———— ———————— W—— REV. DR. TALMAGE. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE, Subject: *Expurgation of the Scrip- tures.” TexT: “Let God be but a lar.” —Romans iii. 4 The Bible needs reconstruction ace to some inside and outside the pulpit, no surprise that the world bom? Seriptures, but it is amazing to find Chris. tian ministers picking at this in the and denying that until many good pe are left in the fog about what parts « Jible they ought to believe and what parts reject The heinousness of finding fault with the Bible at this time is most evident in our day the Bible is assailed by scurrility by misrepresentation, by infidel scientists, by a f earth and all the venom of perdition, and at this part Ar time even preachers ot the Gospel into line of ariticism of the word of God, Why, it makes me think of a ship in a September equinox the waves dashing to the top of the smoke- stack, and the hatches fi ned down, and many prophesying tl 1 of the steamer, and at that tin me of the crew with axes and saws go down into the h the ship, and they try to saw planks and pry | ber true, avery man ording It is 1 the vies rause the tim lid n forest It does n iness for the and stor: 1nsd the roaring « stem and stery ing a very rou that not » the captain ss I have noticed ber knee are buil she is going eradit to those When 1 particular tures, itr t seem t fully od by tha | ai 8, RI all Iufinite t understo Yery su urchase Emr igh the Testan iirty-nine turned tury, aud in Christianity logue of the boo logue corres; timony given by the enemy of now just like th Assauite and af it « i and burned, yet adhering to-day, in 300 lan- guages I i {the human race he Yu ngue Four hundred miitior pi 3 tenes. Does pot that | as if this book } been divin protected, wn ¥ bad guarded it through the turies? Is it not an argums avery by neg AL 03) i that a k divinely n and t nt plain every bh nough to nest woman protected and in this shape Is lu tho very shape that God wants it. It pleases God and \ lease us, The epidemi s which th of other 1x fulness have auly this. There is not Hyves live years An JUbiisher that ners Ww out of 20.000 that will live a contury here is a bo h of it 1600 years old mach of it 400) years old and with wore bound and resiliones and ste hin it than when the Hook was Hirst put upon parchment OF papyrus, This book saw the cradle of all books, and it will see their graves, you not think that an old book Hke thie, some of it forty centuries old, would come along hobbling with aad on erate Instead of that, more potent than any other book of the time. More copies of it printed in the last ten years than of avy other Look ought have the wey whit brig F114 k LB] the of 1000 that will tell you it he more than one book and other ng ards the | Bible | pide | f the | isands | of fo rgets fame of | Yet | pee 1 Would | hes? | Walter Beott's Waverle y Novels, lay's “History of England,” Disraeli's “En. dvmion,” the works of Tennyson and Long: fellow, and all the popular books of our time { having no such sale in the last ten years as { this old worn out book, Do you know what | astraggle a book has in order to get through one century ortwo centuries? Some old books, during a fire in a seraglio of Constanti nople, were thrown into the street. A man { without any education picked up one of those | books, read it, and did not see the value of it, A scholar looked over his shoulder and saw it was the first and second decades of Livy and he offered the man a large reward if he | would bring the books to his study, but in the excitement of the fire the two parted, and the first and second decades of Livy were for { ever lost. Pliny wrote twenty hooks of his. tory. All lost. The most of Menander's writings lost, Of 180 comedies of Plautus, all gone but twenty. Euripides wrote 100 dramas, all gone but nineteen, Eschlyus wrote 100 dramas, all gone but seven. Varro wrote the lahorio biographies of 700 Ro- mans, not a fragment loft, Quintilian wrote his favorite book on the corruption of elo- quence, all lost. Thirty books of Taotitus lost, Dion Cassius wrote eighty books, only twenty remain, Berosius's history all lost, Nearly all the old books are mummified and are lying in the tombs of old libraries, and perhaps once In twenty years some man ne and picks up one of them and lust off and opens it and finds it he does not waut, this old fit forty centuries ol stands x1 than Maran. es ald blows the wok lay more disen ros the n sense {f ‘ted in st the way and if it detract ts to 1d 188 tw the gen #0 fan nily Bibles, and find it if there are any chapters which have wal erased by lead pencll or pen, and if is any margins you ean find the words, “This to real lay take d his taste and read Sol ther in his heart I'he Old Te incleannes sorts, is y 1 disgust. t int, inste the Byronie and the Parisian vernacular, ich makes sin attractive vl of swppalling. When those old prophets point you to a iazaretto, inderstand ft i= a lazaretto, When a y do right falls back int wi 1 , his integrity, the Bible 4 J vercome by the fascinations of the tive board, or that he surrendered tp convivialities, or that he be. s a little fast fo his habits, 1 will tel) hat the Bible says, “The dog is turned mit again and the sow that was y hot lowing in the mire.” N¢ {iniquity, No garlandson a death's ) nding away with a silver mal lot at ini juty when it peeds an iron sledge hammer, I can safily understand how people brood ing over the description of uncleanness in the Bibio may get morbid in mind until they are wa full of It as the wings, and the beak and the nostril, and the claw ofl a buzzard are fall of the odors of a carcass, but what is wanted Is not that the Bible be disinfect. ed, but that you, the eritie, have your mind and heart washed with carbolie acid, [tell you at this point In my discourse at a man who does not lke this book, and ho is critical as to its contents, and who is wocked and outraged with its descriptions, has never been soundly converted, The lay- | ing on of the hands of presbytery or opis copay does not always change a man's | heart, and men sometimes got into the pul pit, ne well as Into the pew, never having been changed radidally by the sovereign grace of God, Get your heart right and the Jible will be right. The trouble is men's | natures are not brought into harmony with the word of God, Ah, my friends, expurgs tion of the heart is what is wanted! inste kedness SABBATH SC HOOL, INTERNATIONAL LESSON JUNE 23, Fon Lesson Text: Words,”! Luke slonary Lesson Matt, xxviii, 19- ““Saviour’s Parting xxiv. 44-53 (Mls. Golden Text: Commentary. Go Ye, '~This is the pe This its missio erusalem, it is turned from ft { the Begin at genius nary spirit, true, but with their {aces Start from the centre, but go to the circumferences. The command was imperative. They were not to linger, or to exercise their discretion as to whither they were to go, but to go in obedience to His command. It was as abiding as the time wa to be long in which the work was to be aone, When one set of workers fell, another set were to spring into their places. The com mand was a living present, as the Lord was a living and present Lord Moreover, it in- cluded not only the eleven apostles, but the whole company of disciples, Every Chris. tian has some part and some responsibility in connection with this con slon. Some are evangelists, some pastors 1 teachers, some prayers, some private witn givers of me I earnest engaged, each cording to abil rding to h talent, in winning me: m #in to sal vat from the power of satan unto Gos asthere is an unsaved n in the wor this hi this { LOR CHAAS. ROME ney hrist | LHLARH verpowered the us spectators, E rded with very ea Aracter ™ DEATH FROM A PECU Man Ignition JAR ACCIDENT Cleveland Fatally Ii of € irned by the ologne. nen, al Stupidity sand Hed Woman's Death, Tape the Causes of a at the time wher illu 4 i was been alive removed 2 theo Hallstones, ncho Count, Texas, an the stones of which were of enormous sige, happened. One of the st struck a sheep on the head and knoeked out its brains, Many ep were killed or wounded. Several | ns sustained severe injuries, being caught by the storm: crops were utterly destroyed and large limbs were torn fros There was not a window light left in the neighborhood, EE — ee — Sheep Bralned Hy At Paint Rock, © awlul hallstor nes In trees, Resalt of a Steamboat War, People in St. Le yw find it cheaper to travel than to board at home, A trip of 660 miles may be taken a first-2lass steamer for $1.60 and no extra charge is made for ithar meals or stateroom during the two lave and a hall required for the journey This Is one of the incidental results of the steamboat war of rates on the Miasiasip pl. yale 1 II — Satisfied With the New Rifle, Ordnance offleers of the United States Army express great satisfaction with the new rifle adopted for the service. According to one of them, the (hirty.oaliber fe better for effect In stopping the rush of masses under ordinary battle conditions than the ,236 cali- ber of the new navy small arm. — EE —— —_— A Projected Free Vort, Anstin Corbin has at last succeeded in buy- ing the 5500 acres on Long Island necessary to complete his cherished project of a free port at Fort Pond Bay and an American steamship line. In connection with the pro- jeot is a railroad which will connect with one ef the New York lines, EE cm—— A rrot Ihition € hureh, There is a “Prohibition Congregational Church" in Santa Moniea, Cal, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, Zine can now be refined by elee- trolysis, The summit of Mount Vesuvius can now be reached by a cable railway. M. Cristiani, of Geneva, has made chemical tests which show that at a height of six hundred metres the air is free from bacteria, Popcorn pops becanse the essential oil in the corn is converted into R08 by heat, and thus an explosion occurs which tears the kernel open. The aibatross has been known to follow a ship for two months without ever being seen to alight 1n the water or take a moment's rest, It is be lieved to sleep on the wing. A prominent surgeon of the British army in India has been conducting an exhaustive series of experiments to determine whether strychnine antidote to snake He that it is not. Professor Gurit, 104] poison, say of Berlin, who has been carefully compiling statistics, finds that the use of chloroform as a anaesthetic is fatal in one 1500, and the similar us fatal only in one case Professor C. V. etomologist, who studies the bugs for Uncle advance theory of telepathy amon sixth sense whereby they to communicate with ou great Distine corresponding produced twice tion, have de la Gry habits 0 Sam, has distances, At the last Academy of Beier ment was made serum co cancerous tum enltivating the that adop A PROIE Mizrations of a Cat, A well-kn resident ! the owner of a eat that has proved s rirht to be classed wn A8 A Toas yaa a8 A cat car New Way to Gel a Bicycle, ya a bios Brooklyn. carrying a at the js 's a oung man In young man, called Ihe footpump, artments one of the fashi lyn and stated by the owner o pump up the wheel suspeatingly led the y cellar bin, where the opened the door and left him pumping up the tires. When the janitor re turned after a few moments’ he found that the tires had been = well pumped up that the young man and the bicycle had Huop peared to gether. Up to date neither the yonug man nor the bicyeie has retarned, an: the owner of the whe an 1 the janitor are trying to decide which shall stan | the loss. Chicago ne a- Herald, — —— — His Choice, “I'm glad Billy had the sense to marry a settled old maid,” said Graud- ma Wickfleld at the wedding, “‘Gals is hity-tity, and widders is sort of overrulin’ and upsettin’. Bat son how old maids is sort o’ thankful and willin' to please.” And the lady rocked away comfortably, with the consciousness of haviag said a good thing, but the look on the face ol Billy's new wife, as she fixed the old Indy with her glittering eye, was sug- gestive of snything but meekness, Albany (N. Y.) Joarnal. EE — - Tares lor Hay, Quite a number of farmers near Corneling, Ore., have sown tares for hay, Tares are becoming very popu lar with the fariners where they have beetr tried, making nn excellent pas. ture for pigs and prolucing four or five tons of fine hay per acre —New York Post, bieyeie absence Xowed | blood depends for i Bakin ( oye wder ABSOLUTELY PURE The Serpent's Triel kK. power of continuing motion- lifted head projecting lefinite time 18 01 11 of the serpent’s f the high The with the forward for an in of the mn wt wonder! ar feat es, and 18 o1 lmportanc 6 10 the fascinating leas nuscul ont when wal, both 1 when ania nn an mimicking for instanc aquatic plant; h to on acconnt o on the human mind, serpents strange tude, fixed on TORE Gold Mine in a tive ) ts richness and If digestion stops, poisonous matter ace cumulates and 1s forced into the blood } ac 1 ww § there 18 Nn £ € r it to go ” 0 iF ¢ ¢ / ¢ 4 ¢ ¢ ¢ M ¢ / RM ENGINES AND BOILERS mes TY B.W.PAYNE& SONS. Eimira N.Y. 5. 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CO, Chi cago, LL EXT WANTED iN Poth S18 Th TAL he **1 INEXE" are the Best and Most Boonomi. nd ies £oished ol ke, and hed n ollar & #1 well, wear weil an they are made of fine rovers: nd. A bax of Cuffs worn ny ot} wink ely s equal to two of Ten Collars or Five Pals of C “afis for Twenty-Five Cen A Sammie Collar and Pate of Cuffs by mall fer Bix Cents REVERSIBLE O 7 Praaklin Bt, New Tork, ame w tyie and size. Address ILLAR COMPAXY, 27 Kilby Bt, Boston. ENS ON tab ea fore EPR ites err LE A ad udicating ¢ AaTua, MIL) ha— dye igre These stopped using soap, long ago. This one stopped because—well, w e’ll have to guess why. it gave him too much work to do. what everybody thinks, nothing when there's REL because she Perhaps, because That's for that matter, but soap at han 4 and there's a rood deal of dirtto b removed from anything But this one st Pl ped » had found YN better than soap—Pearline. Something easier, quicker, simpler, more economical. No rubbing to speak of, no wear—easy work and money saved, whether it's washing clothes, cleaning house, or any kind of washing and cleaning. v/ LL 203 Pearline “ 74 What Brings Release From Dirt and Grease? Why, Don't You Know? SAPOLIO!
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