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THE DEFEAT OF OBLIVION
Rev. Dr. Talmaje Says Every Soul Will
Be Remembered la Heavei.
All the Ordinary Ellorts at Perpetuation Are
Dead Failures,
(Copvrlirht, INI.)
Washington, D. C.-In this discourse'
Dr. lalmage shows how anv one can be
widely and forever recollected and cheers
despondent Christian workers; texts. Job
jxiv, 20, "He shall be no more remem
bered " and Psalms cxii, 8, "The righteous
shall be in everlasting remembrance." ,
Of oblivion and its defeats I speak to
day, rhere is an old monster that swal
lows down everything. It crunches indi
viduals, families, communities, States, na
tions, continents, hemispheres, worlds. Its
diet is made up of years, of centuries, of
ages, of cycles, of millenniums, of cons.
That monster is called by Noah Webster
and all the other dictionaries "Oblivion."
It is a steep down which everything rolls.
It is a conflagration in which everything
is consumed. It is a dirge which all or
chestras play and a period at which
everything stops. It is the cemetery of
the human race. It is the domain of for
getfulness. Oblivion! Ai; times it throws
a shadow over all of us, and I would not
pronounce it to-day if I did not come
armed in the strength of the eternal God
on your behalf to attack it, to rout it, to
demolish it.
Why, just look at the way the families
of the earth disappear. For awhile they
are together, inseparable and to each
other indispensable, and then they pt.rt,
some by marriage going to establish other
homes, and some lfnve this life, and a cen
tury is long enough to plant a family, de
velop it, prosper it and obliterate it. Co
the generations vanish. Walk up Penn
sylvania avenue, Washington; Broadway,
New York; State street, Boston; Chest
nut street, Philadelphia; the Strand, Lon
don; Princess street, Edinburgh; Champs
Elysees, Paris; Unter den Linden. Berlin,
and you will meet in this year 1901 not
one person who walked there in the year
1801. What engulfment. All the ordi
nary efforts at perpetuation are dead fail
ures. Walter Scott's Old Mortality may
?:o round with his chisel to recut the
aded epitaphs on tombstones, but Old
Oblivions has a quicker chisel, with which
he can cut out a thousand epitaphs while
Old Mortality is cutting in one epitaph.
Call the roll of the armies of Baldwin I.
or of Charles Martel or of Marlborough
or of Mithridates or of Prince Frederick
or of Cortes, and not one answer will you
hear. Stand them in line and call the roll
of the 1,000,000 men in the armv of Thebes.
Not one answer. Stand them in line, the
1,750,000 infantry and the 200,000 cavalry
of the Assyrian army under Ninue, and
call the roll. Not one answer. Stand in
line the 1,000,000 mea of Sesostris, tho
1,200,000 men of Artaxerxea at Cunaxa.
the 2.641,000 men under Xerxes at Ther
mopylae and call the long roll. Not one
answer. At the opening of our Civil War
the men of the Northern and Southern
armies were told that if they fell in battle
their names would never be forgotten by
their country. Out of the million men
who fell in battle or died in military hos
pitals you cannot call the names of a
thousand, nor the names of 500, nor the
names of 100, nor the names of fifty.
Oblivion! The world itaelf will roll
into it as easily as a schoolboy's rubber
ball rolls down a hill, and when our world
goes it is so interlocked bv tho law of
gravitation with other worlds that they
will go, too, and so far from having our
memory perpetuated by a monument of
Aberdeen granite in this world there is
no world in sight of our strongest tele
scope that will be a sure pediment for any
slab of commemoration of the fact that
we ever lived or died at all. Our earth is
struck with death. The axeltree of the
constellations' will break and let down
the populations of other worlds. Stellar,
lunar, solar mortality. Oblivion! It can
swallow and will swallow whole galaxies
of worlds as easily as a crocodile takes
down a frog.
Yet oblivion does not remove or swal
low anything that had better not be re
moved or swallowed. The old monster is
welcome to his meal. This world would
long ago have been overcrowded if not
for the merciful removal of nations and
fenerations. What if all the books had
ived that were ever written and printed
and published? The libraries would by
their immensity have obstructed intelli
gence and made all research impossible.
What if all the people that had been
born were still alive? We would have
been elbowed by our ancestors of ten cen
turies ago, and people who ought to have
said their last word 3000 years ago would
snarl at us,-saying, "What are you doing
here?" There would have been no room
to turn around. Some of the past gener
ations of mankind are not worth remem
bering. The first useful thing that many
people did was to die; their cradle a mis
fortune and their grave a boon.
1 In all the Pantheon the weakest god
dess is Clio, the goddess of history, and
instead of being represented by sculptors
as holding a scroll might better be repre
sented, as limping on crutches. Faithful
history is tho saving of a few things out
of more things lost. The immortality
that cou.es from pomp of obsequies or
granite shaft or building named after its
founder or page of recognition in some en
eyolopedia is an immortality unworthy of
one's ambition, for it will cease and is no
immortality at all.
Oblivion! A hundred years. But while
I recognize this universal submergence of
things earthly, who wants to be forgotten?
Not one of us. Absent for a few weeks
or months from home it cheers us to know
that we aro remembered there. It is a
phrase we have all pronounced, "I hope
you missed me." Meeting some friends
from whom we have been parted many
years we inquire, "Did you ever see me be
fore?" Ana they say, "Yes," and call us
by name, and we feuls a delightful sensa
tion thrilling through their hand into our
hand and running up from elbow to
shoulder and then parting, the one cur
rent of delight ascending to the brow and
the other descending to the foot, moving
round and round in concentrio circles un
til every nerve and rausclo aud capacity of
body and miud r.nd soul is permeated with
delight.
Now, I have to tell you that this obli
vion of which I have spoken has its de
feats, and there is no more reason why we
should not be distinctly and vividly and
gloriously remembered five hundred mill
ion billion trillion quadrillion quintillion
years from now than that we should be
remembered six weeks. I am going to tell
you how the thing can be done and will
be done.
We may build this "everlasting remem
brance," as my text styles it, into the su
pernal existence of thoso to whom we do
Kindnesses in this world. You must re
member that this infirm and treacherous
faculty which we now call memory is in
the future state to be complete and rer-
' feet. "Everlasting remembrance!" Noth
ing will slip the stout grip or that celes
tial faculty.
Did you help a widow pay her rent?
Did you find for that man released from
prison a place to get honest work? Did
you pick up a child, fallen on the curb
stone, and by a stick of candy put in bis
hand stop the hurt on his scratched anecr
d vou assure a business man. swamped
by the stringency of the money market,
I that times would after awhile be better?
( Did you lead a Magdalen of the street
into a midnight mission, where the Xxird
1 said to her: ''Neither do I condemn thee.
Uo and sin no morel" Did you tell a man.
slear discouraged in his waywardness and
hopeless and plotting suicide, that for
him was neamy a laver, to wuiui uo
mifclit wash and a coronet of eternal bless
edness he might wear?
What are epitaphs In graveyards, what
are eulogiuma in presence of those whose
breath is in their nostrils, what are unread
biographies in the alcoves of a city library,
compared with the imperishable records
you have made in the illumined memories
of those to whom you did such kindnesses?
Forget them? They cannot forget them.
Notwithstanding all their might and splen
dor, there are some things the glorified
of heaven cannot do, and this ia one of
Tbey eannot forget an earthly kindness
done. They luve not cutlass to part that
cable. Tbey have no strength to hurl into
oblivion that benefaction. Has Paul for
gotten the inhabitants of Malta, who ex
tended ths Wand hoioilUtv.-fcatn..b.o!lU
otlWrt Wfth him had felt, added to a ship
wreck, the drenching rain and the sharp
cold? Has the victim of the highwayman
on the road to Jericho forgotten the good
Samaritan with a medicament nf oil and
wine and a free ride to the hostelry? Have
the English soldiers who went up to God
from the Crimean battlefields forgotten
Florence Nightingale?
It is not half as well on earth known
that Christopher Wren planned and built
St. Paul's as it will be known in all heaven
that you were the instrumentality of
building a temple for the skv. We teach
a Sabbath class, or put a Christian tract
in the hand of a passer-by, or testify for
Christ in a prayer meeting, or preach a
sermon and go home discouraged, as
though nothing had been accomplished,
when we had been character building with
a material that no frost or earthquake or
rolling of the centuries can damage or
bring down.
Another defeat of Oblivion will be
. found in the character of those whom we
rescue, uplift or save. Character ie eter
nal. Suppose by a right influence we aid
in transforming a bad man into a good
man, a dolorous man into a happy man, a
disheartened man into a courageous man,
every stroke of that work done will be im
mortalized. There may never be so much
as one line in a newspaper regarding it or
no mortal tongue may ever whisper it into
human ear, but wherever that soul shall
go your work upon it shall go, wherever
that soul rises your work on it will rise,
and so long as that soul will last your
work on it will last. Do you suppose
there will ever come such an idiotic lapse
in the history of that soul in heaven that
it shall forget that you invited him to
Christ; that you, by prayer or gospel
work, turned him round from the wrong
way to the right way? No such insanity
will ever smite a heavenly citizen.
Oh, this character building! The struc
ture lasting independent of passing cen
turies, independent of crumbling mauso
leums, independent of the whole planetary
systpm. Aye, if the material universe,
which seems all bound together like one
piece of machinery, should some day meet
with an accident that should send worlds
crashing into each other like telescoped
railway trains, and all the wheels nf con
stellations and galaxies should stop, and
down into one chasm of immensity all the
suns and moon and stars should tumble
like the midnight express at Ashtabuls,
that would not touch us and would not
hurt God, for God ia a spirit, and charac
ter and memory are immortal, and over
that grave of a wrecked material universe
might truthfully be written, "The righte
ous shall be held in everlasting remem
brance." O time, we defy thee! O death,
we stamp thee in the dust of thine own
sepulchers! O eternity, roll on till the last
star has stopped rotating and the last sun
is extinguished on tho sapphire pnthway,
and the last moon has illumined the last
night, and as many years have passed as
all the scribes that ever took pen could
describe by as many figures as they could
write in all the centuries of all time, but
thou shalt have no power to efface from
any soul in glory the memory of anything
we have done to bring it to God and
heaven!
There is another and a more complete
defeat for oblivion, and that is in the
heart of God Himself. You have seen a
sailor roll up his sleeve and show you his
arm tattooed with the figure of a favorite
ship, perhaps the first one in which he
ever sailed. You have seen a soldier roll
up his sleeve and show his arm tattooed
with the figure of a fortress where ho was
garrisoned or the face of a great general
under whom he fought. You have seen
many a hand tattooed with the face of a
loved one before or after marriage. This
custom of tattooing is almost as old as the
world. It is some colored liquid punc
tured into the flesh so indelibly that noth
ing can wash it out. It may have been
there fifty years, but when the man goes
into his coffin that picture will go with
him on hand or arm. Now, God says that
Be has tattooed us upon His hands. There
can be no other meaning in the forty-ninth
chapter of Isaiah, where God says, "Be
hold, I have graven thee on the palms of
My bands." It was as much as to say,
"I cannot open My hand to help but I
think of you. I cannot spread abroad My
hands to bless but I think of you. Wher
ever I go up or down the heavens I take
these two pictures of you with Me. They
are so inwrought into My being that I
cannot lose them. As long as My hands
last the memory of you will last. Not on
the back 'of My bands, as though to an
nounce you to others, but on the palms
of My hands for Myself to look at and
study and love. Though I hold the winds
in My fist, no cyclone shall uproot the in
scription of your name and your face, and
though I hold the ocean in the hollow of
My hand its billowing shall not wash out
the record of My remembrance. 'Behold,
I have graven thee on' the palms of My
hands.'
j What joy, what honor, sen there be
comparable to that of being remembered
by the mightiest and most affectionate
being in the universe? Think of it to
hold an everlasting place in the heart ot
God I The heart of God! The most beau
tiful palace in the universe. Let the arch
angel build some palace as grand as that
if lie can. Let him crumble up all the
stars of yesternight and to-morrow night
and put them together as mosaics for such
a palace floor. Let him take all the sun
'rises and sunsets of all the days and the
auroras of all the nights and hang them
as upholstery at its windows. Let hint
take all the rivers and all the lakes and
all the oceans and tosa them Into the foun
tains of this palace court.
Oh, where is oblivion now? From the
dark and overshadowing word that it
seemed when I began it haa become some
thing which no man or woman or child
who loves the Lord need ever fear. Ob
livion defeated. Oblivion dead. Oblivion
'aepulchered. But I must not be so hard
on that devouring monster, for into its
grave go all our sins when the Lord for
Christ's sake has forgiven them. Just
blow a resurrection trumpet over them
when once oblivion has snapped them
down. Not one of them rises. Blow
again. Not a stir amid all the pardoned
iniquities of a lifetime. Blow again I Not
one of them moves in the deep grave
trenches. But to this powerless resurrec
tion trumpet a voice responds half hu
man, half divine, and it must be part man
and part God, saying, "Their sins and
their iniquities will I remember no more. '
Thank God for this blessed oblivion. So
you see I did not invite you down into a
cellar, but up on a throne; not into the
graveyard to which all materialism is des
tined, but into a garden all abloom with
everlasting remembrance. The frown o
my first text has become the kiss of the
second text. Annihilation has become
coronation. The wringing hands of a
great agony have become the clapping
hands of a great joy. The requiem with
which we began dm become the grand
inarch with which we close. The tear of
sadness that rolled down our cheek has
(struck the lip on which aits the laughter
'of eternal triumph.
"THEY CARRIED LUNCH."
A young Cleveland woman who
teachcB a Sunday school class told her
email flock several Sundays ago about
the long journey of tho children of
Israel on their way to the Promised
Land, She described the march of the
column through the wilderness, and
told how the priests walked behind the
vanguard bearing their sacred burdans.
Last Sunday she thought she would
discover how much Of this leesou the
little fel'ows , remembered. To her
chagrin the I' rat boy she asked remem
bered nothing abo"t It.
"Come, now' she satd; "some of
you anrclv rem ruber what the priests
carried v.uen they marched through
the wlldciueiss.
But no one remembered until she
reached litJe Hn!ly,
"Now, Ually," she said, "you know
wbtt thfy "rr d. d'.m't you,?"
Hully n ''" 1
"They i ! tv lunch," he snld,
with a lf ( n" triumph at his stupid
classnat' :f' ve'md Plain Dealer. '
Hyde Park, the Green Park and Bt
Jamea' Park cost London between
them nearly I1C5.000 a year to nvln-taln.
THE SABBATH SCHOOL
international
Lessoa Comments
October t.
Ft
Sabjecfc Joseph Sold late Egypt, Oca. xixvIL,
12-J Ooldea Text, Acts vlL, 9 Meat,
ery Verses, 26-28 Coameatary
- ea the Day's Letioa.
12. "In Sheehem." Shechem was about
fifty miles north of Hebron. Jacob owned
pastures there (33: ID) and had dug a well.
13. "Send thee nnto them." Jacob no
doubt had some anxiety about his sons,
because he had removed from Shechem
en account of the sins they had committed
there; he therefore decides to send Joseph
to learn of their welfare. He could trust
Joseph, and he had no thought that his
brothers would wish to injure him.
14. "Go, I pray thee." Joseph's mission
to this remote and dangerous country is a
proof that Jacob did not treat him with
too much indulgence, and that he did not
keep him home from any feelings of ten
derness. Lions, bears, panthers and
wolves were common in Palestine in those
davs.
17. "Dothsn." This was about fifteen
or twentv miles north of Shechem.
18. "When they saw him." Their en
vious feelings rose up. Their occupation
gave them abundant timn for gloomy med
itation and for conversation. They doubt
less brooded over their relations to Joseph,
cherished revenge, and encouraged one an
other in their enmity. "Conspired." Cun
ningly plotted. "To slay hiin." This
would have been a premeditated murder
hiid they fully carried out their purposes.
10. "This dreamer cometh." "Master
of dreams." R. V. margin. This was a
form of speech conveying great contempt.
20. "And we will slay. From envy and
malice they proceeded to conspire against
the life of their brother, and then con
trived a lie to impose upon their own
fnther.
21. "And Reuben said." Reuben of
all the brothers had the greatest reason to
be jealous of Joseph, for, as the first born
he was entitled to many of the favors
which were being conferred upon Joseph;
yet Reuben proves to be his best friend.
22. "Shed no blood." He did not dare
to shed his brother's blood, neither did he
dare manfully to save him. Reuben's real
design was to find some way to restore
Joseph to his father.
23. "Out of his coat." This probably
was done that, if ever found, he might not
be discerned as a person of distinction,
and hence no inquiry would be made con
cerning him. They also took the coat off
to show to their father.
24. "Into a pit." One of the many res
ervoirs excavated out of the solid rock or
built of stones and plastered, fur the pur
pose of holding rnin water. They were
bottle-shaped, so that it was almost im
possible to escape. There are thousands
of such cisterns in upper Galilee; they
prove how dependent the population was
upon rain water. "Was empty." He was
safe from drowning, but was left to die
from starvation. What terribly wicked
men thev must have been!
25. "Sat down to eat." They sat down
to a joyous feast, eating and drinking the
very dainties he had brought them, while
thev left him to die. It was at this time.
(Gen. 42: 21) that they "saw the anguish
of his soul, when he besought them and
they would not hear. Reuben wns not a
partaker of that meal, but was off proba
bly devising measures for the rescue of
his brother. It is impossible that mere
envy at his dreams, his gaudy dress, or
the partiality of their father could have
confirmed them in such awful wickedness.
Their hatred of Joseph must have been
produced by a dislike to his piety, on ac
count of which they saw thev could never
be at ease until they had rid themselves
of his hated presence. This is the true so
lution of the mystery, just as it was in the
case of Cain. I John 3: 12. "Ishmael
ites." Called also Midianites (vs. 28. 36).
prnhablv because the caravan consisted of
both of these. The ireneral meaning is
Arabian merchants. ''From Gilead." A
country east of the Jordan. "Spicery."
Gilead was famous in early times for its
snicea and aromatic gums. Jer. 8: 22; 40:
11. "Balm." This was a very precious
gum obtained from the balsam tree, al
most peculiar to Palestine. "To Egypt."
Egvpt would be a great market for apices
on account of their being used "for incense
in the temples, and for embalming the
dead."
26. "Jiidah." The fourth on of Jacob.
His name menns "praise of the Lord."
"What profit." What profit is there in
sin at the best?
27. "Let us sell him." The sight of
these traveling merchants gave a sudden
turn to the views of the conspirators; for
having no wish to commit a greater de
gree of crime than was necessary for the
accomplishment of their end, they readily
approved of Judah's suggestion to dispose
of their obnoxious brother as a slave.
28. "Sold Joseph." Acting impulsively
on Judah's advice they had their poor vic
tim readv by the time the merchants
reached them. "Twenty pieces of silver."
The money was probably in rings or
pieces, and silver is alwaya mentioned in
the records of that early age. before gold,
on account of the rarity of the latter. In
those days money was weighed and not
coined. Twenty pieces (shekels) of silver
was the price of a slave under twenty
years of age (Lev. 27: 5), and according
to the Oxford Bible was equivalent to
f 1 1 .28.
29. "Reuben returned." Reuben had
planned to rescue Joseph and send him
home safclv as soon as his brothers had
left him. But the thing was of God, who
had designed that Joseph's deliverance
should be accomplished by other means
than his. "Rent his clothes." See on v.
34.
30. "Whither shall I go." Reuben was
the eldest and Jacob would hold him re
sponsible for Joseph's safety. '
31. "Killed a kid." They dared not tell
the truth, therefore they make lies their
refuge. How true it ib that what we sow
we reap! Jacob had deceived his father,
and now in turn he is deceived by his.
ions.
St. "Sent the coot." All this was done
and said by their servant whom they had
tent.
34. "Rent sackcloth." The common
ngns of Oriental mourning. A rent is
made in the skirt more or less according
to the afflicted feelings of the mourner,
I ml a coarse, rough piece of black sack
cloth or camel's hair cloth is wound
around the waixt. "Many days." It was
twenty-two vears before he saw him again.
&V "All his daughters." Dinah is the
only daughter of Jncob that we know
tbout; his daughten'in-law are probably
included here.
36. "Captain of the guard." His busi
ness was to take care of the royal person
tnd e'jsute his will.
AS USUAL, SUE KNEW.
Traffic was blocked on Fifth avenue
In both directions waa strung out a
long line of street cars and miscellane
ous vehicles. The usual crowd had
rushed to the point of disturbance,
thus adding to the congestion. A plain,
ordinary, every-day kind of a horse
had stopped directly across the trolley
track and despite all efforta to urge
him on his way not a step would he
move. Some suggested a few firecrack
er"; others hinted at Are with fire
crackers, and still othera vouchsafed
that the fire department might prove
effective, but the nag wouldn't move.
The driver, who, It might be Incident-,
ally aald waa an ash man, bad a pret
ty fair-sized club and know how to
wield it, too, but every time he admin
istered a few persuading thuds the
crowd yelled in disapproval, and still
the horse stood on. A little woman,
who had made her way through the
crtfwd, now stepped Into the arena. She
walked to the horse'a head and glanced
around, taking In the situation. Then
she smiled indulgently at the' people
and tolnted to a mirror in a large
show window. People began to under,
stand. The little woman deftly
straightened the horse'a aunbonnet
and with a glad shake ot his head, he
allowed procresa to march onward.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS.
October t "Tills Grace Also" 2 Cor.
vlll. 7-9.
Scripture Vprsoa. Matt. v. IB; Gal.
Tl. 10; Matt. Tl. 10, 20; 2 Cor. Ix. 6,
7; Hch. vl. 10; Matt. vll. 12; Hfb. x1ll.
lfl: 1 John 111. 17; I'rov.. xlx. 17; Tan.
xli. 1.
Lesson Thoughts.
The Infinite grefltnfs of God's gift
to us In aemllng his Hon to din for us
Is a sure gunrnntpe that no other ftiflt
that we can ask will be too great for
him te betttow, with him he will also
frcfly give u all things,'
We shall never do our duty to the
support of the ehurch until we have
our hrarts stirred by the love of God
and his cause. This love Is a grace
or favor bestowed hy the Spirit of
God.
A man's eelf. Riven In consecration,
renders his other gifts acceptable to
God.
The greatest wealth a man can pos
sess Is not his dollars, but bis Chris
tian liberality.
Selections.
How can I. Iord. wlthnld
Life's brightest hour
From thee; or feathered gold,
Or any power?
Why Hlioiild I keep one precious thing
from thee.
When thou has given thine own dear
self for tne?
God Judges proportions. With G.id
the question Is: How much did youi
heart give? It Is a second thing with
hliu to nsk; How much did your bund
give? But lie does expect the henrt
aud the hand nobly to not together,
the hnnd honestly expressing what
the heart feels.
Xenophon tells us of Roerntos, that
when he suoriilced he feared not bis
efferlng would fall of neceptnnee In
that he was poor; but, giving accord
ing to his ability, he doubted not but,
in the sigh tof the gods, he equalled
those men whose gifts and sacrifices
overspread tho whole altar.
Suggested Hymns.
We prnlse thee, we bless thee.
I belong to Jesus.
Is thy cruse of comfort falling.
Cost they bread upon the waters.
Take my life and let It be.
More love to thee, O Christ.
EPW0RTH LEAGUE MEETINQ TOPICS.
October 6 This Qract Also: "Olvlaz" 2
Cor. vlll. 7-9.
"Rlcheg are almost always abused
xvrtiiout a very extraordinary grace."
With clever compliment the Apostle
lifts the graces In which the Corinth
ian Christians excel. His praise was
pure. He knew their faith, utter
ance, knowledge, diligence, and love
everything In which they so manifest
ly abounded. But nnother grace he
skillfully pleads with them to show.
He yearns for them to prove in many
ways their charitable disposition so
that he may commend and boast of
them for their generosity, by which
they ought to be distinguished. He
Intends that this shall give them pe
culiar and noble repute over their
virtues.
To teach them the law of gener
osity, the culture of charity, Impera
tives tare discreetly avoided. His
method of enthusing the churcb to
liberal offerings was by loyalty, sac
rifice, and activity of another eccle
sla. He mentions the forwardness of
the churches of Macedonia which they
abould emulate.
All possessions bring gravo respon
sibility. To give one must have, and
the having burdens the possessor with
the responsibility of giving. The re
sponsibility for one's possessions va
ries according to the amount. When
ene'a means provide little more tbun
euougli for the support of self and
family, generosity Is manifestly lim
ited, aud God accepts the willing
heart.
The principle In giving Is to deter
mine the amount, and object of our
contribution. Far above the law of
the pid Testament does the principle
f the New raise every servant of
God. The ene-tenth rule, fixed, cold,
ppresslve to the poor, advantageous
te the rich, is completely lost In the
law of love, which is self denial and
sacrifice.
Under the Gospel no fixed sum s
Christian, ne proportion Is scriptural.
Our giving must have the measure of
the "unspeakable gift," tho largeness
f Mr. Wesley, who saved all be could
and gave all he could his personal
expenses never exceeding one hun
dred and forty dollars a year. What
ever he acquired above that he dis
posed of according to the wants of
men and the progress of the Lord's
work. He died a poor man, in gold
and silver, but Inestimably rich to
ward God and In the favor of men.
Are there any among you that have
"this grace also?" The world wide
enterprises of the Church in Mission
ary efforts and reform movements
tarry for want of generous aid.
RAMS' HORN BLASTS
lny hanls make
mighty links.
God may cast us
out of the nest to
teach us how to
fly.
Christian Joy Is
the soul tuning it
self to the heaven
ly chord.
It XT J vnrist appoints
KyS-. ta HiB aervlee
r YS?v '"" those annolnted
Ki 'with sacrifice.
It you cannot have what you prize,
It Is a good thing to prize what you
have.
There Is no recreeation In desecra
tion. The only way to feed the sheep la to
follow the shepherd.
The people who sing the wrong stan
taa usually sing the loudest.
When money la your only friend you
naturally hate to part with It.
The counsel that falls like the snow
Ilea longer than the hall ot chiding.
Faith cannot be forced.
Fear leads to fretting.
Tall trees need deep roots.
When In doubt, don't.
Heaven la not geogrpahy.
It it the touch ot selfishness in our
ftmbltlons that turns them to aln.
Cold ta Thibetan Mountains.
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waa always cold. At the constant al
titude ot about 15.000 foot It was Im
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the heart, wherefore he bad to remain
on his homo aud freeise.
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