——— DR. TALMAGE'S SERM ON. Woman's Happiness : “She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she Bveth. I Timothy 5: 6, Tne editor of a Boston newspaper, a few days ago wrote asking me the terse questions: ‘‘What is the road to hap- piness?’’ and ‘Ought happiness be the chief aim of life?’ My answer was; “The road to happiness is the contin- wous effort to make others happy. The chief aim of life ought to be usefulness, not happiness, but HAPPINESS ALWAYS FOLLOWS USE- YULNESS,” This morning’s text in a strong way sets forth the truth that a woman who seeks in worldly advantage her chief enjoyment, will come to disappointment and death. ‘‘She that liveth in plea- sure is dead while she liveth.” My friends, you all want to be hap- py. You have had a great many re- cipes by which it is proposed to give you satisfaction—solid satisfaction. At times you feel a thorough unrest. You know as well as older people what ft is to be depressed. As dark shadows sometimes fall upon the geography of the schiool girl as on the page of the spectacled philosopher. 1 have seen as cloudy days in May as in November. There are no deeper sighs breathed by the grandmother than by. the grand- daughter, I correct the popular im- pression that people are happier in childhood and youth than they ever will Le again. If we live aright, the older thé happier, THE that 1 ever knew was a Christian octo- genarian; her hair white as white could be; the sunlight of heaven late in the afternoon gilding the peaks of snow. 1 have to say to a great many of the young people that the most miserable time you are ever to have is just now, As vou advance in life, as you come HAPPIEST WOMAN and heart all full of good, honest, prac- tical Christian work, then you will know what it is to begin to be happy. There are those who would have us amd grasping bubbles. We have not found it so. To many of us it has been of everlasting jubilee of heaven will be able to express it of an American artist—wrote: “I don’t want to leave this world until 1 give be a very cheerful thing, and not the dark and bitter thing with which my early prospects were clouded.” Albert Barnes, the good Christian, years of age, and said: go very attractive to me, 1 sorry I shall have to leave it.” I know that Solomon said some very dolorous things about this world, and three times declared: ** Vanity of vani- ties, all is vanity.”’ I suppose it was a reference to those times in his career when his seven hundred wives almost pestered the life out of him, But I would rather turn to the description he am very in another place: “Her ways are ways peace.’’ 1t is reasonabe to expect it will be so. The longer the fruit hangs on the tree, the riper and more mellow it ought to grow. Hear, then, while I discourse upon some of the MISTAKES WHICH YOUNG MAKE in regard to happiness, and point out to the young women what I consider to be the source of complete satisfaction, And, in the first place, I advise you FEOPLE social position, looking off upon life, are apt to think that if, by some stroke of what is called good luck, you could arrive in an ele- vated and affluent position, a little higher than that in which God has call- ed you to live, you would be completely happy. Infinite mistake! The palace floor of Ahasuerus is red with the blood of vashti’s broken heart. There have been no more scalding tears wept than those which coursed the cheeks of Jose- pbine. If the sob of unhappy woman- hood in the great cities could break through the tapesiried wall, that sob would come along your streets to-day like the simoon of the desert. Some- times I have heard in the rustling of the robes on the city pavement the hiss of the adders that followed in the wake. You have come out from your home, and you have looked up AT THE GREAT HOUSE and coveted a life under those arches, when perhaps, at that very moment, within that house, there may have been the wringing of hands, the start of hor- vor, and the very agony of hell, I knew of such an one, Her father’s house was plain, most of the people who ¢ame there were plain; but, by a change In fortune such as sometimes comes, a hand had been offered that led her into a brilliant sphere. All the neighbors congratulated her upon her grand pro- spects; but what an exchange! On her side it was a heart full of generous im- pulse and affection, a soul dry and withered as the stu of the field. On her side it was a fath- er’s house, where God was The ra the Sabbath, light flooded the ne with the very mirth of heaven. © his side it was a gorgeous residence an the coming of mighty men to be enter- tained there; but within it were revelry Oran of the marrage feast lost ir fragrance, than the night of discontent began to cast its shadow, CRUELTIES AND UNKINDN ESSES er were the sweat of everlasting de- spair, O, how many rivalries and un- happinesses among those whe seek in social life thelr chief happiness! All that this world ean do for you in silver, in gold, in Axminster plush, In Giobelin tapestry, in wide halls, in lord- ly acquaintanceship, will not give yon the ten thousandth part of a grain of solid satisfaction. The English lord, moving in the very highest sphere, was one day found seated with his chin on his hand and his elbow on the window- sill, looking out and saying: “O, 1 wish I could exchange places with that dog!’ Mere social position will never give happiness to a woman's soul, I have bad wide and continuous observa tion, and I tell the young women that they who build on mere social position their soul's 1mmortal happiness are building on the sand. Suppose that a young woman expends the brightness of her early life in this unsatisfactory struggle and omits THE PRESENT OPPORTUNITY of usefulness in the home circle; what a mistake! So surely as the years roll around, that home in which you now dwell will become extinet. The parents will be gone, the property will go into other possession, you yourself will be in other relationships, and that home which only a vear ago, was full of con- gratulation, will he extinguished. When that period comes, you will look back to see what you did or what you neglected to do in the way of making home happy, It will be too late to cor- rect mistakes, If you did not smooth the path of your parents toward the { tomb; if vou did not make their last {days bright and happy; if you allowed i { terly influences; if you allowed | younger sisters of your family to come up without feeling that there had been a Christian example set them on your ness of lamentation, | ings of that home; by every chair, by {of as connected with that home, these things will rouse up agonizing memories. Young women, have you hing to do In the way of YOUR FATHER'S HOME HAPPY? MARKING { leave it forever undone. | very quickly away. tice the wrinkles are gathering and ac- t cumulating on these kindly faces that i bave so long looked then sickness and trouble and age do make such ravages! The poorest god that a woman ever worships is her own Jace, The saddest sight in all the world is » woman who has built everything on good looks, when the charms begin to vanish, ©, how they try to cover the wrinkles and hide the ravages of time! When Time, with iron-shod feet, steps on a face THE HOOF-MARKS remain, and you cannot hide them. It is silly to try to hide them. I think the most repulsive fool in all the world is an old fooll Why, my friends, should you be ashamed of getting old? Itisa sign—it is prima facie evidence that you have behaved tolerably well, or you would not have lived to this time, The grandest thing, I think, is eternity, and that 1s made up of countless years. When the Bible would set forth the at- “His hair was white as snow.” But when the color goes from the cheek, ness from the gait, alas! for those who have built their time and their eternity upon good looks. But all the passage of years cannot beniguity and kindness, and compas- sion and faith, Culture your heart and you culture your face. The brightest glory that ever beamed from a woman's face is the religion of Jesus Christ, In the last war two hundred wounded sol- diers came to Philadelphia one night, and came unheralded, and they had to externporize a hospital for them, and the Christian women of my church, and of other churches went out that night to take care of the poor wounded fellows, That night I saw a Christian woman IN THE WARDS OF THE HOSPITAL, her sleeves rolled up, ready for bard +3 the excite- but after the wounds were very plain : hausted boy fell off into his and he started in his dream, and said, “ey fry I thought an angel touched me! the features of Mrs. Harris, pital afte: il, A she sat DRUMMER he the awful figl A WOUXDED and heard him soliloquixe : through my body, and my will never again see her boy, pity it is!" And she leaned down by BOY, “A over } in its step as it used to be; and they | will soon be gone. The { that ever falls on a parent's coffin-lid is | the memory of an ungrateful daughter, 0, make their last days bright and i beautiful, Do not act as though they were in the way. Ask their counsel, heaviest clod | grave where they sleep, you will find { growing all over the mound something { lovelier than cypress, something sweet- jer than the rose, something chaster #** And hel said : “Yes, I'M] try to think Please to write a long letter YOu d her a lock my hair and comfort her, fut | would like you to tell her how much 1 suffered -—yes, I would like vou to do that, for she would feel Hold my hand while I and sen { 107 "op SO ne, die, TE features, but all t Landing and be hospitals of Harri- son's Fortress Mouroe { memories of filial kindness performed | benediction, and you closed the lids | grim. Better that, in the hour of your birth, { you had been struck with orphanage, and that you had been handed over in- to up under a father’s care and a mother's tenderness, at last to scoff at their ex- { on the day when you followed them in you are followed by a still larger pro- cession of unfilial deeds dome god wreng words uttered, leave its burden in the tomb and dis- band; but that longer PROCESSION OF GHASTLY MEMORIES i will forever murch and forever wail careful they are of her welfare! ests! Seated at the morning repast, either side and between, but the years will moll on, and great changes will be effected, and one will be missed from missed from the other end the table. God pity that young woman's soul who, in that hour, has nothing but regretful recollections, I go further, and advise you not to depend for enjoyment upon mere PERSONAL ATTRACTIONS, It would be sheer hypocrisy, because we may not have it ourselves, to despise, or affect to despise, beauty in others, When God gives it, He gives it asa from the mountains to destroy Nabal and his flocks and vineyards. The beautiful Abigail, the wife of Nabal, went out to arrest him when he came down from the mountains, and she suc- ceeded, Co to the foot of the hill, she knelt. with his army of sworn men came down over the cliffs, and when he saw her kneeling at the foot of the hill he cried, ** Halt!” to his and the caves echoed it: ‘Halt! halt!” That one beautiful woman kneeling at the foot of the cliff had at- rested all those armed troops, A dew- dashed back Niagara, he Bible sets before us the portraits of Sarah and Rebecca and Abishag, and Job's daughters, and says: **They were fair to look upon.” By outdoor exercise, and by skilful arrangement of apparel, let women make themselves at- tractive. The sloven has only one mis sion, and that is to excite our loathing and disgust, But alas! for those who depend upon charms for their uty is such a subtle thing, it does not seem to d upon facial proportions or upon sparkle of the b+ or upon the flush of the cheek. Yeu sometimes find it among irregular features, IT 18 THE SOUL SHINING THROUGH the face that makes one beautiful, Bat There are so many di about what are personal ful, and if any rough man in all that ward soldier would have leaped from bh couch on i is Again: I advise not for happiness upon THE FLATTERIES OF It is a poor compliment to your sex that you MEN. | conversation elsewhere, sometimes feel called upon at the door of the draw- ing-room to drop their common sense and to dole out sickening flatteries, They say things about your dress and about your appearance, that you know, and they know, are false, They say You know you are Determined to tell the truth in office, and store and shop, they consider it honorable to lie to a woman, The same thing that they told you on this side of the drawing-room, ©, let no one trample on your self-respect. The meanest thing on which a woman cau Again: I charge you not to depend DISCIPLESHIP OF WORLDLINESS, Seen men as vain fashioned and their eccentric hat as your brainless fop is proud of his dang- ling fooleries. Fashion sometimes makes a reasonable demand of us, and then we ought to yield to it. The daisies of the field have their fashion of color and leaf ; the honeysuckles have their fashion of eardrop: and the snowflakes heavens have their fashion of exquisite. ness, After the summer shower the sky weds the earth with ring of rain- bow. And 1 do not think whe have a right to despise the elegancies and fash- ions of this world, especially if they make reasonable demands upon us; but the discipleship and worship of fashion is death to the body, and death to the soul ; Iam glad the world is improving. Look at the fashion plates of the seven. teenth dnd eighteenth centuries, and you will find that the world is not 80 ex- travagant and extraordinary now as it was then, and all the marvellous things that the granddaughter will do will never equal that done by the grand- mother. Go still farther back, to the Bible times, and you find that in those times fashion wielded a more terrible ,, You have only to turn to the third chapter of Isaiah, a portion of the Scriptures from which I once preached to you, to read : THE JEWISH FASHION PLATE, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and with stretched-forth Ean Chay £0, ad Somes ng and J ns y a 4 - ling with their foot In Ta the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling their feet, better and that fashion which has dom- inated in the world so ruinously in other gree at any rate, relaxed its energies, All the splendors and the extrava- ganza of this world dyed into your robe, and flung over your shoulder, cunnot gle moment, The gayest wardrobe will utter no voiee of condolence in the day of trouble and darkness. The woman is grandly dressed, and only she, whe is wrapped in the robe of a Saviours righteousness, The home may be very humble, the hat may be very plain, the frock may be very coarse 3 but the halo of heaven settles in the room when she wears it, and the faintest touch of the resurrection angel will change that gar- ment into raiment of exceeding white, 80 as no fuller on earth could whiten it, I come to you, young woman, to-day, to say that this world cannot make yor happy. I know it is a bright world, glorious sunshine, and golden rivers, and fire-worked sunset, and bird orchestra, and the darkest cave has its crystals, and the wrathiest wave has its foam wreath, and the coldest midnight its flaming aurora ; but God will put out all these lights with the blast of His this world will perish in THE FINAL CONFLAGRATION, You will never be happy until you get He will be your friend in every perplexity, Ie will be your comfort in every trial. He will be your defender in every strait, I do not ask you to bring, His word is love, His hand His touch is life, His smile 0. come, then, in flocks Come like the south wind over myrrh. Come the morn- ing light, tripping over t mount: f 11 t 3 & of a living Jesus, His 18 peace, look hi nwven., 1:1 An he ig angels, and the towers news of souls saved, This world its fancied pear! may cmve «1% not the pear] for me "Twill dim fusire in the "Twill perish In the sen But there's a poard of price untold Which never can be bought wi O, that's the pearl for me its grave Y SHOW Wi IO SEE A It was a very humble home, her father had ti YOUNG WOMAN DIE, She was Deen sili $ earned ber living, SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, Sunpay, Manon 11, 1588, Christ Entering Jerusalem, LESSON TEXT. Matt, 21s 1.18, Memory verses, 8-11) LESSON PLAN, Toric oF THE QUARTER : King tn Zion. GOLDEN TEXT vor THE QUARTER: He ts Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and fatthful. Rev, 17 : 14. Jesus the Lessox Toric: The King's Lessons on True Meekness., 1. Meekly Preparing. va. 1.5, Lonsbn . { Honorabi Eater DE, va 6-11, * {8 Mignsily Working, ve, 18-16, GOLDEN Text: Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord, ~ Psa, 118 : 26, DAILY HoME READINGS: M.--Matt, 21 : 1-16, true meek ness, T.—Mark 11: 1-17. allel narrative, W.—Luke 19 : 20-48. allel narrative, T.--John 12 : 12.19. allel narrative, F.—Isa. 62 1-12. coming foretold, Zech, 9 0-17. Lord's coming. 8,—Phil, 2 meekness, Lessons on Mark's par- Luke's par- John's par- The Lord's >, Joy in the 1-9, The lord's LESSON ANALYSIS, I. MEEKLY PREPARING, LIL. Nearing Jerusalem : They drew nigh unto Jerusalem To show (1). . how unto that he must go Jernsalem (Matt, 16 : 21). He stedfastly set his face to go to Jeru- salem (Ia 4 cannot ix of Jerusalem | They heard tha Jerusalem { « 3 : 51). al 1ke It h out woj hint pes is ’ 13 : 33). 1 Il. Supplying Need: | Ye Sid HH | them | He said I= say, The Lord hath need of Brin Matt, a them hither to me that take, and Mark 11 of 1iewx] IHL Fulfilling Prophecy. That it might be fulfilled Not Ow No pictures. No tapestry. a cushioned chair. Tle window casement was not the chivek of that dying girl. face never to be forgotten, and majesty of soul, and faith uml given her a mateh less we sculptor who could of those them into stone, would have self immortal, With her large, hi vyes she looked calmly into the eternity 1 sat down by her and sald: “Now me all “ (mn thos ts Wa Was whiter rivl 1 ir 5 i £y and caugnt ul in Gro sRuLY, have yatlines features, and made him great bedside tell doubts,” She replied: “1 have no doubts or struggles, It me, Jesus has smoothed the RELIGION WILL MAKE THEM HAPPY, mage, I wonder if this is not the bliss of dying?” I said: “Yes, 1 think it must be, Lier 3 the was setting, and She lighted Can. The dying girl, the dawn When heaven night I’ we m ol Good night! again it will be in heaven! Good night! good night to poverty, good night burst in upon her soul. Good morning | her ting upon her brow garland, morning! Her sun rising. Her palm waving. Her spirit exulting before the throne of God. Good morning ! Good immortal, and the snows through which we carried her to the country graveyard were symbols of that fuller on earth could whiten it. last end be like hers! Novel Way of Advertising. “I saw a funny sight the other day,” said a gentleman in the habit of obsery- ing thingy pretty closely. *‘It was on North Broad Straet, Philadelphia, on Sunday afternoon, ree dogs of mon- grel breeds, and of different sizes and variety, were gamboling about the street in the utmost good humor and seemed to be identified with a carringe containing a family party that had been out for a pleasure ride. The dogs raced each other playfully, and seemed to be carrying little knapsacks on their backs attac to a comfortable cover that clothed them from the neck to the tail On looking closely I foupd printed on the covers the name of a brand of cigar, and came to the conclusion that the ao Hed Luke 21 {| Then remembered they that these things were written of him (John 12: 16). 1. “They drew n unto Jerusalem.’ 1} The sacred group ; (2) The holy 31 The approaching doom. 2. “The Lord hath need of them.” (1) The ground of his need : supply of need, The of Jesus (1) From whence they arise ; (2) Of what they consist ; (3 How they are met. 3. “Behold, thy king cometh unto thee,”’ {1} A roval visitor ; (2) An city . o A lowly ap- oh gil bes Mis needs expeciant proach, 11. HONORABLY ENTERING, I. The Meck Rider: Put on them their garments ; sat thereon (7). Lowly, and ridin $9.9. Meek, and riding upon an ass (Matt, a1: 5). They bring the colt unto Jesus :- he sat upon him (Mark 11 : 7). { Thy King cometh, sitting an colt (John 12: 15. 11. The Praiseful Greetirg : Hosanna to the son of David (9 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion : for, lo, 1 come (Zech 2: 10), wjoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; . thy King cometh (Zech, 9 : 9) They that went before, and followed, cried, Hosanna (Mark 11: 9). | The disciples began to rejoice and praise i God {Luke 19 : 37). fil. The Famous Nazarene : This is the prophet, Jesus, from Naz- ; areth of Galilee (11). and he g upon an ass {Zech and on | 2:98). A great prophet is arisen among us {Luke 7 : 16). | They told him, that Jesus of Nazareth | passeth by (Luke 18 : 37). | This is of a truth the prophet that cometh (John 6: 14). 1. “The disciples went and did even as Jesus appointed them.” (1) An odd errand ; (2) A prompt start; {3) An exact obedience.—(1) The appointments of Jesus; (2) The submission of men. 2. “Hosanna to the son of David.” {1} The shout of adoration ; (2) The recipient of honor ; (8) The offerers of praise, 3. “This is the Nazareth,” HL MIGHTILY WORKING, L Casting Out intruders: Jesus. ...cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple (12), He....overthrew the tables of the money-changers (Mark 11 : 15). He. ... began to cast out them that sold {Luke 19: 45). He made a scourge of cords, and cast all out (John 2 : 15). Your body 1s a temple :. .. . glorify God ore your body (1 Cor, 6: 19, 20). IL. Healing the AMioted : The blind and the lame came: ... and he healed them (14), Healing all manner of disease and. . . of sickness (Matt, 4 : 23), about all the cities and villages. . . . healing (Matt, 9 : 35). He went,.... ing and casting out devils 1: 30) wil oeveryw : 6). IIL. Revuking the Cavilers Jesus saith unto ever read? (16) Ye blind guides, which Jesus the A so gnat, and swallow the camel (Mats, 28:4). How can Satan cast out Patan? (Mark 3:23). Was it from heaven, or from men? answer me (Mark 11 : 850), Nor man after that duorst ask him any question (Mark 12: 34). 1. “Jesus... .cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple.” (1) The sacred precincts ; (2) The mer- cenary traders ; (3) The indignant expulsion, . “The blind and the lame come to him in the temple : and he healed them.” (1) The sacred precincts ; {2) I'he needy throng ; (3) The ef ficient cure, . Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise.”” (1) A divine agent‘ (2) A lowly instrument ; (3) A per- fected result. ————————————— aa LESSON BIBLE READING. MEEK NESS, 1. In the Lord: Foretold (lsa, 42 : 2, 3: 50 : 6; Fulfilled (Matt, 12 : 16-21). Affirmed (Matt, 11 : 26: 21 } { Illustrated (Mark 15: 4, 5; Luke 23 { 34; John 13 : 3-5). | Remembered (2 Cor. 10:1: 1 21-23). | 2 In the Sainte: | Commanded (Zeph, 2 : 3: i 17m. 6: il). | Experienced (Gal. 5 : ¢ f Jlustrated (Acts T : 5 i 11-138). t Honored of God | Rewarded {(Dsa. 25 os £9, tht. . «8h. Pet Matt cn ———— LESSON SURROUNDINGS, Between our Lords arrival at Bethia { and his entry into Jerusalem but a § | days intervened, Yet the arrangements { of events presumably belonging to | this brief interval involves a number of | difficulties, The three accounts of the healing i sartimaeus differ greatly, and the tions proposed are numerous, ‘Ti most probable explanation is, that two men were healed {Matthew one whom was most prominent en occasion (Mark and Luke); that acle occurred as our Lord was going tout of Jericho (Matthew and Mark but 1 necessarily it finally; : 18 : I he . y . i Lind of mi ol leaving {Luke he journey in general, while + 19: 1, he tells of what occurred 1 “was passing through” It is unmece to indicate the other explanation Then followed the interview with Zac- chweus Luke 10 210), at whose | house, in all probabilty, the parable of was spoken (Lake 30 : 11 Bethany was the next place visit in John 12 : 1. was probably Friday evening “six days before the Passover’) but on this point there is a difference of opin- ion, some fixing upon Saturday, and others upon Sunday. The former of i these two days might have been the | time, but it is defend the latter date, A second question, about which there | is decided difference of opinion, is re | garding the time of the supper at Beth- | any. John seems to place it before Lhe | entry to Jerusalem (John 12:12 “on | the morrow’), but Matthew and Mark | narrate the incident after the long dis- | cussion in the temple and the discourse fon the Mount of Olives. The argu- ments cannot be stated bere, but An- drews well defends the view that ou Lord reached Bethany Friday evenin {| {March 30, 8th of Nisan) as the Jewis { sabbath began: that he remained there during the sabbath, the supper being given at the close of that day. The i date of the entry to Jerusalem would then be the first day of the week { day}, the 10th of Nisan {April 2), 783 1A. D. 30. The chronology of the passion week is | still in dispute, but there is a growing | tendency to accept the above date. An- | other question concerns the lesson itself; namely, Do verses 12-16 refer to what | occurred on the day of the entry, or on | the next day? Mark’s account {Mark i 11 : 11-17) favors the latter view, and it {is safer to explain the less definite | statements of Matthew in accordance | with the more specific notes of time i given by the other evangelist, All the i topics in dispute are fully disenssed in | Andrews’s and in Robinson's Harmony | (revised edition). | Parallel passages: Mark 11 { Luke 19 : 20-46; John 12 : 12-10, - Luke's las $ Mr 5 iRuage : way to Jerusalem. SAY { Lhe i pounds ed, as 8 clearly stated he time difficult to 1 i v » {Stn 1-17; A Cheap Bonnet. I was in a millinery store on Wabash avenue the other day when two ladies met, kissed, and immediately began talking. One of them said: ‘What a duck of a bonnet that 18 Where did you get it?” The other one sad: “I'm glad you like it, for I was just dreading to see you for fear you would say it was horrid. I have actusily lost sleep about meeting you. So you like it?’ The other one forgetting that she had not been answered, sald: “Like it? Iadoreit, Turn und and let's see how it looks behind ?** The woman turned around two or three times. Did you ever notice that if you are looking at a woman in ihe face and ask her to turn around, that she will carry out the request literally—turn around till she faces you again? This one did, and as she turned she said to ber ad- miring friend: ‘And the frame cost me only eighteen cenils—just think that!” “You don’t say so,” said other one, The woman with the
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