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Geo. B Secord, the we'll known con-
tractor of Towanda, n. y, says: II
have nsed Chamberlain Cough Rem
edY IN my family for longtim and
have found it superior to any other. For
sale by Janin & Suddath, Druggists.
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Mr., Babers had the misfortune to lose
another child this week, making the
fourth within about twelve months. The
remains were taken TO the family burial
ground OIL Cane River on Tuesday
morning accompanied BY friends of the
family. The Enterprise extends SYM
DathV,
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Died.

AT II 40 a. m, Wednesday. March
Sth, 1899, Mrs. Ella a. L'herlsson: aged
A years, 10 months and IA Gays.
After an illness which entalled in
tense suffering Mrs. L'herIsson passed
quietly away, though all that skilled
Eurslng and tender, loving hands could
do, was done to alleviate her suffering.
Mrs. l. herisson was known to her
friends as a good and eonscIentious wo-
man, whose trust in het religion was
sincere and which congFqaeutly afford
ed her a powerful consolation. A brave
and energetic little person, tender and
loving, and one whts Sc true and upright
character was generally recognized.
Her physical and mental sufferIngs
for the past week have effected every
BODY who knew her and though loathed
10 give ner up. 1t was almost a heart
felt relief when she ceased to breathe
and or Ossed the bourne whence suffer-
ing ceases and no traveller returns. She
leaves two sons and three sisters with
whom The Enterprise sincerely condoles
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1889, when he took his hammock two
miles east of Denver and patiently
waited at the junction of the Kansas
Pacific and Cheyenne division of the
Union Pacific Railway for an east
bound train. In order not to arouse
the suspicion of those whom he might
meet, he wore a pair of blue overalls,
blue frock and a cap, SO as to have the
appearance Of an ordinary car inspect
or. The scheme proved so successful
that since that time he has Travelled
through thirty states and skinned
over 100, 900 miles Of railroad without
knowing what it is to pay car fare.
AS a protection from the dust, gravel
and wind, the hammock has cover
which Cooper can dNaw over him. He
rides more comfortably on a Pullman
car than box car, for the reason that
a Pullman car is wider and allows him
to lie IN his hammock at full length.
Under a box car he is compelled to ride
in a sitting posture. Railroad men sell
dom interfere with him as he causes
no trouble Besides this, his appear
ance Is that of a typical rairoader, and
as he travels almost exclusively after
night, he is seldom detected.
Contrary to the general run of the
knights of the box car, Railroad Jack
has good habits and aspires to be some
thing better. He neither smokes nor
chews. and leads this life, no doubt
for the same philosophical reasons
which prompted Diogenes to select a
washtub as a place of residence. 1t is
his present intention to gather data
and in a short time write book of his
life. He is now 81 years old, and his
mysterious ways make him an object
of interest. At Detroit he has a house
built on wheels, where he resides, and
it is called the house that Jack built.
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Gifted in Palestine"
Besides, we have the testimony Of
his enemies. The Jews saw to what a
position Of divine authority his words
and acts must lead; for this was how
they tainted him to his face: THAT
thou. being q man, makest myself
God"
That was the issue, vital and newt
able. They gave their verdict. They
said: "He is a man making himself
God" and they crucifed him. The
Christians gave their verdict, and they
said substantially: He is God reveal
ing himself as man." and they wor-
shipped him.
The miracles are becoming more in
telliglble as science reveals the work.
ings of natural forces. Great laws of
nature were not overthrow by the mir
acles; they we're merely accelerated.
Take, for example, the chemical pro-
cess employed in changing water into
wine What the vine does in the course
Of time-namely, absorb from the ele-
ments what IL needs in order to be-
come wine by a slow process-Jesus
hastens by a similar process, and wine
IS produced at once. The power that
made the grape grow could certainly
hasten it's growth. Christ is said to
have raised the dead. But what Of thls2
we are all raised from the dead OF
.Jairus daughter Christ said, "She is
not dead, but sleepeth."
Death is q sleep. We do once more
what we have done a thousand times
before-go to sleep. But there is this
important MISUNDERSTANDING this
sleep which we call death" there Is a
gradual discovering Of the spiritual or
ganism from its physical body, so
that after about three days the sepaI>-
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The divinity of Christ is a question Of
fact and therefore must be proved by
proper testimony. An argument to
prove this dogma is taken from the
prophecies which Christ made. He fore
told his own death and resurrection,
and spoke of the future as if it were
as familiar to him as the past and
present. His prophecies were fulfilled.
Paul. the learned Jew. who originally
hated the very name Of Christ. and
prosecuted his followers, tells us that
there were more than five hundred wit
nesses who had seen the risen Christ.
Another proof Of his divinity is that
he declared himself to be divine, and
this declaration is shown to be true by
his character. Christ's character, men
tai and moral, is shown in his words
and acts, in his teaching and practice.
His divine intellect shines out on every
page Of the New Testament. He spake
as never man spake before. He speaks
Of divine things as one coming direct
from Gods palace and accustomed to
them. Profound as are many of the
pagan poets and sublime as are the He
brew prophets, none Of them can COM
pare with Christ. His ideas are the
germs Of all the great principles Of
modern social science and Of modern
enlightenment The seed which he
soved has developed and blosscmed
into every form OF beauty and benef-
cence. His lessons have filled the
minds of men with grand thoughts and
their hearts with love and charity. In
his sermon on the mount he has, in the
eight beatitudes. said what no one but
Cod could have said: BLESSED are the
poor in spirit" These words alone
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alton is complete. and, being no longer
limited to these physical senses, ~e
awaken to a full consciousness of our
selves as spiritual beings in the SPIRIT
ual world. Il laid mo down and slept,
awaked for the Lord sustained me-
That is the simple story OF death and
the resurrection.
The New Church is often minNpre-
sented, some claiming that we are
spirituallsts, others that wo do not 40
cept the divinity OF Christ and thu
scriptures We found our faith upon
the Bible.
The Bible has a symbolic meaning.
Christ often explained these symbol-
isms. LAS Moses lifted up the serpent
in the wilderness, 30 must the Son OF
man be lifted up" or ~As Jonah was
three days and three nights in the
whale's belly, 90 shall the Son Of man
be three days and three nights In the
heart Of the earth" The key Tor In
terpreting the symboltsms of tho Scrip
lures has, we believe, been revealed Ia
tho writings Of Swedenborg. They Ger
tainly do open the scriptures and dis
close therein truths Of wonderful spin
itual beauty and helpfulness. The
world insists on calling US "Swedeubor-
gian." We DO not Ike thu term for II
seems to carry with it a kind Of i'm
plleation that we are followers of
SWedenborg rather than OF the Savior.
Swedenborg subscribed himself in his
books, the first Of which were pub
Lord Jesus Christ" Referring to the
teaching that the Savior even as to his
humanity was divine. Swedenborg
once wrote to a friend; This they can
'Swedenborgianism,' but for my part
1 call IL genuine Christianity.
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THE CHRIST OF UNITARIANISM.
BY Rev. 1Iiuot J. Savage.

I do not believe in the deity Of Chris
nor in miracles" attributed to him thai
set aside natural laws. Similar miracles
have been recorded Of other great men,
so they cannot be good evidence Of any
ones deity. There have been wonder
working men in all nations, and mir
aclas have been attributed to all Of
them. These beliefs are held without
proof as sacred traditions. In the New
Testament it is written, mo man hath
seen Cod at any time" This in contra
dfcrion to the Old Testament, in which
many. persons claim to have seen God.
In one instance God came down and
ate roast veal with Abraham; in an
other he walked in the garden Of Eden
until he found Adam and talked with
him. 49,,
All things are nnarvels. A little pool
shows Cod as truly as the Niagara
rails The divine exists in nature and
in man as It did in Christ. Perhaps it
docs not differ in kind-on1y in degree.
A Stone shows as much Of the divine
nature as it is capable of holding. The
Sioux Indian reveals something of God,
as much as his nature permits. But the
csnacttv Of man to hold and to reveal
fine divine nature is constantly increas-
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finite and cannot understand the rela-
tionships of the infinite. We can under
stand the relationship Of Jesus Christ
to ourselves. That relationship is two
fold He is the type of humanity-the
ideal to which we are to seek to con-
form ourselves, and he is the supreme
manifestation of God in human history
what Or. Van Dyke has well called
1.-The human life of God"
My reason for belief that Jesus Christ
is the supreme manifestation of God in
human history may be stated in one
sentence-the character of Christ and
the transformation wrought in human
character and human history by his
life and passion.
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He broke one material law after an,
other; he took money out Of the fish's
mouth, he multiplied the loaves and
fishes, he walked on the water, he
stilled the tempest, he raised the dead.
and, after error had used it's scanning
power to the utmost, he himself burst
the bars of the tomb, thus proving
himself to be the master over every
claim Of matter through the under
standing of his at-one-ment with God.
He babe the twelve and afterward
the seventy to heal the sick. cleanse
the leper, cast out devils and raise the
dead. He also promised in the last
chapter Of Mark that certain signs
should follow them that believe. When
the seventy declared that they had
obeyed his commands, he said, In Luke
K. verse 10" Behold, I give unto you
power to tread on serpents and scorp-
ions and over all the power Of the en-
envy, and nothing shall by any means
hurt you" Christian Scientists recos-
nize him as indeed the way shower, the
first Christian Scientist. for his Dtghty
works were done through his under
standing OF the science Of being. Ehey
believe that the all power promised Y
his Immediate disciples is the hsrRagA
OF every one Of his followers
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HAMMOCK UNDER THE CARS
A Tramp Has Travelled Many Miles in
This Way

hlS way
Travelling under a box car in a ham
mock is a method of progression few
men have INDUCED in. The ordinary,
tramp is too lazy and too unimagina-
tive to construct such a conveyance or
to use it if made for him. But Harry
D. Cooper. who is known under the
alias Of Railroad Jack the hammock
rider" has Travelled for ten years in
this manner, has visited many Of the
states and covered over 100, 900 miles,
says an Indiana correspondent of the
New York Journal.
He has acquired his alias from
rudely constructed hammock which he
invented to assist him in journeying
over the land without buying tickets
every time he wants to execute
change of base. He calls the ham
mock his annual pass, and is now using
the tenth Of the series. The trap is
made of heavy canvas strung on a cou-
pie Of strong iron bars, fitted with
hooks at the ends These hooks are
fastened to the supporting bars of a
box car or sleeper, and the traveller is
secure inside the hammock.
Cooper says that it was ten years ago,
while stranded in Denver, Col, that he
devised the hammock which he has
successfully used ever since. His first
attempt was on the night Of April 10,
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In and
presented
THE CHRIST OF ROMAN CATHOLICISM.
By Rev. Henry A. Brnnn. DID.

have transformed the whole social
world.
In the light of Christ's moral code
how human, imperfect and vile all 9th
ers seem! The Brahmanism Of the We
das is pantheistic and grossly sensual
Buddha is fundamentally atheistic; his
votaries are either materialistic or
sceptics. In the works of COnfucius
there is no mention of God or of the
human soul, while Mohammed permits
polygamy, propagates his new religion
with the sword, and makes heaven a
harem Of sensual delights. The more
these human philosophers and creeds
are analysed the more one sees that
they are false They rise, culmlnate,
stand still and cease to bear fruit. They
are the mothers of despotism and i'm
morality.
Those who assail the divinity Of Christ
are pigmies to the intellectual giants
who, in every age, have adored him
The fathers Of theology, Polycarp, Gle
ment, Justin, Origen, Gregory, Athan-
asius, Basil and Chrysostom among the
Creeks Tertullian, Augustine, Jerome
Leo and Gregory among the Lattns;
artists like Raphael and Michael An
gelo, scientists like Newton, theolOgians
like Thomas Aquinas, orators like BOs-
suet, and poets like Dante, Corneiile
anu otahSPCtEs were dIIOilS lli6 lLtOSt
powerful intellects of the modern world
and all bowed in alteration before
Christ. If, like Mahomet, the false
prophet, Christ had made concessions
TO pride, ambition and lust, the num-
Der Of his enemies would doubtless be
fewer But he is the truth, his di-
vinity is the cornerstone of faith, hope
and charity. 1t is the light by which
his whole life and teachings are ex-
planned.
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g. Bibles do not create religion; re-
siOns have their Bibles-as sacred to
them as ours to us. They are all inspired
in a broad sense Of the word. They rep
resent the aspirations of man and the
divine element in him; they prove his
upward tendencies; they show that his
nature is essentially religious.
Christ demonstrated this divine ma
ture by his life TO a, greater degree than
other men. 1 do not believe that in any
IF his works he disregarded those ma
.ural laws which are Gods methods #
aarrying on his work. God unfolds him
self in an orderly manner He works
gradually and through mans compre-
hensive nature. Possibilities are latent
in all men of experiencing moments Of
exaltation, of divine inspiration. At
these moments wonders happen. Some
are cured Of diseases; others are con-
verified and forsake evil, God is infinite
power; man, partaking of His nature,
can reveal God; but only through him
self and according to his individual ca
pacity. I do not believe in the devil.
Every man in time will be developed
to the fullness of his divine and spirit
ual nature. I like DR.. Lyman Abbotts
definition, Man is God minus infinity;
God is man plus infnity." But this is
not dogma 1 hold my mind open to new
light and conviction.
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THE CHRIST OF THE CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS.
BY Laura Lathrop, C. S. d.

Christian Scientists believe in the di-
vinity Of Christ, for Christ is the son
Of God, the image and likeness of the
Father. the spiritual man, whose crea-
ton is spoken Of in the first chapter of
Genesis. He is the man to whom God
gave dominion over every created
thing. This Christ is co-existent with
God, and hence has been made mani
fest both before and after the advent
of Jesus Of Nazareth.
The man Jesus, begotten of spirit,
the manifestation Of Marys pure con-
ception Of man through his perfect
understanding of himself as the
Christ. demonstrated his God given do
minion over sin, sickness and death,
thus proving their nothingness for all
humanity. He spoke Of himself as the
Christ when he said, Il and my Father
are one" "All that the Father hath is
NINE" ''All power is given me in heav-
en- and earth" Understanding this.
his so-called miracles were divinely
natural. He was the greatest teacher
the world has ever had, because he
was able 70 demonstrate to his dis
cipies. or students, The truth Of every
statement he made 70 them.
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This is Johns statement of the di-
vinity of Christ, and it accords with
Christ's statements, such as: 81 am IN
the Father and the Father in me-;
He that hath seen me hath seen the
Father; Il and my Father are one"
It accords, too, with the declarations
of other New Testament writer's: He
is the image of God, the express image
of his person, God is manifest in the
flesh, in his face the glory of God is
reflected, to know his love is to be
filled with all the fulness of God.
There has been a great deal Of dis
cussion concerning the relation which
Jesus Christ bears to the eternal. Such
discussion appears to me futile. We are
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Belden were leading bull concerns, AL
bert Speyers was the clique broker.
The speculation in connection with
the silk culture and manufacture was
something like the tulip manila. The
tree was first planted in Baltimore in
1926 and it was widely advertised from
a specimen advertised In an old church,
yard in New York. Slips were furnish
ed to silk cuiturists and agricultural
societies. Legislatures and congress
to the general demand for
essays and reports, Many silk compa-
MES were formed from 1929 to 1889 for
raising and manufacturing silk. Trees
of q seasons growth sold for S. Co 81
apiece and budding switches at $25 a
dozen. Silk culture was disastrous
failure and loss, but the silk manufac-
ture has grandly survived.
A speculation in the Oil of peppermint
forced 1t to an enormous price. The
growing crop was ploughed over, but
it came up and oil unexpectedly reach
ed the market when the price Broke
and ruined the spectators.
Dutch spectators destroyed the nut
meg trees in Java, but birds carried
the seeds from other islands and new
crop was thus produced
TO come nearer home, one has only
to point to the operations of NJ. G. d.
Borden of Fall River. He bought three
quarters of a million Of pieces of print
In the Fall River market and then
through his mill holdings curtailed pro
ductiOn
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KPLING AS A REPORTER.
John m. Kendall, Like All The Spy Men
Does Some Clever Work.

1t is not kind to the San Francisco edi-
tor who rejected 1.-THE Counting Of Dinah
.Shadd' to recall that he based his refusal
on the ground that the story was Scarce
ly equal to the standard of merit demand
ed by the magazine" Those were the
days when 1Gipling was a struggling re-
porter, and in this connection there is re-
called the story of Kipling's third and
last assignment to a news story. A big
insurance fraud had been unearthed and
exposed by the paper to which Kipling
was attached. Kjpling was assigned to
get a, ''second-day story on the man
chiefly involved I'M the frauds and who
had not yet been arrested. Late in the
afternoon he walked into the office with
facts sufficient to justify three-column
space allowance. But somehow his own
personality persisted in obtruding itself
into the facts, and be presently drifted
into a scathing satire on the offender,
written in the inimtabe vein which has
since made him famous. The city editor
counted exactly fifteen libel suits and
about half a million dollars in damages in
that story. and next morning Mr.. Kipling
was requested to transfer his operations
to another field. Said the editor, in bid
ding him goodbye: You have genius,
You will some day make great name,
though may not live to see 1t. But Fate
never intended you for the mechanism of
news "-Leslie's Weekly.
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THE CHRIST OF LYMAN ABBOTrS FAITH.
By Rev. Lyman Abbott.

am asked to state in few words
vbv 7 believe in the divinity of Jesus
Christ. The best way to de-
fend faith is to define it, and
7 shall simply content myself with
stating here what I understand to be
meant by the divinity of Jesus Christ.
There is perhaps no better or fuller
statement of that faith than is contain
ed in the first chapter Of the gospel
according to St. John: IN the begin
ming was the word. and the word was
with God. and the word was God.
6 And the word was made flesh and
dwelt among US, and We beheld his
glory, the glory as OF the only begOtten
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THE CHRIST OF THE SwEDENBORGIANS.


Aside from any question of theology,
a broad. common sense view Of the life
of Christ shows that he possessed mi
raculous powers. Otherwise what rea-
son would there be for his occupying
the place that he does in history? If
we take away his divine character,
there is nothing left but a gentle. am
fable man, who was prosecuted and put
TO death. but in no way entitled to the
reverence and worship of succeeding
ages
A modern. point Of view Is that Christ
did not come to be 7arShipped until
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Of the Father. full of grace and truth"
A friend sits at your side In absent
minded meditation. What is going on
IN his soul is absolutely unknown to
you You speak to him; he comes out
Of his seclusiOn and enters into con-
versation with you. His words mani
fest his thoughts to you. He reveals
himself to you by those words. The
declaration Of John is that God is not
the unknown and unku owable. He
has always been a spea king and self
revealing God. He has thus revealed
himself in nature through the works of
creation; he has revealed himself by
the brOoding Of his spirit in the hearts
of men; he has precautionary revealed
himself by dwelling in one human life
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wears after his crucifxion; that after
several generations had passed away,
reports OF his life were exaggerated
and he became deified according to the
natural tendency Of people to apotheo-
size greatness far removed in time and
uneomprehended. To me the deity OF
Christ is certain. But there is evil
denoe that he worshipped in his life
time. Pliny the Younger CELLS A. D.
wrote: "They sing a hymn Of praise
responsibility to Christ. as 1t were to
God" The Emperor Hadrian CI6-13S
A. d. write: Some worship Scraps,
others Christ" Lucian (12O-200 A D.
writes: 'aFl1e Christians are stu wor-
shipping that great man WHO 7was cru