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TALMAGE’S SERMON FAULT FINDERS WITH THE WORD OF COD. Tha Alleged UncleanneM of the Tllhle Only the VncleaoneM of the Heart* and Mind* of the Would-Be Ei purgator*. In his sermon Sunday Rev. Dr. Tal mage deals with a subject that is agi tating the entire Christian church at the present moment, viz., ‘‘Expurgation of me Scriptures." The text chosen was, "Let God be true, but every man a liar,” Romans III., 4. The Bible needs reconstruction ac cording to some Inside arid outside the pulpit. It Is no surprise that the world bombards the Scriptures, but it Is amazing to find Christian ministers picking at this in the Bible and deny ing that until many good people are left In the fog about what parts of the Bible they ought to believe, and what parts reject. The heinousness of find ing fault with the Bible at thlB time is most evident. In our day the Bible is assailed by scurrility, by misrepresent ation, by infidel scientists, by all the vice of earth and all the venom of per dition, and at this particular time even preachers of the Gospel fall Into line of criticism of the word of God. Why, it makes me think of a ship in a Sep tember equinox, the waves dashing to the top of the smoke stack, and the hatches fastened down, and many prophesying the foundering of the steamer, and at that time some of the crew with axes and saws go down into the hold of the ship, and they try to saw off some of the planks and pry out some of the timbers because the timber did not come from the right forest! It does not Beem to me a commendable business for the crew to be helping the winds and stormH outside with their axes and saws inside. Now, this old Gospel ship, what with the roaring of earth and hell around the stem and stern, and mutiny on deck, is having a very rough voyage,but I have noticed that not one of the timbers has start ed, and the captain says he will see it through. And I have noticed that keelson and counter-timber-knee are built of Lebanon cedar, and she is go ing to weather the gale, but no credit to those who make mutiny on deck. When I see professed Christians in this particular day finding fault with the Scriptures it makes me think of a fortress terrifically bombarded, and the men on the rampartB, instead of swab bing out and loading the guns, and helping fetch up the ammunition from the magazine, are trying with crow bnrs to pry out from the wall certain blocks of stone, because they did not come from the right quarry. Oh, men on the ramparts, better fight back, and fight down the common enemy, in stead of trying to make breaches in me wan. While I oppose this expurgation of the Scriptures, I shall give you my rea sons for such opposition. “What!” say some of the theological evolutionists, whoso brains have been addled by too long brooding over them by Darwin and Spencer, "you don’t now really be lieve all the Btory of the Garden of Eden, do you?” Yes, as much as 1 be lieve there were roses In my garden last summer. "But,” say they, "you don’t really believe that the sun nnd moon stood still?” Yes, and If i had strength enough to create a sun and moon I could make them stand still, or .^ause the refraction of the cun’s rays so It would appear to stand still. “But,” they say, "you don’t believe that the whale Bwallowed Jonah?' Yes, , and If I were strong enough to make a whale I could have made very easy In gress for the refractory prophet, leav ing to evolution to eject him,If he were an unworthy tenant! "But," say they, “you don’t really believe that the water was turned Into wine?” Yes, Just as easily as water now is often turned Into wine with an admixture of strych nine and logwood! "But,” they say, “you don’t really believe that Samp son slew a thousand with the jaw bone of an ass?” Yes, and I think that the man who In this day assaults the Bible is wielding the same weapon! 1 am opposed to the expurgation of the Scriptures In the first place, be cause the Bible in Its present shape has been so miraculously preserved. Fif teen hundred years after Herodotus wrote hla history, there was only one manuscript copy of It Twelve hun dred years after Plato wrote his book, there was only one manuscript copy of it God was so careful to have us have the Bible In just the right shape that we have fifty manuscript copies of the New Testament a thousand years old. and some of them fifteen hundred years old. This book, handed down from the time of t’hrlst, or Just after the time of Christ, by the hand of such men as Orlgen In the second reutury and Tertullian In the third century, and by men of different ages who died for their principles. The three best copies of the New Tedii ntent In manuscript In the possession of the three great thurvhee—the Prot estant church of England, the Greek rhurch of Ht. Petersburg, and the ito mish church of Italy. It Is » j>lain matter of history that Tlschcadorf went to a convent in the peninsula of Mina! and was by rupee lifted over the wall Intu the convent, that being the only mode of admiaeluo. nnd that he saw there In the wests basket fur kindling fur the flrew. a men usrnpt uf the lloly Mrrlpturea That night he copied many •»t the passage* of that Bible but It waa not until Itf lean years had passed uf earnest en treaty and prayer and wmim and pur chase on hla part that that copy «4 the Hedy tfcrlpture* waa put lain the hand Of the emperor uf Hassle that one ropy m marvvtowsif prutectsd Do you not know that the catalogue of the books of the Old and New Testa ments as we have It, is the same cat alogue that has been coming on down through the ages? Thirty-nine books of the Old Testament thousands of years ago. Thirty-nine now. Twen ty-seven books of the New Testament sixteen hundred years ago. Twenty seven books of the New Testament now. Marcion, for wickedness, was turned out of the church in the second century, and in his assault on the Bi ble and Christianity he incidentally gives a catalogue of the books of the Bible—that catalogue corresponding exactly with ours—testimony given by the enemy of the Bible and the enemy of Christianity. The catalogue is now Just like the catalogue then. Assault ed and spit on and torn to pieces and burned, yet udherlng. Tho book today, in three hundred languages, confront ing four-fifths of the human race in their own tongue. Four hundred mil lion copies of it in existence. Does not that look as if this book had been divinely protected, as if God had guarded it all through the centuries? Nearly all the other old books are mumlflod and are lying in the tombs of old libraries, and perhaps once in 20 years some man comes along and picks up one of them and blows the dust off, and opens It, and finds it tho book he does not want. But this old book.much of it forty centuries old, stands today more discussed than any other book, and It challenges the admiration of all the good and the spite and the venom and the animosity and the hyper-criti cism of earth and hell. I appeal to your common sense,If a book so divine ly guarded and protected in its pres ent shape, must not bo in Just the way that God wants it to come to us, and if it pleases God, ought it not to please us? Not only have all the attempts to detract from the book failed, but all the attempts to add to it. Many at tempts were made to add the apochry phal books to the Old Testament. The Council of Trent, the Synod of Jerusa lem, the bishops of Hippo, all decided that the apochryphal books must bo added to the Old Testament. “They must stay in,” said those learned men; but they stayed out. There Is not an intelligent Christian man that today will put the Book of Maccabees or the Book of Judith beside the Book of Isaiah or Romans. Then a great many said: “We must have books added to the New Testament," and there were epistles and gospels and apocalypses written and added to the New Testa ment, but they have all fallen out. You cannot add anything. You cannot sub tract anything to the divinely protect ed book in the present shape. Let no man dare to lay his hands on it with the intention of detracting from the book, or casting out any of these holy pages. I am also opposed to this proposed expurgation of the Scriptures for the fact that in proportion as people be come self-sacriflcing and good and holy and consecrated, they like the book as it is. I have yet to find a man or a woman distinguished for self-sacrifice, for consecration to God, for holiness of life, who wunts the Bible changed. Many of us have Inherited family Bi bles. Those Bibles were in use twenty, forty, fifty, perhaps a hundred years in the generation. Today take down thebe family Bibles, and find out if there are any chapters which have been erased by lead pencil or pen, and if in uny margins you can find the words, “This chapter not fit to read.” There has been plenty of opportunity during the last half century privately to expurgate the Bible. I)o you know any case of such expurgation? Did not your grandfather givo u to your father, and did not your father give it to you? • Beside that, 1 am opposed to the ex purgation of the Scriptures because the so-called Indelicacies aud cruelties of the Bible have demonstrated no evil result. A cruel book will produce cruelty—an unclean book will produce uncleanness. Fetch me a victim. Out of all Christendom and out of all the ages, fetch me a victim whose heart has been hardened to cruelty, or whose life has been made impure by this book. Show me one. One of the best families I ever knew, for thirty or forty years, morning and eveuing, had all the members gathered together,and the servants of the household, and the strangers that happened to be within the gates --twice u day, and without leaviug out a chapter or a verse, they read this holy book, morning by morn ing, night by night. Not only the elder children, but the little child who could just sp* II her way through the verse while her mother help<>d her. The father Iteglnnlng and reading one i verse, then ail the members of the fam ily in turn reading a verse The father | maintained hts Integrity, the mother maintained her Integrity, the sons grew up and entered professions and commercial life, adorning every sphere In the life In which they lived, and the daughters went into families where Christ was honored, aud all that was | good and pure and righteous reigned perpetually. For thirty years that family vudured the Scripture* Not one of them rtilued hy them Now. If you will tell me of a fatuity Wtiefe the lllble has been lead twice a day for thirty years, and Ihe children have lets brought up In that habit, and Ihe father went to ruin, and the mother went to ruin, and the eon* and daughters Were destroyed by It If you will tell me of »a* eucb incident. I will throw away my lllble, or I will doubt your veracity. I tell you. If a man la ehaehed With what b» • alia the lu cartes of the Word of tlod. he ts pruri ent In hie taete and Imagination If a man cannot read guiumoa a Mong without Impure suggest ion he is either la hi* heart or la hie life, a libertine. The Obi Testament description of wickedness, uncleanaess of all sorts, Is purposely and righteously a disgust ing account, instead of the Byronic and the Parisian vernacular which makes sin attractive instead of appalling. Wnen these old prophets point you to a lazaretto you understand it is a lazaretto. When a man having begun to do right falls back into wickedness and gives up his integrity, the Bible does not say he was overcome by the fascinations of the festive board, or that he surrendered to convivialities, or that he became a little fast in his habits. I will tell you what the Bible says: “The dog is turned to his own vomit again, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." No gilding of iniquity. No garlands on a death’s-head. No pounding away with a silver mallet at iniquity when it needs an iron sledge hammer. I can easily understand how people, brooding over the description of un clcanncss in the Bible, may get morbid in mind until they are as full of it as the wings and beak and the nostril and the claw of a buzzard are full of the odors of a carcass; but what is want ed is not that the Bible be disinfected, but that you, the critic, have your mind and heart washed with carbolic acid! I tell you at this point in my dis course that a man who does not like this book and who is critical as to its contents, and who is shocked and out raged with its descriptions, has never been soundly converted. The laying on of the hands of Presbytery or Epis copacy does not always change a man’s heart, and men sometimes get into the pulpit as well as into the pew, never having been changed radically by the sovereign grace of God. Get your heart right and the Bible will be right. The trouble Is men's natures are not brought Into harmony with the Word of God. Ah! my friends, expurga tion of the heart is what is wanted. You cannot make me believe that the Scriptures, which this moment lie on the table of the purest and best men and women of the age, and which were the dying solace of your kindred passed into the skies, have in them a taint which the strongest microscopo of hon est criticism could make visible. If mcu. are uncontrollable in their indig nation when the Integrity of wife or child is assailed, und judges and jurors as far as possible excuse violence un der such provocation, what ought to be the overwhelming and long resounding thunders of condemnation for any man who will stand in a Christian pulpit and assail the more than virgin purity of inspiration, the well beloved daugh ier or uoa 7 Expurgate the Bible! You might as well go to the old picture galleries in Dresden and In Venice and in Rome and expurgate the old paintings. Per haps you could find a foot of Michael Angelo’s “Last Judgment” that might be improved. Perhaps you could throw more expression Into Raphael's "Ma donna.” Perhaps you could put more pathos in Rubens’ "Descent from the Cross.” Perhaps you could change the crests of the waves in Turner’s "Slave Ship.” Perhaps you might go into the old galleries of sculpture and change the forms and the posture of the stat ues of Phidias and Praxiteles. Such an iconoclast would very soon find himself in the penitentiary. But it is worse vandalism when a man proposes to re fashion these masterpieces of Inspira tion, an 1 to remodel the moral giants of this gallery of God. Of all the works of Dore, the great artist, there was nothing so impressive us his Illustrated Bible. What scene of Abrahamic faith, or Edenic beauty, of dominion Davidic, or Solomonic, of miracle, or parable, of nativity or of crucifixion, or of last judgment but the thought leaped from the great brain to the skillful pencil, and from the skillful pencil to immortal canvas. The Louvre, the Luxembourg, the National Gallery of London compressed within two volumes of Dore's illustrated Bible. But the Bible will come to better il lustration than that, my friends, when all the deserts have become gardens, and all the armories have become acad emies, and all the lakes have become Oenuesarets with Christ walking them, and all the cities have becomo Jerusalems with hovering Shekinah; and the two hemispheres will be clap ping symbols of divine praise, and the round earth a foot light to Emanuel's throne—that, to all lands, and all ages, and all centuries, and ail cycles will be the best specimen of Bible Illustrated. Vugurlr* of Sirs Maet'orntlcb. The vagaries of Mrs MncCormlek, as disclosed the other day to the Divorce Court at Dublin. Ireland the Queen's Proctor Intervening are remurkable. In )S9d the lady left her husband sud denly, and disappeared. The next year Mr. MacCormlck went through a form of marriage with a young womau. whose brother later on prosecuted httu for bigamy. Mr Justice Phlillmore beard the case, and Mr. MacCormlck was sentenced to a long term of im prisonment. Hut in th<- meantime the lady, as it tinned out afterward, had married and became a widow, and drawn her husband's Insurance money. Not satisfied with her position even then, the widow brought an action for dtvorvs against her imprisoned hus band, and secured a decree it (a a bewildering story, and it is no: sur prising that the decree has been re st tnded. I'ecsal* SsiUialii I’tuoi the Detroit Journal Romance and chivalry are not what they were, a.as' Once. the hero, having rescued the maiden from ih# tower, paused in his Night lo stela.m ’ tlathi Th« hoof beats of pursuers I” Rut now - • Nmeti! The edor of thy father's au tomobile!* It is tsrrtbie, this sordid utilitarianism! LOVED BY KIPLING. THE CREAT POET'S PITY FOR A SONG GIRL. She Would Not Marry Him. However, and Ha Went Away to Embrace a Matter Fate—Stic Has Jn*t Died the I'aoal Song tilrl Meath. (San Francisco Letter.) The San Francisco dive girl whom Kipling openly owned to having loved; who had, he said, "a Greek head and eyes that seemed to speak all good and beautiful things,” dl§d in this city re cently. When Mr. Kipling's tender confes sion was made, woman, to the genius of the century’s end, seemed to have been something other than “a rag and a bone and a bank of hair”; but that was ten years ago, on the occasion of the word-wizzard's passage from the orient through San Francisco, when to him the world was young, his fame unwon; when a halo hung about every pretty face and vampires were out of sight. It is generally known that the credited staff correspondent of the Allahabad Pioneer did not, when here, confine his visits to Nob Hill and the newspaper offices. He went where all, or nearly all, bohemian tourists, globe trotters, sailors, soldiers, reformers, and close students of humanity go. He went to the theaters, music halls, vaudevilles, the dens and dives of what is culled the under world. In one of those places he made the acquaintance of one billed on the boards as Corinno. Whether it was the incongruity of the mention of Mme. de Stael’s masterpiece in such a place, or the girl who had adopted the name, that attracted the bespectacled scribe from Bombay, is not recorded; but, certain it is, he was attracted, and to such an extent that not a day, nor a half-day, hardly, passed after their meeting without the passage of some token of tenderness from him to her. "if I looked from my window I was sure to meet his eyes in the 6treet below, and when I went out, the first to salute me was this swarthy ‘Joss,’ as I used to call him; for he talked so much about Buddhas, Idols, shrines, Shintoos and other things with strange long names that I con cluded he must be a heathen joss.” These are Corinne's own w’ords. And who was Corinne? At the baptismal font she was given the name of Jessie McFarland. Her home had been with the ‘‘children of the heather and the wind,” but her footsteps like those of many another, had strayed far, far from the straight and narrow paths which abound in the “North Countrie.” There had been a husband, who left her (whether by death or desertion is unknown, and it certainly concerns us not) in extreme youth and poverty. It was the pathetic grief imprinted upon her face, the mother-love in her eyes, that made her noticeably like the Madonna in the Greek church. At least, Kipling told her so. After her baby died the poor, little, lonely mother sat white and mute in a sad, still chamber day after day, with fold ed hands upon an aching heart, and wept and wept. It would have been so sweet to lie down with the tiny waxen one out there in Lone mountain, where they laid it—but—life and youth must assert itself, and Jessie had been taught, back in the Scottish kirk, that it was wrong to kill one's self. She had, too, been taught to do work, of the sort done by women of her own kin and class, which consisted, for the most part, in tidying her own room, keeping her clothing in order and making herself clean and wholesome and sweet. Would she, in a country new, get leave to live by the perform ance of such simple tasks? Time and much persistent effort gave the agoniz ing answer. She found that knowledge, commendable though it was, availed nothing in the great, selfish, hurrying, bewildering world in which she found herself alone; for no one wanted a little lady tfr work. Sometimes, when in desolation and despair, people are JKH8IK M FAIILANl>. comforted by utuale. H> II the nun.I it'#*, Hi Irani, Iw momentarily diverted. Th*' litiIc. Ion* mother bn«-» wing* which the llighlandere aln* la ihelr native beat ha. and aha aang from *hrrr relief Ui her ime* wul, there In ibat • ili'iu chamber. little dreaming aba «oulii tie bear I; l>u' »**»« one lletenrd. and once, after aba bad flalabed her •nag. a hen paaetag nut over I be vltadunry atnlrraae Into the tun. a voire at reeled her. ‘ You ting?" Mid ibe voire, addreee lag lieelf to her " A llUle." "I beer you | live la ibe bra** You eaat to earn auati T* I BMI earn money." vw Ibe ea rner ' On eee my bem. be give you a fob * reaeluded the abort ay IUbled Italian a* be ’bmat a <nrd Into b«r hand -a card which bore the address of his boss. The little mother followed the directions. She repeated the song to listeners of seeming appreciation. When she had finished the head seeker after nocturnal attractions said: “Come here every night. I furnish costumes which you are to wear while you sing. At the end of each week I will give you $15.” The little song-mother went, for she must live, and in that place, where nightly men assembled to be what they called amused, Rudyard Kipling found her, clad in her kilt, her barred blouse, shoulder sasli, buckles and tasseled turban, singing her little song, “doing the fling," as they say In haunts of the half-world. And tho word-wizard, not content with “the fling,” the fumes, the smiles, the glances, the sounds and scenes, the blare and glare that contribute to the male entertainment In that haunt of the under world, found speedy means THE MEETING. to conciliate the little singer, and with that conclliajon went such hackneyed phrases as iHs: "You are far too nice a lassie, Cor inne, to do this sort of thing. Can't you better yourself, now, little girl?" No, really, the little girl couldn't. Furthermore, she was grateful to get that to do; for didn’t it keep a roof over her head, shoes on her feet and food under her plaid? There were so many who had not nearly so much. It Is a habit men of the world have, belittling a work-woman's position. It is always: "You are too nice for that. You ought to do better.” Who helps them to do better? Again, the author of "Plain Tales from the Hills" took bis shallow soundings thus: “I say, lassie, if some fellow—like me, for instance-wanted to lift you out of this hole, could you stick by him? Would you be true to him?” She gave him no satisfactory reply. "After we got better acquainted," related Jessie reminiscently, "and I told him about Roy, he called me ‘Little Mother,’ and when he wished to express sympathy he would say, Poor Little Mother,’ Roy was my baby. “When we were alone he used to ask me if he couldn’t let my hair down. Then he would tell me of life in India; the strange men of the jungles, the caravans of the plains, the children, the animals, the birds, the rites of marriage and death. The cow, he said, was considered there a sacred creature, nearly always introduced in religious ceremonies. When a couple wish to get married they present themselves before a priest, standing on cither side of a queen of the stalls. After sprink ling them with water and reciting a ritual, the priest bids them mount tho cow. They then ride away, imbued with the comfortable belief that they have done what they could to merit marital felicity. He asked me to marry him Indian way. Now men do not often speak of marriage to us, and I was afraid he didn't mean it; but he said and did so many things. How was I to know what he meant and what he didn’t mean? At any rate, as we had no cow, and there wasn’t any East Indian priest here, we didn’t get married. And then he went away.” Then there came a time when the kilted figure failed to confront a sea of approving faces, and so few cared for her song that she omitted singing it altogether. Finally the fogs crept into her lungs, and a ghostly, grave yard cough made her presence unwel come to dive Impresarios. In humble lodgings she languished alone, un sought and unremembered, until a Scottish Samaritan in the city, learn ing her sad story, placed her in a pri vate hospital, kept by one of her own sex, and there she died. And now she sleeps at Lone Mountain, beside the grave of her little boy. From "American Notes." Rudyard Kipling's book: A girl In a "dive,” blessed with a Greek head and eyes that seem to speak all that Is beat and sweetest In the world. Hut woe Is mef She has no Ideas In this world or the neit beyond the rottsuraptlon of beer (a commission ou each bottle!, and protests that she sings the songs allotted to her nightly without more than the vaguest notion of their meaning KI'UKNI A KELLOGG HOLMES. r Ml|kl Mat* H*»» Mar* Krtiw lb* Hoaton K«ralm Iran, nrrlpt A Ibmhantnr Inward bound rnr «u m-MUljr a|opp«d lo allow a woman ol mlddla a* a and with n aa vara rwl ol Naturaa lo |*( on board Ai Ik* atartrl* turbd. wllb Iba Mini jarh «ba nwrlnau loadortor pul bln »pan palm Mtiul iba woman • hark lo aupport bar, Mban aba abruptly Iwrnad and anappad uul Wlni nra you doing? I ran aalai Ihia rar wllb out »«ur anautamaTba aalwalabad ronduiior mu nanrly alaggarad but mutant I* rat or tad * Wall, madam, ywa ram mlgbly aaar bail«4 Iba »m Mltboul my H«iiUa>« ‘ HIE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON XII, DECEMBER 17s MALACHI 3; 13 TO 4: 6. Fruit* of Right Doing anil of Wrong Do ing Com parrel—Text For the Day: “Whatsoever a Man Kowetb, So Aleo Khali lie Reap"—Gal. 0: 7. 13. “Your words have been stout." That Is, hard, presumptuous. Impudent. (See Jude xv.) “What have we spoken so much.” Omit so much. The Hebrew conju gation expresses reciprocal action,"spoken together," "one with another" (so Cam bridge Bible). It was the blasphemy of those who "sat In the seat of the scorn er" (Psa. 1:1). It Is wonderful how un conscious sinners are of their sins. So In the 25th of Matthew, those who were charged with neglect of duty ask, When did we neglect these things? 14. The prophet replies, "Ye have said. It is vain to serve God." Note their bar gaining spirit here and In “what profit Is it that we have kept his ordinance?" The services God required for his temple and worship. They had so little concep tion of true religion, that they Imagined that God usked so many prayers and an many sacrifices, and so many tithes, and would pay for them iu a certain amount of prosperity. They had tried to cheat God by offering the cheapest things they could find, polluted bread, blind and sick and useless animals for sacrifice; and then thought that God had not fultllleil his promises made to sincere and loving service. “Walked mournfully." With outward signs of sorrow and repentance for their sins, In sackcloth and ashes, and frequent national fasts. (See Zech. vll: 3, 5; till: 19.) 17. "And they shall be mine," etc. Rather, And they shall be to me, salth Jehovah of Hosts, In the day that 1 am preparing a peculiar treasure; , compare the expression, “a peculiar people" In Tit. ll: 14; and In 1 Deter 11: 9. See also Kx. xlx: 5; Dent, vll: (i; I’sa. cxxxv: 4.~ Cook. They shall be tny Jewels, my peculiar treasure. "1 will spare them." Keep them from harm, preserve them, treat them tenderly and carefully, let only those trials come upon them which are for their good. “As a man spareth his own son that serveth him." That Is, an obedient and dutiful son, for whom It is possible and safe to do much more than for the disobedient son, no matter how much he loves him. 18. "Then ahull ye return and discern." Hook again, and then ye shall see a broad distinction, nay, more, a real contrast, between the destiny of the righteous and the destiny of the wicked. The problems thut troubled them (vs. 13-15) shall all bo solved. 1. “For" connects this verse with the previous one. They should see the con trast between the righteous and the wicked, because the scenes of the Judg ment day would be before them. "The day cometh that shall burn as an oven,” or furnace. A tire burns more fiercely In a furnace than In the open air.—Hengs tenberg. The wicked are said, In the Old Testament as well as the New, to be de stroyed by fire (Psa. xl: 6). "The proud." Who are unwilling to repent and forsake their sins and accept God's law, but ure self-willed and defiant. “Re stubble," 2. "Shall the Hun of righteousness arise." Righteousness has here the not uncommon sense of deliverance, salvation, blessedness.—Cowles. The sun which God In his righteousness—his love of right, his goodness—sends, and sends to produce lu his people righteousness, and the bless edness which comes only with righteous ness. "With healing." Healing from trouble and from sin, and ull the miseries with which they are surrounded. "In his wings." His swift rays flying from the sun to us. This doubtless refers ti> the Messiah. "And ye shall go forth,” from your difficulties, from your prison house of trouble and misfortune. “And grow up as calves of the stall.” Rather, "leap or gambol as stall-fed calves," which, when let out to the fields, caper and frolic In the exuberance of healthy life. —Marcus Dods. 3. "And ye shall tread down the wick ed." Righteousness shall be victorious over evil. The wicked shall no longer triumph, and oppress God's people, and lead them astray, but they shall be in subjection. All false Ideas, all boasting Irrellglon, all vices and crimes, all op pressions, ull wrong fashions and cus toms, shall be like ushes under the feet of the righteous. All those who are will ing shall be overcome b> being trans formed into good, while the incorrigible shall no longer llvo to oppose anil de stroy the good. “In the day that 1 shall do this." At the time when Messiah shall come and shall have perfected his reign. This has already begun. It Is going on till Jesus shall be King of kings. 4. "Remember," so as to obey, “the law of Moses." The ten commandments, and ull the other laws, which were the constitution and laws of the Jews, (even) the statutes and Judgments. "Which I commanded unto him:” 1. e., which I en trusted to him to deliver, which I gave In charge to him. 2d. By forerunners, like Elijah, who warned tho wicked In season to escape, and prepared the way for the coming of the kingdom of righte ousness. ousncsa. 5. “Behold, I will aond you Elijah the prophet." Via., one who should be a sec ond Elijah, who should come with u spirit and power like his, sternly rebuk ing sin, and earnestly calling all men to repentance. Our Lord on two occasions '.Matt, xl: 14 and Mark lx: 11, 12) inter preted this of John the Baptist. The call to repentance, the vision of the fruits of sin, the terrors of the law. the reproofs of consch nee, the stern and awful re bukes of sin, are still the Elijah who comes before the Messiah to prepare the way for him In the Individual heart and In the nation. "Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the l„ord." In the original, this Is taken verbatim from Joel II: 31. It must refer to "the day thaf shull burn us an oven (Malachl Iv: It. The day of the Kurd Is the time when he appeara on eurth. To warn in mercy before he smites In Judgment Is ever more the order of Ood's throne Hence, the second Elijah should come before the Jewish people and polity should be smit ten down by the terrible Itoman arms. C. "And he shall turn the heart of th« fathers to the children ** This may have either of all four Interpretation#. "I.est I come and smile the earth with a curse " t'nleaa there should ha a new develop ment of religion, utid the people begin to turn to the Uhl. tin- world would la- own be ruined by Its own wickedness there must be a turn In the disease, or death Would soon enme It Is deeply suggestive that the Iasi uttsrunre from beaten for k» years before Messiah was the swful word "curs* .Messiahs Ural word on the mount was Messed' iM ill v I). The law speaks wrath, the gospel, bless* Ind. J, r, end It W»wd rigeeae la Lasdun. Mm lb* ««M pigeon, which baa la tailed lam ‘In* Ig cogsi.le rattle auatbsra during tbs past season extras to stay * Two specimens of the sgrtaljr beta fur Iba past day or two bee a MliSil la tbs asldbburbmtd of Westminster abbey peeking Ik company with blalre-t w. luwbartsks at tba seats kreed, appar ently Ik perfect amity Perhaps tba • Iraapeis base keek kale bed tku ysatr Ik lbs Metropultlsk area and Ibws bktw bewk a*cliwattssd to tbe bustle of traf It Utkdwk Tsiegrapb,