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DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A POWER
FUL SERMON.
Men of Talent Have Speelal Oppor
tunities For Dolnir Good Heroes at
Home n Well n. on the Battlefield.
The Greatest Warrior of All.
tCoryrisht. by American Pres- Aaso
clation. WAsnnfQTOX, Jan.1 8. From a text
probably never before discoursed upon
Dr. Talmage in this sermon, shows how
some people multiply their resources for
urefulness and in a novel way urges
the putting forth of more energy in
right directicua; text. II Samuel xyiii,
8, "Then art worth J0.O0O of us."
One cf the most wondrous characters
of his time was David. A red haired boy,
be could shepherd a flock or carry "ten
loaves and ten slices of milk cheese to
bis brothers in the regiment." or with
latbern thong, stcne loaded, bring down
a giant whose armor weighed two hun
dredweight of metal, or cause a lion
which roared at him in rage to roar with
pain as he flung it,dying, to the roadside;
or could marshal a host, or rule" an em
pire,'cr thumb a harp so skillfully that
it cured Saul's dementia a harp from
whose strings dripped pastorals, elegies,
lyrics, triumphal marches, benedictions.
Now, this man, a combination of tdusio
and heroics, of dithyrambs and battle
fields, of country quietudes and states
manship, is to fit out a military expedi
tion. Four thousand troops, according
to Josephus, were sent into the field.
The captains were put in pommand of
the companies, and the colonels in com
mand of the regiments, which were dis
posed into right wing, left wing and
center. General Joab, General Abisbai
and General Ittai are to lead these three
divisions. But who shall take the field
as commander In chief? David offers
his services and proposes to go to the
front. He will lead them in the awful
charge, for he has not a cowardly nerve
in all his body. lie did not propose to
have bis troops go into perils which be
himself would not; brave, and the bat
tlefield required as much courage then
as now, for the opposing forces must,
in order to do any execution at all,
come up to within positive reach of
saber and spear. But there came up
from the troops and from civilians a
mighty protest against David' taking
tho field. His life was too important to
the nation. If he-went down, the em
pire went down; whereas, if the whole
4,000 of the ranka were slain another
army might be marshaled and the de
feat turned into victory. The army and
tbo nation practically cried out: "No!
Nof You cannot goto the front 1 We
estimate you as 10,000 men 1 'Thou art
worth 10,000 of us!' V
That army and that nation then and
there reminded David and now remind
ns of the fact which we forget or never
appreciate at all that some people are
morally or spiritually worth far. more
than others, and some worth far; less.
The census and statistics of neighbor
hoods, of churches, of nations, serve
their purpose, but j they can never ac
curately efpress the real state of things.
The practical subject that I want to
present today is that those who have
especial opportunity, especial graces,
especial wealth, especial, talent, espe
cial eloquence, ought to' make; up by
especial assiduity and consecration for
tboso who have less opportunities and
less gifts. You -.ought to do ten times
more for God and human uplifting than
those who have only a tenth of your
equipment. The rank and tho file of
the 4,000 of the text told the truth
when they said, "Thou art worth 10,
COOcfua." In no city of its size are there so
many men cf talent as are gathered in
this capital cf the American, nation.'
Some of the states are at r times repre
sented by men who have neither talents
nor good morals. Their political party
compensates them for partisan services
by sending them to congress or by se
curing for them position in the. war or
navy or pension or printing depart
ments. They were nobodies before they
left home, and they are nobodies here,
but they are exceptional All the states
of the Union generally send theirjnost
talented men and men of exemplary
lives and noble purposes. Some of them
have the gifts and qualifications of ten
men, of a hundred men yea, of a thou
sand men and their constituents could
truthfully employ the words of my text
and say, "Thou art worth 10,000 of
us." !
Power For Good.
With such opportunity, are they aug
menting their usefulness in every pos
sible direction? Many of them are, some
cf them are not; It is a stupendous
thing to have power political power,
sociaLpower, official power. It has of
ten been printed land often quoted as
one of the wise sayings of the ancients,
"Knowledge is power." 'Yet it may as
certainly be power for evil as for good.
The lightning express rail train has
power for good if it is on the track, but
horrible power for disaster if it leaves
the track and plunges down the em
bankment. The ocean steamer has power
for good, sailing in right direction and
in safe waters and under good helms
man and wide awake watchman on the
lookout, but indescribable power for
evil if under full headway it strikes the
breakers. As steam power or electricity
or water forces may be stored in boil
ers, in . dynamosj in reservoirs, to . be
employed all over a town or city, so
God sometimes puts in one man enough
faith to supply thousands of men with
courage. If a man happens to be thus
endowed, let him realize his opportuni
ty and improve it At this time mil
lions of mei are a-tremble lest this na
tion, make a mistake and enter1; upon
some policy of government for ' the is
lands of the sea that will founder the
republic, God will give to a few men
cn both sides cf this question faith and
courage for all the rest. There are two
(also positions many are now taxing,
false as false can be. The one is that
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If we decline to take under fall charge
Cuba and Porto Rico and the Philip
pines we make a declination that will
te disastrous to our nation, and other
nations will take control of those ar
chipelagoes and rule them, and perhaps
to our humiliation and destruction. The
other theory is4bat if w'e take posses
sion cf those once Spanish colonies we
invite foreign interference and enter
upou a career that will finally be the
demolition of thie government. Both
positions are immeasurable mistakes.
God has set apart ' tbla continent for
free government and ..the 'f triumphs of
Christianity, and we' , may . take either
the first or the. second course without
ruin. We may say. to tbpse' islands:
V We do not want ybu,r but -we- have set
you free. Now slay free, while we see
that the Spanish panther never again
pute its paw on your neck." - Or we
may invite the annexation of Cuba and
Porto Rico and say to the Philippines,
"Get ready by education and good mor
als for free government, and at the
right time you shall be one of our terri
tories, on the way to be one cf , our
states."
And there is no power in Europe.
Asia or Africa, or all combined, that
could harm this nation in its world
wide endeavor. 'God is on the side of
the right, and by earnest imploration
for divine guidance on the part. of this
nation we will be led to do the right
' We are on the brink of nothing. There
ii no frightful crisis. This train of Re
publican and Democrat io institutions is
a through train, and all we want is to
have the engineer and the brakemen
and the conductor attend to their busi
ness and the passengers keep their
places. We want men in this nation
with faith enough for: all. We want
here and there a David worth 10,000
men.
Confidence Lacltlnsr.
A vast majority of men have no sur
plus of confidence for others and hardly
enough confidence for themselves. They
go through life saying depressing things
and doing depressing things. They chill
prayer meetings, discourage oharitable
institutions, injure commerce and kill
churches. They blow out lights when
they ought to be kindling them. They
hover around a dull fire on their own
hearth and take up so much room that
no one can catch the least calorie, in
stead of stirring the hearth into a blaze,
the crackle of whose backlog would in
vite the whole neighborhood to come in
to feel the abounding warmth and see
the transfiguration of the faces. As we
all have. to guess a great deal about the
future, let us guess something good,
for it will be more encouraging, and
the guess will be just as apt to come
true. What a lot of ingrates the Lord
has at his table ! People who .have had
three meals a day for 50 years and yet
fear that they will soon have to rattle
their knife and fork on an empty dinner
plate. How. many have had winter
and spring and summer and fall cloth
ing for 60 years, but expect an empty
wardrobe shortly 1 ;How many have
lived under free institutions !all their
days, but fear that the' United States
may be telescoped in some foreign col
lision! Oh, but the taxes have gone upl
Yes, but thank God, it is easier with
money tp'pay the taxes now that they
are up than it was without money to
pay the taxes when they were down.
We want affew nien.who have faith in
God' and Vna .mighty. future'( which
holds several things, among them a
millennium. Columbanus said to his
friend, "Deicolus, why are you always
smiling?" The reply was, "Because no
one can take my God from mel" We
want more mento feel that they have a
mission to cheer others , and to draw up
the 'corners of 'people's; mouths which
have a long while been drawn down;
more Davids who can ' shepherd, whole
flocks of ..bright hopes, and can1 play a
harp of encouragement, and strike down
a Goliath of despair, and of whom we
can Eay, "Thou art worth '10, 000 of us.",
I admit that this thought of my text
fnljy carried out would change many
of the world's statistics. Suppose a vil
lage is said to have 1,000 inhabitants,
and that -one-half of Jthem namely,
500 have for 'years bee"n becoming less
in body, and through niggardliness and
grumbling less in s soul. ..Each one of
these is only one-half of what he once
was or one-half of what 'She once was.
Tha t original : 500 ' have be'en reduced
one-half .in1 moral quality 'and ar$ really
only:250; Suppose that the other.SOO
have maintained their original status
and are 'neither better nor worse. Then
the entire population of that village is
750. But suppose another i village of
1,000, and ZOO of them, as the years go
by, through mental and spiritual cul
ture,, augment .themselves ik,until they
are. reailyjtwice the men, and -women
they, originally were, and the other .500
remain .uchapged and.are neither better
nor worsev then the. population of " that
village is. 1,500." 'Meanness i is subtract
tion and nobility is addition. Acc6rd
ing as :you rise in the scale of holiness;
and generosity and consecration,- you
are worth 5 or 10 or 50 or 100 o'lt000
or 10,000 others. j
II amble Heroes.
-Notice, my friend, that .this David,
warrior, strategist; lninstrel? master of
blank verse" and 6tone slinger at .the
giaint,' whom the soldiers of .the text es
timated clear up into the, thousandfold
of usefulness on this particular occasion,
staid at " home Or in his place of tem
porary residence. General Joab, Gen
eral Abishai and General Ittai, who
commanded the boys in the right wing
and left wing and center, did their
work bravely and left; 25,000 of ' the
lord's enemies dead on the field,' and
many of the survivors got entangled in
the woods of Ephraim and mixed up in
the bushes ..and stumbled.? over. the
stumps of trees and fell ; into .bogs and
.were devoured e of wild beasts-hich
seized them in the thickets.1 But David
did his work at home. We all huzza
for heroes who have been jn battle and
on their- return what procession's we
form and what triumphal arches we
tpring and what banquets we spread
nd what garlands we. wreathe and
what orations we deliver and what belli
we ring and what cannonades we fire!
But do we do justice to the stay at
homes? David, who was worth 10,000
of those who went out j to meet the
Lord's enemies in the woods of Ephra
im, that day did his work
n retirement
Oh. the world needs a
day of judg-
ment, to give many of the stay at homes
nrouer recognition. In the different
wars the sons went to the front and on
ship's deck or battlefield -exposed their
lives and. earned the admiration of the
country, but bow about the mothers
and fathers who through long years
taught those sons 'the noble sentiments
that inspired them to go and then gave
them up when perhaps -a jfev words of
earnest protect would, have kept them
on the farm and in the homestead? The
day of final reward will reveal the Self
sacrifice and the fidelityjof thousands
who never in all their lives received
one word of praise. Oh, ye unknown,
ye faithful and Christian and all endur
ing stay at homes! I have no power
now to do you justice, but I tell you of
one who has the power and of the day
when he will put it forth. It will be
the day when the thimble, and the la
dle, and the darning needle,, and the
washtub, and the spinning wheel, and
the scythe, and the thrashing machine,
and the hammer, and the trowel, and
the plow, will come; to as high an ap
preciation as a 74 pounder, or the sword,
or the battering ram that pounded down
the wall or the flag that was "hoisted
on the scaled parapets. J
A Great Soldier.
The warrior David of my text showed
more self control and moral prowess in
staying at home than jhe could have
shown commanding in the field. He
was a natural warrior.' Martial airs
stirred him. The glitter of opposing
shields fired bim. He was one of those
men who feel at borne I in the saddle,
patting the neck of a pawing cavalry
horse. But he suppressed himself. He
obeyed1 the command of the troops whom
he would like to have commanded.
Some of the greatest Sedans and Aus
terlitzes have been in backwoods kitch
ens or in nursery, with three children
down with scarlet fever, soon to join
the two already in the! churchyard, or
amid domestio wrongs and outrages
enough to transform angels into devils,
or in commercial life within their own
counting rooms in time of Black Friday
panics, or in mechanical life in their
own carpenter shop or Ion the scaffold
ing of walls, swept by told or smitten
by heat. No telegraphic wires reported
the crisis of the conflict,; no banner was
ever waved to celebrate their victory,
but God knows, and God will remem
ber, and God will adjust, and by him
the falling of a tear is as certainlyno
ticed as the burning of a world, and the
flutter of a sparrow's wing as the flight
of the apocalyptic archangel. i
Oh, what a God we have for small
things as well as big things! David no
more helped a;t the front; than helped at
home. The four regiments mobilized
for the defense of the throne of Israel
were right in protestingagainst David's
exposure of his life at. the front, j Had
be been pierced of an arrow or cloven
down with a battleax !r fatally slung
from snorting war charger, what a dis
aster for the throne of Israel ! Absalom,
his son, was a low fellow and unfit to.
reign ; his two chief characteristics were
his handsome face and his long hair
so long that when he had it cut that
which was scissored off weighed "200
shekels, after the kingja weight," and
when a man has nothing hnt a hand
some face and an exuberance of hair
there is not much of him. The capture
or slaying of David would have been a
calamity irreparable. Unnecessaryx
posure would have been a crime for Da
vid, as it is a crime for you. j
Some people think it is a bright thing
to put themselves in unnecessary peril.
They like to walk up to the edge of a
precipice and look off, 'defying vertigo,
or go among - contagions when they can
be of no use but? to demonstrate their
own bravado, or with , glee drive horses
which are only harnessed whirlwinds,
or see how close they can walk in front
of a trolley car without being crushed,
or spring on a rail train after it has
started, or leap off a rail train before it
has , stopped. Their life is a series of
narrow escapes, careless : of what pre
dicament their family! would suffer at
their sudden taking off or of the mis
fortune that might come to their busi
ness partners or the' complete failure of
their life work, 11 a coroners jury muss
be called in to decide the style of their
exit They do not take into considera
tion what their life is worth to others.
Taken off through .such recklessness
they go criminals. ' There was not one
man among those four full regiments
of 4,000 Israelites that would have so
much enjoyed being in the fight as Da
vid, but he saw that he could serve his
nation best by not putting on helmet
and shield and "sword, and so he took
the advice of the armed men and said,
"What seemeth to you best I will do."
I warrant that you will die soon enough,
without teasing and bantering casualty
to see if it can launch jyou into the next
world. ',. .'
. - , . . Keep Oat of Peril. !
In nine casesout of j ten the fatalities
every day reported are not the fault of
engineers or brakemeri or conductors or
cab' drivers, but of the stupidity and
recklessness of people! at street or rail
road crossing. They would like to have
the Chicago limited express train, with
300 passengers and advertised to arrive
at a certain hour in a certain city, slow
up to let them get two minutes sooner
to their, destination, not one farthing:
of their own. or any one else's welfare
dependent on whether they arrive one
minute before 12 o'clock or one minute
after. You ought to get permission, from,
a railroad superintendent to mount be
side the encineer on a' locomotive to re
I alize how many evils of recklessness-
there are in the worm lunerai proces
sions whipping up to; get across before
the cowcatcher strikes the hearse; man
of family, with wife and children be
side him in a wagon. evidently having;
made close calculation as to whether a
I!
stroke from the locomotive would put
them backward or forward in the jour
ney to the village grocery ; traveler on
a railroad bridge, hoping that he could
tret to the end of the bridge, before the
train reaches It. You have no right to
put your life in peril unless by such
exnasnre eomethimr is to be sained for
ethers. What imbecility in thousands
of Americans during our recent Amen
vl Aiucuwi-g uu-u& vm - .
co-Spanish war, disappointed because
-L. mmmiAttm MmA an crwn arid H V
could not have the advantage of being
shot at1 San Juan hill or brought down
with the vellow fever and carried on a
litter to transport steamers already so
manv floating lazarettos instead of
thanking God that they got no nearer to
the slaughter than Tampa or unatta
nooca or the encamDment at their own
uuuga uo tuiuijuu
state capital; mad at the government
mad at God, because they could not get
to the front in. time to join tbe 4,uuu
corpses that are now being transported
from the tropics to the national ceme
teries of the United Statee Exposure
and daring' are admirable when duty
calls, but keen out of neril when noth
r a
ine uractical and useful is to be gained
for your family or your country or your
God. I admire the Uavia 01 my texs as
he suppresses himself and enters the
gate of his castle as much as I admire
him when: with his four fingers and
thumb clutched into the grisly locks of
Goliath's head, which be bad decapi
tated, and Saul admiringly asks.
"Whose son art thou, young man?"
and David, blushing with genuine
modesty, responds, "I am the son of thy
servant, Jesse, the Bethlehemlte."
Help Others. .
Now, here is another important point;
a . I
An thAm are so manv rjeouie in me
world who amount to little or nothing
vnn nnchfc t"n arjement voureelf. and if
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not able, like David, to be wortn iu.uuu
times more than others, you can com
mand God's re-enforcing grace to make
yourself four times or three times or
twice as much as some others. Pray
twioR as much, read twice as much,
give twice as much, go to church twice
f V V ? a W -- a--a- J O w f
as much. Instead of spending your time
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findinc fault with others, substitute
vnnr Runerior fidelity for their derelic
tion and default In any church there
are ten members worth all the other
thousand. In every creat business firm
there is one man worth the other three
partners. In every legislative hall, state
nr na tional. there are five men worth
all the other 50 or 100, Take the sug
pfistion of mv text and augment your
self. Make your one talent do the work
of two, or your five talents do the work
of ten. or your ten talents do the work
of 20. Multiply your words of encour
agement. Multiply the number of boosts
yOa can give to those who are trying to
limh. Instead of beinc one man in a
battalion by your faith in God and neW
nnncanratinn ho a whole recimenc. i
like the Question of a ceneral of a small
army, when some one was counting the
number of officers and soldiers of tne
frit-res and the small number
of their own army and the general
cried out in Indignation, "How rodny
do you take me to be?"David was 10,-
000 men. You ought to be at lease rwo
men in this battle for God and right
pnnfinRPP.
The daily nauers! say that my old
friend Jeremiah C. Lanphier of New
York is dead at 90 years of age. But
thev are mistaken. That man can never
din. He will live as long, as heaven
lives. He was the father of vitalized,
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vivified and arousing prayer meetings,
TT established the noonoay runon
RfrAfifc nraver in eetins. famous through-
nnf. nhrifitendom and more honored of
God than any devotional meeting since
th world beszan. He introduced tne lit
tle bell on the prayer meeting table
which always tapped when prayers
were too prolix or exhortations too long
winded. Findinc that many business
men are from 12 noon to 1 o'clock at
comparative leisure, be widely announc
ed that at 12 o'clock or. zaa or oepiem-
hen iRn7. there Would begin a prayer
meeting of one hour in he small upper
room of the Reformed uohurch, on Ful
ton, street, New York. Lanphier went
to that room at 12 o'clock and sat alone.
At half nast 12 a man entered, and oth-
ora rtamn n ntil there were six worship
ers present. The meeting on the follow
ing noonday numbered 20, and the next
day 40. Then the meeting became too
19T0A fnr tha room, and it was taken
intn thef main auditorium, and for 41
years that service has been the religious
center of Christendom, itequesia ior
prayer from all parts of the earth have
come there, and the prayers off ered been
answered sometimes Wltn a reEounu
. nn r, I AavH thrnnohnnt Christen-
dom. Hundreds of thousands of souls
tiova Rtnnned into that Bethesda and
been healed That meeting started the
orient: rpv 1 , i of 1858. in which it is ea-
timated
.:00 souls were converieu.
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When 1
soul ascc.
tbe gate
throng i
greeted b
ly morning, Deo. 26, his
I think he was met at
f heaven by a welcoming
michtv as that which has
..d itted soul for five cen-
tnnes. 1
jbia and without any pre
tension ai-J without anything brilliant
in his make up, througn iaitn in voa
and concentrated prayer he shook tbd
earth and enraptured the heavens. He
was worth 10,000, yea 100,000, ordinary
hnoUnn workers. Dear old friend
Iianphier, how I loved you !
Worth Ten Thousand.
When the consul general came in his
official row boat to take us off our greav
cfoamor in the harbor of Constantinople,
there were many things I jwanted to see
in that ritv of multiform enchantments,
but most of all I was anxious to see that
architectural charm of ' the ages, the
St. Sophia once a "church, but now a
mosque. I do not wonder that when
Tmartina saw it he thanked God, and
Pouqueville felt himself lifted into some
other world. What pillars of porphyry,
nrf wall of malachite, and hovering
arches, and galleries which seemed to
.have alighted from heaven msteaa oi
joins' hnilt no from earth I Mosaics and
mnfhcr rf nearl. and eeranhim with
-winca hediamonded. and dome which
scoops the aky and taggri with iU
height ana circumference all those who "
gaze into it until they can look no
more, but each succeeding time yon
look it seems higher and wider and
grander and more supernatural. All the
then known world taxed to furnish the
splendor of the mosque, and many of
the great blocks of .tone brought from
Alexandria, from Athens, from Tbebei,
irom AJoaioec. iarujes Ti'iuru auu aiai
red an3 striped and interlaced, and the
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from Baal bee. Marbles veined and -tar-
whole building adorned with depths of
blno, and whiteness or snow, and glow
of fire, until all terms of magniucenc
are a depreciation, and years after your
most extravagant dreams struggle to re
build it. But, after all, I cannot forget
that it is a destroyed church, and that
one day that building, which bad been
oeaicaien o vuu, w iruuatciicu
tnat religion which has Mohammed for
dedicated to God. was transferred to
its crouhet. One day, centuries ago.
100,000 people had fled between its
walls from the devastating war of the
Turk, but all in vain, for Moharomod
II. on horseback and followed by in
furiate mobs, rode into that church, the
hoofs clattering tho tacrcd floors, vthile
tho rnnnneror shouted the victory of
superstition and invoked Allah, tho god
of Arabs and Turks, to accept the stu
pendous pile in . dedication. What a
desecration and wnat worldwide ue
spair! But that vvhich the nations now
uiof t need is a hero, a leader, a cham
pion, an incarnated God, to turn all the
mosques of superstition and all the
basilicas of sin into temples of right
eousness, and to rededicate this world,
so long given up to wickedness and sin,
to the God who in the beginning- pro-
uounced it very good, uch a bercvsuca
a leader, such 'a champion, inch an in
carnated God we have, lie comes riciing
in upon the white horse of eternal vie-
nr- nnrt we can. in more exauea ieusn.
than that which the soldiers of Da-id
felt, cry out, "Thou art worth 10,000
of us." ' I
Conqueror of V orlds.
The world has had other conquerors,
yet they subtlnod only a nation or a con-
. -
conqueror of hemitphsres. Other payal
i v -A1 Gil
t npnf. hnt Here is one woo is i" i a
rinnH have cured sufferings, but hefre is
a Doctor who gave fight to. those wm
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were born blind and without surgery
tr'nt chinned the crooked back ana.
changed tho numbness of paralysis into
warm circulation, and wno win yes ex
irniitn all the nilmeuts of the world.
untibtbe last cry of the world's distress
shall change into a eong or convaies
Hfhrr lHiua have ruled wido
UtillLua wiuv. "
realms, but here is a King that will yet
reign in all the earth as be now reigns
in heaven. Thero have been otner nis-
tnrinns who told the story of nations.
hnt herols one who tells us of" things
thiit nrrnrrcd before tuo worm was.
heen other senerals who
nnmmanded men. but here was alienor-
nl who cnmn:audtd seas and hurricanes.
There have been other prophets, but
here is one out of whose life audtareer
Moses and David and Jeremiah and
PVt.kiel and Micali and Malacbi and
h ' dinned their inspiration.
Thero have been other merclf uj hearts
, w .- - a.
all up and down through tbo ages, but
horn is nnn who loves us wltn an ever-
lasting love and whose mercy antedates
the birth of the first mountain, and the
wh nf the first sea. and the radiance
f tha first anrora. and the chant of the
r,nrtiino Ktnrs at the creation and wui
continue after the last rota nas meue
" . . . . ... a '
in tne nnai cuuunytauu-
I au. uuiuu
their beds, and the last nicht -hall l
rwi Pnrifin nreaus Lave roneu on. oi
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.We know
nf nftthinjr'better to tear the
lining of your throat snd
lungs. it is oencr iun wn
feet to cause bronchitis ana
pneumonia. Only keep it
nn innc enough and you
-will succeed in reducing your
weight, losing your sppeuie..
bringing on a siow icvcrn;
making .everything exactly'
right for the germs of con
sumption, j
Stoo couehing and you
will get well.
cure- coughs of every kind.
An ordinary cough disap
pears in a single night. The
racking coughs of bronchitis
are soon completely mas
tered. And, if not too far
hr rnucrhl Of COn-
ll Wng coughs of broncmus
sumption are completely
cured. ' j ,
Ask, your druggist for one
of ' r. '
Dr. Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral
Plaster. 1
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Cherry Pectoral. (
prompt replr tbst my b of S"
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