_—Y [Tk The Urooklyn invine's Sanday Bermon. Tex: « evi Sufficient wnto the day 1s Matthew wi., 34, thereot The life 88 Closely sionrh Such person were the only man, woman ciild, There are no socidents, As there ia a law ris in the natural world, dom J 1 20 : by, Prevalent godliness <2: 14). The earcer of evil Pea, 58 : 7) men (Job 24 : 17 ——— LESSON SURROUNDINGS The disconrse liesatisfuction, of the with thelr meet with 1 (allie ¥ mn iyre IxreRvEsiG Evests, Bpert to nau: led Hy eral defection ihe twelve nai utained ford i LTA Se ur ie of g Hp = e fHaal aven's imme lite lately preceding expression of ane by our Lord's brethren: his subse juent private journey to Jerusalem3 the inquiries for imong the ews} his pu teach aud the hostility | thereby awaker the questioning among the Jews; and our Lord's re- | sponse in the temple, with which the lesson is connected. Prior —AtJeruasalum, in the temple, probably in one the extensive porches. The latter part of the lesson is supposed to be oounected with the priestly drawing of water. If so, the pluce was within sigh: of the ceremone ial taking place in the court of the priests, Live. —In October, A. U. C. 743; that is, A. D. 20. According to An- drews, the feast of tabernacles extends i ed that year from the 11th to the 18th of October. The fist part of ihe lesson may be placed in the latter half of the week (v. 14), and the last pars on the last day (v. 37). Itis disputed whether this day was the seventh or eight. Persons. — Our Lord, the listening multitude, the chief priests and Phari- sces, the officers sent to take Jesus. There seems to be a distinction made between the multitude and the Jews in this part of Johu's narrative, ixcipesTs.— Many of the multitadeo believe on Jesus as the Messiah, on ac- count of the signs be did; the Phari- secs, noticing this, send officers to take him; Jesus predicts his departure to : the Father, but the Jews misunder- stand him, thinking he purposed to go among the Gentiles. On the last day | of the feast, probably in connection with the solemn ceremonial of the feast, our Lord predicts the outpouring of | the Holy Spirit; some of the multitnde believe, int others object, becan e the Christ was to come, not from Galilee, but from Bethlehem. In this division of opinion, no one laid hands on him. There is no parallel passage. a —————————— Put Some Sait In It. “Mother, what makes you jut salt in everything you cook? Everything you make you put in a little salt.” So | spoke observing hittle Annie as she | stood looking on. “Well, Annie, I'll make you a little loaf of bread without any salt, and see if you can find it out.” “Ob, mother, it dosen't taste » bit nice, ” said she after she had tasted the n are ain ng Bcd ; Die of “Why not?” ssked her mother, “Yon didn’t put any salt in it.” “Mother,” said Annie a day or two afterwards’ “Jane Wells is the worst girl T ever saw. She slaps her little : ther Johnny, pulls his hair, and | nots really hateful. When I told her { it was naughty to do so, and if she would be kind to her brother he would | be kind to ber, she ouly spoke roughly | to me and hit him n. Why won't she take my advice | “Perhaps you didn't pnt joy salt in it. Beason words with kindness, my ehild. Ec all yom and do, and your words spoken the Spirit of Christ will not fall to ground.” Por oam m with yonr pew Iverware phot, in never Yarnish an as the gum is there. Never wash as that gives it a Z = gE Fi i in soapsuds, aRRearanoe