BEV. DR. TALNAGES SERMON.
The Brooklyn Divire's Sunday
sermon,
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] 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
&
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ond,
saving
goblet to Solomon.
WaAlr tua
that did not ru
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liataly Solomon nub
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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
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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
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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
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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
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¥ 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
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the vo
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Ome in w
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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
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tae
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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™ :
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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 ©
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ars ol 5 A
il
ki
1
I
ile reguin ihe Years)
me, 10 give roow
of i 10
all,
sLhiaz
the seveuteeulh
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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