Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1892 — Page 11
TITE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1802 TWELVE RAGES. V
ON TIIE NEW YEAR.
R. TALMAGE PLEACHES A SERMON ABOUT 1892. Text of Ills Discourse, "This Tear Thoa Shalt Die," from Jeremiah xxvUl, 16. Lson of Importance Dwelt Upon by . the Talented Preacher. Brookltx, Jan. 3. This morning the Talwrnacle congregation, meeting for the first Sumlayservice of the new year, found tlie p;istor disposed to serious reflections 6n the flight of time. The opening hynin tjave the keynote in the familiar wonLi: lly days are gliding swiftly by. And I. a pilgrim stranger. Would cot detain them as they fly. Those hoars of toil and danger. Dr. Talmase read several passages relating to antetli'urian longevity, making characteristic comments as he read, and then preached from the ominous words, Jeremiah xxviii, lö, "This year thou ehalt die." Jeremiah, accustomed to saying bold things, addressed Hananiah in these words. They proved true. In sixty days Hananiah hal departed this life. This is the ürst Sabbath of the year. It is a time for review and for anticipation. A man mut he a genius at stupidity who does not think now. The old year died in giving birth to the new, as the lifo of Jane Seymour, the Knglish queen, departed when that of her sou, Edward VI, dawned. The old year was a quet u. The new shall be a kinji. The grave of the one and the cradle of the ot her are side by side. We can hardly guess what the child will be. It is only two days old, but I prophesy for it an eventful future. Year of mirth and madness! Year of pageant and conaagration.' It will laugh; it will sing; it will roan; it will die. Is it not a time for earnest thought? The congratulations have Wen given. The Christmas trees have Wen taken down or have well nigh cast their fruit. The friends who came for the holidays are gone in the rail train. While we are looking forward to another twelve mouths of intens activities the text breaks upon us like a bursting thunderhead, "This year thoa shait did" TKCE OF SOME OF U3. The text will probaldy prove true of eorr.e of us. The probability is augmented by the fact that all of us who are over thirty-five years of a ze have gone beyond the average of human life. The note is more than due. It is only by sufferance that it is not collected, We are like a debtor who is taking the "three days' grace" of the banks. Our race started with nine hundred years for a lifetime. We rejul of but one antediluvian youth whose early death disappointed the hopes of his parents by his dying at seven hundred an 1 seventy-seven years of age. The world then may have We:i ahead of what it is now, for men had so long a time in which to study and invent and plan. If an artist or a philosopher has forty years for work, he makes great achievements; but what must the artists and philosophers have done who had nine hundred years before them? In the nearly two thousand years before the flood, considering the longevity of the inhabitants, there may have been cearly as many people as there are now. The flood was not a treshet, that washed a few people oil a plank, but a disaster that may have swept away a thousand million. If the Atlantic ocean by a lurch of the earth tonight should drown this hemisphere and the Pacific ocean by a sudden lurch of the earth should drown the other hemisphere, leaving about as many Wings as could be got In one or two ocean steamers, it would give you an idea of what the ancient flood was. At that time God started the race with a shorter allowance of life. The nine hundred years were hewn down until, in the time of Vespasian, a census was taken and only one hundred and twenty-four persons were found one hundred years old and three or four persons one hundred and forty years old. Sow a m.;n who has come to one hundred 3-ears of age is a curiosity, and we go miles to see him. The vast majority of the race passes olF Wfore twenty years. To every apple there are live blossoms that never get to W apples. Ia the country church the sexton rins the Wil rapidly until almost through and then tolls it. For awhile the Wll of our life rings risht merrily, but with some of you the bell has begun to toll, and the adaptedness of the text to you is more and more probable, "This year thou shalt die." OCCCTATIOX AXD CLIMATE DIUVE US OX. The character of our occupations adds to the proluJuliry. Those who are in the professions an undergoing a sapping of the arain and nerve foundations. Literary lien in this country are driven with whip nd spur to their topmast speed. Sot one !rain worker out of a hundred observes my moderation. There is something so itimulating in our climate that if John Brown, the essayist of Edinburgh, had lived here, he would have broken down at thirty-live instead of fiity-fiv. and Charles Dickens would have dropped at forty. There is something in all our occupations which predisposes to disease. If we be rtout, to disorders ranging from fevers to apoplexy. If we W frail, to diseases ranging from consumption to paralysis. Printers rarely reach fifty years. Watchmakers, !n marking the time for others, shorten their own. Chemists breathe death in their laboratories, and potters absorb paralysis. Painters fall under their own brush. Fouairymen take death in with the filings. Shoemakers pound away their own lives on the hVt. Overdriven merchants measure off tueir own lives with the yardstick. Jliilersfirind their own lives with the grist. Masons dig their graves with the trowel. And in all our occupations and professions there are the elements of periL Itapid climatic changes threaten our live. IJy reason of the violent fits of the thermometer, within twodayswe live both in the arctic and the tropic. The warm south wind finds ns with our furs on. The wintry blast cuts through our thin apparel. The hoof, tiie wheel, tie firearm, the assassin, wait their chance to put upon us their quietus. I announce it as an impossibility that three hundred and sixtylive days should pass and leave us all as we now are. In what direction to shoot the arrow I know nt, and so I shoot it at a venture. "This year thou shalt die." WORDS Or ADVICE. In view of this, I advise that you hare your temporal matters adjusted. Do not leave your worldly affairs at the mercy of administrators. Have your receipts properly pasted, and your letters filed, and your bocks balanced. If you have "trust funds," see that they are rightly deposited and accounted for. Let no widow or orphan scratch on your tombstone, "This man wronged me of my inheritance." laay a man has died, leaving a competency, whose property has, through his own carelessness, afterward Wen divided between the administrators, the surrogate, the lawyers and the sheriffs. I charge yoi, before many days have gone, as far as possible. Lave all your worldly matters made atraiirht. for "This year thou shalt die." I advise, also, that yon be bnsy in Christian work. How many Sabbaths in the year? Fifty-two. If the text he true of you it does not say at what time you may go, and therefore it is unsafe to count on all of the fifty-two Sundays. As you are as likely to go in the first half of the year as in the last half, I think we had better divide the fifty-two into halves and calculate only twenty-six Sabbaths. Come, Christian men. Christian women, what can Jon do ia twenty-six Sabbaths? Divide the tiree hundred and sixty-five days into two marts, what can you do in one hnnjlred and lghty-two days? What, by the way of sarjbg your family, the church and the world? Jfou will not, through all the ages of eternity in heaven, get over the dishonor and
the outrage of going into glory, and having helped none up to the same place. It will he found that many a Sabliath school teacher has taken into heaven her whole class; that Daniel Baker, the evangelist, took thousands into heaven; that Doddridge has taken in hundreds of thousands; that Paul took in a hundred millions. How many will you take in? If you get into heaven and find none there that you sent and that there are none to come through your instrumentality, I Wgof you to crawl under some seat in the back corner and never come out lest the redeemed get their eyes on you and some one cry out, "That is the man who never lifted hand or voice for the redemption of his fellows. Look at him, all heaven!" Better W busy. Better put the plow in deep. Better say what you have to say quickly. Better cry the alarm. Better fall on your knees. Better
lay hold with Wth hands. What you now J leave undone for Christ will forever be undone. "This year thou shalt die!" GET RE A Ii T. In view of the probabilities mentioned, I advise all the men and women not ready for eternity to get ready. If the text be true, you have no time to talk aWut nonessentials, asking why (Jod let sin come into the world; or whether the book of Jonah is insjxired; or who Melchisedec was; er what about the eternal decrees. If you are ;ts near eternity as some of you seem to be, there is no time for anything but the question, "What must I do to W saved?" The drowning man, when a plank is thrown him, stops not to ask what sawmill made it, or whether it is oak or cedar, or who threw it. The moment it is thrown, he clutches it. If this year you are to die, there i3 no titne for anything but immediately laying hold en God. It is high timo to get out of your sins. You say, "I have committed no great transgressions," But are you not aware that your life has let n sinful? The snow comes down on the Alps flake by flake, and it is so light that you may hold it on the tip of your linger without feeling any weight; but the flakes gather; they compact, until some day a traveler's foot starts the slide, and it goes down in an avalanche, crushing to death the villagers. So the sins of your youth, and the sins of your manhood, and the sins of your womanhood may have seemed only slight inaccuracies or tri.1in.ij divergences from the right so slight that they are hardly worth mentioning, but they have been piling up and piling up, packing together and packing together, until they make a mountain of sin, and o.ie more step of your foot in the wrong direction may slide down upon you an avalanche of ruin and condemnation. A man crossing a desolate and lonely plateau, a hungry wolf took after him. Ha brought his guu to his shoulder and took aim, and the wolf howled with pain, and the cry woke up a pack of wolves, and they came ravening out of the forest from all sides and horribly devoured him. Thou art the man. Some one sin of your life summoning on all the rest, they surround thy soul and make the night of thy sin terrible with the assault of their bloody muzzles. Oh, the unpardoned, clamoring, ravening, all devouring sins of thy lifetime! A maniac was found pacing along the road with a torch in one hand and a pail of water in the other, and some one asked him what he meant to do with them. He answered, "With this torch I mean to burn down heaven, and with this water I meau to put out the Hies of hell." He was a maniac lie could do the one thing just us well as he could do the other. No time to lose if you want to escape jour sins for "This year thou shalt die." Let me announce that Christ, the Lord, stands ready to save any man who wants to bo saved. He waited for you nil last year, and all the year before, and all your life. He has waited for you with blood on his brow and tears in his eye. and two outstretched, mangled hands of love. You come home some night and find the mark of muddy feet on your front steps. You hasten in and find an excited group around your child. He fell into a pond, and had it not W'.'n for a brave lad, who plunged in and brought him out and carried him home to be resuscitated, you would have been childless. You fel that you cannot do enough for the ivcuer. You throw your arms arouud him. You offer him any compensation. You say to him: "Anything that you want shall he yours. I will never cease to W grateful." But my Lord Jesus sees your soul sinking, and attempts to bring it ashore, and you not only refuse him thanks, but stand on the Wach and say: "Drop that soul! If I want it saved, I will save it myself." 1 wish 3011 might know what a job Jesus undertook when he carried your case to Calvary. They crowded him to the wall. They struck him. They spat on him. They kicked him. They culled him. They scoffed at him. They scourged him. They murdered him Blood! blood! As he stoops down to lift you up the crimson drops upon you from his brow, from his side, from his hands. Do you not feel the warm current on your face? Oh, for thee the hunger, the thirst, the thorn sting, the suffocation, the darkness, the groan, the sweat, the struggle, the death! A great plague came in Marseilles. The doctors held a consultation and decided that a corpse must be dissected or they would never know how to stop the plague. A Dr. Guyon said, "Tomorrow morning I will proceed to a dissection." He made his will; prepared for death; went into the hospital; dissected a hotly; wrote out the results of the dissection and died in twelve hours. Beaut Ad self sacrifice, you say. Our Lord Jesus looked out from heaven and saw a plague stricken race. Sin must he dissecteL He made his will, giving everything to his people. Ho comes down into the reeking hospital of earth. He lays his hand to the work. Under our plague he dies the healthy for the sick, the pure for the pollated, the innocent for the guilty. Behold the love! Behold the sacrifice! Behold the rescue! WILL rOU HAVE JESUS? Decide on this first Sabbath of the year whether or not 3011 will have Jesus. Be will not stand forever Wggingfor your love. With some here his plea ends right speedily. "This year thou shait die." This great salvation of the Gospel I now offer to every man, woman and child. You cannot buy it. You cannot earn it. A Scotch writer says that a poor woman one cold winter's day looked through the window of a king's conservatory and saw a bunch of grapea hauling against the glass. She said, "Oh, if I only had that bunch of grapes for my sick child at hcne!" At her spinning wheel she earned a few shillings and wt-nt to buy the grapes. The king's gardener thrust l.er out very roughly, and said he had no grapes to selL She went off and sold a blanket and got some more shillings, and vame back and tried to buy the grapes. But the gardener roughly as- J sau iteu ner auu tout ber to ue oil. The king's daughter was walking in the garden at the time, and she heard the excitement, and seeing the poor woman, said to her, "My father is not a merchant to sell, but he is a king and gives." Then she reached up and plucked the grapes and dropped them in the poor woman's apron. So Christ fa a king, and all the fruits of his pardon he freely gives. They may not be bought. Without money and without price, take this sweet cluster from the vineyards of GoL I am coming to the close of my sermon. I sought for a text appropriate for the occasion. I thought of taking one in Job, ".My days fly as a weaver's shuttle;' of a text in Psalms, "So teach us to numWr our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom;" of the prayer of the vine dresser, "Lord, let it alone this year also;" but pressed upon my attention first of all, and last of all, and above all, were the words, "ThU year thou ahalt die." Perhaps it may mean me. Though in perfect health now, it does not take God one week to bringdown the strongest physical constitution. I do not want to die this year. We have plans and projects qu
foot that I want to see completed; but God knows best, and he has a thousand Wtter men than I to do the work yet undone. I have a hope that, notwithstanding all my sins and wanderings, I shall, through the infinite mercy of my Saviour, come out at the right place. I have nothing to brag of by way of Christian experience; but two things I have learned my utter helplessness Wfore God and the all abounding grace of the Lord Jesus. If the text means some of you, my hearers, I do not want you to he caught unprepared. I would like to have you, cither through money you have laid up or a "life insurance," be able to leave the world feeling that your family need not Wcome paupers. But if you have done your best and you leave not one dollar's worth of estate, you may confidently trust the Ixrd who hath promised to care for the widow and the fatherless. I would like to have your soul fitted out for eternity, so that if any morning or noon or evening or night of these three hundred and sixty-five days, death should look in and ask, "Are you ready?" you might, with an outburst of Christian triumph, answer, "Aye, aye! all ready." LAST WOr.DS. I know not what our last words may be. IiOrd Chesterfield prided himself on his politeness, and said in his last moment, "Give Dayrolles a chair." Dr. Adam, a dying schoolmaster, said: "It grows dark. The Wiys may dismiss." Lord Tenterden, supposing himself on the Wnch of a courtroom, said in his last moment, "Gentlemen of the jury, you will now consider your verdict." A dying play actor said: "Drop the curtain. The farce is played out." I won hi rather have for my dying words those of one greater than Chesterfield or Dr. Adam or Iord Tenterlield: "I am now ready to W offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, 1 have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me." The sooner the last hour comes the Wtter if we are fitted for entrance in the celestial world. There is no clock in heaven, Wcauso it is an everlasting day; yet they keep an account of the passing years, because they are all the time hearing from our world. The angels flying through heaveu report how many times the earth has turned on its axis, and in that way the angels can keep a diary; and they say it is almost time now for father to come up, or for mother to come up. Some day they see a cohort leaving heaven, and they say, "Whither bound?" and the answer is, "To bring up a soul from earth;" and the question is asked, "What soul?" And a family circle in heaven find that it is one of their own number that is to ho brought up, and they come out to watch, as on the Wach we now watch for a ship that is to bring our friends home. After a while the cohort will heave in sight, flying nearer and nearer, until with a great clang the gates hoist, and with an embrace, wild with the ecstacy of heaven, old friends meet again. Away with your stiff, formal heaven! I want none of it. Give me a place of infinite and eternal sociality. My feet free from the clods of t arth, I shall Wund the hills with gladness and break forth in a laugh of triumph. Aha! aha! We weep now, but then we shall laugh. "Abraham's Wsom" means that heaven has open arms to take us in. Sow we fold our arms over our heart, and tell the world to stand back, as though our bosom was a two barred gate to keep the world out. Heaven stands not with folded arms, but with heart on. It is "Abraham's bosom." I see a mother and her child meeting at the foot of the throne after some years' absence. The child died twenty years ago but it is a child yet. CHILDREN TO ALL ETERXITT. I think the little ones who die will remain children through all eternity. It would W no heaven without the little darlings. I do not want those that are in heaven to grow up. We need their infant voices in the great song. And when we walk out in the fields of light, we want them to run ahead and clap their hands and pick out the brightest of the field flowers. Yes, here is a child and its mother meeting. The child long in glory, the mo' her just arrived. "How changed you are, my darling!" says the mother. "Yes," says the child, "this is such a happy place, and Jesus has taken such care of me. and heaven is so kind, I got right over the fever with which I died. The skits are so fair, mother! The Cowers are so sweet, mother! The temple is so beautiful, mother! Come, take me up in your arms as you used to." Oh, I do not know how we shall stand the first day in heaven. Do you not think we will break down in the song from over delight? I once gave out in church the hymn: There is a land of pure delight. Where saints immortal reign, nni an aged man standing in front of the pulpit s;ing heartily the first verse and then he sat down weeping. I said to him afterward, "Father Linton, what made you cry over that hymn?" Be said, "I could not stand it the joys that are coming." When heaven rises for the doxology I cannot see how we can rise with it if all these waves of everlasting delight come upon the soul billow of joy after billow of joy. Methinks Jesus would W enough for the first day in heaven, yet here h6 approaches with all heaven at his back. But I must close this sermon. This is the last January to some who are present. You have entered the year, but you will not close it. Within these twelve months your eyes will shut for the last sleep. Other hands will plant the Christmas tree and give the New Year's congratulations. As a proclamation cf T.y to some and jw a warning to others, I leave in your cars these five words of one syllable each, "This year thou shalt die!" Sparrow Farming in Kansas. On the bank of the Kaw river, aWut two miles above Iawrence, Kan., is a farm oa which is probably the most unique business in the west. The English sparrow has always Wen looked upon as an outlaw among birds and a pest to man, but J. D Norton has an eye to business, and thought there was money in the little birds if they wera properly handled. He got a3 many as he could collect and took them to his place, where ho had arranged houses and corners for them to build their nests and propagate. All along the river there grows a tall weed which W-ar3 a seed especially liked by-the birds, and the sparrows soon found it out and made their homo contentedly on the farm. This was four years ago and the little fellows have multiplied in a marvelous manner. Mr. Norton is now reaping the benefit of his foresight, and is supplying the market with birds at good round prices. They are Bold as sparrows at all seasons, but when they reach the tables of the firrl class hotels and restaurants in Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago they beconia reedbirds and rieebirds, according to the beason. The birds have accumulated by the thousands, and now the whole country is alive with them. Mr. Norton has the business down to a system and does not flood the market with them, but sells just enough to keep the hotels scantily supplied, and thus keeps the price up. The birds multiply so rapidlr that there is no danger of their Wing depopulated. Cor. Boston Glooa. A Man of the World. Beggar Please, sir, will ye lend me a dime ter git somethin ter eat? Gentleman You've got a quarter in your hand now. What's that for? Beggar That's ter tip th' waiter. New York Weekly. A Strong Hint. Old Boarder You don't spell soup with an "It," do you? Mrs Slimdiet Certainly not. Why? Old Boarder I thought not; I noticed there wasn't any oyster in it. New York IUrahl
OVERCOME WITH WINE.
LESSON II!, FIRST QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, JAN. 17. Text of the Lesson. Isa., zxvlii. 1-13. Slomorj Verves. 6-7 tiohlen Text, rrv. xx, t Commentary by the Ilev. Ii. 91. Stearns. As most of the verses in this lesson are too long to quote In full in these brief notes 1 must Wg the reader to peruse with Bible in hand, as should always W done, otherwise lesson helps may Wcome a suare and hindrance. L "Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, overcome with wine." This is a lesson of warning to the seusuous, self indulgent unWlievers in Israel a curse pronounced upon them instead of the blessing which might have Wen theirs had they only Wen willing and obedient (Isa. i, 13, HO). Observe how this and the next three chapters Wgins with "Woe!" then "Behold a righteous king" (xxxii, 1); another woe, a judgment, and then the kingdom comes (xxxv, 1-10). 2. "Behold the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, who shall cast down to tlie earth with the hand." Head verses 16, 17 and see what the mighty and strong one might have been to them had they built upon Him, but what He will W Wcause of their sin. 3. "The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall W trodden under feet." Nations and individuals choose their own destiny. If willing now to find their joy in God and in His will, proving that His love is Wtter than wine (Cant, i, 2) then all the joys of Bis kingdom shall be theirs; but if the3' prefer the joys of the vine of the earth, they must expect to suffer the wrath of God Itev. xiv, IS, 19. 4. "And the glorious Wauty which is on the head of the fat valley shall be a fading flower." The terraced and luxuriantly fruitful hills of Samaria are a symbol of excessive worldly luxuriance and pleasure, Israel was placed in a land Cowing with milk and honey that she might glorify God as the author and giver of every gift the enjoyed; but when she enjoyed her luxuries and forgot God she only wrought sorrow for herself, discarding an eternal for a present joy which proved 03I7 a fading flower. 5. "In that day shall the Lord of Hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of Wauty, unto the residue of His people." Unto the remnant who shall be left after the judgments have fallen God shall he an eternal excellency. They are spoken of -s but a third part cf the nation, but they shall he His people and He will W their God, (Zech xiii. 8, 0). Not only shall He be their ciown of glory, but thy shall be His " crown of glor and a royal diadem in His hand (Isa. Ixii, S). G. "And for a spirit of judgment to Him that siUeth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn tlie battle ta the gate."- He will bo wisdom to the rulers who rule for Him, and He will W the strength of all who tight for Him and drive the enemy from their gates. The Lord is a God of judgment (or discernment) chapter xxx, 13, and all who rely upon Him will have wisdom given thenr to decide rightlj. 7. "But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way. They err in vision they stumble in judgment." And these were the priests and prophets who should have led the people in the right way. There is a wisdom of this world which intoxicates and blinds people to the truth of God, many teachers and preachers thus err and stumble nowadays and multitudes are led astray by them. Test all oy Isa viii, 20. H. V. 8. "For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness. so that there is no place clean." As disgusting and abominable as such results of drunkenness are, so is ail spiritual uncleanness ml uuhoüness in the sight of God. As a refined und temperate person abhors the company of the drunken an 1 profane, we may in some small measure imagine how loat hsome to God must be the worldly-and pleasure loviDg who War His name. He says Be will spt w them out of His mouth (Iiev. iii, Iii). 9. "Whom shall He teach knowledge? and whom shall He make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from tho milk and drawn from the breasts." This may W the sneer of the drunkards at the prophet, whom they think talks to them as if they wera children. Or it may be the Spirit of the Ixrd seeking such as He may guide into tlrn truth. If the latter, we cannot help thinking of Paul's difiicttlty with some believers (see I Cor. iii, I, 2, Heb. v, 12-14), and praying that we may not be babes like them, but able to tat some strong meat. 10. "For precept must he upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little and there a little." So blind are we to spiritual things, and so slow to learn that we must have the same truths repeated over and over again. Thus the Saviour taught, and so we must teach also, with patience and perseverance and loving kindness, relying upon the Spirit to make us "apt to teach" (II Tim. ii, 24). 11. "For with stammering lips and another tongue will He speak to this people." As they stammer in their drunkenness, so He wiil speak to them bj' those who in their estimation are stammerers. Paul was considered by some to W, as to his bodily presence, weak, and as to his speech contemptible (II Cor. x, 10). So also wera the prophets despised and hated Wcause of the message they carried (Jer. xi, 19; xx, 8). 12. "To whom He said. This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing. Yet they would not hear." lie would give them rest and fullness of joy, but His word was to them a weariness, a series of trivial commands and they would not hear. In quietness "and confidence might they live if they would only return to and rest in Him; but they would not (Isa. xxx, 15). So also did Jesus complain of them. 13. "But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept that they might go, and fall backward and le broken and snared and taken." The same Gospel gives life and causes death, gives blessing or cursing, joy or sorrow the first if received, the last if rejected (II Cor. ii, 15, 16. Math, xiii, 14, 15; Isa. vi, U, 10). Let ail who live only for the present, and are thus intemperate, whether giveu to wine or not, take heed to this warning, bear the word of the Lord and learn to delight in Him. But we might also ask, ii it not as plainly written that "Except a man he born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John iii, 3), and yet multitudes of church goers and church memWrs who kuow nothing of the new birth are vainly dreaming of safety and of peace. It is written that without shedding of blood there Is no remission, for it is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul (Heb. ix, 22; Lev. xvii, 11), and yet many will ' not hear of the blood of atonement, but vaiü!y think to reach heaven without it. Let all tuxr.U remember that the coming storm will sweep awav the refuge of lies. Not a Happy Home. Little Johnny Fizzletop was punished because he had punched the baby in the stomach. "Well, that Wats all. If I am not allowed any privileges in this house I don't care for family life," replied the aggrieved youth. "I'll go west and have some fun killing Indians." Texas Sittings. The Massachusetts state branch of the International order of King's Daughters has now 31(5 circles, containing 4,821) members of the order and enough independent members to make, the total 4,'XS. The youngest member is two mouths old. the eldest twnf.ven ream.
IT'S ONLY A TRIFLE.
4 Roy Who Kobhetl Apple Trees and a Little Maiden Who Ueseuecl the Thief. A Wy was walking along a road by the lide of an orchard. He saw the rosy apples hanging on the trees onl3 just on the other side of the fence. His mouth watered. Be said to himself: "It's only a trifle! The owner will never miss one apple out of all these hrndreds, and I am sure he would give me one if he were here and I were to ask him." And so the hoy would not li-ten to the voice within, which said, "Thou shalt not steal." THE TOT IX THE ArPLE TREE. lie leaped the fence and soon was in the tree, where he plucked the biggest apple on it. And then bethought, "Well, as I have taken one, I may as well take two or three;" and so he filled his hat with the tempting fruit. But this was no sooner done than the owner came around a corner, and with a heavy whip in one hand and a revolver in the other b;wle the boy comedown. The angry man caught him by the collar and dragged him to his house. "This is the young rascal who has Wen stealing our apples. He must W locked up in the stable until the policeman comes to take him to jail," said he to his wife. Fortunately for the lad. the owner of the orchard h;id a little daughter, who heard his words. She did not say to herself, "Oh, he's a poor Wy; it serves him right for Wing a thief; it's only a trifle, not worth my troubling myself about." She was sorry for the poor boy who had done wrong; and though she saw that her father was vcy angry, yet she ran to him and with her eyes brimming with tears, Wgged him to forgive the Wy. And the boj who had been sullen and hard under all the rough and angry words of the man, was softened when he heard the maiden pleading for him and said that he was very sorry, and that, if he were only forgiven this time, he would try to show that he did not mean to be a thief. And then the father, after he had talked kindly to him, let him go for the sake of his little loving maiden, and he made him take the apples as a gift, though he wished to leave them. In this story we see how trifles mr.y do much for evil or for good. The Wy thought taking an apple only a trifie; yet if he had not Wen found out he might have gone on, as man- have done, from stealing an apple to stealing money, and then to breaking into housos, and at last even to murder, and the little, maiden, who did not negl -t to do what she might have thought a trilling act of kindness, may go on to do other good bleeds till she becomes a great blessing to the worhL as Miss Nightingale, who went forth from her English home to nurse the soldiers in the Crimean war, or our own Miss Clara Barton, whose good deeds are equally well known in this country. So we must never sa of anj"thing, good or bad. "It's only a trifle!" There icallj- is no such thing as a t rille. Alphabetical Hut ions. There isa pleasant game for winter evenings known in some localities as "AlphaWtica.1 Kations." Now alphaWtical rations is eating buly by the letters of the alphaWt. An illustration furnished by the Florida Dispatch makes this game plain: Tommy can only eat what Wgins with A and he says apples, alewivcs, aigs, apricots. Tommy pays a forfeit fur aigs. Jennie has K. She cati on 1' live on eggs and eels. X, Y .and Z have a hard time and pay innumerable forfeits for bad spelling Some queer articles of food are thought of and each child learns something about edibles that they probably never thought of before, if some older person is umpire in the game. Tommy won't forget that aigs are eggs. The Great Anteater. In the tropical regions of South America there l'-cs a big, hairy, queer looking creature that is known as the anteater, or ant W-ar, of whose appearance the picture here given conveys a good impression. It has a lanky head and snout, a bushy tail, which it throws over its body as a kind of . . . t 5 ANTEÄTEK3 AT DIXXER. coverlet during its sleep when the blazing sun is high, and a very long, slender tongue, by means of which it draws ants out of their hills. Insects are the chief food of this animal, which is dull and stupid. Although the anteater is so stupid, when provoked it will show fight, and its strength is such that it can crush its enemy to death. It Wlongs to the order of toothless animals, of which the Cape anteater an entirely different creature so far as looks go is also a member. POOR AND YET RICH. Ft wealth on earth except that Godlike gift, A haiiy nature ami unbroken health, AaJ sweet contented heart thoughts which can lift The soul to heav'n itself, if this be wealth. Ko Joy on earth except It be to watch The ev'ninij crimson tinueint; earth and sky: Or burden of the wild birus song to catch When bcentei! niht winds hum their lullaby. No rank on earth except his rank who stands Free, pare b:foro his Cod and asks to know That perfect justice at Bis mighty hand Omniscient mercy only can bestow, No hope on earth except that timo shall free Bis soul at last to pass Wyond death's portal. Where wealth and joy and rank and hope shall be The heritage of all who once were mortal. Margaret Thomas in Youth's Companion. Brotherly Criticism. It is unwise, as a general thing, to ask other people what they think of our work. The result may he unpleasant Wth for them and for us. Two ministers were discussing the process of sermon writing. "Now, with me," said one of them, "the only really hard things to manage are the introduction and the conclusion. You rememWr the sermon I preached at the installation of Brother So-and-so not long aro? Well, I flattered myself that the exordium and the peroration of that sermon were pretty well done. Do you remember what you thought of them" "Yes," said the other minister; "I remember thinking they were very good, but too far auart." Youth's Companion.
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