Sunday Discourse by Dr. Chapman, the Noted Pastor-Evangelist. ‘A Gospel Message Filled With Sweetness and Help—We Get Only the Half of Things at Best. 2 ' [The Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, D. 10, is now the most distinguished and best known evangelist in the country. He was second only to Dr. Talmage, but since the death of that famous preacher Dr. Chap- man has the undisputed possession of the Pulpit as the preacher to influence the plain people. His services as an evangel- ist are in constant demand. His sermons have stirred the hearts of men and women to a degree unapproached by any latter- day divine. J. Wilbur Chapman was born in Richmond, Ind., June 17, 1850. He was educated at Oberlin College and Lake For- est University, and graduated for the min- istry from the Lane Theological Semin- ary, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1882. His ser- mons are simple and direct, so that their influence is not so much due to exciting the emotions as to winning the hearts and, convincing the minds of those who hear him. Dr. Chapman is now in charge of the Fourth eo Church, New York City.] NEW York Ciry.—The following sermon is one prepared for publication by the Rev. J. Wi bur Chapman, America’s best- known evangelist, who is now preaching to overflowing congregations in his city. It is entitled “The Bow in the Cloud,” and is founded on the text, Genesis 9: 13, “I do set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth.” It may seem at first thought as if this were a queer text to choose from which to give a gospel message, and yet all the works of God are so wonderful that one has but to get the key to unlock the door leading into them to find them filled with sweetness and with help. The rainbow is no exception to this rule. It is hardly possible for one to look upon the bow that spans the clouds after a storm without an exclamation of delight. One would think that it would grow mo- | notonous, for we have seen it many | times, but quite the opposite is true. Sun- sets differ; they are as unlike as two things | could possibly be. Indeed, it must be true that one is never like the other. But rain- bows are always the same. And yet i spite of this we are charmed as we lool and inspired as we i The first men text. It is not time the rainbow has appeare the very nature of the case it been in existence since the wo to be, but this 18 said to be the first use of it. The last mention of a rainbow Revelation 4: 3: “And He that sat was to look uponlikea jasper and a sardine stone; and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight hike unto an erald.” You notice that the expression rd “round about the throne,’ and here for the first time we find a rainbow in a complete circle. We have only seen the half of it here, which is surely an illustration of the fact that in this world at best we only get the half of things. We only get the half of truth. Take the great doctrine the Atonement; who is able to understand it? But it is very helpful to know that we are mot obliged to understand it, but only to receive it. God is satisfied with it, and He fully comprehends it, and when we stand with Him in glory we shall see the other half of the bow, and our hearts shall rejoice. We only see the half of life here. At its best it is a mystery, Over and over again, when we wanted to go to the right we were compelled to turn to the left, and & thousand times because of our perplexi- ties and trials we have cried ond “How can these things be?” But we must learn the lesson that we must trust Him where we cannot under stand Him. The day will come, when ai‘e at His feet we shall see the other #0 d, for from has always elds in § of alf of the bow of our life, and we shall ow indeed that all things have worked ether for good. ¢ last mention of the bow in Revela- tion tells us that it is to be like an emer- ald. This is certainly very strange, for one has never beheld a green rainbow here. Six other eolors Toll added to it to make it complete. The color, however, is not without its suggestiveness. Green is the color that always rests the eye, It is for this reason that the hillsides, the aving betnohes of the tree, and the grass beneath our feet, are so restful on a sum- mer day. Is not this a hint that heaven is a place of rest as well as beauty? ere are three primal colors in the rainbow, red, yellow and blue. If you drop the red and put the yellow and blue together fou have green as a result. Red is the color of sufierifig. Borely it is a hint as to the thought that when ome passes through the gates of pear] he leaves suffering behind him. There is to be no red mark in heaven. Christ finished His sufferings upon Calvary, and never a pan shall meet Him again. We finish our suf ferings, too, when we say good-bye to this weary road we have traveled, and the gate of heaven that shuts us in shuts suffering out. I1-THE CLOUD. We know what the cloud was for Noah for this text which I have quoted has to o with him), and a cloud in Noah's day was not unlike the cloud of yesterday: but in the thought of the sermon the cloud #10. It would make one heartsick to read the history of sin. First, in the world, i ning with Adam, going to Noah, reachin the howling gh about he cross on Sa . vary, coming down to the present day when the whole world seems to be toue with ite power, the most terrible thing in the world is sin. , in the home, plighting and blasting that which is a gz of heaven, and wrecking that which meant to be a safe vesse to carry us through the turmoils and strife ever round about us. Third, in our own heart, giving us wrong Sunteptions of God, and drag. gps us toward hell, even against our will. e blackest thing in all the world is sin. e cloud does two things: (1) It ob scures the sun, cloud of sin does the same thing. No one ever yet has had a true vision of Jesus Christ with the least particle of sin in his or life, “Blessed ire the pure in heart, for they shall see A poor fellow converted in one of the ns in Chicago, who was thought be- fore his conversion to be hardly worth the saving, was so wonderfully transformed that a committee waited him to find the secret of his changed lile. He answered their question in just one sentence: have seen Jesus.” This vision ever changes the life and I ee als h e cloud com us to see thin in a false light. or made the works pr His hands to be seen in the sunlight. We must not judge them under the cloud. And with the cloud of sin across a man’s mind can have no conception of the ible; he must certainly be prejudiced st the church. Beatter the darkness that hovers over your mind, and the Bible will become to you very thought of Gad, while the church will compel your ad- GOD CAST "To see a bow three things are be a pin we al 's sin. Becond, the turneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud that it may give seed to the sower, anc bread to the eater; so shall My Word be that goeth forth out of My mouth; it shall not return unto Me veid, but it shall ac complish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” Or, we might Ry iat in order that we may be saved, ‘we must acknowledge ourselves to be sinners. This ia the cloud. Second, we must have some conception of God's hatred of mn. This is the light. Third, we must be persuaded that He loved us and gave Himself for us. This is the rain. With these conditions met, the bow of promise spans the cloud of a sinful life. I1.-THE SEVEN COLORS. If I should hold a prism in my hand and the light of day should touch it, there would be refracted at once seven colors, as follows: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. There never has been a rainbow in this world but these have been seen in more or less prominence, In my message now, the prism is the cross, and the light is God's truth. As it strikes this long prism it breaks up into seven colors Srhe seven together give us the rainbow, First, forgiveness. Pralm 32: 1.—“Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.” The word forgiven means taken off. What a wonderful thought it is! Oh, what a load of sin we bad to carry! How it did weigh us down! How day and night we went crying aloud, saying, “Oh, wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me?’ Resolution never fitted it a particle, Reformation only seemed to make it heav- ier. Then He came, and stooped down, or whispered to us just one sweet word, “Forgiven!” and when we realized it the burden was taken off. To receive all of this we have but to vield to God. Trying to make ourselves better only adds to the cloud and deepens our despair. The second color is cleansing. Psalm 51: 7—" “Purge me with hyssop, and 1 shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow." The little bunch of hyssop carries us back to the Pasgover night, when the lamb was slain and its blood collected. It was not said that one should take a brush, but a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood and sprinkle the posts of the door. The commonest thing that grew in the East was hyssop. It represents faith. One 1 and stoop down to pluck a bunch of hys- sop. The commonest thing in all this world is faith. We ve faith in each other, whether we express it in this word and the faith that one has in his her, in his father, in wife or husband, irned toward Jesus Christ would save soul. It is one thing to be forgiven, but » éolor deepens, and the truth sweetens n we know that because of the shed #t we may be made ) Jesus Christ His cleanseth us from all sin” third color is justification. 285—-"Who was delivered for our was raised again for our jus 4 Of 3 he offences, and tification.” One might i iv sure of his for giveness, and know that it meant taken off, and might be confident of his cleapsing, but there is the memory of the old life of failure which is ever to him like # shackle when be would run to God. Jus tification is sweeter by far than anything we have yet learned. When Christ rose for our justification He stood before God as a kind of receipt (as John Robertson has said), and when (sod looks upon that receipt He knows the bill is paid “Jesus paid it all. All to Him I owe. Sin had left a bitter stain, He washed it white as snow.” But justification is even better to me than this, for when one is justified before God he actually stands as if be never had sinned. The fourth color 1s—sins covered by the sen. Micah 7: 18—-"He will turn again, He will have compassion upon us; He will sub due our iniquities; and Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.” It is very comforting to know that there are some depths in the ocean so deep that they can never be sounded. Our sins must have gone as deep There is also another thought of com- fort; if a body is cast into the ocean where the waters are not very deep, when the storms come and the ocean 1 in a fury, the storm, as if with giant hands, takes the dead body and casts it upon the shore But there are depths in the sea so great that no storm that has ever yet swept across the face of the deep has stirred the waters. Thanks be unto God, our sins may be sunk #0 deep in the sea that they will never be cast up against us again. The color deep ens and the truth grows sweeter still. The fifth color ia—sins removed. Psalm 108: 12—""As far as the east is from the west, #0 far hath He removed our trans gressions from us.” It has been proved that the distance from east to west conld never be meas ured. This is certainly inspiring. But there is something better for me than this in the fifth color, for when I am told that my sins are as far from me as the east is from the west I know that the east and the west can never be brought together; nor can the saved sinner and his pardoned fins ever meet again. The sixth color is Isaiah #4: 22-1 have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgres sions, and, as a cloud, thy sins; return un- to Me, for I have redeemed thee.” A man cannot blot out his own sins, Some have tried it with their tears, and have lost their reason. Bome have at tempted it by works of mercy, and have ven up in despair. But God can easily o it. For sing to be blotted out may mean the same as for man’s account to be blotted out. I may have a bill charged against me on the books, but if on the op- posite wide is credited a sufficient sum of money to meet the indebtedness, it is blotted out. But the expression must mean more than this. I$ means that when one’s sins are blotted out by God they are as if thay never had been. e seventh color seems the climax of all. Ezekiel 33: 16—""None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned un- to him; he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.” We have an idea that, although our sins have been forgiven and we may have been justified, when the at day of judgment comes we may be obliged to meet them all again, But this 1s not true. Once and for all hath He put away sin by the sac- rifice of Himself, and the sins of our lives shall not again be mentioned to us, IV~GOD'S COVENANT. The bow was God’s covenant then. Now God’s covenant is His Word, and upon this Word we may depend. Notice the number of times God uses the expression, “1 will,” in Exodus 6: 68; . “Wherefore, say unto the children of fins 1 will redeery you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments; and I will take you to Me for a Je, and 1 will be to you a ; and ye shall know that I am the your God, which bringeth Jou out from under the burdens of the tians. And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob; and I will give you it for an herit- age; I am the Tw @ ever waits to fill the covenant which He bas made with Christ concerning us. Ii we would have the joy of salvation, we need but two things; first, we must be- lieve God } popatever out fetlings, may be, we mus eve; secon: v we must net as if we believed Finn, ¥ one § us life. gives us joy in life's possession. age, and aie TD 2334 bora io. vommand, snd COMMERCIAL REVIEW, General Trade Conditions, R. G. Dun & Cos “Weekly Review” Says: “At a time when consumptive de- mands surpass all previous records in the nation's unfortunate that Yet that labor history, it is production should be curtailed, 1s the present situation. Fires, stopped work at many points, greatly reducing the output. controversies and a tornado “Prices of commodities on May 1, as shown by Duns index number, rose te the highest point in recent years, gaining 0.3 per cent, over the corresponding date last year, but this week there has beep a material decline in some products, no- tably grain. “Failures numbered 21¥ 187 last year, and 24 in Canada, against 26 last week States, for the in the United against year,” Bradstreet's “Copious rains, while not repairing all the damage to Winter wheat done by the recent drought in Kansas, seem to have put the rest of the crop out of anything like immediate danger. It has also placed the ground in excellent condition for the latter crops, such corn and oats. Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ag- gregate 3,302,240 bushels, against 5,308. 155 last week and 4,198,872 last vear. Wheat exports, July 1, 1001, to date (forty-five weeks), aggregate 219,167, G02 bushels, against 170,850,600 last sea- SON Corn exports aggregate 120,758 bushels, against 128679 last week and 1.583.831 last year. July 1, exports are 25655610 against 157,017,542 last season.” Says: as corn bushels, LATEST QUOTATIONS, lour—Spring clear, $3.15a335; $4.80; choice Family, $4.05. t—New York Ne 2, Belial best : Baltimore York N¢ 2. GR, - Phil 2, 63 %abzc; Baltimore No. ia- retabies box, $1 it, per Early mher crate Yor a Eggplants ‘rate, $2 soa 1.00. Green peas Ho Asparagus, dozen, 21 oS ring da, per basket, $1 toes, Florida, per 6-basket carne $£20032.30. Beets Rhubarb, native, per Spinach ive, per bus] Spring onions, per 100 i Squash, Florida, per bushel box, Apples, New York, mi sorts, per bar- rel, $17ta42s Oranges, California, Seedlings, per box, $2.25a31.25: do, do, Navels, per box, $1253400 Strawber- ries, North and South Carolina, per qt., Bat4c; do. Charleston, per quart, 10a14c: do, Norfolk, per quart, 10a18¢C Potatoes White, Marvland Pennsylvania, per bushel, Ne do, do do, per bushel. seconds. *Oa7ec ; do, New York, per bus best stock, gsaolc : do, do do. I, seconds, 7zaloc ; do, prime, 9sagBc ; do, new Florida, per barrel, No 1, Sq00a500; do, do do, per barrel, sec- onds, $2.50a1.50. Sweets, Eastern Shore Virgima, per trucl barrel, 1.75a4.00 Eastern Shore Maryland, per barrel, fan cy, $375a400. Yams, North Carolina, per barrel, fancy, $3.00a1 350 Provisions — Bulk shoulders, short rib sides, 10c; do clear sides, 10%: bacon nib 15¢; do clear sides, 1114¢; bacon shoulders, 0i5c. Fat backs, O¥c. Sugar cured breasts, 12%¢: Sugar cured shoulders, olic Hams—Stpall, 13c; large, 13c. Smoked skinned hams, 14¢; piemic hams, ol4ec. Lard-—Best re fined, pure, in tierces, 1034c: in tubs, 11¢ per Ib Mess pork, per bbl, $1R <0 Butter — Separator, 23324: Gathered Cream. 22a23: Imitation, 19820: Prints, i-1b, 24225: Rolls, 2-1b, 23a24; Dairy pts. Md. Pa, Va. —a23 Eggs. —Fresh laid eggs, per dozen, 15 attic Ave Poultry.—~Hens, 10%ariVic: old roosters, each, 25a30c; spring chickens, 25a30c; winter chickens, per 1b, 16a20c: young chickens, 12a13c. Ducks, 10a13c. Turkey hens, 13a16¢; do, young gobblers t4c; do, old toms, 12c. Geese, cach, soa 75¢ Cheese.—~New York State cheddars, t1'sat134c; do do flats, 1134a12¢; do do small, 12a12%4c. Ohio—Flats, 10%ari1c; do picnic, 11%4a12¢. Skims, garoc. Swiss cheese, 14a14%c. Hides. —Heavy steers, association aad salters late kill, 60 Ibs and up, close se- lection, 10a10%; cows and light steers S8a8l4c, green, new ! Vs § nat , 252 30¢ H0ah5c 75asn hes, and 1, RoaRsc ; Wesetern, per bushel oc; do, sides Live Stock. Chicago, ll. —~Cattle—Strong and ac- tive; good to prime steers, $680a7.45; poor to medium, $5.00a6.75 ; stockers and feeders, $2753.50; cows, $1.50a6.00. Hogs—Strong and sc to 10¢ higher ; mix- ed and butchers, $6.00a7.20; good to choice heavy, $7.15a7.30. Sheep—Strong ; lambs higher; good to choice wethers, $5.75a6.25; Western sheep, $5256.25; native lambs, $4.75a6.60; Western lambs, $5.2526.65. East Liberty Cattle steady; choice $6.70a6.85 ; prime $6.35a6.60; good $5.70 a6.20. Hogs steady, prime heavy, $7.25 7.30; best mediums, $7.08a7.15; heavy Yorkers, $6.05a7.00. Sheep steady; prime wethers, $7.50a7.90; culls and common, $2.50n3.30: choice lambs, $6.60a6.80; veal calves, $5.50a8.75. BAIA, LABOR AND INDUSTRY The Ohio legislature passed a police and fire pension bill, Marion, Ind, chain workers won afters nine weeks’ strike. Chicago bricklayers new get 55 cents an hour, In New York they are paid 6% cents, Massachusetts house of representa- tives passed the bill making eight hours the limit on all city work, Mr. Mulock has introduced a bill in the Canadian legislature providing for compulsory arbitration in cases of rail- labor disputes. Unrecorded History, Cleopatra languidly raised her droop- ing eyelids and asked the attendant: “1f a rattlesnake rattles, can you tell me would a garter snake hold up your stocking ?" The slave, being unable to answer, has- tened to the menagerie for a specimen to sxperiment with, but brought back the wrong kind by accident. Whereupon the reptile fastened its fangs on the fair Rueen's person, and the evening extras Tontained the news of her death. It Would Just Sait Him. “l see that a theater has been built shat has its stage on a revovling plat- form.” “Revolving platform! Great Scott! 1'd tke to have something of that kind my self.” “You! 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