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WEEKLY COURIER C. IX5AKJC, ShthdbOter. IiJC Jf' A HIS INHBmTANCK. Doctor Won Fortune a Wife. WO gsntlemen, both psst mid uie age, were Minted beside a glOWiRg ra te ll r. chatting m old friend will, who have met after long separation. The hour wa lute, nearly mid nigiit, but no sign of wearl Htm wu on either face. Tbe room was a JilMry, well niieu wnu oouK-eaee on jllsiJe, a large business-like table in tbt VcnttT, and deeply cushioned chairs t-ittcrc'il about One book-case oon- .. t..i . ttined only meuieai worxs in auustanti,l bindings, and with marks of service thinly visible. fcitiomo house in which the room was 4itKatcJ. wan a man past forty, with jron-zray hair, strongly marked feaI lion at unco miiuij mhu imuiuh'. iuh . l.l-.ll.. V.... Irojii prompt decision in His uarK-mue liulle that often crossed his lips. His companion. ueaviiy iwardeu and bron?. by travel, was a far handsomer mn, but with a weaker lace. "At last," he said, strnichlng himself I lazily in his deep arm-chair, "I find you !one and diseng sped, wive me permlscon to stuff a towel into that obtrusive cffice-bcU ot yours, so that no whining Uoman or squalling brat can summon jouaway and make me unhappy. "Can't be done, Tom. Make the most tf me now, for the claims of the whining lnomtn and the squalling brats can not 1 denied.'' "Vou know what! want to bear! I left tou. twoivo years ago, a poor man wiui li struggling', almost wholly gratuitous vractioe, a sworn bachelor, and almost a iermit outside of your professional duties. I find you wealthy, with a charm in; wife, and a popular member of so ciety, and yet your practice Is, as before, almost. entirely amongst those who could not fee you if they would. From vbat relative, unknown to me. your own cousin, did you inherit your fortune?" "Did it ever occur to you, Tom, that there are romances in rea life, all about ! u, quite as improbable as those found upon the shelves of the circulating 11Wrj? My experieaee will convince juu that I speak with authority. Twelve jetrsaeo we are getting old, Tom! I was, as you say, a poor man, studying lard, living in a stuffy little house in a poor neighborhood, hoping for better times, more profitable practice, and a fuller purse. I wu a bachelor because 1 could offer only poverty to a wife: a Wwit because ny studies were em pro inf. In my small house I kept one old wenaa. servant, who eooked for me i mm xept laings uay. Having no earlnf I needed no boy, for Martha eeuld I ;. and I had a much larger office WKtiee than that outside. "It was late, one bitter night In Janry, when I was roused by the officeH, and the sound of excited voices under my window. Hastening down, 1 wand several men carrying upon ashutw the unconscious patient I was to aid, U polble. ' 'An old man. sir, knocked down by itonvAiy horses and run over,' said one I oi the party, as they gently deposited iwwroumen upon a sofa. 'Uadly hurted, I I'm thinking. Wtnr but nt. laJ!' "liadlyaurt, indeed. I found him. and IMJT examination convinced mo that any lather motion wnuU rnlt fatallv. nep him I must, or risk his life by roAM.Y HUKT, IXDKRD, I FOUND MIX." ov.il to a hospital. With the assistnce of two of the men I undressed kirn w putblm into my own bed, noticing en that he wore no ooat, '.Somebody took H off!" they told .and apparently somebody kept It, "it never appeared again. In the ers pockets were only some trifling it i ' bunch of key9 handkerei, but nothing to give any clew to ttldontlty of my patient and unlnWed guest. Ml will not enter into tbe details of JM Injuries that excited my Interest as puvBiciiin anil u .i as much as 'MTcal t,m ... .t. as a mar. tW i. wl,M"'i' .luiin in mo vat casn UHI1MII lltvrkia all ... u -1.111 . 1 1 - 'vri s ,t,j an.Hl JIUl KIKIWland ill a iutt.ti un suffering made me respect my unnunate guest from tbe first '"overed from the brain Injury sunt, 'wly to speak distinctly. When tbe nerer could speak be told me that bis "m WAR l-'anshau-a t,., o.l.l ntl.t ";0 himself, and I supposed him unng to confess to povorty and the in.iity to pay me for twv rvfPB. f. Jlo.not uko oa credit to myself j-my hspitallty or devotion, because nrtLW '" the 'ease,' IW ti . y cnMfw. that I would I ,,. , , "" iwr ratner iei!u ukei1 e,lt st h"i- A Jfr i i ' WV Ptl8 J (riead. and iatk4 mm i-pij bf

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i ... iTi. 7 ' t B, pin of ,,u Worm. Uon, his xiHrifneBof travel ftd ebaru, uf vunveraation. ntonths, dW I know thnt he waw.it e wealth, living U the housa TnJw him. alleviating great uferlf. and ftonaeeeptlng hi IhvIuUok uAd M"r " two with a lonely old wan. "When hMU he left bBnur. fortune, which I supposed to 1 wins wly because he had no direct heirs or iiear relative, lis had nevr spoken xHLTfx Wf.h,S tu11 Hd thsaia Jwlefly tlwt ho was a widower, and had lost his only ohild. "I had enjoyed my inheritance for wore than nine years, when I foil in love. 1, Who had never oared for fiv male society before, beamo deeply attachod to the mother of one of my paMenu, a lady nearly my own age, tbe widow of an artist who died in Home sonirt four or ftve years beforo I met her. Shu had sent for inn to sie her boy, an only child, slowly dying with an incurable disease of the spine. "Mrs. Bnstwell knew before she saw me that there was no hone of savin t.i.

child's life, but she thought that, t eoutu ease the pain and rostlossness from which he suffered. She was bur. self an artist, workinc in water.nnl for the largo stores that dealt in fanw gooils, and ombroidorinir most exnuiitely. Hut her child claimed much of her time and attention, and I know she worked in hours when she Hhould havn shared the boy's slumlfera. Tatient, sidf-sacrificinir. irontla and refined, she filled my ideal of mire womanhood, and I loved her with all the strength of the first lovo of years. I gavo her a man's devotion, not a bow'n infatuation, lint I know that (t wait useless for me to speak while tho child lived. She would have thought it sacrllego to give my lovo consideration, while the mother love in her heart was tho ruling spirit. Love-making while her child was dying! I could see how she would shrink from the gestion. mere sug"So I tried to be content with winnin tbe place of a trusted friend, delicately trying to make my presence a comfort and a help to hor, and doing all I could to make smoother tho hard path the childish feet were pressing. "One afternoon she"-came to mv office to ask some question about tbe little boy, and as tbe waiting-room was full, I took her throtteh tbe oarlor to tho SMK MATS OXK CRT OF "FATHER." front door. As we passed by the Mantel-piece of the front room, she sudden ly gave a cry of pain and surprise, stopping short before a life-size portrait of Mr. Fansbawe. Her face was white, her whole form trembling, and before I could catch her, she gave one cry of: 'Father!' and drooped in a dead faint j "It was the old story, Tom. She had loved her husband better than her father, and eloped with him, never winning forgiveness. The home she had , left was broken up, and Mr. Fanshawe i removed to another city, so that for years she had not known where to find him, and had never heard ot his death. Her husband had taken her abroad soon after their marriage, and she did not know whether her father had ever tried to trace or follow them. "You may Imagine how like a thief I felt when I oould calmly consider this story, and think of my Inheritance I. living in luxury, and she toiling for bread! And the money was hers by every claim of humanity. "At once I commenced to arrange for restoring the property to her, and know' ;i ing Her pressing nomts, instructou my lawyer to supply her with ready money, i and inform her that, as loon as it could 1 be legally done, her father's fortune would be restored to her. "Tom, she flatly refused to take It. She had offended her father and had accepted her punishment, and she would not listen to any proposal to accept his money. In vain I urged tho justice of her claim, the burden that mosey so wrongly willed away from bur would be to me. She threatened to leave tbe city and never return, If I persisted. "While nothing was settled, her child died. She grieved, as only the mother of an only child oin grieve, I and yet I think I comforted her. I dropped all question of the disputed In-1 herltuncn In those long months, when hor loneliness led her to turn to me, her true, loving friend. "And so, Tom, when a year bad passed, and the little life was a sacred memory, no longer a passionate psi to remember, 1 asked hor onoe more to accept hor father's fortune and his heir with it. "We needed no lawyer then to make the transfer, for I won ray wife without losing my inheritance." "And there goes that confounded offleVlMill!" said Tom, rising; "so 1 am off."- Anna Shields, in N. Y. Lodger. One of tho most remarkable old ladles in Maine is living on the island of Monhegan. Although seventy-five years old, she not only knows nothing of the oars, telephone, electric lights, etc, but has never seen a horse. She has always llvvd on the island, several nillM from t)- mainland, and her world has been Monhegan. Sheep and eows are kept ea the Island, but there k U fa .

THE GREAT VIOTOKY. Triumphant In the) ha tfa MwHery f Mm XstMMt-tttot? MUitij4ti I Mnmpiily a TjrrtMtHjr ttmUw. Oktoage Herald, Dm. In a pitched battle with MeKlaleyhMa wl Reedlsm the Democracy have we a memorable victory. The extent of their triumph Is hardly to be accurately measured as yet, but It Is sweeping and glorious. The test was a crucial one. American Institutions had been assailed not lees audaciously than when armed men eonfronted their defenders. An insolent and avaricious protected elass, grown rieh en the plunder of the people, set Hp an offensive tyranny in th-s House of Representatives and with Its aid passed a tariff tax bill that was Intended to oppress the people and to enrich tbe men in whose interest it was designed. Tbe answer of tbe people is a House of Representatives having an overwhelming Democratic majority. Still further to Intrench the power of monopoly and to restrict that ot the people, a force bill, intended to deprive Americans ot the right of local self-government, was prepared and railroaded through one house and left suspended in the other. The answer of the people is the defeat of scores of the wretches who misrepresented them and an overturning of things political that amounts to a revolution. Tbe ftoalesced "monopolists of the United States threw down the gage of battle to the people. The people answer Miem by throwing at their feet the political beads of fifty of thetnost subservient tools of monopoly. There is no possibility that the significance of this stupendous popular uprising will be misunderstood in any quarter. Robber and tyrants know what it means. Tbe people themselves know what it means. Ignorance has been appealed to in vain. Immorality has been appealed to In vain. Prejudice, falsehood, sophistry, idiocy, all enlisted on the side of monopoly tariffs ami political tyranny, have been appealed to in vain. The intelligence. and patrietiim of the country have triumphed over, the bigotry of ignorance and the greed of avarice. Happy, indeed, are the people who can so swiftly rebuke unworthy pretension and so mercilessly chastise the misguided men who sought to betray them. Concerning the effect ot this most timely and most gratifying victory for good government and good citizenship, it is enough at present to say that there will be no more Speakership tyrannies in tbe House ot Representatives, there will be no more McKinley high tax bills, there will be no more of tbe force bill, there will be no more subsidies and bounties for favored interests. The politicians at Washington will take their sticky fingers out of tbe people's business affairs and keep them out There will be a hasty retreat by seme of the Republicans and by others there will lie a stampede to oblivion. All the arts of James O. Blaine and other as'.ute servants of monopoly will now be sailed Into requisition to devise new tricks for the befoolKtent of the people, but they will be in vain. The light of the morning is npon the country. Tbe sun ef truth, of decency, ef fair play, of unshackled commerce, of equal rights and of honesty government ha's risen. Its welcome rays will serve to Illumine the glorious pathway of reform during tbe two years remaining of an Administration whose election was bought and whose degradation seems the more profound now that it stands In striking comparison with the majestic reawakening and reinspfratlon of tbe people. What tho Victory Mmm Chiesg) KveatsK Post, lad. The result of the Congressional elections throughout the country must be accepted as proof that the Americas people are not so dead to their own best interests and not so sodden in the presence ot a National danger as has been charged against them. The violent partisanships bom of the civil war have survived to become a reproach to the victors in that struggle. Under their influence the masses of the people have been an easy prey to adroit leaders who have known how to play upon sentiment and passion to further such schemes of exploitation as, the world never saw before. In a word, we have had as the most baleful issue of the civil war tbe so-called protective tariff with its attendant evils of centralized wealth and monopolistic oppression. .N'ever before have such fortunes been b-iilded in so shorts time, and never before were fortunes more elearly realized upon tho misfortunes ot the people. Yesterday's work is an encouraging sign that the people have, however tardily, realised their real position. The Congress which gave to this country the most exotbitant tariff measure In the history of legislation has been sharply rebuked by the reversal of tbe majority which made the McKinley bill a law. The Fifty-first Congress eame beforo the country on tbe merits of its tariff legislation; it has been rebuked because tbe people want less tariff instead of more. The lesson of this defeat would be wholly lost to one who failed to notice tho share that Republicans have bad in It It is in effect the Republicans who have made the change necessary; the Republicans at length awaken to the fallacy or worse of the policy which they have hitherto blindly followed. The Republicans of the I-ltty-flrst Congross would have defeated the McKinley bill had tiny thought more of their own convictions and less ot party discipline. Their constituents have been mere courageous and the warning will net be j lost rover dcvelnnrt Beltt-tite. F-at aa Interview, Kz-Prssldent Cleveland, in an Interriewen the results ot the eleatieM, said: am delighted. I challenge the right tt anv nan la the eesntry te reieles

ore heartily titan lever tbe reeelte. My gratification la that ef aa America, road of his fellow countrymen, who nWrh led away for a time by party ptejadieei and by blind eoaldenee in euniilftg and sellsh leaders, could not ha deluded to their ruin. They have aemoiuitrated that in deallnjr with fthem it is not safe to ealeitlate that they are stupid or heedless of the welfare ef their eotmtrymen. The necessity ef tariff reform with its eon sequent redaction la the cost ef living, and the duty ot the Demoeratie party to advo sate it has been fully demonstrated by the aetioa of the people yesterday. Their decision baa been deliberately made, and It is all the more significant because they have voted upon their reason and judgment, and because they have proved that corruption is powerless as against their wnviotlons. ' "Of course, there to nothing for tbe Demoeratie party to do but to push ea tbe battle at all times and in all plaees on tbe lines which they have laid down, that is to insist upon a wise adjustment ot tariff taxation to the reasonable needs ot the Government, as opposed to the plan which enriches a favored olase at the expense of the masses of the people. Until victory is won the question ot tariff reform will net he settled and the pledges and profess leas of the Democratic party to the people redeemed. "Our party has made an honest and an earnest ftsht It has planted itself upon disinterested and unselfish devotion to the Interests of the people. Its absolute unity and harmony upon the question ot tariff reform shows its quick recognition of true Demoeratio principles, and Its enthusiasm in u cause which involves the popular welfare. Everywhere our people have done magnifloently, and tne harvest they have gathered has been nobly earned." Vmx tull VE Dtl. Louisville Courier-Journal, Dm. This is a Republic and not a despotism. So spake the people through the party ot the people. From ocean to osean they rose in revolt against tbe usurpers who have sought to make our National Government a mighty oligarchy for robbing citizenship of it sovereignty and substance. Under the stress of Reedism and McKlnleylsm, Massachusetts rises In a righteous revolution, hardly second to that in which she shook off kingcraft over a hundred years ago. New Hampshire stands shoulder to shoulder with her now as she stood then. Connecticut Is abreast ot both, and almost every State in the Union feels and manifests this newly quickened impulse of Democracy which is our National life. This revolt against centralization and tyranny; against insolent oppression; against unwarranted and cruel taxation; against sn audacious menace of self-government; against reckless extravagance and greed In collecting and dissipating the National revenues, has swept the Republicans from the popular branch of Congress and Installed an overwhelming majority of the representatives of Democracy. Demoeratie reinforcements to the House are sent by Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, 'Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio. Missouri, Virginia, Tenseseee, Kentucky, North Carolina, Maryland, Louisiana and Arkansas and Pennsylvania, which also elects a Democratic Governor. Trtoel mm4 PmmhI Wattta CtilMffo (Meet, Dm. The voice of the people ha been heard with no uncertain sound. They repudiate The Republican policy of protection, The acts of the late Republican Congress, . The Administration, The Imperiolsm ot the defunct Gear, Rsed, Monopoly rule, McKlnleylsm, Quayism, "Long" Jonesism, , Methods of the boodle politician, Hlgotry, t Tariff robbery and Tbe "G. 0. P." In the election we see demonstrated the Intelligence, the indignation1 and the vengeance of the public. Fully cognizant of the grasp laid on them by those in control of the reins of government feeling keenly the elect of tax robbery, the spoils system, the extravagance and theft indulged in by the party in power under the false guise of constitution legislation, the populace arose and with a mighty blow felled to the ground the whole fabric of deceit' lies, theft and misrule, burying at once in the ruins nearly all the Babylon ic gods of the Capitol. It eame as a thunderbolt into the house of dancing and revels. It eame and wrote on the walls of the temple of modern Republicanism the inscription: "Tried and found wanting." Mnnmlna; Mllla for RfMHtkftf, (Milwaukee Jeers!, Dem.1 Congressman Roger Q. Mills, leader of the Lose Star Democracy and one ef the brainiest men In the country, is a man noted for his breadth of thought, his steadfastness ef purpose and hie fertility of resource. As an orator and debater he has few equala As an expounder of the principles of Democracy he is second to none. Ills speeches In Wisconsin during the campaign showed that he understood and was an advocate ot genuine Democratic principles and that he would stand or fall with them. To him it was a battle of primary prin ciples, not one of expediency, as in all bis politloal addresses he made these principles his basis and reasoned there from in a logical and convincing man ner. There is no donbt that tbe speeches of Mr. Mills in this State were valuable and resulted in much good to the cause. For Speaker of the next House, Roger q. Mills. Mlh TssstHM Not PnfHila. (Chiesffe News, Is4-Itep.l The reasons for the overthrow of the Republic CongreseicRsl majority We ns clear as noonday. The McKinley law was the Joe ah that swamped the hopes ef the Republican party. High taxation fr the benelt ef msaspelist eaa never be popular when the neeuhl

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eace aroesed to the) enormity of special IsfhalatioR aa that m bodied in the McKinley law. Tariff reform is too Ueae beforo the American people to-day. The roanlt ef yejeterdav'RkMMtreeslonal lairiboJwiU tend to oeeeotldate the tarltf-refprmara. Always popular in toe Went, where the teal las as of tb Nation are hereafter to he decided, the doctrine of tariff inform will from yesterday dominate all other National issue. The sophistries of protectloniet leaders will not avail to win tho people from their allsfiaae to truth. The defest of to many prominent Re publlean Congressmen also carries with it a stern rebuke to tho partisanship which gave to the Speaker of Congress a power which no other representative Government ha daood to bestow. The partisanship which oould subvert a great legislative body te sinister ends has been overwhelmingly condemned. A V4e ftjwm lb XrMws4. laK Pasl Qlotoa Dsaa. "Sound the loud timbrel e'er Kgypt's dark sea, Jehovah hath triumphed, Hie people are free." There is glory enough for one day. There was a volcano yesterday, and this morning all the Republieaa hope He in ruins. Cssr Reed has toppled from hie throne. The MoKinley tariff to wrecked, The force bill has been condemned. The Harrtooa Administration is repudiated. The Republican party stinks in the nostrils of the people. Its foundations have been loosened in its strongholds. Pennsylvania, the home ot Quay and Cameron and the land of high tariffs, has about-faced and joined the Demo cratic column. Pattison is elected Gov ernor, and a clean sweep Maesaohu setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Kansas, Iewa and Nebraska are all in line with the Democrats. The Democratic majority in the next House ot Representatives will be large. The educational campaign has had its effect The people bare declared that the war taxes shall be abolished and that' the robber tariff barons sball be dethroned. U rover Cleveland is vindicated. Voo Muh Xwa fer reesMean. lObie) Tribes, . Quay's man, Delamater, has been overwhelmingly defeated in Pennsylvania, the indignant people of thai State having risen and stamped Quay ism into the ground. Quay's record as a substantial smbesslsr should have been sufficient to keep him out of tho campaign, but he did not only take part in it but went so far as to fores hie mas Delamater on tho party a against another candidate who Was la every way acceptable. Tbe result to told by the figures in Philadelphia: Delamater, 30,7Ss; Watres, Lieutenant-Governor, 8,v61; Stewart, Secretary of Internal Affairs, SH,eeO; Connell, Sheriff, t4.tf Green, Recorder of Deeds, 15,111. Delamater wu from It, 006 to 18,000 behind hi ticket Tb same causes changed a Republicsn majority of 11,000 in Allegheny to 4.SO0! Quay's man to beaten In a State which two years ago gave Harrieon TV, 458 majority and six year ago gave Blain 81,011 majority, tho latter figure representing the Republican majority of Penaayiveaia when a ticket is satisfactory. This to smother of tho lessens ef defest which Republican leaders may study with profit. McKlnleyism la bad,' but McKlnleylsm nad Qosyism ccmbiosd are too much even for ad M.0M Repusdkea nsojerity State! Past MiiBMsseisaw St. Louis MeesMts, Dors. The country has risen m nun in pretest against the return ot the reoonetruetion period and tbe increase of war taxes above the war rate. Tho Demoeratie party has not won such a victory since lsss. In lftfrt it won the Presidency on tbe old lines, playing the New York combination. Now Nsw York scarcely figures In tbe overwhelming Demoeratie wave whloh" has swept the country, though in New York, too, there has been a signal Demoeratie victory. Harrison and Reed, Quay and Dudley, Mailed Hand and Blocks of Five, are buried past resurrection. The oouutry has passed through a great crisis, and it is once more demonstrated that no despotism of money or fores oan crash the free , spirit of America. Yesterday's work means peace, prosperity, union. It is tbe dawn of the Twentieth Century, full of hope for united America, North, South, East and West Ths lines el eivil war sectionalism are broken at last Ths country is onos mere fully re-united, and from Massachusetts to Texas all Americans who ate not Radi cals or Plutocrats may well Join in tbe "Te JJtuH XstfomM" of patriotic thanksgiving. A German Fsoeral ttestsiloaw A funeral procession in Germany Im presses as Amerieaa as being a rather curious affair. It ia Invariably led by an elderly woman olad in black, whe to hired to carry a lugubrious wreath. This antiquated female is frequently followed by a number of men, also hired to carry wreaths and other floral devices appropriate to the solemn occasion. Then comes the hearse, drawn by two or four black horses, and driven by a man wesring a flowing black robe and s low. wide-brimmed black hat. Beside tite hearse walk the pall-bearers and behind the hearse come the mourners, sll afoot, I and wearing black silk tiles. Then fol- ' low the carriages, all empty, for it is an imperative rule that none except tho drivers of the vehicle shall tide in the fnneral procession; moreover, no wont- i nn, save only ths old woman who precedes the hearse, eaa participate in tho procession. When the female relatives and friends ot the deceased wish to see the burial they ge to the cemetery by a devious route and return in an equally modest way. After tbe funeral tbe mourners ride homo In the carriage. - Chicago News. -Whers There's n WULMeiherdn lnw-"WU, my child, and hew do yea and Genii get on new? Has he given sp drinking and smokiiwrr Dsasrhter-io-lnw-"Xe, doarl tmt he's tsfM to snsmnMBea naa m miasm ar r.

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the Christ, ths taunt uttered by the on espressos this, no less than the prayer of the ether, et "Lord:" the very use of tbe word bapUes faith. 'Remember ms" (la meter, te save! "when Tho corneal Into (la) Thy kingdom:" that is, la th glory of Thy sstahhshid kingdom. 44. "Math hour:" twelve 'look. "Tb erth :" tbe land of Judaa. "Ninth bow:" three o'clock, p. m.. the hour of ths dally eveaiag sacritKM. 4ft. "Vail of the templet" the greet vail of ths temple that huag between the Boly Place sad the Holy of Botles, forty eebns (atxty feet) long, sad twenty (thirty feet) wMs, of the tbiekaess of tbe palm of ths has. The reading of the vail typlnsd thst the veil that shut out tb vision of bollaess from the heart of the people bad been taken away (lOor.SsMM). and tbe way into tbe Holy Pise, the stet of holla, and tbe plae ot bollseii. was sow opened. LKSSON COMMKXTS. From the combined stories of the Evangelists we learn that at the beginning of that scene of eruci nation both malefactors, railed on tbe Master. We do not know wbst it was that influenced owe to stop his reviling, and to offer tbe most wonderful prayer thst we find in verse 4s. Doubtless the Spirit of God touched his heart, and ho responded to the blessed influence. It may have been that the prayer of Jeans for His persecutors in verse M began to open his eyes, and that the abuse tbst wss heaped on the Master by all who came to that spot deepened the Impression further; and that, combined with the gentle deportment of hie fellow suflerer, really melted his stony heart. However that was, there eame the time when be began to believe the this crucified one was no mere man. Then the deep sense of his own unworthiness eame over him, and tbe desire for help filled bis soul. This tod him at Isst to cry? "Lord, remember me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom." And at once there eame the most wonderful reply that' was ever made to any one in this world. Looking now more eloeely at this scene we shall see that it may well he studied under tb following three heads: (s) Wonderful faith, (b) Wonderful grace, (c) Wonderful works. (a) Wonderful faith. That to what tbe thief on the cross exercised. For remember, just st tbe time that be was praying, all others in the world had given up their faith that Jesus was the Messiah. To believe thai a craaiied man, at your side, who was seen to die, was the Messiah, and that He had power te help you, was more wonderful than Q to believe tbe same thing while Ho was working miracles and showing; His power over the evil spirits. Faith then was la a measure natural. But in this esse, under tbe circumstances, it was most surprising. Bee what his prayer involves. It shows that be believed that Jesus bsd a kingdom, that in that kingdom He had power, that His remembering the thtof when He came into that kingdom would be of advantage to the tbief, and finally that He would be willing to remember His fellow sufferer, la spite of all his ill desert. In the moment when Jesus bowed His bead and died, it really seems as though in all the wor!d there remained only one person who truly believed in Him, and that was this dying man. The bright spot in sll thst scene of darkness to found where least we should expect it Now turn to the wonderful graos. This was displayed by the blessed Matter. Remember that the man who thus appealed to Him was no ordinary man. Ills life bad leen one of violence and bloodshed. We can not tell all that that involved, but we know that it implies much of persistent evil. And yet, in spite of all this, a soon as bis prayer was directed to Jesus, the consoling words of promise came back, full of Divinest love and pardon: "This day analt thou be with Me in Pared lee." Now look at tho wonderful worn. These belong to the thief. James seya that faith without works to deed, standing a it doe alone. But If ever we oould expect that faith would have te stand alone because there wasnooatane for works to manifest themselves, this was that ease, for the man was dying, and was nailed to a cruel cross. Yot He found a way to make his faith fruitful in works, and in this respect again he seem to stand as an example to the whole world. He could not use bis bands or his feet, for they wore nailed. But his lips were free, end these he could and did use for his Lord. On the other side of the middle cross was his former oempanton in sin, and he was still busy in abusing the sinless man in the middle. Turning to him our penitent thief began te preach a short but pungent sermon, ; trying to restrain him f rem, rolling Mp bis mountain of sin any higher. Rev. A. F. Sehnuflier, I). D. practical euooRirrioxs. 1. Ta a deed transforms the pmee, at -Calvary has become the center of the world's glory. s. Te those who believe, death to the r gate to I'aradhm

S. If Jesus was willing to die tnat we might be saved, how earnest e skeuhi bs to be saved. 4. Christ crucified shows ths exceeding evil and danger ef sin. I. It shows that God loves as and desires to forgive and save a. 03. It shews that we ran be saved la no -

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