RTALMAGESSERNON
The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject ;: “Revision ol Cveeds.”
TEXT: “Loose im
ni, 44,
Viv Bible is, at the place of this text, writs
Ben all over with lead pencil marks muds
Gast December at Bethany on the ruins of
£he house of Mary and Martha and Lazarus,
We dismounted from our horses on the way
ap from Jordan to the Dead Sea. Bethany
ewas the summer evening retreat of Jesus.
After spending the day in the hot city of
Jerusalem He would come out there alinost
avery evening to the house of His three
friends. | think the occupants of that houses
wrare orphans, for the father and mother are
mot mmentionad. But the son and two daugh-
smrs must have inherited property, for
£ must have been, judging from what I
saw of the foundations and the size of the
seoms, an opulent home Lazarus, the
mrother, was now the head of the household
snd his sisters depended on him and were
aroud of him, for he was very popular and
sverybody liked him, and these girls were
splendid girls. Martha a first rate house
and Mary a spirituelle, somewhat
#rsamy. but affectionate, and as good s girl
as could be found in al! Palestine. - But one
day Lazarus gotsick, The sisters were in con-
slernatio Father gone and mother gone,
shor {sel very nervous lest they lose their
prother also. Disease did its quick work.
How the girls hung over his pillow? Not
oh sleen about that house, no sleep at all.
#rom the otherwhere de-
veloped, 1 judge thal a preparad the
medicines and made tempting dishes of
‘ood for the poor anpetite of the sufferer, but
Mary a Ayo and sobbed Worse and worse
gots Lazarus, until the doctor
that he can do no more. The shriek that
sent up from that household when the last
areath had been drawn and the two sisters
sare being led by sympathizers into the ad
joining room, all those of us can imagine who
aave had our uwn hearts broken
, and lel him go." —Joha
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eapor
cir 1 rishi
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and been? Faraway in the country districts
Doctor had not
ate that this omnipotent
in Bethany
sean at that domestic crisis
wus had been buried four days and dissolu-
gion had taken place. In that
breathless body disintegrates more rapidly
shan in ours. If, immediately after decease,
that body had been awakened into life,
smbelievers might have said that he was
nly in a comatose state, or in a sort
of trance, and by some vigorous
manipulation or powerful stimulant vital.
tv had been renewed. No! Four days
tend At the door of the sepuicher is a
srowd of people, but the three most memor-
able are Jesus, who was the {amily friend,
end the two We went into
the traditional tomb in December, and it is
deep down and dark, and with torches we
explored it. We found it all quiet that after-
aon of our visit, but the day spoken of in
the Bible there was present an ex ted multi-
tude. I wonder what Jesus will & Ha
rders the door of the grave removed, and
en He beging to descend the steps
Mary sod Martha close after Him,
the crowd after them, Deeper down into the
shadows and deeper!
roll over Hix cheeks and plash upon the back
»f His hands,
bereft sisters
that group pressing on down after Christ, all
nefore? Now all the whispering and all the
~rying and all the sound of shuffling
feet are stopped. It is the silence of ex-
vanquisher of death confronted the scene.
Amid the awful hush of the tomb
familiar names which Christ had often
and upon His lips in the bospitalities of
village home came back to Hix tongue and
with a pathos and an almightiness of which
an echo, He cries: “Lazarus!
The eves of the siumberer
and comes to the foot of the steps and with
great difficulty begins: to ascend,
ais feet are fast and his hands are fast and
the impediments to all his movements are so
graat that Jesus commands:
wrements: romove these hindrances; unfas-
ten theses grave clothes loose him and let
him go
he iossming of the cords that bound his
eet oo that he could walk, and the breaking
that he could stretch out his arms in saluta-
tion, and the tearing
from around his jaws so that he could speak.
What
f4zarus if he had not been freed from all
hose cripplements of his body? [am glad
that Christ commanded his complete eman-
0
bean raised from the death and burial of sin
-Aothes on them
and foot, and the object of this sermon is to
belp free their body and free their soul, and
of religion; ‘Loose hin, and let go.”
many are hound hand and foot by religious
tagonizing ereeds. | have eight or ten of them,
a creed about reli
ment, and so on.
s man believes, whether it be written of wu
written The Presbyterian Church is now
wgitated about its cread. Some good men in
itare for keeping it because it way framed
from the belief of John Calvin. Other good
men in it want revision. I am with neither
party, Instead of revision I want substitu-
tion. [| was sorry to have the question dis.
turbed at all The creed did not
hinder us from offering the pardon and
the comfort of the Gospel to all men and the
We tminster Confession has not interfered
with me one minute. Hut now the electric
Nights have been turned on the imperfections
wf that creed —and averything that man fash-
jams is imperfect —lot us put the old creed re-
spoctfully aside and get a brand new one.
At is impossible that es who lived hun
dreds of years ago should fashion an a
priate creed for our times. John Calvin was
» great and good man, but he died
thres hundred and twenty-six
ago. The best conturies of Bible study have
rome since then, anf axplorers have done
their work, and you might as well have the
world go back and stick to what Robert Ful-
ton knew about steam and reject the
subsequent improvements iy navigation,
back to John Guttenberg, the inventor of
art of printing, sod re modern
smewspaper presses, and go back to the time
when
aphy was the eleva of
reject the wire, which
eay ha did, In the damnation of infants, al-
though some of the recent hot disputes would
seem to imply that there is such a thing as
the damnation of infants.
A man who believes in the damnation of
infants himself deserves to lose heaven.
do not think any good man could admit
such a possibility, hat Christ will do with
all the babies in the nokt world I conclude
from what He did with the babies in Pales-
tine when He bugged them and kissed them
When some of you grown people go out of
this world your doubtful destiny will be an
embarrassment to ministers officiating at
vour obsequies, who will have to be cautious
so as not to hurt surviving friends But
when the darling children go there are no
“ifs” or “buts” or guesses. We must re
member that good John Calvin was a logi-
cian and a metaphysician and by the prociiv-
ities of his nature put some things in an un-
fortunate way. Logic has its use and meta-
physics has its use, but they are not good at
making creeds. A gardener hands you a
blooming ‘rose, dewy fresh, but a severe
botanist comes ta you with a rose
and say ‘I will show vou the structure
of this ruse.” And he pores to take
it apart and pulls off the leaves
he says ‘There are the petals” and
takes ont the anthers and he says: ‘Just
look at the wonderful structure of these
floral pillars,” and then he cuts the stem to
show you the juices of the plant. Bo logic
or metaphysics takes the aromatic rose of
the Christian religion and says: “I will just
show you how this ross of religion was
fashioned.” and it pulls off of it a piece and
says. “That is the human will” and another
piece and says: ‘This is God's will,” and an
other piece and says: ‘This is sovereigaty,”
aud another piece and says: “This is free
agency,” this is this and that is that
the rose pulled apart, one whom
took for a gardener comes in and {
with a crimson rose, red as blood,
eo Marys |
and says
it forever.” 1 must confess |
What a time we have had with the dogma
aver
was
and he would not have been competent had |
I belisve in the so
that I have sever heard that at-
My |
my
~lear as a London fog, as clear as mud
of the ninstesnth century, 3
century, give us
statement and leave out our own,
one chapter of Paulon that subject
Paul's
mighty as they are Do not try to
either the throne of God or the
of God with your little steel
sen. What do you know about the decrees?
Cou cannot opsn the door of God's
You cannot explain
ff God's government
now the mysteries of His
government five hundred quintillion of years
ag { move for a creed for all our denomi-
made out of Scripture quotations
hat would take the earth
God. That would be impregnable against |
infidelity and Apollyonic assault That |
would be beyond human criticism. The de
nomination, whatever its name be, that can
that will be the church of the mil
jennium. will swallow up all other denomi
nations and be the one that will be the bride
when the Bridegroom cometh. Let us make |
it simpler and plainer for people to get into
and
measure
tos my»
mn As
Jon
as
the idea that they may not have been elected
A man who heartily accepts Christ is a
Him is not a Christian, and tha® is all there is
He need not believe fn election or rep- |
He need not believe in the eternal |
generation of the Son. He need not believe
sunishiment. He need not be
as He nead not believe |
inspiration. Faith in Christ |
is the criterion. is the test is the pivol
is the indispensable, But there are those
who would add unto the tests rather than
thems, There are thousands
who would not acospt persons into church
in plenary
wr if they play cards or if they drivea fast |
horse, Now [ do not drink ‘wing or smoke or |
attend the theater, never played a game of |
ards and do not drive a fast horsa, although
{ would if I owned ome. But do not
tests which the Bible
establish There is one paige of |
Scripture wide enough to let all in |
who ought to enter and to kesp out all who
might to be kept out: “Believe in the Lord |
Get |
a man's heart right and his life will be
right. But now that the old creeds have |
been put under public scrutiny, something
must be done. Some would split |
them. some would carve them, some would |
slongate them, some would abbreviate them. |
At the present moment and in the present |
Lazarus is |
but hampered with the old grave |
If you want ome glorious church |
! wastr-umbered takes off the corements |
Loose ber, |
does |
alive,
clothes
and let her go!
Again, there are Christians who ars under
sepulchral shadows and hindered and hoppled
pented of What they need is to understand
the base of Calvary. They have been sing-
ing the only poor hymn that Newton ever
Ti» a point 1 long to know
Oft it canses anxious thought-~
Do 1 love the Lord or no,
Am I His or am | pot?
Long to know do you? Why do you not
find out? Go to work for God and you will
very soon find out. The man who is all the
time feeling of his pulse and looking st his
tongue to see whether it is coated is morbid
and cannot be physically well, The doctor
will ss “Go out into the fresh air and into
active “ls, and stop thinking of reall and
you will get wall and strong.” there are
people who are watching their spiritual
symptoms, and they call it self-examination
and they get weaklier and sickiier in their
faith all the time. Go out and do some thin
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That savad a wretch ike me!
1 ones was lost, but now am found:
Was bilnd, but now 1 ses.
bat many of you Christians most need
got grave clothes off. Ire
a ave. bean brought from the th
1
to the life of the , but
he Goupel, a
and
Bible so
fag:
i
it
¥
vieis :
HH
wheel between
the k
ons
wheal or as
livet, He climbed to the top of the
‘elifs about Nazareth, He climbed
gto the top of Golgotha. And to the
Rop of the hills and the mountains of your
fransgression He is ready to climb with "
don for every one of you, The of Cal-
wary is mightier than the thunder of Binal,
Full receipt is offered for all your indebted.
ness, If one throw a stone at midnight into
n bush wheres the hedgebird roosts, it im.
mediately begins to sing, and into the mid
night hedges of your despondency thess words
I hurl, hoping to awaken you to anthem.
Drop the tunes in the minor key and take
the major. Do you think it pleases the Lord
for you to be carrying around with you the
debris and carcasses of old transgressions’
Again, my text has good advice concern-
fng any Christian hampered and bothered
pnd bound by fear of his own disselution. To
such the book refers whea it speaks of those
who through fear of death were all their
lifetime subject to bondage. The most of us,
pven if we have the Christain hope, are
cowards about death. If a plank falls from a
soattolding and just grazes our hat, hew pale
we look. If the Atlantic Ocean plays with
the steamshin itching it toward the
haavens and letting it suddenly drag, bow
sven the Christian ors shewiew.
ard or Stewardess is & whether there is any
danger, and the captain, who has been all
pight on the bridge and chilled through,
poming in for a cup of coffes, is assailed with
p whols battery of questions as to what he
thinks of the weather. And many of the
best people are, as Paul says throughout their
jifetime in bondage by fear of death. My
brothers and sisters, if we made full use of our |
religion we would soon get over this. Backed |
up Ov the teachings of your Bible, just look |
through the telescope some bright night and |
see how many worlds there are and re
flect that all you have seen compared
with the number of worlds in existence are
hand
How foolish then for us to think |
that ours is the only world fit for us to stay
in. I think that the stars are inhabited |
he human race in feelings
hiysioal con-
conformation fit
thelr world and
physical conformation fit for the |
climate of our world So we shall
teal at home in any of the stellar neighbor- |
hoods, our physical limitations having cessed. |
formation, their physical
the climate
of
this world, I think, will be that in this world |
he
and
the water says to the human race: “Don't
heres or vou will drown * A few thou.
feet up the atmosphere is unin.
in and the atmosphere says
human race ou't come
or ye cannot breathe.’ A
uruace of fire
4 Lt come here of
here “
1 - 5
i VOL
averns of the mountains
§ gos and the gases
Don r you will be asphyxiated
And, crossing a rail track, you must look out
sr you will be crushed. And, standing by a
eam boiler, you must look out or you will
be blown up. And poeumonias and pleurisies
and consumptions and spoplexies go
this earth in fk
sa world of
raves,
ine
will burn
{ poitsonou — “ay
$ comme here «
ROTO
yok, in droves, in herds, and it
equinoxes and cyclones and
Yot wo are under the delusion that
t ia the only place fit to stay in, We want
wet plank ‘mid ocean while
he great ship, “the City of God thea
‘elestial line, goss sailing past, and would
gladly take us up in a life boat. My Chris
Han friends, let me tear off your desponden-
ties and frights about dissolution. My Lord
me regarding you, saying:
of
Heaven is ninety-five per cent. better than
osnt. betier, a
million per cent. better ake the gladdes
wi earth and compress them all into one
last day, a gloom, a horror, as compared
with the poorest hour they have had in |
iret gates swung or its first song carolsd,
“Oh.” you say, "that may be true but | am
© afraid of crossing over from this world
© the next, and 1 fear the snapping of the
ward between soul and body Wall,
dl the surgeons and physicians and
wisntists declares that there is po pang at
ihe parting of the body and soul, all the
[ agrees with the doctors, for what they say |
# confirmed by the fact that persons who |
were drowned or were submerged until all
declare that the sensation of
massing into unconsciousness was pleasurable
wmther than distressful The ocags of
ihe body has a door on easy hinges, and
when that door of the physical cages opens
the soul simply puts out its wings and soars.
Jul” you say, “I fear to go because the
Well, 1 will |
wll you how to treat the mysteries. The |
fo as the judges of your courte often do,
They hear all the arguments in the onse and
dens say: 1 will take these papers and give
fou my decision next week y 1 have
seard all the arguments in regard to
the next world and some things are
ancertain and full of mystery, and so
{ fold up the papers and reserve until the
sexi wold niy decidion about them. | can
there study all the mysteries w Lo%er 2
vantage, for the light will ba better and my
faculties stronger, and I will ask the Christain
philosophers, who have bad all the advan
sages of heaven for centuries to help me,
wd I may permit myself humbly to ask the
Lord, and I think thers will be only one mys
ery left, and that will be how one so un-
worthy as myself got into such an enrap-
tured piace. Come up out of the sepulchral
shadows, If you are mot Christians by
laith in Christ come up into the light;
and if you are already like Lazarus
reanimated, but still have your grave clothes |
an, get rid of them e command is:
The only part
of my recent journey that I really dreaded, |
although I did not say much about it before. |
band, was the landing at Joppa. That is |
the port of entrance for the Holy Land, and |
there are many rocks, and in rough weather |
wople cannot land at all. The boats taking |
the people from the steamer to the docks must
run between reefs that looked to me to beabout
fifty feet apart. and one misstroks of an
SArSIADn OF AD Ubex wave has some.
limes been fatal, and hundreds have perished
dong those recs. Besides that, as we left
Port Said the evening before an old traveler
mid: “The wind i jos right to give you a
rough landing at Joppa, indeed, think
fou will not be able to jand at all” The
aot was hat when Sr Heditorranenn
teamer ropped anc near
snd we put out for shore in the all bats
ihe water was as still as though it had been
wund aslesp & hundref years, and we landed
easily as | came on th Well,
rour fears have for an ap
salling arrival at the end your voy-
CH of life, and they say that the
run high #24 that
will swallow
Sasi
Mich Mexican women think nehing ol
aking purchases costing from $1000 to
18000, . One recently paid $9000 for »
=arl peckiace.
The Home Physician,
FEEDING THE SICK.
There are those so foolish as to sup-
pose that the sick must eat, as a means
of gaining strength, even in the ab-
sence of. an appetite, while it is true
that this appetite is a food-ometer, in-
tended to indicate when food is wanted,
If hard labor increases the appetite, it
is reasonable to infer that those unwill-
ing to rise from their beds, having but
little or no exercise, will not require
much food. The custom then of sup
posed friends of sending in dainties to
tempt the appetite is foolish and harm-
ful. When there is no appetite, a loath-
ing of all food, there is good evidence
that none is needed, and that its use
will be harmful. This is true from the
tact that in acute diseases the digestive
juices are wanting, in which case itis
impossible for food to digest, while it
can do no possible good if not digested.
The appetite is mercifully suspended
in fevers, ete., that the stomach may
have a little rest, and that the system
may have time to rally. 1 claim that
the appetite 1s always good enough, or
that all of the food is indicated by it
that can be digested. When the fever-
ishness and inflammation disappear,
the appetite will return in due season,
being given, that in small quantities, so
as to keep it constantly good. Soups
and mushes are particularly appro-
priate st first, eaten slowly, that the
* ®
CRIPPLES FROM CHILDHOOD.
Cripples are #0 common a sight in
every-day life, says Dr. J. B. Bissell,
nnless our
we pass them daily with hardly more
than a sympathetic look. Yet, our feel-
ized that most of these cases
to the neglect of
charge of them in their early years
fair amount of eare and consideration
(after proper instruction,
perhaps),
the part of mother or
are at
Rome one who
purse of th
maimed ones in their infancy, woul
in all probability, have made the diffi
ence between a human being eapable
earning a living and a useful and happy
member of society, and miserable,
decre pit, defense less creature,
ent upon the for
1 uy
n
greater n
1
le of
n
¥ stu lively
mar 188 veil
ty
| and charity for existence.
, ormities be-
ldhood. The
ties
ney and
and even
The ber of
the var
§
of freq
bu CALI Se
{f the 18
results which often follow it,
ng to disease « ip joint. It
mes on gradually, 4 ut apparent
cause, geting better or entirely d Bap-
pearing at times, to return again later,
and in a more marked form
vat lulling the victim and
into & sense of false security, until i
too late. In this common bone inflam-
mation, the earlier it 1s discovered, the
greater are the chances of recovery
without absoess or deformity. A mod-
erate amount of knowledge on this sub-
ject would have taught the mother that
st the first ns of tr in
walking, the child ought to have been
placed under the observation of some
one competent to judge of the condi
tion and the necessity of treating it.
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fatal
is that be-
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COLD BREDA
[f trustworthy statistios could be had
year or become permanently diseased
from sleeping in damp or cokl beds,
they would probably be astonishing and
sppalling. It is a peril that constantly
besets traveling men, and if they are
wiso they will invariably insist on hav-
ing their beds aired and dried, even at
the risk causing much trouble to
their landlords. But the peril resides
in the home and the cold “spare room”
of
and will go on with
people learn wisdom. Not
guest but the family often suffer the
penalty of sleeping in cold rooms and
chilling their bodies ats time when
they need all their bodily heat, by get-
ting between cold sheets. Even in
warm weather a cold, damp bed will
get in its deadly work. 1t is a needless
rooms and beds has in it the elements
of murder and sutcade,
* =
According to Dr. Leu!, when water is
taken into the full or partly full stom-
ach, it does not mingle with the food,
as we are taught, but passes along
quickly between the food and lesser
which it passes into the intestines. The
a considerable amount sccumulates in
thick and tenacious,
sotion are delayed. These
the valne of a goblet
breakfast. This washes
cious mucns, and stimulates the gastric
glands to secretion. In old and feeble
potecns water should not be taken cold,
ut it may be with great advantage
taken warm or hot. This removal of
taking soup at the begining of a meal
has been found so beneficial.
———— sh ——
The “tercentenary of the invention of
the compound microscope’ will be cel-
ebrated by a Universal Exhibition of
Botany and M y. to be held at
Antwerp, Belgium, during the present
year. It is proposed to organize an
historical exhibition of microscopes,
and an exhibition of the instruments
of all makers, and of accessory appara-
tus and photomicr ., At the
conferences the tollowing su will
be dmscussed and illustrated: his
rai Mo
m 4 ol m
and lerog y; the microseopl-
cal ture of plants; the mc
eal structure of man and of animals;
microbes; the adu teration of food sub-
stances, etc, FA
Dr. Bokai, a professor ne
senburg University, claims to bave dis-
plutely ceriain antise; t
Sond th tls Ss ae
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 159),
Thre Draught of Fishes.
LESSON TEXT.
{Lukes : 1-11. Memory verses. 8-11)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric or THE QUARTER:
Saviour of Men.
Goupexs Texr ror THE QUARTER:
Glory to God in the highest, and on
earth peace, good will toward men. —
Luke 2 : 14.
yl
Jesus the
Liessox Toric : Helping the Obedi-
ent,
1. Willing Obedience, vs,
LEssox OUTLINE: < 2. Rich Reward, vs. 8, 7
| a
| 8
Gorpex Text:
Jorth
5:10.
Great Results, vs, RB
11 ¥
Fear not; from hence-
thou shalt calch men, Luke
Danny Hove READINGS ;
M.—-Luke b 1-11.
obedient.
fon. 1 : 1
couraged
YW. John
rewarded
John 9
warded.
Matt, 8 27.
winds and w
Heb. 11
of obe tie nee
8.—Phil. 2 : 1-11.
ence rewarded.
Helping the
T.
21),
a1 : 1-1L
Obedience
3 : 1-17. Obedience re-
F.
Obedient
B Faith the root
obedi-
Christ's
LESSON ANALYSIS,
I. WILLING
iI. The Lake:
He was standing by the
OBEDIEXRCE.
lake of Gen
CRIne
Tiberias
11. The Command:
Put out, and
for a draught (4
Stretch forth t
Fill t
’. =
-
Take vi
Cast th
Mark 3
walter
iy hand
}
i
he waterpots with
AWAY the gO]
nil: 6
11. The Response:
At thy word I will let down the
nets
He stretched it forth: and b
restored (Mark 8: 5
They filled them uj
lis
is hand was
)
So they U
41
I'hey cast theref:
draw it
1. “The multitude pressed upon h
and heard the word of God.” (1)
The teacher; (2) The class; (3) °
schoo 4) The lesson.—(1)
Pressing toward Jesus; (2) Learn-
of God.
“Pat out into
down your ns
(2) What to do.—{1)
mander; (2
. “But at thy
the neta” i
Faith present
prompt.
WK AWAY John 11:
re, and were not
able to John 21:6
} im
he
l-room:
the deep and let
Where to go;
A
An obedient crew.
I will let down
Sight absent; (2)
(3) Obedience
ts." i
new com-
word
Il. Rid
i. Duty Done:
When they had this done (6
H REWARD,
ped bim-
sclf in Jordan (2 Kings 5: 14).
Lord, what thou didst command is done
{Luke 14: 22).
He went, and washed,
secing (John 9: 7).
And, having done all, to stand (Eph. 6:
13).
il. Blessing Bestowed:
They enclosed sa great multitude of
fishes (6),
If ye will obey
treasure (Exod. 18: 5).
Blessing, if ye shall hearkon unto the
commandments { Dent. 11: 27).
If ye be obedient, ye shall eat the
good (Isa. 1; 19.
They were not able to draw it for the
multitude of fishes (John 21: 6).
Benefits Extended:
They came, and filled both the boats
fd,
It shineth unto all that are in the house
{ Matt. 5: 15).
Pressed down, shaken together, run-
ning over {Luke 6: 38).
He findeth Philip Philip
Nathanael (John 1: 43, 45).
Dragging the net full of fishes (John
21:8),
1. “When they had this done!” (1)
The command to do; (%) The duty
done. 11) Work ordered; (2) Work
undertaken; (3) Work accomp lish-
ed.
. “Their nets were breaking.” (1)
Man's insafficient receptivity; (2)
God's overwhelming gratuity. |
. “they came, and filled both the
boats.” (1) Help rendered; (2)
Benefit shared. }
Il. GREAT RESULTS.
Amazement:
He was amaged, and all that were
with him (9).
The multitudes were astonished at his |
teaching (Matt. 7: 28).
They were all amazed, and glorified |
God (Mark 2: 12).
They were amazed straightway with a |
great amazement (Mark 5: 42).
They were all astonished at the majesty
of God Luke 9: 43).
11. Promoilon:
Henoeforth thou shalt catch men (10).
1 will send for my fishers, ... and they
shall fish them (Jer, 16: 16).
1 will nae you shers of men (Matt.
4: 19).
The kingdom of heaven is like unto a
net ( 18: 47).
1 will make you to fishers of
men ( 1; 17).
111. Consecration:
They left all, and followed baum (11).
They... left the nets, and "followed
him (Matt. 4: 20).
fle arose, and followed him (Matt 9:
om).
dh Da ts wll, md followed thee
We have left our own, and followed
thee (Luke 18: 28),
and came
findeth
i.
ognized; (2) Binfulness confessed;
(8) Remoxal besought,
, “From henceforth thou shalt
catch men.” Cstehing men (1) For
Christ; (2) From sin; (3) By the
gospel.
3. ‘They left all, and followed him.”
(1) The old life abandoned; (2) The
new life begun,
LESSON BIBLE READING
VIBES,
, Miracles Connected with Fishes:
Multiplied in quantity (Matt. 14 : 17
21 ; 15 : 84-85).
Immense dranghts (Luke 5
John 21 : 6, 11).
Tribute money taken from
(Matt. 17 : 27).
Cooking on the shore
13).
2, Symbolism of Fishes:
The visible church (Matt,
48).
Foolish men (Ecel. 9 : 12).
Men ensnared by the wicked (Hab.
1:3)
Men sccepting the gospel (Matt 4 :
19 ; Luke 5 : 10).
6-9 ;
’
a fish
(John 21 : 0,
13 : 47,
———
LESSON SURROUNDINGS.
Intenvexing Evewsrs,—It is probable
that the miraculous dranght of fishes
occurred in connection with the tale of
| the four fishermen, as recorded i@Mat-
{thew 4 : 18-22 and Mark 1: 16-20. If
go, this lesson precedes the last in or-
| der of time, the incidents occurring
shortly after the rejection at Nazs-
reth
Pracs Somewher:
west shore of the Lake of Gennesaret,
probably not far from Caperneum it
may well be supposed that there was s
curved shore, Lh tl
gathered, the |
niently placed for them to
Tue. A few
nd passover, A. U. C
ling Andrews,
on the north-
on which the muita
yout of Simon be ing «
Dear,
thie
woeks before
to
Our Lord and the
ndes crowding to hear him
Peter, Jax . d John, An
not named here, but he 18 in the paral-
lel passages of the . Gos pe Is according
ew and Mark.
’ The
our Lord; he
, and is taken
teaches
KB, ~ mult
tn Sim
an ire w
18
multitude press
enters the
a little way from
titude, then
: Simon obeys
Donat
nels are wi, and beg
partners in the boast are signa
boats are filled to the point «
Simon Peter amazed,
Lord to depart; all are encouraged by
the words and promise and
leave all to { I Ww h n
Pamavinn Passaoms.
Mark 1 : 16-20,
is and begs 0
of Jesus,
Matthew 4
i wey
SANITARY SQUIBS.
Always clothe voursell comfortably.
Change your garments only when the
season has settled.
to
take
EveElem
It is always a mistake
into the stomach than the
assimilate.
Stand a few seo
be fore
more
Can
ball or
heated
the
entering »
nds In
vestibule
house,
Look well to the
sleeping rooms.
ventilation of your
I'he sash should be lifted to permit a
constant influx of fresh oxygen, and
lowered from the top to let the vicious
Kir go ont
Another adjunct to health is perfect
cleanliness. The human skin is a com-
plicated network through which ex-
crescenses are carried off. The whole-
some friction of a flesh brush or Tark-
ish towel or hand rubbing will
stimulate the suspended action and
even
ous disorders which create international
panie, bankrupt sectional interests and
make sad havoe of life.
Adhere strictly to the requirements
of the constitution and by-laws of
health and common sense, and give a
cold berth to quack compounds unless
specially advocated or endorsed by doe-
tors.
If a physician be required to diag-
nose symptoms you do not understand,
send always for the medical man or
woman whose skiil and kindness areun-
questionable. Sympathy goes a great
way in healing of all bodily as well as
mental maladies
Unless one is very ill simple remedies
A lady whose family of mix
prostrated with influenza
brought them all around without the
aid of a doctor. “Good nursing and
goose grease did the business,” she re.
marked exultantly. “My old man was
taken with a chill, followed by a nasty
fever and a regular pneumonia cough.
1 soaked his feet in mustard water, sat
him down in front of the blazing range
and rubbed hie throat snd chest and
spine with goose grease. The greedy
skin drank 1t in by the handfnl. Finally
when the hungry pores wonld hold no
more, then I laid over the afflicted por-
tion a thin layer of cotton batting sank
ot
were all
did her work
during the hours of rest. ‘They say
grease is always good. I have known
it to relieve the most obstinate cases of
croup in children when the doctors re.
commend a surgical operation as a last
Resort. . The Vigurags rubbing stimu-
lated the skin, enabling the penectraly
anacea to loosen Be ea whiob ha
astened upon the tender vitals; afier
which it took but a slight cough or
nausea to dislodge the pith-like para.
The old lady was right, there is noth-
ing more effective than pure
holesome fowl. 1 goes once
to the more spot, and there nothing
that willso_tendily shiorb fever ad
noxious gases as raw cotton apphed
the skin surisce after the pores
ppeted In many instances it
biscken in » few hours from the
absorbed, and ib
wholesome. 8. J. B.,
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