DR. TALMAGEY SERMON.
The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Sabject :
Saved.” Preached in Paris, France,
TeXT: *“Jehosheba, the daughter of King
Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joush ths
son of Ahaxiah, and stole him from among
the King's sons which loere slain; and they
hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bed
chamber from Athaliah, so that he was nol
slain, And he was 100th her hid in the house
of the Lord siw years.” 11 Kings, xi., 2, 3.
Grandmothers ars more lsalent with thei»
children’s children than they were with their
awa. At forty years of age, il discipline be
peorisary, chastisement is used, but at sev.
enty, the giandmother, looking upon the
misishavior of the grandchild, is apologeiic
and disposed to substitute confectionery fo)
whip. There is nothing more beautiful than
th ving of old age toward childhood,
Grrapdmoller takes out hor pocket handker
chief and wipss her spectacles and puts them
mand looks down into the face of her mis.
chisvops and rebellions Jdscendant, and
savs: “I don’t think he meant to do it: let
him off this time; I'li be responsible for hi:
behavior in the future.” My mother, with
second geuaration around her—a bolster
ous craw-—said ones day: “I supposs they
ought to he disciplined, but 1 can't do it
Grandmothers are not fit to bring un grand:
children.” But here, in my text, we have a
grandmother of a different hue.
I have within a few days been at Jerusa.
let, where the occurrence of the text took
lace, and the wholes scene came vividly be-
ore me while I was going over the sits of
the ancient temple and climabing the towers
of the King's palace. Hers in the text it is
old Athaliah, the queenly murderess. She
ought to have been honorable. Her fathes
was a King. Her husband was a King, Het
son was a King. And yet we find her plot.
ting for ths extermination of the entire royal
family, including her own grandchildren,
The executioners’ knives are sharpened. The
lace is red with the blood of Prigcss and
rincesses. On all sides are shrieks and
hands thrown up, and struggle and death
oan. Nomercy! Kill! Kill! But whilg
the ivory floors of the palace run with carn.
age, and the whole land is under the
shadow of a great horror, a fleet footed
woman, a clergyman's wife, Jehosheba
by name, stealthily approaches the im
perial nursery, seizes upon the grandchild
that bad somsbow as yet escaped massacre,
wraps it up tenderly but in haste, suuggles il
against her, fliss down the palace stairs, hes
heart in ber throat lest she be discovered in
this Christian abduction. Get her out of ths
Way as quick as you can, for she carriesa
precious burden, even a young King. With
this youth{ul prizes she presses into the room
of the ancient temple, the church of olden
time, unwraps the young King and puts him
down, sound asleep as he is, and unconscious
of the peril thai Ls od; and
there for six years ho is od in that
church apartment. Meanwhile old Athaliah
STACKS ase Ups with satisfac
that all the royal family are dead
But the six years expire, and it is now tims
for young Joash to coma forth and take the
throne, and to push back into disgrace and
death old Athahiah The arrangeaents are
all made for political revolution. Tae
tary come and take possession of the temple
swear lovaity to the boy Joash and stand
around for his d
swords and the bugnishad shields 3
thing isready. Now, Joash, balf affrighted
at the armed tramp of his defenders, scared
at tha vociferation of his admirers, is brought
fourth in full regalia il of authority
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afence Ses the sharpsaed
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The scrol
is put in his hands, the cornet of government
is put on his brow, and the peopls clapped,
and. waved, and hnzzasd, and trumpeted
“What is that” said Athaliah. © What is
that sound over in the temple®™ And
she fies to see, and on her way
they nteet Bor and say: * Why, haven't you
heard? . You thought you had slain all the
royal family, but Joash has coms to light.”
Then the qusenly murtderssy frantic with
rage, grabbed her mantle and tore it to tat.
ters, and cried until she foamed at the
mouth: “You have no right to crown my
grandson. You have no right to taks the
overnment from my shoulders. Treason!
reason” Whileshastood there crying that,
the military started for her arrest, and she
took a short cut through a back door of the
temple, and ran through ths roval stables;
but the batils axes of the military fall on her
in the barn yard, and for many aday, when
the horses were being unioosed from the
chariot, after drawing out young Joash, the
fiery steeds would sport and rear passing the
piace, as they smelt the place of the carnage.
The first thought I hand you from thissab-
ject is that the extermination of righteous
ness is an impossibality. When a woman is
good, sas is apt to bea very good, and when
s®a is bad, she apt to be very bad And
this Athaliah was one of the lattr sort She
would exterminate thes last seion the
house of David, through whom Jesus was
oon There was plenty af wWoi's [or em
balmers and naderta’iars. Bhs would clear
the land of all God fearing and God loving
people. She would putan and to evarvthiag
that could in anywise interfere with her
imuverial criminality Sos folds hor
hands and says “The work
done; it is completely done Is it? In
the swaddling cl that church apart
ment are wrapp.ol the cause of God, and the
cause of good government. That is the scion
of tae house of David; it {sg Joash the Chris.
tian reformer: it is Joash, the friend of God:
it ix Joash, the defmolisher of Baalitish
idolatry. Rock him tenderly; nurse him
gently. Athalish, you may kill all the other
childrens. but you cannot kill him. Efarnial
defenses ars thrown all around him, and
this clergyman's wife, Jehoaheba, will snatch
him up from the pmiace nursery, and will
run tp and down with him into the house of
the Lord, and theres she will hides him for six
years, and at the and of that time bes will
ocane forth for your dethronement and ob
Hteration., °
Well, my frisnds, just as poor a botoh does
the world always make of extingaishin
righteousness. Superstition rises up am
says: “I will just put an sad to purse religion.”
Domitian slew forty thousand Christians
Diocletian slew sight hundred and forty-four
thousand Christiane. And the scythe of
persecution has been swung through all the
, and the flames hissed, and the guillotine
opped, and the Bastile od, bat did
the foes of Christianity exterminate it? Did
they exterminate Alban, the first British
sacrifices; or Zuinglins, the Swiss reformer;
or John Oldcastle, the Christian nobleman;
or Abdallah, the Arabian martyr; or Anne
Sanders,or Cranmer? Great work
they made of it. Just at
ht they had slain
of Jesus, some Joash
out, wnd take the throne
of power, and wield a very scepter of Chris.
tian dominion.
: “I'll just exterminate the
Beriptures were thrown into
for the mob % trample
is
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of
yehes of
Forelgn Bible Society? Havas they extermi-
nated the thousands of Christian institutions,
whose only object it is to multip. vy copies of
phe B tures, and throw them bLroadosst
around the world? They linve exterminated
until instead of one or two copies of the Bible
in our houses we have eight or ten, and we
pile them up in the corners of our Sabbath.
now going of in the work of extermination,
} do not know but that our children may
live to see the millenniam! Yea, if thers
should eome « time of persecution in which
all the known Bibles of the earth ghould be
destroyed, all those laos of light that blaze
in our pulpits and i. our families extin-
guished-—in the very day that infidelity and
sin should be holding a jublles over the un!
versal extinction, there sald be in some
closet of a backwoods churvh a sscreted cony
of the Bible, and this Joash of sternal litera-
ture would coma out and come up and take
the throne and the Athaliah of infidelity
and persecution would fly ont the back door
of the palace, and drop har miserable carcass
under the hoo of the horses of tho King's
stables, You cannot exterminate Christi-
apity! You cannot kill Joash!
The second thought I hand von from my
mbiact is, that there are onportunities in
wiich we may save royal! life, You know
| strangled Monarchs aud of young Princes wha
1ava bean pul out of the way, Here is the
tdary of a young King saved How
| JTehosheba, the cls gyman’s wife, must have
trembled as she rushed into the imperial nurs
wy and snatched up Joash, How she hushed
| dim, lest by his ery bs hinder the escape
| Fly with him! Jahosheba, you hold in your
| arms the cause of God and good government
Fail, and be is slain
| the tide of the world's history in the righ
{ direction. It seams as if between that young
King and his assas«ins there iz nothing but
the frail arm of a woman. But why shoul
we spend our time in praising this bravery of
sxpedition when God asks ths same thing ol
you and me? All around us are the imperiled
children of a great King
They are born of Almighty parsntage, an
| will come to a throne or a crown, if permitted
| But sin, the old Athalish, goes forth to the
| massacre, Murderous temptations sre oul
| lor the assassination. Valens the Emperor,
was told that there was somebody in his realm
who would usurp his throne and that the
sams of the man who should bs the usurper
would begin with the letters T H BE. O. D
{ snd the edict went forth from the Emperor's
throne: “Kill everybody whose name begin
with T. H E. O. D" And hundreds an
thousands wera slain, hoping by that mas
mers to put an end to that one usurper, But
fin is more terrific in its denunciation. It
| matters not how you spell your name, yo
| rome under its knife, under its sword, unde
| its doom, unless there be some omnipotent
reliaf brought to the rescue. But blessed be
{ God, there is such a thing as delivering
roval soul? Who will snatch away Joash?®
This afternoon in your Sabbath schoo
sass, thore will be a Prince of God—some
ne who may yet reign as King forever be.
fore the throne: th will be some one in
your ciass who has a corrupt paysical inher.
tance: thers will be somes one in your class
who has a father and w ds not
mow bow Lo pray; thers will be some one in
your class who is destined to ©
nand in church or state—soms ©
well = to dissoive ianant,
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finox to make Queens tara pale, same Joash
{ fo demolish idolatry and strike for the king
{ om of heaven
There are siespingin y
{ hare are playing in your nurseries by day,
{ mperial souls waiting for dominion, aad
whichever sids the cradles they get cut will
{ lacide the destiny of em aires one
i of thoss children min and holiness eontend
in to educats the bes
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var eradles by night
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For each
sother. Bat I hear propls say: “What's
| ihe uss of bothering children with religious
| nstruction? Lot thom grow un and choose
| lor themselves. Don't interfere with their
| rolition " Baopose soms ons had said to
| Jehosheba
{ Toash
| 30 likes the palace or not, whether he wants
10 be King or not. Doa't distarb his voli-
| Hon
would never be rascus! at all
I tall you, my friends, the reason we don't
secisim all our children from worldliness is
| sacause wa bain too late
| tha value of truth. They wait until
| shildren swear bafore they teach them the
maoriancs of rightams coaveration
| wait until their caildren are all wrapped up
| inthis world before they tell them of a bet.
{ tar world. Too late with your prayers. Too
| ‘ata with your discipline. 00 late with
ben diction You put all care
fapon your children betwesn twelve
| tod eightesn. Why do you not put the chisf
| are between four ani nines? [
{30 roanair a vassel wasn it has got ont of the
{ Iry doces. It is too late to save Joash after
| he executioners hava brossa in. May God
wm us all for tals work of saatohine royal
iouls fron death to coronation. Can
naging any sublimsr work than this soul
aving? That was waat flashes] Panl's chesi
with enthusiasm; that was what led Munson
{lo risk hia life amid Borassian cannibals:
| that was what sent Dr. Absal to preach
| ander the consuming skies of China: that
{was what gave couraze to Poosus in
{the third comtury. Waen the military
officers came to put him to
j for Christ's sake, he put them to bed that
they might rest while he bimsell went out,
sd in his own garden dugz his grave, and
then came back and sald: “1 am ready.”
but they were shocked at tha idea of taking
the life of their host. Hae said: “It is the
will of God that I should dies,” and he stood
mn the margin of his own grave and they be
headed him You say it is a mania, a fool
hardiness, a fanaticism. Rather would I
all it a glorious self-abnegation, the thrill of
| sternal satisfaction, the plucking of Joash
from death, and raising him to coronation
The third thought I hand to you from my
axt is that the caurch of God is a good hid.
ing place. Wasa Jrassasha rathss into the
nursery of the King and picks up Joash,
what shall she do with him? Shall she take
him to some room in the w? No: for
the official desperadoes will hunt through
ave nook and corner of that building.
Shall she take him to the residence of some
wealthy citizen’ No; that citizen would not
dara to harbor the fugitive, Bul shes has to
take him somewhere. She hears the cry
of the mob in the streots; she hears the
shriek of the dying nobility; so she
rushes with Joash unto the room of the
temple, into the house of God, and then she
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mean (» be burisd out of the house of God,
Oh men of the world outside thers, be
trayed, caricatured and cheatsd of the
world, why do you not coms in through the
broad, wide o door of Christian commun-
lon? [ wish I could mot the part of Jeno
theba to-day, and steal you away from
Four perils sud hids you in the temple. How
aw of us appreciate the fact that the
church of God 1s a hiding place. Thers are
many poople who put the chruch at so
low a mark that they begrudge itever ything,
sven the few dollars they give toward it
They make no sacrifices. They dole a little
put of their surplusage. They pav their
butcher's bill, and they pay their doctor's
oill, and they pay thelr landlord, aud the
pay everybody but the Lord, and they conse
on wt the last to pay the Lord in Hischurch,
wd frown as they say:
if You will have it, take it—now take it, take
%: sond ma a receipt in full, and don’t bother
ws soon again!
Y toll you thers
pnt of a thousand
| church 1s, are souls that put
side one-tenti Christinn institutions —
one-tenth of their incoine’
who, having put asides that one-lepch, draw
upon it cheerfully? Why, it is pull, and
{ drag, and hold on, and grab, and clutch: and
{ Eiving is an affliction to most people when it
ought io bean exhilaration and & rapture
{| Oh, that God would remodel our souls on
this subject, and that we might aporec
; the house of God as the great refuge f
| your children are to coms up to lives of vir
{ tus and happiness, they will come up und
| the shadow of the church. If tas
i# not mors than one man
1x ,
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for
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cure
—
Xmas tide is almost entirely ignored, |
but in Europe many old-time honored |
| customs are still preserved with affec- |
fionate interest, I England especial- |
ly, is this the case, Carol singing is |
still popular, and in many districts the |
| members of the church choir are acens- |
| tomed to a house-to-house visi ation on
| Xmas Eve, for the purpose of regaling
{ the inhabitants of the parish with their
| minstrelsy. The carols tl ure
i fur the most part quaint old ditties hav-
i 1g reference to the event eommemori-
{ted at this In different parts |
the country different traditional
are in vogue, and in some in- |
stances those of secular and jovial char- |
After the performance
NEC IVEN
BOanO.,
frequently introduced and partaken of |
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| Ah, when you pass away
| be long before you do
it will be a satisfaction
| in Christian society
| Mtling at the holy sacraments,
| them mingling in Carisdan associations, You
| would like to have them dis in the sacred
| precincts. When you are on your dying bed,
and your littls ones come up to take your las
| word, and you look into their bewildered |
| faces, you will want to leave them under the |
church's benediction. I don't care bow hard
| you are, that is Isaid to a man of
the world: “Your son and daughter are |
gaing to join our church next Sunday. Have |
you any objections” “Bless you," he
| said, “objections I wish all my chil |
dren belonged to the church. I don't attend |
{ to those matters myself—I know I am |
| vary wicked—-but 1 am very glad they are |
| going, and I shall be there to ses them. [ am
| very glad, sir; I am very glad. I want them
there.” And so, though you may have been
wanderers from God, and though you may
have sometimes caricatured the church of
| Jesus, it is your great desire that your sons |
| and daughters should be standing all their
lives within this sacred inclosure
More than that, you yourself will want ths
‘burch for a hiding place when them wignge
# foreclosed; when your daughter,
looming into womanhood, suddenly clasp
her bands in a slumber that knows no wak
ng: when gaunt trouble walks
parior, and the sitting r and
aall, and the nursery, you wili
wisiter from the tempest. Ah,
ave been run upon by misforss
say do you not come into the she
0a widowed un
MY son--mont
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he replied A RES
pt waen the sun sl
iv you mean by that”
ant bear to sos §
fark that ell th
world seams a mockery {one da
med soul, O, broken-hearted man, broke
searted woman, why do you not « tats
» shelter? | swing the door wide open i
it from wallto wall, © Comms
You want a place where your troables |
ba int ola, where your
be unstrappad, =
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Church
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burdens
here your tears shall
of G
le
»I, be a hiding places to all
(rive them a seal wheres thoy |
Wn rest their weary souls. Flash sone light
from your chandeliers upon their darks
Vith some soothing hymn hush their griels
0, Church of God, gate of Heaven, let me go
through it! All other institutions are going
io fall; but ths Church of God—its founds.
Hon is the * Rock of Ages” its charter is for |
| everlasting years, its kevs are held by the |
mniversal proprietor, ita dividend is Heaven,
ts president is God!
Bare as Thy trath shall last,
To Zion sliall be given
The brightest glories earth can yield,
And brighter bliss of heaven
God, grant that all this andiencs, the
| roungest, the eldest, the worst, the best. may
{ ind their safe and glorious Miding place
| where Joash found it—in the temple.
or ———
The Spread of Our Speech.
We were
The
They were chiefly in England.
only a few millions in America.
| bered about 31,500,000, and the Germans
| exceeded 30,000,000. The Russian tongue
These four languages, French, German,
Spanish and Russian, were, therefore,
| very nearly equal in the number of their
| users, and were all far beyond the Eng.
i lish in that regard. The Engliah speak.
| ing people now number 125,000,000.
{ The French speech is now used by 09,.
i 000,000 people, the Cerman by about
{ 70,000,000, the Spanish by somewhat
more than 40,000,000, the Russian by
about 70,000,000, the Italian by about
30,000,000, and the Portuguese by per-
haps 13,000,000. The English language
has enormously outgrown its competitors.
It is used by nearly twice as many people
as any one of the others, and its relative
flowth is sure to continue. Neither the
"rench nor the German has much room in
which to expand, while the English hao
taken as its own the North American con.
tinent and nearly the whole of Australasia.
North America alone will soon have 100,.
000,000 English speaking people. There
are 40,000,000 in Great Britain snd Ire.
land. Australia will, a generation hence.
have as many English people as England
now has. South Africa is to be the seat
of an Anglo-Saxon Republic with mil
lions of people. The Eaglish language
is having a marvelous growth in India,
snd it will ultimately replace the myriad
dialects of the native population. There
is a serious talk in Japan of a national
adoption of the English language. In
Egypt the English occupation is resulting
in the substitution of the English lan.
guage for the French, and throughout the
Orient there is a growing ens to
‘earn the coming A a warmoli
Tribune.
Fish Charms,
Fish charms have been met with among
nasy nations. The fish ealled the bull.
1 is used by some of the Russian
easants as a charm against fever, Many
cinds of fish have two hard bones just
within the sides of the head, and one
ipecies, the maigre, has these bones larger
n proportion than most others. These
‘wo bones, called colic stones, are re
garded to possess medicinal virtues, They
Tre ousted in gold and huag round
he .
At Lascaster, Penn. four men were
tonvicted of the offense of killing fish in
MEY
His Rad Tl
constitute another
They are in the
habit commencing o) erations at |
least a fortnight before Xmas day, and
make night more or less hideous b
ir indifferent performance of alt
His
of
string. |
traces !
“ra, w
Like the bard singers these can
©en
t indulge in
the minstrels wont to
similar perambulations,
It is also customary to celebrate
were
the |
music 1s an important
more particularly the in the old |
collegiate cities of Oxford and Cam- |
bridge. i
At Magdalen College, Oxford,
feature. This is |
Cis
' on
lege astemble in the hall at 10». wn,
The chapel choir, aided by amateurs,
first part of Handel's “Messiall.,” All
then participate in the
things with which the tables are spread. |
the hour of midnight sounds,
Pergolesi's ‘Gloria in Excelsis™ is giv- |
continnes until the *‘wee
when all wh
menced and
sma’ hours,” to do
med
peal
are
in
ringing a més ry
At Queens College, Oxford, when all
liall for dinner on
4
ecremony the Head
This ancient enstom o
origin to the following legend
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AS GuUring wh'cn
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mr stalwart co
“Boar's arol’ 1s
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me esntnri since
reading
Lis adversary, and
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it may
although
religionsly preserved at Oxfo
repertoire of English
especially adapted for
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popular here. Hopkins, Smart, Sulli- :
haps the most popular amongst contem- |
porary composers, but their predeces- |
ave also contributed works that
eal public. |
Fxtrac's from “The Messiah,” Bach's
Xmas Oratorio, are also still in vogue,
organ voluntaries GCGuilmant's
liar works by modern organ composers,
afford a large field for selection. The
musical associations that eling to the
Xmas of Childhood are especial ¥ char |
acteristic of Engl life, and may be
regarded as valuable ad the
promotion of truly religious feelings.
sh
uncts to
The Saven Bibles,
Koran of the Mohametans, the Tri Piti-
the Chinese, the Three Vedas of the
Hindoos, the Zendavesta, and the Serip-
tures of the Christians,
The Koran ia the most recent of the
five, dating from abou! the sever th cen.
tury after Christ. It is a compound of
quotat ons from both the Old and New
ments and from the Talwmund. |
The Tn Pitikes contain snblime morals
and pure aspirations. Their suthor |
lived and died in the sixth century be- |
fore Christ.
The sacred writings of the Chinese
aro called the Five Kings, the word |
“kings” meaning web of clo bh. From |
thm it is presumed that th#y were orig- |
inally written on five rolls of clot. |
They coutain wise sayings from the
sages on the duties of life, but they can.
not be traced furiher back than the
eloventh century before our era.
The Vedas are the most ancient books
in the language of the Hindoos, but
they do
learned of the sacred writing. Zoroas-
ter, whose sayings it contains, lived
and worked in the twelfth century be-
for: Christ; Moses lived and wro e the
Bible is at least 300 years older than
the most ancient of other sacred wri
tin
The Eddas, a semi-msered work
of the Bcandinavians, was first given
to the world in the fourteenth oen-
tury.
ir only there could be one fight for
the mastery of self, or for trinmph over
the enemies of purity, of god
linoss, and of truth, there would be a
satisfaction in nerving for that fight,
and in esting it through. But the
trouble is that instead of one great fight
there = a succession of small fights ;
and that each one of the fights in its
turn Jropaies the way for fight
that is a little r than this one.
Trouble, or not, that is the way in
which life's conflict must be waged ; and
final reward is to hum that **endur-
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
Joy Over the Child Jesus,
LESSON TEXT.
{Luke 2 ;: 8-20. Memory verses, 10, 14.)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric or Tue (QUARTER: Jesus
Govpex Texr ron THe
Glory to God in the highes?, and
earth peace, good will toward en —
Luke 2 : 14,
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Universally
Honored in
-14. The Word made
The Son sent
9-21.
S50ON ANALYSIS
HEAVENLY MESHEN(
1d
I. RHOROEED BY A
I. The Anael:
An angel of the Lord stood by them
Abra-
My.
angel of the Lord
round about them (Psa. 3
of the Lord appeare
him in a dream ( Matt, |
An angel of the Lord descended from
heaven (Matt. 28 : 2),
I. The Glory:
The glory of
about th
1
11
encamp
§:7).
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unto
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the Lord shone round
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Lord
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Message:
1 rds;
A migary A marvel
OUR message
os | bring y¥ 2
joy.’ (1 Tidings
messenger; (2) Tidings laden
a holy jov;
needy world
“A Saviour, which is Christ the
Lord.” (1) The Saviour's personal
excellence: (2) The Seviour's peer-
loss work.
HONORED BY THE HEAVENLY
The He avenly Host:
There waa with the angel a mn
of the heave nly host (13%
or
u good tidings of great
worthy of sn angelic
with
3
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4 HOST
i.
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descending upon it (Gen. 25: 12
Yess the Lord, all his hosts
165: 31
ye {Pan
bet 10).
re him (Dan. 7:
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WV, 0
113.
il. Praise to Cod:
Prasing God, and saying, Glory to
God in the highest (13, 14).
Praise ye nm, all his angels
4
Who hath blessed us
places (Eph. 1: 3
Unto Lim be the glory
ever (Eph. 3: 31
Unto lum be the blessing,
honor, and the glory (Reb. 5: 13).
11. Peace Among Men:
On earth peace atbong men (14).
All her paths are peace ( Prov. 3: 17).
His name shall be called, .
Peace (Tua. 9: 6),
I care not to send peace, but a sword
{ Matt, 10: 34).
hrone {
Psa. 148:
. . .in the heavenly
for ever and
unto yon {John 14:27)
1. “A multitude of the heavenly host
praising God.” (1) The heavenly
company ;(2) The nnnumbered hos
(3) Phe high employment.
2, “Glory to God in the highest.” (1)
The highest service; (2) To the
highest being; (3) In the highest
realms; (4) By the highest worship-
ers,
3. “On earth peace among men.”
Peace (1) From whom; (2) By
whom; (3) To whom.
Il. HONORED BY THE FAVORED SHEP-
HERDS,
I. By Works:
The shepherds said,
go. ...and see (15).
As for me and my house, ‘we will serve
the Lord (Josh 24: 15).
Let us follow on to know the Lord
{Hos 6: 3).
They followed Jesus (John 1: 17).
Faith, if it have not works, is dead in
itnelf (Jas. 2:17).
il, By Words:
They made known concerming the
sayings (17).
As yo go, preach . Matt. 10: 7),
We have found the Messiah (Jolin 1:
41).
Come, see an man, which told me all
thi John 4: 29),
How they hear without a preacher
(Hom. 10: 14).
1, By Worship:
The shepherds returned, glorifying
and prasing God (20).
Whoso offereth. .. giving glori-
fleth me (Pea. 50: 23),
They Jo ed the God of Israel (Matt.
He..., m glorifying God
{Lmke 18; hit ; :
Glori
Sort herofore , in your body
or. 6: 20).
unto Bethle-
re-
Let us now
1
x “Leet ua now go even
beta, and see.” (1) 3
ceived; (2) Action Ry 24
firmation gmned, -(1) Revelations
(2) Faith; (3) Works; (4) “neces,
2. “Lhey came, . ... «ud found.” (1)
Beeking; (2) Finding. (1) Effort;
(2) Bewnrd,
8. “Fven as it was spoken nnto them.”
(1) Exphiest statoment; (2) Exact
conformity.
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LESSON BIBLE BEADING.
CHARITY'S INCARNATION,
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virgin mother (Matt, 1 : 18-2).
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Matt.
a lowly birth
6: 7)
sublime
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(Micah 5 : 2; Imke
snnunciation (Lake
8-1
’
2, 9-11.
His grand achievements (John 1:11,
i Phl 2 1 : Heb ; 14, 15 5
12; y 4
Bev. 1: 4-6).
Pe “
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LESSON BUBROURNDINGS.
InteERvexing Evests, —A
timated, the events
thew 1:18.24 probably
return of Mary to Nazar
nearly three months after, came
journey from Nazareth to Beth
Joseph and Mary went thither to be
urolled, in accorda with tl
of Cesar Augustus, which
ded ull Ji WH every
to enrolled.
was Quirinins,
sulresdy in-
recorded in Mat-
followed the
1 he 5,
the
‘
nen
Lh.
nee 1 le
com
an to
{The
the Cyr-
Authorized Vers on,-—-but
i 2+ only snp-
census or the off
In the stab ©
belonging to the caravansersi at Beth-
lehem, Jesus was born
Praces, The
lehem: the stable
lsid. Bethlehem
t
174) EO e
* y
II Own city ie
s 1
GIRL ruler
18 of the
uted whether he
of the
Hsp
it is
2C
fie
neighborhood of Beth-
where the child was
about six miles
south of Jerusalem, on the road to
Hebron; it was-at thie time s place of
all importance (comp. Micah § : 2
The traditional site of the Nativity is a
cave south-east of the town, Over this
a church was built by the Empress
the fourth century, and a
Latin convent is now there. This may
be the real site, but it cannot be prov-
The appearance to the shepherds
has been located about a mile east of
the convent, and Helena built a church
here which is in ruling
Ive. —The chronology aecepted
pages places the birth of Chris
at December 25, vear of Rome 749; t
iw, B.C. 5. It cannot well be pl weed
later, since Herod died in Apri, A. U
C. 750. } it may have been in an
earber year, or earlier in A. U, C. 749,
thoagh the former is lens probable than
the latter. 1 reckoning
ts Decemb 2 the date, 1
s thie A. U. C. 764; that is,
A. D, 1, the birth being
close of the year, the
atl the miracul-
The visit of the shep-
mm the might of the
18
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en
ino, DOW
these
5
1
1
a
*%
as
Year as
placed
beginnmnug bling fixed
: us Oo
herds
birth.
Prnsows.—The shepherds (nmmber
unknown then “a multi-
tude of the heavenly host,” the child,
his mother, and Joseph.
Ixemexrs.—The shepherds watchin
r
one angel;
>
re
4
song of the heavenly
2 -
the retara of the
ny
uj
UR,
won Mary;
. ssi ——
The Giris Who
Work.
of
One the writers in the Chicago
Tribune, has a truthful and ef the
same time Sxosodingly sympathetic
word to say, to the girls who work in
ffices, factories and stores, and who
go little time to call their own.
inow there are diffien
1:
i
Oh, girls! 1 i-
There will be times when the lit-
three stories back,
and mosquito haunted. When the
You will have to learn $0 pass a con-
Is
old-fashioned and
dent glories of the dry goods windows
Some days you will
ong for mother's wholesome cooking
is sore, and boarding house corned beef
You will want to stop, oh! yes, lots of
times. Butif you do you kaow your
board bill will be overdue, and you will
have to sneak around with that fearful
and wonderful amiability which is the
stamp and seal of the delingnent board-
er. Andsome day, just when yon have
the price of a new hat laid by, and
promise yourself the early delight of a
shopping tour, some remote neighbor
from home will suddenly swoop down on
you, with a pleasant assurance that she
as come for a city visit. Youare glad
to see some one from home, but cannot
help wonderitg why somebody you
really cared for conld not have come in
her stead, and watch her eat up your
pow hat with a feelinglscarcely hospita-
ble.
These are a few of the minor trials
that the outer world never h
There will come other and vier
ones, but none, 1 think, that sannot be
conquered by the brave heart.
There is a stimulus for ambition in
the knowledge that by “hroasting the
blows of sircumstance™ there will sur, -
Iv come a time to “grasp the skirts of
happy chance.”
And if, after a worthy geragite for
independence, she happier fate of glad-
dening some true man's heart and
overtakes her, need her former
work seom ?
Nay, not so. For how oan a4 woman
better understand her husband’, busi.
ness than personal know.
bow oan she better serve her children
and shield them?
wth