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A BRILLIANT SUNDAY.SERMON BY DR,
. TORREY, THE GREAT REVIVALIST.
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Subject : One Miser Worse Than Twelve
: Whisky Fiends.
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. /Philadelphia.—The Rev. Dr. Torrey,
the great ‘revivalist, on Sunday deliv-
“ered # a compellinfg sermon entitled “One
Miser Worse Than . Twelve Whisky
jends.” His text was "Acts xxii., 16:
“And now, why tarriest thou? Arise
and be baptized, washing away “thy
sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
J Why “tarriest thou?” It was God
‘who asked that question of Saul of
Tarsus, who, us you will remember,
was a most bitter enemy of Christ; I
- doubt if Jesus Christ ever had a more
bitter enemy, a more determined, more
relentless enemy than Saul of Tarsus.
Saul-of Tarsus sincerely believed that
Jesus Christ was an imposter, that His
claim to be the Son of God was a false
"claim, and he hated Him with all the
intensity of a sincere soul. There
ere times when the thought would
come ‘stealing into Saul's soul, “Per-
‘haps He is the Son of Ged.” Espe-
cially when Saul stood and saw
Stephen stoned to death and heard
Stephen’s dying ‘testimony. “I see.the
Heavens. opened and the Son of Man
stands on the right hand of God,” the
thought camé to Saul, “Does he really
see Him? . Is Jesus really ‘the. Son of
(God? But ‘Saul would not listen to
these suggestions. .
;He kicked against the goal and Dbe-
came all the more bitter against Christ
[An his enmity, because there was a
Jurking suspicion that he was wrong.
‘He breathed an atmosphere, of threat-
ening slaughter. He went ‘down into
the streets of Jerusalem, going from
‘house to house, dragging from their
shomes men, women and children, spar-
ting neither age. Hor sex, all those who
:professed belief in Christ; he dragged
them to" be tried Amd punished 10 be
Killed he always voted for ‘their death,
until at-last he had‘exhausted all his
,opportunities,. for ‘persecution ‘of’ the
. Christian péople of Tetusalend,; but he
‘had not exhausted his hate of. Christ.
He héard that, 130 mijles away from
Jerusalem at Damascus thege were
other. Christians, and, his heart’ ‘went
.out in bitter hatr ed tow ard those Chris-
.tians he had never :spél: So he went
to .the High Priest and asked the au-
thorities to aliow him to go to the city
of Damascus and:to do What he had
'done in Jerusalem. They were only
too pleased to allow him to go, so he
started on the long, weary way to Da-
.mascus, hurrying there, neither! stop-
ping for the intense noonday heat, but
pressing eagerly on, so intensely did he
‘hate the Son of God.
© And now he has almost reached Da-
mascus; he stands on the last foothill
and stands looking down into the val-
dey at Damascus. Damascus was a
«city noted throughout the ancient
world for its beauty. But as he stood
there looking at the beautiful city Saul
did not think of its beauty, but of the
thousands of Christians there whom he
wished to. drag from ‘their homes to
death.
As he was standing there, there ‘sud-
denly shone around him a light
brighter than the sun, and in the midst
of that light the brightest and most
wonderful face and form that Saul had
ever seen appeared. - It was Jesus.
With a cry Saul fell on his face to the
ground, and out of the cloud came a
voice saying, “Saul, Saul, why.perse-
cutest thou Me?”
From a humbled man came’ back the
answer, “Who art Thoy, Lord? 7?’ Back
comes ‘the crashing’ response, 24] am
Jesus, whom thou persecutest.” ..
"And now from a thoroughly humbled
man came the answer, “What would
you have me to do?’ “Arise; get on
thy feet and go into Damascus, and
there thou shalt be told what thou
shalt do.” He arose, and found him-
self totally blind, and thus he entered
the city where he had expected to come
Aas a conqueror, blind, helpless as a
.cripple, where he spent three days and
‘three nights fasting and praying. But
still he did not accept Christ.
+ Christ sent a certain disciple to Saul
with the question, “Why tarriest thou?
. What are vou waiting for? You know
I am the Son of God; why don’t you
arise and be baptized in your accept-
ance of Me?” oof
I am going to asl that question of
every man and woman in the building
to-night. “Why tarriest thou?”
_ There are a great many in this build-
ing to-night who in their secret hearts
‘believe in Christ. but have never open-
1y professed that faith in Him. Why
tarriest thou? What are you waiting
for? Why don't you accept Christ to-
night? Why don’t you publicly con-
fess your acceptance of Christ to-night?
I wish it were possible for me to de-
‘scend from this pulpit to-night and
go from seat to seat, from man to man,
woman to woman who has not publicly
accepted Christ and put to them the
question, “Why tarviest thou?
1 believe that if 'T could do so that
almost every man and woman who is
out of Christ in this great building
‘would be brought to Him to-night: But
that is impossible, so the mext best
‘ thing to do is for you to forget that 1
am speaking to a great congregation
here, and just think you and I are hav-
ing a personal talk together, and that
I am asking the question.
And while I am asking that question
1 want everybody to draw near in
prayer for a few moments, at the end
of which time I shall have your honest
answer. Let us have a few moments
of perfect silence. Why tarriest thou?
[Perfect silence for a few moments:]
I know what the answer of some of
you is. It is, “I am waiting until I
am convinced. .and just as soon as 1
am convinced that the Bible is the
Word of God and that Jesus Christ is
the Son of God I will accept Jesus.
Now, to every one here who makes
that answer, I will niake the offer: If
you will come to me at the end of this
meeting T will show you with absolute
certaini that Jesus Christ is the Son
of God, and that the Bible is the Word
of God. Now if youarereally an honest
skeptic you will accept that offer. If
you don’t accept it, don’t _go around
saying you are a skeptic; you are not
a skeptic, you. are only a humbug.
Of course, if you are a mere quibbler
I have no time to waste on you. But if
you are an honest skeptic I have all
the time in the world for you. But let
me say, right here, that I have yet to |
find the first honest skeptic, infidel, ag
nostic, Unitarian, or Christian Scientist
who really wanted to know. The trath”
is: that I could show. them that the.
Bible is tlie Word of God an Jesus
Christ the Son of God.
It has Beeiv‘accepted by millions =P
over the worldeand I know that every
one that has accepted it has found joy
in Jesus Christ and is rejoicing in Him
to-night, and if you come to me re: 1Hy
wishing: to - know and are. wiling to
obey your conscience, I will put. you in
the way of finding out, and if 1 BL
succeed, you will .be the first, ong L
have ever failed on.
A few years ago I lived in Minné] 562
lis at a time when the boom was on
and men made fortunes in a day. te
came back tothe? State of Ohid om-.&
visit. One night I and my wife were
stopping with a friend who was tlren
seventy years of age. He had accuanu-
lated half a million dollars. One foot
was in the grave. 3
One night when “éveryhody elsé was
in bed he and T° remained up for a
talk, and what do you ‘think fre wanted
to talk about=aboiit eternity, or a¥out
the future of his soul?: Is that what he
wanted to talk about? iNo. He leaned
over that. old white: hand of his. and
whispered, -#Arehie, do you know, any
place up. in Minneapolis where 1 coul
invest a little money where it would
bring big interest?” [Laughter.]
You laugh, but there is nothing laughs
able in it; it was appalling. Thousands
of men’ in" Philadelphia to-iight are in
the same grip of that awful curse, that
love for gold. I yiould rather under-
take to save twelve whisky fiends’ than
one miser. ar
How is it with the love of ‘pleasure?
Ah, friends, as the years-pass Dy the
less. and less pleasure there is in the
world, but the more pleasure you seek
and endeav or .to enjoy, the more. of a
slave you bécotpe- to it. .You go: to a
theatre and you will see Javoment: old
enough ‘to ba grandmothers, “dressed
in 'low-necked gowns, -exposing’ their
thin, weazoned old ‘forms, -blazpned
with diamonds, as eager to, see “the
play as the miss just mz king. Her ‘debut
in society. The longer you live for
the world the more of a slave you.be-
come to its pieasures, but the; lgss
pleasure there is-in.if,.and: the time
will, never come when it, is, easier to
give up the world than it is to- night,
Some years ago I was stopping with
a friend, and after we came home from
meeting he told me the story of his
life. Hé said: “I had been happily |
married for.more than fourteen years.’
I. was the principal. of . the.. publid’
school in the .town where I lived. My
wife. and I quite agreed in everything,
and we were very happy together.
“One night something over fourteen
and a half years after we had been
married my wife said to me, ‘Husbale,
I have decided to become a Christiar
and wish to unite with a church? 1
jaughed at her and said, ‘Tut, - tut!
you're not going to become a Christian;
I have no idea of becoming a Chris-
tian, and don’t see why you should
wish to become a Christian. Now ive
have lived happily together for four-
teen years, and if you will do that it
may result in my going my way and
you going your way and virtually in
a separation’ ]
“After some further - talk 1 finally
promised to let my wife become a
Christian, but on her promise that she
should not.upite with the .church; so
she became a Christian, but did. not
unite with the church. It went on this
way for about six months, and you
know that no really converted Chriss
tian can really be'happy ouf of Chris+
tian fellowship. 3
“At the end, of six months one Sats
urday night she- said, ‘Husband; I have
been trying for Six months to be &
Christian“outside of the ou and 1
have decided that it is my’ uty to
make a public confession of my faith:
and. unite with the church.:, Then I
was angry and 1 said, *Wife,*See here,
now, I have no intention of ‘becoming
a Christian, and I'want you to _under- |
stand that if you unite with the, church
you are/nothing more to me.”
“That was a pretty stern test te put
to a loyal wife, but that wife was loyal
and not only loyal to her ‘husband gbut
loyal-to God and man. That wife Said,
‘Husband you know that I love you,
but I must obey Gid, and His Word id
clear. I have made up my mind to
make a public confession of religion
to-morrow, and to unite with the
church.’ :
“I was very angry and said, “Very
well, wife, then you go your way and
1 go my way; you are nothing more to
me. We both went to our rooms and
retired for the night. I could not sleep.
At 2 o'clock I cried, ‘Wife, I am con-
verted: we will go to church to:
gether.” ”
When he told me that, he was a Con-
aregational minister, and now he is in
glory. If that wife had waited for him
perhaps neither of them would havd
been converted. She went first gd
brought him in. If you will come firs
perhaps you will bring your friends
along. “Suppose they won't come? mn
you say. Then come without them. 11
had rather go to Heaven alone than go
to hel! in company. If I were not &
Christian to-night and not another pei
son started for Heaven to-night, 1
would start though I started aloe.
Men and women, don’t you know. you
are lost? Oh, yes. Don’t you know
that .Jesus Christ died for your sins?
Yes. Don’t you know that if you ac.
cept Him He would save you to- night?
Yes.
t
Well, will you accept Him? Will
you accept Him? Will you accept
Him? TIeeling or no feeling, tears of
no tears, agbny or no agony, will you
receive Him?
The Teacher’s Religion.
It was said of a good Christian min.
ister that wherever Lie went he made
people fall in love with the Lord Jesus
Christ. Evidently he had the right
sort of religion. It would be well if all
Sunday-school teachers had the same
kind. There are some people, Chris:
tians too, godly and conscientious, wha
live honestly and uprightly, and whe
are active in good works, but who da
not make people fall in love with
Christ. It was said of a very earnest
church worker the other day, “I sup-
pose he is a Christian, but som eliow he
never makes me think of Christ.” Yet
are there not too many such church
members? The teacher ought to have
to Dow, th
a religion that will make other people
think of Christ. It should be a sunny
religion. Christ was the light of the
world. It should be a joyous religion,
for Christ was always joyous. It |
should be a religion of love, for Christ
{ was all love.
SABBATH: SCHOOL LEST
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"28-36—Ggjden Text: Luie ix. 35=}
Topic: Lessons of ‘he Transfiguration
—Memory Verses, 30, 31:-Commentary
Yl A night. of prayer. (v.28). 28.
“About a an eight Jags after.” Matthew
<| and“ Mark’ y's “days. ‘There’ were 1.
At Rita and thé fractional days Af
t
h “Rhode? eight. * “These sayings.”
‘sayings of the last lesson;
‘supppses~the great confiassion. oocurrgd
beginning and the end, Jmaking
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onthe Sabbath, and.the transfiguration
on. the. night after .the Sabbath’ one
week, ates. i Thege. is.no intimation a
e int rvening week Was
spent. "Peter iia” John “and’ James.”
It" was’ the same ‘favored. three who |.
Had gone with: Him into the room’
where He raised Jairus’ daughter, and
a: few- months-later these.same apos-
tles witnessed His agony: in the garden. 4
“Into- a mountain.” . The place of the
transfiguration scene ig° unknown, but,
it was probably Mount Hermon," not’
far from- Caesarea Philippi. This ‘is
the opinion of nearly all modern au-
thorities. “To pray.” It was‘the habit
of Jesus to go alone in the might -to
pray. Before He chose the Twelve,
and after; feeding the five thousand,
we see Him praying in the night. ‘a0
XI.. Jesus. transfigured (v. 29).°
“As He prayed. 3 Dyeing H His pra oo
The transfiguration ° was - the ‘answer,
“Countenance was altered: » ‘The orig
inal word is elsewhere in fhe New
Testament rendered- : ‘transformed”
(ste Rom. 12:2; 2 Car. 3:18); apd is used
of a spiritual ‘change, Matthew Says,
“His face did shine as,the sun). “Rai.
ment became, white and, 2zling.” wR.
Vii . Mark. says, “Exceeding yhite as
snow.” It was “His ines spirit shining
through thie veil of flésh.*
111. - Heavenly visitants® (vs. 30:31).
30. ~ “Moses: and Elias? Elas. 1s the
Greek form. £orLIMijah. This, wasnot
a~vision. ~THese personstwere.actually
present, - and - the. -disciples,pecognized:
them,.as is evident from Peter's DPTOpo-*
sition in, verse. 33. "This, gives good
ground for. believing that Wes “shall rec,
ognize our ‘friends in Heaven :
i 31, “Who ‘appeared ‘in’ glory.” “In
like glory ‘with *Jesus§i® with ‘glorifed.
bodies.’ May this not’ be & hint as to
the ~ appedrdnce + 6f » oui ~ resurrection’
bodies? “Spake of Hisdecease.””: Or
departure, or exodus ‘from. .the world;
including, ng. doupt,, His: death, resur-
rection ‘and ascension. “Which He
was about to ‘accomplish. ? RV. “This
;onversation would enable tie disciples
to see the importance. and necessity" of
‘that which was to them the greatest
mystery”’—the suffering. and death- of
their- Master. .
.IV.—Three disciples beliold His glory
(vs.. 32, 33), .82. “Heavy with sleep.”
It was in the.night, and the time when
they “usually slept. . Our’ English, Ver-
sion implies that ‘they fell asleep and
were awakened to see His glory, while
the original implies that, though heavy
with sleep,- they: kept fully awake.
“Were fully awake.” R. V. Even
though they may have been asleep at
first, yet when He was “transfigured
before them” they were fully awake.
“Saw His glory, and the two men.”
They saw the brilliancy of their coun-
tenances, and the dazzling brightness
of the garments. 33. “As they de-
parted.” Were departing. ' Peter must
have seen that they were: .ready to
leave.. . “Peter sdid.””? Eager. and im:
pulsive as always. It was for him $o0
brief a.glimpse. of, the heavenly glory.
“It is good for us to be here.” Peter
spoke the truth. The apostles would
be stronger and more, useful because
of th¥ divine ‘manifestations. * “Three
tabernacles.”” Or booths, from: ‘the
bushes on-the hourins suchas were
made, at the. feast of Fabernacles, « He
greatly desired to have. the heavenly
visitants remain... with ., them. ;-%. vot |
knowing what le said.” peter’ s plang
were frequently. in opposition: to’ ‘those
of his Lord.” A
V. The voice ¥roni. tHe, cloud: (vs. '34-
36): 34. “While He thus spake.”, “Here
was-the response to Péoter’s ‘suggestion;
a wise answer toa -foolish prayer; ‘de:
nying. the petition .in- order. to grant
something better,” “There, came a
cloud,.and overshadowed them.” Mat-
thew says a “bright” cloud. A cloud
had frequently been, the symbol of the
divine presence. It was a cloud that
guided acd protected the children of
Israel (Exod. 13:21; 14:19); a cloud that
filled the temple at the dedication (1
Kings 8:10, 11); and-the: Lord maketh
the cloud His chariats (Psa. 104:13).
Peter refers to the clouds that over-
shadowed them on the mount as “the
excellent glory” (2 Pet. 1:17). “They
feared.” This glorious manifestation
of God's presence caused them to trein-
ble. It is very likely that the trans-
figuration took place in the night, in
which case the light of Christ's coun-
tenance, the dazzling brightness of Hiv
garments, and the. glory of the cloud,
would have a marked effect, because
of the, absence ‘of the solar light. “En-
tered into.” The cloud seemed to de-
scend over them and envelop thém. 35.
“A voice.” The ‘voice -of.¢«God the
Father. It revealed nothing new, but
confirms the old, for it was the same
voice -which had been heard at His
baptism.’ “his’ would” shew fo Peter
and the apostles that they did not need
to detain Moses and Elijah in order to
:aadd to their happiness. “This is My
beloved Son.” Matthew adds. “In
whom I am well pleased.” ‘Hear
Him.” He is superior even to Moses.
36. - “When the voice was past.”
Matthew tells us that when the disci-
ples Heard the voice they fell on their
faces, and were sore afidid; then, re-
covering from-the shock, they suddenly
gazed all around them and saw no
person but Jesus, “Kept it close.”
Mark says that Jesus charged them
that they should “tell ‘lo man what
things they had seen, till' the Son of
Man- were risen from the dead.” »
The Great Teacher.
Christ is familiarly known to us as
¢the Great Teacher.” The earliest im-
pression made by His person and la-
bors, the name which spontaneously
rose to the lips of those who were
brought into actual contact with Him,
was Rabbi; that is, teacher. Even
those who were teachers themselves
felt that He possessed pre-eminent
qualifications for teaching. “We know
that Thou art a teacher come from
| God.” Nineteen centuries testify io the |
power and success of His teaching.
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MINE SEVENTEENTH. =
Cr eed me
Topics THe. Glorified Lite: .- a6hn., 17:
1.10; 2224. + u <
r even’ Ghirist. needed to be glori-
fied before He. could glorify God, how
much more *do.we need God’s power
and. ‘grace _bofore, we, can glorify Him.
inthe earth!
: Christ)s glory is ‘pound’ up with’ our
obedience; - if” we- Tove - Christ," “thfs’
thought will be a mighty incentive to
.a noble. life. . .
The . more “we live for Christ's
glory, “the ‘more wé shall live for one
another.
We: enjoy eurth in proportion as
we see, Christ’ s glory in it; thus also
shall we enjoy heaven.
Suggestions.
! The ‘ glorified life is unconscious of
Ats- own glory,—conscious only of
Christ’s. “Moses wist not that his
face shone.’
Woe unto us when all men speak
well of us! - Their clamor will drown
- wnt, ¥y
God’s- voice.
“Glorified” and “clarified” are kin-
dred words. A noble man is the
only. nobleman.
The glorified’ life glories in Christ.:
lllustrations.
Wordly gloty draws inward, lke
the : sponge; . heavenly glory gives.
outward; like -:ithe. spring.
Earth's greatest glories, like the
Greek olive wreath, are valued for
their ideal significance; SO are’ neav--
en’s.
~The mirror gleams only SO - 10hE as
it is- turned to the sun; our lives are
radiant only so-long as they reflect.
ag in a mirror the glory of God.
When ‘the ‘light falls upon the dia-
mond, it also becomes a light-bearer,
and shines -in the dark. We need
more phosphgrescent Christians.
. Quotations.
rl, 1 ‘seeking my reputation below
or above?
* Am ‘I letting" my light shite? :
Yr religion-. tp- me the happiest
thing -in life? ., ma til,
Yes, there is glory for the future;
nothing for: the. true believer ‘that
isn’ t glory.—D. L. Moody.
‘We shall .eath ‘have our: own pe-—
culiar glory, * while yet lost: in -the
“Greater; Light!” who. rules that gold-,
en day}- Nathaniel West.
Thousands of us are yet living, on’
two or: three hundred dollars that
might live on the exceeding riches of:
God’s :glory.—M. E. Baldwin.
+The Noblest Study.
- Missions are the new Acts of the
Apostles, . they are the newest New
Testament, they are. the prolongation
of Calvary. They are the ‘greater
things than these’’” which the Holly
Spirit enables Christ’s followers to
do.
A man may be a Christian and be
ignorant: of missions, bu¢ he is an un-
developed Christian. =~
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, JUNE 17. -
Our Accounting.—Gal. 6: 7-10; Rev.
20. 11-15.
He who does not count -his life. a
high and gracious. gift of God, which
may ingreage; in, power. and | capacity
forever, has missed life’s " grohtdst
meaning
But if Tife+1s great in its; privilege
it is also greatsin its requirements.
There is no such thing 3s, possession
without. responsibility, ; and the larg-
er, the ‘Wealth the’ greater. the obliga-
hat, win you do with your . life?
1t is an endowment. It is a test.--It
is a probation. God would, put us to
the procf... & He_ gives time and
strength enough for us to determine
our relation to the infinite future. All
life’s ‘activities-have to do with that.
Nothing we do can be separated from
its relation ,to to-morrow. Our, work,
our play, .our, social life, our intel-
lectual life—all’ exert an influence on
and help to shape our destiny. That
is what probation means. It is op-
portunity. to form character, to fix
life’s direction. .
Life, then, is the great choosing
time. The play and counterplay of
forces ‘outside of us may be interest-
ing. The "activities of the: great
world- may seem of importance. But
the greatest thing about any indi-
vidual career is not what it has done,
or seen, or suffered, or enjoyed, but
what it has chosen. Eternal: destin-
jes are settled here. We decide on
this side of the grave, and life on the
other -iside. .will follow the bent we
have chosen, here.
Man, is. the Crow ning point of crea-
tion. He is made in God’s image, and
God’s ideal for him is communion
with his Master. We sometimes. hear
it said that man is naturally oppos-
ed to. God. It is not true. Opposi-
tion to God is unnatural, although it
is terribly prevalent. Our natural re-
lation is one of ‘communion. Augus-
tine was right— “Thou hast made us
for thyself, and we find no rest until
we find it in thee.”
Sin has turned us away from God.
And yet there are great yearnings
within us that reach out to him. The
unrest of the sinner is the homesick-
pess of the prodigal in the far coun-
try. It is part of the Father’s effort
to bring his child back.
A Prayer.
Father, we thank Thee that Thou
hast given us each day a newer rev ela.
tion of Thyself. We thank Thee that
Thou hast mace as free, ye‘ undet
the compelling influence of a kindly
universe. We thank Thee that Thou
hast given us the greatest salvation
men could have—the upward tendency,
Amen.
A Supplication.
Touch my heart, O God, with
thoughts of Thy love. Hold me up this
day above the mists of passion, of sel-
fishness, of earthliness. Give strength
to my higher,
' my lower nature.
my better self, against
(AEISTONE STATE
V “Fiooss DAMAGE Towns.
Raina at ‘Baggatey Sweshv Bridge
Away and Villagers in Terror
r Flee to the Hills.
| Baggaley, a mining village situated
in a gully between the Chestnut Ridge
F foothills and built elose to, Nine-Mile
run, was in peril of beix 1g SW ept away
by a flood following a terrific rain-
storm. Within five minutes after the
storm burst the bridge at Bagg aley
was washed away. It lodged below
the town, cate hing logs and debri$ ‘and
forming a dam ‘which ba ked the wat-
er; completely flcoding the town and
causing great damage. , So rapidly did
the water rise that. the villagers ‘were
aroused and taken to safety in boats.
The terror was increased by a rumor
that the walls of the reservoir were
likely to give way. Fearing to ret-
turn to their homes after tne water
subsided, many remained .on the hills
throughout the night.
The citizens of Greenville won for
the sixth time in the long-drawn out
legal battle with the trustees of. Thiel
college, when Judge A. W. Willlams
handed down a decision, refusing to
grant an amendment to the charter
which would permit the removal of
the college from ‘Greenville to Greens-
burg. The: famous; case. ‘now goes
back to the. Pittsburgh syned of. the
Lutheran church, and at,2 meeting of.
the synod to be held in St.. John’s
church at Erie, June 14-19, it'is con-
fidently expected that the ‘wo factions
will reunite and take actton” toward
the reopening of. the.
Greenville next September.
Richard” Nelson committéd suicide
ir ‘the Brookville jail® upon hearing
David Wilson had “died frem wounds
| rgceived in.a fight between the two at.
v Fall Creek, thig .county, on Memorial
day. Both young
men were well
known.
Wilson whose 10me was in’
Dub6is, was stabbed five times in the
fight land Nelson was immediately:
-| plaeed under arrest. Wilson suc--
cumbed to his injuries When . the
hews was broken to Nelson next
morning he drained the contents of a
bottle of carbolic acid.
Boyd Stonerod, alias Samuel. C.
Fletcher, now in jail at Washington,
charged with forgery and ‘obtaining
money under false pretense, was visit-
ed in prison by his wife from Cora-
opolis and his mother. from Jackson,
Mich. The meeting was a pathetic
one, the prisoner breaking down dur-
ing the interview. Both his wife and
mother expressed confidence. in his
innocence. Stonerod told them that
he was not guilty and that his arrest
was the result of mistaken identity.
Six hundred thousand dollars will
be spent in changing the line and
grade for one and one-half miles
through Blairsville, $220,000 for the
Sang Hollow extension and second
track between Centerville and Dor-
mick, Point, .a distance of 11 miles,
and $250,000 for reducing the grade
at Boliver. Junction.
" While a Pittsburg & Lake Erie
train - was - pulling .into th2 yards at
New Castle, thei erew espied a man
attempting .to break into a box ecar
laden with merchandise. , A part of the
crew jumped off the train and gave
chase. After'a long run the man was
captured and put in the New Castle
jail.
The Shenango-Midland Street Rail-
way. -Company has accepted. the fran-
chise, ordinance passed by, the Sharon
council. * The ~ company ' has five
months ‘to "begin work on the: line inn
Sharon, at which time it must: pay
the city $2,500 and 10 months after
another $2,500. . This. is. part of the
line which will extend to New Castle.
Cc. 0. Templeton, who was indorsed
for the State Senate at the Blair
county: Republican primary election
three weeks ago, went into court’ and
asked for a recount of the vote. Judge
Bell -intimated -he would. permit a re-
count .of the vote if both candidates
asked for it. TFlammond was not in
court.
Not since August, 1881, has’ Conno-
quenessing creek been on sueh'a ram-
page. The result was a flood which
caused damage approximating $100,-
000. New county. bridges were washed
away. at West Sunbury . and. North
Hope and between Butler and Boyds-
town five bridges were destroved.
+ An explosion in the cap room of the
Masurite Explosive Company at
Sharon, resulted ‘in the death of Miss
Lucy Reeser and the, serious injury
of . John Finn, employes. .'The caps
are used to set off the explosive man-
ufactured by the company,
William Bryant, aged 97, is dead at
Kew Castle, from injuries received 10
days ago, when he fell and fractured
his thigh. Two sons and two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Elizabeth Lawton; of Alle-
gheny; Luther, Sidney and Miss Eu-
nice, all of New Castle, survive.
Harvey M. Berkley, cashier of the
First National Bank, of Somerset, for
14 vears, has resigned and was suc-
ceeded by E. J. Gallagher, formerly
assistant cashier. Berkley will resume
the practice of law. He is a heavy
stockholder in the bank.
At a special meeting of council
West Latrobe was admitted into La-
trobe by a suspension of rules. East
Latrobe was annexed in the same way
a week earlier. The residents of
Northside are circulating a petition
for consolidation.
An explosion at the Burton powder
plant, one mile west of Hillsville,
completely wrecked the glazing house
and shook buildings for miles around.
Fortunately all the employes were at
their homes at the time, and no per-
son was injured. The explosion is
supposed to have been caused
by a spark from the dynamo. The
loss was $5,000.
Charles Ross, an Italian,
ducts a fruit store at Derry,
derously attacked by three foreigners
who had asked him for ice cream
which he was unable to sell to them.
who con-
was mur-
institution’ -at.:
‘alarm.
SEVEN YEARS ACO.
2 a Rochester Chemist Yount a Sioguladly”
Effective Medicine.
FOL
William ‘A. Franklin, of the Franklin
& Palmer Chemical Co., Ttochester, N/
Y., writes:
il “Seven years agg.
I was suffering ¥
Bl much through t
| failure of the Kkid-
‘neys .. to eliminate
the uric acid from
fk back was very lama
il and ‘ached if I over
exerted my self in the least degree. At
times I was weighed down with a fel
ing of languor and depression and suf-
fered continually from annoying irreg-
ularities of the kidney secretions. ¥
procured a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills
and began using them, I found prompt
relief from the aching and lameness
in my back, and by. the time I. had
taken three boxes I was cured of all
irregularvities.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box,
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, MN. X.:
Lifetime of a Bell.
Comparatively few people
that ringing a bell ruins it. That is,
a bell has a definite length of life, ’
and after so many blows will break.
A 960-pound bell, struck blows of 178
foot-pound” of force, broke after 11,-
000 blows. A 4,000-pound bell, broke
after” 18,000 blows of 350 foot-pounds
force. A steel composition bell
weighing 1,000 pounds broke after 24
blows of 150 foot-pounds, but-its' mak-
ers said it was calculated for a light-
er blow.
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
bylocalapplications as they cannot reach the
diseased portion ofthe ear. Thereis only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by consti-
tutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an
inflamed condition ot the mucous lining ot
the Eustachian Tube. ‘When this tube isin-
flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper-
fect hearing, and when it is entirely closed
Deafness is the result; and unless the inflam-
mation can be taken out and this tube re-
stored to its normal condition, hearing will
be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten
are caused by eatarrh, which is nothing but ad
inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness(caused by catarrh) that can-
not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars free. F.J.CuexEY & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75¢,
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
Origin of the Crescent Bread.
The origin of that Viennese bread
shaped like a crescent, which is found
in most places on the continent, dates
back to 1863. At that time the Aus-
trian Capital was being besieged by
the Turks under the terrible Grand
Vizier Kara Mustapha, and as they
failed to take the city by assault,
they decided to dig a passage under
the walls, and so penetrate into the
town. In the day-time the noise of
the siege made the sound of the tune
nelling inaudible, and at night-time
the defenders of the place wers
asleep, all but the sentries and the
bakers. It was the bakers who, as
they baked the bread for the garrison,
heard the pickaxes of the miners com-
ing nearer and nearer, and gave the
In the fighting the Bakers’
Association took their share with the
utmost -brayery, and as, a reward for
their services the Emperor gave them
permission, to make: a. special cake
shaped like the Turkish cre scent.—
London Sketch.
* Trees ‘Almost Fireproof. :
The giant sequoias of California,
which are thousands of, years old, have
been preserved to this«day because of
their enormously thick bark. From
time to time, in the. course of ages,
vast sforest fires have swept. through
the” big-tree : lands, destroying every-
thing, yet only scorching for a cou-
ple of inches depth or so the almost
fireproof bark of these, huge trees.
The flames, having carbonized that
much of the bark, could not penetrate
farther, for the carbonized portion
formed, an absolutely fireproof cover-
ing for the remainder of the interior
bark.—Chicago Journal,
an : ry
bmn.
BUILDING FOOD _. .
To Bring the Bab.es Arpund.. A
.X
When a little human machine (or a
large ong) goes wionk ‘nothing is fo
important as. the: select on of food: to’
bring it around agaim.
“My little baby boy fifteen onthe
old had pneumonia, then came brain
fever; and no sooner:‘had ae got over:
these than he began to cut teeth and,
being - so. weak, he was frequently’
thrown: into ‘Corivulsions, ” says a Colo-
rado mother. | -
“I decided a change. might wet S0,
took. him- to Kansas City! for a: visif,
When we go there Iie was: so very:
weak hea he would cry he would
sink asvay and seemed like be. wioul
die. 3
“When 1 reazhed My Asters Fone
she said immediately ~that we must
feed hin sGrape-Nutsr and: although EB
had never used the food, we got some
and for a few days gave him just the
juice of Grape- Nuts and milk. He g
stronger so quickly we were soon feeds
ing him the Grape-Nuts itself and in}
a wonderfully short time he fattened
right up and became s{rong and well.’
“That showed me something worth
knowing and, when later on my girl
came, I raised her cn Grape-Nuts, and
ghe is a strong, healthy baby and has
been. You will see from the little pho-
tograph I send you what a strong.
chubby youngster the boy is now, but
he didn't look anything like that be-
fore we found this nourishing food.
Grape-Nuts nourished XLir back to
strength when he was so weak he
couldn't keep any other food on his
stomach.” Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle “reek, Mich.
All children cen be built to a more
sturdy and healthy condition - upon
Grape-Nuts and cream. The food con-
tains the elements nature demands,
from which to make the soft gray fill-
ing in the nerve contres und brain.
A well fed brain
nerves absolutely
body. J
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, “The Road to Wellville”
and strong, sturdy
insure a healthy
my , system. My.
know
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