CAPE MAY HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1904.

THE SUNDAY BIBLE SCHOOL

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(II XMtca » U-C. Memory uotom. tt-M.) U Aad EMehe uoo It. and he cried. My ruber, my F*U.«r. the cboetov of Unmi, um] the berMfnec thereof And he e»w him do more, aod be took bold of hie biethua. sod root them la two piece* U He took up ateo the manUe of ElUah that fell from Mm. end weat back, aad etood by the beak of Jordan U Aad hr took the rcaotic of ElUab that fell from him. acd •mote the water*, and eatd Where U the Lord Oo4 of E.tiab? And whet be aieo tad emit lea tbe watora. tb«y parted hltber and thither; and KiUba

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Bdwlo C. Alcorn. MUtUter-ln ° t RnSay Borrloee: TJO a m. Holy Gammon Ion; 10 SOa m, Moralac Ptwrer nod Sermon; 100 p m. Sunday-achool; 8.00 p m. Other eerrior* a* an non need. ruairruiAu cRintcB. Kev. Attbar W. Spooner, D. D.. Paw

U And whan tbe eooa of the prophet* ertilct were to elew at Jerlcbo eaw him. they aatd: The •pint of BtUab doth real on Eli*ha And they came to meet him. and bowed them eel vc* to the * round before

M And they said unto Mm: Behold now. there be with thy eervnnlr Bfty •'.con* man. let them so. we pray thee, and wek thy maatrr. leet peradventure the Spirit of the Lord hath taken Mm up. and caat tun upon eome mountain, or Into eome valley. And he aald Vr ehail not aend. It. And when they urged him till hcwna ashamed he akld: Bend. They aent lharefore fifty men; and they soua'hl threedaya. hut found him not. U. And when they came ayaln to Mm (for he tarried at Jertchoi. ha aald unto them: Wd I not aay unto you; Oo not? l» And tbe rorc of the city aaM unto KU■ha; Behold I pray thee, the situation of this city I* pleasant, as m* And seeth. hot the water Is aau«bt. and the ground bar

tt And he want forth unto the aprln* of the waters, and cast tbe call In there, and said; Thus aalth the Lord. I have healed theca waters; there shall not' be from thence any more death or barren land. a So the waver* were beaied unto thl# day. according to the saying of EUaha

-The entire

8CR1PTVKAL dBCTlON chapter, with a review of Ellska'i I Kings U:M. 1K&. GOLDEN TEXT —"Lot a doable porttoo of thy spirit be upon ma“—*1. Kings M. TIME —Immediately following tbe erects of tbe leeeoo dor September IL The ptwpbet c ministry extended through shout dm

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Praise service In the lectuc» room s' ... Sabbeth morning at 10 o'clock. Morning •rvlce at la*). Evening eerrior «t 7.*L MM-wrck pmyer meeilug at 7J0. Junior Endearor Friday afternoon at 4. o'clock. Senior Endeavor Friday evening at 7A0* Suoday-ecbool at 8.80. All arc oordtally invited. Seals Free. j’iitaT m. b. cnr*cn. Re*. S/F. Gasklll, D. D., Paator. Preaching on Snnda> morning at 10.80. In the evening at 7.4S. Mrotluga at 9 a. m. and 6.80 p. x,

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Sunday School at 8 r. m. Epworth iieagar Monday evening

o'clock.

Mi<l-w<wk prayer service Wednesday evening at 8 o’cluck. Claas meetings. Tuesday, Thursday' and Friday evenlnus. MAPTfBT CmntCH. Praachlng on Sti*'day morning at 10.30. In tbe evening at 7.80. Sunday morning Workers Meeting at 10.00 Ar M. Sunday School ai 2.80 p. x. Wednesday even In.- Prayer Meeting at 7.30 o'clock Young People's Meeting Friday evening at 7.30 o’clock Men's Meeting Saturday evening a'8.00

o'clock.

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Her. Father I). J. Kelly. Rector.

Honrs of divine service on Sundays,

Masse* at 6. 8 and 10 a. x. Sunday School at 2.30 r. x.

Rosarv, sene on and benediction oi the Moat Blesard Sacrament at 8.00 r x. All are invited to attend tbe Sunday

evening instruction* at 7.30 Week-days, Mas* at 7. a. x.

Services every Friday evening at 8.

EVILS OF POLITICS.

c of ElUofc's trwaaiatloo. and Baylsning of a Tbe Place was destined to 811 tbe ptaoe of a great prophet, and our if on to-day Introdocee oa to the initial eveMa In hia career, which are preparatory to and prophetic of the fntare •access of Ma mission- If Elisha were to fiU Elijah's place be muM be endued with Elijah's spirit. Tbe dUctplea to perform the Lord’s service must wait for eoduement of power, for tba deoceot of Hit Spirit (Ada 1: I. I: 1-d). Tba aarrant of tbe Lord to-day teat wait far tba power and Inspiration which wW equip lor

hare? Tba ptea af sock always marked by-<1) •Watcbfotoaea. Elisha watched. (W ErWHfloo Dlaha aaw tba praaeacs aad glory of Ood oa i was anatebad from earth to

i of Ood and Hla power. The anal that watdbae aagerly and paralataaOy wO be i awarded with a revelation of Ood wMdh wUl thrill the whole being aad cad Into Ufa new capabilities and create now poeaibtri-

Tbe Place of Tearing.—Tbe place of tearing always Hea Just beyond wilderness beyond Jordan gazing up into the heavaaa. would never prove an efteant or worthy aoxBaaor of Elijah. Tbe too-tong gaging np h Heave* needs Divine rebuke (Acta 11). Elisha must return, and In the pathway of the return lay the broad, unfordabie Airdan. the Place of Teattng. All that ha bad was tba bare yrord of the prophet and the mantle of jgttfiib. which was the evidence of Ell Job's departnre. Tbe tearing waa- for the doable porpoae of revealing to EUaha himself and to the aons of thi prophets gaaing from the Mila of Jericho the fact that KH)ab*s spirit had descended upon Elisha, over"—the place of endoemeat and the place of testing ware Jnst behind, but the place of dtadpllne lay before him. The Place of Discipline.—Foe three days while the willful. nnbeUerinjr students of the college pursued their fruitless aaarqh, Ellaha watted at Jericho. Those ware daya of discipline

While the search

Ellaha must watt, aad waiting la the moat trying kind of discipline. Tbe Place of Sendee.-

• to the piece of aaiTtoa. it. tearing, disciprina aad

Tba dtadpUae ended, EUoha

find# his pooirion strengthened in the city. Doubt leas daring those thro* days there was much dhseuaalon In the city of Elijah's disappearance, whirl

I the mil . the past fair days aad aa e roouH faith tv Ellaha Inrraaaal Than can* the opportaptty of ayrioa. Tba mas eg tba etty oaaaa malrlag ragaaat th*:

, Dr. Talmage's Sermon on

King Bramblto

Jority cried, “coma, let oa wake the

To Jot Lain the

(Atre was tbe symbol of strength uu-l wealth and pawsr aa wall aa pt ben'.Ing. But the olive tnw would not hecome king. It declined the acepter <>f over the trmai. Then this great convention wanted to elect tbe flg tree king. Tbe delegates neat offered the nomination for ruler*hip to tba vine, whose rich Mood had wade the vineyards of Sbccbeni famous. But the flg tree and the vine both refused the acepter of the fonwt. eveu aa WU11*m T. Sherman, when Ills friends wanted to nominate him for tbe presidency, replied: “I will not accept your offer. If 1 am spoken of In yonder convention hall, tell my friends I am not a candidate. If I am Dominated. I will not accept the nomination and will not run. If 1 am elected. I will not serve. I am a soldier, not a statesman; a war-

rior. not a politician."

But in-this Jothaw parable, after the olive and tbe flg and vine had all refused the.acepter, the worst elements got control, of tbe convention hall. Then tlx-se bad elements said td each other “Let n* nominate a. king after our own spirit. Let us wake the curse Of tbe Held our king. Hall. Wamble! King Bramble! Hall, bramble, our future ruler!" As tliv andeslrsble element of tbe old Federalist* nearly *tnmpeded congrea* In 1700 to elect Aaron Burr president of the United State*, no tbe evil elements of Jothatn's parable stampeded tbe convention of trees in tbe valley of Bhechem and elected tbe

worthies* bramble king.

Jothpm's purpose In this parable wn« td allow a danger which menaced bis own country and has menaced’ our country all through It* history. There have been In the past as there are today. men who conspire to get control Of the political parties In order that they may nominate wqp utterly unfit for tbe high office of the presidency of tbe United States. Thank God. they bare not succeeded yet for the men who have been nominated by the various psrt'e* »re wn of high character and sterling portli. But we need to be on our guard against the conspirators, who will never cease their efforts to win That great prixe. Let u* Identify them, that we may sedulously guard against their Insidious attacks First among.the Satanic conspirators are tbe Infidels. They aay: “We cannot fight God In the open. \Ye cannot aa yet blot off tbe American silver dollar tbe amtence. 'In God we trust.’ But we can plead for so called religious lib erty, We can say that tbe Bible should lie driven out of the public schools. We can demand that no sessivsi of the national legislature shall be opened with prayer. We can place upon tbe ■tatrite books tbe statement: The Unlteo States government Is entirely a human

No divine hand Is today

(Copyright. IBM. by Louis Klopach.] LOS ANGELES.CAU, July 34,-Wltb the national convention* as a theme and an oriental fable a* a text the preacbei as some timely reflections on cer

tain evils that afflict our politics and , threaten the well being of government >«uJdlng the helm of state. Therefore

The teat la Judges lx, Ik

“Then aald all tbe trees ante tbe bramble. Come, thou, and relgx ever ua." This la the year of great national

Tbe Republlen* petty

to nominate their enndldita for tbe presidency of the United States. Tbe D*K»ocratlc party this month met in St. LouU to nominate their candidate for tbe same office. The J'rohlM* tlon party, the IHipullst party, the Labor party, all have had their conventions and nominated their leaders. Thu* the first great political battle for national office In America la not fought over tbe ballot box at the November polls, bnt In convention baJL There tbe different political parties agree among tbemiielre* on which olgtheir mem lien shall he chosen as the standard bearer of their party’s principles. We. as Intelligent men and women, are ,nt with the struggles. which tbe different political parties made In late convention balls. It is not Inappropriate. therefore, for aa to take as our aennonlc theme today the vision which Jotham had when all tba trees of the forest came together In convention In tbe valley of Shechem. with the bine dome of the heaven* tor a roof, and selected the useless, destroying

bramble aa their king.

This famous parable' or fable Jotham was truly realistic In more ways than one. For a convention of trees It had a perfect topographic setdag. On the eontbern side of this favalley la mighty Mount Gerialm. On the northern aide hoary beaded Monnt Ebal lifts its adored and wrinkled face. VTbese two mounts sounding board* tossed the echoing rotCea of the cheering delegates hackward and forward. Here tbe gargling waters of many fountains sounded a

muring* of many voices trying to win rote* for their favorite sons. lag' In prophecy, saw “all the Uvea of the .(eld* dap their hand*." Jotham, In vision, aaw tbe tree*, aa coaren delegates, with’moving hands, movinfc

no name of God and no prayer God shall ever be beard In any of legislative boUdlngs or public balls. We. tbe people of this fair land, ran decree that hereafter we can attend to our business. We will make no public an overruling Divine

Providence.'

My friends, aa intelligent Americana, have you not recognised the fact that the Infidels, tbcnguostics. the atheists (he deists and nil those who would deny public recognition of God are trying to drive out the Almighty from the control of our public life? JVbat Is the meaning of tbe movement that has accomplished this one fact! There Is hardly a state college In all this land where the Bible Is now atndied as -

text book.

. Now, for my part, while I hold that denomlnationallsiu ought never 'to be taught In a state Institution. I contend that no yonng man la properly educated who ha* not been mode familiar with tbe Bible and Ita^rellgioua and moral principles. I claim that aa educated men and women it to Just as Important to know who were Moses und Joshua and David as who were Shakespeare and Burn* and Walter Scott aad Goethe mad Victor Hugo, claim that it la more Important educationally to know who Jesus Christ to than who Mohammad was and what WAS the cause of the Trojan war. If the athetotic elements af this country are not trying to get poesesslon of'this government, why did certa newspapers a few yean ago the presidential act of taking the oath of office upon tbe laares of an open Bible? They claimed that, aa the government had no established church, therefore tbe president elect had no right to- render allegiance to any one particular God. Men who write sophistries of this kind are enemies whom we cannot afford to deride. But standing today la the gnat con-

ventioo hall

tba bramble being advocated aa king hy another powerful faction. U to woraMbkrs ut wealth

n of this 1

aw that the speakers’ teeth are all of guM. and their arms are of gold, ami hair to of gold, and their kgs of gvM. Their finger* are of goM. ugh they have gold rings «

gold. By tbe old Roman law a n.an could not rote unless he was a property owner und his prr wrty wn* a'ucd, I h.ileve. at something like* llJXiO In our money. Today than- la -. tendency not so much to restrict tha vote In presidential electloi* to tl»a property owner as to those who either own gold or can be lnfloen< ed by the prospect of getting gold. If gold to not becoming a great factor In American political Ufa. what waa tbe meaning of tbe sudden change of American sentiment In reference to war when. In 18W. Grover Cleveland, president of the United Mates, drifted dangerously near to war with Great Britain? When the president’* demand that tbe British government submit Ita dispute with Venesuela to arbitration waa first learned, there waa an bntburst of approval of hi* daring course. Bnt the next day there wn* a fall In tbe price of stocka In Wall street, the money markets of the world were convulsed, and the mllllonlare* Joined with minister* of the gospel nnd wine patriot* throughout the land In urging tbe president at all cost to avoid war with Great Britain What waa the cause of the sudden change? Why wa* the pollcycapplnuded on one day deprecated on the next? Were the principles of the Monroe doctrine, which the president wn* praised for ehumploulug. dbn-orered to be falImlou*: Wa* Venexuel* any less worthy of our protection on one day thjjn on the other? Was It not rather that thC money power of tbe country realized that war would Involve rain to nome and log* to «M? So the good men and wine patriot* who had denounced the prospect of war at the beginning on righteous principle* were unexpectedly reenforced by men who know no god bnt tbe golden calf. Do you profeaa to believe that gold —yellow gold—a* a would be bramble king to not trying to ge( possession of thl* government? Do you for one moment profess tb believe that tbe United Btnte* would be ns quick to declare war against England or Russia or Germany or France as It was against a poverty, stricken nation like Spnln? Touch the natiqn'* jxx-ketbook nnd In many parts of this land you win make tb* word •‘patriotism," written In letters of gold, turn qk black as tbe heart of selfishness and deceit. One of the great dangers threatening the welfare •f our land to the power of the great money combinations. It U a rapidly developing power, and It to erar aiming to seat In the presidential chair of thl* free nation Its bramble kltfe g°Idas tbe supreme ruler of this treat people. When tbe great railroad trusts and the oil trust* and tbe tin can trusts and tbe beef trust* and the sugar trusts and the steel trusts can dictate who la to be president of tbe United States let ufc beware! Take thy cloven foot O yellow and would be King Bramble, from off tbe front doorstep of tbe White House. Thou didst destroy tbe Roman aad the Grecian gorernmentt when their national power paaeed into the hands of tbe few capitalists. Thy foal breath to upon our cheeks, but by God’s bsip thou aha It not be allowed to destroy us. Bnt again we find tbe destroying bramble canvassing for supremacy in American politics in another war* H* now appeals to the dleeeaed and Inflamed appetite of man for strong drink. But. though. If a man may look at this bramble long enough, hr cun see him changed Into the wriggling coll of s snake; yet like Melaalna, tbe most famous of all the French fairies, when first he appear* be looks like a beautiful god. Instead of Uke a devil. Hls hair to a cluster of luscious grapes, rich aa those of Eabcol. which tbe spies carried baric from the promised land to tbe Hebrew encampment. Hls ebeek has not upon It tbe pale look of a corpse, but It to flushed with what looks like the redneue of health. He comes to ns not aa a pauper. In hla pocket be JlnglH the coin of hls taxes as be says: “You cannot, yon dare not do without me. I am King Alcohol. There U not a political convention In all t)ito land except one that has dared hnrl a defiance at my acepter. My den may seem to be the saloon, but my throne will yet be built under the great dome In tbe rotunda of our national Capitol. I shall yet be publicly recognised as king In American politics as I am everywhere final aa King Alcohol now> Is not the .defiant assertion true? What political convention, with the exception of tbe Prohibition convention, dared doable up Its fist and smite thto bramble alcohol a staggering blow? Some years ago tbe bead of tbs Infamous Mormon church spake thua for tbs encouragement of hla followers: “I do not anticipate that there will come a day In tbe when we shall elect a follower of Brigham Yonng to the presidency of the United Ststra. hut-I do look forward to tbe time In tbe near future when our church win grow so large that as a' political Institution the greet political partis* wlUbu jielU-J to bid for otir rote, ran have in American puUi ws Would.- 'Thank Ood. the

itssi

Opm M «n >o< • :i»Aaii.-l

president ha* furt-il that o* the would he. King Alcohol to a aad. n nltotic fact. Not owe alone, hul all of tL; ?re_t polltUul parties, with but ow -option, sre kidding for the alroholj- toh tods). Their may b# atlver planha. antitrust ptsuka. anti-imperialistic ;! ir k*,woma.i sufinigtot planks, high t r!ff plunk, und low tariff plank* fon—1 In the d'.f fir.ut convention platform* upon which tbe various candid ties for tlxpresidency stand, but with the excep tlon of the I'rohltiltlon party not one assembly of delegate* to a national convention called to nominate a candidate for the presidency of the United Rtates hat dared aay to tbe saloon keeper, to the brewer and to the wine merchant: "Get out of thl* convention hall! Be off! We defy J’nu *nd yoor Bntanir hirelings. You sre destroying our youth und our strong manhood with your liquid poison. Out. agent* of darkness! Out! Out7! No. that U •t the way the different convention* spoke. In their suggestive alienee they "Bramble alcohol, we may yet elect you king—bnt not now However. If you promise to help u* now we will promise not to hurt your trade berefter." Am I wrong In stating that hramble alcohol I* one of the threatening danger* confronting the future

sovereignty of thl* land?

Well." say* home one. "bow. then, are we to keep the bramble—the bate-

rthlewt bramble—from liecom-

l&g ruler In American |*olltte*?" Ah. my friend*, the direct teaching of thto Jotham'* fable telto the whole story. When did those delegat*-* of tree* down^tor-Hhe valley of Sbecbero do? They first offered the rulersLIp to the Olive tree, then to the fig tree, then to the vine. But these three practically said: "Nay. we would not leave our respectability' and comfort to go and mingle in dirty politic*. We would stay off here al<me In dignity und quiet and ease." That to the whole story. The reason tbe bramble be caroC king In Jotham'* fable waa because the olive, tbe flg and the vine refused the rulwshlp for which they ere so emlnentlv fitted. And to-lay tbe reason tbe bad element pcedomiin so many of our city nnd county and state election* la because so ninny of tbe better element refuse to go to tbe primaries, refuse to be can dldates for tbe hnmbler office*, refuse that public moneys are admlnto- * tered aa honestly aa private funds. Thus Jothnm's fable or parable teaches n* that a man has a r.-*:>onajk-blUty to hto government as well a* to hi* home: a responriWUty to those who shall rule over him a* well a* to those under him. By this statement am I here to tell you for whom to vote? Oh. bo! I would apeak to you juat a* that great and good man Andrew Jackson said to that greet future btntegmaq, Richard Thompson of Indiana, when • young boy be went with hto father to* call upon the president. After a efiort conversation Richard Thompsou’s father turned and said: “Mr. Presfdcufc my son Dick to not of my political faith. I feu' be Is going to vote again* yon In tbe next election." Instead ul upbraiding the aon. "Old Hlckagff turned and aald: “Young nan. I hawno advice to give you except thto: 'Always think for yourself and let ytxfr eonacience be your guide.’" Bo in there ml ng election I aay to you. “Aa n Christian man think for yourself amt let your conscience be your guide-"' But hereafter, in tbe borne or on the street sod In church, always make your publlc burin era your Christian business. Always make your duty to yoor dty. to your state, to your nation, your Christian duty. Then tbe great dangers which threaten thto our native land from the rulerahtp of the worthies* bramble and It* kind will be done away with, for the ottve and tbe flg and tbe vine will be bending tbe knee In national worship at tbe foot of the

even aa aa iaronochutic btudgua could break a hfatbsa Idol Into kite.

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The Daylight Store. Tb* poular dry goods emporium oT O. L. W. Knerr, located at No. 61ft-Z0 Washington street, to known us tbe daylight store among the shopping public becansa of tb* tanmense amount of light which to about the place, enabling purchasers to examine minutely the goods which they are buying. Mr aad Mrs. Knerr both have excellent tastes as to tbe selection of their goods aad as to their display. They are careful buyers and secure all of tbe up-to-date effects which are needed In a modern dry goods, notion and mllli aery establishment. They have a full tine of ladies’ and men's furnishings They bare always oa band a full line of Standard paper patterns, and. Id (act. everything which to to be found In a well-selected stock of goods la a ■tore of Uds character.

Tbe Hotel Gordon, at N 138 Decaf street. Is under the manage meet of , . It Gordon It to open all the yea* and to a boarding bouse which has « large trade especially with mechaatew at this season of the guar. la tbe sum M to s’|

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