DR. TALM AGE'S SERMON Plasters That Will not Stick. “Miserable comforters are ye all." —Job, 16:2, TE man of Uz had a great many trials—the loss of his family, the loss of his property, the loss of his health; but the most exasperating thing that came upon him was the tantalizing talk of those who ought to have sympathized with him, Looking around upon them, and weighing what they had said, he utters the words of my text, Why did God let sin come into the world? Itis a question I discussed, but never satisfactorily an- awered. GOD MADE THE WORLD FAIR and beautifut at the start, If our first parents had not sinned in Eden, they might have gone out of that garden, and found fifty paradises all around the earth—Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America so many so. You mu . cultivate a cooler temp- erament. You must have self-reliance, self-government, self-control;’’ an lce- berg reproving a hyacinth for having a drop of dew In its eye, A violinist has Lis instrument, and he sweeps his fingers across the strings, now evoking strains of joy, and now strains of sadness, He cannot play all the tunes on one string, The human soul is an instrument of a thou- sand strings, and all sorts of emotions were made to play on it, Now an an- them, now a dirge, It is no evidence sorrow. Edmund Burke was found in and luscious, I suppose that when God poured out the Gihon and the Iid- dekel, he poured out, at the same time, | i i ful to look upon. Why did it not stay so” God the power to keep back sin and woe. Why did He not keep them back? Why not every cloud a roseate, and every stepa joy, and every sound music, and all the ages a long jubilee of sinless men and sinless women? God can make a rose as easily as He can make a thorn, Why, then, THE PREDOMINANCE 01} & THORNS? He can make good, fair, ripe fruit as well as gnarled and sour fruit, so much, then, that is gnarled and sour? lle can make men robust Ir health. Why, then, are there so many invalids? Why not have for our whole race perpetual leisure, instead of this tug and toil and tussle for a livelihood? I will you why God let sin come into the world—when I get on the other side of the River of Death, That is the place where such questions will be answered, and such mysteries solved. He who to answer the question, only illustrates his own Ignorance and ince All I know is one great fact is, that a herd of woes have upon down everything fair and A sword at gate of sword every gate, i than majority. have miu thousand ble has tak world pinched it i FOLe the at ground vast ATIONS W FHE XN ALL with the agony, if all the mounds of graveyards that have been lifted were put side by side, you might step on them and thing else, going all around the , and around again, and a d again, These are the facts, And ne I Lave to say that, in a world like this, the on of givis ence of bled we are man upon son who wish you well and ant, and be able tr to thew in your days of erable comforters are ye all mark, in the tirst place, that BLE PEOPLE. upetent for the Bildad and El guage, and with their words thered Job's life out, Alas voluble peopie that go among of the of ted, hil are vel uth In VOLT are inc pomfort. gift of la almost for Lhiese the hou and talk, and talk, and talk! They re- hearse their own sorrows, and they tell the poor sufferers that they “8 i and then + after a while, Silence! Do you expect, with a thin courtplaster of words, to heal a wound deep 48 the soul? Siep very gently around about a broken heart. Talk very softly around whom (od has bereft, Th go your way. Deep sympathy has not much to say. A firm grasp of the hand, a com. passiopate look, just word that means as much as a whole dictionary, and yo comfort that a soul needs, A man has a terrible wound in lus arm. ‘The surgeon comes and binds it up. “Now,” he says, *‘carry that arm in ashing, and be very careful of it. Let no one touch it,” But the neigh- bors have heard of the accident, and they come in, and they say, "Let us see it”? And IIE BANDAGE 18 PULLED OFF, and tis one and that one must feel it, and see how mueh it is swollen; and there is irritation and inflammation and exasperation, where there ought to be healing and coyling, The surgeon comes in and says, “What does all this mean? You have no business to touch those bandages. That wound will never heal unless you let it alone.’ So there are souls broken down in sorrow, What they most want is rest, or very careful and gentle treatment; but the neigh. bors have heard of the bereavement or of the loss, and they come in to sym- pathize, and they say, ‘Show us now the wound, What were Lis last words? Relhiearse now the whole scene. How did you feel when you found you were an orphan?’’ Tearing off the bandages here. aud pulling then off there, leav- ing a ghastly wound that the balm of God's grace bad already begun to Leal, Oh let no loquacious people, with ever- ratiling tongues, go into the homes of the istiessed! Again I remark, that all those per- fous are incompetent to give any Kind of comfort who act as WORLDLY PHILOSOPHERS. They come in and say, “Why, this is what you ought to have expected. The Jaws of nature must have their way,” and then they get eloquent over some- thing they have seen in postmortem ex. aminations, Now, away with all hu. +muan philosophy at such a time! What difference does it make to that father and mother what disease their son died of? [Ie is dead, and it makes no dif. ference whether the trouble was in the epifatie or hypogastric region, If the philosopher be of the stoical school he will come and say, **You ought to con. shies youl lechingm You must not ory & those ao 3 en one | | man has No: that horse belong- ed to his son who had recently died, and his great heart broke over the grief, Thank God for THE RELIEF OF TEARS when you could not weep, and you would have given anything for a good ery? for Absalom, Abraham did well when he bemoaned Sarah, Christ did well when he wept for Lazarus; and the near me when I have any kind of sopher. Again I remark, that those persons are incompetent for the work of com- % There are those who have the ust groan over th There are times in grief when one cheerful face dawn- to offer. him. Do not whine Take the promise of dollars to Do feel to 163 Us not be afraid 1i} t Do 1 Ke it 1 ; smile, il iviva 3 arive any poor soul. you be llon a mill any Years coming. 3 for a broken Do not was do not take cast-iron. to hear of other words, is when they v3 <a} $3 ¢ feinars, Lai those pers comforters who h ive LN 3 snow-{lake; ave always lived SPELL Canno them. much, but nafort to aged ones, wl the Lo trials conuoience lean on hear just you say ti frst Lime, you hs nn You say it si 3 : sorry for it on the when you take and brosh back the silvery wri brow just be- the I'd on, i and i1€ idk 2 locks from b nkled l Blessed They fxn of comfort to a broken | People who have not selves cannot give « They may talk very they may give you a great deal etic sentiment; but while poetry is per fume that smells sweet, it makes a very poor If have a grave in your pathway, and somebody comes and covers it all over with flowers, it is a grave yet, Those who have n grief themselves know not MYSTERY OF A BROKEN salve, you t had HEART. They know not the meaning of child- lessness, and the having no one to put bed at where she sat, the cup out of which she drank, the place where she stood at the door and clapped her bands, the odd figures that she scribbled, the blocks built into a house. Ah, no; you must have trouble yourself before vou can comfort trouble in others But who bave been comforted in your sorrows, and stand around these afflict. had that myself, God comforted me, and He will comfort you'’; and good, sound common sense, But there are three or four consider- ations that I will bring this morning to those who are sorrowful and distressed, and that we can always briag to them knowing that they will effect a cure, And the first consideration is that GOD SENDS OUR TROUBLES in love, 1 often hear people in their trouble say, “Why, I wonder what God has against mel’’ They seem to think God pas some grudge against them be. cause trouble and misfortune have come, Oh no. Do you not remember that passage of Scripture, “Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth’'? A child comes in with a very bad splinter in its hand, and you try to extract it, Its a very painful” operation. The chiid draws back from you, but you persist, You take the child with a GENTLE BUT FIRM rasp; for although there may be pain n it, the splinter must come out, And it is love that dictates It, and makes you persist, My friends, I really think that nearly all our sorrows in this world are only the hand of our Father extract: ing some thorn. If all these sorrows were sent by enemies, 1 would say, arm yourselves agninst them; and, ws In my tropical climes, when a tiger comes down from the mountains and carries off a child from the village, the neigh- bors band together and go into the for- est and hunt the monster, so I would have you, if I thought these misfortunes were sent by an enemy, go out and bat- tle against them, But no; they come from a Father so kind, so loving, so gentle, that the prophet, speaking of idea of a father, and says, "As one Again I remark, there is comfort in the thought that God, by all this pro- 'o MAKE YOU Do you know that those who accom- USEFUL, the that has Show me for harrow? man done anything no trouble, Ah, had I once went through take into an axe-factory, the bars of iron the terrible fur- naces, the ‘I'hen stirred blaze, it into a crushing-machine, and then they put it between jaws that twain, Then they put it on and there were great each that went thump! thump! If that iron could have spoken it would have said, ** Why all this beat. ing? Why must I be more than any other iron? would have W axes out of vo an anvil, one weight pounded any ' The work- “We want to keen, sharp axes — AXES hew down th forest, and build the ship, and erect houses, and carry on a thousand enter- That's the rea- Now, Ceol pul said, men HARE u, wilh h to @ Wiig CIVIIZALION, i“ and tl through the then it i spon it blow, and the s all i “1 want to make s out of with, WS Hew frien {his peopie wi tained at his table g that they cannot reco How then’ EASY ’ t rant IEE 1t is easy to Le cheerful In the ho after the day's work isdone, and the ¢ is turned on, and the house i romping little ones, But | piano is shut because played on it will no more touch keys, and the child} $0 many questions will ask no more, Then is it so easy? When a man wakes up and finds that his resources are all gone, he begins to and he says, “God is hard; God is outrageous, He had no business to do this to me!” My friends, those of us who have r { through trouble know what a suppose rebel, | much God has to put up with, and how { mitich we need pardon. It 1s only in the light of 4 flaming furnace that we ican learn our own weakness and our t own lack of moral resource, There 18 also a great deal of comfort { in the fact that there will be a family LECOSSTRUCTION IN A BETTER l PLACE, From Scotland or England or Ireland a i child emigrates to this country, It is very hard parting, but he comes, aftera whilewriting home as to what a good land it is, Another brother comes, a sister comes, and another, and after while the mother comes, and after a while the father comes, and now they are all here, and they have a great time of congrat- | Well, they are emigrating lo a better land, Now, one goes out, Oh, how hard it is to part with him! Another goes, Oh, how hard it is to part with ber! And another, and another, and we ourselves will after a while go over, and then we will be together, Oh, what are. union! Do you believe that? *‘Yes you say. You do not! You do not believe it as you believe other things, If you did, why, it would take nine- tenths of your trouble off your heart! The fact Is, heaven to many of us is a great fog, It is away off somewhers, filled with an uncertain and indefinite population. That is the kind of heaven that many of us dream about; but it is the most tremendous fact in all the uni. verse—-this heaven of the gospel, Our departed friends are not afloat, The residence in which you live is not so i real as the residence in which they stay, You are afloat, you who do not know in the morning what will happen before night. They are housed and safe for- ever. Do not, therefore, pity your de- parted friends who have died in Christ, They do not need any of your pity. You might as well send a letter of condol- ence to Queen Victoria on her obscur- ity, or to the Rothschilds on their poverty, as to pity those who have won the palm. Do not say of those who are departed, “Poor child!” * Poor father!” “Poor mother!,” They are not poor. Y ou are poor-—you whose homes have been shattered—not they. You do not dwell much with your families in this All day long you are off to business, Will it not be pleasant WHEN YOU CAN BE TOGETHER all the while? If you have had four asks how many children you have, do not be so infidel as to say three, four—one in heaven. Do not that the grave is unfriendly, You entertainment, and you come forth only the place where we go to dress for will out having much condolénce thought! I expect to see my kindred in heaven, I expect tosee them as certainly expect U gO home to- lay. t ainly see them, I come u Ii radiant, radiant, become hinmortality, there Oh, how 3 In } wept Cer they nay trumpet there, You same day. versiept yourself eves wind 566 Lihat tl t 3 1. 4 yor & 148 Wi Haan lDSA, HITORICS stream to song © the f wn le oar and the i gh in the wind; not with the waters! There shall | bathe my =» In seas And oO 4 Across my poace {f heave niy re a wave of trouble ful breast -—— Buashy-Tail A beautiful gray squirrel had his home on a lady's country-place, near The lady was an invalid, and lively, pretly ways of this little creature gave her much amusement She often sat and watch. tree to tree, and gathered up Lis stores for the coming winter. She he would come on the bank day tins poor little accustomed kindness, roved and bappy home, out fellow, who had to protection and far from his safe Two idle with a gun saw him, and prey. He rushed too There they fired. the gun, and ran Before she could reach the spot they had fired again, and her poor little pet fell from the branches before her eyes, She took him tenderly in her hand. The blood was trickling from his side and those graceful, active little limbs never moved again. His innocent, Joyous life was ended by those cruel boys They had taken what did not belong to them, and what they could never re- store. They did not realize what a sorrow and pain they had caused to that lady, who missed him sadly, Nor did they know, probably, that accord- ing to game laws they subjected them- selves to a fine of $10. As a warning for the future, let them understand this, that there is also a fine of £10 for killing wsectivorous and song birds at any time, and a fine of $20 for “‘trap- ping, snaring and ferreting of birds and animals, and setting snares at all times.” Arrange nol to winter any more stock than can be kept warm and com. fortabie and well fed, SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, BUNDAY, Bpresnen 23, 1853, Death and Barial of Moses, LESSON TEXT. (Duet. 54 1 1-12. Memory verses, 5- ~y I LESSON PLAN. Toric or THE QUARTER: Covenant Relations with Israel. God's Only Le strong and very courageous whch Moses my servant commanded thee: turn nt from i wo the right hand or to Josh, 1:7. Lesson Toru : (Glorified in Death, { The Leader's Gutiook, Ya. 1 The Leader's Removal, ¥ \ The Leader's Eulogy, va 8-12. GOLDEN TEXT : The path of the just is as the shining lhght, that shineth more I? vy ri [anson Outline: ~ and more unto Uu perfect day. ’s Hox Deut, DAILY A on ANAL LESSON YSIS. LEADE] G1 L The Exalted Standpoint : Moses went The Broad View % ' i IHL. The Appointed Privation Tod And th Moses (8), The E 1 13 aii et LE | ¢ i Hians wep en davs (Gren, with wih ‘ tation (Gen, SU : | They wept for Aaron thirty 20 : 29). Devout men buried Stephen, and made jon (Acts 8 ; 1. “*Moses the died there.” vant: (2) The designated dea “He buried hime?’ (1) The tricus dead; The funeg The burial ple t SOTe ainens faq hily servant ege: (9 rites: unknown seg hire, . “The children of Moses,” {1} A nation A aint at vest, 111. THE LEADER'S EULOGY, Yoav Adie in tears; Full of.... wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him (9), Take thee Joshua....and lay hand upon him (Num. 27 18). Moses called unto Joshua, and said, Be strong (Deut. 31: 7). This man led them forth (Acts 7 : Who went about doing good 10 : 38), IL Intimate with God: A prophet. ... whom the Lord face to face (10). And Enoch walked with God 5: AN), I have seen 32 : 30). i The Lord spake unto Moses face to face (Exod. 33 : 11). With him will I speak mouth to mouth {Num, 12 : 8). IIL Terrible Against Sin: All the great terror, which Moses wrought (12). I will put forth my hand, and smite Egy {Exod, 3 : 20), 1 wil redeem you... .with great judge- ments (Exod. 8 : 6). Take him a nation, ...by great terrors (Deut, 4 : i thine Le orld {ACLs Knew (Gen, God face to face (Gen. Brought us forth....with great terri bleneas (Deut, 26 : 8). 1. “Joshua... .was full of of wisdom.” Joshua (1) As ir] dier; (2) As a spy; (3) As a leader. 2. ‘The children of Israel harkened unto him.” (1) As ordained of God; (2) As commanded by Moses; (3) As claimed by Joshua, 8. “There bath not arisen a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses” Moses pre-eminent (1) In personal abilities: (2% Yu divine fellowships; (3) In providential opportunities; (4) In momentous achievements. the at—— A ——— LESSON BIBLE READING, THE LABT GAYE OF MOBES, s farewell message Deut, 1: 3, 5 book of the aw located (Deut, 24-20). His farewell 44), I His jas His : His call 1 His His REOUNDINGS told of the i Aar 1 than AN AARION ana Lie :] at ‘the waters ol Yo sof #3 aie f the Penta. Deut. 34) belongs riod of time, The and Balaam (Num. 22-24; {o lowed the encampment in the plains © Moab; here, , the evil influence o the Moabites was fell and punished Num, 25), Chapter 26 tells of anothe jung referene the i 3 pised land, episode { oo f 4 r census of © to the inheriian A question arose at the portion of those who had died leav- daughters only (Num. 27 : 1-11). a pler 36, s such women are bidden to marry ir own tribe, 10 preserve the in- nee in that tribe. Numbers 27 3 tells of the choice of Joshua to be r of predicting the presen book includes ns, but tells of a wople, having ¢ of the prot Pp this Lime respecling 4 1 wople arrated in the | The remainder of the many ritual prescript war against Midian (chap. 31), also of the reguest of two tribes and a half to remain in possession of the East Jor danic terntory (chap. 32). Chapter 33 | recapitulates the journeys, Chapter | 34 tells of the provision for bounding and dividing the land, and Chapler 35 of the cities of refuge. The Book of Devteronomy is in on sense a summing up of ithe three pre- ceding books; i it forms a preparation for the solemn event in the present lesson, Brie stated, it cone sists of three addresses by Moses: the first, a history of the wanderings (chaps, 1 tod: 40); the second, a repetition of the law (chaps. 5 to 206); the third, *'the blessing and the curse’ {chaps 27 to 80), Chapter 31 tells of the formal transfer of the leadership to Joshua; Chapter 32 contains the song of Moses; and Chapter 35 itis final | the children of Israel, | The time of the lesson is the close of | the fortieth year of the wanderings, | The place was in the mountain range called Abarim, east of the Jordan, over against Jericho; the precise site of Nebo and Pisgah has been Jong lu dis. pute, but opinion now inclines to the peaks called Jebel Nebba, and a crest wo the west of it (Jebel Niaghah). One of the largest britlania rms in New England recommends the follow ing to clean silver: Ope hall pound of sal-soda added to eight quarts of water; when at a bolling heat dip the pieces of sliver, and immediately wash in soap suds, and wipe diy with a piece of cot ton flannel. A large piece of meteoric won has been found in a bed of tertiary lignite in Upper Austria. This is the rst find of that sort in distinct ical pe riods, a proof that #lones feo'l ESSON another, ly ia 18 blessing on also In former periods of the eutth’s history.
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