DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON
Does Religion Pay ?
“Godliness is profitable unto all *Lirgs. hav.
{og promise of the life that now 18, and of that
which is to come.'—1 Tim, 4 : 8.
A Harpy NEw YrEAr toone and
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There is a gloomy and passive way
«of waiting for the events of the open-
ing year to come upon us, and there is
a heroic way of going out to meet
thew, strong in God, and fearing noth-
ing. When the body of Catiline was
found on the battle-fleld it was found
far in advance of all his troops,
and among the enemy; and the best
way is not for us to lie down and
Jet the events of life trample over
us, but to go forth in a Christian
spirit determined to conquer,
The papers were made out, and some
of you have just entered into business
partnerships, and others of you take
higher positions in the commercial es-
tablishment where you were engaged,
and others have entered upon new en-
terprises, and there were last week in
these cities ten thousand business
chunges. You are expecting prosper-
ity, and I am determined, so far as I
have an) thing to do with it, that you
shall not be disappointed, and, there-
fore, 1 propose, as God may help me
this morning, to project upon your at-
tention a new element of success, You
will have in the business firm, frugal-
ity, patience, industry, perseverance,
eooncin y-
A VERY STRONG BUSINESS FIRM,
but there needs to be one member ad-
ded, mightier than they all, and nota
silent partner eitlier—the one intro-
duced by my text: *‘Godliness, which
is profitable unto all things, having the
promise of the life that now 1s, as well
as of that which is to come.”
I suppose you are all willing to ad-
mit that Godliness is important in ils
eternal relations; but perhaps some of
you say: ‘‘All I want is an opportun-
ity to say a prayer before I die, and all
will be well,”” There are a great many
pecple who suppose that if they can
finally get safely out ot this world into
a better world, they will have exhaust-
ed the entire advantage of our holy re.
ligion. They talk as though religion
were a mere nod of recognition which
we are to give to the Lord Jesus on our
way up to a heavenly mansion; as
though it wera an adnussion ticket, of
no use except to give in at the door of
Heaven. Aud there are thousands of
people who have great admiration for a
religion of the shroud, and a religion of
the coffin and a religion of the hearse,
and a religion of the cemelery, who
have no appieciation of a religion for
the bank, for tbe farm, for the factory,
for the wu
shop, for the broker's office. Now,
while I would not throw any slur on a
post-mortem religion, 1 want this
worning to eulogize an
ANTE MORTEM RELIGION,
A religion 102% 13 of no use to you while
you live, will be of no use to you when
you die. *‘Godliness is profitable uato
is to come.” And I have always no-
ticed that when the grace is very low in
a man’s heart be talks a great deal in
prayer-mectings about coffins, and
1 have no
tian, the man who is living near to
God, and is on the straight road to
Heaven, is full of jubilant satisfaction, |
and talks about the duties of this life, |
understanding well that if God helps |
him to live right He will help him to |
die rigiit. !
Now, in the fist place, I remark that |
gtdltness is cond for ‘a man's physical |
healéh. I donot mean to say that it
will restore a broken-down constitution
or drive rheumatism from the limbs, or |
neuralgia from the temples, or pleusisy
from the side; but I do mean to say
that it gives one such habits and puts
one in such eondition as 18 most favor-
able for physical health. That 1 be-
lieve, and that I avow, Everybody |
knows that buoyancy of spirit is good |
physical advantage, Gloom, unrest,
dejection are at war with every pulsa- |
tion of the heart, and with every re-
spiration of the lungs, It lowers the
vitality, it slackens the circulation,
while exhilaration spirit pours the very
balm of heaven through all the cur-
rents of hfe. The sense of insecurity
which sometimes hovers over an unfte-
gererale man, or pounces upon him
with the blast of ten thousand trum-
pels of terror, is most depleting and
most exhausting, while the feeling that
all tirings are working together for my
good now, ail for my everlasting wel-
fare, is
CONDUCIVE TO FUYSICAL HEALTH,
You will observe that godliness in-
“duces industry, which 1s the founda~
tion of good healt, There is no law
of hygiene that will keep a lazy man
well. Pleurisy will stab bim, erysi-
pelas will burn him, jaundice will dis-
color him, gout will cripple him, and
the intelligent physician will not pre-
scribe antiseptic, or febrifuge, or ano-
dayne, but saws and hammers and yard-
stieks and’ crowbars ‘and pickaxes,
There is no such thing as good physical
condition without positive work of
some kind, although you should sleep
on down of swan, or ride In carriage of
softest upholstery, or have on your
table all the luxuries that were poured
from the wine-vats of Ispaban and
Shiraz. Our religion says: ‘Away to
the bank! away to the field! ‘away’ to
the shop! away to the factory! do some-
thing that will enliet all the snercies
your body, r
one of them shall get the religion of the
Lord Jesus Clirist in his heart, and the
other shall not get it, the one who be-
comes a son of the Lord Almighty will
live the longer, “With long life will I
satisfy thee, and show thee my salva-
tion. "?
Again I remark that godliness is
GOOD FOR THE INTELLECT,
[ know some have supposed that just
as soon as aman enters into the Chris-
tian life, his 1utellect goes into a be-
dwarfing process. So far from that, re-
ligton will give new brillianey to the
intellect, new strength to the imagina-
tion, new force to the will, and wider
swings to all the intellectual faculties,
Christianity 1s the great central fire at
which Philosophy has lighted its bright-
est torch, The religion of the Lord
Jesus Christ is the fountain out of
which learning bas dipped its clearest
draught, The Helicon poured lorth no
such inspiring waters as those which
flow from under the throne of Gud clear
as crystal. Religion has given new en-
ergy to Poesy, weeping in Dr. Young's
* Night Thoughts,”’ teaching in Cow-
per’s **Task,” flaming in Charles Wes-
ley’s hymns, and rushing with arc an-
gelic splendor through Milton's **.iri-
dise Lost.” The religion of Je
Christ has hung in studio, and in gui
lery of art. and in Vatican the best pic-
tures Titian’s * Assumption, »’
Raphwml’s “Transfiguration,” Ruben’s,
“Descent from the Cross’
“Burning Bush,” and Augelo’s ‘Last
Judgment.” Religion has made the
best music of the world—Haydn's **Cre-
ation,” Handel's **Messiah,”” Mozart's
“Requiem.” Is it possible that a re-
ligion which builds such indestructible
monuments, and which lifts its ensign
on the highest promontories of worldly
power, can have any effect upon a
man’s intellect but elevation?
Now, I commend godliness as tie
best mental discipline~better than belles
lettres to purify the taste; better than
mathematics to harness the mind to all
intricacy and elaboration; better than
logic to marshal the intellectual forces
for onset and victory. It will go with
Hugh Miller, and show him the foot-
prints of the Creator in the redsand-
stove. It will go with the botanist,
and show him celestial glories encamp-
ed unuc. curtain of a water-lily.
It will go with the astronomer on the
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flock of worlds that wander on
the hills of heaven, answering His
veice as Ie calls them all by their
names,
GOOD FOR THE DIS
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that
disposition,
went ints a great
offer this prayer:
great
POSITION.
iit
i1iness is
Lord
Again I remark,
profitable tor one’s
Ashley, before he
battle, was heard to
“0 Lord, 1 shall be very busy to-day;
forget Thee, forget me not.”
With such a Christian disposition as
that, a man is mdependent of all cir-
cumstances, Our piety will bave a
tinge of our natural temperament, If
a man be cross and sour and fretful
naturally, after be becomes a Christian
he will always have to be armed against
or
Zon
ture; it has turned fretfulness lato |
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been |
wade pliable and conciliatory. Good
resolution, reformatory effort, will not |
effect the change. It takes a mightier
arm and a mightier hand to bend evil
habits than the hand that beat the bow
than ever held the buffalo on the
prairie,
A man cannot
human weapons and contend success.
fully against these Titans armed with
uptorn mountain. But you have |
known men into whosa spirit the influ.
ence of the gospel of Christ came, until
their disposition was entirely changed. |
So it was with
TWO MERCHANTS IN NEW YORK,
They were very antagonistic, They |
had done all they could to injure each |
other. They were in the same line of |
business, One of the merchants was |
converted to God. Having been con- |
verted, he asked the Lord to teach ham
how to bear lmmself toward that busi-
go forth with any
with the fact that it was his duty,
when a customer asked for certain
kinds of goods which be had not, but
which he knew his opponent had, to
recommend him to Jo to that store. I
suppose that is about the hardest thing
a wan could do; but being thoroughly
converted to God, he resolved to do
that very thing; and being asked for a
certain kind of goods, which he had
not, he said: “You go to such and
such & store, and you will get it.”
After a while, merchant number two
found these customers coming so sent,
and he found, slso, that merchant
number one had been brought to God,
and he sought the same religion. Now
they are good friends and good neigh-
bors—the grace of God entirely chaug-
ing their dispositions. ;
“Oh,” says some one, ‘I have a
rough, jagged, impetuous nature, and
religion can't do anything for me.”
Db you know that Martin Luther and
Robert Newton and Richard Baxter
were impetuous, all-consuming natures,
yet the grace of God turned them into
THE MIGHTIEST USEFULNESS?
A manufacturer cares but very little
for a stream that slowly runs through
the meadow, but a strong torrent that
leaps from rock to rock, and rushes
with mad energy through the valley,
and out toward the sea. Along that
river you will find fluttering shuttles
and grinding mill and flashing water
wheel, And a nature the swiftest, the
most rugged, and the most tremendous,
that 1s the nature God turns into great.
est usefulness, Ob, how many that
have been Jugnicious, and hard to
please, and irascible, and more bother-
ed about the mote in their neighbor's
eye than about the beam like ship-tim-
Ba 1b thes ro: eho Ba —
y the grace o
have I out that “Godliness is pr
fitable for the life thal now is as well as
for the life to come,” . «. 4 |
Again I remark that religion is
GOOD FOR WORLDLY BUSINESS.
theory is, the more
business the less jon; the more re-
‘the Jess busi ot so thought
grew in grace the last six years of his
life more than at any time in his life;
during those six years he bad ore
business crowding him than at any
other time.” In other words, the more
worldly business a man has, the more
opportunity to serve God. Does re-
ligion exhilarate or retard worldly busi-
ness? is the practical question for you
to discuss, Does it hang like a mort-
gage over the farm? Is it a bad debt
on the ledger? Isita lien against the
estate? Does 1t crowd the door through
which customers come for broadelothy
and silks?
Now, religion will hinder your busi.
ness if it be a bad business, or if it be a
good business wrongly conducted, If
you tell lies behind the counter, if you
use false weights and measures, if you
put sand in sugar, and beet-juice in
vinegar, and lard in butter, and sell for
one thing that which is another thing,
then religion will interfere with that
business; but a lawful business, law-
fully conducted, will find the religion of
the Lord Jesus Christ
ITS MIGHTIEST AUXILIARY.
leligion will give an equipoize of
spirit. It will keep you from ebullitions
of temper—and you know a great many
fine businesses have been blown to
atoms by bad temper; it will keep you
from worriment about frequent loss, it
will keep you industrious and prompt,
i it will keep vou back from squandering
and from dissipation, it will give you a
kindness of spirit which will be easily
distinguished from that mere store
courtesy which shakes hands violently
with you, asking about the health of
| to know
sick!
many dozen cambric pocket-haovdker-
It will prepare you for the practical
duties of every-day life. I do not mean
| cially rieh, but I do say that It wil
| give us, it will assure us of, a comfort-
able sustenance at the start, a comfori-
able subsistence all the way through,
business matters, and to make the most
of vast importance, glorified by Chris-
| tian principle. In New York City
| there was
| A MERCHANT, HARD IN HIS DEALINGS
| with his fellows, who had written over
| his banking house, or his counting
{ house room, “No compromise,” Then
{ when some merchant got in a crisisand
| went down—no fault of his, but a co
{ junction of evil circumstances, and all
{ the other merchants were willing to
| compromise; they would take seventy-
| five cents on the dollar, or fifty cents, or
| twenty cents—coming this man last
of all, he said: “No compromise; I'll
take one hundred cents on the dollar,
and I can afford to wall,” Well, the
wheel turned, and after a while that
man was in a crisis 6f business, and bh
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| the agent said to the merchants: “Will
| you take fifty cents on the dollar?”
“No,” *Will you take anything?’
“We'll take one hundred cents on the
lollar.. No eompromise.” And the
who wrote that inscription over
house door died in destitu-
want more of the Kind-
and the spirit of love
1g
file
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tion, Uh, we
ness of the Gospel
have iound in the
tical
many there are in this
could testify out of their own experi-
ence, that godliness is profitable for the
that now is! There were times iu
their business career when they went
young men
How
who
help?
HOuss to-day
life
they knelt before the Lord erying for
them,
polis—a village bank-—an officer could
accounts, He had
worked at them day after day, night
after night, and he was sick nigh unto
death as a result, He knew he had not
taken one farthing from that bank, but
then, the accounts wouldn't balance,
The time rolied on, and the morning of
the day when the books should pass un-
der the inspection of the other officers
arrived, and he felt himself in awful
peril, conscious of his own integrity,
but unable to prove that integrity.
That morning be went to the bank
early, and he knelt down before God
and told the whole
STORY OF MEXTAL ANGUISH,
right; 1 have preserved my integrity,
but here I am about to be overthrown,
unless thou shouldst come to my rescue,
Lord, deliverme,’’ And for one hour
he continued the prayer before God, and
then he rose and went to an old blotter
that he had forgotten all about. He
opened it, and there lay a sheet of
figures which he only needed to add to
another line of figures—some line of
figures he had forgotten, and knew not
where he had laid them-—and the ac-
counts were balanced, and the Lord de-
livered him. You dre an infidel if you
do not believe it, The Lord delivered
him. God answered his prayer as He
will answer your prayer, OU man of busi-
re in every crisis, when you come to
1.
Now, if this be go, then I am persuad-
ed, as you are, of the fact that the vast
majority of Christians do not fully test
the value of their religion, They are
like a farmer in California, with fifteen
housand acres of good wheat land,
and culturing only a quarter of an acre.
Why do you not go forth and make the
religion of Jesus Christ a practical
affair every day of your business ile;
and all this year, beginning now; a
to-morrow morning putting into practi-
cal effect this holy religion, and demon
strating that godliness is profitable
bert Be wall a get has ithout this
ow ean you w
religion? Is your physical health so
good you don’t want this
_ DIVINE TONIC?
Is your mind so clear, so vast, so com-
prehensive, that you do not want this
divine inspiration? Is your worldly
thorough that
and deliverance of
of men in crises of
And if what I have
tens of thousands
Runidly rouble?
Dr. Hans, in his Biography eta Chris
fan Merchant,” when he says: “le
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Ie Fa de eset pd Tad hg
| what 8
adjourns to life's expiration the uses of
religion. ' A man who postpones relig-
ion to sixty years of age gets religion
fifty years too late. He may get iuto
the kingdom of God by final repentance,
but what can compensate him for a
whole lifetime unalleviated and uncom-
forted? You want religion to-day in
the training of that child, You will
want religion to-morrow in dealing
with that Western customer. You
wanted religion yesterday to curb your
temper, Is your arm strong enough to
beat your way through the floods? Can
you, without being encased in the mall
of God’s eternal help, go forth amid the
assault of all hell’s sharpshiooters?
CAN YOU WALK ALONE
across these crumbling graves and amid
these gaping earthquakes? Can you,
waterlogged and mast-shivered, outlive
the gale? Oh, how many there have
been who, postponing the religion of
Jesus Christ havejlunged into mistakes
they never could coir. ct although they
lived eighty years ufter, and like ser-
{ pents crushed under cart-wheels, drag-
| ging their mauled bodies under the
rocks to die; so these men have fallen
| under the wheel of awful calamity,
| crushed bere, destroyed forever, while a
| vast multitude of uthers have taken the
i religion of Jesus Christ into every-day
| life, and first, in practical business
{ agairs, and secondly, on the throne of
heavenly triumph, have illustrated,
while angels looked on and a universe
approved, the glorious truth that **God-
liness 18 profitable unto all things, hav-
i as well as of that wh ch is to come,”
BE . ——————
WOMEN WITH BEALILDS.
fias Com: to the
of Sach Afflicted OUnes,
sn
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| How Science
Asa reporter sat in a cable car re-
enter. Pretty, stylish and trim from
head to foot—only one blemish,
that a decided, un humiliating one,
youth of 20 would have envied her.
| Everywhere that one goes,
churches, theatres, this disfigurement is
| noticed, 1s there
| women will re
| method to rid th-mselvea of superfluous
| halr, Scissors, tweezers, yes, even razors
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| with additional strength, There are
{ many fortunate cases, A young woman
| had a few straggling hairs on her face,
| she noticed them much more than any-
| one else, and grew actually morbid on
the subject. One day while having her
hair shampooed her hairdresser noticed
{them and told ber he could remove
{ them. He produced a small stone, and
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§ off, leas blush
{ ing from the [riction,
j that if they ret ined they would be
{ much areely be
Instead, ina few duys they appeared,
i and to her horror ound they were
{ very much worse than before. In her
| despair she again used the stone which
her hairdresser had persuaded
twiy. This practice she Kept up d
until her face was io a frightful co
tion. However, a remedy
found in electricity.
“It is the only way on earth to effect-
ually kill this parasite,’’ said well
known physician to the reporter. “Any
| physician of repute will assure you of
that fact. Sipgeing, cutiin pulling
out by tweezers or depilatocies only
make them coarser, rougher and more
bristling. The follicle must be Killed,
then the hair falls ont of itself.”
“Does it ever return?”’
| “Rometimes a few of the hairs com
back, but they are always black aud
extremely easy to kill the second tune,”
{ “is it a painful operation?’
“Well, sometimes, That depends a
ing ber face smooth and
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she f
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| the skin, and the nerves of the patient.
{I find, though,” he adds laughingly,
the ladies will endure it bravely—in
thereby she 1s to be made better look-
ing.”
The reporter then asked permission to
was granted. The patient sits in a re-
| lining chair and holds a bowl of water
the eords from the battery. To the
other is attached the finest possible
needle, The operator gathers up the
flesh about the obnoxious hair, plunges
the needle in deep, the patient dips two
or three fingers in the water, says “Oh,”
and waits, After a few seconds the
needle is removed and the hair is deftly
picked out by the tweezers. The face is
left a little sore from the operation, but
camphor freely applied will heal it.
Camphor is much better than any oily
substance like cream or vaseline, for
they havea tendency to make hair grow,
There, is therefore, no need for any
woman to carry about this hideous
blemish, which sometimes ruins an
cihierwise faultless complexion.
Women Who Work in Iron Mills,
The fact is net generally known that
women fre alseady occupying places
and doing wock in iron mills and in
manufactories of wire, Three years
ago the men in a Pittsburg bolt manu-
factory gave so much trouble that they
were displaced by women. The ven.
ture proved to be a marked success, so
that the employers could not be Induced
to go back te men and boys. The wire
mill which was established about that
time, took up with the idea, and again
everything worked satisfactorily. Then
a hinge tactory was opened to them and
once more the women proved better
workers, more reliable and less trouble-
some than their male rivals, How far
are winning their way
and by and by the boys will have to
agitate for equal rights,
When all are left aman running
ahead.of big ticket does not get there
General Lyle ‘wrote his beautiful
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
Buspay JANUARY 27, 1340,
Forgiveness and Healing.
LESSON TEXT.
Mark 2: 1-12. Memory verses, 10-12)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric or THE QUARTER!
Myghty Worker,
Jesus the
GoLpeEN TEXT FoR THE QUALTER!
Believe me that I am in the Father. and
the Futher in me: or else belweve me for
the very works’ sake. —John 14 : 11,
Lesson Toric: Forgiving the Sin.
{. The Beneficent Saviour, v8 1, %
The Forgiven Sinner, vi, 8.1,
8. The Coavineed Caviicrs, VA &
GoLDEN Text: Who forgiveth all
thine tnigui‘wes: who healet’ all thy dis
eases. — Psa, 103 1: 3,
Day Hou READINGS:
M.—Mark 2: 1-12,
sinful,
--Matt, 9 :1-8,
lel narrative,
Luke 5 : 16-20,
J narrative,
Psa, 23:
forgiveness,
F.—Isa, 43:1
Lord,
S.—Rom, 3 : 19-31.
forgiveness,
S,—HRom, 5:
forgiveness.
Lesson
Outiine: ° 1%
the
Forgiving
P, Matthew's paral-
1-21.
e——— a
1.EBSON ANAL
I. THE BEXEFVICEN1
I. Seeking Men:
He entered again into (
{1}.
Jesus abou
villages (Matt,
Go after that which is lost, until he find
it? (Luke 15 : 4).
The Son of man came
save {Luke 19 : 10).
Ye did no choose me, but 1 chose you
{John 15 : 16}.
Il. Sought of Men ;
Many were gathered togethe
Where is he that is born King
dews? (Matt, 2: 2).
And behold, all the city came
44
meet Jesus (Matt, B :
Y SiS.
SAVIOUR,
t all the cities and the
{
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wort
Went
53M
to seek and to
d see Jesus (John 12 : 21
{ 12 : 21
oir, 3 wou
IL Teaching Men:
Vé
word unto them
to
He spake the
The Lord ha
good tiding
Seeing the multitad
mouth and taug
He anointed me
i 4:
winted me
. . he opened
‘Matt, ; : 1, 2)
peas 3
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4
{ise
If. THE FORGIVEN 81
rought to Jesus:
¥ COe, bringing
the palsy (35.
» him hither to me (Matt. 17: 17)
they brought unto him Little
fren (Matt, 19 : 13).
Behold, men briog on a bed a man
was palsied (Luke 5 : 18),
He brought him unto
1:43).
11. Forgiven through Faith:
Jesus seeing their faith salt
y sins are forgiven (5).
believed,
unto thee { Matt, 8 : 13).
taddi
(John
Jesus
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th
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you (Matt. 9 : 20),
is justified by faith (Rom.
3:
Let him afk in faith, nothing doubling
(Jas. 1:6).
111. Forgiven of God:
Who can forgive sins but one, even
God? (7h.
Who forgiveth gil thine iniquities (Pra.
103 : 3).
There is forgiveness with thee (Psa.
130 : 4).
I.even 1, am be that blotieth out thy
transgressions (Isa. 45 :
To the Lord our God belong. . . .forgive-
nesses (Dan, 9 : 9).
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0)
man.’ (1) The man’s forlorn condi.
tion: (2) The bearers’ generous
faith; (3) The Lord’s gracious wel-
come,
2, “Son, thy sins are forgiven.” (1)
The Father's tender address;
The son's accumulated sins: (
The Father's forgiving assurance.
83. “Who can forgive sing but obe,
even God?” (1) Man's greates.
necessity; (2) God's greatest boon.
11, THE CONVINCED CAVILERS,
1. Doubt Rebuked:
Why reason ye these things in your
hearts? (8).
Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
(Matt. 9 : 4).
W hareioue didst thou doubt? (Matt,
14 : 81).
Neither be ye of doubtful mind (Luke
12 : 29),
He that doubteth is condemned if he
eat (Rom. 14: 23.
IL. Demonstration Granted:
But that ye may know. ...(bhe saith
in the sick). ...Axiss (10, 11).
Take it by the tail:....that they may
believe (Exod, 4 : 4, §).
thee. ...And God
fire, let him
iy
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“re
a)
They were all amazed, and
God (12). : v
Aaron. ...did «ve And the
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Thomas. . . .said unto him, My Lord and
my God (20 : 28).
1. “Why reason ye these things in
your hearts?’ (1) Evil reasonings
indulged: (2) Evil reasonings de-
tected; (3) Evil reawnings rebuked;
(4) Evil reasonings transformed,
2. “Whether is easier?” Christ's om-
nipotence (1) Displayed in material
works; (2) Claimed in spiritual
affairs; (3) Felt in personal ex-
yer Hoes,
3. *We never saw it on this fashion.
The peerless deeds of Jesus: (1) In
working miracles; In saving
souls,
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LESSON SURROUNDINGS,
| The interval between the present les
| son and the brief i:
| “after some days’’). this point in
i the history the Matt ew Is
most remarkable in its variation from
ironological order. The aceount
sustains the order of Mark.
{ The place was Capernaum (Mall.:
| “his own city”). The time, according
was immediately before
he second Passover (the only interven
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Beauty on Women's Face.
to cosmetics are so capable of en-
beauty as the smile of good
cmper and a desire to please, Deauty
, more than ther
form of loveliness, capable of cultiva-
tion, A woman may! h
iy regular features, but her face will be
so lit up with the beauty of goodness
that she cannot fail to please if she
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forbear and forgive, as you
warance and forgiveness
not expect
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6. Never retort
| word, it is the
| makes the quarrel,
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a sharp or angry
second word that
7. Beware of the first disagreement.
8. Learn to speak in a gentle tone
of voice,
9 Learn to say kind and pleasant
| things whenever opportunity offers,
10, Study the character o! each and
| sympathize with all in their Lroubles,
| however small
11. Do not neglect little it
they can affect the comfort of others in
the smallest degree,
12. Avoid moods and pets and {ts
sulkiness,
| 13. Learn to deny yourself and pre-
i fer others,
| 14. Beware of
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of
meddlers and tale
Arers.
! 15. Never charge a bad motive, if a
good one is conceivable,
16. De gentle and firm with child-
ren.
The last rule refers
often a husband is far d'flicult to
manage. If, 1onever, a wile can Keep
her temper, an persevere in her efforts
| to please, Coe Wil iu the end conquer by
Mess,
¢hildren, but
Badae
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What a Wile Should Dao.
| A wife must learn how to form her
| husband's happiness; in what direction
the secret of his comfort lies; she must
wot cherish his weakness by working
upon them, she must not rashly run
counter to his prejudices, Her motto
must be never to irritate, She must
study never to draw largely upon the
small stock of patience in man’s na.
ture; nor to intreass his obstinacy by
trying to drive lum; never, if possible,
to have scenes, 1 doubt much if
a real quarrel, even if up, does
not loosen the bond between man and
Wife, Sid some Hues, wtless the affec-
tion of both be very sincere, lastingly.
If irritation does occur, 4 WOmAn must