Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1894 — Page 12

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17, 1894-TWELYE PAGES.

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WIIEnK'S MOTHKR fVA THE REV, DR. TALM AGE'S SUBJECT SIXDAY. A Qorrn I nto (iori Forerer 01l Fahitnl Molhrra Heating: In Good, Km)', Comfortable llravrn nl 'Wnltlnq; nt the ralace "Window for Their I.oved Ones. BROOKLYN, Jan. 14 This novel and unique subject was presented by Dr. Talmage this forenoon to the usual throngs crowding the largest protestant church in America. The congregation, led by organ and corent, sang a gospel hymn to th tune of "Home. Sweet Home." Text, Judges 28, "The mother of Sisera looked out at a window." Spiked to the ground of Jael's tnt lay the dead commander-in-chief of the Canaanitish host, Gen. Sisera, not far from the river Klshon, which was only a dry bed of pebbles when in 1SS9, in Palestine, we crossed it, but the gullies and ravines which ran Into it indicated the possibility of grcit freshets like the one at the time of th text. Gen. Sisera had gone cut with DOO iron chariots, but he was defeated, am!, chariot wheels interlocked with the wheels of oth?r chariots, ho could not retreat fat eno igh, and so ho leaped to tho ground and ran till, exhausted, he went into Jael's tent for safety. She had just been churning, and when he asked for water she gave him buttermilk, whit h in the east is considered a most refreshing drink. Very tired and supposing he was safe, lie went to sleep upon the fiior, but Jael, who had resolved upon his death, took a tent pin, lonij and round and sharp, in one hand and a hammer iu her other hand, and putting th sharp ond of the tent pin to th? forehead of Sisera, with her other hand she lifted tho hammer and brought it down on the head of tlu? pin, with a stout stroke, when Sisera struggled to rise, and shs struck him again, and he struggled to rise, and the third time she struck him, and th commander-in-chief of the Canaanitish host lay dead. Meanwhile in the distance Sisera's mother sits amid surroundings of wealth and pomp and S'enes palatial waiting for his return. Kvery mother expects her son to be victorious, and this mother looked out at the window expecting to pee him drive up in his chariot, followed by wagons loaded wjth embroideries and also by regiments of men vanquished and enslaved. I see. her now sitting at the window in high expectation. She watches the farthest turn of the road. She looks for the flying dust of the swift hoofa. The first flash of the bit of the horse's bridle she will catch. The Death of Slftern. The ladies of the court stand round, and she tells them of what they shall have when her son comes up chains of gold and carcanet3 of beauty and dresses of such wondrous fabric and splendor as the bibla only hints at, but leaves us to imagine. "Ho ought to be here by this time," says his mother. "That battle is eurely over. I hope that freshet of the river Kishon has not Impeded him. I hope those strange appearances we saw last night in the sky were not ominous when the stars e-emed to fight in their courses. No, no! He is s brave in battle I know he has won the day. He will soon be here." But alas for the disappointed mother! She wil not see the glittering headgear of the horses at full jrallop bringing: her jn home from victorious battle. As a Solitary messenger arriving in hot haste Ildes up to the window at which tho mother of Sisera sits he cries, "Your armies aro defeated, and your son i dead!" There U a scene of horror and unguish from which we turn away. Now you see the full meaning of my Fhort text, "The mother of Sisera looked out at a window." Well, my friends, we are all out in the battle of life. It i3 raging now, and the most of us have a mother watching and waiting for news f our victory or defeat. If she be not sitting at the window of earth, she is Bitting at a window of heaven, and she is going to hear all about it. By all the rules of war Si.sera ought to have been triumphant. He had 50i iron chariots and a host of many thousands vaster than the armies of Isreal. Hut Ood was on the other side, and the angry freshets of Kishon, and the hail, the lightning, and the unmanageable war horses, and the capsized chariots, and the stellar panic in the sky discomfited Sisera. Josephus in his history describes th scene In the following words: "Wlien they were come to a close tight there came down from heaven a great torm with a vast quantity cf rain and hail, and the wind blew the rain in the face of the Canaanites and s darkened their eyes their arrows and slings wer? of no advantage to them, nor would the coldness of the air permit the scldiera to make use of their swords, while this storm did not so much incommode the Israelites because it came on their Jacks. They also took such courage upon the apprehension that God was assisting thm that they slew a great number of them, so that some of them fell by the Israelites, some fell by their own horses which were put into disorder, and not a few were killed by their own chariots." At Ileaven'n AVI 11 dorr. Hence, my hearer.-, the bad news brought to the mother of Sisera looking out at the window. And our mother, whether sitting at a window of earth or a window of heaven, will hear the news cf our victory or defeat, not according to our talents or educational equipment or our opportunities, but according a to whether Cod is for us or against us. "Where's mother?" is the question most frequently askd in many household?. It is asked by the husband as well as the child coming in at nightfall, 'Where's mother?" It is asked by the little one when they get hurt and come in crying with the pain, "Where's mother?" It is asked by thofe who have Feen some grand sight or heard some jroods news or received some beautiful gift. "Where s mother?" She sometimes feels wearied by the question, for they all ask it and keep asking it r.ll the time. She Is not only the first to hear every case of perplexity, but she is the judge in every court of domestic appeal. That is what puts the premature wrinkles on so many maternal foreheads. You see it is a question that keeps on for all the years of childhood. It comes from the nursery, und from the evening stand where the boys and g'rls are learning their school lesson, and from the starting out In the morning, when the tippet or hat or slate or book or overshoe is lost, until at r.Ight, all out of breath, the youngsters come in and shout until you can hear them from cellar to garret and from front door to the back fence of the back yard. "Where's mother?" Indeed a child's life is so full of that question that if he be taken away one t the things that the mother most misses and the silence that most oppresses her is the absence of that question, which the will never hear on earth again, except she hears it in a dream which sometimes restores the nursery Jut as It was, and then the voice comes back so natural, and so sweet, and io innocent, and so inquiring that the kfiream breaks at the words, "Where's mother?" A Qneen I nto GoI ForeTer. If that question were put to most of us this morn ii ig, we would have to say. If we spoke truthfully, like Sisera's mother, she is at th palace window. She has Ufome a quen untu Jod forever, ani etc U pulling back the rich

folds of the king's upholstery to look down at us. We are not told the particulars about the residence of Sisera's mother, but there is in that scene in the book of Judges so much about embroideries and needlework and ladles in waiting that we know her residence must have been princely and palatial. So we have no minute and particular description of the palace at whose window our glorified mother sits, but there is so much In the closing chapters of the good old book about crowns and pearls big enough to make a gate out of one of them, new songs and marriage suppers, and harps, and white horses with kings In the stirrups, and golden candlesticks that we know the heavenly residence of our mother is superb, is unique, is colonnaded, is domed. Is embowered, is fcuntained. is glorified beyond the power of pencil or pen or tongue to present, and in the window of that palace the mother sits watching for news from the battle. What a contrast between that celestial surrounding and her once earthly surroundings: What a work to bring up a family in the old time way. with but little or no hired help, except perhaps for the washing day or for the jswine slaughtering, commonly called "the killing day!" There was then no reading of elaborate treatises on the best modt-s of rearing children and then leaving it all to hired help, with one or two visits a day to the nursery to see if the principles announced are being carried out. The most of those old folks did the sewing, the washing, the mending, the darning, the patching-, the millinery, the mantua making, the housekeeping and in hurried time helrd spread the hay or tread down the load in the mow. They were at the same time caterers, tailors, doctors, chaplains and nurses for a whole household all together down

with measles or scarlet fever, or round the house with whooping ough and croups and runround fingers and earaches and all the infantile distempers which at some time swoop upon every large household. Some of those mothers never got rested in this world. Instead of the self-rocking cradles of our day, which, wound up. will go hour after hour for the solace of the young slumberer. it was weary foot on the rocker sometimes half the day and half the night rockroc k roc k roc k . Instead of our drug stores filled with all the wonders of materia medica and called up through a telephone, with them the only apothecary short of four miles ride was a garret, with its bunches of peppermint and pennyroyal and catnip and mustard and camomile flowers, which wre expected to du everything. Just think of it! The Old Fnnliiiinril Mother. Fifty years of preparing breakfast, dinner and supper. The chief music they heard was that of spinning wheel and rocking chair. Fagged out, headachy and with ankles swollen. Those oldfashioned mothers if any persons cv-r fitted appropriately into a good, easy, comfortable heaven they were the folks, and they got there, and they are rested. They wear no spectacles, for they have their third sight as they lived long enough on earth to get their second sight and they do not have to pant for breath after going up the emerald stairs of the eternal palace, at whos window they now sit waiting for the news from the battle. Dut if any one keeps on asking the question. "Where's mother?" I answer, she is in your present character. The probability is that your physical features suggest her. If there be seven children in a household at least six of them look like their mother, and the older you get the more you will look like her. I'.ut I speak now especially of your character and not of your looks. This is easily explained. During the first ten years of your life you were almost all the time with her, and your father you saw only mornings and nights. There are no years In my life fo important f-r impression as the first ten. Then and there is th impression mad? for virtue or vice, for truth or falsehood, for bravery or cowardice, for religion or skepticism. Suddenly start from behind a door and frightened the child, and you may shatter his nevous system for a lifetime. During the first ten years vm can tell him enough spook "stories t make him a -.-oward till he dies. Act bfore him as 'hough Friday were an unlucky day, and it were baleful to have thirteen at the table, or see the moon over the left shoulder, and he will never recover from the idiotic superstitions. You may give that girl before she is ten years old a fondness for dress that will make her a nere "dummy framo." nfashion plate, for forty years. F.zekiet xvi. 44, "As is the mother so is her daughter." Before one decade has passed you can decide whether that boy shall be a Shylock of a George Pealxxly. liovs and girls are generally echoes of fathers and mothers. What an incoherent thing for a mother out of temper to punish a child for getting mad. or for a f :her who smokes to shut his boy up in a dark closet because he has found him with an old stump of a cigar in his mouth, or for that mother to rebuke h-r daughter for staring at herself too much in the looking glass when the mother has her own mirrors so arranged as to repeat her from all sides. The great English poet's loose moral character was decided lfure he left the nursery, and his school-master in the school room overheard this conversation: "llyron, your mother is a fool," and he answered. "I know it." The Good Ilririgp or Moral. You can hear through all the hen de; life of Senator Sam Houston the words of his mother when she in the war of 1812 put a musket in his hands and said: "There, my son, take this and never disgrace it, for remember I had rather nil my sons should fill one honorable grave than that one of them should turn his back on an enemy. Io and remember, too, that while the door of my cottage is open to all brave men it is always shut against cowards." Agrippina, th mother of Xero, a murderess, you are not surprised that her son was a murderer. Give that child an overdose of catechism, and make him recite verses of the bible as a punishment, and make Sunday a bore, and he will become a stout antagonist of Christianity. Impress him with the kindness and the geniality and the loveliness of religion, and he will be its advocate and exemplar for all time and eternity. A few days ago right before our express train on the Louisville & Nashville railroad ths preceding train had gone down through a broken bridge, twelve cars falling a hundred feet and then consumed. I saw that only one span of the bridge was down and all the other spans were standing. Plan a good bridge of morals for your sons and daughters, but have the first span of ten years defective, and through that they will crash down, though all the rest keep standing. O man, O woman. If you have preserved your Integrity and are really Christian, you have first of al! to thank God, and I think next you have to thank your mother. The most impressive thing at the inauguration of James A. Garfield as president of the United States was that after he had taken the oath of office he turned round, and In the presence of the supreme court and the senate of the United States kissed his old mother. If I had time to take statistics out of this audience and I could ask what proportion of you who are Christians owe your salvation under God to maternal fidelity, I think about three-fourths of you would spring to your feet. "Ha! ha!" said the soldiers of the regiment to Charlie, one of their comrades. "What has made the change in you? You used to like sin as well as any of us." Pulling from his pocket his mother's letter, in which, after telling of some comforts Fhe had sent him, she concluded, "We are all praying for you, Charlie, that you may be a Christian," he said, "Coys, that's the sentence." The Keedle anri the Sword. The trouble with Sisera's mother was that while sitting at the window' of my text watching for news of her son from thj baltkneld fcha hdA ilia two bad

qualities of being dissolute and being too fond of personal adornment. The bible account says: "Her wise ladies answerec her yea. She returned answer to herselr: 'Have they not sped? Have they not divided the prey to every man a damsel or two, to Sisera a prey ot divers colors of needlework, of divers colors of needlework on both sides?' " She makes no anxious utterance about the wounded in battle, about the bloodshed, about the dying, about the dead, about the principles involved In the battle going on a battle so important that the stars and the freshets took part, and the clash of swords was answered by the thunder of the skies. What she thinks 1 most of is the bright colors of the wardrobes to be captured and the needlework. "To Sisera a prey, of divers colors a prey of divers colors of needlework, of divers colors of needlework on both sides. Now, neither Sisera's mother nor any one else can say too much in eulogy of the needle. It has made more useful conquests than the sword. Pointed at one end and with an eye at the other, whether of bone or ivory, as in earliest time: or of bronze, as in Pliny's time; or of steel, as in modern time; whether laboriou;ly fashioned as formerly by one hand o- as now, when a hundred workmen in a factory are employed to make the different parts of one needle, it is an instrument divinely ordered for the comfort, for the life, for the health, for the adornment of the human race. The eye of the needle hath seen more domestic comfort and more gladdened poverty and more Christian service than any other eye. The modern sewing machine has in nowise abolished the needle, but rather enthroned it. Thank God for the needlework from the time when the Lord Almighty from the heavens ordered in regard to the embroidered door of the ancient tabernacle, "Thou shalt make a hanging for the door of the tent of blue and purple and scarlet and fine twisted linen wrought with needlework," down to the womanly hands which this winter in this tabernacle are presenting for benevoient purposes their needlework. I'ut there was nothing except vanity and worldliness and social splash in what Sisera's mother said about the needlework she expected her son would bring home from the battle. And I am not surprised to find that Sisera fought one the wrong side, when his mother at the window of my text, in that awful exigency, had her chif thought on dry goods achievement and social display. God only knows how many homes have been made shipwreck on the wardrobe. And that mother who sits at the window watching for vainglorious triumph of millinery and line colors and domestic pageantry will after awhile hear as bad news from her children out in the battle of life as Sisera's mother heard from the struggle at F.sdraclon. Mothers Struck Pnwn. Hut if you still press the question, "Where's mother?" I will tell you where she is not, though once she was there.

: Some of you started with her likeness in 1 your face and her principles in your soul. But you have cast her out. That was an awful thing for you to do. but you have done it. That hard, grinding, dissipated look you never got from her. If you had seen anyone strike her, you would have struck him down without much care whether the blow was just suüicient or fatal; but, my boy, you have struck her down struck her Innocence from your face and struck her principles from your soul. You strut k her down! ' The tent pin that Jael drove three times into the skull of Sisera was not so cruel as the stab you have made more than three ! times through your mother's heart. But i she is waiting yet. for mothers are slow i to give up their boys waiting at some i window, it may be a window on earth i or at the some window in heaven. All , others may cast you off. Your wife may seek a divorce and have no more patience with you. Your father may disinherit you and say, "Let him never : again darken the door of our house." ; Hut there are two persons who do not give you up God and mother. , How many disappointed mothers waitins at te window! Perhaps the panes ! of the window are not great glass plate, ; bevel edged and hovered over by ex- : quisite lambrequin, but the window is j made tf small panes. I would say six or j eight of them, in summer wreathed wiih trailing vine, and in winter pictured I by the Raphaels of the frost, a real i country window. The mother sits there ! knitting or busy with her needle on . homely repairs, when she looks up and ; sees coming across the bridge of the meadow brook a stranger who dismounts in front of the window. He lifts and drops the heavy knocker of the farm house door. "Come in!" Is the response. He gives his name and says. "I have come on a sad errand." "There Is nothing the matter of my son in the city. Is there?" she asks. "Yes!" he says. "Your son got into an unfortunate encf. unter with a young man in a liquor siloon last night and is badly hurt. The fact is, he cannot get well. I hate to tell you all. I am sorry to say he is dead." "Dead!" she cries as she totters back. "Oh, my son! my son! my son! Would God I had died for thee!" That is the ending of all her cares and anxieties and good counsels for that boy. That is her pay for her self-sacrifices in his behalf. That is the bad news from the 'attle. So the tidings of derelict or Christian sons travel to the windows of earth or the windows of heaven at which mothers sit. The Heavenly Train. "But," says some one. "are you not mistaken about my glorified mother healing of my evildoings since she went away?" Says some one eis, "Are you not mistaken about my glorified mother hearing of my se'.f-sacrlfiee and moral l-raver and struggle to do right?" No! Heaven and earth are in constant communication. There are trains running every five minutes trains .of flmmortals ascending and descending spirits going from earth to heaven to live there. Spirits descending from heaven to earth to minister and help. They hear from us many tlmeä every day. Do they hear good news or bad news from this battle this Sedan, this Thermopylae, this Austerlitz. in which every one of us is fighting on the right side or the wrong side? Oh. God, whose I am. and whom I ant trying to serve, as a result of this sermon, roll over on all mothers, a new sense of their responsibility, and upon all children, whether still In the nursery or out on the tremendous Esdraelon of midlife or old age, the fact that their victories or defeats sound clear but, clear up to the windows of sympathetic maternity. Oh, is not this the minute when the cloud of blessing rilled with th exhaled tears of anxious mothers shall burst in showers of mercy on this audience! There is one thought that is almost too tender for utterance. I almost fear to sart it lest I have not control of my emotion to conclude It. As when we were children we so often came in from play, or from a hurt, or from some child ish Injustice practiced upon us. and as sron as the door was opened we cried. untres motner?" and 6he said. "Here I am." and we buried our weeping iaces in ner lap. so arter awhile, when we get through with the pleasures and hurts of this life, we will, by the pardoning mercy of Christ, enter the heav enly home, and among the first ques tions, not the first, but among the first. win bo the old question that we used to ask, the question that is being asked In thousands of places at this very mo mentthe question, "Where's mother?" And it will not take long for us to find her or for her to find us. for she will have been watching at the window for our coming, and with the other children of cur household of earth we will again gatner round her. and she will say "Well, how did you get through the bat tie of life? I have often heard from others about you, but now I want to near it from your own souls. Tell me ail about it. children." And then we will tell h-r of all our earthly experiences the holidays, the marriages, tho birth hours, the burials.

the heartbreaks, the losses, the gains, the victories, the defeats and she will say: "Never mind. It is all over now. I see each one of you has a crown, which was given you at the gate as yoa came through. Now cast it at the feet of the Christ who saved you and saved me and saved us all. Thank God we are never to part, and for all the ages of eternity you will never again have to ask, 'Where's mother?'"

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. Lesson HI. Fi rut Quarter, International Series, Jan. 21. 3. "And in process of time (at the end of days) it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord." It is probable that somewhere near the east of the garden of Eden, before the presence of the Lord, manifest in the flaming sword between the cherubim, was the place where they came to worship Jehovah (Ex. xxv, 22; Ps. Ixxx, 1; xcix, 1). It may be that up to this time Adam had been in the habit of offering sacrifice on behalf of his children, as did Job in later days (Job i, 5). This offering of Cain may have been the best he had. but it Jacked the essential element of blood, signifying a life laid down. Compare chapter iii, 21, with Lev. xxii, 11; Heb. ix. 22. 4. "And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering." Here is obedience, for it is written that by faith he did this (Heb. i, 4), and inasmuch as faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God (Rom. x, 17) there must have been some command of God which Abel oleyed in bringing this sacrifice. It is probable that the Lord accepted Abel's offering by sending lire to consume it. for thus He did with Gideon, Manoah and Elijah, and at the dedication of the talernacle and tli temple (Judg. vi, 21; xiii. J!. 1 Kings xviii. 24, ZS, 3Ü; Lev. ix, -4; 11 On on. vii. 1). 5. "But unto Cain and to bis offering He had not respect. And Cain was verywroth, and his countenance fell." His offering lay unconsumed; no fire fell niou it. It was doubtless much more attractive than Abel's bloody sacrifice und was perhaps the finest the earth produced, but it was of man and not of God. There was no confession of sin and no need of atonement recognized just like those today who insist that if they do the best they can God will ac cept them. 6. "And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? And why is thy countenance fallen?" Although Cain is willfully wrong, yet the Lord condescends to reason with him, and if possible win him to the right way. He is not willing that any should perish, and lie seeks in every possible way to lead sinners to accept the ransom He has provided (11 Pet. iii, 9; Job xxxiii, 24, 2J, SO; Isa, i. IS: Iv. 1. 2). 7. "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? And if thou doest not well sin lieth at the door, and unto thee shall lie his desire, and thou shalt rule over him." Being the oldest son. the birthright was his and might continue his if he would only be el-edient. The word here translated "sin" is the word in Leviticus and Numbers so often translated "sin offering." If Cain would only confess his Kin and offer God's appointed sin offering, all would be well. God has but one appointed way, and where that is rejected there is no forgiveness (Acts iv. 12: I Cor. iii. 11). All religions in the world will come under that of Cain or Abel. Cain represents man's way and will include all the ways of men. Abel stands for God's way. and it is but one and very simple. Jesus said. "I am the way" (John xiv, f). S. "And Cain talked with Abel, his brother, and it came to pass when they were in the field that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and slew him." Here are the two seeds, the seed or tne woman and the seed of the serpent, for although both could call Eve mother ami Adam father the one stands for the righteous and the other for the wicked. All are not children of God, for many religious people who profess to worship God are all the while children of the devil (John viii, 4l. Cain was of the wicked one and slew his brother because his own works were evil and Iiis brother's righteous. 9. "And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abed, thy brother? And he said: I know not. Am I my brother's keeper?" How sin hardens and deadens to all that 's good and true: enni is proving himself a good child of the devil, for he Is now both murdered and liar (John viii. 44). Is it possible that any of us ar guilty in respect of our brethren in India or China or Japan or airch.' And as the question presses upon us concerning their salvation, do we feel inclined to ask. "Am I my brother's keeper?" or try to quiet conscience with the thought that perhaps the Lord will let Cain's offering suflioe lor them. 10. "And He said. What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground." All sin cries to God for vengeance. Even if a house is built by fraud, the stone shall cry out of the wall and the beam out of the timber shall answer it (Hab. ii. 11). How much more the blood of those who are slain for Christ's sake (Uev. vi. 9. 10! Another view of it. more in line of the last verse, is found in Ezek. xxxiii, S, where the blood of the unwarned is to be required at the hands of those who know, but do not tell. In Heb. xii, 24, we are pointed to the blood which speaketh bett--r things than that of Abel. Abel's blood cries for vengeance and Christ's for mercy, or if it refers to the blood of Abel's sacrifice that was a type of Christ. 11. "And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand." This is the first direct curse on man. The first curse was pronounced upon the serpent and the next on the ground (chapter iii. 14. 17.) It is suggestive that the last word in the old testament is the word "curse." We fiy to Him who pleaded in vain with Cain and rejoice that Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law. being made a curse for us, and we look for the time when even on this earth there shall be no more curse (Gal. Iii, 13; Rev. xxii. 3). 12. "When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth." Adam was told that the earth would bring forth thorns and thistles, and that in the sweat of his face he should eat his bread (chapter Iii. 13. 19), but this is much worse, for it looks as if the earth would henceforth give this man little if any return. Some one has said that Adam's sin brought on the ground fruitfulness in evil, while Cain's sin brought barrenness in good, perhaps helping to drive them to the mechanical arts and the building of cities. As to "fugitive and vagabond." both words signify fleeing, removing, wandering up and down, and the word for vagabond is 'nood," which is very suggestive of Nod, where Cain afterward dwelt (verse 16). 13. "And Cain said unto the Lord, my punishment is greater than 1 can bear." Or perhaps, as In the margin, "Mine iniquity la greater than that It may be forgiven." 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