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DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
The Slaughter,
“Ag an ox to the slaughter, =Prov.7: 2
There is nothing in the voice or
manner of the butcher to indicate to
tise ox that there is death ahead. The
ox thinks he is going on to a rich past-
ure-fleld of clover, where all day long
he will revel in the herbaceous luxuri-
ance; but after a while the men and
the boys close in upon him with sticks
and stones and shouting, and drive him
through bars and into a dOOrway, where
he is fastened, and with a well-aimed
stroke the axe fells him; and so the
anticipation of the redolent pasture-
field is completely disappointed. So
many a young man has been driven on
by temptation to what he thought
would be temptation to what he
thought would be paradisiacal enjoy-
ment; but after a while, inQuences
with darker hue and swarthier arm
close in upon him, and he finds that
instead of making an excursion into a
garden, he has goue “as an ox to the
slaughter.”
SLAUGHTERED BY SOCIETY,
I. We ark apt to blame young men
for being destroyed, when we ought to
blame the influence that destroyed
them. Society slaughters a great many
men by the behest. ‘‘You must keep
up appearances; whatever be your sal-
ary, you must dress as well as others;
you must wine and brandy as many
friends, you must smoke as costly ci-
gars, you must give as expensive en-
tertainments, and you must live in as
fashionable a boarding-house. If you
haven't the. money, borrow. If you
can’t borrow, make a false entry, or
subtract here and there a bill from a
bundle of bank bills; you will only
have to make the deception a little
while; in a few months, or in a year or
two, you can make all right. Nobody
will be hurt by it; nobody will be the
wiser. You yourself will not be dam-
aged.” By that awful process a hun-
ired thousand men have been slaugh-
tered for time and slaughtered for
aternity.
Suppose you BOITOW. There is
nothing wrong about borrowing money.
There is hardly a man in the house but
has sometimes borrowed money. Vast
sstates have been bullt on a borrowed
dollar. But there are two kinds of
BORROWED MONEY,
Money borrowed for the purpose of
starting or keeping up legitimate enter.
prise and expense, and money borrowed
to get that which you can do without,
The first 1s right, the other is wrong.
If you have money enough of your own
to buy a coat, however plain, and then
you borrow money for a dandy’s outfit,
the wheel down grade. Borrow for
the necessities; that may
Borrow for the luxuries;
your prospects over in the wrong di-
rection,
The Bible distinctly says the bor-
rower is servant of the lender. It 1s a
meeting some one whom you owe. If
young men knew what 1s the despot-
ism of being in debt more of them
would keep out of it. What did debt
ing above the centuries?
him to take bribes, and convict him.
self as a criminal before all ages, What
did debt do for Walter Scott? DBroken-
hearted at Abbottsford. Kept him
writing until his hand gave out In
paralysis to keep the shenfl away from
his pictures and statuary. Better for
him if he had minded the maxim
which he had chiseled over the fre
place at Abbottsford, ‘‘Waste not,
want not.”’
The trouble is, my friends, the people
do not understand the ethics of golug
in debt, and that if you purchase goods
with no expectation of paying for them,
meet, you steal just so much money.
If I go into a grocer’s store, and 1 buy
capacity to pay for them, and no inten-
dishonest than if I go into the store,
and when the grocer’s face is turned
the other way [ fill my pockets with
the articles of merchandise and carry
offa ham. In the one case I take the
merchant’s time, and I take the time of
his messenger to transfer the goods to
my house, while in the other case I
take none of the time of the merchant,
and 1 wait upon myself, and 1 transfer
the goods without any trouble to him,
In other words, a sneak thief is not sv
bad as a man who contracts for debits
hie never intends to pay.
PERIPATETIC DEBTORS,
Yet in all our cities thers are fami-
lies that move every May-day to get
into proximity to other grocers, and
meat shops, and apothecaries, They
owe everybody within a half mile of
where they now live, and next May,
they will move into a distant part of
the city, finding a new lot of victims,
Meanwhile you, the honest family in
the new house, are bofhered day by day
by the knocking ab the door of disap-
pointed bakers, and butehers, and dry
goods dealers, and péwspaper carriers,
and you are asked where your prede-
cessor is. You do not know. It was
arranged you should not know. Mean-
while your predecessor has gone to
some distant part of the city, and the
people who have anything to sell have
sent their wagons and stopped thers to
solicit the “valuable” custom of the
new neighbor, and he, the new neigh-
bor, with great complacency and with
an air of affluence orders the finest
steaks, and the highest priced sugars,
and the best of the canned fruits, and,
perhaps, all the newspapers. And the
debts will keep on accumulating until
he gots his on the 30th of next
Apt in the furniture cart,
ow, let me say, If there are any
such pefsons in the house, if you have
any regard for your own eonvenlence,
you had better remove to some greatly
distant part of the city. It 1s Loo bad
ving had all the trouble of
nT! 2s
Jet me say that if you find that this
pictures your own instead
. of being In church :
YOU OUGHT TO BE IN THE PENITEN-
Als Tl eh TIARYY tow ple. ;
No wonder that: s mmay of sii mre
Jae ail ssa” a
PIR GOR Oe APE EE
RIE LH
on hide
chants fail in business. They are
swirddled Into bankruptey by these
wandering Arabs, these nomads of
city life. They cheat the grocer out
of the green apples which make them
sick, the physician who attends their
distress, apd the uudertaker who fits
them out for departure from the neigh-
borhood where they owe everybody,
when they pay the debt of nature, the
only debt they ever do pay!
Now our young men are coming up
in this depraved state of commercial
ethics, and I am solicitous about them.
I want to warn them against being
slaughtered on the sharp edges of debt,
You want many things you have not,
my young friends, ou shall have
them if you have patience and honesty
and industry. Certain lines of conduct
always lead out to certain results,
There isa law which controls even those
THINGS THAT SEEM HAPHAZARD,
I have been told by those who have ob-
served that it is possible to calculate
just how many letters will be sent to
the Dead Letter Uflice every year
through misdirection; that it is possible
to calculate just how many letters will
be detained for lack of postage stamps
through the forgetfulness of the sead-
er; and that it 1s possible to tell just
how many people will fall in the streets
by slipping on orange peel. In other
words, there are no accidents, The
most insignificant event you ever heard
of is the link between two eternities—
the eternity of the past and the
eternity of the future. Head the
right way, and you will come out at
the right goal.
Bring me a young man and tell me
what his physical health is, and what
his mental calibre, and what his habits,
and I will tell you what will be his
destiny for this world, and his destiny
for the world to come, and I will not
make five inaccurate prophecies out of
the five hundred, All this makes me
solicitous in regard to young men, and
I want to make them nervous in re-
gard to the contradiction of unpayable
debts, I give you a paragraph from
MY OWN EXPERIENCE.
My first settlement as pastor was In
a village, My salary was $500 and a
parsonage. The amount seemed enor-
mous to me. I said to myself, ** What!
all this for one year?” 1 was alraid of
getting worldly under so much pros-
perity! I resolved to invite all the con-
gregation to my house in groups of
twenty-five each. We began, and as
they were the best congregation in all
the world, and we felt nothing was too
table. I never completed
the undertakiog, At the end of six
months I was in financial despair. J
found, what every young man learns in
time to save himself, or too late, that
When a young man wilfully and of
choice, having the comforts of life,
HOUNDS IN FULL CRY,
They jingle
morning, they jingle his door-bell after
he has gone to bed at night, They
meet him as he comes off his front
They send him a postal-card, or
a letter, in curtest style, telling him to
pay up. They attach his goods. They
a note on demand.
knave.
They call him a
They say he lies. They want
They
him turned out of the bank.
‘they come wt him from this side, and
from that side, and from befors, and
from behind, and from above, and from
beneath, and he Is insulted and gib-
beted, and sued, and ddnned, and
sworn at, until he gets the nervous
dyspepsia, gets neuralgia, gets liver
Now he 1s dead, and you say: “Of
course they will let him alone?” Oh,
Now they are watchful to see
there is any useless handle en the cas-
ket, to see whether there is any surplus
plait on the shroud, (0 see whether the
18 costly or cheap, to see
have been bought by the family or do-
nated, to see in whose name the deed
to the grave is made ont. Then they
ransack the bereft household, the
books, the pictures, the carpets, the
chairs, the sofa, the plano, the mat-
tresses, the pillow on which he dies
Cursed be debt! For the sake or your
own happiness, for the sake of your
good morals, for the sake of your ime
mortal soul, for God’s sake, young
man, as far as possible, keep out of it!
11. But I think more young men
are
SLAUGHTERED THROUGH ITRRELIG-
ION.
Take away a young man’s religion, and
you make him a prey to evil, We all
know that the Bible is the only perfect
system of morals. Now, if you want
to destroy the young man’s morals take
his Bible away, How will you do that?
Well, you will caricature his reverence
for the Seriptures; you will take all
those incidents of the Bible which can
be made mirth of-Jonah's whale,
Samson's foxes, Adam's rib—then yon
will caricature eceentric Christians or
inconsistent Christians; then you will
pass off as your ownall those liackneyed
arguments against Christianity, which
are as old as Tom Paine, as old as Vol-
taire, as old as sin. Now you have
captured his Bible, and you have
taken Liz strongest fortress; the way is
comparatively clear, and all the gates
of his soul are set open in invitation to
the #ins of earth and the sorrows of
death,that they may come fu and drive
the stake for thelr encampment,
A steamer ffteen hundred miles
from shore with broken rudder and lost
compass, and hall leaking fifty gallons
an hour, 18 better off than » young man
when yoa Nave robbed him of his
Bible. Have you ever noticed how
dexpieaply mean it 1s to take away the
wotld’s Bible without proposing a sub-
stitute? It is meaner than Lo come Lo &
man and steal his medicine;
meaner than to come to a cripple and
steal his crutch; meaner than to
come to a pauper and steal his
prust; meaner than to coms to a
pros man and burn his houge, It 1a
THE WORST OF ALL LARCENIES
to steal the Bible, which has been tne
crutch and medicine and food and
eternal home to so many! What & gen-
erous and magnanimous business in.
fidelity has gone into! This splitting
up of life-boats and taking away of
fire escapes and extinguishing of light.
houses! I come out and I say to such
people. **What are you doing all this
for?" *‘Oh,” they say, *‘just for fun.” It
jg such fun to see Christisns try to hold
on to their Bibles! Many of them have
lost loved ones, and have been told
that there is a resurrection, and it Is
such fun to tell them there will be no
resurrection! Many of them have be-
lieved that Christ came to carry
the burdens and to heal the
wounds of the world, and it Is
such fun to tell them they will
have to be their own saviour! Think
of the meanest thing you ever heard of;
then go down a thousand feet under-
neath it, and you will find yourself at
the top of a stairs a hundred miles
long; go to the bottom of the stalrs,
and you will find a ladder a thousand
miles; then go to the foot of the
ladder and look off a precipice hall as
far as from here to China, and you
will find the headquarters of the mean:
only comfort In life, its only peace in
death, and its only hope for immortality.
Slaughter a young man’s faith in God,
and there is
NOT MUCH LEFT TO SLAUGHTER.
Now, what has become of the slaugh~
tered? Well, some of them are in thelr
father’s or mother’s house broken down
in health, waiting to die; others are in
the hospital; others are in Greenwood,
or, rather, their bodies are, for their
souls have gone on to retribution, Not
much prospect for a young man who
started Ife with good health, and good
education, and a Christian example
set him, opportunity of usefulness, who
gathered all his treasures and put them
in one box, dropped It into the sea
Now, how is this wholesale slaughter
to be stopped? There is not a person
in the house but is interested in that
question, Young man, arm yourself!
The object of my sermon is to put a
weapon in each of your hands for your
own defense. Walt pot for Young
Men's Christian Associations to protect
you, or churches to protect you. Ap-
peal to God for Lelp.
TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF.
First, have a room somewhere that
you can call your own. Whether It be
ing house, or a room in the fourth story
of a cheap lodging, I care not,
have that one room your fortress, Let not
threshold. If they come up the long
flight of steps and knock at the door,
meet them face to face and Kindly yet
firmly refuse them admittance.
la few family portraits on the wall,
| if you brought them with you from
your country home. Have a Bible
on the stand. If you can afford It,
land you can play on one, have an in-
or melodeon, or
| plano. Every morning before
leave that room pray. Every
after you come home in that room,
pray. Make that room your Gibraltar,
your Sebastopol, your Mount Zion, Let
no bad book or newspaper come into
that room, apy more than you would
allow a cobra to coil on your table.
Take care of yourself. Nobody else
will take care of you. Your help will
not come up two or three or four flights
of stairs; your help will come, through
the roof down from heaven, from that
God who in the six thousand years of
the world's history never betrayed a
young man who tried to be good and a
Christian. Let me say, in regard to
your adverse worldly circumstances, in
passing, that you are on a leve, now
with those who are
FINALLY TO SUCCEED.
Mark my words, young man, and think
of 1t thirty years from now, You will
| find that those who thirty years from
pow are the millionaires of this coun-
| cornet, violin, or
you
night
are the strong merchants of the coun-
try, who are the great philanthropists
of the country—mightiest in church
and state--are this morning on a level
with you, not an inch above you, and
in straitened circumstances
Herschel earned his living by
ing a violin at parties,
the interstices of the play he
would go out and Jook up at the
midnight heavens, the felds of his
immortal conquests, George Stephen-
son rose from being the foreman in a
colliery to be the most renowned of the
world’s engineers, No outfit, no capi-
tal, to start with! Young man, go
down to the Mercantile Library and
get some books, and read of what won-
derful mechanism God gave you in
play-
and in
your ear, and then ask some doctor to
take you into the dissecting room and
illustrate to you what you have read
about, and never again commit the
blasphemy of saying you have no
CAPITAL TO START WITH,
Equipped! Why, the poorest young
man in this house Is equipped as only
the God of the whole universe could
afford to equip him, Then his body—a
very poor affair compared with his
wonderful soul—oh, that is what makes
me solicitous, 1 am not so much anx-
fous about you, young man, because
you have so little to do with, as I am
anxious about you because you have
much to risk, and lose or gain,
There is no class of persons that so
stir my sympathies as young men In
great cities. Not quite enough salary
to live on, and all the temptations that
come from that defleit. Invited on all
hands to drink, and their exhausted
pervous system seeming to demand
stimulas, Their religion caricatured
by the most of the in the store
and most of the operators in the fao-
THE RAPIDS OF TEMPTATION
and death rushing against that young
man forty miles an hour, and he in &
frail boat headed up stream, with noth-
ing but a broken ear to work with,
Unless Almighty God help them they
will go under. 1 when I told you
a ae Of sabi 3 fheant
8 me ou nt you
are to ped spou Hels resol
which may be dissolved in the foam: of
the wipe cun, or may be blown out
with the first gust of temptation. Here
is the helmet, the sword of the Lord
God Almighty. Clothe yourself in that
panoply, and you shall not be put to
confusion, Sin pays well neither in
this world nor the next, but right
thinking, and right believing, and act-
ing will take you In safety through
this life, and in transport through the
next,
I never shall forget a prayer I heard
a young man make some fifteen years
ago. It was a very short prayer, but
it was a tremendous prayer: “Oh
Lord, help us. We find it so very
easy to do wrong, and so hard tc do
right. Lord, help us.’ That prayer,
I warrant you, reached the ear of God,
and reached His heart, And there are
in this house a hundred men who have
found out—a 1000 young men, perhaps,
who have found out—that very thing.
It is so easy to do wrong, and 80 hard
to do night.
1 got a letter, only one paragraph of
which I shall read: “Having moved
around somewhat I have run across
many young men of Intelligence, ar-
dent strivers after that will-o’-the-
wisp, fortune, and of one of these |
would speak. He was
A YOUNG ENGLISHMAN
of twenty three or four years, who
came to New York, where he had ac-
quaintances, with barely sufliclent to
keep him a couple of weeks, He had
been tenderly reared; perhaps I should
say too tenderly, and was not used to
earning his living, and found 1t ex-
tremely difficult to get any position
that he was capable of filling. After
many vain efforts in this direction he
found himself one Sunday evening in
Brooklyn, near your church, with about
three dollars left of his small capital.
Providence nsemed to lead him to your
door, and he determined to go in and
hear you.
“He told me his going to hear you
that night was undoubtedly the turn-
| itng-pomnt wm kis life, for when he went
| into your church he felt desperate, but
while listening to your discourse his
better nature got the mastery. I truly
believe, from what this young man
told me, that your sounding the depths
of his heart that night alone brought
him back to his God whom he was 50
pear leaving.”
The echo, that 18, of multitudes in
the house,
straction, but
A GREAT REALITY.
gal young man, Onl
| young man, discouraged
man, woanded young man, I
{mend you to Christ this day,
best friend a man ever had,
{you this morning. You have come
| here for this blessing. Despise not that
| emotion rising in your soul; it
vinely lifted, Look into the
| Christ.
+ SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
" BUKDAY APRIL 28, 1393,
Destruction of the Temple Foretold,
LESSON TEXT.
Mark 135: 144,
LESSON PLAN.
Toric oF THE QUARTER:
Finishing His Work.
Memory verses, 1, Z.
Jesus
GOLDEN TEXT Fon. THE QUARTER:
I have glorified thee on the earth, having
accomplished the work which thou hast
given me to do.-~John 17:4.
Faithfulness
Lesson Toric:
Perils,
1. The Doomed Temple, vE. 1-4
2 The Accumulating Perils, ve. 5-5,
8. The Hequired Fidelity, va 9.13
GOLDEN TEXT : Bul I say unto you,
That in this place is one greater than the
temple.— Matt, 12 : 6.
Dairy Howe READINGS:
M.—Mark 13 : 1-13, Faithfulnes
in perils,
T.—Matt, 24 : 1-14,
parallel narrative,
W.—Luke 21 : 5-19. Luke’s paral
lel narrative,
T Matt, 23 : 1-22,
Jerusalem.
Matt. 23 : 23-50.
Lesson {
Outline:
Matthew's
warded,
ss WR —————————
LESSOR ANALYSIS,
MED TEMPLE,
I. The Splendid Structure :
Behold, what manner of Sones and
.. of buildings (1).
His disciples came to him to show him
the buildings (Matt, 24 : 1).
I. THE DOO
offerings {Luke 21 : 5).
Forty and six years was this
building (John 2 : 20),
The door of the temple
Beautiful (Acts 3 : 2).
il, The Sure Overthrow :
¢ ¥
Eo
apie in
which is called
There shall not be left on
mist}
: + fe
{ another (2).
| Not
§ 3 441.
{JIL The Unknown Season:
ound (Luke 10 : 4
| get the pardoning blessing. Now,
{ the road.
One Sabbath morning, at the
the world-renowned and
| mented violinist Ole Ball
deeply
You
the coast of Norway. That gold walch
| he had wound up day after day through
| his illness, and then he sald to his com-
| panion, “Now I want to wind this
| watch as long as I can, and then when
iI am gone I want you to keep it
| wound up until it gets to my friend
| Dr. Doremus, in New York, and then
| he will keep it wound up until his life
18 done, and then I want the watch to
go to his young son, my especial fa-
vorite,
The great musician who more than
any other artist has made the violin
{speak and sing and weep and laugh
and triumph--for it seemed, when he
| drew the bow across the strings, as if
'all the earth and heaven trembled in
| delighted sympathy-the greal musi.
| clan, in a room looking off upon the
| sea, and surrounded by his favorite
| instruments of music, closed his eyes
| mn death. While
| ALL THE WORLD WAS MOURNING
{at his departure, sixteen crowded
| steamers fell into ilne of funeral pro.
| cession to carry his body to the main-
land, There were ffty thousand of
| his countrymen gathered in an amphi-
bheatre of the hills waiting to hear the
eunlogium, and it was sald when the
great orator of the day with slentorian
voice began to speak, the fifty thousand
people burst into tears,
On! that was the close of a life that
| had done so much to make the world
| happy. But I have to tell you, young
man, if you live right, and die night,
that was a tame scene compared with
that which will greet you when from
the galleries of heaven the one hundred
and forty and four thousand shall
accord with Christ in erying, “Well
done, thou good and faithful servant.”
And the influences that on earth you
put 1n motion will go down from gener-
ation to generation, the influences you
wound up handed to yourchildren, and
their influence wound up and handed to
their children, until watch and clock
are no more nensded to mark the prog.
ress, because time itself s#Bl Le no
longer.
Difference of Linen and Cotton Fibre,
———
It is often a matter of importance to
the purchaser of goods to be able to
distinguish between linen and cotton
fibres in some more Simple manner
than by the infallible tests of the micro-
This may be done by taking a
thread of the fabric in question, un-
twisting it slightly, and then pulling it
apart, and examining the extremities
where it has separated, If the thread
be of cotton it will part very readily
and present at the extremity a frizz
branching, twisted appearance. The
linen thread, on the o hand, gener-
ally oats off short, yi the emd forms
a tuft, consisting straight th
not twisted ther. By bi Gweades
of linen
; Give a man luck and throw him into
the sea.
| Slag wehus S0ug1v8 wou shall bs prom
upon another,
‘
11 2) The seeming |
LUTE; |
ence: (3) The prophetic decree;
The complete overthrow.
he COW ae fi shall these things
1gno
Quiry.-
adi
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anoe -]
1) Great events; (&
Curiosity;
SOARS,
If, THE ACCUMULATING FERILS,
I. Deceptions,
Take heed that
astray (5).
Many shall come,.... saying, 1 am the
Christ (Matt, 24: 5).
Many false prophets shall arise
24 : 11).
They beguile the hearts of tl
(Rom. 16 : 18},
Many deceivers are gone forth int
world {2 John 7).
Il. Tumults:
Ye shall hear of wars and ramours
of wars {7).
no man lead you
(Matt,
f Pr
1 ANNOCE
y tho
94 : 7)
Kingdom against Kingdom
13 : 8).
Thine enemies shall cast up a bank
about thee (Luke 19 : 43).
It was given unto him to make war
with the saints (Rev. 13 : 7).
111 Sorrows:
These things are the beginning of
travail (8).
Your house
(Matt, 20:
(Mark
is left
“
_ )
unto you
(Matt. 24: 7).
{Luke 21 : 11).
In the world ve have tribulation (John
16 : 33).
1. “Take heed that no man lead you
astray.” (1) The world’s pressure;
(2) The disciple’s peril; (3) The
Lord's warning.
9. “Be not troubled.” (1) Sources of
trouble; (2) Antidotes of trouble.
{1} The troublous world; (2) The
troubled disciples; (3) The comfort-
ing Lord.
3. “These things must needs come 10
pass,’ (1) Iu fulfilment of prophecy:
(2) In closing out the shadow: (3)
In bringing in the substance.
11, THE REQUIRED FIDELITY.
I In Personal Vigilance.
Take ye heed to yourselves (9).
Beware of men (Matt, 10 : 3)
Watch therefore (Matt, 24 : 42).
I say unto all, Watch (Mark 13 : 87)
Wateh and pray that rT enter not
temptation (Mark 14 : 38),
IL In Abiding Trust:
Be not anxious beforehand (11).
Cast hy Ferien upon the Lord (Psa.
bb : 23).
Be not therefore anxious for the morrow
(Matt, 6 : 34).
Be of good cheer (John 16 : 33).
In nothing be anxious (Phil. 4 : 6),
1iL In Endurance to the End:
He that endureth to the end, the same
shall be saved (13).
Ge in way till the end be (Dan,
That J may accomplish my gourse (Acts
to
20 : 24). ‘
I have finished the course (2 Tin, 4 : 7).
Be thou faithful unto death, and I will
give thee the crown of life {Rev,
2:10).
1. “Take ye heed to yourselves,
An imperiled company;
watchful guardian; (3)
cry.
9 “Pe not anxious beforehand.” (1)
Trying surroundings; (2) Natural
anxiety: (8) Loving counsel.
. “Je that endureth to the end, the
same shall be (1 Endur-
ance: (2) Continuance; (3) Salva.
tion,—{1) The course (2) The con-
tinuance; (3) The crown.
"” (1)
2) A
A warning
saved,”
LESSON BIBLE READING,
! FAITHFULRKESS,
i
| Characteristic of saints (Eph. 1 : 1; Col,
1:2: Thon, 6 : 2; Rev. 17 : 14).
In serving God (Matt, 24 : 45, 46).
In declaring his word (Jer, 28 : 25 ; 4
Cor, 2: 17; 2Cor. 4 $2)
In caring for his offerings (2 Chron. 31:
11, 12). :
| In helping the brethren (3 John 5 : 7).
{ Iu administering justice (Deut,
i 2 Bam, 20 : 3. 4).
In every place of trust (2 Kings 1
{ Neh. 13:13; Acts 6 : 1.3).
{ In smallest affairs {Luke 16 :
| Rewarded {1 Sam, 20 :
Rev. 2 : 10),
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LESSON SURROUNDINGS,
I'he inters
tia)
silence all of
37: Matt, 22:41
A long discourse
| of the Pharisees is added
123, but Mark and
{ brief notice of it, These two evangels
| ists, however, tell of the poor widow's
Mark 12 : 41-44; Luke 21 : 1-4),
the one redeeming feature in the occur
rences of that day within the Temple
enclosure, t is probable, but not cer-
that John 12: 20-50 should be
| placed imioediately alter his incident,
since it seems to be the
{ Lord’s public tes iV
gins as the tle
from the Temple.
The p was, therefore, first th
outer court of the Temple (vs. 1, 2),
{ then the western slope of the Mount of
Olives overlooking the Temple (vs 3-
: Luke
feDuKe
atthew
| ifn 10» OF
{ (Mark 12 : <
| 20 . 41-44
in a
Luke only give a
mile
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lace a
year of Rome 753
Parallel passages: Matthew 24 :1
: Luke 21 :
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NERVE ON HIGH ROOFS.
An Old Painter Gives Some of his
Experience in that Linc.
A brakeman sat on the roof of a
relight car in Pittsburg the other after-
noon and allowed his feet to hang down
over the end as the train moved slowly
up the street, His position didu’t seem
to give Lim the jeast bother or of
and the ease with which he sat there
atiracted the attention of a man who
has for years past been a painter. Said
the painter to a Pittsburg Dispatch re-
porter:
Oern,
wouldn't sit
y on the roof of a four-story
ug. I tell you when a man gets
out on a cornice and lets his feet hang
over there's a feeling goes through him
that isn’t the pleasantest in the world.
Many a time I’ve been on buildings,
have had some experience. 1 be-
{ jeve that one of the hardest things to
| do is when you have a stage swung from
the cornice to go out on the roof and
go down the ropes, hand over hand, on
| to the stage. It will try the nerves of
| the best of them to do that, Bat this
brakeman reminds me of a circumstance
down at Cincinnati some years ago.
was one of the many painters working
on the Board of Trade building. There
were about a dozen of us on top of the
second story, which I believe is about
| eighty-five feet from the street. OSev-
eral of the men tried it, but as soon as
one leg would be swung over it would
{ be pulled back, At last 1 tried It, think.
ing that it would be easily done. I
| went at It pretty bravely, and got one
| foot over all right, but the minute I at-
{ tempted to place the other one there it
| seemed that both my bands wanted to
| clutch something to keep me from fall-
| ing. I don’t think ansbody could have
convinced me that 1 wouldn’t have
| fallen down if 1 had put both feet over,
{and all the other men sald the same.
| This thing of hanging over the edge of
a high building isn’t all it's supposed to
be
fellow 80 UNCOn-
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How a Dog was Surprised.
| Among the various features of the
New York Central Park, the one which
| attracts the most attention from the
children is the collection of animals,
There are many kinds and all sizes,
| from huge elephants and hippopotami
| to tiny Guinea pigs. One day last sum-
| mer a thirsty dog slipped unobserved
| into the park, from Fifth avenue. and
| ran up to an elephant that stood weav-
| ing to and fro, as elphants have a habit
| of doing. No sooner did the dog thrust
| his nose into the elephant’s trough and
begin to lap the water than the eles
phant inserted his trunk into the other
end of the trough, filled 3¢ with waler
and turned a full stream upon the as-
tonished Intruder. The poor little dog
dropped his tail and ran yelping away,
followed by the stream of water as long