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lf | 1 HE PULPIT. A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY DR. W. S. LEWIS. * * Subject: The Secret of the Lord. Brooklyn, N. Y.?President W. S. i Lewis, D. D., of Morningside College. Sioux City, la., is the vacation preacher in the Hanson Place M. E. Iht Church. He began his services there Hr Sunday morning and had a good aur dience. He is an excellent preacher, s His subject was "The Fear of the Lord." The text was from Psalm xxv.; 14: "The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him, and He will'show them His covenants." Dr. Lewis said: l-, <4 words, like men, are affected by the atmosphere in which they live. A word spoken 3000 years ago, but to another p.eople, and in another clime, may fail to represent Its highest and best meaning to those born in another age and under other skies. Many " years have flown since this word was spoken, and-at least one of these jn the text needs a word of explanation ?fear. The good Book says: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of y wisdom," but reference is made in * the New Testament to the fact that perfect love casteth out fear. Thanks to the cioss, the broken tomb, the descent of fire which spoke on cloven tongue, for a changed atmosphere, in ' which our text may read: "The secret of the Lord is with them that love Him." The problem of knowledge is not . that, but how, it is. A few small \philosophers have doubted the fact that they knew, but thatMs carrying . doubt to the point of insanity. We know, and we know we know; the how that we know is the problem. That an idea may be passed from one mind to another, may even by crystallized into a word and remain pent up there from century to century, to break forth into another mind, to be reflected on, and on, through the jr. ages. How this is, is more than we r ' know. How that the mind may get a voice from the rocks so that the ft, mountains shall speak and make f themselves understood, and from the sky and from the sea. We know they IB- sneak, but how? That is the dues tion. Do you think that God, who has expressed His love in flower, in brook, in sky, should have exhausted alt His .'resources to make Himself known as He speaks from nature? GoS speaks to the heart, the inner world is His realm. This is His j - th^cne, and He leaves His secrets 2 thqre'to become the seed of thought, f-J. of ^inspiration and of action. The gr^at problem of hearing His word ana then to translate it through the tongue, the finger tips and footprints, so^that it shall become the living word to^other folks, is the problem of j? .. the hour. To whom will God speak? We raise this Question to answer it by ?? asking you to whom do you commit r the secrets of your heart? Do you B: tell those who revile you, who have K no faith in you, who speak ill of you? pv? Do" you tell these the secrets of your heart? It's a great thing to be a friend, to know how to awaken the spirit of friendship in others. To whom do you.commit your secrets? L The first quality of friendship is the HQ;-capacity for faith. Yon cannot trust those in whom you do not believe. You cannot inspire in them the first ^ note of friendship. The captious ? . critic has no friends. The teacher who asks his pupil the hardest ques, tiohs and criticises him because he fails to answer; the preacher who begins his service and ends it with a .^Vspirit of criticism, will not awaken W in the heart the deepest, the best inTXT a ?iot Kowin "Ktr po tt_ OUVU9* I* U lilUOt UJ caj tog: "I believe to you." We must have the capacity for seeing the best and the truest in people. We are % commanded in the good Book that ve should love one another, and I trust we do, but I am thankful that that does not include that command that we must like everybody, for there are some folks whom it is hard to like, and of these are the thin" voiced, pinched-faced, hollow-eyed ^ critic. The first quality, then, is that of inspiring people with the idea that r Ve believe in them, and if we have faith - in others, they will have * faith in us, for faith in the heart begets faith in one another. It is so with God. If we would know Him and awaken within Him the power ..even of committing to us His secrets, we must believe, for with the heart the man believeth unto righteousness , ?that righteousness which brings . the image of God into the face of cray. And then, too, we must tell our friends that we believe in them. I love flowers much, but pray you do not reserve them all for the funeral. Tell your mends you oeneve tnem; tell them that you love them. Speak jftrith your lips, speak with your eye, ^peak with your finger tips. Tell ? them you love them. And God, too, ^ is touched by the same testimony. v "With the mouth confession is made * unto salvation." Another quality absolutely essential to friendship, ab.. solutely essential to true friendship [' with man and with God?and that is downright, sincere heart honesty. I heard a man say the other day: "My t- religion is to pay my debts." He answered the question of how much he is worth by a round $50,000, and ' I said: "Of course, you pay your klebts. There is one a little less great Jhan the Almighty who would be af - ter you if you did not, for Uncle Sam sees to that." You will pay your 9, debts, but that is not the measure of ^ honesty in the sense in which I 4 speak it now. It is that sort of spiri' itual honesty that would blush deep. ly to think a falsehood or to harbor r in the heart one moment a shadowy thought. It is the kind of honesty that is born of a pure heart?a heart :y ^puched by the sunlight of His inflk > nite.love, a heart that is made clean f by the power of His spirit. Such sincerity as this, such downright hones1'* ty of purpose, is loved of men and God alike. It is the basis of true, friendship with man and with "God. I read a hew text the other day. ir <jt was as old as the voice of David, "but it came with a new voice, thus: "The Lord made known His ways unto Moses, and His acts unto the children of Israel." This is the disM^tinction between Moses and the chil|fl^ren of Israel. Moses understood the ^Vact of God, but some way he had the w ' .' jt % souNreach which recognized the finger of God uniting act to act to tell the sweet story of His love. I remember once, when the children of Israel were hungry, and Moses cried to God. In the morning, on the sand of the desert, everywhere, were little round, white loaves, and the Israelite, standing in the door of his tent, said: "What is it?" "Manna." He ate the gift of God and his hunger was satisfied, and said in his heart: "This is the act of God." But Moses, looking on hungry Israel, satisfying its appetite, and looking up to the blue, said: "This is the way of God." Again, the Israelites cried for food, and God at the word of Moses sent quails, and covered the camp, and the Israelites ate. and were satisfied, satisfied with the act of God, but the spirit of Moses would not rest until he saw through the act to the heartbeat of God> and he saw in quails, in rain, in fire, everywhere, 'when God spoke, he saw His way. And once, when he climbed the mountain and | stood in the presence of Jehovah for forty days, so catching the heart-beat [ of the Infinite that his face shone with peculiar glory, and he must ' - - ? * -1- ? ?- ?. ? 1 +1* A /ill * 1_ i neeas cover u wita a veu ei e iuc dren of Israel would look upon him. Would you know the difference between Moses and the children of Israel? Their bones were buried in the wilderness, while he, long after, climbed Nebo's height, and, as the old tradition says, God kissed his spirit from his body and buried the | clay with His own hand, and gathered the soul to His bosom. We have heard from him once since, when on the Mountain of Transfiguration with Elijah he talked with the . man of sorrows concerning the death which He should accomplish at Jerusalem. Moses lives because he learned the ways of God. And would {you know the secret of this in everyday life? Some of you have said: "I am poor; I was born poor, and I have held my own." I saw a poor woman the other day. I was directed through a gate into a pasture, down j over a hill, through another gate into a green plot of meadow, and there was a little lonely house. The chairs were poor, the stool was broken? poverty everywhere, save only in the face of the woman. Every joint save one was stiff with incurable disease, and with the right hand she toiled busily on for the little ones taht gath-. ered about her feet. I thought that I would bring her a word of consolation, but it was I that was consoled, for in the silence and sorrow of poverty God had talked to her, and her face shone with His beauty, and her eye was bright with His glory. Her words were like ointment poured i forth. She lived in the heaTt of the beatitudes. And once I saw a rich man whose money came easy, and one day he heard the voice of God, and like a brook, from the mountain he poured forth his dollars to sweeten and bless society, as the brook makes beautiful the meadows through which it runs on its way to the ocean. He had learned the way of God in riches. And this is what I would say whether the gift be poverty or riches, sickness or health, prosperity or adversity, cloud or shine?they are but the acts of God. and out of these acts He allows us to weave me sujrj uj. His love, and to learn the beautiful lesson of His ways to the children of men. - Could I tell it all in one word, it is this: Can you remember the days when the smoke of the awful war between the North and the South was beginning to drift toward the ocean? Can you remember the last days of the war? One incident lingers in my memory. It was up in the Adirondack Mountains. A boy had gone from the home early in the sixties? gone to the war. Day after day a mother had prayed ? prayed with such importunity, prayed with such faith, that the boy might come home ?but the winter of '65. in March, the snow had fallen so deep that it covered the fenoe, and then a thaw, and then-a frost, and the crust was so thick that ^ beast could walk over it without breaking through. In the early days of March a friend walked fourteen, miles over the mountains. He came to the home, and brought a paper, and said: "A battle has been fought, a battle down on the ocean at Fort Fisher, and a stronghold has been taken." And then his .voice grew hoarse. He said the battle had cost us much, and then a tear came into his eye, and then he read a long list of the slain, and when his voice spake one word it read: "Charles L , killed in the fort, buried' in the trenches. And the woman did not cry ,out, but went up stairs and I stayed there all the rest of that day j and that hight, and until the afternoon of the next day. We thought she might never come down, for we had learned of Moses in the presence of God. But in the afternoon she came down, and her face shown like the face of an angel. In the secret of a great sob you may learn the secret of God. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him, and He will show them His covenants. i . The Chief Duty. There are times when it is a duty to make money; but the man does not live whose chief duty it is^to make money, nor whose chief attention can safely be given to moneymaking. If one gives money-making first place, both his work and his " judgment are undermined and un-v; reliable. If he lets the opportunity to make money be the usual determining factor in his decisions, he is building character on about as stable a foundation as that man who heard Christ's words and did them not. In at least nine cases out of ten there is a better reason lor cr against any given course of action than a moneymaking reason. These who will not believe this soon come to be recognized by their fellows as branded "by the dollar mark. And such a mark i 5s thp si en of a siaverv which robs I life of all its real richness. Make a Friend of Christ. As Tare must spend time in cultivating our earthly friendships if we are to havei their blessings, so we must spend time in cultivating the companionship of Christ. Be Kind. God has put in our power the happiness of those about us, and that is largely -to be secured by our being kind.?Henry Drummond. ! Errors About the White House. To the Editor: I noticed somewhere recently?T would not say positively that it was in your .columns?an article on tne White House which contained several mis-statements. Iu the first place it was stated the White House was first occupied in 1S09, and that its first occupant was President Madison. The fact is, its first occupant was President Adams, who took up his residence there in 1800. The original mansion was begun in 1792. in 1S14 it was burned by the British and rebuilt in ISIS. Another of the errors in the article referred to wasthe statement that ready-prepared paint is used on the White House to make it beautifully white. I noticed this especially because I have used considerable paint myself, and wondered that canned" paint should be used on such an important building, wh:en all painters know that pure white lead and linseed oil make the best paint. It so happened also that I knetf" white lead and. linseed oil ? not ready-mixed paint?were used on the White House, because I had just read a booklet published by a firm of ready-mixed paint manufacturers, who also manufacture pure white lead. In that book the manufacturers admitted that for the White House nothing but "the and purest of paint could be used," and said that their pure white lead had been selected. 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