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I Kill ILHKE. Rev. TelmsKß on a Sufcjoct of Worldwide interest. BhovraWhtat WeQwo totheQreoks- Anneotaas!,*le*itrying to pot its pews upon » of all nations, that at tk* Greeks, X pteeeh this sermon of sympathy and protest, far every Intelligent pcruoa on this aids, raw Pant, who wrote tha text, Is dobtortothe 0 tastes. The peasant arista Is emphasised by the sruasof the Allied Powers of Europe, re*dy to ha unUmbeced against tbe Hellenes, and X am raked to speak out. Paul, with a master Intellest of the apes, sat In bfilXaat Corinth, tha great Aero. Oorlnthos fortress frowning from the height Os IM6 lost, and In the house of Gains, when ha was a guest, a big pile of money near him, which ha waa taking to Jernsafcm for the poor. Ia thi* letter to the Homans, which Ohry aostom admired ao tnuob that ha had ft read to him twloa a weak, Paul predtanlly says; ,*•1, the apostle, am bankrupt I owe what X aaaaot pay, hat I will pay aatarge a peroeot «go as l ew, It la an obligation for what Steak literature and Greek ssalptaro and Greek arohltootuw and Greek prowess hare done forma. 1 will pay all I can in install- evangelism. lam insolvent to tha Hellas, m the Inhabitants eail it,or Greece, as we call it, la insignificant is stae. about a third as large as the State ol New York, hat what it laws In breadth it makes up la height, with its mountains Cylene and Eta and Taygstua and Tymphrertus, aaeh over 7000 feat In elevation, and Ms Parnassus, over 8000. Tost tha eooatry for rnightr man to be bora in, for In all lands the moat of the intelleotaal and moral giants wan not bora on tha plain, hat had for cradle the valley between two mountains. That oooatry, no put of whlah la mote than forty miles horn the sea, has made its Impress upon tha world aa no other nation, and it to-day holds a first mortgage of obligation upon all civilised people. While wo moat leave to statesmanship and diplomacy the settlement of the intsloate questions which now involve all Europe and indirectly all nations, it is tlma for all the churches, all schools, all universities, all arts, all lltwatoma, to sound out in the most emphatic war ttao declaration, “I am debtor to the Greeks.* la the first plane, we owe to their language oar Hew Testament Ail of was drat writ ten in Greek, except the book of Matthew, and that, written in the Aramaan.laaguage, waa boob put into Greek by our Saviour's brother James. To the Greek language we owe the best sermon ever preached, the beet • letters ever written, the best visions aver kindled. All the pandries la Oreek. Ail tha mimeles In Grout. Tho sermon on the mount in Greek. The story ot Bethlehem, and Golgotha, and Olivet, and Jordan banks, and Galilean tiaaahee, and Pauline embarka tion, and Pentecostal tongues, and seven trumpets that sounded over Patmas, have some to the world in liquid, symmetric, picturesque, philosophic, unrivaled Grook. Intend of the gibberish language in which many ot the nations of the earth at that tlmo Jabbered. Who can forget St, and who can exaggerate its thril ling importance, that Christ and heaven were Introduced to tw In the language of the Greeks,the language ia which Homer bad sung, and Bonhoclee dramatised, and Plato dialogued, and Secrete* discoursed, andLyeurgua legislated, and Demosthenes thundered bis oration on "The Crown?” Everlasting thanks to God that tho waters of Ufa w«re not handed to tha world in tha un washed eupof corrupt languages from which nation* had been drinking, bat in the clean, bright, golden llpua t, emerald handled chalice of the Hellene*. Learned Curtins wrote a whole volume about the Greek verb. Philologists oentury after century have been measuring the symmetry of that language, ' laden with elegy and philippic drama and eomeay, "Odyssey” and "Iliad,” bat the grandest thing that Greek language ever ac complished was to give to the world the benediction, the comfort, the irradiation, the salvation, ol the gospel of the Son of Qod, FOr that we aro debtors to the Greeks. From tha Greek* the world learned how to make history-. H.tfl there been ao Horodotus and Thucydides there would hare beat no’ Macaulay or Bancroft. Had tha* been no Sopboclco in tragedy there would have been no Shakespeare. Had there been no Homer, there would have been no Milton. The mod ern wlt«, who arc now or have been out on the divine mtadon of making the world laugh at tbo right time, oan be traced back to Aristophanes, tha Athenian. and many of the Jocosities that ato now takes as new had their suggestions MOO yearn ago in tho flfty four comedies of that master ot merriment. Grecian mythology ban been the richest mine Irom which orators and essayists have drawn their illustrations sad paint ers the themes for their canvas, and, al though now an exhausted mine, Grecian mythotogr has done a work that notb ttf rise could have accomplished. Bo reas, representing the north wind; Sisy phus. rolling ths stone up the hill, only to have tha tame thing to do over again; Tantalus, with fruits above him that ho could not reach; Achilles, with htf arrows; leans, with bis waxen wings, flying too aw the sun; the Centaur*, half-man and half-beast; Orpheus, with his lyre? Atlas, With tha world <tt his hack-all thane and more have helped literature, Irotnthe grad fas Ohoate's auiogium on Daniel Webstar at Snitmcoth. Tragedy and comedy war* born in the festivals of Dionysius at Athens. The lyric and alagtae and epto pootry ot Greece tOO yean before Christ bee its cohoes ia the Teenysone, Longfellows ead Bryants of Mto sad 1W) years after Christ. Thereto not an effective pulpit or editorial ohoiror professor's room or MMured parlor or total ligeat farmhouse to-day in America or s.r^^iSTsr«safiaHS the firrstri" The Jaot to thto-Panl hod got muohofhto oratorical power of expression from the Giuohsi That ha had studied their literalur* was evident whan, standing In ths presence of aa cadlenoeof Greek scholars on Math’ Mil, which overlooks Athens, he dared to quote from one of their own Greek poets, either Clrantha# or Arataa, declaring, "As eartaia also of poor own poms have said. motoxLujoU^ii * the ports, having written: For we thine offspring as*. An things that snap Are bat tbe eebo of the rofoe divine. , WoasMtooflbprt* and to leva*, fly. Itwas nfhsr a rirtty at- the moat dtattagaMhed taMttm on tha planet his indebtedness to tha Greeks, cry ing oat labia oration, "As one of your own poets has Said.” Furthermore, alt tha civilised world, ilka Paul, is indebted to the Greeks tor architec ture. Ths world before ths time of the Greeks had built monoliths, obelisks, crom lacbs, sphinxes v»d pyramids, bat they were mostly monumental, to tho dead whom they failed to memorialise. We ore not certain, even, of the names of those in whose corn* numeration the pyramids were built But Greok architecture did most tor tha living, Ignoring Egyptian precedents sad borrow ing nothing from other nations, Omsk archil torture carved Its own columns, art its owi pediments, adjusted its own entablatures rounded its own moldings and serried out as never before tha three quantise ot right building, oaltod by an old outhor "flrmltes, utUltes, veausta# —uainblr, finances, one- Mil am. hastily Ent then to another art ia my mind—the most faaolnntlng, atevaring sad inspiring of nil arts and the nearest to the divine—tor which all the world owes a debt to the Hel lenes that will newer bo paid. I moan sculp tor*. At least 680 yean baton Christ the Greeks perpetuated the human face and term la tacts cotta sad marble. What a bleuingto the human family that men and women, mightily useful, who could live only within a century may be perpetuated for five or six or tan oeotunea? How I wish that some sculptor contemporaneous with Christ oould have put Hlsmatobless form in mar btet But lor every grand and exquisite statue of Martin Lather, of John Knox, ot William Fans, of Thomas Ctudmarz. of Wellington, ot Lafayette, of any of tha greet Statesmen or omaaolpatorn or cow quorum who adorn your parka or AH tho niches of your academies, you aro debtors to the Greeks. They covered the Aoropolto, they glorified the temples, they adorned tha cemeteries with statues, soma In cedar, some ia ivory, some in silver, tone in gold, some in sice diminutive and some ia siso colossal. Thanks to Phidias, who worked in rtone? to Cleorohos, who worked In bronxe; to Dontas, who worked In gold, and to all ancient ehlsols of commemoration! Do you not realize that tor many of the wonders of soulpture we aro debtors to the Greeks? Yea. for the science ot mediolne. the groat art of healing, w* must thank the Greeks. There is the Immortal Greek doctor, Hippo crates, who flirt opened the door for dtooaes to go out sad health to oome in. He flirt sat forth thaimportonee ot eleanlloeas and sleep, making the patient before treatment to be washed mad take slumber on the hide ot n sacrifice beast. He first discovered the Im portance of thorough prognosis and diag nosis. He formulated tho famous oath ot Hippocrates whteh to taken by physicians ot our day. He emancipated medietas from superstition, empiricism and priestcraft. He was tho father of alt the infirmaries, hospit als and medical colleges oi ths last twenty throe centuries. Furthermore, all the world to obligated to Hellas more than it oan ever pay for its heroics in the esom of liberty and right. United Europe to-day had not better think that the Greeks will not fight. Thors may be fellingsboekaud vacillations sad tempor ary defeat, bnt if Greece torlght ait Europe cannot put her down. Tho other nations before they open the portholes of their man of-war against that small kingdom bad better nod of the battle or Mammon, where 10,000 Athenians, led on by MHliades, triumphed over 100,000 of their enemies. At that Mora, la Greek council of war, five generate wei* for beginning the battle and five were against It. Callimachus presided at the council oi war, bad the deciding vote, and Milt lades addressed him, saying: "It no wrests with you, Callimachus, either to enslave Athens, or. by insuring her froo dom, to win yourself an Immortality ol tame, for never since the Athenians were a people wore they in sooh danger as they are in at this moment. It they bow the knee to these Modes, they are to be given up to Hippies, and you know what they will then have to suffer, .but If Athens comca victorious out of this content she has It in her power to beeome tho Qnt city of Grown. Tour vote to to de eide whether we aro (o join battle or not. If wa do not bring on n battle presently, some foetioas intrigue will disunite tha Athenians, and tbo city will be betrayed to the Modes, butifwa fight before the** to anything rot ten in the state or Athens I believe that, pro vided the gone wfll give fair field and no favor, we are able to got the best of it in the ‘ engagement" That won the vote of Callimachus, and soon thß battle opened, and In full ran the men ot MHtladot toll upon the Persian hosts, shouting: "Ob, eons of Greece: Strike for tha freedom of your country! Strike for the freedom of your children and your wives, for thß shrines ot yon r fathers’ gods and for the sopulchera of your elresl AH, nil aro now staked on the strifel” White only 193 Greeks fell, MOO Persians lay dead upon the field, and many of the Asiatic hosts who took to the war wwele In the harbor wero consumed In the shipping. Persian oppres sion was robuked, Grecian liberty was achieved, tbo oauso ot civilization was ad vanced, and the western world end nil na tions have felt the heroics. Hod there been no Miltlades there might bare been no Washington. Also at Thormopylm 900 Greeks, along a rood only wine enough for a wheel traok be tween a mountain and a marsh, died rather than surrender. Had there been ao Ther mopylae there might have been no Bunker Hill. English Magna Ghana and Declaration of American Independence and the song of Robert Barns, entitled "A Man's a Hon For s’That," wero only the loaf continued re verberation of what was Bald and done twenty centuries before in that little kingdom that the Powers of Europe are now Imposing upon. Greene having again end shown thtt tea men in tbs right era stronger then 100 men la Uie wrong, the heroics of Leonidas and Aristides and Them tot notes win not cease their mission until ths last man on earth is as Ikes as God suds him. Thera to not on either side oi the Atlantic to-dnr a republic that tom not truthfully employ the words of the text sad any, "I sa debtor to ths Greeks,” But aow comae the practical question. How con we pay that debt or n part of 117 For w* cannot pay more than ten per cent, of that debt to which Paul acknowledged himself s bankrupt. By praying Almighty God that He help Greeoe in Its present war with S'**" isd ths eonoeifed empires of Buropc. I know her guess, s noble, Christian woman, her toes tlw throne of all benellosnee and loveliness, her life an example of nobis wifehood and motherhood. God help those palaces in these days of aw ful exigency! Our American (tenets did well the other day wheats the capital bonding Which owes to Greses Its columnar Impres siveness thmr passed a hearty resolution of sympathy tor that nation. Would that all who have potent words that aso be heard in ■wops would uttar them now, when they si* so much needed) Let as repast to thaw s was 'ssr*szr£& WHO il. 1.. n.nwillUM ..., ' end by small windows that do not let tn the toll sunlight. You pass them every dayta your straws without say recognition. The world anils them ••bookworms” or "Dr. Dryasdust,” hat if there hod been ao book worms or dry doctors at taw and selenea sad theology there would have been ao Apoca lyptic eagcL They are the Greeks of ear country and time, end your obligation to themtetaflalta* fiat there to s better way to pay them, end Gist is by their personal salvation, whlek will never oome to them through books or through learned presentation, because In literature and intollsotnal realms they are misters. They can outargue, outquoto, oat dogmatise you, Not through the gate ol tha head, but through the gate of ths heart, you rnsy capture them. When men of looming and might an brought to God, they are brought by simplest story of what religion can do for a souL They have loot children. Ob, tell them how Christ comforted you when you lost your bright boy or blue eyed girl! They have found life a struggle. Oh, toll them how Christ has helped you all the way through! They uro in bewilder ment. Oh, tel) them with bow many hands of Joy heaven beckons you upward 1 "When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug ol war,” but when n warm hearted Christian meets a man who needs pardon and sym pathy and comfort and eternal life thee comae victory. If you can, by some incident ot self sacrifice, bring to such scholarly mec sad women what Obrist has done for theb eternal rescue, you may bring them in ifisssra: aatfßwsiAjg' succeed. A (tentlemon of this city toads me the statement of what °ccurn*l s tow days ago among the mines o! British Columbia. It seems that Frank Oooson and Jem Smith wen* down to the narrow shaft oi n mine. They had loaded an toon bucket with coal, and Jim Hemswortb, standing above ground, was haudng the basket up by windless, when ths windless broke, end the loaded bucket was descending upon the two miners. .Then Jim Heowwortn, teeing what mart he ocriota death to the miners beneath, threw himself against the cogs qf the whirling windlass, and, though hto flesh was tom and hie bones ware broken, he stopped the whirling wind lass and arrested the descending backet end saved the Uvea ol the miners beneath. The euparinteadent of the mine flew tothe res cue end blocked the machinery. When Jim Hams worth's bleeding and broken body was put on a litter and carried homeward and some one exclaimed. "Jim, this to awful! ho replied, "Oh, what’s tbe difference so tone as leaved tbe boyk?” What an Illustration it was of suttenng ior others, sad whst a tort from which to lllus trate the behavior ot our Christ, limping end lacerated and broken sad torn and crashed to the work of stopping the desoend ing rain that would have destroyed our aerate! Trywwhssoeneof vicarious sultorlng as this on that man capable of overthrowing all your arguments tor tbe truth, and be will sit down and weep. Draw your illustrations from tbe classics, and It is to him an old story, biit Leyden jars and electric hattaries andtelescopes and Greek drams willed sue render to tbo story of Jin Hsmswortn s **€)□, what's the difference so long as I saved the boys?” Then, if your illustration ot Christ's solt socrifloe, drawn from some scene of to-day, and yonr story of whst Christ has done tor you do not qnite fetch him into the right way, just say to him, "Professor-doctor*— Judge, why wee it that Paul declared he was a dobtor to the Cracks?” And ask your teamed Mend to take tbe Greek Testament end translate for yon. in bis own way, from Greek into English, the splendid peroration of Patti's sermon on Mare’ MM, un der the power ot which the scholarly Dionysius surrendered—namely, " Tlu> times ot this ignorance God winked at. but now commandetb all mou everywhere to repent, because Ho hath appointed s day in which He will judgo tho world io right eousness, by that man whom be hath or dained, whereof He hath given oseuraneo unto all men. in that He bath raised him from the dead.” By tbe lime he has got through the translation from the Greek I think you will ace hto Up tremble, ud there will come a pallor on hto face like the pallor on the eky at doybroak. By the «ern< salvation of thxt aoboUr. that groat thinker, that splendid man, you will havo done some thing to help pay your indebtedness to the Greek*. And now to God the YV.ber. God the Bon and God the Holy Ghost be honoi and glory and dominion end victory and sang, world without rod. Amen. * prominent"people! Mayor Strong; of New York Olty, has just eclebßi!c4 Ate seventiolU birthday. Admiral John G. 'Walker has bsen pt*eo<l on the rti iro l list of tho United States Navy. ooiir.Lor Hcitfclii. ot Idaho, (dates that be bos never worn a dews* suit In all bis life. Mr*. John D. Tteakcfclter is ns devoted to htopitnls where her charities are concerned as bur husband to to universities. Mr. Wellington, the new Republican Sena tor Jrom Maryland, who to forty-live, began life as an errand noy ot twelve in % canal Store in Cumberland. Frank A. Yaaderiip, the Private Secretary ot Secretary Gage, 1* a careful student ot finance. Me was for somo time the financial editor oi the Chicago Tribune. The Governor of Minnesota, the State Supevintandeot ot Public Institution ttud several of the State Senators of tbat Btato ore natives oi New Hampebiro. It is announced tluit the Baronins rle Hirscfi )uta decided to give the sum ot 31.- 800.000 te be need for the advancement of tbe Hebrew people In the United Statue. Premier Salisbury may ba made a dnke in this, Queen Victoria’s sexagesimal vsar. Sir Edmund Munson, the new British Embassa dor to Parte, will soon be made a peer. Mrs*. Grover Cleveland was formally intro duced to society ladles in Princeton, N. J., at a tea given ia her honor ter Mrs. Patton, wife of the President ot tbo University. "Mint. Tuasaud,’’ a London museum ot eurioeities, paid Dr. Naosen *6OOO for the bSubher-eoakcd suit ha wore when he met Mr. Jackson on the too of Prana Josef Land. Herbert ttpeaaer ha* declined the offer of Cambridge (Bngiaaa) University to make him a Doctor of dcionee, on the ground tbat ho has always refused to accept each honors. Tbe tallest man ia the United States Senate is Mr. Fairbanks, the new Republican Sena tor from radians, who succeeds Mr. Voor hues, who was often called the "Tall Syca more oi tha Wabash.” But Senator Fair banks is considerably taller, and must be several taebae above six loot. Ignaeo Palette, who died oa Mackinac Island, Miob.. recently at the age ot ninety throe, was the teat survivor ot the Americas Fur company. He had an Indistinct recol lection of John Jacob Astor, the principal owner of the company, and a memory ol events ot iatcrart tn the West during tbe first half of the eentnry. Tbe youngest men to ths House of Boors many easdidsdCwhito ”nm” ttokiC'Of Ms ovi toutnufttoß, Mfi ®llf tHIRtIMII fHfll Ofttfg AM has beans taaaSar to ch» potato mheofc ot Raw York ONy. EELIGIODSREADm O ter a heart of calm repose Amid the world's loud roar, A life tbat like a river flows Along s peaceful shore. Oome Holy Spirit, stUI my heart With gentleness divine; Indwelling peace thou esnst import, O, make that blessing mine. Above the scenes of storm sad strife Thera speeds a region fair; Give me to lira that higher Ufa, And breathe that heavenly sir. ■maxes ix xusauzUA Then Is no doubt that every hard thing that God permits to corns into oar life bos s blessing wrapped up In it. The things which appear before ns as discouragements prove to be helps toward nobler attainments. A Christian physician, whose career has been full of faith and noble ministry, gives this experience: He woe a poor bov, and a cripple. One day he was watching same other boya on the boll field. They wan* active,strong,and wealthy. Ashe looked on, hto heart grew bitter with envy. A young ixmu who stood beside him noted the dtononi. .t on hto face and said to him,"Yon wish j were ia those boy*’ plana, don’t you?’* Yes, I do,” was the answer. “I reckon tad gave them money, oduoetlon and health," continued the young man, <c to help them to be of Rome account in tbe world. Did it never strike you,” he con tinued, after e moment's pause, “that He gave yon yonr tamo leg for the tame reason—to make a man of you?” The boy gave no answer and turned away- He was angry, but he did not forget the words. Hto crippled leg God’s gut! To teach him patience, courage, perseverance! To make a man ol him I He thought of the words till he saw tkoir moaning. They kindled hope and cheer, and he determined to conquer his hindrance. He grow heroic. He soon learned that what was true ot his tame leg was tAe ateo of all the difficulties, hindrances, and hard conditions of hto life —they were all God's gifts to him to help him to be of someeeoount in the world—to mako s man of him.—J. R. Millor, D. D., to '‘Things to Live For.” numtenox through sobbow. Great sorrows never leave us what wo were before. None can pass under tbat hom- T*r and remain tbo same. After a grant Baptism of sorrow wo must bo different: hut what we should pray and strive for is that we may emerge from it bettor, richer, more faithful, more helpful, more filled with a heartfelt delight in God's will, more able to make a true answer to God’s surprises and wonder* of love. There arc periods in life, years and years, when no great trouble visits us. Then the storms of sorrow fall, and we aro apt to say,l have passed through and I may hope tor an Immunity for tbe future. It to not no. Tbe troubles may cotae bank, they may come back again worse. Aa has been said, our Pharaohs are seldom drowned in the Red sea, and wo do not often, behold their corpses stretched upon the sand. The bit ternoss of death may return. What then? At tho very worst tbe memory of the past will help us. Wo shall retrace the slow, difilcolt w«y to peace; our trust in God will bo deepened, and we shall realize that, after all, the rang? of Alas and sorrows to limited, though the sea of troubles may roll Its whito treat*-d billow* no far as tho horizon. What arc truly numberless nr* God's mercies. What is truly Infinite is God's love—Robert ton Mooli. a Mtarxn or ohatititO*. We lift up our hearts to thee, O God. in grateful ruaiemberonce of the gilts and blessings whteh bate crowned our dava. When oar hoaitt* have forgotten thanksgiv ing. thou hast not ceased from help. Al though we have sinned, thou hast still main tained ihy loving kindness. Our trials have been loss than our desert, our Joys havo been witness ever of thy merciful eompas lion. We bless thee for the gift of life, tha love of friends, thv ties of kindred, tho Joys or heme. Wo praise theo for opportunities ol knowledge, for Innocent enjoyment and helpful service. Thou hast comforted us in sorrow and upheld us la flic time or doubt and fonr. Food ami raiment nnd shelter are from thee, und thou glvest us power to over come temptation. Lore to thy gift, and fr.tlh Slid hope of better dayn to tome ; and thy pnscupj is our continual delight. Elcssod oc thou. O Cod, with honor and tbaukHijiv tog, through Jeavw Christ our Lord) Amen. no xot wonax. The habit of looking on the bright side of things to a good one, and is worth a great deal to each on« who cultivates it. Cer tainly one should not cultivate the habit of looking on Die dark side, especially when be must draw on hto forebodings and appre hensions for a vision of tbat dark side, and thus see not only what does not exist, but what may never exist. God promises grace for each tlmo ot need, but uot for each time of worry and anxiety. He promises to bo with Hto people when they pane through the fire, but He does not promise to extinguish the fire before it lias boon lighted. He says tbat when Ills people pass through the waters they shall not overflow them, and we ought to be satisfied with that. If wo trust tn God, the disasters we dread most will never come, or. If they do, He will change the disaster into benodlctten.—Herald and I'resbywr. tn roux biox or roauivKXxaa. Tho true sign of forgiveness to not some mysterious signal waved from tha sky j not Some obscure emotion hunted out in your heart; not some stray text culled out of your Bible; certainly not tooo word ot mortal priori telling you that yonr satisfaction to complete. The soul full of responsive love to Christ and ready, longing, hungry to Brve him to Us own sign of forgiveness. urithere nov v bo sorrow for sin? Must there not be resolution ofamoudmont? Sure ly there must, but It to not sorrow for sin for the sake of tbe sorrowfulness that Jesus ever wants. He wants sorrow for sin only tbat it may bring escape from sin,.. .1 think that with e<i we know of the divine heart of Jesus he wonid far rather see s soul trust him too muon, If that to potstblo, than trust too little.which ws know to possible enough. —Phillips Brooks. ns earn rs m hit. O my soul, let thins aspirations go up mora mad more after thy heavenly laherf teaoat "Tbe Lord to ths portion of mine in* boritones and ay exceeding greet reword.” Whst mote than this non lbs sompgsriow see levs es God bestow? He gives ss life. He gfvssus us only 800. He givseusbis very self. And bed he known of anything greater in teeran, ot ia earth, he would have given that, too*, la God we Bee, we Sa.ffSwaff’.sflS’Kisa la deed ssdw truth. There <rar hopes will kossras Mia rt fra I rrartllta —**- M rafcraN meg MMWA AHwii iAAIIi/. il§T§ VI MUmI MV •imply solonra, bnt we shall dwell In a se cure abode forever and ever.—Gorhar-l. SdU Jesus joins himself to ns; still he walks with us; still he instructs us. spvak ing to us by hto word, his providences, hi* Spirit; still he seeks to eater into our sor rows and trials, and to console and cheer us. Rut we know him not. Our eyes are holden by unbelief. We do not prom him to abide with us. Hence ho to grieved, and we are left atone In tho night.—Riobard Fuller. "Opportunity oomss,” said the old prov erb, "with feet of wool, treading soft.'' You must have the instinct of an artist for the approaches of thi- good genius. You must listen for it.—Rev. KamneT Johnson. m IfIRDS 111 PULPIT. CHAINS. The Lord Mve Horsy Unto the Senas es Oaeeiphens, For He Oft Bsfrrthsd Ms end Wss Bet Ashamed of My Benda *Tlm I,l«. Did you ever fall in love with your own name? Borne ot us at least lam aura have not Perhaps the Unas from Poe’s Bevea may bo applied to our own names: "And my tool from out tbe shadow Shall be lifted ommon.” It to quite enough to oarry our ancestors in our blood—they say we do m heredity—with out having to oarry several of them with us in the form of a peculiar name whlah must over be unfolded like s flog before sn unsympathetic public. There are people wbo In the taoe of all tho aberp and frequent discipline of youth can apply to their parents, good people though they wore sad long sines sheltered in heaven the pathstic words of Ossasr to Brutus—“this wss ths unkindeat cut of sll”—this name you gavo me. Now I do not know whet this sum Oneaiphonis thought of his name, but co mo it would seem to ba as unpromising sad sa heavy sss ball and chain. Imagine your mother calling you down the street, Oneslphoroua ! Oncelphorus! Just think of the changes ths school bars would ring upon it Ah, It to tragical to think of it Bat then there to such a thing as a trans figured name. We sometimes am faces by no means attractive at first, bat when ws coma to know the spirit of tho person better there to s genulnese in tho soul, n light in ths aye, s sweetness la tho smile, that makes ths faoo teem beautiful. Weil it te just so With names* When we oome to know tho spirit of tbs person and tbe noble reoord, ths asms to transfigured through high associations. It to so with this name OuesiphoruSL Tbe Apostle pauses over it in his letter to Tim othy with gratitude and tender delight. Is there anything in ibis world more touching than gratitude? Is there anything wltleb more truely proves und reveals a man? How beautiful the lament of Bums over tbe Bari of Glencalrn: "The monarch may forget the crown, That on his head an hour hath boon; The bridegroom may forget bis bride. Was made his wife yostreon; Bnt I’ll remember thee, Glencalrn, • And all that thou hast boon to me.” Bo Paul felt toward Onoslpborus, and his tender mention of him gives us s rare glimpse into hto great warm throbbing heart. This man Onesipkorus it seemed recogniz ed a man. Ho not only knew tbe difference between things, but between men which is a vastly better achievement. Wc know some thing of the bard times and tribulations of tho poor old Apostle, and how rarely in this rough world be mot one who recognized him, who felt the Inspiration of his mighty purpose. Wbo oould enter taco hto hereto spirit and refresh him? It is a wonderful thing to refresh a noble soul. It really re quires a noble soul to accomplish It It can not be done by gifts merely, nor by praise, It must bn through sympathy and the giving ot one's sell Onesiphcrous recognized the noble worth of Paul even though he was in chains. Many people met the chained Apostle who wero not especially hitter against him. They may have recognized hto attainments and felt the injustice of his imprisonment* At most they only pitted him as a poor unfortunate and at sight of his chains shunned him. It was uot so with Onesiphorous. Ho recogniisod the rare worth of the man notwithstanding bis chains end tn every possible way refreshed him. He received him «» a royal guest in his home in Ephesus. And wkeu in Rome he sought him out in that dark Roman Jail, where the undaunted Apostle awaited in heavy chains the death penalty. And Oneeiphorus, noble fellow, never dreamed that In doing tbat strange and unpopular thing, cultivat ing la the most intimate manner, and re freshing in every way possible this man condemned and in obaiua, that be wen there by ihraneflguring bis nemo, and achieving an earthly Immortality for hlnuelf. But so it was. When Hlr Joshua Reynolds painted the picture of a famous singer ho put hto name upon tho border of her dress. "Let me,” said ha "go down to immortality on tbe trail of your skirts.” Well, this chained man carries hie noble friend Oneeiphorus to a splendid earthly Immortality by a simple It to always a pathetic sight to see a man la ehalue. why to he chained? Is reason dotronsd? Is he f hero and to ho in bondage because es bis loyalty to truth and justice and humanity? Has Justice miscarried? Or la tbe son! la the bona of Iniquity? Sometimes it is a noble right, the noblest right oa earth to to see a manta chains. Perhaps you have looked upon the statue of Nathan Hale in Broadway, New York. He stands there bound ready for execution, but unmoved la spirit, repenting that be has but one life to give for hto country? One can not look upon it without feeling the splen dor ot the hero's death. Wa love him for tbe enemies he made; for the oauae for which he died. Wail, there are various chains which bold non Is llfo; seme of them aro ignoblo and base, chains of lust, of covetousness, ot Self ishness, of low end sordid alms; of these we need be ashamed. There ere other chains which men wear outshining the jewelry of earth—chains that hold us to tbe place of toil, that others may havo comfort; chains that Und us to the alter of sacrifice that others may go tree; chains that bold us to lofty ideals and to great purposes that we may bo true in Ilfs and sernoa Os these chains we may well be proud. lurtui Lcccoox. with tbo Aooent oa sbo Bye* Wbeo Milton Lack aye first appeared In Ban Francisco he was Introducad to hU audience by T. Daniel Frawley. After a tow eulogistic remarks Fmw- Wqr said: “Many people ataprofioinos Mr. Lac Faye's name. It |g Lack-ogre, not “AH right. Mr. Frawl-oyfi,” shouted a lallrtrr fIML
Eastern Carolina News (Trenton, N.C.)
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April 28, 1897, edition 1
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