DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
The Earthquake.
“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved,"—Acts 16 :
Jains aredark, dull, damp, loathsome
laces even now; but they were worse
in the apostolic times. imagine to-
day we are standing in the Philippian
dungeon, Do you not feel the chill?
Do you not hear the groan of those in-
carcerated ones, who for ten years have
aot seen the sunlight, and the deep
sigh of woman who remember their
father’s house and mourn over their
wasted estate? Liston again. It is the
cough of a consumpt.ve, or the strug-
gle of one in the nightmare of
A GREAY HORROR,
You Hsten again and hear a culprit, his
chains rattling as he rolls over in his
dreams, and you say, ‘‘God pity the
prisoner!” But there is another sound
in that prison. It is a song of joy and
gladness, What a place to sing in! The
music comes winding through the cor-
ridors of the prison, and
dark wards the whisper
‘What's that? What's that >"
Ji.
is
cannot sleep. 3
ped, very badly whipped.
feet fast in wooden sockets, and of
course they cannot sleep. But they
can sing. Jailer, what are you doing
with these people? Why
been put in here?
trying to make the world better.
that all? That is all. A pit for Joseph.
A for Daniel.
furnace for Shadrach.
Wesley. An anathema for Philip Mel-
ancthon. A dungeon for Paul and
Silas. But while we are
the gloom of the Philippian dungeon,
and we hear the mingling voices of sol
and groan and blasphemy
jah, suddenly an earthquake!
pars of the pri
off, the
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heave, and
HE DOORS SWING OPEN.
feeling himself responsi-
risoners, and believing,
in his pagan ignorance, suicide
honorable—since Brutus killed himself,
and Cato killed himself, and Cassius
killed himself-—puts his sword to his
own heart, proposing with one strong,
keen, thrust to put anend to his ex-
citement and agitation. But Pau
out: “Stop! stop! Do thyself no
Weare all here.” Then I see the
runing throu;
ruts of that n,
throwing himself down
these prisone
shall I do?
Paul answer:
before there is another earthquake; put
handcuffs and hopples on these other
! lest they get away?’ No
word of that kind. His compact, thril-
ling, tremendous answer, answer mem-
rable all through earth and heaven,
Was: “Belicve on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and thon shalt be saved.”
Well, we have all read of the earth-
guakes in Lisbon, in Lima, ip Aleppo,
wd in Caraceas, but we live in a i
tude where sevete voleanie disturbance
are rare, And yet we have seen fifty
earthquakes. Here is a man who has
been building up a large fortune. His
bid on the money raarket was felt in all
the thinks he rot bee
r rivalries in trade,
} self, “Now I am
from all possible pertur-
jut in 1837, or
mal panic strikes
] commercial world,
ll that magnificent i
Here 1s a m
beautiful
The jailer,
ble for these
Cries
i
I
and 1
at the
prisoners,
ati
"i
iil
cities, has
dations of
seminary with diplomas o
His s started
teroperate, snd pure. ‘hen the
lights are struck, there is a happy and
unbroken family circle. But there has
n accident down at Long Branch.
I'he young man ventured too far out in
the surf, The telegraph hurled.
TO THE CITY.
08 Deve
evel
Hiene Ils
THE TERROR
An carthquake struck under the foun-
lations of that beautiful home. The
piano closed; the curtains dropped; the
laughter hushed. Crash go all those
domestic hopes and prospects and ex-
poectations! So, my friends, we have
al felt the shaking down of some great
trouble, and there was a time when we
text, and we cried out a8 he did, “What
shall I do? What shall I do?’ The
same reply that the spostle made to
lim is appropriate to us: ‘‘Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt
be saved.”
There ar some documents of so little
any more than your last name under
them, or even your initials; but there
are some documents of so great import-
ance that you write put your full name.
So the’ Saviour ‘in some parts of the
Bible is called “bord,” snd in other
parts of the Bible He is called ‘Jesus,
and in other parts of th Bible He is
called “Christ; but that there might
be no mistake about this passage, all
three names come together—“The Lord
Jesus Christ.” Now,
WHO 18 THIS BEING
that you want me to trust id and be-
lieve in? Men sometimes come to me
with eredentials and ecrtificates of good
character, but I cannot trust them.
There is some dishonesty in their looks
that makes me know I shall be cheated
if I confide in them. You cannot put
your heart's confidence in a man until
you know what stuff he is made of, and
am I reasonable to-day when 1 stop to
ask you who this is that you want me
to trust in? No man would think of
venturing his life on a vessel going out
40 scm that had never been inspected,
No, you must hive the cortificate hung
amidships, tolling how many tons it
carries, and how long ago'it was built,
and who built it, and all about it. Aad
you eaunot expect me fo risk the cargo
ui my immortal interests on board any
craft tll you tell me what it ismade of,
aud where it was made, and what it is.
1en, then, I ask you who this is you
want me to trust in, you tell me Ho wus
a very attractive person. Contempor-
ary writers described His whole appear-
ance as being resplendent. There was
no need for Christ to tell the children
40 come to Him, “Suffer little chil-
dren to come upto me,” was not spoken
to the children; it was spoken to the
disciples. The children came readily
enough without any invitation. No
sooner did Jesus appear than the little
ones jumped from their mother's arms,
an avalanche of beauty and love, into
His lap. Christ did not ask John to
put his head down on His bosom; John
could not help but put his head there,
1 suppose.
TO LOOK AT CHRIST
was to love Him. Oh, how attractive
His manner! Why, when they saw Christ
coming along the street they ran into
their houses, and they wrapped up their
invalids as quick as they could, and
brought them out that he might look at
them. There was something so pleas-
ant, 50 inviting, so cheering, in every-
thing He did, in His very look! When
these sick ones were brought out, did
He say: “Do not bring me these sores;
do not trouble me with these leprosies?”
No, no: there was a kind look, there
was a gentle word, there was a healing
touch, They could not keep away
from Him.
In addition to this softness of charac-
ter, there was a fiery momentum. How
of the earth
at His back, coming off the sea of Gali-
lee, going up to the palace of
and kindness which throbs
Oh, he
3ut it was not ef-
heavens, and through all ages.
was a loving Christ,
infinite
Lestthe world she
Christ
was accompanied with majesty,
CARrn¢ stness, this
mounts the cross,
You sav: “If Christ
let Him take
and lie on a couch
has to die, why
some deadly potion
in some bright and
If He must die,
¥ intention
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muss Dear
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He HAaminers
The
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world
of the
His
each cheek
co of His an-
spikes,
death
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threa fect deep,
laid on the ground,
sufferer 18 stret
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and muscle an
hand, through
they shake His right hand to see
it. and tl
by id Ti
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Why did Christ enddre
mild have taken those rocks and
them crushes wiffers
reached up and grasped the
} omnipotent Cod, i
umbled them
He wa
with
sould
LE) ard
one
1 his er
dow and sa
be the criminal
for his own » ¥: “It was
i hie rl
But 1
Christ, the Si
mother, nor for His father, bu
Ch, sud
tell yon of a thing
un of God, « wil not for hs
for His
hrist as
self
that-—so lo
rificing
think ther:
ence of the spirit
ing: “I will ¢
tell me h
asked Dy th 4
Aud while I ans 3
look up and utter the
Rowland Hill
sae
ow;
estion "
which
0 often in the
mons: * Master help!"
HOW ARE YOU TO TRUST
in Christ? Just as you trust any .
You trust your partner in business with
important if a
house gives yous not
months hence, you expect the payment
of that note at the end of three months,
have perfect confidence in their
word and in their ability.
‘ * > pv H
Wings cominercial
6 payable three
You have confidence
Now, 1 ask you to have the
confidence in the Lord Jesus
He BAYH: “You believe I take
your sing, and they are all
taken away.” “What!” yon say, **be-
fore I pray any more?
my Bible any more?
my sins any more?’ Yes, this moment,
Believe with all your heart, and you are
saved! Why, Christ is only waiting to
get from you what you give to scores of
people every day. What isthat? Con.
fidence. If these people whom you
trust day by day are more worthy than
Christ, if they have done more than
Christ ever did, then give them the
preference; but if you really think that
Christ is as trustworthy, then deal with
him as fairly.
HISTORICAL FAITH,
“Oh,” says some one in a light way,
“I believe that Christ was born in Beth-
lehem, and I believe that He died on
the cross.” Do you believe it with your
bead or your heart? I will illustrate
the difference. You are in your own
house. In the morning you open a
nawspaper, and you read how Captain
Braveheart on the séa risked hid hfe for
the salvation of his passengers. You
say, “What a grand fellow he must have
been! His family deserve very well of
the country.” You fold the newspaper
and sit down at the table, and perhaps
do not think of the incident again.
That 1s historical faith,
But now you are on the sea, and it is
night, and you are asleép, and you are
awakened by the shriek of “Fire!” You
rush outon the deck, You hear, amid the
ringing of the hands and the fainting,
the ory, “No h pe! 1 hope! Wo are
lost! we are lost!” The sail putsout its
wings of fire, the ropes make a burning
ladder in the night heavens, tho spirit
of wrecks hisses in the wave, and on the
hurricane-deck shakes out its banner of
smoke and darkness. “Down with
THE LIFEBOATS!”
cries the eaptain. “Down withthe life-
boats!” People rush into them. The
boats are about full. Room only for
one more man. You are standing on
the deck beside thecaptain, Who shall
it be? You or the captain? The cap-
tain says, “You.” You jump and are
saved. He stands there, and dies.
Now, you believe that Captain Brave-
heart sacrificed himself for his passon-
gers, but you believe it with love, with
tears, with hot and long continued ex-
clamations, with grief at his loss, and
joy at your deliverance. 7%hat is saving
In other words, what you be-
lieve with all your heart, and believe in
regard to yourself, On this hinge
turns my sermon; ave, the salvation of
your soul,
You often go across a bridge you
Youdonot know
who built the bridge, you do not know
what material it 1s made of; but you
over it, and ask
no questions. And here is an arched
And built by the Architect of the whole
universe, spanning the dark gulf be-
tween sin and righteousness, and all
stop, and you go a little way on, and
ay, “How dof know
hold me?” instead of
1 firm step, asking
periment.
that bridge
marching o
questions,
of the eternal
was there ove
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lown to the hole
grave, and call
Unle as there is
up rh
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5 Bat 1t
is Lifted
rkness is gone,
I look into it
shudder, Now my
anxiety is not about death; my anxiety
is that I may live aright, for I know
that if my life is consistent, when I come
to the last hour, and this voice issilent,
and these eyes are closed, and these
hands with «hich I beg for your eternal
salvation to-day are folded over the still
hess t, that then I shall only begin to
live. What power is there in anything
to chill me in the last hour, if Christ
wraps around me the skirt of His
garment? What darkness ean fall upon
my eyelids then, amid
THE HEAVPNLY DAYBREAK?
O Death! 1 will not fear thee then! Back
to thy cavern of darkness, thon robber
of all the earth! Fly, thou despoiler of
families! With this battle-axe I hew
thee in twain from hemlet to sandal,
the voice of Christ sounding all over the
earth and through the heavens: “O
Death, I will be thy plague! O Grave, I
will be thy destruction!” To be saved
is to wake up in the presence of Christ.
You know when Jesus was upon earth
how happy He made every house Me
went into; and when He brings us up to
His house in heaven how great shall be
our glee! His voice has more music in
it than is to be heard in all the oratorios
of eternity! Talk not about banks
dashed with efflorescence. Jesus is the
chief bloom of heaven. We shall seo
the very face that beamed sympathy in
Bethany, and take the very hand that
dro | its blood from the short beam
of the cross! Oh, I want to stand in
oternity with Him. Toward that harbor
Isteor. Toward that goal I ran. I
shall be satisflod when I awake in His
likeness.
Oh, broken-hearted men and women,
iral ilin-
m ft My
but
above
now
the
an i
BOW
how aweet it will be in that good land
to pour all of your hardships and be-
reavements and losses into the loviug
oar of Christ, and then have Him ex-
plain why it was best for you to be
widowed, and why it was best for vou to
be persecuted, and why 1t was best for
you to be tried, and have Him point to
an elevation proportionate to your dis-
quiotude here, saying: “You have
suffered with Me on earth, come up now
and be glorified with Me in heaven!”
Some one went into a house where there
had been a great deal of trouble, and
said to the woman there, “You seem to
be lonely.” ¢‘Yes" she said, *‘I am
lonely.” “How many in the family?”
“Only myself.” “Have you had any
ohildren?” “I had seven children.”
“Where are they?’ “Gone.” ‘All
gone?’ <All" <All dead?’ *“AlL"
Then she breathed a long sigh into the
loneliness, and said: “Oh, zir, I have
been a good mother to the grave.” And
80 there are Liearts here that are utterly
I point you to-day to
THE ETERNAL BALM
Are there any here that I
thismorning?
heart's
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maid! your
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1 when Christ
SOTTOWS
and
women,
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ed men and
and
you queen
OVE
grace for threes and ten!
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decrepituds
hart
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COWNS FOR BUSINESS WOMEN.
The Dire
That has Been Devised.
toire Pronounced the Best
the mmmprovement
!
kets which we
ress,
my
rn by bu
Hine all thi
ionable
great
appreciated by the
finds her-
vOre
Aare
self-supporting
That women has
woman who
C1 SNOCORE
cing with
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Rang iisey i
remarkable intellect
can attain mhder such circumstances,
the ordinary i
go tilting on the road to success with
shoes which give her the appearance of
having club feet, with waists reduced
to two-thirds their natural proportions,
and without pockets in which to carry
the articles which business life requires,
woman cannot expect to
gestions in short paragraphs of not
more than two hundred words in re-
gard to business dresses for women, ——
From the Busincas Woman's Journal,
-—_——
SUBJECTS EXHAUSTED, — Little
Alice—""Oh, dear, I'm afraid if Murs,
Blank don’t go pretty soon we won't
Ain't her
call most over?"’
Little Dick—*1 guess so, Mamma
is talking about the second girl now,
and there is only the nurse and the jan.
itor left.”
‘ Scs———
“Jouxxy, will you have some vege-
tables?’
‘‘No, thank you, aunty; the medicine
mamma brought home last week is
purely vegetable—that is what it says
on the label—and if you knew how awe
ful that tastes you would know why I
never want anything to do with vege-
tables.” ’
isnt cn IIS ish
We confess small faults in order to
insinuate that we have no great ones,
A wise man handicapped with ignor-
ance is not more unfortunate than the
natural fool handicapped with limited
knowledge.
No revenge is more heroic than that
which torments an cnemy by doing
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
SUNDAY Aucusr 18, 133),
Saul Rejected by the Lord,
LESSON TEXT.
( Eam. 15 : 10-23, Memory verses, 22, 24.)
.
LESSON PLAN,
Toric ov mE QUARTER:
and Disobedience,
Obedience
Gorpexs Text vor vue Quanren: He-
hold, to obey ia better than sacrifice,
and to hearken than the fat of rams, —
1 Sam. 15 : 22.
Le SON Toric : Dincl dienece Pune
tahed,
rf 1. Baul's Transgression, vs
pe
j % itsdle 11 4 31
LEssoN OUTLINE: J I's | ndemnation,
GovLpex Text : Because
reject id the word of the lord.
alan rejecte d
Sam. 15
thou host
he hath
tlie @ from le Lng king, 1
« 52
v ir,
Dany Home Reapines :
, ”
1 Sam. 15
1 Sam
decds as king
1 Bam. 14
and kindred
1 Bam 15
destroy Amalek
LESSON ANALYSIS
TRARSGR]
s Stated by the Lord
I will be a swild witness agains
cerer: ji
il. Thoroughness a Duty:
vO and ott rly lestroy the sinners the
ix
Mal. 3 : 5).
{sO
membrance
Thou shalt blot out....Amalek from
under hb 1
Do ti en
all th
Do it with wit
iil. imperfection a Sin:
Yea, 1 hay 1
took of t
Thon shonldest have smitten five or six
times (2 Kings 13 : 19.
Whosoever... hall break
d least (Matt. 5 ; 19
every wich cont
hy might{
But tig
{ ople
Ong shall
be ealld
Cursed is
41
one nueth
and
guilty 3
ill tell thee what the
1; Fhe Li wr 's
(2) The Lord's
The Lord's message.
then didst thou not
i thangs (Gal, 3 100,
y
§ 1
vhole law, ot
Jas, 2:10
{ nile ra
‘Wherelore
HM ¥ F
Vindieation songht
have Oi y £ d
" (1) Personal fidelity claimed;
(2) Popular transgression admitted.
11, SAUL'S PUNISAMENT.
I. Under God's Displeasure:
Hath the Lord as great delight in
burnt offerings, . . . .a8 in obeying? (22),
To do justice 8 more acceptable to
the {ord than sacrifice (Prov. 21 : 3).
I delight not in the blood of bullocks
(Isa. 1:11).
The wrath of God abideth on him (John
3: 36).
Rendering vengeance to them... .that
obey not (2 Thess. 1 : 8),
Ii. Charged with Sin:
Rebellion is as the sin of witcheraft
(23).
Ye have been rebellious against the
Lord (Deut. 9 : 7).
I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff nook
{Deut 31 : 27).
He addeth rebellion unto his sin (Job
84 : 87).
Hold them guilty, OGod,. .. .they have
rebelled (Pas. : 10,
lil. Rejected as King:
He hath also rejected thee from being
king (29).
Now thy kingdom shall not continue
Ai : at X ha set up Saul
me have u "
ora (1 Sam, 15 : 11). r
The Lord hath jicted thes fram
king (1 Sam. 18 36 haing
3
itt »
of
The Lord hath rent the kingdom
Israel from thee (1 Sum. 15; 28
1. “To obey is better than sacrifice,
(1) A good way; (2) A better way;
(3; The best WHY {13 The value of
sacrifice; (2) The value of obedience
obedience,
2. “Thou hast rejected the word of
the Lord.” (1) The Lord's
(2) The King's relx hon 1)
elation; (2) Rebellion; (3
tion.
"
word:
Rev.
Bejec-
3. “He hath also rejected thee.”
Baul's rejection; (1) Ita basis
Its results 14 jected of God
What? (2; Why? (3) Whom?
»
yg La
1)
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BIBLE BEADING,
DOOMED AMALEKITES,
1 12)
(Exod
EL.EBSON
THE
Their founder (Gen. 36
Their assault Israel]
Num. 24 : 20, mary
wee (Deut
on
virus
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LESSON SUKROU
NDIN¢
result of
in their rearing.
1 Are
for the
a8
about
n and industries and our
and the true
are deemed to
4¢ man or wo-
institutions
Kpirit,
n. Happy is
early years are spent in
il WHO Was 80 con-
ted a8 tO receive
he privilege.— AN. Y,
Ambitious to be Stout.
There seems to be an opinion prevaile
It 18 known that this
a mistake. Auy number of physi.
cians in New York will tell you that
They do not stop
this diet even after their figures have
assumed pronounced proportions, They
say they like to be chubby and round
and palpitating. The favorite mixture
of theses ladies is a home-made decocs
tion called “Dope.”” It must be taken
three times a day certainly, and some
ladies who like the drink take it more
often. ‘Dope’ is condensed milk and
hot water—a teaspoonful of the milk to
a goblet of the water,
db s—
Dr. A, Ernst, of Caracas, Venezula,
cites two ssvere earthquakes in that
vicinity as instances of the remarkable
influence of the soil on the destruction
of buildings by such shocks, In each
case the houses built on rocks were
ruined, while those standing on a thick
stratum of loose material were scarcely
injured,
assis MP
According to Grant Allen, almost all
very early or primeval d¥pes ot animals
or plants yet existing nE to ove or
other of three peculiar habitats Island
fresh water Streams or lakes an
caves,
EH. ie. oe
Among the Chinese heaven is odd,
earth is even and the numbers 1, 3, 5,
7,9 to heaven, while the digits
are of earthy.