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DR. TALMAGES SERMON.
The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Bahj ot: “The Food in God s Gospel."
“And the manna ceased on he
Texr:
morrow had saten of the old corn
of the he ha Y., Bn
Only those who have had something to do
with the commissiariat of an army know
what a it is to feed and clothe five or six
hun thousand men. Well, there is such
a host as that marching across the desert,
They are cut off from all army supplies.
There are no rail trains bringing down
food or blankets. Shall they perish}
No. The Lord comes from heaven the
rescue, and He touches the shoes and the
fonts Which in a yeas o¢ two oul ha
een worn to rags and tatters,
proof and timeproof, so tha
after forty years of wearing the coats
the shoes are as good as wew. Besides ti
every morning there is a shower of
not somr or , for the rising of
bread is made in ven, and celestial fin.
pers have mixed it and rolled it into balls,
ight, flaky and sweet, as Shough they were
the crumbs thrown out from a heavenly
banquet. Two batches of bread made every
day in the upper mansion—one for those who
sit at the table with the King, and she other
for the marching Israelites in the wilder
ness,
I do not very much pity the Israclites for
the fact that they had only manna to eat.
It was, I supposes, the best food ever pro-
vided. I know that the ravens brought
food to hu Eljah, but I should not mo
well have liked those k waiters, Rather
would I have the fare that came down ev.
with the naw fallen manna of God's help not
five misutes old!
t after fourteen thousand six
coumcutive days of falling manna- day
tad = the manna ceased. Boma of them
oft. You know they had com-
to their loader, and wonderad that
Now the fare is changed. Those
that army under forty years of age
seen a corn fleld, and now,
the leaves rustling and ses the tassels waving
and the billows of green flowing
as the wind touched them, i$ must have
a now and lively sensation. “Corn?
old man, as he opened sn ear,
™ eried the children, as they counted
the shining grains. “Corn! shouted the
vanguard of the host as they burst opsn the
granaries of the affrighted population, the
graaaries that had bean left in the possesson
of the victorious Israelites. Then the fire
was kindled, and the ears of corn wars thrust
into tt, and, fresh and crisp and tender, were
devoured of the hungry victors; and bread
was prepared, and many things that oan be
made out of flour 4 the appetites that
been sharpened by the long marek.
“And the manna oeased on the morrow
after they had eaten of the old corn of the
and.”
Blessol be God, woe stand in
fleld to-day, the lucturiang ig n com
above the lo, tha alr full of the odors o
the ripe old corn of she gospal Canaan
“Oh! you say, ‘‘the fare is too plain.”
I remember you will soon tired of a fan-
eifal diet. While I wasin Paris I liked for a
while the rare and exquisite cookery, but I
soon wished I was homs again, and had the
foodof my native land. Bo itis a fact
t wa soon weary of the sirup: and ths
custards and ths whipped foam of ths fanci-
fol religioniets, and we ery: "Give us plain
earn of the gospel
." This is the only food that can
quall the soul's bunger.
There are man hers who hardly know what
excep
were
ust such a
morning fn buckets of dew-—clean, sw
God provided edibles. But now the Larael-
ites have taken the last bit of it in thelr |
fingers, and put the last delicate morsel of ft |
0 Shei Ha, They look out, and there is no |
manna. hy this cessation of heavenly |
supply} It was becanse the Israslites had
ved in Canaan, and they smelled the |
breath of the harvest flelds and |
the crowded barns of the country |
were thrown open to them. All the |
inhabitants had fled, and in the name of the
Lord of Hosts, the Israelites took possession |
of everything. Well, the threshing floor is |
cleared, the corn is scattered over it, theoxen i
are brought around in lazy and perpetoal |
cireuit until the corn is trampled loose; then |
it is winnowed with a fan, and it is ground |
and it is baked, and, lo! there is eno i
bread for all the worn out host. ‘And i
manna ceased on the morrow after they had |
eaten of the old corn of the land.” i
among the mummies of Egypt and |
Canaan have Irn sh grains corn, |
exactly like our Indian corn, and recently |
planted, thay have produced the same kind |
of corn with which we are familiar. So I |
am not sure which kind of grain my text re- |
fers to, but all the same is the meaning. i
The bisection of this subject pa ma, |
first, tospeak of especial relief for especial |
emergency; and, secondly, of the old corn of |
the Gospel for ordinary circumstances. i
If these Israelites crossing the wilderness |
had not received bread from the heavenly |
bakeries there would first have been a | |
line of dead children half buried in the saad. |
Then there would have been a long of |
dead women waiting for the jackals,
thers would bave been a long line dead |
because thats would bave |
bury them. It would have |
been told in the history of she world that a |
great company of good people started out |
from pt for Cansan and were never heard |
of —as thoroughly lost in the wilderness of |
sand as the City of Boston and the President |
were lost in the wilderness of waters. What |
use was it to them that there was plenty of |
ody in Canaan or plenty of corn in Egypt |
t they wanted was something to eat |
and you shall have it. i
Is it pain and physical distress through |
wid Fou ust Go} Does not Jesus know |
about pa He not suffer it in the |
is the matter with them They have tried
et together a fortune and larger account
at the bank and to go} iuvesmants yielding
larger centages, y are ing to sat
isty oar sol with a diet of ya a. and
stocks. There ars others here who have bean
trying to get famous, and have succesdad to
a greater or lows extent; and they have bean
trying to satisly their soul with the cho
food of magazines and nowspapers. All
men are no more happy now than before they
made the first thousand dollars: no more
happy now than when for the first time they
mw names favoraby mentioned. Thay
cannot analysa or deflue their feelings: but
will tell them what is the etter oy
hungry for the old corn of the . that
wasted and hollow-eyed and shriveled up
with an sternity of famine,
The infidel of this day are offer.
are, of all men, the most miserable. I have
known many of them; but I never know one
of being happy. The
Mill orovidel 2: himses
knowledges that his philosophy never gave
is no such intolerable cant in all
this
and “the great to ba” and “the everlasting
no,” and “the higher unity,” aad
latent potentialities” ani “the cathedral of
the immensities.”
what these men have been writing and
have been translating what
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1 sot the gladness of your soul to the tunes of
“Ariel” and “Antioch.” | ring the weddl
bells, for Christ and your soul are married,
and there is no power on earth or in hell to
get out letters of divorcemoent.
But alas for the famine strack! Enough
corn, yet {i seems you have no sickle to.cut
it, no mill to grind it, no fire to baks it, no
appetite to cas it Starving to death when
the plains golden with a magnificent har-
vest!
Irodesome thirteen miles to see the Alex-
aoder, a large Stonuiship i beached
near Southampton, L, [, It was a splendid
vessel. I walked up and down the decks
and in the cabins [ sald: “What a pity that
this vessel should go to pieces, or & lying
hore idle.” The coast wreckers had spent
£30,000 trying to hor off, and they suo-
coded omoe; but she came back again
to the old place. While I was walk-
ing on deck ovary | of the vessel
trembled with the g of the sur! on
ono side. Since than [ heard that that ves.
sel, which was worth hundreds of thousands
of dollars, was sold for $8500, and knocked
feces. They had given up the ides of
her to sell aga How suggestive
all shat is 3 the} There are thos Sete who
are nd in nr gs things Jace you
started for heaven, but you are now A.
Boveral times it was thought you had started
Sfjats hatvenward but you soon got back to
old place, and there is not much prospect
will ever reach the harbor of the blessed.
i s wrockars, I fear, will pronounce you a
| hopeless case. for eternity! And
| then ft will be written in heaven concernin,
some ono of your size, and somplexion, a
to
vod, but refused the offer, and starved to
within sight of the flalds and granaries
of the old corn of Canaan.
| Edison's Discovery of the Phonograph.
‘‘Edison was a very cool man. When
experimenting on the telephone the vi-
bratory movements of the diaphragm
| suggested that thelr possible re ue-
| tion might be retained. With this char-
| acteristic determination to investigate all
enomens that presented themselves,
hit upon the Jiinciple of recording
| the vibrations. result was a very
crude phonograph with its tia foil cylin.
der. It was made at Menlo Park, and,
being put to a practical test, its possibil-
ities were exploited by all of us aad our
impatience became painfal. Edison pre-
pared for the first test and dictated
‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ into a
paper funnel. Krenzi, sa confidential
Edison turaed
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said calmly to Krenzi ‘I'll bet you #7
peated by the machine.
wonder is that God has not killed
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then came the words back the
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“Krenzi jumped all over the room in
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twisted his head and ssid, with a quiet
smile: ‘Krenzi, I have won the #7." "—
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sure drives out the bullet with a velocity
continually accelerated until it leaves the
bullets, one after the other, with the car-
bode acld condensed in a small cylinder,
. Theres is no flash,
no no smoke, no recoil, snd no
heat. Invisible death can be rained out
upon the enemy at 1300 yards’ range,
without say sign being afforded him of
the position from w the ballets
come. The gas necessary to propel the
300 bullets costs one penny. It is per-
and is proof fire and water. If
the experiments justify the claims of the
Juivuuiior, Sua powder will join the bow
stag the catapult. — Pieayune.
Millionaires of Ancient Times.
The sacred tell us that Bolo
mon was immensely rich; that silver was
abundant in Jerusalem; and that in one
year the King roceived from Hiram 300
talents of gold, equal to $16,250,000.
It is kocwn that in Assyria there were
large masses of gold, and that Darius re-
ceived in tribute from Persia as much as
$16,250,000. In Greece, the wealth of
Cromus wes estimated ot $15,000,000,
and that of Pytheas at as 5 sum.
At Rome, Tiberius, it is said, left a
of 110,000,000, and Augustus
by testamentary ss much as
§160,000,000. —Dry hromicle,
Eat Dark Meat on Hot Days.
Dark mest of cold roast chicken is the
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MARTYRDOM.
The tales of the early professors of
onr Christian faith have awakened, and
still have power to awaken the keenest
pity, the deepest reverence, and the
tonderest affection among the enlight-
ened numbers of their followers, The
name martyr is reserved in eoclesiast-
cal history to these fearless souls, who
rather than abandon their faith, en-
dured the torments of all the damnable
means and methods of punishment rife
among the rulers of a barbarous em-
pire during the first three centuries.
In the Komsn Empire tLe Christian
community were at all times regarded
with suspicion and dislike. The con-
stitution of Rome was directly and im-
| measurably intolerant of all new relig-
{ ions which were aggressive against the
{ established state religion. This
| Christian faith was most undoubtedly,
| Christian followers made 1t necessary
| to form private associations, to meet in
| secret, and at various times and places,
| This in itself was great cause for the
| noremitting persecutions of the Chris-
tians,
| The Ten Persecutions of the Chris-
{ tian Church is a name well known in
| ecclesiastical history, and meant to
| designate the periods when the early
| martyrs were treated with more than
| usual severity, either by new enact
| ments or the enforcement of existing
{ ones with severe rigor. The number
| of those requiring special distinction in
| various historians.
ten horns of the the
lypse.
beast in Apoca-
| will greatly exceed it.
The ten persecutions commonly
THs
{ der Nero, Domitian, Trajan, Hadrian,
| Maximinus, Deecius, Valerianus and
| Diocletiati. The extent, duration and
| probable number of victims of these
{ much controversy and discussion. Ex-
| aggeration was only too plain on both
| sides, but the most recent confirmation
i is on the side of the smaller number of
| victims, Certain it is, however, that
| and spread in most oases over s con-
| siderable extent of the Roman Empire.
| The most violent as well as the most
{ Trajan, Maximinus, Decius and Dio-
{eletian,. The last was however, far
sone altar for worship. Anything the
martyr touched, saw, or came in con-
tact with, ever so slightly, was gifted
with a power divine, and as such placed
smong the Rerics. The tombs of the
martyrs were visited for the purpose of
asking their intercession years and
years after their death,
The chief signs of their resting-
laces in the Roman catacombs were
lieved to be the letters B. M., the
Agute of a palm tree, and a phisl con-
ning red liquor purported tc be
blood. The last sign is eommonly re-
Om.
Christianity, called the ‘proto-martyr’
was the deacon Stephen, whose death
| Verulam, suffered under
| has done for us, the stor
| growth seems dark indeed.
| of individual despotism, the insatiable
| suffering that never have had, and
| never can have their equal in onr day,
| are destroyed.
{ light of growing civilization tears the
| veil from
| veil depart the horrors.
| never if
| heroism and tenacious uprightness
{the Christian martyrs, we owe
Yet we
the
| —a faith that has civilized and human-
i ized the world. L. A. N.
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
SUNDAY, AUGUST 24.1500,
Prevalling Prayer.
LESSON TEXT.
114.
{Luke 18 : 13-14)
Memory verses
LESSON PLAN.
Toric or THE QUARTER:
Saviour of Men,
Gonoex Text
He is able to save
Heb, 7
FOR
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THE
the
: 25,
Liessox Toric: Emphasizing the
Right Spirit in Pray: r.
r 1. Persistency Canquers,
vs, i-%
LEssos OUTLINE 4 ay
2 Humility Tr
ve. 13, 14
Gorpex Text: He that
himaelf shall be erated, — Luke
ere h :
GINDPOs, ¥
18 :17.
i league, Galoerius, It was crue! in
extreme and extended over a period of
| stantine over Maxentins
| tions the Christian martyrs were forced
i to bear are recorded by many snd
: der,
most dreadfal torture they were su
| jooted to was that of being torn to
to
| humans’ were closely kept with brutal
until the day of doom. :
i One of the most pitiful tales of mar-
| tyrdom after this fashion 1s that of
{| Perpetua and Felicitas—tiwo women
{ who perished in a public arena in com-
pany with a smal] body of Christian
{ brothers. One of these women was
| young, delicately nursed, sccustomed
to the strictest honor, the other was
| enduring the pangs of maternity. On
| the day of martyrdom they were as
| sambled in the arena with the rest of
i noble faith in a pure religion.
| youths were exposed to the fary eof
| hungry, savage beasts, and torn aad
| eaten before the populace. Pe
| and Felicitas were disrobed and en-
closed in nets, and thus tossed upon
the horns of feroeions animals until the
| spectators pleaded for mercy to be
i shown the sufferers. In vain. They
| were again robed, led forth and exhiba-
| ted and after further inhuman parley,
put to death by gladiators. f
| considered a grand thing to die a mar-
{ tyr. Augustine says of thess two:
| shine out those of Perpetua and Feliei-
tas; the two holy handmaids ot the
Lord.
Among other stories 1s one of a beau-
tiful girl living in the service of an in-
temperate and licentious master. Jo
tamicena, for such was she called, in-
furiated him by a remstance to his
wicked desires and he sought to punish
her. It gives one a faint, ides, of what
1t was to be a Beleiver in those days,
when the cruellest punishment he could
conceive was to hand the girl into ous-
tody ss a Christian. She, and her
mother with her, were sentenced to be
unged naked into a cauldron of boil.
ng pitch. But nothing could intimid-
ate Potamiens and judge and accuser
felt they had no victory even
to the letter. The cries and insults of
the mob were terrible to witness as the
risoners were led Shrough the streets,
x young guard, Basilidesby desperate
effort kept them from FPolamirna and
#0 won her prayers. She is smd %o
have appeared to him afterwards in a
dream and pl a erown on his head,
warned him that om was at
band. He became a Christian and
stood his trial as bravely as the rest.
All have heard of Jgnatius the Greek
who was arraigned before Trajan at An-
tiooh and sentenced to be carried in
a ae
aon n eyes lL.
nities suffered on the journey seemed
but to ig the hero nger for the
last ord
Is it wonder, after all these ear
a ad al
Christian
elevated on the throne of
Darry Houe Reanixos :
M.—~Luke 18: 1-14
prayer.
T.—Jas. 1:18,
prayer,
W. Lake 11:
conquers
1. w— an 9: 184
itanlf
F.—Luke 1: 46-55.
umphs,
S.—Psa. 51:1-19,
ing.
B.-Acts 4: 23.37.
ing.
The right spirit in
1-13.
MH.
Effective pray-
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LESSON ANALYSIS.
I. PERSISTENCY CONQUERS.
I. Parsistent Praying Enforced:
They ought always to pray, and not
to faint (1,
Continuing steadfastly in prayer (Rom.
12: 12)
Praving at all seasons
Ps in the Bpirit
ph. 6: 18),
2)
Pray without ceasing (1 Thess. 5: 17).
I. Parsistent Praying lllustrated:
will avenge her (5).
Oh let not the Lord be angry, snd]
will speak
I will not let thee go, except thon bless
me (Gen. 32: 26)
He continued all night in prayer to God
(Luke 6: 12),
Because of his importunity he will. ...
give him (Luke 11: 8),
li. Persistent Praying Rewarded:
I say unto you, that he will avenge
them speedily (8).
He shall eall upon me, and I will an.
swer him (Pea. 91: 15).
Ye shall... find me, when ye shall
search. .. . with all your heart (Jer.
29: 13).
Boek, and ye shall find (Matt. 7: 7).
He that secketh findeth (Luke 11: 10),
L. “They ought always to pray, and
not to faint.” (1) The Teacher;
(2) The pupils; (3) The lesson.—(1)
A positive duty; (2) A negative
duty.
2. “He would net for a while.” (1)
Regardless of her plea; (2) Regard-
less of his duty; & Regardful of
his elect?”
his ease,
8. “Shall not God aven
(1) Responsive to his love; (2) Ae-
cording to his word; (3) Regardiul
of his people.
11. PRIDR BOASTS ITSELF.
I. Trusts in Seif:
Certain which trusted in themselves
(9).
Cursed is the man that trusteth in
man (Jer. 17: 5).
Ye are they that justify yourselves
(Lake 16: 15).
Confident that thou thyself art a guide
of the blind (Rom. 2: 19).
We should not trust in ourselves, but in
God (2 Cor. 1: 9).
il. Despises Others: :
God, I thank thee, that I am not as
the rest of men (11).
Stend b, alt, for 1 am holier
than Tan, 65: 5).
2: 6).
111. Boasts before God:
I fast twice in the week; I give tithes
gf all that 1 get (12)
The wicked of his heart's de-
boastful (Rom, 1: 80). haughty,
Not of Shak no man should
. 3:
ty with God; (2) Contempt for man-
kind; (3) Complseency for sell.
8. “I fast twice in the week; | gi
tithes of all that 1 got. (1) Bpir-
itnal pride; (2) f-praisc; (3)
Uverestimnsted service,
TL, HUMILITY TRIUMPHS,
i, An Humble Posture:
The joPlicen, sanding afar off, ,,,
smote his breast (13),
Worship ye afar off (Exod. 24: 1).
Moses. . . .bowed his head toward the
earth, and worshipped (Exod. 34: 8),
He went forward a little, and fell on
the ground (Mark 14: 35).
I fell down to worship before the feet
of the angel (Rev, 22: 8),
I. A Penitential Plex:
God, be merciful to me a sinner (13),
Have mercy upen me, O God (Psa. 51:
Je
God be merciful unto us, and bless ns
Pea. 67:1).
Have merey on us, thou son of Dawid
(Matt. 9: 27).
have mercy on me
(Luke 16: 24).
This man went down to his house
He, desiring to justify himself, said
(Luke 10: 29,
Every one that believeth is justified
from all things (Acts 13: 39).
Jy the works of the law shall no flesh
be justified (Rom. %: 20).
fied (Rom. 8: 30,
1. “Would not lift up so much as his
eyes unto heaven.” The penitent
publican: (1) His position; (2) His
posture; (3) His ples; (4) His
power.
2. *“God, be merciful to me a sinner.”
(1) A sinper's petition; (2) A sin-
ner's Helper; (3) A sinner’s hope.
3. “*He itiat humbleth himself shall
be exalted.” (1) Humbled before
God; (2) Exalted by God, —(1) The
lowly penitent; (2) The Diviné
Helper; (3) The gracious exalts.
tion.
LESSON BIBLE BEADING,
REQU
ISITES IN PRAYER.
the Holy Bpirit (Eph. 6: 18:
Jude 20).
Matt, 21: 22: Jas. 1: 6).
0:
22.24; 1
Cor. 14 15 .
Submissiveness (Luke 22:
a,
42; John 5:
7:1; 66; 18).
14; 33: 12, 13,
Luke 18: 14).
Strong desire
Heb. o 7)
Boldness (Fph, 3: 12; Heb. 4: 16).
Esrnestness (1 Thess. 3: 10: Jas. 5: 16-
18).
5b: 1, 2; 102: 3;
{Pea.
26; Luke 11: 8,
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LESSON SURROUNDINGS.
Ixrenvexmo Evests. —If the last les.
those verses which precede it and sue-
ed directly with verse 10. The events
recorded as intervening between this
lesson and the last are: 8 conversation
with the Pharisees in regard to the
coming of the kingdom of God (Luke
17: 20, 21), snd a discourse on the same
topie to the disciples (Luke 17: 22-37),
including sayings introduced in the dis-
course on the Mount of Olives (Matt
24, and paralled passages).
Prace.—Either in Perea, or in the
valley of the Jordan, on the way from
Ephraim to Jerusalem, though this
journey may have been through Perea.
Trum.—According to Robinson, ia
March, 788 A. UC,; thatis, A. D. 30
Andrews places it about the same tima,
Band 9. Ao
cording to Archbishop Thomson, how-
ever, it should be placed before ths
feast of dedication; that is, in the De-
cember of the previous year.
Persoxs.—The first parable was
spoken to the disciples; the second, to
others of a self-righteous character. In
the first parable, an unrighteous judge
and a poor widow; in second, a
Pharisee and a publican.
Ixcipexts. —The oocasion of the first
parable; the character of the judge; the
importunity of the widow; the medita-
tion of the judge; the lesson drawn by
our Lord; the tinal question Tespecting
faith on the earth, The oocasion
second parable; the characters; the
Proud attitude and petition of the
Phariseo; the humble attitude and
tion of the publican; the verdict of ows
Lord respecting them.
There is no parallel passage.
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