LEADING CAPE MAY PAPER —~1

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VOL XXVI. NO. 45.

CAPE MAY CITY, MONDAY MORNING AUGUST 23, 1897. PRICES CENTS

CONGRESS HALL,

CAPK MAY, X. J.

i Built of brick, ultuctrd on * blr" * l'h s clear c’jU^ok over tbe Ocean, and pre

ire airy, coay ai -e la a lovely aix

« uoi

Aided with....,

Wly filled 1 tbc culalne and acn iu- urn xi-. in d, and there

paaacneer elevator, electric tulla, firM-clafJ. laundry, Ore^acapiK. and the complete arrana n ente for 500 Guibis. CongreM Hall haa been recently renova tlon, repainted an ' i ut in excellent condition. Tbe sanitary arrangement* a

the moat approved pattern and are now perfect.

j:mVAKI> KMGHT < AKK.

IVLarine Villa!

23rd SEASON',

Cape^ May, X. JT.

Open Until October Ut

FOR ILLUSTRATED ALBUM, ADDRESS, Mrs. John M. Rogers Long Distance Telcpbone No 2. OWNER AND MANAGER.

HOTEL COLUMBIA, CAPE MAYICITY, N. J., KenoTHted mid Improved. Yew Management. Conveniently Located. MRS. S. FOSTER, Formerly of tbe Wyoming

,F. L. BICHAR DSOY.

ORIOLE Itir ctly on Renen. Near CONGRESS II \LL Bright and CapaeioiiH RooniH EXCELLENT TABLE. MODERATE RATES. MRS. FRIEND.

STOCKTON HOTEL THE FINEST SEASIDE HOTEL IN THE WORLD SEASON 1897 MODERN IMPROVEMENTS APPOINTMENTS STRICTLY FIRST iOLASS DIRECTLY FACING THE OCEAN BEAUTIFUL LAWNS. RATES, $3 AND $5 PER DAY SPECIAL TERMS BY THE WEEK Lprner rooms and suites with parlors and baths extra. Concerts mornings io to 12. Hops evenings, 8.30 to 10. 30. Dogs not taken or allowed on the premises. HORACE M. CAKE.

MARINE VILLA ANNEX Finest Location in Cape May.

I HAVE TAKEN THE PAGE and TATHAM COTTAGE’S IN CONNECTION WITH MARINE VILLA ANNEX. age the Marine Villa tbla aeasou. Mrs. F. HALLENBECK.

^THE GHALFONTE.^ Under New Management. AppointmentaFiraUclaaa.fc.Open all the Year. ‘WThoroughly Heated. CHARI, FS RALTOY, of the Continental Hotel. Prop.

HOTEL ill

Sontli Lafayette St Near Beach,

id larm-cool vnandatu. Term;

Cheerful, homelike hotel, with

rood

MRS. M- B- FIELD-

THE WMB§m

Open 8pr ug ■ II it* appoii SOR alo.y. do so.

JAPE MAY, X. J.;

■Ti Autumn. Haa been renovated and is now firat claaa i.. Finest Location on the South Jeruy Coaat. Tbe WlNDcrulned the beat of Cape M.y'« vUilora ant will oou inae to

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THE COLOUIAL, CAPEM fT N ' J '

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W.H. CHURCH.

-ug. 82.—In this

f Dr. Tnlnuige la mighty encoum < |..l.s-. Ilia text isJobxlx, 80, •i-'i|h«1 w ilh the akin of my teeth.' Job hud it bard. What with be ereatements and bankruptcy and a fool f n wife he wished ho was dead, and ot 1 iatne him. Hla fleab was gone la Unit* were. dry. HU tooth wasted

□thing but the e

He cr

10 difference ol

a ima

Barnes

vo all tried their

You deny my interpretation uml "What did Job know abot I nan.el of the Uvthf" Ho know thing about It. Dental jnirgery U almost

a of yea

gold lining Ir mid Solomol Important fa

u Ovid

>mplaints Job, I

-1 ddod on exasperating toothache. 11.g hla hand against tbe Inflamed " I urn escaped with tbe skin of

ipe, you say, for Job'

In flumes. You go to sel. The bouts have shoved oil. advance. You can endure the hi "gef on your face. You slide do Lh g'lns to lick the haoAof your you feel thatWmi must fall, when one of the lifeboats oomis back, and tbo passengers say they think they ha

has not worn It out, and I want to show you. If God will help, that some men make narrow escape for their souU and are saved aa “with the skin of their teeth." It Is aa easy for.some people to look to the cross aa for yon to look to thU pulpit. Mild, gentle, tractable, loving, you expect them to Income Christians. You go over to the store ami say, "Grandon joined tbe church yesterday." Your business comrades say, "That la just what might have been experted; ho alwaya waa of that turn of mind." In youth this person whom I Iwnya good. He never broke ver laughed' proper to laugh. At" ' In chnreh, perfectly the right hand no

with an uncontrollable aplrlt. He kept the nursery In an uproar. His mother found him walking on the edge of tho house roof to aoo If ho could balance himself. There waa no horse that he dared not ride, no tree he could not climb. Hla boyhood waa a long series of predicaments; his manhood was reckless, his mlddlo very wayward. But now he Is converted and you go over to tbo store and say, "Arkwright joined tbe church yesterday." Your friend, say: "It la not possible! You must ' e Joking." You say; "No; I tell you tbo ruth. Ho joined tho church.” Then they le for any of os If old imoa Christian!" In ! admit that It Is more ;n to accept tho gospel k preaching to some who have from churches and Bibles and and who, have no Intention of Christians themselves, and yet

Ind yourself m

akin of your

3 off from Capo May 1 drop their net* and

it having can a goodalay ox

slon today. Tho water Is fuU of fh Ind Is In tbe right direction, tbo gi pel net Is strong. O thou who didst hi Simon and Andrew to flsb. show us hi

te of you In coming to God will have 1 against skeptical notions. It Is usea for people to say sharp and cutting 1 to those who reject ' ~ •

gate of tbe head and tbe gate of tbe heart. The gate of your bead Is looked with bolts and bare that an arcbt tbe gate of your hi wings easily on Us hinges. If

ten to two or three qnretli you.as happy aa you used to be v believed In the troth of tho

iow traveling? You had a relative who professed to be a Christian and was thoroughly consistent, living and dying In

doobt my Immortality and look ino doathbod as the closing scene, which there Is nothing. What ahal that I have not done?" Ah, skeptic!; a dark and doleful land. Let mo say that this Bible Is either true or false. If It bo false, we are as well off as you. If it be

; whether your trouble you confounded Chris(Miisistcnt character of li? You are a lawyi

1s t mo also as lanity with the ir

mptlblo men In your profes- : anything against medicine?

Christianity the wickedness of it plos^ We admit stime of tho charge .. those who profess religion. Some of the most gigantic swindles of the present day have boon carried on by mem hors of " church. There are men standing In from rank in the churches who would be trusted for (5 without good collateral security. Tiny leave their business dlsboncstlc* In the vestibule of the church they go In and sit at tbe communion. Haring concluded the sacrament, thty g, up, wipe the wine from their lips, go ot and take up their sins where they left of To servo the devil Is their regular worl to serve God a sort of play spell. With Sunday sjiungo they expect to wipe o from their business slate all tho past week

a specimen of a: .. it Is time that we draw religion and the frailtios o 1 that tbe Bible, take It

it tbc best book ' Do you know any

all In all. Is al world has eve book that lias.

inch in It? Do j

it its ini!

you with

Imnds extended toward yon. In one hand I have tho Bible ami in the other hand I have nothing. This Bible In one hand I will surrender forever Just as sooi my other band you ran put a I look I Invite you hack Into tbe good oh loned religion of your fathers—to ti whom they worshiped, to the Bible they -* *- - ■ -bleb they leaned.

siou of temper. Now there Is

getting’inad If you only got mad at sin. You need to bridle mid saddle those hot breathed -passions and with them ride thousand things in the world we ought to he mad at. Then* Is no harm In getting redho: If you only bring to the forge that which needs hammering. A man who has

no power of righteous Indignation luilirrilu, but lie sure It Is a rigbtei " - ' ’ ' iH-tulancy that blurs

vela and d. ple

is a lap

clan,

soul.

is In mid-

time

and ur

Tbet

life wbdhave Mill In them appeUu were arousid in early manhood at i when tiny prided thcmselvis on bein “little fast," "high livers," "free i easy," "hall fellows well met." They now paying lncom|mund interest for tr hies they collected 20 years ago. Somi

you are trying to escaiic, ni

>« '

lie skin of ^y

illcd out many a soul that was d the mire than you are. They ach of heaven, the multitude w! us rescued from the thrall of suicidal i. H you Uds day turn hock on the

the i

will sympathize fur awhile, and then you off. If you ask for Uiclr jiardon, . will give It and say thty will try you again; but. fulling away again unde '

mptntiun, they cast you o£

this

jt God forgive

sandlh time, he Is

moro earnest, mare symputboth helpful this last time than when }

your first misstep.

If with all tbo Influences favorable for right life nit a make so many mistakes, aw much harder Is it when, for Instance, ime appetite thrusts It* Iron grapple Into “ -* d pul'

rn with hands of destruction I If unsuch circumstances he break away, rc will bo no sjiurt in the undertaking,

portunlty to get os are distended and the veins stand out, id tho blood starts, tbe swarthy habit Us under the knee of the victor—escaped . last as "with tbe skin of his Teeth." The' ship Knima. hound from Gottenirg to Harwich, was sailing on, when ie man on the lookout saw something lat he pronounced a vessel Is,Horn up. hero was anmctblng on It that looked to a era gull,' but was afterward found i tie a waving handkerchief. In tbe small pushed out to tbe wrack and was a capsized vessel end a had been digging their gh the Iwttom of tbe ship. “rCtU li the planks an old nail und, with which they attempted to their way up out of the darkneat, » working until his hand was well nigh paralyzed, and he sank lack faint and sick. After lung and tedious work, ~ ;ht broke through tbo bottom of tbe A handkerchief was hoisted. Help They were taken on hoard the vee-

holst Homo signal of dlstn weak and feeble It may be, Christ will aee It and bear down upon tbe helpless craft and take them on board, and It will be known on earth and In heaven bow narrowly they escaped, "escape

In the back p<

tumbling over the dead tid—a suicide. There

pursued. hamiiKud, trodden do sonljsd of business perplexities, a way to turn next they do not kno God wlU not Is. hard on you. E

what obstacles are In tho

ing a Christian, tbe right dlrcctloi oess. Do not lot

and kegs n^d

way of your heir first effort in

^lo goods block up your

way to heaven. Gather np all your energies. Tighten tbo girdle about your loins. Take an agonising look Into tho face of God and then say, “Hero goes one grand effort for life eternal," and then bound away for heaven, escaping "as with

tho skin of your teeth."

In the hist day It will be found that Hugh Latimer and John Knox and Hues and Ridley were not tho greatest roartyrs, but Christian men who went np incorrupt from tbe cxintamlnatlona and perplexities of Pennsylvania avenue. Broad street, State street and Third street. On earth they were called brokers os stock jobbers or retailers or Importers, hut In heaven Christian heroes. No faggots were heaped feet; no Inquisition demanded recantation; no soldier aimed heir heart, but tlu-y had mental in pa red with which all physical I find in the community n largo class of men who have been so cheated, so lied about, »• outrageously wronged, that they have lost their faith In everything; In a world where everything seems so topsy turvey they do not sec bow there can be any God. They are confounded and frenxled and misanthropic. Elaborate arguments to prove to them tho troth of Christianity. or the troth of anything else, touch them nowhere. Hoar me, all such men. I pn«ch to you no rounded periods, noornayour shoulder and Invito you Into the poaou of the gospel Here Is a rook on which you may stand firm though tho waves dash agalust It harder that tbe Atlantic pitching Its surf oloar above Eddystone lighthouse. Do not cha God all these troubles of the a

rages and all these many hundreds of Ing tho world to the more he has c.

they hove until they have dropped Into rt Try this God, ye who have had the Moodbounds after you and who have thought that God had forgotten you. Try him and Sec If he will not help. Try him and seo If he will not pardon. Try him and see If he will not save. Tho flowers of spring have no bloom so sweet -as the flowering of Christ's affections. > Tho sun bath no warmth coui|iured with tbo glow of bis heart. The waters have no refreshment like the fountain that will slake tho thirst of thy soul. At them stands with Ids lip a

trigger and the poor thing rears In It* death agony and falls backward, It* antSirAr, brooks of God’s

Kl to save tho passengers. Tfaecargi Ing, the rigging nothing. Tho cap it* tbe trumpet to bis Bp one "Cut away tho mast." Some o: ,o boon tossed and driven, and yoi

ip the w

yoursoub Until you have dematttcr let everything else go. with all tboeo other anxieties uns. You will have to drop tbe ur pride and out away tho mast, earnest cry for help put yotre o the band of him who helped of the breakers of Mellta, and - *•--shrill blast of tho wrath lest

risk In Just got throngh and c by tbe ski* of my teeth."