a pe a —————————————————————————————————————————— SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, BUNDAY, MARCH 1% 1590, Cultivating Disease, Your h mse is left unto dero ate i (Luxe 18: 3D). i Now they are i (Luke i9: 42). 1. “They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue.” (1) Professed worshipers; (2) Actual enemies, and at Cappadocia, and at Antioch, and at Jerusalem.” Little children clad in white will say: ‘This is the Jesus who took us ip His arms and blessed us, and when the storms of the world wers too cold and loud, brought us into this beautiful place.” The multitudes of the bereft will say: “This ls the Jesus who comforted us when our heart broke.” Many who wandered clear off from perately egotistical that you feel voursell In yon rst rate spiritual trim, and that from the root of the hair to the tip of the tos you are scarless and immaculate? What nead is | a looking glass, and here it is in the Bible. | Poor, and wretched, and miserable, and blind, and naked from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, full of wounds and putrefying sores, No health in us. And then take the 0h. TALMAGES SERMON, The Brooklyn Divice's Sunday Sermon. We heard a story, some time ago, Lid from thine about a doctor who went off for a vaca tion and left his student at home to at- tend to his practice. The student un- derstood but few diseases, and knew of eyen Jesus at Nazareth, LESSON TEXT. (Luke 4 : 16-8. Memory verses. 18-21) “The Glorious Christ.” Subject : TEXT: “He that comelh "yim above 8 . 0 Tatw 365 *y wo - The most conspicnous character of history eut upon the platform. The finger , dlamonded with light, pointed down #o Him from the Bethlshem sky, was only a ratification of the flager of prophecy, the finger of genealogy, the finger of chronology, the finger of events—all five fingers pointing tn ome direction. Christ ia the overtopping figure of all tine. He is the vox bumana io all musio, the gracefunlest linn in all sculp- ture, the most exquisite mingling of lights and shades in all painting, the acme of all clunaxes, the dome of all cathedraled gran- guage The Greek alphabet is made up of twenty four letters aad when Christ compared Him. self to the first letter and the last letter, the alpha and the omega, He appropriated to Himself all the lendors that you ean spall out either with those two let tars and all the letters between them. “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginuing snd the snd, the first and the last” Or, il vou prefer the words of the text “above all” What does it mean’ It means, alter yot leagues to touch those summits. Pelion, a high mountain of Thessaly; Osea, a high mountain, and Olympus, a high mountain; but mythology tells us when the giants warred against the mhree mountains, and from proposed to scals the heavens; but the height was not great enough, and there was a com- ote failyre Aud after all the giants salah a Paul, prophetic and apostolic giants; Raphael od Michael Angelo, artistic well unite in the words of the text and say: ‘He thas cometh from above is above all.’ First preaching homiletics seafterad There ars so many books on through the country that all laymen as well clergymen have made up thelr minds : ought to be. that sermon Is no «flectual wich most polatediy puts forts avil--individual, social, political, national. There is no reason why ws should ring the endless changes on a few phrases. Thereare those who think that il an exhortation or a liscourse bave tieation, sanctification, covenant of works and ocovenant of grace, that therefore it must be profoundly evangelical, while they are suspicious of a discours which presents the sams truth but under ferent phraseology. Now, I say 3 nz im all the opulent realm ¢ : . of all the word treasure ibarited from the Latin and the Gre he Indo-European, but we have a righ garshal i% in religious discussion wig the example. His llustrations were {rom whe well as from the seas and the stars; and we ie not propose in our Sabbath-school teach- wg and in our pulpit address to be put on the Hrnits I know that there isa great deal said in our day against words, as though they were nothing. They may be misused, but they have an imperial power. They are the bridge between soul and soul, between Al mighty God and the human race. W hat did jod write upon the tables of stones’ Words, What did Christ utter on Mount Olivet? Words. Out of what did Christ strike the spatk for the illumination of the universe’ Out of words, “Let there be light” and Hght was, Of course, thought is the cargo, snd words ave only the ship; but how fast would your cargo get on without the ship! What you need, my friends in all your work, in your Sabbath. school class, in your reformatory institutions, and what we all need is to en- iarge our vocabulary when we come to speak about God and Christ and heaven. We ride a few old words to death when thers is such illimitable resource. Bhakespsare employed fifteen thousand diferent words for dra- spatie purposes; Miltop employe! eight thon. mpd differant words for poetic purposes; Hufus Choate employed over eleven thou sand different words for legal p omes ; but the most of us have less than a thousand words that we can manage, less than five hundred, and that makes us so stupid. When we come to set forth the love of phraseology wherever we find it, and if it bas never been used in that direction before, «il the more shall we use it. {enqueror, we are going to draw our similes from triumphal arch apd oraterio and everything grand and du sh navy have eighteen flags by which they give signal but those sighteen flags they can pud Into sixty-six thousand di tave to tell you thai thesis standards of the and varieties sveriasting, ologionl seminaries into our services every preach Jesus Christ, you will have the Largest liberty and unlimited resource. You smly have to pressat Christ in yonr own way. Jonathan Fdwards preachec severest argument over penned, and John Banyan preached Christ in the sublimest al and exhausted, Jeanad up against voloe and the start of an actor, overwhelmed his anditory. 18 would have been & different thing write and dream about the pilgrim’s progres to the celestial city, or John Bunyan had at tempted an essay on the human will Brighter than the light, fresher than the “suntaine, deeper than the seas, ars all thew (tospal themes, Song ues wo melody, Sowers Wve Bo sweetness, sunset sky has no color wmpared with these glorious themes. The harvests of grace spring up quicker than we can sickle them. Kindiing pulpits with their fire, and producing revolutions with dha Flory hey as A ng beds with i giodsd el iF { fact that Christ | aginst iis and hy | us the receipt. | And how much wo nead Him rows! Patmos hear trumpets. desolate of the apocalyptic John from blast is Lhe light that gots brighter and brighter and after, under the and vine covered, puts cut the thirst of his woul, Again, I remark, that Christ is above all in dying alleviations, I ave not any sympathy with thes morbid. of Constantinople arranged that on the day of his coronation the stone mason should some and consult him about the tombstone that after a while he would néed. And there are men who are monomaniacal on the sub- jsot of departure from this life by death, and the more thoy think of it the less they are prepared to go. This is an unmaunliness not worthy of you, not worthy of me, Raladin, the greatest conqueror of his day, ivinz. ordered that the tunic he had him be ave id. all that is left of Saladin, the Em rand conqueror! Of all the States he joredl. of all the wealth he accumulated nothing did he retain but this sympathy with such behavior, demonstration, or with much from this life to the next. There yasun, ® Nay die 8 sors doesmin broke: bones and reeking leprosies and fevers, we may die a plilanthropist’s death fleld of country, slugs through the heart the gu oatriot’'s death But, after all there a departure—the death lia the former God grant that when that he may be at home Yon want the your Kindred in your hand You war ire to surround you You was : from eyes that ha love. Y not want any around watching ed from afar to think that is the wis { that ali? Can t when the chi on vi haa deat human gate’ throug] heave ship « in the ho rom 1! hen Sat 1 No, \ ins , out], if that is all. Petter die in wildernese, far [rom tree shadow and from foanntais ' vultures through the air waiting fo ur body known to men, and to b Christ could say will never leave thea thee.” From that p would soar heavenward, ang ng and going; and across the s wie and the bar renness would come the sweet n heav- enly minstrelsy Gordon Hall, far from hom door of a heathen thee, © Gloxd hat way to his wile? Come and sit beside me, and us talk of heaven, I never knew what happiness was until I found Christ What aid lying Hannah More say! “To go to heaven think what that ia! To go Ww Christ, who died that I might live! Oh, florious grave! Oh, what a glorious thing it ph die? Oh, the love of Christ, the love of Christ” What did Mr, Toplady, the great aymnmakes eay in his last hour? “Who can , circling thr oe A {en ter did dying lot I shall soon be gone for surely no one can live in this iosiend IY wks What did the * ing Janeway say? “loan as sasily die as close my eyes or turn my [ shall stand on Mount Zion with the one hundred and forty and four thousand and dry apd majesty, and dominion unto . Dr. Taylor, condemnad to burn at the stake, on his way thither broks away aad jumping toward the fire, to and to die for Him. Sir Charles in last moment had such rapturous tha he cried: “Up- upward™ And wo peace of one of that he put his oe pulse in his wrist and Lt was vision WAr d, Christ's disci “Ss I" and his life had ended here to bagin in heaven. But grander than that was donary, when, in the Mamartine dungeon he cried: 1.0m now ready {0 bs Gia d, and the time of my departure is at band: | have fought the good fight, [ have finished my course. I bave kept the faith; hencefort thers is laid up for me a crown of righteous ness, which the Lord. the righteous Judge, will give me in that day, and not te me only # to all them that love His re i # Do you not ses that Christ is ve ulin dying allsviationa? Toward last hour of our earthly resi. I say: “An other Sabbath hen I bury a friend, I say: '‘Another iy attraction gone forever.” What nim sol the yoars have! sky to sky, they place for us Ww where you and [ will sleep, and the men Are now resting piace, Ay, whether our * righ ter th : bang an a which the light fest of the dancers Jo Ths fount of tra ifts the hol w! ri AF hoaven stroameth. God will Merv He will send His an un FE af soe Tk, “hinppler for the shipwreck and [. through which they went, will may: * God and plunged into vagabondism, but were saved by grace, will say: *“This{s the Jesus who pardoned us. ® were lost on the mountains, and He brought us home. We were guilty, and He has made us white as snow.” Mercy boundless, grace unparal- leled. And then, after each one has recited his peculiar deliverances and peculiar mer- cies, recited them as by solo, all the voices will come together into a great chorus, which will make the arches echo and re-sche with the eternal reverberation of gladness and peace and triamph, Edward 1 was so anxious to go to the Holy Land that when he was about to expire he bequeathed $100,000 to have his hears, after his decease, taken to the Holy Land in Asis Minor, and his request was complied with But there are hundreds today whose hearts are already in the Holy Land of heaven. Where your treasures are there are your hearts also, Quaint John Bunyan, of whora spoke at the opening of the dis course, caught a glimpse of that place, and in his quaint way he said: “And heard in my dream, and 0! the bells of the city rang again for joy; and as they opened the gates to let in the men I looked in after them, and lo! the city shone like the sun, and there were streets of gold, and men walked on them, harps in their ha to sing praises withal: and after that they shut up the gates, which when I had wen I wished myself among them I" i - —————— | An Execution In Tonquin. | The notorious insurgent chief, Doi { Van, who has been a veritable tiger to the French army of occupation in Ton- was capiured snd quite recently i ¢ | quin, | executed in the presence of an immense Hanoi. thoroughly i ¢ : | concourse of people at was theatrical in a heavy wooden route to | | wrists fettered and his cage, like a wild en SOM neck bent dnd {a great cangue, the inscription in fof him “Yuong Van Vang, Trait : | and Perjurer.” The whole place turned Every Eure- | pean, every woman, hustled for tana frees were LD executed. a Piss *. ronged with natives tia arrived | At 4:30 a detachmen { and surrounded Were removed, { were read out s look of hatred i contemp he execulions irike sure ignal was not yet given is turba: nd upper ci thing were pull i off Far. ie ng the and revealing nx pass cut off the long hair ind stroked him as he bent his head to he block, and Van lay motionless. The breast naked, Are icted both by ball and sabre onate assistant sxecutioner stood on the left, a gong rang and before the echoes died AWAY the sabre ‘ ¢ oa ' he edge of the platiorm. Ked It was pic mob almost before had « yes, and barely escaped the disgrace o seing seized by a pariah dog. The rowd, hitherto silent, invaded the scaf- old with shouts, the only motionless ob ects being the executioner, who wiped his sword, and the trunk of the edoubtable and unfortunate Van. ————— A Race of Indian Giants Crowds have been flocking to the site sf the unearthed Indian graveyard in Pleasantville, N. J. The first lot of i : | ap and thrown to he glaze of death ye over the and yards from the city postoffice and ymbraced eight bodies, closely laid to- n with tortoise, oyster, and clam shells, Jue of this number had head afd shell iecorations, which, together with its ex. reme height, points to the fact that it Lineawsugha, whase descendants still yon farms along the shore. Besides weapons of war savage orna. nental war decorations and raluable shells, stones, ete. over fifty ikeletons have besn exhumed, Th ikeletons run in size from a small child me, supposed to be an old medicine man, Wauneck, must have been at least eight ‘est in height. these relics of a race that at ome time ruled the land. For seven miles along bg shore can be seen large mounds of lam and oyster shells left here by Indians who used to congregate by hundreds to spen oysters for winter food, and it is aear these shell mounds that the great aumber of skeletons have been taken up. [n some instances weapons of war made of stone and flint have been found lying ‘lose beside some exceedingly large skele. tons. The relics will be put on exhibition at the museum of the univermty in Phila. delphia. New York Times. She Had Sung Her Song. For some time the Century Magesine had been receiving from a young woman short poems of not enough merit to per- mit their publication, but which still gave evidence, in an occasions! line, of more than ordinary ability. Finally one came which the Century was giad to ac- cept. The opening line was, *‘Perchance I'l sing my song to-day.” With the check. Mr. Gilder, the editor, sent a let ter of kindly commendation, telling her hat, it gave him special pleasure 10 acoept the verses, both because of their excel. ence and because of the faithful . ence she had shown in im talent for such work. bad sung her dar, New York Fun. only a few remedies, and, at the end of two weeks, when the doctor returned, the patients were ali cured. The student was ‘‘very sorry,” but the doctor said, “never mind; jump into my earriage, and 1 wili show you how to make prac- tice.” They made a friendly call upon the family of one of his patrons, and inquired after the health of its mem bers. The report was that all were well ““Are you sure, Mrs. Jones, that yon are well? You don’t look very well; the whites of your eyes are yellow, and I think you are s little bilious. Let me feel your pulse.” By this time the woman's apprehensions had been suffi- ciently awakened to quicken her pulse, “I am afraid, madam,” said the doctor, gravely, *‘that your liver is quite out of order. There 18 malaria around, and I fear you are going to be sick. I will just leave you a little medicine, and will call again to-morrow as I ride this way." Sure enough, the next day found her sick in bed. She had “medicine dis- ease,” if she did not have malaria, and she had not slept a wink the night be- fore, because of thinking of what the Now she said, been thinking I stooped along And the doctor | more medicine, covery could not be grate the doctor for saving her life We have sometimes unwittingly tivated disesse by inquiries toms which had been forge in particular, which we taght a lesson as to letting als symptoms if they were not spoken « rn A lady bad a most persistent pain in hb 4 1 ini y 1 enl. it alter symp- i . n tien r all recall, ne Old fomentations, and plasters and liniments, and She would come int day to tell us about it for two weeks CHIR In thing © were Brown © 1 f ti £2 0 Ww CORIO was rye ticed read ust have of silent attentive person 1 there are {Wo Ways One with his eyes alone, rapidly, in the very back parlor of the with the formation of every word, and as if on the very frontier of voeal ex- pression. The second «f these modes no breathless interest in the facts narrated, no overwhelming necessity to hurry on for information's sake. It most never be overiooked that the sound, con. duct of the metrical effect is no matter of indifferece. Even in mere divested of all real the verse form, Among the great masters of metre we events in the characteristic writings, no when reader Hence, young or inexperienced but take as much pains to learn the Let him, above all, sup- because he could not bend Milton's text down to the level f “Paradise Lost.” It was like organ, and, amazingly © ever man as Bentley was, the world has never ceased to langh at his presumption. Edmund (rons, -—-—- ir 18 a matter of great importance, obligations to the loved and useful ones around ne, whilst they are still with us, and that we, before it is too preciation of what they are to ue. Soon they may descend into the grave, and we, in the bitterness of impotent sor- row, shall hasten “to garland the tomb stone when we have not crowned the brow, and to pay the honor to the ashes which we have denied to the spirit.” Let us, by manifested tokens of appre. ciation, bring gladness to all the living hearts we know to be beating in sym- pathy with our own, and we shall be wad ening theit hearts, and sparing ourselves bitterness of self-reprosch in the years to come. Wir undirected by benevolenes gen- erally falls into personal satire, the keenest instrument of upkindness, It is 80 ensy to laugh at the expense of our friends and neighbors—they furnish such ready materials for our wit-that allt the Total jotone, should, be od nat the prope . ts earlie indications Wa Tux chronieally unhappy man, who persists in trying to sour humamty, should get him to his closet with his woes, and give the sunshine a chance to warm his neighbors, _ Tux hoes of sunset mako life great; +5 the affocons make some lite web of cottage and. firnida. pophlows, fri portant, and flling the main space in our history. Toric ov tay QUARTER: Saviour af Men. Goroex Glo earth peace, good will toward men. Luke 2 : 14. Texr ron The Reje elec by Men. Honoring the Word, vs. 15.20, 2. unfolding the Truth vs. Laessox Toric LEssOR OUTLINE 5. Rejecting the Lord, vs, 5.32 Gores Texr: He came own, and his vin John. 1 : 11. unto Dany Hove Reapixos : M.-—Luke 4 : 16-32. men. 1, Matt, 13 BY DARIO W.—Acts 13 : 14-43. synagogue, T.—Acts 17 : 1-15 synagogue F..—lea. 61 ;1 the Lord S John IR jected. Acts 13 : 44-02. rejected, lejected by Beenes in the 44-58, Scenes in the Scenes in 11. 28-40. Christ re- 8. The rejectors : -— — LESSON ANALYSIS, 1. HOXORING THE WORD, Ie ttendance at the Synagogue: He entered, as his cus. om was, 16 He departed thence, their synagogue Matt, tanght them in thei { Matt. 13 : 54). They entered in Acts 14 the Jews sili, 88 lis custom was Pa then Acts 17 ; 2 il. Parti He Heo w : i 4 Lrmilic JK : pation in the Service wl up to read (16). & preaching in the synagogues xn ures dally (Acts 17: 11). 1. “He entered, as his custom was into the synagogue.” (1) A good place; (2) A wise custom; (3) A faithful attendant. “He opened the book. and found the place.” (1) The book of the Lord opened; (21 The lesson of profit found 1} The student; (2) The book; (3) The lesson. “The eves of all syhagogue were fastenedon him.” (1) A peer less teacher; (2; A profitable topic; 3) An expectant throng.—{(1) A competent teacher; (2) A worthy topic; (3) An attentive class in the ii. UNFOLDING THE TRUTH i. The Scriptures Fulfilled: To-day bath this scripture been ful- tilled (21). Wise PASE, tail all things be sccomplished (Matt. 5: 18). That the word of Isaiah fulfilled (John 12: 385). The word of the Lord abideth for ever {1 Pet. 1: 23). might be complished (Bev. 17: 17). The Prophets Rejected: No prophet 1s acceptable in his own 5: 13). house which killeth the pro- phets { Matt. 23: 37). testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own eountry (John 4: 44). in his own None of them was cleansed, but only hot against them (Exod. 32: 10). their own way (Prov. 1:31). Only unto a woman that was a widow (Luke 4: 26). the Gentiles (Acts 13: 46), fulfilied in your ears.” Lord fulfilled. —(1) terance; (2) Practical fulfillment. 2. ““Is not this Joseph's son?” (1) His lowly origin; (2) His marve- lous dovelopment.—(1) The well knows environment; (2) The puzs- ling superiority. . “None of them was cleansed, but only Naaman.” (1) Many suffer ere; (2) One saved. 11. REJECTING THE LORD. Wrath indulged: They were all filled with wrath (28). Ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake (Matt. 10: 22). 1 same not to send peace, but a sword (Matt, 10: 345. It bath hated me ‘before it hated you {John 15: 18; When they hoard this, they were filled with wrath (Acts 19: 28), 1. Murder Plotted: That they might throw him down headlon " The al wii him (Matt, 17: 23). Thi is the heir; come, let ve kill him (Matt. 21: 38), They took counsel .. that they might kill him (Matt, 26: 4), The Jews sought the more to kill him (John 8: 18). mn aa 4 3A } a Pasig eo midst of them in way (30). yl 8 The sommer is ended, and we are pet saved Jer. 8: 20), I. The door was shut (Matt. 25: 10). An improper place for wrath; (2) An insufficient cause for wrath, . “That they might throw him down headlong.” (1) The intended vie- tim: (2) The unauthorized tioners; (3) The strange offense. 3. "He went his way.” (1) Leav- ing the rebellions; (2) Beekmyg the teachable, EXE LESSON BIBLE READING BYRAGOGUES ARD THEIR BERVICES of religious hb, 14). Places 13 : assembling (Acts v4) hs Places for reading the Beriptures (Acts 1b : 21 Places for expounding the Seriptures (Luke 4 : 21). Open on the Babbath (Luke Acts 13 : 14). Btrangers spoke there (Acts 13 : 15). Jesus habitually attended (Luke 4 4 : 16 ' Mark 1 : 89), there (Matt 12 10 ; Luke 13 : 10, 11 LESSON BURBOUNDINGS INTERVENING EVENTS, — The between the narrated 1 IEA KF « i of Joh tion si return to Galles an 8 se Jeo d a in narrated in Joh to 4 risonmeens fors pass Baptist he before that The differ length of the mir ver visit 10 nt views respecting the of Jesus have times in the *“‘Sur- If Jolin b refersto a pass- over, the ministry covered a little more three years. This view will acoepted in these paragraphs. If it re- fers to some other feast, then the min- istry was a little over two years. (The events of the last year are not in dis- pute. ) The teaching at Capernaum (vs which occurred shortly after rejection at Nazareth, followed, accord- Mark's sccount, the eall of the four fishermen (Mark 1 : 16-233. Praces. — Nazareth and Capernaum; both in Galilee. The former, now call- ed En-Nasireh, or Nusrah, is sixty-six north of Jerusalem, about four- teen miles from the Sea of Galilee, on the north side of the plan of Esdaraclon among the hall Capernsum was ev) near the Sea of Galilee, but scholars are divided in opinion between two sites. Tell-Hum, favored by Drs been stated several roundings than Pry “1 ay NY AR ' the mg « mies dently M. Thomson, Sir Charles Wilson, Canon Tristram, and others, isabout two miles from the mouth of the apper Jordan, on the noth-west shore of the lake; Khan Minyeh, favored by Dre. Edward Robinson, Selah Merrill, Dean Stanley, and others, 18 between fwe and three miles further south. Trae. —According to the theory which places part of the Galilean ministry be- fore the second passover, the time was yeur. Prrsoxs —Jesus, his townsmen (the attendant in the synagogue is mention- ed); another synagogue sudiemce st Capernsam. NOIDENTS. Jesus goes into the syn agogue at Nazareth; stands up te read; handed him; he reads the passage rec- mildly, referring to scriptural illustra- him; he eaves them and goes to Caper- ably the next) he again teaches, Pararnen Passaons. — Matthew 4:13; Mark 1 : 15, 21, 22. -—-—— WasT of thought, not want of heart, It is doub less because it is a little ly from the form in which 1t erudely presents itself to the mind, that so many persons acquire the unfortunate habit of unwittingly offending their friends. A little careful study of the mode ia which a Sisagresdbie remark can be made positively palatable will be found to bea most useful sccomplishment. Sach a stady, so far from checking, us might he supposed, that spontaneous expression of feeling which some value so highly, will be found, om the con- trary, after a little, to have increased the tone and suppleness of those who practice the art, and to have become as ile a habit as the expression of the more outspoken unvarnished traoth., It is the wit and polish of the man or wo- man of the world which enables so many malicious little remarks to be uttered in a tone of such exquisite breeding as to render it 1mpossible for offence to be taken. Then why not ex- d as much thought npon the smooth ing over of disagreeable trutis which should be spoken for the benefit of all those concerned? Mg, Iayseed (buying a egar)—*1. hope this ain't one 0° those weeds thet Curl out Ju notinie 4% Mlk C1 want 8 goad long smoke.” Tobacconist : pressively) “Mine friendt, dt vill Just ll you vas sick of iti"
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