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Newly Established. '
7E3T PERRY HOTEL,
OH-lurih mOH KsM of HlekHotO.
Teams free for traveling utea to drive
to town, bofore or after meals.
Raea 75 cents per Day.
T, xa. Xlosw, pro.
PATEHTS
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OBTAINED.
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OOMiUtor oomiuuatoste wiux tns faivor
otOiUpsDsr, ?ha fltt (W U hxI4 UJgr-WJea,
MODERN ANANIASES.
Dr. Talmaga ds
precates In this
ermon the many
atrutbs that aie
tTH -TTI i apoaea or acta
1 wlY II In the social ai d
Uklnc bis ts.t
from Acts t, 1- 0.
MA certain nrn
named An: nil ,
with 8apphlra, his wife, sold a ,j
session," etc
A well matched pair, alike In auiM
tlon and In falsehood, Ananias and
Sapphire. Tbey wanted a reputation
tor treat beneficence, and they sold all
their property, pretending to put the
entire proceeds In the charity fund
while they put much ot it In their own
pocket There was no necessity that
they give all their property away, but
they wanted the reputation ot so do
ing. Ananias first lied about It and
dropped down dead. Then Sapphire
lied about it, and she dropped down
dead. The two fatalities a warning to
all aM of the danger ot sacrificing
tbe truth.
There are a thousand of ways of
telling a He. A man's whole life may
be a falsehood, and yet never with hU
lips may he falsify once. There Is a
way of uttering a falsehood by look,
by manner, as well as by Hp. There
are persons who are guilty of dishon
esty of speech and then afterward asy
"maybe," calling It a white He when
no lie Is that color. The whitest He
ever told was as black as perdition.
There are those so glren to dishonesty
of speech that they do not know when
they are lying. With some It Is an ac
quired sin, and with others It Is a nat
ural Infirmity. There are thone whom
you will recognize as born liars. Their
whole life, from cradle to grave, la
filled up with vice of speech. Misrep
resentation and prevarication are as
natural to them as the Infantile dis
eases and are a sort of moral croup or
spiritual scarlatina.
Then there are those who in after
life have opportunities of developing
this evil, and tbey go from deception
to deception and from class to class,
aotll they are regularly graduated li
ars. At times the air in our cities is
Oiled with falsehood, and lies cluster
around tbe mechanic's hammer, blos
som on the merchant's yardstick and
sometimes sit In the doors of church
es. They are called by some fabrica
tion and they are called by some Ac
tion. Ton might call them subterfuge,
or deceit, or romance, or fable, or mis
representation, or delusion, but as I
know nothing to be gained by covering
ap a God defying sin with a leilcogra
pher's blanket, I shall call them In
plainest vernacular, lies. They may
be divided Into agricultural, commer
cial, mechanical, social and ecclesias
tical.
First of all, I speak of agricultural
falsehoods. There is something In the
preeeace of natural objects that ha a
tendency to make one pure. The trees
never Issue false stock. The wheat
Selds are always honest. Rye and
oats never move out la the night, not
paying for the place they occupy. Corn
shocks never make raise assignment.
Mountain brooks are always current.
The gold of the wheatfleld Is never
counterfeit. But while the tendency
of agricultural life Is to make one hon
est, honesty Is not the characteristic
of all who come to the city markets
from the country districts. Tou hear
the creaking of the dishonest farm
wagon In almost every street of our
great cities a farm wagon In which
there Is not one honest spoke, or one
truthful rivet, from tongue to tail
board. Again and again has domestic
economy In our great cities foundered
on the farmer's firkin. When New
Tork and Washington sit down and
weep over their sins, let Westchester
county and the neighborhoods around
this capital sit down and weep ovsr
theirs.
The tendency in all rural districts
is to suppose that sins and transgres
sions cluster in our great cities, but
citizens and merchants long ago team
ed that It la not safe to calculate from
the character of the apples on the top
of the farmer's barrel what is the
oharacter of the apples all the way
down toward the bottom. Many of
our cltisens and merchants have learn
ed that It la always safe to see the
farmer measure the barrel of beets.
Milk cans are not always honest, There
are those who In country life seem to
think they have a right to overreach
grain dealers and merchants of all
styles. They think It la more honora
ble to raise corn than to deal la corn.
The producer sometime practically
says to the merchant, "Tou get your
money easy, anyhow.1 Does he get it
easily? While the farmer sleeps and
he may go to sleep conscious of the
tact that hla corn aa4 rye are all the
time progressing and adding to his tor
tune or his livelihood the merchant
tries to aleep, while conscious ot the
fact that at that moment tbe ship may
be driving on the rock or a wave
sweeping over the hurricane deck
spoiling hla goods, or the speculators
may be plotting a monetary revolution,
or the burglars may be at that moment
at hla money safe, or the ore way
have kindled on the very block where
hla store stands.
Easy, la It? Let those who set their
living In the quiet farm and barn take
the plaoe of one of our city merchants
and see whether it, is so easy. It is
hard enough to have their hands blis
tered with, outdoor work, but it la
harder with mental anxiety to have
Ue brain oooaumed. Qod help the
marchaats. And do not let those who
live la country Ufa eoa to the coa- j
elusion that alt the dUhoaeaUe. be
long to city life.
k ease oa to consider commercial
lies, There are those who apologise
to deviation from the right and tor
practical decepttoa by say tag U is com
asaretal enatom. ta 9ttet word, lie,
13 rr:"t ts vi,
There are large Untunes gathered la
which there Is not one drop of the
sweat of unrequited toll, and not one
Spark of bad temper flashes from the
bronxe bracket, and there Is not one
drop of needlewoman's heart's bio d
oa the crimson ptush, while there aie
other fortunes about which It may te
aald that on every doorknob and tn
every figure of the carpet and on eve y
wall there la the mark of dishonor.
What If the hand wrung by toll and
Mistered until the skla comes off
should be placed oa the exquisite wall
paper, leaving Its mark of blood four
flrgers snd a thumb? Or If In the
night the man should be aroused from
his slumbers agala and again by his
own conscience, getting hlmseli cp on
elbow and crying out la ths darknesa,
"Who Is there?"
There are large fortunes upon which
Cod's favor comes down, and It Is Just
r honest and Juat aa Christian to be
r..7! .ent as It Is to be poor. In many
a house there Is a blessing on every
pictured wall and on every scroll and
cn every tracerled window, and tbe
J-y that flashes In the lights and that
rs In the music and that dances
n the quick feet of the children pat
i.?;'rg through the hall has In It the
, . v.ir of (od and the approval of man.
I Ar.il there are thousands and tens of
I thousands of merchants who, from the
j first day they sold a yard of cloth or
I firkin of butter, have maintained their
Integrity. They were born honest.
thoy will live bonest, and they will die
hone.rt. Rut you and I know that
there are In commercial life those who
ar ?tillty of great dishonesties of
rcf!fh. A merchsnt says, "I am soil
ing these goods at less than cost." Is
he getting for those goods a price In
ferior to that which he paid for them?
Then he has spoken the truth. Is he
Rotting more? Then he lies. A mer
chant says. "I paid 125 for this arti
cle." Is that the price he paid for It?
All right. But suppose he paid for It
$21 instead of $25? Then he llee.
lint there are just as many false
hood before the counter as there are
behind the counter. A customer comes
In and asks, "How much Is this arti
cle?" "It Is $5." "I can get that for
$4 somewhere else." Can be get It for
$4 somewhere else or did be say that
Just for the purpose of getting It chesp
by depreciating the value of the goods?
If so, he lied. There are Just as many
falsehoods before the counter ss there
are behind the counter.
A man unrolls upon the counter a
bale of handkerchiefs. The customer
says. "Are these all silk?" "Tea." "No
cotton In them?" "No cotton In them."
Are those handkerchiefs all silk? Then
the merchant told tbe truth. Is there
any cotton in them? Then he lied.
Moreover, he defrauds himself, for this
customer coming la will after awhile
find out that he has been defrauded,
and the next time be comes to town
and goea shopping he will look up st
that sign and say: "No, I won't go
there; that's the place where I got
those handkerchiefs." First, the mer
chant Insulted God, and. secondly, he
picked bis own pocket.
Who would take the responsibility
of saying how many falsehoods were
yesterday told by hardware men, and
clothiers, and lumbermen, and tobac
conists, and Jewelers, and Importers,
and shippers, snd dealers in furniture,
and dealers In coal, and dealers In
groceries? Lies about buckles, about
saddles, about harness, about shoes,
about hats, about coats, about shovels,
about tongs, about forks, about chairs,
about sofas, about horses, about lands,
about everything. I arraign commer
cial falsehoods as one of the crying
sins of our time.
I pass on to speak ot mechanical
falsehoods. Among the artisans are
those upon whom we are dependent for
the houses In which we live, the gar
ments we wear, the cars in which we
tide. The vast majority of them are,
so far as I know them, man who speak
the truth, and they are upright, and
many of them are forwnost In great
philanthropies and In churches, but
that they all do not belong to that
class every ane knows. In times when
there is a great demand for labor it is
not so easy for such men to kep their
obligations, because they may miscal
culate in regard to the weather or
they may not be able to get the help
they anticipated In their enterprise. I
am speaking now of those who promise
to do that which they know they will
not be able to do. They say they will
come on Monday. They do not come
until Wednesday. They say they will
come on Wednesday. They do not
come until Saturday. They say they
will have the job done in tea days.
They do not get it done before 30. And
when a man becomes Irritated and
will not stand U any longer then they
go and work for him a day or two and
keep the job along, and then some one
else gets Irritated and outraged, and
they go and work for that man and get
him pacified and then they go some
where else. I believe they call iutt
"nursing a job."
Ah, my friends how much dishon
or such men would save their souls it
they would promise to do only that
which tbey know they can do! "Oh,"
they say, "it's of no Importance. Ev
erybody expect to be deceived and dis
appointed." Sotlal lite Is struck through with in
sincerity. They apologise for tbe fact
that the furnace Is out; tbey have no
had any Or la It all winter. Tbey
apologise for the tare oa their table;
they never live any better. They de
cry their most luxuriant entertainment
to wla a shower ot approval from you.
Tbey point at a picture oa the wall aa
a work ot one ot the old maatera. They
aay It la an heirloom in tbe family. It
hung oa the walla ot a castle. A duke
gave It to their graadfathet! People
that will 11 about nothing els will
lla about a picture. Oa small laoome
wa want the world to believe w are
aAueat, and society to-day la struck:
through with, cheat and counterfeit"
aa4 aaam. Kaw few, people axe aatur-
grinding against leaner g. Tow avert
sot laugh outright That is vulgar.
Ton must smile.- Ton must not dash
sulckly scroes the room. That Is vol
iar. You must glide. Much of soci
ety la a round of bows and grins sad
grimaces and ob's and ah's and he, he's
lad Slmperings and namby pambylsm,
I whole world of which Is not worth
one good honest round of laughter. So
ciety Is become so contorted and de
formed In this respect thst a mountain
abln where tbe rustics gather at a
lulltlng or an apple paring has in It
more good cheer thaa all the frescoed
refrigerators of the metropolis.
I pass on to speak of ecclesiastical
lies, those which are told for tbe ad
vancement or retarding of a church or
ect. It Is hardly worth your while to
esk an exfreme Calvaalst what an Ar
mlnlsn believes. He will tell you that
tn Armlnlan believes that man can
ave himself. An Armlnlan believes
no such thing. It Is hardly worth
rour while to ask an extreme Armlnl
tu what a Calvanlst believes. He will
tell you that a Calvanlst believes that
OoJ made some men Just to damn
them. A Calvanlst bellevee ao such
thing. It Is hardly worth your while
to aak a Pedo-Baptlst what a Baptist
bellevee. He will tell you that a Bap
tist believes that immersion Is neces
sary for salvation. A Baptist does not
believe any such thing. It Is hardly
worth your while to ask a man who
very much hates Presbyterians what
Presbyterian believes. He will tell
rou that a Presbyterian believes that
there are Infants In hell a span long,
ind that very phraseology comes down
from generation to generation In the
Christian church. There never was a
Presbyterian who believed that. "Oh.'
rou say. "I heard some Presbyterian
minister to years ago say so." You
lid not. There never was a man who
believed that. There never will be a
man who will believe that. And yet
from boyhood I have heard that par
ticular slander against a Christian
:hurch going down through the com
munlty.
Then, how often it Is that there are
mlarepresentatlona on the part of In
llvldual chnrches m regard to other
churches, especially If a church comes
to great prosperity. As long as a
-hurch Is in poverty and tbe singing
Is poor, snd all the surroundings are
iecreplt, and the congregation are so
hardly bestead In life that their pastor
goes with elbows out, then there will
always be Christian people In church
js who say, "What a pity; what a
pity!" But let the day of prosperity
some to a Christian church and let the
music be triumphant, and let there be
vast assemblages, and then there will
be even ministers of the gospel crttl-
:al and denunciatory and full of mis
representation and falsification, giv
ing tbe impression to the outside world
that they do not like the corn because
it Is not ground in their mill. Oh, my
friends, let us In sll departments of
life stand back from deception.
But some one says, "The deception
that I practice la so small that it
ioean't amount to anything." Ah. my
friends, it does amount to a great deal.
You say, "When I deceive, it is only
tbout a case of needles or a box of
buttons or a row of pins." But the
iitlcle may be so small you can put it
In your vest pocket, but tbe sin la aa
big as the pyramids, and the echo of
rour dishonor will reverberate through
the mountains of eternity. There is
no such thing aa a small sin. They
ire all vast and stupendous, because
tbey will all have to come under in
spection in the day of Judgment. You
may boast yourself of having made a
fine bargain sharp bargain. You
may carry out wbat the Bible says n
regard to that man who went la to
make a purchaae and depreciated the
value of the goods, and then after he
bad got away boasted of the splendid
bargain he had made. "It is naught,
it is naught, naith the buyer, but wnen
he is gone his way then he boaateth."
It may seem to the world a sharp bar
gain, but the recording angel wrote
down in the ponderous tomes of eter
nity, "Mr. So-and-eo, doing business on
Pennsylvania avenue or Broadway or
Chestnut street or State street, told
one He."
May God extirpate from society all
the ecclesiastical lies, and all tbe so
cial llee, and all the mechanical lies,
and all tbe commercial Ilea, and ail
the agricultural lies, and make every
man to speak the truth of his neigh
bor. My friends, let us make our life
correspond to what we are. Let ue
banish all deception from our behav
ior. Let ua remember that the time
comes when God will demonstrate be
fore an assembled universe Juet wnat
we are. The secret will come out. W
may hide It while we live, but we can
not hide It when we die. To many
life le a masquerade ball. As at such
entertainment gentlemen and ladles
appear la garb ot kings or queens or
mountain bandits or clowns and thea
at tbe close ot tbe dance put off their
disguise, so many ail through life axe
In owi The masquerade ball goes
on, and gemmed ban 4 clasps gemmed
band, and dancing feet respond to
dancing feet, and gleaming brow benda
to gleaming brow, and the masquerade
ball goee bravely- oa. But after
awhile languor comes and. blurs the
sight. Lights lower. Floor hollow
with sepulchral echo. Music saddens
Into a wail. Lights lower. Now the
masquerade is hardly seen. The fra
grance is exchanged tor the sickening
odor ot garland that have lala a long
while la the damp ot sepukher.
Ughta lower. Mists ails the
room. The scart drop from th shoul
der ot beauty, a shroud. Lights low
er. Torn leavea and witnered gar
land uow hardly cover up the ulcered
feet. Stench of lamp wlcka almost
quenched. Choking dampoe. Chill
isess. Ket still. Handa folded. Eyes
ahuL Voice hushed. Lights out,
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL;
USSON V, FOURTH QUARTER, INTKA
NATIONAL SERIES, OCT. St.
She "I don't look at all like myself
to-day."
He "It would be a good time to
b,ve your picture takatNa-x'oakera
Veai the Laaeeak Aees srvti, ls-S
ery Weeaaa, tl-SS Ceia Test, Aats
sett, aa-Ceenratavy fey see BVrr. D. BL
la. "And when ths south wind blew
softly, supposing that they had obtained
their purpose, loosing theoee they sailed
sloes by Crete." Paul, with Artatareboe;
a former fellow traveler, and afterward a
fallow prisoner (Acts xlx, W; Cot It, 10),
Is now a mm on his way to Roma Tbey
tooehed at Sldom and thanes near Cyprus
to Myra on the mam land of Lyeta, to Asia
Minor. There he was iranafened In a ship
of Alexandria bound for Italy, and after
many days of slow sailing rounded the eaat
end of Crete and reached the Fair Havens,
en the south onset of Crete, Her they
pent muflh time, until Psul advised them
ot to venture farther on aonoant of the
seanon, but the master and owner and the
majority advtaed to try and reach the port
of Phenloe, a little farther west In Crete,
and winter there. So with a light wind
tbey started, keeping as near the land a
possible. Paul I In the baods, humanly
speaking, of those who know not Cod, hut
he Is mally In the hands of Ood and can
trust film to manngn.
14, 15. A mighty wind from the land
arose against which the ship could nnt honr
pp. and they were onmpelled to let. her run
before It. Was thlsof God or the devil thai
they were thus drlvrn out M sraf We know
that sntan is tbe prince of thspnworof ihf
air and that he canard the wind that t.W
down the hmie upnn Job's children and
killed them (Johl, 13. 19), huf henonld no
do It without God's permlnelnn, God con
trols the angel whooonfrol '.he winds, and
even the Wormy wind fulfills Hi word
(Rev. vll. 1; Ps. mlvlll, 8). We muirt ace
God al.ne. ,
11,17, The storm Increased. Under the
lee of the Island of (iauda they get the
mall ooat on hoard which had evidently
been towing aU'rn. They somehow under
gird the hlp, rhn lower the nail and let
her drive under hare poles. What ahnnf
the condition of the pamtrngera among the
JT8 snnls on hoard? (Verne 37 ) Sallorsare
not snppof to feel anything, never to
know they am sick till they are dead, hut
many ordinary people do get awfully ntck
In a storm. This mast have hewn a sad
hip. And yet there were tome on it very
dear to tbe Lord Jinn.
1H, 19. "Kxoeertlngly toeeed with a tem
pest. " Well, there Is no use to say a word
abont this unless you have I yen In Diirh
aimumstanrva ynnrself. It waa a had case,
and many doubtless wtshvdthat there was
no more sea Itev. ul, 1). Yet even under
tnehclmumstancpsthePTtnna 'if Peace can
onntml one's heart In health nr Mckneea.
life or death, we ran le quiet In ills lor
Ing care,
ifl. "All hope that wa ihnnl.t he aved
waa then taken nway. " Surely they with
at their wlu' ,jnd , f. avtl, J"), or. as in
tbe margin, "Ail their wlwlom waa iiwal
luwed up." The can waa, aefaras human
eyes mtild we. utterly hopelpsa It makes
one think nf the nlnner having no hope
and without Gud In (he world (Eph. il.
12). ur.tln linni.v, d, "withont strength. "
But theral a .Saviour for the 1ims,sdU onjy
for iiinh. He aald, " I caine not to nail the
lighten ua, but sinners, to repentanna. "
31. "But after long abstinence Pan!
rtood forth In the midst of them." Thry
had faated tor 14 dayi (verse &3), and must
have felt forlorn indeed and ready tor a
word of aomfort from any one who might
have it for them. None but God oould
help or comfort them, and Ills wrvant Is
ready to be the meeaenger. He Is the Fa
ther of mereiea and the Ood nf all aom
fort ( II Cur. i, 3), but we cannot fully up
preotate It or Uiin till we gut into atrail
places.
22. "And dow I exhort you to be of
good cheer, far there snail be no loas of
any man's life among rou. but of the
hip." Ue umphaeiseri It by adding,
"There nhsil uot an hair fail from the
head ot any of you. " and he took bread
and gave thank to God in the presenile of
them ail and began to eat I ranee 34, 35).
39. "For there ntoud by me this nlgnt
Um angel nf iod. whose I am and whom I
aarve." This und the next two versus aro
to uie the very neart of this leaaun. Take
the wonts. "God. wouee I am." and tain
nf wnat la InoiuUou. ills property, wuigo
lie will uertaiuiy core fur. lils child, wuuin
He will certainly mm tu, loved by the Lurd
Jesus ee (he FuUier lores Him iJonn xv,
VI, bougnt 'tta cae preoiuua blood 'j
Christ, and therefore ue previous to God as
that bloud Is; a part uf Christ Hluiwiif, a
member uf Hla body. We oewt not hesi
tate) to nay, "The must high God. the pue
uesur uf heaven uud uaxtn, uwns me, ' and
take ail the comfort there la fur ue. Tbeu
consider "whom I -mrve." aud rmnember
that we oaunut eurve God and Alaniniuu,
neither cau we eurve Chris and pteaae
mui i Mum. v. .'-t, Gal. 1, 10.
"haying. Fear uot, Paul! LTiou
muse be brought before Conor, and, !u,
Gud bach given thee ail theui mat, ami witn
thea," Xhl 1 a cundrtuauunut the Lord's
teaUinuuy to hiui tn JorueaMUu "Thou
Uioat bear wltnoeaut Houie ' (ohuuwr xxilt,
11). Tbe Lord's "muai ' ure as sure a
God Uluiecif, wueuiur "ye. must m born
aeveia" or "ail things must be iuiHiied. "
Kvery purpuee of the Lord snail ! per
formed, aud ail HI UioughUoiiaU cuuie to
paa(Jer. 11, iW; Ise. nv, It m the
Lord's purpuee that Paul nhouid be His
wltsee ut Kouio, uud thereiure il was ae
good a doue, altuough in this muurm etery
thing seemed aau It. How bieaeed u
Um "feax nuts" ot God fiuui the Ural one
la Geo. xv, 1, to tile Loot in Hetauuioul
His purfeut love oasis out ail fear, and the
suui that naua in Him aui truly eajr, " What
lime I am afraid I wiil true In low." "I
will trust and not be afraid."
U. " Wherefore, sire, be of guod uueer.
for I beilete God, that It aboil be even as
It waa tuid um. " Veres t nas, "And so
It cams tu pais," WbeteverGodaajr 1 aa
sure a IX it bad already ouwe to pee, so
we should eay continually, "1 believe God."
The flrat "believe" la the Bloie Is In Geo.
xv, 0, where It la said of Abrahaiu, "Ue be
lieved In the Lord, and Ue ouunted It to
biiu fut righteous neea," It might be lit
erally traneiated " A brehaau amened God,"
or aald amen to God. So did Jeremiah
kuig afterward. See Jer. xi, t. In tbe uuc
ln It beouuiui ue tobeevwraylDg"Kvn
so, Father," or, a Mary said, "Ue It unto
me according tolhy word, "
8. "How belt we must be oat upon a
oertaln lalaadf" There must have bean a
good reaeun for that also oe It would not
have bwa to. It la written la hack. xlv.
to,. "Thou shalt know thai I bate no
done without cause all that I have done la
it, aalta. the Lord Ood." Svery thing la
the life ot a ohUd ot God le beforehand ar
ranged for God's glory aod hla highest
good. Let u tut Nut to Introduce addl
Moaa of sat away bl be ooBtaal wie Kta