The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, November 30, 1893, Image 7

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    CHATEAUBRIAND’'S GRAVE.
The Great Frenchman Buried on the Lone«
Iy Rock Where He Was Born.
Chateaubriand, the famous French
author who, after dining with Wash-
is virtue in the look of a great man,”
buried at the actual spot where he
ever laid in a stranger resting place.
It is on a jutting point of rock in a
lonely, exposed position.
and mother of the Vicomte Chateau-
briand were on board a vesse: bound
for St. Malo. It was night when
they neared the coast, and a terrific
storm was raging. No boat could
venture to the assistance of the
crew, and the vessel was wrecked
upon a rock not far from the shore.
The mother of Chateaubriand passed
he was born. He afterward pur-
chased the rock and built upon it the
tomb in which he now lies,
It Worked Well,
A red.-nosed man, with shabby
clothes, stopped before the row of
seats under the big weeping willow
near the bridge in the public garden
the other afternoon, says the Boston
Journal. The seats were mostly oc-
cupied by women and children.
Bending down opposite a. bright-
looking little girl, the red-nosed man
sald smilingly:
“I wish 1 had a nickel for you,
little one. You would like a ride on
the swan boats, wouldn't you, dear?”
“Yes, sir,” replied the child, look-
ing up timidly.
“1 Knew you did, my child, and
I only had a nickel
it."
“La! hear that old bum talk,”
claimed a woman sitting near.
“If he an’t got a nickel why don't
he shut up and move on,” remarked
another woman,
The red-nosed man pretended not
to hear these remarks, and presently
addressed the little girl again:
“You remind me so much of one of
my own little ones at home. If 1
only bad a nickel you should have it,
ty pat.”
“Oh,
it
you should have
ex
you make me
‘laimed another woman
“Here's the nickel for
Now do shut up and get
The red-nosed man reached out his
hand and took the money with an in-
jured expression on his hard features.
“Madam,” he said reproachfully,
“the Lord loves a cheerful giver. Se
do L It would hardly be right to
bestow an uncheerful gift on this
innocent lamb; so with your permis.
sion I will use this nickel to moisten
my throat a little. But always give
cheerfully, mu'm. It hurts the feel-
ings of a sensitive man to receive an
uncheerful gift. I had almost rather
go dry.”
Then the red-nosed man passed
under the bridge. leaving behind him
a chorus of “Did you evers?” and
*Xo, I nevers!”
weary!" ex-
in disgust.
the child.
3 ”
oul.
Progress with His Reading.
The newspapers have been called
the wife's foe, because the hushand,
while reading the daily journal, must
not be disturbed by conversation. A
certain worthy clergyman found it
the rival to the Bible.
He had taught an old man in his
parish to read, and found him an apt
pupil. After his lessons were fin-
ished, he was pot able to call for
some time and when he did, only
found the wife at home.
“How John?” said he.
does he get on with his reading?
“Oh, nicely, sir.”
“Ah, 1 suppose he'll read his Bible
very comfortably now?”
“Bible, sir! He was out of
Bible and into the newspapers
ago.”
This transition from the solid and
essential to the idle and superficial
has many forms in the experiences
of modern life
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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
| THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN-
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “The “Ifs’ of the Bible.”
Texr id 1 4 Thon wilt Jorge thelr min
and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy
book, ‘Exodus xxxii., 82,
| There is in our English language an small
i conjunction which, I propose, by God's help,
to haul out of its present insignificancy and
set upon the throne where it belongs, and
that is the conjunation “i.” Though made
of only two letters, it is the pivot on whish
everything turns, All time and all eterpity
are at its disposal. We slur it in our utter.
ance, we ignore it in our appreciation, and
| none of us recognize it as the most tremen-
| dous word in all the voeabulary outside of
those words which describe deity,
“I!” Why, that word we take as a tramp
among words, now appearing here, BOW ap-
pearing there, but having no value of its
own, when it really has a millionairedom of
worlds, and in its train walk all planetary,
stellar, lunar, solar destinies, If the boat of
leaves made watertight, in which the infant
have led Israel out of Egypt? If the Red
Sea had not parted for the escape of one
host and then come together for the sub.
| mergence of another, would the book of
| Exodus ever have been written? If the ship
| on which Columbus sailed for America had
gone down in an Atlantie eyelone, how much
longer would it have taken for the discov-
. ery of this continent?
i If Grouchy had come up with reinforce-
{ ments in time to give the Freach the victory
| at Waterloo, what would have been the [late
! of Europe? IftheSpanish Armada had not
been wrecked off the coast, how different
would have been many chapters in English
history! If the battle of Hastings or the
battle of Pultowa, or the battle of Valmy, or
the baitle of Mataurus, or the battle Ar-
bela, or the battle of Chalons, each one of
which turned the world's destiny, had been
decided the other way!
If Shakespeare had never been born for
, or Handel had never been born
for musie, or Titian had never been born for
painting, or Toorwaldsen had never been
born for seaipture, or Edmund Burke had
never been born for slogquence, Boerates
had never been born for philosophy, or
Blackstone had never been born for the law,
or Copernicus bad nuever heen born for as-
tronomy. or Luther had never been born for
the reformation !
Oh, that conjunction “if!” How much has
depended on it! The height of ir, the depth
of it, the length of it, the breadth of it, the
immensity of it, the infinity of it-—-who can
measure? It would swamp anything but
omnipotence, But I must confine myself to-
lay to the “ifs” of the Bible, and in doing so
I shall speak of the “if” of overpowering
wmrnestness, the “if” of the *‘4t
of threat, the “if argumentation, the “if
f eternal significance, or 50 many
“ifs as 1 can compass in the time that may
be reasonably allotted to pulpit discourse,
First, the “if of overpowering sarnest-
ness, My text gives it, The Israelites have
been worshiping an idol, notwithstanding
sil that God had done for and now
Moses offers the most vehement prayer of all
history, and It turns an “i. if
Thou wilt forgive theirsins—aud if not, blot
me, 1 pray Thee, out of Thy book.”
what an overwheiming “if” It was
much as to say “If Thou wilt not pardon
do not pardon me, It Thou wilt not
bring them to the promised land, let
never see the promised land, If they must
perish, with them. In that
book wheres Thou recordest their doom re-
ord my doom. If they are shut out of
heaven, let me be shut out of heaven, If
they go down into darkness, let me go down
into darkness." What vehemence and holy
recklessness of prayer |
Yet there are those here who,
loubt, have, in their all alsorbin
bave others saved, risked the same prayer,
for it isa risk, You must not make it unless
von are willing to balance your eternal sal
vation on such an “if Yet there have been
ases where a mother has been? 80 anxious
for the recovery of a wayward son that her
prayer has swung and trembled and poised
a an “if” Hike that of the text ‘IT mot,
blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book, Write
his name in the Lamb's Book of Life, orturn
to the page where my name was written ten
or twenly or forty or sixty years ago, and
with the black ink of everlasting midoight
srase my first pame, and my last name, aod
ull my name. If he is to go into shipwreck,
let me be tossed amid thesame breakers, [f
he cannot be a partner in my bliss let me bea
partner in his woe, [ have for many years loved
Thee, O God, and it has been my expecia-
ion to sit with Christ and all the redeemed
t the banquet of the skies but I now give
my promised place at the feast, and my
promised robe, and my promised crown, and
my promised throne unless John, unless
George, Unless Henry, unless muy darling son
an share them with me.
heaven without him, © God,
or count me among the Jost I”
That is a terrific prayer, and yet there is a
young man sitting in the pew on the main
floor, or in the Jower gallery, or in thetop
gallery, who has already crushed such a
prayer from his mother's heart, He hardly
or, living at home, what
of
Or
ineredulity,
of these
them
upon
Oh.
nas
thom
them,
me
it me perish
have no
g desire tc
(ts
¥
save my boy,
that drops from the eaves on a dark night,
The fact that she doss not sleep beonuss of
She has tried coaxing and kindness and
self sacrifice and all the ordinary prayers that
mothers make for their children, and all have
failed,
venturesome and terrific prayer of my text,
She is going 20 lift her own sternily and set
it upon that one “if,” by which she expects
to decide whether you will go up with her or
she down with you. She may be this mo-
ment looking heavenw ard and saying ‘O Lord
of my text “if not,
blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book.’
After three years of absence a son wrote
bis mother in one of the New England
in a certain ship. Motheriike, she stood
watching, and the ship was in the offing, bul
n fearful storm struck it and dashed the ship
on the rocks that night, All that night the
| mother prayed for the salety of the son, and
i just st dawn there wasa knock at the cottage
{ door, and the son entered, crying out,
{ “Mother, I knew you would pray me home!
| 111 would ask all thoss in this assemblage
| who have been prayed home to God by plous
mothers to stand up, there would be scores
that would stand, and if I should ask them
| to give testimony it would be the testimony
from the split timbers of the whaling ship,
“My mother prayed me home!”
Another Bible “if” is the “it” of incredu-
lity. Satan used it when Christ's vitality
was depressad by forty days’ abstinence from
food, andthe tempter pointed to some stones,
in color and shape lke loaves of bread, and
sald, “If thou bw the Son of God, com-
mand that these stones be made bread.”
That was appropriate, for Ratan is the father
of that "if" of ineredulity. Poter used the
same “i” when, standing op the wet and
slip deck of a fishing smack off Lake
Galilee, he saw Christ walking on the sea as
though it were as solid ax a pavement of
t from the adjoin voleanie hills, and
Peter cried, “If it be , lot me come to
Thes on the water.”
What a sous “i!° What homan
foot was ever so constructed as to walk on
water? In what part of the earth did law of
gravitation make ex fon to the rule that a
man will sink to the ws when he touches
the wave of river or lake and will sink still
farther unless he oan swim? But here Pater
unl
y In
it bo Thou.” Alas, for that incredulous **1f 1"
It is working as powerfully in the latter part
of this nineteenth Christian century as it did
in the early part of the first Christian cen-
i
ough a small conjunction, it is the big-
gost blook to-day in the way of the gospel
chariot, “If!” “If We have theological
| seminaries which spend most of their time
| and employ their learning and their genius
{ in the manufacturing of “ifs.” With that
weaponry are assailed the Pentateuch, and
i the miracles, and the divinity of Jesus Christ,
| Almost everybody Is chewing on an ‘if.
{| When many a man hows for prayer, he puts
{ his knees on an “i1." The door through which
{ people pass into infidelity and athelsm and
all immoralities has two doorposts, and the
one is made of the letter i" and the other
| of the letter ‘L"
{ There are only four steps between strong
i faith and complete ep First, surrender
the idea of the verbal inspiration of the
Seriptures and adopt the idea that they were
all generally supervised by the Lord, Bec.
| ond, surrender the idea that they were all
| generally supervised by the Lord and adopt
the theory that they were not all, but partly,
suposrvised by the Lord. Third, believe that
and men wrote according to the wisdom of
the times in which they lived. Fourth, be-
lHeve that the Bible is a bad book and not
only unworthy of credence, but pernicious
and debasing and cruel,
Only four steps from the stout faith in
which the martyrs died to the blatant car-
feature of Christianity as the greatest sham
of the centuries, But the door to all that
precipitation and horror is made out of an
“i. ' The mother of unrests in the minds of
Christian people and to those who regard
sacre 1 things is the if” of incredulity, In
1870, in Scotland, | saw a letter which had
written many years ago by Thomas
i Carlyle to Thomas Chalmers, Carlyle at the
time of writing the letter was a young man.
{ The letter was not to he published until after
the death of Cariyie. His death having taken
place, the letter ought to be published.
It was a letter in which Thomas Cariyie
expresses the tortures of his own mind while
relaxing his faith in Christianity, while at
the same time expresses his admiration for
Dr. Chalmers, and in which Cariyle wishes
that be had the same faith that the great
Seoteh minister evidently exercised, Nothing
that Thomas Cariyvie ever wrote in *“‘SBartor
the “French Hevolution,” or
his “Lite of Cromwell,” or his immortal
“Fesays,” had in it more wondrous power
than that letter which bewalled his own
doubts and extolled the strong faith of
another,
I made an exact copy of that letter, with
the understanding that it should not be pub-
lished until after the death Thomas
Cariyle, but returning to my hotel in Edin
burgh 1 felt uneasy lest somehow that letter
should get out of my possession and be pub.
lished before its time, So I 100k it back to
the by whoss permission [ had
copied it. All reasons for its privacy having
vanished, 1 wish it might be published,
Perhaps this sormon, finding Hs way ini
a Scottish home, may suggest its printing,
for that letter shows more mightliy than any-
thing [have ever read the difference bet ween
the 1 know” of Paul, and the “I know" of
Job, and the “I know" of Thomas Chalmers,
and the “I know” ofall those who hold with
a firm grip the gospel, on the one hand, and
the unmooring. ng and torturing
“if ° of ineredulity on the other. 1 like the
witive Talth of that Captain
udkins of the steamship Scotia pi
jo aloft,” said Captain Jud
t for wreoks
far the rat-
been
Resartus.” or
of
person
best Gro
that satlor boy
sked up in
3 to his mate
Before the mate
shouted
ip
A wreok
dain Judkins, “Of
answer, Lifeboats
volunteered 10
lines he
“Where away’
rt how
were lowered, aud fo men
put across the angry sea for the wreek
fozen shipwrecked,
said
the §
hey came back witha d
and among them a boy of twelve years,
“Who are said Captain Judkins,
The answer was [I am a Bcoteh boy My
father and mother are dead, and | am on my
way to America “What have you here?’
said Captain Judkins as he opened the boy #
jacket and took hold of a rope around
boy's iy ‘It is a rope.” sald the boy
“But what is that tied by this r
ars That, sir, my
She told me never to
“Could you not have saved something
“Not and saved that “Ind v
fown? Tos but nest
my mother's Bible doy
said sptain Jadkios
you
vou
he
bs
wpe under
tblier's
that
elas
is
ry
ible HS
¥ iy expect to
wir. it 10 take
a cerinl
ist in
seredulity in
d it a comfortable re
inquestionad faith in it
1st it soothes and sus
believe
ons rated
like, J
it
“ojfe’
That boy dem
confidences that |
as you have few
réligion will yon %
ligion My full and v
fs founded on the fact ti
tains in time of trouble, I do not
that any man who ever lived had more bless.
ings and prosperity than I have received
from God and the world, But I have had
trouble enough to allow me opportunity for
finding out whether our religion is of any
use jn such exigency have had fourteen
great bereavements, to say nothing of lesser
bereavements, for | was the younger of a
inrge family. 1 Rave had as much persecn-
tion as comes to people. 1 have bad
all kinds of trial, except severe and pro-
longed sickness, and I would have been dead
long ago but for the consolatory power of
our religion.
Any religion will do in time of prosperity.
Paddhiem will do. Confucianism will do,
Theosophy will do. No religion at all will
do. But when the world gots after you and
defames your best deeds, when bankruptey
yo
fin
most
fold for the last sleep, the still hands over
the still heart of your old father, who has
been planning for your welfare all these
years, or you close the eyes of your mother,
who has lived in your life ever since before
| you wera horn, removing her spectacies bo
cause she will have clear vision in the home
to which she has gone, or you give the last
kiss to the child reclining amid the flowers
that pile the casket and looking as natural
and Hiolike as she aver did reclining in the
cradle, then the only religion worth anything
is the old fashion religion of the gospel of
Jesus Christ.
I would give more in such a erisis {or one
of the promises expressed in hall a verse of
the ole book than for a whole library con
taining all the productions of all the other
religions of sli the ages, The other religions
are a sort of corains to benumb snd deaden
the soul while bereavement asd misfortune
do their work, but our religion is
tion, fllumination, imparadisation.
mixture of sunlight and hallelujah.
it is a
Do not
ineradulity,
Another Bible “4” is tha “if" of eternal
significance, Solomon gives us that “it”
twien in one sentence when he says, “If thou
be wise, thou shalt bo wise for thyself, but if
thou secornest thou alone shalt bear §t.°
| Christ gives us that “i” when he says, “If
thou badst known in this thy day the things
| which belong untothy peace, but now they
| are hidden from thine eyes,” Paul gives us
| that “if” when he says, “If they shail enter
| into my rest,” All these “ifs” and a score
| more that | might recall put the whole re
| sponsibility of our salvation on ourselves,
Christ's willingness to pardon no “if” about
that. Realms of glory awaiting the rights
| sous no “if” about that,
The only “if” in all the ease worth a mo-
ment’s consideration is the “if” that attaches
ftesll to the question as to whether we will
ae , whether we will t, whether we
will believe, whether we will rise forever. Is
it not time that we take our sternal future
off that swivel? Is it not time that we ex-
tirpate that “41,” that miserable “if,” that
hazardous “U7” We would not allow this
uncertain “if” to stay long in anything clse
Let some one say in regasd
, *1 have reasons for _.
amine tha title. But I allowed for years of
my lifetime, and some of you have allowed
for years of your lifetime, an “41” to stand
tossing up and down questions of eternal
destiny, Oh, decide! Perhaps your arrival
| here to.day may decide. Btranger things
| than that have put to flight forever the “if”
of uneertainty.
A few Babbath nights ago in this church a
man passing at the foot of the pulpit said to
ime, “I um a miner from England,” and then
| he pushe | baek his coat sleeve and sald, “Do
| you see that sear on my arm?” 1 said, ‘Yes ;
{ vou must have had an awful wound there
{ some time” He sald : “Yes ; it noarly cost
ime my life, 1 was ina mine in England 600
| feet underground and three miles from the
i shaft of the mine, and a rock fell on me, and
my fellow laborer pried off the rock, and I
| was bleading to death, and he took n news-
| paper from around his luncheon and bound
i it around my wound and then helped me over
the three miles underground to the shaft,
| where I was lifted to the top, and when the
| newspaper was taken off my wound I read
on it something that saved my soul, and it
| was one of your sermons. Good night,” he
| said as he passed on, leaving me transfixed
with grateful emotion,
And who knows but the words I now speak,
| hlsssed of God, may reach some wounded
{ soul deep down in the black mine of sin, and
that these words may be blessed to the stanch-
| ing of the wound and the eternal life of the
soul? Settle this matter instantly, positively
i and forever. Riay the last “If.” Bury deep
the last "if." Howto do it? Fling body,
mind and soulin a prayer as earnest as that
of Moses in the text. Can you doubt the
earnestness of this prayer of the text? [It is
#0 heavy with emotion that it breaks down
iio the middle, It was so earnest that the
translators in the modern copies of the Bible
were obliged to put a mark, a straight line,
| ndash, for an omission that will never
filled up. Such an abrupt pause, such a sud-
| den snapping off of the sentence!
You cannot parse my text. It is an of-
feuse of grammatical constraction, But
that dash put in by the typesetters is mightily
suggestive, “If thou wilt forgive their sin
{then comes the dash) "and if not, blot
me, | pray Thee, out of Thy book, Some
of the most earnest pravers ever ultered
could not be parsed and were poor speci-
| mons of language. They halted, they broke
down, they passed into sobs or groans or
silences, God cares nothing for the syntax
of prayers, nothing the rhetoric ol
prayers, Ob, the worldless prayers! If they
were plied up, they would reach to the rain-
bow that arches the throne of Got, A deep
sigh may mean more than a whole Hturgy,
Out of the 118.000 words of the English
language there may not be a word enough
expressive for the soul,
The most effective prayers I have heard
have been prayers that broke down with
emotion the young man for the #! time
rising in a prayer meeting and saving, “Oh,
Lord Jesus I” and then sitting down, bury-
ing bis face in the handkerchief, the peni-
tent in the inquiry room kaeeling and say.
{ ing, "God help me,” and getting no farther
the broken prayer that started a great re.
vival in my church in Philadel
prayer may have in style the gra
an Addison, and the sublimity
and the eplgrammatic foree of
and wel a fallure, having a
power but no perpendicular p
gonial p reaching the ear of man, bu
y perpendicular power reaching the ear
{3 ¥
tows
for
br ho
Wer
yar
Between the first and the
my text there was a paroxyam of sarnestness
too mighty for words It will take half of
nll the answers of oar
and faithful prayer In his last journal
David Livingstone, in Africa, records the
prayer %o soon 10 be answered 19 Mare?
my birthday My Jesus my God, my lf
my sil, 1 again dedicate my '
Thee, Accept me, and grant, graciou
Father, that ere this vear is gone 1 may finish
my task. In Jesus’ name | ask it Atssey
Fhen the dusky servant jooked into |
ingstone’s tent and found him dead on his
koees, he saw that the prayer had been an-
sweradd, But notwithstanding the earnest
gess of the prayer of Moses in the text 3
was a defeated prayer and war pot an
swored, [think the two “ifs” in the prayer
defeated it, and one “if” is enough 10 defeat
any prayer, whatever other good character
istics it may have, “If Thou wilt forgive
their sins and if not, blot me, I pray Thee,
{ Thy book.” God did neither, As the
flowing verses show, He punished their
sing, but'l am sure did not blot out one
{ the name of Moses from the
ast sentences of
841
of oad
sternity to tell
¢
whole aelf
i)
} ent
hia!
Wok of
fer o
Life
There is only one Kin
you need to put the "if, :
prayer for temporal bhiessings Pray
riches, and they may eaguif us ; or for fame,
and it may bewiteh us ; or for worldly sue
cont, and it may destroy us, Better say, “If
it be best,” “If | can make proper use of it,
“If Thon seest I need it.” A wile praying for
the recovery her husband from iliness
stamped ber foot and sald with irighttul
emphasis © “I will not have him die. God
shall pot take him.” Her prayer was an-
swered, but in a few years alter the eommu-
nity was shocked by the fact that he had in a
moment of anger siain her,
A mother, praying for a son's recover {rom
fliness, told the Lord he had no right to take
him, and the boy recovered, but plunged in-
to all abominations and died a renegade,
Better in all such prayers and all prayers
pertaining to our temporal welfare to put an
“if.” saying, “It it be Thy will.” But in pray-
ing for spiritaal good and the salvation of
| our soul we need never insert an “iL.” Our
spiritual welfare is sure to be for the best,
| and away with the “ifs.”
Abraham's prayer for the rescue of Sodom
was a grand prayer in some respects, but
| there were six “ifs” in it, or “‘peradven-
tures,” which mean the same thing. ‘Per
adventure there may be fifty righteous in the
| eity, peradventurs forty-five, peradventure
| forty, peradventare thirty, radventure
| twenty, peradventure ten.” Those six per-
adventures, those six “ifs” killed the prayer,
| and Sodom went down and went under,
| Nearly all the prayers that were answered
had no “ifs” in them the prayer of Elijah
thet changed dry weather to wet weather,
the prayer that changed Hepekinh from a
{alok man to a well man, the prayer that
halted sun and moon without shaking the
' universe to pleces,
| Oh, rally your soul for a prayer with no
Fife” init | Say insubstance: ‘‘Lord, Thou
hast promised pardon, and I take it. Here
are my wounds: heal them, Here is my
| blindness ;: irradiste it. Here are my chains
{ of bondage ; by the gospel hammer sirike
1 am fleeing tothe City of Refuge,
Thanks
i of
prayer in which
and that is the
for
ot
{ them off,
| and I am sure this is the right way.
be to God, I am free!’
i Once, by the law, my hopes were slain,
i Bat mow, in Christ, 1 live again.
With the Moshi: earnestness of my text
{and without its Mosaic “ifs.” lot us ery out
{for God. Aye, if worde fall us, Jot us take
{the suggestion of that printer's dash ofthe
text, and with a wordless silence implore
| pardon and comfort and life and heaves.
{ Yor this assemblage, all of whom I shall
i mest in the last judgment, I dare not offer
the prayer of ny text, and so 1 change it and
say, “Lord God, forgive our sine and write
our names in the book of Thy loving remem.
brance, from which they shall never be blot.
ted out.”
i III 55
Most Peraicious of Winds,
The most pernicious winds are the
samiecls or hot winds of Egypt. They
come from the deserts to the south-
west, and bring with them infinite
quantities of fine dust, which pene-
trates even the minutest crevice, The
thermometer often rises to 120 during
their continuance, and thousands ol
human beings have been known to
parish from suffocation in the fiery
blast. It was one of those samiels that
destroyed the army of Bennacherib.
isin og iby fl
w oroe in another,
of Cail vate Waa utterly DAT
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My acquaintance with Boschee's
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teen years ago. I contracted a cold
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Gold in South Africa.
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Republie, in South Africa, yielded
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SWAMP-ROOT
CURED ME.
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rel 8
Gravel or Stone
IN THE BLADDER
nghamton,. X.Y.
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doctor in town; continued 10 suffer apd
until | was a physical wreck,
be most learned physic.
pronounced my case
GRAVEL or STONE
in the Bladder, and said
that 1 won ver be any
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