WESHOULD FORGIVEAN
The Sunday Sermon as Delivered by the
: Brooklyn Divine.
TrEXT: “Their sins and their iniquities
will I remember no more.” —Hebrews viil.,
12
The national flower of the Egyptians is
the heliofrope, of the Assyrians is the water
lily, of the Hindoos is the marigold, of the
Chinese is the chrysanthemum. “We haveno
national flower, but there is hardly any
flecwer more suggestive to many of us than
the forgetmenot. Weall like to be remem-
bered, and one of our misfortunes is that
there are so many things we cannot remem-
ber. Mnemonics, or the art of assistinz
memory, is an important art. It was first
suggested by Simonides of Cos five hundred
years before Christ.
Persons who had but little power to recall
evints, or put facts and names and dates in
processions, have turough this art had their
memory reinforced to an almost incredible
extent. A good memory is an almost in-’
valuable possession. By all means cultivate
it. I had an azel frieni who, detained all
night at a miserable depot in waiting for a
rail train fast in the snow banks, entertained
a group ol some ten to fifteen clergymen,
likewise detained on their way home from a
‘meeting of presbytery, first, with a piecs of
ebalk, drawing out on the black and sooty
wails of the depot the characters of Walter
Beott’s Marmion,” and then recitinz from
memory the whole of that posm of some
eighty pages in fine print.
My old friend, through great aze, lost his
memory, and when I asked him if this story
of the railroad depot was true he said, I do
not remeinbér now, but it was just like me.
Let me sce,” said he to me, ‘‘have I ever
seen you before?” “Yes,” Isaid, ‘‘you were
my guest last night and I was with you an
hour ago.” What an awful contrast ia that
man between the greatest memory I ever
knew and no memory at all.
‘But right along with this art of reesllec-
* tion, which I cannot too highly eulogize, is
ene quite as important and yet I never
heard it applauded. 1 mean the art oi for-
getting. There is a splendid faculty in that
direction that we all need to cultivate. We
might, through that process, be ten times
happier and more useful than we now are.
‘We have been told that forgetfulness is a
weakness .and ought to be avoided by all
possible means. So far from weakness, my
text ascribes it to God. It is tae very top of
emnipotence that God is able to obliteraie a
part of His own memory. If we repent of
sin and rightly seek the divine forgiveness,
the record of the misbehavior is not only
erossed off the book, but God actually lets
it pass out of memory.
“Their sins and their iniquities will I re-
member no more.” To reinember no more
is to forget, and you cannot make anything
else out of it. God's power oi forgetting is
#0 great that if two men appeal to Him, and
the ene man, after a life all right, gets the
sins of his heart pardoned, and the other
man, after a life of abomination, gets par-
doned, God remembers no more against one
than against the other. The eatire past of
both the moralist, with his imperfections,
and the profligate, with his debaucaeries, is
as much obliterated in the one case as in the
other. Forgotten, forever and forever.
*“Their sins and their iniquities will I re-
member no more.”
This sublime attribute of forzetfulness on
the part of God you and I need ia cur finite
way to imitate. You will do well to cast out
of your recollection all wrongs done you.
During the course of one’s life he is sure to
be misrepresented, to be lied about, to be'in-
ured, There are those who keep these
hings fresh by frequent rehearsal. It things
have appeared in print they kesp them in
their scrapbook, for they cut these precious
paragraphs out of newspapers or books and
at leisure times lovk them over, or they have
them tied up in bundles or thrust in pigeon-
holes, and vney frequently regale themselves
and their friends by an inspection of these
flings, these sarcasms, these falsehoods, these
cruelties.
I have known gentlemen who carried
them in their pocketbooks, so that they
pould easily getat these irritations, and they
put their right hand in the inside of the coat
cket over the heartandsay: ‘‘Loox here!
Pet me show you something.” Scientists
eatch wasps, and hornets, and poisonous in-
sects and transfix them in curiosity bureaus
forstudy. and that is well. But these of
whom 1 speak catch the wasps, ani the hor-
nets, and the poisonous insects, and play
with them and put then on ta emseives and
on their friends, and see how far the noxious
insects can jump and show how deep they
pan sting. Have no such scrapbook. Keep
nothing in your possession that is disagree-
able. Tear up the falsehoods, and the slan-
ders, and the hypercriticisms.
Imitate the Lord in my text and forzet,
actually forget, sublimaly forget. There is
#0 bappiness for you in any other plan of
ae You see all around you, in the
phurch and out of the church, dispositions
acerb, malign, cynical, pessimistic. Do you
know how these men and women got that
disposition? It was by the embalmments of
things pantherine and viperous. They have
spent much of their time in calling the roll
‘of all the rats that have nibbled at theirrep-
atation. Their soul is a cage of vultures.
Everything in them is sour or imbittered.
The milk of human kindness has been
surdled. They donot believe inanybody or
anything.
f they see two people whispering they
think it is about themselves. If they see
two people laughing they think it is about
themseives. Where there is one sweet pip-
pin in their orchard there are fifty crab
apples. They have never been able to for-
a They do not want to forget. They
never will forget. Their wretcaednsss is su-
preme, for no one can be happy if he carries
petually in mind the mean things that
have been done him.
‘Un the other hand, you can find here and
there a man or woman (for there are not
many of them) whose disposition is genial
and summery. Why? Have they always
been treated well? Oh, no. Hard things
Bave been said against them. They bave
been charged with officiousnsss; and their
genecrosities have been set down to a desires
for display, and they have many a time
been the subject of tittle-tattie, and they
have had enouzh small assau'ts like gnats
and enough great attacks like lions to have
made them perpetually miserable, if they
‘ would have consented to be miserable,
But they have bad enough divine philoso-
by to cast off the annoyaucer, and they
Pe kept themselves in the sunlight of
God’s favor, and have realiz>d that these
oppositions and hindrancas are a part of a
wichty discipline, by waich they are to be
prepared for ussiuluess anl heaven. The
secratof it all is, they hava by the help of
the eternal Godlearned how to for et.
Another practical thouzht—when our
faults are repented ‘of lst them go out of
mind. 1f God forgetsthem, we have arigat
to forget them. Hayinz once repented of
our infeiicities and misdemeanors, thera is
no need of our repenting of them azain.
Suppese Towe you a large sum of money,
and vou are persuaded I an incapacitated
to pay. and you give me acquittal from that
obligation. You say: “1 cancsal that debt.
All is right now, Start again.” “And the
pext day I come in and say: :‘Xouw
about that big debt Towed you. I have
in to get you to let me off. I feel
about it 1 cannot rest. Do let me oft.”
ly with a litte impatience: 1 did let
i rept Don’t bother yourself and bother
with any more of that discussion.”
“The following day I come in and
dear sir; abour that debi. 1 can
over the iact that I owed you that ‘mone
It is something that weighs on my mind like
a ‘miistont.! Do forzive me t )t
This time. you. lear. 10s.
say: “You. are a nuisance.
mERN by this reiti
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DEFORGET
tians guilty of worse folly than that. W
1616 Might that they ova pan
of recent sins, what is the use of
yourself and insulting
forgive sins’ that lonz
forget them?
you and 365 times a year, if you
As far as
life drop.
ture to disturb us without running a special
train info the great gone-by to fetch us as
special freight things left behind. Some tan
years ago, when there was a graat railroad
strike, I remember seeinz all alonz the rouse
from Omaha to Chicagoand from Chicago
to New York hundredsand thousands of
freight cars switchel on thas side tracks,
those cars loadsd with all kinds of perishable
material, decaying and wastinz.
After the strike was over did the railroad
companies bring all that perished material
down to the markets? No, they thraw it
off whera it was destroyed, and loaded up
with something eis2. L2t the lonz traia of
ycur thougzats throw off the worse than use-
less fraight of a corrust and destroyed past,
and loai up wita gratitude and faith and
holy deter.nination. We donot pleas2 Gol
by the cultivation of the miserable. He
would rataer ses us haspy than vo se usde-
pressed. You would rathsr s2e your cail-
dren laugh than to sae them cry, and your
Heavenly Father has no fondness for hys-
terics.
Not only forget your pardousd transgres-
sions, but allow others t> forgat tham. The
chief stock on hand of maay people is to
recounts, in prayer meetinzs an.t pulpits
what big scouadrels they oace were. They
not only will not forget their torgiven de-
ficits, but they seam to ba determined that
the courch and the world shall not forget
them. If you want to declarz that you have
bean tha chief of sinners and extol ths graca
that could save suca a wrelca as you wars
do so, but do nos go info particulars. Do
not tell how mny times you gos drun’s, or
to what bad places you want, or how many
free rides you had in the prison van before
you were converted. Lumpit, brother; give
it to us in bulk.
If you have any scars got in honorable
warfare, show them, bus if you have scirs
got in ignoble warfare, do not display them.
I know you will quote the Bible raferen:e to
the horrible pit from which you avere
digged. Yes, be thankful for that rescus,
but do not make displays of the mud of that
horrible pit or splash it ovar other psopie.
Sometimes [ have felt in Christian meetings
discomfited and unfit for Chistian servics
because I had dona nona of thoss things
which seemad to be in the estimation of
many necessary for Christian usefulness, for
I never swore a word, or ever got drung, or
went to compromising placas, or was guilty
of assault or battery, or ever uttered a
slanderous word, or ever did any one a
hurt, although I know my heart was sin-
tul enough, ani I sail to mysszlf, “Theres is
no use of ny trying to do any good, for I
never went througn thos: depraved ex-
periences;” but afterward I saw consolation
in the taought that no ona gained any
ordination by the laying on of the hands of
dissoluteness and infamy. And though an
ordinary moral life, endinz in a Christian
life, may not be as dramatic a story to tell
about, let us be grateful to God rather than
worry about it, if we hava never plunzed
into outward abominations,
It may be appropriate in a meeting of re-
formed drunkards or reformel debauchees to
gnote for those not reformed how desperate
and nasty you onca were, but do not drive a
scavenger’s cart into assemblages of people,
the most of whom have always been decent
and respectable. But I have been sometimes
in great evangelistic meetings whare peoples
went into particularsabou? the sins that they
once committed, so much so that I' felt like
putting my hand on my pocketbook or call-
ing the police lest these reformed men might
fall from grace and go abt their old business
of theft or drunkenness or cutthroatery. It
your sins have been forgiven and your life
purified, forget the waywardness of the past
and allow others to forget it.
But what I most want in the light of this
text to impress upon my hearers and readers
is that we have a sin-forgetting God. Sup-
pose thaton thelast day-—called the lastday
because the sun will never again ris3 upon
our earth, the earth itself beinx flung into
fiery demolition—supposing that on that last
day a group of infernal spirits should soms-
how get near enough the gate of heaven and
challenge our entrance, and s:y: ‘How
canst toon, the just Lord, let taocse souls
into the realm of supsrnal gladnsss? Why,
they said a great many things they naver
ougat to have said, and they did a great
many things they ought never to have done.
Sinners are they: sinners all.” )
And suppose God should deign to answer,
He might say: ‘‘Yes. but did not My only
Son die for their ransom? Did He not pay
the price? Not one drop of blood was re-
tained in His arteries, not ons nerve of His
that was not wrung in the torture. He'took
in His own body and soul all the suff:rings
that ttose sinners deserve. They pleaded
that sacrifice. They took the full pardon
that [ promised to all who, through My
Son, earnestly applied for it, and it passod
out of My mind that they wera offanders.
I torgot all about it. Yes, I forgotallabout
it. ‘Their sins and their iniguities do I re-
member no more.’” A sin-forgetting God!
That is clear beyend and far above a sin-
pardoning God.
How oiten we hear it said: “I can for-
give, but I cannot forget.” That is equal
to saying, ‘‘I verbally admit it is all right,
but I will keep the old gruige good.” u-
man forgiveness isotten a flimsy affair. « It
does not go deep down. . It does not reaca
far up. St does not fix things up. Thecon-
testants may shake hands, or passin each
other on the highway thay may spz2ak tae
“Good morning” or “Good nigat,” put the
old cordiality never returns. The relations
always remain strained.
There is somstainz in the demeanor ever
after that ssems to say, ‘I would not do
you harm; indeed, I wish you well, but that
untortunase affair can never pass out of my
find.” There may no hard words pass be-
tween them, but until death breaks in the
same coolness ramains. But God lets ous
pardoned off2nses go into oblivion. He
never throws them up to us again. = He feels
as kindly toward us as though we had bezn
spotless and positively angelic all along.
Many yearsago a family, consisting of
the husband and wife and little girl of two
years, lived far out in a cabin ona western
prairie. The husband took a few cattle to
market. ‘Before he started his little child
asked him to bay for her a doll and he
promised. He could after the sale ‘of the
certainly would not forget the doll ho had
roniised. t
& cold toe cattle and obtained the groc:ries
for his household and the doll for his little
darling. He started home along the dismal
road at nighttall.
As hs went along on horseback a thunder
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never gab
f the road, and in tha heaviest part of the
7 rm, he “heard a child cry. Robbers hal
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4 TOSRINE
SL [s SERMON Well, my friends, thereare many Chris-
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God has forgotten te, Why do Ly not
Noy. you drag the load on with
: pray every
day, you ask God to recall occurences which
Lhe has not only forgiven but forgotten.
Quit thisfolly. Ido not ask you less to re-
aliza the turpitude of sin, but I ask youtoa
higher faith in the promise of God and the
full deliverance of his mercy. He does not.
givea receipt for part payment, or so much
received on aczount, but recaipt in full, God
having for Christ's sake decreed, “your sins
and your iniguities willl remember no more.”
ossible, let the disazre2ables of
Ve have enough things in the
presentand there will be enough in the fu-
cattle purchase household necessities, and
In the villaze to which he wens
storm broke, and in the most lonely part
wn to do some bad work along that
d it was known that this herdsman
money with him, the prics of the cattle
uated
nd all in
ht of a hollow that he
ad where the child
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‘husband through the ‘darkness. Bat, no.
-4 the wife of the house, who was. insensible as
from some great calamity. On inquiry the
returned husbani found "that the little child
of that cabin was gone. She had wandered
out'to mest her father and get the presant
he had promised. and the child was lost.
Taen the father unrolled from the blanket
the child he had found -in the fields, and lo!
it was his own child and the lost one of the
prairie home, and the cabin quaked with the
shout over the lost one foun.
ow suggestive of the fact that once we
wera lost in the open fields or among the
mountain crags, God’s wandering children,
and He found us dying in the tempest and
wrappad us in tha mantle of His love and
fetchad us home, gladness ani congratula-
tion bidding us wslcome. The fact is that
the world do2s not know God, or they would
all flock to Him, Through their own blind-
ness or the fault of some rough preaching
that has got abroad ia the centuries, many
men and women have an idea that Godisa
tyrant, an oppressor, an autocrat. a Nana
Sahib, an omnipotent Herod Antipas. Itis
a libel azainst the Almigaty; it is a slander
against ths heavens; it is a defamation
of the infinities.
I countad in my Bible 304 tims: ths world
“mercy,” sinzle or compounded with other
words. Icouated in my Bible 473 times the
word ‘‘love,” sinzle or compounded with
other words. Then I got tired counting.
Perhaps you might count more, being better
at figures. But the Hevrew and the Greek
and the English languages have been taxed
till they cannot pay any more tribute to the
love and mercy and kindness and grace and
charity and tenderness and friendship and
benevolencs and sympathy and bounteous-
ness and fataerliness and motherliness and
patience and pardon of our God.
hers are cartain names so magnetic that
their pronunciation thrills all who hear it,
Such is the nama of the Italian soldier and
liberator, Garibaldi. Marching with. his
troops, hie met a shepherd who was in great
distress becauss ha had lost a lamb. Gari-
baldi said to his troops: ‘‘La3t. us help this
poor shepherd find his lamb.” . And so, with
lanterns and torches, they explored the
mountains, but did nov find the lamb, and
after an unsuccsssiul search late at night
thoy went to their encampment.
The next morning Garibaldi was found
asleep far on into the day, and they
wakenzd him for soms purposa and found
that he had not given up the search when
the soldiers dil, but had kept on still farther
into thenightand had found it,and he pulled
down the blankats from his couch and thers
lay tae lamb, whica Garibaldi ordered im-
mediately taken to its owner. So the Com-
mander of all the hosts-of heaven turned
aside from His glorious and victorious
march throug the esnturies of heaven and
said: “I will go and recover that lost werld,
and that race of whom Adam was the pro-
genitor, and les ail who will accompany
And throuzi ths night they came, but I
do no’ s2e that the angelic escort came any
farther than the clouls, bub their most illus-
trious Liz2ader cams all the way down,and by
the tims His errand is done our little world,
our wandering and lost world, our world
flaecy with the light, will be found in'the
bosom of the Great Shepherd, and then all
hzaven will take up the cantata ani sing:
*‘The lost sh29p is found.” So I set open the
wide gata of my text, inviting you all to
coms into the mercy and pardon of God; yea,
still further, into the ruins of the place
waere onc: Was kept the knowledge of your
iniquities. . .
Tne placa has boagn tora down and the
records destroyed, and you will find the
ruins more dilapidated and broken and
prostrata than th ruins of Melrose or Kenil-
worth, for from thsse lash ruins you can pick
up some fragment of a sculptured stone, or
you can see the curva of some brokea arch,
but after your rapentancas and your forgive-
ness you cannot find in all the memory of
God a fragment of all your pardoned sins so
large as a needle’'s point. ‘‘Their sins and
their iniquities will I remember no more.”
And none of that will surprise you if you
will climb to ths top of a bluff back of Jern-
salem (it took us only five‘or ten minutes to
climb it), and see what went on when the
plateau of limestone was shaken by a par-
oxysm that set the rocks, which had been
upright, aslant, and on the trembling cross-
piecas of the split lumber hung the quivering
form of Him whoss life was thrust out by
metallic points of cruelty that sickened the
noonday sua till it fainted and fell back on
the black lounge of the Judean midnight.
Six different kinds of - sounds were heard
on that night which was interjected into the
daylizht of Christ's assassination. The
neighing of the war horses—ror some of the
soldiers wera in the saddle—was one sovad,
the bang of the hammers was a second
sound; the jeer of malignants was a third
sound: the weeping of friends and coadju-
tors was a fourth sound; ths plash of blood
on th rocks was a fifth sound: ths groan of
the expiring Lord was a sixth sound. And
they all commingled into one sadness.
Over a plaze in Russia where wolves were
pursuing a load of travelers, and to save
them a servant sprang from the sled into
the mouths of the wild beasts and was de-
voured, and theraby the other lives were
saved, are inscribed the words: ‘*‘Greater
love hath no man than this, that a man lay
down his life for his friend.”
Many a surgeon in our own tims hasin
tracheotomy with his own lips drawn from
the windpipe of a diptheric patient that
which cured the patient and slew the sur-
geon, and all have honorad the self'sacrifics.
But all other scenss of sacrifice pale befora
this most illustrious Martyr of all time and
all eternity. ' Aiter that agonizing spectacle
in behalf of our fallen race nothing about
the sin-forzstting God is too stupendous for
my faith, ani I accept the promise, and will
you not all accapt it? *‘Their sins and their
iniquities will I remember no more.”
Cats as Swimmers.
Many cats are fond of, rather than
averse to, water, and take to that ele-
ment freely. Some years ago, when re-
siding on the banks of the Thames
(writes a correspondent of Land and
Water), I bad a cat which used regularly
to swim across the river toan eyot which
was infested with rats, the distance be-
ing forty yards. I often used to carry
her acrbss the broadest part of the
stream, opposite my house, at least 100
yards, in a punt, and land her on the
opposite bank, when, regardless of
weather or flood, she would boldly fol-
low the punt home. She always swam
very low inthe water, with tail erect,
and used to shake herself like a dog
upon coming ashore. She was well
known ih my neighborhood, and many
people ‘used to come and see the per—
formance. Although a dread of water
is instinctive in cats, 1f broight up ona
riverside they lose all fear of wet and,
once the aversion is overcome, love to
dabble about and swim.
Biting the Nails.
The habit is comparaively easy to
break off if one goes at it in the right
way. A middle aced woman, after hav-
ing bitten her nails almost her entire
lifetime, broke herself of the habit by
beginning on one finger. This she per-
sisteatly left alone and carefully culti-
vated the finger nail, giving a certain
amount of attention to it every day.
When this finger nail had grown to the
usual length she took up another, andso.
on, until all her nails except one were
lin perfect shape. It took months of the
| most: persistent effort to break up the
last remaining scrap of this tenacious ef-
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LESSON FOR:SUNDAY, JUNE 12."
“The Den of Lions,”” Daniel vi, 10.28.
Golden Text, Danial vi., 28,
Jommentary.
16. *“Then the king commanded, and thoy
brought'Daniel and cast him into the den of
lions.”” After the kingdom passed into the
hands of the Medes, Darius made Daniel the
first of three presidents over 120 provinces.
But the princes and other presidents hated
him and sought to accomplish his death, as
recorded in the previous part of this chap-
ter. Daniel is fearless of man, and faith.
fully waits upon his God. The result is
that Daniel i cast into the lion’s den, and
to all appearance has perished. The kind
words from the king are a hope that it may
Ye so, rather than an assurance that it will
© SO.
“17. “And a stone was brought and laid
upon the mouth of the den; and the king
scaled it with his own signet.” So the un-
godly prosper in the world, and the devil is
permitted to put the saints of God in prison
and ofttimes to kill them (Ps. lxxiii., 12,
Rev. ii,, 10; Jobn xvi., 2). But the child of
God is to be prepared for these things, and
not to think them strange nor be offended
when they come (Math. x.,28;.I Pet. iv.,12,13;
John xvi., 1).
18. *‘Then the king went to his palace and
passed the night feasting.” Although the
king loved Daniel and labored hard to deliver
him (verses 14, 15), yet even the king, with
all his power, was powerless against the law,
from which let us learn that love cannot
always deliver,nor can the law save any one.
Even the law of God, which is holy and just
and good, cannot give life nor justify the
sinner (Gal, iii., 21; ii., 16; Rom. 1ii., 20).
19. “Then the king arose very early in
the morning and went in haste unto the den
of lions.” This early morning victory and
deliverance of Daniel is very suggestive of a
morning of deliverance for Daniel's people,
which is now drawing nigh. See Ps. xxx.,
b; xlvi., 5, margin; xjix, 14; cxxx., 6; II
Sam. xxiii, 3, 4. 1t is also seen in the early
morning deliverance of Mark vi., 46-48.
There is a class of people, however, for
whom there will be no morning (Isa. viii.,
20, R, V,
20. “O Daniel, servant of the living God,
is thy God, whom thou servest continually,
able to deliver thee from the lions? It wasa
great and lamentable cry from the greatest
earthly monarch of the time, a cry of hope,
but not ot assurance. be known the
God of Daniel and of David he would not
have asked if God was able to deliver. Read
the experience of David and Paul in I Sam.
xvii, 34-86; II Tim. iv., 17, 18, and let your
own heart say, ‘I am persuaded that He is
able” II Tim. i., 12), ;
+ 21. “Then said Daniel unto the king, O
king, live forever.” With what eagerness
must the king have listened for a reply from
the den, faintly hoping for yet hardly dar-
ing to expect’a reply. But there is a reply
prompt and clear and the king’s heart is
exceedingly glad (verse 28). Whatever may
have been the significance of the words,
“Live forever,” the believer in Jesus knows
thatthe has eternal life (John v., 24: vi., 47.)
22. “My hath sent His angels, and
hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have
not hurt me.” Blessed be God and ees
fas holy apgels that excel In strength;
g_ His cotiimands, harkening to His word
(Ps. ciil., 21,22). Consider the power of ona
angel as seen in the case of Hezekiah and of
Peter (Isa. xxx., 86; Acts xii, 6-10), and
remember that these same angels are your
ministering spirits ever with you, serving
unseen and unthanked (Heb. i., 14).
238. *‘So Daniel was taken up out of the
den, and no manner of hurt was found upon
him, because he believed in his God.” Dan
in a figure, suffered the extreme penaity o
the law, and came forth from the place of -
death, beyond death and judgment, without
any manner of hurt u him. Every true
believer in Jesus is now dead with Christ,
risen with Christ and has passed from death
unto life, (Col, iii.,1-3; John v., 24). There is
no condemnation to them that are in Christ,
nothing can separate us from His love, and
in the morning of resurrection it shail be
found that not a hair ot our head has per-
ished, (Rom. viii., 1, 89; Luke ii, 18).
24. **And the king commanded, and the;
brought those men which had accused Daniel
and theyeast them into the den of lions, them,
their childrea and their wives.” The
triumphing of the wicked is short, and the
joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment
(Job. xx., 5). This is a sample of those for
whom there is no morning, or who in the
morning of victory of those who trust in the
Lord shall be punished with everlasting de-
struction from His presence (II Thess. i., 1-10).
See how many were affected by their sin.
No man liveth unto himself. earealways
affecting others either for good or evil.
25. “Then King. Darius wrote unto all
people, nations and languages that dwell in
all the earth, Peace be multiplied unto you.”
That which caused Darius to make this
proclamation to all nations was the power of
the God of Israel manifested on behalf of
Daniel, the Jew The time will come when
the power of this same God shall be so mani-
fest on behalf of all Israel that all nations
shall thus know God and honor Him as the
God of the whole earth (Ezek, xxxvii., 26-
28: xxxviii., 23).
26. *IL make a decree that in every do-
minior of my kingdom men tremble and fear
before the God of Daniel.” Thus Darius
does the noblest thing any man every did or
could do, he exalts God, he glorifies God be-
fore all nations, and speaks of His eternal
kingdom. He makes us think of the time
when ‘‘all Kings shall fall down before Him;
all nations shall serve Him?” (Ps. Ixxii., 11;
Ixxxvi.. 9, 10). “The lofty looks of man
shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of
men shall be bowed down, and the Lord
alone shall be exalted in that aay” (Isa. ii,
17),
59. ‘He delivereth and rescueth, and He
worketh signs and wonders in heaven and
in earth, Hs hath delivered Daniel from
the power of the lions.” Darius had seen
the deliverance of one man from a lion's
den: but Daniel could tell .of the deliver.
ance of millions from the bondage of Egypt,
of their food coming from heaven every day
for forty years, of sea and river divided for
them to pass through on dry land, of walled
cities falling down as men shouted, and
many such wonderful works of a wonderful
God. We can tell of dead bodies actually
raised from their graves as Lazarus and oth-
ers, and of a time when all in their graves
shall come forth, and of some who will
never die. Let us magnify the name of
Him who only doeth all these things. o
28. **So this Daniel prospered in the reign
of Daring, and in the reign of Cyrus the
Fersian.” And all because he was a man of
prayer, and God was with him. He feared
not the face of man, nor did he fear death;
but he feared only to sin against God. He
honored (God, and God honored him, even
in this wortd (I Sam. ii, 30).— Lesson
Helpers
Habit establishes no right. There are per-
sons who seem to suppose that what they do
is right because it is their habit. One never
goes to a funeral; another never makes a
wedding gift; a third never attends evening
church. But specific duties cannot be evaded
by an *‘I never do that.”” The best way is
not te get into the ~habit-of never doing that
which it may sometimes be one’s duty to do.
— [Sunday School Times.
‘Whilethe Society for the Suppression of
Vice is maintaining an uncomprising war-
fare, as it has done for years, against those
hydra headed mousters, gambling and
drunkenness, is it ton much to ask Christian
men and women, philanthropists, parents,
and good citizens to sustain them by fur-
nishing them with the sinews of war to
fight with?
Tax Electrical Dapartment of the United
States Patent Office is overecrowde | with ap.
ications for patents, some oi whica have.
THE CHRISTIAN WARFARE.
Thou fichtest the Christian warfare—so
théu sayest; ? . :
Fight vu. anu conquer—Heaven youchsafe
thou mayest; .
But’ ark the Captain's orders, lest thou
The lawless warrior ne’er is crowned at all.
There are who seek, but never enter in;
There are who fight and fight, but never
win; :
There are who soar, but never reach the
skies; $
Who run—run all—but one receives the
prize. :
Thou fightest; ’tis well—beat not the air in
4 3
Thou runnest;
obtain,
Gird up thy loins, and to thyself take heed,
That thou’rt a soldier of the cross indeed.
so run, that running thou
The Thijstian warfare? Satan fain would
fee
Some other warfare would do just as well!
Wouldst thou at such a bold suggestion
start?
Then waicn lest he beguile thee with his
ait.
Fightest thou the Christian warfare? Dost
hou know
What is the Christian warfare?
show
The spoil, the trophy. and the glorious scar,
The mark peculiar to that wondrous war?
A spot thou hast—is it the halo bright
That rests upon and seals the sons of light?
Thou find’st an inward conflict! Who does
not?
He does who murmurs at his earthly lot,
Who feels an aching void within his breast,
Yet spurns the Saviour’s meek and lowly
rest.
Thou find’st an inward conflict; so does he
Whose bosom, restless as the raging sea,
Still foams up mire; who, goaded, feels the
Canst thou
smart,
The war of conscience with a graceless
eart.
He does, whose dead profession mars his
mirth,
Who, heaven-bound, loves his treasure on the
ex
‘Whose zigzng aim 'twixt right and wrong to
steer
Meets only censure and unholy jeer.
He do~+ who loves the world and holds it
ast,
But k..u ns he must resign it at the last,
And, anxious to escape a dreadful hell,
Reiuctantly consents in heaven to dwe 1,
And, both worlds vainly seeking to his cost,
Too late repentant, finds that both are lost!
—| From a Very Old Manuscript.
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1S THE BIBLE INSPIRED OF GOD?
Says one, “I think that the Bible may be a
true history, but that is no proof of its in-
spiration. It does not require divine inspira-
tion to write a true history.” So you
think it an easy matter to tell the truth do
you? 1 wish you could make other people
think so. Suppose vou go and read a file of
the newspapers published just before the last
election, and see if you do not think it re-
quires divine inspiration to tell the truth, or
even to find it out after it is told. Truth is
mighty hard to get at, as you can see by per-
sing the daily papers on the eve of an elec-
tion. HR Li ARE SiG
There are certain things in the Bible which
to my mind, bear the impress of Divinity.
A skeptic will fell you what a race of old
sinners we read about in the Bible! Noah
got drink ; David was guilty of adultery
and murder; Solomon was an idolater, an
wrought folly ; Peter denied his Lord, and
Judas sold him for 30 pieces of silver; all
these people that the Bible talks about se
much to us, are a pretty set of men!
Very well; what kind of men do_you ex-
pect to read about in the Bible? Noah got
drunk. Is that strange? Did no_oue else
ever get drunk? Peter cursed and swore.
Are there not other men who curse and
swear? Judas, an apostle, sold his Lord,
who said he had chosen twelve, and one of
them was a devil. Do you not sometimes
find a Judas in the church even nowadays?
One in twelve was a thief and a traitor then,
and we need not be surprised if we find about
the same average Now. >
But you seem to think that when you read
about a man in the Bible he is sure to be free
from sll kinds of errors, frailties, fauits end
sins. You have formed this idea of men
from reading in Sunday-school books about
good children, who usually die young; or
perusing excellent biographies, which as oy
read them cause you to exclaim, “I wish I
could be as good as that person was, but 1
never shall.” No, I presume you never will,
and if you knew the whole story about the
person you might not feel so deeply on the
subject. ; ;
Do you suppose that if the Bible had been
written by some learned doctor, revised by
a committee of eminent divines, and pub-
lished by some great religious society, we
should ever have heard of Noah’s drunken-
ness, of Abraham's deception, of Lot’s dis-
grace, of Jacob's cheating, of Paul and Bar-
nabas’s quarreling, or of Peter's lying, curs-
ing, or dissembling? Not at all. he good
men, when they came to such an incident.
would have said, “There is no use in saying
anything about that. 1t is all past and
gone; it will not help anything, and will
only hurt the cause.” a com-
mittee of such «eminent divines
had prepared the Bible you would have
had a biography of men whose characters
were patterns of piety, and propriety, in-
stead of poor sinners, as théy were. 'Some-
times a man writes his own diary and hap.
ens to leave it for some one to print after
e is dead; but he leaves out all the mean
tricks he ever did, and puts in all the good
acts be can think of; and you read the
pages, filled: with astonishment, and think,
“What a wonderfnlly good man be was!”
But when the Almighty writes a man’s life
he tells the truth about him; and there are
not many persons who would want their
lives printed if the Almighty wrote them.
You find a man who will tell the truth
about kings, warriors, princes and rulers to-
day, and you may be quite sure that he has
within him the power of the Holy Ghost.
And a book which tells the faults of those
who wrote it, and which tells you that
“‘there is pone righteous, no, not one,” bears
in it the marks of a true book; for we all
know that men have faults, and failings, and
sins; and among all the men whose lives are
recorded in that book, each man bas some
defect, some blot, except one. and that is
“the man Christ Jesus.”—[H, L. Hastings.
GOD'S WAY. .
If a man has a statue decayed by rust and
age, and mutilated in many of its parts, he
breaks it up and casts it into a furnace, and
after the melting he receivex it acain in more
beautiful form. As thus the dissolving in
the furnace was not a destruction, but a re-
newing “of the statue, so the death of our
bodies is not a destruction, but a renovation.
When, therefore, you see as in a furnace
our flesh flowing away to corruption, dwell
not on that sight, but wait for the re casting;
and advance in your thoughts to a still
higher point—for ‘the statuary easting into
the furnace a brazen image, bpt makes a
brazen one again. God does not thus; but
casting in a mortal body formed of clay, he
returns you an immortal statue of gold.— [St.
Chrysostom.
Some men cheat themselves out of a hap.
piness by an erroneous. notion that all’the
wood in the world belongs to the past, and
that the present is a degenerate age. Others
rob themselves of much comfort by distrust.
ing the future. An abiding faith in God,
who is the same yesterday, today, and for-
ever, promotes hea.th of body and peace of
mind, and secures everlasting salvation.—
{New York Advocate.
THE monument erected by the people of
New Orleans, to the memory of ‘ths late Su-
who was a:
een on file since last fall without receving
ipary examination. |
perintendent of Police, David. Heanesay,
ssassin by tha Mafia ia Oso.
Ror, 1890, was unveiled a few days since, ab ;
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A SOLEMN CEREMONY. , .
In the Johnstown Cemstery. The
" Monument to the Undentified Victims. =
of tne Great Flood Unveiled.
. The monument to the unknown dead ‘was
unveiled at Grandview cemetery, Johns- ;
town, Pa., in the presence of 10,000 people,
most of whom had lost relatives in the great
flood. Eight hundred unknown victims of ;
that dreadful catastrophe lie in long rows
beneath the monument’ which represents
faith, hope and charity—Faith with the
right arm outstretched toward heaven,
charity holding an orphan in her arms, and
hope resting on an anchor. Gov. Pattison
gave the signal for the veil to fall. = ASE
fell the band played a funeral dirge..: ©
The entire population of Johnstown
The procession was composed of various
secret and church societies, national guards-
men and others. Sa
A great crowd of people had gathered im
the Grandview jemetery and was crowding te
around the speakers’ platform when the
processson got to the end of its long march.
After the devotional exercises Mayor Rose,
of Johnstown, introduced Gov. Pattison.
Among other things he said: ‘We meet her
to-day to recall the events of three years ago.
When we remember the calamity and the
magnitude of the disaster which visited your
city, we recognize again the human kind-
ness that lives in the hearts of the people,
not only here, but the world round. They
heard your cry of distress, and from the
north and the south, the east and the west,
upon the speed of the wind, relief cameto
you. And so to-day, as we meet, we recall
the wonderful kindness of the human heart
upon all occasions. The old. city of Johns-
town fell before the flood: but the visitor
city. But no one can recall the lost ones; no
amount of contribution—no relief that the
people can offer can give back to you theas-
sociagtions of those who were by your side;
and all that we can do here to-day is to re-
call their memory, recall their pleasant as-
sociations, and, as we dedicate this monu-
ment to the unknown dead. bear in mind
and keep ever before us the dear associa
tions of the past. ;
Mr. Ogden was introduced as the orator of
the day. His oration proved to be a master-
ly effort, and there were tears in the eyes of
many of his hearers. When he had finish-
ed, the procession formed again, and march-
ed around the monument, he formal un-
veiling followed. Ex-Governor Beaver made
the closing address, in which he paid a high
tribute to the flood commission for the man-
ner in which they had performed their
duties.
The monument is built of Barre (Ver-
mont) granite, the lower base being in size
12 feet 8 feet, resting on a solid concrete
foundation. Ox this base restsa second and
third base and a plinth, on which 1S set an
inscription block. The inscription is: “To
the memory of the unidentified dead, lost
by the flood of May 31, 1889.”
_ Above the inscription is a plinth, hané-
somely carved, and above this rests the cap,
which extends over the inscription block
and is carved in graceful mouldings. Teo
this is added anothers plinth on which rests
two sitting figures, representing Faith and
Charity. In the center of the plinth is set
a pedestal nearly four feet in: height on
wd 3 stands a ligure six feet Ligh, and this
-surmounts the whole, representing Hope.
These figures are of White Western Rhode
Island granite. The entire monument is 21
feet 8 inches high, weighs 35 tons and is a
beautiful specimen of the sculptor’s art.
FRIGHTFUL MINE DISASTER.
Two Hundred Men Bslioved to Be Dead.
Twenty-Five Bodies Recovered.
PRAGUE, June- 2.—The timbers used in
supporting the roof of the famous Birken-
berg silver mine in Bohemia caught fire
yesterday and the flames spread to the
whole interior, where 500 men were working.
All but 40 of these escaped, the latter being
suffocated, Fourteen bodies have been re-
covered.
Reports this evening show that the
mine disaster is far worsethan was sup-
posed. -It was believed that only 40 men
were missing, but inquiry revealed the fact
that nearly 200 miners were left in the pit.
‘A second rescue party went down and Tre-
turned with 11 more dead bodles. They said
that they could hear shouts and groans far
off in the mine. A foreman and seven men
who tried to make their way in the direc-
tion where the shouts and groans had been
heard, were enveloped in a gulf of fire and
smoke. Four men fell unconscious. Their
four companions tried to drag them away,
but were compelled to tun for their lives
and leave the men to die. Thousand of men,
women and children are in the fields around
the pit.
400 1.0ST THEIR LIVES,
The latest reports concerning the disaster
at the Birkenberg silver mine show. that
fully 400 of the employes lost their lives.
Among those who werekilled were five stu-
dents of the Mining academy, who were
studying the workings of the mine. Many
ot the bodies were almost completely «des-
troyved, on'y a few fragments remaining.
Later—One hundred and thirty bodies
have been taken out ot the mine and 280 are
still missing. The bodies were raised in
batches of three. The faces of the victims
are scorched and blackened and show traces
of a desperate struggle for life. Thescenes
at the pit’s mouth were heart-rending.
One woman fell dead and another went
wad.
Serious Railroad Wreck.
PITTSBURG, PA., June 4.—The Titusville
express on the Allegheny Valley railroad,
which left here at 1:30. p. m, Friday, ran
into a bad washout near Foster station, nine
miles below Franklin. The engine and two
baggage cars went down and Engineer AF.
Reed and Fireman Harry Shearer, both of
Oakmont, were fatally injured. © Reed has
since died. The storm that caused the acti-
dent is reported as one of the most severe
for years. Only one passenger was hurt,and
ot seriously. THis is the first accident
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