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AN IELOQUENT SUNQAY- SERMON BY, THE REV. MERLE A. BREED. Theme:Realiing the Pattea. Lincoln, 1Xeb.-The Aev. Merle A. Ureed, who recsntly Ohtered Vpop the fifth year of his pastorate bf the Con gregational Church at Montieallo, Iowa, 6oupied the pulpit of the First 0ongregational Church of .thi City Suiday. morning. He spoke troin He brews 8:5: "See, saith he, that thou Make all things according to the pat trni that was shewed thee in the Xount," taking -the subject, "The Pattern in the M4?nt,: thw Building en the Plaf." rt. Breed said in the Vourse of his sermon: - Our text, w1hich is a,quotation from 1xdus 25:40, sets. before us a pic ture as Interestibg as it is suggestive. The hosts *f Israel have been waiting long before Mount Sinai. Their lead er. Moses, is hidden in the cloud capped, fire-riven summit in com Manton with Jehovah. While the people are waiting in the plain, he has gone forth to the mountain's tow ering peak to be with God, to hear lift will for them and for himself,"and to bring down a divine pattern of a ta)ernacle for God's worship and the 10lifting of men's hearts and lives-to heavenly things. The people in gen ,ral had but earthly ambitions. While Moses was hidden in the clouds and ,darkness of the mount, they were eccupied with dancing and feasting, 'with eating and- drinking, and mak 'Ing golden calves to worship, Moses is beholding the- pattern of that -taber macle about which the religIous life of the nation Was to arlse, and which Was to stamp .its impress upon ithe world. Moses id4filling his sel with the vision which he is to endeavor to realize among the rude; Ignorant, vu perstitious, half-wlld Ibraelltes in the plain beneath him. To one man 1cahe the vision of heavenly things. The - rest were to recelre it through him. His life work was to be tha,t of bring ing this within their reach and mnak Ing it real to thein. The vision splendid 'came to hIm on the heights. The details, measure ments, gathering (ot materials, :labor of construction, were-ai to be wrought out on the levels ef common life-upon the plain. We niay easily imagine that the children of Israel -and the roving tribes about :them greaitly ad mired the completed tabernacle, with a'ns of iblue, -purple -and scar s 'ts ark -and :altar, 'its candle cherubim, Ats pillars and manopies-and courts, its holy I holy 'of holies, its laver, .t and 'mysterious separating ..t there was ,one 'who had seen someth'ing better, who knew that, beautiful and costly as it was, the tent of meeting 'but dimly fore shadowed forthAthe glory of .that pat tern shown bim'in the mount. The people saw*only the tabernac'lein the plain, but the -eyes of Moses looked beyond and -throu-h that -and saw :behdld ;in the ad .theft is our moviing, the the building in nI I has *iM Sinais, 1!!als, and it has its plaimp, where these;are to tie real ized. Surey he is a sorry ibuilder who has seen .no pattern .in the mount. For the -success of -our biilding. much will Aepend .upon our choice of a pattern. The costTiest 'buiilding is mahhood and womanhood, .that somethina we1 call self, a life, charactert. Yet.thei;e is -much haphazard building. sWith * the greatest variety of plans there is little attention to :-etandards, and an infinite varletby'of:results, because the pattern is not selected with the.care an architect 'draws .his designs ,npon his trestle board. What shall we 'build our fives hovel, or palace, or temple? Itia an exhilarating..reftection that evy yact or thought 'iB building them 'into something. 'What an infinite vaiety of patterns. -We can not build after them all-which shrill we cheose? There must ,be unity in the degign. The eclectic method, pur'e'and siaile, will hardly ava;il for this. Whatrtone age approved fails to .win the aptro bation of the :next. 'Tshere must Ibe permanence and real iworth in ithe pattern, if it is'to -satisfy ourselves .or .others as .the y.ears pass, iAs we rmad ,3 jistory and tbs -great names of past -eras move 'befor.e us, wi often fedi how transient they were. How like 'a 'hovel is Midae., tb.e Phrygian king s.f 2egend and story.. How like a mold ering trireine upon the shares of tiime is Pompey the Great. How like a dust covered ru.in in ~the Roman .foraum is Caesar.. Now we may all be etabernacle builers, like Moses, if we w32(1. For this method Moses folltowed is not ito be thought of 'by us :as excep tional. It is a type for us each in our building. We, too, are bailding, *ibutiding pvery day. buildin,g for gtern'It;y, and our Scripture lesson told us that -our building must stand God'e.test. We have like opportuni ties with the great Jewish lawgiver. If he had eyes to see God, and ears to hear-God, so have we. Will we choose-the tabernacle pattern for our lives? -"Every human soul." wrote Martford's, greatest. divine, "has a complete and perfect plan, cherished for it'in the heant of God-a divine biography marked out, which it en ters into life to live. This life, right 1y unfolded, will be a complete and beautiful whole, an experience led on by God, and unfolded by His se .ced4~ mirte're, great in its conception, -divine skill by which it I :'.'i, ove all, great in the me ~:':. . a: Iglorious issues it pre ,may be used for other U 'r', m. doubt, but do they sat lSi -b ?t life, insipid,'unce istying, rought, defor..0d will say, IO U 1 Other levels-i .,with things, with t a bing of Uas acts- ad rout pg Aervice. WWW Opportunity can there . for 0ato chieve such largeo worthy futs? If conditions were 4tent, or IY calling other toal k. is all this r'ight be of interest to : .- j long to put Just this into my liag, but It is all too remote from life'as J have' to live it." Here, lies tUeY.alue of the scene before ui. Through 3(oses the humblest of the peopl beolkie part ners with, him in -building th4 taber. nacle. Moses did not rear t upon the cloud-encircled mount, but* in the plain, that you and I might be encour aged to realize the purpose .of God for us in the field of q6mnon daily re latiq4s. a4d amid what will,otherwise betHeiedrugery of daily living. He leaves us the same task.* Merchant and teacher, sailor and soldier, farm or and workman, autikor and editor,. housewife and clerk, 'iistress and maid, lawyer and preacher, however humble and obscure our lives seem, we are to be fellow workmen with God in bringing things divine into these seemingly common and un meaning activities and relations. Aftei the clouds and glory had with drawn from Sinai, the humblest Is raelite could point to the tabernacle and say: "The glory of God still fol lows us all throqgh our wilderness wanderings in .that tabernacle yonder, and without me it would never have been complete." Your life, where it is, is needed for the rearing of some thing greater and better than the tabernacle in the world of to-day, and without it the kingdom of God will never come in its fullness. Before. this all other needs of our time sink into insignificance; for the truest tabernacle for the showing 'forth of God to tie world is not a pattern hidden in the majesty of unapproach able heights, nor is It tetqple or cathedral, helpful as these may be, but a life simple outwardly, though with luxuriant and divine furnishings within; a life spent on the levels where; our fellqw men live theirs, filled not with such consedrated fur nishings as adorned the tabernacle Moses -fashione4, but wIth .tle graces. -and kindly deeds ni6n need to see and feel near at hand. This is our work, as divinely appointed to us as It was to Moses. It is the greater baldiug, in which all our common :asks and humblest efforts may have an honored place as truly as did the altar and laver in the ancient taberac.le. But for this successful bufilding of our lives into God's purpose we, too, must seek our pattern in the mount. God Hintself builds :aecording to plan. Even a casual gla'nce at His wonderful world this morning 'will disclose thA. Purpose and plan -are everywhere. Not one -grain of. ssnd is a law unto itself. Not one flower blooms, or withers, 'unbidden. Not one leaf drops before its time. Not a bird note its aurelated,; its music is born from -pretent kconditions and wakes its wvn -echo. All things fall into their place and 43arty .out tle di vine purpose. This Is ithe -method 'o 'the ''divine building. whether 'in nature -or In hu man lives. .And 'it may be so 'in your life and mine. We may know God's purpose %Dr .us -and follow it ras trulY as the grain of .sand, ithe 'flower, the bird of the 'air. '"UY any man -willeth to do His wil;," said 'the 'Mader, "he shall knew.'" -God 'does not withhold His plan -trom any iman. 'The mount is ever ready for 'the revealing of the' pattern, but ,men 'must take 'the time to learn, :to withdraw to "its tretreat. The patteltn reame.inot to Moses till he had twice :spent forty days and forty nights in ethe mount alone stth God. After mnery :yeati' tuition 'in the wilderness' -came *Johfi the ~Baptist, herald of 'Cdhrist.' 'The wildenness was his moua.-t <of vidion. Handel had a spiritual ear, 'and;gave the world the oratorio of ithe Mestiah, and -when we hear it we 'must 'net forget tllre 'long period of -prebaration. Michael Ai geo had tre .spiritndi eye and hand and painted :the frescoes of the:Paul ine . Chapel tWith athe representations of the marityrdom <of St. 'Peter and the conversion of St..Paul, and rcarved the statues of -"Da'y&d" and "Moses." If Paul spn:t ithree years in .Arabia to meditate iupon the vision 'Ire had had of the Chr'ist, 'who had unit him on his way -to Damascus; if flhrist Himself retired to saIitary plates for quiet and prayer, you:and I needitime for such a dieclosure ret God's Wil for us as He Is -waiting .to give. Before we can righQly 'rear tthe tabesinacle of our lives in the plasin of daily iser vice we must seek the pattern in :the mount, not Olnai, but the heaaven ;reaching life of Christ. The diline pattern ha*s comne near mnen in Jeeus Christ. We h.ave not to seek i.t autid the perils, da-rkness aind difficultaes efd Sinai; it Is here with us, built 3.h' all its divine perfection on the leyven gdi our daily needs-; supp1-yng us with al;l desirable inspirations, helps and satisfying fellowship, opening the ve~r vail by which we enter Into the apost holy place idelf. It ie not a inount distant .gnd removed, but a presence near At' hand, farmiliar- with our naeeds, to which we may with draw*in moments of discouragenielif. or temnpta.tion, full of divine comfor& and Solace for the hours of sorrow, full of divine strength and vitality in our days of weakness when all other, help seems far away, full of gracious warning when we are careless and wayward,. We need ever to be with drawing into this mount, Jesus Chridt, if 'we are to realize the pattern in the plain of our earthly living. Be.. cause it is so accessible', so comnDlete in its ministry. "See, therefore, that thou make all things according to the pattern that Was shewed thee in the mount." The True Conqueror. The greatest conqueror -is he that has mastered the world that lies In his own brzr.t.-Scotish Reformegr. tN9'U*AT ONA AggbON COM. axes ,ZOn NovgBununI22. Subjeat: ,Solomon Anointed King, i Miags 1:1-:.12-Golden Text, 1 Ch;oU4 as:I0--.mConmmit Verses 30, 4O0--00mmietary. 1015B. . 1ACE.--Je rudalem. EXPOSITIO!.--I. .Solomon Anoint ed King, vs. 10bd. God had chosen Solomon to' e king. . He had called him "Jedidah.," that is, "the beoved of Jehovah" (2 Sam. 2:25). But Joab, the general, and Abiatha, the priest, bad coapired with Adonijah, the oldest next son of David to Absa lom, to thwart God's plan to mako Solomon king. David was so old and decrepit that Joab and his fellow conspirators did'-not think that he would rally to thwart the conspiracy. But no conspiracy of man, no matter how strong,.can overthrow the plans of God. David, when informed of the conspiracy, old and decrepit as he was, rallies and. proves sufficient for the occasion. He calls to his as sistance his trusted friends of old, -Zadok, the priest, and Nathan, the. prophet, and Benaiah, a military man, one of the mighty men of David. It was through Nathan that God had announced to David His favor toward Solomon (2 Sam. 12:24, 25). David's action is prompt and thorough. While Adonijah and his fellow-conspirators were still feasting (v. 9) David's trusted friends without delay go through all the necessary formalities and anoint Solomon king. Solomon was placed on David's own mule. David was still obedient to the law of God, and even in the days of. his great power had, not adopted hbrses to,ride.upon. To do so was expressly 'torbidden by God: to Israel's kings (Deut. 17:16). Absalom had done so in the brief days of his glory '(2 Sam. 15:1). Adonijah also (v. 5). The priest and the prophet were to unite in anointing Solomon (v. 34). The anointing was the symbol of dedica tion to God (Lev. 8:10 -12). 'the oil the symbol of the Holy Spirit (Acts 10:38). Appeal was Ynade to God to secure the safety of 'the .new-made king. 3David will leave no doubt Tn the minds of any tht Solomon is.'ig own choice for king. While he still lived be appointed that Solomon should sit upon his throie and be king In his stead and in unequivocal terms declared. "I have appointed him to be king over Israel and rovez Judah." As secure as this made Sol omon on the throne, there was an. other fact that made him more se, dure, namely, that God had made hin ruler over Isradil and over* Judah Benaiah, the warrior, appears as thi Inott religious man in the 'who] transaction (vs. 36. 37). Jdhoval had 'been with 'David, an Benatal prays that He may now be 1VKh Sol omon as He has been with David (v. 37), and he prays that his throne may be-greater even'than the throve of him father. This prayer of Benatah was abundantly answered. David% three trusted frisUos proceeded tq.do exact. ly -what they were told. The mil with wl1th Solomen was anointed was taken out of the tabernacle, the place where God dwelt. The whole people agreed with David's choice and God's cheice and the whole city was filled with music anfl with joy. When this wofld agrees to make Him King whom God has-already made King the wirdle earth -4hall rejoice with great joy. N. Aldonijdh Filled With Fear, vs. 50.58. While thle people were. filled with joy the enemies of the king were filled with -consternation. S. will it 6e -at the conling of our Solomon (2 Thess. 1:'7-9; Rev. 1:7; 6:'15 and 16).. Adonfijgh was a coward as well as a 'rebel. 'Rdbels against God are always cowards (Prov. 28:1).- Adon ijah 'fled to the ihouse of God for safe. ty, presumably -not because Lie had any epecial reverence for We h,ouse of Gqd, !but abecause he knew t ut Sol omom ihad. He wvas afraid that Sol-. omon would kill him. Probafbly he would 'have killed Solomon if he had h'ad a rdhance :and :judged. Sol,omon by himself, He speaks-. of ~ bimbOlt as ~olomansa servant (v. 61), bat the change 'from enemy to servant was .very sudden *and no evidence was 'given of tthe -genineness of 'the con version. 'Solomon eon his part was ready to Lorgive if Adonijah would only give 1noof -of 'tte reality' of his repentance. All he .asked ',as that Adonijah should .prvve himself a worthy man ('v.. 52).. All that God asks of us is that we "bring forth fruit meet for repentance" (Matt. 8:7). If Adoniah would only do this he would be free from all danger, not a hair of his head would fall to the earth. On the other hand, if wicked ness should be found In him the pen alty was certain. He should die. No matter what protestations of repent ance ,we make, if we do not Yforsake sin we shall perish. The scene closes with Adonijah doing obeisance to Sol omon (V. 53, R. V.). The time is coming when every enemy of Jesus must bow the knee and confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father (Phil. 2:10, 11). Adonijahl did not prove himself a worthy man and later paid the pen alty of his rebellion (ch. 2:12-25). Miany of those who profess to yield their hearts to Jesus do not really do so. They coll Him Lord, but do not do the things that He says (Luke 6:44), Their calling Jesus Lord will not save them. They will be cast outtfrozs is presence (Matt. '5;:21.2 2). ol of Int.st aS y ,41ANINGS ' or LowS 1.16no as . i AbroadL oreign Afairs. The Gerayj) city of Plauen was shaken by an earthqual-. A steamer was wreck( on a Japa nese island with a loss of 150 lives. t Victo&ien Sardou, the famous French playwright, died after a long illness. Cubans will vote for President and other officers -under the restored re public next Saturday. Rqmor of furher procristination in -the present awkward German situ ation caused indignation. While J. L. Morgan, of Marion, N. C., hunted his eloping daughter in Paris she was married to W. P. Craig, a clerk, in London. In the South Dr. John S. Lupton, the pioneer fruit grower of Winchester, is dead. Boys under 16 smoking cigarettes in Honaker, Wise county, Va., will be fined $10. James Grant was found dead in the road hear Abingdon, Va., having apparently been murdered. In .a fight following the electiQn. at Hurricane Creek, Buchanan county, a judge's nose -was broken. Dr. W. S. Gregory who is accused of attempting to assault a patient, will be put on trial in Roanoke. The Maryland Psychiatric Society, for the study of nervous diseases, was organized at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital. After failing to commit 'suicide Thomas Clarence asked a Norfolk judge to send him to the electric chair. National Affairs. The Government board has decided to test -a new signal invention for au. tomatic control of trains. The House Committee will next begin 'public hearings on the propos. ed bi'll to revise the tariff. . President Roosevelt made public a letter in which he denounces the at. temVt in the campaign to drag inte politics the religious belief of Mr Taft. Miscellaneous. Wat C. Goodwin and Edna Goodrieb were married. A Cambridge professor found i Mexico a tribe of Indians living in as absolutely primitive state. The New York Psyehical S0eiety has offered a reward of $5,000 for any real communication with spirits. 'The general committee on foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church appropriated $1,060,000 fo, pmssions. 'Chares W. Morse, banker, was sen tenced to 15 years in the penitentiary. Alfred H. Curtis, the ex-bank presi. -dent, being released. 4A civic exhibit will be a feature of the annual meeting o fthe National Municipal League and the American Civice-Association in Philadelphia. President (1ompers, of the Federa tin1 of Labor, faces a hard fightet the annual convention on tecount of his -coms~e in the national campaign. As a result, it is believed, of the lett,ers written by Mrs. Peter C. Hains, Jr., to her husbaral there has bees a bid . shake-up among the offi. cers at Fort Hamilton. The United States Cir,cuit Court at Chicago issued a temporary order en joining the rate reduction on Mis souri river traffic made by the Inter state Commerce Commission. Chaneellor Day, of Syracuse Uni. versity, declared Mr. Taft to be a great piece of ballast, which can be depended on to keep the country straight. New York had its first snow flurry of the IAason. Orop Values for 1908' Higher Than in Previous Years. Washington, Special.-Thie Depart ment of Agriculture issued a prelimi nary estimate of the production of the principal crops of the United States showing' that corn. wheat, oate and eight other crops, representing approximately 70 per cent of the value of all farm crops this year ag gregate about 3 per cent, greater than a ye'ar ago and 2.4 per cern greater than the average for the past fivoears hard for ul, for he But.for the mista e dade men, history would b wf1 teresf,ing. -he United Stas 764,128 barrels of salt, eseb 9 punds, in 1907, leading the - Industry. On the occasion of the late J* of the town of Wilhelmburg. to many, the burgrmeister feste telegram, tign odby -I the - . gils of the place, advisigW hI married, an.d saying that *k* undersigned hid any.eei coming his wife. Experts of the department riculture, have discovered that pocket gopher, the depredations % which cost the farmer* .aNd ftm growers of the country i12 66 annually, are good eating. Tb* e when properly prepared for tMe is said to be delicious, rivaing in flavor: With the price of all foodstuffs ballooning in says the Washington Post, there a fortune in store for the man wh6 converts the Americans into a natiew of gopher eaters. There may be some way ef in love and escaping dire results, if so, the average man ha, zew found it out. 7. . Maxwell, Atlata,. ia.,. ss m sffered ageny with a seveOO 0sof s me, Tried six iffereat resaeds aG 1me in deopar, wbe a neighbertold m ao t Phuptrine's -rvis?,4p,i~ MW - Wo t of yout wnifiiwa aL Ia q oompletely oured. I oannot mar tqo msw In Its praise." TaTraMIN Mt dkotlft by mail 50o. soap 26o. l. T. 8zt*w Dept. A, Savatwia6, Ga. People who keep their feelings out in the road where they are sure to, get hurt should be presented with a. Hicks' Capudine Cures Headachf Whether from colds, host, stoekma 4 nervous troubles. No Accetath 4 b gerous drugs. It's liquid and acts 0,ately. Trial bottle 10c. 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