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FRUITS OF VICTORY.
Or. TALMAGE ON THE REWARDS OF
FAITHFUL ENDEAVOR.

ton of Good work.
WASHINGTON, May 27.-ln this dis
course DIR. Talmagc shows in an unusual
way the antagonisms that Christ over
came and finds Il balsam for all wounded
hearts; text. John xvii, 4, II have finish
ed the work which thou gaycst me to
do"
There is a profound satisfaction in the
completion of anything we have under
taken. We lift the capstone with cx-
ultaton, while. on the other hand. there
Is nothing more disappointing than after
having tollcd in certain direction to
find that our time is wasted and our in
Vcstment prottlcss Christ came to
throw up a highway on which the whole
world might, if il chose, mount into
heaven. He did it. The foul mouthed
crew who attempted to tread on him
could not oXtinguish the sublime sats-
faction which he expressed when he said
81 have finished the work which thou
gavcst me TO do"
Alexander the Great was wounded,
aud the doctors could not mcdicatc his
wounds, and he seemed to be dying, and
in his dream the sick man saw Il plant
with a peculiar flower, and he dreamed
that that plant was put upon his wound
ana that immediately II was cured And
Alexander. waking from his dream, told
inns 10 Inc phFSiclau' ana lhe ph!Sl'Iuh
wandered out until he found just tho
kind of plant which the sick man had
described, brought it to him, and the
wound was healed Well, the human
race hau oeeii hurt WIN 'le EuaNt"'SI VI
I'll WOUNDS mat OF SIN II WAS me uuSi-
leNS OF thrlS' 10 pIlHs p"'" LOT '"''
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IN carrying Iuls business TO Su',t
lul issue inc u'lII'u'll'a were stupVnuouN'
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i, o,,,, ,,r,Io,.,rort or,. must civo his ON.
+;ra t;,,o','i, AVID b,,.a 80 do,l,,o tt,,
tha fatigres NJ cnrnertrv wore uufavorn.
iIo ~ no arocutinn Of IL ui.einr which
,.a,,irod al ,no,'t,l and ,,LvsicaI rocri.
tios Throrcb bigb hard drv bu.l,y in.
.oreo,n I,Joisr 10 how. , ,v,,v far n now
and glorious dispensation was a stupcn-
dous undertaking that was enough t. de.
mand all the concentrated energies even
of Christ. We have "A great many roman.
tic stories about what men with physical
toll have ACCOMPLISHED in intellectual de.
rartrueuts. but Won know that nftcr a
man has bocn toilinc NIL dov with adg
aud saw and hammer. plane and AK
about all he can do is TO rest. 4 wcary
body is an uufayorable adjunct to n toll
iup mind Won whose life is nuroIv mo
cbouicul if Won were called 10 the ND
building Of kingdom. or The proclamn
ton of n now code of morals. or the start
inc Of a revolution which should upturt
ali nations. conld get some idea Of the in
Conference Of Christ's occunation with hi,
heavenly mission
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