ADVISED TO BEGIN EARLY.

Bride’* Mother Toll* Her How .to Treat a Huaband. Tbe bride'* mother was vU'.tlof bet and together they sat In the sewing room. The bride was fixing the sleeve Unlhd of her husband's overcoat. "Well. I think that's remarked the bride, as she flnl

SueJay Sermcn By Rer. Dr. J. WUb»

Job.* dshed

' Id!:PRODIGAL'S FATHER’

do *11 the rest.

It is nld that Dr. Rsinaford. of England, in one of the Northfield conferences ■t one time related the etory of an old friend of his, a German professor, who was an agnostic, sud ss you know the creed of the egnoetic is simply, "f do not know.’’ This old professor csroe to visit Dr. Rainsford and went with him to all the

Ae Upl ftlag Taft ea TMs Famaas Btk Sior) —How It Baveaia Bm part

if Qed's

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bride.

•'tfa too well done," waa tbo reply. "Too well done?" "Yea; It'e a tailor's Job." "But If 1 ran do It as well as a tailor—"

Bnne forth

ran * * * and kiased md aaid to his servanU, at robe and r'* “ “

; on his hand

"Why. then, of course, you'll hare j to keep on doing things of that sort. I Oh. I«know all about It. I tried

bungling Job > to tear It a

myself when I was first married, and later I had to ruin two coats before I could break your father of the habit ' of bringing everything to me. Just listen to the ralce of ei

daughter, and make a bunf that, even If you have t

out and de It over again, trouble at all to discourage him n U w, , but It will be, a year cr so later. It

Is of the utmost Impoiti woman should begin i right."—Chicago Post

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! had terrible pains along my tl cord for two years and suffered

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"HE HAD COMPASSION AND RAN.” I never knew until recenty wbst that Ki STSSTvS .s tot, btS' LVt" JS23 IhS. a .t’-toiKd TSS. STS 1 ‘ ' or 5 We had in our city a yoeag man who waa more than ordinarily prosperous in so marked that his partners called him “ .““.toto.. Hi. rranto dupoJ’fbil “ a “> M'S:, sx a: r 1 °<

IV.

WHAT DID HE DO? son occurred, but for the sake of the story

SFild

a.'^uss’bS st strttta plete reconciliation. This is whst Jesus top-ir, bat,, i. «,!, to, .,«p U d„'.r,;. h ,-s~b

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of my despair, but it is necessary on! I should receive whst God offers _ Jesus Christ. The first step in the Christian life is an acceptano

comes from above.

We had in Philadelphia . _ longing to one of the better families, socalled, who by his wayward actions disgraced his father and finally broke his heart. After s little he left his home, went to Baltimore, from there to Washington, and after month* of wandering determined to return. He was ashamed f

tbe door at the midnight hour there was one who would hear and understand, snd when be stood before that door it was

md without a word of re-

swung open snd withe —, proacb his mother bad* him welcome. —, not (Join,

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pensiable to complete happiness, and j Lydia E. Plnkbam’s Vegetable Compound has secured this to me." —Mas. Lama L. Bbsxxb. Crows ! Point, Indiana, Secretary Ladles Belief Corps.—ywoo/wrwry aHgtmf »f eSsw utu> Every sick woman who does not understand her ailment should write Mrs. Pinkbam. Lym Mass. Her advice is free an

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ashamed to come, but the third morning i he descended the stairway his brother, physician, met him and **>d, “Edward, other is dying.” She had been suddenly rioken down snd was anxious to sss Mm. c made his way into her room, knelt beds her bed and sobbed oot, “Oh, mother, I beseech you, forgive ms!’ and with her last departing strength sh* drew doe* to

n, placed her lips e» ‘

it infinite' snd s pity beyond descriglion, timpTy'receiv “His ^ ft^f°hfe W “ Second, I hare always imagined that when the father started ont from the botue running to meet his boy, that the servants

must have noticed him, am' ran after him. When the condition of the son I can !

turned to the approaching l “Run. bring the best robe snd put it father wrapped it round about h

lis boy, that the servsnU J him, snd possibly they Yben the father -saw the

Vi

_ me to _ robe the Mm, thus

covering over sU^Um^s^us of hi* wanderj for" you. 1 * 'Thc^rtorocnt Mlirro th* out spot or blemish, for we are at once a

ceptad in the beloved.

1 remember that when Jonathan wi dead snd David wanted to do something for soma on* that belonged to Mm, the only one he could find upon whom he might lavish his affection was poor, little, lame Mephibosheth. He was lame on both his feet, you will remember (Ms nurse had dropped him a* she ws» fleeing avsy from the enemy), but when David found him he placed Mm at tbe king's table snd in Such a position that Ms lameness was hidden, snd if you had been on the opposite side from him you never would have known that be had a mark of deformity about him. This is what God does for every pool, wandering, lost one that comet to Him. "I. even I, am He that blotUth ont all thy- transgression*, and I will re: ber them against you no more forever. Third, he put the ring on hU hand. The vfsa £ xaAvsa

than that of th* ring.

“For th* lor* of God i« breeder than ths EEviiv-"""" 1 - — Fourth, hr put shoes on his fret. 1 can mg to know that the moment we are saved Hr nuts shore on our fret, snd that we are shod with the preparation of the gospel of

peace. y

-ASD THEY ^.KDJOR HI* THE I can see the old father as he runs from sSSFSx&aHaS ItoV. W S.rIKd'fe to”to b,v* . dm, of frudo, h,,. th.t Ih,, do not h»ve s-limr of rejoicing in heaven, , "For th»cc it jov in the oresenro of tbe *n- ] gels^of God over one sinner that repent- ; At the close of s meeting in Joliet. Hli- ! nni«. 1 aat down beside an honored evangelist. Rev. H. W. Brown, snd amohg j other things in his career, he told me this | A number of year* before he had a re- j 7w^ B r^n 0, tfS?M« t of tb^sSSS 1 isme. Oconomowoc. After hi« work of ^

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^.2" of reaction; they are the return upon ourselves of that which we do. Just ss modern mechanism has made the recoil of great force* a great part of the value of those forces — th* recoil of rapid-fire ts almost all the work of those divine Power makes, out of the of what we do, our own fates to condemn us, or our own angels to bless us. We confess Una truth in the proverb that we make our own beds, snd must be on Bn ' ' -■ -blm

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