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HREE TABERNACLES
Story of the Trials and Troubles
of Talmage's Church.
The l'nitor Defends III. Congregation
Against the Charge of Lack or 11c
novolriiee- *1,000,0 O Spent
In llulUllng Temples.
Bhooki.tjj, N. Y., April 3.—Tills is a
(estival day at the tabernacle. Dr. Tal
rnnge is celebrating tlie twenty-third anni
versary of liis settlement in Brooklyn. In
white flowers embedded in green at the
back of the pulpit stood the inscription.
“ OtiJnud lull'd.” Dr. Talmage's subject
was, “The Three Tabernacles; A story
of trials and triumphs.” and his text,
Luke U ;33, "Let us muko three taberna
cles.”
Our Arab ponies were almost dead
with fatigue, as, in December, 188U,
wo rode near the foot of Mount Iler
mon iu the Holy Land, the mountain
called by one "a mountain of ice;-’ by
another "a glittering breastplate of
ice;” by another "the Mount Blanc of
l'alostino." Its top has an almost un
earthly brilliance. But, what must it
have been in tho time to which my
text refers. Peter and James and
John were on that mountain top with
Jesus, whenj suddenly, Christ’s face
took on the glow of the noonday sun,
and Moses and Elijah, who had been
dead for centuries, came out from the
heavenly world and talked with our
Savior. What an overwhelming three!
Moses, representing tho law, Elijah,
representing the prophets, and Christ,
representing all worlds Impetuous
Peter was so wrought upon by the
presence of this wondrous three that,
without waiting for time to consider
how preposterous was the proposition,
ho cried out: "Let us make three tab
ernacles; one for thee, ono for Moses
and one for Elijah.” Where would
they get the material for building one
tabernacle, much less material to
build two tabernacles, and, still less,
how would they get tho material for
building three? Where would they
get tho hammers? Where the
gold? Where the silver? Where
the curtains? Where the costly adorn
ments? Hermon is a barren peak, and
to build one tabernacle in such a place
would have becu an undertaking be
yond human achievement, and Peter
was propounding the imposalblo when
he cried out in enthusiasm: "Let us
build three tabernacles. ” And yet
that is what this congregation have
been called to do and have done. The
first Brooklyn tnbernnelo was dedi
cntcd in 1870 and destroyed by fire in
1873. The second UrooUlyn tabernacle
was dedicated in 1874 and destroyed
by fire in 1889. 'lhe third iirooklyn
tabernacle was dedicated in April,
1801, and in that we are worshipping’
today. Whut sounded absurd lor l’etor
to propose, when ho Bald on Mount
Uerinon, in the words of my text, "Let
ns build throo tabernacles,” we have
not only done, but, in the mysterious
providence of God, were competent
to da
We have been unjustly criticised by
people who did not know the facts,
sometimes for putting so much money
in church buildings, and sometimes for
not giving as much as we ought to this
or that denominational project, and
no explanation has yet been made,
before I get through with the delivery
of this sermon and its publication ami
distribution, I shall show that no
church on earth has ever done more
magnificently, and that no church
ever conquered more trials, and that
no membership ever had in it more !
heroes and heroines than this Iirooklyn j
tabernacle, and I mean to have it
known that any individual or religious j
newspaper or secular newspaper that 1
hereafter casts rcflectians on this |
church’s fidelity and generosity, is
guilty of a ivickdness for which God
will hold him or it responsibe. One year
it was Bent out through a syndicate of
newspapers that this church was
doing nothing in tho way of liber
ality, when we had that year raised
$>.14,000 in hard cash for religious uses.
There has been persistent and hem
ispheric lying against this church.
\ienavo raison duriug ray pastorate,
for church building- and religious pur
poses, SU'.'S,000 or practically a million
dollars. Not au Irish famine, or a
Charleston earthquake, or au Ohio
freshet, or a Chicago conflagration,
but our church was among the tirst to
help. Wo have given free seats in the
morning and evening services to 240,
000 strangers a year, and that, in
twenty years, would amount to 4,800,
000 auditors. Wo have received into
our membership 5,3r>7 members, and
that is only a small portion of the
number of those who have here been
converted to God from all parts of
this land and from other lands. Under
the blessing of God, and Through the
kindness of the printing press, my ser
mons now go every week into every
neighborhood in Christendom, and are
regularly translated into nearly all j
tho great languages of Europe and
Asia. The syndicates having charge
of this sermonio publication informed
me a few days ago that my printed
sermons every week, in this and other
lands, go into tho homes of 25,000,000
people. During tho last year, I am
nuthoritntivoly informed, over 2,000
different periodicals were added to the
list of those who make this publica
tion And yet there are ministers
of the Gospel and religious news
papers that systematically and in
dustriously and continuously charge
this church with idleness and selfish
ness and parsimony. I call the atten
tion of tho whole earth to this outrage
that has been heaped upon tho lirook
lyn Tabernacle, though a moro conse
crated, benevolent and splendid convo
cation of men and women were never
gathered together outside of heaven. I
have never before responded to them
injustices, and- probably will never
refer to them ngain. but I wish the
people of this country and other coun
tries to know that what they read con
cerning the selfishness and indolence
and lack of benevolence and lack of
missionary spirit on the part of this
church, is, from top to bottom and
from stem to stern, falsehood—dast
ardly falsehood—diabolical falsehood. -
Wlmt is said against myself has no ef- :
feet, except like that of a coarse Turk- j
ish towel, the rubbing down by which
improves the circulation and produces
good health. Hut this continuous mis
!'«'T f ■«
representation of my beloved ohurchi
in the name of Almighty God, 1 de"
mm nee, while 1 appeal to the fair
minded men and women to see that
justice is done this people, who,within
a few years, haro gone through n
struggle that no other church iu any
land or any ago has been called to en
duro, and I pray God that no other
church may ever be called to endure,
I viz.: the building of three tabernacles.
| i ask the friends of the llrooklyn
Tabernacle to cut out this ser
mon from the newspapers and
put it in their pocketbooks so
| that they can intelligently an
! swer our falsifiers, whether clerical or I
| lay. And with these you may put that
I other statement, which recently went
j through the country and which I saw
I iu Detroit, which said that the llrook
! lyn Tabernacle had a hard financial
| struggle, because it had all along been
paying such enormous salaries to its
pastor, Dr. Talmage, when the fact is
that, after our last disaster, and for
two years, I gave all my salary to the
church building fund, and I received
$0,000 less than nothing; in other
words, in addition to serving this
church gratuitously for two years, I
let it have $0,000 for building pur
poses. Why is it that people could not
do us justice and say that all our
financial struggle as a church came
from doing what Peter, in my text,
absurdly proposed to do, but which,
iu the inscrutable providence of God,
we were compelled to do—build three
tabernacles.
I have preached here twenty-three
years, and I expect, if my life and
health are continued, to preach here
twenty-three years longer, although
we will all do well to remember that
our breath is in our nostrils, and any
hour we may be called to give an ac
count of our stewardship. All wo ask
for the future is that you do your best,
contributing all you can to the support
of our institutions. Our best days are
yet to come; our greatest revivals of
religion, and our mightiest outpourings
of the Holy Ghost. We have got
through the Red sea and stand today
on the other bank clapping the cym
bals of victory.
Do you wonder that last Sabbath I
asked you in the midst of the service to
rise and sing with jubilant voice the
long metre Doxology:
Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
Praise him all creatures here below.
Praise him above, ye heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
t Yes. twenty-three years have passed
sinco I came to livo in llrooklyn, and
they have been to me eventful years
It was a prostrated church to which I
came, a church so flat down it could
drop no further. Through controver
sies which it would be useless to re
hearse it was well-nigh extinct, and
for a long while it had been without a
pastor. Hut nineteen members could
ue mustered to sign a call for my com
ing. As a committee was putting that
call before me in an upper room in ray
house in Philadelphia, there were two
other committees on similar errands
from other churches in other rooms,
whom my wifo was entertaining and
keeping apart from unhappy collision.
The auditorium of the Hrooklyn church
to which I came defied all the laws of
acoustics; the church had a steeple
that was the derision of the town, and
a high box pulpit which shut in the
preacher as though he were dangerous
to be let loose, or it acted as a barri
cade that was unnecessary to keep
back the people, for they were so few
that a minister of ordinary muscle
could have kept back all who were
there. My first Sabbath in Hrooklyn
was a sad day, for I did not realize
how far the church was down until
then, and on the evening of that day
my own brother, through whose pocket
I entered the ministry, died, and the
tidings of his decease reached me at 0
o’clock in the evening, as I was to
preach at half-past 7. Hut from that
day the blessing of (Jod was on us, and l
in three months we began the enlarge
ment of the building. Hefore the
close of that year we resolved to con
struct the first tabernacle. It was to
be a temporary structure, and there
fore we called it a tabernacle instead
of a tempio. What should bo the style
of architecture was the immediate ques
tion. 1 had always thought that the am
pliitheatrieal shape would be appropri
ate for a church. Two distinguished
architects were employed, and, after
iiiucn novenng over designs, they an
nounced to us that such a building1 was
impossible for religious purposes, ns it
would not be churchly, and would
subject themselves and ns to ruinous
criticism. In other words, they were
not ready for a revolution in church
architecture. Utterly disheartened as
to my favorite style of architecture, I
said to the trustees: “Iluikl anything
you please and I must be satisfied.”
Hut one morning a young architect ap
peared at my house and asked if we
had yet selected a pian for our church.
I said, “No, and what we want wo
cannot get.” "What style of building
do you want?" he asked. And taking
but a lend pencil and a letter envelope
from rny pocket, in less than a minute,
by a few curved lines, I indicated in
the rough what we wanted. "Hut," I
said, “old architects tell us it can't be
done, and there is no use in your try
ing.” He said, “[ can do it. How
long can X have to make out the
plans?” I said, “This evening at 8
o'loclt everything is to be decided.”
At 8 o'clock of that evening the
architect presented his plans, and the
bills of builder and mason were pre
sented, and in five minutes after the
plans were presented they were unani
mously adopted. So that I would not
bo in the way of the trustees during
the work, I went to Europe, and when
I got back, the church was well nigh
done. Hut here came in a stiggering
hindrance. Wo expected to pay for
the new church by tiie sale of the old
building. The old one had been sold,
but just at the time we must have the
money, the purchasers backed out and
we had two churches nnd no money,
liv the help of God and the indomita
ble and unparnl'eled energy of our
trustees (here and there one'of them!
present today, but the most in a better
world), we got the building ready for*
consecration, nnd on September '25,
1ST0, morning nnd evening dedicatory
services were held, and in the after
noon the children, with sweet and mul
titudinous voices, consecrated the place
to God. Twenty thousand dollars were
raised that day to pay a floating
debt In the morning old Dr.
Stephen II. Tyng, the glory of
the Episcopal church and the
Chrysostom of the American pulpit,
preached a sermon, which lingered in
its gracious effects as long as the build
ing stood. He read enough out of the
Episcopal prayer book to keep himself
from being1 reprimanded by bis bishop
for preaching at a non-Eplscopal ser
vice; and we, although belonging to
another denomination, responded with
heartiness, as though ive were used to
liturgy “Good Lord, deliver us!” Dur
ing the short time we occupied that
building, we had a constant downpiur
of religious awakening. Hosannah!
Ten million years in heaven will have
no power to dim my memory of the
glorious times we had in that first
tabernacle, which, because of its in
vasion of the usual style of church
architecture, was called by some “Tal
mage’s hippodrome,” by others.
“Church of the holy circus,” and by
other mirthful nomenclature, llut it
was a building perfect for acoustics,
and stood long enough to have its imi
tation in all the large cities of America
and to completely revolutionize church
architecture. People saw that it was
the common-sense way of seating an
audience. Instead of putting in an
angular church, where each one chiefly
saw the back part of somebody else's
head, the audience were arranged in
semi-circle, so that they could see each
other's faces, and the auditorium was a
great family circlo seated around a
fireplace, which was the pulpit It was 1
an iron structure, and, we supposed, j
fire proof, but the insurance companies
looked at it, and, after we had gone ;
too far to stop in its construction, they !
declined to insure it, except for a mere j
nothing, declaring that, being of iron, j
if the inflammable material between 1
the sheets of iron took fire, no engine
hose could play upon it. And they
were right. During those days we ed
ucated and sent out from a lay college
under our charge some twelve hundred
young men and women, many of them
becoming evangelists and many of
them becomiug regularly ordained
preachers, and I meet them in all parts
of the land toiling mightily for God.
One Sunday morning, in December,
1872, the thermometer nearly down to
zero, I was on my way to church.
There was an excitement in the street
and much smoke in the air. Eire en
gines dashed past. Hut my mind was
on the sermou I was about to preach,
until someone rushed up and told me
that our church was going up in the
same kind of chariot that Elijah took
from the banks of the Jordan. That
Sunday morning tragedy, with its
wringing of hands, an i frozen tears on
the cheeks of many thousands standing j
in the street, and the crash that shook
the earth, -is as vivid as though it were
yesterday. Hut it was not a perfect
loss. All were anxious to do some
thing, and, as on such occasions sensi
ble peopla are apt to do unusual things,
one of the members, at the risk of his
life, rushed in among the fallen walls,
mounted the pulpit and took a glass of
water from the table and brought it
in safety to the street. So you see
it was not a total loss. Within
an hour, from many churches came
kind invitations to occupy their
building's, and hanging against a lamp
post, near the destroyed building, be
fore 12 o'clock that morning was a
board with the inscription: “The con
gregation of Brooklyn tabernacle will
worship tonight in Plymouth church'.”
Mr. Beecher made the opening prayer,
which was full of commiseration for
me and my homeless flock, and I
preached that night the sermon that I
intended to preach that morning in my
o w n church, the text concerning the
precious alabaster box broken at the
feet of Christ, and sure enough we had
one very precious broken that day. .
We were, as a church, obliterated.
“But arise and build,” said many
voices Another architect took the
amphithcatrical plan of a church,
which, in the first instance, was nec- j
essarily somewhat rude, and devel
oped it into an elaborate plan that was
immediately adopted. But how to
raise the money for such an expensive
undertaking was the question—ex
pensive not because of any senseless
adornment proposed, but expendvo be
cause of the immense size of the build
ing needed to hold our congregation.
It was at that time when for years our
entire country was suffering, not from
a financial panic, but from that long
continued financial depression which
all business men remember, as the
cloud hung heavy year after year and
commercial establishments without
number went down. Through what
-*-- WHVJ WS.1LKI, t VICTt-t
nnd some brave souls today remember.
Many a time would I have gladly ac
cepted calls to some other field, but I
could not leave the flock in the wilder- :
ness. At last, after, in the interreg- j
num, having worshiped in our beauti- '
ful academy of music, on the morning
of February 22, 1874, the anniversary
of the Washington who conquered im
possibilities and on the Sabbath that
ill ways celebrates the resurrection.
Dr. Byron Sunderland, chaplain of
the United States senate, thrilled us
through nnd through with a dedicatory
sermon from Haggai ii, 9, “The glory
of this house shall be greater than
that of the former, saith the Lord of
hosts.” The corner stone of that
building had been laid by the illus
trious and now enthroned Dr. tremens
Prime. On the platform on dedication
day, sat, among o' lers, Dr. Dowling,
of the baptist church; Mr. Crooic, of
the Methodist churoh; Mr. Beecher, of
the Congregational church, and Dr.
French, of the Presbyterian church.
Ilosannah! Another $35,000 was raised
on that day. The following Sunday
328 souls were received into our com
munion, mostly on confession of faith.
At two other communions over 500
joined at each one. At another in
gathering 628 souls entered this com
munion, and so many of those gathered
throngs have already entered heaven i
that we expect to feel at home when
we get there. My! My! Won't we be
glad to see them—the men and women :
who stood by us in days that were i
dark, and days that were jubilant, i
Ilosannah! The work done in that i
church on Sehcrmerhoru street can
never be undone. What self-sacrifices i
on the part of many, who gave almost i
till the blood came! What hallelujahs! 1
What victoriesl What wedding j
marches played with full organ! What I
baptisms! What sacraments! What <
obsequies! One of them on a snowy ! ‘
Sabbath afternoon, when all Brooklyn 1
seemed to sympathize, and my eldest 1
son, bearing my own name, lav 1
beneath the pulpit in the last sleep, ’
and Florence Rice Knox sang, and n 1
score of ministers on and around the 1
platform tried to interpret how it was ’
best that one wh > had just come to 1
manhood, and with brightest worldly :
prospects, should be taken, and we left 1
with a heart that will not cease to I
ache until we meet where tears never 1
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The Remarkable Experience of Clias.
Quant as Investigated by an Albany (N.
V.) Journal Reporter—A Story of Sur
passing Interest.
[Albany, N. Y„ Journal, March 4.]
Saratoga, March 4.—For some time
past there have been reports hero and
elsewhcro in Saratoga County of a most
nemarkablc—indeed, so remarkable as
to be miraculous—cure of a most severe
case of locomotor ataxia, or creeping
paralysis, simply by the use of a popu
lar remedy known as “Pink Pills for
Palo People,” prepared and put up by
the Dr. Williams Medicine Company.
Morristown, N.Y., and Prockviltc, OnL
The story was to the effect that Mr.
Charles A. Quant of Galway, who for
the last six or eight years has been a
great sufferer from creeping paralysis
and its attendant ills and who had be
come utterly powerless of all self-help,
had, by the use of a few boxes of the
Pink Pills for Pale People, been so fully
restored to health as to be able to walk
about tho street without the aid of
crutches. The fame of this wonderful,
miraculous cure was so great that the
Evening Journal reporter thought it
worth his while to go to Galway to call
on Mr. Quant, to learn from his lips,
and from the observation and testimony
of his neighbors, if his alleged cure was
a fact or only an unfounded rumor.
And so he drove to Galway and spent a
day and a night there in visiting Mr.
Quant, getting his story, and interview
ing his neighbors and fellow-townsmen.
It may be proper to say that Galway is
a pietty little village of 400 people, de
lightfully located near the center of the
town of Galway, in Saratoga County,
and about seventeen miles from Sara
toga Springs. Upon inquiry, the resi
dence of Mr. Charles A. Quant was eas
ily found, for every one seemed to know
him, speak well of him, and to be over
flowing with surprise and satisfaction
at his wonderful cure and restoration
to the aciivities of enterprising citizen
ship, for Mr. Quant was born in Galway
and had spent most of his life there.
Mr. Quant was found at his pretty home
on a plbasant street nearly opposite the
academy. In response to a knock at
the door it was opened by a man who,
in reply to an inquiry if Mr. Quant
lived there and was at home, said:
“I am Mr. Quant. Will you
come in?” After a little general
bii-j preliminary conversation, ana aiier
Jie had been apprised of the object for
which the Journal reporter had called
upon him, he, at request, told the story
of himself,and of his sickness and terri
ble sufferings, and of the ineffectual
treatment he had had, and of his final
cure l)*r the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink
Pills for l'ale People, nn.1 cheerfully
gave assent to its use for publication,
lie said: ‘-My name is Charles A.
Guant. I am 3T years old. I was born
in tho village of Galway, and, except
ing while traveling on business and a
little while in Amsterdam, have spent
my whole life here. ISly wife is a native
of Ontario. Up to about eight years
ago I had never been sick and was then
in perfect health. I was fully six feet
tall, weighed iso pounds and was very
strong. For twelve years I was a trav
eling salesman for a piano and organ
company and had to do, or at least did
do, a great, deal of heavy lifting, got my
meals very irregularly and slept in
enough‘spare l eds in country houses
to freo/.e any ordinary man to death, or
at least give him the rheumatism. About
eight years ago I began to feel distress
in my stomach and consulted several
doctors about it. Tiny all said it was
dyspepsia, and for dyspepsia I was
treated bv various doctors in different
places, and took all the patent medi
I could hear of that claimed to be a cure
for dyspepsia. Iiut 1 continue 1 to grow
gradually worse for four years Then
I began to have pain in my back and
legs and beer.mo conscious that, my legs
were getting weak and my step un
steady, and then I staggered when I
walked. Having received no I enolit
Hum iiiu u*u in patent medicines, ana
feeling that I was constantly growing
worse. I then, upon advise, began the
use of electric belts, pads and all the
many different kinds of electric appli
ances 1 could hear of. and spent hun
dreds of dollats for them, but they did
mo no good. ’ (Iioro Mr. Cuant showed
the Journal reporter an electric suit of
underwear for which ho paid $121.) •*jn
the fall of l'SS the doctors advised a
change of climate, so I went to Atlanta,
Ua., and acted as agent for the Fstey
Organ ( ompany. While there I took a
thorough electric treatment, but it only
seemed to aggravate my disease, and
the only relief I could get from the sharp
ilid distressing pains was to take mor
pi.ine. The pain was so intense at limee
Lhat it seemed as though i could not
stand it. and I almost longed for death
is tho only certain relief. In Septem
ber of ltkSS my legs gave out entirely,
md my left eye was drawn to one side,
;o that I had double sight and was
ii zy. My trouble so affected my whole
nervous system that I had to give up
aits ness. Then 1 returned to New York
ind went to the lioosevelt Hospital,
.vhere for four months 1 was treated by
specialists and they pronounced my case
ocom .tor ataxia and incurable. After
l had been under treatment r' l‘rof.
starr and Dr. are for four months
hey told me they had done all they
:ould for me. Then 1 went to the New
fork Hospital on Fifteenth Street,
' hero, upon examination, they said I
vas incurable and would not take me
n. At the Presbyterian Hospital they
examined me and told me the same
hi11g. In March, 1S‘.)0, I was taken to
st. Peter's Hospital in Albany, where
’rof. H. 11. Hun frankly told "my wife
ny cssse was hopeless; that he could do
lothing forme, and that she had Letter
ake me back home and save my money,
tut I wanted to make a trial of Prof,
iuns famous skill, and I remained un
ler his treatment for nine weeks, but
ecurod no benefit. A 1 this time I hud
seen growing worse. I had become eu
Ireiv paralyzed from my waist down,
■nd had partly lost control of my hands, i
i lie pain was terrible; my legs felt as i
hough they were freezing and my
t much would not retain food and my !
reight fe 1 away to let) pounds. In 1
Uo Albany Hospital they put seven
een big burns on my back one day with
od-hot irons, and after a few days they <
nit fourteen more burns on and treated 1
ae with electricity, but I got worse
atlier than better; lost control of my 1
oweis anu water, and upon advice of i
the doctor, who said there
fnr mo T V_. . .™ W*S
for me, I was brought homo*8 \° ®°P*
was thought that death wou7,i’,^hero I*
to relieve me of my sufferings
tember, while in this helpless and t«ep’
ing condition, a friend of mine
11 ton, Ont., called my attnn?i In I1&®
statement of ono John Marshal? lVhe
case had been similar to mvo whose
who had been cured by tho 4,14
Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale peni?|f Dr
-In this case Mr. Marshall wh'6’,
prominent member of the Koyil t! 4
plars of Temperance, had after* m'
years of constant treatment by
most eminent Canadian physician? h.
pronounced incurable, and was nail
81,000 total disability’claimaTCVh:
the order in such cases, i^ome
after Mr. Marshall began a cour?« h*
treatment with Dr. Williams’ Pink Pii|°/
and after taking some fifteen boxes wai
fully restored to health. xes wa®
“I thou?ht 1 would try them, and
\%lfe sent for two boxes of the Dills anJi
I took them according to the direction!
given on the wrapper in each box. iv
the first few days the cold baths worn
protty severe, as X was so very weak
but I continued to follow instruction
as to taking the pills and treatment?
and even before I had used up the two
boxes of pills I began to feel beneficial
effects from them. My pains were not
so bad; I felt warmer; my boad felt bet
ter; mv food began to relish and agree
with me; I could straighten up; the
feeling began to come back Into my
limbs; I began to be able to get about
on crutches; my eye came back again as
good as ever, and now, after the use of
eight boxes of the pills—at a cost of Si
—see!—I can with the help of a cane
only, walk all about the house and yard
cau saw wood, and on pleasant days i
walk down town. My stomach trouble
is gone; 1 have gained ten pounds; I
feel like a new man, and when the
spring opens i expect to be able to re
new my organ and piano agency. I
cannot speak In too high terms of Dr
Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People’
as I know they saved my life after ail
the doctors had given me up as incura
ble.”
Other citizens of Galway, seeing the
wonderful cure of Mr. ouant by the
Pink nils for Pale X’eopke, are using
them. Frederick Sexton, a sufferer
from rheumatism, said he was finding
fyeat benefit from their use, and Mr.
Schultz, who had suffered from chror.ic
dysentery for years, said ho had taken
two boxes of tho pills and was diready
cured.
Mr. Quant had also tried faith cure,
with experts of that treatment in Al
bany and Greenville, S. C., but with no
beneficial results.
A number of the more prominent cit
izens of Galway, as Rev. C. E. Herbort,
of the Presbyterian Church; Prof. Jas.
— j/nuvip«i niw aicauumy;
John P. anil Harvey Crouch, and Frank
and Edward Willard, merchants, and
many others to whom Mr. quant and
his so miraculous cure by the use of
Hr. Williams’ Fink Pills lor Pale Peo
ple aro well known, were pleased to
have the opportunity of bearing testi
mony to the high character«of Mr.
Quant, and of verifying the story of his
recovery from the terrible alliiction from
which ho had for so long a time been a
sufferer.
Truly, the duty of the physician is not
to save life, but to heal disease.
The remarkable result from the use
of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pillp fn the case
of Mr. Quant, induced the reporter to
make further inquiries concerning them
aifd lie ascertained that they are not a
patent medicine in the sense in which
tliat term is generally used, but ahighly
scientific preparation, the result of
Tears of study and careful experiment.
They have no rival as a blood builder
and nerve restorer, and have met with
unparalleled success, in the treatment
of such diseases as paralysis, rheuma
tism, sciatica. St. Vitus dance, palpita
tion of the heart, that tired feeling
which affects so many, and ail diseases
depending upon a watery condition of
the blood or shattered nerves.
Ur. Williams’ l ink Pills are also a
specific for troubles peculiar to females,
such as suppressions, irregularities, and
all forms of weaknesses. They build
up the blood and restore the glow of
health to pale or sallow cheeks. In the
case of men they effect a radical cure
in all cases arising from mental worry,
overwork, or excesses of whatever na
ture.
On further innnirv the writnv fniii-it
that these pills are manufactured by
the Dr. Williams Medicine Company,
Drockville, Cnt., and Morristown, X.
Y., and are sold in boxes (never in bulk
by the hundred) at 50 cents a box, or
>ix boxes foi S2.50, and may bo had of
all druggists or direct by mail from Dr.
Williams’ Medicine Company, from
other address. The price at which
these pills are sold makes a course of
treatment comparatively inexpensive,
is compared with other remedies or
nedical treatment..
WEAPONS OF THE PURITANS.
rhey Used Guns Which Wouldn't Shoo*
When It Kalned.
«Tho precise population of New Eng
land, either Indian or white, at tho timo
if Dhillip’s war, cannot be stated; but,
for the purpose of war, it may bo said
that the forces on one side ar.d on tho
ether were almost oqnal. At that time
;ho Indians we.eas well used to fire
iirms as tho whites, but the firelock of
;h ise days was but an inefficient weapon
ompared with the musket of latef tiino
)r with tho riflo of to day.
It 8 eras certain that in Europe flint
ocks had been introduced before this
lime; but tho l'urltans still relied on tho
matchlock The form of this can be
•eadily explained to any por.-on who has
ioen tho old 'flintlock of the present
entury. A hammer—a good deal
arger than the hammer which after
ward held the flint, but quite like it—
rad a screw which tightened or looson
id tho hold which two pieces of iron had
lpon a match.
bach soldier was obligod to carry
iome yard, of this match with him, and
when the battle began he lighted the
uece of this match which was fixed in
,ho hammer of the gun. A pan which
raid powder, exactly as the pan of a
lintlock afterward did, was in front or
.ho hammer, w>th a cover pro.ecting
rom which a sort of a horn ran up ncar
y vertical, to be opened by the hammer
vhen the soldi r pulled tho trigger,
rhe fire of the match then communi
cated with the powder and tho gun wen
>ff.
This was a sufficiently complicated way
n which men should go Into battle, per
laps In a wilderness, where even *
irociuing of fire at that time wa« »
ended with some difficulty. The a
counts of skirmishes of those time’
ull of occasions when a sudden snow
>ut a stop to the whole battle. This •
tecause the fire of the matches was e
InguUhed by the rain.