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AN ELCQUENT ‘SUNDAY SERMON Bt
. DR. C. L., COODELL,
Subject: © The Carpenter’s Son.’
New York City.—Calvary Methodist
Episcopal Church of Harlem, through
the effectiveness of the pastor, the
Rev. Dr. Charles L. Goodell, is grow-
ing in an _unparalleled way. Last
February, #& the result of revival ser-
vices for’ the month of January, he
broke all city church records by ad-
mitting ‘365 members. Sunday morn-
ing more than 350 were : ceived into
the church, and these, added to the
fifty taken in at the January com-
munion, make 2 total of more than
400 admissions as a result of four
weeks of revival services. Dr. Goodell
gave this as. the reason of the great
ingathering: “There is no secret to it;
any church can be stirred as ours has
been if it is willing to pay the price.
The price? It is consecration, prayer
and bard work. All three are needed
in about equal parts. Our magnificent
congregation has been moved by
prayer and in turn has moved others.”
The reception of members into this
church Sunday was a joyful event for
the ministers and members, for it
placed Calvary Church at the head of
Methodism
Calvary now has a few more than
2400 members on its roll. Since Dr.
Goodell has been at Calvary, twenty-
one months, ther: Fas been a net gain
of 1000 members, or about. seventy-
five er cent. Of these new members
more thar 600 came on probation.
The churcn seats 2200 a:d every Sun-
day night all seats are filled early. , At
some of the: special services many
chairs had to be brought in and the al-
tar space filled, and then scores could
not tind seats. Sunday there were fif-
teen denominations represented by
those who came by letter.
About 1500 persons took communion
fn the morning, Bishop E. G. Andrews,
of Brooklyn; the:Rev. Dr. Frank Ma-
son North, of the City Mission, and
Tract Society of New York City, and
Mr. Williams, the assistant pastor, and
officers of the church assisting. In the
afternoon about 500 more were com-
muned. In the evening Dr. Goodell
preached on ‘The Carpenter's Son.”
The text was from Matthew xiii:35:
“ls this not the carpenter’s son?’ He
said:
Out of the doorways of the poor
come the men who make the world rich
and God walks oftener in the narrow
rooms and on the ereaking stairs of
the little cottages than in the wide,
sounding halls of the rich with armor
and pictures looking down. You have
seen the home of Burns and Shaks-
peare; picture to yourself something
as much poorer as these are meaner
than the homes of the newly rich and
you may call that the Lome of a car-
penter in Nazareth. They will show
you the place with votive offerings
and gewgaws in it, but you will say,
“So!” and walk out. Find a place
where a carpenter is now making an
ox bow or a poor man’s table and it
will be like what He knew, for the
men of Nazareth are like all their kin
in the East; they change not in a thou-
sand years. 1 like to think that for
thirty years Jesus knew the narrow
ways of a laborer.
His- trade He plied, a carpenter, and built
Doors. where folks come and go, unto this
hour,
Not wotting how the hands which wrought
their doors
Unbarred Deaths gate by Love’s high
sacrifice—
Tables whereon folks set their meat, and
eat,
Heedless of Who was “Bread of Life” and
gav
Such ood that whosoeateth hungereth not.
And, in those little lanes of Nazareth,
Tach morn His holy feet would come and go
While He bore planks and beams, whose
back must bear
The cruel cross. And, then, at evening’s
all,
Resting from labor, with those patient feet
Deep in white wood dust, and the long
curled shreds
Shorn by His plane—He would turn inno-
cent eyes
Gazing far past the sunset to that world
€ came from, and must go to; nigh to
im—
Nigh unto us, albeit we see it not,
Whereof Life is the curtain, and mute
Herald i Doorkeeper.
Nazareth was a town in which to
talk with God. The great plain before
it had felt His thunderous toot. There
was Carmel, where Elijah talked with
God. in plain sight. There was Jeézreel
of Ahab and Jezebel. There was Eu-
dor and Saul and the witch. There
was Tabor, lone and majestic, near at
band, and Hermon far to the north,
cloud-capped and snow-peaked, while
to the East, hidden behind a dozen
miles of hill and dale, was the sea of
Galilee—mother of sermon and of mir-
acles. In Nazareth He found the il-
Iusirations which make so large a part
There was a great
day of moil and toil before Him, and
here in the cool of the morning He
must store up the reserve that will
take Him on to awful noon at Jerusa-
lem. It takes a great soul to bide his
time—to get ready for a great act and
be patient with the training and the
slow step of the years. To live with
od and in Him is the main thing after
all. He walked those cliffs with no
one to look at Him or to wonder at
Him—prayerful. masterful, patient.
Was there ever a better example for
ordinary people. It is good for the
burning fever of life to look at Him.
The world is too much with us soon
and late. Our home life is low and
sordid. We fret under it. There are
too many little things to do. Too much
of ou ne and too little of outlook.
What are we saying? Look at Him.
Poverty? Yes. Toil? Yes. Did they
who saw Him appreciate Him? We
shall see; who was it said: “Is not
this the carpenter's son?’ and how
did they say it? It was a taunt and
a sneer. You know now Low He came
to say, “A prophet is not without
honor save in his own country.”
The very men whose houses He had
built were ready to stone Him to
death. It has often been so. The men
who have built the houses that the
world’s thought lives in to-day were
most of them buried in ignominious
graves. Very likely the men you serve
may throw stones at you from the
vintage ground where you put them,
but it will be no new thing, so keep
sweet about it. He could afford to
wait. His carpenter bench would yet
be Lely because He worked at it, and
in paint of membership.
His fellow craftsmen.
the tools He handled would be held
at ihe price of a king's ransom.
His is the gospel cf the mechanic.
He fitted Himself at a carpenter's
bench to say, “Come unto Me all ye
that labor and are heavy laden and I
will give you rest”” He had no sym-
pathy either with the man who wants
more work than he pays for or the man
who wanis more pay than he works
for. I want you to see Irom this life
that great deeds should ge along with
common life, making it sublime. “When
you read of the great economies that
had to be practiced in the homes of
such men as Phelps and Alcott, Haw-
thorne and Emerson, ycu realize the
advantage of plain living and high
thinking. There is too much high liv-
ing and meagre thinking.
The struggle after a more sumptu-
ous life than we can afford takes the
strength out of us, and if we get it it
takes the nerve for ‘toil and self-denial,
which are only other names for victory,
away from us. Our impatience takes
away our capacity and loye for toil,
and we are miserable and useless. Be
happy in a humble home. You will
never have to live so cheaply as did
Jesus.
Then make up your mind to work.
Jesus the Carpenter taught us the dig-
nity of toil. He made the saw and the
plane as truly the ensign of a noble
life as the fasces or the toga of the
Roman. There is an evangel of toil
The shuttle and the hoe, the saw and
the reaper have a message which the
world must hear. The workers make
life glorious, the shirkers make it de-
testable. “My father worketh hither-
to and I work” was the challenge of
the Christ to every indolent and care-
less soul. Virgil sings of men and
arms, but the song of to-day is a song
of men and tools. I have a Saviour
who wrought the hot day through. I
can talk with Him of quivering palm
and throbbing limbs andra fainting
heart and He will know.
You cannot imagine Him as making
a poor joint or allowing a bad knot in
an important place. To meet your
ideal, and that an ideal which He has
founded by His own - character, you
will take nothing less than a honest
attempt at a perfect product. The de-
sire to slight one’s work will lead to
a compromise of character, and that
will lead to the loss of the soul. It is
not the work but the spirit you put into
it which makes the task ignoble or
sublime. I would have every man step
to his work to-morrow without dread
or envy. I would have him feel that
Jesus the Carpenter was the great
model, and that if He could fit Him-
self for the conquest ¢? the world at a
carpenter’s bench any laborer may feel
himself surrounded with glorious hopes
and his dingy little shop become the
habitat of angels. Paul stitching tents
thought out those wonderful chapters
of spiritual logic which move the
world. Carey, the shoemaker, thought
out the plan of giving the Bible to the
Hindoos. Morrison, the last-maker,
gave the gospel to China. Burrett, the
blacksmith, became the most learned
workman of his day. Daily humble
life lived on high levels—this is the
happy possibility of common men.
What high discourse there must have
been in that humble home when the
day’s work was over; what acts of af-
fection, what mutual confidences and
holy trust!
But He who made lintels for the
doors of Nazareth set up also the gates
of the eternal city of God. He who
made humble houses for the common
people of His native town was the
Artificer of the eternal home of the
soul. It was not a figure of His im-
agination when He pictures the unsafe
foundation and the awful ruin of that
unsecure house. He had seen the tor-
rent rush down the chalk cliffs of Naz-
areth and sweep away the houses of
Small wonder
that He looked upon that ruin from
the standpoint of a careful builder.
But when they drove the carpenter
from His bench at Nazareth He went
out to build for eternity. I want to
ask you to give your contract for an
eternal mansion to Jesus the Carpen-
ter. As a wise master builder, He
asks you to count the cost. Are you
ready to build? Arve you willing to pay,
for a good foundation and will the su-
perstructure you rear be a sacred one?
He will not countenance the orna-
mentations that hide the lack of solid
worth. He will have no part in the
consummate fraud of a life that is
built on the sand. He will not build
with hay and stubble. If it were a
house to sell it might be out of your
sight, but hc * me when I say it is
the house you are to live in forever.
If there is a flaw in It you will find
it out. If when the winds blow and
the floods come it falls you will go
down in the ruin. Yes.erday a man
gaspin_ for breath said “I am almost
ashamed to ask God to have mercy on
me when I ignored Him for three
score years,” and you will feel the
same. To leave you in old age to the
mercy of the wintry blasts would be
cruel, but the man who shirks in the
building of his soul's tabernacle does
that for himself. Only Jesus knows
how to build for eternity. The old
Romans were graat builders of roads
and bridges, and the old Egyptians
were great builders of pyramids, but
I want somebody who can build a
house for the soul that will outlast
pyramids and stars. No man save
Jesus can have my contract.
Power of Sacrifice.
John Henry, while a divinity student,
went through a tempest that most dar-
ing seamen «.. not dare face, and
brought ashore sev en sailors from a
wrecked boat. The strana was such
that, though he lived to finish his stud-
ies, he had scarcely taken up the work
of a parish when deat: summmoned
him =v ay. The crowds that came to
his funeral were so large that the win-
dow of the church was removed and a
platform erected whcre those within
the church and the masses of human-
ity without could hear the words of
Lord Chalmers,
————— a
Kneel in your closet and say. “O God!
I have not known Thee; deign to reveal
Thyself to me; teach me to love and
obey Thee; by all Thy goodness, oh,
forgive my wanderings, and let me
feel the tranquillity of a life hid in Thy
blessedness.” Such petitions will not
be unheard, nor tail to bring down an-
swers of growing fulfilment.—William
Alger,
It takes as much grace to make a
saint out of a Pharisee as it does to
make one out of a publican,
Matters
Use Vinegsr.
Try this and you are sure to be
pleased. While cooking a boiled .din-
ner, or cabbage, place a small dish of
vinegar on the back of ‘the stove, and sight we should be in darkness.
the odor will disappear.
New Bed-Capes.
A new feature in a lady’s wi avitope is
the present dressing or bed cape, a
very different article from the cosy if
homely “nightingale,” or little flannel
wrap, formerly deemed sufficient to
meet the requirements of any weather.
The new bed-capes are beautiful con-
structions of richebroche silk, smoth-
ered in frills of lace and guipure, and
finished off with ribbon.
A Home-Made Filter.
Having broken her filter, and being
unable to get out to replace it. a house-
keeper made a bag of three thicknesses
of cheese cloth, four by three inches,
rounding the corners. She filled it
with the ground quartz from the filter
(a few cents’ worth could be bought
at a hardware store), and tied it to the
faucet. She liked it so well that she
continued to use it, for she could wash
the bag and quartz more frequently
and easier than she could empty the
filter.
How to Wash Knitted Articles.
Make a suds of warm (not hot) water
and a good: white soap. Put in the
article to be washed; squeeze (not rub)
until it looks perfectly clean: rinse it
thoroughly through clean! warm: water
until there is no soap left; squeeze the
water out, do not wring; shake gently;
put in a cheesecloth bag and hang in a
draft; shake often while drying. Hand-
made articles will retain their shape
and look like new if these simple di-
rections are carefully followed.
Save the Plumbers’ Bill,
Before sending for the. plumber, and
thus incurring unnecessary. expense,
try this simple and nearly always io-
fallible device: If a sink pipe becomes
clogged, remove strainer over pipe
opening, then take a round. stick—a
piece of broom handle will answer the
purpose nicely—cover one end with
cloth; gather the ends of cloth up
around the stick and insert the end so
covered into the pipe, and holding
cloth and stick firmly with both hands,
force up and down, causing suction,
until obstruction is removed and water
will run down freely.
4
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Cornmeal Pudding—Three-quartersof
a cup of cornmeal, one and one-quarter
cups of flour, one-quarter cup of sugar,
four teaspooufuls of baking powder,
one-half teaspoonful of salt, one. cup
of milk, one egg, one tablespoontul of
melted butter. Mix and sift dry
gredients.
and butter.
one and one-half hours.
one cup so' cream,
fuls of powdered - sugar,
teasponful of vanilla. Beat the cream
until thick, and add sugar and vanilla,
Serve with steamed cornmeal pudding.
Oranges in Syrup—Score the oranges
all over in imitation of some orna-
mental design, representing basket-
work or trellis-work, and then simmer
in water until nearly done through.
They must next be put into cold water
for twenty-four hours, changing the
water every three hours. At the end
of this time they should be drained in
a sieve for several hours, then placed
in an earthen pan and covered with
a hot syrup made by boiling three
pounds of sugar and one quart of
water for five minutes. I'or three suc-
cessive days let the syrup be boiled up
and skimmed, and when nearly cold
pour back upon the oranges; after the
last time the oranges may be put away
in jars, and used for dessert when re-
quired.
Scotch Gingerbread—Sift one and a
quarter pounds of flour into a basin.
Add half a teaspoonful of salt, iwo tea-
spoonfuls of ginger, one teaspoonful of
allspice, one teaspoonful of cinnamen,
one teaspoonful of groundcloves, half a
grated nutmeg, one teaspoonful of c¢in-
namon, one teaspoonful of ground
cloves, half a grated nutmeg, one tea-
spoonful of baking soda, four ounces of
sultana raisins, four ounces of chopped
citron peel and fourounces of blanched
almonds. Melt together, in a pan, half
a pound of butter, one and a half cups
of milk and two cups of molasses.
Let cool. Then add, with three well-
beaten eggs, to the dry ingredients.
Mix and pour into a well-buttered and
papered cake tin. Bake in a moderate
oven for one hour and a half.
Home-Cooked Boneless Herring—It
is often remarked that home-cooked
fish is not so good as that served at
hotels and restaurants; but as a matter
of fact the fish bought for the home
table is better and fresher. The secret
lies in the use of accompanying sauces,
A cupful of cold tomato sauce may be
reheated and served around the her-
ring, adding a teaspoonful of some
sauce, or a half-cupful of tomato cat-
sup may be thinned with one-fourth
cupful of hot water, with a tablespoon-
ful of chopped olives or pickles added.
Better still is a quick relish of half a
cupful of chili sauce heated and poured
over the fish just before serving. Or
two tablespoonfuls of melted - butter,
to which has been added a teaspoonful
of lemon juice and a tablespoonful of
finely-minced parsley, may be served
over the hot seazoned fish with most
satisfactory vesulis.
For sauce use
(Add milk, egg well ia
Steam in butiered mould
two tablespoon-,
one-half a,
+-USES OF DUST.
Without It There Would Be No Sunsets or
Sunrices, Shades or Lights.
While dust contains many .of our:
mortal enemies, it is one of our very
best friends, and the finer it is the
more we owe to it. If there were no
dust the sky would not be blue, there
would be no raindrops, no snowflakes,
no hailstones, no clouds, no gorgeous
sunsets, no beautiful sunrises.
The instant: the sun passed out of
The
instant it rose it would be a sharp cir-
cle of light in a black sky, There
would be no evening glow to chat or
think. in, no lovely dawn, with bird
song and cattle low at nature's wak-
ening. The dome of the sky would be
as dark as it is on a bright moonlight.
night. The moon and stars would
shine by day in all their brightness.
The whole earth would be a deep, dark
shadow excepting where the sun's
rays fall directly upon it in one great
blinding circle. The moon and stars
would make even our shadows.
Rays of sunlight or any oiher kind
of light go straight through all kinds
of gases, no matter of what they are
made. . In passing through them, if
they contain no dust, the rays eannot
be seen. They are invisible. You
have often seen sunlight enter a dark-
ened room through partly opened shut-
ters or a.crack of a knothole. You
have noticed that the rays are full of
dust moving about in every direction.
The air is made of gases mixed. You
did not See the rays of light. you saw
the light in the sun reflected. by the
particles of dust. Millions of these
particles. were toc small for you to see,
but not too small for such a searching
thing as light to miss.
The light we call daylight is the
light .of ; the. sun's rays reflected .from
the particles. of dust in the air about
our earth. . Moonlight is the .light.of
the sun reflected from the moon, which
is a great mass of particles compressed
into a huge ball.
more. If both of them
fine and scattered they
dust.
Each cubic inch of air contains an
enormous number of dust particles.
The number is beyond our conception.
John Atkin, of Falkirk, Scotland, was
the first to count these dust particles.
He counted them by a little machine
he earried in his pocket, and in a very
simple way.
He has been able {o count 7,500,000
dust particles in a cubic inch of the or-
dinary air of Glasgow. The_ air of
Pittsburg probably contains ten times
as many. After a meeting of the mem-
bers of the Royal Society of Edin-
burgh in their hall he counted 6,500,000
to. a cubic inch near the floor and 57,-
500,000 to a cubic inch near the ceil-
ing.—Sunday-School Times.
were ground
would, be but
Practical Polities.
A practical politician of the first wa-
ter came to light in a small Indiana
town not long ago. In this town there
is an officer, designated as Inspector
of Streets and Roadways, who receives
the munificent salary of $250 per year,
As the opposing political parties are
very nearly balanced in this town,
there is Keen opposition, so that when:
this office became vacant and the au-.
thorities ordered an election to fill it,
there was a lively campaign for this
small plum, no other elections being
near. The Democratic candidate was
a rather shrewd old fellow by the
name of Ezekiel Hicks, ard it looked
as though lhe would be successful, as
a neat little sum had been subscribed
and turned over to him as a campaign
fund. To. he astonishment of every-
body, however, he was defeated.
“I canit Apr dei) for it.” one of the
Democratic leaders said, gloomily.
“With that money we should have
won. How did you lay it out, Eze-
kiel#”
“Hum,” Ezekiel said, slowly, pull-
ing his whisker. “Yer see that office
only pays $250 a year salary, an’ I
didn’t see no sense in payin’ $900 out
to get the office, so I jest bought me a
little truck-farm instead.”—Harper’s
Weekly.
a
New School For Wit.
An old New Yorker the other day
suddenly astonished the friends with
whom he was dining by breaking out
into panegyrics upon the “rubber-neck
wagons.”
“They are,” he said, “a creat school
of wit. The man with the megaphone
says something clever quite accident-
ally, and the people smile. He sees
that he has made a hit, and treasures
up the remark to work it off again.
“So he goes on, day after day, get-
ting fresh additions to the fund of
wit and humor until from a person
originally stupid ard uninteresting he
becomes a brilliant perscn, full of
merry quips and cranks and strang
conceits. He gets educated in wit un-
til, from being 2a mere repeater of
smart sayings, he becomes an orvigina-
tor.
“And this is all because he is en-
couraged and rewarded in his efforts
by the approval and the smiles of his
passengers. So 1 say, dont kill the
struggling humorisi—encourage him.
See what encouragement has done for
the rubber-wagon man and help others
along." —New York Press.
Man-FKaters in British Guinea.
Cannibalism has not yet been quite
stamped out in British New Guinea.
The natives have well cultivated gar-
dens, they occupy long-settled villages,
and their relations with Europeans
are generally harmonious. In each vil-
lage one of the most influential chiefs
is selected as village constable, given
a uniform, a pair of handcuffs, a brass
badge, and $5 a year, and is kept un-
der constant personal supervision by
the six white magistrates. Crime is
comparatively rare, owing apparently
to the fact the natives are not allowed
to obtain any intoxicating liguor.—New
York Glebe.
Bee Micah S, 2.
The earth is nothing |
SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR MARCH 18,
Review of the Lessons For the First
Quarter—Read Luke vi., 17-28-=Gold-
en Text, Matt,, iv., 23-~Topic: Christ's
Spiritual Kingdom—The Summaries.
Lesson I. Topic: The Saviour re-
vealed to man. Place: Betlilehem of
Judea, six miles south of Jerusalem.
God so ordered events
that through natural causes Joseph and
Mary were led, at just the right time,
from Nazareth to Bethlehem. The an-
gel of the Lord appeared to the shep-
herds. “Unto you is born” —unto the
Jews, unto all people; “a Savieur’—a
deliverer; “which is Christ’—the an-
ointed One, and as such our Prophet,
Priest and King; “the Lord’ ’—this child
is Jehovah Himself. ‘The shepherds
hastened to Bethlehem and found the
babe according to the angel’s words.
II. Topic: Man seeking the Saviour.
Place: Bethlehem. Wise men, led by a
star, come from the East to Jerusalem;
inquire for the King of the Jews; they
are come to worship Him; Herod is
troubled; calls chief priests and scribes
and asks where Christ should be born;
they say, in Bethlehem; Herod sends
the wise men to Béthlehem, asking
them to bring him word again; they
go, again led by the star, and find
Jesus; Jesus is worshiped and gifts are
presented. The wise men return te
their own country without consulting
Herod.
III. Topie: The boy Jesus a pattern
for youth. Places: Nazareth and Jeru-
salem. Jesus grew and became strong
like other children. At the age of
twelve He went with His parents to
the feast of the Passover. When they
start on the return trip the child is left
behind; found .in the temple with, the
doctors of the lay, asking and answer-
ing questions; all were astonished; His
parents gently reprove Him; He tells
them He must be about “His Father's
business;” returas with them to Nazar-
eth.
IV. ‘Topic: Christ’s preparation for
His life work. Place: Jesus was bap-
tized at the fords of the Jordan, called
Bethadara. : John preached in the wil-
derness; baptized in Jordan; preached
repentance; insisted that they bring
forth fruits unto repentance; different
classes came to him; a thorough refor-
mation required of all; pointed to the
Messiah. Jesus goes from Nazareth, in
Galilee, to the Jordan, to be baptized
of John. John shrinks from such a
step; Jesus urges it: is baptized; the
heavens are opened; the Spirit descends
like a dove upon Him; a voice from
heaven: “Thou art My beloved Son.”
V. Topic: A study of Christ's temp-
tation. Place: Mount Quarantania, a
short distance northwest of Jericho.
Jesus in the wilderness; fasts forty
days and forty nights; afterward an
hungered; tempter came fo Him: asks
Him to prove that He is the Son of
God by turning stones into bread; Jesus
defeats him by quoting Scripture; Sa-
tan then asked Him to cast Himself
down from the pinnacle of the temple;
and again he promised Jesus all the
kingdoms of the world if He would
fall down and worship him. Jesus re-
sisted Sata and angels came.
VI. Topic: Laws of soul-winning.
Place: Near Capernaum, on the Sea of
Galilee. Jesus walking by the Sea of
Galilee; the people pressed upon Him;
He entered into Peter's boat and taught ]
them while they stood on the land;
commanded Simon to “launch out into
the deep” for a draught; Simon said
they had toiled all night and caught
nothing, but he obeyed Christ's word;
a great multitude cf fishes inclosed; the
net was breaking, and Peter beckoned
to James and John to come to their as-
sistance; both ships were filled until
they began to sink; the disciples were
astonished at the miracle. They left
all and followed Christ.
VII. Topic: Jesus the great Physi-
cian. Place: Capernaum. Jesus is in
the synagogue on the Salbath day.
Teaches the people; they are astonished
at His doctrine; an unclean spirit cries
out; Jesus casts him out; fame spread
abroad; at Peter’s house; mother-in-law
healed; when the sun was down the
diseased and those possessed with dev-
ils were brought to Him, and He healed
them all and cast out the devils.
VIII. Topic: Jesus’ power to forgive
sins. Place: Capernaum. Jesus is
probably at Peter's house: a great
crowd at the door; a paralytic brought
and carried to the roof; the roof torn
up; the bed let down; Jesus saw their
faith; “Thy sins be forgiven thee;”’ the
scribes reason; He speaketh blasphe-
mies: Jesus answers them; which is
easier to say, Arise, or, Thy sins be
forgiven? the cure; the people amazed.
They glorify God, saying. “We never
saw it on this fashion.” They saw that
none but God could perform such a
wonderful cure and they were filled
with reverence and fear. The divinity
of our Lord is here fully established.
IX. ‘Topic: The Bible secret of the
blessed life. Place: The “Horns of
Hattin,” near the centre of the west
coast of the Sea of Galilee. He taught
the disciples and the multitudes. Who
are blessed? The poor in spirit; the
mourners; the meek; the hungry and
thirsty; the merciful; the pure in heart;
the peacemakers; those persecuted for
righteousness’ sake. The promises
made are all rich and full and sure.
True Christians are the salt of the
earth and the light of the world.
X. Topic: Christian conduct—a study
of the new life. Place: Same as last
lesson. Christ gave instruction con-
cerning oaths. All profane swearing
is prohibited, but such oaths as are re-
quired by a civil magistrate are not in-
cluded—judicial oaths oupiit not to be
called “swearing.” ChrisZans are not
to retaliate, but are to be controlled by
the ldw of love. It is also gloriously
possible for Christians to be perfected
n love. Jesus commands us to love
od with all the heart and our neighe
bor as ourself,
"Purely subjective.
All unhappiness, as all happiness, is
from ~within. For, as Saint Bernard
has said: “Nothing can work me dam-
age but myself. The harm that 1 sus-
tain I carry about with me, and 1 am
never a real sufferer but by my own
fault.” From the kingdom of the mind
issue the edicts that govern life.—Suc-
coma
Essence of Hr oS mitiast.
Christ known, Christ loved, Christ
served—yes! that is happiness. There
is none other like it in the world.—G.
H. Morrison.
CHRISTIN ENDEAVOR NOTES
MARCH EIGHTEENTH.
Christ's Life. His Summary of Con-
duct. The Sermon on the Mount.—
Matt. Chapters 5, 6 and 7.
The Sermon on the Mount is the
proclamation of the Kingdom. This
sermon is an appeal to the heart, out
bf which alone are the issues of life.
[t cannot be understood by the head
1lone.
The sermon calls for inner religion,
ind scorns the mere externals. No
imount of mere forms would meet ons
bf its requirements.
The sermon not only
sults, it furnishes power. Were it not
lor that, it would be the most dis
touraging piece of writing in the
world, instead of the most encourag-
ing.
requires re-
Suggestions.
“But 1 say unto you’—that is
Christ’s word; and whatever men, or
passion, or self-interest say must be
forgotten. J
This life is given us to lay up treas
are in heaven; our hearts will always
lollow what they really treasure.
The habit of judging others harsh
iy is one of the most dangerous of ha-
bits, because we are so sure to pride
ourselves upon it.
We are to do to men, not what we
would foolishly like to have them da
to us, but what we should be wise
in desiring for ourselves.
Hearing Christ's sayings and doing
them are as inseparable as a voice
and an echo.
The Sermon on the
business manual of
ness.”
The Beatitudes are a list of the
world’s richest gold mines.
The precepts of this sermon are like
the seven primary colors, capable o
painting all beautiful lives that can
be lived.
Mount is tha
“our Father's bus-
Questions.
Am I trying‘to follow the pytern
set me in the Mount?
How often do I read the Sermon on
the Mount?
Would it not be a great advantage
to commit the sermon to memory?
EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS
SUNDAY, MARCH 18.
The Glory of ChristlikKe Lives.—John
17. 22-24,
Our Lord never forgot that his work
was to reveal God to men. The temp-
tations of his life were invitations to
assert himself, to separate himself
from his relaticns to the Father and to
be ‘self-sufficient. But because he was
true to his high mission he came to
his own highest self-expression to the
glory of the supreme sacrince, and to
the glory of its supreme and eternal
success. J
It is hard for us to learn the les-
son. The world about us is full of
temptations which urge us to free our-
selves from any subjection to «God,
and invite us to be our masters, We
have gone far toward complete victory
over these temptations when we have
given:ourselves to Jesus Christ ‘and
have been adopted into God's family.
Thenceforth we accept the truth that
we should not live unto ourselves, but
unto Him who died for
again.
But even after conversion it is not
easy to give ourselves wholly to the
work of showing forth Christ to the
world. We have need to learn, by
every possible teaching and by every
possible experience, that as Christ’s
fullest glory lay in his being a com-
plete expression—‘ ‘the Word”’—of God
30 our highest blessedness is in being
Christlike. Only thus can we do our
whole duty to ourselves. Only thus
can we secure any recognition of our’
claims to God's favor. It is one of the
innumerable proofs that Jesus sound-
ad the depths of a profound truth when
he said, ‘He that loveth his life shall
lose it, and he that hateth his life in
this world shall keep it
eternal.”
There is no permanence,
ence, no power worth havig that, is
not related to Jesus Christ. We can
afford to throw away all other dis-
tinctions for the sake of being true
disciples of Jesus Christ. It is glory
enough, and without it no other glory
{8 worth anything,
no promin-
rresieic gratinee
THE PRESENCE.
BY A. IRVINE INNES,
Thy face I cannot see,
Thy voice I do not hear
Ne form appears to me
Yet Thou art near.
I feel Thee all around
In love enfolding me;
O mystery profoand,
I live in Thee!
And from Thy face there shines
* A light upon my way;
While thought of Thee divines
What Thou dost say.
Thy words are silences
That tell of perfect peace:
With heavenly calm they bless,
And troubles cease.
As in Thy love I lie,
Yet closer would I be;
Thy will be mine, that 1
Be one with Thee.
—Christian Register.
Booze and Business.
We have decided that “booze and
business” is a bad mixture and will
try just plain business for a short
spell. If this doesn't work well we
may decide to cut out business and try
booze.
This decision was reached after a
very forcible argument with our de-
voted spouse, who warned us in no un-
certain language that we would be
using some of that hair restorer on our
topmost point unless we wiped it off
our list altogether. As it would be a
sin to waste the precious fluid in this
manner we have cut it out. Boys, be
warned and don’t tempt us, for we will
be compelled to murder in cold blood
the first one who flashes a bottle of
tincture of conflirtun in our presence,—
Coveta (I. T.) Courier.
us and rose
unto life: