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SPBixarrKtD, O.. Feb. 18, 1S77.
This Is to certify that I have used Vegetine.man
urct tired by H. Ii. Stevens, Boston, Mass.. Tor
Rheumatism and ireneral nrostratlon of the Ner
vous system, with eood Rucreas. I recommend
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plat
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Yours very truly.
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Mr. Vandefrrlft. of the firm of Vandegrifufc Huff
man. Is a well known business man in this place,
having one of the largest stores in Springlield, O.
Our llinlster's Wife.
LotnsviLLE, Ky., Feb. 18, 1877.
Mr. R. H. Stkvkn :
Dear Sir: Three years ago I was suffering terri
bly with Inflammatory Rheumatism. Our minis
ter's wife advised me to take Vegotlne. After tak
Ingone bottle. I was entirely relieved. This year
feeling a return or thedisease, I again commenced
taking it. and am belm; benefitted greatly, It also
greatly Improves my digestion.
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wonderful strengthening and curative properties
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firstdose; and under Its persistent usel rapidly re
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VEGETINE my most unqualified Indorsement as
being asafe. sure, and powerful agent in promoting
health and restoring the wasted system to new Hie
and energy. VEOETINE is the only medicine I
use and as long as I live I never expect to find a
better. Yours truly. AY. H. CLARK.
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VEGETINE.
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Ilj de Park, and at present settled in Lowell, must
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derful curative qualities oi VEGETINE as a thor
ough cleanser and purifier of the nlood.
Hvde Pakjc, Maws., Feb. 15, 1876.
Mr. H. R. Stkvkns:
JlearSir: About ten years ago my health failed
through the depleting efi'eots ol dyspepsia; nearly
a year later 1 was attacked hy typhoid-fever In its
worst lorm. It settled In my back, and took the
form of a large dep-seated abscess, which was fif
teen mouths In gathering. I hud two surgical op
erations by the best fckill In the htate, but received
no permanent cure. I suffered great pain at times,
and was constantly weakened by a proluedischarge
1 also lost small pieces of bone at different times.
Matters ran on thus about seven years, till May,
1S74. when a friend recommended me to go to your
office, and talk with you of the virtue of VEGE
TINE. I did so. and by -your kindness passed
through your manufactory, noting the Ingredients,
tc. by bicli your remedy is produced.
By what I saw and heard I gained some confi
dence in VEGETINE.
I commenced taking it soon after, but felt worse
from its effects : still 1 persevered, and soon felt It
was benefitting me in other respects. Yet I did not
sue the results 1 desired till I had taken it faithfully
for a little more than a j ear. when the difficulty In
the back was cured ; nnd for nine months I have
enjoyed the best of health.
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have in that time sained twenty-live pounds of
flesh, being heavier than ever belore in my life, and
j was never more able to perrorm lanor man now.
During the past few weeks I had a scrofulous
swelling as large as my first gather on another part
oi my nodv
I took VEGETINE faithfully, and It removed It
level with the. surface in a month. I thinklshould i
have been cured of my main troublesooner ifl had
taken larger dojes, after having become accustom
ed to its effects.
Let your patrons troubled with scrofnlaor kidney
diseases understand that it takes time tocureenron
ic diseases; and. if they will patiently take VEGE
TINE. it will, in my judgment, cure them.
With great obligations I am.
Yours verv truly.
(. W. MANSFIELD.
Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Churen.
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BROWVJLLE, NEBRASKA,
BEOTHEE PHIL.
Edith Forrest lifted a pair of pretty
blue eyes to her husband's face pret
ty, soft ej'es, with wistfulnesa all
among their velvety shadows.
"It iH so lonesome of an evening,
Harry! PleaBe stay at home to-night
or take me witli you for a change,
dear."
Mr. Forest smiled in a very super
ior sort of way a sort of patronizing,
indulgent way, as thougii it was the
height of absurd womanish folly for
Edith to have made the remark.
"That is nonsense, Edith. You
know perfectly well how ridiculously
impossible it is for me to be either
always at home or taking you out
somewhere. You must remember
that because a man is married lie
does not expect never to be anywhere
but where his wife is, if she is the
sweete.st, prettiest little girl in the
world !"
He bent forward to ki?s her, and
Edilii smiled a suspiciously tear
flavored smiles It was, however.
But I do get so tired of staying so
much by myself, Harry. I am al
most a stianger in London, and Tarn
sure there are only two ladies In the
house whom I know, and don't like
to be always running to their rooms.
Harry really I did not think you
would get tired of my company so
so soon. It hasn't been three months
since we were married and "'
And little Mrs. Forrest's sobs and
tears overcame her entirely, and Har
ry's face grew vexed and stern.
"You are romancing, Edith. You
know perfectly well I have never
thought of such a ridiculous thing,
nnd I do not want to see such child
ishness on your part."
And to further enforce his assump
tion of marital dignity, Mr. Forrest
walked out and shut the door very
emphatically.
Then, of course, Edith's tears came
in good earnest.
"It's too bad, too had ! Harry is
getting tired of my society, I know he
js nild I wish I wish Iliad never
. . ....
married and left home, where every
thing was so gay and pleasant, and
there were never long, lonely even
ings. Oh dear!"
It wasn't a very good thing for Ed
ith to be thinking this regret for a
life, which, undeniably pleasant tho'
it was, had never been so beautified
and glorified until Harry's love came
to her. But it was pitibly true that
hei- hunboud's neglect or her or fate
had more than once made such
thoughts, more than once had brought
hot tears of wounded pain and regret
to the blue eyes thatother young men
than Harry Forrest had thought
worth their while to have smile in
theirs; and Edith was ceitainly very
lonely.
The great fashionable boarding
house to which Harry had brought
her, installed her in one of its most
elpgant rooms, was not such a home
us she had been accustomed to where
everything was gay cheer and girlish
frolic.
The boarders were, of course, utter
strangers, and haughtily exclusive.
Edith was reserved and shrinking,
and, with the exception of Mrs. This
tle, a gentle little widow, who was
almost as shy as Edith herself, and
Mrs. Worthington, who was jolly aud
gay as she could be, little Mrs. For
rest had not an acquaintance in all
the city.
"It's too bad," she sobbed, bitterly,
as she lay on the little crimson silk
lounge, with her face all tear-flushed,
and her rose-bud mouth quivering.
"I can almost Bee them at home now
Sue, and Jennie, and Sil, and the
parlor lighted up, and perhaps How
ard singing one of his lovely tenor so
los to Sue's accompaniment; nnd
Frank Morrison will come in, and
J they'll have a delicious waltz, and
then Phil will speak of me dear,
darling old Phil ! He always thought
more of me than any one else ever
did even Harry Forrest! I wish I
hadn't ever married him, and then
t
There was a little expression of dis
content and indignation coming on
her lips memories that would not
bear comparison with her present
gilded loneliness called them up, and
it wasn't a good sight to see on a pret
ty married woman's face.
For an hour after Harry had gone
out Edith lay on the couch, all sorts
of thoughts runuing riot in her brain,
until they were dissipated sharply by
a rap ou her door, and a card that
sent all expression out of her face and
eyes except surprise, that quickly
changed into an excitement of de
light. "Tell the gentleman I will be down
in a moment," she suid to the ser
vant. Then she flew to the dressing-mirror,
and saw that she was in a pre
sentable condition, and then went
down stairs with a smile and three
unspoken words on her lips:
"Dear old Phil!"
Three weeks later Mr. Forrest carne
in somewhat unexpectedly just in
time to see Edith standing by the
window kissing her hands to n gen
tleman driving by in a carriage a
handsome, dashiug looking fellow,
with bold black eyes and drooping
mustache just in time to see the
sparkle in his wife's eyes and the
heightened color in her cheeks.
"Woll, who is he?"
He asked the question so suddenly
that Edith gave a little cry of sur-
prise.
"Ob, Harry, I didn't know you
iwere here! How you startled rael" i
THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1878.
"Doubtless. But that doesn't ex
plain why you were kissing jTour
hand to whom ?"
The blush on her cheekB deepened
until her face was scarlet.
"He Is a friend acquaintance of
mine," she stammered.
He looked angrily at her angrily,
with a faint sense of-pain mingling
with anger.
"An acquaintance! Since when,
please? Edith, do you know you are
doing a terribly risky thing In ans
wering any salutes from bold, fast
men who, in driving by, may have
been fascinated hy your pretty face?
Edith, I won't ask any more ques
tions, but I insist upon you obeying
me in keeping away from those win
dows.. And for the first time in their lives
they sat down to their dinner with a
cloud between them.
"And I don't care," Edith said to
herself. "If Phil is kinder to me than
Harry is, I'll like him best, that's all.
He wouldn't leave me alone as Harry
does, and this very night we are go
ing to drive to the park if the moon is
bright."
And when Mr. Forrest came in
that evening, about 10 o'clock, lie
he was again fortunately In time to
catch the black eyed, black-moustauh-ed
fellow going down the front steps
to the chaise waiting at the door, and
just in time to find Edith folding
away her jacket. But he said noth
ing. His whole soul was beginning to be
on fire with fury and jealousy, and he
found it remarkably easy to stay at
home, when Edith was so winniugly
sweet and charming that he wonder
ed whether or not she meant It, or
was only trying to cheat him into a
disbelief of her recklessness.
But Edith's curiou3 conduct times
when she, was extravagantly gay,
times wlipn she was dull, pale and
sad worried him.
She never asked him to stay at
home in the evenings now of course
she preferred to have him out of the
way, so that she could have her own
good time with her "friend,"' Harry
said lo himself, ironically, for in his
very heart of hearts he could not
bring himself to say "lover."
His faith in his wife was too strong
to admit of a doubt of aught beyond
indiscretion, and yet he was agoniz
ingly jealous.
Then one evening the climax came,
when Barry came home to dinner
'I.f iAT holir-Btfrllcr, nittlTTniifd TJdlth
reading a note which she tore into
fragments the instant lie crossed the
door-sill tore and threw it in the fire
with flushed face?and startled action.
"Mrs. Worthington wants me to go
to her room to-night. I suppose you
will be going out, Harry?"
He knew she was telling what wa
not so.
"Yks, I am going out to the c!ub."
In his iieart he hated himself for
the falsehood he told, for he knew he
had made up his mind to watch his
wife well that night, and see if his
jealousy was warranted or not.
Edith's cheeks glowed and her eyes
sparkled, and she seemed in a state of
delicious excitement at dinner.
Then she dressed in a becoming toi
lette of black silk, with filmy laces at
wrists and throat, and rich jewelry
rather elaborate for a tete-a-tete with
Mrs. Worthington, Harry thought, as
he smiled bitterly behind his news
paper. He purposely prolonged his stay
half an hour beyond bis usual time,
and then was vexed that Edith should
show no signs of perturbation.
"She's already so versed in deceit
that she can control her fear and im
patience." Finally lie put on his overcoat and
gloves, and went out, to take up his
position on the opposite side of the
street, where hecommauded the doors
and windows ; and ten minutes after
ward a tall black-mustached gentle
man drove up and rang the bell, and
in a moment more his wife his sweet
beloved Edith, whom he never loved
so well as at this moment of her fal
sity his wife came down, and the
two were driven away.
It was the work of a moment to
hail a passing cab, and the chase be
gan, and ended at the door of Exeter
Hall, and Harry bought his ticket and
took a seat as near as he could get to
Edith and her her "friend."
It was a pale, haggard face that
watched them all that evening, and a
pair of eyes that were pitifully pain
ed and indignant and passion ful as he
noted how perfectly happy the two
were how Edith, whose sweet re
serve and f-hyness had been one of her
greatest charms to him, and how ad
mirably the gentleman returned her
pretty little familiarities.
It was an hour of torture to him.
He sat there, remembering all be
time how lie had neglected Edith how
she had ooaxlngly asked him to "stay
at home" or "take her."
He realized, as he had never done
before., what a sudden and great
change it had been to her to leave her
home where there was such a large
family of brothers and sisters, and
consequently, a great deal of young
company. He began to appreciate
how careless he had been of the hap
piness entrusted to his keeping.
He sat there, repentant, indignant,
jealous, remorseful, ready to fly at
that handsome, dashing fellow who
assumed such an air of proprietorship
over his foolish, silly little wife the
lovely little girl, who, not having her
husband's society had sought corn-
panionhbip elsewhere.
He never heacd a qbonl of the di -
vine melodies he never heeded the
storms of applause.
All he heard, all he saw was Edith's
occasional low laugh, her beautiful
flushed face as she turned her profile
toward him.
Then the performance tvas over.
He followed them closely as he
dared, until he saw them take their
carriage, and then the second chase
began, that ended at the door of
their house, and then, from inside his
own cab he saw tlie black moustache
sweep across Edith's mouth and he
heard her low, sweet good-night.
"And Phil, don't forget to drive to
the park to-morrow at 5 to-morrow."
"Phil, Phil!"
"It has come to the permitted famil
iarity of names, hat? it?"
And Harry thought, as he dismiss
ed his cab, and ran up stairs, two
steps at a time, that if ever a man
had just cause to shoot another he
had.
Edith stood before her dressing-cape,
slowly drawing ofT her gloves, when
he dashed in, pale, wrathful.
"What does this mean? Where
have you been?"
If he thought to confront her in a
falsehood he was mistaken.
She flushed crimson, but answered
promptly:
"I have been to Exeter Hall. Have
I committed nn unpardonable sin ?"
"You havedonethenextthing to it.
Who is that that man with whom
you dared to go ? Do you know you
have run the risk of losingyour char
acter you, a married woman, going
to a place of public entertainment
with a man who is almost a stranger
to you? Edith! have you any idea
of what you have dohe ?"
She turned her face, pale enough
now, to him.
"Harry, have you any idea of what
you have done? Night after night I
have stayed here by myself, until I
wonder I did not run away and go
home. I begged you to stay, or let
me go sometimes not always, and
you laughed at me. And, then,
when I found some one who paid me
the attention you should have done,
you talk to me this way ! I will tell
you, honestly, tlie gentleman who
took me Is very, very dear lo me. I
love him! There! And if you won't
be good to me, lie will !"
Forrest stood dumbfounded.
"Edith, do you know what you
say? Oh, Edith, wife! are j-ou mad
that 3Tou dare speak such awful
words? You love him !"
He staggered to a chair, pale as
death. This, then, wa3 the end of
all.
For a moment Edith kept her
ground ; then her lips began to quiv
er, and her eyes filled with tears;
then she went up to him and knelt
beside him.
'Harry, Harry darling, I do love
him, but not as I do you ! He is my
brother Phil, Harry the one j'ou nev
er saw. He came here several weeks
ago, and we planned it all to make
you love me more, de.ir."
And the lesson had its effect, for
Harry Forrest remembers what agony
of mind he suffered when lie feared
the worst. And lie realizes that it
might all have been as he feared.
Tho Negro Preacher's Account of the
Creation.
The following extract, from a ser
mon preached by a Southern negro
minister to his congregation, Is too
good to be lost, and we give it as near
verbatim as memory will allow :
De Lord made man ; an' He made
him outo' mud ; an' He sot him up
agin de fence to dry. He breaved in
dat man de bref ob life; an' He call
dat man Adam an' He say, "Adam,
eat all de apples in de gardin 'cep'n
de apples in de middle ob de gardin,
kasedem'smy wintah apples!' Den
de Lord went away visitin'. By'm
by Adam got tiard libbin' by bissefall
alone, so one day when he was asleep
de Lord took a butcher-knife, an' He
gouged out a rib; frum dat rib He
fo'med woman ; an' He sot her up
agin de fence to dry. He breaved in
dat woman de href ob life; an' He
call dat woman Ebe ; an' He say,
"Ebe, look a hea hone! eat all de
apples in de gardin 'cep'n de apples
in de middle ob de gardin, kase dem's
my wintah apples." Deu de Lord
went away agin. By'm-by de Debbie
comps dressed in de sarpint's skin ;
an' fust he goes up to Adam, an' he
say, "Look a hea', Adam, eat de win
tah apples!" Adam say, "N' n'!
De Lord say, 'Eat all de apples in de
gardin 'cep'n de apples in de middle
ob de gardin, kase dem's His wintah
apples.' " Den de Debbie went to
Ebe, an' he chuck he under de chin,
an' he say. "Ebe, eat de wintah ap
ples!" Ebe took de apple an' gib Ad
am a bite. Den de Lord kim back,
an' fust he goes up to Adam, an' he
say, iu tones most awful, "Adam!
who eat dat wintah apple?" Adam
was skard, po.erfuI skard, an1 he
say, "I I I dunno, Lord Ebe, I
'spec'!" Den de Lord went to Ebe,
au' He say, "Ebe, who eat de wintah
apple!" Ebe say, "I I I dunno
Adam, I spec'!" Den de Lord got
berry angry oh, He war awful angry,
my brudern, an' He picks 'em up,
bofby de naps ob der neck-, an' He
flings rem ober de fence, an He say,
"Go, earn yer own libbin'."
It is stated that ten members of the
United States Senate are printers by
trade.
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Reticence is the comiiest child of
i, common sense.
VOL. 22.-NO.
Free Thought.
Editor Nebraska Advertiser:
It seems almost incredible, does it
not, thatany intelligent person1 would
dare, or desire, to prevent the liberty
of thought. But such is the fact the
darkest expression of the perversity
of human nature.
It has ever been the way of weav
ing out the web of human action, that
a few must do the thinking, let it be
correct thought or not ; and then oth
er minds run off in that channel. For
this reison many of the patterns in
the web are so unsightly and have to
be unraveled, thus making bad places,
aud it is rightly called error and fol-
Is it not the most supreme folly, the
most dangerous of errors, for some
men to come before the public with
their thoughts nnd demand an accept
ance of them as the utterances of
truth, then deny to others the same
right? Whatsheermaduess. Whence
came this authoritative power to
them? Do they say public opinion
gives a right to suppress the right of
thought, and the expression of it ?
Ah ! but what is public opinion, and
who make? it? It is a fickle oreuture
and the creation of tho same minds
that bring it as testimony; so they
reason in a circle, and make no point,
and give no satisfactory evidence to
the courts of reason.
Religious thought, more than any
otiier, has been proscribed with the
greatest virulence inspiration is
claimed as giving the right to pro
scribe. Now is there a religion on the earth
that does not claim inspiration ; or,
was there ever a religion which did
not claim it? And isitjustor wise to
dispute the claim? But why should
one have the right to an expresion of
his faith and not auother? This has
caused all the religious warfare in the
world. Not the variety of faith, but
effort to bring all others lo "my faith."
Nothing could he more fallacious
and ruinous than to mould all reli
gious thought into one creed. It
would be a soulless monotony. But,
exclaims the horrified sectarian, wo'd
not inspiration cause all to have the
same religious belief? By no man
ner of means. Diversity is life, mo
notony is death. As is the case in all
the varied forms In matter, when re
duced to their last analysis, are found
to be composed of a few simple ele
ments alike in all. The innumerable
variety Is produced by difference of
combination. This is the way nature
works, and oh, how wise. So, in the
make-up of mind, the elements of
thought are common to all. It is the
combination and arrangement which
make tlie variety. Here again the
same wondrous wisdom. Tho grect
er the variety in minds that is, the
greater the individuality, the more
contrast there is in minds, the greater
the beauty, harmony, aud happiness
in the aggregate.
Harmony in the religious world,
will never be expected by striving to
run every mind in the same mould.
The inspirations of the "heavenly
kingdom" are ricli in variety, ami the
human mind is wonderfully adapted
to the beauty of diversity. How much
more beautiful would humanity be, if
each mind was left to bud am! blos
som out into its own individuality.
It is a fearful thing, and wi'l bring
"swift destruction," to enslave tho
powers, to impede the progress, to
darken the way of a human soul.
Dare not to hinder tlie spirit's free flight.
Dare not to darken the soul a:ter light;
Dare not to quench holy fires; which heaven
ward rise.
Dare not enslave the sacred child of the skies
Live toquatrfrom the fountains of llir'it.
Live to scatter gloom from tlie dark moral
nlsht;
Live to nse, and bless, with talents given.
Live to make of tills benighted earth iv heav
en. He like the great ones -chose praises tveslng
Be like theauguls who to earth glad tidings
bring;
Be like the Christ whose love embraces all.
BellkoGod, whose ralui on tlio just and
unjust full.
Jenneite Hardinh.
London, Neb.
Not Women of Tii.it Kind.
Gen Wm. H. French, latch reliev
ed of his command in West Virginia,
has a facial affection which frequent
ly causes a -Hidden contraction of the
muscles, and gives him the appearance
of winking with both eyes at otroe.
On the march to Gettysburg, in the
latter part of June, 1SG3. the General,
accompanied by his stair, rode up to a
Maryland farm-house which he pro
posed to make his headquarters for the
night. Several females appeared at
the door, when General French in
quired: "Ladies, can 3'ou accomo-
datt? ma and rnv staff for the niirht?"
atthesame time discharged one of his
double-barreled winks. The lady of
the house, starting back and casting
a frightened look at her companions,
turned upon the General, aud with
all the asperity she could summon. re-
I plied : "Sir, you liavo made a mis
take. We are not women of that
kind!" "Who the h II said you
were?" roared the General, with an- I
otherdouble wink; "I am General!
French, of the Union army, and" we j
simply want shelter for the night."
There- was a sniggle among some of
the General's staff", when lie turned '
about fiercely and demanded to know
who had laughed, threatening fo put j
the offender under arrest for his levr- j
ty. Matters being explained, the la-1
dies granted him the permission re -
iqueted. Wmhinfiion l D. f) Sfnr.
OFFICIAL PAPER'.OF THE COO TY
For the Nebraska Advertiser.
Home, Sweet Home?
How sweet those words are; and
why ? Let me explain. Some three
years ago my parents and I went to
Illinois and Indiana, expecting to re
turn in the fall. But on account of
grasshoppers, my brothers and sisters
wrote us not to come, bet make our
home there until better times.
We first located at West Lebanon,
lud., Sept., 1S75, remaining there uu
tii Jue, 1876; then moved to Charles
ton, III., where the Universalis
church employed my father to preach
some six months for them.
But oh! how long and wearisome
ditl those three years seem'to me. So
last summer we all prepared for our
fall journey back to our home. We
started September 6th 1S77, and en-
route my father sent an appointment
to Tipton, Mo., where some of his old
friends live, and where he had' spo
ken some five years back.
We stopped over there three day?,
and spent the time pleasantly with
his old friends. We arrived at my
brother's on the next Tuesday.
Friends, I cannot express my joy,
when, on arriving at Dawson 'e'Sta
tion, I saw my brother comiug to
meet us, whom we had not seen for
three years. We staid there a week ;
then started down to my sister's, who
lives on the farm of my early child
hood. How beautiful our old home
looked, when we first cams' in sight
of it; and I thought how much hap
piness I had seen on it, and how
much pleasure I would see in the fu
ture. We staid at my sisters Mrs. S. M.
Tidrow some three weeks', then
thought we would go down to Kansas,
and 3ee my oldest' brother ; also look
at the country ; for my parents were
thinking of selling here aud buying
there. But they were better satisfied
with their own farm than to part
from it. We started about the first of
October, went' with a couin of mine
in a wagon so as to see the country
better. Went via. of Lawrence, came
by Topeka. The country there is not
good, but in Jackson county, Kansas,
was prettier than I had seen since I
had left here. But there ia no cotiu
try that I like better than here in Ne
mnha county.
Wo were gone four weeks', found my
brother and- family well nnir doinK
well. We returned Nov , and re
mained at my sisterssome four weeks.
We now reside in Aspinwall, expect
ing to move on our place in the
spring. Bellk Siiockkv.
Ueccher on Hell.
Tn a recent sermon, Henry Ward1
Beecher stirred up the orthodox hell
fire in the following emphatic style:
"It was said Adam was created per
fect, it was aNo safu that Ada'tn sin
ned, and, in consequence of that sin,
tlie whole human race fell. The num
bers of the human race were actually
beyond computation, and for thous
ands and thousands of yeHnrthey hud
been horn into the world, and lived"
aud struggled, aud finally died, and
gone where? If you tell me they
have all gone to heaven, my answer
will be 'hat such a sweeping of mud
into heaven would defile its" purity,
and I cannot accept that. If you tell
me they have gone to hall, then I
swear bj the Lord Jesus Christ,
whom I have sworn to worship forev
er, that you will make an infidel of
me. Tlie doctrine that God has been
for thousands of years peopling" thi
earth with human beings, during n.
period three-fourths of which was not
illuminated by an altar or a church,
nnd iu pfac'eK where a vast population
oflho3e people are yet without that
light. N to transform the Almrghty
into a monster more hideous than Sa
tan himself, and I swear by all that in
sacred that I will never worship Sa
tan, though he should appear dressed
in royal robes and seated1 on tho
throne of Jehovah. Men may say :
'You will not go to heaven.' A heav
en presided over by such a demon an
that, who has been peopling this
world witli millions of human being
and then sweeping them off" Into hell,
not like dead flies, but without taking
the tronble even to kill them-, and
gloating and laughing over theireter
nal rnissry, is not such a heaven a I
want to go to. The doctrine is too hor
rible. I cannot believe it, and I won't.
They say the saints in heaver are Mr
happy that they do not mind tlie tor
ments of tho damned iu hell, hut
what sort of saints must they be who
could be happy while looking down
upon the horrors of the bottomless
pit? They don't mind. They're i-afe;
they're happy. What would the moth
er think of the siateeu-year daughter
who when her infant was lying. dead
in the house, should come dancing
and?inginK int the par,or and eX
claim : 'Oh. I'm so happy, mother.
I don't care for the dead baby in the
coffin !' Would she not be shocked ?
And so with this doctrine". And, by
tbe blood of Christ, I denouce it; by
the Wounds- in His hantf? and Flig
feet, I abhor it; by His groans and
agony, 1 abhor and denounce it a the
mQ3t hIdeU3 n'gh ""-" of theology."
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Could anything be neater than tho
old darkey's reply to si beautiful
young lady whom he offered to Hit
over the gutter, ond who insisted she
was too heavy ? "Lor', Missus," said"
he, "I'se U3ed lo lifting, barrels of su
ger,"
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, How to find a girl, out Call whetl
; he isn't it.
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