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THE BIBLE.
8EHMOX BY a TALMAGE.
The Inexhaustible Wraith of Mean
ing In tlio Hook of no.tks.
Tf XT: "Aik for the oti path, v-her U
the oood tray, an I trai'fr fWr.n, nmJ.enhnU
fnd rent for your son. Jeremiah Ti 10
A great I.onilon fog has come down uiton
some of the ministers and some of the
churches In the shape of what it railed "ad
vanced thought-' in Kil.lical interpretation.
All of ttieiu. and without any exception,
deny the full Inspiration of tlm iiibto.
Ones i is an allegory, and there are manr
myths in the Hihlo, and they philosophize
nd guess and reason and o volute until they
land in a great continent of tnud, from
which. I fear, for all eternity they will not
I able to extricate thorn when.
The B bin it not only divinely Inspired, hut
It Is dirinoly protected In It present shae.
You could as easily, without detection, take
from the writings of Hhakespenre Hamlet,
and iti!tituta in place thereof Alexander
Smith's ilrnina. a at any time during the
last llfteen hundred year, a man could hava
lade any important change in the llible
'Without immediate detection. If thera hail
been an clement of wenkneiu, or of de
svption. or of disintegration, the
Hook would long ago hat fallen to
1 ieoea. If there had been one loose I rick or
cracked casement in thin castellated truth,
aurely tho bombardment of eight centuries
would have discovered and broken through
that imperfection. The fact tlm tho Hthle
stands intact, notwithstanding all the furi
ous assaults on all side Uwn it, it proof to
me that it is a miracle, and every miracle is
f God.
"Hut." says some one, "while we admit
the liible is of Hod, it has not been under
atood until our time." My answer Is, that if
the Hihlo lie a letter from God, our Fnther.to
man, His child, Is it not strange that that
letter should have been written in such a
way that it should allow seventy genera
tions to pass away ami be buried liefore tho
tetter could be understood; That would be.
a very bright Father who should write a
letter for the guidance nnd intelligence of
His children not understandable until
a thousand years alter they were buried ami
forgotten: While as the years roll on other
leaute and excellencies will unfold from the
(scriptures, that the Hiblo is such a dead
failure that all the Christian scholars for
1hki years were dceive.l i" regard to
vast reaches of its meaning, is a detnnnd
tiHiu my credulity so great that if I found
myself lit all ilsKd to yield to it I should
to-ninrrow morning apply at toiiio insane
asvluiii as unlit to go alone.
'ho make up this precious group of ad
wanced thinkers to whom God has miido es
pecial revelation in our tinio of that whic h
lie tried to make known thousand of years
ago and failed to make intolhgiulof Are thev
sodistinguished for unworMlinpKs, piety and
scholarship that it is to be exvcted that they
would nave oeen ciiosen to tlx up the defec
tive work of Moses and Isaiah ami l'aul
and t hristf Is it all possible! I won
der on what mountains these mod
ern exegetes wero transllgured I
w onder what star pointed down to t tiir birth-
ila' ef as it tii'i .rlo Mnr, or the hven
nc Htnr. or the DiniM-rf As thev camo
through and descended to our world did Mars
blush or Saturn lose one of its rings U licit
I tin I these modern wiseacres attempting to
improve upon the work of tho Almighty and
to interlard it with their wisdom and to sug
gest prophetic and npxtoli errata, I
am lllled with a disgust iiisutferau'e.
Advanced thought, which proposes to
tell the Lord what lie ought to have
said thnu-aiuls of years ago, and would have
said if He had been as w ise as His nitn tenth
century critics! All this comes of living
away back in the eternities instead of It, 1
have two wonders in regard to these men,
The first is how the Lord got along without
itliem before thev were born. The second
under is how tho Lord will get ulonir with-
ut then, after they aredoaib
"Hut," say some. "do vou reallr
liiuk the Scriptures are Inspired
lirougboutf" Yes, either as history or
s guidance. Gibbon and Josophus and
'reseott record in their histories a great
innv things thev did not anorove of. When
ieorgo Bancroft puts upon his brilliant his-
iirteai page the account or an Indian omasa
re, does he approve of that massacre! There
re scores 01 tnings in the Hi I. le w hich neither
ml nor Inspired moil sanctioned, hither as
istory or as guidance the eutire Bible was
spireil of God.
"Hut." says some ono, "don't you think
at I he copyists might have made mistakes
transferring the divine words from one
inn ript io another:" Yes.no doubt there
iv Mich mistakes; lut they no more nllect
1 meaning of the iScriptures than the mis-
mug ot a word or tne ungramuintical
.icture of a sentonce in a last will nu 1
t;itnent nlT;ct tho validity or the meaning
mill win. am tun mistakes ma lo bv tho
vists in the Scriptures do not amount to
' more importance than tlio dillerence bo-
is'ii yoursielliug in a diH-umetit the word
iv, lorty or touriv. This book is the lat
I nu I tcstainent of Clod to our lost world.
I it I until I liu ui'.ivi't l I in ..!.!. .t
iliciigli liunian hnnds may have damaged
giuimuur ornuuio uiijuktillublo luturpo-
iiese men who pride themselves in our
on oeing mivnmtM thinkers In Uililical
rpretation will nil of them end in ntlie-
d they live long enouirli. and I declare
bi-day they are doing moro in the dill'er
h iioiuiiiationiof Christians.and through
the world, for dumaging Christiunity
Hindering tho caue of the world's
'rni'-iit than flvo tHousan I Uoburt
rsolls COUld do. That 111 ii ulin u.,.,.l.
le a castle is far more dangerous if ho can
'ifiitniy man live thousand enemies out-
oie castio. Jlobert II. Ingersoll assails
"st lo from the outside. These mon who
ni to bo ailvancod thinkers in all tho
initiations am tlehtitlir tliu frntli frnm
iiide. and trvimr to shove back the
n. swing open the eats.
'W I atll in fnvnpfif t.lia rrAnfai ftAA.l,m
I'k'ious thought and discussion. I would
1 1 much lilierty for heterodoxy as for
IIOXV. If I Hllfllllil II .a iiiv t.li.hfi-i.
J'iiou I should preach them out and out.
pt m the building where I am aceus-
I tO DreH"h file that tmm I 1...
who Imliuve in an entire Bible, and it
i ii i 'Jisitont for me to promulgate son
tHdilferect fromthos! for which that
" was put up. Whon we enter any
imiiiatlon as ministers of religion we take
iuw mat we will preach tho senti-
Of tllUt lleniiiilnuir... I H I. -
hef,rie i as we have a right to cliang
. mure is a worm several thousand
LCur7,umfBre"09 nd the un.
ot balls and bundrwls of academies of
wnere wecan vunt.ittami,.ut.t.i,.i....fr..
j'lieiuber that in all our cities, in time
.... .. oK,lauon, more are the Kepubli-
, . uim me i winocratio lietd-
rs. SuOlkTMit I ali.i.tl.1 f..A m
I..... I , " - "" KU lllbU UIIU l
iieudnuarters pretemliug to be in sym-
-iui ineir work, at the samu time
"eerini? for tliu Miw.;, .... i n
nml that the rentrifii,,! r.... ...
r than th r.ifi...?. v .
mers a ilenoinlnntinn r'hi.n...
a solemn oath, m w .11 ,i 41,. .. '
outulButa the theories of that deuom-
and thnn ft,A .1 n ,
hill,. . .i . " wi proeiaim
k L7 lntTy,.,'e h" broken tis oath,
B IS an n il-un.1 i v
f . l-i . . ,orJurer- ever-
1 tleClHrik fm 1 . 1 : 1 . ,
rili....; t K 6 "oriy in re-
Liio ?aJt 1 woulJ no ni
sniipt to rear a nmn . ni
CwM TVtlf tn"n I ould hare ln
to wLm , J "P'endld mon
v i "bi;ffton. Largest bberty for
for tnH . !U,rty tor - niJ.lrgest
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want to show
tif 'l.1 ,fliV8 to 08 right,
than,0.' ST! W
an I 1" a yvypm 01 nat
nWII Mi il
tha '"' !?"
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van 11 . wo" H'"'Otor
ven. Behold tna sploudors of
lt fhlerementa. All the mlsslonsrlei ot tha
Oospel the world round are men who be
lieve In an entire Bible. C all the roll of all
the miseionarie who are to-dar enduring
sacrifices In the ends ot the earth for the
cause of religion and the world's
Imtterment, and they all believe in
an entire Bible. Jus: a soon as
a missionary begins to doubt whether there
ever was a uarden of Eden, or whether there
Is any mt-lt thing as future punishment, he
conies right home from Iteyrout or Madras,
and goes into the insurance business! All
the missionary societies this day are olllcered
by Orthodox men, and are supxrted by
Orthodox churches.
Orthodoxy, beginning with tha Rnndwlch
Islands, has captured vast regions of liar
barism for civilization, whilo het"rdoxy has
to capture the first s piara inch. HUta it for
many years in Ureat Britain and the I'nite 1
Htatos, and strutting altout with a peneockbin
braggadocio it has yet to capture the
lirst continent, tho first state, tho
first township, the first ward, the first space
of ground as big as you could cover with th
small end of a sharp pin. Ninety nine out
of every hundred or the Protectant churches
of America wire built by people who
believed In an entire Bible. The pul
pit now may preacli some other lopl,
but It is a heterodox pun on an orthodox
carriage. Tho founilations of all the
churches that are of very great use in this
world to-day were laid by men who be
lieve! the Bible from lid to lid. and if
I cannot take it in that war I will not
take it at all; just as if 1 received
a letter that pretended to come from a
friend, and part of it was his and part some
body else's, and the other part somebody
else's, and it was a tort of literary mongrel
ism, ami I would throw the garbled sh uts
into the waste basket
No church of very great influence to day
but was built by those who believed in an
entire Bible. Neithr will a church last
long built on a part ot the Bible. You
have tiotii'ed, I ftiippos", th'it as soon
as a man legln to give up the Bibln
he is apt to preach in sonn hall, and
he has an audience whilo he lives, and when
he dies the church diet. If I thought th it
my church in Brooklyn was built on a ipisrtcr
of a Bib'e, or a half a Bible, or thre-iiunruTS
ot a Bible, or nlnety-nino one hundredths of
a Bible, I would cxisM't it to die when
I die; but hn I know it is built
on the entire Word of Wo 1, I know it will list
two hundred years after you and I sleep the
lastsleep, I Mi, the splendors of nn ortho
doxy, which, with ton thousand hands nnd
ten thousand pu'p ts ami ten tliousind Chris
tian churches, is trying to save th? world!
In Music Hall, Boston, for many venrs
stood Theodore Parker battling ortlioiloxy,
Riving it, as foine suppose I at that time,
its death wound. He w as tho most fascinat
ing man I ever heard or ever exjiocted to hear,
an l 1 came out from bearing him think
ing In mv lHiyhoo-1 wav: "Hell, thnt s thu
death of the church." On that same street
and not far from being opioait, stood Park
Congregationnl t'hiirch, called by its enemies
"Hell-lire Corner." Theodore Barker died
ami his church died with him; or, it it is in
existence, It is so small you cannot ft-e it
with the naked eye. I'nrk Congregational
Church still stands on "Hell-lire Cot ter,"
thundering away the nmginllcent truths of
this glorious ortlioiloxy just as though Theo
dore Parker hud never liveiL All that Bos
ton, or Brooklyn, or New York, or tho world
ever got that is worth having canto through
tho wide aipiedtlct of orthodoxy from tho
throne of tiod.
Behold the splen lor of character built up
by orthodoxy. Who had the greatest human
intellect the worid ever knew' Paul. In
physical stature, insignificant: in mind, head
and shoulders above all the giants of tho age.
Orthodox from scalp to he d. Who was tho
greatost poet theng-seversaw,acknowlelged
to lo so both by infidels nnd Chris
tians' John Milton, seeing more without
eyes thnn anybody elso ever taw with eyes.
Orthodox friii ii si -alp tolled. Who was tho
greatest roformer the world his ever seenf so
acknowledge 1 by Infidels as well as by Chris
tians. Martin Luther. Ortuo lox froiu scalp
to heel.
Thn look at the certitudes. O man, !
lievmg in au entire Bible, where did you
come from! Answer: "I disceuded from a
perfect parentage in Paradise, and Jehovah
breathed into my nostrils the breath ot life.
I am a son of G od." O nian.bolieving ina half-and-half
Bible, believing in a Bible iu spots,
whore did you come fro-af Answer: "It is
all uncertain; in my am-estral lino a war
back there was anorang-outaug anda tadpole
and a polywog, and it took millions of years
to get mo evolutod." Oh man, boliering in a
Bible in spots, where are you going to when
you iptit this world Answer: "Going into a
great to lie, so on into tho great some hero,
and then I shall pas through ou to the great
anywhere, and I shall probably nrrlre In tho
nowhere." That is whore 1 thought you
would fetch up. O man, Imliuving iu
an entire Biblo, and believing with all vour
heart, where are you uomg to when
lonre this worldf Answer: "1 am going to
my Father's house; I am going into tho
compinionship of my loved ones who have
gone hefoiv; Iain going to leave nil my
Kins, and I am going to be with God mid like
tiod forever and forever." Oh, the glorious
certitudes of orthodoxy!
Behold tho splendors of orthodoxy in it
announcements of two destinies.
Palace and uitit iitinry. Pnlaco with
gates on nil sides through which all miv
enter and live on leleiliul luxuries world
without end, mi l all lor tint kuockingaml
the asking. A palace gran dor than if nil tlio
Alhamlirasniiil the Versailles and tho Wind
sor Cistlesuud tho Wiuter liardeiM mid tha
iniHrial abodes of all enrth were ln-ave l up
into one architectural lory. At tho other
end of thu universe a kiiteiitiiiry where men
who want their sins can have them. Would
it I hi fair that you and 1 should have our
choice of l'hri-.t und the palace, and other
men le doniol their choice of sin and
etcriinlilegritdationf Pnhkcenml )eiiitontiary.
Tho lirst of no ue unless vou hive the laut.
Brooklyn and Now York would bo better
places to live in with Raymond Ktreot Jail,
tho Tombs and Sing King, and all the small
pox hospitals emptied on them, than Itouven
would lie if there wero no hell. Palace and
penitentiary. If I see a man with a lull bowl
ot sin, and he thirsts for it, and bis w hole
nature craves it, and he takes hold with both
hands and presses that IhjwI to his lips, and
then presses it hard between his teeth,
and the draught begins to pour its sweet
ness down his throat; shall we snatch
away the bowl, and jerk the man up to the
gnto of heaven, and push him in if he does
not want to go nnd sit down and sing psalms
forever No. God has Hindu you and mo so
completely free that we need not go to
heaven unless wa prefer it Not more froo
to soar than free to sink.
Nearly all the heterodox peopln I know be
lieve all are coming out at the same destiny;
without regard to faith or character we are
all coming out at the shining gate. There
they are, all in glory together. Thom
as Paine and George Whitolleld, Jezebel
nnd Mary Lyon, Nero and Charles Wesley,
Charles Guiteau and James A.tiarfleld, John
Wilkes Booth and Abraham Lincolu all in
glory together ! All the innocent men, wo
men, and children who were massacred, side
by side with their murderers. If we are all
coining out at the same destiny, without
regard to character, then it is true.
1 turn away from such a debauched
heaven. Against that cauldron of piety and
blasphemr, philanthropy a lie assassination,
suit sacrlllce and beastlinesi, I ploco tho two
destinies ot the Bible foiever und forever
and forever apart
Behold also the splendors of the Christian
Orthodox death beds.
Those who deny the Bible, or deny any
part of it nevor die well. They either go
out In darkuess or they go out in silence
Iiortentous, You may gather up all tha
dographies that have come forth sine the
art of printing was invented, and I challenge
you to show me a triumphant death ot a
man who rejected tha Hcrtptures or rejected
any part ot them. Here I make a great wide
avenue. On the one I put the death beds of
those who believed in an entire Bible. On
tho other side of that avenue I put tha
death beds ot those who rejected part
of tha Bible, or rejected all of
tha Bible. Now, take my arm and let us
pass through this dividing avenue. Look off
upon the right side. Here are the deathbeds
on tha rlitht side of this avenua "Vio-
Itory through our Lord Jesus Christ I"
"Frea graoul" .''Glory, glory I" am
sweeping through tha gates washed In tha
blood of the Lamb!" "Tha chariot are
coming!" "I mount I fly!" " Wings, wingsf
"Titer are coming for me!" "Peace, bsj
till!" Alfred Cookman's death-bod, Richard
Cecil's d-ath b id. Coumn lore Poota's death
lied. Your father's death bed, your mother's
dath-ba'l, your sister's death bed. your
child's death-bo I. Ten thonsand radiant,
songful death-beds of those who believed an
entire Bihle.
Now, take my arm and let us go through
that avenue, nnd look off upon the other
side. No smile of hope. No shout of triumph.
No face supernaturally illumined. Those
who reject any part of tha Bible
never dio well. No beckoning for
angels to come. No listening for the ca
leslial eai-ort Without anr exception they
go out of the world liecauso they are pushed
out; while on the other hand tha
list of those who Isslloved In an entire
Bible nnd gone out of the world in
triumph is a list so long it s"m Intermina
nble. Oh, is not. that a splendid Influence.this
orthodoxy, which makes that which must
otherwise be the m ist dread: til hour of life
the last hour-poitiveIr paradia ileal f
Noting men. old men, middle-aged men.
take sides in this conteit Ut ween ortho loxr
and heterodoxy. A-k for the old paths,
walk then In, mid yo shall llnd rest
for your souls." But you follow
iii crl,,a'',, against any part of the
Iiiblo first of all you will give up Genesis,
which is as trua as Matthew; then you
will give up all the historical po-u of the
Bible; then after a while you will give
up the miracles; then you will find It
convenient to give up tha Ten Command
ments; and then after a while you will wake
up iu a fountainloss, rovkloss. treeless desert
swept of everlasting sirocco. If you are
lang hed at you can afford to Im Inughed at
for standing by tin. Biblo fust as Jo J has
jtiven it to you and miraculously preserved
Do not jump overboard from the stanch
oldGrent Eastern of old fashioned irtho loxy
until thorn Is something ready to take
you up stronger than tlm fantastic yawl
which has paint! on the side: "Ad
vanced Thought." and which leaks nt the
prow and leaks nt tho stern and has a steel
p-n for one oar and a glib tongue for the
other oar, an I now tips ovor this war nn I
then til ovor that way, until vou d i not
know whether the pistengers will Ian I in tho
breakers of despair or on the sinking sand
or infidelity nnd nthistii.
I am in lull sympathy with the advance,
mentsof our tint but this world will never
advnnce a stnglw Inch beyond this old Bible.
Go I was iust ns capable of dictating tho
truth to the prophets and apostle as lie, is
capable of dictating tho truth to
these modern npoitles and prophets.
God has not learned anything in a thousand
years. Ho kn-w just as much when He gave
the Hist dictation as He does now. giving tha
insw uii-uiuou, ii ne is giving nny dictation
at nil. ro I will slick to tho
old paths. Naturally a skeptic and
preferring new thitus to old. 1 never
so much as to day felt th truth of tlm entire
Bible, essicially ns I sisj into what sjiectneular
imlsx'ilitv men rush when they try to chop
up the Scriptures with the in nit axe of their
own preforeinvs, now calling iiMn
philosophy, now calling on the Church,
now calling on God, now calling on the
devil. 1 prefer the thick, warm robe of tint
old religion old ns Hod tho robo which has
kept so many warm amid the cold pibirimago
of this life nnd nntid the chills of death.
The old robe rather than the thin, uncertain
gaue offered us by these wiseacre! who be
lieve the Bible in spots.
t hi Juiy a;th, IM I, nt serenty-t wo years of
ago. expirel Isabella Graham, "he "was tha
most tin-ful woman of her day ami i the poor
and sick, nt tho he id of the orphan asylums
and Mnglalcti asylums, mid nn iinel of
mercy in hospital and reformatory. lr. Ma
son, one of the might n-st men of his day, said
nt her funeral that she was mentally and
spiritually tlm most wonderfully endowed
person he had ever mot. Win was nn Im-
Iiersonation of the most orthodox or;ltodoxy.
lor last word was peace. As a sublime
peroration to my sermon, I will give an ex
tract from her Inst will nnd testament, show
ing how ono who Isj'ievos in an entire Biblo
may mako a glorious exit:
An extract from a will:
"Mr chlldrrn sml my grandchildren I leave to
my covenant Uod, th God wbo hsih fed ms s'l my
Ill's with tho nreail Hint peririirlti anil th breiit
that Dover trln!ieth. who has been a Kalbar to my
fulbcrless children and s husbssil to their widowed
moibor tbus far. And now receivlim niy Keuecnirr s
testimony, I set to my seal that Uod Is true; and
believing the ncoril of John that (iod bslh gtvan
to me menial life and ibis nts Is in Ills Hon,
who. through the eternal hplrlt, overcomes without
spot unto (hi. t, and being consecrated a priest for
ever bsib with His oivu hlnod entered Into the
holy plsue, hnvlnii obtained eternal redemption for
me. I also believe tliu lie will km fee I what
concerns me, nipport and carry me safely throuea
death, nnd prerent ms to His Father, complete in
Ills own tii;liteiiiiii's, without spot or wrinkle.
Into the hsinls of tit s redeeming tiod, 1'ather, Sou
and Holy (.bust I to iu iu it my rudueutvd vpirlL
ISAHMI.A (.UAIIA.
Let m die tho il uth of tho righteous, nnd
let my lust end Im hko hers. "Glory 1st to
tho Father, nnd to tho Son, and to the Holy
Ghost; us it was in tho beginning, is now
and ever shall bo, world without end. Anion
and Amen:"
A sixteen year-old boy, who Is a drunkard
and atllictoil with ep:lesy, pays the New
York OhiiiiV, was M iitouce I to six mouths
in the Petiitentinrv for stealing a watch nnd
chain from his mother by lbs-order Hmjth in
the Court of General Koi.dons to-day. Tho
Jirisoner's inline is William Crow. His fat hd
an undertaker, lie says that the boy is n
chronic drunkard, nnd that bisepieptic fits
ere to a great extent duo to that cause, law
yer Punly was assigned to defend tho pris
oner, and he told tho ltecorder that bis client
pleaded guilty, and said ho stole tlm watch to
trovide money with which to purcuuko drink,
le has boon on tho Island before.
What firings lruci-f
A doctor who was oneo visiting a Christ
ian patient bad himself long I ecu anxious to
feci that he was at vac with God; tho Spir
it had convinced him ot bis sin and
need, and he longed to possos "th poice
which tho world cannot give." On is oc
casion, addressing himself to the sick one, be
said; ' I want you just to toll ma what it is
this believing an 1 getting happiness, faith
in Jesus and all that sort of thing t hut brings
Iieace." His patient replied, "Doctor, I
lave felt that I could do nothing,
and 1 have put my case in your
hands. I am trusting to you. This is
exactly what every isjor sinner must do in
the Lord Jesus." This reply greatly
awakened the doctor's surprise, and a new
light broke in upon his soul. "Is thatallf"
he exclaimed: "simply trusting in the Lord
Jesusf I sue it as I never did before. He
has done, the work. Yes, Jesus said on tho
cross, 'It is finished ' and 'whosoever be
lioveth in Him shall not perish, but have
everlasting lifel" From that sick-bed the
doctor went a happy man rejoicing that his
'iii were washed away lu the blood of the
Lamb.
A Little Thlas; Way Ilrclils.
A Cunarder put out from England for
New York. It was well equippsl, but in
putting up a store In the pilot-box, a nail
was driven too near the compass. You know
how that nail would alfect the compass.
Tha hip's olllcers.deceired by that distracted
compass, put the ship two hundred milos olf
her right course, and suddenly the man on
the lookout cried, "Land hot" and the ship
was baited within a fow yards of her demoli
tion on Nantucket shoals. A six-penny nail
came near wrecking a great Cunarder.
Small ropes hold mighty destinies.
A minister, seated in Boston at hit table,
lacking a word, puts bis bands behind his
head and tills back bis chair to think
and the ceiling fulls and crushes
the table, and would have crushed him. A
minister in Jamaica at night, by the light of
an insect called the candle-fly, is kept from
stepping over a precipice of a hundred feet
V. W. Holiertson, the celebrate! English
man, said that he entered the ministry from
a truin of circumstances started by the bark
ing of a dog. Had the wind blown ore way
on a certain day, the Spanish Inquisition
would bare been established in KngUnd; but
it blew the other way, and that dropped the
accursed Institution, with 75,000 tons of
shilililnir. to tha bottom of tha ana. nr flnnir
the broken spliutored log ou tha rocks.
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
lesson ron 8 vnn.VTif, aio la
'Tlio Dny of Atonement," Lrr. vl..
1-O-Ooltlcn Text Ilcb. Ix., S'2.
V. 1, Tha Lord spake." This sonleticsi
should always command our most reverent
attention; we want to bow our heads nnd
hearts In loring submission and say: "Speak,
Lord, for thy serrattt hearoth."
"The death of the two sons of Aaron."
This was because of disobedience (x., Ii; titer
wilfully did what tiod had commanded
them not to do (Kx. xxx., in, and fire from
the Itnl devoured them. How terrible is
disobedience! How merciful is God in bear
ing so patiently with us! How nwrul will
l the realization of the vengeance of God on
thetnthat obey uot theUosiol! (II. Thess.
'"They oTere.1 before the Lord." All our
service as Christians is before the Lord nnd
aught to I e unto Htm in tho power of the
Spirit; all else is strange fire.
V. a. "Come not at all times within tho
rail,'1 for the way Into the holiest of all was
not yet made manifest; but now wo liavo
boldness to enter nt all times into the holiest
by the blood of Jesus (Hob. Ix., X; x., V.)
"The cloud iiK)it the mercy seat." What
a glorious new and living way It is that not
only gives us access to, but Hrmits to nbide
In II i in who is our Ara and Mercy Sent, and
Cloud and Holy of Holii, in whom we have
redemption not for a venr, but eternal re
demption. (Ilcb. ix.. I J. t
V. :t. "lints shall Aaron eonin Into tho
holy." We will ls?st understand this lesson
by looking at it under the following head
ings: I, the person of Anrou; 'J, the sacrifices
for himself and his house; II, the sacrifice
for the ssople; 4, his entrance to tho holiest:
f. the disiNjsal of the blood: , th dipos il of
the sin ottering; 7, the disiMtoil of tho scape
gent: N, the burnt ollering; 11, the grand
result.
1.1 he ierscn of Aaron. Verse A says that ha
was to wash his Mesh in water and put on holy
linen garments breeches, coat, girdle and
tniter; this signitlcs that he put oil' the lsau
t if ul tiai inent.s ordinarily worn by him. nnd
dHM'ril! in Kx. xxviii; thus he stands lie
fore us typifying the lrd Jesus, who laid
addn all His glory and laiautv and nstln
spotless ono became our sult. title. Tho
(lurments of glory and Issauty 1K1. xxviii. Ji
speak to us ot the present work of our High
1 riet making continual intercession for us.
The sacrifices for him-elf and his house.
Tliee are found iu verses :t, i, II, J i, and
Included both a sin olfertng and a burnt
ottering. Being a sinlul man, ho had to olfer
Sacrlllce for himself ns well ns fur the sins
of the people (Heb. ix, i, but our High
Priest is holy, liaruiloss, uudidilo I and scp
rate from sinners.
II. Tho sacrillces for thr people. Thes i aro
found in verses . T-10. and also Include I a
Sin ottering nnd burnt ollering. The burnt
olTering in each case wits a rain, but th sin
ollering was, for Anion, a bulliK'k. and for
the peoplo, two goats. Many other snct dices
were offered on this great-st of nil days in
the year to nn Israelite ise .Num xxix. , Mb,
but all pomtod to the only sacrifice by which
sin caii 1st nloiieit for, for "It is not posnhln
that tho blood of bulls nnd of goats should
take a way sins" (Ilcb. x., 4-1 li.
4. The entrance to the Holiest. This is de
scribed in verses I'M. We must under
stand the arrangement of the tiibcrimcle, mid
remember that into this room went the high
priest alone, and only once every year 1 1 leb.
x., 7). Ho was to take the iviimt of burn
ing coals from olT the golden nltnr belore tho
vail nnd carry it within the vail, putting on
the tiro bnndftlls of sweet incetiMi liculcn
small, that n cloud of incense might cover
the mercy sent, that he die not. The pro
clous truth of the merits of Chirst as a seot
incense Isifore Gisl on our behalf will 1111 our
souls if we only rcceivo it.
ft. The disMisal of the bloo 1. This was the
all Important part of the day's work. "Kor
the lilo of the llesli is in the blood, and I have
given it to you upon the altar, to make an
Biois msnt for vour souls: for Jt -ja tht Mood
that' mukcth nn atonement for the soul."
(Ur. xvii., 11.) V ernes 14 10, S, p.t, tell us
what was done with the b.ood; ou the mercy
seat and seven times before the mercy seat;
ou to horns of the altar and seven times on
the ultar. A KTfoet application furiosi and
man, neiHssury liecuuso ot man's transgres
sion and sin
Is The disposal of thesin oirerings. Verses
.", IT", ".. The fut binned upon the nltnr, for
own in Christ as our sin ollering hearing our
ins there was an excellenca that only God
could apprcciuto; the ImxIiom burned without
thecanii, "Wherefore Justus also, that Ho
might sanctify the oplo with His own
blood, kulfered without the gale. I,et us go
firth therefore unto Hun, without tlio camp,
bearing His reproach. Kor hero liavo wo no
continuing city, but wo seek one to conic"
(Heb. xiit., Il-ll.)
7. The disposal of the scapego it. (Vs. s!0
C!, "ii. I Two goats were taken for the ticoplo's
kin olf. ring Ono was slain nnd Hie blond
kiinnkled, ns wo liavo learned, ou the head of
I he ol her, as these verses tell us. The priest
laid both his hands und con I esse. I nil Mho
iniiiiitiea, trnnsgressjoiis and sins of all the
people, piittingtbem on the head of the goat,
mid ho wus then led a ay into the wilder
le ss, bearing them nil into a land not inhab
ited. The burnt offerings. (Vs. !.' I. '.'I The
whole sin question having been now uttendisl
to Aaron ugaiu washes himself, having put
olf the white linen garments and put on his
other garments, ami comes forth to offer tho
burnt offerings for himself nnd for the imo
pie, nnd makes nn atonement. Prom Num.
xxix., we learn that every burnt offering
wits accompanied by a meat ollering; und
that the daily burnt offering ha I both meat
ami drink olleriugs. 'i hese tell us at least of
the ierfect immunity of t hrist always pleas
ing God, a lifo cheerfully poured out, for
man, and at tho same tiiue wholly yielded
unto God a precious and acivptahln sacrillco,
lS'othing for Himself; all for God und man.
I'. Tho grand result, "( lean from all your
sins before the Lord'' all iniouity, truni-gres-Biott
and sin borno to a laini of separatum.
(Vs. til, aJ. -I), HUM What a day it was! A
day ot allliction of soul, but no work might
be done in it. Their part was penitence. Tho
priest's work was to make atonement, and in
that he was perfectly alono. (V. 17.) They
did not help him iu any nay. Cloan from ull
sin was God's gift to tiiom through the work
of another and' by tho sacritice ot a substi
tute. How glad they must have been:
what eaoe and rest all sins forgiven! But
It was only for ayear. The priest might say:
"Next year I must go over all this again."
Ono ot the peoplo might scarcely hare
been cleansed till ha must come aguin
to the priest with an offering for some tres
pass committed. But our "sacritice has bisjn
offered once for all." "Clean every whit,"
He says to all who respect Him, and that
precious blood, once shed, would continually
cleanse from all sin if we would but walk in
the light. "Sanctified through the offering
of thu body of Jesus Christ once for all. Kor
by one ollering He hath perfected forever
them that are sanctified 1" (Hub. x., 10-14).
True penitoMoe is our part, and even that the
spirit works in us; full salvation has He
wrought out for us, and freely gives to "who
ever wilL" Tell it out, gather in the lost,
hasten the completion ot His body, that He
lay return for Israel's restoration and the
salvation of the world Lesson Helper.
Saloons Depend t'pon Drunkards.
The cost of ulcoholio liipior iu the Tinted
States is tu,lM),uou annually. In INvi
there wire 1.01,070 liquor dealers and manu
facturers, and the capital is estiiuuted at
1,(HJO,000,0I. Thesaioons could not exist
upon the patronage of moderate driukeru.
'the maiuu-uunce of these places demls
Uion the drunkard. Intemperance U olU-u
an intangible quantity. The sufferer him
self is not conscious of its ravages. Kvery
morning the police calendar is black with
the names ot nien and women arrested for
drunkenness. 1 he Bureau of Labor of Bos
ton, after a careful investigation, declares
that eighty-four per cent of all crime is the
direct or Indirect fruit of alcohol. All stud
ies of American political economy bring the
com fusion that overty would scarcely ex
ist were it not for tlriuk. Druirit farmer.
TIMPKHANCH ItKADlXO.
r.ffects of Strong Drink.
Most of the misery, want and suffering the
human family endure to-day iu iv Its justly
attributed to our non conformity to the will
and design of the Creator. Mankind is ever
too ready to con tract habits that are evil and
rile, bnbita that are productive of misery,
suffering and crime. Our useless habits and
foolish fashions draw hundreds down to want
and beggary where monopoly and capital do
one; and, of all tha habits that ever curse. I
the human race, tho habit ot using strong
drink ns a la'Verage ranks f'rst That a otto
has produce I more misery, want, wretched
ness and crime in the land since the Christian
era than war, pestilence and famine com
bined, and has done morn to corrupt tho
morals and inns-do the prosarlty of our
country thnn any other cause.
This old King Alcohol is one of the most
cruel and heartless di-spots ever known, ono
w ho imposes the heaviest burdens ou his sub
jects, and, no matter how loyal nnd devoted
they may be to him, they never get any act
of kindness or favor from him in return lor
their mi'iitnl servitude; ami as msm ns ono
enlists in his service he begins to brand and
torture not only him, but his whole household,
family and friends, and he scon destroys every
thing of value to the poor mnn. Above all,
he ruins or destroys that great nnd price
less gem. the talent or intellectual power of
the mind, that enables him to bring out and
Utilize all the blessings given us by the Cre
ator, the germ that makes him so superior to
thebr.it. The continual use of nlcohnl in
any form soon destroys qualities that are
pure and noble, mid nrmisi's passions that aro
vile, brutish and dangerous. Authentic sta
tistics show that n rcry Inrge srcentnge of
the misery, pauperism and crime in the land
is directly or Indirectly the result of the use
of strong drink as a huverngo.
We can hardly takea msT in our hands in
which is not chronicled one or mora bloody
and fatal criniist committod by some poor
drunken fiend who lias lcen fitted and pre
pared tor this cruel and bloody work by some
avaricious landlord or druggist who sotm
times wa ms to i are little or nothing for the
Safety or well-laung of the poor buffering
wife and helpless children nt the home of tint
drunkard, ns long as the business brings them
in a good proltt The gn nto-t suil'i a rs from
the evils of intenipi rauce are the poor nnd
destitute wives end Inmilics of drunkards,
ho are nt homo iu s itue lonely hovel vt tth
ottt necessary food, fuel or cloihlng, shiver
ing with i old und hunger, and the little inno
cent children huddling around their poor
heurt broke. t and grief stricken mother, Is g
ging nnd crying iu vain for bread or some
thing to soothe or ul In v the pangs ot hunger
nnd odd. IVrlmps this miiiik mother oneo
tti 1 1 It fully Inlsired early nnd late with her
heart buoyant with Iioh, lisiking forward to
the near future vthcii she should sit in the
midst of plenty, w here she nnd the partjter
ot her lilo. surrounded by children, could i n.
Joy the highest ty pe of earthly bliss and hap
pincss; but ere she was aware this monster
intetiii erance lull his ruthless hand tim her
unco fond husband, and transformed Inn)
into a brute, ami now her burden of poverty,
shiiine and wretchedness liccomcs so great
that In her freny and despair she takes her
0ll life or the lives of her dear little out
whom she would gladly liavo laid down her
own life to protect Is-fnre this monster iu
tcuiriincc invailisl her oin-o happy home,
(ill! have tho iii mil . talent nnd etiergis of
our American people Isvomcsoilwarfcd that
they are unable, or the avenues to the heart
to closed, or the heart itself so calloused, or
eyes so blind, that they cannot lie made to
fisd, s and lvalue the fearful responsi
bilities resting upon them'
Very olteit, iu Milling events or circuin
Minus's, the subject is exaggerate! nnd en
larged, but In port ray in.; the evils of intern
peiauce it is impossible for the grcntest artist
to overdraw the picture, ns bis greatest
efforts and gamiest results come far snort of
the reality. No s'ii can w rite, or ncii
paint, the fearful anguish tlmt is . rod need by
this monster; it must Is' cxricii"i-d to bo re
alized, l't no ono think or feel himself
guiltlo-s who treats this thing lightly or
turns these things one side ns of no account.
This vile curse, witn its sad effects and re
sults, lias IsM'onie a thing of so common oc
currence that it fails to excite iu us that do
give of horror that it otherwise would. Koiun
(Jf t );e Jinh'!ites: 3h.f tnost aspiring youths of
our land, those who bid fair to rank high in
Intellectual ability and Usefulness, ere they
nreaware of any danger, nr environed with
the powerful meshes of this vile curse nnd
have Isiguu to de c nd the drunkard's ladder,
which is made for descending but never to
osis-iiil. The rounds or steps in this ladder
aro named in tint following order, ci.inincne.
ing ut the top: Kvil associations, tea, to
I iicco, rum, crime, delirium and death. Tho
evils of intemperance lire not soconunoii out
in the country ns in our large towns nnd
cities, where you will often find thcilopravod
ot both sexes joining iu drunken carousals.
(uoiyf II . Cuufc, in i "IMlte Axe uf 2 V" wi
pe i n nee."
Teinporanro News nml Notesj.
There is an lowu decision iig.iliist gm,;cv
Si".
Boston has n new law prohibiting tho nito
of lupior on holidays.
Tho New York .Vein sp. nks of a begging
tiauip w ith "u system so ii.. d with gin ami
sorrow.''
A law has been passed in Wnldock, Ger
many, forbidding the gi in it nig of a iiuiiilao
license to u person ict.le te.l to tho lienor
liabit. The Austrian Government im, int ru
tin I into the lieu hsint h it strong measurii
for (ho prevention of di unk 'nie ss, Tho
reason alleged is tho uliirming ileterinrat ion
in thephvsiipio of yoiin mon enrolled fur
military service
I'.nconriiging reports nie received of tho
tempi rancu wot k iu I hiini. Several youn
men ol thu Anglo I Innesii t 'oPiy, i ut Sluing,
liui have tinted with those in t lie IVes'iy
ti riiin Mission press in u temperance s'M'icty
which meets monthly. Tins ns-iety not
only advocates leuisraui'e but purity of life,
and is against opium, toliaccoitud ollcrevils.
A number of societies have bocu turmoil
uiiiniig boarding school girls.
M. Marabet in a recent communication to
tho l aris Academy of Medicine, states that
lifter examining iHioO convicted criminals ho
found Hint of the vagabonds and I hu mendi
cants 70 mt cent, wero drunkards; of the
assassins and inceiiiliarius, 5u an 1 .7; of rob
lMrs 71; ot those convicted of crimes against
the wrson M s r cent ; and of those guilty of
attacks on property 77 per. cent, wore alco
holics. Of lisi criminal youths under au, ol
are already drunkards, lirunkeiiness has
greatly incroiisn.1 in Trance since the con
sumption of spirits has supplemented that of
wine.
Where tlio Saloons Were There Wero
tho "Out-Door l'oor."
Borne time since, says a tract sent out by
the Liverpool l'opulur Control and Sunday
Closing Association, the guardians of Toxtetli
I'ark bad their attention called to the largo
number of applications for relief trom a par
ticular district in the township. Mr. Kd.
Jones, B. A., moved for a return, which was
prepared and revealed the following startling
tacts:
listrlct A. Kstimated population, 2.1,0)0;
publiu houses, 100; isirsons in receipt ot out
door relief. Ull. or 1 in 'J.
District B. Estimated population, 4-,000;
Sublic houses, 100; iiersons in receipt, ot out
oor relief, 54s. or 1 in 80.
District C Kstimated population, fiO.OOO,
publio houses, 0; persons iu receipt of out
door roliof, 45; or 1 in 1100.
It was further found that, almost without
exception, the persons receiving relief in Dis
trict C lived in streets bordering on District A.
Youthful Drunkards.
Although but eight years of age, says the
Chicago .lui7, George Dinsie is said to be a
confirmed drunkard. Kor the past year it is
said that be has hardly drawn a sober breath.
He lives with Mr. Fred Lang at 'M'i Vino
street, and despite the frequent wliippintrs he
has re wived because of his bibulous habits,
be persists In "rushing the growler," as he
terms It He frankly admitted that he got
drunk quite often, because he liked it Ho
was lined, and the parties who sold him
liquor will be looked after by an agent of tha
Citizens' League.
nouns or wisnou.
Mirth becomci a fen it.
Ho that want i health winti everything.
Fnne mccii force and when riant oneo
ia met motion erase.
If you earnestly seek for the truth it
Wilt not escape, you Ion";.
Having decided for yourself, grant tho
sumo privilege lo others.
I.ifo is ton short to dwell on failures
push on to a new success.
Pisnppointmctit often docs n person
more real jjoml thin success.
All persons arc not discreet cnniioli t
know how to take thin" by tin: rij,'lil
lirttiillo.
I'.oo'is are wnstr panen unless wc spend
in nclinii tlio wisdom we gut from
thoiioht.
Felicity, pure nnd ntinlloyc 1, is not a
plant of earthly growth. Ilcb gaidcni
no skies.
lie wh'i steals a little, steals w ith tlio
mine wish its lu) who steals much, but
w itll less power.
As the iy twines around the onk, so
3o misery nnd misfortune encompass tlio
aappincss of iiiiin.
If wc could rend the tecret history of
our enemies we should lind in each man's
life sorrow and sulTuiing enough to dis
arm it I hostility,
Fvcry solitary kind action tlmt isdntto
the wotld over is working; biiskly iu its
own hpliere to restore tlio balance be
tween riiiht nnd wiong.
A more glorious victory latinot bo
gnin?d over another mail than this, that
when tliu in ;iiry begins on his part thu
kindness should begin on ours,
l)o to-dnv's duty, light to days temp
tation, nnd do not weaken nnd dis;ract
yourself by looking forward to th.ni;4
w hii Ii you i tinitol sec, nnd could ti"t un
derstand if you ilnl sec them.
A Mfe Siistiilniiig Drink for Horses.
"What is tint wh to stulT in tho
water r' said nni! of the passengers on
one of I ho Hiooklytt slrcct ears, ns tho
horses Were stopped to th ink out of pails
of wafer.
''Flint'! oatmeal whii h wo mix w ith
tho water," said the conductor, to w hom
the (iiestion was addressed.
"Hiittneal! What h is conic over tho
ollicers of the innovation? Have lh"V
joined tlio Society for tliu Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals."
"It's not that," said tho conductor,
it's economy. ''
"Fcoiioinv," exclaimed n passenger.
"Why. yes. Fon t you know that
nothing sustains li;e better than oat
meal mid water. Soldiers cm make
longer n.utclies than when drinking
water or beer iilotie. The coinpiiuy suvo
money hyguino; the animals oatmeiil
nnd water. It gets morn work out of
them nml fewer hursts drop diad than
on water nlone.
"Is it sunstroke that kills so many
hoiscs " saul tlio New York TiUjr.im
report et.
"Some of them die of sunstroke, hut
most of t Hi-in die from heart -disease.
What kills tin in more than anything
else is the htirting when they have to
start often on an uphill u'tadu. When
the i nr is stopped every bloc or so, as is
oltcn dono, it is terrible on tho poor
brutes, 1 hnvo often seen their ve ns
M audi nt? out lik'iWJs-r rnjf1'
gasping at every start. L. I j Iino
tiines very cruel without ki g it, nnd
might save the horses n Meat deal by
occasionally walking a block or so."
The Salvation Army in India.
One of thu stnitioest developments of
modct n religious fervor is the Solvation
Army in India. This remarkable organ
iatiou, which may hu dislikeij, but
which is not In be despised nnywherc,
has taken a form in India entirely
adapted to the native sentiment and im
agination. Its l.iirnpcait iiictulicrs lic-3
in Indian costume and walk ban foot a
terrible tiling to do on the burning soil.
They submit to privations which (lie
tiiitivo lukir i an scarcely surpass, nml
live ou an average nf about twenty rents
n week. I hey have diiiwii into their
i auks ( '(iniini-sioiier Tucker, an llnglish
oilici.d, who lias resigned it yearly snl.iry
of oii'i to follow lhc:u, mid who
in irchi s diessnl in tho w icti lied ultiru
of ii fakir, but under a red canopy car
ried by four Salvationists. Tlicsu
liiissioniu ics address the uutives iu their
own language At Madias lately they
had a gicat demonstration. and pleached
in their cliaraclcristic style to nu ut
tciilivc audience of natives. I'crhups
this is the best way for Christianity to
get (it the dull und debased myriads of
India after iill.--.'i Tmun'rijit.
Kiso of I lie .Musi ache.
It is not ninny years since the man w ho
wore a mustache in this country was re
garded ns cither a gambler, n thief nr a
rowdy. A distinguished instructor in
Yulo College once gave as u dcllnilion of
a rowdy: "A man who wears u mustache
nd eats sardines."
Nor was thu mustache alono consid
ered a badge of disgrace. Many of our
older mon und women can remember
when a man who permitted his beard to
grow would not bo tolerated in decent
society. An nrtist living iu New lluven
soino forty years ago, Mr. Samuel
Hooker, who was a near relative of tho
husband nf Isabella liceclicr I looker, was
not permitted to sit at the table of it dis
tinguished citiicu of Fastern Connecti
cut for that reason. A few years after
ward, however, tho sumo citi.en rejoiced
in a pntriarchiiil beard.
Tho lirst impetus to a mustache, in po
lite circles in the Knstcrn States wus
given by a physician, who declared that
shaving tho upper lip tended to weaken
thu eyes, and, after experiment, many
wero convinced of tho assertion. Xeia
York 'ui.
Costly Home Trappings.
Silver ornaments for bridlo nnd sad
dle a ro legal tender in cxchuiiifO for any
thing salable wherever tho Gaucho, tho
South American cowboy, goes. Their
saddles are sometimes worth if 1000, and
with solid silver stirrups, pommels and
ornaments, weigh as much as a man. A
pair of silver spurs aro worth anywhero
from $"J to 1U0, according; tosi.o and
wotiimnnship, nnd stirrups of solid sil
ver, in tho form of a heelless ilippcr.tha
belles of Argentine consider essential to
riding costume, Tho sumo aro often
mudu of brass, nnd w hen highly polished
add a unique feature to the uccoutremetit
of an Argentine cuballero. VJtrvii t'rt
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