6 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, MAY 19 » 1808, STORY OF MOSES Oro of tho Grandest Charactors 0 All History. Lawglver, Poot mand Warrior A from Which Rev. Dr, Talmage Ex tracts Practical sons for His Hearers. Care Some Les The following sermon by the popula: Washington preacher contains much | that is inspiring for all classes of peo | ple. The text chosen as a basis for his | remarks is Exodus: 8: 1: “Now Moses | kept the flock of Jethro, his father-in | law, the priest of Midian.” In the southeastern part of Arabia a man is sitting by It is | country, and water is scarce, | well is of great and herds are driven vast distances to have | their thirst slaked. Jethro, a Midianite sheik and priest, was so fortunate as | to have seven danghters; and they are practical girls, and yonder they come | driving the sheep and cattle and camels of their father to the watering. They | lower the buckets and then pull them | up, the water plashing on the stones and chilling their feet, and the troughs | are filled. Who is that man out there sitting unconcerned and looking on? Why does he not come and help the women in hard work of water? But no sooner have tl and panting nost trils of the gun to a little the bri trough than some rough Bed the irive an arid | so that a wks and | a well, value, fl this irawing ry lips ox ks i Ls cool in mining pon scene, hack t) OacKk Ln aroused. had de a quick monstre A saw an Egypt ite and gave and bur he showed afters stunning ar othe r as he he hoots sheep and cattle invad havin Cries iains!” and and roar here a group iriven the eattle men of ittle he her own des he tent or aug nte nt have wear her fi plucked buttercups, and « and sighed idly tothe winds, over imaginary songs to the No, knew that work was honorable, and that ought to have something to do, and starts with the bleating and lowing and bellowing and neighing droves to the well for the watering. Around every home there are flocks and droves of cares and anxieties, and every daughter of the family, though there be seven, ought to be doing her part to take eare of the flocks. In many households, not only is Zipporah, but all her sisters, without practical and useful employments. Many of them are waiting for fortunate and prosper ous matrimonial alliance, but some lounger like themselves will come along. and after counting the large number of father Jothro's sheep and camels will make proposal that will be nocepted; and neither of them having done saything more practical than to chew chocolate caramels, the two nothings will start on the road of life together, every step more and more ns fallure. That daughter of the Midiantish shell will never find her Moses. Girls of Ameriea! imitate Zipporal. Do something prac tical. Dosomething helpful. Do some thing well. Many have fathers with great flocks of absorbing duties, and such » father needs help in home, or office, or fleld. Go out and help him with the floaks. The reason thst so romances, and wept brooks? she every girl s0 she { if sickness should prostrate | wolves and bears | the servants should | qualif many men now condemn themselves te unaflianced and solitary life is because they cannot support the modern young | woman, who rises at half-past 10 in the | morning and retires after midnight, one of the trashiest of novels in hands most of the time between the late rising and the late retirement—a thousand of them not worth one Zip porah. her | There is a question that every father | and mother ought to ask the daughter nt breakfast or tea table, and that the the wealthy ought to ask each other: “What would you do if the family fortune should fail, 1 aii daughters of shi vinner, if the flocks of Jethro should by be de sudden excursion of and h would stroyed i venas from the What do for Could Can you take or brother or sistes.as self?” Yea, bring it any day might come family. “Can mountain? 0 reel? vou support care of an living? You you inval well as your to what n prosperous cook a dinner if n strike higher and that ing?” Every minute of every hour of every day of every year there are fam- ilies flung from prosperity into hard- ship, and, alas! if in such exi seven daughters of Jethro ean do ne ing but sit around and cry and for some to and hunt t up a situation for which they have something Do not say my owr down to you make for wages leave morn- ith walt one come hem no ieation. Get at UKE ful; get t rig “14 I we at i ht away. thrown upon become § ; 'n hel ¢ of themselve you will have Fr ! others thr go ul up. wk op! that n ly unde rtakers; y's knees kn gether dogs woul Elijah, wh than th ayer brougl ree years rought, ar her prayer br the ms: of sl deepsxit a path thr fisO In i has a great d years before | the oppressed Isra a KDoN F that hj then Will go on in other tudes of God's universe. No one how great good or for evil. There are branchings out and rebounds, reverberations, realizes he is for and and elaborations of influence that ean- | not be estimated, The fifty or one hundred years of our earthly stay only a small part of our sphere. The flap of the wing of the destroying an- gel that smote the Egyptian oppress ors, the wash of the Red sea over the heads of the drewned Egyptians, were all fulfiliments of promises four cen- turies old. Anfl things occur in your life and in mine that we cannot necount for. They may he the echoes of what was promised in the sixteenth or seven. teenth century. Oh, the prolongation of the divine memory. Notices, also, that Moses was 50 years of age wher he got this call to become the Israelitish deliverer. Forty years he had lived in palaces as a prince; another 40 years he had lived in the wilderness of Arabia. I should not wonder if he had sald: “Take ayounger man for this work. Eighty winters have exposed my health; 80 summers have poured thelr heats upon my head. There are 4 years that 1 nt among the enervating luxuries a palace, and then followed the 40 years of wil derness hardship. Iam too old. Let me off. Better call » man in the forties or fifties, and not one who has entered upon the eighties.” Neverthe lesa, he undertook thd work, and if we 1K | bread- | id mother | gency the | is | want to know whether he succeeded) ask the abandoned brick-kilns of Egyp- tinn taskmasters, and the splintered chariot wheels strewn on the beach of the Red Sea, and the timbrels which Miriam clapped for the Israelites passed over and the Egyptians gone under. Do not retire too early. Like Moses, you may have your chief work to do after 80, It may not be in the high places of the field; it may not be where a strong arm and an athletic foot and a clear vision are required, but there is something for lo. Perhaps it may be to the work have alre: mstrate you vet to « w round off wdy done: to dem patience you have been recommending | stand bay in to 10 all your lifetime; lighthouse at the light others into harbor; per show how glorious a sunset may after a stormy day. Still further, seein this call of Moses perhaps to mouth of the haps COLO that if God has any especial work for | you to do he will find you. There Egypt and Arabia and Palestine their crowded population, but the the Lord wanted was at the point of the triangle of Arabia, and he vicks him right out, the shepherd who kept the of Jethro, his father-in- law, the priest and sheik. B5o God find it hard to take you out the 1,0600,000,000 of the he wants anything es There just one man qualified. Other men had courage like Moses, oth- ff the talents of Mose flock will from human race if not pecial you for was only er men had some « other tory, tt petuom men roms as had Moses Moses: se different qui Ke 18, certainly as w the names of Saul, or uel or M uel or Mo the wondrous fur funer ord coming down out of Heaven to bury him. No human to the choir to chant a psalm, roll a requiem. upon the scene, lips read service the earth to receive the saint; the sacred form: God, with farewell and benediction, closing the sublime obsequies of lawgiver, poet and war rior. “And no man knoweth of his sepulcher unto this day.” some analler example, A great snow storm came on a prairie in Minnesota, and a farmer in » sleigh was lost, but after a while struck the track of another sleigh and felt chegred to go on, sines he had found the' track of another traveler. He heard sleighbells preceding him, and hastening on, he caught J with his predecessor, who said: “Where are you going? *“I am following you” was the answer that came baok. The fact is that they were both lost and had gone round and round in on circle. hen they talked the mat- ter over, and, looking up, saw the north star: and toward the north was their home, and they started straight for it. Oh, instead of imitating men lke our selves and circling round and round, let us look up ard take some starry guide like ey and follow on until we join him amid the ‘delectable mountain.” You say you cannot reach his character. Oh, no. Neither can ou reach the north star, but can guided by its heavenly poluting, were | with | man | southern | Get your eye | on Him, instead of trying to imitate | NNN HOME DYEING A Pleasure at Last. NITRITE a naan a AGE waa0 S jee No Trouble. fF No Muss. . MAYPOLE SOAP WASHES avo DYES T ONE OPERATION +. ANY COLOR. 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STATE COLLEGE OCATED In one of the most beautiful ane healthful spots in the A llegheny Region Undenominational ; Open to both sexes Tuition free; Board and other expenses very low LEADING DEPARTMENTS of STUDY IL. AGRICULTURE and AGRICULTUN CHEMISTRY 1. MOLOGY f BOTANY and HORTICULTUKE 5. CHEMISTRY ( fyi ENGINEERING | ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING y Re HANICAL ENGINEERING NING ENGINEERING HISTORY and POLITICAL SOTENCH IN bu STRIAL AKT AND DENIGN LANGUAGE and LITERATURE; Lat Spanish and Italian, (optional) French German and English, (required. ) § MATHEMATICS and AST NOM Y 10. MECHANICAL ARTS; combining sho work with study i MEN AL and MORAL SOTENOR MILE TARY 80 ENCE theoretionl and prae 13 PREPARATORY D PARTMENT: Pare. 14 erm September 12, 1808, iar gourses tor four pears. rp y Ai) talogue or a GRO. Ww, AT (ERTON, LL. D,, president. Kiate College. Centre County, s ( M MI we | thenee i Nr : | west {| Edward Yeager i 25¢ 50¢ ABSOLUTELY GUARANT BE ple and booklet free, to eure any case of constipation, Casenrets are the desl Laxa. tive, never grig or grive, bul cause vary ustursl results, Kam. Ad, STERLING REMEDY £0. Montreal, Can. , or Kew York, t 1h] (hivorn, “>w WEHAVENO AGENTS = BYE Be ar for 2 denlor's profite uh eyes Top Buggies, Barreys hg tb eo, Phastons, Ho. 71. Burrey Mare Ax good as x Price, §i6.00, Wagona for $35 0 prio, saving Lis of Harness 4 direct 1s 02 ow sl a rea gy Carris rape, Wagon etter, Spring Road snd Milk Bend for large, free Catalogue of all our style Ko 60 Burrey. Price, with curtadas Tempe, wun shale apron sad fenders, BO5, As good we sulle fur PU EI KHART camRIAGE AND HARNESS MFG. CO. W. I. PRATT, Soc'y, ELKHART. IND. es EDUCAT E YOURSELF ° 3 Kee] Al the ANDER PF Do you want’ to buy a Clothing bar- gain? LEGAL NOTICH phan s Cou ad of Clearfiein sale at the ( SATURDAY, in Ms JUNE at 10 o'clock Am estate In Curtin te geseribed as Toll Creek, and wm the following whnshin Fa YW beginnlr | of John MH. Orvis by same and land of Bardin , South ¢ west 51 rods to stones same south oF west 115 rads to stones | thence by land of John Jacobs, north 20 degrees west 210 rods to stones, and south 708, 1 reds 0 A hickory; thenee by north 4° west NN rods stones ; thence by same north 14° east Ng fois loa post; thenoe south 81° west 00 rods to a post on line of John Knarr: thenoe by same porth 1" east 2% rods to stones; thenoe by land of William Lueas, south ssi Marsh tiv Butler Is and of thenee by | degrees i to degrees east | Bicycles, Sundries and Repairs, posting Goods, Fishing Tackle, 000080000 New Wheels From $25 to $75 000080000 Prices Lower Than Ever. OO00e 0000 Wetzel's Bicycle Store, Allegheny BELLEFONTE, W. H. 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WAITE & C0., Agents, Headquarters For Plows, Mi WETS, Harrows, Rake Binders, Separators, Grain Drills, Engines and Corn Planters, Wire Fences. - Agents for Syracuse Chilled mire; Original Perry Harrowe, Farmers Grain Drill and Corn Planter, in one; Osborne “Roller Bearing” Binders, Mowers Rakes, Teaders, Cultivators, Corn Harvest. ers: Hubber Traction Engines snd | 8¢ parators, Frost, Wedge lock, | Spring Wire Fence, Binder Twine i aposingy 3 for 1898, Plows and re hd 1) ny tooth Favorite 64 S10 rods to a post, and north % cast Mrods | to the aforesaid Marsh Creek sad creek 18 rods to the place of beginning containidg 102 acres, net measure, be Lhe same more or less, The above land Is all covered With a young growth of timber TruMs ~Une hail in hand when property is sold, and the balance in one year, with inter “#10 be secured by bond and morigage on the premises JAMES CONNOLLY, J.C. Meyer, Att'y Administrator WALI, PAPER. Do you expect to 4» any papering ? We will send you free a large selection of samples from 3 cents per roll ip, #1 pew colorings and poveltion ub to date, WE PAY THE FREIGHT, We want an agent in every town fo sell on commission from large sample books. No capl- tal required. Por samples or particulars, ad. Sten Ss. WOLF, TEA Hnth Ave, N.Y, Oty, 1 thenee along | BICYCLES. Reading, Standard Crawford Bicycles. HORSE SHOEING and General Repairing done in the best of style, - J. S. WAITE & CO., Agents. Bellefonte, Pa. Victor, and Water Street,
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