REY. DR. TALMAGES SERMON
fhe Brooklyn Divirne's Sunday
. Bermon.
Sahject: “ Baleful Amusemonts.™
TEXT: “Let the young men mow aris
and play before ws."—11 Samuel, il, 14.
There are two armies encamped by the
| of Gibeon. The time hangs heavily on
oir hands. One army proposes a game of
sword fencing. Nothing could be more
healthful and innocent. o other army ao
©epts the challenge. Twelve men against
‘twelve men, the sport opens. But something
wvent adversely. Porte one of the swords-
anen got an unlucky clip, or in some way had
‘his ire aroused, and that whieh opened in
fulness ended in violence, each one tak-
dng his contestant by the hair, and then with
#hesword thrusting him in the side, so that
hat which opened in innocent fun ended in
the massacre of all the twenty-four sports
puen. Was there ever a better illustration
{of what was true then, and is true now, that
hat which is innocent may be made de
structive?
Whatof a worldly nature is more im-
portant and strengthening and fonocent than
JAamusement, and yet what has counted more
victims? Ihave nosympathy with a straights
Jacket religion. Thisisa very bright world
50 me, and I propose to do all I can to make
ifs bright for others.
I never could keep step to a dead march.
A book years ago issued says that a Chris.
tian man has a right to some amusements.
For instance, if he comes home at night
“weary from his work, and feeling in need of
peveral times there can beno harm in it. 1
‘believe the church of God has made a tree
punendous mistake in trying to suppress the
sportfuiness of youth and drive out
men their love of amusement
implanted anything in us he 1mplanted this
desire,
of our nature, the church of God has, for the
main part, ignored it. As in a riot, the
goayor plants a battery at the end
street, and has it fired off so that everyt
is cut down that happens to stand in
range, the good as well as the bad, sot
are men in the church who plant their
teries of condemnation and fire away indi
riminately. Everything is conde
But my Bible commends those who use
world without abusing it, and in the nat
world God has done everything ¢ ) pions
amuse us. In poetic figures we som
speak of natural objects as being in
but it is a mere fancy. Poets say the
weeg, but they nev hed a tear:
the winds sight but they newer di
any trouble; and that t storm
it never lost its te 5 The
rose, and the universe a garland
I am glad to know that ia all
there are plenty of places where »
elevated, ral entertainme
honest mea and good wome
me in the statement ths I
lagues of these cities is corrug
Multitudes have gone down under
ing influence never to rise, If w
of what is going !
amusement by th
board fences and in
windows, there is nota much lower
gacy to reach. At Nap
“h pic ures locked
criminate inspe
exhumed from Pom
public gaze, If the
of amusement
vertisements of
by night grow
tion, in fifty ork 1
will beat n peil, bu
To bel; ZUS NOW ragis
ject certain principies by wh
Judge in regar
creation. find
is right or w
I remark in
Judge of the
ment by its healthfu
Femet n
up of
muitipd on
show them an
gin to disc
re
svar do anyth
are no great
n the deg
r billow of re
ter. They seem as if nats
by contract and made a bungling job of
“But, blessed be God, there are people in the
world who have bright faces, and who
is a song. an anthem, a pean of vi
Even their troubles are like the vis
crawl up the side of a great tower, or
of whic h the sunlight sits, and the
of summer hold perpetual carnival 1
are the people you like to have come to yo
house; they are the people I like to
come to my house. If you but touch the
hem of their garments vou are healed
Now it is these exhilarant and sympathe.
tic and warm hearted people that are most
tempted to pernicious amusements. In pro-
poten as a ship is swift it wants a strong
surging ur
billow
ng
have
it wants a stout driver; and these ]
exuberant nature will do well to look at the
reaction of all their amusements, if
amusement sends you home at night nervous
so that you cannot sleep, and you rise up in
the morning, not because you are sient out
but because your duty drags you from you
siumbers, you have bern where you ought
not to have been. There are amusements
that send a man next day to his work blood.
shot, yawning, stupid, nauseated; and
are wrong kinds of nmmusemnent. They are
entertainments that ve a man disgust with
the drudgery of life, with tools because they
ars not swords, with working aprons because
they ars not robes, with cattle because they
are not infuriated bulls of the arena.
If any amusement sends you home longing
for a life of romance and thrilling adventure,
love that takes poison and shoots itself,
moonlight adventures and hair breadth es
capes, you may depend upon it that you are
the sacrificed victim of unsanctified pleasure,
Our recreations are intended to build up,
and if they pull us down us to our moral or
as to our physical strength you may come to
the conclusion that they are obnoxious,
There iz nothing more depraving than at
tendance upon amusements that ars full of
fonuendo and low suggestion. The youn
man enters. At first be sits far back, wit
his hat on and his coat collar p, fearful that
somebody there may know him. Several
nights passon. He takes off his hat eariier
and puts his coat collar down, The biush
that first came into his chesk when anything
indecent was enacted comes no more to his
cheek, Farewell, young man! You have
probably started on the long road wh ok
ends in consummate destruction. Tha
stars of hope will go out one by one
until you wiil be left in utter darkness, Hem
you not the rush of the maelstrom, in whos
outer circle your boat now dances, making
merry with the whirling waters? Bat yot
are being drawn in, and the gentle motios
will become terrific agitation. You ery fo
help. In vain! You pull at the car to pul
back, but the struggle will not avail! You
will be tossed and dashed and shipwrecked
and swallowed in the whirlpool that bas al
ready crushed in ite wrath ten thousand
haiks,
Young men who have just come from
country residemide to city residence will
well to be on guard and let no one induc
you to places of improper amusement. I
is mightily alluring when a young man
long a citizen, offers to show & new comer al
around,
Still farther. Those amnsements are wrong
which lead you into expenditure beyond you
means, Money spent in recreation is no
thrown away. Ii is all folly for up to com
rom a place of amusement feeling that w
om wasted our money and time. You may
by it have made an investment worth mor
the transactions that yielded you hun
an
But how many
properties have been riddled by costly
amusements,
The first time I ayer saw the clty—it was
the city of Philadelphia—I was a mere iad. 1
py at a hotel, and I remember in the
eventide one of these men plied me with his
internal art, He saw I was green. He wanted
to show me the sights of the town. He
painted the path of sin until it looked like
emerald; but I was afraid of him. I shoved
back from the basilisk—I made u my mind
he was a basilisk. I remember how ha wheeled
his chair round in front of me, and with a
concentrated and diabolical effort attempted
to destroy my soul; but there were good
angels in the air that night, It was no good
resolution on my part, but it was the all en-
compassing grace of a good God that deliv.
ered me, Beware! beware! oh, young man,
“There is & way that seemeth right unto a
man, but the end thereof is death.”
The table has been robbed to pay the club,
The champagne has cheated the children's
wardrobe. The carousing party has burned
®) the boy's primer, ‘The tablecloth in the
corner saloon is fn debt to the wife's faded
dress, Fxcursions that ina day make a tour
around a whole month's wages; ladies whose
lifetime business it is to ‘go shopping”
large bets on horses have their counterpart
in uneducated children, bankruptcies that
shock the money market and appall the
chumwh, and that send drunkenness stagger
ing across the richly figured carpet of the
manson and dashing into the mirror and
drowning out the carol of music with the
whopping of bloated sons come bome to
break their old mother's heart,
I1saw a beautiful bome, wheres the hell
rang violently late at night, ‘The son had
been off in sinful indulgencies. His com-
rades were bringing him home. They car-
ried him to thedoor, Thev rang the bell at
tomy surprise, lying in full every day dress
on the top of the clothes. I put out my hand,
He grasped it excitedly and said, *'8if down,
Mr. Tairvage, right here.” Isat down, He
said: *‘Last night [ saw my mother, who has
been dead twenty Journ, and she sat just
where you sit now. It was no dream, I was
wide awake, There was no delusion in the
matter. I saw her just as plainly as I see
you. Wife, I wish you would take thous
strings off of me, There are strings spun
all around my body,
take them off of me.”
lirium,
“Oh,” replied his wife, “my dear, there is
nothing there, thers is nothing there.” Heo
went on, and said: ‘‘Just where you sit Mr,
Talmage, my mother sat, She said; ‘Henry
I do wish you would do better! I got out of
bed, put my arms around her, and said,
‘Mother, I want to do better, I have been
trying to do better. Won't you help me to
do better? You used to Help me." No mise
take about it. No delusion. Isaw her-—the
cap, and the apron, and the spectacles, just
as she used to look twenty years ago; but I
do wish you would take these things away,
They annoy me 0. 1 can hardly talk,
Won't you take them away? 1 knelt down
aod prayed, conscious of the fact that he did
not realize what I was saying. Igotup. 1
sald, "'Good-by; I hops your will better
soon.” He sald, ‘‘Good-by, good-by.”
That night his soul went to the God who
gave it. Arrangements were made for the
obsequies. Bome said, “Don't bring him in
the caurch; he was too dissolute.” “On.” I
sald, “ring him, He was a good friend
of mine while he was alive, and [ shall stand
by him nw that he is dead, Bring him to
the church.”
As | sat in the = it and saw his body
coming up through the aisle I fet as if I
could weep tears of blood, 1 told the people
I wish you would
lI saw it was do
1 o'clock in the morning. Father and mother
came down. They were waiting for the i
wandering son, aud then the comrades, as |
soon as the door was opened, threw the
prodigal headiong into the doorway, crying:
“There he is, drunk as a fool. Ha ha!
When men go into amueemeants they cannot
afford they first borrow what ther
earn and then they steal
1
y
Canno
First they go into embarrassmen
into lying and then into theft;
aman ge's as far on that he
does not stop short of the pe satiary
There is not a prison in the land where there |
are not viet insanctified amusements,
Merchants of Bre yu or New Yor
there a disarrangement in your aco
Is there a leakage in your
Did not iast account come out rat is
night? bere is a young
man in dering off bad
an you give him may
Tne wi penditures, but not the sinfn
inda h be has entered, am! he |
which you do not give |
i
and then
and when as
v ¥
THs Of ©
mousy do
ig
no
nusement
INN SATS
Never mind
r 8 chiapiet for 3
he wayward boy, and push
t 3
ed Drow tLe long io
y these are unch
rief bus
s become the «
life. Life is an earn
Whether we were born in a pa ao
whether we are affluent or pinch
to work. If you do not sweat with
will sweat with
ia
disease, yal |
the mountala shall have |
in an avalanche of a rock, you
a throne
dungeon
come down
seraphs ging, or desp in a
In a world where there
® = mich to do for yourssives, and so mush
io do for others, God pity that man who has
nothing to do. ]
Your sports are merely means to an end. |
The arm of
he only arm strong encugh to bring
ap the bucket out«of the deep well of pleas |
are. Amusement is only the bower where
business and philanthropy rest while on their
Amusements
anvil of toil and the blossoming of the ham.
mers. Alas for the man who spends his life
in laboriously doing nothing, his days ia
hunting up lounging places and loungers
bis nights in seeking out some gas lighted
foolery! The man who aiways bas on his
sporting jacket, ready to hunt for game in
the mountain or fish in the brook, with no
time to pray or work or read, is not so well
A man who does not work dos not know
how to play. If God bad intended us to do
nothing but langh He would not have given
us shoulders with which to lift, and hands
with which to work, and brains with which
to think. The amusements of life are mere-
ly the orchestra playing while the great
tragedy of life plunges through its five acts
~finfancy, childhood, mank old age and
death. Then exit the last earthly opportun-
ity. Eater the overwhelming realities of an
eternal world!
I go further, and say that all those amuse.
ments are wrong which lead into bad com-
pany. It you go toany place where vou
ave to amociate with the intemperate, with
the unclean, with the abandoned, however
Sell they may be dread, ein She nams of
dod quit 16. T hep 1 your natura,
They will undermine °F, moral character,
They will drop you when you are destroyed.
They will give not one cent to support your
children when you are dead. They will wasp
not one tear at fon burial. They wi
chuckle over your damnation.
1 bad a friend at the wegt—a rare friend.
He was one of the first tdwelcome me to his
new home, To fine al appearance he
added a gengrosity, frankness and ardor of
nature tl athe ma Jove him like s brother,
But I saw evil Jeople jatvoring around him,
They came up from ¢ saloons, from the
gambling hells. They plied him with a thou,
sand arts. They seized u h na-
ture, and he could not stand the charm.
They drove him on the rocks, like a ship full
winged, shivering on the breakers. 1 used
to admonish him. I would say, “Now |
wish you would quit thess bad habits and
become a Christian,” “Oh,” he would reply,
44 wouid like to. 1 would like to, but § bave
go far 1 don't think there is any wwy
Back.» In his moments of tance he
would go homs snd take his little girl ol
eight years, and embrace her convulsively,
Ad cova ner with adgrumeny and id
arou er piotures and toys a ery thing
that could make her happy and then, =
though bounded by an evil spirit, he would
go out to Sha shfiaming cup aid the hats of
shame, like a fool to correction of thu
stocks,
I was summoned to his deathbed,
hastened. 1 entered theroom, I found him
that day: “This man had his virtues, an
good many of then. He had his faults, and
a good many of them, but if thereis any man
sin let him
Ln one
as beautiful as any
at your table this
I warrant you. She looked
fully, not knowing the full
an orphan child. Oh, ber
tenance haunts ms today like some sweet
face looking upon ustarough a horrid dream.
Ou the other side of the puipit were the men
vio had destroyed him There they mat
hard visaged, some of them pals from ex-
ne of them flushed until
fires of iniquity Samed
Kled the lips
i dons the
They were the men who had bound Lim band
and foot, They had kindled the fi:
had poured the wormwooland ga
orphan’s cup. Did they weep! No
they sigh repentis ! No. Did they
“Whoata pity that such a brave man
be slain > po: not one bloated har
lifted to wipe a tear from a bloated «
They sat and locked at the cuffin like
tures gaz ng carcass of a lamb wh
beart it! if
Cars as
littie child
morning,
up wist-
sat
COUN.
it seemed as If the
through the cheeks and cra
WOre,
ox
SO
up apd took
cursss of Go
{SAL DeER,
down
came Lhe
Agnin
msband standing at the
aristian wile, and | saw bor
on ber finger, and heard ber
asband, “Do you ses that ring ™
Heroeplied, “Yen | me it." “Well” sa
she, "do you remember who put is there
“Yeu said he, *‘I put it there,” and all
past seamed to rash upon him, By the mem.
ory of that day when, in the presence of men
u promised to be faithful in
JOF and sorrow, and insickness and in bealth:
by the memory of those pleasant hours when
you sat together in your new home talking
f a bright future; by the cradles and the
Joyful hour when our life was spared and
another given: by tbat sick bed. when the
little one Iifted up the voice and called for
hieip, and you knew be must dis, he put one
the
you very near together in that dying kiss; |
the little gra ve in Greenwood that yo
think of without a rmsh of tears; by the
family Bille, where, amidst stones of
heavenly love, is the brief but expressive
y
or
1 fey
f the past and by the agonies of the futur:
by a judgment day, when husbands an
all that, I beg you to give to home your best
affsctions
Ab, my friends, there is an hour coming
when our past life will probably pass before
us in review, It will be our last hour. If
from our death pillow we have to look back
and soe a life spent fo sinful amusement
there will bo a dart that will strike through
our soul sharper than the dagger with which
Yingius slew his child. The iniquities and
rioting through which we have passed will
come upon us, weird and skeleton as Meg
Meorrilies. Death, the old Shylock, will de-
mand and take the remaining pound of
flesh, and the remaining dro biood, and
apon our last opportunity for repentance,
and our last chance for heaven the curtain
will forever drop.
The National Plant.
There have been laudable efforts lately
to elect a national flower by voting; but,
however dear, and rightfully dear, to
the American heart is universal suffrage,
it cannot decide this question, the
snswer to which should be by se.
clamation. And how could a fair vote
be obtained without an organization
almost such as is found necessary for
choosing a President for the great Ro-
publio—~which in this case is clearly im.
possible.
Of all the plants selected by this re-
publican caucus, the one that is already
national has been strangely neglected.
The stately sunflower, the a
arbutus, ‘the gay golden.rod, the beaut.
ful mountain laurel, the grand magnolia,
the gorgeous cardinal flower, have each
and all bad their adherents, and been
voted for; but when a few out of what
should have been many millions of votes
have been recorded, the thing comes to
a dead stop.
The American Garden way speak of
‘‘our national flower the golden-rod;"
bat when nothing has been the choice of
o whole people,or a representative
of the people, i come oT
But the maize, the Indian corn, has &
strong though unacknowled tion
ns ofr national la od Erptand
i
a
AN OLD LETTER.
Darkened and stained (8 the paper ——
Btained as by many a tear;
Frded and dim 's the writing
Traced in a long past yeusr,
Yet oh! how Iva and vital,
How bright with love's purest ray
Is every page of the letter
Wo read wich moist eyes to-day!
As the sun-ripened fruit of the vintag
Lives in the sparking wine,
Bo the soul of the vanished write
Glows in cach “loquent line,
His noble and kindly emotions,
His sentiments tender and true
Are here, Hike remembered muse
That thillled us when lite was new,
How sweet are the fond reenllections
These faded leaflets enclose!
Bweot as the lingering fragrance
That elthgy to a withered rose,
Yet sweet with a tender sadn ss
That tells of summer gone by,
Of toys that bloome | but io perish
And hopes that dawned but to dle,
Dear record of days departed!
We read you o'er and o'er
You are now like 1 volce of greeting
From some fair sunlit shore,
Over the surges of S0rrow-—-
Uver a sea of gloom
This voice says--Love 1s immortal
And lives beyond the tomb.”
Emeline Sherman Smith, in Home Journal,
——————————
FAMILY JARS,
They are not useiul, scarcely even
{ ornamental, vet no home is comnlete
| without them, and we encounter
everywhere. High and low, rich
poor, all have them alike, though
{ do not display them with equal ge
osity to the vulgar Th
sophisticated masses usually
i them, as it were, on the table
mantel-piees h the otl
crockery the **Present from the Crysta
apd the mug “For
Boy or Girl,” ¢te.—and point out their
chips and cracks with a certain
complacency to every passer-by,
{ was that ageravating” she
you, if yon
just alter «fl
the honse: snd
nx th
blood
AID]
them
and
all
ner-
nn-
stand
Or
wer bits
gaze a
wit
f
l
i
Palace,” a
V3 100K i
CLAnce
re
ns the cas
less ca
i ment
“retort
| rect!’ Li
wl
ana ira
of
RO
| stdden
i family JATS In the home
| arch Joseph would
been lowered into the p
brethren, and, humanly spe
| Israelites would never have
| duced to mak bricks in Egypt.
| But, to tarn from these high matters
{to the commonplace experiences of
| every«lay life, it is strange to remark
| the different treatwent to which we see
| these family j «re subjected amongst our
{ own friends and scquaintances. In a
| general way we find that the higher we
| ascend 1n the social scale, the greater is
| the reserve with which domestic dis-
| sension is treated; a respectable cloak
| of mystery is thrown around it, end in
| the end it is not infrequently locked up
| with the family skeleton in the onp-
i board. Many an ignoble jar is dis.
posed of in this way--to fall with a
| erash at some most inopportune mo-
{ ment, when a well-meaning passer-by
| chances inadvertently to open the cup-
{ board door. Have we not all been
| present on such unhappy occasions as
| these; vost nuwilling witnesses of the
| consternation and dismay with which
| the horror-stricken owners gazed on
| the wreck that revealed their jealousy-
| guarded secret to the public gaze?
| What sympathetio soul but must feel
deeply for the sufferers thus exposed
to the scorn and cold derision of the
world; and, alas! what proud aad sens:-
tive spirit but must tremble lest its
own treasured boards be in like man.
ner made the laughingstock of the
vulgar crowd! For we all have family
jars, though it is only the prouder and
the more reserved of us that feel them
80 aoutely-—at least, 1n this connection
with others.
Family jars, we have said, are
neither useful nor ornamental in a»
eneral way; at least, we can Seldon
ro Ver an ractionl purpose that
they serve, A it boo bad ome.
But doubtless they are necessary-—s
necessary evil, it may be, and as such
we must endeavor to make the best of
thom. Let us ignore them as long as
we oan, and, in any case, let us beware
how we take the world into our confi
dence with regard 10° them, thereb
making our private dwssensions publio
property, for then they will pass to a
great extent out of our control, and
often assume an importance we have
never dreamed of according to them.
The population of Toklo, the capital
of Japan, is rapidly increasing, while
that of other cities and towns in te
Empire 1s decreasing,
There is now an exceptional opening
for American oysters in England in
consequence of the danger of an oyster
famine, Genuine “natives” are a dol
lar a dozen.
The publiedebt was Increased in Feb-
uary nearly three millions.
Jacob, never Lave
is angry
aking, the
been re-
ing
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SUNDAY SCHOO} LESSON.
BUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1891,
FIRST QUARTERLY REVIEW
HOME READINGS.
TITLES AND GOLDEN TEXTS,
Goupex Texr ron ree Quarter:
Godliness {a profitable unto alt Things,
- 1 Tim, 4:8,
I. THE KINGDOM DIVIDED,
Pride goeth before destrnetion, and
a haughty spirit before a fa l.— Prov.
16 : 18,
IL, IDOLATRY IN ISRAEL,
Thou shalt not make unto thee any
graven image, —Erod, 20 : 4.
II. GOD'S CARE OF ELIJAN,
They that seek the Lord shall not
want any good thing. Psa. 84 : 10.
IV, PLIJAH AND THE PROPHETS OF BAAL,
How long balt ye between two opin-
be God, follow him.
1 Kings 18 : 21.
V. ELIJAH AT HOREB,
with thee, and
24
AHAB'S COVETOUSKESS,
Fear not, for I am
will bless the. — Gen. 26 :
v
) *
Take heed, and beware of covetous-
ness, Luke 12 : 15. ’
VI, ELIJAH TAKEN TO HEAVEN,
And Enoch walked with God: and he
was not; for God took him. Gen.
Db: 24.
Vill. BLIIAR'S SUCCE
Not by might,
my Spirit,
Zech, 4: 6,
BOR,
nor by power, but by
eaith the Lord of 4
1X, TH
SHUNAMMIT
The Fatlier raiset!
jaickeneth them
in Beth-el, and the
And this thing bx
the people went to worshi
even Dan
nt
one, unio
i. 41
Scholars: Thou shalt not make unto
thee any graven image (Exod, 20 : 4,
Teachers: Little children, guard
yourselves from wdols (1 John 5 : 21
All Ihe Lord, hie 18 God: the 1x 4 1,
he is God (1 Kinus 18 : 80),
Lesson 3, — Superintendent: And
she went and did according to the say-
ing of Elijah; and she, and he, and her
bouse, did eat many days. The barrel
of meal wasted not, ne ther did the
cruse of oil fail, scecording to the word
of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah
{1 Kings 17: 15, 16).
Scholars: They that seek the lord
shall not want any good thing (Psa. 34:
10).
Teachers: Your heavenly Father
knoweth that ye bave need of all these
things (Matt. 6: 42(.
All: Gave us this day our daily bread
(Matt, 6: 11).
Lesson 4. — Buperintendent: Then
the fire of the ocd fell, and consumed
the burnt offering, and the wood, and
the stones, and the dust, and licked up
the water that was in the trench. And
when all the people saw it, they fel! on
their faces; and they said, The Lord, he
is God; the Lord, he is God (I Kings
18: 88, 89).
Scholars: How long halt ye between
two opinions? if the Lord be God fol-
low him (1 Kings 18; 21).
Teachers: Choose you this
whom ye wil serve (Josh. 24: 15).
All: The Lord our God will we serve
(Josh, 24: 24).
Lesson b.-Superintendent: And
Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had
done, and withal how he bad alain all
the prophets with the sword. Then
To sont a messenger unto Elijah,
saying, So let the gods do to me, and
more also, if I make not thy life as the
life of one of them by to-morrow about
this time. And when he saw that, he
arose, and went for his life (1 Kings
19: 1.8).
Scholars: Fear not, for I am with
thee, and will bless thee (Gen. 26:
24).
Teachers: 1f God id for us, who is
against us? (Rom. 8:31).
All; If thy presence go not with
me, oarry us not up hence (Exod. 83:
day
Lesson 6. —Superintondent: ~~ And
Abab oame into his house heavy and
displeased because of the word which
spe qt is ab 15 se a
Nahoth the Jezreelite had spoken #¢
him: for he had said, 1 will not give
thee the inheritance of my fathers, And
be laid him down upon his bed, and
turned away his face, and would eat ne
bread (1 Kings 21: 4).
Beholars: Take heed, and beware of
covelousness {Luke 12: 15).
Teachers: Be... .eontent with such
things us ye have (Heb, 1 5).
All: Godliness with contentment fe
great gain (1 Tim. 6: 6),
Lesson T.—Buperintendent: And if
came to pass, as they still went on, and
talked, t at, behold, there appeared a
chariot of fire, and horse of fire, which
parted them both asunder; and Elijah
went up by a whirlwind into heaven (2
Kings 2:11).
Reholars: And Enoch walked with
God: and he was not; for God tuok bum
(Gen, 5: «4,
Teachers: Before hig translation he
hath had witne s borne to him, that he
had been well-pleasing unto God (Heh.
11: 5).
All: And without faith it is impossi-
le to be well-pleasing unto him (Heh
1: 6).
Buperintendent: He
mautle of Elijah that
m him, and went back, and
tood by the bank of Jordan. And he
took the mantle of Elijah that fell from
him, and smite the said,
Where is the Lord, E ijah?
and when he al iitten the
waters, they ded hither and
thither: and ut over (2 Kings
14
i3
y the
walers,
) 3
2:13,
Scholars: 'Y might,
nor by
the
power, bint bry arit, saith
Lord of hosts
Teachers Lord,
git (Eph
5 Il
YY
20
that
neet thee? ihe lep-
shall cleave
unto thy seed for ever.
out from his presence a
snow (2 Kings
Naaman
leper as as b:
du,
Ch
lars: Be sure your sin will find
ou out (Num. 32; 23),
Teachers: There is nothing covered
), that shall not be revealed: and Hid,
t be known (Luke 12: 2
thon fre im hidden
123.
33
wt suall n
Alls Clear
faults (Psa. 19:
LA 12. ~~Superintendent: And
Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray
1 open his eyes, that he may see,
And the lord opened the eyes of the
young man; and be saw: and, behold,
the mountain was full of horses and
chariots of £re round about Elisha (2
Kings 6: 17).
Scholars:
with us are more
Kings 6: 17).
Teachers: The angels of the Lord
encampeth ronnd about them that fear
him, and delivereth them (Psa. 34: 7).
All: O keep my soul, and deliver me
(Psa. 25: 20).
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han be with them (2
KISS HER AND TELL HER SO.
You've a neat little wife at home, John.
Ak sweet as you wish to see;
As faithful and gentie-hearted,
As fond as a wife can be:
A genuine, homeJoving woman,
Not earing for fuss and show ;
8be's dearer to vou than life, Jolin,
Then Kiss her and tell ber so.
Your dinners are prompt! + served, John,
As, likewise, Your breakfast and teas
Your wardrobe is always In order,
With buttons where buttons should be.
Her house is a cozy home nest, John,
A heaven of rest below;
You think she’s a rare litle treasure,
Then kiss and tell her so,
Ebe's a good wife and trae to you, Joha
Let fortune be foul or fair;
Of whatever comes to you, John,
She cheerfully bears her share;
You feel she’s a brave, true helper,
And perhaps far more than you know
"Twill lighten her end of the load, John,
Just to Kise her and tall her so,
There's a crossroad somewhere in fe, John
Where a hand on s guiding stone
Will signal one “over the river,”
And the other must go on alone.
Bhould she reach the last milestone firet, John
"Twill be comfort amid your woe
To know that while loving here, John,
You kissed her and told her so,
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