Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1894 — Page 12

THE STAT12 SEKTXXEE, WEDNESDAY JrOIt;Ur;G. SEPTEMBER 5, 1894:--T WELTE PAGES.'

RESCUE BY DIVINE AID.

TALMAGK PltF.ACHES A POWERFUL . SlillMOX TllllOtUII TIIK PRESS. t rnnl'i AUlre to Ihr Jailer Mäkln m Ialre ((uakr nt the Foundation Salvation Without Money Death ltoltbeil oC Its Terror Home In Heaven. IJROOKLYN', Sept. 2. The Rev. Dr. Talmage, who Is still absent in the south Pacific, has selected as the subject of Today's sermon through the press "The Rescue," the text chosen being Acts xvl, CI, 'Believe cn the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Jails are dark, dull, damp, loathsome places even now, but they were worse in the apostolic times. I imagine today we are standing in the Phillppian dungeon. Po you unl feel the chill? Do you not h-ar the prana of those incarcerated on-. who f'-r ten years have not seen the sunlight and the deep sigh of women who renj-mher their father's house and mourn over their wasted estates? Listen ugain. It is the cough of a consumptive or tha strudle of one in the nightmare of ;i Kreut hormr. You listen again and hear a culprit. Iiis chains rattling as he fulls over in his dreams, and you say, "Ood, i-ity the pi Isoner." Hut there is another un I i'i that prison. It Is the 'ng f j y an.i gladnesa. What a place to sir.g The music comes winding through the corridors of the prison, and in all t:i- dark wards the whisper is heard. "What's that? What's that?" In the I'lilllpplnn Doniiron. It U thv tor.g of l'aul and Silas. They cannot , p. Tin y have Leen whipped, very KHIy whipped. The long gashes on their hacks are bleeding yet. They lie flat on tlv vol.1 ground, their feet fast in wooden sockets, and of course they cannot sl.-tp. Rut they can sing. Jailer, what are you doing -with these people? Why have they been put in here? Oh, they have been trying to make the world hotter. Is that all? That is all. A pit lor Jos ph. a lion's cave for Daniel, a Mazing furnace for Shadrach, clubs for John Wesley, an anathema for Philip 3Iel:tnchtbon, a dungeon for l'aul and Silas. Hut while we are standing in the gloom of the I'hllipnian dungeon, and we hear the mingling voices of sob and groan and blasphemy and hallelujah, sudthe doors swing open. The Jailer, feeling the prison twist, the pillars crack oft, the folld masonry begins to heave, and all the doors swing open. The Jailor, feeling himself responsible for these vrhonera and believing in his pagan ignorance suicide to be honorable since Rrutus kH'.l himself an i Ca to killed himself, and Casfius killed himself puts his sword to his own heart, it v.'-'U'S with one strong, keen thrust to put an end to hi excitement and agitation. Rut l'aul cries out: "Stop! stop! Do thyself no harm. We are all he-re." Then I se the Jailer running through the dust and amid the ruin of that prison, and I see him throwing himself down at the feet of th-se prisoners, crylns out: What fha!l T do? AVht sii 11 1 do?" Did l'aul answer: ";et out of this p!aet l)i fore there Is another earthquake. Rut tiandeiiffs and hopples on theSO Other jirlnrs. lest they s-t away?" Mo worj of that kind. His compact, thrilling, tremendoiM answer, answer memorable all through earth and heaven, was, "Relieve on thi Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shall be saved." Terrible i: r ( lwinnken. Well, we have all head of the earthquake in Lisbon, in Lima, In Alappd and in Caracas, but we live in a latitude where in all cur memory there has not been one severe volcanic disturbance. And yet we have seen fifty earthquakes. Here is a man who has been building up a large fortune. I Ms bid on the money market was felt m all tho cities. He thinks he has got beyond all annoying rivalries in trade, and he says to himself. "Now I am free and safe from all iHjssible perturbation." 'Rut in H57 or In 1S715 a national panio strikes the foundation of the commercial world, and crash goes all that magnilleent business establishment. IIre is a man who lias built tip a very boiutiful hom. Hi daughters have Just come home from the seminary with di plain is of graduation. His sons have started in life, honest, temperate an 1 pure. When the evening lights are Ktrui-k, there is a happy and unbroken family circle. Rut there has teen an accident down at Long Rranh. The young man ventured too far out in the surf. The 1"legmpn hurled the terror up to the Ity. An earthquake struck under the foundation of that beautiful home. The piano closed; the curtains dropped; the latenter hushed. Crash go all those domestic hope and prospK'ts and expectations! Po, my friends, we have all felt the sinking down of some great trouble, and there was a tini when we were as much excited as this man of the text, and we tried out as he did: "What shall I do? What shall I d)?" The same reply tinat the apostle made to him in appropriate to us. "Relieve on the Lord Jesus Chris., and thou .halt be saved." Thf-e are some document? of so little imp s tance that you d not care to put nny more than your last name under therr. or even your initials, but there are some documents of so great importance tha. you write out your full name. Ho the Savior in some parts of the 'bible Is called "Lord." and in other parts of the bib! he is called "Jesus." and in other part of the bible he is called "Christ," but that there might he no miitake about this passage all thre nams come together, "the Lord Jesus Christ." Hope niul Trnat. Xo,v, who is this being that you want me to trut in and believe it? Men sometimes come to me with credentials and certificates of good character, but I cannot trust them. There Is some dishonesty In thelt looks that makes me know that I shall be cheated if I confide in them. You cannot put your heart's confidence in a man until you know what stuff he is made' of, and am I unreasonble when I stop to ask you who this is that you want me to trust in? No man would think of venturing his life on a vessel gjing out to sea that had never been inspected. No; you must have the certificate hurt,? and.4h!p.j, telling how many tons !t carrie. and how long ago it was built, and wh' built it, and all alout it. And you cannot expect me to risk the carga of my mortal Interests on board any craft till you- tell me what It is made of, and whfre it was made, and what It is. l hen, thn. I ask you who this Is you w.it me to trust in. you teli me h is a ri' attractive person. Contemporary wf.ters describe his whole appearance as b-f.ag resplenlent. There was no reed ff Christ to tell the children to come to Jtfm. "Suffer little children to come uf.to Me," was not spoken to the children. It was Finken to the disciples. Toe children came Teadlly enough wlthdit any Invitation. No sooner did Jesus s!1ear than the little ones jumued from tlieir mothers' arms, an avalanche of liauty and love'lnto His lap. Christ Iii not ask John to put his head down i His bosom. John could not help but Hit his head there. I suppose a look at (jurist was Just to love Him. How attractive His manner! Why, when they kw Christ coming along the streed, they rin into their houses, and they wrapped r their invalids as quick as they could a d brought them out that He might 1 k at them. Oh, there was som?thin b pleasant, so inviting, so cheering -in everything He did. In His very look V hen these sick ones were brought out, d 1 'Ie say: "Do not bring before Me t: sores? Io not trouble Me with tlfhi leprosies?" No. no. There was a

kind look; there was a gentle word; there was a healing touch. They could not keep away from Him. The Divine Love. In addition to this softness of character there was a fiery momentum. How the kings of the earth turned pale! Here Is a plain man with a few pallors at his back coming off the eea of Galilee, going up to the palace of the Caesars, making that palace quake to the foundations and uttering a word of Tirercy and kindness which throbs through all the earth and through all the heavens, and through all ages. Oh. He w-as a loving Christ. Rut it was not effeminacy or insipidity of character. It was accompanied with majesty. Infinite and omnipotent. Lest the world should not realized his earnestness, this Christ mounts the cross. I think there are many under the influence of the spirit of GVd who are saying. "I will trust Him if you will only tell me how," and the great question esked by many is. "How. how?" And while I answer your question I look up and utter the prayer which Rowland Hill so often uttered in the midst of his sermons, "Master, help!" How are you to trust in Christ? Just as you trust any one. You trust your partner in business witth important things. If a commercial house gives yon a note payable three moroths hence, you expexrt the payment of that note at the end of three months. You have perfect confidence In their word and their ability. Or, again, you go home today. You exiect there will be food on the table. You have confidence In th;jt. Now, I ask you to have the same confidence In the Lord Jesus Christ. He says, "You believe; I take away your sln." and that they are all taken away. "What!" you nay. "before I pray any more, before I rend my bible any more, before I cry over mv sins any more?" Yos, this moment. Relieve with all your heart, and you are saved. Why, Christ is only waiting to get from you what you give to scores of people every day. What Is that? Confidence. If these people whom you trust day by day are mre worthy than Christ, if thy are more faithful thtan Christ, if they have done more than Christ ever did. then give them tho preference, but If you really think that Christ is as trustworthy as they are then deal with Him as fairly. "Oh," says some one in a light way, "I believe that Christ was born In Ipnhlehem, and I bdieve that He died on the cross." Do you believe It with your head or your her.rt? I will illustrate the difference. You are In your own house. In the morning you open a newspaper, and you read how Capt. Rravi heart on the sea risked his life for the salvation of his pass?ng"rs. You say: "What a grand fellow he must have bef-n! His family deserve very well of the country." You fold the newspaper and sit down at the table and perhaps do not think of that incident again. That is historical faith. Implicit Ilellef. Rut now you are on the sea, and it is night, and you are asleep, and you are awakened by the shriek of "Fire!" You rush out on the deck. You hear, amid the wringing of the hands and the fainting, the cry: "No hope! No hope! We are lost! We are lost!" The sail puts out Us wing of fire, the ropes make a b iniing ladder in the nitfht heavens, ih fplrit of wrecks hisses In the wave and on th hurricane deck shakes out Its banner of pTiioke and darkness. "iMwn with the lifelxiuts!" ori?s the captain. "l).)vn with the lifeboats!" IV .pie rush int them. The- boats arc atut full. Kn only for one more man. You are Standing t the devk leslle the - ptnln. Who shall it be? You or the captain?

The captain says'. "You." Ytui Jump ami are üawd. He miinI tJi-r' and llet. Now, you b;-l!eve that Capt. Hravcheart picilfl-el himself for his passengers, Inn you believe it wltn love, with tears, with hot and loniy continued exclamation. wl;h grief at his lo;s anl Joy at your deliverance. That is saving faith in other words, what you believe with all the heart and believe in repard to yourself. On this? hinsre turns my serin -in aye, the salvation of your Immortal soul. You often go across a bridge you know nothing about. You do not know what m.iteri.il It Is made of, but you come to It and walk over It an.i nsk no question. An I here Is an arched bridge blasted from the "Kock of Ages" and built by the architect of he whole unlveis., spinning the dark gu!f between sin and righteousness, and all (Sod ad you Is to walk across It, and you start, aril you nun" to it,' and you stop, and you p a little way on, and you stop, and you fall back, and you experiment. You say, "How do I know that bridge will hold me?" Instead of marching on with firm step, asking no questions, but feeling that the strength of the eternal (JoJ Is under you. Oh, was there ever a prize proffered so cheap as pardon and heaven are offered to you? For how much? A million dollars? It Is certainly worth more than that. Rut cheaper thin that you can have It. Ten thousand dollars? Less than that. Five thousand dollars? Less than that. One dollar? Less than that. One farthing? Iess than that. 'Without money and without price." No money to pay. No journey to take. No penance to .suffer. Only just one decisive action of thenul. "Relieve on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Korttlven. Shall I try to tell you what it is to be saved? I cannot tell you. So man, no angel, can tell you. Rut I can 'hint at It, for my text brings me up to this point, "Thou shalt be saved." It means a happy life here and a peaceful death and a blissful eternity. It Is a grand thing to go to sleep at nlßht and to get up in the morning and to do business all day feeling that all la right between my heart and OoJ. Xo accident, no sickness, no persecution, no peril, no sword, can do me any permanent damage. I am a forgiven child of God, and He Ls bound to see me through. He has sworn He will see me through. The mountains may depart, the earth may burn, the light of the stars may be blown out by the blast of th? Judgment hurricane, but life and death, things present and things to come, are Mine. Yea, further than that, it means a peaceful death. Mrs. llematw, Mrs. Slgourney. Dr. Young and almost all the poets have said handsome things about death. There is nothing beautiful about it. When we tan. 1 by the white and rigid features of those whom we love and they give no answering pressure of the hand and no returning kiss of the lip, we do not want anybody poetizing around about us. Death is loathsomeness and midnight and the wringing of the heart until the tendrils snap and curl in the torture unless Christ shall be with us. I confess to you a Infinite fear, a consuming horror of death unless Christ shall be with me. I would rather go down into a cave of wild beasts or a Jungle of reptiles than into the grave unless Christ goes with me. Will you tell me that I am to ba carried out from my bright home and twit away in the darkness? I rannet bear darkness. At the first coming of the evening I must have the gas lighted, and the farther on in life I get the more I like to have my friends round about me. And am I to be put off for thousands of years in a dark place, with no one to speak to? When the holidays come and the gifts are distributed, shall I add no Joy to the "Merry Christmas" or the "Happy New Year?" Ah, do not point down to the hole In the ground, the grave, and call it a beautiful place. Unless there be some supernatural Illumination I shudder back from it. My whole nature revolts at it. Rut now this glorious limp is lifted above', the grave, and all the darkness Is gone, and the way is clear. I look into it now without a single shudder. Now my anxiety Is not about death. My anxiety Is that I may live aright'for I know that if my life is consistent, when I come to the last hour, and thi3 voice is Filent, and these eyes are closed, and these hands with which I beg for your eternal salvation today are folded over the still heart, that then I shall only begin to live. Death nobbed. What power Is there In anything to chill rne In the last hour if Christ wraps around me the skirt of own gar-

ment? What darkness can fall upon my eyelids then, amid the heavenly daybreak? O death, I will not fear thee then! Back to thy cavern of darkness, thou robber of all the earth. Fly, thou despoller of families. With this battleax I hew thee in twain from helmet to sandal, the voice of Christ sounding all over the earth and through the heavens: "O death, I will be' thy plague. O grave, I will be thy destruction." To be saved is to wake up in the presence of Christ. You know when Jesus was upon the earth how happy He made every house He went into, and when He brings us up to His house in heaven how great shall be our glee! Ills voice has more music In it than is to be heard in all the oratories of eternity. Talk not about banks dashed with efflorescence. Jesus is the chief bloom of heaven. We schall see the very face that beamed sympathy in Retlhany and take the very hand! that dropped its blood from the short beam of the cross. Oh. I want to stand In eternity with Him. Toward that harbor I steer. Toward that goal I run. I shall "be satisfied when 1 awake In His likeness. Oh. broken-hearted men and women, how sweet it will be In that good land to pour all of your (hardships and bereavements and losses into the loving ear of Christ and then have Him explain why It was best for you to be sick, and why it -was best for you to "be widowed, and why it was "best for you to be persecuted, and why It was best for you to be tried, and have Him point to an elevation proportionate to your disquietude here, saying, "You suffered with Me on earth; come up now and be glorified with 'Me in (heaven." The Eternal Itnlm. Some one went into a house where tfhere had been a good deal of trouble and said to the woman there, "You seem to be lonely." "Yes," she said; "I am lonely." "How many in the family?" "Onlj- myself." "Have you had any children?" "I had seven children." "Where are they?" "Cone." "All gone?" "All." "All dead?" "All." Then she breathed a long sigh into the loneliness and said. "Oh, sir, I have been a good mother to the grave." And so there are hearts here that are utterly broken down by the bereavements of life. I point you today to the eternal balm of heaven. Oh. aged men. an 1 women who have knelt at the throne of grace for threescore years and ten, will not your decreptltude change for the leip of a heart when you come to look face to face upon him whom having not seen you love? Oh, that will be the Good fc'hepherd, not out In the night ani watching to keep off the wolves, but with the lamb reclining on the sunlit hill. That will be the Captain of our salvation, not amid the roar and crash and boom of battle, but amid his disbanded troops keeping victorious festivity. That will be the Rrldegroom of the church coming from afar, the bride leaning upon his arm while ' he lvks down into her face and says: "Reholl, thou art fair, my love! Behold, thou art fair!" s.k tiik ürnnx.

Incle Itunsell Keep Hin Financial Dolntia Yruiel In .Mystery. Russell Rage Is becoming unique from the fact that he conceals with great care th nature of every financial operation In which he Interests himself. Of course no tlnancler takes pains to make public the precise nature of his deals, but it is noticeable that during the last year Mr. S'.igo has lie-come almost a mystery, soli -Itous Im he that not the uliKhtest information of what he Is loinj? In the monetary world hall be made known. Hence It has come ahout that KeTtTa! rumor, all more or le." contradictory, have been set afloat as ro the extent of hfs recent deal?. For Instance, it has l.een surmised that he is th financier who has been Interes'lnx himself with the Rothschilds In an endeavor to corner the g ld market and to set the tide of Kold filiating brward Kurope, although it Is denied on behalf of Mr. Sage that he h concerned In any effort to influence the gold market at all. The gold Idea probably has Its origin In his fondness for the metal in he shape of ornaments. 'Whtn he makes a present of anything to anybody and he makes such presents more frequently than one would suppose In view of his reputation for "closeness" It Is Invariably of some object inaile of gold. The quantities of he inetal which he keeps In his Flfth-ave. home would make a goodly sum If coined at one of the mints. Rut If he Is In any gold deal, as reported, he is successful in suppressing evldence of the fact. ('lire for Vnnlty. De Broker "Say, old boy! do me a favor, will you?" Scribbler "Certainly. What Is it?" "I am to be married shortly to MKs De Style, and she inslts on a fashionable wedding; but-1 can't stand that eort of nonsense, you know." "Well?" "Just slip around to her house and hsk her fir her photograph for your paper." "I'll tro at once." "Thank you. Then I'll call there this evening and show her the monstrosity your paper printed today for Miss Hlghiipp. (Juess she'll prefer a private ceremony then." X. Y. Weekly. Turning Out to Vole. Women voted In Union township. New Jersey, Tuesday night for the first time for school trustees. There are two villages in the district, and when the Roselle voters arrived they were accompanied by their wives. Objection was raised, but the chairman ruled that the women could vote under the state law, and then the opposing farmers started home in hot haste for their wives, daughters and sweethearts, and soon returned with a force of the fair sex equal to the Roselle contingent. AH the women voted. anl one of their number was elected trustee. A Study In Headlines. The New York Daily Kxtry. Just to make a mid-day spread, " At nton comes out with this great line: TUR VIOILANT'S AH CAD. And 'long about, say 1 o'clock. Its prolits to enhance, It makes a little change, and says, THE YANK. RE HAS A CHANCE. And later, when the business man Toward home betakes his way, An item in one corner says, 'Twas the Britannia's day. Harper' Bazar. The nee In IlnsElnir. Governor McKinley's method of taking a vacation this season suggest that his route was not laid out wifh exclusive reference to rest or health. He has been In the northwest, he is now doing the East and feels that he must take a run through the West. It Is all on account of that presidential bee. Free Press. On the Avenue. Some things in life are madd'nlng, And this is one: You see a witching figure And chase It on the run. The retreating view Is dazzling. But seeing her face you're "done," Some things in life are madd'ning, And this is one. Detroit Free Press. Human Nature Triumph. Historian "Why have the quakers, so nearly disappeared?" Observer "The girls married outsiders who would buy them pretty bonnets, and the boys married girls who wore pretty bonnets.-' N. Y. Weekly. Oriental Wisdom. Mrs. de Fashion (to her Chinese cook) "John, why do the Chinese bind the feet of their women?" John "So they not trottee 'round kitchen and botheree cook." Life. j lllftli Handed. "Don't you think that Blyklna has a very high-handed way about him?" "I should say he has," was the mournful reply. "Four aces was what he sprung last night"

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.

LESSON XI, TU HID QUARTER, IXTERNATIONAL SERIES, SEPT. O. Text f the Lesson, John HI, 1-1C Memory Verses, 1 -a Ci olden Text, John III, 1(1 Commentary by the Rev. D. 31. Stearns. Having so many verses assigned for this lesson, we will mt quote them, but trust you to study with the open bible. 1. This chapter illustrates the last words of chapter II, and we might read this way: lie knew what was in man. Now, there was a man. See R. V. So this ruler Nicodemus is introduced as a specimen, and Jesus proceeds to read to Mm his thoughts and deal with him. In the next chapter lie takes the woman of Samaria as a specimen, and from the rich religious ruler and the poor- ungodly woman. He shows us the best and the worst in man and that each must and may be born anew. 2. Better to come to Jesus by night than not at all. -The grea't thing Is to come, and the great assurance is him "that cometh unto Me I will in no wi.se cast out" (John vi, 37). 3. All tha verities In John ars double ones, and there are twenty-five of them, this being the second one. The first is chapter 1, 51, and the third and fourth are in verses 5 and 11 of our lesson. It is Jusi the word amen, and might be read amen, amen. Jesus calls Himself "The Amen" in Rev. HI. 14. 4. Nicodemus, though so religious, was only a natural man and understood not spiritual things, therefore asked so foolish a question. The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, and the things of the Spirit of God are foolishness to the natural man (I Cor. i, 18; II. 14). 5. Jesus etdarges upon His first Btotement as to the neoescflty of the birth from above, and now emphasizes that necessity and says that it is accomplished by water and the Spirit. Both Jam.s and Peter testify that we are born again by the word of Cod (Jam -s 1, IS; I. l'et. i, 23). Paul says that the water signifies the word (Kph. v, 26, with which cvmpure John xv, 3. and ls. cxix, y). 6. The flesh or natural man can only pnxluce the rU-sh or natural man. It may be cultivated and educated and beoome very talented and reiined. but it is only flesh and cannot i'ease God (Rom. vill, 8). When we are born anew or fpon. above by receiving a life we never had before, even Jesus Himself, then we are said to be in the spirit, not in the flesh (Rom. vili, 'J). 7. When Jesus fays "Must," that settles everything for the mind that Is meek and submissive. There Is another in -verse 14, and as truly as the S n of Man had to be crucified so surely must every refined, talentt-1. edue-ttt.i, religious man or woman In; born from ab ve by receiving Jesus, or he never can see or enter the kingdom of Gd. One may bo very near the klnc i .m and nt enic-r In, like the scribe of .Mark xii. 34. of whom Jesus said. "Thou are not far from the kingdom of God." S. The work of the Spirit In the heart of man Is at first a secret work, "as if a man sh.uld ca'L seed into the ground, and ulioulj jleep. ami rine nlttht ami 1-iy. and the seed should sprirg and grow up, lio kiiüwtth not (Mark lv, rt. 27). 5. The jimturul man eontinu- to ask. "How?" The man in whom the Spirit works simply Wlhvcs anil receives" with iiifektvfWi the en, ruf ted word (Jas. I. 21. "The entrance of Thy words givwh light. It glvrth understanding unto the slinplo" Ps. cxix, 13n, but as long as we are asking how or why we are not ylmply receiving. Rath.-r let us say. "Lord. I believe." or like Mary, "He It unto me according to Thy word." 10. A teMther In Israel might have known that at the word of the Lord, In the vision f Kzeklel, the dry bones came together, ixine to his lnc. und were covered with flesh, and by the Spirit of the Lord they stood up an exceeding great army (Kzek. xxxvii. 1-10). The testimony of every splrft filled man in the old testament history, confessing ,ils r-.n and helplessness and giving (inj the Rlory, as Joseph, Isaiah, Diniel and others ((Jon. xll, 16; Isa. vi, Ö-S; Dan. x, 8, ID; Mia ill, 8). taught the helplessness of the Mesh and the necessity of the Spirit and word of God. 11. Notice that "I say unto you" of ChrisiL in the gospels is equivalent to "Thus saith the Lord" in the old testament, for the Lord, or Lord of Hosts of the old testament, Is none other than the Christ of the new. For a simple proof see Rev, xxlii. 6, 16, or perhaps la. vi, 6, with John xli, 41, would be m jre plain to some. One who knows because he lias seen is surely a good wlrne.s. et how often a false witness Is believed ratlfrr than a true one! Civmi are chapter V, 43. 12. The one only thing to do with the testimony of a true witness is to believe, as otherwise we make the witness a liar, and those who believe not God are guilty of making Him a liar (I John v, U. Unbelief keeps unsaved souls In a' lost condition, ani even those who believe to the saving of the soul are kept from enJoying the rest and peace and joy which is their privilege by not believing fully. The last half of JcJin Iii, 18, proves the first, and Heb. Iii, IS, to iv, 3, the second. "lie not afraid; only believe." 13. Very often in this gospel we have the testimony of Jesus that He came down from heaven, came forth from the Father, was sent from God. but here lie testifies ithat even whtie He was on eirth He was still in heaven. I'.ie other view of this great fact is that now In heaven at the right hand of God He is still with us always, and whtrever two or three are gathered In Hla name He is in the midst (Maith. xxviii.20; xviil. 20). 14. Jesus now takes Nicodemus back to something he must have been familiar wlfh the story of the sinning and bitten Israelites and the wondrous healing by the brazen serpent lifted up upon a pole In sight of all. The brazen serpent was the likeness of (that which (by Its poisonous bite was slaying the thousands of Israel. 15. The "bitten Israelite -who looked upon the brazen serpent lived. "When he beTield the serpent of brass, he lived" (Num. xxl, 9). Looking is equaPto believing or receiving. The sinner, when convinced of his sin and helplessness and led to see Jesus made a sin offering on the cross for him, dying In his stead, the just for the unjust, receives Him as hla substitute, and believing that Christ was made a curse for him he. through the atonement of Christ, is Instantly saved. 15. Let a sinner convinced of his sin take this verse and write it out, (putting his own name in full Instead of "the world" and "whosoever" and let him look up to God and say sincerely. "O God, I do most heartily believe that;" then he can go on and say, "And I thank Thee that, receiving Jesus as my own Savior, I have Thy word for it that I now have everlasting life and shall never perish." I believe such a soul to be truly born from above. It-ed Tea. Mrs. Rorer siys: "Iced tea may be palatable, but It is certainly not wholesomeThe better way to make it Is to fill the glasses partly full of cracked Ice; then make the tea double strength and pour It boiling hot over the Ice. Then, If you like, add your lemon and sugar. You get less tannic acid In this way th'an when the tea Is allowed to stand and cool before using." Letting Her Down Easy. Fond Mother "Do you think my daughter will become a fine pianist?" Prof. Von Thump "I am afrait nod, madame. Rut after another year's bractlce her fingers vlll be limbered up so dot she can make a prilllant success mit a typewriter." Street & Smith'! Good News.

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The State Skxtisel, which erer aims to keep abreast of the times and to promote tho interests of its subscribers, ha? Jrr completed an arrancetnent with the leadiug watch manufacturers of the country by which it is enaMe 1 to o:!. r the hc- watchei t&adfl, to its subscribers only, at the same prices which jewelers and watch dealers in the cities and towns have t j j.y fsr tLeirgoodj In soma cases we can sell watches to our subscribers for even less than dealers have to pay for them. Every man or woman, young or old, who reads Tut: State Sentinel ought to own a watch. Every one ought to have a good watch a watch that will not only ktep time, but is handsome and t-howy. If you take Tue State Sextixel yon can, for a limited time only, ct-t a first-class, handsomn iro'.d watch, with tho arj fcesi Torks manufactured, for much less than poor watches with silver or brass cases aro commonly sold for. Our stock of watches will not last always, and after the prent stock iy exhausted we'eannot promise to Uli orders. TLo who order first, therefore, will be first served. Tho American Standard Watches the best timekeepers in the worll are raded as seven, eleven an i thirte. n jeweled, full fweled and ad j anted. Very few men not one in a thousand carry either an adjusted or even a full-jeweiel wat'i. Thk State Sktinel uses only the celebrated gold-filled cases tea le by Joseph Fahys, unless distinctly epeciliid in pperlaJ cfiers. They are the best made, and selected for that reason. His ten-carat cases, called Montauks, are guaranteed for tliteea J'ears. Hit fourteea-carat filled cases, called Monarch, sxm guaraatead for twenty years. Whua ta Iii fo;:rto.ii-carat caae aa poken of they refer to only Montauks and Monarch. ( OUR SPECIAL OFFERS! The cut rapresent Joseph Fahys celebrated Montaufc and Monarch cases as above. Cases will be furnished either plain (erigine-turned) or beautifully engraved as the pubcriber prefers. 5o. 18, size for centlemen, ard Klin, Wa'.tham or New York t'tandürd movements, and will bu put in such caoa as dtzLrtia Not carefully the descriptions and prices below. GENTLEMEN'S WHTCHSS.

4 Mo. 17. Size No. 10. MIO. 17. Sizo So. IS "Wnltham or flgln movement, rcven jewela, beftrtti lully engraved Montauk case, SI 8. This watch would cobt froin f to $iö at jewlry itoret. The abov No. 18. Size No. IS. No. 18. ia No. 18 Monarch cae, twenty-one years puarunteo, 14 carat, Waliham moremeut (engina-turned),$20.25 No. 28. Slzo No. tO. NOi 28. ffoe So. 18 Montauk e (engine torned). New York Standard movement, seven jewels, $16.25. These are the best "Watches ever ofle peed (ro without a watch when he can get lor $12.25 or $16.25?

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No. 8. Size No. O. No. 21. Size No. G. NO. 8. Size So. 6 Liberty No. 21. Size No. 6 Mon(or American) engraved case, arch case, vermicelli border, Uoret movement (Swiss), seven fancy Elein movement, seven jewels, $12. jewels, SI9.50.

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- No. IG. Slzo No. 13. NO. 10. ize No. 1R "Waltham or E!ein movement, peven jewelp, (engineturned) Montauk ense, SIB- This watch would cobt from JUS to at jewelry BtOrt'l. are all Montauk cases and &r guaranteed fur No. 19. Slzo No. 18. NO. ID. Piw So. 18 Monnrch cae, fancy landscape engraved, Ugin movonent S2I.50. V-i. No. 5. Size No. 13. No. 5. Kze No. 18 Liberty lensrinetorned) raflf, New York Standard itovesaent, will wear ten years, S 12.25. red for enythlrff like these fiptires. -Who trsVclata timtiseper in a handeome cuee

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INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.: Please send one watch No. . . to the following address: Name . Post Office County ..- State Inclosed find draft (or money order) for ?

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1 . ..... '.. . ' - . V-; VU v.r.- , ; ; ; v No. 14. SI20 No. 13. No. 14. ,w'zt' So. 1 l'.ox cns Lonlt XIV. style, Waitharn or I'L'in movement, K'vtiii jewel. SIO.75. Thete wutch h ar sold by retail dealers at from JO tj jiä. fifteen yc-am. v1 -.2Si:Srv ''U .. Ho. 20. Slzo No. 18. No., 20. Size No. IS Monarch raa with widu Verniicclli bordi rand uiirravej center, Wa'tham movement, eeven jewt Is, S23. This is thel'nest wutch we oiler and in well worth J 10, according to tho price charged in jewelry stores. The cuca an warranted for tw tnty-ona yeaia. Tho rea le rs of Thk Fevtintl never haj an ojiportunity to pet lir.-t-claü watchet at any such prices as the above, and aüei this Btock is eoM they will probably no! eoon have such a chance aain. This oiler U open only to eubscribera ti Tiik Iniiasa .State .Skntixeu Ono of thee watches will make a hand some birthday or Chriitmas present fof your wife, your eitcr, your daughter, oi your sweetheart; for jour hubund, yooj fatiier, your brother or your son. In order to avoid col(u. ion and mistake! tho watches bhouM be ordered only by their numbers. Thus it is only necewary to say: "Sen I watch No. S (or wh&tevei ruinber is desired) to tho fullowing ai. dre.-s." Write the name, town, county and state vrv plainly. The cash unist accompany every orde? We should prefer to have our ul crib er9 Ldö the following coupon, which can he cut out, tilled up and tent to The Indiana State Sentinel with a draft oa Chicago, New York, Indianapolis or Cincinnati or a postoiilce money order for the amount 189

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