REV DR. TALMAGE The Brooklyn Mvine's Sanday Sermon, Subject: Invitation to a Wedding.” Kexr: “Come, for all things are nog meady."--Lake xiv, 17. Holy festivities to-day, Wa gather other sheaves into the spiritual garoer, Cur joy is like the joy of Heaven. Spread the ban. «ueat, fill all the chalices, We are not to-day at the funeral of a dead Christ; we are cele brating the marriage of the King’s Son, it Was an exciting time in English history when Queen Elizabeth visited Lord [sices ter at Kenilworth castle, The clocks in all the towers and throughout the castic wers stopped at the moment of her arrival, so one surpassing all others in interest, The doors of the great banqueting hall were opened, The qneen marched in to the sound of the trumpets. Fourteen hundred servants waited upon the guests. It was a scene that astonished all nations when they heard of it. Five thousand dollars a day did the banquet cost as it went on day after day, She was greeted to the palace gates with floating islands and torches and the thundars of eannon and fireworks that set the night ablaze, and a burst of music that lifted the whole scene into enchantment. Beeinnir in that way, it went on from joy to Joy rh from excitement to excitement and from rapture to rapture. That was the great banquet that Lord Leivester spread in Kenil- worth castle, Cardinal Wolsey entertained the French ambassadors in Hampton Court. The best cooks of all the land provided for the table. The guests ware kept hunting in the parks all the day, so that their appetites might be keen, and then in the evening hour the were shown into the banqueting hall, wit table aglitter with imperial plate and ablush with the very costliest wines, and the second course of the feast was made of food in all shapes, of men and birds and beasts and dancing groups, and Jousting upon each other with uplifted lances. Lords and princes and ambassadors, their cups fleauisng to the brim. drank first ealth of the king of England, and then to the health of the emperor of France was the banquet that Cardinal : Wolsey spread m Hampton Court. ¥ite you to a grander entertaigment, , My Lord, the King, is the banqueter. Angels of the guests; the halls of eternal love frescoed With light and paved with joy and curtained with unfading beauty are the banqueting piace, the harmonies of eternity are the music, the chalices of God are the plate, and I am one of the servants Come out with ine - 4 $a 3 » } viiations to all the people, and oh that you might break the seal of the invitation and read k of blood, and with the trem band of a dying Christ ail Are ¢OW ready iligstrating my text I go on, and e first oc: say that the Lord Jess Christ is rea iv, dinsl Wolsey did not come into the tmg ball until the second course of the na when entered, booted and 1 him; in hi lous ‘Come, come, for thing in ¢} Dane eS A my hie all the guests arose and cheers I have to tell you that ous i Chris, comes in at the beg feas:, Ay, has been wailing some of the: ed feet, wait pd side, walting the Iascerated temples, waiting. say as for HOE Er IO beer Bea iz Ti x EE onder a that the ont. . is in earnest! 3 I gather up all the tears that flood his eheek in sympathy, all the : channe'ed his brow and back snd band and foot to purchase our redemption. I gather up all the groans coming from midnight chill, and mountain hunger, and desert lonaliness, and I pul them into one bitter ery. I gaibier up all the pangs that shot from cross and spiks snd spear into one groan. I take one drop of sweat on his brow, snd I put it + the glass of the gospel sod i enlarges to Iskew of sorrow, to oceans of agony at Clirist to-day, rmaciated and worn an! wea: coined here, and with a pathos in which every word is a heartbreak sod every sentence a martyrdom, he says to you, and he avs to me, -l sorpe, for all things are now ready.” ® is one word of five letters that |} » write, but I bave no shee. fair ugh to write it on, sod no ! encugh to inscribe i$ Give me the he venly records, and some Penct: used angel in describing a victory, snd with band struck with supernatural energy, with pencil dipped in everiasting m w é it ont spitals of Jove, J. Jesus! It his Ope that is waiting tn i for we, for we the same before God. How he waited How long he bas waited for vou! Wait banqueter ws delayed gus meats sm King, and the miustre ready to sirike at ¢ i ths gateway Waiting » A boy that ten vrarsago went off d bleeding heart after | g You not give me COmMparisnn enough, importunste » igh aes ® al vast as to misty? NOL exe peciing tha: yon car me wth soch & come. parison, I simply say be is waiting as only an all =v pat atic Lhrst knows how to wa t A wandering soul you know what it was Luther? It was that o : shal! live by faith. Do sou know Augustine from his hoerib) that brought spat ons It was that one verse, “Put Ye of it ban i ut the and WERTY e Ko, he has been laggards stay How much he and say : 3 wait] Sasil I si yon? wil 8} naQer st pereal g <1 then write in BE st Are on Te m. Waiting FON igh as heaven, { LIT us x 1 § Do the Lord Jesus Christ for the , And make po nrov.sios y fulfill the nets thereo”.” | Yom Know what 8 was that saved Vicars, ebrated soldier? It was tha ie passage, "Believe in the Lord and thou shalt be saved.” it was that brought Jonathan Edwaris ta Chris? It was the one passages, ‘Now unto him be rlo-y forever and eve,” Une Thanksziving morning read mv text, * for he i good.” and a youn Railery and said 0 himself: “Il have never rendered one seccentable offering of gratitade $0 God in all my iife. Here, Lord, I am thine foraver.” By tuat one p wwnge of Seriptare he was brought into the kingdom, and if I might t Il my own experience, f might tell how one Babbath afterncos I was brought to the peace of the wosnol by reading of the Syro-Phoai- ans ety to Christ, whers he said: ‘Eves the dos eat of the crumbs that fall from the mas. ter’s table,” Philwonhic sermons pever saved saybody. Metaphysioal sermons never saved Miyhody. An earnset pies going rigut out of Es heart biewse i of the Holy Ghost, that is What saves, that ts what brings people int the Kingdon of Christ, { swnooee the wor'd thonght that homes Bhalmers preached great sermons in bis early Binistry, but Thomes Chalmers says he never preached a: all until years after he had ocen. pied a palpit he came out of his slok root, snd weak and emaciated, he stood and $dd the Bocy of Christ 83 the pedple. And in the great day of eternity it will be found that not so mach the sloquent so-mony trough! men to Christ aa the story told perhaps by those who were unknown on earth, tue simple story of Mae Saviour's love and merev, sent by § o pow. or of tue uoly Ghost siraicht 10 the heart Come, Holy Ghost. Ay, He is hers this morn. ing. He fille all the place, I tell you the Holy Ghost is ready, Then I go on and toll you the shareh is ready. There are those hore who say, “So on: cares for my sonl.” Wa do care for it fou ses a man bowing bis head fn praver, snd you say, “That man is ind'erent.™ Ths man bows his hend in praver ther the tenth may go $0 every neart. The sir is fall of Prave #78. They are going up this morning from this assembly. Hundreds of prayers siraight Io tha throne of & listening God. The air is full of prayers—pravers asesnding nom by noon from Fulton street praver moeting, Foi far night by Friday night all over this land, going up from praying circles. Yen, thers is not a minute of an thar of any day that there wee not vapplioations ascendiog $0 the threns fles t Va Hedley the o . Josue Christ Da you know w sfme oy. The ochurohis realy, And if von shou 1 this morning start for your Fathe's house shore would bs handreds and theasands in this assemblage who woull sar if ther knew it, “Make room for tha: man, make room for him at the holy sacramant; bring the «iver bowl for his bapism; give him fal right to all the privileges of the churoa of Jesus Christ." Do not say yon hava nsver besn invited, I invite you now to the King's fosst. One and sll. Ali! AN! BuatI go father and well yon that the anvels aro realy, Some re plot | k when we speak ahon! angols we are gaitifg in. to the region of fancy. They say it ix very well for a man when he has just entored the ministry to preach about the angels in Heaven, bus after he has gone on further it is hardly worth while. My friends, there is no: snr more evidence in the Bible that thers sa God than that there are angels. Did they not swarm around Jacob's ladder? When Lazar. as's soul weat ap 414 ther not escort it’ Did of Gol are twenty thonsan i, even thonsanis of angels’ Are they not represented as the chief har. vestors of the jndgment dav? Did not one sagel In one night slay 180,000 of Benna- oherib’s troops? Oh, yes, our world is in communication with two other worlds, All that cominutieation is by angels. Wnoea a badd man is 40 die, a man who has despmwod God and rejected the Gow pel, the bad apirite come on salpburoas wing and they shackle him, sod trv to push him off the precipices into the ruin, and they lift a | gaffaw of diabolical exultation. Bat there is a line of angels, bright and beautiful and loving | angels, mighty wsneels, resching all the way from earth to Heaven, and when othen gather like shem | supposs the alr is full of them, They hover They flit about, They push down iniquity from your heart. They from the is stood doxalogy | Bright Look! There throne of God Christ the redeemed f« an aagel One moment ago sod heard the It is here now The saswer comes met fag on the alr, “Come, coma, for all things are ols ready to boar the tidings | Angels | All reaty Heady Ready, thrones and Ready, Miochasl ready to kindle the joy. principalities sud powers. the archangel. Yes, I go further and say thst your glorified kindred sre ready. | have not any sympathy with modern spiritualism. believe it is bora Mn perdition. When 1 ste the ravares | makes with human intellects, when I see the homes it has devastated, wien [ see the bad morals that very often follow in its wake, [ have no faith in modern spiritoslsm, I think if John Milton and George Whitfield have not anything betier to do than to crawl under Rochester tables and rattle the lesves, they had beer stay home in glocy, Bot the Bible distinctly teaches that th glorified in heaven are in #3 pathy with our re te : Now, sappose vou shonld pass into the king- dom of God thismorn neg pose You should fay, “I am dose wi the of this world Fie upon all ¢ Christ! I take wad to thy , r, befors tar of resentanc dri Ob voy n you #3, Lt: Oli iove, thine ihe eR, bafore your aver had o 8 ange standing with the message for thy soul w ery upward, “He is coming!” and a r in midair wonid * all ade line of ligh to doorway, from wing news Ww I go upward till 18 2 it wonid ald at ory anwar’, "lie i» ng the t fr $ ” + k i Basel t ne and find E. Bik 8F ISNT mans snd thos joios with me anol it soRxed Wik lips quivering in mortal ang § everisating | while come, for things are ve hie al for thee reper chn-K has bean waiting i that some tear of nk ed I thy hoart gota SOW, ita strength © You were last of thy sin wash KWAY ti oe of his pr n. Har 3» hell, t the hor. and thee ro 1 wails for the And the Christ than 1 I 85 any foslin have mer Lave t wa on the var the rend) ; Christ Liat banquet to which rou greets ¢ taking their 2 Liss his hand banqueting -room, and he ahial. Now is your time to my time (o enter i must go in, He is swingiog the itis half shut. Now it is thresfonrtha Now, it is fuss ajar After awhile it will be forever shint! Why wil yo waste on trifling cares That life which God's compassion spares? While in the endless r yond of thought The one thing needful is forgol. pain has se nv. Pinon, on the do ents hie I'he servant sw of ¢ begins to swing goin. Now is in. You must go Now, shunt ———————— A “ Tae granddanghter of Charles Dick- he 8 She has lately made a pro- vincial tour in Litile Lord Fauntle- roy. A street car at Atchison, Kan,, hss been painted black for funeral purpose! os, THE RED OUSE ON i AM SCHOOL H THE HILL. PHIL. A. MACDONALD. Toa hapry vale a stranger idly roving. chanced to COM® 1 One whom ciime had made a ranger From his distant Eastern home, Palled with pleasure’s wanion dances, From the scenes he turned away ; And in an evil hour his glanees Chanced to rest on Mary Gray. Good and vure she'd always been, No cares her Itfe did 811; Ard happy were the days she saw ih the red sehool house on the hill, 0, how lightly, pleasure Jaden, Danced the sunny hours along! While he lured the simple maiden With sw. ot tales of ‘ove and song. Steeped each sense in bliss entrancing, Every thought with passion rife, Every pause with rapfure dancin Life was love, and love was life But there eame a dreadful waking No more shou'd her glad pulses thetll, As when a ehild her glad way takin To the red school house on the hil Then they wandersd off together From her simple country home Where he bad wooed and lightly won hes, On the word the frail lower thrown. None to sooth her teariess anguish, No confiding bosom nigh § Naught was left her but to languish Out her weary Ife and die, Then ove May morn the church bell tolled, hae birds their Mog aid ails y foun Tr Mary an ty Daal and FOR THE FLOWE ee “The Spring comes slowly up this way” The e runny may days, weall want to be at work 1n our gardens, the warm uir tempts us forth, and we can se rce- ly wait to get our secds and plants to growing. In late March and carly April, when we were preparing the seeds for pan- sies, and other plants that do so much better for early stariing, we would look up sud eee the ground covered with snow, or sleet and wind driving against the window panes, and it seemed pre- mature to be putting in the seed so early. The sunniest days had a ohill in the air, and not a green bud showed itself on shrub or tree, One day in late March a bright-eyed maiden suddenly exclaimed, “Oh, there is a butter-fly on the window-pane!” And all looked Yo see, there was the little fellow in between the double panes of glass in the conservatory win- dow, where it had probably been in a chrysulis state all winter, the first sun- ny days bringing it forth from its dark R-LOYV ERS, sun. We opened the window snd he fl. ttered in and alighted on a cactus, which stood near the window, opening and shutting his tiny golden wings as if glad to be alive. Willing hands pre- pared nectar from a bit of sugar dis solved in water, to tempt the little stranger's appetite, and welcome the dainty harbinger of Spring. Creature of a day, he soon breathed brief existence, aud still folded yellow wings, looking as ready for a flight, on a green basket plant hanging in the window, from the garden beds, find but waxen snow- being raked what should we but crocus buds were beginuing to show, and soon the bed ‘was all abloom, as they lifted their bright heads, vel- low and white and bine; they graced the Sunday morning service on Fuster day. Then came on the hyacinths, aud each, in their turo. These early blossoms braved the w t, and cold and sleet of ospricious April. Now comes sunny May, heralded witl birds, and fAowers spri her dainty feet shall tread, and green and the bud. us into oar sioRing ol ! wherever aves and warm breezes, ding of the flowers, invite gardens care for the pi bring health to YB cms jini d wit Winter's We work fast as th od ean be made ly, for this is season with the flower-luv- the trees must be praned, the free from bloom provided for. Later a and other plants which for being kept in the open ground through the summer, must be taken out, and there is constant work and watching to be done Tools should Le kept for work, and materials fight ng insects, On poor soils. well-rotted stable ma. pure should be worked in where attain able, or if that cannot be procured, woul commercial re must 1 timancd Nit { in 18 one « ILTRLIe OF the best fertilizers for early erops, and 3 ' 3 iis, h long confinement i sii the DOW as ros rea the busiest ers, and beds kept weeds, snd a su possion of 4) rey aT LOO geraniums do better in order ready at band for fertilize © instead, BO of results, If a good top-dressing is given the lawn, it will resuit in a greener and OTe ety torf, and every tlower-bed will respond with brighter bloom, if a liquid manure is prepsrod and vecasionslly for watering ' Seiy weak ured plants BORDER FLANTS rom act Little plant for elg- ow sprescdiug i. Delia, ire flow the ine, « 18 the with abundant, ers. ‘Crystal best varietios BIDAR, AZ Die Palace” for bor fa d comy acta ding ete, and is « , intense blue, 1. Erinus Rin : cates, a white flo , RS wer and jretiy Las in » il sOTis are very Lobelia ud will soon form liage, starred with oxalis is 6 Lit, Uxalia The aammer-blooming for borders and requires a soil and plenty of moisture, Lasiandra and O. Deppil are the Lest varieties for borders, ©, geisi is a novelty from Peru, the upper side of the lea! Lein the nnderside is purple. It is a bloomer and the plants grow Like little trees, a foot or so high. Sweet alyssam is too well-known to When the planta be- HE ica growth will begin at once and the Nycterinia, with pink and white h its narrow-leaved foliage and tiny, pink blossoms, The curled varieties of parsley make ful and useful for garnishing and also for bouquet green. “Beauty of the parterre” is by far the handsomest va. riety. Parsley seed germinates slowly and the seed should be placed in hot water and left in a warm place to soak for twenty-four hours before sowing. GLOXINTAR. These flowers of gorgeous colorings are not as yet very well known, but as a summer bloomer for window or econ- servatory oulture are most desirable The plant is very simple 1n its demands; it will not bear much water and blos. soms realy with bat little sunshine. it blooms from early spring until late autumn, the flowers lasting from one to two weeks, The flowers are most exquisite in form and color with their “velvet leaves and bugle-blooms divine.” Some of them are dark with golden pits; some are light above with throats of dark, rich colors. They may be raised from seed or cuttin t the beginner will do well at first to piers good, strong plants from the florist, w he may experiment tohis heart's content. The seeds are exceedingly fine and require r ion. They great car in thei | do not come true to flower but and markings, scarcely two flowers be- ing alike, f the leaves are placed in water and allowed to remain for some time they will frequently throw ont leafl ta, which wil grow buibs if properly eared for. The tcliage is very pretty aud the plant is altoge her desira'le.. CALIFORNIA ROSES, The climate of California seems to be peculiarly adapted to the growth of the queen of flowers. In relation to this peculiarity Charles Howard Shinn says in Vick’'s Magazine for February: “The Hose cottages of California are counted by tle thousand and increase every year. Twelve months of growth under favorable conditions is enough to change a newly built house to a Kose cottage.” Our illustration this week is kindly furnished us by Wm. H. Maule, of Philadelphia, whose mammoth seed catalogue we have just received, Maule prides himself on his Jumbo melons and other vegetables and has many fine specialties in new varieties of flowers. Hie catalogue is sent for 25 cents with packet of Marguerite Carnation seeds and Bush Lima Beans, Alr and Light in Bedrooms. Air and light in bedrooms are essential to health. Yet a great many people scem to be of opinion that both should be excluded ae much as possible, es- Qeeially during all the hours of sleep. Night sir 18 considered by some as quite nunwholesome, yet night air is all we have at night to breathe. If our bedrooms were constructed to | sleep in, the questions involved as to air and light would be much easier of solution than they are. Theres would ' be in the architectural plan of the bed- room a place for the bed, out of | draughts, and so that the eyescould not open directly on a window, The free admission of air and light would provided for, so that if one were com- pelled to occupy the bed all day no in- convenience would follow to eves or the lungs. but as average houses are built the bedrooms are as suitable for sitting-rooms as for sleeping-rooms, and in many bedrooms there is no suit- able place for a bed. But, Lowever may be at fault, ingenius keeper will contrive a way the best of her advantages profit, Dranglits of sir may be kept fro sleeper cartains propery ting and screens 1 respect He mestio architecture de the house- ot of making 10 un the by about the bed pinced wit profect t f } } . te he eves from th excinding the air 1ulerieres with kerchief sleep, of some dark tint t shield from and not interfere with the « the This last m tried by a lady who found it is "to sleep after the dawning To prevent waking at this tomed 10 ciose tightly before going to sleep. axe BE Wall AS aud her sleep was heavy and nnrefresh- A than, dark silk sufficed to protect them from the light, snd permitted her to her shutters wide open. Then sleep was refreshing. It is diffienit to have and sunshine in bedrooms beds are tenantloss i | be opened {recly, and so leit tll { onghly aired. It is not the neat | keeper who bas all her beds made sleep are out of then Hobes worn st night should be nog during iay where § access to jroo eves will them is $ leo per, ell att This Whe » OO her sb » fa 51 1 * COU Tae, sr by uded Hig Ing bandsge over her eve keep her much wie beds should too sir n he thor. soOn as $e ra the not folded then; | for the pur Such part of ur | dead selves i the bed-clothes and | during sleep, sir and sunshine will, if { permitted, remove to a great extent, and give us to lie down at nig! plessant dreams. —-N. VY. Cristian Advo- cate. MOE, in garments worn PERSONAL. Mise Vina D. Scoppen, who contrib. | uted a short prose poem, “A Moder: | Legend,” to Harper's, is a niece « Horace Scudder, yd was born i Southern India, where her paren | were missionaries, She is now a teach in Welle aley Colic ors « an Indian Ay Hewes P. Crank, | girl who was edveated at Carlisle, has been sent to Montana, as a special agent of the Government Her mis- sion will be to saperintend the allot- ment of lands to the lodians, ue Viema Panvaony is the most noted portrait painter in Germany, and has lately roceived an order from the Em- press, though she usually has excelled most in portraits of men. Miss Vilma has just finished a painting of Count Moltke, the old Field Marshal, in uni- form with all his decorations. Mure. Junie Gouravp, who recently died at the age of eighty-one, was the founder in Franoe of a school of litera ture for young girls, and the editor of the Journal des Jeunes Personnes. Al- though her income had been very large for some years, she had given so gen- erously to philanthropie objects that she left but a very small fortune, Amoxa unique doings of women in Amerioa, which find their way to the press one reads of Miss Lizzie Hegan of Birmingham, Conn. , the first woman member of a Fire Department; of two deal mute sisters in Texas who edit a ne per; Miss Kate Chute, the first travelling saleswoman for a shoe house; Miss Cora V, Diehl, Recorder of Deeds for Logan county, Ala., and Miss H. 8, Gould, of Georgia, one of the main in- struments in the creation of the Cov ington and Macon Railroad, Mra Evrzanera Onavresny has write ten her ninth Vassar-girl book. The scone is laid in Switzer Miss Sana Juaxxerre Duxoaw, whose “A Booial Departure,” and “An Amer- jean Girl Ju Rondo Are DOW 80 mel read, ser terary apprentice- ship on the Toronto Globe re other Canadian jonrnals under the name of “Garth Grafton,” The ‘Bool De- parture” is the story of her own ad- voutures in a trip round the world with » 8 woman friend SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, EUNDAY, MAY 24 IBJL Captivity of Israel. LESSON TEXT, EEKings 17 : 6.18 Memory verses: 15.18) LESSON PLAN. Toric or Tus Quarrsn: BSinning and Serving, Gorpex I'rxr ror The QUARTER: Godliness 4s profitable unto all things. 1 Lim. 4:8. Went Lesson Torio: Forsaking and For J eaken, ” 3 , Z Besving False Gods, vs, 1217 2 Forsaken of God, vs. 6, 18, Forsaking the Lord, vs. 1] Lesson OUTLINE: Gorpex Text: Because ye have for. saken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you.—2 Chron, 24 : 20. Darvy Hove BrApINGS : M.—2 Kings 17 : 6-18, of lerael. T.—2 Kings 18 :1-12, Cause of the captivity. W. —Lev. foretold. T.~Deut. foretold, F.—Deut, foretold. B.—Psa 137 : 1-0. captivity. RB, I captivity. LESSON ANALYSIS, 26 : 28 14-83. Captivity : 58-18, Captivity 29 10-29, Captivity The psalm of 1-10. Heturn from oo 1. PORSAKING THE LORD, 1. Jehovah's Goodness to Israel: The Lord,....which brought them up ont of Egypt (7). The Lord brought thee out of Egvpt (Exod. 13 : 9). 1 am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out (Exod. 20 : 2). Thon broughtest a vine oat of Egypt i Pea. 80 : 8), With a high arm led be them forth out fit iActs 13 : 17) Israel's Sins Against Jahovah: O i. Israel did secretly those things that were not right (3). Clear thou me m hidden faults (Psa. 18 : 12. Their course is ev and their force is not They ght gus NOW yok o do right (Amos ¥ k Thy beart Acts 8 i 3 “Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, 1) Jehovah's relation to Israel: larael’s t to Jehoveh, i Israel's gracious Cod (2) Israel's grievous sus, 2, “Israel did secretly those that were not right” 1 seriousiy; (2 ng secret “Wronght wicked tuings t« voke the Lord toanger.”’ wicked deeds; (2; God's anger.—{1} Men God prov COLGUL ££ N "nie things Slauing y Sinn ‘ or KE ” ok, provoking al men. yg it. i VALERE GODS, d served idols I. Idols Serv They Ho did very father X Louse of the Lord, ved the idols (I Chron. -4 : 18 Ashamed be all they that serve graven images (Psa, 97 : 7 ' 11. Jehovah Disregarded: They would not hear, but hardened their neck (14, { The Lord spake to his people; butthey | gave no beed (2 Chron. 3; : 10). (Psa. 81 : 11), 8:11.) They rebelled sgainst me, and would not hearken Ezek. 20: 8), Hi, Commandments Rejected: covenant (15). 9% Lord {1 Bsm. 15: ie } Ye bave set at nought all my counsel Prov. 1 : 25.) (Jer, 6 : 19), my sayings (John 12 : 48). 1. “They served idols.” (1) In dis. obedience to God's commands; (2) To the neglect of Jehovah; (3) To the debasement of themselves, 2. “Turn yo from your evil ‘ways. (1) Israel's evil ways; (2) Jehovah's scious eall; (3) Jehovah's wise rection. 8. “They forsook all the command. ments of the Lord.” (1) God's commandments; (2) Israel's aban. donment. — (1) Commands; (2) Abandonment; (3) Penalty, Il. FORSAKEN OF OOD, I. Israel Carried Away: The king... carried lsrael away into Assyria (6), The king of Assyria carried Israel away (2 Kings 18 : 11). Behold, the Lord will hurl thee away (lea. 22 : 17). ial amy them away (Ilsa The wind 41 : 18) I will earry thee away beyond Babylon (Acts 7 : 43). 11. lsrael in Captivity: The kin sas faced them in Halah, and in Habor (8), And you will I soatter among the nations (Lav. 26 : 83), A AU ARORA i The Lord... cast them into another i amnd (Deut. 29 : 28). ! We wept, when we remembered Zion (Psa. 137 : 1), 1. Out cf Cod’s Sight! The Lord....removed them ont of his smght (18), This house will 1 cast out of my sight (1 Kings 9 : 7), {I will remove Judah also out of my | sight (2 Kings 23 : 27), | He. . . .shall not be established before | mine eyes (Psa, 101 : 7). { Cast them ont of my sight, them go forth (Jer. 15 : 1). 1. “The king of Assyria took Sama- rian.” (1) God directing; (2) As syria acting; (3) Bamaria suffering. ~—(1) Bamuria captured; (2) Assyria trinmphant; (3)Jebovah vindicated, 2. “The Lord was very angry with Israel.” (1) Israel's sins; (2) Je- hovah’'s anger; (3) Israel's penalty. --{1) Bin in man; (2) Auger in Gd. « “There was none left but the tribe of Judah only.” (1) Jadab’s fid-l- ity rewarded; (2) lsrael's iniquity punished. and let a , LESSON BIBLE READING. FORBARING Warned against (Josh. ! 29 : 9). | Repudiated (Josh. 24 : 16) Practiced (Deut. 82 : 15 ; ea, 65 For oiner gods (Judg. 2:12; 10 : Jer. 1: 16). Is sin (1 Bam. 12 : 10 ; Jer. 2 : 18), drings wrath (Ezra 8 : 22 ; Iga. 1 rings suffering (Deut. 31 Kings 21 : 14). Brings shame (lsa. 1 : 29 ; Jer. 17: 13). Brings chastisement (Psa 83 : 30.38. | Brings abandonment of God (Jer. 9 Ga wu Ody OU J GOD. 24 : 20;1 Chron. : 11). 13 ; 17 LESSON BURROUNDINGS. Isrenvesisa Evexrs.—The decline of the kingdom of lsrael (from Jero- boam Il. to Hoshea) has been sketched already, in connection with the prog ets, of whom Hosea lived until just be- f The Assyrian kings made several attacks upon lsracl An Assyrian iuscription claims that Shalmanueser LI took tribute from Jehu, Ibe first scriptural record an As syrian invasion is in 2 Kings 15 : 19, where Paul is named as invader. Men- and me n in the Isrselitish kingdom. The i8 no d, but the brieier ry permits the view that Peiah had already coun pired agaiust Mens x4 1nvasion was by Tig- IL (2 Kui: i! , who i took a large part Sel er lls monusrch re the siege of Samaria, of nu aia immense sum, rt IL ul a I 8 sup ahem j : i +4 t thus fact] rival chrongid Cure REZARILKL 8B Lan gs 15 : 29 3 and ot irager and os zy id il HATING £10 th sign of Tiglatl Pekab and Bezin, king of jie against Ja ial; ish, purchased t i } sr, who alhi- 17016 ia wut probable that Hoshea i Po ¥ his revoll against rians, He became Was eno uraged, Pekahl, bs the A sy a tribut Assyrian king, Shal- maneser ’ # attempted to fred self by seeking alliance with So Shebek 1 ping of Egypte This led to 8 ne n, and HoslLea was im- prisoned. siege of Samaria was begun, conti for three years. To- ward tb this siege, according to an Assyrian inscription, bargon bee came king. WIT ‘Laces. —Rawlinson identifies Halah ith Chialeitis, near the river Khabaur, pich empties into the Euphrates. Hae be supposes to be the name of this er, and Gozan the name of the dis on the upper part of the niver The cities of the Medes district thus, th Calah, south the capital of Assyria, pers place all these | far- on the borders Lranzanitis). in a identify Halsh w east ol el, ono A00CHKRLVIOS north-east, we assigned fo UB, C. 7 I ieted thn cal tare, a 15 alldw- Le usurped the throue in B.C. 722 But if, as others boid, Shaimaneser lived to the close of the ege, then B. C. 722 is preferable. In hings 158: 10 is not asserted thas maneser took the city. The Assyr- ian mseription of Sargon is defective, bat seems to assert that Samaria fell at the beginning of his rei 'n. Persoxs — [here is vo person named except Hoshea, the last ki g of Israel. | The king of Assyria referred to scems 180 be, not Shalmaneser, but Sargon (comp. Isa. 20: 1), who reigned from B, C. 742 to 700. Ixcipuxts. —The capture of Samaria and the deportation of tie inhatutlants {of larael into Assyria; the reason for | this calamity the sin of wdolatry, which i the people committed repestedly and in many ways; this was done in spite of ithe command of God, the repeated The { left the Lord tueir God, and followe | after the gods of other nations, made | molten images and other idols, com- | mitting other abominations, Proveking | the Lord to anger. Therefore the Lon | in his anger removed them, and Judah only was left, Panrarinyu Passaon,—32 Kings 18: 9 12, this date ale, Binney 5 it Sha The Presbyterian church has in the State of Peunsylvama 1,18 Sabbath schools, 18,204 teachers, and 175,230 scholars, Since the establishment in 1802 of West Point military academy, 3.354 men have received diplomas from that mstitution, Just above Vienna, on the Danube, is the convent and school of Melk, which bas recently celebrated its one thousandth anniversary. There are in the United States, 4. - 980,24) Methodists, 4,202 201 Bap ists, 1,220,912 Presbyterians, 1,086,048 Luth- eran, 480,176 Trotestant Episcopal, 491,085 Cougregationalists, Two Chiness coms are attached to every roll of straw matticg imported, Alabama, Georgia and South Caro- lina Lave planted over 70,000 acres of walermelons this year.
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