Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1894 — Page 12

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVKMBKll 21, 189L

THE LEPROSY OF HAAMAN

Tlin SUBJECT OP TUB II EV. MR. TA IMAGE'S Sl'SUAY DISCOIIISE. SnfTerlnjc Sent Into the World to Show the Wajr to Hlghfr Joyi Spiritual Happiness Attained ThroaKh a Humble Spirit Moral Leper. r.ROOKLTN. Xov. IS. The Rev. Dr. Talmage has chosen as the subject of today's sermon through' the pres "The Sick General." tha text selected being II King3 v, 1: "lie was a leper." Here we have a warrior sick, not with pleurisies or" rheumatisms or &4FCnptiona, but with, a disease worse than all thct put together. A red mark has come out on tha forehead, precursor of complete disfigurement anil dissolution. I have something awful to tell you. Gen. NaAman. the commander-in-chief of all the SjTiaa forces, his tha leprosy! It is on his hands, on his face, on his feet, on his entire person. The leprosy! Get out of the way of the pestilence! If his breath strike you, you are a dead man. The cormrnander-Ln-chief of all the forces cf Syria! And yet he would be glad to exchange conditions with the boy .t his stirrup or the hostler that blankets hLs charger. The news goes like wildfire all through the realm, ancH the people are sympathetic, and they cry out, "Is it possible that our great hero, who slew Ahab and around whom we came with such vociferation when he returned from victorious battle can it be possible that our grand; and glorious Naaman ho3 the leprosy?" Yes. Everybody has something he "wishes he had not David, an Absalom to disgrace him; Paul, a thm to sting him; Job, carbuncles to plague him; Samson, a Delilah to shear him; Ahab, a Naboth to deny him; Il3man, a Mordecai to irritate liim; George Washington, childlessness to afflict him; John Wesley, a termagant wife to poster him; Leah, weak eyes; Pope, a crooked back; Byron, a clubfoot; John Milton, blind eyes; Charles Lamb, an Insane sister, and you and you and you and you something1 which you never barKaJned f r and would like to get rid of. The reason of this is that God does not Tvant this world, to be too right. Otherwise we would always want to stay and eat thes fruits an.J lie on jthese lounges and shake hands In this pleasant society. At the Door of the Temple. We are only in the vestibule of a grand temple. God does not want us to stay on the doorst'-p, and therefore ho sends aches and annoyances and sorrows and bereavements of all sort to push us on and push us up toward riper fruits and brighter t-xriety and more radiant prosperities. God Ls only whipping us ahead. The reason that Edward Payson and Robert Hall had more rapturous views of heaven th.tn other pi.'lo h id was because, through their aches and pains. God pushed thorn nearer up to i:. If God dish out one of your pictures, it is only to show to you a brighter one. It lie sting your foot with gout, your brain with neuralgia, your tongue with an inextinguishable thirst, It id only bevaus? He Is preparing to substitute a better body than you ever dreamed of when the mortal shall put on Immortality. It is to push, you on and to push you up toward something grander and better that God sends upon you, as lie did upon Gen. Xaaman, something you do not want. Seated In his Syrian mansion, all the walls glittering with the shields which he had captured in. battle, the corridors crowded with admiring visitors who just wanted to see him once, music and mirth and banqueting filling all the mansion from tessellated floor to pictured ceiling, Xaaman would have forgotten that there was anything better and would have been glad to atay there 10,000 years. But, oh. how the shields dim, and how the visitors fly the hall, and how the music drops dead from the string, and how the gates of the mansion el am shut with sepulchral bang, as you read the closing words cf the euloßum: "He was a leper! He was a per!" A Little Child Lead Them. And how often it Is that tha finger of childhood ho3 pointed grown persons in the right direction! O Christian soul, how long is It sinea you got rid o the leprosy of sin? You say: "Let me sea. It must ba five years now." Five years. Who was it that pointed you to the divine physician? "Ah," you say, "it was my little Amle. or Fred, or Charley, that clambered up on my knees and lxked into my face ard aked m why I didn't become a Christian, and ail the time stroking my cheek, so I couldn't gn angry insisted upon knowing why I didn't have family prayers." There are grandparents who have been brought to Christ by their little grandchildren. There are hundreds of Christian mothers who had their attention first called t Jesus by their little children. How did you get rid of the lcpros of sin? How did you And your way to the divine physician? "Oh." you say, "my child, my dying child, with wan and Wiste! linger, pointed that way. Oh, I 6hall never forget." you say, "that scene at th? cradle and the crib that awful night! It was hard, hard, very hard, hut if that little one on its dying bed had n:t pointed m? to Christ I d"n't think lever would have got rid of my Pprosy." Go Into the Sabbith--K-hool any Sundav, and you will find hundreds of little fingers pointing In the Pima direction, toward Jesus Christ and toward heaven. There was one person more sympathetic with Gen. Xaaman than anv other person. Xaamin's wif walks the floor wringing her hands and trying to think what she can do to alleviate her husband's suffering. All remedies have failed. The surgeon-general and the doctors" of the royal staff have met, and they have shaken their heads, as much as to say, "No cure, no cure!" I think that the officeseekers had ail folded up their recommendations and gone horn". Probably most of the employes of the establishment had dropped their work and were thinking of looking for some other situation. What shall now become of poor Naaman's wife? She must have sympathy somewhere. In her despair she goes to a little Hebrew captive, a servant girl in her house, to whom she tells the whole story, as sometimes, when overborne by the sorrows of the world and finding no sympathy anywher else, you have gone out and found in the sympathy of some humble domestic Rose or Dinah or Bridget a help which the world could not give you. What a scene it was! One of the grandest women In all Syria in cabinet council with a walling mall over the declining health of the mighty general. "I know something," says the little captive maid, "I know something," as she bounds to her bare feet. "In the land from which I was stolen there is a certain prophet known by the name of Elisha, who can cure almost anything, and I shouldn't wonder if he could cure my master. Send for him right away." "Oh. hush!" you say. "If thej highest medical talent in ail the land cannot cure that leper, there is no need of your listening to any talk of n servant girl." Hut do not scoff, do not sneer. The finger of that 'little captive maid is pointing in the right direction. She might have sad: "This Is a judgment upon you f r stealing me from my native land. Didn't they snatch me off in the night, breaking my father's ami mother's hearts, and many a time I have lain and cried all night because I was so homeFick." Then. Hushing up into childish indignation,phe mis-'ht have said: "Good for them. I'm glad Naaman's got the leprosy. I wish all the Syrians hdd the 1 prosy!" No. Forgetting her personal sorrows, she sympathizes with the suffering of her master and commends him to the famous Hebrew prophet. Years ago the astronomers calculated that there must be a world hanging at a certain jtoint In the heavens, and a large prize was offered f r ?"me one who c"uld discover that world. The telescopes from

the gerat observatories were pointed in vain, but a girl at Nantucket, Mass., fashioned a telescope, and looking through It discovered that star and won the prize and the admiration of all the astronomical world that stood amazed at her geniuä. And so it is often the case that grown people cannot see the light, while some little child beholds the star of pardon, the star of hope, the star of consolation, the star of Bethlehem, the morning star of Jesus. "Not many mighty men, not many wise men, are called, but God hath chosen the weak things of the world to conround the mighty, and base things and things that are not to bring to naught thing that are." Oh, do not despise the prattle of little children when they are speaking about God and Christ in heaven. You see the way your child is pointing. Will you take that pointing or wait until, in the wrench of some awful bereavement, God shall lift that child to another world, and then it will beckon you upward? Will you take the pointing, or will you wait for the beckoning? Blessed be God that the little Hebrew captive pointed in the right direction. Blessed be God for toe saving ministry of Christian children. Seelnjr the Prophet. No wonder the advice of this little Hebrew captive threw! all Naaman's minsion and Ben-hadad's palace into excitement. Good-by, Naaman! With face scarified and ridged and infiamei by the pestilence and aided by those who supported him on either side, he staggers out to the chariot. Hold fast the fiery coursers of the royal stable while the poor sick man lifts his swollen feet and pain-struck hmbs into the vehicle. Bolster him up with the pillows and let him take a lingering look at his bright apartment, for, perhaps, the Hebrew captive may be mistaken, and! the next time Naaman comes to that place he may be a dead weight on the shoulders of th e who carry him. an expired chieftain seeking sepulture am.d the lamentation of an admiring nation. Good-by, Naaman! Let the chariot e-r drive gently over the hills of Hermon, lest he Jolt tha Invalid. Here goes the bravest man of all his day, a captive of a horrible disease. As thj ambulance winds through the street of iMmascus the tears and prayers of all the people go after the world renowned invalid. t Perhaps you have had an invalid go out from your house on a health excursion. You know how the neighbors stood around and sai l : "Ah. ho will never come back again alive!" Oh, it was a solemn moment, I tell you, when the invalid had departed, and you went into the room to make the bed, and to remove the medicine vials from the shelf, and to throw open the shutters, so that the fresh air might rush into the long-closed room. Good-by, Naaman! There is only one cheerful face looking at him, and that is the face of the iittle Hi brew captive, who is sure he will pet cured, and who is so glad she helped him As the chariot winds out, and the escort of mounted courier?, and the mules, laden with sacks of gold and silver and embroidered suits of apparel, went through the gates of Demascus and out on the long way, the hllL of Naphtali and Ephraim look down on the procession, and the retinue goes right past the battlefield where X.iaman, In the days of his: health, used to rally his troops f. r fearful onset, and then the procession stops and recline.- awhile in the groves of olive and oleander, and Gen. Naaman so sick, so very, very sick! How the countrymen gaped as, the procession passedl They had seen Na iman go past like a whirlwind in days gone by and had stood aghast at the clank of his war equipments, but now they commiserate him. They say: "Poor man! He will never get home alive. Poor man!" Gen. Naaman wakes uj from a restless sleep in the chariot, and he says to the rhariotetr, "How long before we shall reach the Prophet Elisha?" The charioteer savs to a wavsider, "How far is It to Eli-ha:s h use?" He say, "Two mile?." "Two miles?" Then they whip up the lathered and f a gsr od cut horses. The whole procession brightens up at the pr -sp?ct of speedy arrival. They drive up to the dxr of thet prophet. The charioteers shout "Whoa!" to the horses. and trampi.ig hoofs and grinding wheels cease shaking the earth. Come out. Elisha, crme cut. You have company. The- grandest company that ever cam to your house his come to it now. No stir inside Elisha' s house. Th? fact was the Lord had informed Elisha. thaU the sick captain was coming and Just how to treat him. Indeed when you are Flck and the Lord wants you to get well he always tells the doctor how to treat you. arid the rea-sn we have bo many bungling doctors Is because they depend upon their owa strength and! Instructions and; not on the Lord God. and that always makes malpractice. Come out. Elisha, and attend to your business. Puffed Up with Pride. General Naaman and hi3 retinue waked and waited and waited. The fact was Naaman had two diseases pride and leprosy. The one was as hard to get rid of as the other. Elisha sit3 quietly in his house and does not go out. After awhile, when he thinks he ha3 humbled this proud man, he says to a servant, "Go out and t ell Gen. Naaman to bathe seven times in the river Jordan out yonder five miles, and he will git entirely well." The message comes out. "What!" siys tho commander-in-chief of the Syrian forces, his eye kindling with an animation which it had not shown for weeks anxl his swollen foot stamping on the bottom of the ehariot, regardless of pain. "What! Isn't he coming out to see me? Why, I thought certainly he would come and utter seme cabalistic: words ovr me or make some enigmatical passes over my wounds. Why, I don't think he knows who I am. Isn't he coming out? Why, when the Shunamite woman came to him, he rushed out and cried: 'Is It well with thee? Is it well with thy husband? Is It well with thy child?' And will he treat a poor unknown woman like that and let me, a titled personage, si: here in my chariot anil wait and wait? I won't ensure it any longer. Charioteer, drive on! "Wash in the Jordan! Ha! ha! The slimy Jordan, the muddyJordan, the monotcnous Jordan! I wouldn't be seen washing in such a river as that. Why, we watered our horses in a better river than that on our way here the beautiful river, the Jasper paved river of Pharpar. Besides that we have in our country another Damascene river, Abana, with foliage bank and torrent ever swift and ever clear, under the flickering shadows of sycamore and oleander. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?" I suppose Naaman felt very much as Americans would feel if. by way of medical prescription, some one sfoould tell us to gi and wash In the Danube or the Rhine. We would answer. "Are not the Connecticut and the Hudson Just as good?" Or as an Englishman would feci if he were told, by way of medical prescription, he must go and wash in the Mississippi or the St. Lawrence. He would cry out, "Are not the Thames and the Shannon Just as well?" The fact was that haughty Nasman needed to learn what every Englishman and every American needs to learn that when God tells you to do a thing you must go and do It. whether you understand the reason or not. Take the prescription, whether you like it or not. One thing la eeradn. Unless haughty Naaman does aa ElLsha commands him he will die of hU a.wful sickness. And unless you do as Chri3t commands you you will be seized upon by an everlasting wasting awiy. Obey and live; disobey and die. Thrilling, overarching, undergirding, stupendous alternatives! Ellahn Anders Xaaman. Well. Gen. Naaman could not stand the test. The charioteer gives a jerk to the right line until the bit snaps in the horse's mouth, and the whir of the wheels and the flying of the dust show the indignation of the great ommander. "He turned and went away in a rage." S- people now often get mad at religion.- They vituperate against ministers, against churches, against Christian people. One would think from their irate behavior that God had been studying how to annoy and exasperate and demolish them. What has He leen doing? Only trying to cure their death dealing leprosy. That Is all. Ye: they whip up their horses, they dig in the spurs, and they go away in a rage. So after all ti seems that this health excursion of Gen. Naaman is to b? a ded failure. That little Hebrew captive

might as well have not told him of the prophet, and this long Journey might as well not have been taken. Poor, sick, dy lng Naaman! Are you going away in high dudgeon and 'worse than when you came? As his chariot halts a moment his sen-ants climber upon it and coax him to do as Elishi said. They say: "It's easy. If the prophet had told you to walk for a mile on sharp spikes in order to get rid of this awful diseace, you would have done It. It Is easy. Come, my lord. Just get down and wash In the Jordan. You take a bath every day anyhow, and in this climate it is so hot that It will do you good. Do it on our account, and for the sike of the army you command, and for the sake of the nation that admires you. C;me. mv lord, just try this Jordanic bith." "Well." he says, "to pleas? you I will do as you say." The retinue drive to the brink of the Jordan. The horses paw and neigh to get into the stream themselves and cool their hot flanks. Gen. Naaman, assisted by his attendants, g?ts down out of hi3 chariot and painfully comes to the brink of the river and steps in until the water comes to the ankle and goes on deeper until th? water comes to the girdle, and now, standing so far down In the stream, just a little inclination of the head will thoroughly immerse him. He bows once Into the flood and comes up and shakes the water out of nostril and eye, and his attendants look at. him and siy, "Why, general, how much better you do look!" And he bows a second time into the flood and comes up, and the wild stare is gone out of his eye. He bows the third time into the lloodand comes up, and the shriveled flesh has got smooth jg-ain. He bows the fourth time Into the 11 nd and om?s up, ami the hair that had fallen out Is restored In thick locks again all over the brow. He bows the fifth time Into the flood, and comes up, and tha hoarseness has gone out of his throat. Ha bows the sixth time and comes up, and ail the soreness and anguish h.vve gone out of th? limbs. "Why," ho says, "I am almost well, but I will mike a complete cure," and he bows the seventh time into the flod, and he comes up, and not so much as a faster, or a scale, or an eruption as big as the head of a pin is to be seen on him. He steps out on the banks and says, "Is it possible?" And the attendants look and say. "Is it possible?" And as, with the health of an athlete, he bounds back Into the chariot and drives on there goes up from all his attendant a wild "Huzza! Huzza!" Of course they go 'back to pay and thank the mon of God for his counsel so fraught with wisdom. When they left the prophet's fiiouse they went off mad. They have c .me back glad. People always think 'better of a minister after they are converted than they do bef re conversion. Now we are to them an intolerable nuisance (because we tell them to do thincrs that go against the grain, but some of us have a great many letters from those Who tell us that once they were ar.gry at what we preached, but afterward gladly received the gospel at our hands. They once called us fanatics or terrorists or enemies. Now they call us friends. Yonder is a man who said he would never come Into the church again. He said that two years ago. He said, "My family shall never coma here again if suc-h doctrines as that are pnached." But he came again, and his family came a train. He is a Christian, his wife a Christian, all his children Christims, the wh ile household Christians, and you shall dwell with them in the liouse of the Iv?rd forever. Our undying coadjutors are those who once heard the gospel and "went away In a rage." Humility Xeei'iniiry. Now. my hearers, you know that this Gen. Xaaman did two things in order to get well. The first wa?, he got out of his chariot. He might havd stayed there, with his swolleo feet on the stuffed ottoman, seated on that embroidfred cushion, until his last gasp, he would never have got any relief. He had to pel down out of his chariot, and you have got to get down out of the dhariot of your pride if yu ever become a Christian. You cannot drive up to the cross with a coach and four and le saved among all the spangles. You seem to think that tha Lord is going to loe complimented Toy your coming. Oh, no, you poor, miserable, scaly, leprous sinner, p:t down out of that! We all come in the same haughty way. We expect to ride into the kingdom of God. iXever. until ve gv-i down on our knees, will we Ind mercy. The Lord has unhorsed us, uncharloted us. Get down out of your pride. Get down out of your self-righteousness and your hypereriticism. We have all got to do that. That is the journey we have to make on our knees. It Is our Infernal pride that keeps us from getting rid of the leprosy of sin. Dear Lord, what have we to be proud of? Proud of our scales? Proud of our uncleannesä? Proud of this killing infection? Bring U3 down at Thy feet, weeping, praying, penitent, believing suppliants. For sinners. Lord, thou cam'st to bleed. And I'm a sinner vile indeed. Lord, I lelieve thy grace is free. Oh, magnify that grace in me. But he had no: only to get down out of hLs chario:. He had 'to was-h. "Oh," you say, "I am very careful with my ablutions. Every day I plunge into a bright and beiutiful bath." Ah. my hecirer. there Ls 'a flood brighter than any that pours from these hills, it Ls the flood that breaks from the granite of the eternal hills. I: Ls 'the flood of pardon and peiaoe and life and heaven. That Hood, started in the tears of Christ and the sweat of Gethsemane and rolled on, accumulating flood until all earth and heaven could bathe in it. Zovhariah called It the "fountain o-jen for sin and uncleanlinoss." William Cowper called it the "fountain filled with blood." Your fathers and mothers washed all their sins and sorrows away In that fountain. Oh. my hearers, do you not feel like wading into i:? Wade down now into 'this glorious flood, deeper, deeper, deeper. Plunge once, twice', thrice, four times, five times, six times, seven times. It will take as much m that to cure your soul. Oh, wash, wash, wash and be clean! I suppose that was a great time at Damxscus when Gen. Naaman got back. The charioteers did not have to drive slowly any longer, lest they jolt the invalid, but as the horses dashed through the s.trec'ts of Damascus I think the peopla rushed out to hail back their chieftain. Naaman's wife hardly recognized her husband. He was so wonderfully changed she had to look at him two or three times before she mxde out that it was her restored husband. And the. Little captive maid, she rushed out. clapping her hands and shouting: "Did he cure you? Did he cure you?" Then music woke up the palace, and the tapestry of the windows was drawn away, that the multitude outsido might mingle 'With the princely mirth inside, and the feet went up and down in the dance, and all the streets! of Damascus that night echoed andi re-echoed with the news: "Naaman's cured! Naaman's cured!" But a gladder time than that it would be if your soul should get cured of its leprosy. The swiftest white horses hitched to the king's charioü would rush the news into the eternal city. Our loved, ones before the throne would welcome the glad tidings. Your children on earth, with more emotion than the; little Hebrew captive, would notice the change in your look and the change in your manner and would put their arms around your neck and say: "Mother, I guess you must have become a Christian. Father, I think you have got rid of the leprosy." O Lord God of Elisha, have mercy on us!

Au Artist Indeed. A special dLpatch to the Inter Ocean from Anderson, Ind., says that a 'bilg turkey gobbler which roosted a!i night on the top of a two-story building Hew down and struck a big plate-g'.ass window in the hotel Anderson, going through it like a flash. The turkey cut a perfect round hole through the pane, which was half an lndh thick: did not crack the glass elsewhere and was entirely uninjured. The dispatch concludes with the statement that "local scientific men ware unable to figure it out." I-.haw! That Is an easy one. "Local scientific men" are not very scientific or they. would recognize the masterly work of the Hoosier telegraphic liar who oscillates between Muncie, Anderson, Kokomo and Mr-n-tlcello. 111. He is an artist. Chicago DLspatch.

F00 THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

LESSON' VIII, FOURTH QUARTER, IXTEUXATIOXAL SERIES, XOV. 25. Text of the Lemon, Mark 111, 22-3. Memory Verne, 2:1-2(1 Golden Text, John I, 11 Commentary by the Rev. I). M. St earn). 22. "And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said. He hath Beelzebub and by the prince of devils casteth He out devils." It Ls probable that the Incidents of Luke vil (the healing of the centurion's eervant, the raising of the widow's son and the anointing of Jesus's feet) came in between last lesson and this. Ha Ls so forgetful of Himself and w-holly given to ministering to others that his friends said He was beside Himself (verse 21), and the scribes staid He had a devil. See 4h privilege -of being mIsunderstod and misrepresjnted. 23. "And He called them unto Him and said unto th?m In parables, How can satan cast out satan?" Parables were for those who by their unbelief preferred to remain without, and He taught thus that they might not see nor understand nor be converted (Mark iv, 11, 12). If we willfully shut our eyes to the light, we cannot blame God for our not seeing. If we refuse to give heed to His loving words, we can only thank ourselves for the hardening of our hearts. He would have it otherwise. 24. "And if a kingdom be divided against Itself that kingdom cannot stand." It would seem almost unnecessary to say this. It Is so self-evident, but for them it was necessary. They were so desperately blind and foolish through their unbelief and hardness of heart. Not one of them would willingly work against his own interests, yet by their remark they think satan foolish enough to do so. 2.. "And if a house be divided against itself that house cannot stand." There are in the world those who belong to the kingdom and house of God and those who bel ong to the kingdom and house of Satan, but the one ls by Its nature as opposed to the other a3 light to darkness, as heaven to hell. That light should contend with light or darkness with darkness is not in the nature of thing3. See Wow simpiy Jesus spike; how very plain He made it even as He hid long befor e told HLs servants. Moses and Habakkuk, to do (Deut. xxvii, 8: Hab. Ii. 2). ll'I. "And if satan rise up against hlmS"If and be divided he cannot stand, but hath an end." This would certainly be a line thing for the world that satan should have an end, and some day It shall come (Rev. xx, 2, 3, 10), but not by any rebellion In his camp rather by the mighty power of the light that shall finally prevail over all darkness. The seed of the woman shall bruise the head of the serpent. The (Jod of peace shall bruise satan under our feet shortly (Gen. Iii, 13; Rom. xvi. 20). 27. "No man can enter into a strong man's house and spoil his goods except he will first bind the strong man, and then he will spoil his house." All unbelievers are satan's house, whether religious or irreligious unbelievers (John viii, 44), just as all true believers are the house of Christ and of God (Heb. hi. 6; Eph. II, 19). When Jesus shall have bound satan in the pit and afterward cast him into the lake of fire, then all he has ever had control over, air and earth and people who have, not willingly submitted to him, shall be forever delivered from his worse than Egyptian bordage. ::. "Verily I say unto you. All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men and blasphemies' wherewith soever they shall blaspheme." What a Redeemer and a redemption God has made known to us! What preclou3 blood It that cm cleanse from all sin and blot out so as never to !e found, even the precious blood of Christ, the lamb without blemish and without spot (I John i, 7; Isa. xlill, 25; I Pet. i, 19). Then to know that under no circumstances shall any one who comes ever be casttout (John vi, 37). Halleluiah! What a Savpor! 20. "But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, bu( i-"3 la danger of eternal damnation." It T-as by the Spirit of God that He cast out! demons (Math, xii, 2S). It is th3 work of the Spirit to convince of sin and righteriisness and Judgment (John xvi. 8). He It was who brooded over the dvp in the time of the darkness of Gen i, 2. 3. He wrought in and through the prophets. He spake and wrought through Jesus himself. He makes known to us the love of God and the redemption that is In Christ Jesus. 30. "Because they said. He hath an unclean spirit." As the Spirit is the one who alone can. cpert our eyes, to go against Hkrn Ls to cut ourselves off from all hope of forgiveness. He has well been called the executive of the Godhead, and we can thus see that, while Father and Son have made all provisionl for our salvation, to resist the Spirit is to continue in eternal sin. 31. "Then; came His brethren and Hi3 mother, and standing without sent unto Him, calling Him." In Mark vi. 3, we have His brothers and His- sisters mentioned and Himself referred to as the carpenter. That they were His own brothers and sisters, Mary's children, it seems to me is very clear from Ps. Ixlx, 8. 32. "And! the multitude sat about Him, and they said unto Him, Behold. Thy mother and Thy brethren without seek for Thee." It Js just passible that they spoke sneerlngly of His brethren as being from Nazareth, of which Nathanael said, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" (John I. 46.) We may be sure that Jesus was not! ashamed of His mother or of HLs brethren any more than Joseph was ashamed of his father and his brethren when he presented them to Pharaoh. 33. "And he answered them, saying. Who is My mother or My brethren?" That which He said to Mary at Jerusalem at the age of twelve must have been always a' reality to Him, "About My Father's business," for He loved to speak of the Father who sent Him and was always with Him. He was elso ever thinking of the many children of God who, through Him. would be brought to the klndom (Heb, 11, 10, 13). 34 "And Ho looked roundabout on them which sat about Him and said. "Behold My mother and My brethren." Many of His disciples must have been present, once sinners, dead in trespasses and in sins, but now through Him children of God and taught to say, "Our Father who art In heaven," redeemed by Ills precious blood eoon to be shed for them, and therefore as precious as the blood that bought them because of Its preclousness. 33. "For whosoever shall do the will of God the same is My brother, and My sister, and mother." Or, as He said In Luke vlll. 21, "My mother and My brethren are these which hear the word of God and do it." All who truly receive Jesus are children of God (John I, 12) and have the forgiveness of sins (I John ii, 12) and may continually sing, "Be my feelings what they will, Jesus ls my Savior still." The Troubadour. i Llchtly the troubadour Touched his guitar; Fiercely the watchdog barked. His jaws ajar. Fiercely the dog barked; Then he barked not. That music killed him Dead on the spot. Free Pre&s. Considerate That the potato bug was worried was not lost upon his devoted wife. "What," she asked tenderly, "is the matter?" The Insect averted hief head. "I will not tell her." he muttered "at least not now. Perhap3 I may keep It from her that the pure food people regard the festive tuber as deleterious." Detroit Tribune. Or Xew Sleeves, Ah. careful husband, now pewara Of pome domestic trap: The meaning of that loving air My be a winter wrap. Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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(;n eat Miws ; atiii:ii;. How the Aasocinted l'rrss Covered j the ISiu" lUeclion. The rapidity in th? pathcrln.? of th? New Tork City and state election returns, as reported by the Associated l'r: ss election nirht, was never l-efore -u.üed in the history of news orjrintation. The polls closed at 4 o'c'ock. Tlio bulletin announcing -tho vote of thA first election precinct on fr:vernor wa.- rf-cetv. d at r.:l:i p. m. At 1.0-' a. m. the tot.-t. vte of .New York City for giivernor, niay. r and recorder had 'been tabulated, a:.d the complete tables aprn?ared in every niorr.irpr paper in New York City Pervtd by the Associated Pres,?. I'.y contra.-t no other paper other than those served by the Associated Press in Xew York City w.u? atle to print the complete tabulated vote of New York City. In the same manner the result in Klnjrs and Queens counties, with the exception of two election districts, was complete on govemr and congress. Twenty-four local AVestorn Union wires were employed ti make thi? possible. The return.? from outside of Xew York and Kindts counties. (-mViai'n? the derailed vote of ü. election districts out of 3,Crn, were reported tiefor. 1 a. m.. and from tne ronninlncr distriets careful estimates of tbe pluralities were ent, making possible a closely accurate showing for tlhe entire ticket. The land and telephon-o wires wore prostrated throughout New llnan I election niprht, and the same was true the next morr.incr. In order to send new. to and receive news from P.oston th? Associated Press was compelled to h-in lle the report 'by ocean c:ib'.e from 15st;:i !i Canso. Nova Scotia, and thenoe by ltr.l lines through Canada and Now York state. In thU way only was the result 0:1 governor and congressm -n in Massachusetts made known. N. Y. Evening l'ost. Making: 3Ir. Clcveliiiil n Svn )OKa t. It Is rather amu.-ing to sv? some democrats trying to throw the entire blame of defeat on Mr. Cleveland. "It's all Cl?veland's fault," shout Mr. Clark H-w.-;ll and Mr. Henrj' Watterson in full cry. On the contrary, we consider that Mr. Cleveland haj kept the denucratle party afloat the pa-t three years, and that Snfitead of miking him a scapegoat denvcrats should thank him for what h? has don? for them. "Was it not Mr. Clav eland who prevented a disastrous surrender of the party to the silver fanatics in Ihe fight for the repeal of the iniquitous silver-purchase law? Waa it not Mr. Cl?veland who wrote to Chiirmin "Wilson during the tariff agitation last summer. "You know h?w mueh I deprecated the incorioriti m in the proposed bill of th" income tax feature?" Was it not Mr. Cleveland who in the same ringing letter pr)test?d against the Garman-sugar trust compromise, declared that "the continuance of democratic existence" was at stake, and asked "how can we face th? people" after failing to keep the pledges of th? party to them? If the democrats had followed the lead of Mr. Cleveland they would n t now b? trying to shift the r??ponsib!I;ty onto his shoulders. As It is, th-y ought to feel grateful to him that their defeat was no worse. X. Y. Herald. Crow for IluInoH ow. The Carroll Record. Taneytown. Md., this week print3 threi bantam roosters at the head of Its editorial column and explains that "these roosters are not crowing for cith?r political party, but f 3r the large body of newspaper readers who are glad the election i-s over, as th?y can now reasonably expect their favorite pipers to tell them what U going on in the country." This Is a good suggestion. The Record introduces the rooster as a business emblem, and we take pleasure in passing the bird along with th? recommendation of our contemporary- The "bird of morning" his been mixrd up too much In politics. It is, aa thing go in taes times, when tigers and wolves and

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"vrs.s rC'W ?4-'t I? :U. ruiTiT ?,t 1 nriT Tri N I1! n Iii II II' I fj- s and epr:ad-eAsrlcH ar? th? m re appr iprlate syin') .Is ni p ilitas, a prufjuviti : of th? roost ?r to dri his feathers thr.'usra ta? "mir and filth" of pditics. 11? ; a Imsines.s t.ird all over, the pymb-d of vi rilince, th? s?ntinel la the tru i-:-nii'KMtion of the word, and we would like V li"ar his V3ic? n w in trail a l.-f jr? the Thmksivirtr turkey tak.-.s th? field. Crow. Chtptna.n, or v, for p 'litics Is a thing' of the past. L.-t th? o-k crow now fr trade. The busy seism is on. Th fall traJ, which hung biek waiting on p!ities, his lmguished. Let his clearest intrs be h?ird in trade b efore and aft-, r Thanksgiving the harbir.gr of brisk autumn and winter business and a pn.-por-ous Christmas s?i?oa in every line if trad3. Baltimore Sun. Tin rly Iron Making In Anieriea. A little over ? years marks the interval between the present time and the reput-d di.-coveiy of iron ore in North America, the first recorded shipment of which was in 30'. but the earliest attempted known use of the mineral locally was in However, suoo-ssr'ul practical iron manufacture in the Cnittd States has a history of 1-ss than two ami a h;Uf centuries, and as Knropein methods were introduced ropcan specialists rmployd Am rican Iron luanufaeture did not pann throuch the priniitive methods of 'ien he-!js an 1 low mud furnaces, some of which antedate the Christian era. It is probable that all of the ir 11 produced In America was olu iin-d t-itln r from blast furnaces or inuditie.1 e'ataian forge tires, and that these were actuated by blast supplied by other than animal power. While today it may he pm-f-il.le to lind in various portions of the worM' all methods of iron production, from the open h'-ap to the modern blast furnace, blown by all types of pneumatic apparatus, ranging from the skins sr f animals sewe 1 into ba"s and trodden by the workers' feet, or the tubes cf bamboo, whose pistons ate alternately ajtuated by the arms fir lees of attendants, to a massive blowing engine driven by s-P-am. in the area covered by the United States no appliances are known to have leon used cruder than are represented by tiie forge of blast furnace to which air was supplied by wooden or leather bellows, actuated by a water wheel, or the trompe, into the tubs of which a column of falling water drew air and forcM it tinder pressure from a wiml't.ox. John ltirkinbine in Cassier's Magazine. What Is Prune? Whnt Poetry?' Professor of Philosophy ' D you want to write in vers?" M. .lourdain "Xo, no. not verse." Professor "You prefer prose?" Jourdain "No; 1 don't want cither prose or verse." rrofesor "But you must have one or the other." .lourdain "Why?" Professor "lieca use, monsieur, there is no other way to express ourselves than prose or verse." Jourdain "Is there nothing but prose and verse?" I'rofess-.r "Nothing, monsieur. All that is not prose is verse; all that is not verse is pros ." Jourdain "When we talk, what is that?" Profess r" Prose." JourdaJn "What! When I say. 'Nicole, bring my slippers and give- me my nightcm.' is that pr ;-se?" Professor "Yes, monsieur." Jour-tain "(Wt dness! Then I have been talking prose these forty years without ever knowing it." M Mtiere's "1e Bourge use ( lentiihomme," Mls3 Wormiey's Translation. Ontdoor Exercise. A bright woman doctor said the- other day: "Kxercise is the best remedy for that foe to age, corpulency. It makes govl muscle and firm flesh, while it Kamshe-s fat. There can be no health of the muscles without use of the muscles, and while physical culture exercises, so arranged as to hring into use all the voluntary muscies of the body, are indispensible to those who lead inactive lives, there are few who are engaged in active work who would not be benctitel by them. Mental inrtuenos also must receive great consideration would we prow young instead of old. for mental health is the prime factor In physical health. The latter is not possible without the former." Precmil Ion. After a rov with his wife, who violently expressed a wish that he was dead, an Irishman said: "Oh. It's a widow you're wanUn' to he, is It? lledid! I'll tak- go-.nl care vou're na widow as long as 1 live." Tid LhU

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C 1 KA 7; Ar:HJ FRAME No. 75. I a very rrettT Floren t!ni iattrrn eJ inches o-i wall i.ertoratiyr. and cr ner oriiKme r.t. It 1 mal in fmr t'iiihea. White nn4 pokt. All gilt. Oxidize! n!ver ni Gold bronze. j Whr-ru-rderiBfl tteuUon isl dejire i. a:i lit ii ::. ' FRAME NO. 50. Thl i a Terr popular TraTTi. Is C inches wide, f ubttant ially and elegantly tiiashed 1 he in.' r:er and outer panels are pol L-hid hnt'n. ivory. The center aid lining are composition pold.. This l'raiue is also made with' oak jnn'ls, beautifully fhaded, with center and lining in cxl-' dized hilT.T or In eilt. When orderin,; state whether tou wiU Oak & :lt,lTorv Jfc cl'.t or Oak and filver. Tr.-.i w:;U'. V.d Cisi aii I::k I1.C5. nnniTiiT . HiDilis. M. I. 1,1 H ivAsimGTovs vin. An I n ItTfsl i it iz Itirr.t from Tita ltook of 'Table Supplies. An interesting example of Gen. Waahiv.gton's 1 ve P r d -tail is contained In ft lo..k t e:cht f .ho piges. measuring eeven-te-a lac-lies in l-nyili by seven an-l a. haJf inches in breadth, on paper containing hi water mark arid all in his own hand wTltfn:r. It c n'.air.s entries of the amount of f-ol and li juovs n-e.i each day, and als" the CJt of each itetn. and by it we know to a certainty just what Washington ate an 1 drank ouring April and May, 17S4. the p--rii covered by this book. The Serrtemlr Century, which prints a facsimile of a pair- from the ! .k. says; "It appears fri.m tnis list that Thürs lay must have l.-en the day for lininc the senators, tthe representatives or the diplomatic corps, for it must be remembered that ronrress was in session in the city of Philadelphia, and Washington had sfial duties to perform, as on that day (and only in one instance on Friday) the wine list becr-mes important. 1 0'iOte: Thar-dav. April 179 r-.ttles of Madeira, fi l.ttl-s of Champaign, ti boules of Porter. " b ath's of Cir-ret. Thürs lay. April 219 littles of Madeira. 2 t-irtles . inret. littles of Ch;unpalrn. battles of Purgundy, 1 bottle of tsauterne, 6 b-ttl-s of I'ort- r. And so 011 all the way through. The nu:nl.er of bittlcs of Madeira and claret cmsumed revr varied. About the Fame mini! er of pee; .-' were invited each time, and they coii'id be counted on to drink Just s much. For th- week ending May 4 his bread bid amounted to 3 lls l-rd. "-It011ndin mul Adlottln'." Among our real estate assessors a year or two in-. was one named Iennis Mctdhtnr.ev. in his rounds he came to the habltat ion of h.s friend Michael Muleahy. (lood m -rnin', Michael," says .MCLirun11 ev. a ;--! mornin", Pinnis," returns Muleahy. "It's assissm' this mornin' I am Mike, savs the otiieial. Th n te aisy wid me, Dinnis. What wld rale estate assissmn ta and strate assi-m-nts. it's the deils own work to fave en.-'ih to pav the Tammany a-ssissment. I ii a sv, Mike. I ll put yez lown for $10 a fut. Pat will le firty tim-s tin Is t ree hundrcl for d? lot and twinty fur d goat." Thwat!" cries Muleahy. "T'ree hundre-1 fur de- lot an. twinty fur de goat." "ie goat's not rale estate!' "It is so und -r th- new law." "Oo "wav wll az:" "1 can prove it to yez." says the sr. drawing out his instructions. "Rade t,-r n iii i-i.-r'' s'v9 it at Its r.roner val1 nation i.er" front fv.t all property IpcmnOn' I . . ... . .'t . . m A ' ana a-ouiun tin nnn ieie i onoi. Manv's the time I've seen your goat a-tKundin' and a-buttln on both sides of the .strate. Twintv dollars fur de goat, Mike." N. Y. He-raid. A Hint I Life Insnrance Men. Saiv'' ChrUs F. Hitter, the Insurance man: "A funny thing happened in this office today. A vour.g man came in and said ihat h wanted to get a tontine life policy for 3t"..!f. " "How oil are you?' .-aid I. " 'Twcntv-nine,' said he. 'Then it w ill cost ycu SU2JA a year for twenty years." .... " T.ut suppose I pay it all up at oncer sai h' 'Thin it will cost you JS.OM,' ild I. " 'And h.uv much do I get at the end of t wen t v vea rs ?' sai 1 h e. "'Ab -iit i4.,"' said I. "Then I will pay my part of it in advance an 1 you pay yours in advance. I will ive von :Uöo anl ou give me H,. Vhat s fair, isn't it?: "Now, there was logic for you." continual Mr. Kitt-r. "I had never heard such a pr.uosition before, and I askevl leave to retire and consult. When the weather ret cooler 1 wll' figure this out and report." Cincinnati Tribune. A Dnrnlne Hint. Mothers who are confronted weekly with tremendous hi-s in almost new stocking and it is remarkable what two days' wear bv an active chili can accomplish In this respect will do well to follow the lead of one home darner who has worked out her own salvation in the matter very cleverly. She takes a piece of string net. Ktstes it over the hole and then darns over it. thus accomplishing a neater and stronger ! irn than io the old way and in A shorter time. The same method Is successful in mending woven underwear.

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