THE DISC0H8A6ED IAN Sc«d«y DIscoutk by Dr. Chapman, the Noted Partor-EvaarelUt. Mol Pet)pi* OtaMlUIW BKaw* TWy UU

Tm ArtlHcUl a Ufa.

[The Bee. J. Wilbur Chapman, D. D-. ia now the moat diatinsuuhrd and beat known evangehat in the country. He waa ►econd only to Or. Talmagr, but ainoe the death of that faraoua preacher Or. t-bap-tian has the unduputed pcwaesaion of the Puljnt at the nrcacher to influence the plain people. Hu aervieea aa an evangel ut are in constant demand. Hu eennous hare atirred the heart* of men and women to a degree unapproached by any latterday divine. J Wilbur Chapman waa born in Richmond, lad., June 17, HOB. Hia mother died when he was but twelve year* of age, and hia father died aeven yearn afterward. Conacquently he waa hot only deprived of a mother'* care at the formative age of boyhood, but he waa thrown upon hu own resource* before he bad reached early manhood. He waa educated at Ooerlin College and Lake Foreat University, and graduated for the miniatry from the Lane Theological hemmary, Cincinnati, Ohio, in )b&2. While there he manifested the character and the apirit which have followed him as an evangelist all over the country. They have made hit

miniatry a continual success aa

-- i revivaliat.

utl success as pastor and

His aermons are simple ana direct, so that their influence is not M much due to egtitiug the emotions aa to winning the hearts and convincing the ' ‘ hear him. Dr. Chap

minds of those who hear him. Dr. i New York Citt.—The Rev. Dr. J Wilbur Chapman, America's meet famous paa-

"But h. h:tn>.!i' wmt . d-r *

the wilderness, and came and sat down The history of tuijah- begins with the chapter tells us of the idolatry of the p«c

prince, is on the dosrnward grade Contentment ia one of tbs greatest,

blessings in the world. It ia not a question of the possession of either poverty or richee. He who knows how to be content posse sms the secret, not because he ia either poor or rich, but simply because he know* how to be content. The mere fact that we are Christians does not amount to much in many cases; if our religion increeses our confideuce, our hope, our love, it is good, but if it gives ua the anirit that we are better than other people, if we seek to control the interest* of other people, make them fashion their live* according to our own plan, if we are good simply that we may escape punishment, such a profession of religion is almost worthlecs. The difficulty is no^n our susroundings.but in oorMlye*. "Jd|b ia not in things, it is

I met • young woman this winter in the

South who told me that she waa the possessor of a 110,030 violin, and with a shining face she said, “You should hear the muric of that instrument,” and yet in the hands of very many people it would have been just a producer of unharmoniout sounds, while in the hands of this gifted young woman it waa truly marvelous, and all because the music was in her. and the violin waa the beat movement of the ea-

-resaion of that mude.

When Ole Bull, the great violinist,

in Princeton, one of the j him if the secret of 1'

“ in the bow

violin at 1

She _ God is left out •veil for ua to remember that He is never a loss. The land may be overrun with iniquity, Hia witnesses may be silenced,

take had been _ ut of all conrideratio: " t He :

is really no place for pessimism kingdom of God. He has nevgr made s failure is the past. He never will in the future. ‘If God be for us, who can be against us." It is literally true that when the enemy comes in like a flood this spirit of the Lord shstl lift up a standard against The story of Elijah is most interesting, and we trace him from hi* sudden appearance here flashing like a meteor upon the scene of action, down to Cberitb, where he is fed by the ravens, over to Zarepbhth, where be relieves the distress of the woman who meet* him, but the most remarkable scene m his tyfe is on Mt. Carmel, where, facing the prophet! of Baal, after their.tBkoiuty to call cown fire from heaven he produces the fire from the very hand of God, which consumed the aacnlice, licks up the water in the trenches and give* him victory of a most remarkable kind. The prophets of Baal are distressed, and the news concerning their defeat is carried to Jezebel. She is intensely angry, and declares that Elijah shall be as her prophets are at a certain hour of the day. Instead of looking —

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there was more of real contrast; new be is master in prayer and the pendulum which parent!)' at his orm will the ram tarries or fall*, and now utterly dismayed he is rushsy ? it Sfss “iA tys desire. The most of men have at one time Lord. take. I beseech Thee, my life, from Apostle Pan) *aid, “I am in a strait bemost of us is we want to die onr own way. Elijah waa not willing to die at the hand of Jezebel, bnt he was quite ready to sleep

f awaj wi

HHI!

i the captivity of the t not the TOM) that had ice to Baal would have would ‘ ' '

iwed the knee „ forth, and they would have rushed -jrd conquering and to conqner, but Elijah ia a picture of ouraelve*. and wc all like him have been times without number under the juniper tree. The object of this sermon is to ask the question. “Why we are thus discouraged,” and then to determine if possible what the difficulty was

with

Why are we? There

people to-day who are i with life because they are living cial an experienot. We have v things that our ancestors did no

; are thousand* of utterly dissatisfied'

— w—^ too

non of these things ought to i great blessings in every way, matter of fact it is true that

. We are too m! g to satisfy our a

•elfish in our living, we ir appetites, our passions Tina longing has become

uppermost in our living, and the man who makes it so makes his appetite stronger than himself, and hia need is dreadful, for he who lives simply to eat, to drink, to •leep and to dreaa, whether be be pauper

•• downward grade to de-

They have i taught a S

day-school class ia now doing nothing i fast slipping away from Christ. The her of the church who used to be faithful

1 in the at the prayer meeting U now absent and violin or in the bow or in himself, and he sitting down in hi* home he is of all men said, 'The violin and the bow amoun^to moat miserable. That man who was once

aaid, "The vio but little. I i

there is music _ pressed, and then any becomes remarkable.

ever play nntil

in me that

Many of us are un-

fitted for life because we have become too arUficjaL have h*d wrong tde*l| and' hare

tried to be what we never can be. A friend recently sent me that wonder-

ful little book. '’The Simple Life,” by Charles Wagner, which every one would do well to read. To the author of thia book I am indebted for some of the expressions used above, but in one of the chapter* be tells us in speaking of the home life, “In the time of the Second Em-

in one of our pleasantest aub-prefec-

- 'ittle way '

niat, played ■•on asked waa in the •If, and be

amount to moat IniaerabW. That roan who was once I feel that in the church and loved the church ha* mat be ex- sat down in the world, and he question* rat I touch if he ever knew Christ, •olet us keep F us are nn- going. It is when a man i* idle that Satan

jfutfcttT wanted to dictate, to God when he «id to Him “Let me dse.” It is a good thing that God did not take him at his word, for be would have died under a cloud, and would have been buried in the

pire, in one — — turns of the province*, a little way from some baths frequented by the Emperor, there wa*. a mayor, a very worthy man, and intelligent, too, whose head wa* suddenly turned by the thought that%it sovereign might one day descend unbn hia home. Up to this time he bad lived in the house of his father*, a sou respectful of the slightest family traditions. But when once the all-absorbing idea of receiving the Emperor had taken p ”

his brain he became another n

1 befor

mion of

In this

“K-v. ri<H« ask an Emperor to chml —ircaae, ait in these old chairs, walk over such superannated carpet*. So the mayor called architect and masons, pickaxes attacked walls and demolished partitions, and a drawing-room waa made out of all proportion to the rest of the house in sixe and splendor. He and hia family retired into close quarters, where people and furniture incommoded each other generally. Then, haring emptied hia purse and upset his household by this stroke of genius, he awaited the reral guest. Alas, be soon saw the end of the empire arrive, but the Emperor never. The folly of this poor man is not so rare. As sottish aa hr are all those who sacrifice their boi the demands of the world.”

n. -

was the difficulty with Elijah? —=—* th had been over-

boring under the *2*

_ . ..jpt him the" “

are many hike him to-day.

TYkat was the diScnlty wil First hia physical strength had taxed. He tad taen laboring — highest tension, his nerve* were un and be was just in the position

Satan could tempt him the worst.

p-day. They art is 1 not so much a spirpresence of a doctor

— — that their bodies * have rest, their nerves must be boil and they themselves must remember their bodies are the temple* of the Holv Ghost, and that they may sin against God just a*'truly when they break commands toucbfbg the body as when they commit sins touching the soul. Elijah needed rest, and instead of taking it be prayed that be

might die.

Second, he looked *war from Cod to his circumstance*. Up to Ihat time he endured as seeing Him who was invisible, then like I’cter when he saw the wind that wa* boisterous be began to sink. I do not think that any minster could preach today if he lealized the iniquity that rounded him, the hypocrisy in

1 ’ 'be awful sil *

loud. It is the thing we say m our heart that grow* to such great proportion and leads ua to believe that we are on th* 1 FSrit—Wty didn’t David say it aloud to his servant and let hia servant argue him out of hia poaition, for there are many things we think wc would never dare to h, was a master in prayer, and if he had but fallen on hi* knees and said it to God, at ‘ it have tried to aay it, be would have nd that hia very tongue would have ived to the roof of hi* mouth, for there are thing* we think that we would bluab if ere dared to aay them to God. Third—Why didn't he sing it. He was much of a singer, wa* David, and if he tad if ^5 &:s!2

tad imaginary or real, let us aay it, or pray or sing it, and if we cannot aay it. and it "»•» fevf. sirw’Sk&w

plunge u* into despair.

th-He sat down. That was a great mistake. He never should have given up. If he had only kept going he would hare found victory. There are ao many people in"he church to-day who have done just exactly wbat Elijah did. They have aat down. The man who once taught a Sun-day-school class ia now doing nothing and

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Sood. and* would have been buried in the desert. Wbat a merer it is that God does not give us all we ask for. And my own * * J ~nbt not is your*, the things

tfuMd to me have been my

greatest blessings. Then let ua remember that "no” is just as much of an answer as “ves." and your experience in your home has been that no for your children uaually ia the better answer. But how gracious God i« in Hi* dealings with f** of the wav. He calb Adam in tander..._i when He aaya. “Where art thou? He woo* David back again to virtue in the story of the ewe lamb, and give* us a picture of HimMlf hi the seeking love of the father of the prodigal for hia boy, let* us understand something of His forgiveness when He sewd* in the person of His Son to write upon the sand Hi* disposition to remember no more the sin of a guilty woman, and then whispered to .Fikjab aa he i* under the juniper trecM 7 * atiU n —I— and, continue* to JKw '

Eliiaw is on hi* fjft and min into the light. Oh. from under the joniner ilace to find a Christian

iron

let u* come, out from ur ’ *

tree. It is a sad place to

good place to keep

Spear Points.

The light from heaven can never lead Tbe world must read the Goejwl in KvResignation is putting God between -me'e self and ones grief. Tbe most momentous truth of religion » that Christ is in tbe Christian.

Tbe time to abow your t hood is when it is put to the sore test. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge your-

self into one.

The light of tbe Christian shines brightest for Christ, when be is least conaciona

that it ia shining.

Not all God'a meMengera are angel*. Any hand that knocks at the door may

bring a call from the King.

It ia better to ta3d a life than to make a fortune. Character is a greater accom-

plishment than

H* who

He who manifests humility, lore and -•"'ide when told of hi* fault# baa

Urge attainment* in tbe Christian

Spiritual sustenance cannot be effective in an abstract form, as pure Truth; it

to ua through the energy of a

IV a?

orm, aa pure

through the energy

faith that will "graap

spiritual life.

We need a faith that __ . with tbe beart” in order to

!!“

to the i will give

carts, the awful sin* m many Uvea; be would grow faint and aick at beart. and all because he looked down, while it ia possible, on the other hand, for a to preach,in the midst of all thia tion if he keeps bis eyes turned up, the difficulty with von is not that your power is d&d. but that your eyes are faatcned upon the ground instead of turned nnward to beaveni and the cause of your distreas is not that your mother has gone away from your, home, but that you arc standing like Mkry looking in at the tomb, when you ought to be standing with upturned face looking by faith into the very midst of the angel company in heaven. Wbat if the, difficulties are great, let ut

look to God in it all.

The other day in my mail cam piece or poetry from a friend in which ha* been singing its wav li of paradise through my sou) ail t

“When the way teema dark and dreary,

Think of Him.

thv heart grow faint and weary.

Think of Him.

Thine* That th# World Needs.

There are many things that the wi needs, and there i* much work to be done in many djections: but most of aH does the world need God, most of all does it need righteousness, faith, hope

nybody and love! Tbe world needs better con-

aeaota ditions.for ila p<

n cheer tbe dark Think of Him. "When some sorrow sorely presses. . Think of Him. For through triala oft He bleaaes, TOnk of Him.

bring to t

but as a _

neither happiness, nor brother!, , power nor good have been increased in the least. W e have indeed gone in the opposite direction, and fflany of us are of all men most miserable. We are discontented because we are trying to be something that we are not. Tbe business man thinks be must keep pace with hia competitor whatever the coat to himself, and in a little time be finds himself out of hie latitude. lu society thousands of people are aping the customs and manner* of those

who are in an entirely different

_n an entirely different

themselves, by whose aide they stand. ,*nd if they did they would be only the more unhappy, and there are thousand* of homes where instead of living a simple life tbe members of the household are living at a pace that is terrific, and all this is killing the business man, the society woman, the parent* and the children, and instead of possessing joy and peace we are under the juniper tree. The thiret for pleasure in these dara is ao great that we have become abaoluuffy unscrupulou# in our attempt* to gain tbe objects of our deeires. We ought to be satisfied with juat what we are and in the most natural way. We have come into the world with different gifts, some one with gold, other* with - silver, atill others with marble and many with only cUy, and onr task ia to fashion these things into the strongest manhood and the truest womanhood, and to do it ia the most simple sad unaffected mao-

thv inmost soul it vexes, Think of Him. tiring thy care and thou atalt are, He will bear it all for thee: He would tave Oiee peaceful be,

in.

i still

with Elijih. First, he was

3 we reed that be left

d he bimarif

another, difficult;

s 2

. . — —hi* servant at Beersbeba, and be himself went into the wilderness. It ia a great mistake to be alone when trouble come*. "Bear ye one another’* burdens, and so fulfill the law of God," rive* ns a picture of human fellowship, while the verm, "Tbke my

sri;

have with Him.

, John McNeill, tbe great Scotch preacher, has a illustrationMid* ^oint^in hi* chanter and the "fire t vent, "And David said in hia beart, I stall now perish cos day by the band of Saul; there i* nothing better for me than that 1 ahould speedil? escape into tbe land of the PhiHatinm, and Saul shall despair of roe. to aaek me any more in any coast of Israel; ao stall I

it need* also better live# for the

tuniUes for it it needs also c portunities am

er oppor-

idea; but clearer vision to aee the op-

portunities and stronrer will* to grasp them. The world needs acientific knowledge, but it needs religious emotion aa well. It needs its thunderous industries, but it needs the senM of kinship to God. It needs it# practical ideals; but it needs supremely the vision of the Highest. “Aa the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my aoul after Thee. 0 God!

’ thirsteth for God. ftir the Living

for the Living e, and we are

,. sal Hia bosom— until we feel the ocean of His love flowing about our imperfection* as-allowed up in His perfection, and our restlessness melt

God!” From Him we dame, disquieted until we rest in 1

mtil "

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His perfection, and our rettlesaness melting Into His everlasting peace.—Rev. Mr.

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The

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