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A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELCQUENT DISCOURSE UPON THE
HOLY GHOST.
{ ail
e Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman Shows
1 How the Holy Ghost is {he Christian’s
Helper Beyond All Others=Is the Life
of the Church.
New York City. — The sermon here
[furnished to the press is the most impres-
Blve one cof a series which the Rev. Dr. J.
id Chapman prepared some time ago
or the Bible Institute Colportage Associa-
ftion. 1: is entitled “The Holy Ghost in
His Relation to the Church,” and was
preached from the text: “And the Lord
added to the church daily such as should
e saved.” Acts 2: 47.
In the honest endeavor which we make
roperly to live the Christian life and in
fhe end receive a reward from the hand of
{the Master, thereby not missing our
lerown, ie Holy Ghost beyond all others
s our helper. He is certainly to be count-
2d as the director and leader of our church
dife. We need expect no great outpouring
of the uly Ghost so long as His leader-
‘ship is ignored, and without this high
Svidua atmosphere we may expect, as in-
1
viduals, no special victories.
¥ On the day of Pentecost two great events
joceurredd ; the first was the exaltation of
Jesus Christ at the right hand of the
Father—This Jesus hath God raised up,
whereof we are all witnesses” (Acts 2:
32); the other was the outpouring of the
Spirit, bacause Jesus had been raised up
and exalted. The point is that Christ as
our head had poured out upon Him the
Holy Ghost; thus receiving Him in trust
for the body; and it naturally follews that
what the head has received the members
of the body have a right to claim. Since
that day. in the plan of God, the Holy
Ghost has been the administrator of the
affairs the church, and He is here to
make Christ real to every believer. If He
had tarried with us in the flesh and I had
claimed His presence, He would have been
denied to you; but now that He is present
in the Spirit. we may all have Him and
lay claim to His presence, and the love of
God may he shed abroad in our hearts by
the Holy (thost. He is in a real sense the
vicar of Christ, and there can be no other.
[The Son of God is to-day at the right hand
of God. representing the church, and the
Spirit of God ought to be enthroned and
exalted in the church, representing the
risen Christ. He is to counsel her, to
uide her and to control her—in a word,
He is to govern all things in the church,
from the least things unto the greatest.
The Scriptures are evidence that He has
a méssage for the church. It is generally
believed that the epistles to the seven
~churches in the Revelation contain the pro-
phetic setting forth of the church’s history
—its declines and recoveries, its failures
and returns, and it is believed by many
that we have come to the Laodicean period
of history of the Jast days of the church.
Seven times we have the expression re-
peated: “He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”
It is to be noted that this expression is
used after each’ of the churches had back-
slidden. Ephesus had left her first love;
Smyrna was rich, and likely to be proud:
Pergamos was touched ivith the doctrine
of Balaam: Thyatira was influenced by Je-
zebel; Sardis had a name to live, and was
* dead; Philadelphia had but little strength,
while Laodicea was neither hot nor cold.
The real cure for backsliding in the church
is that which comes to us by the Holy
Ghost of the revelation of God’s will and
the interpretation of God’s word.
; I
| The church is a called-out body. We
wvere chosen in Him before the world’s
foundation, and we are elect according to
the foreknowledge of God, for thus saith
the Scripture. Jesus 1s in heaven direct-
ing the work of the church, but the Holy
Ghost is here carrying out the plan. This
lan extends to the minutest details of the
ife of the church. He has ordained the
flices we must have, and the kind of. men
e must lay ‘hold upon to fill them:
(Wherefore He saith, a He ascended up
on high, He led capiivily captive, and gave
fts unto men. And He gave some, apos-
les; and some, prophets; and some, evan-
lists; and some, pastors and teachers;
or the perfecting of saints, for the work of
the ministry, for the edifying of the body
of Christ.” Fnlesiany 4:7 871,12, The
church is really the habitation of Ged.
ear what the Scriptures” have to say:
ph. 2: 19 to 22— "Now therefore ye are
no more strangers and foreigners, but fel-
low-citizens . with the saints, and of the
household of God; and are built upon the
foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Vesus Christ Himself being the chief cor-
nerstone; in whom all the building fitly
framed together groweth unto a holy tem-
ple in the Lord; in whom ye also are
uilded together for an habitation of God
through the Spirit.” If He is dwelling in
aus, we must be careful of our church life,
for we may grieve Him and quench Him
by the way we live and work. Many
things are done to-day in the church which
may commend themselves to men, and yet
fall utterly short of the approval of God.
As an illustration, Peter, standing up with
the 120, spoke of the departure of Judas,
and declared that one must be chosen in
his stead. Prayer was o ered, a vote was
taken, and Matthias elected; but there
was no indication that this election was
ever ratified by the Tord, for Matthias at
once sinks out of sight. Two years after-
ward the Lord calls one to fill the va-
cancy, namely, Saul of Tarsus. Paul
speaks thus of himself: Gal. 1: 1—“Paul,
an apostle, not of men, neither by man,
but by Jesus Christ and God the Father,
who raised Him from the dead.”
The chyrch was established by signs and
wonders. Acts 2: 1 to 4—“And when the
day of Pentecost was fully come they
were all with one accord in one place. And
suddenly there came a sound from heaven
as of a rushing, mighty wind, and it filled
all the house where they were sitting.
‘And there appeared unto them cloven
tomgues like as of fire, and it sat upon'each
f them. And they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other
tongues, as the Spirit gave them utter-
ance.” Heb. 2: 4—God also bearing them"
witness, both with signs and wonders, and
with divers miracles and gifts of the Holy
Ghost, according tc His own will.”
ere was no church in the Old Testa-
ment. This is the opinion of many Bible
teachers. In Acts 2: 41, we read: “Then
they that gladly received His word were
baptized, and the same day there were
added unto them about 3000 souls.” In
this text the words “unto them” ave writ-
ten in italics, so that the original is, *‘there
were added about 3000 souls.” But we
must add to something when we add, so
in Acts 2: 47, we read: “And the Lord
added to the church daily such as should
be saved.” * But there is a still better ex-
planation. In Acts 5: 14, we read: “Ihey
were added to the Lord.” 0
This is Paul’s conception of the church.
Christ is_the head and the church is His
ody. We are being called out now from
the Gentile world. Every new soul won
for Christ comes in to semplete the body.
Some day the last man will come in, and
the skies will brighter with the return of
the Lord.
It is this that gives one the passion for
soul-winning. It is this thought that fur-
nishes the inspiration for the foreign mis-
sionary. The church is a called-out body,
and the missionary is sent to Africa, to
China, to Japan, that he may work in‘ the
fellowship of the Holy Ghost in leading
souls to.Christ. God speed the day when
the last member of the body shall be
found!
IH.
i The church is enlightened by the Spirit.
The Spirit is the breath of God in the
body of His church. If His rule is not fol-
lowed ‘it naturally results that His life is
shuf out. Thus it comes to be like a man
suffering from pneumonia—one unaccus-
tomed to such scenes declares that what
the man needs is more air, but in point of
fact it is not more air he needs at all, but
more lung to be filled with air. We do
not want more of the Holy Ghost, but
the Holy Ghost ought to have more of the
church. And sometimes, because His rule
is not followed, He in a measure withdraws
Himself, and allows the forms to stay, but
the power is departed. The oil is gone,
but the lamp is there. There are churches
where prayer is offered, and the Bible
read, and church-going religiously kept up,
and there is positively not even the sem-
blance of power. They are described in
the words of Scripture as “having a name
to live, but being dead.” "They remind
one of the guard found in the excavated
city of Pompeii. He stood with his hel-
met and his armor on, and his bony finger
clasping his spear, and yet not living. It is
just the same with the cRurch.
A little thing at first may result in loss
of power in the entire church. A wrong
financial policy might do it. A spirit of
criticism might accomplish it.
“There is an insidious disease which
slowly and secretly turns the vital organs
of the body to bone. It begins by ossify-
ing little fragments of tissue here and
there. No medical skill can arrest its pro-
gress. Nature is perverted from her
healthy process of assimilating and nutri-
tion to the creation in the system of noth-
ing but bone. What should be life to mus-
cle and nerve and sinew and arteries,
turns to solid and lifeless bone. At length
the heart is reached and vital parts of it
become bone, and its beautiful work of
pulsation, bv which life is seat in red
streams to the very tips of the fingers,
ceases and death ensues. Such is the
moral induration which the sensibilities
of a soul suffer, when long appealed to by
the services of religion, to which it will
not give back a throb of responsive feel
ing
IV.
If the church is to be governed by the
Spirit, every office-bearer in the church
should be influenced by the Holy Ghost.
Ministers should be filled. Paul gives an
illustration of one phase of this truth:
Acts 13: 9-12—“Then Saul, (who also is
called Paul), filled with the Holy Ghost,
set his eyes on him, and said. O full of all
subtility and all mischief, thou child of
the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness,
wilt thou not cease to pervert the right
ways of the Lord? And now, behold, the
hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou
shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a
season. And immediately there fell on
him a mist and a darkness, and he went
about seeking some to lead him by the
hand. Then the deputy, when he saw
what was done, believed, being aston-
ished at the doctrine of the Lord.”
The Holy Ghost only fills the man whose
desire is to honor Christ. Philosophy,
poetry, art, sociology, ethics, are well
enough in their places, but their place is
not in the pulpit. The Holy Ghost has
pledged Himself to witness only to the
story of Jesus and the resurrection. Paul
thought this whole thing out, and while
he was schooled in all the learning of the
day, he said:
“We preach Christ crucified, unto the
Jews a stumbling block, and unto the
Greeks foolishness, but unto them that
are called, Christ the power of God and
the wisdom of God.”
Peter is another illustration? Acts 4: 0—
“Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost,
said unto them: Ye rulers of the people
and elders of Israel.” Acts 11: 15,
“And as I began to speak the Holy Ghost
fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
Then remembered I the word of the Lord,
how that He said, John indeed baptized
with water. but ye shall be baptized with
the Holy Ghost.”
I do not know of any ong in the New
Testament Seripture furnishing us a bet-
ter argument for the use of the word of
God in preaching than Peter himself. Take
the sermon at Pentecost, if vou will. It is
simply a string of texts of Seripture. If
vou should ask, “But is this all he said?’
I answer: “The words of Scripture are all
that the Holy Ghost thought worthy of
record.” Peter's words would have passed
away with his own generation.
of God abides forever.
Stephen - furnishes an illustration of the
fact that to be filled with the Holy, Ghost
does not always mean human success.
Acts 6: 5 to 83—“And the saying pleased
the whole multitude, and they chose Ste-
phen: a man full of faith and of the Holy
Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and N1-
canor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Ni-
colas, a proselyte of Antioch: whom they
The word
| set before the apostles, and when they had
Hg they Jaid their hands on them.
nd the word of God increased. and the
number of the: disciples multiplied in Jeru-
salem greatly, and a great company of the
priests were obedient to the faith. And
Stephen, full of faith and power, did great
wonders and miracles among the people.”
Acts 7: 55—“But he, being full of the
Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into
heaven and saw the glory of God, and
Jomis standing on the right hand of
od.
One might be filled with the Spirit, and
pass through the greatest disappointment
of his life, for Stephen was just as truly
filled, although he was stoned to death. as
Peter, the preacher of Pentecost. God
might fill you and then test you. The
great guns which are used in the defense
of our country are always tested before
they leave the arsenal.
The position of the minister is an exait-
ed one. Peter 1: 12— “Unto whom it
was revealed that not unto themselves,
but unto us they did minister the things
which are now reported unto you by them
that have preached the gospel unto you
with: the Holy Ghost sent down from heav-
en, which things the angels desire to look
| into.”
There is. not an angel-in the skies to-day
but who would leave his post of honor to
take your place and mine in the preaching
of the gospel. The position is a divine
one: Acts 20: 28—“Take heed, therefore,
unto yourselves. and to all the flock over
the which the Holy Ghost hath made you
overseers, to feed the ehurch of God which
He hath purchased with His own blood.”
It greatly dignifies one’s work to know
that we are here to do just what Jesus
would do if He were in our place. The
message of the man of God is inspired:
Matt, 10: 20—"“For it is not ye that speak,
but the Spirit of your Father which speak-
eth in you.” Mark 13: 10, 11—“And the
Gospel must first be published among all
nations. But when they shall lead vou
and deliver you up, take no thought be-
forehand what ye shall speak, neither do
ve premeditate, but whatsoever shall be
given you in that hour, that speak ye: for
it is not ye that speak, but the Holy
Ghost.” Tuke 12: 12 — “For the Holy
Ghost shall teach yon in the same hour
what ye ought to say.”
The Holy Ghost never encourages idle-
ness. We are not teaching the lesson that
one need simply open his mouth and ex-
pect the Lord to fill it: but the ideal posi-
tion is for everyone to be so filled with the
message all the time that if he were called
to speak any number of times during the
day he would always be sure that he had
a message from God. Notice what the
Scriptures say: Rev. 1: 10—“I was in the
Spirit on the Tord’s day and heard be-
hind me a great voice, as of a trumpet.”
Rev. 4: 2—“And immediately I was in the
Spirit; and, behold, a throne was set in
heaven; and one sat on the throne.” If
one is saturated with His message, and is
in the Spirit, there will be no question as
to his power in the presentation of what
he has to say.
These conditions havine resulted the re-
sults are guaranteed: Mark 16: 1518—
“And He said unto them, Go ye into all
the world, and preach the gospel to every
creature. He that believeth and is bap-
tized shall be saved; but he that believeth
not shall be damned. And these
signs
shall follow them that believe; in My
name shall they cast out devils; they
shall speak with new tongues; they shall
take up serpents, and if they drink any
deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they
Clifford.
shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall
recover.” Heb. 2: 4—“God also bearing
them witness, both with gigns and won-
ders, and with divers miracles and gifts of
the Holy Ghost, according to His own
will.” There is slsojuiely no limit to
God’s power; He can do all things. 3
There is a very significant expression
used in Scripture. Rev. 14: 13—“And I
heard a voice from heaven saying unto me,
Write, Blessed are the dead which die in
the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the
Spirit, that they may rest from their la-
bors; and their works do follow them.”
The Rev. F. B. Meyer thinks that this is
to be interpreted as “Amen, saith the
Spirit;” and that it is the Spirit's approv-
al of what we have done in the name of
Christ. Tt will be a glad day for the church
when for every pastor's work the Spirit
shall breathe “Amen;” for the service of
every elder, deacon and trustee He shall
say again “Amen;” when the living of all
the saints shall live so nearly according to
God’s will that at the close of each day
the Spirit shall say “Amen and amen.”
But the filling of the Holy Ghost is not
to be confined to those who are called
ministers of the gospel. Every deacqn
ought to be filled: Acts 6: 3, 4—“Where-
fore, brethren, look ye out among you
seven men of honest report, full of the
Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we ma
appoint over this business. But we will
give ourselves continually to prayer, and
to the ministry of the word.”
There was a time in the history of the
church when men were chosen to fill the
church’s offices, not because of their social
position or their financial ability, but sim-
ply because they were men filled with the
‘Holy Ghost; so that there can be but one
real test of fitness for such an office. 1
feel very sure that we should expect a
Pentecostal outpouring of the Spirit of
God only when this Lrincinle is recognized.
If the Holy Ghost is the life of the
church—as we find in Scripture: Eph. 4:
31, 32—*“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and
anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be
put away from you, with all malice, and
be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted,
forgiving one another, even as God for
Christ’s sake hath forgiven yvou”’—then we
are to be exceedingly careful with respect
to everything that would grieve Him in
the least. It is a new thought to some that
the presence of bitterness or wrath or an-
ger would grieve the Spirit. Such is in-
deed the case.
The Holy Ghost is to work out in us
that which Christ has accomplished for us
on the throne. There can only be one hin-
drance to the working out of this plan of
God, and that is found in the church it-
self. There is a solemn warning for all the
members of the church: 1 Thess. 5: 19—
“Quench not the Spirit.” Acts 5: 3-9—
“But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan
filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost
and to keevo back part of the price of the
land? Whiles it remained. was it not thine
own? And after it was sold, was it not in
thine own power? Why hast thou con-
ceived this thing in thine heart? Thou
hast not lied unto men. but unto God.
And Ananias hearing these words, fell
down, and gave up. the ghost, and great
fear came on all them that heard these
things. And the voung men arose, wound
him up, and carried him out and buried
him. And it was about the space of three
hours after. when his wife, not knowing
what was done, came in. And Peter an-
swered unto her, Tell me whether ve sold
the land for so much? And she said, Yea,
for so much. Then Peter said unto her,
How is it that ve have agreed together to
tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold,
the feet of them which have buried thy
husband are at the door, and shall earry
thee out.” While men may not nowadays
have been stricken down as were Ananias
and Sapphira, vet it is true that because
of the fact that we are living in a spirit
that is contrary to the Holy Ghost, we be-
come dead spiritually, if not physically,
and it is a possible thing to so nearly
quench the Spirit that from the human
standpoint there will be no life at all.
Thus while the individual member of
the church may miss his reward and ‘be
saved, yet so as by fire,” the same thing
may be true of the church as a whole. It
wonld be a sad thing for the Bridegroom
to be disappointed in his bride.
Krowing When to Stop.
Knowing when to stop and stopping are
very different things. man in a runa-
way motor ear knows very clearly that it
is time to stop, but that doesn’t stop him.
Many a man or woman has carelessly or
wilfully gotten imto a bad habit, saying:
“Oh! am ome who knows when to
stop.” That is probably true. The day
will come when they will know very clear-
ly that it is time to stop, but will not be
able to do so. Tt is like taking hold of the
handles of a strong electrical generator—
very easy to take hold, but very hard to
let go. The fingers of habit are bent and
barbed like fish-hooks; once in, they are
hard to get out. The really wise man con-
siders not only when to stop, but also
when it is possible to stop, and he often
finds, in so considering, that the best time
of all to stop is before one has begun to go.
—Sunday-School Times.
Fresh From God’s Mint.
All that God gives to us day by day is,
as it were, a new creation. We never re-
ceived it before. It never was our need un-
til now. We may have received something
like it before, but that was not this; nor
could that have filled the place of this.
Every day’s blessings are to each of us as
a special, miracle from the hands of the
ever loving and the almighty God. As
John» Bunyan says: “Things that we receive
at God’s hand come to us as things from
the minting house—though old in them-
selves, yet new to us.” What should we
do if our Father failed to give us ‘current
coin of His minting day by day’—Sunday-
School Times.
Both Individual and Social.
The Spirit of God is now proving to us
that this individualistic side of Christian-
ity, although always primary and essential
is, after all, only a section of the glarious
Gospel of the blessed God. This must bé
so, seeing that the Gospel was for man,
who in the nature of him is structurally
social. You can insulate a wire because
it is a wire, but you cannot insulate a man.
The kingdom Christ established was one
of the sons of God. and the ideal social or-
der is that in which the principle of broth-
erhood reigns with illimitable sway.—John
The Secret of Success.
Faithfulness is the explanation of many
a successful career. Opportunity, ability
and the friendly assistance that may be
given all tend to further one’s efforts, but
the persistent, undaunted faithfulness to
the labor in hand, in the very face of op
position and hindrance and obstacles. is
that which conquers. The character that
is developed by devotion to duty, in life’s
smallest undertakings, is being equipped
for glorious achievements. Therein is
found the secret of success.—Presbyterian.
Prejudice.
Prejudice never reasons, but moves and
sways the mind and action from some in-
stinctive or sudden or biased impulse. Tt
has its seat in ignorance, weakness or idle-
ness. It is a blindness of perception and
relation which leads to personal and pub:
lic injury. .It acts as a hindrance te truth,
knowledge and to progress. It is a meu-
tralizing force that resists and modifies the
most cogent arguments, the most powerful
discourses, the most moving appeals and
the most stirring considerations. — The
Friend.
Full Faith in Christianity.
One cannot give money or anything else
with the same passion with which he gives
himself. All other forms of consecration
are secondary — valuable, but secondary.
No generation, therefore, can show its full
faith in Christianity which docs not offer
its best gifts.—William J. Tucker.
BEYSTONE STATE EWS CONDENSED
PENSIONS GRANTED.
Man and Mooney Missing—Death
From Hydrophobia—Panic on
Ferry Boat.
The following claimants were
awarded pensions during the past
week: Jesse Oren, New Cumberland,
$8; Jacob Miller, Mattawana, $12;
Constanse Barger, Roland, $12; Free-
man Briggs, Bridgeville, $17; Hermon
Eaton, West Springfield, $12; Chas.
Zinck, Liberty, $10; Samuel Hallnian,
West Conshohocken, $8; Reuben
Page, Linden Hali, $12; Caroline M.
Hoyt, New Vernon, $12; Martha E.
Hamilton, Roxbury, $8; minors ot
George P. Culbertson, A Cambridge
Springs, $12; Clarisa Sexton, Sayre,
$12; Harvey F. Roberts, Elgin, $8;
Milton J. Edmonds, Ohl, $12; James
A. Donogue, Clearfield, | $10; Amos
Fisk, Butler, $8; William Rea, Pitis-
burg, $10; Willard Cummins, Eldred,
$12; James W. Pearson, New Alex-
andria, $8; Horace Spender, West
Burlington, $7.
The state convention of the Federa-
tion of Women's clubs at Titusville
elected a nominating cemmittee to
select candidates whe will be elected
at the convention at Carlisle next
year. Those chosen were: Western
distriet, Mrs. William Fleming, presi-
dent Women’s Press club, Pittsburg,
and Mrs. Julia Perkins, Erie; alter-
nates, Mrs. Sarah G. -Hannisler,
Bradford, and Mrs. J. J. Covert,
J.awrenceville. Central district, Mrs.
Orville, B. Lake. Williamsport, and
Mrs. E. Z. Weller, Harrisburg; alter-
nates, Mrs. McKillip, Bloomsburg,
and Mrs. Nevins Pomeroy, of Cham-
bersburg.
Refuge Lodge No. 142, 1. 0. O. F.,
instituted Ellwood City by Past Dis-
trict = Deputy Grandmaster H. L.
Campbell, cf New Castle, has a mem-
bership of 108, with S80 candidates for
initiation. The officers of the lodge
are: J. O. Hazen, noble grand; R.
D. Turner, vice grand; J. E. Powell,
secretary, and J. O. Geisler, treas-
urer.
The breaking of the overhead wire
caple of the ferry between Vanport
and Bellowsville over the Ohio river
caused a panic among the passengers.
The ferryman and his assistants final-
ly landed the craft by towing it to
shore by means of a skiff, and all the
passengers were landed in safety.
The annual Federation of Women's
Clubs of Pennsylvania. convened at
Titusville with 65 delegates, repre-
senting all the principal women’s
organizations of the state, in attend-
ance. The convention was presided
over by Mrs. Edward W. Biddle, of
Carlisle. :
John Graham, a farmer of Sugar
township, near Kittanning, was alone |
in the house and fell asleep in front
of the stove. The gas came on strong
and set fire to the house, burning it
to the ground and cremating Graham
before neighbors eould come to his
rescue.
Greensburg professional and busi-
ness men have formed a company with
$250,000 capital, and have purchased
the Good block, now being construct-
ed. The largest department store in
Western Pennsylvania outside of
Pittsburg, is projected.
A secret meeting of the manufac:
turers who compose the Pittsburg
branch of the American Flint Bottie
Manufacturers’ Association, was held
Friday. The association is divided
into four districts. Meetings were
held by each branch.
Mrs. Mary A. Bauman has brought
suit against Jefferson township, But-
ler county, for $i0,000 damages for
the death of her husband, who was
thrown from his sled and killed. It is
alleged that a hole in the road caused
the accident.
A requisiticn was issued by Gov-
ernor Stone on Governor Nash, of
Ohio, for the extradition of John M.
Evans, who is wanted at Pittsburg
on a charge of defrauding a Pittsburg
mining company out of $41,000.
President Mitchell in calling a con-
vention of the United Mine Workers
to act on the settlement of the strike
recommended that relegates be given
full power and authority to act in be-
half of their local unions.
A peculiar accident at Franklin
cost John D. Graham his life. He fell
over the banister of a porch at the
Grant House to the basement, a dis-
tance of 12 feet, breaking his neck
and dying instantly.
The house of Foreman Dolbin, of
the Anchor washery, at Furnace Hill,
near Tamaqua, was blown up by
dynamite. No one was injured. The
house was badly damaged.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the Manor National bank
at Manor station to begin business on
$25,000 capital: H. A. Lauffer, presi-
dent, and Dean Clark, cashier.
The seventy-eighth annual session
of the Western Pennsylvania Synod
of the Lutheran church convened at
Carlisle with over 200 preachers and
delegates in attendance.
While seated at his supper table at
York Captain E. Z. Strine,; well
known in National Guard circles, was
stricken with paralysis and is in a
serious condition.
William Davis, of Allenport, has
been appointed health officer for Allen
township, to succeed A. M. Biles, re-
signed.
The Pennsylvania railroad foundry
at Altoona closed down on account of
a scarcity of coal and coke.
The 3-year-old son of Owen Baer,
of Greenville township, .near Meyers-
dale, was accidentally shot and in:
stantly killed by his 7-year-old broth-
er, Homer.
The Lawrence and Shenango glass
factories at New Castle resumed
operatiohs after an idleness of four
months. About 700 men are affected.
Oran Fitzgerald, a Mercer county
farmer, is missing. He left home with
a large sum of money and his friends
fear he has met with foul play.
Lewis Liverpool, a negzro, of Mt. 1
Pleasant, died at the Westmoreland
county home from hydroplobia.
Young girls at
this period of life,
or their mothers,
are earnestly in-
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all such letters are:
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and it takes years to recover the:
lost vitality. Sometimes it is never eR
Perhaps they are not over-careful
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through carelessness in this respect the monthly sickness is usually
rendered very severe.
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to avoid the society of others, are symptoms all indicating that woman’s
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RQENTGEN RAYS.
They. Are Now Being Successfully
Used for Treatment of Animals.
Roentgen rays are now being sue-
cessfully employed in Germany for
treatment of animals. Professor
Hoffman, director of the Royal Veter-
inary Hospital in Stuttgart, has em-
ployed them with uniform satistac-
tion. He began by using the rays on
dead horses in order to establish the
time of exposure necessary for vari-
ous; parts of the body and organs.
Later a Roentgen picture was taken
of a live race horse which had brok-
en its leg, in order to ascertain wheth-
er the parts were well adjusted. Me-
dium timid and well-behaved animals
{ have: been photographed with the.
{ rays apparatus without special pre-
cautionary methods if familiar with
the noise of the camera outfit. Un-
manageable horses have been proto-
graphed after being harnessed with
heavy blinkers and dosed with sooth-
ing medicine. X-ray pictures of ani-
| mals, Professor Hoffman says, are of
the.
value, enabling
detection of a variety of diseases.
with cattle also they are destined, he
thinks, to play an important vole. He
even thinks it possible to lecate tu-
Lercr.losis germs or disea ec} paiticlee,
In a regative wav the rays will ear-
rect common mistakes of veterinary
men, who, threugh bling diagnos
are often led to adminisger the wrong
sort of treatment.
If great cold turned our atmasphers
to liquid air it would make a sea 35
feet deep over the surface of the
| whole globe.
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