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you are In * few hour* »et down at Verona. Italy, and in a few minute* b**in «- all Bide* the teau Tit*, tier above tier, until jou count forty elevation! or pilerie*.

cited apectatort. At the aide^of thearr- 1 -

and under the rail erica are the cases

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great men \nd amall, thouaanda

upon thousand* come, until the firat galtwentieth, all the way up to the thirtieth, all the way up to the fortieth. Every place forth the victim into the arena. Let Urn get his aword with firm grip into his right

hud- The 25,000 tit breathlessly

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ait, Uma a umi toward the aide the arena) then raUyinj hia waaf strength be cornea up with fiercer eye a more terrible roar than ever, only to driven back with a fatal wound, while t_sE’Xa'sr.s.^ lav's (act, and tha 25,000 clap their hands and Otter s ibout that makes the city tremble. . Some times the audience came to see a fpve, sometimes to tee gladiator* fight each •Alter, until tho people, compassionate for tb fallen, turned their thumbs up aa an ■jmeal that the vanquished be Spared, and 9aetimes the combat was with wild To one of the Roman amphitheatrical audiences of 100.000 people Paul r when be aayi, "We i with so great i

•nd this tifer ha. come out to destroy your temptation U getting weaker and weaker. You have given it so many wounds that brother! ' Do not let the lands of the grroa drink the blood of your soul! re SS? SSJS 'VS/EE^SS it bads With broken bottle or empty wine throat and rend thee limb from limb. SWrre^K'.' 1 sword of the Spirit. With that thou maye*t drive him back and conquer! But why .pccify when every man and woman baa a lion to fight? If there be one ft a.'ftE? you have not fought tbelTon. iTia be«n»e you have let the lion eat you '« ▼ery moment the ronteat goes on. The Tralan relebration, whn gladiators fought and 11^00 wil were ilain, wa. not BO terrific a et that which at thia moment goes on in many • soul. The combat waa for the life of the body; thia i» for the life of the aoul. That was with wild beaata from the jungle; thia ii with the roaring lion of hell. Men think, when they contend arainit ■ an evil habit, that they have to fight it all alone. No! They stand in the eeutre of an imir.cn»e circle of sympathy. Paul had been reciting tha names of Abel, Enoch, Ndah, Abraham, Sarah. Isaac, Joeeph, Gideon and Barak and then says, “Berne compassed,about with so great a cloud of Before I get through I will show you that you fight in an arena, around which circle. In galleries above each other, all the kindling eyes and all the aympathetic heart, of the ages, and at every rictory gained there comet down the thundering applause of a great multitude that no man can number. ‘‘Being composted abopt with so great a cloud of witnesses.*' On tha first elevation of the ancient amphitheatre. on the day of a celebration, tat Tiberiu. or Augnatut or (he reigning king. So in the great arena of spectators that watch our atruggle* and in the first esrrsr 'Ss £SS .EftS, E “•

jr sat, with folded arms, indifferent a* to whether the twordaman or ft voice is heard: “Fear »r“ ’ ““ *-*- tbae! I will strengthen tl band of My power*"

I lot ud 1M# tb. ^n«T * uautr,. it tb*tr Hath UttaMT, tun tuouthl Hr wtuU tot wolt*tt tJ the Theban legio- who died far the kith. Here is s larger boat in magnificent array, 881,000, who perished tor Christ in the persecutions of Diocletian. Yonder U ■ !aEr**l J Sft™ r " ~ faith she stood eneouragm son waa whipped to death L other was flung from a rock: an beheaded. At last the mother martyr. There they are together, a croup in heaven! Yonder it John lord, who said in the fire. “We aha! a merry supper with the Lord to-night!" Yonder is Henry Voes, who exclaimed ae he died, "If I had ten heads, they should all fall off for Christ!” The great throng of tha martyrs! They had hot lead poured down their throats; horses were fastened to their hands and other hones to their hot pin cert; they were sewed up in the skint of animals and then thrown to tha dog.; they were daubed with combustibles and aet so fire! 11 all the martyn’ stakes that have been kindled could be set at proper distances they would make the midnight all the world over bright at noonday! And now they sit yonder in the marFor them the fires of persecution have gone out: the sword* are sheathad and the mob hushed. Now they wstch us with an

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cannot keep trill. They cry: “Courage! The fire wifi not consume; the flood* cannot drown; the lion* cannot devour. Oour-

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salutation they give and daughters of the

ither galler]

What stril— igely is the mixing in companion-

ship of those who on earth could not agree. Therv » Albert Barnes and around him the presbytery who tried him for heiero-

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thought that they would ait ao lovingly together? There are George Whitefiefd and the ministers who would not let him come into their pulpits because they thought him a fanatic. There are the aweet singers Toplady, Montgomery, Charles Wesley, lanac Watte and Mrs. Sigourney. If heaven bad bad no music before they went up, they would have started the ainging. And there the band of raiaaiooenee— David Abeel, talking of China redeemed: and John Scuddcr, of India saved; and David Bralnerd, of the ahoW«M« avan.

gtltaed; and Mra. Ai

into the than I Do we in Christ's cause suffer from the sold? They walked Greenland's icy mountains. Do we suffer from the

age down there in the arena!"

tVkat? Are they all looking? This hour

we answer back the salutation '

Adoniram Judaon,

IHt SABBATH SCHOOL

M. "When they heard.” It is disputed whether the speech was finished or not. Hit abruptness in closing and the anger of the Jews at that moment render it probable that he waa interrupted. “Cut to the heart.” Literally, they were sawn full" implies, not a sodden inspiration but a permanent state. “The Holy Ghost.” While his hearers yielded more and more to their violent passions, and were filled with a carnal fire, and indeed with a spirit from the bottomless pit. the aoul of toi* faithful witness waa filled, by the grace of God. with a heavenly fire. "Looked op." We would see mure heey*nlv viaiona if are would "look up ’ oft-

“Steedfaatly." Fixed hie eyes in- “ ~ti ravings did not distract heaven. The question has . _ow he could see into heaven council chamber, but we should that the Spirit revealed to him

in heaven. The eye of faith can see heaven from any spot on earth. Moeec beheld it from the land of Egypt 6?1), Exekiei f?SS h thc 0 be^*a oTSmC^-’ bar (Seek. 1: 1), Peter from the bouse top (Acte 10: 11), John from Pauno., Rev. 4: 1. “And saw ” There is no indefinitanaas about this statement. “The glory of God.” Saw the Shekinab, for with the Jews the "glory” and the '‘Shekinah" are similar terms. It was some visible manifestation of the divina splendor, such as Moses saw on Horcb and Exekiei at Chebar. It first filled the tabernacle and afterward the temple, and shone round the shepherds, and appeared to the apostles upon Hermon. '‘And Jesus.” He was permitted to aee Jeans triumphing in the flesh in which He had been crucified. He saw Jeans “in His official character aa

m God and man." places Jesus is rep

Sftsa.ft.iSiSs&isJfi: ding. He arose to show the great interest with which He watched Hia distressed servant and to poor glory and blessing into his aoul until it shone out from his Very countenance. "The right hand."^Christ was exalted to a^place of 56. “Heavens opened." A figurative expression denoting that he was permitted to aee into heaven, aa if the eye waa permitted to penetrate the etenml world. “Son of inonji Thia is the only time that our Lord iajtf human lips called the Son of man after His ascension. And why

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Jesus Himself, before this same council, had foretold Hi* glorification. Sec Matt. 28: 64. This would tend to exasperate them still more. They are now told that He whom they had crucified waa exalted to the right hand of God.

^d-hymn, only atiule'ch^d^ ^ m * * Must vou be carried to the skies

On flowery beds of ease

WhOo others fought to win the prtxo Or tailed through bloody aeaaf Toplady shouts in his old hymn: Loud to the praise of love divine

WhS d ^SU‘ t W^.* 1 the Methodist;

reals* forth in words a little varied:

And fit jt^for the aky!

take the legal course, but before any sente noe was pronounced rushed him to his

death

be atoned wa* required to be carried without the camp. ^‘Stoned him." The per-

LKWIg T. STEVENS.

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house of God in company. Have they forgotten ns? Those father* and mother* started us on the road of life. Are they careless as to what become* of ua? And thoae children—do they look -with stolid indifference ss to whether we win or lose this battle of life I They remember r day they left us. They remember : agony of the last farewell. Though years in heaven, they know our faces. They remember our sorrows. They speak our names. They watch this fight for heaven.

Nay, I see them rise up ana lean over and

wave before u* their rreognition and en- ] 58. “Receive my spirit." They stoned cjuragemret. That gallery is not full. ; him while he was praying. This b the

l0 Betw«n JEtTot ^taugghw itf^he’ arena I wipe the sweat from my brow and stand on tiptoe, reaching up my right hand to clasp theirs in rapturous handshaking,

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of iropbets and tyr*. Gallcrj- of aainta! ”5 ftti 1 ana lore! inrongs, tn: _ . How shall we tland ithe saxs of the «mlmmmm

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_!d fe'be^d'tbri hi“hI§ U ^ i^iriL^ in other worda that hia body and soul were

one and the tame thing.

60. "Kneeled down/’ A .good position in which to pray or to die* "Cried." If Stephen had not prayed the church would not have had Paul. “Lay not." Weigh not, reckon not, place it not in thy balance against them The beat will and testament of the Christian is that which Sidy 5 to^eorth.^3* ‘prie^'ta'the diriw protection. 4. Enemies to divinr compassion. ‘To their charge." Comparing this with nearly the same request of his dying Lord it wfll be seen bow very richly this martyr of Jesus had drunk into hia Master*. «pirit in its divine* form. "Fell asleep. He died. "But sleep implies an KSftftuaftt.ftSftUft’Sft

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