REV. DR. TALMAGE.
The Breokiyn Divine’sSunday
Sermon.
Subject : “All Troubles Past."
Text: “There was a rainbow round
about the throne." — Revelation iv, 3.
As, after anight of fearful tempest at sea,
one ship, more stanch than another, rides on
undamaged among the fragments of spars
and hulks that float about, so old Noah's ark,
at the close of the deluge, floats on over the
wreck of a dead world. Looking out of the
window of the ark, you see the planks of
houses, and the sheaves of wheat, and the
carcasses of cattle and the corpses of men.
No tower is left to toll the bu , ho mourn-
ers to form in line ef procession, no ground
in which to bury tha dead. Binking a line
twenty-seven feet long, you just touch the
tops of the mountains. Ghastliness and hor-
rori The ark, instead of walking the sea,
like a modern ship, in majesty and beauty,
tosses helplessly; no helm to guide; no sail to
sot; no shore to steer for. Why protract the
agony of the good people in such a craft,
when they might in onedash of the wave
bave been put out of their misery?
But at yonder spot in the horizon we see
colors gathering in the sky. At just the op-
posite point in the horizon other colors are
gathering. I find that they are the two but.
tresses of an arched bridge. The yellow, the
red, the orange, the blue, the indigo, the
violet, are mingled, and by invisible hands
the whole structure is hung into the sky, and
the ark has a triumphal arch to sail under,
An Angel of Light swings his hand across
the sky, and in the seven prismatic colors he
paints with pencil of sunbeam the everlast-
A
that the most beautiful things of earth will
bo kept either in the wall, or the foundation,
or in the rainbow round about the throne.
I notice the unspeakable attractiveness of
heaven. In other places the Bible tells us of
the floor of heaven—the waters and the
stones and the fruits; but now St, John tells
us of the roof—the frescoed arch of eternity
and the rainbow round about the throne,
Get a ticket and, carefully guarded, you go
into the royal factory at Paris, where the
Gobelin tapestries of the world are made, and
soe how, for years, a man will sit potting in
andout a ball of colored worsteds through
the delicate threads satisfied if he can ina
day make so much as a fluger's breadth of
beauty for a King's canopy. But behold
how my Lord, in one hour, with His two
hands, twisted the tapestry, now swung
above the throne into a rainbow of infinite
glory. Oh, what a place heaven must be!
ai AY ae Ue ¢ hdd
we WO die a,
morning take one glance at the eailing.
I notice what must be the feeling of safety
among the people of heaven, Have you ever
seen a cloud burst! There have been days
when it rained as if it would never stop.
You knew if it kept on in that way long all
the nations would be drowned; yet you had
no apprehension, for you remember the Bow
of Promise painted on the cloud in Noah's
time, So the glorilled have but to look
to the arch around the throne of the King
to be reassured that the deluge of trial is for-
over past,
On earth the deluge of sin covers the tops
of the highest mounising. I heard an Al
pine Faide, anid the most stupendous evi
dences of God's power, swear at his mule as
he stumbled in the pass, Yea the deluge o
sin dashes over that mol tha! {vtrngt 1 pat
ranges, Mevenge,
Caden
arunkenness 1m-
piety, falsehood, bissphomy are but different
waves of a flood that has whelmed nations.
New York is drowned in it, Brooklyn is
drowned in it, Boston is drowned in it, Lon-
don is drowned it it, Bt. Petersburg is
drowned in it—two great hemispheres are
ing covenant between God and every living |
creature. God lifted up that great arched |
bridge and set it over Bis own head in the |
heaven. John saw it, for he says: “There |
was a rainbow rotind about the throne.”
I notice that none but the people who were |
in the ark saw the rainbow. Ifcast its shadow
clear down into the water where the people |
were buried, and lighted up the dead faces |
with a strange radiance, but they could not |
soe it. So only those who are at last found |
in Christ, the Ark, will see the overspauning |
glories of the throne. Hence you had better |
get into the ark! As you call your family out |
at the close of the shower to show them the |
sign in heaven, so [ want you all at last to see |
the grander rainbow round about the throne. |
“Look there!” said Noah to his wife, “at that |
bow in the clouds; snd, Shem and Japhet,
look! look l—the green, the yellow, the red, |
and the orange! I poslT pron wonder if |
some of your children in the good land should |
after a while cry out to you, “Look, father!
look, mother! there is a rainbow round about |
the throne” You had better get into the
ark, with all your families, if you want to |
seq it.
i noticed also that the chief glory of God |
«0mes after the rain. No shower, no rain |
bow; no trouble, no brightness of Christian |
consolation. Weavers are sometimes by |
reason of their work, dusty and rough in |
their apparel; and so it is the coarse clad tem- |
pest, whose hand and foot swing the shuttle,
that weaves the rainbow. Many Christians |
are dull and stupid and useless, because they
have not had disaster enough to wake them
up. The brightest scar! that heaven makes
is thrown over the shoulders of the storm.
You cannot make a thorough Christian life |
out of sunshine alone. There are some very |
dark hues in the ribbon of the rainbow; you |
must have in life the blue as well as the |
orange. Mingling all the colors of the for-
mer makes a white light; and it takes all
the shades and sadnesses and vicissitudes of
life to make the white lustre of a pure Chris
tian character, 7
sour child asks you: “Father,
inakes thé rainbow? and you say: “it is
the Sn striking through the rain
drops.” serefore | wondered how there
could be a rainbow in heaven since thare
arene storms there; but then | Soficlude that |
that rambow must be forfned by the striking
of heaven's sunlight through the falling
tears of earthly sorrow, When we see a man
overwhelmed with trouble, and his health
and bis property goes, and his friends
0, 1 say, “Now we shall see the glory of God
in this good man's deliverance.” As at Ni-
agara Falls I saw, one day, ten rainbows
spanning the awful plunge of the cataract,
#0 over the abyss of the Christian's trial
hover the rich hued wings of all the promises,
I notice that the most beautiful things of
this world are to be preserved in heaven
When you see the last color fade ont from
the rainbow of earth, you need not feel sad,
for you will see the rainbow round about
the throne. That story about the world
burning up has given me many a pang.
When 1 read that Paris was besieged, |
said: “Now the pictures and statues in the
Louvre and Luxembourg will be destroyed;
all those faces of Rembrandt and those
bold dashes of Rubens, and those enchant
ments of Raphael on canvas, and those stat-
ues of Canova.” Batis it not a more mel
ancholy thought that ruin is to come upon
this great ghey of the earth, in which the
mountains are the chiseled sculptures, and
upon the sky, in which the “transfiguration”
of sunrise and sunset is hung with loops and
tassels of fire?
I was relieved when I found that the pict
ures had been removed from the Louvre and
the Luxembourg, and am relieved now
whea I think that the best partsof thisearth |
are either to be removed or pictured in the
good land. The trees must twist in the Insg
fire—the oaks, andthe cedars and the maplesy |
but in beaven there shall be the trees of His |
on the bank of the river, and the m trees
from which the con shall plock their
branches. The Hudson, and the St. Law- |
rence, and the Ohio shall boil in the last
flame, but we shall have more than their |
beauty inthe river of life from under the |
throne. The daisies, and the portulacas, and |
the roses of sarth will wither in the hot siroe- |
co of the judgment, but John tells of the gar- |
lands which the glorified shall wear; aod |
there must be flowers, or there could be no |
garlands. i
The rainbow on our sky, which is only
the pillow of the dying storm, must be re
moved; but then, glory be to God! “there is |
an rainbow round about the throne.” I have
but to look up to the radiant arch above the
throne of G " to assure myself that the most
glorious things of earth are to be preserved
in heaven, Then lat the world burn; all that
i+ worth saving will be suatched out of the
fire,
I sso thes same truth set forth in the twelve
foundations of the wall of heaven, 8t John
nnounces the twelve foundations of this
wall to be, the first, of jasper-—yeilow and
red; ths second, of sspphire-—a dup Mun:
ths third, a chalosdony--a varied ty:
tho fourth, em wf bright green
color; the fifth, sardonyx-—a bluish
white; the sixth, sardias--red and ; the
saventh, chrymolite—golden hued; the th,
baryl--a bluish green; the ninth, topaz-—a
pale green mized with yellow; the tenth,
CHrYIOPrass—a bluish tint; the
sioventh, jacinth-— as the sunset; the
twelfth, amethyst. But these
are only the [i
Von ihe
what
Throne of
You see
are the robes of glory to our earth are to be
{raver preserved in this wall of heaven,
Cul skies of blues, which
drowned in it. Bat the redeemed, looking
unto the “rainbow round about the throne”
we the pledge that all this is ended for them
forever. They have committed their Inst
sin and combated their last temptation. No
srofanity befouls that pure air; no villian's
aand shall strike down those sons of God.
They know that for them the deluge of sin
#® assuaged, for *‘there is a rainbow round
sbout the throne.”
Now the world is covered with a deluge of
slood. The nations are all the time either
using the sword or sharpening it The fac.
tories of the world are night and day manu.
facturing the weaponry of death, Throne
agninst throne, Empire against Empire. The
spirit of despotism and freedom at war in
every land; despotic America against free
America, despotic England against free Eng-
land, despotic Germany against free Ger.
many, despotic Austria against free Austria,
The great battle of earth is being fought-—
the Armageddon of the nations, The song
that unrolled from the sky on the first
Christmas night, of “peace and good will to
men,” is drowned in the booming of the great
siege guns. Btand back and let the long line
Groan to groan. Un-
cover, and look upon ths trenches of the dead.
Blood! blood l—a deluge of blood!
Jut the redeemed of heaven, looking
the glorious arch that spans the throne, shall
seo that the deluge is over. No batteries are
planted on those hills; no barricades blocking
those streets; no hostile flag above those
walls; no smoke of burning villages; no
shrieks of butchered men; but peace! Ger.
upon
teriocked in hate on the fleld of death now,
through Christ in heaven, stand with arms
interlocked in love, Arms stacked forever:
shields of battle hung up. The dove instead
of the eagle; the lamb instead of the lion.
There shall be nothing to hurt or destroy in
all God's holy mount, for there is a rainbow
round about the throns,
Now theearth is covered with the deluge
of sorrow. Trouble! Trouble! The very
first utterance when we come into the
world is a ery. Without any teaching, we
learn to weep. What has so wrinkled that
man's face? What has so prematurely
whitened his hair? What calls out that
sigh? What starts that tear’ Trouble!
trouble! 1 find it in the cellar poverty,
and far up among the heights on the top
of the crags; for this also hath gone over
the tops of the highest wounfping No es
e rom it. You go into the store, and
it meets yon at your counting desk; wou go
into the street, and it meets you at the
corner; you go into the house and it meets
on at the door. Tears of poverty! tears
persecution! tears of bereavement! -—a
l of tears! Gatherad together from
they could float an ark larger
f
of
ape
arth,
lorified,
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to the Low
shall see that the de
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no blind man at the gate of the
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Mrs. Paxton's Quilting.
BY J. TL. BARBOM,
“I'he quilt itself! was a double nine-
pateh, and I had it quilted in a feather
and herrin’-bone pattern,” said Mrs.
Paxton, when she told me the story
that I now tell to you in her own
words.
“It was one of the purtiest quilts
vou ever saw-all red, green, yellow and
purple and pink calico set together
with white, with a set-on border, a red
vine with green leaves. There was
just three thousand nine hundred and
ninety-nine pieces in that quilt.
“'d taken uncommon pains j'inin’
the pieces together and cuttin’ them
took the premium six times hand run-
nin’ to our connty fair.
“I wanted it quilted well, so I didn’t
make areg'lar quiltin’ over it, but just
invited in four or five of the best quilt-
ers in the neighborhood one day, and
the rest I quilted myself; and it took
me the better part of a month to do it.
Them feathers 1s such slow work.
“Melissy Grant was the best and
tongue was as fast and sharp
needle, But she
said
say
she never
stayed riled, and
wouldn't
one's back what she
their faces,
“Then there was Mahaly Hicks,
was "most as good a quilter as Melissy.
to
but Melissy was a
on
lines,
better
on straight
mite
was mighty techy
nd so was Melisay, and
o
m,
“Lucindy Marks came in about third
of ‘em
ina hurry some of
her stitehies would be a leetle bit long.
“Then there was Mandy Martin and
.h
hl life of
x1
8ii
sowin's
tty Mitchell was the
and carpet rag
4 '
iitin's
sharp as tacks, and
-
not come, on account
“Mandy Martin's rhenmatism broke
out the day before and crippled her
she couldn't come, but
er four came. Mahaly Hicks
got there first and had just set down to
80
the oti
“Come right in, Melisay,' save |
little ahead of wou,
can keteh up with
“Neither of "em said a word, although
it at the time;
off her bonnet and
and to work
fly.
“| didn't keep any help then, and,
notice
aid
sot d
went
wn
was mighty pertickler "bout her
dinner, and 1 was so busy in my kitch-
ut there
and needls .
£0 into the room
he quilt was, until Calisty
nile
BOON AS
and
aun
Hoff
ft my pie making and
I'd got Melissy thread
1 didn’t
t
softin'
came, he
“I noticed that Calisty looked
: ] Mah
quilt,
RaW
time I
1 1
needle and laying
was :
off a pl ACH
yellow, and rad, and green, and blue, and
orange, and indigo, and violet: “They shall
hunger no mors, neither thirst any more;
neither shall the sun light on them, nor any
heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of
the throne shall feed them, and shall lead
them unto living fountains of waters, and
God shall wipes away all tears from their
eyes.” Thank God for the glory spanning
In our boyhood we had a superstition that
at the foot of this rainbow of heaven there
is a box made out of the wood of the cross
Open it, and you find all the treasures of
heaven,
Oh that our eyes ma
bow of promise, lifted by Christ's own hand!
We shall trase the separate lines of beaut
across the firmament. In the line of red
shall soe the blood of my Lord; in the blue,
ven, the freshness of His grace; in the vio
et, His humility; in all that curve of beauty,
the bend of His right arm of Jove swung
over all the redeemed.
But mind what I told you at the Hogla,
ning, and what I tell you at the close—that
vone but Noah's family in the ark saw the
rainbow, and only those who are at last
heaven,
wExoopt a man be born again, he cannot
soe the kingdom of God.”
It 18 stated that the new UGlerman
Chancellor, General von Caprivi, is of
Italian origin, as his name reveals
The family Caprivi during the Middle
Ages, inhabited the ancient Duchy of
Friuli. In the history of Goritz the
noble family of “De Caprive” is spoken
of, and on the banks of the Serra, near
(Gloritz, was the birthplace in the thir-
teenth century of many members of
that ancient family. They were thus
called by the name ‘‘Kopriva,” which
means “nettle,” and in their arms was a
braneh of that pliant. Later on the
Caprivis moved northward to Carinthia,
Styria, and Hungary, and received the
rank of Austrian nobles, with the pro-
perty and estate of Nessenthal, and in
the Austrian army many members of
the family distinguished themselves in
the wars against the Turks. The
Caprivis came into Prussia for the first
time when one of them married a Si.
lesian lady of the Lutheran faith and
established himself in Silesia, whose
son was the first to oh the ancient
name of Koprive von Noessenthal into
Caprivi, from the real head of the
house, who was called Caprivi di Monté-
ouculi,
Prov. Sorma Kovargvaxy, of Stock-
holm, was elected corresponding mem-
ber in mathematics by the Russian
Academy of Beiences at its recent an-
nual sitting.
Cremexcy for those we know is rarer
than pity for those we know not.
was
“While 1
“(Come right
but I'll trus a
blocks as any of ‘em by noon
right down here by Calisty.
“But 1 noticed that she
cheer and went clean to the other end
down with her
mouth shet hard and her black eves
snappin’. I smelt something burm
out in the kitchen just then and I ns
out to see to 1L. SMO thing else ke
me busy for some time, and when I
tine to think of it at all, thinks 1 to
me, ‘Well them women's mighty quiet
in there for women, speshly sich women
ns Melinay Grant and Callisty Hoff,
whose tongues gin'rally secoemed fasten
£ ve
took
her
oor
Bd
I
t
i"
when they got together.’
*1'd step near the settin’-room door
bat not a sound could 1 hear but the
needles entting through the stiff mus.
off threads. 1 listened asain and again
and not a word conld I hear.
I stepped into the room and I says,
ot] “Pears to me you'te dreadful
quiet in here.’
“Not one of ‘em said a word.
“You'd ort to be more sociable,’ I
says, but they jest set there with their
eves fastened on their work,
“J took a needle and set down
quilted half an hour with ,em and
and
me. Then I had to go out and put my
turkey in to roast, and while I was
'tendin’ to 1% some one rode up to the
gate and oalled out, ‘Hello!" and I went
out and there was Peter Ripley, a
gossipy old fellow who lived down to
the village, where all my quilters
lived.
“Haven't time to come in,’ said
Peter, ‘and this eritter o' mine won't
stand nobow. My wife wants to know
if you can bring her three pounds o'
butter Saturday ?’
“1 told him 1 was sorry, bot couldn't
spare much ‘canse I comp'ny.
“ « What comp'ny? asked Peter.
““Oh’ says I, ‘I'm having a little
quiltin’ to-day.
so yho you got? he asked, gossip-
o.
or alin Grant and Mahaly Hicks
and’ ee
“You don't say!’ s Peter with a
chuckle. hy
“And Oalisty Hoff and’
“‘Wuss and more of it,’ puts in
Tr.
“‘And Locindy Marks,’ I says,
“Why Abby Paxton,’ says Peter,
‘aint you beerd ?
“No, I says, ‘what do you mean?’
“Have thoy come yit? asks Peter,
and when I said they had, he asks,
‘How 're they making out?’
“They seem ruther qumet,’
says I
“Do they speak at all?’
“‘I do'no’ as they do,’ I was 'bleeged
to say.
‘Must be a jolly quiltin,’ says Peter,
and then he lay back on the seat of his
old buggy and laughed and laughed.
““Well, what is it?’ says 1, pretty
sharp, for Isee I'd got into some kind
of a muss,
“Why,” says Peter, ‘them four
women got into a fuss day before yes-
terday over some quarrel their children
had at school, and they all happened
to meet at the school house, and when
they parted comp’ny they all vowed
and declared they'd never speak to each
other again long as they lived and
breathed and kept their senses, and
here you've gone and got them identi-
kle four women shet up together in a
room, and air going to keep 'em there
all day!”
““An’ that man jest lay back laugh-
ing.
“You'd better turn them loose or
there'll be damage done,’ says Peter
ns he driv away, chuckling to himself,
to spread the news.
“Well, I felt terrible. We lived on
a farm a mile from the village, and
I hadn't heerd a word about the fuss,
I went back to the house and there
they set, their needles fairly flyin’
tongues still, which must
Q
seemed to be
under it, and
f giving
of
they
well
not one of "em showed signs
in.
‘“1f one of them wanted the thread
and Calisty, but
a
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
BUNDAY,JURKE 22, 13%),
Trust in our Heavenly Father,
LESSON TEXT.
(Luke 12 : 22.34. Memory verses. 27.28,
LESSON PLAN.
Toric or THE QUARTER:
Saviour of Men,
Goroex Texr ror THE
This is indeed the Christ,
of the world. —John 4 ; 42.
Jesus the
(QUARTER :
the Saviour
Lesson Toric Words on Trust,
{1
1 wd, JH,
i 9% Wha £3 ide ve,
LEBSON OUTLINE: { = What to Consider,
{ 8 What
24
2,
What to Bhun, vs. 22,
SG Sh
to. Beek, vs, 3
7)
Gorpex Texr: Your Father know-
eth that ye have need of thene things, —
Luke 12 : 30,
Dany Home READINGS ©
M. Take i.
trust.
T.—Matt,
trust.
W.—Psa. 34
his people.
T.~Psa. 387
Lord.
F. Psa. 3
couraged,
8.—Psa, 46
trust,
8.-Phil. 1
trial.
Words
12 : 228 on
:
9-04,
6 : 1 Words
1-10.
in
1-20. Trust
Trust
~
!
Trusting
and it happened to be at the other end
“So {rt went on until
had dinner,
joky kind of a man, and he made
lively at the table that we slong
first-rate, but when he'd gone and the
women had gone back to the quilt they
as the grave.
noon,
it 80
got
was silent
“J kept talking in to one or the
other of them as I washed the dishes,
and they'd answer back sprightly
enough, but never rd
other,
“Soon ss I'd done my dishes
in and set down to the quilt wit)
rest of them, and just
Hoff, Calisty's husband drove
his way to mill. He had their little |
four vear old girl with him and he said
he guessed he'd leave her with Calisty
as it looked some like rain.
“So the little girl come in
to playing ‘round with my li
who was "bout the same age.
run out into the vard, and ‘fore
minutes Hatlie came rmnning in,
screamed out, ‘OO mammal
fell in the well!’ ;
“Well, you'd onght to have
women
1
ana
a Wi
on
and went
le Hattie
1 hey
fen
and
She
£4
it
Jani
heard
They
made
them four tongue-tied
all give a yell simultaneons,
a rush for the door, and me
them.
“The well
deep with a |
There was a dr
by the side of
had elin
en pail and
s
was sbout twer
yw carb
v Le due oo
iLKing
the
ed
over 10
aver
fill
Janie od on to a tip]
reac ho
well
1
wood i
the 1
shige
ivy head Come up
just as we got to the cmd
5
frills, she 3g
3 akiris around her, clim ove
b, and down she slid on ths
bucket that was in the well.
eo went clean out of sight at first
but the next minute her head popped up
sf the water, and she drew herself
» by the rope ‘bout afoot wth one
little
alg
uy
arm while she clutched at
her other 1 and.
he well was only ‘pout three feet
to get her
Janie
across, and Melissy managed
foot inone of the cracks ‘tween
rocks with her back to the
wall: but most of her and of Jante,
was in the water.
“Blow the dinner horn {
saves, and I run and got the horn
blowed and blowed as if the house
mn fire. My husband and his
Of wite
too,
slie
and
Wan i
hire
and Melisey out all right, but the child
was limp as a rag, and we all though
she was dead.
‘Roll her over a bar’l
water out,’ says Melissy, without mind-
ing herself, and her hands were
and bloody, too, because of the rope
and the rocks.
“Janie's all right,
Lecindy.
rightn
ey }
isty.
y now.”
J indy? O Mahaly," says Cal
and 1 declare if they didn't make up
or lost time! Calisty was all right in
ten minutes, and she fairly cried over
Melissy's bruised hands, and would
bandage them up herself. Janie come
‘round well as ever by night, and for
three hours them women all talked at
once and they was sweet nas sugar to
each other, —sugar wouldn't have melt.
ed in their mouths,
“I got an early supper,and they went
home afterward, Lucindy and Mahaly
arm in arm and Ouslisty and Melissy
each holding a hand of little Jame, and
I never knew of ‘em having any quar
rels after that." Youth's Companion. 4
Gurapsroxe’s Gregx.—A professor of
ilosophy in Alexandria, Mr. Base-
fn y sent to Mr, Gladstone, a
=» 1 You and el ith b gp
nt aocom n
letter. To this Mr. Gladstone replied
in a letter within, ih slew Grek, abd
robabl n a breath r
Gladstone's famous post-oard style.
Tuune is no dampness so oppressive
———
LESSON ANALYSIS.
I. WHAT TO BHUN,
i 1. Shun Anxious Care:
| Je not anxious for your life;
yet for your body
a
My
ast thy burden upon the
1.0
me Ey
she) nde a
Be not anxi
or drink
Which of ¥
| one cubit? (Matt 27
In nothing be anxious (Phil. 4 : 6).
il. Shun Minor Pursuits:
fife i858 more than the food, and the
body than the raiment (223
Fret not
evil-doing (Psa.
Why are ye anxious concerning raim
{ nt? Matt, Hh:
Seek ve first his
sdded
what ent,
Matt,
us ve
HILO)
6:2
an)
kingdom;
Matt. 6
ww In
ano ase
a9
33).
the
Luke
things shall be
man’s consisteth n
abundance he p
12 : 15).
iil. Shun Worldly Concern:
These things do the nations of the
world seck after (3
He shall never suffer
be moved (Psa. 55
Be not ANXIOUS, &8
we eat? (Matt. 6: 31
After all these things do
sock (Matt, 6: 82).
But thon, O man of God,
things (11 6:11
1, “Be not anxious for your life.”
Anxiety prevalent; {2
useless; (3) Anxiety wrong.
. “The life is more than the foo
and the body than the raiment.”
(1 I fo the
(2) 1 the bi
i
God's
A
life
he righteous to
ing, What shall
the Gentiles
floe these
in.
»
asiment inferior
ood inferior to
grand bestowment
Man's foolish concern.
“For all these things do the
tions of the world seek after.”
5 y. . y
ling: (2; Things non-imporiact «
the Christian
15. WHAT TO CONSTD
ER.
the Birds:
Tavens,
i. Consider
Consider the
them (24
Who provide
Job 38: 41
Thon satisfiest the desire of
living thing (Psa. 145: 16).
He giveth food the
ravens which ery (Psa. 147: 8).
Behold the birds; your heavenly
Father feedeth them (Matt. 6
il, Consider the Flowers:
Consider the lilies, how they grow
=
Seedtime and
cease (len, 8
I will give grass in thy
cattle (Deut. 11: 15).
The earth bringeth forth her bad (Isa
61: 11
Solomon in all his glory was not array-
ed like one of these (Matt, 6: 20),
itl. Consider Yourselves:
How much more shall he clothe
(28),
| Are not ye of much more value than
they? (Matt. 6: 26).
Shall he not much more clothe you?
(Matt. 6: 30),
{| How much more shall your Father
give good things? (Mate, 7: 11).
How much more shall your heavenly
Father giv? (Luke 11: 13).
1. “Consider the ravens.” (1) Their
complete improvidence; (2) Their
undonbted interiority: (3) Their
sure maintenance.
2. “Why are ye anxious concerning
the rest?’ (1) That for which we
do not take thoaght; (2) That for
which we should pot take thought.
3. “How much more shall he clothe
you?” (1) Clothing the grass; (2)
Adorning the lily; (3) Defending
the saint.
111, WHAT TO SERK.
I. Seek the Kingdom of God:
Seek ye lis kingdom, and. these
things shall be added (31).
1 have siso given thee that which thou
hast not asked (1 Kings 3: 13).
Seek ye first his kingdom, and his
righteousness ( Matt, 6: 33).
The kingdom of God is. ... righteous
ness and (Rom, 14: 17).
Godliness with contentment is great
gain (1 Tim. 6: 6).
11. Seek Repose in God:
Fear not;. . . .it is your Father's good
leasure to give 8).
t is not the will of your Father, ...
jim ons of theso....perish (Matt.
: 14) i
They shall never perish (John 10: 28).
He which Dagan a good work in yon
will perfect it (Phil. 1: 6).
You, who by the power of God are
(1 Pet, 1: 5). ;
111. Seek Treasure in Heaven:
for yourselves. ...treasure in
the heavens (33), ;
Lay up for ves treasures
God feedeth
TE
ih for the raven his food
every
&
a
young
aa
barvest shall not
Bi
a Ju
you
as the dampness of a crying woman,
*
heaven ( 6: 20), +
EERO Ft.
Thou shalt Lave treasure
{ Matt. 19: 21).
Laying 2h 8 good {foundation
against the time to come (1 Tim. 6:
19).
Into an inheritance
away (1 Pet. 1. 4),
1. “Beek ve his kingdom, and these
things shall be added.” (1 The usual
objects of search; (2) The proper
objects ot search; (3) The generous
rewards of search.
“Fear not, little flock.” (1) Fee-
bleness recognized; (2) Fearfulness
forbidden; (8) Victory assured.
“Where your treasure is, there
will your heart be also.” (1) The
varions locations of treasure; (2)
The corresponding locations of
interest,
: etc
LESSON BIBLE READING.
EXCOURAGEMENTS TO THUST
God's loving-kindness (Psa. 36 : 7
God's goodness (Psa. 31 19 ;
3:7
God's bountifulness (1 Tim. 6
in heaven
that fadeth not
Nah
1 Pet, 5
Isa. 26 : 4
God's providence (Matt. 6
10
It brings prosperity (Psa. 52
It brings joy (Psa. 13 : 5 ; 33
emre—— a ————
LESSON SURROUNDINGS,
INTERVENING This
| follows last ©
| forms i
a
“3's
Ev: NTS
immediat Is
part of ti : ’
though addressed directly to the dis-
| ciples. The ;
| logical order snd yosition of
course was fully considered
| week. !
| Prace.—As
| naum, or in Perma,
Tive. —Either in the
{U. C. 78), that is, A,
| late autumn {November
| of A. U. C. 782, that is, /
Persons, Our Lord
ciples; the great multitud
{ present (comp. v.
IxcipesTs.
Lhe
ie
saline
anestion as 10 the iTORO~
belore; either
541.
The discourse is
ous apd on theme,
| closely parts of Matthew's
| report of the bermon on
| These important savings
| ly repeated.
| Pananresn
| Matthew 6 ; 25-33,
one
Passaon
The First Fire.
—
There
I now living on the
use of fire, urless
dwarf tribes of the
who are said to live 1s
monkeys, or to burrow
like moles and about whor
known with any certainty.
rudest of the savage tribes have
| found to be acquainted with
| producing fire; but there n
| bbe n
18
pr
"
i
Hithe
3st
a period in the world’
| when mankind was wholly without it,
and the Greek myth of Prometheus may
| tell of that far-off, fire .
Promethens, one of
| demi-gods, was
LIAVE
8 history
less age
the Titans
said to have had «
primeval men and
the apd to 1}
om Heaven, and, econcesl-
hollow cane, to havel nght
iown to earth, and g
nkind. Bat Zeus, thinkin
a gift for mer ]
wh it they wou
was very ¥
Prometheus to
or
m-
on their
| sufferings
stolen fire
ing it in
in
fr
Cold, Ave
a 3
Yen
g thn
é
20
i
8 24
rmented ial Preve
moans,
liver,
i i.
In the early hoenmician tradition
fire is ssid to have been invented.
the third generatic }
| rubbing pieces of wood
| it is also recorded tl
storm t
and
1st during a violent
{f the trees striking
k fire. The way to pro-
duce fire was probably found out by
some savage wate fires,
| and it can only have been after many
| fruitless attempts that he succeeded,
i and was thus the Prometheus of the
{ human race. Having once produced
| fire, he would soon find out that rub-
| bing was excessive labor, and that
| drilling was by far the best way; and
+ method now generally used
{ by savages. A heap of dry twigs is
| collected, and two pieces of wood are
| taken, and one of them scraped to a
| point, whilst a small hole is made in
! the other, which is laid on the twigs.
The pointed piece is then inserted in
| the bole, and twirled rapidly between
| the palms of the hands till sparks fl
| out: these are blown into a flame wit
| the month, and setting light to the
twigs a fire is soon kindled. So expert
| are savages at this that they can obtain
fire when it would be all butimpossible
| for a civilized man to do so. The
| original habitants of Ceylon will
| break an strow in two pieces, and
| pointing one, and making a hole in the
| other, produce fire from them. The
| binck natives of Anstralia can produce
fire very rapidly when they require it;
but they always keep a fire burning in
their encampments, and when they re-
move they carry with them a large
branch of a tree, ealled a “fire slick,”
lighted at one end, with which to make
a fire at their next camping-ground. —
Selected,
ne branches «
together fod
ng the forest
Canerovy observations and ecompari-
sons made by scientific Americans prove
that the hottest region on the earth is
on the south-western coast of Persia,
where Persia borders the gulf of the
same name, For forty consecutive
days in the months of July and Angnst
the thermometer has been known not
to fall lower than one hundred degrees
night or day, and to often run up as
hagh as one hundred and beenty.-sight
ia the ofterncon. At Bahri,
in the centre of the torrid part of the
torrid belt, as though it were natare's
{ntention to make the region as unbear-
ible, no water oan be obtain.
ng wells 100, 200, or even
a comparatively num.
erous contrive to live there,
thanks to Sohious springs which break
forth from bottom of the gulf, more
fhan a mile from shore. Aden was be