The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-10-28
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LEBGS-
In the srnusr SEASON nnlutude %
people wade into TIE Pouds Sne lakes
anS river ard seas 70 civ ~ Aoai ~
swim. In = work the nos q WhieA -
water al meu Gzs Wurnen sho1ie learn
70 swim. Samt q you have learned he
,j5e stroke irsrodncea by George Pew
eu IN issa each stroke o. hat kind
carrying the swimmers distance q Sx
feet. and some q yo1 nay use Tie over
hand stroke Inverted hy 6xr6eDer. the
expert uhs by itEou The SO yrS chan
piouship IL NAnehester IL 1854 The
swimmer BY that stroke earring his
arm in TIE air for q n0ss lsIgAeaea
reach, and some o. yor EAy tread the
water a. though yo1 had been made 70
WALK the sea, but nost Of VOC usually
take What Is called the breast stroke.
placing the hands with the backs up
ward. about fveinches under the Satkr.
the inside Of the wrists touching The
breast. then pushing the arms forward
coincident with the stroke OF the feet
struck ont to the greatest width posi-
be. and you thus uneo1scOusly Illus
trats The meaning of my text: He shall
spread forth His hands in the midst Of
them, as be that swimmeth spreadeth
forth his hands 10 swim"
The fisherman seeks out ~urfreQuent-
ed hooks. You stand to-day on the
bank Of a river IL the brOiling sun and
fling out your line and catch nothing.
while an expert angler breaks through
the jungle and goes by the shadow OF
the solitary rock and, in 5 place where
no fisherman has been for ten years.
throws out his line and comes home al
night, his face shining and his basket
full ] do not know why we ministers
Of the Gospel need always be fishing in
the same stream and preaching from
the same texts hat other people preach
from. / cannot understand the policy
Of the minister who. In Blaekfriars.
London, England, every week for 30
years preached from the Epistle to the
Hebrews. II is an exhilaration 10 me
when / come aerOss q theme which /
feel no one else has treated. and my
text is ore Of that kind. There are
paths in Gods Word that are well beat
en- by Christian feet. When men want
TO quote Scripture, they quote the old
passages that everyone has heard.
When they want a chapter read. they
read a chapter that all the other peo-
pie have been reading. so that the
church to-day is ignorant OF three
fourths OF the Bible.
You go into the Louvre, at Paris. You
conhne yourself TO one corridor Of that
opulent gallery Of paintings. As you
come NJ your friend says TO you; did
you see that Rembrandt" "No." Did
you see that Reubens7" mo" ibid
you see that Titisn?" enc" "Did you
see that RaphAel?" "No." "wel."
says your friend. then you did not see
the Louvre" Now. my friends. l think
We are too much apt to confne ourselves
TO n Of the great corridors OF Scrip
ture truth. and so much 90 that there is
not u person out of a million who has
ever noticed the al suggestive and DOW.