LT
Tre Broukiyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
subject : “Easter Thonghis"
Text: “And the field of Ephron, which
wis in Machpelah which was hefare Mamvre,
the find and the cave which was WVisrein,
and all the trees that were in the field, that
were in all the borders round about, were
maids sure unio Abraham Gen, xxiii. ,
1%, 18
Here is the first cemetery ever laid out,
Machpelah was its name t was an arbores.
cent beauty, where the wound of death was
bandaged with foliage. Abrabam, a rich man,
not being able to bribe the hing of Terrors
proposes here, as far as possible, to cover up
up his ravages. He had no doubt previously
noticed this region, and now that Sarah his
wife had died—that remarkable person who
at ninety vears of age had born to her the
sanc and who now, after she had
reached one hundred and twenty-seven
vears. had expired--Abrabam is negotiating
for a family plot for her last slumber,
Ephron owned this real estate, and
alter in mock sympathy for
bam refusing to ta ke
for it, now sticks on a big price—four hun-
dred shekels of silver. This cemetery lot is
paid foi and the transfer made, in the pres
ence of witnesses in a public place, for there
deeds and no halls of record in those
Then ina cavern of limestone
Sarah, and, a few years
after himself followed, and then Isaac and
Rebekah, and then and Leah. Em
bowered, pieturesque and memorable Mach
palab That I's acre’ dedicated by
Abhrabar: has been the mother of innumera-
bie mortuary observances, The necropolis
of every civilized land has vied with its me-
tropolis
The most beautif rope outside
the great cities are covered with obelisk and
funeral vase and arched gateways and
umms and parterres in honor of the inhu-
mated The Appian Way of Rome was
bordered by sepulchral commemorations.
For this purpose Pie has its arcades of mar-
ble sculptured into exquisite bas reliefs and
the features of dear faces that have van
tehed Genoa has its terraces cut into
tombs: and Constantinople covers with cy-
yress the silent habitations;
Pere Lachaise. on whose height rests Balzac
and David and Marshal Ney and Cuvier and
La Place and Moliere, and a mighty group
of warriors and posts and painters and mu-
In all foreign nations utmost genius
on all sides isexpended in the work of in-
terment. mummification and incineration
Our own country consents to be second te
pone in respect to the lifeless body Every
city and town and nsighborhood of apy io
telligance or virtne has, not many
away, its sacred inclosure, where affection
has engaged sculptor’s ch and florists
spads and artificer in metals. Ourown city
has shown its religion as well ag its art, in
the manner in which it holds the memory of
those who have passed forever away, by its
Cypress Hills and its Evergreens and its Cal-
wary and Holy Cross and Friends’ cemeteries
All the world knows of our Gre
now about two hundred ead f
inhabitants sieeping among 1
=O
were n
ros
rock Abraham put
Jarob
sO 8
ful hills of E
OO
KICIRDS
miles
1884
wri, with
wusand
LW
3 that over
Eden of flowers, our American West
Abbey, an Acropolis of moriuary architec-
ture, 8 Pantheon of mighty ones ascended,
elegies fn stone, [lads in marble, whole gen
erations in peace waiting for other genera
tions to join them. No dormitory of breath
ty dead.
ong preachers
and Thomas De Witt, and Bishop Janes and
T “and Abeel the missionary,
and Tnskip and Ban
Schenck and Samuel Hanson Cox
rousicians, the renowned Gottschalk and the
holy Thomas Hastings. Among the philan-
thropists, Peter Cooper and Isaac T. Hopper
and Lucretia Mott and Isabella Graham,
and Henry Bergh, the apostie of mercy to
the brute creation Among Hterati, the
Carys, Alice and Phoebe, James K. Pauling
and John CG. Saxe. Among the journalists
Bennett and Raymond and Greeley Among
sientists, Ormsby Mitchel, warrior as well
as astronomer, and lovingly called by his
soldiers “Old Stars.” the Drapers, splendid
men, as I well know, one of
teacher, the other my classmate
Among inventors, Elias Howe, who,
through the sewing machine, did mope to
alleviate the toils of womanhood than any
man that ever lived, and Professor Marse,
who gave us magnetic telegraphy; the
former doing bis work with the needle, the
latter with the thunderbolt. Among physi
viang and surgeons, Joseph C Hutchinson,
and Marion
with the following epitaph wh ch be orders
cut in honor of the Christian religion: “My
implicit faith and hope is ina mercifnl Re
deemer, who is the resurrection and the life.
Amen and Amen” This is our American
Mach
pelah in Canaan, of which Jacob uttered that
in one verse: ‘‘Thers they
ed Abraham and Sarah his wife, there
mi,
the
there I buried Leah.”
be found, before 1 get t
and useful and tremendous question.
First, I remark it will be their supernatural
beautification. At certain seasoms it is cus
tomary in all lands to
the mounds of the de edd.
been suggested by the fact that Christ's
tomb was in a garden. And when 1 say
garden 1 do not mean a garden of these Inti
tudes, The late frosts of spring and the
early frosts of autumn are so near to each
other that there are only a few months
of flowers in the , All the flowers
we see to-day had to be ted and coaxed
and put under shelter or they would not have
bloomed at all. They are the children of the
conservatories, But at this season and
throngh the most of the year, the Holy Lan |
i all ablush with floral opulence, You find
all the royal family of flowers thers, some
that yous indigenous to the far north,
and others indigenous to the far south—the
daisy and hyacinth, crocus and anemone,
tulip and water lily, geranium and ranuseu-
Jus, mignonette and sweet marjoram.
In the college at Beyrout you may see
Dir. Post's collection of about eighteen hun-
dred kinds of Hol} Land flowers; while
among the trees are oak of frozen clim
and the tamarisk of the tropics, walnut
willow, ivy and hawthorn, ash and elder,
pine and sycamore. If such floral and bo-
tanical besutios are the wild growths of the
fields think of what a garden must be in Pal.
! And insuch a Jesus Christ
slept after, on the soldier's spear His last
drop of bicod had coagulated. And then see
how te that all our cemeteries
whould % floraliond sud tree shaded. In June,
oen Ww! rookiyn's garden.
Well, oti say, “how can you
Resurrection day will
It ma
EE
So I cece ——————
You turn the wire, and then come forth the
very tones, the very accentustion, the very
cough, the very so of the person that
breathed into it once, but is now « ried. It
a man can do that, cannot Almighty God,
without half tr ng veturn the voice of your
departed® And if he can return the voles,
why not the lips and the tongue and the
throat that fashioned =the voice! And
it the H and the tongue and the
throat, why not then the brain that sug-
gested the words? And if the brsin, why not
the nerves, of which the brain is the head-
quarters? And if he can return the nerves,
why not the muscles, which are less in-
genious? And if the muscles, why not the
bones. that are less wonderful? And if the
bones, why not the entire body?
tion.
finitely improved
Our bodies change every seven years, and
yot. in one sense, it is the same body. Un my
there is a scar. | made that at twelve years
of age, when,
them off, and burned them out,
my body has changed at least a
times, but those scars prove it
And we never lose our identity.
can and
five, six,
does
man ten times,
If
do it ten times, I think He can do it
Ther look at the seventeen.
can
and
tie end of seventeen years they appear,
by rubbing the hind leg against the
men and vine dressers tremble as the in
tion. Resurrect
Another consideration
resurrsction easier God
was not fashioned after
had never been a human
there was nothing to copy,
tempt God made a perfect
ion every sevenlieen years
" makes the idea of
made Adam
any model,
organism,
At the first at-
man
{f out of
ordinary dust of earth and
model God could make a perfect man, surely
out of the extraordinary dust of the m arial
. God can
the
mendes,
make each ond
resurrection
taking wi
See the g algebrs
a model
dust and plus a
body. Mysteries about
one reason why I believe
much of a God who could do things only as
far as | can understand. Mysteries’?
yes: but no mors about the resurrection of
your body than about its present existence
"1 will explain to you the last mystery
and make it as plain to you
as that two and two make four, if you will
w vour mind, which is entirely in-
of your body, can act
will ¥ or
r hand is extended
bie statement
the last
t be greater than the first
ordinary dust minus
dust
Surely
model equ als a resurrection
it* Oh, ves:
it. It would not be
tell me
aepen {
body so that at §
your foo
Bo I fin
cerning the
rong Ww
YOUr eyes open
walks, or 3
thing in &
resurrects
a moment All du
I say that the « I
now, will be 1 beautiful when the
of our loved ones cone
lear from my mind,
however beautifu
hey will
They will come up’
lay down at the last
vou bave heard them say
The tact is it is a tired world,
through this audience,
world, I could not find & pers
Life ignorant of the sensation of fatigue I
do not believe thers are fifty persons in this
sudiencs who are pot tired. Your head
tiredd. or your back is tired. or your foot is
or your brain in tired,
pr yi parves are tired long jour
paving, business application, 7
bereavement, or sickness have put on you
heavy weights. Ho ¢
COE
in
Or £i i
Very Sire
wm in any style
is
ur
or
the vast majority of
those who went out of this world went out
About the poorest place to
in is this world. Its atmosphere, its sur
roundings, and even its hilarities are ex
bhausting. So God stops our earthiy life, and
fatigued ros
feet. and foids the bands and more especially
gives quiescence to the lungs and heart, that
have not had ten minutes’ rest from the first
respiration and the first beat
if & drummer boy were compelled in the
army to beat his drum for twenty-four hours
Y rt
martialed for cruelty. If the drummer boy
should be commanded to beat his dram for a
he
would die in attempting it. But under your
vestment is a poor heart that began its drum
sixty or eighty years ago, sad it bas had no
furlough by day or night and, whether in
conscious or comatoss state, it went right on,
for if it had stopped seven seconds your life
would have closed. And your heart will keep
cing until some time after your spirit has
i. for the suscultator says that after the
last expiration of lung and the last throb of
vulse, and after the spiris is released, the
wart keeps on beating «
mercy then it is that the grave is the place
and artery can halt!
Under the healthful chemistry of the soil
all the wear and tear of nerve and muscle
and bone will besubtracted and that bath of
ache. and then some of the same style of
constructad may be infused into the
rection body, How can the bodies of the
human race, which have had no leniish.
recuperation from the
he was constructed
That
in paradise. get an
storehouse from which |
without our going back into the dust?
was, and ail the
what a body will be the
And will not hundreds
above the
fefects left behind,
resurrection body!
of thousands of such appearing
Bowanus heights make Greenwood
beautiful than any June morning after a
shower?
The dust of the earth being the original
naterial for the fashioning of the first human
wing, we have to go back to the sane place
© got a perfect body. Factories are apt fo
ya rough places, and those who toil in them
save their garments grimy and their hands
mutched. Bot who cares for that when
they turn out for us beautiful musical instru-
the grave is a rough , it is a resurrec-
tion body manufactory, and from it shall
poms the radiant and nr
a factory lumber and lead, and it comes out
pianos and organs. And so into the factory
of the grave you put in pneumonias and con-
sum and they come out heaith. You
put n groans, and they come out hallelujahs,
us, on the final day, the most attractive
will not be the parks or the gardens or
the but the cemeteries.
® sre not told in what season that day
will come. If it should be winter, those who
come up will be more lustrous than the snow
that coversd theta, If in the sutamn, those
who come up will be more gorgeous than the
woods after the frosts have penciled them.
If in the ring. the bloom on which the
tread will dull com with the rubi-
cund of their cheeks. Oh the perfect resur-
rection body! Almost every one has some
defective spot in his physical constitution]
a dull ear, or a dim eye, or a rheumatic foot,
or a neuralgic brow, or a twisted muscle, or
& weak side, or an inflamed tonsil, or some
point at which the east wind or a
of overwork assaults him. But
arses and ¢
aftas have todo will be to mit Sithut inter
ruption after the broken n their earth.
ly existence, Not only Phat Oh be the
beatification of well op
some of he graves
lected, and bean pasture
their Christian ancestry; but on the day o
which I speak the resurrected shall make
the place of their feet glorious. From
under the shadow of the ehjreh. where
they slumberad among nbttles and
mullen stalks and thistles, and slabs
aslant, they shall rise with a glory that shall
flash the at of the village church, and
by the bell tower that used to call them to
worship, and above the old spire beside
which their prayers formerly ascended.
What triumphal procession never did for a
street, what an oratorio never did for an
academy, what an orator never did for a
brilliant auditory, what obelisk never did
for a King, resurrection morn will do for all
the cemeteries,
This Easter tells us that in Christ's resur-
rection our resurrection, if we are His, and
the resurrection of all the pious dead is as-
sured, for He was ‘‘the first fruits of them
that slept.” Renan says He did not rise, but
them Christ's enemies, say He did rise, for
they saw Him after He had risen. If He did
not rise, how did sixty armed soldiers let
Burely sixty living soldiers
ought to be ables to keep one dead man!
Blessed be God! He did get away. After
His resurrection Mary Magdalene saw Him
Cleopas saw Him, Ten disciples in an
upper room at Jerusalem saw Him. Ona
mountain the sleven saw Him. Five hundred
at once saw Him, Professor Ernest Renan,
who did not see Him, will excuse us for tak-
ing the testimony of the five hundred and
eighty who did see Him. Yes yes; He got
And that makes ms sure that our de-
away Freed Himself from the shackles of
clod He is not going to leave us and ours
in the lurch
There will be no door knob on the inside of
for we cannot come
oat, of ourselves: but there is a door knob on
You
have slept long enough! Arise! Arise™ And
then what flutter of wings, and what flashing
of rekindled eyes, and what gladsoms rush.
ing across the family lot, with cries of
“Father, is that you™ Mother, is that
you? “My darling, that you? “How
you all have changed! The cough gone,
croup gone, the consumption gone,
paralysis gone, the weariness gone
lot us ascend together! The older
ones first, the younger ones next! Quick,
The skyward procession
has already started Steer now by that em-
of cloud for the nearest gate™
And as we ascend, on one ‘side the earth gots
is no larger than a mountain
ntil it is no larger than a pal
it is no larger than a
is no larger than a
til it Is no larger than
in
now, get into line!
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and smaller
and smal ntil
and smaller
and smaller un
shin
hig
whee
8 SpPeCs
Farewall,
thor side
But on the
. heaven at first appears
no larger than your hand. And nearer it
looks like a chariot, and nearer it
a throne, and nearer it looks like a star
gearer It loo like 5 sun, and
like a universe, Hail ter
dissolving earth!
AS We rss
looks like
and
iooks
ale
t shall aiwavs
er again to be
& pever again to part!
ion day will do for all
graveyards, from the
pene { by Father Abra.
eo Machpelah yesterday
that makes Lady Hunt
%
vim most apposite
nearer it
SOB g that shall
roll! Hail, co
broken, and friends
That is what Resu
ton
Machpeiah t
EDIE
cemeteries aod
int Was
tt
neacrated And t
ngton's immortal ri
When T
To take TH
san
Shall such
Who sor
Be foun
Among Thy saint
Whene or th
Toma TO
.. ’: i
Then loudest of th
While hegven
With shoula of sovers gn graoe.
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Cassie's Enemies
Hoy hoverea about his mother,
watching her work, handing her
51 ool, her scissors, even threading
twice
fond of his mother
settled on my verse for the
" he said presently “It took me
some time to decide between three
at last 1 chose, *
from our enemies.’
enemies, you know
“I know,” his mother said, smiling
up at him fondly, her heart very glad
over Hoy's manly fight against bis ene
mies.
Cassie listened doubtfully. “I don’t
see what enemies you could have, Roy,"
she said; “everybody likes you.”
Roy langhed. *“That is just what 1s
the matter sometimes,” he said. But
Cassie did not understand.
“1 can't take that for my verse, any-
way,” she said with a satisfled air. “I
haven't any enemy in the world.”
Roy looked at his mother and smiled.
“I've seen an enemy of yours,” he
her
nelle once or loy was very
ile
i ve
term.
3
but
A boy has so many
do you harm, too."
“Who is it?" Cassie asked quickly.
“1 most know you are mistaken.
ap, and now there isn’t anybody.”
“I am sorry to sey that Ido. And
I've seen traces of his influence this
very day,” was the mother’s answer.
+1 don't know what you mean,” de-
fretful.
Roy and his mother often talked in a
way that she did not understand.
“Tl tell you what,” said Roy; “Tl
keep watch of this enemy of yours all
day to-morrow. There's no school, you
know, and I'll keep a list of the num-
ber of times he undertakes to do you
harm, and show you in the afternoon
shall I?”
“You may keep all the watch you
want to,” Cassie said loftily; “I know
you won't find anybody who is trying
to make any trouble for me. How ean
they, and I not know anything about
it?
Novertheless the plan was agreed
n, and for the remainder of the eve-
good deal to say
ay she forgot it.
“(assio,” called her mother from the
dining-room, “bring me the scissors
from my work table.
“In a minute, mamma; I just want to
these flowers in ths vase,” and she
continued to arrange the dried grasses
“Cassie,” said her father, an hour
afterward, “run up to my dressing
‘room and bring me my slippers.”
Cassie went, but was so long that
Roy went in search of her. He found
her at the head of the stairs, trying to
make Rover carry the slippers down in
his mouth.
“Father is waiting,” he said, re
proachfully.
“Well, I'm coming. I'm only trying
to teach Rover how to be useful.”
an J i
ve no y, frequen nr
ing the day, had occasion to write some:
thing in his note-book.
1t was late in the afternoon, however,
record
bafors the srowaing rec of the day
was made. Cassie dressed
ready for the parlor, where a very in-
about to
routing thing wus abiut th BADIA.
J »
ge mmc pase i AIA
was an orphan with no home of her
own, was to be married at 4 o'eleek in
the beek parlor. It had been beanti-
fully trimmed with evergreens and
bright red berries. In fact, Connie's
mother had been busy all day making
She was very much excited. It
was un great event to her.
The hour forthe ceremony was draw
ing near; and Almira’s friends, who had
been invited, were beginning to arrive,
when Cassie was sent to her mother's
room for a handkerchief and fan, which
lay on the burean. “Make haste, Cassie,”
| her mother had said. *‘I shall
them in a few minutes.
ready now.”
| And Cassie had fully intended to
| make haste, but on the sofa flung has-
| ily aside, was a handsome silk wrapper
| of her mother's, which was so rarely
| worn, that a sight of it was a treat
the beauty loving littie girl.
| “O! what a pretty dress, ' she said
{ “I wish wrappers were nice to wear
| to weddings; I'd like to seemamma
{in it. S’pose I was a tall lady and this
| wasn't a wrapper, but a dress for abride,
{ and I was putting it on, and was going
| to be married mn a few minutes; I
| der how I would feel? I hope they will
| wear great long trains when I'm mar-
| ried, and that my dress will be bright
Won
"
| and be as long for me as this is.
By this time the “lovely”
| was thrown around the little girl, and
{ was being trailed grandly scross
{ room, the feather fan, for which
! EW aved rack fully now and then
“Come, Alice,” said Cassie's father
| down stairs, speaking fo his wife, “vou
| are being waited for. The
| ready to enter the room.”
“Where can be?” said
lennet, haste
i hall.
“She is still upstairs,”
gravely. ‘No, don't call her,”
| made 8 movement toward the
“The child not done any
| promptly to-day She must hu
lesson In some orm; pernaps
| well as any.’
Five munutes afterward C
the stairs,
Mrs.
tho
tlie
ansie
coming in BOTOSS
anid her father
as Roy
st
wial
+}
has
i
®rs vs gr
fiving
down
father had said,
dv sat a wedding is unpardon
f you young
ones are not down
srs are closed
signal that you are to
ne to open them ”
or Cassie,
until after the do
be a
when she had b
racif and
gt late to
h before
pleasure of parading about
in her mother's fl
+ had lost the marr ¢
“ didn't see her until after was
all married, and I couldn't see herthen
beosuse | had eried so hard
Eyes Were re d, and my nose
and mamma had to
| over, hair and all.’
This was the way Cassie
trouble to Boy na she euddl
wered ura
OEremony
she
hat
thant
i
nil
me
Was
swollen, make
id lex
sofa beside him that evening
Roy's arm was about her,
sympathy for her disappoiptment
been hearty and loving, but at
point he said, “It was all the fault
that enemy of yours, Cassie dear,
you remember mamma snd I warne
you against hin?"
“Who?” asked Cassie, slowly going
| over in her mind the talk of the even.
ing before. “There hasn't been any-
body near me all day, only justour own
folks, and Almira's wedding friends;
| none of them hindered me. I don't
| know what you mean. What's my ene-
my's name?”
“He has a good many nicknames,”
| said Roy gravely, “And I've noticed
that you generally speak of him by one
{ of them. ‘By-and-by," ‘Pretty soon,’
| ‘In a minute, he answers to all of these,
| but his real name is ‘Procrastination,
| and he is a thiol.” Panay.
——
WOMEN IN FOREIGN LANDS.
Widows In India.
| band the widow has especial rites of
mourning to perform. For thirteen
change her clothes
| attention
| word. She must be content with one
No one pays any
| her head is shaved. At certain inter-
to fast and these intervals include two
days of fasting during every month of
her widowhood. During these days
sho must touch nothing in the shape of
liqmd or solid food, and whether she is
sick or well,itmakes no difference. The
Hindoos say that the soul of a man
after his death, goes to heaven quickly
and pleasantly mn proportion to the suf-
ferings of his wife during the month
after his death. Consequently the
| great as possible. The widow can
| never take part in any festivity, and it
a marriage. ¢
from the women of the household, and
she is lower than the servants. Even in
death she has not the funeral of other
women. Her body is not burned in
the clothes she has on, and only a
coarse, white cloth covers her as she
lies on the funeral pyre. Her husband,
if he would, could not help her condi-
tion. Women cannot inherit property
among the Hindoos, and if anything is
left by the husband, it goes to the child.
ren.
In the northwest provinces of India,
where the holiest of the Hindops live,
the treatment of the widows is even
worse than that desoribed in the above
a slong. wit. tha husbands
ong ”» d's
corpse to the cremation. Shoda pustied
into the water and made to & there,
while the body is burning. She comes
home in hor wet clothes and she dare
not change them. It matters not if she
be sick, or whether the weather be
warm or cold. She sleeps in these
clothes for thirteen days and she is
persecuted by all
eA mrrsgpsetion
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| SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
| SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 159),
i Forgiveness and Love,
TEXT.
Memory verses, 47-90)
LESSON
{ Luke 7 : 858 04
LESH
Toric ovr THY (QUARTER:
Saviour of Men
IN PLAN,
{fee
Jesus
| Goubexs Texr
This ix indeed the
of the world
FoR THE QUARTER:
Christ the
John 4 42.
Saviour
Lesson Tori the
Jul,
Forgiving
The Pharisees Surprise
ve, 6a
2 The Lord's
va, 40-47
The Woman
ness, V8
i GoLoex Text: We
| cause foe first loved wus~
| Eo HOSE
LERsoN OUTLINE Response,
's Forgive
48-4
lowe Jim, Lie
1John 4 : 19.
Davy
M.
Home READINGS :
Lake 7:36:50. F
sinful,
Luke 5
bestowed.
W.—Matt. 18:
AMOong men.
n - Pua. 01
LIVeness,
F. uke 15:
prodigal.
B.-—Psa 32
{forgiveness
§: 1-25.
srgiving the
T 16-26. Forgiveness
Forgiveness
Prayer for for-
The forgiven
Blessedness of
8. Means of for-
Rom.
giveness,
a ———
LESSON ANALYSIS
THE PHARISEE'S SURPRISE
A Sinful
A woman
sinner (37
Wicked and sinners
exceedingly
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i11. A Pharisasic Complaint
This man, if a prophet,
have perceived yo
Why eateth your Master wilh
ners? (Matt i.
He eateth and drinketh
Mark 2: 16,
This man receiveth sinne
with them fake 15:2
We know that this
John & 24.
1. “He entered into the Pharisee's
house,’ 1) A lordly guest: (2) A
Pharisaie host 1; The invitation;
(2) The response; (3) The results,
“Standing behind at his feet,
weeping.” (1) The woman's atti-
tade: (23 The woman's tears i
Sinful character; (2) Penitent tears;
31 Gracious scceplance
3, *RBhe is a sinner.”
A basis of rejection with men; (2
A basis of scceptance with Jesus,
fI. THE LORD'S RESPONSE,
i. Personal:
Simon, 1 have somewhat to say unto
thee (40).
Nathan said to David,
man (2 Sam, 12: 7).
Simon, son of John, lovest thou me?
{John 21: 17).
Peter said unto him, Thy silver perish
with thee {Acts 8: 20
Saul, Sanl, why persecutest thou me?
(Acts 9: 4).
Pointed:
Thou gavest me no water
-avest me no kiss (44, 45).
'e offspring of vipers who warned you?
(Matt. 3: 7).
| John said unto him, It is not lawful for
thee (Matt, 14: 4).
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! (Matt. 23: 13).
Depart from me, ye cursed (Matt. 25:
41).
i111. Avpreciative:
She... . hath not
foot (45).
Well done, good and faithful servant
(Matt. 25: 21).
Why trouble ve the woman? for she
hath wrought a good work (Matt. 26:
10).
This poor widow cast in more than all
Mark 12: 43.
That shall be spoken of for a me-
morial of her (Mark 14: 9).
1. “Simon, I have somewhat to say
unto thee.” (1) The Lord; (2) The
learner: (3) The lesson.
. “Thou hast rightly judged.” (1)
Convioting himself; (2) Vindicating
the Lord.
. *Nhe loved much.” The woman's
love: (1) lis object; (2) Its cause;
(3) Its expression,
fil. THE WOMAN'S FORGIVENESS,
i. Forgiveness Assured:
He said unto her, Thy sins are for-
iven (48),
Who forgiveth all thine iniguities (Pasa
108: 35.
Though your sins be as scarlet, they
they shall be. . as snow (Isa. 1: 18).
Son, be of cheer; thy sins are
forgiven ( 4.9; 3).
God lao in Christ forgave you (Eph.
4: 32).
11. Saved by Faith:
Thy faith hath saved thee (50).
Jesus seeing their faith said, . Thy
sins are forgiven (Matt. 9: 2),
Great 18 thy faith :be it... as thon
wilt (Matt. 15: 28).
Tur th hath made thee whole
(Mark 5: 34).
Believe on the Lord Jew and thou
shalt be saved (Aots 16:81).
1il. Peace Secured.
goin peace (30), vb
ve hich
ean 1 0 ich lovh thy
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
Tea, 26: 83 the
(lea. 54: 13). Ponte of thy dre
God hath us in pence (1 Cor. 7:
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Sinfulness (1
Thou art the
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Thou
ceased to kiss my
weed
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sinner: 12; The Bav oor
9 “Wo is this that even forgiveth
sins? (1; Forgiveness the prerogn-
tive of God; (2) Yorgiveuss the
practice of Curist
““L'hy faith bath saved thee; go in
peace.” (1) The j
(2; The saving act; (9
ful outgoing.
(2: Penuitv:
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LESSON DIBLE READING,
PEACE TO THE PARDONED,
Proceeds from God
12).
Christ its prince
3:16
The eross its price (Isa, 5
13, 14
Faith its channel
1).
Saints its recipients (John 14
3,
(Given abundantly
165,
Passes
(Poa. K5:8; {xa
26
(Ian. 9:6 ; 2. Thess
5 ; Eph. 2:
Isa. 26 : 3: Bom. §
Pea. 72
understanding (Phil
Endares to the end (Psa. 37
2:17).
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LESSON SURROUNDINGS
INTERVEN Evesrs.—The tdi
about hich were brought to
John the Baptist led the latter to send
messengers ‘to the Lord The mes-
sage which they bore implied
doubt in the mind of ?
il af
‘3
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Jesus
some
and it was
wrought
1 messengers that
Christ on (Lak
7 : 19-2 \ discourse he multi
tudes about
ure of his messeng
a rebuke
for
John and
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i ter miracles werd
in ihe presence
repiies
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muied OY
of the men of
of the
(Fes at 3
bP generaliodn
thelr criticas: two teschers,
In the
follows an
upbraiding of the cities of Galilee for
impenite
acoount
SOT
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strengt)
the wos
Others, again, wou
Pharises
uld there-
38 Simon the
eper, and wi
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east at Be
# Pharisees (not
"3:8 woman who was
Mary Magdalene, nor
e sister of Lazarus); our Lord
and other guests at the table
Ine Our Lord
he | s of a Pharisee, named Sims
a sinner, comes in,
ing over his feet, anocints them
Simon in his heart not only doubts the
propriety of this, but thinks our Lord
fails as a prophet, in not perceiving the
character of the woman. Jesus an-
swers him with a parable, which he ap-
plies to the case of the woman; he then
pronounces her forgiven, answering
the secret objections of those present
by dismissing her in peace This inci-
dent is peculiar to Luke
3
DOA
IHENTS
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Russia's Disgrace.
account otf the death of Mme
the Kara mines, from the
effects of 8 hundred lashes, given by
order of General Korfl, is denied by
the Russian government. The slaugh-
ter of political exiles at Yakatsk last
| March, was officially denied, but the
proot will be laid before a committee
of the International Prison Association
at its next session. The evidence 1s
satisfactory to every one outside of
Russia, that Mme. Sigida was oarried
from flogging post to cell, unconscious
and bleeding, and that she died two
days lsier of heart failure. 1t will be
remembered that this woman was not a
criminal, but a “‘political prisoner.”
She dared to have an opinion at vari-
ance with the brutal administration of
affairs in her native land, and this was
the penalty. Last August the women
political prisoners of Kara attempted to
starve themselves to death in order to
escape the outrages of their jailors. This
“hunger strike” lasted fourteen days
when they were compelled by violence
to take food. Then Mme. Sigda beg-
ged for an interview with the director
of the prison, hoping to get some ame-
lioration of their condition. She found
him as inhuman as his subordinates.
Two months atter, for disregarding
some fiendish order, she was flogged to
death. George Kennan, who has con-
secrated himself to be a trumpet through
which Siberian exiles may voioe their
woes, and appeal from the most hor-
rible tyranny known among nations
claiming civilization, says: ‘I desire
to cull the attention of the American
people to the fact that the government
| which shoots and hangs administrative
| exiles at Yakutsk and flogs an educated
land refined wom n to death at the
' mines of Kara, is the tame goverament
| that is now striving to get an extradi-
| tion treaty through the United States
| Senate, and the same government that
| hae just advertised in European news-
| papers the offer of a prize for the best
{ essay 1ipon the life and services to hu-
| manity of John Howard—such essay to
| be read in St. Petersburg at the forth-
coming meeting of the International
Prison Congress.” a
thorough breaking up of the iniquitous
deeps of her tyrannons system. Such
reform as is there required, never haa
been accomplished anywhere except by
revolution, and recasting of the gov-
ernment new molds, suited to the
needs of the ape.
The
Sigida, 1n
A correspondent of Natvre urges
thut boys should be tested for color
blindness in school—before they go out
foto life—so tha. they need not lose the
time required for working up to posi-
tions on mallroads or elsewhere in
which abilily to distinguish coors Is
essential,
a ng very
16).
1. “Thy stim, forgiven.” (1) Sins;