REY. DR TALMAGE The Eminent ~ Washington Divine’ Sunday Sermon. gy Subject: “Wings of Seraphim.” covorel his Text: “With twain he face, and with twain he eoversd his feet, und with twain he did fly. "—Tsaiah vi, 4 had died, and the whole land was shadowed with solemnity, and the vlogleal and ro. hetie Isaiah was thinking about religious ings. as one 1s apt to do in time of great aational bereavement, nnd forgetting up his family, he has a dream not Hko dreams of ordinary character, which geu- erally come from indigestion, but a vision most instructive, and under the touch of the hand of the Almighty. The place, the au grand, awful majestia, Within th a throne higher and graonder than eupied by any czar or sultan or Oa that throne, the eternal Christ, surrounding that throne, the brightest tials, not the cherubim, but hig Fhe rthan th the most ox juisite and radiant of t! enly inhabitants -the s rashim, | y ealled burners because they look Hka fire lips of fire, eyes of fire, feet of fire, In ad- dition to the features nod the limbs, which suggest a human bei thera are pioio which suggest the tithe most buovant and the unintelligent creation had six wings, each two of different purpose, lsaial and flashes with these pinions, now now spread, now beaten in locom “With twain ho coverad his , with twain he eavered his face, and with twain he did iy.” The probability not all used a: there near the throoe, fasiyniflennce of the trodden as tompared with the pa by the feet of God, and with the enoss of his locomaotic inting almost to de ‘lent temple at templo emperor. In lines Jr HL is that theses wings were The seraph standing overwhelmed at the paths his feet had erepi- ne ve with fer modes the feet, feat.” Standing matching a de lor and wi sufferable gl aonntepan face.” Then to tho farthest message of light back before the the seraph a upon the a alr, You nnd me, gz his wings tiny aagels of Go He charges ther 3 far beneath God and we so far seraph in service we ht to be ph humility, utter and complete. Our feet, ho laggard they have been in the vice! Oar feet, how many missteps they have taken! Our feet, in bow 3 of worldlicess and folly have they w ali i! I sount the praises of the human foo With that we t or al Hm bo the foundation « sie the base of a God po the warrior braces himself it the orator plants h mseil With it the toiler reaches his work. the outraged stamps his indiguations, its los an freeparable disaster, its health wn inv usable eq ent. If y value, ask no shriveled, surgeon's knife h honors it. Es thy foot agnis thy foot stumdl whet Esp time, tion, * the ot} Chive give me uj deelivit direction than dare paths Besa chinery making dir» . patriarch tha h Cries erim the | Berag bonentn Inge i divine ser. ? Reg walter, ging which coves had very pure Y “ AD it whe stout but that well ¢ of the battle the battle petied the garden draw water oul Was very pure 3 nnd 300 dend the well | the well death, into the well » they t ached skulls, int n at so the haman soul was nm well « prved thearmieac! sin have fought around it and fought acre been slain, » 1% become a well of tons, ad hopes, lead resolutions, dead opportunities, dead bitions, An aban- donned well unless Ch shall resnen and purify and fi'l it as the well of Belgium never wae, Uncisan, unclean, Another seraphic postars in the “Withiwzain he covered the face.” means reverenes Godward, Never so jereverence abroad You see it in the defn statuary, in the catting ont of figures from fine paintings, in the «hipping of monuments for a memento, fn the fact that military guard must stand at the grave of Lincoln and Garfield, and that oid shade trees must ba cut down for fire. wool, though fifty George P, the wooden to spare the tron and that calls & corpse a cadaver, and that speaks of death as going over to the majority, and substi. tutes for the reverent terms father and mother “the old man’ and “the old woman," und finda nothing impressive in the rains of Baalbeo or the columns of Karnne, and sees no difference io the Sabbath from other days exrent it sllows more dissipation, and reads the Biile in what is called Pr eriti lam, making it not the word of God, but a good book with some fine things in it. Iereverence never so much abroad. How many tak~ the name of God in vain, how many trivial things «ail about the A mighty! Not wi ling to have God in the world, they yoll up au idea of sentimentality ani bu. manitarianiem and impudenes and indeeil- jty nnd eali it God. Xo wings of reverence overthe face, no inking off of shoes on holy ground, You ean tell from the way they talk they could have made a better worl: than this, and that the God of the Bible shocks uvery sense of proprietry, They talk of the Jove of God ‘in a way that shows vou fhey bo. Hews it does not make any 4 ference how bat aman is here he will come in at the shining gate, Theytalk of the love ot God in a way which shows you they think it is a general jail delivery for all the abindoned and the scoundreiiy of te universe. No ment hereafter for any wrong done everence for sham, reverence for the old merely because it Is old, reverence for stu- the se bien skele fext, much ood phdity BRowever Vourand, raverenos for in. capacity however finaly "inanguratad, I hate none But wes want more reverence for God, mors reverence for the sacraments, more reverence for the Bible, more rever- ence for the pure, more reverence for the good, Reveronce au characteristio of all great natures, You hear it in the roll of the master oratorios. Youases it in the Raphaels and Titians and Ghirlandaols. You study It in the architecture of the Aholiate and Christopher Wrens, Do not be flippant about God. Do not joke about death. Do not make fun about the Bible, Do not de ride the Eternal, The brightest and might. fost seraph cannot Ionok unabashed upon Involuntarily the wings come up. “With twain he covered his faoe.” Who {a 1hiz God before whom the arrogant and intmectable reivnse reverence? There was an engineer by the name of Strasierates who was in the employ of Alexander the CGireat, and he offerod to hew a mountain In the shape of his master, the emperor, the enormons figure to hold in the left hand a eity of 10,00) inhabitants, while in the right hana it was to hold a basin Inrge enoagh to collect all the mountain torrents, Alexan- der applauded him for ls ingenuity, but for bade the enterprise because of its costiiness, teil you that our K‘~7 halda in 1, and alt stars of Leaven while he has the . his th cr, Earthly power from hand to hand [I and Henry III, from Charles 1 to Charles Il, from Louis 1 Huis I and Louis ILL, but from everiast. riasting is God, God the fiest, Gol 3 « only, He has onetoles oa overything his 16 Dri 1 ROG everytbi ymnipotence, tablespoonfuls o waiter in the yi ar hand, and it will ov w, but Isaiah indieates that God pots Atiantie, and the Pa te, and the Arctic, and Antare- and the Mediterranean, and the Biack , Ant ) all the waters of ths earth in the he low of His hand, The flugers tho bhesch on one side the wrist the beach on the other, “Heo holdeth the water in the hollow of His hand.” As you take a pinchofsiltor p y ge rs, 0 Isaiah } He Y Mens the the wider be ust of all ih and two + oarth h have to ICH We ti to 1003 weaigint Asia, Or too muol we h fn rica Or in America, 80 when God mad } nountains he weighs stinctiy ANY 4 BO, great ranges t na the NR RYO i i. bs oun es, ha grains, the o gr -} how mach they ped then hey welg DE 1G SCAN a God weigh and jo now. ‘‘He weighnd t and the hills in a balances, Oh, what against! Oh, what a Got to disobey! Oh, what a God to dishonor! Ob, what God to defy! The brightest, takes no fami Bre ne o inia to run angel wings o wYeren ininity Bather — face than th that will indicate that ppy exit, the clearance from inrantine, the o.gteofl chron. is, the molting of the faded and the usel as, and the ascent from malarial val eys to bright, shining mountaiy tops, and be led to say, as they siand there contemplatiog your humility and your reveren 6 in life and your happiness in death, “With twain he eoverad feet, with tnain he «1 his face, Wings, wings, wings! BUYING DOLLAR HORSES Kentucky Farmer Fattens His Hogs on Equine Flesh, a vestiges of pain, it was a oppressive oOVer Every imaginable kind o' horse save a Frequent trades ars made for twenty-five witnessed on ‘jockey row,’ as it is ealled, In ronnection with this trading io worn-out horses a new indastry has sprung up. A man from Woodiord County was in the trading crowd buying ail the horses he could get for 81 per head, He k lis them feeds the flesh to his hogs, sails the hides and bon-aand finds it profitable. Whegever he buys a horse for a dollar and he ean seil it for two he lots it go, otherwise it is fad to the hogs. The Emperor’ . PE While taking his daily ~onstitutional with the Empress ia the Thwergarten, Berlin, Emperor Wiliam of Germany passed a Iaborer, who stared at him but dit not salute, Ris Majesty turns! ealiss]l upon the man to halt, and then, touching his bat in militar fashion, sald: “My man, if you do not wi to salute your Emp ror, at least you might pay proper reapeet to the Empress.” Chen, turomng on his heel, the Emperor left the man standiog in & state of eo. nsiderable astonishment, Ingared by a Pigeon, Mrs. Cora Strenchard, of Kremis, Mercer County, was strusy ed the face by a fiylag pigeon at Saaron, P The woman's neck wae broke, but in HORSES ON SNOWSHOES. C ly Way They Can Travel Over Twenty Feet of Snow. All the horses working at the placer mine under the shadow of Pilot Peak, Plumas Country, California, wear snowshoes. The altitude of the place is about 5,600 feet and enormous quan- tities of snow fall there in the winter, not infrequently re sehing to the depth of twenty feet, gays tue San Francisco Call, “To overcome the disadvantages of the snow and enable us to carry on our projects there,” sald Mr. Bowman, one of the owners of the mine, “we put snowshoes on the horses. By doing this we are able to bet in our supplies of groceries, meats, canned goods and other things, and to transport the pro duct of our mines, All our picks, shovels, giant and similar th=¢ have eo t~¥en ahout in ths bred (hinog handled in way lifornia has been found thease if poss get mountain raised at hi winier are “Only sod It and horses are ible, we along The hor 3 go right They without them to have bacco in flash it was snappe ed beneath the This gave an idea, and pulling up of his many hooks, he placed a plece of plug Instantly there was a i up and d waler one tobacco on iL commotion, and he Mm four-pound pickerel. Francis tributed his remaining supply of bacco on the various hooks, and result was that in half an hour he had over fifteen pounds of fish. Since then he has made several large hauls in this manner. fled in a to- the The Boy's Wish, “Pastor Tom Spurgeon of the Meatro- politan Tabernacle,” writes a corres pondent of the London News, “took his little son to witness the festivities at Spurgeon’s Orphanage. No doubt Master Spurgeon has a very happy home, but when he saw the array of toys, and the generai jollity in the in- stitution which his grandfather found- ed. he looked up in his father's face and made the unfilial remark: “Oh, don’t | wish I was an orphan!™ A Hat Size. A size in hats is one-eighth of an inch, According to the English method, the smaller diameter of the head is taken as tha gtarting point. One-eighth of an inch increase in the shorter diam- eter makes a little more than threa eighths In circumference. The French aud Berman hatters have a rule slight. ly different from this, Fast, Cheap, Noiseless, While French enterprise is expectant. ly awaiting the perfection of the borse- less carriage on the gasoline or gas en- gine principle before embarking ex. tensive capital in so new a field, the English have found practicable auto- mobolism by the nse of electricity as a motive power and have already put it to a practical application. A company has already been formed, known as the London Electrical Cab Company, with a capital of $750,000, and in the course of a few weeks 250 cabs, most of which are already built, will be started in the streets of London. It Is claimed by t rompany that lias been practically mechanism whose and the he projectors of this electrical automobilism solved by the patents they hold, amount of the capital these XE HAVE inVesis Horer Power, bas wonderful muscular power joa! a! times with i properiy groomed and trates that a great deal of prodence and re ners ' y Oi i hen rl] cards, tiny to the f adv «ing alendar Ures, elie. punch upper corner and tie Place vith the upper one holes in each foundation each under card hens tie, Nail orner, wherever you and, if wanted way, fold both arms back to the wall, It requires very little work to make a scre:n like this, top of ud window or put it, to the fireplace, wish to out of the New York City has Chinese paddiers, Carenret, ratiteed; Hk Waen bMilone or oretive, est a candy ost has tic; cure gus ve Women kiss and remember, men strike snd forget, Plao's Cure for Consumption is #n A No 1 Asthma medicine. W, RK Wintiaus Antioch, Is, April 11. 1h Poverty la the only burden which grows heavier by being shared with those we love FITR stopped frecand per manently cared, Na fitx after first dar ’s seo! Dn Kase s Ga ag NenvrHestoner, Free “2irial ho't papd reais foe. send to Dr. Eline, #1 Arch st, Palla, Pa Japan railroads cover 2.000 miies, Not aetine jor Flity Cents, Over 80000 cured, Why not jet No.To- Rae fogulate oF remove yout desire jor tobscea? Maven money, maces foalih and manhood Cure gunranived. BW cents and (100, at all drugaisis, One symptom of the disease of sin is ha tred of tis remedy. A Great Saving for Harse Owners, Carin ea, bugwies and hi roess can he banght rte EB kbar Cair ag avd Harness Mig, Uo, 0 Elkhart, Ind, «tf onetoind less than denis ers’ pr oes, Tour products are - escribed in & lusws patelarne that wn nailed ree AIT als AAR SAAS SCUBA) as The flower that lacks perfume oan never entirely please, Cascanrrs stimninte Tver. Xidueyn, bn and bowels, Never moken, weaken or gripe; 0c. London has no electric ears, REY, DR, JONATHAN WHITELY’S WIDOW SIRICKEN WITH PARALYSIS, But She Has Been Cured-wlong May She Live and Long Live the HH emeady 10 Which She Owes Fler Life, From the Gazette, Meadoilie, Pa The followlag juteresting interviews cos esroing the efMenoy of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pilla for Pale People, have Intely been re enived at the offices of this newspaper The first embodies a conversation with Mrs M. A. Wallely, the widow of the late Res doonthan Whitely, D. D,, an eminent div pe of the Methodist denomination, Mrs, Whitely spoke ns follows: “1 eonsider It my duty fo tell for publica tion the immense benefit I have derived fron Dr. Willlams' Pink Pills, Three years ago | Was stricken by parnivels, aud lay helpios for months, 1 waa at last advised to try Dr Willlams' Pink Pills, wh after many mis givisgs l cone uded to 4 y, ’ in ali medicines, The fis nach, and the continua! use « worked and is working wonde Ih, hav: driven twelve miles without WO much in Praisa Pills for in 4 Beatty { Meadviil But my inst few 1 lies has dropey and dis fit sufflerod greatly A lew ng Dr, Wi ms People and } heir Use Slie ext CH Eun ink sus been grea #rimuced her Limt walk by reason of fthe binod., All HYD isa Gluness in nid goaroely t hose peared and pes Hor a v take the i mine, eyvilie, Mer Lelragia fis alter se he henrt, A ——— MET CA AHSAN £7 It Uniy Meiped a Lattin It would be worth 8 cons Ons hour's frees dou frome the terrible ferdatin { ith of totinr ia worth mors Vass & waole pox of Tetterine sonia It wll cure —sure, aud We the only thing thas will cure. 5) oonts at drag stores, or Dy sll from J.T. 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