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lyrorai?? " m M|^ d-nmina mM\ Washington. Dec. 1.".?This discourse ; * is a most unusual presentation of tilings } that taKe place in many lives, ant! Dr. Tuimage pleads for merciful iuterpreI tation of human behavior. The text is U Joshua iii. 4. "Ye have net passed this Pt way heretofore." In December. 1SS9, I evaded the river Jordan, and, although the current was strong. I was able to bear up against it. but in the time of spring freshet, when the snows on Mouut Lebanon melt, nothing but a miracle would enable any one to cross this river. It was at the dangerous spriDgtime that Joshua and the officers of his army uttho Tvords of mv text to the peo- j pie who were in a few hours to cross j the Jordan. About that crossing we say but little, because on a previous occasion we discoursed concerning that piling up of the waters into crystal barricade. We only speak of the march to the brink of the river. No stranger thing has ever occurred in all history. The ark of the covenant was a bril i:ant chest of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, on the tcp of which were two winged figures facing each other. , It was five feet long and three feet wide. Toles were thrust through the rings at the side, and by these poles f the ark was lifted. This splendid box was to be carried three-quarters of a mile ahead of the hosts of Israel on the way to the crossing. That distance between the box and the advancing thousands must be kept because of reverence, mere was a sautm.> u. that divine symbol that they must observe by keeping three-quarters of a mile away. They must watch that glittering box and follow; otherwise they would lose their way and not arrive at the right place for crossing. They had never been there before, and they must be guided. For that reason * Joshua utters the words cf my text, "Ye have not passed this way heretofore." And the subordinate officers at the head of the regiments repeated it, "Ye have not passed this way heretofore." What was truthfully said of the an- t .. i cient Israelites may be truthfully said of us. We are making our first aud last journey through this world. It is ^ possible, as some of my good friends \ believe, that this world will be corrected and improved aud purified and flo ralized and emparadised as to climate and soil and character until it shall ' become a heaven for the ransomed, but I do not think it I have an idea that heaven is already built somewhere. Our departed friends could not wait until this world is fixed up for saintly and angelic residence. Having once gone out of the world. I do not think we will come back, except as ministering spirits to help those who remain in the earthly struggle or perhaps to look at the wondrous spectacle of a burniDg planet Traveling Xew Path*. But. leaving mar rueory asiutr, we are very sure that we are for the first time walking the earthly pilgrimage. "Ye have not passed this way before." Every minute is a new minute, every hour a new hour, every century a new century. Other fo!ks have gone over the same road we are traveling, but it is our first trip. New appearances, new temptations, new sorrows, new joys. That is the reason so many lose their way. ' They meet some one on the road of life and ask for direction, and wrong direction is given. We < have all been perplexed by misdirection after asking the way to some place we wished to visit. Some one said to us. "Take the first road to the right and. having gone a mile on that road, take the first road on the left, and you will soon reach your destination." We took the advice, but our informer forgot a turn in the road or forgot oue of the roads leading to the left. !? * tT???Anrr ? /"* ) i] OU/I Tl'OVtl cLLSU ?C luutv iur 11 l VUjj t V?(U uuu .. V? V I lost In" the woods, and night came on, and we were put to great irritation and trouble. The fact is. I blame no one for making lifetime mistakes. I pity them instead of blaming them. There are so many wrong roads, but only one right I one. You cannot in midlife draw upon your youthfui experiences for wisdom, for midlife is so entirely different from youth. You cannot in old age draw upon midlife experiences, for the two stages of existence are so diverse. Wh#t is w-isrlnm for one man to do would be folly for another to undertake. A man of nerve and pluck is not qualified to advise a man timid and shrinking. An achievement that would be easy for you might be impossible for me. Human advice is ordinarily of little value. People review their own successes or failures and then tell us j what is test for us to do. not realizing that our circumstances are different. J B our temperament is different, our phys- j ical and meutal and moral capacities ; W differeut. Most of the great mistakes i that have been made have been made i under buman advisement. So. also, it may be said to every na- J tiou. "Ye have not passed this way I before." Our own republic is going j Irougb novel experiences. Could wis- ! a;t statesman twenty years ago have * _ - ?n-: ? ? N ! prophesied present communis; dici.y t president, every congress, has new cri- ! ses to meet and new questions to set- j tie. So prophecies made about conditions In this country fifty years from now may turn out as far untrue as the prophecies made fifty years ago by the greatest of American statesmen when he declared on yonder Capitol j bill that it was unwise to think of civl- J III WIIClJIBIHBnMBWBBPi ilzation or prosperity the other side of the Rocky mountains, and according to his belief the I'aciiic coast would be the perpetual abode of barbarians and mountain lions, and we must not think o? annexing those forbidding regions. A Road of Xovelty. Many prophecies in regard to our nation failed and many prophecies concerning its future will fail because it is traveling a new road. Every step it takes on that road is a novelty. The .opinion of a Monroe or a Jefferson in the far past is not of as much value as the opinion of our wisest men now. How could men know in 1S23 what It would be best for this nation to do In 1001? It is belittling as well as unwise for our statesmen, who are quite equal to the statesmen of the past and who have, in addition to the natural talents of their predecessors, attainments in knowledge that were impossible in any decade but our own, to depend on advice of men who have been dead three-quarters of a century, in all other things the world has advanced. Can it be that in statesmanship It has gone back and that this opening of the twentieth century must consult the opening of the nineteenth century? "Ye have not passed this way before." Yea. our entire world is on a new pathway. It may be swinging in the same old orbit as when by the hand of the Almighty immensity was sprinkled with worlds, but it has been rock ed with earthquakes and scorched with volcanic fires and whelmed with tidal waves and wrought upon by climatic changes?cities sunk, and islands lifted, and mountains avalanched into valleys* So it is another wofld than that which was first started in the solar system. Yet it is all the time changing and will keep changing until the hour of its demolition. Of this beautiful world, this lustrous world, this glorious world, it may be said. "Ye have not passeu ans way ueiore. What is the practical use of this subject? Instead of putting so much stress upon human advice and instead of asking of the past what we ought to do. follow the divine leading as the men of Joshua folitnvcd the golden lidded chest of acacia, which was the symbol of the divine presence. Tenches Reverence to God. That three-quarters of a mile distance between the ark or sacred box and the frout column of Joshua's troops mightily impresses me. It was a forceful way of teaching reverence for the Almighty. They needed to learn that lesson of reverence, as we all need to learn it. Irreverence has cursed an nations, anu none more man our own. Irreverence in the use cf God's name. Hear you it not on the streets and in social groups, and is not a profane word sometimes thought necessary to point jocosity? Irreverence for the Scriptures, the phraseology of the Bible often introduced into the most frivolous conversation and made mirth provoking. Irreverence for the oath in courtroom or custom house or legislative hall by the conventional and mechanical mode of its administration. Irreverence for the holy Sabbath by the way it Is broken in pleasure excursion and carousal. Irreverence on tLe part of children for their parents, insolence being substituted for obedience. Irreverence for rulers, which induces vile cartoons and assassination. Irreverence in church during prayer, measuring off song and sermon by cold, artistic or literary criticism, and in prayer time neither bowing the head nor bending the knee nor standing as one does in the presence of earthly ruler, thus showing more respect for a man than to the King of kings. We ask not for genuflexions or circumflex ions or prostrations, but when prayer is offered let us either bow the head or bead the knee or let tis in some way prove that we are not indifferent In how many places have presumption and foolliardiness taken the place of reverence! That threequarters of a mile between the chest of acacia covered with gold and mounted with wings?a symbol of the divine presence?and the marching regiments of .loshua suggests a reverence that is woefully lacking in social life, in legislative hall and religious assemblage. A farmer went to the wheatflold. taking his son with him. The child said. "These stalks that stand straight up must have the best grain. Those stalks that bend over cannot be worth | anything." Then the father broke off two of the* tops of the stalks and said. "Child, that one that bends clear over has the grain." It is the soul that bows in deepest reverence which is the best snuL Follow the Divine Leading. But though .Joshua's host observed the three-quarters of a mile command, they followed the ark. and you will do well to iollow the divine leading, as the path you tread now has not yet been trodden. "Ye have not passed this way before." Many of you are suffering from just such annoyances as have not occurred in all your history. There have been meannesses practiced upon you or you have received slights or you are the subject of misinterpretations or you are in the midst of sore disappointments or there are demands made upon your strength and time more than you can meet or some physical ailment is laying siege to your castle of health or you are under embarrassments that you cannot mention even to nearest friends. You say: "Well. I never saw anything like this. I never expected such treatment as this. I never thought it possil-Ie to be placed in such circumstances." And when .vou say all that you are only translating the words of my text into your own phraseology. If you had suffered something like this before, you would have known what to do, but here is a Hank movement for which you are not ready. As you have had no experience of this kind upon which to draw for wisdom and as you cannot fully state all j ' ' the circumstances to any human ear, go to God and tell him all about it. lie knows already, but it will relieve yen and help you if you tell him. That what he Lins been doin^ ever since the world got into trouble by disobedient behavior oa the banks of the Euphrates. If in the first chapter of the Bible we see the gate through which the woes of the world entered, in the third chapter of the Bible we see the opening of the gate through which they are to be driven out. Promises by the scores and hundreds and thousands. Sacrificial lambs foretelling the I.amb of God. Hock stricken into gusbing floods, typical of the fact that the world's thirst is going to be slaked. miar 01 lire nuisiuu yuuM.- u inv:i ui-,? march. Star of hope over birtliplace in a barn. Sepulchers rent open. Trumpets of deliverance sounded. All heaven to take part in the rescue of our planet. The Infinite God listening with an ear in which a whisper 10,00'J miles away is as audible as thunder. Ferhaps it is a bereavement. You have felt sorrow for those who lost children cr thought you did. but now that the sorrow has come to your own nursery it is a different thing. You never could have imagined the silences about the house now that the little feet are quiet and the infant voice has ceased its prattle. What a sensation at eventide with no one to put to bed! What toys put away to be looked at on anniversary days! Mow Christmas day is shadowed and the wcrld is changed! Get over it? You never can get over it in this world. Ferhaps it is your first sorrow. "Ye have not passed this way before." God grant that you may IltfVLT pilbS L1IJS ?tu,? u^a:u. In the Wake of the Ark. But follow the ark, and it will lead you to rivers of consolation. You will find that your child lias gone into a heaven of children, a land where children are in vast majority, a score of Infant souls to one manly or womanly soul, for the vast majority of the race die in infancy. It is the exception when people live to grow up. Heaven a great playground for children. Palaces for kings and queens? Oh. yes! But what wide halls of pleasure, what gardens of delight, what raptures, such as on earth with hail and kite and hoop they never felt! Let them go, Wn m trust him in the land of music and flowers. The front door of that eternal home was opened by him who said. "Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven." What a time the children have up there! Can you not almost hear their quick feet on the ivory stairs? What rounds cf gladness! What laughter of eternal gleel Follow the ark. and it will lead you to the crossing into the reunions of the home where you will never part As our sorrows are new, our joys are new and all our experiences are new. Our life is one long discovery of things that we did not know and could not know, because we have not passed this way before. We have found, for instance, that gratitude is the rarest of virtues. You used to suppose that if you do a kindness it 'will be fully appreciated and reciprocated. You have found out by experience, as you could have found out In no other way. that gratitude is apt to be only another ax to grind. Wuile there is a possibility that you may return still more service you are thanked, but when you can return no more advantage you are dropped. Here Is a man whom you have helped In political elevation. When the time comes for the compliment to be returned, you are not only refused help, but you receive positive opposition. You have found out that you should do the right thing not with respect to reward or gratitude, but because it is the right thing to do. Many nw micowiiip t,00:1 nse thov are all the way looking for gratitude which they cannot find. You might as well so down Pennsylvania avenue. Wash inston. or Broadway. New York, or Trernont street. Boston, your eyes scrutinizing the pavements lookins for turquoises and emeralds and rubies. Perhaps you might find them, but there is not much probability that in fifty years you would find one of them. Snrprisina: Discoveries. No one has come to midlife who lias not been stuns of ingratitude. On the battlefield of Alma in 1ST>4 a wounded Russian was crying in anguish of thirst for water. Captain Eddinston of the English army ran to hiin and save him drink. As the captain was running by to join his regiment the wounded soldier shot him. Almost all languages have proverbs setting forth this perversity. English proverb. "Bring up a raven, and it will pick out your eyes." Arabic proverb. "Eat the present and break the dish." Italian proverb. "The | ass. after having drunk, gives a kick ! to the bucket." An oid proverb says. ! "If God were to be so complacent as I to carry us 0:1 his back to Rome, we I would not than!; hiin for his pains if I he did r.ot also set us down in an easy j chair." You will never he happy in this I world if you do not do all the good you j can and look for no responsive grati- j tude. All the damage I did a man wlw : is my enemy was to take him from a position where he received $700 a year salary into a position where he has ever since received $2,500 a year. He j never forgave me. but has pursued me j with a pen vitriolic ever since. The i worst enemy you ever had is the man I you introduced and favored and help- ! ed. But be not disturbed or even irritated. You are no better than your j Lord. If the world had had any thank- j ful appreciation of his coming it would i have filled that Bethlehem caravansary | with flowers, which bloom there clear i on into the December month, aud Herod, instead of attempting his death, would have sent a chariot to fetch the infant to the palace, and the over and i terminer of Pilate's courtroom would have pronounced him not guilty, and Instead of a cross and a crown of thorns it would have boon a coronation. with all the mighty ones of the earth kneeling at the foot of his throne. Another discovery that surprises us because we had not passed this way before is the fact that if two be in quarrel or in war with each other the one who is the most wrong is the hardest and the slowest to make tip. Who wrote them 1 know not. but I cut those two linos out and pasted them in my scrapbook twenty years ago, for the words are so strikingly true: Forgiveness to the injured dors belong. But they ne'er pardon who lu\e done the wrong. We talk about the great discoveries of the age, the electric power, the steam power, the telescopic and microscopic power, but do not say anything about rlie discoveries we all make year by year and day by day. There are surprises all the time. It is a new road we are traveling. "Ye have not passed this way before." Our Only Opportunity. But closely allied is the other fact which we hinted at in the opening? that we will not pass this way again. This Is our only opportunity for doing certain things that ought to he done.' On all sides there are griefs we ought to solace, hunger we ought to feed, cold that we ought to warm, kind words that we ought to speak, generous deeds we ought to perform. All that you and I do toward making this world oeuer and happier we must do very soon or never do at all. .Tosliua and his troops never came back over the way they were marching toward the crossing of the Jordan. The impress of the sandal or the bare feet of each soldier showed In what direction he was going, but never did the impress of the sandal of any one of them show that he had re turned, we are an iaciug finiiu.v m | j come. There is no retreat. Alertness and fidelity would not be so important if we could truthfully say: "I will be back her*1 again. The tilings I neglect . now I will do the next time ! come. I will be reincarnated, and I will resume J my earthly obligations. Having then more knowledge than I have now. I will discharge iny earthly duties better than I can now discharge them. I do ' not give solemn farewell to these obligations and opportunities, but a smil icg and cheery good by until I see tlicin ^ again." No. we cannot say that. There will be no new and corrected cdlrion of the volume of our earthly life. After we make exit from the stage at the close of the fifth act we cannot re-en- ; ter. How many millions of people have lived and died I know not, but of all the human race who have gene only v seven persons that I now think of have " returned, the son of the widow at Zarcphatli, the young man of Nain, the ruler's daughter, Tabitha. Eutyehus, t Lazarus and Christ Among all the ages to came I do not suppose there will be one more who will return to this life, having once left it Pnt Yonr Trnsl la God. At this point I ask you to notice the fact that my text does not call atten- C tion to the crossing of the Jordan, but jj to the way leading thereto. We all think much of our crossing of the Jor- F dan when the marcli of our life is end- r ed. but put too little emphasis on the a way that leads to the crossing. What you and I need most to care about is c the direction of the road we are trav- t ellng. We need have no fear of the crossing if we come to it in the right way. In other words, we need noi i care about death if our life has been | e what it ought to be. We will die right if we live right. What an absurdity it would have r been for Joshua and his men to have a asked each other questions like these: t "IIow can we cross the Jordan if we get there? Will not the water be too deep to allow us to wade? Will we not all be so saturated that we may lose our lives by exposure? How many of us can swim? Had we better not wait until the annual freshet has subsided?" t No such folly did they commit. They v were chiefly anxious about the way that they had "not passed before" and h were ignorant of and to keep their eyes 1 on tne goiuen covered ucucia uoa, nmo t mounted, which was the ark of the covena nt. O hearer, stop bothering about your j. exit from sublunary scenes! P.y the grace of God get your heart right and then 'go ahcaa. If the Lord takes care of you clear ou to the bauk on this side of the river, I think you can trust him to take you from bank to bank, from the willows on this- side the ^ stream to the palms on the other side, from the last kiss of sorrowing ones I on this side to the welcome, saintly 1 cherubic, seraphic, deifie on the other j side. Keep your eye on the arlc. and, % whatever betides, you will go through all right r One Easter morning Massena, the marshal of France, appeared with 1S,000 armed men on the heights above the town of Feldkirch. There were no arms to defend the town, and the in- < habitants were wild with terror. Then the old dean of the church cried out: , "My brothers, this is Easter day! We have been depending on our own strength, and that fails. Let us turn to God. Ring the bells and have service as usual." Then the bells rang out sweetly and mightily from the church towers of Feldkirch. and the people thronged to the houses of prayer for worship. The sound of the bells made the enemy think that the Austrian army had come in to save the place, and Massena and his 1S.000 soldiers re treated. By the time the bolls had stopped ringing there was not one soldier in sight So put your trust in God. and when hosts of troubles and ' temptations march for your overthrow ring all the bells of hope and faith and Christian triumph, and the threatening perils of your life will fall back, and j your deliverance will be ceieurateu au j up and down the skies. The God who I led you through the way you never P passed before will be with you at all 0 the crossings. r lCopvri?kt, ISOl, Louis Klopscb, N. Y.] TA AWf3 PftiwftWW &u w'Ui kimm auu iftbiuud 1 of Lexington: I wish to sav a few words to you oil the Clothes Line, not the one we hang our laundry i on. but some up-to-date rwi ** ai\ it i rifTemri 1 ATTIi f\ 1 m fl I AIIM mil SI II S AM UVKRUUAI S, || Anything you wish in this line we have it. Our I stock is complete. 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