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TEMPERANCE q CHRrs1IANTrY.
Temperance and Christianity.


orHrR PEOPLES OPINIONS.
As here, 90 always, It 10 impossible 10 satisfy
all minds. What plesses one displeases another;
or even the same persons may be displeased with
Q thing done or left undone. John ste not nor
drank, and this was too bad. Jesus both ate
and drank, and this also was out OF order; II Is
the young man and the beast Age must not
ride, for youth was Gtill TOO weak. Yet youth
astrsddIe the animal make too much burden.
Nor are the folks content when they combine to
carry It. In other words there is no satisfying
another reason for not aiming at this Is the fact
mentioned at the close OF this inspired deliver
ance Wisdom Is tusdned Of an her children"
viour's banquetings form part, most precious
part, of his very gospel. Aud thus VIII come
out all souls true to great principles. however
misiudged and maligned In the process Of their
This record Of the text as to John corresponds
PPI TsCsss conoernns himself and The Siosr.pns
as well. Read numb. vi. Ia, judg. Kill. 4, Luke
i. Is, III. iOl4 That Jesus course was as here
1s 5e1 We We know that JGsn ras GSp
forerunner-the Baptist, with his total abstinence,
prepared the way for the Messiah with his "lav
Of liberty"
TEMPERANCE THE PRECURSOR
Of all higher moral eevelopment-such is the
lesson we derive from the character and order Of
The Tespectiye missions Of Jesus and john. Tenn
peranoe is thus the highway OF advance In tho
perate youth. Vigorous powers are restrained
and hardened powers. Witness the athlete when
be trains himself-regular, sbstemious, under
the rigidity Of the rules which govern the
Nations cadets. It all picture OF indispeuss-
be moral discipline: Hold Rld II strength II you
curb horses when they would evoke speed and
endurance: Rank growth, like tropio sIuber-
from out Of under soil and amid stress Of storms,
yields results better far. Temper the rod and 50
tougher It 10 steel. Moderate otherwise lawless
steed that has slipped the bfidle. And, BY the
way, at many point about us, the check Will be
obsequiously lifted of. Then all Is we'll nigh
gone, perhaps entirelyi ...
THE SAME HOLDS SOCIALLY.
1t Is we'll nigh an snxiom OF history that indul-
gense relsxes, while frugslity fosters hardihood
and heroism. Armies everywhere attest this,
while the complex structure Of national charsc-
tiers Invariably discloses conformity TO the same
rule. As people, We Americans may attempt
TO run this blockading force, but only to learn
that its name is Impasssole. And what have
Again and sgain have they succeeded to periods
Of panic and temporal loss. Aspersions were but
energies Of q Paul, q Luther and Q Banysn, 90
have narrowed circumstances and restricted
means compressed the vital forces Of Christianity,
power and palpabls effect and marvellous Mbef.
on, then, with the broadest Temperance. Don.
ceptrating the good within, excluding all but the
truly good that solicIts Us from without It knits
fibre and pushes up growth, until We are like
cedars Of Lebanon, tough and tall, pushing
Hesvenvard, and shedding benignant shade on
SPIRITUAL GROWTH AND POWER
are ever more completely dependeut on self
restraint or true temperance. This second and
rs. the sntecedents Of Temperance to al true de-
velopment, has received the most signal illustra-
tons. phe John OF our text 1nds in the wilder
ne s L sa ScuFissss royal manhood IN the NsI
areth workshop; while after his public recogni-
tion in baptism, be win trophies Of inward power
and shakes of his with wonderful completeness
the old self In Arabian wastes-no wastes 70 him.
And didinot Moses train In INDIAN, Jerome grid
himsslf-Latin was his speech-in old Judea,
and countless others temp ering the soul refine
its Qualityf
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church,
Sunday fmorning, ct the Now York sveh8e
Presbyterian Church Professor James d. Butler,
LID, of Madison, Ill, presched from the text
salem, let ny hight hand forget her cunning
No city, said, the speaker, had two sides, 80 de-
cidediy as Jerusalem, the tragic and the comie I;
Of heaven. In q secular lecture one would try to
show its worldly aspect, but In his Obscure he
would endesyor to present its religious side. Its
clared the great mothers Of our civilization to be
three Mediteraneen elites, r. me, Athens and
Jerusalem. Each had had its mission, the one,
moral. So valuable were the relics Of Rome and
Athens that their languages were preserved and
mastered to-day. Jerusalem, sister city Of Rome
cities later. Not that her antiquity was less
SoIomon's temple was hslfa millennium older
than the Parthenon. 1t had been remained
SECLUDED LIKE AN OASIS,
-
row limits, by its political insignincance, even
more secluded than the rest OF Palestine. Between
the plains Of Scharach and Jeddo, where o table
had never been large. Compared with the Gam.
pagns Of Rome, or the plain OF Athens, Jerusalem
was situated In mountain nook. It's population
Of Rome. " lille Athens and Rome were raging,
when they had thought that It would be eastsr TO
find God than man In their streets, the Holy
Athens had been glory, Rome grand.
eur, Jerusalem godllness. Small 70 the
eye, It was great TO the mind. To Christian
They loved to enshrine In gold and gems the
rudest cross, brought home from Gethsemane.
Jerusalem must bloom Q city, ever fair, and ever
nest, where Christianity had BEEN born. but when
II had stretched It's wings and down all over the
world, It had no more need Of nest The words
KEEP yERusALxN IMMORTAL
Its career was like that tragedy, In which sll the
actors were killed In the second act Etherealized
II the moonlight o. memory; 4 came down TO them
yet was stiii ready to sxclaim, "HOW lovely Is
widely removed IS they were from medieval
salem by the amount Of what he called
religtosity. To the Russian convent, which had
been built BY widows mites. thousands annually
centuries had settled over the city Il lay buried
places. There was much seepticlsm In regard to
buried, yet he thought that the IocaliIatiop was
accurate. Some streams had dried up; debris
had fallen into the rayines, Jet they ware sur
the horizon had been drawn with trembling
hand, would never change. Though patriotism
would never more kindle on Marathon, yet more
mother Of ~.
THE HEART's BEST YAIrH.
twas natural that the topography OF Jerusa-
lem, made to suit the convenience OF guides
should clash with Scripture, but inasmuch as SOL
varded in Greece and Rome, II seemed incredible
that Jerusalem should be snnihilsted The De-.
S S9ms Of an exploring company which had been
certain that modern Jerusalem was built above
ancient Jerusalem, as that the Neapolitan city
Instruments and inscriptions would BE- resCusd
before even his hearers had passed away. a
trip to Jerusalem would become more and more
q part OF o theological education. Hopes Of an
evangelical manuscript to settle strifes over bib
Heal readings, were not unreasonable. Millions Of
MEDIEVAL CRUSADERS
had set ont to rescue the holy sepulchre but their
ranks again and again had been decimsted 90
that but few had taken part In the siege and still
iewer had seen the capture. Yet the many who
had fallen had appeared again to their
comrades, Ere long 1t had been seen that ali the
sacramental host that had set out were there
Inc pilgrims nrst was sometimes In the grave,
put that one step bore them TO Calvary This
legend Of course, was false in history bat true In
sentiment. ~ " =
Jeruselam was now brought near % them. a
month Of travel was all that was Necessary, and
travel vas 30 common, that the feet Of ali Of his
hearers might pass within the sacred wallis
Whether this vas true or not, the heavenly Jeru.
selsm was the prize Of all. Where Christ mad
borne the cross they might never tread but vhere
he swayed the sceptre. They might never see
the garden ofsEpny, but they could look upon bis
from their eyes, but not the place where the lust
were made perfect In conclusion, the speaker