SERMON
avy
ha
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ingels of the Grass
Jd =o olothe tho grass, which is to-
fleld and to-morrow is cast into the
much more will He clothe you, ©
trie faitt Luke 13: 28.
Tre lly is the
ers. The rose may
throne in modern
queen of Bible flow-
have disputed her
times, and won it;
but the rose omgzinally had only five
petals it was under the long-contin
ued and intense gaze of the world that
the rose blushed into its present beauty,
In the Bible train, cassia and hyssop
and frankincense and myrrh and spik-
enard and camphire and the rose follow
the lily. Fourteen times in the Bible
is the lily mentioned; only twice the
rose. The rose may now have
empire, but the lily reigned in the time
of Esther, in the time of Solomon, in
the time of Christ. Ciwesar had his
throne on the hills,
HE LILY HAD HER THRONE
valley.
WAS evel
flower, and
dreamer,
in tuo
tha
Ont
ford
reached,
that a lily. l
John
1e
a cluster of flowers, and was
sider the |]
nay study or reject other sciences
Ids with
is so with chemistry,
is 80 wit!
shown
ha
cot lies,
astro-
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it
il
1 srritel oa noe
IFSP lat nee,
the grace
the whisper of the
¢ Bastern and of the red lips of
ican lily.
to this royal family of 1il-
of the Nile, the Japan
r Washington of the Sier-
Golden Band lily, the Giant |
) Nepaul, the Turk’s Cap lily.
{1 n lily from the Cape of Good
Hope. Al these lilies have the royal |
blood in veins, But I take the
lilies of my text this morning as typical
of all flowers, and this Easter day gar-
landed with all this opulence of flor
beauty, seems to address
“Cor the lilies, cor
leas, consider the fuchsi
gerantums, consider th
the hyacinths, consider {the heli
consider the oleanders
ential and grateful and intelli
worshipful souls, consider ths
with insipid sentimentalisin,
ic vaporing, but f
practical and every-day,
. home,
1
white
the
their
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iy
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and
need be
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nses, ©
the
ave
they
speak,
acLs
riorp)
Ail GUS
VOICt
wers
They all
us speak,
the whirlwinds
when the cata:
but wl!
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SIM
tt
wl. We
widch to spin, n
h to weave, ch
to hai well-sweep w
to draw walter; but God
thirst ith the dew, and
with » bread of
God has apparelled us with
I
Solomonic lity, We
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PROPIETESSES OF ADF!
ROBE,
“If (:od 80 clothed us, the
field, will He not much
you, O ye of little faith?’
women of worldly anxuélies,
message home with yun, Hoy
(orl taken care of you? Qu
journey of life? half the jour:
three arters the
you not trust Him the
aod does nol pro
like that which the
had on his table at vast ) {
hundred nightingales’ tongues—but He
has promised to take cae of you, He
has promised you the mecessities, not
the luxuries—bread, not cake,
so luxuriantly clothes the grass of |
el 7111 He not provide for vou, His
and immortal children? He will.
Luther
Irn F
ourney of
+
rest of
mise You
uv XH
the |
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ly
{
N ala
¥ AIWIATH
of t
spiration! Through the cracks he
wrison floor a flower grew up to clear
Picciola. Mungo Park, the great tifivel-
ler and explorer, had his life saved by a
flower. Ie sank down in the desert to
die. but seeing a flower near by, it si
gested God’s merciful care, and he g
up with new courage and travelled on |
to safety, I said the flowers are the |
angels of the grass, I add now they
are the evangels of the sky.
II. IT you insist on asking me the |
question, What are flowers good for? |
respond, they are
eg
Ot |
GOOD FOR
day. The bride must have them on
her brow, and she must have them in
her hand, The marriage altar must be
covered with them, A wedd'ng with. |
out flowers would be as inappropriate |
as a wedding without music, At such
a time they are for congratulation and |
prophecies of good. So much of the |
pathway of life is covered up with |
thorns, we ought to cover the begin.
ning with orange-blossoms,
Flowers are appropriate on such oc.
casions, for In ninty nine out of a hun-
dred cases it is the very best thing that
could have happened, The world may
criticise and pronounce it an inapti-
tude, and may lift its eyebrows in sur-
prise and think it might suggest some-
thing better; but the God who sees the
twenty, forty, fifty years of wedded life
before they have begun, arranges for
the best, So that flowers, in almost all
cases, are appropriate for the marriage
day. The divergence of disposition
will become correspondences, reckless.
THE BRIDAL
eau, and in the bureau a box, and in
the box a folded paper, and in the fold-
ed paper
A HALFV-BLOWN ROSE,
slightly fragrant, discolored, carefully
pressed. She put it there forty or fifty
years ago. On the anniversary day of
her wedding she will go to the bureau,
she will 1ift the box, she will unfold the
of the past will rush upon her, and a
tear will drop upon the
rounds out, and it is full of life, and it
half a century ago
through the air; and vanished faces re-
ness will become prudence, frivolity
will be turned into practicality,
There has been many an aged widow.
«! soul who had a carefully locked bur
appear, and right hands are joined, and
a manly voice promises: ‘I will,
march thunders a salvo of joy at
ali=
flowers, the congratulating
scattered, and there
ling hand ho
bud, which is put
groups are
nothing left but
ing a faded rose-
the paper, and
bu
sudd click of
en
on your wedding
Be blind
Make the mos
8, Above
nad at once! Rememix
y the third fir y
day, x
to ea i
t of
all,
in
&8,
each
do not
the
i
@ +1
of U
question
answer, They are
“(31 a
Comiol
Hila
Hes to =]
rt for
Wied
r
the =oul, sur
ywers, suggesting
ich our sins were slain,
If I had my way, I
all the dreamless
] ndled caske
Cross of fl
wl o}
would
alee] whether
tor pine
Hers,
or aromatic arb
says In the mid
a sepulel
SATE,
Wasence,
of the
I wish
in the
The Bible
midst of a garden,
1V. If you insist on asking me the
question, What are flowers good for? |
FOR RELIGIOUS SYMBOLISM
The Bible is an arbetum, It is a divine
it is a herbarium of
If you want to il
lustrate the brevity of” the brightest
human life, you will quote from Job:
“A man cometh forth as a flower and is
cut down.’
the Psalmist: “As the flower of the
field, so he perisheth;. the wind passeth
over it, and it is gone.” Or you will
quote from Isaiah: *'All flesh is grass,
and the goodliness thereof is as the
flower of the field.” Or you will quote
from Jalen the Apostle: ‘As the
flower of the grass, so he passeth away.”
What graphic Bible symbolism! y
All the cut flowers of this Easter day
will soon be dead, whatever care you
take of them. Though morning and
night you baptize them in the name of
the shower; the baptism will not be te
them a saving ordinance, They have
been fatally wounded with the knife
that cut them, They are bleeding their
life away: they are dying now. The
fragrance in the air is their departing
and ascending spirits. Oh, yes!
FLOWERS ARE ALMOST HUMAN,
Botanists tell us that flowers breathe,
they take nourishment, they eat, they
drink. They are sensitive, They have
their likes and dislikes, They sleep,
they wake, They live in families,
They have their ancestors and their de-
soendants, their death, their burial,
their eradle, their grave. The zephyr
rocks the one, and the storm digs the
trench for the other, The cowslip must
leave its gold, the lily must leave its sil-
ver, the must leave its diamond
{ necklacke of morning dew, Dust
dust So we come up, we prosper,
spread abroad, we die; as the flower
the flower !
“Change and decay in all around |
OO Thou who chang: Abide
Flowers also afford mighty
ose
we
as
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t not, with me.
SYMBOLISM
himself to
and
hen He said ;
1:14 {
and the lily of
i
¢
i
the
the modern
compared
. the lily
ew
are
olent like
Lik
sad who want
who
over the m
‘I am the
{of Sh the va
Red
other,
kK
for
and for the
I
» ceremony lil
ni
he one, humble li
both, appropriate
yimpathizers,
want |}
rejoicing Ww inqueters,
‘i Fir \
ering (ei
i
wed
(ain
'
i
the
HL SON
Home from the ex
Here a spirit is
and he another
body, and million
departed spirits are assorting the bo
and then Lhe themselves in
radiant for asomnsion,
The earth begins to burn
of a All
the procession of reconstructed
ity! Upward and away | ( b
and all the Christian dead follow,
talion after battalion, nation after na
tion, Up,up! On on! Forward, veranks of
| God Almighty ! Lift up vour heads, ye
everlasting gates, and Jet the conquerors
come in! Resurrection! Resurrection.
And so I twist all the festal
he family
cemetery,
avevard,
body,
rec
oreat
gr victory. res
i that chain I bind the Easter morning of
1888 with the closing Easter of the
| world's history tesurrection |
the God of peace that brought
from the dead our Lord
again
Jesus, that
the blood of the covenant, make you
perfect in every good work to do His will,
msi A lcs
A Manifesto from Women.
——
The International Council of Women
has issued a circular setting forth that
it was the unanimous voice of the Coun-
cil that all institasions of learning and
of professional instruction, including
schools of theology, law and medicine,
should be as frecly opened to women as
to men; the oppostunity for industrial
training should be as I DIY Proyided
for one sex as the other; t equal
A be paid for equal work, and that
society should establish and maintain
an identionl standard of personal purity
and morality for men and women,
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
SUNDAY, APRi, 22, 1858,
The ten Virgins,
LESSON TEXT.
(Matt, 25: 1.13. Memory verses, 10-155
LESSON PLAN.
Toric or THE QUARTER :
King in Zion.
Jesus the
GoLpex Text FOR THE QUARTER:
But we beJwld him who hath been ade a
| Little lower than the angels, even Jesus,
| because of the suff ring of death erowned
with glory and honor. — Heb. 2 : 9.
[Les SON Toric: A Mes
age Flnfor ing
[eas ’
The Expected Bridegroom, ve. 1.5,
i'ne Hurried Preparation, vs. 6.9,
Th
he Fatal Disappolutment, va, 10-
11] ;
Outline
And they that
Lim to the marri Lye
Matt, 25 : 10,
GoLpex TEXT: ere
iy
i
Te i
L the
1
IVATLY
oO
TiiE
I. The Midnight Cry
iil. The
(+00
Pertinent Connsel |
AL mid
111
import ot the ery
of the cry.
yo “Give us of §
night there
he time of the
our oil :
are going out 1) The flickering
2) The empty vessels; (3)
Imps :
The anxious plea,
8. ‘‘Go ye rather to them
and buy for yourselves, (1) The
ofl ; (2) The possible sup-
ply ; (8) The prescribed purchase,
11, THE FATAL DISAPPOINTMENT.
| I. Opportunity Missed :
While they went away
| bridegroom came (10).
that
needed
» buy,
that mocked (Gen, 19: 14).
| Aa thy servant was busy here and there,
he was gone (1 Kings (20 : 40),
How often would I,....and ye wonld
not (Matt, 23 : 37).
if thou hadst known in this day ! (Luke
19 : 42).
11. Opportanity Ended :
They were ready went in:
the door was shut (10),
The harvest is past, ....and we are not
saved (Jer, 8: 20). :
Behold, your house is left to you deso-
late (Matt, 23; 38),
The flood came, and took them all away
(Matt, 24 : 39),
Now they are hid from thine eyes (Luke
19 : 42).
11. Acceptance lefused :
Tord, Lord, open to us....I know
| you not (11, 12),
«+ «8nd
They shall
not find me (Prov, 1 : 28).
When ye make many prayers, I will not
hear (Isa. 1:15).
Then will I profess unto them, 1 never
knew you (Matt, 7 : 23).
I know you not whence
13 : 20).
1. “They that were ready
with him.’ (1) The
feast ; (2) The bridal }
The accepted guests.
*“T'he door wasshut,”’ )
ing the wise; (2) Exch
foolish, (1) The brightness
(2) The darkness
eparating door,
‘Watch therefore,
the
ye are (Luke
went in
Arty
wit bios
without
for
day nor the hour.”
unknown day; (2) Th
duty,
Yi
y
e il
LESSON BIBLE READING
WHO ARE FOOL
B
ti
| Wii
i
I
nant Terrible
ine,
mn
Moen,
Young Bead This!
will
workmansinup
he
p. Th
aw, It is
to promo-
is
miversal
i
haa
niversal Ix
4 1 ¢ . 3 \ ‘1
i Carell Oo give nosh
more ti s OLS TATE
than he gv The man
for his own sake, who puts the best part
or 1 into every blow that he
mixes all his work with
conscience, who
mg THE
wino
es,
.
3 «17
HHiNseis
trikes,
rain
wo
studies to
jargest possible service re
n which i
id his way
The world learns his worth
to higher service. Nor
%
i ana
the
i
on and up,
and calls him
is this all.
*n do better and ever betler,
a
Fish Living in Hot Water,
(#olconda,
from the hot springs.
area of two or three acres, and the tem-
perature of the water is about eighty-
five degrees, and in some places where
the hot water bubbles up from the bot.
tom the temperature is almost up to
the boiling point, Recently the dis
covery has been made that this warm
lake 1s literally alive with carp, some of
which are more than a foot long. All
efforts to catch them with a hook and
line have failed, as they will not touch
the ost tempting bait, A few of them
have been shot, and, contrary to the
general supposition, the flesh was hard
and palatable. How the fish got into
the lake is a mystery unsolved. With
in 100 feet of it are springs which are
boiling hot, and the ranchers in the
vicinity use the water to scald hogs in
the butchering season,
” %
pe
WOMEN IN A BREAD 1iory,
A Scene in Richmond in the Barly
of the War.
it was in the early part ef the late
war in, I think, the second year. Our
armies (the Confederate) had been gen-
erally successful, and there was as
little of that great suffering to whi
the people of the South were afterward
to be reduced, The dearth of men in
Richmond made it necessary to employ
a large force of women in the various
departments of the Government, a great
vet
bs
ii
the oldest and wealthiest of Boutherr
aristocratic families,
. Department occupied
on Broad street, in Richmond, a large
that a number of
he reasury
store, and in store
ladies were occupied in numbering a!
signing bonds, and okliers
ning and naombering the one apd two
ar notes with which the Confedera
1,
looded.,
Coupon
i f thhara
atlernoon wher
One
1 §
body ol
boys had assembled on
Clatnoring
at Gov. L
women and
square
was asserted ti
Mayor of
1a Lhe 1
i
i} DITO iS
i FEER
it
*
i AL I
o_o
A Bad Man.
3 »
Ise. kik
8%] ed to expi
his ¥ i
108 (¢
WHRers We
y pl
would prod
oy 1 Yous tv ¥
i ght, ard Lin po
keep an eye on him,
ing in, one after another, id rustic
ann Ox
who |
Ww
3 3
AT
rving
nt
ee 80
ably
vere turn.
bad been dozing in his seat for the
last fifty miles got up with a yawn, and
said to the gambler:
Say, naybur, I've got $200 w me,
and they say these cars bain’t safe. 1
wish you'd take charge of the mone
until morning.”
“Very well,” was the quiet reply.
We were thunderstruck.,. The
man was winked into the washroom
told of our suspicions, and advise
give his money to the conductor, ba
sturdily rej lied:
“Why, that fellow
|
il
is as honest as 1
We went to bed believing the o
man was a victim, and that he deserv
to be. The stranger would get off al
some station during the night, of
course, and there'd be a pretty row in
the morning. But when morning came
he was there, le was also the first
one up. When old rustic got up his
money was handed to him without a
word, :
“Well,” said one as we were washing
up, ‘‘this beats all my record. ™
“Oh! 1 knowed he was all right,”
smiled the old man,
“But how did you know it?"
““W hy, he's my own brother!"
Meteorites are divided into five clnss-
es by Professor k. First,
those consisting essentially of iron; sec-
ond, those having an iron mass
with inclosed silicates; third, those con-
sisting chiefly of olivine and bronzite,
with iron as a subordinate t;
fourth, those consisting essen’ ol
olivine, bronzite or pyroxene, and, fifth,
those consisting te,
Sf pe
feldspar, with