SR
LLY. DR. TALMAGE.
Als
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DAY SERMON,
a
“The City ot Ephesus.”
TEXT: “Greatis Diana of the Ephesians,
wActs xix,, 34.
We bave landed this morning at Smyrna,
@ city of Asiatic Turkey. One of the seven
churches of Asia once stood here. You read
in Revelation, “To the church in Smyrna
write.” It is a city that has often been
shaken by earthquake, swept by conflagra-
tion, blasted : v plagues and butchered by
war, and here Bishop Polyecarp stood in a
erowced amphitheater and when he was
asked to give up the advocacy of the Chris
tian religion and save himself from martyr.
dom, the proconsul saving, ‘Swear and 1
release thee; reproach Christ,” reoiied,
“Eighty and six years have I served Him,
Subject,
revile my King and Saviour!”
When he was brought to the fires into
which he was about to ve thrust, and the of-
ficials were about to fasten him to the stake
he said: “Let me remain as [ am, for He
who giveth me strength to sustain the fire
will enable me aiso without your securing
me with pails to remain unmoved in the
fire.” History says the fires refused to cone
mme him, and under the wind the flames
bent outward so that they did not touch his
person, and therefore he was slain by swords
and spears. One cypress bending over his
grave is the only monumeat to Bishop Poly-
carp.
But we are on the way to the city of Ephe-
sus, about fifty miles trom Smyrna, We
are advised not to go to Ephesus. The
bandits in that region have had an uzly
practice of cutting off the ears of travelers
and sending thesa specimens of ears down to
Bmyroe, demanding a ransom. The ban-
dite suggest to the friends of the persons
from whom the ears have been subtracted
that if they would like to have the rest of
the body they will please send an appropriate
um of money. If the money is not sent the
muiilated prisoners will be assassigated,
One trave'er was carried off to the robber's
den, and $7500 was paid for his rescue, The
bandits were cauzht and beheaded, and
jctures of theses ghastly heads are on sale in
e shops of Smyrna for any person who
may desire to have something to look at on
their way to Ephesus.
There have been cases where ten and
fwenty and thirty and forty thousand dol. ars
bave been demanded by these brigands, We
id not feel like putting our friends to such
axpense, and it was suggested that we had
better omit Ephesus, But that would have
been a disappointment from which we would
pever recover. Wa must gee Ephesus
mweociated with the most wonderful aposto ie
cenes, Wo hire a soecial railway train, and
n about an hour and a balf we arrive at the
nity of Ephesus which was called “The Great
Metropolis \ ani “One of the Eyes of
Asia,” and "The Empress of Iona” the capi
wal of all learuing and me nificence. Here,
as I = , Was one of the seven churches of
Asia, { all we visit the ruins of that
* An ecumenical council of
ers of religion was held,
t of the prophecy, Of
f Asa four were come
Levelation and three
oaving tae four
stad: the cities
mrches are wiped
. A ured the Bible said it
would occur. Dn n and you come to the
theatre, which was 600 feet from wall to wall
sapable of bo Here
and there ti y unbroken,
but for midding is down,
As | took m he centre of this
theatre and looked around at its broken lay-
ars of stone, galls upon gallery, gallery
apon gallery, and piled up ioto the bleak
skies inte and thought that
gvery hand that sv 12 & trowel on those
walls, and every foot that trod those stairs,
and every eve th gazxl on that amphi
theatre, and every voice that greeted the
sombatants in that ares had gone out of
ht for « mn ages, I feit a
hearing it
thrill of that enetrated me
Were ox
som mend
Just as
ive ¢
0 spectators,
the m
of thar w
nd =
almost §
smnid the run
taniing ther
in that bu
thro
what he
of thes
mto tha
mult tuds
¢ we could
(pee
not forget that
assembled a riotous
demnation, because
with the idolatry
Paul tried to get
ress the excited
1 him back, lest
be i and the re
sori read the riot act
amc pen sle Ww had shrieked for two
mor } t mats were sore and
they ‘Cireat is Diana
sof th
ihe Mob,
sins,
Now we step into the Stadinn. Enough
of its walls and appointments are left to
sow what a stupendous place it mut have
peen when used for foot-races and for fights
with wi d beasts, It was a building 650 feet
long by 200 feet wide, Faul refers to what
treuspired there in the way of spetacie
when he says, “We have been made a spec-
tacle.” “Yes” Paul says, *‘I have fought
with beasts at Ephesus” an exprssion
usually taken os figurative, but 1 suppose it
was literally true, for one of the amuse
ments in that Sta inm was to put a disliked
man in the arena with a hungry lion or tiger
or panther, and let the fight go until either
the man or the beast or both were slain,
It must have been great fun for these
haters of Christianity to hear that on the
morrow in the Stadium in Ephesus the mis-
sionry Paul would, in the presence of the
crowded galleries, fight a hungry lion, The
peop.e were early there to get the best seats,
and a more alert and enthusiastic crowd
never assembled. They took their dinner
with them And was there ever a more un-
equal corabat proposed? Paul, accoriing to
tradition, ssl, crooked backed and weak
syed, but the grandest man in sixty oen-
turies, is led to the center ac the people shout:
“Ihemg he comes, the preacher who has
pear:y ruined our religion The lion will
ake but a brief mouthfni of him.’
It is plain that ali the sympathies of that
rrowd are with the lon. In ong of the
gnderground rooms [ hear the grow] of the
wild beasts. They have been Kept [or several
oaxe without food or water in order that they
mav be esq ecially ravenous and bio dthirsty.
What crance is there for Paul’ But vou
cannot tell by a man's sire or looks how stout
8 biow he can strike or how keen a bl ule be
can thems. Witness, heaven and earth and
hell, fhis struggle of Paul with a wild beast,
4 t man in the Stadium is Paul
gat hits he to fear? He has defied all He
piwere, rihly and ingrnal. and if his body
dei omen the foot and tooth of the wild
begat Bic soul will ony the sooner find dis
entopmiiment. But ic is his duty, as far as
sill, to preserve his life
Now, haar the bolt of the wild beasts
door shoved back, an | the whole audience
rise to their fest as the fierce brute springs
fur the arena and toward its small goeupaat.
I think the first plunge that was made by
the wild beast at the apostle was made on the
point of a sharp biade, and the svarling
monster, with a bowl of pain and Fesking
with gore, turns back. But now the |
missionary has bis turn of making attack,
snd with a few well directed thrusts the
monster lies died in the dust of the arena,
and the apostle puts his right foot on the
lion and rkes bim, ani then puts his left
foot on him an! shakes him-—a scene which
Yaul afterward ures for an illustration when
na wants to show how Christ will triumph
over death--"He must reign till He hath
wut ail enemies under His feet” yes, under
din fort,
Paul told the literal truth when he said,
#1 have fought with beasts at Ephesus,” and
as the plural is used I he
than one such fight, or several
jet loose upon him at one time,
that day in the middle
looked around at the
1 whole scent camo back
But we paws out of
in haste for other pl
sus. To add to
one of our
sale in
firm. ur eomnvanion, Dre,
now the publisher of tha
and gone out on some
awn, and throu rh the gate where Paul hal
waled armn and again, yat wasrs no man
anaceomnan.e | shold a lventure now, Bag
after some time hat passed and ev-rv min.
ute seemed as one as an hour,
Bime to imagine everything horrible te
way of robbery and assassination, t1.¥ ost
trave.er appeared, to receive from our entire
party a vollev ot expostulation tor the
wousal of so many anxieties,
In tae midst of this city of Fohesus once
Ioated an artifical lake, brilliant with
fosnin Be Fhe ty
Christvan Hera
it was connected with the sea, and ships fro n
all parts of tue known earth floated in and
ut, cirrving on a commerce which mate
Ephesus the envy of the world,
Ephesus! Its gvmonsia, its hinsodro ne, its
ison, its athenwum, its forum, its agne-
iucts (whose skeletons are still drawn along
she city), its towers, its Castle of Hadrian,
ts quarries, which were the granite cradie
if cities; its temples, built to Apello, to Min-
wva, to Neptune, to Mercury, to Ba caus,
© Horeules, to Cmsar, to Fortune, to Juni
shisel and eanvas hava not presentel has
some up at the call of achmologists’ powder
dast and crowbar,
But IL havenow to unveil the chief wonder
of this chietest of citi==., In 1863, under the
atronage of the English Government,
fr. Wood, the explorer, vegan at Ephesus
© feel nlonz under the ground at gre
lenths for roads, for walls, for towers, and
ere it is—that for whica E shesus was mors
wlebrated than all eise besides—tha temnie
of the goddess Diana, cailel toe sixin wonder
if the world, and in 1880 we stoo | amid the
uins of that temple, measuring its pillars,
ransfixed by its scuipture and confounded
it what was the greatest temple of idolatry
o all time,
As | sat on a piece of one of its fallen eol-
wnns I said, “Waat earthquake roccel is
lown, or waat hurricane pushed it to the
mrth, or ander what strong wine of centur-
es did the giant stagger and fall?" There
1ave been seven temples of Diana, the ruins
i eacn contributing sometninz for tue
iplendor of its architectural successors
two nundred and twenty years was this last
wmple in construction, [wice as long as
he United States havestood was saat tome
dle in building. It was neariy twice as large
ww Bt Pan's Cathearal, London. Lest it
would be disturoed by eartoqaakes, whica
iavealways been fon of mang toose re
gions their playground, the temole was ouilt
mn a marsh, which was made firm by ayers
of caarcoal, covered by fleeces of wool, The
tone came [rom the quarry near Ly,
After it was decreed to build the temnis it
was thought it would be necessary to bnng
the bull tug stons irom otoer lands but one
iay a shepberd by tos naue of P.xojorus
wnile watching his flocks, saw two rams
Sghting;, and as they mise! tae inwerioeking
M their horns and one fell his horn kaocked
8 splinter {rom the rock and saowed vy taat
spiinter the lusorcus woiteness of the roc.
i he shepherd ran to the Cily witn a piece of
unt stone, which reveaied 8 quarry irom
wiaicn pace tae temp was Duis. and avery
nonta in ali ages Mavor
gpossus goes to that quarry to offer -acri
oes to toe memory Ooi that snepaerd wo
Hscovered sources Of splendor an
wen.th of the citi sein Micor.
in removing t grat stor from the
juarry to tier destined paces in the temp »
¢ WES DECOSHRTY Pie wi
Cll were twelve ameter, fro
jae to op
, toata irame of ti
UrTap zed over wioica the whees
ML Lhe immense DOCK
Iver the doorway oo temples
vas so vast and difficult an undertaking tha
ae architeo! at one Lime gave it up, and in
1s cuagrin altempial suicide, but vue night
a his s.eep be dreamed that the stone bad
ettied to tae right piace, and the next day
w found that the great b ook of marble had,
¥ its own weight settled to the rigat
ace
since tae Oo
this
1 ben
Or WO Ke
in tH
tue uo
nbers b
rolled, '£
of mar.s.e ia its p'ace
on? of theses i
un
The temple of Diana was four hundre! an
wenty-five feet lonz by two hundred and
wentyfive feet wide. All Asia was taxed
0 pay for it bal huodred and
wenty-seven piliare, each sixty feet high
ind each the gift of a king, and inserive
with the name of the donur. Now you. se
he mean ng of that passage in
ust as a king presenting hese pillars
© the Temple of Dana bad his own nan
ani the name of his owa
untry, so says Christ, “Him that
oometh will I make a pillar in the
Hy God, and | will write upon @
w My God and the
which is New Jerusalem,
m Him My new
and beautiful!
In addition to thos: pillars ¢
4 |
it. Gane
Hevelation,
all
one of ¢
niseied on it
fame of the City «
and 1 will
name.” How sug.
Fol,
A rite up
restive
hat I climbed
svar while amid the rains of Dana's temole,
saw afterward eizht of ¢ pillars al
onstantinopie, to which city the vy had been
‘emoved, ani Are now a part of tae Mosque
i St. Sophia. Those eight columns are all
green jasper, but some of those which stool
n Diana's temple at Ephesus were [airly
franched with brilliant colors, Costiv met.
ls stood up in various parts of the temple,
vhere they could eateh the fullest flush o
he sun. A flight of stairs was carved out
i ore grapevine, Doors of cypress wood,
vhich had besn kept in glue for year: and
wrdered with bronz: in bas relief, swung
wainst pitlars of bras< and resounded with
who upon echo, caazht ur and sent on and
ried back through the corridors
In that building stood an image of Diana,
he goddess. The impression was abroad as
be Bible records, that that image had
iroppe! plumb out of heaven into that
empie, and the sculptors who really made
he image were put to death, so that they
ould not testify of its human manufactur
nd so deny its celestial origin. It was
hoy tht by intelligent people that the ma.
eriai from which this idol was formed might
mve dropped ont of heaven as an aerolite,
We have seen in the British museum, ani in
aniversities of oar own west, blocs of stone
surled off from othr words These pero
ites wore seen to fall, and witnesses have
gone to the landing piaces, and scientists have
sropounced them to be the product of other
vorlds.
But the material out ot which the image
f Diana was fashioned contradicts that
aotion. This image was carved out of ebony
and purictured here and there with openings
kept fud of spikepard so as to hinder the
statue from decaying and make it aromatic,
but this ebony was coverad with bronzs and
alabaster. A necklace of acorns coiled grace
fully around her. There were four lions on
sach arm, typical of strength. Her heal
was coroneted. Around this figure stool
statues which by wonderful invention shel
tears. The air by strange machinery was
damp with descending perfumes. The wala
multiplied the scene by concaved mirrors
Fountains tossed in sheaves of light and feil
in showers of diamonds. ¥
Praxiteles, the seuiptor, and Apelles, the
painter, filled the place with their triamphs.
Creesus, the wealthiest of the ancients, put
here and thers in the temple golden heifers,
The paintings were so vivid and lifelike that
ander, who was moved at nothing of
terror, shuddered at one battle scene on thew
walle, and so true to life was a painting of a
horse that when Alexander's horse was led
up to it he began to neigh, as one horse is ac-
castomed to greet a
Oy
kept here for safe deposit.
alP lands fled to the shelter of this temple,
and the law could not touch them, It seemed
almost strange that this mountain of archi-
tectural snow outside did not melt with the
—— we —
07a whole month of each year, the month
Pros
soar of moved throurh
in music,
BROT
Nations vowed
fives inrve
ani danows,
Fisueries of vast resources were devoted to
the support of this resplendence. Horace
and Vir il ani Homer went into rhapsodies
artists, all archmolog sts, all centuries,
1 n saying, “Great
Paul, in the presence of this
foundation, gold, silver, precious stones
the previous tempos which had been set on
snali be burned, ne shall suffer loss, etc.”
down Paul's writings
realizy toat he had not only seen, bus
been mightily impressed! with what he had
in this city the mother of Jesus was said
to have besn buried, Here dwelt Aquila
snd Priscilla of Bible mention, who were
wriinary,
\potlos how to be eloquent for Caorist,
magical arts for
Toe sorcerers
of this eity pretended that they comid cure
)y pronouncing these senve.ess words, **Ask
atasgi Lix Tetrar Damnameneus Al-
Bat, all the glory of Ephesus I have de
At some seasons of
sweep over the
nace and put upon mattress or in aves
n the
ght slink in and out of the ruins of build
But here isa lesson which has never yet
It wants a Goi who ean pro-
food. Diana was a huntress. In
'¥ the born with one hand and a bundle of
rrows in the other, Ob, this is & huogry
Diana could not give one pouna of
tat or one mouta.ul of fool to the
ations of ner worshiners, She was a dead
ivinity, an imagioary god, and so in
toiatrous lands the vast majority of people
it is only in the
wuntries woere the God of heaven and sarth
nave
wugh to eat. Let Diana have her arrows
nd her bounds, Oar God bas the sunshine
od the saowers and Toe narvests, and
ropwrGon as te is worshiped does plenty
“ga.
0 also in the Temple of
sores] {ta nead of
in
Diana the world
a refuge. To it fron
sma de
an i ths offen sors
mas
i paris of tne land ©
ot pay their
wv that thay
ration. But
tie while,
rest
i guity
Jens Chri
ay Hy
ats
their pearis aod
rec { v. But, our dod
ino which we
and all our por
lor timns, bul sale
or eterasty, and tae Tuut is pardonst ani
» nature is transioroel What Diana
uld not do for her worshipers, our Carist
om pilshos or us,
she © nt ¢ nee
from al
an i no. on
Rr
¥ on sale
Bins
ra,
nr
Xk of sages ¢'efl for ma,
i mie Bide myesil in Lee.
Then, in taat temple ware depdsi
easures from all the sarth for safe keeping.
hrysostom savs it was the treasuse Bouse
{ nations: they brought goid and siiver and
SCOURS Sons and coron ME AcroRs the
2, and put them under the care of Diana of
iv» Bohegians But azain and again were
me treasurss ransacked d ured or de
wed, Nero rooted them, the Sevinians
sitered them, then
nana fatled th with
casures, but o I We aay in
st all otir treasures (or this world and the
tt. and fail any one who puts confidence
y Him He never will, After the last jase:
imn has fallen, and the last temple on
t and the world
the Lord will
tes
8 0
the (i¢ % burae
who rastad har
ir Liod, to wa
Yee
MroAasure
killed Ephesus and what
of the cities that le Burien
nations Lasury! The
hh had been the mogns of
y became its ruin, Instead
id baths taal bal been LOG IBVITOTS-
pie, the hot baths which are
y intended tor toe infirm or the invalid,
In th ss hot biths many
iY most of the time Antaors wrote books
valle in thess baths, Business was neglected
vd a hot bath taken four or five times a
ay. When the kesper of the baths was rep
manded for not having them warm enough
we of the ralers said, “You blame him for
king the bath warm enough: I blame you
soatise you have it warm at all’
But that warn bath which enereated
‘phesus, and which is always ener vating ex-
pt when follo ved by cold baths (n> refer-
of conslitaions),
as only a ty wigs! on in all de
artments of Eoaesian ifs, and ia lugarious
inigence Ennesus fell, and the Inst triangle
music was unkied in Diana's temps, and
last wrastior disappears] Iran her gym
asinme, and the last racer took his gariand
n the Stadium, ani the [338 ped was heard
y ner Forum, and even the ssa, as if to
vithdraw the last com nercial upportanity
om that metrog retreated down to
wach, leaving her nitaout the harbor in
riich bad floated a thousand sips. Brook
rn, New Yorz, Lon ton ani all mo lern cit
«, cisatiantic and tranwtiantic, take warn
ng! What luxury unguarded did tor Ephe
14, luxury unguarded may dofor all. Upu
noe and spleador God grant to sll the pao
s, to all the cities, to all the land, but at
i= same time, may He grant the righteous
iss of them,
Gymnasiums’ Yes, but see that the vigor
-ained in them be cossecrated to Hod, Mag.
flcent Samples of worship’ Yes, but ges that
nn them instead of conventionalities and cold
somp of service there be warmth of devotion
nd the pure Gospel preached, ng
ourt houses’ Yes, but in them let
ud merey rule
vat Jet all the printing presses be i
or happiness and trath, Great postoffice
uildings? Yes, but through them day by
ay, may correspondence heiplul, elevating
» ¥ #
3 of the peop
¥ re suostitnted
course, to delicate
went
wie,
of de
and conjugal, filial, pateraal and
‘hristian fidelity rule. London for magni
tude, Berlin for universities,
fashions, Rome for cathedrals, 4
or tombs, Babylon for gi .
dolatry, but what shall be the
i SCIENTIFIC,
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A pneumatic shoe fole 1s new,
eg Apne
An average locowotive cos's §10,-
OU,
es
Findlay’s (Ohio) now gas well
7,000,000 feet
rans
ts fins
There 1s no way to bend wood b
| than by steaming,
PE
An ornithologist says that birds
| quently commit suicide,
iter
f1e-
—
Iron has been rolled to the thinness
{of 1-18 30th of an .nch.
| lf
A new method to utilize coal culm
hus been successfully tried,
lip mtiss
Bydney, New South Wales, has a 12,-
000,000 cand e power electric light.
sms MP sens
Antimony is found extensively in
| Portugal, the largest beds belong situat-
i ed near Braganza,
a
! An electric flying machine wus re-
| cently n ade to rise a height of seventy
i feet and fly about 400 yards,
if —
A company has been organized at
{ Grand R .pids, Mich., for the manufac-
| ture of paper mutches,
lf —
Many metals, such as gold, sliver and
platinum, are now caused to volatilize
by means of Lhe e ec ric current.
| a
The French make paper umbrellas,
| rendered wholly waterproof by gelatined
| biehromate of - otassium,
-
| ful telescopes a new and very large
| crater bas been shown upon the moon's
{ surface.
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SUNDAY SCHOO! LESSON.
FUNDAY. DECEMBER #. 1331.
Christ Crucified.
LESSON TEX]
(John 19 : 17-30, Memory verses, 17-19.)
LEBSON PLAN.
Toric or THE QUARTER
Son of God,
Jesus Lhe
GorLoex Texr vor THE QUARTER:
1 hese are written, that ye might be.
lieve that Jesus is the Christ, the Son
of (fod; and that belie ving ur right
have life through his name, John
20 : 31,
Lesson Tovic: The Son
Jo r Sin,
Suffering
The Crueifixion, vs.
17. 18
superscription, vs
1022
LESSON (1 The Garments, vs. 23,
pe
4. The Mother, v8. 26 27
The D ath, vs. 25.30
i
hath
: IB,
For Christ also
1 Pet. 8
Gorpex Texr:
ance suffered for sina, -
Danny Howe READINGS:
M.-—John 19 17-30.
suffering for sin,
T.—Matt. 27 :81-50, Parallel pass-
The
age.
W.—Mark 15
passage.
Luke
passage.
F.—~Acis 2:
story.
8.—1 Cor. 1:17-31.
mate of the cross,
SB.—Rev. 5 1-14,
celebrated,
“oy
20-37.
T 23 26 - 46,
22-36,
Paul's esti
tedemption
devic~ by which he can send 150 type
wire,
st —
Professor Lintuer, a1 authority
entomol ¥IV, =ay+ that there wre a mol
lion or more species of insects in
world.
on
sree
is toothless and
The sturgeon daw
i in tx food Uy suctiou, but the shark has
times number Len
EE —
A new method of d vertinz &
ing tis 1n-anue of |
New York i ¥
in comedy
ssiovambeibm——
Concentric wiring for ele
Is rapidly gaining ground,
garded us = Jor ilghting
than the two wire system,
——
ack wells
is Lo bave
hearse
trie
Leng
purposes
Wore
1
r
POF
“Cigarette shape” bullets were used
by Geueral Canto’s army. It 1s report
ed that they “could go through
| thiree men al a time,’
sp pe
A seamless steel bua made from
piece of metal by hydraulic pressure
promi-es Lo be very desirable. It
last a great while and cannot leak
wi —
The land and sea Dreezes which are
common on the s a coast are due 10 the
npequal heating of the atmosphere “ver
the land and water at aifferent times of
day.
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A red Asiat'e carp on view in the
Aquarium of the Trocadero in Paris 1s
a spend! ly colored creature, and
known as the fresh-water cardinal
account of its deep »cariet Linge
—-—
is
On
The new system of transmitting pow-
er by means of compressed alr, which
was recently tried in Offenbach, showed
a loss of but thirteen per cent in the
! dally output,
————
The Yorktown is t = only vassel
the naval, #0 far, fitt. d with electric
'tlegraph for transw'ting the range
from the conning to ver to the gun di-
! visions,
in
t————
The recent losses by fire in the cargo
| of ships carrying cotton has shown that
| cottonseed oil, when held in the cotton
ou the vutside of the bale rapidly oxi.
| dizes and generates spontaneous com-
bastion,
————
A disinfectant which combines c reap-
ness wi'h general worth is fount in
permanganate of potash, Ope ounce
| will make a bucketful of disinfectant
It is a crystal and can be kept in this
state until ready for use,
————
As au antidote for 4 consumptive ten.
| depey cream acts hke a charm, to be
| used instead of cod-hiver oll. Also aged
| people, invalids, and these who bave
feeble digestion or sufferiog from dull:
| ness as well as growing children, will be
i greatly benefited by taking sweet cream
{in Hberal quantities,
Electricity, is playing an important
| part in the working of heavy guns, am
| munition hoists, and winches in the
| French Navy. New ships are being
i fitted with electric appliances in lieu of
hydranlic ear,
When the Sen Goes Powa,
Though the morning may be dreary
And the day be long and weary,
Though the clouds may darkly lower
And the tempest fiercely frown,
We shall quite forget the shadows
That have lingered in the meadows
If there be a golden hour
When the sun goes down.
What though fate dur hope opposes,
What though thorns shut out the roses,
And the cross is borne in sorrow
That we carry to the crown.
By and by we'll cease to wander
And we'll rest forever yonder
if there dawns 0 brigin So. morrow
When life's sun goes down,
~13oston Traveles
On abeut 700 trees in twenty acres
of an orchard iu Ghent, Columbia
County; N. Y.. George T. Powell raises
fourteen varisties of arplea, and most
of the product gon to BEarope, He es
Simates bis oron iis ion - 50)
bartels, Last year he had on
barrels, ;
LESSON ANALYSIS,
THE CRUCIFIXION.
iI. The Place:
The place called The place of a skull
(1
A place called Golgotha
3
3
>
Matt
They bring him unto the
gotha (Mark 15: 22
| Jesns |. suffered without
Heb. 13 : 12
The (
{| Where they
{ It wes the tl
fe
lace Gol-
the gate
i 11. ruc
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ird hm they cruei
M rk I]
thev eracifie
i him
There Luke 23
| Jesus Christ was et forth eruet
i Crm i
1 1
iN. Th -C
With him two
{ one (18
| He was numbered w
gressors (Isa. ! 12
Then are there erncified
robbers { Matt. 27 : 38),
hey that were crucified with him re
proached him (Mark 15 : 52,
OoOmpanionsnip
on either side
ith
the trans-
if. THR
Words Written
Nazareth, the
SOVERSCRIPTION.
The
Jesus of
Jows (19
{ This 1s the
(Matt. 27 : 37).
The King of the Jews
This King of
¥y t
: dg
[1
King of the
of the Jews
Jesus
King
Mark 15
the Jews
7 $4
{Imke
18 15
Il. The Complaint Made
Write not, The K.ne of
(21
Saying that he
{Luke 23 -)
One that maketh himself a king speak
eth against Coser (John 9 : 12;
We bave no king but Cesar (John
19 : 15
the Jews
himself is Christ a king
in THE GARMENTS,
AJ Dividing the Garments:
To every soldier a part (23).
casting lots (Matt. 27: 35..
Casting lots upon them, what
should take (Mark 15: 24).
Parting is garments among them,
they cast lots (Luke 23 : 34).
il. Fulfilling the Prophecy:
That the scripture might be falfilled
(24).
They part my garments among them
(Psa. 22 : 18).
Tuese things therefore the soldiers
did (John 19 : 24).
The word of the Lord abideth for ever
(Pet. 1
oach
* 25).
IV. THE MOTHER,
I. The Lord's Mother:
Standing by the cross of
mother (25).
Take the young child and his mother,
and flee (Matt. 2: 18), .
18 : 55).
His mother kept all these saying in her
heart (Linke 2 : 11).
i. The «ord's Provision:
Woman, behold, thy son!
thy mother! (26, 27).
Honour thy father and
(Exod. 20: 12).
Despise not thy mother when she is
old (Prov, 23: 29).
From that hour the disciple took her
unto his own home (John 19: 27,
V. THE DEATH.
LI Thirst’:
Jesus. . . saith, I thirst (28
In my thirst they gave me vinegar to
drink (Psa. 69: 21).
1 was thirsty, and ye gave me drink
(Matt 25 : 35).
Ope. .took a sronge, ... and gave
him to drink (Matt. 26 : 48),
.. Behold,
thy mother
1. tis Finished:
He eaid, It is finished (30).
My meat is. .to accomplish his] work
(John 4 : 34).
Having accomplished the work (John
i : » !
Jos the author and perfecter of onr
farth (Heb. 12: 2.)
| Verse 17.—““Beari g the cross for
him al,” (15 The sabmissive cross
bearer; (2) The heavy cross; (3; The
providestial purpose.
Verse “Where they crucified
him.” (1) Where? (2, Who? (3; What?
4. Whom? (5) Wu ?
#Verse 19.—Jewns of Nazareth, the
King of the Jews.” (1: An expression
of contempt; (2) A confession of truth,
Verse 20, —*“This title therefore read
many.” (11 Its various languages; (2)
Its various readeis; (3) Its various im-
ports,
Verse 22,—**What | have written 1
have written.” (1: The chief priests’
plex; (2) The governor's de ision,
Verse 98 — *“L'o every soldier a part.”
Lords
(1) The Lord's legacy; (2) The
heirs; (3 The legacy divided.
Verse 24. —““I'hat the Scripture might
be fulfilled.” (1) What the seripture
demanded; (2) What the crucifixon fal-
filled
Verse 26. — ‘““Woman behold, thy
soni” (1) The loving mother; (2; The
beloved disciple; (3) Lhe eareful pro.
| vision,
Virse 281 thirst,” (1) An expres-
sion { acguish; (2) A fulfill ent of
propiisey; {3 An indication of Messiah-
, ship.
Verse 30,—It is finished.’ (1)
Prophecy fulfilled; (2) Redemption
ascoumplis’ ed; (3), Work done: (4) Death
at hand,
LESSON BIBLE READING
THE DEATH OF CHRIST.
| Demanded
22, 23).
Inflicted by the Genliles (Matt,
“6, 31).
In Soapany with malefactors (Isa.
12; Matt, 27: 38.
Bignahized by marvels (Matt 27:
i 51-53)
Emblematic of spiritual death
j 3-8: Gul 2 : 20).
Shown forth in the Lord's Sunper
(Imke 22 : 19, 20 ; 1 Cor. 11 : 23-928
SURROUNDINGS.
INTERVENING KVENTS, This lesson
follows the last immelia‘ely. Bat a
number of incidents most be placed
parallel with verse 17. These are: The
replacing of the garments of Jesus; the
{impressing of & 1 of Cyrene to bear
the eros« after Jesus; the weeping of
the women, with our Lord's reply; the
j offer «+f a siupefying drought, “wine
mingled with gall,” whih w re
fused
V9LACY
by the Jews (Matt. 27
58
45,
Bom. 6:
LESSON
Imo
aE
The traditio al site of Gol-
the Church of the Holy
i Bepa cher, has doubted by Ur,
Robinson and others, but seems to be
confirmed by the latest discoveries,
I'he eruerfixion took place outside of
the city, on a knoll, which resembled a
skull in shape; but as yet there is
agreement as 10 the locaiity.
Tide. — From before noon to three in
the afternoon of Friday, the 15th of
Nisan, A. U. C. "83 —April 7. A.
D. 30,
Peusoxs
at
goss,
been
no
Jesus, the two malefac-
tors, the soldiers who crucified tuem;
| Pilate and the clue! priests; three (or
four) women: the beloved disciple: an
unnamed person who gave Jesus the
: sponge full of vinegar.
Incinests. Jesus is led ont to Gol-
goths, bearing his cross; he eruci-
fled between two others title
which war put uj on the cross is ob
jected to by the chief priests; but
| Pilate refuses to alter it. The soldiers,
| having divided the other garments of
Jesus, cast lots for his coat or *“tunic.”
The mother of Jesus, two other Marys,
aud probably Salome, are standing
near the eross, with John. To this
beloved discip.e Jesus commisnds his
{ mother, and she is taken by John to
{ his home. Afterwards (p obably to-
| ward the ninth hour) Jesus cries, “I
| thirst,” and a sponge is passed to his
lips. He then cries, “It is finished,”
{ and gives up Lis spint, with the words
recorded by Luke.
Paizaruen Passaces,— Matthew
31-50 ; Mark 15 20-37 ; Lake
| 26-46,
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THE BOTTLE
KNOT.
It is one that 1s made with great fa.
| eility, and is not only of an exceedingly
| ornamental character, as 8 succession
| of knots ean be made vn the same piece
| of string and used as braid; but is of
' considerable utility in carrying a bot-
tle or vase, as shown in the second
| figur:. 1 before the knot is pulled
| tight it is } ut round the neck of a vase
or bottle and then tightened, it takes a
a
Rn
Li
in
=
a
ty
*
Na
perfectly reomure hold an | cannot possi.
ly be pulled off. I know of no method
of slinging a bottle or jar with a slight.
ly enlarged mouth, that 1s so elegant,
50 secure, and so easily apolied as this
knot. Simple as the knot may appea: ,
it is 80 peculiar in the manner in which
it is that I doubt whether anyone
who has not been shown how to do it
will discover the right method I
plame myself on rather an ex.
pens at making knots, but 1 am quite
Fea to contess that 1 do tio viink Shin
ecoul vo me apparently
simple and ¢ t tie bad 1 not been
shown how to do so, I offer the
us a I do not mmtend that
it shonld be threaded but tied, which
can be done in less than a couple of
seconds, T
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I sos
olgarettes are sold in Texas
otter State in the Union, :
Marg