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THE NOTEl) DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY DISCOURSE.
A Sermon inverted to the fJven; Arn»>
or Men mid Women V. tuple .veil us
Clerks In tin* Various Occupallom
Words of Adi Ice and I'-ncouranemoiil,
Tuxt: "Ami it Curtain tinman named
Lydia, Thyiltivit, a soller of purple. Of the city Of
which worshiped God, hoard us.
whose heart tlie Lord opened.” Acts xvl,,
li. “Sees! thou /t man diligent In Ills busi¬
ness? Uo shall stand before Kings. "
Provotbs xxil., 2D.
The first passage introduces to von
hrflh Lydia., Is a, Christian (b mc-ivUnutcss. Her busi-
to /il in purph elelhs Ar ^i]k.s»
Sn<‘ is not a giggling nonentity, but a prac¬
tical woman, not ashamed to work for her
living. All the other women of Philippi
and Thvatira have been forgotten, but God
has made immortal til our text Lydia, the
Chrlstiau saleswoman. The other text
shows you a man with head and hand and
heart and foot all busy toiling on up until
he gain;/ a princely success; “Scest tlioit a
(min diligent in his business? Ho Khali
tdaud before kings.”
Great eueoiiragement in these two pas¬
sages for nieiiitnd women whd will he busy,
but no solace for those who are waiting for
good luck to show them, at the foot of the
rainbow, a casket of buried gold. It is
folly for anybody in this world to wait for
sonmthiug to turn up. It will turn down.
The law of thrift is sis inexorable as tlm
law of the tides. Fortune, the magician,
may wave her wand in that direction until
castles and palaces come, but she will after
a while tnwvt the same wand, find fill tlm
‘•pleaders Will Vanish into thin air.
'.I here are certain styles of behavior
which lead to usefulness, honor and per¬
manent. success, find there are certain
styles of behavior which lead to dust,, dis¬
honor and moral default. I would like to
tiro the ambition of young people. I have
uo sympathy with those who would prepare
young folks for life by whittling down
* heir expectations; That man or woman
wilU'e- Wild giiis vC'ril.1 life nothing L> ebilyeli oi stale
Ih\ cowed down. The busiuetU
of Christianity human Is not to quench but to di¬
rect ambition. Therefore it Is that
1 utter words of encouragement to those,
who are occupied as clerks in tho stores and
shops and banking house;; of tlm country.
They are not an exceptional class. They
belong to a great company this of tens of thou¬
sands who are in country, amid cir¬
cumstances which will either make or break
l hem for Mum ami for eternity; fyltiuy of
these peopld have already achieved . d
Christian manliness and a Ohrlstlau wo
manliness which will ho their passport to
any position. I have seen their trials. |
have watched I heir- perplex ities. There
are evils abroad wide iv need to bo hunted
down and dragged out into the noonday
light. the first
In place, T counsel clerks to
remember that for the uioh! part their
clerk,ship is only a school from which they
Ore to ho graduated: Into H takes learned abo/H night
y.eCr tc get takes one of ( lie phdVs
aions. It. about eight years to gut to
be a merchant. Home of you will he clerks
fill your lives, but. the vast majority of
you are only in a transient position. After
awhile, some December day, tile head men
of the Urn) will call yo i into the back
office, and they will say ( A you: “Now, you
have done well by us, we are going to do
Well by you. Wo invite you to have an l/i-
terest In our com rn. Vou will how to
that edict vel'.y gracefully. Gelling into it
street (hlrto gd home, Jill old Coin hide will
meet: you diid say; “What makes yod look
so happy to-night?" “Oh,” you will say,
“nothing, nothing.” But in a few days
your name will blossom on tlmsign. Either
fn the store or bank where you are now,
or in some other store or hank, you will
take a higher position than that which you
now occupy. Ho f feel I am now address
big tim people World’s who will yet ami have tlmir hand
Oil commerce you will turn
it this way or that. Now clerks, but to he
bankers, importers, insurance company
directors, shippers, contractors, superin¬
tendents of railroads your voice mighty
“on ’Change” standing foremost in the
great lluamduJ and religious enterprises
the of tho profession day. For, though tide we who are in
may, on platform, plead
for the philanthropies, after all, the mer¬
chants must cmne forward with their mil¬
lions to fluHfcdtu the movement.
♦jr/lnsibnt He therefore, position; p/lf.jeiil and diligent in tills
Voli /ire how Where
oil citn learn things you coin never learn
in any other place. What you consider
your disadvantages are your grand oppor¬
tunity. You see /in al’llu-mit Hither some
d/iy conic down a prominent street with his
son who has just graduated from tho uni¬
versity and establishing him in business,
[Hitting #50,000 of ’ capital in Gm store.
Weil, yon arc envious. You say: “Oh. i If I
only bad a chance like that young man if
business I only hud a father to put #50,000 In a
for mo, then I would have obvious, some
chance in tile world,” He not
You have advantages over that young Well man
Which In! Jirts not over you. As might
1 come down to the docks when a vessel is
about to sail for Valparaiso and say, “Ld
me pilot this ship out to sea.” Why, l
would sink crew and cargo before I got out
of the harbor simply because I know noth-
ingabout pilotage. Wealthy sea captains
put their sons before tho mast for the
reason that they know it is the only
place where they can learn to bo sue-
cessfui sailors. It is only under drill
that people get to understand pilotage and
navigation, and 1 want you to umb istnnd
that it takes no more skill to conduct aves-
8c*l out of harbor and across tim sea than to
steer a commercial establishment clear of
the rocks. You sec everyday the folly of
people going into a business they know
nothing about. A man makes a fortune in
one patioii business, thinks there is another occu-
more comfortable, goes into il and
sinks all. Many of the commercial . slab.
lishments of our cities are giving their
clerks a mercantile education ns thorough
as Yale or Harvard or Princeton are giving
scientific attainments to tho students ma¬
triculated. The reason there arc so many
men is foundering in business from year to
year because I,heir early mercantile edu¬
cation was neglected. Ask tim men in high
commercial circles, and they will teii you
thev thank God for this severe discipline of
their early clerkship. You can afford to
endure, the wilderness march If it Is going
to end in the vineyards and orchards of the
promised land.
Hut you say, “Will the womanly clerks
Jn our stores have promotion?” Yes. Time
is corning when women will be as well paid
for their toll in mercantile circles as men
are now p/ibi for their toll. 'Time is coming
when a woman will be allowed to do
thing she can do well. It is only a little
while ago when women knew nothing of
telegraphy, and they were kept out of
great many commercial circles where they
arc now welcome, and the time will go on
until the woman who at one counter in a
store sells f *5000 worth of goods In a year
will get as high a salary as the man who
at tlm other counter of the same store sells
*5000 worth of goods. All honor to Lydia,
the Gliristlan "ah*:-woman.
The second couns'd 1 have to give
clerks I that yon seek out what, arc the
lawful regulations of your establishment,
and then submit to them. Every well-
ordcj od Dons'* i/as its usages. In military
life, on ship'; in commercial life,
there imid be ' r b-r and discipline. Those
people who do not learn how to obey will
never know how to command. 1 will tell
you what young, emu will make, ruin
llna/mial and moral. It is the young man
who thrusts hi* thumb Into his vest and
says; “Nobody shall dictate to me. I am
my own must* r. ! will not submit to the
reguJat ioiiH of this house.” Between an
establishment in which all the employes
are under thorough discipline and the
establishment in which the difference employ* s
do about they choose is the
Ix't wo»u> muoooss mid failun* hofwoon rapid
I uoeumulutbm and utter bankruptcy. Do
I not time. Porno to tho 8 torn ton mimitoH after tho
j Ho thoro within two Hooonds and lot,
it ho two nooomln I'oforo Instoad of two sec¬
onds after. Do not think anythin# too In-
signilleant to do woll. Do' not say,- ”H’m
only just omu'," From tho down mont tho Important partic¬
t ransaotion In oommeivo to
ular Htylo in which you tio a string around
a bundle obey orders. Do not get easily
disgusted. \Vhllo others in t ho store with may
lounge or fret or complain you go
touted ready hands spirit and cheerful work, face When and the bugle con-
lho <o your
sounds, j'ood fooldiei'/tsks no (pieMlIons,
hut shoulders his kmipsdek, tills his etllltecu
nod listens for the Command of ‘‘March!”
DO hot, get the idea, that your interests
and t hose of your employer be are jlntiigonls- His
lie. His success Will your honor.
embarrassment will be your dismay; Ex¬
pose' none of thi' frailties of tho linn. Toll
no store seerets. Do not blab. Rebuff those
persons \Vlui comci to tied out from clerks
what ought bo never to bo kudwii Outside tho
store, not bo among t hose young men
who take on a mysterious air when some¬
thin,!,' is said against (lie linn that employs
them, as much as to say, "I could toll you
something if l would, but 1 won't." Do not
he among those who imagine they can build
themselves up by pulling somebody else
dowii. He not ashamed to bo a subaltern.
Again, ( Counsel all clerks U* eoliqUor tile
trials Of their particular position.- One
great trial for clerks is tho Ineonslderat.lon
of customers. There, are people who are
entirely polite everywhere else, hut gruff
and dictatorial aud edhtemptIhlo when There I hoy
come into a. store to buy anythin#.-
are thousands of men and women who go
from store to store to price things, without
any idea of purchase. They goods are not brought satis-
| lied until every roll of is
down and they have pointed They out all all tho kinds real
rtf or ld<l imaginary gloves ami defects. retch them try out on of shape,
hi
add they pllt ml till styles of
cloak and walk td the inifror to flee
how they look, and then they frail hut
of the store, saying, “I 1 don't will not take It II all,” to¬
day,” which means, “ want at
leaving the clerk amid a wreck of ribbons
and laces and cloths to smooth out a
thousand dollars’worth of goods—not a
emit of which did that man or woman buy
or expect to buy. Now, l call that a dis¬
honesty hn fhe part of tho customer. If a
boy runs inton stoi-e dud takes rt t'oll info of
cloth off the counter and sneaks? mil
the street., yo u all join in the cry pell-mell,
“.Stop thief!” When I see you go Into a
store, not expecting H> buy anything, hut
to price tilings, stealing tho time of tho
(dork and stealing tho time of hlsomployor,
1 say, too, “.Stop thlefl”
If l were asked which dims unpersons
most needed (he grace of God amid their
itiimlyrtUM, I would say, “Dry goods
clerks.” A A\\ the hldigmdjou of customers
about the high prices comes on’ tlldCTcrk. Tin*
For instance: A great, war comes on.
manufactories urn closed. The people go
off to battle, The, price of goods rues up.
A customer comes into a store. Goods have
gone up. ‘‘How much 1st hat worth?” “A dol¬
lar.” ‘‘A dollar! Outrageous! A dollar!” Why
who Is to blame for tie* fact that it lias got
to he a dollar? Docs the Indignation go
out to the manufacturers on the bunks of
the Mcrriuide because indigimiloii they have closed up?
No. Does the go out toward
tho employer, who is at Ids coiinf.ry focal?
No. It comes on I he clerk. Me got up the.
war. 11 < - levied the taxes, lie puts up the
rents. Of course, the clerk.
Then there are all the trials which come
t o clerks from t he treatment of inconsider¬
ate employers. have There are professed regard Oliris- their
thvn men who no more for
clerks than they have for tho scales on
which the sugars are weighed, A clerk is
no more than so much store furniture. No
consideration for (hull- rights or interests.
Not one word Of hneotlDlgomcni from llocdm-' sun¬
rise to sunset,, nor from January td
ber. Hut when anything goes wrong with :i
streak of dust on the counter or a box
tho cover off I him dor showers of scolding.
Mmi Imperious, capricious, cranky toward
their clerks their whole manner m- much
as to say, “ All the Interest 1 Imve iu you is to
Hi‘0 Whin. I (hlii get out of .you.” Then there
are all tlm trials of Incompetent Wage*, not
in such times as these, when If a man gets
half a salary for his services he ought
to ho thankful, hut 1 mean in prosper¬
ous times. Homo of you remember when
the war broke out, a,ml /ill merchandise
went up, and merchants were made mil
llomiires l/i six months by tho simple rise
in the v.aluo of goods. Did the clerks gel,
advantage of that rise? Sometimes, not
always* 1 saw estates gathered in those hung
times over which the cur,, t of God lias
ever since, The cry of unpaid /non ami
women ill llumd stores readied the Lord of
H/ib/iot,b, dijd tile esfculd indignation Islim/m of God has
b M e.a around those t/1 over si nee.
Hashing In the upholstery, chandeliers, rumbling glowing from tlm
the crimson in
long roll of the tenpin alloy. Hindi men
may build up palaces of merchandise
im/ivon high, but after awhile a disaster
will come along and will put one hand on
this pillar and another hand on that pillar will
and throw lUolf forward until down
come tlm whole structure, crushing tlm tlm
Worshipers /is grapes /ire mashed in
winepress, Then there hoys ruined by lack of
are
compensation. it has been In for liow the many last twenty prosperous
stores years
that teach boys wre given just steall enough money
to them bow to Home were
seized upon by the pollen. The v/lst
majority of „ instances , were not known,
The head of the linn asked, Where is
George now? ’ “Oh, he isn t here any
more.” A lad might better starve to deal h
0,1 ,l blasted heath than take one farthing
from his employer. Woo be to that employer
! ; who unnecessarily Then!ihftvo puts been a temptation great establish- in a
hoy’ft way. In these cities, building mnr.de
month j>/»-
lacs, their owners dying worth miniousa/xl
millions and millions, who made a vast
amount of their estate out of'the blood and
muscle and nerve ol half paid clerks. Encii
mnn {lH well, i will not mention any name,
hut I mean men who have gathered up vast
‘-HtAtes at the expense of the p;;oj;io who
were ground under their heel. )h say
roeh merchants, “il you don t like it here
then go and get a better place!” As mu eh
as to ray; “I’ve got you in my grip, and I
mean to hold you. You can’t get any other
place.”
Oh, what a contrast between those men
and Christian merchants who to-day are
sympathetic with theJr clerks when they
pay the salary, acting in this way: “Thin
salary that 1 giv<ryou is not all my interest
in you. You are an Immortal man; you are
an immortal woman. I am Interest *d in
your present and your everlasting welfare.
( want you to understand that if I am a
j j little in higher Christian up In sympathy.” this store Go i am back beside for-
J you iy lllfty to Arthur Tnppen’s
| or years whose
> tore in New York, a man worst
enemies neve/ questioned brought his honesty, all the
Every morning be the
clerks and fhe accountants and
weighers into a room for devotion,
They sang, they prayed, they exhorted,
On Monday morning the clerks were asked
where thev had attended epureli on the
previous Jay and what the sw/nons were
about. It must have sounded strangely,
that voice of praise along ty/c streets where
the devotees of Mammon were counting
their golden Ix-ads. You say, Arthur Tap-
pen failed. Yes, Im was unfortunate, like a
great many good men, but I understand lie
met all bis obligations before be left tills
j world, and know that lie died in before tho ponce the
of tho gospel and that In is
throne of God to-day forever blessed, if
that be failing, 1 wish you might all fail,
There are a great many young men and
, young women who want a word of cneour-
agement Christian encouragement. One
smile of goo/l cheer would be worth more
to them to-morrow morning of Jn their places
of business than a present *15,000 ten
years hence. Oil, I remember the appro-
liension and the tremor of entering a pro-
tension. I remember very well the man
who greeted me in the ecclesiastical court
• with the tip ends of tho long lingers of
left hand, and I remember the other man
who took my hziutl in botln/f hi.*? mul 8.abb'
“U»>«1 bb*ss you, my brother. You hnvo on-
iorv.l i» glorious profossion. Ho faithful t<»
(Tod, ami llo will son you through.”
Why, 1 feel this minute tlio thrill
of that, handshaking, though the matt
who gave mo the Christian grip
hdsbrvn In heaven twenty years. Thorn
are old nidi hero te-da.v who can look hack
to forty years ago, When some one said a
kind word to them. Now", old men, pay
back what you get then. It is a groat art
for old num to he able to encourage tho
young. There are many young people Inland In
our cities who have come from
counties, from the granite' hills of tho
fiortlt, from the savannas of t he south, from
the prairies of tlm west. They are Imre to
get t heir fortune. They are in hoarding
houses where everybody seems to he think¬
and ing of himself. They want encouragement. companionship,
they want Christian
Give If to t hem.
My word is to /ill clerks, lie mightier
limn your temptations. A Sandwich
Islander used to think when he slew an
enemy all the strength of Mini enemy c/tnld
into hi* own right arm. And 1 have to tell
you that every misfortune you conquer Is
so much added to your oWu moral power.
With omnipotence for a lever and the
throne of God for a fulcrum you can mov’d
earth and heaven. While there are other
young men putting the cup of sin to their
iips you stoop down and drink will out rise of tho
loUnlrtliis of God. and you Tho up
strong to thrash the mountains,
undents used to think that pearl* were
fallen raindrops, which, touching tho
surface of the sea, hardened into gems,
then dropped to the bottom, I have t.o
tell you to-day that, storms of trial have
showered iniperlsliahle pearls into many a
young man’s lap. Mli, young man, while
you have goods to sell, romcmboi you have
a soul to save, in a hospital a (’hristlatl
captain, wronged a few days Indore, got
delirious, and in the midnight hour ho
sprang out on the lloor of the hospital,
thinking lie was in the baltle, crying:
“Gontrt on. boysl Forward 1 Charge!” Ah,
he was Hilly buttling is the Imaginary specters oonfliet of his
own brain! Hut it no
into which 1 call you, yoilug iii/m, to-day.
There are 10,000 spiritual foes that Would
capture you. In tho name of God, up and
at t horn!
After the last store 1ms been closed, after
tho last bank lias gone down, after tho
shulllo (>f tho quick feet on the custom
house stops ims stopped, after tho long
line of niofvhuiitnien on the sea has taken
sail of (lame, itl’te/ Washington and New
York and London and Vienna have gone
down into the grave where Thebes aud
Babylon and Tyre lie burled, after the great
lire bolls of the judgment day have tolled
at the burning of a World >n that day all
the affairs of ban king houses and stores will
come up for inspect Ion, Oh, what an open¬ the
ing of account books! Hide by side
clerks and III* men who employ them.
E very Invoice made out., nil tho
1/lboi.S of goods, all cert Itle./ifes
of stock, all lists of prle.es all private
marks of (lie linn now explained so the every¬
body can understand them. Ml maps
of cities thal were imvcr built, but in whieli
lots were sold all bargains, nil gougings,
adulteration all snap judgments, all false entries, /ill
of liquors wit h coppers and
strychnine. All mixing of teas and sugars
and coffees and sirups, with cheaper mate¬
rial, /ill embe/./Jemciits of trust funds.
Ail swindlers In coal and iron and oil and
silver and sl ocks. Gu that day when dm
el! h*H of I his world /ire smoking in Mm l/ist
rtuuMagrallou the trial will go on. ami «h»wti
in ail avalanche of destruction will tfo those
who w roll go I man or woman. Insulted (fod
aud dolled tin* judgment. <>h, t hat will he
a groaf day for you, honest Gliristlan
(dark. No getting up early, or retiring
late, no walking around wild) weary limbs,
hut a mansion In which to live and n realm
of light and love and joy over which to
hold everlasting dominion* Hoist him up
from glory to glory and from song to song
and from t Ulk/m’ to throne, for while <>t hers
go down Hilo the se/l With their gold like a
millstone hanging to their uec.U, this one
.shall come up the heights of amel.hysl and
alabaster, holding in his right hand the
pearl ing, of great price in a sparkling, glitter¬
naming easkd.
OIL AND COAL IN ALASKA.
(Iiiough to 8 up ply the World Sold to Have
Been Pound There.
A roinarkablo discovery is reported from
Alaska. Home gold prospectors several
mouths ago ran across what seemed to bo a
lake of oil. H was fed by Innumerable
springs, aud the suiToiinding mountains
were full or e. iil. They brought samples to
Mentl.lo, the tost.:-; proved l(. to hoof as high
grade lie from roinsylvania wells.
A. local company was formed returned and experts the
sent up. They have on
Topeka, and r lielr report has more
than borne out the Jlrst statements. It Is
M/iid there is enough oil and >:ti in the re¬
gion to supply tho world. It is close to tlm
ocean; in fa"!., t he experts say that the oil
oo /,ch out into the salt water, it is said
that the Hlandard Oil Company has already
made an offer for tlm property. The owners
have Died claims on 8000 acres.
SOUTH LEADS.
Htnfenicnt Showing Hallway Cmisl ruction
In the United Slates Thi ; Ve/ir.
HtalIstles of railway building prepared Rail¬
for the first six months In 1HU7 by the
way Age show the South in the iead. Out
of a total of 022.50 miles bul.lt, Louisiana
has 111 miles. In commenting on Its tables,
tho paper says: “It Is to he noted that rail¬
way building was practically suspended Hiatus, and in
tho New England and Middle
tho work was chiefly conli/md to theMouth-
ern HtntOH, where the ratio of area and
population to railway mileage still eon-
Utiucs large.” It is estimated that the
Whole year’s record will show an aggregate)
of 1800 or 2000 Julies of new road.
Too Many Potatoes.
Harvesting Is on In the potato patches
along the Kaw Valley bottoms between
Kansas City and Lawrence, Kansas aud the
farmers say they cannot get enough help.
On every sidetrack in this potato district
ears are loading for shipment and the fields
are full of men, women and boys digging
and loading the tuber*. The yield usual this
year has not been as heavy as tho on
account of the dry weather, but acre¬ will
age is larger than last year and there
be no famine,
Letters to Be Legibly Stamped.
First Assistanf Hoxtinasfer-Goneral Heath
ha; given orders whieli will lesson the
amount of illegible stamping of mail by
third aud fourth-class postmasters. Much
complaint has been heard from persons
u/mbb*, to tell the place at which a letter
was mailed because the stamping machine
used In marking It was old and left only an
illegible mark. In the future postmasters
will be obliged to see that letters arc
stumped legibly.
Shipping Sleet Bull* to India.
Tho British steamship Hity of Dvmdou
loaded 8500 tons of stocj rails at the Mary¬
land Hteel works, Sparrow’s Foint, for Cal¬
cutta, British India. The order is i’pr 7000
tons, and the oth» r 2500 t >ns will be lea led
in a few days in the British steamship West¬
minister.
l’eniiHj'lvniiifi'n Allen Tax law.
Tlio new alien tax law of I'emisylvanla,
Imposing H tax of throe cents a day on the
employers of aliens, has resulted In a ^rout
tush for “llrst paper*’’ In I’hihclelphla.
(Tail In Silver.
The Director of tho Mint has re,.estimated
the value of foreign silver coins, and finds
that during tho last three months the aver¬
age price of silver has fallen value from
iO.OiBW per five ounces to ®0.01U39,
VOL. V. NO. ;i0.
i THE SAUHATH SCHOOL,
;
'NTERNATIONAL LESSOtl COMMENTS
FOR JULY 25.
Lesson “Paul IVearMug In \tht*im,* (
Acts X V i i., #?? .‘M— (pitdee Tr J: .Julio
iv., 'A f—Commentary m\ the Iammoii of
the IJji.v by tho Iter. It, A!. Sh ipdr.
22. “Then Paul stood i:t the midst, of
Mars (till and said, Ye m*) of Athens, I
perceive that In nil thin;*■% yi■ /ire too su¬
perstitious.'’ Tltef II, V. margin says, ‘‘Re¬
ligious.” It was something like numb of
the ndigiou of to-day, Wiih'h is described
in fsa. xxix., HI; H v';. xxxiiL, Hi; Math,
xv., 7 D, a religiousness w i11 1 ■»ut: tiny real¬
ity, without; any forgiveness of sur- alt
outward formality. Tim people's time w.i >
Spent, in talking A the ne.vs of tin* day
(verso 21 1 ; as Paul waited for Silas and
Timothy 11 1H) he to eonm to him from 1 V *rea(verses
to made goo I use of his time for
his Master, both in Hv - y * u r > ;n>^ an l in
the marketplace, a,nd e/ery day preached
Jesus and the r e ui/Tectjoii.
2d. ‘‘ Whom therefor • ye ignorant ly wor¬
ship Him doela.ro I unto ait.ar you.” Ho said
I,his wit!) reference to the !<*> the un¬
known G<»L for it would .•;«■-mi t.ha,|; in t,!i(’ir
worship of many gods or idols they had an
altar for one whom ; • ,sihly they might not
have heard of as yet, hut if there was such
/in one, they would like his favor also, liem
js the one business of tim ehuivb. to make
known to those, who never heard of Him tho
oae only living and true God who ahum U
worthy to he worshiped.
21. ‘‘God that ma ie tlm world and all
things therein, seeing thn! He. is Lord of
heaven mul earth, dwelled/ not. in temples
made with hands." Prophets aud apostles
dwelt much upon tlm great truth of crea¬
tion, (Mid emphasi/.ed that lb* whom they
prea dmd w/h xliv.f the Creator of nil things..
See Isa. 21; Jor, x., 12; xx vii., )7;
Acts Iv., 21. People may know of Him by
His works. Hut no one can truly know
Him exeept through Jesus Christ, who was
God manifest in tlm (losh (Math, xi., 27;
John I., IS; I Tim. iii., Hi). Life eternul 1 h
to know Him (J'rtlin xvii,, :1).
25, “He, giveth to all life and breath am!
/ill things.” Giving is liis great eharacter-
istie, and Hit erow/iiug ad, was to give If is
osvnly begotten Hon, or in other words, to
give Himself as a sacrifice for oiirsins.
Having given Himself, II" has given all
things, for /ill tldngM are in Him. Tlm un¬
godly are dependent upon him for the very
breath with whieli they bl/i.’-plmme His
name, and the words of Daniel t ( > Pel
slut'2/.ar are applicable, to them “Tho God
In whose hand thy breath is and whose gro
all thy ways has thou not glorified.” (Dud!
V., 22).
2(J. “And hath made of om* blood /ill na¬
tions of men for to dwell on all tho face of
tho earth,” Not only has ho determined
tlm hounds of their habitation, but He has.
done II with refere/me | o 11 is people Israel.
(Dealt., xxxll., H), for if is His pleasure.
make Israel the emitre and bless /ill nations
through them. As //II on earth are Mis
croutures and He love<l tlm world and gave
Hlmselt’ for vho world, . ereiy it is Um gre.ul.
business of those who know this to make it
known to those who know it not. What
else are we Imre for but to honor lliu.* and
make Him known?
27. “That limy should seek tlm Lord.”
look at fsa. Iv., 0,7; Zeph. )L, 2; Jer. xxi.x.,
, { , lll(l ^|, |U v |., JJ mi ^ « klng the I.ord,
and observe every when* that His great de-
sire is to have people turn to Him. By shr
| we have turned our hades upon Him, and.
misjudge Him, and misunderstand II ini,
au q think and say hard things <■!' Him. The
Sc,ript.ures enlighten us about Him and lead
us to repent or changeounriindabout Him,
and when we ki.ow Him many are glad to
receive Him (John i., U, 12).
2T “I ■'•)/• in Him we live and move amf-
havc our being.” II there I•• one thing that
is not I; nown, it is t ho goodne.. v and love of
God Those who bear the name of Christ
are not, showing forth II is goodness as they
might day by day, but are too apt to com¬
plain because of II is chad citings and thus
lead others to think that lb* is not good.
God is good, God is love, and if these truths
were more manifest in His people more
would want to know Him, for the goodness
of God lends to repentance (item, li., I).
2D. “We ought, not to think that the God¬
head is like unto gold or silver or stone,
graven by ar! and man’s device.” For It
cannot be that, what we make made vis.
Tlm work of men's hands cannot be man's
creator, and yet what millions seem to
think so as they bow down to idols of wood
and stone. Hoe the folly of this fully set
forth in fsa., xllv., D ID, and in verse 20 see
the reason of such folly, “A. deceived heart
hal.lv turned him aside.”
110. “And Me* times of tills Ignorance Go d
winked at (It. V. overlooked), but noweom-- repent.”
mandoth all men everywhere to
God never makes light of w hi and
never passes it by us if it were
fc suffering, slow to
nothing, but He is long should
auger, not willing that any
perish ill l»et. iii., D, 10). How It must
grieve Him to be misunderstood as He is,
to be thought unkind and cruel when He is
wholly and only Jove! f < It any wonder
that He commands all t" repent, but Is it
not,a great wonder that He offers full and
free forgiveness to ail who turn to Him?
(ilos. xi v., I; Horn. Hi., 21.) day
:tl. “Because He bath appointed righteous¬ a in
whieli lie will judge the world in
ness by that man whom lie hath ordained.”
Tlm assurance of this is found in a risen
Christ at God's right hand. I/i reference
to tills day we must remember that a day
sometimes mequH a thousand years (Ps. xe. f
t; If pet. ill., H), and from other scriptures
■v gather that tho period of judgment will tho
e.over at least 1001) ye/irs; tlm saints and
living nations being judged at the begin¬
ning, aud the wicked dead /it thoend of tho
thousand years. of the
;J2. “And when they heard resur¬
rection of the dead some mocked, and
others said, Wo will hear time again of this
matter.” Thu greatest and the crowning
event in the work of our Lord Jesus Christ,
His resurrection from flie /lead, is that
wide!) seems to be the greatest stumbling
block. I Cor. xv. sets forth very fully tho
benefits of If is resurrection and what tho
results would have been if He had not
risen. them.
:n, 81, “Ho Haul departed unto from Him and
Howbelt certain men clave
believed.” Tims lie went from expecting place to
place as a faUhful witness, never seeking by all
to save all in any place, (I but ('or. ix., 22). He
means to save some
understood that it was his commission to
bear the name of Christ wherever the Spirit
of Christ should lead him and lx*, perfectly
sure that God's word would always accom¬
plish His pleasure and prosper In that
whereto He semis it (isa.lv,, 11). It is a
happy tiling for us when wo are willing to
let our blessed Lord manage His own af¬
fairs aud accomplish what lie pleases
rather than what w please. When we are
revealed willing to plans fall and in with purposes Him and in His just clearly dwell
with Him for III* work, seeking only -Lesson In all
things to bo approved of Him.
Helper.
Lord Kelvin, in an address upon
the earth as an abode fitted for life,
has Kiiuuue/l up the evidence into
what must be accepted as the latest
dictum of science regarding this ob-
scare point, Tho old idea was of it
solid earth nearly 20,000,000,000
ycurH old, but modern science makes
hii immense reduction in this estimate.
lie was able to say with confidence
Unit the earth solidified between 20,-
(100,000 and 80,000,000 years ago.
The latest estimate of the time re-
oitired 4 for the formation of all strata
since the beginning of the Cambrian
rock is 17,000,000 years, Lord Kel-
vin declares that the earth,, could not
have been habitable more than 130,-
000,000 years.