REY. DR TALMAGR. The Eminent Washington Divine's Sunday Sermon. Job Had Boils, Bankruptey and a Fool Wife, But He Finally and Soul, From His sands of Others May Be Similarity Saved Text: *1 my teeth.”—Job xix,, 20, Job had it hard. What with bolls and bereavements and bankruptcy and a fool of a wife he wished he was dead, and I do not blame him. His flesh was gone, and his bones were dry. His teeth wasted i away until nothing but the enamel seemed left. He ories out, “I am escaped with the | skin of my teeth.” i There has been difference of opinion about this passage, Kt. Jerome and Schultens and Drs. Good and Poole and | jarnes have all tried their forceps on Job's teeth. You deny my Interpretation and say, “What did Job know about the | enamel of the teeth?” He knew every- thing about it. Dental surgery is almost as old as the earth, The mummies of Egypt thousands of years old are found to- day with gold filling in their teeth. Ovid and Horace and Solomon and Moses wrote about these important factors of the body. | To other provoking complaints Job, I | think, has added an exasperating tooth- ache, and, putting his hand against the inflamed face, he says, “I am escaped with the skin of my teeth,” A very narrow escape, you say, for Job’ body and soul, but there are thousands of men who make A8 narrow escape for their soul, There v a time when the partition between t and WAS ne thicker than a tooth's enamel, but as Job | finally escaped so have they, Thank God! Escaped, Body | Troubles—~Thou am escaped with the skin of | some just ruir » when aved as by 1 flames, You j The bos flames advance. no longer on your face, the side of the vessel fingers until the for) begins to lick the 1} you feel that yo the lifeboats co gers say they t more. The bos drop into it—; are pursued partly consume “saved as by fire But I like the 1 than that of not worn it God will help escape for tl} “with the skin It is as the cross Mild, them t to the ste church rades sg been turn « I desort broke was ir git an ing no find yo house as geen Iu ; } + May Brane nd drop their nets ar come a i i having r Long | 1after awhile neta wi 1 It was ight king ex to-day. is in the ri strong. Andrew to fi i, on the right si Some of yon to run agains less for g ti cal n It is use. | Ha ns, ligion. I cannot say such things, By what | process of ¥ou have come to ye not. There are tw the gate of the heart. The gate of y with boits and bars th could not break, but the : swings easily on its assauite your body with weapons, 1 would mee with weapons, and it would e sword stroke | for sword stroke and wound for wound and | blood for blood, but if and knock at | the door of your house open it and give me the best seat in your parlor, If I | should come at you now with an argument. ! Is would answer me with an argument; I with sarcasm, you would answer me with | sarcasm-—blow for blow, stroke for stroke | ~but when I come and knock at the door | of your heart you open it and say, “Come | in, my brother, and tell me all you know | about Christ and heaven,” Listen to two or three questions, Are as happy as you used to be when you be. | feved in the truth of the Christian religion? | Would you like to have your children travel | on in the road in which you are now travel. ing? You had a relative who professed to | be a Christian and was thoroughly consist- ent, living and dying in the faith ofthe gos- | pel. Would you not like to live the same | ulet life and die the same peaceful death? | bold in my hand a letter, sent me by one who has rejected the Christian religion. It says: “I am old enough to know that the Joys and pleasures of lite are evanescent and to realize the fact that it must be com. fortable in old age to believe in something relative to the future and to have a faith in some system that proposes to save, I am free to confess that I would be happier # I could exercise the simple and beautiful faith that is possessed by many whom I know. 1am not willingly out of the chureh or out of the faith. My state of uncertainty Is one of unrest. Bometimes I doubt m immortality and look upon the deathbed as the closing scene, after which there fs noth- ing. What shall I do that I have not done?” Ah, skepticism is a dark and dole. fulland! Let me say that this Bible iseither true or false. If it be false, wo are as well off as you; if it be true, then which of us fs safer? Ur prese gates t head and f nar the head is locks archa OF your hea Let me also ask whether Io trouble lias not been that you confounded Christianity with the inconsistent character of some who profess it? You aren lawyer. In your profession there are mean and dishonest men. Is that anything against the law? You are a doctor. There are unskilled ard gntemptible men in your profession, Is anything Afainst medicine? You are mere . ere are thieves and de. aders in your business. Is that anything jiinst merchandise? Behold, then, the ness of upon Christianity the wickedness of {ta disciples, some of the charges against those who pro. 1 the most glgantio ried on by members of the church. here are men standing in the front rank in the churches who would not without collateral security, They leave thelr the vestibule of the and git at the communion, luded the sacrament, they get up, wipe good business church. as they go In their sins where they left off. To serve the they expect to wipe off from their business slate all the past have no more right to take such a you have to take the twisted {rons Island as a specimen of an American ship, fess it, has ever seen? has as much in it? ficent? Icome to you with both hands ex- tended toward you. In one hand I have the Bible and in the other hand I havenoth- ing. der forever just as soor you ean put a book that is better, of your fathers, to the to the Bible they which they leaned, foned religion whom they wors vd, read, to the pre 08 On nal expectations, a day since you swur 7 4 minute un Again, there ¥ 3 ho in the at tempt after a Christian life will have to run werful passions and Le is dispos nm to anger g off, wi v hank EWIing back. I app i that end against, and perhaps Pr. I you hear of ApS ¥ 3 Nn ing that he { § There LHK® | 80a gu be a wavin d, with | pe their way ne work which ¢ hey attemy of the han K. A ight hire ike f A hand- ame They | Vegas] i 1 Me 80 near a watery roppiag into it? How nar. | “with | ‘ There are men who have been capsized of evil passions | capsized midocean, and they are a | thousand miles away from any shore of | help. They have for years been trying to | dig their way out They have been digging | away and digging away, but they can never | be delivered unless now they will hoist some signal of distress. However weak and feeble it may be, Christ will see it and bear down upon the helpless craft and tuke them on board, and it will be known on | earth and in beaven how narrowly they have escaped—'""escaped as with the skin of their teeth.” There are others who in attempting to come to God must run between a great many business perplexities. If a man g0 } over to business at 10 o'clock in the morn. ing and come away at 3 o'clock in the after. noon, he has some time for religion, but | how shall you find time for religious con- tempiation when you are driven from sun. rise to sunset and have been for five years going behind in business and are frequent. ly dunned by creditors whom you cannot i er d 3 the skin of their pay, and when from Monday morning until Saturday night you are dodging bills that you cannot meet? You walk day by day in tncertainties that have kept your brain on | fire for the past three years, Some with less business troubies than you have gone crazy. The clerk nas heard a noise in the back counting room and gone in and found the chief man of the firm a raving maniac, or the wife has heard the bang of a pistol in the back parlor and gone in, stumbling over the dead body of her husband-—a sulelde, There are men pursued, harassed, trodden down and sealped of business par. plexities, and which way to turn next they do not know. Now God will not be hard on you. He knows what obstacles are in the way of your being a Christian and your first effort in the right direction He will erown with success. Do not let satan, with cotton bales, and kegs, and hogsheads, and counters, and stocks of unsalable ovods, blosk up your way to heaven, Gat or up all your energies. Tighten the girdle about your loins, Take an agonizing look into the face of God, and then say, “Hers goes one grand effort for life eternal,” and then bound away for heaven, escaping “as with the skin of your teeth.” n the last day it will be found that ugh Latimer, and John Knox, snd Huss and Ridley contaminations and perplexities Pennsylvania avenue, Broad street, State street and Third street, On earth taflers, or importers, but in heaven Chris tian heroes, No fagots were heaped about their feet; no Inquisition demanded from them recantation; soldier aimed a pike at their heart but they had mental ture compared with which all consuming is as the breath of morning no a8 spring men who have been so cheated, so lied hava lost their faith In everything. world where everything seems so turvy they do not see how there can be any God, They and misanthropic. Elaborate arguments or the truth of anything else touch them nowhere, Hear me, all such men. digseourse, but put my hand on your shoul. gospel, Here Is a rock on which you stand firm, though the waves dash against it harder than the Atlantis, pitching fits surf clear above Eddystons lighthouse, of the world, to earth from His government, and all outrages and all God is good. of years He has been coaxing the world to 1 to Him, but the more He has 1 the more violent have men been in stepped they seceded thesa O08 COB and stepped back until dropped into ruin, Try this God, , after i of sextet IouUnaGs that G He will He will y £80 000 sterling ICE CAVES IN COLORADO. Masses of Too Wonderfully Adorn the New Discoveries, raveries have heap Fr passage leads to lert and is in varied ecole ref] usand rtites, m the first still an iful in whi re, under th ecting the rays as mirrors A passage scarcely large iit the body of a was at an angle A IArge cavern per- 300 {ent Clingir to sat masses of jor g the sides of walls mq are tons of joe taking ® forms imaginable and casting awes: adows, In the center of the room thers is a lake about forty by sixty-five feet, clear gs erv- stal and quite deep, There must } me utiet, for water drips constantly fr the ceiling, yet the level of the body never rises nor overflows. The water is sweet and pure, and as cold as the jee.conted walls of the room in which it is situated, 200 feet underneath the There are undou al beaut fron man g down r degrees to the rd l= ¢ biliows, and knese otesq me 8s Wi 80 in surface of the ground. btedly other caves which i pened, 1200 CHEROKEES TO MARCH. to One of Their Ancient Chiefs. Early in Beptember 1200 Cherokee braves by Captain Raleigh of the United States A strong and muscular man, with high seen on the streets of Frankfort Ky., re. cently. But few realized that he was an celebrated chief Quannah Parker, He was mounted on a beautiful bay thoroughbred, He was the forerunner of the invasion of the 1200 Cherokee warriors, and was hers to see the Governor. They will enter Ken. tucky at Shawneetown and march to a place about three miles from Russellville, where they will find the grave of a great chief of the Cherokees who was killed in battle with the Shawnees in 1740. There they will do his memory honor. This bat. tie took place on a prairie near Pond River and the old chief was wounded and ears back into what is now Logan County, where he died and was buried, A Unique Jubllee, _ A midwife at Stolpe, near Berlin, Ger- many, celebrated the h occasion on which her services had been required by inviting all the children she had helped into the world to dinner at her house, They afterward formed a torchlight procession and marched through the town, Florida's New Industry, Estimates piace the tobacco crop of Florida this year as the largest in the State's history. It will be worth several hundred thousand dollars. Much of the planting was experimental, a GOLD SEEKERS DESTITUTE, Many Will Be Dependent on the Charity of Dyen's Cltlzens. Many of the searchers for gold who are now stopping at Dyea are unable to proceed { further on thelr jo of funds or provisicnk, Many of those 1 unable to make urney owing to the lack Ww la Dyea are physically the trip, and there who will suffer great hardships re the winter is over, Many of | who arrived on the steamer Willamette are absolutely without shelter, hav Ing come to this cold region depending on the open-heartedness of others to keep them {| ving. Many of the people who are unable | to reach Dawson this winter have two t of provisions and no possible means of trans. { portation, One man has trying | Are many | bof those seemingly HIS ver 3,000 pounds which he over the White Pass in lots making short relays, t iting extensively, Is trylug to pack 75 pout is faci, Thioves been and many tents, tion and | a vigllanee o | less the thefts stop Yancouver, British er Coquitlam arrived from Dyea, have V1" one was anxious to come 8,000 nn at his being de- day the arrived the body of a white tain states that no back with him. 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