PAYID AND ABSALOM. cm. TALMAGE ««ACHCS A GREAT SERMON TO YOUNG MEN.

Waahhwjtujc, Not fA.—In h>» «wmon today Err Dr. TslinaR*. prwhin* to do- tunal crowdod «ndJ«K«. t-xi op a anbyact of nuirera] inwwt to yotm*: lure Hi> tflt war ai W-ted from II hamor] btiii, *a. *'D the yoon* man Abnlom aafa*"

f of Dnrkd. th* fat bar. «4* wrappad np^*■ bu. I»y AUal.*. Ha waj a aplcfldid boy, jodpod by ibo nil"* of 4rorkUyrai!in*ni. From tbrcr-rmi of bii Wd to tbaaole of bU fool ibnr wa. not a iiokIp bknuicb The Bible ay» tbat be had mch • hixnriant ahork of

wbat wa out off weipbed over three pound*. Bnt iK4wllhaiending all hi* brilliancy of appearance be *a* a Iwd boy, and bnifce hu father * bran H. wa* plomnn to grt the throne uf larael. He bad marahaledan army toorerthrow hi* father'* ncrrernmeuL The day of battle bad name. The ocnflirt wa* beipm. Darid. the father, aat between the Kite* «f the palace waiting for the tidings cf the conflict. Oh. bow rapidly /-■ The two grtal qneMi'm* were to be decided—the aafety of hi* boy and the oaotintumoeuf tbe throne of l*rael. After awhile a aerrant. mending on the top cf the hdoae, knka off and aew Mnne cue running. He i* owning with great rpeed. and ibe man cm top at tbe bonae aunonoee* tbe coming at the menengi r. and the father watebn* and wait*, and

a* aoon a* I cf battle -.*

the *an»elim*t<i

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j ‘ JOHN BROWER, Paiilrr i*f Clditr

tma?. >a*r»aTt‘iea II First Quality Hard Oil and r* <■- f*g w Varnishes.

■my if a third claim boar Into thfl room gather I** and a harp H»ng r<«nr in trait over the mantel. Bid »

Pure Metallic Paints lor Th j

,TI ’'jand Shingle Rodls (and. oc!

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Lie-- .f prayxi By tile ni nr day*, a father'* eunni* V«. andia ~ter. bum home, y A RMCea Weao. la U> Anotbi-T safeguard f.e

gr-at many J»*pl*' trying t n.ai. tin :r way through the w.abi with tt"-ir wit* luficaii if l-y hiuioet lull- Tb«re i* a y.-nng man who i-uih* from the consitry to tbe 1-itL He fall* twin- la ft.- he I* a* old a* nl» father wa* w hen In- fir*' *»« tbe spire* gr.-at town. H* i* eeated in hi* r.Knn at a rent <4 ffa'.ioO a ytwr. waiting f-« tl^ bank* t«. didst" their dividend* and the atnrfc* to mn np. After awhile be got* imialient H. tne* to improve hi* peomanulnp by making co|>y plate* cf rtiier iii.-rrhant* sign at area. Never mind—ail i- right in ba*ino*a - After awhile tie ha* til* ratal". Now i* tbe time for him to retire to tbe muutry. amid Ibe fl.a V* and li<e herds, to cnliure the domestic virtue*. Now th* young men who were hi* acbia.hnate* in Uiyh<*id will com.-, and with tiieir ia team* dra* him lug*, ami with tlmir hard liand* will )»lp to:

vnamnger Inwn tne neiu j btwve up tbe ca»tle. That i* no fancy within bailing dirt nine it u everyday life. I should tbe father cnee out 1* it a qorwticm in nu wonder if there were a rotten beam

regard to the eatabliihiaent cf hi* )„ that pabaw- I should uot wonder.if throne’ I>«e be say "Hare the arm:.-* (i„i should mite him with direair k I cf brael been victorious’ Am I to Oin- and pour into hi* cup a bitter 1 tinoe in my impanel authority? Have I draft that will thrill him with un I overthrown my eoemie*:" Oh. no! bearable aguny I ebould tmt wonder if i There is one qnretiia that apriug* from , h . t „ ehildieu grew up to be to j I bis heart to thq lip, and apriug* from |, lni . diagrare and to make hi* M< a 1 the lip into the ear of tbe boawealetl shame. labonM nut wonder if that mtn' I and bedusted mammger flying from tba- di«i a disnumrable death and were I battlebel.l—the qmwtiuu. "B tbe y'«Vg_ t » f ntrtS3'^nj a dubqoorable grave and I man Abaalom safe?" Wb«-n it wa* told then went (nto tbe gnashing of teeth, t

to Darid. tbe king. that, though hie ar- The way if the ungodly shall perish

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Window Glass of all kinds i an< ^ P mtterns - Reference given :

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CORSON & WARE. COACHES - A good thing to push along—our Baby Coaches. CARPETS - • Brussels from 50c a yard upward. Ingrains from 25c a jard upward. MATTINGS A window full; look at them.

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There i* ai.--ih.e- saf. guard that I want to tTTrrnt- 1 have saved it until the last hcranae 1 want it to bn tbe more emphatic Thegnwt aafegnardfi* every Nothing . an take the pbs-c if it- Von may have gran-fnluee* enough to pnt to tbe -blnah L*.«d OwfUi-ld. yon may have foreign Unguagn- dropping ffoau yoor K-ngoe, you may diacua* laws and 111 crat UT*. yi« may bare a pen of un equaled polish and power, yon may tan get tic- I.iry>-*t aalary m a banking Lou*e. ycai may be a* sharp a* H.r.*l and a* Mrong a* Samwnt. and with as long lick* a* th.ee which bung A lea

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O Tqang man. y>>u mu*t have in- : duktry of head or hand or tout, ur prri«h.

been slain, tbe father turned hi* back

upon the ecngratnlatintM if the nation Do Jut have the idea that yuu can get and went up the Maim of hi* palace, bu al, a g in the w.eld by gemoa The heart breaking a* be went, wringing hi* of ,j,u country today 1* geniijae*bands tumrtime* and then again prea*- wlth Urge wlf cooueit and nothing lug them against bis temple* aa though Tbe man wbo pmj«««» to make be would prea* them in, crying: "O bia liriog by hi* wit* pmliably baa n t Abaalom! my son! my •cn I Wceld to anT. I ibonldrather l*- an .u,

^tai 1 had died for then. O Abaalom' plodding and naefnl. than

my aou 1 my aao!” eagle, high flying and gr*jd for nothing TW* ahlgwrvek a* Maa. but to pick out the eye* if carcssw*. My friend*, tbe question which Du Lven in the garden if Eiien it wa* m* Tid, the king, asked in regard to hit safe for Adam to tw idle, eo (hid nqgle ano la the question that rewnnda today him a horticnltunst, and if tbe marin the hearts if hundred* cf parent* nod pair bad k"j< bnay dnwstng the ' '-yea, there are a great multitude if Tinea they would m* have been aaunyonng m.-u who know that the qnestlun terlng under the trees, hankering after of the text is appropriate when asked . fruit that ruined them and their pain regard to them. They know the terity! Proof positive .4 tbe fart that temptation* by which they are aorround- when people do not attend to their bulled They aee so many wbo started life nwa. they get into mischief. "(Jo to the with aa guud molntiuna aa they have ant. thou sluggard; consider her way* wbo have fallen in the path, and they and be wise, which, having no overnwr are ready to bear me ask tbe question at guide, providetb her food in the of ray text. “Ja the young man Absalom anmmer and gathrrrth her meat in the aafe?" Theffact la that this life ia full barrewr." Katan i* a nwring lion, and cf peril He wbo underiakea it without you ca^ never destroy him by gun ur tbe grace of Ood and a proper under- pistol*** irwird The weapon* witb standing if tbe nmffirt into which be whj&rou are to beat him bark are pen ia going must certainly be defeated am) ty|e-und hammer and adx and »aw Jtiat look off upon eoriety today. lawk and pickax and yard. and tbe weapmi at the abipwRiek of men f>* whom fair of honest UnL Work. , ek. or die.

things were promised and who started *Ha Bia*

life with every advantage. Ixnik at Another aaf"guard that ! want to pre those wbo have dropped from high at>- aent to young turn ia a high ideal of dal posit ion and from great fortune, life. Hornetim** soldier* going into t*t disgraced for time, disgraced far eter- tie ■boat into tbe ground instead of into nity. All who sacrifice their integrity tbe brans of their enemies. They are come to overthrow. Take ■ dmbonwt apt to take aim too low. and, it is very dollar and bury it in tbe cm ter if the often that tbe captain, going mm cunearth. and keep all the rock* of Hm Bid with bia men. will cry out. "Now, mountain on ton of it; then cover them: men, aim high!" The fart ia that in roeka witb all tne diamond* of Ooloon- life a great many men take no aim at da, and all the ailver of Nevada, and all elL The artist plana out 'bia entire tbe gold of California and Australia, thought before be pnt* it upon cunra*. and put on the top of there ell banking before he taku up tbe crayon cr the - and moneyed institutions, and they can - ■. cbiaeL Au arehiter* think* out the ennot keep down that one diabcorat dollar. | tire builouig before tbe workmm begin. That one duihouiwt dollar in the oenter Altieiugh everytimig may arem to be of the earth will begin to beate and nnurganiaed. tbat architect ha* in hi* rock and opt urn itself until it comes to mind erory Corinthian column, every tbe resurrection if damnation. “Aa th* Gothic arch, every Byzantine capital partridge aitteth on eggs and hatcheth A poet thinks not the entire plot at bis them not. *0 be that getteth rn he* and poem before he begins to chime tbe - not by r ght shall leave them in the cantna cf tinkling rbythma. And yet midst at hi* days, and at bis end shall there are a great many men wbo start be a f00L ’' j the immirtimt atmimmuf li»e without Hume a Nsr^usrd. knuwiug whether it is going to be a Now. what are tbe safeguard* of rude Tartar . hot or a Bt. Mark * cayoung mru: Tbe first safeguard of tbedral. and begin to write not tbe inwhich I want to apeak ia a lore of home. 1™*'* lewm <>f «beir life without know There are thuaewbo hire no idea of the Jf* vbether it u to be a Homer'a pleasures that ooocentrate around that j “Gdymey" iw a rhym.vter'a t»)gh. Out word "borne." Pwhapa rour early rf 1.000. #i« have no life pkrt. »«««! abode wav shadowed with vioe at pov- ■“‘l Totved and caparisoned, they has erty. Harab word* and petulance and u ' u * km B- “"1 I un‘ “>d aay: "H.-l eoowling may have deetroved all the io. man! Whither away?" "Nowhere!” sanctity at that apm. Dive, kindneaa they aay. Uh. young man, make every and self sacrifice, which have built their d *T» doty a filling np of tbe great life altar, in #0 manv alxsic. were atran-' P lo< - A!«». Oat there should 1* no this gent in your father's bonaa. God pity ot Ufa au many *bi|a that seem you. young mtn: you never had a bmind for no pirt! Tbey are swept evhome. But a multitude in rhia audience ’•hither ly wind and wave, np by can look bark to a spot that they can ^ mouuuin. and down by the valleya. never forget. It may hare been a hiwlv . T1 >'7 •"> witinlo chart. They gale un roof, but you caouut think of it now uo ,,,r 1 "°« ! " r »o bar bur. Oh. without a 1ia.l1 of emuUuu. You have J ouu # “"r haw a high -ideal and pre*. aeeo nothing aa earth that ao atirrod : »■ » ud 11 ••'» be a mighty aafeguard your aoul. A stranger pausing along that Tb«*e never were grander apportuultiw place might see nrthing remarkahl* «*«““*' before vuung men tlian gre about it; but, oh! bow much it meant 0 Prt>'i'(t Yeung met) of the strong to you. Frcecn on palai-e wall don not ■ nn ,n,i ^ ,h * '«»" «'> ‘4 'he mean *0 much to you a* thaw rough Y marahal y.m t.day f<*

hew n raften. Parka and bowers and • great i*.-hiermn nt

tree* on fashumable watering place <r A>*"tb.r safeguard 1* . rrepwt for the

country amt do out mean au mnufa to t ' J ‘ bUl,h 1,11

you aa that brink that ran in fruit of hi ' • » ' 11 "■'> ?'* the plain fannhou** and sing mg under «*« are his W *p«-t, In 1-m.inn*, and the weeping willows Tbe tarred gate J * ' ‘ 1-^l-rte way swung open by |.irter in full dram f '* ,b * world. Gul has thru.1 does not mean aa much to you aa that *r *»'c., w. ■wing gate, your slater ou one aide of * u «»* «"-r ..ur *.ul*. 1* it wxerbi

it and you .a tbe other, sbe g.me 15

«mn ago into glory, that *C«M cumvy*"** '"-’hn.g if these |*rl*hal>King back to yii Urfay. a* r-m 'h.l*b.«W d. m«vl. n.- day backward and forwarrt 1*1 tbe gate, lor t». feeding ami clothnm if U«- im

singing the auuga of your childhiud. nwrial aoul?

But there art thorn bare wiis have their ' «*w l*eC* tar. second dwelling place. It la your adopt Lidie* are seven day clock*, and rd leone That airo is sacral f.orv.r, ‘bey need to le Wound up. ami If tic7 There yuu lataliHshol the first family are tea wiknd up th. y run d-wn int-. altar. Tlieire your rhlldrvai wire b-TU. ‘be pnvc human .'an naitinu.mrly In that roan flapped Ibe wing of the break Ibe Sabbath amTkeep tar*physical death angel Cndar that rwf. when nnd mental health. Ask tic-•• aged mm. your work la dime, you eipirt to lie and they will Ul) y n they nerer kic-w down and die. Three is only ooa word who cmtinn.ai.ly l-n-ke tltc hab la all the language that can oaivry bath wbo did ma fail in uiind, body or your Idea .4 that place, and that word prim-ipi* A mwiufsrtur.r gav. ’ -•*- - j this m bt* exprei *•'

op! I will tell yon your f.rtuiHGod and hi* r

things w

"All tbe re full, am .Ob. young

the kingdom of asa. and all oth T know yim do

to b" mean in this matter, not drink tbe bniutuing cup ^eflifeaud tbeu p>«r th«. Virrga on Gcd'a i altar, T'o a greireooa tiariour yuu will n.4 acHike that; you have nut the heart to act like that. Tbat >* let manly. That is .not liooorable. That ia trot bruve. Your great want is a new heart, and in tbe name of‘tbe lard Jean* Cbriat I tell you •>. t.afay, and the blrmed t-innt prise* ihnmgli ther-.lt-muitnw of thin hour to put the cup of life to your thirsty lip*, lib, thrum it Dot back. Merry present* yt—bb-cdiqg mre CT, lung s-uflering mcr.-y-. Draptm all other friind»hii».. pr..te ncreont to all other batgaiu*, but dnsjuae God'a hire for your dying soul—do nut do that. There ouini* s' crisis in a man's life, and the trouble ia be doe* not know it is the criM*. 1 gut a b-ttre in which a

"I «

Dow U> preach tbe giw-

tbe people. D.i Jim remember tire man via. apjswred at the clraar of tbe aerrire when y.m were «..r,!npmg in the rha]icl after you came from Fhiladelpina. 1*. you remetnlier at the close if the aerrire a man coming up to you ali a tfewible with poovictton. and crying uot fir merry, and telling you he bad a very bad Luainre*, and be thought be would change It? That waa the tuni- - lug putnt in my history. 1 gave up my bad buri ihws. 1 gave tny la-art to God, and t)>e to serve him has grown U}*ai me all theae years, until now woe ia onto me if I preach not the gospel.” Thar bundsy night was tbe turning point.of that young man s hiaiury. This very .-ahhath Jumr will be tlie turning puiut in ibe history if 100 young mm int! himsw Giidbelpu*! lonoeatoud on au annivyrsary platfiam with a clergymau who told this-marvelous atorv. He said: "Thirty year* ago two young men started out to attend Park ibtager. New York, to see a play which made n-ligtoo rid lea hm* and LyiiueriticaL Tiny had becti ktuughi np “Tn (.THinfUTTamiliri Tliey started f.:r tlie tbaatcr to aee tlnit vile play, and tbrir early ronrirtiuu* came ba.-k up. si thi-m. Tin y felt it was not right to gu. hut Mill they went. They came to tbe dour <4 tbe theater. One of tbe young men stopped and start •d for borne, l ui returned and came up to the dour, but had not tbe courage to go in. He again started for home and went h-.tne. The other young man went In. He went from one degri* of temptation to am-llur. Caught in ibe whirl if frivolity and sin. be sank lower and lower. He lint hi- buaines* preitnm. He lor his mornl*. He lorn bia aoul. He died a dreadful death, not one *ur if merry sinning nn it. 1 stand before you b)day."euid that niiuiMer. "to thuik God that for 10 years 1 have been jicr untied to preach tbe g>»(*-L I am the other young man." (Hi. y.ai sc* (hat wa# the turning point—(be <*» went lack. Ibe lilur went tat. Th" great roaring world if bu*ineM life will si*m break tn npon you, j-.-ur.g min.. Will tlie wild ware da-b 1 ot tbe imprvssiiai* tf this day a* an ocean blU.m dide-s Mtcra out .f the sand .41 the leva’ll? You neid soroe tbing l*4irr than tin* w.irld ran give you'. 1 U-al un ytmr heart, and it *i>und* sallow-- Y.-o wan! nanrthiiqt greal and

More than other reading it every day. . They to nib* it and neither car Aaaia-iated Prere, the br«l

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