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TAiJtAGE'S SEEMON ; FALSE NOTIONS ABOUT REAL RELIGION CORRECTED. "Of Splees Great Abaadaaee ; Neither Was Thar * Aay Sack Bplee M the Q@ * a of Sneba Gave King Seleses. * ' II Chronicles IX : 9. [ Copyright , 1901 , by Louis KIopBcb , N. Y.I Washington , Aug. 4. In this dis course Dr. Talmage corrects come of the false notions about religion and represents it as being joy inspiring in stead of dolorous. Text II. Chronicles ix. , 9 : "Of spices great abundance ; neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gaveKing Solo mon. " What is that building out yonder glittering in the sun ? Have you not heard ? It is the house of the forest of Lebanon. King Solomon has just taken to it his bride , the princess of ' 'of the por Kjcypt. You see thVpHlars tico and a great tower , adorned with 1,000 shields of gold hung on the out side of the tower 500 of the shields of gold manufactured at Solomon's or der , 600 were captured by David , his father , in battle. See how they blaze in the noonday sun ! Solomon goes up the ivory stairs of his throne between twelve lions in statnary and sits down on the back of the golden bull , the head of the huge beast turned toward the people. The family and the attendants of the king are so many that the caterers of the palace have to provide every day 100 sheep and thirteen oxen , besides v- the birds and the venison. I hear the stamping and pawing , pf 4,000 fine horses in the royal stables. There were important officials who had charge'of the work of gathering the straw and the barley for these horses. .King Solomon was an early riser , tra dition says , and used to take a ride out at daybreak , and when , in his .white apparel , behind the swiftest horses of all the realm and followed by 'mounted ' archers In purple , as the cavalcade dashed through the streets of Jerusalem I suppose it was some thing worth getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to look at. Seeing for Oneself. ; Queen Balkis was so pleased with the acuteness of Solomon that she said , "I'll just go and see him for myself. " Yondon it comes the cavalcade horses and dromedaries , chariots and charioteers , jingling harness and clat tering hoofs and blazing shields and flying ensigns and clapping cymbals. The place is saturated with the per fume. She brings cinnamon and saf fron and calamus and frankincense and all manner of sweet spices. As the retinue sweeps through the gate the armed guard inhales the aroma. "Halt ! " cry the charioteers , as the wheels grind the gravel in front of the pillared portico of the king. Queen Balkis alights in an atmosphere be witched with perfume. As the drom edaries are driven up to the king's storehouses , and the bundles of cam phor are unloaded , and the sacks of cinnamon and the boxes of spices are 1 opened , the purveyors of the palace discover what my text announces : "Of B spices , great abundance ; neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. " Well , my friends , you know that all theologians agree in making Solomon a type of Christ and in making the queen of Sheba a type of every truth seeker , and I will take'the responsi bility of saying that all the spikenard and cassia and frankincense which the queen of Sheba brought to King Solo mon are mightily suggestive of the sweet spices of our holy religion. Christianity is not a collection of sharp technicalities and angular facts and chronological tables and dry sta tistics. Our religion is compared to frankincense and to cassia , but never to nightshade. It is a bundle of myrrh. It is a dash of holy light. It is a sparkle of cool fountains. It is an opening of opaline gates. It is a col lection of spices. Would God that we were as wise in taking spices to our Divine King as Queen Balkis was wise in taking the spices to the earthly Sol omon. Christ Brings Cheerfulness. How any woman keeps house with out the religion of Christ to help her is a mystery to me. To have to spend the greater part of one's life , as many women do , in planningfor the.meals Jand stitching garments that will soon " be rent again and deploring breakages and supervising tardy subordinates : > and driving off dust that soon again LK will settle and doing the same thing day in and day out and year in and year out until the hair silvers and the back stoops and the spectacles crawl to the eyes and the grave breaks open ' under the thin sole of the shoe oh , it 11 ! is a long monotony ! But when Christ comes to the drawing room and comes to the kitchen and comes to the nur sery and comes to the dwelling , then how cheery become all womanly du h ties ! She is never alone now. Martha gets through fretting and joins Mary at the feet of Jessus. All day long Debora is happy because she can help Lapidoth , Hannah because she can make a coat for young Samuel , Miriam because she can watch her infant brother , Rachel because she can help her father water the stock , the widow of Sarepta because the cruse of oil is being replenished. O woman , hav ing in your pantry a nest of boxes con taining all kinds of condiments , why have you not tried in your heart and life the spicery of our holy religion ? "Martha , Martha , thou art careful and troubled about many things , but one thing is needful , and Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken > si away from her. " I must confess that a great deal of the religion of this day is utterly in- /2pid. There is nothing piquant or el- ! ej.tng. | > about It 'Men , and women go around humming pMthas in a minor key and cultivating melancholy , and their worship has In It more Irb.s , than raptures. * We do not doubt their piety. Oh , no ! But they are sitting at a feast where the cook'has forgotten tqjseason the food. Everything is flat in their experience and in their con versation. Emancipated from sin'and death and hell and on their way to a magnificent heaven , they'act as though they were trudging on toward an ever lasting Botany Bay. Religion does not seem to agree with them. It seems to catch in the windpipe and become a tight strangulation instead of an ex hilaration. All the infidel books that have been written , from'Voltaire down fo Herbert Spencer , have not done so much damage to our Christianity as lugubrious Christians. Fat la Mere Spices. I have to say also that we need to put more spice and enlivenment in our religious teaching , whether It be in the prayer meeting or in the Sunday Echodl or in the "church" We 'minis-- ters need more fresh air and sunshine in our lungs and our heart and our head. Do you wonder that the world is so far from being converted when you find so litle vivacity in the pulpit and in the pew ? We want , like the Lord , to plant in our sermons and ex hortations more lilies of the field. We want fewer rhetorical elaborations and fewer sesquipedalian words , and when we talk about shadows we do not want to say adumbration , and when we mean queerness wo do not want to talk about idiosyncrasies , or if a stitch in the back we do not want to talk about lumbago ; but , in the plain ver nacular of the great masses , preach that gospel which proposes'-to make all men happy , honest , victorious and free. In other words , we want more cinnamon and less gristle. Let this be so in all the different departments of work to which the Lord calls us. Let us be plain. Let us be earnest. L"et " us be common sensical. When we talk to the people in a vernacular they can understand , they will be very glad to come and received the truth we present. Would to God that Queen Balkis would , drive her spice laden dromedaries into all our sermons and prayer meeting exhortations ! More than that , we want more life and spice in our Christian work. The poor do not want so much to be groaned over as sung to. With the bread and medicines and garments you give them let there be an accompani ment of smiles and brisk encourage ment. Do not stand and talk to them about the wretchedness of their abode , and the hunger of their looks , and the hardness of their lot. Ah , they know it better than you can tell them. Show them the bright side of the thing , if there be any bright side. Tell them good times will come. Tell them that for the children of God there is im mortal rescue. Wake them up out of their stolidity by an inspiring laugh , and while you send in help , like the queen of 'Sheba , also send in the spices. There are two ways of meet ing the poor. One is to come into their house with a nose elevated in disgust , as much as to say : "I don't see how you live here in this neighborhood. It actually makes me sick. There is that bundle. Take it , you poor , miserable wretch , and make the most of it. " An other way is to go into the abode of the poor in a manner which seems to say : "The blessed Lord sent me. He was poor himself. It is not more' for the good I am going to try to do you than it is for the good that you can do me. " Coming in that spirit , the gift will be as aromatic as the spikenard on the feet of Christ , and all the * hovels on that alley will be fragrant with the spice. Singing as a Religions Daty. I promise a high spiritual blessing to any one who will sing in church and who will sing so heartily that the people all around cannot help but sing. Wake up , all the churches from Ban- gor to San Francisco and across Christendom ! It is'not a matter of preference. It is a matter of religious duty. Oh , for fifty times more the volume of sound than has ever yet rolled up from our churches ! Ger * man chorals in German cathedrals sur pass us , and yet Germany has received nothing at tne hands of God compared with America. And ought the ac claim in Germany be louder than that of America ? Soft , long drawn out music is appropriate for the drawing- room and appropriate for the concert , but St. John gives an idea of the sonorous and resonant congregational singing appropriate for churches when in listening to the temple service of heaven he says : "I hear a great voice as the voice of a great multitude , and as the voice of many waters , and as the voice of mighty thunderings. Halleluiah , for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth ! " Join with me in a crusade , giving me not only your hearts , but the mighty uplifting of your voices , and I believe we can through Christ's grace sing 5,000 souls into the kingdom of Christ. An argument they can laugh at , a sermon they may talk down , but a 5,000-voiced utterance of praise to God is irresistible. Would that Queen Balkis would drive all her spice-laden dromedaries into our church music ! * The Remedy for Sorrow. Why did you look so sad this morn ing when you came in ? Alas , for the loneliness and the heartbreak and the load that is never lifted from your soulj Some of you go about feeling like Macaulay when he wrote , "If I had another month of such days as I have been spending , I would be im patient to get down into my little , nar row crib in the ground , like a weary factory child. " And there have been times in your life when you wished j-ou could get out of this lite. You" have ild , "Oh , how sweat to my lip * would be the dust of the valley ! " an * wished you could pull over you in year last lumber the coverlet of green grass and daisies. You have said : "Oh , how beautifully quiet it must be in the tomb ! I wish I was there. " I see afr around about me widow hood and orphanage and childlessness ; sadness , disappointment , perplexity.-If I could ask all those in any audience 'whohave * felt no sorrow and been'buf- feted by no disappointment if I could ask all such to rise , how many would rise ? Not one. A widowed mother , with her little child , went west , hoping to get better wagesr there , and she was taken sicfc and died. The overseer of the poor got her body and put it in a box and put it in a wagon and started down the street toward the cemetery at full trot. The little child the only child- ran after it through the streets bare headed , crying : "Bring me back my mother ! Bring me back my mother ! " And it was said that as the people looked-on.-and" saw" her crying 'after that which lay in the box in the wagon , all she loved on earth it is said the whole village was in tears. And that is what a great many of you are doing chasing the dead. Dear Lord , is there no appeasement for all this sorrow that I see about me ? Yes ; the thought of resurrection and re union' far beyond this scene of strug gle and tears. "They shall hunger no more , neither thirst any more , neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat , for the Lamb which is in the midst/of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water , and God shall wipe away all tears from their yes. " Across the couches of your * sick and 'across the graves of your- dead I fling this shower of sweet spices. Queen Balkis , driving up to the pillared portico of the house of cedar , carried no such pungency of per fume as exhales to-day from the Lord's garden. It is peace. It is sweetness. The Most Magnificent Temple * Have you read of the Taj Mahal , in India , in some respects the most ma jestic building on earth ? Twenty thousand men were twenty years in building it. > It cost about $16,000,000. The walls are of marble inlaid with carnelian from Bagdad and turquoise from Tibet and jasper from the Pun jab and amethyst from Persia and all manner of precious stones. A traveler said that it seemed to him like the shining of the enchanted castle of burnished silver. The walls are 245 feet high , and from the top of these springs a dome 30 more feet high , that dome containing the most wonderful echo the world has ever known , so that ever and anon travelers standing below with flutes and drums and harps are testing that echo , and the sounds from below strike up , and then come down , as it were , the voices- angels all around about the building. There is around it a garden of tamarind and banyan and palm a'nd all'the floral glories of the ransacked earth. But that is only a tomb of a dead empress , and it is tame compared with the grand eurs which God has builded for your living and immortal spirit. Oh , home of the blessed ! Founda tions of gold ! Arches of victory ! Cap stones of praise ! And a dome in which there are echoing and re-echoing the halleluiahs of the ages ! And around about that mansion is a garden , the garden of God , and all the springing fountains are the bottled tears of the church in the wilderness and all the crimson of the flowers is the deep hue that was caught up from the carnage of earthly martyrdoms and the fra grance is the prayer of all the saints and the aroma puts into utter forget- fulness the cassia and the spikenard and the frankincense and the world renowned spices which Queen Balkis of Abyssinia flung at the feet of King Solomon. When shall these eyes thy heaven built walls And pearly gates behold , Thy bulwarks , with salvation strong , And streets of shining gold ? Two Passengers' Dislikes. A lady of a truly masculine spirit , accompanied by a small poodle , is said to have failed sadly the other day in an attempted reformatory movement. She entered the smoking car of a suburban train and sternly refused , when approached by the conductor , to go into another car , observing that her presence would keep the other oc cupants from smoking.One 'thick- skinned wretch , however , insensible to the claims of refinement and reform , began to enjoy his accustomed cigar , which was suddenly snatched from his lips with the remark in a high treble : "If there is anything I do hate it 'is tobacco smoking ! " For a time the offender was motionless , then , gravely rising , amid the curiosity of the as sembled smokers , b.e took that little poodle out of the lady's lap and gently threw him through the window , sigh ing : "If there is anything I do hate it is a poodle. " Chicago Tribune. Caught a freak Iiobster. Daniel Carpenter of the South Ferry recently caught in one of his lobster pots a freak lobster. While this crus tacean is of ordinary size and perfect ly developed , one-half of the shell , running down the back , from the cen ter of its head to its tail , is of a bril liant crimson and the other half of a brigh green , while according to the learned ones of Brown University who are making a study of this species of marine animals , similar specimens have been found. A lobster thus col ored was never before seen by old fishermen in these .waters. Provi dence Journal. British lifeboats save , on an aver ' age , 550 lives a'year. ' * BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH. " A Special TrlBHaal far British Kejal < Heaieaela1 aad Cevrt OMcen. In England all the members of the royal household and the officials of the royal court , no matterwhat their degree , art , subject to a special tri bunal , known as the board of green clothwhich has likewise exclusive jurisdiction in the case of all offenses committed within .the precincts of the royal palaces and the gardens , grounds and parks connected therewith. The board of green cloth , composed of sev eral high dignitaries of the household , is presided over by the lord steward of the household , who has the power to delegate to any judge or magistrate bis authority to deal , in the name of the board , with offenses that would legally come before the latter. It is as the representatives of the board of green cloth , and as our deputy of the lord steward , that the senior police magistrate of the metropolis .holds court in a room underneath the grand stand , at Ascot-during the Ascot race meet each year , the Ascot racecourse forming a part of the royal domain of "Windsor. Besides the board of green cloth there is the House of Lords , which is called upon to serve as a tri bunal in a number of specific cases. Strictly speaking , there are two sep arate tribunals known as the Houses of Lords. There is , for instance , the tribunal to which cases may be carried on appeal from the Supreme court , and which is composed of what are known as the law lords , that is to say , of peerswho have occupied seats on the bench , or who are still regular members of the high court of judica ture. But no lay or spiritual peers have anything to do with this tribunal , which has jurisdiction only ill the United Kingdom , the judicial commit tee or the privy council serving as court of final appeal for the British empire. Ex-Attache in New York Tribune. COLD DRINKS INJURIOUS. tow Temperature or Drink * Cause * Kid ney Disease , Say Doctors. Americans drink far too much of cold beverages and consume too much frozen condiments , says physicians , And beauty doctors aver that woman will never have a lovely complexion while she looks into the soda water glass when it froths or lingers too long at the ice-water cooler. The low * tem perature , 'say doctors , at which wafer and liquors are so largely consumed undoubtedly had as much , if not more , to do with disease of the kidneys than any other single cause. A writer in a hygienic contemporary calls attention to the fact that it is a great mistake to imagine that cold drinks are neces sary to relieve thirst. He says : "Very cold drinks , as a rule , increase the fev erish condition of the mouth and stom ach , and so create thirst. Experience shows it to be a fact that hot drinks relieve the thirst and cool off the body when it is in an abnormally heated condition better than ice-cold drinks. It is far better and safer to avoid the use of drinks below sixty degrees. In fact , a higher temperature is to be preferred , and those who are much troubled with thirst will do well to try advantages to be derived from hot drinks , to which they have been accus tomed. Hot drinks also have the ad vantage of aiding digestion instead of causing debility of the stomach and bowels. " Filipino Hats In Favor. The coolest thing in the way of mas culine headgear seen in these parts * in many moons is the Filipino hat. These hats are the most recent of the imports from our new possessions. The head is made of what closely re sembles the cane used in chair seats , but is mucn lighter in weight. The material is closely plaited and the hat looks like a cross between a chopping bowl and a Soudan helmet , without the helmet's front piece. The hat is so constructed that the headgear proper does not touch the head at all. It is lined with a light fabric , sea green in color , and to the crown is attached a steel band cov ered with oiled silk , which band rests upon the head and supports the hat. The result is that the hat proper ex tends some inches beyond the fore head and beyond the back of the head , so ttiat all the air there is stirring may have full play at one's cranium. At the back the hat tapers off like a fire man's helmet. How Malt Bests Passengers' The vast difference between the mail service and the passenger is well illus trated by the following fact : One of the Pacific railroads hauls a combina tion train , mail and passenger , over the mountains. When the level coun try is reached the mail cars are cut off and sent on ahead. A passenger leav ing the coast may mail a letter in one of these cars on his own train , and by the time he has reached Chicago he will find that the letter has already gone through the Chicago postoffice , been delivered and is waiting for him at his hotel. Gunton's Magazine. H < w Assortment of Names * The Duchess-of Cornwall is blessed with a liberal assortment of Christian names. Should she eventually share the British throne she can select from these : Augustine , Louise , Olga , Paul ine , Claudine , Agnes. Gifts to Colleges. In thirty days recently the gifts to colleges , art museums and libraries in the United States exceeded $20,000,000. The year 1901 pron&ses a total of over $100,000,000 in large benefactions in this country. MEMBER OF FROi SANDWICH CONGRESS ISLANDS eBSM _ _ _ _ * r HeBSSJSSSSSV ftMWSiaiBnBSMMSMHi Mt ( Cured of Catarrh ofthe Stomach by Pe-ru-na. 3 CONGRESSMAN R. W. WILCOX , t : Delegate to Congress from Hawaii , t YIIITr T TTf Ft YIMMTTI TTITff " TTTTII T T I TITT IT rT < Hon. Robert W. Wilcox , Delegate to Congress from Hawaii and the Sand wich Islands , in a recent letter from Washington , D. C. , writes : " / have used Peruna for dyspepsia and I cheerfully give you this testi monial. Am satisfied if it is used properly it will be of great benefit to our people. lean conscientiously rec ommend it to anyone who is suffering with stomach or catarrhal troubles. " R. W. WItcox. All over this country are hundreds of A laugh to be joyous must flow from the joyous heart. It , like truth , only asks a hearing. Wizard Oil cures pain. Poverty is no disgraca to a man , but it is confoundedly inconvenient. Mrn.VinelowH soothing Syrnp. 'For children teething , softens the gums , reduces In flammation , allays pain , cures wind colic. &c a bottle. There are 28,894 juvenile temperance societies in the British islands. DON'T SPOIL YOUR CLOTHES. Use Red Cross Ball Blue and keep them white as snow. All grocers. 5c. a package. Only 40 British novelists are able to live on the profits of their books. Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH , the only 16 oz. package for 10 cents. All other 10-cent starch con tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded. GREATLY REDUCED KATES via WABASH R. R. $12.00 Buffalo and return $13.00. $31.00 New York and return $31.00 The Wabash from Chicago will sell tickets at the above rates daily. Aside from these rates , the Wabash run through trains over its own rails from Kansas City ! St. Louis and Chicago and offer many special rates during the summer months , allowing stopovers at Niagara Falls and Buffalo. Ask your nearest Ticket Agent or ad dress Harry E. Moores , General Agent , Pass. Dept. , Omaha , Neb. , or C. S. Crane , 6. P. & T. A. , St. Louis , Mo. We should all like to see the unde * - taker prosper if we could designate the source of his income. * FRAGRANT a perilct liquid dintifrici for tht Teeth and Mouth New Size SOZODONT LIQUID , 25c SOZODONTTOOTH POWDER , 2Sc Urge LIQUID and POWDER , 75c At all Stores , or by Mall for the price. H ALL & RUCK EL , New York. the man who wears Sawyer' * Slickers. They're made of specially woven Roods , doable throughout , double end triple etitched , warranted water proof. proof.Sawyer's are soft and smooth. Will not crack , peel oft or become sticky. Catalogue free. 7/H.M. Sawyer & Son , Solo Mfrs. East Cambridge , Mass. people who are Buffering from catarrk ous time , and enduring needless suffer ing. The remedies they try only tem porarily palliate the distress , but never effect a cure. Remedies for dyspepsia. have multiplied so rapidly that they are becoming as numerous as the leaves of the forest , and yet "dyspepsia con tinues to flourish in spite of them alL This is due to the fact that the cause of dyspepsia Is not recognized as catarrh. If there is a remedy in the who ! * range of medicinal preparations that 1 in every particular adapted to dyspep sia , that remedy is Peruna. This rem edy is well nigh invincible in these cases. Dr. Hartman , President of The Hart- man Sanitarium , Columbus , O. , says : " ' ' ' ' * > "In''mylarge''practicesandcorrespon- dence I have yet to learn of a single case of atonic dyspepsia which has not either been greatly benefited or cured by Peruna. " No one suffering with catarrh of the stomach or dyspepsia , however slight , can be well or happy. It is the causa of so many distressing symptoms that it is a most dreaded disease. Peruna acts immediately on the seat of the trouble , the inflamed mucous mem branes lining the stomach and a last ing cure is effected. If you do not derive prompt and sat isfactory results from the use of Pe-x runa , write at once to Dr. Hartman. giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Adflres's Dr. Hartman , President of The Hartman Sanitarium , Columbus , O. Ask your grocer for DEFIANCB STARCH , the only 16 oz. package for 10 cents. AH other I0-cent > starch con tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded. When you face a difficulty never let it stare you out of countenance. HARVEST 20,000 HANDS required to harvest t/lie groin crop of West- err > Canada. The most abucd- nnt yield on the Con tinent. Reports are that the average yield of No. 1 Hard wheat in Western Canada will be over thirty bushels to the aero. Prices for farm help will bo excellent. Splendid Ranching Lands adjoining the Wheat Bolt. Excursions will ho run from all points In the United States to the Free Grant Lands. Secure a homo at once , and if you wish to purchase at prevailing prices , and secaro the advantage of. the low rates , apply for literature , rates , etc. , to F. PEDLET , Su'perinfoudentlmmigratlon , Ottawa , Can ada , or to W. V. Bennett , Canadian'Gov- ermnent Agent , 801 New York Life Bldg. , Omaha , Neb. 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Gymnasium under direction of graduate of Boston Normal School of Gymnastics. Catalogue free. The 47th year will open Sept. 5,1901. Address DIRECTRESS OF THE ACADEMY , \ St. Mary's Academy , Notre Daaae , 1 HAS No EQUAL. You gf.t chromo starches under all brands and names , but they are all tiie same poor stuff and have to depend upon something to sell them , Use Defiance Starch , No premiums , but 16 ounces REQURBNOCOOKWG PREPARED FDR of the best starch for lOc \ Don't forgetit a better qua > ity and one > third more of it
