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
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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?’