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CHICAGO. May Observation-Disclosures $500 head;
shipments 23Oj head; 5aI0c lower; steers lat 90
as 65 butchers common to good 45G4 90. COWS
1894 so; stockers and and feeders 6O14 80;
grass Texans 0U554 so.
4 3gs-Beceipts - 600 head; shipments $500 hid;
hQlOc lower; rough and mixed at 3 90a4 10 pack
ing and shipping at 1504 30; light at OLGA 80
skips 1T 40D3 80
Sheep-reeeipts 1900 head; shipments 1900 head
steady; shorn 5004 90; wooled 3 1894 70; Yves
tern sheep 00@4 3d.
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RpEopean llHarlkoIs.
By Telegraph
,rlJ Nov OF r,ouscI, 90 orr


LoSDoE.May 81 -ConsoIs 90 s-l6.
LONDON. May 21.--U. S. As, 124ss.
LTvEEPOoL, May 2I--l2.30P M.--Cotton market
steady; Uplands 15-16d; Orleans at Sd; sales 1000
balss, speculation and export 1000 bales.
LIVERPOOL, May 2l-Winter wheat 7s cd az Cd:
spring wheat at Is 2d@7s Id acknowledgements ct
S. 7d97s Sd club at 7s47s I'D Corn at As lid;
Peas Is. Provisions, etc.,-Pork at SOS; bacon sos
Sd for short clear and 29s Cd for long clear; lard
prime Western 54s Sd; cheese 62s low s2s.
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Spoken.

May. II, lat so OF, lon 65 o5, sch Nellie Wood
bury, from Boston for Bahamas
May IL lat "a rs. Ion "a IL, sch Susan P Thur
low, SIN th, from Philadelphia for Cardenas
May II, forty miles of Montauk, sch Willie
Luce, from Camden for Charleston,
May 1S, in South Channel, brig Sullivan Guntiu
from Sagua for Boston. 1911
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The Congress Yeast Powder is the only
Cream Tartar baking powder that sells on its
merits. 1t requires no advertising, because
when once used it always pleases.
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BILIOUS ESS,

Bilious symptoms invariably
arise from indigestion, such as
furPed tongue, vomiting ofbile,
giddinesS, sick headache, ir-
regular bowels. The liver Sc
epeteS the bile and acts like a
filter or sieve, to cleanse impu-
rites Of the blood. By irregu-
larity in its action or suspen-
sions OF its functions, the bile
is liable to overflow into the
blood, causing aundiee, sallow
complexion, yellow eyes, bill
ious diaprhGa, a languid,
weary feeling and many other
distressing symptoms. Bilious
ness may be properly termed
an affection OF the liver, and
can be thoroughly cured by the
grand regulator OF the liver
and hillary organs, BURDOCK
BLOOD BITTERS. ItactS upon the
stomach, ) bowels and liver,
making healthy bile and pure
blood, and opens the culverts
and sideways for the outlet
OF disease. Sold everywhere
and guaranteed to cure.
my20 dSw1y
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MENnahR ANRA

Sch Haskell, of Deer Isle, from Porto Rico
for Boston, put into vIneyard-Haven 2Ist and re-
ports, 14th inst, experienced heavy revolving
gale, lasting fortyeight hours, during which lost
part of deckload molasses and broke foreboom.
Sch Dora M French, French, at New York from
Arecibo, reports, May ID, abont twenty-five miles
east from Chincoteague, in heavy sea pitched
off jibboom aud toretopmast, with everything
attached.
Sch t W Allen. from Dennysville for New York,
coed.
Sch Sylph, brick loaded, from Bangor for a coast
port, put into Searsport 18th leaky in top.
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Wit and Wisdom.

In the cemetery in the town of Duxbury is
this inscription on a headstone erected by
loving son in honor OF his mother: 1.-THE chisel
can't help her any,"
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he following are Portland quotations on aidss
Stock RaArgzes.
Ness gcra ssscA and Money ssssrlsss.
Try T'aiavranh

HSo LEE Hiay ~ caia coneLues
Foreign exchange is extremely dull at = S61 Va and
SSM. Governments are unchanged. State bonds
weak with decline of L to 2 per cent. Railroad
bouds active but heavy. The stock market through
out the afternoon very dull and strong closing
strong at or near best prices of the dag.
The transactions at the Stock Exchange aggregat-
Cd 1872 $3.50 shares.
TAe following are to-dsy's closing quotaEons CT
Government Securities:
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PASSENGER SERVICE
In Effect Monday, December Is, 1884
Western Division.


In Effect Monday, December Is, 1884
Western Division.
TRAINS LEAVE PORTLAND
AT els A. M.-Way Trains for Old rch-
ard, saco, Biddeford, Kennebunk,
KenRebunkpOrt, Great Fails, Dover
Exeter, Manchester and Concord, "
Newmarket Junction. Lawrence, Lowe
and Boston, arriving az B0ssOn 1913
Saco, BiddefOrd, Kennebunk, Kenne-
bunEp0rt, Dover, Great Falls, Rock,
ester, Alton Bay, Exeter, Lawrence,
Lowell and Boston, arriving at Bostemf
AT 90 r. M.-Express Train for Old Or
chard, sacO, AsiddefOrd, Kennebunk,
KennebunkPort, Dover, e-reat Fails,
Rochester, Alton Bay, Exeter, Law.
renee, Lowell and Boston, arriving at
AT $50 p. M.-Way Train for SAGE, Bid
defOrd, Hennebunk, HeunebunkpOrf.
Dover, Great Falls, Rochester, Altos
Bay, Manchester and Concord (via. New
Market Junction) E<eteF, Lawrence,
Lowell and Boston, arriving at Bosisn,
AT $50 r. M-way Traini for Kennebunk.
KennebunIxpOrt, and all intermediate sta
TRAINS LEAVE BOSTON FOR PORTE
LAND
300 a. M, 1870 and $50 p. M. Morning
trains leave Hennebunk for Portland
=
SUNDAY TRAINS
Leave Portland for Boston and Way Sta
lions at loo p. m. Leave Boston fer
for Dover and Way Stations loo and
3.OOP. na.
Eastern Division.
TRAINS LEAVE PORTLAND
AT 200 A. m.s DAILY, CSight Pullman) for
SAGE, BiddefOrd, Kiflery, Portsneuths
NewburypOrt, salem, aLynn and Bos-
AT S.45 A. Va: For Cape Elizabeth, scar
bore. sacO, BiddefOrd, Kennebunk,
Wells, North and south Rervick, Con.
way JnnctiOn, Cconnectine for All ststions
on Conway Divisonl Aittery, Portsmouth,,
NewburyPOrI, salem, Gloucester, II ock,
port, Lynn, chelsea and Boston, arriv-
AT Zoo p. NJ, For saco, Biadeford. Ken.
nebunk, Conway junction, Kiiiery,
Lynn and Boston, arriving at 500 D. NJ.
AT 500 p. Va; (Express) for Boston and
principal Way Stations, arriving in Boston at
SUNDAYS AT 300 p. W.: Express for os-
ton and principal Way Stations, arriving in
Boston at $50 p. m.
TRAINS LEAVE BOSTON FOR PORT.
AT 7.3O, 900 n. m, 1880 and 2 90 D. me-,
week days, and 700 p. Sundays.
PARLOR AND PULLMAN SLEEPING
CAR SERVICE
WESTERN DIV: Parlor car on LOO D. m
train Portland to Boston; 900 a. M, Boston TO
EAsTE EsN DIV; Portland to Boston. Pullman
sleeping car, Through car from the East,) 400 q.
N. daily. Parlor cars on S45 a. m / .OU, 600 D.
mi Boston to Portland, parlor cars on 800 a. M.
and l2.3Op m. week days. 700 p. m. daily.
Pullman sleeping car 700 p. m. daily.
Through tickets to all points South and West al
cortland depot ticket offices, and at Union Tick
90 Onice, 40 Exchange ST., Portland.
30 JAS. I. FURREF, Gen'l Manager.
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FROM QUE coRrrspoNpENr,
LFRoM MERCHANTS EXCHANGED

ROCKFORD. May 2o-Ar. sch David W Hunt,
Hall, Bath; Addie Snow, Pillsburv, Rockland
May 2o-Sld sch Charlotte I Sbiey, Bartlett, for
Jacksonville,
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TO those who have paid in only few premiums
on their life assurance policies, and then
realize the en- ire sum assured for, at profit
to them, perhaps, of three or four thousand
per cent. The Tontine plan rewards those
who keep their contracts rather than those
who break them and puts the profit of the
business where it belongs.
DIIINIsHED DEATH RATE AMONG ToNTNE
PoLIoYHoLDERs MAKES THE PROFITS
LARGER
One of the chief reasons why the Tontine
policies of the Equitable yield large profits to
those who complete their Tontine periods, is
the smaller death rate experienced among
the holders of these policies than among those
insured on the ordinary plan. This is ex-
planned by the fact that those who take Tom
tine policies are generally persons of indepsn-
dent means who exercise wise forethough6 as
regards the future, and who are therefore, as
natural consequence, better class of lives
than those who take tho ordinary form, under
which 10 merely sought protection in case OF
death. Not only is this needed protection OBJ
tanned under Tontine policy, but the holder
also looks forward to reaping 3 benefit from
1t himself during his own life; hence there is
a natural selection as regards the rate of
mortality in favor of those who are assured on
the EontiDe plan far more subtle in its nature
than the greatest care of the medical ex-
amlner. AS demonstration of this fact
statement is given below of the ratio of death
claims paid to total premiums received, during
the ten Years from 1875 to 1884 inclusive-first
of the Fontine policies OF the Equitable;
secondly, of the four largest companies in the
United States which do not issue Tentine
policies Qncluding the Connecticut Mutually
and thirdly, of the Connecticut Mutual taken
alone.
RATIO
Equitables Tontine policies .......... 49,. 1928
Four companies. 1857
Connecticut Mutual. ...................46,5
These figures speak for themselves.
La the face of the fact that the death claims
paid By the Connecticut Mutual are taoice as
large in proportion to their premium receipts,
as under the Tontine policies of the Equitable.
no wonder that the Connecticut President,
even while abusing the system of Tontine
assurance, cannot help acknowledging this
realization Of large profits under this plan.
EXPERIENCE OF PoLIcYHoLDER IN THE
EQUITABLE AND CONNECTICUT MUTUAL.
AS an illustration of the superior advantages
of the Equitable, the actual results are here
submitted on two policies issued at the Same
age and for the same amount, one in the Con-
necicut Mutual and the other in the Equit-
able
Connecticut Mutual.
Premiums paid on an ordinary life policy Of
$4,000 issued at age Of iorty-one, by the Con-
necticut Mutual.
Portion of premiums paid in cash, notes we're
given for the balance of the premiums which
will be deducted from the policy at death.
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DOMESTIC PORTS

SAN FRANCISCO - Cid 18th, ship Occidental,
Dunphy, Liverpool.
Sid 18th, ship Samaria. Snow, Queenstown.
CID 10Th, ships VIM j Roteb Bray, for Liverpool;
Hagarstown, Basford Queenstown.
Chartered-ship John A Briggs, to load coal at
Nanaimo for San Francisco
SAVANNAH-Ar 10th, sch Z H Cornell, Croker
Bath.
WILMINGTON, NC Ar 10th, sch Hattie Turner
Keene. Kennebec.
BALTlMORE-Cld 18th brig Ellen Maria, Lin
nell, Belfast, schs g Deering, Rogers, Boston,
ID n Squire, Megathlin. Gardiner.
Az 10th, schs Katie j Ireland, Steeman, Port
Sherman do.
CID goth, sch Carrie Norton, Hodgdon, Boston.
PHILADELPHIA-Ar 1 9th, sch Sarah Ward,
Brixon, Kennebec
Ga 18TH, sch JAS Rothwsn Lombord, Boston,
Ar 2Oth, sch Jas I Morse Wilde Bath.
Old zoth, sch NJ Hooper, HARNESS. Boston.
from Matanzas
Newcas!le-Passed down, brigs Mary Mariner,
and Castaa.
NEW YORK-Ar 9th sens Lexington, Priest,
apple blVer. Ms; E Sawyer, Rogers, Two Rivers,
Ms Allston, Barbour, do; Quoddy, Mahoney, Hills
Doro, NIB Nettie Dobbin, Rumery, st John NIB;
benJ Carver, Lowell, do, Izetta. Armstrong, and
brunette, West, Bangor; Matte Holmes, Jordan.
and e Stevens, Kendall, do; Lucy Bios
SON. CLAY, do; Francis Coffin, Bellatty, Ellsworth;
II Metcalf, Fossett, Gardiner; Nellie Il Huntley,
Machias; Ivy Bell, Lond, Round Pond; Ringleader,
Thomas, ThOmaston; Helen, Thompson, Stevens,
Ihomaston; Wigwam, Drisko, Cherryheld; Annie
IL Palmer, Holmes, Eastport.
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PORTLAND. May 81
Sugars not quite SO firm and were 1sc lower to-
day at 71sc for graduated and $3.50 for Extra O.
The stock ofraw sugar in the four ports is 100000
tons against $4,000 year ago. The London
market has further advanced for beet sugars from
Ids cd to les Cd.
The following are today's closing quotations of
Flour, Grain. Provisions. Ac
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MAINE STEAMSHIP COMPANY
For New York

Steamers leave Franklin Wharf, on Wednesday
and Saturdays at p. M. Returning leave Pier 80
East River, New York, on Wednesdays and Satur
sop21 DIFF
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kHIsles and .ralIow.

PORTLAND, May u.
Aes lived by Maine General Railroad for Portland
o. g miscellaneous merchandise; for connecting
reads, 96 cars miscellaneous merchandise.
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"Was Chester plumber, that the poet
should twice tell him to charge in one line?"
asks subscriber. 80, no; plumber does not
require to be told to charge. Chester was prob
ably interested ia the ice business"
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL

FREIGHTS.
Special to the PREss.)
SAN FRANCISCO, May 2l.-The markets are dull
vito no demand; nothing doing; rates are 36s for
large iron ships and sos for wood.
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1otal. .s....,....,.,..........$l, 9l4.32
After paying seventeen years the policy
holder asks the Connecticut company for the
surrender-value of the policy. They reply that
they can pay nothing in cash, but will give
him q paid up policy of S1,958.
Equitable.
Premiums paid on an ordinary life policy of
$1,000 Citizen year Tontipe tsrm) issued at age
forty-one By the Equitable, all cash with no
notes to be deducted in case of death.
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Ar at New York goth, sch Augusta E Herrick.
from New Haven, bound out SEEMING.
Ar at Newport goth, sch Francis Loring, of Port
land seinlng.
Sid I'm Vineyard Haven 18th sehs Waterfall Or
chard, and Idella Small, Robbins, with mackerel
for Portland.
Sid I'm Bucksport Goth, schs Princess, Davis, and
VIM Tell, Giley, Grand Banks
Sid I'm Ellsworth 18th schs Ella Rose Dunbar,
Grand Banks 18th, Eastern Queen, Dunbar, do.
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Rassrea.. sxocs,y.s..

Foreign Imports.
MONeToN, NIB. Schr Annie W-3lO0 railroad
ties to b & M r.
Schr Maud & Bessie-3oOo do to same.
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ScoTT's EMULSION OF PURE COP LIVER
On WITH HYPoPHosPaITEs. more nutri-
tious and strengthening than any other single
or combined remedy.-In Consumption and
wasting diseases its effect is very astonishing
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NJ. L. Blair, Alderman 5th Ward, Scranton,
Pa, stated Nov. O. 49, He had used pr.
Thomas Eclectric Oil for sprains, burns, cuts,
bruises and rheumatism. Cured every time.
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deal better; L feel strong as ever and I've never
felt pain in my back since the second dose"

Ae.o ISSo ~: nae u0eu ~ 4nui1n
other afternoon. He sat in the parquet, and
as his eyes rested on the galleries above him
he whispered: Mamma, won't they let us go
up in the choir?"
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Portland, Bangor, MT. Desert and Ma
cIias Steamboat Company.

STEAMER CITY OF RICHMOND
leaves Portland every TUESDAY and FRIDAY 81
HOO D. after arrival of night train from Bos-
ton, for ROckland, Castine, Deer Isle, sedg-
wick, South West HarbsrS Bar HarbOr,
millbridge, Jonespolf and maehiasport;
or parties for last three named points desiring 70
do so can proceed by rail to IEt. Desert Ferry
on days steamer sails from Portland, cross to Bar
Harbor by Ferry Boat and connect with the Rich
mond there as it does not run to Mt. Desert Ferry
on Eastward trip1
RETURNING; Leaves Machiaspert every Mon
day and Thursday Morning for Mt. Desert Ferry,
and there connecting with trains for Bangor, PORT
land and Boston, and leaves the Ferry same fore
noon for Portland via ali landings and connecting
with night Pullman and early morning trains for
Boston.
Limited Tickets, first and second eIass, fer
all points in the Provinces ON sale ~
reduced rates.
PAYsON TUCKER, Gen'l Manager.
3. e. BOOTHBY, Gen l. Pass. b Ticket 4xi.
Portland Oct. l6. 1884 ap25dtf
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A school-committee-maD examining school:
"Where is the North Pole?" SCI don't know!
sir" Don't know where the North Pole is,
Are you not ashamed" "Why, sir, ii Sir
John franklin and DR.. Kane and Captain De-
LoUg couldn't find it, how should know
where it is?''
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The dentist is good logician. He usually
gets at the root of the matter.
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MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD
and Connecting steambOat LINES.
On and after MONDAY, Oct. 20,
1854, Passenger Trains leave
Portland aS follows.

Portland as follows:
For Bangor, Ellsworth, Bar Harbor,
EancebOrO, 81. John, Halifax, and the
Provinces, 90 Andrews, ~. stephen,
ArOOstOok County, LIS p. M, via Lew
iston, and 100 and Hills p. m, via Augusta;
for BANGOR 81 Piscataquis X r.. HIS p.
IN, for skOwhcgRn, Relfasl and Dexter,
LIS, 1.30, t11.15 p. m; WatervilIe, TOO q.
M, .25, 1.3O, 4l1.16 p. M; for Augusta,
HalIOweII. Gardiner md Brunswlcl,
700 q. M. 1.30, s5.15, Hills p. m; Bath, z 90
a. m, 1.SO, bio p. m, and On Saturdays only at
Ills p. m; ROckland, and Knox & Lin
c. In Il. r., TOO a. m. 1.3o p. m; Auburn
and LewistOn at 8.16 q. M, LBS, sos, p. M;
Lewiston via Brunswick, 700 q. m, t11.ls
p. M; Farmingtou, Phillips, Monmouth,
Winthrop, Oakland and North AnsOn,
1.25 p. M; Pennington vim brunswick,
700 a. m.
sThe 5.15 p. m. train for Augusta will run through
to Waterville on Saturday only returning On
Monday morning.
tIhe Ills p. m train is the night express with
sleeping car attached and runs every night Sun
days included but not through to SkowhegaD On
Monday mornings or TO Belfast and Dexter or
beyond Bangor, on Sunday Mornings.
Trains are due in Portland as follows: The morning
trains from Augusta and Bath 8.35 a. m; Lew
iston, $40 a. M; the day trains from Bangor, and
all intermediate stations and connecting roads Al
1910 and 12.45 p m. the afternoon trains from
Waterville, Augusta, Bath, Rockland and Lewis
ton at 6.4O P. M; the night Pullman Express
train at 1.50 a. IN.
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RAILROADS.


Summer Arrangement in Effect sept. eth
1854.
Connections via Grand Trunk RAN.
ssssss Away leave Portland for Buckheld and
EzvaS-s15s5Canton at TBS a. m, 1.3O D. M.
Leave Canton for Portland Ais m.
and $40 q. m. Stage connections With p. m. train
for Turner, Chase Mills, West sumner, BrittonT
Mills, Peru, Dixtield, Mexico and kumford FAN
ian2ldtf U. Il. LINCOLN. Supt.
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.EQWitQbLe,

Aosfi. .'.'t..'''...........-.... 81, 434.25
Policyholder can now terminate ii he SO
elects and draw in cash $2,765. 80, or take a
paid up policy OF So ,130.
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New York Mining stocks.

NEW YORK, May 2I.-The following are the clos.
ing quotations for mining stocks To-day:
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8eliJ ions Department.
THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND
THE KINGDOM OF SATAN.

Modern life is full of contrasts,
In almost any of our great cities,
few minutes walk will bear you from
the palaces of merchant princes TO
the abodes of the wretchedly poor.
AS you walk through the streets, you
see faces filed with the light of vir
tue, intelligence and culture, and you
see dark and lowering faces, whose
every line gives ignorance and bru-
tality. Here is the church and the
school and the bookstore; and here
where sensational literature is sold.
Here are men toiling in mills and
workshops; and here are houses
where industry never entered, but
where the WEAKNESS of an idle life
keeps constant court. These and
hundred other contrasts can be seen
in half an hours walk in any great
city. But the greatest contrast of
all is one which is not so easily visi-
Die. The two men who walk down
the street arm in arm-each, to the
eye of man, the equal of the other in
all spects-may be separated by an
invisible gulf, as wide as that which
yawns between heaven and hell.
There is no contrast in modern life
so great as the contrast between the
two standards under which the whole
world ranges itself to-day. The
kingdom of God and the kingdom Of
Satan-these two stand over against
each other in irreconcilable hostility
and yet the subjects of both meet and
intermingle in the world, often with
out knowing to which of the two
Kingdoms one another belongs. The
two kingdoms are spiritual kingdoms,
and their soldiers do not always wear
a visible uniform by which they may
be distinguished. There is danger,
even in our busy, everyday life, the
distinction may be forgotten through
the very lack of visible contrast to
bring it to mind. But the distinc-
ton, though not always visible, is
there; and its consequences reach
into eternity. No other contrast of
life matters so much-whether we are
rich or poor, ignorant or intelligent,
refined or uncultivated, is question
which may chiefly affect this life;
but the distinction between Gods
kingdom and Satan's kingdom is one
whose consequences will affect each
of US untold ages after the petty
other contrasts of this life have been
forgotten.-EGchdnge.
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WHY THEY BELIEV e IN
CHRISTIANITY

An interesting feature of the Mon
.Iay lectures in Boston. was the read
inc of a series of short letters from
prominent men, telling why they are
Christians. Here are q few speci-
men sentences:
Bishop Huntington wrote: Il be-
lieve that the universe must have had
a creator, and its Father speaks to
His children. Christianity is en-
bodied in the person of Jesus Christ,
who stands IMPLYING perfect man
hood, Christ, through his Christianity
demonstrates the glory Of God.
Christianity, by its assurance of per-
9onal Immortality proves It's fitness
to humanity and the effects OF Chris
tianity upon nations proves its origin
from God"
Elk President Hill, formerly of
Harvard, an eminent Unitarian,
wrote: * personal experience of
fifty years gives me great belief in
the power of Jesus Christ to guide
and sanctify me. In the intimacies
aud friendships of these fifty years
those who were the purest and best
were those who kept nearest to
Christi
The Rev. DIR. A. A. Peabody
wrote: Il believe in Christianity be-
cause it is amply sufficient for my
spiritual needs. Half century 5
experience shows me that the Cos
pels could not have been written un-
less inspired.
Prof Bowe at Harvard College
wlote: 1.-The belief that is within NE
rests upon many facts-upon a con
sensus of facts. There is evidence
enough for me in the Sermon on the
Mount and in the Parallels TO show
that He was Godhead and spake as
never man spoke"