Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 35, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 January 1897 — Page 7

TAIMAGE’S SERMON. The Abounding Grace of Christ and ms Sacrifices. 'What B« DarmdtrMl t* Become the tafloar of M>«kted-W* Out N«w fuUjr Appreciate Wl Abuesatloa. Rev. T. DeWiti Talmage told again the old, old story of abounding grace, but dressed it in new garb in the telling. His sermon was based bn the text: Ye know the (race ef our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sake* He became poor.—1L Corinthians, vlii.,9. That all the worlds which on a cold winter’s night make the Heavens one great glitter are without inhabitants is an absurdity. Scientists tell us that many of these worlds are too hot or -cold or too rarefied of atmosphere for residence. But, if not fit for human abode, they may be fit for beings different from and superior to ourselves We are told that the world of Jupiter is changing and becoming fit for creatures like the human race, and that Mure would do for the human family with a little change in the structure of our respiratory organa But that there is a great world swung somewhere, vast beyond imagination, and that it is the headquarters of the universe, and the metropolis of immensity, and has a population in numbers vast be- j yond all statistics, and appointments of splendor beyond the capacity of canvas or poem or angel to describe, is j as certain as the Bible is authentic. Perbape some of the astronomers with j their big telescopes have already I caught a glimpse of it, not knowing what it is. We speil it with six letters mud pronounce it Heaven. That is where Priuoe Jesus lived ! nineteen ceutures ago. He was the King's son. It was the old homestead -of eternity, and all its castles were as j old as God. No s frost has ever chilled j the air. Not a tear had ever rolled down the cheek of oue of its inhabit- j auts. There had never been a head- ! ache, or a suicide, or a heartache. J There had not beeu a funeral in the | memory of the oldest in habits^.. There had never in all the land woven j a black veil, for there had never beeu j anything to mouru over. The passage j of millions of years had not wrinkled j or crippled or bedimmed any of its citizens. All the people there were in a j state of eternal adolescence. What j floral and pomouic richness! Gardens | of perpetual bloom and orchards iH unending fruitage- Had some spirit j from another world entered and asked: i ‘•What Is siu? What is bereavement?

What is sorrow? W hat is death?'’ the brightest of the intelligences would hare failed to give definition, though to study the questiou there was silence iu Heaven for half an hour. The Prince of whom 1 speak had honors, emoluments, acclamations, such as no other prince, celestial or terrestrial, ever enjoyed. As lie passed the street, the inhabitants took off from their brows garlands of white lilies and threw them in the way. He merer entered, any of the tempi without all the worshipers rising1 up and bowing in obeisance. In ali the processions of the high days lie was the one who eroked the loudest welcome. Sometimes on foot, walking in loriug talk with the humblest in tbe laud, at other ’times He took chariot, mud among the 20,000 that tue Psalmist spoke of He was the swiftest aud most flaming; or, as when St John described Him, He took white palfrey with what prauce of foot, and arch of neck, and roil of mane, and gleam of eye, is only dimly suggested in the Apocalypse. He was not like other princes, waiting for the father to die aud theu , take the throne. When years ago an artist in Germany made a picture for the royal gallery representing the Kmperor William on the throne, and the crown prince as having one foot on the step of the throne, the Kmperor W illiam ordered the picture changed, aud said: “Let the prince keep his foot off the throne till I? leave it.” Already enthroned was the Heavenly Prince side by side with the Father. What a circle of dominion! What multitudes of admirers* What unending runm»of glories! All the towers chimed Aplf rinee's praises. Of all the iuliab- ? ilts, from the ceuter of the city on ver the hills and clear down to the beach agaiuat which the ocean of immense sity rolls its billows, the Prince was the acknowledged favorite. No wonder my test says that “He was rich.'* Set all the diamonds of the earth in one scepter, build all the palaces of the earth in one Alhambra, gather all the pearls of the sea in oae diadem, put aU the values of the earth in one diadem, put all tbe values of the earth in one coin, the aggregate could not express His affluence. Yea, St. Paul was right. Solomon had iu gold £630,000,000, and in silver £1,0;'9,377,000. Hat a greater than Solomon is here. Not tbe millionaire, but the owner •ol ail thinga To describe His celestial surrouudiugs, the Bible nsee all

color*, gathering them m rainbow over the throne and setting them. as agate in the temple window, and hoisting 13 of them into the wall, from j striped Jasper at the base to transparent amethyst in the cape tone, while between are green of emerald, and snow of pearl, and bine of sapphire, and yellow of to pas, gray of chrysepraee, and flame of Jacinth. All the iovlinnaaof landscape in foliage, and river, and rill, and all enchantment aquamarine, the aea of glass mingled with fire as when the sun sinks in the Mediterranean. All the thrill of mask, instrumental and yecal, harps, trumpets, doxologies. There stood the Prince, surrounded by those who had under their wings the velocity of millions of miles in a second. Himself rich in love, rich in adoration, rich in power, rich in worship, rich in holijtesa, rich in worship, rich in “all tfc* fullnoss of the Godhead bodily.*’ Bat one day there was a big disaster An a department at God's universe. A race fallen! ▲ world in rains! Our planet the eeeae of catastrophe! ▲ .globe swinging oat into darkness, v . , N. ' k

with moan tain*, and seas, and islands, an awful centrifugal of sin seeming to overpower the beautiful centripetal of righteousness, and from it a groan reached Heaven. Such a sound had never been heard there. Plenty of sweet sounds, but never an outcry of distress or an echo of agony. At that one groan the Prince rose from all the blissful circumjacence, and started forth# outer gate and descend* ed into the night of this world. Out of what a bright harbor into what a rough seat “Stay with us," cried angel after angel, and potentate after potentate. “No,” said the prince, “I can not stay; X must beoff for that wreck of a world. I must stop that groan. I must hush that distress. I must fathom that abysa I must redeem those nations. Farewell, thrones and temples, hosts cherubic, seraphic, archangelici I will come back again, carrying on my shoulder a ransomed world. Till this is done I choose earthly scoff to Heavenly acclamation, and a cattle pen to a king’s palace, frigid sone of earth to atmosphere of celestial radiance. I have no time to lose, for hark ye to the groan that grows mightier while I wait! Farewell! Farewelll “Ye know

the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He becomes poor.” Was there over a contrast so overpowering as that between the noonday of Christ’s celestial departure and the midnight of His earthly arrival? Sure enough, the angels were out that night in the sky, and an especial meteor acted as escort, but ail that was from other worlds, and not from this world. The earth made no demonstration of welcome. If one of the great princes of this world steps out at a depot, cheers resound, and the bands play, and the flags wave. But for the arrival o f this missionary prince of the skies not a torch flared, not a trumpet blew, not a plume fluttered. All the music and the pomp were overhead. Our world opened for Him nothing better than a barn door. The rajah of Cashmere sent to Queen Victoria a bedstead of carved gold and a canopy that cost $750.UO, but the world had for the Prince of Heaven and earth only a .litter of straw. The crown jewels in the tower of London amouut to $15.000,000, but this.member of eternal royalty had nowhere to lay His head. To know how poor He was, ask the earnel driver, ask the shepherds, ask Mary.ask the three wise men of the east, who afterward came to Bethlehem. To know how poor He was, examine all the records of real estate in all that oriental country, and see what viueyard.or what field He owued. Not one. Of what mortgage was He the mortgagee? Of what tenement was He the landlord? Of what lease was He the lessee? Who ever paid Him rent? Not owning the boat on which He sailed, or the beast on which He rode, or the pillow on which He slept, lie had so Kule estate that in order to pay His tax He had to perform a miracle, putting the amount of the assessment' in a fish's mouth and having it hauled ashore. And after His death the world rushed in to take an inventory of His goods, and the entire aggregate was the garments He had worn, sleeping in them by night and traveling in them by day, bearing on them the dust of the highway and the saturation of the sea. St. Paul in my text hit the mark when he said of th» missionary Prince: "For your sake He became poor.”

1 be world could have treated Him better if it bad chosen. It had all the menus for making liis earthlj condi- j tioas comfortable. Only a few years j before when Poinpey, the general, arrived iu Brindisi he was greeted with ; arches and a costly column which celebrated the 12,000,000 people whom he j had killed or conquered,aud he was al- i lowed to wear his triumphal r be in the senate. The world had applause for imperial butchers, but Vulfeting for the Prince of Peace. Plenty of golden chalices for the favored to j drink out of, but our Prince must put His lips to the bucket of the well by the roadside after He had begged for a drink? Born iu auother man’s barn, and eating at another man's table, j and cruising the lake in another man’s fishing smack, and buried in auother man's tomb. Four inspired authfers wrote Uiis biography,and innumerable lives of Christ have been published, j but lie composed His autobiography I in a most compressed way. He said. “I have troddeu the wine press alone." Poor in the estimation of nearly all the prosperous classes. They called j him Sabbath-breaker, wine-bibber, | traitor, blasphemer, and ransacked j the dictionary of opprobrium from 1 cover to cover to express their detesta- I tion. I can think now of only two I well-to-do men who espoused his j cause—Nicodemns aud Joseph ot Arimathca. His friends for the most j part were people who, in that climate ] where ophthalmia or inflammation of j the eyeball sweeps ever and anon as a j scourge, had become blind, sick j people who were anxious to get ; well, and troubled people in whose family there was some one dead or j dying, if He had a purse at all it | was {empty, or we would have heard what the soldiers did with the eon-1 tents. Poor? The pigeon in the dove ' cote, the rabbit in iu burrow, the silkworm in iu cocoon, the bee in iu hive, is better provided for, better off, better slmltered. Aye, the brute creation has a borne on earth, which Christ had not. A poet says: II ou wisely nays the raven Gambol like s danctas skiff. Not the less he loves his hsvee Oa the bosom of the cliff. It almost with ea*le pinion O'er the Alps the chamois roam, « Yet he has some small doasiaioa Which no doubt he cells his home. Bat the Crown Prince of all Heavenly dominions has less than the raven, lesa than the chamois, for He was homeless. Aye, in the history of the universe there is no other instance of such coming down. Who can coant the miles from the top of the throne to the bottic — of the cross? Cleopatra, giving a banquet to Antony, took n pearl worth a 9110,000 and dissolved it in vinegar and swallowed it. Bat when oar Prince, according to the evangelist, in His last hours, took the via

ogtr, in it had been dissolved all the pearls of His Heavenly royalty. Down until there was no other harrassment to suffer, poor until there was no other pauperism to torture. Billions of dollars spent in wars to destroy men, who will furnish the statistics of the value of that precious blood that was shed to save us? “Ye know the (Trace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor.* Only those who study this text in two places can fully realise its power, the Holy Landjof Asia Minor and the holy land of Heave a. I wish that some day you mig|^ go to the Holy Land and take a drink out of Jacob’s well, and take a sail on Galilee, and read the sermon of the Mount while standing on Olivet, and see the wilderness where Christ was tempted, and be some afternoou on Calvary at about three o’clock—the hour at which closed the crucifixion—and sit under the sycamores and by the side of brooks, and think and dream and pray about the proverty of Him who came our souls to save. But you may be denied that, and so Ihere, in another continent and in 5 another hemisphere. and in scenes as different as possible, we recount, as well we may, how poor was our Heavenly Prince. But in the other holy land above we may all study the riches that He left behind when He .started for earthly expedition. Come, let us bargain to meet each other at the door of the Father's mansion, or on the bank of the river just where it rolls from under the throne, or at the outside gate. Jesus got the contrast by exchanging that world for this; we will get it by exchanging this world for that. There and then you will under- j stand more of the wonders of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, ! “though ne was rich, yet for your sakes became poor.” Yes. grace, free grace, sovereign ! grace omnipotent grace! Among the j thousands of words in the lauguage j there is no more queenly word. It 1 means free and unmerited kitjdfeesss. My text has no monopoly of theword. i One hundred and twenty-nine times [ does the Bible eulogize grace. It is a ; door swung wide open to let into the j pardon of God all the millions who chose to enter it. John Xewton sang of It when be

Amazing grace, bow sweet the sound. That saved the wretch like me. Philip Doddr idge put it into all hymnologv when he wrote: Grace, ‘tis a charming sound. Harmonious to the ear : Heaven with the echo shall resound. And all the earth shall hear. One of John Bunyan's great books is entitled “Grace Abounding/' “It is all of grace that I am saved" has been on the lips of hundreds of dying Chris* tians. The boy Sammy was right when being examined for admission into church membership he was asked, “Whose work was your salvation?” andv he answered, “Part mine and part God's.” Then the examiner asked, “What part did you do, Sammy?” and the answer was, “I opposed God all 1 could, and He did the restl” #h, the height of it, the breath of it, the Grace of God! Mr. Fletcher having written a pamphlet that pleased the king, the king offered to compensate him, and Fletcher answered: “There is only ou® thing I want, and that is mot1 grace.” Yes, yes; for your sakes! It was not on a pleasure excursion that He came, for it was all pain. It was not an astronomical exploration, for He knew this world as -well before tie alighted as afterward. It was not bee use He was compelled to come, for He volunteered. It was not because it was easy, for He knew that it would be thorn, and spike, and hunger, and thirst, and vociferation of angry mobs. “For your sakes!” To ,*tipe away your teats, to forgive your wrongdoing, to companionship your loneliness, to soothe your sorrows, to sit with you by the newmade grave, to bind your wounds in the ugly battle with the world, and bring you home at last, kindliug up the mists that fall on your dying vision with the sunlight of a glorious morn. “For your sakes!” No; I will change that.

Paul will not care and thrist wul not i care if I change it, for I ma^t get into j the blessedness of the text myself, and so I say: “For our sakes!” For we all j have our temptations and bereave- | ments and conflicts. For our sakes! J We who deserve for otnK#ins to be ex- ] patri&ted into a world as much poorer i than this as this earth is poorer than Heaven. For our sakes! llat what a ! frightful coming down to take us j gloriously up! When Artaxerxes was hunting. Tire- j bazus, who was attending him, showed the king a rent in his garments, the king said: “How shall 1 mend it?” “By giving it to me,” said Tirebazns. Then the king gave him the robe, but commanded him never to wear it, as U would be inappropriate. But see the startling and comforting fact, while our Prince throws off the robe, lie not only allows us to wear it, but commands us to wear it, and it will become us well, and for the poverties of our spiritual state we may put on the splendors of Heavenly regalement. For our sakes! Oh, the personality of this religion! Not an abstraction, not an arch under which we walk to behold elaborate masonry, not an ; ice castle ’like * that which the | Empress Elizabeth of Russia over i a hundred years ago ordered to be constructed, winter with its trowels of crystal cementing the huge blocks that had been quarried from the frozen rivers of the north, bnt our Father’s house, with the wide hearth crackling a hearty welcome. A religion of warmth, and inspiration, and light, and cheer; something we can take into our hearts, and homes, and business, and recreations, and joys, and sorrows. Not an unmanageable gift, like the galley presented to Ptolemy, which required 4,000 men to row, and the draught of water was so great that it could not come near the shore, bnt something you cut ran up any stream of annoyance, however shallow. Enrichment now, enrich- .: > ;r U';;;

ONLY A SCARE. Them Republican BlaS at u Intcrnatloatl Monetary Conference. ' Pursuant to their recent campaign of buncombe, hypocrisy and false pretense, the republicans are getting ready to give their international monetary agreement bluff a send-off at an early day. Plunger Wolcott, who represents the state of Colorado in the United Staten senate, has been chosen as master of ceremonies. He has his set of resolutions oiled and greased and will present them to the senate as soon as the holiday recess is over> It is said the resolutions represent the hard work of a committee of five senators friendly to silver, but not bolters, who were appointed some time ago for this special purpose by the republican senatorial caucus. While Wolcott has his international agreement resolutions on the silver question ready, as he says, he is not prepared to go into particulars or to outline how it is proposed to bring it about. All that the senator in charge of this international agreement hum buggery is willing to divulge is that the president of the United States is to be requested by congress to incite certain European powers to call a conference to see if they cannot arrive at some plan by which silver can be minted and circulated by the principal commercial nations as freely and unrestrictedly as gold is, and fixing the ratio between the two metals. The senator from Colorado knows, as do all his colleagues in both houses of congress, that this international agreement talk is the same old buncombe with which the republican leaders and their employing trusts and corporations have been beguiling the voters foe the past 20 years. It is nearly that long ago since the first of these international monetary conferences was held. Four othe«rs have been held since, and we are further away from a restoration of silver td its old-time stability and equality aa money os we were then. If a monetary conference is called by President McKinley there is no reasonable hope that it will effect any more substantial benefit for bimetallism than its predecessors did. All such a meeting can. do that may prove beneficial to the country will be the additional proof it will give the American people that the democratic party was right when it made its magnificent fight for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the . prevailing ratio, independent of the action of any other nation. This beneficial effect will be still further expanded when hundreds of thousands of republicans in the middle western and western states who were cajoled into staying with their party last fall with the old siren song of an international monetary agreement will have their eyes opened by the failure by Senator Wolcott’s international conference to achieve the emancipation of silver, and will as a consequence vote wi th the democrats in favor qf bimetallism at the next election.—Kansas City Times.

AN OBJECT LESSON, The “Advance Agent at Prosperity’* Falls . to Work. Apropos of one thing1 and another, as they come under its observation, the Brooklyn Citizen remarks editorially: “Information given yesterday of the reduction of wages in shoe shops of Lynn, Mass., and vicinity, and me closing up of some temporarily, illustrates the value, or perhaps the want of value of the pre-elec-tion praise of McKinley as ‘the advance agent of paosperity/ and the denunciation of Bryan as the advance agent of commercial and Industrial ruin." " This constitutes an object lesson in the value of campaign promises, sevi eral of which the republican party will have a high old time redeeming during the next four years. It was a tine thing to be in a position three years ago or more, to charge the democratic party w ith being to blame for the hard tames. It is not so fine a thing, however, to be unable to shift the blame for promises unredeemed. The “advance agent of prosperity’* billed his show all right, but t*be attraction is not filling its dates. There's something wrong, evidently, and the people are naturally beginning to wonder if they really voted for something on November 3, or if it was all a dream. The mills of the gods grind slowly,but they are the personification of hustle in comparison with the mills that republican victory was to throw open. —Binghamton (X. Y.) Leader.

Frc* List Products. Hurtful monopoly is usually gained in one of two ways: Hither by government favor in the form of legislative advantages, or by railroad discrimination in the form of special rates or rebates. Usually both advantages are enjoyed. If the states visited severe penalties upon railrqpda guilty of discriminations upon corporations and individuals entering into combinations to regulate production or prices, the trusts and monopolies would be badly crippled. The monopoly combinations could be almost weeded put of the states by the enforcement of the principles of common law. Let congress, in addition to making lawn to prevent the operation of trusts within the scope of federal authority, adopt the rule that every article handled by a trust or combination, shall be placed cm the five list and the corner stone of monopoly will bp knocked out.' If the republicans are^ sincere in their profession of a desire to smash the trusts, here is aa opening.—St, Louis Republic. -If the radical republican newspapers of the country have their own way the wishes of the extreme McKinley re publicans will be respected by the enactment of a new high protective tariff law. But already there are indication3 that the gentlemen at Washington who are to frame the next tariff bill are going to lucre much opposition from those whose business is already sufficiently protected and who dp not want to see it disturbed any more, even forsn

A PLEDGE REDEEMED. Bow BepwWlaoja Compote* Ffomlwm AM rolftUod. The most comfortable theory we hare yet seen advanced k that which has its origin with the Carnegie Steel company. That company has issued a notice to the effect that it will continue to pay the same scale of wages during 189? that it has paid during 1896. The comfortable theory that- goes along with this notice is the announcement that the refusal of the company to raise wages is, in itself, a virtual increase of the wages of 6,000 men on. account of the reduction in the price of products. This reminds us of the agricultural genius who tied green spectacles on his mule and in that way induced him to eat shavings. The idea was original and unconventional, and we have heard nothing to equal it until the publication of the Carnegie announcement that a refusal to increase wages is, in fact,when regarded rightly, a virtual increase. It is to be hoped that the men will take the theory as kindly as the spec- ; tacled mule is said tq have done, for it would be sad indeed if there should be any doubt or dubiousness in regard tS the theory which the Carnegie company presented to its workmen as a Christmas gift. Discontent at this time would be a poor return to make for the great victory that has been won for “Spund money” and protection—a poor Return for the great wave of prosperity that is said to be preparing to flood the country, having already begun its work, if the New York newspapers are to be believed, the day after Mr. McKinley^ j electioor* Consequently, we would advise the j Carnegie men not to examine too-closely j the theory that' has been thrust upon their attention, but to take it seriously, and go about their business feeling that they are richer and better off than they were before they discovered that a decision not to reduce wages is, in effect, an increase. It may now be claimed, and with excellent reason, that a reduction M wages »is no reduction at all, but merely a substantial evidence that although a reduction has been rnude. the wages remain precisely the same. We trust it will be long before this logical deduction from the Carnegie theory is put intoact uql operation.—Atlanta Coo stitution.

THE POOR TO SUFFER. McKtaley Taxation Exempts the Capitalist. In none of the republican schemes for increasing the revenues is there a suggestion of restoring any of the repealed taxes on wealth. New and higher taxes on clothing, food and shelter, but no taxes on luxuries, on accumulated wealth or active capital! This is the McKinieyite programme, lt'x&^jjroposed to restore the barbarous an^ cruel tax on wool, to increase the taxes on woolens, to raise the rates on crockery and glass, to reiihpose I dutigsim lumber, eggs, potatoes, onions, i cabbage and hhy, but to continue the • exemption of wealth in every form. In 1866 the internal taxes collected on manufactures, aside from whisky, beer and tobacco, aggregated $122,000,000. They were all repealed. Other taxes collected from wealth in that year were: From incomes, $61,071,932; from banks, railroad companies, etc., $13,279,1^2; licenses, $13.033,097; gross receipts—from 2% to 3 per cent.—of publisiiers, telegraph, express and insurance companies, steamboats, ferries, stage coaches, theaters, operas, circuses and museums. $10,092,707; legacies and successions, $1,170,978; stamps, $15,044,$73. All those, one after another, wery abolished at the instigation of wealth’s loblw. Therewereothersmall taxes,like those of salaries of public officials^ on passports, etc., the proceeds of vtnich bring the total of Internal taxes repealed immediately after the war up to $240,000,000. This exemption of wealth left the whole buTden of the cost of the government upon consumption—mainly of the common necessities of the people. And this is where the party bossed by Mark Hanna, with McKinley as its figurehead, deliberately proposes to leave the burden. ,If it shall do this, the history of 1890 will repeat itself in the elections of 1898.—N. Y. World. I -- i

PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS. --Mr. Hanna is still hot after the | “right sort” of senators.—Atlanta Constitution. j -The republicans have not jet explained how increasing taxation is go- j ing to reform the currency.—Kansas I City Timea. -It is so easy for a party to forget its platform that we are afraid the republicans will disre member that they made a few pledges to the people.— Atlanta Constitution. -—When a republican grows noisy in his talk about trusts, he can be quieted by the suggestion that all articles manufactured by trusts be put on the free list.—Louisville Post. -The report that Hanna has given orders for the adoption of certain measures by congress and has fixed the date of the extra session indicates that Hanna is laboring under the impression that hia syndicate bought the United States.—St. Louis Republic. -Senator Thurston, of Nebraska, has had such a career as a railroad lobbyist that no one could hare been much surprised when he recently suggested the abandonment by hia party of aR pretense of currency reform in order to win silver totes for protection.—Buffalo Courier. -Those gentlemen who used to fill the air with discordant bowls about the Wilson tariff bill will note that under its operations for the present fiscal yeas our imports were net only decreased, which is one good thing, but our exports will show an increase of approximately $50,000,000, Which is another.—

Sarsaparilla The beat—la fact the One True Blood Pur flee Hood’s Pills asajay - Mu ssd God. Man has done many and nmderfai things in life; be has gridirodW the earth with railroads; he has traversed the broad seas with his ships; be has pushed his race to the very out stations of the globe, but he could never have formed the plan for the redemption of his fellows, tit was because the world, by its own wisdom, knew not Clod, that God revealed Himself and His mighty plan in His Son.—Rev W. F. Smiley, Presbyterian, flolmesbnrg, Pa. Th« Jew*. An examination of Christianity is absolutely impossible without ap’ in* ▼estimation into Judaism, its language, liturgy, literature and laws. Jesus of Kasareth was a Jew, His apostles were Jews, the ethics taught by them were Jewish ethics. The maxima taught by Jesus were maxims taught by Jewish rabbis. The ideas taught by tl*e Jews in that time were the selfsame ideas tanght before the possibility of a universal Christianity ever arose.—Rabbi Voorsanger, Hebrew, San Francisco, Cal.

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