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THE PULPIT.
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
REV. W. T BEST.
5 Theme: Well Doing.
Text: “If thou doest well, shalt
thou not be accepted? and if thou
doest not well, sin lieth at the door.”
—Gen., 4:7. :
~The farmer and the shephed both
bidught an offering unto the Lord.
We look at Cain’s offering and we
say, the Lord will certainly bless
Cain. What a costly offering he is
presenting and how much hard work
it must have taken to get it ready.
Early and late has he worked through
the long summer days. In the sweat
of his: face he has plowed, and har-
rowed, 'and sown, and cultivated, and
now Providence has blessed him with
a bountiful harvest. Look at the
choice vegetables and the delicious
fruits that go to make up his offer-
ing! Surely the blessing is his.
¢ Abel selected a lamb from his flock
without spot” or blemish; he cuts its
throat; see the blood gush out! How
cruel! God will certainly reject Abel.
But God had respect unto Abel and
his offering, but unto Cain and his
offering he had not respect; Why?
‘Had he not worked hard and faith-
fully? Hadn’t he acknowledged di-
vine Providence? Yes, all this is
true, but his heart was not right. His
offering was .one of self-righteousness
and good works. Abel came in God’s
way, not by works, not by self-right-
eousness, but by the blood. ‘Without
the shedding of blood there is no re-
mission of sin,” for ‘‘it is the blood
that maketh an atonement for the
soul.” God taught our first parents
this great lesson when He slew the
animals to get coats of skin to clothe
them. Abel had faith in God, and
coming in God’s way, he believed
God would receive him, so God testi-
fied to his gifts that he was right-
€ous.
When Cain saw that Abel was ac-
cepted he was wroth, and his coun-
tenance fell. ‘And the Lord said
‘unto Cain, Why art thou wroth; and
why is thy countenance fallen? If
thou doest well, shalt thou not be
accepted? and. if thou doest not well,
sin lieth at the door.” What a warn-
ing this! As if the Lord had said,
‘Cain I am no respector of persons;
if you do right I will bless you just as
willingly as I did Abel; but if you
don’t do right, why, then, sin like a
wild beast of prey ‘is crouched at
your heart’s door, and is only wait-
ing for a good opportunity to leap
upon you.” Instead of heeding God's
warning, Cain watched for an oppor-
tunity, and as scon as it presented
itself, he rose up against his brother
and slew him. ‘‘And wherefore slew
he him, because his own works were
evil and his brother’s righteous.”
Here are two young men both ‘en-
gaged in good occupations and with
equal privileges. One made a suc-
cess of life, the other a failure. Up
to the time of our text, if we look at
Cain from the standpoint of this
world, we would say he had done
well; but it was he that did it. God’s
word says, ‘by the works of the law
shall no flesh be justified.” “Salva-
tion is not of works, lest any man
should hoast:” Cain lived long
enough *o make a mark in the world;
but instead of making a mark in the
world, God had to put a mark on
him lest the world shoyld kill him.
Even to this day he is despised as the
first murderer. Abel’s life was short
compared with that of Cain, yet it
was long enough to be successful;
and he is honored more to-day than
ever before. Jesus Christ said,
“Blessed are the meek; blessed are
_ the pure in heart; blessed are, blessed
re.”” Here we are distinctly told that
t is not what a man has, not yet
what he does, that obtains for him
God’s blessings; but what he is. Sol-
pmon said, “Keep thy heart with all
diligence for out of it are the issues
of life.” Well-doing is dependent on
well-being.
I. The first step in well-doing is
to give one’s heart to God.
If a man does not do well in this
respect what is the result? He may
have ever so good an opinion of him-
self, all his ways may be clean in his
own eyes, he may think he is better
than anybody else; but God says his
heart is deceitful and desperately
wicked above all things, his throat is
an open sepulechre, the poison of asps
is under his lips, his mouth full of
cursing, his feet swift to shed innd-
cent blood, destruction and misery
are in his ways, no fear of God be-
fore his eyes. How can he escape the
damnation of hell?
‘What worse error ‘is there than to
suppose a man can do well with a
wrong heart? We make an awful
mistake if we suppose that religion is
simply for the church and Sunday
school.’ The farmer needs it to run
his farm. The merchant to run his
store. It isineeded by every individ-
= that expects to make a success of
ife.
But remember that when a man’s
heart is right with God he is just in
a position to do well; the doing is
still before him. Salvation is in three
parts, an act, a work, a state. A man
repents of his sims, accepts Christ by
faith and salvation is to him an act
of God’s free grace whereby he is
saved. But how many there are that
suppose that this is all there ‘is to
salvation. The fact that a man was
saved five years ago is no proof that
he is saved to-day, or that he will be
finally saved. From the day of a
man’s conversion until the day of his
death salvation is a work and he
must “work it out,” or be forever
lost. After death salvation is a state.
II. The second step in well-doing
is to take the Bible as one’s guide.
It is doubtful whether there would
be such a country in the world as the
United States of America, were it not
for the longings of Christopher Col-
umbus to spread the knowledge of
this book. To it we owe the immor-
talization of the Mayflower and the
sublimity of Plymouth Rock. The
command rolled from bow to stern
on the grand old Puritan vessel.
“Pull down that sail, let not an oar
touch the water, this is the Sabbath
Day!” When the Pilgrim Fathers
landed at Newburyport, they put
down the old Bible and said, “We are
going to build a nation on this Book.”
It supported George Washington, the
father of this country, and purchased
for us our freedom, It made Daniel
Webster the Biblical Concordance of
the United States Senate and Patrick
Henry and James Otis, like untc the
Hebrew prophets, and now if you
wish to understand one of the great-
est events in our history, look at this
picture. It ig that of a Kentucky
youth, his arms are tired after chop-
ping all day, yet he sits up till the
midnight hour, and as the snow-wet
logs crackle on the hearth and blaze
up the chimney, he reads from this
grand old Book, the Book, that in
after years made him a leader, whose
administration subdued a rebellion 8f
eight million people, and the emanci-
pator whose pen struck the shackles
from the limbs of four million slaves,
neither in this country nor elsewhére
in the world shall ever dies the mem-
ory of Abraham Lincoln.
I heard Rev. John Mavity say one
time that in his younger years he
used to preach that if a man had a
right heart every thing -else he did
would be right; but, said he, ‘of late
years, I have concluded that a man
needs not only a right heart but a
right head.” There is some truth in
this statement. Isaiah tells us, we
must “learn to do well.” Paul says,
“Study to show thyself approved of
God.” .
‘While I would say to every young
man and woman, you ought to have
the very best education possible, I
would also say, let the Bible be to
you the Book of Books. Nearly all
the great men of the past owe their
greatness to this Book. It is almost
impossible to name any rule by which
men have succeeded in life that has
not its foundation in the Bible. The
Book of Proverbs is especially full of
such rules.
John Quincy Adams made the Bible
his constant companion. Amos Law-
rence, the millionaire merchant of
Boston, had inscribed on his pocket-
book, the text, “What shall it profit
a man-if he gain the whole world and
lose his own soul?” No wonder he
gave thousands of dollars to the cause
of Christ.
But what about the men who reject
the Bible? Why, sin lieth at their
door. The superstitious life of Byron,
or the dying words of Voltaire will
prove this statement.
III. The third step in well-doing
is to be honest.
Your Book, the Bible, says, “Thou
shalt not steal,” or in other words
be honest.
1. Be honest with God.
You have accepted Christ as your
Saviour, and taken His Book as your
guide; the Book tells you what is ex-
pected of each one of His followers,
and He tells you just the work what
He wants you personally to do. Have
you met both these requirements?
2. Be honest with yourself.
You have a soul to save and a body
to care for. You will be rewarded ac-
cording to your works.
3. Be honest with your fellow-
man.
A man would steal a dellar on the
same principle that he would steal a
pin. Watch the little things; a gnat
choked Pope Adrian; a nail turned
a ship out of its course; a fily by
walking from tree to tree revealed to
the onlooker that the supposed dis-
tant landscape was only a picture.
Said a wholesale merchant to a
customer, as he pointed to one of his
clerks: ‘That young man, sir, is my
banker, he handles every cent of
money that passes through the store.
He could cheat me out of thousands
of dollars every year if he wanted to,
but I am not afraid to trust him, he
has proven himself to be strictly hon-
est.” : *
Said a merchant to one of his
clerks: “Why didn’t that lady buy
those goods?” ‘Because, sir, she
wanted Middlesex cloth. “Why did
you not show her the next pile, and
call them Middlesex?” ‘‘Because,
sir, they were not Middlesex.” “Well,
said the merchant, if you are as par-
ticular as all that vou will never do
for me.” “Very well,” said the young
man, “if I have to lie to keep my po-
sition I will lose it.”
When Abraham Lincoln had charge
of Orfuts’ country store, he walked
two miles to give a lady sit cents that
he had overcharged her by mistake.
Another time he made a mistake and
sold a quarter of a pound of tea for
a half pound. As soon as he discov-
ered his error he could not rest till
it was made right. After he was ad-
mitted to the bar it was said of him
that he would never defend a person
whom he believed to be in the wrong,
even if they offered him a large
amount of money to do so.
He undertook the Paterson trial,
believing the man accused of murder
to be innocent; but when. the trial
was half through he changed his
mind and dropped the case, refusing
pay for his services.
When the time came in our ‘history
as a nation that the people began to
distrust the corrupt politicians who
were governing in the interests of
slavery, the only hope of saving the
ship of state was to place an honest
man in the Presidential chair. Hon-
est Abe Lincoln was the man selected.
From a spiritual point of view we
are debtors to all men, let us try and
pay this debt, not only by our lives
but by giving our substance to the
cause of Christ throughout the world.
IV. The next step in well-doing is
to be men and women of Tact, Push
and Principle. J
Upon these three qualities depend
the success of every man or woman
from a business point of view. Sam-
uel Budgett, the great English mer-
chant, attributed his success to them.
1. Tact.—Tact is nothing more
nor: less than the use of common
sense, and it is so common that very
few people possess as muck of it as
they ought to.
Many so called
often speak of the
‘“‘hayseed from the country.”
some of them when they visit
farmer show themselves to be de-
ficient in this quaiity of tact. Said
one young man to his farmer friend:
“What kind of a bird do you call
that?’’ ‘‘A goose,” was the reply. “O,
I see; you keep that to get gooseber-
ries with.” A young lady from the
city of Ottawa asked a friend of mine
which of his cows gave the butter-
milk. Every one who has heard or
read Dr. Price’s address to young peo-
ple will remember his apt illustration,
“Tabby, why don’t you get up?”
2. Push.—Many people have tact
enough to succeed, if they only had
push enough to go with it. They can
sell a book, or a bill of goods, but it
takes them so long to do so, that
there is no profit in it. Many of the
greatest victories in the world’s his-
cultured people
farmer as the
But
the
tory have been won by men while yet
young in years. David, Luther, Alex-
ander and the world’s Redeemer
Himself are illustrations of this
truth.
8.—Principle.—Tact and push
would be a detriment to a man if he
were without principle. An employer
promised a clerk higher wages if he
would treat the customers now and
then to a glass, in order the he might
sell them 3g bill of goods. The young
man replied: “I thank God there is
a poorhouse in my native town, and
I will go there and die before I shall
do such dirty work.” That was
Principle. Nicholas Biddle, the first
president of the United States Bank,
requested ‘his employes at one time
to work on Sunday. One young man
lost his position rather than do so.
That was Principle.
When President Lincoln was re-
nominated for the Presidency it be-
came necessary to call for 500,000 re-
cruits to reinforce the men at the
front. His friends everywhere ad-
vised him not to issue the order as it
would endanger his re-election. He
went personally before the congres-
sional military committee where a
similar attempt was made. With the
fire of indignation flashing in his eyes
he replied: “It is not necessary for
me to be re-elected, but it is neces-
sary for the soldiers at the front to
be reinforced by 500,000 men, and I
shall call for them: and if I go down
under the act, I will go down like the
Cumberland, with my colors flying.”
0, for more men and women of
tact, push and principle.
V. The fifth step in well doing is
to be a man or woman of faith.
When Thomas A. Edison first con-
ceived the idea of the phonograph, he
said: ‘I can make it.”’? During nine
long years he never lost faith, though
at times it seemed utterly impossible
for him to succeed. And so it has
been with nearly all of his great in-
ventions; through faith he has
pledded on night and day, sometimes
forgetting to eat or sleep, vet ever
confident that he was going to suc-
ceed. The whole history of our
country has been largely one of faith.
From the day that Columbus crossed
the Atlantic to the present day, near-
ly every great move has appeared un-
reasonable from a worldly standpoint,
but has been undertaken through
faith. And what shall I now say, for
the time would fail me to tell of Gid-
eon, and of Barak, and of Jephthae,
and of the wonderful things they
have accomplished through faith.
The man or woman who lacks this
quality of faith is of all persons most
miserable, yea, sin lies at their door
and wreaks vengeance upon them.
They don’t enjoy their meals because
they cannot trust the cook. The rail-
way conductor is liable to run’ the
train off the track, so what is the
good of traveling? The very earth
itself is liable to open up at any mo-
ment and swallow them, and as for
the Bible, it says, “He that doubteth
is damned.”
VI. Be men and women of cour-
age.
Perhaps there was never a time
when we had so many examples of
courage as we have to-day.
When the ports of Europe closed
against the Asiatic Squadron there
was nothing left but to go to Manila.
Many of our people feared the re-
sults. But Ensign Dewey was a man
of courage. By the forts, over the
mines and into the harbor he sailed.
The Spanish fleet was destroyed,
many of the forts captured and finally
Manila taken, 3 :
.Hoébson was no less courageous
when he sunk the Merrimac in the
very centre of the enemies’ fire.
The Plattsburgh boys while storm-
ing the hills of Santiago sung in the
very hottest of the battle:
“ ‘Tis the star spangled banner,
Oh! long may it wave,
O’er the land of the free
And the home of the brave!”
We need more young people to-day
who are not afarid of the fiery fur-
nace, or the den of lions; young peo-
ple who shall go out and meet Go-
liath in the name of the God of Is-
rael.
VII. The last quality I shall name
is Perseverance.
Perseverance is the “long pull,
strong pull, and pull altogether’ on
“the home streten.”
President Lincoln said of General
Grant, ‘‘He is not easily excited, and
he has the grip of a bull dog. When
he once gets his teeth in, nothing can
shake him off.”
Jacob said to the angel, “I will not
let thee go unless thou dost bless
me.”
The unjust judge said, “Though I
fear not God, nor regard man, yet be-
cause this widow troubleth me, I will
avenge her, lest by her continual
coming she weary me.” The King-
dom of God suffereth violence, and
the violent take it hy force.
Robert Bruce made several unsuc-
cessful attempts to possess his king-
dom and crown. While seeking con-
cealment from his foes'in a shattered
barn:
“He flung himself down in low despair,
As grieved as man could be;
And after a while as he pondered there,
‘I'll give it all up,’ said he.
“Now just at that moment a spider
dropped
With its silken cobweb clew,
And the king in the midst of his thinking
Stopped to see what the spider would do.
“ "Twas al long way up to the céiling dome,
And it hung by a rope so fine,
That how it would get to its cobweb home,
King Bruce could not divine.
“It soon began to cling and crawl
Straight up with strong endeavor,
But down it came, with a slipping sprawl,
As near to the ground as ever.”
Nine times the spider tried to reach
its cobweb home, but every time it
seemed to fall still lower.
“ ‘Sure,’ cried the king, ‘that foolish thing
Will strive no more to climb,
When it toils so hard to reach and cling,
And tumbles every time.”
“But up the insect went once more,
Ah me, ’tis an anxious minute,
He's only a foot from his cobweb door,
Oh, say, will he lose or win it?
“Steadily, steadily, inch by inch,
Higher and higher he got,
And a bold little run at the very last
pinch,
Put him ‘into his native spot.
“ ‘Bravo, bravo!’ the king cried out,
‘All honor to those who try;
The spider up there defied despair,
He conquered, and why shouldn't £2’
“And Bruce of Scotland braced his mind,
And ps tell the tale,
even as I follow Christ.
That he tried once more as he tried before,
And that time he did not fail.
“Pay goodly heed, all you who read,
And beware of saying, ‘I can’t;’
"Tis a cowardly word and apt to lead
To idlness, folly and want.”
I am now going to make a state-
ment that I do not want anyone to.
misunderstand. I would not have
you think for a moment that I don’t
believe that Christ is our example
in all things, but Paul said follow me
I am now
going to hold up before the young
people two persons who accepted
Christ as their Saviour, His Word as
their gtlide, and on the qualities
named made a success of life.
Let me first speak to the young
men.
England has given to the world
some of the greatest men .in all
branches of learning. To-day we
place in the front ranks William
Ewart Gladstone. He was born of
wealthy parents and with royal blood
in his veins. Instead of becoming
dissipated as many a young man in
such circumstances would have done,
or instead of depending upon his so-
cial standing, he took the course that
I have already laid out in this sermon
and by so doing “he being dead yet
speaketh.”
As a Christian he said, “‘Christ is
the hope of my poor wayward life.”
He never missed service on Sunday
when well enough to attend.
As a student he was graduated
with high honors from Oxford, at the
age of twenty. His library contained
twenty-four thousand volumes. He
is the author of a number of very im-
portant works; several of them are
on the Bible.
He was one of the greatest orators
and statesmen of his time. To be
familiar with his life is to know Eng-
land’s history for a period of sixty
years.
Before the young women I would
hold up as the embodiment of the
principles I have referred to in this
address, one of -the greatest reforms-
ers that has ever blessed cur coun-
try. When her funeral car drew
slowly into the city of Chicago, as
many as 30,000 people turned out
midst falling snow and sleet to take
the last look at one of their greatest
benefactors, Frances Elizabeth Wil-
lard. They came from the North,
South, East and West to pay their
last tribute of respect. A wreath of
flowers was sent by a young lady who
had met Miss Willard but once. She
was then on the correspondence staff
of a city paper, and had been sent to
interview Miss Willard, who was sick
at the hotel and unable to fill her
appointments. Miss Willard was
seated in an easy chair, but when she
saw the young lady’s pale and ema-
ciated face she said, ‘Dearie, you have
this chair, you look so tired.” The
young lady said, #1 never forgot
those words. She was the only per-
son that had spoken a kind word to
me since I said farewell to mother
and the dear ones at home.”
Miss Willard was true to Christ,
denying herself every pleasure or:
comfort that she might fill the posi-
tion to which He had called her.
Her influence is giving to the youth
of this land a portion of knowledge
that cannot fail to prove beneficial to
them.
Her honesty as well as her patriot-
ism may be seen in the fact that dur-
ing her visit to England, when:
strained political relations existed be-
tween England and this country, she
said: “I am first a Christian, then I
am a Saxon, then I am an American,
and when I get home to heaven, I ex-
pect to register from Evanston.” Her
tact, push, principle, faith, courage
and perseverance may be seen in the
great organization known to-day
throughout the world as ‘“The Wom-
an’s Christian Temperance Union.”
An army of heroic women who are
battling for God and home and na-
tive land." :
In conclusion, let me say, life is
to each one of us a great battle, and
we must either win or lose it. Which
shall it be? Let us take unto our-
selves the whole armor of God, fight
the good fight of faith, and endure
hardness as good soldiers of Jesus
Christ. The Captain of our salva-
tion has never lost a battle.
mn.
“The Ideal Minister's Wife.”
The following description is from
one of the Methodist papers of Lon-
don: ‘
The ideal minister's wife is queen
in her home, ruling her affairs with
discretion and looking well to the
ways of her household. She has a
keen interest in her husband’s people
and spares no pains to get to know
them. TUnselfish as regards her hus-
band’s company, because of the many
claims made upon him, she waives
what seem to be her rights and finds
ers. She practices the happy art of
adapting herself to circumstances,
and is able to converse easily with the
intellectual and the unlearned. :
Her manners are perfectly natural
and entirely free from any tincture
of patronage. Her dress is becoming,
without dowdiness or loudness. She
is not oversensitive to criticism. She
fs discreet with her lips and thor-
oughly good in heart and loves to sec-
ond her husband's efforts in all the
church work. She avoids being the
leader of any clique, but acts in such
a way that all feel they can approach
her easily and confide in her perfect-
ly. She listens to the sorrows of the
people and feels with them and re-
joices in their joys.
She knows howtoentertain and how
to be entertained. Shekeeps abreastof
the times in reading and delights in
self-culture. Knowingfor what special
branch of work in the church she is
gifted, she devotes herself to it with
all her heart. Amiable, bright, pa-
tient, tactful, ever striving to unlock
human hearts with the key of love
that she may lead them to the Divine
Lover, she finds the minister's wife's
lot though “onerous and difficult,”
yet delightful and blessed, and the
‘“‘heart of her husband [and his peo-
ple] doth safely trust in her.”
“Who is sufficient for
things?” and what minister is worthy
of such a wife? ‘There is nothing
said about who takes care of the chil-
dren while the minister's “ideal wife” |
is doing all these things.—-Christian
Advocate.
The Uses of Trials.
I always fear lest trial might leave
me as the wind which passes over the
rock leaves it, hard and dry as before.
-—H, Bonar.
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM-
MENTS FOR APRIL 25.
Subject: The Gospel in Antioch, Acts
11:19-30; 12:25—Golden Text,
Acts 11:26—Commit Verses 22,
23—Commentary on the Lesson.
TIME.—A. D. 42, 43. PLACE.—
Antioch. ya
EXPOSITION.—I. Great Revival
at Antioch, 19-21. It took years for
them to learn that the Gospel was for
men of every nation. But while these
early Christians had not. as yet
learned all things, they had learned
some things well: (1) what to preach
—*“the Word;” (2) how to preach—
“speaking the Word” (R. V.). "They
just talked the truth in a natural, un-
stilted, conversational way. (3) Who
ought to do the preaching—the rank
and file of the church, for ‘“they that
were scattered abroad” were not the
apostles (comp. ch. 8:1). God had
led on step by step; first, Jews, then
Samaritans, then Jewish vroselytes,
but at last genuine Gentiles. The
first missionaries to the heathen were
just ordinary lay Christians, wh» had
gotten so full of the truth as it is in
Jesus that they could no longer fcl-
low the slow lead of the authorities
in the church, but were forced to
break the bonds of Jewish prejudice
and narrowness and speak out to the
perishing Gentiles. The movement
was of God and soon carried the
whole church with it. The word for
preaching in v. 20 is not the same as
in v. 19. It means ‘‘telling good tid-
ings.” Those good tidings which
they told are summed up in three
words—*‘the Lord Jesus.” ‘They did
not expend their strength in attack-
ing heathen superstitions and immor-
al practices. They told the good news
of salvation in Jesus Christ. There is
no proof that these men had the hand
of bishops, presbytery or council upon
them, but they had ‘the hand of the
Lord with them.” The great secret
of success in Christian work is here
indicated. The outcome of the
hand 6f the Lord being with
them was, “a great number believed
and turned unto the Lord.” State-
ments similar to this abound in the
Acts (v. 24; 2:47; 4:4; 5:14; 6:7;
9:31, 35, 42; 12:24, ete, etc.). We
would do well to ask why the Gospel
does not make the same uniform
headway to-day. The answer, in part
at least, is suggested in Acts 2:42;
6:4; Acts 1:8; 8:4. The faith of
those converts in Antioch proved its
genuineness by its effect — they
“turned unto the Lord.” What is
meant by turning unto the Lord is in-
dicated by 1 Thess. 1:9; Acts 26:18,
20. We have in these verses a very
clear setting forth of God’s part, the
worker’s part, and the convert’s part,
in repentance and conversion. The
workers preached the word, the Lord
Jesus (vs. 19, 20). ;
II. Barnabas Follows Up the
Work, 22-24. As soon as tidings of
the Gentile revival at Antioch reached
Jerusalem there was great interest
there. They sent one of their best
men to investigate and co-operate.
“Ie was a good man.” Itis far more
important that a man be good than
that he be brilliant if he is to edify
young converts. He was also “full of
the Holy Ghost.” He was also “full
of faith,” and no man that is not need ,
undertake the work of instructing
and developing young converts, espe-
cially converts from heathenism so
dark as that in Antioch. He was free
from the love of gold (ch. 4:36, 37).
He was free from personal ambition
and jealousy in his work (vs. 25, 26).
He was very sharp-eyed to see the
sincerity and promise of a young con-
vert (ch. 9:27). “When he was
come, and had seen the grace of God,
was glad.” Barnabas was in sympa-
thy with God and His work. It is sad
to say that not a few who see the
grace of God wrought through other
hands than their own, are mad, and
try to belittle it. Note the character
of the working of God’s grace in An-
tioch: it was a grace that could be
“geen.” We need more of this visl-
ble grace in our churches to-day. Bar-
nabas knew just what to do. Exhor-
tation was Barnabas’ forte (ch. 4:36,
His exhortation was precise-
ly that which should be’given to all
young converts. It is not enough to
“turn unto the Lord,” they must
«cleave unto the Lord’ or continue
in the Lord. This must be done with
“purpose of heart.”” There is always
worldly allurements of one kind or
another to drew a Young convert
away from the Lord, and unless they
cleave to Him with fixedness of pur-
pose, there is little hope.
III. ‘The Ministry of Barnabas and
Saul at Antioch, 25-30. Barnabas
showed his largeness of spirit in still
another way. He said to himself,
will go get him.”” For a whole year
Barnabas and Saul worked together
in Antioch, and their work was great-
ly blessed. Their ministry consisted
largely in teaching, systematic incul-
cation of revealed truth. The disci-
ples got at this time the name by
which they .are best known since—
Christians. The name was given to
them by others (perhaps in contempt,
cf. ch. 26:2%: 1 Pet, 4:16). 1 wos
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The real prophetic gift was mani-
fested in the church (vs. 27, 28; ef.
ch. 21:10, 11). The self-sacrificing
love of this young but rapidly grow-
Jewish brethren in Judea is very
touching. No sooner did they hear
of the hard times coming than they
determined to send relief ‘“‘unto the
brethren that dwelt in all Judea.”
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