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^TALM AGE’S SERMON. SPEAKS OF THE CONSOLA TIONS OF RELIGION. f Home Comforting Thought* for Those Whoto Live* Hare Many Anxieties— The Insufficiency of Worldly Success— | Trust Thoroughly in Hod, t _ (Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch, N. Y.) Washington, Feb. 3.—There Is a great aolace in this discourse of Dr, •Talmage for those whose lives have many anxieties; text, Isaiah iii, 10, “Say ye to the righteous that it shall he well with him." Here is a promise for people who are all right, but who will come and get it? How many, or rather, how few. people do you know who are all right? If it were asked of any assembly that •those who were sinless should rise up. none would rise except imbeciles and religious cranks. An accident happen ed near sixty centuries ago that start ed the human race In the wrong way, land wo have not got over It. We know a great many splendid men and splen did women, but they will tell you that •they have not always done the right thing or thought the right thought. IT it were any of your business, they could give you an inventory of frailties rind mistakes and infelicities that would be astonishing. Here, then, you say, is a Bible promise that goes a-b g ging, “Say ye to the righteous that it shall be well with him.” 4 moral linukru^K. By sin we liav#» cTi been morally bankrupted. Cortst the Cord from his Mfaifte riches pays our debts and ern paradisea us in his mercy. From his richest wardrobe he puts on us the clean robe of his righteousness and gives us a place in the heavens when .we are ready to go up and take it. Now, as to our spiritual estate we are all right. We were morally diseased, but Christ, the Physician, by a bith in the fountain of his grace, cures us •Now, as to our spiritual health we are •all right. That is the way we come jto the righteousness spoken of in the 'text. It is a contributed righteousness, *r made over righteousness, an imputed .righteousness. The moment you get linto right relations with Christ the Cord that moment you can appreciate !the magnificent comfort of the text, land I defy you in all this great book from the first verse of the first chap dor of Genesis to the last verse of the Mast chapter of Revelation, to find me a •passage with higher and deeper and broader and longer comfort than that of the text, which is as deep as the At lantic ocean half way between the con tinents and high as the sun when the •clock is striking 12 at noon. But I shall be swamped with the oceanic tides of this subject unless the Cord •help me to keep a foothold. "Say ye to .the righteous that it shall be well with ‘litm. ' Itirlim and flood Work*. How many men do you know worth .$250,000 who are devout and consecrat ed and humble and generous and em iploying their means for tho world's re demption? You could count them up job the fingers of your two hands even ♦ if by accident or war you had lost one •or two of the fingers. As to the realm •of personal attractiveness, how many .women radiant of countenance and graceful of form do you know who are unaffected and natural of manner and 'deeply pious before God. using their beauty for the betterment of the world and not for selfish purposes? I only take the risk of asking the question and leave to you the risk of answering it. These things 1 say to show you .that in order to have the promise of the text fulfilled in your case it is not nfTPBsary you have phenomenal world ly success. Ml*erf of I.ovlne Too Much. Financial loss, which I just now said is sure to come, never breaks up a man who has strong faith in God. In most cases it is a loss of surplus or it is the banishment of luxuries. Most of the wants of the prosperous classes are artificial wants. The late Mr. Armour of the $60,000,000 estate pointed to one of his clerks on ordinary salary ai>d said. "That man has better appetite .than I, Bleeps better nights and enjoys life more than I do." Oh, the gigantic ;miserles of those who have too much! *A man iu Solomon 8 time expressed as philosophic and reasonable a wish as any man of those times or of our times. His name was Agur. and he offered a prayer that ho might never have a superabundance or a deficit, crying out. "Give mo neither poverty nor riches.” On the one side he had seen the awful struggle of the poor to get food and clothes and shelter and to educate their children, and on the othep side he had seen the gouty foot, and the In digestion, and the insomnia, and the anxiety about large investments, and the threatening paresis often character istic of those who are loaded up and down with too many successes. Those people who are generally called the masses—that is, the most of folks— have the things absolutely necessary for their well being. They have no Murillos on their wall, nor a "Belshaz zar's Feast” in their dining room, nor a iphir of 13,000 sorrels at their door way. But they have something which those superabundantly supplied seldom have. They have better health because, being compelled to walk, they get the necessary exercise, and, their diet be ing limited to plain food, they do not suffer from midnight salads and are not victimized by rare caterers. They retire for wholesome sleep at the very hour in which others are leaving their homes for the dance or the card party. They will sleep the latt sleep just as well in the plain graveyard as those who have over them an arch of sculp tured granite in the costliest necropolis or most historical abbey. I,et Well enough Alone. J The reason so many people are mlg erabie Is because they do not let well enough ulone. They are in one occu pation and see its annoyances and so change to another occupation and find as many annoyances, if not more. They live in one place and know its uncom fortable environments and move into another place which has just as many limitations. Tlieir investments yield them 4 per cent and they sell out to make investments that will yield 10 per cent and lose all. Better settle down and stop fretting about yourse f An officer in Cromwpll’s time was so worried about public affairs that he could not sleep. His servant, a Christ ain man, said he would like the privil ege of asking the officer a question. Leave being granted, the servant said, "Do you not think that God governed the world very well before you came into it?’’ “No doubt of it," was the re ply. "And do you not think he will govern it quite as well when you are gone out of it?" “Certainly." “Then— pray, sir, excuse me—but do you not think you may trust him to g-vern it as long as you live in it?” The remark was so sensible that sleeplessness de parted and tranquility came. A particular Providence is as certain as a general Providence. It did not just happen so that Brunei noticed a ship-worm boring into the wood, so suggesting to the engineer the tunnel ing of the Thames. It did not just happen so that a spider’s w"** Tte”tng from tree to tree sue'S'-icti the sus pension bridge ris first originator. Noth'^ just happened so in your life m mine. It is not an autocrat at the head of the universe, but a Father. “Leave thy low vaulted past! I*et each new temple, nobler than the last. Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast Till thou at length art free. Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s An (nlimiteit Supply. Do any of us fully realize the fact that God gives us three things In un limited supply, although no formula of prayer that 1 ever heard recognizes them—water, air and sunlight? Water by the riverful. Water by the lakeful. Water by the oceanful. Some for ablu tion, some for slaking the thirst, some for baptistry, some for fountains and aquariums. I never appreciated wiiat a wonderful thing water is until last summer 1 stood by the fountains be fore and around the emperor’s palaeo at Peterhof, Russia. I had been fami liar with this wonderful element of nature from childhood, having been born on the banks of the beautiful Raritan, and as a barefooted boy dab bled in the brook near my father’s house. But I never realized until last summer what water could do In play, or in strange caprice, or beautification, or when climbing the ladder of the light, or when a skillful workman took ' hold of it to toss it, or whirl it, or shape it Into crowns, or hoist it into columns, or spring it into arches, or lift it into stars, or turn it into cres cents, or build it into temples. You forget you ever saw the less glorious waters at Chatsworth, England, or Versailles, France, as you stand in the balcony of the palace overlooking the Finland gulf, bewildered and trans ported as you look at the one display called the Golden Stairway fountain. The water rolls down over 24 steps one foot high and 20 feet long. All of these 24 steps are covered with sheets of burnished gold. Silver step of the water on stairs of gold! What a glee of liquids! Rolling, dashing, foaming, enrapturing splendors! Chorus of floods! Poetry of waters! Doxology of torrents! But that which most im pressed me there and elsewhere is the abundance of water, the fact that there are so many waters that the conti nents can afford to throw them away into the sea, Hudsons and Ohios, Ore gons and Amazons, Rhlnes and Dan ubes and Volgas, and so abundant that the earth can afford to have its oceans evaporate into the heavens, Mediterraneans and Atlantics and Pa cifies. How rich the earth is with wat ers! Best beverage of all the nations, for after the richest banquet with the richest beverages, every one wants at least a sip of it—water, cool water, God descended water! With still more abundance is the air distributed. An earth full of it. A sky full of it. Swiftest and strongest eagle cannot fly so high as not to have It in the nostril or under wing. And what affluence of sunlight! No one but thp infinite God could dispense so much of it. The golden candlestick set on the blue mantel of the heavens! So great that the Almighty is com pared to it, the psalmist crying out, "The lvonl God is a sun.” It is high time that we recognize in our liturgies and in our formulas of prayer the most abundant blessings of the universe which come to all. Trust Thoroughly In Go<l. Now, Is it not time that we all be gan more thoroughly to trust the Lord? We trust him with our souls, why not trust him with our bodies? j We trust him with our spiritual inter ! ests, why not trust him with our tem | poral interests? We believe what is j said to us by an ordinarily honest man. 1 i could not anger you so much or I make your cheeks so burn with indig ! nation as to doubt your truthfulness, | and how do you suppose the Lord of ’ heaven and earth feels when you doubt him, as he declares in the text, | "Say ye to the righteous that it shall be well with him. Such a promise as that ought to calm your pulses and ir radiate your countenance and halo all the future with rapture; for, after all. it makes but little difference what be comes of us here, if we come out at the right place amid the right surround ings and in tlie right companionship. What are the twenty or eighty years of terrestrial stay compared with the centuries, the milleniums, the ne ins of 1 our chief lifetime, which we arc to b> ' gin when we quit this insignificant I planet, insignificant as compared with the size of other worlds? This world is only a school house for heaven. We learn here only the A B C of a higher literature, or the simple addition and subtraction of an infinite mathematics and are practicing the eight notes of an eternal harmony. The most Im portant question any man ever asks is. “What will be my destiny?” “Whi her am I hound?” "Where shall I land?” “What is the terminus of this short journey?” Now, child of God, do not worry about that. It shall be well with you in your next state of exist ence. Tlie World Iter and This. Some scientists are now discussing the opening of communication between our earth and the planet Mats. Experi ments are being made, but they will not succeed. We cannot build a fire large enough to attract the attention of that world or lift a lens powerful euough to see any response interstel lar. We do not positively kn.w that that world Is occupied by living be ings or that if it Is occupied communi cation with them would be desirable. It might not be so good a wo Id as this, and thus communication with it would be debasing. But I rejoice to know that heaven is in touch with other worlds for their improvement and a depot for glorious arrivals. It is a thor oughfare between this world and that world and a coming and going perpetu al. Going out of this world is as natural as coming into it, hut the one Is with paug and the ether is with rap ture if we are fitted for the uplifting process. It shall be well with you. Now do not get so frightened about that asthma or that cough or that in fluenza or that threatened pneumonia, 'the worst thing that fatal disease can do is to usher you into coronation and enthronement. It shall be well with you. Take as good care of your health as you can. have all sanitary laws, keep in this world as long as you are permitted to stay and then when the heavenly call comes be glad to go. I do not care much about what your ' last words” are going to be. People put too much emphasis on “last words.” I would rather know what your words are now, in days of health, and with mental faculties in full play—your words of kindness, your words of sym pathy, your words of helpfulness, your words of prayer. So live that if you say not a word during the last day of your life there will he no doubt here about the place of your destination. You will go right into saintly, pro phetic, evangelistic, apostolic, cherub ic, seraphic, archange.lic, deific pres ence. Id llpnvPn. It shall be well with you. Mother, you will go right up into the posses sion of the babe that the scarlet fever or croup took out of your arms, a sorrow that still stings you, and you often say she would now be so many years old if she had lived. You will go into the presence of the old folks, for I hope you are of Christian ances try, and you will find that they have nodimness of sight,or halting gait that requires a staff, for they have taken a draft from the fountain of perpetual youth that springs from under the throne of God. Oh, the blissful com panionship of heaven In which you shall ente-r. It shall be well with you. I ring this bell of emancipation and triumph. I like the way the s xton rings the bell of the old country meet ing house. I used to stand and admire him pulling the rope of that bell. He rings it a good while, so that every farmhouse within five miles hears It. He may halt a moment to take breath and give the swet sounds time to stir up all the echoes of the hills. And when he is old and not strong enough to pull the rope any more, then he sits and listens while his son rings the church bell. So my text seems a bell of invitation and vic tory. I began to ring it in the opening of this discourse. I hope to ring it as long as I live, and .nay those who come after us keep on j ringing it till those farthest off from God shall come into the great temple of gospel comfort and all the weary put down their burdens at its altar and find that peace which the world can neither give nor take away. Three times more I ring it. It shall be well! It shall be well! It shall be well! — ■ ■■ — I lien lie man hood. A friend of Charles Dudley Warner has said that it is ‘‘a cheerful spirit, and a true wit, and a sweet humor” that we find in all the recently de ceased writer's works. No one will be disposed to question the fairness of this criticism; if Mr. Warner was not a groat writer, he was a delightful one, and his books have the gentle charm of a companionable woman. Far handsomer, however, and equally true, is the same friend's tribute to Mr. Warner's character: "He was completely a gentleman. He lived a religious life, but said lit j tie about it. He regularly attended his J church, respecting and obeying its ob servances. 1 never heard from his lips an indelicate or coarse story, or an unclean idea. He abhorred Injus tice, meanness and dishonor.” A man's books may not always speak the whole of his mind; his life i does, in spite of himself. I __ The King-Milking Induitrjr. There are thirty flag factories in the United States. They have an invested capital of $12,000,000. and pay in wages ; nearly $400,000 annually. The major ity are situated in New York State. The others are in Massachusetts,Penn sylvania, Louisiana, and South Caro Una. Oil for combustion is now supplied to Los Angeles factories at $1 per bar rel. About 100,000 barrels a month aro used. TIIE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON VII, FEB. 17. MATT: 26. 17-30. Golden Text: "ThU Do lu Kemember anco of Me"—l-oke 88:10—Tl»* Lord'* Hupper—Preparations for the Passover Meal. 17. "The first day ... of unleavened bread.” That is, of the Passover fes tival. during w'.*ch only unleavened bread was used. 20. "When . . . even was cotne. Jesus must have started late In the aft ernoon. and reached the upper room "about sunset, which would be at that season at a little after six.”—Dr. Broad us. "In that large, upper room Jesus spent his last quiet hours with his dis ciples. It may have been in the home of Mary, the mother of Mark. 21. "And as they did eat." the Pass over. The Lord's Supper was instituted later in the evening. "He (Jesus) sabl, . . . one of you shall betray me." John says he was "troubled in spirit." 22. "They were exceeding sorrowful.” because their loved Master was to be betrayed, because one of their number should fall so low as to be a traitor. "To say unto him." To Jesus, as well as to one another (Luke 22: 23). "Is It 1?" Better that question than "Is it he?” 23. “He that dlppeth his hand wdth me in the dish." This does "not point out the traitor, but the treachery of the act.”—Int. Crit. Com. 24. "The Son of man goeth as It Is writ ten of him,” in such passages as I’sa. 22 and Isa. 53. He must die If he would I save the world. "But woe unto that man,” etc. "This is not a malediction, In the sense of u wish or a prayer thal this vengeance may follow the traitor, but a solemn announcement of the divine Judg ment.”—Int. Crit. Com. "Good for that man If he had not been born." Such a life was not worth living. He had so re sisted every motive and influence that could make him better that there was no hope left for him. 25. "Judas. . . . said, . . . Is It I He did not dare to keep silence, for that would have been suspicious. At this point Satan took possession of Judas; he saw that Jesus knew of his treachery, and lie went out from the company of disciples to betray Jesus to the chief priests. It is well that lie went, that there might be no discordant element In the atmosphere of peace and love in tills last meeting of the Master with ills disciples, it was made easier for him to go by the last words of Jesus, bidding him do quickly what he purposed to do (John 13 : 26, 27). 26. "And ns they were eating," toward the close of the Passover feast, "Jesus took bread," the thin cake of unleavened bread,” and "blessed it,” “Invoking bless ings,” “consecrated with solmen pray ers."—Thayer. "Take. eat. make It a part of yourselves. "This is my body," represents my body, symbolizes my body, does for your body just what my spiritual life does for your spirit. 27. "And he took the cup." Nowhere In t,hr accounts of the Lord's Supper is the word "wine" used, but "cup." "fruit of tlie vine,” so that fresh unfermonted grape Juice fulfils all the conditions of this observance, and is even a more per fect symbol than fermented wine. "Clive thanks." From the Greek word thus transplanted comes the Eucharist; I. e.. The Thanksgiving, as the name of the Lord's Supper. “Drink ye all of it,” in order that all might participate in the blessings which It symbolized. 28. "This is my blood." A type or em blem of his blood, ills life (Lev. 17:14). which be laid down as the atonement for sin. “Of the new testament." H. V.. "covenant," whh h God was now con firming to man. "Which is shed for many.” Multitudes, not merely a few, are to be saved by Christ. "For the re mission of sins," including the forgive ness of sin. and the deliverance from the power of sin. Sin Is to be put away en tirely. so that the heart and life arc clean and pure. 29. "I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine." This was to be his last meal with his disciples before he died. "Drink it new." The Greek word expresses not fresh, newly made wine, but a new kind of wine, with a new meaning, no longer a memorial death, but as part of the glorified festival of the Marriage of the Lamb, and of his final triumph over evil. "In my Father's king dom." in the kingdom of God completed, perfected. It points to the victory of the church, not to its conflicts; and the con tinued celebration of the Lord's Supper is an expression of assured victory on the part of bis militant church.—SchafT. SO. "And when they had sung nil hymn." Probably the usual Psalms <115 119i with which the Passover closed, and which were very fitting to this occasion. "There is no reason to doubt that Jesus and his company followed the custom; and—Jesus, as the celebrant, would not only sing, but lead in the singing. “They went out into the mount of Olives," at (lie foot of which was the garden of | Gethsemane. A Toy Klrrtrlc Automobile. Among the many electrical toys now made is an electrical automobile. It is 10 inches long and 1% inches high. The battery Is placed under the seat, where it can be easily got at: It will furnish power to drive the vehicle from half an hour to an hour without re charging. The motor is attached to the under side of the body, with a suitable gearing connecting with the wheels. The front axle is pivoted and there is a steering lever, by means of which the course of the little auto can be directed, the handle being placed in the usual manner in front of the seat. 1‘auperl.ni In KiiKlund According to a report just issued by the British local government board re garding pauperism, a remarkable Im provement bas taken place since 1880. Considering the great increase (about six millions) In population in Britain might leasonably be expected that there would be a proportionate in crease in pauperism, but on Jan. 1, 1900, there were seventy thousand few er paupers than there were twenty years ago. The agricultural counties in Britain are more afflicted with paup erism than the mauufacturnig ones are. China** Foreign Debt* China had practically no foreign debt until the recent war with Japan, but the indemnity of 200,000,000 taels exacted by that government made it necessary to borrow, and the foreign debt is now about $2!>0,000,000, upon which there is an interest of 5 per cent a year. The revenue of the gov ernment amounts to about 90,000,000 taels, a tael being a weight of pure silver equivalent to the Mexican dol lar and valued at about 72 cents in American gold at the last quotation. CAUGHT BYJHE GRIP/ Released by Pe-ru-na—Congressman Howard’s Recovery—Congressman Geo. H. White’s Case MRS.DH^.D.J POWELL. # 5* NiBSM-fiE# ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ La Grippe 1b epidemic catarrh.—It spares no class or nationality. The cul tured and the ignorant, the aristocrat and the pauper. The masses aud the classes are alike subject to la grippe. None are exempt—all are liable. Have you the grip? Or, rather, ha3 the grip got you? Grip is well named. The original French term, la grippe, has been shortened by the busy Amer ican to read "grip.” Without intend ing to do so a new word has been coined that exactly describes the case. As If some hideous giant with awful Grip had clutched us in its fatal clasp. Men, women, children, whole towns and cities are caught In the baneful grip of a terrible monster. Fe-rn-na For Grip. Mrs. Dr. C. D. Powell, President of Epworth League, also President or Loyal Temperance Legion, writes from Chehalis, Wash.: ”1 have used several remedies In cases of severe colds and la grippe, but none I consider of more value than Peruna.”—Mrs. Dr. C. D. Powell. After-Effects of I.t Grippe. Miss Emma Jouris, President Golden Rod Sewing Circle, writes from 40 Bur ling street, Chicago. 111., ns follows: ‘■This spring 1 suffered severely from the after-effects of la grippe. As the doctors did not seem to help me 1 bought a bottle of Peruna,”—Miss Em ma Jouris. Congressman Howard’s letter. Fort Payne, Ala. The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio: Gentlemen—-“I have taken Peruna now for two weeks and lind I am very much relieved. I feel that my cure will be permanent. / have also taken It tor la grippe and / take pleasure In recommending Peruna as an excellent remedy to all lellow sufferers.”— M. W. Howard, Member of Congress. Is Grippe Inm the b.vilein la a Deplorable I'oiidllljn. D. L. Wallace, a charter member of the International Barbers’ Union, writes from 15 Western avenue, Min neapolis, Minn.: "Following a severe attack of la grippe I seemed to be affected badly all over. "One of my customers who was greatly helped by Peruna advised me to try it. and I procured a bottle the same day. Now my head is clear, my nerves are steady, I enjoy food, and rest well. Peruna has been worth a dollar a dose to ma”—L. D. Wallace. Urtppu Cause* I)r»fn<ua. Mrs. M. A. Sharick. chaplain O. A. R. Woman’s Relief Corps, writes from Fremont, Wash.: “When la grippe was the prevailing Illness in this Western country 1 was laid up the whole winter, 1 partially lost my hearing, and had a very bad case of catarrh of the head and throat. I read of Peruna, tried it and had my hearing restored and catarrh cured, 1 cannot speak too well of Peruna.”— Mrs. M. A. Sharick. Ga Or ppe Cured In Its First Stags. Lieutenant Clarice Hunt, of the Salt Lake City Harracks of the Salvation Army, writes from Ogden, Ctah: Two months ago 1 was suffering with so severe a cold that l could hardly speak. "Our captain advised me to try Pe runa, and procured a bottle for me, and truly it worked wonders. Within two weeks I was entirely well.”—Clarice Hunt. Cangrrnmiiu White'* Getter. Tarboro, N. C. Gentlemen—am mure than satis fied with Peruna and find It to be an excellent remedy for the grip and ca tarrh. I have used It In my family and they all join me In recommending It a3 an excellent remedy.”—Geo. H. 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