BEV. DR. TALNAGES SERMON. The Brooklyn Divire's Sunday sermon, ————— ] Subject: “Humirnm Alhalished.” Trxr: “OF Snicea great abundrnea | neither was there any such Spies as th [Queen of Shebn gave King Solomon.”—1 Chronicles, ix. ©, What is that building eut yonder glitter | {ing in the sun® Have you not heard? It @i ithe house of the forest of Lebanon. King Salomon has just taken to it his bride, ti Frincess of Egypt. You see the piliars of @ portico and a gre«t tower, adorned with jone thousand shields of gold, hung on the outside of the tower —five hundred of thes jelds of gold manufactured at Solomon's order, five hundred were captured by David, is father, in battle, Bee how they blaze io ® noonday sun! { Bolomon goes up the ivory stairs of his Khrone between twelve (fons in statuary, and dts down on the back of the golden mul, the end of the bronszs beast turned towari the opie, The family and attendants of ths King are so many that the caterars of the piace have to provide every day ons hundire | esp and thirteen oxen, Sendo the birds pnd the venison. I hear the stamping ani, pawing of four thousand fine horses in tha’ poyal stables. There were imnortant offloialy ho bad charge of the work of gatiuering Rho straw and the barley for these horses, King Solomon was an early riser, tradition says, and used to takearideout at daybreas: and when in his white apparel, bshind the swiftest horses of all the realm, and foliowe | by mounted archers in purpls, as the caval- eade dashed through the streets of Jerusalem 1 suppose it was something worta gett ng up at five o'clock in the morning to look at. | i Solomon was not like some of the kings o the present day—erownel imbecility, | She solendor of his palace and retinus was, ¢clipsed by his intellectual power, Why, he | seemed toknow everything. He was the firsg great naturalist the woria ever saw, Pea. eocks from India strutted the basaltic walk, and apes chatted in the trees and deer stalked the parks, and there were sguariums with foreign fish and aviar es with foreign birds, and tradition says thess birds were so wel famed that Solomon might walk clear across the city under the shadow of their wings as they hovered and flitted about him. More than this, he had a great reputation for the conundrums and riddles that he made and guessed. He and King Hiram, his neighbor, used tosit by the hour and ask riddles, each one paying in money if he could not answer or guess the riddle. The Solo- monic pavy visitad all the world, and the sailors, of course, talked about the weaith of their king, and about the riddles and engimas that he made and solved, and the news spread until Queen Balkis, away off south, heard of it, and sent messengers with a tew ridd.es that she would like to have mol ynong solve, and a few puzzles which she would like to bave him fin lout. She sent among other things to King Solomon a dismond with a bole so small that a needle could not pege- frate it, asking him to thread that d amond. And Solomon took a worm and put it st tha opening in the diam and the worm erawled through, the thread in the diamond, The queen also srut a ask 0 m to fil it with Our mn the sky, Fe the arn ad 1 imme a Save « the back of a swift b ani gailopal him around and around tos park anti h wasn xnaustas i an i fr yn the 1 rable was Blied. sent hundred boys in girld dress, and five | dred girls in boys dress, wonderin would be cute enough to find out the dec Bon, Imm y w hier them wash the & i ® ond, saving goblet to Solomon. WaAlr tua that did not ru + i out liataly Solomon nub M1 ¥ te i OFS Dae also al 1 thie appiiad the 3 t 'n Balkis was so teuteness of Solomon that she go and see bim for 1 somes-the cava cade <h ries, chariots and cb pess and clatteriag shields, and flying and egymbais., lhe place is saturated wi periume. She brings cinnamon and saffron and calamus and {raakincense and all man per of sweet spices, As the retinue 1 Mu 1 i Br w area slights fume, toe Kir spn SABON, AN the purv my text ann “Uf spices, great abun dance, neither was therg any such spices as the Queen of Sheba gave to King Stiomon Well, my friends, you know tbat all the. plogisns agree in king Solomon a types of Christ, and making the Queen of Stevan type of every truth sesker, and 1 shall take the responsibility of saying that all the ipikenard and cassia and frankincense which the Queen of Bheba brought to King Snio- mon are mightily suggestive of the swess spices of our holy religion. Christianity is act a collection of sharp techuicalities and wngalar facts and chronological tables and dry statistics. Our reiigion is compared to frankincense and to casig, but never to sightshade, Itisa bundieot myrrh, Itiss fash of holy light. Itisa snarkis of cool fountains. It is an opening of opaline gates. {tisa collection of spices. Would God that we were as wise in taking spices toour Di. vine King as Queen Balkis was wise in tak- ing the spices 10 the earthly liclomoa! Waoat many of us most need is to bave the hum. frum driven out of our life and the hum. frum sut of our religion. The American and English churcn will die of humdrum unless ers be a change. An editor from San Francisco a few weeks agro wrote me sayin ; he was getting up for hs paper a symposium from many clergy- men, discussing among other things, “Way is pot people go ts church™ and he wanted my opinion, and I gave it in one sentence, “People do not go to church because the eannot etand the humdrum.” The fact that most peoples bare so much hamdrum in their worlaly calling that they do not want #0 have added the humdrum oi religion. We aeed in all our sermons and exhortations and songs and prayers more of what Queen Ba'~ kis brought to ~DAMeLY, more on, wy he fact is that the duties and cares of this Bfe, coming tous from time to tims, dre stupid often and inane and intolerable, Herg are men who have been bartering and wes dating, climbing, pounding, J ammering ar twenty years, forty ity years, One great lon drudgery as their life been, Their face lous, their feelings besaumbed, their days monotonous, What is necessary $0 hrighten up that man's life, and to Siraiten S acid disposi and to put spar uto the any Apirige The spicery of our holy religion. Why, if between the losses of life there dashed a gieam of an eternal gain: il between the betrayals of life there same the iriendship of Christ; ness we found minis mg soirds fiving to and fro in our office and store and shop, everyday life, iosten | of being a stupid monotone, would a gloris ous inspi wuning between calm satisfaction and high rapture. How any woman keeps houss without the ligion of Christ to help her is a mystery to ma, 10 bave to spend the ter of one's life, as many women in nin for the mes 5, in stitehi that soon be rent again, ani ne breakages ® tard sles and plossed La nyseif.” hares ensigns, awa uza tas rat “Hail! a ines Lhe a ww lots 8 ihe dromeiaries are o store-licuses, an |i the buodle ire unoaded, ani thes sacs tas boxes of snices are « rs of toe palace discover ances, Tei ©» parent ¥ what plana now, Martha gets thwonh fretting and joins Mary at the feet of Jesus, All day lont Deborah fs hapoy heonnss whe can he'p Lan’ oth: Hannah, broanse sha joan make un coat for yonug Samui; Miriam, because she can watch her infant brother: Pachel, branes shes ean hein bor father ‘water the stock; the widow of Earenta, ba eause the crus of oll ix being ren enivhel, (J) woraan! having in your oantey a ness of boxes containing all kins of enadiments, hy have vou not tried in vour heart and fife the spleery of our hov relizion! ‘Martha! Martha! thou art careful and rouble about many thongs; but ons thing ka nea ful, and Mary hatha chosen ¢ at good [art which siall not be taken away from or. I must confess that a great dea! of the re- falou of this day is utterly insinid. There = nothing piquant or elevating about it. Men and wo nea go arcund hamming psalms fn a minor kev, and calturing melancholy, find their worship has fn it more sigh: than rapturs, We do not doubt their piety. On, ro. But they are sittin: at a feast where Ererything ts flat in their exnerience and in thdir conversation, Emnancipatel from sin nnd death and hell, aot 0a their way to a maguificont heaven, they act as though they ware truiging oa toward an everiasting Botany Bay. Rsligion dos_not sen to agres with them. It seems to cath 1n the windpipe an | bscone a tight strangulation instead of an exbilaration All the infidel books that have besn writ. ten, from Voltaire down tv Herbert Spun. esr, have not done so much damage to our Christianity ss luguorious Christians. Wha wants a regions woven out of the shadows of the nicht? Way go growling on your way to celestinl enthronement? Come out of that cave and sit down in the warm light of the Sun of Righteousness. Away with your odes to meiancholy and Hervey's “Medias tions Amoag the Tombs” Then let our songs abound, And every tesr be dry; We're marcning throngs Emmannel®s ground To Tuirer word's ou ign. I have to say. also, that we need to pul more spice and enlivenment in our religious teaching, whether it be in the Prayer moet. ing, or in ths Sabbata school, or in the church. We ministers need more fresh air sad sunshine in our laos and our hears and our head. Do you wonder that the world is #0 lar from being converted waen you find #0 litte vivaciiy in the pulpit and in the pew? We want, like the Lord, to pliant in our sermons and extortations more ilies of the fieid. We want tewer roetorical elasors- tons and fewer sesquipedalian words: and when we talk about saadows, we do not wang oO say ajdumbralion; and Woen we mean quoasrpess, we do not want to talk sbonus idiosyneracies; or if a stiten in toe back, we do not want to talk about lumbago, but in the plain vernacular preach that gospel which proposes to maxe ail wen happy, hon. est, victorious and free lo otoer words, we want more cinnamon and jess gristie, Let this bs 80 in all the different cepartments of wars to walca ths lord calisus, Let pian, Lot us bs When us La earnest. L~lUs D8 COIMmou sno we talk to the people ina vernacular they can understand they will be very glad tw Ot ani receive tas Wrullh we prese Woud to God tiat Queena Balkis w drive her on laden dromedaries +1 Al oul rs prayer-m» ex ¥ in it { 3 ui 80 ini as and sting bore 5 iffe ani DOO than that we want more ir Carstian word. The FInuen to ve groans o brea il and madisin give them, thie of sinties and brisk enco neat Jo not stand and talk to tl ne wret-hedness Gg ST 88 sng s and thy Te DE AD A rags BOO # hy Laut * . 4 na ' i Of 185. BAS © s ive b ¥ makes me s ere 1 fais usigas wr they shmil have ch Procetis or organs, or bass vi 8 ake that which will bring out ths most | ring If we had half as mucha Bai AOU in our church as we Gave in the sougs of our Baboata it would not be long before the whois earth would fjoake with the coming God. Whe, mm most echirches nine-tenths of the peopis do not sing, or they sing so feebly that the people BL Leir eibows do not know they are sing ing. People mouth aml mumbie the praises of God; but thers is not more than one out of a hundred who makes “a joyiul noise” unto the Roo of Our Salvation Bote times, when the congregation forgets teell, and is ail absorbed in the goodness of God or the glories of heaven, 1 get an intimation of what church music will be a hundred years from now, when the coming generation shall | wake up to its duty, i I promise a high spiritual blewing to any one who will sing in courch, and who wiil siog so heartily tuat the peoples all around | cannot help but sing. Vake up! all ths | churches from Bangor to San Francisco and across Christendom. It is not a matier of preference, it is a matter of religions duty. Uh, for fi'ty times more volume of sount, | German chorals in German cathedrals sur- pass us, snd yet Germany has received nothing at the hands of God eomparnd with America; and ougist the acclaim in Berlin be louder than that in Brooklyn? Sofe, loag drawn out music is appropriats for tae draw. | ing room and approoriate for the concert, ni, Or rata, uae Spirit MOBOO Ie wate for churches when, in listening to the pie service of heaven, he says: *“‘f heard a great voice, as the voice of a great muith tude, and asthe voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings. halle lujais for the Lord God omnipotent reigo- Jofa with me in a erumde, giving mes not only your hearts, but the migaiy uplifting ing lke Macatlay when he wrote: “Ie auother month of such days as | spendin, 1 would be impatient futo my little narrow erih in the A wWeiry factory child” And toers have brea times in your Vs when vo wished yon could get out of this life, ou have sald, “Oh, how swe t to mv lips would be the dust of tie valley.” and wish you eould pull aver you in vour last s unber the coveriet of groaen grass and daisies. You bave sad: “Oh, bow beautifully quist {t nus he in the tomb, I wish I was there” ] ges all around about me widowhood ehildisssnoss; sadness, disappointment, Per. piexity. If 1 could ask ail thoss t rise in this audience who have felt no sorrow and been buffeted by po disappointmente..? [ coud ass all such to rise, how many would rise? Not one. e A widowed mother with her little ehild want West, hopiog to get better wages there, and she was taken siok and died. he overs seer of the poor got her body and put ition ms box, and put it in a wagon, and started down the street toward the cemetery at fuil trot, The litle child—the only child~—ran after is through the streets, bareheadsd, erying, “ring me back my mother! bring me back my mother !™ And it was said that as the people looked on and saw her crying after that which lay in the box in the wagotu-—all she loved on earth—it is said the whole vile Inge was in tears. And that is what a great many of you are doing-—chasing the dead, Dear Lord, 1s there no appeasement for all this sorrow that see about me? Yes, the thought of resurrection and reunion far be- yond this scene of struggle and tears. “They sail bunger no more, neither thirst any nore, neither shall the sun light on them, por any heat; for the Lamb which is fn the midst of the throne saail lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all ears from their eyes.” Across the couches of your sick and across have been to god down ground Hie to the pillared portico of the houses of osdar, it is peace. It is sweetness. It is comfort. infinite satisfaction, this Gospel I commend to you. Bome one could not understand why an old German Christian scholar used to be always so calm and happy and hopeful when be bad so many trials and sicknesses and aliments. A man secreted himself in the house. He said, “I mean to watca this oid scholar and Christian” and be saw the oid Christian man go to his room and sit down on the chair beside the stand and open the Bible and begin to read. He read on and on, chapter alter chapter, hour after hour, antll his face was ali aglow with the tid- ings from heaven, and when the clock struck twelve he arow and shut his Bible snd said: “Dlessed Lord, we are on the mme oid terms yet. Good night Good aight.” Ob, you sin parched and you trouble pounded, hers is comfort, here fs satisfaction. Vill you come and get it? | cancot teil you what the Lord offers you hereafter so well ts | can tell you now. “It doth not yet ap- pear wast we shall be.” Have you read of the Tui Manal in India, in some respects the most majestic bulkling on eurth® Twenty thousand men were twenty yearsin buliding it. Jt cost about sixteen miilions of doliars The walls are of marble, inls 4 with om Bagdad, and turquols f ani jasper from the Punjsub, and amet from Persia, and all manner of precious ones A traveler says that it seems to him like enchanted osstie of The walls are two 113 ty-five feet high, and from CARIrgs- re De the shiy bi f the op of these springs a dome thirty more fest migh, that dome containing the most won no the world bas ever known, so that nd anon travelers standing below with { drums and harps are testing that the sounds from below 1 Come down, as it were, # all around about building nd it a gardens of tamarind and i § mad n and ail the Boral giories of Hie ransncEe ] earta But that is oniy a tomb of a dead empress, and Lary suppared with the grandeurs which God has builled for your living and immortal spari Oh, bome of the blessed? Foundati god Arches of victory! Capstones ol And a a there are wing and re-scnoing the hallein. jabs of round about that mansion en of Lets and all sringng fountains are the 1 in the wilderness, [ Bowers from Birise the vo up, Cary De yi pad ¥ in ps it Ome in w i Ear bart i the deod hue carnage of , and rance is # saints and toe aroma i he cassia, and nse, and the the usen the feet of the fr ita > tae t P ul io EL Retar workl renowaos Balkis of Ring Solomon When aliall thew ayes thy heaven built walls And peariv gases hod. Thy ba ware with salvation sirang, And streets of shining goal? Through obduracy on our part, and through the rejection of that Christ who makes boaven possible, | wonder if any of us will miss that spectacia’ [ fear! fear! The queen of the south will rise up in judg ment against this generation and condemn it, because she cams from the uttermost parts of the earth to bear the wisdom of Sol. omon, and beboll a greater than Solomon is here! own practical experience you may flad thas religion's ways are ways of pleasantness, and that all her paths are paths of ar-that it is perinme now and perfume forever. And there was an abundance of spice; “neither was thers any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon™ : ——————— A Unique Rotifer. At a recent meeting of the Natural History Society Dr. Thomas 8, Stevens entertained and instructed the members by an illustrated paper on a rotifer, a mictoscopic animal that is among the rarest in the group. It was first discov. found twice in Philadelphia, once in Lili. nois, and some years ago in Trenton. It bas now been re-discovered here. ‘I'ne creature is unique in several par. ticulars that would be of but little inter. est to the general reader, but which fil with inexpressible joy the heart of the devoted microscopist, who is happy whea ‘ be is prying into the little brain or the larger stomach of the animal. The little creature is blewed above the i 3 Christ's grace, sing fifty shousand souls into the kingdom of Carist. An argument they ean laugh at, a sermon thay can talk down, but a vast audiences joining in ons antiiem is irresistible, Would that Queen Baliis would | which it can fill with other animals, and ' apparently enjoy itself by diges:ing them ! fn spite of their wriggling. But ia con- ! nection with one of the animal's stom. . sachs a discovery has been made in Tren Now, 1 want to impress this audience with the fact that religion is sweetness and per. fume and solkenard and saffron and clans. mon and vss ani fraakinoenss, and all sweed spices together. “Ob” M1] bave not looked at it as such. - I thougat is 1 ave been appalled at ite aly I have said, if I have any religion as Have just as little of it as through with.” Oh, what have made, my brodier, Cuarist is a any part of the world-—otherwise it would not be a discovery. This pouch is internally lined with a dense and wool { ly coating of vibrating bain. Th i | tn internal appendages appear to [i ET ir Tn To Teonon rotifer, and are, therefore, of great inter. est in a scientific way. Another pleasing polat, pleasing both to the snimal and to the pist, is that the rotifer has no means of seeking its food nor of currents in the ood to its : MAKE HER PILLOW SUFT, “Hirt are you the undertake That buries the putoer uit Then you are 10 fol gi IY Mur vou Foi that's what the doelos sud, You see, I ar poor an’ frien’ less, An’ inme from a eiuel fall An’ the sickness an’ the médicing Haus taken pur money ail “Ugh tigh- ex orme thiekarking I makes me slow 10 peak, Iam traubled with « cong sir, AD’ both my #yes ure wes; IVs sittin’ up all night, sir, Ani chin at death's dn res Yes yes! | know Tm tedious, 1's tedious to be poor, SWhat do want? Just walt T'm conidn' to that same, What did my Mury die oft Hunger and cold, Her namst I've told tor name —my Mary 'H set it down for you: she died las! nicht in my srms, sir, We were alone—wa two, “An'l want to ask a favors When you make my Mary's bed 4 Please—iuke ~her—p: llow—soft, st’ soft, for hr aehin’ 4 “ad, | 1 know it's done with the sachin’ An’ all that hurted it on, But "twill comfort me a bit, sir, = you=—make—~her—plilow-goft" The undertiker heard him And silent turned away, Bui he made poor Mary's pillow With tender bands that day, And often som~ih ng choked him As of rising tears—and oft He heard through tim tap of the hammers CP isust—ako—~her—pillow—sofls," AWARD OF PRIZFS FOR ESSAYS ON WOMEN Waux RARNERS, sr a—— The prizes offered by the American Economic Association for the best es | says on the subject of Women Wage- Earners have been awarded, 'L'here were about thirty competitors for the prize. The first prize of Three Hundred | Dollars was given to Miss Clare de Graffenreid, of Washington, D, C. The essay written by Mrs. Helen Campbell, of New York, received the second prize of Two Handred Dollars. ! The essayists were invited to d.scu-s “the early and present condition of | working women; their growth in num- | bers, both abwolately and in proportion | to population; the pre-ent extent of | their sphere of labor; the economic and | social evils connected with their various | ocenpations as wage-earners, and the remedies for these evile” They were asked to deal principally with the | American aspects of the sub ect, though it was not intended that the experience | of foreign countries should be exciud | ed. Miss de Graffenreid is a descendan eminent companions of Oglethorpe, who planted a colony in Georgia Her strife After in a private veara, Bhe in educational fter ber gi i and spent her early dass. i and hood was passed amid the strain of the civil war. father's death she tanght school some thirteen | always been interested and social questio a lias ; the U. she at present holds, ber stodiesled bh r very active sequaintance with the indust ial conditions of this coun- | try. ln her economic studies she has traveled over a large part of the East, | West and Bonth. Is company with { Miss Dodge, she spent a mouth last summer in London, investigating the conditions of labor there. A recent number of “The Ce ntury” contains an {Into a ! € tt) id Cracker, and she was one of the two who equally divided a prize offered by the Economie Association for an essay upon Child-Labor. say has been published, A paper Miss de Graf. pret l on “The Neodno Self-Snpporting Women,” has slso Leen shed in n 1849, This connection with and Politics, Mrs, Helen Cambell isa native of Liock- {port, N. Y. She contributed skeiches { to mag zines and pewsiapirs at an early age, and Inter gave special atten tion to problems relating to the cordi- tion of the poor in cities, She began in October 1886, a series of articles on the working women fa New York, which arpeared weekly mn the N. Y Tribane, and was sobsequentily published in book form with the utle, **Prisoners of Poveriy.” Similar observations, in person, were continued the year followi g in Lon- don, Paris, Italy and Germany, the results of which were embo iiet in ber “Prisoners of Poverty Abroad.” Be sides this, she has written a nomber of novels and books on related topies. The first pr ze essay will probably soon be published by the Association. WOMAN 8 PROPORTIONS, SOME MYASUREMENTS WHICH ARE NOT AP. PLICABLE TO CHICAGO LADIES, A woman's foot shonld be in length a litt'e less than one-seventh of her : height. says a recent writer; it should be arched at the top so that the line is : that of one-half of Cupid's bow, and | underneath =o that if it is wet apd set on the floor it will leave in the middle only a slender water mark, broadest ! seroes the ba’l; the rosy toes, of which the second should be the longest, | should spread flat upon the and at { every step. The hedl shonld be rosy, | and deccend almost in a stra’ght line from belind; the ankle delicately i rounded. The soft and eushion-like ; instep should be warked by faint blue «veins. The foot devotes character as jwell as the fece. For a long time Bpanish etiquetie forbade a woman's ‘fout to beseen. Hence the old adage tuat to “know the length of a woman's foot was to enjoy a great degree of favor, { Women rhwld walk from the hip, the waist Loing still, except from that ' gentle Willuwys swaying motion which nocompanies the most g acl l figures One of the best modes of attaining this walk from the hip is to practice walk. ing with something poised on the heal, The gracelol Hindoo girl can carry a telier on her head unsapporied by baud, beeanse sho moves from the ‘waist or shoulder. i { i i i \ A SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, EUNDAY, MAY 11. 18IL Bin the Cause of Sorrow. LESSON TEXT. Hosen 10 : 1.18. Memory verses: 12, 13) LESSON PLAN. Toric or Tue (JUABTAR: and Serving, Goroex Texr ror ror Quarter: Fodliness is profitalile unio all things. -1%un. 4:8 Sinning Lixssox Torio : 4 lin, Sorrow a Fruil oy 1. Lirael’s Sins, vs. 14. 1, “0 fgrael, thon bast sioned from the davs of Gibeah.” (1) Israel's pers stent sinning; (2) Jehovah's uving inment, 2. “I will clint ne them.” (1) Israel's sing; (2) Jehovah's displeasure; (3) Fathierly chastisement. 8, Yo uve plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity.” (1) Tha plowing, ~when? what? (2) The raping, —wh ou? what? LESSON BIBLE READING. AYFPLICTIONS OF THE WICKED, Julticially sent (Psa, 107: 17 ; Jer. 80 : 15). Multiplied (Dent, 31 : 17 ; Psa. 82:10; 2. Inraci's 8 5, V8. Cie owsirm 2 Istasi's Sorrows, v | 8. Jehovah's Expostu la | tions. vs, 8:15, i Gororex Texr: Your iniquitics have 8 ‘parated between you and your God, | — dan, OO : 2 Daruy Howe Reapisos : M.—Hos. 10 : 1-15. Sorrow a fruit of sin, T.—~Hos, 11 : 1-11, Israel, W.—Hos, Israel, T.—Heb. 8: 1.19, Sorrow throngh unbelief, F.—Heb, 4 through faith, B.—Murk 14: 03-72. Peter's sin and sorrow, B.— Heb, 12 : 1-17. through sorrow. God's love to 14 1.9, Mercy for 1-16. Blessedness Improvement LESSON ANALYSIS I. ISRAEL'S SINE, I. Idolatry: He bath multiplied bis altars (1). 9. - 12 : 2K), He built altars for all the host of heaven (2 Kings 21 : 5), He set the graven image....in the house of God (2 Chron. 33 : 7, Epbiraim bath multiplied altars to sin Hos : 1 J» ll. Half-Heartednens: Their heart is divided (2, Serve him with all yoar heart (Dent. 11 : 18). How long halt ye between two opin- ions? (1 Kings 18 : 21). These patious feared the Lord, and served their graven (2 Kiugs 1 17 . 41). {3 Can G . 24) Ii. Untruthfulness: They speak vain te lmuages serve two mausters (Matt, words, swearing i It not bear 20: 16. Thon desirest truth in the inward parts { Pra, 51 Bay the truth, <¥ { ae i] La false witness (Exol § Oi, 4:1. 1. **He hath maltiplied his altars’ (1 lsruels pervers: I'l fect hes Hearts Hearts Hearts di e “Tuer: up.’ Judical b 5 ara i's 0 doe is © Es ery ol therein ba langui I wil tu {Amos 8 : 10), Woe, «s+ JQ Wa i slaii mourn $ pasts into mourniocg wigh now! for © ye O - SRname: Israel shall be ash med of his own conus] (6. They shall be asbamed that deal treach- erously (Psa 25 : 8) Let the proud be ascamed (Psa. 110 : My servants shall re oice, but yo shall be ashamed (isa 65 : 13). Then shalt tho «. remem er thy ways, aod be ashamed (Ezek. 16 : 61) iil, De.pair: They shall say to the hills,....Fall on us (8). Men sunll go into the caves....from before the terror of the Lord tsa 2:19). Then shall they....say to the moun- tains, Fall «n ae (Luke 23 : 30) They say.. Fall on us and Lide us Rev, 6:16, They shall desire to die, and death fleet: from them (Rev. 9 : 8). 1. “The ivhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror.” (1) A sinning people; (2; A coming terror. 2. “Israel shall Lo ashamed of his own counsel” (1) lsrael’s sell counsel; (2) Israel's certain shame, ~{1}) Counsel; 2) Errur; (3) Shame. 8 "Cover us... Full on us.” (1) A moment of peril; (2) A people in terror; (3) A ery of despair. IIL. JRMOVAN'S EXPOSTULATIONS, I. Sins Recalled: O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah (9), Ye have sinned a great sin (Exod. 82 : 80. Behold ye have sinned against the Lord (Num. 83 : 23), Yet went thoy on still to sin against Ti rtsicd Agalost ty soul on... hast sion 50 (Hab. 2:10). il. Mercy Extended: Bow. ...in righteousness, reap accord. ing to merey (12). A God. .. keeping mercy. for thousands Exod. ! 0, Tn P.enteous in mercy unto all them that call (Psa, 86: 5). Mereoy....is from everlasting lasting (Psa. 10: : 17), God, being rich in merey (Eph. 2 : 4). Hl. Return Urged: It is time to seek the Lord (12). Beek yo the Lord wile ho may be found (Isa, 55 : 0), 'e now every ono from his evil way (Jor, 18 : 11 Come, and let us return unto the Lord (Hos. 6:1), Return unto me, and 1 will returs unto You (Mal. 3 : Ph fo ever- Continued (tecl. 2 : 23 ; Isa, 32 : 10s. : 10 ; Prov. 6: 15). Exemplary (1 Cor. 10: 5-11 ; 2 Pet. 2:0, Bometimes humble them (1 Kings 21 : 27). 20 ; Jer. b : 8). Glory God (Exod, 14 : 4 ; Ezek, 88 22, 24). LESSON SURBOUNDINGS, Coxrexronargovs History, — Th prophet Amos lived when Jeroboam 11, was king of Israel and Uzziah king of Jud:h, The prophet Hoses began to prophesy daring the tim: of those ings, snd coutinned until the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah. In the open- ing verse of the prophecy (How, 1 : 1), no mention is made of any other king ; of Israel than Jeroboam, but the four | kings of Judah are pamed. This does [a prove that Hosea lived in Judah, | but is probably Ju: to the nnsettied | condition of the worthern kingdom, { though there may be in this a recogni- {tion of the true theocratic succession {in Judah. it is probable that Jeroboam's reign was nearly over when Hoses appesred as prophet, ince the book contains ne reference to the prosperity of that per- iol. His work minst have been finish ed before the destruction of Samaria in the sixth year of Hezek ah, so that { be coula vot have lived long after that | reign began. Hosea therelore imme diately fodowel Amos, and was a con- { temporary of leash (iss 1:1; in hus earlier years. The period of Hosea's variously reckoned, secord. adopted, from yesrs to less than His name means “he " sud is more . his 1.fe noth- theory that fiistor. sia ements, Bimost ex- WE WES 8000 as prophetic in KRCUIVILY In 1g to the sixty or thurty (sex 3 CLUroLology BEVeIYy ¥ ae OW, ' or Hoses, send 18 Lielp, Correcluly ing is k: ow Cc aplers i 2 and 3: 1D ih (3 . Except og th are y : Hi, BUG While the closely EHOWEH al fle 8 i during the en called } Ca Or eleven Years, reigned but =iz Ly the usurper ove month, was pat em. This tyrant 1 becawe trib Lie His *OTy Hm, but was slain, CTR, Pe kah, cL he was fall leser [L, the large? Yiag Away to caplivity. u for coul: mparary kings CE Bing reign io Sear of Pekat. The last king Isruel was Hosbea, whe secs 10 have been the cresture of the Ausy aus, Dut he sou Lt allmnoe with So {or Bhabake), king of E:vpt, and was (berciore imprisbued by Shalman- eser, the king of As yria, who biosieged tamara for three years, and fioally de stroyed it. Lhe prophet probably died sLortly alter. Meanwhiie, in Judah, Uzziah was for some Lime a leper, punished for his ad , tempt 10 barn inceuse in the sanctuary, { His son Joutham succeded him (pro baby acted as regeut for a long ime belore the death of Lis futber;,, His reign was pro-perou-, bat the high pisces remained Ahbsz, his son, was idolatrous. Entering iuto alliance with | Tiglath-Pilesr, when pissed by the Syrians sud lsraelits, he belped te Lusten the con ucst of tue nortuera kingdom, and also corrapted the wor suip of tue temple 10 imitation of fore Ciga usages, Hezekiah succeeded hae father in the third yar of Hoshea's re gu, and bis history will be studied In suuscquent lessons, Praces, —Samaria, Deth-el, to which the n.mes Beth-aven and Aven arc ape plied (mea lug “house of mothing- "or “nothicguess”). Betb-arvel b a ¥ria, 7) Ziad die Veiball ih P fA i Li pany of the nus Another assutued of this tiie ioug Teigus © i i ars ol 5 A il ki 1 I ile reguin ihe Years) me, 10 give roow of i 10 all, sLhiaz the seveuteeulh { i ' i Li 88, is supposed to be lrbid (Arbeln , not tar from liberias; but others think if | was the city on the T gris, Time. —1t 1s impossible to fix the dates wilh any sccurscy. Assumiog tuat the begiuning should be placed 1a [the second year before the de th of | Jercbonm I1., und the end in the seo | oud year of Hezekiah, the usual curons | ology would give us from B. C. 755 te B.C 745. ‘Ahis is reckoned from B, { C, Til as the date of the iall of Sam. aria. Projes or Davis, who places the | fall of Samara in 18. CC. 722 shortens the perios considerably. He makes Uzgish reign jointly with Amazah, Joitham wit Uzaiuh, Abaz with Jotimm, and Hezekiah with Abax. In this way be avuids scoepting the interragna in Israel, and gives B.C, 740 #s toe ood from B. C 780 (second yar beiore Jervboam's death) to B.C, 724; that in, tweuty-lour years, instead of » xiy. Prusors. —Slalman is en some suppose that be is coer whioa “vans ikelys Others sa was an Asay rs not ry otherwise, The king Jarek meu tue hostile king of Assyria, and the king of Israel referred to may Le auy one «f those murdered during this troublouvs time. The | son coumsts of a series of dictions, joiuing sins and real of tuem, j
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