THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. From the New York Observer, INTERNATIO NAL LESSON BY REV, HENRY M.GROUT, D, Db, Confidence in God.— : 1-14, Sgrrempek 7.- Psalm 27 ) Gorpex Texr.—The Lord is my light and my salvation.—Psalm 27: 1, As a whole this pealm is a trustful song. And this is the more remarkable for the reason that it was composed in circumstances of difficulty and danger, Possibly it was written when David fled before Absalom; and possibly when Doeg spoke against him to Saul. The psalm itself discloses the fact that the writer was encompassed by enemies eager for his destruction, and that he was without human help. He had but one resource, that was But to him he looked with a trust st which half believers can but wonder. The psalm specially instructive asshow- ing some important effects always to be and in God, expected from true Confidence in God, | Note what these are : Such —The Psalmist was in danger, and was not indifferent to it. lle stolid, nor reckless, He life, and was not insensible to pains, The strongest have their quakings and he had his. ling with half-despair And yet he tri. What enabled him to do this? | “The Lord is my light and | confideace li fis above was neither AJ alued Just now he had been wrest umphs. He tells us: my salvation ; of my life.” inward cheer “Light" here stands for “Salvation’ “Strength” 1s a is safety, So, what the Paalmist says he is one in a of this stronghold. amid foes and dangers, He And the sense is that, serene and safe. is as strong fortress, comes of his confidence in God. Where else is there support like this? to The stoic bows to fate; submits i . y { ness of God { grand marks is its willio | He who confides in God will the Lord is the strength | | ready Llores the | inevitable; summons pride and will to | his help, and crowd down his fears. But his heart is joyless; he bids it, Be still! He has no comforter, no helper. The bas both. sod his eves rests onan all all believer He looks up, powerful, wise, everlivihg ever-present With this Being he is in friendly tions. Sinner though he is God is now his God, trusted, Psalmist can say, “my light my salvation rel - reconciled, my life.” the strength of be he fear? How safe always ! Happy liever: precious faith ! 2, Such Co ¢ pr 4-6), — his sense of safety the Psalmist goes on nhidenc mpls to yet closer relations with God | From declaring fears (1-3). | forsake. the | up.” ing : (a) He cried to be heard : “Hear, O Lord ;* “answer me.” Faith would be, submissive, accepts denial without com plaint, and yet desires and pleads for the things it asks, tont with “saying prayers ;" believers pray. (6) He cried “with his voice,” God hears the lowest whisper, the faintest breath. Nevertheless it is a good thing to pray audibly. It de- tains thought from wandering. Then by hearing your own voice in secret you learn to use it with less fear in public, (¢) He took courage from God's invi, tation and promise : * When thou saidst ‘Seek ye my face, my heart said : ‘Thy face, Lord, will I seek.’ Faith on the divine word. what else should i! It quickens feeling. leans Un make it a business to understand the prom. ises ; treasure them memory, lean ? Therefore study the word ; up in a careful “Thou Some say prayer is (d) He recalled past mercies : hast been my help.” useless ; such never greatly tried it, Ex’ perience would bave taught them better, (¢) Be rested on the proved tender- “Should father Lord may be truste and mother God is known as the helper of the helpless, (f) He was not eager to have his own lead me.’ way, but said : “Teach me ; One thing more; he was willing to bide God's time. One gness to “wait, be patient, he and If answers are delayed, will “put a cheerful courage on.” vive the anticipated response whenever the glad time come I'o “wait on the Lord,” is by ready to receive, Lord may bid, ut for this trust, shall thus to stand and to do what the David had “fainted” Trust and “wait’ « is faith’s final word ; a g learn. lesson it is good to rR 1. Note Il of JGRSTIONS, the full « TICAI difference, full of the saint is The of “The Lord’ teen times in these fourteen 2. The liever draws A nner ff God is self : name occurs thir verses fountain from which the be is inexhaustible ; | want God cannot supply. God. So the | Why should ] | he speaks in c« to speak of his chief desire and most | eager purpose: “One thing have 1 de sired, that will I seek after.” Note here that very much by our “holy desires lead to resolute We cannot too carefully watch our de sires, “God judges ': and that(}) action.” 2) desires’ What was it which David's confidence in God led him to “desire’’ and “seeks after?’ He wasa fugitive : ong to get back to his home, his palace, his friends, comforts, luxuries, hist honors? No; but dwell in the house of the Lord ; to be- his his “to | drance. us | { one whose law and ple | York did he most | | iscences of a once | | etor : | who sold it to hold his beauty and to inquire in hi® | tample™; that is, abide under the shad- | ow of the sanctuary, be of the Lord's household, live in the midst of the sym bols and services of worship, sead hi, days where he could contemplate God's majesty and grace, and learn more of his character and w ll. Is not this one effect of faith always ? The more the believer knows of God the closer he would come to him, And there is no better place to find him out than the sanctuary. his children there ; and there they worship and inquire of him. Loss of interest in it is a sign of religious declension. But true interest never rests in its forme, its symbols, is services, as means, What it desires and God meets in them all, is God, nearness to him and acquaintance | with him. }, How much it means that the hum ! blest believer can appropriate all there | is of power and wisdom (vod, and grace in My," “Mine which y of the as hisown., Hesays" The new beart is one discovered ‘“the beaut Lord.’ 5% When God ssys, “Seek ve my face,” i as well as invita y find, If we mman tat] We seek t do seek we shall find 6. What (rod ¥ mn. must hinders le Nothing There rin but + other hin How part with sins, i401 Bat that is insuperable, ¢ san one look confidingly into the face of | he Isiramg ling under foot ? ——— — A— A Metropolitan Joseph Howard, in one of his New ‘letters to the Pou - gives the suljoined iote sm ous hovel The Astor Hous ginal peddier, was band Jobn Jae Ww the ori his =on one-dollar, IEeRRIOT at the My old man Stetson img opens 2 1 ee it there to live that time taking his family 1837. with him, and from until | somewher ein theseventies, he controll | | made, la ! | Stetsons it passed through vider in Ma th it wa fie od it absolutely, Stetson, still living somewhere Althougn to t sachnsetts, the fame and glory of old-time Astor House belonged, in the latter days of his much of life there tha its modern reputation was Under the management of the great ¢ on - mercial convulsions, itsproprietor being | the companion and friend of the most { eminent men in the country, intelligent | large hearted and well informed, It uses these | seeks { try Mr. Stetson has i Of the unwritten history of the coun. in his possession more than any contemporaneous person, | and he knew more of the private history There is something very Pleasing i in | of the leading men of the country than what the Psalmist goes on to name as | any person whose name now occurs 10 one incentive to this desire and search | me. “For in the time of Srgable | | the Astor Hause was No, 11, on the par after God, he shall hide me in his pavillion,” e Commonly the royal pavillion was pi the centre of an army, and around it the mighty men kept guard. What a figure this is of intimate friendship and | safeness | A like figure is the high “rock” inaccessible to hostile feet be. yond the reach of deadly missiles, Init strange that, at the thought of all this, the Psalmist should lift his head and, promise joyful sacrifices, and break forth in song? 3. Such confidence incites toprayer (7-14). ~The Psalmist's sense of security and favor was not unbroken, In the midst of his exulting, clouds returned, His song was interrupted. How often is his the believer's experience? The sense of God, as reconciled, is dimmed: But, even in returning darkness, his confidence did not utterly fail : only pow its effect appeared in another way ¥t moved him in prayer, Note some characteristics of his pray One of the most famous rooms in | lor floor, near the ladies’ entrance. It | is doubtful whether any room in the country has had a greater influence on the destinies of the Union than room No. 11. It was occupied by Daniel Web. ster, Henry Clay, Thurlow Weed, Will, inm H. Beward, General Scott, Rufus Choate, Horace Mann, Zachary Taylor and others of like note. Among his in- timates Mr, Stetson classed the gentle men named and also Martin Van Buren, James Ruchanan, Franklin Pierce, Abra. ham Lincoln, General Grant and Admir sl Farragut, Mr. Stotson had the ability to com- pletely captivate those with whom he conversed, and young Charles was al_ ways at his father side, There was an air of frank benigrity in his manner, o tenderness in his tone, and he was un, questionably sincere in his efforts to For many years he was noted as one of the best talkers in the country, For half a century he was the intimate Formilists are con | { to take me | | of faith's | ' | Mr, Stet | stand i | bas i | sumpt { our having fe | refusal to | companian of one of our eminent public men. His information, anecdote, inci dent and story about the Whig and Re, publican parties were monumental in their extent, interest and fascination. | His correspondence with public | men was extended, Although Daniel Webster frequently occupied room 11, he preferred, woen in this city for more than a night, the adjoining roows, 12 or 13, consisting of parlor and Come when he would by night orby day, Mr, Stetson compelled all who occupied them to vacante at a moment's notice, bedroom dinning-room. and so marked was the impression pro- duced upon Mr, Stetson by the happy hour spassed with his friend and adviser of Marshfield in these rooms that, at the death of Mr, Webster, the parti- tions that divided the they used sgrin by any other guest, the spartments were be In later private breakfast room of the of the house. Mr. Webster said that many of his happiest hours were passed in those rooms and torn away that might not years they were Indies that the cheery voice of the liberal host, which always welcomed him as he cros. | sed the From these rooms, Mr. Webster | Stetson, threshold, was music to his ears. and weary, by Mr. he trip to m worn was conducted friendly last whose took | . Marshfield, whence he was never to re on arm | | leaned when he bis | turn. As he passed into the marble Mr. Webster turned who was tiled corridor, to | AOD, him the left, withered hands upon supporting lon and rested both of his the broad sheul 1 id iri and friend, "Farewell, “We hs ian thirty years. You in the office (rood death at Mash er he ever penned, Astor, | ders of his end | he said, wwe known loved for more t} w find a little present hye, Belore bis the last Jett { to his lifelong friend of the | a. for Greenback Convention. fleid, he wrote Call By request of the State Cha sh the following rman, | | we re-publ The Greenback Labor party State Convention of the National will | BerLiLgrox on Thursday, 18th, 1884, The TE, business of the Convention | . he Las no be to select } Electors-at Large, 27 District Electors, 1 Congressman-at-Large, 1 State Chairman, And to take into considerat ther All ei r business ss may comes befor who ar ty and manufactures, and Pa 7 for industri tizens activ and creating a Pros mn of prosperity our labor LE = the cor i the { form rection of our al evils an« insuguration of governmental re President, are in this snd of Geax, Berier for | earnesiiy requested to take part | Cony ention In this the National party seeks only the init Anu ative, and asks the assistance o | all monopolists, Greenbackers, In |} | | d-pendents, und all who feel the need | of a change in our industrial, financial | { and moral condition. TP al Party of Netor Penna. f rean FriL A your ind vidual and industrial affairs is | Ww LITIZENS great crisis in upon More than one-half of the iron works | of the country are idle: ss Ou. More than one-half of the spindles of nr idle More than one-half the re f the miners sre idle or on short time : More than one-fourth of the working | capacity of our transportation lines are : tie With overflowing granaries hunger stares the workingman in the face : With overflowing production of cot ton and woolen goods the workingman sees and feels the daily need of proper clothing for himself and family : With heavily laden books and coun ters the merchant sees no demand for his wares: With half our iron manufacturing plants idle nearly fifty millions dollars worth of iron and steel was imported last year With our laborers idle hundreds of thousand of foreign paupers aad con tract labor slaves, the surplus spawn og the foreign breeding grounds of despot. ism, socialism, pauperism, and licen- tidusness, have been thrown upon us to supplant or degrade native or natural- ized American labor. All the misery now upon us, and all that stares us in the face, is the result of this labor impor tation and the inhuman monopolistic policy of contracting the money of the country, The United States Treasury held on the 1st of July $487,573,881 of gold, sil- ver and legal tender money which, (less the certificates in use-$167,673,651), or £320,000,000, was as useless for labor and business as though sunk in the sea, and every dollar of which was and is peeded in business : The United States imported nearly $500,000,000 worth of dutiable goods in the last year, the product of foreign labor and foreign machinery, while our mills and labor were idle, $300,000,000 worth of which could and ought to have been made in this country. of our business, | { and require a radical remedy. | who meet in twin its battles, but { convent | | State | { you | perity. F | Mile | tain delegate | habitants, | cans pronounce it cholera, | comes on with | bloody { deaths are one in every four | Thirty two persons were sick on Mon- { day, nel | of travel, The United States have imported more than two millions of bores | in | whom -l | four years, for none of there need in the shrinking ett These conditions are radically wrong The remedy can only come through political action. The old parties offer no remedy, but an unseemly fight as to which shall have the 100,000 federal offices, The N mands a prompt and efficient remedy, National or Peoples Party de and points out the means, By your votes in 1577 you compelled | the oid parties to adopt a portion of your | principles, enough to set the people at | work, and give us what prosperity we | had from 1874 to 1883, Your present duty is to organize for | the coming election, Organize in your shops ; organize in | your fields ; in your school houses, in | your townships, in your counties, in | your legislative snd congressional dis | tricts, and send delegates to this conven. tion, because it is duty to Organize your your owa families, to humanity and to God, God has promised to be with those and the TOR PeTOus I } His natne, pla @ to do God's work ix in and happy families rather than in penal and i charitable institutions, The privates of an army must always remember that to the a boldest snd exemplar of leader is blest living your ican Statesman, the and ian true Americanism-~the great American com inoner, You may or may not be him the vote you can him, the old their nd ought to give and ree; to ym pel el toour parties wili roc K destruction, and you will « a faithless congress to give rel depressea industries Organize Borie Ci When organ Efforts are on But ‘onvention ized report t on foot to make the do ot this State | grandest in our | history wait for a] your neigh him to vote with | umption of bor or friend, and ask for a res lsbor and pros i OUr cause, Yours truly, Jed om. of the National RY NDER, Chairman State Ex. 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