Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1893 — Page 12

12 THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, "WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBE.lt 6, 1893-TWELYE PAGES.

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DB. TALJIAGE OS THE COMMON TRACES OF LI FC. Everyday Religion In the Trne Test of Piety God Does Xot Overlook the Little ThlnM We Should lie Thankful for Small Dlesslngs. BROOKLYN. Sept 3. The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage In selecting a topic for today chose one of practical value to all classes; viz.. "Week-Day Religion." The t tfrt it fmm Prnvsrh lit ft "In all Ihv I ways acknowledge Ilim." There has been a tendency In all lands and ages to set apart certain days, places and occasions for especial religious service, and to think that they formed the realm in which religion was chiefly to act. Now, while holy days and holy places have their use, they can never he a substitute for continuous exercise of faith and prayer. In .other words a man cannot be so good a Christian on Sabbath that he can afford to be a worldling all the week. If a steamer start for Southampton and sail one day In that direction and the other six days sail in other directions, how Ion? before the steamer will get to Southampton? ' Just as soon as a man will get to heaven who sails on the Sabbath day toward ihat which 13 good and the other slx days of the week sails toward the world, the. flesh and the devil. You rannot eat so much at the Sabbath banquet that you can afford religious abstinence all the rest of the week. Genuine religion Is not spasmodic, does not go by fits and starts, is not an attack ol chills and fever now cold until your teeth chatter, now hot until your bones ache. Genuine religion marches on steadily, up steep hills and along dangerous declivities. Its eye ever on the everlasting hills crowned with the castles of the blessed. I propose, so far as God may help me, to show you how we may bring our religion into ordinary life and practice It In common things yesterday, today, tomorrow. Religion In Common Thing. And, in the first place, I remark, we ought to bring religion into our ordinary conversation. A dam breaks and two or three villages are submerged; a South American earthquake swallows a city and people begin to talk about the uncertainty of human life, and in that conversation think they are engaging in religious service, when there may be no religion at alL I have noticed that in proportion as Christen experience is shallow men talk about funerals and deathbeds and hearses and tombstones and epitaphs. If a man have the religion of the gospel in its full power In his soul, he will talk chiefly about this world and the eternal world and very little comparatively about the insignificant pass between this and that. Yet how seldom It la that the religion of Christ Is a welcome theme? If a man full of the gospel of Chrst goes into a religious circle and begins to talk about sacred things all the conversation is hushed and things become exceeding awkward. As on a summer day, the forests full of song and chirp and carol, mighty chorus of bird harmonies, every branch an orchestra, if a hawk appears in the sky, all the voices are hushed. So I have someXimes seen a social circle that professed to be Christian silenced bv the ariDearanee of the et eat theme of God and religion. Now, my friends. If we have the religion of Christ in our souls, we will talk about it in an exhilerant mood. It Is more refreshing than the waters. It Is brighter than the sunshine, it gives a man joy here and prepares him for everlasting happiness before the throne of God. And yet, if the theme of religion be Introduced into a circle, everything is slenoed sleneed unless perhaps an aged Chrstlan man in the corner of the room, feeling that something ought to be said, puts one foot over the other and sighs heavily and says: "Oh, yes; that's so!" My friends, the religion of Jesus Christ Is not something to be groaned about, but something to talk about and sing about, your face irradiated. The trouble xs that men professing the faith of the gospel are often so in consistent that they are afraid their conversation will not harmonize with their life. We cannot talk the gospel unless we live the gospel. You will often find a man whose entire life Is full of Inconsistencies filling his conversation with such expressions as "we are miserable sinners." "the Lord help us," the Lord bless you," Interlarding his conversation with such phrase, which are mere canting, and canting is the worst kind of hypocrisy. If a man have the grace of God In hl3 heart dominant, he can talk religion, and it will seem natural, and men instead of being repulsed by It will be attracted by it. Do you not know that when two Christian people talk as they ought about the things of Christ and heaven God gives special attention, and lie writes it all down. Malachi lit. 16. "Then they that feared the Lord talked one to the other, and the Lord hearkened and heard, and a book of remembrance was written." But, I remark again, we ought to bring the religion of Jesus Christ into our ordi nary employments. "Oh." you say, "that's a very g od theory for a man who man ages a large business, who has great traffic, who holds a great estate. It Is a grand thing for bankers and for shippers, but in my thread and needle store, in my trimming establishment. In my In significant work of life, you cannot apply those grand gospel principles." Who told you that? lo you not know that a faded leaf on a brook's surface attracts God's attention as certainly as the path of a Mazing- sun, and that the moss that creeps up the side of the rock attracts God's attention as certainly as the waving tops of Oregon pine and Lebanon cedar, and that the crackling of an alder under a cow's hoof sounds as loudly In God's ear as the snap of a world's eonflaprration. and that the most insignifi cant thing in your life is of enough im portance to attract the attention of the Lord God Alrnisrhty? My brother, you cannot be called to do anything so insignificant but God will help you in it. If you are a fishrman. Christ will stnd by you as he did by Simon when he dragged Gennesaret. Are you a drawer of water? He will be with you at the well curb when talking with the Samaritan woman. Are you a cus tom house officer? Christ will call you as he did Matthew at the receipt of cus tom. .The man who has only & day's war in his pocket as certainly needs religion as he who rattles the keys of a bank and ervuld abscond with a hundred thousand dollars. And yet there are men who profess the religion of Jesus Christ who do not bring the religion of the gospel Into their ordinary occupa tl'ns and employments. There are in the churches of this day men who stem very devout on the Sabbaih who &r f ir from that during the week. A country merchant arrives In this city, and he goes into a store to buy goods of a man who professes religion. but has no grace In his heart. The country merchant is swindled. He Is too exhausted to go home that week he tarries in town. On Sabbath he goes to some church for consolation, an! what is his amazement to find that ttie man who carries around the poor box is the very one who swindled him. But never mind the deacon has his black coat on now and lociks solemn and goes home talking ab'.ut that Mossed sermon! Chris tians on Sunday. Woridlngs during the wee. That man dos not realize that God knows every dishonest dollar h has in his pocket, that God U lockir? right

through the Iron wall of his money safe, and that the day of Judgment is coming, and that "as the rartridge sittetn on eggs and hatcheth them not, so he that getteth riches and not by right shall leave them In the midst of his days and at the end shall be a fool." But how many there are who do not bring the

religion of Christ Into their everyday occupation! They think religion Is for Sun- . days. j Suppose you w.ere to go out to fight for your country in some great contest ' would you go to do the battling at Troy j or at Springfield? No, you would go j there to get your swords and muskets. . Then you would go out In the face of j the enemy and contend for your coun try. Now. I take the Sabbath day and the church to be only the armory where we are to get equipped for the great battle of life, and that battlefield is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. "Antloch" and "St. Martin's" and "Old Hundred" are not worth much if we do not sing all the week. A sermon is. of little account if we cannot carry It behind the counter and behind the plow. The Sabbath day Is of no value if it last only twenty-four hours. "Oh," says some one. "if I had a great sphere I would do that; If I could have lived in the time of Martin Luther, if I could have been Paul's traveling companion, If I had some great and resounding work to do then I should put into application all that you say?" must admit that the romance and knight errantry have gone out of life. There is but very little of it left in the world. The temples of Rouen have been changed into smithies; the classic mansion at Ashland has been cut up into walking sticks; the muses have re treated before the emigrant s ax and the trapper's gun, and a Vermonter might go over the Alleghany and the Rocky mountains and see neither an Oread nor a Sylph. The groves where the gods used to dwell have been cut up for firewood, and the man who is looking for great spheres arid great scenes for action will not find them. And yet there are Alps to scale, and there are Hellespont to swim; and they are in common life. It is absurd for you to say that you would serve God if you had a great sphere. If you do not serve him on a small scale, you would not on a larjje scale. If you cannot stand the bite of midge, how could you endure the breath of a basilisk? The Value of Smnll Things. Our national government does not think it belittling to put a tax on pins. and a tax on buckles, and a tax on shoes. The individual taxes do not amount to much, but in the aggregate to millions of dollars. And I would have you, oh, Christian man, put a high tariff on every annoyance and vexation that comes through your soul. This might not amount to much in single cases but in the aggregate It would be a great revenue of spiritual strength and satisfaction. A bee can suck honey even out of a nettle, and if you have the grace of God in your heart you can get sweetness out of that which would otherwise Irri tate and annoy. A returnedj missionary told me that a company of adventurers rowing up the Ganges were stung to death by flies that Infest that region at certain seasons. I have seen the earth strewed with the carcasses of men slain by Insect annoyances. The only way to get prepared for the great troubles of life is to conquer these small troubles. Suppose a soldier should say: "This Is only a skirmish, and there are only a few enemies. I won't load my gun. Wait until I get into some great general engagement!" That man is a coward and would be a coward in any sphere. If a man does not serve his country in a skirmish, he will not in a Waterloo. And if you are not faithful going out against the single-handed misfortune of this life you would not be faithful when great disasters, with their thundering ar tillery, come rolling down over the soul. This brings me to another point. We ought to bring the religion of Jesus Christ into all our trials. If we have a bereavement, if we lose our fortune, "if some great trouble blast like the temppest, then we go to God for comfort, but yesterday, in the little annoyances of your store or office or shop or factory or banking house, did you go to God for comfort? lou did not. My friends, you need to take the religon of the Lord Jesus Christ into the most ordinary trials of your life. You have your misfortunes; you have your anxieties; you have your vexations. "Oh," you say, "they don't shape my character. Since I lost my child, since I have lost my property, I have been a very different man from what I was." My brother, it Is the lit tle annoyances of your life that are souring your disposition, clipping your moral charcter and making you less and less a man. You go into an artist's studio. Tou see him making a piece of sculpture. You say, "Why don't you strike harder?" Tith his mallet and his chisel he goes click, click, click, and you can hardly see from stroke to stroke that there is any impression made upon the stone, and yet t-.e work is going on. You say, "Why don't you strike harder?" "Oh," he replies, "that would shatter the statue. I must make it in this way, stroke by stroke." And he continues on by week and month until after awhile every man that enters the studio is fascinated. Well, I find God dealing with some man. He Is shaping him for time and shaping him for eternity. I say, "O Lord, why not with one tremendous blow of calamity shape that man for the next world?" God says: "That's not the way I deal with this man. . It Is stroke after stroke, annoyance after annoyance. Irritation after irritation, and after awhile he will be done and a glad spectacle for angels and men." Not by one great stroke, but by 10.000 little strokes of misfortune, are men fitted for heaven. You know that large fortunes can soon be scattered by being paid out In small sums of money, and the largest estate of Christian character is sometimes entirely lost by these small depletions. We must brine the religion of Jesus Christ to help us In these little annoyances. Do not say that anything is too msignincani to aueci your character, j Itats may sink a ship. One lucifer match may destroy a temple. A queen got her death by smelling of a poisoned rose. The ecratch of a sixpenny nail may give you the lockjaw. Columbus, by asking for a piece of bread and a drink of water at a Francisan convent, came to the discovery of a new world. And there is a great connection between trifles and immensities, between nothings and everythings. t Do you not suppose that God cares for your insignificant sorrows? Why, my friends, there is nothing insignificant in your life. How dare you take the responsibility of saying that there is? Do you know that the whole universe is not ashamed to take care of one violet? I say: "What are you doing down there In the grass, poor little violet? Nobody knows you are here. Are you not afraid nights? You will die with thirst; nobody cares for you; you will suffer; you will perish." "No," says a star, T11 watch over It tonight." "No," says the cloud, "I'll give it drink." "No," says the sun, "I'll warm it in my bosom." And then the wind 'rises and comes bending down the grain and sounding the psalm through the forest, and I say, "Whither away, O wind, on such swift wing?" and It answers, "I am going to cool the cheek of that violet." And then I see pulleys at work In the sky. and the clouds are drawing water, and I say, "What are you doing there, O clouds?" They say, "We are drawing water for that violet." And then I look down Into the grass, and I say, "Can It be that God takes care of a poor thing like you?" and the answer comes tip. "Yes, yes; God clothes the grass of the field, and He has never forgotten me, a poor violet." Oh, my friends, if the heavens benI down to such Inslpmlncant ministry as that, I tell you God is willing to bend down to your case, since He 13 Just as careful

about the construction of a- spider's eye as he is in the conformation of flaming galaxies. A Fable from Pinto. Plato had a fable which I have now nearly forgotten, but it ran something like thisr lie said spirits of the other world came back to this world to find a body and find a sphere of work. One spirit came and took the body of a king and did his work. After awhile Ulysses came, and he said: "Why, all the fine bodies are taken, and all the grand work is taken. There is nothing left for me." And some one replied, "Ah! the best one

has been left for you." Ulysses said, "What's that?" And the reply was, "The body of a common man, doing a common work and for a common re ward." A good fable for the world and Just as good fable for the church. .But. I remark again, we ought to bring the religion of Jesus Christ into our ordinary blessings. Every autumn the president of the United States and the governors make proclamation, and we are called together in our churches to give thanks to God for His goodness. But every day ought to be a thanksgiving day. We take most of the blessings of life as a matter of course. We have had ten thousand blessings this morning for which we have not thanked God. Before the night comes, we will have a thousand more blessings you will never think of mentioning before God. Ye must see a blind man led along by his dog before we learn what a grand thing it is to have one's eyesight. We must see a man with St. Vitus's dance before we lesrn what a grand thing it is to have our physical energies. We must see some soldier crippled, limping along on his crutch, or his empty coatSleeve pinned up, before we learn what a grand thing it is to have the use of all our physical faculties. In other words, we are so stupid that nothing but the misfortunes of others can wake us up to an appreciation of our common biasings. We get on board a train and start for Boston and come to Norwalk bridge, and the "draw" is off, and crash! goes the train. Fifty lives dashed out. We es cape. We come home in. great excite ment and call our friends around us. and they congratulate us, and we all kneel down and thank God for our escape while so many perished. But to morrow morning you get on a train of cars for Boston. You cross that bridge at Norwalk. You cross all the other bridges. You get to Boston in safety. Then you return home. Not an accident, not an alarm. No thanks. In other words, you seem to be more grateful when fifty people lose their lives and you get off, than you are grateful to God when you all get off, and you have no alarm at all. Now you ought to be thankful when you escape from accident, but more thankful when they all escape. In the one case your gratitude is somewhat selfish, in the other it is more like what it ought to be. Oh! these common mercies, these common blessings, how little we appre ciate them and how soon we forget them! Like the ox grazing, with the clover up to its eye, like the bird picking the worm cut of the furrow never thinking to thank God who makes the grass grow and who gives life to eVery living thing, from the anlmalculae in the sod to the seraph on the throne. Thanksgiving, on the 27th of November, in the autumn of the year, but blessings hour by hour and day by day and no thanks at all. I compared our indifference to the brute, but perhaps I wrong the brute. I do not know but that among its other instincts it may have an instinct by which it recognizes the divine hand that feeds it. I do not know but that God is thrcngh it holding communication with what we call "irrational creation." TJV3 cow that stands under the willow by the water course chewing her cud looks very thankful, and who can tell how much a bird means by its sonp? The aroma of the flowers smells like incense and the mist arising from the river looks like the smoke of a morning sacrifice. Oh, that we weVe as responsive! If you were thirsty and asked me for a drink and I gave you this glass of water your common Instinct would reply: "Thank you." And yet how many chalices of mercy we get hour by hour from the hand of the Lord, our Father and our Klntr, and we do not even think to say, "Thank you." More Just to men than we are Just to God. Who thinks of thanking God for the water gushing up in the well, foaming in the cascade, laughing over the rocks, pattering in the shower, clapping Its hands in the sea? Who thinks to thank God for that? Who thinks to thank God for the air. the fountain of life, the bridge of sunbeams, the path of sound, the great fan on a hot summer day? Who thinks to thank God for this won derful physical organism, this sweep of vision, this chime of harmony struck into the ear. this crimson tide rolling through arteries and veins, this drum ming of the heart on the march of immortality? I convict myself and I convict every one of you whllo I say these things that we are unappreclative of the com mon mercies of life. And yet If they were withdrawn the heavens would withhold their rain, and the earth would crack open under our feet, and famine and desolation and sickness and woe would stalk across the earth, and the whole earth would become a place of skulls. 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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.

LESSOX XI, THIRD CHAPTER, INTER NATIONAL. SERIES, SEPT. lO. Text of the Lrinon, Act xxvllt, 20-31 Memory Verses, 28-31 Golden Text, Rom. 1, in Commentary bjr the Rev. D. M. Stearns. 20. "For this cause, therefore, have I called for you to see you and to speak with you, because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain." During the three months at Malta many miracles were wrough by Paul In the name of the Lord Jesus, and many must have heard the gospel (verses 111.) In due time arriving at Rome, Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him, and after three days he called together the chiefs of the Jews and made known to them why he was a prisoner and why at Rome. Before Agrippa he had spoken of the hope of the promise made of God unto the fathers as something concerning the twelve tribes (xxvi. 6, 7.) 21. "And they said unto him, TVe neither received letters out of Judea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee." They did not have dally papers with the news from all parts of the world in each issue. It may have been some comfort to Paul to know that tongues in this part of the world had not yet opened fire on him. He had been enjoying his share of It elsewhere and had found some pleasure in It (II Cor. xii, 10.) 22. "But we desire to hear of thee what thou thlnkest, for as concerning this sect we know that everywhere it is spoken against." In chapter xxlv, 6, the followers of Jesus are called the sect of the Xazarenes. If Paul had not been spoken against at Rome up to this time, it would now be evident to him that his Master had. and his fellowship would be sure to come. But Paul waa ready, for his prayer was to know Him, and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings (Phil. Iii, 10.) 23. "He expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus both out of the law of Moses and out of the .prophets from morning until evening." Having gathered unto him in his lodging a company of Jews, he, as his custom was, preached unto them Jesus as Son of David and coming king from their own scriptures (chapter xvii, 2, 3; xlx. 8; xxlv, 14.) Doubtless Acts xiii, 16-41, is a fair sample of his preaching and reasoning. He sought to convince them that Jesus of Nazareth was indeed the promised Messiah, that it was all foretold that He should die and rise again, and that now they were to receive Him, serve Him patiently and faithfully and ait for His return. (Acts iil, ia-21; I Thess. 1, 9, 10; Titus, ii. 11-13.) 24. "And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not." "We are nowhere, taught that the good news will be universally received in this age. Some 6eed will fall by the wayside and some on rocky soil, but a portion will find good ground; some will be saved, and the church shall be completed (Math, xiii, 18-23; I Cor. ix, 22; Eph. v, 27.) Even in the next age, when 8ii.tan shall be bound, there will be de ceivers who will only yield a feigned obedience and will follow sauin when he. comes out of the pit (Ps. lxvi, 3, margin; Rev. xx, 7, 8.) 25. "And when they agreed not among themselves they departed afttr that Paul had spoken one word. ell spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the rrophet unto our fathers." That it was not the prophets wno spake or wrote but God by His spirit through the prophets is everywhere taught. Compare Acts I. 2; ii, 17; iv, 25, and notice who it Is that speaks. David in his last words said. "The Spirit of the Lord spake by me and His word was in my tongue" (II Sam. xxill. 2). Peter says it was through the Spirit of Christ who spoke through the prophets (I Pet. i, 10, 11.) 2C "Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see and not perceive." It was not very encouraging to the prophet to be told that the people would neither perceive nor understand his message, but Jeremiah and Ezekiel had the same prospect before them. "They shall fight against thee." "The horuse of Israel will not harken unto me" (Jer. 1, 19; Ezek. Iii. 70.) The messenger of the Lord has only to deliver the message fathfully (Jer. xxiil. 25). sure that it will accomplish the Lord's pleasure (Isa. lv, 11), and take refuge and comfort in Luke x, 16. 27. "For the heart of the people Is waxed gross and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have closed, lest I should heal them. The difficulty is not on God's side, but wholly on the side of man, who will not listen to God. It is written that the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh and also that Pharaoh hardened his own heart (Ex. x. 1. 20. 27; vlil. 15, 32.) The Lord did it by giving him a command which he would not obey and Pharaoh did it by refusng to obey the Lord's command. God is always right, but man wrong. 28 "Be it known therefore unto you that the Falvatlon of God is sent unto tho eentiles. and that they win near u Comnare chapter xiii, 46. 47. "To the Jew first." was Paul's motto and cus tom mom. 1. 16.) Had it been continued to this day who can tell what the results might have been? Obedience is our part. Results are with God, ana He will see to it. That God would gather from Jews and gentiles without distinction and on the ground of simple faith in Christ those who would form the body of Christ was a mystery re vealed to Paul (Rom. xvi, 23, 26; Eph. Ill, 1-12. 29. "And when he had said these words the Jews departed and had great reasoning among themselves." The word preached does not profit unless It Is mixed with faith in those who hear it (Heb. iv. 2.) The weapons of our war fare are intended to cast down reason Iners and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ (II Cor. x, 5, margin.) To profit by the word we must receive It with meekness (Jas. I, 21.) 39. "And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house and received all that came in unto him," doubtless accomplishing the will of God and glorifying God as much as when journeying through Asia and Maeadonla. Being no longer able to go to people, God brought people to Him, and though he was bound he rejoiced that the word of God was not bound (II Tim. ii. 9.) 81. "Preaching the kingdom of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence, no man forbidding him." The adversary cannot hinder beyond God's permission, and it was His pleasure that for these two years the word should have free course. The book opens with Jesus between Ills resurrection and ascension preaching the kingdom, and with the question of the disciples, "Lord, wilt Thou at this time restore again the kingdom of Israel" (Acts i, 3, 6?) It closes with Paul at Rome In a hired house still preaching the kingdom. After these 1.800 years we are still more or less bound, but preaching Jesus Christ and still waiting for the kingdom while we continue to pray, "Thy kingdom come." If we had more of Paul's spirit and faithfulness, we would do more to hasten the kingdom.' When the head feels dull and heavy, the skin appears sallow and greasy, and the stomach refuses food, take Carter' Little Liver Pills. Don't forget this.

WOMAVS VORLD IX PARAGRAPUS.

The Squabble of the Womin Mana gers at Chicago. One paper says these squabbles have dealt "a terrible blow " to the cause of women. Another man editor, who certainly must have been lunching oft mince pie and buttermilk, gravely ob serves, "It is certain that the conduct of the board of lady managers has been such as to create an unfavorable impression of the advisability of calling on women to take e.n active part in the management of great public undertakings." Dear, dear! And when a few weeks ago the members of the British parliament Indulged in a free fight in the midst of a meeting, and gouged one another's cheeks, and blacked one another's eyes, and smashed hats down over faces promiscuously, and rolled over one another in the dust, clawing like cats and howling like hyenas, that did not "create an unfavorable impression of the advisability of calling on men to take active part In the management of great public undertakings," did it? Oh, no, for the animals in that menagerie were men. Go to! The meetings of the lady managers at Chicago were no worse than men's meetings are every day In the week, and that is the worst that can be said of them. That is bad enough. But why men should expect woonen, without knowledge' of parliamentary usage or Epeechmakini and without experience In organization. to do better than they do themselves. Is something past finding out. It is to be deeply regretted that some ladies are so quarrelsome and so bent on their own way that they do not mind even making a holy show of themselves. But the woman cause has received no blow from the stormiest of the meetings at Chicago. Only through struggle and defeat can come victory! Women will learn from the experience at Chicago some more of their needs, among other things that Just now they need most of all to control their exuberant likes and dislikes and learn parliamentary usage. While women have shown their ability equally with men to receive the higher education, they have not as yet demonstrated their ability to make as much out of that education financially as men do. Women are behind men in respect to the development of financial ability. This is nseded fully as much as a higher education. The evolution of the tale&t for money making honest and honorable money making is something to which present day working women need to bend all their energies, so that in years to come they may be pecuniarily independent. That admirable lady, Olive Harper, thinks American women have life so much better than the women of other nations do that they ought to be quietly thankful Instead of talking of woman's downtrodd3n condition here. It Is true that American women have many privileges that women of other nations do not. which we appreciate with all our hearts. But is that going to hinder us from claiming and getting every advantage and opportunity open to the human race? Not if we know it! Another California woman, once wealthy, but afterward reduced to poverty, has shown her sisters what our sex can do. She conducts a larjre business in gTOwinj and selling cut flowers. Last year she had 18,000 chrysanthemums in bloom, and Fhe has seven acres of these plants. She caught the tide of fashion at its flood when she began to grow the autumn flower. Or.e lady in California has two farms one of ten acres, the other of twelve. From the apricots, cherries and vegetables which she raises on these two patches of land she gets an Income of $5,000 a year. Is not that better than working for some man at 57 a week? Mexican girls are beginning to learn telegraphy, and also are taking plaices in telephone offices. These graceful black-eyed maidens make charming as well as skillful operators. Miss Margaret Brainard does a fine business by shipping early valets, daffodils and jessamines from her Mississippi home to the northern states in spring. One woman florist in Mississippi grows c.imelias especially for the northern flower market and makes a good thing of it. ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER. Playing: Card. Tou can obtain a pack of best quality playing cards by sending fifteen cents in postage to P. S. EUSTIS, Gen'l Pass. AgL, C. B. & Q. R. R., Chicago, 111. THE BEST Your wife will UV n Anticipating the demand, Gpecial arrangements to supply

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ATTACHMENTS Accompanying Each Machine . ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Attachments in bracket are all interchangeable: into hub on prerir bt& fix Bobbins, Seren Nevdle:, One large Screw Driver, One Ptnall Screw Driver, One Wrench, One Instruction Book.

WARRANTY. Every Machine is fullv warranted for five years. Anf part proving defetttve will be replaced free of charge, excepting need. es, bobbins and shuttles.