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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA* TUESDAY MARCH 2 188(5
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
PREACHED YESTERDAY IN BROOK-
LYN TABERNACLE.
?U« Oreet Divine Preachee the Sighth of Eli Rories
or Sermon* on the Subject of tlte Marries# Ring
—“Hotel and Hoarding Hone# Life
Versus Homo Life,” Etc., Etc.
Brooklyn, N. Y.,February 23.—[Special.]—
Jlev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., preached
today in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, the eighth
of his series of sermons on “The Marriage
Bing," the subject being “Hotel and Board-
inghoufe Life versus Home Life,” Professor
Henry Eyre Browne played “O Sanctissioii,'
By Lux. The whole congregation joined in
singing tlic hymn:
“Glory to God on high!
Jx:t heaven and earth reply:
Praise ye his name!'*
I)r. T»Image expounded a chapter from tho
second book of Samuel, about the ark deposited
in the house of Obcd-cdom, about which Jose 1
phus says that the man was poor when the ark
was left at his house, and rich beforo It left.
The preacher remarked that every house is
rich which lias in it the sacred chest of the
Divine presence.
The text was Luke x, 34 and 35: “And
Brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
And on tho morrow when ho departed he took
cut two pence and gave them to the host, and
said unto him. take care of him and whatso
ever thou spendest more, when I come again I
will repay thee." Following is tho sermon in
fall:
Th w
Bill of a man who had been robbed and* almost
killed by bandits. The good Samaritan had
found tho unfortunate on a lonely rocky road,
where to this veTj day depredations are
sometimes committed upon travelers,
and had put the injured man into the
saddle while this merciful and well*to-do man
Bad walked till they got to the hotel and tho
wounded man was put to bed and cared for.
It must have been a very superior hotel in its
accommodations, for, though in the country
tho landlord was paid at tho rate of what in
our country would be four or five dollars a
day, a penny being then a day’s wages and
the two pennies paid in this case abont two
days’ wages. Moreover it was one of those
kiudhearted landlords who are wrapped op in
the happiness of their guests, because the good
Samaritan leaves the poor wonnded fellow to
Bis entire care, promising that when he came
that way again ho would pay all tho bills un
til the invalid got well.
Hotels and boarding houses are necessities.
In very aucient times they wero unknown be-
cause the world had comparatively fow in-
SOjoUrilCrS; US nuvu nuiauum tusuou VIIV ttv
Mamrc to invite tho three men to sit down to
a dinner of veal; as when Lydia urgod tho
Apostles to accept of her home; as when tho
today. But wo havo now ho
tels presided over by good landlords,
and boarding houses presided ovor by excel
lent host or hostess, In all neighborhoods, vil
lages ami cities, and It is our congratulation
that those of our land surpass all other lands.
They rightly become tho permanent resi
dences cf many people, such os those who are
without families, such as thoso whose bnsinesi
keeps them migratory, such as thoso who
ought not, for various reasons of health or pe
culiarity of circumstances, tako upon thorn*
pelves the cares of housekeeping.
Many n man falling sick In one of thoso
boarding houses or hotels has boon kindly
watched and nursed; and by tho memory of her
own mill-rings and losses the lady at the head
of such nhousolms dono all that a mother
could do for a sick child, and tho slumborloJ3
eye of God sees and appreciates her sacrifices
In behalf of tho stranger. Among tho most
marvellous cases of patienco and Christian
fidelity are many of thoso who keep board
ing bouses, enduring without resent
ment tho unreasonable demands of their
guests for expensive food and attentions for
which they are not willing to pay an equiva
lent—a lot of cranky mon and women who
nre not worthy to tio the shoo of their quoenly
caterer. Tho outrageous way in which board
ers sometimes act to their landlords and land
ladies show that theso critical guests had bad
early rearing, and that in the making uplof
their natures all that Constitutes tho gentle
man and lady were left out. Somo of the
most princely men and somo of the most ele
gant women that I know of today keop hotols
and boardinghouses.
But one or the great evils of this day is found
In the fuct that a large population of our towns
nnd cities are giving up and havo gi ven up thoir
hon es nnd taken apartments, that thoy may
Bate more freedom from domestic duties and
more time for social life, aud becauso they like
the whirl of publicity better than tho quiet
nnd privacy of a residence they can call their
own. The lawlhl uso of thoso hotols and
Boarding houses is for most people whilo
they nre in transit, but as a ter
minus they are in many cases demoralization,
utter and complete. That ia the point at
which families innumerable have begun to
disintegrate. There never has been a ttmo
when'so many families, healthy and abundant
ly able to support and direct homes of their
own, havo struck tent and taken permanent
abodo in these public establishments. It is au
evil wide as Christendom, and by voice and
through tho newspapor press, I utter warning
and burning protest, and ask Almighty God to
bless the word, whether in tho hoaring or
leading. ...
In these public caravansaries the domon of
gessip ia apt to get full away. All the boardor*
run daily the gauntlet of general inspection—
Bow they look when thoy come down in tho
morning and when they get in at night, and
what they do for a living, and who they re
ceive as guests in their rooms, and what they
wear and what they do not wear, and how
they cat and what they cat, and how much
they cat and how little they eat. If a min
proposes in such a place to be isolated nnd re
ticent and alone, they will begin to guess
about him: Who is he ? Where did he come
from ? How long is he going to stay ? Has ho
id bis board? How much does he pay? Per-
ps he has committed some crime and does
not want to bo known; there must be some
thing wrong about him or he would speak.
The whole house goes into the detcctivo
Business. They must find out
about him. They must find out
about him right away. If he leaves his door
onlockcd by accident he will find that his
zooms havo been inspected, his trank ex
plored, his letters folded differently from the
way they were folded when he put thorn away.
Who is Be? is the question asked with intense
Interest until the subject has becomo a mono
mania. The simple fact is, that he is nobody
In particular but minds his own business.
Tho best landlords and landladies cannot some
times binder their places from becoming a
ptsdemomium of whisperers, and reputations
are tom to tatters, and evil suspicions aro
aroused, and scandals started, and the parlia
ment of the family is blown to atoms bv some
Guy Fawkes who was not caught in time, as
Was his English predecessor of gunpowdery
reputation.
The reason is, that while in private homes
families have so much to keep them busy, in
these promiscuous and multitudinous residen
ces there are so many who have nothing to do,
and that always makes mischief. Tbeygather
Ia each others rooms and spend hours m con
sultation about others. If they had to walk a
half mile before they got to the willing oar of
some listener to detraction, (hey would get out
Of hicath before reaching there, and not fool in
fall glow of animosity or slander, or might,
Because cf the distance, not go at all. But
Dooms 20,21, 22, 23,24 and 23 are on the same
corridor, and when one carrion crow goes
“Caw! Caw!” all the other crow3 host it and
flock together over the same carcass. “Ob, I
have heard something rich! Sit down, let me
tell ycu all about ft.” And the first guffaw
Increases the gathering, and it has to be told
all ever again, and as they separate each car
ries a spark from the altar of Gab to some
ether circle, until from the coal heaver in the
Cellar to the maid in the top room of the gir-
£
ret, all are aware of the defamation, and that
evening all who leave tho houso will bear it
to other houses, until autumnal fires sweeping
ffw-Mfeois prairies are less raging aud swift
than that flame of consuming roputation bla
zing across the village or city. Those
of us who were brought up in the country
know that the old-fasbionod hatch-
faff . e ffff* 111 tho hay mow
required four or five weeks of brooding, but
there are new modes of hatching by machin
ery, wnich take less time and do tho work in
wholesale. So, while the private home may
brood into life an occasional falsity and tako a
long time to do it, many of tho boarding
houses and family hotels afford a swifter and
more multitudinous style of moral Incubation,
and one old gossip will get off the nest
after one hour's brooding clucking a flock of
thirty lies after her, each one picking np its
little worm of juicy regalement. It ia no ad
vantage to hear too much about your neigh
bors, for your timo will bo so much occupied
fa taking care of their faults that you will
have no time to look after your own. And
while you are pulling the chickweed out of
their garden yours will get all overgrown
with horse-sorrel and mullen stalks.
One of the worst damages that "comes from
----- - j wav of bringii
them up on the commons. While you nai.
your own private house you can for the most
part control their companionship and their
,o sue a permanent rctmouco.
o probability Is that tho wifo will hnvo to
o her husband’s timo with public smokiug
tding room, or with somo coquettish spl-
w hereabout*, but by twelve years of age In
these public resorts thoy will have * * *
all the bad things that can be furnished by the
pnirient minds of dozens of people. They
will overhear blasphemies, and see
and get precocious in sin, and what _ ...
tender does not tell them the porter or hostler
or bellboy will. Besides that, the children
will go out into this world without the re
straining, anchoring, steadying and all con
trolling memory of a home. From that none
of us who have been blessed of such
memory have crcaped. It grips a man for
eighty years if ho lives so long. It pulls him
l ack from doors into which ho would other
wise enter. It smites him with contrition in
the very midst of his dissipations. As the
fish already surrounded by tbe long wide net
swinrout to sea thinking they can go os far
as they please, and with gay toss of silvery
stale they defy the sportsmun on the beach,
and after a whilo tho fishermen begin to
draw in tho net. hand over hand and hand
over hand, and it is a long while before the
captured fins begin to feel the not, and then
they dart this way and that hoping to get out,
but find themselves approaching
tho shore and aro brought up
to the very feet of the cantors, so
tho memory an early homo sometimes seems
to relax and let men out further and farther
from God and further and further from shore—
five years, ten years,; twenty years, thirty
3 cars; but someday they find an irresistible
mesh drawing them back, and they are com-
I died to retreat from thoir prodigality and
warndoring, and though they make desperate
effort to cecapo the impression, and try to dive
deeper down in sin, after awhilo aro brought
clear back and held upon tho Bock of Agos.
If it bo possiblo, O father and mother t let
your eons and daughters go out into the world
under the semi-omuipotcnt memory of a good,
puro home. About your two or throo rooms ia
a boarding houso or a family hotel, you can
cast no such glorious sanctity. Thoy will
think of tficso public caravansaries as an early
stopping place, malodorous with old victuals,
cofl'ees porpctually steaming and meats in over
buying stew or broil, tho air surcharged with
carbonic acid, and corridors along which
drunken boarders come staggering at one
o’clock in the morning, rapping at tho door till
the affrighted wifo lets them in. Do not be
guilty of tho 6acriicgo or blasphemy of
calling sncli a placo a homo.
A homo is four walls enclosing ono
family with identity of interest, and a priva
cy from outsido inspection so completo that it
is a world in itself, no one entering cxcopt by
permission; bolted and barred and chained
against all outsido inquisitivoncss. Tho phraso
so often used in law books and legal circles is
mightily suggestive—every man's houso is his
castle. As much so as though It had draw
bridge, portcullis, redoubt, bastion and armed
turret. Even tho officer of tho law may not
enter"
tarily
sion< ,
clashes Its iron jaws on any ono who attempts
it. Unless it bo necessary to stay for
longer or shorter time in family, hotel or
boarding house—and there aro thousands of
instances in which it is necessary, as I showed
you nt tho beginning—unloss in this excep
tional case, let neither wifo nor husband con
tent to such permanent residence.
The
divide
rending room, or with somo coni
der in search of unwary files, and if you do not
entirely lose yonr husband It will bo bo*
enuso ho is divinely protected from
tho disasters that h&vo wholmcd
thousands of husbands with ss good intentions
at yours. Neither should tho husband, with
out imperative reason, consent to such a lifo
unless ho is suro his wife can withstand tho
temptation of social dissipation which sweeps
across such places with tho forco of tho At
lantic ocean when driven by a September oqul-
nox, Many wives give up their homos for
theso public residences so that thoy may give
their Cntiro time to operas, theatres, bolls, re
ceptions and levees, and they at© in a perpet
ual whirl like a whip top spinning round and
ronnd and round, very prettily until it loses
its equipoise and shoots off into a tangent.
But the difference is, in ono cmo it is a top and
in the other a coul.
Besides tills thero is an Assiduous accumula
tion of little things araund the pTivato homo
which in the aggregate niako a groat attrac
tion, whilo the denizen of oue of thoso public
residences is apt to say: “What is tho use? I
have noplace to keep them if I should tako
them*.” Mementoes, bric-a-brac, curiosities,
quaint chair or coscv lounge, upholitorios, pic
tures and a thousand things that accrete in a
home arc discarded or neglected because there
homestead in which to arrange them.
yet they are tho case in which tho pearl
of domestic happiness is set. You can novor
become ss attached to tho appointment* of a
boarding house or family hotel as to tboso
things tbit you can call your
own and aro associated with
the different members of your house
hold, or with scenes of thrilling import in
our domestic history. Blessed i i that home'
. u which for a whole lifetimo they have been
gathering, until every figure in the carpet, and
every panel of the door, and every casement
of the window has a chirography of its own,
speaking out something aboutfather or moth
er, or son or daughter, or friend that Was with
us awhile. What a saerod placo it becomes
when one can say: “In that room such a one
was born; in that bed such a ono died; in that
chair I sat on the night I heard such a ono
had received a great public honor, by that
stool my child knelt for her last evening pray
er, here I sat to greet my son as he came back
from sea voyage; that was father’s cane; that
was mother’s rocking chair. What a Joyful
and pathetic congress of reminiscouces!
The public residence of hotel and boarding
house abolishes tho grace of hospitality. Your
:ncst does not want to come to such a table,
to one wants to run such a gauntlet of acute
and merciless hypercritidsm. Unless you
have a home of your own, you will not bo able
to exercise the best rewarded of all the graces.
For exercise of this grace what blessing came
to the Shunamite in the restoration of her son
to life, because she entertained Elisha, and to
the widow of Zarepath in the perpetual oil well
of the miraculous cruise, because she fed a
hungry prophet, and to Hanab m tbe preserva
tion of her life at the demolition of Jericho,
ccau£c she entertained the spies, and to Laban
in tbe formation of an Interesting family
relation, because of his entertainment
of Jacob, and to Lot in his
rescue from the destroyed city because of bis
entertainment of the angels, and to Mary and
Martha and Zaccheus in spiritual blessing be
cause they entertained Christ, and to Pnblins
in tbe island of Melita in the healing of bia
father because of the entertainment of Paul,
drenched from the shipwreck, and of innnm-
erable houses throughout Christendom npon
which bare come blessings from generation to
generation because their doors swung easily
open In the enlarging, ennobling, Irradiating
and divine grace of hospitality. I do not
know wliat your experience has been, but I
have had men and women visiting at my houso
who left a benediction on every room—In the
blessing theyasked at tho table, in tbe prayer
they offered at the family altar, in the good
advice they gave tbe children, in the gospel!-
zation tbat looked out from every lineament
of their counter, ances; and their departure was
the sword of bereavement
The queen of Norway, Sweden and Den
mark had a royal cup of ten carves or lips,
each one having on it the name of the distin
guished person who had drank from it And
that cup which we offer to others in Chris-
taken from it refreshment. But all this is im
possible unless you have a home of your own.
It is the delusion as to what is necessary for a
home that hinders so many from establishing
one. Thirty rooms are not nooossary, nor
twenty, nor fifteen, nor ten, nor five, nor
three. In the right way plant a table, and
conch, and knife, and fork, and a cup, and a
chair, and you can raise a young paradise.
Just start a home, on however small a scale,
and it will grow. When King Cyrus was in
vited to dine with an humble friend the king
made the one condition of his coming that tho
only dish bo one loaf of bread, and tho most
imperial satisfactions have sometimes ban-
quetted on the plainest fare.
Do not be caught in the delusion of many
thousands In postponing a home nntil they
can have an expensive ono. That Idea ia the
devil’s trap that catches men and women in
numerable who will never have any home at
all. Capitalists of America! build plain homes
for the people. Let this tenement house sys
tem in which hundreds of thousands of the
people of our cities are wallowing in tho mire,
be broken up by small homes, where peoplo
can hkve their own firesides and their own
altar. In this great continent there is room
euough for every man and woman to have a
home. Morals and civilization and religion
demand it.
We want dono all over this land wlratGeorgo
Peabody and Lady Burdott-Coutts did In En
gland, and some of the large manufacturers qf
this country have done for the villages and
cities, in building small houses at cheap rents,
co that the middle classes can have soparato
homes. They are the [only class not provid
ed for. The rich have their palacos, and the
poor have their poor-houses, and criminals
have their jails, but wbat about the honest
middle classes, who aro ablo and willing to
work and yot have small income? Let the cap
italists, inspired of God and pure patriotism,
rke and build whole streets or small residen
ces. Tho laborer mi
day, to walk or ride
to reach it, but when ho gets to his destination
in the eventide, ho will find something worthy
of being called by that glorious, and impassion
ed, nnd heaven-aesccndcd word, “home.”
Young married man, as soon as you can, buy
such a place, even if you have to put on it a
mortgage reaching from baso to capstone. The
much abused mortgage, which it ruin to a
reckless man, to one prudont and provident, Is
tho beginning of a competency and a fortune,
for tho reason ho will not be satisfied until ho
has paid it off, and all thohousobold aro put on
stringent economics until then. Deny yourself
all superfluities and all luxuries until yon can
tay: “Everything in this house is mine, thank
God! every timber, every brick, every foot of
plumbing, every door sill.” Do not havo your
children bora in a boarding houso, and do not
yourself bo buried from ono. Havo a
placo where your children can shout,and sing
and romp, without being ovorhaulod for the
racket. Havo a kitchen, where you cau do
something toward tho reformation of evil
cookery and the lessening of this nation of
dyspeptics. As Napoleon lost ono of his great
battles bv attack of indigestion, so many mon
have such a daily wrestle with tho food swal
lowed that they have no strength left for tho
battle of life; and though your wife may
know how to play on all musical instruments
and rival a prime donna, aho la not well edu
cated unless she can boil an Irish potato and
broil a mutton chop, since the diet somotimos
decides tho fitte nt rAinllir* and nation®.
Have a sitting room with at lonst ono easy
chair, even though you havo to tako tarns nt
sitting in it, aud books out of tho public li
brary or of your own purchaso for the
of your family intelligent and chockor
and guessing matches with an occasional blind
man’s buff, which is of all games my favorite.
Bouse up your homo with all styles of inno
cent mirth, and gather up In your children's
natures reservoir of exuboranco that will
pour down refreshing stroams when life gots
parched, and tho dark days como, and tho
lights go out, aud tho laughter is smothered
into a cob.
First, last and all tho timo. havo Christ in
your homo. Julius Crcsar calmed tho fears of
affrighted boatman who was rowing hlni
a stream, by stating: “So long as Ciotar is
with you in tho samo boat, no harm can hap
pen.” And whatever storm of adversity or
bereavement or poverty may strike your
home, ail is well as long as you havo Christ
tho king on board. Make your homo so far
reaching in its influonco that down to tho
last moment of your children’s lifo you mAy
hold them with a heavenly charm. At
seventy-six years of ago, the Desmosthenes of
tho Americau senato lay dying ut Washing
ton—I mean Henry Clay, of Kentucky. UU
pastor fat at his hcJsido aud “tho old man
clomicnt,” after a long and
exciting public lifo, trans-At
lantic and da-Atlantic, waa back again in the
scenes of bis boyhood, and ho kept saying iu
Bra dream ovor and over again: “My mother 1
mother! mother! mother!” may the parent
al influence wooxert bo not only potential but
holy, and so tho home on earth bo tho vesti
bule of our home in heaven, in which placo
may wo all meet, father, mother, son. daugh
ter, brother, sister, grandfather ana grand
mother, and grandchild and tho entire group
of precious ones, of whom we must ssy In the
words of transporting Charles Woslcy
'Onefamliy we dwell In him,
One church above, bcucalti;
hough now divided by tho stream—
The narrow stream or death
Though now
The narrow
One array of the living God,
And part are crowing now,”
Mighty Sensible Sion.
Mr. W. II. Brace, Blanco, Texas, writes:
•There are over forty subscribers to Tick Constitu
tion at ibis off.ee. and every subscriber says Tim
Constitutioii Is the best paper In the world. It is
growing every day.”
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An old physician, retired from practico, hav
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nervous complaints, after having tested Its
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roses, has felt it bis duty to make it known to
his suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive
and a desire to relieve human suffering, I will
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It Comes Only a Week After Hard! Gras.
The pleasure seekers at the Mardl Gres Fes
tival at New Orleans. La., will havo until
March Pth, Shrove Tuesday, this pear. Lent
then rcrumencee, and on Tuesday, March 10th,
the Grand Extraordinary Drawing (the 190th
Monthly) of the Louisiana Htato Lottery will
take place, when over a half million of dollars
will bo thrown around promiscuously. All
abont which event any one can learn on appli-
r ation to M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, Lou
isiana.
Carter's Little Liver Pills may well be term
ed “Perfection.” Their gentle action and gooi
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them.
THE CHURCH IN THE HOUSE.
A Service of Home-Worship for Every Sunday In
tho Year.
By Bev. Charles F. Deems, D. D.,
Pastor ofthe Church of the Strangers, New York.
[Copyright Secured.]
Fourth Sunday in February.
. THE LESSON FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT.
(The leader should announco tho placo of lesson,
so that each worshipper may open the Blblo and
follow tho reading:]
Genesis xvlii., 1-19.
HYMN.
PRAYER.
[Then may follow a prayer appropriate to the sea
son, the Scripture lessons, and the circumstances of
the family: or the leader may read from somo of
the collections or prayer, of which there should bo
several In each household.]
THE DISCOURSE.
that fear Ilim.”—Psalm xxv., 4.
The neatest thing it love.
Tbe best thing we can get from others Is to
bo loved. One of the chief characteristics of
love is confluence.
When » man loves the Lord ho confides to
Him tho secrets of his soul.
The Lord repays tho confidence.
We all with open faco behold the glory of
God.—II. Cor. iii., 18. a
But not all of us see all tho glory at once.
Suppose our friend is a great man, a man of
vast knowledge, knowing tho affairs of busi
ness and of state. As ho gains confidence fa
us he tells us bis secrets, his plans. Society
Increasingly respects us tho more it learns that
we are In the confidence of our great friend.
We havo pleasure in tho confidence and profit
from tho knowledge he imparts. Men outside
would give much for what wo know.
Tho Lord has His socrets and Ills confi
dants.
Bemembcr IHs friend Abraham and read
Genesis xviii., 17.
Remember Moses and Ills Intimacy with tho
Lord, as of a beloved Primo Minister with a
Monarch.
Bemembcr tbo Apostles, and read John xv.,
Ono great value of this is that it affords us a
certainty of being able to roach the truth. Wo
may havo such revelation from tho Lord of Ills
secret that wo shall be suro wo know it. Ho
shall cause us to understand the Bible. Wbat
othereyeseco not wo shall see. We shall be
the initiated. Tho initiation is “tho fear of tho
Lord,” not tormenting, but loving fear. This
fear attracts God to us snd us to God.
[Alter this, or any other short discourse, a hymn
or severs! hymns may besting, as tho family may
find agreeable and profitable. After which all may
unite in thaukiglvlng and prayer.]
Afternoon Talk.
[A service may be held nnd the following dis
course read:
PAUL’S ANTI-CLIMAX.
By B. M. Palmer, D. D.
Bead again Bomans xv., 18. “Tho God of
hope fill you with all joy and poaco in bollov
ing, that ye may abound in hope, through tho
powor of the Jloly Ghost.” This looks like
an anti-climax, but tho anti-climax disap
pears as soon as wo rccogtiizo anothor law of
experience, that tbo emotions deepen into per
manent conditions or habits of tho soul. Thoy
crystallize into principles, bocomo concrete,
and go back * into character aud givo it
strength.
Tho order mentioned by tho apostlo Is ofton
tho order in which our conversion is first re
vealed to us. Tho first act of the now born
soul is undoubtedly trust in tho Bodoomer; out
of which hopo rest dawns upon tho soul; which
then deepens into pcaco and becomes
a holy calm; rislug, at length, In 1U tide into
which bursts iu its fulness upon us!
transition from darkness to light intoxicated
tho heart; which is flooded with Joy, us
though tho radiance of Heaven rested tipin
tho spiritual birth of tho sinner as it did
eighteen hundred years ago upon the plains of
Bethlehem. Boon, however, tho offervcsccnco
of feeling gives way; Joy sobers into poace.and
there is a quiet resting upon the Uedeomcr and
His promises. In this descent from joy to
peace, and from peace to hope, thoro is a
crystallizing of tho omotion lute n habit which
forms a second nature with tho Christian, and
the faith deepens into a permanent condition
of tbo soul.
Tho Apostlo desires, not merely that we shall
hope, but that wo shall abound in hopo; and so
wo havo tho climax still. Tho word, “salva
tion,” is ured in a narrower and in a broader
sense. A man is saved when his sins arc
pardoned nnd bo feels the first pulse of
(ritual life; still more when, though progros-
vo sanctification, ho Is delivered more nnd
more from tho dominion and pollution of sin
hut when delivered finally from the being anti
presence of sin, and ho is translated to Heaven,
then is salvation complete in the fulness of its
meaning. Because thoso blessings are largely
in the future, they are brought within tho
rangoand influence of hope: so the Apostlo
speaks of our “being saved by hone.” This
principle of hope may l>o increased in various
ways: (1) Tho Holy Spirit may stimulate tho
natural instinct of hope. Thanks bo unto God,
despair in its fulness is known only to tho
damned. May not tbo Divino Spirit, who
operates through all tho faculties of our nature,
stimulate this natural instinct in the
Christian; so that when ho canno t sco tho
E round upon which his hope rests, it shall yot
car him up, nnd he slmll go on hoping against
hope oven in thedarkesthour? 12) The Holy
Spirit mny strengthen tho Christian principle
of hope, implanted at the new birth; enabling
us to see the ground upon which it rosta, and
to exercise faith in the covenant and promises
of Almighty God. (3) Tho Holy Spirit often
enlarges our discoveries of what is beyoud.
Ob, this second sight, which belongs to tho
Christian--tho power to rise above tho fogs
and mists of earth into tbe clear light of tbe
upper flay, and sec tho things that aro eternal!
When this becomes habitual, wo have a more
intense longing for that which is beyond, as
well ns greater certainty of its enjoyment. (4)
We abound in hope when this risoa into the
grace of assuranc e—a frame of spirit in which
confident expectation of promised blessing is
its abiding posture.. Let not the defect of our
individual experience lead us to depreciate tho
\aluc of this good grace. Oor error may
consist in not distinguishing between tho
aci-uramc of hope occasionally enjoyed and
this ar Mi ranee as tho permanent condition and
frame of tbe K»ui. There i» many a precious
menu nt when the child of God has this assur
ance, though it has not crystallized into a fixed
habit. Let hope then have its scope, until it
rises into unclouded assurance of our “accept
ance in tho Beloved.”
An appropriate poem Is added, which may be
committed to memory by the young people.J
Onr Jesus.
Happy are we in Jesus.
j the storm and the pitiless cold;
Over the mountains snd over the sew.
Lovingly, Joyfully. >T>e*dwc tothe«c
'-coking tosave them by trnderest picas.
Have by the blood of Jesus.
Jojfully, then, let us spread the glad news.
Never this service for Jesus refuse,
.'•ever a moment to work for Him lose;
Joy full v work for Jew*.
Mr.'t. ncanine Johnson*
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