ES ERRNO ND REV. DR. ‘1ALMAC Fhe fey ! ke Sreokiyn Divine'sSunday Sernten. Subject : “A Dead Lion ® C Text: “A living dog fs beller than a dead lion."—Eocles, ix, 4 The Bible is the strangest, the loveliest the ghtlesty the weirdest, the best of books Written by Moses the r, Joshua the soldier, Samuel the judge, a the builder, Job the poet, David the shephard, Daniel the me minister, Amos the herdsman, Mate hew the custom house officer, Luke the doc- tor, Paul the scholar, John the exile; and yot a complete harmony from the middle of the one hundred and seventeenth Psalm, both ways to the upper and lower lids, and from the shortest passage, which is the thir. ty-fifth verse of eleventh chapter of John, to tha longest verse, which is the ninth verse of the eighth chapter of Esther, and yet not an all the 774,608 words which is composed of It not only reaches over tho past, but over the futanye: has in ita ferryboat, as in second Samuel; and a telegraphic wire, as in Job; and a rail- road train, as in Nahum: and introduces us to a foundryman by the name of Tal and a shipbuilder by the nawe of Noah, 2 an architect by the nameof Aholiab, an tells us how many stables Solomon had to take care of his horses, and how much he paid for those horses. But few tuings in this versatile and comprehensive book interest me so much as it those short, terse, senten- tious, sayings, of which my text is one dog is better than a dead lion.” Here the lion stands x the imperfection in apothegms, epigrammatic A living for nobility, and the dog for meanness you must know that the dog mentk text is not one of our American or European or Scottish dogs that, in our mind, isa synonym for the beautiful, the graceful, the afféctionate, the sagacious and the true. The St. Bernard dog isa hero, and if you doubt it, ask the snows Alps, out of which he picked the exhausted traveler. The shepherd dog is a poem, and if you doubtit, ask the Highlands of Scot. land. The Arctic dog is the rescue of ex- plorers, and if you doubt it, ask Dr. Kane's expedition. The watch dog isa living pro- tection, and if yon doubt it, ask ten thou sand homesteads over whose safety he watehed last night. But Solomon, the author of mv text, lived in Jerusalem, and the dog he speaks of in the text was a dog in Jerusa- lem Last Decanber I passed days and nights within a of where Solomon wrote this text, and from what I saw of the canines of Jerusalem by day, and heard of them by night, I can understand t ght appreciation my text puts upon the f Palestine. It is loan and saarly and di ing, and afflicted with parasites, and takes re- venge on the human race by fills he nights with clamor All up most of which was wi Syria, or contigu contempluous iki In Lhe stone's throw » sii dog 3 8 gust and the other the lion i strong, anf loud voicsd, and at forests echo and the mountains tremble is marvelous for strength, and is removed mi 1% something wonderful, the knife of the digsector bonnds back from the tendons. By the clearing off of the forests of Palestine and the use of firearms, of which the lion particularly afraid, they bave disappeared from places where » they ranged, but they were very bold in times. They attacked an army of Xerxes while marchis through Macedonia. They were so sumeroui that one thousand lions were sisin in fort years in amphiteatre of Rom», Th Barbary lon, the Cape lon, the Senegal lion, moat dheorbing al history As ¢ tien in regions lion haunted, this creature appears in almost all parts of the Bible as a simile, David understood its habits mbering The young their m its roar the it when its hide the Ou pactnoess idea make un a shapler inn Ar AY Ni his description after their prey and God. The sun ariseth, they gather © selves together, and lay them down in thei dens And again he oriss out, “My soul i ong lions.” knew them and Judah is conched like a lion." Sa knew them, for he from th cass of a slain lion. Solomon Knew ther The K s wrath is as the r and again, "The slothful man a lion in the way" Isaiah and says, in the millennium all eat straw an ox.’ and savas, ‘The third was as the face of a lion ‘Paul knew them, and says, [ was delivarad out of the mouth of the lion.” Peter knew them and says, “The devil asa roaring lion walketh about.” Bt John knew them, and says of Christ, “Be hoid the Lion of the tribes of Judah™ Now, what doss my text mean when it pnts a living dog and a dead Hon side by aide, and says the former is better than the latter? It means that small faculties actively used are of more value than great faculties un- emploved. How often you ses jt! Kome man with limited capacity vastly useful He takes that which God has given him and ars My mental endowment {s hot large and the workl would not rate me high for my intelligences, and my vocabulary is imited. and my education was defective, hat here goes what [I have for salvation, and the making of the world good and bappy.” He puts in a word here and a word there, encourages un faint hearted man, gives a Beripture passage in consolation io some es * oa no Mans took Boney BAYES, ti Tasers is ther Hon like Exekiel Knew than » end helplim brush off the dust and puts a five cant piece in his hand, telling him not to ery. @ that the bay is singing before he gets riod the corner; waiting on everybody that has a letter to carry or a message $c dediver; comes into a rail train or stage cach, or depot, or shop, with a smiling face that sets everybody to thinking: “If that wan can, with what appears small equip sessing far mora than he has be equally hanpy?” One day of that kind of doing things may not amount to much, but forty years of that--no one but God Himself can g £ it : gelefl 2-8 I have thought it What a reversal of Wea were clear shead of him on hE i, but he is clear shend of us in heaven, Yhy, we had ten times more brains {han ho had, we had a thousand times more | money than he had, we had social position a nile higher than he had, wes had innumer- | abla opportunities more than he had, but it wems now that he accomplished more with iis one talent than we did with our ten” while Solomon, standing among the thrones, yverhears the whisper, and sees thes wonder- nent, and will, with benignant ahd all-sug- restive smile, say, “Yes, itis as 1 told the | world many centuries ago--bettsr ia small acuity actively used than grea talehit un | moploved, ‘better is a living dog than a dead ion The simple fact is that the world has been, ind tha world $s now, full of dead lions [hey are people of great capacity and large sjpportunity, doing nothing for the lmprove nent of society, nothing for the overthrow | of evil, nothing for the salvation of souls. Some of them are monetary lions, They { wave accumulated so many hundreds of thou- | ands of dollars that you can feel their tread vhen they walk through any street or come | nto any circle They can by one financial ! nove upset the n market Instead of | he tens por cent. of their income which the { 3ible lays down as the proper proportion of atribution to the cause of God, they , or three por cent. iw two per cent. or one per cent, or & half wr cent. or a quarter per cont. That they wo lions, no one doubts. When they roar Vall street, State street, Lombard street and he Bourse tremble, In a few years they will He down and die Chey will have a great funeral and a long | row of fine carriages, and mightiest requisms will roll from the organ, and polished shaft | f Aberdeen granite will indicate where their dust lies, but for all use to the | hat man might well have never lived As an expe how much can marry with him a ten cent piece in the alm of his « hand, and rears after open nb, and {will find has iropped even the ten cent A lion! Yes, but a lead lion! 11] his treasures on earth, wid has no ‘ What shall he stone © he obalis v um? the | hen the date is birth, then death, th he appropriate living dog than a des Pung mney {heir fo not give five por cent as 1 5 LO Le You he piece He left name date of I suggest man's the wl wa are havin % nee that that Jut I thank God { splendid benefice wow an outburst of i i i We spend much of our Hime in saving “If only had” We can all look back and see some occasion where wo might have done a great deed, or might have effected gn important rescue, or we might have dealt a stroke that would have scoomplished a vast result. Through stupid- ity or lack of appreciation of the crisis, or through procrastination, we let the chanoe ob How much time wo have wasted in thinking of what might have done! portunity passa, wo might have said or We spend hours and days ATM ears in walking around that foad lion. We cannot resuscitate it. It will never open its eyes again. There will ever be another spring in its paw, Dead as any feline terror of Bouth Africa, through whoss heart thirty years ago Gordon Cum- ning sent the slug. Don't let us give any nore time to the deploring of the dead past I'here are other great opportunities remain. ng. They may not be as great, but they are worthy our attention. Bmall opportunities tll around, opportunities for the saying of kind words and doing of kind deeds. Halp- jossness to be helped, Disheartened ones to ba encourged [ost ones to ba found. hough the present may be insignificant as :ompared with the past, "Better is a living dog than a dead Hon The most useless and painful feeling is the ane of regret. Hepent of lost opportunities we must, and get pardon we may, but re- yrets waaken, dishearten and cripple for fu- wire work. If a sea Captain who once had sharge of a White Star steamer across the Atlantic Ocean, ones foggy night runs on a rock off Newfoundland, and passengers and shall he refuse to take command of un small boat up the North River, and say Hhall lispatcher and went into collision, and for has been put down to the work of engineering on a freight train, say ] again mount an engine un- run a vestibule express’ Take Do your Your shortest win. worth more to you than can be the day of a previous summer. Your opportunity now, as compared with previous ppportunities, may be small as a rat terrier compared with the lion which at Matabosa, fatally wounded by the gun of David Liv. } tone, in its death agony leaped upon the missionary explorer and with its jaws crushed t. It is spreading ¢ femis widemic. Do you not notice how wealthy nen are opening free libraries and building shurches in thelr native village?! Have you it seen how men of large means leaving great philanthropies with the speed of an epi in an courts to swamp, be xocutors and putting aside enough for “he that provideth not for ecally those of ran an an infidsi ¢ ean I de and in full px wirly direct th » r the hospitals, or solleces, or the libraries that 1 design for the ya bl ralfare i while yet 1 have apacity to enjoy smtisfaction of seed the good accom There are bad fash ions and good fast and, whether good © wad, fashions are u 5 One of the g sweep the sar ts cllatrit ars OWE = his own th taey spite the tha «haecl gas th —the fashion for wealthy s, while t alive heir bo ove en ery rn the fact that adie 0 Hany ww have, } stator's death, torneys with large . ype mt fw: en, and the case and year alter ye don it ascends & ie! in the Op pOKits new evidence is foun tria ‘ I repeatad at the father's “funeral have ag upoont griel will is read go elaborate pr { that the father was crazy, and there com pets t a will; and there are mes nthe Jury testator gay itd wha bin socie Bi are employed « wm month aft {and after one « Be a #% $0 ar God goorrienl reiabile alter int a fora in ase raudulent wills, v bean made s y men that all calling in » 1 Ti to build a { What plans iraw meout for n enncert hall™ or, “I an specially intercsted in ‘the incdrables.’ an ge a buildin would ace modate ¥ ¥ AQ ir * Pd r a fits Or, tif im lan i I want wi to ren, . Br or 8 of -t f evrpmmndions, e iigat want ¥ ork in making out plans of such a building, though I am well pow, life is une 1] before I leave the world 1 want i 3 Bo 7s] _ - something acknowledgment of the goodness of God rolled over and expired, ‘Better » than a dead lion.” also moans that the condition of “hed man alive is better than most favored sinners departed { these last is gone. Where they cannot any earthly assets After Charlemagne was dead he an ornamentsd sepulcher on a " on his hand, it, Ma living My ho 1x H © The chan are they syailabile gat In jens thron brow, and but that gave him no dominion in world, Owpe of the most intensely inberost things | saw last winter in Egypt wa aiden Pharaot The inscrip make 1d a « BS rown Was put a shar in his mg times, the Israelites and the writing op vers who oppressed the tions on his sarcophagus versy that he was the arach of Bil All the Egyptologists and the exp agrees that it is t irei himself Visible are the very teeth with which be gnasbed sgninst the laraelitish brick makers ihere are the sockets of the merciless eyes with which he lo wm the overburdesed (od. There in the hair that float Fed Bea, There are the which he commanded them brid straw. Thousands of afterward, when the wrappings of the ymmy were unrolled, old Pharoah lifted up in imploration, but his skinny cannot again cluteh bis shatters He isa dead om. And is not any rations £ ie ne Up x :ff tha & GIL Sie eh ks without bomen soepire k you? In our own city we have many examples o this. What a grandeur of bensflosnce ha Lotte by were nity of repentance and salvation ff than any of those departed ones wi or possessions of in aly leomine, and yet wicked? hat a thing to congrataisie ar life! Why is worth ority FTW you on more than ail 2 i. 3° one orecious stone, | am alive! What does that ea Why. it means that I still have all pportanity of being saved mysd! and help To be alive! Why t means that | have vet another chance my past mistakes and maks sure Alive are wa? Come, Jet hrate it by new resolutions, new self. tion, new oonsscration and a new he amaliest and most indgaifioant Freed of the 3 the past and Where are our forgiven sins’ 1 don't know. God don't pow either, He says Your sins and in iquities will I resnember no more ™ What encouragement in the text for al workers! Despair of no one's sab While life there ix hope wr favs rg. nt Tak ng adv anlage us got parion [ a LATISLAAl thers ia a Buanday-school, the superintendent Better go out on the sireel and ge Khe brought in a rage The superintendent gavi Class In aid, sour own clase” and flithy boy him apparel atwented himself. Inquiry discovered tha in a street fight be had his decent appars torn off. He was brought in and a second time respectably clad. After a fow Sunday he again disappeared. and it was found tha! he was again ragged and wretched, “we can do nothing rintendent fitted him uj Fat him.” Bat the su building educational institutions which wil and the Twentieth century, and all the cen furies’ #0 when be iw dead, say it now. It would x on fomiBetones ware written on paper in time { for the philanthropists to re them whib yot they are alive. Less post mortem praise and more antemortem ! A poor Scotch lad came to America at twelve years of age and went to Pittsburg | He looked around for work, and became an j engineer in a osllar, then rose to become # | telegraph messenger boy, then ross to a posi- tion in a railroad office, then rose tos place ix | a telegraph offics, then ross to be superin | tondent of a railroad, then ross till he becam: ‘an fron and steel manafacturer, then row until he openad fres libraries in his native land and last month a free library in Alle fhe City, and now offers two million del i ora Jang in Pittsburg. This ax | ample will be catching until earth i | revolutionized . i . such men in comparisor | with some | wot of, who amass th and clutch it with both hands until death begin | to feel for their heart and then they | dictata to an attorney a last will and testa meant, fu which t spite some daughte because she il against her father" wish, and fling a few crusts to God and suf fering humanity, as much as to say: “I hoot this have surplus perty, through al these severe wintems, rg h all thes Who would attempt to write the obituary lions of ecommerce, the dead medicine, the Fa! . is } ‘ “Bet BE dog than = Goad Hon, My text sleo means that an ~pportuni the living present is better than a great * 3 $2 | i and his heart changed. He started for the ministry and became a foreign missionary and on heathen grounds lived and translated the most illustrious names of the charch op robert Morrison. Go forth and save the lost, and remember however depraved, however ragged, and however flithy and undone 8 enild fa, of 8 man is, or a woman is, they are worth an effort. 1 would rather bave their opportunity than any that will ever be given to the who lived in magnificent gorgeous tapestry around them and without s rer expired. “Betier is a living dog than a dead lion last shall first. There are in the grog shops and in the haunts of iniquity to-day those who will yet be models of ines and preach Christ to the people. ln yonder group of young men who came here with no weeful rpose, there is one who will yet live for Christ and perhaps die for him. In a pulp stranger preaching, and be ; i was in this church was fif- > Pome a “low do sou like my eclumn of Comments and Clippings’'?"’ asked the young editor of the old subscriber, Oly, very well," replied the old sub- scriber, ealinly, *'I Think you might improve 1t, though by putting in fewer comments and more clippings.* divine heavenly day. Ur > door by grace Whatto Buy and How to Make It, The weather remains constant only in its tendency to change. One day skins and the next treats them to savoring of blizzards, Alas! posy bonnets, which perforce must lose their prestige with snow-flakes, whitening the air and the mercury ap- proximating zero Yet, all undsunted, eager, novelty " springs preceding, such glittering guises to her devotees, personality. to in a manner, and after a method, which combines the simplest and most un‘que conceits in fabric and fashion, and the result suggests the raiment of A stroll through our great stores will Yet side by side with these high- stuffs of subtle sheen of lesser calibre, 18 the benefitted by sn exceptional situation. Wash fabrics shown this season, are of unusual excellence and to found in every shade grade, from the simplest cotton print, to the fine sheer India silk, fine as mull with the sheen and softness of yet yard, and is by far materials one be the lesia and is susceptible to fine and costly combinations his semi-disphanous fabricin cotlon, more substantial, though not less desir Toile du nord or which commands the market on Amen can ground, There is no telling how can manufacturers will monopoly attractig foreign laborers, but foreig: capitalists to this country. A cotton syndicate composed of prominent snufactarers in London, Edinburg d Birmingham, are purchasing tracts locating their industries on this water, for the purpose of the American market, without diged to pay duty on their able long Ameri- maintain their for this class and eiicate Meanwhile, the demand of fabrics is constantly increasing, the fine zephyr ginghs: shading, with florniated Sgures designs in pial is, siriy 4 are immensely popular this spring. Red 1s a feature of costuine millinery. lhe grays are partic clear, and run from the palest tint to darkest miver. The newest pink is a deep flesh tint, ealled “Venus “*To- mato red” 1s mostly yellow: “suber- gine’ is purple, like an egg pliant; and the most prominent yellows “‘ble’d"or™ and “Ceres,” Ciel and baby. biue, and a charming gray-bine perpet- uate the color of eternal fidelity. Nile- green, ‘‘dome’” green, Wage, prairie, stem and poplar green hold $heir own Iria, fleur de lis, orchid, and lilac tints are all delicious, especially when seen in soft, french ecsshmere. The gay tartans are conspicuous smid spring styles, and in days to come will look picturesque upon the shore, the moun- mina and of are Modes are ss unique as the materinis and thereis “high art” in the manipule- tion of the faultless fit, upon which the success of the toilet depends. Lace garnitures appear in the gre est profusion. Wing like fleeves sont many disphanots dresses, wre are perched Tike a butterfly : and ot lace designs, extending far above the eibow, The latest conceit however, is a full high on the shoulder, toward the wrist, and worn button glove of kid, or a rib-wristed mit of sik. To the extreme be they basque, or princesse-—in the back, some are supplemented by slight pon. niers, arranged high above the founced or crinkled panels at the side. In many tapering into girdles or sashes, and the demn- fold from the shoulders, yur stores, is that of the Onyx brand. accentuated by the black feet and ankles, Yokes, girdles, and pavels of pas fections for spring. Sroxey Eannn. ———— --——— A ovos for working people, so suo. cessful that it has entered ils seven: teenth year, and yet so differant in men and women that it stands almost alone, is the People’s Club, of Lowell, Mass. The daily, papers published a notice in 1872 that a e¢lub would be started and carried on for leotunl improvement of and the furnish. ing of rational amusement and recrea- tion to ple of both sexes in this city and vicinity during the winter evenings, and also to provide in soxse quiet and rational manner for the enjoyment of our people, especially of those without homes.’ After some experiments it was found best to have separate club rooms for the men and women. They are large, convenient rooms on each side of one of the efucipal streets, well lighted, and invi the man or woman who 1s ready to be led to the saloon because no other place is open, There are read. ing-rooms, libraries, and amusement rooms, No fee is charged. All are weloome, and all are to come and go at will. Leotures are provided, and various cans, free to those whe choose to come, manufacturing ocorporations of Lowell the importance of ihe People's Clb, and sunnaliy contribute one thousand § hundred and Atty dollars toward its support. The is given by reg- ular subeeribers; who do not, ho necossarily take an notive management of the club. ’ part in the A lazy man is time to spare. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, SUNDAY, AVRIL 15, 1890, The Widow of Nain, LESSON TEXT 11-18. Memory verses, 14-16.) ( Luke 7 LESSON PLAN. Toric ov THe QUARTER Jesus the | Saviour of Men, Goroex Texr von 7 This is indeed the (ri of the world John 4 4 HE QUARTER : of the Naviowr 9 Liessox Tori ’ Ral ing the Dead 1 8] Procession, i Lesson OUTLINES Goroex Text The glorified God, saying, That a great prrophe t is risen wp among us Luke 7 : 16, Dany Home READINGS: M.-~Luke 7 : 11-18, dead. T.—1 Kings 17 : 8-24, son restored, W.—2 Kings 4 : 18-37 restored. Mark 5 21 girl restored. Acts 9. 36 43. to life Acts 20 : 1.12, stored to his 8 1 Cor. 15 = 85-88 shall be raised. Raising the A widow's A dead boy T 24, 35-43 4 aR, OO A dead ¥, S. Futychus re- dead The LESSON ANALYSIS, : 1. A FUNERAL PROCESSION I. The Dead Man: There was carried out dead (12). . As a dead 12 They go to the dead (Keel. § Lazarus is dead (John 11 : 14). It is appointed unto men one Heb, 9 : 27 The Sorrowing Mother: The only of his mother, and she was : 4 that One man out of mind (Pas we to I son wido 1 fell mick (1 woman Rashel weeping for her child 2: IR) Standing other by the Ooross of iy John 10 a5 “he Compassionate Crowd iil. fo And much people the ¢ Jens $v wr 19 her He wailing greatly (Mark 5 Many of the Jews had o m (John 11: 19 All the widows stood by h (Acta: 39) 1 Weep with them that 15), }..2k Ihe journ Jas ns Ol of Jeans “When he drew near carried out one t Jesus drawing man carried « “Much people he city was with her.” (1) In sorrow for the dead; 2) In sympathy for ti Ls beholdeth MAnY Wer] me # je the im weeping wee] (Rom. 12 sciples went with him {is d ot of Jesus: (2 ‘ the there was fead, i I'he ds fiat Was 4 ad “ he bereaved. A GREAT MiBaCLE The Touch; OAame 1 IL h and touched 2 the bier be g, T will; “hed him 3 MG 1 BAYIN thou made clean ( Matt, He touched her hand, and the | Matt 15 : £ thelr £ 3 ON whned (Matt, 9: 2 He touched his ear, and healed him (Luke bl The Command: Young man, (14). Maiden, arise (Luke 8: 55) Tazaras, eome forth (Joha 11: 43) Tabitha, arise (Acts 9: 40). The trumpet shall sound, an shall be rased (1 Cor, 15 {iI. The Restoration He that was dead sat ap gave him to bis mother (15) The soul of the child came gain (1 Kings 17: 22). | The child sucezed seven times, fover it her ™ Thai evYea wire 3 - ". i i say unto thee, Arise i the dead “3 Jee And he into ham an i opened his eves (2 Kings 4: 35) | Her spirit returned, and she rose up i immediately (Lake 8: 55). He that was dead came forth 44). 1. “He had compassion on ber,” (1) The sorrowing mother; (2) The pitying Lord.—(1}) Unntterable woe; (2) Unfathomable pity. 2. “He came nigh and touched the bier,” (1) The approach; (2) The touch, 3, Young man. I say unto thee, Arise.” (1) The victim of death; {23 The Lord of life. (1) The com- mand; (2) The response. TL A PROFOUND IMPRESSION, Reverent Fear: Fear took hold on all (16), | The fear of the Lord is clean (Pea. 19: (John 11; 9. {The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (Psa. 111: 10). | The fear of the lord tendeth to life { (Prov. 19: 23), Walking in the fear of the Lord (Acts 9: 31). 11. Heartfelt Praise: They glorified God, saying, A great rophet 1s arisen (16). fore all the people 1 will be glorified (Lev. 10: 3). ‘they .. glorified God, which had given such power unto men (Matt, 9: 8). They glorified the God of Israel (Matt. 156: 31). He taught in their gogues, being giorified of all (uke 4: i 111. Widespread Fame: the This report went forth . whole of Juda (17). The report of him went forth into all Myra ( Matt, 4; 240 The fame of went forth into all land (Matt, 9: 246), They went forth, and spread abroad his fame (Matt, 9: 31), Ho much the more went abroad the re- rt (Luke Bi i. God goth ’ ri God.” e fled ( By She peoples (2) Through . din the Lord; grace. 2 vA pos uk Sid arisen among | us,” (1) The people's eonvietion; (2) The people's confession, 3. “This report went fortl | ing him.” (1) Its weope; ( | basis: (8) Its extent; (4) | t concern 2) Ite its of forts, nntones is a ME A——— LESSON BIBLE EEADING, RESTORATIONS OF THE DEAD, | A ehild by Elijah (1 Kings 17 : 22). | A child 3 Elisha (2 Kings 4 : 34-36) | A man at Elisha's grave (2 Kings 13 : 1 "20, 21). ! The daughter of Jairns ( Matt, gr 253. 9:24 | The widow's son (Lake 7 | Lazarus (Ichn 11 : 43, 44). Doress (Acts 9 : 40, 41). | Eutychus { Aets 20 : 10-123. 14, 15). . — LESSON SURROUNDINGS InresveNing Eves |ing part of Luke's report of { Sermon on the Monnt resembls closely the corresponding port | Matthew's report (Matt. 7), altho i it is not quite so fi Matthew a { remark about the effect upon the { titudes. There is little doubt tha healing of the centarion’s servant Capernsum occurred shortly Then came the miracle recorded iu The val was briet cording to the text followed in thy thorized Version, this incident cee red on “the next day Prace.—The miraels wr outside the gate of the city of | pow called “Navn.” It Sitnats the north-western edge of the 1 tain-range called Lattle Hermon, » of Mount Tabor, six miles south-« Nazareth, and it twenty-five from Capernsum. The gate w ably at the top ot the plair ( been fozsd both The conclu 133 1 lesson inter WAS Ik Aho as escent fron ave 180d as sepul ners, cant and refers to J Who was then impr: to Lhe of the piace. Verse 1K the Baptist, ] | at Machwerus, abs ena « aft MOON A the northern Ture Sermon itude that followed; a fu the bear mother, and a large of friends from Nain, I ern ney to he meeting uneral pre sion; the word of comfort to the moth ir Lord touches the bier, bearers stand stall man arise, the rivik tos i iS 30 EDORk . Kl 0 ana s bids the y« man sits up ir Lord gives him 1 Le multitude d; the report of the miraci 18 widely extended; the account of our Lord's works u John the Baptist by hi Lake 5 reiates fears nd alone How to Bear Pain. The n their families, on nerves is shamefally large. are sacrif] who would do be rebellion ber of people who sacrifi ar of their Those wh ved are own ¥ to anothe are AY i ha ve, r the ng LK Oniy heat often for temper, and ofteper still of taxing body slid are 100 If wl clam faring for rest well if the fathers and mothers who are working so hard for their children, would stop and ask themselves whether the d rof h with a quiet spirit id n 11 be better, : If people conld but be brought to be lieve it, 3t very rarely does any good to make a fuss, and it is far better to your strength for bearing the erbe 3 wot { fter a st it In and stragples, whieh not orn do You no good, but render you d agreeable to everyone within hearing The nt sufferers sre those command most sympathy. There are very few people whose dispositions are 80 sweet ax not to be soured by pain: but the bodily suffering must be intense in order to excnse our flinging a pillow at the person, w io is trying to help ns, or turning ourseives into human snaj ping-turties, At least we should member that sickness does not excuse evervthing, and do our best not to be disagreeable 1n so far as weean, “There is such a difference in sick people,” said a professional nurse to the writer “Of course we have to take them as they dome, and sick folks are scarce- ly responsible, but there is nothing bike sickness for bringing ont people's real selves. There are some it is syplea- sure to wait upon, and others that need all your patience and more. 1 can al- { wavs tell how people have been brought up, when I come to nurse them.” And thus we come back. to the nursery and the mistaken kindness, which cannot bear to say “no” toa sick or afflicted child. If the arena of the invalid isa | narrow one, it has its conflicts none the less. "He who ruleth his own spirit, is | mightier than he who taketh a city,” ‘and every mother shonld teach her ehild to practise this heroism under any and all eironmstances | When we consider, now many of the { world’s great ones have worn the shirt of the martyr, and done their work in constant pain, we cannot but be amaz- | ed st the marvellous triumph of mind rover body. Tt is not so oanse for wonder to hear that Alexander Pope and Thomas Carlyle were chromic in- valids, but that Samuel Johnson with his big beart, and” Hannah More with | her abundant Christian charity, should have “gone softly all their days” beosuse of physical sufforing, might give some of us cause to think. There are fow e who have not some cross to bear; let it comfort the invalids to remember, that it is not those crosses which are oarried » full view, but those, which we must ot least try to hide, which are heaviest, “uy - Ha ” 1 Mn v3 eX0n Tia id soTeain 34 N ® pati who re- once i i made entirely of pure white enamel. It is EE with Sooke Ind PH The opening of a door sots the : bird «i and usioal . rata ging whi capable of tay
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