DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
Joy! Joy! Joy!
“firing hither the fatted enlf and kil it."
Fake 15:23,
Jox! joy! joy! We banquet to-day
over this accession of a multitude of
souls. In all ages of the world it has
Been customary to celebrate joyful
events by festivity —the signing of trea-
ties, the proclamation of peace, the
Christmas, the marriage. However
much on other days of the year our
table may have stinted supply, on
Thanksgiving Day there must Le some-
thing bounteous. And all the comfort-
able homes of Christendom have at
some time celebrated joyful events by
banquet and festivity.
Something bas happened in the old
homestead greater than anything that
has ever happened before.
A FAVORITE SON,
whom the world supposed would be-
come a vagabone and outlaw forever,
has got tired of sight-seeing and has re-
turned to his father’s house. The
world said he never would come back.
The old man always said his son would
come, He had been looking for him
day after day and year after year. He
knew he would come back. Now, hav-
ing returned to his father’s house, the
failier proclaims celebration,
There is a calf in the paddock that
: kept up and fed to utmost
as
been
casion of joy that might come along.
All there never will be a grander day
on the old homestead than this day.
Let the butchers do their work, and
the housvkeepers bring in to the smok-
ing meat. The musicians will take
their places, and the gay groups will
move up and down the tloor. All the
friends and neighbors are gathered In,
and extra supply 1s sent out to the table
of the servants. The father presides at
the table, and says grace, and thanks
God that his long-absent boy is home
again. Oh how they missed him!
HOW GLAD THEY ARE
to have him back! One brother, in-
deed, stands pouting at the back door
and says:
nothing; this bad boy should have been
chastened instead of greeted; veal is
too good for him!” Dut the father
says:
is good enough,?’ There sits the young
man, glad at the hearty reception, but
a shadow of sorrow flitting across his
brow at the remembrance of the trou-
ble be had seen. All ready now.
the covers lift, Music. He was dead,
and he again! He was lost,
and he is found! By such bold imagery
does the Bible set forth the merry-
making when a eoul comes home to
God.
I. First of all, there is
THE NEW CONVERT'S JOY.
1t is no tame thing to become a Chris-
tian, The most tremendous moment
in a man’s life is when he surrenders
himself to God. The grandest time on
abe father’ nestead is when the boy
comes back. wong the great throng
who in the patlors of this church pro-
fessed Christ one night, was a young
man, who next mgorning rang my doors
bell and said: **Sir, I cannot contain
myself with the joy I feel; I came here
this morning to express it. I have
found more joy in five minutes in serv-
ing God thau ia all the
prodigality, and I came to say 80."’
iy
iS Alive
ung for N3 physical liberty, and the
officers of the law after him, and you
the judge had pardoned him, and how
great was the glee of that rescued man;
pared with the running for one’s ever-
lasting
him, but Christ coming in to pardon and
bless and rescue and save. You
member John Bunyan in bis great story
tells how Lhe pilgrim put his fingers in
his ea:®, and ran, crying, *'Life, life |
<eernal life!” A poor car-driver in this
city sore years ago, after baving had a
struggle to support lus family, sudden-
ly was inicrined that
A LARGE INHERITANCE
wae Lis, and there was joy amounting
to bewilderment; but that is a small
thing compared with the experience of
one when be bas put in his hands the
title-deed to the joys, the raptures, the
splendors of Heaven, and he can truly
say: ‘‘Its mansions are miue, its tem-
pies are mine, its songs are mine, its
God is mine!” Ob, it Is no tame thing
to become a Christian. It is a merry-
making. It is the Killing of the fatted
calf. It is jubilee. You know the
Bible never compares it to a funeral,
but always compares it to something
bright. It is more apt to be compared
fo a banquet (han anything else, It is
compared in the Bible to the water,
bright, flashing, water; to the morning,
roseate, fire-worked, mountain-trans-
figured morning. 1 wish 1 could to-
day take all the Bibie expressions about
pardon and peace aud life and comfort
and hope and Heaven, and twist them
into one garland, and put it on the
brow of the humblest child of God in
this assemblage, and cry: “Wear it,
wear it now, wear it forever, son of
God, daughter of the Lord God Al-
mighty 1” Oh, the joy of the new con-
vert! Ob, the gladness of the Chris-
tian service!
You have seen, sometimes, a man in
a religious assembly get upand give his
experience, Well,
PAUL GAVE MIS EXPERIENCE,
Ee aiose in the presence of the two
Churches, the Church on earth and the
Church in Heaven, and he said: “Now
this Is my experience: ‘sorrowful, yet
always rejoicing—poor, yet making
any rich--having nothing, yet posses.
ting all things.’ If the people in
this house this morning knew the j
of the Christian Religion, they would
ull pass over into the kingdom of God
the next moment. When Daniel Sande-
man was dying of cholera, his attend.
ant said: “Have you much pain?”
“Oh,” he replied, ‘since I found the
Lord I have never had any pain except
- sin,” Then they said to him: “Would
you like to send a message to your
friends?’ ‘‘Yes, I would; tell them
that only last night the love of Jesus
. rushing into my soul like the sur-
of the sea, and I had to ory out:
" op Lor, J io SnowgH: stop, Lord,
oy the joys of this relig-
Aust pass over from those tate iovs
li
il
t in
in which you are mdulging—joys of
this world—into the. raptures of the
Gospel. “
THE WORLD CANNOT SATISFY YOU;
you have found that out--Alexander
longing for other worlds to conquer,
and yet drowned in his own bottle;
Byron whipped by disquietudes around
the world: V#taire cursing his own
soul, while all the streets of aris were
applauding him: Henry Il, consuming
with hatred against poor Thomas a
Becket—all illustrations of the fact
that this world cannot make a man
happy, The very man who poisoned
the pommel! of the saddle on which
Queen Elizabeth rode, shouted in the
street: ‘‘God save the Queen!” One
moment the world applauds, and the
next moment the world anathematizes,
Oh, come over into this greater joy,
this sublime solace, this magnificent
beatitude! The night after the lL tleof
Shiloh, and thers were thousands of
wounded on the field, and the ambu-
lances had not come, one Christian sol-
dier lying there under the starlight be-
gan to sing:
“There 18 a Jand of pure delight,”
and when he eame to the next
there were scores of voices uniting:
“Where saints immortal reign.”
The song was caught up, all through
the fields, among the wounded, until it
| was said there were at least ten thou-
| sand wounded men reuniting their
voices as they came to the verse:
“There everlasting spring abides,
And never-withering flowers;
Death like a narrow stream divides
That neavenly land from ours.”
Oh, it is a great religion to live by,
and it is a great religion to die by.
There is only one heart-throb between
{ you and that religion this morsing.
Just look into the face of your pardon-
time and for eternity, and He is yours,
and heaven is yours, and all is yours,
Some of you, like the young man of
the text, have gone far astray. 1 know
not the history, but youn know it, you
know it! When a young man went
forth into life, the legend says his guar-
dian angel went forth with him, and
getting him into a field, the guardian
angel sve! ‘i around where the
young mau wi, It was
A CIRCLE OF VIRTUE
and honor, and he must not step be-
yond that circle. Armed foes came
| down, but were obliged to halt at the
| circle—they could not pass, But one
| day a temptress with diamonded hand,
{ stretched forth and crossed that circle
| with the hand, and the templed soul
| took it, and by that one feli grip was
| brought beyond the circle, aud died.
Some of you have stepped beyond that
{ circle, Would you not like, this day,
{ by the grace of God, to step back?
This, I say to you, is your hour of sal-
{| vation,
There was in the close hours of
| Queen Anne what Is called the clock
| Fiat down on the pillow in
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scene,
| her head or move her hand. She was
| ters of state should gather In angr
| contest, and, worried and worn out by
i of the nurse, in the power, the strange
| power which delirium sometimes gives
{ one, she arose and stood in front of the
clock, and stood there watching the
t clock when the nurse returned, The
nurse said: “Do you see anyihing pe-
| culiar about that clock?” She made
| no answer, but soon died. There is
A CLOCK SCENE IX EVERY HISTORY,
| 1f some of you would rise from the bed
| of lethargy, and come out from your
delirium of sin, and look on the clock
| of your dest ny this morning, you would
| see and hear something you have not
seen or heard before; and every tick of
he minute, and every stroke of the
hour, and every swing of the pendulum
would say: “*Now, now, now, now"
Oh, come home to your Father's housel
Come home, O prodigal, from the wil-
| derness! Come home, come home!
II, But I notice that when the pro-
i digal came, there was the father's joy.
| He did not greet him with any formal
{ “How do you do?” He did not come
| out and say: ‘‘You are unfit to enter;
| go out and wash 1n the trough by the
{ well, and then you can come in; we
| have had enough trouble with you,”
| Ah no! When the proprietor of that
estate proclaimed festival, it was an
outburst of a father’s love and a father's
joy.
GOD 18 YOUR FATHER,
I have not much Sympaihy with that
description of God I sometimes hear,
as though He were a Turkish Sultan,
hard and unsympathetic, and listening
pot to the cry of Elis subjects, A man
told me he saw in one of the Eastern
lands a king riding along, and two men
were in altercation, and one charged
the other with having eaten his rice;
and the king said: “Then slay the
man, and by post-mortem examination
find whether he has eaten the rice,”
And he was slain, Ahl the cruelty of
a scene like that, Our God isnota
Sultan, not a Czar, not a despot, but a
Father--kind, loving, forgiving, and
He makes all heaven ring again whea
a prodigal comes back. *I have no
pleasure,” He says, “in the death of
him that dieth,”
If a man does not get to heaven it 18
because he will not go there, No dif-
ference the color, no difference the
history, no difference the antecedents,
no difference the surroundings, no dif-
ference the sin, When the white horses
of Christ’s victory are brought out to
celebrate the eternal triumph you may
ride one of them, and as God is greater
than all, His joy is greater; and when
ba soul comes back there is in His heart
the surging of an infinite ocean of glad.
ness, and to express that gladness it
takes all the rivers of pleasure, and all
the thrones of pomp, and all the ages
of eternity, It is a joy deeper than all
depth, and higher than all height, and
wider than all width, and vaster than
all immensity, It overtops it under.
girds, it outweight, all the united
splendor and joy of the universe. ho
can tell what God's joy ls? You re-
member, 3
THE STORY OF A KING
who, on some great da
scattered silver and
people, and sent valuable pres
his courtiers; but methinks
soul comes back, God is so glad
express His joy he flings out new worlds
into space, and kindles up new suns,
and rolls among the white-robed an-
thems of the redeemed a greater halle-
lujah, while with a voice that rever-
berates among the mountains of frank-
incense and is echoed back from the
everlasting gates, He cries: “This,
my son, was dead, and he is alive
again.”
At the opening of the Exposition in
New Orleans 1 saw a Mexwan flutist,
and he played the solo, and then after-
ward the eight or ten bands of music,
accompanied by the great organ, came
in; but the sound of that one flute as
compared with all the orchestra was
greater than all the combined joy of
the universe when compared with the
resounding heart of Almighty God.
For ten years a father went three
times a day to the depot,
HIS BON WENT OFF
in aggravating circumstances, but the
father sald: “He will come back.’”” The
strain was too much, and his mind
parted, and three times a day the father
went, In the early morning he watched-
the train, its arrival, the stepping out of
the passengers, and thenthe departure
of the train. At noon he was there
again watching the advance of the
train, watching the departure. At
! night, there again;watching the coming,
watching the going—{for ten years, He
was sure his son would come back,
God has been watching and waiting for
some of you, my brothers, ten years,
twenty years, thirty years, forty years,
perhaps fifty years—waiting, walling,
watching, watching; and if this morn-
ing the prodigal should come home,
what a scene of gladness and festivity,
and how the great Father's heart would
rejoice at your coming home! You will
come, some of you, will you You
vill, you willl
111. I notice, also, that when a prodi-
i gal comes home there is
THE JOY OF THE MINISTERS
of religion, Oh, it is a grand thing to
preach this gospell 1 know there Las
been a great deal said about the trials
and the hardships of the Christian
ministry. 1 wish somebody would
write a good, rousing book about the
joys of the Christian ministry, Since 1
entered the profession I seen
more of the goodness of God than I will
be able to celebrate in all eternity, 1
know some boast about their equili-
brium, and they do not rise into en-
thusiasm, and they do not break down
with emotion; but I confess to you
plainly that when I see a man coming
to God, and giving up his sin, 1 feel
body, mind, and soul a
When I see a man who is bound hand
and foot in evil habit emancipated, 1
not?
nov?
have
1
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| own emancipation. When to-day in our
communion service such throngs of
and old stand at these altars,
and the presence of heaven and
| earth and hell attest their allegiance to
| Jesus Christ, 1 feel a joy something
| akin to that which the apostle describes
| when he says: ““Whetner in the body I
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i tell: God konoweth."
Oh, have got ministers a right to re-
when a prodigal comes home?
| They blew the trumpet, and ought they
i the gathering of the
| host? They pointed at the full supply,
{and ought they to rejoice when
souls pant as the hart for the water-
| brooks? They came forth saying, *“*All
things are now ready;’’ ought they not
| to rejoice when the prodigal sits down
at the banquet?
WILY M TERS LIVE LONG,
Life-insurance men will all tell
that ministers of religion as a class live
longer than any other,
| joice
i not to be glad of
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INIS
There is more
system than In any
and their toil is more exhausting, I
have seen ministers Kept on miserable
§tipends by parsimonious congregations,
who wonder at the dullness of sermons,
when the men of God were complexed
almost to death by questions of liveli-
food to keep any fire in their tempera
ment, No fuel, no fire! 1 have some-
times seen the inside of the life of many
of the American clergymen -never aoe
cepling their hospitality, because they
cannot afford it; but 1 have seen them
struggle on with salaries of five and
six hundred dollars a year—the average
less than that—their struggle well de-
picted by
THE WESTERN MISSIONARY,
who says in a letter: “Thank you for
you last remittance; until it came we
had not any meat in our housa for one
year, and all last winter, although Iv
was a severe winter, our children wore
of God | find in different parts of the
land, struggling against annoyances
and exasperations innumerable; some of
them week after week entertaining
noyance, and yet without complaint,
and cheerful of soul, How do you ac-
count for the fact that these life-insur-
ance men tell us that ministers as a
class live longer than any others? It is
because of the joy of their work, the
joy of the haryest-field, the joy of greet-
ing prodigals home to thelr Father's
house.
Oh, we are in sympathy with all in-
nocent hilarities, We can enjoy a
hearty song, and we can be merry with
the merriest; but those of us who have
toiled in the service are ready to testify
that all these joys are lame compared
with the satisfaction of seeing men en-
ter the kingdom of God. The great
eras of every minister are the outpour-
sigs of the Holy Ghost, and I thank
God I have seen eighteen of them.
Thank God! thank God!
1V. I notice, also, when the prodigal
comes back, all earnest.
CHRISTIANS REJOICE.
If you stood on Montauk Point and
there was a hurricane at sea, and it
was blowing toward the shore, and a
vessel crashed into the rocks, and you
gaw people get ashore in the hfeboats
and the very last man got on the rocks
in safety, you could mot control your
joy. And itis a glad time when the
Church of God sees men who are tossed
on the ocean of their sins plant their
fon ih a —— home, just
Ww.
Ne ristiane
| those pray. 1 is not
stereotyped supplication we have heard
over and over again for twenty years,
but a putting of the case in the hands
of God with an importunate pleading,
No long prayers, Men never pray at
great length unless they have nothing
to say, and their hearts are hard and
cold, All the prayers in the Bible that
were answered were short prayers:
“God be merciful to me a sioner.”
“Lord, that I may receive my sight.”
“Lord, ssye me or I perish,” The
longest prayer, Solomon's prayer at the
dedication of the Temple, less than
eight minutes in length, according to
the ordinary rate of enunciation. And
just hear them pray, now that the prodl-
gals are coming home! Just see them
shake hands! No putting forth of the
four tips of the fingers in a formal way,
but a hearty grasp, where the muscles
of the heart seem to clench the fingers
of one hand around the other hand,
And then see those Christian faces, how
illumined they are! And see that old
man get up, and with the same voice
that he sang fifty years ago in the old
country meeting-house, say, “Now,
Lord, lettest Thou Thy servant depart
in peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy
salvation,” There was
A MAX OF KEITH
wlio was hurled into prison in time of
persecution, and one day he got off his
shackles, and he came and stood by the
prison door, and when the jailer was
opening the door, with one stroke he
struck down the man who had mcarcer-
ated him. Passing along the streets of
London, he wondered where his family
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
Busnay FEpnuAny 24, 1589,
The Great Teacher and the Twelve,
LESSON TEXT.
Mark 6: 1.13 Memory verses, 10-12)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric OF THE QUARTER:
Muyhty Worker,
Jesus the
GOLDEN 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.
Toric: The Necessity of
LESSON
Fuith,
ah 1. Unbelief Iinstrated, va. 1.6
Lamon 4 4% Faith Encouraged, va. 1-1i.
a. Faith Exercised, va 12, 1%,
GOLDEN TEXT : And they went oul,
and preached that men should repent
Mark 6 : 12.
Dairy Home BEADINGS:
M.—Mark 6 :1-13. The necessi
of faith,
T.-Matt,
illustrated,
W.—Matt, 9 : 55-28: 10 : 1-15.
borers sent ou
T.—Matt, 1
Work.
ty
Unb lief
La-
)
Lab
Aaborers at
I',.—1 Cor. 3 : 1-15. Laborers to-
gether with God,
Acts 10 : 1-20. An open door
8 Heb. 11:17-40. Victors through
faith.
; - BA enn
LESSON ANALYSIS
was, He did not dare to ask lest he ex-
| cite suspicion, but passing along a little
| way from the prison, he saw a K
tankard, a cup that belonged
family from generation to
ith
vig
aration
eration
he saw it in a window,
| hoping that some day he would get
| came and lived as near as they could to
{the prison-house, and they set
Keith tankark in the window,
he would see it; and he came along an
| saw it, and knocked at door, an
{ went in, and the i i
| were all together again, Ob,
{ would start for the kingdom of God
i day, 1 thini of you would
| nearly all your friends and nearly
{ your families around the holy tan}
lof the holy « fathers,
| mothers, brothers, sisle that
{ sacred tankard
i the love of Jesus Christ our
{ it will be great communi
hoping
the
it yo
some
i
it
MRInUnIon
rs, around
WHC
Lord,
n day
tankard, One on earth, one in heaven,
Y. Once more 1 remark that, when
| the prodigal gets back, the
INHABITANTS OF HEAVEN KER!
TIVAL.
I um very certain of it.
i
I. UNBELIEF ILLUSTRATED,
i I. Authority Questioned :
| Whe
w do %
1 aven? |
11. Alienation Allowed :
They offended in hin
He shall be... .for a stone (
¢ of offence {
{ Matt,
out
wen
“4:
ing (Bom. 9:3
{ IIL. Benefits Hindered:
He could tl
i here do no might
He did not n )
Dedanse
no idea how many cities are
! together, and how many laud
{ all the neighborhoods ot the earth
| articulated, and fli
ii
LHEWS
| But more rapidly go the
{earth to heaven; and when a prodigal
returns, it is announced the
throne of God-
! morning should
before
enter the Kingdom,
| “T'nat’s my mother,” *“That’s my son,”
“That's my daughter,” “That's my
friend,” **That’s the one I used to pray
| for,” *T1
i would
“Hosannal'’ and another so
say, “Hallelujah!”
“Plogsed with the news, the saints t
In songs thelr tongues employ,
Beyond the skyos the tidings go,
And heaven is nlled with joy
“Nor angels cap their joy contain,
But kindle with new fire
The sinner Jost ia fc
And trike the sous
At
Cicero
ind, they sing,
ing iyre.”
the banquet
the orator:
of Lucullus,
at the Macedonian
hil-
Grecian banquet sat Socrates the p
the
returned prodigals, more than con-
querors, The table is so wide iis leaves
| reach across seas and across lands, Itg
| guests are the redeemed of earth and
{ the glorified of heaven. The ring of
| God's forgiveness on every hand, the
| from every shoulder. The
ten thousand sacraments, lel
lof heaven, rise, and, with gleaming
| chalice, drink to the return of a thou-
sand prodigals., Sing! sing! sing!
| “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to
| receive blessing and riches and honor
endl!”
animal ——
Heat Versus Food,
“Why do you keep It so blazing hot?"
inquired a patron of the proprietor re-
cently as he entered a restaurant. *“‘De-
cause it is cold outside,” replied the
proprietor. After the patron had left
| the premises the restaurant proprietor
| confidingly made the following confes-
sion to a newspaper man: “You see,
I've been in this business for a quarter
of a century, ny experience has
taught me that ucder ordinary eircum-
stances men devour more food at a
single meal in piercing cola weather
than when the outside temperature is
moderate. When I first embarked in
the eating house business I was green
enough to economize in wood for heat-
ing the premises, imagining I was there.
by saving money, but I soon discovered
my mistake, as the patrons of my res-
taurant devoured such inordinate
quantities of food in winter that bank-
Juyaey stared me in the face. It was
here 1 learned a lesson from a cook, and
through which I have since acquired a
snug fortune, My ck ate barely
enough to sustain life in a Fanary bird
and I inquired the cause of his lack
appetite, He replied that it was due to
his being constantly employed about a
hot fire, and remarked that if I would
keep my restaurant red hot in winter
my boarders would not consume one.
half the amount of food, I tried the
experiment, and soon found that where-
as 1 had heretofore saved
while the premises were kept red hot,”
Pale shades of tiue are second in
tavor to the allsprevailing greens,
' {1) His hon
= 3s v1 11% * a
His lowly calling;
marvellad
1} Their unbelief; {
~Man's unbeli
Its
ORALIENesS,
11. FAITH EXNt
{| 1. Sent of the Lord:
| He began to 1 them forth
{ and two
i These twelve
fruits;
OURAGED.
SETI by two
™
h (Matt,
Jesus
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ROACH WIP
{ He sent them f king-
$ Hn
Gana
| They... . went
word (Acts 8B : 4).
{ IL Tanght of the Lord:
He charged them...
i unto them (8-10),
1
he sald
And
1 (Matt. 5:2).
He Regan to teach them many things
(Mark ©: 04).
many thin
pA
I have yet
(John 16 : 12).
The words which thou gavest me I have
given unto them (John 17 : 8).
IL Emboldened of the Lord:
gs to say unto you
fast (11).
| 1t shall be more tolerable for Sodom.
i «+... than for that city (Matt, 10 : 15).
| Lo, 1 am with you alway (Matt. 28 : 20),
Shake of the dust....for a testimony
azainst them (Luke 9 : 5),
They shook off the dust ot their feet
against them (Actsl3 : 51).
“1. “He gave them authority.” (1)
The Lord's supremacy; (2) The
disciples’ endowment.— (1) The
giver; (2) The gift; (3) The recipi-
ents; (4) The results,
2. “Take nothing for their journey.
(1) A feeble band; (2) A hostile
world; (3) An empty hand; (4) An
effective mission,
8. “shake off the dust.” {1) The act
performed; (2) The fact expressed.
11. FAITH EXERCISED,
I. Going:
They went out (12).
They went forth, and preached every-
where {Mark 16 : 20).
They departed, and went throughout
the villages (Luke 9 : 6),
They... travelled as far a Phoenicia,
and Cyprus, and Antioch (Acts
11 : 19).
How shall they preach, except they be
sent? (Rom, 10 : 15).
IL Preaching:
They. ...preached that men should
repent (12).
John the Baptist, preaching, . ... Repent
yo (Matt. 3 : 1, 2).
They....went, preaching the gospel
(Luke 9 : 6).
How shall they hear without a preacher?
(Rom, 10 : 14).
Preach the word (2 Tim. 4 : 2).
111. Healing:
They... .anointed with cil many that
, and healed them a
Luke 9 : 8),
Christ of N .
walk (Acts 8: 6).
God wrought miracles by the
hands of Paul 19: 11).
The of
ho
faith shall save him that
“
Gan 3119),
“They went out, and preached,’
J1) Missionaries; (2) Preachers. —
(1) Obedient to the Lord; (2) Help-
ful to the world.
2, “They cast out many devils.” (1)
Demoniacal, possessions; (2) Apos
tolic exorcism.
“Healed them.” (1) Suffering
humanity: (2) Healing Christianity
—(1} Healing needed; (2) Healing
granted.
LESSON BIBLE READING,
| THE APOSTLES AND THEIR WORK.
Their names (Matt, 10 : 2-4 ; Mark :
16-19; Acts 1 : 26; Rom. 1 : 1}.
From lowly positions (Matt, 4: 15-
AA
voy
Acts 4 : 13}.
| Eyewitnesses of Christ's career (Luke
I 1:2:Acts1:21,22:1C0r.9:1:1
John 1 : 1).
| Ordained of Christ (Mark
John 15 : 16).
:13, 14;
{Ma
16:15; Acts 9: 1
Received miraculous power
1: Mark 16 : 20; Acts 2 : 43).
| Suffered persecutions (Matt, 10 : 16.1
Luke 21 : 16; John 15 : 20:16 : 3
18 + 1-3: 2 Tim. 4 : 6)
tt. 28 :
MJ
16
19: Acts |
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ouths of February and March,
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passages:
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fulfilled, the
8 have to look to
s the season just about to be
inaugurat The fashionable men are
showing an alarming tendency towards
discarding conventional costumes and
adopting styles that are picturesque, to
say the least. We had a forecast of
the unusual splendor during the past
mer, when *‘gilded youths” saunt-
ered about t hotel porches,
their pristine flannel suils relieved with
broad Roman sashes, or wide metal
| belts and now it is prophesied that the
' midwinter will herald styles yet more
Some of the most courage-
nnovators credence to the
$1111
sum
He summer
gOrgeous,
give
E
Gus
as the French say; that our representa-
tive sociely men, a few of them, will
actually wear the Oriental sash, minus
the waistcoat, this winter for full dress,
Now these samo sashes are wide, of
superb quality and exquisite colorings.
nds, such as pink or
rusts
There are pale grou
biue, with conlrasiing {lee
ning | ntally, and there are also
| deep groun garnet, sione, mar ne
bi or royal purple, run Wil pale-
wed bars, Yes they are effective;
so effective, in faci, that {he warning is
to be repea'ed; the belle of to-day
! needs to be wary or the beau will eclipse
her splendor. Well, from all prospects
the belle intends to be extraordinarily
| wary, for charming in the extreme are
{ the costumes in course of completion
{ for the various midday and midnight
| entertainments that will soon make the
| winter days speed by like so many
| fleecy clouds,
haat
First Experience in a Sleeping Car.
un-
Col
Going down the great Jackson route
| from Gienada, Miss, a regular home-
spun native of the State entered the
| sleeping car and paid for a berth, He
had never been inside of a car of the
‘kind and everything astonished him,
| When the porter came to make up the
| beds I saw that the native was greatly
| perplexed, but as be made no direct ap-
| peal it wasu’t my duly to post him. He
| was the first one to make preparations
| for bed. He glanced anxiously around,
| pulled off one boot and then took a
rest for five minutes. When the other
| boot came off he had solved the prob-
lem.. Pushing his boots under the berth
be started for the rear platform and
nothing was heard from him for about
ten minutes. Then he put his head
into the door and called out:
“All you uns in thar, look out, for
I'm coming!”
And come he did, He had disrobed
while standing on the platform, made a
bundle of coat, vest and pants, and as
he shot into bed after a run up the aisle
he gurgled out:
“Old Mississipi may be a little slow,
but she allus gits thar just the same!”
—— I ——
What Culture Does.
Another gem from the school exams
ination papers—this time from the
Boston high school, and from the papers
of a young lady who had graduated
from the mar school:
Question—Is there an antidote for
hydroeyanic acid?
Answer— Yes, The antidote for hy
drocyanic acid is the tongue of alarge
utiously inhaled.