ChE oR DR TALMAGE'S SERMON: Captured Weapons. ‘There 1s none like that; give It me, sam. 21: 9. Davip fled from his pursuers, The world runs very fast when it is chasing a good man. The country is trying to catch David, and to slay him. David goes inte the house of a priest, and agks him for a sword or spear with which to defend himself. The priest, not being aceustomed to use deadly weapons, tells David that he cannot supply him; but suddenly the priest thinks of an old sword that had been carefully wrapped up and laid away the very sword that Goliath formerly used——and he takes down that sword, and while he is unwrapping the sharp, glittering, memorable blade, it flashes apon David's mind that this was the sword that WAS USED AGAINST HIMSELF when he was in the fight with Goliath, and David can hardly keep his hand off it until the priest has unwound it. David stretches out his hand toward that old sword, and says: ‘‘There is none like give it me.” In other words, “I want in my own hand the sword that been used against me, and against the cause of God.” So it was given | Well. my friends, that is not the first or the last sword used by and Philistine iniquity which 1s to ae into the n of Jesus Chris nd of His glorious Church. | as God may help me, to that; OnNeo POSSESS] Hy a weapon armie nd used { David when wid toward the blad nd ery, “Th began fo shake and Shaster a: it had been co desk ofthe sch of the chemist, an Christian, unharmed while tl heavens at »f this to examine There are must have not the country the coming up like an army, and it was found that the newspapers unwittingly sg them ds an army. Why? They scem to have a commander. hey mareh | a host. They halt like a host arrow ever ‘went with straighter Hig than the locusts come-—not even turning aside for the wind. If the wind rises, the locusts drop, and then raise again after it has gone down, taking the same line of march, not varying a foot. The old Bible right every time; worldly philosophy wrong. Worldly philosophy said: “All that story abont the light ‘turned as clay to the seal’ is simply an absurdity.” Old time worldly philosophy said: The fight comes straight.” Christian phil osophy said: **Wait a little while,” and then it goes on and makes discoveries, and finds that the atmosphere curves and bends the rays of light around the earth, literally “as the clay to the seal.” flight THE BIBLE RIGHT AGAIN; philosophy wrong again. ‘‘Ah,” says worldly philosophy, “all that illusion in Job about the foundations of the earth is simply an absurdity. ‘Where wast thou,’ says God, ‘when I set the founda. tions of the earth? The, earth has no foundations.” Christian philosophy comes and finds that the No as trans- lated “foundation” may be better trans- lated “Sockets.” Bo, now, see how it will read if it is translated right. “Where wast thowwhen I set the sock- ots of the earth?” « Where is thesocket? It is the hollow of God's banda socket large enough for any world to turn in. Worldly philosophy said: “What an absurd story abemnt Joshua making the sin andamoon stead still] If she world hd stopped sn instant, the wholo uni- verse would have been oub of gear.” “Stop,” said Christian philosophy, “not “quite ‘so quick.” The world has two motions-—one on its own axis, and the “ugthier around the sun. It was not nee oskary in making it stand still that both “ piotions should be stopped-—only the one turning the world ou its own axis, There i no reasont why the halting of the carth should have jarred and disaz- ranged the whole universe. Joshua right, and God right; infidelity wrong every time. I knew it would be wrong, [ thank God that CHRISTIANS NEED NOT BE SCARED at any scientific exploration. The fact is that religion and science have struck hands in eternal friendship, and the deeper down geology can dia, and the higher up astronomy can soar, all the better for us. The armies of the Lord Jesus Christ have stormed the observa- tories of the world’s science, and from the highest towers have flung out the banner of the cross, and Christianity to- night, from the observatories of Albany and Washington, stretches out its hand towards the opposing scientific weapon, erying, “There is none like that: give it to me”! I was reading this afternoon of Herschel, who was looking at a meteor through a telescope, and when it came over the face of the telescope it was 80 powerful that he had to avert his eyes. And it has been just that many an astronomer has gone into an observatory and looked up into the mid- night heavens, and the Lord God has, through some swinging world, flamed upon his vision, and the learned man cried out: “Who am 1? Undone! clean! Have merey, Lord God!” Again, I remark that tl traveling dispositi of the world 1 averse to morals and brought on our side. went Jericho thieves was a type of ag here BO religion, The man down to and fell amuds ismany Ww FY goo But wy wt Mozart ‘anova and 1 and Rey 3 Boer - for childre hus and f 1 in RUSIC ngelo in senlpture; Raph ds in painting; Harvey aud haave in medicine; Cowper and Se poetry; Crotius Burke in manshp,; Boyle and Leibnitz in philos ophy; Thomas Chalmers and John Noon in theology. The most brilliant writings of a worldly nature are all aglow with Seriptural allusions, Through senatorial speech and through essayists’ discourse Sinai winders, and Oglvary pleads, and Biloam sparkles, Samuel LL. Southard was mighty in the court room aud in the ber, but he reserved his strongest eloquence for that day when he stood tn and “tates. ton Commencement and the grandeur of our Bible. Webster won not his chie while he was consaming when he opened the eloquence on Bunker Hill, that rocking Sinai of the American Revolution, but on that day when, in the famous Girard will case, he showed his affection for the Christian religion and eulogized the Bible. The eloquence and learning that had been on the other side came over to our side. Where is Gibbon's historical pen? Where is Robespierre’s sword? Captured for God! So, also, i it been with the picture- making of the world. We are very anxious on this day to have the print. Hayne, nor of Christianity ; but we overlook the en- graver's knife and THE PAINTER'S PENCIL, The satiquarian goes and looks at pic. tured ruins, or examines the chiseled villars of Thebes and Nineveh and Pom veil, and then comes back to tell us of the beastliness of ancient art; and it. is un fact, now; that many of the finest specimoens—merely artistioally consider. dof seulpture and painting that are to be found amidst these rains are not fit to be looked at, and they are locked up. How Paul must have felt when, standing amidst those impurities that stared on him from the wills and the pavements and the bazers of Corinth, he preached of the pure and holy Jesus! The art of the world on tie side of obscene and erime, In Isr days the palaces of kings were adorned with pictures. But what to unclean Henry VIII was a beautiful picture of the Madonna? What to Lord Jeffrey, the unjust judge, the picture of the ‘Last Judgment”? What to Nero, the unwashed, a picture of the baptism in the Jordan? The art of the world still on the side of superstition and death. But that is being changed now. THE CHRISTIAN ARTIST goes across the water, looks at the pie- tures, and brings back to his American studio much of the power of those old masters. The Christinmm minister goes over to Venice, looks at the “Crueifix- ion of Christ,” and eomes back to his American pulpit to talk as never before of the sufferings of the Saviour. The private tourist goes to Rome and looks at Raphael's picture of ‘“The Last Judgment.” rhe tears start, and he goes back to his room in the hotel, and prays God for preparation f that day P07 when, 1 ‘3% school new d with pictur Daniel in tl Paul in court, the fire, on the ir families think more Christian victory then Cl Himself thing that is worth there will be nothing loft. A proclamation of forth now from the throne ing, “Wh will, let him come.” However long yon may have wandered, however great your sins may have been, lot him come Oh marshal all thas andience of Christ! He is the best He is so kind amnesty goo: of Go i, “AN WOOTYOr tse hosoever will, that I could the side i Can- away from Him. Come now, and accept His merey. Behold Him as He stretches out the saving: ‘‘Look unto Me, all ye ends of the earth, and be yo saved; for I am God.” Make final choice now, You will either be willows planted by the water courses, or the chaff which the wind driveth away. salutary influence on the constitution and constitute a therapeutic agency of high value, lesidence in perfumed atmospheres forms a protection from pulmonary affections and arrests the development of phthisie. In the town of LaGirasse, France, where the making of perfumes is largely carried oun, phthisis is almost unknown, owing to the odorous vapors exhaled from the numerous distilleries, i —-——- Jucksm, TIL, 18 supplied with artif- clal gas at 40 cents a thousand for lighting purposes and 30 cents for fuel, gas is made from slack coal by a new process, and the inventors offer to supply Chicago at 25 cents a thousand, and say they could afford to give gas. light to every house, office and factory in the city fot pothing if they would use fuel gas at £0 cents a thousand, 4 Women Who Are Self~-Supporting. | One of our clever women newspaper writers, of whom we are glad to say tho number is on the increase, has a very clear and unprejudiced statement to make about the women in these days who a t¥¥ing to take care of themsel- ves, Their name is legion we all know, but considering the fact that thev are new at the business, and have a great many lessons to learn, they are doing remarkably well, Une seldom sees in these days a family of five or six daugh- ters all grown up and single, who sit about at home and vary their monoto- | nous existence by a new stitch in cro- chet, or a new waltz. Such girls used | to depend upon their fathers for sup- | port, and it was not strange that the | really over indulgent parent was re- lieved when they married. The burden | upon the man of MORNE was tremendous Now, however occupation which Let one do it, and moderate take hem m little and the but the s pocket, is BOMG FEY have a pocket, The I KUT to follow -—_ swryollTolatol. mud, gorodovol away, | wl turning back he policeman, i , my friend? i, hast thon Y« ., i have is forget that it for his neighbo minute, and moujie said to the | celebrated novelist: “And you, do von know how to read?’ “Yes,” said Count Tolstoi. “Read the police regulations?” “No.” “Well then,” continued the po Heeman, as he formed thie proce sion townrds the station, ‘just go home and read them before going about in the streets interfering with people.” SE | Petersburg Letter to the New Orleans | Limes, asked “1 should th read the Hol “Well, how dns 3 bids a man to strike The police man heatated a then collaring the -— ‘Sit’ or ‘Set.’ A writer mn the Christian World | upon the confusion existing in the minds of many very well-educated peo- ple in regard to the use of the two words ‘sit’ and ‘set’-—a confusion similar to that which seems to attend upon the choice of saying ‘will’ or ‘shall?’ ‘A man; or woman either, can set a hen although they cannot sit her; neither can they set on her, although the old hen might sit on them by the hour if they would allow. A man cannot set on the wash bench; but he could set the basin on it, and neither the basin nor the grammarians would object. He could sit on a dog's tail if the dog were willing, or he might set his foot on it. But if he should set on the aforesaid tail, or sit his foot there, the grammarians as well as the dog would howl. And yet, strange as iv may soem, the man might set the tai aside and then sit down and neither § assailed by the dog nor the grammar. fans IORI RRA a SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, BUspAy JULY 14, 15352, The Sorrowful Death of Ell. LESSON TEXT. 1-18, (1 Sam. 4 Memory verses, 17, 18.) LESSON PLAN, Tovic or THE QUARTER : and Disobedience, Oliediencr Goroex Texr vou the Quarter: Be- hold, to obey ia better than sacrifice and to hearken than the Jat of rama, 1 Bam. 15 : 2 Lizssox Tori Disaster Disobedience, through LESSOR OUTLINE Top vs. 11-1 His vale thei reaftrained thie 1m not, ROTA Gorpex Text and hie / le ey £ a unto us! for 5:16 i111. An Appeal for Decision: Juite yourselves Like men, we Lord's side, Exod. 32 Ml . “The Philistines Their grounds « Their grounds of fear. 2. “These are the gods that smote Egyptians Religious traditions (1) Their (2) Their chan- neds: (33 Their modifications; (4 Their influences 3. “The Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten.” (1) The Philistia’s valor; (2) The sources of Israel's weakness, were afraid iM eonfidence,; ti fia SOTTO 1 SONTCeS 1. I. The Ark Captured: And the ark of God was taken (11). His heart trembled for the ark of God (1 Sam. 4 : 13). The ark of God is taken (1 Sam. 4 : 17). The glory is departed from Israel, for the ark of God 1s taken (1 Sam. 4:22). The Philistines had taken the ark of God (1 Sam. 5: 1). il. Israel Defeated: Israel is fled before the Philistines (17). Ye shall be smitten before your enemies (Lov. 26 : 17). Thou... .shalt flee seven ways before them (Deut. 28 : 25). Thay fled before the men of Ai (Josh. 7:4) Israel hath turned their backs before their enemies! (Josh. 7 : 8). 1. Eli's House Cut Off: Thy two sons... are dead... And he died (17, 18). In one day they shall die both of them 34). 2: Eli all that I THE SWEEPING CATASTROPHE. When | he fell (1 Their priest 8: 64). 1. “His heart trembled for the ark ot God.” (1) The absent ark: (2; The pending issues; (3) ° cern; (4) The sad outcome, 2, “How went (I) An questioner; (2) A burdened messenger (1 Informa tionsought; (2) Information gained. 3. “Fled, dead, taken Bout: { Slaughter: (3) (4% 1; 1 peopie seatterd d: slain: (8) The ark taker — LESSON BIBLE THE ARK OF THE . Its Titles : The ark (Exod. 2 Ark of God (1 8 Ark of God 1434) Ls the matter, my son?” Buxious a “«) he READING, COVERART while travelling, wi lossly in their what to do, arms when this SW Ps inu sCene, looks Ada ie posits them off to a wait tyr Cone, checks ows them i MAI RRL hotel, their passage al booked a Earop« an steamer, them in whatever shopping is 1 as a preparation {or the voyage the best steamer chairs and the useful wraps and rugs, has a carriag door tive appointed meets them when they step out npon the pier, and leads them to their st room where they find all their belo on s 1 gu» Ai One ates show them every attention. Then leaves them with her blessing, and they are safe and comfortable until reach the other side where, if they hs no friends of their own to look them, an agent of the London lady guides meets them in Liverpool and passes them on their way, always looked after and relieved from all worry ad trouble. One guide can look after half a dozen people at once, and when the City of Be sailed last Wednesday one of these guides had under her charge, and safely started, seven differ. ent parties of women. III 033 A ASH, A French savant, M. Chevreul, bs lieves the action of rolls for grind ng wheat is better calculated to preserve intact the cells of the interior of the wheat berry thau is the action of stones, which disorganize the ceils by
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