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The Sermon as Delivered by the Brook.
lyn Divine. od
XT: ‘Seek ye the Lord
."—Isaiah lv., 8:
{o see.
prophecy in all His
involun > 5
So tha : ecies in
Christ -might be called the “Oratori
the Messian,” the writing of Isaiah ie
Christ
acy ‘in
t
® **Hallelujah Chorus,” where all the batons
wave and all the trumpets come. h
a man picked i» out of insignifi-
was known and
aonored. Josephus and Philo and Sirach ex-
wiled him in their writings. What Panl was
wmong She apostles, Isaiah was among the
: ets. x :
Oh,” says some |
ame, ‘that was for olden times.” No, my
- bearer. If you have traveled in other lands
you have taken a circular letter of ecrodit
{rom some banking house in London, and in
~8t. Petersburg or Venice or Rome or Ant-
werp or Brussels or Paris you presented that
* letter and got financial help immediately. |
And I want you to understand that the text,
instead of being appropriate for one age or
for one land isa olreular fetter for all ages
.and for all lands, and. whenever it is pre-
sented for help, the help comes. “Seek ye
the Lord while He may be found.”
I come to-day with no hairspun theories
of religion, with no nice distinctions, with
uo elaborate disquisition, but with a plain
talk on the matters of personal religion. I
feel that the sermon I preach this morning
ill be the savor of life unto life or death
the Gospel of
Christ is a powerful medicine; it either kills
or cures. Thefa are those who say: “I
would like to become a Christian. I have
been waiting a good while for the right
kind of influence to come.” And still you
are waiting. You are wiser in worldly
‘things than you are in religious things. And
are men who say they are waiting
EN eal i Betis heaven. waiting, waiting, but. not
A
wit) intelligent waiting, or they would get
~on board the line of Christian influences
Shah would bear them into the kingdom of
Now you know very well that to seek a
thing ie to search for it with earnest endeav-
or. Ifyou want to see a certdin man in
London, and there is a matter of much
... money connected with your seeing him, and
© you cannot af first find him, you
you do mot
give up the search. You look in the direct-
_ ory. but cannot find the name; you go in
circles where you think perhaps he may
mingle, and, having found the part of the
city where he lives, but perhaps not knowing
the street, you go through street after street
and from block to block, and you keep on
searching for weeks and for months.
You say, “Itis a matter of £10,000
whether I see him or not.” Oh,
nt in seeking for
were as
_. Had you one half a4 persistence you would
ong ago have found Him who is the joy of
‘the forgiven spirit. We may pay our debts,
we may attend church, we may relieve the
poor, we may be public benefactors, and yet
all our life disobey the text, never seek God,
. never gain heaven, that the spirit of
God would help this morning while I try to
show you, in carrying out the idea of my
text, first, how to seak the Lord, and in the
next place, when to seek Him. *‘Seok ye the
Lord while He may be found.” :
I remark, in the first place, you are to
seek the Lord through earnest and believing
prayer. God is not an autocrat or a despot
seated on a throne, with His arms resting on
brazen lions and a sentinel pacing up and
down at the foot of. the throne. a
father seated in a bower, waiting for His
children to come and climb on His knee and
+ His kiss and His benadiction. Prayer is
Ho cup with which we go to the ‘‘fountain
of living water” and dip up refreshment for
| our thirsty soul. Gracs does not come to
the heart as we set a cask of water to catch
the rain in the shower. It is a pulley fast-
ened to the throne cf God, which we pull,
bringing the blessing.
I not cars so much what posture you
take in prayer, nor how large an amount of
voice you use. You might get down on your
face before God, it you did not pray right
inwardly, and there would be no response.
You might cry at the top of your voice, and
unless you had a believing spirit within,
your cry would not go farther up than the
shout of a plowooy to his oxen. Prayer
must be believing, earnest, loving. . You are
in your house some summer day, and a
shower comes up, and a bird affrighted darts
into the window, and wheels around the
room. You seize it. You smooth its ruf-
fled piu e., You feel its fluttering heart.
You say, *‘Poor thing, poor thing!” Now a
prayer goes out of the storm of this world in-
to the window of s mercy, and He
catches it: and He feels its fluttering pulse,
and He puts it in His own bosom of affection
and safety.
Prayer is a warm, ardent, pulsating exer-
cise. It is the electric battery which, touched
thrifls to the throne of God... It is the diving
beil.in:which we go down into the depths ot
‘Uod's mercy and bring up ‘‘pearls of great
price.” ‘There is an instance where prayer
‘made the waves of Gennesaret solid as
granite pavement. Oh, how many wonder-
{ul things prayer has accomplished! ave
‘you ever tried it? In the days when the
Beotch Covenanters were persécuted and the
enemies were after them one of the head
men among the Covenanters prayed: ‘0
Lord, we be as dead men unless Thou shalt
help us. O Lord, throw thelap of Thy cloak
over these r things.” And instantly a
Scotch mist enveloped and hid the persecuted
irom their persecutors—the promise literally
fulfilled. , ‘While they are yet speaking I
ill hear.” :
Ob, impenitent soul, have
the power of prayer?
loving and faithful and
believe that? You are told that Christ came
Do you believe that? « You
are told that all you have to do to get the
pardon of the Gospel is toask for it. Do
you believe that? Then come to Him and
say: *'O Lord, 1 know Thou canst not lie.
Thou hast told me to come for pardon, and I
could get it. Icome, Lord. Keep Thy
promise and liberate my captive soul.”
Ob, that you might have an altarin the
lor, in the kitchen, in the store, in the
BN for Christ will be willing to come
again to the manger to hear prayer. He
will come in your place of: business as He
confronted Matthew, the tax commissioner.
1f a measure should come befors Congress.
that you thought would ruin the Nation,
how you would send in petitions and remon-
strances. And yet there has been enough
sin in your heart to ruin it forever, and you
have ‘never remonstrated or titioned
against it, If your physical health fail
and you had the means, you would go an
spend the summer in many and the win-
ter in Italy, and you would think it a very
thay if ou had to go all Sfound the
‘earth to get k your physi health,
‘Have you made any effort, any snditure,
‘any exertion for your immortal and spiritual
health? - No, you have not taken one step.
‘Oh, that you might now n to seek
after God with earnast prayer y of you
ou ever tried
says: “He is
tient.” Do you
to save sinners.
for
ave you
your families,
| sick. man beats mi
‘| very ric
! ooked at the doors, which
e most wonderfuliy constructed I
ever saw, and I could have staid there for a
whole week: but I had only a little time, 80,
having glanced at the woaderful carving on
the doors, 1 passed in and looked at the ra-
diant altars and the sculptured dome. Alas!
that so many stop at the outside door of
God's holy Word, looking at the rhetorical
bea: of; in and looking at
Sm ul d of goin,
‘| the altars of sacr| og the dome of Gad's
mercy and salvation that hovers over every
penitent and Believing soul! ; :
.Oh, my fri it you merely want to
study the laws of Anguage, do. not go to the
ible. It was not made for that. Take
“Howe's Elements of Criticism.” It would
be Motte samy tie Bible for that. If you
wan si metaphys iter than the
Bible will be the writings of William Hamil-
ton. But if you want to know how to have
gin pardoned, and at last to gain the blessed-
riptures, ‘for
people are anxious about their souls
—and there are sorze here to-day —there are
those who recommend . That is’
allright. But want to tell you that the
Bible is the best book under such circam-
stances. Baxter wrote ‘‘A Call to the Un-
converted,” but the-Bible is the best call to
the unconverted, Philip Doddri wrote
“The Rise and Progress of Religion in the
Soul,” but the Bible is the best rise and pro-
gress.” John Angell James wrote ‘Advice
to the Anxious Inquirer,” but the Bible is
fhe best advice to the anxious inquirer. :
Ob, the Bible is the vi book
anxious and inquiring soul! A g soldier
mate, ‘‘Comrade, give me a
drop!” The comrade: shook ‘up the. canteen
and said, *“Thereisn’t a drop of water in the
canteen.” “On,” said: the dying soldier,
“that’s not what I want: feel in .m
er my Sle | 5
ible and read hima few of the gracious:
promises, and the dying soldier’ oe “Ah,
that's what I want. hers isn’t anything
like the Bible for a dying soldier, is there,
my comrade?’ Oh, blessed book while we
live. Blessed book when wa die. {
1 remark, again, wo must seek God through
church ordinancas. “What,” say you,
“can’t .man be saved without going to
Ireply, theraare men, I'suppose,
in glory, who have never seen a church;
but the church is the ordained means by
which we ara to be brought to God; and if
truth affects us when we ars alone, it affects
us more mightily whon “we are in. the
assembly —the feelings of others empha-
sizing our own feslings. The great law of
sympathy comes into play, and a truth that
would take hold only with the graspofa
ghily against tha soul
with a thousand heart throbs.
When you come into the religious circle,
come only with ona notion and only for one
purpose—~to find the way to Cbrist. When
I see people critical about sarmons, and
critical about tones of voices, and critical
about sermonic ‘delivery, they make me
think of a man in prison. He i5 condemned
to death, but the officer of the Government
brings a’ pardon and Joes it through the
wicket of the prison and says: ‘‘Here is your
pardon. Come and get it.” ‘What! Do
you expect me to take that pardon offerod
with such a voice as you have, and with such
an awkward mauner as you have? I wou
rather die than so compromise my rhetorical |
notions!” Ab, the man does not say thas:
he takes it! It is his life. He doas not care’
how if is handed to him. * And if this morn-
ing that pardon from the throne of God is
offered to our souls, should we not seiza it,
regardless of all criticism, feeling that 16 is
a matter of heaven or hell?
But I come now tp the last part of my:
text. It tells us when we are to seek the
Lord, “While He may be found.” Whan is
that? Old age? You may not see old age.
To-morrow? You may not sea to-morrow.
Te-night? You may not see to-night. Now!
Ob, if'l could only write on every heart in
thrpe capital letters that word N-O-W-—
now > 3 % 4 bot 4 ng Po
Sin is an awful diseass. I hear people say,
with the toss ef the head and with a trivial
manner, **Oh, yes, I'm a sinner.” ‘Sia is an
awful disease, It is leprosy. Itis dropsy.
Itis consumption. Itis all moral disorders
inone. Now you know there isa crisis in a
disease. Perhaps you have had some illus-
tration of it in your family. Sometimes the
physician has cslled and he has looked at
the patient and said; ‘That case was simple
enough, but the crisis has passed. If you
had called me yesterday or this morning I
could have cured the patient. It is too late
now; the crisis has passed.” Just soit is in
the spiritual treatment of the soul; thera is
a © Before ihat life! After that,
death! O my dear brother, as you lova your
“I soul,’ do not let the crisis pass unatteuded
to!
Thera are some bere: who' can remember.
instances in life when il they had bought a
certain p operty they would have become
. A few acres that would have
cost them almast nothing were offerad them.
They refused them. Afterward a lar, il
lage or city spraug up on these ‘aor ¢
ground and they see what a mistake they
madein wot buying the property. There
was an opportunity of getting it. It never
came back again. And soit isin regard to
a man's spiritual and eternal fortuns. Taere
is a chance; if you let that go, perhaps it
never comes back. Certainly that ona
never comes back. ! ¢
There is a time which mercy has sab for
leaving port, If you are on board befors
that you will get a passag? for heaven. If
‘you are not on board ‘you miss your pas-
sage for heaven. As inlaw courts a case is
sometimes adjourned from term to term,
and from year ro year, till the bill of costs
eats up the entire estate, so there are men
who ars adjourning the matter of religion
from time to time, and from year to year,
until heavenly bliss is the bill of costs the
man would have to pay for it. }
Why defer this matter, O my dear hear-
ar? ve you any idea that sin will wear
out? that it will evaporate? that it will relax
its grasp? that you may find religion asa
man accidentally finds a lost pocketbook?
Ah, no! No man ever me a Christian
by accident or by. the relaxing of sin. The
embarrassments ars all the time increasing.
The hosts cf darkness are recruiting, and
the longer you postpone this matter the
steeper the path will become. I ask: those
men who are before me this morning wheth~
erin the ten or fifteen years they have
in the postponement of these matters
they have come any nearer God or heaven?
I would not be afraid to challenge this
whole audience, so far as they may not have
found the peace of the Gospel, in regard to
that matter. Your hearts, you are willin
frankly to tell me, are becoming harder an
harder, and that it you come to Christ it will
be more of an undertaking now than it ever
would have been before. Oh, fly for refug!
The avenger of blood is on the track! The
throne of judgment will soon ba sat, and if
you have anything to do toward your eternal
salvation you had better do it now, for the
redem St the soul is precious and it
A forever 3
; Josepivs
. 1. Go
And his.oomrade found: °
: Gan Jou
Sp, elt ekiheow
has its typo y
beauty Swiss beauty and
Oh, ery for mercy! “To.
this voice, harden mot
your There is. a way of opposing
the mercy of God too lone, aud $hen; there
10 more sacrifice for sin, but a
fearful looking for - Judgment and flery in-
dignation which shall devour the adversary.
My. friends, m neighbors, what can I say
to induce you tend to this matter—to
attend to it now? Time is flying, Aying—the
city,clock joining my voice this moment.
seeming to say to you: “Now is the time!
Now is the time!” Oh, put it not off”
Why should I stand ‘hers and and
you sit there? It is your immortal soul. It
18 a soul that shall. never di It ig a soul
that must soon appear: ‘e. God for re-
viewal. Why throw away your
heaven? Why “pl off igto
when all the gates of gl are open?
become a castaway from when you can
sit apo ths throne? Why will ye die mis-
erably when eternal life is offerad ou, and
it will cost you nothing but just willingness -
to accept it? “Come, for all things ars
now ready.” Come, Christ is ready, par-
don is ready! The church is ready. Heaven
isready. You will never find a more can-
venient season if you should live fifty years
more than this very one. Reject this and
you may die in your sins. *
Why do I say this? Is i$ to frighten your
soul? Oh, mo. It is to as you. I
show you the peril. [ show you the escape.
Would I not ba a coward beyond all excuse
if, believing that this at audience must
soon be launched into the eternal world, and
that all who believe in Christ shall besavad,
and that all who reject Christ will be lost—
would 1 not be the veriest coward on earth
to hide that truth or to stand before you
with a cold or even a placid manner? ‘My
dear brethren, now is the day of your re-
demption.
It is very certain that you and I must
soon appear before Godin judgment. We
cannot 3 it. The Bible says: “Ever
eyo shall ses Him, and they also whic!
pierced Him, and all the kindreds of the
earth shall wail bacadse of Him.” On that
day all our advantages wiil come up. for our
glory of for our discomfiture—savery prayer,
every sermon, every exhortatory remark,
very raproof,. ev call of grace; and"
while the. heavens ara rolling away like a
scroll, and the world is being yed,
your destiny and my destiny will be an-
nounced, Alas! alas! if on that day itis
found that we have neglac! mat-
ters. We may throw them off now. We
cannot then. We will all be in earnest then.
But no don then. No offer of salvation
then. No rescue then. Driven away in our
wickedness—banished, exiled forever!
03s
Why
tog X
doned, as it looks back upon its
“Oh,” says the soul, “I gl
baths! ere was one Sabbath in autumn
when I was invited to Chr There wasa
Sabbath morning when Jesus stood and
spread out His arms and invited me to His
holy heart, I refused Him. I have destroyed
i I have 10 ons aise jo blame. Ruf
col 038 unpitying, deep, eter-
at lost! Notwithstanding all the
opportunities I have had of being saved, I
am lost! Oh, Thon long Safering Lord God
Almighty, I am lost! Oh, day of judgment,”
‘IT am lost! Oh, father, mother, bi
sister, child in glory, I am lost!”
as the tide goes onl tor soul goes -out with
it—farther from God, farther from happi-
ness, and I hear your voices fainter and faint-
er, “Lost! Lost! Lost! Lost! Lost” O ye
dying, yet immortal men! ‘Seek the Lord
while He may be found.”
But I want yon to take the hint of the
text that I have no time to dwell on—the
hint that there is a time when He cannot be
found. There was a man in this city, eighty
years of age, who said to a clergyman who
came **Do you think that a man at
eighty years of age can get pardonsd?’ “Oa,
yes,” said the clergyman. The old man
said: _*‘I can’t; when I was twenty years of
age—I am now eighty years—the spirit of
God came to my soul, and I felt the im-
portance of attending to these things, but I
pas it off. I rejected God, and sincs then I
ave had no feeling.” "ell,” said the
minister, ‘‘wouldn’t * you "like to have ‘me
pray with you? “Yes” replied the old’
man, ‘‘but it will do no good. You can
pray: with me if you'like a.”
.The-minigter, knelt down and prayed, and
commended the man’s soul to . It
seemed to have no effect upon him, After
awhile the last hour of the man’s life came,
and throuzh his delirium a spark of intelli-
ence seemed to flash, and with his last
reath he said, ‘‘[ shall never be forgiven!”
“0 seek the l.ord while He may be found.
I re
Cheap Roads of Crushed Stone.
"It would be quite easy to have good
zoads, thinks D. A. Barker, if all would
do their part of the necessary work.
For three-fourths of the highways, or
for all except the main roads, the only
thing needed at first is to lay down a
out grading or any other labor. After
a road district has a roadbed like that,
the whole length, then the grading can
be attended to. Its an'easy matter to
“pt d'go uphill if the road be hard and smooth.
The town of' Bergen, in Genessee
County, N. Y., owns a large-size stone-
crusher, apd the Road Commissioner
says the whole cost to the town, where
the stone is donated, and the crushed
stone drawn hy the road districts, is
only about eighty cents per lineal rod.
The stone should be crushed fine, then
it will cement together, and where the
road is narrow lay the stofie on one side
of the centre, so as to have a dirt track
when the roads are dry. The best way
i three tracks; stone in the middle. —
New York Tribune.
PIT it, i
Suggestive Wedding Music.
I heard a young lady say the other
evening: f¢‘We're going to rehearse
sister's wedding to-night.” I under-
stand that this is generally done; but it
seems awfully theoretical to me and cal-
culated to rather take the bloom off the
whole affair. Speaking of weddings, I
do think that the musicians generally
engaged for the ceremony might use a
little more care in their selections. 1
attended a wedding the other night, and
after the ceremony, just as the bride-
groom: entered the buck parlor, the or-
chestra struch up that Hopperian gem,
‘‘An Elephant on His Hands.’ —Phila-
delphia Record. :
0 Se —— Es ————
Mr. L. H. Curzon estimates the hortes
at present ‘‘devoted to the service of
the turf,” including those in training,
sires, mares, foals and yearlings, at
0.000. i
cubic yard of finely crushed stone with-. |
———————
[SOLDIERS COLUMN.
AROUND PETERSBURG.
What the Men Endared in the Trenches
During the Summer of 1864.
These hot days
of June bring
back tomy memo
ry those days of
June, 28 years
ago, that found
us of the Army
of the Potomac
and James encir-
- cling Petersburg
and the very
w ))heart of the rebel-
{ ‘= dom (Richmond).
2 I well remember
landing at City
Point, May 22,
E1864, with eight
companies of my
we regiment and a
colored battery—the 5th U. 8. I think.
;Butler’s army: lay across the mouth of
‘| the Appomattox "River, at Bermuda
Hundred, Beauregard confronting us
from the Petersburg front, and we on
the constant lookout for a raid from his
forces which , were constantly
bushwhacking our pickets,
which were out about
a mile on the City Point and Peters-
burg road in ‘our front, and if it had
not been for our gunboats in the river
we ‘would have been gobbled up in
short order. '
And for fear of this gobbling up we
were one fine morning ordered out
with our Spencer carbines, dismounted,
marched out from camp beside the lit-
tle brick church, formed #n line, and
ordered to lay our carbine down and
given a pick and shovel,and also given
to understand that upon the faithful
work of this (cavalry) weapon our
salvation depended; and the result
was, by working day and night, two
hours on and two off; we soon had
thrown up the line of works-that run
from the James to the Appomattox
and from that time on We felt mors
secure from any sudden dash’: from
Beauregard. Canam
At the same time every man was or-
‘dered to go to sleep with ‘boots and
spurs on; and woe to the man that
thought more of his feét ‘than of the
orders, for if caught with his spurs
and boots off, had the pleasure of
standing with packed saddle on a bar-
| rel for a good share of the next day.
And then in the stillness of the night
one was suddenly roused by the bugle
blast of boots and saddles, and as ey-
ery one knows that means git up and
it.
g And so it was until June 15, when,
at 2 o'clock in the morning, boots and
saddles sounded, we were up and
mounted and off in a jiffy, to open
communications with the Tenth and
Eighteenth Corps at Point of Rocks.
I shall never forget that ride in the
stillness of the early morning. We
rode that four miles through the ene-
my’s country, 800 of us. © Just at day-
break the two corps crossed the Appo-
mattox, and threw out skirmishers for
the first day’s work that was to tighten
Grant’s grip on Lee, which finally
strangled him a year latter at Ap-
‘pomattox, and from that 'time on, for
10 long months, this battle-scarred
army gave and took, night and day,
covering 40 miles of front from right
to left ! : :
I well remember thote days of June,
July, and August, under fire night and
day; for the siege from Petersburg
never let up from tha time of invest-
ment until the day the lines were |
broken April 2, 1865, with several
hard battles sandwiched between. My
company went to the front with 100
men in May. and by the middle of
July was reduced to 40, such was the
duty required of us; on picket duty 48
hours at a time on the banks of the
Appomattox, on the right of the
Eighteenth Corps, and nut daring to
show our heads in the daytime, but
roasting in the rifle-pits, with the rebs
across the river only 200 yards, and
the fleas and graybacks all around and
over us; then, after 48 hours of such
life as this, relieved at 9 o'clock at
nigat, to-marcn back to camp two
miles, and get to sleep at 11 o'clock;
again up at sunrise; on stable: guard
for 24 hours: then one day in. camp,
‘and the same thing over.again,. Those
.were.the days that a man lived 10° days
iin ome. And this was. kept-up by us
until the latter part of August, when
we were ordered to Deep Bottom,
where we did videt duty until the
27th of September, when we advanced
on the outer line of the enemy's works,
known as the battle of Chapin's Bluff
which were taken and held. It was
behind these bluffs the Army of the
James lay during the winter of 1864-
65. I was stationed at First Division
Headquarters, Twenty-fifth Corps, as
mounted orderly, and Lad an op-
portunity in those days while lying in
winter quarters to observe a good
share of what was going on around the
different points of interest. Dutch
Gap Canal was just to the left of Fort
Brady, and I remember that the rebel
gunboats tossed a shell one night and
dismounted one of the two 1l-pound
Parrott guns with which the fort was
armed. } :
Dutch Gap was ever a point of in-
terest to us; for when we were off duty
we would take a ride down to it. and
if the Howlett House = battery
was quiet we could look
around; but if they were up
to their funny business our stay would
be short. . A shell once in a while
from the rebel gunboats in the James
was about all that disturbed us until
Grant started for the last act, and
then all was confusion until the morn-
ing of April 8, when at about 2 o'clock
in the morning it was disc ovored that
the rebels had withdrawn from our
front. Maj. Stevens, of the 4th Mass,
Cav., Acting Provost-Marshal of the
Twenty-fifth Corps,
about 60 men of Cos
started for Richmond, which wa enter-
ed as the rebs were crossing the river
into Manchester. In the meantime
Grand had broken Lee's ljnes, and this
was the beginning of the end.—J. A.
JossELYYN, in National Tribune.
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON FOR SUNDAY, JULY 31.
#¥John Before Council,” Acts iv., 1 18
Golden Text: Actsiv., 12
Commentary.
®
1. “And as they spake unto the people,
the priests and the captain of the ee.
and the Badducees came upon them.” Pater
was preaching to the people who came -to-
gether because of the healing of the lame
man, that Jesus whom they had crucified
was indeed the Christ, and that Goi had
borne witness fo the fact by raising Him
from the dead, and that therefore they
should receive Him, obtain forgiveness and
wait, for His return to restore ail things of
Thich the prophets have spoken (chapter iii.,
3. tn
2. ‘Being ‘grieved that they taught ths
people aid Pronchod through Jesus the resur-
rection irom the dead.” The Sadducees did
not believe in a resurrection (Math. xxii., 23,
Acts xxiii, 8), but observe here the expres-
sion **from the dead,” and compare Phil. iii.,
11, R. V. As the resurrection of Jesus and
‘those who rose with Him (Math. xxvii., 52,
58) was a resurrection of saints, only leavin
others still asleep as to their bodies, so shall
it beat His coming (I Thess. iv., 1¢-18; Rev.
xx., 5).
3. “And they laid hands on them, and put
them in hold unto the next day, for it was
now eventide.” Jesus hai told them that it
would be even so (John xv, 20: xvi, 2)
therefore it is probable that they were not
surprised at this treatment. Compare Jer.
xxxviii., 6: Heb. xi., 33, 37.
4. ‘‘Howbeit many of them which heard
the word believed, and the number of the
men was about five thousand.” Asit was,
s0 it will be in all this age; some believe aud
come believe not (Acts xxviii., 24), but His
word will accomplish His pleasure and God
will be glorified (Isa. lv., 12; II Cor. ii., 15,
16.) Fut this 5000 with the 3000 of ii., 41,
and consider the work of the Spirit as tore~
told in John xvi., 8. Notice that all these
converts were Jews. Where is ‘this power
to-day? 5 :
5-7. '‘And it came to pass on the morrow
that their rulers and elders and scribes,
when they had set’ them in the midst, they
asked, By what power or.by what name
have ye done this?" So aiso they asked Jesus
in Math. xxi.” ¥3, not thatéthey wanted
such power for thernse!ves, but they hated
ail that proceeded not trom themselves.
There are many such in the church to-day
who cannot tolerate anything that does not
originate with them; but it is well to re-
member that all that does not originate
with God shall come to naught.
8 9. “Then Peter, filled with the Holy
Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the
ple and elders of Israel.” Mark now the
(ulfillment of that great promisein Math.
x., 19, 20, and remember also such encour-
agements as Jer. i, 17, 19. Ezk ii, 6, 7.
Bee how a man filled with the Spirit fears
not the face of rulers or elders, even though
the man be one who had not long betors
basely denied his Master. 5
10. *‘Be it known unto you all, and to all
the people of lsrael, that by the name of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye cruci-
tied, whom God raised from the dead, even
by Him doth this man stand before you
whole.” Thisis the whole story briefly and
Jot in full; Jesus died, Jesus’ lives, Jesus
as all power to forgive sins and also to heal
bodies, and He is ready to manifest that
gore on behalf of those who are willing to
His faithful witnesses, for II Chron. xvi.,
9,is as true to-day asever,and I donot know
any hindrance to the manifestation of the
power, of Christ so t as our lack of faith
and consecration (Mal. ijii., 10; Eph. iii., 20).
11. “This is the stone which was set at
nought of you builders, which is become the
head of the corner.” Read here Gen. xlix.,
24; Ise. viii, 14; xxviii., 16; Ps. cxviii., 22;
Zech. iii.,, 9; iv, 7; 1 Pet. 1, 4-8 -and see
what a fruitful simile you have in this stone,
which so wondrously speaks of Christ. Fail
not to read also Dan. ii, 44, 45. And see
that you are in the Rock and drinking from
it (Ex. xxxiii., 22; Isa. xxvi., 4, margin; I
Cor. x., 4). )
12. ‘‘Neither is there salvation in any
other, for there is none other name under
heaven given among men wheraby we must:
te saved.” Other foundation can no man
lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ
(I Gor.-iii.; 11),;aud he who builds on aught
else is building on'thé sand. Israel's mistake
- was that, being ignorant of God's righteous-
ness, they sought to establish their own,
which was only filthy rags in God's sighs
(Rom. x, 3, 4; Isa. Ixiv,, 6; Math, vii.,, 24-
Nn.
13. “They toox knowledge of them that
they bad been with Jesus.” Like their mas-
ter they had not been taught in the schools;
they had not the wisdom of man, but they
had the power of God which nade itself
manifest in them. God uses the weak
things and reveals Himself to babes.
14. ‘And beholding the man which was
healed standing with them, they could say
nothing against it.” The power of Christ
manifest in us isthe strongest kind of preach-
ing, and when they saw it not only in the
apostles buv in this poor helpless beggar,
their mouths were shut. As was glori-
fied in these and in Paul, so He desires to be
in us (Gal. ii. 24; 1 Cor. vi, 19, 20).
15, 16. **W hat shall wé'do to these men,”
The apostles being sent aside that the coun-
; cil might conter together, wecan fancy how
in their hearts, atleast, it not yet aloud be-
cause of their ‘keepers, they rejoiced in
Christ: who had sg. honored them; and it
would not‘ be “strahge if they continued
preaching Jesus to thosa who had them ins
charge. As to the council they could not
deny the miracle, but they thouzht possibly
they might put a stop to any more such
manifestations. How they did love the poor
and the suffering ()) these lovely righteous
Reople, who have still so many followers.
hat will become of then (Matt, vii, 21-
23)?
17. ‘But that it spread no further among
the people, let us siraitly threaten them,
that they speak hencaforth to no man in this
name.” As well stand by a river and tell it
to stop flowing. Why "do the people im-
agine a vain thing ani the rulers take coun-
eel against the Lord? Heé $hat sitteth in
the Heavens shall lau zh, the Lord shall have
them in derision (Ps. ii., 1-4; Isa. viii, 9-10).
Whatever is of Gol cannot ve stopped, yet
there are many who fight against Him.
18. ‘And they called iy and com-
manded them not to-speak at all nor teach
in the name of Jesus.” And thess wera the
foremost religious people of the day with
the high priest of Israel at their head (verses
0); the priest whose lips saould keep knowl-
eage, and who ought to havo been the mes-
senger of the Lord of Hosts (Mal, ii, 7).
Let any one now preaca the whole truth
concirning Jesus and the resurraction as
. these apostles did and ha will not fail to find
prominent religious rulers wao will it possi-
le stop that kind of teacaing. Bat let all
faithful preachers and teachers eat (Ezak.
ii., 67) and “diminisn not a word’ (Jer.
xxvi., ¥).—Lz2sson Helper.
Blacksmiths Pull Teeth,
There is room apparently for a few
dentists at Kula; India. A corres-
pondent says that the surgeon-den-
tists there ara the village black-
smiths, and their forceps are tongs
two feet long. The difficulty with
these instruments is twofold, firstly
to get them into the sufferer’s mouth, |
| and secondly, to get them out again.
sthered together
BE and H and
Su
,#* HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
A NOVEL cREEFNG-ave. } :
A novel creeping-rug to be laid upon
the nursery floor when the baby starts
out for a crawl is made on a foundation
coarse Holland, bound with Turkey-red
cotton. ‘The rug, which is about tw
yards square, is scattered with :
either cut out of plush and velvet
appliued in place or worked with col-
ored wools 50 as to have raised effec
If worked with wool, the objects must
first be padded with wadding.” Deo
cats, mice, bees aud a bee-hive, balls anc
whips, fruits and flowers, and pictures
of little children may be used in
decoration.—New York Post. af
CLEANING BLACK SILK.
The Parisian method for cleaning black
silk is as follows: Thoroughly bi
and wipe with a cloth; then lay upon
skirtboard and sponge on the right side
with coffee that has been
through muslin, Iron on the wrong
side. The coffee removes every particle
of grease and restores the brillancy
silk without imparting to it either
shiny appearance or crackly or papery
stiffness obtained by beer or, indeed, any
other liquid. The silk really appears to
be thickened by the process, and
good effect is nent. Experiment
on a ribbon or cravat and be satisfied
that this is the best method for cleaning
gilk.— Detroit Free Press. Jae
CARE OF BROOMS.
Don’t hang your broom brush
uppermost, unless you want to spa
If the brush is the least bit damp,
moisture will work down into the bi
of the broom and make it musty, ¢
after a time will rot the threads all
I know thete is.a great fancy nows
for fastening the brooms on the 1
means of pails driven through spool
well as various broom-holders and si
devices, butit is all a mistake, as
may see by giving the subject a
thought. Hang up a wet broom in
way, and the water naturally soaks
the tying. Once wet, it would take daw
to dry it. Before it.could be thorough
dried, it gets wet again. en
The inside portion of the broom
fastened with wires. These bec
rusted and break away, and the
which fasten the outside get rotted,
some little blow breaks them loose
the broom is spoiled. h
ware store and buy a dozen large:
screw-eyes. Put one of these in the
of the handle of every broom in
house. Drive nails aad hang them
Before putting them up it is well to dip
them from about four or five inches
the length of the brush into hot water,
hang them up and let them dry thor
oughly before using. In this way i
brush dries straight, and the broom will
last’as long again as when treated in the
usual way. Late
These screw-eyes have varions uses,
and it is economy to buy them by th
.gross. The dusting brush, floor brus
—anything with a wooden handle—may
be hung up by means of them.
bread board, the ironing board, inde
every wooden utensil about the house,
shelf room and order much more easil
. ALMONDS, PEANUTS AND MAUAROONS.
Selted Almonds---A common way of
preparing the nuts is to blanch and dry
them, then put them in a new b
tin and allow one large tablespoontul of
butter for each pound of almonds. = Hef
them in a moderate oven, shake and
watch them until brown, drain off th
grease and sprinkle with satt. Keep
a cold place; servein fancy dishes.
Place on the table before the guests |
seated and pass several times.
Salted Almonds, Rule No. 2---
hot water over them, blanch and
dry, put them in a wire basket, ha
kettle of hot olive oil, smoking hot,
the wire basket in the oil for a momei
and out again, Sprinkle the-almon
with salt and put them in a cool plac
until they are ready fo serve. Io
Salted Peanuts---These are much used
and preferred by some to salted almonds.
Get the uncooked peanuts, shell, pt
them on a tinin the oven to dry, then
rub off the brown skin and put them
a baking tin with two tablespoonfuls
olive oil tor every quart of nats. Set
them on top of a hot stove, shaking and
stirring them all the time uatil they are
a rich brown---take up on a skimmer and
drain. Sprinkle with salt and cool.
Mrs. Rorer’s Rule for Cocoanut Mi
roons—DBeat the whites of five eggs
until light not stiff, then add by degr
one pound of powdered sugar, a te:
spoonful of rosewater, and half a n
of shredded cocoanut, mix carefully an
thoroughly together and dip by te
spoonfuls on greased paper, leaving
space between each. Bake in a mbt
. erate oven uatil light brown. They
should be first dusted with powdered
sugar.
Hickory, Nut Macaroons — Craclé
en ough hickory nuts to have a cupful
of meat, pound fine; make a frosting
of the whites of eggs beaten to a 8
froth, add fine sugar enough to sw
stir in the nuts, butter the hands"
make into balls the size of large hicko:
nuts, place on oiled paper in a drippin
pan far enough apart so they will ni
touch each other when they spread
Almond Macaroons.—One - pound of
almonds, shell and blanch; after pe
put in the oven a few minutes to
pound in clean mortar, pour out and mix
with fine sugar, one and a-half pou
beat the whites of nine eggs a little
mix with the nuts, beat well together
too thin add more sugar, flavor.
with a spoon on sheets of foolscap p
leaving a space between. Buke in
oven about twenty minutes.
try to remove them from the pa