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direct from the Largest
)Iatettliteturer in the l'nited
States. and can therefore
ollei' prices that defy l‘ontpe-
lIlInll.

Connections Made

“11‘“ THE

NEW SEWERS

by the most experienced
Workmen’.

Slil‘lilll‘l DUN PRICES
Barons MAKIXG '

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Linn. CURXED Bat-1r,
Porn-av. Salons» Toxucn.
llt‘rros, Sparse Ctttcxsx.

unis. snotJLDERs. BOLOGNA,
—-BACUX, l-‘RANKPOR‘I‘S.—

—90IBTIIING VERY NICE—

BIIILEII BONELESS Hill

Poultry Killed and Dressed ,

“Bill EVERY DAY.

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Dr. HICGOXEGAIu
~0FP'ICE AND “E‘llltfit‘x—
l‘or. West Avenue and Butler Street,
‘ NilIlWALK. CONX.

umr “ooh Trust 0 a.m ; from t o 3. and 7 to
S p.1u.; Sunday» 2 to «l p.tn.

Lrl‘ontiutttdra:ion by telephone. UT“)

7w. u. antenna.
Practical Plumber.

Steam and (lets Fitter. Facilities for Cutting and
'l‘hreadlnu Iron New from h, to u Inches.
34 Main Street. Ely‘s Building

Sotth Noru'alk. CL, 649‘"

S N qIll Sflllll '8 Ball
0. 01‘th E .
5| Washington Street.
tit-en Daily from it to 1‘: am, and from I 103 pm.
and on suturduy ewnltzcs from ti to :l.
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INSURE

\‘Ul’ll l‘ltul‘lilt'l‘Y AGAINST FIRE.
\(‘I‘IIDI‘IVT I‘UIJI‘Y proudlng In
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.-\ Full Stock of Puncture of all kinds

Parlor and Bedroom Sets
a Specialty.
nun) s't‘ow,

Maul Street, Opposite Depot

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ORIAT CAPACITY OF VIBRATION
AND DURABILI‘I'Y.

Inch lnavrurnenr over I! monvha In I
process ofoonatructlon. loot materials
and fluent workmnnahlp. I

FULLY WARRAN I‘ED. ("haywlll Iaat
a life-time and keep In tune at one-
quartor the oxpenao of any other plane.

oven [—7.003_lll use.

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Price For
Bags, Bones, Bottles Iron

and Metals.
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JAMES It‘OIllll‘IN, Proprietor.
OFFICE IN “SENTINEL” BUILDING

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$1.00
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Terms of .ltlvcrllslng:

Finn Ilh. 2 Ill. .3 in. i in. KCUIT‘L‘I‘UI. 71 co.
IW'Il. $100 5200 saw» stun 3:200 3700 $2200
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Marriages and Deaths inset-red gratuitously.
Local Noun-4 lit vents perltnc.

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tell that any nod. .m' can do. In pul-
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membrane tint Iw- wttll'h‘ inflamed, then
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TIIE BIBLE Ax!) THE NIL“ 'SI’AI‘ER.

Sermon Delivered bv Rev. Jan. 11. Ross.
‘ Sunday Evening.

Texts: Psaln‘i 119:18. "Open thou
mine eyes, that I. may behold wondrous
things out of thy law.”

‘Acls 17:21. “For all the Athenians
and strangers which were there spent.
their time in nothing else. but. either to
lcll, or to hear some new thing.“

In the 119th Psalm, from which the
first of these two texts is taken, we have
a variety of names for the revelation of
God to man. Ill is called God‘s law,
God‘s way. God‘s testimony. God's com.
mandmenl, God‘s precepts, God’s vword.
God‘s judgement, Gods righteousness.
God‘s statutes, (ind‘s truth, terms that
include unity and variety of contents.
The prayer of the psalmist is that he
may have spiriltiztl Vision, the organ of
spiritual sight, and the power of spirit.-
ual discernment, to behold the things
revealed, pertaining to God and man,
and their mutual relations. The prayer
ret'oguizes the desirabloness of applying
the known law to the events of life.
Revelation of trutth or of a person is not

lautlieteul cause for recognition and ac-

ceptance. Otherwise there would be no
unbelievers, no aliens from Christ. The
written record and the revealed person
have been historn'ally rejected by vast
numbers of mankind. (ind reveals him-
self ml to the senses, but to the sptrits of
men. lite inward eye lllllrl see Him
who to the e_\e oll sense is tm'isthle, o.r
Ho and never be seen. Similarly the
spiritualorgan must discern the truth
lll the revel tttongor II. “'III never be tru-
ly and fully known. There is a spirit-
tml blindness which belongs essentially
to the natural mam. Ills uu ntal p0\\'rr.‘l
and llh moral nature. llll‘illtllllg the (‘Hl‘l-
sen-nee, the Will, the itttttgtlttllun, the
heart, are eurttalq Ile does not love (ital
With the nutty Hind sum of llH being.
Ills In a dot In null life which can only be
lilulltlllilltd by ‘I'”‘ Sun of ll'gltleous-
tress, the trite light which iighlvtlt every
man coming Illiu'lll!‘ ivo’rld. Hence the
stgtntieanee of the seemed text. pertain-
ing to the Athenians and the foreign re»
tdents in Athens. “They spent their
time in nothing rlw. but either [u tell or
to limit" some neiv lhtrlg." They were,
.‘Il‘llltllr‘ll by curiosity, \\Ilil b may be
. .t.u~r .t Virtue org; vtee. Il may be due
to real hunger for knowledge, or to a
\ .lellt'sl .-.n l Ill'hitf craving for Lovelttus.
:ir- qwetue wt llllrlr llllllltslt‘ value.
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Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co, Lotte”, Mass.

Sold by all I‘t‘ttg...~t.~. Inns.- st; ~:\ :,, “1m. 95.

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Lin-tall 5. PLACE.
Urganrst of is: M. E t‘hun‘h. South Xortvalk.
Teacher for the

Proper Control of the Singing Voice,
titt.l

Training of the Mind and "and
for Artistic ‘

PIANO PLAYING.

H‘- t! Bu: £038 South Soroaik. L‘l.
ALEX. S. GIBSON,

Organist of the First Congregational t‘ttttrehJVster
bury. Teacher of

l'ianof‘ort, Organ and llusical
t‘ornpositiou.
Tl‘l‘.‘ ly Lurk Box 39 l‘. 0.. Xilll\\'.\l.l§. FUN-N.
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AL RC 11 l '1‘130'1‘.

Its now prepared to make plans and spa‘itlcatlow

and snperttttettd the construction of buildings

TERMS REASONABLE.
tirrtvs. Taylor‘s Building Washington St.. So
Norwalk. l'. 0. llox 775. 708 If

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eteeeitee alllBlllLDER.

Plans furnished and Estimates given.

JOIlhlll2 of all kinds promptly attended to.
Shop Ann street, near Main

P. 0. Box “3. South Nurwatk Cl.

3. u.‘a:.“.‘mos’u;“

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Work done by the Day or Con-
tract

Ollice font of Haviland Street on

Water. P. 0. Box 617 404“

Joint "taut-tun;
‘Merchant Tailor.
l2 Railroad Place. - So. Nor-walk.

Pants to order 85.00; Suits to order for $13.00 Re
pairing and cleaning nicely done. us t

60 WHERE THE CROWD GOES.

Netwall Steam Lillllllll'l.

Cor. Raymond and Water St , So. Noni-ant.

E. ROTTERIUND. AGENT.
RAILROAD SQUARE.
edGaiters ten at either place will be promptlygfixzdg

n. 'ruorlns,
AGENT FOR m {

Phonix Insurance Co. of Hartford,
All!)

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tutti lu’t place, u .lilt luv l'Xt‘l‘pttullP. Could
N r to Paul only a, l-abltler. to be timek-
t .l. or heard again at a more cmn’ettienl

-II. The Minute -‘Illr n :lllr‘, and the
r-~:~lt‘l.l lertlgllt‘lis oer» pron-total for
uni hearing novelties. A. itmv
g d. a ti.-\\' “Lin, a tow religion. it new
“truly l-I L:1|\‘|‘l‘5lllll‘lll‘ a new event.
\\ . re l q tally “Tltlzlllll‘ because they had
Ulll‘ \‘lltll'lll‘l ‘IISIM‘ Ill (‘Ollllnull—VIZ :-
lll‘“ m as. The Hilde. as you “‘lll see,
tit-1y be a eoneeahd funk. 'Ihe illumi-
nah d litble which consists in urrent
ev. ms, the records of the daily mi", the
open d- .0” of l‘rl'lhrllllllllelzl)’ aptwalou-
l} to lilllldo‘tl eyes; deaf ears. silent voi-
res“, hardened besirts, blunted conscienc-
es, dull ttuagttutttmts. "responsive wills.
There is ac mndet‘tnn. then-fore. betwven
“The Bible and title Xen'ipttper," between
l‘rnvuleuve and current evenu. Happy
shall we be if two wan see the analogies
and the dtll' venous. Ur. Sir mg, a [lip
{Isl theologiuri. mgr: "\Vlieti we are
prepared for them. we shall see many
optmrlunlttes \\ ha'eh are now as tinmv-nu-
tog to us as the gtold tn the river beds
was t r the early Indians ot California."

Tim mum.

What is the Billil'? What are the
Scriptures? The name, llible, is not
lltbheal. t‘luyuostotn. thegoldeu mouth-
ul preacher of the fourth century. first
called the sacred writings “The Bible,"
or "The llook.“ The term combines the
td-caol unity of contents and cotnpara~
live value. If wqconl‘ute ourselves rig-
idly lo the use of one term, to the ideas
of unity of authorship notwithstanding
the lac: of (\outpasilton by forty writers
of all ranks, phepherds, fishermen.
priests, .varriors. istatesmen and kings.
we may {all to get the full benefit of the
contents as a plurality of writings, as a
literature. a library.

It is eotupooed of 66 books, written at'
intervals through; period of 13‘ centur~
“‘3. Generally speaking the writers
never saw each tuber. Some of them
Ith'd a thousand years apart. They
knew not what others were doing. Yet
there is unity of thought, logical connec~
t‘ton of ideas, :wonderful agreement
where all the tendencies are toward (its
agreement. The common source of
truthistn Jehovah Himself. and men
a he from llodi being moved by the
l oly (intuit. .

TllE REVELATION OF GOD.

I. The Bible tsthe revelation of God by
the agency of inspired uteri. Unlike
books of human authorship, it has
no preface, no - table of contents.
no tudtx. It. begins at the ba-
ginntng. and die-claws, reveals God.
and His creative. work, but does not
define llun. It gives us the true idea of
God, as infinite and perfect, righteous
anl merciful; and the true idea. of hu~
man nature as sinful yet redeemable. It
deals \\‘lII’l the big l themes. God, the
creation, the l lerisl universe, man.
holiness, life. sin, death, resurrection.
eternity, immortality. ‘ One would sup-
pose that the prayer of the Psalmist for
open eyes, and the beboldtng of won~
drous things, would be unnecessary, that
the things themselves are so wonderful
as to make imper'mus demandi- upon the
attention of all, and necessitate the dill-
gent study of the revelation made. Alas
for the facts! .

"An American in aGerman university
became inliutatehvith a young German
who \v s pursuing archaeological studies.
The lat: :did not‘ believe in Christ our
in Godé He could not. be induced to
read theigtble, declaring that he found

own it which interested him. At
1 o Americani directed his attention
to. the account of the building of the
tabernacle; and the German was so in-
terested that he sat up all night studying
it.” ‘~

How strange got a mechanical con-
trivanoe like the swish tabernacle could
usurp the placei the tinge and though:
of any human bang Which belongs by
right to the personal. living God. who
has been our Creator and will be our
Judge! Who has given men the truth
and theopportunlty to enable us to meet
Himlin peace, and dwell with Him lots
over i ,

m m: or me.

2. The Bible ii the only rule of faith
and practice. Iv is the canon or measur-
ing read by which; we are so know what
is true, and whatgia false. I; is the clan-
dard for our faith and conduct. as dis-
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and suggestions. An enlightened mind
will go to the source of all authority, in-
stead of endeavoring to construct a sys-
tem of one‘s own. Interpretation of the
“lord. however, is the right and duty of
every man. The Scriptures must be un-
derstood. Application of them is not
necessarily interpretation. Acredulous
and stupid reverence is not much less
blameworthy than an audacious crit-
cism There is an irreverence which is
due to ignorance and credulily as well as
to the conceits of scholarship.

In a Sunday school in England. the
lesson {che day mentioned that David
rose from his bed and walked on the
roof of the house. A boy asked how be
coull walk on the roof without slipping
oil". The teacher replied slernly. “You
must not cavil at the word of God.“ At
the close of the school, as this teacher
was leaving the room, another teacher
who had overheard the remark took him
by the arm and said. “Brother, you did
not. answer that boy right. You should
have said to him, ‘With man it is imp )8-
sible, but with God all things are pos.
sible.‘ "

A little knowledge of Oriental houses
might have furnished a dill-rent answer
to both teachers.

A REFORD.

3. The lible islhe record of human life.
Here is where the analogy to the news-
paper appears. There is no analogy be-
tween the Gal-given revelation and rule
of faith and action, and the newspapx.
It Were blasphemy lo assume any. But
in the p trttcular named the analogy not.
only exnsts. it is close and continuum:
If l'alestltn IS a 5th ll expel. the news~
paper is at new lllble or book as a record
of events. In. Parker, the distinguished
Landon preacher. now vtsltlng lhls coll"-
try. n tys: "The in ruling newspaper.
apparently so fresh and novel, is but a
reprint of Moses and the prophets, wrth
sunn- slight «Inference of IIlCldt‘Ill. and
color. but With no dllffl't‘n "e whatever
of moral substance and meaning. S )
fully persuaded am I of all that is meant
by this \‘lt‘Vl‘ that I run prepared to risk
the claim for inspiration on the part of
the Bible upon it. * * If the sun could
print for in “hit he sees on any day in
tlte‘yeur, he would print a sec-on 1 edition
of the Bible."

It )tlt are true to life, the Bible, inten-
tionally, With at trtttug fidelity, and the
“‘ll lllt‘f‘ tnt~ nttonally or
otherwue. The editors are revealed,
even when the reztdrrs are not. The two
gee lids are of things to it happen,
“‘llt tin-r good, bad. or indtll'erent. Much
of the contents of the Bible out be ex-
planted only upon this basis. There is
no book wdtxtn the plurality of books
that constitute so great a only which
has not It! I‘rovidenttal, Illaltlfll‘. unique
llll§lUll and appropriate application to
human allatrs, its spectal lesson for given
persons and conditions. It. does not fol-
low that any book or section should be
rt’jr’l‘lt‘tl. because of inability on the part
ot the unlivntual, or of erratic and uh-
llthlte tl minds, to discover what the
du'tne purpose. or the special application
may be. Quantities ul readers have a
prejudtceagatnsl some of the contents
of llle litble. even of the New Testament.
which is only one degree less strong than
their prejudice against the contents of
their daily piper. ll‘ human life were
only dtll'erent, the Ilee utighl contain a
Ie.‘\~‘ saddentng record out the newspaper
lllru. The account in John's Goalie! of
III" wont-tn taken in sin is ollen alleged
t. be an impeachment of the Wisdom.
but." ‘33‘ amt goodness of Jesus. It
Fl't’uls t » me to be equal in every way to
lite plfai‘lt‘ of the prodigal son.

Swedrnborg rejected nearly one half
of tits ll.ble, Roth. Chronicles. Ezra.
Nehemiah. I‘lsthtr. Job, Proverbs, Ec-
elostat-es, Song of Solomon, and the
whole of the New Testament except the
Gospels and the Revelation by John. He
claimed divine authority for his own
new, unverified, mystical .evelations.
Some people have been troubled because
the book of Esther dont‘not contain the
name of God. yet. next to the first live
books of the Old Testament. it is held in
highest reverence by the Jews. What
a rived. romantic, and tragic record of
human life it is! EXININWS to manv
minds is good only in spots. to the 21
or 31. or 12th oha tors. But as a record
of the mural an spiritual struggles of
a soul seeking satisfaction without God.
it ts the prophetic history of thousands
of students, of men absorbed in business,
and of pleasure-seekers who are situated
With everything that the world contains.
yet are not. content and happy. Vanity
of vanities. they cry, all is vanity.

Job may have been a fictitious char-
acter. The narrative may be poetry
rather than history. or pix-try and his-
tory. Job‘s friends may be the creation
of an Oriental mind. My own belief is
that Job was a person instead of a mere-
ly literary character. But I am willing
to assume lha: lie was not. If in either
case, the facts Were local, the truths are
universal, and how revealing they are
concerning the chasteniugs ol God‘s love,
the problem of evil, and the compensa-
tions of Providence. The Song of SOIO<
mon is a song of the union between
Jehovah and the souls sick of sin, re-
turning to a true and constant. love and
devotion. It loan: the siokisb ex res-
sion of a ntaudltn aware and maid. tko
Esther, ll.‘ does not contain the name of
God. It is never quoted in the New
Testament. has none of the marks of
immediate revelation. Jewish doctors
advised their young people not to read it
until they were 30 years of age. Yet it
is like the-15m Psalm and is the shadow
of New Testament. teaching concerning
Christ and His Bride. Rutherford, Mo-
Cneyne, and Spurgeon have taken more
texts from the Song of Solomon than
from any other portion of Scripture of
like extent. Charles G. Ftnnev, in his
Autobiography, speaks of a time when
the language or the Song of Solomon be-
came as natural to him as his breath.

Martin Luther in his reaction from
Romanistn. and from the doctrine of
salvation by personal rigb
thought that the epistle or James was
contrary in its teachings to Paul‘s advo-
cacy of justification by faith, and he
called it a “straw eplslle," worthless and
to be rejected. Yet it is the vary essence
of Christian morality and is in prolound
harmony with Christ's Sermon on the
Mount and contains vivid and powerful
thrusts at the whole line of pious frauds
who masquerade in the name of religion.
It reproves ooveumsneaa, formalism, aye
oophancy toward the rich, the disregard
of one's oath, and ovary fortn of (atoll-u:
with terrific toms of moral indignation
and power-of verbal expression. Diszoin-
asArnold,olRu .thogmt loaoher,and
the learned lt' , a lover of histori-
cal accnrac , and positive mt.
found the rionullam or the book 0!
Revelation "so biannual distasteful“
that be doubled no divine authority.

 

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asshepherd and watchman. Moreover,

the Bible is litly closed by a view of the

Heaven of Heavens, and a manifold and

universal invitation to enter therein. .
VARIETY.

Note the variety of contents in the
Bible and in the newspaper, as variable
as the multitudes of people, and their
characteristics and temperaments. In
the Bible we have history, biography,
narrative, doctrines, statutes. poems,
prophecies, proverbs, parables, music,
friendships, persuan news. national in.
lelligence. letters, and the outline of
the circle of the universe. In the Bible,
we are told of Palestine and the Roman
Empire, in the newspaper of Europe
and America. In the Bible. the metropo-
lis is Jerusalem. in the newspaper it in
London or N. xv York. In the Scriptures,
the missionary movement. is from the
east westward. To~day on the continen-
tal scale it is from the west eastward.
In the primitive church, the problem of
church extension pertained to the great
cities. I: is the same to day. The study
of the Bible. therefore, is the studv of
the Providence and Kingdom of God.
The study of current. events, of local
and lnetropt litnn newspapers, should be
upon the saute plane. for editors and
their readers. “I read the newspaper."
said John Newton. "that I may see how
my Heavenly Fa! her governs the World."
No higher reason for rcadingit can be
given. No lower reason ought to satisfy
us. Spurgeon read the English papers,
[llvtl‘Upl‘lllt’ill and provincial, for three
months, to find illustrations of the
leaching of the Blblr‘ and published the
results. lie recommends Sabbath school
teachers, Bible Classes, associations of
young men, as well as preachers, to pur-
sue lbe same. course.

TEXT tmoxs.

“'hat a text book the Bibl- becomes!
H-tw suggestive ! \Vhal sins It records l
\Ylllil examples of ply-Ky and virtue!

12s criminal rtetvs does not dslIer much
from that which we may read to-
nwrrow. It contains no display head-
lllh'S, does not proceed in the etl'usive,
protruding style of the managing editor,
yet it rec :rds in the same realistic way
a murder. such as that of Abel, or a
soictde hire that of Sampson. or Abi~
meter-h. or Saul. or Ssul’s armor-bearer.
or Almhophel. Narratives of thefts
and robberies are scattered through its
pages. accounts of family quarrels and
separations for cause. \Ve read of
Noah‘s drunkenness. Lot‘s incest. Ja-
cob‘s falsehood, Dawd‘s adultery. Jael‘s
treachery, Peter‘s denial, Judss's betray-
al. and the shameful vices of the lowest
classes.

The deaths and burial-z. and obituary
notices of the Bible and of l e neWspa-
per exl>t in comm-m. In the ible they
begin lll (In-sis and continue through
Kings and Chronicles and the Gospels.
They are in nearly every edition of al~
most all HEWspapers.

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\Vhat accuracy the Biblecontainsmot-
withstanding its rapid survey of events.
and apparent contradictit‘tnl. Daniel
Webster declared that not one man in
fifty states a fact exactly, without exag-
geratiou or diminution! If this be true.
it isa comutenlarv upon the Biblical
writers. which places them high it n
the roll of honor as men, as historians
and investigators. It explains the par~
tialily anl misunderstandings common
among intelligent and good men. Luke
may have been inspired. as other writers
were. Ins-unto that be was. For the
purpxse in hand. however. I will as-
sutns that be was not. He makes no
claim to anything but careful inquiry.

He gleaned from the reports of oth-
ers who were eye-witnesses.

The reporter is not omniscient. If he
be a true man. be inquires, he searches
he makes necessary rejections and ex-
clusions, he raluces a long story to a
brief account, he packs into solid ool~
umns abbreviated matter, hastily pre~
pared. and the wonder is, in view of in-

erenl and ineradicahle difficulties, that
he isas accurate as be is. \Vebster in
characterizing human nature, justifies
and commends the average reporter. I
speak revereotly when I say that the Bic
his, in simply stating facts. telling the
news. is like any other narrative,
ahistory or a daily or weekly paper.
It condenses in one account and elabo-
rates or completes in another. The his-
tory and the paper do the some. W’ina-
low‘s Journal of Plymouth Plantation
speaks of a ship sent out “by Master
Thomas \Veslon. But Bradford, in his
far briefer narrative mention. it as sent
by “llr. Weston and another.” Such
discrepancies (?l are charged against the
Bible. One newspaper said that Preli-
dent Hayes attended the Bannington
Centennial; another. that. the President
and Mrs. Hayes attended; another. that
the President and his cabinet attended;
a fourth. that the Pmident. Hrs. Hayes
and the majority of his cabin 3t attend—
ed. The nevvsptper account. might be
duplicated from the Gospels concerning
the deeds. and especially the miracles of
Christ. There is no collusion, certainly,
in such statements, for that would re.
move the apparent contradictions.
There is candor, essential truthful-
ness, the historicspirit, with some of
the limitations of human nature.

PROPORTION.

In the Bible thoreisatruoproportion
between fact. anl meanin :, the ordinary
and the extraordinary, the thing writ-
ten and the thing omitted, a proportion
which is entirely wanting in the a
newspaper. The prophetic spirit in in
the Bible. The common-place '3 there,
the genealogical records pertaining to
noborltos. the intermediate: between an-
cestors and descendants of distinction.
the request of Paul for his cloak. left a:
Troas. the conventional a well as the
Christian adulation! between man and
man. But the ordinary is thus in in
true proportion, incidentally. obscuroly,
by occasional reference. Alas. I’blfi
elaboration: in the newspaper or events
merely asevemll I: is news. It hap-
pened. The crowd was out. Therefore
tell it with constant renovation. in col.
man after column of vivid yet varying
gunfire. Intbiswaya prize fight. 1
Judicial hanging, a mat raoe,expand in
the paper to a qonoply of several inns.
firefighter than) a dignity in space
which ‘n oovoonoodsd to the but man
or granted thinker ornobla-t philanthro-

Patriotlun is made to oonain in
dovotiontoathlstiu men than to the
ovaogclintian of the masses. “the an-
nual undo of lb: am {it

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coating that the in” am
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