PEPPERONI
DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Immployments of Heaven.
“NOW
the f¢
month, as
river of
ed." —1}
ywurth month, in the fifth day of
I was among the captives by the
ekiel 1° 1.
EzEKIEL, with others, had been ex-
patriated, and while in foreign slavery
was standing on the
canal. which he and other serfs had
ner. and Holman Hunt and Rembrandt,
if they
exercised saving faith in the Christ
their strength of
ten-thousand fold,
away their
eye and their hand and their brain was
that He might give them something
more skilful,
are painters yet, but
faculty multiplied
Nebuehadnezzar—this royal canal in
the text called the river of Chebar;
HE ILLUSTRIOUS EXILE
had visions of heaven. Indeed, it is
jons of heaven come not to those who
are on mountain-top of prosperity, but
to some John on desolate Patmos, or to
some Paul in Mamertine dungeon, or
to some Ezekiel standing on the banks
of a ditch he had been compelled to dig
—vyea, to the weary, t0 the heart-brok-
en. those whom sorrow has ban-
ished.
The text is very particular to give us
the ¢xact time of the vision. It was in
the thirtieth year, and in the fourth
month, and in the fifth day of the
month. So you have had visions of
earth vou shall never forget. You re-
member the year, you remember
month,
to
r the hour.
ome such vision this morning?
e question is often silently asked,
perhaps never audibly pro-
“What are our departed
stian friends doing now?”
tion 18 more easily answered than
vierht Though
woh
perhaps suppose.
no recent intell
heavenly city, and we
upon story of eighteen
I think we may,
ide what I
As come 18
seem
ACO
ago,
are Lhe
oot
» Sanguine
Knew a nu
y DeCOoln
going to speculate in regar 1
id. but I must, by inevita-
inference and deduction an 1
sense. conclude that in heaven
be just as different from each
as we are now different, and
that there will be at least as
v different employments in the cel-
tial world as there are employments
here. Christ is to be the great love, the
reat joy, the great rapture, the great
hip of heaven; but will that abol-
mployment? No more than loves
th— paternal, filial, fraternal, con-
abolish earthly occupation.
VOT
,
: ARTIST'S HEAVEN,
firat
PRE
the place, I remark that
of our departed Christian
I who on earth found great joy
the fine arts are now indulging their
the same direction. On earth
t gladdest pleasures amid
and statuary, and in the study
oe
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tures
CLive
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jiave you any idea that that
nee of faculty at death collapsed
shed? Why so, when there is
for them to look at, and they have
er appreciation of the beautiful,
{ amid the very looms
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wil thet fk Th
ana Wey SLAIN
the spring mornings are woven?
Are you so obtuse as to suppose that
because the painter drops his easel and
Lis knife. that
which he was enlarging and intensify-
ing for forty or fifty years, is entirely ob-
literated? These artists, or these friends
of art, on earth worked in coarse ma-
terial and with imperfect brain and
with frail hand, Now they have car-
ried their art into larger liberties and
into wider circumference, They are
AT THE OLD BUSINESS
yet, but without the fatigues, without
the limitations, without the hindrances
of the terrestrial studio. Raphael could
now improve upon his masterpiece of
Michael the Archangel, now that he
Las seen him, and could 1mprove upon
lis masterpiece of the Holy Family
now that lie has visited them. Michael
Angelo could better present the Last
Judgment after he has seen its flash
and heard the rumbling battering-rams
of its thunder, Exquisite colors here,
graceful lines here, powerful chiaros-
0 here; but I am persuaded that the
; oh studios and the brighter galler-
jes ure higher up by the winding marble
s airs of the sepulchre, and that Tore
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melancholy
bric-a-
brace, and the embroideries, and the
water-colors, and the works of art
which your departed friends used to ad-
mire. Do not say: ‘Iam sorry they
had to leave all these things.” Rather
“I am glad they have gone up to
higher artistic opportunity and appre-
ciation.” Our friends who found so
much joy in the fine arts on earth, are
now luxuriating in Lonvres and Lux-
embourgs celestial.
Do not, therefore, be
THE MUSICIAN'S HEAVEN.
11. I remark again
parted Christian friends who in this
world were passionately fond of music
are still regaling that taste in the world
celestial. The Bible says so
he music of heaven that it can-
The Bible over
of
[f heaven had no songs of its
would have been taken up by the earth-
ly emigrants, Surely the Christian at
death does not lose his memory. Then
there must be millions ol souls in
heaven who know ** ‘oronation,’”’ and
“s Antioch,’ and “Mount Pisgah,” and
“Old Hundred.’’ The leader of the
eternal orchestra need only once t
baton, and all heaven will be ready for
. al
the hallel
}
ital
ujah.
1
Cannot the soul Hi ten
yw of
site
mucl
ry
84 nger
ne exqul
“There was so
In Heaven
iv
by saying:
in her musie.”’
Yers
i
in
spirit are now the armies Celestial
and out on bloodless battle, There are
hundreds of people born soldiers, They
cannot help it. They belong to regi-
ments in time of peace, They cannot
hear a drum or fife without trying to
step to the music. They are
Christians, and when they fight, they
fi the right side. Now when
these. our Christian friends who had
natural military spirit, entered heaven,
the celestial army.
of heaven hardly opens
4
keen
Keel]
fight on
door
M3
ne
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“The chariots of God
are twenty thousand.’ [Elisha saw
the mountains filled with celestial cav-
alry. St. John said: ‘‘The armies
which are in heaven followed Him on
Now, when those who
had the military spirit on earth entered
glory, 1 suppose
THEY
RIGHT AWAY ENLISTED
in some heavenly campaign, they vol-
right away. There must
peeds be in heaven soldiers with a 801.
dderly spirit, There are grand parade
days when the King reviews the troops
There must be armed escort sent out to
bring up from earth to heaven those
who were more than conquerors, There
must be crusades ever being fitted out
tles, bloodless, groanless, painless;
angels of evil to be fought down and
fought back, Other rebellious worlds
to be conquered,
the torch. Worlds to be raved, Worlds
to be demolished, Worlds to be sunk.
Worlds to be hoisted.
Besides that, in our own world there
are battles for the right and against
heavenly military. That is what keeps
us Christian reformers so buoyant, So
few good men against So any bad
men, so few churches against so many
grog-shops, so few pure printing-presses
against se many polluted printing-
presses; and yet we are buoyant and
courageous, because while we know
that the armies of evil in the world are
larger in numbers than the army of the
truth, there are celestial cohorts in the
air fighting on our side.
I have not so much faith in the army
on the ground as I have in the army in
the air. © God! open our eyes that we
may see them, he military spirits
that went up from earth to }in the
military spirits before the throne—
Joshua and Caleb and
David and Samson, and the hundreds
of Christian warriors who on earth
fought with fleshly arm, and now hav-
ing gone up on high are coming down
the hills of heaven ready to fight among
the invincibles., Yonder they are
coming, coming. Did you not
them as they swept by?
Gideon and
MATHEMATICIANS AND
SICTANS,
METAYHY~-
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| friends to do in the next world?
| found their joy and their delight in math.
ematics. There was more poetry for
them in Euclid than in John Milton.
They were as passionately fond of
mathematics as Plato who wrote over
his door, *‘Let no one enter here who is
not acquainted with geometry,’’ What
| are they doing now? They are busy
with fizures yet. No place in all the
universe like heaven for figures, Num-
bers infinite, distances infinite, calcula-
tions infinite, The didactic pr. Dick
said he really thought that the re-
deemed in heaven spent some of their
time with the higher branches of mathe-
MALKCS,
So of our transferred and transported
What are they doing
g the human mind, only
rcumstances than they
| used to study it. They used to study
the mind sheathed in the dull human
| body. Now the spirit is unsheathed-
| now they are studying the sword
| side the geabbard, Have any
| doubt about what di Willliam Hamil-
or what Jona-
doing in
who had a
ified by
t
iil
i metaphysicians,
| pow? Studyin
| under better ci
{
youl
| ton is doing in heaven,
| than Edwards is
| or the multitudes on earth
passion for metaj hysics,
No
heavet
sanct
| the grace of God?
i ten
ns which once puzzied
| the earthly tory. They stand on
the of the thin wall of elec-
tricity. the wall that seems to divide the
from the spiritual
| thin wall of electricity, so thin the wall
that ever and anon it seems tO 1
most broken through-—broken through
from our side by telephonic and tele-
graphic apparatus, broken through from
the other side by influences
| which men in their ignorance call spirit-
| ualistic manifestations. i
ter cleared up. Agassiz standing amid
his student explorers down in Brazil
coming across some great novelty in the
rocks. taking off his hat and saying:
other side
Hit 1
physical
be
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strange
| divine illumination; we want wisdom
from the Creator to study these rocks;
| He made them; let us pray'’-- Agassiz
| going right on with his studies forever,
THE PROFESSIONS IN HEAVEN,
VIL But what are the men of the
law, who in this world found thei chief
| joy in the legal profession—What
| they doing now? Studying law in a un-
verse where everything is controlled by
| law, from flight of humming-bird to
flight of world—law, not dry and hard
and drudging, but righteous and mag-
| pificent law, before which man and
| cherub and seraph and archangel and
God Himself bow, The chain of law
long enough to wind around the im-
mensities and infinity and eternity,
Chain of law. What a place to study
law. where all the links of the chain are
in the hand !
What are our departed Christian
friends who in this world had their joy
in she healing art, doing now? Busy at
their old business, No sickness in
Heaven, but plenty of sickness on earth,
plenty of wounds in the different parts
of God's dominion to be healed and
medicated. 1 should not wonder if my
old friend Dr. John Brown, who died
in Edinburgh—John Brown, the author
of “Rab and His Friends" — John
Brown, whe was as humble a Christian
as he was skillful as physician, and
wonder if he had been back again lo ace
Those who had
VY i1l.
their
But what are our
chief joy In
In brighter
there
WIIAT A PLACE TO VISIT IN,
your next-door neighbors are
kings and queens, Y ou yourselves king-
ly and queenly. If they want to know
Para-
dise, they have only to go over and ask
Adam. If they want to know how the
over and ask Joshua, If they
to know how the storm pelted
to go
If they want to know more
If
to know how the Red bea
it was cloven, they
only to go over and ask Moses, If they
Lie particulars about the
want
bal-
If they want to Kno
particulars of the
have only U
of the
they
those Who We
) BO
personal
mountains «
for
tl
arou
the aisles, Make room
gqueror, Christ standing in
11 heaven gathering
e temple,
nd Him.
Those who
loved music, come to listen to His voice.
Those
come to discover
Those who had
on earth sanctified,
who were Bxpiorers,
the military spirit
to look
men of
at the
the
astronomers come
star. The
od the sick, come to look at Him
all alike
and all alike in joining in the doxology:
“Into Him who washed us from our
sins in His own blood, and made us
kings and priests unto God, to Him bo
glory in the church throughout all ages,
world without end!” Amen.
——— pin
The Microphone.
Tue microphone is now being used in
Germany for the purpose of detecting
joss of water through leakage in town
mains. The apparatus consists of a
steel rod, which 1s placed upog the cock
in the veighborhood of whieh the leak
is suspected, and a microphone at-
tached to the upper eud of the rod. A
dry battery and telephone completes
the equipment, No sound is heard in
the telephone if the cocks are closed’
and no leak occurs; but a leak even of
a few drops through a badly-thing
cock causes sufficient vibration in the
pipe to affect the microphone, and give
audible sounds in the telephone,
————I IIR
The good hate
ple; the evil abhor
evil but not evil peo-
both geod and good
people.
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
BuNpAY, Avausr Z1, 1587.
Jesus and the Law.
LESSON TEXT,
(Matt. 5: 17-20,
Memory veinos, 17-10.)
LESSON PLAN.
Topic OF THE QUARTER:
King in Zion.
GoLDEX TEXT FOR THE QUARTER!
Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill
of Zion.—Psa. 2:0,
Jesus the
Lesson Toric: The Kingly Rule of
Obedience,
1. An Honored Law, vi 17-19.
1.e8800 5 A Faultieas Obedience, VA. 20.22
Outline :
Jutiine © (4° A Pressing Ovligation, va. 23-26.
GorLpex Text: Think not that I
am come to destroy the law, or the pro-
DAILY HOME READINGS:
M.—Matt, 5 17-26.
rule of obedience,
Mark 13 : 14-31
gure words.
Matt, 23 : 1-33.
ers denounced,
The kingly
T. The Lord’s
¥
T.—RBom. 3
righteousness.
’ tom. 10
righteousness,
Matt,
from wi
Sor. DH:
1»
ied
t}
1. Fulfilled by the
Lord:
{ f
IL Important in Every Part
13 t ot 11 ]
ing All Its Observers
Exceeding Man's Personal Attain-
ments
3
(+4 11 .
Man's
{ Goud
Transcending
Teachings:
Yo
Popular
They that }
ert
Master
God 11
teachest the
ERE.
rds which m
: 13).
Deepest
16).
Wi
wisdom teachetl ir. 2
Mo-
tives:
Every one who is angry.
adultery
Matt, 5
come
nitted
already in his head
heart
these
Com
the
defile
ot right before God
1 John 3 1H).
1. “Righteousness of
Pharisees.” (1
men : (2) Condemned
Exceeded by believers,
“Least in the kingdem : great |
in kingdom.” (1) The one
kingdom 21 The two classes | (3)
The separating causes; (4 The
eternal consequences,
“Yo shall in no wise enter into the
kingdom of heaven.’ (1) A bril-
liant opportunity ; (2) An absolute
prerequisite,
111. A PRESSING OBLIGATION.
1. To Promote Love!
First be reconciled to thy brother, and
then... .offer thy gift (24).
If he hear thee, thou hast gained thy
brother (Matt, 18 : 15).
In love of the brethren be tenderly af-
fectioned (Rom, 12 : 10).
Ye....are taught of God to love one
another (1 Thess, 4 : 9).
Love one another from the heart fer-
vently (1 Pet, 1 : 22).
If. To Secure Peace .
Agree with thine adversary quickly
(25).
Acquaint now thyself with him, and be
at peace (Job 22 : 21).
There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto
the wicked (Isa, 48 : 22).
Dlessed are the peacemakers
derer
the seribes and
Popular among
of God: 3
the
(Matt. 1
Jo at peace one with another (Mark
9: 503.
111. To Escape Penalty :
Thou by
thence, till thou have paid
Watch....th
all these things (
How shall we
(Heb. 2:3.)
They C5 aped not,
(Heb. 12 : 25).
What ghall be the &
obey not 7 (1 Pet, /
1. “Go thy way, Hh
....then come
The altar forsaken ; (2) The broth
sought ; (3) The altar resuined |
The offering made.
“Agree with thine adversary
ly.” (1) Beeking
with an alienated man j (2
recon with
God.
_ “Thou shalt by no means «
thence, till hou hast pai i
The existence of penalty |
sternness of penalty ; (3)
faction of penalty |
from penalty.
it
“init no means co
Of
td je
at ye maj
vf
a of
« 11.3
+
them
rst be
and offer.”
Tix 3
reconcili
ation an
ee ——————
LESSON BIBLE READING.
OBEDIENCE TO GOD.
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1 faith (1
r in the SAIeSrooin.
woman is out of place
sald Mme, Demorest Ww
r frie a situati
thy but undersized lady.
s no use for her there, She C
a pattern.
They will
questi 1. They pass Lier
she was a child
hie nds sought
a wo
ANT
People will not go
h a
saraiy
ven
ask her
by as though
and go toa saleswoman
ne is
insignificant,
invariably at-
prominent and
and the promine
tracts attention.”
A place for the little lady was found
in the mailing department at £5 a week.
wher
figure who carried her head like,
Juno, neither well educated nor parti
culariy agreeable, Was placed in the
show-room at $14 per week, She was
not as refined nor as painstaking as the
little one, but she had the physique
highly prized Ly an experienced modiste,
1 hours a day,
while the big
up and down
a
S80
ten
respit,
grandly
A
A A
The Ratcatcher at Work.
It is a sight to see the ratcatcher ar
He does
He carries a
hand,
side or servants’ door.
while in the other hand he wields a
pair of teags. He descends to the low.
larder, the storeroom
and kitchen, all now dark and deserted.
The ratcatcher utters a low whistle or
squeak, which is the intimation of one
rat to the others that he has found
good nibbling, and all the rodents run
out from their hiding places in the di
rection of the familiar and welcome
sound, and dazing them by the glare of
the lantern, the man picks them up
with his tongs and drops them into his
bag with such agility that seldom any
escape. Blinded aud paralyzed by the
light only the isolated ones attempt te
run, and these are readily captured,
The ratcatcher visits the hotel once or
twice a week, and the same on? is em=
ployed by several houses, It is whise
pered that he sells the rats to ClLinese
restaurants, but he denies the insinu.
ation, He says he sells the hides,
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which bie properly cures and stretches.