Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1893 — Page 11

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUlsE 23, 18j)3-TVELVE PAGES.

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TO HIM WHO WAITS.

To him who waits' the wise old saying rtms; Crooning it o'er while winded snowshafts dart Ai .. rt th gloomy light of shrouded sans. With what a thrill It virifles my heaxtl ' i Clear as a zither Janhs the brook set free; Soft as a lute I hear the robin ting: 1 fpon my ear bursts all the meloly That leaps from out the lyric lips of Spring. Cliutoa Scollarti in Youth's Companion'AT THE TABERNACLE. i ! 13 R. TALMAGE DELIVERS A SEASONABLE SERMON ON BIRDS. This Is Pre-eminently; the Month to Conalder the Ministry of Mature now the - Song of the Various Iiird Show Forth the Family Xlfe. ; Ebookltx, June 25. Rct. Dr. Talmage this morning chese for tho subject of his fermon "The Song of Birds." This like many of his srrnions, is su ited to the season of the year in which it is preached. It is well fitted to be read under the trees and has ia it tho health of outdoor life. Text, Psalms civ, 12, "By thorn fhall the fowls of the heaven hire their habitation, which Bine anions thetraneues." ' There is an important and improving subject to which most pcopl hare given lio thought, and concerning which this is the first pulpit discussion namely, '"The Song of Birds." If all that has been written concerning muFicby human voice or about jnusio sounded. onunptrument b' finder or ireath were pait together, volume by the aide of volumo4it would fill a hundred alcoves of the national libraries. But about the song of binlfl thero is as much silence as though a thousand years aso the last lark had with liä wing swept the door latch of heaven and a3 thouzh never a whippoorwill had sung its lullaby to a Blumbering forts t nt nightfall. We give a pa."sin smila to tLe call of a Vbolink or the chirp of a canary, but alout the origin, about the fiber, about the mean.ng, about the mirth, about i he pathos, alout the inspiration, about tl' religion in the song of birds, the motof us are cither ignorant or indifferent. A caveat I this morning file in the high court re heaven against that almost univervl irrcA'igion. : ikatuej'.ed cnoins. i First I remark tlat which will surprise S3 any. that the son? of birds is a regulated 4l systematic song,, catableof being written out in note and .tall aud bar and clef as much as anything that Wagner or Schumann or Hande-l ever put on paper. As we pass the grove where the flocks are holding matin or vesper service; we areapt to think that the sounds are extemporized, the rising or falling tone is a uere accident, it is finng up and down by haphazard, the bird did not know what it Wiis doing, it did not care whether it was a long meter psalm or a madrigal. What a mistake! The musician nevttr put on the mtibic rack before him Mendelsohn's "Elijah" or Beethoven's "Concerto" in G r Spohr'a B flat symphony with more definite idea a to" what he was doing than every bird that can fing at all confines himself to accurate and predetermined rendering. The oratorios, the chants, the carols, the overtures, the Interludes, t2e ballads, the canticles, that this morning were heard or will this evening be heard in tlie forest hare rolled down through the ages without a variation. Even the chipnuiak's song was ordained clear back In the eternities. At the gates of paradise it sang in sounds like the syllables "Knk!" "Kuk!"' "Knk!" just as this morning in a Lng Island orchard It sang "Kuk!" "Kuk!"' "Kuk!" The thrush of the creation littered sounds like the word "Teacher: "Teacher!"' "TeachtrV as nowitutterssoundslike "Teacher!" 'Teacher:' "Teacher!" In the summer of the year 1 the yellow-hammer trillfd that which sounded "like the word "If!" "If." 'If!" as in thia summer it trills "If!" "If!" 4If!" The Maryland ytllowthroat inherits and bequeaths the tune sounding like the words "Pity me, pity me, pity me!" The white sparrow's "Tseep. tseep," woke our great-grandfathers as it will awaken our reat-crandchildren. The "Tee-ka-tee-ka-tee-ka" of the birds In the first century was the fame as the "Tee-ka-tee-ka-tee-ka" of the nineteenth century. TAUGHT BY THE CREATOR. The goldfinch has for 6,000 years been eiEirlntf "De-ree dee-ee-ree." But tha sounds, which we put in harsh words, they put in cadences, rhythmic, soulful and enrapturing. Now, if there is this order and syst-matization and rhythm all through Ciod's creation, does it not imply that we fchould have the same characteristics in the music we make or try to make? Is it not a wickedness that so many parents give no opportunity for the culture of their children a the art of sweet sound? If God stoops to educate every bluebird, oriole and grosbeak in song, how can parents be so indifferent about the musical development of the immortals ia their household? While God will accept our attempts to sing, though it be only a hum or a drone, if we can do no better, what a shame that in this last decade of the nineteenth century, when so many orchestral batons are waring, and so many academies of music are in full concert, and so many skilled men and women are waiting to offer instruction, there are so many people who cannot sing with any confidence in the house of God, because they have had no culture in this sacred art, or while they are able to sing a fantasia at a piano amid the fluttering fans of social admirers nevertheless feel utterly helpless when in church the surges of an "Ariel" or an "Ant loch" roll over them! The old fashioned country singing school, now much derided and caricatured and indeed sometime it was diverted from the real design into the culture of the soft emotions rather than the voice nevertheless did admirable work, and in our churches we need singing schools to prrpare our Sabbath audiences fur prompt and spontaneous aiid multipotent psalmody. This world netds to be stormed with halleluiahs. We want a hemispheric campaign of hosannahs. From "hearing i. Mind beggar sing Martin Luther went home at 40 yonrs of Rge to write his first hymn. In the autumn I hope to have a congregational singing school here during the wet k. which shall prepare the people for the songs of the holy fcabbath. Ii the church of God universal is goin to take this world for rigbteou-jie-ss, there must be added a hundredfold r.f tiers harmony as well as a hundredfold of more volurae to sacred music. , THE DIVINE JSELOPT. ' Further, I notice in the song of birds that It is a divinely taught song. The rarest prima dci.ua of all the earth could not teach the robin one musical note. A kingfisher flying over the roof of a temple -quake with harmonies would not catch op one melody. From the time that the first bird's throat was fashioned on the fcank3 of the Gihoa and Hiddtkel until today on the Hudson or Rhine, the winged creature has learn-! Nothing from the human race in the way of carol or anthem. The feathered songsters learned all their music elirect from God. He gave them the art in a neat of straw or moss or sticks and taazht them bow to lift that song Into the Limner heavens and sprinkle the earth with its dulcet enchantments. God fashioned, God tuned, God launched, God lifted milski And there is a kind of music that the Lord only can Impart to you, my hearer. There hare been depraved, reprobate and blasphemous souU which could sing till geat auditoriums were In raptures. There tare been soloists and bassos aud baritones and sopranos whose brilliancy in concert halls Las ha not been more famous than their debaucheries. But there is a kind of song' which, like the song of birds, J jlivinely fashioned. Songs cf pardon.

Bongs of divine comfort. Sonjrs of worship. "Songs in the night" like those which David and Job mentioned. Song full of faith and tenderness and prayer like those which the Christian mother sings over the sick cradle. Songs of a broken heart being healed. Songs tl the dying flashed upon by opening portals of amethyst. Songs like that which Paul commended to the Colossians when he said. "Admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace In your nearts to the Lord.'' Songs like Moses sang after the tragedy of the lied sea. Songs like Deborah and Barak at the overthrow of Siscxa. Songs like Isaiah heard the redeemed sing as they came to Zion. Oh, God, teach us that kind of song which thou only canst teach and help us to sing it on earth and sing it in heaven. It was the highest result of sweet sound when under the playing of Faganini one auelitor exclaimed reverently, "Oh, God!" and anot her sobbed out,"Oh, Christ!" THE SONGS OF nOTE. Further, I remark in regard to the song of birds that it is trustful and without any fear of what may yet come. Will you tell me how it is possible for that wren, that sparrow, that chickadee, to sing so sweetly when they may any time be pounced on by a hawk and torn wing from wing? There are cruel l-aks in thicket and in sky ready to slay the song birds. Heroels on the wing. Modocs of the sky. Assassins armed with Iron claw. Murderers of song floating up and down the heavens. How can the birds sing amid such perils? Besides that, how is the bird sure to get its food? Millions of birds hare beeu starved. Yet it sings in the dawn without any certainty of breakfast or dinner or supper. Would it not be better to gather its food for the day before vocalizing? Besides that, the hunters are abroad. Bangt goes a gun in one direction. Bang! goes a gun in another direction. The song will attract the shot and ndd to the reril. Besides that, yonder is a thundercloud, and there may be hurricane and bail to be let loose, and what then will become of you, the poor warbler? Besides that, winter will come, and it may be smitten tlown before it gets to the tropics. Have you never seen the snow strewn with the birds belated in their migration ? The tit mouse mingles its voice with the snowstorms as Emerson describes the little thing he found in tempestuous January: Here was this atom in full breath Hurling deliance at vast death; This scrap of valor Just for play Fronts the north wind in waistcoat gray. For every bird a thousand perils and disasters hovering and sweeping remnd and round. Yet there it sings, and it is a trustful song. The bird that has it the harde-st sings the sweetest. The lark from tho shape of her claws may not perch on a tree. In the grass her nest is exposed to every hoof that passes. One of the poorest shelters of all the earth is the lark's nest. If she sing at all, you will expect her to render the saddest of threnodies. Xo, no she sings exultingly an hour without a pause and mounting 3,000 feet without losing a note. Would God we all might learn the lesson. Whatever perils, whatever bereavements, whatever trials are yet to come, sing sing with all your heart and sing with all your lungs. If you wait until all the hawks of trouble have folded their winfrs and all the hmiters of bat have unleaded their guns and all the hurricanes of disaster have spent their fury, you will never sins at all. Darid, the pursued of Absalom, and the betrayed of Ahithophel, and the depleted of "sores that ran in the night," presents us the best songs of the Iiible. John Milton, not able to see his band before his face, sings for us the most famous poe-m of all literature, ami some of the most cheerful people I have ever met have been Christian people under physical or domestic or public torment. The songs of Charles Wesley which we now calmly sing in church were composed by him between mobs. THE VOICKS OF MAST MOODS. Further, iu the sky galleries there are songs adapted to all moods. The meadow lark is mournful, and the goldfinch joyous, and the grosbeak prolonged of note. But the libretto of nature is voluminous. Are you sad, you can hear from the bowers the echo of your grief. Are you glad, you can hear an echo of your happiness. Are you thoughtful, you can hear that which will plunge you into deeper profound. Are you weary, you may catch a restful air. So the songs of birds are administrative in all circumstances. And we would do well to have a hymnology for all changes of condition. You may sing your woes into peace and rouse your joys into greater altitudes. Upon every condition of body and soul let us try the power of song. The multitudinous utterances of grove and orchard and garden and forest suggest most delightful possibilities. PONGS OF FAMILY LIFE. Further, I notice that the song of birds is a family song. Even those of the feathered throng which have no song at all make what utterances they do in sounds of their own family of birds. The hoot of the owl, the clatter of the magpie, the crow of the chanticleer, the drumming of the grouse, the laugh of the loon in t he Adirondack, the cackle of the hen, the scream of the eagle, the croak of the raven, are sounds belonging to each particular family, but when you come to those which have real songs, how susrgestive that it is always a family song! All the skylarks, all the nightingales, all the goldfinches, all the blackbirds, all the cuckoos, prefer the song of their own family and never sing anything else. So the most deeply impressive songs we ever sing are family songs. They have come down from generation to generation. You were sung to sleep In your infancy and childhood by songs that will sing in your soul forever. Where was it, my brother cr sister, that you heard the family song on the banks of the Ohio, or the Alabama, or the Androscoggin, or the Connecticut, or the Tweed, or the Thames, or the Karitan? That song at eventide, when you were tired out indeed too tired to sleep, and you cried with leg ache, and you were rocked and tung to sleep you hear it now, the soft voice from sweet lips, she as tired, perhaps mora tired than you, but she rocked and you slumbered. Oh, those family songs! The songs that father sang, that mother sang, that sisters and brothers sung. They roll on us today with a reminiscenco that fills the throat as well as the heart with emotion. In our bouse in my childhood it was always a religious song. I do not think that the old folks knew anything but religious sons. At any rate I never heard them sing anything else. It was "Jesus, Lover of My Soul," or "Itock of Ages," or "There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood," or "Mary to the Saviour's Tomb." Mothers, be careful what you sing your childreu to sleep with. Let it be nothing frivolous or silly. Better have in it something of Christ and heaven. Better have in it something that will help that boy SO years from now to bear up under the bombardment of temptation. Better have it In something that will help that daughter 30 years from now when n pon her come the cares of motherhood, and the agonies of bereavement, and the brutal treatment of one who swore before high heaven that Le would cherish and protect. Do not waste the best hour for making an impression upon your little one, the hour of einsk, the beach between the day and the night. Sing not a doleful song, but a suggestive song, a Christian song, a song yon will not be ashamed to meet when it comes to you in the eternal destiny of your son and daughter. The oriole has a loud song, and the chew ink a long song, and the blnebjrd a short song, but it is always a family song, and let your gloaming song to your children, whether loud or long or short, be a Christian song. These family songs are about all we keep of the old homestead. The house where you were born will go Into the hands of ttrnnvn T he je aria tat that wrra auo-

fully kept as relics will become moth eaten. The family Bible can go into the possession of only one of the family. The lock of gray hair may be lost from the locket, and in a few years all siga and mementos of the old homestead will be gone forever. But the family songs, those that we heard at 2 years of age, at 5 years of age, at 10 years of age, will be indestruct ible, and at 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 years of age will give us a mighty boost over some rough place in the path of our pilgrimage. THE CAITIVES' SONG. Many years ago a group of white children were captured and carried off by the Indians. Years after a mother who had lost two children in that capture went among the Indians, and there were many white children in line, but so long a time had passed the mother could not tell which were hers until she began to sing the old nursery song, and her two-hildren immediately rushed up, shouting, "Mammal Mamma!" Yeä, there is an immortality in a nursery song. Hear it, all the mothers an immortality of power to rescue and save. What an occasion that must have been In Washington Dec. 17, 18.0, when Jenny Lind sang "Home, Sweet Home," the author of those words, John Howard Payne, seated before her! She had rendered her ether favorite songs, "Casta Diva" and her "Mute Song," with fine effect, but when she struck "Home, Sweet Home" John Howard Payne rose under the power, and President Fillmore and Henry Clay and Daniel Webster and the whole audience rose with him. Anything connected with home ransacks our entire nature with a hofy power, and sonja that get well start eel in the nursery or by the family hearth roll on aftt r the lips that sung them are forever silent and the cars that first heard them forever cease to hear. I preach this sermon just before many of you will go out to pass days or weeks iu the country. Be careful Low you treat the birds. Remember they are God's favorites, and if you offend them you offend him. He is so fond of their voices that there are forests where for a hundred miles no human foot has ever trod and no human ear has ever listened. Those interminable forests are concert halls with ouly one auditorthe Lord God Almighty. He builde d those auditoriums of leaves and sky and supports all that infinite minstrelsy for himself alone. Be careful how you treat his favorite choir. In Deuteronomy he warns the people, "If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones or eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young, that it maybe well wiih the-e, and that thou mayest prolong thy days." So you se-e your own longevity is related to your treatment of birds. Then go forth and attend the minstrelsy. Put oil startling colors, which frighten the winged songsters into silence or flight, and put on your more sober attire and move noiselessly into the woods, farther and farther from the main road, and have no conversation, for many a concert in and out of doors has been ruineel by persistent talkers, and then sit down on a mossy bank Where a wild stream with headlong shock Comoa brawling down a bed of rock. And after perhaps a half an hour of intense solitude there will be a tap of a beak on a tree branch far up soundli like the tap of a musical baton, und then first there will be a solo, followed by a duet or quartet and afterward by doxologies in all the tree tops and amid all the branches, and if you have a Bible along with you, and yon can without rustling the leaves turn to the one hundred and forty-eighth Psalm of David and read, "Praise the Ixrd, beasts and all cattle, creeping things and flying fowl," and then turn over quietly" to my text and read, "By them shall the fowls ef the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches," or if under the power of the bird voices you are transported, as whin Dr. Worgau played so powerfully on the organ at St. John's that llichard Cecil said he was in such blessed bewilderment he could not lind in his Bible the first chapter of Isaiah, though he leafed the lxKk over and over, and you shall be so overcome with forest harmo'iy that you cannot find the Psalms of David. Never mind, for God will .-peak to you so mightily it will make r.o diU'erince whether you bear his voice from the printed page or the vibrating throat of one of his plumed creatures. con's rinsT temples. While this summer more than usual out of doors let us have what my text suggests an out of tloors religion. What business had David, with all the advantages of a costly religious service and smoking incense on the altar, to be listening to the chantresses among the tree branches? Ah, he wanted to himself and all who should come after him more alert and more worshipful amid the sweet sounds and beautiful sights of the natural world. There is an old church that needs to le rededicated. It is older than St. Paul's or St. Peter's or St. Mark's or St. Sophia's et St. Isaac's. It is the cathedral of nature. That is the church in which the services of the mille-nnium will be held. The buildings fashioned out of stone and brick and mortar will not hold the people. Again the Mount of Olives will le the pulpit. Again the Jordau will be the baptistry. Again the mountains will le the galleries. Again the skies will be the blue ceiling. Again the sunrise will be the front door and the sunset the back door of that temple. Again the clouds will le the upholstery and the morning mist the incense. Again the trees will be the organ loft where "the fowls of heaven have their habitation whie:h sing among the branches." Saint Francis d'Assisi preached a sermon to birds and pronounced a beuediction upon them, but all birds preach to us, and their benediction is almost supernal. While this summer am!d the works of God let us learn responsiveness. Surely if we cannot sing we can hum a tune, and if we cannot hum a tune we can whistle. If we cannot be au oriole, we can be a quail. In some way let us demonstrate our gratitude to God. Let us not be beaten by the chimney swallow and the humming bird and the brown thra-sher. Let us try to set everything in our life to music, and If we c?xnot give tho carol of the son? sparrow take the plaint of the hermit thrush. Let our life be an anthem of worship to the God who created ns and the Christ who ransomed ns and tho Holy Ghost who sanctifies us. And our last c ong may it be our best song! The swan was thought by tho ancients never to sing except when dying. In the time of Edward IV no one was allowed to own a swan except he were a king's son or had considerable estate. Through one or two hundred years of life that bird was said never to utter ans thing like music until its last moment came, and then lifting its cresteel beauty it would pour forth a song of almost matchless thrill, resounding through the groves. And so, although the struggles of life maybe too much- for us, and wo may find it hard to sing at all when the last hour comes to you and me, may there be a radiance from above and a glory settling round that shall eDable us to utter a song on the wings of which we shall mount to whern the music, never ceases and the raptures never die. "What is that, mother?" "Tho svran, my love; He is floating down from his native grove. J'o loved one, no nestling nljh lie Is Coating dowa by himself to die. Death darkens his eye and unplumeshis wins. Yet the sweeUt song is the last ho sine. Lire so, my child, that when death shall come, tJwanlike and sweet, it may waft thee botueP It is a fatal mistake to try to shield a woman from everything hartl and disagreeable. Difficulties strengthen the character, and roughing it a bit iswhohjBome. The person who is cared for through life like a bnby will remain a baby throngh life. Young babies aro ? ery weet; old babiea not at all so. ;

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LESSON I, THIRD QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, JULY 2. Text of tha Lesson, Acts zvl.6-15 Memory Verses, 14, 15 Golden Text, Math, zxrlli, 19 Commentary by the Rer. D. M. Stearns. 6. "Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia." As we left our studies in this book six months ago we parted with Paul and Barnabas at Antioch in Syria teaching and preaching the word of the Lord. Then came the separation of these two as they were about to start on their second tour, Barnabas and Mark sailing for Cyprus, while Paul and Silas went through Syria and Cilieia. By consulting the map, without which it is impossible to understand thia lesson, we see them still moving westward, but bedded in on north and south and compelled to move on through Mysia. 7. "After they were come to Mysia they assayed to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit suffe re-d them not." One of the most striking things in this book is the partnership of the Holy Spirit aud the apostles, just as Jesus hud said that it would be (John xir, lö, 17; xv, 2t, 27; xvi, 13; Acts 1, 6). And as it was afterward proved to be as when they said. "We are the witnesses, and so is e!so the Holy Ghost;" also when the Spirit si-id unto Philip to join himself to the eunuch's chariot, when the Spirit called for the special separation of Paul and Barnal!', and when the council at Jerusalem s;iid to the Christians at Antioch, "It seemed good to the Holy Spirit und to Us" (Acts v, 02; viii, 20; xiii, 2; xv, Then tcnr.es the question. Where is this partnership today? Are we who profes to be workers with God completely and absolutely uuder theeontrrjl of the Spirit? 8. "And they, passirg by Mysia, came down to Troas." Jt would not be safe to conclude that opposition was an indication that the Spirit was telling us to move on, for the opposition at Iconium is given as the reason why Paul continued there (chapter xir, 2, 3), and elsewhere he speaks of a great door and effectual with many adrersaries (I Cor. xvi, H); also at Corinth, where there was much opposition, the Lord came to him and strengthened him to abide 13 months in that city chapter xriii, 6, 9, 10). We may be sure of this, that if we are wholly under the Spirit's control, seeking only the glory of God, He will guide us in some unmistakable way (Ps. xxxii, 8; Isa. xxx, 21.) 9. "Come over into Macedonia and help us." Having irrived at the seaeoast, they no doubt continue in prayer, and in the stillness of the night this is the message. There was no word of Scripture to give them special guidance any more than thre was to send Philip from Samaria to the way to Gaza. As a rule the word of God is a full and.sunjcient guide, and if anything more is neededt shall be given to the humble, trusting soul by stme event of Providence or some whisper of the Spirit, but never in opposition to the written word. 10. "And after he had seen the vision, immediately wo eudeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord hud called us for to preach the gospel onto them." The party seems to be Increased here by the addition of the writer Luke, for instead of saying "they," as heretofore, it is now "we." In Col. iv, 14, he is called "Luke, the beloved physician" and is elsewhere mentioned by name in Thi. 24 and II Tim. iv, 11. Observe Paul's promptness iu obeying the call, and f.uicy he and his party looking about the wharves for a vessel in which to cross to Europe, or possibly there was regular communicatiou. We cannot think of them going without much prayer. 11. "Therefore lewsing from Troas, we came, with a straight course to S;iuiothraci;i, and the next day to Neapolis." By consulting the map we find that Sauiothracia was an island in the Cgean sea, almost in a direct line from Troas to Neapolis, and jerhaps about half way across, Xeapolis being the port of Pbilippi and about 10 milea distant from it. What was accomplished on the way across or at Neapolis is not written, but we cannot suppose the apostle and his comptmious to have let slip any opportunity of making Jesus known. Ho who teaches us to "buy up the opiortunitifts" (Eph. v, 16, R. V., margin) was doubtless accustometl to do the same. 12. "And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia and a colony, and we were in that city abiding certain elaj s." Strangers in a strange land; no one to meet and welcome them; no kindly greeting; not expected by any. What a good time for satan to get in some work on Lis line, aud probably he tried it! Well, Paul, you are emite a distance from home, and nobody knows you or wants you here; your man in the vision who called you this way is not up to time; guess you have made a mistake; you are not wanted here; better get back. Such comforting suggestions would have been very like satan, but Paul knew him, and he knew Jesus too. 13. "And on the Sabbath we went out of the city by a riverside, where prayer was wont to be luade, and we sat down and spake unto the women which resorted thither." Thank God for the women who pray and who love to meet for prayer! Note that the gospel was first preached in Europe at a women's prayer meeting, and listen to Paul exhorting the brethren to help the women iu this very place, women who lalored with him in the gospel (Phil, ir, 3). We can readily imagine what Paul talked about, for he had but one chief topic one per?on had taken him captive (chapters Ix, 20; xvii. 2, 3; xxviii, 23, 31). 14. "And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshged God, heard us, whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Taul." Paul was not suffered to go into A 3i a (verse 6) at this time, but here was a woman of Asia, who up to her light worshiped God, and doubtless eagerly prayed for more light, and now she has received it by a special messenger all the way from Syria, and but recently from the Iloly City, Jerusalem, one who had himself seen the Liord (I Cor. xr, S). This was the greatest day in all her life, for she had heard of Him of whom Moses and the prophets had written. He bad really come and had been despised nnd rejected and crucified according to Isa. liii ami Ps. xxii. He had risen again according to Ps. xrL In Him had been fulfilled erery tyje, and now she hears all this from one who hael actually seen Him and rtceivexl it from Himself. Her soul is full; she can nsk no more; she accepts Him as her salvation. 15. "And when she was baptized and her household she besought us, saying. If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and abide there. And she constrained us." Happy indeeel are those who not only receive Jesus into their hearts, but crinstrained by His love to them cheerfully hand over to Him spirit, soul nnd body with all they possess for His service. Iiis Favorite. Propinquity She (sketching) I suppoj I could get your expression better if yea sat a little farther off. He On the contrary, I was just going to quote my farorite hymn. She What is that? lie "Dnw me Nearer. "Boston Beacon. Those. Wide Brims. Willie Say, can I hare that straw hat of yours when you get through with it? Fcatherstone Yes, Willie. What do you want it for? Willie I'm going to cut off the crown sxd nse the brim for a circus ring. Clothier and Furnisbert

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Tni State Sentinel, which ever aima to keep abreast of the timea and to promote the Interests of its subscribers, bss Jusi completed an arrangement with the leading watch manufacturers of the country by which it is enabled to offer the best watchei made, to its subscribers only, at the same prices which jewelers and watch dealers in the cities and towns have to pay for their goods, In some caes we can sell watches to our subscribers for even less than dealers havo to pay for them. Every man or woman, young or old, who reads Tits State Sentinel ought to own a watch. Kvery one ought to have a good watch a watch that will not only ktep time, but is handsome and showy. If you take Tuk State Sentinel yon can, for a limited time only, get a first-class, handsome sold watch, with the rery best works manufactured, for much less than poor watches with silver or brass cases are commonly sold for. Our stock of watches will not last always, and after the present 6tock is exhausted we cannot promise to fill orders. Thoif who order first, therefore, will be first served. The American Standard Watches the best timekeepers in the world are graded as seven, eleven and thirteen jeweled, full feweled and adjnste.1. Very few men not one in a thousand carry either an adjusted or even a full-jeweled watch. The State S?-tinel uscb only the celebrated gold-filled cas'-s made by Joseph Fahys, unless distinctly specified in special ffers. They aro the best made, and selected for that reason. His ten-carat cases, called Montauka, are guaranteed for fifteen J ears. His fourteen-carat filled case, called Monarch, are guaranteed for twenty years. Wha tea &ai faurteen-carat cases art poken of they refer to culj Montauka and Monarch. OUR. SPECIAL OFFERS! The cuts represent Joseph Fahya' celebrated Montauk and Monarch cases as above. Cases will be furnished either plain (ergine-turre !) or beautifully engraved as the subscriber prefers. No. 18, size for gentlemen, are F.lgia, Wa'tham or New York Standard movements, and will be put in such cases as decil& Kote carefully the descriptions and prices below.

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-1 No. 17. Size No. 18. No. 17. Size No. 18 Waltham or .FJgin movement, seven jewels, beauti- I luny enpravea ;uentauK case, 18. I"1 watch would cost from $2S to $35 at jewelry stores. The above No. 18. Size No. 13. NOi (8. ize No. 18 Monarch rase, twenty-one years guarantee, 14 carat, Waltham movement (engine-turned),$20.2ö Ko. 20. Slzo No. 18. Tip. 23. Pize No. 18 Montauk csst (engine turned), New York Standard morement, seven jewels, SI6-25.

These are the best Watches erer ofTered for nvtblrj llks these figures. Who weed iro without a watch when be can get m Lrct-clata timekeeper in a handsome case tor $12.25 or $10.25?

LHDI6S' WHTCH6S, Ws o!.'r beautiful Ladlos' Watohe at prices with! a th reach e! SU.

No. 8. Slzo No. 6. No. 8. No. & Liberty or American) enirrared case, boret nioreinent (Swiss), seven Jewels, $12.

No. 21. Size No. 6. No. 21. Size No. G Monarch cae, vermicelli border, fancy Elgin movement, eeven jewels, SI9.50.

The watch will reach you within a week after you send the order. Remember that the INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL COMPANY Ruarantees these watches tobe precisely as they are represented. We can aesure our readers that every watch will givo complete and entire satisfaction. It will be both useful and ormlavantal. a thing of beauty and a joy forever. INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.

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No. 16. Size No. 18. No. 16. ?ize No. 18 Waltham or Elgin movement, seven jewels, (engineturned) Montauk case, $18- This watch would cost from $28 to $35 at jewelry stores. are all Monttuk cases and are guaranteed for f. , (V Y vv-l ' No. 19. Size No. 13. No. f9. ze 0. 18 Monarch ca.e, fancy landscape engraved, Elgin movement, 2I.50. 1.-. --r-. -. ,4, '.it.-1.i'.-T.,..f No. 5. Sizo Ko. 13. No. 5. Sue No. 18 Liberty fenglnetnrned) race, New York Standard movemexit, uill wear ton years, S12.25.

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No. 14. Size No. 18. Mo. 14. ttze No. 18 Box case, Louis XI V. 6tyle, Waltham or Elgin movement, fceven jewels, $19.75. These watches ar sold by retail dealers at from $30 to J35. fifteen yeaxa. No. 20. Size No. 18. No. 20. Size No. IS Monarch ca.Ä with wido Vermicelli border and ensravej center, Waltham movement, seven jewels, 623. This is the finest watch we offer and is well worth $4(1, according to the prices charged in jewelry stores. The cases arc warranted for twenty-one years. The readers of The Sentinel never had an opportunity to pet fin-t-cla3s watches at any such prices as the above, and aftor thia etock is sold they will probably net soon have euch a chance again. Thia offer is open only to subscribers ta The Indiana Statk Skntiveu One of these watches will make a handsome birthday or Christmas present for your wife, your eister, your daughter, 01 your sweetheart; for your husband, yom father, your brother or your son. In order to avoid confusion and mistakes the watches should be orderod only by their numbers. Thus it is only neee esary to say: "Send watch No. 8 (or whatever number is desired) to the following ad. dress." Write the name, town, county uad state vry plainly. The cash must accompany every order. We should prefer to have our subscribers wee the following coupon, which cau be cut out, filled up and teut to Tnr. INDIANA State Sentinel with a draft oa Chicago, New York, Indianapolis or Cincinnati or a poetollice money order for tha amount. 189

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Please send one watch No. . . to the following address: Name Post Office County State Inclosed find draft (or money order) for $