of wr
DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON,
Wrilliant Bitterness.
n, hurn-
the third
of
star from heave
ind it fell upon
ra, and upon the tains
tho star is called
il
il.
Bane (1
ov. 8: 10,
nd Lowth, Thomas Scott,
iy. Albert Barnes, and
mentators say that the
i of my text was a type
ng of the Huns,
dls
wormwood, he embit.
he touche We have
of Bethlehem, and the
Morning Star of the Revelation, and
che Star of Peace, but my subject this
sour calls us to gaze at the star Worm-
wood,
A more extraordinary character his
tory does not furnish than this mal
ATTILA, THE OF THE HUNS,
One day a wounded heifer came limp-
ig through the fields, and a
y followed its bloody track on
where the heifer was
went on back, further
ntil he came to a sword
1 the earth, the point downward
it had dropped from the hea-
arainst the edges of this
he heifer had cut. The
san pulled up that sword and pre-
Att sald
from
Lie
#0 called bed
star, and,
gered everything
studied the Sta
i Lil
ihe
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i
fe
BRING
Levy
Li)
ierdsmat
Lie grass 10 8ee
“a
did
1
wierh
been
1a that
dropped
rasp of
LH
God
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fr al
1"
net
id govert
mighty
mel
ne called
ie rood,
demand-
appadocian horses,
trom the Adriatic
He put his iron hee
»
nt
wept everythi
he Black Sea.
i: Macedonia and
He made Milan and |
avia and
which
ia
silver table
gold. A
nhabitants were
BASSIvVe
sid city «
ito three classes:
1.1%
he second cl
who were made capil
.
: the third clas
Ie cily Ol
i given uj
dork and her
he city was
He Was i
te iy
atid
capture
with
1 the siece
restuinea i
y
army, inspired
ence,
1 }
with
tears
3 '
themselves
the valuable cour
most
tones, amounting (oo the
ingdom. The grave-dig-
and hose who
burial were massacred, so that it wou
"
gers ali 1 assisted at the
never be known where so much wealth
ptombed, The Roman empire
conquered the world, but Attila
quered the Rowan empire. He
Was «
Wis
instead of being the Scourge of God, he
was the scourge of hell, Because of
his brilliancy and bitterness, the cou-
mentators were right in believing him
to be the star Wortnwood of the text
Ast
most opulent with fountains and
streams and rivers, you see how graphic
my text is: “There fell a great star
rivers, and upon the fountains
waters; and the name of the star is call-
ed Wormwood,”
Have you ever thought how many
EMBITTERED LIVES
morbid, acrid, saturnine? The Eu-
extracted,
perennial plant, and all the year round
it is ready to exude its oil. And in
many human lives there is a perennial
distillation of acrid experiences, Yea,
there are some whose whole work is to
shed a baleful influence on others,
There are Atltilas of the home, or Al
files of the social circle, or Attilas of
the church, or Attilas of the State, and
one-third of the waters of all the world,
if not two-thirds of the waters, are poi-
soned by the falling to the star Worm-
wood, It is not complimentary to hu-
man nature that most men, as soon as
they get great power, become overbear-
ing. The more power men have the
better, if their power be used for good,
The less power men have the better, if
use it for evil, .
frds circle round and round and
round before they swoop upon that
which they are aiming for, And
if my discourse so far has been swing-
ing round and round, this moment it
drops straight on your heart and asks
“the question:
I8 YOUR LIFE A BENEDICTION
do others, or un embitteruent, a bless.
-
| ing or a curse, a balsam or worme-
i wood?
Some of you, I know, are morning
stars, and you are making the dawning
life of your children bright with grac-
{ fous influences, and .you are beaming
| upon all the opening enterprises of phil-
anthropie and christian endeavor, and
| you are heralds of that day of g peli-
zaeion which will yet flood all tl
mountains and valleys of our sin-cursed
{ eurth. Hail, morning star! Keep on
ning with encouragement and ( hris-
tian hope !
Some of you
| you are cheering
a
{
TL
i
hi
81
and
old
me e 1g stars,
the Of
comes over you tiuuugh the quernlous-
or unreasonableness of ye
father and mother, it is only
moment, and the star soon comes
clear again and 8 seen from all
| balconles of the neighborhood,
old people will forgive youu occasional
short-comings, for they themselves
| several times their |
you when you were young,
you when vou did not deserve
¢ 2 Hang on
sky your diamond coronet
But are any of you
yoou?
ness
for
out
the
y $ “rh
1081 witience
it
ib,
Hail,
darkening
§
Lilt
i!
Lag
Do COLD
Y Ot
in the thrones pater
Are your child
Are you
their laug
i gh
t1:1 . vs ev) $
trickles through al
ppressed by
into unlimited
tion, as in higl
i trickled thre
| mill-dam, but
| and wider breach until
{ fore it with irres
be too much ofl
now
t children
! you would give your
one
one step
shout
tte
example
1 sarcasi
1
al
that such Pe rect people Like Lhe
Nave an
healthfu
*
t
nypoct is
no improvement 5,
needed
a ph
that are sick.”
But what use are you mak
Is it beamirched with
and uncleanness? Do you employ It in
at physical defects for
to
syst
NC
used
put religion in contempt? Is ital
of nettlesome invective? Is it a bolt of
Is it fun at other's mis-
Is it glee at their disappoint-
Is it Litlerness
Is it like
the squeezing of Artemisia Absinthium
into a draught already distastefully
pungent? Then you are the star of the
Wormwood, Yours is the fun of a
.
fortune?
ment and defeat?
ft is the fun of a hawk trying how
quick it canstrike out the eye of a dove,
But I will change this, and suppose
A STAR OF WORLDLY PROSPERITY,
You
You can improve the fields,
horse and
cow and sheep. You can
world with pomological
in the orchards,
jconoclasm of the American
can endow a college. You can stock-
ing a thousand bare feet from the winter
frost. You can build a church. Yon
can put a missionary of Christ on that
foreign shore, You can help ransom a
world, A rich man with his heart
right—ecan you tell me how much good
a James Lenox or a George Peabody or
a Peter Cooper or a William E. Dodge
did while living, or is doing now that
he is dead? There is not a city, town,
or neighborhood that has not glorious
specimens of consecrated wealth,
But suppose you grind the face of the
poor. Suppose when a man’s wages are
due you make him wait for them bes
cause he cannot help hifself,
Suppose that because his family is sick
and he has had extra expenses, he
ghould politely ask you to mise his
wages for this year, and you roughly
and get it. Suppose by your manner
you act as though he were nothing and
you were everything. Suppose you are
selfish and
OVERBEARING AND
Your first name ought to be Attila and
vour last name Attila, because you are
ARROGANT,
bittered one-third, if not three-thirds,
of the waters that roll past your em-
ployees and operatives and dependents
and associates; and the long line of car-
riages which the undertaker orders for
your funeral, in order to make the
casion respectable, will be filled with
He or
§
fil
are persons occupying them.
There 18 an erroneous idea abroad that
| there are only a few geniuses, There
are millions of them; that is, men and
women who have especial
| and quickness for some one thing.
| may be great, it may be small,
| circle nay be like the circumference of
the earth or no larger than a thimble,
{ There are thous 15 of
this morning, i ome
| you are a star.
WHAT KI
You will be in
{ mil
| the stay of the
1
oh
It
geniuses
¥
or
one ti 13
?
few
eternity
earth 1s
¢
ND Of Y Ol
this worl ut a
utes,
i Lr
| nol more than a minae, hat are
i doing with t! Are we
bittering the » or social or
1
“ * POii-
ff $314 . ¥ x i »
cal Tountalng, or are we liad
turned to wormwood
Hundred-gated
to be the study of
het
wi
glyvphist 4
3»
Over tweniv-sen
chariot t
now [org i
nations 3; her
Carnac and Luxor, the stupx
ples of her pr ide,
greatness of Thebes in thos
presenti in
wien
obelisks and «
Who can imagine the
the hippexdiome rang with
and forcign rovalty bowed at her
shrines, aml her avenues roared with
the wheels of processions in the wake of
returning What dashed
down the vision of chariots and temples
and thrones? What hands pulled upon
the columns of her glory? What ruth-
lesaness defaced her sculptured wall and
broke obelisks and left her indescribable
temples
GREAT SKELETONS OF GRANITE?
What spirit of destruction spread the
lair of wild beasts in her royal sepul-
| chres, and taught the miserable cot.
tager of to.day to build huts in the
| courts of her temples, and sent desola-
{tion and ruin skulking behind the
{ obelisks and dodging among the sarcoph-
agi and leaning against the columns
and stooping under the arches and
weeping in the waters, which go mourn-
fully by as though they were carrying
the tears of all ages? Let the mummies
break their long silence and come up to
shiver in the desolation, and point to
fallen gates and shattered statues and
defaced sculpture, responding : “Thebes
built not one temple to God. Thebes
hated righteousness and loved sin.
Thebes was a star, but she turned to
wormwood and has fallen,”
Babylon—with ber two hundred and
fifty towers and her brazen gates and
her embattled wally, the splendor of the
earth gathered within her palaces, her
her Sports,
{ auquero; “7
TY
h
nezzar to please his
fad
country and
country round
gardens
at the heigh
Were wos w
the
built by Nebutchad
bride Amvyitt
been brought up in a mount
anging gardens
conld not endure
Babylon hes ’
terrace above ter iH
t of four hundred feet there
built, race, 1
nv
vdnre, the
if a mountain
the glory,
the
ng foliage,
were on
King
4
Vi
wing.
On
h
Lop iu
among tLues Snowy
ip at bird
brought
lit ant AY viride tinier
{1 all HI {(UinKin
al
tankards of wolid gold, or
over rivers and lakes
ned and tril
Hpot 1a
tary ing
1 §
3 1.17
it which the world?
down Iasi
from palace Wii
, and called the
1
| and the dan
from
gronns,
orn of
iting
niting
tookod :
JIMINES £385
those
in the
yonder ! The fell
from heaven, burning as it
and it fel the thin
rivers, add upon the fountains
amd the anu
Wormwosxd 1
agony, the su
of ti
re
upon
of the
-—
The Rival Cleopatras.
her plans to open next season with a
gorgeous production of ** Cleopatra,”
of her
least delay, the carrying out
programine,
magnificence seldom attempted.
in a sumptuous galley manned by Nubi-
ans and wafted by a silken sail of royal
purple. The work of the production
was placed in the hands of Mr. David
Belasco of the Lyceum Theatre, but he
has just been compelled to relinquish
the task. It is stated that Mrs, Langtry
is also preparing to bring out ** Cleo-
tra’’ next season, and in the event of
Mrs, Potter being able to find an adap-
ter to take up the work where Mr. Bela~
sco has left a the theatre-going public
will be treated to the dazzling spectacle
of two rival beauties in the same role,
Mrs, Potter will keep her time in Call
fornia as arranged, under Mr. Miner's
management,
MISTRESS OF THE Tovar What is
this blotch on the wall paper, Bridget?
Bridget — That's an oll painting
mem.
can,
JOL LESSON.
UNDAY,
SUNDAY SCH
B MAY 13, 1838
The Lord's Supper.
LESSON TEXT.
Memory verses
TH
F'oric ov Ti
Corben TEXT POR
behold him wl
Ti}
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+
on hath Led
l i '
han the angels,
Heb. 2 : 9.
Communing
I's Passover, va, 11-20,
raya, va 2
rd's Supper, va, 4
For evén C
ced for wus.-
Jens
Outline: 8
i
If, Ob -erved
:
at
The Traitor's Exposure :
Is it I, Rabbi?
. Thou hast said (25).
said,
He
I
i .
4
i
is. ... he that dipgw
Mark 14
with me in the
+
th
dish pod r
5
n betraveth me
with me {Luke 22 :
fie it is, for whom 1
(John 13: 26),
then having
out (John 13;
1. “One of you shall
The betraval ; (2
The betrayer.
A startling announcement.
it I, Lord?” (1) A painful
possibility ; (2) An unerring judge ;
3) A wise appeal.
3. *Is it I, Rabbi?....Thou hast
said.” (1) The traitor's presump-
tion ; (2) The Lord’s candor,
IL. THE LORD'S SUPPER’
is
1H a
hall dip the sop
He received the
aU,
betray me.” (1
The betraved ;
2
2
3
-
9 ls
Jesus took bread,
brake (20).
He took bread,....and gave to them,
and said ;....this is my body (Mats,
14 : 22),
Jesus said unto them, 1 am the bread of
life (John 6: 35).
The bread, ....is it not a communion of
the body of Christ? (1 Cor. 10:16).
Jesus in the night in which he was be-
trayed took bread (1 Cor, 11 : 23).
IL The Cup:
He took a cup, and gave thanks, and
gave to them (27).
They all drank of it (Matt 14 : 23),
Take this) and divide it among your-
selves (Luke 22: 17).
The Sibu if it not a communion of
the blood of Christ? (1 Cor. 10: 16),
This cup is the new covenant in my
Wood (1 Cor, 11 : 25).
and blessed, and
My blood, oo .shied for many unto re-
nirssion of sins (28),
my blood
Mark 14 :
ti
} 24).
blo], even if
vou { Luke 2:
friniked
. D. 30,
Parallel passa
Luke %
gives an
events of the
53 §
neepenael i
evening.
An Artificial Larynx
Gussenbauer, of Prague, invented an
IATrynx, which
first succe was
ye, and by means of which
could be done, and,
the words were
! ah
through
«ful
sifu
roth’s Case
ing
enough,
i
with vibrating membrances
through which the air must pass to a
from the lungs. The natural vee con-
gists of tones or sounds produced by the
vibrations of the vocal cords in the
but modified by the thn
tongue, nose, mouth teeth and lips.
it is easily understood that articulation
does not occur in the larynx. In the
artificial contrivance the membranes
ua
wat,
NO
air is passed between them with
force a tone is produced. As
ome
&
th
Liese
lax, the tone is always the same-—an
he
1
to produce the necessary modifications
in it to be understood as words with de-
finite weanings,
a
A Zoological Loss
A famous sea anemone--a specimen
of Actinia mesembryenthemum-—has
just succumbed to parasitic disease in
the Royal Botanical gardens of Edin.
burgh, after sixty years of captivity.
From its great age, and its more than
600 immediate offspring, 1% had become
familiarly known as ““‘iranny.’’ This
interesting creature is pictured in
several scientific works, and was visited
by many eminent scientific men and
travelers in addition to the usual sight
seers, It was fed regularly once a
fortnight with half a mussel, and was
supplied with fresh water after each of
those meals, — Arkansaw Traveler,
—— ——
Joxes (meeting Smith, with whom
he was out the night before)—Ia, me
boy! Get home all right?
Smith (gloomily)- Yes, but my wife
wouldn't speak no me.
Jones [enviously) — Lucky fellow!
Mine did,