REV. DR. TALMAGE.
The Broolkiym vine’ sSunday
Nermon.
A SAA
Subjeot---*From Ocean toe Ocean: or,
My Transcontinental Journey."
Trxr: “ He shall have dominion [from
sea fo sea "Palms Ixxit, 8
What two seas are referred to! Bome,
might say that the text meant that
Christ was to reign over all the land’
between the Arabian Sea and Caspian
Sea, or between the Red Sea and the
Mediterranean Sea, or between the
Black Sea and the North Sea. No: in suecly
cass my text would have named them. It
meant from any large body of water on the
earth clear across to any other large body of
water, And so I have a right to read it:
Me shall have dominion from the Atlantic
Bea to the Pacific Ses My theme is!
America for God!
First, consider the immensity of this pos,
session. If it were only asmall tract of land
capable of nothing better than sage brush
and with ability only to support prairie
dogs, I should not have much enthusiasm in
wanting Christ to have it added to his do-
mwinion. But its immensity and aiflluence no
one can imagine unless, in immigrant wagon
or stage coach or in rail train of the Union
Pacific or the Northern Pacific or the Can-
adian Pacific or the Southern Pacific, he has
traversed it. Having been privileged six
tinues to cross this continent, and twice
this summer, have come to
some appreciation of its magnitude,
California, which 1 supposed in boy-
bood from its size on the map, was a few
wards across, a ridge of land on which one
must walk cantiously lest he hit his head
ainst the Sierra Nevada on one side or slip
off into the Pacific waters on the other, Cali.
fornia, the thin slice of land as [ supposed it
to be in boyhood, I have found it oe larger
than all the States of New England and all
New York State and all Pennsvivania added
together; and if you add them together their
uare miles fi far short of California.
North and Bouth Dakota, Montana and
Washington Territory, to be launched next
iter thio statehood, will be giants at their
firth.
strain a point and soon admit also Idaho and
Wyoming and New Mexico. What is the
use keeping them out in the cald any longer?
1at us have the whole continent divided into
States with Senatorial and Congressional
Representatives and we will all be happy
together. If some of them have not quite the
requisite number of people, fix up the Con-
stitution to suit these cases. Even Utah will
by ng polygamy soon be ready to
enter. onogamy triumphed in parts of
Utah and probably triumph at this
fall election In Halt Lake City.
some of the sisters are smaller than the sider
as large as any of them. Because some of
not let the daughters five feet high shut the
door in the faces of those whoare only four
our good friend, the wise statesman and great
author, the brilliant orator and magnificent
tion to move next winter in Congress for the
tranfarence of other Territories into States
“But” says some ome, “in calculating the
must remember that vast reaches of our pub-
lic domain are uncultivated, heaps of dry
sand, and the ‘bad lands’ of Montana and the
great American desert.” Iam glad you mens
tioned that. Within twenty-five years there
will not be between the Atlantic and the
Pacific coasts & hundred miles of land not
reclaimed either by farmers’ plow or miners
crowbar. By irrigation, the waters of the
rivers and the showers of heaven in what are
called the rainy seases will be gathered
into sat reservoirs and through aque
ducts down where and when the people
want them. Utab is an object lesson. Some
parts of that territory which were so barren
that a
raised thers ip a hundred years are now rich
or Westchester farms of New York
Somerset Coanty farms of New Jersey.
E ents have proved that ten acres of
ground irrigated from waters gathered in
or
much as ffty acres from the downpour of
rain as seen in our regions. We have our
freshets and our droughts, but in those lands
which are to be scientifically irrigated there
will be neither freshets nor ghts. As you
taks a pitcher and get it full of water and
then set it ona table and take a drink out of
it when
all the waters of their rivers in great piteh-
ers of reservoirs and drink out of them when.
their land when-
been offi-
idly through these regi tot
y ons, doing
on thelr way to the sea, will be las
corralied and penned up until such
the farmers need them. Under the
processes the Ohio, the Mississippi and
rolling
and
as
white pillars, Standing down in this great
chasm of the valley you look up
and yonder in Cathedral Rook,
vast, gloomy minster built for the silent
worship of the mountaing. Yonder is Sen-
tinel Rock, #270 feet high, bold, solitary,
standing guard among the ages, its top sel
dom touched patil a bride one Fourth of July
mountad it and planted the national stand-
ards and the people down in the valley
looked up and saw the head of the mountain
turbaned with the Stars and Stripes. Yonder
are the “Three Brothers,” four thousand fest
high: “Cloud's Rest,” North and South
Dome and heights never captured save by
the flery bayonets of the thunder storm.
No pause for the eye, no stopping place for
the mind.’ Mountains hurled on mountains,
Mountains in the wake of mountains,
Mountains flanked by mountains, Mountains
split. Mountains ground. Mountains
fallen. Mountains triumphant. As. though
Mont Blane and the Adirondacks and
Mount Washington were here uttering
themselves in one magnificent chorus
of rock and precipice and waterfall,
Sifting and dashing through the rocks, the
water comes down, ¢ Bridal Veil
Falls, so thin you can see the face
of the mountain behind. Yonder is Yose-
mite Falls, dropping 2634 feet,
| times greater descent than that of Niagara.
| These waters dashed to death on the rocks,
; 80 that the white spirit of the slain waters
| ascending in robe of mist seeks the heaven.
Yonder is Nevada falls, plunging seven hun
| dred feet, the water in arrows, the water in
| rockets, the water in pearls, the water in
| amethysts, the water in diamonds. That
cascade flings down the rocks enough jewels
to array all the earth in beauty, and rushes
on until it drops into a very hell of waters,
| the smoke of their torment ascending forever
and ever
But the most wonderful part of this Amer-
jean continent is the Yellowstone Park. My
| visit there last month made upon me an im-
pression that will last forever. After all
| Ley has exhausted itself, and all the
{ Morans and Bierstadts and the other enchant-
{ ing artists have completed their canvas
| thers will be other rev ions to make and
{| other stories of its beauty and
i Splendor and agony, to be
10 Yellowstone Park is the geal
| ogist's paradise By cheapening of
! travel may it become the nation's play-
| ground! In some portions of it there gems
| to be the anarchy of the elaments, Fire and
| water, and the vapor born of that marriage,
| terrific. Geysar cones or hills of crystal that
| have been over flve thousand years growing
{ In places the earth, throbbing, sobbing,
i groaning, quaking with aqueous paroxysm.
| At the expiration of every sixty-five min.
| utes one of the geysers tossing its boiling
| water 185 fest in the air and then descending
into swinging rainbows. Caverns of pictured
walls large enough for the sepulcher of the
human race. Formations of stone in shape
and color of calla lily, of heliotrope, of rose,
| of cowslip, of sunflower and of gladiola
Sulphur and arsenic and oxide of ron, with
{ their delicate pencils, turning the hills into
‘a Luxemburg or a Vatican picture
gallery, so-called Thanatopsis
geyser, exquisite as the Bryant poem it was
named after, and the so called Evangeline
geyser, lovely as the Longfellow heroine it
| commemorates. The so called Pulpit Ter-
race from its white elevation preaching
mightier sermons of God than human lips
ever uttered. The eo called Bethesda goy-
sar, by the warmth of which invalids have
already been cured, the Angel of Health con-
{| tnually stirring the waters. Enraged cra-
| ters, with heat at five hundred degrees only a
little below the surface
Wide reaches of stone of intermingled
i colors, blue as the sky, green as the foliage,
| crimson as the dahlia, white as the saow,
| spotted as the leopard tawny as the lon,
grizzly as the bear in circies in angles in
stars, in coronets, in stalacites, in stalag-
mites. Here and there are petrified growths,
or the dead tress and vegetation of other
ages, kept through a process of natural em.
| balmment. In some places waters as inno-
cent and smiling as a child making a first at
tempt to walk from its mother's lap, and not
far off as foaming and frenzied and ungov-
| ernable as a maniac in murderous struggle
with his keepers
But after you have wandered along the
geyserite enchantment for days and begin to
fool that there can be nothing more of in-
torent to see, you suddenly Sima upon the
peraration of allmajesty and g ety, the
irand canyon. It is here that it seems to me
and I speak it with reverence-Jebhovah
seems to bave surpassed Himself. [It seems
i'm great gulch Jet down into the
i otermities. Here, hung up and Jet
| down and spread abroad are all the
| ‘colors of land and sea and sky, Upholster-
{ ‘ing of the Lord God Almighty. Best work
| of the Architect of worlds. Sculpturing by
| the Infinite. Masonry by an omnipotent
{ trowel. Yellow! You never saw yellow
unless you saw it there. Red! You never
maw unless you saw jt there. Violet!
You never saw violet unless you saw it
Triumphant banners of color. In a cathe
ikiral of basalt, sunrise and sunset married
by the setting of rainbow ring.
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals and
[Egyptian basilicas build before haman archi-
tecture was born. Hoge fortifications of
te constructed before war forged its
ret cannon. Gibraltars and Se ole
that never can be taken. Albhambras w
kings of stren and queens of beauty
reigned long before the first earthly crown
WAS em led. Thrones on which no one
but the King of heaven and earth ever sat
Fount of waters at which the lesser hills are
baptized while the giant cliffs stand round «s
sponsors. For thousands of years be
fore that sens was unveiled to human
sight, the elements wers Land the gor.
gers ware howing away with hot eh
and glaciers were pounding with thelr cold
bammers, and hurricanes were cleaving with
thelr lightning strokes, and ballstones giving
the finishing touches, and after all these forces
of nature had done their best, in our century
‘the curtain dropped and the world had anew
and divinely pire revelation, the Oid
Testament written on papyrus the New
Testament written on parc t, and now
this last Testament written on the rocks
Hanging over one of the cliffs I looked off
until I conid not get my breath, then retrest.
ing to a less sed place 1 looked down
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wrath,
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opal. Well of chalk resting on pedesta
1. Turrets of light tumbl
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rainbows look mow like the erowns
to ba cast at his feet. At the
bottom of this great canyon is a floor on
which the nations of the earth might stand
and all up and down these galleries of rock
the nations of heaven might sit, And what
reverbration of archangels’ trumpets there
would be through all these gorges and from
all these cave and over all these heights,
Why should not the greatest of all the days
the world shall ever see close amid the grand.
est scenery Omnipotenoce ever built?
Oh, thesweep of the American continent!
Sailing up Puget Bound, its shores so bold
that for fifteen hundred miles a ship's prow
would touch the shore befors its keel touched
the bottom, I said: *“This is the Mediterra-
nean of America.” Visiting Portland and
Tacoma and Seattle and Victoria and Fort
Townsend and Vancouvers and other cities
of that northwest region I thought
to myself : These are the Bos-
tons, New Yorks, Charlestons and Savannahs
of the Pacific coast, But after all this sum.
mer's journeying and my other §ounays
westward in other summers, I found that I
had seen only a part of the American Con-
| tinent, for Alaska is as far west of Ban
| Francisco as the Coast of Maine is east of it,
| 80 that the central city of the American Con-
tinent is San Franeisoo,
| I'have said these things about the n Ai
| tude of the continent and given you a few
specimens of some of its wonders to let you
know the comprehensivensss of the text when
i it says that Christ is going to heve dominion
from sea to sen: that is, from the Atlantic to
the Pacific. Beside that the salvation of
this continent means Mhe salvation of Asia,
for we are only thirty-six miles from Asia
at the northwest, Only Behring Straits
separate us from Asis, and these will be
spanned by a great bridge before another
century closes, and probably long before
{ that, The thirty-six miles of water between |
| Jitee two continents are not all deep sea, |
ut have three islands and there wre also |
shoals which will allow plers for bridges, and |
for the most of the way the water is only |
about twenty fathoms deep
The Americo-Asiatic bridge which will |
yet span those straits will make America,
Asia, Europe and Africa ons continent.
So you see America evangelized, Asia will be |
evangelize. Europe taking Asia from one |
side and America taking it from the other
side, Our great-grandchildren will cross
that bridge America and Asia and
Europe all one, what substraction fror
the pangs of seasickness! and the prop
cles in levelation will be ful
“There shall be no more sea™ But
mean literally that this American continent
is going to be all gospelized’ [ do. Christo
pher Columbus, when be went ashore from
the Banta Maria, and his second brother
Alonzo, when he went ashore from the Pinta
and his third brother Vincent, when he went |
ashore from the Nina, touk possession of this |
country in the name of the Father and the |
Son and the Holy Ghost
Satan has no more right to
than I bave to your pocketbook. To hear |
him talk on the roof of the Temple, where he
proposed to give Christ the kingdoms of this
world and the glory of them, you might sup
we that Satan was a great capit w that
we was loaded up with real estate, when the |
old miscroant never owned an sere or an inch
of ground on this planet. For that reason 1 |
protest against something I heard and saw
this summer and other summers in Montana |
and Oregon and Wyoming and Idaho and |
Colorado and California ‘hey have given |
devilistic names to many places in the West
and Northwest
As soon as you get in Yellowstone Park or
California, you have pointed out to you
places cursed with such names as “The Dev
Slide.” “The Devil's Kitchen,” "The Devil's |
Thumb. ® “The Devil's Pulpit,” “The Devil's
Mush Pot” “The Devil's Tea Kettle.” “The |
Povil's Saw Mill” "The Devil's Machine
Shop.” “The Devil's Gate" and so om. Now
it is very much neaded, that geologioal sur |
veyor or congressional committee or group
of distinguished tourists go through Mon.
tana and Wyoming and California and Col.
orado and give other names to these places
All theses regions belong to the Lord and toa |
Christian ation, and away with sach Plo
tonic nomenclature i
But how {s this continent to be gospslise 1? ;
The pulpit and a Christian printing press har |
nessed together will be the mightiest team
for the first plow Not by the power of eid, |
formalistic theology, not by ecolesisstionl
techrrcalitios Iam sick of then and the
world is sick of them But it will be done by
the warm hearted, sympathetic presentation
of the fact that Christ is ready to pardon all |
our sins and heal all our wounds and save us i
both for this world and the next Let your |
religion of glaciers crack off and fall into the
Gulf Stream and get melted Take all your
creeds of all denominations and drop out of !
them all buman phraseology and put in only i
scriptural phraseology and you will see how |
quick the people will jump after them i
On the Columbia River a few days ago we
saw the salmon jump clear out of the water |
in differant places, [| supposes for the purpose
of getting the insects. And if when we want
to fish for men we could only have the right
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kind of bait they will spring out above the
flood of their sins and sorrows to reach ®
The Young Men's Christian Associations of
America will also do part of the work. All :
over the continent | saw this summer their |
new buildings rising In Vancouver's I |
asked: “What are you going to put on that :
sightly place” The answer was: “A Young |
Man's Christian Association building © At
Lincoln, Neb. | said; “What at they making
those excavations for” Answer: “For our |
Young Men's Christian Association build |
ing.” At Des Moines lows, | saw a noble
structure rising aod | asked for what pure
we it was being built, and they told me for
the Young Men's Christian Association.
These institutions are going to take the
young men of this nation for God. Thess
{nstitutions seem in better favor with God
and man than ever before. Business men
and capitalists are awaking to the fact that
they can do nothing better in the way ol
| Hiving beneflosnce or in last will and testa.
| ment than to do what Mr. Marquand did for
! Brooklyn when he made our Young Men's
| Christian palace possible. Thess in.
{stitutions will get our young men all
{over the land into a stamipe for
{ heaven. Thus we will all in soms way hel
on the work, you with your ten te,
| with five, somebody else with three. It is es.
| timated that to irrigate the arid and desert
| lands of America as they ought to be fir.
i ged, it will cost about one hundred
{million dollars to gather the walters
into reservoirs. As much contribution
land effort as that would irrigate with
{| Gospel influences all the waste places of
ithis continent. Jet us by yer and
| sontribution and right living all to a
et an
Never accuse your jittle one of a fault
unless you are certain he committed it.
Children are keenly sensitive to any in-
justice, and should never be tscated
with suspicion. We should act towards
them in this matter as we feel we ought
to act towards others, only with greater
tenderness. Teach that neither fame,
wealth nor influence is essential, but
that it is always necessary to do what is
ht.
f you can afford them nothing el
give your children a education,
trained mind ugh life, snd is
not convertible. Give them
schools, good books, and the
eral reading matter, even if they
en to do without other things; and to
secure a right direction to educated
minds, give them, by word and exam-
ple, good principles.
folly of trusting their little ones to ser-
vauts and nurses! Many a woman has
wept over the sins of her child, little
dreaming that while she pursued her
round of idle pleasures, that child was
taking its first lesson in sin from the
example of an unprineipled nurse.
Nothing ean be of so much im-
portance as the teaching and train-
ing of our children. Undoubtedly, at
times, they are very tromblesome in
asking questions, and they should cer-
tainly be taught not to interrupt con-
versation in company; but by giving
due attention to these troublesome and
often perplexing questions, a child's
truest education may be carried on, It
is a great thing to be a companion to
your children, even te the extent of
joining in their play occasionally; they
will respect yon none the less, but, on
the contrary, will love you the more
heartily for it, and this close compan-
ionship makes the bond between parent
and child which results in the future
acceptance of advice and guidance, If |
you are worried or discouraged, the re- |
creation will benefit you as much asi
benefits the little one and your sleep |
will be the sweeter for it,
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GIRLS AXD THE PIANO.
Some observations pianoforte |
Of
Professor Waetzoldt, director of the |
Royal Elizabeth School in Berlin, have |
attracted much attention in Germany.
He says: {
“It may be affirmed that the home |
musie practice of girls is more respons- |
for the nervousness and weakness
from which many of them suffer than |
the much-blamed Pianoforte |
tescinng should not begin before the |
twelfth year. Moreover, music should
e studied by beslthy girls, masic-
a
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school.
‘hat their playing will one day give
p assure to their fellow-creatures,
(Jf a hundred girls who learn to
play the piano, ninety attain after years
of Iabor to Only A Ocertain
skill, which not only possesses no reia-
tion to artistie execution, but
destructive of the capacity for
musical expression,
“The endless claims made upon the
of growing girls by
teachers ust be stoutly re
sisted by parents and school author
1t is neither nor de-
thint we she mediocre
automatic
is even
genuine
of music m
fies, LOCORSATY
uld
JAY 5
girls should remain fresh and |
healthy in body and mind.”
The professor goes on 10 Insist that
tions are sought fr burdens,
om school
one of the first to be given u
P-
ot
Some Beautiful Rooms.
a new homse has the
chocolate brown
paper, with ribbed or corded ground, |
on which is a graceful leaf pattern in a
slightly hghter shade of brown. The
Morris frieze is eighteen inches deep,
and shows a light buff ground, with
rich vine pwttern in shaded browns
This frieze bv bordered with upper and
lower rail of black walnut The doors
of natural =ood-—dark walnut—have
A bedroom in
a
upper halves, over which are drawn
little curtains of baff India silk pow-
dered with little brown discs.
covered with
a moquette chintz suread of buff ground
and low
yellows, and has full curtains, hanging
from the half-tester of transparent ecru
large brown cir
muslin with a figure of
draped and
cular spots. These
I back by brown and buff nib-
bons. The windows have a transom
twelve inches deep of Japanese fret
are
i
walnut furniture is upholstered in brown
The
soellent in
helf below
and all overs
mantel with mirror back and little side
shelves, The bronze fire-place is sur-
rounded by buff enameled tilesof which
also the hearth is composed. A large
pat-
hard wood.
covers the floor
either sade with bronze sconces in which
bronze chandelier with globes of yellow
porcelain.
olive in color.
with white silk thickly powdered with
tiny gold spots. The deep, wide win-
dow has curtains of golden olive satin
sheeting lined with white, and inner
curtains of yellow India silk fringed
with gold. The furniture 1s in white
enameled wood quaintly carved with
gilt mouldings, and is covered with
golden olive fringed damask. One
chair especially is in style Louis XIV,
quite low, thirty inches wide (as in
a days room must be made for the
immense hoop). The woodwork is de-
licately carved and gilded, and seat,
back and arms are upholstered with a
rich satin of cream white ground bro-
eaded with yellow roses. The mantel
is of Mexican onyx clonded, yellow and
white, The fire-place of dead gold,
with hearth and borderings of white en-
ameled tiles, is furnished with andirons
of Japanese gilt bronze, in form of
winged griffins, supported by Griffin's
feet. Over the mantel a mirror, framed
in white and gold, has side candelabra
of gilt each containing five candles.
The curtains are of white silk with gold-
en olive bands, and are put back from
the windows by gold cords.
Your own Weather Prophet,
When a storm is advancing the wind
blows to meet it. Thus a wind blowing
from the east or southeast indicates the
approach of a storm from the west
n the storm center has , how-
ever, the wind : follows the
storm. If a person has & good barome-
ter and wind guage he oan tell pretty
correctly when a storm is coming.
Withont the instruments the cionds may
be watched, and when seen to be moving
rapidly from the southeast, and there
are indications of the presence of much
moisture in the air, » storm is not far
away,
Kxowrrpar is like money-—the more
it in cironlated the more people get the
Oh, if mothers would ovly see the
benefit of it.
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
Buxpay OvroBen 6, 1999,
The Tribes United Under David,
LESSON TEXT.
2 Bam. 5 : 1-32, Memory verses, 1, 4.)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric ov THE (QUARTER ;
and Adversity.
Govpex Text vou ue Quanren: 44
long an he sought the Lord, Cod made
him to prosper. —2 Chron, 26 : B.
The Bleswings of
Prosperity
Lesson Toric :
Unity.
f 1. Increasing Strength, ve,
Extending Conguest, vs,
Ha
Eujoving Prosperity, ve,
ots
LESSOX OUTLINE: 4 =
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Govvex Text : Behold, how good
and how pleasant it is for brethren to
dwell together in unity. — Pea. 183 : 1.
Dany Hove Reapivos :
M.—-2 Sam.) 1-12,
ings of nuity.
T.—1 Sam. 16 : 1-13. David
vinted for the kingship.
2 Bam. 2:1-11, David
over Judah.
9
The bless
nl-
king |
P Sam. 5 : 1725. The Phili- |
stinesr smitien
F.John 17 : 13-26. Unity prayed
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N,
s,
Eph. 4 : 1-16
Psa. 133 - 13
ANALYSIS,
STRENGTH.
Unity urged.
Unity praised
LESSON
I, INCREASING
I. Kingship Recognized:
Behold, are thy bone
flesh (1).
This is now bone of my
flesh of my fesh (Gen, 2
Surely thon art my
and thy
Wi
nes,
bone and my flesh
that I am wvour bone
Judg. 9 : 25.
Bre my
143
ia bs
r Hesh
my brethren, ye bone
and my flesh (2 Sam. 19 :
Valor Remembered:
It that leddest out
broughtest i i
Appoint a
before them,
97 : 148, 17
David
sent om +. 5503 Et
ii.
was thoy and
Israel (2
which may go out
CONE { Num.
and in
whithersoever Saul
and came 1m before the
1 Sam. 18 131.
Jeremiah came in and went out among
the people {iJer. 37 4).
Urity Secured:
1 i tl} %
rejgned thirty
out
Hi and three
over all Israel and Judah (55.
Judah inted David king over
ada (2 Sam 4)
ith © bring
unto thee (Sam. J
VOurs
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shy “3
Lia -
house of J
be w thee, 1
about all Isracl
12).
Ye sought for David to be King over
now then do it (2 Sam. 8:17
They annointed David king over Israel
{2 Bam, 5: 3).
1. “Behold,
flesh.” i
Kingship +
tion Cis
YOu
we are tl and thy
Kingship claimed;
, i The nua
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3
King's com
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2. “They annointed David king over
Isracl.”™ (1) David's origional sway;
2) David's enlarge d BWAY. DPravid’s
kingship (1) Appointed of Ged; (2
Ac ©} texd of men
1, “All Israel and Judal
(2) Israel in
1 Israel
Lt Hs eulire-
i EXTENDING CONQUEST
[. Jerusalem Besieged,
The King
agminst the Jebu
As for the Jebusites
not drive them out (Josh,
The Jebnsate (the
(Josh IR
Benjemin dad
sites (Judg. 1
This city of tl
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went to Jerusalem
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Judg. 19: 11
Jebusites
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it *
of
12)
ii. Jerusalem Captured,
David took the strong hold of Zion
{7}
Judah fought against Jerusalem, and
took it Judg. 1: 8).
Nevertheless David took the
hold of Zaon (1 Chron. 11:6).
Thou hast brought his streng holds to
rain (Pea. 89: 40),
strong
of strong holds (2 Cor, 10:4).
David dweit in the strong held, and
ealled it the city of David (9).
Sam. 5: 7).
,.was buried in
David (1 Kings 2: 10).
The eaity of David, which is Zaon (1
Kings BR: 1).
David dwelt in
Chron. 11: 7).
1. “The King. ...went to Jerusalem
against the Jebusites.” (1) The
assaniting party; (2) The assaulted
city; (3) The sturdy resistance; (4)
The complete conquest, —J erusalem
(1) In ond Testament history; (2)
In New Testament history; (3) In
subsequent history.
9, “Nevertheless David took the
stronghold of Zion.” (1) A strong
city; (2) An insolvent garrison; (3)
A daring Snpiute.
8. “The city of David.” (1) The city;
(2) Its title; (3) Its lustory; (4) Its
symbolism.
111. BXJOYING PROSPERITY.
i. Prospered in His Person.
David waxed greater and greater (10).
The spirit of the Lord came mightily
upon David (1 Sam. 16: 13).
The Lord was with him (1 Sam. 18: 14).
David waxed stronger and stronger (2
Sam. 3: 1).
1 will make thee a groat name (2 Bam.
: 9).
il. Prospered in His Estate:
They built David an house 0
I dwell inan h of cedar
(2 Sam. 7: 2).
Hiram king of Tyre seut....to build
him an house (1 Chron, 14: 1
He died. ...full of da :
honour (1 Chron, 19: 28).
The glory of the house of David (Zech.
3 0.
111 Prospered in His Kingdom:
Lord had established
“Han
God shall give nnto him the throue of
his father David (Luoke 1: 32 .
1. "David waxed greater and greater.”
David's growth; (1) Its sphere; (2)
Ite manifestations; (3) Its causes;
. (4) Its consequences,
2, “The Lord God of hosts, was with
him.” Divine companionship with
man; (1) Its ra (2) Its de-
sirability.—(1) The Lord of hosts;
(2) The king of Israel; (3) The Lord
and the king.
8. “David pereeived that the Lord
had established bim king.” (1) A
great fact; (2) A happy perception,
LESSON BIBLE READING,
UNITY AMONG BAIRTSH,
:8:1Cor. 1: 10-155
20-23).
:25 ; Eph. 4 : 3;
Desired (Gen. 13
Prayed for (John 17 :
Commanded (1 Cor. 12
Heb. 13 : 1).
Essential (Rom, 12 : 5; 1 Cor.
Iustrated (1 Cor. 13 : 12-20 ;
4-6).
: 21).
12
Eph. 4
4-11)
power (Lev. 26 : 8B ; Deut,
32 : 30
Blessedness of (Psa, 153 : 1-3).
LESSON BSURBROUNDINGS,
Inrupvewing Evesrs.—The sid
Jook of Samuel opens with an account
of how David reecived the tidings of
ol
1-12), of the pun
FOO
VE. ixhi-
slew him (ve. 13-16
the touching lamentation of i for
Saul and Jonathan (ve. 17 Sn
story of the war between David and tl
3 { HBaul's son, oe-
David, by Divine
himself in Heb-
Ba Ki Hire
follows
There
Davi
ed
rg ETL)
Ishboshieth,
Clipless chapters a4,
direction, estabiisiaed
ron. He at nt
to the inhabitants of Jabe
had buried Saal
made Ishboshetd
the tribe of J
K-11 [Le
Contest wetwern
NOE Bd
i BResnage
Agi who
2:1-7)
of Israel.
David
Dean
twelve men fromm each
were tat
r Joab, the Pisin
the brother
Abner, who,
alter
a
dead
Abner
but
$v E
2 Sam.
King
deh followed
first “
tlie witli
faction, in wideh all slats,
€ nded ih & vietory &
adaed
mb,
Ww Lim
LE
fair yurming, si
which a ia
wi mie Hal fLRin
to
The war was 1
for the cages
BOTS Were Iu LE .
5 Abner | quarrel with Ishibos-
heth, which led to hus negolmting with
David. The latter insisted upon the
return of Michal, Abner then
openly used David,
but Abuer,
in 2
Sam.
who six
a (2 Sana. 5
1-5).
Lis wile,
the cause of
suely killed
th of Asabel
The king publicly
loath of Abner (2 Sam. 3 :
Cap iails of Ishbosheth
lerel him, bul
he tidis to David they
Joab toeaches
reveng Mar thie Qo
5
wed by him
sth (chap. 4).
Praces,
de
i
where and Jacob
buried
y Caled
Abraham, Lsaac,
Hebron was appertioned
IT
f Jer-
aity i the scene of
the. ls Other
places mentioned. ars stronghold of
Zion, and I's Te
Tims The
1052
-
city,
Were
boacsme a ily of tugre
enty miles south «
inter
lust art ¥
PAR EF 3
usalem
lesson
time wis B.C. M48 or
1 Chronicles 11:19,
[srac]l, David
istavl, the tbe of
Parallel
Persoxs. — The tribes of
Saul, the
J udak, 1
carpent
IxcipesTs
through the
David
Hebr
Hiram gin
Anos
eo to Hebe
: ake a iva
1 ind lam kmmg: be
and sfterwards cap-
old of Zion from the
a dwell Hiram, king of
is messengers and workmen
with
reigns in
tures ti
Jebusites,
Tere.
to David.
sss AAA
A True Wife.
¢ strong
se 1d
It 12 not to SWeCp the house, maks
the beds, darn the socks, and cook
meals, chiefly that a man wants a wile,
If this is all he needs, a servant ean do
it cheaper than a wife. If thes is all,
when a young man calls to see a lady,
send him into the pauiry so taste the
bread and Case she has made; send him
to inspect the needlework and bed-mak-
ing; or put a broom in her hand and
him to witness its use. Such
things are important, and the wise
young man will quickly look after them.
But what the young man wants
with a wife 1s her companionship, sym-
pathy, and love. The way of Yite has
the
trie
needs a wife togo withhim. A man is
He
yates his arm
something
he
whisper words of counsel, and her hand
to his heart and impart inspiration. All
through life, throughstorm and through
sunshine, conflict and victory, thros
adverse and through favoring wi
man needs a woman's love.
——— a
A Suggestion.
The modern woman of fashion is cons
fossedly pocketless, and she is forced
to resort to far less convenient means
for earrying about with her the half
dozen indispensable artieles, in the way
of a pocket dkerchief, purse, vinai-
grette bottle and, perhaps, a pencil and
8 key or two. 1s makes the bag
uestion an important one, and happy
N woman whose bright mind suggests
Something out uf the ordinary an the
of bags. ese bags are ntily
ra of netted silk and cut
beads, or of quaintappearing brooaded
that is more strictly practical looking.
The housewife, with an overweening
£
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