DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON: In Good Humor With Our Lot. “Ne cogent with such things as yo have.” Heb, 13:5. I¥ I should ask some one,” ‘‘Where ie Brooklyn. to-day?” he would say, “*At Brighton Beach, or East Hamp- ton, or Shelter Island.” **Where is New York, to-day?” “At Long Branch.” **Where is Philadelphia?” “Cape May.” “Where is Boston?’ “At Martha's Vineyard," “Where is Virginia??? *‘At the Sulphur Springs.” “Where the great multitude from all paits of the land?’ ‘*At Saratoga,” the modern Bethesda, where the angel of health 1s ever stirring the waters, But, my friends, the largest multitude are at home, detained by business or circumstances. Among them all news- paper men, the hardest worked and the least compensated; city railroad em- ployees, and ferry masters and the po- lice, and the tens of thousands of clerks and merchants waiting for their turn of absence, and households with an in- valid who cannot be moved, and others hindered by STRINGENT CIRCUMSTANCES, and the great multitude of well-to-do people who stay at home because they like home better than any other place, refusing to go away simply because it is the fashion to ga. When the express wagon, with its mountain of trunks, directed to the Catskills or Niagara, goes through the streets, we stand at our window envious and impatient, and wonder why we cannot go as well as others, Fools that we are, as though one could not be as happy at home as anywhere else! Our grandfathers and grandmothers bad as good a time as we have, long before the first spring was bored at Saratoga, or the first deer shot in the Adirondacks. They made their wedding-tour to the next farmhouse, or living in New York, they celebrated the event by an extra walk on the Bat- tery. happy until be is going somewhere, and the passion is so great that there are Christian people, with their families, detained in the city, who come not to the house of God, trying to give people the idea that they are out of town, leav- ing the door-plate unscoured for the same reason, and for two months keep- ing the front shutters closed while they sit in the thermometer at ninety! if it is best for us to go let us go and be happy. If itis best for us to stay at home, let us stay at home and be hap- py. There isa great deal of GOOD COMMON SENSE in Paul's advice to the Hebrews: content with such things as ye have.” To be content is to be in good humor with our circumstances, not picking a quarrel with our obscurity, our poverty, or our social position. There are four or five grand reasons why we should be content with such things as we have. The first reason that 1 mention as leading to this spirit, advised in the text, is the consideration that the poor- est of us have all that ws indispensable in life. We make great ado about our hardships, but how little we talk of our blessings. Health of body, which is given in largest quantity to those who have never been pelted and fondled, and spoiled by fortune, we take as a matter of course. Rather have thus luxury, and have it alone, than, with- out it, look out of a palace window upon tains and statuary, These people sleep sounder on a straw mattress than fash. ionable invalids on a couch of ivory and eagles’ down. The dinner of herbs on a woodman’s axe or a reaper's scy- ith ences seated at 4 table covered with partridge and venison and pineapple. The grandest luxury God ever gave a man is health. He who trades that off for all the palaces of the earth is infin. itely cheated. We look back at the glory of the last Napoleon, but who would have taken his Versailles, and Lis Tuilleries, if with them we had to take his gout? “Oh,” says some one, *‘it isn't the gratification of an artistic and intellect ual taste.” Why, YOU HAVE THE ORIGINAL from which these pictures are copied. with a sunset hung in loops of fire on the heavens? What is a cascade, silent on a canvas, compared toa caseade that makes the mountain tremble, its spray ascending like the departed spirit of the walter slain on the rocks? Oh, there is a great deal of hollow affectation about those who never appreciate the original from which the pictures are taken. As though a parent should have no regard for his child, but go into ecstasies over its photograph. Bless the Lord to-day, O man! © woman! that though you may be sbut out from the works of a Church, a Bierstadt, a Rubens, and a Raphael, you still have free access to a llery grander than the Louvre, or the uxemburg, or the Vatican-the royal gallery of the noonday heavens, the ing's gallery of the midnight sky. Another consideration leading us to a spirit of contentment, is the fact that our happiness is not dependent upon out- ward circumstances. You see people happy and miserable amid all circum- stances, In a family where the last loaf is on the table, and the last stick of wood on the fire, you sometimes find a cheerful confidence in God; while in a very fine place, you will see and hear discord sounding her war-whoop, and hospitality freezing to death in a cheer- less parlor, 1 stopped one day on Broadway, at the head of Wall Street, " the Jom ou Tait) Kuseh, to see who seemed t est people passing. 1 judged, from thelr looks THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE were not those who went down into Wall Street, for they had on their brow the anxiety of the dollar they expected to make; nor the people who came out of Wall Street, for they had on their ‘brow the anxiety of the dollar they had lost; nor the people who swept in Splendid equipage, for they met a car. 3h e that was Bev than, tiers, or person crowd, - woman who sat at the apple-stand, Knitting. I believe real happiness of- tener looks out of the window of an humble home, than through the opera- glass of the gilded box of a theatre, I find Nero growling on a throne, I find Paul singing in a dungeon. 1 find King Ahab going to bed at noon, through melancholy, while near by Is Naboth contented in the possession of a vineyard. Haman, prime minister of Persia, frets himself almost to death, because a poor Jew will not tip his hat: and Ahithophel, one of the greatest lawyers of Bible times, through fear of dying, hangs himself, The wealthiest man, forty years ago, in New York, when congratulated over his large es- tate, replied, **Ah, you don’t know how much trouble I have in taking care of it!” Byron declared, in his last hours, that he had never seen more than twelve happy days in all his life, I do not believe that he bad seen twelve minutes of thorough satisfaction. Na- poleon I, said, *I turn with disgust from the cowardice and selfishness of man, I hold life a horror: death is re- pose, What I have suffered the last twenty days is beyond human compre- hension.’* While, on the other hand, to show HOW ONE MAY BE HAPPY amid the most disadvantageous clrcums- stances, just after the Ocean Monarch had been wrecked in the English Chan- nel, a steamer was cruising along in the darkness, when the captain heard a song, a sweet song, coming over the water, and he bore down toward that volce, and found it was a Christian woman on a plank of the wrecked steamer, sin to the tune of St Martins: ging “Jesus, lover of my soul, Lot to Thy bosom fly, While the billows near me roll, While the tompest still is high." The heart right toward God and man, we are happy. toward God and man, we are unhappy. | to this spirit inculcated in | condition are transitory. | you build, the land you culture, the into However if you other hands, Lave it now, { £0 i You Ina Christian | THE SCENE WILL SOON END, | the door of the grave. A coffii i ing-place as one made out of | mounted mahogany or rosewood. down among the dead, and you will find that though people there had a great difference of worldly circumstances, now they are all alike unconscious, The hand that greeted the senator, and the president, and the king, is still as the hand that hardened on the mechanic’s hammer, or the manufacturer's wheel, It not make any difference now, whether there is a plain stone above them, from which the traveller aside the weeds to read the name, or a tall shaft springing into the heavens as though tell their virtues to the skies, IN THAT SILENT LAND there are no titles for great there are of chariot wheels, and there is never heard the foot of the dance, The Egyptian guano which is thrown on the fields in the East for the enrichment of the soil, is the dust raked out from the sepulchres of kings and jords and mighty men. the chagrin of those men if they had ever known that in the after ages of the world they would have been called Egyptian guano! Of how much worth now is the crown of Cesar? Who bids for it? Who cares now anything about the Amphi- tryronie Council or the laws of Lycur- gus? Who trembles now because Xer- sia Puiis to men, and HO TUuinoDiings a of boats? Who fears because adnezzar thunders at the salem? Who cares now whether not Cleopatra marries Antony? Who Nebuch- or Alarie? Can Cromwell dissolve the English Parlmment now? Is William Prince of Orange, king of the Nether lands? No:no! However much Eliza- i must pass it to Peter, and Peter to Catherine, and Catherine to Paul, and Paul to Alexander, and Alexander to Nicholas, Leopold puts the German sceptre into the hand of Joseph, and Philip comes down off the Spauish | throne to let Perdinand go on, | ling about everything else, but agree- |ing in this: “The fashion | world passeth away." i these dignitaries gone? Can they not be called back? 1 have been to assem- blages where 1 have heard the roll call- ed, and many distinguished men have answered, If 1 should CALL THE ROLL to-day of some of those mighty ones who have gone, I wonder if they would not answer. I will call theroll, 1 will call the roll of the kings first: Alfred the Great! William the Conqueror! Frederick II.! Louis XVI! No an- swer, I will call the roll of the poets: Robert Southey! Thomas Campbell! John Keats! George Crabbe! Robert Burns! No answer, I will call the roll of artists: Michael Angelo! Paul Veronese! William Turner! Christo- pher Wren! No answer, Eyes closed, Earsdeaf. L pssilent. Hands palsied, Sceptre, pencil, pen, sword, put down forever, Why should we struggle for such baubles! Another reason why we should eunl ture this spirit of cheerfulness is the fact that God knows what is best for His creatures. You know what is best for your child, He thinks you are not as liberal with him as you ought to be. He criticises your discipline, but you look over the whole field, and you, loving that child, do what in your deliberate judgment is best for him. Now, God is the best of fathers, Sometimes His children think that He is hard on them, and he is not as liberal with them as He might be. But children do not know as much as a father, I can tell you why you are not affluent, and WHY YoU HAVE NOT BEEN BUCCESS. FUL. It is because you cannot stand the temptation, If path had been smooth, you wo ve depended u wn surefooteduess; but God But have all your own roughened that path, so you have to take hold of His hand. If the weather had been mild, you would have loitered along the water-courses; but at the first howl of the storm you quickened your pace heavenward, and wrapped around you the robe of a Saviour’s righteous- Ness, “What have I done?” says the wheat- sheaf to the farmer, “‘what have I done, that you beat me so hard with your flail?” The farmer makes no answer, but the rake takes off the straw, and the mill blows the chaff to the wind, and the golden grain falls down at the foot of the wind-mill. After awhile, the straw looking down from the mow upon the golden grain banked up on either side the floor understands why the farmer beat the wheat-sheaf with the flail. Who are those before the throne? The answer came: ‘These are they who, out of great tribulation, had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.” Would God that we could understand that our trials are THE VERY BEST THING for us. If we had an appreciation of that truth, then we should know why it was that John Noyra, the martyr, in the very midst of the flame, reached down and picked up one of the faggots that was consuming him, and kissed it, and said, “Blessed be God for the wWme when I was born for this preferment!” They who suffer with Him on earth, shall be glorified with Him in heaven. Be content, then, with such things as you have, Another considerat the spirit of the text, that the Lord will provide somehow. Will He 1d water wi hold 3 his Ciil ion leading to us % the and allow die of thirst? fill he on a thousand hi luxuri: of grain starve? 10 idren who owns and all fruit, out th Ls, Line a 1iel “ailing (rO + rig 418] i i IO the hear the birds chant breakfast woods, a : 41 , 11 . t will dine, ) s 4 $uayer $313 artnet Yersd ¢ they will sup; out t Lil owls of the do they ‘ . inl 1 : iL five o'clock In £ id the { air: reap, not heavenly . $ YOu nok Your Are in Chr They asked hi ¢ 3 IOAYeSs Of 4 were pat into into the x fr il anda wi vier $4 ng $411 oy stances, Are com of the Etert the fact that v fi the) THE GEAN IN to make a4 man “wh agains ; : ‘ ih CRIS iin into significand i swallows hh the who have beer to place, expectin im 3 SOW Wi shange of circumstances sonething give solace to the spirit, I commend you this mom. ing to the warm-learted, earnest, prac- religion of the “There is no peace, wicked.” and as you to Chnst, portion and start for heaven, and you will a happy man-— you will be a happs woman, tical, common-sense Lord Jesus Christ, saith my God, for He will be miserable Come be the human race 8 divided into two classes—those who scold, and those who get scolded, body else. down their blossom: because they are not tall cedars, and the scow wants to to be a seventy-four pounder, and par- ents have the worst thilidren that ever were, and evervbodt has the greatest misfortune, and everything is upside down, or going to be, Ah, my friends, you never make any advance through such a spirit as that, YOU CANNOT FRE? YOUKSELY UP; you may fret yoursell down, Amid all this grating of tones | strike this string of the Gospel harp: “Godliness with contentment is great gain, We brought nothing into the warld, and it is very certain we can carry nothing out; hav- ing food and raimeat] let us therewith be content,’’ Let us all remember, if we are Chris tians, that we are going after awhile, whatever be our cirqumstances now, to have A GLORIOUS VACATION. As in summer we pub off our garmen and go down into the cool sea to athe: 80 we will put off these garments of flesh and step into the cod Jordan, We will look around for somé place to lay down our weariness, andthe trees will say: “Come and rest under our shadow ;'* and the earth will say: “Come and sleep in my bosom;” and the winds will say: “Hush! while Ising thee acradle hymn” and while six strong men carry us out to our last resting-place, and ashes come to ashes, and dust to dust, we will see two scarred foot standing amid the broken soil, and a lacerated brow bend. ing over the open grave, while a voice, + tender with all-affection, and mighty with all-omnipotence, will declare: *I am the Resurrection and the Life; he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live,”! Comfort one another with these words, onal A FIRST YANKEE STEAM ENGINE, Description of One in Use in Cranston R. L, in 1787, In the blography and diary of Man- asseh Cutler, LL. D., of Ipswich, Mass., just issued, is given a descrip- tion of what was probably the first prac- tical stationary steam engine used In the United States, 1t appears in the diary of Dr. Cutler as written when the impression was fresh in his mind. It may be called a “Yankee steam en- gine,” having been made under the di- rection of a Rhode Island man, and containing improvements upon its Eng- lish prototypes, The diarist was on a chaise journey to New York, and his diary is of the date of June 27, 1787. He says: To go to the furnace and engine was eight miles, nearly, out of my way, but my curiosity was so much excited by the description of so singular a scheme —the only one in America — that 1 could not deny myself the pleasure of viewing 1t. I arrived at the ore beds (iron ore) at 12 o'clock. The engine was at work raising water from a well The iron flue is two ft at with a square hearth cured from fire by large, On the back part { a winding funnel which pa tit if 1 into a 1 JULI Lhe Above the flue six feet in diameter, full of water when The i place i a n constantly kept motion, boller rise sbove th the top, the econ and one-half feet in diameter, and made of plated iron. From this cylinder a large passes with many winding boiler. ‘The vilve that pass 8 Into eylinder is more than two feet In d iter, and 1 lensing cylinder, wn the th ms 4d Alu lesconds ¥ fast end of a large Around the Lop of the boiler are numerous leaden pip connected with no! furnished imitting or excludi Work is Tiss beam, 3TH Wi Ww constantly supplied, wth a pumg HiT POse, siriea bund Ores ei $ uy the working ! pumps -water pipes, one feeding pipe and » venting pipe, By ti me motion of the beam which raises the water out ye 538 i Lhe well means oH’ fom levy as the design Il these pipes open or cle valves, FE by OCHS anda nen requires, There are t well, which | twenty-fhiree feet the well are sup laid horizontal, so as to make the form of the well quintangular, and the ends the timbers are let into one another. pumps the feet deep i re a The sides of i SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, BUNDAY, August 5, 1884, The Burnt Offering. LESSON TEXT. Lev. 1:10. Memory verses, 4.0) LESSON PLAN, Toric oF THE QUARTER: Covenant Relations with Israel. God's GoLpeEN TEXT YOR THE QUARTER! Only be strong and very courageous, turn not from & to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest have good suc- 1 cess whither soever thou goest—Josh, 1:7, Lesson Toric: Covenant Relations Promoted by Self-Surrender, . The SBahstitute Appointed, vi. 1.2 . The Substitute Surrendered va. 4.6, 8. The Substitute Consumed, va, 7-4. N Text: The Lord hath lad ( Lesson | Outline: | GOLDE Dany Home READINGS: M.—lev, 1:19, ing 1A Y. 8-13. burnt offering. Lev. without Lev, offeris T. 6 JESSON ANALYSIS iii IL. A Living Offering 3 fill Aff Y e sh the flock (2 aA] (Gen, 24 : 35). ¥ MCC] ale in ut Blemish : Hi HI. In Man's Stead: I'hat h il. THE LL. Offered: STTISTI water in 8 minute, and the flue con- sumes two cords of wood in twenty four hours, the cast fron wheels, large chains, bling of the large building in which it is erected when the machi in moe tion. By the sides of well from which the water is drawn are two other wells, seventy feet deep. These are sunk down in the bed these are the workmen, ten o1 & 18 which is constantly turned by an ox, and the This curious machine was made un- made many valuable improvements in simplifying and making the workings of it more convenient above what has yet been done in Europe. It cost up. ward of £1,000, —————— The Crow and The Traveller. A Traveller, whose Route lay along a Certain road, was much annoyed by the disagreeable notes of the Crows, who were keeping him company by the hundred. His Patience exhausted at last, he Cried out— “Pray tell me, if you can, why you make such a Horrid Din?" “We were Calling to you,” answered one of the Birds, ‘But why call to me?" “For fear you might take us for Eagles.” Moral—There are lots of People who might pass for something better if they did not give themselves away. diab MAAS A 5, : Javinte eh patient In an Spy room) rom ¢ carpe stuffed A aa removed, Discontent is the want of self-re- lance; 1b is infirmity of will, The Empress of Austria has almost enti given up hunting, which sport To vine, rd hath 1 us all (Isa. 53 : 6 Christ also, having 1 bear the sins of many fl. Accepted: It shall be accepted atonement for him (4), The shall make the 4: It is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life Lev. 17 : 11). ice offered Heb, 9: Wal ( 0 Pa for } im to make le » Foun priest atonement {or ¥ «J h ings:. ...and 1 will accej Jesus Christ, through om have now received the reconciliation (Rom, oD: il | * 11 Slain: it you (Ezek, wl we i i i i Lord (5). place of burnt offering (Lev, 4 : 29), (Isa. 53 : 7). slam (Rev. 5: 12). The Lamb....slain from the founda- tion of the world (Rev, 13 : 8). 1. **A male without blemish.” (1) The symbol of strength; (2) The value, 2. That it may be accepted before the Lord." (1) The place of acceptance; (2) The basis of acceptance; (3) The results of acceptance, 3. “He shall....sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar.'’ (1) The shed blood; (2) The sprinkled blood.~{1) The priest; (2) The blood; (8) The altar; (4) The offerer, 11, THE SUBSTITUTE CONSUMED, 1. The Altar Prepared: Put fire upon the altar, and lay wound in order (7). Noah builded an altar unto the Lord {Gen, B : 20), Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order (Gen, 22: 9), He built an altar....And he put the wood inorder (1 Kings 18 : 32, 33). We have an altar (Heb, 13 : 10) IL The Offering Prepared: Lay the pieces, ...in onder upon the wood (8). Abraham. . . bound Isane his son, and laid him on the altar (Gen, 22 : 9) He. ...cut the bullock in pieces, and Jaid it on the wood (1 Ki 18 : 88 There they crucified { 23:88 Who his own self baré our sins in his body upon the tree (1 Pet, 2 : 24). HL The Offering Consumed: The priest shall burn the whole on the altar (9), It shall be wholly burnt unto the Lord (Lev, 6 : 22), The fire of the Lord fell, and consume ed the burntoffering (1 Kings 18 : 38), The bodies of those beasts. |, are burned without the camp (Heb, 13: 11) Jesus also, suffered without the gate (Heb. 13:12) 1. “*Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces,’ (1) The priestly {2) The priestly. ritual; (3) The priestly work. ‘Burn the whole on the altar.” (1) None for self; (2) All for God. . “A sweet savour unto the Lord.” Complete surrender a duty; (2) Complete surrender a privilege. — Complete surrender; (1) As per- formed on eazrtii; (2) As accepted in heaven, office; LESSON BIBLE READING, THE BURNT OFFERING, itiquity (Gen. 4 : 4; 8 : 20; 2, Ji. EE —. e The Baby's sense oo! Color. times out begun : ferentiate them, vellow was add. ed and green, and soon came his favorite color. 1 the 110th he answered right vellow twenty-three times ogt of twenty-eight. Then blue was added, but that proved hard for the boy t ally after violet br t in. When little over 2 years old quite a repertoire of distinguish yellow, red, violet rightly at almost every trial Green, blue and orange puzzied hi Indeed. he was not sure of these until hie was 3 vears old. The exact order in which he learned to pick out the colors with some precision was as follows: yellow, brown, red, violet, black, rose, orange, gray, green, blue, These experiments with colors, con- tinuing thus for a year and a half, were coincident with dozens of other daily trials, intended to ascertain the devel- opment of the senses, the will, and the understanding in other directions. The amount of care and patience which the professor must have expended dur- ing the three years is altogether incalcu- lable, 3 s¢ 3 to red it be. week an ish, y distingu and gray had been the child was a he had, so to say, ws, and could brown and especC]- ought col The First Ocean Steamer, It 18 remarkable that after so much i i i i i ially ocean navigation, which is of to be shown that the frst regularly built ocean steamer was constructed on this side of the Atlantic. Waiving all that has been claimed for the voyage of the Savannah, we now find that an American ship builder constructed the first sea-going steamer that ever crossed the ocean propelled wholly by sleaw. This was called the Royal William, in honor of the “sailor King’ who then reigned In England, and the Historical Society of Chicago has Ler original drawings on file in its archives, Sermon by a Little Colored Boy. A little colored boy in South Carolina made an attempt to write an excuse to his teacher for his absence as follows: “Dear Affectionately Teacher: Ise 1 couldn't come to school on Fri. day, but I couldn't cause it rained and dats de way it go in dis world, If de Lord shut de door, ne man can open de door. If de Lord say ‘it main,’ no man it rain. But de Lord, he do all things well, Amd you oughn’t to growl about it,
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