TALMAGE'S
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Eb.
b SERMON.
A Broad Gospel
“Come thou and all thy house the ark
Gen. 7:1
We do not need the Bible
the deluge.
announces it. Sea-shells and marine
formations on the top of some of the
highest mountains of the earth Drove
that at some time the waters washed
over the top of the Alps and the Andes,
mito
4
tO
prove
In
ow not: whether by the stroke of a
met, or by flashes of lightning, chang-
SWINGS BOTIT WAYS.
1 do not know whether the door of the
ancient ark was lifted, or rolled on
hinges; but this door of Christ opens
both ways. It swings out toward all
tures of heaven.
in; it swings out to let our ministering
All are one in Christ
earth and saints in
Christians on
f the hand of God, like the
tLe axebetween the horns of the ox, the
ath staggered. To meet the catas-
he, God ordered a great ship built.
prow, for iL was
uo shore. It was to be with-
out helm, for no human hand should
wu it. It was a vast ;
bably as large as two or thre un
Wis
’
te
It was to be without
to sail to
ueture, pro
ei .
ved
EAST
Laken apart
wl up for «
apart that all the w
Kings scatter
it rejoicing.
i
a
in treasures
f gre So |
ir King, comes and scatter }
Rowland Hill said tha
oped to get into heaven through the
revices of the door But he was not
bliged thus to go in. After having
1 the Gospel in Surrey Chapel,
n days irist,
sthe jewels
f
a
$ }
heaven
read hed
ing up toward heaven, the gate-keep-
ried Lift up your heads, ye ever.
i gates, and let
n.'' ‘Lhe dying thief went in, Ri
Baxter and Hobert Newton went
Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South
America, may yet go through this wide
door without ecrowdir Ho, every
one! onditions gs. al
ple
ting this man oo
hard
it
¥
&
ai] , all ranks, all peo
Luther said that this truth was worth
carrying on one’s knees from Rome to
i
Jerusalem; but 1 think it worth carry
f the living God,
command we bow;
tnesrmy «
At His«
Part of the host have crossed the ood,
And part are crossing now,
in, Oh blessed door, until all the
live! Swing out
y heavens come forth to cele-
victory,
$. further, iL Is
o in and
NGS
“The
without
ENT
A DOOR WITH FA
Bible says Noah
him in.* A vessel
r doors would not be a
oo in, When Noah
wend the fastening of
wey were very glad,
were fastened,
the
the lLieavens, that ‘God so loved the
world that He gave His only-begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have everlasting
jife,” Whosoever will, let him come
through the large door. Archimedes
wanted a fulerum on which to place
his lever, and then he said that he could
move the world, Calvary is the fal-
rum, and the cross of Christ is the
lever; and by that power all nations
shall yet be lifted,
Further: It is a door that
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farm a little |
the ng. The
0 were filling up. The pry was
dd beneath the foundations of
he last year had com
ast
thie ast
torino was brew ountains
week, thie
moment
HOAn dropym
sky. and ane yolled up fi
ath; and God the earth an
I
Ie Wave f universal dest ri
ther
1
Olle
MEN PUT OFF
They
first,
GOING
“ay they
They
into the ark. will wait
will have
worldly
They will wait until they
They say: ‘You eannot ex-
years
associates
get older,
my position to surrender myself just
But before the storm comes, |
willgoin, Yes, I will. I know what
I am about. Trust me,’ After awhile,
one night about twelve o'clock, going
home, he passes a scaffolding as a gust
of wind strikes it, and a plank falls,
Dead, and outside the ark! Or, riding
into him, and his horse becomes urgnan-
ageable, and he shouts, “Whoa! Whoa!”
and takes another twist in the reins,
{ and plants his feet against the dash
board, and pulls back. Dut no use, It
is not so much down the avenue he flies
eternity, Outb of the
his body is drawn
picked It fled
a swifter courser into the great
Dead! and outside the ark! On
some night, he wakes up with a distress
momentarily inereases, until
| shrieks out with pain. The doctors
in, and they gi him twenty
but no relief; forty drops, fift
drops, sixty drops, but no relief,
{ if prayer.
time « No time
the Promises,
tas on the
| wreck
| but his
| behind
way to
of the crash
soul is not up
he
ve
Y
to read one of
No time to
pardoned, The whole house is
in alarm. ‘The children
The pul
1
| fli
rel a single sin
aroused
reid
The
BRING THE CHILDREN,
W hat
without them? We
e¢ done much for them, They
have for us What a salve
for a wounded heart there 8 in the soft
palm of a child's hand! Did harp or
tate ever have such music as there 12 in
a child goodnight?” From ow
Cron] Bless the dear children!
i ir hones ix
hay
1
done more
Ce
often back: but who comes into
the nursery without feeling that angels
are hovering around? They who die in
infancy go to glory, but you are expect.
ing your children into grow up in this
world, Is it not a question, then, that
rings through all the corridors and wind.
ings and heights and depths of your soul,
driven
“Oh!
| you say, ‘1 mean to see that they have
{good manners.” Very well, “1 mean
| shabby.’ Verygood, *‘1 shall give them
: an education,
fortune.” Very well. But is that all?
Don’t you mean totale them into the ark ?
Don’t you know that the storm is com.
safety! no pardon! no hope! no heaven!
HOW TO GET THEM IN?
in yourself, If Noah had steyed
out, do you not suppose that his sons,
Your
will be apt to do just as vou do.
yourself,
that your children will reject Him
An account was taken of the religious
condition of families in a certain dis
trict, In the family of plous parents,
wo-thirds of the children were Chris-
In the families where the par-
3 were ungodly, only one-twelth of
children hristians, Res
are for their temporal ex
i! for
YOul
if
were
sible a8 vou
ence, you are also responsible
11
Will
toler f
deluge, ol
Wily
into the
earnest
Wh
made one
nortal soul it
nt, when
(1 Henry,
Where are
rests |
Of
int
thie frye
ndid foliage, ar
t
t
cent antumn
change %
mto crimson,
In many places in Germany it
fashion to train ivy
inside the rooms ; the unnatural ©
tions of growth make the plant
what attenuated and weakly in
creeper
S
around the windows
SON
appear-
the rare, old plant that creepeth o'er
ruins old’' out of doors, and it also dark-
ens a room considerbly
plants attain any size
do not object to this the Virginia creep.
er would be found even prettier and
more suitable for indoor culture than
Ivy,
Planted in a tub on the top of a porch,
or ina balcony, it grows rapidly, and
forms graceful festoons; or planted in
areas, back yards, or similar places it
soon rises up over the face of the brick.
mass of graceful, elegant scenery ; thus
grown it does well for the many colored
framework of fresh green, is the Virgil
scarlet, blue, and yellow flowers on the
sss PP ——
Common sense Goes not asx an ime
possible chess-board, but takes the one
before it plays the game,
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
Arne 17, 1880,
Joseph Makes Himself Known.
LESSON TEXT.
45: 1-15)
JKDAY,
(Gen
LESSON PLAN.
Toric or THE QUARTER : Bondage
GOLDEN TEXT FOR THE QUARTER!
I.
liverer.
Tori The delivered a De-
ON
. A Deliverer from Alarm, ve, 1-8
A Deliverer from Peril, va &
A Dellverer from Care, va 8-105,
Overcome evil with
son Ou
OLDEN
Rom
DAILY
HoMms
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Alay
med
11, Comforted
i Sure
iia isa
11. Human Instrumentality
He hat ! ]
sent me hith
y wisdom in control,
A DELIVERER FROM CARI
I. Loving Invitation Extended
up to my
| come down un
{ Ye shall haste
father hither
Bring vour father
19).
| Come thou with us, and we will
good (Num, 10: 29
| And he that is athirst,
| (Rev. 22:17.)
11. Abundant Nourishment Assured
There will 1 notirish thee (10).
i will give you the good of the land
| (Gen. 45: 18),
The good of all the land of Egypt is
yours (Gen. 45: 20),
In the best of the land make....thy
brethren to dwell (Gen. 47 1 6).
Joseph nourished his father, and his
brethren (Gen. 47 . 12),
11 Joyous News Sent
Ye shall tell my father of all my
glory (13).
They told him, saying, Joseph is yet
alive (Gen, 45 : 26).
They told him all the words of Joseph
(Gen, 45: 27)
Go father, and
me {(Y
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tu
and dow!
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(sen, 4
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, ALG
Ting
5: 13)
come (Gen. 45
do thee
let him eome
go down with thee into Egypt
(Gen, 46 : 4).
Prov,
JO: ]
“* Come down unto me, tarry not
and thou shalt dwell in the
1) Invitation ; (2) Urgency ;
Assurance,
I1 tell my father of
(1
| 1
ang
all my
Whom to tell (2)
(1) The messengers
Ape,
y
Ines
kissed all brethren,” (1
: love ; (2) The
A generous
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Causes of Famine
Famine
al
‘ 1
» asked
ph mysii-
to be served
J Last
iiority of Years,
mmand the mone!
placed in his sack,
Joseph's Was AI
sack. Hardly
homeward, when
ertook
t Se
*
Hey Ol
ph's or
EVEY Iman Was again
iVOT « up « {
Benjar
started
Joseph's steward pursued and ov
them, charging them with thel
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¢ .
they were
and life
1 1
ready )
on the issue, he
Benjamin's sack, they were
brought back before Joseph in shame
and bewilderment. Their chielest lear
Judah pleaded ecarn-
him, as his father's favorite
child; and he offered to give himself as
a slave in Benjamin's place, if only the
cup being
The place of this incident is probably
or Tanis, or San, in Lowet
Its time, according to our or
dinary chronology, is B. C, 1707
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Printing from zine plates 1s gradually
revolutionizing lithography, alter hav
ing been dormant for nearly a quarter
of a century.
The library ot the Massachusctis
Horticultural Society is said Lo contain
thie best collection of works on horticals
ture in the world,
Every one should have eight bours
sleep, and pale, thin, Dervous persons
require ten, which should be taken
regularly in a well-ventilated room.
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