THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. {(NIERNATIONAL LESSON Sm—— HENRY M. GROUT, D, D, BY REY David's Repentance,— 1-19, Augus vm bl: Gooey Texr.—My sin is ever before ne —Penlm, 51: 3, occasion of this Psalm was a which the King of Israel The great sin by not only involved himself in deep guilt, bat brought reproach upon God's cause and sore judgments on bimself and his house. That so devout man should so grievously fall proves, not the insuffi ciency of divine grace, but the weakness of human nature at its best, It is quite true that the times in which he lived wera ruder than our own ; und that “no other king of his time would have felt aay compunction for having acted as he the illow any excuse for did” nevertheless, scriptures neither make non rible fall ; full of warn ws confide in their own Ay the strength, or fail to watch and sganst the bogionings of sin in his sincere, deep and last ! 1 so greatly, sinne ndulge in derisive jest the sin are wont to forget | d. | crushed sinner co« » | hey exult over if it were hab turn. his first work Cration, steps he 1s to fin 1AY and favor of that have all gove astray case of the Psalmist were. 1. Confessing 3 ing mercy.— Mercy is pity and 1. It is this whic i h regards himself as one who merits David craves, He only ill-deserving, and sees that God might justly spurn him from his pres ence and regard. The publican's ery was: “God be merciful to me a sinner” . such is David's. 3 wi at is the ground of h all he is himself a great King; that he hae Rov i" Then courage and hope. It is ne t at that done s0 many grand things for [srael that he is that he has been so devout and fait} No: Ie ful in the past. he mentions none of these. “loving kindness,” and all thinks only “tender mer cies,” Kings and beggars, the cultured and the vile, the learned and the ignor. ned, come with of (rod’s ant, when truly awake “1 this one hope. ‘The mull tender mercies,’ not the fewness of our r virtue sins or the numberof ou save us, What he craves first sins may be “blotted out erased. car «celled ; as from a written record ever Nome alspar staring him in the face the blessing of pardon, little matter. ac if that wereas | he ’ can never do this, He past made right. Note that all along mingles prayer | renewal the Psalmistinte 3 | inward id cleansing. The petition “purge me with hyssoj to the former, as does the The atoning blood and the purif 1 with a branch of Numb waters were sprinkle (Ex. }12: 22 hyssop The objects so purged were accepted as | J ’ But like every t: David would have the twofold ciean. ue penitent, ble of pardon whereby the record and con- deming power of sin should blot ted outf and of that inward work of the the right. nn be gracious Spirit whereby heart is made clean and the spirit Par- don slone would be oh how incomplete ! | Purified affections, a cleansed fountain, this is the returning sinnet's crowning desire. Tluiv, wo, God must work in us. This: “Create in mea clean heart,” is the daily, hourly desire and ory of the truly humbled. Observe the deep bumility of his plea. (a) He “acknowledges” all, He speaks in plain words: “Trane. gressions,” “iniquity,” “sin.” THe oalls things by their right names, (4) He acknowledges that his sin is his own. “ My transgressions,’ ‘mine iniquity “My sin.” He palliates nothing. He offers no excuse, He does not say: “It was the temptation, it was my circumstances it was the constitution God gave me, which led me astray.” He owns that the sin, the blame is all his own. (¢) He sces that his sin is chiefly against God. It waa true that he had wronged others and injured himsell, but his sense of disobedience and wrong to God inelud* ed, swallowed up all, This point should be particularly noted. The tendency with men is to view sin chiefly as an in. jury to ourselves and our fellow men. Bt is treated as an inexpediency, s favor to | a poet and sweet singer ; or | blunder ; as great or small according to the pain or loss it produces. True peni tence looks deeper and higher, now seen as a transgressiom of God's law, a dishonor to His name, a wrong against His kingdom and glory. To for. sake tin merely because it is against my Sin ig interests, my health, my good name, my advantage of any sort, is not to forsake it as sin, 2. Owning a sinful nature he implores re particular act of sin, ile goes further back for its first source, He recognizes in himself a tendency to evil with which evil, And however easy it may be to cavil against this, and however disposed men are to deny it, the world of merely of perceives and asserts it. speculative and cientifie thought Only it by another name—heredity. Had the like others, he might have pleaded this as Psalmist been some an excuse, But his conscience saw it a rearon for deeper humility and =a more bitter cry. He prays for rene “Since | am corrupted in my very na satisfied ture, an.l thou canst be nothing short of inward sincerity; thou must bestow what thou requirest by im | parting to me heavenly wisdom™ (J. { Trusting nake vows of ’4 nd divine raleful service.~There mercy | trust and hope in hisentreaties for par | don and renewal. It was Ler uld trul | ‘ was seen in his * nm and plea y deepens. | thy praise, | "ante 19) I in the sixteenth ar ses he declares his snd dowhatever costly thing ire. Dut sacrifices and burat ju ge could never be a substitute 1 | i | ! | K | brokoivere of spirit, Of the returning | sinner God did pot require more of these but they helped to express, La} Mie . the humility and love and servi {Old Testament sacrifices | to be of | | teenth v | with the they were pleasing { Hoping his praye beved 7 are no sccount ; for in declared erse it penitence and imjury his sin had { dishonor of | vould, And 1 devine blessing od upon the esuse stood for that, that Zion prays Pe ured upon it. I'his is the | » sinouer's return, Nor ha {ed truly and fully unt longing overflow t oul, hic own 0 $s ean | is that his 1 LRe ardon with that for where Observe thal true penitents ly from sin fi, See how naturally the true convert rve as well as to sing: long ing the conversion of others is good sign of one's own conversion, David's prayer was answered : and yet (as Nathan predicted) the | never departed from his house, | bles thickened upon him, » washed thorow he ging to we for 3 11 i I'rou It was need newing grace.—He looks deeper than the | he was born; a polluted foundation of | { with tall shade it calls | | if it was in wal, | {in the remote chance with | cared mos President | gone to ‘hicago : but | Was because God | ¢ i ! | i Randall Pleased. WITH THE WORK OF THE TION, CHICAGO CONVEN- (Special to the Pittsbur Post) Ii. from Wisconsin Puitaverruia, July Samuel J, Kaodall has returned where he has been since the close of the Chicago Convention, sand is now enjoy: ing a needed rest at his summer resi dence at Berwyn, a short distance from Mr, your correspondent this afternoon seat this city, iandall was found by | ed upon the porch of his country home a neat but old fashioned frame build. ing, surrounded by a pretty lawn dotted trees, In response to the statement that he had been men tioned for Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, he “1 could not take said the Chairmanship unanimously tendered to. me, : ! { I did not push myself for the Presiden, ey,” he be sought and not to be declined. | have no disappointments to vex me, as I did not allow myself to become interested ADY One man may have among prominent men who are the Ire: Had own interests =» " discussed for ency., Lior my would not have there be candidate, | hi went turned The pl my efforts in Cx ny and for the American ran h ] wut Wi Po r Randall, in the event of Cleveland's election, were hod he answered promptly. and with empha Bis I have only one ambition in contest that is, to be returned to tl House to aid a Der reform Pre den wernt { to eonsummate the yi} regonerat lic adr battled nistration that s— — Unprofitable Experience f Mr r supporters | da y base all their A sword i | | ful that God should make his abhorence | {of sin known, Then the forgiven needs chastisement to the end. - | Substitute for Matches Countless sccidents, as knows, arises from the use of matches To obidin light without employing them and so without the danger of setting things on fire, an ingenious contrivance is now used by the watchmen of Paris in all the magazines where explosive or inflammable materials are kept, Any one may easily make 4 trial of it. Take an oblong vial of the whitest and clear: est glass and put into it a piece of phos phorous about the size of » fen. our some olive oil heated to the beiling po ko the phosphprous ; fill the via t onet every one a ird full and then cork it tightly, To use poval light re. move the cork, allow the air to enter the vial and then recork it. The empty space in the vial will become luminous and the light odtained will be equal to that of a lamp, When the light grows dim its power can be increased by tak. ing out the cork and allowing a fresh supply of ir to enter the viak in win. ter it is sometimes n to heat the vial between the hands in order to in: crease the fluidity of the oil, The a paratus thus made may be used for six mon ths, that doubtful i that he bas had an extons fied “1 arience In pul vim wid erat at integrity uni indidate, and pe r house prey ang H tw) nye «l the govern the lobby a1 accordingly had himeelf returned * arsting I » member at the subsequent el He at once entered on aprotracted ane of lob very successful system ying and corporations, | land pir found in him a will nstrument, and ng i the Fort Smith stfair and similar trans etd monuments of bis But it i« not the kind of ence that commende, NK Are eX peri ance, experi Bat leaving the record of Mr, Blaine's | | shameless venality out of the question there is another aspect that forces itself on the attention of the public. An ex perience that falls to discipline the mind and qualify the subject for useful services is worse than no experience, Blaine was smart,’ when he first en. tered public life. That is all that can be said in his favor now, after nearly a quarter of a century of publie service, That he lacks every element of state mavship is proved by his worse than silly proposition to collest a hundred millions of dollars annually from the people for no other purpose than to dis tribute through somé other agency. This shows that his experience has fail. ed to give him an understanding of the plain language of the constitution, or else that his convenient conscience per. mits him to disregard the oath he tukes to regard that instrument. In every asp ect of Lhe case experience has been wasted on Mr. James Gillespie Blaine, «Harrisburg Patriot. «It is said the overhand throwing This season is disabling all the effective league pitchers, Orvis and Dartt will please take warning. Michigan Germans for Cleveland. | Frm the Detroit Froa Press | “Yes, sir,” said Dr. Flintermann on | Saturday night, “I will cast my vote for Cleveland and Hendricks, although a | | have been arepublican, The nominations | are those of the people in my opinion, and not of a party, Gov. 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