SERMON. The Brooklyn Divine's Sunda) Sermon. msnhiect: “The Ascension of Christ.” ext: “Lift up your heads, © ye gates; and be ye lifted + Dn, ye evariasting doors} oud the King of Glory shall comz in "Ps. wiv, 7 in olden times when a great conquerer re- turned from victorious war, the people in 1 transport wonld take holdof the gates of the city and Nt them from their hinges, ak much &s to say “This city needs no more gates to defend it since this conqueror has got home, OF from the hinges with the gates” David, who was the post of posts, fortells in his own way the triumphal entrances of Christ into haaven after His victory over sin and death and hell. It was as if the celestial inhabitants had said: “Hers Hacomes! Make way for Him! Push back the bolte of dia- mond! Take hold of the doors of pearl and hoist them from hingss of gold! Lift up vonr heads, O ye gates; and be ys lifted up, ve evariasting and the King of cowie in yintain: of Palestine n than Mount Olivet f wi oors; one i Was asked LTADS- 5) : w § scribe ad ne wash of vy twe shattered and tasted of i Sea, that crys risl cities » deep and the acrid water ' 3 al sarcophagus i to th a and visited urselves \ with the long scanding Mount Olivet’ Oh, {| suggestive ridge! It is a nile tn length, and 300 { vo tha level of the i fled with a broken ww led hiz devastat- mous Teath Lagion besisgamant. The wan and wat rs In Lxelllsnmans 12 tha base hes of those who came ym the trees on this hill off and throwa into F's St jumplial procateios. Up { Jesus had walked twice any to Jerusalem, aad from Bethany lisciples ttered His iat , Jernsalam™ ight « k flight homeward when He i finished His earthly wore | Hin needed make rant aarth and t Hall VEU Tynt we azsd hea waniad t 12adad to was bad brea sadness 0 gether in many m and had bean the m that brother» { sul sxpactad Him ar uniil the pation when He would take throps and wave a4 sceapler ¢ : je a dominion wider than any Pharoah shan an? David, than any Cesar, 3a y™ CIR Das bi ha ana re an lsarsd by ng AY he earthly mught Ha wr measured mm break heatwesn yf Christ's foot Watch it, all the ¢ heavens! Christ Haw? have Him go, His enemios cats {im would only attempt by another Calvary put Him into some other tomb, [ will tal The chain of the most tramen ious natural law is unlinksd. The sacrad ! our Lord aud the li sud part foraver, Leaning back, and with pallid cheek and pliftad aves, the discipies ses ing from the solid earth. Then, rushing for ward, they would grasp His fest tohold Hin ast, but » ail the LOR pin yet ant * ti ’ Hi now 0 inte Ts te detain Him. Higher than ff the fig trees from which they hac xed the fruit. Higher than ths oliv rees that sbhaled the mount. Higher is within sight of the Bethlehem born, and the Jordan wher: ized, and the Golgotha where ie was siain., Higher, until on stairs ol fleacy 14 He steps. Higher, until into fa 7 Diner Luan the lake that oould not sink dismppesrs into = sea of glory siliowing solendors hide Him. The fishermen watch and watch, wondering { the law of natures will not reassert itself and He shall in a fow moments come back szain, and they shall see Him descending, tirat His scarred fest coming in sight, then t ured aide, then the scarred brow, and may take again His scarred hand. Bat moments pass by and the hours, and no reappearance. Goas ont of sight of earth, it come within sight of heaven, And rising std, not welcomed by one angelic choir like those who ous Christmas night escorted Him down, but all heaven turns ont to greet Him home. and the temples have sspecial anthem, and the palaces sspecial banquet, and the streets especial throngs: aad all along the line to the foot of the tarome, for years va- cated hut now again to be taken, thare are arches lifted, and banners waved, and trum- pets sounded, and doxologiss chanted, and voronets cast down. The angels throng'd His chariot whesls, And hore Him to lia throne; Then swept their go den harps aod sang “The glorious work is done.” [twas the greatest day in heaven’ Ag Ha gost us the steps of the throne that thirty- tures years bafors He ab ticated for our ad. vantage, thers rises from all the hosts of heaven a shoul, saintly, cherabic, ssraphie, arcimngelic. “Hallelujah! Amen™ © garden of olives, thou dear sonored spel, The tame of thy glory shall ne'sr bs forgot. No wonder that for at least fourtesn hnn dred years ths churches bhavs, forty days af. ter Easter, kept Ascension Day; for the les sons are most inspiring and glorious. It takes much of the uncertainty out of the ides of heaven, when from Ulivet we see human natures sit 3 y antil He whers He was He was cia, whose shoulder scars That will kee von as accord with all the sufering, with iil the weary, with all the impossd upon. No mores is fe a spirit now than » body, no nors of heaven than earth, Thos ol the alestinl inhabitants who never saw our vorld now walk around Him aad learn from lis physical contour something of what our ace will bs when, in the resurrection, maven will have uncounted bodies as well « uncounted spirits On Ascension Day He ifted Himself through the atmosphere of ‘alestine, until, amid the immensities, He lisappearad, He was the only bejag the ap who could lift Himself ; surely f He could lift Himself He can do the lesser lead of lifting us. Ne star goss down bat cliraba another sky, No sun sols here ex« apt fo rise on high Christ leads us all the way: through ths sirth hour, for He was born ia Bethiebem; darough boyhood, for He pou it in Naza- roth: through injustices, for He endured the yutrages of Pilate's court room; Lr te darkened walls; through resurrection, through ascension, for Fast arnin Laster morning; hed Him as He climbed Mount Olivet wate the skies; through the shinin mtared them amid mageificent scciaim. Aud bars is a gratifying consideration that ron never thought ofr We will ord just as He looked on earth. from the tomb He ascended from M We =hall see Him as He looked he road to Emmaus, as He appearsd in the room in Jerusalem, as ie was that tory oa the ridge from ¥ {ow unt “Ose Hivet, 1DDer wa {s swung into lhe siies, will want to ses Him i was reading of a man bora blind one who took care of him all th A surgeoam sald to his blisadness and so ‘I can remove that His sight given him o the man wio never bef wand he was in admiration y whom he had naver seen seared to him, and ure, w ret of it, before aud bis fan ow ap he was in tea rap ian he sudden ne; show me 1 yur first visi 108 to be, irsteryo nade ail tlory bes to wa realize 18, b wa would pave asconl a og sg in the conflict of this life as had Cha ae Twelfth whaeh ha was dictating dispats © his secretary, fall sae room, and the se ypped his pet and attempted flight { said to him {30 on with your wr has the yom bahell to ating” Ifthe ascended ds, nothing should dis Qe, trol for us, i & bomhane int tary ai dr AAries ng: atta Waa do with low sufferer A [allow feeling Aad still remem His tonrs, His ag Oar fe rs na Tam so glad that aw of gravitat {is font all as tho } stural law Lhersign law in a majestic thing, but the God wi ads it has a r braax and and again and again God's wa to do tb agnin 1 break it i 8 only ng & yo hd a aw is not strong encugn 0 sacks tha Al Ly { broke botanical law when upiag in March, on the wa) Jerusalem, by afew word; full leaved fig tres broke ichlay any nat .% ne Mond a Bethany turned a lees stick aw when to x without He swun oad 8Ca00 fi ian whera ths flash eight fa minnow Lake 1 ast a thar ® LO apture help pay the fax bY mouth a KK an staler ter Loe i woes ate Hs health to £ a 3 lsman in # his restored Loy knife or battary, He se and the drums i and the again {adefled law res hriilin 1 leaving the sarth atmos law and physiological that law which has withes ables and girders enough to hold the uni verse, the law of gravitalion, Tne Ch swaeions, and specially the last, suser nw, (SETA waver for t ding the jaw. 10t the subjects of blind fatality, Have you san & typhoid faver break, isaly quial, or a ship a beam sand right it olf, or a fog lift, or a parched sky break in a perplexity dissatangied, inconsclables take solans, m ves never or w the or [ have seen it, multitudes have t You have, if you have bean willing tomes it. Daride not the faith cure men whom (God hath honore ous restorations. #ible to prayer and trust, Becauss you and an not, prove that Raphesl naver painted a Madon- na, and that Mendelssohn never wrote an ar. storie, and that Phidias naver chissled a statue. Because wa cannot accomplish it ourselves, we ars not to conclude that others aay not. Theres are in immensity great ranges of mists which bave proved under closer talestepic scrutiny, to be tas stores houses of worlds and I do tot kmow but from that » in { ames, which to some of us is yet misty and im, thers may roll out a naw heaven and a tiew sarth: “The prayer of faith shall save {9s slick.” The faith curists may, in this rear against diseases, ba only skirmishing be Lore a general sngagemant, in which all the maladiss of sarth shall be routed. Surely ullopathy and hommopathy aad hydropathy ind eclecticism ne re-snforosment from womew hare, Why mot from the faith and seaver of the consecrated! The mightiest i*hool of medicine may yet be ths school of ‘arist. Ido not know but that diseasss now oy all schools promounced imcurabls jasy give way under Gospel bombard. twat, I do not know bub that the day may come whea faith and prayer shall raise the dead, Strauss and Woolston and Spin oza and Hume and Schlefarmacher rejoctad the miracles of the far past. Ido not pro. pose to be like them and reject the miracles of the far future. This I know the Christ sf Ascension Day is mightiar than say nat wal laws, for on the day of which 1 speak Is trampled down the stron of them all, aw is mighty. but He who mads it is nightisr, ive out fatalism from your JAsology, and give grace the throna e Standing to-day on the Ascension peak of Mount Olivet dam {Lido g " at the slow eviure, in last re Christ ever made fae lifted up His and bissscad them” says the inspired account of our Loed's departure, 1 am so glad Hs lifted ip His hands. Oesturss are often more sig. ¥ ¢ than words, attitudes than argu nents, Christ had mads a oie of sone ® wrote on the potion when He said: tan" gesture of con. said: “Woe unto you, hypoorites, But His lam esturs, His Olivetia we, it a gesture of uediction, He lifted up His hands and apa, any lownward, y Olivat, Hix ar.ns ars ox he palms of Hus turnsd amdso He droppe! banediction upd senediction upon Palestine, benadiction upon il the earth The crus! world took Him in at the star m = cradles of straw. and at last torus Yim out with the point of the spear; bub wonadiction! Ascending patil, bsnesath, He mw on one side the Bethlehem where thsy wit Him among the cattle, and Calvary on he other side, where they put Him among Lhe thieves, As far as tho excited and in. snsifisd vision of the group on Olivet conld He was so far up they dessed than ands ‘no gesture of the outspread hands, the bene And that is His attitude today, {iz benediction the world's climates, they are changing, and will keep on shanging until the atmosphere shall be a sommingling of October aud June Jeane lictiom upon the deserts till they whiten witn ily, and blush with ross and yellow with sowslip, and emerald with grass Beanedic. on upon governments till they nors just and humane. Benediction nations till they knesl in prayer. Besnedic. fion upon the whole earth until avery mount. upon : become upon lake a Galilee on whose mosaic of cryst and opal, and sapphirs divine splendors sh mers young and sinners old, sinners moderate : tion nf His comfort, all ve broken heres vament and privation and myriad woes, fake His benediction, all ye sick whether under acut spasms of pain or in i tad 11 tism For orphanage, widowhood a bensdic nd ro yr Ru for time and f heaven reaver made 1g lord Diessed tham the ads and ids the same? Is it Is it wrath r Christi psn palm n pen dow Alady was only against Al Ey nn vt ganas thay wanisad ting ground, id du Tas sams selflshn ska, the an was sal LO mus and removed tions of ¢ the conversation +} Aver Land as i wi hard that was o lownward in Les Asconsion Dar agit ! ta smugglers get porta. yd 1s to P it ip the boxes overh re reaching port s nackaces are it and anchored t Then ti sked up by the smug floating rafts of bamboo. bamboo a oats are | 1. rlers and re of ash and pow the opium taken Rich il are the Kong smugglers. They with alm H srganized fart yal periect are jarga bands, methods faxen aver ads are employed "We have C Department and sharp fights between the soldiers and smug. tiinese troops ba «New Uncle Sam as an Undertaker An officer of the United States army who dies is entitled to $75 for his { ineral sxpenses, a private gets $10, and a non sommissioned officer $15. On the death »f a navsl officer at a foreign station an Ymount not ex~seding one month's sed jay is granted for this purpose. If he dies in this country he gets nothing. But these are by no means all the people THE ELDER BOOTH'S WAYS, ence With the Great Tragedian, and theatres, in the career cerning women some incidents elder Bootl., of ant Olive, “Mr, Booth’s artistic powers as when he was Many aver that his sober and puerile noisy [lichard cups, “When I was a little girl Booth was playing in with my sister in Memphis, and she sent me one night to deliver some on the stage, quite sober. thing compared to the of perhaps of a hundred once conjunction ‘““T'he curtain had not yet risen, but l found Mr. Booth standing the back of the stage, Ins the 1omb of Lhe al de of that illustr memoer ous “1 approached him timidly and d+] message; whereupon, stur up with the graceful spring of a ui turbed, he hissed out: Ve ing rir “Avaunt! and quit my sight! earth hide thee! ONES Are marrowiess, Lh) cold; ast no speculation in tl h thou dost glare with! "Any one who ter wonderful 46a Vile he thin setit LiliS place will weak, sickly straight over hearing it so unexpects addressed to } 8 Of the ( swoon at unjustly vini-o Knie p 10) EAS un aff Oni, Bi a couch { applause In agon him sleep wilh ' him to sleep, t» make bim sleep if he is let Lim nap in the aflterncon 't Jet him be Kissed, let him wear any garmen ight enough Aalst or wrists, Don’t hove ball of his dress, Don’t have clumsy sashes on the back to bind his throat arms, buttons on the back umbia-—whether or not he is ina good ftanding with the Gland Army-—-has a right by law to $50 for the liquidation of his undertaker's bill. The other day a wery interesting case arose in relation to the payment of this $50 to an old soldier who was so unfortunate as to fall down dead cluse to the District line 20 close, indeed, that it could not be settled off. band whether he bad died inside or out- side. It was ua question of 850, which nobody could legally pay for the Govern. ment unless proof was conclusive, and so surveyors were sent out from the corps of engineers to determine the point, They found that the man had died fifty feet outside the line—an expense of $1a foot 46 his surviving relatives, — Wasi. ingten Star. ——_ A Census of the BaMaloess, An old Wyoming hunter estimates that there are not over 500 buffaloes on the globe now. There are less than 100 wild bisons, about 200 in captivity and 200 in Yellowstone Park. Nearly all of the wild ones have been located. Twenty. five ars known to be in Texas, 20 in Colorade, 26 in Wyoming and Montana, and 15 in Dakota, The big herd sid to be in the British possessions is but a my, Don't cool hus food by blowing It Don’t feed him with a tablespoon, Don't nse a tube nursing bottle, Don't chauge the milk you started with, Don’t bathe him in hot or cold walter. Don’t bathe him more than three times & week, Don't allow a comb head. ron't table, to let him eat at the family The Way of the World, Only a few years age the country crossed] a the dark, at a great risk to hers¢ if and in the midst of a howling storm, 10 save a passenger train, for a bridge had been swept away by a torrent. Voems were written on the episode, pictures appeared in the il- Justrated papers, and innumerable para graphs were written about the heroine, It i= sald that she saved the railroad company £50,000 or more in property, to say nothing about what they might have had to pay for lives lost and pas. sengers injured, To-day Miss Shellpy is the sole support of a widowed mother and three small children, and they are living in a heavily mortgeged home which is their only property, Three years ago she risked her life for others, aud her reward is chiefly the conscious. ness of & brave and successful deed, The railroad company gave her a small reward, lass than the value of one of the cars which she saved ani the pas. sengers, whose lives she preserved by her act, have entirely forgotten her, APPEARANCES were Deceitful Miss Teehee (ishing for a complimen t wD)o you think I am so very old? Mr. Blundering (anxious to ) ~No, indeed! You are not hait so old fs you | i i { i i SCHOOL LESSON, SUNDAY, MAY 25, 135, The Mission of the Seventy, SUNDAY LESSON 10 : 1, TEXT. ( Luke 18. Memory verses. 8-11) LESSON PLAN. Tori Saviour of Men, or run Quanren: Jesus the Gores Texr ron 7TH This is indeed the Christ, orld John 4 42, I t/ie J 1.3 AM Tori (ua e Pet. 5: Ministrat Heal kingdom Heal the the They wen they onst 13, 13 They went Mark 18 i. the i ri} ri: t where wont a ing the word (Acta »: 4 Rebuke Even 3 the dust from vour city As ye go forth, your feet (Matt shake off the dust of 10: 14 i | 4 unto them ( Mark 6: #1). They shook off the dust of against them (Acts 13: 51 He shook ont las raimen and he departed thence (Acts 18: 6, 7). 1. “First say, Peace be to this house.” (1) An opening saluta- tion; (2) A peaceful message; 13; A household benediction. (1) Ser- vants of the Prince of Peace; (2 Messages in the interests of peace, “The laborer is worthy of his hire.” (1) Laborers for Christ; (2 Compensations from men, “The kingdom of God 1s eome nigh.” (1) The kingdom of God; (2) The opportunity of men,~1he kingdom (1) From God ; (2) Throagh Christ; (5) For men their IHL DEFENDED IN THRIR MISSION I. Their Opponenty Condemned: for Sodom (12). Their sin is very grievous (Gen. 18: 20), We will destroy tuis place (Gen. 19: 18). It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon, ....than for you (Luke 10: 14). 11, Their Hearers Honored: He that hearoeth you heareth me (186). Matt. 10: 40), As ye did it unto one of thess,.. did it unto me (Matt. 25: 40), My sheop hear my voioe, ard they fol Lr me (John 10: 27), Heo that receiveth me receiveth him thas sent me (John 13: 20). © 11. Their Rejectors Dishonored: a that rejecteth you rejecteth me » urings are us, EL red (acl 01 ye thee, but § me (1 Bam. 8B: 73 Agr ye did it not unto one of {) | not unto me ( Matt 45). that rejecteth Fei ik more r for Bcdom.” 1; (2) A fearful wom more foarf would have ATs, Bn, in Ac- November of aa Ine PD. 29 Ne Year w--Our Lord; seventy of his PEXTS. —- 1 he seventy are sent out to our Lord. are: prayer for labor- no provision for the journey; 1 1 salnte it; if received, re; if received ina place, ; if rejected, signal i dust [le fearful per nis forth nd two, nrecede The CHioDs given se Al i i ieact ing off the yeet sel ———— Stock ing ings, Egyptian 4 stockings knitted mate ght ono brown h the work little thicker than we for the same purpose, and the knitting is loose elastic The stocking ix begun just as we make design, only tu the plest m ith single thread; b f the work it bat fanciful ae of the stocking, prevents the rolling up of the work, 1s aarrow, consisting of a row of turned up loops; and the circle, the nicely shaped heel, which is a hittle different from our method, show a very skilfal hand. But in the point of the stoeking ther is a characteristic difference botween the Egvptian siockings sod modern socks, While onre end In a rounded ptian stockings ran out in two large tubes of equal widtn, hike the fingers of a glove. Ths strunge shape is made to suit the sandals, whieh are furnished with a strap fodened about the middle of the sandal, and =» the strap head to be laid over the stock Aare i & YEry « mauner, and the ml, fine wool of sheep, that n have been white, is now Ad The needles with wh was done must have been a ever with shonld choose and fhe sim anner, w inthe © imusiion « not simply plan, usual border f which cm ss “Now, children,” said the good wan, “1 have told you where the good Loys go and where the bad boys go. Which would you choose?’ “Please, sir. 1% rather go to the cir. cus,” answered the little fellow in the back seat, We ———— 4 A LITTLE girl, feeling a sharp Pain in her neck, was told that it was ‘a stitch in her neck.” “Why, she ex- claimed, with a terrified look, “are our heads sewed on?’
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