DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
Evangelism Vindioated.
“And I took the little book out of the angel's
hand, and ate it up: and it was in my mouth
sweet as honey; rad as soon as I had eaten it,
my belly was bitter. And he said unto me,
Thou must propacsy again before many peo-
ples und nations and tongues and kings."
Rev. 10:10, 11.
DoMITIAN, the Roman Emperor, had
in bis realm a troublesome evangelist
who would keep preaching, and so he
exiled him to a barren island, as now
the Russians exile convicts to Siberia,
or as sometimes the English govern-
ment used to send prisoners to Austra-
lia. The island I speak of 1s now call-
ed Patmos, aud 18 so barren and unpro-
ductive that its inhabitants live by
fishing.
But one day the evangelist of whom
1 speak, sitting at the mouth of a cav-
ern, and perhaps half asleep under the
drone of the sea, has
A SUPERNATURAL DREAM,
and before him pass, asin a paporama,
time and eternity. Among the strange
things that he saw wasan angel with a
little book in his hand, and in his dream
the evangelist asked for this little book,
and the angel gave it to him, and told
him to eat it up. As in a dream things
are sometimes incongruous, the evange-
list took the little book and ate it up.
The angel told him beforehand that it
would be very sweet in the mouth, but
afterward he would be troubled with
indigestion. True enough, the evange-
list devours the book, and it becomes
to him a sweetness during the mastica-
tion, but afterward a physical bitter-
ness.
Who the angel was and what the
book was, no one can tell. The com-
mentators do not agree, and I shall
take no responsibility of interpretation,
but it suggests to me
THE LITTLE BOOK OF CREEDS,
which sceptics take and chew up and
find a very luscious morsel to their wit-
ticism, but after a while it 1s to them a
great distress, The angel of the church
hands out this little book of evangelism
and the antagonists of the Christian
Church take it and eat it up, and it
makes them smile at first, but after-
ward it 1s to them a dire dyspepsia.
All intelligent people have creeds—
that 1s, favorite theories which they
have adopted. Political creeds—that
is, theories about tariff, about finance,
about civil service, about government.
Social creeds—that is, theories about
manners and customs and good neigh-
porhood. Esthetical creeds—that is,
theories about tapestry, about bric-a
Religious creeds —that is, theories
aboutthe Deity, about the soul,
the great future. The only being
who has no creed about anything
is always a sign of profound ignorance
on the part of the scoffer, for he has
himself a hundred creeds in regard to
other things. In our time the beliefs
of evang. istic churches are under
AFUSILLADE OF CARICATURE
and misrepresentation, Men up
what they call orthodox faith, and then
set
denunciation,
Christian Churches believe,
They falsify what the
They take
harsh and repulsive way, and put them
out of the assoclation with other truths,
They are hike a mad anatomist, who,
desiring to tell what a man is, dissects
# human body and hangs up in one
place the heart, and in avoiher place
ankle bone, and says that is a man.
They are only fragments of a man
wrenched out of their God-appointed
places,
Evangelical religion is a healthy,
symmel: ical, well-jointed, roseate,
bounding life, and the scalpel and the
dissectiuy knife of the infidel or the
atheist cannot tell you what It is
Evangelical religion is as different from
enemies the scare-crow
as
the ruvens is different from the farmer
himeseil,
For instance, these enemies of evan-
)elieves that God is a savage sovereign,
and tiat He made some men just to
damn them, and that there are infants
in bell a span long. These old slanders
come down from generation to genera-
tion. The Presbyterian Church be-
tieves no such thing, The Presbyter-
fan Church believes that God is a lov-
ing and just Sovereign, and that we are
free agents, **No, nol that cannot be,”
say these men who have chewed up the
seed and bave the consequent embit-
tered stomaci:s, “That is impossible;
if God Is a s.vereign, we can’t be free
agents,” Why, my friends, we ad-
mit this in every other direction, I,
De Witt Talmage, am a free citizen, 1
go when I please id I come when I
please, but I have
AT LEAST FOUL SOVEREIGXS.
The Church court of our denomina~
Jans that is my ecclesiastical sovereign,
I'he mayor of this ety; he is my muni-
sipul sovereign, The Governor of New
York: be is my State sovereign. The
President of the United States; he 1s
ny national sovereign. Four sover-
signs have I, and yet in every faculty
of body, mind, and soul Iam a free
wan. So, you see, it is possible that
the two doctrines go side by side, and
there is a connmon~sense way of present-
ing it, and there is a way that is repul-
sive, 1f you have the two doctrines in
2 worldly direction, why not in a re
ligious direction? It 1 choose to-mor-
sow morning to walk into the Mercan-
ile Library and amprove my mind, or
0 go tough the couservatory of my
friend at Jamaica, who has flowers
trom all lands growing under the arches
of glass, and who has an aquarium all
squirm with trout and gold fish, and
here ure trees bearing oranges aud
sunanas—if 1 want to go there, I could,
fam free to go. If 1 want to go over
w Hoboken and leap into a turn.
we of an ofl factory, if I want to
jump from the platform of the Pnila-
1elphia express train, if I want to leap
from Brooklyn Dridge, I may. But
su 1 shiould go to-morrow and leap
into the furnace at Hoboketh who
would be to blame? That is all there
"1s about : lS Ly
SOVEREIGNTY AND FREE AGENCY,
i pny
i
servatories and He has blast furnaces,
If you want to walk in the gardens,
walk there. If you want to leap in the
furnaces, you may. Suppose, now, a
man lad a charmed key with which he
could open all the jails, and he should
open llaymond Street Jail, and the
New York Tombs and all the prisons
on the continent! In three weeks what
kind of a country would this be? all
the inmates turned out of those prisons
and penitentiaries. Suppose all the
reprobates, the Lud spirits, the outrage-
ous spirits, should be turned into the
New Jerusalem, Why, the next morn-
ing the gates of pearl would be found
off hinge, the linchpin would be gone
out of the chariot wheels, the *‘house
of many mansions’’ would be burglar
ized, Assault and battery, arson, liber-
tinism, and assassination would reside
in the capital of the skies. Angels of
God would be insulted on the streets,
Heaven would be a dead fuilure If
there were no great lock-up. If all
people without regard to their charac-
ter when they leave this world go right
into glory, 1 wonder if in the temple of
the skies Charles Guiteau and Jolin
Wilkes Booth occupy the same pew!
Your common sense demands two les.
tinies! And then as to the Presbyteriin
Church believing there are infants in
perdition, if you will bring me a Pres.
byterian of good morals and sound
mind who will say that he believes
there ever was a baby in the lost world,
or ever will be, I will make him a deed
to the house I live in, and he can take
possession LO-IOITOW,
So the Episcopal Church Is misrepre-
sented by the enemies of evangelism.
They say that Church substitutes forms
and ceremonies for heart religion, and
1t is all a matter of liturgy and genu-
flexion. False again. All Episcopal-
ians will tell you that the forms and
creeds of their Church are worse than
nothing unless the heart go with then.
So also the Baptist Church has been
misrepresented.
THE ENEMIES OF EVANGELISM
say the Baptist Church believes that
unless a man is immersed he will never
get into heaven. False again, All the
Baptists, close communion and open
communion, believe that if a man ac-
cept the i. Jesus Christ he will be
saved, whelinr he be baptized Ly one
drop of water on the forehead, or be
plunged into the Ohlo or Susquehanna,
although immersion is the only gate lo
their earthly communion.
The enemies of evangelism also mis-
represent the Methodist Church. They
ary emotion, aud that all a man has to
do is to kneel down at the altar and
him on the back and says, ‘It 1s all
The Methodist Church
believes that the Holy Ghost alone ean
convert a heart, and in that Church
conversion is an earthquake of convic-
tion and a sunburst of pardon.
to mere “temporary emotion,’
we all had more of
emotion” which lasted Bishops Janes
and Matthew Simpson for a half cen-
tury, keeping them on fire for God until
their holy enthusiasm consumed their
1 wish
are misrepresented. And then these
enemies of evangelism go on and hold
up the great doctrines Christian
Churches as absurd, dry, and inexpli-
cable technicalities, **Thereis your
of
DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY,”
they say. ‘‘Absurd beyond all bounds,
Impossible! If it isone God,
three, they can't be one’
same time all of us—they with us—ac-
knowledge trinities all around us
mind, soul, Body with which we
with which we love, Three, yet one
wan, Trinity in the air—light, heat,
moisture—yet one atmosphere, Trinity
court. Trinities all
in earthly govern.
went, and in nature. Of course, all
bench, but one
illustrate the spiritual Dut suppose
an ignorant man should cowe up to a
chemist and say: *I deny what you
say about the water, and about the air:
they are not made of different parts,
The air is one; I breathe it every day.
The water is one; I drink 1 every day.
You can’t deceive me
ABOUT THE ELEMENTS
that go to make up the air and. the
water.” The chemist vould say:
“Y ou come up into my laboratory and
I will demonstrate this whole thing to
The ignorant man goes into the
chemist’s laboratory, and sees for him-
self. He learns that the water is one,
and the air is one, but they are made
up of different parts, So here is a man
who says, ‘I ean’t understand the doc-
trine of the Trinity.” Godsays, *You
come up here into the laboratory after
your death, and you will see—you will
see it explained, you will see it demon-
strated.” The ignorant man cannot
understand the chemistry of the water
and the air until be goes into the labor-
atory, and we will never understand
the Trinity until we go to heaven. The
ignorance of the man who cannot un-
derstand the chemistry of the air and
water does not ehange the fact. De-
cause we cannot understand the Trin.
ity, does that change the fact?
“And there 8 your absard doctrine
about justification by faith,” say these
antagonists who bave chewed up Lhe
little book of evangelism, and have the
consequent embittered stomach—"*justi-
fication by faith; you can’t explain it.”
I can explain it. It 1s simply this:
when a man takes the Lord Jesus Christ
as Ins Saviour from sin, God lets the
offeuder off, Just as you have a dil-
ference with some he has injured
you, he apologizes, or he makes repara-
tion, you say: “Now, that’s all right,
that’s all right.” Justification by
faith is this; & man takes Jesus Christ
as his Susidus, end god says to the
man: ‘Now, Was wi before,
but it is all right now; it is all ‘tighs'
That was what le Martin
4
regeneration,” these antagonists of
evangelism say,
WHAT 18 REGENERATION?
Why, regeneration is reconstruction.
Anybody can understand that. Have
you not seen people who are all made
over again by some wonderful influence?
In other words, they are just as differ-
ent now from what they used to be as
possible, The old Constellation, man-
of-war, lay down here at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard. Famine came to Ireland.
The old Constellation was fitted up, and
though it had been carrying gunpowder
and bullets, it took bread to Ireland,
You remember the enthusiasm as the
old Constellation went out of our har-
bor, and with what joy it was greeted
by the famishing nation on the other
side of the sea, That is regeneration.
A man loaded up with sin, and death
loaded up with life, Refitted, Your
observation Las been very small indeed
if you have not seen changes in charac-
ter as radical as that,
A LIQUOR SELLER CONVERTED.
A man came into this church one
night, and he was intoxicated, and at
an utterance of the pulpit he sald ina
subdued tone: “That's a lie”? Au
officer of the church tapped him on the
shoulder, and said: You must be silent,
| or you must go out.” The next night
that stranger came, and he was con-
verted to God. He was in the liquor
business; He resigned the business,
The next day he sent back the samples
that had just been sent him, He began
to love that which he hated.
tized him by immersion in the bapistry
under this platform. A large salary
was offered him if he would return to
his former business, He declined it,
He would rather suffer with Jesus Christ
than be prospered in the world. He
wrote home a letter to his Christian
mother. The Christian mother wrote
back congratulating him, and said: sti f
in the change of your business you have
lack of means, come home; you are
always welcome home.” He told of
his conversion to a dissolute companion.
The dissolute companion said: “Well,
if you have become a Christian, you
had better go over and talk to that dy-
ing girl, She is dying with quick con
sumption in that house,’’ The new
convert went there, Ail the surround.
ings were dissolute. He told
THE DYING GIRL
that Jesus would save her. “Ohi”
said she *‘that can't be, that can't bel
What makes you think so?” *'I have it
plied, He pulled out a New Testament.
She said; “Show 1t to me; if I can be
saved, show it to me in that book."’
He said: *1I have neglected this book,
as you have neglected it, for
years, and I don’t know where Lo find it
but I know that it Is somewhere be-
tween the lids.’ Then he began to turn
ful to say, his eye struck upon this pas.
and sin po more.” She said: “It isn't
possible that is there!” “Yea,” he
| said, ‘that is there,” He held it up
{ before her dying eyes, and she said:
“Ob, yes, I see it for myself; I accept
the promise: *Neither do 1
thee; go and sin no more,’” In a few
that gave it, and the new
preached the funeral sermon, The man
| who a few days before had been a blas-
| phemer and a drunkard and a hater of
all that was good, be preached the ser-
mon. That is regeneration! that is re-
| generation! If there are any dry husks
| of technicality in that, where are hey?
{ All made over again by the power of
{ the grace of God!
| A few vears ago
A SHIP-CAPTAIN
| came In here, and sat yonder under the
gallery.. He came in with a contempt
for the Church of God, and with an
especial dislike for Talmage. When an
opportunity was given he arose for
prayer, and as he was more than six
| one doubted that he arose! That hour
he became a Christian, He went out
and told the ship-owners and the ship-
been wrought in him, and scores and
scores have been brought to God
through his riumentality,
A little while after his conversion he
was on ship off Cape Hatteras in a
thick and prolonged fog, and they were
at their wits’ ends, and knew not what
to do, the ship drifting about hither
borat
inst
| ings; and the converted sea-captain
went to his room, and asked God for
the salvation of the ship, and God re-
knees that at a certain hour, only a
the converted sea-capiain came oul on
the deck, and told how God heard his
prayers. He said: **1t is all right, boys;
very soon now the fog will lift.”" men-
tioning the hour. A man who stood
there laughed aloud in derision at the
idea that God would answer prayer;
but at just the hour when God had as-
sured the captain the fog would lift
the fog, and the man who had joered
and laughed was stunned, and fell to
the deck, The fog lifted. Yonder was
Cape Hatteras lighthouse, The ship
was put on the right course, and sailed
on to the harbor of safety.
most of his time in evangelical work.
He kneels down by one who has been
helpless in the bed for many months,
and the next day she walks forth in the
streets, well. He kneels beside one who
has long been decrepit, and
HE RESIGNS THE CRUTCHES,
11e kveels beside one who had not seen
enough to be able to read for ten years,
and she reads the Bible that day, Con
sumptions go away, and those who had
diseases that were appalling to behold,
come up to rapid convalescence and to
complete health, [am not telling you
anything pecond-handed, I have had
the story from the lips of the patients
in this very house, those who were
brought to health of body while at the
satne time brought to God. No second-
hand story this. 1 have heard the
testimony from men wid women who
have been cured. You may call it
faith-cure, or you may call it the power
of God oniing down in
I'do not care what you call it;
scolling sea-captal
and lowly Jesus, giving all the time to
evangelical labors, or all the time he
can spare from other occupations, That
is regeneration! that is regeneration!
Man all made over again!
“There is your absurd doctrine of
vicarious sacrifice,”’ say these men who
have ehewed up the little book of creeds,
and have the consequent embittered
stomach,
YYICARIOUS SACRIFICE!
Let every man suffer for himself. Why
do I want Christ to suffer for me? I'll
suffer for myself and carry my own bur-
dens,” They scoff at the idea of vicari-
ous sacrifice, while they adinire it every-
where else except in Christ, People see
its beauty when a mother suffers for
her child, People see its beauty when
a patriot suffers for his country. People
gee its beauty when a man denles him-
self for a friend, They can see the
beauty of vicarious sacrifice in every
one but Christ.
A young lady in one of the literary
institutions was a teacher, She was very
reticent and retired in her habits, and
she formed no companionships in the
new pos.tion she occupied, and her dress
was very plain—sometimes it was very
shabby.
but no reason was given.
the letter discharging her from the posi-
tion, she said: “Well, if I have failed
ment, and, found none, and in des-
peration and in dementia she ended her
life by suleide. Investigation was
small means she had
SUPPORTED HER FATHEL,
eighty years of age, and was
way for her brother in Yale
his way to the ministry. It was found
| coldest day of all the season. People
gathering at
| the very people who had scoffed came
{it was too late,
| that, But many are not moved by the
| fact that Christ paid Ils poverty for
{ edges of humiliation, that we might
peace and heaven.
| doctrines at which others jeer. Ob,
the depths of the riches both of the
| unsearchable is His wisdom, and His
wavs are past finding out! Oh
the length, the
the immensity,
breadth, the infinity,
est prayers go out in behalf of all those
who scoff at the
When
THE LONDON PLAGUE
England
bereavement,
excited much comment,
in a fright and The
and the cry,
was answered by the bring.
and nigut,
your dead!
| and they were put twenty or thirty in
| cemetery; and these dead were
and fourteen burials! The carts would
| come up with their great burden
| twenty or thirty to the mouth of the
| and the dead shot into the pit. All the
churches in London were open for
prayer day and might, and England was
in a great anguish,
| elifef burial-place, there was
A GROUP OF HARDENED MEN,
| the gref-struck who went by to the
burial-place, These men sal here day
{at God. But after a while ons of them
| was struck with the plague, and in two
| the trench from
{ they had uttered their nibaldry.
! the world,
Millions are smitten with It now,
of wretchedness, plague of woe!
| consecrated women and men from all
Christendom are going out trying to
| stay the plaiue and alleviate
| anguish, and there is a group of men in
this country base enough to sit and
deride the work. They scoff at the
| Bible, and they scoff at Jesus Christ,
{ and tuey scoff at God, If these words
i sitting here to-day, or through
printing-press, let me tell them to re-
metnber the fate of that group in the
| two black wings over the doomed cily
of London. Oh, instead of being scof-
fers let us be disciples! “Blessed is the
man that walketh not in the counsel of
the ungodly, nor standeth In the way of
sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the
scornful.”
A ————
The Quicksands of Nebraska.
Quicksand 18 found in nearly all parts
of the country, but in very great quan-
tity along the Platte river, in Nebraska.
It is composed principally of mica, or
small particles of rock disintegrated
from large bodies of rock and subjected
to a continuous washing process. The
water removes all the roggedness or an-
ular shape from the particles, The
ragments. become smooth and slimy
and slip upon each other with the great-
est facility, so that any heavy weight
resting upon this sand causes the par-
ticles to be displaced, They separate
from the centre, allowing the weight te
sink until a solid basis is reached.
When particles of sand are ragged and
angular any weight pressing on them
will crowd them together until they
are compacted into a solid mass. A
sand com of mica or soapstone
mixed with water seems in of
such consolidation.
ST A AAA.
The fmanufacilirers oi periorated
chalr seats have com mned, Their ob.
ject can be seen through, ;
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SUNDAY sCHOOL LESSON.
Suspay Fesnuany 17, 1239,
The Timid Woman's Touche
LESSON TEXT.
1 85.84. Memory vorsta, 53,34)
LESSON PLAN,
Toric oF THE QUARTER;
Mighty Worker.
Mark 5
Jesus the
GoLpeEN TEXT FOR THE QUARTER:
Belweve me that I am in the Father, and
the Futher in me: or else believe me for
the very works’ sake.—John 14 : 11
Lessox Toric: Honormg the Trust-
Jul,
Lesson
Outitne: |
{ 1. The Trusiful Woman, v8. 25-25,
{ 2, The Healing Touch, ya 20-31
2. ‘The Supreme Commendation, VE
8-34,
GorLpex TEXT :
believe Mark 5 : 86,
DAILY HoMeE READINGS:
M.—Mark 5 : 20-34, Honoring the
trustful,
T.—Matt. 9: 20: 22,
parallel narrative,
W.—~Liuke 8 : 43-48,
lel narrative,
T.—Matt., 14 : 22-30.
hand of Jesus,
F.—Luke 7 36-50,
woman pardoned.
8.—Matt. 15 : 21-28,
mother blessed,
8.—Tim. 1:1-12,
ing
Be not afraid, only
Matthew's
Luke's paral-
The helping
A
penitent
A praying
Confident trust.
1.ENSSON
I. THE TRUSTFUL
| IL Suffering:
A ;
many things (25).
It is good for me that I h
flicted (Psa. 119 : 71).
A woman who had an
twelve vears (Matt, 9:
| Thirty and eight years
(John 5 : 5.
After that ve have
while (1 Pet. 5: 10).
{| 11. Seeking :
Having
came (27).
Came behind him (Matt. 9 :
| Come unto me, all ve that labour and
are heavy laden (Matt, 11 : 28).
The same came him by n
(John 3 : 2)
| Sir, we woud
| 111 Trusting:
| She i, If I touch
{ made whole (28).
My heart is fixed, trusting
(Psa. 112:7
{ She said within he
{ Matt, : 21 .
if thou w Lait
(Mark i :
I know him whom have
ANALYSIS
WOMAN,
suffered
which had
WoOllin
ave been af-
issue of blood
205.
in his infirmity
.
p- x 1
a little
suffered
heard concerning Jesus,
ay.
1
nn
21).
Tr % . .
see Jesus (John 12
BA
49
make me clean
nt all she had, an
bettered,’ (1)
: {3} Fatlure,
heard the things concert
' (1) A nesdy hearer;
yessage; (3) An
touched
need; (2)
proach; {3 41
COSS,
If. THE HEALING
sasciouns Restoration:
fell in body
healed (29
He....began to
things Jesus had don
oA.
1 know, that, whereas 1
I see (John 9 : 25)
Ie entered,....
snd praising God (Acts 3 :
| He went on his way rejoicing
I 8:50,
IL. Outgoing Power:
The power proceeding from him had
gone forth (30).
| He....gave them authority...
(Matt. 10: 1.
TOUCH.
1
4
She
Het
how great
2 4
was blind, now
-
10 heal
neal {Luke 5 : 17).
Power came forth from him, and heal
ed them all (Luke 6 : 19).
| I perceived that power
from me {Luke 8 : 46).
115 Loving Detection:
Who touche 1 my garments? (3
| Who is it thal touched me?
8:45).
Zasclueus, make haste, and come down
i {Luke 19 : 5}.
| When thou wast under th
saw thee (John 1 : 48),
He himself knew what was in
{John 2 : 25).
1. “she felt In her body that she was
healed.” (1) Miraculously hea ed;
(2) Consciously healed; (3) Com-
pletely healed.
“Pereeiving in himself that the
power. . .. had gone forth.” (1) The
Lord's inherent power; (2)
Lord's outgoing power.
had gone
8
1
{Luke
po fig tree, 1
nan
a9
-
{1} ‘lhe pressing multitude; (2)
The surprising question; (3) The
gracious detection,
111. THE SUPREME COMMENDATION,
1. The Look of the Lord,
He looked round about to see her (32].
The Lord. ...beholdeth all the sons of
men (Psa. 33 : 13).
The king came in tg behold the guests
(Matt, 22:11).
He had looked round about on them
with anger (Mark 3: 5).
The Lord turned, and looked upon Peter
(22 : 61)
il. The Acknowledgment of
Woman:
The woman... .fell down before him,
and told him all (33)
Declared. ... for what cause she touched
(Luke 8 : 47).
Many... believed on him because of
the word of the woman (John 4 : 39),
Told....it was Jesus which made him
whole (Jobn b © 15)
Thou Jeuowsst that 1 love thee (John
1:17)
111. The Benediction of the Lord:
Go in peace, and be whole of thy
Plague (04).
eli: thy faith hath made
thee whole (Matt' 9:
the
EE —————————————
Gio thy way: thy faith hath made thee
whole (Lake 17 : 19).
1. “He looked round aboul to see
her.” (1) The Secker; (2) The
sought,
2. “The woman....came and fell
down before him.” (1) Ceming to
Jesus: (2) Worshipping Jesus; (3)
Prevaling with Jesus,
3. “Go in peace, and be whole of thy
plague.” (1) Peace; (2) Wholeness,
—{1) Coming in trouble: going ir
pea; (2) Coming in sickness; going
in health; (3) Coming in fear; going
in faith,
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LESSON BIBLE READING,
THE TOUCH OF JESUS,
Desiring Jesus’ touch (Mark B :22
Luke 18 : 154.
| Desiring to touch Jesus (Matt. 9: 20,
| 21; Mark 3:10; 5:27,28: Luke®
19; 8B : 44).
Healed by the touch of Jesus (Matt, 8 :
3.15: 9:20; Mark 1:41;79:33 ;
Luke 5 : 13:7 :14 ; 22: 51).
| Healed by touching Jesus (Matt, 14 :
26; Mark 5 : 27-20; 6 : 56).
The toucher sought (Mark 5:80, 21:
Luke 8 : 45),
Touch forbidden (John 20 : 17).
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LESSON SURROUNDINGS,
i It 18 generally agreed among recent
| barmonists that Mark 2 : 15-22 is
| of its chronological order. The feast
| at the house of levi (Matthew), and
| the subsequent discourse, teen to nd
| their proper place between verses 21 and
{22 of chapter 5; that is, immediately
| before the present lesson.
| The reasons for this view sasy |
| briedy stated, In Matthew 9 : 185 ibs
| deBuitely said that the rule
3
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out
£
Came
“‘while be spake these things;” that is,
the discourse about fasting, elc.
| discourse is connected in all tree ac-
| counts with the feast atthe Louse of
| Levi, and it is difficult to disconnect
| the two by any other view of the order.
i But the call of Levi (Matthew) is
| rectly joined with the hesling of the
{ paralytic in all the accounts. Is
| of them is it asserted that the feast iwm-
| mediately followed the call
| Itis positively certain thal the wo-
man was healed while our Lord was on
the way to the house Jairvs, (It
| will be noticed that the passage Mark
{2 :1522 is the only one io Mark's par-
| rative of the Galilean ministry that is
not in position.] The
| place was, in all probability, Caper-
pnaum. The time was very shortly after
| the return from the country of the
| Gerasenes, late in the year of Rome 781,
A.D, 28
Parallel passages:
: 43-45,
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Matt,
Jirds Can Count,
“finds have at least a vague ea ol
| the number of eggs in their nests, To
{ pan not take oul one without causing u
{ them a disquiet that becomes greater i
We remove more, jut they manifest a
like distress when their egge are only
| disarranged. {s this because tix
geowetrical arrangement of the ezgs
changed? Five eggs or four make 2
sy mime lrical arrangement as the bire
disposes of them. Bus if some
taken out, and three, or two, Or One
oh
alt
{ bly changed
“Have they also the faculty of est
mating as successive repeti
tions of the same facts in time, or of
counting the reiteration ef Lhe same
| perceptions? 1 was once told of a
workman who was in the babit of giv-
| ing sugar every day to a dog he mel In
oing to his work. he dog counted
daddy return. He gave three
ar one after the other, and
or 1
n his
EURR of
ny
ed and did not ask for any more. It
had, therefore, the notion of these
three successive facts, and could count
them,
| *‘Houzeau de la Hale tells of a peli-
| ean livin: in a fisherman's fam'ly at
| Santo Domingo that was fed upon the
| refuse of the fish cleaning. Looking
| for its food, it went Lo the shere every
| day and waited for the boails to come
| back. ‘I'he fishermen rested on Sun-
{ day. and the bird acquired se clear a
| notion of the return of that day, when
| it had to fast, that it weuld not stir
| from the tree on which it Was accus-
| tomed to spend its time. It is mot nec-
essary to suppose that the pehican had
| learned to count the six days at the end
| of which its maslers woudd mot go Oshe
| ing; but, while it really es"imated daily
| the time when it must make its excur-
| sion to the shore, it was wformed of
| the return of Sunday by observalion of
| what was going on in the house; as,
| for instance, by the fishermen pulling
| on their Sunday clothes, in the same
way as the dog knew when ils maser
| was going to bunt by Seeing him w'th
| his gun and game bag."
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Cheap Restaurant Siang.
“So If 1 were to give the cook your
order as stated by you, and say, ‘One
porterhouse steak,’ the cook would
broil himself to Ceath on the coals in
astonishment, I'd sumply say ‘brown
stone front,’ and your order would be
served to a turn, So, fried ham is re-
duced to “one in the pan,’ and boiled
eggs to ‘two in the water.’ Poached
eggs, in our vernacular, becomes ‘chip-
ples on the fecce,’ and if des ved on
toast, ‘three on horseback.” Scrambled
eggs signify shipwreck,’ and mt'k toast
js :urmished by ordering ‘graveyard
stew.’ Spareribs are ‘hoopskwia.’ and
sausage in the kitchen takes the nawe
of ‘cable line.’ And to summarize,
ted ‘bowl ups’ hot cakes,
Let we make
rm I Is
Ground fish 18 now being extensively
used ns food in place of ground
weal, and a said to be excellent,
contams guite & propor-
tion of bone as well as meal.