DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
Martyrs of Every Day Lifo.
“Thou therefore endure hardness." -—-11'Tim-
athy 2: 3.
HisTORIANS are not slow to ackno w=
ledge the merits of great military chief-
tains, We have the full-length port-
raits of the Cromwells, the Washing-
tons, the Napoleons, and the Welling-
tons of the world, History is not writ.
ten in black ink, but with red ink of
Raman blood. The godsof human am-
bition do not drink from bowls made
out of silver or gold, or precious stones,
but out of the bleached skulls of the
fallen, But I am now to unroll before
you
A BCROLL OF HEROES
that the world has never acknowledged;
those who faced no guns, blew no bugle-
blast, conquered no cities, chained no
captives to their charlot-wheels, and
yet, in the great day of eternity, will
stand higher than those whose names
startled the nations; and seraph, and
rapt spirit, and archangel will tell their
deeds to a listening universe. I mean
the heroes of common, every-day life.
In this roll, in the first place, I find
all the
HEROES OF THE SICK ROOM.
‘When Satan had failed to overcome Job,
he said to God: *‘Put forth Thy hand
and touch his bones and his flesh, and
he will curse Thee to Thy face.’”’ Satan
had found out what we have all found
out, that sickness is the greatest test of
one's character. A man who can stand
that can stand anything. To be
in a room as fast as though it werea
Bastile. To be so nervous you cannot
endure the tap of a child's foot. To
have luxuriant fruit, which tempts the
appetite of the robust and healthy, ex-
cites our loathing and disgust when it
first appears on the platter, To have
the rapier of pain strike through the
side, or across the temples, like a razor,
or to put the foot into a vice, or throw
the whole body into a blaze of fever.
Yet there have been men, who have
cheerfully endured this hardness,
Through years of exhausting rheuma-
tisms and excruciating neuralgias they
have gone, and through bodily distres-
ses that rasped the nerves, and tore the
muscles, and paled the cheeks and
stooped the shouiders, By the dim
LIGHT OF THE SICK-ROOM
taper they saw on their wall the picture
of that land where the inhabitants are
never sick. Through the dead silence
of the night they heard the chorus of
the angels. The cancer ate away her
life from week to week and day to day,
and she became weaker and weaker,
and every*‘good-night’’ wad feebler than
the “‘good-night’’ before—yet never sad,
The children looked up into her face
and saw suffering transformed into a
heavenly smile. Those who suffered on
the battle-field, amid shot and shell,
were not so much heroes and heroines
as those who, in the field-hospital and
in the asylum, had fevers which no ice
could cool, and no surgery cure,
numbness and aching and homesick-
Herces of
neuralgia
God, hopeful of heaven.
rheumatism, Heroes of
Heroes of spinal complaint,
sick-headache Heroes of lifelong in-
validistn, Heroes and heroines! They
shall reign for ever and ever. Hark! I
catels just one note of the eternal anthem:
“There shall be no more paic!” Bless
God tor that!
iu this roll I alsd find the heroes of
toil, who do their work uncomplaining-
wut into battle, when you know
will be appreciated by a
company of friends and relatives; itis
ence when, in the gleaming eyes and
sentiments are adopted; but to do sew-
ing where you expect that the employer
will come and thrust his thumb through
the work, to show how imperfect it is,
or to have the whole garment timrown
back on you, to be dons over again; to
build a wall, and know there will be no
one to :ay you did it well, but only a
swearing employer howling across the
-scaffo.d: to
WORK UNTIL YOUR EYES ARE DIM,
and your back aches and your heart
fore night your children will starve,
All tie sword has not slain 80 many as
the needle, The great battle-fields of
our last war were not Gettysburg and
Shiloh and South Mountain, The great
battle-fields of the last war were in the
arsenals, and in the shops, and in the
attics, where women made army jackets
for a sixpence., They toiled on until
they died. They had no funeral eulog-
fum, but, in the name of wy God, this
day, I enroll their names among those
of whom the world was not worthy,
Heroes of the needlel Heroes of the
sewing-machine! Heroes of the attic!
Heroes of the cellar! Heroes and her-
oines! Bless God for them!
Iu this roll I also find the heroes who
have uncomplatningly endured domestic
enjustices, There are men who, for
their toil and anxiety, have no sym-
pathy in their homes, Exhausting ap-
plication to business gets them a liveli-
hood, but an unfrugal wife scatters it,
He is fretted at from the moinent he
enters the door until he comes out of it,
The exasperations of business life, aug-
mented by
THE EXASPERATIONS OF
LIFE,
Such men are laughed at, but they have
a beart-breaking trouble and they
would have long ago gone into appall-
ing dissipation but for the grace of God,
Society to-day is strewn with the wrecks
of men, who, ‘under the north-east
storm of domestic - infelicity have been
driven on the rocks, There are tens of
thousands of drunkards in this country
to-day, made such by thelr wives
That is not poetry. That is prose,
© in the op-
not have
box EsTIC
martyrdom, Somethiug
an a stroke of the fist; unki
iggering home at midnight
onstant maltreatment which have
Ah ek mi te
on m a bril.
a tae the wow were
*
march, and the carriage rolled away
with the benediction of the people.
What was the burning of Latimer and
Ridley at the stake compared with this?
Those men soon became unconsoious in
the fire, but here is
A FIFTY YEAR'S MARTYRDOM,
a fifty years’ putting to death, yet un-
complaining. No bitter words when
the rollicking companions at two
o'clock in the morning pitch the hus-
band dead drunk into the frout entry,
No bitter words when wiping from the
swollen brow the blood struck out in a
midnight carousal. Bending over the
battered and bruised form of him, who,
when he took her from her father's
home, promised love, and kindness,
and protection, yet nothing but sym-
pathy, and prayers, and forgiveness be-
fore they are asked for. No bitter
words when the family Bible goes for
rum, and the pawnbroker’s shop gets
the last decent dress, Sowe day, desir-
ing to evoke the story of her sorrows,
you say: “Well, how are you getting
along now?” and rallying her trembl-
ing voice, and quieting her quivering
lip, she says: “‘Pretty well, I thank
you, pretty well.” She never will tell
you. In the delirium of her last sick-
ness she may tell all the secrets of her
lifetime, but she will not tell that, Not
until the books of eternity are opened
on the thrones of judgment will ever
be known what she has suffgged. Ohl
ye who are twisting a garland for the
victor, put it on that pale brow.
When she is dead the neighbors will
she will be carried out in a plain box
with no silver plate to tell her years,
for she has lived a thousand years of
trial and anguish, The gamblers and
swindlers who destroyed her husband
will not come to the funeral. One car-
riage will be enough for that funeral—
one carriage to carry the orphans and
the two Christian women who presided
over the obsequies, But there is a flash,
and the opening of a celestial door,
and a shout: *‘Lift up your head, ye
everlasting gate, and let ber come inl"
And Christ will step forth and say:
“Come in! ye suffered with me on
earth, be glorified with me in heaven.’
What i« the highest throne in heaven?
You say. “The throne of the Lord
God Almighty and the Lamb.’”” No
doubt about it. What 1s the next
highest throne in beaven? While I
speak 1t seems to me that it will be the
throne of the drunkard’s wife, if she
with cheerful patience endured all her
earthly torture. Heroes and heroines!
I find also in this roll the
HEROES OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY.
We all admire
and the James Lenoxes of the earth,
who give tens and hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars to good objects, jut I
am speaking this morning of those who,
the George
-0f such men
West, who proclaim
Christ to the people, one of them, writ-
“] thank you for that $25. Un-
til yesterday we have had no meat in
months, We have
My children have no
And of those peo-
ing:
suffered terribly.
shoes this winter,
EE)
but give a piece of it to others who are
a scuttle of coal, but help others to fuel,
of father
of that
else; and that
their children may be well apparelled,
Y ou call them paupers, or ragamuflins,
I call them heroes and
heroines, You and I may not know
where they live, or what their name is,
GOD KNOWS,
Ver
than you and I have, and they
Th ¥
may have only a cup of cold water to
’ ’ i
picked a splinter from under the nail of
two
Ons
the treasury, but the
Considering what
had, they did more than we have
done, and their faded dress will become
a white robe, and the small room will be
an eternal mansion, and the old hat will
the ap-
they
God
ble workers in his kingdom, and to say
to them: *Well done, good and faithful
servant.”
You have all seen or heard of the
ruin of Melrose Abbey. 1 suppose in
some respects it is the most exquisite
ruin on earth. And yet, looking at it
I was not so impressed —you may set it
down to bad taste--but I was not so
deeply stirred as I was at a tombstone
at the foot of that abbey-the tombstone
placed by Walter Scott over the grave
of an old man who had served him fora
good many years in his house—the in-
scription most significant, and I defy
any man to stand there and read it with-
out tears coming into his eyes-—the
epitaph: “Well done, good and faithful
servant.”’ Oh, when our work is over,
will it be found that because of anything
we have done for God, or the church,
or suffering humanity, that such an in-
scription 18 appropriate for us? God
grant it!
Who are those who were bravest and
deserved the greatest monument—Lord
Claverhouse and his burly soldiers, or
John Brown the Edinburgh carrier, and
his wife! Mr. Atkins, the persreuted
minister of Jesus Christ, in Scotlaid,
was secreted by John Brown and his
wife, and Claverhouse rode up one day
with his armed men and shouted in front
of his house,
JOHN BROWN'S LITTLE GIRL
came out, He said to her: “Well,
miss, is Mr, Atkins here?’ She made
no answer, for she could not betray the
minister of the Gospel, “Hal” Claver
house said, “then a are a chip of the
old block, are you? I have something
in my pocket tor you, It is a mnosegay.
Some people cail it a thumbscrew, but |
call it a nosegay.”” And he got off his
ittle girl's
band, and began to turn it until the
bones cracked, and she cried. He said;
“Don’t cry, don’t ery; this isn’t a
thumbscrew; this is a And
they heard the child's ory, and the
and mother came out, and Claver-
three have laid your holy heads together,
determined to die like all the rest of
your hypocritical, canting, snivelling
crew; rather than give up gobd Mr,
Atkins, yon would die, I have a tele
scope with me that will improve your
vision; and he pulled out a pistol,
“Now,” he said, ‘you old pragmatic,
lest you should catch cold in this cold
morning of Scotland, and for the honor
and safety of the king, to say nothing of
the glory of God and the good of our
souls, I will proceed simply and in the
neatest and most expeditious style possi-
ble, to blow your brains out.”
JOIN BROWN FELL UPON HIS KNEES,
and began to pray. ‘‘Ahl” said Claver-
house, “look out, if you are going to
pray, steer clear of the king, the council,
and Richard Cameron,” *'O Lord,”
said John Brown, *‘since it seems to be
Thy will that I should leave this world
for a world where I can love Thee better
and serve Thee more, I put this poor
widow-woman and these helpless, father-
less children into Thy hands, We have
been together in peace a good while, but
now we must look forth to a betler
meeting in heaven; and as for these
poor creatures, blindfolded and infatu-
ated, that stand before me, convert
them before it be too late; and may
they who have sat in judgment in this
lonely place, on this blessed morning,
upon me, a poor, defenceless fellow
creature, may they in the last judgment
find that mercy which they have refus-
ed to me, Thy most unworthy, but faith-
ful servant, Amen.”
He rose up, and said: “Isabel, the
hour has come of which I spoke to you
on the morning when I proposed hand
and heart to you; and are you willing
now, for the love of God, to let medic?"
She put her arms around him, and
said: **The Lord gave, and the Lord
hath taken away. Blessed be the name
of the Lord!” *‘Stop that snivelling,”
sald Claverhouse. *‘l have had enough
of it.
SOLDIERS DO YOUR WORK.
Take aim! Fire!” and the head of John
Brown was scattered on the ground.
While the wife was gathering up in her
apron the fragments of her husband’s
head-—gathering them up for burial-
Claverhouse looked into her face and
said: “Now, my good woman, how do
you feel now about your bonnie mam?"
“Oh! she said, “I always thought well
of him; he has been very good to me; 1
had no reason for thinking anything but
well of him, and 1 think better of him
now." O what a grand thing it will be
in the Last Day to see God pick out His
heroes and herols Who are th
paupers of eternity ng
the gates of heaven?
The Lord Claverhouses
and those who had ms
and thrones, but
i t rel
agErana
i
own
paupers in
drums of their et
woel woe!
But there i
heaven. Why t
Why the booming o
+ ’ 3 ov
he tower? It is
CORONATION DAY IN HEAVEN,
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the
. i 8 { «221 1s ‘
crowns of eternal royvaity?
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LRNTER
Who are those
with
must have
earth, world-re
They taught in a ragged school.
in a ragged school! Is that all?
all. Who are those son
domi
rising on
greal poopie on
nowned people,
ils waving s«
Why ti
children who waited on
mothers, That ali? That is all
was called “Little Mary" on earth, She
is an empress now, Who are that great
multitude highest
are they?
of eternal ont
‘
tte
on the
Who Why they
naked,
the
They never found
il they put their head down
chre.
x] defiance
it
Huns
on
at the
down
on these His dear children; and one day
Lord struck His hand s0 hard on
sword
said:
od them. God lang
the omnipotent
He
against them shall prosper.’
fights for you? 1 preach this sermon
for comfort. Go home to the place just
where God has put you, to
PLAY THE NERO
or the heroine, Do not envy any man
his money, or his applause, or his social
position. Do not envy any woman her
wardrobe, or her exquisite appearance,
Be the hero or the heroine. If there be
no flour in the house, and you do not
know where your children are to get
thing tapping against the window-pane,
Go to the window, and you will find it
is the beak of 8 raven, and open the
window, and there will fly in the mes
senger that fed Elijah, Do you think
that the God who grows the cdtton of
the South will let you freeze for lek of
clothes? Io you think that the God
who allowed the disciples on Sabbath
morning to go into the grain-tield, and
then take the grain and rub it in their
han 1s and eat—<o you think God will
let you starve? Did you ever hear the
experience of that old man: *‘I have
been young, and now am old, yet have
I never seen the righteous forsaken, or
his seed begging bread?’ Get up out of
your discouragement, O! troubled soul,
0! sewing woman. O! man kicked and
cuffed by unjust employers, O! ye who
are hard beset in the battle of life, and
know not which way to turn, O! you
bereft one, O! you sick one with com-
plaints - you have told to no one, come
and get the comfort of this subject,
Listen to our great Captain’s cheer:
“T'o him that overcometh will I give to
eat of the fruit of the tree of life which
is in the midst of the Paradise of God,”
As a rule, the heart's action is slower
and more powerful in fully developed
and muscular organizations, and more
rapid and feebler in those of slighter
form. In animals, the range is from
twenty-five to forty-five in the cold-
blooded, and fifty upward in the warm-
blooded animals, except in the case of
a horse, which has a very slow heart
beat, only forly strokesa minute, The
pulsations of men and all animals
differ with the sea-level, also,
Take good care of your horses dur-
ing this warm weather,
What Holstein Cattle Can Do.
Thirty pounds of milk a day, 5800
pounds a year, and 7 pounds of Litter a
week were considered 20 years ago as
large yields, and even now are above
the capacity of unimproved cows. The
progress of such change of views may
be traced in the progress of records that
have been made by cows of this breed
and publicly credited, The cow Crown-
Princess, owned by Hon, Gerritt 8,
Miller, of Peterborough, New York, in
six years, from 1870 to 1876, made a
record of 61,112 pounds of milk, an
average of 10,185 pounds a year, This
was followed by the record of Lady
Clifden, of Lawrence, Massachusetts. In
1875 she gave in 862 days 16,274 pounds;
in 1876, in 282 days, 12,243 pounds; and
commencing May 1, 1887, in 386 days,
13,232 pounds, The Maid of Twisk,
owned by the Unadilla Valley Associa-
tion, a company of dairy farmers in
Central New York, followed this by a
record for 308 days, in 1876, of 12,5634
pounds; for 325 days. in 1877, of 14,812
pounds and for 330 days, in 1878, of 15,-
096848 pounds, Next came the records of
the noted cows, Aegis and Aaggie,
owned by Messrs, Smiths, Powell and
Lamb, of Syracuse, New York. In
1880, in 365 days, the former gave 16,
8234 pounds, and the latter, 18,004 15-16
pounds, With the exception of Aegis,
these were all imported cows, and it
began to be questioned whetber such
cows could be produced in this country.
The answer came in a test of the cow
Echo, bred by Mr. Miller, and owned
by Mr. F. C. Stevens, of Attica, New
York, It was for two successive years,
beginning March 19, 1882, and
May 28, 1884. During the |
she gave 18,1204
ubout ten weeks, she produced 23, 7754
pounds, These records aroused the at-
tention of dairy writers, especially in
England, They were pronounced ime
possible. Plausible arguments were
Public confidence in them was shaken
for a brief period. At this stage of
public sentiment a test was begun of
the cow Clotilde, owned by Smiths,
Powell and Lamb. They invited the
closest scrutiny, They offered to pay
the expenses of some of the most prom-
inent scientists to come and thoroughly
investigate this test, A number of
gentlemen availed themselves of this
offer. It was also placed in the official
charge of the superintendent of the Hol.
stein-Frieslan Advanced Register, who
ipon which they werg weighed, “x
ine into the accuracy of the account
t was being kept and into every
other detail in which there m
Lili None
the accuracy of
ail reasonable
production
grist
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4 axel
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put beyor
result was the
Ey
oy
than 2000 pounas
it
at time thal the
nilk production by
wen reached. But now,
ritten, the cow
Mr.
New
a single
Dallas B. Whipple,
York, has reached a
tion of this has also been
by disinterested
convincing that it will
be received by with
less doubt than were the early
Since 1887
excooded
) ‘hijo
the public
cows have
both owned by
Vail’s Gate, New
at 18 677§ pounds, by
burnie, at 20,1383 pounds, by
Rhodo, at 21,309 pounds, by F. C
Stevens, Attica, New York; Princess
of Wayne, at 20,4690 9-16 pounds, and
sylvania; Koningen van Friesland 5th,
at 10,7004 pounds, by A. Bradley & H,
D. Warner, Lanesville, Connecticut;
Koningen van Friesland 3d, at 23,6174
pounds, by H. O. Warner, New Mil-
ford, Connecticut; Sultana, at 22,0434
pounds, by H. C. Jewett & Co., Buffalo,
New York; and Albino 24, at 18.484
13.16 pounds (in two-year form).
Aaggie Rosa, at 20227 3-16 pounds,
Lady Fay, at 20, 602 3-16 pounds, and
Clothtide 24, at 23.602§ pounds, by
Smiths, Powell & Lamb,
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A Persuasive Infant,
It chanced the other day that I went
shopping with a young lady aged J-—
and ber mother, I should add. We got
along smoothly until a toy store was
reached, There the youngest person in
the party, who was also its boss, be-
came enamored of a doil’s tollet basket,
and would be satisfied with nothing
else, But the article was expensive,
and its usefulness to a small and temp.
estuous girl of 3 was very questionable,
and for these reasons her mother de-
clined to buy it and forbade me to,
To soothe the agitated child her
mother saul that she could ask her
grandma to buy it for her,
The sequel one of the young women
in the toy store told me on Saturday.
A few days after the events narrated
above the 3 year-old returned to the
store, and with feverish haste called for
the toilet basket, As the girl behind
the counter was wrapping up the basket
she asked the babe if she had persuaded
her grandma to buy it tor her.
wiks, 1 'suaded gan’ma,’’ said the
child, *‘I cried till she p’omised to gib
it me,”
For a J-year-old that's pretty fast
trotting, 1 think, in worldly arts of su-
asion.
A Device has been patented for send-
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writing pen instead of » key, thus
making a record of the message in the
sending office. A special alphabet is
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bro or. Bradh way,
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSO™,
BosnAY, Avauer 19, 18%,
The Feast of Tabernacles.
LESSON TEXT.
(lev. 23: BA4 Momory verses, 41.418
LESBON PLAN.
Toric oy THE QUARTER:
Covenant Relations with Israel,
God's
GorLpex TEXT FOR THE QUARTER:
Only be strong and very courageous, to
observe to do according to all the law,
which Moses my servant commanded thee:
turn not from i tw the right hand or
the left, that thou mayest have good suc-
cess whither soever thou goest—Josh. 1:7,
Lesson Toric: Covenant Relations
Promoted by Joyous Praise,
{ 1. The Time, vs. 83, 34, 37.39, 41, 42,
< 4. The Manner, va. BS, 84, 40,
L & The Purpose, va. 45, 44,
GOLDEN TEXT: The voice of rejoic-
Lesson
Outiine:
Psa, 118 : 15,
LEADINGS:
: 33-44. The feast of
the righteous. -
Dairy Home
M.—lev, 2
tabernacle
T.—Exod.
great feasts,
W.—Num, 20 : 12-40,
feast,
T.—Deut. 16 : 13-17. The feast com-
manded again,
F.—Neh, B : 13-18,
stored,
Zech,
14-19. The three
Order of the
The
feast re-
Importance
Jesus at
1-14, 37-53.
— —— TR
LESSON ANALYSIS
I. THE TIME OF JOYOUS PRAISE,
L For Seven Days:
The feast of tabernacles for
days unto the Lord (34).
Thou shalt keep the feast of tabernacies
seven days (Deut, 16 : 13).
They kept the feast....as the duty of
every day required (Ezra. 3 : 4).
They kept the feast seven days (Neb.
8 : 18),
The last day, the great
(John 7 : 37).
II. At Harvest-Time :
When ye have gathered in
of the land (39),
The feast of ingathering, at the end o
the year { Exod, 23 : 16).
After that thou hast gathered
thy ti
He 8} all come agail
4 shoaves
seven
lay of the feast
ire
in harvest (
II. Through All Generations:
10%
iv)
Moses declared unto. . . . Israel the set
feasts of the Lord (44).
Speak unto the children of Israel, and
say unto them (Lev. 23 : 2).
That their children....may hear, and
learn to fear the Lord (Deut, 31 : 13).
That the generation to come might
know (Psa, 78 : 6).
This shall be written for the generation
to come (Pea, 102 : 18),
L. “That your generations mayknow.,"
Our duty to futurity: (1) To perpet-
uate divine instructions: (2) To per-
petuate divine instructions,
2, “I am the Lord your God.” The
Lord’s self-introduction: (1) As
Jehovah; (2) As Elohim; (8) As
Israel’s,
3. “And Moses declared unto the
children of Israel the set feasts of
the Lord.” (1) Obeying God; (2)
Imparting truth; (3) Instructing
Israel; (4) Benefiting mankind,
EA lua ——————
LESSON BIBLE READING.
THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES,
Date (Lev. 23: 34, 890 ; Num. 29 : 12).
Continuance (Lev. 23 : 34, 41 : Deut,
16: 13, 15).
Held after harvest (Exod. 34 : 22; Deut,
16 : 131.
All males attended
Sacrificial
JN,
A season of joy (Deut, 10 : 14, 15: Neh,
2 = Ad).
People dwelt in booths
Neh, 8 : 15, 16).
The law wus read (1)
Neh, 8B: IR),
Palm branches were carried
at) Rev, 7 + 9).
vas drawn (Isa,
(Exod, 23
requirements (Num.
+16, 171).
00 + 13-
Psa. 118 : 24-20 ;
— i a
LESSON SURROUNDINGS,
The detalls respecting the great day
of atonement are continued in Leviti-
cus 16 : 17-34, —the ceremonial of the
scape-goat in verses 21-22, and the speci-
of time in verses 20.34. The
many and varied regulations and pro-
hibitions which follow in chapters 17-
22, have this in common: All of them
emphasize the idea of Israel's separa-
tion from heathen nations and consecra-~
to the Lord.
ter 17, with its minute regula-
ns in regard to the killing of animals
and its prohibition of the use of blood
as food, has been scrupulously observed
by the Jews ever since, and was virtu-
Acts 15).
unlawful
narriage hetween within
1 degrees of consanguinity and affin-
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II, THE MANNER OF JOYOUS PRAISE,
famdl,
Ye shall do no servile work
servile work (Lev. 23 : 36
Ye shall keep a feast
seven days (Num. 29 : 12).
From the first day until the last day, he
read in the law Neh, 8B : IR).
Go up from year to vear....to keep the
feast (Zech. 14 : 16).
Il, Offering np Sacrifices:
Seven days ve shall offer an offering
by fire unto the Lord (386).
Ye shall offer a burnt offering. ..
he Lord Num, 20 : 13
3
unto the Lord
unto
your set feasts (Num, 29 : 39).
They shall not appear before the Lord
empty (Deut, 16 : 16).
.as it is written,
and offered (Ezra. 3 : 4).
11. Dwelling in Booths:
Ye shall dwell in booths seven days
(42).
Take. ...branches of palm trees, and
boughs, . .. .and willows (Lev, 23 : 40),
The children of Israel should dwell in
booths Neh, 8: 14).
Make booths, as it is writien
8:15).
All the congregation...
booths (Neh. 8: 17).
1. “*Ye shall do no servile work.” (1)
Deeds permitted on holy days; (2)
Deeds prohibited on holy days —
Toil antagonistic to devotion: (1)
When it consumes holy time; (2)
When it excludes holy thoughts; (3)
When it mars holy services,
3. “Seven days ye shall offer an offer.
ing made by fire unto the Lord.”
Acceptable offerings; (1) Godward
—anto the Lod; (2) Complete
made by fire; (3) Continuous—each
day of the feast,
3. **Ye shall rejoice before the Lord
your God.” (1) Joy possessed by
men; (2) Joy approved of God.
[il THE PURPOSE OF JOYOUS PRAISE,
1. To Commemorate God's Mercies:
That your generations may know (43),
What mean ye by this service? It is
co». the Lord’s passover (Exod. 12:
20, 27).
this day; ..
{ Neh,
dwell in the
Remember tae ior. ths
Lord brought you out (Exod. 13 : 3),
They remembered not the multitude of
thy mercies (Psa, 106 : 7),
This do in remembrance of me (1 Cor,
11 : 24). .
11. To Exalt God's Name:
1 am the Lord your God (43).
Ye shall know that 1 am Jehovah your
God (Exod. 6: 7).
Thou mayest know that I am the Lord
(Exod. 8 : 22).
Ww offereth the sacrifice of thanks.
giving glorifieth me (Psa. 50 : 23).
That they may... glorify your Father
(Matt. 5: 16),
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In chapter 23 festivals are
with
tail, except in the case of the passover.
The law of the Sabbath is repeated in
. that of the passover in verses
The regulations iu regard to the
the stated
more de-
Dye
wa
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a day of thanksgiving for the
irst-fruits of the harvest, It was after-
19
and 20). In natural connection with
the feast, there is a repetition of the
prohibition of gleaning by the owner
of a field (v. 22). The observance of
the feast of trumpets is first enjoined
in verses 23-25. (This was the begin-
ning of the civil year.) In verses 26-32
the day of atonement is again referred
to, and with the lesson about the feast
of tabernacles the series closes.
The place is still the camp at the foot
of Mount Sinai. The time of the feast
of tabernacies was near the beginning of
October In our year. The time of the
lgsson was during the first month, pro-
bably in the latter half, of the second
year in the wilderness (com. Exod. 40 :
17; Lev. 9:1; Num, 1:1).
A French House Boat,
A strange-looking craft is visible on
the Seine just at present, says the Paris
correspondent of the London Daily
Telegraph, IL is moored at the little
island of the Vert-Galant, close to the
Pont-Neuf, and in general appearance
looks like one of the ordimary river
lighters, or gabares, winch carry goods
through the water-waysof France, On
nearer inspection, however, the gabare
turns out to be a most carefully con-
structed and sumptuously decorated
specimen of its class of craft. It is, in
fact, a well-appointed “junk,” which
has been built by a rather eccentric
provincial banker for himself and his
family, Around its sides are iron mils
and hooks for awnings, and in its inter-
jor are a saloon, a dining-room, a
kitchen, and, most wonderful of all, a
stable and coach-house, The cabins,
or rather rooms for private use, are
fitted up wot only ~omfiortably, but
artistically, and there is even a piano in
the drawiag-room. The stables hold
four horses, the animals being as com-
fortable in their stalls as if they were In
a big stable in a chaleau or a town
house. The boat is built of iron, is of
about 200 tons burthen, and can be
pavigated on most of the French rivers,
The cost of the craft was £2400, Its
owner-— & M, Bareton—disdains rail-
ways and ordinary means of locomotion.
He merely uses his horses and carriages
for travelling in cities and other au
where his big “junk” cannot go, Where
ever there is a river or a canal he jour-
nays along it quite comfortably in his
gabare, and enjoys fresh air and quiet
away from the shriek of engines or the
ing life of big “*termini.”
Don't allow smoking oa your premis
ges where any combustible goods or mas
terials are used,