DR. The Heavens Opened. I see the heavens opened.” A Crs "HEN had been preaching a rous- and the people could "hey resolved to do as men 12s would like to do in this day, if they dared, with some plain preacher of righ kill him. The only way man was to knock the breath out of him. So they rushed Stephen of the gates of the city, +, and whoop, and bellow him to the cliff, as was 1 they wanted to take Having brought JF Hi, Serinon, not . 1 stand It, sometin COUSIIeSS to silence this they pusii- ef i he had fallen and seeing that they stone atten began 131 dead, him i him : ILE RAIN OF MISSILES, clambers up on his knees } is hands, while the blood his temples to his cheeks, { from lie ground; and then, | LIKES LWo prayers his murderers. HIS garments, one LAWay and fell YO 1 yor aay { u cliimt now to what 1 1t was rigl v ImMoments moment + same postu to Keep » wealth may ll, and painti and works gazing, as i Would TRANSFIGURED FAC} 3 ng to join their « onship, and the years and the d with such tedium that they break your wart, and viper of pain, and ow, and bereavement keeps gnawing at vitals, still stand, gazing into heaven You f they have changed since ye hem last, You wonder if they would recognize your now, changed as it been with trouble, You wonder if, amid the myriad delights they have, they care as much for you as they used to when they gave you a helping hand and put their shoulder under your bur- lens, You wonder if they look any older; and sometimes, in the evening- tide, when the house is all quiet, you wonder if you should call them by their first name if they would not answer; and perhaps sometimes you do make the experiment, and when no one but God and yourself are there you dis. tinctly call their names, and listen, and sit gazing into heaven, 11. Pass on now, and see Stephen, HN pan- LVS gO RO - your like Ste- en, vou worl- {a ier i Saw face 80 LOOKING UPON CHRIST, My text says he saw the Son of man at the right hand of God. Just how Christ looked in this world, just how He looks in heaven, we cannot say, A writer in the time of Christ says, de- scribing the Saviour’s personal appear- ance, that He had blue eyes and light ure; but I suppose it was all guess- work, Lhe painters of the different ages have tried to imagine the fea- tures of Christ, and put them upon ean ras; but we will have to wait until with our own eyes we see Him and with our own ears we can hear Him, bearing Hin now. Christ on Him and hear ¢ and hear that unl earth, vou will never se in heaven. SR VOU Bee HERE HE IS Lamb of God, Can you not Then pray to God to take scales off your eyes. Look that try to look that way. His voice down vou this day the blindest, to the deafest saving: “Look unto Me, all ye ends of the earth, and be ye saved, for and there none LE Proclamation of universal emancipa~ slaves, Proclamation of un- amnesty for all rebels, LOOK Yahi tha Behold Lie way to Comes i am (rod, is else, on for all gathered his table: George I. entertained ords of England at a banquet; Napol- mn 111. welcomed the Czar of Russia he ] of Turkey to his feast; Germany was glad to , Greorge Bancroft, sit at his table; i<toy ster wh ney as a4 THX he talks to all about the w the stendom mand John Wesley was howled » mob to whom he preached, hrew bricks at him, and tl m, and they jostled ipon him, and yet glories { 1 ey him, lands, he is admitted t of Methodism. Presidential coagulate box , there sprang up the : a in all lan great father bullet vacated spot of the floor in the of new stone On I. Stephe Pass on now, and see Stephen HIS DYING PRAYER, ught was not hov his h nor what His ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”” The murderer standing on the trap-door, the black cap being drawn over his head before the execu. may grimace about the future: but you and I have no shame in cone fessing some anxiety about where we are going to come out, You are not There is within you a soul. I see it gleam from your eyes to-day, and I see it irradiating your countenance, Sometimes I am abashed before an I rt Mun t of his would become body. first thought was about his spirit, physical eyesight, but because I realize the truth that I stand before so many immortal spirits, The probability is that your body will at last find a sepul- chre in some of the cemeteries that surronnd this city, There is no doubt but that YOUR OBSEQUIES head pruce, blossoming fir; vil unde or tl but prayed Wh je 3, or the out which Stephen 13 teat ill that take? direction w eriti place have tossed aven's gir} SUC | saw against asleep! He fought all his davs nd t abuse, name, while an poverty Agains They he the with rattled at ine door wis dying duns for the world faded, heaven the deepening twillght of was only the opening heaven's morn. Not a tear. Not a struggle asleep! I have not the faculty to tell weather. I can never tell by the setting sun whether there will be a drought or not, 1 cannot tell by the blowing of the wind whether it will be fair weather or foul on the morrow. But I can prophesy, and I will prophesy what weather it will be when you, the Chris- tian, come to die. You may have it very rough now. It ray be this week one annoyance, the next another annoy- ance, It may be this year one bereave- ment, the next another bereavement, Before this year has passed you may have to beg for bread, or ask for a dawned, and earth's night twilight of sigh. Not a Hush! Stephen coal or a prin ; death con ri made by oval munifi 11), and the ipriety in the pi r pious Israelit nna to the a8 repre Yet the int creditors : Welcome under vour d homage ented by Cli ind dark | there HAY | and i I. Devout Worshipers: They fi } the nig! garden vour b { the Divine Warning 13 In. Implicit Obedience SUNDAY SCHOOL, LESSON. t 1 X 4, 3 The Infant INDIAN KILLING Prince Esterhazy's Danger in i J tares astern { II. The Star A J an t lier and mo , rod made a revelatic 14 mph . charias, prom- | 1d be the fore- ng-expected Messiah, lic messenger after- Nazareth, of the In- erally much | away from the fart | a regular caravan of | Taes, SALLE Angeli | wards appeared to Mary and announced the mystery { carnation \ shortly afterwards t women Elisabeth, and | utlered has been preserve { I: 30-56), The birth o | tist and the song of Zach: | placed next (Luke 1 : 57 | brake from him (Dan. 2: 1 | are various opinions as to | Tet not your heart be troubled (John | of the paragraph in Matthew LC 34:¢ 1 J 10.04 : {IL Investigation: Joseph, Some place it before the visit : back a hill, : He yy He inquired of them where th to Elisabeth ; others place the visit be- | long on low ground, Usually three yy a win tween the perplexity and the dream of | or four at least of a hunting party are | should be born (4), plea rag er. X RY | Joseph ; while a preferable view assigns | Killed before the season over. You ro she law and to the {the whole to a date after the return | will understand, therefore, what good 8: 20). | from the hill country of Judea. This | fortune we had in escaping loss of life.” | Seek ye is not open to any serious objection, read Ah Fintan (Johil 5: 30 while the other views involve difficul- | Mr. Crisp showed at a recent meet. © 8OAarct rN } * JO i. = 3 : 2 3 Tas Yu scarel ii a tue ln 30). ties, aL : | ing of the Microscopical Society, Lon- tho Horus daily Neots 17: 11) 3 I'he events narrated by Luke in Luke | don, a very curious microscope bearing ! ACH ‘ Je 2: 1-38, then follow in natural order | the date 1772. Besides possessing other 111. Instruction: (the journey to Bethlehem, the birth in | pecullarities, it had three objectives { In Bethlehem... . for the stable, the angelic appearance to | attached to a sliding panel at the end ten by the prophet (5), the shepherds, their visit to Bethlehem, | of a nosepiece In a manner similar to 3 the circumcision of Jesus, the presenta. | that adopted in the construction of the tion in the temple, with the benediction | modern Harbey and other microscopes, | of Simeon and Anna). It should, how. | ever, be noted that there is room for | difference of opinion in regard to the relative position of the presentation in the temple (Luke 2: 22.38) and the visit of the Magi narrated in the lesson before us, The traditional date (Jan- uary 6, Epiphany) of the latter is too early, being only thirteen days after the nativity. Probably the twe occurred within a few days of each other, The shika- but was forced hard- This thie 4 when, for quite a long a. ith ' Ai y Ail Yall wandering away by to camp and rough it and ITY ships which . Trouble: Herod salem with him In the | troubled The wicked ; Isa. OT: y His spirit was tents Luke 1 morning Gen, 41: 8 are like M) aU, : was the trou gers dure days in panther, hill and not stay troubled, and Ie position in nt Matt. 1: r 1 shot 6 i and a which tells of the perplexity of | A tiger always comes from a 4 14] goes e¢ Christ 18 { Isa. {ost unony out of the { Isa. HM 16 * book of the Lord, thus it is writ- instrocted, ye judges of the earth Psa. 2: 10), { I will instruct thee and teach thee (Psa. 82: 8B). | All the things that are written. . . .shall | be accomplished (Luke 18: 31). The scripture said that the Christ cometh. ... from Bethlehem (Jolin 7: 42). 1. “When Herod the king heard it, he was troubled.’ (1) Herod's infor- manta; (2) Herod's information; (8) Herod's anxiety. Jesus (1) A Dry pocket-glue is wade of twelve parts of good glue and five of sugar. The glue is boiled until it is entirely dissolved, the sugar is then put into the glue, and the mass is VADOrA- ted until it hardens on cooling. Lukes warm water melts it very readily, and it is excellent for use in causing paper to adhere firmly, cleanly, and without producing any disagreeable odor,
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