety by day and by night, at home or abroad, journeying or resting, and all because tho Lord is our keeper (Ps. exxiv. 5-8). A Good Way to Drive Out Rats. A young son of a man living in the outskirts of Portland caught a squirrel tho otherdayand started into tame the rodent, and he had such success that tho squirrel is now as tame as any house cat. A few days ago tho squirrel dodged into a rat hole and began running through the walls. The house has Been overrun with rats, end after tho equirrel got into tho walls there was a scampering and racket which threatened to tear the house down. The squirrel came out of the hole after awhile, and from that time nothing has been heard of rats in the house. The squirrel enjoys a scamper through the walls every day, but the rats havo taken themselves off. Portland (Me.) Express.

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These offers apply to renewals as well as new subscribers, Address INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.. Indianapolis, Indiana. NO COMftHSSlON TO ACENTS.

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To every ono sending us 81.10 for a year's subscription to THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL vre will send postpaid tho following collection of FLOWER SEEDS, which amounts at seedsmen's catalogue prices to $1.25. This collection includes some Choice Novelties, and is just tho selection for a flower garden. ONE PACKAGE EACH.

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6 . 10 WAItr! MELON.

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Novelty Package. nrrKit..!tT Pack.ic will b fouDd nearly all of the new Vi., nt.'.e an.i I nnrer Sseda of recent ia troduetion. thia colleo..i x . ..-b.ts cn-ti iil" !" a' renn ach. If

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