“COSE AND REST AWHILE’ Sunday DUcourw by Dr. Chapman, the Nrttd Pastor-Eranrelltt. way Mta Should Attend Ckorck-Nntlno Would Reltrse Into Barbariim WHkMl Ond'n Temple.

... _ « jeliviTrd n ••■iraon in which he «-t (orth the r.»»o... >vl.y men .hotfM nttend church lie |irc»clied trom the text, "And He Mid unto them. Come ye your-

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John the JUpti.t had been tiehraded and In- diaciplr* were- in eonfution. They and came to -le-u. to tell Hun of all the thing- that had eumc to |>a»». and then it wa» that He *p.ake to them in the worda - of Ihe teat. And He -..id unto them.. Come ye \our*elvc» apart into a deoert place and rr-t awhile, tor there were many coming and going, and they had no leiaure *<> much «. to eai I am eery well aware that to aome of you this may aeem an inappropriate ten. for it tho church i« a dciu-rt then in ttaelf it pr.-senta to ua the reaaon whv »o many men are away from it. and why there •rein- to lie a growing indifference to ita claim-. Alaa. it ia true too often' ihe * him li ■- a de-ert place It will not help u* any in our efforta to lead, enen to attempt to blind our eye* to the condition of thing-. A deaert is a apot

without habitation, a place

ia intellect, what you

effect* upon youtVlife. Men may Save forgotten the Greek they learned in college, and

jt water, without habitation, of death and de-pair, and this ia every church where anything ia -uWtinted * •’ ‘ here the whole truth

ri-t is not p

for the gospel. w|

not prcucboJ, and where ( lin t is not pre•ented to dying men. The renoons may be perfect *o far a» their literary e.reellenee ia concerned, but without the go-pel. as the heart they are rounding bra— and link'.mg s\-mbol in the r>timation of Him who ia the great head of the church Then again the \cr-e in which the text i« found presents u« i picture of the world. The Mater called the apustle* aeide to rest, for there were many coming and going, and they had no lri»ure so much a- to eat. This ia indeed a repre-emation of the business life of the most of msn. The pare is terriBe. and if any man fails to keep step with hi- competitor in business he is Mon left behind and i- counted out of the race. l>ne of the greatest nerd- of the day for men in all ilepartment- of life, whether it he in the -hop, with the ordinaiy day laborer or with the great merchant in h:s business, or the famous lawyer at the court, one of the greatest needs of the day is for re»t. Rest does not nece—anly mean idiene—; w hen men'rest as 1 have it in mind thev get their best conception of God. they work out their greate-t plans for the

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■was once employed by the Emperor to produce a picture, which was to be finished by a certain date. After working some tune at his task, however, the artist absented himseli from his studio for a week or more.-doing spparenUy-noth.ng toward completing the picture. The Emperor hearing of this sent a eonrtier to remonstrate with the painter, and when the Utter did him to come to the royal nre-ence. "Why have you neglected the painting of the oicdure we hare ordered*” was the question sternly put to the artist. "1 have not neglected it. sir." was the answer. ‘‘Bot we know that you have not had the brush in band fbr the-e eight days." said th- won-, dering Emperor. "True, sir." said the art- 3 ist. “but nevertheless the Diet ore has grown, the work of the bntsTfis the 'leant to be done in producing a painting. The last week IJiave been away from mv studio it is true, but wherever l went that picAure.ha* been in my mind, and slowly and steadily 1 have been getting into place the figures to be put upon the canvas. The picture, sir. will be done at the stated tune.” and It was. and this picture ia today regarded as the greetest work of the

famous painter

Men cannot#< arelc-**!y approach a great work. For the dtaeiples it was •Tarry yc,” before the going forth to aervice.wnd this is necessary not onlv tn religious lift, but in all departmenU of life. In a paper not long ago under the caption "Why do we go to churcht” the following was suggested:

'' ic it is the fashion. wit him

; Because it h i?i»T5- a

Because wc enjoy the it

e when we do

ig in the choir or arc offi-

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Are-any of the-e the motives that move too to attend church!' Some of them-may 'mm- a subordinate place in one's actions. -*“tt they -*— 1J ' : *

chief among which are th Beeauae it has alwayi

icse:

the tabernacle ot

t to meet us

there.

Bcccase we.need the help the church afBecausc others need the force of our ex^’l&Muse of the joy we find hi - pubhc and aneial worship. Teeause without the church the commat and rarion would soon lapse into bar-'

Because close feilowahip with God 1 * people here i« the tract road to the life hercIt ia a fret that men are not attendirig ehurch. and it canno: be true that thU ia altogether the fault of the non-attendant* themaelres. This is a cold world in which we lire, and n» luralljr^the world ^wanU to expect that the < harch which represenU 2£ s s.”4rrSi*4. u s •tay away from the ehurch because there is

to it.

BErJrjtHSs J-V-t-Man needs the chureh. Taapta=r s a=S': b =.t. u r;^

whose salary ts KMff per ytar "My pK» penty will be my defeat unless I am careful. 1 find now that l am constantly thinking of business and scheming to increase my rieliea," and then the tears started as he said. "1 question if 1 am as happy as when 1 was on a small salary and lived in a very simple way." . , Second—The church needs men and the work of God cannot be accomplished without K has always been God’s way -to work through instruments sometimea as ible as the rod which Moses held in hand and vet as important as Moses -elf. God means to win men through , and if the men of the day absent twelves from the church of God for the loss of the souls of other men they are held

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eauve of the intellectual culture that is there gamed. The overage man has little time for reading, little opportunity through the week for recreation and lectures and it is the opinion of thi- distmgui-hed bustno— man that the average sermon will be « stimulus-Tolies intellect._ Remember, it

the principles of the higher mathematics, but no man could pass through college without coming out stronger and better

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m every way if he were lion, and the effect of a ' and received ia to

-ermon rightly

d is to make the life

mind clearer, the character

Fourth—The example of church going affords an important means cf promoting the good order of the community. The reflex influence upon oneself is of the very Sr,,;';; Fifth-The idea of recreation in church attendance ia one of the most important reasons for faithfulne-a in this regard. ■'Surely," writes a distinguished man. "cjiurch going will afford this." A change ot occupation is rest and a working man who feels that he must sleep through the hours of the morning because he has toiled faithfuliv through the days of the week, will find that be is beginning his week duller than if he bad been true to God; while the-business man who readl through moe; of the hours of the day beausc he feels that to attend church would w a aenac of weariness would find that he begins the week more weary than if ne had been loyal to Christ. Sixth—Another writes, "Wc ought to attend chun-h in order to become acquainted with the saving power of Jesus Christ; men ought to attendachurrh to lie 1. and then they will be #>od lor some-

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THE SABBATH SCHOOL

International Lesson

Subject: An Exbertatli Rom. yUL. S-U-Oc

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tiry on tbo Doy’a Lotion. R "Owe no man. - tt cannot oe sup--po-ed that the apostle meant to prohibit SFSSSli; against contracting any debts vrhich they hlrai.-JWSAiS iron? al? adventurous apccularioua or rsrh •arra the preceding verses the apostle has been showing tbe duty, reverence, and cbedience which all Christians, from the highest to the lowest, owe to the civil magistrate. whether he be emperor, king, or proconsul, or other stste officer; here he • shows them their duty to one another, but this is widely differat from that which they owe to the civil government; to thy first they owe subjection, reverence, obedi-aippi-rf feet love which he declares they owe to one another will enable them to fulfil tl) the obligations of this law. And whatever be has omitted, which the law conness and w« keep the whole law. He that loves another will not deprive him of his wife, of hi. life, of his property, of his geed name; and will not even permit a desire to enter into his heart, which would lead him to wish to possess any thing that is the property of another. The law of love forbids the use of intoxieating liquor, forbids its sale to others, and will not permit us to assist those persons who sell liquor to others, cither by our support and showing them favor. 10. ' WofateUi no ill." The law of lore : si* ir.iurc my sell or otticrs. w nerc love ‘ reigns tfeg-golden rale is practiced and he ; who loves, acts toward his neighb

First-There is a worshiping faculty in ; toward him, therefore tSs law of love can man. and it is tbe climax oi all his other ! never work ill toward another, and thu. faculties. For the exercise of bis voice • the law is fulfilled by love. Intemper- - ' t be has the .nee is the ~ ‘

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man has tbe air, for his feet he ht earth, for hunger he has food, for he hat water, but for his soul he

lohn Stuart Mills was i men, and bc^hsd one

one of and character of tbe_period in whiS wc

... of the Hve. ’"High time.’’ That is. the hotf has greatest minds we have known in these I arrived "To awHEe." How. mfhy soFattcr days, but his early life, his father’s called Christians are fast asleep! The blood and his education had drawn him sreureed liquor traffic is becoming sway from the church. He tried to kill all *— ,J - 1 - c —‘ - — J —■ —

faith, and yet he could not kill the demand for something to worship. He eulolued his wife until be wolahiped her. ond the seven and a half years they lived to-

gether were ihe happiest years of his life. When she died the light cf hu life went out. There never was a sadder closing to

mortal life than his.

a class institution I few, but this is e of the St. Bar-

spirit of the church, made that the thutch

existing for the lavor , not true. Tbe existence of the St. tholomew Mission House in this where people, by the thousands have been reached and blckaed; the presence of the Madison Square Church House, so -recently dedicated, to the glory of God and tbe

r meftsOus dispotHion unchurched. Not long

ago a man went about through the churches clad as a poor man, plainly dressed, and found that be wa, repulsed bv no one and welcomed by nearly all. The rhnreh is the greatest factor in the world, but ita work is first and foremost with the soul and its needs. Men have been dUposcd to censure us because we do no do whit the club does, nor what the lodge does, but it should be remembered that the church i/not a chanty insUtution,

educational institution; it is a regeneration, conversion and deration. The church has a social it i* true, but first of alT it has a [ mission. We must keep first things The lodge may have its place in the of men. but woe be to that man who to usurp the place of the church

rs it t a life.

After Rossini had i

jhd rendered

Tell" for the five hundredth time a company ofTmmcans came under bis window in Paris and serenaded -him. They put upon his brow a cold crown, and m tbe mid*: of the cheers Rossini turticd to a id end said, "I would givc^D of thi* '■'* ' u ’ Mri.**: fe,efk

who has paaaed his Sundays in the house

of God who knows more of real joy be-.

cause of this than tbe man whose name^ famous throughout thi world and coukts his money by millions. J In the Yellowstone Park there is A famous point where on one of the peaks of the Rocky Mountains the falling

brains and blood; ,s undermining the Christian'Sabbath, one of the pillars on which our nation rests; is filling the land with paupers, disease If.vSSVtli’E matter! "Salvation nearer, etc.” The period of completed and ultimate aah-a-tion is nearer than when we 'firxt believed. Wr have only a little tint remaining in which to work, therefore awake from thy ''^.’h'^Ttfe’night." Of heathen darlrnraa. i^ren^immoreh^an. rapidly ccming to an end. fcitation of the sun or the illumination of the whole Gentile xr'ti. ,„Tb “sof darkness described m tbetwt verae. to be separate from the world (1 John There are some things for the Chriitian Ifv.nrChrist'hvi^’the^nrai^^i "armor of lignt." In Ephceigns 6: 11-17

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tuOi. Protection i* provided for every an enemy. "Of lighf." light itaelf is an armor. That jiereon whose actions

example.for all eyes to look.: choose night for their rereU

every one may ace and know. "Not in

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the Church and lived out the principles cf mgr

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