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THE PULPIT. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY REV GEORGE THOMAS DOWLING. Subject: “The Secret of Peace.” BROOKLYN, X. Y.—Dr. Thomas Edward Dowling, minister in charge of St. James's P. E. Church, St. James place and Lafayette avenue, preached Sunday morning on the subject, “The Secret of Peace,” a study of the Shep¬ herd Psalm. Dr. Dowling said: Thirty centuries ago there lived in Palestine a king, who in his bovhood had been a shepherd lad. And in his old age, when he had seen life, with its sorrows and its joys, ibis king, David, sang a song, which it takes less than two minutes deliberately io re peat. Three thousand years have gone since then; and to-day everything he owned has turned to dust except his songs. The throne on which he sat —dust; the palace where he dwelt— dust; the harp which his fingers were accustomed to sweep, the banner with which he led the hosts of Israel, his chariots, and his charioteers—ail dust! But to-day that song goes sing¬ ing its way to the universal heart, in the cottage of the poor and the mansion of the rich, in the home of the learned and of the uniearned, be¬ cause it sings of what all the world is hungering for—peace, When Edward Irving swept through the gates it was with this song upon his lips. Luther called it the "“Little Bible,” and so it is, for it contains in miniature the whole book. Henry Ward Beecher, who once made Brook¬ lyn famous, that greatest preacher the world has ever known since Paul stood on Mars Hill, called it “the nightingale's song,” because it sings to us iu the darkness. Listen while I repear it to you, that it may once again sing its way into your heart. (Dr. DowMng here repeated deliber¬ ately the Twenty-third Psalm.) Now I yield Him not simply admira¬ tion, but adoration. It is the difference between “He leadeth,” and “He lead eth me.” If you would know what may be to you, learn to appro Him. Learn to think of Him simply not as a God, but your God; not simply as a friend, but your friend; not simply as a shepherd, but your shepherd. Now, when you receive a gift there are three things which you do with it. You accept it, you examine it, and you use it. And the gift which this royal shepherd poet of three thou¬ sand years ago makes to us in this Shepherd Psalm may prove more pre¬ cious to you than any which you have ever received, if you deal with it in just that way; the way of appropria¬ tion, of appreciation and of applica¬ tion. As you notice how very easy it is to appropriate it, because it abounds with those personal and possessive pronouns, in which, Martin Luther said, the preciousness of the Bible consists: "The Lord is my shepherd.” “He leadeth me.” “Yea, though I walk through the valley.” What a great difference there is be¬ tween the mere apprehension of a fact and the appropriation of that fact, be¬ tween knowing it and claiming it. When you see a child in a runaway, you are moved; but suppose it is your child. There is the same difference that there is between the stately man¬ sion of a stranger and the little cot¬ tage in which your mother rocked you in her arms and crooned to you the songs of your babyhod. So, my friends, you never can judge of a re¬ ligion until it has been transmuted into a personal experience, until it has become your religion. A histori¬ cal Christ is, at the most, only a Christ. I can look upon Him with admiration. Ah! but when He has become mine, and I have heard His voice, and felt His touch, He is no longer simply a Christ but the Christ. And then, when you have appropri¬ ated this psalm, seek to appreciate it. Notice, to begin with, the perfect spir¬ it of trust which breathes through it all. See how much it has to say about Him and how little about ourselves. Mark how every verse tells us what He is doing. My dear people, that is the whole secret. The secret of peace is the putting of God between our troubles and ourselves. I know the dark hours which have come into some of your lives; I know your perplexities; for though you are strangers to me as yet, the experience of human hearts is just the same the whole world over, and the joys and the sorrows of the men and women whom I learn¬ ed so well to know and to love on the Pacific shores are just the joys and the sorrows which you are having to¬ day. I know of the hour when some young mother in this congregation sat sobbing by the side of her little one. whispering blindly, "I* do not know why she should he taken from me; 1 cannot understand it.” Weil, my dear child, do not try to understand it, for you never can here. Some day I shall preach to you on “Things to he Waited For,” and one of the things to be waited for is the under¬ standing of these mysteries of life, And yet we may know that while | we are waiting we may be waiting in companionship with Him who un- j derstands it all. And there is no oth- j er eept help in for placing us in our Him dark between hours, ex- j ! our troubles and ourselves. Wilbur Chapman tells us of a little drummer boy in our civil war who was taken into the hospital mortally wounded, and so they sent for his mother from a distant city. But when she came they said to her. “You can not go in; he’s too sick; he couldn’t stand the shock.” And so she stood by the door waiting and weeping and listening. And when she heard him sigh, she said to them. “Let me go in: 1 won’t speak to him. I’ll just sit by his bedside.” And so they per milted her to pass quietly into the darkened room and sit beside him. But as she sat there the mother love was too strong, and, reaching out her hand, she laid it gently upon his sch ing forehead. He did not open his eyes, but he knew that touch. She saw his lips move, and, stooping down to him. she heard him say: “I knew you’d come to me; I knew you’d come co me/' And if you are only Trilling to welcome Him who loves you more than you ever loved, your little one, you may know that He will come to you, and “as one whom his mother eomforteth,” so will He comfort you. And notice the blessings which he brings when He comes. As David ex¬ presses it in this psalm, “thev that be¬ long to Him shall find that their cun ,‘overfloweth’ not only abundance, but redundance. It has sometimes seemed as though there were a mix¬ ture of figures here, and that as the psalmist neared the end of his song the scene changed from the open fields of the flock to the guarded household of the guest. But this is not so. One of the mcst important duties of the shepherd is to find a feeding place for his sheep, where they shall not be injured by poisonous herbs, and where he may defend them against the jackals and the wolves that prcwT around. Our Shepherd will protect us and provide for our wants, not only in the se¬ clusion of the fold, but while we are still, if need be, out in the world. And so David, sings, “Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.” Then follows the closing scene of the day. The sun is setting, and the flock is "being brought home. But some of them have been wounded, and some of them are weary. And so the shepherd stands at the door of the sheepfold, rodding the sheep, as it is termed; holding them back with his rod, permitting them to enter one by one. Here one has been bruised or torn by the briars, and from the horn filled with olive oil he bathes the wounded head. And one is tired and worn, and, dipping into the ves¬ sel the large two-handled cup, he gives him a drink. Thus the shepherd cares for his sheep clear on till the very hour of the homecoming. Noth¬ ing is forgotten. And so the psalm¬ ist sings, still with the picture of the shepherd iu his mind, “Thou anointest my head with oil; my a runneth over.” But I am antici a “The Lord is my Shepherd: I shall not want.” What? Rest. "He mak eth me to lie down in green pastures.” But the green pastures have to coma first. There is the contemplative life, and the active life. And, my breth¬ ren, we need the first; that is the meaning'of these services; that is the meaning of Sunday; that is the mean¬ ing of Lent. It is a mistake for us to suppose that we can get on in the right life without these green pas¬ ture experiences. Somebody says, “I judge of a man by what he does.” Yes; but what a man does grows out of what that man is. And here In these contemplative hours we find Christian manhood and womanhood in the making. And then, there is the leadership: “I shall not want”—guidance; "He leadeth me.” That is the other side of the Christian experience; the activa side. The purpose of these green pastures is to send us forth to use the strength which here 'we get. And in this leadership of His there are two facts which I would have you remember. He goes before us: “He leadeth,” He will select no path which his sheep cannot travel. But remember also that the sheep must follow after: we must select no path which He cannot travel. “He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness,” not always by the side of still waters, not always in green pastures— sometimes the sheep track may lie across the wilderness; but if we are following him we may know that they are always “paths of right¬ eousness”—right paths, and that they lead toward home. And finally, "I shall not want” com¬ panionship. “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me.” He who is following the Master shall find death itself on¬ ly a shadow; and who shall be afraid of a shadow? And though the val¬ ley may be there and the darkness, He shall lead us out, as He leads us in. Death is not a blind pocket; it is not a place of tarrying, only ol transition. I shall walk "through the valley of the shadow of death.” And now', having appropriated this psalm, having sought to appreciate it, let us try to apply it. I mean to-day, here and now, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, every day. For you observe that until we reach the very last verse it is all in the present tense. He is not speaking of any distant elysium, far away in the future. "The Lord is my shep¬ herd; he maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside the still waters.” All the blessings which I have described may be your3 now'. Will you take them for yours, and apply them to the problems of your life to-day? Oh, learn to prac¬ tice the presence of God. Try to think of Him as really at your side. Speak to Him when you are in trouble or perplexity. Suppose you make a test of this Shepherd psalm only for to-day. Suppose you say; “From now until the hour when I fall asleep at night I will seek to live with this thought supreme: that God is mine, and that He loves me, and is leading me,” See what it will mean to you in peace and comfort and joy. And then realize that if you can do it for one day, you can do it for every day, and the problem of your life's mean ing is solved. And when the last val ley shall have been passed, and pass ed through, and you are drawing near to that fold, which James Lane Allen describes as “the final land where the mystery, the pain, and the yearn ing of this'life wii! either be quieted,” infinite iv satisfied or infinitely though you shall have changed your place, you will not change your com panv; He who was with yon here will be -idth you there, and this song shall still go singing its way on and up into the eternal light: “Goodness and merev shall follow me all the days of my life, and I dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” All Pervasive. There is not room enough in ali created things for the soul of man— which, like a ship in a narrow river, hath not room to turn, and besides is ever and anon striking ground and foundering in the shallows. Jesus Christ is in every way adequate to the vast desires of *he soul; in Him it hath sea room enough, there it may spread ali its sails with no fear of touching the bottom.—John FiaveL “MOUNTAINS” OF SALTPETRE. Useless Treasure In Death Valley California. Most of. the saltpetre, or nitre, which the world consumes comes from a limited region in Chili. These deposits have long been famous. They are not the only ones in existence, though. A writer for “The Technical World Magazine” declares that there are immense quantities in Southern California. Off to the north and east of Los Angeles, he says—two hundred and fifty miles or so away—is a vast region known as Death Valley. A few veins of gold and silver have been j found there, but they cannot he min¬ ed. Nothing is seen but sand and hor ax. To the southeast of the valley, this writer asserts, there are thous¬ ands of acres of crude nitre. The region is devoid of all vegeta¬ tion. The desert is as yellow as corn and smooth as a floor, Under foot the earth crumbles into dust as fine as flour. Here and there rise hil¬ locks, none of them more than two i hundred feet high. On these the vel lowish covering is often a foot or two thick. Elsewhere it thins out to two or three inches. Below the powder is what is called a “bed rock,” which is really no harder than dried clay. In both the dust and the rock there is nitre. Though there is next to no rain there, much of the nitre iu the sand has been leached out. That in the bedrock is more abundant. To the taste this bedrock is of a fiery bitterness, so strong, indeed, that to hold it to the tongue for more than an instant is to invite a blister. How pure this is may be judged from he fact that hurried and necessarily incomplete field assays credited it with more than 14 per cent., the val¬ ley deposits giving about 1 per cent., and the “blanket” which covers the hills some 10 per cent. Nitre of this degree of purity can, of course, be worked at an immense profit when that desideratum of all desert mineral workings—water—can be had. The land beneath the nitre beds—which latter are merely superficial deposits and do not extend down into the earth at all—must of necessity be so soaked with the leachings from these hills that it, too, can be worked to advant¬ age when the 10,000 or 15,000 acres of yellow granules of rock have been converted into an article of commerce. When the magazine writer here quoted has presented his picture of possible wealth, he points out that it is not now available. The deposits cannot be worked without water, and in the few places where water is found there is no railroad to carry away the commodity. ' This is a tan¬ talizing statement to make, but it is conceivable that some day the situa¬ tion may improve. Not His Propsrty. Antoine Rivarol, the French epi¬ grammatist of the eigtheenth century, was so brilliant that something good was expected of him every minute. Once when he had been invited to dinner, at which the hostess especial¬ ly wished him to shine, he sat quite silent. The attitude of disappointed expect¬ ancy in the company nettled him, and at last Rivarol made a stupfd remark. Everybody uttered an exclamation. "There,” said Rivarol, “I cannot say a stupid thing without every one’s crying, ‘Thief!’ ” At a dinner in the house of some Germans he make a joke. His hosts put their heads together inquiringly. Rivarol said to his neighbor, a French man: “Look at the Germans pooling theb wits to understand a joke.” FITS, St. Vitus’Dance: NorvousDiseases per¬ manently Restorer. cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve $2 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr. H. R. Kline , Ld„ 081 Arch St„ Phila., Pa. A steel chimney 260 feet high was re¬ cently completed in South Wales. 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I could an improvement from the first and five boxes brought a final cure.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents box. Foster-Milburn Co., Large For Its Age. Old Jacob Wyckoff, a farmer whose place was just outside of town, had made a present of his largest ye low pumpkin to the editor of the village paper, and the editor wrote an item acknowledging the gift, But unfor tunately the office boy who put it m type got it mixed with an item an¬ nouncing the birth of a baby in the family of .another subscriber. This is the way it appeared in print: Our old friend, Harry Townsend, is celebrating the arrival of a fine hoy at his house, The newcomer is the very image of its father, It Is one of the large corn-field variety, with huge bumps all over it, and weighs fifty six pounds. 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The forester reads the history of a in great detail, After taking a few “borings” to the center of tree at different heights and count¬ the rings on them he may spin such a yarn as this; “This tree is 150 years old—(150 rings at the base) During its first years it grew only seven inches (145 rings seven inches from the base). Evidently it then began to crowns with other saplings, for took a spurt and put on fifteen Inches a year steadily till -it was 40 years old (40 rings 44 1-2 feet above ground). its | “It was not growing as fast as neighbors however, for at this point It began to be overshadowed, and its growth declined for the next ten years to as little as four inches a year (45 rings at 48 feet and 50 at 50 feet), “Just in time to save its life, some thing happened to its big neighbors. . , presumably a wind-storm—lets see, -j. f wou ) d be in 1806—and it resum ^ a steady growth of about six inches a year,----- having passed its fastest g row i n g time, "Its growth in thickness doesn’t gggjn to have varied much; about an inch evevy three years; but h grew faster an d faster in volume, of course, a t [t s b egiht increased; a little over a cubic foot a year in its prime of ... life, I , should ju n.rltro g . it reached , , "About thirty years ago maturity and stopped growing in height neigm (30 too rings at the top of the it is appioacli- , main stem), and now ing old age (the last rings are pretty thin), Hold on a minute; here’s a false ring—twenty—forty—forty-six years back. Two very thin rings— see? instead of one thick one. 'Means that something interrupted the grow¬ ing season—probably a lute frost. Let us ask the oldest inhabitant.” And the chances are ten to one the oldest inhabitant remembers the hard spring of I860 and has heard tales of the great wind in 180G.—American Magazine. BOSTON SCENTS A JOKE. "If you marry that girl it will put you in bad odor with your family.” “Oh, the bad odor part worry me. You see we come of old colognial stock.”—Boston Transcript. 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