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Dr. Robert MacDonald, the pulpit was occupied Sunday morning by the Rev. Henry M. Sanders, D. D., of Manhattan. The preacher's subject was “The Character of Jesus.” His text was Matthew xxi : “What think ye of Christ? Whose Son is He?’ and he said: The character of Christ is the ulti- mate fact in Christianity. It is the central citadel of our faith. What Hugomont was to Waterloo the charae- ter of our Lord is to our religion. ‘Around it the fiercest fight and blood- jest carnage raged, but it was found impregnable, and because it was not captured Napoleon was defeated. So the character of Christ stands to Chris- tendom. If it could be shown to be false all would be gained by its foes, but that character stands because it comes out of the flames of criticism, without so much as the smell of fire upen its garments. Who Christ was and what He was, therefore, are ques- tions that have not lost their interest for mankind. Ever Jesus Christ is the most powerful spiritual force. He is to-day what He was for centuries. the object of the love and reverence of the good; and the cause of hope and repent- ance to bad; of strength to the mor- ally weak; inspiration to the despond- ent: consolation to the desoiate; cheer to the dying. He has been the incen- tive of the most unbounded benevo- lence, the most seif-sacrificing devo- tion, the Infinite within the limits of our humanity, and faith has beheld in His sufferings the sacrifice for human sin. Surely no other has done such a work as this. He is to-day the world’s imperishable wonder; its everlasting problem. The man who would assail our faith with any degree otf success must do it through the Founder. 1 want to direct your attention to some of the features of that character which strike us as being unique. In the first place, it is the flawless- ness of that character. He completely satisfies our ideal of human virtue. You cannot think of God as being more holy than He. In the world He lived a perfectly sinless life at all points. We shall seek in vain for any trace of sin in that life which would indicate a will defected from God. No pride, ambition, covetousness, malice, paltering with truth, no deviation from the most exact rectitude. It was a life of the highest purity, of the most im- partial equity, uncalculating self-sacri- fice and sternest veracity. And yet our Lord’s faultlessness of character does not rest upon our inability to detect evil. In the first place, He never ac knowledged sin in any form, but lives Himself free from every kind of sim, either of commission or omission. Sin is the transgression of the law or any want of conformity thereto. But Jesus never left undone anything He ought to have done. He said, “I have glori- fied Thee on earth,” and “I do always the things that please Him.” He throws down the challenge, “Which of you convinceth Me of sin?’ Then, again, the faultlessness stands the test of intimacy. “No man is a hero to his valet,” said Thackeray. When Whitfield was asked whether a certain man were a Christian, he said: “How do I know? I have never lived with him.” But the people who lived with Jesus are the most outspoken in the expression of His holiness. John declares that He was “A lamb without spot or blemish.” Such was the testi- mony of friends. His sinlessness stands the test of enmity, of those who lay in wait to entrap Him, and yet their testimony is explicit. Pilate de- clared: “I find no fault in Him;” the centurion who superintended the cruci- fixion said, “Truly this was the Son of God,” and the traitorous disciple de- clared that he had “betrayed innocent blood.” When se look into the life of Jesus we find that the record sustains this testimony of friend and foe alike. He never repents, never expresses re- gret for anything. It is clear that He has no compunctions of conscience, no feelings of unworthiness. He tells us that He goes back to God untarnished. ‘And all this in view of the well known fact that the nearer a man lives to God the more he realizes his defects. The measure of human perfection is the conscience. Carlyle says that the greatest of faults is to be conscious of nothing. The worse a man is the less conscience speaks to him. If the shield be dull more or less spots upon it make little difference, but if perfectly pol- ished one spot mars it. Jesus never accused Himself. Abra- ham, Moses, Samuel and Ezekiah all had to acknowledge imperfections. Peter wept tears and Paul speaks of himself as ‘the chief of sinners.” Ed- ward Payson says he did not know any evil of which he did not feel the possibility in his own nature, and Jonathan Edwards in writing his diary stained the manuscript with tears of contrition as he wrote. You detect no such thing with Jesus. Why? Be- cause he was a Pharisee, satisfied with external righteousness? *Had He fan- tastic ideas of holiness? He made the most exalted standard for men and yet never gave the slightest intimation that He fell below it. He said: “If ye (not we) repent;” and “Ye (mot we) must be born again.” In all matters of human sympathy where He could ally Himself with man He did so, but in sin He always separated Himself. The so-called “Lord’s Prayer” is mot the Lord’s prayer except that He gave it. When He said, “Our Father, who are in heaven, forgive us our sins,” it was a prayer He never meant for Him- self. The symmetry of His character, the completeness of it and the idea of goodness which is presented by Him is harmonious. There is nothing one- sided or narrow which is so often dis- cernible in the greatest of men. As a rule we cannot exemplify one aspect of human goodness except at the cost of the rest. It would seem as if nature exhausted itself by success in a certain direction. The hollow answers to the hill in human character. it was not so with Jesus. In His character each vir- tue was balanced by its counterpart; He was magnificent, vet weak; humble, vet firm; just, yet benevolent; dignified, vet condescending; pure, yet Sympa- thetic; commanding, yet submissive; spiritual, but not ascetic. A great { many virtues are only vices that have gone to seed. Our Lord mever went too far. He was in perfect equipuise; unique, but not eccentric. He was a combination of the masculine and the feminine. I like to think that He took on all human nature, not simply that of the man. We need not to wor- ship the virgin Mary when we have Jesus Christ. He sympathizes with everything that is beautiful in buwan life. He was sensitive, but not senti- mental; brave, but not rash; always firm, but not obstinate or pigheaded; His dignity never approaching pride; His sympathy never becomes easy-go- ing familiarity; He unites implacable hatred of sin with the warmest love for the sinner, and keeps a beautiful bai- ance between severity and tenderness. Our human nature, even at its best, can hold nothing settled. The scales are always slipping oif the balance. The finite nature seems to exhaust it- self in success in any one line of hu- man achievement. But this balance of the character of Jesus is never dis- turbed nor needs readjustment. In Him the diverse prophecies of the Old Testament unite. In one place He is described as “a root out of a dry ground;” in another as “the living branch:’ as “despised and rejected of men” in one passage and as “the desire of all nations” in another. In His character He combines the char- acteristics of moral excellence. Think also of the universality of the character of Jesus. No nation or race, no time or sect can claim Him as its own. While a Hebrew, yet there does not seem to be any particular Hebrew, or even Oriental, characteristic about Him. And this is the more remark- able if we remember that the Jews— there have been no other such people in the world—have kept the mood of mind, the passive disposition through all generations, and they have flowed, like the gulf stream, tht ough the ocean, yet unaffected by it. They have been more eternal than the “Eternal City” itself. The race remains as when Pompey led their captive hers to the imperial city. 2000 years a. Out of this unmingling race. there emerges Jesus, ‘the cosmopolitan, the man otf the whole world. We cannot seem 10 account for Him or bring Him icto line with His predecessors. In all centuries He has been recognized as the type of human virtue. Socrates would not be considered an exemplary man to-day, nor Marcus Aurelius. A good many saints have been canonized that ought to have been cannonaded. Jesus Christ was what He always called Himself, «Phe Son of Man,’ as if in Him hu- manity was complete. Again, think of the uniqueness of Jesus in His teaching. Plato has been a dominant influence in the world. By comparing school with school he be- came one of the most learned men. Not so with Jesus. He did not sit at the feet of any Jewish rabbi. He was only a carpenter's son in a rural district. “How knoweth this man letters, hav- ing never learned?’ was asked. He as- sociated with those who were His mas- ters in learning, and yet confounded them. Erudite lawyers and Pharisees joined to catch Him, and yet He al- ways answered them immediately and never asked for time to consider. is replies were in terms So explicit that His teachings have settied casuistry for 2000 years. No man has ever been able to add a single iota to the moral and spiritual truth He taught. Once more think of the uniqueness of His character in regard to His mighty works, and His manner of doing them. He never ascends to His work, but always descends. His efforts are with: out laboriousness or strain, as if rather a relaxation, unlike other men when engaged in a great performance. He never prepared Himself for a miracle or studied the laws of dynamics or force. In the first chapter of Genesis it is written, “God said, Let there be light.” That seems to indicate the way in which Jesus performed His mira- cles. He acted as if He were accus- tomed to doing them, as if they were spangles on the regalia of a king. The disciples rejoiced that ‘“‘the devils were subject” to them, and He told them rather to rejoice that their names were «iyritten in heaven.’ That is the best thing. So we come back to the question, “What think ye of Christ? Whose Son is He?’ What answer are we going to make? We have got to answer; no man can escape it. That personal query stands dominant and persistent in front of every man alive; the one great interrogation point facing every generation and every individual. We know answers that have been given: That He was the natural produet of the outgrowth of the ages; the flower of the preceding ages, the proceed of the force long held in solution. That is the explanation with which evolu- tion accounts for Jesus Christ. Then why does not evolution produce an- other Jesus, or something like Him? Some say He w a literary product, the ideal of inventive minds. Renan tells us the gospels are the supreme ro- mances of the world. My friends, It would seem to be as credible that a Zulu composed “Paradise Lost” as that this superb, marvellous haracter should be simply the weaving of hu- man brains. That interrogation point still stands: “What think ye of Christ?” Fainting the Lily. In the vicinity of the Duomo. in Florence, are the bronze gates that Michael angelo said were fit to be the gates of Paradise. Once they were covered with exquisite enamel! Work. The decorators gilded the bronze with gold leaf. l>ut the veneer was very thin: soon the damp, the cold, the heat, cracked the delicate frosting and now it is all gone. To-day the gates forth clothed only in their simple dor. And yet, behold the rich is more beautiful in its simplicity than with its gilded veneer. The storms were kind to the gates and removed what was meretricious and ga and restored them to ative uty. So men have Jesus; they lily and gild refined gol back to the portraits of in their simple portrayals that had been lost. ¥.vidences of Love. One of the greatest God's love to tho that to send them afili bear them.—John W evidences of is a CO In Ger 1Y who drinks loses the SABBATH SCRODL, LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR APRIL 29, Subjects The Parable of the Sower, Mark iv., 1-20—Golden Text, Luke viii.,, 11—Memory Verse, 20-Topic: How to Hear the Word. I. The parable of the sower (vs. 1- 8). 1. “Began again to teach.” The summer passed in a succession of ex- citements and an unbroken recurrence of exhausting toil; He seems to have spent the months in succe ive circuits, from Capernaum as a centre. through all the viliages of Galilee. “The sea side.” I'he Sea of Galilee. multitude.” fhe Pharisees “Great | iad been | laboring by base calumnies to drive | the people away from Jesus, but they still flocked after Him as much as ever. Christ will be glorified in spite of all opposition; He will be followed. “A ship.” Jesus sat in a boat which had been prepared for Him. “In the sea.” The boat was in the sea. “On the land.” The multitude stood on the shore. 2. “Taught—by parables.” A par- able is an allegorical relation ov rep- resentation of something real in life or mature, from which a moral is drawn for instruction. Christ's par- ables are a comparison of spiritual things with natural in order that the spiritual things may be better under- stood. “In His doctrine.” That is, in His teaching. 3. “Behold—a sower.” The animated introduction gives plaus- ibility to the view that our Lord point- ed to some distant sower in sight scat- tering his seed. 4. “The way side.” There are four kinds of ground men- tioned. The first is the wayside where no plow had broken it up. 5. “Stony ground.” Luke says, “up- on a rock.” The rocks of Palestine many flat stre inch or so of kind of ground. s. covered with an il. This is the second “Sprang up.” A thin | surface of oil above a shelf of rock | is like a hotbed; the stone keeps the heat and stimulates the growth. Dur- ing the rainy season in Palestine the growth would be rapid. 6. “Withered away.” Luke says “it lacked moist- ure.” ‘The hot sun dried up the moist- ure and scorched the grain. 7. “Among thorns.” The third kind of soil was good. and there was hope of a harvest, but the ground was filled with pernic- jous seeds. Thorny shrubs and plants abound in Palestine. Ss. “Good ground.” The fourth kind of soil was rich and well prepared. “Some an bundred.” This represents the highest degree of faithfulness. 11. Why Christ taught in parables (vs. 9-12). Oo. “Hath ears,” ete. This usually follows an important statement inti- mating that he who has the discern- ment to understand will find the deeper meaning. 10. “When—alone.” Either this. explanation to the disciples was made later, or he withdrew a short dis- tance from the multitude so ¢s to be alone. Christ evidently spoke further to the people en this same day. 11. “Unto you.” To you, disciples, who inquire, and seek to know the truth; to you who are “within” in con- trast to those who are “without.” “To know the mystery.” The true disciple has a knowledge of the “mystery of .godliness”’—the mystery of the atone- ment and the great plan of salvation, including repentance. faith. conversion. 12. “That seeing,” ete. Sze Isa. 6:9. He did not speak in parables because He did not wish them to know the truth and see the light, but because they were in darkness and closed their eyes to the light. 111. The parable of the sower ex: plained (vs. 13-20). 13. “Know Ye not,” ete. Jesus now proceeds to an- swer the second qtiestion isee note on v. 10). 14. “The sower.” the sower, the seed, the soil. ever preacheth the word of God to Consider | 1. Who- | the people is tne sower; Jesus Christ, | the apostles, every true minister of the cospel, all whose holy example ilius- | rates and impresses gospel truths. “Soweth the word.” 2. “The seed is the wood of God! (Luke 5:11). The soil is the heart of man. The seed can- not grow without soil; but the life is in the seed, not in the soil. The re- sults, however, depend largely upon the kind of soil in which the seed is sown. 13. “By the way side.’ The four kinds of soil represent four class of individuals. and Syria are mostly limestones, with | iowers:-lie wene ADT ith SUNDAY, APRIL 29. City Evangel! Ez Do we believe the city can be saved? Is the gospel really within reach of these thronging multitudes not as a thecry, but as a living fact? Can we hope to enthrone our Christ over all the busy life and work of tne town? Can its commerce be brought into subjection to him? Can its social life be made Christian in spirit? Do we know what methods are needed to bring about the results that are re- quired of us? Can we adapt ourselves to the infinite variety of conditions which exist in the cities? Have we the resources with which to meet the de- mand for workers, and for money to carry on the works? Have we men and women who are fitted to do the work and willing to attempt it? Have we the means with waich to support them? To every one of these questions the only possible Christian answer is, “yes!” Other answer is confession of failure, not in the cities only, but everywhere. For we have preached Christ as the answer to the deepest human need; but the deepest human need to-day is found in New York and Chicago and Canton and Peking, and all the other centers where humanity is massed in multicudes. ‘rae world’s cities must become like the city which John saw in his vision, or Christianity will fail, ana with it civiuzation will fall into hopeless ruin. Christ knew the city well during his human life Most of his work was done in the centers of population. In the week before the crucifixion he set a most striking example for his fol- to the solitudes that ength, and then re- that he might spend it for others. Many of his followers do just the opposite thing; they go to the city that they may gain wealth, and then return to pleasant country nomes that they may spend it on thein- selves. he might gain turned to the ci Christ knew the city’s gelfishness, its wickedness, its sorrows, its indif- ference, its hunger. Its avarice he scouraged; its sorrow he sought to heal: its hunger he fed; over its in- difference he wept; and for its sin he died. Christ has no wholesale scheme to save the city. He is always seeking to save the individual, not the mass. And he begins with the individual heart, rather than any outward need. There are many ways of improving people’s condition in life, but there is only one way of saving them from sin. , Christ's teaching is followeq least of all in the ctiy. His greatest ene- mies are there at their strongest. For that ‘reason his friends should be at their best in the city. The city Chris- tian should be the most thoroughgo- ing of all Christians because the tes- timony of his life is most urgently needed there, and because he has the largest and hardest field of service. CHRISTIAN ENDERVOR NOTES APRIL TWENTY-NINTH. Home Missions Among Foreigners in America..—Eph. 2:13-19, Whoever thinks of any man as “far off” is not near to Christ. Whatever wall separates men— whether of intellectual or social caste, money or rank or fashion—is unchris- tian. All separation is potential war, but Christ is the Prince of Peace. The Christian ideal is that of the household, and the larger the Chris- tian, the larger is the family of his interests and affections. Suggestions, The American ideal is incorporation —one ‘body—each for all and all for each, like hands and feet and eyes. The only prosperity or foreign mis- sions is home missions. Home mis- {2 : | sions are the fulcrum on which the are those who do not understand be-: cause they do not pay proper atten- tion. Sin has hardened the heart. Evil habits, profanity, unclean thoughts have tramped it solid. “Word is sown.” good. “Have heard.” Al hear; and become fruit-bearing Christians if they would. “Satan cometh.” Mat thew says ‘the wicked one.” and Luke says “the devil.” 17. “Have no toot) He did not count the cost (Linke 1£:23-33). His emotions were touched, but his soul was not deeply convinced-of its right- eousness. “Endure but for a time.” While everything goes smoothly and they are surrounded by good influ- ences. 18. “Ameng thorns.” The soil was good, but was preoccupied. The thorny ground hearers go farther than either of those mentioned in the former in- stances. They had root in themselves and were able to endure the tribula- tions, persecutions and temptations that came upon them; but stiil they al- lowed other things te cause them to become unfruitful. 20. - “Good ground.” Good and hon- est hearts. “Bring forth fruit.” Who bring forth fruit to perfection? 1. Those who have heard and received the word. 2. Those who “keep it” (Luke 8:15); that is, obey the truth. 3. Those who have pure hearts (Acts 15:9)— hearts mede free from sin (Rom. 4, Those who bring forth fruit “wis patience” (Luke 8:15). eee eee Medical Journal sa The British that the days are past when every self-respecting doctor was expected to dress “in a style tastefully blend- ing the divine with the undertal ! The costume most suitable for ing patients writhing in uautte law travelers. In cach case the seed was | God | speaks to every person; all might heed | | | nerve agonies is now held to { subtle and arresting blending of the | Rand magnate and the Chinese | i coolie. { alarm x i | lever of foreign missions moves. The wayside hearers | In helping the foreigners now in America we are probably merely re- paying the help given to our own im- migrant ancestors. Our cities rule America and the for- eigners rule the cities. New England is now made up of fif- ty different nationalities. Bvery year about million migrants enter our country. Said an Italian in New York not long ago: ‘Americans are uot a race; they are just a society of different races, and I have a right to join them too.” Six Arabic newspapers are published in New York by Syr one im- ians. Our Foreign-8srn Americans, It is a great mistake to class any body of foreign immigrants as ‘‘un- desirable.” Most of them have been oppressed for ages, but all have valu- able qualities to contribute to our civilization. Few immigrants have any idea of free institutions. Recently a party of gypsies, detained at the immigrant station on Ellis Island. were frenzied with fear for their children, who had heen removed to a hospital because they had measles. They had heard that the authorities would drown the children, and were only quieted when a deputation of mothers was allowed to go and see that all was well. Feeding Chickens by Alarm Clock. A farmer in O small poultry farm, el method of feed ing his absence. In erected troughs to hens, and these wire with an alarm clock house. When the in the morning he sets clock at the who gon, oyns a devised a nov- 3 is chickens dur- cach yard he has hold food for the are connected by in the farm- owner leaves home the alarm the hour for chickens, and, by an 1 the time ar goes off, the connectir releases the troughs, and the ‘ead before the hung rangement, when fowls osu: LESSONS | KEASTONE STATE COLLINGS EXPLOSION INJURES SIX Pit Lamp Comes in Contact With Can of Powder in Hazel Mine. Six miners employed at the Pitts- burg-Buffalo Company’s Hazel mine, at Canonsburg, were seriously injur- ed by an explosion of powder. The injured are John Schmasky, William Schillasky, Joe Schisky, John Fre- lick, Frank Felix and Andy Schuil- lasky. The men were riding in a pit car with a can of powder. One min- er took off his hat and his pit lamp came in contact with the powder. All were taken to the hospital and will live. Pittsburg capitalists are preparing to apply for a charter for what is to be known as the Pittsburg, Har- mony, Butler & New Castle Railways Company, and which is to be the holdings company for a number of others which have secured charters and rights of way to New Castle and Butler. It is said the company will be independent of the Pittsburgh Railways Company, but the names of the proposed incorporators are being withheld. The line will start on East street, Allegheny, and ex- tend to Perrysville, Wexford, Cal- lery, Evans City, Butler, Harmony, Zelionople, Ellwood City and New Castle. Work will begin within a few weeks. A toy doller cs ( Oscar Otto, 13 years old at Harm- ony. Butler county. Young Otto and an apprentice to Jacob Weigle the death of smith s er, whi to gener ploded, placed on the steam. Suddenly it the largest piece ex- striking Otto in the stomach and hurling him 14 feet. He was carried to the porch of the Weigle residence where he died. Henry Mull, colored, is in jail at Washington, charged with killing his wife, a white woman, at Midland. It ig alleged that Mull beat her to death with a pick handle. No one witness- ed the tragedy. A mob of negroes from the Canonsburg region went to Houston to release Mull, but officers there had been notified and probably a race war was averted by the ap- pearance of several armed officers at the lockup when the mob arrived. A rig containing Mrs. Claude Cal- vin and five children was struck by a train on the Erie railroad, two miles above Atlantic. Mrs. Claude Calvin, 35 years old; Bessie Calvin, 6 years old, and Leonard Calvin, 5 vears old, were killed. Violet Calvin, 10 years old, had his arm and leg broken. Gaylord and Espy Calvin, the other occupants of the rig, saved themselves by jumping and escaped with a few bruises. A triple funeral was held at Greenville at the home of Claude Calvin. His wife and two children, Bessie and Leonard were the vic- tims of Saturday's railroad grade crossing accident near Atlantic. Violet, the 10-year-old daughter who was badly injured, is at the home of relatives here, and does not know that her mother, brother and sister were killed. The wiil of the 1ate Albert 8S. Weyer has been recorded at York. Nearly the entire estate of $125,000 is bequethed to York. It is to be accummnlative and will not be effective until 100 years from the date of the will, which was made 11 years ago. At that time a public hospital is to be founded with the proceeds, which financiers estimate will be worth $500,000. The National Guard of Pennsylva- nia will encamp at Gettysburg July 91-28. The date was fixed by Adit. ten. Stewart. The details of the en- campment will not be arranged until after the location of the camps of the three brigades has been selected. The governor will spend the entire week with th troops. Charges of misconduct as a minis- ter have been preferred against Rev. John A. Wilding by the deacons of the First Baptist church, of Vander- grift. Rev. Mr. Wilding resigned about two months ago, and the cons preferred the charges to prevent him from serving in the Baptist min- dea- istry. : Mrs. Nancy, wife of Clement Me- Mahon, a retired bridge buil fell down stairs at her home Bell wood, near Altoona, and was She was 72 years old, and is ed by her husband and one 3 Clement, Jr., of Cleveland. Council at Uniontown, an ordinance to provide for an el tion to decide whether $60,000 ponds shall be issued for a muni cipal building and $100,600 additi authorized al for street improvements. Rev. Thomas Px PDD. form pastor of the i Presbyte church, Wilkinsburg, will be called to the pastorate of the Welsh Pres- byterian church, McDevitt place, Oakland, Pittsburg. The plant of the C: Junetio Brick and Tile Compa at Callery, was sold at sheriff’s sale to Joseph R. Thomas, secretary of the company for $6,500. During a brawl works, near Tarr ste Heighten shot his wife the woods. woman is wounded. Central Rudolph and fled to seriously The found in CAN'T STRAIGHTEN UP. Kidney Trouble Causes Weak Backs and Multitude of Pains and Aches. Col. BR. S. Harrison, Deputy Marshal, 716 Common St, Lake Charles, ia, says: “A kick from a horse first : weakened my back and affected my kid- neys. bad and had to go about on crutches. The doctors told me 1 had a case of chronic rheumatism, but I could not be lieve them, and fin- ally began using Doan’s Kidney Pills for my kidneys. First the kidney se- cretions came more freely, then the pain left my back. I went and got another Lox, and that completed a cure. I have been well for two years.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y Census of India. According to the latest Indian cen- sus, that of 1901, the population of India was 294,361,056, and the total number of people employed in var- ious capacities by the Government was 1,490,276. Of these, 245,803 were partially agriculturists, and about as many more were employed in occupations not strictly official, thus leaving about a million who | could be called Government officials. STATE or OHIO, CiTY OF TOLEDO Lucas CoUNTY. 2 Fravg J, CrRENEY makes oath that he is genior partner of the firm of F. J.CHENEY & Co., doing business in ths City of Toledo, County and State aforesald, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL- LARS for each and every case of CATARRR that cannot be cured by the use of HaLL's CaTARRHE CURE. FrANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my ~~ , presence, this 6th day of Decem- { sear. | er, A.D., 1886. A.W.GLEAsoN, Sey . Notary Public. Hall’s Oatarrh Cure is taken internally,and acts directly on the blood and mucous sur- faces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cuexey & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best, DOWIE'S DOWNFALL He Is the Only Mcdern Prophet Dis- carded by His Followers. Among modern prophets John Alexander Dowie has the distinction of being the only one who has been discarded by the sect which he founded. After building his zion up to astonishing proportions, he finds himself denounced as a hypocrite and charged with many serious offenses, and, worst of all, his wife and son are against him. The accusations are damaging enough to an ordinary 1, and so much the worse for one iz to be a reincarnated prop- but they ccme from his follow- ers who ought to know what they are talking about. The infidels as touching Dowieism not said anything worse, if ite so bad, about him. The wond- bles I have enumerated. | is simply perfect, I a | ing of pleasure in my v | fact, I er is that his own flock has been so find him out or to frankly they must have known for Hardwick Crawled Back. While traveling in a Pullman car not long ago Congressman Hardwick, of Georgia, the smallest man in the House, found himself fellow passen- ger with a well-dressed, quiet-looking regro. his was not agreeable to the i eian, who was further riled on seeing the colored man in the dining car. He and the darky returned to the Pullman about the same time, and then Mr. Hardwick went to the conductor and asked that the negro be put out of the car. “We can’t do that,® sir,” the conductor answered. “Well, if that fresh niggar gets near me I'm going to wipe up the car with him,” declared the Georgian. “1 won't have hini around me. Who is the black rascal?’ “That's ‘Joe’ Gans, champion lightweight pugil ist,” answered the conductor, and Mr. Hardwick concluded not to “wipe up the car’ with his quiet- looking fellow passenger.—Cleveland Leader. _— A BUSY WOMAN. Can Do the Work of 3 or 4 Xf Well Feds An energetic young woman living just outside of N. XY. writes: “I am at present doing all the house- work of a dairy farm, caring for 2 children, a vegetable and flower gar- den, a large number of fowls, besides managing an extensive exchange busi- ness through the mails and pursuing | my regular avocation as & writer for | several newspapers and magazines (de- signing fancy work for the latter) and all the energy and ability to do this I | owe to Grape-Nuts food. “It was not arways so, and a year | ago when the shock of my nursing | baby’s { and deranged my stomach and nerves iso that 1 could {much as a | and was even in worse condition men- | tally, he | prophet who would have predicted that death utterly prostrated me not assimilate as mouthful of solid food, would have Deen a rash it ever would be so. “Prior to this great grief I had suf- fered for years with impaired diges- tion, insomnia, agonizing cramps in the stomach, pain in the sides, constipation, and other bowel derangements, all these were familiar to my daily life. | Medicines gave me no relief—mothing did, until friend's a few months suggestion, I ago, at a an the use { of Grape-Nuts food, and subsequently gave up coffee entirely and adopted Postum Food Coffee at all my meals. “To-day I am free from all the trou- My digestion te my food ssit | without the least distress, enjoy sweet, re estful sleep, and have a buo ed duties. In a new woman, rely made 1 repeat, I owe it all to and Postum Coffee.” Name Postum Co., Battle Cree I became very ,