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/ / / THE (PULPIT. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY BISHOP D. A. COODSELL. Subject: The Face of Christ. BLooklyn, X. Y.?A very large audience filled the Tabernacle Sunday to listen to Bishop D. A. Goodsell. His subject was "The Face of Christ." The text was from II. Corinthians iv:t>: *The glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." Bishop GoodseU said in the course of his sermon: As you read the Bible both in the Old and New Testaments you are impressed with the great number of times which the word "face" is used. When you travel in Eastern lands you find that this word is used far more often and in many different relations among the Eastern people than we ourselves are accustomed to use it. This word face is used in reference to a man's whole character, I am told, everywhere in the East, and we have a great many traces of it in the Bible; and now when we come to think of it isn't it true that we are accustomed to recognize each other more by the face than by any other one thing. Is it not wonderful that upon the few elements in the face, the forehead, the eyes, nose, mouth and chin there should be such an infinite variety of expression stamped by the great Creator? There is a general conviction among us that the face will work out the inner character, so that whatever may be the beginning of life when we have lived with ourselves a long time we will be pretty apt to show upon our faces what kind of a person we have Jived with. It is impossible for any person to give way to avarice without showing it on their face. If he had an open face once it will change: and so the man who gives way to the forces of passion, whether he gives way to lust or whether he gives way to .drink, or whether he gives way to appetite for food, it will show out on his face. We write upon our faces what we live with and no man can wear a mast so completely that those who are wise in these things are not able to read behind the mask. Now, what one is there among us that has not desired again and again to have lived when the face of Jesus Christ could have been seen. I think there is no devout soul that in his trouble has not said. Oh. that I could look into my Master's face. Oh, that I could," live as the little children did, "have rested my head against His breast and have heard Him say to me as He said to them, 'Suffer them to come.'" You can scarcely go into a Christian home to-day where Christian education has presided where there is not at least one or more representations of the face of Jesus Christ. I have observed according to our experiences, according to our wants, we fasten upon the representations of Jesus Christ's face that are most satisfying to us, most fitting. So that if we are under deep penitence of sin, we are apt to have the face of the suffering Christ upon ithe Cross, and if the sorrows of the tworld have burdened our hearts, we Will carry there the face of the thorncrowned Christ in our homes. If we have dwelt upon Christ in His strength, in His power, in His resistance to evil, in the calm majesty of one who knows he is innocent, we .would most likely have the picture of Christ before Pilate. From the days of the Catacombs up to the present time, men have been trying to put Christ's face before humanity, and why? Because all souls in their greater moments, in their spiritual moments, and therefore in- their religious moments, would like to have Him brought near Dy. iney wouiu use w nave mm made more real. The beet thing is to so carry Jesus Christ in our heart that we shall see Him and behold the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. The actual picture must remain the same. We may study it, we may understand its history. It is not at all x probable that any one is going to see in a moment what it took the artist years to produce, though this may happen. But as we grow spiritually it is possible for us by spiritual sight to behold our Lord, to behold. Him more clearly as the years go on. When we study this one word, the word face, we find that it stands related to three great facts and to none other that I know of, and these three facts are, first, revelation, then inspiration and finally reward. This is exactly what the Apostle means by ihis text, that he who studies the face of Jesus Christ, he who enlarges his vision by spiritual imagination, will have the revelation of the divine truth come to him. For do we not know that Jesus came to reveal God to us, to reveal God to a world in which the dim eye of sin could but imperfectly see Him. But the trouble is that our eyes see as we are educated to see. I have often noticed while passing along the street that a man is usually interested in the trade he represents. If he was a hatter, he looked at my hat; if he was a tailor he looked at my clothes; if he was a shoemaker he looked at my shoes; if he was a bootblack he looked to see whether they were muddy or not, and so our vision is trained by what we are doing, by . what we are thinking:. If our eyes 'are trained only to the things of time, then all the beauty that we see is in the things *)f time, but by using these v as stepping stones to something higher and nobler, then we see by the power of God's revelation that there is a God here in this world, and that He is ruling the world in the interest of Jesus Christ. I believe that you would have thought yourself victims of fate if you had not been taught by Jesus Christ the doctrine of divine fatherhood. You would have thought perhaps that this world was made by chance if you had not seen Him standing in the stern of the ship and saying to the troubled waves, "Peace, be still." But because He has come, because He has passed through all the phases of our I life from infancy to maturity, because He has been tempted, because He submitted to wrong in order that He might do a great and holy work, because He has given the most perfect example of what humanity ought to be under all phases and circumstances, because He is? here and was God ' manifested in the flesh, we. His breth ren in the creation, and we, His brethren in the redemption of the cross, 1 know that we are dear to God, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son to die for us. I have to travel a good deal in my work, as you know. Very often I wake i early in the morning, and lift the cur- I tain of my sleeping car that I may see where we are. and what the pros- | pects are. Sometimes it is clouded, sometimes it is clear. There are pools in the ditches beside the tracks, or perhaps we are running alongside the lake and I look at the lake and out there I can see things mirrored. It has been a great pleasure to me sometimes to pick out the stars. Why there is Orion and there is Sirius, there is the big dipper and there is Jupiter and there is Venus, the morning star, and { there is Mars. I didn't have to look up, I looked down and saw it reflected. * timn t n-nnifl spL^ th?i round orb ! AUU A fi of the morn and I could see what phase of the moon was on by looking down as I could by looking above. Then I have seen the wind set the glassy surface into waves, and it would be only belts of broken light. That is the way it is in human society. We are looking down upon the world which, reflects human weaknesses, human sin, j human passions. There isn't a glassy | place to reflect the glory of Christ in. j There are all kinds of passions at work and the best that we can see is the rutfled surface of humanity, but I see bars of light that are on the surface, then, when I look up I see the glorious Christ. Now, finally, the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ is revealed, not only as a revelation, not only for in- | spiration, but for reward. How full j the New Testament is of this idea that ( the sight of Jesus Christ shall be the ' reward of the saint and the Old Testa- j ment, too: "My eyes shall see the i King in His beauty,'' "We shall be sat- j isfied when we wake in His likeness." j "We shall see Him and know Him as j He is." How many more passages does { your memory bring up out of your j religious education that teach this doc- | trine? j We who are here this morning, if \ we believe in God we stall not only see those who have go?e before, who kaK*e ' been in our homes, but the great am- j bition of a devoted soul will be-grati- j fled?we shall see God. I blessed are the pure in heart, for j they shall see God. According to the 1 measure of our inward_purity do we ; seem to see God here, wnen we suau, by the washing of regeneration and the renewal of our hearts and the j sanctification of our spirit, until we can say the Lord hath made me whiter than snow. We walk with E?im, our hand is in His hand and our head is on His bosom. He carries us when we are weak, as a shepherd carries the lamb. He heals our disease, He comforts us in our sorrows. He is in our homes when we are there, in our shops when we are there, in the streets when we are walking, on the sea when we are sailing. We shall see Christ not in His humiliation, but in His exaltation; not as a babe in the manger, but as a king of the universe; not as humbled before Pilate, but as ruling all things and judging all things. I believe in heaven because I believe in God. I do not know where it is, I think that I am convinced that it is a condition rather than a place. This is shown by the parable of Dives and Lazarus, one in paradise and one in hell, yet they could talk across the gulf. That must have been moral rather than physical. But I do not know that if God is everywhere, my soul shall soar through space and find Him everywhere. It may be that heaven is everywhere, as God is every^ where to the devout soul. Getting at Life's Values. Things that come easily are not of much value. Vacation time does not often record noteworthy accomplishment. It is when the pressure of life * - *- 1 ? ? +/V fVlA is at its nignest, pernups ciuov IV Uitz breaking point, that results usually cotrnt for most. That time that we are looking forward to, when this present grinding pressure will be off and we shall have an opportunity to do something, is not likely to record nearly as good work as we are doing under friction and stress. Those particles of ciarbon might have been nothing more than coal or graphite if consuming heat and enormous pressure had not crystallized them into a diamond. If such a weight is just now upon us, let us rejoice at the opportunity we have for getting at the precious tilings of life.?S. S. Times. The Bible. Alone it has civilized whole nations. It is the one book that can fully lead forth the richest and deepest and sweetest things in man's nature. Read all other books?philosophy, poetry, history, fiction?but if you would refine the judgment, fertilize the reason, wing the imagination, attain unto the finest womanhood or the sturdiest manhood, read this book, reverently and prayerfully, until its truths have dissolved like iron into the blood. If you have no time, make time and read. The book Daniel Webster placed under hi9 pillow when dying is the book all should carry in the hand while living.?Newell D. Hillis. A Mockery. To be dishonest during the week, to defraud one's creditors, to rent property for saloons or brothels, to water stock and sell the water to the public, to live in sin and then to go to church on Sunday to worship, or to* pretend to worship at home, is mockery. If there is one thing the Bible declares, it is that God abhors such worship. He must be worshiped in truth.?Sunday-School Times. The Cheeriest Music. We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round nnr lives into a hymn?the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us, and the power of which shall not be evanescent, like the voice of the singer, but perennial, like the music of the spheres.?Wm. M. Taylor. The Key and the Lock. Let, then, our prayers be "the key that opens the day, and the lock that shuts the night," and also from morning to night our staff and stay in all our labors, enabling us to go cheerfully up to the mount of God.?Canon Farrar Not All Love. When the average young couple get married they start out on the false assumption that love is a habit, like the dope habit, that nothing will break up, and they will never want any other amusement in life more thrilling than holding each other's hands. This is a mistake. You can tire of squeezing the most lily white hand in mighty short order, and even the diversion of gazing into another's - yes palls upon you pretty soon, when it is always the same eyes. It is then up to both husband and wife to keep things moving if they want to be happy. Nothing is going to happen of itself. If the woman wants to keep her husband Interested she has got to make a home for him that is comfortable, attractive and cheerful. When you hear a man say that he had rather go home to dinner than eat at a fashionable restaurant, it is a certificate of domestic happiness so 6trong that you could draw money on it at the bank. If she wants to make married life interesting for her husband a woman must keep up the charm and allurement with which she caught him. Even the recording angel must wink at the peccadilloes of the man who has to go home at night to a fault-finding, peevish, fretting, nagging woman in a wrapper. ? The Winter Palace's History. The Winter Palace of the Czar is a fitting center from which to carry on the fell work of repression alotted to Trepoff. Almost every stone of the ! walla and every square yard of the plaster lining cost a life. Nicholas j had given the order that the palace must be rebuilt in a year, and what was human life against the despot's will? Six thousand men were kept at work day and night, with the palace heated at 30 Reamur to dry the walls rapidly, while the temperature ! outside was often 30 degrees below I. zero Reamur. The men could only work with ice packs on their heads, and experiencing a daily change of 60 degrees, they died by the score very day. By the end of the year the death roll was some thousands, but the palace was finished. To understand the full meaning of this achievement, it should be remembered that the Winter Palace is as large as Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace and th* National Gallery.? London Globe. CAR LAWS AND RULES, j Church?There is a law against expectorating in the oars in New York, is there not? Gotham?Oh, yes. "And Is there not a law against standing on the platform?" "Certainly there is," "I suppose, of course, there's a rule against getting off a car while it is in motion?' 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Other fiduciary institutions | own enough railroad securities to bring such holdings up to more than a billion and a half dollars, about one-sixth of the entire capital invested in railroad property. These investments represent the savings of the masses, there being twenty million holders of life insurance policies in the country, as many more of fire insurance policies, and an even greater number of depositors in banking and trust institutions, where investments are largely in railroad securities. i __________ j Crowds of Russian refugees now wander ' about London. i _________________ Itch cured in 30 minutes bv Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. Never Fails! Sold by all . druggists, $1. Mail orders promptly filled j by Dr. E. Detchou, Crawforasville, fnd. Carl Beers, of Bangor. Me., runs a worm farm. He raises them for bait. Taylor's Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum I and Mullen is Nature's great remedy?Cures j Coughs, Colds, Croup and Consumption,and i all throat and lung troubles. 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