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Exeter Times, 1897-3-4, Page 2rw-f TE EXEVER TIMES THE R E RELIGION Rlw'V. DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES ON THE SUBJECT. What Righteousness in the h ousebold »Roes for the Fttnttiy—its it a Profile able Thing Y — The Great l'reaeber Draws a lesson hens Joshua's Sayings, ex' is fighting, and we are digging aud mother is praying." " Ah I" said some one, " praying and digging and fighting will bring_us out of our na 't tional troubles."a may pray in the morning, "Give us this day our daily bread," and sit down in idleness and starve to death; but prayer and hard work will give a livelihood to any family. Family religion pays for both worlds. Let us have an altar in each one of our households. You may not Rev. Dr. Talmage preached the fol- be able to formulate a prayer. Then lowing•discourse on "Religion at there are Philip Henry's prayers, and there are htcDuff's prayers, and there Home," the text selected being Joshua, are Philip Doddridge's prayers, and 24,15: "As for me and my house we there are the Episcopal Church pray - will serve, the Lord." ers, and there are scores of books with Absurd, Joshua I You will have no (supplications just suited t•o the domes- tic. circle. time for family religion; you are a " Oh !" says some man, " I don't feel military character, and your time will competent to lead my household in be taken up with affairs connected with prayer." Well, I do not know that it is your duty to lead. I think, perhaps. the army; you are a statesman, and it is sometimes better for the mother your time will be taken tip with pub., of the household to lead. She knows lie affairs; you are the Washington. better the wants of the household. She the Wellington, the McMahon of the can read the scriptures with a more tender enunciation. She knows more tsraelitish host, you will have a great of God. I will put it plainly, and many questions to settle, you will have say she prays better. Oh ! these no times for religion. But Joshua, with mothers decide almost everything. the same voice with which he cora- A young man received a furlough to minded the sun and moon to halt, and return from the army to his father's house. Afterward lie took the furlough stack arms of light on the parade ! back to the officer, saying, 'I ground of the heavens, says. "As for would like to postpone my visit for two me and my house we will serve the weeks." At the end of the two weeks Lord." his came and got the furlough. He was asked why he waited "Well," Before we adopt the. resolution of this he replied, "when I left home I told old soldier, we want to be certain it I my mother I would be a Christian in he to army, and I was resolved not . is a wise resolution. If religion is the co home until I could answer her first going to put my piano out of tune and question. ' Oh, the almost omniroteirt °ower of the mother! But if !loth the hither and the mother be right, then the children are almost sure to coin back to the right road. It may be until the death of one of the rarents. How often it is that we hear some one say, "Oh he was a wild young man, but since his father's death he has been different !" The fact is that the father's coffin, or the mother's cof- fin, is often the altar of repentance for the child. Oh ! that was a stupendous day, the day of father's burial. it was not the officiating clergyman who Made the chief impression, nor the sympatw father asleephizing in rhemourncaser,;ket.it Theas bandthes that had toiled for that household so long, folded. The brain cooled off af- ter twenty or forty years of anxiety about how to put that family in right position. The lips closed after so many years of good advice. There are more tears falling in mother's grave than in father's grave; but over the father's tone= I think there is a kind of awe. It is at that marble pil- lar many ayoung beene- volutionized.` c an has s r O, young man, with cheek flushed with dissipation ! how long is it since you have been out to your father's grave? Will you not go this week? Perhaps the storms of the last few days may have bent the headstone un- til' it Ieans far over. You had better go out and see whether the lettering has been defaced. You had better go out and see whether the gate of the lot is closed. You had better go and see if you cannot find a sermon in the springing grass. 0, young man! go out this week and see your father's grave. Religion did so much for our Christian ancestry, are we not ready this morning to be willing to receive ha into our own household I If we do receive it let it come through the front door, do not let us smuggle it in. There are a great many families who want to be religious, but they do not want anybody outside to know it. They would be mortified to death if you caught them at family prayers. They would not sing in the worship for fear their neighbors would hear them. They do not have prayers when they have company ! They do not know much about the nobility of the western trapper. A. tra- veler going along was overtaken by night and a storm, and he entered a cabin. There were firearms hung up around the cabin. Ha was alarmed. He Thad a large amount of money with him, but he did not dare to venture out into the night in the storm. He did not like the looks of the household After a while the father, the Western trapper came in, gun on his shoulder, and when the traveler looked at him he was still more affrighted. After a while the family were whispering to- gether in one cornier of the room, and the traveler thought to himself "Oh ! now my time has come ; I wish I was out in the storm and in the nightrath- er than here." But the swarthy man came tip to him and said: "Sir, we are a rough people; we get our living by hunting, and we are very tired when the night comes; but before go- ing to bed we always have a habit of reading out of the Bible and having prayers, and I think we will have our usual custom to -night; and if you don't believe in that kind of thing, if you will just step outside the door for a little while I will be much obliged to you." clog the feet of my children racing through the hall. and sour the bread, and put crape on the door bell, I do not want' it in my house. I once gave six dollars to hear Jenny Lind warble. I have never given a cent to hear any- one groan. Wilt this religion spoken of in my text do anything for the din- ing -hell, for the nursery, fur the parlor, for the sleeping apartment. It is a great deal easier to invite a disagreeable guest than to get rid of him. If you do not want religion you had better not ask it to come, for af- ter coming it may stay a great while. Isaac Watts went to visit Sir Thomas and Lady Abney at their place in Theobald, and was to stay a week, and stayed thirty-five weeks; and if relig- ion once gets into your Household the probability is it will stay there forever. Now the question I want to discuss is: What will religion do for the household? fhaestion the first. What did it do for your fat tier's house, if you were brought up is a Christian home ? The whole scene has vanished, but it comes back to -day. The hour for morning prayers came. You were in- vited In. Somewhat fidgety, you sat - end listened. Your father made no nretentions to rhetorical reading, and ae just went thrditgh the chapter in a plain. straighiforwaira way. Then you all knelt. It was about the i im prayer morning by morning and night: by night, for he bad the same sins to ask pardon far, and he had the same blessings for which to be grateful day after day and year after year. The prayer was longer than you would like to have had it, for the game at ball was waiting, or the skates were lying under the shed, or the schoolbooks needed one or two more looking at the lessons. Your parents, somewhat rheumatic and stiffened with age found it. difficult tv rise from their kneeling The chair at which they knelt is gone the Bible out of which they read has perhaps fallen to pieces, the parents are gone, the children scattered north, east, south and west; but =that -whole scene flashes upon your memory to- day. Was that morning and evening exercise in your father's hoose debas- ing oe elevating? Is it not among the most sacred reminiscences? You were not as devotional as some of the older members of your father's house who were kneeling with you at the same time, and you did not bow your head as closely as they did, and you looked around and you saw just the posture your father and mother as- sumed while they were kneeling on the floor. The whole scene is so photo- graphed err your memory that if you were an artist you could draw it now as they knelt. For hoe much would you have that scene obliterated from your memory m ry G It all comes back to- day, and you are in the homestead again. Father is there, mother is there, all of your children are there. It is the same old prayer, opening with the same petition, closing with the same thanksgiving. The family pray- ers of 1810, 1850, as fresh in your mem- ory as though they were uttered yes- terday. The tear that starts from your eye melts all the scene. Grine, is it? Why, many a time it has held you steady in the struggle of life. You once started for a place, and that memory jerked you back, and you could not enter. The broken prayer of your father has had more effect upon you than all you ever read in Shakespeare, and Milton, and Tennyson and Dante. You have gone over mountains, and across seas. You never for a moment got out of sight of that domestic altar. 0, my friends! is it your opinion this morn- ing that the ten or fifteen minutes sub- tracted from each day for family de- votion was an economy or a waste of time in your father's household? I 'hink some of us are coming to the .onclusion that the religion which was am our father's house would be very appropriate religion for our homes. If amity prayers did not damage that tousehoid there is no probability that they will damage our household. ' Is God dead?" said a child to her father. " No," he replied, " why do you ask that ?" " eil," she said, when mother was living we used to have prayers, but since her death we haven't had family prayers, and I didn't know but what God was dead, too." A family that is launched in the morning with family prayers is well Launched, Breakfast over, the fam- ily scattter, some to school, some to household duties, some to business. During the day there wilI be a thou- sand perils abroad—perils of the street car, of the scaffolding, of the ungov- erned horse, of the misstep of the aroused temper, of multitudinous temptations to do wrong, Somewhere etween seven o'clock in the morning and ten o'clock ' at night there may be a moment when you will be in ur- gent need of God. "Beside that, family prayers will be a secular advantage. A ?father went into thewar to serve his country. Ills children stayed and ,cul- tivated the, farm. His wife prayed, ed, One of the sons said afterward, ".Fath - Oh ! there are many Christian par- ents who have not half the courage of the Western trapper. They do not want their religion projecting too con- spicuously. They would like to have it near by so as to having it dominant in the household from the first of January, seven o'clock a.m., to the thirty-first of December, ten o'clock p.m., they do not want it. They would rather die and have their families per- ish with them than to cry out in the bold words of the soldier in my text: "As for me and my household we will serve the Lord." There wall , in my ancestral line, an incident so strangely impressive that it seems more like romance than re- ality. It has sometimes been so in- accurately put forth that I now give you the true incident. My grandfather and grandmother, living at Somerville, New Jersey, went to Baskingridge to witness a revival under the ministry of the Rev., Dr. Finlay. They came home so impressed with what they had seen that they resolved on the salva- tion of their children. TheSun people of y g pe p e the house were to go off for an evening party, but Puy grandmother said: "Now, when you are ready for the party, come to my room, for I have something very important to tell you." All ready for departure they came to her room, and she said to them: "Now, I want you to remember while you are away this evening I am all the time in this room praying for your salvation, and I shall not cease praying until you get back." The young people went to the party, but amid the loudest hila.rities of the night they could not forget that their mother was praying for them. The evening passed and the night passed. , The next day my grandparents heard an outcry in an adjoining room, and they went in and found their daughter imploring the salvation of the Gospel. The daughter told them that her bro- thers were ate—tie barnand at the wagon house under powerful convic- tion of • sin. They went to the barn. They found my uncle Jehiah, who af- terwards became a minister of the Gospel, crying to God for mercy. They went to the wagon house. They found their son David, who afterwards be- came my father, imploring God's par- don and mercy. Before a great while the whole family were saved, and David went and told the story to a yoed,i w.ho, as womanng result to ooftithe stony.lobcee came a Christian, and from her own lip -my mother's—I have received the incident. The story of that converted house- hold ran through all tho neighborhood, from family to family, until the whole region was whelmed with religio -s awakening, and at the nett commun- ion in the village church at Somerville, over two hundred souls stood up to profess the faith of the Gospel. My mother, carrying the memory, of this scene from early womanhood into far- ther life, in after years was resolved upon the salvation of her children, and for many years every week, she met families were saved— myself, the think that all the members of those three other Christian mothers to pray for the salvation of their families. I youngest and the last. There were twelve of us children. I trace the whole line of mercy bank to that hour when my Christian grand- mother sat in her room imploring the blessing of God upon her children. wine of her descendants became preaeberheo Gospel. Many of her descendali in heaven, many of them still in t gChristian conflict. Did it pay for her to spend the whole even- ing in prayer for her household? Ask her before the throne of God, surround- ed by her children. In the presence of the Christian Church to -day, Imalte this record of ancestral piety. Oh ! there is a beauty, and a t enderness, and a sublimity in family religion. There are two arms to this subject. The one arm puts its hand on all parents. It says to them: "Don't interfere with your children's welfare, don't interfere with their eternal hap- piness, don't you, by anything you do, put out your foot and put them into rum. Start them under the shelter, the insurance, the everlasting help of Christian parentage. Catechisms will not save them, though catechisms are good. The rod will not save theta, though the rod may be necessary. Les- sons of virtue will not save them, though they are very important. Be- coming a through and through, up and down, out and out Christian yourself will make them Christians. • The other arm of this subject puts its ' hand upon those who had a pant; i bringing up, but who have as yet die- appointed the expectations excited in i regard to them. I said that children brought up in Christian households, though they might make awide curve, were very apt to come back to the straight path. Have you not been curving out long enough? and is it•nat most time for you to be curving in? "Oh," you say, "they were too rigid." Well naw, my brother, I think you have a pretty good character consider- ing what you say your parents were. Do not boast too mural about the style in which your parents brought you up. Might it not be possible that you would be an exception to the general rule laid down, and that your might spend your eternity in a different world from that in which your parents are spend-, ing theirs? I feel anxious about you, you feel anxious about yourself. Oh I cross over into the right path. If your par- ents prayed for you twice a day, each of them twice a day for twenty years„ that would make 29,000 prayers for you. Think of them! By the memory of the cradle int which your childhood was rocked, with. the foot that long ago ceased to move, by the crib in which your own children slumber night by night. under God's protecting care, by the two, graves in which sleep those two old hearts that beat with love so long for your welfare, and by the two graves in which you, now the living father and mother, will find your last repose, I urge you to the discharge of your duty. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH 7. 'The Ethiopian Convert;' Golden Text Acts S. 26.40. GENERAL STATEMENT. The story of to -day has a perennial charm. Each Tiny detail has an at- tractiveness of its owr The desert road between two crouded capitals; the evangelist led step by step by the Spirit: of God; the roll of Hebrew pro- phecy which proclaimed the truths of the Gospel centuries after its author had been laid in his grave; the royal treasurer of Ethiopia driving with gorgeous escort through the wilderness; the ceremony of baptism performed with such Readiness and simplicity— these are parts of the picture of which the world can never tire. But the chief chasm of the story comes from its spiritual truth. Here we see that, in one way or another, intimations come from God which, if followed, will lead aright; that a loftier intellect than yours or mine directs the wills of men about us; "a good man's steps are ordered of the Lord, and. he delighteth in his way." Here we are taught that there is no such thing as chance. ' That this lowly African was on this road at this hour was as really God's doing as that Phillip was there. It was no ac- cident which had brought him up to the feast at Jerusalem; it did not "chance" that when he turned to the study of the Greek Scriptures it was that passage in Isaiah which so singu- larly foretells the meek sufferings of the Saviour that opened before him. God's fingers play on all the keys of human life. The supreme attractive -1 ness of the character of the Messiah is another truth brought to our notice by this lesson. y Whether we read the words of our Lord, or the record of his passion, or the philosophic expounding of his doctrines by Paul, or the prophecy Which the Ethiopian studied, we find ourselves in the presence of the Son of man, tire Embodiment of Israel's spiri- tual ideals, the Incarnation of the bean- titudes ; and to this Hoty One are drawn all souls who feel the weight of sin. We have in this lesson also an account oL-a representative conviction and conversion, a photograph of the steps by which a sinner is led to God. 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He has long known of a Christ, perhaps -as devout Jews knew of him—vaguely and dimly, by the help of the temple ritual. Through his study of the prophets he has learned to know him better. Under the preaching of the evangelist his ideas become still more definite. He• will henceforth be a follower of the, Christ. "What cloth hinder me?" So he is formally inducted by baptism into the Church. Here is an important. lesson on the value of opportunity' PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 26. And the angel. Better, "But the angel." Philip. One of the "seven men of honest report, full of time Holy Ghost and wisdom," chosen' by the Church et Jerusalem to super- vise the help given t. poor disciples: Toward the south. "South" should have a capital S ; the lower part of Southwas generally kno h D eht h , it was also called T es and The Wilderness; and the last three words of this verse do not describe Gaza, as the grammatical construction might imply, but the southern wilder- ness ilderness of Judea, The sentence has been Iturned into modern English, thus: )'lirase is interchangeable with "the! "Take the journey by the south as far angel of the Lord" (above) we do not I jas the road that goes from Jerusalem know ; what we may be certain of is to Gaza, where the country is desert." that, 2, God's Spirit as really .directs Philip was to go southward from Sa- his children now as ever. This the Bi- l maria till he came to the junction of ble everywhere plainly declares, and ! Lthe Gaza road with the Jerusalem road. the experience of Christians in all There is some authority, however. for ages proves. Go near, and join thy- I eading "at noon' instead of toward self. Approach and slip into compare- i j the south." 1. God takes as minute per- ionable relations with this foreigner. sonal care of you and me as he does 30. Philip ran. He hastened to over - of Philip. The solitude of the way may take the Ethiopian party. Heard him. have induced the eunuch to turn to the For the eunuch was reading aloud, a book. custom almost universal in the Orient. The prophet Esaias. "The same Pro- vidence which sent Philip to meet him in the desert directed his reading to the fifty-third chapter of the great evangelical prophet."—Bishop Hervey. Sl. Hew can I, except some man should guide me? In antiquity all sacred writings were supposed to have an inner meaning not intelligible to the lay reader ; religions were believed to be both "exoteric" and "esoteric"— that is, to have a superficial meeting for common folk and a deeper meaning for the favored few. He desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. The eunuch regarded Philip as a religious sage.. "Desired" should be "besought." Hare we have the writ- ten word, a living teacher, and a most eager pupil. 3. Earnest inquirers wel- come helpfrom any quarter. 32. The place of the Eco ipture which he read was this. The quotation from Isaiah 53' which follows is not. can that theeunuch had read, but what was holding his attention at this moment, and it is the keynote of an extended passage. Led as a sheep to the slaugh- ter. That is, without resistance. 83. The variations in this verse from our Hebrew, text arises from the fact that they are taken front the Septua- gint, Greek Version, which varies in many . regards from the Hebrew. In his humiliation his judgment was taken away. Our translation from the He- brew Version is i'by oppression . and judgment he was taken away," which means 'substantially the same thing. Who shall declare his generation? This is 'a different passage in the original. The meaning is probably, "Who will give serious thought to his life or his age, seeing thatit is so prematurely cutoff?" The Samhebrian hated him,. and sought 'to wipe his record from history, but God frustiated their plans. 34. Of whom speaketh the prophet • } 27. He arose and went. With prompt obedienoe. A man of Ethiopia. What we would now call an Abyssin- ian. Ethiopia is known in classical liter- ature as Meroe. It was a center of com- Imerce; and its inhabitants were then, I as now, lar a in stature, dark in color, and beautifully developed. A eunuch. Eunuchs were frequently employed in i ancient statecraft. Of great author- ity. Which. he had acquired doubtless • by personal ability. Candace. Hints ! in ancient history make it probable that "Candace" was a titular name ad- ! opted by the Queen of Ethiopia, as !Pbataoh was adopted by the kings of Egypt, and Caesar by the Roman emperors; and we have the authority of Eusebius for saying that the Ethic- ' pianswere always governed by a • queen. End the charge of all her treasure. Was probably not only her ' private treasure, but the treasurer of the kingdom as well. Had come to ' Jerusalem for to worship. He is sup- posed by some to have been already a proselyte to the Jewish faith. 28. Was returning., Still before him was a long, wearisome, and some- what dangerous journey. Sitting in his chariot. Traveling in such state as no great • men now affect. Read Esaias the prophet. Isaiah. Among providential arrangements for the spread of the Gospel when it came were tlee universal use of the Greek language. brought about by the conquests of Alexander ; the translation of the He- brew Scriptures into Greek, the wide diffusion of Hebrew law and doctrine by means of the Jewish dispersion. Is- aiah was regarded as the greatest of prophets, andit was :a natural . thing for this studious and reverent eunuch to select the roll of Isaiah as the book to read on his homeward way. 29. The Spirit said. Row far this this? Here is the record of a question as intelligent and discerning as any man could ask about this passage. Ev- ery fact we learn concerning this eu- nich places him high in our estimate. -35. Began at the same Set V'ture. Should be "Beginning from." He start- ed with Isaiah, but passed . down through consecutive prophets, show- ing that Jesus was the fulfillment of all prophecy. Preached unto him Je- sus. Doubtless he told him all that could be told concerning "the Church." See the next verse. 36. A certain water. The water in the wady Tel-el-Hasy .was "identified" by Dr. Robinson as that in which Philip baptized the eienuoh, It is on the southermost road from Jerusalem to Gaza, and,, it.runs through a country which has in all ages been desert. But the identification is not certain. What cloth hinder me to be baptized A•ques- tion which shows that Philip's ex- planation must have been extensive, for it included the simple rites of the Christian Church. 37. The teacher will notice that this verse is not in the Revised Version. It has been omitted because it is not in. the oldest existiug manuscripts. On the other hand, it is quoted by Irenaeus and Cyprian, and they wrote long be- fore any manuscripts now existing were mitten. Faith • in Christ is an • essential prerequisite to baptism in the case of an adult, for he has personally sinned, and faith only can bring him into a state of salvation; Butinfants are already 'in a state .of salvation through the atonement of Christ. Be- lievest with all thine heart. "Believ- ing with the heart" is a most suggeem- tive phrase. Jesus Christ is the Son of God. A whole body of divinity in a sentence. 88. Be, The eunuoli. They went down both into the water. Down the steep banks of the mountain torrent' 39. The Spirit' of the Lord caught away Philip. A miracle' seems to he plainly indicated here. He went on his way rejoicing. ' The eunuch doubtless recognized that Philip was a messen- ger follow by God. He makes no attempt e him, but passes on to his own country rejoicing that his soul is Saved. Dominion notes in circulation at the end of January were h21,929,209 an in- crease of 4106,995 for the month,