Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1892 — Page 11

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, "WEDNESDAY MORNING, .TANUAliY 27, 1S!)2-TVEIVE l'AGES.

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DR. TALMAGE FINDS IMPRESSIVE LESSONS IN THE ECHO. l"h Echoes of a Moral Eiampla In One Family and an Kxample f Mural Indifference la Another Eternity to Kcho tho Doing of Time. UKOOKLTN. Jan. 17. Dr. Talmage KAve a Dew illtutratiou in his sermou this morning of hLs mastery of the art of drawing spiritual lexson from common natural phenomena. Hw subject whs "Echoes," and hi- text, Kzekiel rli, 7. "The sounding again of the mountains." At l5t I hare found it. The Bible ha in It a recognition of all phases of the natural world from the aurora of the midnight heavens to the phosphorescence of the tumljlinc; sea. Hut the well known sound that we call the Echo I found not until a few days ago 1 dicoYered it in my text, "The Mounding aaiu of the mountains." That is the Kcho. Kzekiel of the text heard it lucain and again. Bora among mountains, and in his jourrey to distant exile, he had passed arrionsj mountain, and it was natural that all through hi writing there should loom up the mountains. Among them he had heard the !oiin.l of cataract and of tempest in wrestle with oak and cellar, and the voices of the wild leate. but a man of so poetic a nature as Kzekiel could not allow another sound, viz.. the Kcho. to be disregarded, and so Le given n in our text "The souudluH. aaiu of the mountains." (iretk mythology represented the Echo a a nymph, the daughter of Earth and Air. following Narcissus through forests and into grottoes and everywhither, and so strange ami weird and startling is the Echo 1 do not wonder that the uperstitious have Sifted it into the supernatural. You und 1 in loyhood or girlhood experimented with this responsiveness of Bound. Standing half way Ix-tween the house and barn, we shouted many a time to hear the reverleratioiis, or out among the mountains back of our home, on some long tramp, we stopped and made exclamation with full lungs just to hear what Kzekiel calls "The yomidiüg again of the mountains.'' The Echo has frightened many a child and many a man. It i no tame thing after you have spoken to hear the same words repeated by the invisible. All the silences are filled with voices ready to answer. Vet it would not be so startling if they aid something else, but why do those lips of the air say just what y6u say? Do they mean to mock or mean to please Who are you and where are you. thou wondrous Echo? Sometime it response is a reiteration. The shot of a gun, the clapping of the hands, the beating of a drum, the voice of a violin are sometimes repeated many times tiy the Echo. Ner t'oblentz that which is said has seventeen Echoes. Id 1756. a writer says that near Milan, Italy, there were seventy ich reflections cf sound to one snap of a pistol. I'lay a bugle near a lake of Kill.-ir-ney and the tune i played back to you as distinctly a when you played it. Therein a well two hundred arid ten feet deep at Carlsbrooke castle, in the Isle of Wight. Drop a pin into that well and the bound of its f:itl comes to the top of the well distinctly. A blast of an Alpine horn coim-s Lack from the rocks of Jungfrau in surge alter surge of reflected sound, until it seems as if every peak had lifted and blown an Alpine horn. But have you noticed and this is the reason for the present discourse that this J-U;Iio in the natural world has its analogy in the moral and religious world Have you noticed the tremendous fact that what we mj nod do comes back in recoiled gladness or lisaste r About this resxmunce I preach tliLs semiou. FAi:i:KACliINCi MUliAL EXAMINES. First l'arental teaching; and example have their Echo in the character of descendants. K.ceptionsf Oh, yes. So in the natural world there may be no Echo, or a dist orted Echo, by reason of peculiar proximities. tut tne genera! rule is that v.he character of t he childi ( u is the Echo 3f the character of parents. The general ;iiie is that gud parents have good chi Iren and bad parents have bad children. !f the cid man i.s a crank, his son is apt to V a crank and the grandchild a crank. 1 he tendency is so mighty in that direction that it will get worse and worse un-,-. on:e hero or heroine in that liae shall rre and say "Here! By the help of Cod, I will stand tlr's no longer. Against this aertiJitary tendency to queemess J pro-te-t.'' Ami he or she ' ill tet up an altar n:id a magnified. t life that will reverse things, and there will be no more crank amoug that kindred. lu another family the father and mother re consecrated people. What they do is right. What they teach is right. The boy may for some time be wild and the daughters worldly, but watch! Years pa.s cu. perhaps ten years, twenty years, and you go lack to the church where the father and mother used to be consistent rnemlsTS. Von have heard nothing about the family for twenty years, and at the door of the church vou see the sexton and you ask tint. "Where w old Mr. Webster" "Oh. be has been dead many years!" "Where is Mrs. Webster?" "Oh, she died fifteen years ago!" "I suppose their son Joe went to the dogs." "Oh, no," says the sexton, "he is up there lo the elders' seat. He is one of our bet and most important members. Vou ought to hear him pray and hing. He is not Joe any longer; he is Elder "Webster." "Well, where is the daughter, Mary? I suppose she is the same thoughtless butterfly she used to be?" "Oh, no," says the sexton, "she is the president of our missionary society and the directress in the orphan asylum, and when she goes down the street all the ragamuffins take hold of Ler dress and cry, 'Auntie, when are you fcoing to bring us some more books and fences and things?' And when. In times of revival, there is some hard case back in a church pew that no one else can touch, (she goes where he .Is, and In one minute he has him a-crying, and the first thing we know she is fetching the hardened man up to the front to be prayed for, and say. 'Here is a brother who wants to tind the way into the kingdom of God.' And if nobody seems ready to pray, he kneels down in the aisle beside Lira and says, 'O Ixrd!' with a pathos and a power and a triumph that seem instantly to emancipate the hardened sinner. Oh, no! you must not call her a thoughtless butterfly in our presence. Vou see we would sot stand it." The fact is that the son and daughter of that family did not promise much at the Ktart, but they are now an Echo, a glorious Echo, a prolonged Echo of parental teaching and example. THK MOTHKK'S KKQL'KST. A Vermont mother, as her boy was about to start for h life on the sea, said- "Edward, I have never seen the ocean, but I understand the great temptation is strong tlrirJt. Promise me you will never touch It." Many years aftr that, telling of this Jii a meeting. Edward said- "I gave that promise to mother, and have been around the world, and at Calcutta, the ports of the Mediterranean, San Francisco, Cape of Good Hope and north und south poles, ami never saw a glass of liquor in all those years that my mother's form did not appear before me, and I do not know how li'juor tastes. I never hare t&xted it and all because of the promise I md to my mother." This was the result of that conversation at the gate of the Veroioit farmhouse. The statuary of Tbot-.raldsen was sent from Italy to Germany, md the straw in which the statues had be n packed was thrown upon the ground. The next spring beautiful Italian flowers sprang up where straw had, beeu tust, for in it Lad

oeea some or tne seeds or Italian flowers, and, whether conscious of it or not, we are all the time planting for ourselves and planting for other roses or thorns. Vou thought it only straw, yet among it were anemones. But here is a slipshod home. The parents are a godless pair. They let their children do a they please. Xo example fit to follow. No lesson of morality or religion. Sunday no better than any other day. The Bible no better than any other book. The house is a sort of inn where the older and younger people of the household stop for awhile. The theory acted on, though perhaps not announced, is: "Tht children will have to do a I did and take their chances. Life i a lottery anyhow, and some draw prize and some draw blanks, and we will trust to luck." Skip twenty years and come back to the neighborhood where that family used tc live. Vou meet on the ntreet or on the road an old inhabitant of that neighborhood, and you say, "Can you tell me anything about the Peterson who used to live here?" "Yea," says the old inhabitant; "J remember them very welL The father and mother have been dead for years." "Well, how alxjut the children? What has become of them ?" The old inhabitant replies: "They turned out badly. You know the old man was about half aD infidel and the boy were all infidel. The oldest son married, but got into drinking habits, ami in a few years his wife was not able to live with him any longer and hit. children were taken by relatives, and he died of delirium tremens on BlackweU'i ishftid. His other son forged the name ol his employer and fled to Canada. "One of the daughters of the old folks marrieil an inebriate with the idea of reforming him, and you know how that always ends in the ruin of both the experimenter and the one experimented with. The other daughter disappeared mysteriously and has not leen heard of. There was a yonng woman picked out of tht Käst river and put in the morgue, and some thought it was her, but I cannot say." "Is it possible?" you cry out. "Yes, it is possible. The family is a complete wreck." My hearers, that is just what might havt been expected. All this is only the Echo, the dismal Echo, the awful Echo, tht dreadful Echo of parental obliquity and unfaithfulness. The old folks heaped upa mountain of wrong influences, and this is only what my text call "The sounding ol the mountains." Indeed our entire behavior in thi world will have a resound. While opportunities fly in a straight line and just touch us once and are gone never to return, the wrong we practice upon others fly in a circle, and they come back to the plact from which they started. Doctor Guillotine thought it smart to introduce the instrument of death named after him, but did not like it so well when his own head was chopped off with the guillotine, THK DAT OF ALL DATS. So also th- Judgment Day will be an Echo of all our other days. The universe needs such a day, for there are so many things in the world that need to be fixed np and explained. If God had not appointed such a day all the nations woul J cry out, "Oh, God, give un a Judgment Day." But we are apt to think of it and speak about it as a day away oil in the future, having no special connection with thii day or any other day. The fact is that we are now making up its voices; its trumpet! will only sound back again to us what wt now say and da That is the meaning of all that Scripture which says that Christ will on that day address the soul, saying, "I wa naked and ye clothed me; I wa sick and ii; prison and ye visited me." All the footstep! tn that prison corridor as the Christian reformer walks to the wicket of the incarcerated, yea all the whi.-pers of condolence in the ear of that poor soul dying in that garret, yea all the kindnesses are being caught up and rolled on until they dash against the Judgment Throne and then they will 1 struck back into the ears of these sons and daughters of mercy. Ixuiderthan the crash of Mount Wa-shiiigtou falling on its face in the world wide catastrophe, and the boiling of the sea over t lie furnaces of universal con H. tgration will be the Echo and Re-echo ol the good de-ds done and the sympathetic words uttered aud the mighty benefactions wrought. On that day althe charities, all the selffcacrUices, all the philanthropies, all the heuelicent last wills and testaments, all the Christian work of all the ages, will lie piled lip into mountains, and those who have served God anil served the suffering human race will hear what my text btyles "Tht bounding of the mountains." My subject ail varices to tell you that eternity itself is only an echo of time. Mind you, the analogy warrants my saying this. The eelio is not always exactly in kind like the sound originally projected. I. ord Baleigh says that a woman's voice soun ling from a grove was returned an octave higher. A scieutist playing a flute in Fairfax county, Va., found that all the notes were returned, although some of them came in raised pitch. A trumpet sounded ten times near Glasgow, Scotland, antl the ten notes were all repeated, but a third lower. And the spiritual law corresponds with the natural world. What we do of good or bad may not come hack to u in just the proportion we expect it, but come back it will; it may be from a higher gladness than we thought or from a deeper woe, from a mightier conqueror or from a worse captive, from a higher throne or deeper dungeon. Our prayer or our blasphemy, our kindness or our cruelty, our faith or our unbelief, our holy life or our dissolute behavior, will come back somehow. Suppose the boss of a factory or the head of a commercial Arm some day comes out among his clerks or employees, and putting his thumbs in the armholes of his vest ays, with au air of swagger and jocosity: "Well, I don't believe in the Bible or the church. The one is an imposition and the other is full of hypocrites. I declare I would not trust one of those very pious people further thau I could see him." That is all he says, but he has said enough. The young men go back to their counters or their shuttles and say within themselves, "Well, he Is a successful man and has probably tudiexl up the whole subject and is probably riht." Tliat one lying utterance against Bibles and churches has put five young men on the wroia; track, aud though the influential man had spoken only in half jest, the echo shall come back to him in live ruined lifetimes and five 'destroyed eternities. You see the Echoes are an octave lower than Le anticipated. On the other hand, some rainy day, when there are hardly any customers, the Christian merchant comes out from his counting room and stands among the young men who have nothing to do, and says: "Well, boys, this is a dull day, but it will clear off after awhile. There are a good many ups and downs In business, but there is an overruling Providence. "Years ago I made up my mind to trust God and he haa always seen me through. remember when I was your age, I had just come to town and the temptations of city ltfe gathered around me, but I resisted. The fact is there were two old folks out on the old farm praying for me and I knew it, and somehow I could not do as some of the clerks did or go where some of the clerks went. I tell you, boys, it is best always to do right, and there is nothing to keep one right like the old fashioned religion of Jesus Christ. John, where did you go to church last Sunday ? Henry, how is the Young Men's Christian aasociatloa prospering?" About noon the rain ceases and the sun comes out and the clerks go to their places, and they say within themselves: "Well, he Is a successful merchant and I guess he know what he is talking about, and the Christian religion must be a good thing., God knows I want some help In this battle' with teniDtation and sin," The successful

merchant who tittered the kind words did not knov how much good he was doing, but the Echo will come back in five lifetimes of virtue and usefulness and five Christian deathbeds and five heavens. From all the mountains of rapture and all tho mountain of glory and all the mountains of eternity, he will catch what Kzekiel in my text styles "The soending again of the mountains." TIME'S DorSiGS ECHOED IN ETEttXITi". Yea, I take a step further in this subject and say that our own eternity will be a reverberation of our own earthly lifetime. What we . are here we will be there, only on a larger cak Dissolution will tear down the body and embank it, but our faculties of milnd aud soul will go right on without the Tiesitancy of a moment and without any change except enlargement and inten.uiticition. There will be no more difference than between a lion behind the iron liar and a lion escaped into the field, between au ea gle in a cage and an eagle tn the sky. Gooli here, good there; bad here, bad there. Time is only a bedwarfed eternity. Eternitjr is only an enlarged time. In this life our soul is in dry dock. The moment we lejave this life we are launched for our great voyageand we sail on for centuries quilitillion, but the ship does not change its fundamental structure after it gets out of the dry dock, it does not pass from brig to schooner or from schooner to man-fl'f-war. What we are when launched frdm this world we will be in the world to come. Oh, God! by thy conVerting and sanctifying spirit make ua right here ad d now that we may be right forever! "Well," sa.ys some one, "this idea of moral, spiritual and eternal Jxho is new to me. Is th-re not some way of stopping thi Echo?" My answer is, "God can and he only." If it is a cheerful Echo we do not want it stopped; if a baleful Echo we would like ta have it stopped. The hardest thing in Ulis world to do is to stop an Echo. Many an oration has been spoiled and many an orator confounded by an Echo. Costly dhurches, cathedrals, theaters and music halls have been ruined by an Echo. Architect Lave strung wires across auditoriums to arrest the Pcho, and hung upholstery grünst the walls, hoping to entrap it. and hundreds of thousands of dollars have been expended in public buildings of this country to keep the air from answering when it ought to be quiet. Aristotle and Pythagoras and Isaac Newton and La Place and our own Joseph Henry tried to hunt down the Echo, but still the unexplored realms of acoustics are larger than the explored. When our first Brooklyn Tabernacle was being constructed, we were toid by architects that it was of such a shape that the human voice could not be heard in it, or, if heard, it would be jangled into Echoe. In state of worriment I went to Joseph nenry, the president of the Smithsonian institution at Washington, and told him of this evil prophecy, and he replied: "I have probably experimented more with the laws of sound than any other man, and I have got as far as this. Two buildings may seem to be exactly alike and yet in one the acoustics may be good and in the other bad. Go on with your church building and trust that all will be welL" And all was eil. Oh, this mighty law of sound! Oh, this subtle Echo! There is only one being in the universe who thoroughly understands it "The bounding again of tho mountains." ETEKSAL MORAL CONSEQUENCES. And if it is so hard to destroy a natural Echo, how much harder to stop a moral Echo, spiritual Echo, an immortal Echo. You know that the Echoes are affected by the surfaces, and the shape of rocks, and the depth of ravines, and the relative position of buildings? And once in heaven God will so arrange the relative position of mansions and temple and thrones that one of the everlasting charms of Leaven will be the rolling, bursting, ascending, descending, chanting Echoes. All the songs we ever sang devoutly, all the prayers we have ever uttered earnestly, all the Christian deeds we have ever done will be waiting to spring upon ua in Echo. The scientists tell us that in this world the roar of artillery and the boom of the thunder are so loud, because they are a combination of Echoes all the hillsides, and the caverns and the walls furnishing a share of the resonance. And never will we understand the full power ami music of an Echo until with supernatural faculties able to endure them we hear all the coujoined sounds of heavenly Echoes harps and trumpets, orchestras and oratorios, hosannahs and hallelujahs, east side of heaveu answering to the west side, north side to south side, and all the heights, und all the ilepths, and all the immensities, and all the eternities joining in Echo upon Echo, Echo in the wake of Echo. In the future state, whether of rapture or ruin, we will listen for reverberations of earthly thing and doings. Voltaire standing amid the shadows will listen, and from the millions whose godlessness and libertinism aird debauchery were a consequence of hi brilliant blasphemies will come back a weeping, wailing, despairing, agonizing, million-voiced Echo. Paul will, while stauding in the light; listen, and from all the circles of the ransomed, and from all the many mansions whom he helped to people, and from all the thrones he helped to occupants, and from all the gates he helped throng with arrivals, and from all the temple be helped fill with worshipers there shall come back to him a glorious, ev jr accumulating, transporting and triumphant Echo. Oh, what will the tyrants and oppressors of the earth do with the Echoes? Those who are responsible for 'the wars of the world will have come back to them all the groans, the shrieks, the caunonades, the bursting shells, the crackle of burning cities and the crash of a nation's homes Hohenlinden and Salamanca, Wagramand Sedan, Marathon and Thermopylae, Bunker Hill and Icxingtou, South Mountain and Gettysburg. Sennacherib listen! Semirami listen! Marc Antony listen! Artaxerexea listen! Darius listen! Julius Cifsar listen! Alexander and Napoleon listen! But to the righteous will come back the blissful Echoes. Composers of Gospel Hymns and singers will listen for the return of Antioch aud Brattle Street, Ariel and Dundee, Harwell and Woodstock, Mount Pisgah and Coronation, Homeward Bound and Shining Shore, and all the melodies they ever started. Bishop Heber and Charles Wesley and Isa:ic Watts and Thomas Hastings and Bradbury and I to rati us Bonar and Prances llavergal listen! But you know as well as I do that there are some places where the reverberations seem to meet, and standing there they rush upon you, they rain upon you, all at once they capture your ear. And at the point where all heavenly reverberations meet Christ will stand and listen for the resound of all hi sighs and groans and sacrifices antl they shall come back in an echo in which shall mingle the acclaim of a redeemed world, and the "Jubilate Deo" of a full heaven. Echo saintly, cherubic, archangelic! Echo of thrones! Echo of palaces! Echo of temples! Omnipotent echo! Everlasting echo! Amen!

A FARING SONGL

O tired little mariner, Yeo-ho! Veo-hol Unto the Ntrand of Stamberland A -sailing we must go. This 1 tht time when children fare Awar from home; Bo we'll seek the good ship Roc kinc hair. Afar tn roam. O yeo-ho! O sleepy l'ttle voyager. Yeo-ho! Yeo-hol The pleasant breoze of drowsiness Beginning Is to blow; And now the isles of Midnod are All safely past; And now over Dreamland's harbor bar W teer last. O reo-bol

THE SUFFERING SAVIOUR

LESSON V, FIRST QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, JAN. 31. Text of the LesMon, Isa. IUI, 1-12 Memory Verses. 3-0 Golden Text. Isa. litt. 0 Commentary by the Re. 1. M. Steam. L, "Who hath believed our report? And to whom i9 the arm of the Lord revealed?" Some one has said that this section, chapter Iii. 13 to liii, 12, read as if written beneath the cross on Golgotha. It is the unraveling of Psalms xxii and cx: and is the most central, deepest and loftiest portion of Old Testament prophecy. From the first intimation of a Deliverer (Gen. iii, 15) onward. He is repeatedly foretold as a suffering Saviour (Luke xxiv, 2C), but here we have the möst complete description of His sufferings in the whole Old Testament. 2. "He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him." Like the tabernacle in t he wilderness, there was no outward beauty to the surrounding nations, but Israel could tell of the holy place, aud the holy of holies, with vessels of pure gold, and the glory of God between the cherubim. To the unsaved Jesus is still unattractive, while they eagerly follow the attraction of the world, the flesh and the devil. 3. "He is despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief." He was so unlike other men; Ha never considered himself; did not His own will; sought not hi own glory; never sought to be made much of, but was always honoring His Father. Self sacrifice consumed him as a fever; a man of constant and painful endurance misunderstood, slandered, despised and rejected; how all this will come home to Israel when they see Him coming in power aud glory (Zech. xii, 10). 4. "Surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted." He was our substitute, in our stead, a vicarious sacrifice; but we, like Job's friends, thought He deserved it; thus will Israel confess in that day. 5. "But He was wounded for our transgressions, He whs bruised for our iniquities, and with His stripes we are healed." Could there be any stronger expressions to denote a violent and painful death? The precise manner of it is more fully describe I in Ps. rcxii, 16, "They pierced My hanus and my feet." Read this verse with "my" instead of "oar" in the first three clauses, and read "I am" instead of "we are" In the fourth clause, and with all your heart thank Him that it is so. - 6. "All we, like sheep, have gone astray; we have turnd every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all." Many readily believe the first two clauses, but how few receive the last. 7. "He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, aud as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so Heopeneth not his mouth." Shorn of cooiTort, honor, good name, life, a lamb led ou to die, see how He was oppressed and affiicted, and still let your heart say, "All for me?" When He suffered He threatened not. thus leaving us an example. 8. "He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who shall declare his get. -eration?" Taken away by distress and judgment is the marginal reading, which agrees nearly with the IL V. ' 9. "And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death, because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth." Not only do we read of His cruel treatment, sufferings, and death as if recorded by au eye witness, but also the events of His burial; and how literally all was fulfilled we know. The kindness and devotion of Joseph of Arimathea rescues His body from the authorities and from the grave prepared with those of the malefactors, and gives it burial in Hi own new tomb (John xix, 33-2). 10. "Yet it pleased the Lord to kruie Ilim. He shall prolong His days, and t' a pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in Hi hand." Not only His .sufferings, death and burial, but also His resurrection is here recorded; for how could ore's days be prolonged who was dead and buried except by resurrection. See the same great truth in Ps. xvi, 8-11; Acts ii, 2.V31. Observe in tho first sentence of this verse from whence came His greatest sufferings. Although the sinless one, He became our sin offering, and our sin being laid ou Him, God .spared not His own Son. The wrath of God agaiust sin fell on him. 11. "He shall see of the travail of Hi3 soul, and shall be satisfied." Not only His resurrection, but His future glory clearly foretold. He shall in due time see the full result of all His sufferings and He shall be satisfied. This i all clear to Him, and Ho is not discouraged by things as they have been or are now, for lie is sure of final triumph (Num. xiv, 21; Rev. xi, 15). Let us with eyes and heart fixed on Him go calmly on, diligently serving Him, and like Him rejoicing in the consummation' (Isa. xlii, 4; I Tet. iv, 13). 12. "Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; because He hath poured out Hi soul unto death." Observe how often He i spoken of in this lesson as suffering for iniquity, transgression and sin. Compare the blessing of Ps. xxxii, I, 2, and ee in Acts viii, 26-33, how a certain man entered Into this blessedness by the opening up to him of this very chapter in Isaiah. If we enjoy the forgiveness of sins through His finished work (and there is no other way), then we shall share with Him the glory of His kingdom (Dan. vii, 27; Re", v, 9, 10; iii, 21). But if not hid in Him who suffered in our stead, then there must come to all such the everlasting torment of Math, xxv, 41; II Thess. i, 7-9; Rev. xiv, 9-11; xx, 15; xxi, 8. The sufferiog of the seed of the woman, the seed of Abraham and of David, the Son of Man aud Son of God, ere the scarlet line running through the whole Bible from begiuuing to end, and we canuot place too much emphasis upon the fact that these suffering were substitutionary. He suffered in our stead with our sins actually laid upon Him. Otherwise there is no meaning to verses 4, 5, 6 of this chapter, and to such passages as II Cor. v, 21; I Pet. ii, 2L Let no one rob you of this great truth or try to explain it away. Hold to the very words of the Scriptures in their very simplest significance ahd die for them if need be. Ilomember those who overcame by the blood of the lamb.and by the word of their testimony and loved not their live unto the death (llev. xii. 11). A truth we are not willing to suffer for we do not think very much of. He poured out His soul unto death for ua, willing to be counted a transgressor and die under a false accusation. If we are filled with Hi great splrit.suffering will not terrify us; if only we may glorify Him, and have a little part in the fellowship of Iiis sufferings (Phil. I. 21 2: iii. 10). Banish Slang From the Home. Slang is a note of savagery on our hearths and in our di -wing rooms. It replaces the easy grace ci courtesy by a familiarity often tinged with indelicacy, and is incompatible with that respect and deference that the noblest ideal of womanhood demands. Anil coarse speech is speedily followed by loose manners. No pure woman will speak a lingo into, which it would be a kind of blasphemy to translate the Ten Commandments and the Apostles' Creed. There is something painfully grotesque in imagining a jolly girl of thv period talk ing slang to the babe on het Knee, and all good men must frown down such a degra dation of the world's mother. Exchange.

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