BP CTRRRSRORR >, SC TI ae REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Brooklyr Divine's Sun- day Sermon. “Meeting Our Friends in Heaven” Text: *“Jeshall go to him."—I1 Samuel) xii., 28. There is a very sick child in the abode of David the King. Disease, which stalks up the dark lans of the poor and puts its staothering hand on lip and wvostril of tha wan and wasted, also mounts the palace stainy, and bending over the pillow blows into the face of a young Prince the frosty of pain and death, ‘tears are wine to the King of Terrors. Alas! for David the King, He can neither sleep nor eat, and lies trate om his face, weeping and wailing until the palace rings with the outery of woe, What are courtly attendants or victorious armies or conquered provinces under such circumstances? What, to any parent, is all splsadid surrounding when child is sick? ver days have passed on. There in that wept ho two eyelids are gently closed, two Histie hands folded, two little feet quiet, ome heart still. The servants coms to bear tidings to the King, but they cannot make up their minds to tell him, and they stand at the door whispering about the mat. tar, and David hears them and he looks up and says to them: “Is the child dead?’ *'Yes; he is dead.” David rouses himsel up, washes himself, puts on new ap- parel, and sits down to food. What power hushed that tempest? What strength was it that lifted = that King whom grief had dethroned? Oh, it was the thought that he would come again into the possession of that darling child. Nogravedigger's spade could hide him. The wintry blasts of death could not put out the bright light, There would be a forge somewhere that with silver hammer would weld the broken links. In a city where the hoofs of the pale horse never strike the pavement he would clasp his lost treasure. He wipes away the tears from his eves, and he clears the choking grief from his throat and exclaims: *I shall go to him.” Was David right or wrong? If we part on earth will we meet again in the next world? “Well,” says some one, ‘‘that seems to be an impossibility. Heaven is so large a piace we never could find our kindred there.” Going into some city, without hav- ing appointed a time and place for meet- inz, you might wander around for weeks and for months, and perhaps for years, and never seo sach other; and heaven is vaster than all earthly cities together, and how are you going to find your departed friend in that country? Itissovasta realm. John went up on one mountain of inspiration, and he looked off upon the multitude, and he said: “Thousands of thousands.” Then he came upon a greater altitude of inspiration and he looked off upon it again, and he said: ‘Ten thousand times ten thousand.” forty and four thousand and thousands of thousands.” And he cameon a still greater height of inspiration, and he looked off again and exclaimed: ‘A great multitude that no man can number.” Now I ask, how are you going to find your friends in such a throng as that? Is not this idea we have been entertaining after all a falsity? Is this doctrine of future recogni. tion of friends in heaven a guess, a myth, a whim, or is it a granitic foundation upon which the sou! pierced of all ages may build a glorious hope’ Intense question. Every beart in this audience throbs right into it, least one dead. Tremendous question. It makes the lp quiver, and the cheek flush, and the entire nature thrill. Shall we know each other there? I get letters almost every month asking me to discuss this subject. I get a letter in a bold, scholarly hand, on gilt-adged paper, asking me to discuss this question, and I say: “Ah, that isa curious man, and he wants a curious question solved.” But I get another letter, It is written with a trembling hand, and on what seems to be a torn out leaf of a book, and here and there is the mark of a tear, and I say: “Ob, that fs a broken heart, and it wants to be com~ forted.” The object of this sermon is to take this theory out of the region of surmise and speculation into the region of positive cer. tainty. People say: “It would be very pleasant if that doctrine were true. [ hope It may be true. Perhaps it is true. I wish it were true.” But I believe that I can bring ur accumulation of argument to bear upon this matter which will prove the doctrine of future recognition as plainly as that there is any heaven at all, and that the kiss of re- anion at the celestial gate will be as certain sx the dying kiss at the door of the sepul- sher Now, when you are going to build a ship must get the right kind of timber. You the keel and make the framework of the very best materials, the keelson, stanchions, plank shear, counter timber-knee, transoms, ali of solid oak. You may build a ship of lighter material, but when the cyclone comes onit willgodown. Now we may have a great many beautiful theories about the fu- ture world, bull! out of our own fancy, and they may do very well as jong as we have smooth sailing in the world, but when the storms of sorrow come upon us, and the hur. ricane of death, we will be swamped we will be foundered. We want a theory built outof the solid cak of God's sternal Word, The doc trine of future Facotition is not so often pos ftively stated in the Word of God as implied, snd you know, my friends, that that is after til, the strongest mode of affirmation. Your friend travels in foreign lands. He comes ome. He doss not begin by arguing with yon to prove that there are such places ay wndon and Stockholm and Paris and Dress diem and Berlin, bat his conversation implies it. And so this Bible does not so positively ctate this theory as, all up and down, its cunpiors take i for granted, Ve hat does my text imply? “I shall go to him.” What consolation would it be to David to go to his child if he would not know him? Would David have been allowed to record this anticipation for the of all nges if it were a ndless anticipation? We read in the first book of the Bible, Abra- ham died and was gathered to his people. Jacob died and was gathered to his people. Muses disd nud was gathered to his people, What people? Why, their friends, their com. re their old companions. Of conrss it means that. It caonot mean anything eles, So in the very beginning of the Bible four times that is taken for granted. The wt wr Testament is an arbor, over woe bis avcwrine coenpe Hike a luxnafent vine full of the purple clusters of consolation, « ames, John and Pater the mountain, A lght falls from heaven on rant mountain and lifts 1t into the glories of oolestial. Christ's garments w and His 1ace saines like the sun, Thedoor of heaven gxingaopen. Two spirits come down and allzht on that mountain. The disci hook them as Te {a i vy ty. 1birty os ago? Tie Bible indicates over and thet the angels know each other the Site says that we are to th» angeis, and if the ition shall i 3 i t hiv: ig Sn £2 ig So ———" a a . Tv thon face to face,” It “vill ba my purified, evthroned and glorified body gazing on your purified, enthroned and glorified body. Now I demand, if you believe the Bible, that you take this theory of future recogni tion out of the realm of speculation and sur« mise into the region of positive certainty and no more keep saying. “I hope it ix so, i have an idea it is so, I guess it is 80.” Beable to say, with all the concentrated energy of body, mind and soul, “I know it is so.” There are in addition to these Bible agru- ments other reasons why accept is theory. In the first place ause the rejeo- tion of it tmplies the entire obliteration of our memory. Can it be possible that we shall forget forever those with whose walk, look, manner we have been so long familinr? Will death come, and with a p, keen blade hew away this faculty of memory? Abraham said to Dives: ‘Son, remember." 1f the exiled and lost remember will not the enthroned remember? You know very wall that our joy in any clroumstanoe is augmented by the compans jonship of our friends. Wecannot see a pic ture with less than four eyes or hear a song with less than four ears, We want some one beside us with whom to ssdhangy glances and sympathies, and X sappous he joy of heaven is to be augmented by the fact that ‘we are to have our friends with us when there rise before us the thrones of the blessed, and when there up in our ears the jubilate of the saved, Heaven is not a contraction; itis an expansion. If:I know ou here I will know you better there, Here s0¢ you wita only two eyes, but there the woul shall have a million eyes. It will be im- mortality ing on immortality, ransomed spirit in colloquy with ransomed spirit, victor ide victor, When John Evans, the Sootch minister, was seated in his study his wife came in and said to him: “My dear, do you khink we will know each other in heaven? ‘He turned to her and said: “My dear, do you think we will be bigger fools in heaven than ‘we are here?’ Again I accept this doctrine of futare re- TENSE | rogunition because the world's expectancy af- {firms it. In all lands and ages this theory is | received. What form of religion planted it? | No form of religion, for it is received under { nll forms of religion. Then, Iargue. a senti. | iment, a feeling, an anticipation, universally i flamed, must have been God implanted, and | if God implanted it is rightfully implanted, Bocrates writes: “Who would not part with | bh great deal to purchase a meeting with Or. | pheus and Homer? If it be true that this is | £0 be the consequence of death I could even | be able to die often.” Cicero, living before Christ's coming, said: Oh, glorious day when I shall r""re from this | flivine assemblage of departed spirits, and | mot only with the one I have just now men- | tioned, but with my dear Cato, the best of { pons and the most faithful of men. | was by no means that [ did not most sensibly It was because | Il was supported by the consoling reflection | that we could not long be separated.” lieves it. The Greenlander believos it | The Swiss believes it. The Turk believes it Under every sky, by every river, in every | mone, the theory is adopted and so [ say a | implanted, and hence a right belief. The ar gument is irresistible, Again I adopt this theory because thers are features of moral temperament and feat. ever. How do we know each other in this world? Is it merely by the color of the eye, or the length of the hair, or the portions? Oh, no. Itis by the disposition | as well, by natural affinity, using the word | in the very best sense and not in the bad sense, and if in the dust our body should be no resurrection, still the soul has enough features and the disposition has enough feat. ures to raake us distinguishable. I can un. | derstand how in sickness a man will become so delirious that he will not know his own friends; but will we be blasted with such in- best friends for all eternity, we will never guess who they are’ Agunin, I think that one reason why we ought to accept this doctrine is because we never in this world have an opportunity to ve thanks to those to whom we are spir. tually indebted. The joy of heaven, we are told, is to be inaugurated by a review of | life's work, These Christian men and women who have been toiling for Christ, have they geen the full result of thelr work? Oh, no. In the church of Somerville, N. J. Jobn Vredenburgh preached for a great man | years. He felt that his ministry was a fail ure, although he was a faithful minister, preaching the Gospel all the time. He died, and died amid discouragements, and went home to God: for no one ever doubtad that John Vredenburgh was a good Christian minister. A little while after his death there came a great awakening in Bomer- ville, and one Sabbath two bundred souls stood up at the Christian altar espousing the cause of Christ, among them my own father and mother. And what was peculiar in re gard to nearly all of those two hundred souls was that they dated thelr religious im- smrgh., Will that good Christian man be- fore the throne of God never meet those souls brought to Christ through his instro. mentality? Oh, of course he will know them. 1 remember one Habbath afternoon, borne down with the sense of my sins, and know. ing not God, I took up Doddridge’'s “Rise and Progress.” Oh, what a dark afternoon it was, and I read the chapters, and I read the prayers, and I triad to make the prayers my own. Oh, I must ses Philip Doddridge. A glorious old book he wrote, It is out of fashion now Theres is a mother before the throne of God. You say her joy is full. Isit! You say thers can be no augmentation of it. Can. not there be? Her son was a wanderer anda vagabond on the earth when that good | mother diel. He broke her old heart. She | died leaving him in the wilderness of sin. | She is before the throne of God now. Years | pass and that son repents of his crimes and ives his heart to and becomes a useful ‘hristian, and dies and enters the gates of | heaven. You tell me that that mother's joy | ennnot be an ted? Let them confront each other. The son and the mother. “Oh: of “rejoice with iva again, and the lost is Hallslujah! I never to | this lost one come back.” | comes to God will it not know Dr. Abeel? | When India comes will it not know Dr. John | Beudder? When the Indians come to God | will they not know David Brainard? heard Bim shout, and ths boat came across and I got in aul was transported. And so 1 supposs it will be jn the evening of our lite, We wil! come down to the river of death and give a sgnal to our friendson the other shore and they will give a signal back to us, and the boat comes and our departed kindred are the oarsmen, the fires of the setting day tingeing the tops of the paddles, oh, have you never sat by such a death. bed? In that hour you hear the departin soul ery, “Hark! Look!” You hearkene and you looked. A little child pre away because of the death of its mother, getting weaker and weaker every day, was taken into the room where hung the pleture of her mother. She seamed to enjoy looking at it, and then she was taken away and after awhile died. In the last moment that wan ‘and wasted little one lifted hor hands, while her face lighted up with the glory of the next world, and cried out ‘Mother! You tell me she did not see her mother? She did. Bo jn my first settlement at Belleville a plain man sald to me: “What do you think I heard last night? I was in the room where poe of my ghbors was dying. He was a good man, and he sald he heard the angels f God singing before the throne, I haven't fouch try about me, but I listened and I heard too.” Baid I, “I have no doubt of ft.” Why, gve are to be taken up to heaven at last by ministering spirits. Who are they to be? Bouls that went up from Madras, or Antioch, or Jerusalem?! Oh, no; our glorified kindred are going to troop around them. Heaven isnot a stately, formal place. as I sometimes hear it dosor a very {rigidity wof splendor, whore people stand on celd for- malities and go around about with heavy erowns of gold on their heads. No, that is not my idea of heaven. My idea of heaven is more like this: You are seated in the wveningtide by the fireplace, your whole family thers, or nearly all of them there, While you are seated talking and enjoying the evening hour there is a knock at the door and the door opens, and thers comes brother that has been long absent. He has been absent, for years you have not seen him, and no sooner do you make p your mind that it is certainly he than you leap up, That is my idea of heaven —a great home circle where they are walling for us, Oh, will you not know your mother's voice there?! She who always called you by your first name long after others had given you the formal “Mister?” You wore never any- thing but James, or John, or George or Will you not know your child's voice? She of the and beauty? Why, the pleture Is graven in It cannot wear out. If that little me should stand on the other side of some Id hear You could not help Now 1 bring you this glorious consolation i you could get this theory into your heart it would lift a great railroad track and put my sar down on the and I could hear the express train friends, if we only had faith enough our dead and listen and bear in the distance CO heaven, sweet heaven! You saven as you used to spell it Bus light and Jove and beauty and 1 you spall it ax never before in songs and hallelujahs Oh, bow much you will have How much you have been through since them last. Oa the shining shore The bLeartaches wwer to w hs was witherad and dried Story of vacant chair and empty ora die, and little shoe only half worn out, never to be worn again, just the shape of the foot that cpoe pressed it. And dreams when you thought that the departed had come back and the room seemed bright with faces, and you started up to greet them, and in the effort the dream vroke and you found yourself standing amid room fn the midnight—alone. Talking it all svi No sorrow, no tears, no O, heaven, beautiful heaven! Heaven Heaven where we In the east they take a cage of the dead, expoct to ba. ng out, sing. And I would to- es, and 1 woald air Oh, bow they bound in, these spirits before Bome shout with giadoess, some break forth into uncontrolable weeping for Tn some stand speechless in their shook of slight. They sing, they quiver with exces. sive gladness, they gaze on the temples on the palaces, on the waters, on each other Thay weave their joy into garlands, they Jod-fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters sons and daughters, lovers and friends, hand to hand around about the throne of God the circle ever widening—hand to hand, joy to joy, jubliee to jubilee, victory to victory, “antil the day break and the shadows flee away. Turn thou, my beloved, and be like a ros or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.” Oh, how different it is on earth from the way itis in heaven when a Christian dies! Wemy, “Close his epee” Iu heaven they say, “Give him a palm.” On earth we may, “Lot him down in the groutd.” In heaven they say, “Raise bim on a throne’ On earth it is, “"Farewsll fareweil.” In heaven it is, “Welcome walcome"” And 1 see a Christian soul coming down to the rives of death, and he steps water comes fo the ankle. He says, “Lord Jesus, is this death?” “No” says Christ “this is not death.” And he wades still deeper down into the waters until the flood comes to the knee, and be sa “Lord Jesus, ol me, tell me, ™, this death?” And Christ says, “No, no; this is not death” And he wades still farther down until the wave comes to the girdle, and the soul says, “Lord Jesus, 8 this death? “No "says Christ, “this fs not” And in w the soul till the billow The Columbus Quarte-Centenary. The celsbration In 1802 of the quat- er centenary of the discovery of Amer ica by Columbus will form a grand dis. play in Spain and Italy. The Spasiards will keep the anni at 1 the towns where Columbus lived even for a short time and erect monu- ments there, while Madrid will! hold a grand exhibition, Genoa, as the great discoverer’s birthplace, proposes a his. toric naval exi ibition, a geographical and historical regatiag repro- bis was born Rindge dur pudyr of memorials erected, The wise man a Natural History In Season. BATH, This is the time of year when wo are in daily expectation of being eaten up by insects. Have you not noticed how large as number will congregate about the electric lights these warm summer evenings? I was watching them very intently and thinking about the parable of the silly moth and the candle when a monstrous black shadow crossed my vision. It was one of those creatures we call bats. Doubtless you have as great a dislike for the ugly things as most of us, but they are not really as bad as some people try to make them appear, It is usually the case, how. ever, that when a thing is disagreeable { to look at, we are ever ready to believe | ill of it. Perhaps yon will be interested enough in bats to listen to me a little while. If you do not remember all I say, you will certainly have the satis- faction of knowing something about the bat family should one ever cross your vision as it did mine, Naturalists call . them (heiroptera). It is a Greek word (heir means hand and the root of the last syllable nteron, wing. You can see how appropriate the derivation is. The most promi- nent feature in a bat is the wings whieh are sa thin membraneous substance ex- tending from the shoulders and all the way down the hind legs. The wings of a bat always remind me of the parts of an umbrella cover. Do you see the re- semblance? Look for it when you sce a bat again, | There are altogether about one hun- | dred and sixty different kinds of bats Just thank of it! They vary in size | from that of a mouse to that of a dog. | The Kalong or flying dog as he is call- ed is found in the Indian { feet, That is as long as some pretty i tall people. The night is the bats’ day. roofs of barps and other ruined castles or in caves and { trees, Io warm climates bats usually aboand in greatest numbers, In some of those dense {forests of In- dia and South America that yon rend about in books, thousands of bats hapg from the boughs of trees with their heads downwards, and if roused scurry off amid a strange noise of rus- thing wings, shrieks and cries. We all know that bata are regarded hav ¢ wonderful their way They are can find tell you why. night seers and | passages even when their eves are out. This they owe to pecn senwitiveness of their warns them of the approsch pa} the iar wings to any it. You have, some of you, heard of the very odious diet bats require, but 1 must tell you it is not all true that is told of this. Bats hive ch efly on in- sects and those who do not take fruit instead. In warm countries they are a general nuisance for they devour all the fruit far and near and what they do not eat they spoil for hu- man taste on acconnt of the disagree able musky flavor their touch leaves, There are about twenty-eight species of ghoul or goblin bats, so named from their hab tation in caves and tombs, where it is believed they devour the dead. But as I have already told you, this is only a supposition. They live principally on fruit and are found sll over Africa, Central Asia, the Islands of the Indian Ocean, Japan, South Sea Islands, Australia and Van Diemeu’s Land. These goblin bats are the very ones that the ancients called barpies, and many sre the wouderfal stories you have heard about them, I know, There was Alexander the Great, the world conqueror who first showed En. ropeans the way India’s treasures It ix told in fable how a large army of harpies opposed the march of Alexan- der’s army into India. In Greek my- thology there was a great Trojan hero { Eneas by name,) He was leading hs men from the siege of Troy to Italy fo hands. At this rate they were supposed to be regular highway-mnen, were they not? These bate are not found in rope or America so you have no cause to fear them There 1s a kind of bat that is eaten for food by the Asiaties, and there are also edible bats in Java. They are ealled Kalongs and hang in numbers from the bonghs of trees, with head downwards as we have explained fore. They have the appearance of queer fruit. If disturbed they send ont sharp piercing shrieks and fly clumsily AWAY, slways have to shoot while they are on | tree they would remain hanging as far out of reach as before. Soon after sunset it 18 customary for them to fly to villages, forests and | plantations where they devour the Frait, especially bananas. Thedelicate fruits have to Le protected by nets or there would not be one left, The vampire bat belougs to Amerion. It is found chiefly in Brazil and Guia- na, in deep woods and ruived planta. tions, but none have yet been seen north of tie Isthmus of Darien. This is the bat which sucks the blood of both animals and men, It has a sooth- ing way of fanning ita victim with its widgs While performing the operation. mont singular of all in aphear. ance is the broad winged bat of and Africa. It has a leaf.like membrane extending from the nose and shaped like a lyre. little Horse-shoe bat is found in various Pe of the Old World and plentifully in England. Among the remariatie-looking ones of SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, BUNDAY, JULY #1, 1890, Lost and Found, LESSON TEXT. (Luke 15 ;: 1.10. Memory verses. 4-7.) LESSON PLAN. Toric or THE QUARTER: Saviour of Men. Jesus the Gorpex Texr He ia able to save Heb, 7:20 » debt yor THE (QUARTER: to the uttermost, — Lessons Toric: Disclosing the Sym- 1, 3 4 | ¥ Ce Rave p 2 Lesson OUTLINE: * Xilorts to Bave, vs. 2, 8. Heaven's Sympathy, va, 51,9, 10, f 1. Lost Men, vs. i Gorpex Text: There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.— Take 15: 10, READINGS © 15 1-10, Dairy Hour M. Luke found. T. Gen. 2 over the lost, Gen. 46 : 1-7, 28-30, ing over the found. T.—2 Kings 6 : B18, hosts about Israel. Matt. 18 : 1-14. of the lowly. 8. Psa. 34 1.22, heavenly help. S.—John 10 1-16, 22 Good Shepherd. Lost and yer a7 H9 Ge 23-30. Mourning Rejoic- Heavenly F, Heaven's care Nearness of 30, The LESSON ANALYSIS, I. LOBT MEN. il. Represented by Publicans and Sinners: | All the publicans and sinners i drawing near (1). { Why eateth your Master with the pub- licans and sinners? (Matt, 9 : 11). A friend of publicans and sinners! Matt, 11 : 19). Let him be unto thee as the Gentile and the publican (Matt. 18 : 17). God, I thank thee, that I am not as | this publican (Luke 18 : 11). Ii. Represented by Lost Sheep: i Having s hundred sheep, and having were | lost one of them (4). | I have gone astray like a lost sheep (Pea, 110 : 176). All we like sheep have gone astray 53 : 6). My people hath been lost sheep (Jer. ol) : 6). Ye were going astray like sheep (1 Pet. y 25 . Ill. Represented ures: Having ten pieces of silver, lose one piece (8). The kingdom is like unto a treasure hidden in the field (Matt, 13: 44). (Ina, by Lost Treas~ if she his life? (Matt. 16: 26), Yeo are of more value than many spar- rows (Luke 12: 7). That which was lost (Luke 19: 10), 1. *“All the publicans and sinners were drawing near uptohim.” (1) The attractive center; (2) The at- tracted cirele; (3) The attracting power. 2. “Having a hundred sheep, having lost one.” (1) The original possession; (2) The grievous loss. — {1] The hundred; (2) The ninety- nine; (3) The one. . “‘1f she lose one prece.” (1) Cher- ished treasure; (2) Possible loss; {3) Earnest search. I. i. Receiving the Sinful: This man receiveth sinners (2). Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden (Matt, 11: 28), He welcomed them, and spake to them of the kingdom (Luke 9: 11). Him that cometh tome I will wise cast out (John 6; 37). I come again, and will receive you un- to myself (John 14: 3). il. Eeeking the Lost: Go after that which is lost (4). I will seck that which was lost 34: 16). Go rather to the lost sheep (Matt. 6, { The Son of men came to save {Lake 19: 10), | Christ Jesus came into the world save sinners (1 Tim, 1: 15). L111. Accomplishing the Purpose: Until he find it Until she find it {4, 8. | He restoreth my soul (Psa. 23: 3). Of those whom thou hast given me I lost not one (John 18: 9), ! Whom he foreordained, | so glorified (Rom. 8: 30). Who will also do it (1 Thess. 5: 24) 1. **This man receiveth sinners.” (1) A Pharisaioal complaint; (2) An honorable fact. —(1) The sinner; (2) The Saviour; (3) The saving. 2. {Jo after that which is lost, until he find it.” (1) Searching;(2) Per- severing; (3) Finding. 8. “Beek diligently until she find it.” EFFORTS TO BAVE, in no { Ezek. 10: seek and to to them he al- ing heroweally; (3) Finding tri. umphantly. 1, HEAVEN'S SYMPATHY, i. Jov Among the Seekers: He layeth it on his shoulders, re- joicing. . . . Rejoice with me (5, 9). fhe i.ord rejoiced over you to do you good (Deut. 28: 63). As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord (Psa. 103: 13), Iwill... .joy in my people (Isa 65: 19), That my joy ma in yom, and that yur joy may fulfilled (John 15: bs il. Joy Among Their Friends: He oalleth his " friends,.... T y.... returned to great joy (Luke 24: 52), There was much joy in that aity (Acts 5: 8). : yon, and will rejoice we for your 3:0) loy 1m in the presence of the angels (10). : Fas aC Of IY r (Matt, 18:10). EE ire wo A multitule of the heavenly host prais- ing God (Luke 2: 13). A voice of many angels round the throne (Bev. 5: 11), 1. “He layeth it on his shoulders, re- joicing.” (1) Tender care; (2) Loving joy.—(1) Btrong shoulders; (2) Assured safety; (3) Bincere joy. 2. “Bejoice with me, for 1 have found my sheep.” (1) Bearch re- warded; (2) Batisfaction acknow- ledged; (3) Rejoicing proposed. 8. **There is joy... .over one sinner that repenteth.” Joy (1) Where? (2) Why? (3) By whom?—(1) Re- pentance to one; (2) Joy to many. ss A SSB SSW LESSON BIBLE READING, CHUIST TRE SHEVHERD, Foretold (Gen. 49 : 24 ; Isa. Ezek. 84 : 23). The chief shepherd (1 Vet. 5 : 4). The good shepherd (John 10 : 11, 14). The great shepherd (Heb, 13 : 20), He knows his sheep (John 10 : 14, 27). He gathers his sheep (Isa. 40:11 ; John 10 : 16). He leads his sheep (Psa. 10 : 8). Heo feeds his sheep (Psa. 23 10 : 9). He protects his sheep (Ezek. 34 John 10 : 28). He died for his sheep (John 10: 11, 15). about 40 : 11 iy ot 3:2, 3; John : 2 ; John 10 ; LESSON SURROUNDINGS, INTERVENING KVENTS, — NODE are ree corded between this lesson and the last It is generally agreed tha’ chapters 15 and 16 are directly counected with chapter 14. Prace.—In Perma, poss meal. True. —According to Robins Mareh, 783 A. U. C.; that is, A. D. 80, According to Andrews he Decem- ber of the previous year, 7 A. U.C that is, A. D. 20, Penrsoxs, —Ouar Lord; licans and sinners; scribes, IxcipesTs, % 1DlY at some n, io "3 serowd f pub some Pharisecs The publicaus si ners draw near to Jesus; the Pharisees and scribes murmur at his ving { them. Three parables are uttered, two | in this lesson: the first, the parable of the one lost sheep which wa« found; the second, the parable of the one of silver lost and found. The earthly joy in each case is a figure of joy in heaven over one repenting sinuer, There is no paraliel passage, bat Matthew : 12, 13, resembles verses i to 7. roo] coe IR i A - Womanly Character. What is it? who can explain all the | meaning those two words? ‘Sha { has s0 much womanly character,” we | say when we meet a woman with sweet winning ways. But few of us ever at- | tempt to snalyzethe characteristics that | make the true womanly character. Of | course there are all sorts of women in { the world, and each in some way ap- i pea to the different natures they meet. believe every man has an ideal wo- man in his mind and heart. At least all I have ever talked with on the subject, | have admitted the fact to me. But when pressed to tell something of this cherished ideal, he says she must have | a womanly character. And so I ask, | what is this that men seek in the ideal { wife? Usually the boy from eighteen | to twenty-two is dreaming of a pretty | girl, who will sometime share his fu- ture. But the man of thirty is dream- {ing of the woman, the woman with a soul and heart, a heart filled with love { and trust for him. 1 know so many, men | good, kind sad true, who have spoken | to me on the subject in a confidential | mood, and confide to me how much | they dream and long for home. And | as they were all men of means and | have & business that shows plainly en- { ough that they can support a wife in | comfort, and as they believe in | and love only, that all they are waiting { for is the one with the true womanly | character, the one on whom they ex- | pect to lavish the love of their hearts, give the protection of their name, the i shelter of their homes, and to whom | ther hope to anchor their faith and trust. | When I find so many wealthy men {who have so much to give, and are waiting only for the object on whieh to bestow all their precious gifts 1 feel that womanly character must be a lit. tie hard to find. Since the dream of all men seems 0 bo of home, it must | be the home-maker who has the most | womanly character. 1 do not mean a | house-hold drudge. But a woman who | has the power of making home a plea- sant rest, peace and comfort, —who will { wele me not only her husband and | chitldren but their friends. She makes | all who enter feel that they have a right to be there. Her welcome makes the | atmosphere of that home sweet as a | breath of summer. No chill ever | strikes your heart there, and yon in- stinctively feel that it is a safe place to bring your sorrows and cares, your joys | too, and somehow it makes you think { of childhood home, and you go away | thinking of your mother. | Yon know too, that money oan never | buy what has made you feel so much at { home in that home. No; yon feel what | mmerson hse said; **You can buy a din- ner anywhere for a dollar but kindly welcome you cannot buy." You ure glad you have been a guest in that h of 1 - Ove ouse, snd you feel that somehow you ave a personal share in that home. Home! that heaven of rest towards which the heart of man turns with such tender longings. Woman! ever the central figure of that home, what must Jou strive to be, to ma e the id al ome a stepping place toward heaven? we Woman's News, Mn. Lovis Canroy, in the preface to one of his ohiliren's books, tells an amosing story of the effect of exhorta tion upon the infant's mind. A cli he once knew had been instracted that one of any any hitle buns, two oranges, re oa anythi wonld r I cha we rie of one morning, afterwards, sitting up in her two little naked and mormuring to herself, softly aud penitently—“Deedy!” Dr, Starr of London. says that it is
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