The Brooklyn livine’s Sun-
day Sermon.
Sultject : “A Mediterranean Voyage”
Pr ached a: Prindist, italy.
TEXT: “dnd 80 il cams to pass th r
escaped all safe to land.” Acts hat Ged
Having visited your historical city, whic
wo desired to see because it was the AM
of the most famous road of the ages, the
Roman Appian Way, and for its mighty
fortress overshadowing a city which even
Haunibal's hosts county not thunder down,
we must to-morrow morning leave your har-
bor, and after touching at Athens and Core
inth, voyage about the Mediterranean to
Alexandria, Egypt. I have heen read.
this morning in my New '‘estament of a
Mediterranean Yoyage in an Alexandrian
ship. It was this very mont
The vessel was lying |
from here. On
distinguished passe
historian, as
believe;
name,
things, or, as they termed it,
world upside down.” This convict had gained
the confidence of the Captain. Indeed
1 think that Paul knew almost as
much about the sen as did the Cap-
tain, He lad been shi o
times, already: % Shiphzecked three
life amidst
rd that vessel were two
ngers: oue, Josephus, the
we have
the other, a convict, one Paul hy
\ capstaps, and
cables, and storms: and
he was talking about
equinoctial storm was coming
noticing somethin, ,
yvardarms, and
he knew what
Seeding the
ane rha
otic 0 unseaworthy pe the
vessel, he advised the Captain to stay in the
harbor. But I hear the Captain and the
rst mate talking together. T eysay: ‘We
cannot afford to take :
adsian, and he a minister
aie to preach Yary we
ah ht ps y¥ well, but I
All aboard!
headway!
They had
whirlwi called Euroclydo,
torn sail its turban, shook cay anda Por
would brandish a spear, and tossed the hulk
into the heavens, Overboard with the car-
go! Itisall washed with salt water and
worthless now; and there are no marine in-
surance companies, J ds ,
cut with the a! 21 Suns ahoy, nd
Great consternation comes on crew and
Jossengers. The sea monsters snort in the
oam, and the billows clap their hands in
glee of destruction. In the lull of the storm
1 hear a chain clank. It is the chain of the
great apostle as he walks the deck. or holds
fast to the rigging amidst the lurching of the
ship the spray dripping from his long beard
as he cries out to the crew “Now 1 exhort
you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no
oss of any man's life among you, but of the
ship. For there stood by me this night the
angel of God. whose I am, and whom I
Ho may be
y " don't believe
warlinspike from a uff tackle,
Cast off! Shift the helm for
Who fears the Mediterranean?’
brought before Cassar; and, lo, God hath
given thee all them that sail with thee.”
Fourteen days have passed, and there is no
abaternent of the storm It is midnight
Standing on the lookout, the man peers int
the darkness and, by a flash of lightai
the long white line, —
Maem and knows
—y nat ' i O 8 ;
a Viitg near to some country,
will be shivered on the rocks
flies like chaff in a tornado. They drop the
sounding line, and by the light of the lan-
ing along a little
the line again
of the lantern the
Two hundred an
few feet of awful shipwreck! The
farshor
and
soe it is
they drop
ba the
fteen fathoms.
over the side of the ship and undergird i
into the small boat, expecting in eit uDe
| Se the sham, and he tells
spring! The timbers crack!
parts in ths thu surge!
Here
what wild struggling for life’
leap from to plank. Here they go
uw as if they would never rise, but
th of them. The vessel strikes!
panting on it to the beach.
waves until their chins plow the sand. and
on the beach
called, two hundred and seventy-six people
answer to their names. “And 50.” says uy
ext, "it came to $s that they !
safe to land.” Bt ¥ Escaped
1 learn from this subject:
First, that those who get us into troubls
will not stay to help us out. Thess shipmen
ot Paul out of Fats Havens into the storm;
out 88 Soom as the tem dro upon
them, they wanted to pr in the sual
boat, caring nothing for what became of
Paul and the passengers. Ah me' human
nature is the same in all . They who
us into trouble never stop to help us cut.
hey who tempt that young man mto a life
of Gimipation will be the “Hest to laugh at
his imbecility, and to drop him out of
decent society. Gamblers always make
fun of the of gamblers. They who
ou into the contest with fists, saying,
back you,” will be the first to run.
Look over al of your life,
you into those
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us brow once 1a pure mother's lips,
But He refused her counsel, He went wher
reuroolydons have their lair. He foundered
on the sea, while all hell echoed at the roar of
the wreck: Lost Pacifics! Lost Pacifics!
i Another lesson from the subject is that
ristians are always safe,
jPaul getting out of that shipwreck, did there?
hey had not, in those days, rockets with
{which to throw ropes over Jed ven
els. Their lifeboats were of but lttle
\worth,
danger, ny text says that Paul esca safe.
ito land. Andso it will always be with God's
children. They may be plunged into dark-
ness and trouble, but by the throne of the
eternal God, I assert it, “they shall all es-
cape safe to land.”
mercial disaster, The cables break. The
masts fall. The cargoes are soattersd over
fhe sen. Oh! what struggling and leaping
on kegs and hog sheads and cornbins and store
shelves! And yet, though they may bave it
{ Jo very hard in commercial circles, the good,
f ing in God, all come safe to land.
| | Wreckers go out on the ocean's beach and
| find the shattered hulks of vessels: and on the
| Streets of our great cities there is many a
wreck. Mainsail slit with banker's pen.
| Hulks abeam’s end on insurance counters.
| Vast credits sinking, having suddenly sprung
i leak. Yet all of them who are God's chil-
Mren shall at last, through His goodness and
mercy, escape safe to land. The Scandina-
vian warriors used to drink wine out of tha
| skulls of the enemies they bad slain. Even
¢ so God will help us, out of the conquered illd
life, to drink sweetness and
and disasters o
strength for our souls,
You have, my friends, had illustrations in
| your own life of how God delivers His peo,
i Be I have had illustrations in my own
| life of the same truth. I was once in what
{ ton your Mediterranean you call a Eurocyl-
| slon, but what on the Atlantic we call a
cyclone, but the same storm. The steamer
(sreece, of the National line, swung out into
| {the river Mersey at Liverpool, und for
i (New York. We had on board seven
| hundred, crew and passengers. We came
| Rogether strangers—Italians, Irishmen, Eng
| Ris amen, Swedes, Norwegians, Ameri.
cans Two flags floated from the
i joan ~British and American ensigns. We
{ had a new vessel, or one so thoroughly re-
| modeled that the voyage had around it all
| the uncertainties of a trial trip. The great
| steamer felt its way cautiously out into the
sea. The pilot was discharged: and commit.
i ting ourselves to the care of Him who hold-
rth the winds in His fist, we were fairly
started on our voyage of three thousand miles
| It was rough nearly all the way —the sea with
| strong buffeting disputing our path’
{But one night at 11 o'clock, after
| the lights had been put out, a cycione—a
{ wind Just made to tear ships to pieces
i caught us in its clutches. It came down mo
| suddenly that we had not time to take in the
i sails or to fasten the hatches. You may know
| that the bottom of the Atlantic is strewn
| with the ghastly work of cyclones. Oh!
{they are cruel winds. They have hot
| breath, as though they came up from
infernal furnaces. Their merriment is
the ory of affrighted passengers
{ Their play is the foundering of steam-
ers. And, when a ship goes down. they laugh
i until both continents hear them, ey go
in circles, or, as I describe them with my
hand-—rolling cn’ rolling on! with finger of
| terror writing on the white sheet of the
| wave this sentence of doom. “Let all that
come within this circle perish! Brigantine,
go down! Clippers, go down. Steamships
i go down” And the vessel, hearing the ter-
| ®ble voice, evouches in the surf, and as the
waters gurgle through the batches and port
{ holes, it lowers away, thousands of
feet down, farther and farther, until at last
| it strikes the bottom; and all is peace, for
they have landed. Helmuman dead at the
| wheel! Engineer, dead amidst the extin-
guished furnaces! Captain, dead in the
faguay! Passengers, dead in the cabin?
| Buried in the great cemetery of dead steam.
| prs, beside the City of Boston, the Lexington,
the President, the Cambria—waitiag for the
archangel's trumpet to split up the decks
and wrench open the cabin doorsand unfast
en the hatches,
I thought that [ had seen storms on the sea
before; but all of them together might have
| come under one wing of that cyclone. We
were only eight or nine hundred miles from
home, and in high expectation of soon seein
our friends for there was no one on boar
| 80 poor as not to have a friend. Bat it seemed
as if we were to be disappointed. The most
of us expected then and there to dis
There were nons who made light of the peril,
| save two, One was an Englishman, and he
was drunk, and the other was an Ameri
can, and he was a fool! Oh! what a
time it was! A night to make one's
hair turn white. We came out of the berths,
| and stood In the gangway, and looked into the
steerage. and sat in the cabin, While seated
there, we heard overhead something like
minute guns, It was the bursting of the sails
We held on with hoth hands to keep our
places. Those who attempied to cross
the floor came back bruised and
| gushed, Cups and glasses were dashed
to fragments; pieces of the table gettin
joose, swung across the saloon. It se od
as if the hurricane took that great
ship of thousands of tons and stood
I wink
And then it came
it on end, and said “Shall
i it, or let it go this once™
| down with such force tha. the billows tram.
over it, each mounted of a fory, We
alt that ~~ ryuung depended on the pro-
| poiling screw. If that stopped for an in-
stant we knew the vessel would fall off into the
trough of theses and sink, and so we prayed
that the screw, which three times since leay-
ing Liverpool had already stopped, might
not now, Oh! how anxiously we
lar thump of the ma
upon which our lives seemed
After a while some one
I" No;
overpowersd
» and we
n when we heard the reo
gular pulsations of the overtasked machinery
Joing Thump, thump. thump. At 3 o'clock
n the morning the water covered the ship
from
way! The deluge
prow to stern, and the lights gave
rushed in, we {elt that
one or two mors waves like that must swamp
us forever, As the water rolled back and for-
ward in the abn, and dashed against the
wall, it way up to 3 .
sprang pd P ng
lights as it
with such roar, there
up from the cabin a shriek of horror
God I may never hear again.
) oe Again,
ear
i chinery,
to
! Myc
uy wife shall be
now into eternity | two minutes I
meet my God”
There were about five hundred and
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Ry a thousand shi
doom of this vessel! Theres was a
m the utorm, but aly that it
| might gain additional fury, Crash! went
| the lifeboat on one side, ! went the
| lifeboat on the other side. The great booms
| [ok loose, and, as with the heft o a thunder-
| Balt, Pinded the.deck and beat the mast
| the {ib boom, studding sail boom, and square
sail m, with their strong arms, beating
' time to the awful march and music of ths
| burricane,
Meanwhile the ocean became phosphoresd
est. The whole scene looked like fire. The
water dripping from the rigging, thers were
ropes of fire; and thers were masts of fire;
and there was a deck of fire. A ship of fire,
walling on a sea of fire, through a night of
fire, May I never see anythiug lke ita oat
Everybody prayed. lad of twelve
jars of age got down and prayed for
is mother. “If I should give up” he
said, ‘I do not know what would be-
come of mother.” There were men who,
I think, had not prayed for thirty YOars,
who then got down on their knees, When a
man who has neglected God all his life
feels that he has come to his last time, it
makes a very busy night, All of our
#ins and shortcomings passed through our
minds, My own life seemed utterly un-
satisfactory, Icouldonlysay. ‘Here, Lord,
take me as I am, I cannot mend matters
now, Lord Jems, Thou didst dis for the
chief of sinners. That's me! It seems,
lord, as if my work is done, and poorly
done, and upon Thy infinite mercy I cast
myself, and in this hour of shipwreck and
darkness commit myself and her whom I
hold by the hand to Thee, O Lord Jesus!
praying that it may be a short struggle in
the water, and that at the same instant we
may both arrive in glory ™ Oh! I tell you a
man prays straight to the mark when he has
a eye one above him, an ocean beneath him
and sternity so close to him that be can fee
its breath on his cheek,
The night was long. At last we saw the
dawn looking through the port holes. Asin
the alden time, in the fourth watch of the
now:
the
ull
rocks, I sw
wave cliff to wave cliff; and when He puts
His foot upon a billow, though it may be
tossed up with might it goes down. He cried
to the winds, Hush! They knew His voice,
The waves knew His foot, They died away,
theses letters on scrolls of foam and fire:
“The earth shall be filled with the knowledge
of God as the waters cover
the sen.” The ocean calmed. The
path of the steamer became more
and more mild; until, on the last morning
out, the sun threw round about us a glory
wich as [ never witnessed before, God made
& pavement of mosaic, reaching from horizon
to horizon, for all the splendors of earth and
heaven to walk upon-—a pavement bright
enough for the foot of a seraph—bright
enough for the wheels of the srchangel's
As a parent embraces a child, and
kisses away its grief so over that sea, that
had been writhing in agony in the tempest,
the morning threw its arms of beauty and of
benediction, and the lips of earth and heaven
met,
As I came on deck—it was very sarily, Lad
wo were nearing the shore —1 saw a fow sails
wgainst the sky, They seemed like the spirits
of the night walking the billows. [ leaned
sver the taffrail of the vessel, and said: “Thy
way, O God, is in the sea, and Thy path in
the great waters.”
It grew lighter. The clouds were hung in
purple clusters along the sky; and, as if those
purple clusters wore pressed into red wine |
and poured out upon the sea, every wave |
turned into crimson. Yonder, fire cleft
wood opposite to fire cleft; and here, a cloud,
rent and tinged with light seemed like a
palace, with os bursting from the win. |
dows. The whole scene lighted up une
Hl it seemned ax if the » of
God were ascending and descending
upon stairs of fire, and the wave<crests
es into jasper. and crystal, and ame |
thyst, as they were flung toward the beach,
wade me think of the crowns of heaven osst
before the throne of the great Jehovah. I |
leaned over the taffrail again, and said, with |
God, is in the sea, and Thy path in the great
waters ™
So, I thought, will be the going off of the
storm and night of the Christian's life. The |
darkness will fold its tents and away! The
golden feet of the rising morn will come
skipping upon the mountains and all the
wrathful flows of the worlds woe
break into the splendor of eternal joy.
And 0 we come into the harbor !
eycione behind us Our friends be |
fore us, God, who ia always good
all around ne. And if the roll of the crew
and the passengers had been called seven
hundred souls would have answered to their
names. "And so it came to pass that we all
seaped sale to land.” And may God grant |
that, when all our Sabbaths on earth are
nded, we may find that through the rich
mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, we all have
weathered the gale!
Into the hath of
# heaven now we glides,
Home at ian
Sofily we drift on the bright sl.ver 0
Hose at las |
Glory to God AR our dangers are o'er
We stand secure an the glorified shore
Glory to God ' we will shoul evermore
Home at last
floene at leat]
ATI
Hindoa Tonsorial Artists
The Indian barber travels from house
io house to do his shaving. He carries
sll his tools under his arm, wrapped up
in a cloth, and when he shaves his custom
¢r., he makes him squat down on his
heels and bend over his head. He then
squats down on his own heels in front of
him, and the two, without a chair or
stool, do the business in the most primi-
tive manner. He usually shaves with
cold water, and he is a manicure as well
ss a barber. No Hindoo shaves himself,
and few Hindoos pare their own nsils,
The barber is expected to take the gray
bairs out of your head, eyebrows and
mustache, and like his brother he pays
attention to cleaning the cars and to shav-
ing the face, even to the comers of the
Ae
from $1.25 to $2 a month per family,
An ordinary shave costs from one to two
cents, and a first-class haircut is given
from one cent to a nickel. It is quite
| customary in the East for the families to
| shave their heads when they go into
{ mourning, and in Siam when a King dies
{ all the people in the country are supposed
i to cut off their hair so close that their
| pates are as clean as a billiard ball. The
| of the corpse is shaved in India,
ng a body being cre-
| mated at Benagps, saw about half a
| steps, not far from the fire. I asked
| where it came from and my guide told
{me it had just been cut from the heads
| of the friends and relatives of the de.
‘ gensed. The Indian barber is a surgeon
Foe well as a shaver. He bores the holes
in the girls’ ears, and pierces their noses
for the nose-ring. He often acts as a
essional match-maker, und his wife
18 a ladies’ hair-dressor. She trims the
nails of the bride for we di.ge, and takes
of" the fine clothes of the widow, and
dresses her in her funeral garments, I
| had these Hindoo barbers meet me at
| every station in India, and they were al.
| ways within call at the hotels. — Courier.
| Jounal,
| Owing to the spread of foot and mouth
' chief milk establishments in Berlin are
now forced by law to boil their milk be.
fore selling 1% to sho public.
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Her Work.
How mueh one person can accom-
plish when in real earnest is beautifull ly
shown in an article from 2% Youth's
Companion which we copy.
About thirty years ago a young girl
in a Western city was given charge of a
Bunday school class of rough boys,
usually known as ‘river rats,” who had
never been in any school before. When
she entered the room she found them
lounging on the desks and benches,
wearing their hats, puffing vile cigars,
8 deflant leer on every face. They
greeted her with a lond Se and one
of them exclaimed:
‘, Well. sis, you goin’ to teach us
She stood silent until the laugh was
over, and then said, quietly, “Do 1
look like a lady?”
An astonished stare was the only reply
which they gave.
‘“‘Because,” she continued, gently,
“‘gentlemen, when a lady enters the
room, take off their hats and throwaway
their cigars.”
The lowest American sceretly be-
lieves himself to be a gentleman, and in
a moment every hat was off, and the
lads were ranged in orderly attention.
So remarkable was the success of this
girl in managing and influencing men of
the roughest sort, that she made it the
work of her life. Bhe established clean |
and respectable boarding houses for
sailors and boatmen, and reading and
coffee-rooms for laborers, and founded
an Order of Honor, the members of
which strove to lead sober, Christian
lives themselves, and to help their fel-
lows to do the same.
Some of the members of her first
were her efficient helpers for
twenty years in all her work, It was a
favorite saying with them, “Once let
en
Ge
class
Miss get her hold upon a man, and
she never lets him go.” i
She never did let go, but followed |
him to sea, to the most distant parts of |
the world, or evento prison, with letters |
and little gifts. With all the tender
pity of a mother, she strove, as many a
mother does not strive, to bring the |
wanderer back to the faith and inno- |
cence of his childhood.
Thousands of men passed under this |
single woman's influence, and learned |
something of her Master through her |
wonderful purity and strong faith in |
Him. :
Such instances of helpfulness are not |
rare in this country. With every year |
the zeal of educated Christian men and |
women finds new and practical methods
of reaching and elevating the
ignorant people.
Singularly, these cfforts are more
common in cities than in the smaller |
towns and villages, where everybody |
knows everybody, and where the grada- |
tions of caste are, perhaps, fixed by |
more
Many a young lad or girl who reads |
ifles leads an die life in such a |
sional vague visions of going to India
or Africa to teach the heathen how to |
while the wharves or |
taverns of their own native village are |
filled with heathen for whose souls no |
man has cared. !
Let every Christian ask himself as
the day closes, “Have 1 stood idle in
Has not my Master
Of bne thing we may be sure, God |
It is here, |
We negli cf |
it at our peril.
. -
Mrs. Eliza B. Burnz,
The great increase of stenographie
work in this country is partly due to
“hiding her light under
This modest, though
Mrs. Eliza B. Burnz, the «
] and §
Seventeen vears ago Mrs, |
foresaw that short-hand would |
been
. ie a i
bushel.
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Rie
niy §
Peter ( ver ard lad her
Mr. Cooper offered
ints
ny
condition that she
mstruction gratuil-
This she at once agreed to do,
fres, on
institute. Miss Emma Parish, a pupil
uf hers, teaches the day classes, Mrs
jurnz herselt instructs a similar class
at the Young Women's Christian Asso-
She has held the position at
the association for nine years.
Mrs. Burnz has probably fitted more
yonng men and women for business
than any other one teacher. Her sue |
cess in that “particnlar has been re-
markable. The Phonographic World
ranks her foremost Along women en-
gaged and interested in the canse of
shorthand, The “Burnz Method” is
the one used at all the schools over
which Mre. Burnz has jurisdiction.
Mrs. Burnz was born in England,
but came bere at the early age of 13,
She 1s intensely American in all her
ideas, and is nothing if not original.
She 1s a thorough advocate of phonetic
spelling, preferring ‘‘Burnz’ to' Burns”
“helth” to “health,” also, wil, shal, hav,
and giv, to Webster's old style. Al-
though over 60 years of age, she de-
votes her time to the study of Volapuk,
the proposed international language,
whose spelling is said to be strictly pho-
netic. hile not a pronounced Vege-
tarian, she is a rigid geist, an ardent
advocate of the ballot for women and a
strong believer in cremation. She isa
stock holder in the Mt. Olivet Crema-
tory at Fresh Pond, Long Island. In
character she is high-minded, unsel-
fish and anxious to do good, as oppor-
tunity presents itself.
Mrs. Burnzis a delioate ing
woman, with the lofty sims o r life
imprinted on her countenance. From
the New York Press, Oct, 20, 1889,
A545 RRR
New York 8 shop Girls.
There are 12,000 shop girlsin the area
do-it th rota al ds trade in
18 great rog estimate
given, by ome R.. knows, and yet
wath observer w
evening, noted infl
the thousands who
of their daily life be oo
this number three of the larger
have an even thousand girls in
employ.—New York Letter,
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
Susoay Decemsen L 1333,
The Temple Dedicated.
LESSON TEXT.
(Kings 8 : 54-63 Memory vorses, 02, 63)
LESSON PLAN,
Toric ov THE QUARTER :
and Adverzity.
Gorpex Texr vor tae Quanren: As
long as he sought the Lord, God made
him to prosper.—2 Chron. 26: b,
Prosperity
Lessox Tovic : The Joys of a Full
Consecration.
f
1. Praise, vs. 54.06.
LESSOR OUTLINE: 4 2 Prayer, vs, 07400,
| 3. Offerings, vs 61473,
Govven Text: The Lord is in his
holy temple: let all the carth keep wil-
ence before him.--Heb, 2 : 20,
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Day Home Reavixoes :
M.—1 Kings 8 : 54-63,
Joys of a
full consecration.
T,~2 Sam. 71-17. to
build the t mple.
W.—1 Chron. 29 : 1-19. David's
preparation for the temple.
1 Kings 5: 1-18.
on the temple.
F.—1 Kings 6 : 1-22.
temple,
8.1 Kings 6 : 23-38
temple.
8.1 Kings
the temple.
Solomon
8B : 1-21.
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LESSON ANALYSIS,
1.
i. The Dedication Completed:
He arose from before the altar of the
Lord (54).
Moses finished the
cloud covered the
33, 34).
PRAISE.
work. Then the
tent
brought up the ark... with
shouting (2 Sam. 6 : 15).
upon his knees (2 Chron. 6 : 18).
And the glory of the Lord filled the
house (2 Chron. 7 : 1).
Il. The Poaople Blessed:
He stood, and blessed all
the con-
Moses. . .
{DPent. 33 : 1).
blessed the people in
name of the Lord (2 Sam. 6 : 18),
The king blessed all the congrega-
tion (1 Kings 8B : 14).
sch:
Blessed be the Lord, that hath given
rest (56).
Praising and thanking the
Chron. 5:18).
They worshiped, and gave thanks
unto the Lord (2 Chron. 7: 3).
Whoso offereth. .
fieth me (Psa. 50: 28),
It is good to sing praises;....praise is
comely (Psa. 147: 1).
Lord (2
pe
wr
He ehall offer it without blemish (Lev.
3: 1).
Neither will 1 offer burnt offerings. . . .
which cost me nothing (2 Sam. 24:
24).
With precious blood, as of a lamb with-
out blemish (1 Pet. 1: 19),
1. ““Let your hearts therefore be per-
feet with the Lord our God.”
Heart culture: (1) Its necessity; (2)
Its standard; (3) Its helps.
2. “As at this day.” (1) Beeson de-
votion recognized; (2) Continuous
devotion sought.
“So the king dedicated the
house of the Lord.” (1) The giv-
ers; (2) The giving; @ ‘The gift. —
Dedieated (1) To whom? (2) By
whom? (8) How? (4) Why?
LESSON BIBLE READING,
BOLOMON'S TEMPLE
Location (1 Chron. 21 : 28-80 ;22 :1 ;
2 Chron. 3 : 1).
Proposed by David (28am. 7:2; 1
1 ny 22:7).
Prepared for by David (1 Chron.
3-5, 14 ; 29 : 4.5)
3uilt by Solomon (2 Bam,
Chron. 22 : 6,7, 11).
Work in progress (1 Kings 5 :
Chron. 3 : 2
-~y
a.
95 »
a
”
i
23
3)
1:7:12 ;: 1a DOT).
{1 Kings 6:12, 18 :8:10 :
2 Chron. 7:3).
Symbolism (John 2 : 19-21 ;
16 ;6 : 19 ; ph, 2 : 20-22),
1 Cor. 3 :
LESSON SURROUNDINGS,
’ Int: The
ment {1 Kings 3
Evexts.
of Bolomon”
RYEXING Leg
fraadd
‘
16-28)
lesson, and is parrated as an evi
dence that God had given him wisdom.
of the wisdom of
Solomon. The compact between Hiram,
1
le 4 ff To ’
Ol @, 0 + Bled,
king I'yre, and Solomon, is narrat
ing the temple (chap. 5), followed in
construction of the edifice. By auti-
houses is next 4
A
escribed (1 Kings 7 : 1-
cunning artificer in brass,
3
: 14), and prepared
brazen
ing.” (1) The great occasion; (2)
felt prayer.
(1
gregation.”
mon’s utterance,
. “There hath not failed one word of
all his good promises.” (1)
promises; (2) Gods fidelity.— (1)
il. PRAYER,
I. For God's Presence:
Let him not leave us
ad
»
I will not leave the until I have done
we]
He will not fail tl
(Deut. 31: 6,
Yet have I not seen the righteous for-
saken (Psa, 37: 25
ant i,
thee (Heb. 13: 56
i. For God's Help:
The entire coghth chapter is devoted
connection with the
dedication of the temple. The lesson
is an account of the closing solemnities.
The leading men sssemble; the ark is
brought to its final resting-place; the
glory of the Lord fills the house (vs.
1-11). Solomon speaks to the people,
formally blessing them (vs. 12-21); he
then offers a remarkable prayer, full of
adoration, supplication, and humble
devotion, recorded in verses 23-53.
Prace.—Mount Moriah inJerusalem,
“before the altar of the Lord," at the
y. The king
stood on a scaffold elevated above the
court where the assembly of the people
were {2 Chron. 6 : 13).
Tux. —In the twelfth year of Solo-
mon's reign (B. C. 1004, or 1008 eccord-
Prrsoxs, Solomon and the
congregation.
INCIDENTS. -
great
The king rises from
numerous sacrifices, thus dedicating
the house of the Lord.
Panarrer Passace. ~
i, 46.
2 Chronicles 7 :
OUR SCRAP BASKET.
The latest Parisian novelty in gloves,
wherein women can carry their railway
tickets and small coins.
An Eiffel tower in diamonds which
expected in America soon. I$ bas been
purchased for exhibition in this coun-
vant (59),
Hear thou in heaven,
their cause {1 Kings 8: 45).
Pe ople (2 Chron. 6: 39),
Thon hast maintained my right and my
cause (Psa, 9: 4),
Ex-Empress Eugenie, will spend the
winter at Naples
Isabella the Ex-Queen of Spain, has
entered her 60th year, in good health
A home is never perfectly furnished
afflicted (Psa. 140: 12).
ii. For God's Glory:
That all the peoples... may know
that the Lord, he is God (60).
That all may know the hand of the
Lord (Josh. 4: 24).
That all... may know that there is a
God in Israel (1 Sam. 17: 46),
That ail
thee (1 Kings 8: 43).
That he might make his mighty power
to be known (Psa. 106: 8),
1. “The Lord onr God be with us, as
he was with our fathers’. (1) Ex-
pune as a basis for prayer; (2)
rayer as an onteome of experience.
wf 1} God and our fathers; (2) God
and ourselves,
2. “That he may incline our hearts
unto him,” 0 The heart's natural
inclination; (2) The heart's spiritual
inclination. (1) Human hearts; (2)
Divine helps.
3. “He is God; there is none else.”
(1) The personal God; (2) The
gracious God; (3) The only God.
Lil OFFERINGK,
I. Perfect Hearts:
Let your hearts therefore be perfect
with the Lord (61).
(Gen. 17: 1).
He walked. .. .in uprightness of heart
with thee (1 Kings 3: 6).
His hott waa Sot petinets,, at wus the
heart of David (1 Kings 11: 4).
The beart of Asa was ect with the
Lord all his days (1 Kings 156: 14).
il. Godly Lives:
Walk | inatatiten, .- .. Kogp bis eum
Bn od with God (Geb. 5: M4).
Ye
Keep the
Ti ways (Dent. 8: 6).
I will... cause to walk in my stat-
Ce
1. : ‘ 3 iia
He offered unto the Lord, two and
and the
death of overy man's estate. is
rising six weeks, —Southey.
NOTHING XEW UXDER THE SUX.—The
slot” machine was in use in the ancient
Egyptian temples confirms the saying
sun.” 1t appears that in those days
the holy water was not free to all, but
was kept in a closed vessel. When the
sum of five drachmese was droj into
lowed a
flow out, after which it automatically
closed to wait the arrival of the next
customer. This device was first refer-
red to in the “Spiritalia” of Hierc,
published in the Seventeenth century.
Never dispute with a man over
seventy years of age, nor a woman nor
an enthusiast,
The first assisted Italian Mmmigrant
to this country was a person named
Christ r Columbas. — Puck.
By the aid of the artist's brush sash
curtains of serim are made very effec
tive. Nasturtiums are showy, and con-
volvuli lovely upon these inexpensive
hangings.
Worns Dirrenexriy Usep, — English-
Americans use many words