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,
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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,
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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.