The Newtown bee., 1898-11-04

welcome words to the couple of strongly disappointed meu, for these words meant, if anything, that thelr grief, their sad ness and worry were alike illfounded. They were led away by their own folly. Jesus based his argument on the scrip lures, the Old Testament at that, oh that we all might see the embryonic Christ and gospel in the Old Word as well as the New! The journey is ended. "He made as if he would go further" but they persuaded him 10 come ln with them, and as he ''took bread, and bless ed, and brake and gave to them" this was so like his doings. in former times that they suspected him, and their eyes were opened as if .an unseen hand had left their eyelids and film had fallen from their eyes-they saw him, Jesus, the dead that was, but "aliYe TOW for eVermore," :" they saw him, but only to see him vanish before them. But though they might have wondered if it were not a dream vet this undertone of the whole matter fingered: Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures LET US NOTICE FIRST THE ATTITUDE of these men concerning the divine Lord. l Cs0 Physical attitude. He walked with us by the way". Cleopas and his com
 panioL, suspect, were doing what theiI minds and environments most naturally suggested to them to do. That is Christ js found of them in their daily walk of life. We should use great care in dividing up the world into the spiritual and not-apirit
 ual. Everything 8 truly Christian mar does is ordered of God, it is he who "bringeth forth his fruit in his season. he it is who acknowledges God in al his ways" and this condition met con- pels God to the fulfilment of the prom ise, "I will direct his paths." Working man, you don't have to say goodbye to God when you go into the ordinary ave nues of Ia bor, so long as that work be honest and morally wholesome God will go with you; not always when you may know 1t for "God may be in that place and you know it not," your "eyes may be sometimes bolden that you may not see'' but surely and often will he maxe himself most gloriOusly manifest to you even there. In these times of the minute divisions of labor there is no cure for the menotony, the narrowing tendencies of drudging ma chine labor like this thought: My Jesus walks with me, not taking me out of the shop (there is too much of that) before he can be said to walk with me, but much more than that has he done he has sanctified me to my work and my work to me and to Himself, and shown me while walking in my every day and beaten paths nay relation to Him, to the Father, and to my fellow man. He teaches me that everything I do. has 8 grave and spiritual significance" Oh that this rrudging, laborious, work-a-day world would take this thought! It's sig nificance is very fully illustrated in the Book. ''As Jesus opened to them the Scriptures, beginning with Nj oses," He must have come upon many as Gideon who was he? Why, 8 farmland who walked with Jesus; as Elisha-who was he? Why, he was taken from between the very handles of the plough while walking with God; as David-who was he? Why, the youngster that did his duty keeping few sheep for his father, still walking with God; and Jesus him. self, was not he carpenter? Peter James, and John, were they other thar fishermen? May Jesus "talk with us more by the way"
 THEIR MENTAL ATTITUDE.
 They were t'sad''. To be always sad is disease, calamity. But not so much to be deplored as to be never sad but al ways mirthful, even to the giddy. The llatter class is only momentarily affected by the hardest lot, the deepest trial They should rot be envied. God cannot find them still long enough to speak to them. Long ago was it said that "Sor. row is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made bester". The Revised Version has 1t, 'sfor by the sadness of the counte- nance the heart Is made glado. How true Is this proved 70 be here. They were sad depressed). Whatever may be said in song or story or homily for mirth, let this be said for sadness, that Ene lessons that influence us most and permanently are those we learn while in th.s condition. Paul's blindness for