The Newtown bee., 1898-11-04

word, barbarian for introspection. Here the primal cause, or object, is gone The sensitive cause has passed away. But it zs still in the mind. But how? IL has become 8 part of their life, their ex- perience. Let us give very simple illus tration; it can be carried out in the mind. Let the line A-C represent our life up to date. Now take small and mark off any portion of this line A c with it; and A becomes 8 part of the line A c, we can look upon it from our position, 0 as separate line yet part of A c. So is it in our life's his- tory, we take an incident from our life and look upon it and make it the object of our cogitations, why, because we have gone through it, the image fickers, we experienced 1t. This was their own i'm mediate experience as they looked back upon it saying: 'sDid not our hearts burn within us while He talked with us by the way" etc! It is of no small mo- ment to have an experience. Many of the excuses for silence in our prayer-meet- ings would be set aside for what they are J worth if the people who make them were to get an experience. We must get a glimpse of the Master, we must talk about him before we can speak of him. Now the more intense this experience, the deeper is the impression made, the more vivid also Is the image when recall ed and the more easy it is to recall. If you have seen a man killed by accident though 40 years ago-how vivid. Still how vivid. You shudder as you recall it as you did then. So it is with an in- tense joyous experience. Have you not seen people and heard them whose ex- perience is always full of life and vigor. How is it? 'Tis because they have seen the Master and deeply felt. He has buried Himself into their hearts. They have seen the ioathsomeness of sin. They have seen hell's horrors, Heavens Ijoys. They have had vision of God and then turned to themselves and cred "Woe is me-" Again let us say they have something to point to as their ex- perfence. We must not gather by this that we are to look into the past for our blessings but rather for the promptings ss did David: "I have killed lion and a bear." I rather think, therefore, by Gods help can again undertake a diffi- cult task for God-his Goliath fell, so may ours. They, the two disciples, did not dwell upon the past enough to lob the present but they gathered from that experience with the Master renewed cou. rages renewed hope, qaickened spirits, and they rose up that very hour and went back to tell the story. Oh that preacher and laity might learn that mo- lrhing so tells among men as that power, no matter how clothed, that is be gotten from walking with Jesus until he reveals Himself to us.
 HI. ONE OTHER OBSERVATION.
 s'Did not cur heart burn." The Re- vised Version has more literally trans lated this and thereby rendered better the repetitive force of the verb. "Was not our heart burning within us.o They had the spiritual heartburn. Their heart felt aglow as He talked. The heart felt Him, though ''the eye was bolden. J They tell us that, physiole gicslly, all this talk about the heart is sheer non- sense. The Bible, none the less, makes much of the heart. Does it say, ssSon and daughter, give me thy brain? No, but ''thine heart" The core, the main- spring, of thy being. Thyself, thy heart. Gods favorite instrument from which he springs the divinest melodies is the human heart. Christianity, poetry.