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The Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: “Farming a Gospel Type.”
(Preached Before the American
Farmers' Encampment at
Mount Gretna, Penn.)
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Texr: Kiisha, the som of Shayhat, who
wes g with twelve yoke of owen De-
ore tm, and he with the twelfth. —I Kings,
xix. 19.
Farmers of America! Accept my saluata-
tiva. Our text puts ug down ato the plow's
furrow, where many of us have been before.
My boyhood passed on a farm and my father
a farmer, your style of life is familiar to me
One of my earliest recollections is that of my
father coming in from the hot barvest fled
exhausted, the perspiration streaming from
his forehead and chy: and fain on the
doorsiil, and my mother resuscita him,
until seeing the alarm of the household he
said: ‘‘Don'tbe frightened. 1 got a little
tired and the sun was hot, but [ am all right
now.” And I remember mother seated ai
the table, often saying, “Well, I am too tired
to eat™ The fact is that I do not think the
old folks got thoroughly rested until they lay
down in the graveyard back of Somerville to
take the last sleep.
Office seekers go through the land and they
stand on politi Platlor and they tell the
farmers the story abou fadependent lity
of A Tarmer, giving Ro’ where they
ought give sympathy. Inde ent ol
what? No class of people a this Sep te bave
it harder than farmers. Independent of
what? Of the curculio that stings the peach
trees? of the rust in the wheat! of the long
rain with the rye down? Independent of the
r? of the locust? of the army worm!
of the potato bug? Independent of the
drought that burns up the harvest? Indepen-
dent of the cow with the hollow horn? or the
sheep with the foot rot? or the pet horse with
a in his hoof?! Independent of the cold
that freeses out the winter's grain? Inder
pendent of the snowbank out of which he
must shovel himself? Independent of the
cold weather when he s threshing hig
numbed fingers around his body to keep
them from being frosted? Independent of
the frosen ears and the frozen feet? Inde
pendent of what?! Pancy farmers who havi
made their fortunes in the city and go out
into the country to build houses with all the
modern improvements, and make farming 4
luxury, may not need any solace; but the
yeomanry who get thelr living out of th:
soil, and who that way have to clothe their
families and educate their children and pay
their taxes and meet their interest on mort.
gaged farms-—such men find a terrific strug
gle. And my bope is that this great Na
tional Farmers’ Encampment may do some
thing toward lifting the burdens of the ag
riculturist. Yes we were nearly all of w
born in the country. We dropped corn in
the hill, and went on Saturday to "the mill,
tying the grist in the centre of the sack so
that the contents on either side of the horse
balanced each other, and drove the cattle
afleid, our bare feet wet with the dew, and
rode the horses with the halter to the brook
until we fall off, and hunted the mow for
pests until the feathered occu ts went
cackling away. So we all understand rustic
allusions. The Bible is full of them. In
Christ's sermon on the mount you see the
full blown lilies and the g k of the
erow's as it flies over Mount Olivet.
David and Jobn, Paul and Isaiah find in
coun life a source of frequent fllustration,
Shs Thariat Suen the repens py of at
God a farmer, declaring, ather
the busbandman.” y
Noah was the first farmer. We say noth.
ing about Cain, the tiller of ¢he soil. Adam
was a gardener on a large scale, but to Noah
was given all the acres of the sarth. Elisha
was an iculturist, not culturing a tem
acre lot; for in my text you find him plow.
ing with twelve yoke of oxen before bim, and
be with the twejft ja Bible times the land
X83 50 pienty an inhabitants so few
om Noah waa right when he gave to every
nhabitant a certain portion of land; that
land, if cultured, ever after to be his owy
possession. -
a Fiiay webs not amalll or raises] in thosd
imes, for ug wore rude the |
p15% burned up very rich soll, and barley,
and cotton, and flax, and all kinds of in
came wp af the call of the harvesters, iny
tells of one stalk of grain that had on it be-
tween three and four hundred ears. The
rivers and the brooks through artificial
channels, were brought 1
the comm, and to this t of turning a river
wherever it was wanted Solomon ors when
he sa¥s: “The King's heart is in the hand of
the Lord, and He turneth it as the rivers of
water are turged, whithersoever He will.”
The wild beasts were caught, and then a
hook was put into their nose, and then they
were lod over the fleld, and to that Goa re
fers when He says to wicked Senacherib,
thing that God hates, that man will never
iyleld a harvest of usefulness.
When I was a boy [ plowed a flold with a
iteam of spirited horses. I plowed it very
quickly, Once in a while I passed over some
lof the sod without turning it, but I did not
Ik back the plow with its rattling clevises
I thought it made no difference, After a
jwhile my father came along and said:
“Why, this will never do; this fan’ wed
‘deep enough; thers you have missed thi« and
you have missed that” And be plowed it
over again. The difficulty with a great
‘many people is that they are only scratched
with conviction when the subsoil plow of
God's truth ought to be put in up to the
beam.
My word is to all Sabbath-school teachers,
‘to a Jorems to all Christian workers
plow deep! plow deep!
And if in your own personal experience
‘you are apt to take a lenient view of the
sinful side of your nature put down into
your soul the ten commandments which
reveal the holiness of God, and that sharp
and glittering coulter will turn up your
soul $0 the deepest depths. If a man
preaches “to I that you are only a little
‘out of order by reason of sin and that you
jneed only a little fixing up, he deceives! You
{have ered an appalling injury by reason
of sin. Trers are quick poisons and slow
‘poisons, but the druggist could give you one
‘drop that would kill the body. And sin is
like that drug; so virulent, so poisonous, so
fatal that ons drop is enough to kill the soul,
Deep plowing for a crop. Deep plowing
for a soul. Broken “heart or no religion,
Broken = 1 or no harvest. Why waa it
tha oy and the ja..or and the publican
and Paul made such ado about their sins?
Had they lost their s;nses® No. The plow-
shard struck thefl. Conviction turned up a
great many things that were forgotten. As
a farmer plowing sometimes turns up the
skeleton of a man or the anatomy of 4 mofi.
ster long ago buried, so the plowshare of
conviction turns up the ghastly skeletons of |
sin long ago intombed. Geologists never |
brought up from the depths of the mountain
htier iohthyosaurus or megatherium. {
ut what means all this crooked plowing, |
these crooked furrows, the refeutaRde that |
amounts to nothing, the repentance that ends |
in Bothiag Men groan over their sins but |
get no ter. They weep, but their tears |
are not counted. They get convicted, buf |
not gonverted. What is the reason! Ire. |
member that on the fazia we set a standard |
with a red flag at the othar end of the fleld,) |
We kept our eye on that. We aimed at that, |
We plowed up to that. Losing sight of that |
wo made a crooked furrow. Keeping our
syes on that we made a straight farrow
Now in this matter of conviction we must |
have some standard toguide us. It is a red |
standard that God has set at the other end
of the fleld. Its the cross. Keeping your
oye on that you will make a straight furrow
Losing sight of it you will make a crooked
furrow Pi aw up to the cross. Alm not at
either end of the horizontal plece of the cross
the heart of the Son of God, who bore your
sins and made satisfaction. Crying and
weeping will not bring you throu h., “Him
hath God exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour
to give repentance.” Ob, plow up to the
Cross
Again I remark, in grace as in the fleld
there must be a sowing. In the autumn
weather you find the farmer going across
the fleld at a stride of about twenty-three
inches, and at every stride he puts his hand
into the sack of grain and be sprinkles the
seed corn ver the fleld. It looks silly to a
man who does not know what he is doing
He is doing a very important work. He ix |
scattering the winter grain, and though the
sow may coms, the next year thare will be
a great crop. Now, that is what we are
ly when we are preaching the Gospel —
we are scattering the seed. It lathe foolish.
aay 4 preaching, but it is the winter grain; |
gh the snow of worldiiness may
coms upon it, it will yleld after a while |
lorious harvest. Latus be sure we sow the |
right kind of sead., Bow mullen stalk and
mullan stalk will come up. Sow Cascada
thisties and Canada thisties will come up. |
Sow wheat and wheat will come up. Let us
distinguish between truth and error. Let us |
know the difference between wheat and hel. |
lebore, oats and henbane. |
The jargest denomination in this country |
is the denomina of N Their
religion is a 6 of negations. i
to one of them: “What do you believe” |
“Well, I don't belleve in infant baptism." |
“What do you belleve™ “Well, I don't be |
lieve in the gerseverance of the saints.”
“Well, naw 1 me what do believe™
“Well 1 don't believe in the eternal punish-
ment of the wicked.” So their rel mn is a
row of cyphers. Believe something and
tach it; or, to resumes the figure of my text,
scabler abroad the right kind of seed.
A minister u New York preached a ser.
mon calculated to set the denominations of
Christians quarreling. He was sowing net.
tiles. A minister in Boston advertised that
he wogld preach a seroion on the superiority
of transcendental and organised forces to un-
transcendental and wu anizad forces
What was besowing? The Lord Jesus Christ
nineteen centuries ago planted the divine
wad of doctrine. Itsprang np. On one vide
¥
“I willput a book in thy nose and [ will
bring thee back by the way which thou
cajgest " And God bas a hook in every |
man's nose, whether it be Nebuchadnezzar
or Ababor Herod. He may think himself |
very | mdent, but some time in his |
lite or in the hour of his deat: he will find |
that the Lord Almighty Las a hook in bis i
nose,
This was therule in regard to the cultures
of the ground, "Thou t not plow with an
ox and an ass together,” Giustrating the folly
of ever putting intelligent and useful and
priable men in association with the stubborn
and the unmanageable. The vast majority
of trouble in the churches and in reforma-
tory institutions comes from the disregard of
{isis command of the Lord, “Thou shalt not
plow with an ox and-an ass together.”
‘I'here wers large amounts of property in
vested in cattle. The Mosbites paid 100,000
sheep as an annual tax. Job had 7000 sheep, |
S40 camels, 500 yoke of oxen. The time of
vintage was ushered in with mirth and musie,
The clusters of the vine were put into the
w ine press, and then five men would get into
the press and trample out the juioe from the |
grape until their garments were saturated |
with the wine apd had become the emblems
of slaughter. Christ Himself, wounded until |
reas with the blood of crucifixion, made |
use of this allusion when the
uestion was |
asked: “Wherefore art Thou red in Thine ap- |
pare! and Thy garments like one who tread. |
oth the wine vat!” He responded: “1 have
trodden the wine press alone.”
In all ages thers has been great honor paid
to agrion tare. Beven-sightihsof the people
in every country are disciples of the plow. A
government is strong in portion as it is
supported Mn athletic and industrious
yeomanry. long ago as before the all of
Carthage Strabo wrote twenty-eight books
on agricu'ture; Hesiod wrote a poem on the
same subject The Weeks and Days” Cato
was prouder of his work on husbandry than |
of all los military conquests, But I mustnot |
be tempted into a discussion of agricuitural
conquests, Standing amid the harvests aud
orcharis and vipeyards of the Bible, and
stancing amid the barvests and orchards and
vineyards of our own country 1 want to ran
oul the apalogy between the pro iuction of
crops and the growth of grace in the soul—
ail thee sacred writers making use of taal
ans ogy,
in toe first place [ remark, in grace as in
the Held, there must be a plow. Tuas waich
tueoingians onli conviction ls oaly the plow.
share Wirniog Mo thy sins that have been
rooted and matted tn the soi. A farmer
said to tis Indoent son, “There are a huue
dred dulines Luriod deep in thar fleid.” The |
son weud to work and plowed the Held from |
fence io tence, and he powad it very deep
shd then Sd Hit bo iat not found |
the money, but w
thered and sold for a hundred do.
ions ye the
of the stalk are all the churches of Choivien-
dorms. On the other side of the stalk ere all
the free Governments of the earth, and on
rai Jeo
nium after a while. All from the Gospsl send
of doctrine. Every word that a parqae or
sSabbath-school teacher, or city missionary,
or other Christian worker ks far Christ
interps}— you saving one soul, that one sav. |
ing ten, the ten a hundred, the hundred a |
thousand ote hundred thousand -on, on for i
i
Again [ remark, in grace as in the farm |
thers must be 8 harrowing. I refer now not |
to & harrow that goss over the flald in order
to prepare the ground for the seed, bute har-
row which goss over after the seed fa sown, |
lost the birds plok up the seed, sinking it down
are new kinds of harrow, but the harrow as
1 remember it was made of bars of wood |
nailed across each other, and the under side
of each bar was furnishad with sharp teeth, |
and when the horses ware hitched to it it went
tearing an i leaping across the field, driving |
the seed down into the earth until it sprung
up in the harvest. Bereavement, sorrow, |
persecution ars the Lord's harrows to sink
ihe Gospel truth into Pout heart. There were
truths that you h thirty years ago that
have not affected you until recently. Some |
great trouble came over you, and the truth
was harrowed in, and it bas come up. What |
did God mean in this country in 1857 For a
century there was the Gospel preached, but
a great deal of it producad no result. Then |
God harnessed a wild pagic to a harrow of |
commercial disaster, and that harrow went |
down Wall street and up Wall street, down |
Third street and ap Third street, down State |
street and up State street, until the wholes |
land was torn to places as it fever had been |
What followed the harrow? A
great awakening in which there wars 800,00] |
souis brought into the kingdom of our Lord. |
Mo narrow, uo erop. i
Azgnin 1 remark, in grace as in the farm
there must be a reaping. Many Christians
speak of raigion as osugh it were a
matter of soon mics or inmrance, [hey
expect lo in the next world. Oh, nol
Now is the s to reap. Gather up the
joyof the Christian religion this moraing,
this afternoou, this night. If you have not
as much grace as you would like to have,
thank (xl for what you have ani pray
for mors, You are no worse enslaved than
J no worss trouble | than was Pagid,
and
the gloom of dungeons, and amid ths
horror ©. salpwreck, they triunphsd in
the grew of God The weaksst man
bere and 500 apres of spiritual joy ail rips,
Why do you not go and reapit! You have
been groaning ove: your indrmities for
thirty years, Now give ons round shout over
your euwacipaticn. You say bave it on
t have it worse, You wo
why this cokl tronbie keens resolving
a ben han ion the crank, Ab, that trouble
your sie, To
black
ners o yo mouth as far as you
down. To the flalds! Heup! reap!
Again I remark, in grace as in farming
thers isa time for threshing. I tell you
bluntly that is death, Just asa farmer beats
the wheat out of the straw so death beats tis
soul out of the body. Every sickness is a
stroke of the fall, aud the siekbed la the
threshing floor, hat, say you, is desth to
a zood man only taking the wheat out of the
straw! That isall. Anaged man has fallen
asleep. Only yesterday you saw him in the
sunny porch playing with his grandchildren,
Calmly he received the to leave this
world, He bade a pleasant fovd-ny to his old
friends. The telegraph curries the tidings,
and on swift rail trains the kindred come
wan once more to look on the face o
dear grandfather. Brush back the gray
hairs from his brow; it will never acheagain.
Put him away in the slumber of the tomb.
He will not be afraid of that night. Grand.
{pther was never afraid of anything. He
will rise in the morning of the resurrection.
Grandfather was always the flret to rise
His voice has already ngled in the doxol-
ogy of heaven. Grandfather always Jdid
sing in church. Anything ghastly in that?
No. The threshing of the wheat out of the
straw. That is all
The Saviour folds a lamb in His bosom.
The little child filled all the house with her
music, and ber toys are scatterad all up and
down the stairs just as she lat them. What
if the hand that plucked four o'clocks out of
the meadow is still? It will wave the eternal
triumph. What if the volce that made mu-
sicin the home fis still? It will sing the
o al hosanna, Put a white rose io one
baud and a red rose in the other hand, and
a wreath of orange blossoms op the brow;
the white flower for the victory, the red
eoranle
Anything
sun wel
The Wwooat
Dagar Lord,
thé son of
elon, clew. Pull up Boe oor
biossoms for her marriage dag,
hastily about that? Ob, no. he
own and the flower shut.
threshed out of tne straw,
give ine sléep,” said a dying Loy,
sloop. Ad balioped his eyes and awoke in
glory. enr , Longtellow, writing a let
XK of condolence to those parents said:
hose last words were bewutifully postic
. wv
"Twas not in cruelty, not lo wrath
That the reaper came that day;
"Twas an angel that visited the earth
And took the flower away.
So it may be with us when our work is all
ne. “Dear Lord, give me sleep.”
I have one more thought to present. 1
bave spoken of the plowing, of the sowing,
de
threshing.
the garnerin
Where is the garner? Need I tell you? Oh,
80 many have gone out from your own
family —that
you have had your eyes on that garner for
many a year. What a hard time
them had! In Gethsemanes of suffering they
sweat great drops of blood. They took the
“oup of trembling” and they put it to their
hot lips and they criad: “If it be possible,
let this cup pass from me” With tongues
of burning agony they cried: “O Lord, de
liver my soul™ But they got over it. They
all got over it. Garnersd! Their tears wiped
away; their batties all ended--thelr bur-
dens ifted. Garnered! The Lord of the
harvest will not allow those sheaves Wo
perish in the equinox. Garnered
of us remember on the farm that the
sheaves wore put on the top of the rack
which surmounted the wagon, and these
shenves were piled higher and higher, and
after a while the horses started for the
barn: ani these sheaves swayed to and fro
I must now speak a moment of
and the horses made a struggle and pulled
oo hard the harness came up In loops of
leather an their backs, and when the tront
wheal struck the elevated floor of the barn
it seerned as if the load would go no farther
until the workmen gave a great shout, and
thet: with ome last tremendous etrais the
fall inte the mow. Oh my friends our
av il: but these sheaves ae
bound to go in. The Lord of the harvest
bas promised it I soe the load at last com
ing in the doar of the heavenly garner,
sheaves of the Christian soul sway to and 09
in the wind of death and the old body creaky
under the load as the ond strikes the
floor of the oslestial or it seams as if 0
oan go no farther t is the last struggle,
bard pu
our departed kindred and the welcoming
{ God shall seni the barves: rolling
YouOs OF
into eternal triumph, whilg all up and dowa
“Harvest home’
the sky the cry is heard
Harvest home
Et
The Edible Da
Tie edible banana, it is said, is Known
to seed only in one small spot on earth,
the Andaman Islands. However this
way be, it is universally grown from
suckers. Its cultivation in the West
Indies has vastly increased during the
past fifteen years, owing to the demands
of the United States for its cheap, whole-
some and luscious fruit. Abont 400 or
napa.
plantations are called “banana walks.”
The tree fruits the first year, explains
Garden and Forest, and the expense of
cultivation is so small that a bunch of
bananas delivered at the sea cosst need
have cost its owner po more than four or
five cents, while it may be sold in the
winter monthg for from twelve to elgo-
teen cents, and in the spring months Yor
four times as much. There are risks at.
tending banana cultivation, however, for
the thievish negroes often seriously de-
crease the value of the crop, and it may
be entirely swept away in a single hour
bys hurricane.
A Natural Bridge Higher Than * 01d
Saspension.”
Natural Bridge, on Pine Creek, in the
northern part of Gila County, Arizona,
spans the creek at a heii of about 300
feet, snd the walls of the canyon rise
above it on either side 700 or 800 feet,
precipice. The bridge
tion, and the inside of the great arch,
which is 250 feet across, is worn by the
water a8 smooth as though chiseled by
the skilful hand of a stonemason. The
arch on the top is pearly, if not quits,
400 feet in width, 1000 feet in length
across the canyon, and at the thinnest
part only six feet through. About the
centre of the arch is a hole large enough
to admit the body of a men, and through
which one can look down into the crystal
pool of water 200 feet below. —« New York
Journal,
Dynamite Blast Photographed.
A daring feat in ph
formed last week by Dr.
ley, of Boston. He
a fine negative of a blast of a
Savin Hill. one of the largest
in which 250 s of dynamite
wel. He ft at the
thie 1 .
Fo ST tn ea Wace up! Foes
Bird Notes.
M. A ©
We have some trees, snd were on the
ground before any other people came
near us; the birds finding we were
friends, have come and made their
home s here too. 1 am not going to
try the long, hard names you can find
in study-books, but will tell we have
robins, blue-birds, thrushes, little chip-
pies, the red-headed woodpecker, be-
sides the yellow-winged and the black
and white woodpecker; the blue jay,
black birds of different kinds a red
bird with black wings and tail, a kind
of oriole, black and dark yellowish red,
a bright Jetiow bird with black wings
and a red-orange with black wings and
tail, besides little creatures of a green-
ish yellow color, and the humming
bird, We have also seen a few wrens,
and others. Thus is in the city of Bt
Paul. Minnesota.
One summer, the little, graceful chip-
see every move from the pantry win-
dow on one side, or sitting room win-
dow on another side, it was 8 most in-
teresting and instructive study
watch them
fly.
speckled with brown.
It was but a few days before the
was perfect an the first egg put
it; then put a short time when four
eggs were there, and the hatching be
gan. In three week
bird came; then anot
{until all were out
i
nest
hy and another,
Then, came an-
| understand.
{ forth with food, Generally
| green, fat worm was put into wide
| open mouths, which then would close
| low; but in a few minutes all would be
| astir again and one or the other of the
old birds would be on hand to do the
| house-cleaning. First they wonld lift
| up the babies with their bills, and pick
{ out and carry away everything that hit.
i tered the bottom of the What
they carried off looked toasted
{ cheese; and when all was tidy,
| the feeding began again.
So they grew and thrived by careful
watching day and night, but there
were boys around with slings, and cats
with green eyes and ter ¢ claws; be-
who would not
{ them intentionally; so they were many
times made afraid. When the wee lit-
tie things began to pecp, and filled the
nest too full for holding them, it was
' with perfectly resigned and happy looks
that tne father sand mother took their
| stations on twigs above the nest, and
| with heads lifted skyward, thanked
God for such happiness as parents only
| know, One time, when they were try-
i ing to fir, we helped, just a little, by
raising one up with a finger, when
{away another flew to a tree several
| yards off, and the others got into all
| manner of trouble in the grass below,
nest,
like
made
sides ourselves, injure
.
| got them back into the nest again.
{soon as we had helped them into it,
out they eame again. Finally we
| them all into a large glass jar, and n
there was fun to see them try to get
| out for their worms, which they could
one they got out, and alter mueh peep
ing they left the clesn nest to us, but
us many tunes afterward
ihe next summer came the
birds and built their home in the
low of an old tree, which
had dug out before. The nest
nicely hidden from the boys who prowl
| around for them, but still they had
many anxious hours.
| straw for this also, The eggs were
than the chipvies’ eggs. Here was
united, hard Ho again; first, when
the nest-making was going on, and
{ mouths pointed up for food. In their
funny, naked bodies, one could see the
i stomach and mouth, with a tuft or two
| of hair-feathers. They grew fast, how-
soon took form.
| a] ance in the father and mother
bird; the father had his feathers hug-
| ged close to his body snd stood almost
{ on the tip of his tail; the mother had »
care-worn look, and was near him on
{ and we did not find any when we re-
| turned; but they all came around next
| en out of the nest and been broken, so
| there were but three great-eyed little
| ones that hghted on the ground under
| the kitchen window, waiting to be fed
| for a nap, one of us sketched them, and
| afterwards painted them in water col
| ors, and it 1s quite a pretty picture;
| certainly, true to life, and is ealled,
“Waiting for Breakfast.” — Unity.
A. A ST 208
Worn Out Shoes Have Their Uses.
Worn out shoes have their uses, says
| the New York Tribune, ’
The Italian soavenger who rakes up
your ash-barrel and sends the dust fly-
ing over your doorstep knows this
weil, and his black eyes glisten at the
sight of old leather. If the shoes are
not worn to si reds, be sells them to a
second-hand dealer and joa} are patch.
{od up and resoled; but if they are past
mending, he takes them home to his
collar and rips them all apart, or his
wife and chiliren do, The pieces he
sells to » manalacturer. From the
larger pieces after being soaked till
soft, the uppers of children’s shoes are
out. The soles are cut into small
inh gh
Te hy kind “embossed
leather in the United Htates is a well
established one.
Bo Liuw dd J you manage to gel
BAY =" Liuw
the bowl of ream?" Tommy ~*Toid
ma | saw the cat put her nose in iv.”
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
BUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1890,
Entering the Kingdom.
a—
LESSON TEXT.
(Luke 18 ; 15.30, Memory verses: 15-17)
LESSON PLAN,
Toric or THE QUARTER:
Saviour of Men,
Jesus (he
Gorpex Texr vor THE QUARTER:
He is able to save to the uttermost,
Heb. 7 : 25.
Lesson Toric: Encouraging the
Lowly Disciple.
1. Child-like Approach
i Commended, va. 15-17
{ 2. Worldly Mindedness
id ¥ 3 .
Ei Condemned, vs, 18.25
{| 3 Complete surrender Re
i { warded, vs, 2630
(
!
| Lessox OuTLIN
GoLpex Texr:
child shall in no therein,
| Luke—18 : 17.
wise enter
Danny Hoye READINGS :
M. Luke 18: 15-30.
i kingdom.
T.—Matt, 19: 13-30.
parallel narrative.
W.—Mark 10: 13-31
allel narrative.
T.—Matt. 18: 1-14.
the kingdom.
F.--1 John 2:
world,
-1 Tim.
wealth
- Luke 9:
surrender,
Entering the
Matthew's
Mark's par-
f
Lattle ones of
15-29. Love of
the
8. 6: 1-2L Perils of
1 ‘
f 57-62. Entireness of
A
LESSON ANALYSIS,
CHILD-LIKE
i. Children Brought
{ They brought unto him also their
babes (15).
APPROACH COMMENDED,
Lord {1 Sam. 1: 28
| Then were there brought unt
tle children (Matt, 19: 13
They brought him to present hin
the Lord (Luke 2: 22
From a bal
sacred writings (2
wv
thi %
id i
Liast Known
fim. 3:15
i1* Ghildren Welcomed
Suffer the children
forbid them not (16
He called to him a little child; and set
hin in the midst ( Matt. 18: 2),
Forbid them no‘, come unto
(Matt. 19: 14
He took them in his arms, and blesse
them (Mark 10: 161.
Nurture them in the
the Lord (Eph. 6: 4).
11, Chila-~likeness Commended:
Not receive as a little child,
no wise enter (17).
{ I have stilled. . . .my soul; like a weaned
child (Psa. 131: 2}.
| Except ye become as little children,
| ye shall in no wise enter (Matt. 15:
TP 4)
| In malice be ye babes (1 Cor. 14: 20).
As newborn babes, long for the spirit-
{ ual milk (1 Pet. 2: 2).
1. “They brought unto im also their
babes.” (I; Infantile need; :
Parental desire; (3
ciency.—{1) Mothers:
3, Jesus.
% x
sel
Rigel
to
Cone,
io o
admonition of
ya
in
(2)
Divine sufli-
(2; Babes;
unto me.”
(3) Access. —{ 1) The little ehildren;
(2) The loving Lord; (5) The ten-
! der permission.
i! 3 2 iain shall not receive, . ..
| shall in no wise enter.” (1) The
desired entrance; (2) The essential
condition.--(1) The heavenly king-
dom; (2) The lowly door.
| 11. WORLDLY -MINDEDNESS CONDEMNED,
1, Eternal Life Sought:
What shall I do to
| life? (18).
| What. .. shall I do, that [ may have
eternal life? (Matt. 19: 16).
What then must we do? (Luke 3: 10).
I will follow thee whithersoever thou
goest {Luke 9: 57).
| Sirs, what must I do
(Acts 16: 303.
il, Worldly Wealth Preferred:
He became exceeding sorrowful; for
he was very rich (23).
If riches increase, set not your heart
thereon (Psa. 62: 10).
Riches certainly make themselves wings
(Prov. 28: 5).
to be saved?
not be unpunished (Prov. 25: 20)
Demas forsook me, having loved thas
present world (2 Tim. 4: 10),
1 111, Eternal Salvation Jeopardized:
How hardly shall they that have
riches enter into the kingdom (24).
W.li thy riches suffice, that thou be not
| in distress? (Job. 36¢ 19),
| There is that maketh himself rich, yet
bath nothing (Prov. 13: 7).
Where thy treasare is, there will thy
heart be also (Matt. 6: 21).
Tne deceitfuloess of riches, choke the
word (Matt 13: 22).
1. “Good Master, what shall I do to
inherit eternal life?” (1) An anx.
jons ingnirer: (2) A momentous in-
quiry; (3) A competent Instructor,
41) Humanity's greatest question;
(2) Humsuity's grandest Instruct
or.
9. “Oge thing thon Iackest yet.” (1)
Bao goal; (2) His large
y His fatal lack.
1) A single deficiency; 2) A fatal
dedeiency. :
?. “He became exceeding sorrowful.”
(1) Longing for eternal life; (2)
C to worldly wealth; (3)
Wavering in indecision.
11. COMPLETE SURRENDER REWARDED,
1. Surrender Possible:
fch are im
preparation; (3
Pea. 46:
ble i
: is sufficient for thee (2 Cor.
ny
Be in the Lord, and in the
of his might (Eph. 6: 10).
il, Surrender Actual:
Lo, we have left our own, and follow-
thee (28).
1 hold not
20: Moe
I am ready... .to die... .for the name
of the Lord Jesus (Acts 21: 13).
I ean do all things in him (Phil, 4: 18).
Il, Surrender Rewarded:
Manifold more in this time, and...
eternal life (30).
The Lord gave Job twice as much as
he had before (Job. 42: 10).
Bell, ... distribute, ....and thon shalt
pave treasure in heaven (Luke 18:
Jo
There is laid up for me the crown (2
Tim, 4: B).
I will give thee the crown
(Rev. 2: 10.
1. “Then who can be saved?” (1) A
desirable end; (2) A difficult way.--
Balvation (1) Impossible with men;
(2) Possible with God.
2. "Lio, we have left our own and fol-
l wed thee.” (1) Leaving worldly
things; (2) Pursuing spiritual
things. — (1) Bell-renounced; (2)
Christ accepte’,
8, “Manifold more in this time, and
in the world to come eternal life.”
(1) Earthly rewards; (2) Heavenly
rewards, — (1) Manifold increase
here; (2) Fternal blessedness here-
of life
JING,
ee —
LESSON BIBLE BEAI
CHRIST'S KINGDOM.
| Not of this world (John 18: 86).
| Saints its subjects (Col. 1: 13).
Fatered in lowliness (Matt, 15:
Luke 18: 16, 17).
Founded in righteousness
7: Heb. 1: 8, 9).
Fverlasting (Daun. 2: 4s; 7:
a
oy
4
Psa. 45: 6,
14; Luke 1:
| Triumphant (Mark 22: Rev. 17:
it 14)
| Universal
1m)
9
-
(Pea.
8; Rev, 11:
Sr —— A ——— sr
LESSON SBURROUNDINGS,
Evexrs, —The
| between this lesson and the last seems
to have been very brief, Matthew
Matt, 18: 8-12) and Mark (Mark 10: 2-
12, however, tell of a disco se abont
divorce, which seems to have imme-
diately preceded the | ing of the
| children. No other intervening event
8 recorded
YL
from
Ti
INTERVENING
1
a
inter val
ur
bE
Bygeg
id
ACH bably in Perea, not far
Jericho. S
ue. —In the latter part of
DU. C.:thatis, A. D. 30, ss An-
drews and Robins maintain. Arch-
Thomson, however, places it
earlier; as already intimated,
Persoxs,— Our Lord, with his dis-
ciples; parents with their babes; a rich
| rauler,—or a young socording to
{ Matthew: Peter, speaking for the dis-
March,
,
Ja
bishop
nan,
| ciples.
i Ixcipexts.—Parents bring their
| babes to Jesus, but are rebuked by the
| disciples; Jesus reproves them for the
rebuke, saying that it is necessary to
receive the Kingdom of God as a little
| child, A ruler comes, asking what he
{ shall do to inherit eternal life; our
{ Lord answers him, telling him that God
| only is good, and recounting the more
| practical duties of the law; the ruler
| claims to have obeyed these; our Lord
| bids him sell all that he has, distribute
| to the poor, and follow him; the ruler
is sorrowful; our Lord declares how
| hard it is for a rich man to enter the
| kingdom of God; then explains that
| God can uceotaplish what man cannot.
| Peter speaks of the diseiples’ leaving
{ all to follow Jesus: he tells them of the
| reward for such here and hereafter,
Pasarrer Passacus. Matthew 19: 13
| 30; Mark 10: 13-31.
EE —
= Out of Town.
A crippled child was taken out of the
slnms in Philadelphis one summer to a
| fram-house among the hills, where she
| remained for a fortnight. It was her
| first visit to the country. The next
| summer the farmer's wife went to the
city to find the child, and to bring ber
| home with her. But want and foul air
| had conquered. She was dying.
{ “Iwish 1 ocould go,” she said, with
| eager eyes. “Are the fields green this
year? And sre the trees growing the
| same way still?”
{| A poor shop-girl, with some of her
companions, was taken by a good wo-
man to fhe seashore for the t time.
Her fries, seeing her standing alone
on the beach, went up to her and found
her weeping.
“Kxouse me, ma'am,” she said, “but
I'm not used to these swell things.”
Do we realize that there are in this
free, bountiful country © #0 poor
that the sea and fields and all good
things seem to them to belong only to
the “swell” rich?
Children’s Relief and Fresh Air
Funds are doing much in our cities to
give to the overworked ¢ in their
gurets and alleys a glimpse of the
| country during the snmmer, but there
| are ofl conntiess thousands who are
| left behind.
Cannot some of the families who read
this paper, and to whom sea and woods
and fields are familiar things, give to
some other child, stifling among the
hot bricks of the city, a sight of them
this summer?
- A A I~ 15535HOA
Candy Gluttony.
The gratification of the ‘sweet tooth”
is spreading among fashionable women,
and more candy is pow sold at retail thap
was ever known before. Physicians con-
tinue to argue that a glut of bombons
and is not the thing in the
world for health, but the ladies, young
and old, do not segm to mind the warn-
ing much, nor sre they deterred by the
pros of an early visit to the dentist,
hich usually aalicws Jantinnd candy
consumption. 0
facture of i
number of