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
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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.
.
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Symb
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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
.
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3 steworthy,
dis!
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history
Joseph's lls
ted.
«The Lord was with Joseph, and he
» His Ezypliar
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But Joseph's very
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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
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3 cradle
wl when old enough
Ad himself to le
It was on the
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coal By eX-
an indepenent that F red-
William 111, who wrth his
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Hen,
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nation,
furnisi
dgsburg, gave |
10 years
of a subaltern in
wilh the remark:
in order
nit of cle
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Lo
JANUAry,
1s entry into the sSeTViCce,
: of 17,
When
he rode
alongside
the Prussian
to invade fal
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the first
with the recon.
attlefie and be dad
+ hia
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{thine
the battle of Bar-s1
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I -TOOIS
ulding tha
lindon ax }
usual hour, and
is absent these
lamps and
as though
t
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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.