REY. DR. TALMAGE, TEE“DROOKLYN DIVINK'S SUN DAY SERMON, ‘Suliject: “The Lord's Mercles.® TEXT: “Beasts, and all cattle; ereentng things and flying rowl; both young men and maidens; old men and children let them praise the name of the Lord,"—Psal exiviii, 10, 12 and 18, What a scene it was when last Thursday at the call of the President and Governors, this nation assembled to chant the praises of God. But the day was too short to celebrate the divina goodness of such a year, did not rise over Brookivn until one beiore si vea o'clock that morning, and it set four o t.ook and thirty-five minutes that eveninz, What a small space of time in which to meditate upon twelve months of benefactions, B50 Iald to that dav Sabbath morning servi w and with tae ir and harvestsof the earth still ¢ the puipit and the galleries, ask you to continues the reliearsal of the divine go By & su 18 800 it In 0 ropriate this wor OC 18 tant our race The instance with tbe insta one to ar of God's « derstan ins sun minute wifving winess, Ne 10 an. int, yet evan im surprised to find the ainost universal hap of the ani creation, Cn a sun Ay, when ths and the orass are most popu with Hi you will not hear a und of distress uni perchance, a heartd schoolboy has ro a bird's y OF a Gunter has broken a birt’ Wing, or a past has been robbed o lamb and there goes up a bleati trom Socks. The whole earth is filled with ani nal de- light—joy feathered and scaled and hor and hooted. Tue bes hums it; the x croass it; the squirrel chatters it: the quail whistles ii; the lark carols it; the woae spouts it. ihe snail, the rhinoceros, grizzly bear, the toad, the wasp, ths spi the shellfish have their homely deli gate &s great to them as our joy is to us. Goat climbing the rocks: anscondia crawiin through the junzle: buflaio pilunzing across the prairie; crocodie basking in tropical sun geal Jota I an the ice; ostrich striding across the desert are so many bundies of joy: they do not go moping or melane they not on y kal! sup; fliled with The we turned of 1058 ous SEY nest ng a8 INyY: They urs ppied; God says they are BOO . ra squirming through the sod no. piiwslare, and the ants racking up and own the hiliock are ADDY OV day and happy by might, Take up a drop of water ander th eroseops an tind that within it there are mil ¢ of creatures that swim in a balieiniah of mess. The sounds in maturs that Puisive Lo our ears are often of joy—t growl, the croak, howl. rood I made t think i , Bana will nog share turn u tu man’ rhoog ransfix sternal de you W's n a wor ime has rod's hand feeds these bro and oh - herds ali theses # cks, and tends ail these herds. He sweetens the i for the ox's tas and pours tallive waters in mossed cuns of rock for the hind to drink out of or his way down the Crags, and pours nectar into the cup of the boneysuckle to refresh the humm ng bird, and spreads a banquet of a hundred flelds of buckwheat, ana lets the honey bes Put his mouth to any cup of all the banquet, and tells the grasshopper to go anywhere ne liken, and gives the flocks heaven choice of ail the grain fields. The sea ane- mone, half animal, half flower, clinging to the rock in on ean, with i's tentacles spread to catch od, has the owner of the universe to provide for it. We are repulsed at the hideousness of the elephant, but God for the corufor Lang convenieucs of the mon- ster, puts foriy thousand distinct musc.es in his prob ’ i Bo gown on the } “No animal can live i his place of tion” but ali thr ; . of little insects go down by i! damp pace and stagoant wat death” tut o! log sannin Quake with anfledged robiz old rovin where their open moutus. Winter is oot allowed to coms until ths ants have granaciei thelr harv : and ths Squires have tied thei cellar with nuts, God shows the hungry i hnsumon where it may find the crocodiles egzs; and in arctic elitnes there sre animals taat i s0 lav. ishiy clothes that they can afford to walk through snowstorms in the finest sable and ermine and chiochills, and no SO0nar is ons set ol furs worn out than God gives them a new one. He helps the spider in its archi- tecture of its gossamer bridge, and takes care of the color of the butterfiy’s wing and tinges the cochiveal, and helps the moth out of the chrysalis The animal creation also havs its army end navy. The most insignificant has its means of defense, the wasp its sting, the reptiles its tooth, the bear its paw, the its muzzle, the elephant its tusks, the fish its sonle, the bird ite swift wing, the rein. deer its antlers, the roe its fleet foot We are repelled at the thought of sting and tusk and hoof, but God's does pro- des then for the dolenae of the animal's ag. God In the Bible announces His care for these orders of creation, He gays that He bas heaved up fortifications for their Psalm ctv, 18, “The high hills as a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.” He watches the bird's nest—Psalm civ., 17, “As for the stork, the fir, ieee ae her house.” He seen that the ca ve enough - fii gh grasw-—-Psalm civ. ver LOD out CTV of the Gesain. +8 Ars MIYILall the ulo God saows pas I's Guazgry » can get food to from tks nest for life depended on God would - TY take a step higher, and notlos the adap tation of the word to tue comiort and han nness of man, ‘The sixth day of creativs I i wrrived, The palaces of the world was Buse, L0G Where was UO Kg W live In IL Lov suunil ie LOS (@sn: the earle the air; the lion the fisld: but where was the scepter A new styie of being Heaven and earth were re- earth Leneat : bis soul from the heaven above, ‘The one remindinz: him of his or: rin, the other speaking of his destiny—himeslf the connecting link beiween the animal crea- tion and angelic intellirence. In hima strane commingling of the temporal and eternal, the finite and the infinite, dust and glory, The eart: for his floor and heaven for his ron: God for his Father; eternity for his lifeline, The Christian anatomist, gezing unon the confirmation of the numnan bo iv. exclaima, “"Feariully and wonderiully made.” NO embroidery so elaborate, no gauze so deii- oate, no color 30 exauisit no nani ~ gEracaiu!, quietly and myst form its ia AN yen Vins, So Nn UoadyY i until ive thoy 1 of the race At La ire I WAR discov i, ana AMUN Lo un 10f the han Wis thun is er! Four fing and at million d Wout not ou a mac your BATE Aan quisite and wonderial ty hand! In all Joints 1 jearao ti old the eve, iin galiery, in and tae : RET Ve , that are the « Te% LD © not ar oul: Lasse bones and rtean thousand one oun ire as Own an and musc.os i% zond BO . photogranhic iia Does it 704 its aia a mscios of Lae Duxiy witha fou d ferent acantat os; theses thousan { glanas; ties two bundred mo pores; this thousand i pro oegs oO: LS * +2 y re. ODay Lhe under i : the most sill! pai st factory of 200d Dan is opay: th urnace, v 0 he iro or Ofe Wiles is Ke Jus a ginss walcn tas ia tarious linking zat or Knew wer to iraw throu 3 ibatle ve I) ap a hundred and this again a toe chirp of one bird someti whole forest of voices, or the thram of wring will rouse an orcamssiea memory --thst sheaf binder, por Lhe harvest of the the present, 3 of tanught ths lighining ths sar a and weig w Se “ie 1 ndesct thought ani in deli of eth 1 Can ran, o throw-{ur ia thes { fe OX, Lhe trich and the hyena are his superiors—but by his resson hs comes forta to rule all; through his incenious contrivance to onirun, outlift, outwrestis, oulsse, outhear, outdo, At his all « jrering d y the forast that has stood or ages step adde to ist him build his cabin aad cultivate hisfarm., The soa which has raved and foansd upon th, race has become a crystal pata way ior com meroe to march on, 1 he thander cloud that slept lazily ab ve the mountain is made to coms down and carry wail bags satisfled with his slowness ol advancement, shouted to the water and the fire, “Come and Ht” “Come and draw!” “Come an help!” And they answered, “Ave ays, we come,” and they joined hands—the fire and toe water —and the shuttes fy, and the rail train ratties dy and the steanship comes coughing, panting, flaming across the deep. He elevates tos telescops to the heavens, and as easily as through the stethocope the hysician hears the movement of the lung, he astronomar catches the pulsation of dif- fersut systems of worlds throbbing with life, He takes the microscope, and discov. ors that there are bundreds of thousands of animaleuiee living, moving, working, dying within a circle that could be coversl wit the point of a pin-—animals to which a rain drop would be an ocean, a rose ileal a hemi. sphere, and the flash of a firefly lasting saough to give them light to several genera. t heavenly fraoa. up savenl than its nal felicity; facuities that may blossom a fruit inexhagstibly. Tm. then upon ever in aint wul destined to range . i 5 Ef fk : £ i 4 | ! g h £ g } i 2 £ i ji : i t : if 5 i it #1 i #1 i F ¥ | fruit and the vinerar ls thelr nurple clusters G0 feed and re.resh our intellect, ten thon sand wonders in nature and providence~ wonders of min! ani body, wonders o earth and air, and deep analogies uni aut thesvs, all colors and sonads, Iyries in tin air, idyis in tas Held, confiagzrations iu FOEet, roses of Mist on the mountains wi tie “Grand Marca” of God in tue storm, But tor the soul still higher adaptat.o a fountain in which it may wash; a ladder by which it may elimb; a song of endless triumph that it may sing; a crown of un. fading lzist that it may wear, Christ came to save it—came with a cross on His back; came with spikes im His feet; eame when no one else would come, to do 8 work which no one alse would do, See bow suited to man's sondition is what God has done for nim, Man is a sinner; here is & pardon. He has lost God's image: Christ retraces ft. He is he.pless; Amighty grace is proffered, He is 8 lost wanderer; Jesus brings him homes, Hae is Iiind, and at ones touch of Him who curad Bartimeus, eternal i stream into his wou, Jewas Ising © a! WOrst fines ! ian T mite off heaviest chan! iv Vas a ura of hicxest darkuess! Gracs iit and men reject it, national ws Das ALS r= fF AOGE OO of white i pith down 101 Po are full, the tore the canals are biocked wit nls pressing down Oo marisa, rumne ail torouzh the darcoess and up flagman at dead of might to le Weslera narvests come down tw race © COver I'he overcrowded, gargers Ray The w 2 the + { Gol according wo snscionces would be ths bavonet, and with b flo the Lites of the borses’ bridles For mercs eomsecrated Lives be offered light snines and God's mercy broods arise, temporal and spiritoal le Wherever God's rain descends and et the thanksgiving {pois Decadence of Longevity. is to be If Sir James Crichton Brown men will Dr. Brown are n manner of living is mad naae, ball their days, women Olid strength of growing me. age is tween ftv been a re. stropay and I ae 1 i mid. yag-sighted. na CO $0 -kiil we who have passe ile iile. Pros ness of old age, FOpia, Or the l in which near iotly seen unless held at ance from t eye, is than it used to objects a considerable dist relieved to | do, The eminent oculist Critchett says that ais experience OL over a qual er of a cen. we in earlier ind women now seek aid from glasses at tors, From another authoritative source would otherwise have done, for life ina hot climate really means excessive wear snd tear to a European. From the sacie source we learn that the ordinary age for the adoption of is now nearer forty-five. Dr. Brown further tells us that the teeth are drop- ping out earlier, baldness more prevalent, senile insanity is more common and sui. side is increasing. These are very unpleasant facts, but they appear to be well substantiated. The moral of it all is that those who are situation and live as carefully and regu- larly ns they can; those in middie age ean put off the evil day by steady obedi- snce to the laws of health and by a judi- cious regimen, but the best and truest remedy for the loss of old age is to SCIENTIFIC, Pipes are made of rami fibre, - nlf fossa i Germany leads in uipor mills, | a i Colles mills are run by electricity. i sn o—— ——— § Aluminium bic es are announced. A gas 18 made from wood and crude oil i cnrom— } Steam-riveted boilers are not ec! good, has a —— Sweden *“locomotlive steam. boat.” Phosphorous is now being made by electricd.y. Ap Instantaneous photozraphs show lip | muvemenuls, aml A Fl eirie sclleriug iron are extensive ly used in cauving «stabiishments, Case of Lub reulos!s are a common res uit of occupying the room of a SumpLiyo CO be tried double-lecked The experiment is about to in Chicago of running slrecl cars, Anne southern will ful and asphaltum, Paglie locomotives bricks made of coal SOO Use oo de At Tokin, Japan, a concern employs an electiic moor insted of st am for operating and drilling CLIOES, planing rc — A new mode of furnishing power motor engines by mixing steam with § Circies. terest in English smote ll A street rallvwas Oy compressed air, in Ls worth, K in. alzo be applied to fue viem, to be operated is to be inaugurate | The power will OTIes, Apis ive Pp sit 2000 «1 about thirty te earth, light up io an ab An arclamp of én place pn raph has bean annliedl to r Ths « ' : 1 id mage acid pha of being # ih sus Is now Mposing A ix ure o phates and carbon by the heat leciric arc within the mass, AA decora. “ili Ans Ge] The latest Innovation in er is a new material ecalied chrome,” IL ean be used also for or olher luterior decoration, A017 Pennsylvania makes fifty-two out of svery 100 tons of rolled frou in the Unite | States, and sixty-nine out of svery 100 tons of steel rails, Large manufacturing e«tablishments dd DOW Using evc'11c Lramwave rausportiog beavy materiais from Lhe works to another, {Or one art of quel saved 8 made stuphia wi : eg | LA from from b rom Fork Halo demand for American veh .cles has greats been fond withont be done The European nade carts and ght vy fucreased., It has send them leaving that also ACTOAS Ww theaper to wining, siroad. Investigaiions carefully made In the Jennsylvania University Veterinary establish ths sm fees Professor Carcol, the eminent lec- has sucereded in obiaining enlarged photo- The danger of conveying infection out, a French surgeon proposes vaccine pointed. Being ivexpensive a fresh pen can be used for each opera tion, a On the eastern frontier of the "Dark Continent’ coal is #0 plentiful that Ly cuar spot It may be reached, But there is no means of transporting it to market, The range of naval guns is roughly guns less than ten inches, bul last year a 9.2 inch breech loading rifle attained a range of twelve miles. The pneuma- tic gun has fired a dummy shell two miles and a half, ——_ A —— French ingenuity has cootrived an improved stone-cutting saw of remark alle efficiency —a circular saw having its edge set with black diamonds in the same way as the straight blades; but as the strain on the diamond is all In one direction the setting can be made much firmer, AP ————— An English electrical i'm is intro ducing a small pump, suitable to sup. housa tanks in country, distric.s, there is neither sufficient fall not machinery for pumping. It consists of a rotary pump driven by screw gearing direct from an electric motor, which i influenced by a primary battery placed in the cellar. pump and motor (n not weigh more than twenty five pounds and occupy a very small space. SUNDAY =CHOOL, LESSON, EUNDAY, DECEMBER 20 183. The Risen Christ and his Disciples. LESSON TEXT (JohnZl : 1-14, Memory verses, 12.14.) LESSON PLAN, Toric or tHE QUARTER: Jesus the Goroes Texr 1 hence are written, FOR THE QUARTER: | that ye might be- | in the Christ, the Son | believing ye might | life his John | 3. through rene, Oy * aA): Liwasox Toeto: The Son Uusnceessful Toll, vs Time ly Help va. 44 VE, us Blessing, then bie things wu selfeth on the risen } If ye ties a where hy Conver Text teilh (iris, re right hand of God geek ahove, Day Howe M. John his di-eiples, TT John 21 his direipl 8. W.—Lnke 24 disciples, T Acts 1 his Father, F.—Heb. 7 above, 2 Pet. 3 his sainis, HN ev. b * 3 Leaving the Ascending to Interceding 1-15, Coming for . i 1-14. Gatherel home, _-_—— ANALYSIS, FUL TOIL, I. Fishing: { goa fishing We also come with thee 3) Casting a were lish (io thou to the ( Matt 2 At thy word | (Luke 5 : 5). sea; for 18 net into the Matt 4 * Bea, and cast a bh yok they g - yo id if) wid down the] nets i1. Fall That night they The fishies « away (Ho Master, we roth ng Apart from me y« oun io ’ ng: it, and took can do nothing MEL HEL ! I. The L Mand: i Jesus sto There ara 1 in tne i 18 ord at d on the beach 4). Matt. midstof them { i Ali, Lo, 1 am with you alway (Matt, 28 i 20. | He himself stood in i (Luke 24 : 36) IL. Cast the net on the right boat (6. | Lot instruction Given: side of the down vour for Lake 5: 4, Fill the waterpots with water (John nets a draught Take ye away the John 11 : 39). ii, stone Suctcess Attained: They were not avle to draw it for the multitude of fishes (6. There shall not be room enough ceive it (Mal 3 14 They inclosed a grea} fishes (Luke 5 : 61. Able to do above all think (Eph. 8 : 20 to re of multitude that wo ask or i GENEROUS RLESSING, I. Ability to Know Jesus: That disciple | Lord (7). ' There is no beauty that we should de- ! mire him (Isa 5} And 1 knew him not (John 1 : 81). | They should know him whom thou i didst send (John 17 : 2). i ..smith, ...It is the 1 2). i Hl, Libarty to Approach Jesus: ! The other disciples came in the little i boat (8). | Come unto me, all ye (Matt, 11 : 28). | And they went and told Jesus (Matt, 14 : 132). He saith unto them, Come, aad yo shall see (John 1 : 89). Enrichment trom the Jesus: Drew the net to land, full of great fishes (11. i Good measare, pressed down, shaken together (Luke 6 : 88). { All are yours; and ye are Christ's ( 1 Cor, 3: 22, 23;. | The unsearchable riches of (Eph. 3: 8), LIV. Communion with Jesus: Jesus saith unto them, Come and break your fast (12). We will... .make our abode with lum {John 14 : 23), Is it not a communion of the body of Christ? (1 Cor. 10: 16). I... .will sup with him, snd he with me (Rev. 3 : 20), V. Assurance of Resurrection: 150us was manifested \o the diseiples (14). The Lord is risen indeed (Luke 24 : 3). He hed Jesus and the resurrec- tion (17: 18). Now hath Christ been raised from the dead (1 Cor. 15 : 20). Verse 1.— ‘Jesus manifested himself again.” (1) The manifestations sev- Sans (2) The manifestations poten- Verse 8. — “We also come with thee.” (1) Peter's decision; (2( Peter's exam- ple; (3) Peter's followers, Verse 8.—* That a he ak 146 Man's UML, Verse 4. “Jesus Hana of Christ Verse 6,—*Cast the net on the right side of the boat,” (1) I'he futile effort; (2) The new order; (3) The prompt obedience; (1) The gi eat saccess, Verse 7.—*“It is tue Lord.” (1) Ree- oguition; (2) Prolamation; (3; Asso- ciation, Verse 8 —*“The net full of fishes.” 1) A reward of obedisree; (2) A means of enjoyment; (3) A ground for con- finence. Verse 10, — “Bring of the fish.” Food secured; (2) Feasting enjoyed. Verse 11. The ret was not rent.” (1) Overloaded: 12) Preserved. Verse 14.— “Jesus was manifested.” (1 How? (2) To whom? (3; When? (4) Why? LESSON BIBLE (1) HEADING, STATIONS THY Mark Op EisEN John LORD, To Marvy 16 9: 20: 14- women { Matt, eter (Liake 21 1: 4 2 WO disciples | 83-31 fo ten apostles : ne ’ Tahn A 5: John 20 even apostles (John 20: 26-29, 21: 1-14. dred brethren (1 Cor. 17. 1 Cor ven dincipios {John 15: J gsoension SON HBO Evest f $ Ance f the risen Lord NDINGS, Be Tha Appear. to Mary Mag. dalene wus probably followel by that to the other womens, as they returned to Jernsalem. 8 however, reverse and others regard the two indentical. I'he appear. ter, aft .r two had started for Emmans, where the Lord made him-elf known ‘ to them. The {fth asd ava last ap- + { He, appearances i avce 10 Veter occurred | disc ples teu of th iw + 19. BE ha apost es being tiins @ Luke 24 » ut Joun part of the discourse 1n i9 was nitered, but how much of it be positively determined. A week later, 10 Jerusalem our Lord ap- peared to the Thomas beiog present {John 20 6-233 Shortly nfter, i ent to Galilee, as wile there, the lo son eh ow that on the ey, : 44- cannot % Ont jes, » discides "Garang eo he shore Liy not far from Jernss i Lhe nro 5 should earlier part mast Lave some length be- pearance at Jerusalem re n and this one Prusoxs Nathansel, Simon Peter, Thomas, James and John, and two others. probably Andrew snd Philip, s1noe two were usually joined with P. ter and Nathanael (or Barthol- omew); our Lord. Iscipexrs, —Seven the disciples | w re together; Peter announces he will “go a fishing.” they all agree to go | with him, and spend the night ia frat. | less labor, Af daybreak Jesas stood on the beach, and spoke to them, but was not recognized: he bids them cast the net on tue right side of the boat. This tuey do, asd find the net so 1ull that they canosot draw it. John tells Peter that it 1s the Lord; Peter puts on bie outer garm ots and essts himself 1810 the sea; the others bring the boat, with the dragyi net, to shore, They find a charcoal tiie, wit fish and bread ia d apon it bids them bring Of the Ooh which they bave taken, The net was drawn 10 land, snd a husdred and fifty three large fishes taken, with. out rending ‘he net. Jesus bids them eat; thoy dare not ask him who he is; | he gives them fod. The evengelist | explains that this is the third appear- ance to the disciples. (The number of these epiphanies is wvaricusly calou- lated. There were at least ten; and Acts 1 : 3 seems to indicate that there | were yet others not specified). There is no parallel passage, though | some nave sought to indentify this with one or another of the appearances | narrated by the other evangelists, i i -“" A NINETEENTH CENTURY ! DINNER, | Eaison recently gave a strange din- | ner to the Franklin Clab. A wax fig- {ure of Franklin, in which was con- | cenled a phonograph, sat at the feast, | uttering from time to time the philoso- | pher's famous maxims Daring the first course the lights went out and there appeared two skulls with shining oyes, flaming mouths and jaws that moved like a orocodile’s, saying with phonetic voices: As yo are now so onoe were we, As we are now so shall ye be. In the darkness a globe of gold fish on the table was illuminated, and the anatomy of the fish became visible, Each fish was lighted internally by a tiny electric light inserted in its stom- ach and connected by a tiny hair-like wire passing thro igh its throat. Later the floral decorations overhead fell in a brilliant shower. Bits of iron at- to each flower had hitherto held them in position attracted by a magnet. At 11 o'clock, Franklin significantly remarked: Early to bed and early to rise, Makes one healthy, wealthy and wise. And the guests arose to depart. — Ex, these of ng OE Jesus (2) The on
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