REV DR. TALMAGE, The Brooklyn ihvine's Sunday Bermon. bubject: «The March of Christ Through the Ceniurios"” Text: " orouwns.”- Revelations xix. , 12. “On iis head were May vonur ears be conoenirated DOWers soul aroused while | snoak to vou of Mt march Christ t) tha centuries’ You sar, “Give us Fons star rooms of vou gad #8 Canor seiting sur ing was born Lia ial bathr at Cairo and the P its Corinth columns, and the Parthenon at Athens, with its glistening coronat , and there wera monntains of fine architecture in many parts of the world, but none of them was to be the starting place of the Chieftain I cele brate. A cow's stali, a winter month, an atmos here in whicna 1 moan of camels foe baaing of ep, and the barking of and the rough banter of host lries. Het His first journey before He conld walk. Armed desperadonss, with hands of blo a, vere ready to snatch Him down into batohe ery. Rev, William H. Thompson, the vate yan and beloved missionary, whom I saw this last month in Denver, in his eizhty. sixth year, has described, in his volumns ene titled, ** I'he Land and the Book,” Bethichem 88 hesaw it, Winter before last I walked un and down the gray hills of Jura limestons on which the village now rests, fact that K ng David had been bor . had not during ages elevated the vi a to any special T that it dis alert an nil tha vour thourh ned of vo Ouro a8 ay PaO, an *¢ and paisces at Jerusalem 10 and obelisk me, wi WOT at Jericl antheon at RB Bann of temples ire t Err pam --~ or on rtm one sta words mas ni tion. W or mete bumaniz that might rigot Jupiter that nig csahral ; Where was Pleiades that night it they did not an. nounce the storms of persecution that would assail our ieftian? arch of Christ through ust not walk before His or that would not be So we walk bel 1} while not vet in terrace, to a " mg and six handre the hovering spien the ce We mu or beside Him bt d by a pillar crowns i into the shape of 1 5 ¥ id along by near a fim, a founis Him tain of tem ta ack with re yoru the s f this mountain f perdition to effect our but although weakened nights of absti Pandemonium down the f how He can hurl into temptations. And now r Hit up the tough sides {f UDeatitudee™ ani on rocks, the Valley Him, the lake of Him, the Mediterra- ting we follow nite TOE for { forty netics roc help we climb r ate of I the 3 nt « Dighest pulpit Hatin te iore te the 4 + of tie of Galilee nean sen Lo Him a ser that t will trans’orm the world with itx applied sentiment Now we follow our ( hieftain on Laks Galilee We must keep to th for our feet are not shod with the supernatural, and we remenber what poor work Peter made of it when he tried to walk the water, Christ our leader is on the top of the toss ing waves, and it ir about half past three in the morning, and it is the darkest time just befors daybreak. But by the flashes of lightning we see Hum putting His feet on the crest of the wave stepping from crest to crest, walking the white surf solid as though it were frozen snow. The sailors think a ghost is striding the tempest, but He cheers tusm into placidity, showing Himself tobe a great Christ for sailors. And He walks the Atlantic and the fg ~ific and the Mediterranean and Adriatic now, and if ex hausted and affirighted voyagers will listen for His voice at half past three o'clock in the morning on any sen, indeed at any hour tuey will hear His voloe of compassion and encourage nent We continue to follow our Chisftain, and here is a blind mao by the wayside. It is not from cataract of the eye or from oph- thaimia, the eye extinguisher of the east, but be wax born blind, “Be P He ories, and first there is a st of the eyelids, and then a twilight, and then a mid- noon, and then a shout, “I see! 1 see!” Tell it 10 all the blind, and they at least oun appreciate it. And hore is the dend gon, and here is the and here i# Lazarus. Live!” ories, and they live. Tell it bereft households, tell it among And bere around Him gather and the dumb, and the sick, word th hyp thes couches from awfu » helpless rublcund health, and the oi OT earn il y na Sen HH pITRIR, Tel IS At twaslva o'clock at night: ] tell it at two o'clock in the morning: tell if | at hall-nast three, and in the last watea of the night, that Jesus walks the tempest, | Ntill we follow our Chis tain until ths | povernment that gave Him no protect on ine | sists that He nav tax, ani t Ww to raise the requbiite two do jars and ssvontv.'ive ! ents, He orders Peter to cateh a fish tnat bas fin its mouth a Roman which is a bright coin (and vou know that flesh natursl y j bi*s at anvil ing bright), bnt it waa mirc.e that Peter shouid ave caught it at the firs hanl, Now wa follow our until! for | tha paliry san o 1 teen « rs Ju ling | sells Him wo his 1 all the betraved! If { dollar LO" ones nh 0 DO state, bnnirel ¢ 3 five un. a sold out, | eonslder for how mu a sum the | Lord of earth sant he 3 to humiliation an {| dea iowing Him on a spi ren and twelve o'e ches awl lant ras, £amoool nibs They are SEIDANG ising a brea with ¢ nad dog, “rouzos” led on and punish Him nn the quistads oo. Gath 28 Moh wit It is a herd of Joruss em by Judas to arrest Christ for being the loveliest ani best being that ever lived. But rioters are liable to assail the wrong man, How were they to bs sure which one wat Jesus? “I will kiss Him.” says Judas,” “and by that sirnal you will know on whom to lay your hands of ar rest.” Bo the kiss woich throurthout ths human race and for all time God intended as the most sacred demonstration of sffec- tion, for Paul writes to the Romans, and the Corinthians, and the Thessalonians concerning ths “holy kiss” and Peter celebrates the kiss of charity, and with that conjunction of Lips Laban met Jacob, and Jose h met his brethren, and Aaron | met Mores, and Bamuel met Sau!, and Jona- han met David, and Orpah parted from {| Naomi, and Paul separate fron his friends {at Ephesus, and the father in the | parables greeted the returning prod. al, tend when the millennium shall cone | We are told rigateousness and pecs will kiss | each ind ail the world kiss miration « #8 out, the any anil ye sacred i sticks is tavitad to Hass per sh {rom the way" ths #1 fe none strati at and hb Hs is by lack sulfarin OL food, sls, whipping: wilh if maltreatment in 1580 ony fifieen tae hill ani & in youder wall from the apex of Mount J think our Caisftan muss bave taken a long time for the asosnt, tor n exh untain onl ls, desert bh imwood rod VeArs took our party t 30 2 : tant L0G limest mummit and there endure! what William Cowper and John Miton and Chares Wesley and Isaac Watts and James Mont. and all the other sacre{ posts have attempted to put in verse, and Aagelo and Raphael and Titian and Leonardo da Vine nd the great talian and German aod panish and F artists have attempted to paint, and Boswst and Masilion and Georze W Thomas Chalmers renca efleld and have attempted to preach. Something of its overwhelming awful estimate fron the fact that in the heavens could a unflinchmgly ut drownel the ooked upon oid sewallowal has looked un of Arbeia, B n, and V ever scalded e earth wits human gor Loox upon the s its face a vail ol © 3 It hid itself, It said to the it. “i remign © we this spoctacie upon cia I have no strength to gaz: thou art blind, O mi night and for that reason [ com mit to thee this tragedy ™ Then the night bawk and the bat flew Ly, and the jackal howial in the ravines, Now we follow our Chisftain as earry His limp and lacerated form amid the flowers and trees of a garden, the gla lone, the five or §ix steps to an aisle But ony a for there is an leaving the rocks to this day in their aslant and rup tured state deciarative of the fact that Lave A vad, thay mandrakes down of granite, where He sleops, little while He sleeps thers, we soo. our Chisfiain arouse froma His brie! slumber and wrestle down prisoned in that cavern, and put both heels on the monster, and coming forth with » ery that will not cease to be echoed until ou s'anging into the debris of demolished come Now we follow our Chieftain to the shoulder of Mount Olivet, and without wings He rises, the disciples clutching for His toby too late to reach them, 484 Sctoa the great guifs of space with one bound He gain that ia which for thirty-"“ree years had Bip ani Al the greatest da heaven bad over sean. They had Him from tears, from wounds, from in which He was the ohief delight. In all the librotto of celestial music it was hard to find | an anthem enough conjubllant to celebrate | the joy saintly, seraphic, arch-angelic. But still we follow our Chieftain in His march through the osn for invisibly He still walks the earth, and of faith we still follow Him. can tel where He walks by the oh and hos Jhaeis, and reformatory institu and | mercy that spring along ' | WAY. 1 Doar Tio trond is th k room and In the abodes of bereavement. He marche on the nations are bearing His voios. The continents are His , America will be His! Detalles be Hin! De® Bound m 1 «] Now 1 All the sarth will be His! Do 3 now it big world been found. hava the “ends of the earen™ covers’, andl not until now have the “uttermost parts of the world” been ree vealed, The navigator did his work, tha expiorer did his work, toe sclentst did bis work, sad now for tha fir time sines the world has been er has the world ven known, measured and geosrae phizad, the Jos:, hidden ani! unknown tract has ben mapped ort, and the wark of evangelization will be becan with an earnestness and velocity as vel unine nad, stoamashios are realy: tan r express trains are ready: prints 3 ready, the telszraph and resn ate! - Oa How tha a ©E are slephons are are ready and » through the cm ing on! One by ons « and constity His name, He in this year fines the ve histians IMAreaing on ron! March into line »d and worsh than at a the day has n ond proc waiter so hinzon! mia 1891 r one and giinations wil J t y Land renting on! Fhisdear oll w BCOurged, WHoss whose heart has been wraag, will vet heaven, This planet's torn roYe of pain and erime and dementia will come off and the white and spotiess and glittering robe of holiness and happiness will come on, The ast wound will have stung for the last time; the last grief will have wipaa its iast tour; the last criminal will have repented of his lust crime and our world that has been a stragzler among worlis a lost star, a wayward planet, a rebellious globe, a miscreant satellite, will hear the vole that uttered childish plan' in Betbleiem and sgonizad prayer in Gethsemane anvil dying groan on Golgotha, and this voice cries “Come,” our world will return from its wan- dering never again to stray. Marching on! Marching on! Then this world's joy will be 30 great that pther worlds besi les teaven may be zlad to ref ice with us. By the aid of powerini le escopes, year by year becoming mors powerfal, mountains in stars have been discovered! and chas ns and volcanoes snd canals, and the strieo atmowsposrs, aad this wii go oy, and mightier ant mightier tesscopes will be jovented until I should aot wonder wo will be anls to exchange sige nas with other planets And as | have no oubt other worl ars nasal for Gol hava Bait ma zniticent ave the n in the 17 Mar: back as besn WwW OOss pave bean blin lel, rival eves other in 8 1 r ifn 8» us ever ougza s river iocarnadu 3 with the wounded the fe ftrewn with a dead sal all traces of humanity ut, there met in the public square of that city Leipsic the allied oon. | uerors and kings wao had gained the vie- | tory--the Kkiog of Prassia, thes emoeror of Rusia, ths wn § Bweleg {ol lowed by the chiefs 0! their armies With drawn swords theses monarch saluted each | other and cheered for the continental vie. | tory they bad together gained. History has made the scons meamora dle i Greater and more thrilling will speciacie when the world is all ¢ for the truth, and in front of the palace « heaven the kings and congaerors of all silied powers of Christian usefulness shall | miuie each other and recount the struggies by waich they gained the triumph, and then sand over their swords to Him who is the thief of the conquerors, crying: “Thins ob, hrist, is the kin xdom inke the crown of victory, the crown of dominion, the crown of grace, the crown of glory.” “Un tis bead Were many crowns.” - eI is How a Voicaso was Bora in San Sal. | vador. il ne res ¥. o tmitie bridge down, sirest chokad is for miles around fiery from whom Bal besa dashed tne oe # of ct rinee o ba arose suddenly from the plain of 1770, in the midst of w ariy 8 hundred years a profitable plantation. The owner return. ng from sa sbscoce found the volcano where he had left flourishing crops. In December, 1769, the peons were alarmed yy terrific rumblings under the ground, sonstant trembling of the earth sad fre- juent earthquakes, which did not extend aver the Country as usual, but seemed to | be confined to that particular locality. They left the place in terror, and retura- ing & week or two afterward, found that the buildings had all been shaken down, trees uprooted, and intge craters opened in the fields which had been level earth | before. From these craters smoke and issued, and occasionally flames were seen to come out of the ground. | Some brave herdsmen remained near by | | : i It in 18 3 3 i spring aat ad been for ne of February, 1770, they bobeld a specta- cle which no other man has been per- mitted to witness, About 10 o'clock in the morning the grand upheaval took place, and it seemed to them as they, fled in terror that the whole universe | was being turned upside down. First there was a series of explosions, which lifted the crust of the earth several hurdred feet, and | out of the cracks issued flames and immense volumes of smoke. An hour | or two later there was another and | grander convulsion, which shook snd | startled the country for a hundred miles | sround. Rocks weighing thousands of | tons were hurled into the air and fell several leagues distant. The surface of the earth was elevated about 2000 feet, snd ite internal recesses wore purged of masses of lava and blistered stone, which | fell in a heap around the hole from which they issued. These discharges continued for several days at arvegular intervals, accompanied by loud explosions and earthquakes, which did much throughout the THE RIVAL FLOWERS, Haughtily the red rose Mis upon er stem, Queen of one (alr country, Yet clniming curther realy Ameriea sh» longs for Thinks she fe Isher p When a val ant army Marches into sight Column after column SLi for nore make room, Shining «hield and helmed, Waving, golden plume, Stil] the host ady Eyes on From mo 10 pra rie of the Beornfully the rad Bees het ¥ Dow 11 And mockl vial . stated nidenr, giv she laughs tee “Hail! thou plebeisn mon wreh, Viith thy flaunting mien, Flinging forth deff ines To England's fairest queen! “My royal birth and culture Eutitie mi» to wield The sceptire o'er a lowly-born Tenant of the field.” The youth of this free country Has now within its power The right to repiesent the land 1a a symbolie flower, Oh. choose ye soon and wisely, And when your eholee is mad Of rival or comparison Let no one feel afraid, Which shall it be, my children? The Rose, which lung ins bees The emblem of 3 mon archy, Or shall our wild-flower win? an if high and lowly 1® ive Lo our sad, coat extending, Our gracelul Golden rod, Ina G. ADAMS SCIENTIFIC, A Troy (N. Y.) electric car cost §.10, C00 Water power runs the Dover (N. H, ele Cirle plant There il OF Clan A wale * @ ectric light plant at the enoa is to be extended a totul of 40.0 palac 50 us 1§ inca ndescen of V inake lamps, tll A resident of Evart, Mich,, bas in veutsl a device whereby brakes apple Lo a locomotive will ojerate every braks on the Liaw, . 11 Modified oplum smoking is suggeste valuable palliative in pulmonary tuber COI08IS, —— Masi Rece nt experiments show that wit) proper appliances ordinary gashight cas be used 1n making photographs, mecca alcohol hn He was Je experimenting used elena, Fahrenheit at fir to use mercury alter with boiling water. —r pn to Kitchen kitchen » char By a recent ap ranges the refuse from the thoroughly dried, converted into coal, and used as fuel, A new Bwedish glass 1s claimed hay e important advantages for Wu incro snd other fue lenses, giving greatly increased power, ssl i— A chair propelled by electricity fron a storage bultery placed beneath ths feat is the latest luxury for the invalid ue charging will last for fifty miles o travel, ——— Ai ——— Natural gas experts from Pittsburg, Penu., are on their way to Brazil « prosgect for natural gas and petroleun for the Government of that country. -— a a Stoneham, Me., Is a rich field fo SUNDAY SCHOOL, LESSON. EURKDAY, OCTORER 15 183 Washing the Disciples’ Feet. LS 1-1 ON TEX] John 13 Memory vors LESSON PLAN. Tor: OF THI IATL: Son of God, Text inritten, (lone (rt 1 lie Be lice of God Tut ve 20 : 3 FOR THE thal wi the Christ, he helio ’e lis Ire that Jesus is that yuh rip y rrici J t/iv tng ye my life yuEne, 1 hus Tilustra ion The Service of Love, v8 15 The Bervice of Relief ve. 4-1) Z. The Service i tion, vs, 12.17 (ioLpex Texr: Let this mind be you, which was also in Christ Jesus Phil. 2 : b. f Of nsiruc in Dany Home ReApinGs: M.—John 13 : 1-17. The Bon illus trating service, T.~Matt. 25 : 14-30. quired. Matt, 25 : warded T.—Hom. 6: 1.28, BOT VICE, F.-—- Rom. broken. Service re 31-46, Bervice re- The law Bins srvice Love begets Herving in i. Loy The dev heart of J While we forus (Bom. 5: 8 That he maght deliver present evil world Christ also suffered Fs, for the unrig 1 Pet. 3 He loved us, snd his Mon our sins «1 John 4 : 10. scam Word us (in th tenons { for sent 11. THE SERVICL OF RELIEF, I Conscious Exaltation: Knowing that he came forth from God, and goeth unto God (3. 1 came forth and am come from God John 8B 1 leave the world, Faster (Jobn 16 . I am no more in the worid, A to thee (John 17: 11 Who ecount-d it not a prize to be on an equality with God (Pail 2 61. and the 0 ts go unto come Helonful He feet (5). Wash your feel, and rest yourselves under the tre: (Gen. 18 : 4, Thou gavest me no water for my Luke 7 : 44) Ye also ought to wash o1 feet (Join 3 : 14). Gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another (1 Pet. 5 : 5. Service: began to wach the disciples’ feet we anothor's i, Complete Conquast: Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head (9). . Thon knowest all things; thou knowest that 1 love thee (John 21 : 17). Baul arose;. . . .and they led him by the haud (Acts 9 : 8), ) I count all things to be loss fo: Christ Jesus (Phil 3 ; 8), When | saw him I fell at his feet as one dead (Rev. 1:17). Hi, THE SERVICER OF INSTRUCTION, abundance, and tourmalines are nol scarce, sold for £700, the sixteenth century, and although i edible till 1829, I — three times one of the mines, and the third time it knocked senseless s vera the surface of the earth, LI Mi. The telephone bet ween Paris and Lon don having been so successful It is pro posed to connect Brussels and London, For that purpose a cable will be lax between aad Dover. Ss fp ——— = Frenchman has invented an im method of telegraphing so thal t is practicable to transmit 15) words per minute on a single wire. The mes sage when delivered from the machine 1 typewritten, i Know (12). Are ye also even yet without under- standing? (Matt. 15 : 16.) © not perceive, neither remember? (Matt, 16 : 9.) be ye what 1 have done to you? (John 8 : 43). IL impressing his Standing: Ye eall me, Master, and Lord: and «vo 80 I am (18), One is your master, (Matt. 29 : 10), Why eall ye me not the things : 46.) even the Christ Lord, Lord, and do which T say? (Luke 8 Yeo also shonid do as I you (15). Learn of me; for I am meek and in heart (Matt. 11:29, nd lowly which in Christ (Phil. 4 : 5). wis also Leavin Of AD exam that shaw d follow his Sample 1 Pet. 4 - i‘ }. IV. Encouraging thew Obedience: yo if'ye dou Te Lous pilings, Wansed are Matt, 25 : 21), have done to {9 len: .. servants to voir frat ( Rom, 6 yo have | 1 | Verse I.—*“Jesns knowing that his hour was cone.” (1) Tha! decisive tho ir; (2) That eo nprebensive know. edge: (3) That unwavering advance, Verse 1.—*"He loved them nnto the The love of Jesus: (1) Its ob 8; (2) It 3) Its persistence, Vers “He came forth from Gol, goth unto God ” 1) His ous }y His sojourn; (3) His home j ¥ro {30 3: {4 For (30d; BOOTH: began to wash the Of real ger found humility; 3; Of An act shal iderstand ithe veiling of the present; The reve of the future, —{1; Iguorance now; (2) Under- | standing then, : \ “If wash thee bast no part with me.” (1) Man's de- | filement; (2) Heaven's cleansing. -{1) Unwashed, —an a'len (2) Washed, | an heir, Verse 10. — “Xe are clean, but all A cleansed company; (2 uncleansed companion, | Verse 14. —*“Ye ought also to wash ons another's feet.” (1) The WWustri | ous example; (2. The imperative obli- { gation. —(1) Real serving; (2; Lowly serving; (3s Christ like serving. Verse 15. —*Ye also should do as 1 { have done to you." (1) Christ doing { for us; (1) doing for others —{(1) | Christ's exam ple; (2) Man's obligation. Verge 17+ “If ye know th se things, | blessed are ye if ye do them.” (1) i Action: (3) Blessodnoas, TA DON bereafter.” i eres ns not, thom not An 74 {i WV © LESSON Bi DLE READING WASHING OF THE YRET. lagi Lies ‘ay ¢ events lion of (John inentls urse Con tae Per as wn this i at Bet iur ng id par Of Lhurs iayv; the Peter and Joha to prepare passover supper; tue gath ring and his disciples in the upper room; the expression of desire to eat t over (Lake): the contention ax to who should be greaiest (Luke); pro ably oceas'oned by the choice eo! places at the table. The lesson follows ¢ during supp rv.” PLACR.—An upper room in Jeruss- lem, where the passover was eaten by oar Lord aud his disciples, 5 { Te —On Thursday evening, “be | tween the even.ngs” comparatively tearly in the lengthened coarse of i events at the supper. The date isa matter of dispute, but the synoptiste expressly fix it at the usual time of eating the passover, the evening of the 14th of Nisan; John's expres-ious can be explained accordingly. The 14th of Nisan 1s reckoned as occurring om April 6, in that year, A. U. ©. 783 —A_ D. 10. Prrsoxs, —Oar Lord and thetwelv a, IncipRyTa. —The evangelist prefsces his a count by referring tu the love of Jesus for his own. Oar Lo:q, during supper, in view of what was to oceur, begins to wash the {ect of his disciples; Peter objects twice, but when told that it was vecessary for discipleship, asks to be washed more folly, Our Lord's auswer hints at the treachery of Judas, Ths service being en ed, Jesu pro- ceeds to explain its meaning: namely, since their Master served them in thie way, that they sbould follow his ex- ample io serving on» another, There is no parallel passage, though all the other evangelists give fall ae- count of the Las. Supper The Bandit Monkey, Monkeys io the East Indies are mg bold and mischievous. An English resi dent st Ahmedabad, jn Guzerst, abost three hundred miles north of Bombay, gives a droll lostance of this. While taking a morning stroll he see s small boy of twelve carrying o basket of the editable vegetable calied ““brin. Jals" to his parents’ house for breakfast, Io passing the house of the local police man, this urchin was impudently sttacked by a huge blue-faced ape, whieh suddenly emerged from the trees, rushed I bor, snd seized two of the brie. ale. his pas The youngster's cries and screams brought out the constable with his stick. The monkey was too quick for him, and leaping on the rool of his cottage began to eat his iN-gotten froit with contempha- ous gestures of scorn and deflance. Monkeys are a great post in India, be cause they are privileged and protected the Radjakado— with a black beard, es pecially being regarded as a descendant of Hanuman, the fabulous mookey-god, an incarnation of Siva, whose exploits sre related jo the fama mythological romance of the “Ramayana,” where he tommands sn army of monkeys the hero, Rama, to march through the forests of Southern ludia, to defeat the King of giants, to recover the captored wife of Rama. and tq conquer the Island of Jaska “= Tt Fork Jowrnol ve
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