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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, "WEDNESDAY MOllNING, MAY 2. 1894 TWELVE PAGES.

AT BROOKLYN TABERNACLE,

DR. TALMA n DISCUSES AVRESTL,l0 WITH THE SlPERXATtHAL, 'A Sermon of Ileantlful I ma seer r on the Spiritual Conflict of Life The I'imoui Prrachrr Ha XourthlaK to Say on the onescntiala f Religion. BROOKLYN. April 23. The Tabernacle was crowded this mornlnff with the usual throng of eager listeners. Dr. Talmage preached on the spiritual conflicts of life, tAklng for hl text Genesis. xxxii. 24-2?: "And Jacob was left alone, and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking: of day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of Joint as he wrestle! with him. And he said. Let me go. for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee jro except thou blefs me." The dost arose from a. traveling herd of cattle and sheep and ffoat and camel?. '.They are th-? present that Jacob sends to gain the good will of his offended brother. That night Jacob halts by the brook Jabbok. But there Is no rest for the weary man. Xo shining1 ladder to let -the anerets down into his dream, but a fierce combats that lasts until the morning with an unknown visitor. They each try to throw the other. The unknown visitor, to reveal his superior power, by a touch wrenches Jacob's thigh bone from its socket, perhaps maiming him for life. As on the morning sky the clusters of purple cloud begin to ripen Jacob sees It is an angel with whom he has been contending and not one of his brother'? coadjutors. "Let me go,' cries the ang-l. lifting himself up into Increasing light. "The day breaketh." You see in the first place that God allows good people sometimes to get Into a terrible struggle. Jacob was a good man, but here is left-alone in the midnight to wrestle with a tremendous Influence by the brook Jabbok. For Joseph, pit; for Daniel, a wild beast den; for David, dethronement and exile; for John the Baptist, a wilderness diet and the executioner's ax; for Peter, a prison; for Paul, shipwreck: for John, desolate Fatmos; for Vashti. most insulting cruelty; for Josephine, banishment; for Mrs. Slgourney, the agony of a drunkard's wife; for John "Wesley. stones hurled by an Infuriated mob; for Catherine, the Scotch girl, the drowning surges of the sea; for Mr. Burns, the buffeting of th Montreal populace; for John Brown of Edinburgh, the pistol shot of Lord Claverhouse; for Hugh McKail. the scaffold; for Latimer, the stake; for Christ, the cro.-3. For whom the rocks, the gibbet;", the guillotines, the thumbscrews? For the sons and daughters of The Lord God Almighty. Some one said to a Christian reformer. "The world is against you." "Then." hi replied, "I am against the world." Rrdhot Dlnantera. I will go further and .say that every Christian has his struggle. This man had his combat in TVall-st.; this one on Eroad-st.; this one on Fulton-st.; this one on Chestnut-st.; this one on Sta test.; this one on Lombard-st.; this one on tl?e bourse. With financial misfortune you have had the midnight wrestle. Redhot disasters have dropped Into your Ptore from loft to cellar. What you bought you could not selL Whom you trusted fled. The helo you expected would not come. Some giant panic, with long arms and grip like death, took hold of you in an awful wrestle, from which you have not yet escaped, and it Is uncertain whether it will throw you or you will throw it. Here Is another -soul In struggle with some bad appetite. He knew not how stealthily it was growing upon him. One hour he woke up. He said, "For the sake of my soul, of my family and of my children and of my God. I must stop this!" And. behold, he found himself alone by the brook Jabbok, and it was midnight. That evil appetite seized upon him, and he seized upon it, and, oh, the horror of the conflict! When once a bad habit has aroused itself up to destroy a man, and the man has sworn that, by the help of the eternal God. he wiil destroy it. all heaven draws itself out in a long line of light to look from above, and hell Btretches itself in myrmidons of spite to look up from beneath. 1 have seen men rally themselves for such a struggle, and they have bitten their lip and clinched their fists and cried with a blood red earnestness and a rain of scalding tears, "God help me" From a wrestle with habit I have seen men fall back defeated. Calling for no help, but relying on their own resolutions, they have come into the struggle, and for a time it seemed as if they were getting the upper hand of their habit, but that habit rallied again its infernal power and lifted a soul from its standing and with a force- borrowed from th pit hurled It Into utt-r darkness. First I saw the auctioneer's mallet fall on the pictures, and musical instruments, and the rich upholstery of his family parlor. ftf-r awhile I saw him fall into the ditch. Then, in the midnight, when the children were dreaming their sweetest dreams and Christian households are silent with slumber angel watched I hard him give the sharp shriek that followed the stab of his own poniard. He fell from an honored social position; he fell from a family circle of which ence he was the grandest attraction; he fell from the house of God, at whose altars h had been consecrated; he fell forever! But. thank (Jod. I have often seen a letter termination than that. I have seen men prepare themselves for su-h wrestling. Tluy laid h-ld of God's h'-lp a they went Into combat. The giant habit, regaled by the cup i f many temptations, came out strong and defiant. They clinched. There were the ivri things and distortions of a fearful struggle. But the old giant began to waver, and at last, in the midnight alon, with none but God to witness, by the brook Jabbok, the giant fell, and thv triumphant wrestler broke the darkness with th cry, "Thanks bo unto Goi, who giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ." A f.loriona I'rnnilne. There i a widow's heart, that first was desolate by bereavement, and since by the anxieties and trials that came in the supijort of a family. It Is a sad thing to sc a man contending for a livelihood under disadvantages, but to see a delicate woman, with helpless little ones at her back, fighting the giants of poverty and sorrow, is more affecting. It was a humble home, and passersby knew not that withlng those four walls were displays of courage more admirable than that of Hannibal crossing th- Alps, or the pa.s of Therm pyla, or Halklava, where, "into ih jaws of death rode the six hundred." These heroes had the whole world to cheer them on, but there wer none to applaud the struggle In the humble home. She fought for bread, for clothing, for lire. fr shelter, with aching head and weak fcidf and exhausted strength throught the long night by th brook Jabbok. Could It b that none would give her help Had God forgotten to bo gracious? No, contending soul! The midnight jir Is full of wings coming to the resf-ue. She hears it now, in the sough of fhe night wind. In the ripple of the brook Jabbok. the promise made so long ago ringing down the sky.. "Thy fatherless children I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust" In me!" Sonic one said to a very poor woman. , "How i it th.it In swh distress yvi keep cheerful?" She said: "f do it by what I call cross prayers. When I hi I my rent to ph. v. and nothing t pay It with, and bread to buy, and nothing to buy it with. I used to sit down and cry. put now 1 do not get discouraged. If I

go along the street, when I come to a corner of the street I say, 'The Lord help me.' I then go on until I come to another crossing, and again I say, 'The Lord help me. And so I utter a prayer at every crossing, and since I have got into the habit of saying these 'cross prayers' I have been able to-keep up my courage." Grand Trials. Learn again from this subject that, people sometimes are surprised to find out that what they have been struggling with in the darkness is really an "angel of blessing." Jacob found In the morning that this strange personage was not an enmy, but a God dispatched, messenger to promise prosperity for him and for his children. And so many a man at the close of his trial has found out that h has been trying to throw down Ms own blessing1. If you are a Christian man. I will go back in your history and find that the grandest things that hav? ever happnxi to you have been your trials. Nothing short of scourging, imprisonment and shipwreck could have made Paul what he was. When David was fleeing through th wilderness, pursued by his own son, ho was being prepared to become the sweet singer of Israel. The pit and the dungeon were the best suhools at which Joseph ever graduated. The hurricane that upset the tent and killed Job's children prepared the man of ITz to writ I the magnificent pmm that has astounded the ages, Th.?n Is no way to get t!r? wheat out of the straw but to thrash it. There is no way to purify the sold but to burn it. Look at the people who have always had it thHr own way. They are pround, discontented, useless and unhappy. If you want f find cheerful folks, go among those who have been purified by the fire. After Ilossini had rendered "William Tell" the live hundredth time a company of musicians came under his window in Paris and serenaded him. They put upon his brow a golden crown of laurel leaves! Put amid all the applause and enthusiasm RossJnl turned to a friends and said. "I would give all this brilliant scene for a few days of youth and love." Contrast the melancholy feeling of Rossini, who had . everything that this world could give him. to the joyful experience of Isaac Watts, whose misfortunes were innumerable, when he says: The hill of Zior. yields ' A thousand sacred sweets Before we reach the heavenly fields Or walk the golden streets. Thn let our songs abound And every tear br dry. We are marching through Immanuel's ground To fairer worlds on high. It is prosperity that kills and trouble that saves. While the Israelites were on the march amid great privations and hardships they behaved well. After awhile they prayed for meat, and the sky darkened with a great flock of quails, and these quails fell in large multitudes all about them, and the Israelites ate and ate and stuffed themselves until they- died. Oh, my friends, it is notjnrdshlp or trial or starvation that injures the soul, but abundant supply. It is not the vulture of trouble that eats up the Christian's life. It Is the quails. It is the quails. You will yet find out that your midnight wrestle by the brook Jabbok is with an angel of God come down to bless and save you. The Mark of Trouble. Learn, again, that while our wrestling with trouble may be triumphant we must expect that it will leave its mark upon us. Jacob prevailed, but the angel touched him, and his thigh bone sprang from its socket, and the good man went limping ou his way. We must carry through this world the mark of the combat. What ploughed those premature wrinkles In your face? What whitened your hair before it was time for frost? What silenced forever so much of the hilarity of your household? Ah. it is because the arTgel of trouble hath touched you, that you go limping on your way. ! You need, not be surprised that those who have passed through the fire do not feel as gay as once they did. Do not be out of patience with those who come not out of their despondency. They may triumph over their loss, and yet. their gait shall tell you that they have been trouble touched. Are we stoics that we can, unmoved, see our cradle rifled of the bright eyes and the sweet lips? Can we stand unmoved and see our gardens of earthly delight uprooted? Will Jesus, who wept himself, be angry with us if we pour our tears into the graves that open to swallow down what we love best? Was Lazarus more dear to him than our beloved dead to us? No. We have a right to weep. Our tear3 must come. You shall not drive them buck to scald the hearts. They fall In God's bottle. AfTiicted ones have died because they could not weep. Thank God for the sweet, the mysterious relief that comes to us in tears. Under this gentle rain the flowers of corn put forth their bloom. God pity that dry, withered, parched, all consuming grief that wrings Its hands, and grinds its teeth, and bites Its nails unto the quick, but can not weep! We may have found the comfort of the cross and yet ever after show that in the dark night and by the brook Jabbok we were troubled touched. Again we may take the idea of the text and announce the approach of the day-dawn. No one was ever more glad to see the morning than was Jacob after that night of struggle, it is appropriate for philanthropists and Christians to cry out with this angel of the text. "The day breaketh." The world's prospects are brightening. The church of Christ is rising up its strength to go forth "fair as the moon, clear as the sun and terrible as an army with banners." Clap your hands, all ye people, the day breaketh. The bigotries of the earth are perishing. The time was when we were told that if we wanted to get to heaven, we must be immersed or sprinkled, or we must believe in the perseverance of the sa!nts. or In falling away from grace, or a liturgy, or no liturgy, or they must be Calvlnists or Armlnians In crder to, reach heaven. We have all come to confess now that these are non-essentials In religion. The liritiiiii Hope. During my vacation erne summer I was in a presbytcrian audience, and it was sacramental day, and with grateful heart I received the holy communion. On the next Sabbath I was In a methodist church and sat at a love feast. On the following Sabbath I was in an episcopalian church and knelt at the altar and received the consecrated bread. I do not know which service I enjoyed the most. "I believe in the communion of saints and in the life everlasting." "The day breaketh." As I look upon this audience I see many who have passed through waves of trouble that tame up higher than their girdle. In God's name 1 proclaim cessation of hostilities. You shall not go always saddened and heartbroken. God will bring your dead to life. God will stanch the heart's bleeding. I know he will. Like as a father pities his children, so the Lord pities you. The pains of earth will end. The tomb will burst. The dead will risr. The morning star trembles on a brightening sky. The gates of the east beln to swing open. The day breaketh. Luther and Melancthon were talking together gloomily about the prospects of the church. They could see no hope of deliverance. After awhile Luther got up and said to Melancthon: "Come, Philip, let us sing the forty-sixth psalm of David: 'God is our refuge and strength, a "very present help In trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth r removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains thake with the swelling thereof. Selah.' " - Th Klan I Strncult. Death to many nay, to all is a struggle and a wrestle. We have many friends that it will be hard to leave. I

care not how bright our future hope is. It Is a bitter thing to look upon this fair world and know that we shall never again see its blossoming spring, its falling fruits, its sparkling streams, and to say farewll to those wltn whom we played in childhood or counseled in manhood. In that night, like Jacob, we may have to wrestle, but God will not leave us unblessed. It shall not be told in heaven that a dying soui cried unto God for help, but was not delivered. The lattice may be turned to keep out the sun. or a book set to dim the light of the midnight taper, or the room may be fllied with the cries of orphanage and widowhood, or the church of Christ may mourn over our going, but if Jesus calls all is well. The strong wrestling by the brook will cease, the hour of death's night will pass along. 1 o'clock in the morning, 2 o'clock in the morning, 4 o'clock in the morning the day breaketh. So I would have it when I die. I am in no haste to be gone. Ihave no grudge against this world. The only fault I have' to find with the world, is that it treats me too well. But when the time comes to go I trust to be ready, my worldly affairs all settled. If I have wronged others, I want then to be sure of their forgiveness. In that last wrestling, my arm enfeebled with sickness and my head faint. I want Jesus beside me. If there be hands on this side of the flood stretched out to hold me back, I want the heavenly hands stretched out to draw nie forward. Then, O Jesus, help me on and help me up. Unfearing, undoubtinpr. may I step ri?rht out Into the light and be able to l.xk back to my kindred and friends who would detain me here, exclaiming: "Let me go; let mo go! The day breaketh."

"PATRIOTS' DAY." w Lrval If oil day to Mnnrhiiirtt Which Comes on April If). If Fast day must be abolished, something in the way of recompense is offered by making the 19th of April the spring holiday in Massachusetts. Governor Greenhalge names it Patriots' day in his proclamation, and advises that it be "dedicated to solemn religious and patriotic services which may adequately express our deep sense of the trials and tribulations of the ratriots of the earlier and of the latter days, and also especially our gratitude to Almighty God. who crowned the heroic struggles of the founders and preservers of our country with victory and peace." It was on this day in 1775 that the "embattled" farmers of Concord and Lexington, aroused by Paul Revere with his message from Boston, made the first armed stand of the colonists against Great Britain. The celebration of the new holiday will be made notable in this part of the state. Extensive preparations are under way In Lexington and Concord, and very appropriately in Boston. At Concord the Massachusetts society of the Sons of the Revolution will hold its sixth annual reunion, and here in Boston the Daughters of the Revolution will receive at C2 Beacon-st. At Concord, too. there will be a sham fight in the morning, a public meeting in the afternoon, with speeches by Governor Greenhalge, Judge Hoar and others, and a ball in the evening. The Concord military company will represent the Minute men in the fight, and a company of colored militiamen will take the part of the British, who are to be driven from the old North Bridge to Merriam's Corner, on the Lexington road, as in the real combat of 11 years ago. A great-grandson of MaJ. Buttrick, who gave the command to the Minute men, "Fire! For God'a sake, fire!" will shout the same order to the make-believe soldiers. Perhaps the most Interesting single incident of the celebration in Boston will be the pealing of bells of the old Christ church, which have at last been recalled from their long silence, mainly through the efforts of Miss Charlotte W. Hawes, to arouse interest in the restoration of this famous chime. The bells have been rehung, so that the beauty of their tone will now become apparent, and members of the Old Colony Guild of bellringers have tested the perfection of the arrangement, and will ring the peals secundum artem. It is an interesting fact that the members of this guild are Englishmen, and that the joy bells proclaiming the holiday in commemoration of the rii-ing of the colonies against Great Britain will be sounded by descendants of the "tyrants" of those days. Boston Commercial. LA It G I BRITISH FORTUNES. Noblemen rMth Incomes That "Are Oat of Sight" In Good Circumstance. The earl of Derby draws from his tenant farmers upward of $$50,000 a year. This is supplemented by hl3 Liverpool property. This fortunate family also owns nearly all the town of Bury. The total income of the earl of Derby is close on $1,730,000, says the Louisville CourierJournal. The earl of Sefton's is another family which has done well out of Liverpool, for in addition to estates producing $215,000 a year and ground rents, $330,000 more, they received $1.253,000 for 370 acres of land required by the corporation for a public park. Mr. Gladstone, in addition to $500,000 left him by his father, has the rent roll of the Hawarden estate, which came into the possession of his wife on the death of the last male Glynne. Add to the estate, which Is worth $90,000 a year, another $10,000 for royalties. Earl Vane has $500,000 a year, in addition to his coal royalties, which extend over 12,000 acres. Coal is worth to the earl of Fitzwilliam $:m.000 a year. In addition to another $GS0,0OO. the value of his estates in Yorkshire and Ireland. The marquis of Londonderry, who sells his coal wholesale and retail, has with land a rent roll of $915,000 a year. The marquis of Salisbury's London property, in the neighborhood of St. Martin's lane and th2 Strand, is said to bring him $330,000 a year. The marquis's other estates produce $165,000 per annum. As the duke of Devonshire owns 193,313 acres of land, producing a revenue of $564.000 a year, he is not likely to accept the $1,000,000 which he has been offeree! for Devonshire house and grounds in Piccadilly. The duke of Hamilton's mining royalties amount to no less than $570.000 a year. His other estates bring in $365,000 per annum. Lord Burton of Bass fame is worth over $500.000 a year, and the family of the late Mr. Crawshay. the Welsh ironmaster, has the handling of $10.000,000. When the Iron trade was brisk the earl of Dudley netted yearly 1130,000. The Dudley diamonds are worth $2,600.000. The duke of Norfolk has an income of $1,84.",000 a year, thr duke ofNorthumiberInnd $SS0,OO0, and Karl Rosebery $1SO,000, to say nothing of $10,000,000 his late wife brought him. Caught It on the Fly. "In Broadway the other day." said a ftroller, "I saw two young men walking together and talking earnestly; one of them was smoking. The smoker was the more earnest of the two. Pretty soon he looked at his cigar, which was about two-thirds smoked up, and lighted a fresh one. Instantly he went on talking. 'Pooh! he began, and in his animation. Instead of throwing the discarded cigar Into the street, he tossed it In the air. It was caught as It came down by a tramp, who was walking behind him, and who, betraying no surprise whatever, went right on smoking It as though it had been nis own." N. Y. Fun. The Mlalsltl River. It has been estimated by competent civil engineers that the Mississippi river annually discharges 19,50O,ooo,0OO,OoO cubic feet of water into the Gulf of Mexico. Of this prodigious quantity the one-twenty-nine-hundredth part Is sediment. Thus It will be. seen that the Mississippi annually deposits enough mud In the gulf to cover a square mile uf surface to a depth of 240 feet.

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.

LESSOX VI, SECOND QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, MAY . Text of the Lron, Gen. I, 14-2G Memory Verne, 21-2C C.olden Text, Pror. It, IS Commentary by the Rev. t). M. Ptrarn. 14. "And Joseph returned into Egypt, he and his brethren and all that went up with him to bury hl3 father, after he had buried his father." For seventeen years did Jacob enjoy Joseph's presence and care In Egyrt (chapter xlvii. 2S) and died at the age of 147. having first blessed all his sons and charged them' to bury him beside Leah In the cave of Machpelah, where Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah had already been laid. When Jacob was dying, he, with confidence In the promises of God, blessed the? sons of Joseph and assured Joseph that God would bring them all out of Egypt (Heb. xl, 21; Gen. xlvii, 21). 13. "And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead ihey said. Joseph will peradventure hate us and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him." That looks like a very mean estimate of their brother, who had so abundantly cared for them for so many years. One cannot read chapter xlv, 1-15. without seeing that it was pure unbelief and actually made Joseph a liar. But it is just the way that many Christians treat the Lord. They cannot believe that He has nothing against them and that He will never mention their sirs, and so they make Him a liar (I John v, 10). 16. "And they sent a messenger unto Jofeph, saying. Thy father did command before he died, sajlng." A messenger's only responsibility is to receive and deliver his message correctly and promptly. Haegal was the Lord's messenger with the 'Lord's message (Hag. i, 13). and the message accomplished the work. It Is a pleasure to be the Lord's messenger and Is the highest honor a mortal can here enjoy. But this messenger was in poor employ and on a very poor errand. 17. "So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren and their sin." This was no new sin they were asking forgiveness for, but the old wrong of thirty-seven years before which had been fully forgiven for over seventeen years. We have no record that Jacob ever told his sons thus to appeal to Joseph. If he did. he was as bad as "hey. Yet there are Christians who, being assured of forgiveness (Eph. i. 7; I John ii, 12), are all the time asking forglvent-ss for the same old sins. No wonder Joseph wept. It Is enough to make Jesus weep to be so unbelievingly regarded. 18. "And his brethren also went and fell down before hi3 face, and they said, Behold, we be thy servants." It was In fear they came, begging for that which had long been given them. This is not the kind of servant Jesus expects to find in those who have been made nigh by His precious blood (Eph. i, 13). Not serving to obtain forgiveness, but serving because forgiven, is the right way. Serve the Lord with gladness. 19. "And Joseph said unto them. Fear not, for am I in the place of God?" It was against God they had sinned, and from Him first they should have sought forgiveness. David recognized this when he said. "Against thee, thee only, have I sinned and done this evil In thy sight (Ps. 11, 4). We must seek forgiveness from God, for all sin Is against Him (I Cor. viil, 12), and then from those against whom we have offended. 20. "But as for you, ye thought evil against me, but God meant It unto good to bring it to rss, as it is this day. to save much people alive." In almost the very same words had he spoken to them of this matter seventeen years before. He reminds us of Jesus, who is the same yesterday, today and forever (Heb. xiii, S), of Jehovah, who says, "I am the Lord. I charge net" (Mal. iii. fi). 21. "Now therefore fear ye not. I will nourish you and your little ones. And he comforted them and spoke kindly unto them." This is at least the fourth "fear not" In this story (xll.ii. 23; xlvl. 3; 1, 19). The first in the bible is in Gen. xv, 1, and the last is Rev. I. 17. or II, 10, but how many heart comforting ones there are throughout the book! I find constant comfort and strength in such aa I Sam. xxli. 23; Isa. xli. 10, 13: Joel il, 21; Mark v, 26. We are to comfort others with the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God (II Cor. 1, 4); therefore I pass them on. 22. "And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's house, and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years." He was thirty when he first stood before Pharoah (xli, 46). so that he had eighty years of prosperity and honor in Egypt. He would be about fifty-six when his father died; therefore- he lived to make pood his word to his brethren for at leas; fifty years. 23. "And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third genration. The children also cf Machir, the sdn of Manasseh, were brought up upon Joseph's knees." After Job's affliction he saw his son's sons, even four generations (Job xlll, 16). It is one of the blessings of the righteous to see children's children and peace therewith (Ps. cxxviil, 6). 24. "And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die, and God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land unto the land which He sware to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob." This was confidence In God. By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel and gave commandment concerning his bones (Heb. Xl. 22). 25. "And Joseph took an oath of the children of Isra 1, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye f hall carry up my bones from hence." So when Moses iel Israel out of Egypt he took the bones of Joseph, and when their wanderings all had ceased they were burled in Shechem (Ex. viil. 19; Joshua xxiv, 32). Joseph might have desired such a funeral as he gave hi.s father and had his body at once buried in the land of promise, but he was so sure of their going up in due time that he was content to wait and let his body remain among them as a token of their coming deliverance. 26. "So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old, and they embalmed h!m, and he was put In a coffin in Egypt." Gathered unto his people (xllx, 33), his body still awaits the resurrection of the just at the coming of Christ (I Cor. xv, 23; 1 Thess, lv, 16). These all died In faith, not having received the promises. These all having obtained a good report through faith received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect (Heb. xl, 13, 39. 40). That unburled body was a constant sermon to the believing remnant such as Amram and Jochebed, parents of Moses, not to be discouraged by trials, but to wait for the deliverance, which was sure to come. Thff Hard Timen, Too. A sj-mposium was In progress the other day in the wardroom of the Dolphin on the return of the congressional party from Indian Head. Representative Robbins of Alabama presided. The question of the highest privilege was. "is there liquor enough to go around?" "If there Isn't." said Representative Haines of New York, "I will buy" some," and he handed the chalrmaA a five-dollar -bill. "That is bribery of the rankest sort." said Mr. Robblns. "and the chair will not allow-it" With that he held the five-dollar bill over a candle and watched It go up in flame and smoke. Everybody laughed as if they thought the performance a huje joke, but a cold. shiver ran down Jerry Simpson's back. Washington Tost. - -

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The State Sentinel, which eyer aims to keep abreast of the times and to promote the interests of its subscriber", has Jni Completed an arrangement with the leading watch manufacturers of the country by which it is enabled to oiler the beet watchei made, to its subscribers only, at the same prices which jewelers and watch dealers in th cities and towns have to j.ay for their gooda In come cases we can. sell watches to our subscribers for even less than dealers havo to pay for them. Every man or woman, young or old, who reads The State Senti nel cupht to own a watch. Every one ought to have a good watch a watch that will not only keep iime, but i handsome and showy. If you take Tue State Sentinel you can, for a limited iime only, eet a first-class, handsome eoM watch, with the very beet Torks manufactured, for much less than poor watches with silver or brass cases are common!' sold for. Our stock of watches will not last always, and after the present ttock is exhausted we cannot promise to fill orders. TLoe who order first, therefore, will be first served. The American Standard Watches the best timekeepers in the world are graded as seven, eleven and thirteen jeweled, full feweled and adjiRted. Very few men not one in a thousand carry either an a iju-ted or even a full-jeweled watch. The State Sfktinel uses only the celebrated gold-filled cast's made by Joseph Fahys, unless distinctly specified in fpecial offers. They are the best made, and selected for that reason. His ten-carat case-9, called Montauks, are guaranteed for tilteea 'ears. His fourteen-carat filled case?, called Monarch, are guarasteed for twenty years. Wheu t&u &nd fr.urtecn-carat caaea are pokea cf they refer to cnlj Montauks and Monarch. OUR SPECIAL OFFERS! The cuta represent Joseph Fahya' celebrated Montaui and Monarch cases as above. Cases will be furnished either plain (engine-turned) cr beautifully engraved as the subscriber prefers. No. 18, size for gentlemen, are Elgin, Waltham or New York: standard movements, and will be put in euch cai as desired Kote carefully the descriptions and prices belowGENTLEMEN'S MHTCH6S.

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Ro. 17. Slzo No. 18. Ko. 17. Size No. 18 Waltham or lfrin movement, seven jewels, beautilulljr engraved Montauk case, $18. This watch would cost from f 23 to $35 at jewlry stores. The above No. IS. Size No. 18. No. 18. Size No. 18 Monarch case, twenty-one years guarantee, 14 carat, Waltham morement (ecgine-turned),$20.25 No. 23. Slzo No. 18. No. 28. Size No. 18 Montauk caoe (engine turned), New York Standard movement, seven jewela, $16.25.

These are the best "Watches erer offered for anyth'.Djr 15k. theee f pure. Who eed go without a watch when he can get a firsVclaia tisntketiwr in a hanJeoma case lor $12.25 or $10.20?

LKDieS' AAZTTrCHOS. W Hr beautiful Ladies' WUaa t ptic wiUio tb reach of ftlL

No. 8. Slzo No. . No. 21. - c TiKart Wr Ol 1 or American) eneraved case, arch case, cret movement Ibwiss), seven iancy r.izin

levrels, $12. jewels, SI9.ÖO.

The watch will reach you within a week the IMJIAiS Al'ULdS ivcuieiuuei mm w.v aented. We can assure our readers that nantal. thing ot beauty ana a joy lorever,

Want a First-CIass Timekeoperl Want a Watch that is Warranted I Want Good Works and a Handsome Caso J Can Supply You at fViianufacturer's Prices. Save GIO to S20 on a Watch!

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No. 16. Slzo No. 18. No. 16. Size No. 18 Waltham or Elgin movement, seven jewels, (engineturned) Montauk ca?e, 18- This watch would cost' from $-'3 to $35 at jewelry Etoree. are all Montauk cases and are guaranteed for 1 No. 19. Slzo No. 18. No. 19. Size No. 18 Monarch case, fancy landscape engraved, Elgin movement, $21.50. No. 3. Slzo No. 18. No. 5. Hue No. 18 Liberty (engineturned) case, N w York Standard movement, will wear ton years, S12.25.

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INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.: Please send one watch No. . . to the following address: Name Post Office ....

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No. 14. Slzo No. 18. .No. 14. Size No. 18 Box case, Loult XIV. style, Waltham orF.lpin lovemen seven jewels, $19.75. These watches art sold by retail dealers at from 530 to $35. fifteen year. No. 20. Slzo No. 18. NO. 20. Si.e No. IS Monarch e&9& with wide Vermicelli border and engravea center, VTalthara movement, seven jewels, $23. Thi is the finest watch we oiler and i well worth $4d, according to the price! charged in jewelry stores. The cases art warranted for twenty-cno yeara. The readers of The Sentixel nerer had an opportunity to got first-class watchei at any euch prices as the above, and aftet thia etock is Bold they will probably noi eoon have euch a chance again. This oifer is open only to subscribers ta The Indiana State Sentinel. One of these watches will make a hand come birthday or Christmas present foi your wife, your sister, your daughter, Ol your sweetheart; for your husband, yooi father, your brother or your eon. In order to avoid confusion and mistake the watches should be ordered only by their numbers. Thus it is only necessary to eay : ".end watch No. S (or whatever number is desired) to the following ad dress." Write the name, town, county and Etate vv plainly. The cah ujuet accompany every order. We should prefer to have our subscribers use the following coupon, which caa be cut out, filled up and tent to The In, pian a State Sentinel with a draft oa Chicapo, New York, Indianapolis or Cincinnati or a poatotiice money order for tha amount. 189 draft (or money ordor) for $ watches to be precisely as thev are rep re SENTINEL GO.

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