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Dickerman 8: Son’s, N Washington Street, South lcrwsik, Connecticut. JAMES GOLDEN, museum. rme . PRINT- me. II Ilflllllflll O ” Work Done » Prdmptly. ' stunt. be hill." g. physical and materiel. lion! hope that 7 in the most vehement "Wm ’ ,todeoicre his anxiety of ills: relatives and friends. It was. passion for souls. Not Mellon out of thousands , 1 it. All absorblu do- she for the betterment of the physics and mental condition is very comment. would take more Of a mathematician than I ever can lie to'caiculaie how many are“ that sometimes will not it ills, planning for the ef- ficiency of hospitals where the sick and wounded of. bodynre treated, and for eye and our infirmioud for dispensed» and retreats where the poorest may have most skillful s and helpful trait- ment. Oh. it is utiful and glorious this widespread and ever intensifying movement to allovlate and cure physical misfortunes. my fled encourage and help the thousands of splendid man and women engaged in tbnt work! But all behalf of the immortality of a man, the inner eye, the inner ear, the inner capacity for gladnees or distress, how few feel any- thing like the morphelming concentrs- 130” ticn expmeed in my text. Borer than four leaved clovers, ,rarer than century plants, rarer than prime dunner, have been those of whom it may be said, “They had a passion for souls. " You could count on the fingers and thumb of your left hand in the lustre-tbs eighteenthueeutury were so characterized. Redemption)! unkind. All the union: of them on could recall in our time as havfng t is passion for souls youcan count on the fingers and . thumbs of your right and left hands. There aremany more such consecrated souls, but they are scattered so widely you do not know them. Thoroughly. Christian peoploby the bundreileof millions there are today, but how few people do you know who are utterly oblivious tocvery- tbing in this world except the redemption 1 of souls? Paul had-it when he wrote my . text, and the time will come when the majority of Christians will have it, if this world is ever to he lifted out of the slough in which it has been sinking and flounder- ing for near 19 centuries, and the better- mouthed better begin with myself and yourself. When a committee of the Society of Friends called upon a member to repri- mand him for breaking sonic small role ofthesoolotthornomberrcpliod: “lhada ‘, dream, in which all the friends had accom- bled to plan some way to have our msot~ ing house cleaned, for it was very filthy. Many propositionawaxo made, but no con- clusion was reached until one of the mom bers rose and said, 'Frlonds, 1 think if each one would take a broom and sweep immediately around his own seat. the meeting house would be cieun.’ " So let the work of spiritual improvement begin around our own soul. Some one whispers up from the right hand side of the pulpit and says, “Will you please name some of the persons in our times who have this passion for souls?” Oh, no! That would be invidious and imprudent, and the more mentioning of the names of such persons might cause in thorn spiritual pride, and then the Lord would have no more use for them. Someone whispers up from the left hand side of the pulpit, “Will you not, than, men- tion among tho people of the post sumo who had this passion for souls?” 0b, yesi Samuel Rutherford, the Srotchmnn of 800 ‘ yours ago~his imprisonment at Aberdeen for his religious zeal, and the public burn- ing of his book, “Lox Rex, " in Edinburgh, and his unjust arraignment for high trou- son and other persecutions, purifying and ounctifying him so that his works, entitled "Trial and Triumph of Faith” and “Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself," and, above all, his lilo unparal- leled letters showed that be bad the passion for souls; Richard Baxter, whose “Para- phrase of the New Testament" caused him to be dragged before Lord Jeflroys, who howled at him no “a rascal" and "enivcl- lug Presbyterian” and imprisoned him for two years—Baxter, writing ms religious books. his “Call to the Unmnvertcd" bringing accounted thousands into the portion of the gospel, and his “iiaints' Everlasting Rest" opening heaven to a host innumerable; Richard Cecil; Thomas a Kompis, writing his “lmimtion of Christ" for all ages; llarlan Page, Robert bioCheyne, thtleton, Finncy and more whom I might mention, the characteristic of whose lives was an ovortowcrlng paw slou for tools. A. B. lilarl. the Baptist evangelist, had it I. ll. Inskip, the Math- odist mangellst, had it. Jacob Knapp bad it. Dr. Bncbus, president of Hamilton college, had it. And when told ho had only half an hour to live said: “is that so? Then take me out of my bed and piece me upon my knees and let me spend that time in calling on God for the salvation of the world." And so he died upon his Rows. Then there have been others wins-o Mines have hill)“ known only in their own lmnily or neighborhood. and here and there you think of one. What unotlon they had in prayer! What power they had in oxhort tsiicol If they walked into a home, every momber of it felt a holy thrill, and if they walked into a prayer meeting the dullness and Itoiidlty instantly vanished. fine of them would wake up a whole church. (ion of them would sometimes elmtrify awbole oi . W The film Peasant. But the most wonderful one of that characterisation the world ever saw or hard or felt was a peasant in the far east, wearing a plain blouse like an inverted wheat sock, with three openings—«one for the neck and the other two for the anus His father a wheeiwright and house build- er and given to various carpentry- lilo mother at lint under suspicion ounces of the circumstances of his nativity. and he closed by a Huddle mania out of his na- tive lend to live swabs umler the shadows of the bin: sud pyramid of Birch, all-r- ward 3W the his b. 's of Janus- that is outside of mi subject today. . In 1 all the names of those’ you can recall who . 10f a grass blade by the cow’s hoof on its ’ AW: , w this Pauline and Uhrirtly longing for loved immortailitioti I answer, by bet- ter appreciations» pmioopotiouof the soul’s existence computed with everything surgeon will suooeseftdly remove the cot- aract from that man's 'eyei it is such o and thing to be blind. Let us pray while the doctor is busy with the delicate «morn» tlon. But for how long it time will be Do able to give his patient eyesight? Well, if the patient best} years of age, he will add and that will bring the man to 90 ’yeore. audit is put probable that he will live longer than" that, or that he will live so long. But what is good eyesight for to years more as compared with clear vision for the soul a billion of centuries? i hope 1 night, from yonder home will be successful. God help the doctors! We will wait in great anxiety until theiiros of that fever are ex- tinguished, and when the man rises from his pillow and walks out. with what lleartiboes we will welcome him into the fresh air and the church and business cir~ closi He is all yours of age, and if he slinil ’ live 00 years more that will make him 90. But what are 60 years more of earthly vigor couipared with the soul’s health for a quodrillion mllionninma-r-a millennium, as you know. a thousand years? This 3 world, since fitted up for man’s residence, , has existed about six thousand years. How ‘much longer will it exist? We will sup- it shall last as much longer, which is That will make its exist— But what very doubtful. once twelve thousand years. pared with the eternity preceding those years and the eternity following them-- tims, as compared to eternity, like the drop of the night dew shaken from the top ‘5 way afield this morning, as compared with 1 Mediterranean and Arabian and Atlantic 1 and Pacilic watery dominionsl ‘ Paul at Corinth. A stranger desired to purchase a farm, 1 but the owner would not sell itwwould 1 only let it. The stronger hired it by lease 1for only one crop, but be sorted accords, 1 and to mature that crop 800 years were : necessary. That was a practiced deception, , but I deceive you not when I tell you that 1 the crop of the soul taken hold of unending ogcs. : I see the author of my text seated in the house of Gains, who entertained him at § Corinth, not for from the overhanging 1 fortress of Acro-Corinthus, and meditating 1 on the longevity of the soul and getting imoro and more agitated about its value land the awful risk smile of his kindred ; were running concerning it, and he writes 1 this letter containing the text, which lChrysostom admired so much he had it 5 road to him twice a week, and among oth- 1or things he says those daring and star . tling words of my text, “i could wish that ,mysolf wore occursod from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to the f flush. " Another wayto got something of tho EPnuliuo longing for redeemed immortali- 1 ties is by exmulning the vast machinery arranged to save this inner and spiritual uutnro. That machinery started to revolve ,ou the edge of the garden of Eden, just i after the cyclone of sin pmstruied its - symmores and tamarisks and willows and i will not sense to revolve until tbolust soul lilf until: shall get rid of its last sinuml .‘ontor the heavenly Eden. ()1: that stu- lpcnduus machinery for soul saving the lputrlarcb put his bond, and prophet his :7 hand, and evangelist his band, and npostlo l his hand, and Christ his band, and almost every hand that touched it become u crush- cd band. It was the most expensive mu- chincry over constructed. It cost more to , start it and has cost and will cost more to keep it running than all tho wheels that s ever made rovolntiou on this planet. That machinery turned not by ordinary motive power, but by force of tears and blood. '1‘!) connect its bands of inlluenco made out of human and (lhristly nerves with all ports of the earth millions of 300d men and women are nowut work and will be at work until every wilderness shall become a garden. and every tom of grief shall be a tour of joy, and the sword of divine victory shall giro the wound to the old dmgon that shall send him howling tothc pit, the loop guto plunging against him, never again to open. All that and infinitely more to save the soul! Why, it must be a troxuondous mull—truncations for good or trenmndons for evil, tremendous fur bop- pinms or trelncndouo for woo. Put on tho left side of tho lurgost shoot of pnpor that over (mum from paper mill a single unit, the figure l, and how many ciphers Wnlllli you have to add to the right of tlmt flgnro to express the soul‘s mluv, (rich cipher adding tenfold! Working into that schema of tho soul's mlomption. how many angels of (ind. (ii-minding and as- cending! How many sinrnm swooping on Lake iiniilm! liow many earthquakes opening dungmmn and striking mtaclyrms through mountains, from top to bang! What rummlny sun was put on retreat! What omuixmtonm lifted and what limb bend was put to tortorol All that for the soul. Nowondor that Poul, though poo sensing grout coilipolao of temperament wlwn he thought what his friends and kindred worn risking continuing their mule. flung aside all his ordinary nmdm of "main. argument and opt simile, and bold metaphor. and burned allusion, on unlit to express how ho felt. and mixing upon the appalling hypcrlmllsm of my text cries out. “ could wish myeolf mourned” -—-thnt is, struck of the timmlcrimlts of the omniwtont flml, sunk to nnfntlmnmi depths, chained into utrvitudo to Abandon and thrust into forum whmlc fires shall never burn outwit only those whom i love might now and forever be saved. blind you, l’nul does not my, “i do wish.” lie says, "i could wish." Even in the agony he felt for others he did not lose his liai- snco. “l mold wish myself occur-ml." l ootild, but i do not. only one being timt over lived was literally willing to give up havoc for pcnlition, and that was the ill. vine peanut whom I militimiod a few mo» meats ago. lie was not only willing to cmheugedomioloos of bliss for dominion: of monsoon, but, he «lid in, m, that he fmk heaven, witness the scraping star and all those who saw his miracles of mermaid that he actualirentered the 1 to be rem ,. Ichurchwith tohis happiness perhaps 50 years of eye 1 the effort to drive back the typhoid fever 1 are or will be twelve thousand yours norm 1 best attirennot the very best, for that has no for tin lerwtor the stately stop, bow‘hls head, or at any rate shot his eyes in prayer time, 1 or close them enough to look sleepy, turn mwerdtbe pulpit with holy (follow the preacher spooks.vput'u it cant pi if the times be hand a 1 cent piece—on tile mllcctloil plntwr, kind of shoving it down under the other coin so that it might ho, for all that the usher knows, a In gold» ‘ piece, and thm, after the benediction, go mietly home to the biggest repeat of all the week. That is all the majority of Christians are doing for the rectification of this planet, and they will do that until, at the clone of life, the pastor opens a black book at the bend of their casket‘and reads: “Blessed one thodeud who die in the Loni. They rest from their urban and their works do follow them”. The sense of the ludicrous is so thoroughly developed in me that when 1 hear these Scripture words 1 read at the obsequies of one of the religious , do nothings in the churches it is too much 1 for my gravity. I"l‘heir works do follow thorn.” What works!I And in what direc- ’ tion do they follow thomwnp or down? i And do they follow on foot or on the wing? 1 And how long will they follow before they ‘ catch up? More appropriate funeral text for all such religious (lend heats would be the words in Matthew In, 8: “Our lamps are gone out. " One would think that such Christians would show at least under 1 whose banner they are enlisted. In one of i the Napoleonic wars a woman—Jeannette by name-«took her position with the ' troops and shouldered n broomstlck. The colonel said, “J minus-tie, why do you take ‘ such a useless weapon into the ranks?" ' “Well,” she said, “I can show, at least, which side I am on." Concerning Missionaries. Now, the object of this sermon is to stir at least one-fourth of you tonn ambition for that which my text presents in biasing vocabuhiry—uumciy, a passion for souls. To prove that it is possible to have much of that spirit, I bring the consecration of 2,900 foreign missionaries. It is usually eatinmted that there are at least 8,000 mis- sionaries. I make a liberal allowance and admit there may be in bud missionaries out of the 8,000, but I do not believe there is one. All English and American mer- chants leave Bombay, Calcutta, Amoy and Peking as soon as they make their for- tunes. Why? Because no European or American in his senses would stay in that 1 climate after monetary induccnwnts have ,oeased. Now, the missionaries there are lput down on the barest. necessities, and most of them do not lay up 31 in twenty 'yearc. Why, then, do they stay in those Hands of intolerable heat and cobras and K raging fevers, the thermometer sometimes playing .t 130 and 140 degrees of op- prosslven a, 12,000 miles from home, because of the unhealthy climate and the prevailing immorolltioa of those regions compelled to send their children to hing- lnnd or Scotland or America, probably never to see them again? 0 blessed Christi Can it be anything but a passion for souls? It is easy to understand all this frequent depreciation of foreign mission- aries when you know that they are all op- posed to the opium trullle. and that inter- feres with commerce, and then the mis~ sionnries are moral, and that is an offense to many of the morohaots~not all of them, but many of thom-who, absent from all home restraint, are so immoral that we can make only faint allusion to tho monstrosity of their abominations. Oh, I Would like to be at the gate of beuv~ on when those missionaries go in to see how they will have the pick of coronots and thrones cud uninsiens on the best streets of heaven. We who have bad easy pulpits and loving cougrogntions, outcr- ing heaven, will, in my opinion, have to take our turn and wait for the Christian workers who, llll‘iifl physical sufferings and mental privation and environment of squalor, have done their work, and ml the principle that in proportion no «mo has lief!" soil sacrificing and suffering for Christ's sake on north will be their mics tiol prui'orment. River of Life. Who is that young woman on the worst street in Washington, New York or Lon. don, Bible in hand and a little package in which are small vials of medicines, and on- othor bundle in which are biscuits? How dare she risk herself among those "rouglm," and where is she going? Sin; is one of the queens of heaven hunting up tho sick and hungry, and Micro night she will have read Christ’s "Lot not your heart be troubled" in night or too places, and ooumod out from those vials the right number-of drops to none pain, and given food to a family that would otherwise have had nothing to out tmlay, nnd token the iuoaeuro of a doml child that she may pro- paro for it u shroud—dam every act of kind» nose for the body ummnmniml with a bona- diotiun for the soul. You sou nothing but the filthy stmt' along which she walks and the rickety stairs up which she climbs, but she is uccormumuxi by an nnmn oo- bort of angels with drawn morde to do- fend her, and with garlands twisted for her victories all up and down the tenement house districts. 1 ball you there was not so much orcilomont witch Anne lloioyn, on her way to hcr nomination, found the Thames stirred by Ml gildul Home. with brilliant flags, in which hung snmli bolls rung by cmh motion of the wind, noble icon stomling in mmrlct. and wlmrf spread with cloth of gold, and all the [runways surmountud by burning admirers, and tho sirloin hung with oflmsmi velvet, and trumpot‘e and million manning the jnbi» inc, and Anne, drseml in sonnet of silver tissue, and brow gleaming with a circlet of rubles. and solid fountains that poured Blamieh wino Dim] on to Westminster bull and min in on n onpnrieoued palfry, its hours cluttering on the classic floor, and. ill-mounting, grassed into Wcsimloter ab- boy, and imtween tins chub- and high altar was crowned queen, amid venous and choirs chunliliil tho "To lloum"-—-l so there was not much in oil that glory wills l deselect the eyes of history when it is soon pared with the heavenly motion which tlmt ministering spirit of the heck alley shall Moire when she goes up to comb» lion. Whoa film gm in, what welcome on ,tho river of lilo, its banks of poem lined : with spicmicrs mphlo and in temples of eternal worship, whom music is cunninemb ed by swing of urchongciic scepter and by 1 fore thmncs wiwnsit tians who have Him worst man on earth if ' be will believe in florist, whose blood can instantly wash away the lenient crime. Full comfort for the. 9109*: “mmnl W ”l,” ”V" crushed a human being. ”At; your first moment of belief, a process by which the whole universe, of God will turn clear around for your eternal advantage. For the more asking, if thanking he in elit- ucst, and you throw everything into that asking, complete solace and helpfulness for the few years of this life, and then a wide open heaven, which you can reach in less time than it takes me topronounoo lat imperial word, flushing with all the y that an infinite God knows how to be- stow-heavcn. In this world God never does his best. He can hang 9n the horizon grander mom- lngs than have over yet been kindled, and rainbow the sky with‘richer colors than have ever been arched, and attuno the oceans tomore majestic doxologlee than have over yet been attuned; but as near as I can tell, and I speak it rovereutly, heon on is the place where God has done his best. He can build no greater joys, lift no mightier splendors, roll no lofticr anthems, march no more imposing processions, build no greater palaces, and spread out and intorjoin and wave no more transport— ing magnificence. I think heaven is the best heaven God can construct, and it is all yours for the serious asking. How do you like the oilcr? Do you really think it is Worth accepting? If so. pray for it. Get out up from that pew where you are sitting, our move one inch from where you are standing, before you got a full title for it, written in the blood of the Son of God, who would have all men come to life present and life everlasting. If you have been in military life, you know what soldiers call the “long roll.” All the drums beat it because the enemy is approaching, and all the troops must im- mediately get into line. What sourrying around the rampant] putting of the arms through the straps of the knapsock and saying goodby to comrades you may never meet again! Some of you Germans or Frenchmen may have heard that long roll just before Sedan. Some of you Ital- ians may have) heard that long roll just before Bergamo. Some of you northern and southern men may have heard it just before the bottle of the Wilderness. You know its stirring and solemn meaning, and so I sound the long roll today. I beat this old gospel drum that has for centuries been calling thousands to take their places in line for this battle, on one side of which are all the. forces beatifio and on the other side all the force demoniac. Here the long roll cull, “Who is on the Lord’s side?” “Quit yum-selves like men." In solemn column march for God and happiness nod hem-cu. So glad am I that I do not have to “wish myself occur-sod" and throw away my heaven that you may win your heaven, but that we may haven whole con- vention of heavens—heaven added to bcav~ en, heaven built on heaven. And while I dwell upon the theme I begin to expel-L once in my own poor self that which I take to be something like a passion for souls. And now unto God, the only wise, the only good, the only great, he glory forever! Amen! "Do” Paris and the Duty. Several of the principal importers of kid gloves in New York are preparing a. poti~ tion to be forwarded to Secretary of the Treasury L‘urllslo asking for in ruling on the construction of tho law relating to privileges enjoyed by transatlantic passen- gers in bringing in quantities of kid gloves free of duty on the pretense that the goods are intended for “personal use. " The im- porters state that this practice has rerontly assumed largo proportions and that their business is being seriously interfered with in consequence. They maintain that gloves are brought in for “sisters, cousins and aunts" from Paris and are lauded as wear- lug npparol of the individual passenger. The government loses n certain amount of revenue in not being able to collect tariff duties on those goods. There is practically no limit to the quan- tity of kid gloves that a tourist may enter as personal sheets The statue allows ocu- sldorablo latitude in the matter, and the subject is one which voxee the local cus- toms authorities. There is no standard rulo to govern tho lili) inspectors of bag. gogo omploymi at this port. Those omcers naturally vary in judgment and intelli- gonoc, not to mention honesty. The inter— pretation and uxomition of the law is pri- marily in their hands. Section 689 of the existing tariff law allows such goods an are necessary for the “3mm comfort and cilll‘i‘mllmmil of the poununycr" to bo onior- od (mar duty. ’l‘ho gloves must hoof nnl« form also, of worse. it is a frequent on, curmnuu that n fashionable womun brings with her from Paris a whole moon's sup- ply of different stylesof gloves adopted for street, evening and opera wear. Thousands of American women "do" Paris ouch year. Sonic idea can be formed of tho immensi- ty of the practice complained of. importers any that hundreds of stylish women never buy kid gloves in this ooun~ try. They can buy in fornigu retail shops to much honor climbing». Tho customs limicoolr is the judge of the molal status and clmumstuncee eummuding a [mun gcr, and if, in his opinion, the person is trying on bring in more goods than nro ln~ tended for tho indivhlual's use he is an» thuriwd to compel a declaration or to noise the articles—Now York Times. .ww moving hank onions. The harsh of that! United Hiatus lose more money in a single year thmugh the dishonesty of trusted officials and tryouts than they do in so years from human rob- hora Slick swindlors are now and then successful in thiur raids on banks, and only the smaller institutions are liable to he invaded by lmrgiars, but the trusted officials of books are able to clean out the vaults of the last dollar without ever being detected until the looted book goes to pro test-«New (iris-ins Picayune. A Jen-t. "husband and I love cover quamlcd," declared rm Holly. “What a perfecfly angelic disposition he roost have,” ported her dearest friend.~ Detroit lime Pro-a
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