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Patience for the Erving.
God has a mother’s patience for the
erring. If one does wrong, frst his
associates in life cast him off; if he
goes on in the wrong way, his busi
ness partner casts him off; if he goes
on, his best friends cast him off—his
father casts him off. But after all
others have cast him off, where does
be go? Who holds no grudge, and
forgives the last time as well as the
first? Who sits by the murderer's
counsel through the long trial? Who
tarries the longest at the windows of
a culprit’s cell Who, when all
others think ill of a man, keeps on
thinking well of him? It Is his
mother. God bless her gray hairs, if
she be still alive; and bless her grave
it she be gone. And bless the rock-
ing chair in which she used to sit,
and bless the cradle that she used two
rock, and bless the Bible that she
used to read! So God, our mother,
has patience for all the erring. After
everybody else has cast him off, God,
our mother, comes to the rescue God
leaps to take charge of a bad case
After all the other doctors have got
through, the Heavenly Physician
comes in. Human sympathy at such
a time does not amount to much.
Even the sympathy of the church, I
am sorry to say, often does not
amount to much. I have seen the
most harsh, bitter treatment on the
part of th who professed faith in
Christ toward those who were waver-
ing and erring. They tried on the
wanderer sarcasm, and billingsgate,
and caricature, and they tried tittle
tattle. "There was thing they
did not try, and that was fturgive
ness. A soldier in England was
brought by a Sergeant to the Col
onel. ‘What,’ the Colonel,
|
ane
said
‘bringing the man here again? We
have tried everything with
‘Oh. no,’ sald the Sergeant,
one thing you have tried. 1
would like you to try that.” ‘What |
is that?’ said the Colonel. Said
man: ‘Forgiveness!’ The case had |
not gone so far but that it might
take that turn, and the Ce
said ‘Well, young man, ¥«¢
done so and What is your ex-
have no excuse, but I am
.! said the young man. ‘We
up our minds to forgive
the Colonel. The tears
He had never been accosted |
in that way before His li
reformed, and that was the
point for a positively Curis
Ob, church of God, quit ¥
casm when a man fall Quit
irony, quit your tittie-tattle, and
forgiven ur
it all the tin A man’s
like a continent, but G
ness is Atlantic
bounding it on bot
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A A ARIA
“SHARPENED AYES."
Subject of Dr. Talmage's Sermon at
Madison, Wis.
Text: “Now, there was no smith found
throughout all the land of Israel,” ele, 1
Samuel xiii , 19-21,
My lovine and glad salutation to this nn.
counted host, Chautauquans, Christian En-
deavors, gospel workers and their friends
from all parts of Wisconsin and America,
saints and sinners! My text is gloriously
appropriate. What a galling subjugation
the Israelites were suffering ! The Philistines
had carried off all the blackamithe and torn
down all the blacksmiths’ shopsand abolished
the hlackemith's trade in the land of Israel,
admired them and have sometimes thought
I ought to have been ons myself, The Phil.
istines would not even allow these parties to
work their valuable mines of brass and iron,
nor might they make any swords or spears,
Thera were only two swords left in all the
land, Yea, these Philistines went
they had taken all the grindstones from the
wanted to sharpen his plow or his ax ha had
to go over to the garrison of
to get it done, There was only one sharpen-
ing instrument left in the land, and that was
a file, The farmers and the
pond, and the piekax sava a simple fil», in.
dustry was hindered and work practically
discraced,
The great idea of these Philistines was to
keep the Israelites disarmed. They might
get iron out ofthe hills to make swords of,
but they would not have any blacksmiths to
weld this iron. If they got the fron welded,
they would have no grindstones on whieh to
bring the instruments of agriculture or the
military weapons to an edge. Ob, vou
poor, weaponless [eraslites, reduced to a file,
how I pity you Hut these Philistines were
not forever to keen their heel on the neck of
God's ehildren, Jonathan, on his hands and
knees, elimbe up a great rock bevond which
were the Philistines, and his armor bearer,
on his hands and knees, eolimbs up the same
and two with thelr two
swords, hew to p Philistines, the
Lord throwing a great terror upon them. So
it was then YW, he two men of
God on their knees mightier than a Philistine
on their feet
up
Hoan
fneoea the
£5
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is
host
I learn first from
+}
this suhie
to stay |
ons AY In
1 ' t $
igrasiites NG ’aERAn
tained
These
have of n ppl ) swords
ns. tor
= ihe
Israelites
swords, 14 =
As when
Ammo
sontent
DHL Pe no
spoils of the ites
to have
blacksmiths,
1 mines
wena
in
nake any resist anes,
he farmers ging along wit)
“Whe
They as
garrison
things
grindstone
unt
thelr
ex and pl re are
ne wit
» Are going
*‘hilistines :
i aay HY
nu sharpen them
black
, and we
th
NArD.
ROarg
hy don’t
of Christ to-day, We
Ip our wespons 10 the
onsts that
and the
1
it has
Hess
and the
ws, Infide
.
Iteraty
is making
r Went
re
get all «
¥ Mas in
keep then
it all the
great
Binkers
the file
in their
Christinns
antic Chris
lecturing p
We want to against
and Strauss and Renan of the past men like
late Theodore { Bonn, and
scientists a God worship.
snd Hiteheook and Agnests
capture all the philosophical
send out
Noehonkel
the hristlieh of
Billiman
We want to
a the swivel until through them we ean see
he morning star of the Redesmer, and with
“Rock
realms
Lily of |
and amid the flora of the
“Rose of Sharon and the
the Valley.”
We want a clergy learned enough to die.
course of the human eye, showing it to be a
microscope and teleseope in one instrument,
with 800 wonderful contrivances and lids
all its
muscles and nerves and bones showing the
of an infinite God, and then
formed the eye, shall He no! see?" And
membranes
small bones,
nerves, closing with the
And we want some one able to expound
the flrst chapter of Genesis, bringing to it
‘““the stones of the
shall be in Jeague’” with the truth, and
Bisern.,” Oh, chureh of God, go eit and re-
capture these weapons, Let men of God go
out and take possession of the platform. Let
all the printing press of this country speak
out for Christ, and the reportérs, and the
typesetters, and the editors and publishers
swear allegiances to the Lord God of truth,
Ah, my friend, that day must come, and if |
the great body of Christian men have not the
faith, or the courage, or the consecration to
do it, then let some Jonathan on his busy
hands and on his praying knees climb up on
the rock of hindrance, and in the name of
the Lord God of Israel siash to pieces those
literary Philistines,
large amount of the church's resources is
actually hidden and buried and undeveloped,
The Bible intimates that that was a very
rich land-—this land of Israel. It says,
“The stones mre iron, and out of the hills
thou shalt dig brass,” and yet hundreds of
thousands of dollars’ worth of this metal was
rapt under the hills, Wail, that is the diffi-
culty with the chursh of God at this day. Its
talent is not developed, If one-half of its
energy could be brought out, it might take
the public iniquities of the day by the throat
and make them bite the dust, If human
eloquence wers consecrated to the Lord
Jesus Christ, it could in a few years persuade
this whole sarth to surrender to God,
There is enough undeve Christian
Sneryy in the United States to the
whole world to Christ, but it is un
der strata of indifference and under whole
Savuntsl og bog TR
the m to y axes to
lunge, and for this buried metal to be
out and put into the furnaces and
be turned into howitzers and earbines for
s vullstedfor Christ's sake?
name that the English soldiers gave to Blu.
| oher, the commander, They eallnd him “Old
| Forwards"
| the church of Christ ; let us have a glorious
{ advance, And 1 say to you
| general sald when his troops were affrighted,
Rising up in his stirrups, his hair flying in
the wind, he lifted his voles
troops heard him, erying out, “Forward, the
hw Hoe!"
Again, I learn from this subject that we
sometimes do wall to take advantage of the
world's sharpening instruments, These
| Israslites were reduced to a file, and so they
| went over to the garrison of the Philistines
to get their axes, and their goads, and their
lows sharpenad,
bh the context that they had no other instru-
ments now with which to do this work, and
the Israelites did right when they went over
to the Philistines to use thelr grindstones,
My friends, is it not right for us to employ
the world's grindstones? If there be art, if
there be logic, if there be business {ueuity on
the other side, lot us go over and employ it
for Christ's sake
The fact is we fight with too dull weapons,
and we work with too dull implemants, We
| hack and we maul when we ought to make a
clean stroke, Let us go over among sharp
| business men and pmong sharp literary men
{and find out what their taste is, and then
| transfer it to the cause of Christ, If they
| have selence and art, it will do us good to
{ rub against it, In other words, let us em-
i ploy the world's grindstones, We will listen
to their music, and we will wateh their acu
men, and we will use thelr grindstones, and
we will borrow their philosophical apparatus
to make our experiments, and we will bor
i row their printing presses to publish our
bles, and we will borrow their mall traius
to earry our Christian literature, and
will borrow thelr ships to transport
missionaries,
That was what made Paul such
his day. He not only got all the learning he
could get of Dr. Gamaltel, but afterward
standing on Mars hill snd in erowded thor
oughfares quoted thelr poetry and grasped
their logic and wielded their eloquence and
employed their mythology ntil Diony
the Areopagite, in the school
Athens and Hellopolis, went down under his
tramendons powers
That was what gave
power in his day, He conguered the world's
astronomy and compelied Oo ring out th
wisdom and greatness of the Lord, untii{
the second time the morning
gether, and all the sons of Go
Jov., That was what gave to J
wards his Influence his day.
quersd the world's metaphysics and
into the servies
old meeting ¢
but all Christen
Christian power
Wall, now, my
a master in
learaed
Thomas Chalmers his
i
onsth 2
He con.
forosd it
friends
Christian used
their adges,
fight,
ip the glebe
tiness,
We
w
we
want no »
want no
We want
We
¥ ioam
ws
possession of
this
thie trees
start the |
wan
et grindsiones
# in Lhe
sR Then Be
faculties shall
keen,
Ong
rv his visage,
he sheriff to sell
i ross, and
“ga ¥
3 al soe 1}
that the Philistine
it a file
. vs 4
+ Way of the tratisgrean
His nig
His end 3
iy saves 10 hat
wy shall
rarest frat nt
He
ihe fraits |
The! ligree i« made
The couell is a
warts
ies, err vad
arst the rin
Rrave,
rod
ale
ng
most apg man of his 4s
The Seripiure was his Jesibon] Foe ti
Bonmots to gall the Christians and the J
Af fide] when wel | Dt what when sek?
Oh. then a text would ach Bim 0 the quick
Seized with bemorrhage of the lungs in
Parise, where he bad gone to be crowned in
the theater a= an idol of all France, he sends
a messenger to get a priest that he may be
reconciled to the charch before he dies. A
great terror falls upon him. He makes the
place all round about him so dismal that the
nurse declares that she would not for all the
wealth of Europe see another infidel die
Philistine iniquity had promised him all the
world's garlands, bat in the last hour of his
afile. an
ie,
fo it was with Lord Byron, his uncieanness
in Bagland only surpassed by his unclean
ness in Venles, then going on to his brilliant
misery at Missolonghi, aad fretting at his
nurse, Fieteher, fretting at himself, fretting
at the world, fretting st God, and he who |
gave to the world “Childe Harold,” and
“Sardanapalus,” and ‘The Prisoner of
Chillon,” and “The Siege of Corinth,” re |
duced to nothing Hhif & fie!
Oh, sin has great facility for making prom-
has just as great facility for
breaking them. A Christian life is the only |
cheerful life, while a life of wicked surrender
Its painted glee
is sepulehral ghastiiness, In the brightest
days of the Mexioan Empire Montezuma
said he felt kaawing at his heart somethin
Hin, like a monster wild
beast of the forest, sometimes licks all over
its victim in order that the victim may be
more easily swallowed : but generally sin
raaps and galls and tears and upbraids and |
| files. Iz it not so, Herod? Is it not so, Hil. |
Is it not so, Robesplerre! Aye! |
“The way of the
History tells us that when Rome was |
fiying through the air, but when a trans. |
! flocks of them. Vultures! When I ses sin
{ robbing so many Joopia, and | soe them go-
| ing down day 37 y and week by week, 1
| must give a n warning. [I dare not keep
| it back lest I risk the salvation of my own
{ soul, Rover, the pirate, pulled down the
| warning bell on Incheape rock, thinking that
he would have a chance to despoil vessels
that were crushed on the rocks, but one
wicked thou shalt surely die, and thou
given lim not warning, 1 same man shall
in his iniquity, but his blood will I re-
quire at thy hands,”
I Jouen ftom this subjoct whit 4 as thing
it is when the church of God loses its
These Philistines saw that if they could only
get all the metallic out of the hands
of the Israelites all be well, and there
took the swords and the
| The chureh of Ged to-day wants more
backbone, more defiance, more consecrated
| bravery, more metal, How often you seen
man start out fn some good enterprise, snd
i nt the first blast of newspaperdom he has
collupsed, nnd all his courage gone, forget.
newspapers of the earth, with all their eol-
| aay permanent damage! It
man wrong that he can be damaged, Why,
God is going to vindiente His truth,
is going to stand by, you, my Iriends,
The Vraver Axle Grease,
of the UD, #0 bsoid in erry Bate snd coutity
1 thie Union, und is to day willow arrival, Lm
HMutions have been mute, all cin 10h 10 De Ax
as the Frager, thus virtually sdmitt ng
He vnoeriorit Every genvine package Hears
the trade mark, Dssler: ani consumers oan
thus distinguish the genul « from the imite
tion, and protect themnscly & against Jraua
Fed
When gossip bests the drom of the ear the
tonne the (une,
nue tel
| the salvation of men.
I 1 sometimes say to my wife: “There in
assanited me for three months
I will stir them up next Sunday.”
devil howls and howls, showing that
him very hoard, Go forth in the
Christ and do your whole duty, You
one sphere. 1 have another sphere,
| Lord of Hosts ix with us, and the
! Jacob is our refuge, Selah,”
We want more
Jonathan, Ido not suppose he was a very
wonderiul man, but he got on his knees and
clambered up the rock, and with the help of
i his armor bearer hs hewed down the
| Philistines, and a man of very ordinary in.
tellectual attainments, on his knees, san
i storm anything for God and for truth,
| We want something of the determination of
the general who went into the war, and as
he entered his first battle his knees knoeked
together. his physical courage not quite uj
to his moral conrage, and he looked down at
his knees and ssid, “Ah, if you knew where
I was going to take you, yon wi
worse than that! 2
“The
God of
the
aid shake
There is ouly one question for you
and for me to
to do? Where
work? Where is
prayer me ling!
what
tO Ask
What does God want u
fleld Where is the
anvil? Where i¢ the
Where is the pulpit
(rod wanis us
all the energies of
HL EN
the
the
finding out
shond and de
mind and soul enlisted in
brethren
"RUS
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it with sdl thy might
wisdom nor
whither we are all
neither Aevice
hastening
Ory
Israelites will ;
Hear
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I
in Disused Quarries,
FERTIL «
aiid a convenient lone
Moreover,
questions asked at 4
de nuit, such as “Who art thon?
From whenee cometh thon? What 1s
thy calling?’ And from all direc-
tions leading toward Paris they coms
in large numbers night, mud-be-
shattered, hollow-cheeked, worn out
with fatigue, and pumbered by hun
dreds as they descend into the quar-
ries, where, pressed pell mel
sguinst the other, they endeavor
contact to keep out the cold
largest number and deepest of these
disused quarries are in the neighbor
hood of Argentenil, and there it is that
the police often make their raids when
in search criminal who has
escaped capture, and who, i»
thought, may be hiding the
“muifrats.”’
up in
# pillow there are mn
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Barelooted Among Snakes,
While we are felling snake stories
the following good one comes Po us
from the mountain regions, E T
Dulin standing ss anthority. The
country between Little Big Black
Mountain is a ginseng region, and the
Parker family are noted as *‘sengers,
The girls go out barefooted in the
mountains, though the country is in-
fested with rattlesnakes and copper:
heads, and dig the ginseng, for which
they get good prices at the stores, and
from which it is taken to Pennington
Gap for shipment.
But along Clover Gap and np Rattle.
tiles. Beckie Parker is a girl,
nineteen years of age, strong, healthy-
rifle shot and is often seen with her
Winchester,
She goes after ginseng barefooted
and often alone. The roots are gath-
ered in May and September, and dur
ing the month just past she did a
thriving business. One day, however,
she came across a den of rattlesnakes,
She had only stones and sticks with
which to fight the desperate battle.
Some of the snakes were larger than »
man's arm, and few of them as large
as the oalf of a» man's leg. For
hours she fought them as they hissed
and writhed and rattled around her.
But the brave, determined girl battled
with them until she exterminated
one that did not snoceed in hid-
crevices of rocks and
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