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ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. A. B. SIMPSON.
AW
Subject: The dospel of Tears.
New York City. The famous head
of the Christian Alliance, the Rev. A.
B. Simpson, on Sunday preached a
notable sermon, having for its subject
"The Gospel of Tears. w The texts
were:
Jesus wept. John 11: S5.
And when He was cone near He
beheld the city, and wept over it.
Luke 19:41.
Who in the clays of His flesh, when
He had offered up prayers and sup
plications with, strong crying and
tears unto Him that was able to save
Him from death, and was heard in
that He feared. Heb. 5:7.
Who has cot wept? Weeping we
begin life as helpless babes and, amid
the tears of mourning friends, we
pass out to the grave. Tears are the
badges of sorrow. How can they be
the expression of the Gospel, the glad
uaings of great joy and: divine love?
And yet redemption has trans
formed the curse into a blessing and
matte a rainbow of our tears
Jesus went." This Ht.t1 nhrasa.
the shortest in the "Rihl h as Tnnrft in
it than all the books that man has
written. A single dron of ink could
rite it, but all the world could not
contain its denths of love
It tells me that my Redeemer Is
auman. Tears are human and the
"Tan . & r
;cois "- Jesus proclaim Him my
Brother ani my Friend. He is the
great heroic Head nf nnr foil on in
One has come to us who is "bone of
our bone" and "flesh of our flesh" and
has the right to represent us; who la
aoie to right our wrongs and recover
Messing heritage o naPPiness and
When God determined to save this
iaiien world, He did not send some
JJgb-ty angel. He did r.ot come in
his own awful deity; but He stooped
lo become a man that He might meet
us in a gentie human form of which
we should not be afraid. How the
fa?vCathoiic clines to the tender
sympathy of the virgin mother, but
t El need even woman's tender
jess to introduce us -to the Father's
.wait; for Jesus Christ, our Saviour,
"as a near hnth o
lii r has been an infant child
lis. He has traversed every, stage
crJi?8 ?llgrimage of man from the
everywhere that we have heen. He
nas felt everything that we can feel,
-nam! s our nature. - He bears our
for I' e wears our humanity. And
verJ imLe the Head of this uni
"Ot ', 'Ki,ng of Kings, the Lord
Pri,Selfha11 be a Man like' us, our
Wh? - at sticketa closer than a
Oh
what
find
a sspel of comfort we
til? hllrrinnl ir t. ..! ..t.
You
Him
4- I T A-
you
iate li 1, ntst friend, the most
W v, - lather. the. toblest man
sinned rU3w; and thousa we have
aot n'ir :Il!i.Sone far astray, "He is
nou " us "reinren.
iy IP 1 lie; tV tt- i . .
tW Z h 0ur sorrowe. He wept
brpta-rB J01" therS- He Sa
"felt thP5rVnS tearts before Hlm-
m Z TnyC He groaned in spflt
"broke dl tro:jbled and at last He
not) altSether and burst into
for tW'feaPS' How we thank Him
1 U
IS Sal . "
-m. 1 v CT1 1 I . 1 r I If? MAt Mil l
the -a e streets of gold and
fatuous Heaven that is comine
Are essentia.1 in Gentlemen V Clothinrf Jtd to t'd oerfedinn W
they be most carefully tailored, also W the
preparation the clotli is important ge
sponging must necessarily be done. Tho all costs money, but just this is vhat
makes the difference between cheap ''li&nd-nve-downc" which may look welt
ior a ween, ana our strictly tailor-made
everything which makes perfection in a
President.
bye and bye. We .need a lot . of it
down here in this broken-hearted
world amid our poverty and pain, our
sickness and death, our, broken friend
ships, our wrecked homes, our wrongs
and sorrows and, thank God, He has
it for. us. He has experienced it and
He has not forgotten it and still in
His heavenly home we are told "He
is able to be touched with the feeling
of our infirmities."
He .was a child and has felt every
childish sorrow. He had the hard
struggle to support His mother at
Nazareth and He knows all about
hard -work an4 hard times, v. He was
despised and scorned and He under
stands the sense of wrong and sting
of insult. He was deceived, betrayed
and murdered and there is no wrong
or insult can come to us that He has
not borne and is still ready to bear
for us. Yes, He has felt the awful
welgfit of sin, for there was an hour
when He sank under His Father's
wrath in punishment for the sins of
men. He knows the cloud of spir
itual darkness. He knows the weak
ness and agony of death and He is
with us in it all. Blessed Friend,
how we thank God for Christ and
what a gospel of love and sympathy
and help speaks to us through the
tears of Bethany
The tears of Jesus tell us that He
understands our danger, our destiny
and our estate. He shed those tears
over the grave of Lazarus. They
meant much more than a sense of be
reavement. He was not weeping be
cause He had lost Lazarus. He was
not weeping because the sisters at
Bethany had lost their brother. He
knew that Lazarus was coming forth
again in a little while and that the
sorrow would be forgotten in the glad
reunion. Oh, no, He saw deeper than
that. He saw in the grave of Lazarus
every grave that had been opened
and filled through earth's forty cen
turies and that would be filled in the
twenty centuries that have passed
since then. - He saw all the horrors
and agonies of the battlefield, the
ocean wreck, the lingering deathbed,
the scourge of famine and pestilence
and the ravages of the king of terrors
with the millions and billions of vic
tims that he has smitten in the past
six thousand years; and as He saw it
all, realized ' it all, and the vision
loomed in lurid horror before His
Omniscient eye, He realized the fear
ful curse of sin and His heart broke
down in agony and sorrow.
Nay more, He saw a sadder sight.
He saw a deeper grave.' He saw the
eternal grave beyond all, that we be
hold in death. He saw the death that
never dies; the fire that never is
quenched; the. yawning gulf of end
less woe into which the sinful soul
must sink forever. It was the sight
of that horror that had brought Him
from Heaven to earth. It was the
thought of man perishing in ever
lasting darkness that had made Him
glad to live and suffer and die, and
as it all rose before Him as through
a glass in the tomb of Lazarus "Jesus
wepti" "
Oh, that we might realize it as He
did. .
Did Christ o'er sinners weep
' And shall our tears be dry?
v Christ never thought or spake oi
eternal punishment In cold,, hard
words. ' He did it with a breaking
heart. He did it with tenderness and
tears, but none the less He did it;
for none knew so well as He that
eternal sin must bring eternal hell
and that all we know and fear of
death is but a paradise compared
with that second death
whose pan
Outlasts the fleeting breat
; Oh, what eternal horrors hang
Around theseconddeaih.
PC COLLINS,
r.hllH In A
The"lears of Jesus tell us of His
atonement. He did not come down
to earth to weep In helpless sorrow
but to rise in almighty strength
against our doom and rescue us
from it.
When Hercules came to the place
where the helpless virgin lay bound
upon the jock and the dragon was
coming to devour her, her parents
and all around were frantic witn
tears, but Hercules cried, "This is no
time for tears; this hour is for res
. . . . j
cue, ana ne siew me uxa.5
saved the maiden.
Sn .Tesus rm6. not mererr tx weoff;
but to help, and by His own tears and
His own agony and His own Diooa t.o
meet our peril and our penalty ana
save us from eternal sorrow.
And so we read of another instance
of His tears In Heb. 5:7. These were
the tears of Gethsemane and the an
guish of His passion. These were the
tears that we deserved to shed. Thest
Wear the rjains that we deserved to
suffer. But as our great Substitute!
and Sacrifice, He bore our sins In His
own body on the tree, and having
'TiaM the tienaltv and . satisfied the
elaims of justice, He comes in th
glad message of the Gospel to an
nounce our pardon and salvation.
O Christ, what -burdens bowed Thy head;
Our load was laid on Thee;
Thou stoodest in the sinner's stead,
Didst bear all sin for me;
Jehovah lifted up His rod,
O Christ, it fell on Thee:
Thou wast sore stricken of Thy God,
Thy bruising healeth me.
Hindu mythology has a strange
tale typical of the atonement, the
story of a dove pursued by a hawk
until in desperation it flung itselt
into the bosom of Vishnu, one of their
1 deities. But the hawk demanded sat
isfaction, declaring that the dove was
her lawful prey and that Vishnu must'
not only be merciful to the dove but
just to its claims. Then Vishnu, hold
ing the tremblinj dove in her bosom,
bared ner breast and bade the hawk
devour of, her own living flesh as
much as would compensate for the
dove, while all the time the dove lay
fluttering there and knowing the fear
ful cost of her deliverance. Yes, we
are safe within His bosom, but oh,
the cost to Him. "He saved us, Him
self He could not save." He wipes
away our tears, but in order to do
this He had to weep when there was
no eye to pity and no arm to save.
Don't you think the least that you
could do would be to thank Him and
give; Him your heart, your love, your
grateful tears?
We have yet one more picture,
Luke 19:41. He was entering Jeru
salem from Olivet. He had just
turned that point where the whole
city suddenly bursts upon the trav
eler's view. As He gazed, upon 'it in
its singular beauty, there arose be
hind the scene another vision that a
few years later was to fill all that
valley: a city besieged, cruel Roman
legions around on every hill top, the
narrowinur cordon of destruction, a
breach at last in the wall3 of defense,
the breaking in of the brutal con
queror, the streets running with
blood, the -Temple rising in smoke
and flames, the shrieks of , mothers,
maidens and little children in the
cruel grasp of the conqueror, and
then, a long train of captives going
forth to distant lands while behind
them lay a plowed field of desolation
where once their beautiful city had
been.
And as He saw it all and how it.
might have been prevented if they
had only received Him, He cried, "If
thou hadst known even now in this
thy day the things that belong to thy
peace, but now they are hid from
thine eyes." It was too late; - but
even yet He had for them His tears ;
garments. Ow Grif fin
gentleman's dress. "
Cashier.
These tears tell us of Christ's com
passion. They tell us how He lbngl
to save. . '
They tell us that He Is here to
night with infinite pity and power to
wipe away your tears, to wash away
your sins and make you happy and
holy through His love.
But they tell us also that if you re
fuse and reject Him, there may come
a time, there will come a time, when
He can do nothing for you but weep'.
They tell of a judge before whom
was brought for punishment his old
est friend. As he stood up to pro-licrunc-tf
thr x5-n.tejo ujott "h4m, tfc
memory of their boyhood ' days- to
gether came upon the judge's heart
with overwhelming force and he
broke jout in floods of weeping.. "My
friend," he said, M how can, I, by a
single word, consign you to a felon's
cell and a life of banishment from
home and friends and all that earth
holds dear? But I am a judge and
must be just. Why did you force me
to do this thing?" And they wept to
gether, but It was too late to save
him from his fate. From that scene
of weeping, he went forth a doomed,
ruined man to spend bis days in fruit
less tears.
Oh, sinner, beware! lest some day
on the Throne of Judgment you look
in the face of a weeping Saviour and
hear Him say: "How often would I
have gathered you even as hen doth
gather her brood under her wings
and ye would not. Oh, that thou
hadst known the things that belong
to tby peace, but now they are hid
from thine eyes."
: "I.,
Separated, Man Dwindles.
- Separated from God, man dwta
dles; he is nothing. He was made to
have magnitude and be In flood, by
having great inspirations roll under
him and through him. Existing in
mere selfhood he cannot push himself
out any way to be complete as from
himself. There is nothing, in short,
but religion, or the life in GodJ that
?an be looked to for the completion
of a soul. Horace Bushnell.
Grow Lettuce at Dinner.
"Yes," said a florist, "I can work:
niracles in my business. For instance,
t can grow you lettuce while you wait
sweet, crisp lettuce that you may
3at for your dinner with the broiled
spring chicken. , , , '
"I do it in this way. I take a hand
ful of lettuce seeds that have . been
joaked over night in 'alcohol, and I
plant them in a box containing three
inches of loam and quicklime. I water
;his soil, and in ten minutes the seeds
burst. In twenty, minutes tiny leaves
push through the earth. The leaves
jrow and multiply. In an hour they
ire as big as half-dollars. Then you
tnay pluck and eat them." They are
ielicious a fairy salad.
. "Sometimes, when I give a dinner
party, I have one of -these little pre
pared lettuce beds in the center of the
table. -The . guests see the lettuce,
grow, and when the time comes for
';he salad course, there is their salad
blooming before them, all ready for.
'.hem to pluck." New York Press.
" i" ' - " . 1 . . . .
! DISAPPOINTED.
"That Prof. Blink fooled me bad."
."How?" --r
"He told me ethnology was the'
ficience of the races, and when I went
tb - the library . and asked for a book
on ethnology; there wasn't a word
from cover to cover on how to pick
innera." BaltimoreSun. y '
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Prices range from
CHA8. A- SCOTT,
NEW 8PECIE8.
Brown Zebras and Black-Lined Ante
topes Seen in Africa.
Intimation concerning two new
ipecies of animals, indigenous to Af
rica, has been conveyed to Europe by
Mr. J. E. Speares.x who has been
spending several months in trapping
and hunting big game in Portugese
Hast Africa in the regions surround
ing Lake Nangadl and the Rovuma
Ww. One of those refers to a new
type, of zebra, a whole herd of which
Ihe hunter observed near by, but a
ipecimen of which he failed to secure.
Many members of this herd were
marked differently to tie prevailing
type of this animal, the heads and
necks being brown, while the hind
Quarters were striped in the conven
tional manner peculiar to this quad
ruped. When the natives were ques
tioned upon the point, they asserted
that they were a variety of zebra,
but that they were becoming . very
scarce. Although the hunter pursued
the herd for several miles, owing to
their agility and timidity he was un
able to approach them closely. Upon
another occasion, however, he was
more fortunate and secured a closer
view of the animal. It resembles the
sebra In shape, but the head, neck,
fore-legs, and fore half 'of the body
were (Jhlte dark brown in color, the
hind part of the body including the
legs, being striped. He also discov
ered a peculiar type of antelope sim
ilar in size and shape to the Boer roe
buck or impala, the distinctive differ
ence being a black line down the
centre of the back and on either hind
leg down to the foot. When the ani
mal is startled it immediately takes
to flight, the initial leap being fully
ten fept through the air. This species
of antelope is essentially gregarious,
being found In herds ranging from
ten to fifty in number, and is ex
ceedingly wild and active. Mr. Speares
aiso secured what Is believed to be a
new species of buck; which is per
fectly hornless, about as large as a
iteenbuck and possessing a brilliant
,red coat. Scientific American.
England's National Color.
Why red should have been selected
as the National color becomes intelli
gible when we look at the Cross of
St. George. Sir Walter Scott, when he
wrote of how "their own sea hath
whelmed those red-cross powers," was
merely anticipating the phrase of to
day. But Oliver Cromwell, when for
the first time he put the English sol
dier in a red coat, probably did as
much as St. George to monopolize red
as the national color. The aggressive
color has, .however, many meanings,
and has lent itself to many uses. . In
the days of the Romans when it flared
on the head of a slave, it stood for
freedom; in the days of the French
Revoltuion it stood for freedom backed
by blows, while in the streets of the
city to-day the "red" cross stands for
succor.. So far back as the reign of
Henry II. there was a "red" book of
the Exchecquer, a record of the names
of all who held lands "per baroniam,"
and at this moment persons of conse
quence in the service of the State find
their names entered In a"red" book.-
London Chronicle. ,
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V ice-P roo i d ent.
SLOP UP TAKEN.
tH&p HIM FROM DISGRACE.
The Butler Would Not Permit the
ator to Expose His Ignorance.
In one of the old families of Charl
eston, S. C, writes Mrs. RaveneL,
there was an, important personage
Jack, the butler. Jack disputed with,
another old man, Harry, the butler ot
Mrs. Henry Izard, the reputation o
being the best and most thoroughly
trained servant in the town.
rFrom the judging -of the wines to
the arrangement of a salt spoon them
was nothing which these withered.
brown potentates did not decide andL
maintain. Nothing would have astoife
ished either more than that mastee
or mistress should dissent from- bis
verdict.
Jack was intolerant of anything
which he considered a breach of the
etiquet of the table. Nothing couli
have induced him to serve a gentle-,
man before a lady or a younger before
an elder brother. To place fruit and
wine on a table cloth instead of upon
the mahogany was to him a falling
from grace. .
On one occasion he was much as
noyed when a senator from the up
country twice asked for rice with his
fish. -To the first request he simply
remained deaf; at the second he bent
down and whispered into the sena
torial ear.
. The genial gentleman nodded and.
suppressed a laugh; but when tfcet
servants had left the room he burst
into a roar and cried: "Judge, your
have a treasure! Jack has saved,
me from disgrace, from exposing my
ignorance. He whispered, That:
wouldn't, do, sir; we never eats rlce
with fish.' " Youth's Companion.
. Bamboo Sap.
Tfae sap of the Ifemale bamboo is
ftsed for medicinal purposes in India,
ahd it may be had in the Indian bazanr
of Calcutta at from 41 cents to $1.3!
per pound, the latter foeine the 6oe
cially white and calcined tabashir.
"Tabasheer," or "banslochan," is sc4
In all Indian bazars, a it has fceent
known from the earliest times as flu
medicinal agent, its use as such hav
ing, it is supposed, originated among
the aboriginal tribes. It is also knownt
in Borneo, and was an article of com
merce, wtih early Arab traders of ther
east , Its properties are said to be
strengthening, tonic .and cooling.
A great deal has been written about:
tabasheer or tabashir. in Hindu medi
cal works, which have been reviewed
by modern writers. It has been anal
yzed and has been shown to consist
almost entirely of silica with trace
of lime and potash. According to out-
present knowledge of medicine, such,
an article cannot be very efficacious
but from its remarkable, occurrence ia.
the Lollows of bamboos the eastern,
mind has long associated It wltfc mir
aculous powers. Philadelphia RecordL
THE CHAMPION OPTIMIST.
"Millerby is certainly the most op
timistic man' I ever knew."
'T don't believe I have the pleasnxe
of being acquainted - with him."
"He leased a summer hotel early lit
the spring and is still hoping for ther
best." Chicago Record-Herald.
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