A
DR.
The Coming Sermon.
ministry,
he that
exhorteth,
let us walt on our mit
tescheth, on teach
on exhortation.’
Berone the world is converted
style of religious discourse will have to
be converted. You might as well go
into the modern Sedan or Gettysburg
with 1
and bombshells and parks of artillery,
as to expect to conquer this world for
God
Jonathan
adapted to
and sermonology.
preached the sermons most
the age in which he
Sermol
divide an audience into two
those sound asleep and those wanting
to go home,
But t
l
classes
here is a discourse of the
WHO WILL PREACH IT
» no idea; in what part of the
ch denominations of
11 be delivered I cannot guess,
urse or exhortation may be born
he country meeting-house on the
ks of the St. Lawrence, or the Ore-
ir the QO . or the Tombigbee, ot
Alabama. The person who shall
ver it may this moment be in a cra-
the
or in a New England farm-
amid the h
Christians 1t
That
shadow of the Sierra
i
VALLAS,
of Sou
rice-fields
SAVANNAS, ir tl moment th
1 ung man in some of our
in the junior, or
£, Ol
1S
ng .
» is taking a ch
v window: as in m
swimmer at East Hamp
: or Cape May,
, himself perished tryi
ue the dronwing; as the newsp
ne summer, supporting his m
ome years, his invalid mother
«n offered by a gentleman fifty cent
some especial paper, and he go
his anxiety to de-
' crushed under the
of the trains and lay on the grass
nly 1 to say: **Oh,
(reorge
$
and rushed up in
ana Was
8
I
trength enough
ny
i
become of poor, LH Kk
ARIOUS SUFFERING
rid is of it.
a locomotive in
An engineer
Dakota
men seem to be coming to better
jiation than we used to. Did you
t account the other day of an en-
to save his passengers,
to his place, and when he was
dead in the locomotive, which
was upside down, he was found still
smiling, hand on the air-brake?”’
And as the engineer said it to me, he
put his hand on the air-brake to illust-
rate his meaning, and I looked at him
and thought:
much of a hero in the same crisis,” Oh,
Fell
AliA
y Ine On
who,
found
his
there will be
LIVING ILLUSTRATIONS
taken out from every-day life of vicari-
ous suffering--illustratiens that will
br ng to mind the ghastlier sacrifice of
Him. who in the high places of the
field. on the cross, fought our battles,
and endured our struggle, and died our
death,
A German sculptor made an image of
Christ, and he asked his little chiid,
two years old, who It was, and she
said: **That must be some very great
man.” The sculptor was displeased
with the criticism, so he got another
block of marble, and chiseled away on
it two or three years, and then he
brought in his little ehild, four or five
years of age, and he said to her: “Who
do you think that is?"’ She said: *“That
must be the One who took little chil-
aren in His arms and blessed them.”
Then the sculptor was satisfied. Oh,
ny friends, what the world wants is not
a cold Christ, not an intellectual Christ
not a severely magisterial Christ, but a
loving Christ, spreading out His arms
of sympathy to press the whole world to
His loving heart
[ remark seain, that the relig-
of the future
Course
WILL DE SHORT,
Condensation is deamnded by the age
in which we live. No more of
long introdn and long apphca-
tions. and so many divisions to a
need
Lions
headed. In other days men got all their
information from the pulpit. There
were few books, and there were no
newspapers, and there was little travel
would find them fresh and chipper. In
cool
up to the subject and an hour to
But what was a necessity then
superfluity now.
If a religious teacher
t}
Lo the
day.
The trouble is
into a frame, and tl
preach them out of it, We forget
has so much capacity
hen that is
That lent
we preach audiences
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attention, and w
he 18 res accld
1, some years
16 Drakes were
y wanted t
Sern
rE cy » » ¥ ath " +
ere must be something wi
it. As these critics are dull t
ng
hemselves,
$
impression that
sermon is good
stupid, Christ was
preacher the world ev
sidering the small number of the
population, had the |
ever gathered, He
anywhere without making a
sation, People rushed
wilderness to hear Him,
their physical necessilies,
their anxiety to hear Christ, that,
food with them, they would
have fainted and starved had not Christ
performed a muracle and fed them,
Why did so many people take the
truth at Chr
ever
ort +
RIES
out in
reckless
tak-
ist's hands? Jecause they
ALL 1
NDERSTOOD IT.
He illustrated His subject by a hen
and her ehickens, by a bushel measure,
All the people
And when the religious dis.
not
Andoverian, not Middletonian,
practical, unique,
earnest, comprehensive of all the woes,
wants, sins and sorrows of an auditory,
But when that exhortation or dis
course does come there will bea thousand
gleaming scimetars to charge on it,
There are in 80 many theological sem-
inaries professors telling young men
how to preach, themselyes not knowing
how, and I am told that if a young
man in some of our theological semin-
aries says anything quaint or thrilling
or unique, faculty and students fly at
him and set him right, and straighten
him out, and smooth him down, and
chop him off, until he says everything
just as everybody else says it. |
Oh, when the future religious dis-
course of the Christian church arrives,
all the churches of Christ in our great
cities will be thronged. The world
wants spiritual help. All who have
buried their dead want comfort, All
know themselves to be mortal and to
be immortal, and they want to hear
about the great future, I tell you, my
friends, if the people of our great cities
who have had trouble only thought they
could get
PRACTICAL AND SYMPATHETIC
help in the Christian church. there
Brooklyn or Chicago ot lit on
Philadelphia or Boston which would Ix
1
were a church on it; for all
would press to that a
that great house of comin
golation,
A mother
the people
svium ol
and
with a dead babe in her
God Veda said to her: “You go and
house in which there has been
row, and in which ti
their has been
life.” So the mother
went
s Lo he
out, and
yuse, and from
ting for a place where
there had been no Sorrow, and where
h, but she found
went back to the (rod Veda
“My mission is a fallure;
vou see I haven't brought the must
seed: I can’t find a place where
no and
sthe God Veda, **u
are no worse ti
rows of others: } }
and all have our heart-bi
She
been
“Oh,” say
SOIrTOwW
we all |
Langh and tb
Weep, and yo
18 WOrid laugns
U weep a
th eu
We hear a
now all
orent
Bitni
over the
WAS
lv to print books,
stenography
contrived
secular ideas, you
and shonographsy
were forth
The
merely at
are
printing-press is to be tl
1
mistaken.
of wlamation, It is
Cros i pre
The vast
come to church, and nothing but the
them to pardon, and life
heaven,
80 1 cannot understand the netvous-
ness of some of my brethren of the
ministry, When they see a newspaper
man coming in they say: ‘‘Alas, there
is a reporter |’ Every added reporter
is ten thousand, fifty thousand, a hun-
dred thousand immortal souls added to
the auditory. The time will come when
all the village, town and city newspapers
will reproduce the Gospel of Jesus
Christ, and sermons preached on the
Sabbath will reverberate all around the
world; and, some by type and some by
voice, all nations will be evangelized.
The practieal bearing of this is upon
those who are engaged in Christian
work, not only upon theological stu-
dents and young ministers, but upon all
who preach the Gospel, and all who
exhort in meetings, and all of you if
you are
, and peace, and
DOING YOUR DUTY,
Do you exhort in prayer-meeting? De
short and be spirited. Do you teach in
Bibleclass? Though you have to study
every night, be interesting. Do you
accost people on the subject of religion
in their homes on in public places?
Study adroitness and use common sense,
The most graceful and most beautiful
thing on earth is the
Christ, and if you awkwi
it, il
work rapidly, and we
reilggion
Wy AMY
We must
1nust
time for
iil i
is delmnation
do il
ly, Soon our
A dying Christian 10
and gave it to a friend
t watch, 1 have no
it, and our CiockK i
y last hour, may it be found
DID OUR
s (id it
WORK WELI
that »
wi
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whet
pulpits
in the very bes
preached the
taught Sabbath-ch
«1 to the
merch
er Wwe
sick
ints,
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husbandmen
were, like Martha
to a hungry «
to make a coat fo
like Deborah, to rous
some timid Barak
[.ord’s conflict, we did }
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in the long pro
that march
8, Ol
a meal
Hannah,
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like
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thousands a year,
will get some
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many
mip
inweres
looking upward
you are In want of
pounds
and 1'll
Tent
FUE
ouple of hundred
s 10 my
irewd men, their be-
wtanding. A master
managed by
skilled workman.
Unfortunately the
was struck, that, besides his wages, he
and water ad libitum,
said the master, ‘‘you
oir
A
“Now mind.”
you before you touch a drop more.”
As the work went on the man asked
'
“How much will
““Sixpenn’ orth,”
“Now gin and water, mind you; and
you start with ?
Hot or cold #7
“Cold.”
“All right.
pail of water."
It was brought, and into that the gin
was poured,
ed, but he was held to his bargain, and
the work got done. As he went away
—gober, of course, and with his wages
in his pocket,~he turned round and
faced his employer,
“Master,” said he, *‘there’s no one
can get the better o’ thee but one, and
that's th’ ould chap hisself.”
Here goes. Dring me a
Electrical Stoves.
Elecrical heating stoves are being in-
troduced in France, a uliar feature
of their construction ing that the
wires are led through apertures formed
in plates of refractory clay and plum-
bago. These plates are not enclosed,
but are left ex 80 that the air can
circulate very freely through the apart.
ures, where it comes in contact with
the red-hot wires. Wire bobbins are
inserted in the apertures, each bobbin
forming part of electrie eireuit, and
all being connected for quantity; the
bobbins are heated by the passage of
the current, and serve to heat the air as
it passes to and fro over them,
A needle’s is wide enough
two friends; whole world is
narrow for two foes,
for
too
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
The
LES
1-16, Men
Beatitudes
“ON
TEXT.
LESSON PLA2
Tori HE QUART
King in Zion.
Gorpex TEXT FOR
Yet have I set my king
of Zion.—Vsa, 2:6,
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GOLDEN XT: (Groce an
came by Jesus Christ.—John 1
DAILY
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Hons
Matt. 5
159
I. On Poverty of spirit ©
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Geek SHALL EAL Ali] |i
The meek shall
} 31:11).
| He
tion (Psa, 149 : 4).
| IV. On Hungering and Thirsting :
Jlessed are they that hunger and
| after righteousness (6).
1 3 ”" Ys ’ al -
will beautify the meek with salva-
thir
Blessed are ve that hunger now!
shall be filled (Luke 6 : 21).
spit hy 1 vy Yall si 8
ometh to me shall not
inger no more,
Sans of
ore (Rev, 7 : 10).
dessed are the merciful (5
| He that hath pity on the poor, happy is
| he (Prov. 14 : 21).
{ He that followeth after
eth life (Prov. 21 : 21).
ye merciful, es as your
merciful (Luke 6 : 36).
VI. On Purity of Heart :
are the pure in heart (8).
| Who shall stand ? He that hath. ...
a pure heart (Psa. 24 ; 3, 4).
As for the pure, his work isright (Prov,
21 : 8)
} ua .
Ever y one
« » « + INETCY
de ve Father is
ven
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ORS]
purifieth himself, even as
he is pure (1 John 3 : 3).
VIL On Making Peace:
Blessed are the peacemakers (9).
Seek peace, and pursue it (Psa. 34 : 14),
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psa,
122 : 6).
Now the Lord of peace himself give you
peace (2 Thess. 3 : 16).
Vill On Enduring Persecution :
Blessed are they that have been perse-
cuted for righteousness’ sake (10).
If we endure, we shall also reign with
him (2 Tim. 2 : 12).
Blessed is the man that endureth....he
shall receive the crown (Jas, 1:12).
If ye should suffer for righteousness’
sake, blessed are ye (1 Pet. 3 : 14).
1. “Blessed.” (1) A word of endorse-
ment; (2) A word of encourage-
ment ; (83) A word of warning.
2. “Rejoice, and be exceeding J
(1) The duty of gladness ; 8) The
way of gladness,
3. “Great is your reward in heaven."
The believer's reward (1) Great;
5 God-given ; (3) Heavenly; (4)
I. THE ROYAL SERVICE,
LL Preserving:
Ye are the salt of the earth (13),
Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace
-
en
by the
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uch Matthew places aller Lh
the Mount (Matt. 8:24). After a
thdrawal Ir e wilderness, our
Jord returns to Capernaum, apd heals
man sick of tke paisy (Matt. 9:28).
call of Matthew followed immedi
ely, as that evangelist tells us (Matt,
3:9). But thedeast atthe house of
1is publican, though appended at once
in all three accounts, belongs to a sub-
Robinson and many
2 Sermon
io th
0p
*
a
5) next in order of time. ndrews, of
Jee subsequent to that Passover. The
ring in early summer, are usually placed
next. The hostility then evoked led to
this withdrawal that great multitudes
After healing many, he
In the
the twelve apostles were
The place of the delivery of this dis-
& prominent
mountain west of the sea of Galilee. It
would be a convenient locality for the
Dean Stanley has noted a ‘‘level place”
(Luke 6:17) on the mountain-side as
the probable spot. Dr. Robinson thinks
the distance from Capernaum an obe
jection; but none of the evangelists
place was near Cap-
ernaum, while Mark speaks of a with
drawal *‘to the sea” (Mark 3:7), which
must have immediately preceded the
gathering of the multitude that heard
this discourse, In fact, it rarely hap-
rectpess than in this instance.
Oldest Person in France.
The oldest person in France, perhaps
in the world, is said to be a woman who
lives in the vil of Auberive, in
Royans, She was born March 6, 1761,
and is therefore 125 years old, The
authentic record of her birth is to be
found in the parish register of St, Just
ge Claix, in the department of the
sere,
a ————— ui ————
The Flour of Commerce.
The human system consists of fifteen
elements, all of which are found in
common wheat, But the flour of come
merce is deprived in a large degree of
twelve of these elements, Anim
ment in making flour is evi
eeded.