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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
The Brooklyn Divine™ Sune
day Sermon.
Sahject : “Ohrist the Surgeon.”
Text: “Ihe dnd receive their sight, and
he lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and
the deaf hear.” Matthew xi. 5.
“Doctor,” I said to a distinguished sur
goon, ‘do you not get worn out with cons
stantly seeing so many wounds and broken
bones and distortions of the human body?’
“Oh, no,” he answered: “all that is overs
come by my joy in curing them.” A sublimer
or more merciful art never came down from
heaven than the art of surgery. Catastrophe
and disease entered the earth so early that
one of the first wants of the world was a doe-
tor. Ourcrippled and agonized human race
called or qurgech and family physician for
ANY Years fore they cams, The first
surgeons who answered this call were minis
ters of religion, namely, the Egyptian priests.
And what a grand thing if all clergymen
were also doctors, all D. D's were M. D's
for there are so many oases whera body and
soul need treatment at the same time, conso
lation and medicine, theology and therapeu.
tics,
As the first surgeons of the world wers also
ministers of religion, may these two profes
sions always be in full sympathy ! Hut un-
der what disadvantages the ly surgeons
worked, from the fact that the disssotion of
the human body was forbidden, first by the
pagans and then by the early Christians!
Apes, being the brutes most like the human
race, were dissected, but no human body
might be unfolded for physiological and ana-
tomical exploration, and the surgeons had wo
guess what was inside the temple by looking
at the outside of it, If they failed in any
surgical operation they were persecuted and
driven out of the city, as was Archagathus
because of his bold but unsuccessful attempt
to save a patient
But the world§from the very beginning
kept calling for surgeons, and their first skill
is spoken of in Genesis, where they employed
their art for the incisions of a saored rite,
God making surgery the predecessor of bap
tisin, and we see 1t again in Il Kings, where
Ahaziah, the monarch, stepped on some
cracked lattice work in the palace and it
broke, and he fell from the upper to the low-
er oor, and he was so hurt that he sent to
ue village of Exron for ald; and Esculapias,
who wrought such wonders of surgery thst
he was deified, and temples were built
for his worship at Pergamos; asd Epi.
us and Bodelirius introduced for
relief of the world phlabot-
: and Damocedes carsd the dislocated
ankle of King Darius and tas cancer of his
i and Hippocrates put successful hand
on fractures and introduced amputation; and
Praxagoras removed obstruct and He
rophilus began dissection; and Erasistratus
removed tumors: and Celsug Roman
surgeon, removed cataract from the eyo and
wed the Spanish fly; and Heliodorus arrested
disease of the throat; Alexander,
Tralies, treated the oy azas canters
rad for the prevention of rophobia, and
Percival Pott came to cor lisoases of the
spine: and in our own « have |
a Roux anda Larray in Fran an Astley
Cooper and an Abernethy in Britain
and a Valentine Moft and Willard Par
and Samuel D, Gross in Ame and a gal
axy of living surgeons as as thet
prodecess rs. What mighty g nt
mffting of disease since th
sick of ancient cities were lai
streets, that peonla who had ev
sv disordered in the same way
what bad better be done for th
the priests of olden time who
stantly suffering from colds rece
walking barefoot over the temple;
had to prescribe for themselves
tures ware considered
human cure that instead of
surgeons the people only avo
But notwithstanding all tf
medical skill of the w
the old diseases hang on
and moat of th
and in our BH
buncles of J
of the heart
sunstroks of a chi
shunem, crying:
King Asa's diseass ©
asothing but gout: defection of teeth, that
rallied for dental surgery, the skill of which
juite equal to anything modern, is still seen
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the falda of
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mummies; the ophthaimia caused by the
fice of the newly ripe fig leaving the people
lind at the roadside; epilepsy, as in
she cmse of the young man often falling into
the fire, and ofS into the water; bhypochon-
dria, as of Nebuchadoezzar, who imagined
aimsalf an ox, and going out to the flalds to
pasturs, the withered band, which in Bible
limes, as now, came from the destruction of
ihe main artery, or from paralysis of the
shief nerve; the wounds of the man whom
the thieves left for dead on the road to
Jericho, and whom the good Samaritan
nursed, pouring in oil and wine—wine to
clease the wound and oil to soothe it, Thank
God for what surgery has done for the alle
viation and cure of human suffering!
Bus the world wanted a surgery without
pain, Drs Parre and Hickman and Simp-
son and Warner and Jackson, with their
amazing genius, came on, and with ther
anmsthetics benumbed the patient with nar-
eootics and ethers as the ancieats did with
hasheesh and mandrake, and quieted him for
a while, but at the return of consciousness
distress returned, The world has never seen
but one surgeon who could straighten the
crooked limb, cure the blind eye or recon.
struct the drum of a soundliess sar or reduce
a dropsy, without any pain at the time, or
any pain after, and that surgeon was Jesus
Christ, the mightiest, grandest, gentlest and
most sympathetic surgeon the world ever saw
or ever will see; and He deserves the confi.
dence and love and worship and hosanna of
all the sarth and halieluiahs of all heaven,
“The blind receive their sight and the lame
walk: the lepers are cleansed and the deal
hear.”
I notice this Surgeon bad a fondness for
chronic cases, Many asurgeon, when he has
bad a patent brought to him, has sald:
“Why was not this attended to five years
ago’ You bring him to me after all power
of recuperation is gone. You have waited
until there is a complete contraction of tha
muscles, and false ligatures ars formed, and
ossification has taken place. It ought to have
bean attendwd to long ago.” But Christ the
Kurgeon seemed to prefer inveterate cases.
Ones was a hamorrh of twelve years, and
He stopped it. Another was a curvature of
sighlsen years, and He straightensd ft. An-
other was a eripple of thirty-sight years.and
he walked out well, The sighteat-year pa-
tient was a wornan bent almost double. If
you cond call a convention of all the sur.
ne of all the centuries, their combined
skill could not cure that body so drawn out
of \
Perhaps they might stop it from getting
Bny Worse, haps t contrive
braces by which she might be made more
comfortable, but it is, be
onrable
mth cannot restore Lon, Why. thirty-eight
jyoars is more than the average of
jhumerr life! Nothing but the grave
will cure you. But Christ the Surgeon
walks along these baths, and I have
no doubt passes by some patients who have
been only six months disordered, or a year,
for five years, and comes to the mattress of
ithe man who had been nearly four decades
helpless snd to this shirty-eight years’ in-
valid said: “Wiis thou be made whole?”
The question asked, not because the Burgwon
did not understand the protractedness, the
desperateness, of the case, but to evoke the
mans pathetic narrative. “Wilt thou be
made whole’ ‘Would you like to get welll
“Oh, yes,” says the man, “‘that is what I
came to these mineral baths for; 1 have
triod everything. All the surgeons have
failed, and all the prescriptions have proved
valuneless and I have got worse and worse,
and I ca® neither move hand or
foot or heal. Oh, if I conid only
bo free from thi pain of thirty-eight years?’
Christ the Surgean could not stand that,
Bending over ths than on the mattress, and
ina voice tender #ith all sympathy, but
strong with all omnipotence, Hesays, “Rise”
And the invalid instantly scrambles to his
knees, and then puts out his right foot, then
his left foot, and then stood upright as though
ho had never been prostrated. While he
stands looking at the Doctor with a joy too
much to hold, the Doctor says: ‘Shoulder
this mattress! for you are not only well
enough to walk, but well enough to work,
and start out from these mineral baths, Take
up thy bed and walk!” Oh, what a Burgeon
for chronic cases then, and for chronic cases
now!
This is not applicable so much to those who
are only a little hurt of sin and only for a
short time, but to those prostrated of sin
twelve vears sighteen years, thirty-eight
years. Here is a Surgeon able to give im.
mortal health. “Oh” you say, & am so
completely overthrown and trampled down
of sin that I cannot rise.” Are vou flatter
down than this patient at the minaral baths!
No, Then rise. In the name of Jesus of
Nazareth, the Surgeon who offers you His
right hand of help, I bid thee rise. No cases
of acute sin, but of chronic sin-—-those who
have not prayed for thirty-eight years, those
who have not been to church for thirty-eight
years, those who have been gamblers, or
libertines, or thisves or outlaws, or blas-
phamers, or infidels, or atheists, or all these
together, for thirty-eight vears A Christ
for exigencies! A Christ for a dead lift! A
Surgeon who never loses a case!
In speaking of Christ as a surgeon, [ must
sonsider Him as an oculist, or eye doctor, and
an aurist orear doctor. Was thers ever such
another oculist? That He was particularly
sorry for the blind folks I take from the fact
that the most of His works was with the dis
| sased optic nerves. 1 have not time to count
{ up the number of blind people mentioned
| who got His cure. Two blind men in one
| house. also one who was born blind; so that
it was not removal of & visual obstruction,
| but the creation of the coroea, and ciliary
| muscle, and crystalline lens, and retina
| and optic nerve, and tear gland; also the
| blind man of Bethsaida, cured by the saliva
| which the Surgeon took from the tip of His
wn tongus and put upon the eyelids ; also
| two blind men who sat by the wayside. In
ar ized lands we have blindness enough,
the ratio fearfully increasing, according to
the staten of Boston and New York and
P i oculists, because of the reading
ning and evening newspapers on the
yl
tw .
iy wo
joiti
the «
Fat
and come in business,
n the lands w 1is Divine Sargeon
rated, the cases o ines
nd every t
ware multi-
ything by the particls of
smnd Soating in t it
i : Oo the eval is
» air, and the night dews
re
of those who slept on
{ their bh
1
it is estimated
and
tat
neopie are totally
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n some of t
twenly oul a
hiind Amid all
rowd of visionless peopia, what work
And 1 not believe that
f a hundred of that Sar.
ried He wansup and
1 among those psopie who feeling
aT. or lel by the hand
and ingroducing them
yw household, to the
and the eve
19 #1
rs of both windows wars
; reel went hom
“1 wee wank God, | ses
t is the ocu wa all need, il He
we are blind
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a
Soap p 2
ocuiist ao
than ons out
UTes Ware reg
wWara
sdowiy their way by «8
of man
Pin the faces
or rope of dog,
of their
» and the sunset
Lt ran His hand over t
and the shut
and the
I a
ing ata
roan oes
a
list
ME OF es
ind. By
f we soo them at all. O
put bel and
The gloris of a loving
are projected, and wa do
Or wo have a defective sight which
natures we
ar i
wia are ore
them r and pardonis
Sharia
sen,
| the things of the futurs, time bigger than
y. Or we are color blind and cannot
wo the differeace between ths blackness: of
iar kness forever and ths rossats morning of
an everlasting day. But Christ the Burgeon
| somes in, and though we shrink back, afraid
have Him touch us ye: He puls
His fingers on the closed eyelids of the soul
| and midnight becomes midenoon; and we
| understand something of the joy of the young
| man of the Bible, who, though he had never
hafors bean able to see his hand belore his
| tace, mow, by the touch of Christ, had two
| headlights kindled under his brow, cried out
| in language that confounded the jeering
| crowd who ware deriding the Christ that
| had effected the cure, and wanted to make
| Him outa bad man: ** Whether He be a sinner
! or no, 1 know not; one thing I know, that
| whereas [| was blind, now | se.”
| Bat this Surgeon was just as wonderful aa
an aurist, Very few people have two good
ears. Nine out of ten people are particular
to get on this or that side of you when they
sit or walk or ride with you, because they
have one disabled ear, Many have both ears
damaged, and what with the constant rack-
to
| troubles that sweep through the land, it is
all, Most wonderful instrument is the hu.
man ear. It is harp and drum and telegraph
and telephone and whispering gallery all in
one,
struction that the most difficuit of all thingy
to reconstruct is the auditory apparlus
The mightiest of scientists heve pul their
skill to ita retuning, and sometimes they stop
the progress of ita decadence, or remove
temporary obstructions, but not more than
one really deaf ear out of a hundred thou.
sand is ever cured. It took a God to make
the ear, and it takes a God to mend it. That
makes ms curious to ses how Christ the Sur.
geod succeeds as an sured,
We are told of only two cases He operaten
on as an ear surgeon. His friend Peter, nat.
urally high tempered, saw Christ insulted by
a man by the name of Malchus, and Peter
let his sword fly, aiming at the man's head,
but she sword sli and hewed off the out.
side ear, and our Sur, touched the iscera.
tion sod another ear med in the place of
the one that had been siashed away, Bat
is not the outside ear that hears. That ie
only a funnel for gathering sound and pour.
ing it into the hidden and more siaboraie
sar. On the beach of Lake Galiles our Bur.
geon found a man deal and dumb. The pa-
tisat dwelt in stual silence, and was
» hiess, Ho not hear a note of mu-
or a clap of thunder. He could not eall
{ather or mother or wife or children by name.
What power can waken that dull tympanum
or reach that chain of small bones of 1erive
that auditory nerve or ween
the brain and the outsid world? The Sur.
in the deaf ears and agi.
agitating them until
ve vital energy to all the
dead parts, and they ded, and when
our Surgeon withdrew dis fingers from the
sere, the two funnels of sound wers clear for
all sereet voioes of music and friendship. For
the first time in his life he heard the of
the waves of Galilee, Through the desert of
| silence had been built a king's high-
way of resonance and acclamation. But yet
he was dumb, No word had ever leaped over
his Ui pan was chained under his ..
Voeali and soccentuation were to him
an impossibility. He could neither
I ar barred his ear, will a
, having un oar, now mn
the shackle o his tongue. The Surgeon will
use tho same or salve that Fe used
on two teats for the cure of blind
sm RH
application is made, And ky, the rigidity of
the dumb tongue is relaxed, and between the
tongue and testh were born a whole vocabu.
lary, and words flew into expression, Henot
oaly heard but he talked. One gate of his
body swung into let sound enter, and the
other gate swung out to let sound depart,
Why is it that while other surgeons used
knives and forceps and Jrotes and spectros
scopes, this Surgeon used only the ointment
of His own lips? To show that all the
tive power we ever feal comes straight from
Christ,
deaf as a rock and dumb as a tomb.
and help us to speak!
But what were the Burgeon's fees for all
these cures of eyes and ears and tongues and
withered hands and crooked backs? The skill
and the painlessness of the operations wers
not think that the cases He took
moneyless, Did He not treat the nobleman’s
son? Did He not doctor the ruler's daughter?
Did He not effect a cure in the house of a
centurion of great wealth, who had out of
bis own pocket built a synagogues’? They
would have paid Him large fees if He had de.
wealthy people in Jerusalem, and among the
would have given this Burgeon houses and
lands and all they had for such cures as He
could effect, For critical cases in our time
reat surgeons have received a thousand dol-
vy five thousand dollars, and, in one cass |
know of, fifty theusand dollars, but the Bur.
goon of whom I speak received not ashelel,
not a penny, not a farthing,
In iis whole earthly life, we know of His
having had but sixty-two and a ha f cents,
When His taxes were due, by His omuis
clence He knew of a fish in the sea which had
swallowed a piece of silver money, as fish are
apt to swallow anything bright, and He sent
Peter with a hook which brought up that
fish, and from its mouth was extracted a
Roman stater, or sixty-twoand a balf cents,
the only money He ever had: and that He
paid out for taxes. This great Surgeon of
all the centuries gave all His services then,
and offers all His services pow, free of
charge. “Without money
price’ you may spiritually have your blind
eves opened, and your deaf ears unbarred,
and your dumb tongues loosened, and your
wounds healed, and your soul saved it
Christian people get hurt of body, mind or
soul, let them remember that surgery is apt
oan afford
present pain for future glory. Beside that,
No ether
or chloroform or cocaine ever made ons so
“All things work to
those wh » love God
for good to t
“Weeping may endurs for a night, but joy
What a grand thing for our poor human
the world's wounds]
when there will
sw there will bs no more sick
more eye and ear inflrmaries
there will bs no more blind or deaf,
more deserts, for the round earth
will bs expurgated of scorch and
pruning
hooks, While in the heavenly country we
shall soe those who were the victims of ach
dont or malformation, or hereditary ills on
letes in elysian flelds
Who is that maa with such brilliant eyes,
ecloss before the throne’ Why, that is the
near Jericho, was blind and our
wohthalmia! Who is that
oful and quesnly woman bee
That was the
wind bent almost double
y herself, and He
that listening
+ of heave Bs
Buargeon cured his
and gra
fore the th
eral
one whom
ani
mais
roae
nasil
that
pay He to
all heaven pay Him with
that shall ’
the crowas! In Hi
ead be all ni
and at His feet be all the
Om His hb
ars
worlds!
Concerning Forests
A recent writer presents some interest.
of
forestry.
In the earliest times the first pe ples
unt
in the Asiatic highlands. That
region in those days was very fertile, and
was able to support a large population.
It was but in time the
trees disappeared, and the land became
almost barren, and great changes in
climate took place, Coming dowa to a
later period, we have abundaat evidence
of the élimatic changes wrought by the
destruction of the foresta, The old his.
torians tell us how great armies crossed
the Rhone, Rhine and Danube on the
ice, but after fifteen centuries it is plain
that the climate in the vicinity of those
rivers is materially warmer.
Our civilization is not old enough ia
well wooded,
fluence of forests upon the climate. But
it is fair to assume that the propertéen of
region.
Snow and ice remain longer in a forest
becomes more erratic. Tim winters are
short, but the weather is fitful, Cold
winds and hot winds blow unexpectedly,
and drought is not uncommon, Water
courses shrink at times to mere threads,
and as others swell into the most appal-
ling floods.
These general rules, according to the
writer whose statementy we have here
outlined, are enough to awaken the peo-
ple to the importance of the preservation
of a large percentage of our forests. The
wholesale and reckless wasta of nature's
upholstering means the destruction of
human life and property. Whem we are
warned against a coming evil we should
lose no time i® discovering and applying
the remedy. —Atlants Constitution.
~
A Young Lady's Marvelous Memory.
I know a young lady ia New Torx,
the daughter of a well-knowa editor,
whose marvelous memory is literaiiy ber
fostune, She is an omnivorous y
N> book escapes her, and, oudy read, is
Never Jongutien. This extraordinary girl
saat with the literatare of
ages as with the two- y novels of to-
day, sod is employed by one of the lead-
ing publishers for the sole purpose of
tending manuleript and upon
its originality, Not only bonowed plots,
but borrowed styles, borrowed phrases,
are instantly detected and their
source is noted down. She
Women and Money Earning.
The following article is so suggestive
that we are sorry we cannot give credit
where credit is due. We find it afloat
simply ss “selected.”
Fortunately the range of choles in
avooations widens every year, and it
seems to be generally socepted that a
woman may do whatever she will. The
world is willing to pay for almost any-
thing that is done in a superior manner,
while slipshod work is the first to go to
Whether she recognizes the
{ ability, latent or known, in some direct-
may well be: “What do 1 like to do?”
umption in favor of doing it
I'he next query should be:
i it well ?"' If she finds she ean do one
succeeding.
Then comes the vital, crucial ques-
{ tion, “How shall 1 get it to do?"
of those who need that very thing, and
{ ean pey for it. It requires
ity.
It must always be
pro
its «
essential to the best results,
| successful in any department, is
pressed with the attention pad to min-
{ ntiss, without losing the grasp
broad, general principles.
Probably Miss wil
out estates, design gardens an
little thought of ever pursuing the
business. jut she supports herself
Her demgns are carefully
{ made, and she 18 said to combine
A lady, with some skill at painting,
while traveling abroad, became interest.
| ed in cathedrals, and then in the whole
subject of architecture, and resolved to
bean architect, She had already achiev
ed distinction by designs for houses and
While
successfully pursued household
Another nnusnal business was chosen
30, reduced from af.
| fluence to wage earning. Experience
had peculiarly fitted ber to be a direc-
She provides trous.
seaux if desired, and is competent to
solect everything, from wraps to alip-
She plans the gowns of the
bridal party, from the mother to the lit
| tle sister who is maid of bonor, or the
little brother who is page. Bhe
tends to the wedding invitations,
ranges the house, plans the floral dec
orations, and superintends the wes
breakfast or the
the case may be.
A Washington lady, foresecing the
loss of her income, oarefully considered
her capabilities, aud ear]
decided to put her en
making of preserves, pickles and jellies
She knew ladies of social prominence
and secured their names as references,
She salars printed, which she
je likely to respond with
» put an advertisement
n a few newspapers. She received or-
h to guarantee her enter-
, but presuming on further sales
she "made about thirty gallons of
pickles of various kinds and 350 glasses
of jelly and jars of fruit. Her energy
and courage brought a success that
warranted ber enlarging the business.
»
at-
ar-
ing
Hp
+ i
i
ry
y
evening collatio
¥ in the spring
Tey dt
ergies 100
the
had
sent to
orders,
15
class came to America. Bhe had no
near relatives and knew she must sup-
port herself here. In ber distress, she
went to her rector, whose first inquiry
was, “What can you do well?” Grad-
ually he drew from her the fact that
she had learned earpentry in a parish
{ school for training women. A bright
| thought struck him as he recalled his
wife's impatient waiting for a carpenter
"
house, I'be woman gladly accepted
| his suggestion of testing her ability at
| repairs the next day.
| The rector's wife was greatly pleased
land said, “She's worth a dozen men,
she is so handy, and she never leaves a
| bit of dirt.” The rector recommended
| hor to other families and she soon
| found herself in good demand. She
| her.
-—-—— wi -
Trees Planted by Artillery.
The Duke of Athole consulted
| father as to the improvements which he
desired to make in his woodland
scenery near Dunkeld. The duke was
desirous that a rocky crag, called
Craigybarns, should be planted with
trees to relieve the grim barrenness of
its appearance. But it was impossible
for any man to climb the crag in order
to set seeds or plants in the clefts of
the rocks. A happy idea struck my
father, Having observed in frout of
the castle a pair of small cannon used
for firing salutes, it occurred to him to
to deposit the seeds of the various trees
amongst the soil in the clefts of the
© A tinsmith in the village was
ordered to makea number of canisters
with covers. The canisters were filled
with all sorts of suitable tree-seeds,
A cannon was loaded, and the canisters
were fired up against the high face
of the rook. They burst and soattered
the seed in all directions. Some years
afver, when my father revisi the
place, he was delighted to find that his
scheme of planting by artillery had
ved completely successful, for the
were flourishing Inxoriantly in all
the recesses of the chil. From James
Nasmyth's Autobiography,
The chair of chemistry at the French
Museum, one of the places occupied by
Chevreul to his death, will scon have
an official oceupant. On March 8 the
Academy of Sclences selected as ita
first choles for the position M, Arnaud,
second M. Maquenne, snd sent the
names to the minister for his decision,
The nomination is equivalent to the
appointment of M. Arnaud, who at one
time was au aid to Ohevrenl
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
SUNDAY MAY «4, 149),
The Ruler's Daughter,
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LESSON TEXT.
(Luke : 41, 42, 40.58. Memory verses. 54.54) |
LESSON PLAN.
Toric or tae QUARTER: Jesus the |
Saviour of Men,
i
QUARTER :
the Saviour |
| Goupex Texr ror THE
{| This is indeed the Christ,
of the world, John 4 : 42.
Lizssox Toric Awakening to Life, |
f 1. The Dis
i vs. 4], 42.
J 2 The Bleeping Child. vs,
6.58
{ 2 The Child Awakened,
L ve, oh
GorLoex Texr: Fear
only, and she shall be made
Luke 8 : 50,
tressed Parent,
y
Lesson OUTLIRE
believe
whole, — |
not
Dany Hour BrApiNGs :
M.—1Luke 8 : 41, 42, 49-56.
eningy to life.
T.— Matt, 9:18, 19,
thew's parallel narrative.
W.—Mark 5 : 22-24, 35-43.
parallel narrat
T.—~Dan. 12 ;
foretold.
F.—1 Thess. 4 : 13-18,
ers awakened.
B.~1 Cor. 1b : 51-bR,
gle ep.
8.—Acts 7
fell
Awak-
3.28. Mat-
9
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Mark's
v
1-3.
Awakening
Not all shall
: 54-60,
asleep.
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LESSON ANALYSIS,
1. THE DISTHKESEED PARENT.
1, Earnest Entreaty:
He fell down at Jesus’
sought him (41
I intreated thy favor with my whole
heart ( Psa.
Come and lay
9 : 18).
He falleth at his feet,
him (Mark 5 ; 22).
The supplication of a righteous man
availeth mach (Jus. 5 : 16).
feet, and be-
1
hy hand upon her (Matt
and beseecheth
I. Alarming liiness:
He had an only daaghter,....and
she lay a dying (42)
He said unto hi
head (2hings 4 .
My daughter is even n
9:18,
My little daughter is at the poi
death (Mark 5: 29
Lord, behold, he whom thon
sick (John 11 : 3).
Il. Attendant Tnrongs:
As he went the
hi ni42),
There followed him
Matt, 4: 25).
Jesus followed him,
Matt.
A great multitud
b: 24).
Great multitn
Luke oO: 15
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besought
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sad home
multitudes
The Lord's
errand; (2) The Lords
One,
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PUTIOnSs Of
THE SLEEPING CHILD,
i. A Natural Conclus' on:
Thy daughter is dead (49),
Be sat on her knees till noon, and then
died (2 Kings 4
I know that thou wil
death (Job 30: 23).
All flesh shall perish together (Job 34:
15).
mand
Te
ay
“ttl,
bring me to
(Heb, 9: 27
iI. A Christian Truth:
She is not dead, but sleepeth (52).
The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth
(Matt. 9: 24),
The child is not dead, but sleepeth
{Mark 5: 39).
Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep
(John 11: 11
Them also that are fallen asleep in
Jesus (1 Thess, 4: 14).
i 11. A Natural Doubt:
| that she was dead (53)
14: 14.
| They laughed him to scorn (Matt, 9:
24.)
If thon hadst been here, my brother
had not died John 11: 21).
{ But some one will say, How are the
dead raised? (1 Cor. 15: 85).
L. “Thy daughter is dead.”
for Jesus. —Death (1) As viewed by
man; (2) As viewed by Jesus,
2. “Fear not: only believe,” (1) Com-
fort; (2) Counsel.—(1) Fear for-
bidden; (2) Faith enjoined.
3. “She is not dead, but sleepeth.”
(1) Dead, as the world sees; (2)
Sleeping, a¢ the Lord sees -—(1)
The gloominess of death; (2) The
graciousness of sleep.
11. THE CHILD AWAKEXED,
I. Command:
Maiden, arise (54),
Young man, I say unto thee, Arise
(Luke 7: 14).
All that are in the tombe shall hear his
voice (John 5: 28),
Lazarus, come forth (John 11: 43).
Wherefore he saith, arise from the
dead (Eph. 6: 14),
iL Awaking:
She rose up immediately (55).
He that was dead sat up (Luke 7: 15).
And shall come forth (John 5: 29),
He that was dead came forth (John 11:
44).
Youn did he guidken, when ye were
dead (Eph. 2: 1).
111. Astonishment:
Her parents were amazed (56),
were astonished exoecedingly
(Matt, 19: 25).
They were amassed wrsightwer with »
great amazement (Mark 5: 42),
And fear took hold on all (Lake 7: 16).
They were nll astonished at the
of God (Luke 9: 48),
1. “Maiden arise.” (1) A voice dead
ears hear; (2) A command dead
bodies obey.—(1) Prostrate in
death; (2) Erect in "He
iy
— sm we ns
Death vanished; (2) Life trinmph,
nas 1) Rising from the dead;
Rising into life,
8. “Her parents were amazed.” (1)
Borrow dispelled; (2) Joy restored;
(3) Amazement aroused
LESSON BIBLE READING.
DEATH A SLEEP,
Bo described by Jesus (Math 9:24;
Mark 5:89; Luke8 : 52; John 11 ¢
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In dying eaints fall asleep (Acts 7 : 60 ;
1 Cor, 15 6, 18 :
. 1 These 4 : 18-15 ;
#3 10,
21:16; 28am. 7:12; 1 Kings 1:
31 ; Job 7:21 : Pua. 12 : 3)
514.
2;Jdohn ll : 11
Cor. 15
Ali,
LESSON SURROUNDINGS.
Isreevexing Evens i
the sowe oduced a long
11 livered partly from a
boat and partly in a house [uthe eve
ning. our Lord desired to de part to the
other side of the Sea of Galilee, probe
ably to obtain rest after tl.
day.
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discourse
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ARIWITIONR
According to Matthew (Malt, 8
18-22), certain persons wished to follow
him. Luke, however, inserts a similar
incident later (Luke 9: 57-62). A
storm arose as the boat was erossing the
lake, our Lord be ng asleep. Awaken
Arriving at ths
country of the
other side,
Gadarenes, or
Mat-
A legion of demons
from the demoniss were permitted to
enter and destroy a herd of swine, The
people besought cur Lord to depart
from their country, but the healed
man, wishing to follow him, was sent
home (Luke 22-39). Returning to
he west side, Levi (Matthew) made a
feast, during which the discourse men-
tioned in Luke 30-39 was spoken
“While be spake these things” (Matt
9: 1%; Jeirus came,
Prace, Evidently Capernaam,
appears from Matthew 9 : 1.
mse of Levi, and then in
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tude
Jairos: Jesus and a multy-
following him; Pete, John, sand
the her of the sick girl; the
mourners in the house; the maid-
en who was raised.
Ixcrpests. —Jairos eomes, asking the
Lord to come and heal his sick dangh-
ter; they go (on the way, a poor wo-
man 1s healed by touching the tassel] of
our Lord's garment); a message comes
that the child is dead; our Lord savs,
“Fear not,” three disciples enter
the house be savs the girl =
Mourners [sugh him to
i: our Lord bids them
food, aud enjoins silemoe about
mit
James mot
hired
sleeping
rn.
give
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Matt.
, 35-43,
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AN UNKNOWN REGION.
White Men Never Trod There.
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The state of Washington is shat in
by the Olympic mountains, which in-
elude area of about 2,000 sjuare
miles, which has never, to the positive
knowledge of old residents of the terri-
tory, been trodden by the foot of man.
These mountains rise from the level
an
the stra ts of Ssn Juan de Fuea in the
Pacific ocean in the west,
Hood's eanal in the east, and the basin
of Quinault lake in the south, and, ris.
| ing to the height of 6,000 or 5,000 feet,
| shut in a vast unexplored area
The Indians have never pemetrated
1t, for their traditions say that it is in-
habited, by a fierce tribe, which mone of
| the coast tribes dared molest. Though
| 1t 18 improbable that such & tribe eonld
have existed in this mountain country
without their presence becoming known
to the white man, no man has ever as-
ceriained that it did not exist, White
men, too, have only vague sccounts of
any white man ever having passed
| through this country, for investigation
| of all the claims of travellers has in-
varisbly proved, that they have only
| traversed its outer edge.
The most generally accepted theory
| in regard to this country is that # oon-
| sisted of great valleys stretching from
| the inward slope of the mountsins to a
| great central basin. The theory is
| supported by the fact that, although
| the country round has abundant rain
{and clouds constantly hang ever the
| mountain top, all the streams flowing
| toward the four points are insignificant,
| and rise only on the outward siopes of
| the range, none appearing to drain the
| great lakes, shut in by the mountains
| This fact appears to support the theory
| that streams flowing from the inner
| slopes of the mountains, feed a great in-
| terior lake. But what drains this lake?
| 1% must have an outlet somewhewe, and
as all the streams pouring from the
mountains rise in their outward slopes,
it must have a subterranean outlet to
the ocean, straits, or the sound. There
of Washington's explorers.
—-—-
An interesting Combat.
A terrier dog and a large cobra snake
were the unevenly matched principais
in a fight described in the Rangoon
Tirnas. The snake began hostilities. Tt
darted at the dog, which was playin
about his owner's grounds, but mi
its sim. The dog thereupon grasped
the reptile by the hood and ran off
home with it, terribly frightening the
people there. The dog then commen.
ced shaking the snake, during which
operation he released his ho d only to
a second grip, but this time he no-
ortunately caught it below the hood,
thus giving him a bite on the lower lip.
Thisso infuriated the dog that he tight.
ened his grip and served the sanke in
two. The suake's bite, however, did
its work for the brave little dog f
from the mouth and died in a fow
tow,
ning gh ni A —-— a dl
A mioro-onERN ISM has recently beea
discovered which ie power
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of conferring luminosity or phophor
esoenoe upon different crustaceans