HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1898-08-11, Page 3!qI OF SHED E� FALLSI ane �o to the forest of God's promise the most oP us are either seated In huts The Bible refers to 'it when tae door was f thetIm of lateness earn -
and Invitation, and hew down a branch, the prow or the stean,wrap�ppd in our it ,ayo; "In hod lis thy refuge find soil �7Ul�J�AY t7lrll00Le eebrmss and of the impaopriety of any
and pukit on his shoulder, and lot us striped shawl, holding a big -handled andern®ata Cagge are the everlQsting ' „�, interrl_tp�tion. t�1ee Mlatt. 8. 8
t • -- ti all come around these obstinate iniqui- sunshade. while others are blistered in arms," Oh 1 llt:nij yourself into It. INTERNATIONAL LH83ON, AUG. 1h. 34. $e went up. Compare Psalm 182.
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WOMAN'S PLEA SURE.
i . raG RA es, an en, with this pile, ktu
LESSONS FROM THE BATTLE. by the fires of a holy zeal and the
P
troan, and the blades bend till they
awn tt .01111on us y every.
thing that interce is you. WedgO
,.t-.
"The
shag ng a g s ea . ay
up!an the child. The prayer of faith
"Look Fellow that Barr
y y Seymourl
flames of a consecrated life, we will
.nap. Oh, you religious sleepy -heads,
your way there. There are enough
shnnatmmite's sos." A. i Ings t.
is to be su;ipplemented by personal ef-
On the high road to fame and for-
_
�aplured Wlthoat Loss a dtugtc burn them out. W hat steel cannot
rake up 1 While we have in
hounds of death and peril after you
:t6 -M. Golden Text. psalm 66411. ,
fort. It is fretquently through the
tune," remarked Lord Donoghue, and
the oe do, fire may. And f, this morning,
Mad-f4The a is a Fouutttlu Filled With annonce myself in favor of any plan
uur church a great many
ivito are toiling for God, there
to make you hurry Many a man has
perished just outside the tower, with
PRACTICAL' NOTES.
personal contact of soul with soul that
God worka.In bringing to life those who
when his lordshi said an t
P y hint it was
Blood" -The Power oe �acau.ple-The of religious attach that succeeds -any
are sofa too laz to brush the flies
y
his foot on the ste with hisihand on
p,
Verse 25. She. The Shunammita wo-
are "dead in tree asses and in sins."
p
not to be contradicted, use the listen•
Advantage of Concerted Action -Urines[ plan of religious attack. however radi-
off their heavy eyelids. You have laLd
the latch. Oh, get inside. Not one
man. The man of God. "God's man,"
The flesh of the child waxed warm.
ere tried to look interested and remem-
kl)i� A cal Yor Alnners to gol►ent. cal, however odd, however unpopular,
su lung in one place that the ants and
surplus second have you to spare.
Elisha, now pre-eminently the pro-
This is a miracle of an unusual mani-
her who Barry Seymour was, One of
• "" � atoh from Washin ton sa s: however hostile to all the convention-
p g �, alitis of Church and State. It one
+'aterpillars have begun to crawl over
You I I should nut wonder if some of
Quick, uick
q quiekl
There are Some who gave me a fare-
past of Israel. Carmel. From vera@ 29
festation of God's •power in answer to
prayer; but the method of the miracle
the man risin••
Y e Young artists who hart
Rev. Dr. Talmavw ureuehea from the fol- style of ra er does not do the work,
p y
this church membershi should wake
p
w ll shake of the hand when I went off
e
it seems that Elisha had aplav,e on
ds the transfernee of the prophet's su-
two ictures on Lhe line in, last ear's
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lowing text:-'• And Abimelech got him let us try another style. If the
up in hell. What do you know, my
two months ago who are not hare to-
Carmel (probably out tar Prory► the
per•alpundant life to the child's dead
academy and setts now going to paint
. up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the Church music of to -day does nut get
brother, about a living Gospel madeto
day, Where are they? When in
scene of Raal's discomfiture before
body•
lord Dunoghue's daughter, the beau -
the vicLw
!people that were with him; and Abime- Y, then let us mtike the as-
Sault with a backwoods chorus. If a
Storm the world? Now, my idea of a rho
Christian is a man on fire with zeal book
cloriiag service I opened my hymn- Jehovah
and found the place, they opened'
) , whither on aw moons and
legh took an axe iu his hand, and cut lri.ayer,meeting at half -past seven in
for God; and if your• }pulse ordinarily their
hymn -book and found the same on
Sabbaths the people came for wor-
down a bough from the trees and took the evening dues not succeed, let u:.
I -eats sixty times a minute when you place.
I open my book to -day; they ship
and instruction. The distance
it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said have one as early in the morning as
think of other themes, and talk about do
not open theirs. Great God, is life from
Shunem was perhaps seventee �
unto the people that were with him: arhen the angel found wrestling Jacol,
other thems, if your pulse dues not such
an uncertain thing? If I bear a
miles• APgr off, .she would sums
too much for him. If a sermon with
What ye have seen me do, make haste the three authorised heads does not du
g•o up to seventy-five or eighty when little
Ytiu come to talk about Christ and the
too bard with my right foot on
earth, does it break through into across
the plain of Jezreel, which is
and do as I have done. And all the the w,urk, then lot us have a sermon
heaven, it is because you do not know the
grave? Is this world which swinge overlooked
by Carmel; and her little p
people likewise evt dawn every man with twenty heads, or no head at all.
the one, and have a poor chance of at
the speed of thousands of miles party
wind be plainly seen from the
his boo h, and fallowed Abimelech, We want more heart in oto• song, more
g heart in Ulu• alms-- ivin more heart
ettin
g g to the other. an
In a former charge, one Sabbath, I with
hour around about the sun going
tenfold more speed towards the
o
mountain Side• Gehazi. Elisha's at- t
and put them to the hold, ane set the I in our prayers, more heart in uur
took into the pulpit the church awe- judgment
day? Ob. I am overborne Lendaut,
first mentioned in this story,
l
hold of fire upon thorn; so that all the , preaching. Oh f' r less of Abimelech's
cords, and 1 laid them on the pulpit with
the thought and in the
Of his origin nothing is known. His
men of the tower of Sbechem died."- sword and more of Abimelech's confla-
'titian
and opened them, and said: "!Brethren confusion
here are the I find
I or to one and I cr to
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e
history involves a sad record of
r l 1 had often heard
Judges ix. 48, 49. g
"'!'hero Is
church records. the
a great many of you whose names are Otho
other; t time! O eternity!
dead! O the judgment day I O
disloyalty, greed, blindness to apiril-
v
A eleeh is a name malodorous do a fountain filled with
blood"
down here are off dut Some were
Y•" Jesus!
O God I' But catching at the
nal o purtunit and awful
pl y, punish -
.Bible• history, and yet full of profit- sung artistically by four' birds perched
afra.idt I would read the names, for at last
in
apostrophe. I feel that I have
t
went. A Shuuammite is a resident of
able suggestion. Buoys are black and ou their Sunda roost in the galler
s y
that time some of them were deep something
the worst kind of oil stooks, anti were
to hold on to; for "in God
Shunem, a cit in the tribe of Issa-
Y
uncomely, but they tell where the I until I thought of Jenny Lind, and
and Sontag, iha other
idle as to Christian work. IBut if the is
the
ev refuge, ane underneath are
ovorlasdifa arms." And exhaust -
char, situated un the northern slope of
rocks are. The snake's rattle is hide-INilssvn, and all
warblers; but there came rat one tear
mtnr.'tecs in all the cities, to -day, ed
into
with my failure to save myself, I
Kittle 1]ermun (Josh. 19. 18), '!'his
I
ons, but it gives timely warning. From I to my eye, nor one castor emotion Lo
should bring the church records throw
the and read, oh, what a flut-
my whole weight of body• mind,
woman was the prophet's highly es-
the piazza of my summer home, night I my heart. But one night I went clown
pulpit,
ter there would be 1 There would
and soul on this Divine promise, as a
weary child throws itself into the arms
teemed friend. Sha was, apparent! a
y,
by night, I saw a li *ht -house fifteen to the African Methodist meeting-
b
house fn Philadelphia, the
not tie fans enough in church to keep
of its mother; as a wounded soldier
regular attendant on Ghe pieriodical
miles awe not laced there for adorn- and at close
Y. P of the service a black woman, in the
to cheeks cool. I do not know but • it throws
Nvoul.3 Le a thing if the minister
himself on the hospital pillow,
religious services held at Elisha's !tome, I
meat, but to tell mariners to stand off midst of the audience, began to sing
from that dangerous point. So all Lhe that hymn, and all the
good
onto: in a while should brin the church
g
pursued man throws imself in•
to a kr
to the refuge: for th 'God is •thy, rr-
But her unexpected gallop across the
lain, it
iron -bound coast of danger is marked
audience oined
J
in, and we were floated some three or
records in the ulplt and call the roll,
A
fol that is i every
fatten and underneath are the ever -
made the
A prophet wonder;
---viFiEh^ Saul, and Herod, ane R,ehobpam,
four miles nearer heaven then I have
what ,resider
church record to be -merely the must -
lasting arms." I can speak no more
for the gladness. Oh for a flood of
was an evidence of sons trouble or
sorrow, which Elisha's s
and Jezebel, and Abimeleeh. These bad
ever been since. I saw with my own
eyes that "fountain filled ,with blood,"
er-roll of the Lord's army; and the
readin of it should treveal where every
tears with which to ex ress the
p joy
Y mpathetic
heart would anticipate.
people are mentioned in the Bible not
-red, agonizing, sacrificial, redone-
g
soldier is ane what he is doing. Suer
of this eternal resauel
,
:.0. Run now, I pray thee, to meet
only as warnings, but because there
Live• and lbeard the crimson plash of
pose, in military circles, on the morn-
her. An evidence of Elisha's great es -
were sometimes flashes of ood conduct
g
the wave as we all went down under
it
ing of battle, the roll is called, and
hundred
LIMIT OF VICTORIA S POWER.
teem for her. Is it well. " Is it peace?' ,
in their lives worthy of imitation• God I
'For sinners plunged beneath that
out of a thousand men only a
men in the regiment answered. What
-
The oriental way of saying, "Flow do
sometimes drives a very straight nail
'
Stood
excitement there would be in the camp!
8lie Is an Autocrat But There le Much sh
you do?" It is well. " It is peace.' The
with a very poor hammer.
Lose all their guilty stains."
What would the colonel say 7 What
Cannot Do.
oriental way of saying, " Pretty well,
The city of Shechem had to be taken, I
Oh, my friends, the Gospel is not a
high talking there would be among
the captains, and majors, and the ad-
Considerable as are the powers of
I thank you." The phrases are not more
and Abimelech and his men were to
syllogism; it is not casuistry, it is not
jutantsI Suppose word came to head-
the Queen, the are not unlimited,
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definite in their meanin than their
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do it. I see the suet rolling up from!
polemics, or the science of squabble.
Tt is blood -red fact; iL is warm-hearted
quarters that these delinquents excus-
There are some very curious restrie--
Western equivalents. There is no de-
. their excited march. I hear the shout- :
invitation; it is lea ing, bonding, fly-
ed themselves on the ground that they
tions on the royal prerogative. The
eeption in her reply. She simply evades
ing of the captains and the yell of the I
ing good news; it is efflorescent with
had overslept themselves, or that the
Queen cannot, for instance, communi-
Gehazi, and presses on. Only to the
I all li
besiegers. The swards clack sharply on gat; it is rubescent with all sum-
morning rwas dump and they were
afraid of totting their feet wet, or
tate with her subjects as can the
man of Goal can she unburden her
the art in shields, and the vocifera- Swee glow; it is e s escent with all
P Y g
I r
that they �r ora bliss waking rations.
most menial of her servants; nor can
heart's sorrow.
tion of two armies in death grapple, is ono Mo nt Washington, andefa m he
My friends, this is the mornin of the
S
she receive presents from Iter people
`lp. The hill. �'v"here Elisha residod,
T
horrible to hear. The battle goes on lip -top House; but there owes no beauty
I in that co the day
day of God Almighty's battle . Do you
not see the troops ? Hear you not all
save throe gh officers of state or
known her Ma-
and which, us we suppose, was a repo g-
• , all day ; and as the sun is setting, Ab- • ;neared with -spring
" � from on high when Christ gives light
the trumpets of heaven and all the
friends personally to
nized seat cif the wor:ship of Jehovah.
'feet.
im•elech, and his arm cr Surren-
Yy Y to asoul. I have heard Yarepa sing:
drums of hell ? 1\'hich side are ou
y
jest y'
She carught him by the Great
der 1" to the beaten foe. And unable' but there was no music in that com-
on? If you are on the fright side, to
The Queen could sell or give away
grief shrinks from speech. The action
ton er to resist the cit of Shechem
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I
pared with the voice of Christ when He
said: "Thy
what cavalry troop, to whist artillery
service, to what garrison duty do you
the ro al nav or declare wear with
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was one of supplication, Elisha, who
falls ; and there are pools of blood, and
sins are forgiven thee ; go
belong? In other wrords, in what Sab-
Russia ; but she could not s end a
p
regarded this woman with gratitude
dissevered limbs, and glazed eyes look- I
rn Peace,' Good news! Let ever one
Y
cut down a branch of this tree of life
bath -school do you teach? in what
single farthing of public money with-
and affection, and who, watching her
ing up begging for mercy that war
and wave it. Let him throw it down
prayer -meeting do you exhort? to
out the consent of Parliament. The
approach at this unseasonable hour,
never shows, and dying soldiers with
and kindle it. Let all the way from
Mount Zalmon
what penitentiary do you declare eter-
nal liberty? to what almshouse do you
Queen has no power over• taxation,
had observed how she had pushed ast
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their hepta on the I -p of mother, or
to Shechem be filled
with the tossing joy. Good news) This
announce the riches of beaver? �'v'hat
dna Ovula not create any now office
Gehtizi, shared her silent agony with
rwife, or sister, who have come out for
bonfire of the Gospel shall consume
broken bone of sorrow•have you ever
with fees attached to it. Neither
P rofuundest sympathy. Gehazi came
the last offices of kindness and affec-
the last temple of sin, and will illumine
set? Aro you dying nothing? Is it
could shy, annex new fees to old
near to 1.hrust her away. So would
tion; and a groan rolls across the city,
stoppin not, because there is no s of
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the sky with apocalyptic joy, that
possible that a man or woman sworn
to be a follower of the Lord Jsua
offices. She could rat increase the
the disciples have driven ,loving math -
for it i,o rest, so full is the place of I
Christ Jesus came into the world to
save sinners. Any tSat
Christ is doing nothing? Then hide
wages of one of her footmen, unless
the
other groans. A city wounded 1 A I
new plan
makes a man nit his that
the horrible secret from the angels.
she did it out of her private funds
officciiousamultiittude would haveare-
city dying I A city dead I Wail for
s[n, and
prostrates a wrong, I am as much in
Beep it away from{ the book of judg-
or without exceedin the allowance
g
i
Lets herhalone d Elisha'stt entlene s
Shechem all ye who know the horrors ,
of a'sacked town 1
favor of as though all the doctors, and
went. If You are doing nothing, do
not let the world find it out, lest they
made to herb P.arl iament,
Y
showed his true strep th, fur
g gentle -
•As 1 look over the city, I can find
bishops, and the archbishops, and the
synods, and the academical
charge your religion with tieing a false
A curious curtailment of the royal I !
ress is not weakness, but power con -
"Her
only one building standing, and that
is the tem file of Lhe
1 god Berith. Surae
gowns-
men of Christianity sanctioned it. The
temple of Berith
face. Do not let our cowardice and
Y
treason lie heard amonv the martyrs
prerogative is effected try an act of
parliament assed in the rein of
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trolled. Her said is vexed. cul
is bitter." The Lord hath hid it fi•nin
soldiers outside the city in a tower
Pinding that they longer de-
moat come down, and
i do not care how it comes.
about the throne, lest they fatter the
sanctity of the place and curse your
George III. This act deals with Sab- I
rap. Prophets wore far front he.ing in -
fallible, either in knowledge or judg-
y can no
fend bheehem, now be in to look out
g
Still further, I learn from this sub -
ject the power of example. If Abi-
betrayal of that tau a for which. they
bath breaking, and in it it is distinct•
ment, See 2 Sam. 7. 3. It was• only
to them
for their• own personal safety, and they
melech had sat down on the rass, and
$
a onized and died.
g
ly stated tltat the mora?oh clnnot
I
when the Lord had spoken
that what the acid to others iirid. spe-
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fly to this temple of Berith. They get I
told his man to o and
g get the boughs,•
May the eternal God rouse us all to
pardon offenders who have been con-
i
tial weight.
within the deur, shut it, ane they say:
and go out to the battle, the «'ould
Y
action 1 As Por myself, 1 feel I would
victed of a certain form of
I
Ddd I dthat She,would remind
" Noav, we are safe, Abifnelech has tak-
rover have gon.A at all, or if they 'had
be ashamed to die now ancd enter hea-
SAIABATH BREAKING.
e,
tap, prophet that her son was a free
en the whole city, but he cannot take
this temple of Berith. Here we shall be
it would have heen without an sir-
y p
it or effective results but
von uptil I have accomplished some-
thing more decisive for the Lord that
Yet her Ma'est could per I
J y pardon 99
in the land.
gift, anti had better never been given
under the protection of the gods." Oh,
when Abi-
melech goes with his own axe and
Bought me. I have thought on this,
cent. of all the prisoners • if he ,were so soon to be taken, See
Though no act of Parliament is verse ]0. Iai•d T not say, Do not de-
Berith, the god I do your best for these
hews down a branch, and with Abi-
the first Sabbath after the summer
complete until it has been signed by calve me? Even with the promise had
refugees, If you have eyes, pity them.
If you have hands, het p them. if
I you
melech's arm put it an Abimelech's
shoulder, and marches on, then, my
vacation, I would like to join with you
in an oath, with hand high uplifted to
the Queen, lier Majesty is subject to dome the fear of disappointment. Note
the laws that she signs, and cannot ' does I
have thunderbolts, a far them.
text says, all the people did the same.
heaven, swearing new' allegiance to
that this sorrow -stricken woman
issue a proclamation contrary to law, ' not recount the pathetic. story of her
tech
But how shall Abimeleeh and his army
take this temple of ,Berith and the men
How natural that was. What made
Garibaldi and Stonewall Jackson . rho
I Jesus Christ, and to work more for
IIis cause and kingdom. Oh 1 breth-
If, for instance, it were the law of bo s illness in the cornfield. Those
England, that no train should travel who are bereaved often are inclined to
who are there fortified? Will the do
y
It with eword? Na'y:Will1heyndo itawith
most m atretic commanders of this
century 7 They always
ren, how swiftly the time does to by 1
It .seems to me •d never saw such a
at a rate exceedin flit mils un
g y linger on every detail of the genes
issue
spear? Nay. With batterin ram, roll-
B
rode ab)ead,
Oh, the overcomin g power of example,
swift summer -never a aunimer that
I
hour, the Queen could not rt that led to the death of their beloved
Proclamation exempting a cerl„tin tines. Why did not this woman? )3e -
ed up by hundred -armed strength,
hrashin a ainst the walls? Na Abi-
B g Y•
Here is a father ou the wrong road;
all his bo ys o on the wron road.fHere
3 4I g
hand such nimble feet. It seems to me
as if the years had gained some 'new
�
train from the operation of the law.. cauAA ,she still trusted, in spite of all
Nor can her Ma'sty issue' a fears, that her child would he restored
J procla-
meleeh marches his men to a wood in
Zalrhon. With his axe he hews off a limb
is a father who enlists for Christ; his
children enlist. I saw in some of the
Power of locomotion -a kind of speed
electric Liist Sabbath was an awful
mation which would injure the com- , to life. This trust accounts for both
such as, for example, a ro- the
of a tree, and Puts that limb upon his
picture gallerie of Europe, that be-
I say to me. I had nothing to do but
munity, . pp h•er silence, her haste, and persist -
clamation exempting a whole town-Sor , eace of her demand for Elisha s per -
own shoulder, and then he says to his
" You do the
fore many of the great works of the
i to think, and when. I thought of how
little I had accomplished for Christ,
neighborhood from serving on a sonal. presence.
men: same." They are
obedient to their commander," The
masters-' he old masters-theret would
he sometiilus four or five artists tak-
i and of how short, a time yet remained
ur 29. Gird up thv lions. ` Ti area
J Though the Queen could recall any I your Equivalent to "Put on
Sheehemites look out from the window
ing copies of the pictures. These cop-
to work for Flim, my head grew dizzy
and my heart ached, and 1 felt as if 1
girdle."
subject from abroad, she cannot com- ! our coat and hat" with us. Take m
of the temple upon what seemsilbthem
• childish pla on the
I Y Part of their one-
ies they were going to carry with
them, perhaps, to distant lands; and
must fly into your presence and utter
pel a subject to leave this country. ! staff. A bad a of Elisba's prophetic
. , y P- office. Ile ma yhave thought he could
Phis disaliilit does not cease too I
mien. But soon the flints are struck,
I have thought. that your life and char-
this rallying cry for Jesus.
erate, even in time of war, and, thus confer the prophetic power upon
i►ud the sparks begins to kindle the
anter are a masterpiece, and it is be-
Still further, I learn from this sub-
ject the danger of false refuges. As
though at such a time the Queen 1 Gehazi. If so, the result gbrlw•ed his
brush, and the flame comes u p all
[
through the pile, an•d the red elements
in copied, and long after
g you are
gone it will bloom or blast in the
soon as these Sheehemites got into the
could call u on ever able man to
P y error. Nnt even the Church can confer
take up arms, she could not force a : the gift of the fi crit. Salute him not.
P
Leap to the casement, and the wood-
homes of thane who knew you, and bei
temple, they thought they were safe.
They said: Berith will, take of us.
single civilian to leave the country, I Oriental Salutatinng tAke time. haste
work begins to blaze, and one arm of
a Gorgon or a Madonna. Look out what
care
Abimelech may batter down every-
even to carry on a necesstiry war. � cony the object of lap emhzssy, for in
flame is thrown u on the ri ht side
A g
of the temple, and another arm of flame
you sa Look out what
y. you do. Eter-
nity will 'hear the echo. The hest
tai ng else; he cannot batter down
Icer Ma'est mould not set u courts
J y P that climate decomposition must set in
I
is thrown u on the left side of the
A
l
tallmseunderl
ser-
mon ever prezw d is a hot life. The
y
is
I this temple where wo are now hid."
Bul; very soon they heard the timbers
such as speedily. (Besides, concentration of
i
THE STAR CHAMIBER, purpose is as needful to success in •re-
the wild! nP h t sk and
p g y,
tent walk. If r chanted a coasts-
you want. others to
crackling, and they were smothered
the child of Henry VIPs. misguided I I'ay my (staff upon the ]face ofnthe
I invest Y
the cry of " Fire I" within, and "Fire P
serve God, serve Him yourself. If you
with smoke, and they miserably died.
And you and I are just as much
genius, nor could she a spirit
, ual court with temporal er. Thog gnh child.
µentendeapt�adelega a
without, announces the terror, and the
strangulation, and the doom of the She-
want others to shoulder their duty,
shoulder yours. Whore Abimelech
t clip
i isolu e pow his
tem t d t p f r r h r decision s a t
e c else ref Th mai o e P
p ages, e I � staff, exact! as an Aneienl. king might
chemites, and the complete overthrow
goes his troops go. Abraham begat
this morning may have persuaded you : er has been sentenced, she could not I delegate his ro nl ower h the loan
that you have a comely cheek; your ; interfere with the course of justice he- Y P Y
of the temple of the god Berith. Then
there went up a shoal• long and laud,
Isaac, and Isaac, be at Jacob• Phe
g
father good, it was easy enough for
Lest friends; may have persuaded you , fore the sentence has been passed, nor of big signet ring.
30, Tho apart of lap. math^r will hike
from the stout lun s and swarth
g Y
the son and randson to be ood. Aha-
43 g
that you have elegant manners; Satan ; could she exert any influence over the
may have told that are AN I judges. Neither could she interfere do I nn denial. She tray well Ivive doubted
chests of Abimeleoh and his men, as
they stood amid the ashes and the dust
Jer hamar Joash, and ad, i begat
Jeroboam. The father bad, it was
you you
ri ht• but bear with me if I tell private as opposed to public
g + you � a ossa of
the efficacy of P'ligha's staff in the
hands of onA wan showed Sn little Of
cr in " Victor 1 Victor I" Or, as
Y g Y Y
'And
eas enou h for the son and grandson
Y g
that it unpardoned you are all wrong. I wrong.
I have no clinometer by which to The Qqeen is the onl person who
y
! I+;lisha's spirit, T will not. leave thee.
aha text has it: Abimeleoh gat
'him up to Mount Zialmon, he and all
to he bad. Oh`, start out for heaven
to -day, and your famil will come
Y
measure ]tow sleep is the inclined plane
cannot arrest a suspected felon. No
I Persistenne is the rhnraeteristic of
t strong faith and -strung desire. Com -
the people that were with him, and Abl-
took in his
after you, and your business associa-
tea
ou are descenrlin
Y g, but I know it is
very steep. Well," say: "if the
action can be taken n ainst: her fort
g
breaking the law, and therefore she is
P are Exod. 33. 15 ; Gen. 32. 20, Luka
melech an axe hand and cut
down a bough from the trees and'took
will. come after you, and your so-
tial friends will join ou. With one
you
Bible is true, I am a sinner. Show
precluded from making an arrest, as,.
I5. 1. He arose, and fall
'I'hp died
it and laid it on his shoulden and said
Y
branch of the tree of life for a baton,
me, some refuge. I will step right in-
to it."
supposing the suspected prisoner were
I innocent, for false imprison-
con,
her. child nt' noon.
It must have heen nearly sun -
unto people that were with him, What
have do,
marshal just as many as you can ga-
I suppose every person in
this audience this is Ste n g
no action
ment could be tak"n against her Ma-
set when the mother reached Elishft.
ye seen me make haste, and
do as Ihave done. Anti all the eo le
they. Oh, the infinite, the semi -ora-
ni tent ower of a ood or a bad ex-
A g
moment pp
into `come kind of refuge. Here you
jests. The law, indeed, asswnes that
31. Hearing. "Attention.t Gehar,of
' not. reach into the world, of
likewise cut down every man his
bough, and followed Abimeleeh, and
ample I
I saw the other day, near the beach; a
step in t:he tower of good works. You
any: "I shall lie safe here, in this re-
the Queen can oto no wrong, which
seems about as absurd as the legal as-
vette could
spirits. Po m,et him.' Gehazi had
made baste, hail failed, and returning
put them to the hold and set the hold
on fire upon them ; so that all the men
wrecker's machine. It was a cylinder
with some holes the made for
fug•e." The battlements are adorned;
the Steps are varnished; on the wall are
gumption that the Queen cannot lie
under age and cannot die.
I met Elisha. and th^ mother on their
of the tower of Shechem died."
Now I learn first from ibis subject,
at side,
the tbrusting in of Some long poles
with strong leverage; there
Pictures of all the suffering you have
allevitited, and all the schools have
I The Queen cannot exclude a mem- I way. Symbols wire. of no use where
ber from Parliament after he has been . Spirit. and power are absent. Never
the folly of depending upon any one
and when
is another, vessel in trouble or going
,you
estnbli�hed, and all the fine things you
duly elected, nor can she delegate the
mistake the sign for the thing signi-
fieri, nor 011h'.ard form fur inward
form of tactics in anything we have
to pieces nut. in the offing, the, wreck-
have ever done. Up in that tower you
feel
duty of signing laws to any one.
The Queen's of disposing of
I grace. Child is not, Awaked. No evi-
to do for this world or for God, Look
over the weaponry of olden times-
ers shoot a rope out to the suffer-
ing the
you are safe, But hear you not
the tramp of your unpardoned sing all
power
territory in time of pence has been
Bence that he supposed hirn not dead,
javelins, battle-axes, harbege.ons, and
men. They grasp it, and
wreckers turn the cylinder, and the
around the towerl They each have a
disputed. In time of war her Majesty
as the term ",sleep" was oummonly used
fort death, 1 i:ings 1. 'll.
show me a single weapon with which
Abimelech and his men could have
rape winds around the cylinder, and
those who
match, They are kindling the combus-
Lit110 material. You feel the beat and
could hand over London to France to
bring the war to an end, huf it seams
3a Walked in the house to and
dined such com lete triumph. It is
8 P
are shi wrecked are Saved.
So at A
your feet in -day, there fig nn
the suffocation. Oh 1 may you leap
In time, "tiny
clear that. in time of peace her Majesty
cannot subject any part of the TOM-
fro. Intense enintion is frequently
thus exhihite.l. Tlih recovery seems
no easy thing to take a temple thus
armed. Yet you are willing to testify
influence with at.remendous leverage,
The rope Attached, swin s far out into
the Gospel declaring: the
deeds of the law shall no flesh living
Pirefto the sway of a foreign power.
to have teen grndual-first the wai-ml h
to -day' that by no other mode -ser-
g
the billow allure. Your children, your
y
he justified." "Well," you Say: "1
hnvA
then the isne.ering, showing restored
res iration, then opening the a es it
1 1 Y "'
fainly not by ordinary modal could
that temple so easily, so thoroughly,
children's children, and all aha :gen-
eratiops that are to follow, will grip
heen driven out of that tmver;
where shall Igo?"Stepintn this tower
•-- • - - -- -^
lust returning life lhnt produced the
have heen taken. Fathers and mothers,
that influence, and feel the long-rea-
oar indifference. You say: "If this
Is
A PROMp,r ANSWER ASSTTRED.
warmth.
t ran. Fliher delivered
'' ten
brethren and Sisters, in Jesus Christ,
what the Church most wants to learn
thing pull long after the figures on
your tombstone worn out that.
er at.tackpd, it will be a grc.At
while liefore it is taken," You feel at
Louise-Pve fixed Kitl so she will
Y
Ian risen icon o
o his mot her (1 Ti who
this day, is that tiny plan is right, is
are so
the visitor cannot tell whether it. was
ease, But there is an Abimelech,w•ith
answer m,y letter nt. onrA•
IRAIIp-�'v'hat ilii! you dol
17. Y3), n.w did Tesus (i,nke 7. Ih)� who
J
also rhrtrge=cd the of the dnm-
lawful, is best, which helps Lo
ov�rthro•w the temple of sin,
in 1898, 1798 or 1698 that ou died.
Y
Still further, I learn from this Bull-
ruthless assault., coming on. Death
and his foreei are gal.hering Around,
Louise -I wrote h•ir a lot of gnsgiP,
parpnts
get (Xiirk 5. 48) to give her sonmething
i.
_ ., capture this world, for
jP.Ct the ndvanta a of concerted ac-
g
and they demand that you surrender
and forgot Lo send the middle pages.
to Aat. And thus hA eranmits to aur
vitro those whom he has quickened to
d. We are very apt to stick to
the ol,d modes of attack. We put on
tion• If Abimelech had merely .gone
out with at4e branch, t.bo work would
everything, anti they calmour for your
immortal overthrow, and they throw
--
RATHE11 ANTiQTTE.
live, that. w•e may nourish and food
the old-style coat of. mail. We come
up w•it.h the sharp, keen, glittering
not have been accomplished, or if ten,
twenty, or t.hirt men had gone; but
their rk'•leton arms in the window. And
with their Iron fists they heat, Against
Gunn-i've jusit succeeded in perfect-
them (John 'll. 15).
37. Pell tit This feet. A grateful no-
stns! Spear of n.r tunent, expecting in
t`I
that
Y
when all the axes aro lifted, and all
the
tan door, A.nd while ,you aro trying in
keA I arm rhr+ t.urchos
Ing an invenli in thntwill revolution-
izo modern warfare ctrl mike my for-
know•ledgement of the Priceless favor,
The thankful heart bows itself in
owes to take the castle; but they
have a thousand spears where we have
sharp edges fall, and all these men
carry each his tree branch down and
P out you see of
Judgment kindling, And every forest
tune.
I
irAige IspfnrA it Takes In itself the hles-
tak
sin
ten. And so the castle of sin stands.
throw it abort the tempie, the victory
fig a. torch, and every mountain a
torah,
ihinn-Tndppd,l !\'hat is ihn nn-
1 tura your rwder cry Z
r it has sat
33, Ti Roth hest and in verse
Oh, my friends we will never capture
this world for God by an keen sabre
Y
is gainers -the tem le falls, My
P
frianrds, where thsre is one man in the
and every Fea a torch, and
while the Alps, and Pyrennees, and
(:urn -A pnwdFr that., nlx4olutpiy
n
20 if i<; px reset stti.tAd that the
P ►' Y
of sarcasm, by Anq gldtterrng lauceA of
Church of God at this, day shoulder•
ing
TTimalayas tarn into a live coal,
blown redder and redder by the whirl-
notgAlpsa.
Dunn-PshmwI That's old; women
child rcn4 dead; Ihnre. isi, thpreforA, nn
r.,,rit for Su osin it a, rase of sus -
T'P it
rhetoric, by tiny mapping And mining of
profound disquisition, by any gun-
big whole duly, there are agraai
many who never lift an axe or swinV
wind breath of B, God omnipotent,
have .been using it. for centuries,
prnded animation or a trance. His
D powdery explosions of indignation, by
n blow•, it, seems t.o me as if thlere
twhat will become of your refuge o4
hed, Not the. child's )lett, but Elishn's.
Son 21.
shay Shoot in s of wit., h howitzers of
p g y
-pre ten c ones in every hive to one
lT
lies?
"Birt," some anon "yon
Tli4 ('Td.Tdl)T'P•
verse
31. Ph!0. TIMIt herr Ani in verse
rottAntal Strength made to swing shell
five miles, b cavalr horses gorgA-
hrlltgy apo; as t.hnu;g•b there ware t.wen-
t.y Bailors Sound Asleep in the shi 's
stays are
en2ragpd to a very mean husinma
Mram.hle-5o t hiXg ynnr son ? Well,
hart 1?li jnh darn+. 1 Kings 17, 21; and
ously caparisons(] pawing the air. In
hammoclt to four manTon the stormy
drhing us from tower to tower." Oh,
he looks A,g if he mdfrht oto yon credit.
day.
thu•4 diff Peirr Acts 9. 40. But,tChrist
Ariake the w,>rd. And It wa:4 donA
'Vain MIT the atl.Afnpt.S on the part of
theso welesiast.leal foot Soldiers, light
deck, It. seems as if there were fifty
tboawand men belonging to the reserve
not I want to tell you of a Gihral-
tai' that neveir bas been And never will
some
Fowlnr-Hp's doing my erer,it. now-
Unrk 5. 4r; Luke 7.14; Johro 11.43.
a: lift, temporal m'
horsemen, and grenoidiers,
corpts, And only ono t.housa.nd aetlap
IIA iakan; of await that no Satande. So.
"ault. emu scale; of a bulwark t.h'Af
d°ing it. In the Quo n's Ingle evory
time he drops into any place whore
-i•1 nlono Iriveth
spiriltiAl, hut. hn is pleased to gp'ive It.
My friends, I propose, this morning,
a different style of ladies. Lot each
combatants• Oh, we all %#Ant. our bont
to ,get over to the golden sands; but
the judgment earthquakes cannot tiny know me,
in answer to prayer. 9'he shutting of
tiful Alixe. Barry Seymour ,himself,
HORSES IN HISTORY. v,aa very delighted with his good for-
- tune. Many a time he had longed to
The Noble Animal Ilan Played Many Ira paint that facie, the face which had
portant Parts. more charm for him than any other,
It is hard to say with any near ap- Lbe face which haunted him so very.
reach to accuracy how long the horse very often.
has been a domo►sLicated animal. e'v'e "You really promise to sit for me l
an only say that he has beet! so from You'ro divine," exclaimed Barry gra-
ime immemorial -that is from the ear- tefully.
lest time of which we have any re- "I know it," returned Alixe, survey
urds. Th.i Assyrian sculptures -and ing her old friend with a saucy air, ,
hey are about the most ancient of "When shall we have the first sit-
w'hich we know anything, for some of ting?"
hent are estimated to date from 4200 "Whenever you like,"
B. C, -contain more representations of "To -morrow at I1?"
caparisoned horses than even men. Still, "Impossible ! I am going shopping
we do not get any examples of favor- with Airs. de Hawtris."
to horses until a long time after this. Wednesday, then?"
Even the first examples, indeed, are "I leave town on W'elnesday, but i
only legendary, for though there is no shall be back by Saturday,"
doubt that Hector of Troy, existed, it "'An da I like,'"
s not improbable that Homer invent- Y Y !froared Barry.
"�i ell, what about rho following Man-
ed the names of his three favorite day?"
horses, Poderge, the cream -colored Ga- , "Yes, I will come then•" And she did
lathe and the fiery Ethon. But the -late, it is true, but so charmingly
horse of Alexander the Great, Buce- penitent that Barry could not re-
phalus, is an individual as historically monstrate.
real as his master. The famous horse "You look hopelessly fashionable," he
was, says Plutarch, offered to Philip said "'�o•,%- I am going to transform
for 13 talents, about £2,158, but he you into a picturesque maiden, like
displayed so much viciousness that A1- this," and he showed her a rough
exander's father was about to send him sketch he had made,
a,nvay, when the young prints offered Lady Alixe cast off her hat• and her
to tame him. He agreed, in the event cape and calmly arranged her hair.
of failure to forfeit the price of the ,,. Chat is better," said Barry. "I will
horse and began by turning his head set to work."
to the sun, as he Observed that the Never had be taken mare pains, and
horse was frightened at his own shad- certainly never had he succeeded So
ow. In the end he completely tamed well. The morning flew by all toe
him -so completely, indeed, that Buce- quickly, but his model was gracious
phalus, though he would permit no- .and promised to come every day till
body except Alexander to mount him the portrait was finished. I Pear an
ALWAYS KNELT DOWN unprecedented amount of sittings werel
for that purpose to his master. He died required, an l Barry soon found ?lis
ant th•a age of 30, and bis master built ' model so fascinating that the studio
sis his mausoleum the city of Buce- was intolerable to him without her
PhReaders of Alacaulay will remember presence.
the iamous black Auster, the horse of Alas, for the huilder of dreams and
H•arminius, and the dark gray charger fancies I One day poor !Barry could
of Alrimilius, whose sudden appearance retain himself no longer, and very
in the city of Tu,sculum without his much astonished Alixe by offering
master brought the news of the de- himself to her. She was a little pleas -
feat of the. allies at Lake Regillus. Con- I
netted with that battle, too, were the : ed at first (women don't often consider
horses of the great " twin brethren," ! the feelings of their victims); then the
Castor and P"llux, coal black, with capricious young; lady grew angry at
legendary. Nut so,ilhoweever,ththe well- what she called "his presumption" and
known horse of Caligula, Incitatus. This left the studio. .
animal had a stable of marble ; his stall i "You must never speatk to me like
wad of ivory, his clothing of purple, that again," she wrote. "I will be
and his halters stiff with gems. H'e generous and come for you to finish;
had a pet of golden plates and w•as my portrait, and then -,good-bye."
presented with a palace, furniture and . Two more sittings accordingly took
slaves complete, in order that guests place, but Barry's power seemed gone,
invited in his name should Lie proper- ; In silence he worked away at his
ly_entertained, His diet w -as the most easel; but Alixe observed with annoy -
costly that could be imagined, the fin ante that he was only spoiling his for-
est grapes that Asia would provide be-' mer effects.
ing reserved fol• him. Verus, another ! "I shall only come once more," she
Roman emperor, about a century later, said, on leaving, and Barry=>_ssented.
treated his horse almost as extravag- I But when she came he found it ut-
antly. He fed him with raisins and , terly impossible to continue.
almonds with his own hands, and when ! "I cannot paint to -clay, it is useless
he died erected a statue of gold to to try," he said at last, throwing his
him, while all the dignitaries of the brush down impatiently. -
empire attended the funeral. i Alixe came behind his chair and re -
As we come to later times, so we get garded her likeness critically.
more examples of favorite horses. Wil- i "you are'spoiling it,"
,!aim t'he Conqueror had one which he I "I know; but for all the 'world could
rode at thio battle of Hastings, about ' give I cannot go on."
which almost everything seems to be "Supposing, she said, hesitating a
known except his name. He was of little, "that I did what -what you ask -
huge size and was a present from ging - ed me to. Would it make a differ -
Alfonso of Spain-" such a gift as a ence 7"
prince might give and a prince re- Barry started up,
ceive." This gallant horse, however, did "Oh, don't I" Che drew away from
not survive, the battle, for Gyrth, Har-� him, half frightened.
old s butcher, "clove him with a hill, I "Don't what ? I've done nothing, but
and he died." Richard Lis horse was , this is what I a'm going to do," Alixe
called Alaleck, and was jet black. He submitted meekly, and I fear another
bore his master through the holy war I day was lost. But after that Barry
and arrived in England before him; in I set to work in eaxnest, and it was, not
fact, he survived the king several' long before the picture was com-
years. The second Richard, too, had pleted, Alixe came .to see it when
a favorite horse., called Roan Barbary, framed, and was well satisfied with
which was supposed to be the the result.
FINEST HORSE IN EUROPE "It is beautiful, much too beautif�,l,
at Lhat time, and it w•tas on Roan Bar- to be like me."
bary that the young king was mount- There was something unusual in
ed when the incident wherein Wat Ty- Alixe's tone, somet.bing jarring and
ler was stabbed by the Mayor oii Wal- unpleasant, Barry noticed it, and saw,
worth took place, too, for the first time hard lines ar-
About a century later we get the round her mouth, and a cold haughty
Wars of the Roses, and in the many look in her eyes• He took her hand,
batt les of t hat civil disturbance a cau- but, to his surprise, she ,drew, it away.
file of horses la ed im ortant arts. "Why, Alixe, what is the matter?
I A Y A P ,
t touch
T%i4'ese belonged to the great Earl of Are you vexed? Is it 'maga
Warwick, the kingmaker. His first. was 11 to -day ?"
Maleck, a beautiful gray, which be I "Yes," she said low but clearly , "to-
rode at the battle of Towton. it w•as ! day and every day, Mr. Seymour, I -
this horse whose death turned Ibe for I have changed my mind."
tunes of the battle, for Warwick, see -I His white face puzzled her.•fihe did
ing that his men were giving ground, not understand his expression and felt
deliberately sprang from his favoril.o I Pettish.
horse and killed him. Then his men "Well," she said, breaking the sil-
knew that the kingmaker was prepared once, "you don't seem to care much."
to conquer, but not to fly. Tbey rallied "If I care," began Barry psgaion-
and finally won the battle. ately-but her silvery voice checked
There were tw•o horses belonging t.o him.
bightivaymen which were fnmous• in "Ob, don't go into heroics I I can't
their time. One of them belonged to bear scenes, you know•; and I'm awfully
the celebrated knight of the road, Paul sorry I"
Clifford, He wus called Re)hin and was "Sorry I" That word from her ;lips
Irish, in color iron gray, he was re- so spoken and so meant, was tin in-
puted by judges of horseflesh -and sult to him.
there were Some who were quite as "If you don't. wish for a scene,
competent to give tut opinion, if not, leave me, for C.od's sake I" said Barry
r an t od
more gc`ns nay of th3 present dry -to husltily, and hA turned a ray d a o
be absolutely without blemish and toIby the window until Alixe. bad left
be Second to none. Another famous I Ilan room shrugging her dainty shoul-
horse, or rather mare, was Black (less, ders.
I Her owner, ]link Turpin, or, to give him "Oh, Yes I" she said to a girl con -
his correct Banta, Nieks, committer! a fidnntp; "my picture is finished, and
robbery in London At 4 o'clock in the well done, too. I felt convinced he
morning, and fearing discover•. made could do it if the sot. to ,work in the
for Gravesend, ferried nerom 1h� riv- right. frame. of mind, Poor Barry! Tie
er and Appeared at. th- howling green n arly spoilt it. in th'e middle, but I
in York, the sante evening, having ne. managed that."
complished his ride of 300 miles in Fix- "How,"
teen hours on one horse. At least, so "Why, the silly fellow lost his sen-
sa,ys the. legend. And this is certain- srs," replied Alixe, glancing compla-
thst. on his trial lie w•as nequhted, the cent,ly at. her reflection in A mirror,
jury considering it impngsLle thnt hn '•and when I ,refused him my por-
could have got to York in that time. trait sufferer!. I ryas not going to le.t
my rppulmtion he spoilt by a dnuh, so
TTRF:rT,Y NOT. I -I 'humored him for a little'. By the
aye, do you remember Fir Douglas
If T were only a. man, she said, w•A' Proliyn, And flaw I quarreled with
could- • him? He is ,just come hack from
Possibly we could, he Snid, but. the nhroad and is nor(• very rich. Aunt is
chnnc;s Are. we ,wouldn't. if you Fointr to mite, hirn, to the, ,cad, -my,
weir. a man I wouldn't he here. I'd I nn•1 I have instrunted her to sho him
saying nice things to somebody who my portrait. and watch th^ n-recl. I
wasn't it man. hope" -but. Barry ant silently ) efore
Fomptimes it. is worth while to think his easel with uniourhorl wil- Ile and
of such facts as these, b,C+ide him lay the shreds of it torn
canvm,
AN IGNORANT M, .\N.
Th„ amount of ignoi-twe displayed
Tfy soma poets is nppn.11ing, remariced
Rennet.
Indeed• replied Nearpnss.
For instance, Here (s one whn np-
pare.ntly never heard of the law of
gra,vit ation.
ITow rlo you make that. out?
He, nskA, plaintkely, Why do t1w
leaves fall?
S1'11.TWING BurTEIIFI,1F:N.
Butterflies, besides (ping ineonSiAnt
Anil frivol.nis, are now emit to he Ad-
dicted excessively to drink 1'hcy will
anclt up moisitire for an hoar nt n Iimp.
Enlnmoingigis nsFerl Ilial they do no•
need so mii,•h. Tt is line male•4 Alone
w•b,i indulge in Ihesn enpinttg lij A' ions
whip• the females are away laying eggs
. .
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