frosTbethelto bethel Sunday Discount by Dr. Chapman, (he Noted Pastor*EvaafelUt. Thirty Tears o! Tlae Bclatea the Twa- ' srioos EiyericDcts •( Jacob—Pray As Yaa Used Ta. Xrw Voss Citt.—Thr Rrv. Dr. ;!r’F.H '■Ut us srist and jo up to Bothrl." Grof-

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I doubt not you hsva frequent!/ seen the sky when throairhout a lone day it has been overcast with clouds, only now and then the sun would break forth but for a moment and then the curuin would be drawn together once more and only the clouds were to be seen. To me this is an illustration of the life of Jacob. Tbe aun breaks through at Bethel, and while this teems to be a mixing of figures, for the hour of the vision was in the night, yet the glory of heaven was upon him brighter than the shining of the tun. It pushes its way through at Pcniel. once more appears in his pathetic love for Joseph, and later in his digtpfied appearance in the presence of Pharaoh., hut for the most part his was a life with a cloudy sky, and vet there are few stories more interesting.

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o' the Old. The Bit omplete without the sect ynarkablem™. Whei

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comforted, for we fin "If Jeaua can save au

transforming Him from the fisherman to the preacher, from the profane man to the o^o'f We'resd^Imul°the ^fiSd'of .TaenH” asA (are inenired for there are few

there are few

oi us to-oay wnose uvea arc so deceitful, whose characters arc so questionable ai g&r- SMkK £ From Bethel to Bethel is a good subject growing out of such a text. Thirtr years of time stretch out between the two exordinasy inteiest. as, for example, his ex-

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we have ever had a vision of-heaven the earth ever afterward seems dull and unin-

teresting.'

After all this varied experience Jacob is at Bethel once again. It is not much in •eending to -the Jordan and the western

” aeending to -the Jordan am

•lope stretching away toward the more thickly populated part of the country. Through the valley before us illurtrous travelers in all the histdry of the Holy Land have made them jo'urnev. and up £he

> C house in

nimais are 10 tie seen exid then an eagle dr a wild

suuumain goat, but to Jacob it was a sacred place. There the first night of his flight from Esau he saw tbe ladder which linked earth to heaven, the ladder which was thronged with angels performing their heavenly ministry, and he heard the raise of God. There v f some words wc-eatanot speak without arousing the tendcrcst emotions and the holiest memories. Mother is such an one. I well remember preaching to a crowd of rough miners in the when all faces were softened and tears were seen in many eyes. Home is another such word. You doubtless remember the soldiers at Sebastopol, brave men who were ready tq die. iqgny of .whom did die. bursting into tears as they heard the

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better nature to arouse iiavu. Wc have all of us had our Bethels. Some td us iare separated from them by the dreary kpsc of time, and between those happy days and our present unsatisfactory experience days, weeks, months and even - rears stretch out. we say it to oar shame. For some of us an active business life his separated us from Bethel, and yet this is positively unnecessary. "Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the lord," and if there is anything in your business that dampens your spiritusl "ardor. or blinds your vision of Christ, either your business is wrong or you are wrong With some- a foreign residence lies between us and BcthelT Bark in the old country we were most faithful and devoted to Christ and constantly serving the church, but Kthb free land we have forgotten our vowirWe have made the fatal mistake of leaving God out ot our cmlcnlaJ — m to forget the

were. We might — . , with God all these days if we would. Witfi some of us it is worldUness that has dimmed our vision and robbed 'us of power, and that is tbe sad part of the story. Obligations once taken upon us have been overlaid and buried with the , lapse of years, and l would like if I might to touch the hiT of memory and bring 'back those hapny day# once more when our vision of Christ wis unclouded, our appropriation of the* spirit of God com-

row* Many Chr.stians suffer from spirit»al declension; kbev scarcely realize it. the stupor baa come on »o gradually, and it is only on a day Hke this when they compare what they ore with what they once were that they realize their dangerous position. We do not-come to be like Judas in a dav or even.Hke Peter, but we lder our- Lord by inches, some little ain' errens in at which we' smile to-day. but whirfa defeats ns to-morrow, and we are out of tune, we d»ave Tost our power, we are not what we want to be ourerivee. and it our heart condemn us God is greater than our heart JVhert was your Bethel? Perhaps tn 1 .come little church where cn.a certain oecizmn you forgot the minister and the one sitting by your ode and bad a vision of and down to every pillow was sent the ladder. up sod down which angels of God of God. and while we may not make the journey back to these place* in the flash sr s sir z~£„r"jz£2 SraSsssirfusSB firs then arias and (• U lethal.

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jy thy sin.” and there u in this exprea1 a reference to the scapegoat of the "estament on the dav of Atonement, the priest confessed the sins of the B. and the goat was represented as ■ring awsy under the load of Israel's down through the valley, up the

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the Lord hath laid our iniquity.

tAecond. be clean. This refers to inner .leanness, which is only brought about by the indwelling of Christ. God puts away our sins, it is true, when He fnrgivA us, but it is one thing to be set right eoheeming the guilt of sin and nuite another thing to be set free from the pollution of sin. This second privilege is ours when Christ comes ing and teaching, yet we have as much of holiness as we have of Christ, no more or no les«. Let us be clean in heart. This ia possible bv the word of God which is cleansing in its very touch. Let us be clean in what we say. making a covenant with Chriat to guard our lips, asking Him to keep our eyes. Let u* not do the things that will grieve the spirit, remembering that God ran onlv use thst which is clean. Third, let us change our garmenU. This must refer to the outward practices of our life; in other words, our habit*. What is the garment we are wearing to-day? With some of us it is a robe of our own leaving, the robe of selfishnesa and nride. and mark you this, where self comes into a life Christ passes out. There ia another robe which

-ear to-day wove- — *•- ' *

aring the red ta

of Christ. I traveled t

srr fibm Wisconsin,

had read

, 1 the loom of Hessen; liearing the red taark of the blood

the other day with

.-bed a drunken man ia tbe' oi Wisconsin, told him the story of Christ and won him. nnd later had the jov of receiving the man and the six members ot l- i T .■ _ c.n L:.. ^i .l..

hit hoosehold into the church. When Nosh « family went with him.

Result'. In the 5th verse we read that the people were afraid of Jarob and Incompany, for the terror of the Lord w*« upon them. Matthew Henry has said tb.-it when tin was in Jacob’s bouse be was d of his neighbors, but when the

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afraid of bin lesson that »

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Moses asked this of God a

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lesson that we have power over men by the wav of God. The world does not fear a worldly Christian, nor does the devil, until we lave prevailed with God first. Second. God appeared and Ulked with

Jacob. This we read in n ten. Of course no man can

i. and Uve. Y He said. “I u the rock and while I pass b

&S“riiru?x-j,” d X",ri children and H™ -ministering to the «ck $ “m” find Him sneaking in nature. I can remember as a boy out in the country put link Eksst/sK c whirr of the, messages flashing from city to city, and I used to wonder if it might be possible for some one to hear what might ^ •'—XSXATX’S.rX

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honor which the church in Jerusalem felt was due to these missionary laborers. 28. “Hazarded their lives.'’ More than once they had been in treat danger. Chap. 13: CO; 14: 19. cts. This waa a strong endorsement of Paul and Barnabas. ■Tn the name," etc. This it the supreme preaaion shows that although toe two ErfST ’I^rd“ llD "v^3 f> SSL* peneci accoru. cxcccsaary unngs. Chritianity at that time; but tho h requirement ia a perpetual pro hi-

-ssion of one. •ct. and the whole clock S'a thing of tv. and I started it. but tbe pendulum A awing for a moment-and then atop, and 1 thought I had made a poor bargain in the purchase of my dock, but at last I discovered there was a. little catch bylubliil w ’ the t ict tb k truer tbai were poaaime. certainly mon ever. We have called it uninteresting: we have let it alone when w* might have been listening to its heaven hnrn messages, none other than the voire of God, if are bad but had. faith. God Mid to «Tgcob. "I am God Alnughtv." and that waa enough for Him to ear. "I will walk with thee." “If God be for m who cac be against as?" Third, in this SSth chapter of Generis arc four burial#. There ri the burial of tbe idols, the burial of Deborah, the burial of Rachel and tbe burial oLJsoac. It ia a chanter of sorrow, but what a difference Bethel moat have made in the way that sorrow waa endured. I stood not long ago in the home of a man whose child was dead, and I heard him say. although he had once born a Christina. Hurt he all hut hated God. and I recall another experience when a woman with a breaking heart said with the tears flowing down her fare that waa shining. 'The Lord gave and He hath taken away." and ahe waa dwelling at Bethel. It is a beautiful thing to know thatMfer tht body of Isaac, Fean and Jacob e’ssped hand# and were united one* If wr did but bra

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