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BOW OF PROMiSFJ BR. CHAPMAN'S ft.NDAV SrP.TSO/1 A Messsgc of i -op. to r: L.ort \V?-s r j ?(icd's Promise :n ihc i>. \v fi' | Sp;.ns the Cio?d?. [The Fev. J. Wilbur Chapman. D. D, is liov.- the most distinguished and "nest | known evangelist in the country, lie was [ second only to Dr. Tannage, but since the I death o: that famous preacher Dr. Chapman has the undisputed possession of the Pulpit n< the nreacher to influence the plain people. His services as an evangelist arc in constant demand. Ilis sermons have stirred the hearts of men and women to a degree unapproached by any latterday divine. -J. Wilbur Chapman was born in Richmond. Intl.. June 17, 18o9. He was educated at Oberlin College and Lake Forest I niversitv, and graduated for the ministry from ii>c Lane Theological Seminary. Cincinnati, Ohio, in lSt-2. His sermon: are simple and direct, so that their influence is not so much due to exciting the emotions as to winning the hearts and convincing the minds of those who hear him. Dr. Chapman is now in charge of the Fourth Presbvterian Church, Xew York City.] "Nrw York City.?The following sermon is one prepared for publication by the Kev. J. V iihur Chapman, America's bestknown evangelist, who is now Preaching to overflowing congregations in this city, it is entitled "The ilo.v in the Cloud." and is founded on the text, Genesis 0: 13, "l do set fly bow in the cloud, and it shall be for . token of a covenant between Me and the earth." It in.iy seem at first thought as if this were a queer text to choose from which to give a gospel message, and yet all the works of God are so wonderful that one has but to gel the key to unlock the door leading into them to find them filled with sweetness and with help. The rainbow is no ( xcoption to this rule, it is hardly pc >il le for one to look upon the bow that spans the clouds after a storra without an exclamation of delight. Ore would think that it would grow monotonous, for we have seen it so many timer, but quite the opposite is true. Sunset. differ; they are as unlike as two things could possibly be. Indeed, it must be true that; one is never like the ether. Hue rainbow.-; are always the same. And yet, in spi e of this v:o are charmed as we lock, I an<! inspired as we study. The .irst mention o: a Ian*.* is in the test. It is not said that this is the first time the rainbow has appeared, for from the wry nature of the case it has always been in exigence since the worlds began to be, but litis is ?<y.'l 10 be the first use of if. The last mer.t'on of a rainbow is Revelation 4: 3: "And He that sat was to Jooh upon like a jasper and it sardine stone; ar.d there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald." You notice that the expression used is "round about the throne." and here for the first time we find a rainbow in a complete circle. We have only seen the half of it here, which is surely an illustration o; the fact that in this world at best we only get the half of things. We only get the half of truth. Take the great doctrine of the Atonement; who is able to understand it? But it is very helpful to know that we are not obliged to understand it, but only to receive it. God is satisfied with it, and He iullv comprehends it, and when we stand with Him in glory wc shall see the ? l. .ir _c . l? 1 1 ...... ?U?H OUICT Il'JU k?I Hit UU?, HUU UUi liwUi 13 ruau rejoice. We only see the half oi life here. At its best it is a mystery. Over and over again, when we wanted to go to the right we were compelled to turn to the left, and a thousand times because of our perplexities and trials we have cried aloud: "How can these things be?" But we must learn the lesson that we must trust Him where we cannot understand Him. The day will come, when seated at His feet we shall see the other half of the bow of our life, and we shall know indeed that all things have worked toeether for good. The last mention of the bow in Revelation tel-s us that it is to be like an emerald. This is certainly very strange, for one has never beheld a green rainbow here. Six other colors must be added to it to moke it complete. The color, however, is not without its suuuestiveness. Green is the color that always rests the eye. It I is for this reason that the hillsides, the waving branches of the tree, and the grass' beneath our feet, are so restful on a sum-1 rner day. Is not this a hint that heaven is a place of rest as well as beauty? There are three primal < olors in the i rainbow, red. yellow and b'.ue. Jt you drop the red and put the yellow ana blue together you have green as a result. Red is the color of suffering. Surely it is a hint as to the thought that whdh one parses through the gates of ncarl he leaves suffering behind him. There is to be no red mark in heaven. Christ finished His sufferings uuou Calvary, and never a pang shall meet Him again. We fini*h our suffering;. too. when we say good-.bye to this vvc-rry road we have traveled, and the gate I o; heaven that shuts us in shuts suffering I.-THE CLOUD. We know what the cloud was for North (for this lest which 1 have quoted has to do with him), and a cloud in Noah's day was not un ite the cloud o; yesterday; bur in the thought of the sermon the cloud ' is -in. . I' v.ou'd nr.he one heartsick to read the his.cry of sin. First, in the world, beginning v.-i.h Adam, going to Noi'.i, reaching] the howling 1.10b about the cross 0:1 Calvary. coming down to the present day,] when the .whole world seems to be touched] with its pew er. tlie most terrible thing in j the world 1- sin. Second, in the home. | blighting and blasting that which is a n- .. 1 -' I.. \,T\ nn.l w-r.-.t-.n- t!v:f vhiotl I (>\J *ncar i. i j be a safe vc-ecl to tarry i:through tin* turmoils and strife ever round about us. Third, in our own heart, giving us wrong conceptions of God. and dragging us toward hell, even against our will. The blankest thing In all the world is sin. The <*'Oud does two things: (1) It obscures the sup._ The cloud of sin does the saroc thing. Xo one ever yet has had a true vision of Je?us Christ with the least particle of sin in his heart or life, "lilesstd arc the i?u;e in heart, for they shall see God." A poor fellow converted in one of the missions in Chicago, who was thought before his conversion to he hardly worth the saving, was so wondcTully transformed that a committee waited upon him to tind the se net of his changed liio. He answered BL their ( uc.i o.i in just one centcncc: "I v.-ion ever change? the life and B|^Ba:isf e iiaracter. (2) The loud compels us to see things a false light. God made the work? of His hand' m he seen in the sunlighr. We. n >t j ihem under the cloud. And HH^Bi'.h the t'OU.l cf sin ?cress a n>;'>d ! ho can have ro real conception of the | ' Bible; In; n-u<t certainly be prejudiced j :v.ni;>t the church. Scatter ;!) * darhnesa that !iovers over your mind, and the Bible I wiil become to you the very thought of j (Jo.'. *.vhi>e the church will compel your r.d* ( miration. II.?ACT.OSS THK CT.orD GOD CAST HIS BOW. ! To see a bow three things are necessary. ! " "'An/I u*n rir>t, ll.ViC Jini.^v I't <? ? .vow, ? V w* have that in the world's sin. Second, the t Min must be shining: we hoe this eomiij tion met in the fact that Cod is light, and 1 j in Him there no darkness at all. Third, ; the rain must he falling. We have this in j I Isaiah 55: 10. II?"For a< the rain comcth j down, and the snow from heaven, and re- ; I turneth not thither, hut wa.ereth the j earth, and maketh it bring forth ami hud, | [ that it may gi : seed to the sower, and j j bread to tiie eater: so shall My Word be | that goeth forth ont of My mouth; it shall J not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I plea-0. and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." Or. we might put it?first, in order that we may be saved, we must acknowledge ourselves to be sinners. This is the cloud. Second, we must have some conception of ; God's hatred of sin. This is the light. Third, 'we must be persuaded that ITe | loved us and cave Himself for us. This is the rain. With these conditions trie:, the bow of promise spans the cloud of a sinful life. III.?THE SEVEN* COLORS. | If I should hold a prism in my hand and the light of day should touch it, there J would be refracted at once seven colors. ! as follows: lied, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. There never has been a rainbow in tins world lint tnese have been seen in more or less : ror.iinence. In my message now. the pr;sn: is the cro<s, and tl:e light is (tod's truth. .As it strikes this long prism it breaks up into seven colors The seven together give us the rainbow. First, forgiveness. Psalm 22: 1.?"Blessed is lie whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered." The word forgiven means taken off. What a wonderful thought it is! Oh, what a load of sin we had to carry! How it did weigh us down! How day ami nieht we went crying aloud, saving. "Oh. wretched nan that I am. who *hall deliver me?" Resolution never lifted it a particle. Reformation only scorned to make it heavier. Then He came, and stooped down, or whispered to us just one sweet word, 'To-given!" and when we realized it the \ burden was fken off. To receive all of j this w? have but to yield to Hod. Trying to make ourselves better only adds to the I cloud and deepens our despair. The second color is cleansing. lVnim ">1: 7?"Purge no with hys-oo. and I sin!' be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than ! snow." The little bunch of hyssop carries us i 1 1. 4l.? . ttr'.il l'n? I lamb was slain and its blood collected. it | was not said that one should take a brush, j bur a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the j blood and sprinkle the posts of the donr. The commonest thine: that grew in the j Ea?t was hyssop. It represents faith. One iiad but to step to the door of the cottage and stoop down to pluck a bunch of hyssop. The commonest thing in all this ! world is faith. We have faith in each j other, whether we express it in this word I or not; and the faith that one has in his | mother, in his father, in wife or husband, if turned toward Jesus Christ would save his soul. It is one thing to be forgiven, but the eolor deepens, and the truth sweetens when we know that because of the shed blood of Jesus Christ we may be made clean. "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanaeth us from all sin." The third co'or is justification. Romans 4: 25?"Who was delivered for our oifences, and was raised again for our jus uncnuuu. One might be perfectly sure of his forgiveness. and know that it meant sins taken off, and might be confident of his cleansing, but theie is the memory of the n!d life of failure which is ever to him ljke a shackle when lie would run to Cod. Justification is sweeter by far than anything we have yet learned. When Christ rose for oar justification He stood before Cod as a kind of receipt (as John Robertson has said). and when Cod looks upon that receipt He knows the bill is paid. "Jesus paid it all. All to llim 1 owe. Sin had left a bitter stain, He washed it white as snow." Rut justification is even better to me than this, for when one is justified before God he actually stands as if he never had sinned. The fourth color is?sins covered hv the sea. Micah 7: 19?"He will turn again, He will have compassion unon us; He will subdue our iniquities; and Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." It is very comforting to know that there are some depths in the ocean so deep that ihey can never be sounded. Our sins must have gone as deep. There is also another thought of comfort; if a body is cast into the ocean where the waters are not very deep, when the storms come and the ocean is in a fury, the storm, as if with giant hands, takes the dead body and casta it upon the shore. But there are depths in the sea so great that no storm that has ever yet swept across the face of the deep has stirred the waters. Thanks he unto God. our sins may be sunk so deep ih the sta that they will never be cast up against us again. The color deepens and the truth grows sweeter still. The lifth color is?sins removed. Psr'm 103: 12?"As far as the ens- is from the west, so far hath He removed our transcre-sions from us." We have an idea that, although our sins have been forgiven and we may have been justified, when the great day of judgment comes we may be obliged to meet them all .gain. But tins is not true. Or.ee and i for ail hath Ho put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself, and the sins of our lives shall not again be mentioned to iu. IV.?COD'S COVENANT. The bovr was God's covenant then. Now | God's covenant is Hi.s Word, and upon this Word we may depend. Notice ihe [ number of times God uses the expression, I "I will," in Exodus 6: G-8: "Wherefore, say unto the children of Israel I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments: and I will take you to Me for a peoole, and I will be to you a God; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God. which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the -Egyptians. And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which 1 did swear . - ?? tn Ten fie and to I'J II IU HOitvimm, ?v __ Tacob; and I will give you it for an heritage: I am the Lord." Hi- ever waits to till the covenant which "Tc has made with Christ concerning us. If we would have the joy of salvation, we need hut two things; first, we must believe* God: whatever our feelings may be. we fifu-t believe: second, behoving Col. ??ve "'liiTsstT act as if we believed Him. The j one gives us life. Tkr other gives us joy in life's possession. 1 Stopped the Ceremony. The wedding swell was going well, A splendid sight to see; Out radg a voice, clear us a boll: "This wedding cannot b^l" The organ stopped, the bride had dropped Back tainting 'mid the palms; So when in rage the bridegroom hopped The speaker felt some qualms. "I only said you snouin nor weu ? He spoke with covert laugh? "Until three minutes shall have sped, When I start the blograph!" f ! ?Baltimore American. Some men tempt the devil more than the devil tempts them. THE SURGEON'S KNIFE Mrs. Eckis Stevenson of Salt Lake City Tells How Operations For Ovarian Troubles May Be Avoided. "Dear Mas. Pixkiiam:?I suffered j with inflammation of the ovaries and womb for over six years,enduring aches , and pains which none can dream of but those who have had the same expe- 1 I 1 MI?S. ECK!8 STEVEXSOX. rience. II undrcds of dollars wont to the doctor and the druggist. 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The new mill will contain about 41,000 spindles (not 50,000 as was previously stated), and its construction and equipment will be begun and pushed to completion as rapidly as is practicable. Messrs. Lockwood. Greene & Co.. of Boston, Mass., have been appointed architects and engineers for the new addition. They will soon have plans and specifications completed, and the necessary contracts will then be arranged. The Manufacturers' Record of April 3 presented an outline of these enlargements as confirmed in the foregoing. Massachusetts Cotton Mills, Lowell, Mass., operates the plant of the Georgia company under lease. Greensboro's New Enterprise. Greensboro, N. C., Special.?Business organizations here last week took action, which it is considered, will remove al! doubt of location in Greensboro of a $1,000,000 cotton mill which Messrs. Moses & Caeser Cone have had in mind for some time for either this place or Rcanoke Rapids. The action taken by the organizations was formally invite Messrs. Cone to locate the mill here. Resolutions were adopted pledging the associations to endeavor to cultivate throughout the Country a sentiment in favor of extending to corporations the same rights and privileges accorded to individuals. The proposed mill will be for the manufacture of colored goods. Options on a large part of the land necessary have already been secured. To Manufacture Denim. Dispatches from Greensboro. N. C., during the week have stated that "it # is reported, though not confirmed, that Messrs. Moses H. Cone and Caesar Cone of that city will build an immense cotton denim mill." However, the fact that the plant*will be erected was definitely announced in the Manufacturers' Record of April 3, in accordance with information submitted by Mr. Moses H. Cone. He wrote at the time that he intended to build a mill * of 00.000 spindles and 2,000 looms for ** .1 ~; ?, ? thof me manufacture ui ucuimo, nut the location of the plant was yet In doubt. It may be built at Greensboro, but it is quite possible that Roanoke Rapids, N. C., will be selected a3 the location. * Consolidation in Wilmington. The Wilmington Seacoast Railroad ^ the Wilmington Street Railway and the the Wilmington Gaslight companies of Wilmington, N. C., have been consolidated under the name Of the Consolidated Railway, Light & Power Co., Hugh MacRae as president; A. R. Skelding, general manager; Harry Woolcott, secretary, and Richard J. Jones, treasurer. It is proposed to convert the Seacoast Railroad into an electric line. It extends from Wilmington to Wrightsville Beach. A new power plant and new car barns are to be constructed for the Consolidated Company. The deal was affected through the firm of Hugh MacRae & Co., bankers, of Wilmington. Textile Notes. * Pacolet (S. C.) Manufacturing Co., now has its branch mill (recently completed) at Gainesville, Ga., In operation with 25,000 spindles and 850 looms, producing standard sheetings. There are 620 operatives employed in this raillion-dollar'plant, and only half of the equipment is in operation. Just when the full complement will start up is not as yet known. The company will begin the erection of 100 additional operatives' cottages next week. Whitohurst Belting Co.. which orm,~?nthe a en Ra.q rnmnl^t ed the equipment of its factory, and is now manufacturing. The company will weare its duck, using specially-designed looms, and later on exppct to install spindles for spinning its yarns. Its plant is located at Columbia avenua and Baltimore Ohio Railroad, Baltimore, Md. R. T. Gray of Raleigh, N. C., has purchaeed at receiver's sale the Tayetteville (N. C.) Cotton Mills at $16,71)0. The plant has 3100 spindles. The Business Men's Association of Clarkesville, Tenn., has received correspondence from J. D. Kenaody, manager of the Mammoth Springs (Ark). Cotton Mills, which is capitalized at 1150,000. The company s?eks a location in cotton-growing district, and many remove to Clarksvllle. The plant is one of S300 spindles and 200 looms. L. R. Cox. 1731 Amsterdam avenue. New York city, contemplates locating a woolen and knitting mill in the South, and is prepared to receive correspondence regarding suitable sites. Humboldt (Tenn). Cotton Mills states that its new machinery, reported last week, will include fifty 40-inch looms, and when they are in position the mill's output will increase to 10,000 yards of sheeting per day. About 100 operatives will be employed. rncre is taut or organizing a cottcnmill company at Dawson. Ga. A. J. Whittemore of Wentworth, N. C.. is reported as to establish knitting ml!!. A company Is being organized to establish a 2500-spindle yarn mill at Ho- ? gansville. Ga., and Geo. TV\ Morgan is Interested. Cross Hill Cotton-Oil Mills o* Cross Hill. S. C., will increase capital to $23,000 to provide funds for installing knitting ntachinerv. 4