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
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{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
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