DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Witely Ambition, Good and Bad.
“Arise aud eat bread, and let thine heart be
morry : 1 will give thee the Vineyard of Na-
dboth,”"—1 Kings £1: 7
OnE day King Aliab, looking out of
the window of his palace at Jezreel,
said to his wife, Jezebel: “We ought
to have these royal gardens enlarged,
It we could only get that fellow, Na-
both, who owns that vineyard out there,
to trade or sell, we could make it a
kitchen garden for our palace,”
“Fetch in Naboth,” says the king to
oue of bis servants, .
The plain gardener, wondering why
he should be called into the presence of
his majesty, comes in, a little downcast
in his modesty, and with very obsequi-
ous manner, bows to the King.
The king says: Nuboth, 1
trade vineyards with you.
I WANT YOUR VINEYARD
for a kitchen garden, and I will give a
great deal better vineyard in place of
it; or, if you prefer money for it, 1 will
give you cash.”’
“Oh mo,” says Naboth, *'I cannot
trade off my little place, nor can I sell
it. 1t is the old homestead; I got it of
ny father, and he of his father, and I
cannot let the old place go out of my
hands,’
in a great state of petulancy, King
Aliub went into the house and flung
himself on the bed, and turned his face
to the wall, in a great pout.
11is wife, Jezebel, comes in, and she
“What is the matter with you?
Are you sick?”
“Ob,* he says, I feel very blue, 1
have set my heart on getting that kitch-
en. and Naboth will neither trade nor
sell, and to be defeated by a common
gardener is more than I can stand.”
“Oh, pshaw!” says Jezebel, ‘‘don’t
go on in that way. Get up and eat
your dinner, and stop moping. I will
get for you that kitchen garden.”
Then Jebezel borrowed her husband's
signet, or seal—for then, as now, in
those lands, kings never signed their
names, but had a ring with the royal
name engraved oa it, and that impress-
ed on a royal letter or document, was
the signature. She stamped her hus-
band’s name on a proclamation, which
resulted in getting.
NABOTH TRIED FOR
against the king, and two perjured wit-
nesses swore their souls away with the
life of Naboth, and he was stoned to
death, and his property came to the
crown, and so Jezebel got for her hus-
band and herself the kitchen garden,
But while the wild street dogs were
rending the dead body of poor Naboth,
Elijab, the prophet, tells them of other
want to
Says:
TREASON
free banquet, saying: Where dogs lick
the blood of Naboth, shall dogs lick thy
blood, even thine.”
Ahab, wonnded in battle, his chariot
under it lapping his life’s blood. And
had been his chief adviser in crime,
stands at her palace window and sees
possession of the palace,
and queenly to the very last, she de-
along the long eye-lashes, and then
pation upon Jebu., As he rode to the
gates in his chariot he shouted to the
slaves in her room: **Throw her down!”
But, no doubt the slaves halted a mo-
ment from such.
WORK OF ASSASSINATION,
yet, knowing Queen Jezebel could be
no more to them, and the conqueror
Jehu would be everything, as he shout-
ed again, “*Throw her down,” they
seized her and bore her struggling and
cursing to the window casement, and
hurled her forth till she came tumbling
to the earth, striking it just in time
chariot wheels roll over her. While
Jebu is inside at the table refreshing
his servants to go out and bury the dead
queen. But the wild street dogs had
for the third time appeared on the
scene, and they had removed all her
body, except those parts which in all
ages dogs are by a strange instinct
or brutal superstition kept from touch-
ing after death—the palms of the hands
and the soles of the feet,
All this appalling scene of ancient
history was the result of
A WIFE'S BAD ADVICE
to a husband, of a wife's struggle to ad-
vance her husband’s interests by un-
lawful means. Ahab and Jezebel got
the kitchen garden of Naboth, but the
dogs got them. The trouble all began
when this mistaken wife aroused her
husband out of his melancholy by the
words of the text; “Arise, and eat
bread, and let thine heart be merry: 1
will give thee the vineyard,’
The influence suggested by this sub-
ject 1s an influence you never before
heard discoursed on and may never hear
again, bat a most potent and semi-
omnipoient influence, and decides the
course of individuals, families nations,
centuries and ecternities, I speak of
wifely ambition, good and bad, How
important that every wife have her am-
bition an elevated, righteous and di-
vinely approved ambition.
And here let me say, what I am most
anxious for is that woman, not waiting
for the rights denied her or postponed,
promptly and decisively employ the
rights she already has in n,
Some say she will be in fair way to get
ali ber rights when she gets the
RIGHT TO THE BALLOT-BOX.
I wish that the t might be
would like to see
have several million more voters now
than are for publie good,
We are told that female
would correct
TWO EVILS,
the rum business and the insufliciency of
woman's wages. About the rum busi-
ness I have to say that multitudes of
women drink, and it is no unusual
thing to zee them in the restaurants so
over-powered with wine and beer that
they can hardly sit up, while there are
many so-called respectable restaurants
where they can go and take their cham-
pagne and hot toddy all alone, Mighty
temperance voters these women would
make, Besides that, the wives of the
rum-sellers would have to vote in the
interest of their husbands’ business, or
have a time the inverse of felicitous
Besides that, millions of respectable
and refined women in America would
probably not vote at all, because they
do not want to go to the polls, and, on
the other hand, womanly roughs would
all go to the polls, and that might make
woman’s vote on the wrong side,
There is not much prospect of the ex-
pulsion of drunkenness by female suf-
frage.
As to woman's wages to be corrected
by woman's vote, I have not much
faith in that,
WOMEN ARE HARDER ON WOMEN
than men are, Masculine employers
are mean enough in their treatment of
women, but if you want to hear beating
down of prices and wages in perfection,
listen how some women
women and dressmakers and female
servants, Mrs, Shylock is more merci-
less than Mr. Shylock. Women, 1 fear,
will never get righteous wages through
women's vole, and as to unfortunate
womanhood, women are far more cruel
and unforgiving than men are,
a woman has made shipwreck of her
character, men generally drop her, but
women do not so much drop her as hurl
suffrage
out and off and down and under.
I have not much faith
will ever get merciful consideration and
justice through woman suffrage, yet I
like experiments, and some of my
would come by such process that I
would, if I had the power, put in every
woman's hand the vote. [I cannot see
what right you have to make a woman
pay taxes on her property to help sup-
port city, State and national Govern-
ment, and yet deny her the opportunity
of helping decide who shall be Mayor,
Governor or President.
wife, not waiting for the vole she may
never get, or, getting it, find it outbal.
anced by some other vote not fit to be
eternal God and wield the power of a
sanctified wifely ambition for a good
| approximating the infinite.
{ NO one can 80 inspire a man to noble
| 80 thoroughly degrade a man as a wife
of unworthy tendencies, While in my
| text we have illustration of wifely am-
{ bition employed in the wrong direc-
| tion, in society and history are instances
of
WIFELY
AMBITION TRIUMPHANT
11
iil
right directions,
his wile Margaret,
{ Orange, was restored to the right path
| by the grand qualities of his wife Mary.
| Justinian, the
| fesses that his wise laws were the sug.
| gestion of his wife Theodora.
Jackson, the warrior and President,
bad his mightiest reinforcement in his
| plain wife, whose Inartistic attire was
{ which she was invited.
{| who broke the chain that held America
{in foreign vassalage, wore for forty
| years a chain around his own neck, that
| chain holding the miniature likeness of
{ her who had been his greatest inspira
| tion, whether among the snows at Val.
| ley Forge or the honors of the Presi.
| dential chair,
| poetic and historical dominions by his
to the sound of flute, and sat among
audiences enraptured at her husband's
genius, hersell the most enraptured.
Pericles suid he got all his eloquence
and statesmanship from his wife,
from long imprisonment at Lovestein
by means of a bookcase that went in
and out, carrying his books to and fro,
he was one day transported, hidden
sieged Weinsberg getting permission
from the victorious army to take with
them so much of their valuables as
they could carry, under cover of the
promise shouldered and took with them
as the most important valuables, their
husbands—both achievements in a lit-
eral way illustrated what thousands of
times Las been done in a figurative
way, that wifely ambition has been the
salvation of men.
De Tocqueville, whose writings will
be potential and quoted while the world
lasts, ascribes his successes to his wife
and says: “Of all the blessings which
God has given {o me, the greatest of all
in my eyes is to have lighted on Maria
Motley.” Martin Lutner says of his
wife: ‘‘I would not exchange my pov:
erty with her for all the riches of
Croesus without her.” Isabella of
Spain, by her superior faith in Colum-
bus put into the hand of Ferdinand,
her husband, America. John Adams,
President of the United S said of
his wife:
discouraged me from running all haz-
ardo for the salvation of my country’s
liberties.”
THOMAS CARLYLE
spent the last twenty years of hus life in
trying by his to atone for the fact
that during his wife’s life he never ap-
ted her influence on his career
put upon their wives’ tombstones are
often an attempt to make up for lack
of appreciative words that should have
been uttered in the ears of the living.
A whole Greenwood of monumental
inscriptions will not do a wife so much
good after she has quit the world as one
plain sentence like that which Tom
Hood wrote to his living wife when he
sald: *I never was anything till I
knew you,”
O woman, what is your wifely ambi-
tion, noble or ignoble? Is it
HIGH BOCIAL POSITION?
That will probably direct your
husband, and he will elimmb and scram-
ble and slip and fall and rise and
tumble, and on what level or in what
depth, or on what height he will, after
a while, be found, I cannot even guess,
The contest for social position is the
most unsatisfactory contest in all the
world, because it is so uncertain about
your getting it, and so insecure a pos-
session after you have obtained it, and
so unsatisfactory even if you keep it.
The whisk of a lady’s fan may blow it
out, The growl of one bear, or the bel-
lowing of one bull on Wall Street, may
scatter it.
Is it the wife's ambition the political
preferment of her husband? Then that
will probably direct hin, What
A GOD-FORSAKEN REALM
is American politics, those best know
who have dabbled in them, After they
have assessed a man, who is a candidate
for office, which he does not get, or as-
sessed him for some office attained, and
{ he has been whirled round and round
| and round and round among the drink-
ing, smoking, swearing crowd, who of-
ten get control of public affairs, all that
is left of his self-respect or moral
| stamina would find plenty of room on a
geometrical point, which is said to have
neither length, breadth nor thickness,
Many a wife has not been satisfied till
her husband went into polities, but
would afterward have given all she
| possessed to get him out.
I knew a highly moral man, useful
i in the church and possessor of a bright
{ home. He had a useful and prosperous
{ business, but his wife did not think
genteel, There were
ODORS ABOUT THE
then
vain
BUSINESS,
| and sometimes they would adhere to
! his garments when he returned at night,
| She insisted on him doing something
more elegant, although he was qualified
! was engaged, To please her he changed
{ his business, and, in order to get on
| faster, abandonad church attendance,
| of hundreds of thousands of dollars he
{| would return to the church and its ser-
{ vices, Where is that
Obliterated. Although succeeding
| business for which he was qualified, he
t undertook a style of merchandise
{ which he had no qualification, and soon
{ went into bankruptcy. His new style
{ of business put him into evil associa-
{ tion. He lost his morals as well as his
i money. He broke up not only his own
home, but broke up man's
home, and from a Kind, pure,
generous, moral wan as any of you who
another
Delng
| penniless libertine,
for a more genteel business destroyed
him, disgraced her,
child.
But
homes, as thank God there are
| dreds of homes here represented,
THE WIFE'S THRONE
suppose, now, there be in
Oh
but more powerfully by he
Actions
i let us see where industry,
to vour daily business, but I will be
| with vou in my daily prayers, Let us
{ rod in our home.
{everything good. Go ahead and do
from what we have
two who are going to help you, and God
is one and I am the other.”
| with many obstacles and business trials,
| spurred on by a woman's voice,
Some of us could tell of what in-
tion consecrated to righteousness, As
MY WIFE
is out of town, and will not shake her
head because I say it in publie, 1 will
1 have often been called of God as 1
thought, to run into the very tecth of
public opinion, and all outsiders with
whom I advised told me I had better
not, it would ruin me and ruin my
church, and at the same time I was re-
ceiving nice little letters threatening me
with dirk and pistol and poison if 1 per-
sisted in attacking certain evils of the
day, until the Commissioner of Police
considered it his duty to take his place
in our Sabbath services with forty of-
ficers scattered through the house for
the preservation of order; but in my
home there has always been one voice
to say: “Go ahead, and diverge not
an inch from the stiaight line. Who
cares, if only God ison our side?’ And
though sometimes it seemed as if 1 was
goi out against nine hundred iron
chariots, I went abead cheered by the
domestic voice: ‘Up! for this is the
day in which the Lord hath delivered
Sisera intg thine hands,”
A man 18 no better than his wife will
let idm be, O wives of America, swing
your sceptres of wifely influence for
God and good homes! Do not urge
your husbands to annex Naboth's vine-
yard to your palace of success, whether
right or wrong, lest the dogs that come
out to destroy Naboth come out also to
devour you, Righteousness will pay best
in life, will in death, wi Jay
best in the 4 fat, will pay
y.
Washington, or Charles Summer, or
Shakespeare, or Edmund Burke, or 1’itt,
or Lord Nelson, or Cowper, or Pope, or
Addison, or Johnson, or Lord Chatam,
or Grattan, or Isaac Newton, or Gold-
smith, or Swift, or Locke, or Gibbon,
or Walpole, or Canning, or Dryden, or
Moore, or Chaucer, or Lord Bryon, or
Walter Scott, or Oliver Cromwell, or
Garrick, or Hogarth, or Joshua Rey-
nolds, or Spencer, or Lord Bacon, or
Macaulay, Multitudes of the finest
families of the earth are extinct, As
though they had done enough for the
world by their genius or wit or patriot.
ism or invention or consecration, God
withdrew them, In multitudes of eases
im-
oppor-
is with her contemporaries, How
portant that it be an improved
tunity!
While the French warriors on their
way to Rheims had about concluded to
give up attacking the castle at Troyes,
because it was so heavily garrisoned,
JOAN OF ARC
entered the room and told them
they
said one of the leaders,
out, **yvou shall be in it to-morrow,”
and under her leadersinp on the morrow
they entered, On a smaller scale, every
stacles to level, and every wife may be
slormy
the
pany her companion across the
sea of this life and together gain
wharf of the Celestial City! C
along with vou! You cannot drive I
there, You cannot nag him there; |
you can coax him there
plan. He coaxes
Coaxes us ont ol our
accept pardon, coaxes us to heaven, If
we reach that blessed place, it will be
through a prolonged and divine ex
Onx
us all
SINS, COAXES 1
panion, and then you will get
well, and all your
the opposite of
wifely
AMBITION ALL FOR THIS WORLD,
tand a disappointed and vexed and un-
{ happy creature she will be all the way.
there
1a
bor.
household
your
just
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neg
| for the few years of earthly stay, but
| she will move out of it, as to her
{ into a house about five and a half feet
long and about three feet wide
{ feet high ; and concerning her
{ destiny you can make your
Her husband and sons and
who all, like live for
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daughters,
{ for the body and the soul. Yon, has
had a
BANCTIFIED
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and
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tor
PRA
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bition, will up into pal-
hat becomes of Vi
for It
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and
EXNOBLED
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everlasting
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hristian wife! Pick up any crown
i You « boos from off the King’s footstool
i
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{ and wear it; it was promiked von
ago, and with }
of vour earthly conflict,
Sixteen miles from
was one of tl palaces
there one night Catherine the Er
Prince Henry, It
| severe winter and deep snow, and
THE EMPRESS AND THE PRINCE
rode in & magnificence of sleigh and
{robe and canopy never surpassed, fol
lowed by two thousand sleighs laden
with the first people of Russia, the whole
{ length of the distance illumined by
{lamps and dazzling temples bLuilt for
i that one night, and imitations of
ques and Egyptian pyramids ; and people
1 styles of costume,
or
»
it cover up i111 the scars
Patersburg,
| sia,
OVAL ana
} pi be ou
i entertained
Os
of all nations, in all
| standing on platforms along the way
and watching the blaze of the pyrotech-
nics, Atl the palace the luxuries of
kingdoms were gathered and
| plate came. up loaded with still richer
viands, But all that scene of the long
ago shall be eclipsed by the greater
| splendors that will be gathered at the
King
for those consecrated women who come
| snowy il of
to the warm
With
{ banquet made by the Heavenly
| in out of the winter an chi
{ their earthly existence
{ and illumined places of heaven
yourseif robed and crowned, you will
| sit at a table compared with which all
the feasts of Kenilworth and 8t. Cloud
and the Alhambra were a beggars
crust. And the platter of one royal
satisfaction touched at the centre shall
disappear only fo make room for a beg-
gar’s crust ; and the golden plate of one
royal satisfaction, touched at the cen.
tre, shall disappear only to make room
grander regalement.
“Did you ever think of a man’s or
woman’s feelings when brought up to
answer the first charge ever made
against them in a police court?’ said a
ti 'as he stood watching the van
aking its daily load of sin suffering
from the place of their trials to be shut
in away from opportunity, if not temp
tation. *‘I tell you the chief punish~
ment lies in standing in shame in the
presence of your fellows, knowing that
live as long as you may, there is a pos.
sibility of your being recognized in any
tion you may occupy in the
in a felons dock,
ustly. The after
while it may
be irksome, has no such element of
general shame aa the facing of the herd
who Tequent the courtrooms. The
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
Suxpay, Mahon 4, 1554,
Christ's Lass Journey to Jerusalem,
LESSON TEXT.
date, 20: 17-29. Momory verses, 17-19.)
LESSON PLAN,
Toric oF THE QUARTER:
King tn Zion.
GoLpeEN TEXT vOR THE QUARTER:
He is Lord of lords, and King of kings:
and they that are with him ure called,
and chosen, and faithful. Rev, 17 : 14.
Jesus the
Lesson Toric: The King's Lessons
ton True Fidelity,
1. Fidelity IHustrated, va 17-19,
‘9. Fidelity Overjooked, vs, 20.425,
(8, Fdelnny Explained, va. 24-29,
GoLpex Text: The Son of man
came not to be ministered unto, but to
minister, and to gtve his life a ransom
Jor many. Matt, 20 ;: 28,
Lesson
Outline :
Dainy Home READINGS:
M.—Matt, 20 : 17-29,
true fidelity,
T.—Mark 10 : 32-16.
allel narrative,
W.—Luke 18 :
tial parallel,
Matt, 25:
warded,
Matt
fidelity,
2 Tim. 4
death,
No Luke 16 : 1-12,
ship.
lessons on
Mark's par-
31-35, Luke's par-
T. 14-23. Fidelity re-
F. 26 : 36-40, The
S.
: 1-8,
LESSON ANALYSIS,
I. FIDELITY ILLUSTRATED.
| L Onward to Betrayal :
of man
unto the chief priests
The of man
into the hands of
After two days. .
delivered up (Matt, 26: 2),
{ One of vou shall betray me (Mark 14 :
IR}.
| Jesus knew who it was that
| betray him (John 6 : 64).
| IL. Onward to Suffering :
1
I'he Son shall be delivered
(18).
shall be delivered up
Matt, 17 :
the Son of man
~Oon
men 22
To mock, and to scourge, and to cru-
cify (191.
| Stricken,
i af Mn
Knitien
| : 4).
i He must go unto Jerusalem, and s
many things (Matt, 16: 21).
The Son of man must suffer,
rejected (Mark 2 : 31).
Beloved it not the Christ to suf!
{ things? (Luke 24 26
IHL Onward to Death :
| They }
{| He mnust go... Al be killed
16 : 21
| The Son
Mark =
{ They shall kil
God, and a
{Isa. 53
5
Yi entdemn hi t i 43
SIA] COnGeInn Im to deali (in
Mark 9: 31).
i They shall oo itn to death
10: 33).
1. “He took the 1
apart.” (1) The
The d
separate Interview 1
took ; (2 Whither he
Why he took.
. “They
death.”
Mark
welve disciple
great master | (5
isciples ; 13) :
Whom
took
Obes lient
condemn ht
(1) The judges; (2
condemned ; (3) The conde
tion.--{1} The of
Lord's condemnation; (2
fruits of the Lord's
“The third day he shall be
up.” {1} Delivered up to death;
(2) Held by the grave; {3}
up to life,
II. FIDELITY OVERLOOKED
L Position Sought :
One on thy right hand, and on
| thy left hand (21).
| Ye also shall sit upon twelve thr
| (Matt. 19: 28),
| Ye shall sit on thrones judging the
| twelve tribes {Luke 22: 30),
| Know ve not that the saints shall
| the world? (1 Uor. 6: 2).
To him will give anthority over the
nations (Rev, 2: 26),
{IL Ability Questioned :
| Ye know not what ye ask.
table? (23
{ Ye are not able to do even that
i is least {Luke 12: 20).
| Ye cannot bear them now (John 16 : 12),
A voke.... neither our fathers nor we
{| were able to bear [Acts 15: 10).
| Ye were notableto bearit (1Cor. 3:2
| HL Decision Made :
It is for them for whom if
| prepared (23).
| Inherit the kingdom prepared for you
I (Matt. 25: 34).
Things God prepared for them that love
him (1 Cor. 2: 89).
shall m
nna
the
The
condemnation,
groutdds
ES
Judge
Are
ye
which
hath been
11: 18).
The holy city. ... made ready as a bride
adorned (Rev. 21: 2),
1: “What wouldest thou?” (1) Ex-
pression of want solicited ; {2) As.
surance of help proffered,
2 “Ye know not what ye ask.” (1)
Desire ; (2) Ignorance : (3) Rebuke,
3. “It is for them for whom it hath
been prepared.” (1) The fact of
prepared blessings ; (2) The nature
of prepared blessings ; (3) The basis
of prepared blessings.
If. FIDELITY EXPLAINED,
I. Contrasted with Worldly Aathority:
Not so shall it be among you (26).
With force and with rigor have ye
ruled over them (Ezek. 34: 4,
The rulers of the Gentiles lord it over
them (Matt, 20 ; 25),
Not that we have lordship over your
faith (2 Cor. 1: M4),
Neither as Jording it over the charge
allotted to you (1 Pet. 5: 3).
iL - Characierized by Genuine Ha
mility :
Whosoever would be first among you
shall be your servant (27),
Even as the Son of man came, ...%0
give his life (28).
To his life a ransom for many
fark 10:
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ii
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Christ Jesus, who gave himself a
sor for all (1 Tiare 2: 6),
Who gave himself for us, that he might
redevin us (Tit, 2: 14),
1. “They were moved with indigo.
tion,” (1) The aroused spirit ; (2)
The arousing cause,
2. “*Not so shall it be among you.”
(1) The world’s ways; (2) Phe dis.
ciples ways r
. “Even as the Son of man came,’’
(1) Christ's coming a marvel © (2)
Christ's coming a model. (1) How
he did come ; (2) How we should
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LESSON BIBLE READING,
FAITHFULNESS,
God the supreme iHustration (Deut, 7
$9: 1Cor. 1:9; 1Cor. 10: 13; 1 Pet,
4:19).
Christ pre-eminent
Thess. 3:3; 2 Tim, 2:12; Heb, 2
17; Rev, 1 : 5).
Faithful men rare { Prov, 20 ;: 63.
Saints are faithfol (Eph 1:1; Col. 1:
2: Rev, 17 : 14),
Faithfulness is useful (Prov.
20).
God
in faithfulness (2
a
21 ;
preserves ihe
Lord rewards the faithful
3 + 21: Luke 19 : 17).
1lustrations { Moses, Num, 12 : 7: Heb,
3:2, 0; David, 1 Bam, 22 : 4; Pau
1 Tim. 1:12: Timothy, 1 Cor. 4 : 17;
1 Pet. 5: 12; Antipas, Le
mlivanus
2:13).
LESSON SURROUNDINGS,
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| agree in placing a question from
immediately after the mmterview witl
| the rich young ruler. A disoourw
reply is also given, reported most fully
| by Matthew (Matt, 10:28 10 20 : 16
{ the parable of the laborers in the
| yard evisently an explanati
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All three the Gospel nary
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being 3
Jetween that para
{ ble and this lesson nothing is recs
{as intervening. Probably there was nd
interval of time, The starting
int of the journey referred to in verse
may have been in Perea, Jericho be-
to Jerusalem. A few
may have been spent in Jericho, at
| which point disciples from Galilee m
wy Lord.
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Parallel passages: Mark 10 : 32-48 (to
tl Luke I8 : 31-85 (no
of March, year of Rome T83..
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he whole lesson):
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parallel to vs, 20.25,
ii ———————
MRS, STOWE.
| The Famous Woman Physically
strong But Growing Ola.
There has been so much written
| about Mrs. Stowe’s ill bealth recently
| that I take this opportunity of stating
that she told me—azd ber appearance
bears out her words—that physically
| she has not been in better health for
| years, Mentally, there is no doubt that
she is falling. By failing I do not
mean that there is any marked deterio-
| ration in her mental activity, such for
| Instance, a8 a stranger would notice, I
mean simply that old age has laid its
| heavy hand upon her, und its impress is
| markedly visible to those who have
| known her for any considerable time.
As I sat there talking to her about her
| grandchildren, to whom she 18 devoted,
and of her son, whose entrance into the
| ministry was the crowning joy of her
{ life, 1 was struck more forcibly than
| ever before with the loveliness of her
| character, dimple, unaffected as a
child, one of the most unpractical
written so fore'bly and well upon prac-
{ tizal subjects, Mrs, Stowe would ime
| press a casual acquaintance miore as a
lovely Christian woman than as one
| whose genius had delighted the whole
civilized world. She told me she bad
done no writing for a long time.
“My work is finished,” she sald,
rather pathetically, I thought, “I shall
never write for publication 1?
Mrs. Stowe's daily life 1s much the
| same as tnat of any other lady of her
quiet tastes. She is extremely fond of
taking long walks when the weather is
fine in the fields and by-ways on the
| outskirts of the city. She wanders
| around alone and her slight figure is a
familiar one to most of the old residents
| happened as she was strolling the flalds
| one day last summer picking flowers.
| One of the low hills lying in the vicinity
of Hartford's famous cemetery, has
{ lived for over 60 years a man by the
| name of Die Mr. mi a ap-
proaching bis 80th year, & hearty
well old gentleman and 18
extremely proud of the fact that he is
the father of several ns of
children and grandchildren. Oid Mr.
Dix was picking “yards” as he calls
them, one afternoon in a feld near his
house. 1 will Jet him tell the reat in
his own words:
“1 was picking some yarbs in the
feld when all of a suddint I beard some
one say, ‘Old man, what are you pick-
ing them yarbs forr' I losked up and
jist over the stun wall 1 see the fun-
niest looking little woman 1 ever laid
eyes on, kinder simple looking, too. I
told her I was getting the yarbs for
bad lived in the little house on the hill
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3) ma .
‘Oh,’ she ald, My name is Harriet
Beecher Stowe.’
“Wall, you could have knocked me
down with a feather, 1 Was never
more dumbfounded in my life. There
I'd been taking that woman for er
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