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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1903-10-15, Page 2SIXPLE AND URIC -11T LIVES A Warning Cry Amid the Distractions and Temptations of Modern Life (Paltered aecording to Act of die Fee - 'tenant ot eimada, ia the Year Ora wuoust Niue Ilea/erect and Three. be win. Daily. of Termite. a,t the Depertment of Aviculture. Ottesva) A despatch trout Chicago saysza- Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage preach, - ed from the following text; Jeremiah via 16. "Ask for the old paths" hlost aimplo he the tent's figure - Its stannic:ay gives it a homely beau- tY. It has ia it the, aroma of the woods. It is one a those simple similes of couotry life that bring bach. to the weary city dweller, whose feet hone beeu long accustomed to the bard pav, stoues oi the city sidewalks, the g. oloory of the foot - Paths over turf covered hills and the oarrow lanes between the banks be- jetveled with sweet wild dowers that Ie used to walk in his childhood days. The old paths—we can never forget theme It will do s good if we thinof them this morning' and t're hi there nre any raoral lessons we rail learn iront them. loonullailes the tonmineeet inebleats oe everyday life liONO 'tiee for those who will hear. Jeremiah, among the greatest of tite prophots, lamenting thatnis C011atr.elliell !and deserted their God and disobeyed his laws, pleatie with them to alert the impending punithe Loon by pimento; to him. and. lie employs this simple agure to por- tray their condition. He describes ileeti as troseiers lost Urea thr. Moantains of in. limiting for a path width will lead them out of their moral dittimillies. He represents God :is telling them to "ash for the OW 1%.4thS, witielt is the good WAY. «1rd walk therein, and ye shall flud rest foa year C410•4. theY sain. talt, will mit wall; ther" Jeremiah reeete the right path leading to the oi God by 'tieing the homely of taza ordinary try prithe or rough roadways in common on iit the tinet over witielt the eastern eeroveris bove treveled Cold the cowe hate come home for the mining milt- ing and over Whieli haw pasSed V ;4* nein and women Wile0. with (tally taelio well •done. they twee aisiela the Louie firesides for physi- cal reiteehment and for hinaed :repo. Till: PATHWAY TO THE CROSS, Like Jeremiah, I would to -day car- ra your thoughts back to the re.. wini.woriei.zi Of the country and irtna tlia evait. frh ilowere of the va- lue., ilearows Week blossoms which voil remind rim of old time aseocia- liens unit rove. The greateet of berticulturists is met the garaener who itishions lus beds In the "mauy rotors" of n Joseph's coat or a grendinother's crazy quilt. It is he whi»nakes his floral designs Monne —eery eimple. Ono bed !oohs though it were a. bit of Alphine lake flung uniting the crowded regiments of ihovera It. is planted entirely with eiolete. It looks as simple and yet os 'beautiful as the June heavens colored in blue. Another bed looks idte a great collection o lett/ling flames. It is planted only in roan. It is eery eluiple. It is as :ample in colors as a cardinal's robe. It is as simple in tailors as the set- ting sun. .Another heti has the Jaundiced iook of a Malay's skin. It is only planted in golden aloes's. An- other trill be an azalea bed, another a, dahlia, another planted in white lilies, smother in geraniums. The horticulturistic genius thrives best ;n the simplicity of colors. From thiS aermonic bed X would pluck only the sweet for-get-mo-nots of ten- der memories. Like Jeremiah the prophet I would try to lead you Over IMMO of the old paths which your feet have trodden in the past, Alld in leading I would lead you to the foot of the cross., CLEAR AWAY THE RUBBISH. Buts come, let us take our axes to -day and clear away some of that rubbish. Let us explore the old path which once led up to the old homestead. When the first settlers entered the Michigan woods they used to "blaze" the trees. That means that With their axes they would cliop a notch out of this tree and that and the other tree as they went along. Thus, if they could find the right place to settle in one di- rection, they would retrace their steps by these notches and start out in the woods from another direction. Well, these old paths which once led -up to the homes of our childhood may not have been used for a quar- ter of a century, but they can be easily followed. ' Our parents "blaz- ed" them all the way along. As I follow these- "blazings" I find they were morally straight paths. They were as straight as a 'die. Your father may not have ha,d much money.- In all probability you, as a farmer's boy, remember hint for the most part clothed in overalls and a woolen shirt. ° But under that rough exterior there beat a heart as true as honesty itself. Looking back over the long years, you remember him traveling that "straight path." You cannot think of one act your lather ever did winch was dishonor- able. People sometimes said "he was close" in reference to money. He had to be close in order to furnieh bread enough for his babies' mouths. You cannot remember your father once losing his temper and uttering maledictions unless perhaps it was on the day when he found that a neighbor, who was left an executor by law, had robbed a poor widow of her an. Ah, that old father of yours may have worn shablnr clothes awl may have been poor ie pocket, but he was rich in charace tar. The path he -traveled to an'd ram the old homestead was always straight. p at h. " Th gh a he 'last will aria testament'which he f went for the first time to the Come mainion table of the Lord? eitiGnIWAY On' BLOSSOMS. There is still another p.ath which you ones iron. Tbis path is frag- rant oath blossoms. Like the fabled trees .of old the heavy branches whioll line it are ladeu with silver bells, it is hthe path which mice led up to your marriage alter. Ia is the path over which the fallen rice is strewn and where the merry laughter of the bridesmaids is trying sto dawn the •sigiled made ,Provision for a few joyful salutations of the wedding trinkets, a Bible and a gold headed chimes. The blossoms which line Cana and perhaps a smitibex, that this pathway are orange blossoms. father left e-911 the grandest legacy a The silver bells are those which once hey ever reteived- He left to you Played Meadelssoba's "Wedding au untarnished name, the example of, Maroh," Where did that path wbich ka father's life well and lutoestly live end,ed at the marriege altar tlint etl, lead you? "Oh," you answer, "at led me first arnoog the briers and over the stony grounds. aly court- ship days were no all ouusbine. law a long time I did not know whether I could win the band ef iny boort , love. In the Mist place, I was not paths were Cluestian paths and an socially bee equal. Then j. was ,ways led toward the throne oi Cod. penniless and had nothing to offer How do I know? Well, nen fritild, my two hands and 0, willing heart. In going along the pathway which Then, my life was not what it ought was `Wand" by your mother's to have been. But she had faith bread iinife and knitting needle, 1 in me. I promised her to reform. Male upon altars everywhere. I I went to hu •Cli with 11,r I oete ilirel that there was hardly a step, up drinaing, and I promised her I that she took in life but she had a ' would surrender my heart to elitist. place where shecould stop and 'meet And, do you now. the night, ste , in prayer. And at every altar I gave herself to me she mode eie Orel indetitatioos in the rocks where 'kneel with her and we both teede ishe laid her Undone at the Saviour's tourer that God would hear :red feet. help inc heop my 'Vows." Abi :kW, 11 Aud. ob, my friend. what o lot of my brother, I know just how •3•4,111 ,hardelf43 At} had to lay lallOn her think of that old path wbich led up .Savienuns breast in her journey of to your marriage 'altar 1 When n on life! There was that awful burden toeh the trembling band of that of physical sichness. I do not know young girl in ;VOWS You tilde" felt how you may remember your mother, , that you wanted to he good. Von but most of us think of mother i Pr°111"ed "a. then and there' for when she was physically sick., she ! ber suite as well AS your own, to seemed to be so long dying, Now llt'e a good, true, pure. noble. Caris- it eves the pain in the head; now it III" We' fray(' Yau lield Sulu" .villy? was the dieorderea nerves. ihbtfk it I Are yon willing to go to church with 'was that lona, long time, vawn w„ther now as you did when ;you were had a trained num. "How is move I engaged to ber 9 Are You let4"g' ther to -day?" the younger children ;Ii;(Zirtoeisieatiettolnie-iel•lotiet eNerdalac'tiber;ti)i% iweuld 2Sli, and she lrattla answer. hers? Remember, man, you made ."Not very well. tine gear: MK vern a promise to her and to God on the well," 1 think one of the sunniest i /light of your wedding. Will you and yet the most beautiful prayers ;i seek the old path or consper,,h0. l'llS MOtbea used to make. in the last ilove. •which wound through the aeys :Year and a half Of her earthly exo!of your courtship and euded on the istililete wat lbt9, "M. Gad. lattlZ,' WY illight you took your heart lore ite eiliiiiiren never have to physically a bride from her father's home; isuiler as I have suffered." Yet. for THE WAY TO HAPPINESS. Itit!, most part. our mothers lost Ditt how are you going, to 4jud their Mt:Meal health by living and your wav back to'these old pinta? doing for us. A, GLORIFIED ROADWAY. . these paths for mann years. •You a e hest coundetely lost You roi- 1 go a little farther along this ' r-o.o. 1. ' e front' i ' 'Mistime path of your dead mother C`1,' ioei your way out tae amino 1,:, taloa of sin unless you twee a dit41.0 Mel also the place where she laid' 1 " - at nbrinttni feet the burden of her .oritnildeo.no Thleostim iortance of a. otiiih hinxiety for tile salvation of her! In 0 ll . 0 A.110(11%14 some people love to ;earth or of sin Call never be overtire, think of theft, mother, first by 01 i linagted * I remember, some nairs , wring her sitting and sewing for ago, when bicycling through the i their advent. 11. 15 .a. beautiful ienorTilftuiteattlityls °I Lets" Virgiwoni/I'wlovendIgfili ,sight to see the young wife, he that ee ---- around and around until the sun levelling lawn with JP'P needle in herl eana 4urfti the twilight covered up her lhand, milling the little white gat"' somber face with a black robe and' welts for the stranger soon to come. , Our mothers thought and planned I I,dd , hernelf in total darkness. Me for the cradle awl the little ward- le' A r ° t* along, S" " ge lobe weehs before ithe *widish nen of a eereech ool and . , They did it so thaNtveWNiNiverrie btl; f, ttegoliftthelp.thrgowle?n.egs ptjalunttbielrii.glItAttehxe• simuld lie down liPall a bed °f ani-lawbile we saw a dim light in the taring all might be well for the little vision. That, oh, to me it is a far 1 a heaatIful I deoissreken.oeTIVeatstruggled On until we that house and be one's welcome, That is more beautiful sight to see a young 1 were In' Then in 11(1 °wiling we „ eie safe because our host, as a wire u " Irer kr ' ' in . . ' !guide, directed as on. To -day, ne • :ie..— -- 2---- lost and weoried sinners, Christ is think of her niminn to Ged that her unborn child might grow up to ready be a good ntan, a. good wonnin. And lead to be your guide. Ile will you, lily friend, eitting before ine, you out of the mountains of from that moment when your motia Ire will lead you to the old er first myea for you uutii her i paths wIdell axe all converging into the one Christian path that leads death she never left, that altar Pc -1 to the foot of the heavenly throne, fore whieh she was contieually seething God for the salvation of he- Will you let him lead you ? Will you your soul Jet him pardon you? Will you let pathway :he nrs\lelned Inlour etol tte' ring . Jesus save you? feet. In that Christian pathway she 4 first taught you to •tater the baby A.R1WY REGULATIONS. prayer, "Now I lay inc down to sleep." In that Christian path she Sometimes ThereIsHumor in. the gave you her doing benediction. Will Red. Tape Rules. you not seek the old path, the It is often the little things that Christian path of your glorified and take hold of one's imagination and sainted mother ? It is a path opy- linger in the memory, writes an erect with wild flowers and fragrant array nurse, in recording her South with perfume. These flowere and African War experiencea. Battles that pathway have been Might be fought, won or lost, but watered with your mother's tears. dinner invariably held its position WALEING WITH CIIIIIST. as the important feature of the day. If the path which you first travel- The surrender of sixty Boers had ed to Sunday school was along the small interest ior the sick inhabi- sidewalk of a city, then in all pro- tants of a camp, but a. mistake on liability you walked. You walked the part of a cook brought grief and by the side of your father or moth- pain and discontent and bitterness to er, became you were the youngest. valinat soldiers of the queen. Then your new shoes would squeak Owner was frequently at hand in at every step. Those shoes kept far the red -tape arrangements of the a long while, because you were only army. On one occasion, as I was allowed to wear them 0.11 Sunday. ViSitillg a ward, I was confronted But as you rode or walked to that with the spectacle of a strong, able - Sunday school and to your nrst bodied soldier, who had .been helping church services a great change came usein the wards for about six weeks over your family party. One of your while he was waiting for a ship, sisters or brothers left your side and lying prone on a stretcher with two went to the church altar. One by orderlies standing in readiness as Christ and publicly confessed him at bearers. in consternation I asked if Brown one they there gave their hearts to the communion table. After awhile had broken his leg. "It is all right sister, a sergeant your turn came. You can see your- self now as you came before, the replied. "The men have to start at church session. You remember how once for England, and as Brown is tbe old minister • wiped his glasses. down on the papers as a stretcher Ho put his hand 'upon your shoulder' casco as a 'stretcher' he must go ato and said : allify boy, why 'do you the raiway, station." want to join the church? Do roil It was useless to explain, useless love Jesus ? Will you promise to to give evidence that Brown, fit. and nye for him and give your life to s,,,t1:101_,,,,ng.;,..aftek a very slight attack of was able to walk, mid his service ?" Then you remember '"'""--•' carry his kit, too, for Brown was the great big lump that stuck in your throat.. You remember how entered in a certain form in the blue papers, and who dare gainsay the between your Sobs you said : "The reason I want to be a Christian is fact? So along the tree -bordered v road I watched my strong, because my father and mother and '—'1'• ' brotherasand sisters are all Chris- healthy friend being carried' slowly. fleas. I. want their Saviour to be to the station, where he was .care- fully lifted from the canvas ' and placed an a recuMberit position =Ong sick men, "according to tegu- latioos." And never a smite . was seep on the face of sergeant or bearer. "BLA'ZING" MARES. Then, again. I further study the "blazing' marks along the paths 'which Ied up to the home of our childhood. I find out Vett these Ploree of you have been away nine mine. As we have a -united family Pero I want an -unbroken family cir- cle in heaven. Aged, gray. haired man, that was a beautiful path over which you went to church for the first time. That was a holy drive you took on the morning you went, to take your first communion, MEXICAN ING IIITY. • You did not speak much that morn- 'The Mexican postal department has ing, but your thoughts were very taken a new ond novel means of in- deop and very bigh. Tbey were as fox:ablg the public of the weather deep as your sios, as high as and as bulletins given out by the weather great as the forgiveness of God. Oh, bureau. Evert- later which ,passes why have you not always kept walk- through the office is now stamped ing in that rata ? Cbrist walked with the indications for the next with you there twenty years ago. twenty-four hours. This stamping Jesus as guide is ready to lead you is done at the same time that the back to that path and walk with postage -stamps op the letter are cart- yoa there now. Will you seek tbe, ce1lcd an,cl the receiving stamp is fix - old path—the path over whiLA you ed, 1111110R3 OF THE SLEEPER ALL SORTS OP CRANKS ARE MET ON Tng. OAR. Wear Eyeglasses Whitt* They Sleep—Others 11Zust Bave goad to the North. A Pullman oar porter is aothoritn for the statement that Melly people sleep with their glasses on. "They are peoplo who appear to be in thew right minds, too," he saia. "When I first mado the acqualut- ance of their tribe. I thought they were crazy, but I have found out better since. The tirst fellow I ever saw bunk up thus accoutred was politician, who travelled over inn road frequently. The funky thing about. him was that be didn't really neea his glasses any mare than I did. • lie seldom WOre them in the day lima mut generally read the pa- pers and made notes for his speeches with his glasses dangling from his buttonhole, three feet away from las eyes. But the minute he got reedy ler sleep they laming indispensable, ,5IltusiblIte)essaledhitoenehissilegitiiOn:erfall;otertzlil ght and found him shaiping with the things on. I did not know it was his custom to wear theta. I thought Pc had beconw so tired out with speech making and band shakiog and halo,- kissing that he lied temporarily lost his millet and gone to bed with them on by inistalie. I was afraid to 'MVO him so, for it seemed a dead erteinty that if he should roll over mn the night he would smash tbe things to atoms and perhaps put hie ee;saot. So I took the glassesft o n I did it. as gently as a 911111Mer breeze, but at the first tom% the old gentlemun Was wide 143%."411`That flrer you up to?' Pc " "hahing off your glasses,asZ, eahl I. 'You went to bed with them on., " ••Of mum I did.' said he. 'I al- ways no. 1 couldn't sleep without them: Give ton here." "'Mime thou 1 have seen lots of other follis who were slaves to the eyeglass habit. The politielan wore a plain. cheep pair of reading glasS- ee that wouldn't here limn notch loss if they had been broken ;micas the pieces rad bappened to injure his ayes, but I have seen other travel - !ere with specially prepared glasses. They are provided with hooks sued clasps and other appliances to ilOid OM ill plate and the eye lass crank . g who goes to eleep with a pair of OM OA ean staud all the hi tlle roughest l'Ofid la the country eau give him without their bring dis- lodged. However. the people who tate to eyeglassee instead of wolf- Phine tableta as opiates have the knnet of holding their heads at a eafe enole even in sleep, and T bare seen few accidents happen to the glasses." FALSE TEETH AND WIGS. False teeth, although apparently Icontaining fewer potentialities of danger, are, aceuraing to tho some authority, treated with more respeue by their OWIlerS. Travellers who depend upon the dentist for their grinders display a good deal of cau- tion about creeping into a berth with their teeth in their mouths and they tuck them under the pillow and, in valises, and mon hand them o'er to the porter for safe keeping rather then take chances on swallowing them in the night. Wigs are another thing about which sleepers have peculiar ilOtiOnS. Very few people like to sleep in a wig on account of the difficulty in combing it properly tho next morning, but the porter tells the story of one man who had the wig bubit developed to an extraordinary degree. "He, too, was a frequent traveller over my line," snid the porter. "I had had many a nice little chat with him and thought him one of the most sensible fellows I ever knew. Ile was quite bald from his forehead back past the crown of his head, and on often joked about it being excess of brains that had pushed his hair out. But after I found out about that. wig business I wanted to take back everything I had said about iOs bril- liant mind. I found it out by ac- cident. "One coaling I had occasion to look into the old gentleman's berth after he was made up for the night. To my utter amazement I saw him togged out in. a wig that spread over the pillow like a monster mop of au.burn curls. " 'Excuse Inc.' I said. 'Have I made a mistake? I thought this was Mr. M—'s berth.' "The old fellow laughed. `Sh-shesh,' he said. 'This is me all right. Don't say anything about it. It is a fad of inine. All my life long I have wished for a fine head of curly, auburn hair. Nature denied me that boon. She gave me nothing but sparse black locks to start with. Now she has seen ht to take even those away, and I bave concluded that since she played me such a scurvy trick I am justified in getting back at her by wearing any old kind of hair I please. Hence tbis red wig. On account of the inevitable uacharetable remaiSks of my friends I - couldn't blossom out in a brand new suit of hair in tbe daytime, but I Parc made a practice of wearing it at night, and it gives me the great- est comfort imaginable.' "And that man Was universally rated a smart fellow, too. "I remember well an old chap sena an ear trumpet. Every night when he turned in he arranged the trumpet with the tube to his ear and fasten- ed it some way so it couldn't budge. I got to know the man pretty aboutttyt1,'Oli d in anone night I spoke to i it. d always fix the trumpet ready for use,' said the old man, 'so it won't be hard to find hi case there is any trouble on the road and sorne of yo0 fellows fiocl it necessary to caLleallaet: man travelled over my line On an average of twice a month for two years. Ono night we ran into a freight train, In the excitement I forgot all about hive and bis ear trumpet, and I neglected to call him, as I had promised, but I guess he fOIMS1 out about the accident, evert if lie ceuldn't hear very well, SOME OTHER CRANKS. "Some folks hove the habit ot ade iustiug their elothieg in a lieeullar fashion when they go to sleep. Even to thie day there are plenty of old- fashioned people who non in with bandlierchiefs woond around the head and neck and ehowls and skirts about the shoulders, while the number of people win) sleep with glows on is hoown only to a Pullman porter who SeeS tile black and tan Paws entelnl- ing at various times during the nig"101ti all the sleeping ear cranks, the ono 1 oast detest is the fellow who insists that he will 1i befom morn-, ing if he cannot sleep with Ids head pointing to the north, so as to get, the full benefit of tbe nneemetie cur- rent. We have lots of trouble with this hind when the trache. antl con- sequeotly the bertha ruo east and west. Women are worse in that re- spect than men. I remember one W0Xklan, Who refused to go to Califor- ilia on that wallet atter her hus- band had bought tiaets and had .bundled all the family down to the 'station. lt lacked only a. few min- utes to train time when dhe happen- eiellainhel Inaf she could maw sleep unless her head was turned to the Teeeth. • "'1 wonder if we eau numage it on this trip.' she sand. " afraid not,' said her hus- band. 'The mon MU enet 0114 Weld, and we can't very well make up lepeekil berth for you. miming cross- ways,' " 'Very wen,' said the woman, 'if you can't do a little thing like Mit to pleaee inc I won't go. on know it makes me deathly sick to lie with hoed in any other direction. ould never stand that long trill turned around some other way, and �u Immo it.' The man swore and the girls cried. They set the whole mociiinery of tho road in motion to try to get that woman a croeserise berth. but csohieddwadst szittlevitaag:tilt1 ItIlk:13; Witil either her head or her feet sticking out of the WiadOW. She was a proud woman mid wouldn't agree to that, eo they gave up their tickets and travelled elsewhere crier a north and south line. wliere she could lay her head in a healthful 110- eiti011. "There am other monks abroad, d the Pullnum ears gather them ill in impartially, 'There is the num who cannot deep without an alarm Clock Itching under his head. the fel- low who is liept meanie all night by the whirring of the cor wheels and the one who can be lulled to sleet) only by a roar and rattle that is loud enough to split a pair of Ordin- ary ears. Then there is the fellow who ecu never be fooled on the time. Ile is the greatest, bore of all, 1118 faculty for measuring time Is so acutely 'developed that lit eau wake any hour of tho night, nod without looking at his watch.; sing out the time to the fraetion of a minute He is the same kind of a fellow who says when you make up his berth. 'I want to get up at ‘6 o'clock sharp to- morrow miming, but yotoneedn't bother to woke me. I can wake my- self. All X will have to do will be to go to sleep thinking about the hour and rn got up on the minute.' I /tato that fellow, and ii. is all T can do to keep from telling him so. "A funny thing about theso habits is that the people enslaved by them cannot sleep if there is the least de- viation from custom, and if the num with his glasses, or the one with ins wateh or bis pilaw' or his wig should be deprived of his oid to drowsiness, ho wonld -wonder about all night like a lost soul." WHAT A SURPRISE! Interesting Lave Story Prom the Aretie Regions. While M the Arctic regioo trying to reach the North Pole the Duke of the Abruzzi was told this tale of the adventures of a young Esqui- ninon, who had secretly courted the daughter of an enemy. The huts of the lovers were not far removed, but one night the terrific cold ripped a great crevasse in the ice, and the young mains house was left isolated. A gorge one hundred feet deep and twouty feet wide separated it from the igloo, or hut, eontaiiiing his sweetheart, but there was n. narrow bridge of ice left across the crevasse, and this, the young men found, would hear his weight. Esquimau:: sleep in bags. The lover decided that he would that tight cross the ice bridge, steal the inaid- en he Menet bear. her to his but, and then break down the bridge, so that he and she 'together might en- joy their honey -it -Moo unmolested. Re planned very soccessfully. He erept in the cleat] of night into his enemy's hut; he Snatched up • the maiden in her sack 'without awaking :anyone:. • he bore her over the .ice bridge safely, broke down the bridge according to 'bis p1110, and then .11(3 opened the seek to embrace his bride. but, behalding its contents, he gave loud cry,. It was not the maiden, but her -fathea, taat 1i hadstolen. THIEF'S ITISS. is magistrate's clerk has been anowa • to have his • tie -pin stolen \\,hile ip court, end one in Birmin ham, langlan,a, a few years ago lost his coat in this way; bat a more re- inatka,ble exeinole, perbaps, qf a thief's cleverness maler the very eves of the police was that of the burglar at Clerkenwela who laanaged to con- eeal two diamond ring's while the police were se areal ng Pilo, and' pass - cd one of them to his wife in tale cells While the police ware looking on. 3.110 rings were 1111 d c r Pis ton- gue, and one of them passed from P15 mouth to ])is wife's when' he was Visaing lier good-bye, Tllt SUNDAY SCHOOL ea -0 INTERaTATIONAL LESSON, OCT, 18, Teat of the 1;70,,Ps. 1-17s" Golden Text, Ps. laTethiws twhleirttsewnee.btypIsi:lotielltoolyf Spirit. as David ?ant in some el his 'Time Spirit of the Lord spatie by rae, and His word Wa9 my tongue" (IL Sam. 'nada, I, 2), See also Acts 1,, 10; iv., 25. If wei would Mellor God and be blessed 14y Him we must, not only believe that ail- Scripture NVA$ written by the Holy Spirit, but that ih 1174,9 all written for our profit (II. Tim. hie. 10, 17; Bono 7iar., 4). '1110 OCCASIOn Of this psalm is giveu to us in what we might call M our Bibles the pre- face to the pselun but which in the Hebrew psolter is part of the pealm itself aod oerabered as verses 1 and 2s'velantay-n klonh geieteswtelloot ePsallnAletceiTay. es. ts! es. lite seine David W110111 God ap- .peduted a king and a prophet prov- ed hinaseilr to be a very great siana. 'noir. Ile did not in this surprise iGod, for God 1MeNV him thoroughly ;lieiore lio caned Min; but inasmuch as ehe may Inolaitil material God eau get to work with le siultd, He takes What Ine Menses and magnifies His grace in such AS ete are, showing forth in greater or less degree our under sunfulileas and Itis amazing grime and love. The Holy Spirit ehow e forth all that ia 13 num with- out revert of person. Nothing is ieuvered or Mile light Oft but AWOL being fully pinioned, is shown how he inay be cleansed front all his sin by God's own provision. God is all mercy and loving kind - tans and long suffering. but He Just and caunot 1.01erAte gi10. MA. though lie bear long with the sin- ner (Ex. waive. (3, 7), tin has pro, ,eided. at infinite cost, eternal re- tdeunetioll. ineluding the forgiveness of all Shia, for every truly penitent sinner, but there muSt tie on MO Part Of the Sinner honest confienion .and forsaking of all NIL Wel are all !by natere einners. This is set forth generally in verse 5, with whielt como !pare lph. Bo 3; Rom, ilia 23. !David's confeselon of sin i9 EVe !WM.% 8 and in, and his ery tor idealising mid restoration in the 4ereater part of the rest Of the psalm. The majority of people do not seem, to think that they Need forgiveneSs, Thcy have no convivtion of sin, no sense • of guilt before God, no cone Fehal0 Maid of a Saviour . A deep conviction or sin is a great blessing, for only thus can we ail - 'won't° our Saviour and His great 'Salvation. In verse 7 Dinh! doubt- less has reference to the cerentoolal cleansime of the leper (Lev. xiv., 4-9), the byeeop beibig usid tO epriakle the blood. "'Wham, thou enow" tithes uti to Ina. 1., 11t. And mikes us think also of out Lord s "Oran exery whit" (John xIii., 1(1). That which ltavid slied for thatall might be blotted out, verses 1 and 9, we are *issued of in Ise. Min., 25; alive, 22; I. John 1-9. What a. wonderful redemption it is that biota out it sin and nmakes the donee to appear heroin God ns if he had never sinned, and lite helpless sinner's only part is to receive what God has provided. As one has said ht John iii., 16, God does all the loving turd all the giving, and man does the receleteg. When a chilli ol God commits sin he does not cense to be a, child of God any more, than when a child in a family, boIng dis- obedient, seases • to be a. cbild that family, but the joy and fellow- ship are broken, awl the parents ara grievoil. Drafd does not pray tha.im salvation may be restored to liim, hut the joy of salvation (8, 12). That God has rebellious children is seen in Ise. 1, 2, and the reason Of it is in the cetera mind, which is enmity against God, is not subject and never can be (Rono viii, 7), therefore the need of a clean heart anal a right spirit,. which only God can put in us and whic,h fle has promised. See Ezek. xxxvi, 24-28, arid remeinber that what God will ny in itue time do for all Israel sorely do for His own now. There are, alas, so few who seem to want a dean heart now. The aim of many seeins to be to get all the selanh enjoymeet they can now, hop- ing that somehow by the mercy of G'od they may reach heaven at last. Coatrast David's 'desire in seeking agalo the joy of God's salvation -- that bis tongue might sing aleud of God's riglitousness, that his mouth might .show forth God's praise, that transgressors might know the Ways of God ao'd earners be converted Un- to Him (13-15). There are Many who still think, as 'cad the bypo,crites in Israel, that Cods favor Call be 1.VOD by our gifts Or so called sacrifices, not wader- stankling that God has provided the only and all auflleient sacrifice and is ready to give the full benefit to every truly broken mid C0111pite heart (10, 17), There is no Sava iour for the proktd and self righteous,. but for those who knosv themselves • to be lost ania helPlens Pinners there is a. Saviour and a fall redemption. IProm the forst sae,rifice of Gen, iii, 21, OD to CialVa.ry, we m03- trulF5(137. "Hereby- perceive we the lo-ve of (-4 '.1110 sacrifices all pdiilt to . Pim \vim bore oar sins in ITis own body atal thus provided redemption' for every slimes, for all Israel 011d, for all natioas (18, • 19). Our saeri-i fleas a,re only the lo:s-e of Christ con-, straining us te show 0131' gratitude to :1.(ini who has redeemed us. Mayl 10-1;41Yr isb(linsi,isaiciady,a;0111L01°11111; s°111)11(;111 'sr1)110();‘lvj forth Thy praise." (15). Ansi may We not forget taat tae Cod of Trott) tolfo has sent the Sea it of Truth to reveal ITiln Who is the Trath de- sires Troth in our inward parts (6). Pin;,aea erna ct, citel); Tp)-ull 1a) ' sk3 lisiner11 64 -WS.;