Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 28, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 November 1900 — Page 2

I K. MeC HTOOPS, Editor and Proprietor. ""1 INDIANA. PETERSBURG. — '-^ The queen regent of Spain, says th« Vienna correspondent of the London Express, has appealed to Emperor Francis Joseph to use his intlnence with Don Carlos to- slop the Car list rising. Miss Mira Hirschey, daughter of tht late millionaire lumberman, Benj. Hirschey, on the 8 th, purchased ground at Muscatine, la., for the site of a public hospital which she will •rect and donate to the city. An undated dispatch from Pretoria, says Gen. De Wet has been wounded in the leg in a fight with the troops of Gen. Knox at Rensburg Drift. According to native reports, the Boer commander narrowly escaped capture.

Four hundred and fifty men are being enlisted at the nav^l recruiting station in Chicago to be sent to the training ship Buffalo at Norfolk, Va. About December 1 the/ will leave for Barbadoes or Trinidad, where they will board the traidmg ships Lancaster and Hartford. The National Irrigation congress is to meet in Chicago, on the 21st, for a four days* session. Some of the most prominent men of the country hare been secured for addresses on irrigation and forestry, including a number of western United States senators and members of congress. Captain of the Port Young has asked the government to refuse any and all proposals looking to the removal of the wreck of the United States battleship Maine from the harbor of Havana by explosives. The work will probably be accomplished by the aid of a cofferdam. An exhibition of 150 photographs, taken by American women amateurs, was opened in St. Petersburg!*, on the Tth, and proved a revelation to the Russian photographers. The collection was loaned by Miss Johnstone, its owner. The photographs were first sent to Moscow from Paris. The government is making extensive arrangements for the Cuban exhibit in the forthcoming Pan-American exposition at Buffalo. Grounds have been secured there, on which will be erected typical Cuban colonial buildings, and $10,000 will be appropriated in. furtherance of the plans. The United States consul general, Samuel It. Gunnere, is understood to have made further strcng representations to the government bflieials of Morocco, urging the immediate payment of the American claims. It is also again reported in Tangier ihat an American cruiser is to be scut to enforce the demand. The gymnasium of Notre Dame university at South Bend, Ind., one of the largest and best equipped college gymnasiums in the world, was burned on the 9th. Loss, $20,000; fully insured. While the flames were doing their work of destruction the directors held5 a meeting, and decided to rebuild immediately. The reformer, Szki-Nu (the leading tuan in the anti-dynastic party organized by Sun Yat Sen), who was sentenced to death in connection with the recent yamen explosion at Canton, was repeatedly tortured, in order to extort a confession from him, but he refused to make a statement in regard to the explosion. Gen. Sir Redvers Buller, on the Dunvegan Castle, from Cape Town, reached the quay at Southampton, on the- 8th. He was greeted by Lord Wolseley and his staff as well as by an immense assembly of townspeople. At night he attended the mayoral banquet, the first of a long series of functions “planned in his honor.

xne moan constitutional convention, on the 6th, adopted a resolution to send to President McKinley the following telegram: “The Cuban constitutional convention has the honor and satisfaction respectfully to salute the president and congress of the United 'States and to express sentiments of gratitude to the American people.” Surrendered burghers assert that Mr. Steyn, after a council of war with Gen. Botha and Gen. DeLary, addressed the burghers with great passion, urging them to continue the war. He told them that he was going south and hoped to return with 5,000 men. He assured them that he knew that Germany had delivered an ultimatum to Great Britain demanding the retrocession of the republics. The Cuban constitutional convention met in Havana on the 5th. Gov.Gen. Wood called the convention to order and in a short speech pointed out the powers and duties of the convention, and urged its members to a faithful and patriotic performance of their duties. The speech was enthusiastically received, and resolutions thanking the general and President McKinley for services rendered, were unanimously adopted. ▲ leading centrist organ of Berlin, says: “A tariff war could only be waged against the United States by the European states combined. If Germany alone were to make the attempt, her industries and commerce would have to foot the bill, while other nations would get the advantage. However unpleasant the admission, It nevertheless remains true that we are unable to undertake alone economic measures against a nation of 76,000,000 and enormous resources.”

The Military Governor Will Personally Direct the Forthcoming Campaign. PUD HAS APPROVAL OF THE PRESIDEHT. He Hu Been Given General Inatrnetlona, llut the Detail*, of Secw •It}’, to be Lett to HU Judgment— The Campaign Will, Doabtleaa, Be a Sharp One.

New York, Nov. 11.—Maj.-Gen. Arthur, says u Washington special to the Herald, will personally direct the vigorous military operations to be directed against the Filipino insurgents. When the llalny Season Ead*. Gen. MacArthur has clearly indicated that as soon as the rainy season shall have ended he will take personal command of the troops. This action has received the emphatic approval of the president. Plans of the war department communicated to Geti. MacArthur for suppressing the rebellion contemplate the division of Luzon into districts, and the mobilization of sufficient troops in those districts to effectually shatter any insurgent forces that may be operating therein. Expects to Find Large Bodies. Gen. MacArthurJs apparently confident ’that he will find large bodies of insurgents, and is laying his plans to catch them between cross fires. The details of the operations must necessarily be left to him, but the authoritiesfhave clearly indicated that the rebellion must be crushed during the dry season. SuKKc"tlon la Army Circles. In army circles the suggestion is made that it might be advantageous offer a reward for the apprehension of Aguinaldo. Officers are convinced that his capture would have an important effect in bringing about an end to the insurrection. Aguinaldo would, if alive, be a burden upon the hands of the administration, and while the authorities do not wish his death, it is conceded that if he should i be killed during the forthcoming opj erations the situation in the islands will be materially simplified. A Washington special to the Times says: A Sharp Campaign. “A sharp ‘campaign, now about to begin, will show whether it will be necessary for the president and secretary of war to ask congress to increase the regular army. If, in the Philippines, Gen. MacArthur can stippress the rebellion before the volunteers come home and restore order in the archipelago, there will not be the need for a large increase. Before the congressional session is very far advanced the campaign should be far enough along to shed some light on this question. If an army of nearly 70,000 men, prosecuting the most vigorous. campaign, can not overcome the Filipinos, the administration will have a,strong ease when it asks congress for an increase in the army. It will ,be able to put the request on the ground of absolute necessity.” FUTURE OF THE FILIPINOS. £? The Only Condition on Which They Will Stop Fighting la a Orflslie Promise of Indepeudeuce. New York, Nov. 10.—In the course of a lengthy dispatch from Boston appearing in the Herald, Senor Sixto Lopez, the- former member of the Filipino commission to the United States, and close friend of Aguinaldo, is quoted as replying as follows, when asked what the future course of his people would be: “Under any conditions involving a withholding of independence, the Filipinos will continue to fight in defense.”

“What will induce the Filipinos to stop fighting?” he was asked. The Ohly Inducements. “First, the granting of independenee,” he replied; “second, a definite promise of independence; third, a declaration of policy by the administration placing the Philippines in a similar position to Cuba. Any one of these would result in an immediate cessation of hostilities, and everything, including foreign obligations, protection to lire and property, coaling stations, military and naval bases, could be arranged by friendly negotiations.” Refused to Dlseuss the Election. - Senor Lopez refused to discuss the result of the election. When asked jf he cared to say anything in reference to the suggestion that he might be in communication with Aguinaldo, he said: Mo Commontcntlon With Aarnlnaldo. “I am glad of the opportunity to state that while in this country I have not held any communication with Aguinaldo, and even refused to undertake to forward a friendly letter for an American citizen whose patroitism I would not question.” STANDARD OIL IS SOARING. Certificates Quoted at $700 Bid, an Advance of $45 la TwentyFour Hours. New York, Nov. 11.—Standard oil certificates were quoted at $700 bid, none offered, as against $655, Friday’s market, and until to-day the highest on record. The par value of the company’s outstanding stock is $97,500,000, and $700 per share indicates a market value of $682,500,000. During this year the company has paid $46.800,000 in dividends.

ALL OVER THE STATE. Events if Various Portion of Indiana Told by Wire. _ €*■»«■ of Towm. Washington, D. C.. Nov. #.—Hm population of certain incorporated places in Indiana having between 2,000 and 5,000 inhabitants in 1900, as announced at the census bureau, is as follows: Albany. 2.11$; Angola; 2.141; Attica. 3.006; Auburn. 3,396; Aurora. 3.6451 Bluftton. 4.479; Bronville, 2,849; Brookville. 2,(07; Ifutler, 2.6©; Cannelton. 2.188; Clarksville. 2.370; Clinton. 2.918; Columbia, 2.975; Covington, 2,213; Crown Point, 2.336; Decatur. 4.142; Delphi, 2.135; Dunkirk. 3,187; East Chic^o, 3,441; .Fairmount, 3,206; Franklin, 4.005; Gar* ret. 3.910; Gas City, 3,622; Greencastle, 3,661; Greenfield, 4.498; Huntlngburg, 2,527; Kendalville, 3,354; Lawrenceburg, 4,326; Lebanon. 4.465; Ligonler, 2.231; Linton, 3.071; Martinsville, 4.03S; Monticello. 2.107; Montpelier, 3,405; Nappanee. 2.208; Newcastle, 3.406; Noblesville, 4,792; North Manchester, 2,{S9S; l^orth Vernon. 2,823; Plymouth. 3,656; Portland, 4,798; Redkey, 2.206; Rensselaer. 2.255; Rochester, 3.341; Rockport. 2.882; Rockville, 2,045; Rushville. 4.541: Spencer, 2,026; Sullivan, 3,118; Tell City, 2,680; Tipton, 3.764; Union City, 2.716; Warsaw. 3,967; West Lafayette. 2.302; Whiting, 3,963; Winchester. 3,705.

Steals House and Lot. South Bend, Ind., Nov. 9.—Miss Catherine Loonie, a pretty Indiana girl who moves in the best soeiety and a graduate of Notre Dame convent at South- Bend, created a sensation in court in Binghamton, N. Y., "by pleading guilty to stealing a house and lot valued at $4,000. The theft was most peculiar and involved the daring forgery of a deed conveying the property ffom Miss Margaret Kennedy, of Binghamton, to Miss Loonie. The conveyance was duly registered and the crime not discovered until Miss Kennedy called at an insurance office to insure the property and found it already insured by Miss Loonie. who had realized a large sum by mortgaging it. Slckaeaa In Indiana. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 9.—Report* to the state board of health from health officers and physicians show that the following diseases increased in area of prevalence over September: Typhoid fever, tonsilitis, rheumatism, scarlet fever, diphtheria, croup, pneumonia. pleuritis, influenza and \vhooping cough. .The diseases which decreased in area of population were: Diarrhea, dysentery, cholera infantum, inflammation of the bowels, cholera morbus and cerebro-spinal meningitis. Fatally Burned. Whiting, Ind., Nov. 9.—William Gillson and wife were badly burned by the explosion of a gasoline stove. Gillson keeps a restaurant and boarding house. The stove was overturned as Mrs. Gillson was getting supper, and exploded. The couple were alone in the house at the time, and their screams were heart! in the adjoining business houses. Gillson was almost burned to a crisp. Mrs. Gillson’s burns are also serious. There is little hope of her recovery. Called to Notre Dame. South Bend, Ind., Nov. 9.—Verj Rev. Peter J. Franeiseus, for several years superior .of Holy Cross college, affiliated with the Catholic University of America in Washington, has received his commission as procurator general of the Order of the Holy Cross, with headquarters at Notre Dame. Rev. Father James Burns, of Indiana, has been appointed to succeed him in Washington. Three Victim*. Chariot tesville, Ind., Nov.- 9.—Mrs Lauretta Meek, wife of Postmaster R. M. Meek, who died at Philadelphia this county, was the third membeV of the family to die of typhoid fever in the past six weeks. The first was Irvin, 19 years old; next w-as Irva, 21 years old; then the mother, 50 years old. « Vote or Die. South Bend, Ind., Nov. 9.—Orlando H. Wheelock,' a retired business man and an ardent prohibitionist, who has long been suffering with heart disease. was warned not to try to vote, owing to his condition. He declared he would vote the prohibition ticket if it killed him. He died the next day, aged 66.

Killed In a Quarrel. Terre Haute. Ind., Nov, 9.—Anton Kataugh and Stanley Marshall were killed in a rival boarding' house quarrel at Ehnnandale, a mining town in this county. The two men were killed with mining picks which they had carried with them to the house where the tragedy occurred. > Costly Fire. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 9.—Fire in the plant of the H. T. Hearsey Vehicle company caused a loss of $150,000. The flames started from crossed electric light wires and were confined to the repair shop, but the smoke damage to stock in salesrooms is heavy. Insurance, $19,000. Barn Burned. Kokomo, Ind., Nov. 9.—The large farm barn of Cyrus Zahring, six miles northwest of here,. has been burned with total loss, including 1,000 bushels of grain, 100 tons of hay and agricultural implements. Loss, $2,500. An overturned lantern in the hay started the fire. Insured. A Rural Route. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 9.—Jtuml free delivery service has been ordered established November 15 at North Liberty, St. Joseph county, with W. S. Whittecar as carrier. Length of route, 26 miles; area covered, 34 square miles; population served, 828. New Post Office. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 9.—A port office has been established at Grass, Spencer county, with E. C. McCoy as postmaster.

CAPTIVITY OF JOB. Dr. Talmage Urges Us to Avoid Selfish Thoughts. Lctieu DrikW> (roa Him Wlo Prayed tar Hta Frteads While lM»rtaoae« »Sel(-Coaceatrattoa the Famlt at Tea Many. (Copyright. 1SOO, by Louis Klopsch, N. T.) Washington, Nov. 11. In this discourse Dr. Talmage wars on narrowness of view and urges a life helpful to others; text, Job 42-10: “And the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed tar his friends.” Comparatively few people read this last chapter of the Book of Job. The earlier chapters are so full of thrilling incident, of events so dramatically portrayed, of awful ailments and terrific disaster, of domestic infelicity, of staccato passage, of resounding address, of

omnipor?ncy proclaimed, oi mitrance* shotting Job to have been the greatest scientist of his day, an expert in mining and precious stones, astronomer and geographer and zoologist and electrician and poet, that moat reader* stop before they get to my text, which, strangely and mysteriously, announces that “the Lord- turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends." Now, will you please explain to me how Job’s prayer for his friends halted his catastrophes? Give me some good reason why Job, on his knees in behalf of the welfare of others, arrested the long procession of calamities. Mind you, it was not prayer for himself, for then the cessation of his troubles would have been only another instance of prayer answ ered. But the portfolio of his disaster was rolled up while he supplicated God in behalf of Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. I must confess to you that I had to read the text over and over again before I gotitsfull meaning: “And the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends.” , Mfell, if you will not explain it to me I will explain H to you. The healthiest, the most recuperative thing on earth to do is to stop thinking so much about ourselves and go to thinking about the welfare of others. Job had been studying his misfortunes, but the more he thought about his bankruptcy the poorer he seemed, the more he thought of his carbuncles 'the worse they hurt, the more he thought of his unfortunate marriage the more intolerable became the conjugal relation, the more he thought of his house blown down the more terrific seemed the cyclone. His misfortunes grew blacker and blacker. But there was to come a reversal of these sad conditions. One day he said to himself: “I have been dwelling too much upon my bodily ailments and my wife’s temper and my bereavements. It is time I began to think about others and do something for others, and I will start now by praying for my three friends.” Then Job dropped upon his knees, and as he did so the last shackle of his captivity of troubles snapped and fell off. Hear it, all ye ages of time and all ye ages of eternity, “the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends.” The fault with moat of us i* too much •elf-concentration—our health, our fortunes, our advancement, our social position, our achievements, our losses, onr defeats, our sufferings, our persecution, our life, our death, our immortality. Of course there is a lawful and righteous selfishness. In a world and in a time of such activities and rivalries •nd temptations we must look after our own interests and) our own destiny or we will go under. Do not wait for others to take care of you. Take care of yourself. But it will not hinder our preservation and prosperity if we enlarge the sphere of our wishes and prayers so as to take in others. The law in the natural world would do well for the moral and spiritual world. The centripetal force in nature would throw everything in toward the center and th^ centrifugal* force in nature would throw everything out from the center. But the centripetal and the eentrifugal work beautifully together. The one force that would throw everything toward the center is balanced by the force that would throw everything outward.

Our world, with its own interests, feels the pull of other worlds. No world, no nation, no community, no man, no woman, can afford to exist only for itself or himself or herself. The hour in which Job has that soliloquy about the enlargement of his prayer* so as to take in his friend*, and he put into execution his good resolution, was the hour when he felt a tonic, a sedative, a nervine, a cataplasm that helped to cure his body and revived his fortunes till they were a hundred per cent, better than ever before, for the record is “the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before,** and tended to make him a wonder of longevity, for he lived 140 year* after his troubles were gone. Oh, what a mighty medicament is the contemplation of and the effort for the welfare of others! “But,** says some one, “it is easy enough for Job to pray for his friends. Anybody can do that. There are those to whom we axw obliged for years of kindness. They stand so close to us in sympathy and reminiscence and anticipation that it is easy for us to pray for their welfare.** Well, I see you do not understand that these friends of Job were the most tantalising and exasperating friends a man ever had. Look at their behavior. When they heard of his bereavements and the accidents by whirlwind and lightning stroke they came in and sat down by him a whole week, seven days and seven nights, and the record is “none spake a word to him.** What a disreputable and wicked si- ! lence! Mind you, they professed to be i religious men, and they ought to have 1 been able to offer some religious son

solution. Instead of that they were dumb as tue sphinx which at that time stood in the African desert and stands there still. Why did they not say something about reunion in the Heavenly realms with his children who had been slain? Why did they not talk to him about the satisfactory explanations in the future world of things we do not understand in this world? Why did they not go to the apothecary and buy a poultice that would hare soothed the carbuncles, <W some quieting potion that would calm his nerves, or a few drops of febrifuge that would cool his headed frame? No! For seven days and seven nights they did nothing and said nothing for his relief. They must have almost bored him to death. After these three friends had completed their infamous silence of a week they began to lecture Job. First, Eliphaz the Tem&nite opens with a long story about a dream which he had in the night and irritates thesufferer with words that make things worse instead of better and sets him

m an amtuae o* aetense against tne lecturer. Then comes Bildad the Shuhite, who gives the invalid a round scolding and calls him garrulous and practically tells him that he deserved all that he got, and that it he had behaved himself aright he would not have lost his house or his children or his estate. He practically says: “Job, I will tell you what is the matter with you. You are bad; you are a hypocrite; you are now getting paid for your wickedness.” No wonder that there came from Job an outburst of indignation which calls out the other quondam friend, Zophar the Naamathite, who begins denouncing Job by calling him a liar, and keeps on the discourse until Job responds to all three of them in the sarcastic words: “No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.”' Oh. what friends Job had! Heaven deliver us from having one such friend, to say nothing of having three of them. It was for such friends that Job prayed, and was It a religious triumph for him to do so? Would you, the very best of you, be in very devout mood and capable of making intercession for people who had eome to you in a day of trouble and said: “Good for you. You ought to be chastised. You are being taken in hand by eternal justice. If you had behaved yourself aright you would not have been sick or persecuted or impoverished or made childless.” Oh, no, my friend, you would not have feltlike Job when he prayed for his friends, but more like Job when he cursed the day of his nativity! Notice that this flagellation by the three friends was premeditated. They did not merely happen in and come suddenly upon the trouble for which they could not offer a compound. The Bible says: “They had made an ap- , pointment together.” The interview was prearranged. They had agreed as to what they would say to the sick man. You can see that their remarks were not extemporaneous. .What they said was sublimely poetic. They rose in style into what in later times we would call the Homeric or Dantesque. But Job was not in need of poetry so much as a salve for his eruptive disorder. He was not dying fo» lack of a paragraph in blank verse. He was not so much in need of a didactic lecture about the justice of God as an assurance of the Divine mercy. Some pious rustic of the land of Uz not able to put three grammatical sentences together could have said something more consolatory. The meanness of the attack of these religious critics was augmented by the fact that they had the sufferer in their power. When we are well and we do not like what one is saying we can get up and go away. But Job was too ill to get up and go away. First he endured the seven days and seven nights of silence, and then he endured their arraignment of his motives and character, and after their cruel -campaign was ended by a sublime effort of soul, which this day uphold for imitation, he triumphed in prayer for his tantalizers. In all history there is nothing equal to it except the memorable imploration by Christ of His enemies. No wonder that after that prayer of Job was once uttered a thrilF of recovery shot through every nerve and vein of his tortured body and every passion of his great soul, and God answered it by

adding nearly a century and a half to his lifetime, and whitened the hills with flocks of sheep, and filled the air with the lowing of cattle, and wakened the silent nursery of his home with the swift feet and the laughing voices of childhood—seven sons and three daughters celebrated for their beauty, the daughters to refine the sons, the sons to defend the daughters. There is nothing that pays so well as prayer, and the more difficult the prayer to make the greater the reward for making it. Let us all make a similar attempt to pray for those who vex and misrepresent and tantalise us. You may be very popular in the city or neighborhood where yon live, but I warrant if you are in active life there are those who wish you the opposite of wishing yon well. Are you benevolent? They say it is on your part a matter of personal display. Are you eloquent or learned? They declare you are overrated and that what you say or write is of no importance. Do you try to make yourself effective in church or hospital or board of directors? They call you offioious. Are you well dressed? They say you are proud. Does a false report start in the community against your character? They believe it all and add another 6tory to the fabrication. Some of them pretend to be friends, but they have the cudgels all ready for you—Eliphaa the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, Zophar the Naamathite. Now, pray for them. “Oh,” you say, “I cannot do that.” I thought you eould not. But you will grow in grace

until you m do it as easily and as well as di Job pray lor bis exaa psrators. >u ought to pity them, lor defamers V d detractors aud the envious and j|. llous are not happy. They hurt then Ives more than they hurt you. Bett be the pursued than ths pursuer. 1 -tter be the infant Christ than Hewn the robber of the Bethlehem era... s. Yon want to be a better man. j ou want to be & better woman. T sn scale this height of triumphant j aver, and you will be ten times mon of a Christian than you ever have .*en. It will prolong your life, as it rolonged Job's life. You will leel a ;lorious reaction that will last Ihrou. . all time and all eternity. It will stei v your nerves. It will reduce your ileen. It will regulate the pulsation , your heart. 5. . Prayer h what some one has railed “the slendi nerve that moveth the muscles of > nnipotence.” Prayer is the healthful piration of the soul. It is the whispt af helplessness into the ear of help. I s laying hold of almightiness. Omni.- ience and omnipresence at » one and tl. same time. Prayer enlists

all Dmne ad angehc reenforeement. Prayer is ying hold of a pulley fastened to t Heavenly throne. Prayer is the firs, oreath of a newborn soul, and it is ard in the last gasp of earthly Ch .tian experiences. Prayer! In an ins it it mounts the highest heavens. .Neither seraph nor archangel ever ew swifter or higher than the infant petition at her mother's knee. Wh an opportunity is prayer! Why not ; . jener use it praying for ourselves? What better work would we do, w . t better lives would we live, what etter hopes would we entertain, if • multiplied and intensified our p: ; /ers! Some -or asked a soldier of Stonswall Jack; i the secret of the great general’s i. uence over his men. “Does your genei abuse you, swear at you, to make v* » march?” “Swear!” replied the ;s Idier. “No!" Ewell does the swear ». Stonewall does the praying. Tien Stonewall wants ua to march, b * Jooks at us soberly, just as if he v e sorry for us, and says: ‘Men, we ve got to makfe a long march.’ V'-. always know when there is going tc *e a long march and right smart figl ag, for Stonewall is powerful on *yer just before a big fight.” In all th ossing of this life lay hold of the ro , of prayer mentioned by John New.: n, who was converted on shipboard ■ om being a blasphemous sailor to 1 x>me a great preacher of righteousr t s, and who said: “When I first amus myself with going to sea, when the \» ads rose and the waves became roup I tumbled and tossed about like , porpoise in the water. At last I cau 1 t hold of a rope that was floating al i at. and then I was enabled to stand u ight. So when in prayer a multitude if troublous thoughts invade your i ace, or when the winds and waves of mptation arise, look out for the rop a-nd stay yourselves Qn the faithfulnet. of God keeping His promises,” My hear i, I will tell you the time when you n afford to cease praying. It will be i’ aen you have no sins to be pardoned, > sorrows to be comforted, no more f: nds or foes who need your intercessic . Queen Elizabeth said to Walter Ra ugh: “Raleigh, when will you atop l , rg'ing?” Raleigh replied: “When yoi majesty leaves off giving.” And your i me, my hearer, to stop prayer wil be when God has no more pardon an mercy and strength to bestow and tli® resources of the Infinite are exhau, ed. Havelock knew the value of prayer when he arose at four o’clock in he morning for his devotions. Tb soldiers of the Fourteenth Massachus ts regiment showed that they knev the joy of worship when they too|c t delegate of the Christian commisiso tef see what they called their “pr& ng place.” Now, if . od has during these remarks sh< n us the uses, the importance, Ae blessedness of prayer, suppose v try to do what Job did when he j ayed for his exasperators. Many of i at the beginning of this subject fe that, while we could pray for oursel s and pray for those who were kind .o us, we never could reach th© high j . int of religious experience in which '. o could pray for those who annoy ant make us feel worse instead of feeling better. That was a Matterhorn, thai was an Alp, to the top of which we eared we could never climb,

out we tn : ik that by-ttis omnipotent grace ve have reached that height at last. 1 :'t us pray! O Christ, who didst pray for thine assassins, we now pray for t ose who despitefully use us and say a manner of evil against us. For their ternal salvation we supplicate. Wh. a time is no more, may they reign on hrones and wear coronets and sway cepters of Heavenly dominion. Met .while take the bitterness from thei soul and make them soon think as % all of us as now they think evil. Spa their bodies from pain and their hoi. i eh olds from bereavement. After all le misunderstandings and oontrover <>a of this life are over, may we keep ith them eternal jubilee in the mans: as on the hill. And as Thou didst turr t he captivity of Job when he had pray I for those who hadly used him and ealth came to his body and prosperity to his estate, now that we ’ have by ' L\y grace been able to make suppliest in for our antagonists, cure our disea i-s if we are ill, and restore our eatat f it has scattered, and awaken glade ss in our homesteads, if they hav been bereft, and turn the captivity if our physical pain Or financial misf itune or mental distress. And Thii *! shall be the Kingdom and the pow« and the glory forever and over. Ai i n. he Tola the Troth. Miss’S igleton—I was surprised to hear of y ur marriage. You often said you won 5 n’t marry the best man on earth. Mrs. 17V ilerly—Well, I kept my word. I marrie about the worst.—Chicago Daily Ne