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A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
" DR. C. D. CASE, PH. D.
Theme: Perseverance.
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Brooklyn, N. Y.—For his final ser-
mon before going to Buffalo to be-
come the pastor of the Delaware Ave-
nue Baptist Church, the Rev. C.
Case, Ph. D., in the Hanson Place
Baptist Church, took as his subject
“The Rewards of Perseverance.” The
text was those passages found
in .the Book of Revelation, 2:7, 11
17,26, 27; 3:5; 12 and 21, describing
the rewards of overcoming. Dr. Case
said:
The word “overcome” is a martial
term. It-implies an enemy, a conflict,
It suggests the soldier of
Christ fighting against spiritual
forces of wickegness and arrayed in
the helmet of salvation, the breast-
plate of righteousness, the girdle of
truth, the sandals of the gospel of
peace, the sword of the Spirit and the
shield of faith. It presents the Chris-
tian life, not in terms of rest and en-
joyment, association and service, but
of struggle. It isa word for the pres-
ent, a clarion call to achievement.
The victorious erusadz of the Chris-
tian is not here pictured as coming
only at the end of life. A desperate
encounter with evil is toc be met with,
not only at the time of conversion and
the time cf death, but unceasingly
through life. There is no thought of
truce or furlough, no suggestion of
recuperation or dress-parade. There
is to be no day of retreat.
It is the contest of the individual
against his enemies. The message is
to the church, the task is personal.
The heart is the citadel, and the ap-
proaches are the source of constant
attack. The flesh is weak, even
though the spirit is willing. There is
a conflict between the law of God and
the law of sin in our members. Even
though Christ be cnthroned in the
life, the outposts will be repedtedly
assailed. ® The success of the church
depends upon the faithfulness of the
individual members.
The seven promises to the churches
as given by Christ repeat the history
of the race up to the founding of the
throne of David, the period of Is-
raelitish histery most symbolical of
the- kingdom of God. The world’s
history begins with. the tree of life
which is forbidden to the parents of
the race. Then follows as striking
providences of God the punishment of
death and the promise of the Deliv-
erer, the giving of the tables of stone
and the heavenly manna, the repeated
victories over the national enemies,
the enrollment of the heroes of war,
the building of the great temple and
the establishment of the throne of
David forever. God’s plan is one and
‘the salvation to be given in the final
award is but the culmination of God's
eternal purpose. What God will do
for us at last is to be seen in the his-
tory of the race in prophetic promise.
The first promise, found in Revela-
tion 2:8, is: “To him that overcom-
eth, to him will I give to eat of the
tree of life, which is the paradise of
God.” Thus are connected the be-
ginning and the end of history even
as Christ Himself is the Alpha and
Omega, the first and the last. Yet
the second Paradise differs widely
from the first. In the passage of the
text, Paradise is Heaven, not the in-
termediate state, and ‘it is presented
not as a garden where two human be-
ings are surrounded by the luxuries
of nature, but a city throbbing with
life, teeming with multitudes. Not
isolation but association, is the strik-
ing feature. The tree of life is the
fulfillment of the spiritual meaning
of the prayer, “Give us this day our
daily bread.” As the tree of life bears
twelve manner of fruits, yielding its
fruit every month, so life abundant
is the reward of victory. And life is
more than mere existence; it is
wealth of thought, it is richness of
companionship, it is the acme of un-
selfishness, it is the larger life when
“comes the statelier Eden back to
man,” when family, society, govern-
ment, national and international, is
the creation of God-fed and God-led
children of men.
The second promise is ‘that the vic-
tor shall not be hurt of the second
death. There is a first death and a
second. death, though the term second
death is not mentioned in the Gospels
or epistles. But Christ Himself tells
us not to fear him who can destroy
the body, but rather fear Him who
can cast both soul and body into hell.
The first death is the heritage of the
race, and is not directly the punish-
ment of individual sin. Even Christ
became obedient unto death, though
He knew no sin. Neither sickness
nor death may mean that either a
man or his parents have sinned. The
second death is the exact result of
sin. It is for the fearful and unbe-
lieving and abominable and murder-
ous and whore mongers and sorcerers
and idolaters and all liars. The first
is momentary in its effects, the sec-
ond eternal.
The Smyrna Christians were hit-
terly persecuted, but Christ promises
them freedom from the second death.
The church is challenged because it
makes its rewards future. Wrongs
need present righting, says the critic;
what we want is Heaven on earth.
True, very true, but the ideal for
earth is Heaven. As long as the sense
cf immortality is in man, as long as
there remain unavenged wrongs on
earth, as long as any individual life
passes out into the great unknown
with present hopes thwarted, as long
as the successes of transitory years
dissatisfy, so long shall we need the
prospect of a Heaven where neither
the first nor the second death stall
enter.
A third reward of perseverance is
the hidden manna, and the white
stone inscribed with the secret new
name. The very name of “manna”
carries the mind back to that period
of hunger when God rained down
from Heaven the sustaining food.
The real meaning of this miracle is
revealed when Christ says: “I am the
bread of life which came down out of
Heaven.” It is Christ that sustains.
Not only is His life the ideal but His
companionship the inspiration. Christ
is unseen, but His presence no less
real and more vital than the friend
seen at our side. Christ as the bread
of life is “hidden manna,” because the
process of partaking of Christ is as
unseen as the assimilation cf food,
and the assurance of salvation is a
— ii
matter between the soul and Christ!
alone. “Blessed are those that hun- |
ger and thirst after righteousness.”
There is nothinz that satisfies the
hungry soul but Christ.
Then there is that secret name in-
scribed on the white stone. There are
many interpretations of its meaning,
such as that the stone is a ticket of
admission or a vote of acquittal. But,
after all, the believer with his hidden
manna has a new heart. There -is
both a new power of assimilation and
a.-new food to be assimilated. The
old law was written on two tables of
stone, but the new law, so Ezekiel
declares, is to be written on the heart.
Forced ‘obedience is to be changed
into a second nature that voluntarily
does right. The believer is not free
from the law, but he does naturally
what the law requires. There is but
one secret for this marvelous trans-
formation, and that is, Christ. For
me to live is Christ, says Paul. In-
stead of the ten commandments we
have the name of Jesus inscribed on
our hearts. He who lives the Christ-
life obeys the law without compul-
sion. What better comparison can
we make’between the old and the new
dispensation, the old law and the new
grace? Here is the “secret of the
Lord.”
Human finiteness can only vaguely
understand God’s omniscience. Hu-
man ignorance needs a journal and a
ledger. God nesds many books by
which righteous judgment shall be
given. He needs a book of life by
which no mistake may be made in
condeming the innocent and saving
the wicked. He has a book of re-
membrance for those that fear the
Lord and think upon His name; the
wanderings of y the persecuted are
numbered and his tears are all re-
corded. The great day of judgment
is simply the opening of the books
and the reading of a reward or pun-
ishment already determined upon.
Blessad are those whose names are
written in the Lamb’s book® of life.
Originally, probably, the idea of a
book of registry arose from the mu-
nicipal list of Jerusalem. ' “It shall
come to pass that he that is left in
Zion and he that rematneth in Jerusa-
lem shall be called holy, even every
one that is written among the living
in Jerusalem.” Evidently the man
whose citizenship is in Heaven, and
who being risen with Christ seeks
those things that are above, is thus
registered in the new Jerusalem. The
people at Sardis had a name that
they lived, but they were dead. A
church registration is not always syn--
onymous with a Heavenly registra-
tion. “Remember, therefore, and re-
pent.” Not professors, but posses-
sors, count with God.
The sixth promise of the risen
Christ is that the victor shail be a
pillar in the temple inscribed with
the name of God, Heaven and Jesus.
In Solomon’s porch there were two
pillars, one marked Jachin, “He shall
establish,” and the other Boaz, “in
his strength.” In the church militant
not all are pillars. Paul declares that
James, Peter and John were consid-
ered to be pillars. - But in the new
temple of God all are pillars, not only
columns of support, but also monu-
ments commemorating the great
deeds of the past. The saved of
Heaven shall record salvation by
grace and be “songs without words”
in praise of God.
Upon each pillar shall be the name
of God, of the new Jerusalem, and
“mine own new name.” What new
name? Emmanuel, “God with us?”
Redeemer, the one who has purchased
our redemption? Jesus, the name
precious to every believer? We do
not know; still, as the name signifies
the personality, so we shall reczive
that name of Jesus, which answers
to our own inner experience. What
we are then will be what Christ has
been to us. The Father will see re-
flected in us the looks of Christ; His
image and superscription will be on
us.
The last promise is to the Laodi-
ceans—*“He that overcometh, I will
give to him to sit down with Me
in My throne as ‘I also overcame
and sat down with My Father in: His
throne.” When Napoleon had been
appointed emperor by the senate, the
ceremony took place in 1804 accord-
ing to the solemn ceremonial of the
Holy Roman Empire. Pius VII. had
taken the crown from the altar ready
to place it upon Napoleon’s head,
when the latter seized it and put it on
his head himself. Christ seized no
crown for Himself. In that He
humbled Himself, God highly-exalted
Him. Now He in turn exalts the,one
who humbled himself and gives life to
him who is willing to lose it. Sov-
ereignty—that is, victory, authority,
mastery—belongs to those who over-
come with Christ. Whoever, hearing
Christ at the door knocking, and then
opens the door, shall admit a Com-
panion who will bind fellowship by
a common meal. Such a ene now en-
joying friendship with Christ in His
humility shall enjoy it with Christ in
His glory.
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Bound to Go Right.
Rev. Mark Guy Pearse says that
many years ago he sat with Rev.
Charles Spurgeon on the platform at
Spurgeon’s Tabernacle, and in an in-
terval during the meeting he whis-
pered to Mr. Spurgeon, “When I was
a young fellow in London, I usé® to
sit right over there and hear you
preach, and you will never know how
much good you did me. I cannot for-
get,” says Mr. Pearse, “the bright
light that came into his face as he
turned to me and said, ‘You did?’ ”
“Yes,” replied Pearse, “and I am
so glad to have the chance of telling
you of. it. You used to wind me up
like an eight-day clock; I was bound
to go right for a week after hearing
you.” He put out his hand and took
that of Mr. Pearse, ard the tears
brimmed to his eyes as he said, “God
bless you! I never knew that.”
‘The Sure Refuge.
The historian, Guizot, set out as a
free-thinker. He said, “Reason will
solve all.” But as his yecrs increased
he found himself in a whirlwind of
conflicting doubts and perplexities,
and finally, with unspeakable joy, he
fled to the authority of the Scriptures
as the Word of God.—Home Herald.
————
Suicidal Business.
That business, however remunera-
PEARLS OF THOUGHT. |
It takes a woman to wing the bird
of time.
The antidote for flattery isa young
brother. ~ -
In the sea of life bargains are the
breakers.
Air castles are property that no cred-
itor can touch.
A cabbage by any other name would
be as common.
Life’s primrose path
with the long green.
Because a man is always at his post
is no sign he’s a stick.
Many a true friendship hath been
cut with the knife of candor.
A secret that you can’t tell is worse
than money you can’t spend.
A beauty doesn’t have to be brilliant-
A peach isn’t expected to preach.
In the alphabet of charm there is no
such letter as I. Every one is you.
There's as good fish in the sea as
have been caught—with golden bait.
When you jump at a conclusion
there’s no telling where you'll. land.
Many a beautiful literary balloon
hath been punctured by a blue pencil,
"Who cares for -the flowers of fame?
Why, you can't even trim a hat with
them.
A romantic young girl’s rose colored
dreams are all perfumed with orange
blossoms.
Any material may be utilized for a
silk purse, provided it is properly lined
with gold.
A girl never thinks much of a sweet-
heart or a photograph that doesn’t
flatter her.
Poverty is a gaunt old preacher that
makes more saints than all the or-
dained ministers.
A small boy considers a bathtub
about the most unnecessary of all the
modern necessities.
Don’t hope to recognize the devil
these days by his hoofs. He has them
manicured past recognition.
Don’t marry a man for his money,
Bedelia. - But hesitate before you turn
a nice fellow down just because he has
an automobile.
It’s a sordid old world when we have
to sell our dreams to buy bread, but
then again it’s a peach of a world to
acknowledge dreams have a certain
market value.—From “Eve's EXxi-
grams’ in the New York Telegram.
BAN ON RICE AND OLD SHOES.
Western Railway Says They Must Not
Be Thrown in Its Stations.
Young folks living along the line
of the Chicago and Northwestern rail-
way are convinced that it is a mistake
to accuse a corporation of having no
soul. At any rate that is the opiniof
of the tender beings who are com-
templating matrimony.
In the first place the railroad inau-
gurated a honeymoon special to Cali-
fornia some, time ago. That in itself
was a great bid for popularity with
the brides and bridegrooms to be. But
it was nothing in general application
to the latest move on the part of the
road.
This is nothing more nor less than
an order forbidding the throwing of
rice, old shoes and other wedding ac-
cessories in or about Chicago and
Northwestern trains.
“Something simply had to be done,”
said an official of the road. “Enthusi-
astic friends of the bridal couples
were carrying things to an extreme
and a check was necessary.
“Young couples would come down
to the train with large satin bows
tied on the rear of their carriages, and
as they started for the train a terrific
storm of rice and old shoes would
break loose. Innocent and inoffensive
people who wete boarding the same
train, but had not been guilty of any-
thing, not even marriage, would get
most of the missiles. Hence the new
order, which will be enforced in the
strictest fashion.”—New York Sun.
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The Three Peanut States.
Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia are
the leading peanut states. In Virgin-
ja the white peanut and the small red
peanut are the varieties chiefly pro-
duced, while Georgia also produces
this small red nut. In Tennessee the
white nut, which is larger than the red
and the larger variety of the red nut
are raised. The chief peanut counties
Dickson, but the area of peanut culti-
vation has been enlarged in more re-
cent years. Few peanuts are pro-
duced in East or West Tennessee, but
in the counties named they are the
chief money crop of a large percent
of the farmers. The peanut has many
nhames—goober, pindar, earthnut,
groundnut, groundpea. Northern £0l-
diers called them goobers, and there
was a well known song entitled “Grab-
bing Goober Peas,” which was a fav-
orite with troops “marching through
Georgia.” According to the 1904 cen-
sus the total peanut crop amounted to
11,964,000 bushels, valued at $7,270,-
000.—Nashville American.
His Present.
Ezekiel had no stockings, so the
night before Christmas he hung his
trousers in the chimney of the tumble-
down Florida shack that he calls
home.
The next morning a Northern visi-
tor in the village, calling at the cabin
with some presents for the family,
was greeted by Ezekiel’s smiling face,
which protruded from a narrow open-
ing in the door. After wishing him a
Merry Christmas, the lady asked what
tive it may be, which takes all one’s
time, and
the culture and growth of the soul, is |
eternally suicidal.—The Rev. Charles |
Bayard Mitchell, Cleveland,
leaves no opportunity for |
he had recived for presents.
“Ah guess Ah got er nigger,” said
are Humphreys, Perry, Hickman and |
| Ezekiel. “Mah pants is gone’ '—
Youth’s Companion.
STAR BALL PLAYER OF
THE AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Smokeless Griddle.
A smokeless and odorless griddle
and broiler, which has been lately
patented, has advantages which will |
be readily recognized at a glance of
the accompanying cut. The front
plates of the stove being removed, the
new griddle sets in and at the same
time falls below the stove top. In
Odor Goes Up the Chimney.
this manner the heating surface is
brought nearer to the fire, and all
‘smoke, vapors and odors are carried
up the chimney. The griddle is open
at the top, but for the purposes of
broiling it is desirable that a greater
heat should be secured, and this is
brought about by making a lid over
the top. When the latter is lowered
the meat being cooked gets the full
benefit of the heat, but when it is
raised every opportunity is offered for
its examination.—Philadelphia Rec-
ord.
Microscopic.
The best microscopes are warranted
to magnify about 16,000 times. Those
are the kind most people would make
use of in examining their neighbors’
faults.—Washington Post.
Paint the Lowest Step.
Paint the lowest cellar step white
if the cellar is dark. This plan may
save a fall, and will do away with
feeling for the last step when going
downstairs.
Genuine Indifference.
| Jack Abertheney, the Rough Rider,
jean catch a wolf alive by grabbing its
lower jaw with his bare hands. '
Mr. Abertheney, on his last visit
here, was asked by a reporter for his
opinion on a certain political ques=
tion.
“J can’t give you an opinion on that
question,” the Rough Rider raplied,
“because it’s a question I pay no at-
tention to. I am indifferent to it—
as indifferent as the backwoodsman’s
wife. . :
“That lady, you know, looked on
while her husband had a fierce hand-
to-hand tussle with a bear, and after-
ward she said it was ‘the only fight
she ever saw where she didn’t care
who won.” "—Washington Star.
A New Use For the Qucue.
Chinese Pupil Drawing a Circle Witk
His Pig-Tail For a Radius.
—H. S. Elliott, in Leslie’s Weekly.
DESIGNS FOR CHILDR
EN'S FANCY DRESSES.
Heavy Decrease In Births. _
The vital statistics for the year
1907 show a further marked decrease
in the birth rate for, K France which,
in a century, has fallen from 1,007,60G
to 774,000 a year. The reduction in
the number of births last year was
33,000, as against an average decrease
of 12,000 for the last seven years. The
deaths in France in 1907 totalled
793,000, 19,000 more than the total of
births.
Saved From Reing a Cripple
For Life.
“Almost six or seven weeks ago I
became paralyzed all at once with
rheumatism,” writes Mrs. Louis Me-
Key, 913 Seventh street, Oakland, Cal
“It struck me in the back and extend-
ed from the hip of my right leg down
to my foot. The attack was so severe
that I could not move in bed and was
afraid that I should be a cripple for
life.
“About twelve years ago I received
a sample bottle of your Liniment, but
never had occasion to use it, as I have
always been well, but something told
me that Sloan’s Liniment would help
me, so I tried it. After the second ap-
plication I could get up out of bed, and
in three days could walk, and now feel
well and entirely free from pain.
“My friends were very much sur-
prised at my rapid recovery and I was
only too glad to tell them ‘that Sloan’s
Liniment was the only medicine I
used.”
Chinese Protect Forests.
The Chinese have undertaken to
nurse their forests, and the officials
of the Celestial government have en-
gaged a Japanese expert from Tokio
to act as head master for the proposed
school of forests at Mukden for a term
of four years, with two Chinese as his
assistants.
NO SKIN WAS LEFT ON BODY.
Baby was Expected to Die with Ece
zema—DBlood Oozed Out All Over
Her Body—Now Well—Doctor
: : Said to Use Cuticura, .
“Six “months after birth my little girl
broke out with eczema and I had two doe-
tors in attendance. There was not a particle
of skin left on lier body, the blood oozed
out just anywhere, and we had to wrap her
in silk and carry her on a pillow for ten
weeks. She was the most terrible sight I
ever saw, and for six months I looked for
her to die. I used every known remedy to
alleviate her suffering, for it was terrible
to witness. Dr. C—— gave her up. Dr.
B— recommended the Cuticura Remedies.
She will soon be three years old and has
never had a sign of the dread trouble since.
We used about eight cakes of Cuticura
Soap and three boxes of Cuticura Oint-
ment. James J. Smith, Dumid, Va., 1 Oct,
14 and 22, 1906.” So TTR
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The Ape’s Philosophy.
Prof. Gersung, the well known
Vienna surgeon, in his book, ‘“Sedi-
mentation of Life,”” has a parable con-
cerning what the ape thought of the
doctrine of evolution. When news of
Darwin’s theory reached Simian land
the wise ones proved at once that he
had got hold of the wrong end of the
fact. It was the ape that had evolved
from man though bearing a similarity
to the monkey is every way his in-
ferior. The man is naked; he has only
two hands; his.undeveloped extreme-
ties are fitted only for walking on the <
ground; he stil] eats flesh; he kills
his own kind and other animals; he
lacks intelligerice, as shown by the
fact that he does not enjoy life; he
dwarfs and shortens life by working
and worrying to make money which,
when he has made it, he is unfit to en-
joy. He lives, it is true, in herds,
but in perpetual competition and con-
flict. The ape, on the other hand, has
a warm garment; he dwells above the
ground, has four hands adapted to
every work and for moving rapidly
rom branch to branch. He feeds upon
only fruits and nuts, and lives peace-
ably in great unions. He is, bodily
and mentally, the crown of creation.
Certainly, in regard to enjoying
life, man is behind the ape. Having
accepted as a cardinal truth, that
man’s business in the world is to §
make money, he does not, in his eager
pursuit of the dollar, take time to live.
Work keeps every energy of body
and mind at the highest tension. As
a result, the zest of life is lost; the
man is old in face and heart, while
voung in years. When he has made
his wealth he has no longer capacity
to be happy. The ape is wiser.—Mary
E. Bryan in Uncle Remus.
DR. TALKS OF FOOD
Pres. of Board of Health.
“What shall I eat?” is the daily in-
quiry the physician is met with. I
do not hesitate to say that in my
judgment a large percentage of dis-
ease is caused by poorly selected and
improperly prepared food. My per-
sonal experience withthe fully-cooked
food, known as Grape-Nuts, enables
me to speak freely of its merits.
“From overwork I suffered several
years. with malnutrition, palpitation
of the heart and loss of sleep. - Last
summer 1 was led to experiment per-
sonally with the new food, which I
used in conjunction with good rich
cow’s milk. In a short time after I
commenced its use the disagreeable
symptoms disappeared, my heart’s ac-
tion became steady and normal, the
functions of the stomach were prop-
erly carried out, and I again slept as
soundly and as well as in my youth.
“I look upon Grape-Nuts as a per-
fect food, and no one can gainsay but
that it has a most prominent place in
a rational, scientific system of feed-
ing. Any one who uses this food will
soon be convinced of the soundness
of the principle upon which it is man-
ufactured and may thereby know the
facts as to its true worth.” Read
“The Road jo Wellville,” in pkss.
“There's a Reason.”
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true and full of human
interest.