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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
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wared at
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your bat
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out of the hymn-bo
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other wards,
an hinder
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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
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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
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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
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—————
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.
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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
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[ will pray
in hi
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nade ©
With the
unto se
If we of
to forgive
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Lord.” (1
The Lord's
prophet #
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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).
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aad sin, ad
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3. ‘Lease 3
for u
Unceasing
pray er.
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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!
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