Tv. DR. TALMAGE
The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject; “My second Day in Palos.
tine.”
Texr: “Twent up to Jerusalem. "Gala
tlans, i, 18.
*. My second day in the Holy Land. Wa an
An Joppa. Itis 8 o'clock in the morning, bu!
‘we must start early, for by night we Lie &
be in Jerusalem, and that city is forty-one
miles away. Wo may take camel or ho
+ As to-day will be our Inst op
[portunity in Palestine for taking the wheel
we choose that. The horses, with harness
[tasseled and ingling, are hitched, and, with
ia dragoman in coat of many colors seated in
westart on a rood wuioch unveils in
Swelve hours enough to think of for all time
‘sind all eternity. Farewell, Mediterranean,
iwith such a hluo as nc one but the Divine
Chemist could mix, and such a fireof mornin
‘glow as only the Divine Illuminator could
Kindle, Hail' mountains of Ephraim and
Judea, whose ramparts of rock we shall
mount in a few honey; for modern engineers
can make a road anvwhere, and, without
piling Ossa upon Pelion, thoso giants can
scale the heavens,
We start out of the city amid barricades
of cactus on either side. Not cacti in boxes
two or three feet high, but cactus higher
than the top of the carriage—a plant that
has more swords for defenses considering
the amount of beauty it can exhibit, than
anything created. We passed out amid
about four hundred gardens, seven or eighé
acres to the garden, from which at the
right seasotif re plucked oranges, lemon
figs, olives, citron and pomegranates, an
ch hold up thelr censers of perfume be
Jorethe Lord in perpetual praises. Wemeet
t processions of camels loaded with kegs
of oil and with fruits, and some wealthy
Mobammedan with four wives—thres too
many.
The camel is a proud, mysterio
ancient, ungainly, majestic and ridiculous
shape lking eat of the past. The driver
with his whip taps the camel on the fofe-
leg, and he kneels to take you as a ridéf.
But when he rises hold fast er you will
fall off backward as he puts his fore feet |
in standing postufe, and then you will fall
off in front ad his back legs take thelr
place. But the inhabitants are ude to his
ways although I find the riders offen dis |
mount and walk as though to rest them- |
selves, Better stand out of the path of the |
camel—he stops for nothing and seems not |
to look down; and in the street I saw a
child by the stroke a camel's front foot |
buried seven or feet along the
ground.
Here we meet pe
solemn,
eigat
pls with faces and arms
and hands tattooed, as in ali lands sailors
tattoo their arms with some favorite ship
or admired face. It to this habit of
ug the orientals that God
mn he says of his church,
»s on the palms of my
these
by
ruitial, and as int
i rivers are turped way
water the gardens or farms,
says, “The king's heart |
Lord, and he turnet!
are turned whithersoever he will.
As we pass out and on we find about eight
hundred acres belonging to the Universal
Israclitish alliance. Monteflore, the Israsiit-
ish centenarian and philanthropist, and
Rothschild, the banker, and others of the
large hearted have paid the passage to Pales-
tine for many of the Israslites, and set apart
lands for their culture; and it fx only a be
ginning of the fulfillment of divine prophecy,
when these people shall take possession of
the Holy land. The road from Joppa to
Jerusalem, and all the roads leading to
Nazareth and Galiles, wosaw lined with pro-
cessions of Jews going to the sacred plac
sither on holy pligri s or as settlers, All
the fingers y ery ence nowadays arm
sinting toward that resumption of Pales
ine bry the Israelites. I do not take it that
the prospered lsrasiites of other lands are to
E there. They would be foolish to leave
sir prosperities in our American cities,
where they are among our best citizens, and
oross two seas to n life over again ins
strange land,
But the outrages heaped upon them in
Russia, and the insults offered them in Ger-
many, will soon quadruple and centuples the
procession of Israelites from Russia to Pale
estine. Facilities for getting there will be
multiplied, not only in the railroad from
Joppa to Jerusalem, to which I referred last
Sabbath as being built, but permission for a
road from Damascus to the Bay of Acre has
been obtained, and that of course will soon
connect with
oean
Jerusalem to
nascus, will soon g all the
within a Jom na A nmaohion.
wlonization En and Russia |
we gathering memey for tion |
of the Israel to Palestine, for the |
purchass for them of lands and harming im
t
FS PED Sn
ls at the f
The were God's chosen
md Hs has protaised to them back to
their homa, there is mo power in one
Botind or thousand Te to make |
3 forget . who
prospered in other aril do well to ey
where they are. But lst the Israelites who |
wre depreciated and attacked and perasoyind
turn their faces towards the rising sun of
their deliveranea. God will gather in that |
iistant land those of that race who have
been maltreated, and He will blast with the
dghtnings of His tence those landson
sither side of the Atlantic which have been
the instruments of annoyance and harm to
that Jewis B Teoh to which belonged Abra- |
sam and Da and Joshua sad Baron |
Hirsch and Montefiore and Paul the Apostle |
and Mary the Virgin and Jesus Christ the |
On the way across the plain of Sharon we |
meet many women. It is not respect |
able for them %o go unvelled, and it is a voll |
that is so as to make thom hideous, A |
man may even seo tho face of his wife |
antil after betrothal or engagement of mar. |
: Hence the awful mistakes and the |
nappy homes, for God has made the face
an i of character, and honesty or dishon.
jy usually is demonstrated in features.
I do not see what God madea fair face for if
t wera not to be looked at. But here come
the crowds of disfigured women down the |
road on their way to J. bundles of sticks
for firewood on their ds. They started
it three o'clock in the morn to got the
fuel. They stagger under the burdens
Whi aud beaten will some of them be ii
their bundle of sticks is too small. All tha!
8 required for divorosment is for a man
my to bis wile, “Be off, 1 don’t want you an}
more” Woman a slave in ail lands, excep!
those in which the Gospel of Christ make
ser a queen. And yet in Christian countries
here are women posing as skeption, and mer
with family d ng the omniy religion tha
makes sacred and orable the names o
wife, mother, daughter and sister.
What fs that? Town of Ramloh, birth
place, rezidenos and tomb of Bamnel th
jorious prophel Near by, Tower of Fort:
kariym #0 called because t gt number o
aisel perished there for Christ's sake
but if towers had Leen built for all thos
who in the time of war as in time of pac
save fallen on this road during the age
Jus you might almost walk on turrets fio
pe to Jerusalem, :
ow we passed the guard hous, whic
castles of chopped! straw and mud whe
t and ly through the day arma
and keep the bandits off traveler;
caves of these mountains dwell me
whom would bs high pla an
& purse pennies would oon
b or the struggle tons ti
ve with the waylarer
one other defense that amount
lands and that is the jaw o
this
is
much in
ACSEBANLY, an Arab to eal
with you, if only one mou you are sure
»f his protection, and that has #0 from
age to The Lord's supper was bdilt on
that m, & rial friendship after ww
taking food together. To thas .
tor Scott refers in his immortal * 4
where Baladin, with one stroke of
trikes the head from an enem
n Saladin's tent with a cup
wfore he has time to put
loos it so suddenly that the
say, beheaded, stands for
he beheading, with the cu
wand, After the cup h
would have been impossible, according to the
iaws of the oriental hospitality, to give the
atal blow,
The only lands where it is safe to travel
mnarmed are Christian lands, Human life &
nore highly valued and personal rights are
otter respected, and I am glad to believe
shat in our country, from the Adantio ocean
© the Pacific ocean, there is not a place to.
lay where a man is not safer without a pistol
shan with one. But all through our oys
n Palestine we required firearms. ilo the
mly weapon I had on my person was a New
lestament we wont through the region where
[ said to the dragoman: ‘David, are you
wmed? and he sald “Yes,” and I sald: “Are
shose fifteen or twenty muleteers and bag-
age men and attendants armed? and he
mid “Yes” and I felt safer.
On we roll through the plain of Bharon.
Here grew the ross afver which Christ was
samed, Rose of Sharon, celebrated in all
shristendom and throughout all ages.
bere has been controversy =s to what flow.
wit was, Bome say it way a marshmallow
that thrives here, and some claim this honor
for the narcissus, and some for the blue iris,
ind some Jos the Jontiab of Share: or you
nust know that this plain ro is a roll
ng ocean of colof when Hh ¥pring es a4
nove acrossit, But leaving the botinTsts in
sontroversy asto what it is, 1 would take the
nost aromatic and beautiful of them all and
twist them into a gariand for the “‘name
which is above every name.”
Yonder, a little to the north as we move
sn, is the plain of Ono,
t again and again.
this plain of Uno is a mud village.
great bBadisof rock catch the rains for the
people. Of more importance In olf 2 jam
than in modern time was this plain of Ono.
11 you can
Bible Lread of it [ was remindsd o
multitude of people who no
plain of Ong, They are by
;onstituddn or by Hite Tack of faith in God,
always in the negative.
build a charch? Ob no!
well in the
win
of 8
wr? Oh, no!
religious,
but only
raps to bold back
{ would not give for a thousand of them the
srice of a clippad ten cent piece. They are
n the plain of Ob, uo! May the Lord multi
ly the numbers of those who when anything
rood iertaken are found to live in the
Will you a t this now
Do you think that this
{ avil habit can be reformed? Ob,
Are you willing to do anything,
her obscure or resounding, for the wel.
f the church and the salvalion dia
ki? Oh, yes! But lam sorry to my
at the most populou ain in all the cart
w-day is the pla
Here now we co
which Bamson fired the foxes, The
loxes are no rarity in this land. I counted
st one time twenty or thirty of them in one
group, and the cry all along line was
Foxes! Look at the foxes! and st night
they sometimes bark until all attempts
deep are an absurdity, Those I saw and
seard in Palestine might have beon descond-
ants of the very foxes that Samson empl
for an sppallingincendiarism.
of that land was in the harvests and It eas
wnrvest time and the straw was dry. Three
aundred foxes are caught and tied in couples
by some wire or incombustible cord which
the flames cannot divide, and firebrands are
Iastenad to those couples of foxes, and the
sffrighted creatures are let loose and rum
svery whither among the harvests, and in
she awful blaze down go the corn shooks, and
the vineyards and the olives, and all through
she valleys and over the hills and among the
villages is heard the erp of “Fire” And in
the burnt pathway w hunger and want
and desolation.
All this for spite. And some theologians
earn one thing and some another. Bat I
earn from it ta great man may somes
limes stoop toa very mean plece of business,
and that if men would use as much Ingeno-
ty In trying to bless as they do in trying to
festroy, the world all the way down would
be in Detter condition. Yet the fire of the
loxes kindlad that night in Palestine has not
@ out, but has leaped the seas, and the sly
loxes, the human foxes, are now still run
sing every whither, kindling political fires,
res of religious controversy, fires of hate
world wide fires and the whole harvest of
righteousness perish. It took the hard work
For is un
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Braoe up nerves now, that
David took it to Jerusalem. Yonder John
where Christ walked with his
handle to the plow, showing the accuracy of
And so Christ used the si
the p
dom.” Theox
looking bac fit for the kin
pointed with
is urged on by a wooden stic
sharp irom, and the ox knows h not to
kick, for be would only hurt hi f Instead]
of breaking the goad. And the Bible refers
to that when it says to Saul, “It is hard for
thee to kick against the goads.”
Here is the valloy of A famous for
Joshua's pursuit of the five and
lunar arrest. And in nation I see
moon in daytime halt,
times seen the moon dispute the throne with
the sun? But when the king of day and the
neen of night, who never before Joshua's
Gime nor since Stopped a moment in
their march, halted at Joshua's command it
was a scene, enough to make the universe
shiver: “Moon, stand thon still in the valley
of Ajalon™ At another tirae we will see the
sun stop above Gibeon, but now we have only
to do with the moon, and you must remem,
ber it was more of an orb than it fs now. I
Is 8 burnt out world now, a dead world now.
an extinct world now, a corpse laid out in
Wate in the heavens, waiting for the judg.
ment day to bury it. But on the day of
waich 1g k the moon was probably a liv.
ing world, yet it halted at the wave of Josh.
ua's finger, “Stand thou still!” Do not budge
an inch until Joshua finishes thoss five king
who are thers tumbling over the rocks, swe
of man slashing them, hailstones out of the
sky peiting thew.
And therg is the cavern of Makkedah,
where they fled for safely, and where
were afterward locked in and from wh
they wers taken out to be alain, and in whick
they wero afterward buried, and you de
well to sxamios that cavern, for within »
few hours it beoams three things which ne
other cave over was--fortress, prison
sepulcher.
Now we pass the place where onos lived
one of the greatast robbers of the country,
Abou Gosh by nama, From this Ba you
sea he could look over the surrounding coun
try, and long balors the travelers came up ko
hin the plan for taking of their monsy on
their life, or both, was sonsumated, He om
day found a company of monks who would
not pay, and he smothored them to death ir
a hot oven, In his Inst days ho lived here
lke an oriental princes, and had attendants
and admirers to whom ho told his stories of
assassination. Ho late a
American,
God.
Now we come to the brook Elah, from
which little David took the ade
with whioh he pfostrated Goliath, ere is
a bridge ataios the ravine, but at the ses
son we crossed there is not a drop of water
in the brook. We went down into the ravine
and walked mmid the pebbles that aad been
washed smooth, very smooth, by the rush of
tho waters through all the ages, is
wheres David armed himself, Hs walked
around and plaked up five of these polished
Pibtiien. He got them of Jam, the right size,
ie prepared Binselt for five volleys, so that
#f the giant escaped the first he will not es
cape the whole five. The topography of the
place so corresponds with the Bible
that I could see the memorable fight go on.
It is tho only fight | ever did watch,
Pugllism I abhor; but here were two cham-
plous--the one God appointed, the other
Satan appointed, and deciding the destiny of
a nation, the destiny of a world, It was a
arms. Here are two ridges of mountains 56
feet high, the Philistines on one ridge, the Is-
raclites on the other ridge. The deh
the valley between, at that seasoh shaded
d swest with terebinth and acacia, David
@ champion for the leraslites, Goliath the
champion for the Philistines, David under-
sized apd almost effeminate, only 8 mouth.
ful for Goliath, who was nearly ten feet high.
They advance to mest each other, but the
Bible says that David made the first step
forward. Nearer and nearer they coms,
but I do not think David will wait until he
comes within reach of Goliath's sword, for
that would befatal, and David has 4 weapon
th whigh he can fight at long range.
Closer dn
Yauces the more rapidly. gpm
fant, “and I will give
unto the fowls of the air and tg
Coy soe Clolfat Fe
fquet to the vulture
and jackal. He, the mountain of flesh, will
fall ovr on that little Killock. I hear him
laugh through the mouthpiece of his hel
met. Heo will toast the little whiffet on the
top of his long sword. He will call all the
crows for a breakfast. ‘Come to me, yop
contemptible little fellow, and 1 will make
mick work with you. The ides that a five.
ooter should dare to « out against a
ten-footer! Let the two armies looking down
from the ridges watch ms David respond
od “1 come to thoes in the name of the
lord of Hosts™ Aha! that is the righ!
kind of battle shout. “In the name of the
Lord of Hosts!
How that cry rings through the Wadyes-
Bumpt! He who fights in that spirit wing
the day. The almost lsraelitish
larges foto omnipotent proport
moment to strike has come
his sling, with a stones in it a
round his bead until bs 5 3
into sufflclent momentus
sure aim, hurls it
hands and resis ba
sank into Lis forehead i
available point of attack
the helmet ou his head? x
David flung orash through the hel
An old rabbi says he thinks that when Go
liath scoffed at David the giant so saddeniy
and contemptuocusly jerked up his head that
fell off. That is lke enough
David saw the bare forehead, a foot high and
aimed at the centre of it, and the skull
eracked and bree in Hike an eggehell, and
the ground shook as this great oak of a milie
tary chieftain struck it. Huss for David!
But we must hasten on, for the dangs now
is that night will be upon us before we reach
Jorusalem. Oh! we must seo it before san.
down. We are climbing the hills which are
terraced with olive groves, uplands rising
above nds, until we come to an immen-
sity of ness, gray rocks above gray
rocks, where neither tres, nor leaf, nor bush,
nor blade can grow horses stum.
ble, and slip and p till it seams the hare
reak. Solemaity and awe take
to
iwarf en-
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and during part of the day joonlarity had
Ls BOW no one spoke a word exospt to
# dragoman, “Tell us when you get
Jiapusat the city.” I never had
such high expectation of seeing say place as
of soning Jerusalem. | think my fee
may have bean slightly akin to thoss of
lem wears bewildering. Had I not seen plo-
Oh, yes; but they anly increased
the bewilderment. They were taken from a
variety of standpoints.
twenty artists attempt to sketoh - Brook-
oor New York or London or Jerusalem
fow minutes I shall seo the
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Brzekiel; home of Jeremiah; home of
home of Saladin, a Moria,
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would rataer have ths poorest place inside
the gates than the best place outside.”
we remonntad our coach and moved on
a clamor of voices, and between
grusting with great beams and timbers on
isle Vicks, Droit 10 lay aliding purposes
wf It 4s smnging how uiuch 4 ohn
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five minutes’ walk of the
David wrote, “Eater into
thanksgiving,” “Lift up y
gat “The Lord lo
Upon to
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A Sallor Becomes a Rajah.
Captain R. C. Temple, in the course
of an article on the coins of the modern
Punjab chizfs, refers to the remarkable |
carver of one of these chiefs, George
Thomas original.
into the far northwest to the court
Begum Bamru, at Bardbans,
This he
with whom he |
He was now a personage of importance
in possession of a jagir grented by his
late chief, and was able to help Begum
Bamru when in distress. Upon Apa
Khanda Rao's suicide in 1787, Thomas
seems to have been on uniformly bad
of his time in defending ‘his jagir from
their attacks, In 1708, taking advan
age of the troubles of the times, he ap-
fom the Marathas, and to have seized
he distriot yound Hisar and Hansi,
tuown as Hariana. - The latter town he
nade bi 2apttal and established him.
elf as Rajah thepeo!.
His territory comprised 258 villages
wd paid a revenue of about 8,000,
upets. Again, according to his bio-
rrapher, quoting his words: ‘Here, says
dr. Thomas (with that energy and
pirited animation which distinguished
tim throughout the scenes of his extraor-
linary life), I established a mint and
wined my own rupees, wisile I made cur.
ent in my army and country, ete.”
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1200,
The Spirit of True Service,
LESSON TEXT.
(Luke 28 : UST. Memory verses: 2.27)
LESSON PLAN.
Torio or THE QUARTER:
Saviour of Men,
Jesus the
Gorpex Texr ror THE QUARTER:
Though he were a Son, yet learned he
obedience by the things which he suf-
Jered.—Heb, b : 8,
Liessox Torrie: The
ments Declared,
Son's Require-
1. Lowliness, vs. 24-25,
Lessox Ourring:< 2 Christ-likeness, ve. 27-50,
1
& Truthialness, vs. 31.27.
Goroex Texr: Let this mind be in
Phil. 2 : 4
Dary Hour Reapinas @
M.—Iimke 22: 24-37.
3
requirements,
T.—John 13 : 3
paraliel,
W. Matt,
enforced.
Mark 9 :
forced.
F.—John 13;
lustrated.
8,—Bom. 12 : 1-21.
true service.
B.—1 Pet. 4:1-14.
true service,
The Bon's
1-88. John's partial
20
20-20. Lowliness
83-50. Lowliness en-
1-17. Lowliness il-
The spirit of
The spirit of
———————
LESSON ANALYSIS,
t 1. LOWLINESS,
I. Lowliness Overiooked:
There arose also a ocontention;....
which of them. . .. greatest (24).
Who then is greatest in the kingdom of
heaven? (Matt. 18 : 1).
After establishivg himself ' at Hansi, |
he rest of Thomas's life, like thatof the |
ieaghboring chiefs, was one of perpetusl
var, in his case against the Marathos and
he Sikhs, as representsd chiefly by the |
thiefs of Patiala, Nabha aad Sind. In
tis case also, it general com-
sination against flight into
Jritish territory, his death in Ber.
built & fort due
om Delhi, which he
~-(Geargegarh
as Jakazgarh, just
8 he is known as Jabaz (stip) Sahab, ap
mrently in recollection of his origio,—
ndian Anliquery.
ended in a
him, his
ana
He
foe
il
wmpore in 1802,
ast of and not far
wmed after bims
vhich is now known
A Notable Quest for Treasure.
With high hopes of abundant success
Jasco Nunez, with 170 of his best fol-
owers, sot out from Darien, in Central
imerica, in two brigantinses and some
anoes in search of the famous Temple of
Jobaba. They went up the coast about
hirty-five leagues and entered a large
wwerful cacigue and s bitter enemy of
be Specisrds, hed watched the move.
sent with a knowedge of its intent, and
funez divided his y and sent a
if them to explore the stream which they
wd entered, while he and the remainder
earched for the temple. They came to
he territory of cacique who reigned over
i region sbounding in marshes and
| hallow lakes, where the habitations
vere built of mud aad wicker-work in
{ he branches of huge and lofty trees.
‘he people ascended to their houses on
| ight ors made of split resis of
mormous size. These they drew up
dter them at might or when attacked.
which they de-
| ended themsesives with their buckiers.
| Perceiving the danger to himself and
| amily the cacigque descended. ‘Have
i rou gold!’ Nunes inguired. ‘‘No,” an-
| swered the cacique; “I have no use for
| iny and have gathered none. If you will
| low mae to ge to yonder mountain I will
ing Jou what desive.” Leaving
is and
ren a8 hostages the
meique departed, but dd pot return.
latisfled that the story of the Golden
Pemple was a myth, Nonez and his fol-
owers returned to Darien, continually
wrassed by Zemato.-—New York Voice
Costly Metals.
Aluminum, which now costs $8 or $0 a
sound, will eventually be produced as
sheaply as steel. When this can be done
it will push the latter metal out of a
great many of its present uses, as it pos.
esses great strength, toughness and
slastioity, with extreme lightness of
weight. Its sources of are inex.
haustible, and its present high cost arises
from the difficulty of its extraction in
the metallic form. Indium seems to be
They had disputed, .who the
greatest (Mark 9 : 3
There arose a res
which. ...gratest (Luke 9
t itself,
was
among them,
vannleth no
up (1 Cor, 13 : 4)’
Il. Lordliness Prac
Kings of the Gent
over them (27
With force and with
ruled ov i
ulers of t
Matt, 20
heir great one
» t harm
Gr wae
ool reniile
EF BXere:
Mark 10 : 42
wo have lor
Cor, 1 : 24).
Lowliiness Commanded:
them
cist that
: ¥
tha ARLID
if
iaith (2
The greater among you, let him be-
come as the vounger (26
Yot hath he respect
(Pra. 138: 6)
unto the lowly
(Prov.
3: 34).
eck and lowly in heart (Matt,
11: 20.
4: 2).
1. “There arose alsc a contention
among them.” (1) The
ing parties;
Lhe unseemly quarrel.
2. “Yo shall not be #0.” (1) Not
like the Gentiles; (2) Not clam-
orous for place; (3) Not exercising
lordship; (4) Not arrogating hon-
Ors.
8. “He that is the greater among you,
let him become as the younger.”
{1) Humility practiced; (2) Exalta-
tion attained.
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CHRIST- LIKENESS,
I. In Serving:
I am in the midst of you as he that
| serveth (27).
The Son of man eame....%0 minister
(Matt. 20: 28).
I then, the Lord and the Master, have
washed your feet (John 13: 14).
Who loved me, and gave himself up
for me (Gal. 2: 20).
Taking the form of a servant (Phil, 2:
il. In Enduring:
Ye... have continued with me In my
temptations (28),
We suffer with him, that we may be al-
so glorified with him (Rom. 8: 17).
If we endure, we shall also reign with
him (2 Tim. 2: 12).
Jesus... endured the cross, despising
shame (Heb. 12: 2).
As ye are partakers of Christ's suffer-
ings, rejoice (1 Pet. 4: 13).
HL In Triumphing:
Ye may eat and drink at my table in
my kingdom (30).
1 The upright shall have dominion
(Pea. 49: 14).
Ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones
(Matt, 19: 28),
Enter thon into the joy of thy lord
(Matt. 25: 23).
1 will give to him to sit down with in
my throne (Rev. 3: 21),
1. “1 am in the midst of you as he
that serveth.” (1) Jesus as a Sav-
jor; (2) Jesus as a servant; (8)
Jesus as a model.
2. “I appoint unto you a kingdom.”
(1) Master of the kingdom; (2) Re-
cipients of the kingdom. — (1)
Jhrist's authority in the kingdom;
a The believer's share in the
ingdom.
3. “Yo shall sit on thrones judging
tho twelve tribes of Israel” (1)
Exalted to thrones; (2) Exercising
authority; (2) Enjoying honor.
IL. TRUSTFULNESS,
1. The Lord's Watchful Care:
I made jrappliestion for thee, that
thy faith fail not (32).
The Lord is ny shepherd; I shall not
Mat tho. aloes 1 will ‘he with
thee (Isa.
(Isa, 43: 2),
1 am with you always (Matt. 28:
1 will in no wise fail thee (Heb. 18; 5).
11. The Lord's Full Knowledge:
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He calleth his own sheep by name
(John 10: 8),
The Lord knoweth them that are his
{2 Tim, 2; 19).
il. The Lord’s Kind Providence
Lacked ye anything? And they
said, Nothing (45).
Thou
23:5).
They that seek the Lord shall not want
any good thing (Psa. 34: 10). :
They shall go in and go out, and shal
find pasture (John fo. 9). *
To them that love God all things work
together for good (Bom. 83 285).
1, “Batan asked to have you, tint ke
might sift you” (I) Jesus; (2;
Peter; 13) Satan, —(1) Satan's de
mand;i2) Simon's peril; (8) Christg
help.
. “1 made supplication for thee,
that thy faith fail not.” (1) Bim-
on’s peril; (2) Jesus’ prayer.—(1)
Batanic assault; (2) Human peril;
(3) Protecting supplication.
. “Thon shalt thrice deny that thou
knowest me,” (1) Peter's con
fidence; (2) Peter's peril; (8)
Peter's fall.—t1) Complete denial
(2) Repested denial; (3) Emphatic
deniai,
— ts A W155
LESSON BIBLE READING.
REWARDS OF GOD'S SERVANTS.
A crown of righteousness (2 Tim. 4 : BE),
A crown of glory (1 Pet. 5 : 4).
A crown of life (Jas, 1 : 12; Rev. 2: 10).
An incorruptible crown (1 Cor. 9 : 25),
The prize (Puil. 8 : 14).
Treasure in heaven (Matt. 19: 21; Luke
12 : 33.
An eternal weight of glory (2
4:17).
Fulness of joy (Psa. 16:11; Jobn 15;
11).
Kingship with Christ (2 Tim. 2:
4
Rev.5:10;20: 4)
Cor.
12 ;
LESSON BUBROUNDINGS.
INTERVENING kveEsTs.—In the nar.
{ rative of Luke there is evidently a de-
viation from the regular order of events,
21-23 of the prediction re-
epecting the betrayer, which probably
ne institution of the
ome of the events in
sroperly be placed
babble order is as
$0 wh ’ should
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§ Supper
m (ve, 31-37) is m
placed immedistely after the
it but Matthew and Mark put
srediction of Peter's denial on the way
Gethsemane. It is likely tnst the
prediction was repested. The long dis-
course (John 14-17) follows this lesson.
Prace.—In the upper room at Jer-
usalem, mainly at the table during the
| paschal supper.
Time. —Probably the evening closing
| the 14th of Nisan, 783 A. U. C.; that is,
| April 6, A. D. 30, —althought there is a
dispute at this point.
Prnsoxs.— Our Lord with the twelve;
| Simon Peter 1s specially prominent;
| Judas was present only a part of the
| time covered by the lesson.
Iscipesrs, — The contention as to
who should be greatest (probably con-
nected with a strife for the more honor-
| able places at the table); the lesson of
| humility in service; the promise for
them in toe kingdom; the prediction of
trial; the answer of Peter; the predic-
tion of his denial; the reference to their
previous mission; the new conditions
of service, in view of our Lord sspeedy
death.
Pararrer Passaces (in part). —Mat-
thew 26 : 31-85; Mark 14 : 27-31; John
13 ; 36-38).
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How She Outwitted Them.
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In a semi-farhionable boarding house
“on the ll,” in Washington, residep
as a guest a maiden lady, cunltared and
clever, Like some other nice people
she is rather sensitive on the subject of
age, and this, of course, was the su
| jeer of 80 me quizzing among the thick-
{ er skinne d boarders. The blank le
| at the house by the ennmerator wes
spread on the parlor table, and the in-
mates requested to fill in the various
spaces 88 to their antecedents, ete
Secrecy was of course out of the gues-
tion, and considerable curiosity was
evinced as to how our ancient mmiden
would treat the query as to ber age.
When her turn came she was equal
to the emergency. She quietly lled
{in all the desired information, and
| when the er. eves around scauped
the ‘age column” they found they
could make nothing of it. Everything
else was written out in a neat, clear
hand, but here they were stum
“Why, Miss Arabella,” said the land-
lady, smiling sweetly, “I am afraid the
enumerator will not be able to make
this out,” pointing to the item in ques-
tion.
“That?” said Miss Arabella placidly.
“Oh, that 1s written in German, yoa
| know, and if he can’t read it they can
| at the office of course.” And she calm-
ly retired, well aware that not a sottl
in the house but herself understood a
word of German. Washington Letter.
MaxmsniguUe has an aqueous voloano, a
spring of 250 feet wide and 400 feet
long. The water and sand boil np from
a depth of sixty-five feet and throw the
little lake into conionl It sup-
a creak twenty foot and two
eet deop the year
Some relic unter has cut out and
carried away from the Union College
building, in Schenectady, N. X.,
section of window sil Th which x.