Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 28, 1890, Page 14

THE OMAHA DAILY BEF, SUND CHRISTS ~ FIRST ~ MIRACLE. | [ How It is Explained by Some Nineteenth Oentury Doctrinaires, i A BEAUTIFUL LESSON IN HOSPITAUTY.| Bermon St Deter's Church, Preached in Brockville, on the Sec- ond Sunday After Epiphany, January 17, 1880, of miracles did na of Galllee, and manifested f glory."—8t John, 11, 11 Ttisa thing for which wo ought to be very ¢aankful, brethren. that the church's yoarly system of teaching brings before us every sident of our dear Lord’s life, and forces into promi b in turn, every saying, every word of His, whether w 3 view it or not, In these days, when tt areso many different kinds of religion, I think we may without much dificulty dis cern that cach particular kind of religion has its own special “hobby," so tospeak. It takes or two “texts,” and out of them manufactures its own theology: every other text must be made to Atinto that,and is warped and twisted and turned until it does, after fit ing and if, afte wmanipulation, this cannot be e fTect is summarily dismissed from the cou lnism, netaphor,” or an hyperbole,” or some thing of that sort. And, as in other bodies, so in the Church of England, individual preachers have their “hobbics, o doctrines, thei favorite “texts) Itis human nature after all; we aro all partialists, more or less: and if we were left unrestrictodour congregutions would too often be fed with some particular Kind of spiritual diet, which might be whole: somo and beneficial in due proportion, but if persisted in to the exelusion of all other kinds of food, would produce spititual dyspepsia —a d’ unhealthy state—no matter what that icular doetrine may be, Now what a grand and wholesomo cor- rective to the individual preacher's fancies is system of the church, which forces us, erwe will or not, to take in every ies of food which the Loly seriptures tain, For to me this is one of the greate evidences of the Divine origin of the se tures, that they are so multiferm, s0 complex, so many-sided. Our spirit ual nature’ is like our phy na- ture, very complex ; and he who imagines he cau admiisterto every mind discased by one prescription, is asgreata charlatan as hy who thinks he can cure every kind of phys cal ill by one particular dose. The bivlé s notof this nature; it 3 and xightly so; it contains elements apparently antagonistic to one another; justas our food Tor our bodies must contain” many diverse elements, neid and alkanine, sweet” and bit- tor. He'that prophesieth, says St. Paul in the epistle for this day, should prophesy (i e., preach) “‘according tothe proportion of faith,” The true churclman, then, I con- ceive, should endeavor as arule, to put him- self ¢n rapport with the liturgical services of the day, and like St. Chrysostom and other mighty preachers of old, make the pulpit re- echo the teachings of the lectern and the altae Now what is the gres s beginnl e, @ person a fashion, ora priental t Jesson of today, this second Sunday after Epiphany? What is the keynote which the church strikes, to which we should attune ourharmoniest Tho gospel of today furnishes it to us, and our text is the essenco of that gospel. This whole Epiphany season s but an elaboration of the great song of praise begun_ at Christ- mastide: *Glory to God in the hignest, and on earth peace,”” “‘Blessed be the Tord God of Isracl, for ho has visited and redeemed the peoplo; ind has raised up a mighty salvation or us.” The manifestation of God in the 1lesh is the theme: The different modes and degrees of that manifestation the elaboration of the theme. Manifest first to the shepherds of Bethichem, then to the eastern sages, then, after twelve years, to the doctors of the tem- f ouly they had had cyes to sec; then or o long period of obscuration manifest to all the beholders at this marriage feast in Cana_of Galilee, when His divinity shone forth in this miracle that ho wrotight. Let us view this light as it then burst - forth, so unexpectedly ; let us analyze its rays and’ see hat we ean learn therefrom, nis beginning of miracles,” Our Lord Jesus Christ, then, never performed a singlo mircle—never let the world know that He ‘was the Messiah—until he was thirty years of age. All thatlong period of time, from His birth, when ‘il the sons of God shouted for joy,” until His baptism, when the voice from eiven was heard saying: ‘“Ihou art My beloved Son”’ (Luke i, 23), is wrapt in ob- scurity, save tnat oneglean which we cateh of the Holy Child when he was twelve years of age. and went up, “after the custom of the feast,” to His confirmation at Jerusalem. We dwelt upon this on Sunday last. Doeshe not by this very obscuration reveal Himself- speak in paradox! Does He not manifest imself as the typical, the representative, the perfect human character! Does He not show us hereby that He does not countenance pre- ociousness in children and youths ! Does He not teach us that even if we think we have a call from God we must bide our time until the outward call come! “‘So also Christ glori- fied not Himself to be made an high priest, but He that said unto Him, thouart My Son't (Heb. v.,5). Next let us consider thecircumstance under which He “manifested forth His glory.” It was at a marrisge feast. In the east such entertainments often lasted a whole week. What u_ strange en- vironment, judging with® human_ judg- ment, does the Lord select for manifesting forth' His glory! A scene of festivity, a time of making merry—of congratulations—of eat- ing and drinking! Whata contrast to his precursor John the Baptist—-the last prophet of the old dispensation—the connecting link between the Law and the Gospel—who comes ow 1n the dreary wildermoss, olad i shair cloth and feathern girdlo—her- lothing and in his diet—as- cotic, austere, Tou_quote the words of Dean Alford’s Commentary: “Our Lord at once opens His ministry with the character which $o gives of Himaa? (Luke vil 4 39, B4, 85), ohn the Baptist, says He to the Pharisees, “came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil: the Son of Man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Bebold, a gluttonous man, & wine-bibber, a friend of pu blicans and sinuers! But wisdom 1s justitied of all her children.” *‘He also, as' Avchbishop Trench admirably remarks, “gives us His own testumony against the ten dency which our mdolence ever fayors, of giving up those things and occasions' to tho world and the devil, which we have ot Christian boldness to mingle in and purify, * * % Andsuch s the verdict of modern religionism, which would keep the leaven distinct from' the lump, for fear it should become unleavened.” We are not given the name of the host, or of the bride or bridegroom, Doubtless thoy were relatives or connections of our Lord ac- cording to the flesh, Cana was not very far from Nazareth, and the virgin mothor had evidently considerable authority in the house- hold. _(St. John ii,, 1, ‘“Ihere Wwas & marriage * '« % and the mother of Jesus was there; again, verse 5, “His mother saith unto the servants,? ete.) Our Lord was invited to this wedding feast, and He went. “And when they wanted wine”” This does not mean that there was none originally su plied, but that, for some reason or other, the wine ran short; either the festivities lasted longer, or the guests were more nu- merous, then had been caleulated for, You will observo the revised version ren- ders the passage correctly, “*And when the wine failed.” "Herelet me quote a passage of Archdeacon Farrar's “Lifo of Christs “Whether the marriage festival lasted for soven days, us wis usual among those who could afford it, or for only one or two, as was the caso among tho poorer classes, we cannot toll; but at some period of the entertainment tho' wine suddenly ran short. None but those who know how sacred iu the east is the duty of lavish hospitality, and how passion- aloly tho obligntion to ‘exercise it to the utmiost is folt, carl realizo the gloom which this incident would nave thrown over the oc- casion, or the misery and mortification which ftwould have caused to the wedded pair. Thoy would have felt it to be, s in the cast S Would still b felt to be, @ bitter and indei- ible disgrace. In order to avort this threatened disaster — 10 order to dissipate the gloom impending over this fostive gathering—in order to eo- hance thelr joy mid bappines—in order to show that He enterod heartily into all their | age | our Law Tl plomsures nocent enjoyments—the Son of God, the eternal word made flesh, “manifested forth His glorg.” And how did he do so! T must answer this question with a statement which, I = know, wil shock the feelings of many modern religiou- ists—a statement opposed to the spirit of the one which may possibly call forth a storm_of vituperation, and yet it must be said; for it is the trutb--the truth of God ad of His Holy Word Our Lord Jesus Christ began His Messianic career—began that glorius and dazzling serios of mercy-giving, life-prolonging, patn- destroying, evil-dispelling miracles—with the production of an alcoholic, intoxicating drink ‘And that in no mean quantity : on_the lowest computation the amount of wine thus divinel manufactired was one hundred and twenty gallons. (See Alford in loc.) Now let us face this fact; for faced it must be. Our Lord Jesus Christ, whom we all confess to be God, of God, and yet very man, began His official care s the Messiah with the miraculous creation of an intoxicating element: He was ail through His offivial life d by the Ph a “'wine-bibber:" and His last oficial act was His consecrating that same intoxicating element to be the sac- rament of His own most precious blood ow what are we to make of thist Was Christ_mistaken? Was He ignorant of th Laws of hygiene and phisiology! Is His doc trine behind the timest For there is of ne cessity aterrible mistake somewhere, Either modern moral reformers are wrong, or Jesus Christ was wrong., 1 putit plainly, but 80 it 1s. The Dominion Churchman’ very truly said lastweek: If Christ had worked that miracle today in one of our Scott Ac counties He would have been convicted of a crime. And so it 1t J us Christ was right, bition is wrong. If prohibition right, Jesus Christ was wrong. 11 simply the naked truth, And what escape can be framed from this dilemma, viz,: that not ouly our Lord Jesus Christ, butthe whole word of God, from beginning to end, coun ances and makes provision for the drinking of intoxicating liquors therefore cither the consumption of such liquor is lawful and right, or the word of God is wrong, There are three efforts to answer this 1. Theeffort of some o prove that there avo two kinds of “wine™ and “strong drink” entioned in the bible, one aleoholic other non-aleoholic; thatwhen commended it means th of the g » only to s such a plea is be utem p accurate scholar would ever think of thus “‘handling the word of God deceitfully.” A al of capital Las been made by some of the fact that two words, in special, oceur to designate Swine” in the Hebrew-the one “Yayin and the other “Lirosh;™ and they claim that one of these—it makes no matter which—is alcoholic and the other non-alcoholic. The Lev. Dr. Carry of Port Perry, has lately is- sucd u pamplilet which efféctually disposes of all this sophistry., Butit needs no learned Hebraist to understand the matter nowadays. Rev. Dr. Young, a Presbyterian minister, has within_the last few years published a most valuable Aunalytical Concordance; and any ordinary English scholar, by Looking up the words “wine’ and ‘‘strong drink” in the 1 Concordance, can see for himselt what mount of special pleading and prevar- ication they are wilty of who resort to this line of argument hibition, it seems, 1i 1y other **hobbies,” has a demoraliz- ing tendency ; 1t blunts all sense of manliness and truth, 2. The second effort to escape from our ai- lemmi is one ot quite so dishonest as the last, but equally short-sighted, and equally opposed to the truth of the Scriptures, It al- Jeges: “We admit that the Bible seems to al- low the use of alcoholic beverages; we admit that Christ used them and countenancea their use when He was on earth, _But if He had lived now, and seen the evil effeets of the practice, He Would have done differently.” Surely this argument has only to be thus stated inits simplicity to meet its own re- pudiation at the hands of any honest Chris- tian man, Is it not strang sing strange that men who arrogate to themselves tho title of “Christians”—men who fancy they haye a monopoly of “the gospel”-—men who look upon all those who cannot pronounce their shibboleth as “‘vnsaved”—men who boast of “the Bible and the Bible alone’— should thus speak of *“Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, toduy, and fo ?'—that_such as they should think the Scriptures need sup- plementing f—that they should muke the Word of God of mone cffect through their tradition? 3. The third answer to thi of the infidel prohibitionists ; and their reply is: “It is true that the bible allows the use of intoxicants; and so much the worse for the bible.” Well, this answer has vhe merits, atall events, of being straightforward and logical. But you see to what it leads, Per- haps you may be surprised to hear of infidel prohibitionists: yet thereare very many of them in the United States. They have a extensive literature of their own—news- papers, novels, ete—all ineulcating total abstinence and atheism. The late D. M. Bennett, in his lifetime the editor of an aguostic paper called the Truth Seeker, founded @ town in the stateof Missouri, called Liberal, on a prohibition and atheistic busis. And this town of Liberal was adver- tised in the various freethinking papers (such as Man, This World, etc.,) in terms to this effect : that in the siid town there were ‘no churches, 1o saloons, no preachers, no spirit- sellers, no alcohol, no devil, no Christ, no God " What think ycu of that for prohibi- tion Now, in order to answer this third and last argument, that of prohibitionist infidels— which at any rate is more honest than either of the others—we must, of course, meet them on some common ground. We answer it by an appeal to facts and history, and show_how the divine wisdom has_been justified of her childven, Prohibition is no new thing; it been tried for a thousand yearsor more, Over one thousand years ago there were two rival systems of religion, cach withits own scrip- tures, struggling for supremacy in the cast. The church of Christ with its bible; theoth- er Mohammedanism with its koran. ‘The church of Christ said toits adherents: *“Take this element of alcohol; use it, and it will be ablessing; abuse it, und like every othergift of God, it will become a curse, Exercise your manliuess, your selt control, in dependence on thegrace of God.” The other religious system, Mohammedanism, said: “Wine and strong drink are an unmitigated curse, 1 prohibit their use. No follower of mine can buy, or sell, or manufacture, or consume in- toxicating drink. My religion is an improve- ment upon that of Jesus Christ, It He had lived today He would doas I do.” We know from history now this last-named religion, in the Hush of its first enthusiasm of prohibition, seemed likely to wipe out Chris- tianity from the face of the earth. But after the lapse of a thousand years, what are the relative positions, morally and intellkectually, of those two religious systems today! Who was right in the end, Christ or Mohammed? Apart from all consideration of the religious aspectof tho question—for wo are now ad- dressing ourselves to the infidel argument lot meask: Would you not rather, a thou- sand times, be a descendent of four hundred ions of the “drunken’’ English, or the Irish, or the “drunken’ Scotch, or the “drunken” Germans, than of four hundred generations of the total absteiuing but unspeakgble Turk ¢ 1 speak thus strongly, because I feel that In this question the bonor and truth of Christ and of the Bible are involved; because every one who advocates prohibition flings an in- sult in the face of the Lord; every such advocate declaves that the religion of Christ is insuficient and needs supplementing. And because 1 feel that this whole pronibition movement i3 a retrograde step in our civiliza- tion, our religion, our liberty. It isa return- ing 'to “‘the weuk and beggarly elements of the law;” it is destructive of “‘the right of private judgment;) it is just another species of “priesteraft and popery.” 1 no more want to be told what articles of food are prohibited than T want to be told what boolks are plac on the “‘prohibition list” of the Index E purgatorius, I do not want to belongto a nation of slaves. I donot want a uew gospel. With regard to those who from conscien- tious motives choose to practice the self- denial of total abstinence, either becanse they find it botter for thamselves, or because they would set an example toothers, I have noth- ing but feclings of tho highest respect and admication, Ouly let them remember that solf-deniul” is ~ one thing, demal to oshers a very different thing. St. Paul appreciated this difference. He says, indeed: “If ‘meat make my brother to offend, T will not eat meat whiie the worla standeth.” There is the spirit of self-denial. But Paul does not suy *1 will eat no meats, and 1 will see that nobody else shall, aud 1'will agitate to get laws passed to'that effect.” No, bis_language is, “Let not him that eateth despise him that cateth not: and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth.’ *Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which be alloweth.” Indeed, he warns us that the “prohibition” spirit will be a sign of the de- clension from the truth: he says that “*In the dilema is that aud wanctionod wll their ln- ) latter times sowe shall depart frow the faith + %+ forbidding to marry and command. ing to abstain from meats, ™’ 8t, Paul himself did not marry; he aavised others ¢ abstain from marriage, but ho did mot ‘“forbic Thereare many clergymen of the Enelish church who, for the loveof God and His word, have determined never to marey--some who lave taken pledges to that effect. | tonor and venerate the zal of such holy men ; but if they were ever to attempt to pass ncanon of synod—as was done in the dale ages—forbidding all clergymen to mavry, 1 think most churchmen woald resist sich an actof tyranny unto the death If Tam asked, “Will not such doctrines ourage the drunkards '’ I answer no: for they are the doetrines of seripture. Y ea, let God be true, though every man aliar" 1T am asked “Will you not admit that drunkenness would dimi i were the temptation placed out reach!” 1 answer, most_ certainly, If thetree of knowledge had been p of reach of Adam and Eve they would never have fallen. But th *s way of training His chiidren, and it isnot His way now. We must face temptation, battle with it, and overcome it by the grace of God, “yhich we must learn at all times toask for by diligent p 1 ou will observe, brethren, T have only been speaking against prohibition, which [ hold to be not only unscriptural but anti- seriptural, an jnfringement of the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. [ would not. speak one word —God _forbid~in depreci- ation of any honest, constitutional scheme for reforming the drunicard, for punishing the drunkard, or for diminishing the amount of this sin andits ottendant evils, I, myself, have not muc he majority of these schemes. 1 bel t remedy for this sin, as for all other sins, and that fs the grace of Christ, which we mustobtain by using the means of gr still, so long hristian men and women labor on this f, on any lines consistent with the 1ib- v of tho gospel, though 1 wmight not p sonally approve their particular method, I would bid them God-speed, And now dismissing this subject, and turn- ing our eyes to the more grateful contempla- tion of trie Lightof the World as manifested in this miracle, let us view that loving and beautiful character, d in flesh, scattoring his b is humble yet joyous gatheringin Canaof Galilee, Let us see Himwho “camenot to be ministered unto but to minister” enhancing the enjoyments of this happy throng, and showing now to cary out the injunction of the Epistle of day : “Rejoice with them that do rejoice,an weep with them that weep’ Lot ussee in this first miracle that He wrought, not only an actof love and goodness, buta type of His whole work and office. He came into this world to bless, and_enoble, and sanctify hu- man nature; toturn curses into blessings: toturnordinary blessings which surround the daily life of cach of usintostill higher, and holier, and sweeter blessings; to turn the water into wine. And Hecame {0 show us that He keeps tho good wine until the last. For great and - marvellous as have been the humanizing, the civilizing and elevating, and ennobling effects of His religion even on this earth, theyare not worthy tobe compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us, when this creation shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God; when the marriage of the Lamb shall have come; when He Himself shall drink the new wine with us in the kingdom of God pi bt Dr* Birney cures catarrh, Bee bld g. INPIETIES. Sulphurand brimstone are on the free list. So is salvation. Now take your choice, Consider the caterpillar—he has to hump bimself if he wishes to make any progress. The love of money may be the root of all evil, but the love of money is one of its in- vortant brauches, i ““We mado a big mistake, Adam,” after they had scitled outside of the “How dear” “Weshould have upoa having the matter arbitrated.”” Anold chief gave his experience of Indian agents this way: “Spose agent heap bad man, heap swear, steal half Injun blanket, Injuh lour; spoio. agent lovum Jesus, stal A cynical man who refuses to perceive a good motave in any act wants to bet that the prodigal son’s father happened to need help on the farm just about thetimethe boy got back. Little Johnny—Say, dad, when T grow up 1want you to make & minister of me. Brown —What induces you to make that choice, my boy ¢ Little Johuny—I want to go to Europe every sumnier. First Minneapolis Man—Well, church elect that aid Eve Garden, insisted did your reacher you had on from the east? Second Minhieapolis Man—No, in- deed! Why, he preached his trial serion from a text found in one of St Paul's cpistles ! Bridget—The new neighbors next door wants to_cut their grass, and they say would ye beso kind as to_ lend them your sickle! Mistress—-Lend my sickleto cut grass on the Sabbath! Tell them Bridget, that we bavn't any, Little Inqusitive—And are all people de- scended from Adam, mal Mother—Why, ves, dear. Littlo Inquisitive—But papa isn't, ishet Mother—Why do you think that? Lit® tle Inquisitive—Because people say papa’s a self-made man. A counterfeiter lately captured in New England lad his wife, sister and mother-in- law as assistants. He told'em he hud a per- fect right to make a currency of his own, pro- viding he gave 8100 per year to the mission- aries, and the confiding “women worked day and night to help the poor heathen of Africa A woman in China, Me., called on a local: insurance agent the other day to inquire abouta policy for her house, ‘*You see, ‘Squire,” she said, “we haven't had it in- sured for some time. We've been kinder trustin’ in the Lord for better'n seven year, but, to mind, in these times, it’s terblé risk| Russell Sage has loaned 125,000 to Parson Talmage with which to complete the church. The kindly Mr, Sage exacted only 6 per cent interest, with security of alife insurance on the Parson, a mortgage covering the church property, the bouds of the taberuacle trustees, and a guaranteo of o real estite company. Ordinary sinners would do more lending to the Lord if the indorsers always could be made as reachable, sl (o I Dr. Bimey, nose and throat, ee bldg. e —— HOW THE DRESS COAT CAME, A Creation Which Came Out of a Ri- diculous Costume. haps few men who wear the con- Vi 'munufi clay-hammer coat are awar of its origin. Mr. W. W. Story, in_ his delightful **Conversations in a Studio,” says: The dress coat is the great pro- duct of the French revolution, and it is curious how it came about. The old coat out of which it was created was not beautiful in itself, but it had a certain character and effect as o costume. It was long in skirt and buttoned across the chest. The sleeves were loose and turned up with facings from bencath; while in full dress, lace rufiles depended over the hand, Also the coat was faced with a different colored lining, which it showed when unbottoned. In walking theskirts, faced also, were turned b and buttoned up totwo buttons on the back Gradually it was lopy to the thing it now is. front were cut away, instead of being turned back. But the two foolish bus tons behind were still kept after thel use had gone. The front was per manently turned back, and the coat made too narrow to button, the foolish cuts now remaining in the collar repre- senting the old division of the front lappets. As time went on, more and more of the skirts were cut away, until they were reduced to the ridiculous swallow- tail in which Beau Brummel said there was safety. The collar was then piled up behind the facings and collars were done away with, and thus little by little grew up the glorious thingcalledn dress coat, and reduced The rts in T Dr. Birney, nose and throat, Bee bldg. e “All the Comforts of & Home,) William Gillette's latest comedy success, is duplicat- ing gShenandoah’s’ big business at the Twenty-third Street theator, New York, R Dr, Birney cures catarrh, Beo bldg, 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES, WHERE MOLINESS PREVAILS, The Remarkabl Snccess of Rev, J. A, Hult- man's Swedish Mission, THE NEW PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL. Somoof the Interesting and Valuable Features of st Timothy's M sion Down the Bottoms. on There isa largo and imposing structure at the corner of “Twenty-third and Davenport streets called the Swedish Mission church The growth of this church has been re markable. The present building has been in use nearly three years, and will seat 1,200 people very comfortably. It is GOXi foet and two full stories above the basement, where the Sunday school rooms are located, The church has o men- bership of nearly two hundred and there are over elght hund regular attendants at the sory Jroperty is considered to be worth about £0,000, and is almost clear of debt. The pastor is Rev A. Hultman. He is & young man of exceptional ability and gréatly devoted to the spiritual interests of his people. He is only about thirty years old and has been pastor of the church for nino s, The ethodist Ministers. o The Methodist conference of the North Nebraska district has concluded its sessions und the pastors of thedistrict have returned to their respective charges, The following are the appointments the various Methodist putpits of Omala : Rev.T. (. Clendenning, presiding elder for the district; First church, Rev, P, Merrill; Seward strect, Rev. H. A, Cranci Trinity, Rev. W. K. Beas; South Tenth street, Rev. A, Hodeett; Hancom Park, Rev. for M. Brown; Newman chureh, Rev. C.W. dge. South Omaha, Rev, L. N. Dawson; Al- bright, Rev. W. Van Buren; Monmouth Park, Rev. . W. Bross. Elder Clendenning enters upon his second term as presiding elder. Rev. P. S, Merrill has been First chnrch but one year. Rev. H. 8. Crane of the Sewarl Street church has been with that church one year. Rev. W. K. Beaus of the Trinity church cnters apon his sebond year in that pulpit. Rev. G. M. Brown of the Hanscom Park church has been its pastor for three years. He has seen the congregation grow from mere hanafull of people toa fine and influen- tial congregation of carnest Christian work- ers. Rev.C. W. Savidge is the most widely- known minister in Omaha, He has been pastorof three of the Medodist churches of this city ana has met with marked success at cach of them. His connection with the New- man church s pastor commenced about four months agoand his work has been crowned with remarkablc suceess, The people of this congrogation are delighted to see him re- turned, pastor of the The Preshy ¢:rian Hospital. The Presbyterian hospital on Spencer street near Nineteenthis a neat two-story building capable of accommodating from six to ten patients ata tiie. /Tt is the beinning of that which may grew igto a much needed institu- tion. The institution is under the personal supervision of Dr, Henry and is supplicd with moaern conveniences required in caring for the sick or injured. As yet, the hospital has had but few patients but” all those who have been taken care of during the short time it has been open have received excellent treatment, a fact which argues the future suc of the institution. Saint Timothy*s Mission. Saint Timothy's mission on Eleventh street near Nicholas,seems to be making usc of prac- tical means by which the poorer classes may be reached both for educational und religious purposes. Aside from thereligious servs on Sunday, Rev. J. J. Reedy, the missionary, lias established a free night School and a froo sewing school for g He nas also made a startat getting u free libra L of the best physicians of the city have consented to waitupon the people that may be found in poor circumstances by the missionary, Rev. Mr, Reedy seems to be getting hold of the work i earnest. and much good may be expected the present season. Installation of Rev. Mr. Ware, This will be the installation day forthe pas- tor and congregation of the Sccond Presby- terian church. Atthe morning service the pastor, Rev. S. M. Ware, will preach especially to the Sun- day school, and after the sermon the teachers will be installed in their places of sucred re- sponsibilit; In the n'\‘l'l;ing the pastor-clect willbe form men at this impres- vice will be Rev. W. J. Harsha, D.D., who will preach the sermon and propoundthe usual questions; Rev. Asa Laird, who will deliver the charge to the pastor, and Key. John Gordon, D.D., who will deliver ~the charge to the people, ites. The members of the Hanscom Park M church tendered Rey. G.M. Brownand his wifea reception last Tuesday night at the residence of Mr. John Dale on Georgia avenue. The affair was very enjoyable, and both pastor_and people went home foeling highly benefitted by the gathering. Rev. J. sz was appointed assistant cditorof the Nebraska Christian Advocate by the north Nebraska conference which met at Waynelast week. He has entered upon his duties in the Douglus block, where the ofticeof the Advocate is located, Rev. J. W. Taylor, editor of the Church Record, delivered a very interesting lecture before the students of thie Omala commenrcial college last Friday. Rev. H. Bross, superintenlent of the American Home missionary society, is in the city looking after the interests of Park plico and other missions established in Omaha by the Congregatiomal church. The grand inaugural recitals to be given at Trinity cathedral by Mr. Frank Taft of New York, on the na and 3dof October, will be free to everybody. The industrial school under the supervis- fon of Miss Poppleton will be opened in the crypt of Trinity, cathedral this week. Tn this school poor children will be taught to sew and do other uspful work, Theschool is free to poor children. “The society of the “King's Daughters” is being organized gud will soon be at worlks dis- tributing goods, to the poor. Theso ladies will also moeet ypt of Trinity cathedral and reive any gift that may be brought for distribution amoug poor people, RELIGIOUS, Bishop Warrm $ay dismis the most jibo Methodist worid.'! ‘T'he annual meating of the American board at )l\'ll\t'fllnlh‘ begins October nd closes on the following Sunday. Uuited ~ Presbyterians have spent the pastyelir in bullding eighteen par- sonages—an average of &,700 cach The missionary secretaries of the Metho- dist Episcopul = clurch have asked for 1,250,000 this r from collections ulone, The Baptist church at Nursarava Petta, India, of 4,000 members, was recently di vided into twelve, each with its owa pastor The Baptist misslonaries in Japan appes to their co-religionists in this country foran immediate peenforcement of twenty-three men, Tho total number of Congregational churches and mission stations in England and Wales is 4,585, which provide over 1,600,- 000 sittings, Iu 163§ anyone absent from church on Sanday was fined one shilling, _An act for restraining amuscments on Sunday was passed in 1625, At the Nutional library of Paris a MS, of the bible has been discovered, It was written in 1239 in a suburb of Perpignan and is rich- ly illuminated, The Baptist missionaries of Japan have Jolued i an appeal o their churches in the ‘“Colorado Metho- finances of all the MAGNIFICENT ~ EXPOSITION! —COLISEUM BUILDING—— HIS AFTERNOON i EVENING Grand Sacred Concert. cautiful Commercial & Mechanteal Exhibition The Automatic City, Costing over $20,000. Many New and Novel Attractions AOMISSION, 20 Gents Uniked States foran inmediate reinforcement S YRINT. & of twenty-three men. DRS, MERRILL § Tho Christian church (Disciples) in Ohio s 4% congregations and a membership of 54,070, T'he church property of the denoinin- ation is valued atsl, 500,050, Th 57,011 Baptists in Ohio, with #8 chu Last year the denomination in the state contributed for missions $43,601.27 an average of 76 cents per mem ber: Thenet gain_of the Lutheran church in this country in I18%0, in_her communicant membershup was 98,040 She now has 7,911 churches, 5615 miisters and 1,056,088 ¢ municant members, Thewillof Mrs. F. B. Hollandof Hartford, Conn,, gives 50000 to found three scholar: ships it 0,000 to the pro posed new Episcopal cathedral in New York, and $0,000 formissions to the diocese of Connecticut, A dispateh from Pierre, Colonel Allison,a gov converted recently at a camp meeting, and lias since been_preaching among the Sioux. Hundreds of Indians have been converted under his preaching. The total missions aine societies, 520 m Duchess—And that, Mr. Brummel, would damn the picce. Mrs, St. Aubyn Doesni't the park the daylight! Brummel (to his MERR ILL Duchess, you look ill. ce with you! Oris valet, referring to the bailiffsat his Fecls) —Mortimer, promisethem anything, promise them anything! And, Mortimer, you must not go unrewarded Promiise yourself something. Dr. Birney, nose and throat, Bee bldg - - A column of army worms invaded Wood: bridge, Cal, recently, It was half a mi long_and was followed by immense swarms of olack birds, which preyed upon them. Dr, Birney cures catarrh, Bee bldg. D., states that nment scout, wWas SPECIALISTS IN Chironte, Nervous, Blood and Surieal Diseasesing Diseascs of the Eye, Ear, Nose, Th =special Attention to Diseases of Wa men and Children. The doctorahive had years of experion hospitals of Brooklynand Now York: and the most auceesstul aad widely krown spec tho country. To Young and Middle-Aged ost Manhood, Nervous Debilicy. Spern Il Lowses, Physical Decny. arlsing lom, producing Dles o1t face. wversion (& fieod. Tack oF confidence, (ull, URHLEE Ll o i+~ . and ‘finds 11fe o burdon. safely, permaneiy and #peadily cured Blood and Skin Diseases, Syphils, o disease most dreadful in ity r completely cradicuted snito-Urinary Surgery Gonor, t. Syphills, Hyd Varicocole, nth of China are: Thirt; e e missioauries, and 37 women; total, 1,122 missionaries; 162 native ordained helpe unordained, 34 5 communicants in churches, and 14,817 pupils in public bls; contributed by the church os the T, 44, 173; netincrease in mem- ool unign having se- curedthe hearty co-operation of the British Sunday school” union, has been plazning a large extension of its work. Dr James L. Philiip snteen years medical and educ, tonal wissionary in Bengal, has been_ap he, Gleet, S ydrucelo, Varl pointed general secretary of the India Sun- k puin I‘r"‘“.:“"”'”"“ “"m" B ‘m_“' Y'\";”‘i‘_“m\ '|,“.Y day school union, ] . it ahd Wpedmonta o arige i iy Principal Grant _of Queens university, iRl S e Kingston, Canads, docs xot bolieve. that the el b G union of the protestant churchies in Canadais cinlt it iy b at allimpossible, The first step, he thinks, 3 mdence. e fidiesani 7 is to unite the Methodist and Presbyterian uctioas sont by exirass, “Conauliation frue. denominations. The union of these two ] 1 churches would,he says, give a_united pro- 218 Fifteenth St, Opposite Boyd's testant chureh, ineluding 1,500,000 of the pop Opera House. Omaha, Neb. ulation; *‘and Such a spiritof Union wouldbe generated all over the land that would soon see fresh triumphs.” According to the sixty-fifth annual report of the AmericanUniturian association for the year endting April 3, 1500, $b),743 was ex- pended in_missionary work' in this country, A correspondent of the Christian Regi: calls attention to these figures and expre: regret that they afiord little evidence of progress. He says that while the Methodist chureh s boasting that it builds anew church every day, the Unitarians consider th selves fortunate if they build oue eve month, A wealthy Greek, Demetrius Tzani-Shil- ippi, has given 2,000,000 francs for the erec- tlon'of a Groek church in Paris. - Hitherto the one thousand and more Hellenes living in the French capital were compelled toworshin in the Russian chapel. The Roumanins, 0o, havean orthodox church m Paris, The Cath* g olics of the Orirnlul rite two »:n-lx x.f., “;A nd IICS]Cl‘y ndz:ptcd to the ceived permission to worship in the church Ao S| Mt Julion-1e-Pauyre, *formerly the ad | || coolerseasonis now in stock. Hotel Dieu. The Catholic Armenians and | || | Maronites have for a numberof years been We do not quote the prices on the possessors of @ chureh and séminary of |||these goods as below cost for we theirown in Earis, which city now has three | || frankly confess that we are doing | Greck orthodox and two Catholic Greek || pysiness for our own profit, but we | Washburn & Moe churches. | tetst € the sxcellan oo o2 our Koods | Mf'g Co’s Wire {and the faiiness of our method to bring us reasonable returns. | ]{()l)c- Yale & Towne M’ Co.'s T'ine Lock: DR. J E. McGREW The Specialist, cure, entod o The cool days of Autumn | have come and change of | costume is in order. ‘ Men's and Beys' Fall | Suits have displaced sum-| mer blazers and silk Shirts| ) ™ W Dol upon our counters and in-| Wm. T. \\100(11 & Co Ice Tools vite your early inspection. Anexceptionally fineassort-| mentof Men's Underwear Prescott Sliding Door Hangers. - Dr. Bimey, nose and throat, Bee bldg. s The Min Who Goes Out. Ascivilization advances we will b lation regulative of the bibulous the This legislation will not be prohibitory. It will recoguize the right of man to control his ownmovements, and simply require that it shall be excrcised s0as not to interfere with the rights of others. As it is, the man who goes out is an inconvenience, if not a nui- sance. When the curtain descends he avises and pushes and crowds his way out, disar- ranging uppavel, interrapting conversations ansurpamsed in e and confusing persons in his scramble to the X ot forns of KL aisle. Onhis returnhe again runs over the b ST o gamut of inconvenience, with a fine obligato HILIS Cured 11 010 30 accompaniment of spirituious fume. The days. KKin Diseos, Catarrly rights of the bonafide pl oer, in short, Blood Henrt ot Liver, ¥ 3 ave seriously invaded by the man who makes male Discetonsuied wiions the play @ mere. resting place between o Tadon rom 2o dvinks, and the evil demands remedy. Tarsgiving p The principleof the coming legislation will be segregation. The man who goes out. will be confined to one portion of the house,but by this is not meant that he will be mewed upin some obscure corner, Justice demands that he should havea good seat after paying for it, and policy requires that it shaileven be prominent, on the idea that the more con- spicuous he is made the better the chance of his reformation, These seats, which will be collectively known as Sabara, the Dry Garden, or by some other appropriate name, will e exclu- sively appropriated to such persons us desire to o out between aets, Thus each can enjoy the interlude in his own fashion—the ondi- nary play-goer with conversation and confec - tioniery ; the oceupant of Subara in imbibition of his’ favorite drink e Dr. Bimey cures catareh, Bee bldg, Clyde Fitch and *Beau Bru Clyde Fiteh, the young gentleman whose “Bea Brummel? in Richard M g hands has been an electric suc wholly indebted for it to the actor, Forin- stance theplay has peculiar and originallit- | 0 erary merit, asany one with half an under- standing may gather from a glance at the following specinen speeches caught at ran- dom: Beau Brummel—Did it ever oceur to you, Reginald, how thoughtful it was of the Crea- tor to givous naked bodies, so we could dress and ornament them us we chosef (As to bills) “Hide them where I shan’t see them, then I shall feel as if they were paid” “Busy! Ugh! Never apply with me, No gentleman ev sects and city people are busy Mrs. St Aubyn—I know Miss Vincent Is an insignificent littlo thing, whose name las never been successfully connected with that of auy geatleman of quality, but she is rich, Arc Lights and Motors, sir! Shedresses like a guy, but herclothes, | 3 likke the clouds, have a silver lining. Small E L Duchess of Leanington—Promise yow'll | tories hotels, et bow to mo tonight at the play, Mr. Brumuel, | pneesaticited:, b You bowed to Lady Farthingale last week | B tihg, O aha. Neb, Thursday, and shie's given borselfairs ever | o since. my oves rest on you once during the play could not turn my attention once again tothe | Bealihaiyiierst, players. . Becruy, Frof AL b BUIT treate urpn ! PIL i Cor, 11th and Farnam Gmahs Nob fice, N. eltier sircet, ARG 77 S Herman Kunde Has Removedilis Harlware Store and Tinshop from South 10th St. to 418 South 13th St., he will Sts., entrance om (lRTIiR THAN EVER, 10,000 PAIRS A DAY. 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