i CHEERFUL SPIRIT Dr. Talmaje !U)-» Is Causes lor Thanksthin* Thai Are Seldom RccoEuiied.

lhe Dai:* Rle»*iot» — Comlarts

of Friendship.

WASJliJtrTOJr, D. C.—In ilu* Uucourac I>r. Talmac-' •••li* ettentiea to c-«u»c* of thaokcfivii g that .'.r. leldoni rect»maed. and shon-a h. o cultivate a cheerful •pint; text. Paalci. xxxiii. "Smj unto him w * t h « ti P»»lt'’ r > *'“1 an initrument of A musician a* well as noct and conouemr and king waa Uavld, the author of my text He first ccmpoced the »acred fincersaud thumbs. Th- tiarp n the oldest ot'inusioal inatnimenU. .fuhal inventmoat conaeer:.ted of all inatrur-.enU. 1 flute is more mellow, the bugle more tial. the comet more incisive., the trumpet more resonar.i. the organ more mighty, hut the harp has a tenderness aud sweetnesa belonging to no other instrument that I knea of. It enters into the ncliMt symbolism of the Holy Scripture.. The cap-

Sc‘S.r,^"s;

eight strings David's harp had ten airings..and when Ins great soul was afire Vitb the theme his sympathetic voice, accpmpinicd by exquisite vibration of the

thortb, mu.t have bitn overpeweriug. With as many things to complain about nan ever had David wrote more than any other man '-ver wrote,

the frosts and hails to nns

"“TEmE

With

He puts

of all ii

tin of the Swedish performer. HHRk-of Arbneltle, or the miehrieat instruments, with the hand of Mor-

•Coronal .

you could hear

asren coming down at the Many of u» have net

» crowns ,

feet of JesusT Many of us have never thanked Ood for this brarmg appasatua of the soul. That is one of the ten string*

of the soul. Tbst is one of the ten string* J^, u ^r a srgz k vsr.!z their nenes ro overwrought that slumber has to be coaxed, and many are the vicness iB an'Americar^ifisordcr! inf bS leng.b cf time in every twentv focr hour* you can be free of all tare and worrimcit and your nerves are rctuned and yrtur limbs cscajic from all fatigue and the risought to be put in prayer and song and

congratulation.

As long as you collect vast dividends and have health jocund and popubrity unbounded you will have crowds of seeming friends, but let bankruptcy and invalid-

a cU 2s Keif'S,

^But^c^muit tighten the ccid* of our harp and rctune it while wc celebrate gos-

rdon and good morals.

SS\Si“3 ‘sis

srz-

IT'hl'&rZr^

1 jjiss^jS'jrs.itus'Si

| S« v rt. jg* ....

:ss!

tapn cur grave. It soothes our sorrow*,

if,;

for you and me is a ctory that we can

the mp*t

| all. play u

two airings or to take a harp

all the strings. Instead oi being grateful think of. w^o^ght^rebea^ alfoS blessings so far as sve can recall them and f •“ 2 si Sid? •Bu^s\siss.' i sfs ^“iSuVid.' SXoid hears when wc scrape the bottom of the Have you appreciated the fact Abat on mo*t of your tables are luxuries that do rot come to all? Have you realbed what Fcr^thc fine flavors and the luxurious rise dr you have enjoyed for a lifetime per-h-avou Hare never exnre^dUO^a

ought to have

spring,

strings that yot

never yet put it in vibration.

Have you thanked .God for eyesight as originally given to you or, after it was dimmed by are. for the glass that brought the page of the book within the compass of the vision ? Have you realized the privation those suffer to whom the day is as black as the night and who never nee the

. face of father or mother or wife or friend? Through what nainfnl

many have gone to get light! The eye to deli and useful that one of t! And moat of u* have den of divine rmchai millions of dulbrw who boa atrophy offoptic

been willing to g*c all come a day labcfer if he could

| off the blindncar'that gradually crept

! - his vi*inn. a..

You may hare rotised'howTSirisf* sympathies were stirred for the blind. Ophthalmia has always been prevalent in Palestine, the custom of sleeping on the hotue- 1 tope, exposed to the dew and the flying dost of the dry season, inviting this dresdful disorder. A large percentage of the inhabitant* could not tell the difference between 1! o’clock at noon and 12 o'clock at sicht. Wc arc told of six of Christ's mir-

acles for the care of these sightless but I suppose they were only specimi I* hundreds of restored visions.

What a pitiful spectacle Saul of Tarsus, mighty man. three dsys led about in physical ns well as cprritual darkness, he who afterward made Felix tremble by his eloquence and awed the .Athenian phiioso- ■ . phetn on Mari Hill and wa* the only cool l. .leaded man in the Alexandria corn ship that went to pieces on the rock* of Miletus, once .he mighty persecutor of Saul, afterward the glorious evangelist Paul, for i . three days not able to take a safe step

' without guidance!

I- Have yea ever given thanks for two I - tom media between the soul inside and the world outside, media that no one h

“ " ' " t? Tbs cj

^grece of God^ w^ are going to move

riving we will wondc many years so loath

After we have seen Cjunst face to lace and rejoiced ever our departed kindred there are some mighty spirits we will want to meet coon after we pass through the gates. Wc want to tee and will see David, a mightier king in heaven then he ever was on earth, and we will talk with him about psalmody and get from him exactly what he meant when he talked about the instrument of ten string*. We will confront Motes, who will tdl of the law giving on racking Sinai and of bis mysterious burial, with no one but God present. We will sec Joshua, and he will tell ns of the coming down of the walls of Jericho at the blast of the ram’s horn and explain to us that miracle—how the son and moon could rtand still withont demoVlion

of the planetary system.

We will see Kuth and have her tell of harvest field of Boas, in.which ehe

1 for afflicted Naomi. Wc

crld cuUiHr. n<-d ■finite Hod coaid

gate through which aU colors march’, the. picture gallery of the soul! Without the* eve this werid is a big dungeon. I fear that many cf us have never given one basrty expression of gratitude for treasure •f sight, the loss of which is the greatest disaster .possible, tiniest it be the loss of the mine. Tt ' —

that tarn the cys a^or down, to^rigbt have creat'd tbo retina. If we have ei appreciated what God did when He gave as two eyes it was when we saw other* with obliterated vision. Alaa. that only through the privation of others we came to a realization of our own . Wearing.' If yon. had harp in hand sad

!S5

tbs most dulcet of the tea strings. tZf&ZZZZTS’X-JiZX do >1* office. They nerve hear movie, vocal « instrumental. The thunder that roll* i* full diapason through the hatven* doe* net start 1 - 41

wHt ___ ■reak* in upon them with it* har^ t *ea, the nolo of r

nked God for these two won- _ hearing, with which we can ourselves under the charm of id and also carry in our memornfaatile song with which our

girdled with

are yet

_dd this

speckl _ will have been banished a

wept and the last groan uttered, —

be when it

med planet,

epontaneous harvest* and

iched by orchard* whoie fruit* arc :kless und redundant, and the last pain

and the la*t tear

and there —^ in all

oftbe

■ I.- ,

r I have mentioned nine of the ten of the instrument of gratitude. I __mc to the tenth and the la*t. I mtioi it last that it may be the more morable—heavenly anticipation. By the tee of God wc are going to more into a

p.H« by intamoua Aha

^Mht?

ory of L_

ils.ee by iniantou* cvnaauerus.

We will cec and talk with Daniel, and ne will tell us how he aaw Belshaazar’* banqueting hall turned into a slaughter house, and how the lions greeted him with lovi ig fawn instead of stroke of cruel new. We will see and talk krith Solomon, whose .palaces are gone, but whose inspired epigrams stand out stronger sqd stronger as

the centuries pan.

Wc will tee Paql and hear from him how Felix trembled before him and the audience of skeptics on Mars Hill were confounded by hi* - sermon on the brotherhood of man. what he ssw at Ephciuc ‘ ’ Syracuse and Philippi and Rome and 1 dark was the Mamertine dungeon and 1 sharp the axe that beheaded him on road to Ostia. Yea, we will see all the martyrs, the victims of axe and sword and fire and billow. Whr.t a thrill of excite-

ment for u* when and heroines who

truth.

We wiH see the gospel proclaim*r* Chrysostom and Bourdalous and Whitcfield, and the Wesley* and John Knox. We will see the great Christian poets, Milton and Dante and Watts and Mrs. Hem*ns and Frances Harergal. Yea. all the de-

parted Christian me: cver«ge or nation. But there will l

which all eyes will farcy having slept on pillow of the mate* of the Herodie Govern nine for His asaasemaMCoj in

of straw; au Government plan-

22 SJsnE’bX centre of fill heavenly admiration—upon that greatest martyr and mightiest hero of all the centuries we will he permitted to look. Fntytbat among your heavenly antic^Now take down your harp of ted strings

Ul faculties in equipoise, friendships of life, gospel ad vantage* and heavenly anticipations. let os make less complaint and offer more thanks, render less dirge and more cantata. Take paper and pen and write dawn inlong cotem* your blessing*. I bars recited only ten. To express *U th# merries God has bestowed you would have to use *t least three, and I think five, numerals, for surely they would ran up into the hundreds snd the thousands. “Oh, give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, for His raerey endureth forever.’’ Get into the habit of rehearsal

of the brightnesses of life.

Notice how many more fair days there are than foul, how many more good oracle

than had you meet. Sri ?Tr ■.in upon yon reset/ -

‘ •»«. U* •01° °f the eautatrice are yet to roU in upon you read high

far ahead. Wake np all the ten strings.

THE SABBATH SCHOOL Inleraaflona! Lesson Comments For February 9. Subject: The Sis ol Lying. Acts lv„ 31 r. II —Ooldea Test. Eph. if- Zt—Memory - Ver*e*. J-S—Commentary os tb? Day’s Lea os. 32. "Multitude." The whole 5000 mentioaed in verse 4. and probably many others, who had been converted by th* ministiy of the other spoUlet since that time. "01 one heart." Though of different ages, dispositions and conditions before they oelieved, and perfect strangers to one an-

—tong them. "All things common.” There

they had teen and beard, jm* » ■ i effective way of preaching. “Of the re fection.” All knew of the death and ia] of Jesus. But the enemie* of ,I< the Jevri, would not believe in the r«

rection of Je*

t. "Witto what

' 34. "Thst lacked." Tlii* was one rea"ir their favor among men, for all see the self-saerificmr *

actuated them. "Sold

that ''

long men. to ificing spirit

them." It i riear that all the owner* of real estate who belonged to the chureh sold property. '“Things that were sold." The language here expressly avoids saying that these men sold all they had. Tliey sold some .things, snd the sum realized from whst ■was sold was offered to the common store, i 35. "At thf apostles’ feet.” To be disposed of aa they •hould direct. Thev wnnIH

LEWIS T. STEVENS.

SA'h'S;

quently mentioned as an associate of the apostle Paul. That be wa* a Levite is a • —— —t are

Keved. Chap. «:7. The surname of Bar- — S p,„L ,t,h ™ ..

coast. The Jew* were very numerous in hinge on_which great U*ues tnra. . "Ana-

ii* wife. Professors of the gospel, but certainly not true believer*, for all that truly believed were

of one heart and of one soul.

2. "Kept back part of the price.” While they pretended to make an offering of all. Thu wa* hypocrisy, and wa* called a Jie. "Hi* wife." Thia sin was premeditated by both parties. They had not set their affhEbna on the Und, but the money exereisM^such an influence on them that they could not resolve to resign the whole, and hence they retained a part. They were unwilling to acknowledge this circumstance pub3* "Filled thine heart.” Satan, the father of Kes, a liar from the beginning. Peter trace* the ain back to iU source - the heart into which Satan had been ad-

mitted; bU question recognizes gower to resist Uxse evil inflpem

He to'

these evil infloen ed; Ananias opened his h

the Holy Ghoet.” The apostles dis-

r power in themselves. It is

eles; the ~ * power of ' o is grieved

s the z

own." He might have kept it without incurring the displeasure of the apostles or the Lord. "In thins own power.” These questions show that the beftowment of goods wa* perfectly voluntary and not a law, and that the crime waa a free and deliberate act- Ananias waa not censured because he had not surrendered his entire property, hut for falsehood in professing to have done so when he had not. "Unto God." The offense was chiefly against God. David takes thia same view ofhis sin in Psa. 51: 6. Bat this is an important text to prove the personality of the Holy Ghost. Peter use* the terms God and the Holy Ghori (r. 3) interchangeably, which shows that the Holy Ghost is not merely an emanation from

God, but He i* God Himself.

^6. "Gave up the ghost.” 'Hie immediate

addressed him. must be viewed as a direct set of God. "Grest fear came." This effect on the Christian community is thonght to be the chief design of so startling a judgment. fl. "Young men." The earliest church was not'without youne men and young women. Aets 12: U. "Carried him out. Just beyond,; the walls of the city. That the body was not taken to his home is indicated by, his wife’s ignorance of what hiul occurred. "Buried." In a hot climate, like that of Palestine, burial had to take place at once, and the graves (cave* with niches) were always open. 7. "After three hour*." Probably at the next hour of prayer. Under the shock of the death of Ananias they had not dis-

persed.

8. "Tell me." The question ws* Sap-

pbira’s place for repentance: the Holy 8Mrit. strove with her in Peter’s words, but she resisted his striring*. "So much." Perhaps Peter pointed to the money still lying where Ananias bail placed it. V. 2. "Yea.” It had been in her power to save her husband by a word of warning pro 1 test; it waa now in her power to dear her

9. "Agreed." Sapphire’* answer proved

to Peter that.their sin had teen premeditated, and rot one of haste or ignorance. Ehe was equal in the sin with her husband. Peter's question gave the first knowledge to Eapphir* that their guilt waa discovered, hut her answer was riven. “To tempi." To test, or far the Spirit of the Lord by attempting to deceive Him, but

"God is not mocked" or deluded. 10. "Fell—yielded." It was not through

Peter’s Word*, nor his prayers, nor through shame, nor through remorse that thia guilty pair died, but an immediate judgment

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