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THE PULPIT. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON WV THE, REV., EDWARD NILES. Theme: Rejoicing in Suffering. Brooklyn, N. Y.-At the Bushwick Avenue Reformed Church, the Rev. Edward Niles, pastor, preached to a large audience on the subject: "Re joicing in Suffering." The text was from Colossians 1:24: "Now I rejoice In my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lack ing in the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His body's sake, which is the church." Mr. Niles-said: When Paul was converted, Chris tianity was a Jewish sect unknown outside of Palestine. When Paul had finished his missionary tours, he could say with pardonable exaggera tion, "The gospel is preached in all creation. under heaveh, whereof I Paul, was made a minister." And how he loved to preach! - How he yearned to bring every one into knowledge of the truth! Then, while in his prime, he be came a prisoner, fettered to a soldier, any hour liable to execution. He would be well nigh excusable had he complained. I never read this verse without astonishment: "Now I re joice in my sufferings for your sake." He is not submissive. No passivity lurks in that word "rejoice." Now after the flight 'f years, retracing his life, he comes to realize that the things for the present grievous never theless worked out the peaceable fruits of righteousness. Now, while suffering, he rejoices. No back sight, but present feeling. Why does he rejoice? Not because he is g1ld to have a rest from work. Not because he is a poser and fishes for sympathy. It is for the sake of the church. There, in his cell, he can perform what makes the church happier, more-useful, healthier. Each soldier who mounts guard over him is a soul for him to save, until the whole palace garrison talks about Christ. His presence in the capital city gives boldness to the brethren. He has leisure for writing letters to Epheseus, Colossae, Philippi which will do good for centuries after his preached sermons are forgotten. So, whether as a minister or a suf ferer, he fills up what was lacking in th Afnictions of Christ, is a supple *therwise incOmplete is just that, although testant commentators lain it away. I, Christ's sufferings a lacking, His coming to earth a partial failure. Atonement means at-one-ment be tween man and God. Our Saviour's ministry and death brought it about from God's side, not from man's. The debt sinning humanity owed was paid by Him, but the debtor didn't know it. Jesus lived, preached I and suffered in a little corner of the 1 world. He never went outside of that i one Roman district on the east shore i of the Mediterranean. Caesar never so much as heard of him. Purposely He made His work intensive, training I a few men and women, who did not i fully comprehend Him until fifty days 1 after His death, that they and those 1 they inspired might fill up what was lacking in His sufferings .for the world. Jesus died to save the world, but I He could not save the world alone. A thousand pep plo were probably con verted by Paul's preaching to one by Christ's. Pat~l's soul was full of hap- a piness, no matter what the condition of his body,'as he realized how essen tial he was to the Son of God. It was t for him to do what Jesus had not done. If he could not do it in one way, he would do it in another. Noth ing was hard with such a stimulus. t Paul far from filled up to the brim what was lacking, with all hist triumphs, lHe made a beginning and every real Christian since has been adding to Paul's contribution. Just so much self-denying effort must be actively put forth, just so much pain a must be passively borne for others before every phase of the redemption 1 plan is filled out and the great day of < atonement is ushered in, when every knee shall bow and every tongue con fess Jesus as the Christ to the glory< of God the Father. In proportion then, as you do your" < part will this kingdom of God be es tablished upon earth. Yours is the r'esponsibility for its delay! Chris- 1 tianity is not a means for you to es cape suffering hereafter, a plan for 1 you to attain future bliss. It is a 1 method for you to hasten on the act- I nalization of the angel's song ont Bethlehem's plains. Like the greatest of Christians, you are called to the ministry. A colle-t giate education is not required, a the-t ological course unnecessary, ordina-< tion, a pastorate may be or may not 1 be conferred upon you. You have a1 ealling, whatever your means of live- I lihood, and that calling is to fill up what is lacking in the afflictions 'Of Christ. Fill up the purse of this church so far as in you lies. Fill up the pews< of this church by your presence and I persuasion. Fill up the prayers of 1 saints, those vials of golden incense< which should ever be kept burning before God. Fill up what is lacking In Christ's afflictions for the children I by participation in the Sunday-school or some branch of yQung people's ~work. k here reaches Laukiug you, It u4 'ufficient, mi 4" i ~vation inust '.4,1'.' n or Hie. or um a a. hE '.ivate behind thegu is as imnerative as tha am Ing when it comes to ou, Christian, )r it'it has already come, don't bear it,-I beseech you. Rejoice in it. Tra vail is a part of the new heavens and mew earth birth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. So much groaning md travailing in pain miust be before 'he great day of the restoration of all things. Whatever you carry means less'pain for others. You are thus a vicarious sufferer. That made Jesus perfect. It will you. Holies.t of all loys is the mother's heartache when der child is sick, is- that which the rather feels when his boy is about to aontest for some great prize in life, which the pastor knows as he yearns ifter a' wandering sheep. By bearing )ur mutual woes and burden' the body of Christ is cleansed of spots, Loses its wrinkles, prepares for the presentation ceremony. Each member of that body should mupplement its head. 1. As an example. Jesus walks io longer upon earth. Multitudes iever read from His biography. All hey know about Christ is what they iee in you. You are His substitute as L pattern. Your holiness incarnate nust so attract them that they will vant themselves to read of and know 1m who is the pattern you are copy ng. The responsibility, would be ,rushing, were not the privilege so ixalting. 2. You supplement His love. Jesus vas the - perfect lover, because He howed no favoritism. He went tmong publicans, sinners, lepers and )eggars without slighting the rich Lnd prominent. He despaired of weither the drone nor the dirudge. He 'eally meant it when He said, "Every mne is'My brother and sister, My fath r and mother." He isn't here now ,o tell them He will bear their griefs tnd carry their sorrows. You are. 3. You supplement His salvation. 'ou are theambassador of good news, he missing link between the sinner Lnd the Saviour. The divine message nust be interpreted by the human roice. You have that voice. It needs 1o training in elocution to repeat to a lying soul Christ's promises. If we identify ourselves with Thrist's sympathy for others by our iving and dying for them, His expec ations of us will never seem despotic lemands, but ever the longing of one art of the body to help another in its iain. Built upon the foundations of the )rophets and apostles, Jesus Christ -limself being the chief cornerstone, rou and I are living stones. Just so nany other living stones as we can )ring hhstens so much filling up the equired quota of repeated acts fo elf-denial by successive generations nd individuals. Your work may not "bring forth he top stone with shoutings of grace, race unto it." It will certainly sup )lement what the cornerstone began. You can do much by active effort, 3y rejoicing suffering, or by both, to 1asten' on the final glory of the term )le of God. Influence. Influence is to be measured, not by he extent of surface it covers, but )y its kind. A man may spread his nind, his feelings, his opinions, hrough a great extent; but if his nind be a low one, he manifests no reatness. A wretched artist may Ill a city with daubs, and by a false, howy style achieve a reputation; mut the man of genius, who leaves iehind him one great picture, in which immortal beauty is embodied, nd which is- silently to spread a true aste in art, exerts an incomparably migher influence. Now the noblest influence on earth s that exerted on character, and he vho puts forth this does a great york. The father and mother of an innoticed family who in their seclu ion awaken the mind of one child to he idea and love of perfect goodness, vho awaken in Jhim a strength of vill to repel all temptation, and who end him out prepared to profit by he conflicts of lifu, surpass in influ nce a Napoleon breaking the world o his sway.-Channing.. What Lcd Him to Jesum Dr. R. A. Torrey tells a beautiful tory of a man in Chicago who had swNeet little daughter. He loved Ler dearly, but God took that little hild away from him. The house vas 'so lonely, and he was so angrys gainst God that he went up and own his room far into the night ursing God for having robbed him f his child. At last, thoroughly vorn out, and in great bitterness of pirit, he threw hisl on his bed, le dreamed he stood beside a river. tcross the river in the distan'ce he eard the singing of such voices as *e had never listened to before. Then te saw in the distance beautiful lit le girls coming toward him, nearer ,nd nearer, until at last at the head f the company he saw his own lit le girl. She stood on the brink of he river an 4 called across, "Come ver here, father." That oversame is bitterness; he accepted Jesus and irepared to go over yonder where 1i8 sweet child had gone. ,Vanity Spoils Everything Hezekiah "showed them the house if his precious .things, the silver, and he gold, and the spices, and the >recious ointment, and all the house >f his armour, and all that was found a his treasures; there was nothing n his house, nor in all his dominion, hat Hezekiah showed them not." Let the spirit of display once get nto you, even as a church, and you may write Ichabob upon the temple loor. The things to be shown in the hurch are the Bible, the altar, the ~ross-" God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord resus Christ." If men come .to our hurches and see the precious things, he silver, and the gold, and the ~$e, and the ointment, and see no se5~ teyO will curse us in the day I4Qt,4e$JQSanh Parkar. ... TitE FS T. Ringside photographs of the te the Temperance Champ, and the s'Demon" was put to sleep. PUBLICITY SAVES Officials Find the Wrecks Ai Chicago.-Publicity Is cred with having decreased accidents the Harriman systemi of roads tween'twenty and fifty per cent. m in the past thgee years. This re is indicated by a report made Julius Kruttschnit.t, director of rr tenance and operation, .to E. H. ] riman, of a novel plan which has 1 tried on that system of roads. Besides decreasing accidents, licity has served, it is said, to prove disciplineand increase effici an~d also has protected the r, against newspaper misrepresentat and unfair hostility on .the par commuriities. When the plan of Ing the fullest publicity to wr< was first broached by Mr. *Ki schnitt, it was coldly received or sides. Finally he succeeded in ting it tried on .the Union Pacific, now all the Harriman lines follov rph .- -4,-A A--r . * Rinthecasie ofotoheaaccident,~ ta the bTamepere ithbmpng andh "Den"he put know slep. n papercae Fto .te Wrecks it mehodisgodifferet iso cred thsuarimanloyem ralroadsh iaseidictdb a eort met JMr.u Kruttschnitt irectorrm beiv thria ofnoe plac whnimen ha tried uon art sndeofrsadin Weie deran accidents n proe darripliand inradse seff tendentomaseroectedi the r: gnes oftewdsione misrepresnetao ceand nfiosility bonr the pnqu commupised ofheselve an onf more theadn fuletizn puliit to wrm was. Ifis boahd fayl to. aser sidecs. Fly the scceded aine board i ored o the enionaific, nowtivelpoeHrinine fo m sucace largely upn seedil moren out o thcue ofmmunaident Shola boardlame were fit, abthor'd bad torednt the linwrallmanagei paps eare to tll ou intnc ethodtes soadifferentpfromith Caused reata Cmso commenau the efrcac cmpublicnsenatmempt a Unied upona right undertandin thenHamissin roadsth theorsupo telpnt cmlete mtschnvnicr andf nel include inviso geort tonthe to scent, and orice tat bordpot into submosed of themselvy nd~ otne morene l;eadn citzen o the cnsus beenI stheith ar faish. ace th ases of the acien, ntse boarding toinber of the geniea st rnedgeeal suro822682,n tenanto o,00way00nd0on000oroarde aen oifertne cofmmunity thoual board in turn faew, of thirbeqal auoreithi the conrlmaag It hed oinionl one inrstncer yetimade ae thoe Syupply Wil Was1ng0,hc D.Ced-te at< tumeagrat op90,000,000,000p bo census of the Prsandng toicmerie cohe infoaion dstherednforto ntimand in that report is aim fIGlrT PICTUltES. M wqi 0 LIVESAM ONRIRAS b-artoonb T rdo inquir doessw clt-te "uiceyn not,, infrequntl anew I I. e Less Frequent and Discipline Better. ited the general manager thus been callet on upon to act. be- The board of inquiry does its wonl 'Lth.. quickly and not infrequently a news suit paper *representative is a *membci by The newspapers are furnished wLt ain- a correct bulletin of the facts. Thi ar- practice has greatly diminished tb been newspaper appetite for wreck dati unless the accident is in reality a bi pub- story. im- The effect upon the discipline hq ency been marked, for every man in tb Dads operating department knows that J ions he is der. iiA in his duty his hom t of community will know of it, and h giv- will be discredited amdbg his friends Dcks Men can stand being hauled onto tb utt- "carpet" in the general manager' all office, but they cannot stand the ligh get- of local publicity. and t 3317 VICTIMS OF NEW YORK ling ' RAIL.WAYS IN ONE MONTI aing let- Report Shows There Were 5280 Accidents Il ,ws- City In August. ['his New York City.-There were 528( one ,railway accidents in New York Cit: at it in August, according to figures sub~ but mitted to the Public Service Commnis r in sion by its secretary. They resuitec hen in the injury of 3317 persons. 0; [ of that number 2247 were passengers 539 were railway employes and 53: y of were neither passengers nor em. rin- ployes. Forty-four persons were agi- killed, fifteen received fractured the skulls, four lost legs or arms, thirty. iry, four had legs or arms broken and or dangerous injuries were inflicted or: unlf- 138 other persons. The total num Lain ber of persons dangerously wounded end was 235. per- The report shows there were dur of ing the month 121 car collisions, 89-I kin- persons and vehicles struck by cars, ail- 652 persons injured when boarding this cars and 1233 when alighting from I is cars. Forty-one of the victims were at hurt by getting in contact with elec. ha~s tricity. TANDING TJ' M Last About Twenty-thtree Years Longer. nal to give an accurate basis for comput. sed ing how long our timber supply will Lt a last. the The consensus of opinion is that rhe the present' annual consumption of to wood is about 100,000,000,000 board the feet, or something more than that. 1 it One leading authority has placed it res- as high as 160,000,000,000 board be feet. Assuming a stumpage of edse 1,400,000,000,000 feet, an annual lee- use of 100,0010,000,000 feet and neg has lecting growth in the calculation the exhaustion of our timber supply is of findicated in fourteen years, and as Ltes suming the same use and stand, with )0,- an annual growth of 40,000,000,000 set, feet, a supply for twenty-three years ion is indicated. Letters to county clerkg fied asking for statements of forest area in their counties have been forward rice ed. Seven thousand lumbermen and ites timber land owners have been asked an- to uuuply similar information. In sue all, nearly 150,000 letters have been tal sent. These letters also ask for a ard wide variety of Information, includ ho- lng not only the lumberink and mill al inhnutis ut. all 0th re, even th niectly dependent upon t use of ted wood. A 0U~,~G 7'7 Miss HelenSauerbier, of 8153aiULGU oseph, Mich., writee an Interosting ut on the subjoct of catching cold, whaof. cannot fall to be of valuo to all urenn ww catch cold easlrT. PERNA ADVISED FOR SUDDEN COLD. It Should -Be Taken According te BW rections on the Bottle, at the First Appearance of the Cold. ST. JOsEPH, MicH., Sept., 1901.-Igxe winter I caught a sudden coLd wech de vetoped into an unpleasant caturmib. of the head and throat, depriving me of appetite and usual ood spirits. A i= who had been cured Peruna advised nm to try it and I sent or a bottle at once;, and I am glad to sgy that in three day. the phlegm had loosened and I felt better, my appetite returned and within nine das I was in my t&sttat pood heattln'. -Miss Helen Sauerbier. Peruna is an old and weil tried remedy for colds. No woman should be with out it. Peruna is sold by your local drqV gist. Big a bottle today. L - Embarrassing. C A colored woman of Alexandria,. - Virginia, was on trial before a natis triite of that town charged witi in-. human treatment of her offspring. "Evidence was clear that the woman 1-l SeverCly beaten the youngster, g Wlged Some lieic years, who was in couir to exhibit his battered con S (lition. Before imposing sentence, e his honor wsked the woman whether f she had. anything to say. ''Kin I e asky honah a question ?'' inquired the prisoner. The judge nodded affir . malively. ''Well, then yo' honor, I'd s like to ask yo' whether yo' was ever t the parien t of a piffectly wuthless eullud chile. ''-October Lippincott'a. Trying Now Tack. ''Jenkins is parading the fact that lie is a woman hater. ' ''Some girl threw him (lown '' ''No ; he niever got far enoingi along wvith one for that. That's .just the trouble. Lie has tried all othesu means of winning their affetions, andl~ he only became a woman hates as a last resort.'' Fatal. 'Twas the verdict of the neighbor? whlen ie 'd (drawn his final breath flhat he lived so strenuous a~ life He'd livedl himself to death. If things were done twice, all wogiJ be wise.--German. So. 42-'OS. WANTED) TO KNOW V The Truth About Grape-Nuts Food!. It doesn't matter so much what you hear about a thing, It's what you. know that counts. And corre knowledge is most likely to conne from personal erporience. "A bou t a year ago," writes a N. Y., man, "I was bothered by indigestion., especially during the forenoon. 3 tried several remed-ies Without any permanent improvement. "My breakfast usually conhfated .1 oatmeal, steak or chops, bread, cotre and some fruit. "Hearing so much about Graps'. Nuts, I concluded to give it a trial and find out if all I had beard of t was true.. -"So I began with Grape-Nuts and@ cream, two soft boiled eggs, toast, at. cup of, Pdstum and sorne fruit. Bes fore the end of the first week I wnas rid of the acidity of the stomach on& felt much relieved. "By the end of the second week aE traces of indigestion had disappesareg and I was in first rate health onee more. Before beginning this com of diet I never had any appetite fee, lunch, but now I can enjoy a heaa'-~ meal at noon time." "There's a Rem son." Name given by Postum Co., BattS. Creek, Mich. Read "The Road eg Weliville," in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A~ one appear's from time to tirne, h~ sre gengine, ,frue, and full et , itm. ac