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