ATE a
A. DR. TALMAGES SERMON
Subject : «The Gambling Evil”
Text: “Let My people go that they ma
Serve Me; for Iwill at this time send all Aly
Plagues "Exp ., 13, 14,
} Last winter, in the museum at Caire
Egypt, I saw the mummy or embalmed
‘body of Pharach, the oppressor of the an
lent Israelites. Visible are the very teeth
at he gnashed against the Israslitis)
brickmakers, the sockets of the merciless
eyes with which he looked upon the overbur
ened people of God, the hair that floated in
0 breeze off the Red Bea, the very lips with
which he commanded them to make bricks
without straw. Thousands of year
after, when the wreppiL of the
mummy wers u-wolled, old Pharaoh lifted
uphis arm as if in imploration, but his
y bones cannot again clutoh his shat
od scepter. It was to compel that tyrant
let the oppressed go free that the memora-
ble ten plagues were sent. Sailing the Nila
and walking amid the ruins of tian
cities, I saw no remains of those 8
t emote the water or the air. None of
the frogs croaked in the one, none of the lo-
custs sounded their rattle in the other, and
the cattle bore no sign of the murrain, and
through the starry nights hovering about
the pyramids no destroying angel swept his
wing. But there are ten plagues still sting-
jo¢ and befouling and cursing our cities, and
® angels of wrath smiting not only the
first born but the last born.
Brooklyn.” New York and Jersey City,
vy h called three, are practically one.
e bridge already fastening two of them
fogether will be followed by other bridges
and by tunnels from both New Jersey and
Kong Is'and shores, until what is true now
will, as the years go by, become more em-
phatically true Fe average condition of
public morals in this cluster of cities is as
ood if not better than in any other part of
he world. Pride of city is natural to men
in all times, if they live or have lived in a
metropolis noted for dignity or prowess
Cesar boasted of his native Rome, Lycurgus
of Sparta, Virgil of Andes, Demosthenes of
Athens, Archimedes of Syracuse, and Paul
of Tarsus. I should suspect a man of base
beartedness who carried about with him no
feeling of complacency in regard to the
co of his residence; who gloried not in its
arts or arms or behavior; who looked with
no exultation upon its evidences of pros
ity, its artistic embellishments and scien
c attainments,
# Ihave noticed that men never like a place
where they bave not behaved well Men
who have frees rides in VANS never
likes the city that furnishes the vehicle,
When I see in history Argos, Rh IVT.
pa, Chios, Col¢ and sev 1 other cities
claiming Homer, I conclude that Homer be-
haved well. Let us not war against this
ride of city, nor expect to build up oursalves
y pulling others down. Let Boston have
its commons, its Faneuil Hall and its magni-
ficent scientific and educational institutions.
Let Philadelphia talk about its mint, and In-
depends fall, and Girard Collage, and its
old families, as virtuous as venerable, When
I find a man living in one of those places who
bas nothing to say in favor of them, I feel
like ésking him, “What mean thing did vou
do that you your native city?
New York is and when
that I me
Duyvil Creek 1
and Newark f other direction,
That which tends to elevate a part elevates
all. That which blasts part blasts all
isa giant, and b to the Huadsor
Con it River and passes it as en
we £
prison
like
2
€
Bt.
Po
i off upon the
than yon hazard. Tha instrument of gaming
may differ but the principle is the same. The
shuffling and dealing cards, however full of
temptation, {8 nol gambling, unless stakes
are putup; while, on the other band, gam.
bling may bs carried on without cards
dice, ov billiards or a ten pin alley. 711
msn who bets on horses, on elections, on hat.
ties—the man who deals in “fancy” st
or conducts a business which
capital, or goes into transactions without
foundation, but dependeat upon what men
oall ‘uck.” isa gambler,
pect to get from your neighbor withou
iw
“
Of
skill is elther the product of theft or gaming,
Lottery tickets and lottery policies come into
the same category. Fairs for the founding
of hospitals, schools and churches, conducted
on the raffling system, come ander the same
denomination. Do not, therefore, associats
gambling necessarily with any instrument,
orgamas, or time, or place, or think the prin-
ciple depends upon whether you play © a
giass of wine or one hundred shares of rail
road stock. Whether you patronize “auction
pools,” “French mutuals” or “*beok-makiug,”
whether you employ faro or billiards, rondo
and keno, cards or bagagelle, the very idea of
the thing is dishonest, for it professes to be-
stow upon you a good for which you give no
equivalent,
It is estimated that every day in Chris
tendon eighty million dollars pass from
hand to hand through gambling practices,
and every year in Christendom one hun-
dred and twenty-three billion one hundred
million dollars change hands in that way,
| There are in this cluster of cities about
| eight hundred confessed gambling estab-
| lsshments. There are about three thousand
{| ive hundred professional gamblers. Out
| of the eight hundred gambling establish.
| ments, how many of then do you suppose
| profess to be honest? Ten, These ten pro-
i = to be honest becauss they are merely
| the ante-chamber to the seven hundred
{ and ninety that are acknowledged fraud
| ulent, There are first class gambling estab.
lishmenta, You go up the marble stairs
You ring the ball. The liveried servant in-
| troduces you. The walls are lavender tintad,
The mantels are of Vermont marble. The
otures 's Daughter” and
Dore's “Dante's ar sn Region
of Hell”—a most appropriat
for the piace. There is the roulette
fable, the finest, t i most exquisite
4 Slates,
3 1are, free of charge
to the guests you ay find the plate and
viands and wines and cigars sumptuous be-
yond parallel,
Then you coms to the second class gam-
bling establishment. To it you are intro-
duced by a card through somes ‘roperdn.”
Having entered, you must either gamble or
fight. Banded carls, dice loaded with quick.
sliver, poor drinks, will soon help you to get
rid of all your money to a tune in short
meter with staccato passages. You wanted
tosses, You saw, The low villains of that
place watch you as you come in. Does not
the panther, squat in the grass know a calf
when he sees it? Wrangle not for your rights
in that place, or your £ xdy will be thrown
bloody Fone the street, or dead into the East
River. You go along a littie further and flod
the policy esta ment. In that place you bet
oanumbers. Betting on two numbers is called
a “saddles” betting on threes numbers is called
a “gig,” betting on four numbers is called a
“horse,” and there are thousands of our
young men leaping ino that “saddle™ and
the “gig.” and behind that
riding to perdition. There is always
one kind of sign on the door Exchange”
appropriate title for the door, for
thers, in that ro man exchanges health
health, loss of
hamortal soul,
are
18 On
There
mount ng
“horse’
and ind
of +3
w Engle
has left Philadelphia an in-
egrity and fair dealing, and
I iat city you may see in the
oms and principles of its people
is cont, his hat, his wife's bonpet
eting house, The Holland-
: influence over New York.
Grand old ew York! What southern
thoroughfars was ever smitten by pestilence,
when our physicians did not throw them
selves upon the sacrifice! What distant land |
has cried in the agony of famine and |
pur ships have mot put out with breadstuffs! |
What street of Damascus or Beyront or
Madras that has not heard the step of our
missionaries! What struggle for national
life in which our citizens have not poured
their blood into the trenches! What galiery
of exquisite art in which our painters have
pot hung their pictures! What department |
of literature or science to which our scholars |
have not contributed! I need not speak of |
pur public schools, where the children of the |
pordwainer and milkman and glassblower
gtand by the side of the flattered sons of
mershant prinoes; or of the insane asylums
on all these islands where they who went
smtting themselves among the tombs, now
sit, clothed and in their right minds; or of
the Magdalen asyiums, wheres the lost one |
of the street comes to bathe the Baviour's |
feet with her tears, and wipe them with the |
hairs of her head-—confiding in the pardon of |
Bim who said: *‘Let him who is without sin |
past the first stone at her” I need not
speak of the institutions for the blind, the |
fame, the deaf and the dumb, for the incur.
ables, the widow, the orphan, and the out
cast; or of the thousand armed machinery |
that sends streaming down from the reser. |
voirs the cisar, bright, sparkling, God givea
water that rushes though our agueducts, |
and dashes out of ths hydrants, and tosses |
up in our fountaing, and hisses in our steam
engines, and showers out the conflagration,
os. sprinkles from the baptismal font of our
churches; and with sliver note, and golden
kle, and crystalline chime, says to hun-
reds of thousands of our population, in the
suthentic words of Him who salds ** I will;
Der T ar ise in opening thi of
$ promise p 8 course
sormons on the san 4) thess Jugee
cities, lest some stupid man might say I am
deyrecating the Thos of my residence. 1
speak to you to-day et og the plague
of gambling. Every man and woman in
this house ought to be interested in this
theme,
he cities of D
out
I Bome years ago, when an association for
the suppres =n of gambling was organized,
an agent of the association came to a prom-
1nen® eitisen and asked him to patronize the
society. He said, “No, | can have no inter-
est in sch an organisation. 1am in no wise
nffectad that evil” At that very time
his who waa his er in business, was
one of the heaviest players in Hearne's fa
nous gambling establishment. Another re
fused his patronage on the same not
knowing thet his first bookkeeper, though ro-
eviviog a salary of only a thousand dollars,
was losing from fifty to one hundred dollars
per right, The president of a railroad com.
pany refused to patronize the institution,
saying, “That society is good for the defense
‘of merchants, but the railroad le are not
{injursd by this evil)’ not knowing that, ai
that very time, two of his conductors were
‘spending three nights of each week at fare
{tables In New York. Directly or indirectly,
[this ovil strikes at the whole world.
Gambling is the risking of something more
‘gr less valuable in the hope of winning wore
uring new
} 18 carpenter's
the band actory i
a br teeth
arrow and sent a strange light.
er the battery of the phi
The very first Lies in gaming is at
war with all the industries of society
This crime ia got
oy
®
of the {
wen the
Wop
ng its lever ander many
a mercantile house nour great cities, and
balore long down will come the great estab
lishment, crushing reputation, home, com
fort and immortal souls. How it diverts and
sinks capital may inferred from some
authentic statement before us, The tan gam
ing houses that once were anthorizad in Paris
passed through banks, yearly, three hundrad
and twenty-five miilions of france. Where
does all the money come from?! The whole
world is robbell What is most sad there
are no consolations for the loss and suffering
entailed by gaming. If men fallin lawful
business, Uod pities and society commiser-
in
there any consolation for the gambler? From
be
can soothe the gameeter's heart? In that
bottle where God keeps the tears of His chil.
dren are there any tears of the gambler? Do
the winds that come to kiss the faded cheek |
of sickness, and to cool the heated brow of
the laborer, whisper hope and cheer to the |
emaciated victim of the game of hazard? |
When an honest man is in trouble he has |
sympathy. “Poor fellow! they say. But
do gamblers come to weep at tha agonies of |
the gambler?
In Northumberland was one of the finest
estates in England. Mr. Porter owned it, |
and in a year gambled it all away. Having
down {rom the saloon and got into his oar.
riage; went back, put up his horses and car.
riage and town house and played, He threw
ten guineas; went back to the saloon and bee
fore a great while had won twenty thousand
sunds, Hedied at lass a Dagger in Bt,
ilies. How many gamblers felt sorry for
Mr. Porter? Who consoled him on the loss
of his estate? What gambler subscribed to
put a stone over the poor man's grave! Not
one!
Futhermore, this «in is the souros of un-
counted dishonesties. The game of hagard
itenif is often a game of ohigqat. How many
tricks and deceptions in the dealing of the
cards! The opponent's hand is ofttimes
found out by fraud, Cards are marked so
that they may be designated from the back.
Ex gamesters have their sccomplices,
one wink may decide thegame, The dice
have been found with plating, so that
“doublets” come up every time,
are introduced by the gamblers, unobserved
honest men who have come into play; and
is aocoounts for the fact that -nine
out of a hundred who gamble, however
wealthy the baju, at the end are found to
be oo, et la,
i wretches, that
would not now be allowed to sit on the door.
step of the house that they once owned. In
a gambling house in Ban Franclsoo a young
man having just come from the mines de
tad a large sum u the ace, and won
twenty-two thousand dollars. But the tide
turns. Intense excitement comes upon the
countenance: of all, Blowly the cards went
forth, Every eve is fixed. Not & sound is
heard uptil the ace is revealed favorable to
the bank. are shouts of “Foull™
“Foul ™ but Shaka of ja table ide
their u 4 | the
is, proar and ;
There 1s
oe ul tin gam of cha!
on "
oo Shan aboutiE 0 fn carrying on of
‘the game are nothing when compared with
| the trawas which are committed in order to
get money to goon with the nefarious worl
Gambling with its
away the widow's
tha han
mite and the
hans sold the daugh
st rE 3
Lin aine
riion
! “1
| written the
tie banloer™
asain’
| ness fo which it will not ste
| crualty at which it is apoailed,
| waralag of God that
| loss, unappeasable, flercer and wilder
it bardens, it rends, it blasts,
crushes, it damns. It has peopled our prise
{ ons and lunatic asylums, How many rail.
| road agents and cashiers and trustess
{ of funds it has driven to dis
| graces, inoarcaration and suicides! Wit.
ness Yoars A200 & cCaAsSalar of n ratroad who
stole one hundred and three thousand dole
lars to carry on hisgaming practioss. Wie
ness forty thousand dollars stolen from a
Brooklyn bank within the memory of many
of you, and the one hundred and eighty
thousand dollars taken from a Wall street
Insurance company for the same purpose!
These are only {llustrations on a large scale
of the robberies every day committed for
the purpose of carrying out the designs of
amblers. Hundreds of thousands of dol-
I's every year leak out without observa.
tion from the merchant's till into the
gambling hell. A man in London keeping
one of these gambling houses boasted that
he bad ruined a nobleman a day; but if all
| the saloons of this land were to speak out
they might utter a more infamous boast,
for they have destroyed a thousand noble
mon & yoar,
| Notice also the effect of the crimes upon
! domestic happiness. It has sent its ruth. ess
plowshare through hundreds of families, un-
| “il the wifs sat 1n regs, and the daughters
| were disgraced, and the sons grew up to the
18 means to oontinue hay
Country nature,
and
i% no
it 8
mo Hit
# dagger. There enth of
Wor, :
There is
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I WONDER
BY 0H. CATTENSON SMITH.
I wonder if in after ve
DE nine to
W ft enthioalnmes
Wh de
re
t of that love
fiction flow,
The s
Wh
Pr
wes through
I wonder if, when heart shall ache
And throb in every vein,
Ist shall feel the having loved
Were ali fn all to gain.
Of 11
I wonder, when the hand of Fate
Bhall draw Life's eurtain by,
If then more elearly | shall Know
Itz wherefore and its why.
I wonder if 1 then shall gain
Desire devoutly praved,
And after waiting, cloarer se
That love alone delayed,
* * » »
Btay, dearest child; put down the bool,
And banish from vour sight
All that o'er childish happiness
Would cast u:healthy blight;
All that In niidst of home and love,
inany way you find,
Would take from you God's dearest gift-
A pure, contented mind.
PERSONAL,
Tar wife of Francis Beott Key,
grandson of the anthor of the
stage,
of that brilliant lawyer and statesman,
William Pinckney, of Maryland, and is
a familiar figure in Baltimore
mame infamous practices or took a short out
“0 destruction across the murderer's scaffold.
{ Home has lost all charms for the gambler, |
| How tame are the children's caresses end a
wife's devotion to the gambler! How drearily |
the fire burns on the domestic hearth! Ther
nust be louder laughter, and something
win and something to lose; an excitement t
irive the heart faster and fillip the bloo
sud fire the imagination,
wight, can ke
iwpel call
i
i
No home, however
v1 back the gamests I
Keep back t gamesie; The
if love bounds t ia his {ron
ul, and all the endearments are cons imad
n the flames of his passion. Ths family
tible will go after all other treasuresare lost,
and if his crown ia heaven were put into his
“dere goes one more
I
MOK LY
i
§
On this one throw
in heaven" A young
nan in London, on coming of age,
received a fortunes of one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars, and, through gam-
sling, In three years was thrown on his
nother for support. An only soo went to a
i
%
my boys!
my crown
wuthern city; he was rich, intellectual an
segant in manners. His parents gave his
yn his departure from home thelr last bless
ng. The sharpers got bold of him. Ther
iattered him. They lured him to the gam-
ng table, and let him win almost every time
‘or a good while, and patted bim on the
sack and sald, “First rats player.” But ful
¥ in thelr grasp they flesced him, and his
iwirty thousand doliars ware lost. Last of
sll he put up bis watch and jost that, Then
1s began to think of his bome and his old
lather and mother, and wrote thus:
“My Beloved Parente— You will doubtiers
sol a momentary joy at the reception of thls
etter from the child of your bosom, «¢
whom you have lavished all the favors of
your declining years Jat should s feeling
»f Joy fora ment spring up in your hearts
when you should have received this from
ne, © it I bave fallen desp—
rigs? halrs that I
have hon tected I shall
the grave, 1 wiil
may God
ne practised
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SoTiah not,
asver fo
Thoss gray
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ane to the t
gnning
“Foul! f
hall I sketch the history of the gambler?
red by bad company he finds his way
0 8 place where honest men ought never
He sita down to his fret game but
uly for pastime and the desire of belong
thought sociable. The players deal out
the cards. They unconsciously plsy into
Hatan's bands, who takes all the tricks and
vith the players’ souls for trumps—be being
a sharper at any game. A slight stake is
put up just to add interest to the play. Game
after game is played. Larger stakes and
still larger. They begin to move nervously
on thelr chairs sir brows lower and eyo
flash, untill now they who win and they who
joss, fired alike with passion, sit with set
Jaws, and compressed lips, and clinched flals,
and eyes like fire balls that seem starting
from their sockets, 10 see the final turn be
fore it comes; if losing, pale with envy and
tremulous with unuttered oaths cast back
rod hot upon the heart—or, winning, with
hystarie lnugh-—-""Ha, ba! I have it! 1 have
nr
A few years have passed and be is only the
wreck of aman. Seating himself at the game
ere he throws the first card, he stakes the
Inst relic of his wife, and the marriage ring
which sealed the solemn vows between them,
The game is lost, and stggering back in ex-
haustion he dreams. The bright hours of
the pe mook his agony, and in his dreams
fiends with eyes of fire and tongue of flame
circle about him with joined hands to dance
y £0
chanting *' Hail ! brother I” kissing his clammy
forehead until their loathsome locks, flowing
their sharp fangs and suck up his life's
blood, and coiling around his heart pinch i
with chills and shudders unutterable.
Take warning! You are no stronger than
tens of thousands who have by this practice
been overthrown. No you man in our
cities can escape being tempted. Beware of
the first beginnings! Tuisroad & a down
grade, and every instant increases the mo
mentum. Launch not this treacherous
soa, Split hulks strew the beach. Everlast.
ing storms bowl up and doprm, tossing un-
wary craftsinto the Hellgate. I speak of
what I have seen with my own eyes. 1 have
looked off into the abyss and 1 have seen
the foaming, and the Pasion and the whirl
ing of the deep In which the mangled
viotima writhed, ous upon another, and
struggled, strangled, blasphemed and died
the th stare of eternal despair oy their
countenances as the walter gurg over
them,
Toa bler's deathbed there comes no
hops. Ha will probably die alone. His for.
mer associates come wot nigh his dwelling,
When ths hour comes his m bie soul
go out of a miserable life into a miserable
sternity. As his poor remains pas the house
where he was ruined, old eafpanions may
look out a moment and say Bose ths
old caronss—dead at last,” but they will not
ot up from the table. Let him down now
A is grave. Plant no treo to cast ite shade
there, for the long, deep, eteraal gloom that
settion there is shadow enough. Plast ne
“forget-menot” or eglantines around the
spot, for flowers were pot made to grow on
such u bissted heath. Visit it not fu the sun- |
shins, for that would be mockery, but in the
distoal night, when no stars are out and the
spirits of darkness peme down hors on the
wind, then visit the grave of the gambler!
The people of the United States con.
sume twenty-eight out of 100
of sugar in the world, sud
pounds of coffee in every 100.
Her maiden name was [iff
15 connected with Rev, Dr.
wny, and she
Tiffany.
Two bright Chicazo women,
Aizabeth ALG JUZAr, Ave
fir the
A. Wylie anid |
formed a nove rin They took
money earned b *haol ig, unit.
enc
ed their eapital,
1 of Wylie |
al in real e
1s Chicago
il reagting.
I'l { ny they aiready |
ne
n they can att
Bro
tl
Pheir
teachers,
T
largely scho
HE mourning
nee:
ia
1.3
young
in the
sgave Mary
the
t i fash
Lin I
oy A060
Poland
town,
1,000 toward a library which is
i there.
ench
f
yearing of
ugh, broa
eves and Be
ti
ExvEnor Wirriax is showing many
good streaks in his rule. He bas given
orders that in government factories no
women shall do night work.
Miss Prxoxszy,the lady who is at the
head of the Margaret Winthrop Hall,
the home where a number of girls of
the Cambridge School live, is working
out an interesting experiment success
fally, under the directon of Arthur
Gilman, She is making a real home
for girls away from home at school. A
visit to Margaret Winthrop Hall shows
how completely the pleasant life of the
home is kept separate from the pleasant
life of the school.
Tur Baroness Althea Salvadar, whose
letters from Paris to American news
papers have made her quite well known,
1s an saocomplished musician, and her
salon is one of the most charming in
Paria. She is a tall and slender blonde,
quite pretty and always elegant]
dressed. The baroness is an American
girl, being a descendant of an old New
Hampshire family.
James Rossen Lownn's sister, Mra,
Patoam, of Boston, is noted as a lin-
guist, and is the author of some very
able papers on Polish and Hungarian
literature, She has also written a
dramatic poem. Mrs. Putnam was born
in 1810, and is nine years older than
her distinguished brother
Miss Aawes K. Mburny is a stock.
holder and the only lady member of
the New York Real Estate Exchange.
She attended to her father's real estate
business for some time previous to his
death, and afterward joined the Ex.
change.
Henn Orro Emiens, a German ex.
plorer who was commissioned by the
German Emperor some time sinoe to
survey the great mountains of Kiliman-
jaro and its neighborhood, is at present
engaged in 8 somewhat adventurous
tour of observation in the Himalayas.
Dn. Kare Busnsnnrn will probably
visit England this year. She intends
to make a trip round the world in the
interests of the World's Women's
Christian Temperauco Union.
Mn, Broyaro Kieniva's story, “The
Light that Failed,” will ba published
by Messrs. Macmillan at the Legioving
of March, with two or moreoxtra chap.
tere,
Remexyi, one of the most famous of
violinists, will begin a concert tour in
the United States, in September 1801.
Asenion's first streot-oar line was
built in 1826,
Wax conscience oversleeps herselt,
we oall her remorse.
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
BURKDAY, MARCH 8, 1500
rain
Naaman Healed,
LESSON TEXT
OKings8 : 1.14 BIg
Memory verses:
LESSON PLAN.
Toro or THR
and Serving,
Quanrer: Sinning
Gorpex Texr ron Tam QuanrTER
|~1%im, 4:8
Ligsson Toro:
| mig the Sick,
i
| ® Bee
Lesson Ovyrixg:d * “
Goupex Texr: Who forgiveth ali
| diseascs,—Paa 103 :
: 3.
Darmy Hove READINGS
M.—2 Kings 5 1-14.
healed.
T.—Lev, 13 :
leprosy.
Ww. Lev. 14
leper.
K
1-17. of
Detection
: 1-1 Cleansing the
ed
igs 7 : 1-20, The lepers
Ti
187113
: 40-45, Jesus heals a
Jesus heals
Cleansing
I,
ANALYSIS,
WITH LEPROSY.
A Great Man:
Na man
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rani
and
WAS 8 great man,
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throne
Cre.
i! greater
a ih
Moses was very
ii
land of
ox i. 43 el.
in the king's hous
not many noble, are
STEKING A CURR,
i. Effori:
Go, and I will send
king of Israel (5).
iat will 1 give to the man of God,
tell us our way (1 Sam. 9: 8),
He took silver, gold, and
raiment (2 Kings 5: 5)
{ have sent Naaman, . . . that thou may-
| est recover him ‘2 Kings 5: 6), i
iA man's gift maketh room for him
(Prov. 18: 16).
i. Dismay:
He rent has clothes, and said, Am I
Jod? (7).
Am I in God's stead? (Gen. 30: 2).
jee how he seeketh a quarrel sgainst
{ me (1 Kings 5: 7)
| His knees smote one against another
(Dan. 5: 6.
Fhe king covered him with
cloth (Jonah 3: 6).
s letter unto the
to
sack-
iL Confiaence:
| He shall know that there is
| srophet in lsrael (8).
Let it be known this day that thou art
| God (1 Kings 18: 36).
i Chey said, The Lord, he is God
Kings 18: 39).
We have confidence in the Lord (2
Thess. 3: 4).
{ know him whom I have believed (2
Tim. 1: 12).
1, “Go and I will send a Jotter unto
the king of Israel” (1) The king's
command; (2; The king's corres-
pondence; (3) The king's success.
L “That thon mayest recover him of
his leprosy.” (1) Naaman's hope-
less disease; (2) Israel's supposed
power; (3) Syria's imperious de-
mand; (4) Elishas triamphant suo-
cons,
8, “So Naaman... .stood at the door
of the house of Elisha" (1)
Ehsha's lowly home; (2) Naaman’s
gorgcous retinne; (8) Jehovah's
nefioent purposes,
111, GAINING A CURR.
LL The Command:
Go and wash in Jordan seven times
(10h.
Ipeak unto the children of Ierael, that
they go forward (Ex.d. 14: 15).
Pour out for the people, that they
may eat (2 Kings 4: 4).
Bo, wash in the pool of Siloam (John
& 7
30 baptized, and wash away thy sins
(Acts 22: 15).
iL The Submission:
Thenlwent he down, and dipped him.
wif... in Jordan (14).
uM stretehod ont his band over the
sen (Exod, 14: 21),
1
He that hummbleth himself shall be ex-
i
sited (Luke 14.°71
He went away therefore, and washed
(John 9: 7),
Be subject the
if).
1. Tne Cure:
And Le was clean (14),
The children
elore unto God (Jas, 4
of lsrael went . upon
the dry ground (Exod. 14. 22),
8: 22).
Her daughter was
hour (Matt, 15
He came seeing (John 9: 7.
1. “Go and wash
times.” (1)
pectations;
directions.
2. “So he turned and went away in
a rage.” (1) Disappointed; (2) Ho
miliated; (3) koraged
8. “How much rather then.” (1B
The less preferable to the greater:
(2) Obedience preferable to rebel
Lion; (8) Health preferable to dis
ease,
healed that
from
OR
in Jordan
Nauaman's
soven
great ox.
Elisha's humilisting
{9
ie)
LESSON BIBLE READING,
MIRACLES AT THE JORDAN,
4 : 19-23),
Elijah fed before Jordan (1 Kings 17 :
14).
LESSON
[XTRRYENING Jovi further
Kings 4 :
OLSGnOns
} sup
Les piace
is prolable that
f Vel Years,
1-6. As
at passage,
Feb a
i r of Nas
r this famine.
BOCINS Likely
2 Kings 6 ©
occurred
Lessons
niracles are
one, a
+ &
recorade i
« § 2 fr
pari? ig i
he other, an increase of
$ is
VOGE
og R
ii Bh id be placed aft
i BLOW § Phi a
i events, 11 B ms
i}
v0
in
™
Probably fi in Damas
capital 3 one of the
nt cit : north-
rusalem, on an ee evated plain,
un two thousand feet above th
still a flourishing
in 56 aria.
ty-five miles
ere Naaman
bably at the
r chariot from
Cid miles
IRrge and
Flisha was living
bout twe
w
re
owas ab
Five db
he fifth or eleventh
The later
¢ famine (2
$ YY
POS I
before
Aargin
i, are
1sraclitish
aman, & lep-
teils her mistress
SRINDATIA CAD Cure
leprosy. When this
king of Syria
king of lsrael
great treasure with
letter to the king of
latter rends his clothes,
thinking the lotier a pretext for a quar.
rel. Elisha, bearing of this, sends
word to the king, bidding Naaman
come to him. He comes to the house,
nd Elisha sends a messenger hidding
him wash in Jordan seven times. Nas
man is aogry, having looked for aa
immediate cure by the hand of the
prophet; he speaks of the rivers of
damascus, apd turns away in a rage
His servants remonstrate with him, and
or
4
»f his leprosy.
o——— -————
A peculiar accident occurred yester-
to Kohlman's
and
had the business end of his line adorned
Buddenly
a large fish seized the bait and made
such a determined rush therewith as
to cause the strain on the line to out
the young fisherman's finger almost to
the bone. Surgical aid was obtained,
and it was at first thought that the
member would have to be amputated,
The operation has been deferred, how-
ever, and it is hoped that the finger
may be saved without resorting to
amputation.— St. Pawl Globe.
——
~At a quarry near Salt Lake, Utah,
recently a frog hopped out of a pocket
in the center of a rock which had just
been blasted, The animal was of small
size and perfectly white. 1is eyes were
unusually large, but apparently blind.
Where the mouth should have been thers
was only aline. The frog died next
morning.
«Tt has been estimated that the vo.
lume of water poured into the Rio
Ia Platia Bazil, exceeds the agere
disc of all the rivers of Europe
put her, Its &&dinary flow atsome
ints is 100,000 cubic feet per second,
he ordinary volume of waler in the
Uruguay River averages 11,000,000 of
cubic feet per minute,