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St. Landry democrat., 1888-07-21

these autumnal, and wintry, and vernal,
and summary glories have vanished from
our vision-we will wake up into a realm
which has only one season, and that the
season Of everlasting love. But you say:
81 don't want to break out from my
present associations It is so chilly and
so damp to go down the stairs OF that
vault. don't want any thing drawn so
tightly over my eyes. If there were only
some way Of breaking throHgh the part-
ton between worlds without tearing this
body all to shreads. wonder if the sur
geons and the doctors can not compound
mixture by which this body and soul
can all the time be kept together? Is
there no escape from the separ ation?"
None; absolutely none. So look over
this audience to-day-the vast majority
Of you seeming in good health and spirits
-and yet realize that in short time all
of US will be gone-gone from earth and
gone forever. A great many men tumble
through the gates of the future, as it were,
and we do not know where they have
gone, and they only add gloom and mys-
terry to the passage; but Jesus Christ SO
nightly stormed the gates Of that future
world that they have never since been
closely shut. Christ knows what it is to
leave this world, Of the beauty OF which
He was more appreciative that We ever
could be. He kaows the exquisiteness of
the phosphorescence of the sea; He trod
it He knows the glories of the midnight
Heavens, for they were thT spangled
canopy Of His Wilderness pillow. He
knows about the lilies; He twisted them
into His sermon. He knows about the
fowls OF the air; they whirred their way
through His discourse. He knows about
the sorrows ct leaving this beautiful
world. Not taper was kindled in the
darkness. He died physicianless. He
died in cold sweat and dizziness, and hem
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HON. d. s. PRIEST.

Hon. d. S. Priest departed this life at his
homein Ray township, Macomb county, Mich,
Feb. 4. 1888, aged 70 years, months and "
days. Mr.. Priest was born at Arlington, Ben
niDgton county, VT, Aug. Z. 1914. When hve
years of age, his parents removed to Monroe
county, N, Y. There he received a common
school education, and at the age of nineteen
he commenced teaching. In 1884 he came to
Michigan, and located his homestead In the
town of Ray. Sept. %, 1S4I, he was mar
ried to Charity. daughter of Isaac Thompson,
and settled upon his farm. Three children
were born to them, of whom only one son re.
mains, who, with his mother, mourns the loss
of an affectionate father and kind husband.
In 1869 Mr.. Priest was elected Representa-
tive to the State Legislature from Macomb
county, and re- elected in 1871, and held other
Offices in the town and county. His duties
were always discharged with honor to bis
country and credit to himself. BE owned at
his death I'll acres of land, and his fine home
was carved from the wilderness with his own
hand. He never united with church, but
was Universalist in belief, and had for many
years been a subscriber to THE UNIvERsALIsT.
Funeral services were held Feb. 8, at 10:30 A.
M, at Ray Union Church, the Christian min
lister of Romeo, Rev. E. Nudge. officiating,
and preaching an excellent sermon from the
text selected by the deceased, the first verse of
the fifth chapter of H. Corinthians. DC
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SUSAN M. HAWLEY,

Susan NJ. Hawley died at her sisters, in
Jackson, Mich, March 20, 1888, of pneumonia,
at the advanced age of seventy-eight. She
was born Dec. 26, 1909, at CRANKY, Hartford
county, Conn. At the age of six, with her
parents. she left Connecticut to reside in
the State of New York, near Albany, where
she was educated for a teacher, which
occupation she cheerfully resigned in after
years for the care of motherless children of
her own kindred. Two brothers and one Sis
ter's families were left to her care, more or
less of the time, until they were grown. She
went with her invalid sister, Mrs. Stephens, to
New Orleans. at which place the sister and her
husband both died, leaving to her care son
and daughter. While at New Orleans, the late
civil war broke out. There, with supplies mostly
cut off, not possible for her to come North; no.
not even to have or receive any communica-
ton with her RELATIONSHIP that dreadful sus-
pense she lived and cared for those little chill
dren until General Butler entered the city.
Never" she would say, was there aprouder
day in my life than when saw the State flag
taken down and Gen. Butler entering the city
with his troops" When Gen. Butler had re-
stored order and made it safe for her and the
children to leave New Orleans, she came to
her friends in Michigan. Never marrying,
she has, as Miss Alcott expresses it, always
been piecing out other women's lives" She
early EN- braced the Universalist faith and was
ever an ardent advocate and faithful worker
in her church. During the last eleven years
of her life she has been an invalid, and almost
losing her sight, she has necessarily lived very
retired among her relatives. While we all
miss her compaAionship and instruction, we
feel that she has gone to q larger field of use
fulness, never to be weary or sick any more.
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THE APPLICATION.

WATCHr-The application of this beau
tiful parable is contained in the last verse of
the Lesson: "Watch, therefore, for ye know
not the day nor the hour" JESUS had de-
clared (xxiv. 1856: "This generation shall
not pass away till all these things-the things
about which the disciples had inquired (see
xiv. 3)-be accomplished. But of the day
and hour knoweth no one but the Father"
Because it was not known precisely when
their Lord would come to end the old Jewish
dispensation of the Divine administration,
and introduce the long expected one of the
Messiah, the disciples we're exhorted to watch
and wait his coming in constant readiness to
escape its judgments end enter into its heav-
emily advantages. The danger of missing the
promised blessing is illustrated and empha-
sized. In the parable of the last Lesson the
danger of thinking the event will be long de-
layed is illustrated by the conduct and con
domination of the bad servant; in the parable
of the Virgins the danger of thinking the
predicted event will Immediately occur is
illustrated by the story of the foolish virgins.
The lesson to be enforced by the parable is
that the way to be ready for the coming of
the Lord, since the precise time, whether
sooner or later, could not be known, is to be
always ready. Christians need to learn the
same lesson to-day. To be prepared to profit
by the dispens atoms of Providence, and to
take advantage of the crises of life, we need
to be prepared by faith and fidelity for any
event or experience, believing that to them
that love GoD all things work together for
good at all times (Romans viii. 49, The
figure of a wedding feast is frequently en-
ployed in the Scriptures to represent some
phase of the progress of the Messiah's king
dom. To the ruling Jews JESUS employed
the parable of the Marriage Feast (xxii. LA;
Lesson April ~ to illustrate the fact that the
Jews to whom it was proclaimed would re-
fuse to accept, and that it would be accepted
and promoted by the Gentiles. To the dis
ciples he employs the ceremonies of the we'd
ding festival to announce the circumstance
that many Christians who are needless of his
teachings and have not the perseverance, that
insures fidelity through patient waiting and
all contingencies of life and trials of faith,
will miss the blessing promised in the Cos
pel and to encourage them to watch and
wait, being prepared at all times to enter
into the joys of their Lord when he should
come in his kingdom, as be had proclaimed
that he would, to overthrow his enemies, and
raise them to glory and honor.
"Learn from this parable that they who
patiently watch and wait, doing the duty l
have assigned them, till come, though they
know neither the day nor the hour when |
shall do so, will have q part in the joys of
my heavenly kingdom. All my followers
will then be, as it were, my bride, and
their bridegroom; but those who are not
faithful and true to the end, will be shut out
from the marriage feast."-Dr. @. Getkte,
"Life and Words of CHRIST"
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MAJOR A. FL. ROYDEN.

In the death of Maj. Augustus 81 Boyden
Chicago loses one of her honored and useful
citizens. He died of Bright's Disease. sud-
denly at the Continental Hotel, March %, aged
fifty-six years. He was native of Canton,
st. Lawrence county, N. Y, where he was
born Nov. 30, 1881. He left home at the age of
sixteen years, and moved to Chicago, thirty
five years ago. He was Treasurer of Cook coun.
ty from 1857 to 1860; paymaster in Gen. Sher-
mans army during the war, and held various
municipal positions in the city. In 1869 he en-
gagged in mining operations in California, and
returned to Chicago in 1880. In all the rela.
lions of life he was honest, faithful, generous,
and honorable to all. AS business man he
was able and efficient esteemed by all with
whom he had dealings. His wife was the
widow of Col. B. Putnam who fell at the bat
tie of Lookout Mountain in 1858. At the time
of her husbands death she was at her daugh-
ter's, Mrs. Gibson, in Birmingham, Conn. His
body was brought to his sister-in-lsw's, Mrs.
W. ID. Boyden, in Canton, attended by Mr..
Seneca Sanford. accompanied from Syracuse.
New York, by his wife and sister, Mrs. e. l..
Heaton. The funeral services were held at
Canton, conducted by Rev. DIR. ]. S. Lee, who
paid feeling tribute to his character and Of
fered fitting words of consolation to the
mourners. He had large circle of friends
in his native town as well as in his adopted
city.
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render the production of men of distinctly
Scottish type, such as Walter Scott, Lord
Cockburn, and DIR. Guthrie, more and more
difficult every day. To all this must be added
the complete neglect of all patriotic tradi-
tions and national furnishing in the princi-
pal schools and universities. In the Uni
versity of Edinburgh not single professor
of history exists; in the best schools, as in
the fashionable salons, it Is rare to hear a
good Scotch song sung; the rich store of wit
and wisdom contained in the melodious
stores of the Scottish people, and ENROLL ed
by the names of Burns and Scott and Tanna
hill and Bannatine, and such noble ladies as
Mrs. Cockburn, of Fairnilee; Joanna Baillie,
and the Baroness Marine, are flung aside in
favor of the latest London, French or Ger
man novelty, which may tickle the itching
ear, strain the ambitious throat, and coddle
the sickly sentiment of the singer; but which
are utterly destitute of power to warm the
blood, brace the nerves and form the charac-
acter of patriotic Scotchman. So much
easier is it to juggle people out of its proud
est heritage by the enervating seductions of
pseudo civilization than to spoil them of it
by the rude arts OF conquest and oppression;
and thus it may come about in another gen.
Grafton or two that the union of 1907 shall
have achieved what the embattled ranks of
the Plantagenets at Stirling and Bannock-
burn tried in vain-the absorption of LITTLE
Scotland into big England, as Samnium was
swallowed up by Rome"
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"He is such tickle, inconstant fe How
you will never be happy with him." said Es-
theirs friends when they learned of her en-
gagement to young man who bore the rep
utation of being sad hirt. Esther, how
ever, knew that her lover had good qualities,
and she was willing to take the risk. In nine
cases out of ten it would have proved a mis-
take. But Esther was an uncommon girl
and to every ones surprise Fred made a
model husband. How was it? Well, Esther
had cheerful, sunny temper, and great
deal of tact. Then she enjoyed perfect health
and was always SO sweet, neat and whole
some that Fred found his own home most
pleasant, and his own wife more agreeable,
than any other being. AS the years passed
and he saw other women of Esther's age
grow sickly, faded and quarulous, he realized
more and more that he had ga jewel of a
wife," Good health was half the secret of
Esther's success. She retained her vitality
and good looks, because she warded off fem
mime weaknesses and ailments by the use of
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
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THE DECLINE OF THE SCOTCH.


The most remorseless force in modern civ
iIization is the power of great city to OBJ
literate the national characteristics of peo-
pie. London, with its fashions and follies
for example, has obliterated Scotland, as
England before the rise of the modern Lon
don never did, and the Scotch as a people
have almost ceased to exist. There is sort
of national tragedy in this change that is pa
theticGlly pointed out in the March Forum
by Prof. John Stuart Blackie, of the Uni
versity of Edinburgh, who is one of the most
stalwart of living Scotch scholars and writ
ers. He writes:
81 am sorry to state my conviction, founded
on pretty large intercourse with my country
men, that the spirit of national self -esteem,
for which they have been noted, is suffering
under sensible decline. The causes of this
lamentable process of self-obliteration are
easy to name. The powerful central attrac-
ton of the huge metropolis to which by the
Union we are attached; the Anglitication of
our nobility and upper ten thousand by the
pomp of London residence and the glitter
ing seductions of London life; the spread of
Episcopscy among the same classes, not so
much always from religious conviction as
from the double bride which it offers of aris-
tocratic connection and @sthetical luxury;
and more than all, the neglect of her middle
schools by Scotland, which has caused the
upper classes to send their hopeful progeny
to Harrow and Oxford. where, if the educa-
ton is not more solid, it has both a greater
reputation and a higher reward; all these
causes combine TO gnsw at the roots of
truly national culture in Scotland, and to
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CALLER WILEY.

Caleb Wiley died at Wiley's Station, o..
March 20, 1888, aged IS years. months and ID
days. He leaves wife and six children. He
was born in Rockbridge county. Va, and came
to Darke county. o., in 1925, and lived in that
vicinity until his decease. He suffered in
tensely for about four months, but all that
time was very patient. never complaining of
anything. and seemed rational to the last mo-
ments of his life. Funeral services were held
by Rev. j. H. Blackboard. Br. Wiley lived
long time in this community. and while he has
gone to the land of rest, he has left marks of
his industry and labor that will remain for
years to come. He helped to pay for all the
public improvements that have been made in
Darke county, and assisted in the construc-
ton of quite number of them. He was
wealthy and useful citizen. and man of ex-
cellent repute. L. s.. W.
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Eessnn Series tor 1883.
SECOND QUARTER.
STUDIES In THE NEW TESTAMENT.
april 22, 1888.
LESSON XVII.-THE TEN VIRGINS.
BY REV. ROBERT T. POLK.
Matthew XIV. lib.
Matthew XIV. 1-13.I
THE CONNECTION.

THE AND PLACE.-The parable of the
Ten Virgins appears to have been spoken by
JESUS Immediately in connection with the
last Lesson, and as further illustration of
the importance of watchfulness on the part
of the disciples, that they might be prepared
for the opportunities and blessings of the
Messiah's kingdom when it should be mani
tested in glorious power in the destruction of
Jerusalem and the overthrow of the Jewish
nation at the 'consummation of the age"
(see margin of the Revision. xiv. 3. and last
Study. The parable is recorded by Matthew
only, though according to Luke similar
illustration appears to have been employed
by JESUS upon former occasion (Luke xii.
35, 36). The parable closes substantially
with the same words with which the last Les
son began: "Watch, therefore, for We know
not on what day your Lord cometh" (13;
xiv. 42). The Lessons, parts of two chap
tiers, are thus connected in one discourse of
our Lord, which he pronounced on the Mount
of Olives (see map), in response to the dis
ciples' request that he should tell them when
the predicted destruction of the Temple
(xxiv. q should occur, and what would be
the sign of his coming of which he had pre-
viously spoken xviii. SO; xvi. 81, 2S), and the
contamination of the present age or period
of their national history, when the "people
of COP" were subjects of despised Pagan
rule (xxiv. 8, ~.
The beautiful parable is further illustra-
ton of the variously illustrated injunction to
"watch," which is repeated at its close in such
a form as to recall also the great statement
of xiv. 38, and thus link all the discourse up
to this point in the closest connection. Our
Lord is still sitting on the Mount of Olives,
late in the afternoon of his last day of public
ministry. A. Broadts, d. D., LID,
"An American Commentary.
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There are three friendships which are
advantageous. and three which are ipju-
rious. Friendship with the upright,
friendship with the sincere, and friend
ship with the man of much information
are advantageous. Friendship with a
man of specious airs, friendship with the
insinuatingly soft, friendship with the
glib-tongued-these are injurious.
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WHAT WE HA DUNE FOR 9TH

JEANNE Deans says in the "Heart of
Midlothian" SIT is ma when we sleep
soft and wake merrily, oursels, that we
think on other peoples sufferings. Our
hearts are waxed light within us then,
and we are for righting our own wrongs
and fighting our own battles. But when
the hour O trouble comes to the mind, or
to the body, and when the hour O death
comes to high and low, then it is ma
what we hae dune for ourself, but what
we hae dune for others, that we think on
maist pleasantly"
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oATARRH, CATARRHAL DEAFNESS AND HAY

Sufferers are not generally aware that these
diseases are contagious, or that they are due to
the presence of living parasites in the lining
membrane of the nose and eustachian tubes.
Microscopic research, however has proved
this to be fact, and the result is that SIM
pie remedy has been formulated whereby
catarrh, catarrhal deafness and hay fever are
permanently cured in from one to three sim
pie applications made by the patient at home.
A pamphlet explaining this new treatment is
sent free on receipt of stamp, by A. H.
Dixon & Son, 1903 West King street, Toronto,
Canada
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The double daily schedule recently estab-
lished by the Union and Central Pacific Rail
way Company, shortens the time one day to
the Pacific Coast, and forms close connection
with the double daily service over the Chi
cago & Northwestern Railway.
As the entire line is abundantly supplied
with first class equipment, travellers by this
cute can secure ample accommodation.
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oArARRH CURED.

A clergyman, after years of suffering from
hat loathsome disease, Catarrh, and vainly
rying every known remedy, at last found a
prescription which completely cured and
saved him from death. Any sufferer from
this dreadful disease sending self addressed
stamp envelope to Prof ]. A. Lawrence, 2l2
East 9th street, New York. will receive the
receipt free of charge.
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I'm Mennnrian1.

THIS column is placed at the disposal of our
readers for the record of bereavement. 1t
is necessary that memorial tributes should
be printed in condensed form. giving only
the outline facts in the life of the departed.
Obituaries exceeding certain space will be
abridged and condensed to comply with the
rule. Poetry, original or selected, is never
printed in this colu mn. EDIToR.l
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Advice to mothers. Mrs. Winslow's Sooth
ing Syrup should always be used for children
teething. 1t soothes the child, softens the
gums, allays all pain, cures wind collie, and
is the best remedy for diarrhosa. 25e bot
tla
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Many people are busy in the world gath
ering together handful of thorns to sit upon,
There is nothing that so rehnes the face
and mind as the presence of great thoughts.
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Martyrs to Headache

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The wife of Samuel Page, 81 Austin
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Frank Roberts, 727 Washington ST.,
Boston, says that he formerly had ter
rible headaches, and until he took
Ayers Sarsaparilla, never found any
medicine that would give
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, Permanent Relief.

every Spring, for years." writes
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"I suffered from headache, indiges-
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Mass. "Ayer's Sarsaparilla has worked
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Jonas Garman, Esq, of Lykins, Pa,
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When Mrs. Genevra Belanger, of "a
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The Sunday gehnn1
lesson Series tor 1883.
SECOND QUARTER.
April 22, 1883.

STUDIES In THE NEW TESTAMENT.
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