THE COLUMBIAN. BLOQMSRliaO. PA r; jdoooocxdococococoooooo:. : 1 1 o o ) () ' ) ) I ) ) i ) 4 ) saturday night Talks r.ul'.-nJ, Vt. :CCCCCCCC CCCCCOCOCOOCCCCLi LAW AIJD GRACE. Internatio.nl Dible Lesson for June 20, '09. Tho dirTcronro between tho o!;l dispensation and tlie new, between the Jew and the Gentile, Is found in those two words law ami grace. "The low 'was given by Moses, but graco and truth came by Jesus Christ." There Is a very striking passage In the booTt of Hebrews which sets forth the dif ference between the religion of the Jew and the religion of the Chris tian. The writer of that book Is striv ing to show what an Improvement Christianity Is over Judaism and ho says: Contrasting Dispensations. "For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, nrU that burned with fire, nor unto black ness, and darkness, and tempest. And l lie gounu ui a trumpet, buu me vo.ig 1 f words: which voice they that I -jr.-'! entreated that the word should not bo epoken to them any more. (For they could not endure that which W43 com manded. And If so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be Etoned, or thrust through with a dart; and so terrible was tho sight, that Moues said, I exceedingly fear and quake.) But ye are come unto Mount Zlon, and unto the city of the living God, tho heavenly Jerusalem, and to an in numerable company of angola. To tho general assembly and church of the flrst-born, which are written in heaven, and to God tho judge of all, iind to the spirits of Just men mad a perfect, and to Jesus the mediator ol the new covenant, and to the blood of ! sprinkling, that spcaketh better things than that of Abel." Christianity No Annex. Dy such words as these A polios up sets the contention of the Jewish roo p'o that Christianity is a mere annex of Judaism and that all the converts from heathenism must start whero they did, from Slnni's smoking mount Apolloa says. No! Christianity meani Zion in the place of Sinai. We have got beyond clouds, and lightnings,' and thunderbolts, and earthquakes, and paralyzing fear, and terrible vision.! and fleeing from the presence of tho j twful cataclysm. Wo have come to a mountain which is the Joy of the whole earth. We are attracted, not re pelled. We are wooed, not driven. Wo are drawn by love, not coerced by force. We are charmed with tender words, not stunned with thunder blasts. We are surrounded with an- gels, not enveloped In blackness and tempest. We have a city, the Heav- enly Jerusalem, not a barren desert. overhung with gloomy mountains. We have a new coveaaut written on our hearts, not a covenant carved on tablets of stone. Wo have glorious liberty, not a yoke of bondage. We have divine principles, not a set of rules. We are treated as sons or God, not servants of the household. We are saved by grace, not by legal ism. We are not under the curse, but under grace. We do not walk accord ing to an ancient rule, but according as He walked. We do not seek to make ourselves acceptable to Cod by doing, we do because we have been made acceptable to God. We are not pleasing Moses, we are following Christ. We are not putting the law always before our face, we are put ting the Lord always before our face. We do not ask, What does Moses say? We ask. What does Christ say? We read the commandments of Moses, by the interpretation which Jesus gave them. We are not living in the yea. 1500 B. C, but in the year 1909 A. D. Legal Bondage Still. And yet the sad fact is that In spite of the plain teaching of the Biblo there is a vast amount of legal bond age In the church to-day. Not only Romanism but Protestantism has la mentably gone back Into the legal bondage of the Mosaic dispensation three thousand years behind the times. They have not only resumed the laws of Moses, but they have made a thousand more and added to fieir burdens, already, intolerable. The people work day and night and still fall far short of their duty. Ignor ant of the fact that Christ has for ever superseded Moses and Aaron, tri umphantly fulfilling the law by pay ing all its penalty, they still stagger u'.ong under the law dispensation, lu ."'cad of the grace dispensation of the Hc Jeemor. The gospel Is the great -mancipation proclamation to the "r!J. In oweet and loving feHow- i r.nd harmony with our deliverer ' cro Just at free from tho law as ' " ' re were no law. Rules and reg- '-"" cotr.ot exist where love Is. lav end Levs Contrasted. f..oM Votne la not founded o ' St on ZIon, to grieve the pnrei ; ' '-ohrrtinnre hurts the child nior '' i irap.. And the teacher wh" ' ' m '.hi; love of her pupils has n 1 ; f. r the ferrule. Tre new dlii!m it'.on under which wo live U tho d!u- ' ' ,'' ' PA DKI'KXSK OP THE sr.utitow. Let us soo what a weed means to the farmer! A thousand per cent. Is the Increase nature yields In corn; but the" ordinary garden weed re produces In a single season from a single plant 100,000 seeds, which in another year would yield l.UUO.OOO, 000 weed plants. Up In Indian Head, In northwest Canada, where If any place on earth frost should prove death to weeds, thi govern ment horticulturist found a tumbling mustard plant which by attuut count produced 1,"00,000 seeds. Hcience may counsel spraying for weeds; but you can't spray out weeds that are carried to tiie four corners of the earth by wlndn, nnd wing tholr way In all sorts of fairy parachutes Ilka thistle and divide lion down. "Tho only way to de stroy such weed: Is to destroy tho seeds early In the game," says Agnes C. Lnut, In Outing. "Now there is probably no bird regarded as more of a pest than '.bo little sparrow. His ill-bred, loud-voiced clatter drives away song-birds. He hangs round your barn and steals your grain, and he nes's lu the caves of your poultry house and Infests the cracks with that vermin pust of chicken life mites and he proves a xnussy visitant on your house piaz zas. Yet balance the little sparrow's account with what Is to his credit. A scientist in Iowa by test after test found that In winter time the spar row ate about a quarter of an ounce of weed seed a day. Then he count ed the number of sparrows ordinar ily seen In winter to the square mile.. He put the number at ten. I think that Is away below the average. Try ! it yourself, wherever you live; but ci the basis of ten birds of the square mile, he figured that the sparro.wB must eat in tho state of Iowa alone 875 tons of weeds a win ter. I would not like to have to tigure out how many acres of good land those weeds would have assur edly contaminated." r.NCLH SAM'S Yi:.THEK UOKK. Uncle Sam is right in spending a good deal of money on weather, de clares the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. He watches it everywhere In his broad domain with every kuown deli cate instrument, and, wisely dismiss ing faulty forecasts, tries to , get closer t0 the business of to-morrow. fcurope, for all its experience, has done no better, if as well. Observa tions run back there 200 years, and no two of the long-range philosoph ers agree. They have tabulated the level of lakes, the movement of glaciers, .he freezing and liberation of livers, the seasonal traits of vege tation, and the periodicity of sun spots, all to no particular purpose as yet in establishing weather rota tion. On the rocks is scratched the testimony of great icecaps that ad vanced and retreated, but man is not particularly interested in a range as long as that. He would like to be able to see two days ahead, and trust that In indulging the hope he is not chasing a rainbow. AS UKTWKKN FATHKR AM) SON. Grant that "dad" was as a rule rhIIH'a namp for father: where la the disrespect In the use of it by any son, i D0Wever old ne may be? We have often heari tne word usea when the I r.iations between father and son were close companions, when there was complete understanding and the strcMigest love. There was a time In New England when a son addressed his father In writing. "Respected Sir." The father was then of the Roman order. There was little thought of any possible intimacy. The son stood in awe of the sire. Hence, too often domestic tragedies. When you hear a lad spean to-day of his father as "the oh man" you may reasonably Infer that there is no sweet companionship, -f a boy men tions bis dad," says the Boston Herald, there Is a world of affection In the word. There is a touch of hardness, a suspclon of fear in the term "governor." "Pop" is a cheap term, if It be not vile. IX THE OL1UCN D.WS. "Yours truly, John L. Sullivan," will wonder what pugilism has come to when he learns that a champion has declined to meet ali comers for the present becauso he Is "writing a book, building twenty houses," etc. In Mr. Sullivan's day prize fighting was a sport. It has become a pro fession, success in which makes the adept a capitalist and opens many doors of opportunity. We may yet have millionaires whose business ca reer began with a knockout. A WORTHY t'KL'SADK. ' Among the club women of the West there is a movement on foot to prevent the separation of children from their mothers on account of poverty. In Australia, they point out, If a widow with a family is left destitute, the state, Instead of send ing the children to an institution or to board in a st'anre fr -illy, boards them with their own mother. AX KM CATIOXAL AWAKKMXG. 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