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SUNDAY MORNING. DR. CHAPMAN’S SERMON A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED PASTOR.EVANCELIST. / * Subject: The Song of the Lord—lf Oar Hearts Will But Sing Bight Christ Will Help Us to Counteract Onr Bias to Sin. New York City— The Rev. Dr. J. Wil bur Chapman’s sermons continue to excite the proioundest interest and to give the greatest satisfaction to that large number of American people who demand a strik ing discourse for •weekly reading. The popular pastor-evangelist has prepared the following sermon for the press. It is en titled “The Song of the Lord.” and is E reached from the text. “The song of the ord began also.” 11. Chronicles 29 : 27. The difference between the 28th and the 29th chapters of 11. Chronicles presents to us an illustration of that difference which wc frequently see in the church us she passes from times of enthusiasm to days of depression and back again, and for which there seems to be no human expla nation. So also is it the picture of many families where the godly father has an un godly eon and an ungodly father a godly son. which is entirely contrary to the rules which in our own house we have deter mined should abound. So also is it a pic ture of many individuals who after weeks and months and even years are found reg ularly in the house of God the most devout of worshipers, and then suddenly stop un able almost to explain to themaelves how they have lost. interest and why their zeal is quenched. The wicked reign of Aha/ and the reign of his righteous son Hezc kiah thus furnish us with practical illus tration. I. Ahaz was the eleventh king of Judah, the son of Jotham. His example was holy and his reign was peaceful and prosper ous. Not so of his son. He was a gross ido’ator. actually sacrificed his children to ; the gode, remodeled the temple that it Nrughl be fit for idolatrous uses and owned chariot horses that were dedicated to the sun Upon all ui this ihe judgment oj God falls, but because of it the condition of the j>eople is something dreadful. He is an il lustration of the power of sin. First, in its infatuation. We find him robbing the palace and plundering the temple, places which had always been sacred both to the king and to the people, but which he pre- Kents as dishonored in the 21st verse of the 28th chapter, to the king of Assyria, but somehow sin seems always to present the same sort of an infatuation to those who walk for cfhy length of time in its way. Second, in its degradation. There could be no worse sin than that described in verses 24 and 25 of the 28th chapter, where Ahaz gathered together ihe vessels of the house of God, shut up the doors of the house, and in all the cities of Judah made high place* to luirn incense to other gods. A picture very much like it is found in the sth chapter of Daniel the 3d and sth verses, where the temple vessels are taken by the king and used in midnight revelry, when suddenly the fingers of n man's hand are seen writing on the wall. “Thou art weighed in the balance and found want ing.” However, it is true that any man who uses his powers of body or of mind to sin is as defiantly sinful a.s was Ahaz the king. Think in hit* death ho is a picture of the end of sin. Ue died when only thirty-six years'*of age an untimely death, and he sleeps in a dishonored grave, for they would not bury him in the tombs of the kings, a perfect illustration of the text, “Sin when it is finished brings forth death.” In the city of Paris in burning letter* of tire a certain place of dangerous sin greeted the passer-by with these words, all of them written in fire, “Nothing to pay,” hut he who enters in through the door will find that the wage* of sin is death. This has always been true. Heze ki&h, the son of Ahaz. began to reign when he was twenty-five years old. Iri his parental heritage he had everything against him, but his mother's name was Abizah, and she was the daughter of Zeehariah, a roan who had understanding in the views of God. This is undoubtedly the secret of Hezekiah’s goodness. Boys frequently go light when their fathers are wrong, but when the mother i>; wrong very rarely do they walk in the paths of recti tude. 11. For sixteen years there had been no so*g in the temple. This was a great loss, be cause the people had always been accus tomed to sing from the time at creation when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy to the marching through the Ked Sea where the sons of Israel were led by Miriam in the singing, and the birth of the Saviour where the angels were the choir, the last supper where the Lord Himself was one of the singers, up to the new heaven and the new earth where they sing the new song the world has had much to do with music. The temple service when men lived in right re lations with God and the house was clean was beautiful. Some Psalms were written in the temple in letters of gold, and th* 1 people chanted’ them to the accompani ment of the consecrated instruments, the antiphoital choirs answered each other, as foi example, in the 24th Psalm, one choir would say, “Lift up your heads. 0 ye gates, even lift them up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory come jn,” and the other choir would respond, "Who is this King of glory?” only to have the other singers reply, “The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of glory.” Hut for sixteen years there had been no aong. First, why was this? The best expla nation is given in the 28th chapter of li. Chronicles, the 24tb and 25th verses. “And Abaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in nieces the vessels of the house of God, and chut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem. And in every several city of Judah he made high places to bum is cense unto other gods and provoked to an ger the Lord God of his fathers.” There is many a life to-day without a song, an*L to all such I give my message. The for this is found in the fact of sic. We sin in ear outward acts, but God can keep us from that if we will let Jiim and give us the song once more. We sin in our de sires. but He can remove these desires if we will but permit Him to do so, and our affections may be set on things above. We sin in our motives, but if we are His there >s anew pivot to our life, and the motives whlich were most impure may become pure, indeed. We have also a bwis .to sin which comes to tj* with our birth, but He can counteract it if we will give Him the light to do so. If one could throw a atone up high enough it would come to the place of eooipoise. where the law of gravitation would be overcame by the high law which pulls upward, aad so if we did bnt yield •urselree tw Christ us we ought we would come to the place where He would •ver power the weakness of our nature, and what we doubtless need is a hong to-dav. It may be the old song we used to aing. St is mi rural to everybody to sing, the plow boy a* he follow* hi* plow, the shepherd as he keeps hb Hack in the roonataima, the aailar a the sea and the traveller on the plain, they all King. At a critical moment in the battle of Waterloo when the soldiers were wavering Wellington found oat it was because the band had i?tbppcd. He ordered the musicians to play again, and the effect was marvelous. If there would only be a song in our souls to-day and in the church there would be power. A mother raw her child standing upon the edge of a preci pice. She knew if she shouted she might startle the child so that he would fall, so she attracted his attention by a familiar song she sang. There are men and women standing on the very brink of perdition to day without hope, but if the church were but singing her song as she ought the lost could be saved, and if one had a song oth ers would join with it. On the battlefield of Shiioh fainting and suffering a Christian soldier began to sing, “When I can read my title dear.” In a few moments an other soldier with weak voice joined in and then another until a wore of voices were taking up the song. Oh, it’ we could but set on fire one church for God the whole city might soon be under the touch of His mighty life. Second, what did Hezekiah do? We have only to read the story to find out. (1) He opened the doors, as indicated in the third verse. (2) The priests were santitied, the 15th verse. (31 They went into the inner part of the house and made it clean, the 16th verse. (4). They sanctified the entire house, the 17th verse. (•*>). They restored the vessels which had once been used in the tempk\ (6k “And Hezekiah commanded to of fer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt, offering began the song of the Lord began again, also with the trum pets and with the instruments ordained by David, king of Israel. And all the congre gation worshiped, and the singers sang and the trumpeters sounded, and all tlris continued until the burnt offering was finished.” Third. *ill this is typical. We have no ong in the church to-day as once we had. 1 do not wish to be pessimistic in of the condition of things; it is ihv great desire to inspire the church witii*a new hope and a conception of better things, hut no one is so blind today but what be can see that the church is without the old song she used to have, and beyond all ques tion it is because the temple must needs be cleansed. Why should not the work be gin now? (1) It ought to begin with the priests themselves os in the Old Testament story. Christian Evans tells of the time when one day riding through a wood he dis mounted from bis horse, hitched it tc. the tree and made his way into the darkening shadows and stayed upon his face before God for hours waiting for his special bless ing or his special work, and when he re turned to his horse and mounted it and the next day began his preaching service a revival was started which swept the whole country. Maze spent a day and a night in a New York hotel asking for God’s special blessing because he needed it. and at Inst must needs rise and say, “Oli. Lord, stay Thine hand I can hold no more.” Murray McCheynne was so filled with God that as lie laid his hands upon a boy’s head and said, “I am very much concerned about your soul,” the boy remenfoered it and when he forgot McCheynne’s sermons he felt the touch of his loving hand upon his head, and it pushed him into the kingdom. (2) And the inner part of the house needs also to he cleansed. There is in every church a circle into which God has seemed to call certain persons. To these 1 now direct my message, to the officers of the church of whatever name, to the Sun day-school teachers and to those who have become spiritually minded is the searching question, “Is thine heart light in the night of God?” In the 52d chapter of Isaiah and the 11th verse the prophet says, “lie ye dean that hear the vessels of the Lord.” God pity the man whose life is unclean, while his office is one the angels might covet to fill. The searching power of God’s word ought to touch the Sunday-school teacher. One of Mr. Moody’s teachers in Chicago was dying of consumption. He must leave his Western home and return to the home of his boyhood in the Ka*t, but before lie would leave, entering a car riage he drove to every home and besought the members of his class to yield to God, and said Mr. Moody, “When the time came for him to leave Chicago his whole class, every one of them saved, gathered at the platform of the station to wave him it farewell, and they alt sang, ‘Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love.’ ” In Galatians, the 6th chapter and the Ist verse, it is commanded, “Ve which are spiritual restore the wanderers in the spirit of meekness,” and alas, it is true that men hare hindered in multitudes from the church, and we have done nothing to re strain them, let the work of cleansing go off! (3). The church as a whole ought to be set right with God. In Zeclmriaft, the 3d chapter and the first seven verses, we have the picture of Joshua, the high priest, standing before the angel of the Lord, lie van clothed with filthy garments, and the word of the Lord came saying, “Put. off the filthy garments and J will clothe thee with a change of raiment.” These filthy garments upon the high priest are like the habits which cling to some of us. They have sapped our spiritual life, and we are powerless in the presence of the world. We ought to put them off and then put on ('hrist, so that living among men we might win them to Him by the very way we live. This will not. he easy, for the pic ture of Joshua is with Satan resisting him. I doubt rot he is resisting us now in the presence of God, doubtless calling attention ts the way we have Rung our hymns this morning and uttered our pray ers, but tin* picture in Zechariuh also telle us that Joshua, the high priest, had a fair mitre set upon his head, and the bands showed that service was hard. That fair mitre is blje the descent of the Holy Ghost, for which there is a great need to day. Then Hezekiah saw that the vessel** of the temple were restored. The church lias had certain vessels committed to her, as. for example, the Bible. We have picked it to pieces until the faith of some has been shaken. “Will you pray for a theological student said u woman to me this week, who used to lie one of the most consistent Christians I ever knew and one of the most zealous. “He doubts much ox the Scripture, and as a consequence Jh life is not only indifferent but ineonwsl fcnt.” The time has come when the Bible ought to tie put in the church in the place it once occupied. Preaching is another vessel entrusted to the church. Asa matter of fact, do you believe that men would know they were lost from much of the preaching they hear to-day. The time lias come for the old- IlMf spirit of the church fathers to pre vaf Prayer is still another vessel. Prayer is not a performance with which men may be either pleased or displeased. Prayer is talking to Ged. Will our prayers stand this test? Music is stall another vessel, and that church is to be pitied, if not despised, where the music is not in every way to the praise of God, rendered by men and women whose hearts have already been yielded to God, but it was when the. bymt offering was presented that the son# becan and there was this peculiar about burnt offering, it was all yielded and it was all consumed, an illustration of the fact that when we ore entirely surrendered to God, when He rulee in the ministry and controls in everythin* in the church, when there is no thought hut for His glorv and no com petition but for Hie approval, then will the song of the Lord begin once again. H you will read the 30th chapter of 11. Chronicles you will have the *t&ry of a great revival, where people from Dan to Bcersbeba came to Jerusalem to spend seven days, and then tar wed seven days longer, or if you will read the 31st chapter of 11. Chronicles you will have the picture of the priests of God going up and £own the land overthrowing the idolatrous places of worship and set ting up the altars once more. This is the secret of purifying our cities and purifying our land. Let the song of the Tx>rd begin once again. There is no more fitting close to Hezekiah's life than the 21st verse of the 31st chapter of 11. Chronicles. “And with every work that he began in the serv ice ef the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God,, he did it with ail his heart, and prospered.” THE SECRET OF SOARING. A Naturalist Claims to Have Discov ered It at Last. The power of the condor, the hawk, the vulture and some other birds, to soar without, a single motion of the wings for hours at & time has never been satisfactorily explained An English naturalist, Mr. J. Lancaster, claims to have discovered the secret and by accident. He had been study ing the subject for 16 years without arriving at a conclusion, when the killing of a yellow-tailed hawk on the Flat Top Mountains of Colorado gave him the solution. A furious for est fire had been raging in that region and had filled the air with smoke and ashes. While he was examining the hawk's feathers he noticed a pe culiar stain on the sides of the quill between the spicules. Examination with a powerful niero scope showed that the stain extended along each spicule between the plates. The downy filaments filling the double wall-structure of the wings had the same discoloration. He scraped off the stain, and found that it re sembled soot from a stove-pipe, which showed that the smoke-filled air had been going through the wings in an in cessant stream, carrying the carbon particles with it. Here was the secret of soaring re veiled to him. A feather is an air engine consisting of a quill and two vanes, made of spicules, l>etw T een which are the plates. The spicule? make a channel about one fortieth oi! an inch in width, and the plates cross it. There are about one thousand of them to the inch, and they are lo rated at the outer surface, filling about one fifth part of the depth of the channel. About nineteen-twen tieths of the space of the channels is open to the passage of air. The mechanical service of the plates, he says, is obvious. The curve impinges against the air-cur rent through the feathers and drives the bird to the front. Pressure pro duced by the normal factor of weight Is thus made to serve as the motive power of flight. BIRDS ARE BEE-EATERS. They Only Consume Stlnglets Drones —Working Bees Are Safe. A gardener complains to me about the loss he sustains owing to 1.1)o fond ness of the pretty little bluetit for bees. “You’d never believe the lot that little (hap snaps up. right off the board in front of the hive.” The spotted flycatcher, a charming sum mer migrant, whose pretty posting and feeding habits I have watched with great interest, aud whom I have found to be a very confiding bird and one true to his old nesting places, has also been most unjustly libeled and persecuted for the same* reason. The fact Is both these birds do take bees, but if the complainants followed up the matter they would find that the birds dare not take a w’orker bee, because oi its sting, and they only devour the stingless drones which are being turned out of the hive, or are destroyed by th work ing bees as no longer necessary to the economy of the hive, just at tho time when flycatchers are wanting these fat drones to feed, their young with. The swarming season is then over. Instead of destroying the use ful insects the birds are actually helping the workers. And so they are the best friends of the beekeeper. The error of attributing the destruc tion of working bees to the action of birds is a very old one. In the fourth Georgic, Virgil writes to the fol lowing effect: “The bloody breasted swallow bears away in her beak the bees while on the wing, sweet morsels for her merciless young.” A writer in an old number of the Beekeeper’s Journal says: “I saw a swallow fly up to another which was sitting on a telegraph wire and put something in its mouth, and then go away; the other almost immediately dropped It. I found it to be a large drone.” — Fail Mall Gazette. A Mexican Railroad’s Record of Safety Considerable prominence has been given in the press of the world lately to the fact that not a passenger on the English railroads has been killed during the year laol. it may prove of interest to know that the Mexican National Narrow Gauge Road, from Corpus Christl through I-aredo to the City of Mexico, with its branches, amounting to more than 1,200 miles of operated road, for more than twenty years, has never killed a passenger. This, in the face of the fact that this road climbs more mountains, turns more curves, than any road in the United States.—Galveston Daily News. WHO DID HE MEAN? Hix—A scientist says that in pro portion to the size of the body the mosquito has a better developed brain than the average man. DiX—Well, I don't doubt it Even at its present size the mosquito Is al most as big a tore as some men I know. —Chicago News. HER WAY. v “Don’t you think she’s a model mother?" "Why, her children are little ter rors." 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