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WONDERS OF NUBIA.
Evidences of an Advanced Civiliza
tion in the Dawn of Time
FOUKD ALOKG THE DrPEE KILE.
The Black Man Gave Greatness to itfjpt,
and ""irjpt to Greece.
MISTEKIES OF THE GREAT KIVEE.
IWBITTEX rOB THE DISPATCH.l
Our knowledge of the ancients ii con
fined to those people who lived in the neigh
borhood of the Mediterranean, and hence
the word meaning "Sea in the middle of the
earth." Ancient history is said to be'a his
tory of murders, conquests and crimes, and
is onlv interesting to us when it treats of the
advancement of religion, learning and the
arts tand sciences, and consequent re
finement. The learning displayed by the
Egyptians 2,300 years before Christ was
much greater than that of the Asiatics of a
far later date, and was spread to Greece, to
Borne, and finally to Amend.
The word Egypt came from the Greek word
Aijryptns, but in the heiroslyphics it was
called Kemi, or the Black Land, from the
color of the soil. The cultivated part of
Egypt is only that part which is annually
inundated by the overflow of the Nile. The
Valley of the Nile, which contains all ot
Egypt, is inclosed by the Libyan Mount
ains 1,000 feet above tide on the west, and
the Arabian Mountains on the east. The
parched land of Egvpt is refreshed at night
by heavy dews, which make the nights cool
and comfortable, and by varying winds dur
ing the day, which come as regularly as do
the season.
THE OTEicrLOW OP THE XILE.
The great phenomenon of Egypt is the
annual overflow o! the Kile. About the
end of June the red water appears, and
gradually, but steadily rises until the end of
September, when it rapidly subsides, leav
ing a deposit of black alluvium and of
calcoreous matter which is used for a fertil
izer, for pottery, for bricks and otherwise.
The crop are sown in November and
reaped in Marcb.
There are two instruments called Kilom
eters in use on the Nile, one on the island
of Rhoda, opposite Cairo, and the other at
Elephantine, near Assuan. They are used
to measure the height of the water, all of
the irrigating canals are kept closed until
the water in the Kilometers reaches 38-
feet, when they are opened and the water
spreads all over Egypt, and as the water
rises the whole country becomes an inland
sea. If the water rises to 52 feet, the crops
will be ruined and consequently the taxes
also. The Kilometer acts in two ways it
measures the water and the amount of taxes,
for as the prospects of good crops increase,
bo do the prospects of a large tax. Accord
ing to Pliny, if the inundation did not reach
13 cubits a famine ensued 14 cubits caused
rejoicing, 15 was safety and 16 was delight,
which last number is symbolically repre
sented by the figures of little children play
in" , 'around the river god in Roman states.
The Cairo Kilometer consists of a stair
way down a wall to low waterlevel. On one
wall is engraved a series of lines indicating
the rise and fall of the river during the time
that the Caesars were in possession of Egypt
"WHEBE THE WATEK COMES FBOSI.
The Blue Kile rises in Abyssinia, while
the White Kile rises in the lake region of
Eqnatoiial Alrica at Victoria Kyanza. 3,800
feet above tide. It flows thence into Albert
Kyanza down a tremendous cataract. At
Khartoum the two Kiles meet. The equa
noxial rains fall early and very heavily in
Equatorial Africa and cause a general over
flow ot the whole country, so that it is in
winter a series of lakes and bogs. Such a
tremendous amount of water comes from the
equatorial .country that the Kile for 460
miles above Khartoum is from one to two
miles wide and qnite deep.
The largest tnbutaryis thcAtbara river,
which flows into it from, the west and con
tains all the rich deposit' which washes down
the Kile 1,500 miles, enriching the country
on both sides. It comes from Nubia, and
without it the whole of Egypt would be
ruined, because the Kile does not seem to
collect otherwise any of the enriching de
posit which it distributes annually through
out the valley. For 1,500 miles from the
Atbara to the sea no other tributary flows
into the Niie, but yet it rolls on at the rate
of three miles an hour, fighting the hot,
sandy desert and its fiery winds, the burning
sun and us rapid evaporation, and enriches
the Mediterranean with scarcely any dimin
ution in volume after traveling 3,300 miles
from its source. It iurnisbes more good to
more people than any other river in the
world. Many rivers flow through great
populations, but no people depend for life
itself oil the annual overflows of anv river.
The changing of the course of those lakes in
Central Africa would destroy Egyptand all
of her people. The god Nilus was a lesser
divinity among the Egyptians and his at
tributes were the Sphynx, the crocodile,
hippopotamus and dolphin.
THE GREAT BEGULABIXJ.
The annual overflows of the Nile is one
of the great phenomena of the earth, for it
has for many ages risen within a few hours
of the same time, and a few inches of the
same height year after year Bince and
probably before history began. Four leet
of a rise at Damietta or "xhe Rosetta
branches indicate a rise of at least 56 feet
at Thebes. The whole valley from moun
tain range to mountain range is covered
with water, while the villages" which nave
been built upon their own shores princi
pally for so many ages, have gradually at
tained a high altitude above the surround
ing plain, and look like islands in the uni
versal flood. Sometimes dikes are required
around the villages to keep out the water if
it is unsually high, especially of late years,
for the river has been coming down a little
stronger or higher daring the past few
years than for many centuries. ,
In some sections there are many cause
ways running from village to village, giv
ing communication during inundation and
allowing of travel. It is very seldom that a
village is lost by a flood, it being watched too
closely during high water. The accumula
tion of soil in this great valley is estimated
at 40 feet in 4,000 years one foot in 100
years. In Middle and Upper Egypt there
are numerous canals used in commerce and
for irrigating purposes, to reach localities
where the flood would not touch. On ac
count of hot, dry, sandy winds, the filthy
manner ot life and general listlessness of
people in very hot countries, many diseases
prevail, such as opthalmia, dysentary and
cholera. Opthalmia is so bad" that most of
the inhabitants have only one eye and many
none at all, while everybody has sore eyes.
Foreigners and even Africans are hard to
acclimatize.
DKIXKIKG THE NILE WATER
The natives claim that no traveler can
drink of the sacred waters of the Kile with
out wanting to return. "What champagne
is to other wines, is the water of the Nile to
other waters." An Arab proverb is that
had Mahomet drank the water of the Nile
he would never have been prevailed upon to
go to Paradise. Harvests follow each other
in rapid succession, according to the kinds
ot grain. The cold weather, so called in
winter, lasts during December and January.
February brings springy During lour or
five months of the spring and summer
Egypt is the hottest country in the same lat
itude on earth. The theraometer averages
90 in summer and 60 in winter.
Between the sea and Cairo rain, thunder
storms or hail would be a phenomenon, as
they seldom occur during the year, but irom
Cairo toward the Soudan and Central Africa
storms increase in number and volume.
Hailstorms are accounted by the laborers
as disastroni to crops in Lower Egypt.
Lightning loses its deitructiveness, and is
not so terrifying as in other parts of the
world. Earthquakes have been felt fre
quently, but there are no volcanoes, no cy
clones, no convulsions of nature except heat
80UBCE OF THE GEEAT SXTEB.
The source of the Kile has long been a
mjitaj, on account of the Ignorant, vicious,
barbarous natives, the intense heat and the
long distance. Livingstone suspected that
the Lualabt was the Kile, but Stanley
proved in 1876-77 that the Lualaba was the
Congo, and by his subsequent explorations
proved that Sir Samnel Baker was right,
and that the Victoria and Albert Kyanza
were the soutce of the Kile, and that its
course is 3.300 miles from there to the sea.
A remarkable thing in this age of re
search is that a newspaper man, H. M.
Stanley, from the great est, should go
almost' to the cradle of civilization to find
the source of the oldest known river in the
world. Granitic dykes cross the Nile at
several places and form great cataracts. A
very beantiful pink granite comes to the
surface at Assuan, or ancient Syene, from
which comes the name Syenitie granite.
From these great quarries come the mag
nificent monoliths and colossal monuments
of Egypt. From Assuan to the sea sand
and limestone are the principal rockST and
from this limestone are built most of the
pyramids and palaces of Lower Egypt.
Building or ship timber is scarce along the
Kile. Even in the Pharaohs time they had
to send to Greece and Syria for timber and
to Alrica lor ebony.
CIVILIZATIOK OF ETHIOPIA.
On the upper Nile ,in Ethiopia monu
ments exist which goto show that originally
the people livinjr in the upper river country,
in Ethiopia, or Nubia which is the same
thing, were farther advanced in the sciences
and arts, tha'u from Thebes down. Ethiopia
was far ahead of Egypt in all of the graces
and refinements although the skins of the
people were blacker. So, really, the black
preceded the white races in knowledge, re
finement and architectural intelligence, al
though the white races arc now in the ascen
dency In Hoskins' journey up the Nile he men
tions that he found wonderful specimens of
architecture on the island of Meroe which
is about 300 miles long. This island is in
Ethiopia and contains, savs he, "several
groups of pyramidal structures of extra
ordinary magnificence. The appearance of
the pyramids in the distance announced
their importance. The pyramids of Tizeh
are magnificieut, wonderful for their stu
pendous magnitude: but for picturesque
effect and elegance of architectural effect
Meroe leads them all."
These sepulchres were built many years
ago for the Kings and Queens of Ethiopia,
lor Meroe was its capital. "From every
point of view pyramid rises behind pyramid,
and other magnificent groups amaze the eye.
There are beautiful porches on the east side
of each pyramid, which contained many
objects of art and hieroglyphs." There are
the remains of 80 of these pyramids in tnree
groups. Most of these stupendous works
are almost destroyed or buried, but traces of
their beauty remain.
THE ABCH OF VICTOBT
Anyone who has been a traveler and has
seen through Europe many beautiful arches
of victory in different nations, would be
astonished to learn that Ethiopia was the
author ot the arch long before Europe came
out of barbarism. All of the nations learned
from Greece, Greece from Egypt and
Eypt from Ethiopia; the white learned
from the black.
On this once populous island the gazelles
now feed where a mighty nation had its
capital city, and where a vast multitude of
people passed daily. The city of Meroe is
now only a pile ot bricks,and her sepulchres
alone remain to tell of the frailty of human
life and glory. Not a palace or temple is
left to tell the tale simply the Acropolis.
Abnusambul, a town on the lelt bank of
the Kile, in Nubia, contains two rock-cut
temples, which are considered to be the old
est samples of architecture in the world.
The largest contains 14 rooms, cut out of the
solid rock. The largest is 52x57 feet and
the ceiling is supported by two rows of
massive pillars 30 feet high. Each pillar
has a Colossus reaching to the roof. There
are in front of this temple four colossal
seated figures, which arc larger than any
Egyptian sculpture yet discovered. They
are each 65 feet high. Thev are supposed
to represent Barneses the Great and Sesos
tris. TVONDEBFUL BUISS AND MONUMENTS.
Abydos, in Upper Egypt, was even in
Strabo's time in ruins; but it contains the
wonderful ruins of the Memnonium and a
grand temple of Osiris. In Abydos was
discovered in 1818 the celebrated tablet
which gave the history in hieroglyphics of
the eighteenth dynasty. All along the Nile
are wonderful monuments, but the traveler
seldom gets above the cataracts very far
and consequently the Kile, through Ethio
opia, is almost unexplored. Many Egyp
tian scholars are anxiously waiting for the
day when some adventurous man will eive
a new revelation as to that singular dark
people whose intelligence and wonderful
knowledge increase as the dark folds of
antiquity reveal them to us.
The lower Nile has been described and
visited by so many people that its ruins and
antiquities are well known. One thing
which they loved dearly, which is carved
beautifully in every temple, and which has
come down in all its ancient beauty, is the
romantica water lily, lotus flower, or, as
they call it in tneir unmusical language,
snnin.
Wherever there is an island in the Nile
it contains the outlines of stupendous
temples or colossal remains, many of them
of great beauty. Parallel with and near
the river are lonr great oases, two of which
contain beautiful temples. One of them
contains what is supposed to be the cele
brated temple of Jupiter Ammon. There is
also parallel with the Kile, probabfy
100 miles west of it, the bed ot a dry river
named Bahr Bela runnibg for about 500
miles into the Nateona lakes, near Alexan
dria, which was certainly in some mys
terious past time a river as large as the Kile.
TKANSPOBTINO THE GBANITE.
There are many lazy boats traversing the
Kile now, bnt during the pyramid, temple
and palace building age, what must have
been its activity in floating tremendous
quantities of stone of size almost inconceiva
ble 1 AVhen the river ran near the great
quarries they used the water to float their
immense stones, bnt if the quarries were far
away from the river and the place of build
ing, they would draw them. The lintel over
the door of the temple of Karnak, which is
40 feet 10 inches iong by .five feet square,
was drawn by slave or other labor as dorses
were unknown. They had slaves to pull,
guards to Watch them and. men to throw
water on the sand in front of the block of
stone, and a person whose duty it was to
mark time by asong intended to make effort
simultaneous like the negro or sailor ot our
day. In one case 2,000 men were employed
three years in bringing a stone from "the
quarry to its resting place.
TBEASUKES OF AN ISLAND.
Elephantine, a small island in the Nile,
opposite ancient Syene, near the Ethiopian
border, was once the chief ivory market of
Central Atrica. It has the rains of a beau
tiful gateway of Alexander's time, a small
temple and a Kilometer which was credited
to one of the Cresars. It contains an in
scription of the heights of the Nile in dif
ferent years under the Boman Emperors.
On tlijs small island are many interesting
monuments, among which is a calendar re
cording the rise of the Dog Star during the
reign of Thothmes III. in the year 1445 u. C.
Alexandria at one time contained about
600,000 inhabitants and was the rival of
Borne and Antioch after it came under the
Ptolemies, and from it were radiated intelli
gence and learning over the known world.
It has always been the Greek capital. After
it was conquered by the Bomaus in 30 B.C.
it at once commenced to decline. Alexan
dria has under most of ner houses a vaulted
cistern which in cases of danger will hold a
year's supply of water, which is let in from
thi.'lresh water canal lrom the Kile.
The days of Alexandria's glory were be
fore the discovery of America and the Cape
of Good Hope route to India, after which
she rapidly declined until she bad only 8,000
inhabitants, bnt the opening of the Suez
Canal awakened her again, and' she is now
the halfway station for all steam communi
cation between the East and the West. Ne
cropolis (a place of burial) is a suburb of
Alexandria. It has many places for the re
ception of the dead on the surface, beautiful
monuments, obelisks and temples, while
great caverns and galleries are cut in the
soft rock: under the lower city, making a
vast receptacle for the dead.
, Btmbalo.
THE
lESSONS OF EASTER.
Dwelling Place of the Soul on Earth
and Beyond the Grave.
THE PKOOF OP A RESURRECTION.
That Christ Rose From the Dead Was Siiffi
cient to Satisfy Paul.
THE APOSTLE'S IDEA OP THE MANNER
fWB'.TTEW TOR TEX DISPATCH. 1
Thirty years after the first Easter, St.
Paul who had spent the better part of a
long life going about proclaiming the Easter
truth, ottered a prayer that be might know
the power of Christ's resurrection "that I
may know Him, and the power of His
resurrection." Concerninc the fact of
Christ's resurrection, there was not in his
mind the shadow of adoabt St. Paul is sure
of that from the bottom of his heart. But yet
he is not satisfied. He desires to know the
power of that supreme fact, that is, its
bearings, its relations, its inferences, its
meaning. He never expects in this life to
know that fully. He has no expectation
here of getting anywhere near the end of its
infinite significance. But he wants to learn
more. And he accounts it among the joysof
the life to come that he will then "know
Him and the power of His resurrection."
Such a desire as this every Easter Day
should brine: into the heart of every Chris
tian. St Paul's prayer should be ours,
that we may know not only the fact of the
resurrection but its power. Accordingly,
a year ago, in these pages, I spoke of the
power of the resurrection in human
thought, that is. as the fonndation of the
Christian faith. I spoke of it as the proof
of thesupernatnral, and showed you how it
sets its seal to the divinity of Jesus Christ.
THE EESUKBECTION OF THE DEAD.
And I purpose speaking to-day regarding
the power of Christ's resurrection in its
bearings upon human destiny, as ittaffects
and reveals our personal future, as it brings
to light, life and immortality beyond the
grave. My subject is the Besurrection of
the Dead.
Concerning the resnrrection of the dead,
there are two instructive questions. First,
as to the fact, will the dead indeed be
raised? And then as to the manner. Hnw?
We can state these two imperative questions
in words taken from the Bible. "How say
some among youihat there is no resurrection
of the dead?" That is a question as to the
fact. "Some man will say, how are the
dead raised np, and with what body do they
come?" That is a question as to the
manner.
Let us see how St. Paul answers these two
Easter questions. First, as to the fact.
AVill the bodies of the dead be raisea? The
form of the question as 1 quoted it out of the
writings of St. Paul shows that the fact had
to face some men's denial. This denial has
taken two shapes in the long course of
hostile criticism of the creed. That the
dead will be raised has been denied from the
side of the soul and from the side of the
body.
In Corinth, in St Paul's day.f there were
some who thought very highly of the soul
and very meanly of the body. The Chris
tian religion, almost at the beginning, had
to meet an Oriental teaching, which had a
peculiar fascination for the people of the
iand and the time in which the Apostles
preached. The purport of this teaching was
that the body, and indeed all matter, is es
sentially evil. The greatest misfortune
which the human soul had to encounter was
the fact that it was somehow tied to this
miserable human body. The body was the
source of all sin and wretchedness.
ABHOBRENT TO SUCH BELIEVESS.
To such believers the resurrection of the
body was a monstrous and abominable doc
trine. It was not only materialistic and de
void of all spirituality, bnt it carried over
into , heaven itself that which evjery good
man ought to pray to be delivered from.
It bound upon the soul of man an eternal
burden of a body.
In our own day denial of the resurrection
of the body comes from exactly tne other
side. It is the position of people who em
phasize, not the soul, but the body. It is
maintained by those whose whole thought is
ot the body, and who do not believe that
man has any soul at all. They have looked
over the whole anatomy of man, they say,
and a soul is nowhere to be found in him.
Man is body and nothing else beside. When
he dies he returns again to the earth, and
then all His thoughts perish. The body is
resolved into its original atoms so much
oxygen, so much hydrogen, so much car
bon, so much of this and that, and
these atoms pass straightway into new
combinations, and. a part goes into a blade
of grass, and a part into a tree, and a part
into the soil, and a part into the air, and
there is an end of identity; the man has ab
solutely ceased to be. To such thinkers the
doctrine of the resurrection of the body is
simply impossible.
Kow, of these two forms of denial of the
fact of the resurrection, one from the side of
the soul, the other from the side of the body,
one has almost entirely disappeared, and the
other is gradually disappearing.
FAILURES OF MATERIALISM.
There are no modern thinkers who main
tain that the body is essentially evil. How
ever, that old notion may linger here and
there in practice as asceticism, it has no
longer any place in modern thought. And
materialism, on the other side, which a few
years ago reached its highest point of as
sertion, and after showing that "man
is not only a vertebrate, a mammal, and a
primate, bnt he belongs as a genus to the
catarrhine family of apes," was just on the
point, as it seemed, of demonstrating by
scalpel and microscope and various chem
icals that the soul is only "the product of
the collocation of material particles" ma
terialism has been sorely, if not fatally,
wounded in the house of those who were
taken to be its friends.
"For my own part," says Mr. Jokfa
Fiske, the leading exponent in this country
of the doctrine of evolution, "I believe in
the immortality of the soul." And Mr.
Herbert Spencer, the foremost teacher of ev
olution in the world, maintains that the
soul is "in the deepest sense a divine efflu
ence," something, that is, which God Him
self has given' us, and which is a part of His
own being.
But when we have noted these two philo
sophical objections, one from the side of the
soul, the other from the side ot the body,
we have by no means taken into account all
doubt which exists regarding the doctrine
of the resurrection. Probably the largest
amount of scepticism is found not among
the thoughtful bnt among those who are
quite uutrained in thinking. There are a
good many people who reason if we can
call it reasoning in some such lashion as
this: "I don't believe that can be so."
"Why?" "Why, because I don't see how
it can be so." The best answer to such an
undefined but still very troublesome doubt
is a good, solid fact.
PBOOF OFFERED BY PAUL.
Accoramgiy. ou x-aui, wno Knew men,
answers the objectors to the resurrection ot
the dead by the statement of one clear,
proveable and convincing tact. Christ, he
says, rose from the dead. "If there be no
resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not
risen." But Christ is risen. St, Paul is
perfectly sure about that. And Christ being
risen, "the first traits of them that slept,"
how shall any say now, that the grave and
gate of death is opened that there is no
resurrection of the dead.
But is this fact a fact?
Let us look at it from the side of reason
first, and then from the aide of history.
We begin with reason. If Christ be not
raised, see what conclusions follow. The
first conclusion is that then the Son of Man
was wrong. 'Ton are driven to this," sayi
Frederick Robertson, drawing out the argu
ment of the apostle, "that a pure, and just
and holy life is not a whit more certain of
attaining to God's truth than a false and
selfish and hypocritical one.
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And the aecond conclusion is that the I
PITTSBURG- DISPATCH.
Christian relicion is false. It is all for
nothing. "If Christ be not raised, then is
our preaching vain, your faith also is vain."
This whole religion, which takes the name
of the Teacher of Kazaretb, and has all
these centuries been shaping the destinies of
nations, and to which the best and wisest
men who ever lived have given their alle
giance, is simply a "fatal, tremendous, awful
failure." It is nothing but a great sham, a
stupendous lie. Again, there is a third
conclusion: "ir Christ be not risen," de
clares St. Paul, "then are we found false
witnesses of God; because we have testified
ofGod that He raised up Christ, whom He
raised not up if so be that the dead rise
not."
FACT OF CHRIST'S BESUBRECTION.
There was no room for mistake touching
the resurrection of Christ. He had risen or
He had not. It rested neither with imagi
nation, nor with faith, nor even with reason.
It was a simple matter of the Benses. Peter,
James, John, Mary of Magdala,
the two going out to Emmaus. the
company of the apostles, the assem
bly of 500 beholders declared
openly and without reserve that they had
seen Christ, walked with Him, eaten with
Him, touched Him, after He was murdered
on the cross. It was a matter about which
mistake was impossible. Those men and
women spoke either the truth or a lie.
And still again, there is a fourth conclu
sion "If Christ be not raised then they also
which arc fallen asleep in Christ are per
ished." The dead are lost. Well adds the
apostle, "If in this life only we have hope
in Christ, we are of all men most miser
able." -
These are some of the conclusions, from
which all thoughtful people shirkfwhich
are involved in a denial o'f Christ's resur
rection. We turn to history. St. Paul
sums it all up in a sentence or two. "He
was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve;
after that He was seen of about five hun
dred brethren at once, of whom the
Greater part remain unto this present
(that is, more than 250 men
are still living, when St. Paul writes,
who actually saw the risen Christ), but some
are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of
James, then of all the apostles. And last of
all, he was seen of me also." Now, con
cerninc this historical evidence, notice sev
eral definite points.
CHARACTER OF THE WITNESSES.
Notice first the number of the witnesses.
And remember what very different people
made r.p this number. There was Peter, the
impulsive. We have his words in the Acts
and in his own epistles that is to say, in
two ancient and independent writings tes
tifying that he ate and drank with Christ
alter He died on the cross. There was
Thomas, the hard-headed, the doubter, one
who looked always on the dark side. He
cried. "My Lord, and my God," when he
saw Him. There were James and Jude,
Christ's brothers, of whom it is written that
before His death "neither did His brothers
believe on Him." After His death we find
them enrolled among Christ's disciples.
Something, plainly, had occurred to change
their views.
Notice, again, that none of these people
had looked for a resurrection. The two
going out to Emmau's represented them all.
They had heard that His grave had been
found empty, and that some women had
seen there a vision of angels, but they were
so entirely snrc that the cross had ended all
that they thought it not worth while to stop
to investigate the matter, and were going
home, and were sad, and said to thestranger
who met them, "We trusted that it had been
He which should have redeemed Israel."
But that trust was all in the past. The
women who went out to visit the sepulcher
in the early morning carried myrrh to em
balm the dead body of their crucified
Master.' And when they brought the
Easter .tidings to the apostles, they
were received with incredulous looks
and questions, as the tellers of idle tales.
Observe a third point. These witnesses saw
the risen Christ in many ways and many
places in the upper room, talking, eating;
along the roadside, walking and teaching;
calling to them from the lake shore; now
alone, and again in a large company of 500.
They had long conversations with Him, in
which He taught them things which affected
all their after lives. There was no room for
delusion.
THE TIME AND PLACE.
Still again, remember where and when
these witnesses bore their testimonv. In
the very city where He had been tried, con
demned, crucified and buried, in the very
faces of the men who had judged and exe
cuted Him, and but six weeks after the day
of His death, these men declare the fact of
His rising from the dead. In a com
paratively small town, removed from
the great centers of the world's
life, before the days of railroads,
and telegraphs and newspapers, it can be
imagined how almost everybody would
know about almost everything that was
going on, and how hard it would be to hide
any such stupendous falsehoods if these
were falsehoods beneath the cloak of even
the stoutest assertion. Somebody would
find it out and tell it, if there were anything
to tell.
Had the witnesses anything to gain by
their evidence? Only unpopularity and
persecution, and a martyr's death. Where
can we find one of them who won, or even
so much" as tried to win, anything which
ambitious men account worth having? And
if their witness wss false, and Christ be not
risen, how is it that we look back, century
after century, and find a hundred
Easter days in every hundred
years? How was it that the Jewish Sab
bath suddenly lost its significance in
the estimation of a multitude of previously
devout Jews, and a Christian holiday, a day
with a new meaning, took its place? How
can the existence of the Christian Church be
possibly explained? Something happened.
That is as plain as the sun in the" sky. If
Christ did not rise, what was it which
changed failure into victory, the cross of
shame into the symbol of triumph, cowardly
disciples into brave apostles and martyrs,
Saturday into Sunday?
To the question, then, as to the possibility
of a resurrection from the dead, we return
for answer the fact of an actual resurrection.
Beason and history alike bear witness to it,
Christ rose from the dead.
MANNER OF THE RESUKEECTION.
I address myself now, briefly, to the other
question "How are the dead raised up, and
with what body do they come?" Here we
touch a genuine difficulty.
It has been said that belief in the resur
rection is more full of comiort than belief
only in the immortality of the soul, because
it satis6es not only the reason, but the im
agination of man. It takes the mind away
from a morbid dwelling upon the corrup
tion of the grave and gives it something bet
ter to think about. A disembodied soul is
to ns inconceivable. The future life is well
nigh unthinkable, without some kind of a
body that is true. And yet it is just as
true on the other hand that imagination is
a very formidable obstacle to the doctrine of
the resurrection of the body.
In spite ot us our imagination lingers
about ihe srrave. We see the slow hnt rnm-
plete dissolution of the body into the dust.
we Know that we all walk daily over dust,
which, coming from this old burying ground,
the earth, may once have formed part of a
human body. Wethinkof theburnedand the
drowned and the mangled, of a en blown into
unrecoverable fragments, of Wickliffe's
body reduced to ashes, and the ashes scat
tered along the surface ot a running river.
And we say irresistibly how can these dead
bodies rise? And if the resurrection of the
dead be what some people imagine, if'it be
as it is pictured' in a corner of Michael
Angelo's "Last Judgment" how indeed
can they rise? It is impossible.
ST. PAUL'S EXPLANATION.
Let us see how St. Paul answers the ques
tion. St. Paul does not answer the question di
rectly. He gives no description of the man
ner in which the body may be gathered to
gether after all its elements are dispersed In
a thousand directions. Neither does he give
any description of how the resurrection body
will look. He would confess his entire ig
norance on these two points as
frankly as St. John, who said: "It
doth not yet appear what we shall he."
But he (foes answer the question indirectly
jufc ne uoea wncr uia quouuu muncutij i
hy analogy. First, by the comparison of the I
SUNDAY, APRIL 6,
seed. Does the body corrnpt in the earth,
so does the seed. That corruption is es
sential to the followirg mcorruption: ""The
seed is not quickened (does not live again)
except it die." The body which dies and is
laid in the grave is not that body which
shall be raised, just as the seed is not the
flower or the wheat which springs up out of
it. In one sense it is the aame; there is an
identity. But it is an identity "of per
sonality not- of particles." God gives the
seed anew body. That is what rises. And
God gives to every seed to each individual
seed its own body.
So also is the resurrection of the dead.
The resurrection body, St. Paul teaches,
"will be connected with the body of the
present life, will spring out of it, will be in
fact the development of which it is the
germ." It will be as unlike the body of
this life, and as much better and fairer, as
the flower is unlike and lovelier than the
seed.
ALL FLESH NOT THE SAME FLESH.
St. Paul has also another answer. He ad
duces the comparison of the many-sided
world. Is it difficult to conceive how there
can be another bodv really a body, but an
other, and quite different ? "All flesh," he
reminds us, "is not the same flesh." There
are marvelous varieties of 'God's workings
even in this life men, beasts, fishes, birds,
celestial and terrestrial, sun, moon and
stars, all differing one from another,
all glorious, all illustrating the manifold
power of the Maker of them all. Can He
not make still another body, celestial,
spiritual?
And not only is it true that God can raise
the body He will. St. Paul shows how
that is in line with all the other workings of
God. First corruption, then incorruption;
first dishonor, then glory) first weakness,
then power that is how the science of our
own day reads the history of the whole
world. "First a natural body," continues
the apostle, "then a spiritual body. As we
have borne the image of the earthy, we
shall also bear the image of the heavenly."
This is but the natural law in the spiritual
world. It is the eternal principle of pro
gress. It is true this blessed Easter truth I We
"look for the resurrection of the dead, and
the life of the world to come." We believe
in "the resurrection of the body and the life
everlasting." George Hodges.
Threw Away Ills Cnnea.
For several years during the winter, I
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of the feet, which physicians claimed was
rheumatic gout. I was treated by some of
our best physicians, and obtained but little
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of 1887, when my feet were so swollen and
inflamed that I could not wear my boots, I
commenced using Chamberlain's Pain Balm.
The first application reduced the swelling
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Chamberlain's Pain Balm is undoubtedly
the best preparation ever offered the public,
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This Time It Warn a Shrewd Bnalneis Man
Who Held Certificate No. 268 In Ihe
Everett Piano Club,
And receives one of the finest pianos in
the world on payments of $1 per week.
Mr. O. D. Glenn, who holds a responsible
position in the large drygoods house of
Boggs & Buhl, Allegheny, gave the Everett
Club system a tnorougb investigation before
joining the club. He saw that the club
provided a better piano for $350 than, he
could buy elsewhere for S450, aud at the
same time allowed members to pay in the
way most convenient to themselves, ranging
from $1 per week to all cash. The suc
cess ot the Everett Club is a strong argu
ment in its favor. The pianos are going to
the homes of the members with a rush, and
while the retail dealers are complaining of
dull trade, there is a1 constant stream of pur
chasers at the warerooms of the club man
ager. We advice any one wanting a fine
piano to investigate the Everett system at
once. "Call or send for circular to the man
ager, Alex Boss, 137 Federal street, Alle
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Tbe Greatest Boom on Record.
On Friday last Guskys announced that
they would put on sale yesterday what were
probably the greatest bargainsever known
in new spring hats and caps, which, it is
safe to say, drew together such im
mense numbers of delighted purchasers as to
even test the capacity of that extensive de
partment in their mammoth establishment
Did you obtain one of the wonderful bar
gains? If so, you are happy. If not, take
our advice and secure a hat there the first
thing you do to-morrow. Why, everyone,
from infant to sage, were in ecstaciesover
their marvelous and fascinating stock. The
run on gentlemen's fine stiff hats at $1 24,
1 49 and $1 90 all heiehts of- crowns
and widths of brim was stupendous, while
charming fancy headgear for tbe young
folks kept the wrappers on the constant
rush. But great as the business was, they
have enough left to supply all, and got
hundreds to spare for their unfortunate com
petitors who might like some.
WUY YOU SHOULD BUY
A Hardman or a Kraknner Piano.
They are recognized as absolutely the best
upright pianos made.
They are unapproachable in power, sweet
ness and durability.
Their present enviable position has been
attained entirely by their intrinsic worth,
artistic excellence and superiority to any
other piano manufactured in the world,
coupled with the fact of their being sold at
an honest prjee.
Many other makes of pianos and organs
of the best reputation and make for cash or
installments. Call or send card for cata
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Mellob & Hoene (Established 1831),
77 Fifth avenue.
It Wan tbe Talk of Everyone.
While everyone appreciated the glorious
weather of yesterday, it was not one bit
more talked about upon our streets than was
the extraordinarv rush to Guskv's extensive
clothing honse, where the announcement of
a special sale of spring hats and caps that
day seemed to have drawn anxious pur
chasers from a score of miles around. They
had heard yes, and they had found there
was all tbe newest, the latest and the nob
biest novelties in' men and children's head
gear for almost carrying away. While one
sejected a neat polo cap for 9c, 14c, 19c or
24c. another searched for daisy "Steamer"
at 19c, 24c, ,29c or 34c. Others selected cloth
hats at 21c, 29c or 34c, but a large percent
age prelerred the "Mikado" at 49c, 69c, 84e
and 'Joe. Jiut the rush, tbe crush and the
jam, yet everyone got served and served
well.
FOB a finely cut, neat-fitting suit leave
your order with Walter Anderson, 700
Smithfield street, whose stock of English
suitings and Scotch tweeds is the finest in
the market; imported exclusively for his
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Highest price paid for ladies' or gent'i
cast-off clothing at De Haan's Big 6, Wylie
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MYSTERTOFTHE DAL
Easter Brings Up a Great Question
None Living Can Answer.
THE DOCTRINE OF RESURRECTION.
How the Movable Feast is Determined and
How It is Observed.
TROUBLES OF THE CHDECH CH01BS
tWBIXTEK TOR THB DISPATCH. 1
On this "Suuday of Joy" as it was called
in the old days when Easter, or the festival
of the resurrection,' was wholly given up to
feasting and enjoyment the church goers
will be treated to a musical programme of
unusual splendor, and an Easter sermon
which will make them not a whit the wiser
as to the great mystery of tbe resurrection.
Nor would it be very surprising since an
cient customs are often revived and old
fashions come up again to have them hail
each other with an "Easter kiss," and the
exclamatipn,"Surrexit," and receive the re
ply "Vere surrexit."
In these good days, however, Easter will
be much more decorously celebrated than
by the church people of primitive times,
who, as history relates, made the Sunday of
Joy a holiday for the enjoyment of popular
sports, nances, sermons that made the people
laugh and exhibitions of the burlesque or
der. Bonfires were kindled and the bands
played. Feasting and fun, music and
mirth, joy and gladness were the exponents
of the spring festival Sunday. But the
Beformation took out tbe picnic and jollifi
cation leatures of the day, that were a sur
vival of the pagan rites and observances in
their worship ot the goddess Ostara, and
made it a day for solemnity and holy joy
over the resurrection of Christ. The bon
fires became "hallowed fires," and finally
candles:
WHAT IT MEANS NOW.
In these latter days, however, Easter, for
the multitude, means mainly dyed eggs,
picture cards, Easter bonnets, new clothes,
with but little regard to, or understanding
of, its sacred features. One of the great
issues of the day in the second century, it
appears, was the settlement of the question
as to what day should be the proper time for
the celebration of Easter. The Eastern
Christians, as the story goes, considered it
the same as the Passover ot the Jews, and
therefore kept the feast of commemoration
on the fourteenth day of the first Jewish
month but the Western Christians held
that the proper observance of Easter was on
the-Sunday alter tbe fourteenth, and that it
should celebrate tbe resurrection. At that
time this was, doubtless, as momentous a
question as is the revision ofthe creed to-day,
and the Council of Nice no donbt discussed
it with as much lervor and temper as is
shown by tbe presbyteries on the creed.
The decision was in favor of the Western
churches, and the Eastern idea was branded
with the long name of "quartadeciman
heresy." But though the Council settled
the point that Easter should always be cele
brated on Sunday, and should commemorate
tbe Resurrectionandnot the Passover,it did
not establish its place in the calendar. But
tbe method alterward adopted to get Easter
always in the right place is a mystery to
most of mankind, aud life is too short to
study it out.
However, as we all know,Easter is a mov
able feast that is now determined by the
moon, not the actual moon in the skies, as
appears, nor the mean moon ot the as
tronomers, but an imaginary moon so
arranged as to fit in with the calendar that
always brings Easter as the first Sunday
after the paschal full moon, or that which
falls on, or after the 21st of March.
AVOIDING THE PASSOVER.
They tried to arrange it so that Easter
might never occur on the same day as the
Jewish Passover, but it was a failure, as
this has happened several times and is
likely to do so again. However, Easter
Sunday, as ordained by. tbe standard
authority, can never be celebrated before
Marcb 22, or after April'25. Consequently
Lent and housecleaning, as the meanest
seasons of sackcloth and ashes of penitential
tears and sorrows multiplied can always be
classed as coming about the same time.
A favorite style of celebrating Easter is
by very fine and elaborate music in the
churches which indulge in costly choirs.
Everyone who has ever been in a choir
knows that nowhere else is a belief in the
total depravity of things more strongly and
unshakenly sustained and confirmed by
the course of events. The most delightful
programme that could possibly be arranged
for Christmas or Easter is as surely subject
to crosses and misfortune as are men to
death and taxes. If a soprano soars and
sings like a lark or a Patti at every other
time, she will more than likely have a frog
in her throat, or an "awfully bad cold" on
Easter, or some other festive occasion. If a
tenor makes a magnificent high A or ring
ing B fiat at rehearsals, he is likely to
break on them at the choice and golden mo
ment. Standard time may be most strictly
maintained at choir meeting, but on the
great day there will be a drag or something.
The organ all right the day before will take
a crank on Easter, and drive the organist
to despair.
SOME LITTLE MISHAP.
Then, perhaps, after weeks of practice
everything may be in perfect condition
when all at once a cloud will cover the sun,
there will come a "hitch," a break, a beat
off or some small thing totally unexpected,
utterly inexplicable, to mar the movement,
ana men toe ueaveus win ue aarKeneu.
That is when the iron enters the soul of
every singer and of everybody else connected
with the choir. When a tenor breaks on
his pet high A on Easter Sunday it is not
in accordance with the etiquette of the oc
casion to try it over. He simply suffers and
goes under the willows to weep. He has
done it grandly before and will do it again;
why he failed at this special and supreme
occasion is a mystery as inscrutable as whv
bread falls upon the buttered side. The
fine programmes arranged for Christmas or
Easter often give illustration of the Shakes
pearian quotation, that
There's a divinity that shapes our ends
Roncli Hew them as we will.
In every choir, that on this Easter day
essays to give utterance to the master pieces
of Handel, Haydn, or Mendelssohn or Moz
art, it is more than likely that some one will
ardently desire to go through the floor, or
ease his mind bv swearing, or kicking some
thing. It is always the way.
Thousands of sermonswill be preached to
day on thegreat subject of the Besurrection.
To what end? Will anybody know more of
the mysteries of the "great beyond" after
the subject of Easter has been elaborately
discoursed upon than before? How shall the
dead arise, and with what bodies shall they
come is a question upon which the most
learned theologians differ, tbe deepest think
ers disagree and upon which tbe Scriptures
are contradictory, and tbe absolute truth
concerning which nobody knows or can
know.this side oftheaven.
THE QUESTIONS THAT ARISE.
"Shall we know each other there'' is the
burden of heart and song. Shall the dead
arise in their identical bodies, orhall they
all be changed, when tbe trumpet shall
sound? Shall the loved one gone before be
recognized as disembodied spirits, or shall
they be known in new and more glorious
bodies? Earthly love and longing makes
vain endeavor to pierce beyond the veil.
The late Bishop Kerfoot said it was just as
easy to believe that the dead would arise in
their identical bodies cs'that they should all
be changed in the twinkling of an eye. A
miracle would be wrought in raising the
dead in other forms, and why should not a
miracle be worked as well to raise them in
the same bodies." Paul said flesh and
blood could not inherit the kingdom of
heaven, and yet Christ rose in his earthly
body and aaceeded into heaven.
The highest bliss promised hereafter could
not be reached if unknowing and unknown
those who loved each other here were to
roam eternally the golden streets witn
strangers, even though saintly snow-clad
angels. As a learned "divine puts it, "one
of the greatest delights of the heavenly city
will be when with conflicts o'er and battles
wonthe soldiers or the cross will talk over
their struggles with sin and their vic
tories over the world, the flesh and the
devil." It would be a divine pleasure for
tbe saints in glory to have the puzzles solved
and the mysteries of the earthly life cleared
up, and with whom of the hosts of the holy
angels could they most enjoy the revela
tions and the talking over as with their own
familiar friends. .
TnE DARKER SIDE.
It stands to earthly reasoning and human
nature's longings that this should be, but
who knows? All the Eister sermons that
have ever been preached give no absolute
truth on this matter. The eyes of faith see
it, and the longing soul hopes for it, but
nobody knows. It is a dark subject for a
brilliant feast day for those of little faith.
Not the least sad feature of the last great
day when the dead shall arise "They that
have done good to the resnrrection of life;
and they that have done evil to the resur
rection of damnation" will be the separa
tion of friends and neighbors, jafter judg
ment. From this view it would seem to be
better not to know each other there. It
would be too grievous and distressing to
those elected to salvation and eternal bliss
to recognize earthly friends and loved ones
consigned to eternal fire. The old theolo
gians held that it would be extra bliss to
the saved to behold the. torments of the lost
but who believes it now?
Take tbe one picture of the Allegheny
Cemetery on the last day, when the trnmpe't
shall sound and tbe dead shall arise. Dearly
loved friends, relatives, neighbors, fellow
citizens of Pittsburg all there together. Im
agine the large majority under Calvin's
creed marched off to everlasting flames.
Would the few reserved lor heaven feel like
singing songs of thanksgiving or breaking
forth into snouts of gladness? Take a family
lot four put of five interred therein judged
by Christian standards and orthodox limita
tions are destined to eternal fire.
SOME SAD PICTUBES.
Will the good mother be happy as her
children are led away to endless misery?
Will the loving wife be blest if her husband
is sent below to writhing fire and chains?
Will the loving father or devoted husband
feel ready to revet in eternal bliss while
their dear ones here below are consigned to
the devil and his angels? Should such be
trutb, it can hardly be doubted it were hap
pier not to know each other there, but with
new and glorified bodies to begin a new life
in the world beyond without a tie or thought
of earth.
All Easter sermons are unsatisfactory.
Faith may swallow them whole, but reason
balks. Bishop Butler says, "Probability is
the guide ot life," and the great Locke, on
the same subject, says: "The mind ought
to examine all the grounds of probability,
and upon a due balancing of the whole.reject
or receive it proportionaoiy to tne prepon
derancy of the greater grounds of probabili
ty on the one side or the other." So each
person must take his Easter sermon on the
resurrection and' consider its incongruities
and difficulties and probabilities. With all
tbe testimony of analogy and revelation and
Sunday sermons the unknowable still re
mains. With all the thousands of dis
courses preached upon the subject of the day
we celebrate, the "unseen world" will be as
much of a mystery as ever.
Thosewho have acquired the faith to
which is attached the promise of eternal
happiness, as a practical habit will give
little thought to the subject, but those
whose faith by nature is weak can only
wait for the flower of belief to blossom and
keep their minds open for the reception of
truth.
OLD CREEDS ARE DISAPPEARING.
The sermon of the hour, tbe lesson of the
day, the keeping of the feast, should be to
the effect of working out the old leaven of
malice and wickedness for the new leaven
of sincerity and truth. "Men are sprout
ing and they do not know what ails them."
Men are breaking awayfrotn the old beliefs,
the old creeds, the old doctrines. This
alarms many good people. They do not
know what the world is going to come to.
They do not know how people are to be kept
good, if they don't live up to the old doc
trines and hold on to the old articles of be
lief. But the old order changeth. The world
is movitjg on. The springtime of the soul
has set in. Tbe new leaven of sincerity aqd
truth is at 'work. Men are learning to
think for themselves. They will no longer
consent to be bound by the creeds made in
the dark ages. Improvements are being
constantly made in laws, new light is
breaking always on science, better ways are
continually being found out for doing
things. Sweeter manners, purer laws are in
order. Bessie Bramble.
Disastrous Fnllare !
We can mention no failure more disastrous
than that of physical energy. It involves Xbe
partial suspension of the digestive and assimi
lative processes, and entails the retirement
from business of the liver and kidneys. Only
through the good offices of Hostettcr's Stom
ach Bitters can the restoration of its former
vigorous status be hoped for. When this aid
has been seenred, a resumption of activity in
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"More money is to be made safely in Southern investments than anywhere else." Hox,
William D. Kellet, Pennsylvania.
GREAT LAND SALE AT CARDIFF,
EOANE COUNTY, TEITN".,
On the Queen and Crescent Eoad and Tennessee Biver.
The Cardiff Coal and Iron Company,
(Chartered by the State of Tennessee), Capital, $5,000,000.
HON. B. B. SMALLBY, Burlington,
W. P. BICE, Fort Payne, Ala.,
H. O. YOUNG, Cardiff, Term., -
NAMES OF THE DIRECTORS.
W. P. Eice, Fort Payne, Ala.; B. B. Smalley, Burlington, Vt; General Joshua b.
Chamberlain, New York City; Eon. Bobert Pritchard, Chattanooga, Ten n.; Charles L.
James, of James & Abbott, Boston; Hon. Carlos Heard, Biddeford, Me.; Hon. John MV
Whipple, Claremont,Jf. H.; T. 6. Montague, "President First National Bant, of Chatta
nooga, Tenn.; Hon. J. F. Tarwater, Bockwood, Tenn.; Hon. 8. E. Pingree, Hartford, Vt:
Hon. William Warner, Kansas City, Mo.; H. C. Young, of Cordley & Co., Boston, Mas., c
Dr. J. M. Ford, Kansas City, Mo. ""
WILL HOLD A
MAMMOTH LAND SALE :
op rrs cmr lots at
CARDIFF,
APRIL 22, 1890, AND FOLLOWING DAYS,;
Excunion Trains will be run from
SATTJEDAY,
The Cardiff properties are not experimental. The coal and Iron have been profitablf
mined more than 20 years. The location is in the midst of already developed properties.
The company owns over 50,000 acres of coal and iron mines and timber lands, situated in
the Tennpssee counties ot Roane, Cumberland and Morgan. Its city of Cardiff contains'
over 3,000 acres. There is scarcely any industry which cannot find a favorable chance at
Cardiff for successful establishment and profit The development is in charge of men of
approved judgment ahd experience. Excursion to Cardiff for the sale will be ananged
from principal cities of the North and West '
' Proceeds of sales to be applied to the development of the property by the erection of
iron furnaces, coke ovens, hotel, waterworks, motor line, electrle lighta, manufacturing
plants, pubho buildings., A plan will be offered which will enable purchasers to seeur
lots at reasonable and not speculative prices, the intention being to give patrons of the sala
a chance to make a profit as well aa the company.. Accommodations will be-provided fo
all attending the sale. For further information, prospectus, etc.,"apply to
W. P. BICE, Quincy Housr Boston, Man. .
COBDLEY & CO., Bankers, Boston, Man.
Or to the Company, CARDIFF, Roane eounty, Tenn.
a--
15
THE GLAD EASTER MORN.
Boon the coldness and gloom of the winter,
Wfll give place to the sucsnlne of spring;
And tbe flowers will brighten our pathway,
And the woods with the birds carol ring
Then arfie! on this glad Easter morning
Cast on alt thy sorrowand gloom;
For the gforions light still adorning.
Shall brighten thy path to the tomb.
Though the world with cares'may oppress thee,
Tbe friends you trusted not true: (
But. Christian! then still let your faith be
His promUe 'twas siren 'or you.
1T l"l SDrTTK. AJt H
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til Druggists and Fancy Goods Dealers ETeryH-here.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
Absolute Proof of Success
Is the tact that the hundreds of testimonials
of cures made by tbe specialists of the Catarrh
and Dyspepsia Institute at No. 323 Fenn ave
nue, and which have been published in this
paper, have not only contained the residence
but the full name AS SIGNED BY THE PA
TIENT. thus proving their gennlneness. To
say that a physician can cure a disease is one
thine; and to prove that he has cured it is an
other. It they have the means to cure the dis
eases of their specialty and thus prove this
fact by referring yon to hundreds whom they
have cared In yonr own city and at your own
door, what better evidence can they give? The
physicians of this institntion are specialists in
the true sense of the term, as no patients are
received for treatment except those suffering
from catarrh, dyspepsia or diseases of women
MORE SHARPSBURG TESTIMONY?
The above Is a portrait of Miss Mary F. Hart
man, of bbarpsDortr. and a sister of Mr. John
Hartman, whose portrait and testimonial re-
cently appeared in these columns. Miss Hart
man has also suffered from catarrh, and the
symptoms were a dropping of mucus from her
head into her throat, where it became very
tenacious and hard to raise. She coughed, and
often felt dizzy. Her stomach became very
weak, so that she felt sick after eating, and
would often vomit np her fond. She was con
tinually tired and folly realized that she was
gradually getting weaker. After taking a
coarse of treatment from these specialists she
savs: "It gives me pleasure to state that I have
been cured of catarrh.
"MAKY F. HARTMAJT."
Please bear in mind that THEY HAVB
BUT ONE OFFICE, and which Is PERMA
NENTLY LOCATED at 323 Penn avenn.
Office hours, 10 a. at. to 4 P. 3L, and 6 to 8 r. X,
Sundays. 12 to 4 P. jr.
Consultation free toalL Patientstreated sue
cessfnlly at home by corresnondence. SenU
two ¢ stamps for question blank and ad
dress tbe Catarrh and Dyspepsia Institute. 323
Penn avenue, Pittsburg. apo-Mrso,
Vt,
President
- Vice President
Vice President
New England, leaving Boston,
APBII, 19.