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THE CUP OF VINEGAE. OR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES ON THE ACIDITIES OF LIFE. Immm Drawn From the Bitter Ex periences of tbe STlour Cmclflx loa Comfort and Peace For tbe Poor. Distressed and Unfortunate. tCopyrlghtri839. ? American Press Asso ciation. . A , a1 WASmyQTOS. JIaron. 20. uroxn we pathetic scene of Christ's last hour of suffering Dr. Talmage in this sermon draws lessons of comfort for people in trouble! text. John xix, 30, "When Jesus therefore had received the vine gar." '" ". :.';.' , The brigands of Jerusalem had done their work. It was almost sundown, and Jesus was dying. Persons in cruci fixion of ten lingered on from day to day, crying, begging, cursing, but Christ had been exhausted by years of mal treatment Pillowless. poorly, fed, flog gedas bent over and tied to a low post his bare back was inflamed with the scourges intersticed with pieces of lead and bone and now for whole hours the weight of his body hung on delicate tendons, and. according to cus tom, a violent stroke under the armpits had been given by the executioner. Dizzy, nauseated, feverish a world of agony is compressed in the two words, 4I thirst I" O skies of Judaea, let a drop of rain strike on his burning tongue I. O world, with rolling rivers and spar kling lakes and spraying fountains, give Jesus something to drink 1 If there be any pity in earth or heaven or hell, let it now be demonstrated in behalf of his royal sufferer. The wealthy women of Jerusalem used to have a fund of- money with Which they provided wine for those people who died in crucifixion, a pow erful opiate to deaden the pain, but Christ would not take it He wanted to die sober, and so he refused the wine. But afterward they go to a cup of "vinegar and soak " a sponge in it and put it on a- stick of hyssop and then press it against the hot lips of Christ You say the wine was an anaesthetic and intended to relieve or deaden the pain. But the vinegar was an insult ! In some lives the saccharine seems to predominate. Life is sunshine on a bank of flowers. A thousand hands to clap approval In December or in January, looking across their table, they see all their family present Health rubicund. Skies flamboyant Days resilient But in a great many cases there are not so many sugars as acids. The annoyances and the vexations and the disappoint ments of. life overpower the successes. There is a gravel in almost every shoe. An Arabian legend says that there was a worm in Solomon's staff, gnawing its strength away, and there is a weak spot in every earthly support that a man leans on. King George of England forgot all the grandeurs of his throne because one day, in an interview, Beau Brummel called him by his first name and addressed him as a servant, cry ing, "George, ring the belli" Miss Langdon, honored all the world over for her poetic genius, is so woriied over the evil reports set afloat regarding her that she is found dead, with an empty bottle of prussic acid in her hand. Gold smith said that his life was a wretched being and that all that want and con tempt could bring to if had been brought and cries out "What then, is there formidable in a jail ?' ' Correggio's fine painting is hung up for a tavern sign. Hogarth cannot sell , his best painting except through a raffle. An dre del Sarto makes the great fresco in the Church of the Annunciata at Flor ence and gets for pay a sack of corn, and there are annoyances and vexations in high places as well as in low places, showing that in a great many lives are the sours greater than the sweets. "Wheir Jesus therefore had received the vinegar I" Christ's Sympathy. I It is absurd to suppose that a man who has always been well can sym pathize with those who are sick, or that one who has always been hon ored - can. appreciate the sorrow cf those who are despised, or that one who has been born to a great fortune can understand the distress and the straits of those who are destitute. The fact have struggled under a heavy mortgage of physical disabilities, and instead of the placidity that once characterized you it ia ' now only with ' great effort that yon keep 'away from irritability and sharp retort Difficulties of respira tion, of digestion; of locomotion, make up the great obstacle in your life, Sand you tag and sweat along the pathway and wonder when the exhaustion will end. My friends, the brightest crowns in heaven will not be given to these ) who in stirrups dashed to the cavalry charge, while the general applauded and the sound of clashing sabers rang through the r land, but the brightest crowns in heaven, I believe, will be given to those who trudged on amid chronic ailments which unnerved their strength, yet all the time maintaining their faith in God. It is comparatively easy to fight in' a regiment of a thou sand men, charging up the parapets to the sound of martial music, but it is not so easy to endure when no one but the nurse and the doctor are the witnesses of the Christian fortitude. Besides that you never- had any pains Worse than Christ's. The sharpness that stung through hisjbrain, through his hands, through his feet through his heart were as great as yours certainly, j He was as sick and as weary. Not a nerve or muscle or ligament escaped. AH the pangs of all the nations of all the ages compressed into one sour cup. He took the vinegar I ' the Sourness of Poverty, j There is also the sourness of poverty Your income does not meet your out goings, and that always gives an hon est man anxiety. There is no sign of destitution ; about you pleasant j ap pearance and a cheerful home for you ; but God only knows what a time (you have had to manage your private finances. Just as the bills run up the wages seem to run down. You mayj say nothing, but life to you is a hard push, and when you sit down with your wife and talk over the expenses you both rise up discouraged. You abridge here, and you abridge there, and you I get things snug for smooth saliing, and, lo, suddenly there is a large doctor's! bill to pay, or you have lost yonr pocket book, or some debtor . has failed, and you are thrown abeam end. Well, broth er, you are in glorious company. Christ owned not the house in which he stop ped, or the colt on which he rode, or the boat in which he sailed. He lived in a borrowed house. He was buried in a borrowed grave. Exposed to all kinds of weather, yet he had only one suit of clothes. He breakfasted in the morning, and no one could possibly tell where he could get anything to eat before night He would have been pronounced a finan cial failure. He had to perform a mir acle to get money to pay a tax bill. Not a dollar did he own. Privation of do mesticity; privation of nutritious food; privation, of a comfortable couch on which to sleep ; privation of all worldly resources I They kings of the earth had chased, chalicesut of which to drink, but Christ had nothing but a plain cup set before Kim, and it was very sharp, and it was very sour. He took the vin egar.1;. ' ; V'-'' ' ;f There were years that passed along before your family circle was invaded by death, but the moment the charmed circle was broken everything seemed to dissolve. Hardly have you put the black apparel in the wardrobe before iyou have again to take it out Great and rapid changes id your - family record. You got the honse and rejoiced in it but the charm was gone as soon as the crape hung, on the doorbell. The one upon , whom you most .depended was taken away from you. A cold . marble slab lies on your heart today. Once, as the children romped through the house, you put your hand over your aching head and said, "Oh, if I could only have it still I" Oh, it is too still now. You lost your patience when the tops and the strings and the shells were left amid floor; but oh, you would be will ing to have the trinkets scattered all over the floor again if they were scat tered by the same hands. With what a ruthless plowshare be reavement rips up the heart! But Jesus knows all about that You cannot tell him anything now in regard to bereave ment He had only a few friends, and when he lost one it brought tears to his eyes. Lazarus had often entertained him, at his house, i Now Lazarus is dead and buried, and Christ breaks down with emotion, the convulsion of grief shuddering through all the ages of i be reavement Christ knows what it is to that Christ himself took the vinegar makes him able to sympathize todav and forever with all those whose cup is ! go through the house missing a familiar filled with the eharn acids of this life. ! inmate. Christ knows what it ia to see He took the vinegar I In the first place, there was the sour ness of betrayal. The treachery of Judas hurt Christ's feelings more than'all the friendship of his disciples did him good. an unoccupied place at the tabla Were there not four of them Mary and Mar tha and Christ and Lazarus? Four of them But where is Lazarus? Lonely and afflicted Christ, his great loving You have had many friends, but there i eJes filled with tears! Oh, yes, yes! He was one friend upon whom you put es- ! knows all about the loneliness and the You neartbreak. He took the vinegar t ! pecial stres& You ' feasted him. loaned him money. You befriended him in the dark passes of life, when he es pecially needed a friend. Afterward he None Ci Then there n Bscape Death, j is the sourness of I the death hour. Whatevpr p1 turned upon you7 and ho took advHntn.ro j caneJ thntArirt snnnTo nriii t-oU or . your former intimacies. He wrote ! to our lips. I sometimes have a curiosi agamst you. He talked againstyou. He ty to know how I will behave when I miorqscopized your faults. Ue flung j come to die. Whether I will be calm or contempt at you. when you ought to excited, whether I wjll be filled with have received nothing but gratitude, j reminiscence or with anticipation, I At first, you could not sleep at nights. 1 cannotsay. But come to the point I uu aDut with a sense of : must and you must An officer from naving-oeen stung. That difficulty will never be healed, for. though mutual friends may arbitrate in the matter un til you shall shake hands, the old cor diality will ever come back. Now II commena to ail such the sympathy of betrayed Christ Why. they gold him! for less than our $20! They all forsook him and fled. They cut him to the quick. He drank that cud to the drp He took the vinegar. the future world will knock at the door j of our hearts and serve on us the writ of ejectment and we will have to surren- der And we will wake-up after these ! autumnal and ; wintry and vernal and ' 'summery glories have vanished from ' onr vision. We will wake up into a ; realm which has only one season, i and that the season of everlasting love. But you say:; "I don't want to break out from my present associations. It is so chilly and so damp to go down the stairs of that vault I don't want nv- seen a well day for many years. By i thing drawn so tightly over my eyes. uufc ox caxeiuuy j xi to ere were only some way of break- studying dietetics ycu continue to this, ing through the partition between time, but oh, the headaches, and the ! worlds without tearing this body all to aide aches, and the back aches, and the j shreds! I wonder if the surgeons and heartaches which have been your ac- j the doctors cannot compound a mixture companiment all the way through! You by which this body and soul can all the ' There is also the sourness of pain. There are some of you who have not time be kepV together. Is there no cape from this separation ?" None, abac lutely none. A great many men tnmble through the gates of the future, as it were, and we do not know where they have gone, and they only add gloom and mystery to the passage, but Jesus Christ so mightily stormed the gates of that future world that they have never since been closely shut Christ knows what it is to leave this world, of the beauty of which he was more appreda tive than we ever could be. He knows the exquisiteness of the phosphorescence of the sea; he trod it He knows the glories of the midnight heavens, for they .were . the spangled canopy of his wilderness pillow. He knows about the lilies; he twisted them into his sermon. He knows about the fowls of the air; they whirred they way through his dis course. He knows about the sorrows of leaving this beautiful world. Not a taper was kindled in the darkness. He died . physicianless. He died, in cold sweat and dizziness and hemorrhage and agony, that have put him in sym 0mm mm a m m patny witn all tne dying. He goes through Christendom and gathers up the stings out of all the death pillows, and he puts them under his own neck and head. He gathers on his own tongue the burning thirsts of many generations. The sponge is soaked in the sorrows of all those who have died in their beds, as well as soaked in the sorrows of all those who perished in icy or fiery martyrdom While heaven was pitying, and earth was mocking, and hell was deriding, he took the vinegar ! . To all those to whom life has been an acerbity a dose they could not swal low, a draft that set their teeth on edge and a-rasping I preach the omnipotent sympathy of Jesus Christ The sister of Herschel the astronomer used to spend much of her time polishing the tele scopes, through which he, brought the distant worlds nigh, and it is my ambi tion now, this hour to clear the lens of your spiritual vision, so that, looking through the dark night of your earthly troubles, you may behold the glorious constellation of a Saviour's mercy and a Saviour's, love. Oh. my friends, do not try to carry all your ills alone! Do not put your poor shoulder under the Apennines when the Almighty Christ is ready to lift np all your burdens. When yon have a trouble of any kind, you rush this way and that way, and you wonder what this man will say about it and what that man will say about it, and you try this prescription and that prescription and the other prescription. Oh, why do 4 yon not go straight to the heart of Christ, knowing that for our own sinning and suffering race he took the vinegar? - Cry For Water Answered. r There was a vessel -that had been tossed on the seas for a great many weeks and been disabled, and the sup ply of water gave outand the crew were dying of thirst After many days, they saw a sail against the sky. They signaled it . When the vessel came nearer, the people on the suffering ship cried to the captain of tbe. other vessel: J'Send us some water 1 We are dying for lack of water I" And the captain on the vessel that was hailed responded? "Dip your buckets where you are. You are in the mouth ' of - the Amazon, and there are scores of miles of fresh water all around -about you and hundreds of feet deep!" And then they ; dropped their buckets ovjr the side of the vessel and brought up tbe. clear, bright, fresh water and put!'erat: the fire of their thirst' So I hail yon today, after a long and perilous voyage, thirsting as you are for pardon,' and thirsting for com fort and thirsting for eternal life, and I ask you what is the use of your going in that , death struck state while all around, you is the deep, clear, wide, sparkling flood of God's sympathetic mercy? Oh, dip your buckets and drink and live forever 1 "Whosoever will let him come and take of the water of life freely." ' Yet . there are people who refuse this divine sympathy, and they try to fight their own battles, and drink their own vinegar, and carry their own burdens, and their life, instead of being ' a tri umphal march from victory to victory, will be a: hobbling on from defeat to defeat until they make final surrender to retributive disaster. Oh, I .wish I could today gather up in my arms all the woes of men and women, all their heartaches, all their disappointments,, all their chagrins, and just take them right to the feet of a sympathizing Jesus I He took the vinegar. Nana Sahib, after he had lost his last battle in India, fell back . into the jungles of Iheri jungles so full of malaria that no mortal can live . there. He carried with him also a ruby of great luster and of great value. He died in those jungles. -His body was tiever found, and the rnby has never yet been recov ered. And I fear that today there are eome who will fall back from this sub ject into the sickening, killing jungles of their sin, carrying a gem of infinite value a priceless soul to be lost forever. Oh. that that ruby might flash in the eternal coronation I But no. There are some. I fear, who turn away from this offered mercy and comfort and divine sympathy notwithstanding that Christ for all who would accept his grace, trudged the long way, and suffered tbe lacerating thongs, and received in his face the expectorations of the filthy mob. and for the guilty, and the dis couraged, and the discomforted of the race took the vinegar. May God Al mighty break the infatuation and lead you out into the strong hope, and the good cheer, and the glorious sunshine of this triumphal gospel! - . ' i" ' " ' 'I - . t ' ; - ' ' ; ' - - -f ; i ! - "" ' - - . ' - ' - ' ! ' y ' . -1 .. .. j Tl A v ; - ' s : - ' - i : ' : . ; -, - - -" .;; j i r - . I !; .. ... ..... . ". ' n -; : ! fl? rA cTfl fs3 r) : LSn ZAA U Li" f . fc . ! I i -i 1 1 I V ., ; . Li i : - W i- .''" " -Hill Jo 1 When does Easter come? Verv few neonle IrnnW tell you, and we trust that you will remember it in future The first Sunday after the first full moon following thf day of March is Easter. For this occasion it is a custom to don vour best snit at e w 21: ; - . . i ' ' ' j f I V il iBl ' ' BB tBl Bl TlBB SUITS, Cut from all-wool fabrics of the nobbiest and most stylish patterr are ready for delivery, with the price in the correct place! cxt o) a TviP7nnfi IniMliyLyyi i .1- Salesmen: IfU lUUn Successors to Matthews, Chisholm, Stroud & Rankin. 300 South Elm St., Greens J. W. Crawford, W. JEI. Bees, Harry 8. Donneli, Will. B. Bankin, John T. Bee. v At a Spiritualistic Seance. When Hon. John Sherman re turns from his voyage he, will havi the unusual experience of reading numerous obituaries which were prompted by the erroneous repor of his death. Probably ! the mos startling development attending th rumor, which was accepted as true Dy toe people., as wen as me otaie Department, occurred at a Ispiritu alietio seance at a North Side resi dence the night before last, A number of devotees of Spiri tualism had assembled to gather tidings from departed friends and loved f ones. Messages and com munications of various sorts were received from those who had gone to the other shore, and were heard and read with eagerness by their living friends and relatives. The slate was again tied up, witn the pencil placed inside. ; The us ual scratching sound bore evidence that a message was forthcoming. When the medium opened the slate the whole company was thrown in to a state of hysterical excitement to find there had" been received a missive from the ex-Secretary of State. The company had nearly all read of his demise in the even ing papers. The hand-writing was indisputably that of the ex-Secretary, even to the smallest flourish. The characteristics of his signa ture were pointed out as truly remarkable. But. more startling still, while the company was exulting over this infallible test, the medium an- n How Women Purify Politics. "The good people of Colorado who have persistently advocated that th$ right of women to vote and hold o Oice was a purifying influence in our State politics are right now considerably worried, said Mr. J L. Prine, of Cripple Creek, at the Raleigh. "It seems that there was a bil before our legislature which would have put.; Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek in different counties It raised a bitr commotion, and public sentiment was fanned into a fever by. the arguments of the op posing factions. Finally the fel lows that fought the passage of the bill made a plot to put it to sleep Dy a piece oi strategy, xneir plan was to have two of the female members of the legislature invite two of the male advocates of the bill to a little supper, and while the latter were so entranced with the bewitching attentions of their hosts as to be off their guard a sub sidized waiter was to put a few knock-out drops in the beer or wine or whatever beverage the masculine legislators were drinking. , "This ingenious plot miscarried from some cause. Either the men were shy, scenting danger-in the air, or else the ladies couldn't re sist giving tne tmng away perma- turely. At all events tbe dinner and the knock-out scheme failed to materialize, and one of the alleged female conspirators has since told the whole story. The anti-woman uffragista are in great glee over r j ' 9mm9 J nounced that Mr. Sherman had ma- j the expose, and make all sorts of teralized before him. The spirit, he explained, had not had time to develop sufficient strength to ap pear to the uninitiated. 1. he be lievers were satisfied, however, and went home with the consciousness that they now had proof enough to convert all the doubters in the world. ! Yesterday morning their hopes received a crushing blow. The cruel morning papers came out with tbe announcement that the great statesman was alive and on a fair road to recovery. Washington Post. ! The Parson Was in a Hurry. Here' is a faithful report of a unique wedding ceremony in tne wild of Kentucky: "George Washington Columbus, do you take this woman to be- . Hush! What was that?" Deep silence for a few seconds, followed by another section of the service. Then raising his hand, the preacher said solemnly: j "As a minister of tbe gospel Listen, J think I hear a ' ' Spring Flower Sowlnsr. The following list includes most of the favorite annuals for March seed sowing: Amaranthns, antirrhinum, asters, .balsams, brcwallias, celosia, Co baea scandens, coleus, cosmos, cuphea, dianthus (annual), heliotrope, mesem bryanthemum or ice plant, maurandia, Oenothera, petunia, salpiglossis salvia, etevia, stocks (annual), verbena. Wo man's Home Companion. wildcat!" Deep silence for ten seconds. I pronounce you .Listen, that's a wildcat, sure husband , and wife," . ! And down the hill the party raced, with the preacher three lengths in the lead and running easv. -Atlanta Constitution. These are dangerous times for the health.1 Croup, colds and throat troubles lead rapidly to Consumption. A. bottle of One Minute Cough Cure used at the right time will preserve life, health and a large . amount , of money, Pleasant to take; children like It. Howard Gardner. i sarcastic comment on the ennobling influence of women in politics." Washington Post. A Captive Kentucky Meteor. Persons who saw the meteohthat flashed through the heavens Mon- . . i day nignt a week ago can go to Fisher's .drug' 6toro and see what it looks like when cooled off. The meteor on exhibition at the store is composed of nickel, iron and cobalt, and was at a when it struck , the earth. It was very much like a bubble, and the air inside made it hollow. It is about eight inches Ion? and ten inches wide and weighed twelve ounds. It was found in the gravel it at Skillman. fiftv feet below he surface of tbe earth, showing he fearful velocity it had attained n its traves. In cooling, off the meteorite cracked, and the crevices n it are clearly defined. The out- side is oxidized by exposure to the elements. Breckenridge News. "She Talked Too Much." Call at partner's and get a free copy. It is believed in Washington hat the ReDublican caucus will give General Clarkson, of Iowa, tbe position of secretary of the United States Senate. He is a spoilsman. Fresh Garden Seed at Gardner's, cor opp. postofflce. ' - The members of the Pennsyl vania House of Representatives will be questioned as to the pend ing charges of bribery. i Its Kind Yoa Hart AJwars Bcsrii Bears tbe A Thousands Have Kidntj tii) and Don't Know it. ) There Is a disease prevailing is ' country, most dangerous ! e(Huf . ceptlye. Many sudden deathit' caused by It, heart dlea? v, pueuc heart failure or apoplexy are often j) result of kidney diaeaeel If kj:) ney poison In the blood is liable I i tack tho vital organs, or the kU themselves break down nm! wiOn cell by cell. Then the rlchntis tf : J sufferer has Brigbt's Diseac,tbtf form of kidney trouble. Kiilnejtm! can be detected although it belofi deceptive, j First, by analyiis cj t urine; second, by the simple UA setting the urine aside In t gUfi bottle for twenty-four houn, m cloudy or brick dust settling Ind.u: It. : i. . :J' si It was for just such troubles tht : Ills Inflnlte power and goodneii;:! Great Physician caused Swatnff-nrtfj grow for the beneflof suflerlr-r. tat kind, leaving It for Ills emor, specialist to discover it and miki known to tbe world." Its woodtr eftlcaoy In promptly curing the distressing cases is trulv nitrreicj Kilmer's Swamp-Hoot tht errat ki !zr liver and bladder remedy, by mail r. Address Dr. Kilmer Co., P.lnrbu ton, N.Y. When writing mcDtio:: paper. i Druggists, In fifty-cent or dollirt corvBiGHT lfW-na.si ..co. ' jj Southern Railway i I r 1 r ' f i IK EFFKCT DKCEMBKIt 1, 1-- Tliis condense! wfiedule S i n formation and in subject toA i4B notice to (he jmblic. . 1- am. Memphis, Mnlrfni ry ' , ' ) and anoint futh ' 1 at CbarK tte fi-r CoMnnM. , ah. Jackwnillo an-tl m a ' i 1 I.' I V. i i 1 Trains leave Greensboro, N. C. : 7:05 a. m.-N. 87 daily. Wafthin!t..n X PHt-rn Limited fr (.hai l"t t'. Sl 1,1 iningb Orleans Connect Havana l'nilmMn Mlfti x-... i. ... 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