IR, TALMAGES. SERMON, |
The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
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Subject ;: “Duties and Responsibilities
of Business Men,"
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Teer: “It ds naught, it is naught, saith
the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then
Ae boasteth.®—Proverbs xx. 14
Palaces are not such prisons as the world
imagines. If you think that the cnly time
kings and queens come forth from the royal
gates is in procession and gorgeously at
tended, yon are mistaken. Incognito, by day
or by night, and clothed in citizens’ apparel
or the dress of a working woman, they come
out andl see the world as it is Tn no other
way could King Solomon, the author of my
text, have known everything that was going
on. From my text I am sure he must, in
Hsguise, some day have walked into a store
of ready made ay nr. in Jerusalem, and
stood near the counter and overheard a con-
versation between a buyer and a seller. The
merchant put a price on the coat, and the
castomer began to dicker and said: “Ab
surd! that coat is not worth what you ask
for it. Why, justlook at the coarseness of
eho fabric! See that spot on the collar! Be-
sides that, it does not fit. Twenty dollars for
that! Why, it isn’t worth more than ten.
They haven better article chan that. and for
cheaper price, down at Cloathem, Fitem &
Brothers. Beside that, I don't want it at
say price. Good morning ” “Hold,” says
the merchant; ‘don't go off in that way. 1
want to sell vou that coat. I have some pay-
ments to make and [ want the money Come
now, how much will you give for that coat?
“Well,” says the customer, ‘IL will split the
difference. You asked twenty dollars, and I
said ten. Now, I will give you fifteen’
“Well,” says the merchant, *'it's a great sac
rifles; but take it at that price.” yen Solo
mon saw the customer with a roll under his
arn start and go out and enter his own place
{ business; and Solomon, in disguise, fol
lowed him. He heard the customer as he
unrolkad the coat say. ‘Boys, I have made
a great bargain. How much do you guess I
guve for that coat? “Well” says one, wish-
ng to compliment his enterprise, "you gave
ty dollars for it." Another says wy
id think you got it cheap if you gave
twanty-five dollars.” “No,” says the buyer
in triumph; “I got it for fiftean dollars. 1
beat him down and pointed out the imperfec
tions until I really made him believe it was
not worth hardly anything. It takes ma to
make a bargain. Ha! Ha!™ Oh, man, you
got the goods for less than they wers worth
by positive falsehood, and no wonder, when
Rolomon went back to his place and had put
#f his disguise, that he sat down at his writ-
ing ded and mads for all ages a crayon
sketch of you: “Itis naught it is naught,
saith the buyer; but when he is gone his way,
then he boasteth.”
There are no higher styles of men in all
the world than those now at the head of
merabandise in Brooklyn and New York and
in the other great citiss of this continent.
Their casual promise is as good as a bond
with piles of collaterals. Their reputation
for integrity is as well estab hed as th
of Petrarch residing ia the family
Cardinal Colonna, and when there was great
disturbance in the family the cardinal called
all his people together and put them under
ath to tell the truth, except Petrarch, for
when he came to swear ardinal put
away his book and said “As te you,
Petrarch, your word is sufficient.”
Yiever since the world stood have thers
beenso many merchants whose transactions
san stand the test of the Ten Command-
ments. Such bargain makers are all the
mors to be honored because thay have with.
stood year after year temptations which have
Sung many so fiat and flung them so hard
they can never recover themselves. While
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all positions in life have powerful besetments
to evil there are specific Borns of alluremens
which are peculiar to each occupation and
profession, and it will be useful to speak of
the peculiar temptations of business men
rst, as in the scenes of the text busines
men ars often tempted to sacrifice plain |
truth, the sellsr by exaggerating the value of
jooda, and the buyer by depreciating them.
e cannot but admire an expert salmsman.
See how he first induces the customer into a
mood favorable to the proper consideration
of the valus of the goods. He shows himself
to be an honest and frank salesman How
arefully the lights are arranged till they
fail just right upon the fabric!
Heginning with goods of medinm quality,
te zradually advances toward thoss of more
thorough make and of more attractive pal-
tern. How he watches the moods and whims
of his customer! With what perfect calm.
sess he takes the order and bows the pur-
‘haser from his presence, who goes away
saving made up his mind that he bought
the goods at a price which will allow him a
ving margin when he again sells them. The
goods were worth what the salesman said
t ware, aud were sold at a price which
will not make it necessary for the house to
tail ten years in er to fix up things.
But with what burning indignation we
think of the iniquitous stratagems by which
goods are som es dispossd of. A glance
at the morning pa ows the arrival at
ame of our hotels of a young merchant from
one of the inland cities. He is a comparative
“range ln the great city. and, of course, he
must be shown around, and it will bs ths duty
of some of our enterprising houses to esocors
him. He is a large purchaser and has plenty
3! time and money, and it wil pay lo be very
attentive. The is spent at a placeol
doubtful amusement. en they go to
the hotel Raving jous comme to town, they
raust, of course, . A friend from the
same mercantile establishment d in, and
asare and generosity suggest that
arink. Business prdspects are
and the stranger is warned api cortain
dilapidated mercantile establishmen
are about to fail, and for such kindness
magnanimity of caution against the dishon-
esty of other business houses, of course, it is
axpected they will, and so they do, take a
drink.
Other merchants lodging in adjoining
rooms find it hard to sleep for the clatter o
decanters, and the coarse carousal of thess
“nail follows well met” waxes louder. But
they sit not all night at the wins cup. The
must see the sights. They or forth
with chealts finshed and eyes b The
vuter gates of hell to let in the victims.
The wings of los} souls flit among the Highs,
and toe i the carousers sound with the
rumbling of the damned. Farewell
to nil he sanctities of home! Could mother,
in the inland
some virtuous soul that
once stood aghast at the splendor and power
of thess business men will say, “Alas! this is
all that is left of that great firm that ooou-
pied a block with their merchandise and
overshadowed the city with their influence,
and made righteousness and truth and purity
fall under the galling fire of avarice and
arime.™
While we admire and approve of all acute-
ness mad tact in the sale of goods, we must
condemn any process by which a fabric or
roduvt is Repruten as sing a value
Which it really does not have. Nothing but
shear falsehood can represent as rfection
boots that rip, silks that speedily lose their
justre. calicoes that immediately wash out,
stoves that crack under the first hot fire,
books insufficiently bound, carpets that un
ravel, old furniture rejuvenated with putty
and glus and sold as having bean recently
manufactured, gold watches made out of
brass, barrels of fruit the biggest apples on
the top, wine adulterated wit strychnine,
hosiery poorly woven, cloths of domestic
manufacture shining with foreign labels, ime
ported goods represented as rare and bard to
get, because foreign SachATe is so high,
rolled out on the counter with matchless dis-
play. Imported, indeed! but from the fac-
tory in the next street. A pattern already
unfashionable and unsalable palumd off asa
new print upon some country merchant who
has come to town to moke his first purcliase
of dry goods and going home with a large
stock of goods warranted to keep.
A gain business men are often tempted to
make the habits and customs of other trad-
ers their law of rectitude, There are com-
mercial usages which will not stand the test
of the last day. Yet mon in business are apt
to do as their neighbors do. If the ma jority
of the traders in any locality are lax in prin-
ciple, the commercial code in that commu-
nity will be spurious and dishonest, [tis a
hard thing to stand close by the law of right
when your next door neighbor by his loose-
ness of dealing is enabled to sell goods at a
cheaper rate and decoy your customers, Of
course you who promptly meet all your
business engagements, paying when you
promise to pay, will find it hard to compete
with that merchant who is hopelessly in abt
to the importer for the goods purchased, and
to the landlord whose store he occupies, and
to the clerks who serve him
Thers are a hundred practices prevalent in
the world of traffic which ought never to be-
come the rule for honest men. Their wrong
does not make your right. Bin never be-
comes virtues by being muitiphed end admits
ted at brokers board, or merchants ex.
change Because others smuggle a few
things in passenger trunks, becauss others
take usury when men are in tight places, be-
cause others deal in fancy stocks, becauss
others palm off worthless indorsements, be
cause others do nothing but blow bubbles,
do not therefore, be overcome of tsmptation.
Hollow pretension and fictitious credit and
commercial gambling may awhile prosper,
but the day of reckoning cometh, and in ad-
dition to the horror and condemnation of
outraged communities the rurse of God will
coms, blow after blow, God's will forever
and forever is the only standard of right and
wrong, and not commercial ethics.
Young business man, avoid the first busi-
isnonor, and you will avoid all the rest.
nefarious desds, and
ne + river wish toe tide was low, and
{ ths great links of which his fool slipped,
and it began to swall and hs esuld not with
iraw it. The tide bagan to rises, The chain
wsrild pot ba losssnsd nor filed off in time,
and a surgeon was called to amputsia the
limb, but befors the work could be done the
tide rolled over the victim and his life was
gous,
snd I have to tall you, young man, that
just ons wrong into which you slip may be a
link of a long chain of circumstances from
which you cannot be extricatad by any in-
genuity of your own or any halp from others,
over many. When Pompey, the warrior,
wanted to take possession of a city, and they
would not open the gates, he persuaded them
to admit a sick soldier. But the sick soldier
after a while got well and strong, and be
he devastai-
One wroflg admitted
in strength until
m.
into the soul may gain
fmmoral nature, and the surrender is
complete
Again, business men are sometimes
tempted to throw off personal responsibility
gpon the moneyed institution to which they
belong. Directors in banks and railroad and
insurance ;ompanies sometimes shirk pes
sonal responsibility underneath the action of
the corporation. And how oftan, whan some
basking house or financial institution ex.
jodes through frand, respectable men in the
board of directors say: “Why, I thought all
was going on in an honest way, and | am ut-
terly confounded with this misdemeanor ™
The banks, and the firasnd life and marine
insurances companies, and the railroad com-
pmaies, will not stand up for judgment in the
inst day, but those who in them acted right.
soualy will receive, esch for himmeif, a re.
ward, and thoss who acted the pars of ne
imaell, ro-
giect or trickery will, each for
cwive & on odampation,
Unlawful dividends mre not clean Galore
(God because there are those amocciated with
you who grab just as big a pile as you do
He who countenances the dishonesty of the
firm, or of the corporation, or of the associa.
tion, takes u himself all of the moral
Habilities. if the financial institution steals,
bo esis If into wild speculations,
be himself is a gambler. If they needlessly
smbarrass a creditor, he himsalf is guilty of
erusity, If they swindle the uninitis he
himself is a defaniter. No financial instito-
tion ever bad a money vault onugH.or
oredit stanch emough, or dividends
snough, or policy acute enough to hide ,
individual sin of its members. The old
that corporations bave no souls, is
. Every corporation has as many
has members,
Again, many business men have bean
tempted to postpone their enjoyments and
duties to a future season of entire leisure.
What a sedative the Christian religion would
be to all our business men if, instead of post-
poning its uses torold or death, they
w take it into the store or factory or
worldly engagements now! It isfolly to go
uncertainties of business life with
no God 0 help.
A merchant in a New England vil was
standing by a horse, and horse li his
foot to stamp it in a pool of water; and the
merchant, to escape the splash, into
the door of an insurance agent,and agent
have coms (0 renew
m
souls as it
dential. And what a m
nest man to feel that th are
and
sidera or a
sess men could realize it!
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Hill or Plessant Rotress or Sagle Eyrie. May
the future have for every business man here
all that and mors besides! Dut are Jou pout
pont our happiness to t me’
you oYiourning your joys to that consummn
tion?
Suppose that you achieve all you expect
and the vision { mention is not up to the
reality, because the fountains will be brighter,
the house grander and the scenery more plo
turesque—the mistake is none the less fatal.
What charm will there be in rural quiet for
a man who has thirty or forty years heen
conforming his entire nature to the excit-
ments of business’ Will flocks and herds
with their bleat and moan be able to silence
the insatiable spirit of acquisitiveness which
has for years had full swing in the soul? Will
the hum of the breeze soothe the man who
now can find his only enjoyment in the stock
market? Will leat and cloud and fountain
charm the eye that has for three tourths of
a lifetime found its chief beauty in bogsheads
and bills of sale? Will parents be competent
to rear their children for high and holy pur-
poe if their fndancy and boyhood and girl-
ood were neglected, when they are almost
ready to enter upon the world and have all
their habits fixed and their principles stereo
typed? No, no; now is the time to be happy.
Now is the time to serve your Creator, Sow
is the time to be a Christian, Are you too
busy? Ihave known mien as busy as you are
whe had a place in the store loft where they
went to pray. Some one asked a Christian
sailor where his found any place to pray in.
He said. “I can always find a quist place at
mastheed ? And in the Faslest day of the
season, if your heart is right, you oan find a
place to pray. Broadway and Fulton street
are good places to pray in as you go to
mest your VArious eng ements, Uo
home a little earlier and get intro-
duced to your children. Be not a alley
slave by day and night, lashed fast to the oar
of business. Let every day have its hour for
warship and intellectual culture and recrea-
tion. Bhow yourself greater than your busi.
ness: Act not as though after death you
would enter upon an eternity of railroad
stocks and coffees and bonbons. Roast not
your manhoods before the perpetual fires of
anxiety. With every yard of cloth you well
throw not in your soul to boot, Use firkin
and counting room desk and hardware crate
as the step to glorious usefulness and highest
Christian character. Declis opos and for-
sver who shall be master in your store, you
or Fou business.
Again, business man are often tempted to
let their calling interfere with the interests
of the soul. God sends men into the business
world to get educated, just as boys ars sent
to school and college. Purchase and sale, lows
and gain, disappointment and rasping, pros
parity, the dishonesty of others, panic and
bank suspension are but different lessons in
the school The more business, the more
means of grace. Many have gone through
wildest panic unhurt, “Are you not afraid
you will break? said someone tos merchant
in time of great commercial excitement. He
replied: “Aye, I shall break when the fiftieth
Psalm breaks, in the fifteenth verse: ‘Call
upon me in the day of trouble and I will de-
iver thee." ”
Perhaps originally they had but little
but two
business thumps woke them up from
Christ's
But busines bas besn
-netusl depistion to many a man. It first
rat of him all benevolenos, next all
amiability, next all religious aspiration, next
| conscience, and though he entered his Yo-
sation with large heart and noble character
Men appreciate the importance of having
right
w the right block. Now,
God's angels hover ovar
sustain and build ap
To
spiritual caltaure
ment you will listen for it, you may hear a
i
i
!
Yet soms of those sharpest at the bargain
are cheated out of their immortal blessed news
game” of the street. They make invest.
ments in things everiastingly below par,
They put their valuables in a safe not fire
roof. They give full credit to influences
that will not be able to pay one csal on a
follar. They plunges into a labyrinth from
which no bankrupt law or “two-thirds enact
ment” will ever extricate them They takes
into their partnership the world, the flash and
the devil, and the enemy of all righteousness
will boast through sternal ages t the man
who in sil his business life could not be oul
wittad or overreached at last tumbled into
spiritual defaloation and was swindled out of
heaven.
Perhaps soms of you saw the fire in New
York in 1535. Aged men tell us that it heg-
gared all description. Some stood on the
YI of Brookivn, and looked at the “ad
ruin that swept down the streets and threat
ensd to obliterates the metropolis. But the
commercial world will yet bs startied by a
greater con tion, even the last. Bills of
policies of insurance, mor »
of and government securities will be
consumed in one lick of the flame
Bourse and the United States mint will turn
to ashes. Gold will run molten into the dust
of the street. Exchanges and granite blocks
will make the earth tremble.
The flashing up of the great light will show
the righteous the way to their thrones
Their Dost
up and take possession of them. The toils of
business life, which racked their brain and
their nerves for so many years, will
cease from troubling, and the weary are a8
rest.”
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The First of Social Duties,
1t 1s umversally conceded that the
first of social duties is the giving of the
greatest amount of innocent pleasure to
the greatest number of people; but how
this shall be accomplished is a subject
tor much consideration.
To follow strictly the golden rule,
doing unto others as we would be done
by, wonld alone enable us to accom-
fish our end—providing all human
Reine thought and felt so nearly alike
that what we might wish to be done to
ourselves, would be wished by others;
or providing that we have an unerrin
judgment, an unfailing tact in r
to what may or may not be desired by
Is were ina circle of
our
Two little
about twenty and girls of from ten
ng the old
to sixteen years of age, pin
fashioned game of *'k n the ring."
One of the girls being violently kissed
by one of the boys, in accordance of the
rile of the game which nired this
penalty under certain condi eried
ont to the other little Ly “Help me!
Mary! help me!” And, with the spirit
she would be dome by,
M i that the
a“ BO
Mary Pas slunk
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He
gat
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tend to like what they detest or to dis-
like what they actually prefer.
Taking the world as it is, a compound
of sincerity and falsehood, generosity
and selfishness, magnanimity and mean-
ness, we would not act upon a too
literal construction of the golden rule,
If we wished to be ES eo in Booiety,
we would rather consider it the first of
social duties to adapt ourselves to cir-
cumstances, and to endeavor to have
everything move smoothly; rendering
the golden rule somewhat in this fash-
ion.
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 18%,
The Parable of the Sower.
LESSON TEXT.
(Luke 5 : 4-15, Memory verses, 12-15)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric or THE QUARTER: Jesus the
Saviour of Men,
Forget yourself, and make every
thing as agreeable as possible, to every
one else,
After having forgotten
one's own
mental needs and desires,
influential minority of a social gather-
ing of any sort, are agreed in their do-
casion for every one else, it becomes
almost unfailingly a “‘delightful time."
The thing to remember first, last,
and all the time,
come to enjoy ourselves, to be enter-
a spoon. We have come to help to
give to other people a good time, to do
our little best to make the evening, the
dinner, the lawn party, the pic-nie, the
boating trip, or whatever it may be,
pass off agreeably, to make it an occas
ed sunshine, we feel without knowing.
Of course, much of the pleasure of a
social gathering of any sort depends
upon the tact and talents of the hosts,
but all should not be left to them. If
the guests do not second their efforts,
the ablest and best disposed.
invitation, we are virtually committed
to do our best to make every one hap-
py during the time of our stay.
guests? We must sink them out
sight and memory. If our worst en-
{0 be
even A
mmvitation
be
with an
There must not
And
1s simple
our greetings are forced.
hypocrisy, it courtesy
pleasure of others, by ex-
which
be willing to
hont
and,
singing or playing
expect much atten
hurt or disap
roe
sort ih
we are proficient, shonld
do so without urgin
delay, when our little part is over,
even while we ar
or reciting, not to
tion, {
to retire wit
int.
as
and not to feel
we ive 8
mly of the perfunctory at is
paid to all alike
On the other hand {
those of
who belong to the of the
entertmined, rather than to select
fow of entertainers, must not fall into
the error of supposing that have
nothing to do! It 1s our part to atten
to whatever is going on, to listen wit
all our ears in any event, and with all
our hearts, if we can; to smile or laugh,
to sigh or ery at the proper places; to
show our full appreciation of the at-
tempt that has been made to please us
At » gathering, where conversation
forms a prominent part of the enter-
tainment. it should be the aim of each
guest, 10 have a few moments of lively
pleasant chat with each person present,
who is known to him. Tosit in acorner
with a few friends, ignoring the others,
is an unpardonable rudeness; yei it 1s
one that half a dozen or more persons
hnss
the
we
d
H
ing of as many as twenty-five people, un-
capable sort, who breaks up the little
circles, which are so por.
separating their members, and pairing
them off with others
The question of whether
mooted, but never decided. In our
very often impossible, and in that case
it becomes the duty of those who are
standing or sitting near others, who
are not engaged in conversation,
to each other. No lady or gentleman
accustomed to the ways of good society
thus addressed. Even
by his boot-black in the house of a
friend, s gentleman would show neither
ANNOYANCE DOr surprise.
her wash-woman bere extend a friendly
hand. The next day all relations may
return to their old level, but while we
are guests in the house of another, we
must be surprised and annoyed at noth-
ing; for it is a part of the first of social
duties to allow the display of no feel-
ing, whose expression would ruffle the
harmony of the hour.
Besides—and this men and women of
the world well know--to repress hard
thoughts and ungenerous emotions,
tends to extirpate them. To ex-
press kind thoughts and generous
ecelings tends to inerease then, and to
cause us to remeber thet we are in
this world not for ourselves, but for
others, and that the boot-black and the
wash-woman have just as much right to
the best in it as we have.
Spmaxiva of ‘Jeffersonian mmplio-
ity,” » genuine instance is to be found
in one of the arguments by which Mr.
Jefferson himse t to enforce the
ratification of his Louisiana putehuss,
Gorpex Texr
This is indeed the
of the world,
(JUARTER ©
the Saviour
YOR THE
Christ,
John 4 : 42
Lessox Toric : Words on Sowing.
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1. The Parable, vs. 4 9,
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The 114 LK 11
Lesson OUTLINE
heed there fore
8:18,
Goroex Text: Take
how ye hear, Luke
Dairy Home READINGS:
M. Luke 8 : 4-15.
ing.
Matt, 13 1-28.
parallel narrative,
W.-——Mark 4 : 1-20.
lel narrative.
T.—Ita. 5 : 1-7
vineyard.
F.- Luke
fig-tree.
8, Mark 11
leaves,
8. John 15 : 1-
fruitfulness.
T
Mark's paral
The unfruitful
13 : 1.8,
The
Blessed ness of
ati A pn
LESSON ANALYSIS,
1. THE PARABLE,
| I. The Lord's Employment of Para~
bles:
He spake by a parable (4),
He spake to them many thing
bles (Matt, 13 : 3).
Without a parable spake he no
to them (Matt. 13 : 84).
He spake also a parable und
{Luke 5 : 36
These things have
n proverbs (John
ii. The
bles:
Unto
mysteries i
I will open my month in a parable (Psa.
thir
i spoken unto
Len Ths
Gr
16 : 25).
Disclosing Power of Para-
vou it is given to know
i
» ig
i “
{Ezek. 17 : 2).
Explain unto us th
'e
¢ par while (Matt
111. The Concealing Power of Para-
bles;
That seeing they may not see (
They say of me, Is he not a spea
parables? (Ezek. 20: 49).
In parables: because seeing they see
pot (Matt 13: 13).
Ye shall hear, and shall in no wise un-
derstand (Matt. 13: 14
Unto them, . .. .all things
parables Mark 4 11).
1. “He spake by aparable.” (1) The
audience; (2) The speaker; (3) The
form of address; (4) The
imparted
2. “Unto you it is given to
mysteries of the kingdom."
he mysteries of the kingdom;
I'he perception of the disciples; (3
The gift of the Lord
I. “That seeing they may not see.
(1: What the world does see;
What the world does not see.
10.
ker of
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are Qone in
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I. The Sower:
The sower went forth to sow (5).
Hear then ye the parable of the sower
Matt. 13: 18
| He that soweth the good seed is the
| Son of man (Matt. 13: 37).
| The sower soweth the word (Mark 4:
i 14)
| One soweth, and another reapeth (John
4:37).
i 11, Sowing
| As he sowed, some fell by the way
side (5).
THE SOWING,
(Pan. 126: 5).
{| gure reward (Pros. 11: 18).
| He thatsoweth iniquity shall reap ca-
lamity (Prov. 22: 8).
In the morning sow thy seed (Ecel. 11:
6).
iii. The Seed:
The seed. is the word of God (11).
The good seed, are the sons of the
kingdom ( Matt. 13: 38),
To sow his seed (Lake 8: 5).
Not of corruptible seed, but of incor-
ruptible (1 Pet. 1: 23).
His seed abideth in him (1 John 3: 9).
1. “The sower went forth to sew his
seed.” (1) The waiting fields; (2)
The precious seed; (3) The lordly
Sower.—{1) The Sower’s purpose;
(2) The Sowers toil; (3) The Sow-
er's sucoess,
. “As he sowed, some fell Other
fell.” (1) Patient sowing; (2) Var-
jod falling: (3) Differing results.
_ “Phe seed is the word of God.”
(1) Capable of the sowing; (2) Re-
quiring favorable soil; (3) Possess.
ing germinal powers.
Il. THE RESULTS.
» Satan Arcuses:
Then cometh the devil (12).
The tempter came and said unto him
(Matt. 4: 3).
Then cometh
9.
Straightway cometh Satan (Mark 4:
15).
The prince of the world cometh (John
14: 80).
1. Faith Falls:
For » while bellewe, and in time of
temptation fall away (13).
Straghtway he stumbleth (Matt. 13:
21).
They have no root, ...but endure for
a while (Mark 4:17).
....went back, and walked no
. more with him (John 6: 66).
went out from us, bat they were
not of us (1 John 2: 19).
1: Fruit Abowd:
....bping forth frnit with pa-
the evil one (Matt. 13:
a HAE PIS LAP
in
weeel
The
i he sad
1. “Then cometh the Jovi nd ta
away the Wot qd. 1: The vip
seed: (2; The alert
base appropriation; (4;
resnits,
9 «'I'hese have no root.” (13 Te Se-
cure stability; (2) To sppropriste
ponrishment: (3) To ensure life,
3, “Bring forth fruit with patience.”
(1) Producing; (2) Continning
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foe; 19}
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LESSON BIBLE READING
KYMBOLISM OF FRUIT.
Effects of repentance iMatt. 3 : B)
Characteristic conduct (Matt. 7
20).
16
Products of the Spirit (Gal b © 2
Eph. bh:
Praiseful utterances (Heb, 1
Godly example (Prov, 11 : 1
Rewards of the righteous
Rewards of the wicked
10).
72 : 16 ; Joh
LESSON SURROUNDINGS,
VERTH, HH ter the
fesson,
, Innde BA
INTERVENING Fi i 8
in the
diseip)
Luke
with his
cirenit through Galilee
ond
{| Shortly aiterwards, 8
| returned to
not
psn
Gas,
the
Capernauin,
named, |
the para ©
which L
Mark,
i place iB
| very busy
| was uttered,
i in order
how busy they
Ww the
nee
however,
were, 100
and bh friends
| Jesus said he was “bes
| (Mark 3 : 20, 21). The
| Lists also narrate here
! of a demoniae called
| hemous hostility of the Pharisees
| 12 : 22-37; Mark 3 : 22-30). Then
! Jowed a request for a sgn (Matt
| 48-45), after which the mother
| brethren of Jesus sougnt hum
- 46-50: Mark 3 : 31-85; Lake
Later in his narrstive, Lao
a similar miracle 1 1BOTIRS
hold, these are th m
insert at this point
that is, between the last le n and the
| present one—all the narrative io
11:14 to 13 : 9, since that entire
| sage is connected by the evangelist
any case, the discourse in parable
curred on the day our Lord was soug!
| for by his mother and his brethren, ane
the on } occurred
evening (Matt. 13 : 1; Mark 4
| Mark tells that the jarsble was spoket
a boat.
Prace,—On
lake, probably
| parently at
shore
€@ nid a
y BE
{| events,
many
we must
Luke
pas-
in
slorin the lake
from
the west shore of th
near Cspernaum, ap
convenient bend in
The explanation may have
the boat, farther out
ake, Later on, he went into the
Matt 36).
in
"Kl: that is,
Prensoxs
h
Bone
i Lhe
Moga
in
ia
15
Lhe
A.D.
Lar
hm
autumn of A. U. C,
Ix
Lord, the disciples,
others wit Mark 4:4; a grest
multitude
I%¢ The multitude gathers;
| the parable is spoken; the disciples ask
an explanation; our Lord tells why he
speaks in parables, and then explsins
the four ways of receiving the word of
God.
Pamarrer Passaces
11-23; Mark 4 : 1-23.
JTDENTS,
Matthew 13
—-—-——
Desponding Mothers.
«] have done nothing to-day but
| say wearily at the close of it. Do you
| oail ‘that nothing that your children
| are healthy and happy, and secured
| from evil influence? Nothing that neat-
ness, and thrift, and wholesome food
follow the touch of your finger-tips?
Nothing that beauty in place of ugli-
pess meets the eye of the cheerful little
ones, in the plants at your window, in
the picture on the wall? Nothing that
home to them means home, and will al-
| ways do so to the end of life, what vie-
jssitudes soever that may involve? Or,
eareworn mother, ie all this nothing?
| Is it nothing that over agsiost your
| sometime mistakes and sometime dis-
| couragements shall be written, **She
hath dope what she could?”
LITTLE COMPORTS.
Little things often jar amd annoy,
and so little things involve comfort,
not alone for ourselves but for others.
A happy home is not necessa rily one
| possessing rich decoration and magnifi-
| cent furnishing, for even amid such
| appointments 1f the motto, “A place
| for everything and everything in its
place,” be not observed, phe house mis-
tress will ind friction in ber domains,
| There is often nothing so much needed
| as is a piece of brown wrapping paper,
| but to obtain this the entire household
must be pat into confusion, drawers
| and closets be hopelessly ransacked,
| and finally the package will be wrap-
| ped in the morning's Sun or Tribune,
| or a loaf of Harper's Weekly, though
| before night these very papers shall be
| asked for by the chagrin and disap-
| pointed head of the house. Yet guanti-
| ties of Wrapping paper are t into
every home, only to be tiossly
burned or hopelessly crumpled. All
the annoyance and vexation caused by
the want of this, could be saved by en
forcing » rigid rule to properly care
for this paper. When a package is
left, smooth out the wrinkles necessar-
ily made in the wrapper, and then fold
and placé it in the closet and on the
shelf previously selected. Tissue paper
should be treated in the same manner,
and put carefully aside for future use,
and nesspapers, which are frequently
needed for reference, have a
place of their own. If only regarded
as val able for kindling purposes it
saves time to be able to go directly to
pot where they are kept. Paper
bags should aiso be preserved. No one
knows until she hears the demands of
daily wants just what will be needed,
and it is 8 great economy of both time
and strength to find st onoe the requir.
od article. Also have 5 place for card.
board and paper boxes.
Tue training school for female ol nurses
connected the Post-Gradnate
Medical Sehool and Hospital in tins
wae four years ith
A ran It now hon By pup
all the: it can sccommodate, it bas
ily in the favorof the modi-
wn b
ET |
Ox of the best gifts of Providencs is
futnrity.
wor
| the veil that conceals
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