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"DREAMS"
Dr. Talmage Says They Are (lie Avenue
Through Which God Has Marched
Upon Ihe Human Soul.
Prool ol lm mortality Wanted by God.
Wasiiixotox, D. C In tin's discourse
Dr. Tahnnge discusses a much talked of
subject, and one in winch all are inter
ested. The text is Joel ii, 28: "I will pour
out My spirit upon all fle.li. Your old
men sh.tll dream drenr-s, your young men
shall see vinions."
In this photograph of the millennium
the (I it-am is lifted into great conxpicuity.
You rmiy sny of a rlre.im that it is a noc
turnnl fantasia, or that it is the abmird
combination of waking thoughts, and with
a slur of intonation you may say, "It is
only a dream." but God has honored the
dream by making it the avenue through
which again and Benin Ho has marched
upon the human soul, decided the fnte of
nations, and changed the course of the
world's history, (iod appeared in a dream
to Ahimelcrh, n-arning him against nn un
lawful marriage; in a dream to Jacob, an
nouncing by the ladder set against the
sky full of angels, the communication be
tween earth and heaven; iu a dream to
Joseph, foretelling his coming power under
the figure of all the sheaves of the harvest
bowing down to his sheaf; to the chief
butler, foretelling his disimpiisonment; to
the chief baker, announcing his decapita
tion; to l'hnrnoli. showing him first Ihe
seven famine struck years, under the
figure of the seven lean cows devouring
the seven fat cows; to Solomon, giving
him the choice between wisdom and
riches and honor; to a warrior, under tho
figure of o barley enke smiting down a
tent, encournwtfng Gideon in his battle
against the Midinnites; to Nebuchadnez
zar, under the figure of a broken image
and a hewn down tree, foretelling the over
throw of his power; to Joseph, of the
Xew Testament, announcing the birth of
Christ in his own household, and again
bidding him fly from Ilerodic persecutions;
to Pilate's wife, warning hiin not to be
come complicated with the judicial over
throw of Christ.
We all admit that God in oncicnt times
and under ltible dispensation addressed
the people through dreams. The question
now is, docs God appear in our rlav nnd
reveal Himself through dreams? That is
the question everybody asks, and that
question I will try to answer. You ask me
if I believe in dreams. My answer is, I
do, but all I have to say will be under live
heads.
Remark the First The Scriptures are
so full of revelation from God that if we
get no communication from Him in dreams
we ought, nevertheless, to be satisfied.
With twenty guidebooks to tell you how
to get to Xew York or Pittsburg or Lon
don or Glasgow or Manchester do you
want a night vision to tell you how to
make the journcv? We have in this
Scripture full diivctinn in regard to the
journey of this life nnd how to get to the
celestinl city, and with this grand guide
book, this magnificent directory, wo
ought to be satisfied. I lnve more faith
in a decision to which I come when I am
wide awake than when I am sound asleep.
I have noticed that those who give a great
deal of their time to ctudying dreams get
their brains addled. They aro very anx
ious to remember what they dreamed
about the first night they alept in a new
house. If iu their dream thev take the
hand of a corpse they are going to die.
If they dream of a garden it means a sep
ulcher. If something turns out according
to a night vision, they say: "Well, I am
not surprised; 1 dreamed it." If it turns
out different from the night vision, they
say, "Well, dreams go by contraries." In
their efforts to put their dreams into
rhythm they put their waking thoughts
into discord. Xow, the Bible is so full of
revelution thnt we ought to be satisfied
if we get no further revelation.
Sound sleep received great honor when
Adam slept so extraordinarily that the
surgical incision which gave him Kve did
not wake him, but there is no such need
for extraordinary slumber now, and he
who catches an Kve must needs be wide
awake! No need pf such a dream as
Jacob had, with a ladder against the sky,
when ten thousand times it has been dem
onstrated that earth and heaven are in
communication. No such dream needed as
that which was given to Abinielech, warn
ing him against an unlawful marriage,
when we have the records of the county
clerk's office. No need of such a dream as
was given to Pharoah about the seven
years of famine, for now the seasons
march in regular procession and steamer
and rail train carry breadstuff to every
famine struck nation. No need of a dream
like that which encouraged Gideon, for all
through Christendom it is announced and
acknowledged and demonstrated that
riiiteousncKS sooner or later will get the
victory.
If there should come about a crisis in
your life upon which the Bible dues not
seem to be sufficiently specific go to God
in prayer, and you will get especial direc
tion. I have more faith ninety-nine
timca out ot a hundred in directions given
you with the Bible in your lan and your
thoughts uplifted in prayer to God than in
all the information you will get uncon
scious on your pillow.
I can very easily understand why the
Babylonians and the Kgyptians, with no
Bible, should put so much stress on dreams,
and the Chinese in their holy book, Chow
King, should think their emperor gets his
directions through dreams from God, and
that Homer should think that all dreams
came from Jove, and that in ancient times
dreams were classified into a science, but
why do you and I put so much stresB upon
dreams when we have a supernal book of
infinite wisdom- on all subjects? Why
should we harrv ourselves with dreams?
Why should Kddystone and Barnegat
lighthouses question a summer firefly?
Keniark the Second All dreams have an
important meaning. Thev prove that the
soul is comparatively independent of the
body. Tho eyes are closed, the senses are
dull, the entire body goes into a lethargy
which in nil languages is used an a type of
death, and then the soul spreads its wing
nnd never sleeps. It leaps tho Atlantic
Ocean and mingles in scenes 30)0 miles
away. It travels great reaches of time,
flashes back eighty years, and the octoge
narian is a bov again in his father's house.
If the soul before it has entirely broken its
chain of flesh can do all this, now far can
it leap, what circles ean it cut when it is
fully liberated? Every dream, whether
agreeable or harassing, whether sunshiny
or tempestuous, means so much that, ris
ing from your couch, you" ought to kneel
down and nv: "O God, am I immortal?
hence? Whither? Two natures. My
soul caged now what when the door of
the cige is opened? If my soul can fly so
far in the few hours In which my body is
asleep in tho night, how far can it fly
when my boi'y sleeps the long sleep of the
grave?" Oh, this power to dream, how
startling, how overwhelming! Immortal!
immortaM . . . I
Remark the Third Tho vast majority
of dreams are merely the result of dis
turbed physicial condition, and are not a
supernatural message. Job had carbuncles
and he was scared in the night. He says,
"Thou sen rest iub with dreams and terri
Rest me with visions." Solomon had an
overwrought braim overwrought with pub-'
lie business, and he suffered from erratic
slumber, and ha writes in Kcclesiastes,
"A dream cometh through tho multitudo
of business." Dr. Gregory, in experiment
ing with dreams, found thnt a uottle of
hot water put to his feet while in slumheri
made him think he was going up the hot
sides of Mount Ktna. Another morbid
physician, experimenting with dreams, his
feet uncovered through sleep, thought hej
was riding in an Alpine diligence. But a
great many dreams are merely narcotic;
disturbance. Anything that you see while
under the influence of chloral or brandy
or hasheesh or luudanum is not a revela
tion from God.
The learned De Quinoey did not ascribe
to divine communication what he saw in
sleep, opium suturated, dreams which he
afterward described in the following
words: "I was worshiped, I was sacri
ficed, I fled from the wrath of Brahma,
through all the forests of Asia. Vishnu
hated me. Sceva laid in wait for me. I
came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris. I had
done a deed, they aid, that made the
crocodiles tremble. I was buried for a
thousand years iu stone cotlina, with mum
mies and uphiuxes in narrow chambers at
the heart of eternal pyramid. 1 was
kisted with the cancerous kits of croco
diles uuJ luy confounded with unutterable
snmy tmnga amonj wreatny and Miotic
mud."
Do not mistake narcotic disturbance for
divine revelation. But I have to tell you
that the majority of the dreams sre mere
ly the penalty of outraged digestive or
gans, and you have no right to mistake
the nightmare for heavenly revelation.
Iate suppers are a warranty deed for bad
dreams. Highly spiced salads at 11 o'clock
at night, instead of opening the door
heavenward, open the door infernal and
diabolical. You outrage natural law, and
you insult the God who made those laws.
It takes from three to five hours to digest
food, and you have no right to keep your
digestive organs in struggle when the rest
of your body is in somnolence. The gen
eral rule is eat nothing after 6 o'clock ot
night, retire at 10, ateep on your right
side, keep the window open five indies for
ventilation, and other worlds will not dis
turb you much. By physical maltreatment
you tnke the ladder thnt Jacob saw in his
dream, and you lower it to tho nether
world, allowing the aacent of the demoni
acal. Drenm are midnight dyspepsia. An
unregulated desire for something to eat
ruined the race in paradise, and nn unreg
ulated desire for something to eat keeps it
ruined. The world during 6000 years has
tried in vain to digest thnt first npple.
The world will not be evnnpelized until
we get rid of a dyspeptic Christianity.
Healthy people do not want the cadaver
ous and sleepy thing that some people call
religion. They want a religion that, lives
regnlarlv bv dsy nnd sleep soundly by
night. If through trouble or coming on of
old ojo or exhaustion of Christian service
you cannot sleep well, then you mnv ex
pect from God "songs in the night," but
there arc no blessed communications to
those who willingly surrender to indigesti
blcs. Napoleon's army at Leipsir, Dres
den and Borodino came near being de
stroyed through the disturbed gastric
juices of its commander. That is the way
you hnve lost i-ome of vour bnttlea.
All drenms that mnke you better are
from God. How do I know it? Is not
God the source of n'l good? It does not
lake a very logical mind to argue that out.
Tertullian' nnd Martin Luther believed in
dreams. The drenms of John Huss bio im
mortal. St. Augustine, the Christian
father, gives us the fact that a Cnrthnge
nian physician was penaiadcd of the im
mortality of the soul by r.n argument
which he beard in a dream. The night be
fore his assassination the wife of Julius
Caesar dicnmed that her husband fell
dead across her lap.
Furthermore. I have to say that there
nre people who were converted to God
through a dream. Tho Rev. John New
ton, the fame of whose piety fills all Chris
tendom, while a profligate sailor on ship
board, in his dream thought that a being
approached him and gave him a very beau
tiful ring nnd nut it upon his finger nnd
said to him: "Ah long as you wear that
ring you will be prospered. If you lose
that ring you will be ruined." In the same
dream another personage appeared nnd
bv n strange infatuation persuaded John
Newton to throw overbonrd that ring, nnd
it sunk into the sen. Then the mountains
in sight were full of fire, and the air wns
was lurid with consuming wrath. While
John Newton was repenting of his folly in
having thrown overboard the treasure an
other personage came through the dream
and told John Newton he would plunge
into the sen nnd bring that ring up if he
desired it. He plunged into the sea and
brought it up nnd said to John Newton,
"Here is that gem, but I think I will keep
it for vou lest you lose it ngain." And
John Newton consented, nnd al' the fire
went out from the mountains, nnd nil the
sicms of lurid wrath disnpnenred from the
nir, nnd John Newton said that he saw in
his dream that that valuable gem was his
soul, nnd that the being who persuaded
him to throw it. overboard was Patnn. and
that the one who plunged in and restored
thnt gem. keeping it for him, wns Christ.
And tint dream makes one of the most
wonderful chanters in the life of thnt
most wonderful man.
A German was crossing the Atlantic
Ocean, ami in his dream he saw a man
with a handful of white flowers, nnd he
was told to follow the man who had that
handful of white flowers. The German,
nrriving in New York, wandered into tho
Fulton street prayer meeting, nnd Mr.
Lnmphier, tho great apostle of prayer
meetings, that day had given to hmi a
bunch of tuberoses. Thev stood on his
desk, and at the close of tho religious ser
vices he took the tuberoses and started
homeward, and the German followed him
and through an interpreter told Mr. Lam
phier that on the sea he had dreamed of
a man with a handful of white flowers,
and wns told to follow him. Suffice it to
say that through that interview nnd fol
lowing interviews he bseame a Christian
nnd is a city missionary, preaching the gos
pel to his own countrymen. God in a
drenm!
John Hardonk. while on shipbonrd,
drenmed one night that the day of judg
ment had come, and that the roll of the
ship's crew was called except his own
name, and thnt these people, this crew,
were all banished, nnd in this dream he
asked the reader why his own name wns
omitted, nnd he was told it was to give
him more opnortunity for repentance. He
woke up a different man. He became illus
trious for Christian attainment. If you
ilo.not believe these things, then you must
discard all testimony nnd refuse to ncceot
nnv kind of authoritative witness. God in
a dream! ... ...
Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted to
God through a dream cf the last judgment,
nnd manv of v.s have had some drenm of
that great day of judgment which shall be
the winding up of the world's history. If
you have not dreamed of it, perhaps to
night you may dream of that flay. There
sre enough materials to make a dream.
Knough voices, for there shall be the
roaring of the elements and the great
earthquake. Enough light for the dream,
for the world shall blaze. Enough excite
ment, for the mountains shall full. Enough
water, for the ocean shall rear. Enough
astronomical phenomena, for the atari
shall go out. Enough populations, for all
the races of nil the ages will fall into line
of one of two processions, the one ascend
ing and the other descending, the one led
on by the rider on the white horse of
eternnl victory, the other led on by Apol
ivon on the black charger of eternal defeat.
Tho drenm cornea on mo now, nnd I see
tho lightnings from above answering the
volcanic disturbances from beneath, nnd
1 hear the long reverberating thunders
that shall wake up the dead, and all the
sens, lifting up their crystal voices, cry,
"Come to judgment!" and nil tho voices of
the heaven cry, "Come to judgment!" nnd
crumbling mausoleum and Westminster
abbeys and pyramids of the dend with
murlile voices crv, "Come to judgment!"
And the archangel seizes an instrument of
music that was mado onlv for one sound,
and thrusting that mighty instrument
through the clouda nnd turning it this
way, he shall put it to his lips and blow
the long, loud blast that shall maka tho
solid earth quiver, crying, "Come to judg
ment!" Then from this earthly grossness quit,
Attired in stars, we shall forever sit.
ICoiiyrlsbt, tDCI, L. Klopscu.)
Tronblei of Physicians.
People expect of physicians charita
ble deeds much more numerous than
those required of ordinary mortals.
Here is the naked statement made re
cently by a prominent physician: "I
nm old now." said be, "approaching
the age of TO years. The other day I
was reviewing my career and going
over my account books, carefully pre
served from the beginning of my prac
tice. I found on those books debts
amounting to $104,000, for the whole
ot which I would accept 14 cents. The
public would cry out indignantly upon
a doctor who refused bis art to those
unable to pay him, and every doctor
has worthy patients who take the best
bf his time and skill perhaps, an$
pay him nothing, but there are hosts
ot people who seem to think them
selves Justified In imposing upon him.
Some ot those who owe me money
ride pnst my door in carriages."
Champion Sneak Tliteft
Greenwood, Iowa, reports the chain.
pion sneak thief. Two hours after be.
Ing released from Juil he broke lntu
prison and stole his photograph from
the rogues' gallery. Ex.
THE SABBATH SCHOOL.
International Lesson Comments For
December 8.
Subject: Moses and Pharaoh, Ex. xl., MO
Golden Text, Isa. Ixvlll., 9 Memory
Verses, 4-7 Commentary oa
the Day's Lesson.
Introduction. Moses asked that they
might go three days' journey into the wil
derness, where they would be free from
nil intrusion, nnd where the worship of
God which had been neglected could be
revived. Mnny seem to think that this
proposition on the part of Moses wns not
sincere, and that he intended to go nnd
not return. But there is no suggestion
that any such duplicity was planned.
They would have gone and worshipped
and returned, had they been permitted
to do so; and then God would have made
further demands upon Pharoah. It is
not necessary for Jehovah to resort to
trickery in order to accomplish His pur
poses. 1. "The Lord said." Or. as some think,
the Lord had said, at some time in the
J.ast. Verses 1-3 arc evidently thrown
in here in parenthesis, as verses 4 8 seem
to be a continuation of the interview
Moses was having with Pharaoh at tho
close of the preceding chapter. I'harnoh
had ordered Moses to leave his presence,
nnd threatened him with death if he saw
his face ngnin (10:28, 21)): and Moses said
ho would sec his face no more, but be
fore he left Pharnoh he threatened him
with the denth of the first born. It was
a terrible threat, but was carried out to
the letter soon after. 12:29-33. "Olio
plague more." One more heavy blow must
fail upon this hard-hearted monarch and
his hind, ere he will be compelled to let
go tho favored objects of Jehovah's sov
ereign grace. The king of Egypt had am
ple warning of the terrible calamity that
was to como upon thein, and if ho Led
repented and humbled himself it might
have been averted.
2. "Let overy man borrow," ctr. "Let
them ask every man," etc. It. V. Bor
row is a wrong and misleading transla
tion. God commanded the Israelites to
ask or demand a certain recompense for
their past services, ond He inclined the
hearts of the Egyptians to give liberally;
nn.l this, far from being a matter of op
pression, wrong, or even charity, was no
mora than a very partial recompense for
the long nnd painful services which we
inay say 000,00(1 Israelites had rendered
to Ivrvpt, during many years. There can
he i;o doubt that during their servitude
the profits of their labor went wholly to
tho Kgyptians. Jod has many ways of
balancing accounts, of righting the op
pressed, and compelling those who have
done wrong to make restitution. "Jew
els," etc. The work translated "jewels"
my be translated "articles' or "goods."
"The Israelites received gold nnd silver,
probably both in coin aud in plute of dif
ferent kinds."
3. "Very grent." Bccnuse of the mira
cles he had wrought and the plagues he
had brought upon the people. "This seems
ti be mentioned as a reason whv no at
tempt had been made ngainst his life."
4. "About midnight." God's judgments
come upon sinners when they least expect
it, nnd in their moments of fancied secur
ity. The darkness can not hide from God;
we know not what will be in the approach
ing night. The wicked may awake to find
that the stern messenger of eterual justice
has seized upon them. "Will I go out."
In this last plague God is represented ns
descending in person. This was designed
to impress Pharaoh with the terrible char
acter of the next judgment.
5. "The first bom." It has been sug-
f tested that this might not in everv ease
lave meant the oldest child in the family,
ns thnt child might now have been dead or
absent; but, inasmuch as there was not a
hoiue where there was not one dead
(12: 30), the word in some cases must have
meant the "most eminent,'' or the "best
beloved." In this sense the term is fre
quently used. "Behind the mill." The
poor captive slave employed in the hardest
labor. It was the custom then, as it is
with the Arabs at present, to grind their
cirn with hand-mills, turned by their wom
en servants, who, for that purpose, stood
behind the mill.
6. "Great cry." The Egyptians were
excessive in their manifestations of grief.
"They whipped, bc-nt nnd tore them
selves, and when a relative died they ran
into the streets and howled in the most la
mentable nnd frantic manner." How
dreadful must have been the scene when
there was one dead in every house. No
such wnil ever went up before or since.
7. "Shall not a dog," etc. The Israel
ites were not only to be free from death,
but they were to depart without being mo
lested in any wny: the dogs would not even
bark nt them. "Doth put a difference."
The Egyptians were crying, helpless,
frightened, dead. The Israelites were
rtuiet, peaceful, protected, blessed. So the
Lord always puts a difference between His
people and His enemies. One has the
f ror.iise of this life and of that which is
o come; the other has nothing to expect
but indignation and wrath from the hands
of an offended God.
8. "Get thee out." See the fulfilment
of this in Ex. 12: 31-38. "In a great an
ger." "In hot anger." R. V. "Moses
was not in an unholy passion; he was
grieved at the perversity of a wicked soul."
10. "The Lord hardened Pharaoh's
heart." God is sometimes said to do
what He merely permits to be done, be
cause He can not wisely prevent it. But,
by studying the narrative it will be seen
that Pharoah hardened his own heart.
"Harden" is used nineteen times in this
account. Ucven times God is said to
harden Pharaoh's heart, five times the
simple statement is made that it was
hardened, and three times it is said that
he hardened it himself. "In the narrative
of what actually took place, it is not till
after the sixth plague that it is said that
the Lord hardened his heart, ond enly
after the eighth plague is the agency ex
clusively ascribed to God."
WVOMINO SOAP MINES.
Wyoming has a soap mlno. A de
posit of n whitish material, in com
posite form, containing Just enough
sulphate, potush, and pumico to give
gritty essential, has been discovered
five miles west of Newcastle, in the
northeastern part of Wyoming. The
deposit lies in a fissure and dips inte
the ground like, a vein of mineral.
The vein, so called, is 15 to 18 feet
wide and runs the length ot a quarter
section, which for twenty years up to
date was used as a stock pasture. Next
week probably a building of commo
dious dimensions, fitted with machin
ery that will cut the slabs of mineral
soap into sizes for commercial use, will
cover a portion of the ground. Tho
cleanest town in the United States, it
Is possible, will be located in this sec
tion. It will be free from soot and
smoke.. Tor the factory boilers will
be heated by petroleum found near by,
and the soap to keep the place clean li
found in large quantities iu the ground
and consequently so dirt cheap that
men can be kept on the payroll to do
nothing else but look out tor dirt spots
and quickly remove them. Mr. Betts
has plans for developing the unique
field, and It may be expected that in
a short time the markets of the world
will be supplied with another wonder
ful product ot the states ot boundlesi
resources in the Itocky mountain re
gion. Philadelphia Item.
Populations In Cities.
In Rhode Island 81.2 ner cent ot th
population in 1800 lived in cities or
towns of 8.000 inhabitants or morn
while this element also constitutes 70
per cent ot the population in Massa
chusetts, 68.6 per cent in New York,
81.2 per font in New Jersey und 63.3
per cent in Connecticut.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS
December g. The Right lite ol Ability
Malt. y 13-14.
Scripture Verses. Matt., xx., 28 ;
Luke, vlll., 15; John tv., 35, 36, xv,
1-6; Rom., xxll., 11; 1 Cor. xv., 58;
2 Cor. ix., 8-11; Phil., !., 11; ill, 1214;
Jas., II., 14-18, 20; ill., 17.
Lesson Thoughts.
The many crying needs of the world
call for the highest ability In Chris
tian service and the most earnest uso
of tho power God has given us.
Candles are lighted, not to be look
ed at, but that other things may bo
soen by their light. The light of our
abilities Is to shine, not for our glory,
but that others may see our good
works, and glorify our Father in
heaven.
Light conseB to be llKlit. and be
comes darkness, tho moment It erases
to shine; similarly, th0 light of Chris
tian ability must shine out In good
deeds.
Selections.
In doing Is this knowledge won,
To see what yet remains undone;
With this our pride repress,
And give us grace, a growing store,
That day by day we may do more.
And may esteem It less.
Archbishop Trench.
What would a master say of his
servants, or a king of hiB subjects,
who should be willing to serve him,
but only after their own fashion; who
should be afraid of becoming too
much interested in his service and his
interests, and who nhould be ashamed
publicly to acknowledge themselves
attached to him? Or, rather, whut
will the King of kings say to us if
we serve him In this wicked manner?
Fenelon.
The smaller our gifts, the more Im
portant Is It that we use them well
. . . Many a brilliant career has
been duo simply to tho fact. that the
man always did every task, however
small, as perfectly as possible. Do
ing one's best enables one to do bet
ter. Suggested Hymns.
Am I soldier of tho cross?
True-hearted, whole hearted.
Work, for time in flying.
When Jesus coioiej to reward his serv
ants. Nothing but leaves.
Work, for the night Is coming.
EPWORTH LEAQL'G MEETING TOPICS
December 8 The Value of Influence .Malt,
v., 13-16.
The office of salt Is to preserve. The
function of light Is to shine. When
the savor of salt is lost what good Is
It? The candle that glveth light
to all that are in the house needs
to be on a candlestick, not under a
bushel. Yo are the light.
Influence is like an arrow shot Into
the air, and It Is like a stream of lava
whose intense heat changes coarse
limestone Into beautiful marble, clay
Into jaspnr, crude carbon Into diamond.
Men . Influences P.Ian As iron
eharpeneth iron. The shadow ol
Peter works wonders. The majestic
presence of Him who said, "I am he,"
exerted a subtle power, for "they went
backward and fell to tbo ground.'
The thought that leaps from heart and
head blazes pnths on which the race
moves toward Its redemption.
God Endows Us With Tills Power If
God gives us power to turn tho wilder
ness Into a garden, grants us Ingen
ulty to Invent and skill to execute,
does he not provide, us wherewith to
bring men Into the empire of rlghte
ousness. Back of reputation, of deed.
of tho movement that lilted trom rude
ness and Ignorance, slavery nnd sin, Is
the man. See how Jesus announced
the power of the person: "And I, ii
I . . . will draw all men unto me."
, Tho influence that personally yields
comes from a cardinal inherent quali
ty, the master possession of the man
To. give value to influence, character
is essential. Without this salt has
no savor, tho candle has no light.
When the character Is holy, the rep
utation unsullied, the deed noble, all
the aroma will not only be widely dif
fused, but will sweeten the air. Men
grow Into what they admire and love.
For Influence that has value, give the
world inexhaustible goodness, nnd
lives that save. They are as ointment
poured forth, whoso fragrance per
vades all time. Some time Influence
Inspires to attain what Is far beyond
us. Influence Is like the law of grav
itation alwayB operating, a perpetual
force. Have wo forgotten Paul? No,
his word and work go sweeping on
wider with each swell of sea. Tho
courage of that disciple of the higher
law, Bernard, nerved Wyclif aud
Luther.
"And when a great man dies,
For years beyond our ken,
Tho light he leaves behind him lies
Upon the path of men."
"Let your light so shine before men,
thnt they may lee your good work,
and glorify your Father which Is in
Oeaven."
RAMS' HORN BLASTS
HE trifling man
always disregards
tho essential tri
fles of life.
Redemption will
make a perfect
family out of a
chaotic race.
Tho church
that flourishes it
self is often far
from flourishing.
Tho sense of
eternity In the
heart makes the truly great life.
If God puts you to a hard school it
Is because He has great, work for you.
Men cannot see the good when tho
mists of passion are ou the windows
ot the soul.
Tho trouble with short-sighted peo
ple is that they expect everyone to
wear their glasses.
Tho soundness of a man's preach
ing docs not depend on the amouut
ot sound ho makes.
The church will never satisfy tha
world's needs so long as it is satis
factory to the world's pride.
It is not hard to let your moderation
be known to all men so tar as the
virtues are concerned.
There are too many who feel thoy
would be safe if they could only make
sure of dying on a Sunday.
He cannot know truth that has nev
er known error.
The church Is not'a clearing house
for credulity.
Care dVives, to prayer and prayer
drives au care.
The ee'iierosity that flourishes ot
homo it Seldom folt abroad.
I'tiixp e:eil Advlre.
Some lime ago a man presented him-
scll uctore the Liverpool magistrates
wnn me loiiowing talc;
"Me name is Patrick O'Conncr an' I
lives at street, an' I kapes hens in
my cenar, out the water pipes is burst,
an' my hens are all drowned."
"Well, my good man, we can do noth
ing for you ; you had better apply to the
water company," was all the advice he
got.
A few days Inter the same man appear
ed with precisely the same tale.
"You were here a few dava no,-, nnrl
we advised you to go In the water com
pany. Did you do so .'
"1 did, yer honors."
"And what did they ay to you?"
"They told mc to kapc ducks 1"
A tltlinrltative.
"Is niiggins still at the door?" asked
Maj. Mtinchsmtd.
"Yes, sir," iriiswcrcd the butler. "When
I told him you were not at home he
tatd he duln t believe it.
"You go and tell him I say it's so."
Brooklyn, NT.. Nov. 2!) finrfield Headnchs
Fowlors are sold hero in largo quantities; this
shown that ps-oplc res lixe the vslui ol a reined v
at once harmless and effective. 'Ibe Towders
are of nn!onbtrda!nein curing hrtd-trhcsnf
U kinds and in building np the nerrons ovs
toni. Investigate every grade or remedies of
fered for ihe cure of Ileudnchris nnd tho Onr
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first place. Writo (inrllcld Tca Co. for samples.
New Orleans, La., a city of nearly 300,
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Biss, Maple hit., Norwich, N.1T., J-'eb. 17, 11)00.
Love of a man for himself never glows
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fc't'range as it may seem, a bore 1s a man
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