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> \ [. TALilAGE. pass navi THK BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN DAY SERMON. Snfcject: ’’Celestial Sympatiilzers.” • Tkxt: “/ have fought with beasts at Mphesus.”—I Corinthians xv., 32. Crossing the Alps by the Mouat Cents pass or tnrosgh the Mount Cenis tunnel, ▼on are in a few hours set down at Veronia, Italy, and in a few minutes begin examin ing one of tbe grandest ruins of the world— the amphitheatre. The whole building sweeps around you in a circle. Yon stand in the arena where the combat was once fought or tbe race run, and on all sides the seats rise, tier above tier, until you count forty elevations or galleries, as I shall see fit to call them, in which sat the senator?, the kings and the twenty-five thousand ex cited spectators. At the sides of the arena and under the galleries are tbe cages in which the lions and tigers are kept without food until, frenzied with hunger and thirst they are let out upon some victim who, with his sword and alone, is condemned to meet them. I think that Paul himself once stood in such a S lace, and that it was not only figuratively ut literally that he bad .ought with beasts at Ephesus.” The gala day has come. From all the world the people ere uourmg into Verona. Men, women and children, orators and sena tors, great men and small, thousands upon thousands, come, until the first gallery is full, and the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth—all the way up to the twentieth, all tbe way up to the thirtieth, all tbe way up to tbe fortieth. Every place is filled. Immensity of audience sweeping the great circle. Silence! The time for the con test has come. A Roman official leads forth the victim into the arena. Let him get his sword with firm grip into his right hand. The twenty-five thousand sit breathlessly watching. 1 bear the door at the side of the arena creak open. Out plunges the half starved lion, his tongue athirst for blood, and with a roar that brings all the gallerias to their feet he rushes against the sword of the combatant. l)o you know how strong a stroke a man will strike when his life depends upon the first thrust of his blade? The wild beast, lame and bleeding, slinks back toward the side of the arena; then, rallying his wasted strength, he comes up with fiercer eye and more terrible roar than ever, only to be driven back with a fatal wound, while the combatant comes in with stroke after stroke, until the monster is dead at his feet, and the "twenty-five thousand people clap their hands and utter a shout that makes the city tremble. bometimes the audience came to see a race; sometimes to see gladiators fight each ether, until the people, compassionate for the fallen, turned their thumbs down as an appeal that tbe vanquished be spared, and sometimes the combat was with wild beasts, i To one of the Roman amphitheatrical audiences of one hundred thousand people Paul refers when he says: “We are com passed about with so great a crowd of wit nesses.” The direct reference in the last ssage is made to a race, but elsewhere sving discussed that, I take now Paul's favorite idea of the Christian life as a com bat. - The fact is that every Christain man has a liou to light. Yours is a bad temper. The gates of the arena have b en opened, and this tiger has come out to destroy your sou 1 . It has lacerated you with many a wound. You have been thrown by it time and again, but in the strength of God you have arisen to drive it back. I verily believe you will conquer. I think that the temotation is getting weaker and weaker. You have given it so many wounds that the prospect is that it will die and you shall be victor, through Christ! Courage, brother! Do not let the sands of the arena drink the blood of your soul! • Your lion is the passion for strong drink. You may have contended against it twenty years, but it is strong of body and thirsty of tongue. You have tried to fight it back with broken bottle or empty wine flask. iNay'. that is not tbe weapon. With one Tiorrible roar he will seize thee by the throat "antfTend thee limb from limb. Take this weapon, sharp and keen—re%ch up and get it from Goa’s armory—the sword of the Spirit. With that thou mayest drive him back and conquer! ? But why specify, • when every man and woman has a lion to fight. If there be one here who has no besetting sm, let him speak out; for him have I offended. If you have not fought the lion, it is because you have let the lion eat you up. This very moment the contest goes on. The Trojan celebration, where ten thousand gladiators fought and eleven thpusand wild beasts were slain, was not so terrific a struggle as that which at ‘this moment goes on in many a soul. The combat was for the life of the body; this is .for the life of the soul. That was with wild beasts from the jungle; this is with the roar ing lion of hell. Men think when they contend against an evil habit that they have to fight it all alone. No! They stand in the centre of an im mense circle of sympathy! Paul had been reciting the names of Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abrabaun, Sarah, Isaac, Joseph, Gideon and Barak, and then says: “Being compassed ‘about with so great a cloud of witnesses.” Before I get through I will show you that you fight in an arena around which circle, in galleries above each other, all the kin dling eyes and all the sympathetic hearts ol tbe ages; and at every victory gained there comes down the thundering applause of a great multitude that no man can number. ••Being compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses.” Though the arena be crowded with temp tations we shall, with the angelic help, strike them down in the name of our God and leap on their fallen carcisses! O bend ing throng of bright angelic faces and swift wings and lightning foot! I hail you to-day from the dust and struggle of the arena! I look again and see the gallery of the prophets and apostles. Who are those mignty ones up yonder? Hosea and Jere miah and Daniel and Isaiah and Paul and Peter and John and James. There sits Noah, waiting for all the world to come into the ark; and Moses, waiting till the last Red Sea shall divide; and Jeremiah, waiting for the Jews to return; and John, of the Apocalypse, waiting for the swearing of the angel that Time shall be no longer. Glorious spirits! Ye were howled at; ye were stoned; ye were spit upon! They have been in this fight themselves, and they are all with us. Daniel knows all about lions. Paul fought with beasts at Ephesus. In the ancient amphitheatre the people got so excited that they would shout from the galleries to the men in the arena: “At it strain I” “Forward!” “One more stroke!” “Look out!” “Fall back!” Huzza! Huzza!” So in that gallery, prophetic and apostolic, they cannot keep their peace. Daniel cries out, “Thy God will deliver thee from the mouth of the lions 1 ” David exclaims, “He will not suffer thy foot to be moved f Isaiah calls out, “Fear not! I am with thee! Be not dismayed!” Paul exclaims. “Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! 1 ' That throng of prophets an d aposties cannot keep still. They tmake the weikiu rmg w:th shouting and halleluiahs. I look again and I see the galiery of the martyrs. Who is that? Hugh Latimer, sure enough! He would not apologize for the truth preached, and so he died the night before swinging from the bedpost in perfect glee at the tnought of emancipation. Who are that army of six thousand six hundred and sixty-six? Th^y are the Theban legion who died for the faith. Here is a larger nost in magnificent array—eight hundred an i eightv-rour thousand—who perished for Christ in the persecutions of Diocletian. Yonder is a family groan, Felicitas. of Rome, and her children. While they were dying for the faith she stood encouraging them. One son was whipped to death by thorns, anothar was flung from a rock, an other was beheaded. At iasc the mother oecame a martyr. There they are together —a family group in heaven. Yonder is John Bradford, who said in the fire, “We shall have a merry supper with the Lord to-night!” Yonder is Henry Voes, who ex claimed as he died. “If I had ten beads they should all fail off for Christ!” . The great throng of the martyrs! They had hot lead poured down their throats; horses were fastened to their hands, and other horses to their feet, and thus they were pulled apart; they bad their tongues pulled out by* red hot pinesrs; they were sawed up in the skins of animals and then thrown to the dogs; they were daubed with combustibles and than set on fire! If all the martyrs’ stakes that have been kindled could be set at proper distances they would make the midnight all the world ijver as bright as noonday. And now they sit yonder in the martyr's gallery. For taem the fires of persecution have gone out. The swords are sheathed and the mob hushed. Now they watch us with ao all observing sympathy. They know all the pain, all the hardships, all the anguish, all the injustice, alt the privation. They cannot keep still. They cry: “Cour age! The fire will not consume. The floods cannot drown. The lions cannot devour! Courage! down th^re in the arena.” What, are they all looking? This night we answer back the salutation they give, and cry, “Hail! sons and daughters of the fire!” I look again and see another gallery, that of eminent Christians. What strikes ms strangely is the mixing in companionship of those who on earth could not agree. There is Albert Barnes, and around him the pres bytery who tried him for heterodoxy! Yonder is Lyman Beecher and the church court that denounce 1 aim! Stranger taan all, there is John Calvin and James Armiu- ius! Who would have thought that they would sit so lovingly together? There is George Whicefield and tne ministers who would not let him come into their pulpits be cause they thought him a fanatic. There are the sweet siuzers Toolady, Montgomery* Charles Wesley, Isaac Watts and Mrs. tiig ourney. If heaven had had no music be fore they went up, they would have started tbe singing. And there the band of missionaries—David Abeel, talking of China redeemed; and John Scudder, of India saved; and David Brainard, of the aborigines evangelized, and Mrs. Adouiram Judson, whose prayers for Burmah took heaven by violence! All these Christians are looking into the arena. Our struggle is nothing to theirj. Do we, in Christ’s cause, suffer from the cold? They walked GreaulauTs icy mountains. Do wa suffer from the heat? They sweltered in the tropics. Do we get fatigued? They fainted, with none to care for them but can nibals. Are we persecuted? They were anathematized. And as they look from their gallery and see us falter in the presence of the lions, I seem to hear Isaac Watts address ing us in his old hymn, only a little changed Most von be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease. While others fonght to win the orizs Or sailed through bloody seas? Toplady shouts iu his old hymn: Your harps, ye trembling saints,. Down from the willows take; Load to the praise of love divine, Bid every string awake. While Charles Wesley, the Methodist, breaks forth in his favorite words, a littie varied: A charge to keep you have, A God to glorify; A never dying soul to save. And flt it for the sky! I look again and I see the gallery of our departed. Many o? those in the other galleries we have heard of; but these we knew. O'o, how familiar their faces! They sat at our tables, and we walked to the house of God in company. Have they for gotten us? Those fathers and mothers started us on the road of life. Are they careless as to what becomes of us? And those children—do they look on with stolid indifference as to whether we win or lose this battle for eternity? Nay; I see that child running its hand over your brow and saying, “Father, do not fret.” “Mother, do not worry.” They remember the day they left us. They remember the agony of the last farewell. Though years in heaven they know our faces. Tney remember our sorrows. They speak our names. They watch this fight for heaven. Nay, I see them rise up and lean over and wave before us their recognition and encouragement. That gallery is not full. They are keeping places For us. After we have slain the lion they expect the King to call u«, saying: “Come up higher!” Be tween the hot struggles, in the arena I wipe the sweat'from my brow and stand on tip toe, reaching up my right hand to clasp theirs in rapturous handshaking, while their voices come ringing down from the gallery, crying: “'Sethou faithful unto death, and you shall have a crown !" But here I pause, overwhelmei with the majesty and joy of the scene! Gallery of the King! Gallery of angels! Gallery of prophets and apostles! Gallery of martyrs! Gallery of saints! Gallery of friends and kindred! Oh, majestic circles of light and love! Throngs! Throngs! Throngs! How shall we stand the gazs of the universe! Myriads of eyes beamin'.; on us! Myriads of hearts beating in sympathy for us! How shall we ever dare to sin again! How shall we ever become discourage l again! How shall we ever feel lonely again! With God for as, and angels for us, and prophets and apostles for us, and the great souls of the ages for us, and our glorified kindred for us—shall we give up the fight and die? No! Sot of God, who didst die to save us. No! ye angels, whose wings are spread forth to shelter us. No! ye prophets and apostles, whose warnings startle us. No: ye loved ones, whose arms are outstretchen to receive us. No! we will never surrender' Sure I must fight if 1 would reiga— Be faithful to my Lord; And bear the Cross, endure the pain. Supported by Thy Word. Thy ■ainta in all this glorious war Shall conquer, though they die; They sej the triumph from afar And seize it wi:li their eye. When that illustrious day shall rise, And ail Thine armies shine In rooes of victory through the skies. The glory Shall be Thine. My hearer, shall we idie in the arena or rise to join our friends in the gallery? Through Christ we may come off more than conquerors. A soldier dying in the hospital rose up in bed the last moment and cried, “Here! Here!” His attendants put him back on bis pillow and asked him why he shouted “Here” “Oh. I heard the roil call of heaven and I was only answering to my name.” I wonder whether, after this battle of life is over, our name will be called in the muster role of the pardoned and glori fied, and with the joy of heaven breaking upon our souls, we cry. “Here! Here!” Wisdom of the Cow. 'It is a popular belief that the dog fs the most intelligent of all four- footed animals, and that next in the mental scale is the horse,’’said George McDonald to a St. Louis Globe-Dem- ocrat man at the Lindell. “That is a mistake. The cow knows more thaa a horse and dog combined are capable of learning. An ordinary town cow who has been accorded reasonable fa cilities for acquiring general informa tion is much wiser than some men who have been honored with proud positions and expensive funerals. The average town cow can open a gate that fastens with time lock, get into the garden, and do "BdO worth of dam age before the exasperated owner can ram a charge of slugs into a muzzle- loading gun. I once lived in a village where one-half of the inhabitants kept cows and expected them to for age their living off the other half. Finding the usual gate fastenings of no avail I added a bolt and slept that night secure. The next morning ev ery cow in the village was in my gar den and so ful'fof cabbages, that cost me *2 a heacV-m raise, that they could not go through the gate, and I had to knock down a panel of tbe fence to let them out. That night I added a log chain and a patent padlock and sat up in company with a double-bar reled gun to watch proceedings. An old brindle she-pirate came up and surveyed the house to make sure we were abed. Then she shook the gate and again surveyed the house. Next she went to work on the bolt with her tongue. In five minutes she had it drawn and started to come in. She looked surprised to And herself still on the outside. Half a dozen of her companions came up and surveyed the new jewelry. Then brindle broke a horn trying to lift the gate off its hinges. They appeared to hold a council of wan then an old spotted gourmand inserted a horn under the chain, lifted it over the post, and the whole drove marched inside. I gave it up and took the gate off its hinges. I now raise all my vegetables at the market. * TEMPERANCE. El THK HOSPITAL In a clean, cool ward, though the day was hot, A crippled child lay in his cot; The fever raged iu bis sarunseu hands. And his temples throbbed ’neit'u the linen bauds. The white capped nurse was standing by. When the kind-faced doctor wita a sigh Said, ‘Tim, ray hero, how do you do?” Said Tim, “I’m weak, sir, how are you?” “A glass of wine,” was the answer low; “His end is near, it is better so.” Poor Tim called out, through the shadows dim, “No wine! please sing me my temperance hymn.” The hymn was sung, a prayer was said. And the little hero, so brave, was dead; But not before, while h;s eyes watted bright. He had said, "Good-bye, poor Tim’s all right.” —Mrs. M. A. Kidder,in Temperance Banner. ALCOHOL AND APOPLEXY. Dr. Andrew Wilson, in a recent paper, as serts tbat apoplexy "is an ailment liable especially to affect drunkards, for in them the blood vessels are weakened by alcohol, and rendered more liable to rupture.” “See that no stimulants are given to the patient.” continues the doctor. “This is very important. If you give brandy or whisky to an apoplectic man, you may kill him. The heart has to be kept quiet. You don’t want an increased supply of blood to go to the brain, and you win send it addi tionally fast if you give stimulants.” THE MALIGN* LIQUOR IXFLUEHCE. The St. Louis Evangelist, in a very sug gestive article upon the liquor interest, says: “There is not another power in existence which exerts so malign an influence on the human race as the liquor interest Not a day passes but that its hands are red with blood. Every day brings wife murders by drunken husbands; shooting affrays caused by alcohol, madmen and a reign of anarchy and blood due to liquor. In 1891, according to a high license journal, there were 1130 murders in this country caused by liquor. “Two hundred and forty thousand saloon keepers virtually rule the land. The cities are controlled by them; they dictate the election of mayors and councilmen; the po lice are their obedient servants; the legisla tures are careful not to offend them. The parties, the political aspirants and the offi cials are all afraid of the 240,000 freebooters who prey upon the country. They dare not raise their little finger to forbid their plun der of the people.^ DRUNKEN* WOMEN* IN* ENGLAND. There is a marked increase in drunkenness among women in England. Dr. Norman Kerr, President of the Society for the Study of Inebriety, declares that never within his recollection had he seen so many drunken women about the streets of London as dur ing the W hitsuntide holidays. . He had fre quently seen groups of four or five, some quite young, all in a more or less intoxicated condition. One of the coroners of London asserts that he has held of late an increas ingly large number of inquests upon women, many comparatively young, whose deaths were clearly due to alcho'.ic excess. A med ical committee is now sitting in London to devise more effectual means of dealing with drunkards than treating them as criminals. Sending them repeateuiy to prison has no reformatory effect. A case is cited of a wo man who recently died iu Marylebone work house, at the age of forty-eight, who had been convicted of drunkenness 200 times. It is proposed to put chronic cases under compulsory detention, and to treat drunk enness as a disease rather than a vice. Spec ial provision will be made for those who are not able to pay for treatment and main tenance.—Picayur 0 . - THE ALCOHOLIC DANGER. •• ; Aleonoi is, in an emergency, a conspicuous factor of danger to the individual and to the community. A recent significant recog nition of this fact occurred at Homestead, Penn., at the critical juncture of the contest between tbe Pinkerton men and the strikers. The local officials were confessedly power less to control, and for the time being the affairs of Homestead were under the direc tion of the leaders of the great strike. Thou sands of workmen were unemployed and under great excitement. Deadly shots were fired by the contestants on both sides. Dur ing this great emergency, we are told, the saloons were ordered ciosed. When the military assumed command, and the imme diate danger of conflict was lessened, the saloon surveillance was relaxed and the usual drinking of intoxicants oegan again. The experience of our own and other countries in cholera visitations of former years, has demonstrated conclusively that those who use intoxicating beverages are much more predispose 1 than abstainers to cholera Infection, and that it is much more likely to prove fatal in such cases. It is true that we are separated from tbe present cholera-stricken districts by thousands ol miles of water, but between the French ports and our own there are continuous fer ries, and they compass the distance, inter changing passengers and their effects, in a single week. As “la grippe” developed in ail countries, so also may the cholera. The prudent thing to do is to avoid the con ditions which invite it. One of these con-' ditions is alcoholic poisoning. It ought not to be necessary to suggest to thoughtful, intelligent people at least, that anything which, in a great emergency, as at Homestead, must be prohibited as a matter of public safety, or specially avoided, from prudential considerations, as in the cholera epidemic, ought not to be used at all for beverage purposes. Neither ought the State to legalize and protect the making and vend ing, for beverage use at any time, of such a commodity.—National Temperance Advo cate. temperance news and notes. The Brewers’ Journal gives the total amount of British investments in American breweries as #91,202,830. New York City, for the year ending May 1, 1892, sold 4.495,519 barrels of beer, an in crease over 1891 of 57,205 barrels. The Free Church of Scotland has 632 ministers, all of whom are abstainers, and a total membership of 64,000 teetotallers. Four reasons for being a total abstainer-. The head is clearer, the health is better, the heart is lighter and the purse is heaver. In an attempt to defend the moderate use of alcoholic stimulants a prominent English physician readily indicts it, fer he says: “Mix all liquors with food which shields the tissues from its contact and aids its safe dis persion through the circulation.” Neal Dow, of Maine, now eighty-eight years of age, has watched the operation of the Maine law for forty years, and he testi fies that three-fourths of the territory of the State is free from the taint of liquor, and taat the people of Maine save yearly more than twenty-four miliions of dollars which would otherwise have been expended in drink. Since early spring the hospitals of the west «ide, Chicago, have been visited weekly by Mrs. Wilson, Superintendent of Flower Mis sions for the West Side Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, and her committee. Thousands of bouquets have been received from friends in the country and have been distributed among tne sick. Fruits and jellies have also been very freely con tributed. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of the South is building a temple at Wayoesville, a favorite summer resort in tbe grand mountain rezion of North Caro lina. Land valued at S-UKK) has been donated and the builiing will cost about #10,000. There will be f curteen rooms in the temple, whica will serve as homes tor the workers, and a large auditorium. The who'e will be surmounted by high towers that will be ob servatories for wider views ;u more ways than one. Tho granite foundation of tne building is already laiA. the manufacture or aioumen paper for use in photography requires the use in the United States alone of more than 300,000,000 eggs a year Justice demands that the humble hen be given a prominent place among the decorations of tbe art buildings at tbe Fair. ^ Delicate to a Fault.—Mrs.Slim- son—My Clara is an awfully delicate girl; she can’t stand anything. Mrs. Yon Blumer—Neither can my Maude. She put on a sailor hat the other day, and It made her seasick.—Cloak Re view. ? ELlGIOUa eading. THE SIN 0 Afcjo*. It isn’t the thing yo It’s the thing yon IK? Which gives you a brof At the setting of tie s The tender word tonoy Tbe letter you didnftt The flower you migh|h_ Are your hauntinggho lK a r< .^ulone /htaehe a ‘n w ’’', |N.ent, dear, tonight. The stone you might have Out of the brothers wad The hit of beartstom count You were hurried oo muj The loving touch of he hai The gentle and whsonie \ That you had no tine or tbj With troubles encasrh ofl to say; deur, e ight for ur own. These little acts of kndness ; So easily out of mnd, These chances to beangels Which even morhls find-* They come in Highland sihhee. Each child reproahful wifith. When hope is faintand flawing, And a blight basdropped on faith. For life is all too siort, dear. And sorrow is altoo great. To sufter our slow ompassioii That tarries untitoo late; ! Ami it’s not the thng you doi dear, It’s the thing y« leave undone, Which gives you he bitter heartache At the settii g o the sun. ' Margaret E. Saugster. WHATIS TRUTH? When I see youiq men carry the Chris tian name and real.' illustrate so many of the features of Chntian life, and yet make a positive denial o essential truth, or. by their indifference t( it, sacrifice the dearest interest of Christia truth, I am disheart ened. I am not entending here for a sec tarian theology. liin preaching to you on the broad lines of uthoiic Christianity, and am trying to presnt to you the essence of Christian taith. I oly wish that you should realize that Christ*nity, if it is anything, if it deserves any en aring place, if it has any exceptional claim* if it brings any* word of comfort, if it has any voice of authority, rests upon he doctrine that Jesus Christ was deliverd of our offences, and raised again for fir justification. It is not true that Christinity is a life and not a doctrine. It is a l?e because it is a doctrine. A religion that set only the human side of Christ always call-him Je»us; the religion that looks only ipon ethical states and preaches only the loralities of life, a religion that holds that lov is the greatest thin«g in the world, and i satisfied with the sweet ness and tendernes of Christian feeling, is a religion of which :be best that you can say is, that it is tryig to keep the fruits of Christianity liviiq. while it lays the axe to the root of the tre which hears them. Now I say, 1 dae to say—would to God that men won d iced me—that if I must choose between ii? and dogma, I will say that Christianity < not a life, but a dogma. You cannot live tie Christian life without holding tbe Chrisian dogma; the one ema nates solely from the other. Tins dogma’s great opposition L that man is a sinner, and that witbout:hc shedding of the blood there is no remisson of s n. its great fact is that Jesus w s the propitiation for our sins, and not forpurs only, but for the sins of ihe whole word. It comes to us saying in a thousand wsys that we cannot lie justi fied by the law. tut that being justified by faith we have p^ice with God. Its one shin ing and conspictmis miracle is the resurrec- t on of Christ. Is doctrine of the incarna- tio^j-parates it rom all the religious in the iTci'id.’ i, If you are in erfnest, my friend, and you want to know w’lit you shall do to keep vour Christian l(th on rational grounds, I will tell you hov to get at the heart of the question withoufdelay. You believe in God. Add to vour theL»m the incarnate Christ, and you* have fcCnd me truth. The pitched battle of unbelie sus philosophy, vou will let vo settle your hisul-y. or whether you will le you- make history qu lily your philosophy. Will you permit tlieoi ,* to make fact or fact to make theory? ' his is the crucial question of theological de ate, not the inspiration of ■<-. •S'-'-ipiture no: the authorship of the Pen- t&tcucli* i ouiig men of Ithe senior class, you lately won a battle in athletic games: then remem ber that ordinary events in life are often parables to us. There are battles we have to fight ami victories we hope to win through life. You know how you did it. You know tbe patience, you know the training and the faith that entered into it. Self-confidence is the beginning ol great acts. You contested that you might win an earthly crown; but do not forget, my friends, that there is a crown ot righteousness that fadeth not awav. (io forth today in the strength of Christian character, stand like true soldiers on the battle-field, and tight your hardest.— [Baccalaureate Sermon, Princeton Univer sity, in the Treasury. SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL! LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 25. Lesson Text: “The Lord’s Sapper Profaned.” I. Cor. xl., 20-34 (Quarterly Temperance Lesson) —Golden lext:I. Cor xi., 2S—Commentary- ■ s is here. It is history ver- ettle with yourself whether rationalistic philosophy begin* the day with god. One hour of the morning is commonly worth two hours of the evening. A man of average duration of ife sees about ten thou sand mornings in. the course of his existence. He begins ten thousand davs; and as the after-conduct of tbe day depends upon a right start, it is vitally important to begin each day with God. Morning piety has much to do with the w hole current of one’s every-day religion. The eyes that open after a night’s slum ber should turn heavenward. “In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, | and will look up,” exclaimed the devout Psalmist. He begins the day* unwisely who leaves his chamber without a secret con ference with Christ, on whom he is to de- send for strength. The true Christian goes into his closet for his armor; he knows not what sudden assaults of temptation maybe before him, so he pets on his panoply. He needs his spiritual “rations” also for the day’s march. As the Oriental traveller sets out for his sultry journey over the sands by loading up his eamel with food under the palm tree, and by filling his water jars from the cool fountain at its roots, so doth the Chris tian wayfarer draw by early supplies from the unexhausted spring. Morning is the golden hour for devotion. The mind is fresh. The mercies of the night provokes to gratitude. A buoyant he::rt that is in iove with God makes its earliest flight, like the lark, towards the gates of heaven. Thank fulness, dependence, faith and humility all prompt to early and tender interviews w ith him who waits on his throne for our morn ing orisons. We ail recall Bunyan’s beauti ful description of his pilgrun. who “awoke and sang” in tbat "Chamber of {•eaee” which looked towards the sun-rising. If the Egyptian Memnon made music when the first rays of light kindled on bis flinty brow, a living Christian heart should not be mute when God causes the outgoing of his mornings to rejoice. No pressure of household duties or of business should crowd out prayer. An emi nent Christian merchant toid me that it was his rule to get a good quiet half-hour in his chamber on his knees and over bis Bible be fore he met his family; and then he went into his business—as Moses came down from the Mount—with his face shining. Dr. Arnold , of Rugby had a favorite morning hymn which opens with these stirring lines: “Come, my soul, thou must be waking; Now is breaking O’er the earth another day. Come to him who made this splendor; See thou render All thy* leebie powers ca" pav.” —[Dr. Cuvier. 20. “When ye come together, therefore, into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s Supper.” The R.V. says: “It is not possible to eat the Lord's Supper.” The diversions of this epistle are easily recognized by the words, “Now concerning or as touching” (Chapters vii., 1; viii., 1; xii., 1; xvi., 1). If the section in wnicb our lesson is found be carefully read, the prominent topic will be found to be that of glorifying God in eating and drinking (x., 31.) and when people come together to enjoy themselves in eating and drinking, they cannot truly eat the Lord’s Supper, for it points to the death of self, not the life of seif. 21. “For in eatinz, every one taketh be fore other his own supper; and one is hungry and another is drunken.” Imagine people coming together for a good time, as they say, and after enjoying themselves to the full, proceed to commemorate the Lord’s death. These did worse than that, for they actually made the Lord’s Supper a drunken feast. 22. “What? have ye not houses to eat and drink in, or despise ye the church of God ?” The supplying of our to lily needs is one thing, tut the worship of God is an entirely different matter. One of the most prominent characteristics of Christ was that He never lived for Himself, but always as a sacrifice for others (Rom. xv., 3; John vi., 38, 51i. If we have not His spirit we are none of His (Rom. viii., 9). If we abide in Him we will walk as He walked (1 John ii., 6). 23. “For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which He was betrayed, took bread.” Hated by the world, betrayed by a professed friend and delivered to be crucified; this was the treat ment Christ received, and He tejehes us not to expect anything different or better (John xv., 18-20; xvi., 33;. 24. “And when He had given thanks. He brake it and said. Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; this do in re membrance ot Me.” He did not say, this is My body which is pampered or indulged iu for you, but given or broken for you. If we are saved by His blood, then the great ques tion with us is no longer one of food or rai ment, but one of righteousness and glorify ing God (Rom. xiv., 17) 25. “This cup is the new testament of My blood; this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of Me.” It was after tbe eat ing of the passover on that last night before He was crucified that He instituted this sup per (Luke xxii„ 14-20) and gave to His dis ciples these emblems of His body and blood, to be used by them in coming days as mem ories of His death He would have them not only filled with gratitude because of His sacrifice on their behalf, but also ready to lay down their lives for Him, or pour them out iu loving service on behaif or others (l John iii., 16; John xv., 13;. 26. “For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew-the Lord’s death till He come.” Redeemed by His great sac rifice, we are expected to deny self, reckon our old man as crucified and constantly present our bodies a living sacrifice, sus tained and cheered by the glory which will be ours in the resurrection body at His com ing (Matt. xvi.; 24; Rom. vi., 6; xii., 1, 2; viii., IS; iThes-s. i., 10). The two greatest of all events in the history of the world are the death of Jesus on Calvary and His re turn to reign and subdue the earth. 27. “Wherefore, whosoever shall eat this oread, and drink this cap of the Lord un worthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of tEe Lord.” The unworthy refers not to the persons partaking, lor all are un worthy in themselves, but to the spirit in which it is partaken. If one should take the bread and wine at such a time for mere carnal gratification, he would be guilty of ill-treating tbe sacrifice of Christ and making light of His death for us. 28. “But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup.” W r e must consider well if we have really seen ourselves to be guilty in the sight of God, sinners justly deserving His wrath, and nave truly received Jesus Christ as our oun personal Saviour, believing that He loved me and gave Himself for me. If this be so, then with humble and grateful hearts we will partake of the bread and wine as emblems of His body and blood. 29. “For he that eateth and drinketh un worthily. eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body " To die to self is the daily business of every believer, iu order that the life of Christ may be manifest in us (2 Cor. iv., 11). One who lives to gratify self and yet partakes of the Lord’s Supper, the emblems of which speak of death, and life through death, of neces sity condemns himself. 30. “For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.” Phy sical health was promised on condition of obedience and disease was threatened if they disobeyed (Ex. xv., 26; Lev. xxvi., 15, 16). At Corinth, because of disobedience, many were sick and some had died. We are not taught that all sickness is because of dis obedience (John ix., 3; xi.. 4), but that it is sometimes the case that sickness and death follow the disobedience of believers. 31. “For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.” If we would walk humbly with God and live uprightly, no good thing would He withhold from us, and we would escape much chastening. If we Would test every thing by tbe judgment seat of Christ, and do only what H approves, we would thus walk in the light with Him and enjoy constant fellows.iip. 32. “But when we are judged, we are chastened of tne Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.” Whom the Lord loveth He chastened (Heb. xii.. 6). The same word transl ated chasten, chastening or chastisement, in Heb. xii., 5-8, and in this verse of our lesson, is in Eph. vi., 4, nurture; in 2 Tim. ii., 25, instruct, and iu Titus ii.. 12, teach, so that bj* caastemng us when we do wrong our Heavenly Father instructs us to do better, and nourishes us by His love. 33. “U herefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for an other.” Jesus taught His disciples to be humble and delight in serving rather than in being served. To be first and uppermost is not His Spirit, but rather to esteem otaers better than ourselves (Matt, xx., 26-28. Phil, ii., 3;. 3i. “An 1 if any man hunger let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation, and the rest will I setiu order when 1 come.” The worship of God, the service of Christ, un l tae showing forth of His death till He come, leaves no room whatever for the display of seif or for self- gratification in any way. If in Christ there is no coadenmatiou (Rom. viii., 1); and as to the daily life, “Happy is he that con- demeth not himself in that thing which he alloweth” (Rom. xiv.. 22). As temperance in Scripture signifies sell-control, and includes the subduing of all that pertains to self, we have in this study a good temperance lesson. —Lesson Helper. Time He Hegan to practice. Ex-Chief Justice William Lindsay, it is said, was raised to the highest judicial office in the Blue Grass State without ever having had a real law case. ANhile yet a novice he was elected sheriff, and then State Sena tor. Then almost before he knew it he was a Supreme Court judge, and finally Chief Justice. Then he de clined re-election, saying: “I want to begin to practice; thafs what I started out to do, and I want to se$ how it goes.* lannea rrmt from Pompeii. Do you know that we are indebted to the old Pompeiians, who lived in the first century of the Christian era, lor our knowledge of how to can fruit? Per haps not, but it is a fact, nevertheless. Years ago, when excavations were first being made on the site of the old lava- covered city, a party from America found a far of iigs; not only one, but several. Upon opening one of them the contents were found to be as fresh and perfect as when first put into the jar nineteen centuries before. Investiga tions instituted on the spot proved that the fruit had been put into the jars in a highly heated state, an i that an aper ture for the escape of steam had been left in the lid, which, when it had served its purpose, was sealed over with wax. Yankee ingenuity caught the idea at once and the next year canning fac tories were erected all over the United States. “Don’t yez be toird av that police man yet?” said the up-stairs girl tc the cook. “Yis. But Oi can’t have any other company." “Why?" “Be cause Michael says that if Oi do he’U arrest hm fur contimpt of coort."— Washington Star. ' nr . IF 1 . 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