Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1893 — Page 11

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DR. TALMAGE CONTINUES HIS SERMONS ON THE LESSONS OF NATURE. There Xa m Sunshine of the RonlMTilrh Can Be Found Only in the Religion of Christ. There Are Wit, ITumor and Enduring Vivacity Among God') People. Br.ooKLTX, Jan. 29. Rev. -Dr. Talmage this forenoon preached to a jrreat audience ia the Tabernacle on "The Sunshine of Relisnon," the text chosen bein Proverbs iii, 17, "Iler ways are ways of pleasantness." You have all beard of God's only begotten Bon. Have yon heard of God's daughter? She was bora in heaven, the came down orer the hill" of our world. Fhe had queenly step. On her brow was celestial radiance. Her voice waa muic. Her name is Religion. My text introduce her. "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.' But what is reliiion? The fact Is that theological study Las Lad a different effect upon me from the effect sometimes produced. Every year I tear out another leaf from my theology until I have only three or four leaves left in other words, a very brief and plain statement of Christian belief. An aped Christian minister said: "When I was a youcrj man I knew everythintr; when I got to be thirty-five years of age in my ministry I had only a hundred doctrines of religion; when I got to be forty years of age I had only fifty doctrines of religion; when I pot to be sixty years of age I had only ten doctrines of religion, and now I am dyic at pever.ty-five years of age, and there is only one thiag I know, and that is that Christ Jesus came into the world to Rave siDiiers." And mI have noticed in the study of God's word, and in my contemplation of the character of God and of the eternal world, that it is necesary for meto drop this part of my belief and that part of my belief as b: fri nonesM-utial, while I elinr to the cne prt-at doctrine that man is a sinner and Christ is Lis Almighty and Divine Saviour. GOD'S OWN PAfOHTEIi. Now I take tlie.se three or four leav -s of my theology, and I find that, in the first place, and dominant above al! others, is the sunshine of religion. When I ?o into a room I have a passion for throwing open all the shutters. That is what I want to do this morning. We are apt to throw so much of the sepulchral into our religion, and to close the shutters, anl to pall down the blinds, that it is only through here and there a crevice that the light st reams. The religion of the Lord Jesus Christ is a rrlipion of joy indescribable and unutterable. Wherever I can find a bell I mean to rinj; it. If there are any In this house this morning who are disposed to hold ontotbeir melancholy and plooni, let them now depart this service before tho fairest and the brightest and the most radiant being of all the universe comes in. God's Son has left our wo: 'd, but God's daughter is here. Give h-fr room 1 Hail! Trincess of Heaven. Hail! daughter of the Lord God Almighty. Come in and make this houso thy tkroneruotn. In setting forth this idea the1 dominant theory of religion is one of sunshine. I hardly know where tc begin, for there are so many thoughts that rush upon my soul. A mother sj;w her little child seated on the floor in the sunshine and with a spoon in her hand. She wild, "My darling, what are you doing there?" "Oh," replied thechild, "I'm getting a spoonful of sunshine." Would God that today I mfcht present you with a gleaming chalice of this glorious, everlasting Gospel sunshine! First of all, 1 find a great deal of sunshine in Christian societv. i go not Know or ai3 thing more ooieful than thecompai.ioi:siiip of themere funmakers of the world the Thomas Hoods, the Charles Luiilis, the Charles Matthews of the world the men whose entire business it is to makespc rt. They make others laugh, but if you will examine their autobiography, or biography, you will find that down in tht ir soul there was a terrific disquietude. Iaughter is to feign of happiness. The maniac laughs. The hyena laughs. The loon am on 3 Ibe Adirondac k lauglis. Thedni!ik;:!l d I'uin his decanter against the wall laughs. There is a terrible reaction from all sinful .-giiuscni-nt ami si:if al merriment. Such men are cro.st, the next day. They map at yu on e:.( Lange, or they pass you, not recognizing you. Long ago I quit mere worldly society ft rthe reason itwassotlull, ho ina: and so stupid. My nutuie is voracious of joy. 1 must have it. I always walk on the sunny fide of the street, anil for that reason I have crossed over into Christian society. I like their mode of repartee better. 1 like their style of amusement U tter. They live longer. Christian people, I sometimes notice, live on when byj.ll natural law they ought to have died. I have known persons who Lave continue! in their existence when the doctor said they ought to hae been dead ten years. Lvery day of their existence was a defiance of the laws of anatomy and physiology, but they had this supernatural vivacity of the Go-pel in their soul, and that kept them idive. CliiUiTIAN IM KLLKt'T AND REPARTEE. Put teil or twelve Christ iau people in a room for CLri.-t i;;n conversation, and you will from 8 to p o'cl -ck hear more resound ing glee, see more bright strokes of wit and find more thought ami profound satisfacl ion than in any rnvrely norldiy party. Now when I say a "world! party" I mean that to which you are invit d because under ail the circurnst ;;!(-, s of the cast; it is tin bo.-t for you to be invited, arid to which you go because under all the circumstances of the case it is U-ttur that you go, and leaving the sha.vls on the second floor you gi to the parlor to give formal habitation to the host and the hostess, and then move around, sp-':ding the whole evening in the disousMoii of the weather, and ia apology for treading on long trails, and in effort to kceplht corner of the mouth up to the sign of pleasure, and going around with an idiotic he-he about nothing, until the collation isservi-d, and then, after t he collation is served, going back again into the pi.i lor to resume the Weather, ai.d then at the close going at a Very late Lour to the hostend Lstevaml assuring thtm thi.t you have, had a most delightful evening, and tl-n passing d..wn eff the front M'jn, ti e slam of the door the enly satisfaction of the evening. Oh, young man. come from the country to spend your days ia city life, where are you going to spend your evenings? Let me tell you, while there are many places of innocent worldly amusement, it is most wi-e for you to throw your hidy, rnind and soul Into Christian society. Come to me at ti e close of Gve years and tell m.wLat has been the malt of this advice. Ering with you the young man w ho refused to take the advice and who went Into sinful arimst-nv.-nt. lie will come dissipated, shabby in apparel. Indisposed to look any one iii the eyes, moral character" s" per cent. off. You will come with princirle settled, countenance frank, habit .4 food, fo;i1 saved rind n th? I-Wu Hants of heaven rrom the lowr-st angel np to the archangel, .-umI cle.r tnt Lim to the Lord God Almighty, your coadjutors. THE BKlCHiNEfcä CK LIFE. " This is not the advice of a misanthrope. There id to nan in the houe to whom the world w brighter than it is to inc. It Li not the advice of a lysjfrt ic my digestion is perfect; it is not the advice of a man who cannot understand a joke or who prefers a funeral; it is not the advice of a wornout dan, but the adrice of a man who can see this world in nil its brightness, arid, considering myself coinootPiit in judging what is P'xni cither, I tell the multitude of young I . a in this house tbL morning that there Is nothing in worldly ansorhdion so grand and po beautiful and 0 exbilarant aa in Chri-ttian society. I know there is a pre." del of talk about

the self denials of the Christian. 1 have to tell you that where the Christian ha one self denial the man of the world has a thousand self denials. The Christian is not commanded to surrender anything that is worth keeping. Bat what does a man deny himself who.denies himself the religion of Christ, He denies himself pardon for sin; he denies himself peace of conscience; he denies himself the joy of the Holy Ghost; he denies himsaJf a comfortable death pillow; he denies himself the glories of heaven. Do not talk to me about the 6clf denials of the Christian lifel Where there is one in the Christian life there are a thousand in the life of the world. "Her ways are ways of pleasantness." Again, I find a great deal of religions sunshine in Christian and divine explanation. To a great niauy people life is an inexplicable tangle. Things turn out differently from what was supposed. There is a useless woman in perfect health. There Ls an industrious and consecrated woman a complete invalid. Explain that. There is a bad man with ?30,000 of income. There is a good man with fspO of income. Why Is that? There is a foe of society who lives on, doing all the damage he can, to seventyfive years of age, and here is a Christian father, faithful in every department of life, at thirty-live years of age taken away by death, his family left helpess. Explain that. Oh, there is no sentence that oftener drops from your lips than this: "I cannot understand it. I cannot understand it." IT IS BETTER THAI EARTH LT FRIENDSHIP. Well, now, religion comes in just at that point with its illumination and its explanation. There is a busiuess man who has lost Lis entire fortune. The week before he lost bis fortune there were twenty carriages that stopped at the door of his mansion; the week after he lost his fortune all the carriages you could count on one finger. The week before financial trouble began people all took off their hats to him as be passed down the street. The week his financial prospects were tinder discussion people just touched their hats without anywise bending the rim. The week that he was pronounced insolvent people just jolted their heads as they passed, not tipping their hats at all, and the week the sheriil Bold him out all his friends were looking in the store windows as they went down past him. Now while the world goes away from a man when he is in financial distress the religion of Christ comes to him and says: "You are sick, and your sickness is to be moral purification. You are bereaved. God wanted in someway to take your family to heaven, and he must begin somewhere, and so he took the oue that wad most beautiful and was most ready to go." I do not say that religion explains everything in this life, but I do say it lays down certain principles which are grandly consolatory. You know business men often telegraph In ciphers. The merchant in San Francisco telegraphs to the merchant in New York certain information in cix?hers which co other man in that line of business can understand, but the merchant in San Fran-ci.-co has the key to the cipher, and the merchant in New York has the key to the cipher, and on that information transmitted there are enterprises involving hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now the providences of life sometimes seem to be a senseless rigmarole, a mysterious cipher, but God has a key to that cipher, and the Christian a key to that ci pher. and though he may hardly be able to 6pell out the meaning he gets enough of the meaning to understand that it is for the best. Now is there not sunshine in that? Is there not pleasure in that? Far beyondlaughter.it is nearer the fountain of tears than boisterous demonstration. Have you never cried for joy? There are tears which are eternal rapture in distillation. SO r.EAL LIFE WITHOn RELIGION'. There are hundreds of people in this hoie-euho are walking day by day in tho sublime satisfaction that all is forthe best, all things working together for good for their soul. How a man can pet along through this life without the explanation is to me a mystery. What! is that child gone forever? Are you never to get it back? Is your proiH-rty gone forever? Ls your soul to le bruised and to be tried forever? Have you no e.xplanat ion, no Chiistian explication, and yet not anmniac? Hut when you have the religion of Jesus Christ in your soul It explains everything so far as it is lK-st for you to understand. Y'ou look off in life, and your soul is full of thanksgiving to God that you are so much better off than you might be. A man passed down the street without any shoes and said: "I have no shorn. Isn't it a hardship that I have no shoes? Other people have shoes. No shoes, no shoes," until he saw a man with no feet. Then he learned a lesson. You ought to thank Cod for what he does, instead of grumbling for what he does not. God arranges all the weather in this world the spiritual weather, the moral weather, as well as the natural weather. "What kind of weather will it lie today?" said some one to a farmer. The farmer replied, "It will Ix such weather as I like." "What do you mean by that?" u-ked the other. "Well," said tLe farmer, "it will le such weather as pleases the Lord, and what pleases the Lord please me." Oh, the sunshine, the sunshine of Christian explanation! Here is some one bending over the grave of the dead. What is going to be the consolation? The flowers you strew upon the tomb? Oh, no. The sen ices rea l at the grave? Oil, 110. The chief consolation on that grave is what falls from the throne of God. Sunshine glorious sunshine. Resurrection sunshine. OIK JOY HKRK BIT A KOKETASTE. Again. I Und a great deal of the sunshine of this liiblo and of our religion in the climacteric joys that are to come. A man who gets up and goes nut from a concert right after the opening voluntary has been played and before the prima donna sings, or lefore the orchestra iK'gins, has a bi tter idea of that concert than the man has who supposes t hat the chief joys of religion are in this world. We here have only the Crst no te of the eternal orchestra. We shall in that world have the joy of discovery. We will in live minutes catch up" with the astroo mers, the geologists, the scientists, the philo- iphers f all e i-s who so far surpassed us in 1 his worid. We crn afford to adjourn a-roi:my and goolcgy and many of the sciences to the next world, because we shall there have letler apparatus and better opport ü iiity. I mut study the-e sciences to far as to help ine in my work, but beyond that I must give myself to saving my own soul and saving the souls of others, knowing that in one flaslrof eternity we ill catch it all. Oh, what an observatorj. which to Study astronomy heaveu will be, not by power of telescope, but by supernatural vision, and if there le something doubtful

KyxO.oou miles away by one stroke of the. wind you are there, by another stroke of the wing you ere back Again, and in less time than I tell you catching it all in one flash of eternity. And geology! What a place that will Im to study geology, v hen the world is being picked to pieces as easily as a schoolgirl in botanical lessons pulls the leaf from the corolla! What a place to study architecture, mid the thrones, and the palaces, and the cathedrals St. Mark's and St. Paul's rookeriea in comparison. COD'S OWS SCTE5CE. Sometimes you wish you could make the tour of the whole earth, going around as others have gone, but you have not the time; you have not the means. You will make th:it tour yet during one musical pause in the eternal anthem. .. I say these things forthe comfort Of those people who are abridged la their opportunities those peoph. to whom life in a humdrum, who toil and work, and toil and work, and aspire after knowledge, but have no time to pet it, and aay, "If I had the opportunitie which other people have, how I would fill my mind and soul v lib crrr.d thoughts!"

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going to the university jt. Death will only matriculate you into the royal college of the universe. What a sublime thing it was th?t Dr. Thomwell, of South Carolina, uttered in his last dying moments! As he looked up he said, "It opens; it expands; it expands." Or as Mr. Toplady, the author of "Rock of Ages," in his last moment, or during his last hours, looked up and said, as though he saw something supernatural, "Li-;ht:' and then &s Le came on nearer the dying moment, his countenance more luminous, he cried, "Light!" and at the very moment of his departure lifted both hands, something supernatural in his countenance as he cried, "Light!" Only another name for sunshine. A SELECT SOCIETY INDEED. Besides that we ßball have all the pleasures of a.3ociat ion. We will go right up in the front of God without any fright. All our sins gone, there will be nothing to be frightened about. There our old Chris tian friends will troop around us. Just as now one of your sick friends goes away to Florida, the laud of Cowers, or to the south of France, and you do not see him for a long while, and after awhile you meet him, and the hollows under the eyes are all filled, and the appetite has come Lack, and the crutch has been thrown away, and he is so changed you hardly know him. You say, "Why, I never saw you look so well." He says: "I couldn't help but be well. I have been sailing these rivers and climbing these mountains, und that's how I got this elasticity. I never was so well." Oh, my friends, your departed loved ones re only away for their health in a better climate, and when you meet them they will be so changed you will hardly know them; they will be so very much changed, and after awhile, when yon are assured that they are your friends, your departed friends, you will say: "Why, where is that cough? Where is that paralysis? Where is that pneumonia? Where is that consumption?" And he will Kay: "Oh, I am entirely well; t h re are 110 sick ones in this country. I have been ranging these hills, and hence tbiselaslicity. I have liecn here now twenty years, and not one sick cie have I seen we are all well in this climate." And then I stand at the gate of the celestial city to see the processions come out, and I see a lo'ig procession of little children with their anus full of flowers, and then I se a procession of kings and priests moving in celestial pageantry a lorn? procesEi'jn, but no black tasselcd vehicle, no mourning group and I say: "How strange it is! Where is your Greenwood? Where is your Laurel hill? Where is your Westminster abbey?' And thry shall try, "There are no graves Lere." And then listen to the tolling of the old N-lfries of Leaven, theold belfries e f eternity. 1 listen to hear them toll for the dead. IJut they toll not for the dead. 1 l ey only strike up a silvery chime, tower to tower, tast gate to west gate, as they ring out, "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat, for t he Ltmu hicii is in the midst of the throne shail lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." Oh, nnglove your hand and give it to me in congratulation on that scene. I feel as if I would shout. I will shout halleluiah! Iear Lord, forgive me that I ever complained about anything. If all this is before us, who care.s for anything but God and heaven 1 nd eternal brotherhood? Take the crape o.I t he doorbt-11. Your loved ones are only away for their health in a land ambrosial. Come, Lou ell Jason; come, Isaac Watts, and give us your best hymn about joy celest ial. A UEAVfcS OS EARTH. What is the use of post pouing our heaven any longer? Let it begin now, and whosoever hath a lurp, let her thrum it; and whosoever hath a trumpet, let him blow it; and whosoewr hath an organ, let Lim give us a full diapason. They crowd down the air, spirits blessed, moving ir cavalcade of triumph. Their chariot wheels whirl in the Sabbath sunlight. They come! Halt, armies of God! Halt! until we are ready to join t he battalion of pleasures that never die. Oh, my friends, it would take a sermon as long as eternity lo tell the joys that are coming to us. I just sot open the sunshiny door. Come in, all ye disciples of the world who Lave found the world a mockery. Come in, all ye disciples of the dance and see the hounding feet of this heavenly gladnefs. Coiue in, ye disciples of worldly amusement raid see the stage where kings are the actors, and burning worlds the footlights, and thrones the spectacular. Arise, ye dead in sin, for this is the morning of t he r sun ect ion. The joys of heaven submerge our soul. I pull out the trumpet stop. In thy presence there is a fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures forevennore. Dlessed are the saints lieloved of God: Wa-bed are their rubes in Jesus" blood; Uriul.tcr than angels, lo, they shine! Their plories splendid and sublime. My soul anticipates the day. Would ft reich her wing and soar away To aid the song, the aim to liear, And how the chief of sinners there. Oh, the sunshine, the glorious sunshine, the everbtstiiig sunshine! A Chain of Coincidences. "From Kalamazoo, are you?" said the elderly stranger, leaning back comfortably in tie easy chrar at the hotel and lightinga cigar. "Yes; from Kalamazoo," assented the young man whose acquaintance he had mad; on the train. "Live town," mused the other. "I lived there myself twenty-five or thirty years .go in fuct, I was married there. Have a cigar? I don't suppose you know many of the people I knew. Always lived there?" "Yes, until two or three months ago." "I wonder, now, if you ever heard of a girl she wouldn't le a girl now named let me see she was my wife's most intimate friend. Um I remember now. Her name was Henrietta Parkinson. We called her Nettie. Ever hear of her?" "I should think so. Nettie Parkinson was my mother's maiden name." "You don't say so! Shake, young man! I feel as if you were almost an old acquaintance. Isshowell?" "Yes. She's well and hearty." "Uy the way, did yon ever know a spruce young dry goods clerk though 1 don't suppose he'd be very spruce or very young either now named Itockamore?" "Henry Itockamore?" "Yes. We always called him Hank." "Oh, yes, I know him intimately. I saw him only a Tew days ago und had a long talk with him." "Shake again, young man! I'm 1 ginning to feel pretty well acquainted with you. This Hank Hockamore, when I b-fr Kalamazoo, was sparking that is, I mean, he wm paying a good deal of attentiou to Nettie Park I mean your mother." "Well, It seem he succeeded eventually. He's my father." "You don't say so! Young man, shake again! We're old friends. Come 01, we'll go out and see the town and I'll be your father and mother both for the next two dayis!" Chicago Tribune. Not Too Late to Save Ulm. , Fmart Nephew (of the citys When yon go to your hotel. Uncle Uvighcede, be sure not to blow out the gas. Uncle Ileighcede (who known a thing or two) Well, I rruess not. What did I bring A candle snuffer all the way from iTairietown fur, anyhow? Chicago News-Record. Th Lstt fttatrf. Brifrgs Pay, old man. can't yon give Mugg'ns a lift? (friggs "Why, is be bard np? Hriggs H.ird up! That's no name for it. Whj , he tells mf he ha to wear the same dxes" tl" tv -jr: ' 'JLi ai "r-A FumisLrr.

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LESSON VI, FIRST QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, FEB. 5. Text of the Leson. Ks. vi. 14-? Memory Vere 21. 22 Golden Text, Ts. exiii, 1 Commentary by the Rev. D. M. Pteams. 14. "And the elder of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, the son of Iddo." Our last lesson in this book was in the third ehapter, wLere we read of the laying of tLe foundation of the Lord's house and of the joy of the people. Then follows an account of Low the adversaries hindered the work and caused it to cease (iv, 4, 5, 34). In chapter v, 1, we are Introduced to the two prophets named in this first verse of our lesson, and in the rest of chapter v and the next chapter down to this verse we are told of the success of the work. Observe the secret of their success in chapter v, 5, "The eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews." Compare this with the encouraging words of Hag. ii. 4, 5: "lie stroDg, le strong, be itrong ;.:.d work, for I am with you, saith the Lord of Hosts. My Spirit remaineth among you. Fear ye not." 15. "And this Louse was finished." The God of Israel had commanded it and had moved upon the hearts of these kings to assist His people in the work. (Previous verse, last clause.) "He doeth according to His will iu the army of heaven and mong the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay-His ha ml, or say unto Him, What doest Thou" (Pan. iv, :u)j? Any servant of such a Master has no occasion ever to fear or 1 e discouraged, for the work is His, and He cannot fail (Isa. xlii, 4; .Math, xvi, lb). Our plc of rest is to remeniber that "we a;-t? laborers together with God" (I Cor. iii, 9 but He is the e niploy r. 1. "And the children of Israel, the priests and the Ix-vites. and the rest, of the children of the capt ivity. kept the tledicatlon of this house of tiod with joy." The temple finished meant the presence of God in their midst, and consequently ie;u.'e and prosperity and victory over nil enemies. "Let them make Me a sj.ntluary, that I may dwell among them"' OAx. xxv, S), were God's wonls to Moses when he was commanded to build t lie tabernacle. "I have hallowed this house which tiiou hat built to put My name there forever, and Mine eyes and Mine In-art shall be there perpetually" (1 Kintfs ix, 3), were God's words to Solomon at t he dedicai iou of the temple, and had Israel only walked with God in humllit y and ol.e iience s'.ie would have enntinued head among all nations, because of the presnce of the Lord, until this day. The building of thin temple of ZeruhbaKd ii.-licates a not her opportunity to have it so, and they are full of joy. 17. "And for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the mmlter of tiie triln-s of Israel." Bullocks, rams and lambs were the burnt ciTeriti which also included an accompanying mcat olTerintr, but the goat was the sin offering. See the full statement repeated at lea.-t eight times in Num. xxix. The sin offering, typifying CLrist bearing our sins in His owu body on the tree, was to le offered first, for before we can worship God or do anything pleasing iu His sight we must obtain the forgiveness of sins through the merits of Iiis one great sacrifice (Lev. xvii, 11; ll'o. ix, 11, 12; Acts, xiii, S3, Ü'J). The burnt offering also typifies the same great sacrifice of Christ, but rather that aspect of it in which we see II im as an offering and sacrifice to Cod for a sweet smelling . savor (Kpu. v, 2). The meat offering is suggestive of Iiis holy and spotless life. Being, forgiven by His blood, we are to present our bodies a living sacrifice, that He may live His life in us. On the phrase "All Israel ' s-e II Chron. xxx, 1; Horn, xi, 2t": Lzek. xx xvii. s. "And they set the priets in their divisions and the In vites in their courses for the sei vi'.-e of (lod which is at Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses." The Levius were a gift for the Lord to do the service for the tabernacle and temple. They tvere chosen to stand before Him. to serve Him, to minister unto Him and offer sacrifhe (Num. xviii. 0; JI Chron. xxix. 11). 'I he priests" lips should keep knowledge. Mid the people should seek the law at Lis mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of Host3 (Mai. ii, 7). l'J. "And the children of the captivity kept the i-assover upon the fourteenth d;iy of the first month." "By faith Moses kept the passovcr and the sprinkling of blood, lest II- that destroyed the first lorn should touch them" (Heb. xi, 28). These "sons of the transportation" (verse 1G, margin) did well to remember the deliverance from L'gypt, but there is nowdrawiug nigh a deliverance from Russia and from all nations that shall far outdo the deliverance at the institution of the passovcr (Jtr. xxiii, "-). Ther. shall we understand the words of the Iord Jesus in referenceto His last passover, "I will not. any more eat there. .' until it b fulfilled in the kingdom of Gl(Luke xxii.10). i!0. " For the priests and the Ievite; were purified together, all of them were pure." There was a ceremonial purification necessary to the keeping of the pi-sover, and in the diys of Hezckinh we read that they kept it on the second instead of the firs; month leeause the priests were not sufficiently sanctified (II Chron. xxx,2, tt; compare Num. ix, 10, 11). If we would enjoy Christ, our Passover, who has Wen saeri fioed for us. we must cleanse ourselves from all filtbinessof the flesh and spiiit, perfect intr holiness in the (ear-of God Ci Cor. v, 7; II Cor. vii, 1). 21. "All stub as had separated themselves unto them from the filthincss of the heathen of the land to seek the Lord God of Israel did cut." It would seem that many of those who had been living in the land when they saw the temple builded and the worship of the true God established joined tiiemselves to Israel. So shall it ! in the days that are coming, when men of all languages shall say to the Jews, We will go with you, for God is with you (Zech. viii. 2?). So is it now, when Christ is seen jn us and riot self, people will le drawn away from the follies and filtbiiie.ss of this present evil world to the realities of a lifeof faith intiie Son of God. anl God will 1 glorified iu us (Gal. i, '-M)2v!. "And kept the feast of unleavened bread "Seven days with joy, for the Lord Lad made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria uutothem.' When He giv th quietness, who then can make trouble (Job xxxiv, CO)? If God .W for us. who can le against us (Horn, viii, 31)? The kind's heart is in the hands of the Lord o the i . i-rsf water; lie tuna-lh it whithersoever Me will (Prov. xxi, 1). If, as' His people, we are only willing ami ohedient. He will make us eat the good of the land and drink of the river of His pleasures (isa. j, 19; IN. xxxvi, 8). It is the pleasure of the Ixml to have us full of Joy (John xvl, 24; xvii, IS), but it must be His joy, and that was to do the will of Sod. Tbc lUat Period of Life. The lwt half of life in frout of the man of forty if Le le. unytLic of a man. Toe work he will do will Ik- done wit h the baud of u master and not of a raw apprentice. The truintul iuteUect does not "m-e nu n trw waHting," but rr" everj-t hiiiß char and ia just measure. The trained temper does nut rush at work like a blind Lull at a hnyat.ick, hut advances with the fa!m and ordered pice of conscious jowr and deli borate determination. VickV ll.iijazine. 1 The trouhle" with many people isthat they never I hink if tMkitiKCKre of thentpelves unttl tlia uiulady in an etbl:ehed fa n4

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We will lurnish the Famous SENTINEL SEWING MACHINE (No. 4) and the STATE SENTINEL for one

s45 1 t la This Machine is fully warranted and money will be refunded 3, same as No. 4, except with two drawers instead of four, will SENTINEL one year lor $16.00.

POINTS OF SUPERIORITY. INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, SEEING MRCHINE Has the latent dein of bent woodwork, with pkr-leton drawer cases, made in both walnut and oak, highly finished and in most durable made. ... w The Btsnd is rigid and etrone, havin brace from over each end ol treadle rod to table, ban a larpe balance wheel with belt replaoer, a verv easy motion of treadle. The head ia free of plate tetiMone, the machine is no eet tfcnt without anv chnnre of upi-er or lower teneion you can ew irom No. 40 to No. 15n thread, and by a Tery eltjrhtchanjrfl of di"C tension on fare plate, you can Pew from the coarsest lo the finest thread. It baa a self-pettinp needle and loose puller device on band wheel for winding bobbins without running the machine. ... u It ia adjuptabb in atl its brarmefl and hts lees eprmps than any other Bewmp; machine on the market. It is the quickest to thread, beiiift etlf-tlirealinii, except tt eye of needle. It ia the easiest machine iu changing length of ititch, and ia very quiet and easy running.

Address all orders to THE SENTINEL, Indianapolis, Ind. P. S. This Machine is shipped direct from the manufactory to the purchaser, saving all niddle men's profits. . t

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Worth 810 Given Tv: A Complete Hirtory of ocr Covcrrunent by Administrations, Political Par- , ti,cs and Ccngrets f-fiv;,",sp frcia'w'asLingtoa tfitt'lM to Harrison. On one pi& tb I.rrr-"t asl Intent l &. Map. si.owiog all States, Cotnitif?, Kafiroadaand Towns, (Pri e lon f '), And on tue oilier lde, a IH j., aijrvr!, e'jowiio; ail the Poiitla cil l'!t:e?, llxM. A IMagra t-howit all reMfnta aaJ T CtMrels, I:", A I)ivra fhowlnp P.'inU&l Compleiloa L of f arh t or. jri-fs. A i'lajrim SKm Showing n-.'dsof V.. World, mrm 1 ;iI0. A Liiaicrain tbow'ij m Van-lint: Aru:: of each naP t tirm. l- ll'l. A bijrrAi.i nhow- " Int: aal louiisi' of. each M .MKS Nation, 13xli A Cnmpl-U of the Worhl, I3ij. A i'i of C rinal America, 10x1 J. idviViij Map rt Alue' a. Jnl3. A of t-oiith Afrii. leilS. 4 ilAm Ma; -7 A Man of I j j'T Null ard . v. ..... a k . . J,Jr .!, 'i i err is, .n u i;ar,iciari, f.ran'l 1'iOor-iHt.tn. A 1 . V oini'li-io Map ot lar Sra- - K t"i:i, be?t tvpr rra-4, 1'i'S. :', tri L-.nf nu s if:!! Ca'.Mi.-t O-. j t' 4 c t. m'i'i tli of frm. I'i--ii'A r tnre "fall tlt iTi-'McaW fr.-u'iiu'.-tuii to 1! urripon. ixDor i l"::v.rv j.:.. Ili-t ii';:. : " 1 Mi-rer i; i . t:-.l r ! i . r c 'I KXTS, o. L. n , .7.-JL-J ii C;.r.c".a rfl of tHn- ' ci - l ..' ional i'.r ! ar.y a - r of 'lie El 5 ..!.... t4 ii - . -( r .. "" ' ' " : i f L" .': t Li--tl ) f r.y 7 7 1 1' H ti iL t ,':t.3. a.. Id U.J by f-1 "t r.f!'"h- ; it . f .i -f l-onr." . -rr-.f :.f- i ;re .p:.Uiii.e.1. 1 1. i - 'i V'.-t. tc- at. . tr - o-i eU sej :::'! E-rt n T)ii ft HE mm 3TAI" 1 eei-t i-c-1, to a S. It tan lo piu-'a ift r "iiT DOTPIF oTjirn pre :r.-a !.. .' "a'.!"!. t i ;t-'. Name id yr-'-r ru ar- et x; rns r. r. 'i liw morn y Hi i 1 rr-ft".:iii-'t i. u.- r ; i f t:r Pi'.i'f.i i f'i-r r-oeiv.-,. th. man. 1' dor tnTil ftitlv, tbt E ' T ' t' ." .r!:;C?". ' 'f v-.t. ai-.'cp all t haraPB f pre; al. l y e;. r--v ! nun a; ' ssfo-llerv and nene t ea'-ia ti.t,cn aarauteed or inocej 1 ,. Tl f. OUR OrF&i '" "la"'"r- br'TirM tr pa.d t a ir 011 -a t ilui at : jar j.itori ra fr Tb In 1 a is":ats Sioii itl i'k'f) f r me fear with Four l!lir in ca'h.ort' n TibM f if The-J indiy 3 i itinal (or oaa year, wlti F ir D ilta-a in cath, ur I ur u"oril -r for Tu n 1 ty funnel for ail inanth. wii i K. ir Ij:!aria oh, or four utHL-riW er f,n Piilr Mot l far tj mrinth, wit'i Ko ir I) .l'a- in oao, u -yjr l'rt'll I)LLA!'o tin on et tbla-aa and Tne It 1 ;ina -tste S- iiinel ite'. pa a) on year, o- Tin Sin lay S-n'.inel (ilan t tweaty pae.) aix luiiithi. or Tne DUy denltael (eij&l pauek,li iiinth. I: thi inat ia i:ot satiaf stirr tt may h t? irael and th mon r will be refund-il. TUE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL. JOHNSON'S MACHET.C OIL! Instant Külerd Pain. Internal and txternal. . I (uiw Kill-i :.iAl 1S..1, M.libAU-j-J U tlA, 1 ia l'.. -s. .spraio. Itruiae.v C V. 4 Sweollii;-. Ai.l .lollil!. LUUU IIU LT -lä f ' -l UAMi S ir-t-.Eti;,-. C'Uoiera.MnrFjr. .V'1j ' "on-, t'T-imcluptht-ria, Sore 1 hxottt. t SläS ?i;Hr-Al.-ic::i, a U t j ina-c THE HOHiE ERA ft D, wi-Jrf-wlIi. the reo; Power al and FciiPtrr.'.irKl.iLunietitfor Man or Beast ia exi-ieuce. Luve ti fie 7."x;M Sue. f iz aoc. JOKKSCN'3 ORIENTAL SOAP. Tsledionted and TaUet. The Great Skin Cuf and Fsce Eenutifier. Ladies wi.l üu it i OlJ"t delicate and hifrhly pcr'umed Tolltt Boap on the. market, it I-absolutely pure. Make the akin oft kd velvety ni 1 r -rres the -t comf lexicn; 1- luiurv f ir trie Dath for Infants, t r.liijs iti hiri,-. ;e:;n-.-i tne t. nip an 1 promote tte prowlh of l-.itir. PriciiiV. rorealeby BUOWM.m; A n N, Ai;i a, 1 ndian ipolia. RKXrAL.lream. wlii'es. itrpotoncy. etc. Sure curt by mail si. of t . F. FtY, Lotm-jlun, i'y. ON EARTH .... . - r . No. 4. if it is not as advertised. No. be furnished with the STATE

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ATTACHMENTS Accompanying Each l7.ach.nG ARE AS FOLLOWS:

1 I Attachments ia bracket are all interchangeable into hub on praer bar. Fix Bobbins, Fevcn Needles, One I-arire Screw Pnver, One Small Screw Driver, One Wrench, One Instruction Book.

WARRANTY. Erery Machine ia fully warranted for five yeara. Any part prOTinu defective will be replaced free of charge, excepting need ei, bobbins and shuttles.