The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-19
The Teachers Lantern.

The conJuncuon or prepared preacner and prepared congregation. as in Cor nelius's house, is sure to be accompanied with gracious results Signs and won ders follow The ictus is almost always laid upon the preachers or teachers re- sponsibility. But there Is am obligation of the nearer and scholar as we'll Jesus emphasizes it: Take heed how ye hear
 The change of habit in Peter as indi- cated throughout this incident, is worthy of remark. The ceremonial law has al- ready begun to lose the tenactty of it's grip upon him, else he would never have made his home with tanner. Tannerics were classed with corpses. as things to be summed if ceremonial pollution was to be avoided. Some one suggests that Peter went to the tannery to lodge with the express purpose of neutralizlng any spirit of adulation that might be awak- ened in the people consequent upon his unparalleled miracle.
 Another troublesome trait is gone. Where is the characteristic rashneSs that so often precipitated the apostle into ap- parenty inextricable difficulties? Instead of starting off pellmell for Caesarea, he takes the Mary messengers in, and, while refreshing them, learns the minutest de- tail of how the case lies at the other end of the route. After selecting certain laymen or elders of Joppa. of judicial spirit and influential character, he takes them with him as witnesses of what WAS to transpire. He thus forearms himself against any emergency.
  in Acts K, is finely used by Paley as an evidence of Christianity. The circum- stances of the two visions are such as to take them entirely out of momentary miracles, or such as may be accounted for by false perceptions, They belong to that mixed class in which, although the miracle itself is sudden. some circum- stance combined with 1t Is permanent. An example of this is ePter's vision, it's con nection with what was imparted in a distant place to Cornelius himself, and the message dispatched by Cornelius to Peter. The vision might be dream, the message could not be. Either communi- cation, taken separately, might be d delusfon; the concurrence of the two was impossible to happen without supernat- ural cause.
 Military life is not necessarily inimical to personal piety. The names of Corne- lius, Havelock, Gardener, Gordon. prove it. General Horward is d shining, living example Grace can compensate for the most unfriendly environment. Victory in spite of odds insures the fullest-orbed character.
 Every doctrine and point of piety has ! been evolved ill the storm of debate. As perity and violence are to be regretted. | but not the clash of thought, opinion. | argument. Controversies are to be pre- l The faith is to be earnestly contended l for. Spare the Church from becoming d ''mush of concessions. This thrilling scene is d vision to- us | as well to the apostle of old It Is | a peep behind the impenetrable curtain. | We see the hand of wonder working l Providence producing conjunction with astronomical precision. yet never infrins- 1 ing upon that ultimate element of self ] hood, the human will By inference the same Providence moves today in individ- | ual, ecclesiastical, national life