Watering the Sheep. lying d I heat bright men repart flocks Jacob, errand of looki Weil, to thie 8¢ 3 ell. I see proaching, fc flock of sheep. COHesS 0) (he " gshepherdess QRS her ap- her father’s It was A MEMORABLE MEETING, ob married f ¢ that shepherdess. Tl ccount of it is: ‘Jacob Kissed hel, and lifted up his voice and wept.’ It has always been a mystery to me what he found to cry about! But before ne occurred, Jacob ac- i 1 asks them why all 1 the thirst tt post f these sheep, and they roceed reply to hi > id LK » wait * LO 11 them come in. they are in- the Gospel of Jesus, (io tell them the affluence 0 to the blind a + aenl of lame man lea £3 sheep Oil to great all New b 5 Bask: in a flock: he Onaon he Gospel is deep enougl burning thirst of hundred million of th t let the Church, by veness, keep the wo swing THE GATES, tations: t bin come.” Come, wh Come, red men Laplander, out of the me, Patagonian, out of the Come furs, Come panting under palm leaves, Come one. Come all, Come now, As at this well of Mesopotamia, Jacob and Rachel were betrothed, 80 this morning, at this well of salvation, Christ our Shepherd meet you coming up with your long flocks of cares and anxieties, and He will stretch out His hand in pledge of klis affection, while all heaven will ery out: **Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ve out to meet Him.’ Y ou notice that this well of Mg sopot- amia had a stone on it, which must be removed before sheep could be watered; and I find on the well of salva tion to-day IMPEDIMENTS ‘Whoso- ite ck. ome, SHOW, LB heat. in 11 s Will or » the AND OBSTACLES which must be removed, in order you may obtain the refreshment and life of this Gospel, In your case the impediment i8 pride of heart. You cannot bear to come to so democratic a fountain; you do not want to come with #0 many others, It is as though you were thirsty and you were invited to slake your thirst at the town-pump, in- stead of sitting in a parlor sipping out of a chased chalice which has just been fifted from a silver salver., Not so sany publicans and sinners. You want 1 i to get to heaven, but { vou must be in special ear, with your feet on a Turkish ttoman, and a band of music on board You do not want to be in company with rustic { the train, Db and Rachel, the fount thousand sheep hav You will and to be drinking ou wii } I d | : In ore you, dil avi Ciy I am dy of ) Ine? 8 of pride Comes Lu scales were : indeed, to bal { 4s 0 | silver and gems; there ance the were jut the the savs Aslires populace, on one waleg, and on the other side are all 1 He all depth, tarot eternit gide treasures of the universe, ant ‘“*All are yi all height, length, breadth, all We apprec urs all don't ate When an aged clergyman was dying a man very eminent in the Church a young theological student stood by | his side, and the aged man looked up and said to him: **Can’t you give me some comfort in my dying hour?” ““No," said the young man; *‘I can’t talk to you on this subject; you know all about it, and have known it so long.” “Well,” said the dying man, “Just to me promises, ’’ The young man thought a moment, and he came to this promise: **The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin,” and the old man clapped his hands, and in his dying moment said: ““That’s just the promise I have been waiting for. “The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin,’ Oh, the warmth, the | grandeur, the magnificence of the | promises! | Come, also, to this Gospel well, all { yo troubled, I do not suppose you have | escaped, Compare your view of this {life at fifteen years of age with | what your view is of it at forty orsixty { or seventy, What A GREAT CONTRAST OF OPINION! Were you right then, or are you | right now? Twocups placed in your hands, the one a sweet cup, the other a | sour cup. A cup of joy and a dup of recite some grief. Which has been the nearest to being fall, and out of which have yeu 1 } Lhe more frequently ta different luce what it used to Le? a grand City im went out on tl partaken? What Creenwood 18 Once 1 was to you (sure excursion, an ly up the mound, and iticised in a light way the day ate when 3 18 of ru eve you ran laughin YOu ¢1 when wsion, it Hood the itil i overmaster the heart, h id {1 only knows how It is a wonder live th Nervous sy wd youl rouble, trouble, If 1 could Oh, you ouble, trouble. much You trouble, vou have had, been able to wonder wen shattered, ough 1! Youll stem h 1} from wave taken think Gol He has taken eighty vears? than He ever more of Him, aham., and Isaac, he aged, bo vour God gather all the promi and I ask the cks of lambs and to-day think br ADT » a group, FHE SPARKLING Si wld, happy PPLY. Bel is the man whom God correcteth.,”’ “Though He eause grief, vet will He bave compassion.” “Many Hr the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.” “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” I am determined, this morning, that no | one shall go out of this house uncomfor- ted, Yonder is a timid and shrinking consolations I am uttering, as a child physician, lest he touch the wound too roughly, and the mother has to go aml | compel the little patient to come ont | and see the physician, So { your timid and shrinking soul today, and compel you to come out in the pre- sence of the Divine Physician, He | will not hurt you, He has been heal- | { } pe 1 (0 111) Lr abl ool hoe Howeve | come the thought We may hie I. His Message of Warning Repent ve; for {Luke 13: 3). Il. His Field of Toil: Jesus i x11 wont al went abon ane Mark 1 1 hi Act ’ ITL. His Message of Love: Preaching the gospel of the (saalilev g 10 oi y world, ¢ 15 inted me to preach (Luke 4 The gospel of the glory of Christ (2 ( } : 4). 1. ‘Began Jesus to preach, prince of preachers; (2 tion of preaching; (3 of results, Repent ye,’”* (1) The duty coms manded ; (2) The means pre-sup- posed; (3) The necessity implied. “Preaching the gospel of the king- dom.” (1) The preacher's theme; (2) The preacher's field; (8) The preacher’s power, II, THE KING LEADING, | I. By Loving Calls: Come ye after me (19). | Come unto me,....I will give you rest (Matt, 11 : 28), { Come to the marriage feast (Matt, 22:4) 1) The The perfec- ) The grandest . From Worldly Associations and circuit iu Galilee,” It} Hobinson shortly i placed by before Dr, t36 cond (A. D. the jut the above dates are not sally accepted, The differer at Numbers. owed Golog Among Mer 3 a — SON SURROUNDINGS, between ito LE There was a lon the temptation and (alllee recorded in the prese Three of the evangelists are silent regard to the intervening occurrences, Indeed, the narrative of Jolin 18 the only one that enables us to form even an outline of the entire history, since he names (or suggests) the Passovers during our Lord’s ministry. Dut some points are still in dispute, The events narrated in John 1: 19 to 5:56 must certainly be placed during the interval between the temptation and the withdrawal into Galilee, The order is continuous and chronological; for while John omits many things told by the other evangelists, he rarely, if ever, deviates from the correct order. The oceurrences are: he witness of John the Baotist to Jesus (John 1: 19- g interval the withdrawal I nt lesson. " 14 disciples (1:35.52); the wedding of Cana (2:1:12); the first ’assover (2: 13-25); the discourse with Nicodemus (8:1-21); the ministry in Judma (3: 22.36). Then follows a withdrawal a into Galilee (John 4:13), which is in the present lesson (v. 12). y theories respecling ot This refer to t Various wiinistry. il is the most convenient & 4 . - § uh €Be LLeories, wich Fateh INOS lessons for Lhis ye curon ry of of t i} ¢ Lilie OEY OX 18 Q 4 quen BL pois Terence is our Lord determined i of be SOYVErs But refers to 5 In ny y nar ‘ ITTILY aurin 8 not This 1s to number of Pas s public life, whether John four or and the two theories are respec called Quadripaschal and Tripaschal from thea ned number of Passo One Passover lis ocr {4 iv 320), about the time of five thousand (John we fore the death of there ther? another certainly came the fee ling of th and Ory accepis Passover, namely, other th “feast o hence events refers Jews’? One year first cleans COTY f the allows but from tl ohn 2: 135 J Ln) temple (J five The Mice Skin Maruet impressi several months ba again, ng and He had traded for a good many fur e course of the the seller said : ““The boys has got of mice The buver look- ed wonderingly and then up out of the past came the vision of his previous in- ty. “They have, have they !’’ re. “Well, I don’t know, ex- Did 1 say ' what you s 1 assed K bargaining + 1 Lraae, 5 tq OWS skins f« iq ¥ ’ ins iT YOu. I 3 { iqu i ( d “That's through Samaria) is not entirely clear. By many it Is thought to have been in December, because, in the interview with the woman of Samaria at Jacob's are yet four months, and then cometh harvest,” If this view were Lhe cor- rect one, this journey was about ten close of 780 (A. D. 27). DButthe mouth of April is hardly harvest time as far north as Samaria; moreover, the re. corded words of our Lord at the well might properly have been spoken in March or April, when seed was being while the crop from the autumn’s pianting was already white to the har. i The ministry in Galilee, according to most harmon ats, began shortly after The preaching tour, named in verses 24.25, is usually called **the first has about two hundred of em.’ It was a sad fact boys had fully that nu skins stretched on boa The industrious inmber of mice rds Lhe buyer and he ended by settling with the boy It would never have done i it ik and more marketable pelts that vie inity forever. Some remarkable photographs of pistol bullet in its flight, under the illu mination of an electric spark, have been secured by Professor E. Mach, of Prague, He has also photographed the alr streams which one may see over a Bunsen burner placed in sunshine; and has even obtained pictures of waves of sound, these latter being made visible by a method in which advantage i taken of the irregular refraction of light by the air set in vibration by sound.
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