Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1894 — Page 12

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31. lSlU-TWELYE TAGESs

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tJR. TALM KfiK ITtCUUF.S A SF.HMO. of iu:maiikahlk poweh. (Au Olil I'mhlonrd (ioapel Plea. Coached in Word of urpnaalnj( i:ioifncr Thr lnst Proposed by Divine Pimrr-An Uimrat Ferora- , lion. BI100KLYX, Jan. 2S The usual large feudlenre assembled in the Tabernacle today ani listened to a. sermon of remarkable power and interest by the Rev. lr. Talmage, the subject being "Festivity." The text selec ted was I,uke xiv, '27. "Come, for all things are now ready." It waa one of the most exciting times :ln English history when Queen Klizaleth islted Lord Leicester at Kenilvorth catle. The moment of her arrival waa consddred t?o important that ell the clocks of the castle were stopped, o that the hands might point to that tne moment as being the mot significant -cf all. She was greeted to the gate .with floating Islands and torches and the thunder of cannon and fireworks that set the night ablaze, and a great burst of musio that lifted the whole eoene int; perfect enchantment. Then -Bhe was Introduced in a dining1 hall, the luxuries of which astonished the world. 1'cur hundred servants waited upon the truests. The ?r.tertainmer. csr aeh day. Lord Ieicesttr made that reat supper in Kenilworth ca?tle. Cardinal "WoLsey entertained the 1'rench embassadors at Hampton court. The best cooks in all the land prepared lor the banquet. Purveyors went out Wi traveled all the kingdom over to 'lind spoils for the table. The time came. The guests were keyt during the daywanting in the king's pane, so that their appetites might be teen, and then in the evening, to the found of the trumpeters, "they were introduced into a hall hung vitl. silk and cloth of frold, and there were tables aglltter with imperial plate nd laden with the rarest of meats and Ablush with the costliest win-s. And ,when the second course of tin fiast 'came it was found that the articles of tfood had been fashioned into the fhape Cf men, Mrds and beasts', and groups , dancing, and Jousting parties riding against each other with lances. Lords .nd princes and embassadors out ofeups Tiled to the brim drank the health first cf the Ving of Knpland and next of the Xing of Pran. Cardinal Wolsey prepared that great supper in Hampton court. A DI lue Banquet. But I have to tell you of a grander entertainment. 2ly Lord, the King, is the anjueter. Angels are the cup-bearers. AH the redeemed are the guests. The Jialls of eternal love, frescoed with light end raved with joy and curtained with "unfading beauty, are the banqueting Jlaoe. The harmonies of eternity are the music. The chalices of heaven are I he plates, and I am one of the servants coming out with both hands filled with invitations, scattering them everywhere, und, oh, that for yourselves you miht break the seal of the invitation and read the words written in red ink of blood by I he tremulous hand of a dying Christ, 'Come now, for all things are ready." There have bfv-n grand entertainments Vhere was a taking off the wine gave rut, or the servants were rebellious, or the light failed, but 1 have gune all around about this subject and looked at the redemption which Christ has provided, and I com here to tell you it is complete, and I swing opf-n the door of the feast, tilling you that "all things ere now ready."' In the first place I have to announce that the Lord Jesus Christ himself is ready. Cardinal YYolsey came into the fpast after th first course. He came in booted and spurred, and the euests arose and cheered him. Hut Christ comes in at the very beginning of the feast aye, he has been waiting 1,834 years for his fruests. II has t.een standing on his mangled f'-et. He has had His s.re hand on His punctured side, or He h;is be-n pressing His lacerated temples waiting, waiting. It is wonderful that lie has not been Impatient, and that He has not said, 'i?hut the door and let the lajrgard stay c-ut," but He has len waiting. No bantiuetter ever waited for his zruests so jatintly s Christ has waitl for tis. To prove how willing He is to receive is, I pather all the tears that rolled down Ills cheeks In sympathy for your sorrows. I gather all the drop of blood that channeled His brow, and His back, end His hands and feet, in trying to purchase your redemption. I gather all the groans that He uttered la midnight chill, and in mountain hunger, and In desert loneliness, and twL?t them into t-rve cry bitter, agonizing, overwhelming. 1 father aJl the pains that hot from fpar axal pike anil cross jolting into rang remorse Uss. grinding, excruciating. I take that one drop of sweat tn his brow, and under the goiel glass that drop enlarges until I In It lakes of sorrow and an ncan of aicmy. That rilrg standing before you now, emaix-l-td and gahed and gory, coaxes for Your love with a oh then in which every word Is a heartbreak and pvery (utonoe a martyrdom. How can you think he trifles? A FfMt for All Kternlty. Ahaeuerus prepared a feast for ISO day, but this ffast Is for all eternity. 2xrd and princes were invited to that. Ton Jid I and all our worid are Invited to this. Christ I3 ready. You know that the bnquterg of olden Urne- used to wrap themnelves in rohes prepared for lh occasion. Fo my Iird Jt-sus hath 'wrapped himself in all that is beautiful. Fee how faJr he I.- HUi eye. his brow, cheek, so rsdient that the stars have HO gleun and the- morning no brilliancy compared with it. His face reflecting all the Joys of the redeemed. His hand having the- omnipotent surgery with which 31 opied bliDd eyes and straightened crooked limbs and hoisted the pillars of heaven and swung the twelve gates which am twelve pearls. There ar not enough cups in heaven o dip up this ocau of beauty. There wre not ladders enough to scalo this Chight of love. Thero are not enough Cymbals to clap, or harps to thrum, or trumpets to xa.l forth the praises of this Vne altogether fair. Oh, thou flower of eternity, thy breath Is the perfume of heaven! Oh. blissful daybreak, let all yeopla clap their hands in thy radiance! Chorus: Come, men and -aints und Wherubim and seraphim and archangel nil hlghts. all depths, all immensities. "horus: Roll Him through th heavens gn & chariot of universal acclaim, over l-ridges of hottannas, undr arches of a oronation, along by th frreat towers chiming with eternal jubilee. Chorus: "Unto Hin who hath loved tis and washed us from our sIils in HI own 14ood, to Him be glory, world without end !" I havs a word of five letters, but no rhet white enough on whi.-h to write It and no pen good enough with which to inscribe it. Give mo the fairest h-af from the heavenly records give me the pencil with which the angel records hi victory and then, with my hand stmnjr to Fupematural ecstasy and my pen dipped in the iKht of the morning I will writ it out In capitals of love, "J-E-S-U-M." It is this one. 'iUfijiitely iair, to whom you are invited. Christ Is waiting for you. waiting as a banqueter waif for the delayed guet th jnat9 smoking, the tn-akers brimminc. th minstrels with fingers 011 the miff trlngr. waiting 'or the clash of the Lours at the gatesvay. Waiting for y-jn ha rt mother waits for her son who went off ten years ago.

dragging her bleeding heart along with him. "Waiting! Oh, give me a comparison intense enough, hot enough, importunate enough to express my meaningsomething high as heaven, and deep as hell, and long as eternity. Not hoping that you can help me with such a comparison, I will say, "He is waiting as only the all sympathetic Christ can wait for the coming back of a lost soul." Come, and welcome, sinner; crme. Bow the knee and kiss the Son, A Link. Wanting. Again, the Holy Spirit is ready. Why is it that so many sermons drop dead; that Christian songs do not get their tving under the people; that so often prayer goes no higher than a hunter's "halloa?" It is because there Is a link wanting the work of the Holy Ppirit. Unless 'that Spirit give grappling hooks to a sermon and lift the prayer and waft the song everything is a dead failure. That Spirit is willing to come at our call and lead you to t-ternal life, or ready to come with the same power with which he unhorsed Saul on the Damascus turnpike and broke down Lydia in her fine store and lifted the 3.Ü00 from midnight into inldnoon at the Pentecost. With that power the Spirit of God now beats at the gate of your soul. Have you not noticed what homely and insignificant instrumentality the Spirit of God employs for man's conversion? There was a man on a Hudson river boat to whom a tract was offered. With indignation he tore it tip and threw it overboard. Hut one fragment lodged on his coat sleeve, and he sr.w on it the word "eternity," and he found no peace until he was prepared for that great future. Do you know what passage it was that caused Martin Luther to see the truth? "The Just shall live by failh." lo you know there is one just one passage that brought Augustine from a life of dissipation? 'Tut ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the Mesh to fulliil the lusts thereof." It was just one passage that converted Hedley Vicars, the great soldier, to Christ, "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin." io you know that the Holy Spirit used one passage ff s lipture to save Jonathan Kdwards? "Now, unto the King eternal, immortal. Invisible, the only wise God. our Savior. le glory." One year ago on Thanksgiving day I read for my text, "Oh. give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever." And then? is a young man in the house to whose heart the Hoi j- Spirit took that text for his eternal redemption. I might speak of my own case. I will tell you 1 was brought to the peace of the gospel through the Syro-Phoenician woman's cry to Christ. "Even the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the master's table." Savlnt? Souls by Minple )lfnn. Do you know that the Holy Spirit almost always uses insignificant inans? Eloquent sermons never save anybody; metaphysical sermons never save anybody; philcsophieal sermons never save anybody. Hut the minister comes some Sabbath to his pulpit, worn out with engagements and the jangling of a frenzied doorbell; he has only a text and two or three ideas, but he says: "O Lord, help me! Here are a good many people I may never meet again. I have not much to say. Speak thou through my poor lips." and lfore the service is done there are tearful eyes and a solemnity like the judgment. The great French orator, when the dead kiner lay before him. hooked up and cried, "G"d only is jnvat." An i ih" triumph of his eloquence has leen told by the historians. IJut I have not heard that one soul was saved by the oratorical flourish. Worldly eritii-.j may think that the early preaching cf Thomas Chalmers was a masterpiece. Hut Thomas Chalmers says he never l Kan to preach until he carr..' cut of th sickroom, white and enru dated, and told men the simple story of Jesus. In th great day of et-i nity it will b found that the. most souls have been broupht to Christ not by the Iiosuets and Massillons and I'.oiirdaloivs, imt hy humble men. who in the strength of c, d and believing in the. eternal Spirit, invited men to Jesus. There were wise salves, there were excellent ointments. I suppose, in the time of Christ for blind or inflamed eyes. Hut Jesus turned his h(k upon thm and put th- tip of bis finger to his tongue and then with thrt spittle that adhered to the fingT he anointed the eyes of the blind man. and daylight poured into his blinded soul. So.it is now that the spirit of God takes that humble prayer meeting talk, whieh seems to b the very saliva of Christian Influence, and anoints the ryes of the blind and pours the sunlight of pardon, and jioac' upn th soul. Oh, my friend. I wish we muld feel it more and more that if any good is done it Is by the power of God's omnipotent spirit. I do not know what hymn may bring you to Jesus. T do not know what words of the scripture lessons I read may save your soul. Perhaps 11i- spirit of God may hull the vry text into your heart, "Come, for all things are now ready." All Hrndr for li lnl. Again, the church Is ready, o man, if I could take the curtain off these Christian hearts, T could show you a great many anxieties for your redemption. You think that old man is asleep, beeaus Ids head is down ami his eyes are shut. No; he is praying for your redemption and hoping that the words six. ken may strike your henrt. lo you know the air is full of prayer? Du you know that prayer Is going up from Ful-ton-st. prayer meeting and from Friday evening prayer meeting and going up every hour of tho day for the redemption cf the people? And If you should Just start toward the door of the Christian church how quickly It. would fly open! Hundreds of people would say: "Give that man room at the sauament. Bring the silver howl for his baptism. Give him the right hand of Christian fellowship. 'Br1n him into all Christian associations. " Oh, you wanderer on th cold mountains, tome into the wann sheepfold. I let down the lars and bid you come in. With the shepherd's cnx-k I p. int you the way. Hundreds of Christian hands berkou you into th church of ("Jod. A great many people do ti-t like the chur h and say it is a great mass of hypocrites, but it is a glorious church with all its imperfections. Christ bought it. and hoisted the pillars, and swung its gates, and lifted its arches, and curtained it with upholstery crimson with erucitixion carnage. Come into It. V are a garden Walle.l around, chosen and made peculiar ground, A little spot inclosed by grao ul of the world's wild wilderness. Again, the angels of God are ready. A great many Christians think tint the talk about angels Is fanciful. You say it is a very good subjec t for theological students who have just begun to sermonize, but for older imn it is improper. There Is no more proof in that oible that there is a God than that there are angels.

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Why. do not they swarm about Jacob's ladder? Are we not told that they conducted Lazarus upward; that they stand before the throne, their faces covered up with their wings, while they cry, "Holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty?" Did not David see thousands and thousands? Did not one angel slay 1S3.000 men in Sennacherib's army? And shall they not be the chief harvesters at th judgment? There is a line of loving, holy, mighty angel3 reaching to heaven. I suppose they reach from here to the very gate, and when an audience is assembled for Christian worship the air is full of them. If each one of you has a guardian angel how many celestials there are here! They crowd the1 place, they hover, they flit about, they rejoice. Look! That spirit is Just come from the throne. A moment ago it stood before Christ and heard the doxology of the glorified. Look! llright immortal, what news from the golden city? Speak, spirit blest! The response comes melting on the air. "Come, for all things are now ready!" Angels ready to bear the tidings, angeLs ready to drop the benediction, angels ready to kindle the joy. They have stood in glory they know all about It. They have felt the joy that is felt where there are no tears and no graves; Immortal health, but no lnvalidirm; songs, but no groans: wedding bells, but no funeral torches eyes that never weep, hands that never blister, heads that never faint, hearts that never break, friendships that are never weakened. Had JIualneNK fur John .Milton. Ready, all of them! Ready thrones, prlnciiKtilties and powers! ready seraphim and cherubim! Ready, Michael t"ie Archangel! Again, your kindred in glory are all ready for your coming. I pronounce modern spiritualism a fraud and a sham. If John Milton and George Whitefield have no better business than to crawl under a table and rattle the leaves, they had better stay at home in glory. While I Klieve that modern spiritualism is bad. common sense, enlightened by the word of (Jod, teaches us that our "friends in glory sympathize with our redemption. This bible says plainly there is joy in heaven among the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. And If angels rejoice and know of it. shall not our friends, standing among them, know It? Some of these spirits in glory toiled for your redemption. When they came to die, their chief grief was that you were not a Christian. They said. "Meet me in heaven," and put their hands out from the cover and said. "Good-by." Now, suppose you should cross over from a sinful life to a holy life. Suppose you should te born into the kingdom. Suppose you should now say: Farewell. O deceitful world! Get thee gone, my sin! Fie upon all the follies! O Christ, help me or I perish! I take Thy promise. I believe Thy word. I enter Thy service." Suppose you should say and do this. Why, the angel sent to you would shout upward, "He is coming!" and the angel. lKising higher in th air. would shout it upward, "He is coming!" and it would run up all the line of light from wing to wing and fron trumpet to trumpet until it reached the gate, and then it would flash to "the house of many mansions," and It would lind out your kindred there, and before your tears of repentance had been wiped from the cheek end before you had finished your first prayer your kindred in glory would know of it, and another heaven would be added to their joy, and they would cry: "My prayers are answered. Another loved one saved. Give me a harp with which to strike the joy. Saved, saved, saved!" If I have shown you that "all things are ready:" that Christ is really: that the Holy Spirit is ready; that the church is ready; that the angels in gl"ry are ready; that your glorified ..indreel are ready, then wkh ail the concentrated emphasis of my soul 1 ask you if you are ready? Yoii see my subject throws the whi responsibility upon yourself. If you do not go into the King's ban-qu-'t. it is because you do not accept the invitation. You have the most importunate invitation. Two arms stretched down from the cuss, soaked in blood from elbow to finger tips, two lips quivering in mortal anguish, two eves beaming with infinite love, saying, "Come, come, for all things are now ready." An KliMiirnt Peroration. I told you that when the queen came to Kenilworth castle they stopped all the docks, that the linger of time might be pointed to that happy moment of her arrival. Oh. if the King would come to the castle of your soul, you might well afford to stop all the clocks, that the hands might forever point to this moment as the one most bright, most blessed, most tremendous. Now, I wish I could go around from circle to circle and invite every one of you, according to the invitation of my text, saying, "Come!" I would like to take every one of you by tht hand and say, "Come!" Old man, who hast been wandering sixty or seventy years, thy sun almost gone down, through the dust of the evening- .stretch out your withered hand to Christ. He will not east thee off. old man. Oh, that wie tear of repentance might trickle down thy wrinkled cheek! After Christ has fed thee all thy life long, do you not think you can afford to speak, one word in His pratse? Come, those of you who are farthest Away front God. Drunkard! Christ can put out the firv of the thirst. H- can break that shacklo. He can restore thy blasted home. (Jo to Jesus. Lnertin! Christ saw thee where thou wert last night. He knows of thy sin. Yet, if thou wilt bring thy polluted soul to Him this moment. He will throw over it the mantle of His pardon and love. Mercy for the. oh. t.hou chief of Pinners! Harlot, thy feet foul with hell and thy laughter the horror of the street. Oh. Mary Magdalene, look to .Te.ns. Mercy for thee, poor lost waif of th street. Self-righteous man. thou must be Mm again, or thou ca-nst pot se the kingdom of God. Do you think you can get into the feast with those rags? Why. the King's servant would tear them off and leave you naked at the gate. You must be born again. The day Is far spent. The cliffs begin to slide thlr long shadows across the plain. Do you know the feast has already begun the feast to which you were Invited and the King sits with His guests, and the servant stands with his hand on the door of the banqueting room, and ho bogins to swing It shut. It is half way shut. It is thrce-fourths shut. It is only just ajar. Soon it will be shut. "Come, for all things an- now ready." Have I missed one man? Who has not felt himself called this hour? Then I call him now. This is the hour of thy redemption. While God invites, how blest the day. How sweet the gospel's charming sound! Onme. sinner, haste, oh, haste away. While yet a pardoning God Is fuund. turcu Caroline. In an English book entitled "Footprints of Statesmen," by Reginald Brett, occurs this passage: "George II had not tho abilities of his father. Fortunately for him, by his side stood the queen, Caroline of Anspach, who showed through her life that capacity for government which England hau been lucky enough to find In female sovereigns."

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Peddlers iT?i75l "this is '3 Vi dl FALSE you an imitation, be honest send it bmk. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. LKSSOV V, FIHST Ql'AltTKH. 1TEK.atioal. si:nu:s, ri:u. . Test of the I.coKoii, Gen. ill, -!-! Memory Verses, Golileu Text, (ifn. ill, 2 Commentary by the Kev. I). 31. St cum. 1. "Now, the lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee." We have come down the stream of time over 400 years since the last lesson. After the deluge God bengan the race again with Noah and his sons, but as before, man left to himself proves a failure. Noah Is drunken, Ham brings a curse upon Canaan and iniquity consummates in an organized union against God. Lest they be scattered and to make them a name, they will build a tower reaching to the skies. At the close of the nineteenth century we find ourselves In an age of tower building and man worship, but ns the Lord confounded and scattered them in the plain of Shlnar, so again, when all Shlnar associations shall have had their consummation as in Zech. v, 11; Rev. xvii and xviil, the Lord will humble all the pride of man, and lie alone be exalted in that day (Isa. ii. 11. 17). After the Babel judgment it sems from Josh, vxiv, 2, that the people fell greatly into idolatry, and front such surroundings in the land of Mesopotamia, th God of glory called out Abram (Acts vii, 2) to mak? of him a faithful witness unto the truth. A study of Gen. xi v. ill shew that Shem, Arphaxed. Sal.ih, Fber. Ren and Si-rug were all living when Abram and Terah left Ur of the Chaldees, but whether every one had become an idolator or not is not clearly stated. Th: new departure now is that Instead of destroying or scattering thein He will take out and separate one from them who will walk with Him as Knot h did. It was a mistake to take Terah along, for Abram was only hindered by him until he died at Haran (xi. 31. 32; Acts vii, 3. 4). 2. "And I will make of thee a grer.t nation, and I will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing." The ieople of Shlnar wanted to make themselves a name (xi. 4), but Jehovah says to Abraham that He will make him a name. Those who today try the Shinar plan will fail as they did, but thos; who, like Abram, prefer to obey God will have a name without seeking it. Abram was to be blessed in order to be a blessing, and Israel is destined yet to be a blessing to all nations (Zech. vlii. 13). When we are willing to be a biesslng to others and forgetful of ourselves, then we shall indeed be blessed. Hut it must bo tho Lord's dolus from first to last, and He must have the glory. 3. "And I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." Here is the true Idea of election as taught in scripture a choosing of one r more to make them a blessing to others Rnd whosoever will may be elected, for him that cometh will in nowise l-o cist out (Mohn vi. 37). Who can rxwslbly tind fault with this? See also how God takes man into union with Himself. It makes us think of these words. "He that heareth you heareth Me. and he that dspiseth you despisoth Me" (Luk x. lfi). We shall find this covenant repeated four times after this to Abram and once each to Isaacs and Jacob, making seven in all. The fullness of Its meaning la yet to be Been. 4. "So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken unto him, and Lot went with him, and Abram was seventy and live years old when he departed Out of Haran." He went out, not knowing whither he went (Heb. xi. S. Me only knew that God knw and that the end of it all would be a. city which hath foundations whos builder and maker is God (Heb. xi. 10). and with implicit confidence In God ho went on. He believed the gospel, and all who believe today will be blessed with him (Gal. Ill, 8, i) and made a blessing to others. f.. "And Abram took Sarah, his wife, and Lot. hin brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered and tho souls that they had gotten in Haran. and they went forth to g into the land of Canaan, and Into the land of Canaan they came." I la ran was but in partial obedience. This is now full obedience, which. It is to be feared, the Lord gets from very few of us. Many are content to be hindered by the affections of those who will go part of the way. but not all the way to the promised land of whole hearted surrender to God. Yet Jesus says, "lie that loveth father or mother, son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me" (Math. x. 37). 6. "And Abram parted through the land into the place of Cich-m, unto the plain (or oak) of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land." To the neighborhood of Eb.il and .Gerizim he came (see Deut. xi, 2), 20) full half way down through the lapd, and he saw tfce land filled with peoph . yet believed that God would give it t him as He had said. He walked not by sight, but by faith, and was fully porauaded that what God had promised Ho was able to perform (Rom. lv, 20. 21). If we think more of the Canaanites than of God, we will be discouraged, like the ten spies. The only way Is to see no man save Jesus only (Math. xvii. 8). 7: "And the Lord appeared unto Abram and said, unto thy seed will I give this land. And there he bullded an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him." We read of no appearance at Haran and no new communication, for Abram there had not done as he had been told. "To him that knoweth to do good and doeth. It not, to bin it is sin" (.las. Iv, 17). Therefore if we are not living up to the light we have and are consciously disobedient we cannot expect any fresh revelatlo. r,f God to our souls, but to every obedient coul there will be growth

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natural, rirst: ine article was precisely what its makers claimed ittcf be; it has never changed no improvement has been found. Used for years always alike.' Second : The public different from old ideas, neoole and some cnscrcputotis grocers will tell vou. s Ed as or "the same as Pearline." IT'S rearline is never peddled, if your grocer sends 3CÖ J AilES P LE, Aew oris. in grace and In the knowledge of our I-orJ a Savior Jesus Christ (II I'et. iii. IS). 8. "And he removed from thence to a mountain on the east of Rethel and pitched his tent, having Rethel on the west and Hai on the east, and there he builded an altar unto the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord." He is a pilgrim and a stranger, just a sojourner. (Heb. xi, 9); hence the tent is sufficient. He lives with God, and hence the altar. His whole life, when in fellowship with God. might be designated "the tent and altar." 9. "And Abrain journeyed, going on still toward the south." Because of a famine he goes Into Egypt, but this is evidently a misstep, for we read of no altar in Egypt, and 'not until he gets back to Bethel, where he agin calls on the name of the Ixrd (xiit, 3, 4. We might with profit take the phrase in this verse going on still and make it a good dally motto, provided ww avoid all going down to Egypt. Put it with 11 Sam. v. 10, "David went on and grew great (margin, going and growing), and the Lord God of hosts was with him," and it will be very helpful. ITF.rtVlEWIG INDIANA'S TORT. Riley ns n I'lilrnt Medicine Peddler und lllind" Sign 1'nlntrr. (From a conversation between James Whitcomb Riley and Hamlin Garland in MeClure's magazine for February): "Well, now, I want to know about that patent medicine peddling." , Something in my tone made him reply quickly: "That has been distorted. It was really a very simple matter and followed the sign-painting naturally. After the 'trade' episode I had tried to read law with my father, but I didn't seem to get anywhere. Forgot as diligently as 1 read. So far as school equipment was concerned, I was an adveitised idiot; so what was the use? I had a trade, but it was hardly what I wanted to do always, and my health was badvery bad bad as I was! "A doctor here in Greenfield advised me to travel. Rut how the sufforin' Mos.s was I to travel without money? It was just at this time that the patcntmedk'ine man came along. He needed a man, and I argued in this way: 'This man is a doctor, and if I must travel, better travel with a doctor.' He had a fine team and a nice-looking lot of fellows with him; so I plucked up courage to ask if I couldn't go along and paint his advertisements for him." Riley smiled with retrospective amusement. "I rode out of town behind those horses without saying good-by to any one. And though my patron wasn't a diploma' d doctor, as I found out. he was a mighty fine man, and kind to his horses, which was a recommendation. He was a man of good habits, and th whole company was made up of good straight boys." "How long were you with him?" "About a year. Went home with him. and was made as one of his own lovely family. He lived at Lima, O. My experience with him put an idea in my head a business idea, for a wonder and the next year 1 went down to Anderson and went into partnership with a young fellow to travel, organizing a scheme of advertising with paint.' which we called 'The Graphic Company." We had five or six young fellows, all musicians as well as handy painters, and we used to capture the towns with our music. One fellow could whistle like a nightingal, another sang like an angel, ard another played the banjo. Iscullled with the violin and guitar." "I thought so from that poem on The Fiddle' in 'The Old Swimmm' Hole.' " "Our only dissipation was clothes. We dressed loud. You could hear our c lothes an incalculable distance. We had an Idea It helped business. Our plan was to take one firm of each business in a town, painting its advertisements on every road leading Into the town: 'Go to Mooney's,' and things like that, you understand. We made a good thing at it." "How long did yoxi do business?" "Three or four years, and w had more fun than anybody." He turned another comical look on me over his pinch-nnse eyeglasses. "You've heard this story about my traveling all over the state as a blind sign-painter? Well, that started this wk.y. One day wo were in a small town somewhere, and a great crowd watching us iti breathless wonder and curiosity; and one of our party said: 'Riley, let me introduce you as a blind sign-painter.' So just for devilment I put on a crazy look in the eyes and pretended to be blind. They led me carefully to the ladder and handed me my brush and paints. It was great fun. I'd hear them sayin' as I worked. 'That feller ain't blind.' 'Yes, he is. see his eyes.' 'No. he ain't I telt you, he's plaln off.' T tell you he is blind. Didn't von see him fall over a box there and spill all Kls paints.' " Riley rose here and laughingly reenacted the scene, and I don't wonder that the villagers wre deceived, so perfect was his assumption of the patient, weary look of a blind person. Ttordette on Gymnasium. Boys generally get their due quota of exercise; at the same time they can never get too much, if not of a too severe nature and taken with some measure of moderation, writes Ellen Le Garde in a valuable article entitled "A Gymnasium at Home," in the January Ladies' Home Journal. Rurdette says in reply to the interrogation regarding his acts: "If a boy again I would spend a great deal of time in the gymnasl.tm. I am a strong believer in athletic scholarship and gymnastic training. The ventilation in my gymnasium was perfect. The air came in with a free sweep from sunrise to sunset. There was sunshine 11 the way from heaven in the clearings and grateful shadows under the trees. I don't know so much about gymnasiums hedged In with walls and roof and ventilated by machinery', hut I know they are better than none. Live out of doors all you can. my boy. Walk a heap. The open air, the free air und the sunshine are as good the exercise better." This advice should apply to our ,irl3 as well. riajlnic Cards. You can obtain a pack of best quality playing cards by sending fifteen cents in postage to P. Ö. EUSTIS. Gen'l Pass. Agt., C. E. & Q. K. II., Chicago, 111.

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