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"THE PULPIT. |
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE RIV. DR. H. M. SANDERS.
Subject: The Character of Jesus.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—At the Washington
Avenue Baptist Church. in the absence
of the pastor, the Rev. 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
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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
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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 |
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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 ,