Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-01

| lie Wnb here. w no anu Wbcre II tnht enid
| CRYING? 1t iE Jesus Born In an clubhouse.
Where is that hard breathngY 1t il Jesus,
asleep on "A rock. Who In hat In the back
part Of the hshing.Smack, with n sailors
| rough Overcoat thrown over himS IL il
! Jesus, the wOrnout vOynger q Jesus
Is IL not time thou hadst house,
| We give Thee this. Thou didst give
| to Thee. II is too good for us, but
not half good enough for Thee. OH come
| IN and take the best seat here. Walk up
and down al these aisles. Speak through
these organ-pipes. Throw thine arm over
us in these arches. In the flaming OF these
| brackets OF lire speak TO us saying: 81 am
the light OF the world" q King! make
| this thine nudience-chan,ber. Here proclaim
Righteousness and make treaties. We clap
our hands, "e uncover our heads we lift
our ensigns, we cry with multitudinous
reclamation until the place rings and the
heavens listen: 80 King! live forever!
| Is IL not time that He who was born In "a
strangers house and buried in strangers
grave should have an earthly housey Come
! In, o JeSuSi not the corpse OF "a buried
Christ, but II radiant and triumphant Jesus,
conquerOr OF earth, and heaven and hell.
lie lives all glory 10 his name,
lie lives, my Jesus, still The same
Oh, the sweet Joy this sentence gives
know that my Redeemer lives
Blessed lie His glorious name fOreveri
Again, if any ono asks the question OF the
text: "What mean We by these Stones"
the reply ~, we mean the communion OF
saints. Do you know there Is not single
denomination of Christians In Brooklyn
| that has not contributed something toward
the building OF this house? And II ever,
standing in this place, there shall be a man
who shall try by anything lie says, 10 stir
up bitterness between different denOmina-
tons OF Christians, may his tongue falter
and his cheek blaneh, and his heart stop!
| NV friends, IL there IL any church
on earth where there is ming
| ling OF oil denominations, It 10 our church.
| just wish that John Calvin and Arminius,
| IL they were not too busy, would come out
| Oh the battlements and see us. Sometimes
| in our prayer-meetings j have heard
brethren Use the phrases OF y beautiful
| liturgy, and we know where they came
| from; and in the same pray meetings
have heard brethren make audible ejacula-
! ton, "Amen ~ "Praise le the Lord ~ and
we did not have 10 guess twice where they
| came from. When "a man knocks at our
church door, IL he comes from sect wberc
| they will not give him certificate,
we say, "Come in bv confession OF faith
| While Adoniram JudsOn, the Baptist,
and John Wesley, the Methodist, and John
| Knox, the glorious old SEQ Oh Presbyterian,
nre shaking hands in heaven, all churches
| on earth can afford 10 come into close COM
! municatiOn: Zone, Lord, one faith, one
baptism" Oh my brethren-we have had
| enoughof Big Bethel fights-the l4th New
York Regiment lighting the 18th Massachu-
sets Regiment. Now let all those who are
| fDr Christ and stand on the same side, 20
shoulder 10 shoulder, and this church
instead OF having sprinkling OF
the, Divine blessing, go clear
Gus immersion in the name OF the Father,
and OF the Son, and OF the Holy Ghost. /
saw little child once, in its dying hour,
| put one arm around its fathers neck, md
! the other arm around its mothers neck,
| and bring them both down TO It's dying lips,
and give n last kiss. Oh, l said those two
| persons will stand very near 10 each other
always after such an interlocking. The
dying Christ puts one arm around this
denomination OF Christians, and the other
! arm around that denomination OF Christians,
aud lie brings them down to his dying
| lips, while he gives them this parting Kiss:
"My peace | leave with you. My peace
| give unto you."
Well, the Brooklyn Tabernacle is erected
again. We calne here tonight not TO ded-
| icate it. That was done this morning. To-
night we dedicate ourselves. In the Epis-
copal and Methodist Churches they have q
railing around the altar, and the people
come and kneel down at that railing
Wa a e. ,ron IT, !, ;cS SG i,Ga ESsIGn g
| W tlls lily AllOHNr, ~ NONiu tahN siSaO imam
n night 10 gather you In circles around this
altar. Then just bow where You are for
| the blessing. Aged men, this Is tue last
church that you will ever dedicate. May
| the God VINO comforted Jacob the Patrl.
| arch, and Paul the aged make this house ia
you the gate OF heaven; and when, in your
old days, you put oil your spcctacles to
read the hymn OF the Scripture lesson, may
| you get preparation for that land where
| you shall no more see through glass
Harkly. May the warm sunshine OF heaven
| thaw the snow off your foreheadsl Men in
| mid-life, do you know that this IL the place
where you are going 10 get your fatigues
rested, and your sorrows nppeased, acss
your souls saved? DO YOU Rno3
| lbat at this altar your sGus 66d daughters
WIN take upon themselves the vows OF the
Christian, and from this place you will
| carry out some " you, Your precious deadi
| Between this paptNmal font and this COM
munion table you will have some OF the
tenderest oil LIES experiences. God bless
you, old, and young and middle.aged. The
| money you have given TO this church to-
day viii be, hope, the best financial in.
Vestment you have ever made. Your
worldly investments may depend upon the
whms OF the money market, or the honesty
| OF business associates; but the money you
have given 10 the house Of the Lord shall
yield YOU large percentage. and declare
sun shall have gone out like spark from o
smitten anvil and all the stars are dead.
Teacher-Correct. Woman is in the
feminine gender. Now the sentence
speaks of young woman in fashion.
able attire. What gender is attire:
Bright Boy-Masculine.
She-My poor dear father knew
Washington 80 intimately, and l myself
was born on the 22d of February, SO o.
course feel like-like-- He (help.
ing her ouD-I4ihe a relic.
Amateur-Why is it that all English
actors have such long strideo Re
formed actor--Methinks tho reason o
it is that the railroad ties are placed
further apart in England than here.
Her levity aside is thrown.
The world she deems n sham.
In fact, she has so pious grown
She won't eat deviled ham.
'Ho is welded TO his art" sait
Hicks. apropos OF Sketchy. the artist
YOU'RE wrong. lie pays too mucl
attention to his art to be welded to il
He is engaged to it, said Mrs. Hicks
scornfully.