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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1905-06-15, Page 3THE ORTHODOX ACCENT 1111 What Most People Need Is Plain Christian Perspiration Not every one that saith unto tae. Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. but he that doeth the will of lay father who is m -heaven.-)Matt. vii.. 21. Perhaps the chief damage done by tho confusion of tongues at Iluhe: *'Irl that it tended to U mndliplrcity of words. {Whether it was so before that time or not. it is certain that ever since there has been a constant likoL. hood of religion and every other got 1 thing being drowned in floods of rhetoric. Where there aro tea ways of saying a thing it is so much easier to use them all than to do the thing in the one way in which it may he done. {Words become the chief euenies of works. A volume containing all the words of the groat teacher would look mighty insignifi- cant beside the ponderous tomes of the modern exponents of his teach- ings. That is because tho minister fins become the preacher. 'I7io tendency also is for laymen to prove their l►iety by becoming teachers. It is so in every direction. Reforms dissipate into theses: it is always easier to Hake speeches on the city beautiful than it is to re- frain from throwing the refuse in the street. We aro all talking about what ought to be done. Perhaps sonic prophet will prise and institute the order of the prac•t iters. I/reenter:, philosophers, thinkers, writers have poured forth their floods upon a thirsty world. Hut the only thorcls that have been worth any- thing to nuttikind have been those that have grown out of the speaker's soul as it has been molded bsi Ids living and doing. Because talking is so easy to the kiitywing ones it is not strange that they should water their stock of su- perstitious prestige with the less mowing ones' from their reservoir of wordy. Then it is the most natural thing for the glib man to set up the thing he can du most easily as the thing essential to salvation, and thus a shibboleth becomes the saving sign. !tut salvation does not depend on any shibboleth. No man is going to fail of seeing tho Most Iligh be- cause he cannot render the precise nnnto by which ono race chose to call him, not will the sun cense to shine upon hint should ho seek the highest good in other ways than names. Tho heart of the universe asks not that we be consistent with r* the syllogisms of the past but that Iva be true to tho truth wo know •ourselves. Every roan has some erred hack of every deed; but when he puts his crud up in front his deeds soon die. {{'here words reign they soon reign alone, with nothing but worths to servo them. Orthodoxy is so general, because it is SO easy and so mean- ingless. Catch the accent and you are orthodox. Iiut if heaven is to bo won by an accent most honest men would rather pay board some- where else. No life can be interpreted in lan- guage alone. The church is but an obscuration on Christianity wl'en it meets only to analyze the life of its Lord and never to exemplify Itis deeds. {What trust heaven think to see n thousand able bodied them and women gather in a beautiful building to sing hymns of praise to their deity and to listen to arguments about his divinity while, within u block of thein, there are, in sickness and squalor, distress and sorrow, the ones to whom ho sent these people to minister? The doctrines manufac- tured about hint have hidden the directions given by hitt. The trouble is not that we have too much doctrine so much as that we have the wrong kind. Tho Mas- ter's great teaching was, 1)o the divine things, and the divine truths will take care of themselves. Tho kingdom will never conte until his will is done. half tones of heav- en will not keep people warm is winter; it is half tons of coal they need. The world will believe in any church that tries to do good. But the church does not believe in itself yet; half the people aro strenuously endeavoring to fool themselves into what they call spiritual warmth. What they need is plain Christian perspiration. No man really credits his own religion until he converts it into reality. But the man who prides himself on his heterodoxy is often equally guilty here. Ile ridicules the old type of piety and thinks to improve on it with new sets of phrases. All these critics have Is new arrangements of words. Even rho man who rejects all religion satisfies himself with the cant phrase of irreligion. We need most of all to treat reli- gion as sensibly as we do business, to leave tho science to those Inter- ested while wo give ourselves to the practice of its art, the doing of its deeds, the living its life. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JUNE 18. Lesson XII. The Heavenly Home. Golden Text, Rev. 3.21. LESSON WORD STUDIES. Note -These {Word Studies nre bas- ed on the text of the Revised Version. 'lite wonderful apocalypse concludes with a glorious revelation to John or the consummation of Cod's plait 14, the new heaven anti the new earth described in chapters 21 and 22. •In • thought of heaven we should stnntly bear in mind the fart that r word new, in the connection its ich it is here used, means, not "recently made," but "other in kind, prehlously unknown." In harmony with Mets meaning of the word mew•, 1 heavenT is to be thought of as a state or condition of being rather than it place. lleneo limitations of time and Once do not apply to the world to conte (colnp. Rev. 10.(1). Concerning heaven as the final des- tination of perfected saints it Is suf- ficient for its to known that which the Bible teaches positively. namely, that, 1. Our Lord and Saviour will be there (Ilei. 7. 21, 25; John 1.l.4)i 2. (:od the Father will he there- ••t%r Father which art in heaven." II Nin, with its consequent discord. curse and woe. will be absent and forecer banished (Rev. 22. 3; Eph. 5. 5). 4. It is the place (ot reedit') of 1111111 reward for the faithful (Luke 6. 2:Ij. 5. .toy and happiness shall there he the portion of "thein that lobo hint." Verse 1. And he showed me -It is p•it n, the apostolic seer himself. that peaking. The person to whom lie rs as show ing hint that which hehout to describe is the angel' le mentioned in chapter 21, 9, who had brought thin "in the Spirit to a mountain great and high" to show hint "the holy city .ie ',sakit." (Compare all of chap- see21.1 .{ ricer of water of life-('ompnre •1le:r. 47; John •1. 1.1; 7. 38; Rev. 7. 7 21 (i; also Psa. 41i. 4; 65. 9; 4'Alhh. 11. A. Bright ns crystnl-Itulieat inlr at•so- lute purity. although the omission of the mord "pure" is itself in harmony et s.ir the text of the best nlnnu- •cripte. 'roceeding out of the throne -In I•:zekiel's vision the river proceeded out of the temple, the Old Testament , _-Jype of the throne of (1od. And i•f the Lamb -The figure of the 'Lamb ; des n prominent place in the ipocel ptic vision of John. its flaw is none .other than the very thronn of henven (5. (1, 13; 7, 9, 111, 17; 22. 1, a), itself the light of (21. 23) the new Jerusalem. Ilefore this Lamb the elders fall down and wor- ship (5. 8), and it alone is coneid- erceet worthy with Cod to receive i power. adoration. and glory (5. 12). is n Lamb that has been stein (5. 9). end in whose blood the great 'Mutt ihide before the throne have washed white their robes (7. 111. IIIc shed blood has power to overcome Mitten (12. 11. 17. 14), but his wrath is a thing most terrible to encounter (6. 16). Angels and arc:'.• 0 angels together with the saints wor- ship and adore, and, on the occasion of the marriage supper of the Lamb; (the consummation of the final o'er-' nal union of Christ with tho church), rejoice with exceeding great gladness (19. 5-9). It is not diliicult to see in this figure of "the bamb slain" the Christ our Saviour and Lord. 2. On this side of the river and on that was the trees of life --The singu- lar ("tree") is evidently used to de- note the species of true with which both banks of the stream were wood- ed. Compare Den. 2. 9 and Rev. 2. 7 for references to "the tree of lite." Twelve maturer of fruits -A differ- ent variety for every month. There being no moon nor sun (21, 23) nor even t hne (10. 6), the reference to twelve months must bo figurative, the real meaning being that the fruit of the tree of life is always in season. Leaves . . . fur the healing of tho nations -Life which has its source in heaven with (rod is the only hope of rations still estranged from Cod (outside the city). Note the beauty of the figure in which this truth is clot hed. 8. Shell serve him-Ifence life eter- nal is not to be a state of idleness or o1 indulgent ease. Man's highest and noblest powers will there !hid opportunity for perfect expression anti endless employment to his glory. 4. Shall see his face. -Shall per- fectly know Bien whom to know is the essence of life eternal (John 17. 8). Isis name 14)1011 be oft their fore- heads -They shall be perfectly identi- fied with him. 5. Forever and ever -Literally, un- to the ages of the ages, the Greek idiom for lutinity of time or endless duration. The unto, implies the sense of from henceforth unto. lienee the reign of the saints with Christ has a beginning but ao end. (1. And he said unto ine-Thin vi- sion of the new Jerusalem is ended. The angelic guide and interpreter of the vision is about to leave, end therefore addresses to John a part- ing word of eucouragesncnt and In- struction. clod of the spirits of the prophets- (iod whose Spirit inspired the proph- ets, their :;pmts being in harmony with his Spirit and will. his angel -The one note speaking. To show unto his servants -'1'o all believers, through you (John) to whom this vision and message is in- trusted with instructions to record the vision and deliver the message. 7. Behold, 1 comp quickly -The Angel here speaks far and in the name of the Christ. keepeth-A favyytr'ite word with John, occurri.g Store frequently in the writiogs of this apostle than in all the rest of the New Testament together. This book-`ot the Bible, but this epocnlypso only, the book or scroll in which John has been instructed to writs what he Fees'. Neither here nor in verse,. 18 and 19 can 11118 ex- pression possibly mean anything else. In this verso (7) this meaning is brought mit more pininly by the use of ditnintktive, .little book or scroll. 9. I am a fellow servnnt--Thus are angels, prophets, apostles, and all who alley (hod's Word to be one in spirit and fellowship with Christ in ernity, use Separators are different. This. Illustration shows some differences -note the low supply can and simple bowl==there are others more important. The " Uneeda " is easy to wash -easy to turn -oils itself -skims cleanest of all. A SWEEPING SIC 60RY " Any person in Canada is free to make 'Tubular Separators with the exception of the steadying device, and practically free to make that provided it is not 111ad0 like Sharpies. Such is tho substance of the judgment rendered on Monday, the 8th inst., by Judge Btii'bitlge, in Sharples vs. Ourselves. It is ail we contended for and we are perfectly satisfied. The Sharpies people have lost, in this case praactitcally all they contented for, and in lard to their much vaunted patent is, to say the least, extremely ridiculous. Should the Sharples Company, or any of their a ;oats, make o the claire that correct in all points ask them to produce Judge ilitrbittgo's written judgment. We will sell you for foto' cents a Letter steadying device than Sharpies' ural oto bidgo in his judgment held was no infringement on ShaL lei's patent, b Nl their position now • this statement is not Limitcd11 ,ich audoo L'ur- Win National Manufacturing CoIllpa! • PEMBROKE, ONT. 00000000000o u•,s0000000q 1 YOUNG FOLKS 1 0•00-CSe 0-0<>0000-(>0.01 PRINCESS 1'l{ETE\IJ. In the winoow sat Doris, thatching the rain, and her face was all pucks eyed and uul,ai,py. "Tri tired stay- ing in this ulcl house!" sho said. "Dear 1110," said mother, foiling up her work, "we'd better get on our things and go to see a new friend of mine! !tun off and get ready." Boris unpuckered her forehead a little, and hurried on her rniiy-dsy hat and her long coat. and took her little umbrella; thea she and mother. started. "'Phis isn't a nice street," she said, discontentedly, ns they turned down a narrow street, and, 0 mother, aro we going in this ugly house?" ••Yes," said mother, and they went up some shabby steps lord in through a shabby door, and then up two dark flights of stairs. A woman was scrubbing half. -way up. "Can't you mind where you're stopping?" she asked, crossly, as Doris hit her pail in the darkness. "I'nr sorry," said Doris. but her voice did not sound as if sho cared very much. When they had reached the top of tho house mother said, "thew; wo are," and knocked ort a door at the head of the stairs. "Como in!" called a liltlo girl's voice, and mother °penes' the door into a room not reearly as big as 'Doris's play -room, or nearly as light, either, for it had only ono window. In tho middle of the room was quite a big bed, and in it propped up among pillows, lay a little girl with a pale face and shining eyes. "Ifow do you do, princess?" said mother, retaking a courtesy, and the little girl's eyes shone brighter. "I'm very well, all but a part of me that's under the bedclothes and so doesn't matter," said the little girl in the bed, gaily. She held out a thin little hand and shook hands with mother and Doris. "ITow kind you were to come to the 1 alaco to see ine!" she said. "{Was the witch on the stairs?" "Yes, indeed," said mother, while Doris opened her eyes wide, "she was there with her fairy pail, snaking things clean in the darkness." "1 knew she would be," said tho little girl. "She's a kind witch, you know," she said, turning to Doris, "but her words are sometimes' dis- guised so you might think she was cross.'' "I did," said Doris, opening her wide eyes, "Oh, no, Indeed!" said the little girl. "Why, she looks after me while my mother, the queen, is away at the Castle of the Books every day. It was she who shut the casement so the gray knights cannot get in to harm ire, no matter how hard they try. IIear them clash against tho window and then see them fall down!. Nothing really hurts thein, so I love towatch." "You mean the rain?" asked Doris, The little girl in the big bed nod- ded, with mischief in her eyes. "'Things have different names horn in the palace," she whispered, "just for fun, you know, because 1 have to stay burn all the time. {Vqulcht't you like to see the greenhouses? Take the first turn to your left." The first turn to the left was be- tween two old chairs; the greenhous- es were below the window on n small table -one flower -pot with grass growing in it. and one with a little geraniutn, not such a very pretty. geranium, with a red blossom. Doris stood for a long tilos, looking at them and winking hard every little 1111118. "The court physician says it may he only one year more It Lore the queen mother can take me out into the world again," she heard the lit- tle girl say to mother. "Oh, It's nearly three years niece that day I slipped on the stairs. But that's a:1 gest." "1►o'ls, if you've really seen the greenhouses we must go hone now," said mother, at last, "Sometimes when the palace seems very quiet and Just a speck lonesome, 1 shall shut my eyes and play yo'l aro here visiting me," said the lit- tle girl in the bed, as she held out her hand again. "1 shall see you Just ns plain!" "0 mother," selc1 Doris. "couldn't 1 bring Angelina here, so '11e needn't pretend all the time? Couldn't I? T could mike believe sunshine here in the pnlace•. Couldn't wo come, mo- ther? Angelina and T?" "Why, yes, I think you could," said nether, BOYS, Ti1INK 'I'iIF:Si: OVE11, ('tom of neer grent teen frays a boy should learn: '1'o let cigarettes alone. '1'o he kind to all animals. '1'o he nnnly and courageou4. 'i'o ride. row, shoot null swim, 'l'o 111111(1 a fence scientifienlly. 'I'o fill the woodier( every night. '1'o be gentle to his sisters. '1'o shtit a door without slamming. '1'o sew on n button, 1.1C1ro SUN -DIAL. An interesting specimen in the way of sun -dials tally be seen in (hn gar- dens of Stalnhoro' Castle, near ltnrnsley. '1 he dial here is lnid on (ho flat garden ground, the Ironton figures and linen being formed of closely -crapped box hm•deringa. Ono of the thickest of yew trees cut into exact shape form the pin of the dial which in the summer months Is cov- ered from the ground to the nice'" with a thick growth of leaves, awl slnnd3 about 12 feet high. In spite of the fact that this unique RIM. dial hes been growing for ns'nrly 201) year*, it is still in excellent condi- tion. 81141, moreover, compares fav- orably with those of ,rtoiern con- struction so far ns 1.0 t.imc keepi,►A propensities are concat.ed.