DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON,
Longevity,
01:18.
Ps.
Trrovan the mistake of its friends,
religion has been chiefly associated with
sick-beds and graveyards. The whole
subject, to many people, Is odorous
with ehlorine and carbolie acid. There
are people who cannot pronounce the
word religion without hearing in it the
clipping chisel of the tombstone cutter,
It is high time that this thing were
changed, and that religion, instead of
being represented as a hearse to carry
out the dead, should be represented as
a chariot which the living are to
triumph.
Religion,
from one’s vital
tion. It is sanative,
enic. It is good for the eyes, good for
the ears, good for the spleen, good for
the digestion, good for the nerves, good
for the muscles. When David, in an-
other part of the Psalms, prays that re-
ligion may dominant, he does not
“With.dong life w I satisfy him."
i1
ar fronl subtracting
y, is a glorious addi-
curative, hygi-
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{
it
be
speak of it as a mild sickness, or an
emaciation, or an attack of moral and
spiritual cramp; he speaks of it as *‘the
i HEALTH
ile God,
to the }
] 1 satisfy
wolnen
that rel
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and thirty
as the sixteenth
died )
years of age.
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century,
Peter Zartan
alt Olt ii
pering-gatlery of the human soul. "What
is the eve? It is the observatory God
constructed, its telescope sweeping the
heavens, What is the band? An In-
strument so wonderful that when the
Earl of Bridgewater bequeathed in his
will £40,000 for treatises to be written
on the wisdom, power. and goodness of
God, Sir Charles Dell, the great Eng-
lish anatomist and surgeon, found his
greatest illustration in the construction
of the human hand, devoting his whole
book to that subj:ct,
80 wonderful are these bodies that
God names His own attributes after
different parts of them. His omnis
cience—it is God's eye. His omni-pres-
ence—it is God's ear. lis omnipotence
it is God’s arm. The upholstery of
the midnight heavens—it is the work of
God's fingers, His life-giving power
it is the breath of the Almighty. His
dominton—*‘the government shall be
pon His shoulder.”’ A body so divine-
y honored and so divinely constructed,
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et us ba careful not to abuse it,
When it becomes a Christian duty to
| take care of our health, is not the whole
| tendency toward longevity? If I toss
| my watch about recklessly, and drop it
{ on the pavement, and w
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fit
pen to th
| time of day or night 1 hi
down,
{ of it, and often let ri
you are careful with your
never abuse it, and wine
ne hour evers
it
iv
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| the sat
in a piace where it w
| the violent change
t which watch will last
{| Common gense answers.
| man body 1s God's watch.
he hands of the watch,
of the watch; but the l
is the tl !
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aark that pra
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vian longevity, but I do say the length
of life will be increased.
It is said in Isaiah: *‘The child shall
die a hundred years old.” Now, if ac-
cording to Scripture, the child is to be
a hundred years old, may not the men
and women reach to three hundred and
five hundred? The fact is that we are
mere dwarfs and skeletons compared
with some of the generations thal are
to come. Take the African race
have been under bondage for centuries,
Give them a chance, and they develop
a Frederick Dougli Or a
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makes the care of
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thirty-two :
‘ wioald } 1 i “11 ¥ 3 :
bones wielded bs} y-8iX CUurnous mus
and
hours overcoming
ances amounting to 224,000 000 pound
during
lungs taking in fifty-seven hogs!
air, and all this mechanism not
mighty than delicate and easily dist
ed and demolished.
The Christian man
*If I hurt my nerves,
brain, if I hurt any of
God and call for
DIRE RETRIBI
Why did God tell the Levites to
offer to Him in sacrifice animals imper-
fect and diseased? He meant to tell us
the time ti
Lie Vile bik
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of weight, sane
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ns
not
God our very best physicial condition,
and a man who through irregular or
gluttonous eating ruins his health, is
not offering to God such a sacrifice,
Why did Paul write for his cloak at
Troas? Why should such a great man
significant as an overcoat? It was he.
cause he knew that with
half as much to God and the Church as
«with respiration easy and foot free,
An intelligent Christian man would
at night and pray and ask God’s pro-
thie windows of his bedroom tight shut
against fresh air. He would just as
soon think of going out on the bridge
between New York and Brooklys, leap-
ing off and then praying to God to keep
him from getting hurt, Just as long
as you defer this whole subject of phy-
ity or to the pastry-cook, or to the
butcher, or to the baker, or to the
apothecary, or to the clothier, you are
not acting like a christian, Take care
«of ull your physical forces—nervous,
muscular, bone, brain, cellular tissue
for all you must be brought to judg-
ment,
Smoking your nervous system :Iuto
fidgets, burning out'the coating of your
stowach with wine Jogwooded and
strychnined, walking with thin shoes
to make your feet look delicate, pinch-
ed at the waist until you are nigh cut
in two, and neither part worth any-
thing, groaning about sick headache
and palpitation of the heart, whieh you
think came from God, when they cane
from
YOUR OWN FOLLY,
What sight ® oe Rp nat or woman
deface oly Ghost?
hat 1s the ear? Why, it is whis.
on a Whi
nd for Live
overl
8 ( apacity to take ’
? And if a mar
the gunwale of his rel
down never to rise,
{ ir believing that
} OCEAN
L any reason
has no
an clear through?
had kept to the
id have
if
ik
i ¥ Oi rion
Capa ity to
In the une case, if he
steatner his body wou
saved: in the other case
Lis mor
i 2
take the Io
been
he had kept
y his rel ys would have
been saved,
There are aged poople who would
wen dead twenty-five ago
but for the defences and the equipoise
of religion. You have no more natural
resistance than hundreds of people who
in the cemeteries to-day, siain by
their own The made
their case as kind and pleasant as they
auld, and it was called congestion of
the brain, or somet else. but the
snakes and the blue flies that seemed lo
crawl over the pillow in the sight of the
delirious patient showed what was the
matter with him. You, the aged Chris-
tian man, walked along by that une
happy one until you came to the golden
pillar of a Christian life. You went
to the right; he went to the left. That
is all the difference belween you,
| if this religion is a protest against all
i forms of dissipation, then it is
trious friend of longevity. **With long
life will I satisfy him,”
Again: religion is a friend of longe-
vity in the fact that
IT TAKES THE WORRY OUT
{of our temporalities, It is not work
| that kills men, it is worry, When a
man becomes a genuine Christian he
gion,
hava x v
JAYY YEAS
ie
vice d a fog
Ces, HOCROTs
co
hinge
hing
~gverything.
| but never worrying, because God Is
| managing his affairs. How can he
| worry about business when in answer to
| his prayers God tells him when to buy
and when to sell; and if he gain, that
is best, and if he lose, that is best?"
Suppose you had a supernatural
neighbor who came in and said: ‘‘Sir,
I want you to call on me in every exi-
gency; I am your fast friend, 1 eould
fall back ou $20,000,000; I can foresee
a panie ten years; 1 hold the eontroll-
ing stock in thirty of the best monetary
institutions of New York; whenever
you are in trouble, call on me and I
will help you; you can have my money
antl you can have my influence; here is
my hand in pledge for it.” How nfuch
would you worry about business?
Why, vou would say: **I’ll do the best
I can, and then I'll depend on my
friend’s generosity for the rest.”
Now more than that is promised to
every Christian business man. God
says to him: “I own New York and
London and St, Petersburg and Pekin;
and Australia and California are mine;
I ean foresee a panic & million years; |
nave all the resources of the universe,
and 1 wm your rust friend when you
get 1n business trouble
v
- re
trouble, call on me and I will help;
here is my hand in pledge of omni-po-
tent deliverance.” How much should
that man worry? Not much. What
lion will dare to put his paw on that
Daniel? Is there not rest in (his? Is
there not
AN ETF
in this? “Oh. vou say,
asked God for
certain enterprise, al
sand dollars in
will. Yonder
wheel is going north,
wheel is
plays lateral
vertically,
and |
machinery 1s ac
you not make all th eels go
“Well,” he says, ‘‘l made them
in opposite direct purpose,
they produce the result,
down-stairs the car-
ts we are turning it in this estab-
nt and y [I go down
{ & the carpets,
i ih
am obliged to conte hat tho
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who blessing
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south,
and
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rid
iniactiure:
manufacturer, youl
ntradietion. Why do
s wl me way?!’
to go
or
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right
and ex
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other floo
on the
and I
raight t
“my commun
hes t
AS We Li my rel gion tas
cannot
ai me nd i=
nt.” Erperimewd
u leave this world
{the Lad and Lh I oMHl
ver
erimpediate state
} verted and pre.
heaver “Tmpossibie.’’ you
tree falleth, so it must lie
postpone to an ini
'
arimne-
and the rainbow rose higher and higher
until it seemed retreating to another
heaven, and planting one column of its
colors on one side of the elernal hill,
and planting the other column of its
colors on the other side the eternal hill
it rose upward and upward “and behold
vas a rainbow about the throne”
Aco pt that sacrifice and
QUIT WORRYING,
tonic, the Iluspiration, the
of this truth, Religion i
that health, Religion |
fresh air and pure water; they are heal-
Religion is warmth; that is heal-
Ask all the doctors and they will
you that a quiet cor ence and
anticipations are hygienic. 1
offer you perfect peace now and here-
after,
What do vou want in the future
Tell me and you shall have it,
There are the trees with
there
Take the
.
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sunshine;
iy
tell
nile
pei
i
(Alii
every month, Water scenery 7?
is the River of Life, from
throne of God, clear as crystal,
fire,
friv
iit
pele r the
sea of glass mingled with
want There is t
don by Ad
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Ooratox
in this state.”
There is n
that
have heen off ev tend
periment the thi
world: when a man dies,
Do not about
:
another stale
future
red
of him. Worry
are to do in
thin
Wii
le,
something that tells
will not do any
« ‘there is
You say
| me that
| DEATH IS NOT THE
but the preface to life; there Is some-
{ thing that tells me that
of the grave 1 only get started, and
that I shall go on forever; my power to
{ think says ‘forever,’ my
‘forever,’ my capacity to enjoy or suffer,
‘forever.’
Well, you defeat me in my
| experiments, I bave only one more
| to make, and if you defeat me in that I
| am exhausted: A mighty One on a
knoll back of Jerusalem one day, the
skies filled with forked lightnings and
the earth filled with volcanic disturb-
ances, turned his pale and agonized
face towards the heavens amt
APPENDIX
on this side
I am the expiation,
heaven and hell,
into my own heart,
| Witness earth and
{ 1 am the expiation.”
struck him, and the spears punctured
him, and heaven thundered: ‘‘The
wages of sin is death!” “The soul
that sinneth, it shall die !I”* “I will by
no means clear the guilty I’ Then
there was silence for half an hour,
and the lightnings were drawn back
into the scabbard of the sky, and the
earth ceased to quiver, and all the colors
of the sky began to shift into
A RAINBOW
woven out of the falling tears of Jews,
and there was red as of the bloodshedd-
ing, and there was blue as of the bruls-
ing. and there was green as of the
heavenly foliage, and there was orange
as of the day-dawn. And along the line
of the blue [| saw the words: “1 was
bruised for their iniquities.” And
along the line of the rel 1 saw the
words : “The blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth from ull sin.”’ And along the
line of the green 1 saw the words:
“The leaves of the Tree of Life for the
healing of the nations,” And along
the line of the orange | saw the words:
“The day-spring from on high hath
visited us’
And then 1 saw thd\glorin was over
by St,
uthy relig
dency to make
world, and in the
will have eterna
I satisfy Him,"
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SAUBATALI SEVIS CAREEIL
History of the False Messiah of the
Jews of Asia Minor.
$id
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Mor addrs 14
£7 MALTESE §
[sraeliles,
it bel
1 “
Pea
ng thal inte:
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ment seized upon the J
sy
[hey nearly Killed thems
hey administered Lo one §
lashes and . ti: or,
an influential Jew,
whose daughter pr
and wrought wiracles, assisted
in his work of preparat
In due time Sablurta
Smyrna, styling
of all
Petinia
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sed
than
nd
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landed at
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hits. i Kin
Fin
the syna-
sent all over the Turkish dominions to
all the Jewish colonies to preach that
“the true Messiah of the race of David
and that to him the crown
and the kingdom was given.’’ At this
his trusted followers twelve
princes, who were to act as generals 10
the twelve tribes on ther journey back
English records, the report reached
ships to assist in the transport, and
heard, was at ope time inclined
waver in his disbelief.
frerzied excitement in Smyrna were in-
and gave place to eager, fanatical wor-
from all parts, until at length the Sul-
tan was roused to action and summoned
him to Adrianople. The story of Sevi’s
interview with the Sultan is well
known, and how “the holy, noble and
divine Messiah’ was ordered by that
potentate to choose between three
things—either to work a mimele and
thereby prove his identity, or to have
three poisoned arrows shot at him by
the Sultan himself, or to become a Mo-
hammedan, *1 am a follower of Mo-
hammedan,” replied Sevi to this test,
and, turning to his followers, who were
disinayed beyond measure at the col
lapse of their hero, he added, ‘‘and he
wus numbered among the transgres-
sors."
8 taking
It costs
In the stores of Paris glass
the place of wood in fleoring.
more than wood but it lasts longer, and
besides being easily kept clean, allows
enough light to be transmitted through
its roughened surface for the employes
to work by in the floor below, he
glass Is cast in squares and set in strong
iron frames
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
God's Covenant With Israel,
TELAT,
Memory vo
LESSON
(Exod. 24 : 1-12,
[LESSON
Toric oF THE QUARTER:
Covenant Relations with Israel
PLAN.
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GOLDEN TEX1
Only be
FOR THE QUART
strong and very couraqeou
observe to do ‘according to all the
whick Moses my servant comma ruled t/
turn not from of to the right hand or
the left, that thou mayest have good s
cess whithersocver thou goest—Josh, 1:7
NP
LESSON Covenant Iie
Ratified.
Toric:
1. Proposed, va, 1-4.
2. Accepled, va,
. Bujoyed. va, 9-12
Ter
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and Ley 8
fenson
tie:
(GOLDEN
rod,
. By the Lord
Hi
, Clear Presentation:
He took the |
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Mesos
WIA
15 Ad 8 .
that I mig
i Cor. 14 : 1f
Deliberate Acceptance
at the Lord bh
ore carefully
I' Speak
ct others (1
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Nay:
24 a
He forsook all, and rose u
ed him (Luke 5 :
IHL. Solemn Ratification
Moses took the
it on the people (RB).
ehiold the blood of the covenant. ...
made with you (Exod, 24 : R
This is the blood of the «
you-waurd (Heb, 9 : 20),
The blood of the covenant, wherewith
he was sanctified { Hels. 10 : 29
Unto obedience and n
blood (1 Pet, 1
1. “He took the book of the covenant,
and read.” (1) The reader; (2)
The auditors : (3) The occasion;
(4) The lesson; (6) The response,
2. “All that the Lord
will we do, and be obedient.’
Revelation; (2) Understanding;
Consecration,
3. “The coyenant, which
hath ak with you.’ (1) The
parties of the covenant; (2) The
purposes of the covenant,
COVENANT RELATIONS EXJOYED,
Nearnoss.
Then went up Moses, and Aaron,
++. and seventy (0).
Enoch walked with God (Gen, 5: M4),
1 have seen God face to face (Gen, 32:
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The Lord spake unto Moses face to
face (Exod, 33 : 11).
Now we see in a mirror, darkly; but
then face to face (1 Cor, 13 : 12),
IL. Knowledge:
They saw the God of Israel (10).
Lot us follow on to know the Lord
(Hos. 6 : 3).
They shall see God (Matt, 5 : 8).
We shall see him even as he is (1 John
3:3).
1 saw a great white throne, and him
that sat upon it (Rev, 20 : 11).
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date abou
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Study of the Absent Minded.
Absent minde 1
and { nited f
of amusement,
80 successfully
them are very n
editor who frisks about the «
tically demanding | pen i
useful article ucked behind
his ear; the woman who pias her jersey
to the back of ber skirt and forgets it
at night, puts the skirt on In the morn-
ing, hunts in vain for ber waist, dons
another and hurries away, leaving the
recent jersey hanging down her back;
he man who complacenily irritates the
wrong end of a match, and then won-
ders why in the jumping juniper
won't lght—all these are familar,
A case never told, but true to life,
was observed at a recent fire. One of
thie foremen was wall ing leisurely home
alter the fire had been extinguished,
carrying, be fondly imagined, his
: His
study,
hide this
cannot
merous. The
ed
aL
Pw WCAG
iis
i8 COZLN
de
as
trumpet was, received the absent m nd-
” Re
called the forman’s attention to the
fact that he was affectionately conduct-
trumpet was, the forman said in amaze-
ment: “I'm blessed if 1 Know.” A
and then walked complacently back in-
to the station, and sat down. A girl
recently was in that mythical condition,
“in love,” put the potatoes on to boil
in the teapot, and pumped water into
the coal hod. Ali these are veritable
“observed phenomena,”
set tee
The sclentific boring in the soll of the
Nile Delta has reached a depth of over
308 feet without finding the rock. A
four-inch layer of blue clay bas just
been penetrated, the overlying soil
from a depth of 19) feel being sand.
A MP on
Verra Girre, or hoart frost glass, is
an article now made in Paris, so called
from the patlern upon it, which resem-
bles the feathery forms traced by frost
on the insides of the windows in col
weather,