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REV. DR. TALMAGE
The Eminent New York Divine's Sun-
day Sermon.
Subject: “Shamgar's Oxgoad.'®
Text: “After him was Shamgar, which
slew of the Philistines 600 men with an ox-
goad." Judges iii., 31.
One day while Shamgar, the farmer, was
plowing with a yoke of oxen, his command
of whoa haw gee was changed to 1
of battle, Philistines, always ready to m
treuble, march up with sword and spe
Shamgar, the plowman, had
would not probably have known |
wield it if he had possessed one.
he must go down under the
Philistines, He had an
used to urge on the lazy
pbout eight feet long,
one end to
iron chise
wl
plowshare,
f the
tha
no swo
puncture
end
ther it +
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boy and
one of t a may bes
start influences that
the other a Florence Nigh
fllumine battlefields covered with
and the d-ad,
That was a tough
land where a voung lady
Babbath-school class, was
intendent she would ha
of the street. The worst of the ol
from the street was one Bob. He was fitted
out with respectable clothing by the
tendent. But after two
disappeared, He was found with his clothes
in tatters, for he had been flighting,
ond time Bob was well clad for school.
coming once or twice he again disappeared,
and was found in rags, consequent upon
a girs
ease ir
ve
superin-
The s60-
was provided him.
be was converted, and joined the chareh, and
lating the Beriptures,
ealied Bob?
rison, great on earth and greater in heaven.
Who is teacher was I know not, but she used
the opportunity opened and great has been
her reward. You:
Armstrong gun: you may not be able to hurl
a Hotchkiss shell: you may not be able to
shoulder a glittering musket:
thing you ean lay vour hands on.
blacksmith’'s hammer or a
stick or a mason’s trowel
plane or a housewife’s broom or a
oxgoad,
simple means. Matthias Joyce, the vile man,
became a great apostle of righteousness, not
from hearing John Wesley preach, but from
seeing him kiss a little child on the pulpit
stairs,
Again, my subject springs upon us the
thought that in calculating the prospects of
religious attempt we must take omnipotence
and omniscience and omnipresence and all
the other attributes of God into the ealouls-
tion. Whom do you see on that plowed flald
of my text? One hearer sayr, “I see Sham-
gar.” Another hearer says, “I sea 600 Phil-
istines.” My hearer, you have missed the
chief personage on that battlefield of plowed
ground. 1 also see Bhamgar and 600 Phills-
tines; but, more than all and mightier than
all and more overwhelming than all, I see
God. Shamgar with his unaided arm, hows
ever muscular, and with that humble {nstru-
ment made for cultural pu s and
never constructed for combat, could not have
wrought such a victory. It was omnipo-
tence above and beneath and back of and
at the point of the oxgoad, Before that
battle was over the plowman realized this,
and all the 600 Philistines realized it, and all
who visited the battlefield afterward appro-
ciated it. I want in heaven to hear the
story, for it ean never be fully told on earth
~ perhaps some day may beset apart for the
renearsad, while all heaven listens—the story
of how blessed awkward and humble in-
strumentalities, Many an evangelist has
come into a town given up to worldliness,
The pastors say to the evangelist: “We are
glad you have come, but it is a hard field,
and we feel porry for you, The mem-
bers of our churches play progressive
euchre and go to (he theatre and bet
at the horse races, andl gavety and
fashion have taken possession of the
town. We have advertised your meetings,
but are not very hopeful. God bless you.”
or pulpit. He never gras
of the best universities. He never took one
lesson in elocution, and there are before kim
twenty trained orators,
giggle, Amid the general chill that pre-
Wg
opens bis Bible and takes for histext, “Lord,
that my eyes may be opened.” Opera glneses
in the gallery curiously serutinize
speaker. He tells in a plain way the story of
and the ral
gens
A classien! hearer wno took the first hon
at Yale and who is a prince of p
his spectacles becoming dim
moisture tive of Mrs, A
mother, who had ng up her
1 dan ors in Ir BR
1kar
with a
Suge
RONS
is her OVas and begins to weep
Highly edue
and plek to pieces and find fault bow
old-headed ennes, What fs that sound
y under the gallery? It is a and
obs are catching, and all along the wall and
the there y
at the o
s invited
1, they con
Hn
and in
ap dark al.eys saying t}
3 ss tha f
wi
saving deed, the ag-
rk overpowering the
their rl
ambitious statistics,
In the grand review of heaven,
regiments
when the
pass the Lord of Hosts, thers will
of nurses aad Babbath-
and tract distributots and
rkers, before whom as they
#thool teachers
unpretending w
will lift flashing coronet and bow
in recognition and reverence, The
f the Christian work for
nation and salvation will be done by
people of one talent and two talents, while
the ten talent people are up in the astronom-
feal observatories studying other worlds,
though they do little or nothing for the re.
or are up inthe
‘higher criticism’ trying
to find out that Moses did not write the
Pentateuch or to prove that
the whale was not iarge enough to swallow
the minister who declined the eall to Nine
vah and apologizing for the Almighty for
certain inexplicable things they have found
in the Scriptures. It will be found out at
the last that the Krupp guns have not done
so much to capture this world for God as the
oxgoads,
rarefied realms of
dacks, and my wealthy friend. who was a
going to the Adirondacks this season, and
you can take my equipment and I will send
it up to Paul Smith's.” Well, it was there
when I arrived in the Adirondacks, a splen-
did outfit, that cost many hundreds of dole
lars, a gorgeous tent, and such elaborate
fishing apparatus; such guns of all styles of
exquisite make and reels and pouches and
bait and torches and lunch baskets and
many more things that I could not
even guess the use of. And my
friend of the big soul had even writ.
ten on and engaged men who should ae
Sampany me into the forest and carry home”
the deer and the trout, If the mountains
could have seen and understood it at the
time thers would have been panie among
the antlers and the fins through all the
“John Brown's Tract.” Well, I am no
hunter, and not a roebuck or & game fish
did I injure, But there were hunters there
that season who had nothing but a plain
gun and a rug to sleep on and a coll of fish.
ing line and a box of ammunition and bait,
who came in ever and anon with as many of
the captives of forest and stream ast ay
and two or three attendants could
carry. Now, I fear that many Chris
tian workers who have most slabo.
rate educational and theologionl and profes
sional equipment, and most wonderful wea-
ponry, sufficient, you would think, to cap-
ture a whole community or a whole Nation
for God, will In the last day have but little
exoopt their fine tackling to show, while
some who had no advantage oxoept that
whieh they got in prayer and consecration
will, by the souls they have brought to the
shore of eternal safety, ve that they have
been gloriously successful aa fishers of men,
and in taking many who, like the hart, wore
panting after the water brooks,
+ What made the Amalekites run before
Gideon's nemy? Each one of the army knew
how much racket the breaking of one piteher
would make. Bo 300 men that night took
800 pitchers and a lamp inside the pitcher
and ata given signal the lamps were lifted
and the pitehers were violently dashed
down. The flesh of Heght and the racket of
the 800 demolished pitchers sent the enemy
into wild flight, Not much of a weapon,
would #ay, is a broken piwher, but
Lord made that awful erash
the means of triumph for His
Aud there i8 yet to be a battle
with the pitchers, The night of
world’s dissipation may get darker and
darker, but after awhile, in what wateh of
the night I know not, all the ale pitchers,
crockery
people,
will be
inebri
a of the earth
onverted
and the whisky pitehs
demolition
Christian reform
infernal o
of pauperism i
quarrel and or
will fly the eart)
weapon you can
David echo
went at Golia
him? Brought
other boy
and
kitish host
sination
first
did
ha
int
nee a sling.
m, but the
16 helmet was of
with the
And the
ting on Saul’'s arm
k Eiah, the b
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COLD DUST IN
I" hila-
delphia Institation,
with ®n
u turned it over t
DO AWAY WITH TYPEWRITERS.
Louisville Men Take Dispatches From the
Wire on a Linotype.
A unique and sucoesaful experiment
BY... hen the
i the wire
perator,
pewriter into the Jslegea)
Kr ¢ faci
teiogrn
Ld
news was taken fr
mad
of the ty
esetting
Lion
means of
if the
fo
fating the transmission
newspapers of |
nected with the
VURISVIIIe ox
Evening Post and the Asso-
with a view to doing away with the type
writer and substituting the linotype
chine, thus setting the pews for the paper
directly from the wire.
On a recent morning one of the Associated
the Evening Post
composing room, and B. G. Boyle, managing
editor of the Post, and Richard Cogan, chief
operator of the Associated Press, who are
both telegraph and linotype operators, suc.
conded in receiving dispatches and putting
them in type directly from the wire,
The experiment made proves that the tele.
graph can be worked successfully with the
typesetting machine and a maximum rate of
In
an hour's work an average speed of thirty
words a minutes was malntained,
STRANCE FISHES IN A CAVE,
OQuarrymen Discover an Interesting Sub.
terranean Cavern,
Starruca, Penn. a little village on the Erie
Rallway, between Deposit and Susquehanna,
is interested in the discovery made of a
subterranean cavern. Some yuarrymen, in
removing a layer of flagstones, found the
cavern, through which ran a stream of water
of greenish hue containing speckled green
fishes. The fishes are without eyes and
propel themselves by their tail, oy in.
variably swim backward and have a motion
not unlike that of a fresh-water orab, Several
have been sent to the Pennsylvania Pish
Commissioners as curiosities. The quarry
waa located in a bed of limestone rock in an
unfrequented place,
When the layer had been removed it was
further observed that the internal walls of
the cavern were lined with translucent
stalactites and stalagmites imperfectly
formed. People there are discussing tho
possibility of its being another “mammoth”
CAVE,
THE CATCH OF CAVIAR.
The World's Record Beaten at the Put-In-
Bay Hatchery.
A report from Put-In Bay, Ohio, says that
the hatch at the fish hatohery at that place
beats the world's record in the number of
ogee taken in one season at one station, Dur
ing the season, which has just ended, there
have been taken at this station 115,000,00¢
whitefish egg, 11,000,000 ciscos or Inke her
ring, 404,000,000 pike perch, besides Inke
trout, grass pike, yellow perch and othe:
varieties. Besides the eggs and fry shipped
away, 8,400,000 whitefish, 11,000,000 ot
and $00,000,000 pike perch fry have been
turned into the waters of Lake Erie, With
fish eggs so plentiful, there should be fie
scarcity of Russian caviar this season
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OUR DIPLOMATS IN JAPAM,
They Idve Much Better than Those
in Europe—8Balaries Good,
Japan is now considered quite as de-
sirable a country by our diplomatic
agents as Eugland or the continent,
The salaries of the consuls are high,
and oar diplomats live much better in
Nearly
than those appointed to the Lig cities
of Europe. The Consul General at
Yokohama is one of the ablest men
His
and he
is Nicholas W,.
Iowa man of
name
nn
capacity,
Mclvor, is
(yeneral is Mr.
H. Betdmore,
ween for years connected with
and
George
who has
gerviee has considerable
atic ability. At Osaka and Hio
great commercial centers
Western Japan, the
who
wented by Enoch.
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ett el So
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55 RA
OF ILION.
JEFFERSON MM, CLOUGH REFUSES A
TEMPTING OFFER FRON THE
CHINESE GOVERNMENT,
A Great Sufferer
for Many Years But Has Now
Hecovered,
(From the Springfleld, Mass., Union.)
tion to Business,
There ien't a gun manufacturer in
United Btates who does not know Jefe
M. Clough, and why?
mn
Docause he has been
velopment of the two best American rifles,
the Remington and Winchester,
& Bona’ great factory at Ilion, N. Y.
leaving there he refused » tempting offer of
the Chinese Government to go to China to
superintend thelr government factories, -
the Winchester-Arms Co,, at New Haven, a*
a salary of 87.500 a vege.
It was after this long term of active labor
as a business man that he found himself in-
capacitated for further service by the em.
bargo which rheumatism bad laid upon him
and resigned his position mo.e than two
years ago, and returned to Belchertown,
Mase, where he now lHves and owns the
Phelps farm, a retired spot where he has five
hunared acres of land,
Being a man of means he did not spare the
cost and was treated by leauin physicians
and by baths at celebrated springs without
receiving any benefit worth notice. During
the summer of 1803 and the winter of 1804
Mr. Clough was confined to his house in
Belchertown, being unable to rise from hie
bed without assistance, and suifering cone
tinually with acute pains and with no taste
or desire for food, nor was he abie to obtain
sufMetent sloep,
Early in the year 1804 Mr. Clough heard of
Dr. Willlams' Piok Pille for Pale People
He began taking these pills about the first of
March, 1884, and continued to do so until
the first part of Beptember following. The
firet effect noticed was a better appetite and
he began to note more ability to h P himself
off the bed and to be better generally. Last
August (1804) he was able to go alone to his
summer residence and farm of 168 acres on
Grenadier Island, the Thousand
Islands, in the river St wrence, where
from the highest land of his farm he com-
mands a view for 18 miles down the river,
and 60 of the Thousand Islands can be seen,
Instead of being confined to his bed Mr.
Clough is now and has been for some time
able to be about the farm to direct the
men emplo, there and he is thankful for
what Dr. Willlams' Pink Pills have done for
him,
Theso pills are manufactored by the Dr,
Williams® Medicine Company, Bohenectady,
N. Y., and are sold only in boxes bearing the
firm's trade mark and wrapper, at 50 cents a
box or six boxes for 82.50, and are never sold
in bulk. They may be had of all Araggiate
or direct by mail from Dr. Williams’
Cine Company.
Baking
Powder
HIB OWN DEATH WARRANT.
Gotham Judge
Napping.
How a Was Caaght
A prominent Ne tells
that
w Jersey lawyer
0 story local
PUSBORSCS Lore than
interest, It is a tru
4
olie man, about 40
ir
stituted himself
of one and in a sh
ingenious 1
cated an evil
frie
His Honor
hurriedly
There was a sputter and a s«
$1 TYP
aper
and
ink
and
signed his own death
1s or 5 iy 3 .
plunged in the
rawl
warrant
Judge Irving had
a word the lawyer
the ’
Without
i it
do nt and put
His compan.
1 the performance
be
took away
who had watel
with bated brea
feve his eyes. 1
went to a
could scarcely
hat night the
social gathering, which
Late in
the evening he found himself in a cor.
opportunity had come to serve his war.
rant
“Judge.” he began, “I was watching
n't for the life of me understand how
you could read them all. Do you real.
ly read them?”
“Why, certainly. It's a matter of
habit, you know. I have acquired it
by years of practice. 1 can at a glance
detect the really important sentence or
word.”
“Don’t you think that rather a dan
gerous practice? Mightn't you put
your name to something you ought not
to?
“Oh, my, no!”
“You don't think the dollar foe is an
incentive to a man to do the work a
little more hurriedly than he ought?
“1 can't answer for other men, but 1
am sure in my own case the money
makes no difference.”
“Well,” sald the lawyer, producing
the death warrant and folding it In
such a manner that the name of Judge
Irving only was visible, “is that your
signature?”
“It looks like It.”
“Examine it closely and tell me If It
is your handwriting.”
The judge put on his glasses, stared
at the paper an instant, and then de
clared it was his signature. The Inw.
yer then unfolded the paper and hand.
ed It to the judge. The latter read it
and turned crimson,
“When did you get that paper? he
“I gave it to you this morning and
you signed it. 1 told Lawyer Blank
you would sign it, and you did.”
After that the signing of papers In
Judge Irving's court was as long and
tedious a process as it had been rapid
and careless before. It was said of
him that he was much slower and more
painstaking than he need have been,
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He has tried ver eleven
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If the stomach is foul or billous it will
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