L ELOQUENT MSCOURSB.
lrjtf:
Invited to a Banquet."
as.
t ill wnrlJ It ha ben cnstom-".-i-
i.ful ereutt by twtlvity.
tlH"
fe,UiB " T.., n nthr davs of the
.fv i rcav have stinted supply, on
. rinc Diiv'thont must be something
-1 " . .. I ..n tlm comfortable homes
miration of president, tbe
M : . . . i.. rhriQtmi. thH no, is.
of Kims'. "
'Prin!
bltrier tbe fatted calf and
. ...i .n the comfortable homes
TJndom have at some time cele
.inrfendom u hv lmnilU0. anrt
.hinir has baooened on the old
'Jjwiif than anything that has
n ... .. i hr.irL A favorite ion whom
'''."wnnnoied would become a Taga-
:Zi out! towrer hH (tot t red of
JSn and fun roturnod to bis father's
The world mid be would never come
. hn,.L-. lie had been looking for
.d.r .l.v ami year after year. He
L k, wmill come bnok- having re-
ki tnhi father' bouse tne tatuer pro-r..lBt-rititii.
There U In the paddock
V ...... !-... ii n itntl Trt.l In llt-
' ...itv so as to be ready for some
'-ion of jpy ',lilt mX)lXxi comB "lon,f- Ah'
never WOlHil 1 "J
V-tcai than tills dayl Lot tbe butch,
mirk, and the housekeepers
into th" t i!'le the smoking meat. Tbe
". in will takethwr plicr-s, a.'. Hie gay
iriil m"VS up aim ui-.i luvuuui,
t-i..n!i and neighbors me gathered
"'i m cxlra supply Js at out to the
-J ,IU 1-1... rn.l.u.nrl,liM
'j nn.l m grace, and thanks Ood
M Ion - n!ent toy is homo again.
, tli..v n.lvsed him, how Kind they are
...lin I ill.' !
'.bro.liT stands pouting nt the back
t 'and v "This Is a (treat ntlo about
Uir 1I11S 1 l'l 1-111011. .i.w .......
mJ ir.steail of greeted. Veal Is too
i fur hiro. Hu' t"H 'uiur -oui-
. c.-ioil caougn. liieru nun uu juubs
clad at tlio hearty reception, but a
,'...r .,rr.iw Qillius across his brow at
:vmenihrauco of the trouble lie bad soon.
e'i' nW. I.l't 1IIB ' l"1- "'i. nius.u.
. I l.n Id ..I.e.. nt.ninl Tin Mflu
and he if foiliul! i.V ui!U uoiu uimui-ry
' . l . . d:i.i.. forth the merrvmukini?
rIDU 1IUI" o- . rf a
!i a joul comes lionui to (Jod.
-41 ot n !. there is ine ncwcouyerin juy,
- i. ........... .. r-i.tii....
no tamu iiimi; u".-iiuo .i.o. ......
most tremendoua moment in a mnn'a
when ho surrondors lilmsulf to Ood.
i.mii,ii"it time oa tlio fathor'a homestead
i...n Hi.. Imv conies l uck. Among tlio
t thnii-; who In the parlors ofour church
e.l Christ ono uilit was a youuir miiu
ni.rt murniiii rani; my door bell nnd
"Sir, I cannot contnln myself with tlio
Heel, i came hero this morning to ex-
-it. I bnvu toun i more joy in "vo
ltisin scrvliiK God than in all tlio years
y prediea lty, and I enmo to say so."
'have seen iicrhniM a man runnluR for
temporal liberty and tlio oiUcors of the
alter hira. nnu von saw iimi runin-, ui
rwatil you hear the Judge had pardoned
anil how ureal was mo nice oi mat res-
man: but it is a very tame tiling, ttmt,
nrwlsiih the running for one's nvor-
Mi ' life, tlw terrors of tlio law after him
li Christ coming In to pardon and blew
rts;ue unit save.
ju remember John Bunyan in his great
in tells how the pilgrim put his lingers to
-arsaml ran, crying: "Llie, mo, etoruni
I' K Door car driver some time ngo,
Lr years having had to struggle to Min-
bls iamlly, suddenly was Informed tbat
?e inheritance waB bis, and there was a
amouuiinir to bewilderment, but tbat is
mall tblnit compared with the experience
tDe when he has put In bis bands the title
si to the joys, the raptures, the splendors
taiveo. and ho cau truly say, "Its man
na are mino. its temples are mine, its
gt are mine, its God is mine!" Oh, It Is
itame thing to become a uortstlan. it is
kierrymaking. It is the killing of the
Motif. It is a Jubilee. You know the
lie never compares it to a funeral, but
fcayscompnres it to something delightful.
m mora apt to be compared to a banquet
kti auythiug el?e. It is compared in the
fcie to wilier, bright, flashing water, to the
Irn'iir, roseate, ttreworked, mountain
n-lluureil morning.
wish I could to-day Inke all the Bible ex
'lons about pardon, and peace, nnd lire,
1 ci mforl. and hope, nnd heaven, and
nt them into on gnrlnud and put It on
iroiv oi tno mi mu lest ciuui ol uoil lu
hss' mblnge and cry, "Wear it, wear it
w, wear It forever, son of Ood, daughter
the Lonl (iod A'mlglity!" Oh, the joy of
new convert! Oh. the gladness of tlio
rislliin service! You have seen some-
samnniii a religious assembly get up
lglve his experience. Well, Paul gave
exiMMicuec. lio arose in. the nroseuco
two churches, the church on earth nnd the
lurch in heaven, and ho said, "Now this Is
i espeneiieo sorrowful, yet nhvtiys re
hiK; poor, yet making mauy rl;h; having
!hlni(, vet iiosseesinir nil tliinis." If thn
pie in this house knew the joys of tlio
Prl nreiiu'lou, they would all puss over
Miie.iiiKiinin oi uoa tlio next moment.
Diiniel HtiiKleiiiiin was rlvinir nf chnl-
Kjiis attendant said, "Have you much
"Jh," he replied, "since I found thftLord I
va ueT. r hud any ruin except bIu!" Thou
j m io nun, "would you like to send a
to your friends?" "Yes, I would,
il them that only last nuiht the love of
u came, rushing into mv soul liltH tlm
Iwsofthe seu, nnd I bud to cry out,
f"P' :f'l. it is enough: stop, Lord
lough! Oh, the joys of this Cbrlstlnu re-
I m i. ' w 0VBr ,roin t"8o tame joys
which you are indulging, joys of this
lr ' . into the rapluresof the gospoU The
frhl cannot satisly you. You have found
aiexanuer longing for other worlds
nun yUt nrownoii m nis own bot
nyron wliinped by disquietudes around
WOr i , Vi.ll.liea t-l. 1
h . - vimi.iK UiO UWU BUlll
lllll All t I'.U ul. . ...
I .nuc-isui juris were appinuu
I. nun; ll-nry 11 eousnmlng with initrod
iii 1 ur -inomas a Bucket
l lustrations of the fact Hint this
rid eiimint .-t... - .
L inn" ft IIIUU Jllllll).
t" verv nmn ..i. .i... .', ' ' ,
. . I'Minuiiuu 1IIW IUI1UUUI OI
"Mlille on which Queen Elizabeth rodo
illuil In tliHslmi-t. "Unit . tl... n.m
M moment m world annlnnda. mi I th
xi momenl Iho world anutln mntizes. Oh,
IWOVer nto 1 Lin in..ilu. ...l.n....'.
,!we , this innirulllceiit bentilu je! The night
t tb Liilllo of Shiloh, and there were
" lunula Ol WO. I. I.I.I nn tl,u II..I.1 .... I ....
P'lilHneen In.. i ..... V.............
'"."Mug there a-dvlnu under the star.
i a WKan to iingt
There is a land of pure delight. '
il when he rnmn In (I,--.., !...
rre Mor, of voices singing:
ncro saints Immortal reign.
ULT? .V raul,t "P through the
r.. ...... . V ""'"1'inii unin ii was shi u
hll !l lellst w'm wounded mon unit-
iniir voices as they came to the versoj
Tbern everlasting spring abides
aud nevnr withering tlowets.
ii but a narrow stream divides
Jlns houveuly land from ours.
fartihr .i. i . ouiy one
?UMUft'.r,7ou nnj ,imt r-iiiuu-iiuuk
Into t ie fnil nnu. rn,).,..i....
PUriun.l ..il J"un ami neuvon IS
kn . .?.,. Homo of you. like
but you
n young man
1 Villi, - . JUU, JlliU
ui'tt n,au of the text, have gone far
'" 1 kllntr lint fha I.I.I .. w...
1W It. 1
life, II
Weut I
a field,
uuud w
r Mfcmt not step bfyond that itc1.
rptioiM'. . .",,,u" K"M'Han Hngei
Vj k. WM rls of virtue and honor
rated foes earns dowa, but were obliged
to halt at .that circle. ' Tbey could not
I ass. But one day a temptress, with dia
monded . hand, stretched forth and eroeaei
that circle with the hand, and. the
tempted soul took tt, and by tbat one fell
grip was brought beyond the circle and died.
3ome of you have s'.cmiei beyond that
circle. Would yoa not like this day. by the
grace of God, to step back? This, I say to
you, is your hour of salvation. There was
in the closing boars of Queen Anne what is
called the clock scene. Flat down nn the
pillow In helpless sickness, she eould not
move her head or move her hand. Kbe was
waiting for the hour when the miulster
of state should gather ' in angry contest
and worried and worn out by the com
ing hour, and in momentary -absence of
tbe nurse, in the power, the strange
power, which delirium sometimes gives
one, she arose and stood in front of the
clock and stood there watching tbo clock
when the nurse returned. Tbe nurse raid,
"Do you see anything peouliar about tbat
clock?" tshe made no answer, but soon
died. There is a clock scene in evry his
tory. If some of you would rise from the
bed of lethargy and come out from your de
lirium of slu and look on tho clock of your
destiny this moment, you would see and
hear something vou have not seen or heard
before, and every tick of the minute, and
every stroke ol tne hour nnd every swing oi
the pendulum would say, "Xow. now, now,
now!" Oh, come home to your Father's
houe5 Come home, O prodigal, from the
wilderness: lAiinouotue, come uoino:
But I notice thnt when the prodigal e.imn,
there was the fill bur's joy. He did not greet
him with any formal How do you do?" Ho
did not ooiue out and say: "You uro unfit to
enter. Go and wash in the trough by the
well, and then you can como in. Wo have
had enough trouble with you." Ah, no!
WUcn tho proprietor of that estate pro
claimed festival, it was an outburst of a
fat lier's love and a father's joy. God is your
father. I have not much svmpnthy with
the description of Ood I sometimes hear, as
though lie were a Turkish sultan, hard
and unsympathetic, und listening not
to the cry of His subjects. A man
told mo bo aw in one of the
eastern lands a king riding along,
nn I two men were In nllerciitlou nnd ono
charged tho other with having eaten his rice,
anil the klug said, "Thou slay the man, und
by post mortem examination Hud whether
he lias enten the rleo." Anil he was slain.
Ah. the enmity of a scone like that! Our
Ood is not n sultan, not a despot, but n
Father kind, living, forgiving and IIo
makes all heaven ring again wlvuu prodigal
comes back. "I have no pleasure," lie says,
"In the death of blin th t dietl!.'' All may
be saved. If a man does not g"t to heaven,
It Is because ho will not go there. No
difference tho color, no difference the
history, no difference tho antecedent,
no dillercnco tilt surroundings, no dif
ference tho sin. When tho wlilto horses
of 'Christ's victory aro brought out to
celebrate tho eternal triumph, you may
rido rno of them, and as God is greater tlinn
all, His joy Is greater, and when n soul
comes back there is in His heart tho
surging of nu infinite ocean of gin I
uess, nnd to express thnt gladness It
takes all the rivers of pleasure, all
tho thrones of pomp and all thn ages of
eternity. It Is a joy deeper than all depth
nnd higher than all height nnd wider than
all width nnd vaster than nil im
mensity. It overtops, It underglrds,
it outweighs all the united splendor
nnd Joy of tho universe and who can
tell what God's Joy isy You remember read
ing tho story of a king who on some great
day of festivity scattered silver and gold
among the peonle.wliosi'nt valuable presents
to liis eoiirCors, but methlnhs. when a soul
conies back. (Jod Is so glad that to express
his joy Ho Mings out new worlds Into space'
nnd kindles up new sums und roils nmong
the while, robed anthems of the redeemed a
greater halleluiah, while with a voice that
roverberates among the mountains of frnnk
incenso und is echoed back from the ever
lasting gates ho cries, "This, my sou, was
dead, and ho is alive again!"
At the opening of the exposition in New
Oi-leaus I saw a Mexican flutist, and be
played the solo, and then afterward the eight
of ton bnndsof music aooomunuled by the
grcRt orgun, enmeiu. but tho sound ol UliL4
one Unto as oompared with all tile orchestral)
was gronter than ail the combined joy of the
universe when compared with the resound
ing he ut of Almighty God. For ten years a
father went three times a day to the depot.
His son went off lu aggravating circum
stances, but the father said, "Ho will come
back." The strain was too tuuuh and his
mind parted, andthrootlmesadaythe father
went. In the early morning ho watched
the train, its arrival, the stepping out
of the passengers and then the departure
of thn train. At noon he was thore again
watching tho advance of the train, watching
the departure. At utuht he was there again,
wiitehidg the coming, watching the going,
for ten years. Ho was sum his sou would
como back. God lias boon watching and
waiting for soino of vou. my brothers, ten
yours, twenty years, thirty years, forty years,
perhaps II fly years, wailing, waiting,
watehiug, watching nnd If now the prodigal
should como home, what a scene of gladness
and festivity, and how tlio great Father's
heart would rejoioe nt your coming home.
You will come, somo of you, will vou not?
You will, you will. v
I notice also that when a prodigal comes
homo there is the joy of tho ministers of re
ligion. Oh, it is a grand thingto preach this
gospi 1! I know there hiw boon a gr:it deal
said about tho trials und the hardships of
tho Christian ministry.- I wish somebody
would write a good rjuslng book about the
joys of the Christian ministry, Hince I en
tered the profession I have seen more of the
goodnoss of God than I will be nblu to cole
brute in all eternity. I know somo boast
about their equilibrium, and they do not
rise into enthusiasm, und they do not break
down with emotion, but I confess to you
plainly Hint when I see a man comiug to God
nnd giving up hi sin I feel in body, mind
nnd soul a transport. When I see a man
bound hand nnd foot in evil habit emanci
pated, I rejoice over It as though it wore my
own emancipation.
I notice also when the prodigal comes hack
nil earnest Chrlstlnns rejoice. If you stood
on Montuuk point and ihor was a hurricane
at sea, und it was blowing toward the shoro,
nnd n vesel crashed Into the rocks, and you
saw people got ashore In tho liioboais, and
the very last man got oa the rocks in safety,
you could not conirol your joy. And It is a
glad time wheu the chuteh of do I sees men
who are tossed on the occho oi tneir
sins plnnt thoir feet ou tho rock
Christ Jesus. Oh. when prodiiriils come
home, lust hear the Christians (due. Just
hear the Christians pray. It is not a stereo
typed supplication we have heard over and
over again for tweniy years, but a putting of
the case In the hands of (iod with an Impor
tunate pleading. No long prayers. Men
uever pray at great length unless I hoy have
nothing to say nnd their beans arc hard and
cold. All the prayers in the Biblo that were
answered were short prayers. "(iod be
raercltul to me n sinner." "Lor I, that I may
receive my sij;tit.' "Lord, save mo, or 1
perish."
Once more I jwJi."X i!vt when the pro 1
Igal gets buck the Inhabitant.; f'. hiavou
keep festal. I am very curiam of It. If 'oil
have never seen a telegraph chart you have
no idea how tunny cities aro conn -eted to
gether, and how many Ian s. Nearly all the
neighborhoods of the earth senin reticulated,
and news Hies from city to oity and from
continent lo eontlneut. but more rapidly
go tho tidings from OHrth to heaveu, au l
when a prodigal returns It Is announced be
fore tbe throne of (Jod. Aud if these souls
now present should enter lh king loin there
Would be some one in the heavenly kingdom
to sayt "i'hat's my father." "that's my
mother," "That's mv son," "That's the oue
I used to pray for," "flint's the one fur
whom I wept so many team," aud on soul
.riii,i nv iroanunn!" aud another soul
Kor angels can their Joy contain,
- But kindle with new fire.
The sinner lost Is found, they sing,
And strikt the sounding lyre.
At the banquet of Lnculln sat Cicero th
orator, at the Macedonian festival sot Philip
the conqueror, at the Grecian banquet sat
Socrates the philosopher, but at our Father I
table sit all the returned prodigals, more
than conquerors. The talde is so wide Its
leaves reach across seas and lands. Its guests
are the redeemed of earth and the glorified
of heaven. The ring of God's fer
givenos on every hand. The robe e"f
Saviour's righteousness adroop from every
shoulder. The wine that glows in the cups
is from the bowls of 10,000 sacraments. Let
ail the redeemed of earth and nllthe glorllle 1
of heaven rise and with gleaming chalices
drink to the return of a thousand prodigals.
Blng, sing, sing! "Worthy is the Lnmli that
was slain to receive blessing and riches nnd
honor and glory and power, world without
end." That scene of jubllonce oomes out be
fore me this moment a In a sort of picture
gallery. AH heaven In picture.
Look! Look! There is Christ. Cuyp
painted nira for earthly galleries, and Cor
regk'io and Tintoretto and Benjamin West
and Pore painted Him for earthly galleries,
but all those pictures aro eclipsed hv this
mnsterplecoof heaven. Christ! Christ! There
Is l'aul, the hero ol the Sanhedrim, and of
Agrlppn's conrtroom, and of Mars hill, nnd
of Nero's Infamy, shaking bis chained list
In the verv face of teeth olmttering roy-
Blity. Here is Joshua, the lighter of
Uctlioron nnd Gibson, tho man that
nostnoned sundown. And here fs Vashtl,
Iho protllgncy of tho Persian court unnbieto
remove her veil of modesty or rend It or lift
It. And along tho corridors of tills picture
gnllerv I Und other gieat heroes and heroines
David w.th his harp, and Miriam with the
nvmbnls, and Zuhnriah with thn scroll, and
St. Joins with the seven vials, and the resur
rection angel with the trumpet. On farther
In the corridors see tho faces of our loved
ones, the cough gone from tho throat, the
wanness gone from the cheek, the weariness
gone from tlio limbs, the languor gone from
tne eye. Let us go up and greet thom. Let
us go up nnd embrace them. Lotus go up
und five with them. We will ! We will !
From this hilltop I catch a glimpse of those
hilltops where all sorrow nnd sighing shnll
bo doue nwav. Oh, that God would inakt
thnt world to it a reality! Faith in that
world helped old Pr. Tyng when he stood by
tho casket of hi dead son, whose nrm had
been torn olf in the threshing machine,
death ensuing, und l!r. Tyng, with infinite
composure, preached th funeral sermon ol
his own beloved son. Faith in that world
helped Slartin JiUther without ono teat
to nut away lu death his favorite
child. Faith in that world helped the
dving woman to see nn the sky the
hi. tor "WV'and they asked her what she
Mipposeil that letter "W" on thn sky meant.
"Oil," she said, "don't you know? 'W stands
for 'Welcome.'" Oh,' heaven, swing open
thy gates! oh, heaven, roll upon us soni" ol
the sunshine unthcnis! Oh, heaven. Hash
upon us the vision of thy luster! An old
writer tells us of a ship coming from
India to Franoe. Tho crew was tnado up of
French sailors who had been long from
home, nlul as the ship came along the
const of France tlio men sklppe I the
deck with glee, and they pointed to tho
spires of tho churches where they onco
worshiped and to tho hills where they
had played in boyhood. But when the ship
eair.o into port, and these sail ira saw father
and mother and wife and loved ones on the
wharf, they spraug ashore and rushed up
tlii bauks into tlio oily, and tho
captain had to get another crew
to bring the ship to hr moorings.
So heaven will after awhile cenie so
fully in sight, wo can see its towers, Us
mansions, Us hills, and lis we go into port
aud our loved ones shall call from that
shining shore and apena our names wo will
spring to the beach, leaving this old ship of
a world to be mannged bv another crow, our
rough voyaging ot the sens ended forever.
Til mmmi in
I.VTEKXATIONATj i.ksson
MAHCII 14,
FOR
Lesson Text: "Saul, tho Persecutor,
Converted." Acts Iz., 1-2; 17-20
Uolden Texti 1 Tim., 1., .
15 Commentary.
NO MORE FOOLISH MURRE ECCS.
A Measure to rioter the Hen lllrtls on
the Farrallonet.
At the solicitation of the commission on
Ctrd protection of tho American Ornithol
ogists' Union, of whlob Professor Leverett
M. Loornis, of the California Acs.demyot
Hoionoes, is a member, the Lighthouse Hoard
at Washington has Issued a deoree that the
Importing of the uggs of tho sea birds from
tbe Farrullones must oease.
Tbe eggs of the niurre, or foolish guille
mot, have bcon shipped to the markets ot
Han Francisco in groat quantities since lHl'.t,
nt whioh date they were almost tho only
fresh eggs to be had, bringing over tl a
dozen. The birds were present In the breed
ing season, from May until August, on the
Islands in such countless thoiinnds that, al
though persistently robbed, their numbers
seemed to show no appreciable diminution.
In recent years, however, naturalists have
noticed tho effect of tho annual persecution
of thu vast colonies, nnd have fenred that
they might become extinct. As a result of
tho Investigation, tho prohibitive measure
lias been enacted.
As high as 20.000 dozen of tho epgs.4 wero
mutually brought to market by the Greek
mid Italian llslicrineii. They nro twice the
size of the ordiuary hen's egg, for which
they nro said to be nn excellent substitute,
nud they soldnt retail from fifteen to twenty
live couts per dozen. During tho past four
or live seasons the (1 rooks have been driven
off, and the egg Industry has been carried
nn by tho lighthouse keepers of tho Farral-louos.
VOLCANO IN GREAT SALT LAKE.
would ray "Hostmna! aud another soul
would say "Halle, ui.ihl"
Pleased with the news, the saint boloW.
Iu songs the tongues employ.
Beyond the skies the tldin. s go,
Aud hvavoil Is Mlod wilt Joy.
People Alarmed by Its Outbreak a Mils
anil a Quarter From the Shore.
The rather frequent shocks of earthquake
which tho section of the country about Halt
Lake City, Utah, has experienced within tlio
last few months have come to a head In the
form of a volcano, which has burst out of
the Great Halt Lake, a short distance south
of Promontory Htntlon, on tbo Cenlral Pa
cific Itailria I.
The volcano Is right In the lake, about a
mile and a quarter from the shore, nud par
ties residing in the nolgiuiorliood say that
Iho cloud of sinoho rushes up into the uir so
high thut It may be seeu at a good distance,
and the water iu the vicinity bolls nndsurg' s
into n son of form.
The volcano is situated In the big arm of
the lake, on the west sldo of the long range
of mnuutaius, visible from Brighaiu City. It
hns been In uclion several dnys. It begun
with a s nail clou I and slight disturbances
of the water, and has Increased uutil now It
is a most formidable looking phenomenon
nud lias had the e fleet of croating fear and
consternation among tho farmers lu thut
vicinity.
RICH IN COLD.
New
Discoveries In the Wichita Moun
tain, In Oklahoma.
Advices from tho Wichita Mountains, in
Oklahoma, are that uew discoveries of both
gold and silver have caused a fresh outtireuk
of excitumeut among tlio prospectors who for
months have beeu campo ! on the border,
mi l 7snewd surgy bus been adopted by the
United Hiatus authorities to prevent digging
for gold. The marshals arrest any manthny
llnd on these lamia. Old miners say that
there Is an area tllty miles long and half that
wide s rich as auy gold mines in the West,
California not excepted. At one time twenty
men were nrrested oy United States troops,
bustled off to Fort Hill und put in the guard
house. .Many miuers are camped, on tin
border and uiuuy are hiding iu caves In the
mountains. . '
The Wichita Mountains nre In the Kiowa,
Comanche and Apache Indian reservations,'
100 miles southeast of Perry. There are now
no less than a thousaud prospectors in the
uiouutuius.
1, 3. We last heard ot Saul making hnvofl
of tbe church at Jerusalem after tho martyr
dom of Stephen. We still find him In the
same spirit of enmity against Christ and His
followers, bnt now he is reaching out to
other cities, even to Damascus, with author
ity from the high, priast to arrest and bring
to Jerusalem all such disciples ot the Lord as
he might find. They are spoken of as men
and women of the way (see marg1n remind
ing us ot Christ's own words, "I am the
way" (John slv., ). God thus far suffers
Haul to be patnn's agent in purifying His
church. Not even satan can touch a child ol
God without God's permission (Job i., 10;
Zocn il., 6), nnd when the adversary is al
lowed to try tho people of God, eitherdircet
ly or by human instrumentality, wo uro to
see onlv tno hand of God and remember
I!om. Vlll., 28. 2'J. Bee Ps. xvll., 14; Ixxvl.,
10, Dan. xl.,35; siL, 10; Uev. 11., 10. as very
helpful.
8. 4. "Saul. Haul, why rersecutost thou
Me?" Thus far and uo farther is heaven's
decree for Hsul, nnd now Ho who loved him
In nil his Mu, and who had suffered him thu
far In his devilish work, arrests Itlm as he is
is about to enter tiatnawms. The light from
heiven smite bi in to tho earth, nud the
voico trom heaven enters his sou1. Tho light
wns brighter than thu sun nt noonday, end
tho voice spoko in tho Hebrew language
(chapter xxvi., 1:1. 14). All thn party saw
the light nnd fell to tho earth in fear, but
Haul alone hoard the words which wore
spoken, for they were only for him.
6. "Who art thou, Lord? I nm Jesus,
whom thou persecutest." In one of Haul's
accounts of this be gives thu Lord s answer
as "I am Jesus of Ni'zareth, whom thou per
secutest" (chapter xxli., 8). In nil Haul's
life he had never heard anything so startling
or upsuttlng as this. He verily believed
that ho was doing right In tho sight of God
in persecuting these followers ol Ono whom
the highest authorities had put to death us a
blasphemer. See his own testimony lu
chapters xxil. nnd xxvi.
t Iiord, what will lhou have mo to tio?
He is full ot trembling und astonishment,
but In a moment lie sees that h has been
nil wrong and thn persecuted ones have been
right. He seems Immiilnd and by the spirit
confesses that Jesus Is Lord (I Cor. xll.,8).
Ho Is told to go on to Damascus aud await
orders. The "What wilt Thou?" of this
verso and tho "Where wilt Thou?" of Luke
xxll., , wheu sincerely addressed to the
Lord, will not fail to oliluln sure guidance.
7. It Is evident that those with Haul heard
a Bound of words, but it Is nbo evident, from
chapter xxil., V, that they hoard not the
words spoken. Something of tlio same kind
is written In Dan. x., 7-0. It is soinetitues
asked if those who are left when the church
is taken shall hear tho Lord's voice or see
the event. Perhnps thn records concerning.
Daniel nnd Saul may glvo somo light.
8, 9. Three days iu Damascus, blind and
fasting and awaiting a further message from
tho Lord! What remembrance, what per
sistence, what aenrchliigs of heart, what
humbling before God. what light from
heaven must have shotin In his s ill during
those days of outward darkuess! How he
would think of what Stephen saw nnd cald,
nud of tho patience nnd faith of ol tiers who
h id suffered for Christ through him. Thu
Lord was dealing wondrously with him, but,
oh. so lovingly, by His Spirit nud His word.
10. "Tho Lord knoweth them that aro His,
nnd lie knoweth thorn by ii-irno" (11 Tim. ii.,
10; Iwi. xliii., 1). lie could send nu nngel to
do His bidding, as no often has done, for
they excel In strength nnd do His aommand
inouls, barkening unto tho voice of His
word: They are His ministers who do His
pleasure (Ps. clll., 20, 21), but Ho sees lit to
uso human Instrumentality tind calls a Philip
in Snmarla or nn Ananias in Damascus to do
His bidding. If wo hold ourselves ready for
nny manner of service wholly ut His com
mandment (I Chron. xxvlii., 21), Ho will
suroly show us Ills way for us and guide us
into tho good works prepnred beforehand
(Eph Ii., 10).
11, 12. Ananias is sent to thn streot and
the house, and tho person Is named to whom
bo isto go; and his occupation nt tho tune Is
also mentioned. Annulas Is nlso told what
Saul sees as he prays. Let us not forget nor
fail to believe that God Is thus Intimately
acquainted with each of us. Our ways nud
words nnd thoughts, both In tho darkness
and tho light, are nil known to Him (Ps.
oxxxlx., 1-12: Fzek, xi.,f); therefore lot our
honest prayer be, "Search uie, O God, nnd
know my heart; try mo nud know my
thoughts."
17. It must have been another new ex
porlenco for Snul to huve a disciple of Jesus
(Hit his hands upon him and address him as
"Brother Saul," but I am sure he did not
feol like knocking him down for thin ad
dressing him, though I once heard a minister
nf the gospel, in good standing among men,
say thnt ho would like to treat a man that
way who would call him "brother." Trim
humility is never vexed nor Irritated, but is
ut rest when nobody praises, or even wneti
blamed or despised.
18. Ho received sight, ho was filled with
tho Spirit, and confessed J onus a Lord lu
baptism. He Is a new mau. a new creation,
old thlugs are passed away aud all things
are become new. (II Cor. v., 17). He is
crucified with Christ aud risen with Christ
to a new life. Although beatlll lives, It tsno
longer Haul of Tarsus, but Christ Jesus who
now lives In him us Lord (Gal, II.. 2o). He
has become bhudto nil but Jesus Christ. Ho
knows no other master. He ha a heart only
for Htm aud abody that is henceforth wholly
at His disposal.
19. He partook of food and was strength
ened and continued some days with thu dis
ciples at Damascus. Every disciple would
soon hoar of it; it would spread far nnd wide
that tho great persecutor had become a dis
ciple, of Christ. Many would want to see for
themselves, before thov could believe such a
I thlnir, and even tho disciple at Jerusalem
I would not nt llrst believe that he wa a dis
i ciple (verso 20). Many of us nre apt to be
lieve that some things nro too hard for tho
Lord, but we should retnouiber Jcr. xxxll.,
17, xxxiil., 8.
I 20. "Aud str.iightwny ho preached Christ
In tho synugogues, tbat Ho Is tho Son of
God. lie iucreiused the more in strength
' nud spake boldly in tho name ot the Lord
Jesus, proving thnt Ho is indued Israel's
Messiah (verse 22. 29). Both at Damascus
and nt Jerusalem tbo enemies ot Christ
sought to kill him, but Ood took euro of His
chosen vo- eel nud for a time sent him to his
home in Tarsus. As witnesses for Christ we
must shine for Him nmong those who know
as best. Lesson Helper.
Idle Money In New York.
It Is reported New York banks hold nearly
40,000,010 in exiles of legal requirements.
KENTUCKY'S NEW SENATOR.
Governor Itradley Names A. T. Woo l to
Succeed Senator Hlackburn,
Governor Bradley, of Kontucky, hns ap
pointed Mnjor A. T. Wood, of Mount Sterl
ing, to succeed J. '. 8. Dlnckburu as United
Jiites Senator. With the appoint mont wn,
lso given out tho call of i.n extra session of
?lio Legislature, to convene March 111, the
i sleet Ion of n Senator being nmong thoob-
ects named.
A. T. Wood has been A Republican lender
In Kentucky formany years, and ma lo the
race . lor Governor against John Yuuug
Browu lu l'M. '
-.. - . .. :
Killed Blinseir Because Whipped.
Isaac Can, a colored boy, fifteen years old,
committed sulolde at Buffalo, N. Y., beoausa
he had been whipped by his grandparent
for refusing to get up when called. He took
rat poison.
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AnVrE WIMIiltVM.
lie conifirt"i, l.c ciiinfiirtcil.
Ye t'iiipi"-t-ti'0'i,d ami wurn,
Vlio wait aniiil tlio xliaduws
I'ur bopt' H celestial iiinrii '.
Tbe valley hath Its burden,
ItH vision mnl its snug.
And strains of joy am wafted
l'roiii heuveu's tuiinurlul throng.
There Is a place of nappliircs
Within the school of t lirlsl,
And faith bath her foiiiidatious
I II shern nt ailli'tll.VSt.
Time's bnrilcr-limd is jeweled
With ninny a radiant cm.
And love divine must fashion
And touch and chasten them.
lie makes my windows abates,
That 1 inav dimly see
The glories that await me,
Tim joys prepared for me.
Oh. were the full iTuU'encn
To brerJk upon my sU-hl.
My npirlt were too enj.'er
To take its upwin d Iliht !
Throuudi mists of tears tin1 bulwarks
Of ion's city rise ;
1 Krei t Its pearly portals.
Its jasper meets mine eves j
A mystic iilury lightens it,
it shines upon 11 1 v road,
And tlirouitli my un.ite windows
My bean exults in (Iod !
-Clara Thwultcs iu Christian Advoeatn,
"THE ol'JIEll uoMi:.
A lady who spent tlm summer vacation
months in a remote corner of New Knglund,
relates. In a letter to a friend, a pleasant in
cident of Christian faithfulness ami trust.
Hho'went nun day to vHit uu old lady, who
within thu brief 'space if a year had been
palled upon to part with husband, diiiiKhter
and brethw almost tin-lust if her surviving
kin.
Thnro was, however, no siKnof mnurnttitr,
cither in the ukmiI womim'sdress or manner,
iiiftl her visitor wondered at hersweet cheer
fulness of face nnd speech, her sunny, self
forgetful sympathy nnd evident peace of
mind and heart, l'resently theconversatlon
turniid to religious topics, in which the
reality of Cod's love, the rest fulness of
faith ami the hope of Immortality were sim
ply and in the most childlike acoeptaucit
dwelt upon bv the good woman.
The visitor llnally s.ii l:"Mrs. .1.. you have
given nix more hope and cheer in the half
hour I have talked will! you than I think I
have ever received from iiuy oilier Chri .tinn
friend. And yet you have been called upon
suddenly to 'bear a burden of sorrow and
bereavement such us fulls to the lot of few
of Cod's children."
"Yes," replied the d"ar id I lady, 'hut
band, brother and child have been taken
from me - and yet it does not seem ns if llcy
lui l gone very' tar away. When I was a
child, my older sister, whom I l ived dearly,
married,' und went to live In a hmi-ie alioiit
a mile from our home. At Urst I almost
cried mv eves nut : bill one day mother sui! :
'Why. Kuiiieo ! Iion't yon see that. Munh
hasn't Iclt us V She lia only gone down the
road to maki) allot her home where we can
go -a home as full of love and welcome a
this. Now yuu have two homes instead ol
one. Come", put on your siinlioiinet and run
down to tlie other hiime.' After 1 had ac
cepted that view, you may he sure no more
tears were ulied. Just In tlii- way 1 think
of my dear ones who have left this earthly
bouse. They haven't gone far-slmply just
over to the other home, jluil l"f"r" long I
nm going to put on my sii Ikuiii'i jast as I
did when 1 wus a llttio gi.l, ami go to sen
them."
The wrinkled face was lighted by a smile
of iiiisneakalile sweetness, and the ag
eves shone wilh wistful joy, as they lo ik -d
away Into that blue sky where faith sees Us
"manv mansions."
1 lentil would lie robbed of Its terror, be.
reavcnient of its pang. mourning "f lis tears,
if we all had this trusting woman's c.mci p
tion of the life beyond the grave. Iler faith
was based upon tho Croat Teacher's) declar
ation that dent h is not a narrowing, but n
widening, orthe liori; in or life ami love
Id" multiplying r those lies whi.-li unite
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tract tuimv rat!ronflf:iriRnii iminthin.
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piiiin, Mucous l'liti'lit'Sln month, SnrvTlirout.
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net onlv cures hy start nm nt lie- uni nt ilmeaHi'. but
ii anient nerve lotiir nml liloml lnilMrr. Iirl.x
l'( I'.'ick Hie pniU glow to pule elici ks mil ro
' H.i iiib the (Ire of yoiilli. It wards otf Insanity
! Mid I iih'.iilutitl"li. inset nil luviiik' KF.VIYO, no
1 I et'ier. li run he carried 111 v.-st pock. t. Ily mill.
ffi.i'ii per iaciiaitc, or tlx mr )M.uit, tvitn a puni
tive urliton gtiarunteo to rutu ur rufund
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For talo at Middl li.rgh, l'a.,by
V. II. M-ANGLl.!;,
Iu our thoughts let us not forget oim point
tli time, spent in being interrupt -d is not
time ,int. A strong thinker once s lid : "No
ono knocks at mv door who is not sent bv
Cod." We are spending time well when wo
are paying it out In (iod. to buy tlio things i
lie nie'ans our lives to own, whether Ho is j
putting before, us a duty to be dune, a Iriend j
to bo won, a small service to he rendered, n
book to Im written, a child to bo consoled, or
a housn to b set In order. Theru is time
enough given us to do all that Cod means
us to do tinch duv. ami to do It gloriously.
How do wo know but that 111" Interruption
we snarl at Is tbo nio.-t blessed tlilm; that
has como to us In long days' . . . We can
not alforii to lose u moment ot usefulness. or
tlm sum of our inlliieu
might have bodi. Hi
rcmi vii todav that in
should ever be wasted. W hat ouer.:y there
would bo in our lives! What strength !
What nohlo purpose ! What grand results!
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Alliiriigglslsnie tiulliiirieil to sell Haco-Curo
wilh our linn clad written guarantee.
illllee.l enn" it
uc uill M iul u. W rite
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onco will bo less llliiu It ! One Imx l.t: :i boxes lunar
tpposeca d, f us should ! 7;!,!,!": ir "
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Thr- ltrltlsh treusury authorities bav just
received from thp chief ootutabbi of ltuck
Ingham a remarkable collu. tiou ot coin,
which wero recently liiscnvcrcd nt tlio vit
iligo of Whltochurch, through tho fulling In
of a celllnii of an old houso. '1 hoy nro all
silver eolus ' and numner twoiuy-oigni. . b.wTtbn cutoru nruv Incus af
longing entlrolv to lh period covorod OiO'l ,n res,n.fe!l 1 U.Sa?rn rrvyn'W...
rolirna of Elizabeth. Jumeo I. and t'hi'.rlor ia has cause ! largo tr.)ops o wolvos
I. Tbe bulk of them are iu an excellent mate
ot preservation. The oldest dnti Ucclphura
bio hi 1005.
I'l.llHTtn-fin IflSTA V.iio.-ianthitik
is f-ti'J I lur u.'i lui-nii
t von c .iit)t),'.i
niir: t" s-.f.iit? l'.-"lert 'oi ri n-1 t tlwy tin
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IlijitN't'o ' 'l , I'mi tit Alter , V.'c-blui!U!
:,. C loi Cioir 1 1, 'VI vr.oei:;)-.
Volvo In Knrope.
ThoBBVoro noM.. wilh heavy snowstorms,
Pruski
from
th ' fon-sts of that country lo Infest tho high
roads, io that guar.lj of sjlJIers aro noodotl
to protect the mail.
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