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times larger then all the rest. , Hell on religious neighborhood originate,:
My friends . you see it is . either "True and false Giving." Acts 4.3'S to with the Christian faith. At all pub- Loudon veuurs cow* Doldo " (awl
lie religioes feasts in Jeruselean titer)
anointed of the Lord, thou art worthy.
banquets spread, and to one of theta GENERAL STATEMENT. was a sort of temporary community IntLitee:IttneraolZrareraat 11114741:47:41744.
of goods; and though many, wimps,
Christ or famine. If there were two 5.11. Goiden Text, I sane BO.
and think for a good while as to which Our last lesson left the blind man, most, citizens found themselves to be terest to su;lctseers-31asy Ann:stet tee
only you might go, you might stand
invitation you had better •a.ceePt; but with Peter and John, standing on trial, indirectly reimbursed by the Stir of eldents.
here it is feasting or starvation. If before the Sanhedrin. They were sent trade that Aiwa sudden inflows a 1).<).
its beam. Sixty feet below the surface runs a
you might say, 'I prefer the 'Crea- aside while their case was dismissed, Ple brought, nevertlaeless in
fling this public hospitality was essen- strange passage -way under the river
Thames. It has been the some of Many(
it were a choice between oratorios,
Lion," or "I prefer the 'Messiah." and brought back to bear the decision- tiallY religious. Possessors of lands or
houses. This is interestitim for it wee ewe eed, murders, as well as see -
But here it is a choice between liar- not punishment this time, for they had. oral interesting and. ataxesing law euita,
manywillyoeundriveeveorilasdtilentg \c\itisicier ,:to.0
.nOt.eha become the leeroes of the common Pete ideut in Jerusalem. Most of the early
seems to point to wealthy converts res -
for the Egyptian corncrib, or will you Isle; but a commend not to speak at all converts to Christianity aPParentlY It is in the ftorm of a large pipe forced
perish amid the empty, barns of the nor teach in the name of Jesus. The were poor, but there Were not through the earth, rather than a tilar
C'anaanitish famine? 'Ye shall not apostle's prompt reply was, " We can-
lacking believers in Jesus among nel, and its gretsteonae history attractat
see my face except your brother be the rich and aristocratic families
not but speak the things we have seen of The capital. Sold them and the attention of every visitor te thn
the price. This primitive ancient British capital.
with you." and heard." When dismissed. they has- brought
CZARS IN E GLAND. toned to their fellow-Chriatiane, who
began at once a, service, of thanksgiving not apparently the result of any polite This famous landmark of old. London
Christian soeielista was: 1. Sfiontaneoltell
a ewe iu Their Visits Between the Tears and prayer. This was followed by t ee- an immediate need. 2. Voluntary I not eil having decided to close the strange
petition of the supernatural signs of cal theory. or social philosoPhY, but of is to be swept away, the County Coime
to any degree compulsory.;(" was it not construction. It is known AS tbeTowe
Queen Victoria was only 23 years old, Pentecost.
"They were all fiii,d with thine own? Was it not in thine own
power ?") 3, Exceptional, or at least not or subway, and runs beneath the river
from Tower Hill to Tooley street.
1.844 and ssee.
although alrea.d,y the mother of two the Holy Ghost, and. spoke the word
of God with boldness," So says verse universal; long after this, Acts 12. 12,
Christians are still mentioned as own- Perhaps no spot in the great British
it of a Czar. The news that the ter- 31; and the story of our lesson follows.
We notice the sweet spirit of unity that
are of houses. 4. Tenaeoraxy; the meth-
od proved inadequate to the needs of the capital is more famous than this quaint
old structure which, from an engineer*
children, when she last received the vis-
rible, Nicholas was coming. and that bound together the hearts of these ear- in that beautiful sentence verse 32, with ing stand point is without doubt one
growing Church; but the spirit shown
only two days hence, - produced an ly Christians. They literally lived for wuteil we begin our study, "Neither of the greatest curiositlea in the world.
extraordinary fluttering in the tame said any of them that aught of the It was constructed, in 1$69, and, cost
dove -cote of Windier. For nearly' 20 one another. Self-seeking was not any- things Mach be possessed was his own,"
years this Emperor of Russia had been where
es strant, the emnone4er mrlyight be used
sold their
a spirit always animates the true fol- deep lead down to the tunnel. which is
is the very essence of Christianity. Such over *KM. Two &Anis each 60 feet
the most striking figure among the simply a continuous steel tube, built WI
Prince's of Europe, The accounts of by others who had greater need than
they. The. trptistlastaontinue4 to work lowers of the Lord Jesus Christ, though
circumstanees may greatly modify its
manifestation. Laid them down at the circular bands which were riveted, to
him still fascinate the imagination, miracles; but by far the greatest of apostles' feet. Gave them bath tbe tip- each other as fast as the boring wan
own picked esoard, 0, powerful and shelved itself M lipauty in every disci- oetle,s' charge. There Is less furnitere
iri the East than. with us, and by con- dOne. The tunnel is 1,330 feet longancl
is only seven feet high. It is now light -
Taller by half a head than most of' his miracles wasethe "great grace" which
well-roundea form, and straight as a pie. We see a perfect specimen flower sequence more things are lead upon the
floor. Distribution was made unto ed by electricity, but originally it was
so looked the part of an autocrat. His from this garden of God in the lovely every man according as be bad need. Ina
life of Barnabas. an horrible contrast;
, . .
And probably with the slightest possible
pine. no other man of our century has - ittle IN TOTAL DARKNESS.
face, particularly in profile, was as ex- to his whole and pure soul came Arum- form or system; perhaps without "book- The tunnel was first opened with the
ceptional in its regularity of beauty, ins and Sapphire. Already I have writ- 3b, Joses. Joseph; to become famous idea, of quickly shooting passengers
from Tower Hill to Tooley street, at
as Napoleon's albeit of a wholly dif- ten of their sin and punishment ; but keeping."'
hereafter by the name of Barnabas as
ferent order. This face bad a strange the questions which arise concerning the associate of Paul. It is a beautiful ecterney which would take quite a tante
peculiarity. The eyelashes were curl -
lie both are so important it rney be well apostles ceased. to use his name, and
compliment to his character that the if made on the earth's surface, Al
only undeveloped, and of so pale a quaint little circular omnibus was con -
colour that his big, bald, piercing to repeat here in brief what is elsewhere called him, instead, Son of consolation. structed of steel. and quickly drawn
eyes ilea the effect ch no rellet what- said at length. Their actual inisde- was a Jew born outside the Holy
ever. They frightened. people who met meanor was that with ostentation they Land, one of the " dispersion," Just how from one end to the other by a wire.
far foreign -born Levites enjoyed The passengers descended. the shaft and
that were told, of him, of his colossal sold their property, pretending to give the tribal privileges of ministration at
the temple, and the secular advanta,ges entered the omnibus through a tattle
their gaze. Still more did the tales
agery, his iron -handed grip upon the but withholding a tortion to themselves. which came therefrom, is not now door in its top, and descending into the
ambitions, this wild outbursts of say- all its price to the needs of the Church,
lives and thoughts and very souls of Their sin was much deeper than this he was born, was so completely given
known. The island of Cyprus, where car by a ladder. This crude and. en -
comfortable method of transportation
UNCOUNItEll MILLIOaS act; it was the spirit of the Pharisee, over to idolatry of the baser., more sense met with only little public favor, and.
of subjects, impress the Roemer fancy pretense to speoial consecration while nal sort, that in Latin and in nearly all
it was not long before the little steel
of his man It had been given out that modern languages the word Cyprian
he was to visit England some time in living for selfish ends; it was not rats- came to be used for a person wholly 44 train" was abolished. Than there was
1845, but now suddenly at the close of erliness merely; not lying merely; it given over to immorality. But Barn- a. constant tear that some constant dis-
May, 1844, word came that he was to was lying to the Holy Ghost; conscious, abas was born there -like a lily grow- aster would befall the passengers. Two
appear in London in two days' time. defiant, blasphemous hypocrisy. A ing. in the ooze of a swamp. or three times, when the cable was
He liked to descend upon people in this 37. Having land. Whether in Cyprus broken, a car load of passengers have
abrupt and unexpected way; it was in great part, of our Lord's miss.on on
earth was to proclaim God's everlasting or in Palestine we know not. Sold it, been near death from auffocation be -
keeping with his own conception of his and brought the raoney-Verse 34 tells fore they could be released.. There is
character, and produced just. the mi- sort. of contemptible hypocrisy which
hostility, to the Pharisaic spirit, that of others who acted in the same way. plenty of ventilation in the tunnel it -
pression of irresponsible omnipotence Barnabas may have been the first, al- self, but no room to allow of its passage
which it pleased him to create in small lays down the duties for others and
dodges one's own. If the infant Church though mentioned later, or (which is into a car.
Since the abolition of the little steel
matters not less than in large affairs. probable) he may have been the richest
The girlish Queen and those about stood for anything at all in. the world member of the infant Church, and have " train," the bridge has been opened,
her were greatly excited by this un- it stood as a protest against this vene- cold all of his prop.erty. Laid it at the to foot passengers on payment of one
poison, every religion, falss and true, apostles' feet. The same phrase. that
we found in verse 35. cent toll, but few pedestrians care to
looked -for apparition. Victoria filled her mous spirit, which had saturated with
diary with wonder -stricken exclamation take the walk, without they are in a
points each day of his stay, and wrote and which had so permeated the Jew- 1. But. In distinction from others, dreadful hurry, for, apart from its na-
long letters to her relative, King Leo- ish heirareby that its discordant leaders and in special contrast with the course turally uncanny appearance, so many,
pold, of Belgium, detailing her emos harmonized in a. hurry to put Jesus to of Barnabas, Ananias meane "Grace -of- episodes of a grewsoree nature have
tions during the eventful ten days. "He Church is a year old, in steps a men Possession. "Real estate," as we learn
death. And now before the Christian the -Lord." Sapphire. means "Beautiful." happened there that those at all nor -
wrote;
certainly a very striking man," she with the heart. of a hypoerite, and per- from verse 3. The whole narrative here, vous are almost afraid to take the trip.
wrote ; "still very handsome; his pro- There have been several murders com-
file is beautiful and, his manners most forms an action so admirable that, if
he had not been unmasked by God, he as in verse tit, 35, shows that the action mitted in its depths, and several times
the shriek of a terrified woman have
dignified and graceful, extremely civil. of those who sold property was entire-
ly i oluntary.
quite alarmingly so, as be is so full of would at once have been put on a ped- i told of highway, or rather suaterra.ne
eari robbery.
attentions anti politeness. But the ex- estal as te saint. 2. Kept back part of the price,
pression of his eyes are unlike anything PRACTICAL NOTES. his Wife also being privy to Still, the quaint old place is recalled
f ever saw. He gave Albert and myself, Verse 32. Peter and John have been
a portion of the proceeds of the
it. Ananias reserved for himself among the happy recollections of doz-
ens of London's East Side lover.
It
py, and one whom the ubrden of his ims in thanksgiving and prayer, and the a right to do this, for he was under bee for years been a polar meeting
place for 'Arry and 'Arriet," and many
the impression of a man who is not hep- released. Their Christian friends unite land which he sold. Of course he had
ily and painfully. He seldom smiles, and while the atiuse in which they are no obligation to give a penny of it. But
others (see verses 34, 95, 37) bad brought there to the music of the
manse power and position weighs betty- Holy Spirit descends upon them all; Is the love song. that has been sung
a happy one." assembled is shaken the worshipers are
lifted to a holy courage, and so filled the entire proceeds, and Ananias also
ROLLLNG WATERS ABOVE.
and when he does the expression is not
— with heavenly affections that at once was ostensibly doing this. What, he
said when he brought the money is not So narrow is the tunnel, and. so many,
'WISE QUEEN. they find themselves of one heart and
one. soul -one in kwe and purpose, in told, but every part of the story shows the amusing experiences, that result
that he pretended to give the whole, there from them that the London conaid
when he really gave only a part. For papers are always publishing accounts
the sin of which these two were guilty, of fictitious lawsuits. The following re -
see Lesson Statement. Laid it at the cently appeared in a comic weekly.:
apostles' feet. For the third time this "A suit for damages brought by
peculiar phrase occurs. Thomas Yates, a brewer, living in Wien -
3. There the money lies while Peter bledon, against Evan Roland, who con -
speaks; he knows the fact by the teach- ducts a large bakery. in the Slaorediteh
ing of the Spirit, and acts -under inspire district, was tried an. the Bow Street
alien. Satan. The Hebrew proper name Police Court. Mr, Yates weighs in the
for the prince of fallen angels, Matt. neighbourhood of 300 pounds, while Rn -
9.34. Filled thine beast. Notice that the land is almost as large, According to
apostles were filled with the Holy Yates, he entered the tunnel at the
Ghost, while Ananias was filled with Tooley street entrance, making the
Satan, and neither could have been fill- short cut to save time as he was on
ed with either without personal con- ..
important business. When in the raid -
4. While. "Whiles," as the word. is after a quarter of an hour's dodging
die of the subway he met Roland, and
sent.
printed in most Bibles, is merely the old the two men found out that they could
form of "while." Remained. Before the not pass each other. Then an argue
sale. Thine own. The Church had no ment arose as to -which should go. back.
claim upon it. Why bast thou conceiv- Yates explained that he was going to
ed? An assertion of personal responsi- compete against several other brewers
Witty. We are not responsible for Sa- for the supply of several public houses
tan's suggestions; we are responsible owned by a syndicate. Roland frankly
when we adopt them. Thou. haat not admitted that he was on pleasure bent,
lied unto men, but unto God. This re- but firmly refused to walk back to Tow -
minds one of David's confession. er Hill. The men remained there armee
"Against thee, thee only, have I sin- ing for fully half an hour, during which
mei." made in the very art of confess- time fully half a dozen persons enter-
ing'. his wrongdoing to men. Crimes ed the tunnel from one end or the oth-
against men may be committed, but all or, and finding their passage blocked,
sins are against Goa. were forced to retire. Finally Yates
5. Ananias hearing these words fell decided. to retire from the scene, and
down. Peter did not strike him dead. make his way back to Tooley street.
It was "the act of Goa," An act of Later he brought suit against Roland .
solemn righteous judgment. Gave -up for $10,000 damages, asserting that he
the ghost. Surrendered the principles had lost the opportunity to extend his
of life. Great fear. This "great fear" business through him. The Court held
conscientious, it would hinder those who that if there was cause for a suit at all
would not only make Christians more
had not been spiritually. changed from it was against the city, and. not against
joining the holy cause; the little society Roland, and the latter was discharged:
The city, however, had protected itself
seems to have been imperiled by its su.d- by returning to each man his half pen -
den popularity. ny tolla,ge, and the case was soon drop -
6. Yining men. who were, present,
wound lam up in linen, carried him out ped."
Owing to the financial failure of its
to some proper place, perhaps a tomb, tunnel, the company' which owned it
and. buried him. The careful medical has received 655,000 from the city em-
end. civic superintendence of burial, poration as compensation for loss of
which is the chief safeguard of life in takings, and. now steps are to be taken
modern days,. was unknown in the an- at once to close up the strange old pas -
Christianity. ,
cient world; It is indeed a product of sage -way.
7. Three hours after. We cannot at
this distance of time explain. the.
lengthy service of the Church, rev
Sapphire's ignorance of her b.usbeead's
death.
8. Tell ow. The whole narrative im-
plies that Peter acted throughout un-
do! the direction of the Holy Spirit.
So much, "So much and no more." Yea,
for so much. A deliberate lie.
9. Agreed together. Conspiracy to do
wrong greatle a,ggrav ates guilt. To
tempt the Spirit at the Lord.. To try
or test whether he be as discerning,
pate, and powerful as be claims to be.
Shall carry thee out. The Spirit di-
reeted Peter to pronounce this penalty.
s 10. Then fell she down. Dead beside
leer money. Straightway. Immediately.
11. Great fear. Great bore had been
given
to all the Church by the Holy'
Spirit, and now. they are made afraid,
to offend him. Christians are solemn-
ly set apart to his 'service, and. their
sins peculiarly displea,se him. "The reas-
on for this selection was to present and
record, at this beginning of the Chris-
tian Church a reeiresentatives arel me-
inorial instance of the just doom of the
thypocrites"--Whedou
. —
the time for this prime minister it real comfort. You meet ten.. peopletrl%'ULbIlJ w. ,.
he has a grudge against Benjamin to nine of them 'are in need of soMe %road
show it. Will he kill him, now that he of condolence. There is something
,Aril'ABEnTTAINOE-TO GOD'S BOUNTY lord of the corncrib is seated et his their domestic condition that demands
has him in his bands? Oh. no I This be their health, or in their state, or in
1.INLERR CHRIST GO' WITH YOU. own table, and he looks over to the sympathy-. And yet the most of the
table of his guests, and he sends a wonala sympathy amounts to absolute-
4.4-... ortiou to each of them, but sends a ly nothing. People go to the wrong
Whe IPlunina That Was Sate Ilik *a tile farger portion to Benjamin, ore its, the orib or they go in 1 -he wrong wee-.
Lands-eue Condition Imposed That Bible quaintly puts it. "Benjamin's When the plague was in, 'Rome a greet
Benjamin Should Go Into Egpyt :WWI mess was five times so much as any many years ago, there were eighty
ens nrctueen. of theirs." Be quick and send word men who chanted themselves to death
Washington, Jan. ,24. --The cabled re- back with the ewittest camel to with the litanies of Gregory the Greet
C.anaasi to old Jacob that "Benjamin -literally' chanted, themselves to death.
Forts of famine in India and the mem- is well, all is well; lie is faring sump- and yet it did not stop the, plagt10,And
Ca'Y of the vast crops of ripening tuously ; the Egyptian lord and. not all the music of this world cannot halt
grain, which Dr. Talmage saw during mean murder and death; but he meant the plague of the human heart.
deliverance and life when be annotate- to some one whose ailments
I come
, his tour last fall, have egmbined to ed to us on that day. "Ye sball not are chronic, and I say, "In heaven
turn his thoughts back to that patri- see my face unless your brother be you will never be sick." That does
adult time when all the world sent with you." not give you much comfort. What
to Egypt to buy coin and to suggest Me struck of sin. It does not yield a present distress. Lost children, have
Well, my friends, this world is fam- you want is a soothing power for your
a Gospel lesson. His text is Genesis single crop. of solid satisfaction. It is you? I come to you and tell you that
3, "Ye shhall not see my face, ex- dying e It is Olinger bitten. The fact in ten years perhaps you will meet
these loved ones 'before the throne of
copt your brother be. with you," that le hoes not, can not feed a man's
heart was well illustrated in the life God. But there is but little contiolenee in.
Last summer, having crossed eigh- of the English comedian. All the world that. One day is a year without them,
teem_ of the United States -north,. honored him -did everythieg for him ten years is a small eternity. Whet
souala east and west -I have to report that the world could do. Ile was apa you want is sympathy now --present
one of the mightiest harvests, that the United States. He roused up nas
pla,uded in England and applauded In n
have lost Clear friends, and say: "Try
help. I come to those of you who
this country or any other country ever tions into laughter. He has no equal to forget them. Do not keep the de -
reaped. But while this is so in our and .yet, although many people sup- parted always in your mind." Hew
own country, on the other side of the posed him entirely happy, and that can you forget them when every pic-
this world was completely satiating his ture and every room calls out their
.Altentio there are nations famine- soul, lie sits down and writes: "1 rev- name I"
stricken and the most dismal 'cry that er in my life put on a new bat that Suppose 1 cone to you and sae lat
is ever lward will, I fear, be uttered- it did not, rain and ruin it, I never way of condolence. "God is wise."
"Oh," you say, "that gives me no
went out in a shabby eoat because it
the cry for bread. was ranting, and thought all who had help." Suppose I come to .you and
I pray God that the contrast between the choice would keep indoors that the say,
ranged this trouble," "Ah !" you say
"God, from all eternity, has ar-
our prosperity and. their want may not sun did not burst Vieth in its strength
"that does me no good." Then I say.
be as sharp as in the lends referred to and bring out with it all the butter-
flies of fashion whom I knew and who Tenth time swift. feet of prayer go di -
by my text. There was nothing to knew ine. 1 never consented to acs tact to the corncrib for a heavenly
supply," You go. You say, "Lord, help
eat. Plenty of corn in Egypt, but eels!, a part 1 bated, out of kindness
to another, that, me, Lord, comfort me." But no help
ghastly famine in Canaan, The cattle I did not gee hissed
yet. No comfort yet. It' is all clerk.
by the public and cut by the writer.
moaning in the stall, Men, women I could not take a drive for a few min- -What is the -matter? 1 have found.
You ought to go to God and say:
and children awfully white with bun- uets with Terry. without acting over -
"Here, 0 Lord, are the wounds of my
ger. Not the failing of one crop for turned and having my elbow bone
soul, and. I .bring with me the wound -
one summer, but the failing of all broken, though my friend got off un-
harmed. I could not make a covenant ed Jesus. Let ills wounds pay for my
.the crops for seven years. A nation with Arnold, which 1 thought was to wounds. His bereavements, His lone-
liness for me heartbreak. 0 God., for
dying for lack of that which is so make my fortune without. making his
the sake of. the Lord Jesus Christ -
common an your table and so little instead, that in an incredible space of
time -1 think thirteen months -1 earn- the God, the mum the Benjamin, the
appreciated; the product of harvest ed. for him twenty thousand, pounds 0 Jesus of the weary foot, ease my
brother -deliver my agonized soul,
field and grist. mill and oven; the price and for myself one. I am, persuaded
fatigue. 0 Jesus of the aching head,
of sweat and. anxiety and struggle- that if 1 were to set, up as beggair, heel ray aching head. 0 Jesus of the
bread I Jacob the father has the last every one in illy neighborhood would
leave off eating bread." That westlie Bethany sisters, roll away the stone
report from the flour bin, and he finds lament of the world's comedian and. from the door of our grave." That is
the kind of prayer that brings help;1
that everything is out, and be says to joker. All unbappy. The world did and yet how matey of you are getting
his sons, "Boys book up the wagons everything for Lord Byron, that it
could do, and yet in his last moment no hely at all, for the reason that
'and start for Egypt and get us some- he asks a friend to come and sit down there is inyoursoul perhaps a secret
trouble. You may never have men -
thing to eat." by him and. read, as moSt appropriate tioned it to a single human ear, or
The fact was there was a. great corn- to his case, the story of "me Bleed- you may have mentioned it to some -
crib in Egypt. Time people of Egypt big Heart." Torrigatno, the sculptor,
executed, after nonilis of care and one who is now gone away, and that
have been largely taxed in all ages, at carving. "Madonna and the Child," the great sorrow is alit in your soul. Afa
the present time paying between 70 royal family came in and admired it, ter Washington Irving was dead they
found a little box that contained a
and 80 per cent. of their products to Everybody that looked at it was in braid of hair and a miniature and
the. Government. No wonder in that ec.stasy. But one dayl after all that
toil and all that admiration, bemuse the name of Matilda Hoffman, and a
time they bed. a large corncrib, and it he did not get as much compensation memorandum of her death and a. re-
--us intl. To that crib they came from for his work as he had expected,. he mark something like this: "The world
after that was a balxik to me. I
the regions round about -those who took a mallet and cleated the exquisite went into the country, bat found no
were famished -some paying for corn poor compensation, poor satisfaction peace in solitude. I tried to go into
society, but I found no 'peace In so -
sculpture into atoms. The world is
In money; when the money was ex- poor solace. Famine, famine in all the ciety. There has been a horror hang -
boosted, paying for the corn in sheep earth; not for aev en years, but tor six big over me by night, and by day, and
and cattle and horses and camels, thou,sand. Bat, blessed be God, there I am afraid to be alone."
and. when they were exhausted, then it. It is in another alead. It is a large human ear has ever- heard. the sors
How many muttered troubles! No
is a great corncrib. The Lord, built
selling their own bodies and their place. An angel once measured it, and row. Oh, troubled soul, I want to
families into slavery, as far as IL can calculate lit in our tell, you that there is one salve that
The morning for starting out on the miles long and fifteen hundred broad can cure the. wounds of the heart, and
that' is the , ealve made out of 'the
phrase that coxnerib is fifteen hundred
crusade for bread has arrived. Jacob and fifteen hundred high, and it is tears of a sympathetic Jesus. And
.gets his family up very -.early. But full. Food for all nations. "Oh," says, yet some of' you will not take this so -
before the elder sons start they say the people "we will start right away lace, and you try claloral, and you try
something that makes him tremble stop a moment, for from the keeper of morphine, and you try strong drink,
and you try ehange of scene, and you
and get, this supply for our soul." But
with emotion from bead to foot and that corncrib there• comes this word, try new business associations, and
burst into tears. The fact was that saying, "You shall not see my face, anything and everything rather than
these elder sons had once before been other words, there is no stain thing as take the Divine companionship and
sympathy suggested by the words of
except your brother be with you." In
in Egypt to get corn, and they had getting from heaven pardon and corn- my text when it says; "You shall not
been treated somewhat: roughly, the fort and eternal life unless we bring see my face again unless your bra -
lord of the corncrib supplying them with us our Divine Brother, the Lord
Jesus Christ, Coming without Him we ther 'be with you." Oh, that you
with corn, but saying at the close of shall tall before we reach the corn- might understand something of the
height and depth and length and
the interview, "Now, you need not crib, and our bodies shall be a par- breadth and immensity, and infinity
come back here for any more corn, un- tion for the jackals of the wilderness, of God's eternal consolations.
less you bring something better than but coming with the, Divine Jesus, all
the 'granaries of heaven will swing a hint; as to the way, heaven, opens to
I go further and find in myi subject
money -even your younger brother open before our soul titrel abundance the departing spirit. We are told that
Benjamin." shall be given us. We shall be in heaven has twelve gates and some
suggestive of all tenderness. The and at the table; and. while the Lord people infer from that feet that all
Ah I Benjamin -that very name was vited to sit in the palace of the king
mother had died at the birth of that of heaven is apportioning from His the people -will go in without refer- -
ence to their past life; but what is the
going -and the very thought of parting forget us and then and there it will use of having a gate that is nob some -
son -a spirit coming and another spirit own table to other tables, He will not
with, Benjamin must have been a heart- be. found that our Benjamin's mess' is times to be shut? The swinging. of
break. The keeper of this corncrib, larger than all the others, for so it a gate implies that our entrance into
nevertheless, says to these elder sons, ought to be, "Worthy is the Lamb heaven is -conditional. It is not a mo-
" There is no need of your coming here that was slain to receive blessing and mentary condition. If we come to the
any more for comb unless you bring riches and honor and glory and power" door of an exquisite concert we are
Benjamin, your father's darling." Now, I want to make three points. Every not surprised that we must pay a fee
Jacob and his family very much need- frank and common sense man will for we know that fine earthly music
ed bread, but what a struggle it would acknowledge himself to be a sinner is expensive, but. all the oratorios of
be to give up this son. The orientals What are you going to do with your heaven cost nothing. Heaven pays no -
are very demonstrative in their grief, sins? Have them pardoned, you say; thing for its music. It is all freec
and I bear the outwatling of the father How? Tbrough the mercy of God. What There is nothing to be paid at that
as these elder sons keep reiterating in do you mean by the mercy of God? door for entrance. but the condition
his ears the announcement of the Is it thel etting down of a bar for the of getting into heaven is our 'bringing.,
Egyptian lord, "Ye shall not see my admission of all, without respect to our divine Berijamin along with us.
face unless your brother be with you,' character'? Be not deceived. I see a Do you notice how often dying pea -
"Why did you. tell them you had a soul coming up to the gate of mercy pie call upon Jesus'? It is the usual
brother ?" said the old man complain- and knocking at the. cornerib of bee- prayer offered -the prayer offered
ing and chiding them. "Why, father, ivenly supply, anda voice from within more than all the other prayers put
they, $aid, "he asked us all about. our says, Are you alone?" The sinner together -"Lord Jesus receive my
family, and we had no idea he would replies. "All alone." The voice from spirit," .
make any such demand upon us as he within says, "You shall not see my One of our congregation, when ask -
has made," "No use of asking me." pardoning face • unless your Divine ed in the closing moments , of his life:
said the father, "I cannot, I will not, Brother, the. Lord Jesus, lae with you " "Do you know us?" said: "Oh, yes, I
give up Benjamin." • Oh, that is the point at which so many know you. God bless you. Good-bye.
The fact was that the old man had are discoinforted. There is no mercy Lord Jesus receive my spirit;" and
lost children ; and when there has been from God except through Jesus Christ. he was gone. Oh, yes, in the closing
bereavement in a household, and a Coming with Him we are accepted. moments of our life we must have a
child taken it, makes the other °Jail- Coming without Him we' are rejected. Christ to eall upon. If Jacob's sons
area in the bousehold more precious. Peter put it right in his great. ser- had gone toward Egypt, and had
So the day for departure. was adjourn- mon before the high priests when he gone with the very finest equipage,
ed and adjourned and adjourned. Still thundered forth: "Neither is there and had, not taken Benjamin along
the horrors of the 'famine increased, salvation in any other. There is no with them, and to the question they
and louder moaned the cattle and. other name given under heaven among should have been obliged to answer :
wider open cracked the • earth and men whereby we may be saved." 0 "Sir, we didn't bring him as father
more pallid .became the cheeks, until anxious sinner!" 0 dying sinner! 0 could not let him ace we didn't' went
Jacob, in despair, cried out, to his lost sinner! all yea have got to do Is to be bothered with him," a voice from
sons. "Take Benjamin and be off." to have tlaia divine Benjamin along within would have said: "Go away
The elder sons tried to cheer up their with you. 'Side by side, coming to from us. You . shall not have any of
father. They said.; "We have strong the gate, alle the storehouses et hea- this supply. You Shall not see nay
arms and stout heearts, and no harm rem will swing open before your an- face beciao your brother is not with
will come to Benjamin. We'll see that xious soul. Am I- right in calling you. .
he. gets back agam." "Farewell!" said Jesus Benjamin? Oh, yes! Rachel liv- And if we come up toward the, door
the young men to the father in a tone ed. only • long enough to give a name, of heaven at last, though we come
of assumed good cheer. "Farewell l" to that chart, and with a dying kiss from all luxuriance and brillianey of
said the old man, for the •word has she called. him Benoni. Afterward surroundings,. and knock for admit
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more quavers in it when pronounced Jacob changed his name, and he called tance and it is found that; Christ is
by the aged than by the • young. him Benjamin. ' The meaning of the not. with us, the police a rea,veis - will
Well, the bread party -the bread em- name she gave was, "Son of my. Pain," beat us bade 'from ' the tread lious.ie,
ba -my -drives up in front of- the corn- This meaning of the name the father etyinlg: • "Depart I never knew- you."
cello of Egypt. These corncribs' are gave as "Son of My Right. Heade' If Jacob's sons coming toward Egypt,
tilled with wheat and barley and corn Ana was not Christ the See of Pain? had lost everything on the way; if
in the husk, for those who have travel- All the sorrows of Rachel in that hour, they' had expended their last seeks],
' ,ed in .Canaan and Egypt' know that when she gave, her; child over into the if they had come • up ,utterly e.e haiist-
ttere is oorn there corresponding with hands' of strangers was nothing cone ed to the caracribs of lame and it
out Indian maize. Huzzah the journey, pared with. the etrug,gle of God When. had been found that Benjamin was
is ended. The lord of the coencrib, He. gave up, His only Soo. The omni- with them, all the storehouses would
Whb is also the mime minister, comes. potent God in a birth three! Abd was have swung open oefore them.
down to these arrived travelers, and not Christ approprietely called, "Son .And so, 'by 'fatal ettetielly: ee met-
. says: "Dine with me to -day. How is of the Right Hand?" Did not Stephen be. ushered into the eternal. world
your father? Is this Benjamin, the look into 'heaven and see Him standing though we may be weak and ex -
younger brother, whose. presence I de- at the. right hand of God? And does hausted by protracted' .sicittiess-if, in
mended?" The tiavelers are introduc- not ,Theulespeak of Him as , standing that last moment, • tve coo ,only just
ed into the palace. They are worn at the right hand of God making inter- stagger and faint and fall into the
and bedusted of the way,, and ser- 'cession for us? 0 Benjavain-Jesuel • gate of heaven -its seems that all
vents, come in with a, basin of water' San a pang! Son of .vietoryl Tat deeps. corncribs of heaven,will open for our
in one hand and a towel in the other eat emotions of our souls ougat, to be need and all the palaces will open for
and kneel down before these eetyly stirred at the sound of that nomen- our reception; awl the Lord, of that
arrived travelers, washing off the dust ;feature. In your prayers plead. His place 'seated at his table, and • ell t he
of the way. The butchers end petal.- tears; His sufferings, •His sorrow, and angels of God seated at their table,
terers and caterers of the prime mils- his death. If you refuse to dit it all and the martyrs seated at their table,
itter prepare the repast. ' the corncribs anti the palaces of hea,- and all our glorified kindred seated at
The .gliests are seated in small groups, van will be bolted and. barred against our talole, the king shall pass a pot -
two or three at a table, the food on yoer . aoult with the announcement, tion from 'his table to ours, and then,
a tray ; all the luxuries from imperial 'you shale not sae my face except while we think of the fact- that it
gardens and orchards and aquariums your brothel', e ' h ," was ;testis who' started us on tae
and aviaries are brotigla there, and My text also suggests the teasers, road, , d Jesus who started us on
are filling chalice and platter, Now is eflly so aiatiy,, people do, not get any I the way, and Jesus who all last gain-
THEOn the day of the late royal weddingfeeling and will. Nowadays we lama -
in England a little incident occurred iarly use the word "body," for a club,
or church, or society of any sort; ea I
which was not included in the official when a society is harmonious it. has
reports that were published, of course, one heart, one soul, for its
When the bride returned after herbody. With the early Christians this
became true to an unequaled degree.
wedding to Marlborough House, her They were the "body of Christ." The
mother asked for her bouquet. That heart of each overflowed with
afternoon, when she had bidden her love and kindness toward all
who had become fellow -members
daughter farewell and the guests had at that Body. If on,e of them saw an -
gone and left her alone, the Prineess other in pain or poverty he became in
of Wales summoned a close carriage pain or poverty himself tilt that other
was relieved. Neither said any. At
and drove to one of the great London Pentecost (Acts 2. 45) the weather dis-
hospitals to which she is a frequent ciples had freely given to the poorer,
visitor, and going to the children's but now none cectim their goods as their
ward, passed from bed to bed, giving own, although they truly own them.
Such was the power of love, making
a flower from the bride's bouquet to five thousand one.
The poor babies, in their sickness and 33. With great power. Spiritual pow -
each child.
pain, knew of the great event which em; essentially different from intellect -
had interested all ngland that day,
iial power or social influence; it came
and it is easy to understand their de- from the residence of the Hole Spirit,
E
light when they were thus given a
words. As an illustration, Mr.. Glad -
not only in their hearts, but in their
share in it.
It is by such thoughtful, womanly stone, when Prime Minister, published
little acts that the queen and the a book of strong and beautiful thoughts
"dear princess," as she is popularly in translucent style. It is a noble
celled, have strengthened the allege hook, such as in any case would be ef-
erica of English people to the crown. festive on the thought of thousands.
The royal palaces are comfortable But the political and social position of
dwellings, but less stately than the the author carries its influence much
seats or several of the great noblemen; farther than it could go alone. The
the queen travels from one to the oth- two toren work together, but are dif-
is accompanied by her youngest grand- , feren, t in kind. Now, these disciples had
children with their suite of nurses, etc., a certain forceful truth o utter, which
i.
and her people look on with smiling ae.. of itself was impressive; they had
proval. certain measure of intellectual ability
The royal` hearth is in a word, the (how much, perhaps, we of the nine -
centre of the family is,
of England. teenth century cannot properly meas -
An English statesman commenting ure); they had by their very lack of
upon the long reign of the queen, said, social position a, certain advantage
tIt has- been successful because she has with'common people; but added to ell
be -en faithful in performing the duties these they had, by direct gift, a di-
whicb belong to her place, and wise vine power in every sentence which
enough never to meddle with those multiplied to an untold degree the
which do not belong to it." . effectiveness of their message. The
Here is a hint for our daughters and passing Passing of years does not weaken the
wives. Would not the conduct which influence of Thomas a Kempis's Trait -
has made the reign of one woman over ation of Christ; but the power of that
a great empire successful for more than book does not reside in its thought, or
half of a century strengthen their reign its style, or the social position, of its
in their quiet home kingdoms?. author; for the first two are not re-
markable, and the last is hardly known;
it resides rather in the Holy Spirit,
HE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN. (ached as a supernatural Motor in every
at -
The following dialogue recently occur- chapter, every sentenceeevery word, in
answer to the prayer of the writer.
red in an English country churcheyhen Centuries ago the weeds hid his grave.
the rector was attechising the childxen, but each year careless people, by the
What le your name? he asked a strap- thousand take up his book to be thrill-'
ping girl of 13, the nay daughter of ed and made thoughtful and devout by
the village boniface. He received no re- the divine power with which (we may
ply. What is your name? said the mins reverently say) by means of prayer he
meter, in a, more peremptory way. Nin endowed it. hitte must never forget or
o' yet fun, parson. ye kna ma neanae ignore the reality of this divine power.
verra weel. Don't ye say, whom
bring they preached. Such power will whom yeere Such power attended the apostles when
at our house on a nest: ' back
me a pint of yell?" The congregation, every word you utter, every sentence
in spite of the sacredness of the place you write, it you attach yourself to
WaS on a broad grin. .
RISKY. (aid and are filled with the Holy Spirit.
Witness. Testimony. Notwithstanding threats the apostles continued. to make
the resurrection of the Lora Jesus, the,
That felicity puzzles me, I can't make emphatic fundamental fact of their
out whether he's a philosopher or a teaching. Greatgrace. "Grace" is psi
-
fool. mails a gift. All gifts which would
Row? ,holy task were given thern--health,
help these Christians to perform their
That's e.asy to find out.
Call him, the latter. If he makes a ability, logic, eloquence, personal mag -
fuss he isn't the former. netione attentiveness of bearers,
JAPAN'S TEMPLES,
There are in all Japan Buddhist tem-
ples to the number of 73,000 and Budd-
hist priests to the number of 100,000,
For every square mile there are an av-
erage of three temples a,nd four priests,
and for every 540 people there is one
temple, and for every 400 people there is
one priest. There is contributed to these
each year for ('be support of the priests
and the maintenance of the templee
yen 22,500,000, or about al2,000,000
ted States money. Thetis figures apply
tie Buddhism elate and do not inelede
any items of Shintoisee or other relig-
ions.
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A DOUBTFUL 13LFeeSING,
Perry Pattetie--Wouldn't it be great
to have $1,000,000?
Waeevoria Watson -I cinema waither
it would or not. I've thought of se
many things I would. do eirth it that
it would clean kill me to carry out the
progra,rome.