, 1879-02-09

oncnse against God. !. :
If any of the children whom these rord:
.eaened snoula lave been bold enough to thiil
'laL Mr. foukcr was himself au !. ofrcusc ,
against God and mau, which would hare beer
INC nearer rinhta lie was sustained by another
brother in the following fashion:
Inc Key. N: N. Patkhurst gave an Illustrator
VI t9e manner in which he had attempted to ctoss
had. and found it too deep: lie had turned to ,ht
very passages Of Scripture taken for the lesson OH
pointed to the sruthfull,ess. The 6rst fhiuu they
| should DO was to show their children that these
things were true.
| Ibis is. ID its way, superb 1t fairly equals
the argument Of the returned missionary who
brought piece of rock from Mount Ararat,
and: after it had been exhibited to his audience,
! dismissed them with tile triumphant rcmarl;
HAT whenever AGAIN they should hear any one
] deriding the story Of the tlcluEe they could now
tell him that they k:.eo bcttcr-thty had seen a
] stone FROM the very spot where the ark had
| rested.
| at another meeting where the subject of the
lesson was Elijah and lie killing Of The priests
Of Baal at Gods command, as alleged, fna
the Almighty backed up IS follows:
! The Rev. Mr., Tcrrill said there should be no
apologies for the killing Of the prophets of Baal.
Like the miracles. it was an extreme measure
as tie spiritual iie grows in man. be Ceases to
| ue absorbed by these wonderful and exceptional
manifestations Of Gods power, and thinks only OF
| faith and Gods love.
No, should myself think that, ubon the
whole, it would he better for pupils not to be
'' absorbed" by such exceptional" massacres
and their lessons. +.
The intimate familiarity of preachers with the
designs Of God is we'll known as also their read
! crate mortals around them. Many OF them are
| more modest OF late years, but it is not before
tile children that they display their mpdesty. III
| the course of Il lesson upon the ''Shumanite' e's
| S+,.1;.
! Eelow: :;
| The rev. II. 4. Spencer thought that the SUPER
fluffy Of holy places in Palestine, and the leception
prac1iccd by thc people was apt to dIsenchant any
but the most pions traveller. lsnt the Of
The country at this day illustrated the Bible in
sTik;n., iani,cs. Air. Spencer intimated ttat God
had allowed ne people Of Palestine TO remain cen
| in order Mat TIC people or to-day might yet u
good idea OF the manners in the Blblicat days.
This would be very fine for u.s. though the
people OF Palestine might not like it, Hut how
ABOUT the rest Ut ASH, which is equally back
! ward: In report OF letter upon the subject
OF the s Cross,'' also from the Journal, appears
r. s. Thaiu showed that Christ's death. at the
last, when lie dismissed His spirit was entirely
voluntary, independent OF the tortures Of the
cross: aud another gentleman presented the sane
thought, stating that uen who died from srucifxion
died from final exhaustion, whereas The Savior, when
To both these speAkcrs thought thtA was exces
sivey comforting, showing that Christ died for
them OF His OWL FREQ will-not becanse He had IL.
One does not wish to Jest at such Il subject Us
cruc!tiSiou, but Is it possible for sane man to
contemplate Lie idea Of "'dismissing ones
spirit :" without smile, and is not such d-iyeI
commentary enough the mental calibrc or
mental condition. ut lcast, Of him who utters it! !!
1t proyokes allusion to tho man who raised him
self over the fence BY his boot-straps.
have already given specimen OF the kind
of interna}r evolved history dispensed to Sum
day-scl.oois. Here is another from - lesson "
by the Rev. 4. +: Rogers, III the New York
Observer:
Work done for Gods cause will stand - our
memorial when we are gone. Cyrus. the monarch
OF Persia. is forgotten. But as The friend OF Gods
people he will be always remembered.
Now there is nothing very bad about that, it
is true. The only objection to it is that both
propositions ART SO entirely untrue. It is pre-
ciscly as the great kiug Of Persia, the first we'll
known Aryan conqueror, that Cyrus is remem-
bered- Comparatively few are aware tlat he
once incidentally be1ricuded the Jews. Further
along Mr.. Rogers, iii a gush of sentimental ad-
miration Tor Cyrus, makes the following rldicu-
lous statement,-a sort Of what might be called
*' fiat" history:
There is little doubt that Cyrns believed in and
revcred the true God. and this was doubtless the
great reason shy be felt inclined to release Ills
people from their bondage, ami to send item back
to their own land,
man find the following promulgated under the
head OF " Practical Suggestions
l. False religions are always intolcrant.
This certainly surpasses the utmost limit OF
impudence to which ever before knew con-
secrated ignorance to 60 By and By, perhaps,
pupils has grown a little older; when be learns
that all the ancient religions tolerated each
other, that they we're even courteous to each
other, that sncl1 as have survived to this day
are and have always been tolerant OF each
other; when he learns that the early Christians
even were not pcrsecuted as such but rs
seditious aud as enemies Of the Roman State;
when he learns that the first serious and purely
Christian sect By another; when hc learns that
Intolerance and persecution burst forth into full
flower with the establishment OF Christianity,
when he learns, IN short, tie historic
fact that religious intolerance and pcrsecu-
1ion were born into the world with Christianity
and dourishcd with /. aud Its Moslem otfshoots;
when he learns that Christianity is not merely
uurivaled in its long and hcous annals Of per
secution,, ,but is absolutely alone Ia them,-what
will this pupil hen think Of his teacher and his
teachers creed, and what We all to think of
the kind Of practical suggestions " offered in
Sunday -schoolss It is noticeable how the clergy,
whenever they feel sure Of their audiences,
almost Invariably revert to tue miraculous. The
next extract is from I" Dible-reading,'' US it is
called. to an audience of recent young converts,
mostly young girls, BY Rev. Wclton, taken
from an Omaha paper. Mr. Welton, after dwell
ing upon Noah and the ark. and the delngc, and
the wickcdness of the world ut that time, went
on to urge that history was now repeating itself;
that the world, through the prevalent unbelief
resulting from scientific progress, was again pro-
yoking Gods wrath, aud that another catas-
Lropile WAS near at hanu- what follows formed
his closing remarks:
Men don't see any signs Of Cod Judgments
now The laws of Nature are 1!xcd they say, and
thing. will on as they always have; but God says
the day Of jn6gnent will come, and there will be
an end ii was destroy by watcr then; 1t will be
destroyed By fire this time.