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' AT HEAVEN'S GATES I
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AN OTI1ER SERMON OR RARE POWER
BY REV. DR, TALMAGE;
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Twelve Gates tin Ai All of leearl--7The Door.
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virereis About Bigotry and eeetarlanisna
—Some Ware Wearla.
'NEW YORIC, April 7.—Rev. Dr. Talmage
*toek for his eubjeot today iTlias Gates cif
Heaven," the text being. Revelation xxi,
14 I "On the east three gates ; on the
north three gates ; on the South three
gates; on the west three gatea." •
The Cashmere. gate of Delhi where eon*
verged a heroism that melees °neat *mimes
,
tingle, the Lucknow gate still dented and
scarred with sepoy bombardment, the
Madeline gate, with its. 'emblazonry in
bronze the hundred gates of Thebes, the
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wander of centuries, all go out of sight
WATO the gates of my text.
Our subjeat apeaks of a great metropelis,
' the existence of whieh many have doubted.
Standing on the wharf and looking off upon
the harbor and seeing the merchantmen
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coming up the bay, the flags ..of foreign
nations :streaming from the topgallante,
diotely make up your mind that
you imme , '
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those vessels mite from foreign. porta, and
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you say, 0!That is from Hamburg, and that
is Moue Marseilles, and that is from South.
hamptou, and that is from Havana," and
your sueposition is maturate. But from
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the city of vrhieh I am now epeaking 1130
, weather beaten merchantmen or frigates
with :marred bulkhead have ever come.
There ham been a vast emigration into that
city, but no emigration from it so far as
otternatural vision can deeory. ,
"There is no such oity,'"' says the unde-
vont astronomer. "I have stood in high
towers with a mighty telescope and have
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the heavens, and I have seen spots
on the sun and caverns on the moon but no
towers have ever risen on my vision, no
places, no temples, no shirting streets, -no
massive wall. There is no such city."
Even very good people to
' 11 me that heaven
is not a material organism, but a grand
spiritual feet, and that the Bible deserip.
Mona of it are in all oases to be taken figur-
atively. I bring in reply to .this what
Christ said, and he ought to know, "I go.
tt,
to prepare"—not a theory not a principle,
not a sentiraent, but "I go to prepare a
place for you," The resurrected body
implies this., If my footle to be reformed
from the duet, it Must have something to
tread upan. If my hand'is to be' recom).
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struotedelit- must have something to handle.
If my eye,. haivng gone out in death, is to
be rekindled, I must have something to
gaze on. Your adverse theoey seems to
imply- that the resurrected body is to be
hung on nothing, or to walk on air, or to
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flea:tame-ad the intangibles. You may say
if there.. be material organism then a soul
in heaven will be cramped, and hindered in
its enjoyments, tut I answer, Did not
Adam and Eve have plenty of room in the
garden of Eden? Although ' only a few
miles vrould have described the airournfer-
ence of that place, they had ample room.
And do you not suppose that God, in the
immeweities, eau build a palace larged
enoult, to give the whole race room, even
thoutal there be material organisms ?If
Het`sohel looked into the heaveris. As a
Swise guide mita his Alpine stock betweenof
the glaciers and crosses over from orag to
orag, so Herschel planted his telescope
between the worlds and glided from starrequire
to star until he could announce to us that
we live in a part of the universe but
sparsely strewn with worlds, and he peers
out into into immensity until he finds a region
no larger than our solar system in which
there are 50,000 worlds moving. And
Professor Lang says that by a philosophic
reasoning there must . be somewhere a
world where there is no darkness but
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everlasting sunshine 'so that I do notknoW
but that it IS simply because we have no
telescope powerful enough that we caanot
see into the land where there IS no darkness
at all and catch a. glimpse of the burnished
pinnacles. As a, conquering army marching
on to take a eity comes at nightfall to the
crest of a , mountain from which, in the
midst of the land:sea:pa, they see the castles
they are to capture, and rein in their war
chargers, and halt to teke a good look
before they pitch their tents Mr the night,
so now, coming as we do on this mountain
top of prospect, I command this regiment
of God to rein in their thoughts and halt,
and before they pitch their tents for the
night ta.ke one good, long look. at the gates
of the great city. 4' On the east three
tes • on the north three Mites. ; on the
gs, ,
,Bouth three gates, and on the west three
gates."lion
In the first place lavant you to examine
the architeeture of those gotes. Proprie-
torreot large estates are very apt to • have
n ornamental gateway. Sometimes they
arch of masonry, the posts 'Of the
gate flanked with lions in statuary; the
branab gate a representation of intertwin-
ineoliage, bird haunted, until the hand of
architectural genius drops exhausted, all
its life frozen into the atone.. Gates of wood
and iron and storm guarded nearly all the,
old oilier:. Moslems have inscribed upon
their gateways inseriptions,from the Koran
of the Mohammedan. There have been a
great many fine gateways, but Christ sets
his hand to the work,,and for the upper
city swung a gate such as no eye,ever gaz.
ed on untouched of inspiration. With the
nail of his own 'cross he cut into its won-
derfultraceries stories of past suffering and
of gladnese to come. There is no wood or
stone or bronne in that gate, but from top
to base and from aide tra side it is all of
pearl. Not one piece picked up from Cey-
ion •banks,. and another piece 'item the
Persian gulf, and another from the island
of Moquette but one solid pearl pioked
up from the b'eaoh of everlasting light by
heavenly hands -and hoisted and avvung
amid the shouting of angels, The , gloriee'
of alabaster vase and porphyry pillar fade
out before thbagateway. It puts out. the
Spurk offeldspar and diamond, You know
how .one little precious, stone on your.finger
will flash tinder the gaslight, But ote the
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brightneas when the great gate ci:. :leaven
sWitigs, 'tstrualt through and dripping with
the light of eternal noonday l
Julius 'Ciesar paid U5,00e. °rosin for
ene pearl, 00 government of Portugal
booted Of havin.g a pearl larger time A
pear. Cleopatra and Philip 11, dazzled the
world's' vision with precious stones, , But
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gather all •thspie together# and bit them,
mid adil to, them all the wealth of the
pearl fisheries, ',and set them in the panel
of 'one door, and it 'does Net equel 011ie
mighty hd
magnificent gateway. An alen
beived this, swung this, pelished this,
Against tine gateway, on the one Side; daSh
all the splendors of earthly beauty. Againet
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this g te, on the other side beat the
eurges of eternal glory. Oh, tlio gate, the
gate I It strikes an infinite eherm though
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over), one that Passes it. One step tine
side of the gate, and we are peupere, One
step the other side of the gate, and We are
kings. , The pilgrim of earth going through
e
tiees in the one huge pearl all his earthly
teare in crystal. 0 gate of light, gate Qi
pearl! gate of heaven, for Our Weary souIS
at last awing ()pen 1 .
When. shall those eyes thy botoren tadit
walls
And pearly gatesbehold;
'Thy hillwarke with:salvation strong
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.0hAnd heaven streets iotshining gold? ,
, s not a dull place I }leaven
is not a gontraoted place. Mellen is not
a stupid place. "I sew the twelve gates:
and they were twelve pearls."
In the second place, I want you to ccount
the number of those gates. Imperial parks
and lerdly manors are apt to have one ex.
pensive gateway, • and the. others are
• ordinarY,but look aroend at these entrances
to heaven and count them. One two three
four, five, Six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
- eleven,twelve. Hear it all the earth and
,
all the heavene. Twelve gates 1 .
A man cornee down to a river in time of
fr a
e het. He wants to get across. . He has
to swim. What dotes he do ? The first
- 0 .
thing is to put off his heavy apparel and
drop everything he has in his hands. He
must go empty -handed if he is going to the
other bank And I tell you when we have
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come. down to the river of death and find
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t 'ft d raging'It It t t it
i .stvi an we will have o pub o
our sectarianism and lay- down ail our
cumbrous creed and empty handed put out
for the other shore " What " say you,
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"would you resolve all the Christian church
into one kind of church? Would you make
Christian worship in the same way, by the
same forms" Oh, no. ' You naig ilt as well
decide that allpeople shall eat the acme
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kind of food without reference to appetite,
or wear the same kind of apparel withoin
reference to the shape of their body. Your
anoea /. y.
try your temperament,our aur -swept
romidings, will decade whether you go t 0
this or that church and adopt thistor that
°hued).0 h h '11- beat ' t
polity. One a uro will ge
one man to heaven and another church
another Islam I do not care which one of
the gates you ga through if you go through
one of the twelve gates that Jesus lifted.
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THE TWELFTH GATE. •an
Well, now I ace all the redeemed of earth
coming up toward heaven. Do you think.
they will all get int Yes. Gate the first,
the ' tioravians come up; the believed -
yin
the Lord Jesus: they peas through. Gate
the second,. the- Quakers come up; they have
received the inward light; they have trust-
ed in the Loril, they pass. through. Gate
the third, the Liitherans etome up; they
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have the same grace that made Luther what
he was, and they pass through. Gate the
fourth, the Baptista pass ' through. Gate
the fifth, the Free Will Bo • t
ptics s ,pass
through. Gate the siith, the Reformed
church passes through. Gate the seventh,
the Con re ationaliats age throu h Gate
the g g P g -
eight, the German Reformed church
tl h G t th ' th th M th
passes iroug , a e e inn , e e ce
dist parte through. Gate the Tenth, the Sab-
batarians ass th a t
p rough. Gat he eleventh,
the church of the Disciples pass through.
Gate the twelfth, the Presbyterians pass
through. But there are a great part of other
denominations who must come in,and great
• muttitudee who connectedthemselves w i th no
visible church, but felt the power of godli-
ness in their heart- and showed it in their
life Where is their gate, Will you shut
all the remainingh t ' f' N
Th e . ea out o the cityl o.
oome in at our _ g . : .
'Gee' nirY ate Hosts of
, . you cannot get adniissiop through
any other en.trance, come iip ac.the - tw.elfth
-look
gate. . Now they miogle before thithrotie.
Looking.tip at the one hundred and forty
thousand, you cannot tell which gate they
came in. One Lord. One faith. One bap-
tism. One glasey sea. One doxology. One
triumph. One 'One heaven 1
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In the third place, notice the pone ea
the compass toward whiehtherse ga,tes look.
They are not on one side,or on two sides,or
on three aides, but on four sides. This ie
nolancy of mine, but a distinct announce
meat. On the north three gates' 00 the
, south three gates, on the east three gates,•
on the west three gates. What does that
mean ? Way, it means that all nationall.
ties are ineltided, and italoes not make any
difference from what quarter of the earth a
man comes up. If his heart is right, there
is a gate open for him. On the north three
gates. That means meroy for Lapland and
Siberia and Norway and Sweden..On the
south three gates. That means pardon for
Hindustan and Algiers and Ethiopia. On
the east three gates. That means seliation
for China and Japan and Borneo. On the
west three gates, That means redemption
for America. It does not make any differ-
ence how dark skinned or how pale faced
men may be. „They will find a gate • right
before them. These plucked bananas under
a tropical sun. These shot maross Russian
snows behind reindeer. From Mexican
Plateau, from Roman campanili, from Chin.'
ese teafield, from Holland dike,frorn Scotch
• t c
-Highlands, they ome, they come. Heaven
is not EL monopoly for EL few precious seals.
It is not a Windsor Castle built only for
royal fainiliee. It is not a small town•with
small population, but John saw it- and he
measured Mtbis waymnd then he measured
it that way,and which ever way he measur-
ecl it it MAUS 1,500 milee, eo that Babylon
and Tyre and Nineveh And St. Petersburg
and Clanton and Peking and Paais, and
London and New York and all the dead
cities of the past and all tile • living oities
of the preient added together would not
equal the census of that great metropolis.
Walking along a street, you can, •Ity the
contour of the, dress, or the face, guess
where m man comes. from. You say, "That'
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is a Frenehman ; that ie a Norwegian ;
that is an American," But the gates that
gather in the righteons. will bring them in
irrespective of nationality. ;Foreigners
sometimes get homesick. Some of the
tenderest and most. pathetid storiee have
been told of these who left their natige
he d 'e
clime, and longed for it until t y 1 d.
But the Swise, coming to the high residence
of .heaven, will not long any more for the
Alps,standing amid the.eternal hills. The
Russians will not bong any . more for tho•
luxuriant harvest field he left noW that he
hears the hum and the riustle of 'the her, ,
veste of everlasting light. , The royal ones
• earth will not Ion • to o be& a ain
frOM , , g , g , , g .
to the earthly °mitt now that they stand iri
the palette Of the min.. Those whO onoe
lived amonc. the' craves' of abide and
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oranges will not long -to return DOW that
they stand wider the trees aide that bear
bwelvenciartner of f"40. ' - ' '
, While 1 speak an increasing throng is'
pouring throtigh the gates. They. are go-
big Up from Sebegambiee from Patagonia,
from Mactrata from PIOngaMige "What,"
you :say, do you . rt r 4 ee all l'•
" • • • l• t a u • t..e
heathena in, tO glory ?' I tell you the -faet
is thet .a inejority of the people in, Ow
glielee die in infaney, and the-infaets ell
go straight into eth
life and a
ternal, o e
Cast majority of th. pee who !die in. China
and India, the vast MajeritY of these whe
die in Afries, go straight. into the skies-,
they die in infancy. One hundred and
okay gerieretione ltave bowl: bora iiinee the
world' a iu,' created, and Ho I estimate that
there mind be 13,000,000,000 children M
gloay. If at .a ooncert 2,000, children Mpg,
Yoar aqui is raptured within you. ' Oh,
the transport When 16,000,00000 little
ones staud up in white , before the throne
of God, their chanting (bawl ning all tae
atuRennone harMoniea ef Dusseldorf and
Belpsio. Pour in through the twelve gates,
Oh, ye redeemed, bantam lifted rank
after rank, saved battalion after'intved
battalion, until all the oity of God obeli
hear the tramp, tramp I Crowd all the
twelve gatee. Room yea. Room oe the
thrones.. Room in the mmisions. Room
en the river banke. Let the trumpet of
invitation be aounded until all earth's
rnoun.tains hear the shrill blast and glen's
echo it. Let missionaries tell it in a oda
_ p g.
and oolporteurs •sound it aprose the west-
ern Prairies. Shout it to the Laplander
on his swift sled, halloo it to the Bedouin
careering ocroas the desert. News 1 News 1
A glorious hea. von and twelve gates to
get into it. 1 Hear it ! Oh, you thin blooded
nati f t 1 ' '
ens o „el erne winter—on the northg
three gates. ' Hear it 1 Oh, you bronzed
inhabitants panting Wilder equatorial heats
the south three at
---fin . g es' • '
But I notice when John ea.w these gates
th ' • ' , .1)ready
they were open—wide open.' They will
not 'alwaye be so. After. a while heaven
. will have gathered up all its intended
Population and the children of God will
h h'
ave come home. Every crown is taken..
Every harp struck. Every throne mouuted.
All the glories of the universe harvested in
the great• '
g garner. And, heaven being made
up, of course the gates will be shut.
A ' • t ' -
ustria in, and the firat gate shut. Russia
in and the second gate shut. Italy in,and
•the third gate shut. Spain in,and the fifth
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gate shut. 'France in, and the siith gate
shut. England in and the seventh ate
h • ' , g
a ut. Norway in, and the eighth gate
shut. Switzerland in, and the ninth gate
shut. Hindustan in, and the tenth' gate
shut. Siberia in and the eleventh ate
, g
shut. . All the gates are closed Mit one
, e.,. . .g . . . . .
Now, leb America go -in with all the islands
of the sea and all the other nations that
have called on God. The captives all freed.'
The harvests all gathered. The nations all
.saved. The flashing splendor of this last
Pearl begins to move on its hinges. Lcst
two mighty angels put their shoulders .to
thea • 't '
_ gate and heave it to wi h. silvery clang.
It is done. It thunders 'Tim t
, . welfth gate
shut- acharacter,
Once more I want to thew you the gate-
keepers. There is one angel at each one of
those gates. You say that is right. Of
coarse it ica.stiYo:r know that no earthly
Pal ace or a e fortress, Would be safe
without a sentry pacing up and down by
night and by day, and if there were no
efensee before heaven, and the doors set
-de open with no one to guard them all
wide .g
the vicieus of earth would go up atter
awhile and all thabandoned f hell Id
, e owould
go up after awbi e, and, heaven, instead of
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being a world of light and joy and. peace
and blessedness, would be a world of dark-
nese and horror, So I am glad to telyoua
that while these twelve gates stand open to
t m • e i
let a great ultitud n, there are twelve
n els to keep some people out Robes-
g.
%ere cannot . throu- h th 'or Hilde
rrand nor g o g of there'•nd b (1,-
erho, Asper any o e ch
tue'5
of earthwhorepentedcit their
w'ela havenot
) a' e.nefa, us 7
who despised Godaah ld -.o the: hand gate,
. e'
ou would
one of the k p
his sh uld re° re wou. put.t is. n
. , o e an push him ..in o outer dark-
nese. There is no place in that land for
t • d l• I h
hieves an tars an - w oremongers and
f d d 11 t h d' d
e rau ere an a ose w o• tsgrace
their race and 'fought a ea
g mat their God.
a miser h Id t ' - th h'
I e'r e en ' ge ,. in ere, e would
If a house
pullup the olden in
burnertettahho ii d get in therethe twould set
n mansion. d Ifte libertine should
t inotherwe
fie standinge'e w elilwhisper his abomina-
one on the white coral of the sea
beach. Only those who are blood washed
end prayer lipped will get through. Oh,
my brother, if you altdald at last come up
to one of the gates and try to t th o
and you had g not Y .. go . r°1]g
Naas _weittera by toe
, u !red h d a
°e on ef God h
' teu •
Leeverpor wind with ane glance wither yo
for. ,
There will be a password at the gate of
heaven. Do you know whet that.paesword
is ? Here cornea a erowd of souls up to the
gate, and they say"Let me ,in, let me
in. I was very usehil on earth: I endow-
ed colleges ; t built churches and was
famous for my charities, and having done
so many wondeit al things for the world
now I.come up to get my reward."
voicefrom within says, "1 never knew
You." Another great crowd, comes up, and
they try to get through. They say : "We
were highly honorable, on earth, and the
world towed very lowly before us. We
were highly honorable on earth, and now
we come to get honore in heaven." And a
voice from within says, "I never knew
you." Another crowd advances and says:
'We were very moral people on earth,very
moral indeed, and we come up to get
appropriate recognition." A voice answers,
"I never knew you."
.
After awhife E see another throng ap.
proadh the gate, and one seems to be
spokesman of all the rests ' although their
voices ever and anon ary :"Amen !Amen 1"
This one titan& at the gate and says : Let
me in. I was a wanderer from God. I
deserve to die. I have come up to this
place not because I deserved it, but because
1 have heard that there is a saving power
in the blood of Jeone." The gatekeeper
same; "That is the password--gesusi
teems- l' "--and they go in and surround the
throne, and the cry is, "Worthy is the
lamb that was slain to receive blessing and
riches and heeler and glorY and power,
• • a
world, without end I .
I stand here, thie hour, to invite you
into any one of thetwelvegates. I tell
yon now that unless your heart is changed
by the grace Of God you cannot get in. I
do not oare where you come from, or who
.your fetber was, or who, your mother was,
or what your brilliant sutroundiogs—unless
you repent ot your' SID and lane Christ for
your divine SaViotir you cannot get in.
Are you Willing, then, this Moment, just
where ,you are,, tO kneel dovrn and pry to
the Lord Almighty for itis.deliverance?
You want to get in, do you 'not? Oh,
. trot have soMe ' good friends there. This
last year there *as some Ole • wile went
' - h
OUt from your home into that leased
place. , They did. not have .anY trouble
getting thiougli the gatee;. did they 1 ,, No,
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they knew tee passwor , an coming tip
they matt "Joeue 1" and the . cry ' Was,
"Lift up your heads, 'ye evetlaeting, gates,
said „let them oonie M." . Oh, • when
heaven is all done, and the tree/xi of Oecl.
shout, the (matte taken, how-, grand it, will
be if you and I are among them I 'Blessed
are they whe Miter in through the gatee, '
into. t e day., ,
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.. ' , SUNDAY ' . ,
THE SCHOOL
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL al
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, (alartaitt, STATEMENT.
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0 th ft r Of tho' T d beforeon
n e a .e noon. e ties .0,y
the paesover, jectull turned from the temple
for the last time, Followed by.his disciples
be Walked out of the Beautiful Gate and,
eczema the marble floor of the Court of the
•Gentiles Once more he passed under the
ecaluillniof gelomree'Porch, alit of the (tate
Shuahati, and into the valley of the brook
Kedron. The diaciples called his attention
to the, gigantic' stony' in the eafftern -wall
ni
and the Saviour aolenly answered that
the time was near at hand when every
stone should be overturned and the stately
house of God ethoeld become a deeoletion.
Slowly the little group climbed the Mount
,g P .
of Olives, and at its eummit paused to look
onee.more upon the eity, glowing under the
setting sun, In that hour •Chriat gave to
tie dieciplea an extended prophecy of
his,owtacomingt.of. the fall ..oef Jerusalem,
eu° of the end Or the worm. en nis addrees
events near and far are brought together,Th
for his words reach from :the coming deao-
lation of the city down to the final judg-
ment. The keynote a his warningwas'
d " h " H bade'
the word wate . e his followers
moment th'
e a any momen or e sounding
of the trumpet and the commons to the
ut declared that of that da neith-
elect ; b . v
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er man nor angel,not even the bon h mself,
e time, whichwaslockedin e
knew th t• • th
seeret counsels of his Father's will. He
bade them remember, that his kingdom was
to be like a household whose Master is
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absent in a distant land, and whose so-
t 1 ft •th"th ' Id t• h' h
' van sere e wi. , or severs u me w ic
they are to fulfill until. their ' lord returns
at some hour -unknown and unexpected. So
stands Christ's Church. in ex eatant &W-
• . .. P
tude with face uplifted toward the heavens
. "Even . Lord e 1»
so , come,GSM
"Pug/expostulating
axPLANATORY AND PRACTICAL NOTES.
-,7 w e ssy
Verse 42. ate . e are to watch
over ourselves to keep our spiritual natures
, ' •
alert ; against temptation, that our :Aver-
-.
sary may not o tem over us ; m
b •advantage'
the duty which our Master has intrusted to
; and for the co
ue'in' f
ing th o , e Lord. For
we know not. That Christ will come is an
article of the true Christian creed ; and
b cause wallop ot h n h '11 '
e ' w n .w e e wi come is
argument for being always ready. Volt
ea
Lord doth come. There are three sensea
in which this expression is used : (1) Christ
came in the end of the Jewish state, when
the new dispensation finally took the place
of the old. (2) He will come in the final
success of the Gospel, when all the earth
shall be evangelized.' (3) He will come
finally in the judgment day, to be seen by
'
all mankind. In all of these meanings we..
find Christ's comin'
g or advent meationed
in these chanters ,1) He who lives
• - 1 -
aright is ready to meet his Lord.
, 4 B it tit" " Y d t k
3. ut now is. ou o no now
the hour; but ,you may know this." The
goodman of the house. Revised Version,
. the master of the house." Had known
• • • •
in what watah. The Roman division of
tim from sunset to a nriee into four atch a
e , u w e
was prevalent among the Jews. Each
watch was from two to three hours long.
The thiet would come. Christ often illus.
trated the suddenness and unexpectedness
of hie second corning to the approach of a
thief, and the a,postlesaised the same Gem-
parison in 1 Them 5. 2,, and 2 Peter 3. 10.
His hotuie to be broken up. Literally, "to
be digged through,' a natural expression
where the houses are largely built of mud
cement, through which a burglar could dig
•
Ma way more easily than he could force the
door. •
44. Be ye also ready. We are not to
upon the coming of the Lord as that
an enemy to be feared, but et a friend
whom we would welcome; and for whom
would be prepared. - Thts. does not
that Christians should always be
talking or thinking of the'Saviour's coming
but that they should so live as to•b alwa '
ye
ready for it . The extr vaga ed f 11'
1 • a . nces an o ma
ofsome who emphasizetIne precious doctrine
of the Church should not lead us to ignore
it. Just how Christ will come, whether in
body or iu spirit, we do not know,but that
he will come is certain. As ye think•not. It
is idle then for any man to compute either
the .day, the year, or even the century when
Christ will come, But it is more foolish,in
the light of Scripture, to declare that he
will not come.
45* Who then. The question comes to
,
every disciple as a motive to faithfulness..
A faithful and wise servanv. Faith-
ful in the trust left to aim, and
wise in watching over his master's inter-
eats. .Whom his lord hath made ruler.
His lore here is the saviour, who is the
head of the Church, and the servant is that
professed follower of Christ who byappoint-
utent,by social position, or by ability wields
an influence in the Church. . Over his
household. The household of Christ is his
Church ,on earth. To give them meat.
That is, food. Let it be remembered that
the rulers in the Church do not live for
their own gain or honor or ease,but for the
good of others,
46. Blessed is that servant. He shall be
blessed in his own happiness in doing his
Master's will; and he shall be rewarded
with his Master's favor. Shall find so
doing. And equally blessed he who is al-
ways ready, even though his Lord does not
come in his day of life.
47. Verily. The sentence with which
Jesus was wont to preface an important
declaration. He hall make' him ruler.
Revised Version, " will set him over all he
theta" Thus in the parable, of the talents
the faithful servant, has his reivard. But
how can each of the faithful ones be. ruler
over all? Simply in the fact that in the
kingdom of God each recipient enjoys the
benefit of all the others' blessings. , (2) In
.
the • riches of Christ no one loses 1 yen.
other's gain. . , e
. 48. But and if. The revieed v rai on omit
"and." •That evil servant. The professed
disciple of Chriat who lives unworthily, or
noes office in the Church. for his own ad.
vantage. Strictly speaking, such a one
ia rather a false than AIL evil . servant.
Shall say in his heart. gor all evil
thinking m evil speaking in the heart. My
lord delayed his. otrning. Thinking
that his absent muter cannot or will net
call him to account, he begin to tut:lemmas
his commands, to negleot duty, to use his
positien for hie own , advantage, and to
wrong h•
is fellow -servants. (31 If men
, , , , , . „.•
really believed that Christ IVIll Oahe to
exectite justice, they would not dirieb7.
him. (4) • The germ of all evildoing, is
unbelief. . „ •
.49. Shall begin to smite .his, fellow -ser,
"ante, PrirnarilY, the alsPlioation may- be
to Oirerch. officials, , as so,111,0 Plea and
higher, Whe "lord it ovei; uh.rist s hveri*
tage " and Wrong those limier them. ARM
there ie &Wider referenee to all men, tor
all nien ate equally responsible to God, and
, , . ,
., .
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• our fellow,inen are our fellow-.aerVante, (6)
Thom may be ,distimitions of rank. ameng .
'Men, init the are none before, Goa* (0)Au
Rulers must meet thoir awount in the
judgment., as well as the ruled. Drink With
the drooken. Not only doing •Wrong to
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laid at the deo of thie evil pervanti uribelief
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pride, and 'pleasureaseehing. There have
I,
been perlotiti in the history 'ef the Cherca
earth when tine was but a faint picture
a its cOodition .
O. ' The lar'd ' of ,thab servant, The
wicked servant .has 'a lord, •even though he
does. not know it. Shall COMO. Mei'• null
disbelieve in Ch,rist'a coming, bet their dis-
belief will not prevent ib ' When he look-
eat now The unlooked-for coming of
Christ will be a welcome event to his true,'.
saints,but a day of terror to the unfaith-
ful. To those who have died or maY die
before the advent •of,Chriat, tie comes in
their slirenions to another world, and so
this parablerapplies to all.
M. Shan cat hitt asunder. The oruel
•
011StOMS of the ancient world, in. which 'Men
were often sawn asunderi are used to rep-
resent the spiritual penalties which cannot
be underetood in our bodily, state. His
portion with the hypocrites. Men who
pretended to a godliness which they did not
possess. Weeping and gnashin of teeth.
le f
e to ens o extreme agony which all must
endure who knowingly disobey their Lord's
will. There is no hint, in these words, of
another probation to those who have wasted
the oppoktunities of the life on earth
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ington Star tells the story. Shortly aftei
General Geurke had been called iron
Odesea to at as military governor of St
Petersburg, a policeman, posted at the toj
of the Nevsky Prespect, caught sigh'
early one morning a an ectuipage comini
up the thoroughfare at a trot. It bon
armorial 'device:1 familiar to everybody.
It was driven' by a eosthinan recognize(
as the servant of Prefect Gourko„ who pre
sisted in being wigged in defiance of ht
master's orders, to the great merriment o
the other Si. Petersburg Johns; and oi
each side rode the rersular escort of al:
a
mounted Cosse.cks, each holding his. lane
in rest and wearing his ball of forage alum
over his ahoulder, more as if he were cam
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Pat piing on the Don than engaged in po lee
service in the streets of he capital.
L
General Goorko and his esoort—for thr
guardian of the peaoe had easily recognized
and hastily saluted his chief, the wee
Prefect of Police—made their way to Mu
massive Winter Palace, and. the genera'
alighted and rang. To the doorkeeper—
an officer of the body.guard—he Walt
stated the object of his visit ; he desired at
immediate conference with the tsar: The
hour was early, but his bueineee brooked
no delay, for it concerned the safety o
Alexander bimeelf. ,
The janitor was ab. first inexorable
that his imperial master hal
been in bed only an hone ; but at last It
yielded. 17p the broad smircase they wen
together, pausing in their ascent only who
they hall reached a landina giving accee
to one of the capacious saloons.. At bah
point Geaeral Gourko was in:structed a
wait. At this point, too, the peace
guardian seems to have repented at hi,
decision.
Closely scrutinizing the Prefect of Police
and proceeding in the direction of th,
emperor's eleeping apartments, he did no
arouse the tear at all. What he did wa
to descend to the guard-roein and despatel
- •
a messenger. During hie absence the tea
calmly slept on.
A cmarter of an hour later the messenge
returned. He bad been sent to Genera
Gourko's residence, arid he brought bowl
the information thet the Prefect of Polio
was at that moment in bed. The earl]
visitor, therefore, was an impostor.
He was something more; for from hi
pockets, after he had been seized and pin
ionea -was drawn forth a six -barrelled re
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life had been saved, yet it had hunt
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for a few minutes in the balance.
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d '1 f h •d • • h
etai s o air, complexion an wig---rnig
have deceived even the tsar himself. No
a whit less perfect was the art which ha,
reproduced. the Gourko coach and escort.
Only the sham prefect was secured, hole
ever his confederates escaped. Simultar
eswiety witb the arrest, guards had rustle
from the palace to seize them, but thei
equipage had gone. No sign of them wa
ever found.
As for the chief actor in the plot, hi
personality has never been disclosed. H
is the one mystery which the Nihilist
themselves have never been able to penetrate
His secret remaine 'with him, and he keep
it to the present moment, for he is still—o
was at last accounts—a priaoner in th,
island fortress of Peter and Paul.
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IGNORANCE OP THE BIBLE.
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A Bar to Enloyment of eineh That Is Best
In English literature.
Take this matter of ignorance of the
.0.,,
-"Line/ says Harper's Magazine. Recent
statistics showthat it existe, to an extent
•
inconceivable to any person a generation
ago, in college students. And this ignor-
ance is disclosed pot in attempted religious
instruction,but in the study of the ordinary
branches Of a literary education in our
: -
universities and colleges. The pupils are
,entirely unable to understand a great mass
of allusions in the masterpiecee of English
poetry and prose. Some of these pupils are
victims of the idea that the Bible should
not be read bVs tthe young' for fear that
'
they will he prejudiced in e, religious 'way
before their minds are mature enough to
aeleot a religion for themselves. Now,
wholly apart from its religious or ern i
t f ' '" ' from 'ts
ethical value,the Bible is the one book that
no intelligent person who wiehes to come
into contact with the world of thought and
to share the ideas of the great minds of the
Christian era can afford to be ignorant of
' . t '
All naodern literature and all art are per-
reeated with Th ' 1 -
w it. ere is scarce y a great
work in the language that oan be fully
understood and' enjoyed withoutthis know-
ledge, so full is it of allusions and illustra-
tions from the Bible ' " '
. Thus is true of fiction
of poetry, of economic and of philosophic
works, and also of the scientific and even
agnostic rea tees. is not a a a question
• t t' It • t 11
of religion, or theology or of dogma ; it is
o genera intelligence. y
a question f 1 !A. bo
or a girl at college, in the presence of the
works set for either to master without a
fair knowledge of the Bible, is an ignore-
mus, and is disadvantaged accordingly. It
is in itself almost a liberal education, as
many great masters in literature have
testified. It has so entered into law, liter.
attire, through the whole rnodtrn life of the
Christian world, that ignorance of it is a
most serious disadvantage of the student.
In comparison with its position in the
family a generation'ago, the Bible is now a
neglected book. It is neglected as litera-
ture. There are several suggestions for
reviving interest in it. One of them
is already in Operation in Sunday School
work. Another is its :study as liter-
ature in the schools and colleges.
But we believe that the change will only
ff t• b
come e ea ively a, attention to the
mental cause of this ignorance, the neglect
of its use in the home in childhood. If its
great treasures are not a part of growing
childhood, they will alvea,ys be external of
the lateeposseesor. In the family is where
the education must begin, and it will then
be, as it used to be,an easy ant unconscious
education, a. stimulus ta the imagination,
and a ready key to the great world of tradi-
tion, custom, history, literature.
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Sad State of Affairs.
Kansas is a cheerful place, according t
the written testimony of Lewelling, whc
was until recently the Populist Governo
of that , state. The state municipal, zeal
way and individual debt, secured by; mort
gage, representa, liability of $500 for ever;
woman,mari and child in Kansas. Mr Lewel
ling adds the railway debt to the per capit,
liability, and. excuses the addition by th
pies, that the interest tipon thie debt is i
burden upon the industry of individuals
He points out, too, that while the delti
has been incresang, the capacity to pay thc
debt has been decreasing. When many el
these liabilities were assumed, the Kansa:
farmer aould buy five dollars 'th twc
sacks of wheat. Now, if he wants fivc
dollars, he must pay six or seven Backe o:
wheat for it. When he went intc5 debt
one horse was considered good collatera
security for•it loan of $60., Now the mai
who lenda $60 wants a chattel mortgage or
five or six horses. There are no eagl,
screams in Governor Lewelling's descrip
of th eactual condition of life surround
ing the average man and the aventgo
woman in a great state of the Americai
Union. By way of proving that his effor
is not a dream of statistics, ,but a sobe
reality, he eitee the fact that mortgages ar
being toreolosed and Karma people turne,
out of house atici home at the rate of ta
thousand per annum.
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BRAVERY AT SEA.
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rew of the British shin Arno Reg-
cued in Mid-neean.
A despatch from Southampton says :—
The steamer Normannia arrived on Fridaytubes
. .
h de salt of he
morning wit t • t rescue of the
crew of the British ship Arno in mid-
ocean on March 24. The Arno, which
sailed from New York March 21 for Liver-
• hted March 24 with a heavy
Pool, was 6113
list and -signalling for assistance, as the
ship was ahout to sink. Tbe Normannia
e Aso , w ic was capsize in
owered a lif b t h• la ' d
e eavy , .
th h sea but no lives were lost A.
second boat was lowered, and was suceess-
ful in getting within fifty yards of the
Arno, which was as near as it was safe to
approach owing to the tremendous sea,
There were on board the Arno 29 n en
•-• '
and women, and one baby. A life buoy
line was got out, and all on hoard were
resoued,though it was a. perilous vndertak-
in* All the rescued ones were compelled
to•jump into the sea and be picked up by
the lifeboat. The baby ct as put into a .bag
and thrown overboard, and was hauled into
.the boat by the rescuers. The rescue ma
oupied eight hours, during which there was
great a . xcitement oil board the Normannia .
The lifeboat was compelled to make four
„ ,
trips in order to get all the shipwrecked
board th Th
onee on.e steamer. e passengers
on board the Norrnannia took up a collect.
en of $500 for the orew of the lifeboat.
A Fortune -Telling Incident.
A little Buffalo boy had strayed Iron
home. His mother went to a fortune
teller to learn hie whereabouts. In till
ante -chamber of the pythonerts she rael
another woman, likewise waiting to con
suit the oracle, to whom she told he
trouble. The second client Went home an
mentioned the cose to a neighbor, wh
happened to have news of the child
Thereupon the good soul went back an,
ave the waitingMother the desired in
for . After hie, " •'
s who shall say tha
f , A. il
oroune-se ers are not use u ? o e 'tut
f I T b
the superior wiedorn of the seeress did „Ms
solve the mystery, lint if the poor mothe
had, not gone , to the fortune-teller's sh,
might still be mourning her eon.
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Leper Fetind in New York.
The New York health board the other
h
day learned that there ad been a man
atricken with leprosy livitig,for the past
six years -in a tenement-hoase itt that Mt Y
so far
President Wilteen said that the Mote, f
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Mary- (superintendent, and that a prompt
and thorough inverdigation ' of the came
would be made -initnediatelv. The maiee
name and address hat not been given mit.--
He has,a wife and five children and one of
his daughteri it morried and has a 1..inontha
ad baby. Dr; Albert S. Aehmead, who
passed upon the case tis itn experb, sap
that the man wee andotibtedlv in an ad.
winced etage 61 leprosy. lifii is. about .60
years of age Ile was both iii.Germany.
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Mr. Poorpay--I want to ohange in;
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I'll give you the change. '
Modified. • •
Did you say,. sir, said the excited etetes
man, that it west an impessibilitsr for in.
to tell the truth? ...
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it was an improbability, ,
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