Terre Haute Evening Gazette, Volume 6, Number 150, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 December 1875 — Page 2

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RELIGIOUS.

INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOB DECEMBER 5, 1875.

Topic-"Jcsns and Mary."

11. But Mary stood without the sepulchre weeping and a9 she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre. 12. And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, aod the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. 13. And they say unto ber, woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not w'here they have laid him. 14. And when she bad thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus, 15. JeBUS saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him,{Sir, if thou have borue him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. 16. Jesus saith unto her, Mary, She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni, which is to say Master. 17. Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not for I am not yet ascended to my Father but go to my brethren and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father and to my God, and your God. 18. Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken those things unto her.—John xx., 1118.

Our last Ipsson left Jesus dead on the cross. The present lesson finds him alive in the tomo.

These are the eminent events which unite the two. While Jesus suffered and expired nature showed her sympathy: 1. Darkness clouded the sun. Not as in a natural eclipse, for the most reliable authority in astronomy de nies that any such eclipse occurred at that time. It was a miraculous mantling of the luminary of day, of which the devout student of sin, sac riflce and salvation sings: "Well might the sun in darkness hide

AndNhuthis glories in When Christ the mighty maker died For man the creature's sin." 2. The earth trembled, although there was no thunder-storm nor volcanic mountain near to account for the quaking. 3. The separating veil in the temple was rent from top to bottom, and there was no longer a place too sacred for any penitent sinner to approach unto in acts of worship.

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A mighty revulsion of feeling occurred in the crowd around the cross. A Centurion acknowledged openly that Jesus was "the Son of God"—Mark xv., 39. And the mul titude, convicted in their consciences of the great crime that had been committed, "smote their breasts," etc.—Luke xxiii., 48. 5. Then the soldiers pierced the dead body of Jesus—John xix., 34— and the cross scene was over, Friday dusks down to the darkness. 6: IQ the evening twilight a lawyer (see Mark xv., 43,) and Nicodemus, "which at the lirst came to Jesus at night," obtained permission from Pilate to take the body. This granted,' they wrapped it "in linen and laid it In the lawyer's new tomb. 7. The women watched with the dear dead body until it was safely deposited in the sepulchre of stone. 8. The next day, the Sabbath of the. Jews, but on Saturday, the temple authorities asked for a military guard at the tomb, which was stationed, and they made the sepulchre sure.—Matt, xxvii., 02, 66.

Ail the disciples of Jesus seem to have kept that last Sabbath sacred. They did not think it proper, aa so many professing Christians now-a-days do, to spend the Sabbath in the cemetery, bedecking the graves of friends with flowera and bedewing them with tears. Let tuis fact be marked by our Sabbath desecrating people. 9. Before the day after the Jewish Sabbath had dawned—that is, our Christian Sabbath—before a 6tain of light was on the sky, several women, Luke xxiv., 1, came to anoint the body with spices. But the great stone tad been rolled back, and the sepulchre was empty. Instantly the loving Magdalene ran back to the city, and meeting Simon, Peter, and John, she asked where they had laid Jesus. The other women seem to have remained at the tomb. Two angles appear to them, and announce that he is risen. Then they start for the city, and on the way meet Jesus, and he being made known to them they embrace and worship him. (Note: Mary Magdalene was not the first to whom Jesus showed himself it was the other women.) Peter, John and Mary return quickly to the tomb, and the deciples having found it empty they retire. Mary Magdalene is left there alone. Hence we have... I,—MARY MAGDALENET THE TOMB, as the first topic. 1. Mary waiting at thetomb/v. 11. Early dawn all Jerusalem in hubbub The authorities on the alert. The guard for the time gone to make up the lie about his body being stolen and likely to return any moment. How lonely and dangerous her position! But she stays atter strong men had departed. 2. Mary weeping at the tomb, II. Among all other thoughts this is worth much, viz: To one who knows the worth of Christ it were better to have a dead Christ than no Christ. Does infidelity say my Christ is dead and in the grave? Even this is better than to have no Christ. But if you would break a believer's heart in twain tell him there is no Christ at all. Mary is weeping over a lost Lard, What a wail would assend to and shake the sky if it were an nounced now that our Savior Jesus is dead, and j|not only dead, but has gone forever! 3. Mary seeking for the departed Savior. Peter and Jqhn must have taken a very hurried glance. For, although they saw the nicely folded

grave clothes, and the place vacant where the body had lain, they saw nothing more. Magdalene strained her weeping eyes and her seeking was rewarded by Mary finding angels in the sepnlcher. Angels announced the coming of Jesui. Angels were at the birth of Jesns in Bethleham. They came to him in his temptation. They strengthened him in Gethsemane and now announce his resurrection to Magdalene. They are his heavenly cohort Thov were in the shape of men. (Luke XXIV, 4.) They talked (verse 13) They came and went without any nat ural eye seeing them. They are often near lis, and we do not soe them. 4* j: Man's slow understanding.. She bad often heard irntiinations and asser tions that he would rise. She now found the tomb open and empty on the third day. Why did they not instantly comprehend? "Oh slow of heait to believe," were words which Christ did and does still have te employ very of-

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5. Mary the first missionary. The question who was the first Christian missionary seems to me absolutely settled by verse 17. "Go tell my brethren." The honor belongs to woman II.—THE MASTER MANIFESTING HI3I-

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to Magdalene makes the second matter of the lesson. 1. His gradual disclosure. While she waited, wept aod gazed into the tomb and talked with the angels Jesus may have come up behind her. At his coming the angels would naturally show signs of recognition, and may be they took an attitude of worship. Mary turns to see the object of their attention and sees not a glorious being whicb would frighten her,but one who looked like the gardener. How often Christ makes merciful accommodations to our mortal weakness. Yerse 16. 2. Jesu3' voice. (Verso 16.) Although the appearance did not reveal Him.'His first utterance did. Why was he not recognized before this word was spoken? Many guesses have been given. This only is satisfactory to me: His bodv after the ressurreetion was very different from that before crucifix ion although we do not and cannot ex plain this difference, because God has not revealsd it. He appeared and disappeared instantly. "He vanished out of sig*ht." He talked with the disciples and yet they did not recognize Him until "there eyes were opened." And here Magdalene did not recognize Him until He chose to reveal Himself through His word. Christ, until this day, will to some reveal Himself through His word,spoken or read. To others he comes in an affliction, or oth er way of ministry in Providence. 3. Jesus' gentle address, verses 17 and 18. Instead of uttering a cenSure upon her want of faith in his reserrection, or of upbraiding his disciples, who had forsaken him, he commissioned her to go to them with glad tidings of his reserrection. There is

III.—A HARD SAYING

in verse 17, upon which a vast amount of speculation has been indulged. It is this: "Touch not," Jesus said to Mary, who at the announcement oi' her name recognized her Lord. Mary loved Jesus profoundly and passionately, Doubtless she manifested impetuous affection. Supposing that she did, the old writers have guessed at all sorts of meanings of this hard saying, "Touch not." Some of these conjectures are repulsive to me, those which imply a coarseness in the woman's conduct. I think if there ever was a case where "to the pure all things are pure" it is here.

Some think th* Master doairod to set himself in a more dignified attitude than that in which she had before known him. This is a very gratuitous assumption. Others than he desired to impress her that his present body was too sacred to be handled. But already the other women had met and embraced him, and a week after he commanded Thomas to put his finger into the mark of his dying wounds.

Tho Greek word for "touch," in its root meaning and In Irequenc classical uae, signifies "to fasten on to," "stc«y with," "cling to," with the idea of not letting go.

With this meaning of the word, the Master's saying becomes plaiu. After Mary had filled her soul with joy at the sight of him, Jesus said, "Now, Mary you must ,not think of staying with me. There is service to be rendered as well as worship offered. Go, and tell my disciples, and say to them, that, although I have not yet ascended to my Father, yet I will presently asscend and if they desire to see me before I go, they can meet me up in Galilee." This seems perfectly natural as it is impressive.

Orthodox Oddities.

Gen. Butler is credited with the plantive and egotistical remark, "This is a bad year for the unrighteous."

Mr. Beecher says the time is coming when all men shall be good when even a politician shall be a Christian man. He doesn't give the date.

The Rev. Mr. Hicks says that he is still taken to the bosom of the best families. At this rate the person never will be weaned.—[' avannah News.

Thirty-eight Christian youDg men of New York have joined the Israelitish church in order to marry among the maidens of the chosen people.

The only thing which the good Presbyterians out in Henry did not take into consideration in calling the Rev.Mr.Glendenning.ofNew Jersey, was the baby in the case.

The Boston Globe cannot approve of the Moody and San key revival meetings. We sincerely hope these gentlemen won't hear of this, for if they do they will discontinue the work.—[Boston News.

At a religious revival of the color* ed people now in progress at Palestine, Texas, a song was sung, of which these two lines-are specimens:

What kind of fchoes is dem you wear. Da't akes you walk so light and square? After a minister has been given a donation visit, and had his furniture smashed, house nearly destroyed and cupboards cleaned out, his flock have a right to be indignant if he doesn't come out in a card and express his thanks.

During a clerical conference the following conversation was heard between two newsboys: "I say, Jim, what's the meaning of so many ministers being here together?" "Why," answered Jim, scornfully, "they always meet once a year to swap sermons."

An old preacher, who had several calls to take a parish, asked his servent where he should go, and the servant said, ..".Go where there is

most sin, sir." The preacher concluded that was good advice, and went where there was most money.

The latest regarding Abraham Lincoln's religion is to the effect that Bishop Lefevre, of the Roman Catholic Church, says that he baptized Mr. Lincoln and "heard his confession many times." also, that he saw the growing statesman devotedly count his beads.

Cardinal Antonelli has for many years had the care of the Peter's Pence, sent to the Pope from all quarters of the world, and in the investment of the large sums which have cofcue into his keeping he is said to have developed financial abilities of a high order.

A certain colored deacon, on occasions of missionary collections, was wont to shut his eyes and sing, "Fly abroad thou mighty Gospel," with such earnestness and unction that he would quite forget to see the plate as il came around. "Oh, yes!" said the plate bearer, "but you just give somethiug to make it fly."

Moody preached in a Unitarian church in Northfield, Mass., several years ago, and his theme was the atoning blood of Christ. After the service the pastor said to him: "Christ's blood has no more to do with us than the blood of a chicken," and the shocked evangelist hasfcot since preached in a Unitarian church.

Among the necessities of the times, that of cutting down the domestic missionary supplies—little enough at best—is one of the hardest and most significant. It means nothing more nor less than fewer crusts and scantier clothing for the hundreds of uncomplaining and worthy men who are engaged in spreading the gospel through the West and South.

Mr. Beecher's assertion that Mr, Moodv is a believer in the Second Advent of Christ, not merely at some indefinite period in the future, but in our own time, has excited much comment in the East. It is considered foreign to the character of Mr. Moody that he should hold such an opinion and not avow it publicly. Perhaps Mr. Beecher is mistaken, 'Ma, ma! the preacher's coming

here!"

"Great Lands!" he heard her

shout, "and my hair down, and I've this old dres3 on! Run to the door, Bill, and tell him I went to Goose Island on a church excursion!" "Oh, no, I hate to," replied the boy. "Go, go quick—hurry up, or I'll tan you till you clin't raise a foot!" she urged, and the lad went to the door and discouraged the preacher from making

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(hnrcli Calendar.

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCFI—Serv. ices to-morrow as usual Rev. E F. Howe pastor.

CENTENARY M. E. CHURCH— Corner Seventh and Eagle streets services to morrow at 1( A. M., Rev. M. K. Garf subject, "A Word to Sceptics and Inlidels."

GERMAN REFORMED—Fourth st., bet. Swan and Oak. Rev.Praickschatis, pastor.

ST. AGNES HALL—Preaching on Sabbath by the pastor J. C. Reed pastor. Sabbath school at 2:30 P.

A. Marshall, Superintendant. C'HRITSIAN CHAPEL.—G, P. Peale pastor, services at 11 A. M. and 7 p. M. Morning subject, "Tests of our Loyality-" Evening subject, "Our Mediator." Sunday school g:30 A. M. W. B. Wharton, Superintendent.

MOODY AND HIS WORK.

An Estimate by Charles Nord' Iioff.

TrfE MAN'S COMMON SENSE AND EPIGRAMMATIC ELOQUENCE.

It IS Ilia OTTO Conviction That Yict8 Others -,

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when he slew him?" he continued. In speaking of Bible incidents or parables, he usually brings them in a dramatic form—as when he remarked, "if I want to know about some man in Brooklyn, I don't ask only his enemies, nor his friends, but both* Let us ask about Christ in this way. I call first Pilate's wife,'—and relating her warning to Pilate, went on to call other witnessess to the character and works of Jesus.

He has made an extremely close study of the Bible, and (is evidently tnat formidable being, a man of one book, and thus he is able to give often a

novel view of

Bible pas

sage. Thus, speaking of Jacob, he remarked that his life was a failure pointed out that Jacob himself had Complained of it, and enumerated this tribulations which followed his Misdeeds. He enforced upon the audience the necessity of reading the Bible biographers, not as though they were the lives of saints, bat the truthfully written lives of mortal men, in which their bad as well as jtheir good deeds were set forth for our instruction, I EPIGRAMMATIC ELOQUENCE.

He has In perfection that faculty of epigrammatic statement which one often finds among the farmers knd laboring people of New England, ind this has sometimes the effect of humor. Thus, preaching at the Rink from the text, "Where_ the treasure is there the heart will be ilso," he remarKed: "If you find a man's household goods on a freight train, you may be pretty sure to find him on the next passenger train." On another occasion he told of a woman who came to him saying she bad sought Christ three years without avail. "I told her there must be some mistake about this, because an anxious sinner and an anxious Savior could not need three years to find each other," Speaking of persons who were ambitious to make themelves prominent, he remarked: "lt

does not say make your light shine. You can't make

light shine. If it

is ^eally alight it will shine in spite of you—only doa't hide it under a bushel. Let it shine. Confess Christ everywhere. "Satan got his match when he came across John Bunyan," he remarked. "He thought he had done a shrewd thing when he got the poor thinker stuck into Bedford Jail, but that was one of his blunders, It was there that Bunyan wrote the "Pilgrims Progress" and no doubt he was more thankful for the imprsionment than for anything else in bis life."

Speaking of the goodness of God, aud of "grace abonding," he told a striking story of a rich man who sent a poor friend in distress $25 in an envelope, on it he wrote, "More to lollow." "Now," said be, "which was the more welcome—the money or the gracious promise of futher help? So it is with God's grace there is always more to follow. Let us thank God, not only for what He gives us, but for what He promises— more to follow." Contrasting the law and the Gospel, he said, "Mosses, in Egypt, turned water into blood, which is death. Christ turned water into wine, which is life, joy an gladness." Speaking of future punishment in one of his Rink sermons, he said, "God will not punish us. We shall punish ourselves. When we come before God He will turn usjover to ourselves. Go and read the book of your memory. He will say. Urging*the duty of immediate repentance and the joy of heaven over a repenant sinner, he said, "If the President should die to-night, or if the Governor of the State should be shot that would make an outcry here. But perhaps even so great an event would not be mentioned in heaven at all. But," said he. raising his voice a little, "if some sinner in this assembly were just now converted, there would be a great shout of joy in heaven." Dwelling upou the certainty of future punishmeut, he remarked, "some people doubt it they think God is so loving that He will make no distinctions in another world. But do you imagine that when men had become so wicked that God sent a flood to exterminate them because they were not fit to live on earth—do you suppose that when the waters came and drowned them, He took all this wicked generation into His bosom and left poor righteous Noah to drift about in his ark? Do you suppose that when His chosen people crossed the Red Sea, and Pharaoh's host were drowned, God took those idolatrous Egyptians directly to heaven and let the children of Israel wander miserably over the desert for forty years?'

MR. MOODY'S INFLUENCE.

I do not know whether these passages that I have given from Mr Moody's exhortations will seem to those who read them as forcible as they were to me who heard them. took down at the time what appear ed to me his most striking utterances, as the best way of showing wherein his power over his aud' iences consists. That he is a man of genuine power there can be no doubt. He has gathered, and held in silent attention, and deeply moved, some of the largest assemblies that any speaker has addressed in America at least in our day. For my part I do not doubt that his words have left lasting impression upon a great many

Mr, Charles NordhofF has written to the New York Herald a detailed review of the remarkable meetings being held in brookiyn. He begins with a description of Mr. Moody's person and style of preaching, and dwells upon his power of drawing and retaining crowds of cultivated and common people alike. The an diences he says, have been more re marknble than Moody himself. Mr. Nordhoff then continuer:

RELIGIOUS COMMON SENS K,'^ I have heard him a number of times, and always with interest aud gratification, and it seems to me that this arose mainly—aside from the interest which any thoughtful man may have in this subject—because he gives the impression of possessing remarkable common sense, the clear head of a business man, and the habit of attending to the one thing which hed ha on hand, and making the audience do the same. The meetings are opened and closed promptly at the preappointed hour there is not even a minute of time lost during the meeting by delays his own prayers are brief, very earnest, and directly fViA nnSnt* onH Vila

to the point and his exhortation* area running commentary

pass

ages of Scripture which he reads rapidly, always asking the audience to turn to the passage. Indeed, so far as Mr. Moody is concerned, there is little or no "machinery." He opens a meeting as though his audience were the stockholders of a bank, to whom he was about to make a report. He has the air of a business man to whom time is extremely valuable, and slow and tedious people are evidently a trial to him. In some of the prayer meetings persons in the audience take an active part and it happened not seldom in those thai I attended that some earnest but indiscreet soul made along and rambling prayer. Mr. Moody knew how to bring back the assembly to the strict object of the hour. In one of the morning meetings a clergyman made a-very long, loud, and rambling prayer full of set and stale phraseology. The moment he ceased Mr. Moody said, "Let us now have a few moments of silent prayer that will bring us back to ourselves, and that's where we need to get." After a brief but impressive silence, Mr. Sankey spoke a few words, pertinent, pointed, and forcible, of prayer, and the meeting proceeded. I hope I shall not be thought disrespectful to the clergy if I say that the prayers some of them speak at these meetings contrast unfavorably with the brief and pertinent petitions of Messrs. Moody and Sankey. The formal and threadbare phraseology of the former is strikingly inappropriate in such meetings as these, aod seemed to me often to jar painfully on the feelings of the people around me. 4V NOTAFANTIC

Again in one of the morning meetings prayers were asked by various individuals In the audience for people in whom they were interested. One asked the prayers of the assembly for his sister another for her

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brother one for her mother sons for fathers fathers for sous and daughters wives for husbands one for a church out of town another for a church in New York. Finally a man shyly asked the prayers of the congregation for himself. Instantly Mr. Moody said: "That's right, I like that. I like to hear people ask prayerd for themselves. That's where they are often needed." Such an incident seems to show that be is uot an enthusiast who has lost his self-possession, and indeed this is evident at every meeting. He is, of course, enthusiastic in his work, but with the sobriety of a business man, or of a general in battle.

Again, he is never in the least afraid of his audience, indeed, no one can hear him without feeling that he is cntireiy unconcious, ^as much so as a child. His own personality does not trouble him. Thus at the Rink one evening, while impressing upon the assemblage the importance of immediate conversation, he said: "I wish that friend over there would just wake up, and I'll tell him something that is important to him." And again, at another meeting, he said: "Salvation is offered to every man in this Rink, now, to-night, at this very moment, to that man there, who is laughing and jeering—the Son of Man comes to-night and offers salvation." TOO MUCH PREACHING-WORK NEED

ED.

Though he aims to reach more particularly the nou-chureh going population he concerns himself also about church goers. "The churches," he said on one occasion, "nesd awakening it is too easy nowadays to be a church member. If you pay your debts and keep out of jail, that seems to be enough." At a meeting for young men held at 9 o'clock P. M., in the Tabernacle, he said "You don't need that I should preach to you. There is too much preaching. It's preach, preach, preach all the time, and you, young men, have heard sermons enough here in Brooklyn to convert every one of you. What you need is to work among yourselves. Let the converted speak personally with the unconverted—friend to friend. Then you'll see results."

DRAMATIC UTTERANCES.

He has a good deal of dramatic power, and sometimes is very effective in a natural but strong appeal or statement. "When the prisoners at Phillippi with Paul cried Amen,'' he said,"God Himself answered Amen." Speaking of the probability that we forget none of the events of our lives, and that is, perhaps, to be a means of punishment in a future state, he pictured an unrepentant sinner awakened in the other world, and his misdeeds coming back upon him. "Tramp! tramp! tramp! tramp!" he said, suiting the action to the word. "Do you think that Judas, after nearly 1,900 years, has forgotten that he betrayed his Savior for thirty pieces of silver? Do you think tbat Cain, after 5,000 years, has forgotten the pleading look of his brother Abel men and women. Aud he ha* done this without frantic or passionate appeals without the least of what we commonly called eloquence. He has none of the vehemence of Peter Cartwright or Elder Knapp, and he possesses none of the personal advantages or culture of an orator. Instead of all these he has a profound conviction of all reality of the future life a just ideaof itsimportancecompared with this life and of the relations of the two and an unhesitating belief in the literal truth of the Bible. It is, of course, his own deep and earnest conviction which enables him to impress others.

Mr. Sankey has an effective voice, a clear pronunciation, and, I should think, a quick ear to catch simple and tender melodies. His singing was, I suspect, more effective ana effecting in England than here, because the hymns he sings were not as familiar to his English hearers as they are to Americans, most of whom have been brought up in Sundayschools, or have heard their children sing Sunday-school hymns athome. He is evidently a favorite with the Rink and Tabernacle audiences, and he has a pathetic and sympathetic voice. But to me the main figure is Mr. Moody. Of course a daily paper is not the place in which to discuss his theology, even if I desire to do so. Those to whom his creed is false or offensive need not go to hear him- But as to the general tendency and usefulness of his work, it seems to me clear that if there is a future life it is useful to have it and its relations to the present life sometimes brought vividly before men and women actively and anxiously engaged in the daily struggle for bread. Mr. Moody addresses himself to a multitude thus absorded his exhortations raise them for a time out of themselves, out of sordid cares and engrossing pursuits, and presents to them in a vivid, epigrammatic, often pathetic, always simple and natural way, the greatest questions and interests which can be brought to the consideration of a being gifted with immortal life. It is surely a great merit to do this, and to do it as these "evangelists" do it—calmly, without mere passionate appeals, without efforts to capture the imagination of their hearers, and without noiso or disorderly demonstrations among their hearers.

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A few days ago Butcher Robinson's large Newfoundland dog coaled himself in the canal, and after swimming far away from his point of entrance he tried to get out where the wall was high up from the water. He made many inefluctual attemps todo it and failed. Gov. Smith's shepherd dog saw his difficulty, ran about to get assistance,but none coming, when the big water dog put up his paws to make one more effort to get out, the knowing Scotch cooly grabbed him by the neck as one grabs a brother by the band to help him out or over a difficult place, and he was landed high, if not dry, much to the joy of both.—[Manchester Bulletin.

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