Prin mi a A AB RLV DR. TALMAGE The Brocklyn invines Sunday Sermon. Suhbject : “Sahject™ Text: “The barbarous people showed ws no little kindness.” — Acts xxvili,, 2. My text puts us on the island of Malta, another name for Melita. This island, which bas always been an important commer- cial centre, belonging at different times to Phanicia, to Greece, to Rome, to Arabia, to square miles. It is in the Mediterranean sea, saul of such clarity of atmosphere that Mount Etna, one hundred and thirty miles away, can be distinctly seen. The island is gloriously memorable, because the Knights of Malta for a long while ruled there, but wreck, hour ere she struck at what is now called St. Paul's bay. Practical sailors bave But a the coast arden. which the and island for fruit has so 18 moat part Richest as now. The finest oranges, figs and olives grow there. When Panl and his eomrades crawled up on the ‘h, saturated with salt water from long abstinence from to the bone the islande they could not » shipwr en Aan an Vv ed are, th sSDoak Greek, opened their cked unfortunates. gone to the bottom of the arefooted, bareheaded apos- crew were in a condition to lity. About twenty-five semsons ago I found in Fasthampte in ti nor shoe i Paul and his that the sea My text finds Ita, and around and with a fer them quarters th 1s, th ad 3 CAI Evora sic fathor yphoid fever, hey staid on the isl- and putting the hos. a severs test t satisfactorily, and ages of time and hear in regard to th “The barbarous people kind } : mt 8 great word that is. It ong as that which the to measure heaven with, the height of word It is a fav early launched in t up in she book of in the book of Ruth book of Samual ms 8na en Naw T ta. more gentle Wrest it. hangeal ar to te @ ness.” WE rile 1 y ovis # will ith wi ar in It me iw Fut disposition, kind. act, and thare is reonation £ You eanndt 8% a part, vy dramatize It ist have it inside you, mar, or rather a com. i October, the geniality tonic of the other. It can. al . alfact it, MM cannot By the At its first appearance in » Amalekites and Gargishites Jebusites must quit, and ! LATO UN BIL pray LO HIS SPIrIS Of Kindness, [v | willsettle a thousand questions, It will | change the phase of everything. It will mol. | low through aad through our entire naturs, It will trans’orm a lifetime It is not a feeling gotton up for occasions, but paren- nial. That is the reason I Hke pstunias bettar | than morning glories. They look very much alike, and if I should put ia your hand a petunia and a morning glory vou could hardly tell which is the petunia and which tae morning giory; but the morning glory blooms only a few hours and then shuts up for the day, walle the petunia is in as widespread a glow at twelve o'clock at noon and six o'clock in tue evening as at sunrise, And the grace of kindness is not | spasmodic, is not intermittent, is not for a little while, but it irradiates the wholes na. | ture, all through and clear on till the sunset | of our earthly existence, Kindness! I am resolved to get it, Are jou resolved to get it? It does not coms by apbazard, but through culture under the divine heip. Thisties grow without oul- ture. Rocky mountain sage grass grows without oulture, Mullen stalks grow without culture, But that great red ross Im the conservatory, its leaves packed on waves, deep dyed as though {t had besn sbliged to fight for its beauty and it ware itill resking with the carnage of the battle, hat rose needed to be cultured, and through ong years its floral ancestors were cultured, J God, implant kindness in all our souls, and then give us grace to watch it, to enrich ie, 1 develop it! The king of Prussia had presented to him dy the empress of Russia the root of a rare lower, and it was put in the royal gardeas m an island, and the head gardener, Herr And ons Three days of fay it put forth its glory, wery week the pie were admitted to hose gardens, snd a young man, probably wt realising what a wrong thing he was doing, plucking this tower and put it in his buttonhois, and the g lener arrested him as be was crossing at the and asked the xing to throw opsn no nore his gardens to the pabie “suall 1 deay the tho my country tas priviiege o 80 DeOR1 Ge 104 lst tas cons and 5e0 tas arry, "he sing epiied sands wl pe ¢ ple of mwaing ar One WIrol NO, seantifal grounds ne gardener wished to give the ve 5 one visio And when ting the names of the off snder who had taken die royal Rower, he sald, "No, my memory 8 very tenacious ani l do not waat to have nn my mind the name of the olfsader, lest {8 should hinder ms graantiag him a favor soma Maer time.” Now, I want you 0 know Wnt kindness a royal dower, and Messad be God, the King ot by purioining, we may pluck this royal flower and not wear it on the outside of our lorever, im radiance and aroma not more wonderful for time than wonderfal for eter alty. dein further, I must speak of kindness of word. When you meet anyones do you say s pisasant thing or an uopisasans! Do you mil him of agresabis things you have heard wout him, or the disagreeable? When he eaves you does he feel ostter or dow he foal worse! Oh, the power of ths tongue for tus production of happiness or misery! One would think from the way the tomguos is aged in we might take the hint that it has : dangerous power, First, it is shained to the bmeck of the mouth by trong muscies, Then it is surrousded by the teeth of the lower jaw, so many ivory bars, and thea by the jaw, more ivory bars wre the two lips wits on and arrest teeth of the Thea outs the powar of and yet notwithstanding four imprisonments or limitat many take no hint in regard to the sus power of the tongue, and the res acerat sorification and damaation Theres are thows if upper io of all CN HFG i Haesn ton, they Know a goal t and a bad thing, will and act as Wough they had n Now there ary mention 4 ng haracter, satin a v You are COW Soma ship « in sig sume Your vovage Here, lot me put a bandage on your forehead, for that is an ugly gash you got from the floating tim bers, and bere Is 2 mao with a broken arm We will have a doctor come $0 attend to this fractures.” And though for Shree months on, we have but ~ home, until W we have y mil hit and you Het Oh! say the cordial thing! Say the useful Say the hospitable thing! Say the Say the Christlike thing: think! 1 sdmit that this is everybody well, every L,every horse wall every (Give this spirit would have no more for prevention of cruelty : more nead pro man’s sasdciation, and it word until it would not sol every battery till make gunpowder of no i excopt for roek blast ing or pyrotechnic celebrat on. : Kindnes in a spirit inely implanted and in answer to praver, and then to be sedulously cultivated until it fills all the nature with a perfume richer and mors pungent than miguonstte, and, as il you put a tuft of that aromatic beanty behind the clock on the mantel in = corner where nobody can it, you find people walking about your room look ng this way and that, and you ask them: "What are you oking for™ And they answer: “Where is that Bower?’ So if one has in his soul this nfinite sweetness of disposition its perfume will welm « verything. But if you are wailing and hoping for some one to be bankrupted or exposed or dis rnfited, or in any way overthrown, then kindness has not taken possession of your natures. You are wrecked on a Malta where thers are no oranges. You are entertain. ing u gusset so unlike kindness that kKindooess i not and dwell under the sums roof most exhausting aod nhealthy and ruinons feeling on earth is ful spirit or retaliating spirit, asl at wall cut akin deap, an it could not roll more use in the ar wor fiw div me nh ome The N ik reveny + ten minutes at a time. Wh been done me or “I will pay him in hb will show him ap. The ingrate! gor! The lar! The villain!” But five or ten minutes of the fesling has unnerving sod exhausting that 1 ned it, and I cannot understand bout me I wn coin. 1 The tra- thing ha have felt been 80 or ten or twent trying to get sven with som ay. nly way you will sver triwmph over enemies is by forgivia vas all good and no evil, As malevalencs # the most uneasy and profitles and dan perous fealing, kindness the moat health ful and deligntful, And this le not an ab siraotion. Az I have tried » little of the rotalintion; so I have triad a little of the for- 44 ving. I do not want to leave this world antil 1 have taken vengeanos upon every man that evar did me a wrong by doing him a kiad. ness, In most of such Taser T have already vuceoeded but there are a faw malignante whom | am yet pursuing, and I shall not be content until I have in some helpad them or benefited them or blessed them. The ur them and wishing | “are born optimists, and that demonstrates itself all through everything It is You meet a mist weather to-day? He “It's going to storm.” snd um- brella under arm and a waterproof over. cont show that he i honest in that utter. ance. Um the same block, a miuate after, and you say, “What i f weather today? “Good weather, this is only a fog and will soon scatter.” The absence of umbrella and absence of wader- proof overcoat show it is an honest utder- ance, On your way at noom to luncheon you meet an optimistic merchant and you say “What do you think of the commer dal prospects? and he sayt: “Glorious. Great crops must bring great busines. We are going to have such an autumn snd winter of prosperity as we have never seen.” On your way back to your stove you mest a pessimistic merchant. “What you think of the commercial pro #" youesk., And he answers: ‘Well, don't know, Ho much grain will surfeit the country. Farm. ers have more bushels but Jess prices, aod the grain gamblers will get their fist in. There is the McKinley bill, and the hay aop is short in some places, amd in the wonaern part of Wisconsio they had a hail storm, and our business is as dull as it ever You will find the same difference in judgment of character, A man of good reputation is asmiled and charged with some desd. At the first story the pessimist | will believe in guilt. “The re enid so, | and that's enough Down with him.” The optimist will say: “1 dont believe a wordof it. Idon't think a wan that has | been ns useful and honest for twanty years cou! have off the track lke that. There are two sides to this story, and I will wait © hear the cther side bafore I condemn him.” My hearer, if are by nature a pessimist, make a effort by the dolorous | the grace of God to , sud the hyperoritioal from your disposition, Betisve nothing against anybody until the wrong is established by at least two wit. nesses of fobegrity. And if guilt bs pro find out the extenuating circumstances ff thare are any. And then commit to memory jo that or avil i { i i i } en TY ARE & pAAOw Drooxryn woula ns to nein, live in, If charity dominated! Wass if atl the young and old gossipers were dead! The Lord hasten their funerals! tattle and whispering were out of fasnion! What if in cipering out the values of other Kindness! Let us morning, noon and n ght When you can It istter of con Watch for opportuni ve All my life has boen affacted by the letter ken, of New Brunswick [heological Bemi- in which to [ne letter gave me my Van Vranken has been I was seeking a settlement Pronch the Gospal, rst pulpit. Dr Htrange sensation was it waen [I ree Guaard, of Baltimore, the great Methodist orator, six weeks after his death, 5 the sternal worli? Oh, no, by way of this world. [ did not meet the friend to months alter Thomas Guard had asscon led. 80 you can start a word about some one that stmequies, Kindness! Way, if fdlty man lost world, methinks they would Furthermora, there is kinliness of action, what Josepn showed to his outs brothers, That is waat David Maephibosheth for his father That is what Gamsiphoras showe l to Paul in the Roman pea Ibat fs what William Cowper resog when he said he woald not trast a would with his {ool nes lisssly 140 hat is our assassins ai Yrasis lent L in ie nonstrated rH JO0OUS tentiary veal DAG wan a Worn, vaat ri back lallen, an axhibited OMe IAW Tals sours passed nire alter awalie cried wd sald to the pea tis wd help that hog iid go eek and most uninterasiis That was ti OY Wy depart jer H. Stept nan n when at Washingt wkd my wile of sm, “Mr St moary bird." wuld not wying.” wowed when at the natiox he said to wral Loe, nany of your soldiers are (ar ani pond the horses and migles to rass ths © keop their families from sa fering winter, let each forae wao oan A BOTSe Or 8 muis Lace : Chat isthe spirit and mot wming 0 give Lae sheerfuily iret oall SHapposs all dese words shal hould rescive we under gir yt ook That at sarren ler at (s fa wife ars ai ar 4 3s Tweall and as tenderly as at the this a all to wha rigors ten n Lng, yi Of the Mie WB i fond it “What is the wo ne rid is z= © live in Ww Yhy, the ans withdr aw wa : tig] and helping 3 out ¥ if ap ww fistroes § take wal ars ti the ‘1 irawing room i RYa AMO YOu Enow ria a taken piace in pul ministers are b y ihe young TR and all the i are heiping the young doctors, and the farmers are assisting each other in gatherin os harvest, and for that farmer who is sice the neightors have made a ‘bea’ as they call it, and they have all turned in to p him get bis orops into the garner. And they tell ma that the older and more skillful reporters who have permanent positions on papers are helping the young fellows who are st be. ginning to try and don’t know exactly how todo it. Aan after a few erasures forte, lations on the reporter's ‘Wow here is & resdable soccount of tragedy: hand it in and | am sure the mao. aging editor will take it’ “And | heard this morning of a poor old man whose three ohildren were in bot debate as to who should take care of him in his de. clining days. The oldest son declared it way his right because he was the oldest, and the Jette son said it was his right because he was the youngest, and Mary sald it was her right beoaase she better understood father's vertigo and rheumatism and poor apolls and know better how to nurse him, and the only way the difficulty could be settiod was by the old man's promise that he would divide the Ju into three parts, and spend a third of is time with each one of them, “And neighboring stores in the same line of goods on the same block are acting kindly to each other, and when one is a Mite short of a onrtain kind of goods his hbor mys, ‘I will help you until you can rep our shelves’ If sooms to mo that those of Isniah are being fulfilled when he Says, ‘The carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smooths with the hammer, him that smote the anvil, saying it is ready for the soklering.'’ What is the metter? It ssoms to me onr old world i picking up. Why, the millennium mast be coming in. Kindness has gotten the victory.” My hearers, you know and I know we are far from that state of things. Bat why not loangurate a now dispensation of inlity, i we cannot yet have a millemn ar strange th ant ail BE Das ol m joctors scale, Jot us have it on a small scale, under our own investments, Kindness! If this world is aver brought to God that is the thing that will do it. You cannot fret start they the ocomat, had my power! hail me by storm gREE FS Ho sOMIAG. probaris ripened, snd the wheat turned their silver into gold, and ciapped its hands, and joy shouted the hill tops, and the nations lHfted and the earth hada doxology for the sky, and the sky an an them for the earth, and the warmby and the ani the foliage, and the flowers and the frofts, and benuty, and the life, wears bo west wind made to east wind's interrogation Kindness to ali! Surely health from the it ought not Kindness brougut Kindoess to mis transform all natious our Lord from heaven aleptic and the leprous, and the dropsical, an the way, and on the crows kindness to the executioners while yet thay pushed the , and hammered the spices, and bowled the blasphemies All the stories of the John the world ever heard, and the theme of the mightiest hosanns that heaven ever lifted, Yea, the very kindness that allowed hot! ol the cross with that erusl thump! thump down from the skies th filled with balm for wounds, forgiveness for all our erime cue for all our serfd And while we take this matehless kind: from God, may it be found that we have tered our last vitter word, written our las cutting paragraph, done our jast action, felt our last revengeful hes throb, And it wonld not be of us if by t rac forth w Tom Ost u Littie & wt fil ow res TIS reds ry LI yr 8 van bhe DIRTn wis thal only recall t then will Calis “the marvelous k fH great Kit “the everlasting kit in which dire (ioing doy thins ie} nay in kable. ad Mar . $ T5301 fC Hepublie rints the subjois al in, mergs tide 2 1 anchor large iror rocks whic water, and “hitching tide « explained reason, advances ordinary rapidity, thus, notwitl ing the fact that the ebb current rarely ceases to flow ont of high tide arrives st Chieontimi 3 forty-five minutes later than at Tadou sac, seventy miles away. On the St Lawrence the tide advanees in the same time only from Tadoussac to Murra; Bay, thirty-five miles distant. . naelvés above tl * tie up to bh show ther vessls often posts’ and f the Sagrenny with Yer hie river oni SUNDAY SCHOO! N LESSON, VHER 4 1 Hl AY, ¢ Christ Raising Lazarus LESSON TEXT 44 Memory + LESSON PLAN. OF THE a ARTER Toru San of God, ARTER Use . (Christ, the Son might John Pexr ron THY that we {he helseving his Gonos Qt 1 hene are lirve that Jesus of (vod: and that have 1 life HY «31, might petition, i. pv throwuah FIvE Ir, Lissox The Son Rawing the Dead, » Jesus and Martha, v8 wy oe had Jesus and Mary, vs % om Sima x. 52 LESSOR OUT LIN Josgs and the Jews, va Jocus and Lazarus, vs Wedd 4 Jews said unto her, and the life. Texr: I am the resurrection, John 11 fIOLDEN ar, Dany Home Reaprsas: M. John 11 21-44. raising the dead. T.~~John 11 : 1-20. Lazarus, W. John 11 tho miracle. Tiw~John 12 + }-11. miracle, F.1 Cor. 15 ; 1:90, assnred, 1 Cor. 15 : 35-58, the resurrection. H.cl Thess 4: 13.18 of the resurrection. The Son The death of 45-07. Results of the S. LESSON ANALYSIS. I, JUBUR AND MARTHA. I. Martha s Liord, $f Lament: thon hadst been here, my said, All against me (Gen, 42 Wherefore doth a living man complain? (Lam. 8 : 89). We hoped that it was he which should redeem Israel (Luke 24 : 21). Said I not unto thee, that, if thon be lievedst, thou shouldest see (John 11 : 40), Joasus' Jacob ahi. I. Jesas said unto her, 1 i. Assurance: am the resur- him 41), I will raise up at (John 6 the last day | i ! i art the Christ, the Son of God.” The scope of Martha's faith; (2) defects of Martha's faith.—A faith Christ's personal glory: (RW hirist’'s personal helpfulness “The Master is Lore, and A present Lord; (3) 1} The Caller; 5 The called. “When she (1 fl) The (1 y is ng ( ? ¥ Verge 2 Verse 2 Jesns was 2) 1 he came where The place she 8 ught person she found: (3) The de The words she nttercd; (5 The blessing she gained. Verse 35, Jesus wept.” (1) De moznstrating his manhood; (2) lline- life Christ {John 14 : 6). who is our life (Col. 8 : 4 life is in his Son (1 John 5 : 11). Il. Martha's Confession: I have believed that thon Christ, the Bon of God (27 art Peter answered. . .. Thou art the Christ Matt, 1463, We know that this Saviour of the world 1 We i 16 indeed the §2 in John 4 ave believed that Hely One of God (John 6 : 11 confe hint “4 t iod, (God abideth in bi ¥ hosoever sha Jesns 18 he Son of ( m have uid not « po sil i Ioan Man Kiso six With God all t that this BITIEE AY 1G f hath is All anthorit Matt. 28 Ye know not whence he 18, and yet opened mine eyes John 9 He put all things in gubjection nun« his fect (1 Cor. 15 97). LA i IREUS AND ARTS, I. The Corruntible Lord, by tl They the 2h}, All flesh shall perish 15 The worm is spread Body stinketh the dust, them (Jol is time he alike in covereth lie down wi rm tog ther J0b 34 under thee, 14 11 Isa, 14 «1 Cor. an er. thee in corrp Worms cos It 1&= sown 42 he Author He eried wih a loud voice, come forth (43 . He saith, Damsel, Isay unto thee, Arise (Mark 5 41). He said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise (Luke 7 : 14). All that are in the tombs shall hear his voice (John 5 : 28), The Lord himself shall descend with a shout (1 Thess, 4 : 16). ution il. itative Command Lazarus, itl, The Glorious Responge: He that was dead eame forth (44), rose ap, and walked (Mark 5 : 42). And he that was dead sat up (Luke 7 16). [his ecorruptible must put on incor- raption {1 Cor, 156 The dead in Christ shall Thess, 4 : 16), : 53). rise first (1 Verse 21. Lord, if thou badst been here, my brother had not died.” (1) (2) The Lord's absence; (3) The sister's lament. (1) Sorrow in the Lord's absence: (2) Sue- cor in the Lord's presence, Verse 23. “Thy brother shall rise i : Verse 26%] am the resurrection, and the life.” (1) Paying the death (2) Imparting the life power: death's defeat: 4) fe's glory. Verse 27,1 have believed that thou 7 ‘Could not this man also should not die?” (1) The Lord's recognised power; (2) The Lord's nndoubted love: The Lord's unsearchable providences. Verse “Take ye away the stone,” (1) The dead mau: (2) Vie omnipotent Restorer;(3) The intercept ing stone; (4) The honored co-workees: 5) The explicit order; (6) The bLelphat Verse 3 ( ad, “ Verse 14 forth Ho The kenming Lord; (3 4 that was dead dead man < Ihe Ch me The new life, BEADING arr mom Dr. Bobia- lesson immediately ledieation, and alse ney mentioned in Luke of the final rh Perea) to Jerusalem. places between the events narrated to 11 : 205, Put up w» earlier when combined to Galilee, Luke 21, should fel- he position of } 18 disputed finding in Luke ur Lord's jour om what pre that ‘ollows the raging to make I wing Ke fal re the vbile ana IZ events, vier ang 4 f tT y Wallliillg narrative i 4 8 E 10 an the ey s with him.’ where many « had gathered to con ¢ the ms Martha, hearing that he was went to meet im, but Mary The lesson of Marth » and 80 remained in the | begins with the mi | our Lord. i Prace Bethany ,a village about twe | miles from Jerusale the castern pe of the Mount of It is called El-"Agziriveh, from the name of Lazarus. The interviews with the sisters occurred outside the village, and the tomb was pro} not in the vil A tomb ie still shown ss that of a n covering t ait it, nter of the village, it is probably n¢ real tomb About the close of January, J A. D. 30, Lord, Martha and Mary, acd Lazarus their brother, whom | Jesus | { Jews condol house. cling m. on i wl Lives, i ow ge RLATOS, —8 he as it is in the ce Fime, 1A. LU. OC. 7 Prusoss, ®i:that is, {jar loved; a number of ing with the sisters INCIDENTR, — Martha meets Jesus ont | side the village: says that her brother | would not have died had Jesus been | there, and expresses her faith in his prayers; Jesus promises that Lazarus | will rise; Martha fefers this to the last | day; Jesus says, ‘1 am the resurrec. | tion, and the life,” asking her if she | believes his words; she assents., At has | bidding, she ealls her sister Mary, who | comes to Jesus, followed by the Jews, | who supposed she was going to the | tomb, Mary repeats the words of Martha, apparently with more feeling, Our Lord, much moved, asks where { Lazarus was laid. Jesus wept. Some | of the Jews intimate that he might | have prevented the death of Lazarus, | Coming to the tomb, Jesus bids them | take away the stone. Martha made a very practical objection, but Jesus calls for belief from her. 'L he stone 18 taken away: our Lord utters a prayer of thanksgiving, and then bids Lagarus come forth. He comes forth, is loosed from his grave-elothes at the command of Jesus, There is no parallel passage, 35. - The peasants ot Russia believe that drought will be relieved by soaking the body of a righteous wan in water. The wife ofa Jeand bDeadle wanted to be buried beside him, but the grave was empty. Upon search the dear departed was found anchored in the river near by.
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