DR. A Sprig of Heartscase. “ And his disciples . went and told Jesus)’ MATT. 14 An outrageous assassination had just taken place. To appease a rey engeful woman. King Herod ordered the death John disc the Baptist. were thrown into dismay. They themselves Vas Ii ] grief y felt defenceless The 0 au they could appeal, and always find expression, man ear to hear it ro thority t t tif ¥ noun "i IY £ beam of His the 1 f + ‘ty the Goor ol youl Lreak down 3 From the thorns of His own will pick enough gems to sur brow biaze with eternal In every tear on His wet every gash of lis side; in mg, blackening mark of lacer- m shoulder to shoulder ; grave-shattering, heaven-storming death groan, I bear Him say, ‘‘Him cometh unto Me, I will in nowise cast out,’ “Oh.” but you say, “instead of cure ‘ng my wound you want to make an- ik every wbion ii tien ! Ke0n ease. and then with sharp caustic burn it all out? So the grace of God comes to the old sore of sin. It has long been rankling toere, but by Divine grace it is burned out through these fires of con- viction, *‘the flesh coming again as the flesh of a little child ;” “where sin abounded grace much moreaboundeth.” With the ten thousand unpardoned sins of your’life, go and tell Jesus. You will never get rid of your sins in any other way; will not always be extended. King Alfred, before modern time- day into three parts, eight hours each, and then had three wax candles. By the time the first candle had burned to the socket, eight hours bad gone, and gone, and when all the three candles were gone ‘out, then the day had passed, Oh, that some of us, instead of calcu lating our Gays and nights and years by any earthly time-piece, might calculate tain bY the unmbers of opportunitics lest at last we be amid the foolish vir- II. Again, I commend the behavior I") ALL heard WHO ARE TEMPTED. men in mid-life say that never been led into tempta. [f vou have not felt temptation because you have not tried to do A man hoppled and handcuffed, ave tion, shall You shall 1 above hat vou are able Therefore, with all your ; g these disciples did, a i111. Ag I commend the disciples to all ro ] aYy iin Oi THE SLANDERED AND PERSECUTED, And do you know that every John has a Herod? There are persons who do not wish you very well, you; misinterpret your motives, and to see you upset, Some slander comes after to do? 1 tell you plainly thut all who serve Christ must suffer persecution, It is the worst sign in the world for you to be able to say, “I haven't an enemy in the world,” A woe is pronotinced in the Bible against the one of whom everybody speaks well, If you are at likes you and approves your work, it is because you are an idler in the Lord's vineyard, and are not doing your duty. All those who have served Christ, ALL HAVE BEEX MALTREATED at some stage of their experience, You know it was 80 in’the time of George Whitefield, when he stood and invited men into the kingdom of God, What did the Jeatnied Dr, Johnson say of him? He pronouticed Lit a miserable mounte- ink. How was it when Robert Hall stood ‘and spoke as scarcely any unin spired man ever did speak of the glories of heaven? and as Le stood Sabbath af. raw | his face kindled with the glory. John Foster, a Christian man, sald of this man, tobert Hall is only acting, and { the smile on his face is a reflection of his own vanity,” John Wesley turned | him, and the meanest jokes in England | were perpetrated about John Wesley What is true of the pulpit is true of iw: it is true of the street, the and the st WiKi shop yin t siasted sree] by overar TAS GOD TURNED 1 to die? He « and love, He sees ¢ length and the the barren w!. He 1 and Kindness understands all our grief height and the depth and | the breadth of it. He is that can fully sympathize, Jesus Sometimes when we have 4 le we go to our friends and we expla . and they try to sympathize; but they understand it, They cannot un- derstand it, ut Christ sees all over it, | and all through it, { the tears and records the groans, but | before the tears started, before the | groans began, Christ saw the inmost hiding-place of your sorrow; and He takes it. and He weighs it, and He measures it, and He pities it with an all absorbing pity. Bone of our bone, Flesh of our flesh. Heart of our heart, Sorrow of our sorrow, As long as He remembers Lazarus's grave He will stand by you in the cemetery. As long { as He remembers His own heart-break, | He will stand by you in the laceration of your affections. When He forgets the footsore way, the sleepless nights, the weary body, the exhausted mind, | the awful cross, the solemn grave, then | He will forget you, but not until then, Often when we were in trouble we sent for our friends; but they were far away, they could not get to us, We | wrote to them, “Come right away,” pt | telegraphed, “Take the next train.’ | They came at last, yet were a great (hile in coming, or perhaps were too ate, But common 8 not. sympathy the + i only one | | CHRIST IS ALWAYS NEAR ever threw her arms around of affection as Christ has shown toward hand than the | sta fl mich you lean, nearer the cup vou put lose at neare: upon han Ww 1 ' { ur lip, nearer than with v i | Presid } ympathizing hich VAY vour tears ; Him an « ( voll 84] lim 14 that one OW span | se AAAI TRAIN AAAI Royal Grandeur, I went to call on a king with a who knew the proper way to do it, man We very dirty and tired, to see “‘the old man.’ On arriving a. a circular mud hut, we hitched our horses to a log and | “Noone was to be seen, so | Fancy | shouting for a real live king! Presently a hideous old hag, with a small freehold garden on her, and clothed in an old skin that a London bagman would pass by in disgust, came in and told us that | the chief had been unwell all day, but would come out and see us, This meant that he had been as drunk as Chloe for a week past. Soon a blear-eyed, filthy, smelling, disgusting, old drunkard came in and sat down on the floor with a grunt. Then he asked for some tobacco. As we only had good tobacco, we said we hadn’t any, Then he asked for brandy; subsequently for a coal, a pair | of trousers, some boots, or a hat; and | the interview finished up by his trying to sell us a dozen of his wives for a bottle of brandy, Certain trifling flaws sit as disgrace- fully on a character of elegance asa SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. Red Sea. TEXT. MAY 29, 1857, The LESSON ident Pursuit 3 omfited Host 2) Blin Hastening to the - “The Lord host of the look of his foes, “The sea returned to its strength,” Released by the Almighty; (2) Obe- dient to the rod: (3) Destructive to the Egyptians; (4) Saving to the Israelites, 111. GOD TRIUMPHANT. I. God's People Saved: Thus the Lord saved Israel that day (30). The Lord....i8 become my salvation (Exod. 16: 2), O Israel, . . . . a people saved by the Lord (Dent. 33 : 29). Ro the Lord saved ismael that day (1 Sam, 14 : 23). The Lord saved them by a great victory (1 Chron, 11 : 14). 11. God's Enemies Destroyed: Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sca shore (30), There remained not so much as one of them (Exod. 14: 28), looked Egypti Lord; ang the into the sea (Exod, 15: 1). They sank as lead in the mighty waters (Exod. 15: 10), Their pursuers thou didst cast into the depths (Neh, 9: 133 1H God's Word Believed: And the people. ...believed in the Lond (31). | And the people believed (Exod. 4 : 31). | They believed they his 12), od ja iples believed ' 11 ed on him (John i Thus the Lord saved J The Baviour; (2) The " I he saved, Dead 1 ‘savs al And of guidance in "harachs, LAT €ITOTS Concern. the exodus should Ix every Bible stu- stations given in Jarrative are of them towns cities, Rameses and Succoth are | districts. Etham is a fortified wall, or line of d¢ works. The distance | between the several stations is not nec- | essarily a single day’s journey. It is probable that more than one week, pos- | sibly nearly three weeks, elapsed be- | tween the Passover night in Goshen- | Rameses and the night at the Red Sea, { with which t lesson opens. A come parison of the dates given in Exodus 12: 1.20, 20.30 ; Numbers 33 : 3; and Exodus 16 : 1, will show how leisurely | were the movements of the Hebrews { after their hurried start. | The precise point of the Red Sea | erossing by the Hebrews is in dispute for it is an open question whether the | Gulf of Suez extended northward at | that time, so as to include the old water. | beds now known as the Ditter Lakes | But that the crossing was near the northern end of that arm of the Red Sea, as it was at that time, is pretty well established ; although even that | has been called in question, The date of this event is given in out | Bible margins as 1B, C, 1491 ; but there » v tere the campaigns of the I'wo or [he 1300 none for \ tCNSIVE his are those who would make it a century and a half earlier, ‘and others who would put it nearly as much later, This point is likely to have light thrown { on it by investigations which are now in | progress, by the aid of fresh disclosures | in the monumental history of Egypt. ———— i goin. It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollection of our former life.
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