ACER, REV DB. TALMAGE The Brooklyn invine's Sanday Sermon. Suhject : “The plague of Crime.” were in Ae bicod. "Exodus vii, - tae waters thnd river wers uried to Among all the Exyptisn plagues none could Bave been worse than this, The Nile is the enith of Egvpt. lis flea the food, its waters e irrigation of garden and feds. Its con dition decides ihe prosperity or the doom ol the etuplire. What happens to the Nile bap peus to all Egypt. And now in the text thai great river is iucarnadined. Itis a red gash RCTOss an enpire. In poetic Hosnse wa speal of wars which turn the rivers into But my text is not a poetic Moense, It was & fact, a gront crimson, appalling eondilien described. The Nile rolling decp of blood Can you imagine a more awful ? The modern plagues which nearest corre ds with that is the plague of crime in all our cities, It halts not for bloodshed, 1t shrinks [rom no carnage. It bruises and cuts and strikes down and destroys. It re veils in the blood of body and soul, this pa ue of crime rampant for ages, and never bolder or more rampant than now, The annual police reports of these citiss as I examine them are to me mors suggestive than Dante's Inferno, and all Christian people aswell as reformers peed toawaken to a pres ent and tremendous duty, M you wan this “Plague of Crime” to stop there are savers kinds of persons you nesd te eossider. First, the public criminals. Yen ought not to be surprised that these people make up a larg portion in many communitios, ho vast Europe come into eur own port, carcerated in the thirty-two thousand wers of foreign birth, Maoy of them were the very desperadess of society, oozing into the slums of wailing for au opportunity to riot and Sad debauch, joising the large gang merican thugs aud cut-throats There are in this cluster of cities—Now York, Jersey City aud Brookiyn—{our sur life is to commit suicide. That is as much their business as jurisprudence or madicine or merchandise is your business. To it they bring all their energies of body, mind and soul, and they look upon the intervais which they spend in prison as so much unfortunate loss of time, just as you look upon an attack $f influenza and rheumatism which fastens ou in the house fora few days. It is thelr fetime business to pick pockets and blow up safes and shopiilt and ply the panel game, and they have as much pride of skill in their set the argument of an opposing counsel, or eure a gunshot fracture which other sur goons bave given up, or foresee a turn in the market as you buy goods just before they go up vwenty per cent. It is their business © commit crime, and I do not suppose that once in a year the thought of the immorality atrikes them, Added to these professional criminals American and foreign, there are a large class of men who are more or less industrious in crime. In one year the police in this cluster of cities arrested ten thousand people for theft, and ten thousand for assaalt and ttery, and fifty thousand for intoxication, nkenness is responsible for much of the theft, since it confuses a man's ideas of property, and he gets his hands on thing that do not belong to him. Rum is respons Ale for much of the assault and battery, in spiring men to sudden bravery, which they must demonstrate though it be on the face of the next gentleman. Ten million dollars’ worth of property stolen in this cluster of cities in one year X ou cannot, as good citizens, be independent of that fact. It will touch your pocket, since 1 have to give you the fact that these three wities pay about eight million do'lars’ worth of taxes a year to arraign, try and support she criminal population. You help to pay the board of every criminal, from the sneak thief that snatches a spool of cotton up sane man who swamps a bank. More Ber that, it tonches your heart in the moral de pression of the community. You might as well think to stand in = closely oonfined room where there are fifty people and yet not breathe the vitiated air, as to stand ic a community where there is such a great muititnde of the depraved without some what being contaminated. What is the fire that burns your store down compared with the conflagration which consumes yom morals? ‘bat is the theft of the gold and silver from your mousy safe compared with the theft of your children’s virtue’ We shout at the op of cur voice, “Stop thief I" and when the police get on the track we come out, batiess and in our slippers, and assist in the arrest. We come around the bawling rufiian sod hustle him off to justices, and when he gots in prison what do we do for him? With great gusto we put on the hand cuffs and the hoppies; but what preparation are we making for the day when the hand cuffs and the hopples come off? Society seems to say fo these criminals, “Villain, go “You are an offender against the law. buf we mean to give you an opportunity to re pent; we mean to help you, Hera are Bibles and tracts and Christian influences. Christ died for you. Look and live.” introducing industries into the prison: but we want something more than hammer and ehoe lasts to reclaim these people. Ave, we want more than sermons on the Sabbath day. Eociety must inpress these men with the fact that i$ does not enjoy their suf. fering, and thas i$ is attempting to reform and elevate thorn. The majority of erimin. als suppose that society has a grudge against wm, and they in turn have a grudge against society, They are barder in heart and more infari- ate when they come out of jail than when they went wn. Mauy of the people who go to prison go again and again and again, Some years ago, of fifteen hundred prisoners who during the year had been in Bing Bing, four hundred had been there before. In a house of correction in durm been five thousand had been thers before, case the prison, and in the other the house of Sottection, left thew just us bad as they were ore. of age had spent three years of his Irie in “Well” replied the lad, “the fi was brought up before the judge he said, ‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself,’ and then 1 conmitted a crime again, and I was brought up befsre the same jadge, and be said, “You rascal’ Aupd after a brought before the sane Judge, and he said, “You ought to be hanged.” That was all they bad done for him in the way of reforms. Hon apd salvation, people are incorrigible.” wre hundreds of prison bunks who would leap up ac the prospect of reformation if society only allow them a way into decoy nod respectability, “Ol” you say en ¥ app wa Wann “1 have no patience with these rogues” ask you In reply, how much betier would you have been under tis ame circumstances! Suppose your motier had been a blasphemer und your father a wt, and you bad started lite with a body wuffed with evil proclivities, and you had went much of your time in a celiar amid incenition and cursing, aod If at ten years of age you bad been compelied to go out aud ani, battorsd and banged at night if you time in without any spoils, and suppose rour early manhood an: womanhood fad seen covered with rags and filth, and decent weiety hed turned its back upon you, mu eft you to consort with vagebonds and xbard rats-} much better would you ve ve no sym with that xecutive clemency whioh Law Jat crime un loose, or which would sit In the garter sf & court room weeping use some hard- tenrted wretch is brought to justies; but I fo say that the safety aad life of the come nunity demand more potential influences in sehall of public offenders, In some of the city prisons the air is like hat of the Black Hole of Calcutta. I haves rigited prisons where, as the alr swent shrough the wicket, 1b almost knocked ms flown. No sunlight. Young foen who kad rommitied their first crime crowded in wmong old offenders. 1 saw in one prison a woman, with a child almost bland, who bad een arrested for the crime of poverty, who was waiting until the slow law could take ter to the almsbouse, whers sas rightfully selonged; but she was thrust in there with of the town, Many of the offsndsrs in that srison selpt on the floor, with nothicg buta vermin-covered blanket over them, Those wople crowded and wan and wasted and lf suffocated and infuriated. 1 said to the nen, “How do you stand it here® “God dh, they will pay you when they get out. Where they burnad down ome houss they will burn three. They will strike deeper the pssassin’s knife, They are this minute plot ing worss burglaries. Bome of the city jails are the best places I tow of to manufacturs footpads, vaga. sonds and cutthroats. Yale College is not 10 well calculated to make scholars, nor Har. vard so well calculated to make scientists, aor Princeton so well caleniated to make theologians, as many of our jails are ealcu- ated to make criminals, All that those men io not know of crime after they have been n that dungeon for somes time Satanic machination cannot teach them. In the in. miferable stench and sickening surroundings of such places there is nothing but disease lor the body, idiocy for the mind, and death for the soul. Btifled air and dariness and vermin never turned a thief into an honest nan, We want men like John Howard and Sir eth Fry to do for the prisons of the United States what those people did in other days I thank God Isaac T. Hooper and Dr. Wins snd Mr. Harris and scores of others have want something more radical before will prison, and ye came unto me." Again, in your «fort to arrest this plagues of erime you need to consider untrustworthy sfficials. “Woe unto thee, O land, when tay king is a child, and thy princes drink in the morning.” It isa great calamity to a city when bad men get into public aathority. Why was it that in New York there was meh unparalleled crime between 1808 and 15717 It was because the judges of police in that city at that time for the most part wers As corrupt as the vagabonds that same before them for trial Those were the days of high carnival for election frauds assassination and forgery. We bad all kinds of There was one man during those vears that dollars in one year for serving the pubiie. It is no compliment to public authority when we have in all the cities of the country, walking abroad, men and women notorious for criminality unwhipped of justices, GAY. “fences.” the men who stand between the thief and the honest man, sheltering the thief, and at a great price handing over the goods to the owner to whom they belonged. “skinners,"” the men who hover around Wal street, with groat delight of band in bonds and stocks. There you find the funeral thieves, the people who go and sit down and mourn with families and pick thelr pockets And there you find the “confidence men, ® who borrow money of you because they family: or they want to go to England and get a large property thers and they wan! you to pay their way and they will send the money back by the very next mail, There are the “harbor thieves ™ “shoplifters,” the “pickpockets” famous their faces in the Rogues’ Gallery, yet do ing nothing for the last five or ten years but defraud society and eacape justice punished it is putting a high premium Spon vice and saying to the young erimin sof t is to be a great criminal!” Let the lan swoop upon them. let it be known in this country crime will have no quarter: that the detectives are after it; that the police ciub is being brandished ; that the iror door of the prison is bei opened: that thu judge ix ready to call on the case. Too great eniency to criminals is too great severity society Again in your effort to arrest this plague of crime, vou need to consider the idle popu lation. Of course I do not refer to peopl who are getting old, or to the sick or to those who eannot get work, but [ teil you to look out for those athletic men and women whe will not work. When the French nobleman was asked why he kept busy when he had Fropersy, he said, “I keep on engrav ing 80 I may not hang myseif.” | care who the man is, you cannot afford to be idle. It is from the idle classes that the criminal classes are made up. Character like water, gets putrid if it stands still toc long. Who can wonder shat in this world where there is 0 much to do, and all the hosts of earth and heaven and bell are plunging into the conflict and angels are fiy og and God is at. work and the universe i a-quaks with the marching and counter marching, that God lets His indignation fal upon a man who choows idleness 1 have watched these donothings whe spend their time stroking their beard and retouching their toilet and criticisiag in dustrious people, and pass their days and rights in barrooms and club houses, loung- ing and smoking and chewing and oard playing. They are not only useless but they are dangerous. How hard it them to while away the hours! Alas for If they do not know how to while away an hour, what will they do when their hands’ * very soon they come down to the prison, the almshouse, or stop at the gallows, The police stations of this cluster of cities furnish annually between two and threes hun. dred thousand lodgings. For the most part these two and thres hundred thousand Indg- and women--people as able to work as you and | are. When they are received no longer af ery” they go to some other station and = they kesp moving around. Thay get their the front basement hey will not work Time and again, in the country districts, of laborers. These mon will not go. They I have tried them. | have sot thera to sawing wood in my cellar fo ses whether they wantad to work. [ of- fered to pay them well for it. I bave hear the saw golag forabout three minutes, and then I went down, and lo! the wood, but no saw! They are the pest of society, and they stand in the way of the Lord's poor whe who ought to be helped, and must be helped, and will be beipad, While there are thousands of industrious men who cannot got any work, these mies who do mot want any work come in and make that plea. 1 am in favor of the roe oration of the old fashioned whipping pout lov Just this one class of mon who will no: work--gigeping at night at public ex pense in the station bows; during the day getting their food at your doorstep, lm prisonmaent lot not scare thea, They would like it. Blackwall's Isiand or Bin. ing would be a comfortable hotae for thew Fey would have no objection to the alms otis, for they like thin soup, if they can nob get mock turtle, I proposes thls for them: On one side o them pat some healthy work; on the other side put a rawhide and let them take their nhoice. 1 like for that clwes of peonle tw want bill of fare that Paul wrote out for fhe Thessalonian loafers, *'If any work not poither should he eat.” By waat law o | Bod or man is it right that you and I should oll day in and day out, until our hands are blistered and our arms sche and our brain pels rumb, snd then be called upon to sup. port what in the United States are abo: iwo million loafers. They are a very danger rus elass, Lot the public authorities keep Weir eves on them. Again, among the uprootiny classes I places the oppressed poor. Poverty to a certain sxvont is chastening, but after that, when i frives & man to the wall, and he hears his | salldren ory in valn for bread, it sometimes { makes him desparate, [ think that thers are | thousands of honest men lacsrated inte vaga- bondism. Thers are men crusibed uuser | burdens for which $hey are not hall peid, | While there is no excuse for eriminelity, | that much of the scoundrelism of tie com. | munity is consequent upon fll-treatment, { Phere are many men and women batsersd wd bruised and stung until the hour of da. { spalr has come, and they stand with tha ; lerocity of a wild beast which, pursued until { it can run no longer. turns round, fomning | and bleeding, to fight the hounds, | Tlereis sa vast underground New York { and | thameful. It wallows and steams with putre- { laction. You go down the stairs, which are { wet and decayed with filth, and at the bot. | om you find the poor victims on the floor, { till darker corner under the gleam of the | matern of the police. There has not been a | reath of fresh air ia years, literally. The bioken sewer emptios ts contents upon them, and they lis at night n the swunming filth. There they are man women, children; black, whites; Mary Mag- | falen without her repentance, and Lazarus { mthout his God, These are ‘ths dives" into { which the pickpockets and the thieves go, as well ax a groat many who would Hike a differ. nt life but cannot get it. These places ure the sores of the city, which bleed perpetual corruption. The; | the underiving volcano shat threstens us vith a Carscoas sarthgquake. It rolls and’ roars and surges and heaves and rocks and sinsphemes and diss, and there are only two witiets for it—the polices court snd the Pot. er's fleld. In other words, they must either foto prison or to hell. Oh, you never saw | & yousay. You never will see it until on | fhe day when those stazgering wretches | thall come up In the light of the judgment | larone, and while all hearts are being re { realed, God will ask you what you did to | slp them. | here is another layer of poverty and des | fitution not wo squalid, but almost as beip- (oes. You hear the incessant walling for | read and clothes and fire. Their syes are muoken. Their cheek bones stand out. Their nds are damp with slow consumption. | Pasir flesh is puffed up with dropeies. Their weath is Jike that of the charnel house hoy hear the roar of the wheels of fashion { wwerhead and the gay laughter of men and naidens and wonder why God gave to others | © much and to them so Hitle, Some of them | thrust into an infidelity like that of the poor | German girl who, when told in the midst of | sor wretebedness that God was good, said ‘No; no good God. Just look at me No i good God.” In this cluster of cities whose cry of want { Interpret there are said to ba, as far as 1 i san figure it un from the reporis, about ihree hundred thousand honest poor whoars | dependent upon individual, city and State sharitios If ail their voices could come up at once it would be a groan that would shake the foundations of the city and bring all marth and haaven to the rescus jut for the nost part it suffers unexpressed. It sits fn dience gnashing its testh and sucking the Sood of its own arteries waiting for the udgment day. Ob, I should not wonder if m that day it would be found out that some »f us bad some things that belonged to them, wme extra garment which might have made them comfortable in cold days; some bread | darust into the ash barrel that might haveap wre A RECIPE FOR A DAY. And a ttle leaven of prayer, Dissolved in the morn ng air, th a mel And a thought fo nd Kin BRS S0Ur DI igredient, A plenty of work thrown in agence of love And a little whiff of play, Let a wise old book and a glance above Complete the well-made day ww eloetod A EVELY-DAY TABLE RULES, all mider for and serving of the dishes, also very con! We have lessons upon how to manage and how to eat prop rly is necesgary knowledge, A i 15 & ruinad one, no : choice or how dainiily ied, ved Fri al how Before the meal 18 announced, the glasses be filled at each plate, a the pitcher of water left upon the table. If only the family are present, mother will be helped first, and the child: en in turn secording to their ages I consider it in better taste for no one to commence eating until all are | served: but at the present time, itis a matter of choice on the part of each person, and, as a rule eating begins as | soon as the plate reaches one, If soup is first, when through, let the | servant bring a rmall Japan server, and | going to the right of eich person, col leet all the spoons; . let ni then, in tl ame | manner, only on a round server, let her take ull the soup pistes, hol erver firmly in one hand, and piling the plate nn order Now the dinver should and helped in the same soup. Should youd twice from any passing | back your plate place the knife and! fork on the side, but pever take them | eloth Never ask a person at your table to “have more” of anything. It isentire- ly out of place and very inelezant; rather, ‘Can 1 you with some chicken?’ ete When the dinner is finished, and before the dessert is brought on, let servant remove the platters, vegelable dishes, bread tray, butter dish, ete then lot all the knives, forks, and gpoons be removed on the small server; the individual butter dishes, and small diches, if vsed for les (though sll veget ® now on the pl be removed in the the plates have ing 1t one ais, in FQarve the then let sal ers; vegetal served ment), alter out 1t ix almost impossible to keep hous without 8 quantity of these small serv ors or tray: You will sell if you st ars witha yonar manner, Carried RAINY 1 in; § are the to hes wash, way it r really “picked up” and read: of & kind together, silver knives, forks being marred. After the dinner has been removed, erumbed auq ail and Fpoons wasted candle or gas jet that might have kin. lied up their darkness: some fresco on the wiling that would have given them a roof; | ome jewel which, brought to that orphan girl in time, might have kept her from being | srowded off the precipioss to an unclean life | ome Now Testament that would have told them of Him who "came to seek that which was lost.” Oh, this wave of vagrancy and hunger and sakedness that dashes against our front foor step! If the roofs of all the houses of jestitution could be lifted 0 we could look fown into them just as God looks whose | serves would be strong enough to stand it? And yet there they are. The fifty thousand | mwing women in these three cities, some of | Sham in hunger and cold, working night ; after night, until sometimes the blood spurts | rom nostril and lips | How well their grief was voiced by that | dewpairing woman who stood by ber invalid sushand and invalid child, and said tw the {ty missionary: “I am down hearted | Everything's against ns; snd then there are ‘other things" “What other things” said { the city missionary. "Oh." she replied “my Wn." “What do you mean by that™ “Well™ she said, “I never bear or see anything good. it's work from Monday morping tll Satur day night, and then when Sunday comes I mnt goout, and 1 walk the floor, and it makes me tremble to think that I have got Ww meat God, Oh, sir, it's so bard for us We have to work #, and then we have so much trouble, and then we are getting slong 10 poorly: and see this wes little thing grow ng weaker and weaker: and thea to think we are not getting nearer to God, but float ng away from Him. Ob, sir, 1 do wish ! | was ready to die.’ | Ishould not wonder if they had a good { eal better time than we in the fulurs to i make up for the fact that they had such a | bad time here. It would be just like Jesus {io may: “Come up and take the highes! seats, | You suffered with Me on earth: now be | glorified with Me in heaven.” Oh, thou weeping One of Bethany! Ob, thou fying One of the cross! Have merey onthe starving, freezing, homeless poor of these | great cities! I have preached this sermon for four or five practical reasons: Becanase I want you io know who are the uprooting classes of wooiety, fiscriminating in your charities. Because {want your hearts open with generosity, and your hands open with charity sause I want you to be made the sworn friends of all city evangelization, snd all sawsboye lodging houses, and all children's uid societies, and Dorcas socisties, under the skiliful manipulation of wives and mothers snd sisters and daughters; let the spare gar nents of your wardrobes be fitted to the imbs of the wan and shivering. I should sot wonder if that hat that you Fe should some back a jeweled coronet, or if that gar. nent that you hand out from your wardrobe should mysteriously be whitened, and some we wrought into the Saviour’'s own robe, Ww inthe last day He would run His hand yer it and say, ''| was naked and ye clothed Me.” That would be putting your garments w 3 lorious uses Bat more than that, I have praschsd the wrimon because I thought in the contrast fou would see how very kindly God had lenit with you, and 1 thought that thoa- ands of you would go to your comfortable women and sit af your waellfllled tables and tt the warm registers, and look at the round aces of your children, and that then you would burst into tears at the review of God's roodness $0 you, and that yon wonld go to rour room and lock the door and kneel down nd say: “O Lord, I have heen an ingrate; make ne Thy ehiid, O Lord, thers are so many inary and uutiad and unsbeltered tovlay, | hank Thee that all my life Toow bast taken woh good oare of me, 0, Lord, there are so nany siok aad erippled children today, 1 roank Thes mine are wellwsome of thon on arth, some of them in heaven, Thy goo ls we, O Lord, breaks me down. Take me mos and forever, Bprinkled as [ was many rears ngo wt the altar, wile my mother bool no, now 1 consecrate my soul to Thee ua wiier baptiam of repsoting tears, “For sinners, Lord, Thou eam'st to bleed, And Um a sinoer vile luueed Lota, ve Thy grave in Tree, O maguily that grace to we” | i { : i If tea or coflee it on after dessert, or just before leav ing the table. In many houses it { but little favor in this country. the host take in the lady yon wish to deference should always be paid. ‘Ihe room first, placing the lady at his right should follow, and the hostess always Inst, with the gentleman she wishes to show the most favor, or the husband of the lady the host has at his right When a table is served, the servant left of each person, wardness on the part of the person served, No one should leave the table until the rises, which signal for all to do the same. Helen M. Durbank in The Hoveehold, —-- hostess Hot Water Relieves Thirst, SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, SUNDAY, APRIL 2. 1891, Nineveh Brought to Repentance, LESSON TEXT. (Jonah 3 : 1.10. Memory verses: 9, 0) LESSON PLAN. Toric QuantER: Sinning and Ser oF rid], Gores Glodline: 18 FLL 1 Lim. 4 : 5K, T™HE A ER: Texr vor Tie Quin ofitable unto all things. sox Toro Leturning ve. 14 Varning Haturn, 59 vs Yardon, v. 10. Goroex Texr: The men of Nin shall up in the judgment with thi generation, and shall th 7} JOVLE, rR condemn lr | rep ned al the preaching and, behold, a greater Jonas is heye f.uke 11 : 32. ’ Dary Home 1 Jonah 3 Heturning to the Lord. Jonah proved. I:a Lord any . Mal. 3:1] Lord invited re Error 55 ite the Return to Het Irn 0 Lhd Return to the . The Gracious Jehovah: The word .and preach (2 will he nr; 3 ”~ uy, “i cam e....saying, Arise for I gracious (Exod. Thou art a God req ous (Neh, 9; 17 Hath Pea. 77 : I knew that (Jonah 4 : 2). -y 0, graci- God forgot gracious? Ons God hoe Great Clty: was journey six score thon R disoern Warning: Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be 3 de- the Lord will stroy the city 143. (ren, 19 I may consume that them (Nam. 16: 45 come up (Jonah 1: 2), He will miserably destroy those miser- Matt, 21: 41). word of the Lord came un- second time.” (1 authoritative message; (2) A disre- garded message; (3) A repeated message; (4) A saving message. 2. “Prech unto it the preaching that I bid thee.” (1) The preacher; {2) The hearers; (3) The message; {4) The Author.—Presching (1) From God; (2) By Jonah; (3) To Nineveh; (4) For salvation. 3. “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shail be overthrown.” (1) An ap- ointed doom; (2) A gracious pro- Py able men 1. “The to Jonah the II. RETURN, I. Faith: ‘The people of Nineveh believed God (5). . . beeatise 31, 23). Anger also went up; believed not (Pea. 78: they the feverish condition and stomach, and 80 create heated condition better than jce-cold It is degrees; in fact, a higher temperatore | is to be preferred; and those who are will do well to try the advantage to be derived from | been accustomed. they have aiding digestion, instead of causing Jde- | a —-——— - Mics Phoebe Conzins, Secretary of the Board of Lady Managers of the | World's Fair, receives a salary of 82,000, which is quite ont of proportion with A WoMaAX 8 agricultural school the Devonshire pric. | Miss Annie Pattersona woman doctor of musie, conductel a Mendelssohn took part in the por. dostors of Bhe alap formance with the masical Mus, Orave Unonxe Miner, who is | i : In this she gives de | tion of such bodies, an! a model of a | constitution. She has endeavored to minke the work as complete and as helpful as possible. lieved not (John 3: He that disbel eveth shall demned (Mark 16: 16), He that cometh to God must believe (Heb. 11:86). Ii. Repentance: They procisimed a fast, and put oun sackeloth (5). The king. ...covered him with sack cloth, and sat in ashes (Jonah 3: 6). They repented at the preaching of Jonah (Matt 12: 41). Except ye repent, ye shall all m hike manner perish (Lnke 13; 3). 14 bode bs 5 be con- of you (Acts 2: 38). 11, Supplication: Let them ery mightily unto God (8). Cease not to ery unto the Lord our God for us (1 Sam, 7: 8), They ery unto the Lord, saveth them (Psa. 107: 19), Sanctify a fast, Lord (Joel 1: 14), and he turn? (Jonah 8: 9). 1. “The people of Nineveh believed (1) A sinful nation; (3) A stirring rebuke ; (8: A sincere faith; (4) A generous pardon, 2. “Let them ory mughtily anto God.” (1) Bim: (DD Faith; 3) Panitouce: (4) Prayer, (5) Pardon, 3. “Lit them turn every one from his evil way.” (1) Evil ways to be abandoned; (2) Unanimous action to be rendered. God.” il PARDON, 1. Cod’s Interast in Man's Affatra: Ard God saw their works (10), The eves of the Tord ran to and fro (2 Chiron, 18: a). His ayes are upon the ways of 8 man (Job 34: 21), The eyes of the Lord are in every place (Prov. 15: 8, The eyes of the lord are upon the rightocos (1 Ped 3: 124 11. Man's ABanconment of Evil Waye: Put away tho ovil of your doings (Isa. 1: 16% BE. 55:7. : from your evil ways (Ezek, 55: 11). Cone sequences The av vi Lhe did it not said he would do; 10s, which fe il, Ha will have mercy upon him (1sa. 55: gnrn from their evil, i li conecorning this: It hall not be A 0 : £9). ould not on {Jonah 4 3. “od sas 5§ works’ } works of u of God's sig “Taey turned fr way.” (I Their decisive turn; (3) ont ook. “God rey Repentance as ’ $rsw . Repentance yr 1 8 Sineven? The i servations Men's works: (2 5 0 rgd evil (2) their CAreer., Their new mn j Their evil wnted of the evil” (13 an act of man: v3 : as an act of God ON BIBLE LES? BEADING, FRUITE OF VPENTARCE, Demanaed i 8 26 : 4D). Humility (2 Chron, 7 14 ; Jas. 4: 9. 10. Confession 3 a th (Matt, 21 A nt Art 1 Al 5 a Lev, 926 : 40-42 : Job Mark 1 : 15; 3, 94: Acts 8B 9; Acts 26 : 14, 11). i i second nan contalas the Lord 3 The pray: r was al mmand of Je- mited out on ihe his Go ren EW erea, wah, $50 vpon the tans 3 Jonah lesson fol- lows. Pracoys, —I11 where Jonah was when the second message came to him. Proba returned at 10 (Gathhe pher, Nineveh 8 first meutioned in Genesis 10 : 11. An cording to the Bevised Version, its founder was Nimrod (“he went forth into Assyria, and builded Nineveh,” ete.) Bo the margin of the Authorized Version also It became the capital city of Assyria, but may not have been ti of 8 not slate lv he OT hus home #0 at the time Jonah visited it. 1t was destroyed in B. C., 625 or 006. Recent d rim the biblical state- m+ nts respecting ite gize and magnifi- 0 it was situsted on the castern k of the river Tigris, opposite the wow calle! Mosul. Ther: is some how much of the ex- uins belonged to the if Jonah, but nothing o militaf sgainst the truthfulness of the lnblical statements, 1 Probably not long after the Some place all the events of the book in the Istter part of the reign of Jeroboam IL Prenrsoxs.—Jonsh, the king and peo- ple of Nineveh. The name of the king is not given, and the uncertainty as to the exact date and other circumstances prevent an identification with any of the kings of Assyria, a list of whom has Ixcipesrs, The word of the Lord comes to Jonah a second time, the command being even more pronounced. ISCOveries cond i CUsSsIon as to fended grot ME, city one day's journey, he proclaims ite destruction in forty days. The peo- ple believe, and proclaim a fast. Even the king puts on sack-cloth, and issues a proclamation forbidding all to eat or drink, and commanding penitence and prayer. Their penitence is recognized, and the threatened evil 1s wi hheld PERSONAL. Awmoxa the really distingnished ard Bode of London, who is the proud pos- sessor of the golden star given by the Drawing Bociety of Great Britain and Ireland. Besides being a gifted painter of flowers, landscapes, snd figures, she 18 an accomplished linguist as well. 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