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”
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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
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Texr
vor Tie Quin
ofitable unto all things.
sox Toro
Leturning
ve. 14
Varning
Haturn, 59
vs
Yardon, v. 10.
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shall up in the judgment with thi
generation, and shall
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cam e....saying, Arise
for I gracious (Exod.
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ous (Neh, 9; 17
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Pea. 77 :
I knew that
(Jonah 4 : 2).
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God forgot gracious?
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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
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and stomach, and
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heated condition better than jce-cold
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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- |
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the Board of Lady Managers of the |
World's Fair, receives a salary of 82,000,
which is quite ont of proportion with
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the
Devonshire pric. |
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of musie, conductel a Mendelssohn
took part in the por.
dostors of
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formance with the masical
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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
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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).
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i
second
nan contalas
the Lord
3 The
pray: r was al
mmand of Je-
mited out
on
ihe
his Go
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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.
French, German, Dutch and English
are equally familiar to her, and in her
little salon, whose walls she has dee-
orafed with banchee of wild flowers
snd trading vines, she discusses the
latest novel in any language the
latest scientific or philosophical work
in any tongue.
Irary has a great organization of
industrious women, of which Queen
Marguerite is the honorary President.
It is one of the most remarkable asso.
composed of the
in Home, and be-
fore it twice es 'h week, the most cele-
or
ment of women. Among its members
Countess Lovatelli, the most distin.
guished literary woman in Rome and
the only womsn member of the German
on the Hearth” into Italian and written
many romances, and Louiss Sarardo,
who iz devoted to hisiorieal researches,
Tir Chicago woman health ingpee-
tors are demonstrating the wisdom of
their appointisent by {thal service.
There are of these women omes
five
empowered with police authority to
enforee ther reccommendations. They
wear a badge of authority, astar, which
Their
children are om
Sevenat statues of note] women are
now being completed to Loset in publie
Mra,
rocaring funds for Mary, the
hr of Washington, Quecn Teabella
end Susn B. Anthouy’s senlpinred
dome Lime
within tho year,