Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1893 — Page 12

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBEIl 25, 1893 TWELVE PAGES.

AT BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

DIL. TALMAGR FIXDS MANY LESSOXS IX THE LIFEBOAT. A Tonrh of Sarraim on Throiophy-A Good 'Word for Morallam, bat It I . Not SaBlclent Th Only Ark of Safety Ott Aboard. BROOKLYN, Oct. 22. After preaching: on nearly four thousand different subject and being closely fallowed by the printing press for about twenty-five years, the Rev. Dr. Talma&e tili seems to find new subject that have never been preached on. Thl3 forenoon ho chotie for his subject "Unsafe Lifeboats," the text being Acts xxvll, 22, "Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat and let her fail off." While your faces are yet somewhat bronzed by attendance on the International boat contest between the Vigilant and the Valkyrie I address you. Good things when there is no batting or dissipation, those outdKr sporta. We want more fresh air and breeziness In our temperaments and our religion. A stale and slow and lugrubrious religion may have done for other times, yet will not do for these. But my text calls our attention to a boat of a different sort, and instead of the Atlantic it 13 the Mediterranean, and Instead of not wind enough, as the crews of the Vigilant and Valkyrie the other day complained,' there is too much wind and the swoop of a Euroclydon. . I am not calling your attention so much to the famus ship on which Paul was the distinguished passenger, but to the lifeboat of that ship 'vhlch no one eems to notice. For a fortnight the main vessel had been tossed and driven. For that two weeks, the account says, the pasesngers had "continued fasting." I suppose the salt water, dashing over had spoiled the sea biscuit and the passengers were seasick anyhow. The sailors said, "It is no use; this ship must go down." and they proposed among themselves to lower the lifeboat and get into it and take the chances for reaching shore, although they pretended they were going to get over the sides of the big ship and down Into the lifeboat only to do sailor's duty. That was not sailorlike, for the sailors that I have known were all Intrepid fellows and would rather go down with the ship than do such a mean thing as those Jack Tars of my text attempted. When on the Mediterranean last June the Victoria sank under the ram of the Camperdown, the most majestic thing about that awful scene was that all the sailors staid at their posts doing their duty. As a class all over th? world sailors are valorous, but these sailors of the text were exceptional and pretended to do duty while they were really preparing for flight in the lifeboat. But these "marines" on board sea soldiers had In especial charge a little missionary who was turning the world upside down, and when these marines saw the trick the pallors were about to play they lifted the cutlasses from the girdle and chop! chop! went those cutlasses into the ropes that held the lifeboat, and splash! it dropped into the sea, My text describes it "The soldiers cut oft the ropes of the beat and let her fall off." As that empty lifeboat dropped and was capsized on a sea where for two weeks winds and billows had been In battle, I think that many on board the main vessel felt their last hope of ever eachlng home had vanished. In that tempestuous sea ausmalt boat could not have lived five minutes. A Tribute to Sailors. My subject is "Unsafe Lifeboats." We cannot exaggerate the importance of the lifeboat. All honor to the memory of Lionel Lukin, the coach builder of Long Acre, London, who invented the first lifeboat, and I do not blame him for ordering1 put upon hla tombstone in Kent the inscription that you may still read there: "This Lionel Lukin waa the first who built a lifeboat, and was the original Inventor of that principle of safety by which many live and much property have been preserved from shipwreck, and he obtained for it the king's patent in the year 17S5." All honor to the memory to Sir William Hillary, who, living in the Isle of Man, tnd after assisting with his own hand in the rescue of 303 lives of the shipwrecked, stirred the English parliament to quick action in the construction of lifeboats. Thanks to God for the sublime and pathetic and divine mission of ths lifeboat. No one will doubt its Important mission who has read of the wreck of the Amazon Jn the Bay of Biscay, of the Tweed running on the reefs of the Gulf of Mexico, or of the Ocean Monarch on the coast of Wales, or of the Birkenhead on the Cape of Good Hope, or of the Royal Charter on the coast of Anglesea, or of the Exmouth on the Scotch breakers, or of the Cambria on the Irish coast, or of the Atlantic on the rocks of Nova Scotia, or of the Lexington on Long Island sound. To add still further to the importance of the lifeboat, remember there are at least 3.000,000 men following the sea, to say nothing of the uncounted millions at this moment oceai passengers. We "land lubbers," as sailors call us, may not know the difference between a marllnespike and a ring bolt, or anything about heaving a log, or rigging out a flying Jlbboom, or furling a topsail, but we all realize to greater or less extent the importance of a lifeboat la every marine equipment. The Soul' a Lifeboat. But do we feel the importance of a lifeboat in the matter of the soul's rescue? There are times when we all feel that we are out at sea, and as many disturbing and anxious questions strike us as waves struck that vessel against the sides of which the lifeboat of my text dangled. Questions about the church. ' Questions about the world. Questions about God. Questions about our eternal destiny. Every thinking man and woman has these questions, and in proportion as they are thinking people do these questions arise. There is no wrong in thinking. If God had not Intended us to think, and keep on thinking, he would not have built under this whelhouse of the skull this thinking machine, which halts not in its revolution from cradle to grave. Even the midnight does not stop the thinking machine, for when we are in dreams we are thinking, although we do not think as well. All of us who are accustomed to thinking want to reach some solid shore of safety and satisfaction, and if any one has a good lifeboat that we may honorably take I wish he would unswing it from the davits and let us get into it and put for shore. But give you fair notice I must first examine the lifeboat before I risk my soul in it or advise you to risk your soul in it. All the splendid Itamsgate lifeboats.and Margate lifeboats, and South Shields lifeboats, and American lifeboats were tested before being put into practical use

as to their buoyancy and speed and stowage and self-righting capacity. And when you offer my soul a lifeboat I must first test it. There is as plendld new lifeboat called Theosophy. It has only a little while been launched, although some of the planks are really several thousand years old and from a worm-eaten ship, but they are painted over and look new. They are really fatalism and pantheism of olden time. But we must forget that and call them Theosophy. The Grace Darling of this lifeboat was an oarswoman by the name of Mme. Blavatsky, but the oarswoman now is Anna Besant. So many are getting aboard the boat It is worthy of examination, both because of the safety of those who have entered it and because we ourselves are invited to get In. Its theory Is that everything is God. Horse and star and trie and man are parts of God. We have three souls an animal soul, a human soul, a spiritual soul. The animal soul becomes after awhile a wandering thing, trying to express itself through mediums. It enters beasts or enters a human being,, end when you find an effeminate man it is because a woman's soul has got into the man, and when you find a masculine woman it Is because a man's soul has taken possession of a woman's body. If you find a woman has become a platform speaker and likes politics she is possessed by a dead politician, who forty years ago made the platform quake. The soul keeps wandering on and on, and may have fifty or innumerable different forms, and finally is absorbed in Ood. It was God at the start and will be God at the last. But who gives the authority for the truth of such a religion? Some beings living in a cave In central Asia. They are invisible to the naked eye, but they cross continents and seas in a flash. My baptist brother. Dr. Haldemarv, says that a theosophist in New York was visited by one of these mysterious beings from central Asia. The gentleman knew It from the fact that the mysterious being left his pocket handkerchief, embroidered with his name and Asiatic residence. The most wonderful achievement of the theosophlsts Is that they keep out of the insane asylum. They prove the truth of the statement that no religion ever announced was so absurd but it gained disciples. Societies In the United States and England and other lands have been established for the promulgation of theosophy. Instead of heeding the revelation of a bible, you can have these spirits from a cave in central Asia to tell you all you ought to know, and after you leave this life you may become a prima-donna, or a robin, or a gazelle, or a sot, or a prizefighter, or a Ilerod, or a Jezebel, and so be enabled to have great variety of experience, rotating through the universe, now rising, now falling, now shot out in a straight line and now describing a parabola, and on and on, and up and up, and down and down, and round and round. Don't you see? Now, that theosophie lifeboat has been launched. It proioe8 to take you off the rough sea of dcubt Into everlasting quietude. How do you like that lifeboat? My opinion is you had better imitate the mariners of my text and cut off the ropes of that boat and let her fail off. The .Morullat'a Hope. Another lifeboat tempting us to enter is made up of many planks of good works. It is really a beautiful boat almsgiving, practical sympathies for human suffering, righteous words and righteous deeds. I must admit I like the looks of the prow, and of the rowlocks, and of the paddles, and of the steering crear, and of many who are thinking to trust themselves to her benches. But the trouble about that lifeboat is it leaks. I never knew a man yet good enough to earn heaven by his virtues or generosities. If there.be one person, here present on this blessed Sabbath all of whose thoughts have been always right, all of whose actions have been always right, and all of whose words have always been right, let him stand up, or if already standing let him lift his hand, and I will know that he lies. Paul had it about right wnen he said, "By-the deeds of the law shall no flesh living be justified." David had it about right when he said, "There Is none that doeth good no, not one." The old book had It about right when it said, "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Let a man g-t off that little steamer called the Maid of the Mist, which sails up to the foot of Niagara Falls, and then climb to the top of the falls on the descending floods, for he can do it easier than any man ever will be able to climb to heaven by his good works. If your thoughts have always been exactly right, and your words exactly right, and your deeds exactly right, you can go up to the gate of heaven, and you need not even knock for admittance, but open it yourself and push the angels out of your way and go up and take one of the front seats. Cut you would be so unlike any one else that has gone up from this world that you would be a curiosity in heaven and more fit for a heavenly museum than for a place where the Inhabitants could look at you free of charge. No, sir. I admire your good works, and that lifeboat you are thinking of trusting In is handsomer than any yawl or pinnace or yacht or cutter that ever sped out of a boathouse or hoisted sail for a race. But she leaks. Trust your soul in1 that and you will go to the bottom. She leaks. So I imitate the mariners of the text, and with a cutlass strike the ropes of the boat and let her fall off. The Hope of the Hypocrite. Another lifeboat is Christian inconsistencies. The planks of this boat are composed of the split planks of shipwrecks. That prow is made out of hypocrisy from the life of a man who professed one thing and really was another. One oar of this lifeboat was the falsehood of a church member and the other oar was the wickedness of some minister of the gospel whose iniquities were not for a long while found out. Not one plank from the oak of God's eternal truth in all that lifeboat. All the planks, by universal admission, ara decayed and crumbling and fallen apart and rotten and ready to sink. "Well, well!" you say. "No one will want to get Into that lifeboat." Oh. my friend, you are mistaken. That Is the most popular lifeboat ever constructed. That Is the most popular lifeboat ever launched. Millions of people want to get in it. They Jostle each other to get the beet seat In the boat. You could not keep them back though you stood at the gunwales with a club, as on our ship Greece in a hurricane, and the steerage passengers were determined to come up on deck, where they would have been washed off, and the officers stood at the top of the stairs'' clubbing them back. Even by such violence as that you could not keep people from Jumping Into the most popular lifeboat, made of church member Inconsistencies. In times of revival when sinners flock into the inquiry room the most of them are kept from deciding aright because they know &J many Christians who are bad. The inquiry room becomes a world's fair for exhibition of all the frailties cf church members, so that you would be afraid to enter a church lest you get your pockets picked or get knocked down. This is the way they talk: "I was cheated out of J500 by a leader of a bible class." "A Sunday school teacher gossiped about me and did her best to desroy my good name." "I had a partner In business who swamped our business concern by his trickery and then rolled up his eyes In Friday night prayer meeting, as though he were looking for Elijah's chariot to make a second trip and take up another passenger. But what a cracked and water-logged and gaping seamed lifeboat the Inconsistencies of others! Put me on a shingle mid-Atlantic and leave me there rather than In such & yawl of spiritual confidence. God forbid that I should get abord it, and lest some of you make, the mistake of getting into It I do as the ; mariners did on that Mediterranean

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Kidney, and Uterina Pains and Weaknesee rIITl In one) nilnut by the Cntlctira Anti-Pain Plaster, the first aud only paio-kilUng plaster. ehip when the sailors were about to get into the unsafe lifeboat of the text and lose their lives In that way. "Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the boat and let her fall off." The Only Safe Life Boat. "Well," says some one, "this subject is very discouraging, for we must have a lifeboat if we are ever to get ashore, and you have already condemned three." Ah, it is because I want to persuade you to take the only safe lifeboat. I will not allow you to be deceived and get on to the wild waves and then capsize or sink. Thank God, there is a lifeboat that will take you ashore in safety, as sure as God Is God and heaven is heaven. The keel and ribs of this boat are made out of a tree that was pet up on, a bluff back of Jerusalem a good many years ago. Both of the oars are made out of the same tree. The rowlocks are made out of the same tree. The steering gear is made out of the same tree. The planks of It were hammered tneether hv the hammers of exeVutioners who thought they were only Mlllng a Christ, but were really pounding together an escape for all imperled souls of all ages. It Is an old boat, but good as new, though It has been carrying passengers from sinking ships to firm shore for ages and has never lost a passenger. These old Christians begin to smile because it is dawning upon them what I mnn. The fact Is that in this way years Bgo they got oft a wreck themselves, and I do not wonder they smile. It Is not a senseless glgle that means frivolity, but it is a smile like that on the face of Christians the moment they leave earth for heaven, yea, like the smile of Cod himself when he had completed the plan for saving the world. Right after that big tumble of the Atlantic ocean six or seven weeks ago on the beach at East Hampton I met the captain of the life-saving station and said: "Captain, do you think a lifeboat could live in a sea like that?" Although the worst of it was over, the captain replied, "No, I do not think it could." But this lifeboat of which I speak can live In any sea and defies all breakers, and all cyclones, and all equinoxes, and all earth, and all hell. In twenty years the life saving apparatus along our Atlantic roast saved the lives of over 45.000 of the shipwrecked, but this lifeboat that I commend has saved in twenty years hundreds of millions of the shipwrecked. I.Ike those newly invented Knglish lifeboats, it is InsubmerglLle, self-righting and self-balling. All along our rocky American coast things were left to chance for centuries, and the shipwrecked crawled up on the beach to die unless some one happened to walk along or some fisherman's hut might be near. Hut after the ship Ayrshire was wrecked at Squan beach, and the Powhatan left her 300 dead strewn along our coast, and another vessel went on the rocks, 400 lives perishing, the United States government woke up and made an appropriation of $200,000 for life saving stations, and life lines from faking box ore shot over the wild surf, and hawsers are stretched from wreck to shore, and what with Lyle's gun and six-oared surfboat, with cork at the sides to make it unsinkable. and patrolmen all night long walking the beach until they meet each other and exchange metal tickets, so as to show the entire beach has been traversed, and the Coston light flashes hope from shore to sufferer, and surf men, incased in Merrlman life saving dresa and life car rolling on the ropt-s, there are many probabilities of rescue for the unfortunate of the sea. But the government of the united heavens has made better provision for the rescue of our souls. So close by that this moment we can put our hand on its top and swing Into it. Is this gospel lifeboat. It will not take you more than a second to get into it. A Life Float for All. But while in my text we stand watching the marine with their cutlasses, preparing to sever the ropes of the lifeboat and let her fall off, notice the poor equipment Only one lifeboat. Two hundred and seventy-six passengers, as Paul counted them, and only one lifeboat. My text uses the singular and not the plural. "Cut off the ropes of the boat." I do not suppose it would have held more than thirty people, . though loaded to the water's edge. I think by marine law all our modern vessels have enough lifeboats to hold all the crew and all the passengers in case of emergency, but the marines of my text were standing by the only boat, and that a small boat, and yet 276 passengers. But what thrills me through and through Is the fact that though we are wrecked by sin and trouble, and there is only one lifeboat, that boat is large enough to hold all who are willing to get Into it. The gospel hymn expresses it: All may come, whoever wlllj This Man receives poor sinners still. But I must haul In that statement a little. Room for all in that lifeboat, with Just one exception. Not you; I do not mean you, but there is one exception. There have been cases where ships were in trouble and the captain got all the passengers and crew into the lifeboats, but, there was not room for the captain. He, through the sea trumpet, shouted: "Shove off now and pull for the beach. Good by," and then the captain with pathetic and sublime self-sacrifice went down with the ship. So the captain of our salvation. Christ the Lord, launches the gospel lifeboat and teils us ail v. get in, but he perishes. "It behooved Christ to suffer." Was It not so, ye who witnessed his agonizing expiration? Simon of Cyrene, was It not so? Cavalry troops whose horses pawed the dust at the crucifixion, was It not so? Ye Marys who swooned away with the sun of the midday heavens, was It not so? "By his strip we are healed." By his death we live. By his sinking In the deep sea of suffer-i lng wo get off In a safe lifeboat. Yes, we must put Into this story a little of our own personality. We had a ride In that very lifeboat from, foundered craft to solid .höre. Once on the raging seas I rowed. The storm was loud; the nlsjht was dark: The ocean yawned and rudely hlow'd The wind that tossed my foundering bark. But I got into the gospel lifeboat, and I got ashore. No religious speculation for me. These higher criticism fellows do not bother me a bit. You may ask fifty questions about the sa, and about the land, and about the lifeboat that I cannot answer, but one thing I know, I am ashore, and I am going to stay ashore, if the Lord t-y his grace will help me. I feel under me something bo firm that I try It with my right foot, and try it with my left foot, and then I try it with both feet, and it is so solid that I think it must be what the old folks used ta call the Bock of Ages. And be my remaining dayp on earth many or lew X ara going to spend my

time in recommending the lifeboat which fetched me here, a poor sinner saved by grace, and in swinging the cutlasses to sever the rop of my .unsafe lifeboat and let her fall off. My bearer, without asking any questions, get into the gospel lifeboat. Room! and yet there is room! The biggest boat on earth is the gospel lifeboat. You must remember the proportion of things, and that ' the shipwrecked craft is the whole ea rth, and the lifeboat must be in proportion. You talk about your Campanlars, and your Lucanlas, and your Majesties, and your City of New Yorks, but all of them put together are smaller than an Indian's canoe of Schroon lake compared with this gospel lifeboat, that Is largo enough to take In all nations. Room for one and room for all. Get in! "How? How?' you ask. Well, I know how you feel, for summer before last, on the sea of Finland, I had the same experience. The ship in which we sailed could not venture nearer than a mile from shore, where stood the Russian palace of Peterhof, and we had to get into a small boat and be rowed ashore. The water was rough, and as we went down the ladder at the sld of the ship we held firmly on to the railing, but in order to get into the boat we had at last to let go. How did I know that the boat was good and that the oarsmen were sufficient? How' did I know that the Finland sea would not swallow us with one opening of Its crystal Jaws We had to trust, and we did trust. And our trust was well rewarded. In the same way get Into this gospel lifeboat. Let go! As long as you hold on to any other hope you are imperiled, and you get no advantage from the lifeboat. Let go! Does some one here say, "I guess I will hold on a little to my good works, or to a pious parentage, or to something I can do In the way of achieving my own salvation. No, no. let go! Trust the Captain, who would not put you into a rickety or uncertain craft. The Ouly Snre Itesonree. For the sake of your present and ever lasting welfate, with all the urgency of an immortal addressing immortals, I cry from the depths of my so'ul and at the top r-t my voice, "Let go!" Last summer the life saving crew at East Hampton invited me to come up to the life station and see the crew practice, for twice a week they are drilled in the Important work assigned them by the United States government, and they go through all the routine of saving the shipwrecked. But that would give little Idea of what they would have to do if some midnight next winter, the wind driving beachward, a vessel should get in the grasp of a hurricane. See the lights flare from the ship In the breakers, and then responding lights flaring from the beach, and hear the rockets buzz as they rise, and the lifeboat rumbles out, and the gun booms, and th lifeline rises and falls across the splintered decks, and the hawser tightens, and the life car goes to and fro, carrying the exhausted mariners, and the ocean, as if angered by the snatching of the human prey from the white teeth of its surf and the stroke of its billowing paw, rises with increased fury to assail the land. So now I am engaged In no liaht drill, practicing for what mey come over some of your souls. It is with some of you wintry midnights, and your hopes for this world and the next are wrecked. But see! See! The lights kindled on the beach. I throw out the life line. Haul in, hand over hand! Ah, there Is a lifeboat In the surf which all the wrath of earth and hell cannot swamp, and its Captain with scarred hand puts the trumpet to his lips as ho cries, "Oh, Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thy help." But what is the use of all this If you decline to get into It. You might as ell have been a sailor on board that foundering ship of the Mediterranean when the mariners cut the ropes of the boat and let her fall off. ALL THE COMFORTS OP A HOME.

A Knnana Thief A'nnt for Nothing, Kot Even Medicine or Grnveatone. Kansas City has developed one of the most unique thieves that has yet been heard of In real life. Several months ago the police force learned that a sneakthlef was making depredations upon cellars and pai tries, and even on outlying grocery stores, and carrying on canned goods and such eatables as were not perishable. There were certain peculiarities about the robberies that led the police to believe that they were all done by the same person, but there was no clue that they could follow to catch the thief. After amassing a goodly quantity of food on which to start to housekeeping the thief began on fuel, and whole cart loads were carried away, each case showing the evidences of the food thief. When a full supply of coal was taken the thief turned his attention to furniture, and carried off articles of all kinds, from light chairs to a heavy bedstead with mattresses. An entire bed-room set was taken from a house and no trace left. The family was absent for a night, and on their return they found their room despoiled. Having furnished his bedroom and parlors the depredator set about getting hl3 kitchen in order, and first an ice chest was taken from a house In Armourdale, and then a cook stove and kitchen table from a house in Rosedale. By this time the police were fully alive- to the fact that the stealing was going on right under their noses, and they began to talk about the queer thief. This attention seems to have flattered the thief, for he signalized his presence next by carrying off a large base burner stove from a parlor in Kansas City, Kas., while the family was spending the evening with a neighbor. This occurred lust week, and since then it appears tht the man has his furniture, food and fuel for the winter, for the depredations have ceased. Another phase, however, seems to have broken out, and it Is evident that a member of the thief's family has sickened and died. A few days ago a drug store was broken into and medicine taken, and last night the climax was reached when the thief went to the cemetery out on the Qulndare boulevard and carried off a fine tombstone. There is a talent here that Bhows a development of a system that would beat a bank, and the police are very anxious to make the acquaintance of the thief. The "lie of the Sea. There are not many people who. If they were to be asked the question, could tell the size of the salt waters of the earth. The figures are so great that they could only say, with Dominie Sampson, "Prodigious!" Any yet some Interesting Illustrations and comparisons may be given as to the size of the sea, and here is a simple one found in Golden Days: The whole sea 1 composed of the Atlantic and Pacific, the Indian ocean, the Arctic and Antarctic seas and various smaller bodies of water. It has an area of 140,000,000 square miles and would form a circle of 13.350 miles In diameter. The relative size of the areas of the whole surface of the earth, of the whole sea, of the Pacific and of the Atlantic can be represented by a silver dollar for the surface of the earth, a half dollar for the surface of the whole sea, a 23-cent piece for the surface of the Pacific and a silver half dime for the surface of the Atlantic. A Thrifty Southern "Woman. A planter's wife was left with a Mississippi river plantation, under $23.000 martgage and a family of five children, Just ready for school and college. The two years illness of her husband had given her a grasp of the business. After his death, when the commission merchant came up to "close her out," the Improved condition of the place and the wisdom of her plans caused him to' say: "I'll advance all the money you want this year." At the end of three years she had paid the mortgage, sent her sons and daughters to college, and her plantation was universally confessed to be the best improved one In the country. Not very long after she married the young man whom he had placed in charge of a store she opened. Atlanta Constitution.

ERRORS ABOUT THE JEWS.

CIIAXGES CAISED I1Y lATERMARniACiE AXD RELIGIOIS SCHISM. The nv. Dr. Silverman Eloquently Defends) Ilia Knee Miatakea aud Erroneous Impreasnlona of I'uat Asel Pointed Oat Christ Was Aot Killed by the Jens. Hebrew Is the name of an ancient race from which the Jew is descended, but there have been so many admixtures to the original race that scarcely a trace of it exists in the modern Jews. Intermarriage with Egyptians, the various Canaanitlsh nations ,the Midlanltes, Syrians, etc., are frequently mentioned in the bible. There have also been additions to the Jews by voluntary conversions such as that in the eighth century, of Bulan, prince of the Chasars, and his entire people. We can, therefore, not be said to be a distinct race today. We form no separate nation and no faction of any nation. We form merely an independent religious community. We are often charged with exclusiveness and clannishnesti, with having only narrow tribal aspirations and with being averse to breaking down social barriers. Few outside of that inner close circle that is to be met in the Jewish home or social group know aught of the Jew's domestic happiness and social virtues. If there is any clannishness In the Jews it is due not to any contempt for . the outside world, but to an utter abandon to the charm of home and the fascination of confreres In thought and sentiment. However, If there Is a remnant of excluslveness in the Jew of today is he to blame for It? Did he create the social barrier? The fact that Jews are, as a rule, averse to intermarriage with nonJews has been quoted in evidence o Jewish exclusiveness. The historical fact is that the Roman catholio council held at Orleans in 533 A. C. E.. first prohibited Christians to Intermarriage with Jews. This decree was later enforced by meting out the penalty of death to both parties to such a union. Jewish rabbis, then, as a matter of self-protection, interdicted the practice of interrAarrlage. And though today men are free to act according to their taste, there exists on the part of the Jew as much repugnance of intermarriage ae on the part of the Christian. Such ties are, os a rule, not encouraged by the families of either side, and for very good cause. So little Is Judaism understood by educated men outside of our ranks that it is commonly believed that all Jews have the same form of faith and practice. Here the same error of reasoning Is used to which reference has already been made, in speaking of the character of the Jew as an Individual and as a class. Because some Jews still believe in the coming of a personal Messiah, or In bodily resurrection, or In the establishment of a Palestinian kingdom, the inference Is at once drawn by many that all Jews hold the same belief. Very little Is known by the populace of the several schisms in modern Judaism denominated as orthodox, conservative, reform and radical. It is not my province to speak exhaustively of these sects, and it must suffice to merely remark here that orthodox Judaism believes in carrying out the letter of the ancient Mosaic code as expounded by the Talmudic rabbis; that reform Judaism seeks to retain the spirit only of the ancient law, discarding the absolute authority of both bible and Talmud, making reason and modern demands paramount; that conservatism i.s merely moderate reform, while radicalism declares itself independent of established forms, clinging mainly to the ethical basis of Judaism. To prevent the inference that Judaism Is not positive quantity, and that there are lrrconcilable differences dividing the various sects, I will say that all Jews agree on essentials and declare their belief in the unity and spirituality of God, In the efficacy of religion for spiritual regeneration and for ethical improvement, in the universal law of compensation according to which are the reward and punishment, either here or hereafter, in the final triumph of truth, and fraternity of all men. It may be briefly stated that the Decalogue forms the constitution of Judaism. According to Moses, the prophem. and the historical Interpretation of Judaism, whosoever believes and practices the "Ten Commandemts" Is a Jew. The meager results achieved by missionaries and tracts have proved how futile are all efforts to convert the Jews. The Jew Is tolerant by nature, tolerant by virtue of his religious teaching. He believes In allowing every man THE BEST Your wife will Anticipating the demand, cpecial arrangements to supply

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what he claims for himself, the right to work out his own salvation and make his own peace with God. He has only one Important request to make to Christian teachers and preachers, namely, that they desist from teaching their school children and congregations the prevailing error that the Jews have crucified Jesus of Nazareth. Because of the great error the believing world looks upon the Jew through an Imperfect medium, one that enlarges faults and minimizes virtues. It is this error which has caused so much prejudice, bitter hatred and unjust persecution. If it were once corrected the way would be open for the correction of many other errors. Now is the great opportunity of the age for rectifying It. Let the truth be told to the world by the assembled parliament of religions, that not the Jews but the "Romans crucified the great Nazarlne teacher." The Kev. Dr. Silverman. SLIGHTLY MIXED. Senator Quay Claused Yrlth Democrats In Congressional Directory. There Is a new alignment of parties In the senate, which was only discovered recently, and will undoubtedly attract wide attention. An Investigation of the alphabetical list of senators, representatives and delegates in the back part of the special edition of the Congressional Directory, first session. Fifty-third congress, reveals the fact that Itedfield Proctor, heretofore supposed to be a republican senator, has the fatal D of democracy against his name. Senator Pugh of Alabama is made to abandon hbi HfelongV advocacy of the principles of Jefferson and is decorated with an R. The subtle Junior senator from Pennsylvania penetrates the arena of the opposing forces with the open sesame of a D. He is accompanied In his journey into Canaan by Senator George L. Shoup of Idaho, who may be persuaded to remain in the democratic camp If he can find free sliver there. The scales of recalcitrancy are evened, however, by the action of Senator Roach of North Dakota and Senator Smith of New Jersey, who, having been rounded up as mavericks, had the It brand Jabbed into their flanks. These remarkable conversions from life-long principles and party adherence were due to the persuasive powers of an unknown employe of the government printing office, who didn't care whether the It's were D's or not. These senators are expected to return to their accustomed allegiance in the next edition. Washington Post. A Distinction with a. Difference. Many of the eastern newspapers are asking the fool question, "What would you do if you had $1,000,000 or $2.000.000?" They endeavor to get notables to answer. One paper varied the query, which was sent to the clerks of the country stores. "Have you ever thought what you would do if you were in Rothschild's place and had all his money?" One clerk answered grimly: "No, that has never troubled me: but I have often asked myself what Rothschild would do If he had only my salary." Denver Sun. Dl Ina tn Dtsanlse. Pad Boy (gleefully) "I had the earache this momln'." Good Hoy "What good is that?" Iad Boy "Me mother put cotton in me ears, an' now I don't hear 'er when sho calls." Street & Smith's Good News. MACHINE be in want of a eel THE SENTINEL has made your wants. two drawers instead of four, will $16.00.

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