REV. DR. TALMAGES SERMON | Ihe Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday Sermon. Subject © “The Wonderful Distance Traversed by Christ,” TEXT: “NO !ve/Ted up mine eyes the way foward the north.” —Ezekiel vii : At one o' through Damas of Jerusalem for a Hor Bethel, with which was a st A somber alternoon, * Al'e pa out Hal Sng northward rg, the bottom me pillow: and J 3 wilh its luuuortal colloguy; and Naz Frith its divine boy shop, and the mos rippl woh's well, areth, in Hix father’s carpente and Damas Straight, surcharged phetie, patri 1DIsCEN CE =. In t i am impress been, with i d, msionally! 3 in a triumphal procession, as it issom s called, although it seerns to me that the hosannas of the crowd could not have made a ride on a stubborn, unimpressive and creature like thai which pattered Him into Jerusalem very much of a triumph. But we are mads to undertand that generally He walked. How much that means only those know who have ons over the distance traversed by hrist, Weare aco funny with nm ed fo read that Bethany is two miles fx Jerusalem. Well any many in ordinary h can walk two miles withi out fatigues. But not m than ome man out of a the 1 walk from Bethany ta Jerusalem with xhaustio It is over the Mount of Oliv g ruust climb up among th descend wherd 1 from falls ustomed ta mt aes the Mor ire { them. a 4 the night raffians i together, and oit the woman husban twalve wom tf : his tha tribes an intH fit to each TE WRA TOTS twalve parts and » tribe, and the { and a perempte surrender 4 refused. in one day twenty th were left dead on the . the demand ousand people field and the next day eighteen thousand, Wherever our horse tos day plants his foot in those ancient times a corpse lay, and the roads were erossed by red rivulets of carnage, Now we pass on to where ssven youths were put to death and their bodies giby beted or hung in chains not for anything they bad themseivesfdone, but as a repar: atica for what their father and grand- fatcer, Saul had done. Burial was denied these youths from May until November; Fizpah, the mother of two of these dea) boys, appoints herself as sentinel to guar "he seven corpses from beak of raven an toath of wolf and paw of lion. Bhe pitche a black tent on ths rock close by th ibbets. Rizpah by day sits on the groun n front of her tent, and when a vulture be gins to lower out of the noonday sky seeking ts prey among the gibbeta Rizpah rises, her Jong hair flying in the wind, and swinging er arms wildly about shoos away the bird of prey until {t retreats to itssyrie. Af night she rests under the shadow of her tent, and sometimes falls into a drowsiness or half sleep, But the step of a jackal the dry leaves or the panting of a hyena arouses her, and with the fury Tari hr ry out upon the rock crying, “Away! Away!” and then, Sanminiug he gibbets to ses that they still keep their burden, returns again td her tent till some swooping wing from the midnight sky or some growling monster on the rock again wakes her, A mother watching her dead children through May, J July, August, Septem: {ber and October! hat & vigil! Pain bave tried to put u canvas the scens, [they succeeded in sketch the hawks in the and wiing out from the ; Jungle, but they fail to give the wannem, ains Go home, Ri ! Yi tired, oe arcril life for those whom Tour on t your Losom |enat the dar midnight dare you tell me 1 go homel. Lam a. ed er. lam pot tired. You mignt as well ex-| pect God to get tired as for a mother to fet tired. I cared for those boys when they lay on my breast in infancy, and I will not for- saiie them now that they are dead. Inter. rypt me not, “here stoops an eagle that I must drive h with my agonizad ory. Thera is a panther I must beat back with my club” : Do you know what that scens by our road. OL scene. Right here in these thres as American seacoast thera are at ! than that, s rum saloon, 1 in a living evil habiy may go ta § moment worsas oys that th MEY Cann: Ore Pr aller wait Ld nt Fhe ruined boy mo home, and, giving be may savy “Mother, coms to beds y 14a 1p any longer® But wi, Itisl o'clock in the 1 | it Comes riforhit sigh WK, staggering ing rena 1s mot man ig vet alive? to his father's eu- her's prayers, Dead I whare he was reared, * ambitions that once in- ud, Only a corpse off ibbeted before God and devils, Chained in a id grasp, His thers are asleep hig + mother is watching in the night After he and fallen into a drunken, will go up to his room and yoerly covered, and bafore she turns out the light will put a kiss upon his bloated lips Mother, why don't you go to ‘Ah! says, 'l eannot go to bed. I am Fizpah watching the slain!” And what are the political part country doing for such cases* T ing care not tha fee jackals zzards that roost shelves of th ; shops and hod” lead. 1 asked to what j party I I now declare my fon of the; tical parties to-day Fa is worse t or and the only © “nn is that death that father is asieen. his sisters are asleep; but h him, watehi nim has gv glean I \ y "nit a“ Will BOIL ALS ( na « iS I sea tl it he bad? she MEY 4 ines ret ’ of on above t to hurt . And the a itmavy quickest the on it “via itham r “via Marseilles ” as about your child, “via * How k will such a to get to its destination® ws tho millionth part of & ve it Lhe promise is: will answer.” That on toward such prayerful exer ng will come and { the prayer be made at 10 o'cl at night t will be answered five minutes before ten. “Before they call I will answer.” Well, you say, I am clear discouraged about my son, and I am getting on in years, and I fear [ will not live to see him convert. #d. Perhaps not. Nevertheless [ think you' will find him in the temple, the heavenly temple, There bas not been an bour in heaven the last one hundred years when pa- rents in glory had not had announced to them the salvation of children whom they laft in this world profligate. We often have to say “I forgot,” but (God has never yet once sid “I forgot.” It may be after the grass of thirty summers has greened the top of) your grave that your son may be found in the earthly temple. It may be fifty years from sow when some morning the towers are chim. ing the matins to the glorified in heaven that, you shall find him in the higher temple which has “no need of candle or of sun, for ng rr « t a the bless oie thereof.” Cheer up, Christian father an Cheer up! mother | Where Joseph and Mary foun their boy you will find yours—in the temple.’ You ses, pd could not afford to do otherd wise, ne of the things He has positively promised in the Bible is that He will answer earnest and believing prayer. Failing to dq that He would wreck fis own throne, and the foundation of His palace would give way, and the bank of heaven would a payment, and the dark word, repadioton” would be written across the sky, and the sternal government would be disbanded and God Himselt would become an exile, K | your ohild in the. i i § : : : beside her and began to pray. He bad coms to rob that house, but the prayer of that woman for Prodizale reminfed him of his mother and bh vagabond, and from that hour he began anew life. Years after that woman was in a city In a great audience, and the orator who cams on the platform and plead gloriously for righteousness and God was the man wha many years before bad looked into the cabin on the prairie asa robber. Tue speaker and the asaditor immediately recognized each other, After so long a Wme a mother's prayers answered. But we must hurry on, and vaggage mon have beon ordered to patch ur teats for t ht at Bethel, It is already g 80 daek that we hs tor va up all idea of guiding ¢ aes, wid vo thom to their own sagacity, We ride down amid mud eabins into ravines, whers thas horses | mia to depth, rocks below rocks, ro ok Whoa! Whoa! Wa di s, memorable for for the muletesrs i ee and sD 01 1G , Lhe two mora nary. whereof cll or I" J ROO dream | Theologieal Sami. of the prophets” wera Hited for the us who e7er had tho advantage of such institutions will everlast. ingly be grateful, and in nidar saints, which I read with especial af ars the doctors of divinity who with their care I thank God that from theses theological seminaries thers is pow coming forth a mag. nificant crop of y g ministers, who are taking the pulpits in all parts of the lanl, | hail their ing, and tell these young brothers to shake off the somnolence of cen turies, and get out fromm under the dusty shelves of theological discussions which have whicl minisiry, an the © ection, blessed mo Cony cal bearing on tl of 5 age its sins and Many of our ns Pao Pe nave pai io AY CARN en i expianasty ~ or nat 1 RK Weaver w, ¥ 2anaG vald sos a new hemis sleot on a cutder’s pill let down Lt wares to TE mw ray + ot yw, | $ a to ass the mi tha be awayed by wright slept g na barber's pillow up the adder till he could quake with the factories he sat go side slept on a bus piliow, and Sook the ladder up till he saw other generations helped by his scholarship John Ashworth slept on a poor man's pil low, but took the ladder up until he coud sen his prayers and exertions bringing thou. sands of the destitute in England to salvation and heaven, Nearly all those who are to- day great in merchandise, in statesmanship, in law, in medicine, in art, in literature, were once at the foot of the ladder, and in their boyhood had a pillow hard as Jacob's. They who are born at the top of the ladder are apt to spend their jives in coming down, while those who are at the foot, and their head on a bowider, if they have the right kind of dream, are almost sure to rise, I notice that those angels, either in come ing down or going up on Jacob's ladder, took it rung by rung. They did not leap to the bottom nor jump to the top. Bo you are to rise. Faith added to faith, good deed to good deed, industry to industry, conse. eration to consecration, until you reach the top, rung by rung. Gradual gong up from a block of granits to a pillar of throne, That night at Bethel I stood in front of my tent and looked up, and the heavens wera full of ladders, first aladder of clouds, then a ladder of stars, and all up and down the heavens were angels of beauty, angelsol consolation, angels of God, ascend) a descending, “Surely, God is in this co" mid Jacob, “and 1 knew it not.” But toe night God ls in this place and [ know it gens all ng her's More or less successful attempts have been made to graftnearly all the differ. ent tissues of the body, including skin, bone, teeth, muscle, nerves, gland, eyes, mucous nembrane, eto, , . Thompston now reports a successful ex- a small piece of the brain of a cat being made to grow on the brain of a dog. It is sod to put the newspaper re- riers of Brussels, Belgium, in uni. crm, and a semi-military costume, with a handsoms frogered Sunie, Is sug- gested as the proper thing, The desir ability of the uniform was frst made KINDNESSES, There is great need in the present day for moderation and self respect in the saying and doing of smart things the aspect of present events enforces these measures. It is a noble essen fatigue by rendering help, and there are so many and various ipgen- ious ways by which all the world ean Bl in this work re cordia ly, either by bined effort, A wil ly and properly; without } be. individual right or con standard of good © mark the course sonsil good - he ted thi essenti Arie dness 1H PDOBe 1 on: but k rij htly dire thre comes ndne:s, % wide h worn adbare. K ndnpees is ght may v and poi of far-reaching the con a which High plainly field over anqgul darkness, practical ligence nts to deeds and how of ‘ rey sequences such harm me my. soohtw weighty minds are endowed with the faculty nfl organization, What ence that gift may the thought ir n H- and can prove; for 8 prior to the deed, the 1s well drilled, delicate and strong In clear movement. The power of organ 1 » > 4 ization can beginning 1 s the be ! a suffi n, but nothing int fo American id My own ide Any portion for looks but a in Inve jeft-overs, CX (Of conrse, Can be used again, snd in even more appetis ing forms than at their first appearance, if one knows how-—it is amazing tice all the capabil ties of But too large a quantity any which eannot be served up have often seen a housekeeper away the scraps of suet sent with a beefsteak or roast—oertainly waste.” quality to be chopped up for a very many things of into usual dripping, preferable in many instances to lard. Housckeepers in the habit of melting all their scraps of fat wonld be surprised to learn how many offend economy in this respect. Similarly, there is frequent waste in the neglect to use bones and other scraps which would form a desirable base for soups. Remembering that good meat stock forms the first re- quisite for almost all soups, it may be seen at once that thought in this direo- tion will result in a desirable variation of the family bill.of-fare. And a very bountiful household, where every por- tion of the liberal bill-of-fare is util ized, ia surely more economical than the skimpy kitchen with many little wastes, Evany one does not regard all these little motions as economical; but 1 think that the employment of every- thing that adds to the comfort of a ing the expense, is certainly an econo- oy We might as well have all the i SIINDAY SCHOOL LESSON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1800, Jesus Crucified, LESSON TEXT. {Luke 23 : 8-47. Memon ¥Y VOrses: THPIe Saviour (ior ‘ oy Tough ie olied is red. Ie Le rendered. ON Lesson ©O GoLpex him tlie ti. on 03 : Day Hour M.—Luke 1 Ife sn The 33 Ay rréend RE ..a4 iat ii. Prayer: 3 Jesus, remember i comest in thy kingdom mber me, O my r good Bh. 13:1 (Ne . ing to thy loving kindness re- member thon me (Psa. 256: 7 will deliver thee (Psa. 50: 15. the Lord shall be saved (Rom. 10: 13), Il. Salvation: To-day shalt thon Paradise (43). Where I am, there shall also my serv. ant be «John 12: 249). 1.... will receive you (John 14: 3). I will that, where I am, they also may be with me (John 17: 24.. Willing rather. ...to be at home with the Lord (2 Cor. 5: 8). 1 “Save thyself and us” (1) In form, a plea; (2) In fact, a re- proach. 2. “Jesus, remember me when thon comest in thy kingdom.” (1) A broad outlook; (2) An humble pe- tition; (3) A sublime trust, 8. “To-day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.” ‘To-day (1) Begun in the dungeon; (2) Spent on the cross; (3) Ended in Paradise.~-(1) Unspeakable blessedness; (2) As- sured blessedness; (8) Immediate blessedness, 115, THE LIFE SURRENDERED, I. The Rent Vell: The weil of the temple was rent in the midst (45). The veil shall divide. ...the holy place be with me in unto myself f it takes the material form of a and the most holy (Kxod. 26: 33), Tha veal... . was rent in twain from the top to the bottom (Matt, 27: 51). Butating into that w is within the veil (Heb. 6: 19), Having. . boldness to enter ad the Heb. 183036). vel 11. The Surrendered Life; He gave up the ghost (46), He poured out his soul unto death (isa. b3: 12). 1lay down my life for the sheep (John 10: 15). No one taketh it away from me, but I lay 1t down (John 10: 18), Who loved snd gave himself ap fr me G 1] 111. The J Certainly (47). 15 : 29.30 : John 19 : 17-80. . & a 2 . 04; Mark A Srraxce discovery was made at one on the upper Niger by awvoust and his comrs nd a piece of evidently very old It was fixed upon the osque, and the Moham- GOR, had been given to them near ¢ ning of this century by a who was going down the river. From all the information the travelers collect. ed they could reach no other conclusion than that the donor of this little vase was Mungo Park, the pioneer of African exploration in the last hundred years AN OLD STORY WELL TOLD. ¢ begin- white man te In Palestine, long years Ago Ro runs the legend old Where Kedron's spa kling waters flow Across their sand« of gold, And Mount Moriah Jifts his head Aboe the sunny plain, Two brothers owned —as ohe—"tis sald, A field of golden grain. And when the ant mn days had come, And ail the shocks and sheaves Stood waiting for the “harvest home,™ Among the withering leaves, The elder Brother sald one night: “I'm stronger far than Saul, My younger brother, "Tis but right That 1 should give him all These sheaves upon the plain We own together so I'll put with his my stack of grain, And he will never know I Scarce had be left (le sheaves of wheat When quietly there came Across the Seld with stealthy feet, On errand just the same, The younger iad, who said: My brother Simon's need Is greater far than mine, for he Hath wife and child to feed ; Aud so to him 1'1 give my sheaves it i= but right. 1 Raw: And he will never think who leaves These wheat stacks on his row ™ Next morning, when the brothers twain Regan to count their store, Behold t each found his stacks of grain To number as belore! “Why ! bow Is this?" in great surprise ‘ho kries “1 see Fach to himself tuen sani, “i'n wateh ton
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