INSPIRING RELIGION. pf, Talmafce Preaches on Solomon's Wisdom-Sweet Spices of Christianity. II Counteracts All Trouble No Dolorous Music Needed. Ooprricbt 1WI.1 Washinotoh, D. C In this tliicourM Dr. Talmaire corrects some of the false nations about religion, end represents ie as being joy inspirine, instead of dolorom; text, If. Chronicles it, 9, "Of apices great abundance: neither was there any such nice as the Queen of Sheba cave King golomon." Wht is thst building out yonder, flit tering in the son? Hove yon not heard? It is in the house of the forest of Lebanon. King Solomon bu just taken to it his bride, the Princess of Egypt. You see the pillars of the portico and a irrcat tower, adorned with 100ft shields of gold, hung on the outside of the tower. 500 of the shields of gold manufactured at Solomon's rrlr- 800 were canturcd bv David, his father, in battle. See how they blaee in J the noonday sun! . Solomon goes up the ivory stairs of his throne, between twelve lions in statuary, and sits down on the back of the golden bull, the head of the huge beast turned to ward the people. The family and the at tendants of the king are so many that the caterers of the palace have to provide every day 100 sheep and thirteen oxen, besides the birds and the venison. I hear the .stamping and pawing of 4000 fine horses in the royal atahlee. There were important officials who had charge of the work 01 garnering me stfw ami mo imr ley for these horses. King Solomon was an early riser, 'tradition says, and used to take a ride out at daybreak, and when in his white apparel, behind the swiftest horses of all the realm and followed by mounted archers in purple, as the caval cade dashed through the streets of Jeru salem I suppose it was something worth getting up at J o'clock in the mot-mag to look at. Solomon was not like some of the kings of the present dav crowned imbecility. All the splendors of his pnlare and retinue' were eclipsed by his intellectual power. Why, he seemed to know everything. He was the first great naturalist the world ever saw. Peacocks from India strutted the basaltic walk, and apes chattered in the trees, and deer stalked the parks, and there were aquariums with foreign fish and aviaries with foreign birds, and tradi tion says these birds were so well tamed that Solomon might walk clear across the city under the shadow of their wings as thev hovered and flitted about him. More than this, he had a great repula tian for the conumdrnms and riddles thnt he made and guessed. He and King Hi ram, his neinhbor, used to sit by the hour and ask riddles, each one paying in money if he could not answer or guess the riddle. The Solomonic navv visited all the world, and the sailors, of course, talked about the riddles and enigmas that he made and solved, and the news spread until Queen Balkis, away off south, heard of it, and sent messengers with a few riddles that she would like to have Solomon solvo and a few puzzles that she would like to hare him find out. She sent, among other things, to King Solomon a diamond with ahole so small that a needle could not pen etrate it, asking him to thread that dia mond. And Solomon took a worm anil put it at the opening in the diamond, and the worm crawled through, leaving the thread in the diamond. The queen also sent a goblet to Solomon, asking him to fill it with water that did not pour from the sky and that did not rush out from the earth, and immediately Solomon put a slave on the back of a swift horse and galloped him around and around the park until the horse was nigh exhausted, and from the perspiration of the horao the enhlet was filled. She also sent to Kina Solomon 800 boys in girls' dress snd (Mo i lina in boys dress, 'Wondering it be would le acute enoueh to find out the deception. Immediately Solomon, when he saw them wash their faces, knew from the way they applied the water that it was ell a cheat. Queen Ilalkis was so pleased with the aeuteness of Solomon that she said. "I'll just go and see him for myself." Yonder it comes the cavalcade horses snd dro medaries, chariots and charioteers, 5'ng ling harness and clattering hoofs and blaz ing shields and flying ensigns and clapping cymbals. The place is saturated with the perfume. She brings cinnamon and saf fron and calamus and frankincense and all manner of sweet spices. As the retinue sweeps through the gate the armed gvard inhales the aroma. "Halt!" cries the char ioteers as the wheels grind the gravel in front of the pillared portico of the king. Queen Balkis alights in an atmosphere be witched with perfume. As the dromeda ries are driven up to the king's store houses and the bundle? of camphor are unloaded, and the sacks of cinnamon and the boxes of spices arc opened the pur veyors of the palace discover what my text announces: "Of spices, great abundance. Neither was there any snob. Miice as the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon." Well, my friends, you know that all the ologians agree in making Solomon a type of Christ, and in making the Queen of Sheba a type of every truth seeker, and I will take the responsibility of .saving that all the spikenard and cassia and frankin cense which the Queen of Sheba brought to King Solomon is mightily suggestive of the sweet spices of our holy religion. Christianity ia not a collection of sharp technicalities and angular facts and chro nological tables and dry statistics. Our religion ia compared to frankincense and to cassia, but never to nightshade. It is a bundle of myrrh. It is a dash of holy light. It is a sparkle of eool foun tains. It is an opening of opaline gates. It is a collection of spices. Would God that we were as wise in taking spires to our divine King as Queen Balkis was wise in taking the spices to the earthly Solo mon. The fact is that the duties and cares of this life, coming to us from time to time, are stupid often and inane and intolerable. Hers are men who have been battering, climbing, pounding, hammering for twenty years, forty years, fifty years. One great, long drudgery has their life been, their faces anxious, their feelings benumbed, their days monotonous. What is. neces sary to brighten up that man's life aud to sweeten that acid disposition and to put sparkle into the man's spirits? The epic cry of our holy religion. Why. if between the losses of life there dashed the gleam of an eternal gain, if between the betray als of life there came the gleam of the un dying friendship of Christ, if in dull times in business we found ministering spirits flying to and fro in our oflice and store and shop, everyday life, instead of being a stupid monotone, would be a glorious in spiration, penduluming between calm sat isfaction aud high rapture. How any woman keeps house without the religion of Christ to help her is a mystery to me. To have to spend the Sreater part of ono'a life, as many women . o, in planum for the meals, and stitch ing garments that will soon be rent again, and deploring breakages, snd supervising tardy subordinates and driving off dust that soon again will settle, and doing the same thing day in and day out and year .? V". out until th hair silvers, snd the back stoops, and the spectacles crawl j .fye?f.''nd,tn ?rve breaks open under the thin sole of The shoe-oh, it is a long monotony I But when Christ cornea U the drawing room, and comes to the I X c2mt5 to th nursery, snd come to the dwelling, then how oneerv womanly duties! She is never' alone now. Martha gets through fretting day long Deborah is happy because she can ""(' "I'lumn; nnnnau, because she can make a coat for young Samuel; Miriam, feT lhe Wttch h ft brother; :awr the stock; the widow ofSarenta be. csium the cruse of oil is being rtZXd. I must conioss that s great deal of the "hg.on of this, day is" utterly insipid ahont iV n-iVthin W"" or elevating tivat.ng melancholy, and their worship has in it more siglu thau raptures. Wo do not doubt their piety. Oh, nol But tliy are silling ut a feet where the cook has forgotten to season the fuod. Every, thing is Hat in their experience end fa their conversation. Emancipated from .fa and death and hell and on their way to a JiiHtuiJicent luuvc,,, they ,, tfloullh lnidyirjn.iuvi un tve- '. log Uotany Hoy. Keilgibn docs not seem to agree with them. It seems to catch in the windpipe and become s tight strangu lation instead of an exhilaration. All the iniidel bonks that have heen written, from Voltaire down to Herbert Spencer, hive not done so much damage to our Chris tianity as lugubrious Christians. Who wsnU a religion woven out of the shadows of the night? Why go growling on your way to celestial enthronement? Come out of tnat cave and sit down in tho warm light of the Sun of Righteousness. Away with your odes to melancholy and Hervey's" Meditations Among the Tombs!" I have to say also that we need to put more spice and enlivenment in our relig ious teaching, whether it be in the prayer meeting or in the Sunday-school or in the church. Wo ministers need more fresh tir. snd sunshine in nur limps and our heart snd our head. Do you-wonder thai the world is so far from being converted when you find so little vivscity in the pul- Eit and in the pew? We want, like tho rord, to plant in our sermons and exhor tations more lilies of the field. We want fewer rhetorical elaborations and fewer sesquipedalian words, and when we talk about shadows we do not want to say adumbration, and when we mean queer ness we do not want to talk about idiosyn crasies, or if a stitch in the back we do hot want to talk about lumbago, but, in the plain vernacular of the great masses, preach that gospel which proposes to make all men happy, honest, victorious snd free. In other words, we want more cin namon and less gristle. Let this be so in all the different departments of work to which the Lord calls us. I promise a high spiritual blessing to any one who will sing in church and who will sing eo heartily that the people all around t-nnnot help but sing. Wake np, an ine cinircncs tiom Hanger to ban Kranciseo and -across Christendom! It is not a matter of preference; it is a mat ter of religious duty. Oh, for fifty times more volume ot sound loan has yot rolled up from our churches! German chorals in German cathedrals surpass us, and yet Germany has received nothing at the hands of God compared with America. And ought tho acclaim in Germany be louder than that of America? Soft, long drawn out music is appropriate for the drawing room and appropriate for the concert, but St. John gives sn idea of the sonorous snd resonant congregational singing ap propriate for churches when in listening to the temple service of heaven he says: "I heard a great voice, as the voice of a great multitude and as the voice of many waters and as the voice of mighty thun derings. Hallelujah, for tho Lord God omnipotent reigneth!" loin -villi me in s crusade, giving me not only your hearts, but the mighty uplifting of your voices, and I believe we can, through Christ's grace, sing 6000 souls into the kingdom of Christ. An argument they can laugh at, a sermon they may talk down, but a 5000 voiced utterance of praise to God is resistible. Would that Queen Balkis would drive all her spice laden dromedaries into our church music. "Nei ther was any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave King Solomon." Now, I want to impress you with the fact that religion is sweetness and per fume and spikenard and saffron and cin namon and cassia and frankincense and all sweet spices together. "Oh," you say, "I have not looked at it as such. I thought it was a nuisance. It had for me a re pulsion. I held my breath as though it were a malodor. I have been appalled at ita advance. 1 have said, if I have any re ligion at all, I want to nave just as little of it as is possible to get through with." Oh, what a mistake you have made, my brother) The religion of Christ is a pres ent and everlasting redolence, it coun teracts all trouble. Just put it on tho stand beside the pillow of sickness. It catches in the curtains and perfumes the stifling air. It sweetens the cup of bitter, medicine and throws a glow on the gloom, of the turned lattice. It ia a balm for the aching side and a soft bandage for the temple stung with pain. It lifted Samuel Kiillieri'ord into a revelry of spiritual de light while he was in physical agonies. It helocd Itichaid Baxter until, in the midst I of such a complication of diseases as per haps no other man ever suliered, ne wrote "The Saint's Everlasting Kent." And it poured light upon John Bunyan's dungeon, the light of the shining gate of the shin ing city. And it is good lor rheumatism and for neuralgia and for low spirits and for consumption. It is the catholicon lor all disorder. Yes, it will heal all your sorrows. Why did you look so sad this morning when you came in t Alas, for the loneli ness and the heartbreak and the load that is never lifted from your soul! Some of von go about feeling like Macaulay when lie wrote, "if I had another month of such days as I have been spending, I would be impatient to get down into my little narrow crib in the ground, like s weary factory child." And there have been times in your life when you wished you could get out of this life. You have said, "Oh, how sweet to my lips would be the dust of the valley!" and wished you could pull over you in your last slumber the coverlet of green grass and daisies. You have said: "Oh, how beautifully quiet it must be in the tombl 1 wish I was there!'' 1 see all around about me widowhood and orphanage and childlesuness, sadness, disappointment, perplexity. If I could ask all those in any audience who have felt no sorrow And been buffeted by no disappointment if I could ask all such to rise, how manv would rise? Not one. A widowed mother, with her little child, went West, hoping to get better wages there, and she was taken sick snd died. The overseer of the poor got her body snd put it in a box and put it in a wagon and sturted down the street toward the ceme tery at full trot. The little child, the only child, ran after it through the atreets, bareheaded, crying: ."Bring me back my mother! Bring me back my mother! And it was said that as the people looked on and saw her crying after that which lay in the box in the wagon, all sho loved on earth it is said the whole village was in tears. And that is what a great many of you aro doing chasing the dead. Dear Lord, is there no appeasement for all this sorrow that I see about me? Yes, the thought of resurrection and reunion far beyond this scene of struggle and tears. "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on thein nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." " Across the couches of your sick and across the graves of your dead f fling this shower -of sweet suites. Queeu Balkis, driving up to the pillared portico of the house of cedar, carried no such pungency of perfume as exhales to-day from the Lord's garden. It is peace. It is sweet ness. It is, comfort. It is infinite satisfac tion, this gospel I commend to you. May God grant that through your own practical experience you may find that re ligion's ways are ways of pleasantness and that all her paths are paths of peace; that it is perfume now and perfuma forever. And there was sn abundance of spice; "neither was there any such spies as tho Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon." Ilad Hpant the SJI.OOo. A New York lawyer, spenklng of the recent death of William M. EvarU. tells how. In order to insure success, It was thought bent to secure tho serv ices of the distinguished lawyer as an jociate counsel, On securing the con sent of Mr. Kvarts, tho question of a retainer was mentioned. "Oh," said Mr. RvartB, "I guosg $1,000 will suf fice," and the amount was paid over. The auit was settled RatlBfuctorlly In a short time, and the lawyer called on Mr. Evarts tit make the final payment for the latter'a services In the case. "How much do we owe you?" was auked. "Call It 15,000,'' he rsponded, without a moment's hesitation. Thl caused a mild protest. "You know, Mr. Evarta, that you've had $1,000." "Yea," he aald, wltb'a dry smile, "but I've spent that." Tho $5,000 was paid. Analytic Experiments with Air, Recent experiments made by M. Oauttur of Turla have shown thnt hy drogen Is a constant constituent of the air to the extent of two lu 10,000 purl' by volume. , THE SABBATH SCHOOL International Lesson ' Comments For August II, Subject; God's Promise to Abrsbsai, Oca. iv., 118-Ooldea Text, tier, xv., I--Mtm-ory Verses, 5-7-Commenlary oa the Day'a Letnoa. , 1. After these things." The fact that immediately after tho battle with the kings there came another vision from God to Abram leads us to think that he may have liecn passing through a testing time, and perhaps he was tempted to discourage ment. He was also disappointed in not receiving the fulfilment of the promise God had made him regarding his descendants, for as yet he had no child. "In a vision.'' Which supposes Abram awake, and some visible appearance or' sensible token ct the presence of the divine glory. "Fear not." Kesr not thy enemies, neither fear lest My promises shall fail tnee. "I am thy shield." God was Abram'a portion, and He is the portion of every righteous soul. "Great reward." Then is surely a refer ence here to the battle and the victo:y. YYTen God is ours we have all that is suffi cient for defense and reward; this promise involves eternal life. 2. "1 go childless." Seeing I nm going childless; that is, 1 am going out oi the wor.d in this condition. Abram den:rcd a son, for he knew upon divine authority thai his seed should inherit the land, rinuship and heirship are inseparably con nected in the thoughts of God. "Steward of ny house." The heir into whose hands Abram s possessions must descend in eon sequence of his childless condition. "Is this Eliezer?" How could the promise be tu 111 led when a "stranger'' is likely to be his heir? 3. "Given no seed." Though we should never complain of God yet we may com plain to Him, and tell Him all our irriev- anccs. "One born in my house." Thot is, one aiiaenea to or a dependant ot bis house." This is a reference to the servant who, from all appearances, would become his heir. 4. "Shall not be thine heir. There ia no U nit to the nower of God. for He who can quicken the dead can do anvl'iung. S. Look tell tne stars. lhe siars in that climate are brighter than in our. 1'roiessor Hull saya he has known Venus to shine so briuht as to cast a shadow. brighter than .ne stars, steadier than their nniucs khall be the fumlment of uod s proinisi... God points to the stArs as a s:gn to Abram. "So shall thy seed be." i he descendants ot Abram included not only Israelites, but the Arabians, the Mid iannes, the Ammonites and Moabites were r. numerous people, and were for more ttiun a thousand yeara among the most im portant in Asia. At least two branches of lirs strong stock yet remain the Jews, wiio are found in every part of the earth, and the Arabs, who still roam, uncun- jered over the desert. But the highest fohiimcnt waN in Christ. God's people are, by faith, "children of Abraham," and "heirs according to the promise." Gal. 3: 7, 9, 29. 8. "Believed in the Lord." God speaks Abram believes, and all is settled and all is au'-e. Abram believed the truth of the promise that was now made him, resting upon the power and faithfulness of God who hod made it. See Bom. 4: 19-21. ' Counted it." There was no act but that o" the mind end heart, no work of any kind; hence the doctrine of justification by faith, without any merit of works; for in this case there could be no works of Aoram which would merit the salvation of the iio'o human race. "For righteous ne.aft." Or justification. T. "I am the Lord." The promises ot Cod are very broad, very high and very long. They look far down the future, but we r.iay remember that there is omnis cience in their utterance and omnipotence in tl eir i'uidiment. 8. "Whereby shall I know?" That i, "by what sign shall I be assured that I siinll inherit this land?" It. "Take me an h'fer," etc. The ani mals ni'e-cribcd are of the three kinds af tc.'wa "d allowed by the law for sacrifice, end the birds are those repeatedly men tioned in the law as those to be brought fo.- oHYriugs. 10. "He took all these." Abram fol lowed to the very letter the directions God hud given him; so we must obey God fully t.i-iore we cau have reason to expect Him to fulfil His promises to us. "Divided them," etc. The manner of ratifying a covenant was to divide the animals length wise, as near as possible in two equal parts, winch were placed opposite to each other a short distance apart; the covenant ing parties would then meet in the cei:tre and take the customary oath. 11. "Came down." Having made ready the sacrifices he waited for the fire of God to consume them, which was the ububI token of acceptance. While ho waited ravenous birds of prey which feed upon dead bodies "came down" to consume the sacrifice. How often do intruding cares, like unclean birds, seize upon that time and those affections which have been given to Cud! 12. "Was going down." About the time of the evening sacrifice. "A deep sleep." Not a common sleep through wea riness or carelessness, 'but such a bleep as God caused to fall upon Adam. "Great darkness.. Which Uod designed to De ex pressive of the afilicticn and misery into which his posterity should be brought dur ing their bondnge in Egypt, as the next verse particularly slates. 13. "Sliall afflict them." From the time God called Abram at lis ran it was 4;iJ years before Abram's descendants came into possession of their own land, but the children of Israel were actually ia Ke.ypt only half that time, or 215 yetrs. 14. "That nation." The Egyptian na t: n. "Will I judge." God brought plagues and destruction upon the Egyptians. "Come out." Israel was redeemed from bondage and came out of Egypt with great wealth. lhiB promise wan literally un filed, but there was a long time of waiting. 10. "in peace." This verse strongly im nlies the immortality of the soul. U. "Amorites." This waa the general nai ie for the Canaanitish tribes. "Iniquity not yet full." ' From these words we learn that there is a certain pitch of ini ouity to which nations may arrive he Tore they are dejtroyed, and beyond which God will not permit tnera to pass. 17. "A smoking furnace." This sicni fied'the affliction of the children of Israel in Evut. There were there in the fur nace of affliction. "Burning lamp." The symbol ot tne divine presence, ruith may be stronir. but liaht comes while we stand before tho Lord, by the holy altar of burnt offering. ' 18. "Made a covenant." A covenant is a mutual agreement between two contract ion iiur:ica. each of which is bound to ml fil eertain engagements to the other. In Holy Scripture it is used mostly to denote certain defined relations between God and man. "River of Egypt." Probably the iviver .Nile. Snahaa Hod by lhe round. Snakes can now be bought by the pound Id Klamath, Ore., 'where thero la quite an extensive Industry. Children gather their apro is full ot snakes as tbey would of wild HowerJ, and little boya gather them In thiir pockets for pets. The price paid Is 2j cents per pound and a ready market la found for them In Minnesota. The species Is ot a dark color and when full grown la about threo foet lcn;j, So great la the supply that tons ot the reptiles could be shipped annually If there were orders for them. The anakea are used for medicinal pur poses, aa a superior quality of oil oan be manufactured from the variety tound at Klamuth Falls. Tba Tat. Our friend the tat la called kat lu Danish and Dutch, katt in Swedish, cbftt in French, kattl or kalise lu Ger man, catua in Latin, gatto In Italian. gato In Portuguese aud Spanish, kot In Polltin, Kots in ttuusla, ketl In Turkish, cath tn Welsh, kath In Cor nish, catua In Baquo, and .go or'kut lu Armenian. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS. Autost II - "Esemles aad Arias." Eph. rl. 10-18. SCIUPTURH VETtSF.S-2 Cor. x. 3-5 1.(1111. xill. 12; 1 TImw. v. U. -a km. 0. 7; .Tosh. I 8; 1 Thess. v. nfLuk xxl. .10; 1 John v. 4, 6; Heb. lv. 15; Sara. li. 9. lesson Thoughts, Our Enemies Tho world, the flesh, tho devil. Onr Weapon Watchful ness, The Word of God, Prayer. Out All'es He In our real, our true, out only friend. Selections. As thieves be loath to assault l bouse where they know 1here be irooil armor and artillery, no wherever the honk of the Holy Scripture be well occupied and exercised, there neither the devil nor any of hts angels dare come near. lie who would fight the devil with his own weapons must not wonder tf he finds him an overmatch. A believer's watchfulness is like that of a soldier. A sentinel posted on the walls, when he discerns a hos tile party advancing1, does not attempt to make head against them himself, but Informs his commanding officer t'. the enemy' approsrh anl leaves him to take the proper measure .v.'.iinwt the foe. So the Christian doe not attempt to fight temptation In his own strength: his watchfulness IV In observing its .approach, nnrf In ti lling God of It by prayer. Alexander oould conquer the legions nf I'erala; but lie could not conquer his y salons. Caewir triumphed In a hundred battles; but he fell a vic tim to the desire of being a king. Bonaparte vanquished nearly the wbole of Europe; but he could not vanquish hla own ambition. And In humbler life, nearer home. In our own every day affairs most of ua are drawn aside from the path of duty and discretion, because we do not resist some temptation, or overcome tome prejudice. EPWORTH LEAGUE MEETING TOPICS Autust II -"Enemies and Arms." Eph. vl. 10-18. Every soldier Is not a saint. But every wainl must be a soldier. The Hist foe to be fought nnd conquered Is one's self. Tli bnllle of life Is on. bvcry so'''' i"it fiL'ht or run. Th Idea of MmiKjriH Has iilways tumid a response In the hearts of hemes. Paul was a hero. He wns n warrior, battle scaiTcil nnd mifihty. He could cou sent to die. Kin he could never inaKe up bin inlnil to be defeated. Like a plumed knight, lie nhvnys strode for the storms eenler. If Is no wonder Unit lie exliortril I lie young Timothy to "Endure haivlncsw, as a good sol dier of Jesus ClirlKt." It Is no sur prise to hear hini shout, "Klsht t he Kood II,' hi of r.'iltli. The ('iiiiliiln's voice rings clear: "He that eiuluielli to the end shall be saved." "To him that overcometh will I (trim I to sit wllh mo on my thronu, even in I have overcome, nnd sit with my Fnlliev ou Ills throne." The great apostle kii.vs plainly that the wrestle Is not iiirainst flesh nnd blood. The struggle Is peisiiiial. It Is spiritual. It is ii'.ilnst false principle. It Is iisriilUKt evil powers. It Is against wicked spirit. Satan Is the piluiv of darkness. .Tesus Christ Is "the Captain of our f.ilviitlnii." His disciples are the war riors who are to conquer through his leadership. A man's bend must be right as well as his heart. Paul says the helmet Is salvation. The shield Is our faith, It will "quench all the firey darts of the wicked." The sword Is the word of (Jod. It is swift and strong. The sword of the Spirit never bends. H never breaks. The soldier must kabw how to tiHe It. He must be able to grasp It firmly at a moment's notice. This sword lnitut take the place of. the pagan weapon of Bleel. RAMS' HORN BLASTS THE poor slwayi with you" Is not ft profiles. The family can o.llv bn saved hi t TlVWT 'ly religion. doesn't always get the premiums. Ho who com pounds with the devil la likely to be Impounded by blm. The merit that leads great souls t'i emulation leads llttls ones to envy. Prejudice masquerades as principle that It may slay it. Perfect pralso proceeds only from pure lips. Nothing is more Irrltablo to the rest less than rest. The .fever of churci malaria la not Christian ferrour. You will draw tha world as your deeds draw the picture ot Christ. The two great commandments are great enough for two worlds. It la not wise to consume all mud be cause some contalna diamonds. You can never give the gospel io another till you cau say, "my gospel." The success of. your ministry does not depend on the strength of your misery. When Ood shuts one door In your fate It !s to force you to fir tho oth r door. We are all Inclined to watch Christ while He works aad sleep while Ho watches. The best preaching for the times la preaching for the eternities. Many a long course college man makes but a short cut lu the pulpit. Almost all our alns of omission aro related to the groat commission. No fuel, no fire. God's pinna are cover pla'.n until tbey are perfected. Your promotion cannot be measured by your locomotion. The question of the Son solve the qlicttlon of our sin. Chrlttt tasted the gall of sin without knowing It guilt. The dnrknesa of night throws t fierce light on many ot our deeds. God glvt a no goods to those who art not seeking the chief good. The best thlni will be but stuff tc the man who only seeks the sliitT. He who Is only puislvely willing to 6a right will Hud h'ms&lf actively wishing to do wrong. A Gentleman InilciMt. "You can always tell a gentleman, a thorough gentleman, w'.icne cr you m.-et him," observed the fat man with the blue necktie to his smoking acquaint ance. "Yes, I think you can," was the reply. "I rime down from Boston with one the other day. He was interested in electricity, and I told him all about the new trolley line through our town." Is it different from any other liner "No; but as one of the city aldermen I helped get the charter through." "Why, he never asked me what the company paid lor my influence." Those Dftngornlis krhoolma'anis. "Do you remember that schoolma'im that I was so much mashed on when we went to school together down at the Forks?" "Yep. Where is she now?" "I left her at my home half an hour Jgo." "Then you married her. after all? "Not much I didn'tl She married my youngest boy!" Perhaps Ha'll rprnk. Tcss She's got such an awful sore throat she can't speak above a whisper. But she's just tickled to death about it. Jess The idea! Tess Yes; you see that timid yo-ing Milyttns is to call on her this evening, and he'll have to sit close to her on that account. Free fllood lire. Botsnio Blood Balm (B. B. B.) crres blond snd rkin humors like nicer, eatinr ires, oczema, itching skin, a.-hing bonesandji inln, boils, ecrofula, blood oi?nn. cancer, etc. B. B. B. euros aH mallgntnt b'o3-l troubles, old daep-sia cd cases, heals every sore, makra the blood pine andriei. Drugrists, (1.00. Treatment free and pieaid by describing yonr trouble and writing "Ur. Giilniu, 12 Mit-h-lt Bt., AtantA, Oa. A century ago Glasgow had a pnpula lion of 77,385. To-day it has nearly 800,000. All goods are alike to Pctkam Fauells Dtf.i, aa they color all fibers at ono boiling. Sold by all druggists. Two electric mountain railroads have been constructed to operate on the French slope of the Pyrenees. The favorite flower of the fortune hunt er is marigold. Ilew's 1 hltl We offer One Hunrin-d Dollars Reward for snr esse of Catarrh that cannot be curnd by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F.J. CnsNSV r Co.. Props.. Toledo, O. We, the underflunol. have known K.J.Che ney for the tat 15 years, nnd believe htm per fectly honorable tn sit business transactions and financially atils to carry out any obliga tion made by their linn. Wf.stA Trcax, Wholesale Dragglsta, Toledo, Ohio. WAi.mtn, Rinnan Masvin. Wholesale Drngiflsts, Tolelo, Ohio. il all's Catarrh Curfilstsken Internally, sot. Inir directly upon the bloo; and miioous snr faces of the sTstem. l'rir. ,.Vi. per bottle, bob! by all Ilrngirlts. Tef.lmonlals free. Hall's Family Pills are the Iw.t. The man who says he would share his last dollar With you somehow or other never gets down to his last dollar. Ladle Can Wenr sthoea One size smaller after using Allen's Foot Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweat ing, aching fret, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. At all druggists snd shoe stores, '2Se. Trial package HtKIC by mail. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Boy, N. Y. Every woman who marries feels that to a certain degree she is a reformer. Brat For the How el. No matter what ails yon, headache tn a cancer, you will never got well until your bowels are put right. CiKCARsrs help nature, curs yon without a gripe or pain, produce easy untnrat movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your neaitn uses, cas carets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C 0. stamped on ft. Beware of imitations. Etymologists declare that the sugar cane has 2"J7 varieties of insect enemies. FITS permanently cu red . No fi ts or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. 2 trial bottle and treatiss free Dr. E. H. Ki.ikk, Ltd.. fel Arehht., I'tila. Pa Brazil growg about half the coffee crop of tho world. Mrs. Winslow's goothin? Syrup fore'iiHrea teething, softou the gums, rodnoes inflamma tion, allays JMunjmresjvindoolhsoj a aottl The greatest railroad in tho world is in the United States. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a eough cure. J. W. O'Uiusn, 32a Third Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1VO0. The number of emiraiita who left Ger many in 1900 was 22,309. Be advt. of Bmitbdsais Business Collsos The greatest marble quarry is in Ver mont. The Wrong I'lace. "Say. now," he began, as he put his head into the door at a cobbler shop, "answer me a question rig-!it off quick what does consensus mean?" "She means," replied the cobbler, as he held his hammer suspended and turned on his bench, "she means dot you vhas niistooken in dcr place. Der saloon vhas four doors pclow." Coughing " I was given up to die with quick consumption. I then began to use Ayer'a Cherry Pectoral. I improved at once, and am now in perfect health." Chas. E. Hart, man, Gibbstown, N. Y. It's tco risky, playing with your cough. The first thing you know it will be down deep in your lungs and the play will be over. Be gin early with Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and stop the cough. Terse tliss I Uc, Mc, II. All srsutMs. Consult vonr doctor. If he sats take it, thsn do as hs ssyt. It he tells you not to take It. then duo't take H. Ne kuows. Un It with him. We are wlllliis. J, UATtUCO., Lowull, A Bad Breath A bad breath means a bad stomach, a bad digestion, a bad liver. Ayer's Pills are liver pills. They cure con stipation, biliousness, t dys pepsia, sick headache. 25c All druggists. Want yonr nn.uulHt-he oi beeril a beuUliu brown or rich bls.-.kY 1'lien me BUCXi::::j.osDYEv:r,a. Ite Mlatit ftave I nl.r'1. "Mid now. my friends," faid die lec turer on "The Life and Times of Gorge Washtngion," when he had concluded his address, "if any of you cares to ask me a question, please speak up." "Do you think Washing;on's charac ter was fully tested?" queried a man in the audience. "It was as far as could be under the then existing situation of affairs," was the reply. "But he never held the end scat of an open cr.r when a fat woiua:i wan:ed to get on." "Never, nf course, and as grcaily as I admire the great man 1 cannot make ur my mind whether he would have hitched along like a gentleman or held fast to his place like a hog." Unlv One Answer. Mcjigger He does ask some of the inos. useless questions. He saw roast chicken on the bill of (arc to-day and he asked the waiter if he thought it was good. Thingumbob Well, how was that a tieless question? Mcjiggcr The waiter was a colored man. In the tldaat and only bitsinfMcollejrHti Vn. own ing Its builriioff gnn4 new ont. No vacation. 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