DR. TALMAGES SERMON,
'rom Dungeon to Palace.
my departure is
is wol
and hearse
lin
l serew=driver,
pade and
that th hristian can hardly
he ought of the most cheerful passage
is history. We hang black in-
over the place
his last victory.
y
in al
stead white
Food ian gets We
stand
* OF CHAINS
reed soul has
“Poor man!
had to come to this!”
: By the time the people have
bled at the obsequies, that man
en three days so happy that all
joy of earth ace
beside it, and he
weep over you because
y stay, than you weep
¢ he has to
ig that a
{ walt in
hey would be so dis
. experi CE,
to E
¥ +} Lily
WICK=-KI1LUS
shaken off,
Come
1
i
hedness
good man
his
to see
back
not be any
1 who sh
ome down
@
endure this
heerful. aH press my way
the n til I up ciose
is, and by the faint lig
hv the opening, I
irough
to
ht that
“ee
Come
wile ie i ’
streams through t on
his face a supernatural joy, and 1 bow
before and 1 say, “Aged man,
how can u keep cheerful amidst all
this gloom?’ His startles the
darkness of the place as he cries out,
‘ yw ready to be offered, and the
time of my departure is at hand.”
Hark! what is that shuffling of feet in
the upper dungeon? Why, Paul has
YOico
f ar
i aman
AN IN
VITATION TO A BANQUET,
ki d i
King. Those shuffling feet are the feet
of the itioners, They come, and
they ery down through the hole of the
dungeon, “Hurry up, old man: come,
now, and get yourself ready.” Why,
Paul was ready, He bad nothing to
pack up, be had no baggage to take; he
had been ready a good while, I see
him rising up and straightening out his
stiffened limbs, and pushing back his
white hair from his creviced forehead,
and see him looking up through the
hole in the roof of the dungeon into the
face of his executioner, and hear him
say, “I am now ready to be offered, and
the time of my departure is at hand,”
Then they 1ift him out of the dungeon
and they start with him to the place of
execution, They say, “Hurry along,
old man, or you will feel the weight of
our spears; hurry along.” “How far
is it," says Paul, “we have to travel?”
OX
EC
| “Three mile 3.
| way for an old man
{ has been whipped,
| maltreatment,
'HE
to travel after
and erippled with
ijut they soon get tO
PLACE OF EXECUTION.
Acque Salvia-—and he i
y pillar of martyrdom, It
ake any strength to tie him fast,
Oh. Paul! why
You have a
With that
does not
kes no resistance,
strike for your life?
| great many friends here.
bolt of the people upon those infamous
soldiers. No! Paul going
interfere with his own coronation,
| was too glad to go. ]
was not
I see him looking
| up in the face of his executioner; and,
But I put my hand over
want that
One sharp, keen stroke,
15 at hand,’
| my eves; 1
| struggle,
Paul
1
| does
not to see
and
does go to the banquet, an 1 Paul
1 the King.
GINne Ww
FRRANSITION IT W
from the malaria of Rome to the
all the univ
and health,
He catacombs
rse, the zon
is
of
{ climate in
al beauty
i Rome,
Ileaven
st ache,
away from their |
They have gone,
not like to bring
world of trouble, even if you had the
power. It would not do to trust you,
(rod would not give you the resurrec-
| tion power, Before to-morrow morn-
Ing you would be ratthng at the gates
| of the cemetery, crying to the departed,
“Come back to the cradle where
slept! come back to the hall where you
| used to play! come back to the table
where you used to sil!” amd there would
be a great burglary in heaven. No, no!
God will not trust you with resurrec-
tion power; but He compromises the
| matter, and says, ‘You cannot bring
them where you are, but you ean go
where they are,’’ They are more lovely
i now than ever. Were they beautiful
| here they are more beautiful there, Be-
| Sides that, it is
MORE HEALTHY THERE
{for you than here, aged man; better
1 11
{ climate there than these hot summers
{ and cold winters and late springs; bet.
4 $1
4 LILES
you
more sweetness in the song. Do you
not feel, nged man, sometimes, as
though you would like to get your arm
and foot free? Do you not feel as
though you would like to throw away
spectacles and canes and erutches?
Would you not like to feel the sprin
and elasticity and mirth of an eterna
boyhood? When the polnt at which
you start from this world is old age,
and the point to which you go iseternal
juvenescence, aged man, clap youn
hands at the anticipation, and say, if
perfect rapture of soul, “The time or
my departure is at hand,"
feel this joy of the text who have,
\
Wer I
like lo
through a broken telesgope: N
see through
tedl ne
place? Y
OW We
a glass darkly.” Can you
thant
thousand ques
iit heavenly
any thing alx
onl ask me a
it that 1
a thousand questions about
cannot answer,
that you
wonder
cannot answer.
WAS
him to
iscoveries in that ble
that Paul
ul
a chance
80 gu
aave
FAVE
country ?
I hope some day, by the grace of (x
and for
now. No well man, ne
I think, wants to
SB
come,
YOu a
if aw him in
I would like to hear
that came
1A
were two
storm upon
there hundred
five souls on the vessel, I
enough
There is a fascination
i
the
only man on board cool
eribe the storm.
about a ship and
never get over, and I think I would like
to hear him talk about that first, jut
| when I meet my Lord Jesus Christ, of
what shall I first delight to hear Him
speak # Now I think what it is 1
| shall first want to hear the tragedy of
| His last hours, and then, Luke's account
of the crucifixion and Mark's accout of
the crucifixion, amd John's account of
| the erucifixion will be nothing, while
{ from the living lips of Christ the story
| shall be told of the gloom that fell, and
the devils that arose, and the fact that
upon His endurance depended
THE RESCUE OF A RACE;
and there was darkness in the sky,” and
there was derkness in the soul, and the
pain became more sharp, and the
burdens became more heavy, until the
scene began to swim away from the dy-
ing vision of Christ, and the cursing of
| the mob came to His ear more faintly,
and His hands were fastened to the
horizontal piece of the cross, and His
feet were fastened to the perpendicular
Lpleoe of the cross and THs head fall for.
He Hl Levin
is finished
tiie
I
Ward in a Swoon as
and cried : “It
heaven will stop to listen until
done, and every harp w
)
down, and every lip closed, and all
fixed 11GT
il ed uj
HE
UNDAY, Jury 81
The Temptation of Jesus.
SON TEXT,
Toric oF TI
A Clockwork Cradle
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1
a
ne
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Spain's National Odor.
wi a charming French friend
yw oand n, to
f a great treat of g
garlic ; after which
woulddrink a few glasses of tafla, smoke
a cigarette or two of caporal, and then
call upon me and invariably Kiss me,
was attar of roses or ess,
bonquet compared to the person of an
By an extravagant
and continuous consumption of garlic,
ho used, wu aga
iy £1
got stuf-
meal he
1
i
3
al
From their skins it
sickening.
A Spanish gentleman remarked to me
one day in a Madrid saloon, whilst
praising English women, their baauties,
virtues, ete,: “There is only one fault
I detected in them--their skin has no
perfume, When I kiss a Spanish lady's
hand, I smell that delicious national
odor that we all adore; but an English
lady's hand, though delicately white
and soft, does not absolutely smell of
any thing I'' He missed, poor fellow,
the taint of garlic.
Keep your boy heart up into man.
hood. Tie chances come later to some
than to others, Yours may be tle
duller forenoon aud the more brilliant
avaning.
GOLDEN TT
be fearad;
obs rvesd.
AMBITION,
hibition to Ix
11 VICTORIOUS OVER
| IL. Worldly Glory :
The kingdoms of the world, and the
| glory of them (R).
Thou excoedest the
I {(2Chron. 9:
| Haman recounted
of his riches { Esther 5: 11),
fame that
GL
built (Dan. 4: 30),
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed
like one of these (Matt, 6:20),
11. Satanic Canning:
All these things will I give thee, if
thou wilt. .. . worship me (9),
The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat
(Gen. 3: 13).
Satan answered, . .. . Doth Job fear God
for nought ? (Job 1: 9),
We are not ignorant of his devices (2
Cor. 2: 11).
The old serpent, . . . . the deceiver of the
whole world (Rev, 12: 9),
111. Complete Victory :
Get thee hence, Satan, ...Then the
devil leaveth him (10, 11),
When the devil had completed every
temptation
hal
the world
at ompanied the wal bull il
g¢ Henry V1II, of England ** Defend
we Faith.” It is executed
wondrous art letters of gold
purple vellum and was received from
the Pope as a present. The German
Government pa'd the Duke of Hamil
ton £10.000 for it, and snapped it up
the authorities of the British
Museum were trying to get it for a
It was questioned at the
Government
ill
time whether the German
money than sense, thus to pay £10,000
may have been there 1s very little doubt
that the trustees of the British Mu-eum
would be glad to have the offer re.
peated,
Sin is never at a stay; if we do not
retreat from it, we shall advance in ii;
and the further on we go, the further
we have to come back.
Time never works; it eats, and un
dermines, and rots, and rusts, and de-
stroys, But it mever works. It only
gives us an opportunity to work,
Every genuine work of art has as
much reason for being as the earth and
the sun. The gayest charm of beauly
has a root in the constitution of things.