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LOOKING BACKWARD DR. TALMAGE SAYS if IS WELL TO REVIEW THE PAST. tie Would Aronie the Soul to Reml , Ucenee of Dangen Eicaped and 1 Sorrow Suffered Old 3Iemorie i Have a Purifying: Influence, Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1S99. WismsfiroN. Mav 7. This sermon V of Dr. Talmage calls the roll of many etirring memories and interprets the jpeaniog oMife's vicissitudes. The text ia Psalms xxxix.. "While I was mus ing, the fire burned." Here is David, the psalmist, with the forefinger bf his right band against his temple and the door shut against the world, engaged in contemplation. And It would be well for us to take the same posture often, while we sit down in aweet solitude to contemplate. In a small island off the coast of vr TC2.'ici T rtrtna finssp.d a Sabbath in ua ' x delightful solitude, for I had resolved that I "would have one day of entire niPt hpfnre I entered upon autumnal work. " I thought to have spent the day in laying out plans for Christian work, but instead of that it became a day of tender reminiscence. I reviewed my TMfitnrAt: I "sliook hands with an old departed friend, whom I shall greet again when the curtains of life are lifted. The days of my boyhood came back, and I was 10 years of age, and I -was 8, and I was 5. There was but one house on the island, and yet from Sab bath daybreak, when the bird chant woke mt, until the evening melted into the bay of Fundy, from shore to shore there were ten thousand memories, and the groves were a-hum with voices that had long ago ceased. : Youth is apt too much to spend all its time in looking forward. Old age is apt too much to spend all its time in look ing backward. People in midlife and on the apex look both ways. It would be well for us, I think, however, to spend more time in reminiscence. By the con stitution of our nature we spend most of the time looking forward. And the vast majority of people live not so much' in the present as in the future. I find that you mean to make a reputa tion, you mean to establish yourself, and the advantages that you expect to achieve absorb a great deal of your time. But I see no-harm in this if it does not make you discontented with the pres ent or disqualify jou for existing du ties." It is a useful thing sometimes to look back, and to see the dangers we have escaped, and to sea the sorrows we , have suffered, and the trials and wan derings ofour earthly pilgrimage, and to sum up our enjoyments. I mean, so far as God may help me, to stir up your memory of the past, so that in the re view you may be encouraged and hum bled and urged to pray. A Precious Harvest. . There is a chapel in Florence with a fresco by Guido. It was 'covered up with ; two inches of stucco' until our American and European "" artists went there, and after long toil removed the covering and retraced the fresco. And I am aware that the.memory of the past, with many of you, is all covered up with nhlitprntinns. nnd I now tirnnose. so far as the Lord may help me, to take may shine out again. I want to bind in one sheaf all your past advantages, and I want to bind in another sheaf all your past adversities It is a precious har vest, and I must be cautious how I swing the scythe. ' Among the greatest advantages of your past life were an early home and ..its surroundings. The bad men of the day, for the most part, dip their heated passions out of the boiling spring of an unhappy home. We are not surprised to find that Byron's heart was a con centration of sin when we bear his mother was abandoned and that she made sport of his infirmity and often called him "the lame brat." Ha -whn has vicious parents- has to fight every inch of his way If he would 'maintain his integrity and at last reach the home of the good in heaven. Perhaps your early home was in a city. It may have been when Pennsylvania avenue, Wash ington, was residential as now it is commercial, and Canal street. New York, was far up town. That old house 4n the city may have been demolished or changed into stores, and it seemed like sacrilege to you for there was more meaning in that small house than there is in a granite mansion or a tur reted cathedral Looking bacyou see it as though it wereyesterday the sit ting room, where the loved nne pat hv the plain lamp light, the mother at the evening stand, the brothers and sisters perhaps long ago gathered into the ekies, then plotting mischief on the floor or under the table; your father with firm voice commanding a silence that lasted half a minute, Ifappr Dari Gone Dr. Oh, those were good days! If you had your foot hurt, your mother always had a soothing salve to heal it If you -were wronged in the street, your father was always ready to protect you. The year was one round of frolic and mirth. Your greatest trouble was an April shower, more sunshine than , shower. The-heart had not hpn trouble, nor had sickness broken it, and no lamb had a warmer sheepfold than the home in whiclr your childhood nestled. ; x ciudna juu were orougnt np in tne. country. You stand now today in mem ory under the old tree You clubbed it fr fruit that was not quite ripe, be cause you couldn't wait any longer. You hear the brook rumbling along over the pebbles. You step again into the furrow where your father in his shirt sleeves shouted to the lazy oxen. You frighten the. swallows from the rafters of the barn and take just one egg and silence your conscience "by say-. ing tney will not miss it You take a drink again out of the very bucket that the old -well fetched up. Ycu go for the cows at night and find them pushing tneir heads through the bars. Ofttimes in the dusty and busy streets you wish you were home again on that cool grass, or in the rag carpeted hall of the farm house, through which there came the breath of new mown hay or the blossom of buckwheat! ; y - You may have in your windows now beautiful plants and flowers brought from across the seas, but not one of them stirs in your soul o much charm and memory as the old ivy and the yel low sunflower that stood sentinel along the garden walk and the forgetmenots playing hide and seek mid the long grass. The father who used to come in inn burned from the field and sit down du the doorsill and wipe the sweat from his brow may have gone to his everlast ing rest. The mother. who used to sit t thfl door a little bent , over, cap and spectacles on, her face "mellowing withu the vicissitudes or many years, may have put down her gray head on the pillow in the valley, but forget that home you never will. Have you thanked God for it? Have you rehearsed all, these blessed reminiscences? Oh, thank God for a Christian father f Thank God j for a Christian mother! Thank God for an early Christian altar at which you were taught to kneel 1 Thank God for an early Christiairhome I . A Great Mission. I bring to mind another passage in j the history of your life. The day came when you set up your own, household. j The daysi)assed along in quiet blessed- j ti ess. You twain sat at the table morn- j ing and night and talked over your plans for the future. The most insignifi- j cant affair in your life became the sub- j ject of mutual consultation and adver tisement You were so happy you felt; you never could be any happier. Onej day a dark cloud hovered over your dwelling, and it got darker and darker, but out of that cloud the shining mes-j senger of God descended to incarnate; an immortal spirit Two little feet; started on an eternal journey, and you were to lead them, a gem to flash in heaven's coronet,and you to polish it eternal ages of light and darkness; watching the starting put of a newly createdcreature. You rejoiced and you trembled at the responsibility that ii your possession an- immortal treasure was placed. You prayed and rejoiced and wept and wondered; you were earnest in supplication that you might lead it through life into the kingdom of God. There was a tremor in your earnestness. There was a double inter est about that home. There was an ad-j ditional interest why you should stay there and be faithful, and when in a few months your house was filled with! the music of the child's laughter you were struck through with the fact that you had a stupendous mission. ! - ; Have you kept that vow? Have you neglected any of these duties?! Is your home as much to you as it used to bet Have those anticipations been gratified ? God help you in yours, solemn reminis cence, and let his mercy fall upon your soul if your kindness has been ill requited I God have mercy on the paren on the wrinkles of wboee f ace is writ-j ten the story of a child's sin I God have: mercy on the mother who, in addition to her other pangs, has the pang of a child's iniquity I Oh, there are many! many sad sounds in this sad world, . but the saddest sound that is ever heard is the breaking of a mother's heart ! . Sweet Memories. I find another point in your life his tory. You found one day you were in the wrong road. You could not sleep at night There was just one word that seemed to sob through your banking house, or through j your office, or your shop, or your bedroom, and that word was "eternity." iTou said: "I'm noi ready for it. .Oh,God, have mercy!' The Lord heard. Peace came to your heart In-the breath of the hill and in the waterfall's dash you heard the voice of. God's love.' The clouds and the trees hailed you with gladness. You came into the house of God You remember rhow your hand trembled as you took up the , cup of the communion. You re member the old minister who conse crated it, and you remember the church officials who carried it through the aisle. You remember the old people who at the cloe of the service took your hand in theirs in congratulating sympathy, as much as to say, "Welcome home, you lost prodigal!" And, though those hands be all withered away, that com munion Sabbath is resurrected today. It is resurrected with all its prayers and songs and tears and sermons and transfiguration. Have you kept those vows ? Have you been a backslider ? God helpyou. This day kneel at the foot of mercy and start again for heav en. Start now as you started then. I rouse your soul by that reminiscence. But I must not spend any more of my time in going over the advantages of your life. I just put them in one great sheaf, and-1 call them up in your memory with one loud harvest song, such as the reapers sing. Praise the Lord, ye blood bought immortals on earth! Praise the Lord, ye crowned spirits of heaven! But some of you have not always had a smooth life. Some of you are now in the shadow. Others had their troubles years ago; you are a mere wreck of what you once were. I must gather up the sorrows of your past life, but how shall I do it ? You say that is impossi ble, as yon have had, so many troubles and adversities. Then I will just take two the first trouble and the last trou ble. As when you are walking along the 6treet, ancj there has been music in the distance, you unconsciously find yourselves keeping step to the music, so when you started life your very life was a musical time beat. The air was full of joy and hilarity ; with the bright, clear oar you made the boat skip. You went on, and life grew brighter, until, after awhile, suddenly a voice from heaven said, "Halt!" and quick as the sunshine you halted, you grew pale, you confronted your first sorrow. You had no idea that the flush on your child's cheek was an unhealthy flush. You said it cannot be anything serious.! Death in slippered feet walked round about the cradle. Ypu did not hear the tread, but after awhile the truth flash ed on you. You walked the floor. Oh, if you could, with your strong, stout band!, have wrenched that child from the destroyer! You went to your room and you said: "God, save my child! God, save my child!" The world seem ed going out in darkness. You said, "I can't bear it, I can't bear it." You felt as if you could not put the long lashes over the bright jeyes, never to see them again sparkle. If you could have taken that little one in your arms, and with it leaped the grave, how gladly you would have done it I " If you could let your property go, your houses go, your land and your storehouse go, how glad ly you would have allowed them to de part if you could only have kept that One treasure ! f God's Consolation. j But one day there came up a chill blast that swept through the bedroom, and instantly all the lights went out, and there was darkness thick, murky. impenetrable, ; shuddering darkness. But God did not leave you there. Mercy spoke. As you took up the bitter cup to put it to your lips God said, "Let it pass," and forthwith, as by the hand of angels, another cup was put into your hands. It was the cup of God's consolation. And as you have sometimes lifted the head of a wounded soldier and poured wine Into his lips, so God puts his left arm under your head and with his right hand he pours into your lips the wine of his comfort and his consolation, and ycu looked at the emp ty cradle and looked at your broken heart, and you looked at the Lord's chastisement, and you said, "Even so, Father, for so it seemeth good in thy sight." 1 , Ah, it was your first trouble. How did you get over it? God comforted you. You have been a better man ever since. You have been a better woman ever since. . In the jar of the closing gate of the sepulcher you heard the clanging of the opening gate of heaven, and you felt an irresistible drawing heavenward. You have been spiritually better ever since that night when the little one for the last time put its arms around your neck and said: "Good night, papa! Good night, mamma! Meet me in heaven 1" But I must come to ydur latest sor row. What was it? Perhaps it was sickness. The child's tread on the stair or the tick of the watch on the stand disturbed you. Through the long weary days you counted the figures in the carpet or 4he flowers in the wall paper. Oh, the weariness of exhaustion ! Oh, the burning pangs 1 Would God it were morning! Would God it were night! was your frequent cry. But you are better, or perhaps even well. Have you thanked God that today you can come out in the fresh air; that you are in your place to hear God's name, and to sing God's praise, and to implore God's help and to ask God's forgiveness? Bless the Lord who healeth all our dis eases and redeemeth our lives from, de struction! Tears Wiped Away. Perhaps your last sorrow was a finan cial embarrassment I congratulate some of you on your lucrative profes sion or occupation, on ornate apparel, on a commodious residence everything you put your hands on seems to turn to gold. But there are others of you whe are like the ship on which Paul sailed where two seas met, and you, are bro ken by the violence of the waves. By an unadvised indorsement, 'or by a con junction of unforeseen events, or by fire or storm, or a senseless panic, you have been flung headlong, and where you once dispensed great charities now you have hard work to win your daily bread. Have you forgotten to thank God for your days of prosperity, and that through your trials some of you have made investments which will con tinue after the last bank of this world has -exploded, and the silver and gold are molten in the fires of a burning world ? Have you, amid all your losses and discouragements, forgot that there was bread on your table this morning, and that there shall be a shelter for your head from the storm, and there is air for your lungs, and blood for your heart, and light for your eye, and a glad and glorious and triumphant reli gion for your soul ? Perhaps' your last trouble "was a be reavement That heart which in child hood was your refuge, the parental heart, and which has been a source of the quickest sympathy ever since, has suddenly become silent forever. And now sometimes, whenever in sudden annoyance and without deliberation you say, "I will go and tell mother," the thought flashes on you, "I have no mother." Or the father, with voice less tender, but with heart as loving, watch ful of all your ways, exultant over your success without saying much, although the old people do talk it over by them selves, his trembling hand on that staff which you now keep as a family relic, bis memory embalmed in, grateful hearts is taken away forever. Or there was your companion in life, sharer of your joys and sorrows, taken, leaving the heart an old ruin, where the ill winds blow over a wide wilderness of desolation, the sands of the desert driv ing across the place which once bloom ed like the garden of God. And Abra ham mourns for Sarah at the cave of Machpelah. As you were moving along your path in life, suddenly, right be fore you, was an open grave. People looked down, and they saw it was only a few feet deep and a few feet wide, but to you it was a cavern down which went all youf hopes and all your expec tations. But cheer up in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Comforter. He is not going'to forsake you. Did the Lord take that child out of your arms? Why, he is going to shelter it better than you could. He is going to array it in a white robe and palm branch and have it all ready to greet you at your coming home. Blessed the broken heart that Jesus heals! Blessed the importu nate cry that Jesus compassionates! I $10 Is indeed a GENUINE SatinJ Satin Cut to ALL tUessed the weeping eye from which the loft hand of Jesus wipes away the tear! Glorious Eternity, j Some years ago I was sailing down the St. John river, which is the Rhine and the Hudson commingled j in one eceneof beauty and grandeur, and while I was on the deck of the steamer a gen tleman pointed out to me the places of interest, and he said : All this is inter val land, and it is the richest land in all the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia." "What," said I, Vdo you mean by interval land V" VWell, he said, "this land is submerged for a part of the year ; spring freshets come down, and all these plains are over flowed with the water, and the water leaves a'rich-deposit, and when, the waj ters are gone the harvest springs up, and there is a richer harvest than I know of elsewhere." And I instantly thought, "It is not the heights of the church, and it is not the heights of this world that are the scene of the greatest prosperity, but the soul over which the floods of sorrow have gone, the soul over which the freshets of tribulation have torn their way, that yields the greatest fruits of righteousness and the largest harvest for time and the richest harvest for eternity." j Bless God that your soul is interval land 1 j There is one more point of absorbing reminiscence, and that is the last hour of life, when we have to look; over all our past existence. What a moment that will be 1 I place Napoleon's dying reminiscence on St. Helena beside Mrs. Judson's dying reminiscence in the har bor of St. Helena the same island, 20 years after. - Napoleon's dying reminisj cence was one of delirium "Tete d'ar niee" "Head of the army. " Mrs. Jud son's dying reminiscence, as she came home from her missionary toil and her life of self sacrifice for God, dying in the cabin of the ship in the harbor of St. Helena, was, "I always did love the Lord Jesus Christ." And then the his torian says she fell into a sound sleep for an hour and woke amid the songs of angels. I place the dying reminis cence of Augustus Caesar against the dying reminiscence of the apostle PauL The dying reminiscence of Augustus Caesar was, addressing his attendants, "Have I played my part well i on the stage of life?"and they answered in the affirmative, and he said, "Why, then don't you applaud me?" The dying reminiscence of Paul the apostle was, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith ; hence- forth there) is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me in that day, and not to me only, but to aU them. that love his appearing." Augus tus Caesar died amid pomp and great surroundings, Paul uttered his dying reminiscence locking up through the wall of a dungeon. God grant that our dying pillow may be tne closing or a useful life and the opening of a glori ous eternity. ' The Oldest Rnsilan Newspaper, j Russia is not usually associated with newspaper progress, but it is a singular fact that the Viedomosti of St (Peters burg is one of the oldest newspapers in Europe, for it can boast a continuous existence of 172 years. Printing was unknown in Russia until a short time before its first appearance. Just two centuries ago Peter the Great licensed one Ivan Andreivich Tessing to print at Amsterdam and export into Russia cer tain books, for the most part oj an edu cational character. In 1704 he himself had types cut and sent them with a font cast by Tessing to Moscow, where, under priestly directions, a specimen number of the Viedomosti was got up. It was not, however, until 1726 that the Viedomosti started on it career in St Petersburg. London Chronicle. 10 (D i Pay any attention to it the price has very little do to with itj It's the material and the way it is put -together that makes it valuable. small matter when you take into considera tion that you are jotting an 18 ounce BLUE BLACK CLAY WORSTED, lined with Farmers piped seams and sewed with Fast Dye Silk. fit-and in every way an elegant Suit. Positively WOOL. Color guaranteed. WE ARE ON THE "CORNER." in mm his j m Who is to Blame. Kidney trouble has become so pre valent that it is hot uncommon for a child to be born nllllcted with weak kidneys. 1 If the child urinates too often, if th9 urine scalds the flesh, or if, when the child reaches an age when it should be able to control toe passage, and it is yet afflicted with bed-wettiDg, depend up on it, the causk of the difficulty is kid ney trouble, and the first step should be towards the treatment of these important- organs. This unpleasant trouble Is due to a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as most people suppose. If the adult has rheumatism: pain or dull ache in the back; if the water passes in irregular quantities; or at ir regular Intervals or has a bad odor; if it stains the linen or vessel the color of rust; if the feet swell; if there are puffy or dark circles under the eves; your kidneys are the cause and need jdoctorlng. Treatment of some diseases may be delayed without danger, not so witn kidney disease. I Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy promptly cures the most distressing cases. Its mild and extraordinary ef feet is boob realized. Sold by druggists In nrty-cent and dollar sizes. You may have a sample bottle and pamphlet telling all about it sent free by mall. Address Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. i. wben writing mention that you ead this generous offer in theURKKNS- oro Patriot. copyrioht 1898-dr, k. & co. Southern Railway IS EFFECT DECEMBER 4, 18C8. This condensed schedule is miblithed as in formation and is subject to change without nonce 10 ine puonc. Trains leave Greensboro, N. C. : 7:05 a. m. No. 37 daily, Washington A South Western Limited for Charlotte, Atlanta, Bir mingham, Memphis, Montgomery. Mobile. New Orleans and all points south and southwett. Connects at Charlotte for Columbia, Augusta, Savannah. Jacksonville and Tampa. Through Pullman Sleeper New York to New Orleans; New York to Memphis; New York . to Tampa Dining Car and Vestibule Coach Washington r Atlanta. 7:37 a. m. No. 11 daily, for Charlotte. Atlanta and all tioints South. Connects at Salisbury for Asbeville. Knoxvilleand Chattanooga. Through sleeper New York to Nashville. 8 :10 a. m. No. 8 daily, for Danviile, Richmond and locul stations. I 12:06 p. ra. No. 38 daily. United States Fast Mail for Washington. Richmond and all tioints Ncrth. Carries through Pullman Drawing Room Buffet Sleeper New Orleans to New Vork; Jacksonville to New York. Pullman Tourist Sleeping Car on Mondays via. New Orleans and Southern PaciOc. San Francisco to Washington. i.7:?4P mXo.-35 daily.' United States Fast Mail for Charlotte, Atlanta and all points South and Southwest. Connects at Charlotte for Columbia, Augusta, Savannah, Jacksonville and local stations. Pnllman Drawing Room Buffet Sleeper New York to New Orleans; New ork to Jacksonville; Charlotte to Biiming ham; Charlotte to Augusta. Pullman Tourist Sleeper Wednesday Washington to San Fran cisco. . J 10:43 p. raj No. 88 daily. Washington and Southwestern Limited for Washington and all fnnu North. Pullman Sleepers to Richmond, ashington and New York. 6:45 p. xn. No. 7 daily, for Charlotte and lo?al rMnts. 8i1.(Hu n 3ff- 8 daily, for Raleigh, Goldsboro and locl points. Connects at teelma with tram for Tarboro, Norfolk and local points; at Golds boro for ewbern and Morehvad City. ! No. 16 leaves Greensboro 11:10 p. m. daily for Raleigh, Goldsboro and local points, j 10 :M p. m-No. 12 daily, for Raleigh, Norfolk, and points east. Pullman Sleeper Greensboro to Norfolk. I 8:15 a. m. No. lCS'for Winston, JYilke&boro and local jwinU. Daily to Winston-Salem. yaiij t itcui ouuuty iu yh te bore. I IS :0 p. No. 107, daily except Sunday for wintton-Salem. v 7:33 p. m.No. 109 daily for Winston-Salem. First sections rf all uhutnii i . . i - CI r k rrTi - . fwjn points at which they are scheduled to atop. .hingtoa, K C. 1 1 -4 SIO SIO Desirable Farm for Sail 175 acres of highly improved lam weUi V ed to the growth of W heat. tat, t,rn T l. and especially Clover ami (;t MM43ot..i. UU" J vjv cr ami itrass. i m- lartli i. tered by swing- ami minll Kti.:,. ..... through it. Good well of w at r.Ttr . m i. ing, large grain ana teen barn. ami a!l uui uuimins. r inecai ly vem-h tin hwi i. n .Appie urcnara 01 seiectol vjmc (.( i Pears. Plums, also tlnn .M'llWf loll nr l.r. .: Just coming into bearing. The fat In i Ik conveniently to School C'luirrlu-4 M !l,i kets and Railroad, and in one of n,o h-ixia localities in the state, a family of ii h tt 8ided on the farm ten yearn an-l-mi t;rj quircu me services or pnvsinan luricttai An adloininr fco-aeff t Terms tO BUit Uurchaht-r. 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