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0k SEEMON FOE SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED, "NEED OF A REVIVAL." Th^Rc*. Dr. Philip S. Moxam Says That We Require a Fresh Conviction of the Reality of Salvation?Too Much Aboorption in the Pursuit of Riches. / Brooklyn, N. Y.?In Plymouth Church the Rev. Philip S. Mcxom, of Springfield, Mass., preached Sunday morning. Dr. Moxom's subject was "The Need of a Revival." He took his text from Habakkuk iii:2: "0 Jehovah, revive Thy work in the midst cf the years; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy." Dr. Mosom said: J.Q limes past, Tvnen me cnurcn -sva? iu a low state of religious vitality, the more spiritual of the members, distressed by the absence of vigorous life and burdened by the condition of the multitude who were looked upon as lost, sought a revival of religion. They sought by prayer, earnest and long continued, to deepen their own experience of divine grace; they sought by communion with others of like mind and by mutual exhortation to increase their zeal in the service of God; they sought by means of pungent and powerful preaching to arouse sluggish Christians and awaken careless sinners. The "protracted meeting," as it was called, was simply a continuous series of meetings for preaching and prayer and exhortation ana confession. The preacher wrought upon the consciences of men by Betting forth God's claims on them and their neglect of duty. He wrought upon .the fears of men by denunciations cf the imminent danger and certain and terrible punishment of impenitent sinners. He .wrought upon the hearts of men by vivid presentations of the love of God and portrayals of the vast self-sacrifice of the Son ef God in making atonement for the sins of mankind on the cross. Often, if not always, much was made of the physical sufferings of Christ. Much was made also of the material pains of perdition. t An important accompaniment of the preacher's work was the work of private visitation and appeal, and the testimony of religious experience. Men told, with astonishing frankness, their sins, their douots ana tears, tneir repentance, tneir self-surrender and their joy and fceace in the conscious experience of pardon. They talked of God's dealings witn them with a familiarity that -would be shocking, were it not, on the whole, so reverent. r The result of these combined efforts often was the awakening of a community; the meeting house was thronged with hearers, many Decame alarmed on account of their 6ins, backsliders were filled with compunction and reclaimed to their neglected fealty, the indifferent were aroused and convicted and brought to a 6tate of deep contrition. There were numerous conversions, and the testimony of the converts increased the religious fervor of believers and produced conviction of sin and desire of salvation in other unbelievers. Considerable numbers were added to the church, and for a time the whole community was raised to a higher level of religious life, and in many instances to a higher morality. Usually, after a time, the revival was followed by a gradual relapse into formality of religious service, coldness of religious temper, and indifference to the higher claims of the church. Fever was followed by chill, until, after months or years, a new demand arose for "a season of refreshing from the Lord." This intermittency of religious life was a characteristic feature of Protestant church life for many generations?a period covering quite 200 years. This period, extending from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, was marked by great crises of religious awakening. Notable among them were those signalized by the names of Edwards, Wesley, Whitehead, Suinmcrfield and, later, Finney and Moody. , That "revivals of religion," in what may now be called the historic sense, did great good cannot successfully be disputed; nor can it be denied that they also did much harm. On the whole, the good was in excess of the harm. "Revivals" were in accord with the religious ideas prevalent at the time, and were a natural product of those ideas. During their hectic existence many individual men and women were transformed from lives of wickedness or vanity to lives of virtue and unselfish service to their fellow men. Reverence for God was deepened and faith in Gcd was stimulated and nourished. The evils were incident to the mistaken theology that held supreme place in the churches and largely supplanted the simplicity of the gospel of Christ. These evils S were very great, and the effect of them ;j still remains, though in diminishing degree. Among them may be noted a false, or at least, mistaken and inadequate, motive for Christian propaganda, a mischievous separation between religion and morality, an unnatural and feverish piety that, on the one hand, became a morbid sentimentalism, or, on the other, degenerated into a formalism not less real because often it was not ritualistic. Wrong ideas of Cod and Christ and sin and salvation and righteousness and the hereafter were rooted so deep that they could be destroyed only by a criticism so drastic that it has seemed to tear up fundamental truth of the spiritual life. A kind of orthodoxy was established that perpetuated, if it did not create, opposition \ between nature and providence, science and faith, the business of life and the interests of the immortal soul. It Droduted an artificiality of life which stimulated selfdeception and hypocrisy, and gave great opportunity and scope to the bigot. Much of the irreligion of to-day, or what is rather undiscriminated called irreligion, is simply reaction, though often unconscious, from the unreality of yesterday. At the present time an attempt is being made to restore the revival methods cf last century. Organizations have been formed the more efficiently to prosecute this attempt. In the nature of the case, the attempt will fail. It will fail because it is not in accord with prevailing ideas of religion?of God and man and their mutual relations and of human development and destiny. The principle of evolution has overthrown, not the truths, but the structural principles and the elaborate theory of the old theology. The new biology has made necessary a new theology, and a new > theology is already diffused in the atmosphere of the common thought. But I psak of this attempt now not to criticise it; I would rather welcome it if it contained any promise of real good. I :/ speak of it particularly because it indicates and emphasizes a growing feeling that all >' is not right with the church and society today, and the deepening surmise, if it is not yet generally a conviction, that we are in grc^t need of a true revival of religion. i'i Iso one can justly criticise the present life of our country without recognizing and confessing that it presents to the view very many features which awaken feelings of gratitude and hope. Charity was never bo abundant and wise. The morals of the 3 average cuBines3 man were never Detter. . Laws were never more humane and just. J Politics were never less corrupt. The beneficent enterprises cf the Christian church in all the world were never so intelligent < and sympathetic and efficient. Whatever h abatements we must make, because of certain obvious and perplexing facts, these propositions are, in the main, true. On the other hantl there is an absorbing devotion to the pursuit of riches. The haste to be rich is like an epidemic fever. J There is an exaggerated appreciation of mere materiality. This widely affects com* ? mercial and industrial enterprise. Many corporations strive, by attempted monopoly, to increase profits already large, or, by combination and the promotion of vast | schemes for iurther consolidation, seek to turn paper securities into money. Many of $ these schemes, in effect, if not in intention, are fraudulent. Labor unions, oveistepf)ing their legitimate purpose of protecting aboring men from oppression and securing I for them a just share of the products of labor, are seeking to create a labor oligarchy and to extort money from employers in excess of what many industries can bear, and limiting the opportunities of the unskilled for entering the ranks of skilled artisans. Fraud, bribery, extortion, and even blackmail have become startlineiy common. Society is full of unrest and discontent because of the exaggerated estimate put upon material possessions. Side by side with great strenuousness in the pursuit of wealth there is, on the part of many who have achieved or inherited fortunes, in creasing luxury and self-indulgence. This is reproduced, in varying degrees, in every stratum of society, from the most to the least wealthy. There are also, apparently, I an increase of irreverence for what is sa- | cred, an indifference to tradition that j amounts Fometimee to contempt for long j established principles, and a growth of | race prejudice and selfish passion mani- i fested in frequent eruptions of furious or j cynical lawlessness. Religion, confounded with dogma or ritual, is held by many in ! little esteem, and the church is neglected j by thousands who once gave it their sup- ! port and by thousands more who, in the I natural course of life, should be among its supporters. In the churches there is a j lack of spiritual fervor and a decline of ; faith in God. I think that I have not mis-stated the actual conditions. With no taint of pessi- , mi?m in my mood; on the contrary, with a j high appreciation of all the food in the present life of our country, I am forced to j the conviction that there is great need now : of a revival of true religion. What does j this mean? What is the religion a revival I of which we need? It is a great and con- j trolling sense of God, as the Creator, Sov- i ereign, Father and Saviour of the soul. The nineteenth century was distinguished by the emergencies of a new and deeper sense of the worth of man. This dramatic- | ally began in the upheaval of the -French Revolution. It was manifested in the growing demand for popular liberty, in the rise of the workingman. in the extension , of political suffrage, in the development of j popular education, in the rapid growtn or i the Sunday-school, in the spread of the missionary spirit, in a new care for chil- j dren, in prison reform, in the breaking i down of relicious exclusiveness and the [ tyranny of dogma, and in many other | ways. The twentieth century calls for a [ fresh awakening of the sense of God as the source and law and goal of human exist- j ence. both individual and social. | We need a reperception of the reality of I God in the world. Avowed atheism, the j positive denial of God. is rare; practical atheism is common. Many men have not i God "in all their thoughts." They have a j widened idea of law in the universe, but it is vague and impersonal. They need to re- i alize afresh the integrity of the divine gov- j ernment. There is a divine government of the world?a government that makes for j good and against evil, that is the founda- j tion and source of all just human law. that j is the ground of individual and social re- j sponsibility and that rewards righteous- j ness and punishes wickedness. This sense of God as a sovereign must I be vitalized by the sense of God as the In- j finite Person. If I seem to limit the di* j vine Being by using terms that are prop- j erlv applicable only to finite being and hu- \ man modes of thought, it is to be said j that the term personality does not necessarily imply any limitation. We must think , of God under forms ol our own rational i and moral being, and our very nature demands the answer of a divine person to I the persistent and illimitable needs of the j human person. For a time many have lost the personal | God in impersonal law and impersonal i force. The divine immanence is grasped in a way that excludes the complementary idea of transcendence. There cannot bf i real transcendence without personality. ( The being who thinks and wills and loves. , even in finite limits, is greater than an im- t personal universe. Man is jrreater thar I God, if God be only law. But he craves a deity whom he can revere and trust and love with all the force of personal being As the mind needs and demands the fun j damental conception of unity in order to f i rational interpretation of the world; a.? | the conscience needs and demands th< sense of universal and inviolable law, sc the heart needs and demands the con | - ~ on/] nrmciV# I SCIOUSIltfbb Ul a jtuvvfe ??.%*. - goodness?the Almighty Father?manifest ' ing and exercising compassion, love and j providence and revealing Himself in com ; munion with His child. These expressions j must have vivid meanine as expressions ol i reality. The rule of God is in and over the j soul, as well as in and over the material | world, and this rule is the manifestation | of fiod as the Holy Spirit. > j We need a renewed sense of the reality | of revelation as a past and present commu- . nication ci the divine will to man. A mere | historic God is remote and ineffective. He j must be contemporary. If He spoke once j He must still speak; not in ways of theo* j phany and miracle, but in ways that are | authentic and authoritative to consciousness. This does not invalidate historic revelation, but it clears it of error and confusion. Jesus represents and embodies j both. He knew the historic revelation as : it was expressed in the life and literature j of the Hebrew people, and in some mens- j ure formed His thought on its disclosures i of the divine nature and will. But He j knew also its defects and limitations, and j He knew God immediately, as man may ! legitimately and naturally know Him, because He is God's child. So there is need of a new sense of Jesus as man in full communion with God. We need a new sense of the reality of sin. not as a factitious condition of guilt i and subjection to penalty brought about j by the fall of primitive man, but as an act- j ual fact of experience and quality of char- j acter?as imperfection, inharmony with the j divine law; selfishness and wilfulness and j shame. We have so recent'v reconceived < .1 .A -.,4,, hat our origin anu our rc:ui,u>u n> muuiv for the present, the sense of personal re- j sponsibi'ity is weakened and men are prone j to charge to inheritance and the influence J of environment what is chargeable to their ; own selfishness and passion. We need a fresh conviction of the reality i of salvation, not as an escape from the consequences of our sins, but as a fulfill- j ment of life in righteousness and love. The idea of atonement as a device for evading j penalty, and of salvation as the result of a fictitious imputation and a forensic justitication, stamped the whole evangelic conception with an unreality from which the i reaction could not be otherwise than violent. The vital element in the old theology j was swamped by the artificial element. ' The mind revolts from a bargain with God j and a scheme that is fundamentally com; | mercial. The soul needs an experience of ' divine love and forgiveness that awakens | motive, rouses the will and transforms j character by unfolding the spiritual nature, j Finally, we need a new sense of the re- i ality of the soul. Once men ignored the | bouy, save as they indulged or abused it. j We have come to appreciate its importance i and to care for it in countless ways, but it j bulks too large on our view. It is not an j end, but an instrument. The soul is in an \ organism, but is not it nor a mere afflu- , ence from it. The soul is the man. Per- j sonality is the crowning fact. It means knowledge, power, character, immortality. ! If man is only a cunning organism he j needs and asks no immortality. But, be- ! cause he is a person?a spiritual being, j with power to think and will and love, with memory and forecast, with unmeas- I ured capacity for joy and sorrow, with a j sense for truth and righteousness and God ?in his best moments he requires immortality that he may have scope adequate to his consciousness of power, actual or attainable; and he takes his hunger for it as God's assurance that the promise of pres- I ent experience will have fulfillment in the j I future. In his baser moments, having ex- | hausted his body by labor or by dissipa- I tion, he longs only for rest from weariness ! of nerves or the tyranny of appetite. Then | immortality has no charm, and belief in it sinks into a doubt and often into a denial. it jjs not science, out suDjecuon 10 skhw | tion till it rules us, that breeds the doubt j o: immortality. When we live on the high- I er planes of our being we feel the real sig- j nificance of life, and catch glimpses of its i far ?tretching horizon. The reality of God as sovereign and | father, the reality of revelation as a past j and present experience of divine eommuni- ! cation, the reality of salvation as a fulfillment of life, and the reality of the soul as the imperishable person ? these, freshly seen and fcit as the great and permanent elements of human experience, will new , create the august and commanding sense I of duty, dissolve and dissipate the mater- | ialism which degrades our nature, ennoble j life by giving it a new value, revive the | spirit of prayer and worship and put new j energy into all our moral enterprise. It is | our shallowness, or utter want, of spiritual i life that robs us oi power and joy as chil- [ drcn of God. Statistics demonstrate that the use of alcoholic beverages are on the decrease in England and the United States, but that iri Frame they arc on the increase. However. mat may be, there are quite enough alcoholic drinks swallowed in this country, i THE GREAT DESTROYER; SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT j THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Poem: The Cnn^c of Temperance ? A AVarninjj?'The Story of What J>rink Dltl For One of IJncle Sam'tt Sailoi j JlojH?Uencent From Hero to Hobo. The cau^e of temperance is God'a, its foes ! cannot prevail; Love may yet linger for a time, and yet it ! cannot fail To come at last like flame of fire, in tidal wave of flood, And burn and flow and purify and introduce the good; The age of peace and reason, of .iarmo:iy j and love, May yet be distant for awhile and tarry I yet above; Eut rays of light and tones of love are ; seen and heard to-day That give us hearts to lauor, and zeal to j watch and pray. ?George liutton, in Suggestion. A Pitiful Example. Recently while crossing on the ferry from i Jersey City to the New York side a sailor, j one of Uncle Sam'is boys, stepped up to me, | wishing to sell a watch guard. It was I beautiful, made of white silk, yet he j wanted to part with it for the paltry sum : of $1.5(1. And why? That he might pay a | debt at a saloon. Physically, he was a j splendid specimen of manhood, tall and I broad shouldered, weighing nearly 190 j pounds, yet his face depicted suffering and j deep wrinkles appeared on his face. Then, i by questioning him, i received the follow- I ing story, which 1 here give to you word j for word, as near as I can remenibei, hoping that it may reach the heart of some i one: "Sir, don't you want to help me out? I want to sell this watch guard. I owe a j bill at a saloon, and being tnat I contract- i ed that debt I feel obligated to pay it, j >> I complimented him on his honesty, and i asked him to what ship he belonged. "The Indiana," was the reply. "Some people have an idea that all sailors are the off- j scouring of ti.e earth, but it is false." ; Then with a pathos in his voice that ' touched me to the quick ne continued: j "My mother is a God-fearing, praying ! Christian, God bless her. I have three sis- | ters, the best the sun ever shone on, but I t am the black sheep of the family. 1 had a | splendid wife, as true and loving as it is possible for a wife to be. I had a beauti- I ful child, which was the joy and pride of i the home, but?but?1 am divorced." This I he said with tears in his eyes. "I have been home two days of my fur- I lough, recovering from my weakness, j brought on by drink. I am now on my ' way back to the navy yard, although my i time is not up till morning. 1 have signeii j the pledge and I am going to reform. Young man, never touch a drop of any in- | toxicating liquors." Then, turning to my i younger brother, he said: "You are young | yet; you do not know the awfulness of ' temptation. God grant that you never i may. Oh. to be a boy again: Oh, lor another chance!" Till my dying day I shall never forget the look of anguish that passed over liis face as he thus ruminated over his past life. "I have seen some of the saddest sights ever mortal man was privileged to witness right over here in the navy yard," he said, j "Some of the finest fellows I have ever j known have died one after another in the strait jacket, drink being their only fault." As the ferry reached the slip he left us, i with that look of longing still on his face, j That man had reformed, and but for us, j we who give the devil his license to ruin men's souls, would have been on his way ; to heaven, i ut, tempted, fell. Later, out on the street, I saw him pull 1 a bottle from his pocket and hilariously 1 lift it to his lips, bought from some ac- ; cursed saloon. How lone shall we license the devil to break mothers' hearts, wreck the lives as well as the souls of our fellow creatures, j fill our courts with divorce suits and oui . jails with criminals? How long no one ' knows, but may God grant that we may j have a great awakening in the very near future.?Charles T. Yost, in Hum's Horn. A Living Witness. Mr. Joseph Leicester, ex-M. P. and Sec* 1 retary of the Giassblowcrs' Trade Socie- ! ty, says: J "I have held office in a powerful and wealthy trade organization for over forty j years, and am a living witness to the terri- 1 Die havoc drink is doing amongst our breth- ! ren. To look over my books for the last ; forty years is to look into a dark and hid- j eous charnel house strewn with victims j of the drink. Each day brings its wretched quota of men neglecting work or spoil- ' ing it, so vast is this terrible drink plague tliat not a factory escapes it. One employ- ! er writes to me, 'Competition is so tierce j that I am compelled to strain every nerve to keep my trade going. My tires are burn- ! ing and my metal is in the furnace yet half the men are in the public house in- : stead of being at work; it means poverty to them and ruin to me.' Another writes: | 'I am compelled to discharge three meD , through drink out of eighteen; can you . get me three sober men in their places?' Drink is our difficulty. These men are all . in arrears, and not one penny of benefit, so they go to General Booth or the workhouse to swell the over-swollen paupei list, while other victims are getting ready for the same fate." Harm of the Free Luncli. Against the old-quoted statement that ! "The free lunch is the redeeming feature : of the saloon," Mrs. Chauncey Depew ! says some most valuable and significant things. She says: "The free lunch is large- i ly responsible for the enslavement of young 1 men to drink. As sure as a man eats a free lunch, just so sure will he be a drinking man, unless lie is possessed of rar? self-control. A man takes a drink and a ! bite. The bite makes him thirsty and the drink makes him hungry, and many a man who would leave a saloon after having imbibed one drink, will stick all day as long'; as the free lunch is there. It isn't the i drink that keeps him, but the ingenious 1 make-up of the free lunch, and that's why 1 I say it's a blotch on civilization and should be wiped out." 1 I A Yotinc Comparison. In California there are onlv ttfentv vot ers to every liquor dealer; in Louisiana I the proportion is even greater, there be ing one liquor dealer to every fifteen vot i ers. Illinois has one liquor dealer to j every fifty-one voters. The proportion is smallest in North Carolina, where there arc 124 voters to every liquor dealer. In Utah the proportion is one liquor dealci to every 114 voters, which would seem to indicate that the Mormons, whatever eke their faults, are not greatly given to drink irig liquor. The Iowa Plan. The Iowa plan of confining confirmec drunkards in an asylum is working well. An average of fifty a month since tne law went into effect eight months ago have been sent. The drunkard is put in a little different class from the criminal or insane and at the same time is forcibly protected from his own weakness for liquor. The drink of the inmates is stopped. They are required to work on the asylum farm, and as soon as they are pronounced cured, are released. About seventy-five per cent, ol those sent to the asylum thus far hav< been discharged as cured. j iiijrurtuni vniiu*..vvr. Three important ordinances prepared ; by the investigation eoinniittec of the C hi- ; cago City Council will soon demand the : attention >f that body. One requires the withdrawal from saloons of all windowshades at midnight, that compliance with the midnight closing ordinance may be evident: the second gives the iMayor power to revoke licenses where existing laws j are violated, and the third forbids the ! sale of beer or other intoxicants to children, being aimed at the evil of what ii ] known as '"rushing the can." His Home. If yoy cannot find the devil in a galoot j it is no use looking anyv here else for kim. / i I THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JUNE 12. , Subject: Christ Crucified, Mark it,, 22-39 ?Gulden Text, 1 Cor. xt., 3?Memory Verses, 35-27 ? Commentary on the I>ay'? J.enson. T. The journey to Calvary (v. 22). 22. "They bring Him." l'ilate's sentence is ! supposed to have been given about 8 I o'clock in the morning. The Jew* must j have taken Jesus and started for the cross | almost immediately. 'Golgotha." Gol- j gotha is the Hebrew and Calvary the Latin j word with the same meaning. II. "Scenes around the cross (vs. 23-28). 23. "Wine?myrrh." It was a merciful custom of the Jews to give those condemned to crucifixion, with a view to producing stupefication, a strong aromatic wine. This "they offered" (R. V.) to j Christ; He tasted (Matt. 27:34), but re- \ fused to drink, as it wonld obscure the i clearness of His faculties. There were | eeven sayings of Christ on the cross, all of which express "some characteristic element j of His nature or His work." The first was j a nraver for His murderers: "Father, for give them; for they knov- not what they i ao" (Luke 23:34). This was probably spo- I ken in the height of the .sgony, when the | cross with the victim upon it was dropped with a suddeU wrench into its place in the ground. 24. "Parted His garments." The four ] soldiers divided among themselves His outer robe, head-dress, girdle and sandals, but for His "coat," that is, His tunic or under garment, which war without seara and which would have beta ruined if divided, they cast lots (John 19:23, 24). j "Casting lots." What a picture! Amid j the most solemn scenc of human history | the unconscious actors sit down to gam- j ble. The legacy in worldly things left by j Jesus was very small. 25. "Third hour." i Nir.e o'clock in the morning. "They crucified Him." His hands and feet were nailed to the cross (Luke 24:39, 40), and then it was lifted and sunk into the ground with a sudden shock, producing | great pain. The feet of the sufferer were only a foot or two above the ground. 26. "Superscription." The white tablet nailed upon the cross above the head of the victim, to declare the crime fo? which He was crucified. It was a common custom to affix a label to tfc.e cross, giving a statement of the crime for which the person suffered. "Was written." Pdate wrote this superscription evidently in derision (John 19:19). It was written in Hebrew j for the Jews, in Greek for the foreigners j and visitors, in Latin for the Romans, i "King of the Jews." The words are seme- j "what ditterent in tne amereni i probably because some of the writers copied from one language and some from an- I other. The truth was proclaimed in jest; j Jesus is in fact a "King with many | crowns." 27. "Two thieves." This was | probably done with the intention of giving I the people to think that Jesus was to be j classed with them. 28. 'Scripture was ful- i filled." Isaiah 53:12. Omitted in R. V. III. Christ mocked .(vs. 29-32). 29. "Railed on Him." They utter taunts | founded on caluminous misrepresentations j of His words; they ridicule His king3hip j and even His piety; they trample on His j pretences and exult over His weakness, j "Wagging." An accompanying gesture | expressive of contempt. "Ah." An excla- j mation of derision. "Destroyest the temple." At the first cleansing of the temple ! Jesus had said, "Destroy this temple and I in three days I will raise it up" (.John 2: 19). They had never forgotten this. At ' His trial before Caiaphas, the previous ! night, they charged Him with saying that ! He was able to destroy the temple and j build it in three days (Matt. 2C:t>lJ, but l this was a perversion of His words. What ! He said was that if they destroyed it He j was able to "raise it up'' or rebuild it in j three days. 30. "Save Thvseif." They ! thought that if Jesus were the Messiah, ! surely He could deliver Himself from the ; Roman cross. "Come down." Let Him ; show His power and save His own life. If I He does not then He is so far from being j the Messiah that He is justly crucified for | making such pretensions. 31. "Chief priests?scribes." The digni- j taries and members of the Sanhedrin, as | well as the ordinary bystanders, mocked, | for they suppose thev have gained a com- | plete victory. 32. "They?reviled." From j this it appears that at first both of the thieves reproached Christ. IV. Christ crucified (vs. 33-39). 33. "Sixth hour." Noon. "Darkness." The ! darkness continued three hours, from noon | until three o'clock. "The ninth hour." j The hour of the offering of the evening 1 sacrifice. 34. "Jesus cried." This was J Christ's fourth utterance on the cross, | and is the only one recorded by Mark, j It was spoken toward the close of the | darkness. "Eloi, etc." Mark preserves > the Aramiac words exactly as tney were ! spoken by Jesus. The repetition, "My , God! My God!" gives a deeply pathetic force. It is an expression of utter loneli- [ ness and desolation. 35. "He calleth Elias." They either only 1 caught the first syllable, or misappre- j bended the words, or, as some think, spoke in wilful mockery and declared He called not on "Eli," God, but on "Elias," whose nopearance was universally expected. 36. | "Vinegar." Burning thirst is the most painful aggravation of death by crucifixion, j Christ now uttered His fifth saying on the ! cross. "I thirst" (John ]9:2S). _This was | His only expression of bodily suffering, it j was then that a soldier ran and tihed a j sponge with vinegar, or "the sour wine ;md 1 water called posea, the ordinary drink of j the Roman soldiers," and offered Him to : drink. "On a reed." The short stem of a j hyssop plant. With this they were able t to reach His mouth with the sponge. "Gave Him." The first drink of vinegar j and gall Jesus refused, but this, unmixed with any drug, was accepted. "Let alone," etc. This was probably uttered seriously. 37. "A lo id voice." As it were the tri- I umphant cry of a conqueror. He now ut- I tered His sixth saying: "It is finished" j (John 19:30L This is one word in the Greek, and nas been called the greatest j single word ever uttered. What was } finished? His life's work, the cup of suf- j ferincr, the atonement for the sins of the j world, the old era and dispensation. The ( seventh saying was. "Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit" (Luke 23: 46). "Gave up the ghost." Pie dismissed the spirit. He Himself willingly gave up His own life. 38. "The veil?was rent." The great veil of the temple that hung between the holy place and the holy of holies, forty eu- i bits (sixty feet) long and twenty cubits j (thirty feet) wide, of the thickness of the palm of the hand, and wrought in seventytwo squares, which were joined together. 39. "The centurion." The Roman officer ! who had charge of the crucifixion. "Saw." j When he saw what was done he acknowledged that God Himself was showing His I approval of Jesus (Luke 23:47). "Son of j God." What a testimony! and from a Iio- i man n&\os*r. Stole ami Moved House. The J?ev. A. O. Swartwood. pastor of the . Christian Church at Miiler, S. 1)., says his house and fence have been stolen from his | homestead west of Pierre, it seems that ! houses are in demand in the neighborhood, j A man named Elrud returned to his house j after a month's absence, went to bed and ! awoke in the night ten miles from his land. I l'hieves, with six horses hitched to the j building, had moved it west. The owner , stepped out with two pistols fjid ordered the volunteer house movers to reiurn I forthwith his house to its original founda- \ tion. They did so. apologizing by saying > /li/t rw.t l-tintv it his home. I Colony For 20,000 Foles. A committee of five Mihvaukeeans was ! appointed to purchase 150,000 acres of land ; near Marinette, \\ is. This is the first step > taken by the .national Polish Alliance to : find homes for 20.000 men employed in I Pennsylvania mines. Five thousand will ; live in Wisconsin and the remainder in upper Michigan. "Warsaw Exposition Canceled. The proposed electrical exhibition at I Warsaw has been canceled, owing to be- j lief of the promoters that pending the duration of tne Russo-Japanese conflict such an exposition would not pay. jSrekJtfMt Losin/r Victories. My infant class one summer morn Was gathered in the maple shade, Near the church door, and there we talked ! Of the fair world our God had made. The swaying tree9 upon the hill, The waving grain, the shadowy groveTill every little heart seemed filled With the sweet sense of Jesus' love. A query came: Dear little ones, As days go by, what shall we doSince Jesus has so loved us all? To show Him that we love Him, too? "I'll mind mamma," said willful Tim; And Ben, "I'll carry in the wood 6aid Mary, "I will lessons learn;" While Dimple lisped, "I will be dood." And how will Helen show her love} She, with a wistful glance at Rose? A sweet, but pale and timid child? Replied, "By giving up, I s'pose." Dear girl! To fragile sister Rose She oft must yield her will and way} But now this duty shall disclose Her ]ove for Jesus, day by day. Oft, were we but wise, -we'd find Our triumph in another's gain; On glowing altar?coals of love Would joy to see self-idols slain. In simplest way the soul may drink With Christ the sacrificial cup, And many a victory is won, And nobly won, by ''giving up." ?H. L. B. Richmond, Ind. The BleBnedness of Riglit Desire. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.?Matt., v., 6. Observe the word. It is not creed, or ritual, or money, or ?)ower, or pleasure, but righteousness. "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness." A1 i. 1 J il. 1.1 - \^xiaracier. xcannooQ, me noDie me? that was what Jesus was talking about. But take care not to miss the main point in this Beatitude. Jesus did not say Blessed are they which are righteous. He might have said that, but He did not say it. What He said was this: "Blessed are they which do hunger after righteous nqss.". In other words, the Great Teacher declared, in substance, that there is a blessing for those who truly and sincerely desire to lead the noble life, even though they should often fail in their attempt to lead it. Of course, righteousness is a grand and beautiful thing, and ne who has it is to be congratulated, lor his is the "peace which passeth all understanding;" but he must not forget the man who, though he often falls, falls under protest, falls in deepest, bitterest grief, and, getting up, fights like a hero for his ideal until he falls again! It is not the falling, but the way in which one falls, that tells the story of one's worth or worthlessness. To fall and not to care about the falling, to do wrong and to feel no remorse for the wrong, to insult life's sanctities and to feel no grief for the insult?that is one thing; but to fall and feel the shame of the fall, to do wrong and heartily to repent of the wrong, to degrade one's better self and to keenly feel the degradation, is quite another thing. It is one thing to fall easily, contentedly, like a weakling and a coward; it is another thing to fall against one's will, and only after a hard light has been made with the finally victorious tempter. There are noble men and women who have never fallen; but all who fall are not Ignoble. Anything but ignoble is the man who, though overthrown, never shows the white feather, never swears allegiance to the evil that wounds him; is ever, in his heart of hearts, a lover of the good, and, fighting to the last ditch, dies with his face toward the light! The desire for righteousness! It is not to be despised, for it has the blessing of the Master Himself. Speak not too ligh^y of those who fall, of those who, hard pressed by temptation, stagger and stumble along the way. Some of them, we know, have fought the temptation hard and long, have tried manfully to keep up, and have been more heroic in their failures than others have been in their success. They have hungered and thirsted after righteousness; they have hated the evil that has despoiled them: in their hearts they have loved the good that they have so poorly served, and they know, and God knows, that their souls have never c:rrendered. And so Jesus threw out this fourth Beatitude, like a life-line, to those who were struggling in the deep waters of Sin. If tip w fn A f. fhr?co u-nfpra w^rp frt 1 those who were struggling in them, the waters not only of Sin, but of Sorrow, and He took pity on them and gave them his blessing. Now it is when we perceive and act upon such large and noble Spirit as this that we become Christians. Jesus was great, and beautiful, and divine, not because He was of the "House of David," but because He. had a heart pure enough and large enough to recognize goodness, even when it existed only in the Bbape of a good intention. Whenever He saw the good intention, the noble desire, He crowned it with His loving approval, and, in .his infinite charity. accepted ti.e will for the deed. Yes. let the narrow-minded and the ecornful say what they will, it is tru? that "blessed are they whijh do hunger and thirst after righteousness, frr they shall be filled." "E? filled!" There is health in the word, and victory! The desire for righteousness means that somewhere, some time, somehow, the desire shall be crowned with fruition, for something deeper than mere logic tells us that Fierce tho' the fiends mav fight, And long tho* the angels hide, we Know mat trutn ana rignt Have the universe on their 6ide. ?Rev. T. B. Gregory, in the I*ew York American. God flives Us Strength. God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us His strength; we meat not be disturbed by what is involuntary. The great point is, never to { act in opposition to the inward light, and to be willing to go as far as God would have us.?Fenelon. Better Than Patlenre. There is something better than trying to keep one's patience when hard pressed, j One who was dreading an interview on a ! matter that promised friction, prayed be- j forehand that he might hold himself i well in hand and keep his patience. For a few hours before the interview there was an unexpected opportunity for loving fellowship with the persona involved. When the tune came for discussion, both ?-ftlncp tnrrpflipr 1 hut: thp :in- I GJUtrsi uric ov wov -? , ticipated trouble failed to appear. The j next day's prayer Mas: "Lord help, me ?not to keep my patience, but to keep my j lovu"??3. S. Times. "The La*t Supper" Decayiric. '/1 last Leonardo's great picture is fffcely j to in- saved. After permitting it to under- j g.> all manner oi indignities, the Municipal ; C ouncil cf Milan has petitioned the Italian [ Government to take immediate ste^s to- j ward saving "The Last Supper." ji?pe- j eially within the last year the painting has decayed so rapidly that unless something j is done at once toward its preservation j the great work will be obliterated, or at least vanished beyond repair. With the j Italian Government's long awakened jeal- j ous watch over its masterpieces of art, the wonder is that Leonardo's best known work should have been so neglected. The French, certainly, have exercised sufficient care over "Mona Lisa." Honorliyp th? New Arrival, The birth of a child among the working class in Cumberland has been l'rom time immemorial], and is still, celebrated by the making of a mixture called "rum-butter." its Ijgredients are butter, sugar, rum, and spices, and it is a really palatable compound. Every person entering a bouse whero a birth has taken place is offered a taste for several weeks after the ovent. It is an insult to the child and its parents to refuse the proffered dainty, and not to offer it is considered equally discourteous. 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