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Talmage in a new way, and practical use is made of these days of festivity; text, Matthew, |. 17, ‘80 ail the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David until the carrying away into Babylon ars fourteen generations, and from the carrving away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations” From what many consider the dullest and most unimportant chapter of the New agent I take my texe and find it , startling and eternal inter The chapter is the troat door of tho Testament, through which ail spiendors of evangelism and apostolieity enter, Three times fourteen gonerations are spoken of in my tex! that is, wo generations-——reaching down to Christ, Phey al! had relation to Him, and at forty-two generations past affect us, If they were good, we feel the result of goodness, 1f they ware bad, wo feel sult of thelr wickedness, If some were wl and some ware bad, it is an inter- influence that puts its mighty i U8, t the Inturn Influence at nticns to con thousand yey is more important thant I prop «how y¥ ws upon the Chrl-tie aud then th» sunshine the straw, that Lifan there a spe inoestry., Beantifal Oh, vy Devont Asa one of His Oh, ves] Honest Joseph His yes! Holy Mary lis Mo But in that genealogical atrous and cruel Ammon Rehot tions least forty-two world voi Caner. Inst a oradie shall the 1 TAYE, wa some of eradie of Bethilsher tha S50, son, + yee Lo the shi shadows ou wus here an simen o Huth His a on! be particularized., Bo you candants, in | ever knew was the son of a man who Hved Hed a Liasphamer, Hehoboam comes a gracious merciful and glorious Christ, eonragement for those who forty-two generations that however close by or 3 instances of nay not «00 bad men may One of IVR go the most RCTS and and line an op- pressive nnd (arent en aver lar back 1s and the {iospel ’ and * aires sanctity Chat record hy agi the Herodie worais of a nation aria of sin in the air when Dirist Best breathed it, Th wild not the Babe warn w at wintry month with His o rn r a fugitive rinse say that it was at a time o that C was boro. but His birth an antagovism of which the Bet jehemn massacre was only a rior War of the mightiest nation earth opened against that eradie! fluence that eame forth that night from that surrounding oxen challenged the iniguities of all the centuries and will not ceases until It has destroyed them. What a pronunciaménto went forth from that black snd barbarian throne, practieally saying, babes under two years of age, and that wide slaughter will surely include the death of the one child that most threatens my dominion.” occupant ot that eradie! WAS a ma niant { ‘i oat ToT oti Hist peace print fo 2 frais aX Dros. of the paw or the bandit’s clutch or the midnight chill between Bethlehem of Judma and Cairo, Egypt, will secures His destruction, of hisll bombarded that cradle, Another shadow upon that birth, David, the sbapherd boy, had been born there, but after he bacame general and king he gave it no significance, I think never mentioning it but to ask for a drink of water out of the old well to whieh he usted to go in chiidhood-—the village so small and unimportant that it had to be geparated in mind from asother Bethlehem then existing, and so was called Bethlehem of Judma, There was a great capital of Jerusalem; there were the fiftesn boauti. ful cities on the beach of Galilee, any of them a good place to be born In; there were great towns famous at that time, bat the nativity we to.day celebrate was in a village which Christ intimated bad been ealled by some “the jeast among the princes of Juda.” Obrist Himself was to make the town famous for all time and all sternity. O men and women of Messianic opper- tunity, why do you not make the piace of your nativity memorab’s for your philan- thropies<by the churches you build, the free Dibrarios you open, the colleges you endow? Clo back to the village where you wears bors, as George Peabody wan® back to Danvers, Mass,, and with your wealth bless the neighborhood here {n childhood you played and near by *.'vare your father and mother sleap the last viesp, There are seoros of such villages fn America being genarodsly ramembered hy prosperous men during Hie or helped in their lust wiil and testament, and thore are a hundred neigh. borhoods wating for such benediction from their prosperous sons, By some such charity invite the Bethlehem nngels to come k again and over the plain house of your nativity ring out the old anthem of “Good will to men.” Christ, born fa an obscure pase. made it so widely known bv - — Flia self aaerifices and divine eharity that all round the earth the village of Bathile- Lem has its pame woven in garlands and chanted in “Te Doums” and built in houses of prayer, But {tis time wo seo some of the sun. shine breaking through the shadows on that cradle. For we must have jubllance dominate the Christmas festival, That was Walter Beott’'s opinion when in “Mare mion'’ he wrote, A Christmas gambol oft wonld cheer A poor man's heart through hall tho year, It was while the peasant and his wife were on u visit for the purposes ol enrollment that Jusus was born, The Bible transiators got the wrong word when they sald that Joseph and Mary had gone to Bethlehem to pe “taxed.” People went no farther thon to got taxed than they do now. The effort of has been to eseape Besides that, these two humble tax. The man's tur- taxation, was not worth taxing: the woman's sandais whieh kept her feet from belng cut by the rock, of which DBotblshem {is were not worth taxiog. No; the fact {8 that a proclamation had ple between Great Britain and Parthia and of those lands included should go to some appoloted places aud give thelr names io, be rozisterad and announce thelr loyalty tu ror. They had walked amo miles over n lieglance, Would woe walk va our allegiance to Cwasnr Augustus ounth of a eighty miles to anaoun king, one Jesus wanted to know by rd on which tint man and that v wrote their names or had them writ MW many 13 conld de on in our ’ the rec NOMman i on, jus 3 sage of exigency, How many the Bomsn ea 1 § ys dupanads IW any wamen « ake care of the wou i on ¢ troubles fa that 4 1) Christ we do not know how Are 80 t battief kingdon ver give y serve the Lord not announces their aliegl who, in the batties t troops, Ia His there are so many hail many an tha on X And ples, a0 one.third ¢, at any + parts of it, and they hope O10 he ristianity will 4 b FLuey stay away nmunion days and be us long as they can {a this wnehow sneak into Be rogist . ind {a t} ! Lot ali sia stand, i ye eighty mites before form of worship . nm { giana « y shadows above (hal a speaial determined The nster § tratagem for the t ng His just staried, amatized pl 10 suddenly got re. 1 woul s his palace and have steads wi eoull kane ile nt what i leony tives goareh heavens, tit | aaiied el guarded and down FATAYANDsSArs sradin was Be here t that Lhe rause it wera wings hb ¢ por: thers sndished swo : thers were char be rumble of whose ald hear. God @¢ to save our suld stop Him y account | the the prot A likewise defended $ many children, with nod was sa r+ cradles are ganderstan why 80 the epi pred HE a) liam dau us ous experi tA with » thelr ranning i daring of tro va and yw @al oye of high spirit and t gount to much? 1 ace ming tl agh afl right, wit wounds and bruises, by the [a are divinely protects i. All you do this" and “Don’t thers geen 1 ¥ sre the same ro ION YOU ars ¢on 4 fering what Is eights fit jinst i Revs carts fast vel some “Don’ ing. The fares abn wi ng Divinely protected! sther gleam of light, scattariog aome of the gloom of that Christie pillow in Bethichem, was the fact that it was starting piace of the most wonderin careers, Looking at Christ's I mers worldly standpolats it was an in beyond all capacity of pen or tongue canvas to express, Without taking a year's etirriculam 1 any eollege or sven 4 day at saying things that the mightiest intellects of subsequent days bave quoted acd tried to expound! Great literary works have for the most part been the result of much slaboration Edmund And against Warren Hastings sixteen times, Lord Brougham rewrote his speach in be. hall of Queen Caroline twenty times, hat mount seamed exiem. porancons, Christ was eloquent without ever having studied one of the laws of ora- tory. He was the greatest orator that ever it was not an eloquence Demos. thenie or Ciearonle or like that of Jean Baptiste Massillon or like that which Will fam Wirt, himself a great orator, was over come with in log cabin meeting houss of Virginia, when the blind preacher eried out in his sermon, “Sodrates died like a philosoplier, but Jesus Christ died like a God.” But we must not only look at Him froma worldly standpoint. How He smote whirl. winds into silence, and made the waves of the sea lie down, and openad the doors of light into the midaight of thossa who had been born blind, and turned deal ears into galleries of music, and with one touch made the soabs of incurable leprosy fall off, and renewed hesithy ofrcuiation through severest paralysis, and made the dead girl waken and ask for her mother, and at His erncifixion pulled down the clouds, until at 12 o'clock at noon It was as dark ns at 12 o'clook at night, and starting an influence that will go on until the jast desert will grow roses and the last work lang make full inhalation, and the last ecnse of paresis take healthful brain, and the last tiiness become rubleund of shesk and robust of chest and bounding of foot, and the last pauper will get his palace, and the last sinner taken (oto the warm bosom of a pardoning Godl Where did all this start? In that eradie with sounds of bleating sheep and bellowing cattle and amid rough bantsring of herdsmen and enmel drivhrs, What a low piace to start for such great heights! © artists, turn our camera obscara on that village of thiehom! Take it all inthe wintry okies foworing, the flocks shivering in the chill aft Mary the pale mother, aud Jesus the KEYSTONE STATE. LATEST NEWS GLEANED FROM YARL OUS PARTS, OUR EDUCATIONAL WEALTH Annual Report of Dr. Nathan , Schaeffer, Superintendent of Public No Allusion to the Governor's Veto of the School Appropriation Resident of Franklin Suddenly Hegains Mis Speech, Instruction I'he report of Buy erintendent Dr. Nathan C. Schaeffer, of Publie lostruction, for the past vear has been mad public, and Is ehiefly remarkable for the fact that Dr, Beha fer makes no reference to the action of Governor Stone in cutting down ppropriation, except where h in me the revenue may warrant the restor ation « { the appropriation to # order that established, the school hopes that y ol 0.000, in township high schools may be It does not oecur to th intendent of Public propriatic a i“ Bu per. Instraetd mide by the n that the aj nas sinture was wWU.0 0 per annum, no rest tion i . 3 : ton is necessary, but ontinunnae The report shows that yoar ending Jane b 8 of the 2493 scho } ture amounted to # t 43.718 af » compri number of 1,152,352 and the averags put The A increase of was K58 177 graded hundred onducted the ed. The AS Bumnaer- and ueationnl affairs of the vi jus distriets, ity superintends ous as male t nyerage sal. lower and , fis compared igures are as FAR SRIATY mnie ary of had a with the previ the suffered UR Year follows Male teachers, £44.27; ine #60 per month, renee average ts. The Of term was 8.030 n . B35. de. iengih of the The estimated crease 61 BYErage onths, value of all = 10048 pr $408, 401 585.59, his “The most in f+ leg enacted during the perty in the State was Dr. Schaeffer slso says report riant sinlion last de the ast eneral * Aspen glhening the minin i school tert was the net of afl 1 a tern Outlaws Terrify Farmers, t appears to be an ganized i gan Ark brown on f Levi Overly National Guard Orders, By an y order bus iy heada Potisliger, nent Dirumbeller, Regiment, The! placed un the retired Assistant surgeon of Ring, Twelfth Regi: (iastave aptain Company sith Regiment i PP. Packard, int ential and adjo "ifteenth Regime Hegalned His Speech, i Burkett, of n. BRE y was a mate for five Chars power of spe rough an a 140 vears, ah regained his ident, Five an ofl lease sear Bradford and one day aceldentally fell nto the tank. When he recovered from his injuries he was spesahioss remained so ili Tharsday. engaged in piling bark when beslipped and fell, his head strik- ng on a tie, The accident #0 enraged Bur kett that he began to and was not a little frightened that he heard his curses, Hoe was so elated and so fearful lest he should again lose his voloe that he began to sing and talk to himself, His voice gradually became stronger, and he now talk as well as ever he did, venrs ago he was employed on as and He was Curse Can Misunderstood and Died, A neighbor informed Mrs Edward Swale. worth, residing near Glen Richey, of the death of a near relative, The information was conveyed in such & way that Mee, Swatsworth supposed it related to her hus band and that he war the sudden victim of some calamity. Before the bewildered mes. songer conid rectify the error Mem. Swale. worth sank to the floor, and when ald ar. rived it was found that she was a corpse, Mrs, Swateworth was 5) years old, and leaves a large family. Avoided One Train, Killed by Another. John Moran, aged 65 years, and a resident of Mt, Carmel, was struck and Instantly killed at Alaska by a Reading Railway ox. press train. Moran bad noticed a freight train approaching on the southbound track, and to get ont of its way stepped in front of the express. He leaves a wife and eight children, Brakeman Killed by Train. Howard & Markel, a young man of Har risburg, died at the hospital from Injuries roceived on the Reading Hallway, He wm a brakeman and after turning » switch he stopped on the track and was strgek bys draft of cars, i Yost Foot Nat Saved Lie, John Hazden, a raliway emploves, was working in the Glenwood yards, Pittaburg, when his foot was eaught in a frog. A teain approached, and in order to save his life Hasden throw himsolf to one side snd allow. ed the wheels of the cars t¢ out off his foot. f The “Ivory” is makes a profuse rich be removed It costs 1aving purpose for years SOAPS The vegstable which other Daily Freshets. ne x the m i ahd by 1 Bpring ard phe nome are ER (raveier in $s Thirty One War Spain haz had thirty-one war during the present century Years / f you will coupon and three return this P onc cent stamps to the ]. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass, you will receive in return 8 copy of he 20th Centory Year Book This 1s not an ordinary almanac, but a handsome book, copiously illustrated, and sold for 5 cents on all newsstands. (We simply sllow you the two cents you spend tn postage for sending.) Grest mea have writtea for the Year Book. In it 1s summed up the progress of the 19th cen- tury. Ia each important line of work and thought the greatest living specualist has recounted the events and advances of the past ceatery snd has prophesied what we may expect of the next. Among the most noted of our contributors arc: Secretory of Agnioulture Wilson, on Agncaltute; Senator Chauncey M, Depew, on Politics ; Russell Sage, on Finance; Thomas Tdison, on El tricity; Dr. Madison Peters, on Re ligion; General Merritt, on Land War fare; Admiral Bichbom, on Naval Warfare; Al" Smith. on Sporty ete; making a complete review of the whole field of human endeavor and progress. Each article is beautifully and spproprutely illustrated, and the whole makes an iavaluable book of reference, unequaled eny- where for the money. Address J. C. 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