DR TMAGE'S SERMON.
AGAINST ALL ODDS.
faxt: “I have finished the work which
thou gavest me to do.”—John xvii, 4.
There is a profound >atisfaction in the
completion of any uodeitaking. We put up
the capstone with exhilaration, while on
the other haDd tbore is noth.ng more dis
bearteniug thau to toil on in some direction
and And it is a ia lure, or to make a profit
less investment. Christ came to build a
highway ou which the whole human race
might, if they chose, mouDt into heaven. He
did iu All the loul mouthed crew who trod
on Him could not hinder him from the
sublime satisfaction expressed in the text:
**l have finished the work which thou gavest
roe to do.”
Alexander the Great was wounded, aud it
was supposed that he was dying* and the
ph3'sic ans were powerless. But in h s dream
Ale .ander thought he aw a certain plant
with a very peculiar dower, and that the
flower w ;s brought and put upon his wound
and it entirely cured him. A waning from
Ms sick dream he told his doctor, and the
4 jysician sent out to find the flower that
Alexander had described, ami he found the
peculiar plant and the peculiar blossom, aud
nc brought them home and he put thorn upon
the wound, aud A.exander recovered. Well,
the h . man race was suffering with the
worst of all wounds, the ghastliest of all
w unds. ihe wound of sin. Christ comes to
bring a bal-am for divine restoration. He
brou,. ht it, but in the application of it, oh,
how many obstacles He found; how much
resistance; whai bitter hostilities; what tre
mendous opposition. Now, when we have a
great enterprise, we call our friends around
us and they help us draw out the sketch, and
perhaps they help us m the execution. Christ
all aione started outou Hismis6i<>n with all
the forces of this world against Him, and I
proj>ose this morning, if the Lord Will help
me, to tell you s»me of tae obstacles that
Christ had to overcome before Ho could in
triumph utter the words of t.ie text: “I have
finished the work which thou gavest me to
do.”
First of all, there wa* His worldly occupa
tion. He had to earn his living by carpentry,
a trade always respected and always honored
for its usefulness. But you know \ ery well
that in order to succeed in any trade, occu
pation, or profession, there must be entire
concentration opi.n teat one thing, and these
fatigues of car entry were a hindrance, must
have been n hinuran o to this work or Christ.
I knew we read a great deal about what men
have achieved in intellectual dire tions aud
In moral reform, who at the same time were
compelled to carry on some worldly occupa
tion. But you know as well as
1 do that a fatigued body is a poor
ad junct to a toiling mind. Here came Christ
forth to do, what* To upbuild a kingdom,
to in trod uea new code oi morals, to start a
religion which was to revolutionize all na •
wons. You know as well as 1 know that if
we a; e going to accomplish anything in the
world we must concentrate upon ouo object.
Yet here Christ had ail the tatigues of car
pentry, while at the same time Ho had this
tremendous mission, and the la t that he had
vo turn h worldly work to do must have been
a n.ndran e. In His father's carpenter shop
He had only to talk w*th men who brought
things to mend, or who wanted some
ai ticle for agriculture raanuiacture 1,
and it was a worldly conversation:
and right out from this carpenter’s shop
Christ is called to be a pub ic speaker, to
stand in the face of the mobs while some
blasphemed and some sh -ok their fists at
Him. To address an ord.ny and respectful
assemblage is not as ta-y as s »me might sup
pose, but to speak to an exas -orated mob,
what courage, what concentration were de
manded of Christ. While the villagers of
Nazareth beard ih3 thumping of His ham
mer, all nations were to bear the stroke of
His spiritual upbuilding. Mighty men
in those times a. ways hal some
thing in their apparel to indi ate
that they were distinguished some
epaulet, something in their robe, some
adornment of apparel, so those people see
ing sn han one com. ug would say: ‘‘Make
way for him; here comes a dignitary, or an
officer of tho government ’ None of the
Cesars would have dared to appear in ordi
nary citizen's dress. But here comes Christ
in a plain coat It was far irom shabby be
cause I find that aftor Ho had worn it a great
while even thm the gamolers thougut it
worth rafing about, the question ~being
whose sha 1 it be. But still it was a plain
coat, just as you and I might wear, aud He
went out like an ordinary man, ofttimes,
on what seemed an ordinary mission.
Then His diet was against Him. No
eupb arer brought, ;u a gold -n chalice, the
wine for Him to drink, lie bieakfasted < n
the seashore, first having broiled the fish, t
He went out not entertained. I now think
of only one case where He was a* a banquet. !
»Dd that was lar from sumptuous, because, to ,
relieve the awkwai kacss of tho host, one of
the guesrs had to proviso some wine for tho i
company. Other kings rode; He walked, i
Others had herald: ahead and applauding j
subjects behind: He went among tho-e who
were not influential. Other kings slept un- !
der an embroidered canopy; He on a whiter- I
la* hill. He rode but onc« —on a colt, and
that borrowed Aye, His poverty was
against him. It ‘takes money to es
tablish institutions; it takes money to
forward revolutions, whether for good or
for bad. Here is a jienni.ess Christ. When ,
His tax was due He had to perform amirade I
in order t • pav the tax. The piece of money i
frrond in the fish. Men of means arc afraid
of a penniless projector Jo»t a loan be de
manded of th6m. Here comes Christ with
out a dollar in the world, a Christ who was I
bom in another man’s barn, and to be buried ■
in another man’s sepulchre. Aud I suppose
people said: ‘‘Who is to pay for this ro- j
ligion- Who is to charter tho ships I
that are to carry the missionaries! ■
Who is to pay the salaries of the
teachers. Vvhat: pull down an established
religion; Cau it be done by a penniless pro
jector;” Moie than that. 1 want you to
notice the fact that the consideration that
He had never graduated irom any school
was aga nst Him. If a man has ooirie with
a diploma from a college.or a certifk ate from i
a seminary or lias traveled through foreign I
lanufi we sav t > ourselves: “Ho ought to
know a great deal.anyhow; ho ought to have
eome information.” But here was Christ, '
who had no diploma He hud not attended
any a adeiny where be could have learned
the alphabet of the language He spoke. The
Jew.-, were sensible when they cried out:
“How Lath th 8 man letters, having never
learned? ’ And yet, hero,with no philosophy
backing at all, He just comes out and He
experts these white haired these gray
bearded men who had studied theology uU
their lives long to bow before him. We ha ve
■’‘yarr.ei in our dav t hnt a man may be as ig
norant with a diploma as without it, aud
that a college cannot, turn a sluggard into a
ahilosoph r, and that a seminary cannot I
teach a fool to pr< a h. An empty head after
• the laying on of th;; ban Is of the Presbytery
is empty si. 11. Put it choked nil the pr ju
dices of those people in old>n rimaj that a
man without any scholastic opportun ties
should corne forth to teach a new theology
and a new religion, and by itrcvol jtiouize al!
nations. Beside that, my friends, vie want
So notice that the brevity of His life wait
against Him. You must remember thot Ha
did not live to o cn what we rail mid Ufa
At years of a.e he expired.
Well, now, but very few men accompli*!
meb for tbe church or for the world befon
thirty three yearn of age. Tho first fifteec
years a e given to th* nursery and the school,
then perhaps six years to getting into soma
trade. business or occupation. That bring*
you to twenty-one. Tn**n after that if in tor
jeers yoi correct all your early mistakes and
g*t thoroughly established, you are the ex
cept!' n. The men who are thoroughly es
tablished in business, occupation, profession
or trade, at thirty-three years of age, aie th«
exception, and that is the tme at which
Chr st quit. life. Th* brevity of ills life wai
against Him. Meu in military life bav«
achieved great success, and fought great l*afc
tire I i«fore thirty-three years of age, but yon
■ever heard of a great legislator uuder thirty
i three or at thirty three. It takes prolonged
experience. Aristotle was old, Lycurgus wai j
old, Seneca was old, all the great legislators
of the world were old. Christ was young.
It was against Him. People sad: “It cannot
be this young man knows more about these
things than those who have been studying
them for twenty, thirty, forty an 1 even to sev
enty or eighty years of age. It was all against
Him. The ; e were obsta lea H 9 ha ito over
come. Aye, the fact that He reversed the
world’s maxims was against Him. Public
theory said: “Blessed is tho merchant who
owns a castle down on tho banks of the lake
Balilee.” Christ said: “Blessed are the
poor.” Public theory said: “Blessed is the
man who has all kinds of festivity, and amid
statuary, and amid all luxuries, lives and
reigns. Christ said: “Blessed are they
that mourn.” Public theory said: “Blessed
b the Roman eagle, the flap of whose wings
startles all nations, and whose cruel
beak inflicts cruelty upon all who op
pose. Christ said: “Blessed are thr
mer-Jful.” Public theory said: “An eye
for an eye, a tooth for a tooth ; if a man
knocks your eye out, you kuock his out if
be breaks your tooth, you break his to th;
sarcasm for sarcasm, persecution for porse
out on; pay a man in his own coin, wound
for wound ” Christ said: “Prav for them
pzho d ©spitefully use and torment you ” Was
there aoytbing so revolutionary? Was there
inything that struck the thrones of the world
«o violently bacK. They belt tbe soi*a ea-th
ander them; but Christ said: “I uphold the
nillars of the earth.” They looked at the
aaocn. Christ said: “I will turn it into
blood.” They looked at the stars. He said:
“I will shako them down like untimely tics.”
Do you wonder that the world was startled
ind overwhelmed? Were not all these
things against him? After the bat
tle of Antietam. when the soldiers were
lying down, thoroughly exhausted, ana one
of them told me ho did not think he could
have lifted his hand to save his life, it was
told that a favorite general was coming
along the line, and he said they all got up
and they gave three reusing cheers—
“huzza, huzza, huzza.” Although a few
momenta lofore they felt they cou d hardly
lift a hand to ‘save /heir life. So
great was the magnetism of some
men. Napoleon after his first cap
tivity put his foot on tho earth and it
shook all kingdoms, and 250,00 J men gath
ered to bis standard. But Christ bad a more
wonderful magnetism than that Napoleon
bad a’l around him tbe memories of Marengo
and Austorlitz aud Jena. Here comes a man
with no parade, no brandished sword, no
peculiarity of apparel, and cororava
tively no reputation. I do not now think
of remarkable person connected wih H ; s
name except his mother, and she so poor that
in (he rno.-t solemn hour that ever comes t j
a woman’s soul she must lie down among the
camel drivers grooming their beasts of bur
den. Ah! notwithstanding all this, what do
you see? A man mee f s Him ou the street
some day and says: “My father was in gov
e nraent, aud my grandfather and great
grandfather. Who was your father?”
Christ says: “My earthly father was Jo
seph, the carpenter ” Another man meets
Christ and ho unrolls his scroll and says:
“Hero is a diploma from the best school in
Athens Where did you graduate;” Christ
savs: “I never graduate ’’ It was as though
seme little fishing villa'e on Long Island
should arraign New York. Oh, what a stir
He makes! If you have amnd to call it
ma metisra of person call it that, but what a
st r he makes. He comes into a village and th *n
He stops out into the fiehKand all the p»or>!e
go after Him,and though they had taken only
enough food to last a flay, they are so fas
cinated with Christ they follow right clear
out Into the wilderness, and in danger of
starvation. A man falls flat on the ground
before Christ, and says: “My daughter is
dsad, my da rgbtor is dead.” A blind man
tries to rnb the dimness out of his eyes, and
he says: “Lord, that my eyes might be
opened.” The light of day pours through
gates that has ne er before been opened.'
And here com s a sick an 1 fainting woman.
She tays: “If I could just touch the hem of
his garment—that is all.” And the little
children who always liked their mothers be
fore st. uzgled to get out of their mothers’
arms. They wanted to go to Christ's arms
and they wanted to kiss bis cheek,
and they wanted to run their fingers
through his hair,and they put Him so in love
with children that there is hardly a home on
earth from which Christ has not taken one.
be says, “I must have them. lam go
ing to make Heaven of these. To one cedar
that I plant in Heaven, I plant fifty white
lilies. The children loved me ou earth, and
now I have come to a throne, ought not 1
to love them? Oh, weening mother, hold uot
back t hat child. Lav it on my loving »nd
sympathetic bosom. Os such is the Kingdom
of Heaven.”
Once more I remark, lack of organization
was against Him. If men are going to carry
out any great project they banl together,
ana their success is generally in proportion
to the completeness of the organization.
Who can tell how much can be accom
plished by a large number of men banded
together for a right object. Christ had
no su b association, no one to back
him up. If people came into Hie
company, all right— if they wont away, all
veil When they came, no loud salutation.
When they went away, no following o!
anathema, Peter left Him, and what did
Christ do? The Bible says He looked at him.
Tuat is all. Oh, my tr ends, did anyone evei
start through such obstacles and run through
such obsta les to achieve such success • Not
withstanding his worldly occupation
was against Him and His trade
and His diet were against Him, and
His poverty was against Him, and His lack
of s hoolin? was atainst Him, and the
brevity of His life was against Him, and tbe
reversal of public maxims was against Him,
and lack of lorganization was against Him.
yet you hear His voice this morning riuging
through tbe ages in everlasting cadences
“l have finished tho work which thou gavest
:-ne to do!” Oh yes, Christ is a
conqueror. See how He conquered all Lb€
forces of nature. Tbe Atlantic (>cean—wh.it
a terrible sbing it is in its wrath. How the
ocean will take down the Spani-h Arma 10.
or the President, or the Central Ameri a as.
easily as it could swallow a fly. But 1 have
been told by who have visited
Asia M nor that a storm on those
Inland lakes is worse. And yol
Christ come and He looked at one of tho*
groa inland 6eas in cyclone and the sea
crouched before Him and linked His feet.
He knew all the winds aud the waves. He
beckoned and tfcev came. Ho frowneo
and they fled. The heel of Hi: fool
made no indentation on the solidified
water as Ho walked it In the ba 1:
part of the boat sound asleep. “Oh,” yoi.
say, “poor man. poor Christ, so tired, sound
asleep in the ba k pan of th* boat” ‘But lit
ropses up. Ho comes to the prow of th<
boat He looks out He has two words, ofu
fc» the winds and the other for the Baa, anc
he says: “Pea w, bo still. ’ and the wave
crouch like wbippei spaniels at his feet
Ecce Home! Ecce Dciut! Behold tho man
Behold the God!
Medical science has done much for the al
lev.at.ou of rheumati ailments and to cun
diseased blood; but when the muscios are al
withered up no human power can ever re
store thorn. When the baud and the arm an
dead, they are dead. But hero is a para yti
iu tho presence of Christ. Arm perfectl.:
Useless, helpless. Christ aces it He couic
noc see auy.iiiug of that kind without pity
ing it Ho tay» to this mau with th
paralytic aim, "stretch forth thy hand.
He stretched it forth whole as tho other
Eoce Deux! Behold the God! And there i
the fish of the sea. No human voice eve
commanded a school of fish, but Christ’
voi e marshals the linny tribe, and the;
come io a place where a littlo whili
before people were fishing atvl haul
ing in nothing; now tae pe>ni« a ;aii
null the net, aud they pull until the net
breaks. There is the grave. The hinges of j
tho family va ilt get very ratty Iwntto the i
door is bo selJoui opened. It is only when
Borne of us go in to stay th;re fo.* the list j
Bleep A knob on the outaidd of tho door of
the family vault, but no knob witnia. The ;
knob on tho out idfl wo or>en to pass in. but ■
no knob on the inside. They wn» pass in
stay th°re uhtil the resurra tion. Cbri«t - ame
through all that real n aud He said: “Daugh
ter of Jairus, rWe up ” She rose up. lie
•ail • “Lazarus, come forth,” an 1 he ca ne
forth. And !Io ad to tho widrws eon:
“Get off that bier and go home with thy
1 mother.” The sou arose and went home with
| his mother. Then Christ picked up the key 3
of death and fastened them to His girdle.and
uttered a voice which still resounds through
all tho graveyards of tao earth: Oh, death,
I will be thv plague! Oh, grave, I will be
thv destruction!” .
Ido not kuow any better illustration of
tho vicarious suffering and work of Christ
than I could find in the Brotherhood this
day here presented an i here welcomed with
all our hearts. Vicarious suffering, we
sometimes talk as though it wore an abstract
word, and we try to illustrate it this
way and that way. But it has
been illustrated in tho lives of
that profession and occupation perhaps
ns in no ot'ier. There is not a railroad in
the United States that has not been the s one
of heroic endurance on the part of railroad
engineers—a scene worthy of poet’s canto
and pai iter’s pen il and sculptors chisel
and legislator's approoriation. Thera he is,
?assing along rapidly. Ho is at his post.
'here his been some wrong order
given, or there has bceu some reekles-ness,
somewhere, and there comes the train d >wn
on tie same era agaitist him at tbe rate of
fi ty miio the hour. Standing at his post he
savs: “What shall I dof’ for how mu?b It
i man can think in a socond. “Shall I jump
and save my li 1 © and bo tbe support of
!my hclplev. family, or sba'l I stand
hero aud save my three hundred pas-
I sengors. Oh God. heK” Ho co nes to quick
I decision, and he submits to the awful bap
tism of fire and scalding and whirlwind and
go-sup to take his place among tho martyrs
before tho throne. Th *re is one book that
needs to be written, and it needs to bo en
titled: “Tie Martyr Locomotive Engineers
of America.” I am glad they are
putting into a -nocm a beautiful scone enacted
on one of the Western pra ries. An engin or
passing along day after day a lrtle girl
come out in front of her father’3 cabin and
wave to him and he waved ba -k, and every
day that was the joy of the old engineer’s
heart, as parsing along in his locomotive over
♦ho prairies the Ufct 1» child amo and waved to
him and ha waved ba~k. But one evening the
train was belated aud it was belat?d until
the darkness came on, and bv tho headli ht
of the locomotive, the old en :inoor saw that
little chi d on the track. She hail come out
1 looking for tbe old ongineer. She won
dered why so long he tarried. She
I knew not her pe~iL When the old
engineer saw tho little girl ou the track a
great horror fro/e his so il. Ho reversed the
engine and leaned over on tho cowcatcher,
! and though the train was slowing u > aud
slowing un very much, it did seem to the
old engineer as ii it wero gaining in
j velocity Ant standing thero end wait
ing for the right moment, with almost
sunernalural eiu h ho sei ed her and fell
back <>n the cowcatcher. The tram halted,
the pass* ngers ca ne around to see vvhat was
the matter, and the e lay the old engineer
fainted dead away, with the little child all
unhurt in his a ms. He had saved her.
Bravo! 3 ou say, bravo! for the o d engineer.
But behold ray Christ the son of GxL
When Irag trains of disaster were erming
down on tho nations—long trains of ever*
lasting woe and darkness an l doom, H»i
went out in his own Almighty strength and
snat hed us oat of the doom, aid snatched
us out of darkness, Himself pori-h ng iu tha
snerifim. Ob, th ; grandeur of the vicari >ui
Buffering of the Son of God who laid down
Hisli e f >r you and for mo. Oh, His g ace—
it is so hi ;h, it is so deep, it is so long, it is so
broad. Yes, 3ms. We nave a sympathizer
in this Christ. I know that. You cannot
toil, my brother, you cannot tell, my sister,
you cannot tell Chri-t anything about
suffering. Ho has bon through it all.
You will never have a lad as
heavy to carry as the load He carried up th;
bloody mount. You will never have any
suffering worse than that whio.i Christ felt
when, with tongue hot anl parched and
cra-ked and swollen. He cried out: “I
thirst!” Ab, you wi 1 never have any
worse en than Christ had.
They hailed down His prayers aud they
sou fed un with glee tbe s nellof His blood.
This day I lay His crushed heart at your feat.
Oh, He must have been tremendously in
earnest, or all the obstacles would nave
driven Him back. Bit, no, no. Ha comes
right on. and He is here more certainly th ui
j you and 1 are huav, for H; fills all the place
; with His presence, an 1 I nut His crushed
h*arfc'at 3'our feet. Oh, let' it not be told in
I Heaven that after all your onporfcuities of
accepting this Christ, and after all that
Christ has done for 30U, you despised His
g’-ace and put off this opportunity. Many of
j you I see for the first time an l the last time.
It is so every Sabbath morning aud it
lis so every Sabbath night I see you
: once and then never again until the great
. throne of judgment is lifted and they shall
j come from the North and tbe South and the
I East aud th * West. Wo will a'l be there.
However deep down in the earth wo may
| be buried wa will U?ar the blast of the great
trumpet, aud wo shall co no un, we shall
! come up. And yet I hi -o t> tell vou this
morning—and it breaks my heart to
tell you—that notwithstanding all that
j Christ has done because of His re lection,
1 all His magnificent work an 1 all the story of
• cross and crown and tlix-as aro for some
i people a dead failure. Helena, the Empress,
1 went out to find in too Holy Land a cross,
j the particular cross on which Christ was
crucified, and tradition says—of course there
was superstition mingled with the tra iition
—tradition says three crosse > were examine 1.
They did not know which of tbe three was
the cross of Christ, so they took a dea 1 bo ly
and nut it upon one cross atfll the body
moved n ot. Then they tok too dead body
an i put it noon the second cross, but the
body moved not Theu they tx>k the
dead body and they put it upon the
third cross and it sprang into life—it
sprang Into life. It may have been—that
! story ma/ have boon mere tradition or super
stition; but it is not a superstition that in the
cross of the Bon of God inere is a life giving
power fa* your dead soul and mine. “Awake,
thou that idee)test, aarl arisu from the dead
and C'hriit shall give thso life ”
Tho Weeping Tree.
The reader will have to go to the Ca
nary Islands if he wishes to see this tree,
which is also called the fountain tree. It
lives in a constant shower. The water
exuding Irom its foliage falls in a copi
ous raia from the branches. ()ne of these,
of which there are three on the Island of
Hiero, stands in the midst of a little
pond that it perpetually supplies with
water, hence the inhabitants in the vicin
ity go there to get their supplies. The
tree is a renervoir, a manufactory, a lab
oratory. The one to which particular
reference is made in the present instance
is located on high ground, about five
miles from the sea, and by the natives is
venerated as a hoiy t ee; its leaves con
stantly d.stil enough water to iurnish
drink to every living creature on the
island. It is distinct from other tree-,
as it stands by it-elf. About nine feet
in circumference uc I three in diameter,
its branches overhang a circle of 130 feet
around, being thick and numerous. Its
fruit reemble in shape that of the acorn,
and tastes somewhat like the kernel of a
pineapple, but softer and more aro
matic. The leaves a e like those of the
laurel, but are Lrger aud wider, with a
sharper curve ; they come forth in per
petual succession, so that tbe tree is
ulway- green. < n the north side of the
trunk is a sort of natural double cistern,
or tank of rough stone, each being about
twenty feet square and ten or twelve in
depth. One of these is used by tho
j islanders and tin- o h r by cattle; a per
son is appointed to take care of it, and
make a fair distribution of its water, a nl
j for this purpose is given house rent free
and a f alary.— Cu'ticotor.
Will n t soil tbe clothing nor stain the skin.
Hall's Hair Renewej-. Try it
“Ayer’s Hih cure! mi of stomach and liv
er troubles.”—D VV. Buino, Nuw Burns, N. C.
THE COCAKTC habit.
The Worst Slavery Known—New Revela
latlons of Power.
Cincinnati Time*Star.
When cocaine was discovered the medical
world exclaimed “thauk heaven!”
But useful as it is, it is also dangerous, es
pecially when its use is perverted from the
deadening of pain for surgical operations, to
the stiminatiun and destruction of the humau
body. Its first effects are soothing and cap
tivating, but the thraldom is the most hor
rible slavery known to bumauity.
J. L. Stephens, M. D., of Lebanon. 0.,
was interviewed by our reporter yesterday
at the Grand HoteC and during the conver
sation the doctor said: “ The co aino habit
is a thousand times worse than the morphine
and opium habits, and you would be aston
ished. ’ bo said, “if you knew how frightfully
the habit is increasing.”
“What are its effects!”
“It is the worst constitution wrecker ever
known, it ruins the liver and kidneys in
half a year, and when this work is done, the
strongest constitution soon succumbs. ’
“Do yo j know cf Dr. Underhill’s case hero
in Cincinnati ?”
“That leading physician who te-ame fit
victim of tbe cocaine habit? Ye 3 His cose
was a very sad one. but the habit can bo
cured. I have rescued many a man from a
worse condit.on.”
“What, worse than Dr. Underhill’s’ ’
“Indeed, sir, far so. Justin M. Hall, A
M., M. D., pres;dout of thsSStato Board of
Health of lowa, and a famed practitioner,
and Alexander Neil, M. IX, professor of sur
gery in tho Columbus Medical (.‘‘•liege, and
president of the Aca iemyof Medicine, a man
widely known, Rev. W. F. L'lancov-of Indi
ana olis, in 1., from personal exp ricnce in
opium eating, etc., can tell you of the kind
of success our form of treat nent wins, a >d
so can H. C. WiL-on, formerly of Cin i.’.nati,
who is now associated with me. ’
“Would you mind letting our readers into
the se ret of 3'our methods.”
“Well, young man, 3’ou surely have agood
bit of ossuran o to ask a man to give his bus
iness away to the public; but I won’t disap
point you. I have treated over 2'),000 pa
tients. In common with many eminent phy
sicians, I for years made a close study 01 tb«
offo ts of the hubits on the system an l ths
organs which they most severely attack. Dr.
Hall, Dr. Neil and Mr. Wilson, whom I have
meutionoi, and hundreds of others equailj
as expert, made many similar experiment
on their own behalf. We each found thai
these drugs worked most destructively in tb*
kidue3’s and liver; in fact, nnally destroyed
them. It was then apparent that r.o curs
could be effected until those organs could bc>
restored to boalth. We recently exhausted
the entire range of medical scien o e<peri
inenting with all known reined es for tbes)
organs, aucl as the result of these close in ves
tigations we all ub tuntially agreed, though
following different lines of in juiry,
that the most reliable, scientific pr 'fa
ration, was Warner’s safe cure. Thb
was the second point in - the discovery
Tue third was our own private form ->t r treat
ment, which, oE course, we do not divul ? • to
the public. Every case that wo have troafceo
first with Warner’s s no cure, thou with out
own private treatment, and tollowed up
again with Warner’s safe cure for a few
weeks, has been successful. These habts
< an’t bo cured without using it because the
habit is nourish© 1 and sustained in tbe liver
and kidneys. Tho Lab t cau lie kept up in
moderation, however, if free u e be also
made, at tho same time, of that great
remedy.”
“Yes, it is a world famed and justly cele
brate:! spocific! Like n any other physician*.
I used to derido the claims ma<le tor it,, but 1
know now for a la t that it is the world’s
greatest blessing, Having sovereign rower
ovor hitherto incurable diseases of tin
kidneys and liver, and when I have .‘aid
that, young man. I have said nearly every
thing, for most diseases origiua’e in, or are
aggravated by, a depraved condition of th'
kidneys.”
“.People do not realize this because, singu
lar as it may seem, the kidneys u.ay he in a
very advanced stage of de opposition, uud
yet owing to the fact that there are but few
nerves of sensation in them the subjee . will
not experience much pain therein. J On this
account tho isands or' jKJoplo die every year
of kidney disease unknowingly. Tb y have
so-called disorders of the head, of the heart
and lungs and stoma: h, and treat them in
vain, for the real cause of their miser / is de
ranged kidnevs, and they wore res ored to
health the other disorders would soon dis
appear.
Dr. Stephens's experience, that can be con
firmed by many thon&ands whom be has
treated, adds only more emphasis t > the ex
perience of many hundreds of thousands all
over the world, that tho remedy 1.0 refers to
is without noy doubt tho most beneficent
discovery ever given to humanity.
Shoeing Fractious Horses.
General Boulanger, the French ' mis
ter of War, has iccently ordered the
trial ot a method of inducing vicious aud
restive 1 orses to stand quietly while
i g shod. Tho method ia said to hav*
proved succccssful. The arrangement
merely cousbts of an induction coil, a
dry buttery, and an arrangement, for giv
ing “an electric shock 01 graduated in
tensity” to the* an mal under treatment
The most vicious horses which could be
found in the ruvalry school at S:iumuf,
France, subsided into quietness upon the
application of this device.
Kojal Amatenm
An zUbens correspondent writes that
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Greece often amuse themselves with act
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A prominent fanm-r of
Howard County, Md , Mr J-.J
I bb foul- children were slew with sore th
•andcough*at the same timu. bj.
! Cough cure cured them m a we k.
I opiate.
To do all tho good you can to yomr fcHow |
brings, to have a mire conscience, to gain a»
bo, ,rab:o livelihood, procure lor youi-self by
work 11 little ease, to make !
, happy—that is true bappmess.a,, the r-er are
! mere accefesories and chimeras.
If afflicted with sore eves use Dr Isaac Thorn
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Skirts are not tied back a» tightly, wary
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Can Co«BHmP*loo
1 We have so often seen fatal rwulgfellow
the declaration that it-can t»e cured, that we
i haven noooscicnsly settled down in the M»t
' that this disea-0 must ne-etnoaly
1 It is true that occasionally a coaemwKtJt
' has witnessed au bolatesi cia^. 1 cf what fnay ,
; aporopriately be termed Spontaneous
ery, but to whnt corubicauon of faiorable
1 circumstances this result was duo none have
; hitherto been found afclo to JeteCT3»»
We have n*iw the prat?"’mg IdCU toaa
i nounce that the process by which nature es- #
1 sects this wonderful cuang* » no l m&cra
mystery to .the medicai proicssicm. and oat ,
i the changes broubgt about in the system un
•ler favorable circumstances by extrinsic
' causes may N 1 made as certainly and m- re j
l expeditiously by the use of the proper remedy. ;
In other words nutuiv & imitated and as- ,
; risted. . .
| Tuberculous matter is not rung more ♦>r less ,
i than nourishment imperfectly orgamte<). i
1 x«w. if we can ©rocure the organization or
! this material so that through tbe pro- .
I cess of elective oifinity it may take its place
> in the system, w <’an cure tbe disease. This I
! is just’ what Fisu’s Cure for Consumption
I jews. It arrests at oo« e the progreta of tbe.
I disease by preventing the further supply c< i
! tuberculous matter, for w bile tbe system is
under its influence all nottrisbramt n organ- i
i ized and assimilated. Ittbuscnitrols cough.
c-qM/t oration, night-sweats, beetk* fever, ax a
: all other characteristic symtvLns of Gon
i sumptioix k
Manv physicians are bow using this mcii
cine. n’rul all write that it co;n.*s fn’ly up to
i its re.’coinmeadations a:ul makes CX>usump
i tion one of the diseases they <-au readily cure.
i’he form ing stage of a disease is always the
most auspicious for treatment. This fact
, should iuduce t arsons to resort to the use of j
I iso s Cure when the cough is first n*>fciced,
whether it has a oaßSHWptive ilia thesis for
| its cause or not, for this remedy cures all
kinds of coughs with unequaleili f»-cility and •
prompt: ess. In coughs from a sirnp’e evld,
j two or three doses of tho medicine© fca • e been |
found sufficient to remove th'.* trouble. So j
in ail diseases of the throat and lungs, with i
i symptoms simulating thole of CV*csumptk*c,
! Piso’s Cure is the only infallible remedy.
Tbe following letter recommeudiug Pise's
1 Cure for Consumption, is a fair sample of !
! the certificates received daily by the propria- I
• tor of this medicine:
ALEtOS, N. V.. Dec. %h I^s.
I had u terrible Cough, and two physicians
j said I would never get well. I then went to
a drug store aud asked foi ugood cugh m**di
cine. The druggist gave me Piso s Cure, and
1 it has done me more good than uny thing I
ever used. Ido not beleiv* IrouW live w.th
[outit. LEONORA YEUMILYEA.
Ihevitable evils are always bent support-si
; Relief is immediate, cud a cure sure. VuoV
! Remedy tor Catarrh. She.
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