heer for the Disheartened. “Ne man cared for my soul PSAs 124 © 4. DAVID, the rabicund lad, had be- come the battle-worn warrior. Three thousand armed men in pursuit of him, he had hidden in the cave of Engedi, the coast of the Dead Sea, Ut- terly fagged out with the pursuit, as vou have often been worn out with the trials of life, he sat down and cried out. “No man cared for my soul.” 1f vou should fall through a hatch- way. or slip from a scaflolding, ot drop through a skylight, there would be hun- dreds of people who would come around and pick up your body and carry it to we home or to the hospital. 1 saw a near great crowd of people in the street, and [ asked, “What is the matter?” and I found out that a poor laboring man had allen under sunstroke and all our eyes were filled with tears at the thought of distracted wife and his desolated home. We are all sympathetic with physical disaster, but how SYMPATHY FOR woEs | hh TLE SPIRITUAL here are men in this house who vave come to inid-life who have never vet been once personally accosted about their eternal welfare. A great sermon dropped into an audience of hundreds of thousands will do its work; but if hie world is ever to be brought to God, ¢ will be through little sermons preach- te private Christians to an audience f On it the village; the word uttered in your } ing, half of smiles and half of t a busin door v \ the an of some one across a churcl wt sermon was bel ous postscript {o card left at the me kind of trouble; 11% \ 11 int 100 YyoY ung you into the King But there are 118 house who wi David used in the past ten ! Hoy in the present tense, ai wrt. **No man cares for You feel as you go out da) he 30 ’ Lil tug and jostle of life that 1 EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF. Y cu can endure the pressure of mercial affairs and would con +<Imnst impertinent for any one vou whether you But there have been when you would have drawn henque for thousands of dollars if some would only help your soul out of perplexities, about your higher destiny that ind distract, and agonize you atl ©% no one suppose that ATE busy all day i dry-goods, or groceries, or our thoughts are no longer yrd-stick, and stop at the br wails of the once about thousand times, a yeldling; you are Sided are making or losin money. y ne store counter, NOT A WORLDLING, you are industri ept busy, but you have had y pened the realiti of L i word 01 snot a f (Of course to +g 0 Ml. not tor weiter A IeW YS $11 Arty vill take rel one have aisles of chur 1 that you n. and talked about the weatls about your physical health eversthing but that to most wanted your everlastin t wr 1 number you ave heart, if you have not uttered it ir lips F YOR o anit 8 Spi namely, without fel wit Vi Te) been t i here ive times when vere especially pliable on the great sub- ect of religion. ifter you had lost your property. had a great many letters blowing you ip for being unfortunate. You show- od that there had been a concatenation of cireumsta- ces, and that your insolv- ancy was no fault of yours. Your credi- tors talked have a hundred cents on your life. Protest after protest tum- hied in on your desk. Men who used to take your hand with both of theirs and shake it violently, now pass you on the street with an almost imperceptible nod. After six or eight hours of scald. ng business anxiety you go home, and vou shut the door and throw yourselt on the sofa, and you feel in a state of despair, You wish that some one would come in and break np the gloom, Everything seems to be against you. The bank against you, Your creditors against you, Your friends, suddenly become critical, against you. All the past against you. All the future against you. You make reproachful outery. “Neo man cares for my soul.”’ There was another occasion when all the doors of your heart swung a dollar or OPEN YOR SACRED INFLUENCES, A bright light went out in your house. hold, Within three or four days there were compressed sickness, death ob- gequies. You were so lonely that a hundred people coming into the house did not break up the solitariness, You were almost killed with the domestic calamity. A few formal, perfunctory words of consolation were uttered on the staire before you went to the grave; But vou wanted some one to come and talk over the whole matter, and recite the alleviations, and decipher the les- sons of the dark bereavement. No one came. Many a time you could not sleep until two or three o'clock in the morning, and then your sleep was i troubled dream, in which was re-en- acted all the scene of sickness, and part- ing, and dissolution, Oh, what days and nights they were! No man seemed to care for your soul. There was another your heart was very suse ptible, was when There OC Cason A GREAT AWAKENING, There were hundreds of people who | pressed into the kingdom of God- of them acquaintances, some business as- gociates, yes, perhaps some members of | vour own family were baptized by | sprinkling or immersion. Christian | people thought of you and they called at your store, but you were out on busi- They stopped at your house ; some 11088, n- ing. They sent a kindly message to | vou: somehow, by accident, you did hot get it. The life-boat of the Grospel Everything One touch of vould have pushed | vou into the kingdom of God, When on communion-day youl friends went in and your 1s and daughters went into the church, you buried your face in your handkerchief and 1. 3 “Why am I left out: Ev ’ seems to get saved but me cares for my soul,” Hearken t en 0 1 i personal sympathy S01 sobbe TY DH NIAKE, 3 t bal HOW CHRIST | I know it was { from Bethlehem t plage and the i b 1 i L Was How miles 18 depart- was the tocus of all splendor and All the thrones facing . His name the chorus in g and the inscription on every i ner. His landing-place a | malodorous with unwashed brutes, and | dogs growling in and out of the stable, every ban- On Lord's nativity—born, not as other princes. under the flash of a chandelier, but under a lantern swung by a rope to the roof of the barn. In that place Christ started tosave you. Your name, your face, your time, your eternity, in Christ's mind, Sometimes travelling on mule’s back to escape King Herod's massacre, sometimes attempting ner- vous sleep on the chilly hill-side, some- times earning His breakfast by the car- pentry of a plough. In Quarantania the stones of the field, by their shape and color, looking like the loaves of bread, tantalizing Ilis hunger. Yet all the time keeping on after you. of Gennesaret. Howled after bloodthirsty mob. Denounced as drunkard. Mourning over a doomed city, while others shouted at the sight of the shimmering towers, All the time coming on and COMING ON TO SAVE YOU, government, perjured withesses swear. ing their souls away to insures His butchery. Flogged, spit on, slapped in the face, and then hoisted on rough lumber, in the sight of earth, and heav- en, and hell, to purchase your eternal emancipation. From the first infant step to the last stey of wanbood on her ov amma oH RNB APES BN ea —————— sharp spike of Calvary a journey for you. Oh, how IE CARED FOR YOUR SOUL? By dolorous arithmetic add up the stable, the wintry tempest, the midnight dampness, the abstinence of forty days from food, the brutal Sanhedrim, the heights of Golgotha, across which all the hatreds of earth and all the furies of hell charged with their bayonets, and then dare to say again that no one cares for your soul, A young man migh from and L as his off and well father HO home Five and father cold, sick, “My foreign country, Saving, Do not care anything about him! Why, that father’s hair has turned gray since his son went off, He has written oes not the | him? He | asking about that mother care anything about has broken her heart. She has never went away. All day long. and almost all night, she keeps ask ' ROLL. Where can he be ?"’ wught in her prayer her prayer—th morning and the last “O God, bring back again before 1 and mother from your hink Hed HH he | the first and the la i } night, I must Hh, do not M1 FO AWny heavenly Father, and you t will not ich He 11 Ce ———————————————— SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. BUNpAY, Avian 10, 1887, Joseph Exalted, . 14. ES8S0N TEXT, 41 ({ien SAAR} LESSON PLAN. Toric oF Tne QuanTenr : Dondage GOLDEN TEXT yor THE QUARTER! There 18 no other God that can deliver | 9 LessoN Tori Delivered ond Kz: {1 Fxaited from Bondage, ve 58-41). | <% luvest'd with A ority, vie dl 44 | {3 Kuiing with Wisdom, va 45-45 GoLpex Text: Commit thy into the Lord; trust also in him; and he | shall bring i to pass. way 188. 34 : 9. DAILY HoMeE READINGS! M.—Gen, 41 : 38-48, exalted, (rel, Delivered and T. $0 : 1-23, Joseph in pri son (xen, 41 Pharaoh. Joseph before ' Joseph in au LYSI5, I. EXAl DAG HON {13 Crosped igdom of God hin nily and his 1 t! for a man ji thing f{ way of life, in the ut of th nself, ill keep his [ It is a dread plant himself iW ee sd in companion in life, keep back his busi Ness partney 4 { himself, and refuse to let others go in. IRAGIC DEATH OF A REJECTOR A young man, at the close of a reli- matter of his soul's salvation, | “I will not do it to-night.” Well, the Christian man kept talking with him, and he said, *‘I insist that to-night you | pither take God or reject Him." | “Well,” said the young man, “if you |put it that way, I will reject Him. | There now the matter's settled.”’ On | his way home on horseback, he knew not that a tree had fallen aslant the road, | and he was going at full speed, and he | struck the obstacle and dropped lifeless, That night his Christian mother heard | the riderless horse plunging about the | barn, and suspecting that something | terrible was the matter, she went out | and came to the place where her son lay, and she cried out, “Oh, Henry! dead | and not a Christian. Oh, my son! my gon! dead and not a Christian, © Henry! Henry! dead and not a Chris- tian.” God keep us from such a catas- trophe. at Telegraph Statistic The United States has as many miles of telegraph as all the countries of Europe cembined, and the people of this country send more than double the number of messages by telegraph as Great Britain, whose people send the largest number of any in Europe. . 4 A Grand Field of Usefulness : ¥y han y LOY Wh i al Ring ! IL. The 4 Royal Flax 111. The Royal Rale. 147i $F 41 ¥ 1 Symb hamot all the land of To rule it ; (2) To save 1) To gather in its plenty ; (2 To support in its poverty. ‘I am Pharaoh.” (1) Sovereign ty recognized ; Sovereignty as serted 3 (3) Sovereignty delegated IL. RULING WITH WISDOM, | I. Planning the Work: Joseph went out Egypt (45). Appoint overseers over the land (Gen, 41: 34). Joseph .went throughout all the land of Egypt (Gen, 41 : 46). . Then went I up in the night,....and viewed the wall (Neh. 2: 15). Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields (John 4 : 35). iL. Gathering the Food: He gathered up all the food of the seven years (48). Let them gather all the food of these good years (Gen, 41: 35). And gathereth her food in the harvest (Prov, 6: 8), He that gathereth in summer is a wise son (Prov. 10: 5). He that reapeth,....gathereth fruit unto life eternal (John 4 : 36). IL Providipg for Emergency: The food... .round about every ity, laid he up (48). Joseph laid up corn as the sand of the sen (Gen, 41: 49), In all the land of Egypt there was bread (Gen. 41 : 54). Prepare to meet thy God (Amos 4 : 12). Be ve also ready:....the Son of man cometh (Matt, 24 : 44). 1. “Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.” (1) The man; (2) The land; i$ {& the land of over ss ———————— ——— - eran (8) The outgoing Went out (1) To survey the field; (2) To organize | his work; (3) To initiate his gath- erings, “The earth brought forth by hand- | fuls,”” (1) To fulfill Joseph's inter- | | pretation; (2) To fill Joseph's granaries; (3) To feed Joseph's de- pendants; (4) To honor Joseph's (odd, Laid up the food ities, (1) Food abundant; (2) Food gath ered: (3) Food 1 onvenient, the cit i FArnierea LESSON BIBLE READING, GOD'S PROVIDENT] { dil HIS ‘ J). Matt. 10: Of ZY). LESSON ROUNDINGS. The last les left Joseph in Egypt, to Potiphar, who was a captain the king's body-guard, which was 30 the king’ foner At this point narrative 3 3 aside Lo relate 4 SLOT) ave nd of execu i ue was Lo come. hibits as this, of the he cliosen peop.e ( nspiration which guided ti rd 1s evidenced, There | Low these men perfect. yf God, § red just as they were, this cont daughter i firs four women named genealogy of Jesus, with which New Testament opens, the olhe being Rahab the Canaanitish Ruth. a woman of the Moabitish stock; false wife of Uriah the I of apure and untainted stock 13 Christ came into this world, humbled himself to be formed as & man, Nor are si t out from the provisions of grace itetur to Joseph, Jible nar- represents his varied and event- in Egypt. No story in the ler of interest than thas stor) Joseph. When nternational were first entered upon, tha mths were g this stor . ICLU 3 steworthy, dis! S [341 1ored he t of the $1 $4 ia Wie, "ey on no ine than LDE Lilie rative ui career 14 the full me given to y. few sallent ara nue alt i } wr v - a Bul DOW « a 18 history Joseph's lls ted. «The Lord was with Joseph, and he » His Ezypliar iS LEZypusan But Joseph's very ht him temptati h the ] fi £ B fs SOE 18 military prison, fortress, Joseph was confined, the Lord him favor with those who were him. He was Divinely enabled interpret the dreams of two of his yW-prisoners, whose fulure was thus disclosed to them. One ol these | prisoners, who was the king's chief butler, or cup-bearer, promised to re- | member Joseph gratefully and help- | tullv, when again in his old position of | royal favor, as Joseph assured him he | should be; but he forgot that promise | right speedily, and Joseph remained a prisoner. Two years after this, Pharaoh ireamed a sirange dram, which trou- | bled him sorely. He sought to learn | its meaning; but his magicians, or | “sacred scribes,” could not help him. | Then it was that the chief butier re- membered Joseph's power as an inter. preter, and reported it to the king. Joseph was quickly sent for, and asked to interpret ihe royal dream. Joseph or | fel i | preting to God. The dream was told | to him. He interpreted it as foretell | ing seven years of plenty in Egypt, to tie also counseled Pharaoh to set som: man in charge of the work of garaering the surplus grain of the years of plenty 48 a reserve store against the years o | famine, “The thing was good in thi} eyes of Pharaoh;” and it 18 at this point that the lesson begins. i Shepberd kings, a foreign race of rulers from the East —who dominated Egypt during a number of centuries, This gives an added reason for the royal confidence reposed in Joseph, as a man more likely to be in sympathy with the dynasty then on the throne than a native Egyptian would bave been. The time of this lesson is, according to our ordinary Bible chronology, about 1716 B. C. e place is Zoan, or Tanis, or San, !n Lower Egypt, which was the royal residence at that time, The ruins of this city have only re- cently been unearthed by the t Exploration Fuad, ~Carlisle Scott, of Colfax, Llinols, bas a gray prairie squirrel which was found frozen solid uuder a strawstack. Mr. Scott thawed it out gradually, sad now it is as lively as ever, ———— THE VENERABLE KAISER. A few of the Incidents in a Long Life of Adventure, Adversity and Prosperity. march, 1797 Hote destined 10 the 224 of William 18 from hi Born Frederick zollern AY [ouls 3 cradle wl when old enough Ad himself to le It was on the erihed at coal By eX- an indepenent that F red- William 111, who wrth his rly Yon ws We iri Hen, ¥iat nation, furnisi dgsburg, gave | 10 years of a subaltern in wilh the remark: in order nit of cle { : wi iLii68 Lo JANUAry, 1s entry into the sSeTViCce, : of 17, When he rode alongside the Prussian to invade fal ir- Aube, the first with the recon. attlefie and be dad + hia Her {thine the battle of Bar-s1 came under fir » was entrusted of the! mu for ty id, i tha vO gi hid i 3 JAA $ . vO 3 £ T° ALD x is v ire 3 ALL ~ P y pe 1 TUSSE. taming Germany. serious no qt ins lo personal property 1it that HW erty $i auive _ Le had } Cryryv ov MBO 01 x or Lansery i UY VICK of Fi eck ii A Ver cere The pearan ie 38 e of t venerable monarchs I -TOOIS ulding tha lindon ax } usual hour, and is absent these lamps and as though t 1 indows les unt BR cand i | he were in the capi The : 3 one, ii a frugal dinners ipperial and few are given. Doth Wilheln Jove the company of their Kind, but na- | turally they have very few intimate | friends. She not fond of anything | but plain German cooking, but he likes French plats well made and seasoned. And so this wonderful man celebrates his 90th anniversary as a soldier in the society of his two great and intimate friends, Bismarck and Von Moltke this great triumvirate of monarch, di- plomat, soldier, whose w ords are listen. ed to with breathless anxiety, and upon whose actions the whole futare of the European continent depends. To-day | the German soldiers are the finest in | existence, and when the venerable mon. arch dies he can say, as did Frederick the Great: “The world does not rest more securely on the shoulters of Atlas than does Prussia on its army.” AAI ss Faull Particulars. A If you have three names, madam write or print them in full Assert yourself, if your maiden name was Hen- rietia Jane Brown, and you married John Watkins Stout, as Henrletia Brown Stout--that is in your ©o' res. Rohdence. Y our card should read Mrs, John Watkins Stout (not Mrs, John W, Stout, mor Mrs, J. W, Stout). But when it comes to Jegal documents your signature must be Henrietta Jane Stout, It 18 belter to lel a Mare pass one sawn without bringlog a colt than to breed her when she is not in condition.
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