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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.
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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-
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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.*
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Years ago, when excavations were first
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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
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highly heated state, an i that an aper
ture for the escape of steam had been
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served its purpose, was sealed over with
wax. Yankee ingenuity caught the idea
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tories were erected all over the United
States.
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man yet?” said the up-stairs girl tc
the cook. “Yis. But Oi can’t have
any other company." “Why?" “Be
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