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Mi;NTS FOR AUGUST 212.
Subject: Paul's Third Missionary
Journey—The Riot in Ephesus,
Acts 19:23 and 20:1—Golden
Text: 2 Cor. 12:9.
TIME.—A*D. 58.
PLACE.—Ephesus.
EXPOSITION. I. A Riot in
Ephesus, 23-30. Paul had wonder
ful success in Ephesus (vs. 10-12;
18-2 01. He must also have testing
before he leaves. It might, seem to
us that it would have been better for
Paul to leave in the full blaze of his
success; but God looks at these
things quite differently from what we
do. The Gospel Way is sure to create
a stir sooner or later. Men do not
realize all ks bearings and all its de
mands at once, so they receive it
quite calmly. But Demetrius will
wake up to the fact that it touches
bis business. The Gospel faithfully
and fully preached will stir up any
community, at home or abroad. It
is not necessarily a bad sign at all
when things begin to boil' in city, vil
lage or church. It may simply indi
cate that the fire is getting hot. The
stir came because the new religion af
fected business (v. 25). Reforms
and revivals are all right if they do
not hurt anybody’s business. If they
do, why, of course, "business is busi
ness,” and the reform and the revi
val must go. “The love of money”—
what a prolific mother of evils it is
(comp. 1 Tim. 6:9, 10, R. V.). The
Sunday newspaper may be a great
curse, but then the Christian mer
chant must, advertise in it; for
you see, "by this business we have
our wealth.” There are many appli
cations. Let us see if we cannot find
one that will hit ourselves. Deme
trius uttered a very striking and
truthful, though entirely unintention
al, commendation of Paul (v. 26).
Would that we had more Pauls who
will persuade people and turn them
away from the worship of false gods
“to serve the living and true God;
and to wait for His Son from heaven”
•( 1 Thess. 1:9, 10). The first and
chief danger was Injury to business;
but there was another; poor Diana
was Imperiled (v. 27). It is doubt
ful if Demetrius really cared much
for her; but he knew that an appeal
to religious prejudices would carry
many with him whose co-operation
he greatly desired. There are many
to-day who become very enthusiastic
religionists if they can coin money
out. of it or get into an office. His
statement that all Asia and the world
worshiped Diana waa hardly consist
ent with his professed apprehension
concerning her; nor was it exactly
true. Some were enraged because
they oaw their business going to
pieces; some because they saw their
religion going lo pieces. And then
there was a concert of action to re-es
tablish business and religion at. the
same time. In unison they opened
their mouths and yelled: “Great is
Diana of the Ephesians!” This way
of proving a point has not gone out of
use, even in our day. The crowd who
can yell the loudest are quite sure
they have proved their point and car
ried the day. But somehow or other
Pinna of the Ephesians lost her hold
on men from that day on, though
they screamed for two straight hours.
Points proven in that way do not stay
proven. There was a rare combina
tion of fearless courage and humble
common sense in Paul. The mad
jrupb awakened the manly fire in
Paul’s soul. He wished to go into the
midst of the riot and proclaim .Tesus.
But he yielded to the entreaties of
•the disciples and the persuasions of
'his friends who were in place of pow
-«r. Paul will have the opportunity
■of facing a maddened mob further
•on; the time has not yet come. Mobs
are always irrational and mob law
always insane. There was a babel of
voices, one crying one thing and an
other another. There was utter con
fusion and the majority knew not
why they were come together. The
original cry (v. 28) is txken up again,
and with one voice they shout it for
two hours. What a strange sight, a
■great concourse shouting steadily for
two hours, "Great Is Diana of the
Ephesians.” If shouting could prove
anything, surely this proposition was
proven. But shouting, no matter how
loud, how long or how unanimous,
proves nothing. The probability is
they did not altogether believe it
themselves In their inmost souls, and
were trying to convince themselves of
It by yelling the louder.
IT. The Mob Quieted by the Town
clerk. 53-40. The townelerk was a
sensible feliow. He told them that
there was no use in veiling so loud to
prove what everybody believed. He
also put in a protest against mob law.
He told them there was a legal way
of having difficulties settled and
crimes punished, and that they were
In danger of getting into trouble
themselves by raising a riot. Men
who incite a riot or set in motion mob
law ought always to get In trouble
themselves. The advice given the ex
cited citizens of Eohesus is good ad
vice for vis all—“bo quiet,” do noth-
rash.” Paul gnd his companions
bad respected the rights even of idol
aters. He seems to have used his
strength rather in preaching truth
than in attacking error (v. 37).
Always a Pilot.
We are never without a pilot.
When we know not how to steer and
•dare not hoist a sail, we can drift.
The current knows the way, though
we do not. The ship of heaven guides
itself, and will not accept a woodeu
<-udder. —Emerson.
THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR. CORTLAND MYERS.
Theme: Sent From God.
Brooklyn, X. Y.—The Rev. Cort
land Myers, D. D., preached his fare
well sermon Sunday night in the Bap
tist Temple, and brought to aa end a
sixteen-year pastorate of that church.
Dr. Myers will assume the pastorate
of the Treniont Baptist Temple in
Boston, Mass., In the fall.
Dr. Myers said:
I am going to preach to you to
night from the very text that I
preached upon when I preached my
first sermon, nearly sixteen years ago,
in this city. (Not the same sermon,
because I have not seen it since, and
i I only care to remember the state
ment of Scripture as an introduction
for this bit of truth). John 1:6:
“There was a man sent from God.”
That statement was made concerning
one of the greatest preachers of Christ
this world ever saw, and one who de
serves to be pre-eminently the pat
tern for every other man who stands
in the holy place of a minister of
Jesus Christ. That statement was
made concerning a man who said that
he must decrease, but Christ must in
crease; that he was not worthy to
unloose the shoe latchets of his Lord,
and who said: “Behold the Lamb of
God who taketh away the sin of the
world.” That statement ought to be
made concerning every ministry, and
I am very sure that it can truthfully
be made concerning this ministry. I
have never had one interrogation
mark thrust against me all these
years in that relation, and so I stand
to-night, at this sacred moment of
my life, and in my ministry, to say to
you once more that there was a man
sent from God to the life of this
church. Tho result of scientific re
search as to whether other heavenly
bodies are inhabited has been to
prove that this world is the one world
where Almighty God chose to work
out the problem of human destiny
and human life, of the creature made
in His own image and likeness; and
we are turning to-day even on scien
tific pages toward the Garden of
Eden, where God walked in the cool
of the day with a man as compneiion
in holiest fellowship. I might have
a beautiful house full of luxury, and
comfort, and artistic taste, but. one
great element in the life of the home
is lacking. What is it? *
The great feature of a home is not
the furnishings or the comfort; the
great demand is a man to enter the
home, to use it, to live in it and to
be made better by it and to find
there his fountain of joy and happi
ness and comfort and rest and peace.
When God made this beautiful world
it did not fulfill Hl3 idea until man
came to live in it. The one supreme
element essential was t#e man. who
was the one factor, the one element
by which that which God had planned
should be accomplished. Man was
the agency through which the gospel
of Jesus Christ should accomplish its
purpose in the world. That Is the
great statement to be made concern
ing the man who stands in the king
dom of God as a leader in the minis
try to his fellow men. He must be
first, last and always a man; a man
with every mark of the nobility and
loyalty of manhood about him; a
man who enters into every condition
of the life of his fellow men and I
should not consider that this minis
try had found its fulfillment unless
that statement could he made with
absolute truth concerning it, I
would not want to feel that any part
of my life had been separated from
any part of your life. All that there
is of man at his best, a natural, nor
mal, God-marked man. should be at
the centre of this Christian ministry.
Every sermon ought to have running
through its veins the rich, red blood
that runs through the veins of the
minister who preaches it. There is
one requisite above all others, if vve
are to be victorious, and that, is God-
nobility of Christian manhood
in the ministry of Jesus Christ.
“There was a man sent.” It is a
great moment in any human life
when we come to the recognition of
our supreme mission; when every
thing else in life comes to be second
ary to that which holds the first
place as the purpose and mission of
life. Paul. Chrysostum, Savonarola,
Luther, John Knox, all felt the
mighty impulse of the mighty mis
sions on which they were sent when
following the holy command. Oh,
what splendid achievements would
take place in this part of God’s king
dom if the members of this great
church would walk right up to the
light in recognition of their divine
mission to save this lost world. God
is waiting for you. He has waited
for some of you half a century, but
He is emphatically waitipg for your
young manhood and womanhood to
reckon with the "sent” element in
human life. The one holy mission
for every man and woman in the
kingdom of Christ i 3 never less than
this—-and I think you will have to
bear me out that it has always been,
without a single exception, the one
supreme purpose of these years of
my ministry among you—it has been
nothing less than to fulfill the mis
sion of Jesus Christ in this world
and to seek and to save the lost.
"If any man has not the spirit of
Christ he is none of His.” The spirit
of Christ pushed its way against
every broken heart, every battered
life, every bruised soul: against the
leper, the blind, and the lame; the
spirit of Christ took hold of Mary
Magdalene and the Woman of Sa
maria, and grasped that wonderful
life of Peter and lifted him up into
the kingliness and glory of his man
hood; and that Divine Spirit of our
Lord went out in every direction for
Qie saving of His fellqwmen. _
Farm Topics
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GROW BETTER FRUIT.
One-third of our fruit is fit only
for the swill pail, because we neglect
to feed the trees, work the soil and
protect from insect pests.
The first thing to do is to stop the
Incoming of apples selling to-day for
ten cents each, by making more crit
ical selection of stock going to mar
ket.
Very few take pains to grow good
fruit.
It is not a question of "can” but
“will.”
Instead of a few firsts and many
seconds, make it the reverse. We
have two broods of insects in Massa
chusetts against five in Utah, yet they
produce better-looking, more uniform
fruit, because they spray five to seven
times.
The end tests of our packages are
not the true measure. Make the mid
dle as good and the market will re
spond. Grow more fruit, but grow
better fruit. —Massachusetts Station.
USE HAY CAPS.
An Eastern farmer, who has used
hay caps for several years, says he
has saved the cost of the caps in a
single season, while they are good for
a score of years, if properly handled.
He uses heavy unbleached cotton
cloth forty-five inches wide, and cut
in squares. This cloth may be made
water proof and durable by dipping
it into good raw linseed oil, or paint
ing it with a mixture of three pints
of this oil with one ounce sugar of
lead and four ounces white resin;
heat together in an iron kettle and
apply hot with a wide brush. The
caps are held in place by pins a foot
long nassed through loops in the cor
ners of the cloth, into the shock of
oats or hay.
Among the advantages of the hay
caps are that they allow you to cut
without reference to the weather, and
save the crop in good condition, no
matter how long the rains continue.
One farmer testifies that his hay,
protected by the caps, was worth on
the average one or two dollars a ton
more than his neighbor's hay that
was not capped. Others say that they
often pay more than their cost in one
season, by the increased value of the
protected hay over what it would
have been worth if left to take the
rain.—lndiana Farmer.
TREES FOR BARREN SPOTS.
Ailanthus trees are not very at
tractive in appearance, especially
when young; and many of them,
though not all, give off an unpleasant
odor during their time of bloom, yet
they possess advantages that more
than counterbalance their poor quali
ties. In the first place, they grow
very rapidly on the poorest soil and
also under adverse conditions. They
spread fast, and in a comparatively
short time there will be a good
growth of wood on a piece of ground
planted to ailanthus, or where they
have grown up naturally, that might
be useless otherwise.
They will grow among other and
larger trees, as they can get along
with little sunlight. In this case,
however, they should he cut out at
intervals so that they will not,
through their rapid growth, crowd
the better trees about them or hold
them back in development. In this
rapidity of growth they bear a close
resemblance to weeds, and seem to
take the place among trees that weeds
do among smaller plants.
Ailanthus trees are easily cut,
sawed and split, and while the wood
from them will not burn as long as
most woods, it answers fairly well
In this respect, but does best when
used with other woods, such as locust,
hickory, chestnut, etc. Posts for
light fencing, such as wire or lath,
are easily and quickly made from
ailanthus. These posts, however,
should be dipped in boiling tar when
green, or treated with some prepara
tion like carbolineum before being
set in the ground; otherwise they will
rot more quickly than if made from
harder woods.
No insects trouble or harm the foli
age of ailanthus trees. In fact, in
sects seem to have a great aversion
even to the wood itself. It therefore
can be used to advantage in perches
for chicken houses, and if boards
from the wood could be readily ob
tained it would make a fine lining
for a poultry house. The chief value,
however, of ailanthus trees is for
firewood. With the continued de
crease of the forests, wood is becom
ing more and more valuable. Ailan
thns trees growing so rapidly in poor
soil, under adverse conditions and
in shady localities, act as a substi
tute for other woods, and thus a
good gain can be made through them
in retaining the better woodland on
the farm.—lndianapolis News.
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resulting unfavorably.
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