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The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-10-31

DIR. Settler, in the Boston Medical
and Surgical Journal, recommends beef
tea made very hot with red pepper. for
delirium tremens. A London surgeon
is stated to have treated $50 cases sue
cessfully with this remedy alone.
The New York Journal of Commerce
publishes a list OF seventy-s cotton
mills that will stop for two weeks 70
longer, with a capacity of 2,706,0 900
spindies and &C, 900 looms, insuring q
curtailment of sc, 900 pieces per day, or
792, 900 pieces IN two weeks, mostly all
brown and bleached goods.
There was o most impressive moment
in n OF Spurgeon's sermons q few
Sundays ago. He was urging his hear
ers to prayer against a besetting sin.
"Let US breathe it now" said he, and
as he raised his hand It seemed as if
with that net he lifted the vast congre
cation up on the heights Of prayer.
There wa perfect stiffness, end you
could feel ts.at the whole assemblage
was silently praying. The sermon was
slain, direct, matter-of-fact in the high
Est degree, absolutely without sensa-
tionalism Of any kind, and showing lit
tie claim on the part OF the preacher to
brilliancy or eloquence. A preacher
more unlike B~eecher, with whom it is
natural to compare him, could hardly
be imagined. He seems to owe his great
success to strength Of character and
that mysterious quality called leader
ship.
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A Hint to Young Women.

AS tale, grown-up girls have NOR
spare time than is good for them. Many
OF the occupations they are accustomed
to look on as the tolls of their lives
fancy work, paying visits, practicing, ETC.,
are, as many married women and not a
few girls could tell them, little more than
healthful and pleasant recreations. If
any girl would but keep an account Of
her time for a week she would be startled
to lind how much of it, if not absolutely
lost, is frittered away. She would dis
cover that one or two hours reading
would hardly interfere, if properly ar
ranged as to time, with any of her amuse-
ments and occupations, and would be
simply invaluable in giving ballast to
her mind, as would an hour a day de-
voted to the conquest of a modern or an
ancient language, or to the study of
mathematics.
Let girl, even if she cannot find time
tor selt-improvement, give up novel read
ing for time. She will find the depri-
walton will be far less than she would
have imagined, and may console herself
by rejecting that the taste for novel read.
ing is easily regained, while the appetite
Tor graver study cannot be found if once
really lost. Girls who love good poetry
will be astonished at how much they can
get by heart by learning one or two
verses every morning while dressing, and
to lind how infinite a treasure through
their whole lives will be those "iewels
which on the stretched forefnger of ali
time sparkle forever" and which thew
have made their own by committing to
memory. - Cleveland Leader.
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Influential Women in China.
REV. IoHN RuTI.ER

have recently returned from trip
to the interior of this province Sec
ond long tour since my return to China
and took in our most distant station,
Tong Wang, on my journey. Five were
baptized there this time, making a total
OF sixty adults baptized since the work
began there, five years ago.an average
of twelve year. But the number bap-
tized by no means tells of all the work
that has been done there during that
time. Preiudices have been allayed,
opposition has been disarmed and a favor
able impression for Christianity has been
made upon large section of country,
over which our work there extends. At
one OF the stations-Leo-si Zah-the &C
tiVity OF two Christian women is worthy
OF special mention. One of them-O-me
XVI e. PeacefulBeauty us maiden
lady OF about fifty-a rare thing in China,
except among the nuns. She was be-
tr0thed in her youth, but the would be
husband died before the nuptial day ar
rived, and she, according to the custom
OF the country; went to the house Of her
betrothed husbands parents, to serve
them. After their death, she went back
to her own home, and, having received a
portion OF the family estate for her in
heritance, she has lived for many years
in her own separate house, though still
within the family D." compound" She
learned to read when she was young,
and, not having family cares, she kept up
her knowledge of books. She joined a
company Of vegetarians-all women
and they met at stated times to chant
prayers and to lay up merit for the future
life.
When we went into that region to
preach, the women received the GOSPEL
almost from the first hearing of it. She
was one of that people prepared of the
Lord, found in every land, among every
tribe and tongue. Her knowledge of
the Chinese written character gave her a
prominence among her sister devotees
she was reader for the others when
they met to chant their prayers. Her
knowledge of books has been of great use
since she has become Christian. She
devotes nearly all her spare time to the
study OF Christian books, and she has now
In her little cottage collection of nearly
all of our Christian books. But the most
remarkable part of her career is her great
activity in her new faith. 1t IS worth
the ten days journey inland to see her
cheerful face and hear her expressions Of
thankfulness for the new treasure she has
found. She is real apostle among the
women of her region, and, being able to
read to them out of Chinese books about
the new religion, they look upon her as
something supernatural. 1t is a matter
for which we cannot be too thankful that
the only woman in all that region, so far
as we know, who can read is a warm
hearted Christian, and devotes her knowl-
edge Of books exclusively to the spread
ing Of Christianity.
Belonging to the same group of vege-
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Walking with God.

Must you then leave the city, and 90
into retirement to walk tn God? Nay.
where would you go? where sin and the
world are not? Has not Jesus said, "I
pray not that thou shouldst take them
out of the world, but that thou shouldst
keep them from the evil They are not
of the world, even as 1 am not OF the
world" If walls of brick aud stone could
protect the soul against the sin which
they inclose, and if ceremonial services
and priestcraft had power to remit sin,
then the withdrawal from life of testi-
mony before and against an ungodly
world would be acceptable to God: then
Christians would be safer in rnonasteries,
or in any place of ascetic seclusion.
Such places have been most numerous
in the darkest periods. Be not tempted
to believe that fellowship with God is
confined to few who possess some
special gift or who, in forced seclusion,
have an imaginary enjoyment of spiritual
life. Although those who are contented
with little Of Chrst's company are of
the exceeding number, yet his followers
are far removed from idle dreamers-
Things of eternity are things of reality.
OoHlAuulon ls cOmpaClOle with health ana
vigor, with household care and faithful
attendance on lites daily calling. The
trials that meet us in them are but as the
goads and nails of true crucifxlon; they
drive us nearer to Jesus, to bring about
his own counsels for our advancement,
and hedge us up into a closer fellowship
with himself than we could otherwise at
tain. Martyrdom is but the outward
fulflment Of inward crucifxion. 1t is
the crucifed man who walks in resurrec-
ton life and power. Deny myself,
take up thy cross and follow me" This
is war, not peace. 1t is battle de-
clared against the world, the flesh, and
the devil. In me-" said Christ, I've
have peace" not in the world; there is
no promise of it there; for the followers of
the Master have tribulation and hatred
and scorn. Life is everywhere set forth as
a conflict. BY his hating, Jacob proved
that he had wrestled, but Israel, prince
as he was, had still to serve and suffer.
From The Secret of the Lord"
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Sins of Omission.

Few men ever hved>a life so busy and
so devoted to God as Usher, Archbishop
of Armagh. His learning, habits of bust
ness, station, friends, all contributed to
keep his hands full every moment; and
then his was a soul that seemed contin-
ually to hear voice saying, Redeem
the time, for the days are evil" Early,
too, did he begin, for at ten years of age
he was hopefully converted by a sermon
preached on Rom. xii: l az beseech
you therefore, by the mercies of God,
that ye present your bodies living sacri-
fee. He was painstaking, laborious
preacher of the Word for ffty-fve years
Yet hear him on his death-be How
he clings to Christ's righteousness alone,
and sees in himself, even after such a life,
only sin and want. The last words he
was heard to utter were about one clock
in the afternoon, and these were uttered
In loud voice, " Lord, IN special toYgive
me ney SINS of omission. -
1t was omission, says his biographer,
he begged forgiveness for with his most
fervent last breath He who was never
known to waste an hour, but who EN-.
ployed the shred ends of his life for his
great Lord and Master The very day
he took his last sickness he rose up from
writing one of his great works, and went
out to visit sick woman, to whom he
spoke SO fifty and SO fully that you would
have taken him to have spoken with
heaven before he came there. Yet this
man was oppressed with sense of his
omissions
Reader what think you of yourself
your undone duties; your unimproved
hours; times of prayer omitted; your
Sinking from unpleasant work and put
ting it on Others your being content to
sit under your own vine and fig tree
without using all efforts for the souls Of
others? o, sins of omission Lord In
special forgive me nay SINS of omission r.
Words to Winners of Souls"
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A Large Detection of French
Catholic Priests.

A letter dated Dalkeith, Ont, August
%, 1888, signed by thirty-three priests
of the Catholic Church, has been sent to
the cure of the Locheil, announcing their
withdrawal from the Roman Catholic
Church. The letter in brief is as fol-
lows
Dear Sw.-Having heard the reading
OF the Scriptures as contained in the Old
and New Testaments these men have
had for some time communication with q
colporteur of the Presbyterian Church
Canada we have discovered that the
teaching Of the Church of Rome does no,
agree with the Word of God.
Flrst-The Church teaches that the
Holy Scriptures are obscure. The Word
OF God says: Thy Word is a lamp un-
to my feet and light to my path"
Second-The Church teaches that it is
not for the people to read the Scriptures
Jesus Christ babe His disciples to SEARCH
the Scriptures.
Third-Since 1915 the Church teaches
that priests have power to forgive sins.
The Word Of God says "Who can for.
give sins but God only"
Fourth-Since 1854 the Church teach
es that the Virgin Mary is immaculate.
The Word of God says "There is none
righteous; no, not one.
Fifth-The Church teaches that the
Virgin Mary is the door of heaven and
the salvation Of the living and the dead.
The Word of God says, speaking of Jesus
Christ am the door by Me, if any
man enter, he shall be saved" And the
Apostle Peter says Neither is there
salvation in any other"
Sixth-Since A. D. 600 the Church
teaches that prayers and public worship
were to be conducted in an unknown
tongue, but Paul declares that he would
rather speak five words with the under
standing, that by my voice l might
teach others also, than ten thousand
words in an unknown tongue"
Seventh-Since A. D. 1889 the Church
teaches that there is a purgatory, where
the souls redeemed from hell must suffer
after death to complete the expiration Of
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God in Nature

Do not understand me at all as saving
that there is no mystery about the plan
cts motions. There is just the one sin
gle mystery-gravitation-and it is a.
very profound one. How is it that an
atom OF matter can attract another atom.
no matter how great the distance, no
matter what intervening substance there
may be; how it will act upon it, or at
least behave as if it acted upon it. I do
not know, | cannot tell. Whether thew
are pushed together, by means Of an in
tervening ether, or what is the action.
cannot understand. 1t stands with me
along with the fact that when I will that
my arm shall rise, it rises. 1t is inscru-
table. All the explanations that have
been given Of it seem to me merely to
darken counsel with words and no IN
derstanding, They do not remove the
difficulty at ALL If l were to say what
/ really believe, it would be that the mo
tons of the spheres Of the material uni
verse stand in some such relation to him
in whom all things exist, the ever-present
and omnipotent Cod as the motions of
my body to my will do not know how.
and never expect to know.-Psof c. h.
Young.
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Mental Work During Sleep.

A writer in the Louisville Courier
Journal says that Professor Begg possesses
a peculiar power of mental work while
asleep. When boy he would think
over a difficult problem before retiring.
and would find on awaking the next morn
ing that he had solved it. There is moth
ing wonderful about that. Those who
are familiar with Dr. Carpenters mental
physiology know that such a supposed
power is very common. The writer,
among other humble individuals, often
finds things very clear to him on awak-
ing In the morning that were very misty
on retiring, and that not because the mind
was obscured by stimulants either. 1t is
still an open question whether, except
In the case Of dreams, any thing really
goes on during sleep. The first glance
with the full power of the mind in the
morning upon problem with which the
mind had become familiar might perceive
the solution. We know that during the
day it Is an excellent thing to drop a
problem, and, though the mind be fully
occupied with other things, on resuminp
some hours later in an instant more pro-
gress may be made than had been appa-
rently made in many hours. Sermons
are often born this way, as it appears, in
moment. Unconscious cerebration is a
possibility when we are awake, because
we can always keep up thought; but
whether, when man is sound asleep and
not dreaming, he is doing any mental
work, is as yet an unsolved problem.
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The Lord in All, and All in the
World

"I had in my parish at one time, said
an aged pastor, ga very wealthy man,
who was also godly man, giving liber-
ally of his abundance to every worthy
cause, and rejoicing continually in the
Lords goodness.
Reverses came to him. He lost his
property, and was obliged to enter as
book keeper the large mercantile estab-
lishment that had once been his own.
Still, he was as regular as ever at church
and at the prayer meeting, spoke Just as
cheerfully and hopefully.
&C. How do you keep up SOP 1 said to
him one day; we all expected you to be
melancholy and down hearted; but of
the two, you are brighter and more sun
shiny in your demeauor than you were
before your reverses.
"'L Let me tell you about it, he said,
cheerfully. When was rich, and could
have everything heart could desire, that
money could buy, 1 enjoyed the Lord in
all things. Now that L have nothing,
only what [ can earn from day to day,
l enjoy all things in the Lord. L feel
that have more reason than ever before
to rejoice, for the Lord has kept me, and
allowed his glorious love to pour into my
soul in prosperity, through the changes
to which l have been subjected, and he
is with me now in adversely; SO what
have to do but to praise and glorify his
name from day to day Mis-. Preston.
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tarians was another woman, older by
fifteen years than ONE XVI. She, by
her special position and strength of
character, was the recognized leader of
the band. They met at her house for
their deyotions. At the head of the
lane leading to Mrs. Leo's house is a gil
gantic camphor tree, which has seen, at
the lowest calculation, four hundred
years of changes. Around this tree Mrs.
Leo o me Ryi and the other women
were accustomed to gather, and offer
their prayers to the spirit of the tree
Mrs Leo also brought her sons to this
tree to worship, In order that they might
attain fame and longevity. AS recently
stood under the shadow of this mighty
tree and read the Chinese characters
inscribed on it, viz: 1.-The God who
bestows success and longevity resides
here" 1 thought of the changes that
had occurred in some of thine who were
accustomed to worship there. ONE XVI,
the Christian maiden devotes her life
and knowledge of books to making
known the true God no created nature.
Mrs. Leo no Longer brings her sons
to beg for them loI life and success.
She herself is devoted Christian nearly
all that company of vegetarians have,
by the influence of these two women,
become Christians. Foreign Missionary.
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their sins and be admitted into heaven.
The Word of God says, 4" When He had
by Himself purged our sins, He sat down
at the right hand of the majesty on
hand"
We consequently notify you to-day
that we sever our connection from the
Church of the Pope to follow the Gospel
only. 1t is the power of God unto saliva
ton. Then follow thirty-three signatures
attested by Mr.. j. Matthew, one of the
missionaries of the Canadian Presbyterian
Board.-Foreign Missionary.
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Able to Succor.

To console 1t is for this, then, that
have suffered What light is shed
and how truly this, and this alone is the
balsam needed by my woundsl My torn
heart craved for solaee like this. Yes,
it is true; he who has not suffered will
never be able to console. He may not
lack the desire, indeed, but the sovereign
science, the initiation, the revelation
these he will ever lack. Jesus knew
this; he knew well that to be touched
with our infrmities he, too, must suffer
as we do. 1t is thus that God raises me
to himself. By this ineffable power of
consolation, by this truly heavenly priv
ilege, God makes me a fellow-worker
with him. I, unworthy as l am; 1, so
completely incapable; what can I re-
lieve the aflicted2 Will it do them good
that 1 should share their trials? Will
that sad being regain hope that unlov-
ing heart begin to love again, that man
who could not pray clasp his hands in
prayer; will the light of JOY penetrate
that soul, and all this by means of some
sorrows borne by me : O, here I am,
Lord Do thou only give me strength.
Behold here [ am
X X
1 have met with myself, and that is
the very reason why detest myself, the
very reason why so need God Ny
sin has driven me out of self; / seek a
deliverance. Had I been better satisfied
with my own soul, stranger to the suf-
ferings of hell there, 7 might have been
content to leave God In his heaven any
70, yho+ IL
now cannot do this. Shipwrecked as 1
am, it is not rope thrown from far, and
floating at random on the waves, that
can save me; [ want hand.
There is onel
God exists; Gods indifference has no
existence. My Saviour has walked upon
this earth. A poor man, blind, naked,
lying in the dust, cried to him once
Have mercy upon me !" This is all
know to say. All better the sorrow
that throws one PROSTATE at the feet Of
Jesus than the inflated ease of pride that
once deceived my heart. If, to compre-
bend the cross of Jesus, the EXTREMIST
agonies must assail me-seize me, all des-
olations and pangs sinner as I am,
want to know myself; it does me good to
find myself hideous. l will take my lep-
rosy to the Healer of lepers. Have
mercy upon mel My whole being utters
these words. The whole creature, had
it voice, would utter them too. 1t is
the cry that shakes the gates of heaven
Have mercy upon me the prayer has
not yet shaped itself upon my lips the
Father has heard it, has answered it
angels weep with joy; Jesus takes me
into his arms.-THe Countess de Gaspn1i,,
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MARTIN LUTHER. A Study of the Reformation
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Mr.. Mead is we'll known for his work on
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AMONG THE Holy HILLS. By Henry M. Field.
d. D. author of From the Lakes of Kilar
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DR.. Fields previous works of travel have met
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Dr. Field IS the accomplished editor of the
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