I pe Le NO DIL TALMAGE'S SERMON: The Strong Swimmer “He shall spread forth His hands in the midst of them. as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands Isa. 25: 11 Ar this season of the year multitudes of the people wade into the ponds and lakes and rivers and seas. At first put- ting out eautionsly from the shore, but having learned the right stroke of arm and foot, they let the waters roll over them, and in wild glee dive or float or swim. So the text will be very sugges- tive: ‘‘He shall spread forth His hands in the midst of them, as he that swim- meth spreadeth forth his hands to svin.” The fisherman seeks out unfrequent- od nooks. You stand all day on the bank ot a river in the broiling sun, and fling out your line, and eateh nothing, while AN EXPERT ANGLER breaks through the jungle and goes by the shadow of the solitary roek, and in a place where no fisherman has been for home at night his face shining and his basket full I do not know why f the g« 1g in the same stream, and preach- ine from the same text that other pe ople preach from. 1 cannot understand th (ey of the minister who, In Black La nd 1, EF H.. OV ry od from the Episthe 8 an exhilaration WwW lied { i thom I feel no one has treats ' and mv text 1s one of that kind There are paths in (God's Word that are we 11 beaten : feet. When want t old pa hat every one has heard. When they want hapter read a chapt that all the other people have been so that the church to-dav is IGNORANT OF Wie ministers « Sahin sisi ) Cars pl eo H \ OSS @ ols¢ stan read, they REE-FOURTHS OF ut, your frien that Bem! vou see that Rubens’ you see that Titan?" ) “Did you see that Raphael?” “No.” “Well,” says your friend, ‘‘then you did not see the Louvre.” Now, my friends, I think we are too much apt to confine ] ves to one of the truth, and 1 Bee {lors of that COrri great Ne rept re 80 much 80 there who has ever noticed the all and powerful picture in my te xt This text represents (God as a strong striking out to push down iniquity and save the souls of men “He shall spread forth His hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim.’ The figure is bold and many sided. Most of vou know the words of swiminer, HOW TO SWIM. Some of vou learned it in the cit where this art is taught; some « bovhood. in the river near your fathers i youl 3 a 1.1 ; manhood or womanhood, while summe beach of the You down in the au throw your head your nse: some of You since came 10 ng uli the Haris. step wave, ye mck, vou bring elbows to the chest, you put the palms of your hands dd ywhnward the souls of your foot through the had been born thing to know If and outward, and you push though Req uatic It is a grand how to swim, not only for yourse because you will after a while, perhaps, have to help others. I do not know anything more stirnng or sublime than to man like Norman McKenzie leaping from the ship Madras nto Charles Turner, who had dropped from the roval yard while trying sail, bringing him back on deck amid the huzzas of the passengers If a man has not euthusiasm enough to cheer in such circumstances, he deser- ves himself to be dropped into the sea and have no one help him. The Royal Humane Society of England was estab. lished in 1774, its object to applaud and reward those who should pluck up life from the deep. Any one who has per- formed such a deed of daring has all the particulars of that bravery recorded in a public record, and on his breast a medal done in blue and gold and bronze, anchor and monogram and inscription, t utng to future generations the bravery of the man or woman who saved some one from drowning. But, my friends, if itis such a worthy thing to save a body from the deep, I ask you if it is not a worthier thing to save an 1mmor tal soul? And you shall see, this hour, the Son of God step forth for this ach- ievement. *‘He shall spread forth His hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth sprendeth forth his hands to swim. water as vou , but S6€ BOE the sea to save . . to loosen the and crew of this figure, you need to realize that our race is IN A SINKING CONDITION, You sometimes hear people talking of what they consider the most beautiful words in our language. “One mansays it is “home,” another man says it is the word “mother,” another says it is the word “Jesus,” but I will tell you the bitterest word in all our language, the word most angry and baleful, the word saturated with the most trouble, the word that sccounts for all the loath- someness and the gang and the ontrage and the harrowing; and that word 1s vgin.” You spell it with three letters, and yet those three letters describe the cirenmforence and pierce the diameter of everything bad in the universe. Sin! it is a sibtlant word. You cannot pro- nounee it without giving tke siss of the flame or the hiss of the serpent. Sin! snd then if you add three letters to that word it describes every one of us by nature—sinner. We have outraged the law of God, not oceasionally, or now, and then, but perpetually. The Bible declares it. ark! It thunders two claps: “The heart is deceitful above alll things, and desperately wicked.” What the Bible says, our own conseience affirms. After Judge Morgan had sen tenced Lady Jana Grey to death, his eonscience troubled him so much for the, deed that he became insane, and al through his insanity he kept saying: “I'nke her away from me! Lady Jan Grey! Toke her away! Lady Jan Grey!” It was THE VOI OF CONSCIEXOR, And no man ever does anything wrong do RI ST SIRO NR OI ence brings that matter before him, and at every step of his misbehavior it says, “Wrong, wrong!" Sin is a leprosy, sin is a paralysis, sin is a consumption, sin is pollution. sin is death. Give it a fair chance, and it will swamp you, body, mind and soul, forever. n this world it ouly gives a faint intimation of its virulence. You see apatient in the first stages of ty hoid fever. The cheek 1s ihn flushed, the hands somewhat hot, preceded by u slight chill. “Why,” you say, “typhoid fever does not seem to be much of a disease.” But wait until the patient has been six weeks under it, and all his energies have been wrung out, and he is too weak to lift his little finger, and his intelleet is gone, then you see the full havoe of the disease. Now sin isonly in its very first stages; but let it get under full way and it an typhoid. Oh, if we comld see our un- pardoned sine (rod them is as sees would knock together, and the respira tion would be choked, and onr heart [four sins are unior You, and vou are sinking--sinking away sinking away from everything that 1s hen what do we want? A swimme r! \ strong swimmer! A swift And blessed be God! in my text we have «‘He shall spread forth His hands in the midst of the m, ] swimmeth spreadeth forth op have noticed that Swimmer fis he his PUTS OFF HIS HEAVY APPAREL is great him if he is going to do thisg fortl And when Christ steppe i us He shook off the heaven, and His feet then He stepped down nto the wi ur transgressions, and np o his wounded feet, and it in His about deed. to save sandals of were free; it Calne came above s 1t AYE, 1 that swimmeth hands to swim.’ If you have ever watched a swi t his whole box brought into pls The arms are flexed, drive the water } ACTIVE, the he ad back to CRORE stranguistion, prapuision. And deep to back, he is thrown the whole is In When Christ sprang into the SAVE US, THREW HIS ENTIRE NATURE INTO IT all his Godhead, Hisomniscience, His hands, We out on the ses, and so deep down in the waves, and so far out from | short of an en Chirist le aped ps i d all the surges heart, eyes, foot tire God could save us 1 TORO vir * RAY LK hy will,” an 1 satanic hate beat against watched Him from H yuld d 1% jose who { heaven feared the wave, & g¢ others would Hi but, putting His breast to the foam, and shaking the surf from His I cks, He i until He is now within ew I jnstead savi nse i i pe 1 i 1d On, » reach of every i went, heart infinite, arm Mighty to most. Oh, led was not a q° one here save, even unto i it was not half x (God that tram bello (rennesaret wmrter of a God that od the demons of Gadara it two-thirds of i the It was not WIL wing arms n § ns who offered pardon and peace to ail - - No his mighty swimmer «l His grandeu is glory, race, thre Ww inipotence, It both On the cross, His and His eternity into thn one act took both hands of Godto save us f How do Iproveit? sot both feet nailed? eat, cry be ens e If you have lived much by the water, rescue of the drowning he must be independent, self-reliant, able There may be atime when ut and he ous ] to save one, and has not strength enough to bear HAD XO LIFE BUOY Alone in Alone in the moun- Alone in the sea! Oh, if He saves shall have all the credit, for No oar! No wing! No ladder! When Nathaniel Lyon fell in the battle charge in front of his troops, he had a whole army to cheer him. When Marshal Ney sprang into the contest and plunged in the spurs till the horse's flanks spurted ood, all France applauded him. But Jesus alone! “Of all the people there were none to help.” “All forsook Him and fled.” Oh, it was not a flotilla that sailed down and saved us, It was not a cluster of gondolas that came over the wave. It was one person, independent and alone, ‘‘spreadifg out His hands among us as a swimmer spreadeth forth his hands to swim.” Behold, then, to-day, the spectacle of a drowning soul and Christ the swim. mer. I believe it was in 1848, when there were six English soldiers of the Fifth Fusiliers who were hanging to a capsized boat—a bost that had been UPHET BY A SQUALL three miles from shore. It was in the night, but one man swam mightily for the beach guided by the dark moun- tains that lifted their top through the night. He came to the bach, He found a shoreman that consented to go with him and save the other men, and they put out. It was some time before they could find the place where the men were, but after a while they heard their ery: ‘‘Help! Help!” and they bore down to them, and bronght them to shore, Oh that this moment our er might be lifted long, loud, and shri till Christ the swimmer shall come an uke us lest we drop athonsand fathoms n! in the darkness! tain! He or it will One minute may decide everything. Immediate help the man wants or no help at all. Now, that is just the kind of a relief we want. THE CASE 18 URGENT, jmminent, instaneous. See that soul sinking! Son of God lay hold of him. Be quick! be quick! Oh, I wish you nll understood how urgent this Gospel is. There was a man in the navy at sea who had been severely whipped for bad be- havior, snd he was maddened by it, and leaped into the sea, and no sooner had he leaped into the sea than, quick as lightning, an albatross swooped upon him. The drowning man, brought to his senses, seized hold of the albatross and held on. The fluttering of the bird be of no use, come, converting, and saving ever, I want to persuade yon to lay hold of this strong swimmer. **No,” yon say; “it is always disastrous for a drowning man to lay hold of a swimmer.” There from the fact that when a strong swimmer went out to save auink- ing man, the drowning man clutched him, threw his arms around him, pin- is nrms, and they both down together When you are saving a man in the water you do not want to epme up by his face; you want to come up by Yon do not want him } . 3.01 you winnie you his back. to hold TAKE HOLD OF HIM. strong a swimin not to and He 1 the arms of to take nus will do it Do of good works. Do shivered plank of your Christ only Turn your face upon Him as the dying martyr did in olden days when hecried out “None but Christ Nope but Christ Jesus y the land, and He is willing to take yon there, Oh, what hardness to Him back when He has been swimming all the way from the of God to where you are and 1s re addy to all the again, taking your redeemed spiri I have } COmes our asks ns our love, and I promises to the beach: not trust that plank not trust that wn righteous give vou transportation. } Las taken millions U shove BOW, swim way back sometimes thought spectacle the ocean bed w 1H when in @ drawn off. the last dav all th it from beach ine Ol will be = bu ach hers down ships merchantment went the of wre There 1s where went d harpooners went the line-of-battl There is where the down, There is i long line wn where slenmers ‘KS fre } pe went down fa beach to beach last day, when the But oh, how to see drawn off! mn if we had wrecks and places Wier hey sapclere You find th anid streets water 1s Ores 11 fin eve the wand awful catastrophe, | ] % hands as swimmer spreadetn his hands to swim;"” but they thrust Him in the sore heart, and they smote his fair cheek and the storm and darkness swallowed them @ip. | ask you to lay hold of this Christ and lay hold « i ROW, SOUS, epre adding for From hornzen to he a orbit gh nly one str ng finer i head flung ts wl srms outapread y in the audi would like to be a Christ ian. Iam going to work to become a Christian My brother, begin When drowning, and : win out to help ow be Or Go my don’t ¥ take you vou struggle and the Ip yourself, the more Now be quiet, and I'll When Christ, the comes out to save a “That's right. hear a great “OB KRY vou f Man is OO eR ui t 8 or 3 impede take yon ashore I sSWilniner, soul, the sinner s I am glad to EHV E I am’ going to pray more, and Him: and 1 am going to weep extravagantly over my mns, and No, my brother, Stop your doing. Christ You eannot lift an ounce, you cannot move an inch, in this matter of your redemption. This is the diffieulty which keeps It is because they cannot LET JRSUS CHRIST BRGIN and complete the work of their redemp- tion. “Why,” you say, “then there is nothing for me to do?” Only one thin have you to do, and that is to lay hole of Christ and let Him achieve your sal- vation, and achieve it all Ido not know whether 1 make the matter plain or not. I simply want to show you that a man cannot save himself, but that the Almighty Son of God ean do it, and will do if you ask Him. Oh, fling your two arms—the arms of your trustand love— around this omnipotent swimmer of the Cross. JOY OVER THE RESCUED, That is the thrilling time when some one swamped in the surf is brough ashore and being resuscitated. How the people watch for the moment when he begins to breath again! and when af last he takes one full inhalation, and opens his eyes upon the bystanders, a Shout of joy rings up and down the beach. There is joy because a life has been saved. Oh ye who have been swamped in the seas of trouble and sin! we gather around you. Would that this might be the hour when you begin to live. The Lord Jesus Christ steps down, He gets on His knees, He puts His lip to your lip, and would breathe pardon and life and heaven anto your immortal soul. God grant that this hour there may be thousands of souls hosuaciunged . Si fiaud bin the Jock of the old gos pip amid a crowd of sengers, all of them hoping that the last man overboard may be saved. May the living Christ this hour © out for your safety, ‘spreading His hands in the midst of you, as a swimmer spreadeth his hands to swim"! Practice In life whatever you pray AO Fresh Air, No, we do not spend many hours in billard rooms, but we do in bed rooms and iu drawing rooms, I must have a word to say sbout both, Concerning the ventilation of work shops and school rooms, I must at present be gilent, al- though the number of constitutions ruined in both during a single year ap- pals the mind to think of. Thanks to science, both teachers and superintend- ents of work shops are beginning to be- lieve that free air currents rightly guid- ed, and passing through their establish- ments, are conducive to the suceessful- ness of the work done. School children will learn far more, and be more intel- acid and exhalations be yond the school yard gate 18 born quite as much of the magic influence of oxvgen as of joy of being free “or the same reason young men and Yes, and they would do ten per cent. more work, an i Banish carbonic peaceful, happy setivity. Apart from all regard forthe comfort of their pe 1 WwW mill owners, health a uid pay manufactu and othe to devote a Little 1 ity of the atmospher: s carried on. But as regards our own hou we have the ball at « It is surely unns the importance ol pore time to the pur ur feet CORBATYY Dreatining tha lamp. ing © Bat it is the du to see that there is ventilation o Every room and tie of another Ougliy, with ad { rest; air of it have a ole ! is V MT oO ventilator in of a bed chamber, if the the TE a i impure stance, to fe i sii fisted sir mn In winter the s warmed as well as never be undergo with air in Living 1 WAYS In ge ntie motion ber, does not ter thess roor being ve ntilate burns vititated atmosphere, a current, wid causes the en trance of out. It is in st er that people apt to suffer n these rooms. Probably the chimney is stopped. At all events, it 1s blocked by some species of ornamentation Now, please remember this: If such a» fresh air from incoming and outgoing current of air. ing this is to have the window open at the bottom as well as the top. Ur, a ventilator in the door rangement will suffice and have the window wide open. It is a slit that brings a draught. Out of doorsia sum- sen} better still, : : ARDY simple ar- well window not opened generously wide Casecil's Family Magazine, AA WO A New Kind of Bureau, London that it is surprising Ro organ- ization has vet been started to make the labors of entertainers less arduous by having some central place where in- formation might be obtained as to the names of people in town for a long or short period, their addresses and any information which would enable a host- ess to get up a dinner or entertainment at a short notice, with less fatigue and uncertainty than nowadays must neces. sarily be expected. It 1s intended to start such an angency at onee in a cen- tral position and under the management of people in society who can furnish in- formation from the best and most trust- worthy sources. IN 0.55 Warning to Inveterate Cigarrette Smokers. A correspondent of the Boston Tran. script, talking about cigarottes; says that ‘those bought by our boys are quite another thing from those com- paratively innocent ones smoked by Jubans and South Americans that set the fashion. Wrappers, ‘warranted rice paper,’ are proven to be ordinary paper whitened with arsenic. In the sixteen expensive popular brands, with one ox) coption, were found sufficient quanti ties of opium to create such a craving as could only be satisfied by an inces sant use of cigarettes or resort to opium alone. We see many oases of lightning puraiysia, insomnia, insanity, unques- tionably so produced, and the whole army of cigarette smokers show it in skin, weak eyes and weaker manhood.’ wo nei oo Jun grineipien of xighiafusnent S70 SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. Buspay Serres & 1953, David and Jonathan, LESSON TEXT. (1 Bam, 2 : 1-18. Memory versed, 5 4) LESSON PLAN. Toric oF THE QUARTER : and Disobedience, Obedience GoLpex Text ror Tae Quaswren: De hold, to obey than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rama, 1 Bam. 15: & ia Letter Lessos Toru Ydelity of the Obes Day :. Davi 4% Jona Lesson OUTLINE Gores Texa brother cloger than a Prov. 18 : 24. Day Hose READINGS : M. 1] 1-14 the obedient 1 i Nam. 1% ous of David, W.—1 Sam. If Sam. 20 LESSON ANALYSIS I. DAVID'S DISTRESS i. Compelled to Flee David fle Naioth i wped i from id Ued, sna Sam. 19 il David arose, of Baul Now he i Absal yi Fake thie and fled 11. Innocent of Wrong: What have 1 11134 % MIAN i r rans os 24 : 11 ii}. s than 1 (1 Sam 26 i111. Exposed to Death: he death $ fa $e 4 rv re $ bul a sep Pps Wid What wit Whether of the lease unto von? (Matt What wilt thon that {Mark 10 : 51 ii. Unfolded. i me go If thy then say (5, 6), 5 father socketh te 1 Sam. 1% ¥ twain wiil I should tiem ie8 all, Saul m si i4 thy ed if David My - 3 ma 24 ¥13 01 IAIN Feteh hun 1 die (1 Sam. 5 Q «A » 111. Entrusted: Therefore deal kindly with vant 3). Jonathan and David (1 Sam. 18 : 3). made a covenant David (1 Sam. 19 : 2%. own soul {1 Sam. 20 : 17). Thy love to me was wonderful (2 1:36). 1. “Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even doit for thee.” {1) An unlimited sweep; (2) An unqualified ASKUTANCS , “If thy father miss me at all, then say" (1) David's intended with drawal: (2) Sanl’s possible inquiry: (8) Jonathan's friendly help. “Therefore deal kindly with thy Sam. sponse, 111. JONATHAN'S FIDELITY. 1. In Counsel: If... .evil were determined, . .. would not 1 tell it thee? (9). Go in peace, torasmuch as we have sworn (1 Sam, 20 : 42). We took sweet counsel together (Psa. bb : 14). The sweetness. . . .that cometh of hearty counsel (Prov. 27 : 9). Hear the word, mg (Ezek. 83 : 7). 11. In Fallowship: They went out both of them into the fleld (11). They insed one another and wept (1 Sam. 20 : 41). Very pleasant hast thou been unto me { ne { 1:96). A Hand loveth at all times (Prov. sd A friend thet sticketh closer than » brother (Prov. 18 : 24). 111. In Melpfulness: If 1 disclose it not unto thee, and send thee away (13). J + «+88 the onathan went... atthe Hoe sppoint i i i A brother is born for adversity (Prov. 17:11). Bear ve one another's burdens (Gal 6:2) True yokefellow, (Phil. 4:8). 1. “If I should at all know, would not I tell it thee?” (1) A seeming question; (2) An actual assurance. 2. “They went ont both of them into the field.” (1) Chosen companions; (2) Desirabie solitude, 3. “Go in pence; and the Lord be with thee,” (1 J Human i PRIBLIONS (2) Divine companionshin help these women - A LESSON BIBLE READING, PIIENDEHIP }. 4°} aracter Prov. istics of Friendship: 17 : 17 ; John 15 : 13) (Gen. 18 : 17 ; Esther € « 2. Spec David sane -— LESSON SUBROUNDINGS. } 3s i ieRaIng o ™ NSO ue Again Daud is own J 110K wont | i Dan — sim Speaking Evil. ye habit to get FH ws1ble jor any- r under- but © explanat must be wrong; every at every one decried ; have loved up 20 us Bneer d memory ke are scarred with iniquities, Of this to whom is pure, Archbishop Tilloston says: “To speak evil of others has almost become the general entertainment of all com- panies; and the great and serious busi- ness of most meetings and visits, after the necessary ceremonies and compli- wy held nothing class, bite all the world fee Now, it is plain to be seen that this is all wrong, and when a wrong 1s discov. the habit of speaking evil of others can No good arises from the ——————— AA Keep Cool. — Excitable people wear out first. Bul- tion and a bad heart. This has been applied often to old men who were not sympathetic in their temperament. It does not follow, however, that because men are imperturbable in manners they are heartless-—muach less that they have bad hearts. Men may be actively wicked as well as apparently indifferent on the subject of righteousness. When a wan lives to a great age the presump- tion is that he has taken g care of himself. Some are more scrupulous to do this than others, and some find the task much easier to do than the most o*' their fellows. Se Rectitude Was His Pride.
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