DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE SWELLING OF JORDAN,
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“If thou hast run with the footmen, and they
havo wearied thee, then how canst thou con-
tend with horses? and {f in the land of peace,
wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee,
dan?'’'—-JER, 12:5.
Not in a petulant but in kindly terms
and the cause of honest jour-
TENDED SERMON.
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give
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prayer in which to retreat,
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to soothe the soul,
which to hide from
, when the swift coursers
f trouble are brought up, champing
i the mace, and the reins
Ae their necks, and the
athered flanks at every spring feel the
stroke of the lash, what can we do on
foot with them? How can we compete
with them? If, having run with
the footmen, they wearied us, how can
we contend with horses?
We have all yielded to temptation.
We have been surprised afterward that
30 small an inducement could have de-
oyed us from the right. How insig-
icant a temptation has sometimes
aptured our soul! And if that is so, my
rvi11t f.
panting ior
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WIL upon
ome to stand
THE PRESENCE OF TEMPTATION.
nt prostrated a David, and a Moses,
snd a Peter, and some of the mightiest
nen in all God's kingdom? Now we are
nonest; but suppose we were placed in
wme path of life, as many of God’s
Hiildren have been, where all the forces
of earth and hell combine to capture the
foul? Without Jesus we would go down
mder it. If already we have been
eaten by insignificant footmen, we
vould be distanced ten thousand
leagues by the horses, Ah! I don’t like
to hear a man say, ‘I could not commit
such a sin as that, I can’t understand
how a man could be carried away like
that.” You don’t know what you could
do if the grace of God lets you. You
saw a man staggering along the street,
He
g
grace of trod”?
see one utterly fallen:
Witt Talmage but for the grace
If we have been delivered from
strong arm
the Lord Almighty has been about
. and not because we were any better
they It is a great
LLY
[ can say when 1
1
'O BORPOW TROUBLE,
» can meet the misfortunes
will be meet the
to-mogow: bnt enppose
1 a lack of the religion
overthrown by small
our common-sense teach us
nnot stand up against great
able to
now if
y misfortu
hout Christian solae »; but
. how much more terrible
comes face to face with
nnities of the last hour!
he bright sunshine of health as
perity a man felt the need of s
>
meth
on ee
dows of the last hour
pillow! If, in the warmth of woul
prosperity, he was sometimes dismayed,
how will he feel when the last chill
If while things were
comparatively smooth he was disquiet-
ed, what will he do in the agonies of
“If in the land of peace,
in which he ‘rusted, they wearied him,
he do amid the swelling of
gather above
Jordan?"
Some one
“Oh, no,” he says, ‘it is easy dying, it
and then he pointed to a clock on the
A general came into the hospital after
there was
ONE MAN DYING,
and the general said, “Ah! my dear
fellow, you seem very much wounded,
I am afraid you are not going to get
well.” “No, said the soldier, “I am
not going to get well, but I feel very
happy,” and then he looked up into
the general’s face and said, ‘I am going
to the front,” Oh, I have seen them,
and so have you, go out of this life
without a tear on their cheek! There
no weeping in the bed; the cheeks were
dry. They were not thrown down into
the It washed them off
it wash-
ed them on toward thesbeach of heaven,
They waved tous a farewell kiss as
they stood k, and floated down
further and further, wafted by gales
heaven, until they lost to
were lo
sight-—mortality having
ing of wave,
on dec
our
become
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ght from its load the sg
v hile heaven and earth «
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Enemies i
, and the things that pressed
W hat Wesley are
that howled after him?
Voltaire are all the nations
applauded him? What to Paul
wow the that chilled him.
What to Latimer now the flames that
consumed him? All those who through
the grace of Christ reach that land will
never be disturbed. None to dispute
their throne, they shall reign
and ever.
jut alas! for those who have made
When
to John
all the 108
What to
that
1 dungeons
come up panting and swift to go over
them, how will they contend with
And when the waves of their
ing of Jordan’?
If I could come into your heart this
friends, had
VOWED TO BE THE LORD'S,
not a man in the house but has some
time vowed he would be the Lord's, It
might have been at the time when your
child lay sick you said, “O Tod, if
Thou wilt let this child get well, I will
be a Christian.” Or it might have
been in some business trouble, when you
have said, **O Lord, if Thou wilt let
me keep my property, I will be a Chris-
| tian,” You kept your property, your
| child got well, the peril passed, Are
{ You a Christian? We say, “‘O Lord, do
so, and I will The darkness
passes, the peril goes away, We are as
we were before, or worse; for oh, how
| often I have men start for the
| kingdom of God, come up to within an
tarm’s reach of it, and then go back
| farther from God than they were
{ before, dropping from the very
: j re into darkne
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of their privileg !
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have been!
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on one
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Bound to get Along
-—-—— ————
Condition of Honduras,
In referring to the industries of Hon-
iIras a a igo The Observer
called attention to the fact wi
cultivation the country could be mu
one of the most productive of the Cen-
tral American states, The only reason
a
few days ago
213 bropel
be found in the character of its inhabi-
According to a recent author-
and drunkenness, debauchery and gam-
bling prevail without restraint or limit,
vices. There is no effort whatever to
BAVE,
The large amount of money which is
constantly being distributed along the
coast in exchange for fruit would make
any civilized and temperate comm unity
prosperous gnd happy, says Consul
Burchard of Truxillo. But in the
place of the neat houses and handsome
public works that one might expect to
see, only a collection of wretched hov-
els covered with leaves and plastered
with mud, with dirt floors and no wit
dows, meets the eye. Men go barefoot
and dirty, ragged and profane, their
sickly and bloated looks telling of bad
living and dissipation, Women whose
loud dress, flashy ornaments and gen.
eral demeanor indicate their mode of
life, and dirty, half-clad children, with
cadaverous faces from the great major-
ity of the population of the coast cities,
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
BuspAY, Manca 20, 1587.
Jacob's New Name,
LESSOX TEXT.
0-12, 24-90.)
LESSON PLAN.
(Gen, 82:
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OF
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ing to everiast
I. Promises Remember
i
Unwarthiness Confess
The Powerful Antagonist
i. A “
Fizsed Decision
The
1 mnt
ot let thoe go, ex pt thon
1} Jacoly
demand;
% & decision
Jacob's
COSK,
111.
Thy
“PR
name Israel
I have called thee by thy name (Isa, 43 :
1).
Thou shalt be ¢
(Isa. 62: 2).
Upon the stone a
(Rev. 2: 17).
I will write upon him the name of my
God (Rev. 3: 12).
IL. New Power:
Thou hast striven with
hast prevailed (28),
He had power with God (Hos, 12: 3).
I truly am fall of power by the spirit of
the Lord (Mic, 3 : 8).
God, which had given such power unto
men (Matt, 9 : 8),
But ye shall receive power (Acts 1: RB),
IL New Views.
I have seen God face to face (30),
From my flesh shall I see God Tob 19:
20),
They shall see God (Matt, 5: 8).
Now we see ina mirror; ... then face
to face (1 Cor. 13: 12).
We shall see him even as he Is (1 John
3:9
alled by a new name
new name written
God, . and
“No more Jacob, but Israel.” (1
A new character; (2) A new name
(3) A new outlook.--{1) Old thing:
have passed away; (2) All thing!
have become new,
“He blessed him
there”?
ature of “5
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Ja
narrative
agreement among
is being thrown op
research. Paddan
ounted the Plain
a limited portion of the lowe
ween the rivers Euphrates and
But some would locate it m
anaan side of the Euphrates: am
1 has been explained as Street o
Aram, or Road of Aram, an entrance
of the Highway of Aram. On which
the Euphrates it was loca
tedd, its region was probably not fa
from Carchemish,
The land of Seir, which was at thi:
time the home of Esau, is not necessan
Mount Seir, which became Esau’
It is
mare probably the region south-easterly
(This point is fally
discussed an Trumbull’s Kadesh-Barnea,
them
aram has been «
Aram, ot
land bet
Tig
the
ts name
HH
Gilead has a vestige of its name in
Jebel Jalood, a high peak on the bast of
the Jordan, DPeniel is not identified;
but the brook Jabbok seems to be iden
tical with the Wady Zerka, which des
cemds from that region toward the
Jordan,
The time of the lesson narrative
according to our common Bible chron
ology, about B, C, 1739,
Great wants proceed from great
wealth, and made riches almost equa
to paverty,
Everybody seems to think himself s
moral half-bushel to measure the worldY
frailties