SERMONS OF THE DAY.
REUCIOU3 TOPICS DISCUSSED BY
PROMINENT AMERICAN MINISTERS. J
Kev. George IT. Hepwnrtli Frenches In the
New York Ileraltl's Columns oil "An
Ennobltnc Faith"—Kev. l>r. Talmaje
Tells About "The Hare Arin ol God."
With the return of Rev. George H. llep
worth to New York from his Armenian mis
sion the Herald closed its series of competi
tive sermons, llfteen altogether having ap
peared In its columns on consecutive Sun
days. Br. Hepwortli resumes Ills regular
Sunday sermon as the lending editorial in
the Herald's columns. Tho first one Is en
titled "An Ennobling Faith," aud appears
below in full.
TBXT: "Now faith is the substance of
things hoped for, things not
seen."—Hebrews, xl., 1.
On a bitterly cold day I was recently rid
ing with n comrade through one of the
most exquisite bits of scenery on the ;face
of the earth. We were toiling up the last
spur of a mountain so high that the clouds
would have rested on its summit had there
been any in the sky. But the heavens were
cloudless, the sun shone in
dor on the snow covered ridges which sur
rounded us on all sides, and we seemed to
have left our little globe behind us and to
be on our way to another world.
Naturally wo talked of that Great Be
yond, which was nppnrently.not far distant.
Conversation under such circumstances
must needs be serious. Ono cannot be tri
vial when he is looking on the grandest of
God's great works. It was a time when
souis were in close relations! to each other;
when inmost thoughts came to the lips and
uttered themselves almost unconsciously,
as In soliloquy.
My comrade spoke freely of a loss ho had
suffered. A little child had been called
from the family circle, thad sped away in
the night and gone where no human eyes
could follow her. With a broken hoart, but
still In somewhat stoical language, he re
ferred to that vacant chair. "Gone! gone!"
was his despairing exclamation. I listened
to the story, and at its close quietly re
marked: "Yes, gone, but not gone far! In
the brighter land you will see h»r again."
Then we lapsed into silence, a silence only
broken by the sound of the horses' iron
shoes on the crisp and 'rozen snow, i
"If I could believe that," he said after a
little, "nine-tenths of the burden would be
removed. But to feel that such farewells
are forever, that is very hard," anil the
strong man trembled with suppressed emo
tion, while tears made it impossible to con
tinue the compensation.
I thought to myself tint after all this
world is of very little importance unless we
have another world to look forward to.
What makos the present life endurable is a
lirm and unshaken belief in another life.
If love can die, then love Is only prolonged
agony; but the conviction that love can
never die strengthens, broadens and en
nobles the soul.
It would bean act of unspeakable cruelty
on the part of God to teach us how to love,
to place us amid circumstances in which
love develops all that Is chivalrous and
grand, and then tell us In the supreme mo
ment of parting to say goodby for time and
eternity. The Lord's" Prayer would become
an impossibility, nuy, more than that, a
grim sort of farce, nnd in his innermost
depths a man would not only rebel, but
lose his self-respect nnd Ills respect for tho
laws of the universe. It is clear that it
would have been so much better to make
him inoapable of affection thau to annihi
late the object of his affection, and bid him
go home from the churchyard a despairing,
hopeless creature.
Faith can do so much for a man, Is so
necessary to his spiritual and even to his
physical well being, that if you tako It away
he is in a worse plight than the animals of
the fields aud forests, for he appreciates his
loss nnd they do not. To be born a dog aud
to die a dog is one thing, but to bo born a
man and then die like a dog Is something
which a just and omnipotent Creator will
not ask of us. It is so unliko what we
have learned of His methods that we are
quite right in pronouncing such a state
ment libellous.
Your faith in Providence Is thebc3t of all
your possessions. It Is worth more to you
than your fume, your social position" or
your wealth—worth more than all else
combined. Give me in my relations with
God that mysterious something which tho
child has for its mother—a feeling that He
knows who anid what I am, that at my call
He will cornel to me—that overy day He
leads me and ivery night protects me—and
there is very little more than I can ask or
desire. I have the one best thing in tho
world, and therefore am content.
Tho plant hnt has sunshine aud dew
will blossom efore the frost comes, and
with God, the i ,un of my soul, to shine on
me, I shall n't only blossom into noble
thoughts, but iear the fruit of good deeds.
>. man become, a miracle worker from the
moment when he is conscious of God's
presence and h ve. Life may be hard, but
at the same tin*) It is glorious. Even sick-
deatlm are the only miry spots
wlißi tad to tile eternal upland. There
is nK:. ise 1- JB' soul, a vigor, an enthu
siasm id i Kver of endurance which
notl" u g else wide world can give.
Tell me h<Wo doubt—that is, how to
cut loose from in Providonce—and
you tell me hovVb be miserable. On the
other hand, my belief In God, in
tliw ministratuJn of His angels, in the pos
sibility oi *n continuous, and unbroken
communication with heaven, and you make
ray life more beautiful than words oan ox
press. As long as I dread the future, ray
present is loadeu; if I am sure of the fu
ture, ar t d know that my dear ones will
greet 4Q(» there with undimiuished love, my
tears* (.rfe like tho rain cloud on which the
Bun slii|hes and makes a rainbow.
Take/from mo what you will, but leave
me iny'faith, for it is my only real posses-
Biou. AH else will pass like a dream—a
plensait dream, but still a dream. To-day
lam rich, to-morrow I may be poor. lam
wel.' fc>-day, to-morrow I may belli. But
fai'.h remains with me, is closer to my
heart thau the closest friendship, nnd gives
mo good cheer when I walk in darkness.
It is nil I have, all I can keep throughout
eternity, the one thing of wliiub death can
not rob me, the prophecy of a better home
on high when this enrthly home is broken
up. Mls God who has given that gift, and
It must be jealously guarded. In their last
uualyVß faith is heaven und doubt is heil.
* GEOUUE 11. HBPWOBTH.
"THE BARE ARM OF COD."
Rev. Dr. Telia What It Will Ac
compllalt.
T: "The Lord hath made bare His
rrn." —Isaiah ill., 10.
lmost takes our breath away to road
Bible imagery. There is such bold
of metaphor In my text that ono must
y Ills courage to preach from It. Isaiah,
evangelistic prophet, is sounding the
J ""te of our planet redeemed, and cries
'' >' wS k° r hath made bare His holy
mt ov erwhelniing suggostiveness
. , ii? ure 01 s Peeeb, "the bare arm of
1!' The people of Palestine to this day
ir much hindering apparel, and when
• want to run a special race, or lift u
al burden, or tight a special battle,
put oil tho outside apparel, as in our
when a man proposes a special exer
he puts off his coat and rolls up his
.•es. Wnlk through our foundries, our
ne shops, our mines, our factories,
>u will llud that most of the toilers
their coats oil and their sleeves
,-r ).
i saw that there must be a trec
ount of done before this
omes what it ought to be, and he
It all accomplished. i ina , coom .
the Almight}; not asweordl
ofHim but by the
ve of His robe rolled back to
"Nothing more impresses mo In tha
Bible than tlie ease with which God does
most things. There Is such a reserve o£
power. He has moro thunderbolts than He
has ever flung; more light than Helms over
distributed; moro blue than that with
which he has overarched the sky; more
green than that with which He has emer
ulded the grass; more crimson thau that
with which He has burnished the sunsets.
I say It with reverence—from all that I can
see, God has never half tried.
"My text makes it plain that the rectifi
cation of this world is a stupendous under
taking. It takes more power to make this
world over again thau It took to make It at
llrst. A word was only necessary for the
(lrst creation, but for the new creation th«
unslooved and unhindered forearm of the
Almighty. The reason of that I can under
stand. In the shipyards of Liverpool, or
Glasgow, or New York, a great vessel is
constructed. The architect draws out the
plan, the length of the beam, the capacity
of tonnage, the rotation of wheel or scrow,
the cabin, the masts and all the appoint
ments of this great palace of the deep. The
architect finishes his work without any
perplexity, and the carpenters and artisans
toil on the craft so many hours a day, each
one doing his part, until, with flags flying
and thousands of people cheering on the
docks, the vessel is launched. But out on
the sea that vessel breaks her shaft and is
limping slowly Along toward harbor, when
Caribbean whiflwinds, those mighty hunt
ers of tho deep, looking out for prey of
ships, surround that wounded vessel and
pitch it on a rocky coast, and she lifts and
falls in the breakers until overy joint is
loose and overy spar is down, and every
wave sweeps over the hurricane deck as
she parts amldship. Would it not require
moro skill and power to g«t that splintered
vessels off the rocks and reconstruct it thaD
It required originally to build her? Ayel
"Our world, which started out with all
the flags of Edenlc foliage and with the
chant of Paradisaical bowers has been six
ty centuries pounding in the skerries of sin
and sorrow, and to get her out and off, and
to get her on the right way again, will re
quire more of omnipotence than It required
to build her and launch her. Bo lam not
surprised that, though in the drydook of
one word our world was made, It will take
the unsleeved arm of God to lift her from
tho rooks and put her on the right course
ngaln. It is evident from my text, and Its
comparison with other texts, that it would
not be so great an undertaking to make a
whole constellation of worlds, and a whole
galaxy of worlds, and a whole astronomy
of worlds, and swing them in their right
orbits, as to take this wounded world, this
stranded world, this bankrupt world, this
destroyed world, and make It as good as
when it started.
"But I have no time to specify the mani
fold evils that challenge Christianity. And
I think I have seen In some Christians, and
read in some newspapers, and heard from
so:no pulpits, a dislieartenment, as though
Christianity were so worsted that It is
hardly worth while to attempt to win this
world of God, and that all Christian work
would collapse, and that It Is no use for you
to teach a Sabbath class, to dlstrlbutetracts,
or exhort In prayer meeting, or preach In
a pulpit, as Satan is gaining ground.
To relmko that pessimism, the Gospel of
Smash-up, I preach this sermon, showing
that you are on the winning side. Go
ahead! Fight on! What I want to make
out to-day is that our ammunition is not
exhausted; that all which has been ac
complished has been only the skirmishing
before the great Armageddon; that not
more than one of the thousand fountains
of beauty in the King's Park has begun to
play; that not moro tban one brigade of
theinnumerable hosts to be marshaled by
the Rider on the White Horse has yet taken
the lleld; that what God has done yet has
been with arm folded in flowing robe but
that the time is coming when he will rise
from his throne, and throw off that robe,
and come out of the palaces of eternity,
and come down the stairs of heaven with
all-conquering step, and halt in tho pres
ence of expectant nations, and flashing
his omniscient eyes across the work tu bo
done will put back tho sleeve of bis right
arm to tho shoulder, and roll It up there,
and for the world'R flnal and oomplete
rescue make bare his his arm. Who can
doubt tho result when according to my
text Jehovah does his best; when the lbst
reserve force of Omnipotence takes the
Held; when tho last sword of Eternal Might
leaps from its soabbard! . -•**
"Bo you know what decided the battle
of Sedan? Tho hills a thousand feet high.
Eleven hundred cannon on tho hills. Ar
tillery on the heights of Givonne, and
twelve Germun batteries on the heights of
La Moncello. The Crown Princo of Sax
ony watched the sceno from the heights
of Mairy. Between a quarter to 6 o'clock
In the morning aud 1 o'clock In tho after
noon of September 2, IH7O, the hills
dropped the shells that shattered the
French host in tho valley. Tho French
Emperor and the 80,000 of his army cap
tured by tho hills. At the eloso of that
battle of Sedan the Emperor sat broken
hearted in a poor woman's cottage, and
when she said in sympathy, 'What can I
do for you?' he replied, 'Nothing, except
pull down those blinds so that they can
not stare at me!' Sedan decided by the
hills. So in this conflict now raging be
tween holiness and sin 'our jeyes are unto
the hills.' Down here in the valleys of
oartli wo must be valiant soldiers of the
cross, but the Commander of our host
walks the heights, and views the sceno
far better than wo can in the valleys,
and at the right day and the right hour
all heaven will open its batteries on our
side, and the commander of tho hosts of
sin, with all his followors, will surren
der, and it will take eternity te fully
celebrate the universal viotory through
our Lord Jesus Christ. 'Our eyes are unto
the hills.' It is so certain to be accom
plished that Isaiah, in my text, looks down
through tho fleld-glass of prophecy and
speaks of it as already accomplished, and
I take my stand where the prophet took
his stand, aud look at it as all done. Soe!
Those cities without a tear? Look! Those
continents without a pang! Behold! Those
hemispheres without a sin! Why, those
deserts—Arabian desert, American desert,
and Great Sahara desert—are all irrigated
into gardens where God walks in the cool
of the day. The atmosphere that enciroles
our globe floating not one groan. All the
rivers and lakes and ooeans dimpled with
not one falling tear. The climates of the
earth have dropped out of them the rigors
of the cold and the blasts of the heat, and
it is universal spring. Let us change the
old world's name. Let it no more be called
the earth, as when it was reeking with
everything pestiferous and malevolent,
scarleted with battle-fields and gashed
with graves, but now so changed, HO aro
matic with gardens, and so resonant with
song, and so rubescent with beauty, let us
call it Immanuol's Land, or let us call it
Beulah, or Millennial Gardens, or Paradise
Regained, or Heaven! Hallelujah, for the
Lord God Omnipotent reigneth! Hallelu
jah, for the kingdoms of this world have
become tho kingdoms of Christ!"
SUFFERING IN ALASKA.
The Klondike Adventurers Are Meeting;
With Fearful Etptrlencci.
A'.l reports from Alaska Indicate that the
prospectors who have gono up early are
having a fearful experience with oold and
snow and ice. Avalanches have destroyed
many of the outtlts at Lake Bennett, and
ssveral well-equipped partlos have been
unable to got over the Chllkoot Pass be
cause ol the blizzards which have raged for
days. Freight is blockaded, and many
adventurous prospectors who tried to get
over the mountains were badly frozen.
The worst reports como fro:n tho Copper
River country, for which several expedi
tions have sailed. One party from Los
Angeles prospected the river for sixty
miles, and found nothing for their labors.
Tho snow was llfteen feet deep, and not
even skin clothes could protect them from
the bitter wind that swept overthe glaciers,
Nin? of the party were badly frost-bitten.
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.
Our Heroes—The Pernicious and Distinc
tively American Habit of "Treating"
is the Cause of Much Human Suffer
ing;—The Man Who Saw Himself.
Hero's a linnd to tho boy who has courage
To do what lie knows to be ritrht;
When ho (alls In tho way of temptation,
He has a hard battle to fl(?ht.
Who strives against self and his comrades
Will find a most powerful foe;
All honor to him if ho conquers!
A cheer for the boy who says "No!"
There's many a battlo fought dally
The world knows nothing about.
There's many a brave little soldier
Whose strength pnts a legion to rout.
And he who fights sin single-handed
Is more of a hero, I say,
Than he who leads soldiers to battle
And conquers by arms in tho fray.
Be steadfast, my boy, when you're tempted,
And do what you know to be right.
Stand llrm by tho colors of manhood,
And you will o'eruome In the fight.
"Tho right" be your battle-cry ever
In waging tho warfare of life;
And God, who knows who are tho heroes.
Will give you the strength for tho strife.
—Phoebe Cary.
A Treating.
One habit that with profit to himself can
bo left off by the resolute young man, says
the Catholic Universe, is tho pernicious and
distinctively American custom of "treat
ing," which prevails among all classes in
this country. This habit has nothing what
ever to recommend it. Sometimes it is
foolishly regarded by those addicted to it
as a manifestation of generosity and good
fellowship. It Is invariably the offspring
of shallow and thoughtless egotism. It Is
a source of a great deal of dissoluteness
that exists in all grades of society, and its
consoquencos Is tho awful train of misery
aDdsorrow that follows in tho train of in
temperance.
Many, if not nil, hopeless human wrocks
from excessive use of Intoxicants call trace
their destruction to this vicious custom of
treatiDgat tho bar. It is especially dan
gerous to young men who lack the requisite
Srmnessof will to resist its fatal influence.
It is not only an expensive habit, but silly
besides. Think for a moment. A young
man is induced to join one or two, or a half
dozen others in a "social glass" of liquor,
for which, perhaps he has really an abhor
rence. But he accepts, and the effect of
custom is that tie takes not only one drink
of spirits which tie does not relish, but two,
or a half a dozen, as the case may be. He
puts this llerv fluid into his stomach, not
because he needs or craves it, but simply in
obedience to a senseless tradition of per
verted politeness. This description of glut
tony, if we may call it suoh, is infinitely
worse than other kinds, because there is no
plausible excuse for it, or mitigation of its
i downright badness. What would bethought
of an individual, who, having accepted a
friend's Invitation to dine, should insist,
after par' iking of the meal of his host, on
lmtr>' -lately duplicating the performance
In deference tom distorted custom of socia
bility? Yet there is just as much reason
why n person should gorge himself with
two or three consecutive dinners, as for his
indulgence in successive libations, that,
Instead of benefiting him In any way, in
jure nim both physically and morally. The
treating habit is a curse to American man
ners, and an 01 iandish notion of socia
bility and goo allows hip, which every
sober-minded y< ''4g inun in possession of
his mental fuel '/ .Jes should assiduously
avoid. Makeup -our mind now. before the
pvll habit lias grown upon you. that In your
case, lit least, the custom will become more
honored in the breach than the observance.
Even if you do not intend to practice total
abstinence from spirituous liquors, turu
your face resolutely away from this fruit
ful agency of demoralization.
He Saw Himself.
"You must excuse me, gentlemen, for I
can not drink anything," said n man who
was known to the entire town as a drunk
ard.
"This is the first time you ever refused a
drink," said an acquaintance. "The other
day you were hustling around after a cock
tail, and, in fact, you even asked me to set
'em up."
"That's very true, but I'm a very differ
ent man now."
"Treachers had hold of you?"
"No, sir, no one has said a word to me."
"Well, then, what has caused the
change?"
"I'll tell you; after leaving you tho other
day I kept on hustling after a cocktail, as
you call it. until I mot a party if friends.
When I left them I was about half drunk.
To a man of my temperament a half drunk
is a miserable condition, for the desiro for
more is so strong that he forgets lils self
respect in his effort to get more drink. I
remembered that there was half a pint
of whiskey at home which hail been pur
chased for medical purposes. Just before
reaching the gate I heard a voice in the
garden, and, looking over tho fence, I saw
my little son and daughter playing. 'Now
you be ma.' said the boy, 'ami I'll be pa.
Now you sit hero and I'll come In drunk.
Wait, now, till I fill ray bottle.'
"He took a bottle, ran nway and filled
It with water. Pretty soon he returned,
and, ontering tho pluy houso, nodded
idiotically at tho girl and sat down without
saying anything. Tho girl looked up from
her work and said:
" 'James, why do you "do this way?'
" 'Wizzer way?' he replied.
" 'Gettin' drunk.'
" 'Who's drunk?'
"'You are, an' you promised me when
tho baby died that you wouldn't drink any
more. The children are almost ragged and
we haven't anything to eat hardly, but you
still throw your money away. Don't you
know you are breaking my heart.'
"I hurried away. The action was too
lifelike. I could think of nothing during
tho day but those little chlldron playing in
the garden. You must excuse me, gentlo
men. I enn not drink again."
Ought Never to Be Condoned.
The families of drunkards can never
condone drunkenness nor get usod to it;
audit is from their standpoint that Chris
tians must view the vice. The palliation of
this crime is too common; we are sick of
hearing these drunkards spokon of as hav
ing a "weakness" for drink—"it is the poor
fellow's only fault;" "he is just a little too
ccnviviul." The dlro reality is that the
vice of drunkenness, gross sin as it is
against one's self, is a foul crime against
one's family, aud tho plainer the words
used to characterize it tho better. It al
ways hangs like a lowering cloud over the
wretch's home, and his family cannot rid
themselves of the misery that it always
brings, nor of tho dread of tho terrible ca
lamities which are too often its further re
sults.
r Drink and Crluie.
The latest evidence of the relation of
drink and crime Is affordod by Justice
Ilidley, who, charging the Grand .lurv
at the Liverpool Assizes, said the eal
ender conaitued the n»mes of 181 pris
oners, th« longest that had been placed be
fore a Grand Jury in that city for some
timo. He remarked upon tho large propor
tion of cases of wounding and other crimes
of violence, and said that in nearly all
these instances drink was tho cause of the
crime. Again, at the Munstor Winter As
sizes, Judge O'Brien commonted on the
number of outrages in County Clare, and
remarked there hail been a large Increase
of intoxication, which indicated there was
no want of means in the community.
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substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
BAH FRAHCI9OO, OAL
uumua. nt. new tunc. *.r.
very sick and for several days it seemed as
if he would never be any better. After a
while he began to Improve and in a few
weeks was able to go out, although weak
and miserable. Then, gradually
All Strength in His Limbs
gave out. The physicians told us it was
paralysis, which sometimes follows an at
tack of diphtheria. We did everything
for him, but he grew worse until he was in
a pitiful condition. Ho suffered terribly
at night and complained continually of
his head, and in what little sleep he was
able to get, moaned unceasingly. He lost
all control of the muscles of his body and
limbs. He had no appetite and complained
of feeling sick at his stomach all tho time.
After we hail tried many different reme
dies and had about given up all hope we
commenced giving him Hood's Sarsa
parilla. In a short time he ceased to com
plain, his appetite improved and at the
end of three months he was able to attend
school part of the time. Now he is well
und quite a strong and rugged boy. You
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whom tliey are in enlln*inii.
We carry the largest stock in Seattle and have
sold thousands of Alaska Outfits, KNOW exactly
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perienced men.
We mail free of charge a good map showing the
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weight of articles required for "one man for one
year." Address
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104 iV 100 Firs! Avenue, South,
Dept. N, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.
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The Columbia cliainless bicycle has already passed harder tests than |
any bicycle ever made, and has proved Itself the best. Other makers
may decry the Columbia chainless, yet they offer you an untried imita-
I tlon in the same breath. I
liEtIF.MBEK THIS—V* make but one quality of Columbias, and
I that Is the very best. There is no varying of material, coastruction or I
quality. All Columbias are made of 5 per cent. Nickel Steel Tubing which
. costs twice as much and is 39 per cent, stronger than any other tubing r .
known. L
Columbia Chain Wheels, - Price $75 J
Hartford Bicycles, ----- 44 60 J
Vedette Bicycles, ■ - Price S4O and 35 In
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if Catalogue free from any Columbia dealer, er by mall for one 2-cent stamp,
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are at liberty to use this testimonial If you
desire, as we feel wo cannot say too much
in praise of Hood's Sarsaparilla as a blood
purifier and building up medicine." MRS,
B. E. ANDEKSOX, Cumberland, Maine.
Economy is also a characteristic of
Hood's Sarsaparilla. Every bottle con
tains 100 Doses, and hence there is u
solid fact concisely stated in the familiar
lino, 100 Doses One Dollar.
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farm^W
J^SEEDS\
Kf Saber's Seeds are Warranted to frodace. m
Af E. Walter, Leßaysrllle, Pa., astonished the world Wl
UM by growing 750 bushtli Salitr> corn; J. Hreider,
Hishicott, Wl«., 173 bush. barley. aud 1». Slnnot,
Rindalia, lowa, bv growing ia« bush. Salzer'a oats
per acre. If you doubt, write tiieni. We wish to gaiu ■■
TOM 150,000 new cuttomer*. hence will send on trial R9
EM 10 DOLLARS WORTH FOR 10c. Kfl
11 pkgs of rare farm seeds, Hog Pea, Sand Vetch,
'4oc. Wheat, Sheep Kape, Jerusalem Corn. etc..
eluding our mammoth Seed Catalogue, telling all ffTm
about the |4OO gold prices for best for onr
Also cam pie of same, all mailed you upon JBjm
rereipi of but 10c.
Heed Potatoes atslMa bbl.
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' ! GENEVA, N.T.
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