“REV. THE DE. TALM AGE. BROOKLYN DIVINE '‘S SUN DAY SERMON, “Paul's Mission in Athens, at Athens, Greece.) Subject: (Preached “Rye hath not seen nor ear heard,” “For now we 1 Corinthians TexTs 1 Corinthians if, # through a glass darkly” xitl., 19 nee Both these sentences written illustrious merely human being the world ever saw, one who walked these streets, and weached from yonder pile of rocks, Mars fill. Though moro classic associations are connected with this city than with any city under the sun, be hers Socrates, and Plato, and Aristotle, and Demosthenes, and Pericles, and Heroditus, and Pythagoras, and Xenophon, and Praxiteles wrote or chiseled, or taught or thundered or sung, vet in my mind all those men and their teachings were eclipsed by Paul and the Gospel he preached in this city and in your nearby city of Cor inth., Yesterday, standing on the old fortress at Corinth, the Acro-Corinthus, out from the ruins at its i # arose in my imagination the old city, just as Paul saw it have been told that fi ndor the world beholds no such wonder today ax that ancient Corinth standing on an isthmus washed by two seas, throne sen i ing the commerce of En pe, the otl MING Asin From in tl struction of which whole Kingdoms had been absorbed war galleys with three banks of urs pushed out and confounded the navy yards of all the world Huge handed machinery, such as modern invention cannot lifted ships from the sen one =Hde and traaported them on thie isthmus and sat ther ! the The revenue office ) the ty down 3 that lined the by the most Le 1 i sple I Spa wing the ree of equal, ther side wont “wl! | outbursting joy such as none but a glorified | intelligence could experience. Oh; to gaze { full upon the brow that was lacerated, upon the side that was pierced, upon the feet that were nailed; to stand close up in the presence | of Him w ho prayed for us on the mountain i and thought of us by the sea, and agonized i for us in the garden, and died for us in horri- ble crucifixion; to feel of Him, to embrace Him, to take His hand, to kiss His foet, to { run our fingers along the scars of ancient wuf- | fering; to say: ‘This is my Jesus! He! gave Himself for me His presence, 1 shall forever behold His glory, 1 shall eternally hear His voice Lord Jesus, now 1 see Thee! 1 behold where the blood started, where the tears coursed, where the face was distorted. 1 have walted for this hour mn Thee, No more looking through haper foct glasses. No more studying Thee in the darkness. But, as long as this throne stands, and this ever lasting river flows, and those garlands bloom, and those archos of victory remain to greet h ome heaves Conquerors, so long 1 shall see , Jesus of my choice; Jesus of my song; Je HUB of my trium ph-—for ever and forever—face to face” The idea of my texts is just as true when applie: Ito God's providence Who has not to hme peasy in life thoroughly inex k ienble? ou say: “What does this mean? Vhat is Go} going to do with me now He l me that ali things work together for us does not look lke it.” “Yo A Cone dy the dispensation, and after s about whet God means tench me this, Ithink He ios that Perhaps it is to} Perhaps it is to make me ndent Perl aunty of iife™ "hee come atk to sable my more to teach me the unos ut after all it sonly a woking througn the glass, darkly assures us there shall be a satisfac “What I do thou knowest un shalt know hereafter.” y God took to Himself that oor there was a household Why not take one from stead of your cnly Why dw ling gin which there was beating responsive to yours! you a child at all, if Heo Why fill the cup of iz, if He meant to dash w all the ten Irils of ye toed Kens n The Bible tory unfolding not now ut You will know wi nly child Next en lren + i YEA give ait away? ¢ briny all I shall never leave | I shall never turn my back | ite i all the loveliness of 1if TW. gotv cm perfect ideas of the reunions of heaven, o Link of some festal day on earth, whon father and mother wore yet Hv. ing, and the children came home, good | time that! But it had this drawback--all were not there, That brother went off to sen, k and never was hoard from. That sister—did wo not lay her away in the freshness of her { young life, never more in this world to look upon her?! Ah! there was a skeleton at the feast: and tears mingled with our laughter | on that Christmas day. Not so with heaven's reunions, It will be an uninterrupted glad- ness. Many a Christian parent will look around and find ail his children there, “AR he says, “can it be possible that we are all | here—lifo’'s perils over? the Jordan passed | and not one wanting? Why, even the prod. igal is here, I almost gave him up. How long he despised my counsels! but grace hath tri umphed All bore! all hore! Toll the mighty Joy through the city, Let the bells ring, and | the angels mention It in their song, Wave it from the top of the walls, All here No more Le smking of heartstrings, but face to face. The orphans that were lefl poor, and in a merciless world, kicked nnd cuffed of many hardships, shall join their parents over whase graves they so jong wept, and gaze into their glorified eountenances for ever, face to face We may come up from different parts of the world, one from the land and another from the depths of the sea: from lives affluent gad prosperous, or from scenes of regeed distress: bul we ghell all meet fn rapture ns bile, face to face. Many of , have entered upon that joy. J v days sgothey sat with us study mg thee ¢ they ouly Aw dimly now Tation hath coins A the will nlso come, God will not leave von floundering in the dark You stand wonder struck and amazed, You feel as if dashed out. You stand gazing into the chasm of the grave. Wait a little. In the presence of your departed and of Him who carries them an His bosom, you soon stand face fax Oh! that cur last hour may ki with t Sd § promi ol § jo May we be } say, like the Che t Jong ago, depsrt ing “Though a pligrim walking through the valloy, the mountain wre gleaming from peak to peak ™ or, lke vy dear friend and brother, Alfred Cookn who took his flight to the thy Le, SO V1 TS wy ist {an 1 Ow we of Gord ving Dix inst ' into } k gh the weit wi AS nn No ar oir | | feeding Sheridan's Powder, | Boston, | dan's Condition Powder, | 8 book: for $1.00, book: | minds free, What Women Cnn Deo, Every wife or daughter living near a vil Inge or large market, can make many dollars each year raising eggs, Just as surely as that a woman ean tend a baby better than a man, Just so certainly can she care for any animal better, For example, Mra, Eunice Goodwin, East Livermore, Mo, says: “In four weeks, last autumn, my thirty hens laid 181 eggs, 1 then fod them Bheridan's Condition Power, advertised to make hens Iny: and in eight | weeks they laid 478, Having sald twelve, the remainder laid 815 eggs is eight weoke, by I sold the ¢ for $1508, making clear $18.38 from only eighteen hens fn eight weeks, One of m Polish hens which 1 could not bay for 82.00 would have died but for Sheridan's Powder, 1. 8. Jolson & Co,, 2 Custom House street, Moss, (the only makers of Bheri- will send, postpaid, two UW cent packs of Hi and a Poultry Guide, for #0 conte. For $1.00, five packs and a large 23 po ed ean and six cans $.00, express prepaid, Bend staunps or cash, Interesting wi moped For five centaa copy of the best Poultry papar ser? { Things Are Seldom What They Seem, Half a dozen school boys were worry. ing their brains in a sidewalk congress the other day over a difficult problem in idratios When they had fairly given battered old individual ing conl a door or had overheard the boys’ came up and asked try. ne Unt who was two away and dispute leave to Then values barroom wl wr, and un hour the in exq juisite H 4 il dents » Pew Pointers, show that the large majority dle with con. Throat and Lungs, which is guaraftesd to curs and relieve all onsen, Price Mc. and $1. Telal pize free. ¥or sie by all druggists. Torry are 210 cooperative bul ing and loan aewociations in the Flats of New Ji roy. Beware ol Intments for « IAiRrrh That Contuin Mercury. As mercury will surely Sestroy the sense of smell and oomphtely derange the whole sys. tem when Shtering It through the mucous sr. faces, Buch articles should never be used ox. cept on preseyiptions fron reputable plive - cians, ax the damage they will do le ten fold to the good, you ean Josslbly derive from them, Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactuged by F. Cheney & Co. Toledo, O., contains no mor cury, and is taken interpstiv, and acts divert. ly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall" "» Ontarrh Core be rure you get the genuine. It is taken SGOT RATE and made ia Toledo, Ohio, by ¥. J. Cheney & E49 Bold by Droeists, prices fie. per bottle, P, T. Bansvs was born in 1810. He brought Jenny Lind to th » country in 1580, Ely's Sream Balm WiLL CURE nisi, Apply Balm into each nosteil, BERS, send SE re relieve oerve 4 thd wd nia ras cured 3 fn tumbler of walter, Mog LT ily AD rials ADR DWAY'S ey IS) Purely egetable, © Mufest and Hest Medicine in the world Tor the Care of nll Disorders of the LIVER, STOMACH OR BOWELS. Tuken necording to directions they will restore health ang renew vitality, Price 26 cts. & Box. aa Droggists, we WONDERFUL] LUBURCICHAIR' ! COMBINING SARTED i a or FURNITURE. ( : (INVALID er” sod hip Ts ols to be wid fr on delivery oe 4 stamp for Cuts ia ares Lr BURG re. on, WHIELIMAIES Te Hike y SEPRCIAL PRES de dewired DELIVERY Pisti 145 XK. mh ams gon | THE EDARD HARRISON eg MITE: CO., Maud aw vuver Marrison’s Stan dard Bare Bione Grinding snd Viewing Mills of all sizes and varieths { Price 50 Carts. | | re i { Yi POMOSEING great Ay ant Sura | Kills sent on 1 | reap . * par Warren 82, N a - - YOU WA NT, ) “ih fr Leet Du $7 Ky ATION ¥ KEL minat scoaflol eminently 1 ue We hear y about God that elud and Him He nr sented as having the tender fat the firmness judge, t pomp of and the love of a Him, talk about Hin lisp His name i y that yous oof » or AR KID a hot We ' hear eo about Him and it trembles on the tongue i Lenaria: We think that we k ry much about Him Take the attribute orey De wo under stand it? Th lossotns all « that word. met peaks agin and again of the tender mercies of God of the sure mercies, of th eve of the mercy that endur of the multitude of His mercies. And yet | know that the views wo have of this great being are most indef] nite, one sided and lacomplete. When, at death, the gates shall fly open, and we shall look direc tly u Him, how new and sur prising! We see upon canvas a pleture of the morning. We study the cloud in the sky. the dew upon the gras, and the hushandman on the way to the field. Beautiful picture of the morning! But we rise at daybreak, and go up on a hill to see for ourselves that which was represented to ue, While we look, the mountains are transfigured. The burnished gates of heaven swing open and shut, to jet pass a host of flery Be ene are all abloom, and hang pendant from arbors of alabaster and amethyst, The waters make pathway of inlaid peari for the ght to walk upon; and there is morning on the sea. The crags uncover their soarred visage, and there Is morning among the mountains. Now yon 0 home, and how tame your pleture of the morning seems In cuatrast? Greater than Bible or wit! f great ion “th rev ey Pon » that shall be the contrast between this soript. | ural view of God and that which we shall have when stancing face to face. Thisis a picture of the morning; that will be the | morning itself fg: My Jexts are true of the Baviour's i axes ney. image, and sweet rhythm of expression, - startling autith ‘hrist is sort forth His love, His compassion, His work, His lite, Fis death, His resurrection. We are challenged to measure i, to compute it, to weigh it, In the hour of our broken en thralltient, we mount ap into high experi. ence of His love, and shoat uotil the coun tennnoe glows, and tie hiood bounds, and the whole nature is exbilsrated. found Hin." darkl ate that loving heart, us rush into His outsprond arms. Then w shall bo face to face. Not shadow then, but mibstance, Not os hops thes bat the fulfil That will be a maguifl- The rusking ot In view of all hidden ox- 1 the cotning again And yet it bs through a glass, | We won nos ball of that com oe The clouds | | armies of liberty, | neeny stands on a | fold glass, and sees, “I have | | mews in this world is « sniy a soe. We feel not half the warmth of | We walt for death to int : wv pence | invalid that ft B& head f v that sh Daal 5 In hesyen iden of the 37 ) hen ver mipared with the rang to yoar tence ority of men will be dest ye I suppose that the ost, as ¢ Infide AY vy small piace for, mee t. the | demas { Jost multitude mpared w ra the mult will be 2 hawdfiu the hos pared with well ie of the finally ma uj pose that the pitals of our gr aR oOn the hundreds of tl and { § would not than the umber of those who shall be east cut in suffering, com pared with those wh have upon them the health of beuven. For we are to remem ber that we are living it the beginning of the Christian disponsaiion, and that this whole world Iv to be popniated and redecmed and that ages of light and love are to flow on If this be ro, the multitades of the ssved will be in vast majority Take all the con gregations that have assembled for worship throughout Christendom. Put them together, and they would make but a small audience compared with the thousand and tens of thousands, and ten thousand times ten thou sand, and the hundred and forty sod four thousand that shall tand around the throne Those flashed up to heaven In martyr fires; those tossed Foe ANY Years upon the invalid couch; those fou and rose as oy fell; those tumbled from high scaffolding, or slipped from the mast or were washed off into the sea. They came up from Corinth, | from Laodicea, from the Red Sea bank and Gennosaret’s wave, from Egyptian brick vards, and (Hdeon's threshing floor. Those | thousands of years ago slept the Jest sleep and these are this moment baving their eyes | closed, and their limbs siretchod wut for the | sepulcher, i A General expecting an attack from the | hilt and looks through a in the t distance, multitudes approasching, but no idea of ck people Dee be small shall niy | their numbers. He says: “1 cannot tell any. | thing about them | mre a great number.” know that there | #0 John, without | “A great mult i 1 mere} Ar attempting to count, sys: tude that no man can number © We are | told that heaven is a place of RAPPinets: hit what do we know about hay J th : werpent hpi ng. iy tha oT akan fis ton river, ” { stand on the grassy bank, Wome the waters on with oeasless wave, Bul the ht in the | | Junker, an almost pe Crushed hy Silver t one high £100 in the 3 wall « each bag in middie let it con Down it Oro inh A Tan had A Bair F Cape Nt and soratches office at Sixth of and bore My head had a narrow escape from getting crushed in like an CuK andl 1 was buried from the feet to The Irishman who was our watchman then sprang to my aseist ance and clawed the bags right and jeft off me. When I caught my breath agsin I was thankful for my escape from being crushed to a pulp. the tting Nix camo with a er and ofl with a few bruis wir old focust streets a pile of bags $1000 in a me to the floor years ago at and silver, bag, fell upon me hall wae, the breast There are neople | who would like to take their chances of getting buried under a heap of money just for the sake of being where there is slenty of it, but nove so foolish are to | be found among the Uncle Sum hirelings whose daily toil consists in shoveling the big surplus about.—8t. Lowis Globe Democrat, i I —.. Strife in Central Africa. In Central Africa, according to Dr. tual state of war. fare prevails. The abduction of a woman is often sufficient to engender strife; and, consequently, the abodes of the Certml African tribes and their politics! onad!- tions are subject to continual and inees. sant changes. 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