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I had a terrible blood disease which
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i long time by the best physicians,
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trned to get a firmer hold on me, and
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Vent After five years of treatment
kch did me no good whatever, I was
:ed to try S.S.S. This remedy
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inent, bnt ten years have elapsed
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RELIGIOUS WISDOM.
In the f ollowini
sermon Dr. Tal
nwge f peaks of tht
oo in Dion mam tbat
V" J l should be displayed
11 A JK. 1 "P"10 religion.
Tne text is Luk
xvl, "The children
f this world art
la their generation
wiser than the children of tight"
That Is another way of saying that
Christians are not so skillful in the
manipulation of spiritual affairs as
worldlings are skillful in the manage
ment of temporalities. I see all around
me people who are alert, earnest, con
centrated and skillful in monetary
matters, who in the affairs ot the soul
are laggards, inane, Inert. The great
want of the world Is more common
sense in matters of religion. If one
half of the skill and forcefulness em
ployed in financial affairs was employ
ed in disseminating the truths ot Christ
and -trying to make the world better,
within ten years the last Juggernaut
would fall, the last throne of oppres
sion upset, the last iniquity tumble,
and the anthem that was chanted over
Bethlehem on Christmas night would
be echoed and re-echoed from all na
tions and kindred and people, "Glory
to God In the highest and on earth
peace, good will to men."
Some years ago, on a train going
toward the southwest, as the porter of
the sleeping car was making up the
berths at the evening tide, I saw a
man kneel down to pray. Worldly
people looked on as much as to say,
"What does this mean?" I suppose the
most ot the people in the car thought
that the man was either Insane or that
he was a fanatic, but he disturbed no
one when he knelt, and he disturbed
no one when he arose. In after con
versation with him I found out that he
was, a member of a church in a north
ern city, that he was a seafaring man
and that he was on his way to New Or
leans to take command of a vessel. I
thought then, as 1 think now, that ten
such men men with such courage for
God as that man had ten such men
would bring the whole city to Christ;
1,000 such men would bring this
whole land to God; 1,000 such
men, in a short time, would
bring the whole earth Into the king
dom to Jesus. That he was success
ful in worldly affairs I found out. That
he was skillful in spiritual affairs you
are well persuaded. If men had the
courage, the pluck, the alertness, the
acumen, the industry, the common
sense in matters of the soul that they
have in matters of the world, this
would be a very different kind of earth
In which to live.
In the first place, my friends, we
want more common sense in tbo build
ing and conduct of churches. The idea
of adaptlveness is always paramount In
any other kind of structure. If bank
erg meet together, and they resolve up
on putting up a bank, the bank Is es
pecially adapted to banking purposes;
if a manufacturing company puts up a
building, it is to be adapted to manu
facturing purposes, but adaptlveness is
not always the Question in the rearing
of churches. In many of our churches
we want more light, more room, more
ventilation, more comfort. Vast sums
of money are expended on ecclesiasti
cal structures, and men sit down in
them, and you ask a man how he likes
the church. He says, "I like it very
well, but I can't hear." As though a
shawl factory were good for anything
but making shawls! The voice of tho
preacher dashes against the pillars.
Men sit down under the shadows of the
Gothic arches and shiver and feel they
must be getting religion or something
else, they feel so uncomfortable.
Oh, my friends, we want more com
mon Bense in the rearing of churches.
There Is no excuse for lack of light
whan the heavens are full of it, no ex
cuse for luck of fresh air when the
world swims in it It onght to be
an expression not only of our spiritual
happiness, but of our physical comfort
when we say: "How amiable are thy
tabernacles, O Lord God of hosts! A
day In thy courts Is better than a
thousand."
Again, I remark we want more com
mon sense in the building up and en
larging of our Christian character.
There are men who have for 40 years
been running the Christian race, and
they have not run a quarter of a mile.
No business man would be willing to
have his investments unaccumulattve.
If you Invest a dollar, you expect that
dollar to come home bringing
another dollar on its back. What
would you think of a man
who should Invest f 10,000 In a
monetary institution, then go oft, for
Ave years, make no inquiry in regard
to the investment, then come back,
step up to the cnshler of the institution
and Bay, "Have you kept that $10,000
surely that I lodged with you?" but
BBklng no question about Interest or
about dividend? Why, you say, "That
Is not common sense." Neither Is It,
but tbat Is the way we act In matters
of the soul. We make a far more Im
portant Investment than $10,000. We
Invest our soul. Is It accumulative?
Are we growing la grace? Are we get
tin better? Are we getting worse?
God declares many dividends, but we
do not collect them. We do not ask
bout them. We do not want them.
Oh, that In this matter of accumulation
we were as wise in tho matters ot the
soul as we are In the matters of the
world!
, How little common sense In the read
ing ot the Scriptures! We get any oth
er book and we open It. and we say:
"Now what does this book mean
to teach me? It Is -a book
on astronomy. It will tench nu
astronomy. It to a hook on
political economy. It will teach me po
lltleal economy.' Taking np the Bible
do we ask ourselves) what It means ti
teach? It means to do Just one thing
Get the world converted and get us al
to heaven. That is what It proposes ti
do. But Instead of that we go into tht
Bible as botanists to pick flowers, oi
we go as pugilists to get something t
fight other Christiana with, or we gc
as logicians trying to sharpen our men
tal faculltles for a better argument, ant
we do not like this about the Bible
and we do not like that, and we do not
like the other thing. .. What would yoi
think of a man lost on the mountains'.
Night has come down. He cannot fine
his way home, and he sees a light In t
mountain cabin. He goes to it; he
knocks at the door. The mountalneei
comes out and finds the traveler and
says: "Well, here I have a lantern.
You can take it, and it will guide you
on the way home." And suppose that
traveler should say: "I don't like that
lantern. I don't like the handle of it
There are 10 or 15 things about It 1
don't like. If you can't give me a bet
ter lantern than that, I won't have
any!"
Now, God says this Bible Is to be a
lamp to our feet and a lantern to out
path, to guide us through the midnight
of this world to the gates ot the celes
tial city. We stop and Bay we do not
like this about It, and we do not like
that, and we do not like the other
thing. Oh, how much wiser we would
be If by its holy light we found our
way to our everlasting home! Then,
we do not read the Bible as we read
other books. We read it perhaps four
or Ave minutes just before we retire
at night. We are weary and sleepy,
so somnolent we hardly know which
end of the book is up. We drop our
eye perhaps on the story of Samson
and the foxes or upon some genealo
gical table, Important In Its place but
stirring no more religious emotion
than the announcement that somebody
begat somebody else and he begat
somebody else, Instead of opening the
book and saying, "Now I must read for
my Immortal life; my eternity is in
volved in this book."
How little we use common sense In
prayer! We say, "O Lord, give me
this," and "O Lord, give me that,"
and "O Lord, give me something
else," and we do not expect to get it,
or, getting It, we do not know we have
it. We have no anxiety about it. We
do not watch and wait for its coming.
As a merchant, you telegraph or you
write to some other city for a bill of
goods. You say, "Send me by such ex
press or by such a steamer or by such
a rail train." The day arrives. You
send your wagon to the depot or to
the wharf. The goods do not come.
You Immediately telegraph: "What Is
the matter with these goods? We
haven't received them. Send them
right away. We want them now or we
don't want them at all." And you
keep writing and you keep telegraph
ing and keep sending your wagon to
the depot or to the express office or
to the wharf until you get the goods.
In matters of religion we are not so
wise as that. We ask certain things
to be sent from heaven. We do not
know whether they come or not. We
have not any special anxiety as to
whether they come or not. We may
get them and may not get them. In
stead of at 7 o'clock In the morning
saying, "Have I got that blessing?" at
12 o'clock, noonday, asking, "Have I
got that blessing?" at 7 o'clock In the
evening saying, "Have I received that
blessing?" and not getting it, pleading,
pleading begging, begging askiug,
asking until you get it. Now, my
brethren, Is not that common sense?
If we ask a thing from God, who has
sworn by his eternal throne tbat he
will do that which we ask, Is it not
common sense that we should watch
and wait until we get it?
But I remark again, we want more
common sense In doing good. Oh, how
many people there are who want to do
good and they are dead failures! Why
is It? They do not exerciBe the same
tact, the same Ingenuity, the same
stratagem, the same common sense
in tho work of Christ that
they do In worldly things. Otherwise
they would succeed In this direction as
well as they succeed In the other.
There are many men who have an ar
rogant way with them, although they
may not feel arrogant In their soul. Or
they have a patronizing way. They
talk to a man of the world in a man
ner which seems to say: "Don't you
wish you were as good as I am? Why,
I have to look clear down before I can
see you, you are so far beneath me."
That manner always disgusts, always
drivel men away from the kingdom ot
Jesus Christ Instead of bringing them
in.
When I was a lad, I was one day in a
village store, and there was a large
group ot young men there full of rol
licking and fun, and a Christian man
came In a very good Christian man and
without any introduction of the sub
ject, and while they were in great hi
larity, said to one of them, "George,
what Is the first step of wisdom?"
George looked up and said, "Every man
to mind his own business." Well, It
was a very rough answer, but it was
provoked. Religion had been hurled in
there as though it were a bombshell.
We must be natural in the presenta
tion of religion to the world. Do you
suppose that Mary in her conversations
with Christ lost her simplicity, or that
Paul, thundering from Mars hill, took
the pulpit tone? Why is it people can
not talk as naturally in prayer meet
ings and on religious subjects as they
do in worldly circles? For no one ever
succeeds In any kind ot Christian work
unless ha works naturally. We want
to imitate the Lord Jesus Christ, who
plucked a poem from the grass ot the
field. We all want to imitate him who
talked with farmara about the man
who went forth to sow, and talket
with the fishermen about the drawn ne
that brought in fish ot all sorts, am
talked with the vine drearer about ti.
Idler In the vineyard, and talked witl
those newly affianced about the mir
rlage supper, and talked with the ri a
cramped In money mat.?. a aL i.h
two debtors, and talked with tho wo
man about the yeast that 1c . t
the whole lump, and talked with tui
shepherd about the lost sheep.
Oh, we might gather even the start
of the sky and twist them llko for
getmenots In the garland of Jewn'. W
must bring everything to h m the
wealth ot language, the tenderness ol
sentiment, the delicacy of morning
dew, the saffron of floating cloud, tht
ruffled surfof the tossing sea, the
bursting thunder guns of the storm's
bombardment. Yes, every star must
point down to him, every heliotrope
must breathe his praise, every drop In
the summer shower must flash his glo
ry, all the tree branches ot the forest
must thrum their music In the grand
march which shall celebrate a world
redeemed.
The first fact, that sin has ruined us.
It has blasted body, mind and soul. We
want no Bible to prove that we are
sinners. Any man who is not willing
to acknowledge himself an imperfect
and a sinful being Is simply a fool and
not to be argued with. We all feel
that sin has disorganized our entire
nature. That is one fact. Another
fact Is that Christ came to reconstruct,
to restore, to revise, to correct, to re
deem. That Is a second fact. The
third fact Is that tho only time we
are sure Christ will pardon us is tho
present. Now, what Is the common
sense thing for us to do In view of
these three facts? You will all nuree
with me to quit sin, take Christ, and
take him now.
Suppose some business man In whose
skill you had perfect confidence should
tell you that to-morrow, Monday morn
ing, between 11 and 12 o'clock, you
could by a certain financial transac
tion make $5,000, but that on Tuesday
perhaps you might make It, but there
would not be any poMttveness about it,
and on Wednesday there would not be
so much, and Thursday less, Friday
less, and so on less and less when
would you attend to the matter? Why,
your common sense would dictate:
"Immediately I will attend to that mat
ter, between 11 and 12 o'clock to-morrow,
Monday morning, for then I can
surely accomplish it, but on Tuesday
I may not, and on Wednesday there is
less prospect and less and less. I will
attend to It to-morrow." Now, let us
bring our common sense In this matter
of religion. Here are the hopes of the
gospel. We may get them now. To
morrow we may get them, and we may
not. Next day we may and we may
not, the prospect less and less and less
and less, the only sure time now now.
I would not talk to you in this way If
I did not know that Christ was ablo to
save all the people. I would not go In
to a hospital and tear off the bandages
from the wounds if I had no balm to
apply. I would not have the face to
tell a man he Is a sinner unless I had
at the same time the authority for say
ing he may be saved.
Suppose in Venice there is a Raphael,
a faded picture great in Its time bearing
Borne marks of Its greatness. History
describes that picture. It Is nearly
faded away. You say, "Oh, what a pity
that so wonderful a picture by Raph
ael should be nearly defaced!" After
awhile a man comes up, very unskill
ful In art, and he proposes to retouch
it. You say: "Stand off! I would
rather have It just as it Is. You will
only make It worse." After awhile
there comes an artist who Is the equal
of Raphael. He says, "I will retouch
that picture, and bring out all its or
iginal power." You have full confi
dence in his ability. He touches It
here and there. Feature after feature
comes forth, and when he is done with
the picture it Is complete In all Its or
iginal power.
Now, God Impresses bis image on our
race, but that image has been defaced
for hundreds and thousands of years,
getting fainter and fainter. Here
comes up a divine Raphael. I shall
call him a divine Raphael. He says,
"I can restore that picture." He has
all power In heaven and earth. He Is
the equal of the one who made the
picture, the equal of the one who drew
the Image of God In our soul. He
touches this sin, and It is gone; that
transgression, and it Is gone, and all
the defacement disappears, and "where
Bin abounded grace doth much more
abound." Will you have the deface
ment or will you have the restoration?
I am well persuaded that If I could by
a touch ot heavenly pathos In two min
utes put before you what has been
done to save your soul, there would be
an emotional tide overwhelming.
"Mamma," said a little child to her
mother, when she was being put to bed
at night; "niamma, what makes your
hand so scarred and twisted aud unlike
other people's hands?" "Well," said
tho mother, "my child, when you were
younger than you are now, years ago.
one night after I had put you to bed
I heard a cry, a shriek up stairs. I
came up and found the bed was on Ore,
and you were on fire, and I took
hold of you and I tore off the
burning garments, and while I was
tearing them off and trying to get you
away I burned my hand, and it has
been scarred and twisted ever since,
and hardly looks any more like a hand.
But I got that, my child, In trying to
save you."
O man, O woman, I wish to-day I
could show you the burned hand ot
Christ burned in plucking you out. ot
the Are, burned In snatching you away
from the flame. Aye, also the burned
foot, and the burned brow, and the
burned heart burned tor you. "By his
tripes ye are healed."
) 01
Taming Down Their Wretched
Heuclnnen All Over the State.
Arr aid or next year'S tight.
Thr Ilii-Oiicsn Mrn'n I.cauii Attack
thu Coinhlnnllon of Corrupt IoiiIkCs
In I'lillu.lo plilu A c.v lilnn Arraign
ment uf I lio Lender' l.amie It In
Uno or (Jiiny's Seume to Kuep lu
Tower.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Hurrivburg. Dec. 7. There Is no
lonKL-r any concealment of the fact thut
consternution relnna among; the ma
chine politicians of the state. The an
nouncement that at a recent meeting
In 1'hUadelphiu, attended ly Dr. Swal
low, Hanker Thompson and other rep
resentatives of the ifrent independent
vote. It had been determined to brlnir
out Hon. Wayne MacVeash or some
other equally prominent man as an In
dependent candidate for governor has
rocked the old machine from center to
circumference.
The bent evidence of this Is the order
that is IivIiik Klven by the bosses to
"turn down" some of the most faith
ful servitms of Senator Quay In the
late lcKislature. The rank record that
some of these men made Is to he turned
UKulnut them by the very machine In
whose Interest that record wus made.
It Is the attempt of the machine to
purify Itself by sacrltlcinK its friends.
Tl'ltNIOl) DOWN HY linSKHS.
Nothing better Illustrates the abso
lute lack of conscience or Kratltude of
the machine 111 Republican politics to
day. During the last notorious legis
lature It drove men under whip and
spur to vote and act In Its In-half, there
by sacrificing themselves on tho altar
of fealty to the bosses. In obedience to
their command some men ruined them
selves politically through their record
In the legislature. And now today the
machine turns them down with a
cold blooded disregard that Is enough
to make one's marrow cold, a few
samples of the Ingratitude of the ma
chine are given below.
Out In Mercer county Representatives
Hell and Emery, both of whom voted
for Senator Penrose, nre to be turned
down by the machine. And yet they
were, consistent followers of the bosses
during the legislature. Dr. Martin, who
voted for Mr. Wanamaker, has a strong;
following, and he cannot, therefore, be
turned down.
In Lancaster every one of the old
members from the country, followers of
the bosses, who voted for Penrose are
to be thrown out like a lemon that
has been squeezed, and Is. therefore,
useless. Only one of the old members,
Frank McClaln, who comes from the
city of Lancaster, will be permitted to
go bahk. Representative Seyfert was
shrewd enough to know that his unsa
vory record would never take him back
to the legislature, and so he applied for
a 11,500 consulship to Canada and got
it.
SOME OTHKIt MISFITS.
-The Montgomery county outfit, head
ed by Senator Saylor, will be turned
down. It wojs a most unsavory combi
nation. Representative Kratz will be
the anti-Quay nominee for senator If
Mileage Hill Saylor Is a candidate. Rep
resentative Teus, of the unsavory and
rank oleomargarine Investigating com
mittee, will never see Harrlnhurg again
as a representative from Montgomery.
Representatives Fry and French will
be left off the ticket In Washington.
French was chairman of th elections
committee, and got Into the political
fire over the expense accounts of the
Saunders-Roberts contest. He was an
other of the legislative combination
that was dragged through the mud of
exorbitant expense bills.
Among the other men whose records
will prevent their return Is Senator
John J. Coyle, of Schuylkill. H- trie,!
for a South American consulship, but
was turned down by the president, anil
there Is also a fleeting belief that It
was with the advice and consent of
Senator Quay that the president did so.
Senator Millelsen, of Cumberland,
sees the handwriting on the wall, ami
will not be a candidate for re-election.
He cannot even carry his own ward.
The Quay machine has served notice
on him that It cannot help him, and
so he Is out of the race.
Instances such as the above might be
enumerated from one end of the state
to the other as showing how absolutely
conscienceless the machine Is. In Phil
adelphia alone four-firths of all the ma
chine men will be turned down. Not
because the machine cannot trust them,
but because it recognizes that the use
fulness of these individuals Is past,
and that It must take men without any
record In lieu of those who have ruined
themselves on behalf of the bosses.
TUK PHILADELPHIA FRUIT.
The fight In Philadelphia has now
been reduced to a point where It can
be declared without any doubt what
ever that the combination of contrac
tors, officeholders and lobbyists who
seek to control the city will be routed
completely. Secretary of State David
Martin, who stands alone today for
good government In the city, has the
fight In hand, and practically wop. The
best element In the city Is recognizing
the bandit character of the combination
known as the Ward Leaders' league,
which Is fighting Mr. Martin and the
regular organization. The Husiness
Men's league has gone Into the tight
as opposed to this leaders' league. The
most vigorous utterance of the present
campaign Is In the shape of a procla-
I matlon made by the Husiness Men's
league on Monday. It Is reproduced
here for the reason that It Is of interest
not only to Philadelphia, but to the
people of the whole state. The proc
lamation rays:
"In view of the record of the last leg
islature. Its vicious crusade to Injur
the legitimate business interests of the
state, and to enact laws contrary to
public policy, good government, and the
welfare of the commonwealth, the
Husiness Men's Republican league be
ing pledged to promote the enactment
ot sound and wise legislation, would
be derelict to duty It It failed to have
deep concern In any local contest that
does or may affect future national or
state nominations and elections."
"It Is without factional preferences,'
and with full understanding that
neither contending party represents the
best Interests of the cltv; wttfc no at
tempt to excuse or Justify party mla
management In the past, but with
grave fears that yet greater dangers
threaten the municipality, and with the
belief that through a mistaken sense
of duty many may aid to continue the
system they wish to destroy, that this
league hereby enters Its earnest pro
test and warning against the efforts
of a most dangerous cabal of disap
pointed spoilsmen, who, for personal
plunder, aim to fasten Itself upon this
city and to barter away her votes to
perpetuate the power of a political
boss.
QUAY'S FAKE REFORMS.
"When, In the memorable contest for
state chairman In 1895, Senator Quay,
In his hour of peril, promulgated his fa
mous 'reform' doctrines, many friends
of true reform rallied to his support
and changed defeat to victory. Again
In 189, under the banner of ontl-com-blne
pretenses, moral and reform ele
ments aided to win more victories which
gave to Senator Quay absolute mas
tery over both brunches of the last
legislature. How- this power was abused
Is plainly told In the legislature's record
of Insatiable desire for public plunder,
promises broken, party pledges Ignored
and public trust abused. None knew
better than Senator Quay that his man
tle of bogus reform could protect him
no longer, so with charactciintlc au
dacity, abandoning all pretense of re
form, with no attempt at secrecy jii
lines for profit and plunder he formed
the Ward Leaders' league, binding Its
members by compact to deliver over to
him all state delegates and members
of the legislature from 111 wards In
Philadelphia to be used by him until
after the date for bis re-election to the
United States senate.
"The Leaders' league has sought to
obtain power by n course of intimida
tion and terrorism, ami, though only
In Its Infanc y, lias to Its credit a list
of political ciimes, attempted and com
mitted, that places it in tho front of
ull piratical organizations.
"To show their power and infer dis
regard of the public welfare they de
feated a tried and true servant of the
people for port warden.
"They conceived the Infamous Rocker
bills intended to destroy the funda
mental principle of the Kullltt charter,
and to pass them through the ogln
lature. bartered away Jlso.ooi) per year
of Philadelphia's public; school money.
"The united support of the men they
controlled in the legislature passed the
mercantile tax bill, which, as every one
knows, was a killing blow at all the
Important commercial Interests of the
state, and, even more, sought to de
crease the public school appropriations
ti, 000, 000 annually.
THEY ARE POLITICAL HIGHWAY
MEN. "From the date of its organization
until the close of the legislature the
Leaders' league was a positive force for
evil, and every nefarious measure and
every iniquitous scheme had the un
qualified support of Its members. Its
latest vicious performance was to
threaten the mayor of Philadelphia
with the 'holding up' of alt appropria
tions In councils, thereby to coerce him
and all In authority in the administra
tion to pay tribute to this band of polit
ical highwaymen, who do not even
deign to give an excuse for their ex
istence, save that of controlling the
spoils of office for themselves and those
subservient to them.
"The Ward Leaders' league Is the
Quay organization In Philadelphia. Sen
ator Quay giving to this combination
of ward bosses, contractors and politi
cal heelers tho protection of his great
power In return for state delegates and
members of the legislature. And poor
ly does he conceal his hand in the pres
ent contest, though so cunningly seek
ing to dlvfrt the people's wrath from
Ms own head by hiding behind a ma
chine of bis own creation, which Is un
iviccessfully attempting to steal the
livery of reform, to turn a popular
prejudice existing ugalnst a municipal
faction into a public catastrophe that
will not be discovered until too late.
"The present contest in Philadelphia
for the office of receiver of taxes Is a
struggle for spoils between political
factions, the outcome of which, while
yielding no Immediate benefits to the
people or the taxpayers, may control
the great battles of lS'JS for fnlteil
States senator and governor, contests
which Involve directly the interest of
every citizen ami taxpayer in the com
monwealth. SCHEME FOR PLl'NDER.
"The success of the ward leaders' con
spiracy, to betray and plunder the city,
means also the perpetuation of Quay
Ism throughout the state, the return of
Quay to the t'nited States senate and
future Pennsylvania legislatures as cor
rupt as those of the past. Therefore,
let none be deceived by false and
treacherous protestations, but with full
knowledge of their base purposes, let
the business interests and the friends of
good government unite and give batttle
to a common foe. that tho Ward Lead
ers' league may become a thing of un
savory memory only, and a warning
for all time to come to unscrupulous
conspirators."
Getting I p.
The halghts we reiieh are ulways won
l!y genius und by pluck.
Put when unother i is on top
Wo wonder ut h! i biek.
Yet, while we lollcl by dny. and tossed
And thought the long night through,
Thu chances are that he toiled, thought.
And did sum tossing, too!
Cleveland Leader
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