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"Rejoice in the Lord ulway, and again I say, Rejoice.” An aged minister once said to me- "The entire character of my preaching lias changed with my advancing years. As a young man I used to preach on I the terrors of the law, on the wrath of God, on the warnings against sin and on the awful picture of the lake of fire drawn by St. John in the Apocalypse. But as I grew older I found my favor ite texts in the tender passages of the Psalms, in the loving words of Christ j to his disciples set down by the be- | loved disciple and in the eloquent exor- ' diuni on charity or love by the Apostle I Paul. I find that the nearer I come to ! heaven the more my heart burns with | an unutterable desire to see Christ’s face and to have a part in the never ending reunion of the redeemed, and therefore tin* less I think about the terrors of the Judgment. Faith to me is becoming more and more the sub stance of things hoped for, and I am looking forward to peace and joy rather than backward at the drawn fiery sword of an avenging angel standing at the gate of paradise.” These are not the exact words of my venerable friend, but they convey the substance of his thought. Truly what this aged man said about his ministe rial life every minister who is con st-ions of advancing years feels as his soul grows riper and richer in spirit ual development. More and more he loves to preach about the joys of the gospel rather than about the destruc tion that is inevitable to one who leads a sinful life. Paul’s letter to the Philippians was written near the close of his life. Lie had passed beyond the carnal part of his religious experience. He does not now think so much of Christ presiding in judgment as lie does of the Jesus of salvation. He dots not dwell so much on the leaping ilanies of the bottomless pit as he longs for the songs of Moses and the Lamb and is thrilled at the thought of all the mer cies and blessings with which Jesus will welcome him. Thus he comes to us not groaning a dirge, but singing a psalm of praise. He comes to us with joy smiling upon his lip, with joy shining forth from his eye, with joy throbbing in his heart and \*itli joy In his congratulatory handshake. He comes to us with a rapturous exhorta tion as he bids us take an inventory of our spiritual opportunities. He says. “Rejoice in the Lord alway.” Then, as though he had not made this gospel salutation emphatic enough, he repeats his words as he says. "Again I say, Rejoice.” Now, today I am not going to talk to those who look upon the cross of Jesus Christ only as a means of escaping the horrors of eter nal anguish, but I am going to talk to those who have so developed in the Christian life that their gospel faitli is a pleasure and a joy and a never ending consolation. As I speak to you today 1 shall tell you why you should rejoice in the Lord alway and why you should come to him with never ending praise and with eternal thanksgiving. Joy Is a fruit that will not grow In nature's barren soil; All we r-an boast till Christ we know le vanity and toll; But where the Lord has planted grace And made his glories known, There fruits of heavenly Joy and peace Arc found, and there alone. Rejo ce In the Lord Alway. My Christian brother, you of the deeper and holler religious experience, you should in the first place rejoice In the Lord alway because you have by your side u divine friend who will guard you and keep you aud lx; a very present help in all your troubles. He has a keener eye than you. He has a stronger arm than you. He has all the powers of heaven and earth at his command. He has a heart so tender and loving and self sacrificing that he Is willing to surrender all and do all if ho can in any way help you in your struggle of life. He is not an absent friend a thousand miles away who is going to meet you by appointment at the brink of the grave, but he is a friend so near that you can whisper to him and be will bear you. He is io near that you can put out your hand as a little tottering child, and he will grasp that hand and keep you from falling. He is so near that, like a loving mother, be will guard you when you are asleep, and he will greet you with a smile when you awake in the morning. He w-lll go with you to the breakfast table. He will follow you in the street and stand w-lth you by the store counter. He is an ever present friend. But he is also omnipo tent and omniscient as well as omni present. Now, ought it not to lie a Joy to you that this divine Friend, this Son of God, is always by your side to help you anti care for you and love you? You know what the power of a sanctified and holy aud purified human friendship means. Years ago, In the dawn of young manhood, there eame into your life a young girl. You thought you loved her at the time. You did not Ixdleve you could ever love any one more. But you did not truly know what love wa*. Life for you at the time was a picnic in the woods. You thought mostly about whut you were to eat and drink aud where you were to live and«what Jolly companions were to l>e your associates. You married that girl. When you married her you thought your honey moon was to be the never ending life of a bee in a flower garden, finding nectar whenever you went. But that honeymoon was of very short dura tion. After awhile came thr strug gles of life and the storms and the bit ter trials. Then that merry compan ion of your youth changed. She stood by your side in the crisis. She stood near you in the sickroom. When death Invaded your home her hand joined yours in placing the flowers about the open casket. She literally poured out tier life for you. Real Lovers Now. Now, in the evening twilight of life, it is not so much the beau tiful face that you love, or the mer ry laugh, or the golden curls, but it Ls the tender, true, faithful heart of that woman by your side who has shared your troubles as well as doubled your joys. Though she may not talk of love ns much now as she did when a girl, yet you are never happy unless she is in touch with you. When evening comes and you are sit ting by the library table, the book is never interesting, nor does the fire in the hearth burn brightly enough, nor do the children play right, unless she is on the other side of that table. You who have been married for a quarter of a century, you know what it is to have a devoted, unselfish companion by your side. You know what it is to have that love jiour out its life’s blood for you. Like the aged poet, you can sing this sweet love song in your old age; Oh. no. not even when first we loved Wert thou as dear as now thou art; Thy beauty then my senses moved, But now thy virtues bind my heart. Although my heart in earlier youth Might kindle with more wild desire. Believe me, It has gained in truth Much more than It has lost In fire. The flame now warms my Inmost core, That then but sparkled o’er my brow, And. though I seemed to love thee more. Yet, oh, I love thee better now!' Real Love For Christ. Well, that is my idea of the Chris tian life. In the beginning we accepted Christ from selfish motives. Perhaps we were In some great religious meet Ing, and the evangelist was picturing the tortures of the lost. We became so frightened that we gripped the church pew for fear we should fall over the precipice of eternal doom. But after we accepted Christ with such a low motive the rhrist love be gan to grow upon us. We see how lie ha? been protecting us and how he has beea leading us. We see in an other place how he has clothed and fed us. When dentil came into our home we saw ids great tears of com passion and love. Even in our financial distress or social persecution he was always by our side. Then we lx;gan to realize how good and kind and loving he is. As we grow in grace we are never happy unless we feel his pres ence near. We talk to him as we do to a dear friend. We find ourselves say lug; “Jesus, thou knowest lx;st. Thou art leading me. O Master, thy love passeth all understanding. Keep me close to thy heart. Let me never stray away from thy touch." Church mem bers, are you strangers to the raptur ous Joy of ihe close companionship of this divine association? Then you have never reached the higher development of the Christian life. Believe me. there is something yet for you to pray for and struggle for in your Christian exjierieucc. I»o uot think today «»f Christ as an enemy.. Think of Jesus as an ever present personal, tender, loving friend. That can be one of your greatest joys of the Christian life. He can lx; a friend who will never leave your side. But the true Christian finds in the higher spiritual life more than this divine companionship. No sooner do we truly become one with Christ than we enter into the elevating associa tions of the best and purest men and women living upon the face of the earth today. We enter Into a holy as sociation with those who have felt the divine touch and who have lx;en re created and made over and been stamped with the divine Image. These children of God are different from all other men and women, for they are radiating with the power of the spirit filled life. Fun and Raligion. “But,” says some church member. "I do not want to live In a prayer meeting all the time. I do not want to be singing psalm tunes morning, noon and night. Sanctified j>eopl<* may be all right In their places, but a steady diet of 'angel’s food’ nauseates the stomach. 1 like to frolic ami play other kinds of games. I like to fish. I like to hunt. Indeed, I like fun just as much as I did twenty years ago. In other words, I like to do something besides going to chureli and talking about the Bible and for eign and home missions.” So do good people like fun. (io do the purest and best of God's disciples like recreation. There is no class of men aud women that have a lx;tt«*r time than Christhir. people. But. my friends, It makes a great deal of difference what you call fun. If you cannot find your best enjoy ment In life as well as your best spir itual exhilaration among God's chil dren, then there Is something wrong with your own spiritual life, and you had better get down on your knees and ask God to place you in one of bis spiritual kilns to refine your nature so that you will be able to find your Joys In holy companionship. An old proverb g<x*a thus: “What ia meat for thy neighbor may lie poison for thee.” That means the food upon which your brother's physics! organ Ism thrives may be that which will not nourish your body. This proverb Is emphatically true in reference to the enjoyments of the spiritual and the worldly life. The pleasures that fascinate the ungodly are generally pleasures that are repugnant to the spiritual man. I was never more Im pressed with this fact than when vis iting San Francisco some weeks ago. I have seen San Francisco under all conditions. I visited it twice in my youth. 1 visited It in its strength and power a year before the earthquake. I saw it burning and in ruins. A year later I also visited it when its walls were about half rebuilt. I never enter this city of San Francisco but my mind runs back to the old mining camp of 1849, which was established whea California gold was first dis covered. The mining camp had some good people in It. But the adventurers of the east, the libertines, the gam blers, the lost women and dissolute characters from all over the United States, flocked there by the thousands and the tens of thousands. Now, what was the result? Just as the stature of the Frenchman has been shortened be cause the Napoleonic wars killed off a large percentage of the strongest and brawniest of the French youth, so the sins of the old raining camp of 1849 are today bringing forth their evil harvest in sinful San Francisco. In my time I have been almost every where. I have traveled around the world. I have been in nearly all the cities of America and have been three times to Euroix; am*, am stating what nfnety-nine men out of a hundred who live on the Pacific coast are willing to state—namely, that San Francisco Is the vilest and the most sinful city upon the face of the earth. It always was a wicked place, and it is wickeder now, after the fire, than ever before. Worse Than Before. Troubles either drive men closer to God or farther away from God. The troubles of Sau Francisco have made its good men better, but those trou bles have made its bad men worse. There you find the most corrupt of all political intriguers. There you find the places of sin crowded to the doors and the churches of Jasus almost empty. There you find the places of infamy doubled and quadrupled year by year and the churches goin" back. Presbyterianism in Snn Francisco la not as strong today as it was ten years ago. There you find the people for the most part living in rooms and din ing in restaurants and turning the Sabbath day into a gala day. Do you believe that the majority of the people living in San Francisco would find the sweet influences of home life a pleas ure as you and I look upon an even ing spent in the society of our chil dren as a pleasure? No. To a great extent their lives crave the unhealthy and vitiating and blasting stimulant of sin. It is an alarming sympton of a man’s spiritual condition if the wholesome Influences of home life are repugnant to him. My brother, although you may be a church member, your appetite for pleasure is a sinful craving If you can not enjoy the pure, clean, refreshing Joy of Christian association. If that is so, for God’s sake get down on your knees and pray to your Heavenly Fa ther that he will purify you so that you may find your greatest enjoyments among his people and among hls true, consecrated followers. But there is another joy which comes to the higher spiritual life, and that Is the Joy of Christian service; that Is the Joy of the noble hearted men who always want to share their blessings with every one else; that is the Joy of the true man who, when he has plenty of bread, wants to share It with the hungry. When he has a cure for the blinded eyes, he wants to give it to those groping about in darkuess. When he can unstop the deaf ears, he wants to make the deaf to bear and the dumb to speak. No man Is a true man who, when he has an abundance, is not ready to share his plenty with those who an* in want. The poet well de fine?! this thought when he wrote; Who seeks for heaven alone to save hls soul May keep the path, but will not reach the goal, While he who walks In love may wander far. Tet God will bring him where the blesaed are. A Picturesque Castle. Many years ago a noted painter, Alexander Nasmyth, went to visit near the towering cliffs in the vicinity of picturesque Blair castle, In old Scot land. While he was watching those massive, overtopping crags he said, “Is It not too bad yonder bare rocks are not crowned with a covering of green?” Then he bethought himself of two huge cannou which were mounted in the yard of the old castle. “Ah,” he said, “I know what I will do. I will have some canisters made to fit these old cannon. Then I will fill those can isters with all kinds of grass seeds. Then I will shoot those canisters against yonder cliffs, where no foot •f man lias ever trod. Then those canisters will break, the seeds will scatter and take root and yonder cliffs will some day be covered with a mass of green foliage." This Is Just what the Scottish painter did. Many of those seeds were lost, but some took root, and they sprouted, and now those crags near old Blair castle are the most beautiful of all the surrounding hillsides Thus is It with the conse crated gospel life when the true Christian is filled with the Christ lore. When the face of Jesus becomes to him • living, loving, Inspiring and all absorbing reality, then that Christian ■ays, "I must bring this Christ tore Into other lives; I must have Christ do for others what he has done for dm.” Then the true Christian, as soon as he has developed Into the higher spiritual life, fills hls hands with the •ospel sead. He goes forth into the waste places of the earth. Ha ecat- tm those seeds op la the asoatalaa and down In the valleys; he xcatters them in the homes of the rich and In the hovels of the poor; he scatters them everywhere. And one of the chief reasons why I know some of you have never Ixxmi truly filled with the Christ love is Ixu-uuse you do not find any Joy in bringing this Christ to your fellow men. Next to seeing Christ's face ourselves our chief joy should be found in bringing that divine love into the hearts of a sinful world. The Greatest Joy. But, lastly, 1 remark that one of the greatest joys of the Christian is the comfort wo have in dedicating our dear children and our loved ones to hls service. Every true parent knows that when he attempts to raise a fam ily there comes a time when he realizes he must have supernatural aid. We feel our children gradually and yet surely slipping out of our bands. They are going forth Into the great wide world, with all its manifold tempta tions. We lift up our hands at times in agony and cry, “O God, if we could only keep them by our sides!" But we cannot. It Is an overwhelming thought, hut surely and swiftly the children are moving away from our side. Now comes the question: How can I keep my children in the path of virtue and of truth? The Bible tells me. My God Is a covenant keeping God. My God says, “I will save thee, and througli thee I will save thy chil dren.” He speaks to me exactly as he spake to Abraham of old. He prom ises that if we will teach our children about him, if we set them a good ex ample and commit them in prayer to hls keeping, he will take care of them and make them .his children. The chief trouble with our spiritual experience is that we do not come near enough to Jesus Christ. We do not give ourselves up in our entirety to his service. The reason that we find the spiritual life a burden, an Irritant and a troublous duty is because w’e are not developed high enough In the gospel graces. My brother, the great trouble with your religious life is that you are like a timid bather on the beach—afraid to make one big plunge and go chin deep and heart deep and brain de p Into the depths of God’s mercy. You want to love him by Inches and not with your entire being. You are like the rich young ruler—you are not will ing to give all for your Master. Friend, if you would rejoice (u the Lord alway, come closer to the mercy seat. Friend, if you would have the Pauline rapture, then leave your sinful self at Damas cus and start for your martyrdom at Rome. Unless you and I are willing to consecrate ourselves to the higher spir itual life theu will the joy of the gos pel appeal to us in vain. “Rejoice in the Lord alway, aud again I say, Re joice,” means "Surrender thy whole love to Jesus Christ in order that thou mayest enjoy Christ’s whole love for thee.” [Copyright, 1907, by Louis Klopsch.] The King and Hie Master. Lord A1 vers tone’s fondness for don ning the surplice to act as a chorister In the Church of St Mary Abbots, Kensington, to which attention has recently been drawn, suggests to the London Globe a striking historical par allel across the centuries to the days of Henry VIII., when another great English lawyer also changed the er mine for the surplice and ministered at the altar. Sir Thomas More when lord chancellor was fond of serving mass when be could get away from publicity to his own parish church Two noblemen of the court who ones saw him so occupied suggested that- be dishonored the king's office. “Sirs," re plied More, “the king, your master and mine, cannot be dishonored by my serving God, his master and mine.” Advertising is called by some an an. If it be an art it is the ait of telling a story simply and convincingly. Nobody knows more about the strong qualities of an estal .isi.ment then the proprietor who oversees it. Other things being equal, nobody should be able to write more convinc ingly of the arucles he of fers for salt. In a (tore where ihe employer aalls goods side by aide with his clerks H la me that tha employer will not ba the beat talesman. The reason issimple. He knows the goods from A to Z. He probably has pur chased them. He knows his alms. His arguments canf weight because they are convincing. The same arguments pre sented in the same way, with the same enthusiastic spirit, the same knowledge of detail, would attract new customers if presented through the advertising col umns of this paper. Xf yos have not triad It, why not begin? If yon bar* triad It amd an ast aari»- lad, lat as know aboot it. J iSriT " * -W The Farmer’s Wife b very careful about her churn. Shs scalds it thoroughly after using, anti gives it a sun bath to sweeten it. She knows that if her churn is sour it will taint the butter that is made in It. The stomach is a churn. In the stomach and digestive and nutritive tracts are performed pro cesses which are almost exactly like the churning of butter. Is it not apparent then that if this stomach-churn is foul U makes foul all which is put into it? The evil of a foul stomach Is not alone the bad taste in the mouth and the foul breath caused by it, but the corruption of the pure current of blood and the dissem ination of disease throughout the body. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery makes the sour and foul stomach sweet. It does for the stomach what the washing and sun bath do for the churn—absolutely removes every tainting or corrupting ele ment. In this way it cures blotches, pimples, eruptions, scrofulous swellings, sores, or open eating ulcers and all humors or diseases arising from bad blood. If you have bitter, nasty, foul taste in your mouth, coated tongue, foul breath, are weak and easily tired, feel depressed and despondent, have frequent headaches,' * dizzy attacks, gnawing or distress in stom ach, constipated or irregular bowels, sour | or hitter risings after eating and poor appetite, these symptoms, or any consider able number of them, indicate that you ars Buffering from biliousness, torpid or lazy liver with the usual accompanying Indi gestion, or dyspepsia and their attendant derangements. if you will but mail a postal card request to Dr. R. V. Pierce. Buffalo, N. Y., lor a free copy of his booklet of extracts from ihe standard medical authorities, giving the names of all the ingredients entering into his world-famed medicines and show ing what the most eminent medical men of th« age say of them. 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