REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Brooklyn Divine's Sun- day Sermon. Subject | ‘Panl's Mission in Athens" Preached at Athens, Greece. Texts: “Eye hath not seen nov ear heard. ~I Corinthians ii., 8. “For now we ser through a glass darkiy.”—I Corinthiamd xiii, 12 ' Both these sentences. written by the most, ihustrious merely human being the world ever saw, one who walked these streets and iil, Though more ciassic associations ar’ Xenophon, and Praxitelos wrote or chiseled, mind all those men and their teachings were wclipsed by Paul and the Gospel he preached inth. Yesterday, stdnding on the old fortress at Corinth, the Acro-Corinthus, out from the ruins at its base arose in my imagination the old city, just as Paul saw it, have been told that for splendor the world beholds no such wonder to-day as that ancient Corintis standing on an isthmus washed by two seas, ths one sea bringing the commerce of Europe, the other sea bringing the commerce of Asia. From her wharves, in the construction of avhich whole kingdoms had been absorbed. war galleys with three banks of oars pushed out and confounded the navy vards of all the world. Huge handed machinery. such as modern invention cannot equal, lifted ships them on trucks across the isthmus and sat them down in the sea on the other side. The revenue officers of the city went down, through the olive groves that lined the beach to collect a tariff from all nations The mirth of all people sported in her Isthmian games, and the PO ty of all fands sat in her theatres, walked her rticos and threw itself on the altar of er stupendous dissipations. Column and statue and temple bewildered the beholder Theres were white marble fountains into which, from apertures at the side, there gushed waters everywhere known for health- giving qualities, Around these basins twisted into wreaths of stone, there were all the beauties of sculpture and architectures: while standing, as if to guard the costly dis- play, wasa statue of Hercules of burnished Corinthian brass Vases of terra cotta adorned the cemeteries of the dead —vases so «ostly that Julius Cassar was not satisfied un til he had captured them for Rome. Armed officials, the corintharii, paced up and dowr to ses that no statue was Refaced, no pedesta ovérthrown, no bas-relief tonched, rom th j edge of the city the hill held its magnificent burdens of columns and towers and temple { {1000 slaves waiting at one shfine), and & citadel so thoroughly impregnable that Gib! raltar is a heap of sand compared with it! Amid all that strength and magnificenc:] Corinth stood and defled the world. : seen anything of my texts. ey had beard the best mush that had come from the best instruments in all the world; they had heard songs floating from morning porticos and melting in even- ing groves; they bad passed their whole lives among Jictires and sculpture and srchitee: ure and Corinthixn brass, which had been. molded and shaped until there was mn ! chariot wheel in which it had not sped, and uo tower in which it had not glittered, and no gateway that it had mot adorned. Ah, it | was a bold thing for Paul to stand there amid all that and say: “All this is nothing. Thess! sounds that come from the temple of Neptune are not music compared with the harmonies of which I These waters rushing in the basin of P: e are not pure These statues of Racchus and Mercury are not ex- quisite. Your citadel of Acro Corinthus is not strong compared with that which I offer to the poorest slave that puts down his bur- «len at the brazen gate. You Corinthians think this is a splendid city; you think you have hesrd all sweet sou and seen all beautiful sights; but I tell you eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into | the heart of man, the things which God hath Pr pared for them that love Him.” Indeed, | both my texts, the one spoken by Paul and | The one written by Paul, show us'that we | bave very imperfect eyesight and that our dey of vision is yef to come; for now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face So Paul takes the responsibility of saying that even the Bible is an indistinct mirror, | and that its mission shall be finally suspended. I think thers may be one Bible in heaven fastened to the throne. Just as now, in a museum, we have a lamp exhumed from Herculaneum or Nineveh, and we look at it with great interest and say: “How poor a | light it must have given, compared with our modern lampe™ so 1 think that this Bible, which was a lamp to our feet in this world, may He near the throne of God, exciting our | interest to all eternity by the contrast be. tween its comparatively feeble light and the Humination of heaven. The Bible now, i the seaffoldi to the rising temple, bud | when the building is done thers will be no | use for the seaffol The idea I chall dew | velop to-day is, that i this world our knowl edge is comparatively dim and imsatisfac tory, but nevertheless in introductory t« grander and more complete vision. This iy | «eminently true in regard to our view of God | We haar so much about God that we con- clude that we understand Him. He is ps stated as having the Senderhess of 3 father} t rmuess of a judge € a and the love of a mother, eo Tear abou Him, talk about Him, write about Him. We 2353 TH, w » § Ld OTTER Bees Ob. — 1 | outbursting oy such as none but a glorile intelligence could experience. Oh! to gas ! full Spon the brow that was lacerated, upo the side that was pierced, upon the feet tha | were nailed; to stand close up in the presenc i of Him who prayed for us on the mountain and thought of us by the sea, and agonize for us in the en, and died for us in hori ble crucifixion; to feel of Him, to embray | Him, to take His hand, to kiss His feet, + : | Tun our fingers alo ; i fering: © say: | gave Himself the scars of ancients. “This is my Jesus! |} : for me. I shall never jess | f presence. I shall forever behold H | glory. 1 shall eternally hear His vole | : for Jesus, now I see Thee! 1 behoid wi er} | the blood started, where the tears coursec | where the face was distorted. 1 have writed for this hour. 1 shall never turn my bac | on Thee. No more looking through impe: i f { fect glasses. No more studying Thee In th | darkness. But, as long as this OLS stana and this everlasting river flows, and thos garlands bloom, and these arches of victor remain to greet home heaven's congueror 80 long 1 shall see Thee, Jesus of my choices ¥ ‘Jesus of my song: Jesus of my trivmph~for ever and forever—face to face!” ' + The iden of my texts is just as true whe 1 | 'mpplied to God's providence. Who has no | | rome to some pass in life thoroughly ine: § jplicable® You say: “What does this mean | «What is God going to do with me now? H4 tells me that all things work together fog wood. This does not look lke it” You cor [tinue to study the dispensation, and after while guess about what God means, “2 aneans to teach me this, think He means & teach me that Perhaps it is to humble roy oride, Perhaps it is to make me feel mors | dependent. Perhaps to teach me the unce: fainty of life" Dut after all it is only uess—a looking through the glass, darkly “The Bible assures us there shall be a satisfoc | tory unfolding. ‘What I do thou knowes not now: | {You will know why God took to Himself ths | only child, Next door there was a househol | of seven children. Why not take one fro that group, instead of your only one! Wh single out the dwelling in which there wa only one heart beating responsive to yours meant to take it away® Why fill the cup of your gladness brimming, if He meant to das it down? Why allow all the tendrils of you heart to wind around that object, and then! when every fibre of your own life seemed to | be interlocked with the childs life, with bleeding and crushed, your dwelling desolate, | your hopes blasted, your heart broken? you suppose that God will explain that? Yea He will make it plainer than any mathema’ suake four. In the light of the throne J " { will seo that it was right—all right, “Jas and true areall Thy ways, Thou King « Saints.” {| Here is a man who cannot get on in the ‘world, wrong time and to sell at the worst disad #antage. Ho tries this enterprise, and fail that business, and is disa spointed. The ma» next door to him has a nr trade, bu’ he lacks customers. A new prospect opens | His income is increased. But that year hi family are sick; and the profits are expends in trying to cure the ailments. He gots i! discouraged look. Becomes faithiess as to Beginsto expect disasters. Other | wait for something to turn up; he waits fol it to turn down. Others, with only half » much education and character, get on twice | as well. He sometimes guesses as to what | all means. He says: “Perhaps riches would spoil me keep me humble Perhaps I might, if thing: were otherwise, be tempted into dissipa tions.” But there is no complete solution o! the mystery. He sees through a glass, dark! Will there be an explanation’ Yes; Got will take that man in the lightof the throge, and say: “Child immortal, tion! You remember the failing of tha: And you answer: “It is all right™ 1 soe, every day, Jrolound mysterion oo] Providence. There fs no question we ask ves that need to be explained. Hospitals tic and insane, almshouses for the destitute. mand more than human solution. Ah! Gal In the light that pours from the throne, no dark mystery can live ings pow utterly inscrutable will be Jumined as plainly as though the answer or wall, or sounded it ed in the temple anthem vas cast into the pit; and Daniel that he Henned with lions; and Paul that he wax humpbacked; and David that be was driven from Jerasalem ; and the sewing woman that should get only a few peace for making & barment; and that invalid that for twenty years he could not lift kis head from the pil work to earn bread for her children different parts. The sweet and overwhelm ibe carried by those who rode in high places, and gave sumptuous entertainments; but pauper children will sing is b ws will wing it, redeemed hod-carriers will sing it those who were once the off scouring of earth willsing it. The hallelujah will all the ander for earth's weeping eyes, and aching ends, and exhausted hands and scourge agonies. ought of my texts is true ht I think we have but little Again: The us in We get vary Imperfect ideas of the reunions f heaven. We think of some festal day on arth, when father and mother were yot liv. ng, and the children came homes. good Eime that! But it had this drawback-—all ware not there, That brother went off to sea, id never was heard from. That sister-did we not lay her away in the freshness of her young life, never more in this world to look “Ay Ah! there was a skeleton at the feast; and tears mingled with our laughter on that Christmas day. Not so with heaven's reunions. It will be an uninterrupted gladd ness. Many a Christian parent will look around and find all his children there, “Ah ™ the says, “ean it be possible that we are all ‘here--life’s perils over? the Jordan passed and not one wanting? Why, even the prod. igal is here. 1 almost gave him up, How long he despised my counsels! but grace hath tri. wmnphed. All here! all here! Tell the mighty Joy through the city. Let the bells ring and the angels mention it in their song. Wave if from the hy of the walls. All here” No more breaking of heartstrings, but fact to face. The orphans that were left poor, and in & merciless world, kicked and cuffed ‘of many hardships, shall join their parents over whose graves they so long wept, and gaze into their glorified countenances for- ever, face to face. We may come up from different parts of the world, one from the land and another from the depths of the sea; from lives affluent and prosperous, or from scenes of ragged distress; but we shall all meet in rapture and jublles, face to face. Many of our friends have entered upon that joy. A few duys ago they sat with us study- ing these Gospel themes; but they only saw dimly—now revelation hath come, Your time will also come. God will not leave you in the darkness. You stand wonder struck and amazed, You feel as if You grave. Wait a little n the presencs of in His bosom, you shall soon stand face to Oh! that our last hour may kindle up vith this promised joy! May we be able to ay, like the Christian not long ago, depart : “Though a pilgrim walking through he valley, the mountain tops are gleaming friend “I am sweeping through perl gate, washed in the blood of the yo The A Originally the Aleuts are believed to leuts of Alaska. this They ure honest, kindly people, and no explorer or visitor need have the least apprehension about going | among them, quite alone and unarmed i They are all Greek Christians, and better | Christians in their daily life and be. | havior than many of our fellow-country- | the centre of ment. They prosecute seal and whale fisheries to some extent as a means of livelibood, but their principal business is the pursuit and capture of the the Govern. son An expert Aleutian hunter sometimes this industry alone. Aside from the fish They dress also for the most part in close This comes, of course, from being =o From the same cause it also results that Their houses or barrabkies are warmed | by American cast iron stoves; they make, | use of American breech loading carbines! | Youth's ( ompanion, Crashed by Silver. Silver money piled up in heaps, like | eordwood or lumber, is very dangerous! a it is very likely to topple overgand | crush the clerks. I know it sounds like | a fable to fellows whose suspenders have | never been sagged by more than a Sstful | of quarter-doliars to talk of the risk one | runs in a place like this of getting erushed to death under an avalanche of good sod lawful coined money, but the danger is great, nevertheless. The other day we noticed that one high wall of bags of silver dollars $100 in each bag was bagging out in the middle to fall. The old clerks all ran to let it come, but the colored man, ignorant of the tremen- dous weight of silver, mn up to the cav- ing pile and pushed with his hands, thinking he could brace it up. As well try to hold up so much failing stone, ; Down it came with a crash, and the flor man had a narrow escape, getting fl with a few bruises and scratches, Rix years ago at our old office at Sixth and Locust streets a pile of bags of silver, $1000 in = bag, fell upon me and bore me to the floor. My head had a narrow escape from getting crushed in like an tes to. buried from the feet In Central Africa, according to Dr. a ost state of war. are A of a woman is often sufficient Among the Schools. FEMALE SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS, It is to be regretted that the experi. ment of appointing women to be memes bers of the Board of Education has not been beyond dispute successful. When Mrs. Aaxew and Miss Dunor were ap-4 pointed it seemed that the experiment was, at least, to be tried under the most favorable conditions. These Indies were of the highest social standing, and their inwllectual qualifications for the places to which they were named were known to their acquaintances to be quite as great as the most exacting Mayor would have thought ot demand- ing from a male candidate for the Com- missionership. There is a manifest fitness in the ap- pointment of women to supervise a sys- tem of education in which nearly half the pupils and more than half the teachers are of their own sex. The same qualities that are needed in teach- ing will apparently suffice in the over- seeing of teachers, and this is the most important function of the Board of Edueation. It has other important funetions, such as the provision of | school buildings, and this fanstion’it has discharged by bestowing upon the eity a series of buildings which practi- eally come very far short of what they ought to be, and which are, moreover, about the ngliest and most depressing structures 10 look at that can sadden the judicious adult and debase the taste of the young It is, however, supervision of the female Commissioners to be most useful. — Times, -—— The Opinion of Delsarte, Delsarte believed ment must proceed through movement, i His ideas are coming into the schools: | we see the teachers, instead of being | stiff and unapproachable, are bright, | natural, movable. The Delsarte sys- | tem says the School Journal, bases its | claim to be regarded as a science upon | the fact that man is studied through ex- | pression or manifestations he makes | which are seen to be effects of an in- ward cause, His words are, “Expression is the Manifestation of Emotion by Motion.” The teacher should make a enltiva- | tion of the entire body a preliminary training, upon which to build up =» art of teach- ing. He is constantly creaty DE 1INPressions by expressions, and in © OnSEGUEnce 18 | 1¥ 4 being oon sidered weak, conceited, Or vain, ply because he in not free to give ex- pre peion to his self Pupils form their estimates of us not necessarily through our language, nor | through the expression of our faces sim We judge certain traits of character to exist in persons with whom we have never exchanged a word, merely from their This becanse the body is but the outward symbol and development of the real or inner self. The body is given to ex- press the soul; and so the eultivation of | the physical powers is a duty we owe to | the imprisoned soul. Mere mechanical exercise will bring about only physical results. As mind is the object, a phy- | sical culture based upon psychological and psychical laws 1+ what mast be soaght i 15 the case ~~ -—- Flowers In History. To the loving stadents of Holy Writ, must have a special interest. Between thirty and forty references are made 0 it in the sacred books. Onr Saviour's latter days on earth were o« 3 7 the olive (Hives, which trees one of the history | dates back to | bore the tiny has rendered that grove of exceptional interest. But eal character of this tree when the dove waters, and conveyed the emblem of peace 10 the Looking back to those long-ago mes, our thoughts pass down through a long course of eveniful centuries, to | the day when, ss 1 have already ob. His death, of in that Crethsemane, | soul unto garden dren of men.’ : Dean Stanley speaks of the eight re-! markable olives still standing on the | hill of that “garden” gnarled and ven- i 1 1 SUNDAY SCHOOL, LESSON. Buspar Decevaen & 1443, Solomon and the Oueen of Sheba. LESSON TEXT. (Kings 10 : 1-13, Memory verses, 6, 8) LESSON PLA XN. Toric or Tae Quanren ; DProsperiy Goupex Texr vor tue Quanren: As 2 Chron, 26: b. Ligssox Torro : ng Wisdom. The Gain of Pursu- . Bnecessful Search, vs. 14 i * a EER0N OvrriNg:{ 2. Gilad Surprise, vs, 43, tich Rewards, vs. 8-15, Text: GorLoex She came from the iz here, Matt, | 2:42 Dany Home ReApinos : M.—1 Kings 10 : 1-30, of pursuing wisdom. T.—1 Kings 9 1-14. prosperity. W.—1 Kings 9 ; prosperity. T.—~1 Kings 10 : 13-20. So prosperity, Prov. 2:1- wisdom. Prov. = 1-17, ness of wisdom. 5. —Prov., 8: 158-36. ness of wisdom. The gain Solomon's | 15-28, Solomon's : lomon’s ivy F. 22. obtain How to S. The The LESBON ANALYSIS. I. SUCCESSFUL SEARCH Earnest Search: She came to prove hard him with to prove Bolomon with hard questions (Z Chron. 8 : 1). for her as for hid (Prov. 2 : 4 ET al treasures 3 ends of the earth to i 43). of the south il eondemn them the 3 hear 11 : 31). I. Costly Offerings : She came with ts stones { with 51 slolies iy OBE, Rd srd precious a 3:15 I i £ fine gold (Prov. 8B : 14), {ow much better is it to pet wisdom than gold! (Prov. 16 : 16 il. Superb Success: Solomon told her all her questions 3 which: he told her not (Chron. 9: 2). 1 have been known (1 Cor. 13; 12). @ Ay AF saw ie 1. “The fame of Solomon concerning | he name of the Lora.” Solomon's fame: (1) Its high character; (2) Its extended sweep; (3) Its firm basis . “She came to prove him with hard questions.” (1) The queen's pur- i td tioning; Satisiactors (23 The ki: Nffeult subjects; “Solomon told her : f Solomon's abil r'% Frank ques- {*y fw WOE wisdom; extent of Solomon's results of Wisdom Solomon's wis- 11 GLAD SURPRISE. 1 had seen all the wisdom, the | the meat (4, 5 have also given thee... both riches and honor (1 Kings 3: 13). he « 3 Sor omon (1 Kings 10: 24). 1 1 ingly (1 Chron, 29: 25). IL. Expectations Surpassed: The half was not told me (7). have also given thee that which thon hast not asked (1 Kings 3: 13). from any of their fellows. But whether | they once sheltered the God-man, who | sought the shade for meditation and prayer, we cannot decide. The Delphic oracle was consulted by the Athenians, each holding a branch of the olive; and as to classical tradi- tions connected with the tree, as well as those of modern date, they are fully as numerous as those regard- ing the myrtle. As an emblem of peace and reconciliation, the early Christians engraved » representation of it on the tombs of the martyrs, for the flood of eruel persecution had ceased for them, and the blessed peace-bring- ing spirit, once ap ing as a dove, had brought them that which the olive branch typified — everlasting rest in “the haven where they would be.” It seems a cunouns confirmation of the aptness with which, in all ages, this beautiful tree has been made a symbol of ++ and security,” that oil alone «of all the products of nature with which we are acquainted-—can still the raging of the storm-tossed waters, and bring instant relief and security to those in peril. Vietors at the Olympic games were awarded crowns of the olive, and in China they are conferred for literary merit, a ————— Moxey hasits vaine in the world, but it is only a subordinate value atthe best. Money never commands the very high- est service. There are always men. and women too—who would not turn aside from the work of their lives, or change the direction of that work, fora million dollars an hour. Many good things can be bought with money; but there are better thin no money nniverse are alwavs above a cash price. sr i in | nt; but that of findin a A Dox'r talk abo { % bs (2 Chiron. 9: 6). irace did abound more exceedingly {Rom. 5: 20). 200. il. Blessednoess Recognized: Happy are the men... which stand f thy wisdom (2 Chron. 9: 7), ful sound (Psa. 89: 15). is the man that beareth me (Prov. 8: 34). rom God (1 Cor. 1: 30). 1. “There was no more spirit in her.” (1) The spirit in which she came: (2) The spirit in which we went.—(1) The coming; (2) The interview; (3) The effect. 2. “The half was not told me.” 1) The tale as she had heard it: (2) The fact as she beheld it. —{(1) Fame; (2) Fact. 8. “Happy sare these thy servants.” (1 The beneficent master; (2) The surpassing opportunity; (3) (The happy servants. IL RICH REWARDS, Made he thee king, tddo judgment dom for ever (2 Bam. 7: 13). 1 Kings 1: 30;. : mon at Spon the throne of David his father (1 Kings 2: 12), ey dy to beking for the Lord (2 Chron, 9: 8), ng and sp procious stones 9: ) daughter of Tyre shall be Solomon gave to the queen... what word (1 Kings 3: 12). Cod (Phil. 4: 9). (1 John 8: 22), asked of him (1 John 5; 15). . 1. “Blessed be the Lord thy God.” (1) The Lord's mercies; (2) The king's honors; (3) The queen's praises, . “The Lord loved Israel for ever.” (1; The object of the Lord's love: (2) The fruits of the Lord's love; The duration of the Lord's love. . “She gave unto the king... .gold, spices, preciousstones.” (1) The queen's gratitude; (2) The queens gift's; (3) The queen's gains, ia } LESSON BIBLE READING. TRUER WwWisDOM. Comes from God (Pea. 51:6 : Jas. 1 : b, 17). 8:11. (Prov. 1 : 20.33 : 9 cH: 1-5). Commanded by the righteous (Psa. 37 30 : Prov. 10 : 31), Bhould be seriously sought (Psa. 90 : 12 ; Prov. 4 : 5) Embodied the 11 : 49), Personified K-12). Realized in Christ (1 Cor. 1 . Blesses those who Prov. 3 - 12 : 16 ; 16), in (Luke Seriptures (Prov. 7:4; find it v2 LESSON BUR INTERVENING Fo of Solomon's own house occupied thi sit of the iad iV followed. {he of t Lord to occurs after the dedicated, and the 1 Kings 9 : 1). interchanged between , and many other works carried on by the latter (1 King o 10-25), ng them a house for Pharaoh's dau er outside the City of David (see 2 Chron. 8:11) A was made at Ezion-peber, st the head of the eastern arm of the Bed Sea (1 Kings 0 : 26 and thus the fame of the king reached Sheba, PLACES, bia (Yemen), on the Bed Tux. Thirteen vears after the tem- ple was finished, «twelve years after its dedication, t B.C. 992 (in the margin of our En 1 Bible) or 994. Presoxs.—Solomon; the Queen « Sheba: attendants of Solomon and the que 5. Ixcroexrs, The queen comes to Jer- usalem; plies Solomon with questions; sees his grandeur; is overwhelmed by what she hears and sees; blesses the king; makes costly presents to him; the navy of Hiram returns with treasure; Solomon gives the queen whatever she ENTS, they and queen of Sheba inns RPPeATRned probably temple has | ie Been Presents were SOIOMMoOn am navy Fi She ba, in Ara Sea, J eTUSAICT 1 abou if Paravren Passacr. —2 Chronicles 9 : 1-12. Feeding the Sick. It is rarely easy, and almost always very difficult, fo persuade the sick to take nourishment in sufficient quantity, and the successful nurse must be rich in expedients. Her persussive power must be great. She must be patient, and vet firmly persistent, until her whole duty is done. There are certain general rales for her to observe A few of them we will give. All foods for the sick should be of the very best quality, palatably seasoned and attractively served. A savory dish will always sharpen the appetite of one in health, and 1t mast have a stimulating influence upon a delicate patient, to whom the flat and insipid preparations usually offered are loathsome and even pause. ating. Surprise is frequently a useful cle- ment in the dietetic treatment of the sick. Something unexpected will often be acceptable, when, were the patient consulted and advised of what was being appetite for it. Cooking in thesickroom of course, always forbidden, nor should the smell of food be allowed fo reach the patient if it is possible to pre- vent it. Absolute neatness in the ser- vice of food is a prime consideration. napkins, spotless china, ete, than many think. A slovenly nurse is out of place anywhere. If the doctor directs that insipid. Oceasionally one sees the nurse tast- ing the food in the presence of the patient, a most unpardonable habit. No more food should at one time taken into the sickroom than is likely to be eaten, and whatever is not eaten should be at once removed. Nuteds Shen deve it in sight, in the hope t patien may wat a little later, but ation in- variably they are disappointes is quite i lon. Be thing for the physician to find milk in » glass or pitcher stand- ing near the bedside of his Jantiant, and often the appearance of the glass is snch that even a person with the strong- est kind of stomach would not care to drink from it. Of all foods, milk prob- ably takes up impurities the easiest Hence, to keep it exposed to the air of a sickroom or to any other bad air isto
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