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ED. 3 kinds of | ‘Sea Foam" 0 handle ught in oar Store in “Wind that in the trees doth blow . _dealof trouble, permission to follow the : : hin ‘when ae-| | wearing the hated 7 Gently omongunty Bor ‘With a sweet seductive sighing, ~~ l \Sing a lullaby you know, ah “River, as you onward flow : a ling songs of no man’s making, "Lnt me ever seawards go A ne hnett of sad awaking, Sm Be z -, Sr 2 i ~Irene Noble, in Good Words; - IN THE DEFILE, EIS m——— Gr N ‘adventure which 1 shall never forget oc- curred during the éam- paign of Bosnia and ~~ Herzegovina, in 1877- + 78. 1 was very young then, and consequently * full of enthusiasm and : exaggerated ideas of the ‘‘duty of woman.” When the regiment of which my husbindwas colonel . received its 0 + marching orders, the ‘the lieutenant-colonel, Count X., myself obtained, not without a good ol iy “4 3 ent to the field of war. We argued , protected by the Red Cross badge of the ‘‘Convention de Geneve,” we. would really run no danger, and. that as vations were concerned we did ‘mind that one bit. This extrordinary , coming from two spoiled like ourselves, who had been 3p; in the very lap of luxur “who had not the a what, iprivations ‘really meant, caused Pa ‘our friends to smile at our mmplicity. But as, after all, we ‘were in perfeet Jealth and firmly resolved -to gain our Re ‘Our first week of *‘campaigning” were devoted. to nursing the sick and tending theiwounded. © In spite of all that may be said to the contrary: by idealists, it is not a pleasant task, and many a time have I cried very bitter tears at the sight of some rong young soldier crippled for life by the bullets of the enemy. Habit, however, is the great master, and with time I became Bo well used to life in tunate planet has been oftener ravaged, no land oftener soaked with the blood ‘of its inhabitants than the portion of the Balkan Peninsula which our troops were occupying. Everything around us had been: desolated by fire and bloodshed as sevdrely a8 during the first: invasions of the barbarians, hundreds of yearsbefore. Very grand, but very dreary and sad, was the landscape with its wonderful de- files, its high mountains enclosing rush- ing streams. The sandstone rocks, worn by erosion into fantastic forms worthy of Gustave Dore, took in the twilight the: apes of huge «dragons, lions og, other equally terriffic looking objects. ~ Then came great deserted plains with here and “there cottages built of clay on’a founda- tion of dry stones and covered with ieces of wood, from which ‘the inhab- tants had fled in terror. It wae difficult #o procure food for the army. The cul- | ture is always poor in this wild land, and now everything hiad been pillaged. i For the first time in my life I knew what hunger meant. In after years an experience of that kind makes one feel wery charitably inclined toward the un- fortunates who claim one's mercy on the plea of starvation. Strange as it may appear, 1 had never felt better in my life than during these months of ' priva- tion and fatigue. Many a time after being a whole day in the saddle I slept on the bare ground with nothing to pro- tect me from the sharp night air but a rough military cloak or a horse blanket, and slept far better than under the vel- vet and lace canopy of my soft bed at home, =... Res ae Just in the same manner did I relish a crust of soldier's hard bread and a mess of more than questionable soup eaten.be- side the bivouac fires with a ravenous hunger as appetizer. Everybody was so courteous and considerate. These un- educated men of our regimect, har lened by the adventurous life of soldiers in active service, were always ready to give up their own séant comforts in order to add to mine, had I been disposed to al- low them to-do-so, As it- was; ‘I had many a hard fight with my patients 10 the ambulance, so auxious were they to share with me the thin beef-tea, or sip ‘of wine which it was so difficult to pro- cure for them. But enough of this, or. my reminiscences will carry mé ‘so far, that T shall never come to the adventure which I am about to relate. 2 ' It happened shortly after the defeat of the Bosnians by our forces, between Zepce and Maglai. Our brigade was camping at the foot of some high and precipitous cliffs some miles from Zepce, ou regiment being separated froin the army corps by a superb defile of steep rocks.’ It'was' the most romantic’ site imaginable, 'plentifully ‘wooged with. onks, beeches and elms; but the very nacrow:road winding between the cliffs | was gruesome in the extreme in its lone- liness and awe-inspiring grandeur, - had ridden over from tance of ten miles or so, de of the defile, where visiting het uncle, the f the brigade; It ard dusk when 1'ordered th a view to riding back 30 fore night. T zefused © Reena most kindly , far I knew that I di Sk Be- -. |} dispatches.” | termined to ride back to camp alone, the - unharmed through the defile than any still by an iron grip, and'I myself felt _—_—— , capier, when the dear old gentleman, putting his hand on the pommel of my saddle and coming close to me, whis- pered, Take care, my child, It would never do for you tobe caught carrying I laughed gayly to reas- sure him, but nevertheless I knew full well how true his words were, for, in- deed, it would very likely mean death to me. The fact was, that seeing me de- general, who felt certain that a woman protectzd by the ‘‘brassard” of the Red Cross stood a better chance of passing member of his staff, had intrusted to me a dispatch of the utmost importance. It was written in cipher on a tiny scrap of flimsy paper, and rolling it tightly, I had inserted it in the woodcock quill which was so jauntly stuck in the band of my military eap. 2 As I rode along in the gathering gloom, T glanced once or twice at the two revolvers in my holsters with a feel- ing of confidence, for I was a neat shot and I knew that I was perfectly capable. of defending myself if attacked. = The trouble, however, was that those terrible -Monténegrins, lay in hiding behind jut- ting rocks, and that their mode of pro- cedure consisted in shooting the un- suspecting. travelers who _ ventured through the mouutain passes like so nany rabbits in a warren, or sometimes’ in swiftly pouncing upon them from: theif*places of concealment and making them prisoners before they had time to defend themselves, - i ; ~The road was frightfully rough and. uneven, for it was nothing else than the dried-up bed of a mountain torrent, full ‘of sharp stones and bits of yellow quartz. I picked .my way carefully in the fast de- creasing evening light, much to the dis- gust of my fretful young horse, who curvetted from side to side in a most un- comfortable manner. Fortunately, as I reached the beginning of the defile, the moon, like a huge silver lamp, rose from behind the mountains, lighting up the path with dazzling brilliancy, but leay-' ing the steep rock walls and densely wooded precipitous slopes on both sides: in inky darkness. : The road was less difficult now, but I could not take avail of this favorable cireumstance to give my impatient horse his head, for I realized that should any Montenegrins be lying in wait behind these dark ramparts any- thing like flight en my part would surely hasten my fate. ; : I had reached the middle of the pass, which, was very narrow at that point,and I was beginning to think that nothing was likely to happen to me after all, when, without the slightest warning, four gigantic figures rushed upon me, two from each side of the pass, and be- fore I could even dream of seizing my revolvers Dare Devil had been brought { to a'sudden and most disagreeable stand- that both my hands were being dexter- ously tied behind my back. This was shame; indeed, for so brave a little soldier in petticoats as Ifondly imagined ‘myself 5 be, and at the consciousness of the-indignity to which I was being sub- jected all my courage revived. Luckily I spoke havea dozen dialects of this part of the world well enough to make my- self understood, = i : “What do you mean by making a wo- man * prisoner?™ cried I. Then, as it flash n me that my address was hardly of a ‘conciliatory nature, I added more gently: ¢‘Since when have the brave sons of Montenegro sunk so low as to go to war with girls?” The moon shone so brightly that Icould see a smile flicker on the superbly handsome bronzed features of the huge fellow who was holding on to Dare Devil's bridle. “We do not wish to harm you,” he replied very softly, ‘provided you mean no tricks.” ¢«Tricks!” exclaimed I indignantly. “Pine tricks I am able to play when you have begun by putting me ‘hors de combat.” Shame on you! Don’t you see the Red Cross on my arm¢ I am—" Here I slightly hesitated. ‘I am a sort of Sister of Mercy—do you understand? And many are the men of your race ‘whom I have nursed back to health du- ring the last few months.” «We know it well, and also that you are Princess F., wife of the commander of these White Lancers, down yonder. We are not ungrateful for what youve ha done, and if you are ready to swear that you are carrying ‘no dispatches we will take your word for it and let you go free; otherwise,” continued the man, who seemed, judging by his gorgeous costume, to be a chief, ‘we will make you prisoner in good earnest, and—"' he finished his sentence with a gesture by no means reassuring. : ‘This was a pretty mess, forsooth! I collected ny wits as best I could, and, glaring furiously at him, Ireplied, draw- ing myself upso far as my pinnioned arms would allow me to do: *‘I refuse to answer your impudent question. If you think that I am a likely object to be entrusted with dispatches, execute your ‘threats, make me a prisoner; it will be an easy job and a glorious victory!" —— this was ‘a derisive laugh,” ¢‘SBearch .mel kill me! if so be your pleasure, but pray put anend to this disgraceful scene.” : z ; * A queer little creature I' must have’ looked on my struggling steed; with my scarlet kilt, spurred boots, white dolman and dashing military cap, through which ‘the ominous ‘woodcock’ ‘quill seemed to burn a hole into my thick efop of short curls! My captors: looked at me for a moment, then at each other. They were a long time making up their mind—at least it "appeared #0 to me. Finally, at a sign from my interlocutor, one of them untied my hunds, © ‘You are right, Princess, we do not fight women,” said he, baring his head, “sand especially not I ] selves. This pass is not safe, as you . | have had reason to find out to your cost, ‘unfinished, much and we ‘shall accompany you until you gre. within hearing of ‘your sentries, but: believe ‘me, do not tempt Providence sk | thos again.” As he said this, the hand, some chief let go of Dare Devil's bridle, a circumstance of which this well-named animal immediately availed himself by bolting with lightning rapidity. It was no easy task to rein him in, but I did so, away. In silence we proceeded on our way, my stalwart bodyguards keeping pace with me all the time, At the end of the pass, which we reached some twenty minutes later, the camp fires be- came discernible, glittering like over. grown glow-worms on the dark plain. I stopped my horse, and, beckoning ta the chief, I said, not without emotion ‘You have been very generous, Ishal not forget it. Pray accept this as a lit tle token of my gratitude,’ and I hand: ed him my two revolvers, which were jewels of their kind. With a bow worthy of a throne-room, the young man thrusi already with weapons of the most forbid: ding aspect, then pressing most defere tially to his lips the hand I extended t¢ him, he turned on his heel and followed by his imperturable subordinates, hi; vanished as he had come in the dark: ness. . Within a very few minutes I answered the sentry’s challenge, and rode at a hand: gallop into camp. € have analyzed my somewhat mingled feelings, but until the edd of the cam: paign I repaid the wounded Montene: grins who fell in our hands by extra care and extra devotion for the chivalrous | conduct’ of the unknown chief who had proved to me a friend indeed, as well as a friend in need. = : 2 Two years later I was staying with my husband at the house of the Austrian En.’ voy at Cettinje. On the eve of my de. parture, a great dinner, to ‘which sev eral Montenegrin dignitaries were invited, was given in our honor. Shortly be fore ‘we entered thé dining-room, 2 tall and remarkably handsome Montene- grin’ iahde his entrance into the draw- room. Where I had seen this superb specimen of manhood? These at dark-blue eyes, fringed with abnormally long lashes? This firmly chiseled chin? ‘This beautifully curved mouth, shaded by a long, silky mustache? Suddenly } remembered my captor of the C— Pass. On the impulse of the moment] started to. my feet, and, much to the amazement of my hosts, I rushed up tc the hero of my adventure, and, extend. ing both hands to him, I exclaimed: *‘How happy I am to see you—" ¢ A puzzled expression on his face urged me to add, stupidly: td “Surely yon: cannot have forgotton mel” hanna 23) SOU ¢No, I have not,” said he, while : decided blush fell over his dark skin, ‘but remember, Prinogss, thaf when I last saw you you were a little soldier, while now—"; Hil) nob remained to, my satisfaction. There: was, a shightlf wibward ‘pause, and then, pointing tof the silken, pearl: studded belt which’ encircled his siim waist, he showed me my two little jeweled revolvers. Laat . I have worn them ever since,” said he, ‘in "TemiembragCe)-—New .Xorh eA Avs miiat 02 Tribune. .* =A Trick to Gét a Horse. ~The Confederate cavalrymianiwas often puzzled as to how to provide himself with a horse. The authorities gave him the choice to keep mounted .-or go intg not furnished by the Government. To be dismounted and become-a foot soldie and he would risk much in his efforts to get a horse from the enemy. In the fall of 1863, a Confederate cavalryman had his horse killed in skirmigh near Warrenton, Va., and a his best chance was then to capture one from the enemy he put his wits to work to devise the ways and means. He wa with the outside pickets,;and not far off, on the pike, were the cavalry pickets oi graph wire from the railroad. and when twilight came on stretched this across the road, fastening one end to the fence and the other'end to a convenient “tree just high enough to catch a cavalryman about the belt. When: matters were thus arranged to his liking, he started down the pike, and stopped in plain view of the enemy. : It was not long before three of them gave chase mounted on good horses. It was now too dark for them ‘ to" see ‘the wires, and on they came, determined to have a prisoner. The chase was sharp, and quickly over, se that by the time the schemer had passed through,and uu. der his trap, the enemy was upon him. The sequel is not hard to guess. ‘Tw of the pursuers were quickly utahorsed, ‘the third being so much. astonished and frightened ‘at their fate as to turn and beat 8 hasty retreat. The two, horses, without thelr riders; continued dows thé road, and were easily captured by the Confedérate;, who, by his ‘clever ruse, became their owner, and kept his place in the cavalry. 7 Si ls comrades as crestfallen: and. ‘astonished as two men could well’ be. The hero o this incident tells the tale ‘himself, and: ‘adds that he rode one of these’ horsés ta Appromattox, and from there to hi home, and. that it ‘was one of the best he ever owned. —Washiagton Poste The Cave of Spiders. [The ‘ice cave,” the . ‘blue grottoes’ and other natural freaks of that ilk an completely laid:in the shade by the Colo rado *‘Cave ofSpiders,’ e d of immense size, : Fhe athe ci Gre REV DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON ‘THERE IS A PLACE “¥OR ALL. Stone not wishing to look as if I meant to ran | to Him from the them in his broad belt, which bristled | = {>the first and the last.” Or, if words of the text, ‘above all. Ib Meni; “ @hrist would have to spread its wings and “descend a thousand 1 i I could not easily |g -éndless shanges on a few phrases. There are { work, in your Sabbath | ferent words for dramatic pur the rinks with his musket, as horses were | was worse to him than a court martial, | .ing. And let me say to young men who are the enemy. He procured a piece of tele. | . their fire, and proiucing revolutions with .Grandest resurrectibn: for darkést sepulcher.. The two pickets left 5 themselves, | a) hurriedly made their way back to thei: | cles, His J ¥ “blood, pee His intercession, what sboynd.” rally swarm with spiders of a etirions spe | 22 found The Sunday Sermon as Delivered by the Brooklyn Divine. TexT: “He that cometh m above {i all."—John iii., 81. I ' The most conspicuous character of i out upon the platform. - The finger ch, diamonded wi fight, Pointed down ratification of the Singer of proph the vo five fing climaxes, the fom a d- eur and the peroration of all pri wi The Greek alphabet is made up of twenty- four dopters, and when C Himself to the first letter and the last letter, the alpha avd the He riated omega, appr ) splendors that or ‘can 1 out either with those two letters and letters between them. - ‘I am the Alpha and the Om the beginning and the end, you prefer the after you have piled up all Al malayan altitudes, the’ ry of es to touch those 3 high mountain; but mythology tells us: when the giants warred against the gods they piled up these three. mountains, and rom the top of them proposed to scale the heavens; but the height was ‘not great snough’and there was: a complete: failure, And ae all the a ee Pau) rophetic and apostolic giants; an johael Angelo, pire pri “ cherubim and seraphim and’ y estial iants—have failed to climb to the top of Enrist's glorg: they might all well unite in the words the text and say, ‘‘Hé that cometh from above isaboveall.” First, Christ must be above all else in our reaching. There are so many books on omiletics scattered through the world that all laymen, as well as all clergymen, have made up their minds what sermons ought to . That sermon is most effec “which most pointedly puts forth Christ as the pardon of all sin and the correction of all evil, individnal, social, political, National. There is no reason why we should ring the those who t! that if an exhortation or a discourse have frequent mention of justifi- cation, sanctification, covenant of works and covenant of grace, that therefore it must be profoundly evangelical, while they are suspicious of a discourse which presents the same truth, but ander different phrase dlogy. 2 ow, I say there is nothing in all the opu- lent realm of Anglo-Saxonism or ail the - word treasurers that we inherited from the Latin and the Greek and the Indo-European but we have a right to marshal it in relig- s discussion. Christ sets the example. His illustrations were from the grass, the flowers, the spittle, the salve, the barnyard fowl, the cry: of salt; as well as from the seas and the stars, and we do not propose in sur Sabbath-school teaching and in our pul- pit address to be put on the limits. I know that there is a great deal said in sur day against'words, as though ghey were ‘nothing. They may be inisused, :'but they have an imperial, power... They are. the bridge between soul and soul, bstweén Al- mighty Godand the human race. Whag did God write upon the tables of stones? Wi or What did Christ utfer on Mount Oliyer? Words. * Out of what did Christ ‘strike fhe spark for the illumination of the universe? ut of words. “Let there be light,” and light was, Of course thought is the cargo ‘and words are only the ship; but how fast would your cargo get on without the fo 4 v _. What you need, my friends, .in all your’ schaol in your reformatory instituticns, and what we all need is to enlarge our vocabulary when we come to speak about God and Christ and heaven: We ride a féw old words to death when there is :such illimitable resource. Shakespeare employed fifteen thousand dif- Milton employed eight thousand different words for, poetic purposes, Rufus Choate employed over eleven:thousand different words tor legal purposes, but the most of us have less than a thousand words that we can manage, less than five hnndred, and that makes us so stupid. When we coms to set forth the love of Christ we are going to take the tenderest hraseology wherever we find it, and if it Pas never been used in that direction before, ak the more shall we use it. When we come to speak of the glory of Christ, the Conquer- or, we are going to draw our similes Irom triumphal arch and oratorio and everything and and stupendous. The French navy ' have eighteen by which they give sig- nal; but those eighteen flags they can put “into sixty-six thousand different combina- tions, . And I have to tell you that these standards of the cross may be lifted intc combinations infinite and varieties everlast- after awhile going to preach Jesus Christ you will have the largest liberty and un- limited resource. Youonly have to present Christ in your own way. a. Jonathan Eiwards preached Christ in the | severest argument ever penned, and John | Bunyan preached Christ in the sublimest allegory ‘ever composed. “Edward Payson, sick .exhausted, leaned mp azainst tie side of the pulpit and wept out his discourse, While George Whitefield, with the manner, and the voice, and the start of an actor, overwhelmed his auditory. It would have ! been a different thing if Jonathan Eiwards had tried-to write and dream about the pil- progress to the celestial city or John nyan had attempted an essay on the homan Brighter than the light, fresher than the fountains, deeper than ths seas are all these Gospel themes. Song has no melody, flowers | have no sweetness, sunset sky compared with these glorious themes, These harvests of grace spring up quicker than we can sickle them. - Kindling 'pulpits with has no colo! their power, lighting up dying beds with their glory, they are the sweetest thought ‘for the poet, and they are the most thrilling. illustration for the orator, and they offer ‘the most intense scens for the artist, and they are to the'embassador of the sky all en- thusiasm. Complete pardon for d : guilt. Bweetest comfort for ghastliest my. Brightest hope for grimmest death, el to preach! Christ over. His h, His suifering; His mira- ables, His sweat, His tears, His glorious: themes? Do we exercise faith? Christ as.its object.. Do we have love? It’ fastens on Jesus. Have we a fondness for . e church? It is because Christ died for it. ve we a hope of heaven? It is use Jesus went'ahead, the herald and the fore runner. % -The royalrobe of Demetrius was so cost- ly, so beautiful, that aftar he” had put it off rl eat ou, but this reboot er . wanest and the worst yin abounded grace **Oh, my sips, my sins” sai % Sta oa rh oy as? { © Drawn man dent Latin Bible tha og + 1 Bad made Hin and nothing else e make him and when he found . how, ‘saved over 6 brighter unto the perfect day; and after, under the hard hoofs of calamity, all the pools of worldly enjoyment have been trampled into deep mire, at the foot of the eternal rock the Christian, from cups of granite, lily rimmed and vine covered, puts out the thirst of his soul. Again, I remark that Christ is abova all in dying alleviations. Ihave notany sym- pathy with the morbidity abroad about our ‘demise. The Emperor of Constantinople 1 arranged that on the day of his coronation the stonemason should come and consult him about his tombstons that after awhile he would need. And there are men who ars monomaniacal on the subject of departure from this life by death, and the more they think of it the less they are prepared to go. This isan unmanliness not worthy of you, uot warthe of ma. Saladin, the greatest conqueror of his day, while dying, ordered the tunic he had on him to be carried after his death on a spear at the head of hisarmy, and then the soldier, ever and anon, should stop and say: *Behold; all that is left of Saladin, the Emperor and conqueror. Of all the States he conquered, of all'the wealth he accumu- lated, nothing did he retain but this ‘shroud.,” I have no Sympathy with such behavior or such absurb demonstration or with much that we: hear uttered in regard to departure from this life to the next. 1 nere is a commonsensical idea on this subject that you and I nead to consider—that there are only two styles of departure. ; A thousand feet underground, by light of torch, toiling in & miner’s shatt a ledge of rock may f upon us, and we may die a miners death. Far out to sea, falling from the slippery ratlines and broken on the hate yards, we may die a sailor's death. mission of mercy in hospital, amid brok ‘bones and leprosies. and i { fever, we may die a philanthrooist’s death. On the field of battle, serving: God and our country, the gun carriage may. roll over us and we may die a patriot’s death. But, after all, there are only two styles of de- o parture; the death of the righteous and the death of the wicked, and we all want to die the former. rn ast *. God grant that when that hour comes you may be at home! You waut the hand of. your kindred in your hand. You want your children to surround you. You! want the light on your pillow from eyes that have long reflected your love. ou want the room still. You do not want any curious strangers standing around watching you. You want your kindred from afar to Loe Jour last prayer. I think that is the wish f all of us, Butis that ali? Can earth] friends hold us when the billows of poe 4 come up to the girdle? Can human voice tharm open heaven's te? Can human hands pilot us through the narrows of death into heaven's harbor? Can an earthly Iriendship shield us from the arrows of leath ‘and in the hour when satan shall 80, no, no! Alas! poor soul, if that is all. - shadow and from fountain, alone, vultures tircling through the air waiting for: our body, unknown to men, and to have no ourial, if only Christ could say ‘through the olicudes, “lL. will never leave thee 1 will sever forsake thee.” From that pillow of tone a ladder would soar “eavenward, wngels coming and going; and across the wlitude and the barrenness would come the weet notes of heavenly minstrelsy. . ‘Toward the last hour’ of onr earthly resi- lence we are speeding. . When I see the sun- et I say. ‘One day less to live.” When I ee the spring blossoms scattered I say, “An- sther season gone forever.” When I close this Bible on'Sabbath night I say, *Aucther Sabbath departed.” hen'I bury a friend . ‘say, ‘Another earthly attraction gone for- ver.” What - nimble: feét thd years have! ’ [he roebucks and the lizhtnings run not ‘so From: decade to decade, from sky to. ky they goata bound. . Seana ‘There is a place for ‘us, ‘whetner marked ir not, where you and I will sleep ‘the last leep, and the men are now living who will: vith solemn tri : us to our resting dace, Aye; itis known in heaven whether wir departure will be a coronation or a ban- sbment, Brighter than a banqueting hall iarough which the light feet of tne dancers ° 0 wp. and down to the sound of trumpeters will be the sepulchre through whose rifts he holy light of heaven streameth. God vill watch you. He will send His angels to. fuard your slumbering ground until at christ's bs they shall roll away the tone. So also Christ is above all in heaven. [he Bible distinctly says that Christ is the shief theme of the celestial ascription, all ‘he thrones facing His throne, all the palms waved before His face, all the crowns down 1: His feet. Cherubim to cherubim, sera- shim to seraphim, redeemed spirit to re- 'ieemed spirit shall recite the Saviour's rarthly sacrifice. / Stand on some high hill of heaven and in ull the radiant sweep the most glorious ob- ject will be Jesus. Mpyriads gazing on the icars of His suffering, in silence first, yfterward breaking fortn into acclamation. Ibe martyrs, all the purer for the flame shrough which ‘they passed, will say, “This 8 Jesus, for whom we died.” The apostles, sll the happier for the shipwreck and the icourzing through which they went, will say. “This. is the Jesus wnon Wwe preacaeu it Corinth, and at Cappadocia, and at | Antioch, and at Jerusalem.” Little children siad in white will say, “This is the Jesus who took us in His arms and blessed us, and when the storms of the world were too cold and loud brought us into this beautiful ace.” The multitudes of ths berett will say, ‘This is the Jesus who comforted us’ when: our hearts broke.” Many wno had wandered clear off from God and plunged . into vagabondism, but saved by grace, will say: “This is the Jesus who pardoned us. We were guilty and He made us white us snow.” Mercy bounaiess, grace unparalleled. And then, after each one has. recited his peculiar deliverances and uliar mercies, recited them as by sole, all the voicas will come to- reverberation of umph. : Edward Iwas soanxiousto go to the Holy Land that when he was about to ex- ire he bequeathed $160,000 to have his eart, ‘his decease, taken to. the Holy Land in Asia Minor, and his request was complied with. But there are huadreds to- day whose hearis ars already in the holy land of heaven. Where your treasures are there are Jour hearts also, John Buayan, of whom I spoke atthe opening of the dis- course, caught a glimpse of that place, and in his quaint way he said: = ‘“‘And I heard in my andlo! the bells of the city rang again for joy, and as they opened the gates to let in the men I looked in after them, and. lo! the city shone like the sun, and there were streets of 1d, and men walked on them, harps in their hands, to sing praiges with all, and after that they shut up the gates, which when I'had seen I wished my gladness and pesca and tri- THE moment you make a sin pay well you make it better looking. CHARACTER is what a man is when | he thinks nobody is watching him. race St. desolate Patmos heard the blast of the a yptic trumpets. Af- ter all other can have been snuffed out, this is the that gets brighter and practice upon us his infernal archery? “No, Bett3r diein the wilderness, far from tree gether in a great chorus. which shall make * ‘the arches echo and re-echo with the eternal | .j His gracious invitations SUNDAY SCHOOL: | LESSON FOR SUNDAY, AUGUST 7. “The Apostle’s Confidence,” Actsiv., 19 81. Golden Text: Acts iv., 31. Commentary. 19. “But Peter and Joan answered and said unto them, whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you morethan unto God, judge ye.” Remember that these are two Galilean fishermen, unlearned aud ignorant men (verse 13), standing in the Presence of the greatest dignitaries of the ews’ religion, even in the presence of at least two of the very mien who had Jesus put to death (verse 6), but they have no fear. They are like the friends of Daniel in the presence of the king of - Babylon and see only one thing to do (Dan. iii.,, 16-18), and are ready to do it. The presence.of Jesus is more to-them than the sence of any or all of these men, and -by His grace they will do right in His sight. Bor 20. “For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.” When Jeremiah was reproached for the Word of God he said hasuly that he would speak it no more, but it was a fire in his bones, and he could not keep quiet (Jer. xx., 8,9). So it was with these men and .with. Paul (I Johni., 1-8; Acts xxii. 15). If then we can easily keep yuiet, the question is “have we seen in Jesus nothing worth mentioning? “If: £0, how different from that man of Gad who published through the whole city - how grear things Jesus had done unto him ("uke viii., 3). 21. “to when they had further threatened then they let them go, fin ting nothing how they might punish thew, because of the peo ple—-for ‘all men glorified God for: that which was done.” How often the people are ready to believe but are kept back by the rulers, There would be-many more be: lievers in a full. Gospel to-dav if they were | rot kept back by the blindness and false teachings of many preachers. As in Jer- emiab’s day the proohets lied in the napie of the Lord and perverted His words, so it is now (Jer. xxin.,” 16, 21, 25, 6). And like those rulers they would fain saut up these: who speak the'whole {ruta - =. oT 22. “For the man was above forty oars 32 old on whom this mirac'e o: healing was shewed.” Jesus healed people who had been sffiicted tweive, eighteen and thirty-eight years (Luke viil.; 43; xiii., 16; J but this notable case He lett for Peter and John; a handful on purpose for these glean ers in His field (Ruth:ii., 16). ‘There is noth. ing toe hard for the Lord (Jer: xxxii, 19, and when, We meet. a special difficulty let ns. gee in it a great opportutity for God to work and glorify Himself. a : 23, ‘And being let'go they ‘went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priest 22:0. 8lders had said unto them.” They knew just where to. find their friends, and without hesitation they seek those who were gathered.in Jesusfs name,and who were perhaps praying for the prisoners. Think | of Jesusat the age of twelve, not found with the other boys, but with ‘the learned men in’ the temple,’ and ‘probably asking sorne wonderful quastions (Luke ii., 46). 24. “And when they heard that ther lifted up their voice to God with one accord and said, Lord, Thou art God, which hast made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that in them'is,” They think at once .of their grect and faithful Creator to whom Peterii: one of his: epistles teaches us to commit our souls (I Peter iv., 1%. Compare Isa: xxxvil., 16: xl, 26; xii, 5, 6; Jer, “X3xil, 17 They. evidently believed thas their4iod had power to do as He pleased both-in heaven-and om earth.(Dan iv.,: 35). 25. ‘Who by the mouth .ot thy. servant -David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and .the people imagine. vain things?. , Ob. serve that it wi mouth but 4 , was : Davids. not David's™* Yeokdr, “rhe words were the woérds of God. Compare Ex. iv., 125-11 Bam. xxiii, 2: Jer. i, 9; John xii. 49, and be foolish enough in the eyes of earth’s wise mien: to believe in verbal ine spiration. i : > “26. “The kings of the earth stood up and ‘the rulers were gathered together aghinst the Lord and* against His Christ" in the third verse of this second ‘psalm from: which we are yuoting how He that sitteth in the heavens laughs at all man’s vain and puny efforts against Him»: Ustnpare Isa. eli. 9,10; xxxvil, 33-35; Ex. xiv. 3L When will men learn that all thoughts against. God are vain thoughts and must perish? Surely it is very evident. '‘the carnal mind is enmity against God” (Rom vii, 6). 27. “For a truth against Thy holy child, Jesus, whom Thou hast anointed, both Heroa and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people 0: Israel, were gathered together.’ There was a tuldllment of part of Ps. ii. in ihe treatment of Jesus by Jews and Gentiies at His crucifixion. = So surely shall verse 6 be tulfilled when Jesus shall sit on David's throne at ‘Jerusalem (Luke i., 32, 331 ané verses § 0 shall also be fulfilled when He comes in glory, bringing all His saints with Him ‘Rev ii. 26, 27). 28. ‘*For to do whatsoever Thy hand and Thy counsel determined before to be done.” “God declares the end from the beginning, and from ancient times ths things that.are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure’ (Isa, xlvi,, 10). And yet men are ires tc accept or refu-e of mercy (John v,; 40; Luke xiv., 18; Johniii., 16), Ts i] as Christ suffered, to surely shal) He reign, dui only such as surfer w. h Him shall rei vi Him AIWim 1, 1). 8 Telgn Tia 29. “And now, Lord, behold their threat enings, and grant unto Thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak Thy word? Itis the Word of the Lord that shall do .the work, for it is the samo word that made ths neavons (Ps. xxxiii,, ¢}. The Word of God in the power of tac Spirit is the Fire and Hammer that breaks the rock ohnyv.,35), 4 5 in pieces (Jer. xxiii.; 9). As to all threat © ening words or letfers, we hava ounly-to say, Lord, behold them! Just spread thom be- fore Him, and let Him see toit (Isa. xxxvii., 14: Ps. xxxvii ., 5). a 3 ’ 30. "By swretcaing forth Thine hand ta beal; and that signs and wonders ‘may be done by the name ot Thy Holy. Child Jesus.” They remembered His promise concerning signs and wonders in Mari-xvi,, 17, 18." © © 31. place was shaken where thoy were assembl tozether, ani they ‘were ail tilled with the “And when, they had. prayed, ‘the - Holy: Guost, and’ they spake the 'worlzat “. God with boldness.” » An immediate answer . . 10 their prayer, as in the cass of Daniel add =~ Elijah (Dan. dx. 21; 1 Kings xviii, 37,38). - The topic upon .svaich they spake is given Jn verse 33, and makes us long to know His sufferings (Phil, iii.," 10). Yet tremble | not at’ the thought, for the glory will far exceed the sufferings (Rom. vill. 18), and where His Jove leadeth we surely cannot fear to follow. —ILasson Helper. } ; It Couldn't Hurt Him. A bishop was traveling in a min- y “Him and the power of His resurrection, but’ it cannot be apart from the fellowship of . ing country and ‘encountered an old _ - man turning a windlass which hauled up ore out of a shaft. It was his. work to do this all day long. His hat was off and the sun poured down on his unprotected head. “Don’t you know the sun will injure your brain if you expose it iu that manner?* said the good man. The laborer wiped the sweat off his forehead and looked .at the clergyman. “Da you think I'd be doin’ this all day if I bad any brains?” said ie; and then he gave the handle another turn. Trurs is what God says about anys
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