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FAULTS OFA YFIGHBOR
Many People Consider Themselves
Messengers of Evil.
tEnterad according to Act of the oar. space of time before or after it."
The most eloquent passages of our
spiritual development may often be
found when we press the golden Zips
of gospel silence against our neigh-
bor's faults, when we are dumb and
say teething, absolutely nothing,
SCANDALS PUBLISH 'TIU M-
SELVI4.]S.
The golden lips of gospel silence
should remain closed because, as a
rule, it is not necessary to em -
Bement of Canada., in the year One
Thousand Nino Hundred and Three,
by Wm. Bally, of Toronto, at the
Department of Agriculture. Ottawa.)
A despatch from Chicago says :—
Rev, ]rank 1)o Witt Talmage preach
ed froi i the following text •--II.
Samuel i, 20, "Tell it not in G ath;
publish it not in the streets of
Askelon."
There is great excitement in the
Davidic • encampment, A sentinel
sees a courier at full speed running . Scandals are al-
duwn the valley, Conning nearer, hej phasize scandalsways loud voiced. They publish
calls out with panting voice , '`Tid- ,themselves, As I speak seine ono
ings, my lord--tidhigs for the new pow has been saying to
king !" From the different tents the sittingin ag
swarthy limbed soldiers, who were himself . "Is it not right to de -
resting from the conquests over the nounce other potpie's faults ? Shalt
Amalekitos, swarm forth, They lead we not warn our friends against
the now' arrival to the youngeom- these sine ? Shall Wve not point out
mender. There he prostrates him men's errors as well as their virtues?
self upon the ground. He announces Did not 'Paul write to young Timothythat Saul has been defeated and has enjoining him to rebuke as well as to
committed suicide ; Jonathan has exhort, to reprove as xyll as preach
been slain. The empty throne is the word?" Yes, that rs true; but,as
now ready for its new occupant, the a rule, when a'nxan sins ho does not
conqueror of the mighty Philistine, find a very great lack of reprovers
Goliath. What was the result ? Didand robukers, while there is general -
David tell his followers to exult 13' encouragers
great scarcity of exhorters and
David
the falleh king ? Did ho say encouragers when ho dons right:
to his companions in arm : "Good A. clean heart instinctively finds
for Saul i His defeat sorvtd ' him sorra good in every man's nature.
right. Divine justice has avenged A honey -bee always scents the
my wrongs.- He had no business to flower. ,It Is the firefly of the night
try to kill me to satisfy his jeal- who loves to light his little lantern
ousy. He had no right to drive me and to hunt for the creeping vermin
into exile. He should not have be- in the quagmire and in the disease
come an aphstate and defied the breeding recesses of the miasmatic
divine power which haci anointed swamp. An . old and yet avery
him king of Israel ?" No ! David
bad the silver tongue of speech. No
psalmist ever sang sweeter than this
sweet singer of Israel. But David
had the golden lips of gospel silence.
He lifted his hand in warning. He
practically said this : "Ito not exult
over your fallen king. 1)o not ad-
vertise his faultseto the world lest
the unciecumcised Philistines re-
joice. Do not sneer at Gocl's an-
ointed. Let his faults be buried in
his tomb. Only remember and talk
about his good qualities. Tell it
not in Gath ; publish it not in the
streets of Askelon." Would that we,
one and all, might be as charitable
suggestive • story goes thus : Ono
day a wagon was driven up a coun-
try road io front of .a Pennsylvania
farmhouse. The driver had all his
children and goods and chattels in
his vehicle. IIo was moving and
wanted to - find a new home. - He
called out to a Quaker farmer sitting
upon tho porch: "Stranger, what
kind of people live in the next town
—I mean in that town which is just
over the hill? I want to settle there.'
"Well, friend," answered the Quaker
farmer, "what kind of people did
thee leave in the place from whence
thee came?" "Oh," replied the far-
mer "they were the meanest people on
in our comments upon those rvl:u ' earth. Every one of thein would
have sinned and wronged us as stab you in the back if he could.
David was with Saul. Would that I They would cheat you and cut your
we might talk only about the good !throat. I never could get to like
qualities of those with whom we I thein. That is the reason I am
come in contact and not examine a leaving and trying to find a new
man's, faults with the magnifying
power of a micro :cope and study his
virtues with the minifying power of
the inverted end of a telescope.
GOLDEN LIPS OP SILENCE.
The golden lifts of gospel silence
no'vcr banquet- upon carrion. Wo
know that a healthful physical body
hae to draw its strength from clean
provender. If a piece of meat is de-
composed and microscopically dis-
eased, it will make unclean any body
into which it is absorbed. What is
true in reference to the physical
body is also true in reference to
the mind and the spirit. Il we al-
low our thoughts to feed upon what
is depraved in other Wren's charac-
ters, then our thoughts will them-
selves become depraved. If we al-
low our lips to revel ht uttering
the scandals and describing tho
weaknesses and the sins of our
neighbors or friends or enemies, then
our own tongues will become de-
filed.
This law—that what we let our
minds feed upon decides what our
minds are to be --is irrevocable and
all powerful.. It is so farreaching in
its results, that Jesus, in the gospel
of Matthew, declares that he will
condemn us • not only for our evil
actions, but also for our evil
thoughts. "Ye have heard that it
was said by them of old, Thou shalt
not commit adultery.. But 7; say un-
to you that whosoever looker i nn a'
woman 'to lust after her hath com-
mitted adultery with her already in.
his heart." We 'are to be condemned
not only for what we say and do,
but also for what wo thine.
"Oh, no," 'says some hearer. "That
is not square. A mart, should not
bo condemned for what he thinks.
The thought action of the brain is
absolutely involuntary. We think in
spite pf ourselves. We " sin only
when we carry out our evil desires
of our souls. We do not sin neces-
sarily when wo think evilLv." • Ah,
my brother, you are mistaken. A
man can indirectly govern his
thoughts, as he can directly govern.
his actions. If a man allows his
eye only to see pure pictures and
to read good books, his ear to hear
only -what is good and true in re-
ference to his fellow men ; if a man
allows his tongue to repeat only
that which is generous and loving
and gentle—that man's mind . and
spirit will become true, and good. If
his mind becomes pure, then his
thoughts and his desires will become
pure, es 'well as his actions.
R.EACIIING• FOR LOFTY IDEALS.
Tho golden lips of gospel silence
aro often just as ,important tor our
spiritual d.evelopinont as the silver
tongue of speech. Joseph Addison,
the great English author and critic,
once gave a description of his feel-
ings when listening to a master-
piece rendered by a noted 'orchestra.
IIe' said that he was not so much
impressed with the great tidal waves
of sound which dashed themselves
against his eardrums as the waves
of the mighty deep in midwinter
beat against the Holland dikes or
with the volume of mingled sounds,
as when the voices of the celestials
seemed to blend with the voices of
the terrestrials, as he was hapressed
with the deep silonee which sudden-
ly ensued • %they the orchestra leader
lifted his baton in the midst of the.
piece and comrmanded his lnusicia.ns
to halt. " Methought," he wrote,
this short interval of silence • had
more music in . it than any short
home." "Friend," answered the old
Quaker farmer, "thee will find the
same kind of people living in the
next town." Next day another emi-
grant drove up to thesame house.
He asked the same question.
"Friend," asked the Quaker farmer,
"what kind of people did thee leave
in the place from whence thee
came?" "Oh," answered this new
arrival, "they wore the kindest, the
dearest people on earth. I would
never have left them, but my dear
wife died.' Then the old homestead
became intolerable. Every room re-
minded me of her. Every friend
would open the bleeding wound of
my heart. I could not believe that
any people could ever be so kind
as my old neighbors were during my
late trouble." "Friend," answered
the Quaker farmer, "thee will find
the same kind of neighbors in the
next town as in the piuce, from
whence thee came."
SPEAK ONLY OF THE GOOD.
Like the old Quaker farmer, I
would declare that each hearer can
find good in all men • or bad in all
men just in proportion as his own
heart is good or bad. And if we
have any good in our own makeup it
is very important that we have the
"silver tongue of speech" in order to
talk about other people's virtues.
Let others, if they will, advertise
the errors; we will only speak about
the good.
The golden lips of gospel silence
never foolishly whisper sinful tales
into the ears of wrongdoers by
which they shall try to justify their
own sins. A good example is infec-
tious.
What is true in reference to the in-
fection of a good example is also
true of the infection of a bad exam-
ple. Some of the toll keepers in
New Zealand have trained sheep,
which, for a small , consideration,
they let out to the sheep drovers to
lead ,their flocks of sheep across the
bridges which span the rivers or the
ravines. When the sheep,
which are being driven to
market, corse up to these
bridges, they are frightened and will
not go over. Then these trained
sheep come to the heed of the flock
and Iead the way. When the un-
trained sheep see that some of their
number can cross the bridge, with
a steady rush they follow after their
leaders. There are scores and hun-
dreds of thousands of men and wo-
men
omen who want to do wrong. But
when they hear of the shortcomings
of their fellow men, ,they say to
themselves: "Well, if So-and-so can
sow his wild -oats, I guess we can.
If So-and-so can safely cross the
rickety bridge spanning the river of
death, I guess we can also trust our-
selves upon the swinging span. Here
goes!" ,"Tinder is not more apt to
take fire," once . wrote Phillips
Brooks, "nor wax to take the im-
pression of the seal nor paper the
ink than youth . is to follow ill ex-
amples." "When the abbot throws
the dice," goes an old legend, "the
whole convent will gamble also."
Everywhere wo find that when a
groat man 'does wrong his evil con-
duct is taken as an :example, or
rather as an excuse, for hundreds
and thousands of similar sins.
THE A'RTIST'S MASTERPIECE.
Never give any man a chance by
the recital of some wrong or sin to
turn his . face for ono instant: from
purity and right. When Leonardo
da Vinci finished his great paint=
ing, the "Last Supper," he made a
cup. whiehs was .a Masterpieee. In
forth and= Character and in the Lus-
ter of the precious motel this ven-
tral oup was clearly .and beautifully
wrought out. s The common praise
which was iir% heard front every lip
was this: "How marvelous is the
art displayed in 'the wino cup,:' This
eulogium so- incensed the great Ital-
Ian. artist that' lie took a great
brush and blotted out the splendid
oup as he said: "I meant the face
of Jesus Christ •to be the only and
the central and. the most important
part of that picture. Whatever
draws away the eyes of the beholder
front that must be • blotted out."
And so whatever draws away the
thoughts and the desires of our
and purity and love Must be blotted
hearers and companions -frons truth
out. And mark you this, nzy bro-
ther, in ninety-nine cases out of a
hundred no pian is as good a roan
after hearing the rehearsal of a
scandal or a sin as he was before.
There may be exceptions, there
' 'timhn ,cale, illus-
trationmaibo , oughtes wtoehalve oithe ted light
of warning flashed before their eyes.
But - in ninety-nine cases out of a
hundred a man's spiritual life is de-
veloped better by hearing of the vir-
tues and self sacrifices and Christian
purities of his fellow nwn than by
wallowing in the mud- of scandal and
of sin,
This harsh criticism which we may
utter against our neighbors always
has a bad reactionary effect upon
those who make it. Therefore if we
want to have a great influence for
good it is very essential for -us, for
the most part, to talk only about
the virtues and the good qualities of
those with whom we come in con-
tact,
THE FOLLY OF SAMSON..
Blind Samson tumbled down. the
Dagen temple upon the heads of the
3,000 Philistines. 13i,t when Samt
son destroyed the enemies of his peo-
ple he also destroyed himself. So
when wo attenxpt by harsh criticism
to destroy others we contribute to
our own destruction.
The golden lips of gospel silence
never Intentionally speak a harsh
word against a sinful ueighbor. Why7
Their -wner knows that in the sight
of God he is a sinner and that as a
lost sheep be has erred and strayed
far from -the divine pasturage. The
better a Christian is the more he
realizes the enormity of his own
sins, the more inclined he is to be
less harsh upon the sins of others.
When Paul first had his blind eyes
opened by the good Ananias, be was
able, to some extent, to see his own
faults. He wrote, "1 aux the least
of the a.postles." Then Paul went
On in his spiritual growth. He saw
his past blacker and blacker in the
eyes of God. Then he wrote, "Unto
me, who aux less than the least of
all the saints." Paul went on
growing higher and higher in spirit-
ual life until at last, just before his
martyrdom, he could cry out in rap-
ture,.' "This 18 a faithful saying and
worthy of all acceptation — that
Christ Jesus came into tI•e World to
save sinners, of whom I ani chief."
Oh, my brother, by prayer and con-
secration and by grace cannot and
, will not you come so near to God
(that you will cease to • condemn your
fellow mien? Cease because, like
Paul, you can feel that you are the
chief of sinners"
When, we hearpeople harshly cri-
ticized, may we, in the name of
Christ, say nothing or only, if ne-
cessary, speak up in their behalf as
Christ would have us speak. May
we learn this lesson not by stand-
ing before the picture of an earthly
hero, but by the tomb of a mar-
tyred Lord.
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THE S. S. LESSON,
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
APRIL 19.
Text of the Lesson, Rom. midi.,
7-14. Golden Text, Rom. xiii., 10.
7. Render therefore to all their
Slues; tribute to whom tribute is
due, custom to whom custom, fear
to whom fear, honor to whom hon-
or.
After assuring us of our high and
holy place in the love of God
through the gift of His 'dear Son
and that nothing can possibly separ-
ate us therefrom and telling us in
chapters ix to xi of God's unchang-
ing purpose„ concerning ,Israel, he
then entreats 'us from chapter xii on-
ward to let God have our whole be-
ing that by a righteous life which
He will live in those who aro yielded
to IIini He may make Himself known
to others. Subjection to the pow-
ers that be, cheerfully paying tribute
and taxes, revderin
g respect as for-
eigners
eigners
would in a country where
they are temporarily abiding—these
things Christians should gladly do
because they are citizens of heaven
and thus command the country to
which they belong.
8. Owe no man anything, but to
love one another, for he that loveth
another hath fulfilled the law.
Sonne one has said that love is the
law itself in manifold action, an ob-
ligation never fully discharged. Levo
is seen perfectly only in Christ, nev-
er in sinful mortals. If any think
that they have seen it perfectly in
some redeemed one, let them consid-
er such in the light of I Cor, xiii, 4-
7, and also consider one of Mr.
Spurgeon's definitions of sin as any-
thing that the Lord Jesus would riot
think or say or do or bless. If one
should ask, Where, then, is the per-
fect love which casteth out fear? (I
John iv, 18) , one answer would be,
There can be no fear while abiding
in His perfect love.
9,, 10. Tbou shalt love thy neigh-
bor as thyself. Love worketh no i11.
to his neighbor; therefore love is the
fulfilling of the law.
These commands deal with our
treatment of our neighbor, for we
can prove our love to God (the sum
of the first four commandments,
Matt. xxii, 80, 87) only by our love
to our neighbor. "Ho that loveth
not his•: neighbor; whom ho hath
seen, how can he love God, whom ho
hath not seen?" (1 John iv, 20),
Love is always kind, studies to
please, 'cannot injure, seeks not ite
own welfare first, but Pother the
welfare of others, therefore cermet
engage in • any .pursuit or business:
which would ixnpoverisb. others while
ezzrit Ing itself;
•
11. And that, knowing the. time,.
that now it is high time to awake
out of sleep; for now.' is otxr salva-
tion nearer than when we believed.
The epistles .aro written to believ-
ors, those who by faith in Christ are
save;), have passed from death to
life and yet seem to bo asleep and
-talk in their sleep (Ise. xxix, 10;
ivi, 10 margin). Tho tendency of
holdovers to sleep, both under the
most glorious and the most
awful circunistances, is soon in
Peter, James and John on the
Mount of Transfiguration and in
Gethsemane .(Luke ix, 32; xxii, 65;
46), showing how utterly foreign,
even to redeemed people, heav-
enly things are and how unable we
aro to grasp them, Samson asleep
in the lap of Delilah shows how the
strongest are apt to be overcome by
the things of this world, and Jonah
asleep in the storm while the heath-
en captain and sailors called upon
their gods is a wonderful picture of
the church, asleep to such com-
mands as Mark xvi, 15, while the
blind zeal of the heathen should put
us to shame,
12. The night is far spent. a the
day is at hand. Let us therefore
caste off the works of darkness and
let us put on the armor of light.
It seems strange to those who
boast of the progress of the century
to speak of this being still the
world's night, but it is even .so, and
the day will not dawn till the morn-
ing star appears and then the sun
(Rev. xxii, 16; M'al. iv, 2). When
He said, "Ye are the light of the
world" (Matt. v, 14), He certainly
meant that the world needed sight
and was therefore in darkness. The
progress is like that of Cain and is
not progress in or toward righteous-
ness for the whole world still lieth
in the wicked one (I John v, 19).
Believers are children of the light
and of the day (I Thess. v, 5) and
waiting for the day to dawn, for
only then will our full salvation
come; to which we are drawing
nearer every day, as stated in the
last verse.
18, 14. Put ye on the Lorcl Jesus
Christ and make not provision for
the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.
Tho believer is said to receive
Christ (John i, 12) and also to put
on Christ (Gal.'1(1, 27) and to bo
in Christ (I Cor. i, 30), but in
whatever way our relation to Christ
'is spoken of the fact is recognized
that the old m. the l li,
still in us and isanto beselpersistentlyfeis
reckoned dead or put off (Rom. yi,
11; F:ph. iv, 22, 24; Col, iii, 9, 10;
IT Cor. iv, 10, .11). 4We are to have
no confidence in the flesh. to wor-
ship God in the. Spirit and rejoice in
Christ Jesus (Phil. Iii, 3). We are
to have tiro 'mind of Christ Jesus,
and, as tie never pleased Himself,
so we, if filled with His Spirit, will
not live unto ourselves in any sel-
fish way (Phil, ii, 5; Ilonl. xv, 3).
There is no salvation for any ginner
or any kind of a sinner except by
the blood of Christ apart from any
works • of ours (Rom, iv, 5: Tit. iii,
5), so the life that is expected from
us cannot be lived by us, but roust
1 be lived by Christ in us d'ithout our
help. We yield ourselves to Him,
and He lives the life and Works the
works (Gal. ii, 20; Phil: 11, 18).
Whatever is done, it is His
working in us ilis good pleasure
(Col. i, 29; I Cor. xv, 10;_ II Thess.
i, 11), that God in all things may
be glorified through Jesus Christ,
to whom be praise and dominion for
aver and ever. Anien ! (I Pet. iv,
11).
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The whole world 'had seemed athrill
with hope and the promise of life
and joy. John had heard it in the
clear, sweet, piercing notes of the
meadowlark, and later in the soft
"phoebe" and throaty little song
of a titmouse setting up housekeep-
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This day the superabandance of
life and hope but intensified his own
hopelessness. He had plunged into
the woods to do battle with himself,
for alone in the great temple of na-
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• himself.
It was just a year ago, on Easter
Sunday, that he had asked Beth
Somers to be his wife, and she had
refused. He could see now the pain
in the clear hazel eyes as she hush-
ed his passionate pleadings. "Don't,
John, don't!" she had begged.
"Don't you sec how hard it is for
tie? We have been such good friends
for so long, John, anti—and it
( mustn't all. end now. John, I hold
you as the first and best of all my
friends. There is no one to whom
I would turn so quickly for aid or
advice, to whom I would appeal so
promptly in the hour of trouble as
to you. And I would be as true a
friend to you, John. More than
that T cannot promise. John, you
would not have me marry you unless
I love you as a woman should. It
would be unjust to you; it would be
unjust to myself. So let us be just
the good chums we have always been,
the better for the new understanding
we have of each other."
So they had made their agreement,
he promising not to build false hopes
on any Iittle kindnesses she might
claim as the privilege of friendship.
He had lived up to his pledges faith-
fully.
But when was hope ever hound by
pledges? He had hoped. How much
he had hoped he had never con-
fessed to himself until this anniver-
sary day. Now he realized how ab-
solutely impossible it was to go on
so, indefinitely. In the long tra:inp
he had fought it all over again and
again, till his mind was made up.
He hail an invitation to join a
government scientific expedition,
which would take him away for a
year, perhaps more.
Thinking back through the years,
John could not remember when he
had not loved Beth. Even in the
days of valentines and May baskets
Beth had always been the sole re-
cipient of his youthful admiration.
Vividly there carne back to him the
early April days when together they
had searched the woodlands and old
pastures for the first bit of arbutus.
With what boyish ardor and bashful-
ness he had pressed upon her that
first frail blossom. when fortune had
favored him! For those were the
days of much learning in the mean-
ing of flowers, and the arbutus
means "I love you." The thought,of
that;•flower brought hien back to the
present, for in all his long tramp he
had searched carefully, -but in vain,
for the first arbutus of the year.
TIKo last long slanting rays of the
setting sun still lingered in the little
opening on the brow of the hill. A
breeze with the chill of eventide stir-
red the white pine. A blue -jay
screamed harshly and followed al-
most immediately with its flutelike
love note. John awoke with a
start. As he slid so, a tiny, fragile
blossom with the solt pink of the
John Ainsworth flung himself down
and confessed being tired. Be had
tramped all of 18 miles over sharply
pitched hills, through the close,
clutching tangle of scrub oak thick-
ets, 4tnder whispering pines, across
brush -grown old pastures and around
the boggy shores of secluded peace-
ful little woodland ponds.
Now he was back to his favorite
retreat on Telegraph hill. It was a
lige open spot on the very brow of
tin hill. Back And on two skies au
o c forest stood guard, and below
w a dense thicket of saplings, too
yo' to cut- oft his view. Away
a
y
across the now greening pastures and
lower meadows he could see the
spires of the village thrust through
the great overhanging elms which
)rid the houses. Beyond the level
brown marshes stretched away to
tilt irregular lino of sand dunes, the
Iiter line of defence against the be-
jlieging waters of the bay.
Beyond these in turn the horizon
became a quiet, hazy blending of the
deep, almost purple blue of the wa-
ter, with the soft light blue of the
April sky. The sun glinted from the
white, foaming curl of a wave and
the distance made dazzling white the
di'zrgy sail of a mackerel fisher.
To John Ainsworth, the scene was
so familiar that ho was wont to call
it • his "own." Yet to -day, as he
looted upon it, it was with the same
catch of the breath and thrill of
pleasure that had been his tvhen
years before he had first penetrated
to that spot.
Presently he stretched himself at
full length on the luxuriant couch
of sun -warmed rxr.oss.. Tho gentle
sigh of a white pine, the warmth of
the afternoon sun and the woody
Odor so peculiar to the spring sooth-
ed the troubled spirit which had been
driving him over the hills since ear-
ly morning,
It Was Easter,. a rarely perfect
taster in the very opening of April.
l.t had given to the church bells that
morning an unwonted joyousness.
dans
wave -kissed sea shells fell close by
his cheek. He caught a whiff of its
fragrant breath. It was the first
arbutus)
Bewildered, he rose quickly and
to 'ned to meet the clear eyes and
flushed face of Beth. "I thought I
should find you here, John," she
said.
Ike stooped to pick up the little
flower at his feet. "And •this+-=•" he
stammered.
"Is the f mt arbutus of the year!"-
she
ear!"•she cried,
"And it means?" he questioned.
"I love you," she said softly.
DANGER IN TFLE PIPE.
Death, and a most terrible form of
it, is declared to lurk in the to-
bacco pipe if it is made of clay.
Such is the startling statement made
by the Irish Registrar -General in a
special report on cancer in Ireland
just laid on the table of the House
of Coninions: The clay "dhudeen';
is very common amongst the peas-
antry in Ireland. It is often smok-
ed until the shank is quite short,+
amok-
, ed
then it so irritates the lips of
the smoker that cancer sometimes
supervenes.
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that the postmaster there, who is
also stationmaster, is a busy man
during the season. It is estimated
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are despatched from the Gornergrat
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