BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUA
DAY SERMON,
THE
Subject: “Narrow Escapes"
a escaped with the skin of my
—Job xix., 20
Job had it bard. Wha
reavements and bankruptey
wife, ho wished he was dead, and I do not
blame him. His flesh was gone, and his
bones waredry. His tooth wasted away until
nothing but the enamel seemed left Ho
cries out: “I am escaped with the skin of
my twoth.” There has been some differ.
ence of opinion about this passage. Bt
Jerome and Schultens, and Drs. Good ana
Poole and Barnes have all tried their for-
cops on Job's teet! You deny my inter-
pretation and say: “What did Job know
about the enamel of the teeth? He
knew everything about it Dental surgery
is almost as old as the earth, The mume
mies of Egypt, thousands of years old, are
found to-day with gold filling in their teeth,
Ovid and Horace: and Solomon and Moses
wrote about thess important factors of the
body To other provoking complaints, Job,
I think, has added an exasperating tooth-
ache, and putting his hand against the in-
flamed face, ho savs, “I am escapad with the
skin of my teath V
A Very narrow esc
body and soul, but
men wh
tire
i boils and be.
and a foolot a
Job's
of
aps, you say, fot
8 ars thousands
narrow escape for
There was a time when the par-
tition between thom and ruin was no thicker
than a tooth's e ; but as Job finally es-
caped, so have the Thank God! thank
God!
Paul expressas th
) MAK just as
same ides by a different
when he says that some people are
“savad as by fire” A vessel at sea is in
fiames., You go to the starn of the vessal. The
figure
boats have suoved off, 1a:mes advance;
you can endure the heat no longer on your
face. You slidedown on the side of the ves
sol, and hold on with your fingers, until the
forked tongue of the fire begins to lick the
back band, andl you feel that yo
must . Waea one ol the life-t .
ba the passengers say £
thev » room for more Tha boat
swings under you--you drop into it—you are
i men a yarsued by temp-
wm until thay are partially consume i but,
a i, get off — ved as by fire.’ Bat {
like tha figure of Job a little batter than that
f Pal
oO tu
ons
sav No some
+
ta
bacauss the pulpit has not worn it
it: and [ want to show you, if God will halp,
that sors men make narrow escapes for
their souls, and are saved as *‘with tue skin
of thsir teeth.”
It is as easy for soma people to look to
the cross as fo nu to
Mild, gentle, trac HY
them %0 become Christians
to the store and say:
courch yasterday.” Your business comrades
say: “That is just what might have
expected: he always was of that turn of
mind.” [n youth tais persona whom |
scribe was always good. He never broke
things. He never laughed waen it was
improper to laug At seven, he could sit
an hour in church, perfectly quiet, }
neither to the right hand nor to tas laf, but
straight into the eyes of the minister, as
though he understood the whols discussion
about the eternal decrees. He nover
things nor lost them. Hs floated into the
kingdom of God so gradually that it is un
certain just whan the matter was dacidad
Here is another one, who sta
with an uncoutrolable spirit
nursery inan uproar. His
, : I
100K to this pulpit
loving, vou expect
You gO ovar
“Grandon joined ths
been
de-
upset
joined the ¢
way, “Itisn
ing.” You say
He joined the
“There is hope
1t has bee
, we will admit
me nen
Ark
In other
nora difficult
to accept the Gospel than for
» have cut
churches and Bibles and Sun-
ave come in here with no
becoming Christia
just to sae what is
nd yourself es
) or
) Some w
loose from
days, and w
intention
solves, but
and yet vou may
re ve
u leave this h
of your teeth’ I do not expect
this hour. I have seen boats go
Caps May or Long Branch and dro
nets, and after awhile come ashore
in their neta, without having caught
fiak It was not a good day, or they had not
right kind of a net. But we expect no |
such excursion to-day. The water is fall of |
fish, the wind is in the right direction, the
Gospel net is strong. Oh, Thou who didet
help Simon and Andrew to fish, show us to
day how to cast the net on the right side of
the ship!
Some of you, in coming to God, will have
to run against skeptical notions. It is use
less for people to say sharp and cutting
things to those who reject the Christian re
ligion. I cannot say such things. By what
process of temptation or trial or betrayal
you have coms to your present state I know
not. There ars two gates to your nature
the gate of the head and the gate of the
heart. The gate of your head is lockad with
bolts and bars that an archangel could not
break, but the gate of your heart swings
easily on (its Foon, If I assaulted
your body with weapons you would
me with weapons, and it would be
sword strokes for sword stroke, and wound
for wound, and blood for blood; but if I
come aud knock at the door of your house
it, and give me the seat in
if I should come at you now
ont you would answer me
; if with sarcasm, you
; y me with sarcasm; blow for
blow, stroke for stroke; but when I come
and knock at the door of your heart you
it and say, "Come in, my brother, and
tell me all you know about Christ and
heaven”
Listen to two or three questions: Are yon
as happy as you used to be when you be
lieved {nn the truth of the Christian religion?
Would you like to have your children travel
on in the road in which you are now travel.
ing” You had a relative who professsl to
be a Christian, and was thoroughly con-
sistent, living and dying in the faith of the
Gospel. Would you not like to live the
same quiet life, and die the same fal
death’ 1 have a letter, sent me by one who
has rejooted the Christian religion. it says:
“7 am old enough to know that the joys
and pleasures of life ars evanescent, and to
realize the fact that it must ba comfortable
in old age to believe in something relative
to the future, and to have a faith in some
system that proposes to save. I am free to
confess that I would be hap} jor if 1 could
exercise the simple and beautilul faith that
fs possessed by many whom I know. Iam
not willingly out of the church or oat of
the faith. My state of uncertanty is cae of
unrest. Sometimes [ doubt my imoiuriality,
and look upon tite death bad ma the closing
sosne, after which there is nothing, What
shall 1 do that I have not done? Ah! skep.
ticlom is & dark and doleful land. Let me
say that this Bible is sither tous or false. It
woll off as you; if it be
As
Ian
meet
yon!
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oper
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1 baa nost gigantic swin lia
day have been ecarvied on by men
the church. Taeve are men stand
ing in the front rank in the churches wi
would not be trusted for five dollars witi
out good collateral security They leave
their business dishonestios in the vestibule
of the church as thay go in and sit at the
communion, Having concluded the sacra
ment, they get up, wipe the wine from
the lips, go out, and take up thelr
sing where they left off. To serve the devil
is their regular work: toserve God, a
of play spell. With a Sunday sponge they
expect to wipe off from their business
all the past week's inconsistencies,
have no more right to take such a man's life
asa specimen of religion than you have to
take the twisted igons and split timbars that
lie on the beach at Coney Island as a speci.
men of an American ship, Itistimoe that we
draw a line between religion and the frailties
of those who pr yf ass it,
Do vou not fesl that the Bible, take it all
in all is about the bast book that the world
has ever sean” Do vou know any book that
has as much in it? Do you not think, upon
the whole, that its influsace has been banafl-
cant? 1 coms to you with both hands ex-
tondeld toward vou. In onsahand I have the
Bible, and in thas other | have nothing. This
Bible in one hand I will surrendsr forever
just as soon as in my other hand you can pat
a book that is Today I lavita you
back into the good old fashioned religion of
vour fathers.-%o the (dod whom they wor.
shipad, to the Bible they read, to the prom-
on which they leanad, to the
which they hung thsir eternal expactations
You have not b happy a day sinca youn
swung off ; not be happy a minute
until vou swing baci,
y ol i
wasont
bers of
sport
1
slnts
y on
bettar
ises
vou wil
Again: Thera may bs some of you who
in ths attempt after a Christian ifs, will
have to run agaiast powurfal passions and
appetites, FParbaps it is a disposition to
sager that you hn tend against;
and perhaps, whils in a very serious moald,
you haar of something that mikes you feal
that vou must dis i
Caristian man who was onos 8) axasporatsd
that he said toa maaan ¢ nar: *‘{ cannot
you mysaif, am
but if vy will
will
asin iions
ial
thars is no
ava to ¢
RWMaAr or
Ba
swaar at
narato-
stairs
you
my partaarint
All
of tas
nose Now narm in gat
mad at sin
bridle and saddis th not brea
passions, and with then ride dowa injus
tice ani wrong ‘asrs are a thousanti
things in tha worid that we ouzht to b
mad at. Thote is no harm in getting rei
hot if you only bring to the forgs that
which neads ham nearing. A man who has
no powar of rightaous Indigaation is
Bat b» sara it is a righteous in-
digaati m, and not a patalancy that blurs
and unravels and daepletas ths soal
Chareis a larzs clas of parsoas ia midlife
who have still in them appstitas shat
wars arousal in early manhorl ata tim»
wasn thsy prided thamwmivas on bsiaz a
“little fast.” ‘high livara™ *‘fras ani easy,’
“hail fellows wall mat.” They arenow paring
in compound interest, fos troubles they
collected twanty years ago. Soms of you
are trying to escaps, anil yoa will—yat
vary narrowly, “as with ths skin of your
teath.” God and your own soul only know
ths struzgie is. Omaipotent grass
at many a soul that was despar
mira than you ars. They line the
! heavea--the multitale whom Goi
i saicidal
tots
re i a9
naed to wa ind
’t
tne
band and tw
nity to get in a he
rons final eTort, in
distended, and the +
ths swar
the victors
with the skin of his testh
wl starts,
habit fails under the knes of
‘he ship Emm bound from G
to Harwich, ling oa, when the man on
ean oo cond o 1amng taal he pro.
nounced a vowel bittom 1 * Thers wa
something on it that
but was afterward f
handkerchief, In the
pushed out to the wra
was a
wlenburg
like a sea
and to be a waving
small boat the crew
%, and found that {it
, And that three mon
I out through th
bottom of the shifpy, When the veal cas
sized they had no means asCApa, The
looked +11
Zuil
caomizad veasa
of
through the planks until his knife broke
Then an old nail was found, with which thay
attempted to scraps their way out of the
darkness, each one working until his hand
was well nigh paralyzed and he sank back
faint and sick. After long and tediogs work
the light broke through the bottom of the
ship. A bandkerchisf was hoisted
came, They were taken on board the vesss!
and saved, Did ever men come so near a
watery grave without dropping into it
How narrowly they escaped !—sssaped only
“with the skin of their testh
Thereares men who have bean capsized of
evil passions, and capsized mid-ocsan, and
they are a thousand miles away from any
shore of help. They have for years been try-
ing to dig their way out. They have bean
digging away and digging away, but they
can never be delivered unless they will hoist
some signal of distress However weak and fen
bls it may be, Christ will see it, and bear down
upon the helpless craft, and take them on
board, and it will be known in earth and in
heaven how narrowly they esoa
ca as with the skin of their teeth.”
ere are others who in attempting to
some to God must run between a great
many business perplaxitiss If a man go
over to business at 10 o'clock in the worn.
ing. and comes away at 3 o'clock in the af.
wrnoon, he has soms tims for raligion; but
tow shall you find time for religious con.
templation when you are driven from sun
rise to sunset, and have been for five years
oing behind in business, and are frequent.
y dunned by core ‘itors whom you cannot
oay, and when, from Monday morning un-
til Baturday night, you are dodging bills
that cannot meet? You w Sor by
day in uncertainties that have kept your
brain on fire for the past three years, me
with less business troubles than you have
gone crazy. The clerk has heard a noise in
the back ecounting-room, and e in, and
found the chief man of the firm a ravin
maniac; or the wife has heard the bang
a pistol in the back parlor, and in,
stumbling over the dead body of her hus-
banda suicide. There are L this house
today three hundred men pursued, har.
rassed, trodden down and scalped of busi-
ness ities, and which way to turn
next they do not know. Now God will not
be hard on you. He knows what obstacles
are in the way of your being a Christian,
and your first effort in the right direction
He will crown with success. Do not let
Baten, with cotton bales and Kegs, and hogs
heads and counters and stocks of unsala
goods, block up your way to heaven. Gather
yp ii your energies. Tighten the girdle
about your loins, Take an agonizing look
into the face of God and then say: “Here
goes one grand effort for life eternal’ and
then bound away for heaven, ssoaping as
“with the skin of r teeth.”
In the last day it will be found that Hugh
not Chris
a
Jt and Joun Knox and Hom -
were test Art
Sint yrs,
sontami thon and
street, ada
incorrupt tom Lin
Pear Broad
Third )
AER,
wire posed abou
paisition de asuded tron
their recantation: no soldier aimed a pike at
their heart. out they mad mental tortures,
compared with whica all physical consuming
is as the breath of a suring morning
{ find in the community a large class of
men who have been cheated, so led
about, so outrageously wronged, that they
their faith everything, In a
everything #0 topsy
not sae how there can
any God They are confounded and
sied and misanthropic Elaborate
ments to prove tw them the truth of Chri
tianity, or the trath of anything else,
them nowhere. Hear me, all
preach to you no rounded periods, no orna-
mental discourse; but put my hand on
your shoulder. and invite you into the
peace of thet Fos! Here is a rock on which
vou may stand firm, though the waves
dash against it harder than the Atlantic
pitching its surf clear above Eddystons
Lighthouse, Do not charge upon God al
these troubles of the world, As long as the
world stuck to God, God stuck to the world;
but the earth seceded from his government,
and hence all these outrages and all these
woes, God isgood. For many hundreds of
vears He had been coaxing ths world to come
back to Him: but the more He has coaxed the
more violent have men been in their resist.
ance, and they have stepped back and stepped
back until they have dropped into ruin.
Try this God, ye who have had the blood.
who have thought
forgotten you. Try Him
Try Him, and
Try Him, an |
The flowers of
swent as Las
ns, The su
with the glow
have no refresh
finn noe i
their fest; no
8
have lost in
world where
survy they do
HOGS
De
such
that God had
sea if He will not pardon.
sen If He will not
suring have no
flowering of Christ's
SAYS
bloom so
afecti
of His heart, The waters
mont like the fountain that will slake the
thirst of thy soul. At ths moment the
reindesr stands with his lips and nostril
in the cool mountain torrent the
unter may be coming through ths thicket
Without crackling a stick undsr his foot
by the stag, aims his gun
the trigger and the p yor thing rears
in ita death agony and falls backward
antlers crashing on the rocas; but tha pant.
ing hart that drinks from the water broog
naver be fatally
wounded and shall nevar die
‘his world is a poor portion for your soul
oh isiness man! An eastern Kingz had
graven on his tomb two flagers, represented
as soun ting unon each other with a snap.and
ths motto: “All not worth
13 Colius hanged himsall Hs.
his comes close
iw
promise shall
¥
i%
' Apici
that
jes makes but a smal
Robesplerre attemple
f ths world; but when
world's ric
itancs for a soul
to win the applauss
ywd, erying to him: “Marderer of my
descend to hell, covered with the
Many
Oh, find your peace in God Make
w heaven No hall way work
willdo it. There somstimaes comes a Limsoon
shipboard whan everything must bs sacri.
the passsugars. Ths cargo is
The captain
to his lips and shots, "Cat
Sama of you hava ban
sn, ani you hava in yoar
away the mast
tossed and driv
forts to ken
yardeas! You will hava
‘ide and cut away
ery for asp
of Him wh
srs at Malita and
*
Warmth Cleanliness for
Aged
and
for §1
Bronchitis
y be feared, and its at.
Yd %
PTOVe d. Mans
from
y malady most
Bre very «¢ asily
Ter
tacks ;
oid people suf
and mpto
vear after year and b
ed.
posure to a © id
irritation in
Comes worse and
breathing JOT CARER
terminates in death.
risk the skin should
cough, this a recurs
wat unheed.
At last perhaps a few minutes ex
wind inereases the
langs, the congh be
the difficulty of
until suffocation
To obviate such
carefully pro
al rnd
be
door thermometer should be noticed
and winter garments should always be at
In cold weather the lungs
should be protected by breathing
through the nose as much as possible,
and by wearing a light woolen or silken
muffler over the mouth. The tempera
Some old people pride themselves on
fire in their bed.
t is, however, a risky prac
tice to exchange a temperature of 65 de-
As an general rule, for
be below 60 degrees, and when
should be raised five to ten degrees
higher. Careful cleansing of the skin
is the last point which needs to be men-
an article like the present,
Attention to cleanliness
congratulate onrselves on the general
improvement in our habits in this re-
spect. Frequent washing with warm
water is very advantageous for old
people, in whom the skin is only too
apt to become hard and dry; and the
benefit will be increased if the ablu-
tions be succeeded by friction with
coarse flannel or linen gloves, or with
a flesh-brush. Every part of the skin
daily. Tbe friction removes worn-out
particles of the skin, and the exercise
promotes warmth and excites perspira-
tion. Too much attention can hardly
be paid to the state of the skin; the
comfort of the aged is greatly depen-
dent upon the proper discharge of its
functions, — Selected,
A A] AI AA.
Ir a child chokes in trying to swal-
low a button, a penny, or any article of
the kind, turn him he ownwards,
holding him by the neck and heels, If
the offending article does not roll out
of his mouth, administer a dose of
castor oil to aid its passage through the
stomach snd intestines.
A simvre remedy for round shoulders
is to stand facing a corner of the room,
and with hands extended on the wall in
either direction, and the foet firmly
placed, to move the body slowly to-
ward the corner. This exercise, faith.
fully repeated ovat) morning, will
make the form beautifully erect.
Patient wa'ting Is often the highest
way of doing God's will.
On Buying Trash,
BY ALICE BATHBONXE,
a shopping expedition things whieh
We voluntarily surround ourselves with
trashy knick-knacks from the shops,
which, after the excitement of the pur
chase is over, seem anything but de-
sirable. Buch investments
too familiar; the vase, fine neither in
form nor color, but only thirty
five cents; Japanese fans so cheap that
we indulge in several, since each
#0 littie; the tiny teapot of some choice
ware, marked down because of a broken
handle, for which our purseis the dol
lar lighter; the ribbon bow %% o
the defect in the teapot handle,
for which we part with another little
sum in order to place a most inappro-
priate decoration on china; do we bring
home joys forever in such purchase
these?
If only we might have realized before
ure only
cots
5 AH
ou i { de cked,
heart for a pretty teapot! and that,
with the amount expended on the taste-
less vase, supertiuous fans, handless
teapot and the misplaced ribbon,
might have Posten
real value instead of trash!
we
be realized by those who indulge in
that which is t+ gratify some
want; of that which 1s to be tangi-
ble result of thoughtful deliberation
and sbstinence from anything the
nature of trash. Buch pleasure Elia
describes as shared | “Cousin
Bridget” of the essays and if ir
the purchase of rare books
old print after Leonardo,”
when a parchase “‘used
umph” for them,
With people of limited means the
frittering away of dimes, quarters and
long-felt
the
mn
in
IIs
and
i
be better
matter, and
experience t
many women
in this direction.
ixuries, longed with a
reasonable ging, are be
thought of seriously until their phan-
that we should often
off without is a serious
until taught by long
v
sad wasters
lon
ages return from a day's sl
gloves, fussy
the na
has not
taining cheap
one who learn
agraw
* treasar
, all gather
+}
wii
photograph,
and pretty with
a Jag anes store
that so easily slip
the ten cent co
better things, our prudent ho
the slender purse can ji
ed, the crowded counters Joa
crude wares of kinds.
ooking at the the result «
workmanshi
isi
in
ir
. found
for one of those di
from our grasp at
inter, Kno i
1 evi
ine
val ious
a WATOR AS
p, and poorer taste
their true light, and
trash. — (Good House
oes them
s them
e
nly
; a — -
A Doctor's Opinion of Candy.
J. REYNOLDS, M. D,
The candy-eating habit is quite pre-
valent among children, and to a con
siderable extent among older persons,
It is not a harmless indulgence, as
many seem tothink, tis a cane of
much ill health among children, and
the predisposing cause of many acute
attacks ot of wvarions kinds
Much dyspepsia, indigestion, and
many bilious attacks are directly or
indirectly due to candy eating. Candy
produces a condition of the stomach
is very unfavorable to the
wmtient when attacked by severe disease.
disease
tains a considerable proportion of
glucose, a kind of sugar made from
or sours in the
CAne-sNgar.
stomach, than
becomes sour, sometimes intensely
sour, so as to produce great irritation
of the stomach, resuiting in a catarrhal
condition, bilious attacks, and other
derangements of the digestive organs,
It 18 a common practice among child-
ren to ran to the candy-store with all
the pennies they can get, and spend
them for candy and nuts. Eating nuts
along with the candy renders 1t still
more injurious, as the nuts are hard to
digest. Peanut and cocoanut candy is
especially a hurtful som bouhd, and all
prudent parents should forbid their
children eating it. Home of the candy
is colored with substances which are
injurious and adulterated with a kind
of white clay, rendering it still more
objectionable. A child who is in the
habit of eating much candy, and has
thus brought its stomach into an irri-
table condition, takes cold from a ver
slight exposure, and is easily made sic
by a slight indiscretion in its diet, re-
sulting in a severe attack of vomiting,
disrrhoea, or febrile disturbance.
Much of the sickness among children
may be traced to this cause. Selected,
To forgive the fault in another, is
more su {ime than to be faultless to
one’s sell,
mth
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
BEUNDAY MAY
The Transfiguration.
14, 14950,
LESSON
( Luke : 28 36
TEXT.
Memory verses, 53.7
LESSON PLAN.
Toric or The
Saviour of Men,
QUARTER Jesus
Text
indeed the
John 4
GoLpEx
This is
of the
Fou Ti (Jt
Christ, the
4 ’
ARTER ©
SAV LOUT
world
Lisson Tori Iis
ilory,
Displaying
ving Father
there
saying,
him,
Gorpex Texy: And
out of the cloud,
my beloved
ar
ed,
Carrs a
Thiz a
Lake 9 :
Voice
plan; Jue iy
Dany Hoss
M.—Liuke 9
glory
T.~—Matt, 17 1-9,
parallel narrative.
} Mark © : 2-10,
lel narrative.
T.—Dent. 34
Moses,
2 King
of Elijah.
Matt. 3
Father.
8 2 Peter
mount remem}
A ’ ww
Matthew's
Ww Mark's paral-
The death of
LESSON
iI. THE
TRAN
I. His Compan
He took with
and
Jesus taketh
James
and John
He took with |
sons of Zebedee
He suffered no m
Peter, and James
SAvVe
and John (Mark
At the mont! two witnesses
eha'l every v sblished
13:1
His Errand
He went up int
ray (258).
iA
ir three
2 Cor.
Il.
ration (]
In;
TH} ATTS
ts lems
NDANT
i. The Saintly Guests:
Behold, there talked
Moses and
= Mo SO ®
Moab (1
Elijah went uj
heaven (2 Kings
Behold, Moses
with him (Matt )
There appeared unto them Elijah with
Moses (Mark 9: 4
The Salemn Converse
Who pake of his decease
Jerusale m 41
He must go uz
killed (Matt
They were talking with Jesus (Mark 9
4).
The Pa
things,
2d
Him, ye by the
did crucify {Acts 2
{11. The Sacred Influence
Master, it is good for us to
34
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tabernacies is 17: 4
Rabbi, it is good for us
Mark ©
We were eyewitnesses of his
Pet. 1: It
We were with him in the holy mount
(2 Pet, 1: 18).
1. “There talked with him two men,
whic were Moses and Elijah,” (1)
Jesus: (2) Moses; (3) Elijah. --(1)
The characters; (2) The combina-
tion; (3) The conversation.
“Who
spake of
ii.
ito Jerusalem,
16: 21
n of
must suff
killed
man
and be
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Luke 9
hand of lawless men
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be here
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re iaree
be here
majesty (2
his decease "
fied: (1) 1t glorifie
glorify it.
“It is good for us to be here.”
Here, (1) Apart from the world;
(2) Present with the Lord; (3) As-
sociated with the sainted; (4)
structed in the atonement,
11. THE APPROVING FATHER,
I. Overshadowed by the Cloud:
There came a cloud, and svershadow-
od them (34).
The glory of the Lord appeared in the
cloud (Exod. 16: 10).
Clouds and darkness are round about
him (Psa. 97: 2).
Who maketh the clouds his chariot
i Paa. 104: 8).
A cloud received him out of their sight
(Acts 1: 9)
11. Approved by the Father:
And a voe,... saying, This is my
Son, my shosen (35). i “a
Lo, a voice,....saying, This is m
loved Son (Math, 3: 17), y
Behold, a voice out of the cloud, say-
ing,.... Hear 3 him (Matt. 17: 5)!
This is my beloved Son: hear ye
(Mark 9: 7).
There came such a voice. .. .from
excellent glory (2 Pet. 1: 17),
them; (2) They
Alone with the Lord
found al
one,
Joenus wa ue (506).
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{ Matt
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ame cam® unto tm by night
Tohn 8: 23.
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found a
Geparted
“Jesus
Was
BYPECIAL YIEY
As a babe (Matt, 2 : 9
As a boy (Luke 2 : 41
In his baptism (Matt
trinmph over
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i John 6 i
many to cease from follow
t:de of popnlanty in
Hence-forward the
were Jargely the resaly of
Our Lord
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was attacked
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daughter of
woman wzs healed
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rney through Gali.
of scribes at the
yuntain 15, however, an
clic Hermon was remote
m an exclusively Jewish population.
he traditional site is Tabor; but this
was inhabited, and very remote from the
of the preceding incidents. The
current in the days of
presence
Ti 4
1
s1noe
was
interval of some length
between the Passover
of the five thousand) and
On the other hand,
the Feast of Tabernacles (in October)
vocurred some little time after the
transfiguration. The date is therefore
in the summer of A. U. C. 782; that is,
A. D. 20. The transfiguration proba-
bly occurred at night.
Prnsoxs, Our Lord, Peter and John
and James; two men, “winch were
Moses and Elijah;” God the Father
{ the cloud
f
a aking ont ol
Ixcipesrs. The ascent of
he transfiguration
the moun-
tain; Jesus, while praying, is transfig-
ured; the two men appear in glory; the
three disciples are aroused from their
drowsiness: Peter to build
three tabernacles; a cloud overshadows
the principal persons ; sn attesting
voice comes from the cloud; after this
Jesus is found alone; the disciples are
silent concerning the transfiguration,
as the Lord commanded them to be
( Matthew, Mark).
Parazirn Passaans
1-9; Mark 9 : 2-10.
proposes
Matthew 17
———
The Great African Forest,
in Stanley's report to the British
{ Government In regard to his exyedi-
| tion for the relief of Emin Pasha, he
| spe ‘ks as follows of the discovery of an
| immense forest: “We can prove that
east and north and northeast of the
Congo there exists an immense area of
| atvut 250,000 square miles which is
covered Ly one unbroken, compact and
veritable forest. * * * Through
the core of this forest we traveled for
thirteen mouths, and in its gloomy
shades many scores of our dark follow.
ers perished. Our progress through
the deuss undergrowth of bush and
ambitious young trees which grew bw.
neath the impervious shades of the for.
est giants, and which was matied by
arums, phrynia snd amoma, meshed Ly
endless lines of calamus, and compli.
nated by great cable-like convolyuli,
was often only at the rate of 400 yards
an hour. Through such obstructions as
these we had to tunnel & way for the
column to pass,. The Amazon valley
can not Loast a more impervious or a
more umbrageous forest, nor one which
has mcte truly a tropical charsoter
than this vast Upper Congo forest,
nourished as it is » eleven tacts of
tropical showers,