Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1894 — Page 12

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24, 1691 TWELVE PAGES.

AT BROOKLYN TABERNACLE

THE IlfcV. DU. TALMAKK mEAtllKS I" POX "TIIK uarl: aum of GOD." Gitd Ditl .Xot So Much urn Lift a Flnitrr tu Urine Forth the Lischt A Stuprnduna I nilrrluklns f rd of God's Dure Arm. BROOKLYN", Ja:. 21. Singularly appropriate and impressive vas the eld go.-pel hymn as it whs sung this mornir.p by the thousands of Brooklyn tabernacle, led on by cornet and organ. Arm of the Lord, awake, awake! Iut on thy strength, the nations shake. The Rev. Dr. Talmage took for his subject "The Bare Arm of God." the t'.xt being Ixaiah iii, 10, "The Lord hath made bare Ilia holy arm." It almost takes our breath away to read .some of the bible imagery. There is such boldness of metaphor in my text that I have hen for some time getting my courage up to prea h from it. Iaiah, the evangelistic prophet, is sounding the jubilate of our planet redeemed and crls out, "The Lord hath made bare His holy arm." What overwhelming ug'jsUvenes.-s in that figure of speech. "The Inre arm of God!" The people of I'alesMne t this day wear much hindering apparel, and when they want to run a special race, or lift a special hurdn, or flight a special battle, they put off the out.-ide apparel, a:s in our land when a ;;? proposes a special exertion h-f puts i!f his cnat und rolls up his sleeve. AVallc through our foundries, our machine shrps. .ur mines, our faci'ri "s. d.iti you will lind that most of the t'iil.-rs luve their coats oft and their frltvvi-s li.-iud Tip. I.- tii'.i sit v. that there must be a tremeiiuous ainuuiit of work dne before this world boconiea what it ought to be, and he f iv-s.-es it ali accomplished, and .u . .:;:,.!!.-u. , I by the Almighty, not as ve .. a::: ;.i ily think, of Him. but by the Almii.ty with the mccvp or his robe roll, d i.ai-k t his shoulder, "The Lord hath m:ide bare His holy arms." N'.dhinsj more impresses me in the bible than the ease with which God doe iticst things. There is such a reserve of jower. He has more thunderbolts than He lias ever Hung, more light than He has ever distributed, more blue than that with which He has ovcraichl the sky. more gi'cn than that with which He has cnuraled the grass, more crimson than that with which He has burnished th sunsets. I say it with reverence, from all I can see, God has never half trkd. Tired Arm of Toll. You know as well as I do that many of the most elaborate and expensive industries of our world have been employed in creating artificial light. Half of the time the world is dark. The moon and the stars have their glorious uses, but us instruments of illumination they are failures. They will not allow you to read a book or stop the ruffianism of your great citivs. Had not the darkness been persistently fought back by artliuial means, the most of the world's enterprises would have halted half the time, while the crime of our great municipalities would for half the time run rampant and unrebuk'd; hence all Hi- inventions for creating aititicial light, from the flint struck against steel in centuries i-ast to the dynamo of our electrical manufactories. What uncounted mimbeis of people work tieyear round in making chandeliers and lamps and fixtures and wires and batteries where light shall be made or along which liuht shall run or where light shall poise! How many bare arms t f human toil and some of those bare arms are ..ry tired in the creation of light and its apparatus, and after all the work the givater part of the continents and hemispheres at night have no light t all. except perhaps the fireflies flashing their small lanterns across the swamp. But se hvv.- easy Gud made the light! He did not make bar His arm; He did not even put iorth His robed arm; He did not lift so much as a finger. The Hint out of which lie struck the noonday sun was the word "Light." "Let there be light!" Adam did not see the sun until the fourth day, for. though the sun was created on the first day, it t-ok its rays from the rirst to the fourth day to work through the dense mass of fluids by which this earth was compassed. Did you ever hear of anything - easy as that? Ho unique? Out of a word came the blazing sun, the father of flowers and warmth and light. Out of a word building a fireplace for all nations of the earth to warm themselves by! Yea. seven other worlds, five of them inconceivably larger than our own. and seventy-nine asteroids, or worlds on a smaller scale! The warmth and light for this great brotherhood, great sistrho. 1, great family of worlds, eighty-seven larger or entailer worlds, all from that one magnificent fireplace made out of the one word "Light." The Fun 8Si,000 miles in diameter! I do not know how much grander a solar system God eoti id have created if He had put forth His robel arm, to say nothing of an arm made bare! But this I knowthat our noonday sun was a spark struck from the anvil of one word, and that word "Light." "But," says some one, "do you not think that in making the machinery of the universe, of which our solar system i comparatively a small wheel working Into mightier wheels, it must have eaused God some exertion the upheaval of an arm, either robed or an arm made bare?" No. We are distinctly told otherwise. The machinery of a universe God made simply with His fingers. David, inspired In a night song, says so "When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers." Accomplished by Flnrrm Only. A Scottish clergyman told me a few ireek3 ago of dyspeptic Thomas Carlyle walking out with a friend one starry night, and as the friend looked up and said. "Y'hat a splendid sky!" Mr. Carlyle replied as he glanced upward, "Sad sight, sad sight!" Not so thought David as he read the great scripture of the right heavens. It was a sweep of embroidery of vast tapstry, (Jod manipulated. That is the allusion of the psalmist to the woven hangings of tapestry as they were known long before David's time. Far bjck In the ages what enchantment of thread and color, the Florentine velvets of silk and gold and Perr lan carpets woven of goats hair! If you have been in the Gobelin manufactory cf tapestry in Paris alas, now no more! you witnessed wondrous things as you saw th wooden needle, or broach, going back and forth and in and out. You were transfixed with admiration at the patterns wrought. No wonder that Louis XIV bought It, and it became the possession of the throne, and for a long while none but thrones and palaces mUht have any of its work. What triumphs of loom! What victory of skilled flnz-rs! S David says of the heavens that G d's fingers wove Into them the litjht; that God's fingers tapestried them with stars; that God's fingers embroidered them with worlds. How much of the Immensity of the heavens David" understood I know not. Astronomy was born in China 2.800 years before Christ was born. During the reign of IIoanrj-Ti astronomers were put to death if they made wrong calculations about the heavens. Job understood the refraction of the sun's rays and raid they wre "turned as the clay to the seal." The pyramids were astronomical observatories, and they were so long ago built that Isaiah refer? to one of them in his nineteenth chapter and cnlls it the "pillar at the border." The first of all the sciences born was astronomy. Whether from knowledge already abroad or from direct Inspiration, it seems to me David had . wide knowledge of the

heavens. Whether he understood the full force of what he wrote I know not, but the God who inspired him knew, and he would not let Dayid write anything but truth, and therefore all the worlds that the telescope ever reached or Copernicus or Galilei or Kepler or Newton or Laplace or Ilerscheil or our own Mitchell ever saw were so easily made that they wery made with the ringers. As easily as "with your fingers you mold the wax, or the clay, or the dough to particular shapes, so he decided the shape of our world, and that it should weigh six sextilllon tons, and appointed for all worlds their orbits and decided their color the white to Sirius, the ruddy to Aldebaran, the yellow to Pollux, the blue to Altair. marrying some of the stars, as the 2,400 double stars that Herschel observed, administering to the whims of the variable stars as their glance becomes brighter or dim, preparing 'what astronomers called "the girdle of Andromeda" and the nebula in the sword handle of Orion. World on worlds! Worlds under worlds! Worlds above worlds! Worlds beyond worlds! So many that arithmetics are of no use in the calculation! But He counted them as He made them with His fingers! Reservation of power! Suppression of omnipotence! Resources as yt untouched! Almightiness yet undemonstrated! Now. I ask for the benefit of ali disheartened Christian workers, if God accomplished so much with His fingers, what can lie do when He puts out all his strength and when He unlimbers all the batteries of his omnipotence? The bible speaks again and again of God's outstretched arm. but only once, ar J that in the text, of the bare arm of God. A Great I ndrrtnklng. My text makes it plain that the recti

fication of this world is a stupendous undertaking. It takes more power to make this world over again than it took to make it at first. A word was only necessary for the first creation, but for the new creation the unsleeved and unhindered fore arm of the Almighty! The reason of that I can understand. In the shipyards of Liverpool or Glasgow or New York a great vessel is constructed. The architect draws out the plan, the length of the beam, the capacity of tonnage. th rotation of wheel or screw, the cabins, the masts and all the appointments of this great palace of the deep. The architect finishes his work without any perplexity, and the carpenters and the artizans toil on the craft so many hours a day, each one doing his part, until with flags Hying and thousands of people huzzaing on the docks the vessel is launched. But out on the sea that steamer breaks her shaft and is limping slowly along toward harbor when Caribbean whirlwinds, those mighty hunters of the deep, looking out for prey of ships, surround that wounded vessel and pitch it on a rocky coast, find she lifts and falls in the breakers until every joint is loose, and every spar is down, and every wave sweeps over the hurricane dock as she parts midships. Would it not require more skill and power to get that splintered vessel off thn rocks and reconstruct it than it required originally to build her? Aye! Our world that God built so beautiful, and which started out with all the flash of Edenic foliage and with the chant of paradisaical bowers, has been sixty centuries pounding in the skerries of sin and sorrow, and to get her out, and to get her off, and to t he on the right way again will require more of omnipotence than it required to build her and launch her. So I am not surprised that though in the drydock of one word our world was made it will take the unsleeved arm of God to lift her from the rocks and put her on the right course again. It is evident from my text and its comparison with other texts that it would not be so gnat an undertaking to make a whole constellation of worlds, and a whole galaxy of worlds, and a whole astronomy of worlds and swing them in their right orbits as to take this wounded world, this stranded world, this bankrupt world, this destroyed world, and make it as good as when it started. Xffd of I'nnpr from Ilenien. Now, Just look at th1 enthroned difficulties in the way, " the removal of which, the overthrow of which, seem to require the bare riirht arm of omnipotence. There stands heathenism, with its Sf.0,000,000 victims. I do not care whether you call them Brahmans or Buddhists. Confucians or fetich idolaters. At the world's fair in Chicago last summer those monstrosities of religion tried to make themselves respectable, but the long hair and baggy trousers and trinketed robes of their representatives cannot hide from the world the facts that those religious are the authors of funeral pyre, and juggernaut crushing, and Ganges infanticide, and Chinese shoe torture, and the segregated massacres of many centuries. They have their heels on India, on China, on Fersia on Borneo, on three-fourths of the acreage of our pxr old world. I know that the missionaries, who are the most sacrificing and Christ-like men and women on earth are making steady and glorious inroads upon these built up abominations of the centuries. All this stuff that you see in some of the newspapers about the missionaries as living in luxury and idleness is promulgated by corrupt American or English or Scotch merchants, whose loose behavior In heathen cities has been rebuked by the missionaries, and thes? corrupt merchants write home or tell innocent and unsuspecting visitors In India or China or the darkened Islands of the sea these falsehoods about our consecrated missionaries, who. turning their backs on home and civilization and emolument and comfort, spend their lives in trying to Introduce the mercy of the gospel among the downtrodden of heathenism. Some of those merchants leave their families In America or England or Scotland and stay for a few years in the ports of heathenism while they are making their fortunes in the tea or rice or opium trade, and while they are thus absent from home give themselves to orgies of dissoluteness such as no pen or tongue could, without the abolition of all decency, attempt to report. The presence of the missionaries with their pure and noble house-holds in those heathen ports is a constant rebuke to such debouchees and miscreants. If satan should visit heaven, from which he was once roughly but Justly expatriated, and he should write home to the realms pandemonlac. his correspondence published in Diabolos Gazette or Apollyonic News about what he had seen, he would report the temple of God and the Lamb as a broken down church, and the house of many mansions as a disreputable place, and the cherubim as suspicious of morals. Sin never did like holiness, and you had better not depend upon satanic report of the sublim and multlpotent work of our missionaries in foreign lands. But notwithstanding all that these m-n and women of God have achieved, they feel, and we all feel that if the idolatrous lands are to be Christianized there needs to be a power from the heavens that has not yet condescended, and we feel like crying: out in the words of Charles Wesley: Arm of the Lord, awake, awake! Put on thy strength, the nations shake. Aye. it is not only the Lord's arm that is needed, the holy arm. the outstretched arm, but the bare arm! . Corrupt Religion. There, too, stands Mohammedanism, with its 176,000,000 victims. Its bible is the Koran, a book not quite as large as our new testament, which was revealed to Mohammed when in epileptic fits, and resuscitated from these fits he dictated it to scribes. Yet it is read today by more people than any other book ever written. Mohammed, the founder of that religion, a polygamist, with superfluity of wives, the first step of his religion on the body, mind and soul of woman, tnd no wonder that the heaven of the I Koran H an everlasting Sodom, an in finite jeragllo. about which Mohammed promises that each follower shall have In that place seventy-two wives in addition to all the wives he had oti earth.

but that no old woman shall even enter heaven. When a bishop of England recently proposed that the best way of saving Mohammedans was to let them keep their religion, but Ingraft upon it some new principles from Christianity, he perpetrated an ecclesiastical Joke at which no man can laugh who has never seen the tyranny and domestic wretchedness which always appear where that religion gets foothold. It has marched across continents and now proposes to set up its filthy and accursed banner in America, and what it has done for Turkey it would like to do for our nation. A religion that brutally treats womanhood ought never to be fostered in. our country. But there never was a religion so absurd or wicked that it did not get disciples, and there are enough fools in America to make a large disclpleship of Mohammedanism. This corrupt religion has been making steady progress for hundreds of years, and notwithstanding all the splendid work done by the Jessups, and the Goodells, and the Blisses, and the Van Dykes, and the Posts, and the Misses Bowens, and the Misses Thompsons, and scores of other men at.d women of whom the world was not worthy there It stands, the giant of sin, Mohammedanism, with one foot on the heart of woman and the other on the heart of Christ, while it mumbles from its minarets this stupendous blasphemy, "God is great, and Mohammed is his prophet." Let the Christian printing presses at Beyroot and Constantinople keep on with their work, and the men and women of God in the mission fields toil until the Lord crowns them, but what we are all hoping for is something supernatural from the heavens, as yet unseen, something stretched down out of the skies,' something like an arm uncovered, the bare arm of the God of nations! V.xiln of the Day. There stands also the arch demon of alcoholism. Its throne is white and made of bleached human rkulls. On one side of that throne of skulls kneels in obeisance and worship democracy, and on the other side republicanism, and the one that kisses the cancerous and gangrened foot of this despot the of teilest gets the most benedictions. There is a Hudson river, an Ohio, a Mississippi of strong drink rolling through this nation, but as the rivers from which I take my figure of speech empty into the Atlantic or the gulf this mightier flood of sickness and insanity and domestic ruin and crime and bankruptcy and woe empties into the hearts, and the homes, and the churches, and the time, and the eternity of a multitude beyond all statistics to number or describe. All nations are mauled and scarified 'with baleful stimulus or killing narcotic. The pulque of Mexico, the cashew of Brazil, the hasheesh of Persia, the opium of China, the guavo of Honduras, the wedro of Russia, the soma of India, the aguardiente of Morocco, the arak of Arabia, the mastic of Syria, the raki of Turkey, the beer of Germany, the whisky of Scotland, the ale of England, the all drinks of America, are doing their best to stupefy, inflame, dement, impoverish, brutalize and slay the human race. Human power, unless reinforced from the heavens, can never extirate the evils I mention. Much good has been accomplished by the heroism and fidelity of Christian reformers, but the fact remains that there are more splendid men and magnificent women this moment going over the Niagara abysm of inebriety than at any time since the first grape was turned into wine and the first head of ryo began to soak in a brewery. When people touch 1his subject, they are apt to give statistics as to how many millions are in drunkards' graves or with ouick tread man hing on toward them. The land is full of talk of high tariff and low tariff, but what about the highest of all tariffs in this country, the tariff of $000,(mio.ooo which rum put upon the United States in 1SIU, for that is what it cor.t

us? You do not tremble or turn pale when I say that. The fact is we have become hardened by statistics, and they make little impression. But if some one could gather into one mighty lake all the tears that have been wrung out of orphanage and widowhood, or into one organ diapason all the groans that have been uttered by the suffering victims of this holocaust, or into one whirlwind all the sighs of centuries of dissipation, or from the wicket of one Immense rrison have look upon us the glaring eyes of all those whom strong drink has endungeoned, we might perhaps realize the appalling desolation. But no. no; the sight would forever blast our vision; the sound would forever stun our souls. Go on with your temperance literature; go on with jour temperance platforms; go on with your temperance laws. But we are all hoping for something from above, and while the bare arm of invalidism, and the bare arm of poverty, and the bare arm of domestic desolation from which rum hath torn the sleeve are lifted in beggary and supplication and despair let the bare arm of God strike the breweries, and the liquor stores, and the corrupt politics, and the license laws, and the whole inferno of grogshops all around the world. Down, thou accursed bottle, from the throne! Into the dust, thou king of the demijohn! Parched be thy lips, thou wine cup, with fires that shall never be quenched! Plenty of Ammunition. But I have no time to specify the manifold evils that challenged Christianity. And I think I have seen in some Christians, and read in some newspapers, and heard from some pulpits a disheartenment, as though Christianity were so worsted that It is hardly worth while to attempt to win this world for God. and that all Christian work would collapse, and that it Is no use for you to teach a Sabbath class or distribute tracts or exhort in prayrr meetings or preach in a pulpit, as satan is gaining ground. To rebuke that pessimism, the gospel of smashup, I preach this sermon, showing that you are on the winning side. Go ahead! Fight on! What I want to make out today is that our ammunition is not exhausted; that all which has been accomplished has been only thi skirmishing before the great Armageddon: that not more than one of the thousand fountains of beauty in the King's park has began to play; that not more than one brigade of the innumerable hosts to me marshaled by the rider on the white hore has yet taken the field; that what God has done yet has been with arm folded in" flowing robe, but that the time is coming when He will rise from His throne, and throw off that robe, and come out of the palaces of eternity, and come down the stairs of heaven with all conquering step, and halt In the presence of expectant nations, and flashing his omniscient eyes across the work to be done will put back the sleeve of his right arm to the shoulder and roll it up there and for the world's final and complete rescue make bare His arm. Who can doubt the result when, according; to my text, Jehovah does His best, when the last reserve force of omnipotence takes the field, when the last sword of eternal might leaps from its scabbard? Do you know what decided the battle of Sedan? The hills a thousand feet high. Eleven hundred cannon on the hills. Artillery on the hlghts of Givonne and twelve German batteries on the hlghts of La Jlon-" cello. The crown prince of Saxony watched the scene from the hightha of Mairy. Between a quarter to 6 o'clock in the morning and 1 o'clock in the afternoon of Sept. 2. 1870, tne hills dropped the shells that unentered the French host in the valley. The French emperor and the 81,000 of his army captured by the hills. So in this conflict now raging between holiness and sin "our eyes are unto the hills." Down here in the valleys of earth we must be valiant soldiers of the cross, but the Commander of our hosts walks the hlghts and views the Bcene far better than we can in the valleys, and at the right day and the right hour all heaven will open its batteries on our side, and the commander of the hosts of unrigheousness, with all his followers, will surrender, and it will take eternity to fully celebrate the universal victory through our iord Jesus Christ. "Our eyes are unto the hills." It is so certain to be accomplished that Isaiah in my text looks down through

the fieldglass of prophecy and speaks of it as already accomplished, and I take my stand where the prophet took his stand and look at it as all done. "Halleluiah, 'tis done." See! Those cities without a tear! Look! Those continents without a pang! Behold! Those hemispheres without a sin! Why, those deserts Arabian desert. American desert and Great Sahara desert are all irrigated into gardens where God walks in the cool of the day. The atmosphere that encircles our globe floating not one groan. All the rivers and lakes and oceans dimpled with not one falling tear. The climates of the earth have dropped out of them the rigors of the cold and the blasts of the heat, and it is universal spring. Let us change the old world's name. Let it no more be called the earth, as when it was reeking with everything pestiferous and malevolent, acarleted with battlefields and gashed with graves, but now so changed, so aromatic with gardens and so resonant with song and so rubescent with beauty, let us call it Immanuel's land or Beulah or millenial gardens or paradise regained or heaven! And to God, the only wise, the only good, the only great, be glory forever. Amen.

A MIDV IX OILS. An Effective Arrangement of Pink and White C'hr anthemunift. This study of pink and white chrysanthemums should make a beautiful picture when painted and framed and is well adapted for walls of light, delicate tints. To paint it in oils lay in a background of gray, using a cobalt blue, flake white, cork black and a very little vermilion. For the lights ia the riNK AND WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUMS. large white flowers use flake white. Lay in the shadows with cork black, white, cobalt and a little ocher. For the centers in the lightest parts use King's yellow, shaded at the edgo with a little orange. Keep the shadows thinly painted and load the lights. Lay in the lightest part, of the pink flowers, first with white, working in a very little madder lake, and in the darker parts use more madder and a very little white, if any. The centers arc King's yellow and white. For the Jar use yellow ocher and a little cadmium In the lights and cork black and ocher in the darks. A little cobalt may be used with the ocher in the upper left hand corner and in the center at the top. For the lightest gray leaves use cobalt, cork black and white, and in the medium tones use German green and cobalt, shading to the dark with terra ve-rte or cork black and cobalt, with a little umber. Keep the leaves flat and simple, being careful to preserve all the sharp, angular appearances in the drawing, advises The Modern Prlscilla in presenting this design. Robin Itedhren!. This is the English robin redbreast a songster all the year round, but his song is loudest when the snow lies upon the ground and winter storms have torn the last leaves from the trees. He is the Mark Tapy of featherdom this "pious bird with the scarlet breast." His spirits rise in proportion s surroundings become cheerless and the thermometer sinks. This sturdy, good humor, together with his courage and friendliness to human beings, has won ROBIN" REDBREAST IN WINTER. him mueh affection and fame among poets and writers as well as ordinary folk. Everybody delights in his pretty companionable ways. The robin redbreast takes his place in the stories of many lands, and even our youngest readers will remember how, in that pitiful tale of "The Babes in the Woods," when the children were dead The robin so red Brought strawberry leaves And over them spread. Not to mention that this is also the hero of "Who Killed Cock Robin." Frnnkle'a Soldiers. Little Frank! has an uncle. And he thinks him great and grand. Surely never was a better In the land. He has sent a camp of soldiers To him guns and cannon, too Some wear light gray caps and Jackets, Some wear blue. And his soldiers fight such battles, Have so many gallant wars. That already all are wearing Dreadful scars. One has lost an arm, another Has no legs or has no head. You would think so badly wounded They'd be dead. But they face the loaded cannon Holdly yet, and 'tis a sight Even now to see how bravely They can fight Mrs. Clara Doty Bates. A t'l'RtJ FOR LA GRIPPE. The Grent Factor In Stemming: the PreMcnt Epidemic. La Grippe. At present epidemic on this continent, as well as on the continent of Europe, the precusor of Pneumonia and other fatal diseases, is principally a Catarrhal inflammation of the Mucous Membrane of the upper air passages. It commences suddenly, and Is generally attended with an extreme degree of debility, with high fever from the commencement; marked pain in the head, shoulders and limbs, and oppression of the chest, severe cough and little expectoration, with a loss of appetite and some times diarrhea; in the course of a few days, follow at times free expectorations and copious perspirations. The disease must be at once driven out of the system in the first stages if penible, and not allowed to develop into others of a more serious nature, which may become fatal. To do this the most Rimple agent may be found . in Radway's Ready Relief (and where there is not diarrhea), Radway's Pills. Take two to four of Radway's Pills before retiring at night, swallow thirty to sixty drops of Ready Relief in a half tumbler of water; rub well, applied by the hand. Radway's Ready Relief to the head, throat, chest, shoulders, back or limbs, wherever the pain is felt; get into a good sweat, cover up well, and avoid catching fresh cold. If not entirely cured, repeat the following night. This treatment has been used before In similar epidemics, has vured thousands, and warded eff pneumonia and other fatal diseases which are so ready to step in. There is no better treatment than this for d living out a cold. Physicians are not always within call, and it is jeopardizing human ijfe to be without such potent remedies as Radway's. They should be in every family, and ready for use when required. An ounce of. prevention 13 better than a pound of cure.

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.

LESSOX IV, FIRST QUARTER, IXTERXATIOXAL SERIES, JAX 2S. Text of the Lesson, Gen. fx, 8-17 Memory Vernes, 11-1.1 Golden Text. Gen. Ix, 13 Commentary bjr the Rev. D. I. Steams. 8. "And God spoke unto Noah and to his sons with him, saying." We have passed crier probably 1,500 years since the last lesson, during which time the views of Cain ajid Abel had full time to develop and bear fruit. In the line of Seth, who took the place of Abel, his brother, the most notable of those recorded in chapter v was Enoch, the seventh from Adam (Jude 11), who walked with God at least 300 years and was then translated without tasting death. The descendants of Cain, who turned away from God, gave their attention to building cities, Inventing musical instruments, working in brass and iron and trying to make this world a happy place without God. The result of Cain's way was seen in chapter vi, 5, and the only remedy was the deluge, which came after long warning, destroying all except Noah and those with him in the ark. 9. "And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you." This is the first covenant, so called, in the scriptures and is first mentioned in chapter vi, IS. It concerns the whole earth. Then we have some 400 ytnrs later the covenant with Abram, Isaac and Jacob concerning the land of Canaan and the people who should inherit it as a center of blessing to the whole earth. These two are unconditional. About 400 years later we have the conditional covenant at Horeb. Compare Deut. v, 2, 3, and Gal. Iii. 1?. Then some 400 years after that we have the unconditional covenant with David concerning the throne and the kingdom. Happy are all who can make the last words of David their own and rest quietly In the faithfulness of God "Although my house be not so with God. yet He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all thing3 and sure" (II Sam. xxili, 5). 10. "And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle and of every beaüt of the earth ; with you; from all that go out of the i ark to everv beast of the earth." The Lord is good to all. and His tender mercies are over all His works tPs. cxlv, 9). Even the sparrows of which five are sold for two frathings are cared for by Him (Luke xii, 6). And the whole creation which still groaneth and travaileth in pain because of sin shall jet be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. (Rom. vii, 21, 22). 11. "And I will establish my covenant with you. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by th waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth." The next purification of the earth shall be by fire, after which there shall be a new earth iilh-d with righteousness to abide forever (II Pet. iii. fi, 7, 10. 1.1). The earth will not be destroyed that is, annihilated but I purified from all defilement, loosed (as i the word "dissolved" signifies) from its I bondage of sin. And as it was in the .1 . . r X' 1, t, .. o I, 1. - irt ,1 WdV Ol C1 11 Ov Mid II II I'C 111 l!l tiet r preceding that purification (Luke xvii, !'. 27). 12. "And Gcd said. This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature lhat is with you, for perpetual generations." In great mercy and loving kindness God condescends to give to man outward and visible signs of His faithfulness. The token to Abraham was circumcision; in the passover it was the blood upon the door; to Rahab it was the scarlet cord; to Gideon the fire from the rock; to Ahaz it was th virgin's son (Gen. xvii, 11: Ex. xil, 13; Joshua ii, 12. IS; Judg. vi, 17. 21; Isa. vii. 11). The last, even Jesus Himself, is to use the sign that He will do all that He has said. 13. "I do set My bow In the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth." This is the first time that we read of the rainbow, and it is only spoken of in four places. ' here and in Ezek. 1, 28; Rev. iv, 3; x. 1. Four In scripture is the perfect number concerning the earth, and in each of these four places the bow speaks of a redeemed earth. In the other three . pla.ces as well as in this it is seen in I connection with Him who is the only Redeemer. 14. "And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the clouds." The clouds would be more interesting to us if we remembered that He brings them and that they are the dust of His feet (Nah. 1. S). He led Israel by a pillar which was a cloud by day and a fire by night, and which He also spread over the whole encampment as a covering (Ex. xiii, 21, 22; Ps. cv, 39). At the transfiguration a cloud overshadowed Him. when He ascended a cloud received Him. and when He shall come again in His glory bringing His saints with Him it will be in the clouds of heaven (Math, xvii, 5; xxvi, 64; Acts 1, 9). Clouds sometimes teach that, though His way be not clear to us, yet we are to trust Him implicitly. 13. "And I will remember my covenant, which is between Me and you, and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh." See also what He wil' remember In Lev. xxvi. 42. 43, and Ezek. xvi.. 60. Consider what we are to remember in Dent. vii. 18; viii, 2; I Chmn. xvi. 12: Eccl. xii. 1; I Cor. xl, 24. 23. Take comfort also in what He will not remember (Isa. xliil. 23; Heb. viii. 12; x, 17). Notice that in the margin of Isa, lxii. 6. 7, we are called "the Lord's remembrances" and observe carefully what we are to remind them of. The R. V. says we are to take no rest and give Him no rest till He does this. He does not need -to be reminded, but He condescends to let us do this, and loves to have us plead His pomises. 16. "And the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth." How many of us ever think when we see a rainbow in the clouds that God is looking specially upon it and is Interested in it: that the cloud is His, and the bow is Ills, and the covenant is His, and when we are interested in that which Interests Him then we have fellowship with Him? When the clouds come in our lives, may we by faith see also the bow and rejoice that however things may seem to go we are in the bonds of an everlasting covenant ordered in all things and sure. 17. "And God said unto Noah, this is the token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth." The word for "establish" is often translated "raise i'p," "confirm," "perform," "accomplish," and is the very word used when speaking to Moses of Christ, "I will raise them up a prophet like unto thee." All things that God says or does are established In Christ. When we are in Christ by simple faith, and Just taking Him at His word, we, too. become established; but not otherwise ((II Chron. xx, 20; Isa. vii, 9). AH Broken Down. Is it not sad to see so many young men every day of whom this can be said? Young man, take my advice. 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