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TELLS OF DAVID’S PASSAGE OVER THE .JORDON. From at) Almost Cnnotlied Incident of Olden Time Are Drawn Umou« of Comfort nod Hopefnlnewe to All liod's Children. (Copyright. 1300, Louis Klopsch, N. T.) Washington, Dec. 9.—From an un noticed incident of olden time Dr TaImage in this discourse draws some comfortable and rapturous lessons. I The text Is II. Samuel xix.. 18. "And • there went over a ferryboat to carry ! over the king’s household." I Which of the crowd is the king? That short man. sunburnt and in 1 fatigue dress. It is David, the exiled i king. He has defeated his enemies | and Is now going home to resume his palace. Good! I always like to see David come out ahead. But between him and his home there is the cele j brated river Jordan which has to be ' passed. The king is accompanied to the bank of the river by an aristocratic old gentleman of 80 years, Barzillai by name, who owned a fine country seat at Rogelim. Besides tnat, David has his family with him. But how shall they get across the river? While they are standing there 1 see a ferry boat coming from the other side, and as it cuts through the water I see the faces of David and his household brighten up at the thought of so soon getting home. No sooner has the fer ryboat struck the shore than David and his family and his old friend Barzillai from Rogelim get on board the boat. Either with splashing oars at the side or with one oar sculling at the stern of the boat they leave the eastern bank of the Jordan and start for the western bank. That western bank is black wttn crowds of people, who are waving and shouting at the approach of the king and his family. The military are all out. Some of those who have been David's worst enemies now shout until they are hoarse at his return. No sooner has the boat struck the shore on the western side than the earth quakes and the heavens ring with cheers of welcome and congratulation. David and his family and Barzillai from Rogelim step ashore. King Da vid asks his old friend to go with him and live at the palace, but Barzlllai apologizes and intimates that he is in firm with age and too deaf to appre ciate the music. and has a delicate ap petite that would soon be cloyed with luxurious living, and so he begs that David would let him go back to his country scat. Dislike of Excitement. I once heard the father of a presl- I dent of the United States say that he had just been to Washington to see his son in the White House, and he told me of the wonderful things that oc curred there and of what Daniel Web ster said to him, but he declared: ‘‘I was glad to get home. There was too much going on there for me." My father, an aged man, made his last visit at mv house in Philadelphia, and after the church service was over, and we went home, some one In the house asked the aged man how be enjoyed the service. "Well,” he replied. "I en joyed the service, but there \^>re too many people there for me. It troubled my head very mur-h." The fact is that old people do not like excitement. If King David had asked Barzillai thirty years before to go to the palace, the probability is that Barzillai would have gone, but not now. They kiss each other good-by, a custom among men Oriental, but in vogue yet where two brothers part or an aged father j and a son go aw'ay from each other never to meet again. No wonder that their lips met as King David and old Barzillai, at the prow of the ferryboat, parted forever. An I rmtAhle Craft. Every day I find people trying to ex- j temporize a way from earth to heaven. They gather up their good works and some sentimental theories, and they make a raft, shoving it from the shore, ! and poor, deluded souls get on board ! that raft, and they go down. The fact , is that skepticism and infidelity never yet helped one man to die. I invite all the ship carpenters of worldly philos ophy to come and build one boat that can safely cross that river. I invite them all to unite their skill, and Bol ingbroke shall lift the stanchions, and Tyndall shall shape the bowsprit, and Spinoza shall make the maintopgal lant braces, and Henan shall go to tacking and wearing and boxing the ship. All together in 10,000 years they will never be able to make a boat that can cross this Jordan. Why was it that Spinoza and Blount and Shaftesbury lost their souls? It was because they tried to cross the stream in a boat of j their own construction. What miser- j able work they made of dying? Dio- i dorus died of mortification because he could not guess a conundrum which had been proposed to him at a public dinner. Zeuxis, the philosopher, died i of mirth, laughing at a caricature of j an aged woman, a caricature made by his own hand, while another of their company and of their kind died say ing, “Must I leave all these beautiful pictures?" and then asked that he might be bolstered up in the bed in his last moments and be shaved and painted and rouged. Of all the unbe lievers of all ages not one died well. Some of them sneaked out of life, sonv j W'ept themselves away in darkness, some blasphemed and raved and tore their bedcovers to tatters. This is the way wordly philosophy helps a man to die. Word from the Other Shore. Blessed be God, there is a boat com ing from the other side! Transporta tion at. last for our souls from the other shore, everything about this gos pel from the other shore; pardon frost i the other shore; mercy from the other j shore: pity from the other shore; min I istrv of angels from the other shore; power to work miracles from the other I shore; Jesus Christ from the other 1 shore. "This is a faithful saying, and I worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sin ners.” and from a foreign shore I see the ferryboat coming, and it rolls with the surges of a Savior’s suffering: buc as it strikes the earth the mountains rock, and the dead adjust their apparel so that they may be tit to come out. That boat touches the earth, and glori ous Thomas Walsh gets into it in his expiring moment, saying: “He has come! He has come! My Beloved is mine, and 1 am his.” Goo'} Sarah Wes ley got into that boat, and as she i shoved off from the shore she cried: "Open the gates! Open the gates!" I bless God that as the boat came from the other shore to take David and his men across, so, when we are about to die, the boat will come from the same direction. God forbid that I should ever trust to anything that starts from this side. Tli# Sou l '•* Com pa ii inn*. Now, 1 want to break up a delusion in your mind, and that is this: “When our friends go out from this world, we feel sorry for them because they have to go alone; and parents hold on to the hands of their children who ire dying and hold on to something of .he impression that the moment they let go the little one will be In the dark ness and In the boat all alone. “Oh,” ; the parent says, “if I could only go I with my child. I would be willing to j die half a dozen times. 1 am afraid she ; will be lost In the woods or in the darkness; I am afraid she will be very t much frightened In the boat all alone.” I break up the delusion. When a soul goes to heaven, it does not go alone; 1 the King is on board the boat. Was Paul alone in the last extremity? Hear the shout of tlie sacred missionary as he cries out, “I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.” Was John Wesley alon" in the last extremity? No. Hear him say, “Best of all, God is with us.” Wac . Sir William Forbes alone in the last extremity? No. Hear him say to his friends, "Tell all the people who are , coming down to the bed of death from my experience it has no terrors.” i “Oh,” says a great many people, “that 1 does very well for distinguished Chris tians, but for me, a common man, for me, a common woman, we can't ex- . pect that guidance and help.” If I | should give you a passage of Scripture j that would promise to you positively when you are crossing the river to the , next world the King would be in the boat would you believe the promise? “Oh, yes,” you say, “I would.” Here j is the promise, “When thou passest through the waters. I will be with tli^e. ! and through the rivers, they shall not 1 overflow thee.” Christ at the sick pil low to take the soul out of the body; Christ, to help the soul down the bank into the boat; Christ midstream: Christ on the other side to help the soul up the beach. Be comforted about your departed friends. Be comforted aoout your own demise when the time shall come. Tell it to all the people under the sun that no Christian ever dies alone; the King is in the boat. Tlie Ferry to Heaven. Again, my text suggsts that leaving | the world for heaven is only crossing a ferry. Dr. Shaw estimates the aver age width of the Jordan to be about 30 yards. What, so narrow? Yes. “There went over a ferryboat to carry the king’s household." Yes. going to heaven is only a short, trip—only a ferry. It may be 80 miles—that is, SO years—before we get to the wet bank on the other sid°, but the crossing is short. 1 will tell you the whole secret. It is not five minutes across, nor three, nor two, nor one minute. It is an instantaneous transportation. Peo ple talk as though, leaving this life, the Christian went plunging and floun dering and swimming, to crawl up ex hausted on the other shore, and to be pulled out of the pelting surf as by a Ramsgate life-boat. No such thing. It is only a ferry. It is so narrow that we can hail each other from bank to bank. It is only four arms’ lengths across. The arm of earthly farewell put out from this side, the arm of heavenly welcome out from tlie other side, while the dying Christian,stand ing midstream, stretches out his two arms, the one to take the farewell of earth, and the other to take the greet ing of heaven. That makes four arms’ lengths across the river. Welcome at the f muling. Again, my subject teaches that when we cross over at the last we shall be met at the landing. When David and his family went over in the ferryboat spoken of in the text, they landed amid a nation that had come out to greet them. As they stepped from the the deck of the boat to the shore there were thousands of people who gather- j ed around them to express a satisfac tion that was beyond description. And j so you and I will be met at the land ing. Our arrival will not be like step ping ashore at Antwerp or Constanti nople among a crowd of strangers. It will be among friends, good friends, I those who are warm hearted friends, and ail their friends. We know peo- ' pie whom we have never seen by hear ing somebody talk about them very | much; we know them almost, as well as if we had seen them. And do you j not suppose that our parents and , brothers and sisters and children in j heaven have been talking about, us all t these years, and talking to their ■ friends? So that. I suppose, when we crosi the river at the last we shall not only be met by all those Chris tian friends whom we knew on earth, but by all their friends. They will come down to the landing to meet us. Your departed friends love you now more than they ever did. You will be ■lurprised at the !a*t to find how they know about all tho affairs of your life. Mnilnt on the Oihar Shore. There was romance as well as Chris tian beauty in the life of Ur. Adonlram Judson, the Baptist missionary, when he concluded to part from his wife, she to come to America to restore her health, he to go back to Burmah to preach the gospel. They had started from Burmah for the United States to gether. but, getting near St. Helena, Mrs. Judson was so much better she said: ‘ Well, now I can get home very easily. You go back to Burmah and preach the gospel to those poor people, I am almost well, f shall soon be well, and then I will return to you.” After she bad made that resolution, terrlfl.* in its grief, willing to give up her husband for Christ's sake, she sat down in her room and with trembling hand wrote some eight or ten verses, four of which I will now give yon: "We part on this green islet, love— Thou for the eastern main; I for the setting sun, love; Oh, when to meet again! "When we knelt to see our Henry die And heard Ills last faint moan, Each wiped away the other's tears; Now each must weep alone. “And who can paint our mutual joy When, all our wandering o'er. We both shai! clasp our infants three At home on Burmah's shore? “But higher shall our raptures glow On yon celestial plain When loved and parted here below Meet ne’er to part again.” She folded that manuscript, a re lapse of her disease came on, and she died. Dr. Judson says he put her away for the resurrection on the isle of St. Helena, They had thought to part for a year or wo. Sow they parted forever, so far as this world Is con cerned. And he says he hastened on board after the funeral with hi3 little children to star: for Burmah, for the vessel had already lifted her sails. And he says, “I sat down for some time in my cabin, my little children around me crying, 'Mother, mother!' And I abandoned myself to heartbreaking grief. But one day the thought came across me as iny faith stretched her wing that we should meet again in heaven, and I was comforted.” Was it. my friends, all a delusion? When he died, did she meet him at the landing? When she died, did the scores of souls whom she had brought to Christ and who had preceded her to heaven meet her at the landing? I believe it. I know it. Oh, glorious con solation, that when our poor work on earth is done and we cross the river we shall be met at the landing! But there is a thought that comes over me like an electric shock. Do I belong to the King's household? Mark you. the text says, “And there went over the ferryboat to carry over the king's household,” and none but the king's household. Then I ask, “Do I belong to the household? Do you?” If you do not. coma today and be adopted info that household. “Ob,” says some soul here. "1 do not know whether the King wants me!” He does: he does. Hear the voice from the throne. “I will be a father to them, and they shall be my sons and dauga ters. saith the Lord Almighty.” “Him that cometh unto me,” Christ says, “I will in nowise cast out.” Come into the King's household. Sit down at the King's table. Come in and take your apparel from the King's ward robe. even the wedding garment of Christ's righteousness. Come in and inherit the King’s wealth. Come in and cross in the King’s ferryboat. RUSSIAN LANGUAGE. Jlore Valuable to Acquire Tbau Any Other Continental Tongue. When every progressive young Ger man is doing his utmost to acquire a thorough knowledge of some other lan guage than his own it seems a waste of time for the Englishman to learn German with an idea to makiqg money. Instead, he should learn Rus sian. Russian is not the official lan guage, but the actual medium of com munication throughout an empire rnat extends from the Baltic to the Yellow sea. Years ago on the Moscow ex change one might transact business as rapidly in German as in Russian; now the native merchants, even tlio.se who know German, require some special inducement to speak it. and in the hur ry of business turn aside impatiently from any one who addresses them in any other tongue than that they them selves habitually use. in the near fu ture a knowledge of Russian will be worth more to the mere commercial than any two continental languages, for Russia is making gigantic stride in all industries, says Pearson's Week ly. As a recent visitor aptly describes it, "Russia is a new America.” To a young man who adds to a knowledge of Russian practical experience *n any staple industry. Russia otters a prom ising career. Mere theoretical knowl edge is not enough; this is taught, and well taught, in the special universi ties; St. Petersburg alone turns out some hundreds of efficient "techno logs” every year. Practical work in any of the textile, engineering, or the chemical industries is not so readily obtainable in Russia, and a capable Englishman is sure of an engagement at. a wage double or treble that he would receive at home. OntrlrlifH Are l'nlygunioit*. Otriches are polygamous, one male having several wives. The females In each family lay their eggs in one nest, and go ofT sporting while the male re mains at the nest to do the hatch ing. TilK SI NHAY SCHOOL LESJON XII. DEC. 23—LUKE 19: 11-27. The Parable of the Pounds —“Kvery One of I s Shall (jive Account of Himself to Uod" — Homans |4; 11—Reward of the Faithful. 11. "And as they heard these things. The conversation Jvt the house of Zac cheue (vs. 1-I0>, as Iri our last lesson. “He added," to what ha had said in the house, a parable for those who had been looking on. “Because he was nigh to Jerusalem." Fifteen to twenty Allies, hut easily reach ed in one day. Jerusalem was the capital where they expected their Messiah to ap pear. and where his reign would begin and center, in David’s city and on Da vid's throne. "Aral because they thought that the kingdom of God.” The new king dom he had come to found, the glorious reign of the Messiah, who would deliver them from all their enemies, and bring prosperity. "Should immediately appear." They thought that all their dreams about the kingdom were to lie visibly realized, immediately and in their way. 12. "A certain nobleman." Literally, a man well born, one or high rank and noble blood. "Went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom.” The kingdom was not In the far country, but at borne where he lived. “And to return ' to the kingdom which lie sought to rule. 12 "He called his ten servants.” Rath er. ten of his servants, "for such a noble would count ids servants by the hun dreds.”—Cambridge Bible "And deliv ered them ten pounds.” One to each. The pound was the Attic mlna, the Roman money then In use in Palestine, and was worth one hundred drachmae or denarri (so often translated pence), or about sev enteen dollars. "Occupy.” Old English for using of laying out what is possessed. An occupier formerly meant a trader. They were to invest the capital in what ever way seemed wisest to each. If. "But his citizens." Over whom he would rule, but not of his personal house hold, "Hated him." This was true his torically of Arehelaus. "And sent a mes sage after him." Rather, an embassy to follow him. "We will not have this man to reign oxer us." Throphylttct well ob serves how twice this very declaration found formal utterance from their lips— once when they cried to Pilate, "We have no king but Caesar;" and again, when they said, "Write not. Tin King of the Jews."—Trench. la. When he was returntsd. Having left the servants alone for some time, in order to tes| their fidelity. But the time came when due account must be rendered. 1C. “Then came the lirst.” The reports of three only are given us representatives of the whole. “Thy pound hath gained ten pounds.'' In an honest business way he liad greatly increased Ills capital. 1". “And lie said unto him. Well,” or 'Well done." as in the K. V. and in Mat thew. His master's full and hearty ap proval brought liltn nearer and gave him peace and comfort. "Have thou author ity over ten cities.' Observe the con trasts. from a servant to a ruler, from a few things to many. Ik. “The second came," He was less diligent and faithful and yet was true. He had less reward, but had his due re ward. His five cities corresponded to his faithfulness and ability in using the live jiOunds i l'i). "Here is thy pound." Implying that he thought lit? had been scrupulously hon est. "Which I have kept laid up In a napkin." or "handkerchief." He claimed credit for fidelity, too. He did not steal his lords money but returned ever> farthing. 21. For I feared thee." Lest I could rot satis ft thee and thy claims, and might lose what thou didst entrust to me. bud then how could i look In ihy face? "Because thou art an austere man." Se vere tu modes of judging or ai ling. "Thou takes! up, etc. You expected me to do the work, while you had all the gains. 22. "Out of thine own mouth will 1 judge thee. * Your own statements con demn you. "Thou knewtst," etc. "To he read interrogatively."—Vincent, You knew, tlitl .von'’ All the more should you have been faithful. Even If it were true, this is an unfair description of me. —I. t\ herefrtrt* then." You had an ra-\ course before you. You hail no right to prevenl my money from making Its natural gains. "Into the bank." "it is the broker's table or counter, at which he *ui in tlie market or public place, and upon which he set out the sums of mon ey required tor transacting his daily business. "Mine own with usury," or "Interest." Not necessarily implying anything illegal or exorbitant. 24. "Take from him the pound. " He must give up that which he Is unwilling to use. He never really possessed It. He merely stood in the way of its proper use. and must give it to those who arc will ing to make good use of it. 20- "L'nto evert one which hath." He only has true possession of a thing who uses its powers and forces. He does not really "have" anything which he does "id make a stepping-stone to something better. "Even that he hath." In the lower sense, what was entrusted to him. 27. "But those mine enemies." Who not only neglected duty, but refused to be subject to his sway. "Slay them be fore me." There is nothing possible for those who. In spit* of all warnings and all Influences for good, determine to remain In sin. and oppose tile reign of righteous ness in t'hriat, Ian to be destroyed. Poor .Suture. Recently a man was going by the night mail to C urlisle. Hefore start ing he called the guard, tipped him heavily, and said: I am going to sleep, and am a heavy sleeper, but l must get out at Carlisle. (Jet me out. at all hazards. Probably i shall swear and fight, but never mind that. Roll me out on the platform if you can't get me out in any other way. The train started, the man went 10 sleep, and when lie woke up he found him self at Glasgow. He called the guard, and expressed his views in very pow erful language. The guard listened with a sort ot admiring expression, but, when the aggrieved passenger paused (or breath, lie said: -Eh. in on, .ve have a fine gift o' sweatin', but ye canna hand a cannle to the ither mon whom 1 rolled out on the platform at Carlisle.”—To-Day. Biff Sum for Light and Air.. Mrs. \ ictoria Jackson, who owns a fashionable dwelling in the Centra) Park West district, saw that a strip of land adjoining might prove trouble some if the owner chose to build on it. Her apartment house has many little windows overlooking this lot. So she bought nineteen feet of the vacant lot for $10,000, which will prevent the erection of other buildings. Light and air were the solo objects, as the ground can not. lie used for any pur* pose.-New York. Letter.