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RU. DR. TAMAGE
The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject : “The Prodigal Son."
TEXT: “When he wasyel a great way oft
his rather saw him, ai had compassion
on him, and ran, and fell on his neck, and
Hissed him.”"—Luke xv,, 20
One of the deepest wells that inspiration
ever opened is this well of a parable which
wre can never exhaust, The parable, I sup-
we, was founded om facts, 1 have de-
scribed to you the going away of this prodi-
&al sop from his father's house, and I have
shown you what a hard timed had down in;
the wilderness, and what a very gréat
mistake it was for him tw leave so beautid
ful a home for such a miserable desert.
But he did not always stay in the wilder
ness; he came back after a while We da
not read that his mother came to.greet him.
i suppose she was dead. Bhe would have
Deen the first to come out. The father
anuld have given the second kiss to the re-
turning prodigal; the mother the first. It
may have been for the lack of her example
and prayers that he became a prodigal.
Sometimes the fathar does not know how’
tO manage the children of the household. {
The chief work comes upon the mother.
Indeed, noone ever gets over the calamity
of losing a mother in early life, Still this
Fou man was not ungreeted when he came
CK.
However well appareled we may be in the
morning when we start outon a journey, be-
fore night, what with the dust and ths
Jostling, we have lost all cleanliness of ap
rom the swine trough, was ragged and
wretched, and his appearance, after he had
gone through days of journeying and ex-
posure, you can more easily imagine than
describe, As the people see this prodigal
coming on homeward, they wonder ain
is. They say: *‘I wonder what prison he
has broken out of. I wonder what lazaretto
he has escaped from. I wonder with what
plague be will smite the air.” Although
these people may have been well acquainted
that this is the very young man who wentoff
only a little while ago with quick step, and
ruddy cheek, and beautiful apparel. The
voung man, I think walks very fast. Hs
The
thing very important.
wonder where
They look at him. They
came from,
ing to.
fou have heard of a son who went off to
sea and never returned.
such conclusion, They would go by the
is off upon the water, expecting to see the
sail that would bring home the long absent
boy. And so I think this father of my text
sat upon the wine looking out toward the
the father has changed very
we saw him last. His hair has
white, his cheeks are furrowed, his heart
is broken. What is all his bountiful table
have a decent coat? What ars all the sheep
on that hillside to that father when his pet
lamb is gone?
looking out on the road, and one day he be-
the hill;
lance of him he knows it is his recreant son.
o forgets the crutch, and the cane, and the
stiffness of the joints, and bounds away. I
think the sie all around are
They said: “Te is only a footpad.
somes old tramp of the road.
meet him.” he father knew better,
The change in the son's appearance could
nod hide
knew the boy. You know that persons of a
apt to indicates it in their walk.
reason the sailor always has a peculiar step,
amid the rocking
in his gait, even if he never went on the sea;
and we know from what transpired after-
ward, and from what transpired before, that
this prodigal son was of an independent and
frank wttire; and I suppose that the char-
characteristics of his walk.
father know him.
arms toward him; he brings his withered
And so the
long agony is over.
great way off, his father saw him, and had
com jon, and ran, and fell on his neck,
and kissed him."
Oh, do you not recognize that Father?
Who was it? It is God! I have no sym-
pathy with that cast-iron theology which
represents God as hard, severs and vindie-
Wve ood is i Bu shop yin loving, lenieat,
gentle, . , patient, an e flies
to our immortal rescue. Oh, that we might
realizes it. A wealthy lady in one of the
eastern countries was going off for some
time, and she asked her daughters for soma
memento to carry with har One of the
Saughtirs bicughs a marble tablet, beauti-
fully , and another daughter
Ino a beautiful wreath of flowers
I brought
here 1s fay heart, I haveinscribed it
with and wherever you
go with you.” The mother it as
the best of all the mementoss. Oh, that our!
souls might go out toward our Father; that
our hearts might be written all over with
the evidences of His kindness, and
that we might never again forsaks Him.
In the first place, I notice in this text the
father's eyesight; {n the second place, I no-
tice the father's haste; and, in the third
place, I notice the father's kiss,
To begin: The father's eyesight. “When
he was a great way off his father saw him.”
You have noticed how old :
1t a book off on the other
than they can close by.
whether this father could see well that which.
was near by, but I do know he could see
eat way off. *‘His father saw him.” Per,
ps he had been looking for the return of
that boy especially that day. 1 donot know.
but that he had been in prayer, and that
had told him that that day the recreant boy
would come home. ‘The father saw him a
Omir of Gols Sywight aan descry
w 's t can
we are coming Tk to Him?’ rhe
but
over
it will
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wward Him, Oh, no! Seelng you a greay
way off He would fly to the rescue, How long
does it take a father to leap into the middie
of the highway if his child be there nds
swift vehicle is coming and may destroy
him? Five hundred times longer than is
takes our heavenly Father to spring to the
deliverance of a lost child. “When he wae
& great way off his father saw him.”
And this brings me to notice the father's
haste. The Bible says he ran. No wonder |
He did not know but that the youug man
would change his mind and go back, o did
not know but that he would drop down from
exhaustion. He did not know but that ssfiee
thing fatal might overtake him before he gos
up to thedoorsill; and so the father ran. He
Bible, for the most part, ks of God as
walking. “In the fourth watch of the night,”
it says, ‘Jesus came unto them walking oe
the sea.” ‘He walketh upon the wings of
the wind.” Our first parents heard the voice
of the Lord, walking in the garden in the
cool of the day; but when a sinner starts
out for God the father runs to meet him, Oh!
if a man ever wants help it is when he tries
to become a Christian. The world says to
him: “Back with you. Have more spirit.
Don't bs hampered with religion. me
enough yet, Vait until you get sick. Wait
until you getold.” Satansays: “Back with
you: you are so bad that God will have noth-
ing todo with you;” or, “You are good
enoughand need no Redeemer, Take shine
ease, eat, drink and be merry.” Tea thon.
sand voices say: ‘‘Back withyou. God iss
hard master. The church is a collection ef
hypocrites. Back into your sims; back te
our evil indulgences; back to your prayer.
oss pillow, The silliest thing that a young
man ever does is to come home after he has
been wandering.” Oh, how much help a man
does want when ha tries to becomes a Chris
tian! Indeed, the prodigal cannot find his
way home to his father’s house alone. Un.
less some one comes to meet him he had bet.
ter have stayed by the swine troughs.
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When the tide comes in you might more
easily with your broom sweep back the
surges than you could drive back the ocean
of your unforgiven transgressions. What
Are we to fight the battle
alone, and trudge on with no ons to ald us
and no rock to shelter us and no word of
encouragement to cheer us! Glory be to
a ——— —
GLORIOUS SUMMER.
Nature's Babes in the Wood.
On the trees, the bushes, and under
the ground at this season are flowers
and leaves asleep, aud almost ready to
awaken, Dane Nature is nurse to
them all, and while they slept she has
kept them dry and warin.
If you pick a short branch from a
tree or shrub, you will see upon it, at
regular distances apart, little knobs or
humps, These are the buds of leaves
and blossoms which will soon awaken,
and unfold, and fill the earth with per-
fume and beau y.
If Jack Frost had got at them, or if
the cold rain had beaten on them, they
would have been blignted. So the buds
have been carefully protected all winter
from the cold, the damp, and the fierce
winds.
Each bud is wrapped up in a number
of little stiff scales, Often these scales
are coated with a sort of varnish which
keeps out the wet,
The buds of the horse chestnut are
“pitched without the piteh,” like the
floating cradle of the infant Moses.
They are quite sticky to the touch, and
shed water like the rubber coat.
Indeed, we may say
horse chestnut leaves
waterproof coats, for
wear fur-hned
the scales which
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and bent merely upon using work as a
stop gap until marriage comes to re-
lieve her, If, on the other hand, she
latter almost morbidly developed in
most of our educated women, she may
in the beginning make the mistakes of
inexpericnce, but according to the testi:
mony of many employers learns with
extraordinary speed and works with a
steady patience and fidelity that are un-
questioned.
COMPARATIVE MERITS,
of the same order among men,
methods which resuits from many cen-
ground.
In spite of this difference,
the number of women in business for
among them, save in
As a rule they do not
there failure
nature,
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lined with soft white down.
Many other buds are protected from
wet and cold In the same manner,
The tiny locust and sumach leaves
in yet another way, They are hid so
cleverly that Jack Frost cannot find
them, and it would puzzle us, also, to
find ‘hem unless we knew just where to
God, we have in the text the announcement:
“When ho was yet a great way off his fathes |
ran.” When the sinner starts for God, God |
starts for the sinner. God does not coms |
out with a slow and hesitating pace. The |
infinite spaces slip beneath His feet and He |
takes worlds at a bound. “The father ran.” |
Oh, wonderful meeting, when God and the
soul come together. “The father ran” |
You start for God and God starts for youn, |
and you meet; and while ths angels rejoice |
over the meeting your long injured Father |
passion and pardon. Your poor, wandering
sinful, polluted soul and the loving, etern
Father have met.
I remark upon the father's kiss. “He fall
‘on his neck,” my text says “and kissed
him.” Itis not every father that would |
‘have done that way. Some would have |
scolded him, and said: “Here, you went of |
with beautiful clothes, but now you are all |
in tatters. You went off healthy, and coms |
back sick and wasted with your dissipations™
He did pot say that, The son all haggard and |
ragged and flithy and wretched, stood before |
his father, The father charged him with |
none of his wanderings. He just received |
him. He just kissed him. His wretched
ness was a recornmendation to that father
love, Oh, that father's kiss! |
of Godd—the ardor with
receives a sinner back again |
tiveme a plummet, with which I may
fathom this sea. Give me a ladder with |
hich I can scale this height. Give me
words with which I can describe this }
Iho apostles say in one place “unsearci
shle;” in another, ‘past flading
Height overtopping all height: depth plung- |
ng beneath all depth; breadth compassing |
sll immensity !
| Oh, this love!
woves you. Don't you believe 1?
not done everything tw
ideo has given you
aome--the use
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love
Ve,
ou
God 20 loved the world, He |
Has He
» make you think sof |
life, health, friends |
of your hand the sight of
!
Ho has |
strewn your path with mercies. Hoe has fod
you, clothed you, sheltered you, defended
u all your
fife long. Don't you believe He loves you?
{Why, {f now you should start up from the
wilderness of your sin He would throw both
arms around Be. To make you believe that
ie stooped to manger and cross
With all the passions of His
holy nature roused He stands befors you to-
day, and would coax you to happiness and
heaven. Ob, this Father's kis! is so
much meaning and love and compassion in i%;
wo much pardon in it; so much heaven in it.
I proclaim Him the Lord God, merciful
oodness and truth. Lest you would not be-
ove Him He gues up Golgotha and while the
rocks are rending, and the graves are open.
ing. and the mobs are howling, and the sun
is hiding, He dies for you Ses Him! Bes
Him on*the Mount of Crucifixion, the sweat
<n His brow tinged with the blood exuding
from His lacerated temples! Seo His eyes
swimming in death! Hear the loud breath.
ing of the sufferer as He pants with a world
on His heart! Hark to the fall of the blood
from brow and hand and foot on the rocks
beneath—drop! drop! drop! Look at the
nails! How wide the wounds are! Wider do
they gaps as His body comes down upon
them. Oh! this crucifixion ny! Tears
melting into tears. Blood flowing into blood,
Darkness dro on darkness. Hands of
men joined with hands of devils to tear apart
the Juivering heart of the Son of God!
Oh, will Hs never speak again? Will thas
erimson face never light up n? He will
speak again; while the blood is suffusing His
brow, snd reddening His cheek, and i
uf on sot] and lip, and you think He fs
usted and cannot speak, He cries out un
til all the ages hear Him: Father, forgive
them, they know not what they do
there no emphasis in such a scens as that to
makes your be! 4. fo weep and your hard
heart break? ili you turn Ar Do upon
it, and say by your actions what the Jews
said by thelr words: “His blood bs on
and on our children?™ What does it
look,
Those of the sumach are sunk in the
until they begin to grow,
and those of the honey-locust are buried
deep In those humps from which the
thorns appesr to spring. Crocuses, an-
en.ones, daffodils, and all the other
have been protected
of soil and dead
out of the ground
under a covering
We have all read in
of
jar, If we look about us
done by any hedgerow.
These lilac buds are
the tip of a woman's
some of tl contain a spray with
several leaves, and from others there
will come a great spire of flowers,
The sticky horse chestnut buds will
open to Jet out into the sun four or five
great spreading leaves surrounding a
pyramid of blossoms,
How
these Is
no lounger than
little finger, yet
2th
ded away in
No shopman
could wrap parcels half so cleverly as
other Nature does, No French maid
mistress’s finery with
pature has shown
lossom or ten-
tnugly they are fe
le brown buds!
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wi
which
ix the folding of baby 1
der lcaf,
Girls know that dresses which have
in a drawer or trunk are creased when
they are taken out,
So are the leaves when they come out
Alter a
while the breezes will shake out all
these little wrinkles, but when the f6li-
age is new and fresh we can see them
plainly.
Some leaves have been rolled like
music in a portable case, or like a win-
dow shade around its roller. Some have
been tolded like fans, and some have
been doubled lengthwise down the
middle as a school girl folds her compo-
sition. May apple leaves come up Jook-
ing like closed umbrellas, and then open
just as umbrellas The crinkled
spring foliage is very pretty, and inter-
esting, too; for the crem: es show how
mother Nature contrived Lo get so many
leaves into so small a parcel,
And where is the food which has
been prepared for these awakening
buds? Growing leaves and flowers, like
growing children, need plenty of nour-
ishment, and Dame Nature has pro-
vided whole storehouses fuli of food
just such as young
blossoms need.
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Go.
food from little storehouses under the
ground. If wed'g up
the spring, before the
opened, we shall find
round and fat,
to shoot up so fast because
flowers have
it white, firm,
as a boy who is outgrowing all his
clothes, 1s doing it by means of nuonums-
bered breakfasts, dinners and suppers,
The blossom owes much of its beauty
to this siored food; and if the supply
were to give out the colors of the flower
would grow dim.
By the time the blossom dies the lit-
tie storehouses will be emptied, but
then the crocus will have formed long
leaves and will be able to gather enough
nourishment from the soil and the air
to satisfy all Its wants,
The lilac leaves grow so fast because
they are well fed on food which has
been saved on purpose for them all wine
ter long. It has been stored away just
under the bark, so that the lilac’s store-
house is in its branches.
All the boughs which have put forth
leaves and flowers are full of gum and
sap. There juices have been ‘saved up”’
all winter in the wood and bark, and
now they feed the swelling buds, the
unfolding leaves and the opening flow-
ers,
There is plenty for all, and each is
getting just the sort of food it needs,
or Nature, like a wise and loving
mother, guards the siumbers and pro-
vides for the wants of all her children,
Women In Business.
HELEN CAMPRELL,
To-day the business woman takes her
place; a fact that even a generation
ago could hardly have had existence,
Fa a sed gunersion, hi vongioy ofio
of presen last
ten yoars have place and
ins undreamed of
our grandmothers.
We have only to ask what the busi-
ness woman of to-day
she does her work; what are her
tions and her ties in
and how we are to sum up her status as
broken ground for themselves.
York are widows, in several cases per-
the
management of
ception they have weathered every
of which has failed to prosper. What-
ever shrinking may have been felt in
the beginning all
which are the heart of honorable |
mess life, whether for men or women
punctuality, sccuracy, and
absolute fidelity to every engagement.
-New York World.
—-——
despatch
About Slate Pencils.
In the northwestern part of the town
of Castleton, Rutland County, Ver-
mont, is the only manufactory of slate
pencils in the United Sts :
rock as it comes from the
sawed into blocks a
] These
split Into slabs a hittle
finished peneil,
sixties is of an inch.
through a planing machine
emery belt which
and sm ti. Next
to the jaws of a ms
* which oO
steel plates, in the
Are Six rows f
being
than the preceding one.
out parallel groves half
the 8l iby,
lad
which just
t
pencil is 10ng.
sacl Ip
Coase
#0 AR
he Sopus
which then
sto i
4
we
is
plate h
these groove
under the six rows of teeth
w hiv] the
'
CAVES
on 8
slides back
of another “crocodile,”
grooves on the other side
the pencils side by side.
then rounded and pointed by
them on an emery wheel, and one man
can thus sharpen about 8,000 a day.
This factory makes 30,000 pencils
daily, and gives employment to twenty-
five hands. We might wonder whore
#0 many pencils go, but when we con-
sider that there are one or two million
school children, and many of them
rather careless, and that siate pencils
are easily broken, there is no doubt
that the factory has its “hands full” to
supply the demand.
The old way of making pencils was
to saw them out square from the slab,
one by one. They were then boxed
and distributed among poor families,
who whittled them wn by hand for
about half a dollar a thousand.
Pencils are made from slate much
softer than the slates upon which they
are to be used, and very nice pencils
are made from soapstone. Shelfering
Arnis,
hh cuts
and
They Aare
holds
holding
Her First Class.
A lady who was passing the summer
in the country at a farm some miles
in her phaelon when
she had occasion to drive to a vil'age
half a dozen
ton Courier.
farmer's daughter made,
took the child into a shop and ordered
a glass of soda water for her, The
child, who had no idea at all what this
strange liquid might be, watched with
made the syrup foam in the giass, and
when it was given to her she bravely
set her small brown nose into the shin-
find much satisfaction in the drink une
til she came to the sweet syrup at the
bottom,
“Well, Araminta,” the lady asked as
the child set down the glass with a sigh
of satisfaction, **how did you like your
soda water?"
“Oh, thank you, marm.,’” was the
answer of the novice, *'1 liked the soda
waler first rate after I got through the
suds,”
Mus, Axxa Swen Oarnxa, principal
of the Kirk wood seminary for girls, near
St. Louis, Mo., has a novel method of
keeping her young ladies posted con-
cerning the of the temperance
BO Y over from Shate_own
watching o pors they are
report a state nr Jor Prahmt
they are allowed to cel the Lap
eveat by a festival of * tiem
their 4
ble
cream and oake.”
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in
1llinois, and Mrs,
of
Bele P. Roberts wero
present to them and the
| SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 1990,
| QUARTERLY REVIEW.
| TITLES AND GOLDEN TEXTS.
Gorpex Texr wor tHE QUARTER:
This is indeed the Christ, the Saviour
| of the world.—John 4 : 42,
| ———
| 1. CHRIST'S LAW OF LOVE.
As ye would that men should do to
| youn, do ye also to them likewise, — Luke
16:81.
II. THE WIDOW OF NAIN,
They glorified God, saying, That a
great prophet is Tisen up among us,
Luke T : 186.
III. PORGIVENESS AND LOVE,
We love him, because he first loved
us, —1 John 4 : 19,
Iv,
THE PARABLE OF THE BOWER,
i Take heed therefore how ye hear,—
Luke 8B : 1K,
V. THE RULER'S DAUGHTER,
Fear not: believe only, and she shall
be made whole, — Luke 8 : 50.
VI FEEDING THE MULTITUDE,
Jesus said unto them, 1 am the bread
of life.— John 6 : 35,
VIL. THE TRANSPIGURBATION,
And there came = out of the
cloud. saying, This is my beloved Son:
hear him.—ZLake 9 : 85,
THE MISSION OF
YOlioe
Vii THE SEVERTY.
Luke 10 :
THE GOOD
shalt le
Lev,
X. TEACHING TO PRAY.
unto vou, 11.
1X. SAMARITAN.
Thou
{ thyself.
wwe thy neighbe
19 : 18,
Ask, and it shall be given von; seek,
Louie
MAN
| opened unto you. 11 : 9.
v1
THE RICH 3 FOLLY.
beware of
consisteth
f the things which
Luke 12
Take heed, a
ness
nd covetous-
for man's life
abundance «
Resset hl,
A ——
BIBLE LIGHTS
Forassmuch as mans
in band to set forth
ion of th things x
ly believed among us
delivered
¢ beginning were ey
(td
ther
them
the certainty o
thou hast
1.4
i%
Gen
Love
n l.-Superin
say unto you
enemies, do
] them
that
: 97, 28).
As ve
you,
likewise (Luke 6 : 31
leachers: Christ
himself (Rom. 15 : 3).
All: Let each one of us please his
neighbor for that which is good, unto
edifying (Bom. 15 : 2).
ter
which Lear,
good to them that
that on Vi
despitefully use
lens
would that
lo ye also to them
y 10 ia
also pleased not
Lesson 2. — Superintendent:
when the Lord saw her, he had com-
wmasion on her, and said unto her,
. ep not. And he
touched the bier: and the bearers stood
still. And he said, Young man, I say
unto thee, Arise. And he
dead sat up, and began to speak. And
he gave him to his mother (Luke 7 :
13-5
Scholars: They glorified God, saying,
£3.
us {Lake 7 : 16). :
Teachers: Jesus said,
resurrection, and the life
ar
—-3
I am
{(Jobhm 11 :
”
of.
Christ (1 Cor. 15:
| Lesson 8.—Superintendent: Where-
| are many, are forgiven; for she loved
much: but to whom little is forgiven,
| the same Jovetn little. And he sad
{ unto her, Thy sins are forgiven (Luke
17 : 47, 48). ’
| Scholars: We love him, becsuse he
| first loved us (1 John 4 : 19),
Teachers: Herein is love, not that
| we loved God, but that he loved us,
and sent his Son to be the propitiation
| for our sins (1 John 4 : 10).
All: This is the love of God, that we
| keep his commandments (1 Joun 5 : 3).
| is the word of God. And those by the
cometh the devil, and taketh away the
| word from their heart, that they may
not believe and be saved. And those
on the rock are they which, when they
have heard, receive the word with joy;
and these have no root, whieh for a
while believe, and in time of tempta-
tion fall away. And that whioh fell
among the thorns, these are they that
have heard, and as they go om their
way they are choked with cares and
riches and pleasures of this life, and
bring no fruit to perfection. And that
in the good ground, these are such as
in an ad and good heart, having
heard the word, hold 1t fast, and brin
forth fruit with patience (Luke 8 : 11.
15).
Aeholae Take heed therefore how
ye hear (Luke 8 : 18).
Teachers: Be ye doers of the word,
and not hearers only, deluding your
own selves (Jas, 1 : 22),
All: Tesch me to do thy will; for
shou art my God (Psa. 143 : 10),
Lesson B.- Superintendent: While
he yet spake, there cometh one from
the ruler ot the synagogues house,
saying, Thy daughter is dead; trouble
not Master. But Jesus hearing it,
answered Mm (Luke 8: 49, 50)
Scholars: not: believe only,
she shall be whole (Luke 8: 50)
hee
thou
ole
they did eat, and were all filled; aud
there was taken up that whieh remnin-
ed over to them of broken pieces, twelve
baskets (Luke 9: 16, 17).
Seholars: Jesus said unto them, I am
the bread of life (John 6: 35).
Teachers: He that cometh to me
shall not hunger, and he that believeth
on me shall never thirst (John 6: 85),
All: Lord, evermore give us this
bread (John 6: 84),
Lesson 7.—Superinlendent: And ns
he was praying, the fashion of his
countenance was altered, and his rai-
ment became white and dazzling. And
behold, there talked with him two
men, which were Moses and Elijah;
who appeared in glory, and spake of
his decease which he was about to ace
complish at Jerusalem (Luke 9: 20.41),
Beholars: And there
{ out of the cloud, saying,
loved Son: hear him (Luke 9
Teachers: He received from God the
Father honor and glory, when there
came such a voice to him from the ex-
cellent glory, ....when we were with
{ him in the holy mount (2 Pet. 1: 17;
1 18).
All: We onughi to ¢g
earnest heed to the things that
heard, lest haply we drift away
them. (Heb, 2:1).
Lesson Superinte 3d
| after these things the Lord
{ seventy others, and sent them 1
| two before his fac: into ev
| place, whither he hims
| And he said :
| harvest is } lenteous, but
are few; pray ye therefore
| the har vest, tha
| into his harvest i
Beholars: The kingdd
| come nigh unto you (Luke 10
{ Teachers: Verily, verily, 1
! thee, Except a man be born
cannot see the kingdom of
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came where he was; and
him, he was moved
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and he set him on his
brought him to an inn,
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teeth up his
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of yor a father i
a loaf, and he give In
sh, and he for a fish
Or if he shall
give him a BO
| then, being evil, know how to give
| good gifts unto your children, how
much more ll your heavenly Father
| give the Holy Spirit to them that ask
him? (Luke 11: 11:-13).
Scholars: Ask, and it shall be given
you; seek, and ye shall find; knock,
{ and it shall be cpened unto von (Luke
11: 9).
Teachers: For every one that asketh
receiveth; and he thst seeketh findeth;
| and to him that knccketh it shall be
| opened (Lake 11: 10).
All: If we ask anything according to
| hus will, he heareth us (1 John 5: 14).
Lesson 11. — Superintendent: And
one out of the multitude said unto
him, Master, bid my brother divide the
inheritance with me. But he said unto
{ him, Man, who made me a judge or a
| divider over you? (Luke 12: 13, 14).
Scholars: ‘L'ake heed, and beware of
covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth
not in the sbundance of the things
which he possesseth (Luke 12: 15).
| Teachers: Thou shall not covet
(Exod. 20x 17).
All: Lay up for yourselves treasures
{in heaven, where neither moth nor
| rust doth consume, and where thieves
{do not break through nor steal; for
| where thy treasure is, there will thy
| heart be also (Matt. 6: 20, 21).
{ Lesson 12.— Superintendent: Con-
| sider the lilies, how they grow; they
| toil not, neither do they spin; yet 1 say
unto you, Even Solomon in all his
{glory was not arrayed like one of
these. But if God doth so clothe the
grass in the field, which to-day is, and
| to-morrow is cast into the oven; how
| much more shall he clothe yon, O ye
| of little faith? (Luke 12: 27, 28).
Scholars: Your Father knoweth that
| ye have need of these things (Luke 12:
1 303.
| Teachers: Like as a father pitieth
| his children, so the Lord pitieth them
that fear him (Psa. 103: 13).
All: Behold what manner of love the
Father hath bestowed upon us, that we
should be ealled children of God; and
such we are (1 Johan 3: 1).
Wanx the younger Dumas’s play “La
Dame Aux Camelins” was to be pro-
duced, he invited his imperial father
to sit in a box with some friends. The
old man pooh-pooched at the idea, but
be went. After the first act he remark.
ed: *"So-s0; 80-80,” in a good-natured.
In stical way; and at the end of
e second, “Well, welll” At the end
of the third act, “I helped him write
it!" At the final curtain, “By St
Louis! I wrote it myself!”
Dumas was invited to see a friend's
edy. Atthe end of the second acthe
at the author's sleeve and point.
3d. at oy man in the Bin Jou
m stage. tragedy
night. On the allowing Monday night
one of Dumas’s tried true
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