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AND — OTHERS.
The better class of druggists, everywhere, are men of scientific attainments and high integrity,
- who devote their lives to the welfare of their fellow men in supplying the best-of remedies and:
‘purest medicinal agents of known value, in accordance with physicians’ prescriptions and ©
scientific formula. Druggists of the better class. manufacture many excellent remedies, but ~ §
~~ always under original or officinal names and they never sell false brands, orimitation medicines.
They are the men to deal with when in need of anything-in their lind, which usually includes .
~ all standard remedies and corresponding adjuncts of a first-class pharmacy and the finest and |
best of toilet articles and preparations and many useful accessori :
The earning of a fair living, with the satisfaction which arises from a knowledge of the benefits
conferred upon their patrons and assistance to the medical profession, is usually their greatest
reward for long years of study and many hours of daily toil. = They all know that Syrup, of .
, Figsis an excellent laxative remedy and that it gives universal satisfaction, and therefore they
are selling many millions of bottles annually to the well informed purchasers of the choicest: .
remedies, and they always take pleasure in handing out the genuine article bearing the full
] Jo.—printed on- the front of every package. §
They know that in cases of colds and headaches attended by biliousness and constipation and
of weakness or torpidity of the liver and bowels, arising from ‘irregular habits, indigestion, or i
over-eating, that there is no other remedy so pleasant, prompt and beneficial in its effects as §:
Syrup of Figs, and they are glad to sell it because it gives universal satisfaction. - :
_ Owing to the excellence of Syrup of Figs, the universal satisfaction which it gives and the.
immense demand for it, imitations have been made, tried and condemned; but there are.
individual druggists to be found, here and there, who do not maintain the dignity and principles .
of the profession and whose greed gets the better of their judgment, and who do not hesitate
to. recommend and try to sell the imitations in order fo make a larger profit: © Such preparations
sometimes have the name—* Syrup of Figs”—or “Fig Syrup” and of some piratical concern,
or fictitious fig syrup company, printed on the package, but.they never have the full name of
the Company—California Fig Syrup Co.~—printed on the ftont of the package.
should be rejected because they are injurious to the. system, In I
they find it necessary to resort to misrepresentation or deception. and whenever a dealer passes .
off on a customer a preparation under the name of “Syrup .of Figs” or “Fig Syrup,” which
does not bear the fill name of the California Fig Syrup Co. printed on the front. of the package,
he is attempting to deceive and mislead the patron who has been so unfortunate as to enter his
establishment, whether it be large or small, for if the dealer resorts to misrepresentation and: }
and deception in one case he will do so with other medicinal agents, and in: the. filling of
physicians’ prescriptions, and should be avoided hy every one who values health and happiness.
Knowing that the great majority of druggists are reliable, we supply the immense demand
for our excellent remedy entirely through the druggists, of whom it may be purchased’ every-
where, in original packages only, at the regular price of fiity cents per bottle, but as exceptions
exist it is necessary to inform the public of the facts, in order that all may decline or return,
Imitatior If it does not bear the full name of the Company—.
California Fig Syrup Co.—printed on the front of every: package, do not hesitate to return the
article and to demand the return of your money, and in future go to one of the better class of §
druggists who will sell you what you wish and the best of everything in his line at reasonable prices.
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Shell Fired 42 Years Ago.
J. W. Huddleston, operating a saw-
mill on the James River and Kanawha
turnpike, about three miles east of
Dry Creek, struck a piece of a shell,
weighing about three or four pounds,
which was in a large oak log and so
smoothly grown over that it was not
noticed.
The saw cut into it about two and
a half inches and sustained no dom-
age, except requiring a new set of
teeth. There were 38 growths of
wood over it. . It was the butt end of
an eight-pounder, with a heavy band
of copper around it. This shell was
fired into the tree at the battle of
Dry Creek, Aug. 23, 1863.—Monroe
Watchman.
Religions Will Be Merged.
Count Tolstoi predicts that in five
‘hundred years Confuncianism, Brah-
manism; Buddhism, Judaism, Moham-
medism and Christianity will be
merged into the last-named relig-
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Man’s Chief Peril.
The chief peril of which man is ex-
posed is that of profanation of what
is holy, from which he is shielded by
shutting him up in the circles of his
senses, and restricting him to the
shallows of his reason. Within that
circle, and in those shallows, he ac-
quires what he belieyes is wisdom,
pursues what he "names ambitions,
suffers what he fancies gare pain and
sorrow, wreaks what he intends for
revenges, commits what he calls
sins, indulges what he mistakes for
love, and, in a word; lives what it is
given him to imagine is human life.
Yet in all that span of existence
there is but a handful of hours when
he truly lives the life that his own
and not a pretense, am evasion, or an
error; and those few hours appear to
him-—save at the instant of their
revelation—as hallucinations. Never-
theless they are the porticos and pil-
lars, halls and.gardens, sun and stars
of his heaven; which he pragmatically
and complacently puts away from
him, and turns himself to what seems
to him his heaven, but is his hell.
Truly, this is a pity and a loss!—
Century.
Chinese Tax Receipt.
Every three years all Chinese do-
miciled in Siam have to pay a small
poll tax. When this has been paid
the collector ties a string around the
man’s left wrist and fastens the knot
with a special official seal. The brace-
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Legisiater Will Read Up.
A newly clected Ohio legislator has
decided to enter college and take a
rush course in political science,
economics, constitutional history, law
and psychology, the better to repre-
sent the people. The Legislature
meets in January, but he will probab-
ly be able to learn enough in the
meantime to stand at the head of the
Tegislative class.
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| Mammoth’s Skull and Tusks.
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hands. This may be avoided by using Ivory
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have been in water and rub with a
The skull and tusks and the bone of
were brought to. this city by J. M.
Taverind, a carpenter on the United
States revenue cutter. Bear. These
fossilized remains -were dug out of
the sand in the bed of one of the riv-
ers on Ketchabue sound, Alaska.
They were found by native Esdui-
maux last July and were taken tothe
Bear: 1o ‘be traded. .Taverind, recos-
nizing the value they .would: have in
i this country, at oace purchased them.
{ The skull is + nearly . three. feet
through and... weighs, nearly 150
pounds. Both tusks have been broken
or have disintegrated, but even now
one of them i§.seven feet and three
inches long, while the other is four
feet two inches. When the animal
was alive they must have: measured
about nine feet in length.—Sdn Fran-
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A, Brazilian Exposition.’
The commercial bodies of? Brazil
are considering and organizing a plan
to hold at Rio Janeiro in 1908 an ex-
position to celebrate the centennial
of the opening of its ports to the
commerce of.the world. One of the
steps taken is to invite the opinion
of the United States on such an en-
terprise. :
The event to be celebrated is of
especial interest to America, marking
the beginning of the movement for
South American freedom. Previous
to 1908 Brazil had been a colony of
Portugal and its ports were closed to
any but Portuguese. vessels and
trades.
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# BRILUANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
REV. DR..T: CALVIN McCLELLAND.
Subject: Jesns’ Idea of God.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—In ‘he Miemorial,
Presbyterian Church, Sunday morning,
the’ pastor; the Rev. Dr. T. Calvin Me:
Clelland, preached the fourth sermon
“in: the series on “Jesus’ Idea.” The
special subject was: “Seriousness of
text was Matthew v:44 and 45. Dr.
McClelland said: - .
There is no Christian doctrine for
_vote as the Fatherhood of God. Noth-
ing can exhaust the name “Father.” It
is the gladdest, but the greatest, the
dearest, but the deepest, the sweetest,
but the sofemnest, name men can frame
"to fit God. We cannot put too much
into the word, but we can put too little
into it. . It is the risk of that—of put-
ting too little into the name “Father”—
which gives us our theme. “The theme
fs: “The Seriousness of Believing in
the Fatherhood of God.”
There are two kinds of men who put
too little into the idea of God’s Father-
hood. The first man is he who prefers
“to think of God as judge. To call God
‘a Father, he thinks, is to enthrone in-
dulgence. He views the doctrine with
suspicion lest it rob God of authority,
extract the fear of sin, and relieve the
restraint of conscience. ‘This man de-
plores the universal note in the preach-
ing of Jesus’ idea of God.. If he
preached it he would make it an: eso-
teric doctrine to be mentioned only
to those/ who had been initiated by con-
version into the secrets of grace.
The second man who puts too little
into the name “Father” is he who sees
nothing in Fatherhood buf sentiment.
He thinks of God as too soft-hearted to
rule, a. doting grandfather too weak to
punish. This man has the idea that
love is too tender to blame a man for
edging off when goodness hurts, costs
or is unprofitable. For this second
man the thought of God as a Father
makes life a game, the world a play-
ground and the infinite pity ground for
infinite excuse.
To these two I bring this message
of the seriousness of saying, “I believe
in God the Father Almighty.” The ar-
ticle of the creed is the most precious
and the most perilous for us to repeat,
and for these reasons,
First, one who claims God as Father
must be ready to answer the question,
What kind of a son are you? Father-
hood is something that we never think
of when we talk about animals. The
parent of a boy we call®a father. The
parent of a foal we call a sire. Here
is a difference. The idea “father” sug-
gests care, affection and forethought.
The idea ‘sire” conveys only the
thought of procreation. We do not ex-
pect the colt’s sire to care for him, ex-
hibit affection or take thought for his
future. . But if a man treated his son
as a horse treats his young we would
say of-that man, he has never been a
father to the boy. He had done all that
the animal did for his offspring, but he
had left undone those things which
make fatherhood. And. those things
involve character, they imply faith,
hope and love, they are not physical,
but spiritual, activities.
. By the same sign you never call a
young horse a “son;” he is a ‘‘foal.”
The idea “son” suggests.gratitude, loy-
‘alty and obedience. The idea of “foal”
conveys only the thought of animal
descent. We do not expect the colt to
exhibit gratitude to his sire, to abide
in the same stable or to evidence obe-
dience to him. But if a youth treated
his father as a-veung horse treats his
parent we would say of that youth, he
is inhuman. He might do all that the
animal did for his’ progenitor, but he
would have left undone those things
which make human sonship. And
those things involve character, they
mission, and these things are not phys-
fcal but spiritual activities.
So then, fatherhood involves a rela-
tionship and that relationship involves
something owed on both sides. It as-
sumes likeness in ideas, tastes and dis-
position; it claims reciprocity in char-
acter. Can the relationship with God
expect less? You see the idea of
fatherhood is like the rule about the
square of the hypotheneuse of a right-
angled triangle. Whether it be a right-
angled triangle drawn on a child's
blackboard or a right-angled triangle
formed by three stars in the Milky
Way, the rule works—the square on
the hypotheneuse of a right-angled tri-
angle is equal to the sum of the squares
on the other two sides. This father
and son relationship, like mathematics,
works everywhere, on the earth, in the
heavens.
I cannot say “Father” until 1 have
begun to answer His call “son;” His
Fatherhood does not exist for me until
I have made my sonship exist for Him,
until I have shared in His character.
He is spirit and I must be spirit, too;
something more than a body to be
warmed, clothed and fed; something
more than an animal te fight like a
dog, root like a pig, sing like a bird or
hive like a bee. I must be the child of
the Eternal Spirit, the son of Infinite
Faith, Infinite Hope, Infinite Love.
A Father's rights are unquestioned,
absolute, ungiven. He has the right to
expect everything to be reciprocated
that He has given to us. The old
fundamental need of personal struggle,
personal consecration, personal holiness
is ‘doubled. Life is more critical than
ever. I have no loophole to crawl out
of; the lines are tightly drawn, I must
be in my word what He is in His uni-
4 the base metal of thought of self into
Believing in Jesus’ Idea of God.” The |
cause-it- commits a man-to living his |
lite in absolute unselfishness. Giyen a
“father, and what follows? What an
alchemist is a new-born babe. The
touch of those tiny fingers trans” ites
the pure gold of thought of the unself.
From the moment when his first babe’s
first ery summons the instinet of fath-
erhiood in a man’s bosom the man must
deny himself, he must henceforth lose
himself in another. Love once a mere
‘passion of possession is re-born a pas-
‘ajon for self-sacrifice. "Chis father has
ja family, and. it is the family, the
home, the health of the whole which
become his chiefest concern. :
Given a son, and what follows?
What must be the true son’s concern?
Surely it is the same as the father’s.
The father no more than the son, the
son no less thdn the father, exists, for
that home. It is this mutual instinct
of being supported and supporting
which makes us siag, “There is no
place like home?’ :
So here, again, the axiom of the |
earthly relationship we call home is
true for the celestial relationship we
call religion, This is the extension of
the old Fifth Commandment in re-
ligion—“‘Love your enemies and pray
for them that persecute you; that ye
may be sons of your Father who is in
heaven; for. He maketh His sun to rise
on the evil and the good, and sendeth
rain on the just and the unjust.”
Like God the Father, the Son must
have a love that is boundless, ungrudg-
ing and gratuitous. The family, not
one favorite here and another there,
but all the members must receive with-
out bias, be blessed without prejudice,
be cared for without favoritism. The
son must live so that mo man can be
poorer, ‘no wgman sadder, no child.
more wretched for aught he has done:
or left undone. He must live so that)
through his words and deéds meh may
see ‘truth, reverence, purity; and pos-
ses§ the means of happiness, and he
must so live not for profit, prudence or |
popularity; he must so: lve, though. it |
means a eurse, a crown of thorns and |
a Cross. } i
And if we seek to know what that
means, what sonship involves, we go
to Him who taught us te say “Our
Father.” His life is just spent in go-
ing about doing good; He does 80 much
for the imperfect, the defective, the
degenerate, that He gets the nickname
of “friend of publicans and sinners.”
He never bears a grudge, He never
remembers an insult, He never seems
to see anything in the men about Him
but their need of the good things He
has to give away. And He gives, gives
until when He comes to die He has
nothing worth gambling for but His
cloak—the one that was pure white,
woven without seam. That day, the
day He died, the men He had lived |
for led Him away like a lamb to the
slaughter. And while they were mak-
ing the wounds for Him to hang by He
prayed, “Father, forgive them, they
know not what they do.”
In the last place, it is a serious thing
to believe in the Fatherhood of God,
because it means that God's perfect-
ness consists in His impartial love, and
love is the most awful thing in the
world. It has been said, {Be afraid of |
the love that loves you; it is either |
your heaven or your hell. The lives ot |
men are never the same after they |
have let themselves be loved; if they |
are not better they are worse. For this
is the mystery of love, its paradox—
while it is the greatest thing in the
world it is the most helpless.” For the
love of her child, without thought of
the cost, a mother would give her
own life in exchange; and yet she must
stand at its death bed with Helpless
hands when the heart spring uuwinds |
and the little life runs down. A father
would give his fortune, his blood to |
keep his son's heart clean and white, !
but all his paternal passion cannot |
check that son's mad pace, if the boy’s
lust take the bit between his teeth
and drag him- along the edge of the |
moral precipice. A son may leave
home: a despot might compel his sub-
ject to come back, a father can only |
wait, and watch and keep open the |
door.
We shrink to apply all we know of |
the weakness of human love fo the
divine. Yet it was through a man the!
Father made His love plain to us. He
came, the Christ, to His own and they
received Him not. He loved His own,
loved them to the end, and yet at the
end they deserted Him, betrayed Him,
hung Him on a Cross.
You remember the Tuesday before |
the Friday when they nailed Him be- |
tween two thieves. He was standing |
in the temple at Jerusalem. Did He |
love that fair, rebellious city? You
may never know how great was that
love. Could He save that imperilled |
city? Jerusalem had bound love's
hands with indifference so that He
could not reach out to rescue her; she |
had tethered His feet with hate so that
He could only stand still and watch her |
sinking into the gulf that Titus was to!
dig. Stand close to the Christ as He |
speaks—you see He is draining love— |
bitterest cup; He is realizing love's
helplessness, “it is the wail of 4 heart
wounded because its love has been
despised” and it cannot avert the doom
which impends over those it loves.
“Qh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem! how often
would I have gathered thy children
as a hen gathered her chickens, and
ye would not. Behold, your house is
left unto you-desolate.”
To sum up, it is a serious thing to
believe in the Fatherhood of God, be-
involves brotherhood. and
life, the eternal kind, on which death
lays no band, on which the grave has
no claim.
For this higher life, in the Father's |
verse. . From Sinai, it is said, the
smoke ascended as from a furnace, and
the mountain quakes greatly when out
of a thick cloud with thunderings and
lightnings the King gave His command
to Israel. On a hillside sweet with the
peaceful odors of plowed field, quiet
a blue Syrian sky which mirrored its
«| fair sun in Galilee’s lake, the Father
spoke through His great Son His will
for the family. Yet I think Sinai’s
“thou shalt not kill” were easier to
listen to than Jesus’ “blessed are the
merciful.” The King’s words, “thou
shalt not commit adultery,” less than
the Father's “the pure in heart shall
see God.” The Sovereign's words,
“thou shalt have no other gods before
er.” Name given by Postum Co., Bat-
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| Me,” as an ant-hill to the snow-capped
| Alpine summit, “Ye shall be perfect as
| your Heavenly Father is perfect.”
Second—It
save for the pipings of the birds, under |
is a serious thing to be-
lieve in the Fatherhood of God be-
i
' name I claim you. You have a perfect
{ pattern of it in Jesus; you have a per-
i feet helper in God Spirit, which is
| yours for the as You bzagin to
{ live the life by doin
man next vou just because God is his |
Father and yours
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Peace of the Heart.
| occupations of active life, then qui
be.
i some far and still reireat, in whose
{ quiet we may escape the evils and
! troubles here. And the corner will
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IBMT SEADILALESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS,’
FOR DECEMBER 7. ~ “°
Subject: Preparation ¥or the Messiab,
Mal. iii., 1s12=Golden Text, Mal, difes
1—Memory Veises, 8-10—Commentars
on the Day’s Lesson. °° .
I. The coming of the Messiah (v. 1).
1. “1.” ‘That is; God.:- "My. messen-
ger.” The New
shows that the messenger referred to
here was J¢hn the Baptist. Our Lord
bore witnes.. to John (Luke 7:27). See.
also Matt. 11:10; Mark 1:2, 3; Luke 13;
76. “Prepare the way before Me.”
That -is, before the Messiah. Messen-
gers sent before the Eastern kings pre-
pared the way for the chariots and ar-
mies of their monarchs. A “king's
highway” had to be carried through
the open land of the wilderness, val-
leys filled up and hills leveled, winding
by-paths straightened, for the march of
the great army. Interpreted in its spir-
itual application, the wilderness swas
the world lying in evil. John prepared
the way for Christ in. a moral wilder-
ness by preacliing repeptanceand show-
ing the need of a Saviour, “The Lord,
whom ye seek.” The Messiah whom you
are expecting:. “To His temple.” Shall
soon be presented befors the Lord in
this temple. He shall cleanse it from
its defilement and fill it with His glory.
“Messenger of the covenant.” He that
comes to fulfill the great design in ref-
erence: to the covenant made with
Abraham, that in his seed all the fam-
ilies: of the earth should be blessed.
Christ was the “mediator of the new
covenant” (Heb. 9:15) — the “better
covenant,” established upon “better ’
promises” (Heb. 8:6-13; 10:16). “Ye de-
light in.” They looked forward to His
coming with pleasure. ©
II. The mission and work of the
Messiah (vs. 2-6). 2. “Who may
Who will be able to endure
the testing of character His coming
will produce? ' They did not under-
stand the meaning of what they de=-
sired: just as many desire and hope
for heaven without realizing what they
must do to gain heaven. ‘Like a re-
finer’s. fire.” John tne Baptist said..
“Fis-fan is in His hand;” “He shall
baptize you with fire.” In the refiner’s
fire is placed the ore, a mixture of
good metal with rock and other mater-
ials, and the fire (1) separatés the metal
from the dross, and' (2) thus purifies
the metal, but does not destroy it; buf
(3) it consumes the dross, or so separs
ates it that it is cast one side as re-
fuse. “Like fullep’s soap” (R. VY.)
Soap such as we have was not known
to the Hebrews till long after Jere-
miah’s time, but they used ash lye. -
3. “Shall sit,” ete. There is an ailu-
sion here to the refiner sitting before:
his fire with his eye on the metal. He
kept it in the furnace until he knew
the dross to be completely removed by
seeing his own image reflected (Ron.
8:29). “Sons of Levi.” The priests—
God’s ministers. “Purge.” Cleanse,
purify. : “May offer,” etc. A sinner
cannot give acceptable service to God.
The Lord loves righteousness: He ac-
cepfs only a holy heart and life (Rom.
12:1). 4. “Be pleasant.” The spirit
of ‘praise, obedience and helpfulness
are like sweet incense before the Lord
(Heb. 13:88. 16). 5. “To judgment.”
To decid. on your case and conden
“Swift witness.” “Com-
“The
sorcerers.” Users of witcheraft, all in
alliance with:spirits of evil; the users
of amulets, charms, ete., which are
really substitutes forreligion. “Against
those that oppress.” The gospel is dl-
ways in favor of the poor and against
oppression. “And fear not Me.” «This
was the foundation of all their wicked-
“I change not.” God keeps
His covenants with His people.
III. Admonitions and’ promised
blessings (vs. 7-12). 7. “From the
days,” ete.
they had been given to backsliding.
There was still a
chance to repent. “Wherein.” They
did not know how far fromy Lod thes.
were, 8. “Will a mgn rob. Goa?¥
Sacrilege is the highest of crimes. And
the most guilty are those claiming to
be God's people. “Ye ‘haye.” This
| evil is not only the guilt of priests, but.
i of the whole nation.
#Tithes.” See
Deut. 18:4. “Offerings.” The first
fruits—not less than one-sixtieth part
of the corn, wine and oil.
9. “Ye are cursed.” With famine
and scarcity. God had thus punished
them for neglecting to build the tem-
ple (Hag. 1:10, 11); now, for not main-
taining the temple service. 10. “Bring
—tithes.” Make good your solemn en-
| gngement with Nehemiah (Neh. 10:29).
“Into the storehouse.” The chambers
which surrounded the temple on three
“May be meat.” That there
may be provision for the daily sacri-
fices, and for the maintenance of the
priests and Levites. “Prove Me.”
Take God at His word. “Windows of
heaven.” A poetical, proverbial ex-
pression, signifying a great downpour-
ing (Gen. 7:11; 2 Kings 7:2). "Pour
you out.” “Empty out’ as if God
meant that He would empty forth His
vast reservoir of blessings.
11. - “Will rebuke. Prevent from
«he devourer.” The locusts,
destructive inseets. “For
Becanse of My love for
you, and for the sake of your prosper-
ity. The devourer had been sent be-
cnuse of their sins, but should be
ed as a reward for their return to
duty. 12. “All nations,” etc. So great
will be your prosperity and happiness
that the fame thereof will extend to
all nations, as in Solomon's time, God's
people do in truth live in a Jelightsome
other
Da nships and
d are that peo-
er lovingly to God the
are His own. “Delight
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