The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-20

toned To take me into the closet and she would lay
her hand on my little rogush head and in her prayer
would set me apart TO become a missionary In the
beginning OF my Christian life. remembering this
determined would become q missionary and Tor n
year trained IN y self for the work. My father how
ever was wiser and overruled my intention. In one
sense have never been missionary but in another
have, aud my preaching has resounded around the
world.
"AN USDYISa PLEASURE"
To know that one is eminent preacher is not ex-
acty painful but at the time IL is not especially
agreeable But to know that ones sermons are known
to the ends of the earth and read in the forests of
Siberia in those of the South that not an English
speaking colony island but Is reached by them Is
to ME peculiar and an undyng pleasure. Although
my mothers prayer in one way may never be
answered, in another it is more than fulfilled i'll the
sense that was to be set apart for labor OF love
which should have some connection with the welfare
of the whole human race. ana when think that
greater than she had chosen me for all this. what
Grafton and dedication to Him who loved and will
so love unto the end
FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH.
JESUS GIVING DIGNITY TO ToIL-sERMoN BY
REV. DIR. ARNIITAGE.
The Rev. DR.. Armitage took for his subject in the
morning, Jesus giving dignity to toll" His text
was from Mark vi. Sis not this the carpenter?"
This question put by Christ's own townsmen as
an inquiry of amazement. They astonished at
the high character of his teaching and works. and
had no means of accounting for them. They asked
not this the carpenter?" Because they knew him as
carpenter they were both surprised and offended.
They were ON familiar terms with him a
fellow villager. and having seen nothing spe-
cial in him had treated him as an equal, if
not inferior. in social rank. He was not
a literary man. Hence when his large knowledge,
eloquence and power showed him to be their supe
rior all their petty jealouses stirred, for they
could not brook divine claims in an uneducated me-
,boric Who, we think of the eighteen wears which
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the temple the age of twelve aud the time when he
eptsred unon hs nubic ministry we are IN associata
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them Win the routine lie Vi an hones'' haro WORK
ing artisan Covered with the rafters of his shop
many NJ vou ara nj the work bench his coarse cloth
n tranraut with the dust of the cedar and his san
t%nra ps,h;actod the oaLsant tho ash IN bnshandrv
,o as ~ rroat ance.rr David never kneu, in aath
eriny the materials for the treat temple. But the
tii ,orn craftsn,an NJ Nazarefb bewed nut 70 Hin
so us e. ,snIar ror,i,u than that ~ b;s IN nar;aI
sor. IN tba uc,,rew lvnastv ~ ~ fo"'
-o-o- SOME anEAr LESSONS.
Io., ,h.t aro tho ,,roat l.ssons which tboso
vaars of simnle toll are intended 70 teach
ne On sntering the workshon Of the voung Naza
rene carpenter and watching Him work as the mean
tbs lives; stndio of meek divinity where are en-
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us that if the lowly shop has long been shut
d ..s'yont" ~ has also hean ctsrnav .garn;sbad
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ras n, a,je .iike INTO His hrethren Az there coud
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