Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1894 — Page 12

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 14. 1S81.

HOME AGAIN 13 BROOKLYN

DR. TAI.MACC Fl MIS MANY LESIONS 1 Tilt: JOY OF CTin.MXG. Or All Word In tUr LangunK Xone Conveys So Manj- Sweet Sosgritloni u. I be AYortI Heme Joy ot Christian und Angeli Over the Convert. BROOKLTX. Nov. 11. The Rev. Dr. Talrrug-e, having1 concluded hi3 round the world tour, has selected as th? subject for today's discourse through -the pre?s, "Home Ajrain." the text chosen, being Luke xv. 23. "Br'mz hither the fatted calf and klü it." Ia all ages of the world It has been customary ta celebrate joyful events by festivity the signing of treaties, the proclamation cf peace, the Chritma, the marriage. However much ca other days of the year cur table may have stinted supply. on Thanksgiving day there must be something bounU-ous, ar.J all the comfortable homes of Christendom have at some timi celebrate! joyful eveat3 by banquet and festivity. T!ir Joj fill Fent. Something ha. happed in the old homestead greater than anything1 that has ever happened b"jvre. A favorite son, whom -the world supposed would become a vagabo.nl ar.d outlaw forever, has got tired of sightseeing1 and' h $3 returned to his father's house. Tho world said he never would c:m? back. The old man always said hi- sen would come. He had been look ins f..r i.im day after day anl year after year. He knew he would come back. Now. having return. I to his father's house, the father proclaims celebration. T.ier-j i a calf i". the paddock that has kept up an 5 f e I t" utmost capacity, S3 as t be ready f or s".ni3 occasion of joy that might come along. Ah. ther? never will be a. giand-er day on the cid homestead than this day. Lot the butchers do their work and the housekeepers bring in to the table the smoking meat. The musicians will take, their places, and the puy groups will move up and down the fl r. All the friends and neighbors are githtifd in, and extra supply is frcnt out t o the table of the. servants. The father presides at the table and says grace and tha::kss Clod that his long ab??n: 'boy is -home again. Oh. how they missed him! How glad they are to have hin ibaek! One 'brother indeed stands pouting at the back door and says: "This is a p:vat ad) ahmt nothing. ThiJ bad bjy shou.d have b -n chastened instead of gre-nrd. Ve .1 is t. g mI for him!" Hut the father says, "Xothins is too prxid; nothing is go d enough." There fits th- young nun. gl id at the hearty reception, but a h idow of sorrow flit Lin:? across his brow at the remembrance of the trouble ho had seen. All ready now. Let the covers lift. Music. He was dead, an l he is alive again! He was lost, and he is found! Uy such bold imagery does thft blile ret f rth the merry-making when a soul comes home to God. The Heleemel Soul. First 'f all, there i? the new convert's Joy. It is no tame thing to become a Christian. The most tremendous momenf In a man's lifo is when he surrenders himself to God. T'.ie grandest time cn the father's homestead is when the biy comes (back. Am ?ng the great throng who In the parlors of my church professed Christ one nl.'ht was- a young man. who next morning rang my doortoell ar.d said: ".Sir, I cannot contain myself with the joy I fee'.. I came here this Tnornir.g to express it, I hive found more Joy in five minutes in ttrving God Uhan in all the years of my prodigality, and I came to ?iiy o." You have seen, perhipp, a man running for his physical liberty and the olneers of the law after him, and you saw him escape, or afterward you h-ard the judee bad pardoned him. r.nd how yreat was the glee of that rescued man! Hut it is a very tame thing that compared with the running for one's everlasting life, the terrors of the law after him. and Christ coming in to pardon and bless and n-seue nnd save. You remember John Ilunyan, la his great story, tells hr.v the pilgrim put his hnpers In his eir and ran. crying. "Life. life, eternal lire"' A poor oar driver, after r.avi-g had to .-tru-gie t support his family for years, suddenly was informed that a large inheritance was his, and there was joy amounting to bewilderment, but that is a small thing compared with the experience of one when h ha jut in hi; hands the title tle d to the Joy. th raptures, the splerdois of heaven, and he can truly say, "Its mansions are mine; its G"d is mine!" Oh. it is r, tame thing to leeome a Christian. It I a no 1 1 ymaking. It is the killing f the fatted calf. It is jubilee. You know the Ubie ii.-vt.-r o nipares it to a funeral, bit aivas compares it to something bright. It is mre apt to be comparpj in the l.iMe t. the water bright, Hashing w.itf r 1- the morning, roseate, lire-worked, mountain transfigured morning. I wish 1 (- ni l t-day take all the Wide expressions about par.I-n and peace and life an 1 conn". ; t and hope and heawn und twist them into o-.e garland, and put It on the lr..w of the humlkst child of K1 In ail this land, and cry: "Wear it, wear it now. wear it forever, son of p-.d, laughter of the i..ed Cod Almighty! Oh, the joy of th- n:w convert! Oh, the gladness of the Christian service!" St. lnulK TendnioaT. You have F??n s.metimes a man In a religion. assembly g-t up and give his experience. W U. I'tul gave his experinco. Ha ro.-e in the presence of two churches the church cn earth and the church in heaven ar.d he siid: "Now, this La my expt rit n-e: y.ji rowful, yet always rejoicing; p ..-, yt-t making man ric-h; having nothing, ye: possessing all things." If ail th - pen.e who r-ad this KTmon knew the joy of the Christian relieion. they w, uIJ ill pass over into the klr-gd im jf (iotl the next moment. When Daniel Hindeman was dying of cholera, his ttndant paid. "Have you much lain?" "Oh." he replied, ".since I found ibe. I-d I have nevr had any pin xeopt sin." Then they said ta him. Woull you like to snd a nv.i?- to your fri.-nd-i?" "Yes, I wcuid. Tell th"tn that only las: right the love of JVus came rushing into rny f-oul like the surges of the s -a, and I had : crv out: 'Stop, Ird. It Ls enough! Jtop, I.-"d nousfh" Oh, the joy 0; thl-j Chri.s:?an religion! Ju.-Jt pass over from those tam joys in which you are indulging jjya of this world into the rap.urts (.f -the gospel. The world cannot satisfy yuu, you have found out Ahxander longing for :her worlds ta conquer, and yet drowned in his own bo: tie, F.yroa whipped by disquietudes around the world. Yohaire cursing his own soul while all the streets of Paris were aipiaudlng him. Henry II consuming with h ttrcd against p.wr Thomas a H-cket all illuurorion of t.e f tc: that this world -cannot make a man happy. The very mm who poisoned pommel of the siud on whk-h Quen j:iizibeth rda our! in tht street, "Ol save the queen!" Or.e moment the wvtdd applauds, anl tae next moment the world anathema tires. Oh. come over Irrto tiiN pT--iter J y, tri .'iblim- solace, this marrnifict-ni beau.i:ude! Tlir Sonwt if SliiJtih. The night after the battle of Phil oh thf-re were thousands of wounded on the field, nnd th? ambulances h id note come. One Christian soldier, lyins? thf-re a-dylng under the starlight, l-e-nn to fing: There is a land of pare delight. And when be came tu the n-xt liae there were peores of voices uniting: Wh-'xe saints immortal reign. The in was taught up ull over the f.eld anao.ng the wounded until, K was

said, there were at least ten thousand wounded men uniting their voices as they came to the verse: There everlasting spring abides, Anl never withering flowers. Ieath. ltk a narrow stream, divides That heavenly land from ours. Oh, it 13 a great religion to live by. ani It is a great religion to die by. There is only one heartthrob between you and that religion this moment. Just look into the face of your pardoning Uod and surrender yourself for time and for eternity, and He la yours, and heaven Is yours, and all is yours. Some of you, like the youn man of the text, have gone far astray. I know not the history, but you know it you know It. When a young man went forth into life, the legend says, his guardian angel went forth with him, and getting him into a field the guardian angel swept r circle clear around where the young man stood. It was a circle of vL-tue and honor, and he must not step beyond that circle. Armed foes came down, but were obliged to halt at the cricle. They could not pass, but one day a temptress, with diamonded hand, stretched forth and crossed that circle with the hand, and the tempted soul took it, and by that one fell grip was brought beyond the circle ar.d died. Some of you have stepped beyond that circle. Would you not like this day, by the grace of God, to step back? This, I say to you, is your hour of salvation. There was in the closing hur3 of Queen Anne what Is called the cloek .sicene. Flat down ort the pillow, in hKpless sickness, she could not move her head or move her hand. She was .waiting for the hour when the ministers cf state fhou'.d! gather In, angry contest, and worried and worm out by the coming hour, and in momentary absence of the nurse, In tha power strange power which ce-llm'-urn sometimes gives one she arose and stoodi in froni of the clock, and stool there watching the clock wIthi the nur.? returned. The nurse siid. "Do you se anything peculiar about that clock?" tihe mada r.,Ti answer, but soon died. There is a clock scene in every history. If some; of you would rise from the bed of le-lhargy and come out of your delirium of sin and look on the el-x-k of your destiny this moment, you would see arid hear s"m-.-thing you have not feen or heard before, and every tiek of the minute, and every stroke of th? hour, and every swing of the pendulum would say, "Now. now, now, now!" Oh. com home to your Fither's h.use! Come home. oh. prodigal, fr 'n the wilderness! Come home, come h me. Joy of tlie Father. Bat I notice that when the prodiaral came there was thei father's joy. He did not greet him with any formal "h nv do you do?" He did not come out and say: "You are unfit to enter. Co out ar.d wash in the trough by the well, and then you can ccme In. We have had enough trouble with you." Ah, no! Whrt-a the proprietor of that estate proclaimed festival, it was an outburst of a father's love and a father's j v. God Is your father. I have not. much sympathy with that description of Cod I sometimes hear, as though he were a Turkish fultan hard anl unsympathetic and listening not to the cry of his subjects. A nan ttdd me he saw in one of the eastern lands u. king riding uiong. and two men were in altercation, and one charged the other with having eaten his rice. And -the king said, "Then slay the man, and by p tn mi .-tern examination find whether he has eaten ihe rice." And he was slain. Ah, the cruelty of a scene like that! Our (.bod is n t a sultan, n-ot a d-ispot, but a father kind, loving, forgivingand he mikes all heaven ring agiln when a prodigal conies back. "I have no pleasure," he says, '"in 'the dea.h of him that dieth." If a man does not get to heiven. it is because he will not go there. No difference the color, no difference the his: ry, no difference the antecedents, no difference the surroundings, no diffrence the sin. When the white horses of Christ's victory are brought out to celebrate the eternal triumph, you may ride one of them, and as God Is greater than all his joy Is greiter, and when a soul conies back there Is In his heart the surging of an infinite wean cf gladness, and to express that gladness it takes all the rivers of pleasure, and all the throne? of jo:np, and all the ages of eternity. It is a Joy-

deeper than all depth, and higher than ail night, and wider thin all width, and vaster than all immensity. It overtops, it undergirds it outweighs all the unbed splendor and joy of the universe. Who can tell -what God's joy is? Munt? f Ine Itedeemed. You remember reading the story of a king who on some great diy of festivity scattered silver and gdd among the people, who sent valuable presents to his courtiers, but methinks when a soul oomes back God i3 so glad to express His Joy He flings out new worlds into space, kindles up new suns and rolls among the white-robed anthems of the redeemed a gre-a.er halluliah, while with a voice that reverberates among the mountains of frankincense and is echoed har-k from the everlasting gates He cries, "This, .My sjii, was dead and is alive again!" At the opening of the exp isition in New Orleans I saw a (Mexican flutist, and he played the solo, and then afterward the eight or ten baads of music, accompanied by the great organ, came in. Hut the sound of that one llute as compared with all the orchestra was greater than all the combined joy of the universe when compared with the resounding heart of Almighty God. For ten years a father went three times a day to the depot. His son went off in aggravating circumstances, but the father said. "He will come back." The strain was too much, and his mind parted, and three time. a day the father went. In tihe early morning he watched the train its arrival, the supping out of the pii'iengers and then the departure of the train. At noon he Avas there again watching the advance of the train, watching the departure. At night there again, watching the coming, watdhing the goin,?, for ten yeirs. lie was ture his s n would come back. God has 'been watching and waiting for some of you. my brothers, ten years, twenty years, thirtyyears, forty years, perhaps fifty years, waiting, waiting watching, watching, and if this morning the prodigal should come h 'me what a scene of gladness and festivity and how the great Father's hcirt would rejnee at your coming home! You will come, some of you, will you not? You will! You will! (io.l' ölinUlern Itejoice. I notice also that when a prodigal comes home there is the joy of the ministers of religion. Oh, It is a grand thing to preach thi.-s gospel! I know there ha.s been a great ileal said about the trials and the hardshipof the Christian ajilnistry. I w!sh s miebody would write a"- good, rousing book alout the joys of the Christian ministry. Since I entered the profession I have see.n more of the goodness of (Jod than I will be able to celebrate In all eternity. I know some b ast about their -qui'ibrium. and they do not rise into tnthusiasm. and they do not break down with emotion. Hut I confers tr you plainly that when I see a man coming to Go! and giving up his sin I feel in body, mind and soul a transport. When I see a man who is bound hand nnl foot in evil hab't emancipated. I rejoice over it as though it were my own emancipation. When in our communi-n rervlce? suc.t throngs of young and old stood up at the altars, and In the presence of heaven and eorth and hell attested their allegiance to Jesus Ch:it, I felt a Joy something akin to that which the apstlj deserihes when he says: "Wh-ther in the body I cannot tell, or out of tha body I cannot tell. God knoweth." Have not ministers a rl?ht to rejoice when a prodigal comes home? They biew th" trumpet, and ought they not to be ghvl of the gathering of the host? They Pintfd to the full supply, and ouht they ra.-t t rejjice wihen souls pant as the hart for the water brooks? They came forth, faying. "All thines are now ready." Ought they not to rejoice when the prodigal sits down at the. banquet? Value of a Culm oil ml. Life Insurance men will all tell you that ministers of religion, as a class, live longer than any other. It 1j confirmed by the tathtlsc of ail those who calcu-t-e upon hunun longevity. Why is It? Thu-e U more draft upon the r.ervou

system than in any other profession, and their toil 13 most exhausting. I have seen ministers kept on miserable stipends by parsimonious congregations, who wondered at the dullness of the sermons, when the men of God were perplexed almost to death by questions of livelihood and had not enough nutritious food to keep any fire In their temperament. 'No fuel, no fire. I have sometimes seen the inside of the life of many of the American clergymen never accepting their horpitality, 'because they cannot afford ltbut I have seen them struggle on with salaries of $500 and JWO a year, the average les.j than that, their struggle well depicted by the western missionary who say-3 in a letter: "Thank you for your last remittance. Until it came we had not any meat in our house for one year, and all last winter, although It was a severe winter, our children wore their summer clothes." And these men of God I find in different parts of Urn land struggling against annoyances and exasperations innumerable, some of them week after week entertaining agents who have maps to sdl and submitting themselves to all styles of annoyance, and yet without complaint and cheerful of soul. Haw do you account for the fact that these life insurance men tell us that ministers as a class, live longer than any others? It is because of the Joy of their work, the jey of the harvest field, the Joy of greeting prodiga',3 home to their Father's house. Kejolce In All Innocence. We are in sympathy with all innocent hllarltiea. We can enjoy a hearty song, and we can be merry with the merriest, but 'those of us who have toiled in the service are ready to testify that all these Joys are tame compared with the satisfaction of .seeing m en en tor the kingdom of G d. The greit eras of every minister

are the outpourings of the Ho.y Ghost, and I thank God I hive se-en twenty of thm. Thank G. d. think God! I notice also when the prodigal comes back all earnest Christa ins rejoice. If you stood on a promontory, and there wi9 a hurricane a: sea, and it was blowing toward the rocks, and you saw people get ashore in the lifeboats, and the very Ian man got on the roeks in safe ty, yru could not control your joy. And i: is a glad time when the church of Gr. 1 .'ices nun who are tossed on the ocean of thir sins plant their feet in the reek Chris: Jesus. Look I'm ye r Needed. When prodigals come home, jus: hear those Christians sing! It not a dull tn- you hear at such times. Just hear those Christi ins pray! It is not a stereotyped supplie'athm we have heard over and over again for twenty years, but a putting of th. case in the hands of God with an importunate plea. ling. Men never pray at great length unk.s. they have nothing to Fay, and their hearts are hard and void. All the prayers in the bible that were answered were rhort prayers: "Gol, be merciful to me. a sinner;" "Iv rd, save me, or I perish." The Iv.is-e.-t prayer, Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the temple, less than eight mlnii t -s in lenqth, ace n ding to the ordinaryrate of enunciation. And just hear them pray now that the prodigals are coming home! Just see them Khakc band--! X putt:nr forth of the four tip3 of the fingers in a formal way, but a hearty grasp, where the -muscles f the heart seem to clinch the fingers of on hand around th? other hand. And th"n see those Christian faces, how Illumined they are! And Fee that old man pet up and with the same voice that he sang fifty years ago in the old country ir.eetiag houe say, "Now, Lord, littest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyehave seen thy salvation." There was a man of Keith who was hurled into p-ison in time of persecution, and one day l.e eot off his shackle;, and he came and stood by the prison d or, and when the jilier wes opening th? door with one str ke he struck down the man who had incarcerated him. Passing along the streets of London, he wondered where his family was. He did not dare t o ask lest he excite suspicion : but, passing along a little way from the prison, he saw a Keith tankard, a cup that belonged to the family from generation to generation he saw it in a window. Hifamily, hoping that some day he wo tili g't char, came and lived as near as th-y eemld to the prison house, and thy se that Keith tankard in the window, hoping he would see it. And he came a'.org and saw ft and knocked at the door and wont In, and the long absent family were all together again. Oh, If you would start for ti e kingdom of Gud today. I think som of you would find nearly all your friend and nearly all your fam lies arounl the he)!y tankard of the holy communionfathers, mothers, brothers, sisters ar.trnl that sacred tankard which commemorate3 the love of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Oh, it will tve a great communion day when your whole family sits around the sacred tankard. One on earth, one in heaven. The Ilenvenly- Fentlvnl. Once more I remark that when the prodigal gets back the Inhabitants of heaven keep festival. I am very certain of it. If you have never seen a telegraphic chart, you have ne Idea how many citiesare connected together and how manv lands.- Nearly all the neighborhoods of the earth seem reticulated, and news flies from city to city and from continent to continent, but more rapidly go the tidings from earth to heaven, and when a pr dlgal returns it Is announced b-fore the throne of God, and if these souis today should enter the kingdom there would be some one in the heavenly kingdom to say, "That's my father," "That's my mother," "That's my son," "That's my daughter," "That'n my friend," "That's the one 1 used to pray for," "That's the one for whom I wept so many tears." and one soul would s-'ay "ilosanna!" and another sold would say "Halleluiah!" Pleased with the news, the saints below In sm-rs their tongues employ. Beyond the skies the tidings go. And heaven tilled with jy. Nor angels can their joy contain. Hut kindle with new lire. The sinner lost Is foun 1, thy sing. And strike the sounding lyre. At the banquet of Lucu'dus sat Cicero the orator. At the Macedonian festival sat Philip, the conquerer. At the Grecian banquet sat Socrates, the philosopher, but at our Fathers table sit all the returned prodigals, more than conquerors. The table Is fo wide its lea s reach acros Feas and across lands. lis guests are the redeemed of earth and the glorified of heaven. The ring of God's forgiveness on every hand, the robe of a Savior's righteousness adroop from every shoulder. The wine that glows In the cups la from the bowls of 10.000 sacraments. Let all the redeemed of oarth and all the glorified of heaven rise, and with gleaming chalice drink to the return of a thousand prodigals. Sing, sing, sing! "Worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and honor and glory and power, world without end!" AVomrn'i Mnncullne Clotliea. "Do men l:ke masculine women?" is a vry much-discussed question amons w 'men. T.if horsey g'rl, the girl who can ride, drive, play tenni, swan and is an aliround Sort of a good fellow would seem to havo a much better time thin tho quieter, more femin ne creature who is s terribly dependent on the so-called stronger ex. Hut laces an.l ribbon i are connected in. the masculine mind with a woman's toilet that he seems to prefer them about women he c-.eref for rather than the tifT, trim lcok of the tai'.er made girl, whose garments, by th way are lnfin tely more fitted for the different sports and work she is now rng&ved in. 1 win Immtn y amusei the uther daj In a. car to watch the puzzle 1 expression which came over the face of a very swrl looking man dressed in th latest style who got in the car a few blocks after r, very smartly-gowned girl had entered. II: sat down bes.de her and rode for sane time without d scovering that her cos tum was. With the exception of the trous ers, the exact counterpart of his own. II eyes traveled over her overt coat, mad Jut Like his covert coat which he was werr'n,'. her sh rt front, h cii collar an.1 Perfectly lied cravat. h-r llamlnrp h:it H r iMUtonniere and her edoves w th hivy .'.etching. It was more I k" a dog lookinv. at his reflection in the ni.rror than any tntf I hivf ever seen, ant when lie ko' up. shook himself anl wüh one partim: g.unee, left the car I fully expected t hear him bark. The girl pad no attention T her he was but one of many, and if sh: not.cel him at all it whs qu.te unnoliceal.9 to anyona eis?. Fhhadeiphia Pres.

FOR THE SUNDAY SGHGOL

LESSON VII, FOtUTJI QUARTER, I.TER.AT10AL SERIES, AOV. IS. Text of the I-fMon, Lake vi, 20-31 Memory Veraes 7-3 1 O olden Text, Luke !, 31 Commentary by the Itev. D. 31. Stearna. 20. "And lie lifted up 1113 eyes on His disciples and said, Blessed be ye poor, for yours Is the kingdom of God." While this discourse Ls In substance- the same as a portion of the sermon on the mount, it Is evident from a comparison of Math. V, 1, and Luke vi, 17, that it was spoken at another time and under different circumstances. This had better be called "a sermon on the plain." It follows in the orde.- of events the choosing of the twelve. His first word is "blessed," reminding us of the "b!es3eds" of P3. i, 1; xxxii, ; cxiv, 1. In Math, v, 3, lie speaks of the "poor in spirit;" in Ja.s. ii. 5, it is the "poor of this world, rich in faith;" In Isa, lxvl, 2, 1: is the "poor and -contrite spirit that trembleth at His word." In every eise it Ls the humble penitent pleading no good in self and looking only and wholly to Jesus. 21. "Blessed are ye that hureger now, for ye shall Cos filled. Blessed are ye that weep now, for ye f'aall laugh." If we ruff --r. we shall reign with Him (II Tim. ii. 12), ar.d the suffering? of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be reve3ld in us fTiom. vil. IS). So we are to rejoice in being partakers of IÜ3 sufferings 'because of the exceeding Joy at the revelation of His gvory (I Peter iv. 1C). Nothing will so fully enable us to do this as a proper understanding and appreciation of the kir.gdom of which He speaks ihe kingdom cf God, 'the kingdom of heaven. Jt is not the church, not Christ In us, no: heaven, where God dwells, but this earth filltd with the glory of G .1 and His will d ne on eacth a.s in heaven hi the days wh;n He and His glorified church sha'.' return to reign ever the earth (Dan. Ii, 44: vii. 27; Zech. xiv, 9; Rev. v. 9. 10. 22. "Pressed are ye when men shall hate you ani when they shall s-parate you from their1 company anl shall reproach you an.5 cast cut your name as evil for the S .n of man's S3ke." Some have thought that if the parf-t'on of g-dn-' could be seen or earth In human form all would lova it, but Jtsus has proved otherwise fjr He v.-j.i aiiiutr p. r;.-. ;i .. of love ar.d mes'-cyt, ..f p e- :r- ? -':-. and yet was hated anl put to death by rdii . us p. "ile. J 1 !s ... , 1 ei.s Ls that they shall be hated of a!I for His name's soke (.Moth. x, ..'. i .. blessedness of k is our fellowship with Him. 2'5. "Itejoi e ye in that day ami leap for jjy, f r biheldi your reward is; great in heaven, for in the like manner did their fathrrs unto the prophets." Take my brethren, the prophets, who have spoker, in the name or the Lord, for an example "f suffering affliction and of patience (J-s. v, 10). Abraham looked for a city which hath founlations; Moses looked f"r the recompense of the reward: Jesus Himself did not disregard the joy ret before Him. i:erywhsre we are taught that it is suffering now with glory to 1 t.l,; Th whole bible strry Is the humiliition ar.d exaltation of Christ (I Pet. i, 11) foretold, f Taadowed. nun If est, in Himself and His pcpei and linally consummated. 24. "Put woe unto you that are ri -h, for ye have received your consolation " Iliches used for the glory of God are indeed a blessing, but riehen kept for the owners thereof to their hurt are a curse. 1 ipl"-g up treisure for seltish gratification is only helping up wrath for eternity. Neithrr silver 'it gold tan deliver in the day of the Lord's warth (Zeph, i. 1S, and they that trust in tl.t ir weabh can by n means redeem a. brother nor give to God ransom for Li.n (I's. xlix, 6, 7). Those who live merely for present enj-yment may have a large amount, but there is alwas the possibility of a sudden going out into awful torment (Luke xvi, 23). 2'j "Woe unto yuu thit are full, for ye shall huncer. Wte unto you that laugh now, f:r ye shall mourn and ween." It is Ute pi- usure of the Lord that His PH-ple should be full of joy and peace, full of the Spirit, filled with all the full ness of God. satisfied with favor ar.d full with the blessings of the Lord (Kom. xv. 13: Epa. v, IS; iii, 10; Deut, xxxiii. 2Ü). i'.C. "Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you. for so del their fathers to the f ilse prophets." They did not all speak well of Isaiah, Jeremhih, Ezr-kiel. Daniel or the others who were true to Gel, as Is evident from such passages as Jer. xi, ID: xxviii, 4; Dan. i. 4. etc. 27. "But I say ur.to you willed hear. Love your enemies; d good to them which hate you." In verses 22 to 31 He go.vs on to say that if we love and do good only to those who love and do good to us we are no better than the unsaved, for any sinner can do "that, but if we can by His prace love and d) giod to our enemies that Is God-'.ike and an evidence that we are His children, and we .hall have a great reward (verse 33 an.l Math, v. 41, 4.,). L'S. "Mess them that curse you and pray f ir them which despite fully use you." These are graces of the new nature, not of the old. The natural man is not given to this srt of thing, but Christ ia us can do it. The Indian understood something of it who, when he he.nd this commmd, excitedly walked up and down, sayir.g: "This Indian can't do it. If Gen! would mike a new Indian, he m'ght perhaps do it." If any man be in Christ he Ii a new creature or creation (II Cor. v. 17). 2'J. "And unto him that smiteth thee nn thj one cheek offer also the other, and hau that taketh away thy cloke ferbid not to take thy coat also." It i surely more than human to act thus, and yet we read of those who took joyfully the spoiling of their wealth, knowing that they had in heaven a better and an enduring substance (II-:b. x, 31). Jesus suffered His enemies to smite Him, to spit on his face, to take away His clothes yes, even His life ttr.d we are told to consider Him who eiidureth such contradiction against Himself. le-.-t we be wearied and faint In our minds, and to remember that we have not yet resisted unto blood (Heb. xil. 3. 4).ö't. "Give to every man that asketh of thee, an.l of him. that taketh away thy goods ask them not a?aln." The? principles of this sermon and the. sermon on the m unt phaH be fully lived out when the kingdom comes, for they are tha laws of the kingdom, but if we are the children of the kirgPm they ought to be in some measure lived out ir 113 now when fully t-or.sIdVred In the light of all Scripture. 31. "An ! as ye would that mn should do to you do ye als. to them likewise." Xot simply the negative form, "Do not to others what you would not have them da to you." bub positively "love your nghbor as yourself." Then sre verseu 45 to 4a concerning hearing and) not doing; also Jas. 1, 22-21. along avilh Math, vll, 21. The thought "unto Him that loved me" and "for Jesus's sake" will greatly help us. Eltler Ilotita I'olnonona. The public print have reeenUy given an account of the death' of five children at Tarry t own. N. Y., anl the serious injury' of seven more, who subsequently recovered, from eaUng a poisonous root. One of th attendant physicians has kind.y sent a portion of the root and a growing shoot of the plant which did the injury. It is a great surprise to find that the plant is a-thing but the common elder, and this is probably the first instance to be placed a record of the roots of this plant having 'h a very virulent character. Lin Hey, in h.s "Medical Flora." states that the bark h bigtily purgative, and that overdoses have been known to produce inflammation of the bowels. On chewing a small p'ece of the root it was found to have a -tl'irhtly pungent ani inflammatory charicter cn the tongue and lips. It is sad that the children mistook the roots for the rijts of the calamus there is some resembtanee of a general character to thij root, tn Uie thick, nshy, underground sterna of the eller. It sems impossible to guard against mistakes of this kind all 'that can 'j3 done to inform children of thete probabie dangers wherever they arc 1 kety tu b tsmpteJ by them. Meehan'a Monthly,

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