The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, July 08, 1892, Image 3
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MV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “The Time ot Departure.”
, : ! T ty e t,me °f ”*1/ departure is at.
hand."—11 Timotny it., tf.
Departure! That is a word used only
twice in all the Bible. But it is a word often
used in the courtroom and means the
d«ertion of one couasa of pleading for an-
used in navigation to describe
the distance between two meridians passing
through the extremities of a course. ' It is a
word I have recently heard applied to my
departure from America to Europe for a
preaching tour to last until September. In
a smaller and less significant sense than that
implied in the text I can say, “The time of
nay departure is as hand.”
• Through the printing press I address this
sermon to my readers all the world over,and
when they read it I will be in midocean.and
unless something new happens in my ma
rine experiences I will be in no condition to
preach. But how unimportant the word de
parture when applied to exchange of conti
nents as when applied to exchange of worlds
as when Paul wrote, “The time of my de
parture is at hand.”
Now departure implies a starting place
and a place of destination. When Paul left
this world, what was the starting point* It
was a scene of great physical distress. It
was the Tullianum, the lower dungeon of
the Mamertine prison, Rome, Italy. The top
dungeon was bad enough, it having no
means of ingress or egress but through au
opening in the top. Through that the pris
oner was lowered, and through that came
ail the food and air and light received. It
was a terrible place, that upper dungeon,
but the Tullianuru was the lower dungeon,
and that was still more wretched, the only
light and the only air coming through the
roof, and that roof the floor of the upper
dungeon. That waa Paul's last earthly res
idence.
I was in that lower dungeon in November,
18S9. It is made of volcanic stone. I meas
ured it, and from wall to wall it was fifteen
feet. The highest of the roof was seven feet
from the fleor and the lowest of the roof five
feet seven inches. The opening in t he roof
through which Paul was let down was three
feet wide. The dungeon has a seat of rock
two and a half feet high and a shelf of rock
four feet high. It was there that Paul spent
his last days on earth, and it is there that I
see him now, in the fearful dungeon, shiver
ing, blue with the cold, waiting for that old
overcoat which he had sent up for to Troas
and which they bad not yet sent down, not
withstanding that he had written for it.
> If tome skillful surgeon should go into that
dungeon where Paul is incarcerated we
might find out what are the prospects of
Paul’s living through the rough imprison
ment. In the first place he is an old man,
only two years short of seventy. At that
very time when he most needs the warmth,
ana the sunlight, and the fresh air he is shut
out from the sun. What are those scars on
his ankles? Why, those were got when he
was fast, his feet in the stocks. Every time
he turned the flesh on his ankles started.
What are those scars on his back? You
know he was whipped five times, each time
getting thirty-nine strokes—one hundred and
ninety-five bruises on the back (count them 1)
mads with rods of elm wood, each one of the
one hundred and ninety-five strokes bringing
the blood.
Look at Paul’s face and look at his arm®.
Where did he get those bruises? I think It
was when he was struggling ashore amid
the shivered timbers of the shipwreck. I
see a gash in Paul’s side. Where did he get
that? I think he got that in the tussel with
highwaymen, for he had been in peril of
robbers and he had money of his own. He
was a mechanic as well as an apostle, and I
think the tents he made were as good as his
sermon.
Hark! what is that shuffling of feet in the
tipper dungeon? Why, Paul has an invita
tion to a banquet, and he is going to dine
to-day with tue King. Those shuffling feet
are the feet of the executioners. They come,
and they cry down through the hole of the
dungeon: ‘‘Hurry up, old man. Come
now; get yourself ready.” Why, Paul was
ready. He had nothing to pack up. He had
no baggage to take. He had been ready a
good while. 1 see him rising up, and straight
ening out his limbs, and pushing back his
white hair from his creviced forehead, and
see him looking up through the hole in the
roof of the dungeon into the face of his ex
ecutioners, and hear him say, “I am now
ready to be offered, and the time of my de
parture is at hand.”
Then they lift him out of the dungeon, and
they start with him to the place of excution.
.'They say: “Hurry along, old man, or you
'will feel the weight of our spear. Hurry
along.” “How tar is ir,” says Paul, “we
have to travel?” “Three miles.” Three
miles is a good way for an old man to travel
atter he has been whipped and crippled with
maltreatment. But they soon get to the
place of execution—Acquae Salvia—and he
is fastened to the pillar of martyrdom. It
aoes not take any strength to tie him fast.
He makes no resistance.
O Paul! why not now strike for your
life? You have a great many friends here.
With vhat withered band just launch the
thunderbolt of the people upon those in
famous soldiers. No! Paul was not going
to interfere with his own coronation. He
was too glaH to go. I see him looting up
in the face ;f his executioner, and, as the
grim official draws the sword, Paul calmiy
says, “i am uow ready to be offered, and
• the rime of my departure is at band.” But
• 1 iur my baud over my eyes. I want not to
see tbao last struggle. One sharp, keei
stroke, and Paul does go to the banquet
and Paul does dine with the King.
What a transition it was! From the ma
lana of Rome to the finest climate in all th«
universe—the zone of eternal beauty anc
health. His ashes were put in the catacomb!
of Rome, but in one moment the air ol
heaven bathed from his soul the last ache.
From shipwreck, from dungeon, from the
biting pain of the elmwood rods, from the
sharp sword of the headsman, he goes into
the most brilliant assemblage of heaven, a
king among kings, multitudes of the saint
hood rushing out and stretching forth bauds
of welcome, for I do really think that as on
the right hand of God is Christ, so on the
right hand ot Christ is Paul, the second
great in heaven.
He changed kings likewise. Before the
hour of death and up to the last moment he
was under Nero, the thick-necked, the cruel
eyed, the filthy-lippei and sculptured fea
tures of that man bringing down to us this
very day the horrible possibilities of his
nature—seated as he was among pictured
marbles of Egypt, under a roof adorned
with mother-of-pearl, in a dining-room
which by machinery was kept whirling day
and night with most bewitching magnifi
cence; his horses standing in stalls of solid
gold, and the grounds around his palacs
lighted at night by its victims, who had
been bedaubed with tar and pitch and theu
set on tire to illumine the darkness. That
was Paul’s king.
But the next moment he goes into the
realm of Him whose reigu is love, and
whose courts are paved with love, aud whose
throne is set on pillars of love, and whose
scepter is adorned with jewels of love, and
whose palace is lighted with love, and whose
lifetime is an eternity of love. When Paul
was leaving so much on this side the pillar
of martyrdom to gain so much on the other
side, do you won ler at the cheerful valedic
tory of the text, “Ihe time of my departure
is at hand!”
Now, why cannot all the old people have
the same holy glee as that aged man had?
Charles I., when he was comoing his hair,
found a gray hair, and he sent it to the
queen as a great joke; but old age is really
no joke at all. For the last forty years you
have been dreading that which ought to
have beeu au exhilaration. You say you
most fear the struggle at the moment the
soul and body part. But millions have en
dure 1 that moment, and may not we as
well? They got through with it and so can
we.
Besides this, all medical men agree in say
ing that there is probably no struggle at the
last moment—not so much pain as the prick
of a pin, ihe seeming signs of distress being
altogether involuntary. But you say. “It
is the uncertainty of the future.” Now,
child of God, do not play the infidel. After
God has filled the Bible till it can hold no
more with stories of the good things ahead,
better not talk about uncertainties.
I remark again, all those ought to feci
this joy of the text who have a holy curios
ity to know what is beyond this earthly ter
minus. Aud who has not any curiosity
about it? Paul, I suppose, had the most sat
isfactory view of heaven, and he says, “It
doth not yet appear what we shall be.” It
is like looking through a broken telescope.
“Now we see through a glass darkly." Can
yon tell me anything about that heavenly
place? You ask me a thousand questions
about it that I cannot answer. I ask you a
thousand questions about it that you cannot
answer. And do you wonder that Paul was
so glad when martyrdom gave him a chance
to go over and make discoveries in that
bleseed country?
I hope some day, by the grace of God, to
go over and see for myself, bat not now.
No well man, no prospered man. I think,
wants to go now. Hut the time will come,
I think, wnen I shall go over. I want to sea
what they do there and I want to see how
they do it. I do not want to be looking
through the gates ajar forever. I want
them to swing wide open. There are ten
thousand things I want explained—about
you, about myself, about the government oC
this world, about God, about everything.
Columbus risked his life to find this con
tinent, and shall we shudder to go out on a
voyage of discovery which shall reveal a
vaster and more brilliant country? John
Franklin risked his life to find a passage
between icebergs, and shall we dread to find
a passage to eternal summer? Men in
Switzerland travel up the heights of the
Matterhorn with alpenstock and guides and
rockets and ropes, aud getting half wav up
stumble and fall down in a horrible mas
sacre. They just wanted to say tbey had
been on the tops of those high peaks. And
shall we fear to go out for the ascent of the
eternal hills which start a thousand miles
beyond where stop the highest peaks of the
Alps when in that ascent there is no peril?
A man doomed to die stepped on the
scaffold and said in joy, “Now in tea min
utes I will know the great secret.” One
minute after the vital functions ceased, the
little child that died last night knew more
than Jonathan Edwards or St. Paul himself
before he died. Friends, the exit from this
world, or death, if you please to call it, to
the Christian is glorious explanation.
It is demonstraton It is illumination.
It is sunburst. It is the opening of all the
windows. It is shutting up the catechism
of doubt and the uuroiling of all the scrolls
of positive and accurate information. In
stead of standing at the foot of the ladder
and looking up it is standing at the top of
the ladder and looking down. It is the last
mystery taken out of botany and geology
and astronomy and theology.
I remark again, we ought to have the joy
ot the text, because, leaving this world, we
move into the best society of the universe.
You see a great crowd of people in some
street and you say: “Who is passing there?
What general, what prince is going up
there?” Well, I see a great throng in
heaven. I say: “Who is the focus of all
that admiration? Who is the centre of that
glittering company?” It is Jesus, the cham
pion of all the world, the favorite of al
ages.
Do you know what is the first question thi
soul will ask when it comes through th«
gate of heaven? I think the first question
will be, “Where is Jesus, the Saviour that
pardoned my sin, that carried my sorrows,
that fought my battles, that won my victor
ies?” Oh, Radiant One! how 1 would like to
see Thee! Thou of the manger, but without
its humiliations; Thou of the cross, but
without its pangs; Thou of the grave, but
without its darkness.
But when I meet my Lord Jesus Christ, ol
what shall I first delight to hear Him speak-
Now I think what it is. I shall first want to
hear the tragedy of His last hours, and then
Luke’s account of the crucifixion and Mark’s
account of the crucifixion, and John’s ac
count of the crucifixion will be nothing,
while from the living lips of Christ the
story shall ba told of tha gloom that fell,and
the devils that arose, and the fact that upon
His endurance depended the rescue of a
race; and there was darknass in the sky.and
there was darkness in the soul, and tha pain
became more sharp.and the burdens became
more heavy, until the mob began to swim
away from the dying vision of Christ, and
tha cursing of tha mob came to His ear more
faintly, and His hands were fastened to the
horizontal piece of the cross, and His feet
were fastene i to the perpendicular piece of
thecross.and His head fell forward in a swoon
as He uttered the last moan and cried, “It is
finished!” All heaven will stop to listen
until the story is done, and every harp will
be put down, and every lip closed, and all
eyes fixed on tbe Divine Narrator until the
story is done, and then, at the tap of the
baton, the eternal orenestra will rouse up
finger on string of harp, and lips to the
mouth of trumpet, there shall roll forth the
oratorio of the Messiah, “Worthy is the
Lamb that was slain to receive blessing and
riches and honor and glory and power, world
without end!”
W hat He endured, oh, who can tell.
To save oar souls from death and hell!
When there was between Paul and that
magnificent Personage only the thinness of
the sharp edge of the sword of the execu
tioner, do you wonder that he wanted to go?
Oh! my Lord Jesus, let one wave of that
glory roll over us! Hark! I hear the wed
ding bells of heaven ringing now. The
marriags of the Lamb has come, ani
the bride hath made herseif ready.
And now for a little while
good by. I have no morbid
feeling about the future. But if anything
should happen that we never meet again in
this world, let us meet where there are no
partings. Our friendships have been delight
ful on earth, but they will be more delightful
in heaven. And now I commend yon to God
and the word of His grace, which is able to
build us up and give an inheritance among
all them that are sanctified.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Bering Sea is swarming with seal.
There is a reduced wheat acreage in
lowe.
Mississippi is threatened with a plague of
grassaoppers.
On the first of June the pension rolls car
ried 849,185 names-
Philadelphia is to have a new line of
steamships to Englaad.
An eruption of Mount Vesuvius is causing
the formation of a new cone.
The cholera is spreading in tha manufac
turing suburbs of Paris, France.
Rich coal discoveries have been made in
the ;ate of Vera Cruz, Mexico.
yt;v>RT of all Russian cereals, excepting
‘ y-, has been permitted by a ukase.
__ 1’he daily consumption of tin plate in the
United .States is now 2,260,000 pounds.
The Kansas wheat crop is being harvest
ed. The yield is a fine one of good quality.
The Missouri Pacific has secursd control
of a direct line to Southern Colorado’s coal
fields.
Immigrants to the number of 92,242 ar
rived in this country during May; in May,
1801, the number was 85,941.
Three French workmen died after drink
ing, on a wager, twelve, nine and seven
quarts of water respectively.
The most deplorable state of affairs exists
in the San Antonio section of Texas, as
scarcely a rain has fallen there for three
years.
John Field, a note 1 miser of Golcon ia,
Indian Territory, has sold 1090 acres of tira-
bor land to VV. S, Furgeson for $10,090.
Field refused to accept any money except
good, clem bank notes, none less than twen
ty dollars in denomination and demanded
soot cash. He got it.
THE SHIP IN DAHOMEY.
Hanging a Woman to Mate tlic
Disease Disappear.
The grip has at last reached Dahomey,
Africa, and the people are suffering severely
from the disease. It is believed in that country
that disease is always the result of the
wicke 1 machinations of some bad man.
and King Behauzin has been busy looking ]
around for the guilty person who is afflicting j
so many of his subjects with this new disease. -
His fetich men told him a few days before the !
last vessel sailed that a poor woman ia one of 1
the towns was a witch, and the cause of all the |
trouble. The King at once condemned her
to death. His sentence was immediately
carried out. Her body was suspended from
a tree, where it could be seen by all the
people, and the fetich men declare that tha
disease will now rapidly disappear.
The large marble slab which was recently
found in the Potomac, and which was sup
posed to be the original stone sent by the
Pope in 18-53 to be placed in the Washington
Monument, has been stolen. When the
stone was fouul and the divers had heard of
its history, they decided that it might prove
of some value, aud accordingly they placed
it in au old ahauty in which was stored their
materials. Some one entered the shanty and
carried off the relic.
TEMPERANCE.
TH* LORD’S SIDE NEVER THE WHISHT SIDE
The saloon men may rally their forcei
strong,
Their hideous crimes may successful!\
bide; ■'
One fact still remains that is “true as th«
sun,”
‘*The Lord’s side is never the whisk-?
side.”
You may look here and there, and stud?
them well, J
You may hear them temp’ran<» workers
deride.
For a time they may prosper, but let them
beware,
“Tbe Lora’s side is never the whisky
side.”
Woe, woe to the man who puts the wine cut
red
To the lips of his neighbor, and thus bat
tried
To ruin his manhood—’tis a baleful curse;
“The Lord’s side is never tbe whisk?
side.”
The cries of the widows and orphans thej
make.
Their agonized pleadings will not be do
nied.
The day is at hand when this evil shal
cease,
“The Lord’s side is never the whisk?
side.”
The dealers in liquors are on the alert,
Iutuiti?'e!y know they will subside;
W ith redouoleO efforts they work, conscious
still
‘‘The Lord’s side is never the whisky
side.”
Unbelievers they are, for Scripture doth
teach.
That lovers of wine shall not be suppliei
W ith riches, but poverty of spirits is theirs,
“The Lord’s side is never the whisky
side.”
—Susy Thistleton, in Chicago Sun.
DRUNKENNESS IN FRANCE.
The people of Franca have always been
regarded as thrifty and temperate. It is
painful therefore to learn, in the Paris cor
respondence of a London newspaper, that
“drunkenness has so much increased in
France of late years that this country, once
sc sober, is now sorely puzzled to know
what to do with its habitual toper-.” The
same writer adds that “the quantity of
spirits consumed in France has increased
enormously. The cheap bars for the work
ing classes which have sprung up in all
parts of Paris during the last year or so are
undoubtedly doing much to increase the evil
here. They are generally crowded, and the
quantity of absinthe that is drunk in these
places at all hours of the day is quite suffi
cient to explain the alarming increase of
alcoholic madness.”
From this it appears that Paris, too, is
menaced by the saloon question, and that the
country of cheap wine is rapidly becoming
demoralized by cheap bars. All of which
cught to be of interest to those social re
formers who would promote sobriety by in
troducing a mild form of inebriety.-—New
York Press.
DRINK ?VASTE AMONG ?VORKERS.
The Hon. Carroll O. Wright, Commis
sioner ot Labor, recently transmitted to the
President his annual report, which contains
much valuable information collated by the
Labor Bureau. Among other things the
sum expended by the tamilies of working
men for various pui poses are contrasted
with the families of wormngmen in other
countries. The comparisons on intoxicating
liquors are as follows: For the families en
gaged in the cotton .industry in the United
States, so far as considered, the average ex
penditure is given as $15.9> in the United
States; in France, $15.08; in Germanv,
$11.41, and in Great Britain $19.47. Ia the
?voollen imustry iu the United States,
$54.94; in Belgium, $45.09; in Great Britain,
$32.74. The food expenditure by the families
of cotton-workers in the United States was
on the average. $287.06; in France, $164.02;
in Germany, $112.22, and in Great Britain,
$246.50. The average cost of books and
newspapers for families engaged in tbe cot
ton industry in the United States was $5.35;
France, 3.79; Germany. $1.48, aud in Great
Britain, $5.86. The total average expendi
ture for tamilies for every purpose in the
United States, $610.61; France, $333.70;
Germany, $282.58; Great Britain, $502,13;
Switzerland, $346.68. As a general state
ment it will be seen that the expenditures
for intoxicating liquors in the United States
are relatively less, and for books, food, news
papers, etc., relatively more than among the
cotton-workers ol the other countries. But
the drink waste among these workers is
large in each country mentioned.—National
Temperance Aavocate.
VHAT CAN ?? r E DO A30UT IT?
Drunkenness is a great trespass upon
other’.-•rights as well as a great sin in itself.
No man has more right to turn himself loose
drunk in the streets or public places, or in
his own household, than he has to turn a
filthy swine loose in these places; and if either
should enjoy that privilege, the swme should
have the preference. But w.iat shall we do?
W hat shall the poor wife do and the chil
dren, whose husband and father defiles the
home w.th his drunken presence? What shall
we all do who loathe and hate this curse of
our land an i of all lands?
O.ie thing we can do, which we do not
enough—we can protest; cry out against this
sin, rebuke tbe drinker, and not coddle him.
It is a vile sin to get drunk; a worse than
beastly sin, for no beast (but man) will get
iirunk. Let us put that sin in this light, and
hold it there betore anybodv, ?vhether our
neighbor or nearest of km. This is oue kind
of temperance work ?ve all can do, ani
which we too little do. Let us not pity the
drinker so much as to cover his sin, lest we
become thereby partakers with him of his
sin.
5N e laugh at the sight of a young man
drunk. Let us rather weep; it is a case of
ruin, of Meath. We should protest, cry out
against the sin. Our silence is consent, and
the devil laughs while t :e rum goes on. Lot
lived in the midst of sin He seems not to
have cried against i?; kept himself free, per
haps, but dweit at ease in the midst ot sur
rounding corruption-. He escaped with his
bare life. Noah also lived among the wicked,
but he lifted up his voice; be preached, he
protested, he rebuked. Thus ne kept the
evils apart from his life, an i Noah aud his
house were saved.—Sacred Heart P-eview.
RELIGIOUS READING.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
There were 363,935 public school teachers
and 204,913 liquor dealers in the United
States last year.
1 emperauee reform has been made a plauk
in the platform of the Woman’s Liberal
League of Englan I, and La ly Henry
Somerset is a member of its Central Com
mittee.
At Sprague, Washington (the head
quarters of the Idaho Division of the North- j
ern Pacific Railway), the white-ribboners
are planning to start a free reading-room
for the railroad employes, there being no
public library or reading-room in the
town.
The citizens of Fairmont, Ind., one day
lately loaded the contents of a newly opened
saloon on drays, put the would-be saloon
keeper on top of his goods, ani ha i the
whole lot hauled down to the railroad
station. There has not been a saloon there
in the nistory of the place.
‘•Among tnose persons selected with care I
for physical soundness an i sobriety the death
rate is more profoundly affected oy the use
of intoxicating drinks than from any other
cause apart from heredity, is the statement
of the President of oue of the oldest life in
surance companies in England.
The Woman’s Christian Temperance
Unions of Florida have received a gift ot
land at Lake Helen, one of the prettiest an i
healthiest towns in middle Florida, where
tney will build State headquarters and hold
winter encampments. Tney have decide i
to call their assembly grounds Scmersct
Park.
Mrs. Ellen C. Johnson, Warden of the
Woman’s Reformatory Prison at Sher
burne, ilass., says: “Of the women who
are incarcerated in this prison ninety-seven
out of a hundred are here either from
habitual drunkenness or for crimes com
mitted under the influence of strong
drink.”
“How do you come to sell your red wine
cheaper than your white wine?” asked a
customer of the new waiter at a Broadway
restaurant. “Just look at that color. Do
you suppose ??e get that for nothing? Do
you think chemicals aad logwood and such
don’t cost money?’ replied the waiter.—
Texas Siftings.
RECOMPENSE.
Through the long, toilsome day she went,
With quiet sweethfss. everywhere;
I watched her tender, tireless" hands.
Caressing here, relieving there;
No recompense, no answering smile.
No words of cheer were hers the while.
“Tell me, thou patient one,” I cried,
“What secret hope sustains thy heart,
That through thee a thankless ministry
So gentle unto all thou art?”
She turned on me her soft ever’ light:
“I heed them not. He comes tonight.”
Behold in all re-paying love!
What matters, when the day is past.
The burdens others on her laid,
If in his arms she rests at last?
The darkest ?vay to her is brighf,
Since he who loves her comes tonight.
O soul, whose hope is high as heaven.
Cease thine unprofitable plaint!
A watcher, waiting for thy Lord,
Ho?v canst thou grieve, hovv dar’st thou
faint?
Work on, rejoice, while yet *tis light.
Thy Bridegroom’s voice may call tonight.
A day of toil—what matters it?
So "short this life of tears and pain.
Lift up thy face! What dost thou fear?
Thou hast not given thine al! iu vain.
Soon thou shall walk with him .in white.
Who knoweth? It be tonight.
—[Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The home in its power to save.
There is no place in life vyhere the real
character of man’s piety is subjected to such
a fierce te?t as it is in its influence and re
sults o v er inmates of his own home. There
his life is seen without any public disguises.
There is no veneer of a counterfeit dignity
upon it. The habitual temper and spirit of
his life are felt as the moulding factors over
the lives of bis children. We have come to
believe that the estimate the children learn
to place on the Christian spirit and life of
their parents is just the estimate tbey place
on religion itself, and largely, if not entirely,
determines the attitude of their own life
toward it. We believe there are compara
tively very few unbelieving and unchristian
men and women in the world who have
gone out of a really Christian home. This
belief is not the result of a theory only; it is
the result of an observation that has most
carefully noted the boys and girls of a whole
generation of church life as they have gone
out from the home into their own independ
ent spheres. This we have seen, viz., that
the real home-faith and home-spirit under
which they were trained reproduced them
selves in ’ their lives. That that life and
spirit are as surely imparted and in
herited as are mental and physical
characteristics; not perhaps, in" the
same way, but by the rule of a morai beget
ting operating through the spirit and life of
the parents on the spirit and life of the
children in their most plastic and formative
conditions. Largely this reigning life of the
home is the instrumentality that directs and
modifies and limits the work of the Spirit of
God on the children of the home.
The ultimate test and proof of all things is
“fruit.” If “men do not gather grapes of
thorns, nor figs of thistles,” neither do they
gather thorns of grapes, nor thistles of tigs.
Herein is that by which we “know them.”
Without this, and until this is seen, all is
opinion; our mere judgment of a possible
quality, but when it is seen we “know
them ’
Said a mother, w hose own ?vork had been
in the bumbler conditions of life, a mother
whose own character of genuine though un
pretentious piety was an inheritance from a
noble parentage of devotion, as well as a
personal consecration;—said this mother, in
our hearing, many years ago, “I must do
my work for God and humanity iu the life
of my boys. Tbey will be doing my work
long after I am gone.” She inspired them
with an ambition to do. She showed them
by the example of her own life what a true
Christian is. There was little of preach
ment on her tongue, but her life was one
grand and beautiful example of kindly char
ities and Christian temper; and, in her
of unobtrusive prayer
CKn since gone. Her
werk—doing it widely
gnze the fact that the
Mentally directed them
in t at work was the
the spirit of the home
lowly, bumble way
and song. She has
“boys” are doing he;
and well—ami all rei
power that most
to. and inspires the
life of that mother
from which tbev caifce oat.
how a whole family was saved.
A minister related the following incident:
“I was holding a mission in a colliery dis
trict. and in the course of the morning,when
I was inviting people to the evening meet
ing, I knoektd at a door and found a woman
at the washtub. I said to her, ‘1 called to
tell you I am holding mission services at such
a chapel: will you and your family join us?’
•Chapel!’ she said," ‘I’m up to my
eyes in wa>hing. I have a good
deal more coming iu,and there’s that wring
ing machine; I gave fifty shillings for it,
and it’s broken tbe first round.’ She was in
a towering passion, and I thought I would
not say any more to her, so I took a look at
the machine, and found it was not broken,
Lut had only slipped out of its gear. I set
it right, then said, ‘Now you have been
hindered, so I’il just take a turn at
the wiinging.’ So I went to work,
turn, turn. turn. At last she looked up an 1
said, ‘I’ll tell my husband tonight, ami we’ll
come.’ That woman was saved, and her
husband and all tbe family; and she became
the best worker in the village, and there was
a blessed awakening in that place. She
went from bouse to house saying, ‘come and
hear the minister this evening; it’s he as
mended my wringing machine for me.’”
WHAT CHARITY MEANS.
Tfe often use the word charity while fail
ing to catch and appreciate the fulness and
beauty of its meaning, use it as a synonym
for beneficence, when its meaning rises
higher, and has a far wider sweep. Acts of
a noble and praiseworthy beneficence may
not b» sot* of ehnritv.Onemar feed the hungrv
andclothethe naked he may build and endow
hospitals aua insmuiions of learning, and
may largely relieve human suffering, and
yet know nothing of the Scriptural
charity. Charity means love. It is the
word" used by the Master, in the days
of His incarnation and suffering, to
express His redeeming love for man; it is
tbe word used by inspiration to express the
love of the redeemed for their Redeemer—
the love that prompts the song of thanks
giving on earth, and the eternal ascriptions
of heavenly praise. 5Ve illustrate the true
meaning of Scriptural charity only when we
feed the hungry, c othe the naked, minister
to the wants of the sufferng, and do good to
all men as we have opportunity, because we
love them with the same kind" of love felt
for us by’ the exalte<l Master when he died
for our redemption and salvation. As tbe
charity or love felt by Him for us covers our
many "sins, so our charity for others should
cover theirs.— [interior!
WITHOUT DISTRACTIONS.
As the soul must be free from sin, so it
must be c ear and free from distractions.
The intent of our devotion is to welcome
God to our hearts. Now, where shall we
entertain Him if the room* be full, thronged
with cares and turbulent passions? The
spirit of God will not endure to be crowded
up together with the world in our strait
lodgings; a holy vacuitv must make way for
Him in our bosoms. T'he divine pattern ol
devotion, in whom the Godhead dwelt
bodily, retires into the mount to pray; He
that carried heaven with Him would even
thus leave the world below Him. Alas!
how can we hope to mount up to heaven in
our thoughts if we have the clogs of earthly
cares hanging at our hsels?—[Bishop Hall.
iOUL-DESTROYING POWER OF DRINK.
“I once had occasion to be called to at
tend a dying man. His condition was cue to
excessive drink. I saw that bis days were
numbered ami I beg him to listen to the
words of God and prepare to die. He would
not heed me. I called again and again, but
could do nothing witu him. One day I
called again. He had grown weaker and I
saw he could no: live much longer On mv
bended knees l begged him to prepare to
meet bis God.” ‘You will icon face Jesus
Christ* I said* Raising himsaif on his
elbow, he hissed out: d would rather have
a glass of liquor than Jesus Christ l’ and died
with blasphemy on his lips! It ia terrible
It is terrible!’—Archibishop Gross.
SABBATH SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
JULY lO.
Lesson Text: “The Descent of the
Spirit,” Acts II., 1-12—Golden
Text- John xvl., Ill-
Commentary.
1. “And when the cay of Pentecost was
fully come, they were all with one accord in
one place.” Since He left them ten days be
fore they continued steadfastly in prayer
(i., 14 R. V.) and expectation. Fifty days
after the sheaf of first fruits was presented
in connection with the feast cf the passover,
it was the custom to offer a new meat offer
ing (Lev. xxiii, 15, 16). Three times a year
all the men in Israel had to appear before
God in Jerusalem; at passover, the feast of
weeks of Pentecost, and the feast of ingath
ering or tabernacles (Ex. xxiii., 14-17). The
first typified the death and resurrection of
Christ, the second the descent of the Spirit,
as in to-day’s lesson, while the third still
awaits its complete fulfillment. See Zech.
xiv., 16-21.
2. “And suddenly there came from heaven
a sound as of the rushing of a mighty wind,
and it filled all the house where they were
sitting.” While they waited patiently and
expectantly day by day, it is not unlikely
that in view of the foregoing facts they
thought this might be the day of theprom-
ise; yet it was sudden when it came. It does
not say that there was a wind, but a sound
like a mighty wind. See the Spirit typified
by ?vind in Ezek. xxvii., 9.
3. “And there appeared unto them cloven
tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each
of them.” There may be a reference to this
appearance of fire in Math, iii., 11, but the
fire of verse 12 is certainly yet future and
probab.y also the full meaning of verse 11.
When tde Spirit came upon Jesus at this
baptism, there was no fire, for in Him there
was no dress to consume, no purifying neces
sary.
4. “And they were all filled with the Holy
Ghost and began to speak with other tongues*
as the Spirit gave them utterance.” As at
Babel God instantly caused people of one
language to speak many languages, to their
confusion and dismay, so here for their bene
fit and His glory He does similarly. See in
iv., 31, how they were again filled, and ob
serve that when filled they spake the word
of God with boldness. Jesus had them in
the days of His humiliation that the Spirit
would speak through them (Math, x., 20),
but they had never seen it on this fashion.
5. “And there were dwelling at Jerusalem
Jews, devout men, out of every nation un
der heaven.” God had in His providence so
brought it about that they might be wit
nesses of this event and m due time help
make it known in all the world. It is His
purpose in this dispensation to gather out of
all nations a people for His name (Acts xv.,
14; Rev. ▼., 9, 10), but in the next age, tne
millennial. He will through the Jews fill the
whole earth with His glory (Isa. xxvii., 6;
Rom. xi., 15), but it will be by the same
Holy Spirit and in tha name and power of
the same Jesus.
6. “Now when this was noised abroad, the
multitude came together and were con
founded, because that every man heard
them speak in his own language.” The R.
V. says, “When this sound was heard,” the
apostles did not need to send for the crowd;
they came. The churches find it hard to
get the people to come to hear what they
call the Gospel. If there was more of the
Gospel that the Holy Spirit teaches and
uttered in the power of the Spirit, it is prob
able that more would come to near. Yet
the gathered out ones of this age who are to
rule with Christ are a comparatively little
flock. When the spirit shall be pioured upon
Israel and the glory of the Lord rise upon
her, then shall nations come to her sight
and kings to the brightness of her rising
(Isa. lix., 19, to lx.. 3). See also the re
markable prophecy of Zech. viii., 23.
7. “Ana they were all amaz *1 and mar
veled, saying one to another. Behold, are not
all these which speak Galileans?” They were
amazed that suen a wondrous thing should
be seen iu people from despised Galilee;
compare the saying of Nathaniel in Jonn i.,
46. They did not remember Isa. ix., 1 (see
R. V.), nor know that God’s way is tochoose
the loolish and weak and base things in
men’s eyes, and eveu things tnat are not to
bring to nought tniugs that are, tuat no
flesh should glory in His presence (I Cor. i.,
27-29). They dia not know Him whose name
is wonder:ul (Isa. ix., 6), who had been
actually among them but had been crucified
by them ouly a tew weet:s oefore.
8. “And how hear we every mau in our
own tongue, w nerem we were oorn?' The
Holy Spine is periecr. in knowledge (Job
xxxvi., 4), all languages are familiar to
Him. It was not tbe men who spoke by
their own ability, but the Holy Spirit in
them, who cau talk every language with
equal ease, spoke througn oue language,
and through another anotner. When Moses
complained that he was slow of speech God
asked him wuo made man’s mouth, and
then said “1 will be with thy moutu and
teach thee ?vnat thou saait say.” See r-x.
iv., 10-12, also Jer. i., 7.
9-11. “Farthiaus aud Medes and Elamites,
and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, Cretes aud
Arabians, we do hear them speak in our
tongues the wondenu wonts of God.” I
often wonder how much of the Spirit’s
power we might know u our tongues were
wholly given to declaring the wondenul
works ol God. In tne millennium Israel
shall sing this song: “Braise the Lord, pro
claim His name, ueclare His doings among
the people, make mention that His name is
exalted. Sing unto the Lord, for He data
none excellent things. This is known in all
the earth” <Isa. xii., 4-3). Why not ante
date that day and let many willing hearts
determine to speak and sing henceforth “al
ways, only of our King.” Then shall we
know the Spirit’s power as never before.
12. “.And they were all amazed, and were
in douot, saying one to another, What
meanetb this?” The natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God, for they
are foolishness unto hirn (I Cor. ii., 14i, so
some mockingly said that these men were
drunken: but Feter called there attention to
the words of one of their prophets with
which they ought to have been familiar, and
adding some other quotations from tbe law
and tbe Psalms, he preache i unto them
Jesus and the resurrection. With what re
sult we shall see in our next lesson. Mean
time lay it to heart that if it is wrong to be
drunken with wine, it is also wrong not to
be filled with the Spirit. See Eph. v., 18,
and remember the promise iu Luke xi., 13.—
Lesson Helper.
RETALIATION ON CANADA
Urged by the Pre-ident in a Messaijo
co tiie Senate.
In a State paper sent to the Unite 1 States
Senate in answer to a resolution of Febru
ary 24 last, calling for information relative
to reciprocity negotiations with Canada,
the President sounds the death knell of that
project ani in effect recommends that
Congress proceed t> retaliati upon the
Dominion for its persistent denial of the
rights of American citizens, guaranteed by
the treaty of Washington, iu connection
with the navigation of Canadian canals. The
President, in his communication says that
his answer to the resolution was de
layed at the suggestion of the Secretary of
State until the conference, June 3, took
place between the Secretary and the British
Minister and Mackenzie Bowel! and George
E. Foster. John W. Foster also appeared
on behalf of the Government of the United
States, at the request of the Secretary of
State.
BEER OR BREAD.
One-fifteenth of Germany’s cultivate I
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making it a question oc near or hreai for
tbe poorer ciasses of tha: country. Tne
drink question :s thus becoming an import
ant one in the political economy ot Germany.
Protessor Schmoller, of Berlin, au able po
litical economist, thus writes: “Amongoui
working people the conditions of domestic
life, of education, of prosperity, of progress
or degradation are all dependent on the
proportion of ncome which flews down the
father’s taroat. The whole condition of our
lower and middle classes—one may eveu,
without exaggeration, say the future of our
Nation—depends on this question. If it is
true that half our paupers become so
through driuK it gives us some estimate of
the costly burden which we tolerate. No
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