The Newtown bee., 1897-08-13
The Home Circle.
Dca Henry Fairchild.-A Life ot
 Simple Trust.

THE SERMON PREACHED IN THE NEW
 TOWN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH BY
 HIS PASTOR, REV OTIS W. BARKER, Tul
 SUNDAY MORNING AFTER HE WAS LAID
 TO REsr.-GoOD MEN ARE THE
 STRENGTH OF EVERY NATION.-MA'
 HANAlM, THE PLACE OF TWO CAMPS.-
 GODS PROTECTING ARM IS EVER ROUND
 HIS CuILDREN.-TH MAN OF THE
 FIELD AND THE MAN OF THE HOME
 IS FAITH ON THE wANE?-''I KNOW
 WHOM HAVE BELlEVED."-"OLD
 PROBABILITIES. AND AGNOsTICs. WHAT
 WE DO KNOW.-''TuERE IS BUT ONE
 QUESTION, AND THAT IS THE GOSPEL. .''
 ASHES THAT HAVE NEVER GROWN
 CoLD.-'wRECK! TRAGEDY! MS
 rERY !'-BETTER THAN THE LEARNING
 OF THE ANCIENTs.
 Text, 2d King l3 IA, And Joash, the King Of Israel, came down unto him, and wept over HIS lhCS, anu Bhltl V my lhL4lSl1 AliS AHSAiS4 the chariot of Israel and the hOrsemen there of"
 Since have not read the connectiCu, you will easily confound the famil4 words in the latter part of this passag' with another scene. I could hardly find fault with you for not knowing that these words occur here; the other Bible pas sage where they are found you all know. That other place Is this, where Elisha on the further bank of the river Jordan iS taking leave of Elijah, his leader, his predecessor, his spiritual father, his friend, and he, too, utters the cry, My father, my father the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof"
 These two scenes in which these same words are spoken are scenes wholly diff ferent. The speaker, in the one case, is the prophet Elisha, on whom the mantle of Elijah is to fall, and double portion of his spirit, too, If Elisha should be granted the privilege of seeing the exit of Elijah from this world, in tEe other case, the speaker is Joash, 8 young, heady king, who had despised the teach ing of Elisha in his life, but for some reason was now awed into quasi rever- ence, as Elisha came to die. In the one ease, death was robbed of it's terrors, the passing of Elijah into the other world was translation, the valley of shadows was left out on the journey; in the other case, dsath came In it's natural process, through lingering sickness and the twilight slowly stealing on. In the one case, the surroundings were the Jordan River, swift and impetuous in It's flowing the blue hills of Moab in the front, and In the background the land of Palestine, every foot of which was known and dear i; In the other case, the surroundings were but an ordinary sick.chamber and Eoth, ing unusual to attract the eye.
 My father, my fatherl' cried out Elisha to Elijah, as in fIame-wreathed car he saw his master borne away, ''the chariot of Israel and the horsemen there of." Well, you know the usual interpre- tation that is given to these words. It Ia said that the first part and latter part of this sentence are in opposition and mean the same thing, that is, Elijah. I could paraphrase, in this sense, Elisha's mean Ing thus: 70 my father, my father thou vert indeed Israel's chariot and horse men, thou vert Israers wall of defence and protection and strong tower; what Israeps armies were to her, all that was found in thee; aye, thou were more than her armies, for before thee, solitary and