BEY. Pit TALMAGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's San
day Sermon.
gatrjectt MOn Thing lacking.
Text: "One thing thou lacktst." Mark
x 21.
The young man of. the text was a splendid
nature. We fall in love with fcitn at the
first glance. He wasamlable and frank and
earnest and educated and refined and re
Fpectabla and moral, and yet he was not a
Christian. And so Christ addresses him in
the words that 1 have read to you, "One
thing thou lackest." I suppose that that text
was no more applicable to tho young man of
whom I have pppken than it is appropriate
to1 a larjre multitude of pwp'e in this audi
ence. There are many things in which you
are lacking. For instance, you are not lack
ing in a good home. It is perhaps uo more
than an hour ago'that you closed the door,
returning to sej whether it was well fastened,
of one of th best homes of this city. The
younger children of the hous already asleep,
the older one?, hearing your returning foot
ideps, w ill ribsh to the door to meet you. Aud
in these long evenings the children at the
stand with their games, the wife plying the
needle and you reading the book or the
laper. you feel that you have a good horn?.
Neither are you lackine in the refinements
and courtesies of life. You understand the'
polite phraeo!ogy of invitation, regard and
apology. You have an appropriate apparel.
I hall wear no better dress at the wedding
than when I come to the marriage of the
king's son. If I am well clothed on other
occasions 1 will be so in a religious audience.'
However reckless . I may be about my per-
fconal appearance at other times, when!
come into a consecrated assemblage I shall,
have on the best dress I have. We all mider-t
ptand the proprieties of evory-day life and.
the proprieties of Sabbath life. .
Neither are you lacking in worldly suc4
cess. You have not made as much money
rs you would like to make, but you have arr
income. AVhile others are false when they
ay they have no income, or are making nc.
money, you have never told that falsehood.'
You have had a livelihood, or you have
fallen upon old resources, which; is" just the
same thing, for God is just as gord to u
when He takes care rf us by a surplus of the
past as by present success. While tber are
thousands of men with hunger tearing at th
throat with the strength of a tigers paw;
not one of you is hungry. Neither are they
lacking in pleasant friendship. You pave
real good friends. If the scarlet fever)
fhould come to-night to your house j-ou;
know very well who would come in and sit
up with the s:ck one; or, if death should"
come, you know who would come in and
take your hand tight in theirs with that pe-
culiar grip which means "I'll stand by you;
and, after the life is fled from the loved one,;
take you by the arm and lead you into the
next room, and while you are gone to Greene
wood they would stay in the house and put.
aside the garments and the playthings that
might bring to your mind too severely your
great loss. Friends? You all have friends.
Neither are you lacking in your admira
tion of the Christian religion. There is
nothing that makes you so angry as to havti
n man malign1 Christ. You get red iu the
face, and you say; ".Sir, I w ant you to under
ptand though I am riot myself a Christian, I1
don't like such things said as that in my!
store;'1 and the man goes off, giving you a
fartin salutation, .but you hardly answer!
dm. You are provoked beyond all bounds.)
Many of you have been supporters of religion
and have given more to the cause of Christ
than some who profess His faith. There is
nothing that would please you more than to
fee your son or daughter standing at the
alter of Christ, takiug the vows of the Chris
tian, j
It might be a Iittlehard on you, and might
make you nervous and agitated for a little!
while, but you would be man enough to say -
"My child, that is l ight. Go on. . I am glad'
Jou haven't been kept back by my example.'
hope some day to join you." You believe'
nil the doctrines of religion. A man out?
yonder fays, "I am a sinner." You respond,;
"So am I." Some one says, "I believe thati
Christ came to save the world.'' You say,:
"So do I." Loolrinr at your character, at.
your surrounding?, I find a thousand things
about which to congratulate you, and yet V
must tell you in the love and fear of God,;
and with reference to niy last account, "One
thing thou lackest.1' -
You need, my friends, in the first place,
the element of happiness. Some day you
feel wretched. You oo not know what is the'
matter with you. You say, "I did not sleep;
last night. " I think that mwt be the reason;
of my restlessness;'' or, "1 have eaten some-'
thing that did. not agree with me, and I"
think that must be the reason. Au I you
are. unhappy. Oh, my friends, happiness
does not depend upon physical condition.
Some of the happier t -people I have ever
known have be?n those who have beau
wrapped in consumption, or stung with neu
ralgia, or burning with the slow fire of semv
fever.
I shall never forget one man in my first
parish, who in excruciation of body cried
out: "Air. Talmage. I forget all my pain in
the love and joy of Jesus Christ. I can't
think of my sufferings when I think of
Christ." Why, 'his lace was illumined.
There are young men in thi? house who would
give testimony to show that there is no hap
piness outside' of Christ, while there is great
joy in His service. There are young men
who have not been Christians more than six
months who would stand up to-night, if-1
should ask them, aud say in those six months
they have ha- more joy and satisfaction than
in all the years of their frivolity and dissipa
tion. Go to tho door of that gin shop to
night, and when the gang of youns: men
come out ask them whether they are happy.
I hey Jaugh along the street, aud they eer
and they shout, but nobody, has any idea
they are happy.
1 could call upon the aged men in this
house to give testimony. There are aged
men here who tried the world, and they tried
religion, anil they are willing to testify on
our side. It was not long ago that an aged
man arose in a praying circle and said:
J3rethren,I lost my son just as he graduated
from college, audit broke ray heart; but I
am gladpow he is gone. He is at rest, es
cape i from all sorrow and from all trouble.
And then, in 1857, . I lost all my property, and
You see I am getting old, and"1tls rather
hard upon me; but I am sure God will not
let me suffer. He has not taken care of me
for Seventy-five years now to let me drop out
of His hands."
,1 went into the room of an aged man his
eyesight nearly gone, his hearing nearly gone
anl what do you suppose he was talking
about? The goodness of God and the joys of
religion. He said: 'I would like to go over
and join ray wife on the other side of the
.flood, and I am waiting until the Lord calls
jne. 1 am happy now. I shall be happy
here.' What is it that gave that aged mm
so much satisfaction and peace? Fhysicat
'exuberance? No, it has all gone. Sunshine!
He cannot see it. The voices of friends? He
cannot hear them. It is the grace of God,
that is brighter than sunshine and that hi
sweeter than music. If a harpist takes a
harp and find that all the strings! are broken
but one string he does not try to play upon
it. Yet here L will show you an aged man
the strings of whose joy are all broken sav
one, and yet he thrums it with such satisfac
tion, such melody that the angels of God
stop the swift stroke of their wings and hover
about the place until the music ceases. Oh,
religion's "ways are ways of pleasantness,
and all her paths are peace." And if you
have not the satisfaction that is to be found
in Jesus Christ, I must tell you, with all the
concentrated emphasis of my soul: One
thing thou lackest."
I remark, again, that you lack the ele
ments of usefulness. Where is your business?
You say it is No. 45 such a street, or No, 2fi0
such a s'n-eet or No. 300 such a street. My
friend immortal, your business is wherever
there is a tear to be wiped away or a soul tj
be saved. You may, before coming to Christ,
do a great many noble things. You taks a
loaf of. bread to that starving man in the
elley, but he wants immortal bread. You
take a oound of candles to that dark shanty.
They want th light that spring from the
throne of God. and you cannot take it be-cau-5e
you have it not in, your own heart.
You 'know that the flight of au arrow de-
.ends very much upon the strength of the
6w, and I have to tell ycu that the best bow
-that was ever made was made out of the
cros of Christ; and when religion takes a
oul and puts it on that, and pulls it back an 1
lets it fly, every time it brings down a Saul
or Goliath .
There are people here of high social posi
tion, and large means, and cultured minds,
who, if they would come into the kingdom
of God. would set the city on fire with relig
ious awakening. Oh, hear you not the more
ithan million voices of thos in these two
'cities who are unconverted? Voices of those
who in these two cities are dying in their
f-ins? They want light. They want bread.
They want Christ. They want heaven. Oh,
that the Lord would make you a flaming
evangel! As for myself. I have sworn before
high heaven that I will preach this gospel as
well as I can. in all its fullness, until every
fiber of my body, and every faculty of my
mind, and every expression of my soul is ex
hausted. Cut we all have work to do. I
cannot do your work, nor can you do my
work. God i points us out tho places where
we are to serve, aud yet are there no paople
in this house who are thirty, forty, fifty and
sixty years of "age, and yet have not begun
the great) work for which they were created?
With every worldly eemipment, "One thing
. thou lackest."
j Again, you lack the element of personal
safety. Where are those people who asso
ciated with you twenty years ago? -Where
"are thosa people that fifteen years ago used
to cross South ferry or Fulton ferry with
you to New York? Walk down tho street
where yon were in business fifteen years ago
and see how all the signs have "changed .
Where are the people gouo? How many of
them are landed iu eternity I cannot say. but
many, many. I went to the village of my
boyhood. -The hoiises wero all changed. I,
passed one bousa in which once resided a man"
who had lived an earnest, useful life, and he
is in glory now. In the next house a miser
lived. lie devoured widows" houses, and
spent his whole life in trying to make thej
world worse and worse. And he is gone the;
good man and the miser both gone to thei
same place. Ah, did they go to the same",
place? It is an infinite absurdity to suppose
them both in the same place. If the miser'
had a harp, what tune did he .play, on it?
Ob, my friends, I commend you to this re
ligion as tho only personal safety! When
you die. where are you going to? " When we
leave all these scenes, upon what scenes will
we enter? When we were on shipboard, and
we all felt that we must all go to the bottom,
was I right in saying to one next me: "L
wonder if we will reach heaven if we do go
down to-night?" Was I wise or unwiso m
asking that question? I tell you that man is'
a fool who never thinks of the great future.
If you pay your money you take a receipt.
If you buy land you record the deed. Why?
Because everything is so uncertain, youj
want it dowu in black and white, you say.i
For a house and lot twenty -five feet front by'
one hundred feet deep, all security; but for a
soul vast as eternity nothing, nothing! If
some man or woman standing in some of
these aisles should drop down, where would'
you go to? Which is your destiny? Suppose a;
man is prepared for the futureworld, what
difference does it make to him whether he
goes to his home to-day or goes into glory?
Only this difference If he dies he is better
off. Where he had one joy on earth he will
have a million in heaven. "When he has a
small sphere here he will have a grand
sphere there. Perhaps it would cost you
sixty, or one hundred, or one hundred and
fifty dollars to have your physical life in
sured, and yet free of charge I offer you in
surance on your immortal life, payable not
at your decease, but now and to-morrow and
every day and always.
My hope in Christ is not so bright as many
Christians, I know, but 1 would not give it
up for the whola universe, ia one cash pay-,
ment, if it were offered me. It has been so
much comfort to me in time of trouble, it
has been so much strength to me when I havo
leen assailed, it has been so much rest to me.
when I have been perplexed, and it is around
my heart such an incasement of satisfaction
and blessedness that I can stand here beforo'
God and say: "Take away my health, take
away my life, take everything rather than
rob me of this hope. tCTsplafi, simple hopa
which I havo in Jesus Christ, my Lord. I
must have this robe when the last chill
strikes through me. I must have this light
when all other lights go out in the biast that
comes up from the cold Jordan. I must
have this sword with which to fight my way
j tlif Ottga aii tuosa ioss on my way neaven-
ward."
When I was iu London I saw there the
.wonderful armor o! Henry VIII. and Ed
ward III. An i yet I have to tell you that
there is nothing in chain mail or brass plate
or gauntlet or halberd that makes a man so
safe as the armor in which the Lord God
clothes His dear children. Oh. there is a
safety in religion I You will ride down all
vour foes. Look out for that man who has
the strength of the Lord God; with him. I a
olden times the horsemen used to ride into
battle with lifted lances, an cil the enemy 1
the' field. The Lord on the White hor
flod
horse of
victory and with lut3d lances of divine
strength rides into the battle, an i down goss
th-a spiritual fos, while the victor shouts the
triumph through the Lord Jesus Christ. As
a matter of personal safety,my dear friends,
you must have this religion.
I apply my subject to several classes of
people before me. First, to that great mul
titude of young people in' this house. 1 Some
of these young men are in boarding houses.
They have but few social advantage?. Thsy
think that no one cares for their souls.
Many of them are on small salaries, and they
are cramped and bothered perpetuallv, and
sometimes their heart fails them. Young
man, to-night at your bedroom door on tha
third floor you will hear a knock. It will be
tta haad of Jesus Christ, the young man's
friend, saying, Oh, young man, let Me come
in; I will help thee, I will comfort thee, I
will deliver thee." Take the Bible out of tie
trunk if it has been hidden away. If you
hive not the courage to lay it on the shci
or table, take the Bible that was given to
you by soma loved ones, take it out of the
trunk and lay it down on the bottom of the
chair, then kneel down beside it. and read
and pray and pray and read until all your
disturbance is gone and vou feel that peace
which neither eirth nor tell can rob ydu of.
Thy father's God. thy mother's God. waits
.for thee, O young man. "Escape for thy
life T Escape nowl "One thing thoa lackest:
. But I apply this subject to the agei not
many herenot many in any assemblage.
People do not live to get old. That is the
general rule. Here and there an aeed man
in the house. I tell you the truth. You hare
lived long enough in this world to know that
it cannot satisfy an immortal nature. I must
talk to you more reverentially than I do to
these other people, while at the same time I
speak with great plainness. Oh, father of
the weary step. Oh, mother bent down
under the ailments of life, has thy God ever
forsaken thee? Through all these years who
has been your best friend? Seventy years of
mercies! Seventy years of food and clothing!
Oh, how many bright mornings! How many
glorious evening. hours yeu have seen! Oh,
father, mother, God has been very good to
you. Do you feel it? Some of you have
children and eranichildren: the former
cheered your young life, the latter twine
your gray locks in their tiny fingers. Has
all the goodness that God ha3 been making
pass betore you produced no change in your
feelings, and must it be said of you, not
withstanding all this, "One thing thou
lackest?"
Oh, if you could only feel the hand of
Christ smoothing the cares out of wrinkled
faces! Oh, if you could only feel the warm
arm of Christ steadying your tottering
steps! I lift ray voice loud enough to break
through the deafness of the ear while 1 cry
out, "One thing thou lackest." It was an
importunate appeal a young man made in a
prayer meeting when he rose up and said :
"Do pray for my old father. He is seventy
years of age, and he don't love Christ."
That father passed a few more staps ou in
! ljfe, and then he went down. He never gave
any intimation that he had chosen Jesus. It
i3 a very hard thing for , an old man to be
come a Christian. I know it is. It is so hard
a thing that it cannot be done by any human
work; but God Almighty can do it by His
omnipotent grace; He can bring you at the
eleventh hour at half-oast eleven at one
minute of twelve He can bring you to the
peace and the joys of tho glorious gospel.
I must make aoplicationof this subject al-
I so to those, who are prospered. Have you,
! my friends, found that dollars and cents a re
no permanent consolation to the soul? x ou
have largo worldly resources, but have you
no treasures, no heaven? Is an embroidered
pillow all that you want to put poor dying
head on? You have heard people . all last
week talk about earthly values. Hear a
plain man talk about the heavenly. Do you
not know it will be worse for you, O pros
pered man, if you reject Christ, and reject
Him finally that it will bo worse for you
thau those who had it hard in this worldbe
cause the contrast will make the discom
fiture so much more appalling? As the hart
bounds for the water brooks, as the roe
speeds down the hillside, spead thou to
Christ. "Escape for thy life, look not be
hind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain;
escape to the mountain lest thou be con
sumed !"
1 must make my application to another
class of persons the poor. When you can
not pay jour rent when it is due, have you
nobody but tho landlord to talk to? When
the flour has gone out of the barrel, ami you
have not ten cents with which to go to the
baker, and your children are tugging at your
dress for something to eat, have you nothing
but the world's charities to "appeal to?
When winter come3, and there are no coals.
and the ash barrels have no more cinders.
who takes care of you? Have you nobody
but the overs3er of the poor? But I preacr
to you a poor man's Christ. If you do not
have ia the winter blankets enough to cover
you in the night, I want to tell you of Him
who had not where to lay His head. If you
lie on the baro floor, I want to tell you of
Him who had for a pillow a hard cross, and
whose footbath was the streaming blood of
His own heart.
Ob, you poor man! Oh, your poor woman!
Jesus understands your case altogether.
Talk it right out to Him tc-night. Get down
on your floor and say: "Lord Jesus Christ,
Thou wast poor and I am poor. Help me.
Thou art rich now, aud bring ma up to Thy
riches !" Do you think God would cast you
off? Will He? You might as well think that
a mother would take tho child that feeds on
her breast aud dash its life out, as to think
that God would put aside roughly those who
have fled to Him for pity and compassion.
Yea, the prophet says, "A woman may for
get her sucking child, that she would not
have compassion on the son of her womb, but
I will not forget thee."
If you have ever been on the sea you have
been surprised in the first voyage to find
there are so few sails in sight. Sometimes
you go along two, " three, four, five," six and
seven days, and do not see a single sail, but
when a vessel does come in sight the sea
glasses are lifted to the eye, the vessel is
watched, and if it come very near then the
captain, through the trumpet, ciles loudly
across the water, "Whither bound?" So
you and i meet on th9 sea of life. We
come and we go. Some of us have never
met before. Some or us will never meet
again. But I hail you across the s-sa, and
with reference to the last sreat day, and with
reference to tho two - great worlds, I cry
across the water: "Whither bound? whither
I bound?"
I know what service that craft was made
for, but Hast thou thrown overboard the com
pass? Is there no helm to guids it? Is the
ship at the mercy of the tempest? Is there
no gun of distress booming through the
storm? With priceless treasures with treas
ures aboard worth more than all the Indies
wilt thou never come vp out of the trough
of the sea? O Lord God, lay hold of that
man! Son of God, if thou wert ever needed
any where, thou art nsaaed nere. mere are
so many sin3 to be pardoned. There are so
many wounds to bo healed. There are so
many souls to be sayed. Help, J esus ! Help.
Holy Ghost! Help, ministering angels from
the throne! Help, ft sweet memories of the
ast!- Help, all prayers for our future de
iverancel Oh, that now. in this tho ac
cepted time and the 'day of salvation, you
would hear the voice of mercy and hvel
.Taste and se? that the Lord is gracious.
In this closing moment of the service,
when every thine in the house i3 so favorable,
when everything is so still, when God U so
lrtTrirT inrl hiniran 12 crt noni clrrva TfMir s5t
and take Jesus. Do not cheat yourself out
of heaven. Do not do that. God forbid that
at the last, whan it is too late to correct th-s
mistake, a voice should rise from the pillow
or drop from the throne, uttering just four
words four sad, annihilating words, "One
thing thou lackest.'
LOOKING FOItWAUD.
Tommy is very hard ou shoes and
trousers. His mother understands this,
and governs herself accordingly when
she goes chopping.
One day, while out with another lady,
she was buying cloth for a pair of panta
I'Mias for Tommy, and ordered a good
deal more tha.i seemed nccestry.
"Why. do you get so much C asked
her friccd. .
"Oh." was
served s(aL!'
thf; reply, "this i for tc-
Youth's Companion.
HAD Gn.VDCATED.
Crabapple Don't you believe, Mi$
iwcetc, that I could tech jou to
jmc
love
v
; Miss Swectc Possibly; but as I have
.made my debut it is rather late to
4lack to a tutoi.
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
IXTERXA1IOXAI. LrASOX TOR
rcnni'AKY -.2-2.
I .. Trxt: F.H'ufc SnrrMr.'
King II., 12-tr2.-Ci.Mn Trill
Zerti 1., 6.-l'ninitnlry on
1 1
VZ. "And Elisha saw it. He. had ased
for"a double portion of the spirit of Elijah,
and the reply was, "if thou bee me tafcen
from thee, it shall be so unto thee (vs. 10).
Now we are to!d that he raw the chariot and
horses of fire, and the whirlwind which toSSt
Elijah to heaven, and we will expect, there
fore, to see in him the spirit of Elijah.
"And he cried. My father, my father! th
chariot of Israel and tho horsemen t'dereof .
When Israel went down to Egypt to
Joseph his sou. we read that wagons were
se!t from Egypt to bring hira and his house
hold, and that Josf ok went out in a chariot
to meet him; but these ara the fcor end
chariots of heave:;, sent down to nut tho
servant of God and carry him to glory.
"And he saw hira no 11101 Serrated
for the present, one gone on? to walk with
God in glory, and the other left to continue
as a witness for God on earth. How often is
it so still? And thcugh we may hav to lay
away the bodies of our loved ones, as Eliha".-
was laid away, we may 1 sure thmt the me-
M-ngers of God have welcome! taetn noma :
(Luke xvL. 2).
12. 13. "And be took hold of bi own
clothes and rent theai in two pifoes. He took
up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from
him, and went back and stood by tha hank
of Jordan." Thus ho dif curds hirmelf. puts
himself off and puts on Elijah. Jesus our
Master has ascended, and has left on earth
many who believe in Him to ba His wi;
nesses. tile has also ent down th Holy
Spirit to live in us, and be in us the power
for service aud testimony, amr the work t an
be done only as cur goiden text tells us
(Zech. iv., 6.
14. "And he took the msntleof Elijah that
fell from hiui, and smote the waters ami
said: Where is the Lord God of Elijah?' He
now acts in the name of Elijah, u.-ing the
mantle of Elijah, and looking to the Lord
God of Elijah. So did Peter and Joan
when they said to the lame man: "In the
name of Jesus Christ of Nasarcth. ris r.p
and walk"' (Acts iii., V). Or to take aii older
illustration, so did David when he said to
Goliath: "I come to thee in the name of th
lAird of hosts, the God of the armies of
Israel" (I Sam. xvii., 4":.
"And when ho also had smitten the wa
ters, they, parted hither and thither, and
Elisha went over." The same power thai
had been manifested on behalf of millions,
and so recently on behalf of two rhen. is now
mt forth on behalf of Klit-ha only-.- God will
avish His omnipotence on one man who i!
willing, to stand for Him; but it v. as not
simply fcr the saka of one man, but for the
take of many that He might be glorified.
!". "The"' spirit of Elijah doth rest ou
Elisha." Thus testified th sons of thj
prophets who from Jericho had witnessed
, the dividing of the waters. W hen the priest
came out from ministering in the holy
place, the odor of the incense ever burnic
there, and which would cling to his gar
ments, would quickly tell where he had
been.
"Aud they came to meet him. and bowed
themselves to the ground before him.' They
worshiped God in Elisha, or as Paul says,
"They glorified God in me" t?Ial. j., 24t.
Thus Potiphar saw God in Joseph,-and so al
so did the keeper of the prison and Pharaoh
the king (Gen. xxxix, 2, a. 23; xli., Ss.
10. "Let them go, we pray thee, and seek
thy master; lest peradventure the Spirit ot
the Lord hatn taken rum up aud cat wn j
upon some mountain or into some valley."'
The sons of the prophets request that fifty
strong meu should go aud rescue Elijah
from possible difficulties in which the Spirit
of the Lord might have left him. How
little those who live afar off (vs. 7) under
stand the ways aud wonders of the love oi
God.
17. "They sect, therefore, fifty men; and
they sought three days, but found him not."
At first Elisha refused to allow them to go,
but when they urged and insisted ho finally
consented, and this is tho result. In Heb.
xi., 5, it is written that Enoch "was not
found.'' from which we would naturally infer
that he too was sought for, but iu vain.
J.here will be many searrmng parties for
missing ones in that day when I Cor. xv., rI,
52; I Thess. iv., lo, 17, shall have been ful
filled, but they will not be found any more
than Enoch and Elijah were found.-for they
shall have gone to meet the Lord in the air
to be forever with Him.
1?. "And when they cams again to him
(for he tarried at Jerichoi he sail unto
them. Did I not say unto you. Go not?" Tft
energy of the flesh can only be shown its
folly by allowing it to prove its helplessness'.
These fifty were sure thit thy knevvbetter
than Elisha, but their vain efforts have now
done for them what they would not let hi
words rlo, th.-.t is. convince them of their
folly. They had wasted threa days tim
and strength and accomplished nothing.
Many Christian xrorkers are wasting much
time and strength aud accompiishing little
or nothing because they liv3 far oT from
God and know not the nnwfrof tli hif
spirit. Elisha had three davs' mt frrn th
Lbrnpanv of such nroDhcts v,-L:rh must h.iro
oeen a great relief to tin, and nfforded hint
limo lor nu:et communion with God.
It). "Eehold, I pray thee, tha situttiod ot
this city is pleasant, as mv Lord r?th J.ni
the water is naught and the ground barren.
Pleasant to the eyes, but uniruitfuines anc
death was in it; how like the tree of th
knowledge of good and evil in the garden oi
Eden. There is only life aud fruitfuines:
where the Spirit of God is, and howevet
pleasant or attractive a person or a work
may appear, without the bpirit all is death
and barrenness".
20 "And he said. Bring me a new cruse,
and put salt therein. And they Lrouzht it
to him." In Deut. xxix.. il; Jer. xvii., 0;
Zeph. ii., 0, salt is associated with de.oltion
and larrenuess. and every Bible rtader in
familiar with the h'slt Sea (Gen. xiv., 3;
Josh, iii., Ifi. etc..) in which it issaid nothing
can live. But in Lev. ii.. 13. we rpd tht
I every cfieriug to the Lord required salt; in
Num. xviii., 19, ve read of n covenant of
air, and in 3Iatt. v., Z. IXievers aro called
the salt of the earth, while in Cel. iv., G. v r
are told that our conversation should ix iea
icned with salt. We need nr-t f tumble over
the? seeming contradictions wh-u we re
member that Jerus Himself j to some a
vor of death cnto death aud to others a
uivor cf life unto life ill Cor. ii.. ID, 10 )
21. "And he went forth unto the sprmz of
the waters and cast the rait in there."" Not
the stream, but the fountain wherce tho
tream flows must be healed. Th? sinner
-anuot be healed by any mere reformation
or e-ouuuvt: he must be born again, or have
placed ;u hira an entirely new fountxin,born
frcn. jubove (John iii., 7. margin). And
even after that we may find that th-re seems
to ccme from tee tame fountain both sweet
vatr and bitter (Jas. iii., 10, U, but we
must learn that his ep! is t, k,
j the Spirit of God. and only then thai I the old
nature which gives bitter water be etTectual-
t . ---u up aai tlVTraf .1 frnn fr.;
. I wstTr vV,1 1 heall these
ment. lt the wcrk.r XJtZT, V r.
wa Jehovah Ilim-lf! Fr.:?
c-oovan M rnwlf FY t-
cf
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any
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th
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TI DPI IS 1
All
t.ni whtn the waters isu- foith t Jr
ISSUS loith fr.
the oul thst mt, r,- .. i7 ' ' . ,t'l?r
- . : -. 1ITT1 ' I -
in The.- ,1V. UxxT i
abound iu tn w 1 ZiiVlV v-.t
ft-..;. l ..
nrfruiUul (II Tot. L, ?.-L,UOn
Nell Caaie Sinjiri."
The train was runnier at a n.
of sjtcl arrest the countiy, withUrT
thing apparently pon- well. t'
?pcctl suddenly l.u kcuctl an.l t-rric-',
Vfe came to a deal stop. There U'i
beer an accident by whi h tl.r n-;-m
had been terribly hurt, and he V,
brought back to the baggage 1 4r indoj
of the tialn nun scut forward.
"How bad is it. Jiuit" .nkrd th? c.,n.
uucior, as we were trvtii" to do ht
coma ior me Hir ict low.
So bad !iut I luu't i.;f.; thru
Tom
'Don't av that! You'll W !,.,r,
twenty minutes, und the doctor voai
una it so u.ia..
At the end of the time pyi.ud .
ftoppv.nl at a smill country Majion. a3
as the wheels ceased to roll the i.Tmr-
man looked up at tha eondu
said ;
"Xell will be coming, Tom.'
Yes "
'Make it a?
Ncir."
as you can.
nd us wo were lifting tho burned an 1
bleed inr
ltodvo-.it of the itdc do r nt
the car a bit of a woman wearing tht
whitot.of apro.is and the cuicdof straw
h.its, cami' up the platform. sirii.L
"Annie Iiuric ' She had, some Co-am
in her hand, culled from the front tloir
y:srd for her Jim. and she had alrr.f!
jnsed us on her way to the engine Lt a
mic i auht Mjxht of our
burden, cried
out iu her fear and
one dead.
aony.
a id fell 11
'Poor Xell. jhc came tiazi
moaucl the
cnjjintvr.
"I'oor eu: wiw-pcrcu every nd
gathered about, and for long hr)ur&
sped forward each signal whistle from
the hand of the man who had lokc-l
ft
upon mat ptciure 01 woe and ni-.xrt
teemed to shriek out the words.
poor Neil!" New York Sun.
IV r
Boats of the Viking. .
Centuries have parsed since the
shirt
of the Viking floated on the water, an!
yet it is known, almost a if they
had been launched yesterday, tbe;r
model and their build. They are fouul
delineated on rocks iu Xcrway,ar;d theit
remains ate still dug up from CcnctUlhe
ground. One of them was uniarthcJ
la cly from a mound in blue clay at iNia
defjord, in Norway, at a point nowd.a'l
a niiic from the sea, aud it had jhiclr
been lined nsth burial-place of it owcer.
The. sepulchral chamber in which til
body of the Viking had "been i!c,h i;r
was built amidships Wing tent-like ia
shape, and made of IoS placed ule ly
sidi, leaning against a ndgc-pol?. In
this chamber were found human busc
and feathers of a peacock, some fishhook
and sevend lron7e and lead ornumcpt
for belts and harness. Hound about tie
ship were found the bones ol nice or te
horses aud dogs, which had prubab'y
been sacrificed :it the time of the lurul
.'The vessel wfis?7 feet 11 inches at the
.greatest length, and 1G feet 11 inches:
: this greatest width, and from the ton of tie
keel to the gunwale arai bhip she
" feet 9 inches deep. She had twettr
iiis, and would draw lev thai four feet
of water. She was clinker-built ti
is had plates slightly ovcrlapj U
the shingles on the side of a home.
( planks and timbers of the frame
'fastened together with withes made
roots, but the oiken boards of the a
w ere united by iron rivets fiixnly clinched.
The bow aud stern were similar ia shp
nnd must have risen high out of the aUf.
but were so broken that it wa i;apow
blc to tell how they originally cnJcd
The kccl"s deep, and rr.aicof thk
oak U-ains, and there was no trarcof a'J
metallic sheathing, but an iron sack
was foufld almost rusted to pieces. Lc
Yoik Sun.
Human Vanity to Human HT'"
Doctor Stellwag. tho famous ocaluU
rhile lecturing to his student at ei-
recently told a pretty story cf D-
I'edro of Brazil. He said that he U
bad many opjxrtunitieJ of convers::!
rith tho" cx-Knir eror. a 01 ' tt
highest character and of great cnjtsre
whose heart and mind were alJ
Sited with plans for improving the coa
lition of his people. It was ose oiw
dearest wMe to have a big liosp4
Kin, bat he lacked the meT he'f
rdh to bnild it, and ti e wealthy
not bo induced to subscribe. T"a-.
idea came to him, and he bcaa Vi
tow titles. Any man who wa
to give a good round turn to the hr.
couJd call himself -count," "vico
or -baron." The I a?et cf rK;w
was not hereditary, and if the
wished to inherit the father title,
had to pay over again. Kfr '
denly ieopIed with nobles and t-ej
pital was built on a grand sca-e- j
irwas completed the Emperor r
jvor its gates "Hainan Vasity
ia 1 Mbery."
1
0i
Two nJners of Colorado had tt?f
frtrfitr. tn. discover 8C000 worth o.
wbllA nTfxnrcr&irand later the
i
tune to be "held up'
tc-r -
ia Me and I iu him. tae m.-s brh , t:
much fruit, for withe Me y,
us' woaa xv- ii. if ti.m
v-i. uraT'.u uiet tV 'V
robbed of the whole um-