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Subject: Christ's Clinraelet—Fnrthly 1.1 fe Deplete With lteautlful Exam plea—Practice Self Sacrifice ami Hu mility uuil Help llenr Ilurelens of Others [Copyright IWHXI WASHINGTON, D. C.—ln this sermon, which Dr. Tahnage sends from Paris, he analyzes the character of the Saviour, and urges all Christians to exercise the quali ties which were conspicuous in Christ's earthly life. The text is Romans viii, 9: "Now, if any man lias not the spirit of Christ he is none of Ilis." There is nothing more desirable than a pleasant disposition. Without it Ave can not lie hanpy ourselves or make others !' ipny. When we have lost our temper or become impatient under some light cross, we suddenly awaken to new appre ciation of proner eouipoise of nature. We Avish AVC had been born with self balance, AVC envy those people who bear themselves through life without any perturbation, and wo flatter oursel\*es that, hoAvever little self control AVC may noAv haA'e, the time will come, under tho process of years, when AVO Avill he melloAA'ed and softened, and the Avrong things Avhich are in us now will then he all right, forgetful of the fact that, an evil habit in our nature will groAv into larger proportions, and that an ini quity not corrected will become the grand father of a whole generation of iniquities. So that people without the grace of Cod in the struggle and amid tho annoyances and exasperations of life are apt to be come Avorse instead of better. Now, the trouble is that AVC have a the ory abroad in the world that a man's dis position cannot he changed. A man says. "I am irascible in temper, and I can't help it." Another man says, "I am re vengeful naturally, and I can't help it A man says, "I am impulsive, and I can't help it." And he tells the truth. No man can correct his disposition. T ncA*cr kneAV a man by force of resolution to change his treatment, but by His grace Cod can take away that Avhich is Avrong and put in that which is right, and T know and you know people who, since their con version. are just tho opposite of what they used to be. Tn other words, Ave may, by the spirit of God, have the disposition of Jesus Christ implanted in our disposition, and AVO must haA'E it done or AA*C will neA-er pee heaven. "If any man have not the disposition of Jesus Christ, lie is none of His." In the first place, the spirit of Christ was a spirit of gentleness. Sometimes He made Avrathful utterance against Phari sees and hypocrites, but the most of His words AVC re kind and gentle and loving and inoffensive and attractive. When we consider the fact that lie was omnipo tent. and could have torn to pieces Ilis assailants, the wonder is greater. We of ten bear the persecution and abuse of the Avorld because Ave cannot help it. Christ endured it Avhen ITc could have helned it. Little children who &I\A*AVS shy off at a rough man rushed into Ilis presence and clambered on Him until the people begged the mothers to take them away. Invalids so sore with wounds that they could not hear to haA-e any one come near them begged Christ just to put Ilis hand upon the Around and soothe it. The mother with the sickest child was willing to put tho little one in Christ's arms. Self-rightecus people rushed into His presence with a Avomnn of debased char acter and said. "NOAV, annihilate her. blast her, kill her." Jesus looked at her and fiaAV she was sorry and repentant, and He looked at them, and He saw they Avere proud and arrogant and malignant, and Tie paid, "Lot him that is Avithout sin cast the first stone at her." A blind man sat by tho wayside making a great ado about his lack of vision. They told him to hush up and not bother the Master. Christ stooped to him and said, "What wilt thou that J do unto thee?" Gentleness of \*oice, gentleness of manner, gentleness of life. We all admire it whether Ave have any of it or not. Just as the rough mountain bluff and the scarred crag love to look doAvn into the calm lake at their feet and as tho stormiest Avinter lOA*OS to merge into the .sunshiny spring, so the most pre cipitate and impulsive and irascible nature IOA'PS to think of the gentleness of Christ. I low little AVO haA'e of it! How little pa tience in treating with enemies! Wc have so little of the gentleness of Christ Ave are not fit for Christian work half the time. Wc do not know IIOAA' to comfort the bereft or to encourage the disheart ened or to take care of the poor. Even our voice of sympathy is 011 the Avrong pitch. My sister had her arm put out of joint, and AVC were in the country, ami the neighbors came in, and they were all sym pathetic, and they laid hold of the arm and pulled and pulled mightily until the anguish was intolerable, hut the arm did not go to its place. Then tho old country doctor Avas sent for, ami he came in, and with one touch it Avas all right. Tie knew just where <0 nut his finger and just IIOAV to touch the 00110. We go out to our Christian work Avith too rough a hand and too unsympathetic a manner, and Ave fail in our work, Avhile sonic Christian, in the gentleness of Christ, conies along, put his hand of sympathy on the sore spot, and the torn ligaments are healed, and the disturbed bones are rejoined. Oh, for this gentleness of Christ! The dew of one summer night will ac complish more good than fifty Caribbean w kirhvm gow important It is that in going forth to serve Christ WQ have some thing of His gentleness! Is that tlio way we bear ourselves when AVO are assaulted? The rule is an eye for an eye, t tooth for a tooth, retort for retort, sarcasm for sar casm. Give him as much as he sends! After awhile you look up into the face of Christ, and you see His gentleness, aud you say, "Well, now, I must do different ly." Then your proud heart says: "Now you have your enemy in a corner. You will never get him in a corner again. Chas tise him and then let him go." H'o AA-C postpone the gentleness of Christ. Did you e\'er know any difficulty to be healed by acerbity or hypercnticism? About forty-five years ago the Presbyte rian Church was split into the neAV school and the old school. The chasm got Avider and Avider. The most outrageous person alities Avere indulged in. Good men on one side anathematized good men on the other side. Wider and Avider the chasin got until after awhile some good people tried another tac-k, and they began to ex plain aAvay the difficulties, and soon all the differences were healed, and at Pitts burg they shook hands and are one IIOAV 1 to he one forever. | You say to a man Avith whom you had a falling out, "1 despise you." lie says, "I can't hear the sight of you." You say to him, "I never Avant you to come to my house again." lie says, "If you come to my house again, I'll kick you out." You say, "I'll put you down." "Oh, no," he says, "I'll put you down." But some day the spirit of Christ comes into you and you go o\*er and say: "My brother, give me your hand: time is short and eternity is near, and we can't afford to quarrel. Now let bygones be bygones and let us act like Christians." It is ail settled. How? By the gentleness of Christ Did you ever knoAV a drunkard re claimed by mimicry of his staggering steps, his thick tongue or his hiccough? No. You only madden his brain. But you go to him and let him know you appreciate what an aAvful struggle ho has Avith the evil habit and you let him know that you ha\*e been acquainted Avith people who were down in the same depths who, by the grace of God, ha\*e been rescued. He hears your voice, he responds to that sym pathy, and ho is saved. You cannot scold tho world into anything better. The stormiest wind comes from its hiding place and says, "I will arouse this sea," and it blows upon the sea. Ilalf of the sea is aroused or a fourth of the sea is aroused, yet not the entire Atlantic. But after awhile the moon comes out calm and placid. It shines upon the sea. and the ocean begins to lift. It embraces all the highlands, the beach is nil covered. The heart throb of one world beating against the heart throb of another world. The storm could not rouse the whole Atlnntie; the moon lifted it. "And I," said Christ, "if I be lifted up will draw all men unto Me." Christ's disposition was also one of self sacrifice. No young man ever started out with so bright a prospect as Christ started out with if He had been willing to follow a worldly ambition. Tn the time that He gave to the sick ne might have gathered the vastest fortune of His time. With His power to pomilnr izc Himself nnd magnetize the people He could have gained any official position. No orator ever won such plaudits as He might have won from sanhedrin and cvn ngogue nnd vast audiences by the seaside; no physician ever got such a reputation for healing power as He might have ob tained if He had performed His wonder ful cures before the Roman aristocracy. I say these things to let voti know what. Paul meant when he said, "He pleased not Himself," and to show something of the wonders of His self sacrifice. All human power together could not have thrown Christ into the manger if He had not chosen to go there; nil satanic strength could not have lifted Christ unon the cross if lie had not elected Himself to the torture. To Bftve our race from sin and death and hell Ho faced all the sorrows of this world and the sorrows of eternity. llow much of that self sacrifice have we? What is self sacrifice? It is mv walk ing a long journev to save you from fa tigue: it is mv lifting a great number of pounds to save you from the awful strain: it is a subtraction from my comfort and prosperity so that there may be an addi tion to your comfort and prosperity. How much of that have we? Might not I rather say, "How little have we?" Two children, brother and sister, were passing down the road. They were both very destitute. The lad had hardly any garments at all. His sister had a coat that, she had outgrown. It was a very cold dav. She said. "Johnnie, come un der Ibis coat." "Oh." bo sn?d. "no: the coat isn't large moueh." "Oh," she said, "it will stretch." He comes under the coal, but Ihe coat would not stretch. So slm took off the coat and put it on him. Self sacrifice, pure and simple. Christ taking off His rone to clothe our nakedness Self sacrifice! I have not any of it, nor have you. compared with that.. The sac rifice of the Son of God. Christ walked to Emmans: Christ walked from Capernaum to Bethany; Christ walked from Jerusalem to Gol gotha. ITow far have you and T walked for Christ? His head ached; His heart ached: His back ached. How much have we ached for Christ? How much of that humility have we? If we get a few more dollars than other people or gain a little higher position, oh, now we strut! We go around wanting everybody to know their place and say, "Is not this great Babylon that I have built for tlie honor of my kingdom and by tho might of my strength?" Who lias anything of the humility of Christ? The disposition of Christ was also the spirit of prayer. Prayer on the mount ains, prayer on the sea, praver among the sick—prayer everywhere. Prayer for lit tle children. "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast hidden these things from the wise nnd prudent and revealed them unto babes." Prayer for His friends. "Father, I will that they be with Me where I am. Prayer for His enemies, "Father, forgive them; they know not what they do." Prayer for all nations, "Thy kingdom come." How little of that spirit you nnd I have! How soon our knees get tired! Where is the vial full of odors which are the pray ers of all the saints! Which of us can keen our mind ten minutes 011 a prayer without wandering? Not you: not I. Oh, that we might have tho spirit of prayer which was tuc spirit of Christ! We want more prayer in the family, more prayer in the church, more prayer in the legislative hall, more prayer among the sick, more prayer among the aged, more prayer among the young. The great advancement of the church is to be in that direction yet. The spirit of Christ, I remark lastly, was a spirit of hard work Not one lazy moment in all His life. Whether He was talking to the fishermen 011 tho beach, or preaching to the sailors on the dock, or administering to Ihe rustics amid the mountains, or spending an evening in Bethany, always busy for others. With hands, heart, head, busy for others—hew ing in the Nazareth carpenter shop, teach ing the lame how to walk without crutch es, curing the child's fits, providing ra tions for the hungry host. Busy, busy, busy! The hardy men who nulled the net out of the sea filled with floundering treasures, the shepherds who hunted up grassy plots for their flocks to nibble at, the shipwrights pounding away in the dockyards, the winemakers of Engedi dip ping ttu juices from the vat nnd pouring them into the goatskins, were not more busy than Christ. Busy, busy for others! From the moment lie went out of the car avansary of Bethlehem to the moment when the cross plunged into the socket on the bloody mount busy for others. l)oca that remind you of yourself? It does not remind me of myself. If \rc lift a bur den it must be light; if we do work, it must l>e popular; if we sit in the pew, it must be sale; if we move in a sphere of usefulness, it must lie brilliant; if we have to take hold of a load, give us the light cud of the log. In this way to heavqn fan us, rook us, sing us to sleep. Lift us up toward heaven 011 the tips of your lingers under a silken sunshade. Stand out of the way, all you martyrs who breasted the lire; stand out of tho way ami let this colony of tender fooled modern Chris tians come up and get their crowns! WliaC has your Lord done to you, O Christian, that you should betray him? Who gave you so much riches that you can afford to despise the awards of the faith ful? At this moment, when all the armies of heaven and earth and hell are plunging into the conflict, how can you desert the standard? Oil, backslidden Christian, is it not time for you to start anew for God and anew for heaven? Now, I have shown you that the dispo sition of Christ was a spirit of gentleness, a spirit of self sacrifice, a spirit of humil ity. a spirit of prayer, a spirit of hard work—five points. Will you remember them? Are you ready now for the tre mendous announcement of the text. "If any man has not the spirit of Christ, he is none of His?" Are you ready for that statement? Can we stand up and say, "Yes; we have the spirit of Christ!" Not us can inuke that answer to the full question, yet 1 am to declare to you there is no discouragement in this subject for Christian people. You have the seeds of this character planted in your soul. "It doth not yet appear what we shall be " You might as well blame on acorn for not being an oak of 11 thousand years as to blame yourself because you are not equal to Christ. You have the implanta tion within you which will enlarge and develop into the grandest Christian char acter, and there is no discouragement in this text for you to try to love and serve the Lord. Aim high, bheathe not your sword until you have gained the last' vic tory Climb higher and higher until you reach the celestial hills. Crowns bright and radiant for all the victors, but death to every deserter. Bakers in the Middle Ages. An article in an English technical journal gives some curious details in re gard to bread and bakers in the Middle Ages. Bakers were subject to rigid I laws and close government supervision. In London only farthing and half-penny loaves were allowed to be made. If the baker retailed his own bread he was not allowed to sell it in his own house, be fore it, or before the oven in which it was baked. He was obliged to dispose of it in the market on Tuesdays and Saturdays only, and sometimes on Sun days. A baker of white bread was not allowed to make bread of unbolted flour, and bakers of the latter were not permitted to have a bolting sieve in their possession. They were not allowed to heat their own ovens with fern, stubble or straw or to bake at night. They were not allowed to take back bread from hucksters when once it had become cold. Hotels and keepers of lodging houses were not permitted to bake bread. Private individuals who had no oven of their own were in the habit of sending their flour to be kneaded by their own servants at the moulding boards belonging to the bakers; the loaves being baked in their ovens. The profits of bakers were strictly defined. The quality of bread made was in de gree indicative of the rank of people who ate it. The finest and whitest was called "simncl bread" and was only con sumed by the most luxurious persons occupying high rank and in affluent cir cumstances. The wealthy middle class used "waste bread," which is supposed to have resembled what we know as the French "gateau." Poorer middle class people bought bread of an inferior qual ity called "cockct." A still lower grade was "tourte" made of unbolted meal. It was so called because the loaves had a twisted form. Tourte was used by the humbler classes and the inmates of monasteries. Three other inferior grades of bread were made; by whom consumed it is not stated. Thirty minutes Is all thotlrne required to Jyo with PUTNAM FADELESS DIES. Sold by oil druggists. More steel is used in the manufacture of pens than in all the sword and gun factories in the world. A ton of steel produces about 10,000 gross of pens. The limt Prescription for Chills and Fover la a bottle of GROVE'S TASTELESS CHII.L TONIC. It la simply irou and quinine lu u tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Prloo 500. Everything points to one of the larg est apple crops this season in the his tory of Nova Scotia. Worms eradicated. Children made woll and mothers happy by Frey's Wrmlfug •, 25c. Druggists and oountry stores. Octopus is largely eaten in the Isle of Jersey. Fits permanently cured. No flta or nervous, noea after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Groat Nerve Restorer, fed trial bottlo and treatise tree. Dr. it. ILKLINE.Ltd.O3I Arch bt.Pkllu.Pa. Forty-two inventions relating to cy cles were taken out last year by women. Plso's Cure cannot bo too highly spoken of m a cough euro.—J. W. O'BRIEN, 322 Third Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. C, 1900. A Jersey City justice was recently paid a marriage fee of io cents. Throw physio to tne aogs—it you com want the dogs: but If you want good diges tion chew Lceman's Pepsin Gum. Germany is largely strengthening her navy and army in the Far East To Cure a Cold In One Day. Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABLETS. All drucglxtK refund tho money If it falls to euro. K. W. GROVE'S signature lu UN each box. £sc. Two-thirds of the teachers in the pub lic schools of Chile are women. M rs. Window's Rooming Fyiap for children teeth In:', softens the gums, reduces infiamimv tion. allays pain.cures wind colic.2sc a buttle. The population of Zululand is 150,000, of whom only 500 are Europeans. //jl ~ No matter tow pleasant your surroundings /y I Q | health, good health, is the foundation for en /f (J J) (T L I joyn-.ent. Bowel trouble causes more aches and /J It t pains than all other diseases together, and when j you gfet a good dose of bilious bile coursing ( f fjt \ It j through the blood life's a hell on earth. Millions Jf' Y V \ are doctoring for chronic ailments that S —l XS ° started with bad bowels, and they will n*.ver ) A/T \\ get better till the bowels are right. You know I I ri 1 , \ how it is—you neglect—get irregular —-first i I\ \ fcrl / f suffer with a slight headache—bad taste, in the 1\ l n I \\ /\\\\l l\J mouth mornings, and general "all gone" feeling" I|\ ] / 'm. \/l\ | | 1Y" during the day—keep on going from bad to .| I I \/j Wfk J /II I - w °rse untill the suffering becomes awful, life 'X L \ / \ /II I ill -J\ loses its charms, and there is many a one that U \l l V ~JJj I has been driven to suicidal relief. Educate your \ \~~y| ■~~!\ K boweb with CASCARETS. Don't neglect the ll I '{ slightest irregularity. See that you have one -UKJ ;Ht natural, easy movement each day. CASCA .. , . I \. RETS tone the boweb —make them strong— -1 Q and after you have used them once you will wonder why it is that you have ever been without them. You will find all your other disorders commence to get better at once, and soon you will be well by taking— THE " )KAI - LAXATIVE loc -25c. 50c. DRUGGISTS To any needy mortal suffering from bowel troubles and too poor to buy CVISCVI/?£7"5 we will scr.d a boa free. Address Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement and paper. 131 _ """k-\ i i ■ Km . . -.1 J ,s Every mother possesses information of vital value to her [ young daughter. That daughter is a precious legacy, and | the responsibility for her future is largely in the hands of the I mother. _ The mysterious change that develops the thought less girl into the thoughtful woman should find the mother f on the watch day and night. As she cares for the phvsical well-being of her daughter, so will the woman be, and her £ children also. When the young girl's thoughts become sluggish, when [ she experiences headaches, dizziness, faintness, and exhibits an abnormal disposition to sleep, pains in the back and lower limbs, eyes dim, desire for solitude, and a dislike for the society of other girls, when she is a mystery to herself and [ friends, then the mother should go to her aid promptly. At jj such a time the greatest aid to nature is Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound. It prepares the youn"- system for the ooming change, and is the surest reliance in this hour of trial. The following letters from Miss Good are practical proof of Mrs. Pmkham s efficient advice to young women. Miss Good asks Mrs. Pinkham for Help. „ _ _ June 12th, 1599. OR AT? MRS. PINKHAM : —I have been very much bothered for some time with my monthly periods being- irregular. I will tell vou all about it, and put myself In your care, for I hare heard so much of you Each month menstruation would become less and less, until it entirely stopped for six months, and now it has stopped again. I have become verv ncr vous and of a very bad color. lam a young ffirl and have always had to ii ■ ■ ' 'h| WOl *k T ry hard. I would t>e very much pleased if I you woula tell mo what to do."—Miss PEARL GOOD, I Co*. 20th Avunuo *nd Yeslar Way, Seattle, Wash. 1 Tha Happy Result. w_ February 10th, 1900. RA- " DEAR MRS. PNTKHAM:—I cannot praise Lydia yi , a r/ H. Pinkhura's Vegetable Compound enough. It is y J just simply wonderful tlic change your medicine \ 3 has made In me. I feel like another person. My _ SjA work is now a pleasure to me, while before using I your medicine it was a burden. To-day I am a Arfttl healthy and happy girl. I think if more women > 1 V would uso y° ur v egetable Compound there would be IcKR fiufferin £ in the world. I cannot express the rffjSilvfrw. M\ \"f 7 1 I have experienced by using Lydia E. Pink- MISS PEARL GOOD | ham 3 Vegetable Compound."—Miss PEARL GOOD, Cor. 29th Avenuo and Yeslar Way, Seattle, Wash. th® l?enuienesßof th< 1 i 1 1 N 1 1 deposited with the National Citjr^ank,"!!? B H |D ■JJ which will lvj paid to any person who ran shew that the above wnter's special ponnission.—LvDiA £. PINKHAM MBDICI.NB Co! 16
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