DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. The Grandmother. ———— “The dwelt firgt in thy grandmother Lois. 2:5. Ix this love-letter which Paul, the old minister, is writing to Timothy, the young minister, the family record is brought out. Paul practically says: “Timothy, what a good grandmother you had! You ought to be better than most good folks, because net only was your mother good, but your grand- mother. Two preceding generations oi piety ought to give you a mighty push in the right direction.” The fact was that Timothy needed encourage- ment. He was in poor health, having a weak stomach, and was dyspeptic, and Paul prescribed for him a tonic, ‘a little wine, fer thy stomach's sake'’— not much wine, but a little wine, and only ‘as a medicine. And if the wine then had been as much adulterated with logwood and strychnine as our modern wines, he would not have pre- scribed any. But Timothy, not strong physically, is encouraged spiritually by the recital of graudmotherly excellence, Paul hint- ing to him, as 1 hint this day to you, that God sometimes gathers up, as in a reservoir away back of the active gen- 11 Tim. down the power upon children and Ite world is woefully in want of a the protractedness and immensity of INELUENCE OF ONE GOOD WOMAN in the Church and world, We have accounts of how much evil has been waotight by Margaret, the mother of criminals, who lived near a hundred years ago, and of how many hundreds of criminals her descendants furnished for the penitentiary and the gallows, and how many hundreds of thousands of dellars they cost this country in their as in the property they burglarized or destroyed. out with brain comprehensive enough, enough to give us the facts In regard to some good woman of a hundred years ago. and let us know how many Chris- tian men and women and reformers ana among her descendants, and how many asylums and colleges and ian and Christian purposes? The good women whose tombstones were planted in the eighteenth century are more AT IVE FOR century than they GOOD the nineteenth Te i nineteenth century will be more alive now. Mark you, I have no idea that the grandmothers were any better than their granddaughters. You cannot get very old people to talk much about how girls, They have a reticence and a they teel themselves to be the custo- «lians of the reputation of their early comrades, While our dear old folks if voi put them on the witness-stand and cross-examine them as to how things were seventy years ago, the si- lence becomes oppressive, A celebrated Frenchman by the name of Vorney visited this country in 17%, and he says of is WOMAN'S DIET in those times: “If a premium was of- fered for a regimen most destructive to health, none could be devised more effi- among these people.” That our lobster salad at midnight, body talks about the dissipations of modern society, and how womanly beaith goes down under it, but it wus worse a hundred years ago, for the chaplain of a French regiment in our Revolutionary war wrote in 1782, in their features are generally regular, their complexions are generally fair and without color. At twenty years of age the women have no longer the freshness vouth, At thirty or forty they are decrepit.” In 1812 a foreign consul wrote a book entitled, **A Sketch of ¢ United States at the Commence- ment of the Present Century,” aud he says of the women of those times, “At the age of thirty all their charms have disappeared.’ One glance at the portraits of the women a hun- dred years ago and their style of dress makes us wonder how they ever got their breath. All this makes ine think that the express rail train is no more an improvement on the old canal-boat, of ment on the old-time saddlebags, than the women of our day are an im- provement on the women cf the last 8 nry. there was A GIORIOVE BRACE OF swyeuty and a hundred years ago, who held the world back from sin and lifted it toward virtue, and without their ex- alted and sanctited influence before this, the last good influence would have perished from the earth. Indeed, all over this land there are seated to-day-~ then are too feoble to corse—a great may aged grandmothers, They some- times feel that the world has gone past then, and they have an idea that they are of little account, p head sowe- titges gets aching from the racket of the children downstairs or in the next roow, They steady themselves by the banisters as they go up und down, When they get a cold, is hangs on to them longer than it used to. They cannot bear to have the grandchildren pupished even when deserve it, A iipitao that they. woul spon ai w the of the household by too fu - and sead the old Book more than they used to, hardly knowing which most they enjoy, the Old Testament or the New, and often stop and dwell tear- fully over the family record balf way in the House of God or at the home- stead, Blessed is that household that has in it a grandmother Lois. Where she is, angels are hovering round, and God 18 in the room. May her last days be like those lovely autumnal days that we call Indian Summer. I never knew the joy of having a grandmother; that is the disadvantage of being the youngest child of the fam- ily. The elder members only have that benediction. But though she went up out of this life before I began it, I have heard of her faith in God, that brought all her children into the kingdom and two of them into the ministry, and then brought all her grandchildren into the kingdom, myself the last and least worthy. Is it not time that you and 1 gallery of the wrinkled faces and stoop- ed shoulders of the past, and call down from their heavenly thrones the godly that they are living for all time, and that against the sides of every cradle in which a child is rocked beat THE TWO ENTERNITILIES, Here we have an untried, undiscussed and unexplored subject, You often hear about your influence upon your own children—I am not talking about that. What about your influence upon the twentieth century, upon the thir- tieth century, upon the fortieth cen- lasts so long? The world stood four thousand years before Christ came; it His arrival. Four thousand years the ha - mother’s influence will begin to give away. MOTHERS BOWING SEED If a mother tell a child be is not good, some bugaboo will come and cateh him, the fear excited may make the child a coward, and the fact that he finds that there is no bugaboo may make him a liar, and the echo of that false alarm may be heard after fifteen generations have been born and have expired. If a mother promise a child a reward for good behavior, and after the good behavior forgets to give the re- ward, the cheat may crop out in some faithlessness half a thousand years fur- ther on. If a mother culture a child’s vanity, and eulogize his curls, and ex- tol the night-black or sky blue or nut- brown of the clild’s eyes, and call out in his presence the admiration of spec- tators, pride and arrogance may be pro- longed after a dozen family records have been obliterated. If a mother ex- press doubt about some statement of ern have closed and the gates of an- other era have opened, the result may by the wayside and say: ‘My child, give that ten-cen{ piece to that lame boy.” the result may be seen on the other side of the following century in some George Muller bullding a whole village of orphanages. If a mother sit bed of a child and teach it lessons of a Saviour’s love and a Saviour’sexample, of the importance of truth and the hor- ror of a lie, and the virtues of industry and kindness and sympathy and self- sacrifice, long after the righteousness, turies at least over fifty thousand, per- haps two hundred thousand, and upon every one of them you, the mother of tw-....r, will have an influence for good or evil, descendants shall have with their names filled a scroll of hundreds of thousands, will some angel from heaven to whom winters, be there v eunlt a result of those bed lessons, flaming evangels, moving reformers, weeping > ids, may seraphic Summer- Paysous, thundering emancipating Washing tons, FOURTH GENERATION, just as the Ten Commandments, number of the stars of heaven and the tell us how many descendants you will ond and speaks of the third and fourth Do not let the grandmothers any tion to it. The mothers of the last cen- tury are to-day in the senates, the par- liaments, the palaces, the pulpits, the pany of midnight brigands, the cellars, the ditches of this country. You have been thinking about the importance of having the rght influence upon one nursery, You have Leen thinking about $e me,’ Wrong, hate and them ihat Parental influence, right sure as you sit there and I stand here. Timothy's ministry was projected Ly his grand. There are wen and wo- Lord is? You talk as though His memory was weak, He can no easier re- memoer a prayer five minutes than! You have been thinking of your child's destiny for the next eighty years, if it should pass on lo be an octogenarian, is well, but my subject sweeps a thou- cannot lion of years. I stop at one am nol talking of Lois, The only way you can tell the force of a current is by sailing up stream; or the force of an ocean wave, by running the ship against it, Runaing along with it we cannot appreciate the force, In ESTIMATING MATERNAL INFLUENCE we generally rua a'ong with it down the stream of time, and so we don’t un- derstand the full force. up to it from ths eternity side, after it often Thi SOIns s explains what IAN Or Woman olence when the father or guished for SOINe young we sb i distinguished for beney mother OF YOu sex NAN OF Wola father amd a hard mother for Christ, and a bad come out gloriously We Ww hiss i How i under their exhortations, over the matter and say : such great piety such parental 5 this, in sons sin?" 1 fetch and if you will t.1% WOriiiines Lot Coal sone sepluagenarian upon the , and ¢ old-fashioned name of Jemima or Betsy or Mehitabel, Ah, there she is, the grandmotheg or greatgrandmother, had enon RELIGION TO SATURATE A CENTURY, The she is, the dear old soul, grand- In our beautiful {may we all sleep there when our me page tell me old who 1g! im ih a wood The difference between that Resurrection morning gregation all About me I want my con- In Greébnwood sissippt River way up at the top of the continent, starting from the little lake and {t+ mouth at ths Gulf of Mexico, D tween the birth of that river and sea, the Missouri pours in, and the Rocky mountains make contribution. | i intelligent Americans without suggest ing two things—elogquence and evangel- In the same tomb sleeps gramimother, Isabella Graham, who You are not surprised at the poetry and of his wondexfnl When vou read THIS GRANDMOTHER'S LETTER, ancesiress, a son's salvation, that succeeding soul in longings for mother’s influence, we need to come in off of the ccean of eternity and sail up toward the one cradle, and we will find pouring down. But it Is, after all, ONE GREAT RIVER OF POWER fathom it? Who can bridge it? Who can stop it? Had not mothers better be intensifying their prayers? Had they not better be elevating by their exam- themselves with the consideration that by their faithfulness or neglect they are ng an anfluence which will be the last mountain of pd the last sea has been ind the last flake of the ashes world shall have been and all the telescopes of directed to the track cour world once swung, shall discover not so much as a cin-| der of the burned-down and swept-off In Ceylon there is a granite column thirty-six square feet in size, which is thought, by the natives, to decide the world’s continuance. An angel with robe spun from zephyrs is ones a cen. tury to descend and sweep the hem of that robe across the granite, and when, by that attrition the column is worn tha a es gd) t process, gran ma Wo be worn out of existence before “NEW York, May 20, 179]. “This day my only son left me in bit- me once more to indulge my affections over him. He has beéen with me but bursts with tumultuous grief, Lord, have mercy on the widow's son, ‘the only son of his mother.’ “1 agk nothing in all this world for him; I repeat my petition--save his soul alive, give him salvation from sin. It is not the danger of the seas that dis. tresses me; it §8 not the hardships he must undergo ; it is not the dread of never seeing him more in this world 1 it is because I cannot discern the fulfill ment of the promise in him, I cannot discern the new birth, nar its Jruit, but every symptom captivity to Satan, the world and self-will, is, this is what distresses me, and in connection with this, his being shut out from or- dinances at a distance from Christians ; shut up witli those who fo God, pro- fane His name and break His Sabbaths; men who often live and die like beasts, yet are accountable creatures, who must answer for every moment of time and word, ht and action, 0 many wonders hast thou shown me ; Thy ways of dealing with me and mine have not been common ones ; add this wonder to the rest. Call, convert, regenerate and establish a sailor in faith, Lord, all things are possible with Thee ; glorify Thy Son and extend His kingdom by sea and land ; take the prey from the strong. I roll him over upon Thee. Many friends try to com- fort me ; miserable comforters are they all, Thou art the God of consolation ; only confirm to me Thy precious word, on which thou causest me to hope in the day when Thou saidst to me, ‘Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive.’ Only let this life be a spir- itual life, and I put a blank in Thy hand as to all temporal things, T wait for Thy salvation, Amen.” With such a grandmother, would vou not have a right to expect a George W. Bethune? and all the thousands con- verted through his ministry may date the saving power back to Isabella Graham, God fill the earth and the heavens with such grandmothers ; we must some day go up and thank these dear old souls, Surely, God will let us go up and tell them of the results of their influence, i Among our FIRST QUESTIONS IN HEAVEN “Where will be, is had with dim of earthly hardly know her even il { her on earth, so bent { once, and there so straight, | eye through the blinding of rthi | tears, and now her eye as clear | heaven, so full of aches and pains once, We OV “GO the wrinkles blooming into carnation { mountains, Yes, 1 must | grandmother on my father s si | McCoy, it of | When I first spoke to an i Glasgow, Scotland, { diffident, being telling Scoleh woman, see her, my de the descendant audience in somewhat t began by r 4 Ald 1 stranger, | grandmotiv r a mi and then there them wein wernt up I must see her. must see those women of 1 nineteenth century and of the | eighteenth century, the answer of whose | prayers is in your welfare to-day, GOD BLESS ALL THE AGED WOMAN up and down the land and in all Jands! What a happy thing, Pom to sav, when making the | address of his mother : | resided with her sixty-seven | was reconciled to her, | cause there never happened | discord between { there was | Make it as easy as 1 do here, You early funeral CUS Never once need as easy for t hen no af reconc) he old folks as you they are sick, Give are slippery. i can, them your arm when the with | home and see for Never Ix { streets , pi : them all the tun the old tl in then ashamed little anything thai the way Make the $3 ” $11 apparel a WILL MISS wo my head to se thing i ' § thd $ i her, tNnings is HER I have 80 mans 145) twenty-four years since she 1 night let God for the. good influences ¢ down fron FWY back. Timothy, Eunice, ain : grandmother Lois | others this patrimony of blessing along the coronets, Make religion heirloom from generation to generat Mothers of America, consecrate y God, and secrate all & i n Rimi I ail mother selves GU your will help O01 the ages following ! dwell so much on your haniships tha you miss your chance of wielding an in | fluence that shall look down upon from the towers of an endless future, I know Martin Luther when he consoled his wife death of their danghter, bj | “Don’t take on so, wife ; remember that ! this is a hard world for ’ go further and say : It is A HARD WORLD Fon Aye, I go further and say: It world for men, But for all WHS over the saying girls, WOMEN. women and | the hand of Christ, the shining will soon swing open, Don’t i the sickly pallor on the sky? © | pallor on the cold cheed Don’t you se ‘ i of the clouds? That i i | wann forehead of the morning up, you are coming within sight of Celestial City, THE CELESTIAL Cairo, capital of the dying brightening flush on the CITY i Egypt, was called | “City of Victory.” Athens, capital of F Greece, was called “*City of the Violet | Crow ni’ Baalbeck was called “lity of {the Sun;” Lendon was called ‘The {City of Masts,”” Lucien’s imaginary | metropolis beyond the Zodiac was called “The City of Lanterns.’ But | the city to which vou journey hath all | {hese in one, the victory, the erowns, | the masts, of those that have been har- | bored after the storm. Aye, all but Ahe lanterns and the sun, because they have no need of any other light, since the Lamb is the light thereof, i si AAA I IAAI 5 He How to Select a Wile, as possible, and note whether she is fresh and tidy or limp and {rowzy. Waten how she treats her pets—-her dog, her canary, her little sisters, Discover what she eats amd drinks, and make vourse!f certain whether she bathes or uses perfumery. Remember if she makes a habit of walking or driving. Inform yourself whether she doles upon Owen Meredith and Henry James, or reads Longfellow and Fenimore Cooper. (io to church with her and see if she cares more for the preacher than for the Gospel, Make a sly study of her anatomy when you get a chance, Walk her up Murray hill us fast us you can, and dance a whole waltz through with her, and mark if she allows herself breath. ing root and wears tight slippers, miliarize yourself with father's affairs and her mother’s temper; and then, my boy, when you've found a girl who 1s neat, trim, trae, healthy, wealthy, and wise, sail in and win her. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. BuspAaY, Manon 18, 1858, The Son Rejected. LESSON TEXT. 21:40. Momory versos, 42.44.) LESSON PLAN. Toric oF THE QUARTER: King tn Zion. GOLDEN TEXT FOR THE QUARTER: He iz Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with lim are called, and chosen, and faithful Rev. 17 : 14. Jesus the Lyssox Toric; The King's Lessons on True Justice, (1. The Servapts Rejected, va, E3-86, Lesson J 2. The Son Slain, va. 87.59, Outiine : | 8 The Conspirsiors Destroyed, va. 40. \ 46, GorLpexy Texr: own, and his own John 1 : 11. He came unto his received him not, — Dairy HoME READINGS: M.—Matt, 21 46, true justice, T.— Mark 12: 1-12, allel narrative, W.—Luke 20 : 9-19. allel narrative, T.—Acts 13 : 44-52. rejected, ¥.— Luke 23 : 1-25. jected, Luke 23 slain, 3 MEY, “5% PO Lessons on Mark's par- Luke's par- >, 26-46, God's 20 (od 8 enemies destroved, reared a— LESSON ANALYSIS, i I, THE SERVANTS REJECTED, i L A Generous Opportunity: A viney press, ’ Thou broug Psa, 80 | My wellbeloved had a vineyard very fruitful hill (Isa. 5 : 2) i I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed (Jer, 2 : 21). man planted a vinevard, and let it out (Luke 20 : 0). | IL. Reasonable Demand He sent his fruits ard, a hedge, a .8 tower (33 test a vine out of Egypt hi «BJ. | A his od). { Thou shalt servants... .lo receive love the Lord thy God with all thine heart (Deut, 6 : 5), | What doth the Lord thy God require of thee. but to fear the Lord? (Deut. 1 12.) { Fear God:... of nan Fa | YW hatsoever (od (1 i Cor. 10 : 31). itl. Brutal Rejection: i The hust andmen were stoned, they 11: 37). it out to husbandmen.’ They t asunder { Heb, oe iA The reasonable owner: (3 prepared Vineyara | The = nprin- ‘ ipled Jesares “Ie sent his rvants, ve his fraits.” (1) The master’s The servants er- husbandmen’s «+: 30 TO- 4 expectation ; (2 and ; (3 The treachery, them in like motiy Brutal de- They d t iat 3 it LAY inanner, Mercenary i “ 2) Base dishonor; (3 portment II. THE SON SLAIN Afterward he sent unto 87 Lhe son; should be saved (John 3 ; bless YOu: 3 26 : forth his might redeem them God hath sent his only begott that we might 1 John 4 Il. The Son Conspired Against : kill inheritance {58). fsx] sent S00, that (sal. 4: § t 4 0). en Son, 0 ive Come, jet is ‘a 3+ the Lord (Psa. 2: 2). They took CO { sel hat, they might take and kill 26 : 4). Ea | They took « him to d bin Jesus, ounsel that they might put eath (John 11: 53). Against, Josus, the peoples of Israel were gathered (Acts 4: 27). fil. The Son Slain: They took him, and cast i .,..and killed him (39), Then they... .laid hands on Jesus, and took him (Matt, 26: The officers received him with blows of their hands (Mark 14 : 65). | There they crucified him {Luke 23: Ye by the hand of lawless men did cr- cify and slay {Acts 2: 23). 1. “They will reverence my son.’ Past misdeads overlooked ; ture improvement anticipated. —(1) The son’s appointed mission ; (2) The son’s appropriate reverence, 2. “Let us kill him, and take his in- heritance.”? {1) Avarice ; (2) Con- spiracy ; (3) Murder. . “They took him, and him forth, cand killed him. (1) The captive ; (2) The captors; (3) I'he consequences, —{1) mo- tives ; (2) Shameful (3) Cruel slaughter. [11. TNE CONSPIRATORS DESTROYED. I: The Coming Lord: When. ...the lord of the vineyard shall come (40)° There came with the clouds of heaven one like unto a son of man (Dan. T1118). Jesus... shall 80 come ...as yo beheld him going (Acts 1: 11). The Lord himself shall descend from heaven (1 Thess. 4: 16). He cometh with the clouds ; and every eve shall see him (Rev, 1: 7). : iL. The Terrific Destruction : He will miserably destroy those miser- able men (41). Thon shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel (Psa. 2: 9). Heo... .shall suddenly be broken, and that without remedy (Prov. a 1) Yi engeance belongeth to me; recompense (Rom, 12: 19). : Rendering vengeance know not God (2 Thess. 1 : 8), fo them that (IL The welploss Canipritst him forth, i Ji. aes aml, cast " abuse ; On whomsoever it shall fall, it will seatter iim as dust (44), They are as stubble before the wind {Job 21 : 18). The wicked are like the chafl which the wind driveth away (Psa. 1: 4). Chased, . . . .like the whirling dust be- fore the storm (Isa. 17 : 13). Fall on us, and hide us, ... from wrath of the Lamb (Rev, 6: 16). 1. “What will he do unto those hus. bandmen?’’ (1; His limitless re- sources ; (2) His righteous indigna- tion ; (3) Their just doom. a “He will miserably destroy those miserable men,” (1) Miserable char- acters ; (2) Miserable conduct ; (7) Miserable doom.—(1) The Lord's judgment of their conduet ; (2) The Lord's assignment of their fate, 3. “It will scatter him as dust.” (1) An impending fall ; (2] An imper- iled culprit: (3) A terrific end. Lhe — ia iin LESSON BIBLE READING THE LORDS 1. Foretold: 3y prophets (Dan, 7: 13; J By apostles {Acts 3 : 19-21; 15-17). | By angels (Acts 1 : 10, 11). | By the Lord (Matt, 25 : SECOND OOMING ude 14. 1 Thess, 4 81; John 14 els 2. Described : In clouds Mati, 24 96 : 64: Res 1 : 7) | In the glory of the Father (M 7 wi js : SA; 4 “alt | In flaming fire (2 Thess, 1:7, B | With attendant angels (Matt, Thess. 4 : 16) Anticipated : —t 1 Thess, } Praverfully (Rev. 22 : 20). | Longingly (Phil. 3: 20, 21; Titus 13 Lovingly LESSON SURROUNDINGS, The incident of the fig-tree follows | {hie last lesson, in the account of Matthew Matt, 21 : 18.22). jut Mark, in | more detailed narrative (Mark 11 : 12 that the cursing of the tree took place on the morning after the public entry to Jerusalem, and that the I was noticed on the subsequen Henee we placerthe cleansing and the hosannas of the second the fig-u the BLOW # ¢ © { 12-17) on the which | of } aan * (ng 0. ¥ suffic ute th sannas of he temple onthe first day. of the Greeks s {John 12 : 3 but it probably after the publie ministry lay the conflicts yi é wis thie incdent MM). 36) on the firs L800 LOOK ended. On the third « temple occurred. of lessons are taken from which these discussions by Matthew, who i8 most In the moming, the fig-lree On enterin nn the court of countered vy sent for the challenged his authority 3 The reply was a t Jelm the DBap- ined to answer [Vs follows the parable of the 28.32). peculiar to Mat- and introducing the parable form- ing the present If the entry to Jerusalem took place on Sunday, the the lesson was If the Passover was eaten In the disciples at the regular time, Th day was the 12th of Nisan (And says April 4). The year was 783, 1), $0. Parallel passages €. number the passage im Are reCorGed full in his accoun 1 conaition Gl ithe rs or was noticed (ve £ the temple, probs the | apparen Israelites, our rd e1 BONE lors of the rul purpose, who iY. peslion 10 1eact $11 {1} a0 4 I n al hich they Then VE. List, dec] b 4.97 LWO =0ns thew, bess, time of A Mark 12 Cn ———— The care of the Ears, 1. Never put anything inlo the for the relief of toothache, 2. Never put cotton in the ears they are disc arging puss, 3. Never attempt to apply a poul- t the canal the tice to the inside ol of th | ear. ! 4. Never drop anything imto the | par unless it has been previously warn. ed. 5. Never use anything but a synng and water for cleaning the ears {ion ! Puss, 6. Never strike or box a childs ears { this has been known to rupture the | drum and cause incurable deafness i 7. Never wet the hare if you have | any tendency to deafness; wear an oil- | ed-silk cap when bathing, and refrain | from diving. 8. Never scratch the ears with any- | thing but the fingers if they itch. Do | not use the head of a pin. hair-pins, | pencil-tips or anytlung of that pature. 9. Never let the feet become cold and damp, or sit with the back toward a window, as these things tend 1o ag- gravate any existing hardoess of hear | Ing. 10. Never put milk, fat or any oily sulistance nto the ear for the relief of pain, as they soor become rancid and tend to incite inflammation. Simple warm water will answer the purpose better than anything else, 11. Never be alarmed if a living n- sect enters the ears, Yeuring warm water into the canal will drown I, | when it will generally come to the sur- face and can be easily removed by the fingers. A few puffs of smoke blown into the ear will stupefy the insect. 12. Never meddle with the ear if a foreign body, such as a bead, button or seed enters it; leave it absolutely alone, bat have a physician attend to it, More damage bas been dene by injudicious attempts at the extraction of a foreign body than could ever come from its presence in the ear. has man. It is adapted for rapid writing by those who can see, but is more es pecially intended for the use of the alphabet consists of dif-
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