Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1893 — Page 11

TITE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1893 TWELVE PAGES.1

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AT TUE TABERNACLE.

HOW THE LORD RAISED UP EHUD AS A DELIVERER. Dr. Talmag Show That the Saeas of the Lft Handed Son of Orr Illustrates the Value of Industry and Perseverance The Gate of Tears. Brooklyn, June 4. The wnnon selected by Kev. Dr. Talinage for this forenoon is founded oa the text Judges iii, 15, "But when the children of Israel cried unto the Ixml the Lord raised them up a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man left handed." Ehud was a ruler in Israel. He was left bunded, und what was peculiar about the tribe of Benjamin, to which he belonged, there were in it 700 left banded men, ami yet so dexterous had they all become in the tine of the left hand that the Bible says they could sling stone at a hair's breadth and not miss. Well, there was a king of the name of Eglon who was an oppressor of Israel. He imposed upon them a most outrageous tax. Ehud, the man of whom I first spoke, hail a divine commission to destroy th.i oppressor, lie came, pretending that be was going to pay the tax, and asked to see King clon. lie was told ho wns in the summer hene, the place to w hich the king retired when it was too hot to sit in the palace. This summer house was a place surrounded by flowers and trees and springing fountains and warbling birds. Lhud eiiterid the summer house and said to Kiiic Egloti that lie had a secret errand witii him. Immediately all the attendants W( re waved cut of the roy.il presence. Kiln; Eg!on ris-a tip to receive the messenger. Ehud, the left Lauded man, puts his lift hai.d to his right side, pulls out a daver and thrusts Exlon through until the haft went in after the Llade. Egh n falls. Khud comes forth to blow a trumpet of recruit aniM the mountains of Ephraim, and a great hot is marshaled, and proud Moab submits to the conqueror, and Israel is free. So, O Lord, let all thy nemies perish! So, 0 Lord, let all thy friends triumph! Tin: rown: n? left handed men. I learn first from this subject the power of left handed men. Th re are some men who by physical organization have as much strength in their left hand as in their right hand, but there is something in the writing of this text w hich implies that Ehud had some defect in his right hand which compelled him to use the left. Oh, the power cf left handed men! (jmiusis often self observant, careful of itself, not gien to much toil, burning incense to its own aggrandizement, while many a man with no natura.! endowments, actually detective in physical and mental organi.it ion, has an earnestness for the right, a patk-nt industry, au all consuming perseverance, whieli achieve marvels for the kingdom of Christ. Tii .High left handed as Ehud, thej can strike down a in as great and imperial as Eg Ion. s 1 have seen men of wealth gathering aijout them ail their treasures, suulling at the cause of a world lying in wickedness, roughly ordering I.az tr.Ts oil their doorstep, sending their dgs, not to lick his sores, but to hound I. im off their premises; catching all the pure rain of tods blessing into the stagnant, ropy, fn g inhabited pool of theirownselllsimess- right handed men. worse than useh ss mle many a man, with large heart arid littl.s pulse, has out of his limited means made poverty leap for joy and started an influence that overspans the grave a:al will swing round and round t he throne of God. wrld without end, amen. Ah, inc. it is high time that you left handed men. w ho have 1m-ih longing fur this gift, and that el.i:ju'-nce, and the other K ill's Wealth, should take your left Luid out of your p ket. VL n.ade all the-e ruilrnads"' Who set Up ;11 these cities? Who started ail tli'-se churr lies und school und asylums' Who lias :kne the tugging and running end pulling? .Men of no wonderful endowments, thoiis Is of them acknowledging themselves tc lie left handed, and jet they wr-re earnest, and yet they were determined, and jet they were trium phaut. But I do not suppose th-.t Ehud the first time he took itsliug in his left hand could throw a stone a hair's bri . l it h and riot miss. 1 suppose it whs pr;u tice that gave him the wonderful dexterity. Go forth to your spheres of duty and beaiot discouraged if in your first attempts ym miss the mark. Ehud mi -sed it. Take .mother stone, put it carefully into the sUag, swing it around your head, take letter aim, and the next time you will strike tli center. The first time a niasou rings bis trowel upon the brick he does not expe ct to put up a perfect wall. The first time a carpenter sends the plane over a lird or drives a bit through a beam hedoesnotexpei t to make a perfect execution. The first time a boy attempts a rhyme he .does not expt-ct to chnue a "Lalla liookh" or a "Lady of the Ijike." Do not le surprised if in your first efforts at doing good youaro not very largely successful. Understand that usefulness is an art, a science, a trade. TOK VALUE OF EXPERIENCE. There was an oculist performing a very difficult operation on the human eye. A young doctor stood by and said, "How easily you do that; it don't seem to cause you any trouble at all." "Ah," said the old oculist, "it is very cr-sy now, but I spoiled a hatful of eyes to learn that." Be not surprised if it takes some practice before we can help men to moral eyesight and bring them to a vision of the cross. Left handed men to the work! lake the gospel for a sling and faith and repentance for the smooth stone from the brook, take sure aim. God direct the w9ipon, and great Goliaths will tumble before you. When Garibaldi wa going out to battle, he told his troops what lie wanted them to do. and after Le hal described what he wanted them to do tAey said, "Well, general, what are you going to give us for all this" "Well," he replied, "1 don't know what else you will got, but you will get hunger and cold and wound and death. How do you like it?" His men stood before him for a little while in silence, and then they threw up tleir hands and cried: We are the men! We.are the men!" The Lord Jesus Christ calls you to his service. I do not promise you an eay time in this world. You may have persecutions and trials and misrepresentations, but afterward there comes an eternal weight of flory. and you can bear the wounds, and the bruises, and the misrepresentations, if you can have the reward afterward. Have you not enough enthusiasm to cry out: "We are the men! We are the men?" I learn also from this subject the danger of worldly elevation. This Eglon was what the world called a great man. There were hundreds of people who would have considered it the greatest honor of their life just to have him speak to them, yet although be is so high up in worldly josition he is not beyond the reach of Ehud's dagger. I ee a great many people trying to climb up In social position, having an idea that there is a safe place somewhere far above, not knowing that the mountain of famehaia top like Mont Blanc, covered with perpetual snow. We laugh at the children of Shinarfor trying to build a tower that could reach to the heaveDs, but I think if our eyesight were only good enough we con hi we a Babel in many a dooryard. Oh, the struggle la fierce! It it store against store, house against bouse, street against street, nation against nation. The goal for which men are running is chairs ami chandeliers and mirrors and houses and lands arid presidential equipments. If they get what they anticipate, what hare they got? Men are not gafe from calumny while they live, and worse than that they are not safs after they

are dead, for I have seen swine root up I graveyards. I

One day a man goes up into publicity, and the world does him honor, and people climb up into sycamore trees to watch him as he passes, and as he goes along on the shoulders of the people there is a waving of hats and a wild kuzza. Tomorrow the same man is caught bet ween the jaws of the printing press and mangled and bruised, and the very same persona who applauded him before cry: "Down with the traitor! Down with him!" EELMIAZZAR'S FEAST. Belshazzar sits at the feast, the mighty men of Babylon sitting all around him. Wit sparkles liko the wine, and the wine liko the wit. Music rolls up among the chandeliers; the chandeliers flash down on the decanters. The breath of hanging gardens floats in on the night air; the voice of revelry floats out. Amid wreaths and tapestry and folded banners a finger writes. The march of a host is heard on tho stairs. Laughter catches in the throat. A thousand hearts stop beating. The blow is struck. The blood ou the floor is richer hued than the wine oa the table. The kingdom has departed. Belshazzar was no worse perhaps than hundreds of people in Babylon, but bis position slew him. Oh.be content with Just such a position as God has placed you in. It may not be said of us, "lie was a great general," or "Ho was an honored chieftain," or "lie was mighty in wordly attainments," but this thing may be said of you and me, "He was a good citize, a faithful Christian, a friend of Jesus." And that in the last day will bo the highest of all eulogiums. I learn further from this subject that death comes to the summer house. Eglon did not expect to die in that fine place. Amid all the flower leaves that drifted like Fummer snow into the window, in the tinkle and the d;'ss!i of the fountains, in the f-ound of a thousand leaves fluttering on one tree branch, in the cool breeze that came up to shake feverish trouble out of the king's locks there was nothing that spake of death, but there he died! In the wilder when the snow is a shroud, and' when the wind is a dirge, it is easy to think of our mortality, but when the weather is pleasant and all our surrouudings are agreeable how difficult it is for us Lo appreciate the truth that we are mortal! And yet my text tenches that death does sometimes come to the summer house. lie is blind ard cannot see the leaves. He is deaf and cannot hear the fountains. Oh, if death would ask us for victims, we could point him to hundreds of people who would rejoice to have him come, l'ush lwck the door of that hovel. Iook at that little child cold and sick and hungry. It Las never heard the name of God but in bi.isphemy. Barents intoxicated, staggering around its straw bed. Oa, j-ath, tlnre is a mark for thee! Up with it into the ligLt! Before these little feet stumble ou life's pathway, give them rest. litre is an aged man. He has done his work, lie has done it gloriously. The Companions of his youth are all gone, his children dead. He longs to be at rest, and wearily the days and the nights pass. He says, ''Come, Lord Jesus, tome quickly." Oli, death, there is a mark for thee! Take from him the. staff and give him the scepter! Up with him into the light, where eyesiitxer grow dim, and the air whitens not through the long jears of eternity. Ah, death will not do that. Death turns back from the straw bed and from the aed man ready for the skies and conies to the summer house. What doest thou here, thou bony, ghastly monster, amid this waving grusj and miller this sunlight sifting through the tree branches? Children areat play. Howquickly i heir feet go nnd their locks toss in the wind! Eat her and mot her stand at the side of the room looking on enjoying their glee. It does not seem possible that t'ie wolf should ever break into that fold and carry otT a lamb. .Meanwhile an old archer stands looking through the thicket. lie points his arrow at the brightest of the group. He is a sure iirirkMimn. The lnw bends, the arrow spii'ds! Hush, now! The quick feet Lave stopped, and the locks toss no more in the wind. Laughter lias gone out of the LalL Death in the summer hmw! TCK FATHER'S JloMK COMING. Here is a father in midlife. His coming home at night is the signal for mirth. The :.iUlren rush to the door, and there are liooks on the evening stand, and the hourr pa-;- away on ghul feet. There is nothing wanting in that home. Heli'.'ion is there ai.il sacrifices on the altar morning and niuht. You look in that household and say: "I cannot think of anything happier. I do not really Wlieve the world is so sad a place as some people describe it to Ik-." The scene changes. Eather is sick. The doors must le kept shut. The deathwatch chirps dolefully on the hearth. The children whisper and walk softly where once they romped. Passing the house late at night, you see the quick glancing of lights from room to room. It is all over. Death in the summer house! Here is an aged mother aged, but not infirm. You t hink you will have the joy of caring for her wants a go..xl while yet. As she goes from house to house, to children and grandchildren, her coming is a dropping of sunlight in the dwelling. Your children see lier corning through the lane, ami they cry, "Grandmother's come!" Care for you lias marked up her face with many a deep wrinkle, and her back stoops with carrying your burdens. .Some day she is very quiet, hhe says she is not sick, bnt something tells you you will not much longer have mother, ."she will sit with you no more at the table nor at tie hearth. Her soul goes out so gently, you do not exactly know the moment of its going. Fold the hands that have dono so many kindnesses for you right over the heart that has lx-at with love toward you since Wfore you were born. Let the pilgrim rest. She is weary. Death in the summer house! Gather about us what we will of comfort and luxury, wheu the pale messenger comes, he does not stop to look at the architecture of the house before he comes in, nor, entering, does he wait to examine the pictures we have gathered on the wall, or, bending over your pillow, he does not stop to see whether there is a color in the cheek, or gentleness in the eye, or intelligence in the brow. But what of that? Must we ttand forever mourning among the graves of our dead No! No! The people in Bengal bring caes of birds to the graves of their deid, and then they open the cages, and the birds go singing heavenward. So I would bring to the graves of your dead all bright thoughts and congratulations and bid them think of victory and redemption. I stamp on the bottom of the grave, and it breaks through into the light and the glory of heaven. THK GATE OF TEARS. The ancients used tothink that the straits entering the Bed sea were very dangerous places, and they supposed that every ship that went tlirough those straits would )e destroyed, and they were in the habit of putting on weeds of mourning for those who hid gone on that voyage, aa though Ihey were actually dead. Do you know what they called those straits? They call them the "Gate of Tears." Oh, I fctand today at the gate of tears through which many of your loved ones have gone, and I want to t-fcll you that all are not shipwrecked that have gone through those straits into the great ocean stretching out leyond. The sound that comes from that other shore on still nights when we are wrapped la prayer makes me think that the departed are not dead. We are the dead we who toil, we who weep, wc who sin we are the dead. How my heart aches for human sorrow, this sound of breaking hearts that I hear all about me, this last look of faces that will never brighten again, tnls last kiss of Hps that never will speak again, this widowhood and orphanage! Oh, when, will the day of sorrow le gone? After the sharpest winter the spring dismounts from the .nboulJui ofa southern

gafe and puts its warm hand upon the earth, and in its palm there comes the grass, and there come the flowers, and God reads over the poetry of bird and brook and bloom and pronounces it rery good. What, my friends, if every winter had not !ts spring, and every night its day, and every gloom its glow, and every bitter now its sweet hereafter! If you have been on the sea, you know, as the ship passes in the night, there is a phosphorescent track left behind it, and as the waters roll up they toss with uiumagiuable splendor. Well, across this great ocean of human trouble Jesus walks. Oh, th.tt in the phosphorescent track of his feet we might all follow and be illumined! There was a gentleman in the rail car who saw in that same car three passengers of very different circumstances. The ürst was a maniac. He was carefully guarded by his attendants. His mind, like a ship dismasted, was beating against a dark, desolate coust from which no help could come. The train stopped, and the man was taken out into the asylum to waste away perhaps through years of gloom. The second passenger was a culprit. The outraged law had seized on him. As the cars jolted the chains rattled. On his face were crime, depravity and despair. The train halted, and he was taken out to the penitentiary to which he had been condemned. There was the third passenger under far different circumstances. She wns a bride. Every hour w as gay as a marriage bell. Life glittered and beckoned. 1 ler companion was taking her to his father's house. The train halted. The old man was there to welcome her to her new home, and his white locks pnowed down upon her as he sealed his word with a father's kiss. Quickly we fly toward eternity. We will Foon be there. Some leave this life condemned culprits. They refused a pinion; they carry their chain. Oh, may it 1 with us that leaving this fleeting lifefor the next we may faul our Father ready to greet us to our new home with him forever! That will be a marriage banquet! Father's welcome! Father's bosom! Father's kiss! Heaven! Heaven!

A Capacious Maw. It was in the summer time. An Englishman of gentle manners arrived at a Swiss hotel. Tired of his journey, he sat down at the dinner table, placing his bag on the chair next to the one he occupied. When he. had finished his repast, he called for the bill, when he found that he was charged the double amount. "How is this?" he Inquired and was told in reply that bis Y had taken up the room of a guest at the table. Upon receiving this information he quickly paid the bill and took his departure. A couple of days afterward the same Englishman returned to the hotel, where, as before, he took his seat at the diuncr table, and as before placed his bag on the next chair. Tbe dinner was served. The Englishman ate a hearty meal, and so did his traveling bag, which received its full allowance of every dish that was brought ou the table. General merriment among the guests, our English tourist all the while observing a grave and silent deportment. The waiters look in blank astonishment. The bag is getting fuller by degrees. At last the landlord, iu a towering rage, appears on the scene. "Sir, how dare you! I never saw anything like it in my life!" Then the taciturn diner got up and observed in his blandest tones: "My traveling !ag is in better condition now than it was three days ago. It is sorry that its appetite was none of the lest on the former occasion." A dark mist overspread the eyes of the landlord, whereas the light seemed to dawn upon the rest, of the company. The Englishman told them all what had happened. Loud laughtc-r! Shouts of applause! Disappearance of the landlord! Zürcherische Ereitagseit ung. Edwin Hoot hs Joke. A group of actors, writers nnd artists was gathered about a central figure in the parlor of tho Players' club. He was a dignified man of commanding presence, but emaciated features. From out of the depths of bis sunken eye there flashed the lire of genius that even illness could not subdue. Edwin Booth for it was he was in a reminiscent mood, and his bearers listened eagerly to his won Is. "Yes, fjent lernen," he said, "I did try once to play a joke on 'Aunt' Louisa Eldridge, but I will not try it again. It was Curing an engagement in London. Ou the 1st of July I beard that Mrs. Eldridge was in London, and I sent her complimentary tickets for tho evening of the Fourth of July. "On the afternoon of the 3d of July my attention whs attracted by the display of gaudy hosiery in a shop window. One of the pairs of hose was of silk, of barbor pole length and made up of brilliant red, white and blue stripes. I bought them and ordered them sent to Mrs. Eldridge. "The evening of the Fourth came, and I was playing 'Harnlet.' The house was crowded, and Mrs. Eldridge was in the tox with her friends. I had told the members of my company about the stockings, nnd we wondered what she would do with them. At the end of the soliloquy To lie, or not to be?' the audience rose in wild applause, I then noticed that tho memriers of my company were endeavoring to prevent an outburst of merriment, and I turned toward the place where their eyes indicated, which was the box occupied by Mrs. Eldridge and her friends. "She was holding a large placard on her lap, and the inscription on it could be plainly read, 'I can't wave them, because I've got them on.' "She almost broke up the play." And the great actor relapsed into silence. New York Herald. The Kiglits of a Murderer. A defendant in a murder case in New York state was onco placed on trial before a jury of 12. A member of the jury died during his trial. The prisoner's coun.'el agreed with the district attorney that the trial should continue be fore 11 jurors and that no reconl of the death of one of their number should be entered ou the minutes of the court. The prisoner was convicted and sentenced to punishment. An appeal was afterward taken to the effect that neither his counsel nor the district attorney nor the court nor the prisoner bad a right to waive the latter's right to a trial by 13 jurors. The conviction was set aside for that reason. As, however, nothing in tho record showed in a formal and oflicial way that the trial occurred and that the verdict was rendered by less than 12 jurors, it was also hell that the man had been put once In jeopardy and could not bo put twice in the same position. He was therefore discharged. He was thus tried and not tried, found guilty find not found guilty, convicted and practically acquitted, all at the same time and under the same proceeding. The contention was that every man indicted and tried for crime previous to his arraignment, and every one who might le ko indicted and so tried after his arraignment bad an interest in his trial by twelve jurors, a right to his trial by twelve jurors, and that when be waived his own right ho impaired their right in th'-ir trial and their right in his trial and that the thing could not b permitted. Brooklyn Eagle. A ltlt of Comfort. Little Johnny Was I born on a Thanksgiving day? Mamma Yes, but if you keep on bein euch a bad loy I don't know w hat I'll have to be thankful for. Little Johnny Well, you can be thankful I isn't twins anyhow. Good News. Wooden railroads were built In England in lefti; iron r lis w ere first used in 1TS8; the first iron railroad was laid iu America iu 1827. i

AMERICAN CORN IN DENMARK.

Special Agent C. J. Murphy Opens New Market For Our Sialic. In a former report I noticed the arrival in Denmark of Colonel Charles J. Murphy, special agent of the United States agricultural department for the introduction here of corn as human food. I am pleased to etfctf, that by his untiring labors and enthusiasm he has already succeeded in awakening marked interest among the people of Denmark in this reat American product. The various forms in which corn can be made to serve as a food were unknown in Denmark before the coming of Colonel Murphy. The methods used to attract attention teem to me to have been wise nd certainly Lave been quite effective. Tho "corn banquet" given in Copenhagen accomplished the object desiml. The United States minister presided, and as guests there were present Major General Kobke, head of the commissary of the Danish army, and the chief surgeon. Dr. Mollar; the consuls of Russia, England, Belgium and Sweden; members of the Copenhagen press, various merchants and business men, and Dr. Jurquensen, a noted authority on food in Denmark. The following menu was served and greatly enjoyed by the guests, to most of whom the dishes were an entire novelty: Mush (maize) and milk. Grilli d oysters, rolled in maize. Mixed rye maize bread. Mixed male wheat bread. Fried maize mub, with American maple sirup. Roast American tnrkey. Hominy (maize) croquettes. California trait. Sweet corn (maize). Corn flonr (maize) pudding and California fruit. Cheese and butter, with corn (maize) bread. Ccrcallne flake (maize) pudding. Ices. California raisins, f.'sund assorted fruit. California wines. Iteislint: (white) claret. Champagne. Already several wholesale dealers are in communication with American mills and have sent onlers from which to supply the retail trade in Copenhagen. Before this there was cot a store in Denmark where prepared corn could le obtained, and a general opinion prevailed that corn is only fit for hogs and cattle. The United States minister and consul have rendered such assistance as they could, but the success is due for the most part to Colonel Murphy. Orlando II. Baker, Consul. Convention of All Talents. Wc cannot ti ll when there was any convention attended by as many men of distinction in the various lines of learning as there wen women cd distinction in these lines at the Chicago convention of women. Among its memlars were scientific women, r.ctresses, poets, orators, doctors, preachers, politicians, authors, professors, artists, reformerand philosophers. When was there ever such an assemblage of men iu this country or in any other? There was not a crank arnoi.g then. When was .there ever a man's convention without its cranks? They discussed everything that is of interest, to women, or rather, let us say, to the human race The list of themes given in the programme was suggestive. Their reasoning was thoughtful, judicious, calm and helpful. Here is that representative of full flowered womanhood, Elizabeth Cady Stanton; here is a genuine poet, Julia Ward Howe; here is that accomplished medical practitioner, Mary Putnam Jacoby; here are those eloquent preachers, Antoinette Brown Blackwell and Anna Shaw; here is that stauch and stern reformer, Susan B. Anthony; here are such actresses asModjeska, Janauschek, Clara Morris, Georgia Cayvan and Julia Marlowe; here are the novelist, Emma I). E. X. Southworth, and thescholarly author, Mary A. Li verm ore, and here are a hundred other women of hardly less distinction and fame. We noticed also Ecores of delegates not less distinguished from Europe, South America, Australia and Canada. We cannot recall any like assemblage of the other sex, of men renowned in as many fields. In English history we read of the "Cabinet of All the Talents;" this was a convention of all the talents. Xew York Sun. t'ses of Old Jewelry. All sorts of curious things are sold forthe precious metal they contain old watches that are broken beyond repair, old seal rings and rings that were once set with gleaming gems. A broken locket once contained a miniature and probably holds the secret of a romance. A brooch is made of the light colored gold of over a hundred years ago, and still holds a lock of somebody's dark hair. It was bought, hair and all, and w ill go into the melting pot with its story untold. Some of the gold comes already melted into lumps, some of it is the gold filling of teeth and dentists' scraps, nnd some of it is in the form of old plates, with artificial teeth still sticking to them. Hood Ä: Beynolds, the assayers on Tremont street, say that old gold is very scarce, and they have hard work to collect the amount needed in their business. The old jewelry and scraps are melted down and refined, then rolled out into gold foil. The gold foil is "bought by dentists and put into the teeth of their customers, and in most cases goes back into the ground with the owner of the teeth when he dies. Someday, when Boston is a howling wilderness, an enterprising miner will wash out the earth of the cemeteries and reap a rich harvest. But that is a matter of speculation. It is a matter of fact that one firm of refiners here in Boston uses up 2,500 worth of old gold every week, and lately has been compelled to buy coin to eke out the supply needed for mechanical purposes. Boston Herald. A Wasted Oration. They tell a good story about one of our prominent lawyers here. He is considered, and rightly, an orator, and on occasions is in great demand as a speaker. The episoda occurred after he had recently been called upou for oratorical efforts on several occasions and had responded. Retiring ouo night very tired after a banquet, the viands of which had evidently not been so carefully prepared as the impromptu after dinner speeches the lawyer was troubled with somnambulism. Kising up in bed ho began to pour forth a torrent of eloquence, accompanying it with vigorous gestures. His wife was awakened and cried out to her excited spouse, "What in the world are you doing?" The reply came like a flash from the somnambulistic orator, "I've talked for everybody else, now I'm making a s jx-ech for myself." Ho thereupon subsided, and the next morning knew nothing of the ludicrous incident. Augusta (Me.) Journal. Some-thing to Show For It. General Grant, who was fond of children, was introduced to a little girl 4 years old. She gazed at him with an expression half incredulous. "Are you the General Grant tLat fought in the battles?" she asked. "Yes, I was in a gCKxl many battles," raid Grant. The little one looked at him in wondering silence and then said, "Iet's bear you holler!" San Francisco Argonaut. No Wonder Urn Ran Away. Hills And, Miss Trim, what is your opirion of tbe styles of 1830 Miss Prim Sir J Hills Er nothing personal that is well, I don't mean from observation of course er I will you excuse me a moment? Truth. It is said that racing men remain practically unbeaten only on an average less than three racing seasons.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

LESSON XI, SECOND QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, JUNE 11. Test of the Lenson, Keel, xll, 1-7, 13, 14. Memory Verse 13, 11 Golden Text, Eccl. xll, 1 Commentary by the llev. I. 91. Stearns. 1. "Bememlier now thy Creator in tho days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou lhalt say, I have no pleasure in them." In the last two verses of the p.-cvious chapter the young man is warned that there s a judgment to come, in the light of which all present things should be tested, and now ho is entreated to think of his Creator in tho days of his youth and strength and to consider Ilimwho is the gi vcr of every good and perfect gift. Let Samuel, David, Joash and Josiah be studied as examples. 2. "Whilo the sun. or the light, or the moon, or the stars be not darkened, nor the clouds return after tho rain." This is suggestive of days of judgment, as in Isa. xiii, 10; Math, xxiv, Ä); Hev. vld, 12; Jer. xiii, lrt, for those who persistently refuse the mercy of God. But the content seems rather to indicate the time of old age, wheu the Renscs become dull, nnd with no light from heaven in the soul the conditiouof such a one is dark and gloomy indeed. Listen to old Baizillai when invited by King David to make his home with the king in Jerusalem: "I am this day fourpcore years old, ami can I discern between good and evil Can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any moro the voice of singing men and singing women Wherefore, then, should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord tho king" (II Sam. .'C) Barzillai was doubtless a'g'Kxl man, yet he simply deFcribes the ordinary failures of the body in old age, 3. "In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men r-hall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they arc few, nnd those that look out of the windows le darkened." This is suggestivo of the failure of hands and arms, feet and lea;s, teeth and eyes. The earthly house ln-gins to decay, failure is evident in every part, and if there is no light shining from above the sun it is a dreary picture. But listen to Caleb, the friend nnd compnnion of Joshua, each of whom wholly followed the Lord: "Lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as I was in theday that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, both to go out and to come in" (Josh, xiv, 10, 11). 4. "And the doors shall lie shut in the Ft reets when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at tl4 voice of the bird, and all the daughters Oi music shall be brought low." Suggestive of lips closing in upon toothless gums, inability to sleep ami failure of the voice. Comment si-ems iinnecessiry; rather comidcr the possibilities of an old age in the fear of God. Think of Moses, of whom it is written that at the age 1-0 his eye was not dim nor his natural force abated. At that age he walked up the mountain alone and went out to be with God, and 1,400 years later we find him alive and weil (Deut, xxxiv, 7; Math, xvii, 3). 5. "Also when they shall bo afraid of that which is high, and fears shall lie in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail, because man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets," This is probably suggestive of tho easily terrified old person to whom everything is a burden and nothing is satisfying. The almond tree may suggest the w hite head of old age, and the grave is spoken of as the long home. "Under the sun" is still the key, for the rejoicing believer anticipates no long home in the grave, but "with Christ in p;iradise," "absent from the liody, present with the Lord" (Luke xxiii, 43; II Cor. v, S). C. "Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broki, or the pitcher lie broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern." Possibly the reference here may be to the spinal cord and whole nervous system, the brain, the heart, with its veins and arteries. However much or little tho writer may have known about these things, the Holy Spirit who wrote through him was "perfect in knowledge" (Job xxxvi, 4). , 7. "Then shall tho dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it." God said to Adam, "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." And the psalmist wrote concerning vain man, "His breath goeth forth; he retumeth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish" (Gen. iii, 19; Ps. cxlvi, 4). Through Jesus, the last Adam, the second mau, wo learn of victory over death and of the fact that many shall never die. "We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of au eye, at tho last trump, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed" (I Cor. xv, 45, 47, 51, 52). Seo also I Thess. iv, 1(-1S. And in contrast to this whole dreary picture of frail old age, with no light from heaven, listen to this contrast, "Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day." By receiving Iljru who became man and a sin offering for us we may be sure of an endless life and eternal youth. 13. "Iet us hear the conclusion of the whole matten. Eear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man." But inasmuch as no mere man, since Adam fell, ever kept the commandments of God there is little comfort here. "Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all" (Jas. ii, 10). And it is written that the law was given to condemn man and prove to man his helplessness, that he might be led to receive Ilim who is the fulfillment of tho law and the end of tho la for righteousness to every one that believeth (Bom. iii, 19, 20; x, 4; Gal. ii, 21; iii, 21, 22). The Lord Jesus Christ is the only man who has ever done the whole duty of man. He was made Bin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him (II Cor. v, 21). Boceiving Him. He becomes our life and righteousness (John i, 12; I John v, 12; Col. iii, 4; I Cor. i, 30), and His love constraining us we live henceforth unto Him, rejoicing in hope of the glory of God (II Cor. v, 14, 15; Uom. v, 1, 2). 14. "Eor God shall bring every work lr.to judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or w hether it bo evil." If we are in Christ, we can rejoice that the judgment for our sins is past, and they shall bo remembered no more (John v,24; Kom. viii, 1; Isa. xliii, 2-"i). Every believer will, however, appear licfore tlie judgment seat of Christ that all his worts as a Christian may be tried (II 'r. v, 10; Bom. xiv; 10; I Cor. iii, ll-b'i; Luke xix, 11-2(1). and position iu the kingdom will depend upon his faithfulness. So in due time and iu duo order the secretsof all hearts shall be made manifest, and only those who are in Christ end the works which He has wrought through them (.hall stand. All else shall nerish. Dead Slow. Levi, Jr. -F.vdc-r, de shentlemans rat puys te tiamond engagement ring yesterday comes py te store today aut pawned it. 1 a: vi, Sr. How vos he look? Ievi. Jr. All proke up. Ievi, Sr. Vill you nefer learn to take interest in to bizuess? Vydidu'tyou try to 1411 te shentlemans a pistol? Life. The Heut Man. "So, Browny, you're going to be married t last?" "Yep." "And who 1 to be the best man at the bidding?" 'lam." Ilarpcr' Bazar. ,

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