REV DR. TALMAGE fhe Brooklyn invines Sanday Sermon. Batyject : “Gospel of the Waosther” Text: “Hath the rain a father Joh SExxviii,, 28. This Book of Job has been the subject of nded theologioal wrangle. Men bave de #% the ring in which to display theid esinstical pugilismi, Some say at tha of Job is » true history; others, that it fs an allegory; others, that it is an epiq ; others, that it is a drama. Bome say t Job lived eighteen hundred years fore Christ, others say that he never hved atl all. Some say that the author of this book! Job; others, David: others, Solomon. discussion has landed some in blank in< ty. Now, I have no trouble with the s of Job or Revelation—the two most PXstasicus books in the Bible—because of a 1 adopted some years ago. 1 wade down into a Seripture passage as as | can touch bottom, and when | can- then 1 wade out. I used to wade in until was over my head and then I got drowned. 1 study a passage of Scripture so long as it 8 a comfort and help to my soul, but when it becomes a Forfeit and a spiritual up- turning I quit. In other words, we ought to wads in up to our heart, but never wade in until it is over our head. No man should ever expect to swim across this great ocean of divine truth. [ go down into thas ocean asl 8% down into the Atlantic Ocean at East top, Long Island, just far enough 0 bathe: then I come out, 1 never had any! thet with my weak hand and foot 1 strike my way clear over to Liverpool. 1 suppose Jo understand your family! ealogy. ou know someting about your! ents, your grandurante, your great. dparents. Perhaps you know where where born, or where they died. Have you ever studied the parentage of the show- ar, “Hath not the rain a father This ques. tion Is not asked by a poetaster or a scien tist, but by the head of the universe. To hum~ Ble and to save Job God asks hig: fourteen ons: About the world's architecture, a $ the refraction of the sun's rays, about the tides, about the snow crystal, about the Hghtnings, and then He arrai him with she interrogation of the text, “Hath the rain a father? With the scientific wonders of the rain I have nothing to do. A minister gets through with that kind of sermons within the fired three years, and if he has piety enough he s through with it in the first three the. A sermon has come to me to mean word of four letters, “help” You all Pr that the rain isnot an orphan, You w it is not cast out of the gates of heaven a fomndling. You would answer the ques! tion of my text in the affirmative, Bafely housed during the storm, you hear the rain beating eainst the window pane, and you find it searching all the crevices of the window sill. It first comes down in soli- tary drops, pattering the dust and then it deluges the fields and angers the mountain torrents, and makes the traveler implore shelter. You know that the rain js not an accident of the world’s economy. You know’ ft was born of thecloud. You know it was rocked in the cradle of the wind. You know it was sung to sleep by the storm. You know thatit isa flying evangel from heaven to earth. You know it is the el of the weather, You know that God is its father, If this be true, then how wicked is our murmuring about climatic changes. The first eleven Sabbaths after I entered the ministry it stormed. Through the week it was clear weather, but on the Babbaths the old country ing house looked like Noah's ark before it landed. A few drenched peo Jo sit Sefure 4 dranchod ; but most of farmers stayed at me and thanked God that what was bad for the church was good for the crops. I committed a good deal of sin m those days in denouncing the weather, Ministers of the G sometimes fret about stormy Sabbaths or hot Sabbaths, or inclement Sabbaths, They for the fact that the same God who or the the whole spring and fall trade has been ruined by : wet weather, The merchants then examined the “weather bilities” with more interest than they vead their Bibles. They watched for a Penh of blue sky. They went complaining the store and came conplaining home again. In all that season of wet feet and dripping garments and impassable streets never once asked the question, "Hath the rain a lather? Bo turists commit thissin. There is more annoying than to have ted corn rot in the ground because of too much moisture, or nay all ready for the mow dashed of a shower, or wheat almost ready for the sickle with the rust. How hard it is “0 bear the lsural dis intents, God has inflaite resources, but [ donot think He bas capacity to make weather to please all the farmers. Some times it is too hot, or it is too cold; is fs too wel, or it js Wo ; it stooenrly, or it is too late. They orget that She God who promised seed time and ha summer and wiater, cold and heat, also all cli. matic changes. There is ons question that ought to be written on every barn, on every fance, on ev haystack, on every farm. house, “Hath the rain a father? Hi Jou an) knew what & vast Suharpt ih it is to pr appropriate weather for th world we would not be so aritieal of the Lord, Issac Waits at ten years of age complained that he did not like the hymos that were sung in the English chapei. “Well,” said his father, “Isanc, instead of your compsaining about the byuma, go and makes hymns that are better” A did gb and maka Lyssa that ware better. Now, | say to you if you do not He the weather up a weather company and have a t, and a secre. tary, and a troasurar, and a board of direc tors, and ten million dollars of stock, and then provide weather that will suit us all. There is a man who bas a weak head, and he cannot stand the giarsof the sun, You must have 4 cloud Always hovering over him, Fike tha sunshine; § ousiniok live Without plenty of sunlight, 5 you must always have mongh fn me, Two ships meet in mid-Atlantic. The one is to pton and the other is com York. Provide weather toat, abalt for one ship, it Is not a head wind for the other. Thers is a farm thet is dried up for the lack of rain, and there ina pleasure party going out for a teld excarsion. ro. vide weattior that will suit the dry farm and the pleasure axcursdon, No, sire, I will sot take ops dollar of stock im your westhor company. Thers in only ous g in the universes who kpows wh bo provide the right kind of weather for world, “ath the rain a father? My text also surgosts God's minute super. wisal You see the divine Bonship in every drop of rain. The jowsls of the showsr are not lang away by a spendtaritt who knows not how man ha thie ws or where tay fal, They ore a nl princes of vou, They sll bave eternal lineage. They aro ail the children of a king, ‘Hath the yon a father?” Well, then, [ may if Go takes notice of overy minute raiod Hs wil’ take notica of the most insigaficant affair of my life. It ls the astronomical wiow of things that bathers me. Wo look uj into the night heavens, and we say, "Worlda! worl nificant we feel! Wa sta Mount Washington or Mont fool that wa are only insects, Hy 10 ourss ves, gh the Jaige, tha sun fa one million tly rand Hues larger.” “OL 15 uo ura, if Cod wheels that theongh bmoensity He frente te look down ab me, Ei Ran in BO gerd ———— the hand of God than ure the | a lilac bush the morning after a shower, in minutise, If He has soalss to weigh th to weigh the infinitesimal, You down, numbered? “Hath not the rain a futher?’ doctrine of a particular Providence, day life, LI God fathers a raindrop, is thers God will not fat When Druyse, the guasmith, invente needle. gun, wiaich decided the battle of Badowh, was it a mers acoldent? Wam a farmer's boy showed Blutcher a short cut by which be vould wing bis army ap soon r that? the it & mere accident? n When Lord Byron took piece of money Millbank, was it 8 mere accident which side When the Christian army was besiged at Baziers, and a drunken drummer came in at midnight and rang tho alarm bell, not know- ing what he was doing, but waking up the host in time to fight their enemies that mo- ment arriving, was it was acoldent? When in one of the Irish wars a starving mother, flying with her starving ohiid, sank down and faioted on the ay y the night and her hand fell on & warm bottle of milk, did that just happen so? affairs of men of our religion is worth noth. ing at all, and you had better take it away from us, and instead of this Bible, which teaches the doctrine, give us a secular book, ber of parliament, in his last hour, ory out: “Read me the eighth book of Virgil” Oh! my friends let us rouse up to an ap- preciation of the fact that all the affairs of our life are under a king's command and un- der a father's watch, Alexander's war horse, Bucephalus, would allow anybody to mount him when be was unharnessed, but as soon as they put on that war horse, Bucepha- lus, the saddle and trappings of the con- gueror he would allow no one but Alexander to touch him. Andif a soulless horse could have so much pride in his owner, shall not wo lomortals exult in the fact that wa are owned by a king? “Hath the rain a father™ Again my subject teaches me that God's with os are inexplicable, That was the original force of my text, The rain was a great mystery to the anciants, They could not understand how the wa should get into the cloud, and gett ¢, bow it should be suspended, or falling, why it should come down in drops. Modern science Sou along Sad says there are two portions of air erent tempersture, and they are arged with moisture, and the one portioy of afr decreases in ixy pri #0 the water may no longer be held in vapor, and it falls. And they tells us that some of the clouds that look to be only as large asa man's band, and to be almost quist in the heavens ware t mountains of mist four thousand feet Fo base to top, and that they rush miles a minute, But after all the brilliant experiments of Dr. James Hutton, sad Saussure, and other scientists, there is an infinite mystery about therain. There is an ocean of the unfath- omable in every raindrop, and God says to day as He said in the tims of Job, “If you cannot understand one drop of rain, do not be surprised if My dealings with you are in- sxplicable.” Why does t aged man, ds crepit, beggared, vicious, sick of the world, avr world sick of him, lve on, while bare is & man in mid Me consecrated to God, bard working, useful in every respect, who dies? Why does that old gossip, gad- ding along the strest about everybody's busi- ness but own, have such good heal while the Christian ®other, with a flock more exclamation poin piace for explanation, . If you cannot und #0 minute a as a raindrop, bow can you w rain a father? axpect God's dealings? “Hath the rain of Sears fs of divine origin, Great clouds of trouble sometimes hover over us They are black, and they are gorged and thunderous. painted-—clouds or breavement. i Hil] £gel — indus if % is gl ! g t 4 =8 5585 E e 7 { absurd to think that God is going to wa over tears.” No, my three or four k of them that God exdl Bs rants all around ever get over it. They may live to and sing aftewward corridor in the soul that is silent, thongh it noe resoun ded, ta never mentionad the death of a without a how deop . It was have g shout never can forget how she used to take oars of on. have been many sea captains eon verted in our ehvrch, and the peculiarity of them was that they were nearly all praved ashore by their mothers, though the mothers went into the dust soon after they Went to | gaa, Have you never heard an old man in delirium of soms sickness call for his mother? The fact is we get so used to calilog for her over ib, and when sie goss away from us is You sometimes, pers haps, in days of trouble and darkuess, when | the world would say, “You ought to be abie i to take care of yourseli”-—you wale up from | you dreams finding vyourse't saving, “Ob, { tnother! mother I” | vine origin? ; Have thess tears no dl- ¢ Why, take all the warm hearts { that ever beat in all lnnde, and in all ages, would be weal compared with the throb of God's sternal sympathy, Yes, God also is { father of all that rain of repentance, { Did you ever see a rain of repentance? Do i you know what it is that makes a man re- pent? I see people going mround wryium to repent. They cannot repent. Do ois v no man oun repent until God helps him 0 Pegs? How do I know? By this paseagh, “Him hath God exalted to be a prince and ® Baviour to give repentance.” Oh, it is a tre- mendous hour when one wakes up and says: *] am a bad man. [ have notsinned against the laws of the land, but I have wasted my life; God asked me for my services and I haven't given those services. Oh, my silos; God forgive me.” When tHat tear ts it thrills all heaven. An angel caunot keep his i around, and there is a commingling of tears, and God is the Father of the rain, the Lord, long suffering, merciful and gracious. In a religious nssembloge 8 man arose and said: “1 have been 8 very wicked man; 1 hroke my mothor's heart. I beoams an iufl- del, but I have seen my ovil way, sud I have surrendered my heart to but it is a grief that | never can get over that my parents should never have heard of my sal vation: I dou't know whether they are living or dead.” Whilp be was yet standing in the sudienos a voice from the gallery said, “Oh. my son, my son” He looked up and he rec. ognized her. It was bis old mother, Bhe had been praying for him a t many years, and when at $he foot of the cross the prodigsl son and the praying mother etn each other, there was a rain a tre- mendous Min, of tears, end God was the Father of those tears that God would break us down with a sense of our sin, and then Jift us up with an apprecistion of His meroy. s Over oar tod life, Tors over a ved spirit. Tours over an in- jured father. Oh, that God wonld move upon this audience with a great wave of ro- tno tion ! ng of Car His ’ rebellid driven into banishment, chifldren were ou sously abused, Years wont by, and the king of Carthage wgde many friends. He gathered up 8 goat army. He marched again toward Car thage. Reaching the gates of Carthage the best men of the pace ome out bare- footed and bareheaded and with ropes around thelr necks orylng for mercy. They said, “We abused you and we abused Jour family, but we cry for mercy.” The ing of Carthage looked down upon the people from his chariot and said: “I came to bless, I didn't come to destroy. You drove me out bat this day | prosoutes pardon for all the peopla, Open the gales and let the army oome in.’ marched in and took the throne and podpie all shouted, “Long lve the king™ y friends, you have driven the Lord Jesus Christ, the King of the church, away from your heart; you have been maltreating Him all these yoars; but He comes back to- day. He stands in front of the of your soul, If you will pardon He will meet you him, He was His wifes and iniquities | will remember no more. wide the gaty I will take the throne peace | Vig unto you" And thes, all through this wodienocs, from the young and from the old, there will be a rain of tears, and God wili be the father of that reic! Chicago's Unique Scheme. Unless negotiations which are now all but completed should fall through, snd of that there is wery lijtle prospect, Chicago will soon add to her commer. cial enterprise one which will startle all creation. A syndicate has raised B4,- 000,000 for the establishment of & vast clearing house to be used by wholesale merchants. Tho site selected is at the intersection of Twelfth street and the Chicago River. The plan contemplates the erection of 150 brick ngs, each six stories high, all alike and ail connected. L. W. Yaggy, of Leke For- est, a Chicago suburb, conosived the idea of this enormous undertaking. In these buiMlings wholesale merchants may receive goods from all reilrpads en- tering Chicago, store them in floors rented for the purpose and reship them st will. From the North Pacific Rail. road have been leased thirty-two acres for ninety-nine years. It is understood that the Jrosates of the scheme are to receive $1,000,000 in stock for their services, and that amount hes already been paid ip cash. Of the other $8,000,000 capital stock, $2,000. 000 has been subscribed, the principal holders being wholesale merchants of Chicago. Railroad cars will reach the various floors of the 150 buildings by inclined tracks and the goods can thus be unloaded direct from the oars wher- ever the has secidred space. A circular railroad vpou which small and specially built cars will un will be used to remove the goods. The buildin yp will be perfect as to construction and demand of business will be met. The thirty-two acres leased has a of a mile frontage on Twelfth sigeet. This frontage is alone worth $850,000 and the eatire property is con. servatively estimated as being worth $1,500,000. The to be sufficiently remunerated by freigit i, over ite line, point it is the greatest transaction in the history of Chicago. The coin. pany has not been incorporated and the name of those in the syndicate are yet kept seorst, H. 1. Cobb is the architect | empioyed by the syndicate snd General Sooy Smith is to be the chief engineer. It is expected that the buildings will be completed in about a year.—St. Louis Republic nmin cr AAI nh Light to Tell the Time, Bome lish electricians have intro | illumioating the face of a watch at any i hour of the night. It is made of a small divided case, with a minute incandes- eont lamp and reflector fized in the rim and made hollow, so that the watoh may be laid inside the case, and upon press. ing a small stud the face of the watch is brilliantly illuminated, The electricity is supplied by a aich may be to Von — MOBCOW, Moscow and Livadia—or, more pro- perly speaking, the Orimea—yield two representative glimpses of the ex- tremes of life in Pin. Moscow brings up commercial activity and wintry weather; the Crimes, aristoc- racy, pleasure, and the balmy south. Moscow in the winter is not without its delights, though the ground be frozen 80 as it seems beyond hope of ever thawing, though the snow lie deep in the flelds around. The beauty of the sights around you, of common every- | day incidents on a winter's day—that is, of a good hard winter—in this quaint fantast.c city, is not to be forgotten, There is hardly apy other place like it, For Moscow is the meeting place of the { East and the West, as of the spirit of old times with that of the new. Around the embattled Kremlin—a fortress the girdled enclosure, which on its tabled heights proteots the core of the empire most sacred to the patriotic Russian; where are found the most ancient holy churches, and the early wooden palace of the Dukes of Mos- Palace of ‘I'reasures, where so many crowns of conquered countries, such as | Kazan, Astrakhan, Poland, &e., signs of liussia’s sggressive growth and power, are gathered together ;—around this embodiment of conservatism it is something startling to find that your journey 1s performed on the most modern of conveyances, a tram-line, Its rails intersect the city in all direc- tions, the lean but sure-footed horses, | reinforced in number at the foot, draw- |ing the loaded ears up such hills as { would not be dreamt of nearer home. | It was with a curious feeling that we | sallied forth on our first expedition in | Moscow by daylight (the very first was {to see the Kremlin by moonlight, a | soene of weird beauty). The snow lay | thick upon the ground, many degrecs j of frost in the still air compelled the | warmest furs and over-boots to come |into use, but, the slight difficulty of | breathing once overcome, the bright | sun and the clear atmosphere made it | joy to be out. The ringing of the car {upon the meials came near, in we | jumped, but lo! all the windows were | covered with hoar-frost, which com- { pletely shut ont the passing view; only | the horses with their roogh, rime-be- | sprinkled coats, smoking all the way, { could be seen when the end door was | ooeasionally opened. We ' seemed to come out into the brosd snow-covered mide walk, | haunted by hawkers of oranges, apples, and many-colored light woollen wares under the lofty white wall of the outer line of fortification; on the right the handsome front of | History Museum, the street a little | open squares or Places which are one | attraction of the aty. : more and there was a brilliant vision; just over the shoulder of the white curving wall appeared the many-colored or gilt towers and cupolas of a pio turesque old church bathed in sun- shine, while the buildings stretched away into the gray street beyond i formed a vanied background. | As you pass along the busy streets | how much there is for the new-comer! Do you want s sledge to carry you sad | your parcels home ?—**Jevorstohik!” | you call out, naming where you want igo to. Up comes a little contrivance | or two; the driver, in fur cap and | she epakin-lined long coat, girl with a | soft-colored girdle, from his seat offers | you a price. Indignantly you reply { with a figure reduced by one-third, or | whatever experience has taught you is | fair, and walk on as though you did inot care the least. Perhaps some ! others come up, and presently you hear | a voice behind ery, ** Pajoulsta!” (if you | please,) and the bargain is made; you | may get in, wrap your shuba about you, | and are carried off on your own terms, | Look as you go slong st the strange | sign-boards; every man puts out pic- | tures of the wares he has to sell. Thus | the green-grooer’s carrots and turnips, with apples skilfully disposed about a cabbage, may hang next to the stiff fel: | boots and the elegant shoes displayed | by the bootmaker; a cutler will depict { his knives and scissors, a tailor the gar- ments he makes, and so on. These | signs are all considered of such impor- | tance as to be under the strict super- | vision of the police. We these by ' and are struck by the variety of color all around. One moment it is a church ! in soariet a the ou 3 a id blue, n th silver stars, | pt. Bi the sky by might; another, a | salmon-colored building topped by its iron roof all flecked with snow; | a rosy wall sunooecds a brown or yellow | houses, while a bright blue church with 1§oMen cupolas is round the corner. i with unevenn the hills ‘and the dales on which the town is fanted, the stark-looking trees in | the numerous gardens boule- | yards, —all thess, softened by the veil | of powdery snow under the clear sun- | shane, compose a set of pictures of | quite unusual interest and winter beauty, | green Opintogs Changs When a man gets ald enough know himscll thoroughly he begins to entertain cynical opinions of the whole buman race. — lodianapolis Journal. i Sl SLRS III O55 SDS The oldest Luilding in Boston has j ust been sold, It is a wooden straet- ure on Salem street and was built in i 1627. Ihis building is now used for stores, wish tenements above them, !* is intended to tear 4 wn the present bu’ll- ing and erect a brick structure for busi- DOSS PUIPOses, In Southern Oregon there is a forest 16,000, miles in extent, with an estia- ted amount of me chantable timber of 400.000,000,000 feet. At $10 per 1,0 0 fost the preosels would pay our Na- tional deht twice over, Tne total length of the streets, av - nues, boulevards, bridges, quays and thoroughfares of Pans is set down at £00 miles, of which nearty 200 are plant. ed with trees, Physicians of th's eountry are paid ! annually pearly $1 50,000 for medical | examinations for life insurance eompan- Three companies pay over $250,000 SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. EUNDAY, JULY 18 183%, Christ's First Miracle, LESSON TEXT, John? : 1.11. Memory verses: 1.8) LESSON PLAN, Toric or THR QUARTER; Son of God. Gorpex Texr ror tHE QUARTER These are written, that ye might be. have life his name.—~John 20 : 31. through mn — Lisson Toric: The Son's Wonders ful Works, 1. Need Discovered, vs, 1-4. ¥ = 1 gr f LEssox OurLiNg:4 = Means U:.ed, v8.58. 5 Buccess Attained, vs, 8-11. This beginning of 1 i (lorupex Texr: lee, and manifested forth his glory.— John 2 : 11, DarmLy Hour READINGS ¢ M.-—John 2: 1-11. miracle, T.—Isa. 85: 1-10. acles foretold. W.—Isa 42: acles foretold. T.—Matt. 11 1-15. Christ's miracles. John 2 13-28. Christ's miracles. B.—John 5: 1-16. Opposed cause of his miracles. John 5 17-38, power of miracles, Christ's Christ's Import F. Effcots of A — ev LESSON ANALYSIS, I. NEED DISCOVERED. I. Jesus in Social Life: ciples (2). In the house of Simon the leper, sat at mest (Mark 14 : 3). Martha received him (Lmke 10 : He had sat Luke 24 3 oh, down with them to meat ohh, Marths served (John 12 : 2) il, Wants Disclosed to Jesus: The mother of Jesus saith anto him, They have no wine (3). word, and shall be healed (Matt, R : . Bave Lord: we perish (Matt, 8 : 25 my “ : 25), Send them away, that they may go.... avd buy (Mark 6 : 36 Rabboni, that I may receive my sight {Mark 10 : 51). 111. Jesus Biding his Time: Jesus saith, come (4). My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready (John 7 : 6) I go not up; becanse my time is not yet fulfilled (John 7 : 8), was not yet come (John 8 : 20). 1). 1. “There was a marriage in Cana of Galilee.” (1) A marnage feast; (2) A notable company; (3) A marvel- ous deed; (4) A beneficial result. 2. “The mother of Jesus saith unto him.” (2) The Bon’s frankness.—{1) The mother and ber suggestion; (2) The Bon and his response. 8. “Mine hour is not yet come.” (1) Conscious of appointed destiny; (2) Patient under appointed duty. IL MEANS USED, i. Wise Counsel: Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it (5). The tongue of the wise is health (Prov, 13 : 18, A word in due season, how good is it! (Prov. 15 : 28). By wise guidance thou shalt make thy war (Prov. 4 : 6). A word fitly spoken is Dhke apples of gold (Prov. 25 : 11). Il. Full Obedience: Fill the waterpots.... They filled them up to the brim (7). To ghey 1a better then sacrifice (1 Sam. 15 : 92). He that wise hearkeneth unto coun- sel (Prov. 12 : 15). We must obey God (Acts 5 : 29). Ye became obedient from the heart (Rom. 6 : 17). 111. Falr Testing. Draw out now, and bear unto the ruler of the fea t (8), O) taste and sce that the Lord is good (Psa: 34 : B), Ask for the old paths, where is the good way (Jer. 6 : 16), Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord (Mal. 3 : 10). Prove all things; hold fast that which is good (1 Thess. 5 : 21). 1. “Whatsoever he mith unto you do it.” (1) Command anticipated; (2) Obedience directed. --(1) Instructed of Jesus; (2) Submissive to Jesus 2. “Fill the waterpots with water, And they filled them.” (1) kxplioit command; (2) Implicit obedience. 8. “Diaw out now, and bear unto the Son (John 17 rather than men of the miracle: (2) The bearers of the wine; (3) The ruler of the feast. {1} The workers; (2) The work; (3) The Judge. 111, SUCCORSS ATTAINED, 1. 8Becuring a Good Gift; Thon hast kept the good wine until now( 10), That avery man should. . . .enjoy good Jia of Eocel, 8-18). ns milk ont your Father. ... give things (Matt, 7:11), God, w voth us richly all things to enjoy (1 . 6:17). 11. Manifesting the Lord's Glory; This ... did Jesas, and manifested his glory (11% The glory of the Lord shall be revealed (Isa. 40:5), He was ‘ransfigured before them (Math 17:2). And we beheld bis glory (John (1:14). Baid I not, .thon shounldst see the glory of Goda? (Jolin 11:40). 11. Confirming the Lord's Disc ples=y And his disciples believed on him | (11). His disciples remembered;. ,and they believed (John 2229 And himself believed, and Lis whole house (iohn 4.58). Many... which... beheld,.. believed on him (Jolin 11 45), Sy reason of bir Jesus (John 12: 1. “But the rervanis drawn the water believed on which had know.” (1) The proffered wine; (2: The knowing servants; (3) The iguorant ruler. (4) The impartial judgment, 2. “This beginning of his mgns did Jesus in Cena” (1) Cana the favored spot; (2) Jesus the mighty worker; (3) Good the grand re- sult, , “His disciples believed on him.” (1) As the Messiah; (2) Becanse of his works; (3) With all their heart, a —-—— A LESSON BIBLE READING, MIRACLES, | Wrought by the Father (Acts 15:12; 181 11: Heb. 2:4). | Wrought by the Bon (Matt, 10:1; Acts 14:3). Wrought by the Holy Ghost (Matt. 12: 2%; Bom, 15:19). Wrought in Jesus’ name 18: Acts 2:6, 16). Display God's power (Johu 3:2; 8:3", Display the Lord's glory (John 2:11 11:4). Prove adivine commission { Exod. 4:1-53 Mark 16:20), { Prove the Lord's Messiahship (Matt 11, i 2.6: John 5:36). | Bhould produce faith (John 2:23; 20: { a0, 31). Boul produce obedience (Deut. 11: A hg ; 20:2.3.9). Mark 16:17, ) hn LESSON SURROUNDINGS, Isrenvexixe Evasrs, —On the fourth day, referred to in John 1, Jesus pre- wares to go into Galilee. Findin Philip of Bethsaida, be bids him follow him. Philip finds Nathausel, and tells him that Jesus of Nazareth is the one predicted in the Old Testament. Nath ansel answers, ‘Can asy good things come out of Nazareth?” Philip tells | him, “Come and sec.” Jesus, seeing Nathanael coming, talks with him in a | way that shows his superhuman knowl- edge, and Nathanael utters his belief {in him as the Messizh. Jesus tells of i what greater things shall yet be made | manifest. The departure to Galilee probably took place on that day. Prace. —Cana of Galilee, the home i of Nathansel (John 21:2). Robinsen indentifies it with Kana-el-Jelil, or | Khurbet Kana, about nine miles north of Nazareth. The traditional site is | Kefr-Kenna, about four and a half miles north of Nazareth, Still another | locality, nearer Nazareth, has been suggested by Captain Conder. Er “I'he third day” is probably to be reckoned from the day of the de- | parture into Galilee; that is, the fourth | day spoken of in John 1. This would | be counted as the first, and the inter- | vening day as the second, the day of the marriage being the third. Other | reckonings are suggested, to allow a longer period for traveling to Cana. But, in any view of the location of Bethany, or Bethabars, Cana could be reached on the third day. The date may be placed near the beginning of March, A. U. C. 780; that is A. D. 27. Prnsoxs,— The mother of Jesus | (whom John never names); Jesus and | his disciples, probably the five referred | to in chapter 1; the servants; the ruler of the feast and the bridegroom. There have been many conjectures as to the last person, but nothing whatever is known. Ixomesta. ~The marriage in Cana; | the failure of the wine at the feast The mother of Jesus tells him of this; | he replies, as if declining 10 interpose; { his mother bids the servants do what | he tells them; the walerpots of stone are filled wisn water at the command of Jesus; the servants draw out, and bear unto the ruler of the feast, who ta-tes, and, finding it “good wine,” calls the { bridegroom, and tell him that, con- i trary to custom, he has kept the wine until the end of the feast. The ovan- gel'st remarks on the sign and i effect. There is no parallel passage. sss AIAG Koeping the Rooms Sweel. Those who do “light housekeeping,” 19 it is termed, in small rooms, where hoy ranst sleep, cook and cat, often wmplain that in spite of continual tirings there is a disagreeable odor. Oné nico way to rid yourself of it is his: After (ho usual morning's airing lake a shovel, or iron dish, 4nd make 3 close pwo of bits of paper, and on lop sprinkle grated orange peeling, or | tiny broken pieces of it. Then set it sn fire and lot it burn slowly, OF ss {ong as it will. Save and dry your ; srange peelings for this purpose, as 1 | imparts a delightful, fragrant odor to {a room. By the way, a very small oil | stove will not only heat's little room, but more cooking can be done om it | than te generally supposed. A Jady whose home Is one “hall bedroom,” has made a beautiful little sitting room out of it and heats it with a 76-cent | oil stove. It cosls her 25 cents a week, 4 she burns that amount of astral oll. Sho cnn also cook a small chicken on this stove and recently stewed one de liciously by putting it in a deep oval dish. Oval shaped dishos are best te | cook in whenever the small one-wicked stove is of the same shape.~ (New « York Nowa
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