we DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON: How to Make Friends. “A man that hath friendly.” Frov, 18 Apour the sacred and divine art of making and keeping friends I speak a subject on which I never heard of any one preacl and yet God thought it of enough importance to put it in the middle of the Bible, these writings of Solomon, bounded on one side by the popular Psalms of David, and on the other by the writings of Isaiah, the greatest of the prophets. It scems all a matter of haphazard how many friends we have, or whether we have any friends at all, but there is nothing accidental about it. There a law which governs the BOCTE tion and disper- sion of friendships. They did not *‘just happen so” any more than the tides just happen to rise or fall, or the sun just happens to rise or set. Itisa an art, friends must show himself 10g is science, A GOD-GIVEN REGULATION. Tell me h friendly you are to others, and I will tell you how friendly others are to you, I do not say you will not have enemies; indeed, the best way to get friends is to have ardent ene if you get their enmity in thing Good men and women will always have HW ardent doing the right euemies OO Ness it this an more mtense because their ¢ the love friends Mor he better you : I'he bes wared at ROMe tly i your ef ui your bat awhile with Had not the honl 1d¢ T, KO BALLOU one-haitl a IRNDY ALK out of the hymn-bo bound in k it ni and have bes more j lids of for the t 1 t 18 Cross, other wards, an hinder by and i howl eaden Disracli after ¢ deceptive s death an innocent bleating. ord Manfred, who, outrages upon the people, & mddenly to become friendly, and invited them toa banquet. After mi of fo had been serve blew a horn, which was in ‘ a signal for the servants to bring on the dessert, but in this cas it was the signal for assassins to enter and slay tue guests His pretended friendliness was acruel fraud; and there are now people whose smile is a false- hood. Before you begin to show your- self friendly £461 COUrses FOU MUST BE FRIENDLY. Get your heart right with God and man, and this grace will become casy. You may by your own resolution wet your nature into a semblance of this virtue, bnt the grace of God ean sub- limely lift into it. Sailing on the River Thames two vessels ran aground. The owners of one got one hundred horses, and pulled on the grounded | ship, and pulled it to pieces. The | owners of the other grounded vessel waited till the tides came in, and easily | floated the ship out of all trouble. we may pull and haul at our grounded human pature, and try to get it into | better condition; but there is nothing like the oceanic tides of God's nphfting grace to hoist us into the Xindliness I am eulogizing, If, when under the flash of the Holy Ghost, we sce our own foibles add defects and depravities, we will be véry lenient, and very easy with others. We will look into their charac- tors for things commendatory and not damnatory. If you would rub your ‘own eye a little more vigorously yon would find a mote in it, the extraction of which would keep you so busy you would not have mueh time to shoulder your broadaxe, and go forth. to split up the beam in your neighbor's eye. Ina Christian spirit keep on exploring the characters of those you meet, and I am sure you will find something in them Ht tor A POUKDATION OF YRIENDLINERS, You invite me to come to your conn- try-seat, and spend n few days. Thank vou BO, voul I arrive about noon of abeautitnl ner day. What do you do? As soon as I arrive you take me out under the shadow of the great elms. You take me down to the artificial lake, the spot- ted trout floating in and out among the white pillars of the pond-lilies. You take me to the stalls and kennels where you keep your fine stock, and here are the Durham cattle and the Gordon getters: and the high-stepping steeds, by pawing and neighing, the only language they can speak, asking for harness saddle, and a short turn down the road. Then we goback to the house, and you get me in the right | light, and show me the Kensetts and Bierstadts on the wall, and take me into the music room, and show me the bird- cages, the canaries in the bay-window answering the robins in the tree-tops. Thank you! I never enjoyed myself more in the same length of time. Now, why do we not do so with Bum or { THE CHARACTERS OF OTHERS, | and show the bloom and the music and the bright fountains? No. We say, i come ale and let me show you that haracter. Here is a green- scunmmed = frog-pond, and there's a | filthy cellar, and I guess under that hed nust + a black 2 3 Come, and |} hour or two re 116 ik y man's ¢ thers snake. i gale ourselves with ti inl my friend and HIN , better cover up the extol ‘ virtues, and tl i { raal 0s friendli- it is this Wve character, nty vo pe recent, ration whieh be- first told the twenty-five wink d in A DASTARDLY friends to nds to them. HABIT, No frie WARY others,” others ure Fhere’s an island half between England, Scotland, and Ireland called the Isle of Man, and the sens dash against all side s of it, and I am told there 18 no more lovely place than that Isle of Man; but when a nan be comes insular in his disposition, and cuts himself off from the main land of the world's sympathies, he isdespicable, Yi4 no of 8 Ifishne BH, Man! Now, supposing that yon have, by a divine regeneration, got right toward God and humanity, and you start out to practice my text. “A man that hath friends must show himself friendly.” Behold that Isle of APPROPRIATE SALUTATION, poised that the casicst thing on carth is to give a nod of recognition? Toswing the head from side to side, as when it is wagged in derision, 1s nnoatural and unpleasant; to throw it back, invites vertigo: but to drop the chin in greeting is secompanied with so little exertion might practice it without the least sem- blance of fatigue. Bo, also, the stract- ure of the hand indieates handshaking; can turn in, as in clasping hands; and the thumb divided from and set aloof from the fingers, so that while the fing- ers take your neighbor's hand on one gide, the thumb takes it on the other, and, pressed together, all the faculties of the hand give emphasis to the saluta- tion. Five sermons in every healthy hand urge us to handshaking. Besides this, every day when you start out, load Miia! / up with KIND THOUGHTS, kind words, kind expressions, and kind groetings. When a man or woman does well, tell him so, tell her so. If you meet someone who is improved in health vad it is demonstrated in girth and eolor, say: “How well you look!” Butif, on the other hand, under the wear and tear of life he appears pale and exhausted, do not introduce sanitary subjects, or say anything at all about physical gon- dition. In the ease ofimproved hedth, you have by your words given another impulse towards the robust and the joeund; while in the case of the failing health you have arrested the decline by your silence, by which he concludes; “If I were really so badly off he wonld have said something about it.” We are all, especially those of a nervous tempera- ment, susceptible to kind words and DISCOURAGING WORDS Form a conspiracy against us, and let ten men meet us at certain points on our way over to business, and let each one say ‘How sick you look!” though we should start out well, after meeting the first and hearing his depressing salute, we would begin to examine our symptoms. After meeting the second gloomy accosting, we would conclude would be dreadful, the fourth, and after unless w wonld y other s body loves don’t know SACRIFICE h channel, | a boat containing three heir which was seen in the Engl where in storm three men was upset, and all in the water gling for A boat came to their i and was thrown to one of them, fused to take it, y to Tom; he is just ready to go down. 1 can last some time longer.” A man like that, be he sailor or landsman, be he in upper ranks of society or lower ranks, will always have plenty of friends What is true manward is true Godward. o were 1 ives, a rope strug saving fling it want Him to be our friend. Weecannot treat Christ badly all our lives and ex- | pect Him to treat us lovingly, 1 was reading of a sea fight, in which Lord Nelson captured a French officer, and when the French officer offered Lord your hand.” Sarrender of onr resistance Repentance before for. have THE FRIENDSHIP OF GOD! Why, we vould afford to have all the against us if we had God for us. He could in » minute blot out this universe, and in snotlier minute make a better universe. I have no idea that God tried hard when He made all things, The most brilliant thing known to us is light, and for the creation of that He only used a word y command. As out of a flint a frontievsman strikes wu spark, so out of one word God struck the noon- day sun, For the making ofthe present universe [ do not read that God lifted ently speaks of God's hand, and God's arm, and God's shoulder, snd God's foot; then suppose He should put hand and arm and shoulder and foot to utmost tension, what could he not make? That God, of such demonstrated and undemounstrated strength, youmay have for your present and everlasting friend, not a stately and reticent friend, hard to get at, but as approachable as a country mansion on a summer day when all the doors and windows are wide open, Christ said: “I am thedoor.” And He is a wide door, a high door, a palace | door, an always open door, My ys oH child got hurt and did not ery until hours after, when her mother came home, and then she burst into weeping, and some of the domestics, not understanding human nature, said to her: “Why did you not cry before?” She answered: ‘“There to cry to.” while human sympathy may be absent, divine sympathy is always accessible. Give God your love, and get your service and secure His help; your Wis no one «0 much as a finger. The Bible fre. repentance, and have His 1 (10 Why, that means 1 yo ted, soothed, and if some sudden ¢ hould hurl yi hi : x] = * Uri You nu ardon, 1 medic wealth have only of the i 3 3 thnmblefa ————— An Unknown Hero. Deep down ina mine in Wardley Col- liery, Newcastle, there is a brave boy who deserves to be called a hero. In a situation of sudden peril he used Pre whitl pre vented dre adful explosion, simply by with courage and presence of mind. He noticed that his lamp flared up a sure sign of the presence danger- ons gas. Had he tily rushed his light might have burst through the wire gauze which surrounds a miner's lamp, and setting fire to the gas, caused a heart-rending accident. F nglan 1 mitions a behav Yor HA of fins un The lad did nothing so silly, questioned by the superintendent as to how he had found out that there was flared.” “And what did you do then?” asked the gentleman. “I took my jleker, and pulled down re lamp still flared.” then?” “Why, I put the lamp inside my jac- Of course the lamp would not burn without air. To think of the right thing to do, and then promptly do it, boys, that is what makes the difference between a common man and a hero, This little follow, whose name is not mentioned-—-Miek, or Ted, or Jack has in him the making of a grand man, cool, resolute and clever, Fortunately an overseer was near him, who, when le heard from the lad about his lamp, went bravely through the gas in total darkness and sot open a door, the closing of which had forced into the mainways of the mine. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, Buspay Jury 21, 184), Samuel the Reformer. LESSON TEXT. (1 Bam. 7 : 1-12. Memory verses, 3, LESSON PLAN. Toric or THE (QUANTER : and Disobedience, Obedience Gorpex Text ron tHE QUARTER: Be- hold, to obey is Letter than sac rifice, and to hearken than the Jat of rie, 1 Bam. 15 : 22 Lussox Tow Nuccess Oliedience, Thy ough Gorpex Text { learn to do well. Isa. Danny Home Reaping iy Praver [ will pray in hi SIN | I pray nade © With the unto se If we of to forgive . 1 Lord.” (1 The Lord's prophet # p Lord my God, an nm (Dan. 9 : 4). month confession Rom. 10 : 10) SINS, he is faithful staf eugie ation niess our i John i pray for yon hi Ihe people's need; (2) abundance, (3) The prayer Interoes RSOrY (1) Its need; (2) Its benefits, 9. “We have sinned against the Lord.” (1) Nati 2) Nation fess I'ransgression people; (2) Against the La to ery unto the Lord Earnest prayer; (2) prayer; (3) Intercessory : 3). will u nt il vi raver Rud 1 aad sin, ad On 3. ‘Lease 3 for u Unceasing pray er. oot i = 111 SUCCESS ATTAINED, I. The Lord Answered: And the Lord answered him (9). ealled upon the Lord; and he answered (1 Chron. 21 : 26). swer him (Psa. 91 : 15) Aaron and Samuel. ... called, and answered (Psa. 99 : 6). he answer (Isa. O8 : 9), 11. The Lord Helped: The Lord thundered....upon the Philistines (10). The Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them (Josh. 10 : 11). The stars in their course fought against Sisera (Judg. 5 : 20), Against them shall he thunder in heaven (1 Sam, 2 : 10). He sent out arrows, and scattered them (2 Bam. 22 : 15). 11, The Lord Conque Wine ora. ask Teco they were smitten (10). The Lord discomfited them before Israel (Josh. 10 ; 10). The Lord discomfited Sisera (Judg. in, Thou hast scattered thine enemies ... thy strength (Psa. 89 : 10), Till he hath put all his CHemies u his feet (1 Cor. 15 : 25). 1. “Bamuel cried unto the Lord Israel; and the Lord him.’ 1) Bamnuel: (2) Jehovah. (1) Bamuel’s Israel's intercess (83 Jehon ANBWEr. “The Lord th comfitted them. batants on earth; {1} Earthly Blsw Jorac] ery, The ally heaven WOeRDOLS Heave “Eber ‘ stone: (3) The nam 3 LESSON BIBLE BEADING OBEDIENCE TO GOD ut. 13 i roeath 1t four well nda ‘ healthy stage England before thie when nervous dis Wore n, nervous attacks very rare, an 1 "“h 4 ground for practical joking, rather than a claim for sympathy. Secondly, there is t period of the gradual growth of the consnmption of tea, and the sin ul tanoous n development of nervous dis ger condition duction « ARCS ssession of OrYves s and diseases, accompanied by eo tain pronounced mental and psycholog- ical characteristics. Thirdly, the of society existing at present in Russia, which is practically a period of further | development. Here we find that an his. i torioally longer acquaintance w ith tea as | a beverage is accompanied by a greater subjection to nervesand a more marked | development of the mental characteris. | ties noted above. The final stage is the present condi. tion of China, where the consumption fale where the people appear to be free from nervous systems entirely, and where the characteristion superinduced by tea poisoning have suffered a more decided development, and appear in their barest and roughest form, without any of the yoneer with which they are faintly clothed in the English or Russian femme nerveuse. If it were possible to 1mag- ine that in time the nervous system in England and Russia should by over ex- citement grow eallousand unresponsive, the series would be complete iu those countries also; the final stage pf the nervous malady would be its own de- fonsance through excess of irritation, the final development of the inconsider- ate selfishness of ln fomme nerveuse would be the cold bloodedand remorses the A oh to them both! 4: 15% less cruelty of the Celestial — Boston Herald
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