EXCHANGE OF PULPITS. 
Rev. Theron T. Phelps of E. Gloucester Preached 
at Mancheater last Sunday. 
At the First Baptist Church, Manches- 
ter, last Sunday, Rev. Theodore L. 
Frost exchanged pulpits with Rev. Theron 
T. Phelps of East Gloucester. Mr. 
Phelps delivered two interesting sermons. 
For his morning sermon he drew a 
text from Luke 15: 16-17, ‘‘—and he 
came to himself.’’ He touched on the 
moral nature of the prodigal, and of the 
grand transformation which took place in 
his life. He said that every human life 
was full of possibilities, that each life 
contained a mine unexplored, and that 
each soul contained a divine spark. He 
spoke of the vast amount of talent that 
was going to waste in fashion, and of the 
church as the moral background of the 
nation. He said in part: 
** Are we not all prodigals? We do 
not realize the place in which God has 
put us. We have a vast amount of 
wealth that has never been discovered. 
Weare casting our nerve and energy 
away as pearls before swine, and our lives 
are crumbling to pieces. 
““Yet there are moments when the 
human life comes to itself. There is no 
soul but what has caught a glimpse of its 
own spiritual possibilities. In every soul 
there is a closet in which are many mys- 
terious mechanisms. “Io many they are 
as dead machinery, for the great engine 
of human life is ‘going to decay. ‘The 
key that was meant to turn that mighty 
spring is lost. What is this key? 
Where is it? 
‘* The great question that confronts us 
is, how can we find an instrument that 
will bring a soul to itself? It is Jesus 
Christ that is the master organism that 
calls forth human souls. Our lives seem 
to consist of many layers. People do not 
go down into the deep recesses, they only 
go a little way, and they find their life is 
not worth living. Jesus is here to take 
us down, we cannot go down alone. 
““Christ must equip us with golden 
talent. If you wish to seek a wider 
scope, you must live the Christ life. God 
has wrought strangely; he made the best 
of what was given to him. Why cannot 
we? ‘There-aretwo great regions that 
he has given us, character and service. 
Fling open the doors of your nature and 
let it shine forth. Too many other things 
crowd our lives, and we open these doors 
only on special occasions. You miss all 
the pleasure if you go out in life without 
Jesus.’’ 
In the evening, Mr. Phelps took his 
text from Romans 2: 5, ‘“—the day of 
the revelation of the fichteous judgment 
- of God.’’? ‘* This judgment,’’ he said, 
**is the first principle in every depart- 
ment of the human life. The Bible 
would be a strange book if it did not con- 
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tain it, and so would religion. ‘There 
must be some day of judgment. To 
Paul this righteous judgment and the day 
of revelation seemed different, but we 
must stand face to face with it sooner or 
later. We are living today careless lives. 
Every day is a doomsday, a day of settle- 
ment. 
““ We speak of special judgment, but 
there is no such thing with God. Why 
is itthe churches burn down and the sa- 
loons stand? Why do mothers die and 
the children live? It is a judgment of 
the laws of God. So it is with the moral 
life. We must develop our conscience 
if we wish to be saved from a worse judg- 
ment. 
*“'The day comes unexpectedly and 
we are taken without warning. The 
seeds we have sown blossom on our 
graves. We have but a little idea of this 
Divine judgment. We are not sent to 
Heaven, we take our judgment with us 
in our ownperson. Weare responsible, 
and had better lose the pleasures of life 
than to lose our immortal souls.’’ 
“Code ” Messages Will Cost More. 
The new rule relative to the charges 
for sending telegrams went into effect 
this month and all combinations of letters 
not forming a dictionary word will be 
charged for according to the number of 
letters they contain. All words not 
found in the dictionary will be charged 
for at a rate of five letters to each word 
and all figures, decimal points and bars 
of division will be counted separately as 
one word. 
This action on the part of the tele- 
graph companies is done to protect them 
from business firms and others who use 
code messages, one word of which some- 
times means whole sentences. [he code 
words are exceedingly hard to send, tak- 
ing sometimes twice as long as a straight 
message, and there is always a danger of 
mistake being made. 
The changes made do away with the 
rule that each letter in an arbitrary, un- 
pronounceable combination must be 
counted as one word, but does not effect 
words taken from seven languages, as 
follows: English, krench, Dutch, Portu- 
guese, Spanish, Latin, German. The 
five letter count applies to groups of let- 
ters forming artificial words and also ap- 
plies to groups of letters made up of com- 
binations of misspelled or abbreviated 
words. 
The new rule applies to both the tele- 
grams sent by the Postal Telegraph and 
the Western Union Companies. 
Letters remaining unclaimed at Manchester, 
Mass., P. O. for week ending Dec. 11. Miss 
A M _ Edgecanaledge, Miss Mabel Frince, 
Joseph Fortunate, R Holt, Walter Hull, Miss 
Gertrude Hatch, J C Jones, Miss Mammie 
Jefferson, Burton W Pelton, Mrs Minnie E 
Prime, Miss Marion Lityon. 
SAMUEL L. WHEATON, Postmaster. 
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Essex county has the proud distinction | 
of being one of the oldest counties of the 
commonwealth of Massachusetts, having 
been established by order of the general 
court May 10, 1643, the only two coun- . 
ties now existing which were established 
at the same time being Suffolk and Mid- 
dlesex, as recorded in Massachusetts 
Records, Volume 1, page 38, which says 
“The whole plantation within this j juris- 
diction is divided into four shires.’ 
As originally constituted the county 
comprised eight towns, which with the 
date of their establishment were as fol- 
lows: 
Salem, Aug. 23, 1630. 
Lynn, Nov. 20, 1637. 
Enon afterwards Wenham. 
Ipswich, Aug. 5, 1634. 
Rowley, Sept. 4, 1639. 
Newbury, May 6, 1635. 
Gloucester, May 18, 1642. 
Cochicawick afterward Andover. 
When the original Norfolk county be- 
came extinct, Feb. 4, 1680, the follow- 
ing places were annexed to Essex county: 
Salisbury, Oct. 7, 1640. 
Haverhill, June 2, 1641. 
Amesbury, May 27, 1668. 
The places afterward formed were: 
Wenham, Sept. 7, 1643 (formerly 
Enon. ) 
Andover 
May 6, 1646. 
Manchester, May 14, 1646. 
Topsfield, Oct. 18, 1648. 
Marblehead, May 2, 1649. 
Beverly, Oct. 14, 1668. 
Bradford, Oct. 13, 1675; annexed to 
Haverhill, Jan. 4, 1897. 
Boxford, Sept. 14, 1694. 
Methuen, Dec. 8, 1725. 
Middleton, June 20, 1728. 
Danvers, Jan. 28, 1764. 
Newburyport, Jan. 28, 1764. 
Lynnfield, July 3, 1782. 
Hamilton, June 21, 1793. 
Saugus, Feb. 17, 1815. 
Essex, Feb. 15, 1819. 
Parsons, Feb. 18, 1819, changed to 
West Newbury, June 14, 1820. 
Georgetown, April 21, 1838. 
Rockport, Feb. 27, 1840. 
Lawrence, April 17, 1847. 
Groveland, March 8, 1850. 
Swampscott, May 21, 1852. 
Nahant, March 29, 1853. 
North Andover, April 7, 1855. 
South Danvers, May 18, 1855, name 
changed to Peabody, April 13, 1868. 
Merrimac, April 11, 1876. 
(formerly Cochicawick), 
Lamson & Hubbard Fall and Winter 
Hats at Bell’s. adv 
I have just put in a stock of mail boxes 
and letter plates. D. T. Beaton. adv. 
