REV. DR. TALMAGE
The Drookiyn vines Sanday
fermon,
tublect: «On Take Galllee”
Text: “He entered into a ship, aud sal
tn the sea; and the whole multitude was
by the sea on the land.” —Mark iv,, 1.
It is Monday morning in our Palestine ex-
periences, and the sky is a blus Galiles above,
as in the boat we sail the blue Galilee be-
neath. It is thirteen miles long and six miles
wide, but the atmosphere is so clear it ssems
as if [could cast a stone from beach to beach.
The lake looks as though it bad been let
down on silver pullevs from the heavens and
were a section 0” the sea of glass toat St,
John describes as a part of the caleatial Iand-
scape. Lake Galilee is a depression of six
hundred feet in which the river Jordan
widens and tarries a little, for the river Jor-
dan comes in at its north side and departs
from its south side; so this lake has its cradle
and its grave,
Its white sat'n cradle is among the snows
of Mount Hermon where the Jordan starts,
and its sepulchrs is the Dead Sea into whica
the Jordan empties. Lake Como of Italy
Lake Geneva of Switzeriand, Lake Lomond
of Scotland, Lake Winnipssaulkes of America
are larger, but Lake Galiles is the greatest
diamond that ever dropped from the finger
of the clouds, and whether encamped on its
bans as we were vesterday and worshi
at its crystal aitars or wading into its
waves, which maka an ordinary bath solemn
as a baptism, or now putting out upon its
sparkling surfacs in a boat, it is something
to talk about and pray sbout and sing about
until the lips with which we now describe
it can neither talk nor pray nor sing.
As sometimes a beautiful child in a neigh
borhood bas a half dozen pet names, and some
of the meighbors call her by one name and
others by another, so this pet lake of the
plavet bas a profusion of names. Ask tie
Arab as he goes by what this sheet of water
is, and he will call it Tabariveh. Ask Moses
ol the Old Testament, and he calls it Sea of
Chinnereth, Ask Matthew, and he calls it
Bea of Galilee. Ask Luke, and he calls it Sea
of Gennesaret. Ask John, and he calls it Sea
of Tiberias. Ask Josephus and Eusebius
and they have other names ready. But to me
it appears a child of the sky, a star of the
hills, a rhapsody of the mountains the ba
tismoal vow] of the world’s tem the smile
of the great God. Many ki of fish are
found in thess waters, every kind of tres upon
its bank, from those that grow in the torrid
sons to those in the frigid, from the plain to
the cedar,
Of the two hundred and thirty war ships
Josephus mancvred on these waters—for
Josephus was a warrior as well as a historian
—there remains not one piece of a hulk, or
one patch of a canvas, or ome inter of an
oar. But to return to we never
will until we have had a sail u this inland
sea. Notfrom a wharf, but from a beach
covered with black and white pebbles, we go
3 boards Bout of avout ten or twelve tons,
to Rrupelied y by sail and tiy b
oar. mast leans so far forward that at
seems about to fall, but we find it was pur.
posely so built, and the through a pulley
manages to hoist and let the sail. Its
a rough boat, and as far as possible removed
from a Venetian gondola or a sportsman’s
yacht. With a common saw and hammer
and ax many of you could make a better one.
Four barefooted Arabs, instead of sitting
down to their cars, stand, as they always do
in rowing, and pull away from shore. in-
mist on helping, for there is nothing more ex-
hilarating to me than rowing, but I soon
have enough of the clumsy oars and ths awk-
ward attempt at wielding them while in
standing posture,
We put our overcoats and shawls on a
small deck in the stern of the boat, the very
kind of a deck wheres Christ lay on a flsher-
man's coat when of old a tempest pounced
upon the fishing smack of the affrighted dis-
ciples. Ospreys and wild ducks and king-
fishars fly overhead or dip their wings into
the Jake, mistaking it for a fragment of
fallen sky. Can it be that those Bible stories
about sudden storms on this lake are true?
Is it ible that a sea of such seeming
placidity of temper could ever rise and rage
at the heavens? It does not seem as if this
happy family of elements could have ever
had a falling out, and the water strike at the
clouds and the clouds strike at the water.
Pull away, oarsmen! On our right bank
ars the hot sulphur baths, # hot they are
scaling, and the waters must cool off a long
while before hand or foot can endurs their
temperature. Volcanoes have been boiling
theses waters for centuries. Four springs
roll their resources into two great swimming
reservoirs. King Herod here tried to bathe
off the results of his excesses, and Pliny and
Josephus describe the spurtings out of these
volcanic heats, and Joshua and Moses knew
about them, and this moment lonz lines of
pilgrims from all parts of the earth are
waiting for their turn to step into the
steaming restoratives,
ound, bug the western shores of the lake
that we may see the city of Tiberias once a
eat capital, of the architecture of which a
ew mosaics and fallen pillars and pedestals,
aud here and there a broken and shattered
rieze remain, mightily = ive of the
time when Herod Ltr oe lace here
and reigned with an opulence pomp and
crusity and abomination that paralyzes the
fingers of the historian when he comes to
write it and the fingers of the painter when
be attempts to transfer it to canvas. [sup
be was one of the worst men that ever
rea. And what a contrast of character
comes at evary moment to the tful
traveler in Palestine, whether he 8 the
beach of thislake or sails as we now do these
waters!
Bide by side are the two great characters
ot this Jaks oi, Jesus and Herod An-
ipas. any age Hom ues any such
antipodesy, any such antitheses, any such
opposites? Kinduess and crueity, holiness
and 2h, eharGully and meanness, os
sacrifice nese, wu and
infernal, midnoon and midnight. The father
of this Herod Antt was a genius at amas.
sination. He could manufacture more rea-
sons for putting oe out of this life than
any man in all history. He sends for
Hyrcanus to come from Babylon to Jeru
em $0 be made high and slays him,
He has bis brother-in-law while in bathing
with him drowned by the king's attandants,
He slayy his wife und his wife's mother and
two of bis sons and his uncle, and fliled a
volume of atrocities, the last chapter of
which was the massacre of all the babies at
Bethilohom.
are not surprised that this Herod An
whose palace stood on the banks of this
wo now sail, wasa combination of wolf, rap.
tiles and hyena; while the Christ who walked
| Bringing down on Christ for permitting ii
thie wrath of all the stock raisers of thai
country because of this ruining of the porl
business. You see that Saten is a syirlt
{ bad teste, Why did henot say: “Let me
| Into those birds, whole flocks of which y
over Galilee!’ No: that would have bess
| too high, “Why not let me go into the shee
i which wander over thesa hills? Ne : that
would have been too gentle, “lather ie
me zo into these swine, 1 want to be with
the denizens of the mires. J want to assoiate
with the inhabitant: of ths filth. Great
mud! 1 prefer bristle: to wings, I would
rather root than fly. 1liks snout better thay
wing
Infidelity scoffs at the idea that those swing
shou'!d bave run into the lake, But tt wat
quite natural that under the heat and burn.
ing of that demoniac possession they would
start for the water to get cooled off. ~ Would
that all the swine thus possessed had plunged
to toe sams drowning, for this day The
descendan's somes of those porcine
creatures relain the demons, and as toe
devils wera cast out of man into them they
sow alll ci ths bu nan race with the devils
of scrufuia, that comes from eating the un-
clean meat! The haalthiest people on earth
ars ths Israslites, bacause ey follow the
bill of fare whey Cod in the book of
Leviticus gave to the human race, aud our
splendid French Dr. Pasteur and our
gorious German Dr. Kneh may on with
their good work of ki ing parasites in the
buman system; but until the world corrects
its dist, and goes back to the divine regula.
tion at the beginning, the human race will
sontinns to Le possessed of the devils of
microbe and parasite. But I did not mean
lo cross over to the eastorn side of Lake
Falilos sven in discussion,
Pull away, ye Arab carsmen! And we
some along the shore near by which stand
great precipices of brown and red and gray
imestone crowned by basalt, in the sides o!
which are vast caverns som stimes the hidin,
place of bandits, and sometimes the home o
honest shepherds, and sometimes the dwell.
ing place of pigeons and vuiturss and sagles
During one of Herod's war« his ensmiss hid
in these mountain caverns an | the sides wore
too steep for Herod's army t+ descent, and
the attemnt ty climb in ths facy of armed
men would have called down extermination.
So Herod had great co of wood, iron.
bound, made and filled them with soldiers and
let them down from the top of the precipioss
until they gave signal that they were level
with the caverns, and then from thess cages
they stopped out to the mouth of the caverns,
and having set enough and wood on
fire to fill the caverns with smoke and stran-
ulation, the hilden people would come
orth to die; and if not coming forth volun.
tarily Herod's men would pull them out with
hooks. and Jo us says that one
fa , rather than submit to the attacking
army flung his wife and seven children down
the precipice and then leaped after them to
is own aeath.
Now, ye Arab Tow on with swift.
sr stroke, for we want ors noon to land
at Capernaum, the three years’ home of
Jesus. But before arrival there we areto
have a new experience. The lake that had
of
to roughness. The air, which all the morn.
takes hold of our boat with a grip astonist.-
ing. and our poor craft begins to roll and
and tumble, and in five minutes we
pass from a calm to violence. The coutour
of this lake among the hills isan invitation to
hurricanes. I used to wonder why it was
that on so limited a sheet of water a be
stormed boat in Christ's time did not put
back to shore when a hurricane was coming.
! wonder no more,
On that lake an atmospheric fury gives no
~arning, and the change we saw in five
ninutes made me feel that the boat in wiles
Christ sailed may have besn skiifuily man.
aged when the tempest struck it and the wild
importunate cry went up, “Lord save us or
we perish!” 1 bad all along that morning
been reading from the New Testament the
tory of occurrences on and around that lake
But our Bible was closed now, and it was as
nach as we could do to hold fast and wish
low the land. If the wind and the waves had
sontinued to increase in violence the follow
ng fifteen minutes in the same ratio as in the
drat five, and we had been still at their meres
sur bones would bave been bleaching in the
bottom of Lake Geunesarst instead of our
being herve to tell the story
But the sama power that rescued the fish.
srmen of old to-day safely landed our party
What a Christ for rough weather! il the
wmilor boys ought to fly to Him as did those
ialiloan mariners. All you in the forecastle
wind all you who run ap and down the slip
sory ratlines, take to sea with you Him whe
with a quiet word seat the winds back
brough the mountain gorges. Bome of you
Jack Tars to whom th
ased to “tack ship” and changes your courss
{ you are goiug to get across this sea of life
ufely and gain the heavenly harbor. Belay
there! Ready about! Helm's alee! Main.
wil haul!
Star of peace’ beam o'er the billow,
Bless the soul that sighs for the -;
Giens the sallor's lonely pillow,
Far, tar at sen.
Here at Capernaum, the Arabs having Ia
their arms carried us ashore to ths only
place where our Lord ever had a ale,
wind we stepped amid the ruins of the church
\gain—the synagogue whose rich scalptur
ng lay there, not as when others see it in
pringtime covered with weeds and loath.
ome with reptiles, but in that Decomber
weather completely uncovered to our agi.
lated and intense gaze? On one stones of that
tynagogue is the scalpturing of a pot of
{ime when the lsraslites were fod by manna
n the wilderness, and to which seul ng
20 doubt Christ pointed upward while He
was ing that sermon on this spot
n which He sald: "Not as our fathers did «it
nannas and are dead; he that oateth of this
bread shall live forever * 3
parpaum !
place in all the earth!
with the morning. W
pulsate, Lars loom
girl reanimated.
and 1 see
ly Chuza by name, his wile
Joanna, a Chrig disciple, But something
s the matter. The slaves are in great ex-
siternant, and the courtier living
flown the front steps and takes a horse and
puts him at full run across the Sn.
t
fe All the doctors have failed to give
i But about five miles up the country,
it Cana, there is a divine doctor, Jesus by
same, and the agonised father has tor
Him, and with what earnestness
s sssociated with
earth
some wise w or soma
and all literature and all art
all heaven are put to the
to express how
As the
gladness on all the countenances in that
{ home at Canernaum! The mother, Joanna,
—
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now falls off into delightful slumber. Ths
father, Chuza, the Herodian courtier, worn
out with anxiety as well as by the rup.
mrney to and from Cana, is soon in restfy
aneonsciousnses, Joanna was a
before. but I warrant she was mors of a
Christian afterward. Did the father Chaza
iccept the Christ who had cured his boy?
ful for the convalescence or restoration of
almighty love that came to the rescue?
The mightiest agency in the universe is
prayer, and it turns even the Almighty. It
decides the destinies of individuals, families
and nations. Daring our sad civil war a
gentleman was a guest at the White Houss
in Washington, and he gives this incident,
in the White House with Mr. Lincoln as his
guest, One night—it was just after the bat.
te of Bull Run~I was restless and could not
seep. I was repeating the part which I was
to take in a public performances. The hour
was past midnight. Indeed, it was coming
sear to the dawn when I heard low tons
procesding from a private room waere thy
President slept. The door was partly open,
{ instinctively walked in, ani there saws
fight which I shall never forget. It was ths
President kneeling before an open Bibs.
“The light was tursed low in the room.
His back was turned towardme. For a mm.
nant I was silent as I stood looking in
unazement and wonder. Then he cried out
3 tones so pitiful and sorrowful: ‘Oh, Thou
od that heard Solomon in the night when
3s prayed for wisdom, hear me! { cannot
this e, [cannot guide the aff1irs of
shis nation without Thy help. I am poor an |
weak and sinful. Oh, God, who didst heir
Solomon when he eridd for wis fom, hair me
ind save the nation” ” You see we dou't need
0 go back to Bible times for evidence that
arayear is heard and answered,
But some one may say that Christ at Ca-
sarnsum healed that courtier's chil), vet
would not bave done it for one in humilis
ife. Why, in that very Capernaun de did
the same thing for a dying slave belonging
2 the man who hal male a present to ti:
wwn of the churc of which Jesus was pas-
tor, the synazogus among whoss ruins 1 to.
lay leap from fragmisnt to fragment. This
was the cure of a Roman soldier's slave,
whose only acknowledged rights were thes
wishes of his owner. And none ars now a»
snslaved or so humble or so sick or so sinful
but the all-sympathetic Christ is ready to
salp them, ready to cure them, ready to
smancipate them, Hear it! Pardon for all
Merc I all, Help for all.
Comfort for
sll saven for all. Oh this lake Galiles!
It 1s not that the wild gazelle
Comes down to drink shy tide,
But He that was plorced to save from halt
Oft wandered by thy side.
Graceful around thee the moun
Thou ealm, reposing sea
But ah! far more, the beautiful feet
Of Jesus walked o'er thee.
© Saviour! gone to God's right hand,
Yo! the same Saviour still,
Graved on Thy hesr. is this lovely s.rand
Aud every fragrant hull,
talne weely
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How to Entertain,
dhe art of entertaining lies largely
If a guest finds an earth]
If he is
not » pedestrian by nature or grace, it
i
i
vite him on long walks, hewever inter-
may well cultivate a reasonable inde-
pendence, and, if he has little private
fads and desires, carry them out harm-
lessly, without impressing his enter-
tainers into service. He may like to go
to a certain church, or go to an early
service, or make a eall, or attend a lee-
the hostess feels no real interest; and if
she accompany her guest it is merely
for courtesy, and very likely at the cost
o! some inconvenience, There is no
reason why the visitor should not pur-
sue hisown way In these personal
tastes, so far as oan be done without ab
seen after sympathizing with the sick, and
ising the dead and preaching to the multi
| sanks in the night tims, and fesl tae cool air
of the sea on His hot face, and loo: up to tan
ars, the light.d lamps aroun § tis heavenly
salaces from which He hat descended |
RJ nadvan snd Farts were mill: from the algh Dov
stars 10 the 5 U2 1 lake and mounisis coast
All heaven sad carth were stil hougs Betis
3at breathless, as wo grow when feelings most
“But,” saves some ona, “why was it that
‘heist, coming to save the world, should
pend 30 mach of His time on and around =.
wlitary a place as Lake Galilee?
A guest definitely invited
indeed, why should she have solicited
it? This entente cordial taken for
will easily
the bet'er for mutual freedom.
guest will be put at his entire ease to see
daily de-
¥#8 him the compliment of believing
im a rational being, fall of his own
woth thy western and easter: shores area
wiitude, broken only by the sounds coming
rom the mud hovels of the degrades. Why
lid pot Christ begin at Babylon the mighty,
it Athens the learned, at Cairo the Historic
it Thebes the hundred gated, at Rome the
riumphant? If Christ was going to save
he world, why not go where the world
wople dwell? Would a man wishing
evolutionizs for good the American
ineut, pass his time amid the fishing hat
he shores of Newfoundiand®®
My friends, Galilee was the hub of
vheel of civilization and art, and thas cay
of a population that staggers realization
die shore of the lake we sall to-day si¢
ine great cities~Sceythopolis, Tas
finpos, Gamals, Chorszin Caprriany
eibsaida, Magdals, Tiberias and ANY
illages, the smallest of which had 15.00 in.
ibitants, according to Josephus, and reach.
ng from the beach back into the country in
ill directions Falacas, temples, coliesy ins
{vmaasiums, amphitheatre towers ga
erracel on the hillsides, fountains bewilde
ng with sunlight, baths upon whose moms
loors kings trod: while this lake from whats
Jordan enters it to where the Jorian
jeaves it, was beautiful with all sty
hallop or dreadiul with all kiadso ante
oy. Four thousand shins history save wars
i ona time upon these waters, Battiss wore
ought there, which shocked all nations with
heir consequence,
riders
he
Wal
lave mingling Woo! with par: asl sparkling Joss,
0 her last throes Jade foagh: with Roms,
Upon thoss sea fights loskel Vespasian
ind Titus and Trajan and whole empires
rom one of these naval encounters so many
if the dead rated to the beach they could
wt soon enough be entombed, and a plagus
vas threatened Twelve hundred soldiers
wcapiog from theses vessels of war wars ono
lay massacred in the amphitheatre at Tiba-
dae. For three hundred years that alinost
wntinuous city encircling Laks Galilee was
' he metropolis of our planet. It was to the
rary heart of the w that Jesus came to
, pothe its sorrows, and ita sing, and
| weal its sick, and emancipate its enslaved and
, ‘eanimate its dead.
I And let the church and the world take ths
jon. While the solitary are
to by neglected, we must strike for the
"great cities, if this world is ever to be taken
{ or Christ. Evaungsiizs all the earth except
| he cities and in ons year cities would
| wrrupt the earth. But bring the cities and
, ll the world will come. Bring London and
| England will come. Bring Berlin and Ger.
| nany will come. Bring Paris and France
vill coms. Bring Bt Petersburg and Russia
will come. Bring Vienn: and Austria will
wme, Bring Cairo and Egypt will come
{ Bring the near three million peoples in this
| Ministers of religion! lot us intensily our
| vangelism. ditors aad publishers! purify
asylums of merey!
d of this absurd and beliitling
nd wicked rivalry among our cities as
which ha to have the most mes ani
women children, not realizing that tue
fs ;
good is mora to bs admirs i than
1 city with one hundred thousand Lad p>
Me, us take a moral csasas, and see how
oD DE uation of Seok
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Shire rhe il Smita mires an
soussorate the rou an
© God. Oh, thou blessed Christ, wi dides
ome $5 the mighty cities encircling Lake
Juilles! come in mercy to all our great cities
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in
home, and see that the guest is supplied
with every comfort, and surrounded
with all due attention, and then enjoy
the mutual freedom of easy inter-
tent, or apart when most convenient,
sympathy. — Erchange,
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Un Window -(C
Jleaning.
ie cleaning of windows seems to be
B very easy matter, ye! many
wives would prefer to do any other part
f the honse-cleaning that this: so. ss a
few geuveral hints towards
this labor, we may Bay, never begin this
work until all the paint is cleaned, but
more especially that part about the
windows, If the window glas:
first, it is almost impossible 10 wash the
paint round it without smearing the
glass,
Never wash windows on a damp day,
although a cloudy one is not obje tion
able for work, A bright, clear, sunny
day is the best, choosing that part of it
when the windows are in the shade
Windows washed while the sun ix on
them are sure to be streaky, no matter
how well they may be done, for the sun
honse.
be done
y
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be wiped, and consequently the water
dries just as it is puton by the wash-
beginning to wash them.
dry paint-brushes to get into crevices
inside of the window first, and it will
iently used without parboiling the
hands, and add to it enough carbonate
of ammonia to soften it, th a soft
inted stick with a cloth on it to go
Use old cotton to
Where the ammonia is not conven-
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be obtained by rubbing the glass
tissue-paper; but where ammonia
atter gives a nice gloss
How Esquimaux Keep Tab.
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When an animaux is born a
of skins is fashioned for ita sole use,
and in it a record of its age is kept for-
ever after. Into this a little bone
is put soar, it is
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K|ITNDAY SCHOO! LESSON,
BUNDAY, DECEMBER 14. 18).
Jesus Mads Known.
LESSON TEXT,
(Luke 24 : 25843. Memory vorses: 35.40.)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric or THE QUARTER:
Saviour of Men,
GoLpex Texr ror THR
Though he were a Son, yet learned he
obedience Ly the things which he
fered.—Heb., 5 : 8.
Lesson Toric: The Son's Resur-
rection Demonstrated,
1. To Two Disciples, vs.
26 82.
LEsson Ourrang:{ = 3g” MON
| 2 To The Apostles, ws.
43
Peter, vs.
Goroex Texr:
opened, aud they knew
24 : 31,
him,—Xmke
Davy Home Respixos :
M.—Inke 24 : 28-43. The Son's
resurrection demonstrated.
T.—Mark 16 : 1-20, The resur-
rect on story.
W.—John 20 : 19-29. John’s parsl-
lel story,
T-—1 Cor. 15 : 2-20.
of the resurrection,
¥.—1Pet. 1:19.
the resurrection.
8.—1 John 1 : 1-10. John's joy in
the risen Jesus.
8B. —Aets 17 : 16.34.
resurrection.
LESSON ANALYSIS,
I. DEMONSTRATED TO TWO DISCIPLES,
I. Jesus Present:
He went in to abide with them (20).
There am I in the midstof them (Matt.
18 : 20,
Lo, 1 am with you alway, even unto
the end (Matt, 28 : 20).
The Samaritans. ...besought him
abide (John 4 : 40).
Christ in you, tue hope of glory (Col
1 . 27 be
Il. Jesus Recognizea:
There eyes were opened, and they
knew him (31),
He was known of them in the breaking
of the bread (Luke 24 : 35).
Thomas answered, . .
God (John 20 ;: 28
That disciple
the Lord (John 21 : 73.
I know him whom I have believed (2
Tim. 1 : 12).
ill. Blessings Bestowed.
Was not our heart burning within
us, while he spake? (82).
He lifted up his hands, snd blessed
them (Luke 24: 50).
returned to
great joy (Luke 24: 52).
Blessed
in Christ (Eph. 1: 3).
Blessed are they which are bidden to
the marriage supper of the Lamb
{ Rev. 19: 9;
1. “He made as though he would go
farther.” (1; Testing their inter-
est; (2) Awakening their desires;
(3) Evoking their request.
“Abide with pa.” (1) The
(2) The guest; (3) The abode;
The invitation.
3. “Their eyes were opened, and they
knew him.’ (1
ignorance; (2) Opened and
knowledge. —{(1) Closed eyes; (2
Ignorance: (3 Perpiexity; 4)
Openel eves; (5) Knowledge; (f
Joy,
DEMONSTRATED TO 81
I. The Apostolic Company
The eleven, and them
with them (33.
Them that had been with
16: 104,
His disciples were within, and Thomas
with them (John 20: 26,
Peter stood up in the midst
brethren (Acts 1: 15).
Paul's story
Preaching the
to
hos's
(4
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Clos d EYRE BR d
eves
11. ¥ TER,
IR Fi
that were
(Mark
him
the
of
company {Acts 4: 23).
Il. The Glad Story:
Saying, the Lord is risen indeed (34).
is risen (Matt, 28: 7).
24
6.
.. .telleth the disciples, 1 have
seen the Lord (John 20: 18),
dead (1 Cor, 15:20).
1. The Assuring Sight: :
The Lord. . . hath appeared to Simon
(34).
e appeared to Cephas (1 Cor. 15: 5).
A living bo
Jesus (1 Pet. 1: 3).
in the spirit (1 Pet. 3: 18).
We were eyewitnesses of his majesty
(2 Pet. 1: 16),
1, “They rose up that very hour,
and returned to Jerusalem.” (1)
Animated by a new assurance; (2)
Bearing a glad message; (3) Seek-
ing a sympathetic company.
2 “he sord 1s risen mdeed.”
From the confines of the grave; (2)
By the power of the Almighty; (3)
te the opposition of enemies;
(4) For the comfort of the saints.
3, “They rehearsed the things that
happened in the way.” (1) The
weary walk; (2) The sad conversa-
tion; (3) The strange companion;
(4) The locid exposition.
11. DEMONSTRATED TO THE APOSTLES,
I. The Lord Appears:
He himself stood in the midst of
them (36).
Ho was manifested unto the eleven
themselves (Mark 16: 14),
Jesus came snd stood in the midst
(John 20: 19).
Jesus the doors being shat
(John 20: 26).
Then to fhe {waive (1 Cor. 15: 5).
¥ * 3
n are ye troubled? and wherefore
do arise? a8).
Be of cheer; it i be not afraid
Fear not
Jesus
Reach hither fi , and see
bands A oha ay =
Beash hi
Dr dy et yoo
| He also shewed himself alive.
| many proofs (Aets 1: 3),
: Which we beheld, aud
husdled (1 John 1:1).
1. “Pence be unto you.”
speaker; (2) The sslutation; (3)
The result.—1; Poace from the
Lord; (2) Pesce for the disciples.
. “1b is I mysell.” (1)The startling
appearance; (2) The natural donbis;
(3) The comforting sssurange.
. “Thay still disbelleved for
sud wondered.” (1)Joy; (2)
belief; (3) Wonder.
by
our hands
(iy The
JOY,
Jig
LESSON BIBLE BEADING
Toz LO D'S RESURKBOTION,
To be veld in remembrance (2 Tim.
2:8)
| Begets lively hope (1 Pet. 1:8, 21),
| An emblem of the new birth (Rom. 6 ;
| 4;C0l. 2:12),
A pledge of our 1ewmrrection (Acts 26 »
23; 1 Cor. 15 : 20, 28).
The type of our resurrection (1 Cor,
15 : 49 ; Phil. 8 : 21).
{ Fundamental to the gospel (1 Cor. 15 :
14, 15).
4a assurance of the judgment (Acts
7 : 31 Je
|
| INTERVENING
Evexts.—No mterven-
| ing events are recorded. ‘Ihe narra-
tive of Luke is continuous.
| Prace.—At the viluage of Emmaus,
the site of which bas been alrzady dis-
cussed, and in Jersalem.
{ Tue. —Duaring the evening of Fun-
| day, the 17th of Nisan, 783 A. U. (0;
{that is, April 9, A. D. 90. The meal at
| Emmans was probably just before su a-
| down, and the return to Jerusalem ec-
{ eu pis d at least two hours
{| Persexs.—Our Lord; two disciples
| (Cleopas and another); the eleven and
others,
Incipesrs.— The two disciples and
Jesus approsch Emmaus; the former
urge the latter to remain with them: at
the meal Jesus breaks the bread, and
is recognized by the disciples; he van-
ishes, and they ta'k of the effect of his
words; they at omee return to Jera-
salem, and, meeting the eleven and
others, sre told of the sppearsnece to
| Bumon; they tell of tle appearance to
| them; Jesus again appears, but they
are all affrighted; be reasons with them,
| snd shows his hands and his feet; they
still wonder, and he asks for something
to eat, and partakes of food before
them,
Pararrier Passaces Mark 16 : 12-
14 (possibly more of Mark 16 refers to
the same interview); John 20 : 19-28-
comp. 1 Cor. 15 : 5.
A Wise Cirl,
BELLA HIGGINSON,
“You see how it is, my desr,” he
| said, taking her soft hand, which had
never done very hard work, and pat-
ting it resssuringly: “I'm poor-—onl
us thousand a year, dear—and we shall
have to struggle to get slong at first ’
“i don’t mind that in the least.” she
interrupted, stoutly, rubbin z her cheek
softly against his band,
*‘And.,”” he pursued, havi
iy allowed her interruption,
wn to strict economy.
ean only manage my
we shall pull throagh
KE gracious
“we shall
have to come o«
Bat if
mother
nicely."
“And how does your mother manage,
she ssked, g—~but very
bappily-—at the notion i ther
in-law Cropping 3
“I dont know replied the lover,
radiantly; “but she always manages to
have everything neat and cheerful, and
something to eat; and she
does it all herself, you know! So that
wo always get along beautifully, and
make both ends meet, and father and I
#till bave plenty of spending money.
Yon see, when a woman is always hir-
ing her laundry work done, and her
gowns and bonne'smade, and herserab-
| bing and stove-Llacking done, and all
| that sort of thing—why, it just walks
i into a man's income, and takes his
breath away.”
The young woman looked for a mo-
meat as if her breath was also inclined
for a vacation; but she wisely concealed
| her dismay, and, being one of the stout-
hearted of the earth, she det rmined to
{ learn a few things of John’smother and
| 80 went to her for a long visit, the next
day. Upon the termination of ths
| visit, one fine morning John received,
| to his black amazement a little pack-
| age containing his engagement ring,
{ acoompanied by the following letter:
wl Bre learned how your mother
| ‘manages,’ and I am going to explain
it to you, since you have confessed yon
{ didn’t know. I find that vhe is a wife,
a mother, a housekeeper, a business
| manager, a hired ie, a laundress, a
| seamstress, a mender and patcher, a
| dairy maid, a cook, a nurse, a kitchen
| gardener, and a general slave for a fam-
{ily of five. She works from five in the
| morning until ten at night; and I a'most
wept when I kissed her hand, it was so
' hard and wrinkled, and corded and un-
kissed. When 1 saw her polishing the
stoves, carrying big buckets of water
{ and great armfu’s of wood, often split-
ting the latter, I asked ber why John
didn’t do such things for her, ‘John!’
she repeated, ‘John!—and she sat
down with a perfectly dared look, as if
I bad asked fer Wi} the angels didn §
come down and serub for her, “Why
—John’~she said, in a trembling, be-
wildered way ‘he works in the office
from nine until four o'elock, you know
and when he comes home he is very
tired, or olse—or else—he goes down
town. Now, I have become strongly
imbued with the conviction that I do
not csre to be so good a ‘manager’ as
your mother. If the wife must do all
sorts of 4 , so must the husband;
if she must cook, he must carry the wood ;
if she mnst scrub, be must carry the
water; if she must make butter, he must
also milk the cows. You have
mother to do g, snd all
her is that she
ou bave to 0
a axtelent "1 do not
You
BE
UOeR,
smil
dear?’
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