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THE BUltLlNGTOK JFREE PRESS, TTHJRSDAY. APRIL 27, 1893. AT THE TABERNACLE, DR. TALMACE CELEBflATES HIS TWENTY-FOURTH ANNIVERSARY THERE. IIo lVrls I.ll;i I'IIitIiis n Loup- nnrt I.ouil llnllt'luliili, lor Iho Tiilrnt T tlin World Outers nt Itrookljii, iiml So tlio Gn-ipi-1 I Sproml Alim.iil. KnooKLW, April CI. TJuv. Dr. Tnlmnga induy preached his twenty-fourth miniver M'v fs ru."". Subject, "A Urooklyn I'ns- ir " The oc-ciihIoii wnn nn unusually i in 11110, ntul tho Rrciit inidlcnce ivni i m iinrri i-cd during tho ."ervlcen. Over , in i i i'i llnwt'rs were the llsuriM "lVKt" r l " i.'' Tho text wiih Uercl.it Inn lv,-l, ' ' in 1 round about the throna worn fourmid i i i s it i, nnd upon the bents 1 saw four ii i tivcnt elders." (i strxt 1 cIioomj chiefly for Iho nutner i "h t mentions namely, four and twenty. 1 ,i.s tho number of elders seated 10 md the throuo nt God. Hut that U tho i -nubcr of ycuts seated around my Urook lyn ministry, and erery pulpit is nthronu of blessing or blasting, n, throno of fjood or pvd. And today, in this my twenty-fourth anniversary sermon. I years emtio and nit n round nie, nnd. they speiil; out in a reminis cence of Kindness nnd tears. 'J'wenty-four venrs niro 1 arrived in this city to shepherd such n Hock as tniicht come, nnd that day I i in led in on my arms tho infant son who in tw i we"Ks finm today 1 will help ordain to tin j, spi 1 ministry, hoping that ho will io pre i hi'i'4 long utter my poor work is ii,. o have received into our membership over t,i H) semis, but they, 1 think, are only n small portion of tho multitudes who, coming from nil parts of tho earth, have in our house of Hod been blest and saved. ilthoui'h wo havo us a church raised -M I'JO.ikjo for religious purposes, jet we aro ' i t'10 stranuo iosition of not knowing w iie'her in two or three months wo shall . iw any church at all, nnd with audiences rfCtOijOur 7,000 people crowded into this oc mi nnd tho adjoining rooms wo are con fronted w uh the o,uction whether I shall f,i on w itli my work here or goto somo uther field. What an awful necessity that we should have been obliged to build thrco imtionsn churclie.i. two of them destroyed by hi t A mlsnjiprrhcnslon is abroad that. Ota fninclal cj I'.icnru ol this church ii pa'ti. ' 'i'ih journalistic run personal ' i nds a in athlmi sjicll litis lic ii afford t d u , i"t hi lore us yet are Jinnnclal ob li'n n us uhieh ?iui6t promptly be met, or fpc this house of (lod icill ao into i r r' p ii nn i and become a theater or a en 'irt )m!I. The i'li.'.OdO raised canned catu lu ttia1injthhtof$UnMO. Through ih hiifhh nt tlurc to irlimit ice arc in i'tbti i v', "'I vnntd set ns forrvrr )rre. J am i'n ? t say that Hie case is not hope 'osi. II i: are daily in receipt of touching i iden s ol iract teal sympathy from all tl of tin i (immunity and rom all s (ii of the country, and it teas but iiik dn-i that hy my oicn hand 1 sent, i it contributions yratefully received, nearly 6ti aclnumlcdymcnts east, vest i or vd south. a dav roi: iiAi.i.r.t.t'iAii. Our tru -t is in the Lord, who divided the V. 'd sr . nnd "made tho mountains skip like l.vnbs." With this paragraph I dis-nii-s the linanrial subject and return to the i-irHinl. 'ihU morning the greatness of (md s kiiii'iu-s obliterates eveiything, and if 1 wanted to build a groan 1 do not know in whnt forest I would hew the timber, or fro'.i what quarry I would dig tho founda tion jtone, or who would construct for ino in c rtan w uli a tremolo for tho only stop, md j tlrs morning I occupy my time, in 'm lding one great, mnssho, high, deep, nr iad, licuven piercing halleluiah. In the ii it v of the last -'1 j ears I think it may bu n 1 1 ul to consider some of the character istics of a Urooklyn pastorate. In the first place, 1 remark that a Urook lyn pa"-turutcis always adillicult pastorate. So c ty under the sun has r. grander array of puliiit talent than Urooklyn. Tho Meth odists thoinpti-ts, thoCongregationalists, tho 1. ltcupnlinus, all the denominations send tlicir brightest liglits here. Ho who nndsin imvpulpit in Urooklyn preaching "iav K'' av that he stand-, within 15ininute.s' n,i of sermons which a Saurin, nnd a nir i' iite, and a John M. Mason, and a i i 'f W'ljitefield would not be ashamed ' No i ii y under the sun where a poor ser r n is su- ii adiug on tho market. I r 4U joins Urooklyn has been sur t iirr"'d with honiileties an electricity of i lo(,'ieiice that struck every timo it Hashed fnm the old pulpits which quaked with t'ie iw rs of a Hethune, and a Cox, nnd a ii l i'-tr, and u rpenr, nnd a Vinton, mid ft 1 .'Ii y, and a Ueoehtr, not mentioning the l i ts of the magnillcent men now man- .1 fc' the Urooklyn pulpits. So during all tie t rr-.c there bus been something to np peul to every man'h tasto and to gratify tvej. man's prcfeience. N let mo say to nil ministers of tho ro' or I wli i aro ambitious for a Hrooklin pulpit that it is always a difficult paMor ii' e If a man shall come and stand before any uuilienie in 11111101-1 any church in Uroi .kljn. he will find beforo him men who havo liiard the mightiest themes discussed in the um'. Illicit wny. You will lmre.be fnro yi ,1, if j 011 fail in nn argument, .10 1 " i n s in a lidet. If you make 11 slip in tuo use of a commercial figure of speech, there will be .MX) merchants who will notice it If you throw out an anchor or furl a su I i 1 V u rong way, there will 1m ship captains light oil who will wonder if you are as ignorant of theology as you are of na iguimn! .o it will lo a place of hard BVudy If j oil are goin;; to maintain your self, you will find a Urooklyn pastoriitu a lliflicult pastorate. A J'.toMlxr.St' rt l.I'lT. I renin! k still further, u Urooklyn jms tuiuto is always a conspicuous pastorate. 'J'lie pulling piv-sof the country lias no g-eu ir force than that on tho sencoast. 1 ir p' l' it wind, good or bad, wise or Jino, ,iit kiinl or mean, is wntclied. The lein it corp.-. of these cities is nn organ iz im-ii' Many of them have collegiate ii 'em and large culture, and they are id 11 tiMi,li oration or inldress or sermon, If you s,i a silly thing, you will never hear I le tint of it, Had if ou say a wise thing it w ill o int u pei pet mil mult iplication. There i i no needot decrying that luct. Men whoso influence has been built by tho printing pris spend the test of th. ir lives in de nouncing newspapers. The newspaper is the pi Ipit 011 Hie wing. Mojo preaching done on Monday than 011 Sunihiy. The om nivorous, all ejed printing press is ever Aigil nt Uisules that 11 Urooklyn pastorate is al ways conspicuous in tho fact that every body comes here. Urooklyn is New York in its better mood! Strangers hu 11 not seen Isew orl; until they havo seen Urooklyn. Ulu'l 1st liver isllio chasm In which our merchants drop their caies and their anxi eti s and their business troubles, nnd by tl.i time they have greeted tluir families In the homo cnclo they havo lorgntUtu ull ehoiit lullnrtt nnd Uroadway and the ph, iiiijltM. If Wiry cmuiit bn-iut"-.- i-iiu ia New York durlnit the day, they comoovoi1 to Brooklyn to lepent of thcml tlltOOKLYX AtlSOttHS Tlir, WOULD's IKTEIXECT Kvcrybody conies here. Stand at the bridge entrance or at tho ferry gates on Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock, or Sabbath evening at T o'clock, mid you seo north, pouth, east, weet Uurope, Asia, Africa, N'ew Zealand, Australia -coming to Urook lyn to spend the Sabbath, or part of it, in the persons of their ruprcfctitntlrca. Somo of them fresh from thosen. 'They haro just landed, nnd they want to peek tho housa of Hod publicly to thank the Lord for their deliverance from cyclone nnd fog banks off Newfoundland. I'.very song sung, every prajcr tillered, every sermon preached in New York and Urooklyn, and all along this sea coast, in some shnpe goes nil round the world. A Urooklyn pastorate is nt tho greatest altitude of conspicuity. Again 1 return k that a Urooklyn pastor ate is characteiiyed by brevity. 1 bethink myself of but three ministers of tho gospel now preaching here who were preaching when 1 came to Urooklyn. Most of tho pulpits around me have chnnged seven or right times since my arrival. Sometimes tho pastorate- has been brief for one reason mid sometimes for another reason. Somctiims the ministers of tho ;ospel have been too good for this world, lid Heaven has transtdnnted them. Some times they changed places by tho decree of theirdeiiomitiation. Sometimes theycamr wllh great blare of trumpets, proposing to carry everything before them, and got ex tinguished before they were distinguished. Some got -prom-hod out in two or thrco years and told tho people nil they knew. Some with holy speed did inashoit time work which it takes a great many years to do. Whether for good or bad reasons n Urook lyn pastorale i-i characterb.oil by brevity, not much of the old plan by which n min ister of the gospel lmpti.ed nn infant, then received him into I he church, after he had become nn adult ni.inie.l him, baptizedhls children, married them nnd lived on long enough to bury ilino.st everybody but him self, (ilorious old pastorates the- were. Some of us remember them Dr. Spring, I'eter l.abaugh, lJ.nninio Zabriskio, Daniel Waldo, A hi am Ilalsev. When the snow melted from their foreheads, it revealed tho (lowers of an unfading coronal. Pastorates of 80, 40, fiO, .Y years' continuance. Somo of them had to he helped into the pulpit or into the carriage, they were so old and decrepit, but when the Lord's chariots halted one day in front of tho old parson age they stepped in vigorous a- an athlete, and as we saw the wheels of lire whirling through the gates of the sunset we all cried out, "My fmhe:. mv father! tho chariots of Israel anil the horsemen thereof." 1 remark ag- in. a Urooklyn pastorate is characterized hy its hnpplncsv. WlDOUI VN I'l M l: 1 ol! ltAriMNr.PS. No city under the sun whero people take sncli good care of their ministers. In pro portion as the world outside may curse, a congregation stands close up by the man whom they brlieve in. Urooklyn society has for its foundation two elements tho Piiritunic, which always means a quiet Sabbath, and the llollandish, which means a worshipful people. On the top of this an admixture of all nationalities the brawny Si ot, the solid Knglish, the rivacious Irish, the polite French, the philosophic German, and in all this intermingling of population the universal dominant theory that a man can do as he pleases, provided he doesn't distutb anybody else. A delightful climate. While it is hard on weak throats, for tho most of us it is bracing. Not an atmosphere inado up ot tho discharged gases of chemical factories or tho miasms of swamps, but coming panting right oil ,1,000 miles of Atlantic ocean befoio anjbody else has had 11 chanco to breathe it! All through the city 11 so ciety ot kind, genial, generous, sympathetic people. How they lly to you when you uro 111 trouble! How they watch over you when j oil aro sick! How tender they "aro with j 1111 when juii have buried your dead! Urooklyn is a good place to live in, a good place to die in, a good place to be buried in, a good place from which to rise in a beau tiiiu resurrection. In such a city I havo been permitted to haro ill years of pastorate. During thee e,lrs how many heartbreaks, how many losses, how many berc.iremtnts! Hardlj'n family of the church that has not been struck with sorrow, but tiod has sustained you in the past, and he will sustain you in the lilt urc. I exhort you to bo of good cheer, O thou of the broken heart. "Weep ing may endure for 11 night, but joy cometh in tho morning." I wish over every door of this church we might have written tho word "Sympathy" sympathy for nil tho 5 oung. W must crowd them in hero by thou sands nnd propose a i-ndiant gospel that they will takoon thespot. Wo must make this place so uttractire for tho young that a joiing mnn will como hero on Sabbrtth morning, put down his hat, brush his hair back from his forehead, unbutton his over coat and look around wondering if ho has not by mistake got into heaven, lie will see in the faces of the old people not tho gloom which some people take for religion, but the sunshine of celestial peace, and lie will saj-, "Why, I wonder if that isn't the snino peace that shone out on the face of my father uud mother when they lay dj--ing" And then there will come a dampness in 1 his ejes through which he. can hardly see, 1 and ho will clo&e his eyes to imprison the emotion, but the Jiottcnr will break through the fringes of eyelashes and drop upon tho coat sleeve. Ho will put his head on tho back of the pew in front and sob, "Loid find of tho old people, help me!'' Wo ought to lay a plot hem lor tho religious capture of all the young people in Urooklyn. Hir. SVMPAUIIKS OF illtOOKl.VS'. Yes, sympathy for tho old. They havo Iheir aches and pains nnd distresses. They isnnot hear or walk or see as well ns they ased to. We must be reverential in their presence. On dark d.ijs we must help them through the aisle and help them find tho place ill the hjninbook, Some Sab bath morning wo shall miss them from their place, and we slrall say, "Where is Lather So-uikI-sij today!-" and tho answer will be; "What, haven't you heardf Tho King's wagons huc taken .Jacob up to tho (ahu-e where his Josepn Is yet alive." Sympathy for business men. Twentj--four years of cominciciiil life in New York mid Urooklyn nro enough to tear one's nerves to pieces. We want t.- inako our Sabbath service here 11 rescue for all these martjisof trallic, 11 foretaste of that land w here they inn o 110 rents to pay, and there are no business rivalries, and where riches. Instead of taking wings to lly nwny, brood oier other riches. Sympathy for tho fallen, remembering tliat they ought to bo pitied as much as a mini ruu over with a rail train. Tho fact is that in the temptations and misfortune of lifo they get run over. You and I In tlw sanio circumstances would havo done as badly; wo should have done worse perhaps. If you and I had tho sumo evil surround ings nnd tho bame evil parenlngo that they hud and tho siuno native 1hih proclivities 10 eiil that they hnd, jou and I should have I's-en in the pt-uitcutiarv or outcasts o'f soci ety, "No," says some self righteous man, "1 couldn't havo been overthrown in that way." You old hypocrite, you would htiio been tho first to fall! We want in this church to hnvo sympn thy for the worst man, remembering ho is n brother; sympathy for tho worst woman, remembering she is ti sister. If that Is not tho gospel, 1 do not know what the gospel Is. Ah,ycsl synip thy forall tho troubled; for tin? orphans in their exposure; for wid owhood with its weak arm lighting for bread; for tho household which erst re bounded with merry voices and pattering feet, now awfully still broad winged sym pathy, like tho feathers of tho Almighty warm blooded sympathy, everhii.ting sym pathysympathy which shows itself in tho grasp of tho hand, in tho glittering tear of tho eye, in the consoling word of the mouth sympathy of blankets for tho cold, of bread for tho hungry, of medicine for tho sick, of rescue for the lost. Sympathy! oHATiTt ni: to (ion rot: tiii: past. Let it thrill in every sermon. Let ittrem blo in every song. Let it gleam in every tear and in every light. Rj-inpathyl Men ,iud women arc sighing for sympathy, groan ing for sympathy, dying for sympatlij-, tumbling oil' into unclcaullness and crime mid perdition for lack of sympathy. May tiod give it to us! Fill all this pulpit with it from step to step. Let the sweep of these galleries suggest its encircling arms. Fill all the house with it from door to door and from iloor to ceiling, until there is no more room for it, and it shall overflow into tho street, nnd passersby on foot nnd in carriage shall feel the throb of its majjnificcnt ben ediction. Let that bo a now departure ns n church. Let thnt bo 11 new departure ns .1 pastor. Sympathy! (iratitudo to Goil demands that this morning 1 mention tho fact that during nil these 21 yenrs I have missed but one service through sickness. When I en tered tho ministry, I was so delicate 1 did not think I would preach thrco months, but preaching has agreed with me, and 1 tlilnk the healthiest thing in all tho earth is tho religion of Jesus Christ. Uless tho Lord, 0 my soul! What itigratcs wo are 111 n--g.ud to our health! 1 must, in gratitude to God, also mention the multitudes to whom I haro been per mitted to prer.di. It is simply miraculous, tlie attendance morning by morning, night by night and year by year and long after it has got to bo an old story. I know somo people arc dainty and exclusive in their tastes. As for myself, I like n big crowd. I would like to seo an audience large enough to stare me. If this gospel is good, the more that get it the bctf.-r. Man)-have receii 11I the gospel here, but others havo rejected it. Now, I tell you what I am going to do with somo of my dearest friends who have hitherto rejected the gospel. You are not afraid of me, and 1 mn not nfrnid of you, nnd some day, O brother, I will clasp j-our hands together, nnd I will tirrn your face the other way, and I w ill take hold of your shoulders, nnd while you ere helpless in my grasp I will give you one headlong push into the king dom of God. Christ sajs we must compel you to come in. 1 will compel you to comu in. Can I consent to anj thing else with these men, who aro ns dear to mo as my own soul? I will compel you to come in. Profiting by the mi, takes of the past, I must do better woik for you and bettor work for God. Lest I might through some sudden illness or casualty be snatch ed nwny before I haro the opportunity ot doing so, 1 take this occasion to declare my love for you as a people. It is dilTeient work if a pastor is placed in a church ul icady built up, nnd ho i- surrounded by es tablished circumstances. There nro not 10 people in this church that havo not been brought into the church through my min istry. You nro my family. I feel as much nt home here us 1 do in my residence on Oxford street. You are my family my father, my mother, my sister, my son, my daughter. You are my joy and crown, tho subject of my prajers. Tim riiKAi unit's amihtiox. Your present and eierlnstiug welfare is the object of my ambition. I have no worldly ambition. 1 hnd once. 1 haro not now. I know the world about ns well as any one knows it. I have heard the hand clapping of its applause, and I have heard the hiss of its opposition, and 1 declare to you that the former is not, especially to bo sought for, nor is the latter to lie feared. The world has giien me nbout nil tho com fort and prosperity it can give n man, and I have no worldly ambition. I have an nil consuming ambition to make full proof of my minhi ry, to get to heaven myself and to take 11 great crowd with inc. Upon your table and cradle nnd armchair and pillow nnd lounge and nursery and drawing room and kitchen may the blessing of tho Al mighty tiod comedown! During these Ul years there is hardly a family that has not been invaded bysorrow or dentil. Where are those grand old men, those glorious Christian women, w ho used to worship with us Why, they went nwny into the next world so gradually that they had concluded tho second stanza or tho thiid staiua in hearen beforo you knew they were gone. They had on the crown before jou thought they had dropped tho stall of the earthly pilgrimage. And then tho dear children! Oh, how many havo gone out of this church! You could not keep them. You folded them in j our arms and said: "O God, I cannot give them up. Take all else take my propeity, take my reputation-hut lit mo keep this treasure. Lord, I cannot bear this." (Ill, if wo could all die together, if wo could keep all tho sheep anil thohtmbsof the family fold together until borne bright spring day, the birds a-ehaut and the wa ters a-glilter, and then wo could altogether hear tho voice of the good Shepheulaud hand in hand pass through the Hood. No, no, 110, no! oh, if wo only had notice that we are nil to depart together, nnd wo could say to our families: "The time has come. The Lord bids us away." And then wo loiild take our little children to their beds nnd stiaighten out their limbs and saj: "Now, sleep tho lost sleep. Good night, until it is good motuing." And then wo could go to our own couches and say: "Now, altogether wo nits ready to go. Our childion nro gone; now let us depart." No.no! It is one by one. It may bo in the midnight. It may bo in tho winter, mid in the snow coming down 20 inches loop over our grave. It may bo in the itraiigo hotel and our arm too weak to pull the bell for help. It maybe so suddenly we havo no timeeven tosay good by. Death is 11 bitter, crushing, tremendous curse. Till, it Alii' ol' 1 iiMroliT, I play j 011 three tunes on the gospel limp otcomiort, "Weeping may endure for 11 night, but joy count h in the morning." That is one. "All things work together for good to thote who love God." That is the second. "And tho Lamb which is in tho midst of tho throne shall leud them to living fountains of water, and God shall w ipo all tears from their cj'e." That is tho third. During theso 21 years I havo tried us far us I could, by argument, by illustra tion nnd by caricatiiio to fill you with dis gust with much of this modern religion which people are trying now to substitute for the religion of .lesiia Christ uud the reli cion of the :(pu,sUw. . . I hnvo tried to pep-iiado you thnt tin worst of nil emit l il l t it tf skeptlchm, mid instead of yi 'ir npimt.i.inj for Chris tianity it was hl;;h time that those who do not bclicvo in Chi 1st limit Y should apologize to you, and I have tried to show that '.he biggest villains In tho universe, lire those wlio would try to rob us of this Hihle, nnd that tho grnnde't mission of tho church of .lestis ChriM is t hat of bringing souls to the l.ord a fjoul saving church. Hut now those years are gone. If you hnvo neglected your duty, if I have neglect ed my duty, it is neglected forever. L'ueh year has itn work. If the work Is per formed within tho 12 months, it isilime for ever. If neglected, it is negltetcd forever. When 11 woman was dying, she said, "Call them back." They did not know what sin meant. She had been 11 dlsciplo of the world. She said, "Oh, call them back!" They said, "Who do jottwont us tocnll back!'" "Oh," she said, "call them back, tho days, the months, the j-eat. I haio wasted. Call them hack!" Uut you cannot call them buck. You cannot call n Jcar buck, or n month back, or n week buck, or an hour back, or a second back. Gone once, it is gone forever. When 11 great battle was raging, n mea senger came up and said to tho getiernl, who was talking w ith nn oliicer, "General, we have tnken 11 standard from the enemy." The general kept riuhton conversing with his fellow officer, nnd the messenger said again, "General, we have taken 11 standard from the enemy.-' Still the general kept right nn, nnd t lie tnessengir lost his pa tience, not having his message seemingly appreciated, and said again, "General, wo haio taken 11 standard from tho enemy." The general thenlool-cd nt him nnd said, "Take another." Ah, iorgetting the things thnt ;uv behind, lit us look to those that are before. Win another castle; take an other standard; gain another victory. Hull on, swi et day of the world's emanci pation, when "1 he mountain.-, and the hills shall break foith into singing, und all the trees of tho wood shall clap their hands, and instead of the thmn shall coma up the flrtiee. and instead of the blier will come up the myrtle tree, and it shall be unto the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that cannot lie cut UY." llftml'rt Cnrn. In sayliu that Wool's "nrsnpnrllla cures Its proprietor! make tin i I.e. or estniv.-iiMnt cliiim. S ntviiiuiits from tlimi'anils nf reliable people of what Huiil'i Sar-aparilla has tlono tur Ileal. concliMlveiv pmvo tile fnct UOOOVs Mirsaparliln l l'lll'. Ilmxl'n ntlt net op-( uilly upon tho liver, rousing It from turpi lit , to lt natural ililtlu'. t urc ciinMipnti ii mill iftt ditre-ti-ni. ONE) ENJOYS Both tlio method and rcstilta uhen Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to tlio taste, and acts pently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and JJowels, cleanses tho sys tem eflectually, dispels cold', head aches and fevers and cures lmbitu.il constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind over pro duced, pleasing to the tasto and ac ceptable to tlio stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its efi'ects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c and $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any rcliablo druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FKANOISCO. CAL. LOUiti'iiLE, k. t;:u VOUX, N.Y. 1 had for dinner was the best I ever ate. Thanks to COTTOLENn, the uew and successful shortening. ISK YOUF OliOCI-R FOR IT, Made only liy N. ' '. FAIRBANK & CO., .KICAQO, ILL,, snd State Street, BOSTON. &i r Ks&tZ.. VJtU- i.AiJ y v,.i , 1 1UIE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON V, SECOND QUARTER, INTER NATIONAL SERIES, APRIL 30. Text ut tlio l.enson, l'lov. I, 20-315 Mem ory Vcrxe HO-'J.I flnlilcii Trit, Hell, ill, ar Ciiiiiuientnry by tlio llcv. II. at. Stem ns. EO. "Wisdom crlcth without; shettttereth her voice in tho streets." When we reail In tiie New Testament such ivonls as these, "Christ, the wisdom of God," "Who of Coil Is mado unto us nHdoni" (I Cor. i, !M, !10), we have- no dlfllcult y In umlcr.stundini; who is meant in this hook hy wisdom. Just aa Jesus Christ i.s hoth the living pcrsonnl word and also tho written word, .so He ia wisdom as to His pen-on and as to Ills ut terances. It, is no wonder, then, that it is written, "Wisdom is tho principal thing; thcrcforo get wisdom" (iv, "). SI. "Shecrieth lu tho chief place of con course, in the openings of the gates. In the citynho uttcreth her words, saying." The great multitude nro in the hroad way of self and self pleasing, with little or 110 thought of a licieafter and a day of judg ment. They cine not for the fact that "whatsoever 11 man howcth thnt .shall he alto leap," and tlicir only thought u pleas ure and prospciity here and now (Math, vii, 111; fi.il. vi, T). Wisdom is represented r.s calling unto them as they hurry along their downward road. VI. "I low long, ye nimple ones, will ya love simplicity, und the corners delight In tlicir .scorning, nnd fools hate knowledge!" Simple ones, if they hellevo the devil, aro easily led astray. If they hellevo God, they ure easily led aright. If they go imtruy, they in e soon among the scorners and the fools. Vet wisilum loves them and cries unto them; "How long!'" "Ilow long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?" "How longw ill thou refuse to humble thy self before Me" t.ler. iv, 11; Kx. x, Ei Si. "Turn you at.Mytcproof; behold I will pour out .My Spirit unto you; I will make known My words unto you." lie calls so lovingly, fo patiently, so pcrsevermgly. "Come unto Me; return unto the Lord; turn, U backsliding children; take with j 011 words ami tutu to the Lord." Thci-e rue somo of the many woid.s of the. Lord to the eriing ones ns lie entreats them to como unto Him (Isa. Iv, a, 7; Jer. in, 1, 7, 12, 14; llos. -iv, ''). He only asks us to turn to Him, and lie will do all the rest, giving His woids and His Spirit, His words which are Spirit and Life (John vi, (Wl. lit. "Because I hai ecalleil, and e refused; I have stretched out my hand, anil no man regarded." It does not seem possible thnt a people who had been so wondrously dealt with could so treat such love, but the hu man hem t is still tho same, and the same love, on Ills part is turned away from by those to whom His hands aro imploringly stretched out. How is it with you? 'S. "Hut ye have set nt naught nil My coun sel, and would none of My reproof." They mocked the messengers of God, and de spised His word, anil misused His prophets until the wiath of tho Lord nrose against His people, till there was no remedy (II Chron. xx.wi, Ifi).. They even went so far as to say, "We have made a covenant with death, and with hell nro we at agree ment; we have made lies our refuge, nnd under falsehood have we hid ourselves" (Isa. xxviii, In). Like tho men before tho flood, whose houses God filled with good thiugs, they said unto God, "Depart from us; what can the Almighty do for us" (Job xxii, LVlSir 'St. "I also w ill laugh nt your calamity; 1 will mock when your fear cometh." What soever 11 man soweth, thnt shall he also reap, and he that soweth the wind shall reap the whirlwind" (Gal. vi, 7; llos. viii, 7). Concerning all who take counsel against Him it is written, "Ho that sittetli in tho heavens shall laugh; tho Lord shall havo them in derision" (Ps. il, -1), und if His loving invitations are persistently de spised we must remember His words, "Xoue of those men which were bidden shall tnste of my supper" (Luke xiv, 2-1). '.'7. "When your fear cometh ns desola tion and your destruction cometh ns .1 whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you." In due timethese things will come upon all who despise His lovo nnd inako light of His salvation. HecniiM' theie is wrath, beware lest He take thie away with 11 is stroke: then a grcnt ransom cannot deliver thee i.lob xxxvi, IS). Lis. "Then shall they call upon me, but I v. ill not ansivi r; they shall seek me earl v, 1 but they shall not find inc." Then shall they cry unto the Lord, hut He will not hear them; He will even hide His face from them at that time, as they behaved them selves ill in their doings (Mic. hi, 41. Hu told Jeremiah that tho intercession of Moses and Samuel could not sale the nation, anil Ho told Krckiel that the presence, of Noah, Daniel ami Job wbnld be of no avail (Jer. xv, 1; Krek. xiv, 14,20). Sin may become so great that nothing will do but judgment. 2',i. "For that they hated knowledge and did not choose the fiar of the Lord." They say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways (Job xxi, 14). The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, a foundation of life, a great treas ure (1'rov. i, 7; ix, 10; xiv, 27; Isa. xxxiii, 0). Hut they had no teverence for God.no re spect for His ways, no gratitude for His gifts. The fool says there is no God, and many a one who would not say this wishes thnt there was no God. Tho carnal mind is enmity against God (Iioni, viii, 7). ). "They would none nf my counsel; they despised ull my leproof." Our Loid Jesus said that whoauever heard His words, but did them not, was like a man building on sand, only to have everything swept away (Math, vii, 20, 27). 31. "Therefore .shall they cat of tho fruit of their own way mid be lilled with their own devices." Their 011 n w ickeduess will correct them nnd their hachfelidings re piove them. Hear, U earth; behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my woid.s (Jer. il, 111; vi, ISO. If people will not teceive tho truth, God will let them receive delusion and n lie (II Thess, ii, 10-12). He simply lets them have t heir oh 11 way, with its consequences, if they insist on having it. S3. "I'or the turning away of the simple shall slay them, und the prosperity of fools shall destroy them." To turn away ft am (iod is to turn one's back on the only source of love and light. It is to chno&e darkness rather than light (John Hi, 110. 33. "Hut whoso hearkeueth unto Meshall di ell safely nnd shall be quiet from fear of evil." What a wonileiful salvation our wonderful Lord lias provided for His ene mies if they will only turn to Him in true penitence. Life, eternal life, abundant par don, lorglveness of nil sins, with the, assur ance of there being no more remembered, au Inheritance, incorruptible, a joint heir ship w ith Jesus Christ, witli the promise of all things temporal mid spiritual that wc can possibly nei'il. UREA tr17M0?i 0' 18. nil mm,? r "".'sTis Farmers, Laborers, Tearnoters, Can find no tct.pr :.hoe than the Bread Winner. It is slrcmc, r Inbl', Ixwit, an-1 n.anuf.ntur'vl expressly toive AlA U i -IMIOK AVUlUt KltS the ZSpt.1 Scrvln- forth J.rnut Morn -v. Made for Men and ili. from soft, pliable dock; in two styW. Rt amir . Jialmoral and Congrehs, with and w ithout tap to AMOS JP.TAPLEY & CO., 1 Feet pi I Can't I zjK alt bundled up In Rubber Hoots or 0 Overshoes they become tender and :Q subject to corns nnd bunions. A better way of kecpln? feet dry 13 to use P P25iLs5SHsil: EC Ono coat on Boots or Shoes does the 02 JO business. It Is.i't nasty like grease O; j and doesn't interfere with blacking or 9j HQ polishing the shoe. Alterappljiagthe U; jjQ oil you can stand in the middle of a Qz jv puddle without Its soaking through. V p -Makes shoes Inst longer, too. The O: 9 next wet day buy a bottle and test g rij) It for yourself. g t) 1-1 rr , nrier . rn rnr.lflci !,., v..t, J. - k. U. riHI UKUt, UUV'l.l U.,,i1U.T IUIA. (H rou salt et "i: Borxr. & Co., V Fletchkh & Uoyntos, 5 II. W. DnAKc, 0 . "VV. II. Hall, ?! Milks it i'lCMAiin.y. p "T XT JJ sj m T 0 To be able to act like men must be in $ full possession of i.ll their powers ,mu $ 0 faculties. l)'i ou feil that oU arc ir. A the enjoyment of pu 'i c manhot.i ? Or 0 A is some tinmcntiun.ible tliicf robbing vr,!, r.1 -,.i,r hrtht on! ? W milil init V know ? Write for one of the most ex- traoidinarv books on men's ailments 0 ever published, hent ficc, sealed, by the ERIE MEDICAL CO., Niagara Square, ( Ijp lll'Fr.M.O, X. V. () sweet and savory chew. ASK FOR TOBACCO It leaves a pleasant taste. Take hall it gallon of Chilton Paint uud ii'ld to it Hourly 11 quart of belt linieed oil 11 nil you havo n paint Unit coats very little motmy, and is very ranch better than the majority of paints. Wo susgtit this ns a method of Rotting n good denl for a small outlay of niony. You get a thin coat of pilnt. hut thin coaU of paint are bettnr tl nn thick. Have your pnlnti well hrinheil out and appllod to n dry urfaconml mtUftictiou l sure to tol. low. Tt majority nf mixed palnt are iiorthlets becuusa the manufacturer tries to boo how low eot nn nrtielo ho can turn out depending upon the plica ulon to el It. l!e(;Iiinliii: in a town with over? assur ance ot siicccm ou acoauat of tho prion, he l.ven to see customers pnet tits nent by till the agent himself, thoroujbly dlgustei with Uls loss of trade, reviloi the manufacturer nhoso sroods lie has tried in vain to foUt upon nn unwilling public. Tha Chilton 1'nlnUiel best in tha towns where they Lave so d loupost. l'orsalehy W. K, (Jiikknk. ?fj&yli$5i I"j 11 IK Allen & Co. THE RUSH OF TRADE, Tho past two weeks have been largely devoted to a special sale of line Gar j nients in this department. 1 The sales have been enor mous. The immense btock we are showinsr, tho wonderful variety, the very reasonable prices maile on the finest creations of tho best 1'AanuIac turers in this country, the choice imported garments we are show ing hundreds of them. The next twoweoks we expect to be more successful even than tho past. There is such a radical change in style in outside irarments that every Jackets, Wraps, Cloaks, Capes. lady must have a new one. We are prepared to olease all aees and conditions, fiom a stylish pretty gar ment at a moderate price to Tatest Paris or Berlin novelties. ropica idourless 5J Waterproof garments are proving all we nave claimed for them. Entire ly unliko the ordinary Macin tosh, also made up from Crav enette cloths. iery. The case of German Fast Black Ladies' Hose at 39 cts., tvro pair for 50 cts., or 3 per dozen are not all sold, remember full regular made, high spliced heel. Every pair guaranteed absolutely stainless and worth 39 cts. a pair. Buy at least one dozen of them. Muslin Underwear. In addition to the 50 dozen fino night gowns advertised Sat urday, 50 cts. to $5 each, we have 100 dozen Corset Covers, 5c dozen long and short Skirts and a variety of other garments, that for good materials, good workmanship and good styles beat tho world. Look at them and be convinced. Dress Goods, 50 Cent Specials, best value given, goods worth 60c, 75c, S5C, 90c, $1 and possibly some worth $1.. 25 included in this lot, They are not remnants; all of them, or nearly all, are dress patterns. Some few remnants may have been made in cutting them up. To day we again put in some ex cellent values. . W. ALLEN & CO. What Causes it? I Ladies, I Misses. Children.