®he . J INK 12. x Lesson 11. Tho Walk to Emmaus. Urn !M : 13—' W. IlolßM Tiit : —"AMI U>'.* >">• J" N ' , ! L "J R • not uur heart burn within ... while he Ulkl with ... by tbo way, an.l wl.il. !><• "I"""' •" "• ,h# B,r, l>- Central Truth . —Though often unrecog nised. Jesus is always near to his disci plea in their troubles. No other week so memorable has the world ever seen as that which included the events ot the last and present les sons. Chief among these events were the crucifixion and resurrection of our Saviour. These indeed were cen tral facts of the world's history. They constitute the one sure foundation of human gladness and hope. Irom them shines out the great light which cheers all our lives. Of our Saviour's appearances after his resurrection, the Gospels give no eon tinuous narrative. Nevertheless it is clear that these were many. They were to different persons, on various occa sions, under widely dissimilar circum stances. And they were most fully at tested. The record of them, though not continuous, is abundantly sufficient. With respect to these appearances it is to he observed that, in one particu lar, they were alike. Though he never showed himself apart from a bodily form, ho spoke and acted more as a spirit than ever before. There was something new in his manner of com ing and going. He suddenly revealed himself, and as suddenly vanished. Such changes had taken place in his body that those who had known him best did not recognise him at once. Had he not already entered upon a new mode of existence? His first appearance was to that Mary of Msgdala to whom much had been forgiven, and who for that reason loved much. Next he showed himself to , those other women who, with Mary, j were not only latest at the cross, but also first at the sepulchre. Then he was seen of I'eter, and after that of the two > disciples on the road to Kmmaus. Why were these two disciples thus j specially favored ? So far as appears, it j was simply because Jesus knew them a real disciples in great trouble. They ; had up to this time trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel. Now they were disappointed, distressed, ready to despair. Jesus had j been nailed to the cross. There were i strange rumors afloat, as that his tomb j had been found empty, and that angel I voices had affirmed that he was alive. Hut none of those who spread the ru- | mors had seen him. How could the j two, as they walked and talked along the weary road, be otherwise than de j jected ? Jesus saw this, and saw how ready they were to surrender all faith and hope. And it was like him to i come to them for their comfort and re assurance. One of the noteworthy things of this i narrative is the way he drew from them the confession of their sorrow and , doubts. He led them on to tell hun all. It was his way of preparing them for the help he would minister. God is j pleased that hia people should rehearse in his ear all their difficulties, doubts, sorrows and fears. Then we should not overlook the honor Jesus put upon the Old Testa ment Scriptures. He began at Moses and all the prophets. There he found very much concerning himself, predic tions both of his sufferings and his en- I trance to glory. The books of Moses are an important help to a right under standing of the meaning of the death upon the cross. The modern dispar agement of the Old Testament has no t warrant in the example of Christ. There is something very instructive in his reproof of the unbelief of these disciples. He did not excuse it. "O dull of understanding and sluggish of heart!" This was his exclamation.— Faith is a privilege. It is also a duty. We ought to believe. Not that we are called to a blind faith . by no means is this true ; for the proof of the truths of our religion are abundant. Neverthe less, faith is a duty, something for which we are to pray, and which we should studiously exercise. It is specially interesting to bear in mind that the .Saviour's visit to these disciples was as they walked and talked together concerning himself. Ho we make enough of religious conversation either at home, or in our visits and walks with friends ? I>o we sufficiently priwi the freedom of communion with fellow-disciples enjoyed in the prayer meeting? Those are good questions to ask and good points to press. It is in connection with social worship and re ligious conversation that Jesus loves to visit us. Then it is that he renews our courage, faith, hope and love, and makes our hearts burn with the new thought he wakea within us. WUCTICAI, SCOOESTIOKS, 1. Christ's love is for us as individuals. He knows and cares for each one of his people. I!e knows them by name. He regards their personal state. He knew all his diaciples, and was not forgetful of the two who walked alone toward Emmaus. 2. Otten he is present with hia disci ples when they are not conscious of bis presence. Is it not his .Spirit which moves them to pour thought and need into the divine ear? 3. Especially is he near to us in our times of trouble. He loves to make dark days bright. "His strength is in the clouds." 4. The death and rising again of Christ are the central truths of the Old Testa ment as well as the New. In all the Scriptures there are things concerning him. From the first there was an •'ought," a "needs be," that he should a ufTsr and enter into glory. Never, then, can these (ruths !>* safely put usido. Thoy are at tbo heart of vital piety. of them Christians should both meditate and talk. 5. To a right and full understanding of the Scriptures we need help. It is when Christ, by his Spirit, opens them to us that dark things are made light. G. Christian hospitality has its fre quent and great rewards. It is a good thing to break bread with those we love, and with the stranger, too, at times. 7. The Saviour is ready to bo a guest in all our homes. Honestly say : "Abide with us!" and he will not fail to enter. And in his felt presence there would be rich blessing. It would be u restraint upon selfishness and sin. It would deepen and purify love. It would sweeten our bread. It would always uplift and often thrill. It would light en sorrows und multiply joys. 8. And yet it is not his visible, bodily presence that we specially need, l'here were great reasons for an outward mani festation to his disciples after his resur rectiou, reasons which have now passed away. We need no such demonstration of that fact; therefore ho now visits us by his Spirit. He shows himself to the inner eye. Faith may see him always. There is no day or hour when the be liever may not sit and walk with the risen Saviour. M A 11 A X A 1 M . The Memorial Sermon dtlirrrr>l by the Kev. JOHN IIKWITT, before (St ' Mi, I tin- 1, of Ood ai"t bun "And "bi-n Jach t 1,.- >ld. Tbb Is Cl-ls and lis cll.-.| ibr tli> else* Slslis BAitU." "And I," dlTldxl tl," pn.plr tin,! was •ill, hint * • * Into to.. I, . | . i j,i i.Att of 7. In the whole marvelous range of holy felicities with which the page* of Hi- , vine Revelation are crowded, I can j think of no inspired line so befitting ' this occasion as that of my text. I take it for granted that this meeting of i tho members of the Grand Army of the ! Republic is in some respects a memorial' meetiny; a meeting held in memory of days and scenes and trials anil hard ships and dangers through which the Lord led you with safety ; and, which have secured the blessings of happiness and prosperity to our common country. The spiritual meeting ulso, so to speak, of men who "escaped tbo edge of the sword" in the late civil war. with men . who "counted not their lives dear unto j themselves," but yielded them up and : placed tliern as willing sacrifices upon ' the altar of their country. And, ad nutting that this is such a meeting, my brethren, then, according to our belief as to the nature of the unseen world and the character of its inhabitants, the name of this place, for tho present, shall be " MaKanaim" —the place of th \ meeting of "two hosts tho one seen, the other unseen. The one sitting hero, still clothed in tho habiliments of the flesh, the other lying yonder, covered with the dust of their mother earth, in the city of the dead. Indeed the name of this place for the present '/Vail be to u M i : i 1 also. It shall tie the place meet- ' ing of that host to meet an angry brother J*at host of angels whiclA with them to guard t it is from this to edification, rattier than from principles and questions in the fratricidal contest which try to forget, in the light of what it cost: but, from which patriotism draws fresh in spiration in the presence of what it purchased. For it was never well for ' the world when the pulpits, designed j for the oracles of the iios|-l of pence, rung out with battles and alarms, and the soft and still trumpet of meekness and charity, which should sound from thence, was outnoised and drowned with the thunder of drums and the roaring of cannons. The commission of the Christian minister instructs hun to ]>ut on no armor, but "the whole armor of Juvuwn but Mahanaolh. And the difference is of this nature: that he speaks of the angelic company and his own company as constituting Iso to speak), a pair of camps. The two which went together, because they were in their nature two ; because they could not be either more or fewer, and, because they would be incomplete, one without the other. It is somewhat a* when a man speaks of his two eyes, his two hands, meaning both hi* eyes, both tiis hands, and not two eyes and two hands out of many others. I say, when Jacob divides hi* family into two com panies, it is no longer Mahanaim, but Mahaniaoth, that he calls them. In number they were two, but in nature tliev were one. In otlier words, the angels of God and Jacob's company, made up in hi* estimation "a pair of camp*;" but bin divided followei* con stituled two camps. Now, my hearers, the inference which I proj>ose to draw from this very inter esting circumstance, lie* almost upon the nurface, and |>erhap* you have ul ready drawn it for voumelve*. It i* concerning the Guardianship of Angel* and God's use of Angel* in Hi* dealings wiih men. Here is an admission on the part of Jacob, or heie is an assertion, rather, of the doctrine long afterward* express ly laid down by the I'salmist, that "the angel of the I.ord encampeth round about those that fear Hun." And, it is worthy of notice that the I'nalmist uses exactly the same word to express it a* that used in the text. Jacob indeed confesses without confession, that he and hi* are under the guardianship of an invisible host, sent by the Ixrd of Hosts to sustain, protect and defend them. Could it have been the same company of angels which he saw near the same place twenty years fefore. when on hi* way down to I'adan Aram, ascending and descending on the ladder which reached to heaven ? It is true the word do not necessarily imply the presence of armed warriors; but, I think it is a somewhat frigid Ihvinity which doe* not see hero the sunie image convoyed by the thrice repeated de scription of "the angel with a drawn sword "the Captain of the lord's Hostour lord's mention of "twelve legions ol angel*;" and, the sublime allusion to that heavenly war when "Mirheil end tun tuig<-I fought against the I>ragon." So that Jaoob will have iwn the twin encampment* (so to (peak)—the earthly an>l the heavenly —over against each other: thia, weak an'l unarmed and needing protection ; that, excelling in (tower and might, able and eager to protect. Ar.d when he called the place where the blessed vision of these celestial warrior* met hi* *ight, "MaAanaim," he will have further professed with grati tude and joy unutterable, that God had indeed been faithful to all hi* promise* ; that the defenceless company which he had brought up from I'adan Aram. w the undoubted object <>l heavenly guardianship, the special care of that armed and |iowerful host of heaven ; that the one belonged to the other, in deed, had been committed to them even by the Lord of Host* Himself, to be regarded a* their own (>eculiar charge. And then, again, when by the direc tion of an angel, a* we believe, the com pany of Jacob was divided into "two band*," waa there not a symbolic allu sion hern, to that division of all man kind into two companies, "two camp*," the living and the dead, the church militant and the church triumphant ? For, waa not one part of Jacob * com pany-—one camp—*ent in advance over the river in the belief that it would be smitten and slain, and that the other, remaining on this aide, would escape and so be saved alive? And does any greater significance attach to this cir cumstance from the fact that thia trans action occurred on the hanks of the river Jordan, which is so commonly used to represent the river of death ? Mv brethren, are any more worda needed to make the application of thia matter to the present occasion more clearly understood f If so, I would that at thia moment the Holy Spirit might inspire me with power to express them. I ask you, old soldier*, to think of that leave-taking which twenty years ago you made with your relatives and friends, and which formed such an af fecting prelude to a journey into that part of your own country where dwelt your then angry brother; when fath ers, who had taught you to fear God, reverence your rulers and love your country and obey its laws, faltered out their "good bye and be brave" with the same breath ; when fond mothers, who had built air castles over your heads und tilled them with high hopes, fell almost fainting upon your necks and poured forth their burning blessings upon your self sacrificing souls in tears which their troubled hearts distilled; when brothers and sisters and friends, who had learned to think that happi ness in life depended upon companion ship with you, stood around and punc tuated your parents expressions with sympathetic sobs. I ask you to think of that division of your very great com pany into the "two camps which the Angel of Heath made upon the hanks of that Jordan which separates this life from the lite to come ; when many of your comrades fell out from the ranks, and, by the Captain of the lord'* Host which followed you, were formed into another cnm/i on tiie farther side of the river; when you stooped over then mangled forms and gazed into their tear dimmed eyes and caught the dy ing words which you brought buck to the dear ones at home. Yes! at this lime I ask you to think even more than ever, also, of that An gelic host, the other member of the pair ot camps—your other half, so to speak— which hovered about you by day and by night as the pillurs of tiie cloud and the tire followed and went before the Israelites in the wilderness. Think of that armed host of heavenly soldiery, forming solid phalanxes of celestial al lies, which fought for you and tnih you in unseen order, as "the stars in their courses'' fought for and with I'arak and Hehorah against Sisera. For, the nio.it important consideration of t tin memorial occasion, in that your presence here to 'lav, in view of all the peril* you panned through an men of war, is dt'C to the guardiunship of God's Ilont, tlie Angela whioh met you in the hour when you met your angry brother, delivered you out of hi* hand, and ail the yearn since that time have been your helpers and defenders. A* you nit here in thin sacred p.enencc you may be, the better able to realize this solemn truth, than when the excitement occa sioned by the cla*h of arms, the sound of drums, the roar of cannon and the shriek* of the wounded and dying engaged your mind*. And, if we turn to the Holy l'.jhle for further proof of thin guardiannhip of angels than that we have already found in the text, we shall be surprised to find how much ha* been revealed to us concerning the ministration* of those exalted beingn in the affair* of men. From the day when they were seen by Adain in anger; when they came to Abraham in mercy ; or, met Jacob in hi* anxious suspense in regard to the treatment he might expect from Knatl; or. rendered aid to Joshua and the Judge* of Urea! ; or, destroyed the host* of Sennacherib ; or, sjtoke comforting word* to I'aruel; until the very close of the sacred record, Angel* have been prominent actor* in the most interest mg and important events, and I believe they are *o still. They are active to rescue (tod's chil dren from danger ; to afford them as sistance in season of trial, and toad minister comfort in the hour of death. Try then to believe, my brethren, that triumph to the arms you bore to pre serve the government, was wrought, not by your own. but by supernatural strength. It wan liod who "girded you with strength to battle." It sit (iod who by the Angelic army He sent to be with you. delivered your souls from the battle th*t wan against you. No l'amacu blade of Saracen, or axe of fixer ilf I.um could have done what you achieved without the help of God. No armor of human invention or subtle element of nature could have enabled you to escape what you escafw-d without the ioter|>o*itinn of a supernatural pow er. I.ift up your hearts, therefore, and confes* in the word* of the I'salmist "Thou, ( l-ord. didn't cover my head in the day of battle" •••• Hut bear in mind, my brethren, that such special sign* of God's favor do not exempt men from the need* and suffer nig* of ordinary life. Men may, indeed, bring up past help a* a plea for present need, Hut those who have been highly honored by the extraordinary tokens of < tod's favor, may Ixj brought down to the level of ordinary men by some common place want. Samson slew a thousand men with so mean an instru ment as the jawbone ol an ass, but he would afterwards have died of thirst himself had not God provided him drink in a miraculous way. In like manner, you who have had God's spe cial guardianship Ixstowed u|*>n you in the midst of great dangers, may he ready to die eternslly for want of the water of that spiritual life which flowed from the Itedeetner'a side st the point of the Itoman soldier's spesr. You sre still in the midst of danger. You are still needing help from lleaven. The great enemy of soul* with drawn sword defies the srmies of the living God. Goje out to meet him with the same coursge which chsrscierised your con duct in the day of battle ; not in your own strength, but in the strength of the Ixml of Host*. Your fellow countrymen have flower* to strew at your leet and upon your comrade*' grave*. They have gratitude to write in golden letter* upon the blood-red *lri|>e* of the Star Spangled banner which you brarely defended. They hare plaudit* for your achieve ment* to pa*a down to their children from generation to generation. Hut what are all these compared with that joy which ahall be expressed "in the pretence of the Angel* of God orer one inner that repenteth" and orercometb Satan f And, aa in the world, the man who haa met an enemy and measured sword* with him and overcome him ia held in higher esteem than he who sim ply avoid* conflict, and seek* instead personal comfoit* and worldy wealth, •o in Heaven it shall be that he who haa tought with Satan and overcome the inoat sin in himself shall receive the richest reward* and be crowned with the costliest crown. Wherefore, I say unto you, "Put on the whole armor of God. "Fight the good flght o! faith." "Quit you like men." "He strong in the I/ord and in the |>ower of hi* might." Stand should er to shoulder in the ranks of Christ's army. Execute the orders of the great Captain of your salvation with that precision of movement which shall dis cover the carefulness of your religious discipline. Follow with unfaltering steps the uplifted standard of the Grose, Heboid tho battalions of Angelic sol diery marching along the battlements of Heaven's high fortress, hearing tho shield of your defence, encouraging you to deeds of moral bravery, llathe your sword* in Christ'* righteousness ami then bury them in Satan'* bre*t. And when the Archangel shall descend upon the battle field of Time to sound the Resurrection reveille, in company with those comrades who have crossed the river before you and now sleep in .Jesus, you shall rue to a lite of eternal peace ; (for there shall be no more war); and you *hall march through eternity to the music of cherubim and seraphim, sweet-swelling with the strains of praise for those who have conquered in tho fight. In the meantime, my brethren, your fellow countrymen will engrave upon their hearthstones, to he read by their children's children, tin* grateful ex preaaion : "Sm'tr cr in lo krep ut m all our wage. 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