a A GREAT REFRESHNENT. Dr. Talmage Says God is a Fountain of Joy That is Unappreciated. An Everlasting Well of Gladness -~ Water for the Thirsty. [Copyright 1901.1 Wasnixgron, D. C—In this discourse Dr. Talmage represents religion 8s » at refreshment and invites all the world Ee and receive it; text, Genesis xxix, 8, “We cannot until all the flocks be gath- ered together and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.” A scene in Mesopotamia, beautifully pastoral. A well of water of great value in that region. The fields around about it white with three flocks of sheep lying down waiting for the watering. ICAr their bleating coming on the bright air and the laughter of young men and maid- ens indulging in rustic repartee. 1 look off, and 1 see other flocks of sheep com- ing. Meanwhile Jacob, a stranger, on an interesting errand of looking for a wife, comes to the well. A beautiful shepherd- eas comes to the same well. I see her ap- proaching followed by her father's flock of sheep. It was a memorable meeting. Jacob married that shepherdess. The Bible account of it is, “Jacob kissed Rach- el and lifted up his voice and wept.” It has always been a mystery to me what he found to cry about. But before that scene occurred Jacob accosts the shepherds and asks them why they postpone the slaking of the thirst of these sheep and why they did not immediately proceed them. The shepherds reply to the effect: “We are all good neighbors, and as a mat- ter of courtesy we wait until all the sheep of the neighborhood come up. that, this stone on the wells to mouth 1s the sheep are satisfred. mouth; then we water the sheep. Oh, this is a thirsty world! the head and blistering for the feet and parching for the tongue. The world's at want is a cool, refreshing, satisfying a. We wander around, and we find the cistern empty. Long and tedipus drought has dried up the world’s fountain, but centuries ago a shepherd, with crook in the shape of a cross and feet cut to the bleeding, explored the desert passages of this world, and one day came across a well a thousand feet deep, bubbling and bright and opalescent, and looked to the north and the south and the east and the west and cried out with a voice strong and musical that rang through the ages, “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters!” : Now, a great flock of gather around this gospel are a great many thirsty souls why the flocks of all nations do not er—why so many stay thirsty—and I am wondering about it my text forth in the explanation, saying, not until all the ks be gathered gether and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.” If a herd of swine come to a well they angrily jostle each hi dence: if a drove of ocks other for the prece cattle come to a well they hook each other back from the water, but when a flock of sheep come, though a hundred of them shall be disap- pointed, they only express it by ) ng, they come t ther want a great multitude the gospel well. | who do not like a crowd: crowd is vulgar. If they oppressed for room in church, it makes them posi tively impatient and belligerent. We } bad people permanently leave church CAUSE 80 MANY peoj tot, did these Oriental shepherds. They s ed until all the flocks were gathered the more flocks that liked it. And #0 we o that all the people sh into the highways t dges and compel them to co n; go to the ric and tell them they the gost lof them to the blind and that gives ete : lame and make t} Gather a none 20 nong ted. Why not gather a great this city in a flock: all New flock: all London in a flock: all in a flock. This wel the gospel is deep eno to put out burning 1,600.000,000 of the race. church by a spirit of exclusiveness keen the world out. Let down all the bars. swing open all the gates, scatter all the invitations, “Whosoever will let him come.” Come, white and black: Come. red men of the forest. Come, Laplander out of the snow. Come. Patagonian, out of the south. Come in furs. Come pant ing under palm leaves. Come one. Come all. Come now. As at this well of Meso potamia Jacob and Rachel were betrothed, #0 this morning at this well of salvation Christ, our Shepherd, will meet vou com ing up with your long flocks of cares and anxieties, and He wil stretch out His hand in pledge of His affection while all the heaven will cry out: “Behold the bridegroom cometh! Go ye out to meet Him.’ You notice that this well of Mesopota- mia bad a stone on it, which must be re moved before the sheep could be watered, and I find on the well of salvation to-day impediments and obstacles which must be removed in order that you may obtain the refreshment and life of this gospel dn your case the impediment is pride of eart. You cannot bear to come to so democratic a fountain. You do not want to come with so many others. It is aw though you were thirsty and you were in vited to slake your thirst at the town pump instead of sitting in a parlor sip- ping out of a chased chalice which has Just been lifted from a silver salver. Not #0 many publicans and sinners You want to get to heaven, but vou must be in a special car, with your feet on a Turk- ish ottoman and a band of music on board the train. Yon do not want to be in com- Pu with rustic Jacob and Rachel and to ¢ drinking out of the fountain where 10,- 000 sh ave been drinking before you. You will have to remove the obstacle of pride, or never find your way to the well, You will bave to come as we came, will: ing to take the water of eternal life in any way and at any hand and in any kind of pitcher, erymg out: “0 Lord Jesus, | am dying of thirst! Give me the water of eternal tfe, whether in trough or goblet. Give me the water of life. care not in what it comes to me.’ Away with all your hindrances of pride from the wells mouth! Here in another man who is kept back from this water of life by the stone of an obdurate heart, which lies over the mouth of the well. You have no more feeling upon this subject than if God had yet to Jo you the first Rindness or you had to do God the first wrong. Seated on His la all these years, His everlasting arma shel. tering you, where is your gratitude? your morning and evening pray- er? are your consecrated lives? 1 say to you, as Dan'el said to Belshassar, “The God in whose hand thy breath is d all thy way thou hast not glorified.” 3 you trea anybody as as you treated God, you would have m ~= yea, your whole life w have an apology. imes have been seated ’ He come and came the better they * ne ro out Jesus : the 20 } % 1 the world ign the the thirst Do not of : iet ve hae appropriately appareled you. Your health from Him, your companion from | Him, your children from Him, your home | from Him, all ihe bright surroundings of our life from Him. : y Oh, man, what dost thou with that hard heart? Canst thou not feel one throb of gratitude toward the God that made you and the Christ who came to redeem you and the Holy Ghost who has all these rears been importuning you? y If 1 could PO ar all the griefs of all sorts from these crowded streets and could put them in one scroll, neither man nor | angel could endure the recitation. Well, | what do you want? Would you like te have your property back again? “No,” | you say as a Christian man, “I was be- coming arrogant, and I think that is why the Lord took it away. 1 don’t want to | have my property back.” Well, would | you have your departed friends back ' again? “No,” you say, “I couldnt take | the responsibility of bringing them from | a tearless realm to a realm of tears. I | couldn't do it.” Well, then, what do you | want? A thousand voices in the audience ery out: “Comiort! Give us comfort!” For that reason 1 have rolled away the | stone from the well’s mouth. Come, all ve wounded of the flock, pursued of the wolves, come to the fountain where the Lord's sick and bereft ones have come. | “Ah,” says some one, “you are not old | enough to understand my sorrows. You have not been in the world as long as I | misfortunes in the time of old age.’ Well, I may not have lived as long as you, but 1 have been a great deal among old people, and I know how they feel about their fail ing health and about their departed | friends and about the loneliness that some times strikes through their souls. After two persons have lived together for forty or fifty years, and one them is taken away. what desolation! i I shall not rget the ery of Dr. De Witt, of New York, when he stood by the open grave of his beloved wife, and after the obsequies had ended he looked down into the open place and said: “Farewell, my honored, faithful and beloved wife. The bond that bound us is severed. Thou t in glory, and I am here on earth, We meet again. Farewell! Farewell!” To lean on a prop for fifty years and then have it break under you! There were only two vears' difference between the death of my father and mother. After my decease my father used to go around as though looking for something He would often get up from one room without any seeming reason and go to an- other room, and then he would take his cane and start out, and some one would say, “Father, where are you going?’ And he would answer, “l don't know exactly where I am going.” Always looking for something. Though he was a tender hearted man 1 never saw him cry but once, and that at the burial of my mother. After sixty years’ hiving together And there are aged ; o are feeling just such a that. I want to tell them there is enchantment in the promises of , and I come to them a offer arm, or 1 take their arm and I bring them i re 3! ] i wel father or ol 84 was it art was hard to p people to-day wh pang as Nit down, own ee it there You anvis for the aged p Wn id hairs will ¢ to « » Worry mi and failing t And Inihing ' " > ittie worried will come to ar ich i grand Et #harp o use to God Lord Knows fee or not Cod in a the shepherds to drive bs and sheep np to the “Behold, 12 the i correcteth.” “Though He f, yet will He have compassion.” “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, the Lord delivereth him out of them “Weeping may endure for a night, I am out of ai hariny happy st ut etermined that no one shall his house uncomforted. So I come to your timid and shrinking soul to-day and cdmpel you te come out in the presence of the Divine Physician He will not hurt you. He hss been heal ing wounds for many vears, anu He will give you gentle and omnipotent medica ment. Jut people. when they have trouble, go anywhere rather than to God. De Quin- cey took opium to get rid of his Ph Charles Lamb took to punch, Theodore Hook took to something stronger, Edwin Forrest took to theatrical dissipation, and men have run all around the earth, hop ing in the quick transit to get away from their misfortunes. It has been a dead failure. There is only one well that can slake the thiret of an afflicted spirit, and go “COMMERCIAL REVIEW. Giemeral Trade Conditions, New York (Specialy —R. G, Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: “There is no complaint from any part of the country over the volume of cur rent distribution of and what hesitation is observed in general trade is chiefly due to the uncertainty as to the duration of the labor troubles in the manufacture. Collections continue good. better weather has help ed the agricultural money 1s easy, and stocks of merchandise car ried are not above the this season of year, particularly West ind Southwest “Having heat and drought prices, speculato i the that earl planted corn. The r¢ fquotat: { Of merchandise, steel 1 classes, average for in the no further ammun reports for have turned and demon ition hoi ndden sudan other extrem . frosts threaten all late sult h been dN this City Sa 4 the gospel. But some one in the andience says, “Notwithstanding all vou have said this morning. I find no alleviation for my trou bles.” Well, I am not through yet have left the most potent consideration for the last. 1 am going to soothe you with tie thought of heaven. However talkative we may be, there will come a | time when the stoutest and most em- phatic interrogation will evoke from ua | ro answer. As soon as we have closed our lips for the final silence no power on earth can break that taciturnity. But where, O Christian, will be your spirit? In a scene of infinite gladness: the spring morning of heaven wawing its blossoms in the bright air; victors fresh from battle showing their sears; the rain of earthly sorrow struck through with the rainbow of eternal jov: in one group God and an- | gels and the redeemed—Paul and Rilas Latimer and Rid'vy, Teainh and Jeremials., Payson and John Milton, Gabriel and Michael, the archangel: lone line of choris- | ters reaching across the hills; seas of joy dashing to the white beach: conquerors | marching from gate to gate, vou among . them. what a great flock God wil gather around the celestial well! No stone on the wells mouth while the shepherd waters the sheep. There Jacob will ree | ognize Rachel, the shepherdess. And ¥anding on one side of the well of eternal rapture vour children and standing on the other side of eternal rapture your Chris | tian ancestry, you will be bounded on all sides by a Joy #0 keen and grand that no | other world has ever been permitted to experience it. Out of that one deep well of heaven the Shepherd will berea weal for the ved, th health for the sick, for He voor, And then all the rh LB Be will Je Sawn J the green hasturgs, an worl thou we Tord that on this surtier Sabluth mor: story Jacob and Rachel at the well Live Stock. Coo § Lin + stock $2 %0a4.40; bulls choice high mnixed and bu to Sheep choice eavy, good to choice $1.60a4.00; fair to « $1.2583360; Western saeep. 2 R15, Liberty. Cattle—E prime. $35.5088.05; | Hogs dull and lower: prime Seavy assorted meditnse, $6.00a0.0%; best Yorkers, $6.10; light do, $5.90106.00, East » Sey: 5.40 LABOR AND INDUSTRY “Corn exports for the week aggre- gate 000.714. against 633.6004 last week, and 2.800.754 in this week a year ago.” Fort Worth has 40 unions. There are 45.000 union merchants, Philadelphia is to have a labor tem- e Fort Worth has a Woman's Label League. : . Brooklyn bricklayers’ laborers get $3 a day. Louisville carpenters get $230 for nine hours, PURE FOOD Interesting Facts Concerning the Roasting of Coffee Brought Out by Scientific Lxnertieresence of Bacteria, TorLepo, August 10th—The jury Judge Meck’s court in this city found James White, a local grocer, guilty of selling adulterated coffee, The prosecution wag based on a pack- age of Ariosa coffee. The State of Ohlo, through the Pure Food Commission, prosccuted White. The case was trial for nearly a month, and attracted atten- tion, Ww wae es .» The manufacturers of Arioga coffec conducted the defense for White, Attorneys of were retained to but after a short consuliation of guilty returned by The State hilo considers tory. re Food C Biackburn hae been wazing on spurious food partment The complaint of was that Ariosa coffe a guns! » coffee and m The 8 azing was a fas in bus on uational wr ware “A Grocer emineno him 1 a verdict the this defend 3 was { vie mInissio: a warfare article t and the has been successinal, the State of Oh » Wag conted wit) which conc pele tate cis for the propagation of Prof. G. A. Kirchimal a well-known cl cipal tified th: aminations rehased Withegs it he of fre of a00n further ifled aat othe fees he examined ecoetained f ia or nons at all He declared the glazed cof was not a wi tos! ter or food produ. Chemist Sehmwgt, roborated 1 of Cin be timony O Kirchmalier. The State di furthes The the BCientis tos d not 1 fo give testimer H. WW. Wier, uitural O00 000 ¢ ation of tl tes » ad CF RR torney del formation lng Ie gis Professor Vauzlin, algo a withess 1 hie found bacier Professor Blelle, defonre, number ofee he the test of lively Lact examined axed coflee surely a noi medinm for the propagation than unziazed Pure Food Commissioner Blac says: “The Stat over its vic tory was bacier:a coffee, sburn h elated der is Yory mud We ar of informing every hat it is laws to file BOW cob grocer in th Ohilo 1 an infraction ! ue Ariosa, and at warniug to cousnmers in gel give - Count ®AM0 isat the adulterated food article verdict of the pational mpc yreat many other lisye pure food laws like that of Qlilo. znd it is natural to suppose that similar ne. tion will be taken by other Pore Food Commissioners to prevent the sale of glazed coffees. an he KR OL jury in this case ance beeause a i Slates Averaging 1t Up. “Last in front of watermelons teen different year, sh of the grocery to gas “last year I be ug watermelons wot one of them was ripe.” “Yee, 1 know,” replied the grocer, “And this year" “This year, madam, you will buy six teen oihiers of me, and not one will be green. 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