DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON
Sour Experiences.
“when Jesus, therefore, had received the
winegar.”—John 19: 80.
Tue brigands of Jerusalem had done
their work. It was almost sundown,
and Jesus was dying. Persons in cru-
cifixion often lingered on from day to
day — crying, begging, cursing; but
Christ had been exhausted by years of
maltreatment. Pillowless, poorly fed,
flogged—as bent over and tied to a low
post, His bare back was inflamed with
the scourges intersticed with pieces of
Jead and bone—and now for whole
hours, the weight of His body hung on
delicate tendons, and, according to cus-
tom, a violent stroke under the arm-
its had been given by the executioner.
De nauseated, feverish—
A WORLD OF AGONY
fscompressed in the two words: “I
shirst!” © skies of Judea, let a drop
of rain strike on His burning tongue!
© world, with rolling rivers, and spark-
ling lakes, and spraying fountains, give
Jesus something to drink! If there be
any pity in earth or heaven or hell, let
it now be demonstrated in behalf of
this royal sufferer, The wealthy wo-
man of Jerusalem used to have a fund
of money with which they provided
wine for those people who died in eruci-
pain; but Christ would not take it. He
the wine. But afterward they gotoa
and put it on a stick of hyssop, and
Christ.
You say the wine was an an-
deaden the pain. But
THE VINEGAR WAS AN INSULT.
f am disposed to adopt the theory of
the old English commentators, who be-
lieved that instead of its being an opiate
to soothe, it was vinegar to insult.
Malaga and Burgundy for grand dukes
and duchesses, and costly wines from
acids for a dying Christ,
vinegar,
predominate. Life is sunshine
bank of flowers,
clap approval
Health
Days re-
their family present.
Skies flamboyant.
see all
rubicund.
are not =o many sugars as acids. The
annoyances, and the vexations, and the
successes, There is
AGRAVEL IN ALMOST EVERY SHOE,
a worm iu Soloman’s staff, gnawing its
strength away; and there is a weak spot
in every ~arthly suppors that a man
leans on. King George of England for-
got all the deurs of his throne be.
cause, one day, in an interview, Beau
Brummel called him by his first name,
and
“George, ring the bell IV
don, honored all the world over for her
poetic genius, is so worried over the
or .
gran
bottle of prussic acid in her hand.
Goldsmith said that his life was a
a wretched being, and that all that
want and contempt could bring to it
had Leen brought, and cries out:
“What, then, is there formidable in a
jail? Correggio’s fine painting is
hung up for a tavern sign. Hogarth
cannot sell his
through a raflle
fle. Andrew Delsart makes
the great fresco
in a great many lives are the
SOURS GREATER THAN THE
“When Jesus therefore
the vinegar.”’ It is absurd to suppose
that a man who has always been well
can sympathize with those who
sick, or that one who has always been
honored ean appreciate the sorrow of
those who are despised, or that one who
has been born to a great fortune can
understand the distress and the straits
of those who are destitute,
that Christ Himself took the vinegar,
makes Him able to sympathize to-day
and for ever with all those whose cup
is filled with sharp acids of this life,
He took the vinegar!
In the first place, there was
THE SOURNESS OF BETRYAL.
The treachery of Judas hurt Christ's
feelings more than all the friendship
of His disciples did Him goed. You
have had many friends; but there was
one friend upon whom you put especial
stress, You feasted him. You loaned
hime money. You befriended him in
the dark passes of life, when he especi-
ally needed a friend, Afterward, he
turned upon you, and he took advantage
of your former intimacles, Xe wrote
ainst you. He talked against you.
He microscopized your faults. He
flung contempt at you when you ought
to have received nothing but gratitude,
At first, you could not sleep at nights,
Then you went about with a sense of
having been stung. That difficulty will
gever be healed, for though mutual
friends may arbitrate in the matter un-
til you shall shake hands, the old cordi-
ality will never come back. Now I
comanend to all such the sympathy of a
betrayed Christ, ‘Why, they sold Him
for less than our twenty dollars! They
all forsook Him and fled. They cut
Him to the quick. He drank that cup
to the dregs. He took the vinegar,
There is also the sourness of pain,
‘There are some of you who have not
seen a well day for many years, By
keeping out of draughts, and by care
fully studying dietetics, you continue
£o this time; but oh, the hes, and
the sideaches, and the backaches, and
the heartaches which have been your
Secompaniment all the way through!
You ve struggled under a heavy
mortgage of
SWEETS.
PHYSICAL DISABILITIES;
and instead of the piacidity that once
« gharacterized Jou, it is now only with
effort t you keep away from
tability and sharp retort. Difficul.
ties of respiration, of digestion, of loco-
: or, ke
the pathway, and wonder when the
end, My friends, the
brightest crowns in heaven will not be
given to those who, mn stirrups, dashed
to the cavalry charge, while the general
applauded and the sound of clashing
sabres rang through the land; but the
brightest crowns in heaven, 1 believe,
will be given to those who trudged on
amid chronic ailments which unnerved
their strength, yet all the time main-
taining their faith in God, It is com-
paratively easy to fight in a regiment of
a thousand men, charging up the par-
apets to the sound of martial music; but
it 18 not so easy to endure when no
one but the nurse and the doctor are the
witnesses of the Christian fortitude,
Besides that, you never had any pains
worse than Christ's, The sharpnesses
that stung through His brain, through
His hands, through His feet, through
His heart, were as greal as yours cer-
tainly, He was as sick and as weary.
Not a nerve or muscle or ligament es-
caped. All the pangs of all the nations
of all the ages compressed into one sour
cup, He took the vinegar!
There is also the
SOURNESS OF POVERTY,
Your income does not meet your out-
goings, and that always gives an honest
man anxiety, There is no sign of desti-
tution about you—pleasant appearance,
and a cheerful home for you; but Gad
only knows what a time you have had
to manage your private finances, Just
as the bills run up, the wages seein 0
run down,
lone who has not been paid for hard
work. The great Wilkie sold his cele-
brated piece, *‘The Blind Fiddler,”
| brought its thousands, The
| Gainsborough, vet that very sketch
hung for years in the shop-window,
| cause there was nol any purchaser.
{ Oliver Goldsmith sold his “Vie
Wakefield? for a few pounds, in order
| to keep the bailiff out of the door; and
| the vast majority of men in all occupa-
| tions and professions are not fully paid
| for their work.
ar
is a hard push; and when you sit down
with your wife, and talk over the ex-
penses, vou both rise up discouraged.
You abridge here and you abridge there,
and yon get things snug for smooth
salling,
to
vour pocketbook, or
failed, and you are thrown
Well, brother, you are
IN GLORIOUS COMPANY.
| Christ owned the hi in which
{ He stopped, or the colt on which He
| rode, or the boat in which He sailed,
He lived in a borrowed house; He
buried in a borrowed grave. Exposed
| to all kinds of weather, vet He had only
one suit of clothes. He breakfasted in
{ the morning, and no one coul wsibly
{ tell where He could get anytl
before night. He wo ve been
pronounced a financial failure, He had
to perform a miracle to get money to
pay a tax-bill, Not a dollar did Hq
own. Priva domesticity; priva-
tion of nutrit privation of a
{ comfortable which to sleep;
privation of all worldly resources! The
| kings of the earth had chased chalices
out of which
or you have lost
debtor has
abeam-end.
doctor's Lill pay,
some
not Hise
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couch on
to drink; but Christ had
{ nothing but a plain cup set before Him,
and it was very sharp, and it was very
sour. He took the vinegar,
THE SOURNESS OF BEREAVEMENT,
There were years that past long before
| your family circle was invaded by death,
but the moment the charmed circle was
broken everything seemed to dissolve.
in the wardrobe before you have again
to take it out. Great and rapid changes
in your family record. You got
house and rejoiced in it, but the charm
was gone as soon as the crape
hung on the door-bell. The one upoh
| whom you most depended was taken
away from you. A cold
lies on your heart to-day.
| children romped through the house, you
| put your hand over your aching head,
and said: Ob, if I could only have it
iH1** Oh, it is too still now. You
{Jost your patience when the tops, and
i strings, and the shells were left amid
| floor; but oh, you would be willing to
| have the trinkets scattered all over the
| floor again, if they were scattered by the
{ same hands, With what
A RUTHLESS PLOUGHSHARE
bereavement rips up the heart.
Jesus knows all about that, You can-
not tell him anything new in regard to
bereavement, He had only a few
friends, and when He lost one it brought
tears to His eyes, Lazarus had often
entertained Him at His house, Now
Lazarus is dead and buried, and Christ
breaks down with emotion, the convul-
sion of grief shuddering through all the
ages of bereavement, Christ knows
what it is to go through the house nriss-
ing a familiar inmate,
what it is to see an unoccupied place at
the table. Were there not four of them
Mary and Martha, and Christ and
Lazarus? Four of them. But where
is Lazarus? Lonely and afflicted Christ,
His great loving eyes filled with
tears, which drop from eye to cheek,
and from cheek to beard, and from
beard to robe, and from robe to floor,
Oh, ves, ves, He knows all about the
loneliness and the heartbreak, He took
the vinegar!
THE SOURNESS OF DEATH,
Then there is the sourness of the death-
hour, Whatever else we may escape,
that acid-sponge will be pressed to our
lips. I sometimes have a curiosity to
know how I will behave when 1 come
to die; whether 1 will be calm or excit-
ed; whether I will be filled with remin-
iscence or with anticipation. I cannot
say. But come to the point I must and
you must. In the six thousand years
that have passed, only two persons have
go into the eternal world without
cath, and I do not sfippose that God is
going to send a carriage for us, with
of flame, to draw us up the steeps
of heaven; bat I suppose we will have
to go r) preceding ONS,
An officer from the eo hqugrnk will
knock at the door of our hearts, and
serve on us the writ of ejectment, and
we will have to surrender, And we will
wake up after these autumnal and win
try and vernal and summery glories
have vanished from our vision; we will
wake up into a realm which has only
one season, and that the season of ever-
lasting love,
But you say: “I don’t
out from my present
stil
so chilly and so damp to go down the
stairs of that vault. 1 don’t want any-
thing drawn so tightly over my eyes. 1f
there were only some way of breaking
through the partition between worlds
without tearing this body all to sheds!
1 wonder if the sergeons and the doctors
cannot compound a mixture by which
this body and soul ean all the time be
kept together? Is there no escape from
this separation?’’ None; absolutely
none, So Ilook over this audience to-
day-—the vast majority of you seeming
in good health and spirits—and yet 1
realize that in a short time all of us will
be gone—gone from earth, and gone for
ever. A great many men tumble through
the gates of the future, as it were, and
we do not know where they have gone,
and they only add
GLOOM AND MYSTERY
to the passage; but Jesus Christ so
mightily stormed the gates of that fu-
ture world that they have never since
been closely shut. Christ knows what
it is to leave this world, of the beauty of
which He was more appreciative than
wo ever could be. He knows the ex-
quisiteness of the phosphoresoence of
the sea; He trod it. He knows the
glories of the midnight heavens, for
they were the spangled canopy of His
wilderness pillow.
| lillies; He twisted them into his sermon.
He knows about the fowls of the air;
they whirred their way through
discourse, He knows about the sorrows
of leaving this beautiful world.
taper was kindled in the darkness,
died physicianless, He died in
sweat, and dizziness and hemorrhage
and agony, that have put Him in
cold
SYMPATHY WITH ALL THE
h Christendom, and
sty
¢
Of
DYING.
He
all the
under
He gathers
| He goes through
gat up the
death pillows, and He puts t
{ His own neck and head.
i on His own tongue the
of many generations,
i soaked in the sorrows of all
have died in the beds, as well as
t or s
Il % Out
Hers ng
“Hh
em
in the sorrows of all those who
in icy or flery martyrdom,
heaven was pitving,
mocking, and hell
took the vinegar!
To all those in th
| life has been an acer
earth was
He
and
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could not swallow, a
their teeth on edge
preach the omnipotent {
Onrist. The sister of Hersel
| tronomer, help hi
He got all
used to spend
seed oO
the credit; sl
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brought the dis
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earthly trot
glorious
Mercy
friends, try
alone. Do not put your
under the Apennine % when the Almighty
Chri lift up all your
When you have a trouble of
you rush this way, and that ¥;
nder what this man will say
about it, and what tl an will
about it; and you try this preseriptic
and that prescription, and the other pre-
scription. O, why do you not go straight
to the heart o hirist, knowing that for
our own sinning and suffering He
took the vinegar!
There Was
ed on the seas for :
and been
water gave out Ne Crew wi
DYING OF THIRST,
After many days, they saw a sall against
| the sky. They signalled it. When the
vessel came nearer, the people on the
suffering ship cried to the captain of the
other vessel: Send us some water. We
are dying for the lack of water.”
the captain on the vessel that was ha
responded:
yoirare, You are in the mouth of the
Amazon, and there are scores of miles
i of fresh water all around about you, and
hundreds of feet deep.” And then
they dropped their buckets over the side
{ of the vessel and brought up the clear,
bright, fresh water, and put out the fire
of their thirst. So I hail you to«day,
i after a long and perilous voyage, thirst.
ing as you are for pardon, and thirsting
for comfort, and thirsting for eternal
| life; and I ask you what is the use of
your going in that death-struck state,
{ while all around you is the deep, clear,
| wide, sparkling flood of God's sympa-
thetic mercy. ©, dip your buckets, and
drink, and live forever. “Whosoever
{ will, let him come and take of the water
| of life freely.”
| Yet my utterance is almost choked at
| the thought that there are people here
{ who will refuse this Divine sympathy;
| and they will try to fight their own bat-
tle, and
DRINK THEIR OWN VINEGAR,
| and carry their own burdens; and their
| life, instead of being a trinmphal march
| from victory to wictory, will be hob-
| bling-on from defeat to defeat, unsil
| they make final surrender to retributive
| disaster. ©,
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Saviour’
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PINKERTON METHODS,
The Great Detective Talks of
Work and His Employes,
“We can train any young man and
make a good detective of him if he is
intelligent.” said Robert Pinkerton to
a St. Louls reporter. “We raise most
of our detectives, taking them in with
us when they are less than twenty
years old and training them. BSome-
times [ advertise for a book-keeper in
New York, and from the hundreds of
replies received, I select those that
please me best and ask their writers to
call. Then I question them and choose
the ones I want for my work, Ina
week or so I can tell if they will make
good detectives.’
*What nation produces the best de-
tectives?”
The Irish and American, and the
Irish-American I think is the best de-
tective, But I have men of all nation-
alities employed. I have to have them
because some of our cases involve
European trips and detective work in
Europe, If we are working a case
which leads us to Paris, we send a
Frenchman there, and so with any
other European country. We have to
employ men of various classes also, for
different kinds of work. We have to
send men on race-tracks to wateh for
pickpockets, and we have to send others
balls to protect the jeweiry of
guests,”
His
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were not so ¢ Again our
men must be en reliable, They
must never lie to We want
fond of liquor. When we
men we try to keep them as m
possibile out of temptation, |
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all engaged in the
We employ some,
we can help it. The
they can’t
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a ——
but never one if
fault is talkativeness ;
trusted with an 1
The Fortress of the Future.
The
adopted
the qi
as it
culiar and quite opposed to any msthetic
or artistic conception, A fortress is
henceforth composed of an immense
block of concrete of incredible thick-
ness, It will offer to the eye onlya
square, oval or lozenge shape, the out-
side being a mere block without pro-
jections of access, It is not yet settled
plan of fortresses
unknown
of
to the publ but
which can do no harm,
cannot reiaaiin Secivl—is
0,
Arise
vuiging
cannon shall move
ways in motion and escaping the en-
for the absence of trenches. At
angles of the block, moreover, if square,
or elsewhere it is round or oval, there
will be sheeted reducts, which will
cover the base of the block and make
i
Of course the interior of the block
will contain the equipments of a for-
tress. The entrance is underground,
on the side opposite that where the
enemy can appear. There will be air
openings in the interior, which is lit up
by electricity produced on the spot or
at a distance. The magazine of pro-
jectiies Is in a spot inaccessible to the
The stores of other ammuni-
men and women--all their heart-aches
~all their disappointments—all their
chagrins—and just take them right to
the feet of a sympathizing Jesus, He
took the vinegar. Nana Sahib, after he
bad lost his last battle in India, fell
back into the jungles so full of malaria
that no mortal can live there, He car-
ried with him also a ruby of great lustre
and of great value. He died in those
jungles; his body was never found, and
the ruby has never yet been discovered,
And I fear that to-day there are soa
who will fall back from this subject ir.-
to the sickening, killing jungles of their
sin, carrying
A GEM OF INFINITE VALUE
— JFicuiise soul—to be lost forever.
0 t that ruby might flash in the
eternal coronation! But no. There
are some, I fear, in this audience who
turn away from this offered mercy,
and comfort, and Divine sympathy;
notwithstanding that Christ, for all
who would v race, trudged
the long way, suffered the lacerat-
ing thongs, and received in his face the
ex of the filthy mob, and
for the guilty, and the discon and
the d of the race, took the
vinegar. May God Almighty break the
infatuation, and lead you out into the
and the good cheer, and
ant
tected, The hiding places for the men,
and, in short, everything that has to be
under shelter, are under ground, and so
placed as to be quite protected from the
besiegers. Electric wires, both for
messages and light, as also telephones,
beyond reach of the besiegers, protect
the fort against isolation—that is to
say, against abandonment and discour-
sfetent. The underground existence
of the garrison may not be very lively,
and it will be well to accustom as many
men as possible to it; but that garrison
will not exceed thirty or forty men per
fortress,
a ——
Good Mothers Mako Manly Sons.
There 1s good statesmanship, enlight-
ened patriotism displayed by men in
the lexal protection and elevation of
women, Physologists tell us that off.
spring takes mental and moral qualities
in a great measure from the mother,
physteal constitution from the father,
As a natural consequence the children
of ad slavish mother could never
compete in the race of life with those
whose mother was a cultivated, self.
woman, who felt that her
was recognized as one of dig
nity and importance,
Gan was introduced Into New
York in 8234,
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
BunpAY, JULY 20, 1384,
The Tabernacle,
LESSON TEXT.
(Rxod. 40 : 1.16. Memory verses, 1-8)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric or THE QUARTER:
Covenant Relations with Israel,
God's
GoLpEX TEXT YOR THE QUARTER:
Only be strong and very courageous, to
observe to do according to all the law,
which Moses my servant commanded thee:
turn not from it to the right hand or to
the left, that thou mayest have good suc
.
cess whither soever thou goest—Josh. 1:7.
cp——
Lesson Toric: Covenant Relations
Promoted by the Sanctuary.
{ 1. By its Erection, va. 1-5,
4 2 By its Sacredness, va, 9.1L
8 By iis Priesthood, va 12.16.
GOLDEN TEXT:
nacle of God 1s with men, and he will
dwell with them. Rev, 21 : 3.
lesson
Outiine:
Dany Home READINGS:
M.—Exod, 40 : 1-16, God's
tions for the tabernacle,
Exod. 48 17-28,
ng the tabernacle,
ire
Qirec-
£ nl iene
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ANALYSIS
5 ERECTION,
SSN
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I. The Tent
The tabs
in
HIE (<
The
The tent of meetis
with the
The clo
| The true
pitched
tabernac
Heb, ¢
IL The Laver :
Th
| TIL The Altar
Tha a f
Abrahas
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™ vey fd
Theappoimnt-
2X day.
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yond the ;
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II. BY ITS BACREDNKSS,
LI. A Holy Sanctuary:
Anoint the tabernac ¢
be holy (9).
I have prepared for th
Chron, 29 : 3)
| Holiness becometh thine ho
for evermore (Psa. 93 : 5
{ The tabernacle which i
! Holy of holies (Heb, 9 : 3).
Enter into the holy place by
of Jesus (Heb, 10 : 19).
IL A Holy Altar:
The altar shall be most holy (10).
Whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be
holy (Exod. 29:
| They shall not come nigh
altar (Num. 18: 3),
Vihether is greater, the gift,
altar? (Mat, 23: 19),
We have an altar, whereof they have
no right to eat (Heb, 13 : 10),
IHL A Holy Laver:
Thou shalt anoint
sanctify it (11)
Ye were washed, .... ve were sanctified
{1 Cor. 6:11),
He saved us, through the washing of
regeneration (Tit. 3 : 5),
Let us draw near,....having....our
body washed (Heb, 10 : 22).
They washed their robes
%
unto....the
or the
the laver,....and
. » «in the blood
of the Lamb (Rev. 7 : 14).
1. “Take the anointing oil, and anoint
the tabernacle.” The anointing-
oil: (1) Its composition; (2) Its uses;
(3) Its symbolism,
2, *“It shall be holy.”’ (1) Ceremonjal
holiness and its means; (2) Absoldte
holiness and its means,
3. *“The altar shall be most holy." (1)
The structure of the altar; (2) The
uses of the altar; (3) The sacredness
of the altar,
IL. BY ITS PREESTHOOD,
L Called:
Thou shait bring Aaron and his sons
(12).
Take Aaron and his sons with
(Lev, 8:3)
I have appointed thee a prophet unto
the nations (Jer, 1: 5).
He . a chosen vessel unto me (Acts
9:16).
No man taketh the honour unto himself
(Heb, 5 : 4).
iL Conecorated:
Thon shalt anoint him, and sanctify
him (13).
Thou. . . .shalt anoint them, and conse
orate them (Exod, 28 : 41),
Speak, . . . . that they profane not my holy
name (Lov, 22: 2),
Be ye clean, ye that bear the vessels of
the Lord (Isa, 52 : 11).
The bishop therefore must be without
reproach (1 Tim, 3: 2),
iil. Perpotaated:
Their auoin
him
shall be to them for
an everlasting pr od (15),
REIS OI
The covenant of an everlasting pr est.
hood (Num, 25 : 18),
Teaching them:. .. and Jo, I am with
you always (Matt, 25 : 20),
How shall they hear without a preacher?
(Rom, 10 : i4).
Appoint elders in every city (Tit. 1 : 5).
1. “Wash them with water”? Ceres
monial washing: (1) How perform-
ed; (2) By whom administered; (3)
By whom received; (4) For what
purposes; (5) With what syinbolisin,
2. ““The holy garments.” (1} What
they were; (2) By whom worn; (3)
For what purposes, —{1) Clothing
for the nriesthood ; (2) Symbolism
for the saints.
3. “Thus did Moses,"
mmstructions: (2)
dience,
(1 J Elaborate
Punectilious obe-
rs m— A A ————
LESSON BIBLE READING,
THE TABERNACLE,
After a divine
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pattern (Exod, 25:9
: Heb, 8 : 5).
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: 4, 5, 21- 29),
Workers divinely qualified (Exod. 31 :
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g-place (Exod. 2
wilh
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seven 1
fis would make
metals
twenty Ho
an ag-
of about
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imate of
tals employed weuld
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it three quarters of muon of
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| or near the camp at 8
The time ]
{ tual erection of
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Year,
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Was
second
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{ month’ 17). length of
tabernacle and its
appointments was, therefore, about six
y tha
Inonius,
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A Blackhead Cure.
Blackhead is generally supposed te
be a kind of skin worm, but this isa
false idea, The truth is simply this:
The skin, either from the lack of clean-
| liness or activity, or both, has failed to
! remove the waste materials from the
pores, and the blackhead is formed
from dirt adhering to the oily substance
of the gland, 1 was recently explain-
ing to a friend what blackheads were,
be having some on ns face, and be im-
mediately exclaimed, “My face is not
dirty.” “No,” I1said **of course not;
but do you use soap when you wash
your face?’ No, he did not. “And
do you rub your face hard and dry after
washing?'’ No, he did not; he thought
rubbing would make the face red, and
it was red enough now,
That is exactly why his face was red
and sore with pimples. It had not been
rubbed, for that process stimulates the
circulation of the blood in these parts,
which cause a healthy action of the
skin and removes the waste matter
from the glands,
What 1 have been trying to convey is
just so sure as you use plenty ‘of good
soap and water and then rub your face
hard until it is perfectly dry and
smooth, once a day-—but the oftener
the sooner will the good results show
just so sure will you make great im-
provement in your complexion. Only
rub a little carefully until you have
toughened the skin and you will soon
be surprised to find what an amount of
rubbing it will bear. Hard rubbing
will make the skin as fine as silk, and
to the touch it will feel like satin,
Frugal Even in Pleasure.
The story of the Cape Cod youlh who
spent a week in finding 10 cents on the
street in Boston has brought the List.
ener another story of a Cape Cod boy
who must have been a relative of that
one, He lappenc to be visiting in
Boston a while ago on the Fourth
of July, and went out on the Common
to see the sights, He returned in an
hour or two looking rather rueful,
“What's the matter, Silas?” he was
asked.
siosh all hemlocks!” he exclaimed;
“this is the most extravagant place 1
over soe,’
“What has happened?”
“Wal, you kaw, thu QUARIAL of a
dol: you give me morning
“Yes fens
“Spent | , all but 23
Spat it, bf hokey ut 23 cents,