“Unto you therefore which beliove, He is
gwocious.'—1 Pet. 2: 7.
WE had for many years in this coun-
try commercial depression. What was
the matter with the stores? With the
harvests? With the people? Lack of
faith! Money enough, goods enough,
skilful brains enough, industrious hands
enough, but no faith, Now what dam-
ages the commerclal world, damages
the spintual,
OUR GREAT LACK
is faith. That is the hinge on which
eternity turns. The Bible says we are
saved by faith, “0,” says some one in
the audience, *‘I have faith. I belleve
that Christ came down to save the
world,” 1 reply that in worldly
matters, whenyou have faith you al-
ways act upon it. For instance, if I
could show you a business operation by
which you could make five thousand
dollars, you would immediately go into
it. You would prove your faith in
what I tell you by your prompt and
smmediate action. Now, if what you
call faith in Christ has led you to sur-
render your entire nature to Jesus and to
corresponding action In your life, it is
genuine faith, and if it has not, itis
not faith at all.
There are some things which I be-
lieve with the head. Then there are
other things which I believe with the
heart. And then there gre other things
which I believe both with the head and
heart. 1 believe, for instance, that
Cromwell lived, That is a matter of
the head.
which I believe wtth the heart and not
with the head, That is, I have no es-
pecial reason for believing them, and
yet 1 want to believe them, and the
wish is the father to the expectation.
But there is a very great difference be-
‘ ween that which we believe about our-
selves, and that which we believe about
others, For instance, you remember
not a great while ago there was
A DISASTER IN PENNSYLVANIA,
amid the mines; there was an explosion
amid the damps, and many lives were
Jost. In the morning you picked up
your newspaper, and saw that there
had been a great disaster in Pennsyl-
vania, You said: “Ah, what asad
thing this is; how many lives lost! O,
what sorrow!” Then you read a little
further on. There had been an almost
miraculous effort to get those men, out,
and a few had been saved, *O,’ you
said, “what a brave thing, what a
grand thicg that was! How well it
was done!” Then you folded the paper
up, and sat down to your morning re.
past. Your appetite had not been in-
terfered with, and during that day, per-
haps, you thought only two or three
times of the disaster,
But suppose you and I had been in
the mine, and the dying had been all
around us, and we had heard the pick-
axes just above us as they were trying
to work their way down, and aftera
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There wus a very good man, ahout
seventy-five years of age, that once said:
“1 believe that God has forgiven me,
but there was one sin which I commit-
ted when I was about twenty years of
age that
I NEVER FORGAVE MYSELF
for, and I can’t feel happy when I think
of it.” He said that one sin sometimes
came over his heart, and blotted out all
his hope of heaven. Why, he lacked in
faith, The grace that can forgive a
small sin can forgive a large sin.
Mighty to save! Mighty to save! Who
is the God like unto our God, that par-
doneth iniquity? O, what Jesus is to
the soul that believes in Him! The soul
looks up into Curist’s face, and says:
“To what extend wilt Thou forgive
me?” And Jesus looks back into his
face, and says: ‘To the u'termost.”
The soul says: “Will it never be
brought up again?’ **Never,”” says
Christ. “Won't it be brought up again
in Judgment Day?” “No,’’ savs Christ,
“never in the Judgment Day.”” What
bread is to the hungry, what harbor is
to the bestormed, what light Is to the
blind, what liberty is to the captive,
that, and more than that, is Christ to
the man who trusts Him.
Just try to get Chpist away from that
Christian, Put on that man the thumb-
screw. Twist it until the bones crack.
Put that foot into the iron boot of per-
Stretch that man on the rack of the
inquisition, and, louder than all the up-
roar of the persecutors, you will hear
his voice like the voice of Alexander
a8 he cried out: “0,
blessed Jesus! O, divine Jesus!
would not die for Thee?"
Again: 1 remark that
precious to the believer,
who
Christ
AS A FRIEND,
You have commercial friends and you
have family friends, To the commer-
cial friend you go when you have busi-
ness troubles, You can look back to
some day—it may have been ten or
twelve years ago—when, if you had not
that friend, you would have begn en-
tirely overthrown in business. But I
want to tell vou this morning of Jesus,
the best 1048 friend a man ever had,
He can pull you out of the worst per-
plexities. There are people in this
audience who have got in the habit of
putting down all their worldly troubles
at the feet of Jesus. Why, Christ meets
“0, business man, I know all thy
troubles. I will be with thee, I will
see thee through,” Look out how you
try to corner or trample on a man who
is backed up by the Lord God Almighty!
Look out how you trample on him!
(, there is a financier that many of
our business men have not found out.
Christ owns all the boards of trade, all
banking houses. They say that
Vanderbiits own the railroads; but
Christ owns the Vanderbilts and the
railroads, and all the plottings of stock
How often it
selves over into it, and had been hauled
out into the light. Then what aa ap-
preciation we would have liad of the
agony and the darkness beneath, and
the joy of deliverance. That Is the
difference between believing a thing
about others and believing it about our-
selves,
We keep up the Bible and read that
{Christ came to save the world. “That
was beautiful,” you say; “‘a fine speci-
men of self-denial. That was very
grand indeed.’ But suppose it Is
found that we ourselves were down
IN THE MINE OF SIN
ed down His arn of mercy through the
gloom and lifted us out of the pit, and
set our feet on the Rock of Ages, and
put a new song into our mouth: O,
then it is a matter of handclapping; it
is a matter of congratulation; it is a
matter of deep emotions, Which kind
of faith have you, my brother?
It is faith that makes a Christian,
and it is the proportion of faith that
makes the difference betweenChristians,
What was it that lifted Paul and
Luther and Payson and Doddridge
above the ordinary level of Christian
character? It was the simplicity, the
Brilliancy, the power, and the splendor
of their faith, O, that we had more of
it! God give us more faith to preach
and more faith to hear. “Lord, we
believe; help Thou our unbelief [** “To
yor which believe, He Is precious.”
First: I remark Christ is precious to
the believer,
AS A SAVIOUR FROM SIN,
A man says: *‘To whom are you talk-
ing? I am one of the most respectable
men in this neighborhood; do yeu call
ame a sinner?’ Yes! “The heart is
deceitful above all things and desperata-
ly wicked.” You say: “How do you
know anything about my heart?” |
know that about it, for God announces
it in His Work; and what God says is
always right, When amam beeomes a
Christian, people say: “That man sets
himself above us.” O, nol Instead
of setting himself up, he throws him.
self down, He cries out: *'I was lost
once, but now I eee. 1 prostrate my-
self at the foot of the cross of the
-Baviour’s mercy."
What a grand thing it is to feel that
all the bad words 1 have ever uttered,
and all the bad deeds I have done, and
all the bad thouguts that have gone
through my mind, are as though they
had pever been, for the sake of what
Chlirist has done. You know there is a
eieanse it, while the of Jesus
Christ can wash it out for ever, O, the
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up riches by fraud, In a pyramid of
strength and beauty, and the Lord
came and blew on it and it was gone;
while there are those here to-day who,
if they could speak out in this assem-
blage. or dared to speak out, would say:
“The best friend I had in 1837; the best
friend I had in 1857; the best friend I
had at the opening of the war; the best
friend I ever had—has been the Lord
Jesus Christ. I would rather give up
all other friends than this one.” But
we have also
FAMILY FRIENDS,
They come in when we have sickness in
the housenold,
ing; but they sit down and they weep
as the light goes out from the bright
eyes, and the white petals of the lily are
scattered in the blast of death, They
watch through the long night by the
dying couch, and then, when the spirit
has gone, soothe you with great com-
fort. They say: “Don’t ery. Jesus
yities you, All is well. You will
meet the lost one again.”” They, when
did they not come and put the story in
the very best shape, and prophesy the
retarn of the prodigal? Were they not
in your house when the birth angel flap-
ped its wings over your dwelling? And
at the weddings, Family friends! But I
have to tell you that Christ is the best
family friend. O, blessed 1s that cradle
over which Jesus bends! Blessed is that
nursery where Jesus walks! Blessed is
that sick brow from which Jesus wipes
the dampness! Blessed is that table
where Jesus breaks the bread! Blessed
is that grave where Jesus stands with
his scarred feet on the upturned sod,
saying: *‘I am the Resurrection and
the Life; he that believeth in Me,
though he were deasl, yet shall he live!'’
Have you a babe in the house? pat it
into the arms of
THE GREAT CHILD-LOVER,
Is there a sick one in the house? Think
of Him who said, **Damsel, arise.”
Are you afraid you will come to want?
Think of Him who fed the five thou-
sand, Is there a little one in your
house that you are afraid will be blind
or deaf or lame? Think of Him who
touched the blinded eye, and snatched
back the boy from epileptic convulsion,
On, he is the best friend, Look over
your family friends to-day, and find
another that can be com to Him,
When we want our friends, they are
sometimes out of town, Christ is in
town, We find that some will stick to
us in prosperity who will not in adver
sity. But Christ comes through dark-
est night, and amid ghastliest sorrow,
and accross roughest sea to comfort
ou,
i There are men and women here who
would have been dead twenty years ago
but for Jesus, They have gone through
trial enough to exhaust ten times their
strength, Their property went,
ir health went, their families were
scattered, God only knows what they
thought inexhaustible, Gone! Every-
thing gone but Jesus,
HE HAS PITIED THEM,
His eye has watched them. lis omnipo-
tence has defended them, Yes. He
has been with them. They have gone
through disaster, and He was a pillar
of fire by night, They have gone across
stormy Galilee, but Christ had his foot
on the neck of the storm, They felt
the waves of trouble coming up around
them gradually, and they began to
elimb into the strong rock of God’s de-
fence, and then they sang, as they look-
ed over the waters, “*God is our refuge
and strength, an ever-present help in
time of trouble; therefors we will not
fear though the earth be removed,
though the mountains be carried into
the midst of the zea, though the mouun-
tains shake with the swelling thereof,
The other day there was a satlor who
came into the Bethel in New York, and
said: **My lads (he was standing among
sailors), I don't know what's the matter
of me. I used to hear a good deal about
religion, and about Jesus Christ, I
don’t know that I have any religion, or
that 1 know anything much about
Christ; but when I was in mid-Atlantic
I lpoked up one day through the rig-
ging, and there seemed to come light
through my soul. I have felt different
ever since, and I love thoss that I once
hated, and I feel a joy I can’t tell you.
I really don’t know what is the matter
of me.” A rough sailor got up, and
of you. You have found Jesus, It is
enough to make any man happy.”
“His worth if all the nations knew,
ribs
Sure the whole ex would love Him $00."
I remark again:
the behever, as
A FINAL DELIVERER.
You and I must after awhile get out of
this world, Here and there one per-
haps may come on to eighty, to ninety
tells you that the next twenty-five years
will land the majority of this aud. ence
in eternity, The next ten years
thin out a great many of these family
circles,
some of us, Now
and talk over risks, You do not
sider it cowardly
over temporal risks, Is it
us this morning to talk a little
over the risks of the soul, that
eternity?
In every congregation Death has the
base
while
are for
Where
Y our
does
Where is your father?
Your child?
QO, cruel
work.
is your mother?
brother? Your sister?
Death seem to bel
flower? Wil he poison every fountain?
Will he snap every heart-string? Can I
keep nothing? Are there no
weapons with which to go out and con-
tend against him? Give me some keen
which I may stab him through. Give
me some battle-axe that [ may clutch
Thank God, thank God, that he thal
rideth on the pale horse hath more than
a mateh in Him who rideth on the white
horse, St John heard the contest; the
pawing of the steeds, the rush, the bat
tle-cry, the onset, until the pale horse
came down on his haunches,
rider bit the dust, while Christ, the
conqueror, with uplifted voice declared
it: **O death, I will be thy plague; ©
grave, I will be thy destruction.’® The
sepulchre is
A LIGHTED CASTLE
on the shore of heavenly seas, and sen.
tinal angels walk up and down at the
door to guard it. The dust and the
of the white surf of celestial seas, and
the long breathing of the dying Chris
tian, that you call his gasping, is only
the long inhalation of the air of heaven,
Chnstian soul, here and hereafter!
that they never laugh in heaven. 1
that,
laugh? When fortunes are won ina
day, do we not laugh? After we have
been ten or fifteen years away from our
friends, and we greet them again, do
we not laugh? Yes,
WE WILL LAUGH IN HEAVEN,
Not hollow laughter nor meaningless
laughter, but a full, round, clear, deep,
resonant outbreak of eternal gladness,
Oh, the glee of that moment when we
first see Jesus! I think we will take
the first two or three years in heaven to
look at Jesus; and if, in ten thousand
years, there should be a moment when
the doxology paused, ten thousand souls
would ery out: **Sing! Singl” and
when the cry was, “What shall we
sing?” the answer would be, *‘Jesus!
Jesus!” Oh, you may have all the
crowns in heaven! I do not care mo
much about them. You may have ali
the robes in heaven: I do not care so
much about them, You may have all
the sceptres in heaven; 1 do dot care so
much about them. You may have all
the thrones in heaven; I do not care %0
much about them. But give me Jesus
that is enough heaven for me. Oh
Jesus! I long to see Thee, thou “chief
among ten thousand, the Une altogether
lovely.”
There may be some here who have
come, hardly knowing why they come,
Perhaps it was as in Paul's time—you
have come to hear what this babbler
sayeth; but I am glad to meet you face
to face, and to strike hands with you in
one earnest talk about your deathless
Spin. Do you know, my friend that
is world is not good enough for you?
it chieats, It fades. Itdies. You are
immortal. I see it in the deathles
spirit looking out from your eye. It is
a mighty spirit, It is an immortal
Spank, t beats against the window of
cage. looms out to feed it. Dur
the past week the world has bean try.
ing to feed it with husks, I come out
this morning to feed it with that bread
of which if a man eat he will never
hunger, :
WHAT HAS THE WORLD DONE
you? Has
and sinful man—that I might vanish
from your sight this morning, and that
Jesus might come inl Aye, He comes
here this morning to plead for your soul
~—comes in all covered with the wounds
of Calvary. He says, ‘‘O, immortal
man! I died for thee, I pity thee. I
come to save thee, With these hands,
torn and crushed, I will lift thee up
mto pleasures that never die.”” Who
will reject—who will drive Him back?
When Christ was slain on the cross,
they had a cross, and they had nails,
and they had hammers, You erucify
by your sin, O impenitent soul! the Lord
Jesus Christ, Here i8 a cross; but
where are the nails? Where are the
hammers? ‘‘AhL,’’ says sone one re-
jecting Christ, some one standing a long
way off, *I will furnish the nails, I
don’t believe in that Jesus, I will
furnish the nails,” Now we have the
pails, whe will furnish the hammers?
“Ah,” says some heard heart, *‘I will
furnish the hammers, We have no
spears? ‘‘Ah,’” says some one long in
the habit of sin and rejection of Christ's
mercy, *‘I will furnish them.’’ Now
we hdve all the instruments: the cross,
the nails the hammers, the spears: and
the crucifixion goes on, Oh, the dark-
ness! Oh, the pang! Oh. the tears! Oh,
the death! **Behold the Lamb of God,
that taketh away the sins of the world!"’
Lord Jesus
HELP THAT MAN.
He does not
He feels strange
He thinks |
Bim, ©O
Put |
He sits far back to-day.
like to come forward,
we do not want
0, lift the iron gate
that man |
Lord Jesus
, help that woman. She |
No tears can she weep, |
No church: for her, |
Nao hope for |
Thou |
red-hot
till the |
No good cheer for her.
her. Lord Jesus, go to that soul,
wilt not stone her. let the
chain, that burns to the bone
Thy touch.
Magdalene!
Lord Jesus,
He took money
till, Didst Tl
were all gone.
The shutlers were up.
OQ, let him not
Thou
can
JG Us,
O, have mercy on Mary
help that young man! |
out of his employers |
i it? The clerks
The lights were down.
Didst Thou see |
fall into the pit, |
not his mother's
pray for him no
touch bim on the
the heart,
A here are
BOD
it?
She
Lord
Touch h on
Lord, save that young man!
many young men here,
I GOT A LETTER
from one of them who is probably here
and 1 shall have no other sppor-
tunity of answering that letter. You
say you believe In me ©, you be.
lieve in Jesus? 1 cannot save you, my
dear brother. Christ can, He wants
and waits to save you, and He comes
today to save you. Willyou have Him?
im
today,
do
without Christ—how they get on amid |
all the temptations and trials to which
are subjected, O, men,
come to Christ to-day, and put your
soul and your interest for this life, and
for the next, into His keeping. In
olden times, you kuoow, a cup-bearer |
would bring wine or water to the King, |
who would drink it, first tasting it him- |
self, showing that there was no poison |
in it, then passing it to the king, who |
would drink it. The highest honor 1 |
ask is that 1 may be cup-bearer to-day |
to your soul. I bring you this water of
everlasting life. 1 have been drinking |
of it. There is no poison in it. It has |
never done me any harm, It will do you |
no harm. O, drink it, and live forever, |
young
handkerchief, and these little]
we commend you to Him who was |
wounded for your transgressions, and |
bruised for our iniquities; for to you |
which believe, He is precious, |
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Method of English Railroads. i
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Last summer a Hartford lady, who |
When a few miles out from Lon- |
threw them from the window, and care
lessly tossed out hier two tickets also,
which represented a cost of nearly $15.
Soon the guard came around and called
for the tickets, She explained the sit-
uation and was permitted to go on, but
just before reaching Liverpool was re-
quired to pay the fare as if she had had
certificate that she had made such a
payment, and why it had been neces
sary.
With this she went to the superin-
tendent of the company in Liverpool,
and he said that he would have the case
investigated, and, if it proved that two
such tickets had been sold at the Euston
station and had not been taken up he
would refund the money. He asked
Ler to call again in three or four days
She explamed that she would sail for
home in two hours, and then he t ok
her address and she left, thinking that
was probably the end of the matter,
Within a few days, however, she has re
ceived from the London and North-
western office a lettier inelosing a post
ofMee order for the amount paid for the
two tickets,
Under its admirable system of ac
counting: company had traced the
two tickets, proved their sale, and
jearned that they had not been taken
up, and had then refunded one of the
two payments which the travelers had
had to Jax for their journey. There
is something suggestive in this for the
American 1allway managers.
It is sald that small cast iron oron
ments that have been broken may
goldered by cleaning tho surfaces to
united of all Impurities,
bing them with a brass wire
the brass,
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
Buspay, Joy Zi 1588,
Free Gifts for the Tabernacle,
LESSON TEXT.
(Bxod.35 : 20.20. Memory verses, 21-20)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric or THE QUARTER:
Covenant Relations with Israel.
God's
GoLpeEN TEXT FOR THE QUARTER:
Only be strong and very courageous,
observe to do according to all the law,
which Moses my servant commanded thee:
turn not from & to the right hand or
the left, that thou mayest have good suc-
cess whithersoever thou goest—Josh. 1:7,
Lesson Toric: Covenant Relations
Honored,
{ 1. By Willing Hearts, va. 20, 21, 99,
{ 2. By Costly Offerings, va. 21 24, 27,28,
| 8 By Bkilled Service, vs, 25, 26.
GOLDEN TEXT: God veh a cheer-
ful giver.—2 Cor, 9 : 7.
Lesson
Outitne:
Dany Home READINGS:
M. Exod, : 20.29,
relations honored,
-Exod, 34 : 20-35.
of the covenant.
W.—-Exod. 35 : 1-19.
Lo be built,
T.—Exod. :
tabernacle
F. - 1 Chros -
the temple,
5 1 Chron. 20:1
erosity.
~~ Cor,
Covenant
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T A messenger
, J s8eng
A tabernacle
35 : 30-35: 36 :
Weg un,
1-7. The
20 : 1-0. Offerings for
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ANALYSIS
WILLING HEARTS,
LESSON
I. HONORED iy
IL. Command :
The work, which the Lord
Moreover thou shalt make
nacle { Exod, 20 i}.
Make all that the
ed; the tabernacle (Exod. 35: 10, 11).
that the Lord commanded Moses,
30 : 32).
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according to all tl
so did they (Exod.
Thus did Moses: 1at
II. Willingness :
They came, made willing (21).
Of every man whose heart maketh
willing ve shall take { Exod. 25 : 2).
Whosoever is of ;
bring (Exod. 35 : 5).
The § or that they «
n. 20: 9).
(2 Cor, 9:7).
HL Unanimity:
The children
311 Aha §
&EVery ui
the faith
: 30).
hil. 1
“Every one
bim up.” (1
The stirrin
life,
“Every one
offering.” (1)
Generous gifts; (35)
(4) Stupendous results.
“For....the tent,.... the service,
.and for the holy garments.” (1
whose bh
The unstirred life;
& “53
2)
3} The
g heart;
Willing givers; (2
(5) Ample gifts,
11. HONORED BY COSTLY OFFERINGS,
I. Adornments:
They. ...brought brooches, and
rings, . . .all jewels of gold (22).
Ask,
gold (Exod. 8 :
They asked of the Egyptians
silver (Exod, 12 : 35)
The Lord's oblation,....jewels of gold,
. . earrings, and armlets (Num. 31
« HOY,
Car-
Fy
wiv a
jewels of
3
3
je
a
ps
found gave them {1 Chron
IL. Necessities:
Silver and brass, . .
the work (24).
Ye shall take of them; gold, and silver,
and brass, . . . . and acacia wood (Exod.
25 : 3-5).
Let him bring:. ...gold, and silver, and
brass (Exod, 85 : 5).
I have prepared... .gold,... .silver,....
Brass, ....iron,....wood (1 Chron,
20 : 3).
Honour the Lord with thy substance
(Prov. 3:9).
115 Sapplies:
The spice, and the oil; for the light,
and for the sweet incense (28).
Ye shall take of them;....oil for the
lights, spices (Exod. 25 : 3-6).
Let him bring;....ollj——and spices
(Exod. 88 : 58).
They brought in. . . . the dedicated things
faithfully (2 Chron. 31 : 12),
Bring ve the whole tithe into the store-
house (Mal, 3 : 10).
1. *“They came, both men and women,
....and brought brooches, and ear-
rings.” Israel's generosity: (1)
Npontanesous; = Universal; (3) Self-
denying; (4) God-honoring; (5) Soul-
elevating,
. “For any work of the service.” (1)
Variety in work; (2) Unity in ser-
viee; (3) Equality in obligation.
3. “For the light, and for the anoint.
ing oil, and for the sweet incense,”
{1) An existing sanctuary; (2) A
prescribed service; (3) As essential
supply.
111. HONORED BY SKILLED SERVICE,
IL Wise Hearts:
Women that were wise hearted (25).
Wise hearted, whom 1 have filled with
the spirit (Exod, 28 : 3).
In whose heart the Lord had put wis.
dom (Exod. 36 : 2).
Lo, 1 have given the a wise and an un
derstanding heart (1 Kings 3 : 12).
The wise in heart shall be called prodent
{ Prov, 16 : 21).
IL Active Hands:
The Woe. ee » did spin with their
hands (25).
With oue of his hands wimaght,. ine
other held his (N : 17).
She worketh willingly with her has
8).
. acacia wood for
Prov, 31 : 18).
Weer na. and filet to do
| it with thy might (Keel, § : po
We toll, working with our own hands
(1 Cor. 4:12),
If. Valuable Hesulis:
They bad spun, the blue, and the
purple, . ...and the fine linen (25).
Thus was finished all the work of the
tabernacle (Exod. 39 : 32).
Through wisdom is an house builded
(Prov. 24 : 3).
His hands shall also finish it (Zech,
4:9)
As a wise master-builder 1 laid a
dation (1 Cor, 3 : 10).
1. *“The women that were wise heart-
ed did spin,....and brought”
Voman’s work: (1) Begotten in
wisdom; (2) Accomplished by effort;
(3) Dedicated to God.
“The blue, and the purple, the
scarlet, and the fine linen.” (1)
Varied needs for the same taber-
nacle; (2) Varied efforts by the same
workers; (3) Varied results for the
same God,
3. “Whose heart stirred them
wisdom,” (1) The stirring power-
the heart; (2) The stirred people—
Israel; (3) The sphere of stirring
wisdom. —Stirred (1) By the heart
(2) In Wisdom; (3 For good.
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LESSON BIBLE READING,
CHRISTIAN LIBERALITY.
Pleases God (2 Cor. 7 : 9; Heb, 13 : 16).
God remembers (Heb. 6 : 10).
Christ set the example (2 Cor
foun
up ix
4 : 28).
Blessed those
:41 :1 Tim. 6 :
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LLESSON JUNDINGS,
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with him two new tables
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Exodus 35 opens with a repetition of
to hallow the Sabbath,
Then follow {vs 4-19) directions for
carrying out the in ions previously
given (Exod. 20 : 2-7) respecting
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in this narrative, as
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he people and
to. Egyptian
times referred
those times evidence great skill on the
part of artisans in their line. Moreover,
to the preset day the common people of
Egypt, Arabia. and Syria, are quite
likely to be adorned with gold and silver
coins, as well as with armlets and ank-
lets, nose-rings, earrings, and finger-
rings, carrying their chief personal pos-
sessions in such forms as these,
The place was the camp on the plain
near Sinai; the offerings were probably
brought to the temporary sanctuary.
As was mentioned a year ago, the
precise site of this mountain of God’s
presence has been much in digpute,
Chief among these
are Mount Serbal and Jebel Moosa (or
the Mountain of Moses), The latter
site has the bulk of traditions in its
favor: and It seems to many modern
travelers, including Robinson, Palmer,
and Stanley, to best fulfill the condi-
tions of the Bible narrative.
Jebel Moosa is an extended mountain
block, some two miles in length by one
mile in breadth, Numerous peaks and
summits rise above the crater-like basin,
which forms a plain within its encircl-
ing fringe. Here it may be that on the
first visit of Moses to the mountain top,
the elders waited while Moses went up
into the summit above. Ras Safsafeh
is a peak at the north-western sweep of
the Jebel Moosa block; and this peak
overlooks the extended plain of Er
Rabah, where the people of Israel may
have been gathered in sight of the
mountain. That plain, indeed, stretch-
es up to the very base of the mountain,
where the protecting bounds may have
been set. On this plain, probably, the
temporary tent of meeting, or the sanctn-
ary which preceded the tabernacle, was
pitched. Moreover, there is an open.
ing, or cleft, in Raa Safsafeh, midway
between the craterdike basin and the
highest peak, whence the words of the
covenant may have been spoken direct.
ly to the people below.
The time of the incidents of this les.
after the arrival at Sinai, in the sixth
month of the first year in the wilder