gr * fis be sure that we love him, re a. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. From the New York Observer, INCERNATIONAL LESSONS, BY REV, HENLEY M. GROYY, D, D, June 15.—The Blessedness of Believers, — Romans 8: 28-39. Texr,.—We know that all things work together for good to theo t «at love God,—Rom 8:28, GoLoeN There is a wonderful contrast be: tween the seventh and eighth chapters of this Epistle. The transition from the one to the other is like that from darkness to light, from cowplrin' fo sing. In the one, we see man a streigf gling captive to the law of sins dRSkstbh, in the other, that same man freed from condvmnation, resoued from bondage, a jabilant helr of God and joint heir with Crist, “If Holy Scripture were a ring and the Epistle fo the Romans its precious stone, chapter eight would be the sparkling point of the jewel.” Tue entire chapter is full of the B ¢ssedness of Believers; but the thought ¢ thersas it advances and culminates in these concluding verses. The “and,” wit which the pussage opens, points to toat which he is now to name as in s vue sense the crown of all the elements of that blessedness of which one can thick. What is it? “And we know that all things work tovether for good to them that love God.” Note the comprehensiveness of the saying: “all things.” We are not to sup rose that the all includes our own sin, which is resistance to God's will our delay to repent, our unfsithfulness or unbelief. The reference to “the suf- ferings of this present time"(18); to things which may seem tobe against us. Not these alone, says the Apostle, but all things are not only not against us but forus. And how comprehensive that saying is! It includes the things we most dread and lament as well as those we welcome and delight in: losses sicknesses, disappointments, defeats, privations as well as their opposites, our place and lot in life, all changes and events, the forces of the universe, Observe the pbrase ** work together; as if things were so many living persons planning and cooperating in the be. liever's interest. They are in partner. ship for his advantage. That circum. stance of long years ago conspires with thisone of to-day. We cannot see their mutal relation, but it exists, Observe, too, the purpose of all this —for geod; not our ease, or comfort, or glory, or fame, or suecess in business, or present riches, or the gratification of passion or pride, but eur “good’; our truest, highest, enduring joy snd well being. Further on we shall see more of what this ie. Nor should we omit to nole of whom all this is true;—them that love God. This universe isarranged with reference to such as are in harmony with God's will; is in alliance with such. Do not glide over this phrase, for itis very im. portant. The “called here are the invit- ed who have been moved {0 accept. It is easy to raise perplexing questions at this roint, But this is needless. We can all tell whether we have heeded. #8 well as hes. the divine call, whether or no we love God. That is the main point; a point of the highest and most enduring cobcern. It might have been enough for the Apostle to stop here, but he has chosen togoon to unfdld snd further im press the glorious truth indicated. This he does by reminding us that the particular blessedness of which he is speaking, is— 1. Assured by God's gracious and eternal plan (29-31).—It is “according to his purpose.” Nothing is left to chance. And now that this has sinned, and fal. len awny from him, God's plan is to gather out from it a great, happy and glorified family. It is of that that the Apostle here speaks. First God fore. knows, theo he predestinates, calls and justifies, and finally glorifies, * Observe what the glory is, “10 be con. formed to the image of his son, that he might be the first born among many brethren.” Christ is that “image of 8 lender” to which (rod would conform us, and a place in the divine family, w'th Christ as an elder brother, is the inheritance to which he would bring us, This, if we think how much it means, will sem to be what it isthe bighest possible glory, But now our temptation will be to turn aside, from the comfort sad strength this revelat on was intended to afford us, to endles, unprofitable, and turtful speculation as to how fore koowledge and free will are to be har Both are facts. Thoughtful The wisest lave failed trexplain them, We kuow we are free, and porsonally responsible, We wre told that God hes a wonderful pur pose to bring many sons to glory, and that if we love him we syobertainly of their happy pumber. bt is enough to 5 wow simply this, Our Chreern now fs Our come ~ fort wow is that, loving him he is “for 1onized, men see this, us,” and “if God be for us who can be against us,” Again, this blessedness iB— 92. Pledged by God's costly gift of his son (32-34).—The argument, piesented in the form of a question, is brielbut irres- istible, “He that spared not his own son,sbut delivered him up also freely give usall things "' The allusion is clear: ly to the sacrifice on the cross. Note the phrases, “spared not.” *‘delivered him up.” It was a costly thing which God did on our behalf. The gift was the greatest in his power. His heart was in it. It was “his own son'’ whom he spared not, but delivered up. But so great a gift, with so much love in it, is a demonstration that no lesser one will be withholden, If he did not spare that which was so costly, how “freely” will he give all else! Nor does the argument end here. Those, for whom he has done this, and who have by faith consented to it, are his chosen, elect, favorite ones. He has justified, pardon- ed and accepted them, ‘Who shall now lay anything to their charge? The law cannot [condemn them. Let foes do their worst, they are safe. All things are their allies. Yet again, this blessed. nees is— 3.8 Made certain i what Christ has done and is doing on our behalf (34-39).—With Meyer and some others, we may connect verses thirty-four and thirty-five. “Itis Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us: who shall separate us from the love of Christ?" Having expiated ou, sins on the cross Christ has risen fro, the dead, and asgended to the right hand of God. He is their as our living Saviour in the place of power, And he is their as our representative, to intercede for us, to express his will in our behalf, “hand over all things to his church” we are elsewhere told. From such love what can separate us? It is unchanga- ble ; it is all powerful. He cannot desert us in our trials snd perils. He wisely allows ills to overtake us, but is with us in the midst of them s!l, In life ordeath, in space or time, in this world or other worlds, there is no power able to separate us from might and love of God, which is Christ Jesus our lord,” which makes the final glory of believers sure ; which makes it certain that by means of seem- ing ills aswell as seeming good, he is preparing us for it. PRACTICAL SUGGRSTIONS, 1. The belicyershould never despair or repine under afféctions. 2. There is cheer and strength in knowing that our salvation does not depend on ourselves alone. 3. God's purpose will never save us if we do not ourselves repent, believe, and go on to obey, 4 From what God has done to save us we may see estimate of the value and peril of our souls. 5. If God spared pot his son that so we might be.saved, what ought we todo to save other? 6 God gives grace to help, as well as pardoning mercy, not reluctantly but “freely.” Ask, and ye shall recsive, &7. The blessed em of believers cannot be expressed by_ worde, nor grasped in thought. God is for us ; is earnestly for us ; nothing but our own unbelief and sin can[come between ue and the prom’ jsed glory. The Swallows Nest, The celebrated Baron Cuvier, when a young man, was tutor in & pobleman's family. His own room overlooked the garden, and every morning st break of day he opened his window to inbale the} refreshing sir, One morning be observed that two swallows had begun to build their nest in the very corner of his little window. The male bird brought the moistened clay in his beak which the female kneaded, and with the addition of some chips of straw and hay she built her little lodging with wonder, fal skill, As root as the nest wan fio. ished they departed to a neighboring wood, and did not return till the end of twelve or fifteen days, Alas! changes had taken place during their absence, While the swallows wore laboring so busily in building a house, Cuvier bad noticed two sparrows perched!at a short distance, busily watoh- ing (hem. Whea the swallows went for their country excursion the sparrows took no pains to conceal their odious schemes; they impudently took posses. sion of the vest which was empty, and without an owner to defend it, and established themselves there as though they had been its builders, Cuvier observed that the cunning sparrows were never both out of the nes: at the same time, One of the uturpers always remained a4 seotioel, with his bead placed at the opening which served for a door and with his large beak interdiot- od the entrance of any other bird, ex. cept his companion, “The swallows returned in due time to their pest; and thir suprise may be imagined at finding the nest, on which they had bestowed sw'much care, ooou pi: and anger, rushed upon the mest to chase away the usurpers, but he found himself met by the formidable beak of the sparrow who at that moment guard. ed the stolen property. What could the slim beak of the swallow do against the powerful pincers of the sparrow, armed with a double and sharpened point? Very soon the poor owner, dispossessed and beaten back, retreated with his head covered with blood, and his neck nearly stripped of its feathers, He returned to the side of his wife, with whom he appeared for some min: utes to hold counsel after which they flew away into the air and quickly’ dis appeared, The female sparrow came back soon after ; the male recounted sll that had passed, snd both seemed highly delight. ed. Presently the female went forth again, and collected in baste a much larger quantity of provisions than usual ; and after having completed the supplies for a siege two pointed beaks instead of one defended the entrance to the nest. Cries, however, began to fill the air, and an assemblage of swallows gather. ed together on a neighboring roof. Cuv. ier distinctly recognized the dispossess- ed couple, who appeared to relate to each new-comer the robbery of the spar. row. In a little while two hundred swallows had arrived at the scene of conflict. Whilst the little army was forming and deliberating, the sparrows made not the slightest movement, but with their two large beaks steadily guarded the narrow entrance to the nest. The council of swallows continued to deliberate gravely; as soon as all were united they took flight, and Cuvier field, or rather the nest to the robbers, who had so fraudlently possessed them selves of it. Judge of his surprise, when in the course of a few seconds, he be held a crowd of two or three hundred swallows arrive, and with the rapidity of shougbt, throw themselves before the nest, discharge at it some mud which they brought in their bills, and retire to give place to another company, which repeated the same mancuvre. They fired at two or three inches from the nest, thus preventing the sparrows from giving them any blows with their beaks, The mud continued to thicken more and more on the nest, and although the spartows made desperate efforts of self defence, their enemies soon succeeded in perfectly closing up the nest. But they had not yet dose. They continued to carry up moistened clay till they had built a second nest over the very open. ing of the besieged one; it was raised by & hundred beaks at once, and then occupied by the dispossessed swallows. The dishonest sparrows paid for their theft with their lives. A sudden snd a wiserable end was theirs ; teaching us— if we will be taught by this true sad curious story about birds—that “hones ty is always the best policy." - #E Drope From The Fountain, Moverars Dringers, The poor drunkard does not chiefly support the saloons; he is to poor. The total abstainer does not support them, The “moderate drinker” is the mas that keeps them in prosperity. If it were not for the support of the moder ate drinkers, the traffic would soon cease. The old drunkards would die, snd itis only out of a moderate drinker that you ben make a drunkard, LEGALIZING A CRINE. If it is insisted that a man will drink, and po refusal to license can prevent it, the answer is plain. Nolaw against theft prevents stealing, but it is a grest gain that when men steal they thereby liable to be punished. If men will sell, let it be done against any legal sanction sod let them become law breakers, There is a prohibitory low against coun, terfeiting, but men continue to counter feit the coin of the country, Is it there fore best to legalize the business? Will such a law promote honesty? THE PRICE OF SOULS Boys sold into slavery! For every §I 000 raised by our goverment, by licen, ing the liquor traffic, one of our boys goes down to a drunkard’s grave and a drunkard’s hell, Are immortal souls bound to an endless oternity, worth only $1,000 a piece? We would add, what does the government want with such money?! Even Judas Iscariot threw away thirty pleces of silver which was the price of blood, and went and hang ed himself, Will our grand govern ment, admired of the whole earth, sell the heart's blood of its sons for money aod then godown to anarchy acd nat | tonal suicide? ABSORBERS XOT PRODUCERN The keepers of whisky saloons and dram shops prodoce nothing--do not earn any\ling, but support themselves and their familion, if they have any, en tho earsitigs of others, It would be better for the communily te wippoit such venders of aleoholio drinks and their families in idleness by direet tix "ation, if they will not work, (hen to ed. The me, moved with fudignation ' permit them to support theme Jve- and | these great fuostions, | felt convinced they had given up the | become violaters of the law and are thus | their families by making a large portion of the people poor and miserable, if not criminals by the sale of their liquors, — Judge Balcom's charge to Chemung(NY) Grand Jury. HRA, Throwing the Hatchet, In the fourteenth century, the situa. tion of public executioner to the city of Florence became vacant, and as it was a place of cousiderabl emolument, there were three candidates, A day was ap pointed for public display of their sev. eral abilities ; the first candidate with a knife, claverly seperated the head of the vietim from bis shoulders. He was out. dong by the rapid stroke of the second, whose glittering broadsword struce ter- ror into the hearts of the #furrouding multitude, The third snd least promis- | ing, held in his hand a short hatchet, and when the victim was extended with his head on the fatal block, approached him, in a low whisper inquired if he was a swift runner, and if he could swim well? Oa being answered in the affirma tive, he desired him to spring on his feet and cross the river. The execu- tiorier then putting on a fierce look, swung his weapon around his head, but instead of making it descend on the devoted creature's neck, struck it with great force into the block! Shouts of execration rose from the crowd, and trembling wretch, astonished at his wanderful escape, had nearly gained the opposite bank of the river, before soy steps were {aken to pursue him. He had scarcely, however, gone ten ysrds on dry land, when the executioner, taken steady sim, threw his Aatehet with such effect, that the body continued running some time after the head | off! was From this rather improbable inci | dent, the common phrase of throwing | the hatchet is said to be derived. Ap ssn Bob Ingersoll’'s Home. | A RUSTIC PALACE IN THE MOUNTAINS, | job Ingersoll, having recently ob.) | tained a helf ioterest in Dorsey's ranch | lin Colfax county, New Mexico, is hav. | out there for bis family—a wife and two daughters—and their friends. The! situation is one of the most beautiful in nature, The whole country is one bound: | less and unbroken meadow. The estate | proper consists of about 24,000 acres, in | more than a hundred locations covering | the springs that control the pastursge | of more than a million acres, It is next | to impossible to convey the proper no. tion of Western scenery to people famil- iar with the optical effects of our rari- fied atmosphere. To say that when the | air is warmed by the sun, between the | hours of 9 and 4 a cow four miles distant | will look larger, though the outline of | form will be indefinite, than one ten paces off, is to assert that Fastern peo ple (save perhaps a few on the cost bare not the data in their experience to verify. It seems impossible. To state that one can stand on the veranda of Dorsey's residence in the balmy morn’ ing and gaze across endless meadows, upon mountain ranges 150 miles away, snd see the peaks towering into the clouds, is to endanger your eredibility by an assertion that almost makes im. sgination faint, la such a country, in the midst of such scenes, in an elevated position, yet sheltered by solema pines and gnarled and twisted cedars, will be situsted the home of Ingersoll. The house will be built of logs entire ly, on a stone foundation, every log will have the bark seraped nearly smooth, but left on, and thea the whole will be oiled. The rustic gffects will be carried oat by making even the window frames of slabs, with the bark on, and all the doors will be of unique pattern. As for the windows, they will be of all shapes and sizes, tnose in no two rooms being slike, and stained glass will be liberally used. The floors, and such of the rooms done in mountain mahogany aad bard pine, two kinds of timber growing in the vicinity, No paint whatever will be used about the building, but all the woodwork will be treated with hot oil. The chimneys, of which there will be many, both in groups and scattered, will be of stone and red brick. Some will be inside and others entirely outside the house, as may best serve the effects in the general logeabin design of the buildings. Every large room has a spu- clous fireplace for wood. With the ex- ception of the octagonal room, which will be thirty feet high and have an ob- girls. ing bimself a summer residence built | - as are not lathed and plastered, will be | members of the denomination not mem: bers of the Conference, were whether the terms of continuance of preachers in any charge ought not to be increas. ed—if circumstances were agreeable— beyond three years; whether the power of the local Presiding Elders might not be changed so as to make them less autocratic, and to give to the ministers some little influence in the settlement of details concerning their own daties and comfort; whether the laity ought not to have alarger and more equitable representation in Annual and Quad renpisl Conferences than is now allow. ed. These mutters were simply thrown overboard, The claims of the laity [often related] were yostponed for four years longer, at the end of which time a commission of one delegate from esch | Conference is to report to the next Gen. eral Conference what ought to be done, The itinerancy is not to be meddled with, and the preachers’ terms remain at three years, The Presiding Elders retain their superiority over the local clergy. Everything is to goon in the good old-fashioned Whatever disappointment may be experienced in consequence must be quieted down by the pleasing fact that there are five new Jishops,— Philadelphia Record, way. A BLixp Brot 1x Your Exe. —There is a apot in your eye that is not sensitive fo Jgh, & part of the eye with which you do not see. The following directions for find- ing it are going the rounds of the papers, snd may be new to most of our boys and Shut your left eye and with your right look steadily at the crom below, hold. | ing the paper ten or twelve inches from the oye X 0 | Now move the paper slowly toward the eye, which must be kept fixed on Lhe crom: At a certain distance the other fgure—the letter O—will suddenly disappear ; but if you bring the paper nearer it will come again into view. You may not succeed in the experiment on the first trial, but with | a little patience you can bardly fail ; and the suddenness with which the black spot vanishes and reappears is very striking HAVING OPENED A NEW COACH REPAIR SHOP, ON LOGAN STREET, We would respectfully invite the public to give us a call when in want of any work in our live. We are pre- pared to do ALL kinds of TRIMMING, REPAIRING Sag REMODELING. 1+ mak e a specialty of UPHOLSTERING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES, All work will recieve prompt atten, tion. Our TERMS are reasonable, and all work guaranteed. Respectfully, BIDWELL & McSULY, 4-3m. Bellefonte, Pa DO YOU WANT A NICE, COMFORTABLE BOOT or SHOE ! IF 80, CALL AT MICHAEL COONEY’S Well known Boot and Shoe Stand, cor. Logan and ing streets, PRK GC WEES MEYE AAD BEA TREATRAAT, » LR ET soe, Phe, Nervous Noursipin, Meaderin, Nov orm Protosiion oe md oF Vee wae of abel or bomen, Waketahuees. Montel Be proses, Softening of the Brain peu ting tn treaty and Todt te amie, # ay and death; Pow i Barrennes, Lose of Power bn #8 ee men Jovns wd Spermmab arhan paved by oe “ue " . well glee ar s@eroa ty per Vos won Pay Sorabmment BE 8 bor BR Deen BF B00 we bY reall pres pall on roma of pew WI CUARANTET “IX COXES * . he ‘ fe hy we Be ain " « para r owl fhe Lromt ment fase ol Fodiaielstia, Ps KOA sa, La For dvs ihe bin Malic Er Tie selilguted curen Bonde, mat ae a sHrwhere apes Ww Lh eh v rend dr Cuildeen. EIRNTS 2 MT HDELBON, 220 Race C4 ar, Polvo iia, Pa. —————————— a o———— servatory above all the buildings (it is not one building, but a numerous and grotesque jumble, all connected) will be but one story high, The roofs will be | steep, somi-Gothie, painted gale red: | which, with all the clustering gables and | the chimney groups, will make acharm- ing ensemble there mmong the green codars and pines, - . . Darvae the twenty four days n'which the (ieneral Conference of tho Methodist Episcopal Church was in sossion in this ant busindes was transacted. The action of the body was conservative, The city a considerable atnount of import. | » te -—’ C. U. HOFFER & Co. NEW GOODS, NEW GOODS, ARE DAILY ARRIVING AT THE OLD AND RELIABLE STORE OF BARGAINS THEY ARE OFFER- ING IN DRY GOODS, SILKS, CALICOES, Etc. Purchased at un- usually low pric- es and will be sold correspond- ingly low. Country Produce Constantly oa band snd Solicited. COME AND SEE THE C. U. HOFFER & 00. ¥ LJ CASHMERES, 2 4
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