Dr. Talmage Says No Better Medicine
Did a Man Ever Take,
Forgive the Repentant-~The Perfect Life to
Come Cultivate Hope.
(Copyright, 1901.)
Wasnrxaron, D. C.—In this discourse
Talmage would lift people out of de-
spondency and bring something of future
134 into earthly depression, The text is
ebrews vi, 19, “Which hope.”
There is an Atlantic Ocean of depth
and fullness nn the verse from which
my text is taken, and I only wade into
the wave at the beach and take two
words. We have all favorite words ex-
pressive of delight or abhorrence, words
that easily find their way from brain
to lip, words that have in them mornings
and midnights, laughter and tears, thun-
derbolts and dewdrops. In all the lexi-
cons and vocabularies there are few words
that have for me the attractions of the
last word of my text, “Which hope.”
here have in the course of our life
been many good angels of God that have
looked over our shoulders, or met us on
the road, or chanted the darkness away,
or lifted the curtains of the great future,
or pulled us back from the precipices,
or rolled down upon us the rapturous
music of the heavens, but there is one of
these angels that has done so much for us
that we wish throughout all time and
aternity to celebrate it—the angel of Hope.
Bt. Paul makes it the center of a group
of three, saying, “Now abideth faith,
hope, charity.” And, though he says that
charity is the greatest of the three, he
oes not take one plume from the wing, or
pne ray of luster from the brow, or one
aurora from the cheek, or one melody
from from the voice of the angel of my
text, “Which hope.”
That was a great night for our world
when in a Bethlehem caravansary the
josant Royal was born, and that will
a great night in the darkness of your
soul when Christian hope is born. There
sill be chanting in the skies and a star
Pointing to the Nativity. I will not
ther you with the husk of a definition
and tell you what hope 1s. When we sit
down hungry at a table, we do not want
Rn analytical discourse as te what bread
Hand it on; pass it round; give us a
plice of it. John speaks of hope as a
‘pure hope;” Peter calls it a “lively
ope;” Paul stvles it a ‘“‘good hope,” a
“gure hope,” a ‘rejoicing hope.” And all
up and down the Bible it is spoken of as
an anchor, as a harbor, as a helmet, as a
oor.
When we draw a check on a bank, we
must have reference to the amount of
money we have deposited, but Hope
makes a draft on a bank in which for her
benefit all heaven has been deposited.
Hope! May it light up every dungeon,
stand by every sickbed, lend a helping
hand to every orphanage, loosen every
chain, caress every forlorn soul and
turn the unpictured room of the alms.
house into the vestibule of heaven! How
suggestive that mythology declares that
when all other deities fled the goddess
of Hope remained!
It was hope that revived Jon Knox
when on shipboard near the coast of
Scotland he was fearfully ill, and he was
requested to look shoreward and asked if
he knew the village near the coast, and he
answered: “I know it well, for I see the
steeple of that place where God first
opened my mouth in public to His glory,
and I am fully persuaded how weak that
ever I now appear I shall not depart this
fife till I shall glorify His holy name in
the same place.” His hope was rewarded,
snd for twenty-five years more he
preached. That is the hope which sus-
tained Mr. Morrell of Norwich when de-
parting this life at twenty-four years of
age he declared, “I should like to under-
stand the secrets of eternity before to
morrow morning.” That was the kind of
hope that the corporal had in the battle
when, after several standard bearers had
fallen, and turned to a lieutenant-colonel
and said, “If 1 fall, tell my dear wife that
d die with a good hope in Christ and
that 1 am glad to give my life for my
country.” That was thé good hope that
Pr. Good had in his last hour when
he said: “Ah, is this death? How have
I dreaded as an enemy this smiling
friend!”
No beter medicine did a man ever take
than hope. It is a stimulant, a febrifuge,
a tonic, a catholicon. Thousands of peo-
le long ago departed this life would
ave been living to-day but for the reason
they let hope slip their grasp. 1 have
known people to live on hope after one
Jung was gone and disease had seemed to
lay hold of every nerve .and muscle and
artery and bone.
Alexander the Great, starting for the
wars in Persia, divided his property among
the Macedonians. He gave a village to
one, a port to another, a field to another
and all his estate to his friends. Then
Perdiceas asked, “What have you kept for
ourself” He answered triumphantly,
Hope.”
And, whatever else you and I give away,
we must keep for ourselves hope—all com-
forting, all cheering hope. In the heart
of every man, woman and child that hears
or reads this sermon may God implant this
principle right now!
Many have full assurance that all is
right with the soul. They are as sure of
heaven as if they had passed the pearl
panels of the gate, as though they were al-
yeady seated in the temple of God unroll-
ing the libretto of the heavenly chorister.
J congratulate all such. I wish I had it,
too—full assurance—but with me it is
hope. © “Which hope.” Sinful, it expects
forgivences; troubled, it expects relief;
eft, it expects reunion; clear down, it
expects wings to lift; shipwrecked, it ex-
pects lifeboat; bankrupt, it expects eter-
nal riches; a prodigal. it expects the wide
open door of the father's farmhouse. It
does not wear itself out by looking back-
ward; it always looks forward, What is
the use of giving so much time to the re-
hearsal of the past? Your mistakes are
not corrected by a review. Your losses
cannot, by brooding over them, be turned
§nto gains. It is the future that has the
ost for us, and hope cheers us on. We
Fo all committed blunders, but does the
calling of the roll of them make them any
%he less blunders? Look ahead in all mat-
of usefulness. However much you
fore have accomplished for God and the
Mworld’s betterment your greatest useful
hess is to come. “No,” says some one,
“my money is gone “No,” says some
‘one, “the most of my years are gone and
therefore my usefulness.” Why, you talk
like an infidel. Do you suppose that all
our capacity to do good is fenced in by
is life? Are you going to be a lo nger
and a do nothing after you have quit this
world?
It is my business to tell you that your
faculties are to be enlarged and intensified
and your qualifications for usefulness mul
tipled tenfold, a hundredfold, » thousand.
oid.
Is your health gone? Then that is a
sign that you are to enjoy a celestial
health compared with which the most fo
cund and hilarious vitality of earth is
validism. Are your fortunes spent?!
member, you are to be kings and queens
unto God. And how much more wealth
you will have when you reign forever and
ever! I want to see you when you get
our heavenly work dress on. This little
[4 of a speek of a world we eall the earth
is only the place where we get ready to
work. We are only journeymen here, but
will be master workmen there. Heaven
will have no loafers hanging around. The
book says of the inhabitants, “They rest
mot day nor night.” hy rest when they
‘work without fatigue? Why seek a pillow
when there is no night there? I want to
as been exchan for power of flight
and velocities infinite and enterprises in-
terstellar, interworld. :
I suspect that the telescope of that ob.
servatory brings in sight constellations
that may comprise ruined worlds which
need looking after and need help saintly
and missionary. There may be worlds
that, like ours, have sinned and need to
be rescued, jorhaps saved by our Christ
or by some plan that God has thought out
for other worlds as wise, as potent, as
lovely as the atonement is for our world,
The laziness which has cursed us in this
world will not gain the land of eternal ag-
tivities—so much tonic in the air, so much
inspiration in the society, so much achieve-
ment after we get the shackles of the
flesh forever off. Do not dwell so much
on opportunities past, but put your ems
phasis on opportunities to come,
Am I not right in saying that eternity
can do more for us than can time? What
will we not be able to do when our powers
of locomotion shal] be quickened into the
immortal spirit’s speed? Why should a
bird have a swiftness of wing when it is
of no importance how long it shall take
to make its aerial way from forest to for-
portant errand in the world, get on so
slowly? The roebuck dutruns us, the
hounds are quicker in the chase, but wait
until God lets us loose from all limitations
and hinderments. Then we will fairly be-
gin,
stone. Leaving the world will be gradua-
tion day before the chief work of our men-
tal and spiritual career. Hope sees the
doors opening, the victor’s foot in stirrup
for the mounting. The day breaks—first
flush of the horizon. The mission of hope
will be an everlasting mission, as mue
it in the heavenly hereafter as in the
earthly now. Shall we have gained all as
soon as we enter realms celestial—nothing
more to learn, no other heights to climb
existence, the same thing over and over
again for endless vears? No!
this.
and look for ever brightening landscapes,
other transfigurations of color, new glo-
mingled with fire, becoming a more
liant
fire. “Which hope.”
hear of your son's reformation and others
may think he has left this life hopeless,
who knows but that in the last moment,
after he has ceased to speak and before
his soul launches away, your prayer may
have been answered and he be one of the
first to meet vou at the shining gate. The
prodigal in the parable got home and sat
down at the feast, while the elder brother,
who never left the old place, stood pouting
at the back door and did not go in at all.
the angel of hope. and they are the inva-
lids. 1 cannot take the diagnosis of your
disorder, but let hone cheer you with one
of two thoughts. marvelous cures
are being wrought in our day through med-
ication and surgery that your invalidism
may vet be mastered.
Persons as ill as vou have got well. Can-
cer and tuberculosis will yet give way be-
fore some new discovery. I see every day
people strong and well who not long ago
I saw pallid and leaning heavily on a staff
and hardly able to climb stairs.
But if vou will not take the hand of hope
for earthly convalescence let me point
you to the perfect body you are yet to
have if vou love and serve the Lord.
Death will put a prolonged anaesthetic
upon your present body, and you will
never again feel an ache or pain, and then
in His good time you will have a resurrec-
tion body, about which we know nothing
expect that it will be painless and glorious
beyond all present appreciation. What
must be the health of that land which
never feels cut of cold or blast of heat,
Such
WHEN MIL KIS FILTERED.
When milk is filtered through cotton
no cream is lost, but experiments show
that the cotton largely prevents the ac-
cess of germs to the milk, and that filtra-
tion is almost equal to sterilization,
NOT A
METAL
Wool is no longer the leading article
leading
WOOL IS LEADING
that he could burn every pound of wool
and then make more money than from
the fine-wool breeds.
CHARCOAL
HENS.
It is a good plan to always have some
FOR
there is nothing that can be fed to hens
You can feed them
corn once a week which will
the place of charcoal. You can
char it by putting the corn, ear and all
charred
TERS.
for or home use
sold just as soon as they are
intended breeding
i %
large enough, as
adice. In most of the poultry markets
. i }
Of IUCcH «
they will bring a better
an mquiry tor maie
is after they get t
Farmers make a |
f rosters y
r of "4 5 OF
pneumonias on the air, your fleetness
greater than the foot of deer, your eye-
health, in a country where all the inhab-
itants are everlastingly well!
You who have in your body an en-
eysted bullet ever since the Civil War;
vou who have kept alive only by precan-
tions and self denials and perpetual watch.
ing of pulse and lung; you of the deafened
ear and dim vision and the severe back.
ache: you who have not been free from
pain for ten years, how do you like this
story of physical reconstruction, with all
weakness and suffering subtracted and
everything jocund and bounding added?
Do not have anything to do with the
gloom that Harriet Martineau expressed
in her dying words: “I have no reason to
believe in another world. I have had
enough of life in one and can see no good
reason why Harriet Martineau should be
perpetuated.” Wonld you nos rather have
the Christian enthusiasm of Robert An
satisfied if I manage somehow to get into
heaven,” replied, pointing to a sunken ves
sel that was being dragged up the River
Tay: “Would you like to be pulled into
heaven with two tugs like that vessel yon
all my sails set and colors flying.”
apair about the world’s moral condition.
tics. They tell of the num
but do not take into consideration that
there are a thousand happy homes where
there is one of marital discord. .
They tell you of the large number in
our land who are living profligate lives,
but forget to mention that there are
many millions of men and women who are
doing the best they can. .
They tell you the number of drunkeries
in this country, but fail to mention the
thousands of glorious churches with two
doors—one door open for all who will en-
ter for pardon and consolation, and the
other door opening into the heavens for
the ascent of souls prepared for transia-
tion.
From this hour cultivate hope. Do so
by reading all the Scriptural promises of
the world’s coming Edenizatior, and doubt
if vou dare the veracity of the Almighty
when He says He will make the desert
down in the same pasture field, and the
lion, ceasing to be carnivorous, will be-
come graminivorous, eating “straw like an
ox,” and reptilian venom shall chan \
harmlessness, to that the “weaned child
shall put his hand on the cockatrice’s
destroy in all God's holy mountain, for the
earth shall be full of the knowledge of the
Lord as the waters cover the sea.” So
much for the world at large.
Then cultivate hope in regard to your
your own longevity, seeing how in
other people mercifully reverses things
and brings to the unexpected, re-
mem
the last, and, further, by making sure of
your eternal safety through Christ Jesus,
understand that you are on
lnces and thrones. This life a apna
ong, ending in durations of bliss that
neither human nor archangelic faculties
can measure or estimate—redolence of a
springtime that never ends and fountains
tossing in the light of a sun that never
sets, y God thrill us with anticipation
of this immortal glee! “Which hope.”
I said in the opening of this subject
that my text was only the wave on the
beach, while the whole verse from which
it is taken is an ocean. But the ocean
tides are coming in, and the sea is gettin
#0 detp I must fall back, wading out as
waded in, for what mortal can stand be.
fore the mighty su of the full tide of
eternal gladness? “Eye hath not seen nor
FE alt ihe Aih Saar
eart of man t ngs whic!
prepared for them that love him.”
fal:
where
ame time and
adjoining rows
ap We do no
eon for this, as we
the growing or cu
stalks
are not familiar with
ring of celery seed
But not always is the fanlt in the
:
or the plants set.
have seen it appear in almost every case
when the manure used was fresh and not
How one may always have
tender and crisp celery we cannot say
but we advise the grower not to nse
fresh manure or any commercial fertil
izer which has not a larger percentage of
potash than of nitrogen. and when he
finds a dealer whose seed or plants give
good stand by them every
time. And even then he may
some corky or stringy celery. ~The Cul
results to
DER.
By dry corn fodder I understand to
main coarse feed for the winter, We
of which the
night and morning roughage is cut corn
clover and timothy hay, while the cows
when not in stable have free access to
oat straw. The morning and evening
grain rations are fed, the former after
milking, the latter before, both beipg
given on a clean floor. Formerly [ fed
Later 1 bought a three-
horse mounted tread power and a six-
teen inch fodder cutter. I have cut in
one-quarter, one-half, three-quarters, one
one and a half and three inch lengths,
and adopted the longest cut for several
reasons. I can cut with less power, It
makes nubbins of the large ears, thus
shelling much less grain than when cut
short. The leaves being cut long are
more easily secured by the cows.
The stubs and whatever may be left
are thrown under the cows for bedding,
and when mixed with the manure fur-
nish the very best fertilizer. In
its feeding value as compared with
—
whole fodder I believe the same amount
cut will feed about one-tenth more than
if given whole, There a great ad
vantage gained by having a quantity of
feed on hand, thus not necessitating a
trip to the field every day in any and all
kinds of weather. There is convenience
and pleasure in handling cut feed, to-
gether with the satisfaction one always
feels when work is being done right,
The cost of our cutting is estimated at
30 cents per ton for labor. This does
not include the wear on machinery, or
the interest on the investment, which,
per ton, would be very small. The cost
of power as furnished by horse tread |
do not regard as anything. The differ-
ence between the feed required for a
horse at work and at rest for the time
we use them, about Sfty minutes per ton
is insignificant. I do not cut either hay
or straw, but believe it would be satis-
factory to cut straw if it were desired |
to feed with grain in order to econo- |
mize. It is my firm belief that it will]
pay the farmer to cut his corn fodder, if |
nothing more than for the extra valve he |
secures from his stalks by being used |
for litter.—Healy W. Alexander, in New |
is
POTASH FERTILIZERS.
Waldo E. Brown for the Cin
cinnati Weekly Gazette that the office of
potash as plant food is to help form the
writes
starch, and such crops as corn and po
tatoes, which contain large amounts of
starch, need more potash than those that |
Light
need it me
ll
SOLS ire
s0ils Tt It at 4 * 5
iS. 1I¢ muriate gives a goo
potatoes on light
the
quality,
Ciay sulphate
If used
1
should not come in «
pre duces
4
age
the fars with
fodder con
Very often those whe
pared will turn their milel
and s
do that
{ ground feed, 3
diciously fed, will give you back your
money in milk yield, and with a fair |
rate of interest thereon. The idea is tod
do anything in the way of legitimate
supplemental feeding rather than to al
low a premature milk shrinkage
Barring prolonged droughts, the pas-
tures in our most extensive dairy reg.
tons might be made to yield upp ting
feed much later i the
they now do.
Rather than
one
which,
nto season than
On a limited scale in one portion of |
Wisconsin | saw irrigation utilized suc-
and flourishing the whole summer.
Top-dressing the land with stable com.
post by mulching the grass roots helps
to subserve moisture, which is fully as
important in stimulating the growth of
feed as is the fertilizing principle that it
imparts. Shade trees in the pasture ju-
diciously placed also serve the same end
and at the same time shield the cattle
from the sun's rays
Many pastures, too, are not well sel
ected as to character of soil and location,
and hence are of little aid in profitably
maintaining a dairy herd.
The best grass land should be chosen
that is, land fertile and capable of re-
taining moisture, as occurs where there
is a clay subsoil,
Once established, a good, reliable pas.
ture is the cheapest, and hence the most
profitable means of maintaining a sum-
mer dairy «George E. Newell, in Amer-
ican Cultivator,
COLD FRAMES FOR WINTER
VEGETABLES. :
The frames should be in the warmest
possible situation, facing south, or in
that general direction. 1 construct my
hotheds on a different plan from most
others, 1 build a more permanent
frame. First I set cedar posts the width
of the bed, then nail on boards with an
-.
elevation of about eight inches on the
back The soil is dug out to a depth of
eighteen to thirty inches from the glass
to suit the crop to be grown. The earth
is banked around the frame for protec-
tion,
I construct frames as near air-tight as
possible. It requires less protection dur-
ing the severe freezing weather. The
sash is thoroughly glazed and every
crack is puttied. The crack across the
glass is run with mastica. My sash are
mostly four by six feet, with four rows
of ten inch glass, A bar two by four
inches is placed between each sash. It is
put down a little below the edge of the
top board, but even with the top of the
lower edge of frame. 1 use a strip one
inch thick the depth of the sash; it
nailed on top of the two by four inch
bar, overjets the bottom of frame and is
even with the top edge. 1 put on a
cap board eight inches wide along the
top. It is nailed to the back board of
frame and the bars the sash
This forms a perfect shelter for the sash
to under, the frame being built
about four inches wider than the length
of the sash.
is
between
slide
I find this a great protec-
much heat escapes and
the cra between
much
c the back
board and the sash if constructed in the
I figd there is
necessity for mat
as
very little
or straw for a bed so
constructed
Frames built after this plan will cost
bout $s per sash
I
for years. 1
abe With care they will
think every farmer
a frame, if only a few
uce, green pars-
winter. If any sur-
i f at a
A18DOS
larmer is
last
» can have
f, etic.
ink a
fos
from his
have a
vegetal
OU use
ome
r re-
Be Killed by an Assassin.
t
all
hands to hang naturally at his side
lwwankee Sentinel
Fire Engine Chasers.
The ambulance chaser is no new fig
e¢ in New York life and the class 1s
4
But the chaser of the fire en-
competition
in New York. This
business drummer is always an
tate agent, who sends him to interview
the In view of the fact that
they: may be burned out of their places
of business the chaser takes with him a
list of vacant business buildings in the
tenants
None of the objections to this scheme
that would be thought of first are valid
since it has proved so successful that
the fire chaser promises to take a per-
manent place in commerce. In several
cases, business men watching the de-
struction of their places have been known
to agree with the chaser to take the new
quarters he offered.
The enterprise is still in its infancy
and capable of developments yet unsus-
pected, but it is gaining adherents every
day and one firm has already decided to
adopt these profitable tactics in refer.
ence to dwelling houses and apartments,
although it is thought that the method
may be less successful when the chasers
are compelled to deal with women whe
are watching their homes being de-
stroyed by fire.~New York Sun,
Street Lamps Automatically Lichted,
An arrangement has just been made
whereby the Berlin gas lamps in the
syrect will be lighted automatically and
simultaneously by means of an electric
attachment. The current will be switche
ed on fron: the central station and a
spark will ignite the gas, which will be
turned on by a special apparatus,
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFLY TOLD.
A ————
Latest News Gleaned From All Over
the Siate,
OF GRANTED.
A Media Cripple Could Not Escape From Bura-
ing House and Was Cremated- Eighteen
Pennsylvania Corporations lucrease Their
Stock Durlag October--Norwood Maa Un+
der Ball for Setting Fire to a Barn.
LIST PENSIONS
Pensions granted Pennsylvanians:
ames B. Wilkins, Broadtop, $12; Isaac
Byers, New Eagle, $10; Robert Jack,
Allenport, $8; Henry Bevilhamer, Saeg-
arstown, $8: John Glover, Meyersdale,
$12; Samuel Plank, Shade Valley, $8;
frank Hulick, Oakdale, Madison
McLaughlin, Davis, $10; John Richards,
Wampun, 88; Gerrit Heering, Meyers-
fale, $12; Lewis Cruse, Hollodaysburg.
PB; Adam Manges, Hillsview, $12; Anne
Young, Flegers, $8; Jeanette Moody,
anton, $20
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I'he
Company
and
the
11 «11
controlling all
int tg
directors Philadelphia
the traction
electric of Allegheny
sounty, to increase the bonded
debt of the company from $6,500,000 to
$22,000,000 and the capital stock from
$21,000,000 to $36,000,000.
decided
Fire destroyed the shirt factory oper-
Fidler and Mark Lewis,
} s $5000
injured by
Assist
severely
stable of Samuel
destroyed it and
Marshall Harlan,
3,000,
First Methodist
in Cart lal
roongaie
Episcopal
was destroyed by
l of $30,000
dé
NE a Oss
> tO
€ ks CX yuald
heard from wit no one was
able to aid the unfortunate woman,
wansion on East Cour
street, Doviestown, belonging to Joseph
Mekeal, of Philadelphia, formerly the
Shellenberger property, was sold to the
Pennsylvania Society for the Advance-
ment of the Deaf. The society will
tonduct 2 home for the aged deaf. This
will be the only institution of the kind
in the State, and there are said to be
only two others in existence, one in New
York and one in Ohio
For nine years Benjamin Christine
lived in New Castle as the adopted son
»f Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Lichenderfer,
without knowing that his mother also
sived in New Castle. The boy recently
earned of his mother’s whereabouts, and
ss a result the Court set aside the de-
ree of adoption and mother and son
were united.
The station of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railway Company at West
Woods was broken into and the in-
truders tore up all tickets and paste-
board baggage checks on hand and
threw them into the stove.
Charged with setting fire to the barn
of H. B. Ward, at Prospect Park, which
was destroyed on November 3, Thomas
Alexander, of Norwood, was held in
$1,500 bail by Alderman Smith at Ches-
ter.
As William H. Newcomer, of Hickory
Grove, was working in a field, he was
suddenly bereft of sight in his right eye,
the formation of a blood clot destroying
the vision. i
A thief broke a plate glass window
in Silverman's jewelry store at Shenan-
doah, grabed a tray containing three
gold and three silver watches and ran
off,
G. Wilson Smoyer, of Allentown, who,
it is alleged, attempted to poison hi
parents several weeks ago putting
arsenic in their cofee, was acquitted in
court on the ground of insanity.
A. C. Fulmer, JEopricies of the Mey-
ersdale Electric Light Works, sold
establishment to H. J. Wilmoth, of Mey-
ersdale, for $30,000,
John Runko, a miner, of Enterprise,
has notified the police that robbers en
tered his house and stole i He
: ra than
A large stone