WHEN SEN OF LIFE SETS Dr. Taint are Say* the CkrUtlaa Radi Fulfillment In the Time of Old Are.

be \Vhife “niaht" in all Unju.gf. u tke iilvered w.™ up l.*ht from be-neath—murljr.-^burtltn*, portentioua, but .uct a. yo^ often *e whe, lb. pomp an/ tnacuineeKe of heaven tern oat oa aicht

tenificenw o _ . _ rade, and it aeenta aj thoafh Oie aong wnieh the more mg atari began 10 long ago were ehimmg yet among the eonateUationa and the aon* of God were ahoating for joy. "neh • •* *— **- - '—

the aon* of God were ahoating for joy. - ighta the aador blesaea from pie forethe toldier from the tent, earthly hoata iS’arsJS'Ssrls’isi.cJ; mountains! Night on the ocean! Fra-

£ru?, b, .rr.S'^,'s! 'X& way.tjdo..,

^•sasrs^’afSi

The beau glory of he ar 1 ^

Finally, my text ahall find fulfillment at the end of the Chriatian'a hie. You "know bow abort a winter’s day ia and how little work you can do. Now-my friends, life ia a abort winter'a day. The tun riaea at 8 end seta at 4. The birth angel and the death angel fly. only a little way apart. Baptism and burial are near together. With one hand the mother rooks the era-

her ahe touches a grave, house of one of my pairing Say. The m-

:hs f " u ^

mariners are we if. with so many beaming,

t Out.

as the

-a hall be light in’the evening of our eorrowa, of old age. of the world’* history, of the Christian life. ’’At erentime it a hall be

light-”

This prophecy will be fulfilled in the evening of Christian Borrow. For a long time it ia broad daylight. The aun ride* high. Innumerable activities go ahead with a thousand feet and work with a thousand arms, und the pickax struck a mine, and the battery made a discovery, and the investment yielded ita twenty per cent., and the book came to it* twentieth edition, and the farm quadrupled in value, and sudden loFtane hoisted to high position, and children were praised, and friends without somber swarmed into the family hive, and

ate at the banquet, and all the gods oi mu me and ease and gratification gatherec around this Jupiter holding in his haudi

’ nderbelts t * ~ '

so many thunderbolts of power. But i can must set, and the brightest dsy bare ita tsnbght. Suddenly the aiy

overcast.. The fountain song hushed. The wolf br . 'ily fold and es ' *

deep bowl of through the

rough twang _

harpstrings all broke. Down went the strong business firm! Away went long established credit! Up flew a flock of esls

l woe came crash.a

i howl of woe came crashing down ^ “•.SZEfS’SJi IK

i! Upfle

The new book would not a t could not be secured for the

tkm! Stocks sank company exploded! “Row much,’

"ishc

yoV^rt it^it^thln’hSS^MT' Going

“ISorah™ of Ood bold m

,

as ii saying, “There never will be a resurrec-

' crushed ider the

bad..., I were dead#" aster ebme upon

dank and bowline

as:^ ssrldffS""- ^ and p!umea B of gold^d^per^and a

iblo took on crests

and plumes tbyst and i

rustled in t__

Tee night bloomirg sympatny filled all the atmosphere with

heaves.

The eon] at every step seemed {o start

op from -bera affi

afflicted!” cried David. "Tbs

• the Lord hath W

- have]

- •'Xb. Lord taken away!”

i re-

Job. "Sorrowful, yet always re- express it then let i **?i_8t. Paul. "And God aball saved unite in the ly/aB tesn from their erse!" ex- Jem! J—•"

gave, and the Lord -hall sxclaimi Job. "Sorrowffil joeing,” say* 8t. Paul.

•wipe away/all team firem claims John in apoenlyptie vjaion. At! erentime it was light. Light from the eroaa! Light from the promises! Light from the throne! Strenaunfc joyous, out-

gushing, everlasting light!

Again, the text shall find fulfillment in the time of age. It ia a grand thing to be young, to have the sight dear and the bearing acute and the step elastic and all our pulses marching on to the drumming of a stout heart. Midlife aiui old age wilTbe denied many of na, but youth—we all ‘

what that is. 'Those wrinkle*

your brow; that

ways on your. head; that brawny musdc

did not always bunch vour arm: vt

met always

dignified aa you now arm yon coasting down the hillside or

your bat for f

SUV-St

not alii ot *1-

. muscle

your arm: yon havs m Grave and

rent .?

come under frowning crag and cross trem-

You may try to cover tbs wrinkles, but imot cover tbs wrinkles. If the time

u to be old, he not ashamed

you has come for you to be old, be ' •. The grandest thin

to be old. __ ■niverae ere o’d—old

ere. oil seas, o’.d Then do not be „ yon are olfier than «r than the start

How men and they are f

I

lead thing, in all the

■*7 they *re forty,^Tlh^y

They say they arc twenty, but they are

Bow beautiful the ofd

leaning oo ths top of hk Quincv Adams, fallmg with the harnesa

I'

See that you d

ihiloeopher stooL _

•eel day after day, : “You wifi be an.

n old man; yon will be will be aa old woman; old woman.” People a ctary. I do not think

eld man. You . _t will be thought that he that he warn.

they 1 'll Steady

ere wnttklns; trouti._

— d it full enough. Thrust a into that old heart; it will eoon be*t. "The eye that mocketh it

> obey i’s mother tl

„ shall pick it out,

The laborr

thorn “tethar

glory ef the evening hour, auc • have come from the field; the bear glowing with an indoeeribable effulgenoe, as thoagh the sun in departing had forgotten to ahet the gate after it. All tha beauty of cloud ana leaf swima in the lake. For a atar in the aky, a star in the water; ebefne and heaven beneath. Hot a itliiig or a be* humming or a grasshopper chirping. Silence in the meadow, silence among the hills. Thus bright and iful shall be the evening of the world.

irthly conflict an oool; the fills all the tcene with love. At eventiine it it hgbV—

—a bright and glad, and with it I bounded up and down the hall. Christmas Day came and the light ef that household had perished. We stood, with black book, reading over the •avr, “Aahe* to ashes, dust to dust.” Bot I 1 J — 1 T

url away thia darkness. I cannot have you weep. Thanks be unto God, who gireth us the victory, *t even time it aball be light* I have seen many Christiana

' never saw any of them die

I never saw »cy of them die in dxrkneaa. What if the billows sf death do vine above our girdle, who does not love to bathe? What though other lights do go out in the blast, what do we want of them when all the sates of glory swing open before us, — J urn g myriad voices, a myriad harps, isd thrones, a myriad palaces there upon u* "Hosanna! Hosanna!” “Throw back the abutters and let the stm in," said dying Scovillc McCuUum, one of my Sabbath-school boys. "Throw back the shutters and let the eun in.” You ca “ ' ‘ td wing, of a

Hugh McKall went to one aide of the scaffold of martyrdom and cried: "Fare-well-sun, moon and atara! Fgrewell all earthly delights'" than went on the other tide of the scaffold and cried: ‘‘Welcome, God and Father!. Welcome, sweet Joans Christ, the Mediator of the covenant!

Welcome, death! Welcome, tfpry!”

A jninister of Christ in Philadelphia, J “I, said in his last momente, “I movt

the light!” They did not go down i ting and fearing and shivering, but

_• battle cry rang through all the caverns of the sepulcher end sraf echoed back from all the thrones of heaven: “0 death, where is thy sting? 0 grave, wheae ia thy victory?" Sing, my soul, of joys to oeme. I aaw a beautiful being wandering np nd down-the earth. She touched the aged nd they became young; she touched the

oor and they became rich. I said, “V” i this beautiful being wandering up

own the earth?" They told me that — in name was Death. What a strange thrill of °f W when the palsied Christian begin H 0 to use hi* arm again, when the blind - Christian begins to see again, when the deaf Christian begins to hear again, when the poor pilgrim puts bis feet on sack pavement and joins in inch company and has a

free aaat in each a great temple.

Hungry men no more to hunger, thirsty

i no more to thirst, weeping men no

more to weep, dying men no mors to die. Gather up all sweet words, all jubilant expreeeiona, all rapturous exclamations; bring them to ms. and I will pour upon them thia stupendous theme of the soul's

disenthrallmcnt!

Oh, the joy of the spirit as it al op toward the throne of God, ’•Wee! Free”’ Tour eye ,

ic garniture of earth

ith not seen it; yotu

oniea uncounted i

caught them from harp's trill and bird's carol and waterfall’s dash sod ocean’s dox-

ology—but car hath cot heard it.

shall mount

. — —J, ah outing: ey* *f» «Med npon and heaven, but eye rear baa caught harand indescribable—

ology—but ear hath not heard it.

How did those blessed xmea get up into the light? What hammer; knocked off their chains? What loom wove thair robe* of light? Who gave them wings? Ah, eternity ia not long enough to tell it. seraphim have not capacity enough to realise it—

the-marvels of redeeming love!

Let the pakni wave; lef terj Jet .the anthems tell the half^P it^A throne, thou faiksi!

Sing ob. praise on, yc hosts of the glorified, and if with your scepters yon ‘ reach it and with your songs you express it tfaco let all the myriad*

i of the " Jesus'!

at the gate ef

up and

There wij

-heaven. A drest' multitude , knock at the gate. The gatekeeper says, “The paaodrortL" They say: “We have ne password.y Wo were groat' op eartl), and now we eocio up to be great in heaven.” A voice krem within an*«ifu, 1 T nevye knew you." .Another gromT com* ttp'tt the gate of heaven and knfcck. The gate

; *7». "Tb, TWy

Kiss'

colleges and took care of tke poor.’’ Thi voice from within says, "I never knew you." Another group come up to the gate of bfeaven and knock. The gatekeeper say*. "The password." They answer, "We were wanderer* tram r '‘’ ~’ — ** die, but we beard.the " Aye, aye,” say* the gatekeeper “that ia the password! Left up your heads, ye everlasting cates, and let thee* people

, TV- —77C—rt-,-— come in. . They go in and surround the . - , . J1 » nd an a’^S with which to throne robilant forever'

n God and daearre to r. voice of J— ”

ing. Aa all the atar* of the night sink tlieir anchors of pearl in lake and rivar and sea so the. waves of Jordan shall he illuminated with tha down flatting .of the glsry to corns. The dying soul looks up at the eonateUationa. "fb* Lord it mylgght and my salvation; whom shall I fear?” “The Lamb which is ill the midst of the n to Hying fountain.

Close the eyes of the departed one: od^. V«1 U, 1m,; it hM tea Uu, of his breathing he lifted op his hands and [Oovrtato. me Bess*.]

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Sskfi't; Tbs Second Penccutloa. AcU Va U-G-0sM*n Text, Matt v., W-Mem-ory Verms, dMZ—Csmmsatary

\ ss the Day s Lexica

J. "Told them.’’ The Sanhedrin is relieved of its perplexity as to the whereabout* of its prisoners by. a messenger who says they are in the temple repeating the offense for which they were imprise .cd. The hall of judgment was not tor from where the apostles were teaching at the very time. "Standing.’’

standing implies the pr '

ntetf position which

taken

This

“Baptain.” The captain of the temple. V. 24. This was the commander of the guard stationed chiefly in the tower of VAntonia, especially during the great feast*, and H wa* his duty to preserve order and prevent aay tumult. '"Without violence.” Not by binding them, “Feared the people." AJl that the apostle* did was in behalf of the people. They bad helped them, fitted them and supplied their WXnti and brought them new life and hope. Popular favor is a peat power. It is well to make use of it for the advancement of the gospel, but it is not wise to trust to it, as it is fickle, and it should never be sought aa an end, for the pursuit

of it is degrading.

28. •"Straitly. Strictly. "Command.” They speak to God’s servants as though the command of the council was the high-

trouble at hand. “Filled Jerusalem. a testimony from the mouths of enemies of the faithfulness of the apostles in their mission, yet given to prove that their evil influence had a wide effect, and stood aa a lawful charge against them. “Intend to bring." They had vsry daringly cried. “Hi* blood be on ua and on our children,” when_ they were determined that Jesus "be put to death; yet now they con-

’"Thia man’* blood.” You intend to hold u*. before the people, answerable for the blood,of Jeetu. If Jesus was the Messiah, the rulers had been traitors to the nation. This charge stirred them deeply. The judges take the place of culprits, and complain of being accused of murder. That the apostles charged the Sanhedrin with the murder of Jesus was true; that they ■ought to arouse insurrection wait false. 29. “Peter.” In every time of test all eyes turn to him. He seems, by his courage, ever ready to atone for his past failures. In him tito Holy Ghost had complete control. “Other apostles." They agreed with his statement*, and lave witness as they were called upon. "To obey God." We have oceived our commission from God; we d^M not lay it down at the command of men. Thia was a very wise reply. Could the council deny that God should be first? Peter would seem to say that if they opposed and silenced them they fought against divine purpose*. In thi* reply Peter expressed true reverence

and devotion to God.

30. “God of our father*." Peter was aa good a Jew aa Annas, and looked back as directly to Abrahsm, Isaac and Jacob as “the father*,” as did the old priest. They preached no strange God. aw He who so highly honored the patriarchs,-Moses and the prophets had yet more higMy honored Jesus Christ. "Raised up." The resurrection ia again insisted upon as a witness to the Messishship of Jesua. But other* think that the term ‘‘raised up" means merely that God had sent Jesus into the world. “Ye slew.” A direct and awful

charge of murderous Wilt.

31. “Exalted.” By His resurrection and ascension. “A Prince and a Saviour.” He was not the blasphemer they had called Hi*. He was. not guilty of disloyalty to God. Hi* exaltation proved that. "To give repentance." Though shamefully treated He walked among men He has

‘ * e to His nr

rated He walked among n iwer to save and oCars grace

then ao it is now. tbTlUy Ghost i. given

^^W^^-^nraced. ‘The ... . the ,

disregarded^ their command.*^

33. “Were cut." so os for this were, ties had disregards

Because tbey

3. Because - — ^ lion of Jems.” “Were minded to slay then” (R. V.) That is. they wished to slay them. To get rid of one man's blood they would take the lives of twelve more. 34. “A Pharisee." A* a Pharisee and a believer in the resurrection of ibe dead, he may have had some sympathy with the disciples. “Gamaliel." The same person mentioned in AcU 22: 3 aa the teacher of St. Paul. "Doctor." Teacher and interpreter of the law of Moses. “In reputation.” He wa* honored by the people. He appears to have been regarded by the Jews as one of their most ilmstriou* teacher*. He was a man of an enlarged and refined mind. ."Put the apoetiee forth." He desired that they be removed from the room while their eaoes wore being considered. They were ■►called in T. 40. 35. “Said." What follows is probably

an ontline of the apeech.

38. "Before these day*.” Thia is not the first time that sealote or aeditionists hare appeared. For the sake ofiyilect Gamaliel puts the case aa if Jheee prisoner* would turn ottt to be persona of this stamp,

bnt before dosing he is careful than that -there was another ^

“Theudas.” This was a common name, and the period following the death of Herod the Great was full of revolts. Noth-

definitefy of this man be-

e here in thi* verse, fosephus mentions this unt confirms the state-

SXi taxing consequent to it. ‘‘Drew axal” Judos urged the people to refuse to pay the

tax and to assert their liberty.

38. "For if." Gamaliel does not commit himself. His are the word* of a shrewd

politician.

39. “If it be of God.” Without dt

ing the truth to be on the aide of the

oner*, he argues the question from

V0 S l “Beaten them.” Whipping w common mode of puciahment amon| Jews. The usual number of lashes

thirty-nine. Sec 2 Cor. 11: 34.

thy.” Fit subject* to suffer as Jesus hsd 435^^5 gsitt

“Is

Sir I

yemd what ere hare here’ll 37. “.Tudaa." Josephus

man. and his account confirms IB nent made her*. “The taxing." Jew* by the Roman Gorerninr

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