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
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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.
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absurd to think that God is going to wa
over tears.” No, my
three or four k of them that God
exdl
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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
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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
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