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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 16, 1894-TWELVE TAGES.

AT BROOKLYN TABERNACLE,

nCV. Dil. TA L!I AGE'S SriUECT WAS U'OX CIIKKltllL. CIll'KCIlKS. lie -a Iiis Throlosr IIa All Gone Int l'lve Letter The ;iadne of tlie ChrUtinn Ilcllfflon V Few Worü of Kurewell 111 Few SloniU Absence. BROOKLYN, May 13. The Tabernacle was crowded to the doors today when the Rev. Dr. Talmage took for the subject of his forenoon sermon a passage of scripture which has been made the subject of much discussion and various interpretations by modern theologians. His theme was. "A Cheerful Chu:ch." and the text was selected from Solomon's Song iv, 1, "Behold, thou art fair, my love." "Higher criticism" says that this book of Solomon's Song is a love Fcene, a forlorn maiden, slphins for her beau. If so. It is an unclean and debauched utterance inserted in the pure word of God and is not fit for common reading. My opinion is that it is an inspired ode setting forth the feeling of Christ toward the church and of tlie church toward Christ. Christ is the bridegroom, and the church is the bride. The same words we can utter today truthfully whether in regard to the church of God in general or this church in particular, "Behold, thou art fair, my love." The prst wfk has boon one of prolonged congratulation for th it we have fur twenty-five years been permitted to a.s ei.'t te with each other in the relation of jasttr and people. When I com-"1 to Brooklyn. I found a snnll band of Christian disciples who from various causes had Income less and less until they stoid ujion the very verg of extinction as a church, and the question was being agitated from time to time whether it would be possible to maintain a church life longer. Indeed had not those men and women Nn consecrated ar.d e.:rn-?t thy would have surrendered to the adverse circumstances. Thcv marshaled a congregational meeting, and gathering up all the forces possible they cast nineteen votes for a pastor, all of which I am happy to have received. The Tiilternnele Defined. It was not through any spirit of personal courage or reckless adventure that I was ld from one of the warmest and most congenial pastorates in Philadelphia that a man ever enjoyed to this then most uninviting field, but it was the feeling that God had called m to the work, and I was sure he would see me through. I have thought that it might be profitable to us to state briefly what kind of a church we have bt-en trying to establish. In the fust place, I remark that we have lKen trying to build hre a Christian church, distinctively such in other words, a church whre we should preach the Lord .Testis Christ and Him crucilied. My theology i.s all gone into five letters Jesus. Jesus, the pardon of all offenses. Jesus, the foundation for all structures. Jesus, the balm for all wounds. Jesus, the eye salve for all blindness. Jesus, the guide through all perplexities. Jesus, the hope for all discouragements. Jesus, the reform for all wrongs. I have faith to believe that there is more power in one drop of the blood of Jesus Christ to cure the woes of the world 1han in an ocean full of human quackery. Jesus is the grandest note in any minstrelsy. He is the brightest gem in any crown. Hight overtopping all hight. The center of every circumference. The circumference to every center. The pacifier of all turbulence. The umpire of all disputes. Jesus! Jesus! At His table all nations are to sit. Around His throne all worlds are to revolve. He is to be the'irradiation of the universe. Jesus! Jesus! It is that truth that we have Hied to preach in this Tabernacle. A II road Creed. lo you ask more minutely what we believe? I can tell you. We have no dry, withered, juieeless. theology. "We believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, the deliverer of the distressed, the home for the homeless, the friend for the friendless. We believe in Jesus Christ, able to save to the uttermost, pardoning the guiity, imputing His righteousness to the believer. We believe in the Holy (I host, the comforter, the sanctifier. cheering üp the heart In life's ills and kindling bright lights in every dark landing place. We believe that the whole race is so ' sunken in sin that nothing but the omrip tent arm of God can ever lift it out. "We ljelieve in grace free grace, sovereign grace, triumphant grace, eternal grace. ' believe in a bible, authentic in its statements, immaculate in its teachings, glorious in its promises. We believe in heaven, the abode f the righteous, and in hell, the residence of those who are soul sui'-ides. of their own fr-e choice refusing the divine mercy. We believe in the salvation of all men who accept Christ by faith, be they sprinkled or immersed, worship they in cathedral or in log cabin, believe they in preshyterianism or episcopacy, dwell they under Italian skies or in Siberian snow storms. b they Kthiopian r American. All one in Christ. One Lord, one faith, one baptism, on the way to one hiven. We built this Tabernacle for the purpose of setting forth these great theories of the gospel of the Son of God. Would that we had been more faithful in the pulpit! Would that we had been more faithful in th pew! I remark, further, that we have tried here to build a church distinctively unconventional. Inst ad of asking, as some people are disposed tö do. how othr people d it. we have ask.'d the question how ieople do rwt do it. Imperious custom has decided that churcht-s shall lie angular, cheerless, gloomy, unsympathetic, forgetting that what men call a rCas gloom is impious, and that that church has the boj-t architecture where the peon'e are most comfortable, and that that Is the most eflicient Christian service where the people are made inot sick of sin and most anxious after Christ and heaven. And so we called th architects together for our first church building and said. "Give us an amphitheater" that !, a larre family circle, gathered n round a fireplace. For many years we bad felt that an amphitheater was the only proper shajH for an audience room. The prominent architects of the countrysaid: "It cannot be done. You reed a churchly building." And so we had plan after plan of rhurchly buildings presented, but in due time God sent a man who grasped our Idea and executed it. So far from being a failure, it satisfied out want, and all our three churches were built on the amphitheatrical plan, and scores of churches all over the country have adopted the same plan. A Democratic ( lturrli. And. my brethren and sisters, we fail In our work just in proportion as we try to be like other churches. We believe that GM intended every church, like every man, to be individual, leathering up all its peculiarities and Idiosyncrasies and hurling them all toward some good and grand object. In other words, no two churches ought ever to be just alike. Here is a church, for instance, whose object it Is to prepare philosophers and artists and critics for heaven. God speed them in the difficult work. Here Is a church, on the other hand, that proposes to bring only the poor into the kingdom of Jesu Christ, looking; not after the rich. God ipeed such a church In its undertaking. But there Is a larger idea that a church may take bringing In the rich and the pcor. th" wise and the ignorant, the high and the low. no that kneeling beside each other hall be the man faring sumptuously every day and the man who could not get his breakfast. GM speed such a church. CiY mv frlpnda wo nerf tn hroaV away from slavery to ecclesiastical cus-

torn. We dare not sing If anybody hears us. We dare not preach unless we have rounded off our sentences to suit the criticism of the world. We dare not dress for church until we have examined the fashion plates and would rather stay at home than appear with a coat or a hat not sanctioned by custom. When will the day of deliverance come to the church of GoJ when, instead of a dead religion, laid out In state on a catafalque of pomp and insincerity, we shall have a living, bounding, sympathetic, glowing Christianity? A Joyful Religion. I remark, further, that we have tried her? to build and to conduct a cheerful church. While, as you know, we have not held back the terrors of the law and the sterner doctrines of the gospel, we have tried in this house to present to this people the idea that the gladdest, brightest, happiest thing In all the universe is the Christian religion. There is so much trouble in the world. Business men have so many anxieties, toiling men have so many fatigues, orphans have so many desolations for God's sake, if

there be any bright place on earth, show It to them. Let the church of Jesus Christ be the most cheerful . spot on earth. Iet me say that I do not want anybody to coma whining around me about the Christian religion. I have no faith in a religion m? de up of equal parts of wormwood, vinegar and red pepper. If the religion that is presented to us be a depression, ve will get along better without It. If It be a Joy. let it shine nut from your fare and from your conversation. If a man comes to my house to talk of religion with lugubrious countenance and manner full of snUlle and dolorousness. I fell like saying to my wife, "You had better lock up the silver before he steals something." I have found it an invariable rule that men who profess faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, priding themselves at the same time on their sanctimoniousness, always turn out badly I never knew an exception while those who are the most consistent, the most useful and the most consecrated have perfume in their conversation and heaven in their face. The F.ternnl CÜmliie. The happiest Christians that I have ever known have been persons from sixty to eighty years of age. By that time people gret over the shams and pretenses of society and have no longer any patience with anything like imposture in religion. O Christian, how' dare you be gloomy? Is not GM your father? Is not Jesus Christ your Savior? Has not your path all through life been strewn with mercies? Are you insensible to the fact .that there are glories awaiting you in the better land? doxologies of celestial worship, eternal chorals, tearless eyes, songs that resound under arches of strength and hsannas that clap their hands at the foot of the throne? Is it n ithing to you that all the hüls of heaven are radiant with the faces of those who have gone up from you, and who are waiting for your coming, ready to keep with you eternal holiday? Is there nothing in songs that never cease, in hearts that neve r ache, in splendors that never die, to make you glad? Then take no more mercy at the hand of thy God! Give back the marriage ring of love that Jesus put on your ringer in the day of your eiu.-al! Plant no more of the flowers of heaven where there ought to be nothing but nettles and nightshade! We try to make this church a cheerful chunh. A man on Saturday afternoon stands in his store and says: "Hew shall I meet these obligations? How can I endure this new disaster that is coming upon me?" He ges home. Sabbath morning finds him in the house of GM. Through the song, the Bord Jesus Christ says to that man: "O man. I have watched thee! I have seen all thy struggles. It is enough. I will see thee through. I will stand between thee and thy creditoi-s. I will make up in heavenly treasures what you lost In earthly treasures. Courage, man! Courage! Angels of God. I command you to clear the track for that man. Put your wings over his head. With your golden scepters strike for his defense. Throw around him all the defenses of eternity!" What is the consequence? That business man is strengthened. He goes to the store next day feeling that God is with him and ready to deliver. A Tri um pliant Church. That same Sunday there is a ioor old woman in the church hearing the gospel. Oh, how shrunken she is! She wears th? same dress she wore twenty years ago. How faded it is and now out of date! She sits and listens, as well as she '.an. Her eyes are so dim she cannot see half way across the church. Her ear is so imperfect that she can only catch occasionally a note of the psalm or a word of the preacher. Some one sitting next to her gives her a lok and linds the place for her. She says. "Thank you, miss; thank you!" She holds the book close up to her eyes and vith a voice all full of tremor sing-?: Jesus, lover of rny soul. Bet me to thy bosom fly While the billows ne:trme roll. While the tempest still is hih. Hi'le nie, O my S.ivior, hide. Till the storm of life is past. Safe into the haven guide Oh. receive my soul at last And Jesus says to her, "Mother, are you weary?" And she says, "Yes, Jesus, I am very tired." Jesus says, "Mother, are you ir?" And she says, "Yes. I am very jxior. I cannot sew any more; I cannot knit any more. I am very poor." Jesus says to her, "Mother, would you like to rest?" She says, "Yes, Iord: that is what I want rest." "Courage, mother." says Jesus. "I will see thee through." She go-s home. The next morning in the tenement house some one dwelling on another floor comes to her room and knocks. No answer. The door is opened. She is dead! The night before the chariots of God halted at that pillow of straw, and Jesus kept his promise. He said that he would give her rest, and he has given her rest. Glory be to God for the hight, the depth, the length and the breadth of sueh Christian comfort! Oh. that we might have such joy as that which Inspired the men at the lattle of Leuthen. They were singing a Christian song &s they went into battle. A general said to the king. "Shall I stop these people singing?" "No," said the king. "Men that can sing like that can light." 1 would that we had a singing church, a joyful church, a jubilant church, a comforting church, for then we would have a triumphant church. I remark, further, that we have here triM to build a church abreast of the times. .It is all folly for us to try to do things the way the did fifty or one hundred years ago. We might as well be plowing with Elijah's crooked silck, or go into battle with Saul's armor, or prefer a canalboat to an express train, as to be clinging to old .things. What we most need now Is a wide awake church. People who are out in the world all the week. Jostling against this lightningfooted century, come Into the church on the Sabbath and go right to sleep unless they have a spirited service. Men engaged in literary callings all the week, reading pungent, sharp writings, cannot be expected to come and hear our ecclesiastical humdrum. If a man stays at home on Sundays and reads the newspapers it is because the newspapers ar more interesting. We need, my brethren, to rouse up and stop hunting with blank cartridges. The church of God ought to be the leader, the interpreter, the inspirer of the age. It is all folly for us to be discussing old issues arraigning Nero, hanging Absalom, striking the Philistines with Shamgar's ox goad when all around about us are iniquities to l slain. Did I say that the church ought to be abreast of the times? I take that back. The church of GM ought to be ahead of the tlrns as far in advance as the cross of Christ is ahead of all human invention. Paul was 1,000 years ahead of the day in which he lived. The swiftfooted years that have passed since Luther died have 'not yet come up to Luther's grave. Give Iniquity 4,000 years

the start, and the feet of Christianity are so nimble that if you will but give it full swing it will catch up and pass it in two bounds. The church of Ood ought to be ahead of the times. A Stalwart nellglon. 1 remark, further, that we have tried here ir the love and fear of GM to build a church that would be characterized by conversions. I have heard of very good people who could preach on for fifteen or twenty years and see no conversions, but yet have faith. It takes a very good man to do that. I do not know how a man can keep his faith up if souls are not brought to the Lord Jesus Christ. That church that does not bring men and women to the feet of the Savlous is a failure. I care not how fine the building, or how sweet the music, or how eloquent the preaching, or how elegant the surroundings it is a failure. The church of GM was made for Just one thing to get men out of the world into the kingdom of heaven. The tendency in churches is to spend their time in giving fine touches to Christians already polished. We keep our religion too much indoors and under shelter when It ought to be climbing the rocks or hewing in the forests. Then it would be a stalwart religion, a robust religion, a religion able to digest the strong meat of the world instead of being kept on the pap and gruel of spiritual invalidism. It is high time that we threw off the Sunday clothes of sickly sentimentality and put on the workday dress of an earnest, active Christianity. Here is Brooklyn, here is New York, here are the United States, here Is the whole world to be converted. It is l.sr4 years since Christ came, and yet Europe. Asia. Africa, North and South America are still unevangelized. More people born every year into the world than are born into the kingdom of GM. At that rate I ask any one who can do a simple sum in arithmetic to calculate when this world will be brought to Jesus. At that ratio never, never, never! And vet we know that it is to be brought tc "Christ. But the church will have to change its tack and take a wider sweep with the gospel net than any it has yet taken. I believe that the great masses of the people are now ready to receive the gospel if we give them a chance. A boy goes along the street at night and sees a fine house beautifully lighted up and hears music, and he says, "I wish I was in there, but I have not been invited," and so he passes on. Here is the church of God. lighted up with festivity and holy mirth, and the world passes along outside, hears music and sometimes wishes It was inside, but says that it is not invited. Oh. invite the world to com in! Go out into the highways and hedges. Send a ticket of invitation, printed in these words, "Come, for all things are now ready." Itnried In Sin. Some years ago 200 men were buried in the Hartley colliery of England. The queen of England, from her throne, telegraphed, "Is there any hope for the men?" After awhile the answer came over the wires: "No hope. They are dead." Here Is a whole race buried in sin and darkness and woe. The question that thrills up to the throne of God today is, "Is there any hope for the men?" Answering intelligence comes back from the throne of God. thrilling through the world's darkness, thrilling through the world's woe: "Yes. Hope for one! Hope for al!. Whosoever will, let him come. And the Spirit and the Bride say. Come. And let him that is athirst come." We have had conventions all over the country discussing the subject. "How Shall the Great Masses Be Brought to Christ?" They have passed splendid resolutions at the close of the meeting a long list of eight, ten or fifteen have been read, and then the presiding officer has said, -"All those in favor of the resolutions for the conversion of the world, purifying the cities and redeeming the masses, and making everything all right say aye." "Aye! Aye!" say 1,000 voices. "All opposed no." "The ayes have it." There, the world is converted! Ah, we do not seem to get along by such a process. If this world is ever to be brought to (.'od it will not be by the handful of ministers we have in this country. It will be by ths great masses of Christian men pnd women discharging their duty. If the private church membership of this country would but put on their armor and go forth I believe that in fifteen years this whole land would be redeemed for Christ. Would God that all the people were prophets! I am never afraid to hear a man say that he is going to preach. If he cannot preach people will not go to hear him. If he can he has a message from the Almighty, ai i I would have him deliver it. Look out how you interfere with him. C'loMlnic AVont. Since we have been together as pastor and people how many have been promoted to the glories of heaven! They died sweetly, calmly, as only Christians can die. They have put down the staff of their pilgrimage; they have taken up the palm of the victor. The Lord Jesus has swung His arm through this church a good many times. He has been up and down all these aisles. He has taken the little children the dear little children. He came down into the garden to gather the lilies and the aged as well. One who sat right here, so that when I used to preach I could almost put my hand on his head, when I came back from my summer vacation was gone. Oh, how the glories of heaven shone around that old man's face as he sat here Sabbath after Sabbath! Gone now, happy spirit! Happy with all those who have passed the Mood! One army of the living God To his command we bow. Part of the host have crossed the flood, And part are crossing now. I thank you for all your kindness, for all your sympathy, for all your prayers for me as pastor. It is a sorrow to me that I am to be absent even for a few months. I have worked to the full extent of physical, mental and spiritual endurance for this church. Now we start out on our twentysixth year. How many of us will close it here I know not. But, living or dying, let us cling to Christ. Oh. that all the people would lova Him! I wish that I could take this audience this morning and wreathe it around the heart of my Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, He is such a dear savior. He is such a loving Jesus! He is so precious! He is all the world to me. He is heaven to me. He washed away my sins. He comforted me in days of darkness and trouble. He is mine. O blessed Jtsus! Sweetest sound I ever heard or ever expect to hear is Thy name! My closing prayer this morning is that GM will have mercy on the dying insulation of our great cities, and that the whole earth will put on bridal array for the coming of her Lord. Hide on. King Jesus, ride on! Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting, and let the whole earth be filled with His glory! Amen and amen!

Nniulnjc n. Xovel. Here Is a story which P. Marlon Crawford has been telling in Washington. Like every other man of prominence whose name is familiar to the reading public, Mr. Crawford Is frequently asked for his autograph. With these requests he invariably complies. Last autumn, when his new story had been carefully thought out and the work was fairly under way, he received a letter from two of the girl students at Wellesley college containing a request for his signature. One of the letters was signed Katherine Lauderdale. To this and the accompanying letter a prompt reply was given. But the name haunted him. "Katharine Lauderdale!" It suggested refinement, cultivation, good looks, romance. It was Just the name for the novel which he was writing. He sent "Miss Lauderdale" another letter. Would she permit him to call his story "Katherine Lauderdale?" By return mail came an impersonal reply. The young lady had no objection, and the book which is now attracting the attention of th reading public was so christened. Boston Herald.

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LESSOX VIII, SRCOXIJ QIARTEH, IXTERXATIONAL SCIUKS, 3IAY -'0. Text of the Lesxnn. F.x li. 1-10 Memory VrriM, S-IO Sollten Text, P. xrl, 15 Commentary by the llev. D. M. Steam. 1. "And there went a man of the house of Levi and took to wife a daughter of Levi." We learn from chapter vl. 2' that the man's name was Amram, which signifies an exalted people, and that his wife's name was Joche-bed. which signifies Jehovah is honor, ar.d that Amram lived 137 years. Their names are also given in Num. xxvi. f. with th? fact that they had three children Aaron and Moses and Miriam, their sister. Levi was the third son of Jacob and Leah, and his name signifies joined (.Gen. xxix. 34). All the Levi t es were afterward joined unto Aaron in the special ministry of the tabernacle (Num. xviii. 2). They were separated from among the children of Israel as a special offering unto th? Lord instead of the first horn of all Israel and as a gift unto Aaron '(Num. viil. 13-19). 2. "And the woman conceived and bare a son. And when she saw him that he was a goodly chill she hid him three months." It is written in Acts vil. 2 that he was "exceeding fnir." or. as in the margin, "fair to God." He was the youngest of 'the three children. Miriam being the oldest and Aaru.l nrxt. The testimony in Heb. xl. 23. is. "By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parent, because they saw he was a proper child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment." Faith implies a promise on the part of God It is simply confidence in God that He will do as He has said. God had told Abraham that He would bring his seed out of bondage In the fourth generation (Gen. xv. IG). 3. "And when she could not longer hide him she took for him an ark of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and with pitch and put the chil l therein, ant she laid It in the flags by the river's brink." This is the second of the three arks mentioned in scripture, each one being made for a like purpose viz. to preserve that which it contained. Let any mother in her imagination pass through this experience and say if she docs not want to see Jochehed and ask her. How could you do it? The river, like the waters of the deluge, meant death. The child is virtually put in the place of death, and yet it is evident that the moth like Abraham, believed that God would give her back her child. There is no p-w"r for God in our lives till we know the place of death and resurrection. See John xii. 24 ; Phil. Iii. 10. 4. "And his sister stood afar off to wit what would be done to him." Let some sister who has a little b;.by brother imagine herself in the place of Miriam. We can fancy the mother, having obeyed the promptings of th Spirit of God, now giving herself to earnest prayer in the quiet of her own ho ne. She has obeyed even unto death and now can truly say, "My soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from Him" (Ps. lxii, S). 5. "And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river, and her maidens walked along by the river'sside, and when she saw the ark among the flags she sent her maid to fetch it." God is working. He is in it all, as He is in everything that concerns His people, and ofttimes we must just stand still and see what He will do. It is not till we are at our wits' end, all our own wisdom swallowed up, that we can see the wisdom and the power of God (ls. cvii, 27-30, margin). 6. "And when she had opened it she saw the child, and, lhold. the babe wept. And she had .ompassion on him and said. This i one of the Hebrews' children." See how G 'd works! He gave the daughter of Pharaoh compassion for the babe. He made the babe to be pitied of her (Ps. cvi. 4'0. How little she dreamed who was watching her and controlling her that day or that she was looking upon a child chosen by God to shake her father's kingdom to its very center! Old Simeon and Anna knew that the little child in Maiy's arms was the salvation of Israel, God's great deliverer (Luke ii, S4, 3S), but this woman knew nothing. 7. "Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?" Can you see Miriam standing afar off. and, while she watched the spot in the river where her brother lay. lifting up her heart to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that He would save her brother? Presently she sees the king's daughter draw near to the very spot. Oh, how she prays! Almost unconsciously she herself' draws nigh, she hears the baby cry, she looks un him, and with feelings restrained lest she betray herself she asks if she shall find a Hebrewnurse. 8. "And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother." Quietly till out of sight, but then how swiftly sped she homeward! Did she laugh or cry, or both? Could she speak when she saw her mother, or must she wait to recover breath while the mother, with faith and expectation, waits to bear? Some c'ay they will tell us all about it, for it was a day never to be forgotten in that home. Perhaps a mother who could do as she had done could restrain her joy enough to say to Miriam, Let us give thanks to God of Israel. See. my friends, how God works. JUesscd Indeed are all who yield so fully to Him that He can work in them unhindered both to will and to do of His good pleasure (Phil, li, 13). 9. "And Pharaoh's .laughter said unto her. Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child and nursed It." With emotions controlled she receives into her arms her own der.r child with a promise of wages if she wi'l care for it. I wonder If she heard that promise of wages ur if Miriam had afterward to remind her that they miuht as well as not have some money that was due them from the king's daughter. The spoiling of the Kgyptians has already begun (Gen. xv. 14; Ex. xii. r,tj). And Pharaoh is used by God to care for and nourish the child who shall lead Israel out of his kingdom. What thanksgiving In the home of Amram! See the reward of faith. 10. "And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she calUd his name Moses, and she said, Because I drew him out of the water." The king who ordered all the male children to be cast into the river Is actually sheltering one of those very children who shall be the instrument of God against the kingdom of Egypt. Thus he that sitteth in the heavens laughs at the vain plotting of satan and of man against Him. "The Lord brlngeth the council of the heavens to naught. He maketh the devices of the people of none effect. The counsel of the Lord standeth forever, the thoughts of HIa . heart to all generations." ; To Klionltc Wood. To ebonize wood soak It for two days in warm alum water. If the article happens to le a table or something quite as large, smooth and clean It carefully, then with a brush apply the hot alum water as often as possible for two days. Then boil a handful of logwood chips in a quart of water until it measures only a pint. Put in this a piece of Indigo as big as a bean and apply the liquid hot. using a brush. This will make the wood a violet color. Apply this three times, waiting each time for it to dry. . Boil a little verdigris In some vinegar and give a coat of that. Let the wood stand three days then polish well with a chamois ekln and varnish. N. Y. Telegram.

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Ko. 17. Size No. IC. Mo. 17. ize No. IS Waltham or Vn movement, seven jewels, beautilully engraved Montauk caee, SI 8. This watch would cost from to $iö at jewelry stores. The abore x----l:vl'iv-. y:y:: No. 18. Size No. 18. No. 18. ize No. 18 Monarch ense, twenty-one years puarantee, 14 carat, Waltham morement (engine-turned),20.25 No. 28. Sizo No. 18. NO. 28. 'cize No. IS Montauk caso (engine-turned). New York Standard movement, seven jewels, SI6.25.

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These are the best Watches ever offered for anytMc.7 like these fi:i:rep. Who peed yo without a watch when he can get firaVtlei tlatkeesT in a handsome caee tor $12.25 or lü.ii?

LDieS' WTTCH0S, W flr beautiful Ladies' WftUhM t priei vliMn the reach ol all.

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No. 8. Slzo No. O. No. 21. Slzo No. 6. No. 8. Fize No. 6 Liberty No. 21. Size No. 6 Mon(or American) engraved case, arch case, ' vermicelli border, )oret movement (.Swiss), seven fancy Elgin movement, seven Jewels, SI2. jewels, $19.50. .

The watch will reach you within a week after vou send the order. ... . 1 .v. member That the INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL COMPANY guarantees theso Matches to bo rrensoly a? thr re wprjented. We can assure our readers that every watch will givo complete and entire sati.fact.on. It will be both useful and orn . . 1 iL!. nt Kent anil a in fnrnvpr.

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Wants First-Class Timekeeperl Want a Watch that is Warranted I Want Good Works and a Handsome Caso I Can Supply You at Pianufaciurer'G Prices. Save SIO to 020 on a Watch!

(enirine - tumedl or beautifully engraved a? the attham or rcew lurk fctaudard mover. movement?, prices below. ?. cm t! r.'.s yy:-rJi') V'--h v t Ho. 16. SJzo No. 18. No. 16. Sire No. 1 Waltham or Elein movement, eeven jewe'i. (engineturned) Montauk case, $8. Thi watch would coat from $23 to iJÖ at jewelry Etoreg. ere ali Montauk cases and &r &u.iranteed ior W -rr. 4 - mmmmym No. 10. Slzo No. 13. Mo. 19. Piza No. IS Monarch case, fancy landscape engraved, lgin movement, S2I.50. Mo. 5. Sizo No. tC. No. -5. Tr No. IS Liberty fenirlnstarned) case, New York Standard inov meat, will wear too years, $12.25.

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and wili he put in Euch casa & d&jlrt No. 14. Size No. 18. No. 14. Size No. IS Ilox case, IOnU XIV. Ftyie, Waltham or I'ljin movement Feven jewels, $19.75. These watches arc eold by retail dealers at from jUO to $35. fifteen se&za. r ty-yz-' T-f f . v. ? V y-- y y y J Ro. 20. Sizo No. 13. fJo. SO. Size No. I S Monarch ease, with wido Vermicelli border and enjrraved center, Waltham movement, seven jewel. 323. This is the finest watch weorler and is well worth Sl , acco.-dicp to tho price charged in jewelry stores. The cases art warranted for tweüty-cne years. The readers of Tiif. Sextixei. never had an opportunity to pet Crt-class watches at any such prices as tho above, and after this (dock in sold they will probably not coon have euch a char.ro aain. This oLrer is cpen only to subscribers is Tin: Indiana State Sentinel One of these watches will make a hani eome birthday or Christmas present foi your wife, your tister, your daughter, 01 your sweetheart; for your husband, yooi father, your brother or your son. In order to avoid confusion and mistakes the watches should be ordered only by their numbers. Thus it is only necessary to say: " nl watch No. S ior whatever number is desired) to tho following address." Write the name, town, county ani state vatv plainly.. The cash must accompany every order. We should pre fcr to havo our subscribers Use the following coupon, which caa be cut cut, lllle 1 uy and seat to The Ixdiaxa State S::ni ixEi. with a draft oa Chicago, New York, Indianapolis or Cincinnati or a postoiiice money order for the amount 189

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