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•■'*MH*,»y»w \ MmwotuiwMMa^ ■ THE - ■ VOLUME vn. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY GENTS A YEAR.—PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 19, 1865 NUMBER 33. THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL TIMES, A Weekly Religions Paper. Price OneDollar andFifty Cents aYear in Advance. Philadelphia subscribers who wish the Paper served •t their residence*, will be charged 60 cents additional. Those who call at the office will receive it for One Dollar and a half. The Postage is 20 cents a year, which most be paid in advance at the post-office where the subscriber resides. Letters containing articles for publication, should be addressed Editors Sunday-School Times, Philadelphia, Pbww'a. Letters containing subscriptions to the Paper, or orders for books, should be addressed J. C. GARRIGUES & Co., 148 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia., Penn'a. For tha Sunday-School Tuuea Doiug for Jesus** A Missionary Sermon. By the Rev. Riohabd Newton, D. D. Children's Sermons, No. 5—Pabt II. THE first reason why we &hould*do all that we can for Jesus is, because he has done so much for us. The second reason why we shoidd do so is, be¬ cause of the honor of doing for him. When Queen Victoria rides to the house of parliament on some great occasion, she wears her royal robes, and the splendid crown of England, all sparkling with its rich jewelry, and she looks very grand. Suppose that you were in the crowd admitted to the house of parliament on one of those occasions. You are standing not very far from the Queer. By-and-by she looks towards you, and beck¬ ons you to come to her. You go up to the throne where she is sitting, and she asks you to get her a drink of water. (Of course the Queen never would do anything of the kind, for there are lords and ladies appointed to wait upon her, and get for her everything she wants. But I am fust supposing a case for the sake of illustration. And when we are supposing a case we have a. right to say any¬ thing that we please.) You hand the Queen a drink in a golden cup, upon a golden waiter. When she has done drinking she asks you to please stand there and fan her. You stand there and fan her till the business in parliament is finished, and the Queen retires. Now, with our plain American uotions, you might not think so much of this, but if you were an Englioh boy cr girl you wtraW-fchrHksrWbn-- derful deal of it. You had done something for the Queen that she had asked you to do. You would think that a great honor. Your name would be published in the papers the next day, as the boy or girl who fanned the Queen when she was in the house of parlia¬ ment. People in England think it the great¬ est honor they can have to get near the Queen and do anything for her. But what is Queen Victoria, or what are all the monarchs in the world put together, in comparison with Jesus? Jesus is our King. He is the King of heaven as well as of earth. The angels worship him. He is the owner and ruler of all the worlds in the universe. Who can tell what an honor it is to be permitted to do anything for him ? But when we have done anything for his poor, suffering people, Jesus saye to us, "You have done it unto me." Thia is real honor; it is " the honor that cometh from God." Some years ago there was a distinguished military officer in England whose name was Sir Ralph Abercrombie. He was a: pious man, a member of the Presbyterian church. When residing at the old family residence in Scot¬ land, he was appointed an elder in the parish church in which he worshipped. One of the duties of an elder in the Presbyterian church is, on communion days, to carry the bread and wine from the minister and put them into the hands of the members. When this brave and distinguished soldier heard of his appoint¬ ment to this office, he wrote a note to his mi¬ nister in these words : " Reverend Sir—I have been entrusted by my king with many honorable and important offices in my profession as a soldier, and his majesty has been pleased to reward my ser¬ vices with distinguished honors; but to be permitted to put the bread and wine, the tokens of my Saviour's dying love, into the hands of one of the least of his followers, I consider to be the highest honor I can receive on this side of heaven." And the reason why this brave soldier thought it such an honor was. because he was doiDg it for Jesus. Some years ago an humble but faithful minister of the gospel went to Washington, and called on the President. He did not call to aek an office, but to seethe President. That President was a Christian man. He and this good minister had been brought together some years before, under circumstances which made them love each other very much and to become real, warm-hearted friends for life. The Pre¬ sident received him very kindly, and insisted on bi^ coming to stay at the White House while he was in Washington. He was put to lodge- in the room in which General Harrison and General Taylor had died while they were Presidents. There the President would some¬ times come to see him towards midnight, and they would sit a long while talking together, not about politics, but about religion—about Jesus and his love, the things-he has done for his people already, and the things he is going to do tor them hereafter. Oae morning, when the minister was going ♦Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by J. 0. Garrigues A Co., in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastere District of Pennsylvania. out, the President told him he was going to have a public reception at twelve o'clock, when great crowds of people wculd come to see him, and asked him to stay and help him receive his company, Of course he did so He returned to the library, and waited till near neon. Then the President called for him, and they walked together towards the splendid East Room, in which the President is accus¬ tomed to receive his company. A great num¬ ber of people were already on the outside of the house, waiting for the hour of admission. The President and his friend, the humble minister, were walking up and downthe room, arm iu arm, each occupied with his own thoughts. The minister was thinking of the exalted position of the man at his side. He was saying to himself, he is called to preside over a vast and powerful country. Now he is waiting for the entrance of some of the great¬ est and most distinguished people in the land, who are coming to honor him by paying bim their respects. What a happy man he must bet He has reached the highest position in the world. There is no nobler office than to be the President of a great and prosperous nation. The minister had not said a word. He had only been quietly thinking these thoughts. But the President seemed to un¬ derstand what he was thinking about, for he kindly laid his arm en his friend's shoulder and said : "Yet after all, my friend, the man who preaches the gospel and wins men to heaven has the highest office on earth." But the reason why the office of the ministry is so honorable is that it is an office, all the service of which is done unto Jesus. But when others, who are not ministers, do anything for Jesus, they share in the same honor. When we make our offerings to help the poor, the sick, the sor¬ rowing, or send the gospel to the heathen, we seem to hear our Saviour say, " Ye have done it unto me." There is great honor in this. We should do what we can for Jesus because cf the honor of doing for him. , Another reason why we should do for Jesus is, because of the pleasure of doing for him. When we love anybody very much, there is no greater pleasure in the world tban to be doing anything we can for that person. When a mother hj&s a dear little baby to attend to, she feela4jjBHkctly happy when nursing and dressing rt^Bcking it to sleep, and doing every thing fat it that she can. The baby may be very crosf* and fretful, it may cry and scream ever so mu|h, but the mother pets it and fondles it, and haver gets tired of doing fbrii. Yon go-to-tbwtSaother and ask hrer"to go out on a pleasure party and leave her baby with you, and if she is a real, true mother, she will say to you, " Thank you, but I'd rather not go. My greatest pleasure is to be with my dear child and take care of it." And if that mother is very poor and has to work hard all day, how gladly she will do that work, be¬ cause she feels that she is doing it for her darling child. And when she comes home at night and takes the baby up in her arms, and he looks up into those loving eyes and smiles, she presses him to her bosom, and 0 what pleasure she has when she thinks that what she has been doing all day she has been doing for that dear child. What a blessed thing it is that God has made a mother's love for her children so very strong. Our mothers have so many things that are hard and disagreeable to do for us, when we are little, that nothing but their great love for us would lead them to do those things. But a mother's love makes everything that she does for her child a plea¬ sure. And so it is with husbands and wives, and brothers and sisters, when they really love one another. You know we read in the Bible about Jacob. When he was a young man he went to make a visit to his uncle Laban, and stayed there a long time. While he was there he fell in love with his cousin Rachel, who was a remarkably beautiful girl. Jacob asked his uncle Laban if he might marry Ra¬ chel and have her for his wife. In those Eastern countries it was customary then, and is so still, for a young man, when he asked of a father permission to marry his daughter, to make a valuable present to the father. But Jacob was a poor young man. He had a rich father indeed, but he had set out to make his own fortune, and was not willing to go and ask bis father's help. He had no money to give his uncle Laban; so he offered to work for him for seven years as a shepherd. The life of a shepherd in those days was very hard and toilsome. He had to be out day and night, winter and summer, taking care of his flocks. And seven years were a long while to keep on working all the time. And yet we read that those seven long years seemed "but a few days to Jacob, because of his love for Rachel." When he was tired with his hard work, when he was exposed to the heat of summer or to the cold of winter, he .would think to himself, " I am doiug this for my dear Ra¬ chel," and that thought would lighten his labor and make everything he did a pleasure. But no mother ever loved a child, nor hus¬ band ever loved a wife, as Jesus loves all his people. And when we learn to know him truly, we shall love him better than we love any one else. And if we do love him so, this will make it a pleasure for us to do anything for him. Some time ago a missionary meeting was held at a small town iu England. At the close of the meeting a poor widow woman, one of the very poorest in the parish, went up to the minister and offered him a sovereign, i. e., a gold piece worth about five dollars. The minister knew tbe deep poverty of her condi¬ tion, and declined to receive it. He told her she should not think of giving so much, for he knew Bhe could not afford it. The poor woman looked sad, and seemed to be greatly disappointed. "Ohl eir," she said, "I have often given copper to my Saviour; and two^bering that " When a man's ways please the or three times I have bad the pleasure of giving silver; but it has been my earnest- de¬ sire to have the great happiness of giving some gold to Je3us, once before I die. I have long been engaged in saving every little mite that I could spare that I might gire this sovereign to Jesus to-night. 0, sir, you must take it for Jesus' sake!" Of course the minister could not resist such an appeal. He took tbe widow's gold, and best refutation of any reports the envious or malicious may circulate to the disadvantage of any one. He can commit all hia interests into the Lord's hands in well doing, remem- Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him." L. L. by the judicious management of this peace-, ** a11 times, not only when the sun shines, maker. It was a very good sign for the place |<but when the temPest lowers. Sometimes lhaUhissfiw ja*£ice could not make a stt^PW path of duty i* rugged and- fiUed^ish For the Sunday-School Times. Following tbe Lord Fully* IT is very useful to study those characters on which infinite truth has stamped a value ; which revolving ages cannot diminish nor impair. Such are Enoch, Noah, Abraham, {Job, David, Daniel, and many others who that poor woman went to her humble home j Bnine n^e fltara in the Book of God. Whilst that night, feeling that Bhe was one of the inking this survey we cannot but notice th? happiest persons in town. She had done§jeMed testimony whioh God gave to Caleb, what she could. She had given the best 8he-prumt 14. 2a. He is there Baid to be "a man had—a golden sovereign—the only one she |0f another spirit" from the unbelieving Israel- had, to her Saviour. She had done it unto |ite8 ar<mD(i him. and to have " followed the Jesus, and she felt perfectly happy in doing it.Jjj0rd fally>» at a time when a dreadful rebel- We ought to do all we can for Jesus because £iion ti0ok place among the professed people of of the pleasure it affords. »God. j To follow the Lord fully is indeed a great For the Sunday-School Times. '»york; and yet nothing less than this will Blessed are the Peacemakers* /bring us to heaven. The work is the Lord's. THERE was once an old judge in a county r B? 8race are ve saved, through faith; and town, who, when any little matters were,^** no* of yourselves, it is the gift of brought before him for adjustment always r^od." The faith of Caleb was the gift of God; managed to make the most of them. He would land nis privilege in being favored with a put on his magnifying glasses forthwith, and fruitful possession in the land of Canaan, in small grievances were soon made to appear of consequence of it, was of grace and not of mountain size. The case was kept in court idebt. This strictly applies to us in a spiritual as long as it could be, and as much ill-feelingjg^se. as possiblo stirred up on both sides. If an«|| To follow the Lord fully, we must have a other suit or two grew out of the original it lively foith "». tne pipmises of God, made to was all the better in the old judge's estima- WB through Jesus Christ. We must renounce tion. As might be expected there was an-jp°th our sins and our own supposed right- abundance of quarrelling and fighting in the\jj8°iMa*8S| ^d look in humble faith to Jesus community, and even the more respectable for pardon and salvation. We must have "a class of citizens were continually going to &ood h°Pe through grace"—« a hope full of law with each other. Half the people were' immortality." We must renounce all self- noton speaking terms with the other half, dependence and all creature dependence. We But with it alt the old judge grew rich, andjmust be *nUn8 t0 bear tbe cr0SB«to deny seemed to prosper on the evils he took so i ourselves, and to do anything for Jesus. We much pains to foment But at length the people grew tired of his j administration, and put another man into V^ver desir0UB» witb child-like simplicity, to do office. He was of exactly the opposite cha¬ racter, and dealt with all cases in as sum¬ mary a manner as justice would allow. Se¬ rious offenders were suitably punished, but neighborhood quarrels were quickly settled^ must lie passive in the hands of the Lord, while actively engaged in his service, being and to suffer the will of our heavenly Father. If this be to follow the Lord fully, then may we indeed be prostrate before him in shame and confusion of face. - To follow the Lord fully we must follow him port for himself out of the office, but was ob¬ liged to go into another business. From being a most turbulent little town it became a plea¬ sant, peaceful village; good order prevailed in the streets, and interminable law suits became a thing unknown. As the public morals im¬ proved the old judge sank lower and lower in public esteem, until no one regarded him with respect or confidence. The peacemaker, on the contrary, was constantly gaining ground, and has prospered of the Lord in all his temporal affairs. The condition of the community in the two administrations well illustrates the influence which one man may exert for good or evil in any society. No place can afford the risk of putting a bad man in office. The evils which follow do not stop with generations imme¬ diately associated with him', but are handed down to children's children. "Blessed are the peacemakers," in whatever walk of life they may be found. What higher honor could be laid upon them than that which our Saviour confers when he says, " for they shall be called the children of God." J. E. L. For the Sunday-School Times. OPEN WINDOWS. THE home of a certain philosopher had win¬ dows so low that passers-by might look in. An architect offered for a certain conside¬ ration to build them up so that he might live more secluded. " I will give you more," said the owner, "to make them down to the floor." He desired to live so that the world might look in upon him at all hours. If we would all live with more open win¬ dows, it would be the better for oar souls' health. We have-so many thoughts and pur¬ poses to conceal, so many acts we would not for the world have known to others, which are precisely opposed to our every-day intercourse with them, that we are kept in continual worry lest some inadvertence will reveal our true case to them. The most pretentious are always the most anxious and suspicious. One is really very poor and obliged to prac¬ tice many economies behind the scenes. Yet before the world the appearance must always be made iu stage costume, glittering with tinsel and paste jewels. Why not throw open the windows and be content to appear what we really are ? We may be poor as a beggar in this world's goods, and yet as rich as a prince in the true riches. Open windows would save us from a thou¬ sand anxieties, lest some one should see in. We should not have so many matters to be constantly explaining away, often at the ex¬ pense of strict truthfulness. We should not be so anxious to know what others say of us. If we walk conscientiously we can afford to let them fay what they will. We stand upon high ground and cannot descend from it for every trifling consideration. A good man was asked why he did not an¬ swer some false charges that were made against him, when he made answer that " he did not keep a clerk, and his own time was occupied with other matters." An upright, straightforward course is the dangers; yet, if we draw back in the day of trouble, we cannot follow the Lord fully. We must not chose our path, but " run with pa¬ tience the race which is set before us." We must still keep in the narrow way, however few may walk in it, and however unfashion¬ able it may be among the rich and learned of earth, ever remembering that the promise of eternal life is made to those only who are found in the King's highway of holiness. To follow the Lord fully we must confess him with courage and constancy before an unbelieving world. Caleb was "valiant for the truth." He believed in God, and dared to profess his faith and allegiance in the face of the whole congregation, when "they bade stone him with stones," like another Stephen. Thus he experienced the truth of this divine declaration, " Tbem that honor me I will honor." To follow the Lord fully, we must cleave to .him in seasons of general defection. Here Caleb proved that he was a man of another spirit from those around him, by cleaving steadfastly to God. Thus did tbe apostles, when on many forsaking Jesus, be said to them, "And will ye also go away?" Peter replied, " Lord, to whom shall we go ? thou hast the words of eternal life." This entire surrender of the heart to God is the work of the divine Spirit, for " a man can have nothing except it be given him from heaven." Nothing short of this will bring us to glory. Nothing short of this will give true assurance, peace and joy. It is the want of this undivided state of heart which causes so much unsteadiness in the walk, and so much unhappiness in the experience of many pro¬ fessors. But how great is the happiness of the hum¬ ble followers of Jesus 1 Their sins are blotted out. Their souls are beautified with salva¬ tion. Their one desire is to promote the glory of their God and Saviour. They have their conflicts and they have their comforts. God is their Father. Angels minister to them, and all things work together for their good. They may have to pass through deep waters, bat underneath are the everlasting arms. They may often groan, being burdened, but in heaven all their tears shall be wiped away. There they shall follow the Lamb whitherso¬ ever he goeth. There tbey Bhall experience tbe eternal blessedness of that gracious pro¬ mise, "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." S. A. A happ7 home and a Eunny childhood are an inspiration for good and a protection against evil. Scolding and peevishness lacerate aud sear the affections, and deaden the sensibili¬ ties. Of 180 unruly boys now on the school ship in Boston harbor, three-fourths are or¬ phans who know little of a mother's prayers and caresses, and the remainder largely have disordered hornet. For the Sunday-School Times. Children's Consecration Hymn* Tune—" Worthy, Worthy is the Lamb." Come and let us sweetly sing Praises to onr Saviour-King, Hearts and voices gladly bring To praise his name. Jesus is the children's Friend, Loving, faithful to the end, Richest gifts from him descend, Joy and peace. Once from heaven to earth he came, Suffered pain, contempt, and blame, Died upon a cross of shame, Crowned with thorns. ( 'Twas our .nnful spu^s to sn(ve, » Thus his precious blood he gave; Ransomed now from sin's dark grave, We may siDg. Oh what boundless grace and love! Passing all our thoughts above, Fear and unbelief remove At the cross. Blessed Jesus! loving, kind! Thee we'd early seek and find, And our souls in cov'nant bind Thine to be. For our sins we deeply grieve, But thy promise we believe, " Him that cometh I receive." Lord, we come. We would love thee more and more, Serve thee truly evermore, Till thy mercy we adore In heaven above. Eta. . i , . For the Sunday-School Times. MISERLY CHRISTIANS. WHAT a strange'passion is tbe lust of ac¬ cumulation, the love of gold for its own sake. When it becomes the master passion of the soul what a fool it makes of the man who has yielded himself to its powers. Some of the accredited instances of the folly of such men almost exceed belief. We are told of one man, the possessor of immense wealth, who, in severe weather, lay abed to keep himself warm that he might save the expense of fuel! When he washed, which was seldom, he dried himself in the sun, as a towel was too expen¬ sive a luxury for his use! There have no doubt been Christians, who might justly be charged with a miserly use of their worldly possessions; but it is nol of this class that we would now speak. All true Christians possess at tbeir spiritual birthright another kind of treasure. How rich, how ample are the spiritual possessions of each humble believer. In Jesus are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, and Jesus is his. Gifts and graces whose price is above rubies, are the fruits of the Spirit, and that Spirit is God's gift to him. The exceeding great and precious promises are his. Be¬ lieving prayer is the key by which he may enter into the rich treasure house, and find there au abundant supply for all his needs. On that key is engraved, " Ask, and it shall be given you." We despise the man who, having an abun¬ dance of this world's wealth, refuses to use it for his own comfort and welfare and the benefit of his fellow beings. What shall be said of him who having access to sach wealth of spiritual treasures neglects to use them to promote his own growth in grace, know¬ ledge and virtue, and the highest interests of his fellow men? Alas, is it not too true that the number of Christians who are parsimo¬ nious in the use of their spiritual wealth is very large? How strong, how fruitfal they would be if they would freely use all that God has eo freely given to them; but now they are weak and sickly, and ready to faint. Surely it is the duty of every Christian to 6ee that he is not a miser in the use of his spiritual pos¬ sessions. Repair daily and hourly to the gos¬ pel treasury. Take and freely use all the rich gifts which have been purchased for you by your Saviour's death, and you shall be blessed and be a blessing to others. Mayflower. TRUST. The child leans on its parent's breast, Leaves there its cares, and is at rest; The bird sits singing by his nest, And tells aloud His trust in God, and so is blest 'Neath every cloud. He hath no store, he sows no seed; Yet sings aloud, and doth not heed; By flowing streams or grassy mead, He sings to shame Men, who forgot, in fear of need, A Father's name. The heart that trusts forever sings; And feels as lightes it had wings; A well of peace within it springs; Come good or ill, Whate'er to-day, to-morrow brings, It is his will! —Isaac Williams. He that thinks he hath no need of Christ hath too high thought of himself; he that thinks Christ cannot save him, hath too low I thoughts of Christ. I Faith is a certain image of eternity. All things are present to it—things past and things to come. Faith converses with angels and antedates the hymns of glory. Every man that has this grace is as certain there are glories for him, if he perseveres in duty, as if he had heard and sung the blessed thanksgiving song for the blessed sentence of doomsday.—Jeremy Taylor. For the Sunday-School Tfanta. LINE UPON LINE. By the Rev. J. T. Crane, D. D- IT is said that the mother of John Wesley was once teaching a child some little les¬ son, and the little one, slow to perceive, or careless in his attention, disappointed her, and compelled many repetitions of the task. At last her husband interrupted her employment by. asking, somewhat petulantly, how she could have the patience to tell that boy tho same thing twenty times over. " Because," she replied, " if I tell him nineteen times only I shall lose all my labor." Her principle of action accords with the nature of the hy man mind and heart. There is 'force in repetition. It detains the thing before the mind; and that which was at first but dimly seen, grows clear by a long and steady look. Nor is this all. That which otherwise would soon have faded from the memory becomes fixed by recurring to it again and again. And still another effect follows. When the mind dwells long and steadily upon it, a great truth makes its weight felt upon the heart and the couscieuce. And, to borrow the language of St. John, " here is the patience and faith of the saints." Here, under God, is the hope of the parent and the teacher. Our daily duty is often mere re¬ petition. We are sometimes teupted to think that we accomplish nothing. Our children study the lessons which we set them; they seem to listen to our admonitions; and yet, as we watch them from day to day, they ap¬ pear to make little progress, perhaps none at all, in the things of personal salvation. The visible effect is so small that we are tempted I to lose courage, and" are seady to conclude that our labor is lost. Courage, faint heart. What one lesson cannot finish it may begin. A ceaseless drop¬ ping of water will wear even adamant. Throw a pile of sand against a strong fence, and the. first day may not show a hair's breadth of leaning; yet iu time it will bow before the steady pressure and fall. So there is such a thing as the steady pressure of truth upon tho soul, a pressure which we may hope to see- overthrow sin. Wo act upon this principle in many cases. When we teach a little child to say its infantile prayer, we do not expect it to be followed by the descending fires as sud¬ denly as was the prophet's. We do not look, for any great visible good to follow at once. Wejift- it thai we. may. implant among the child's first thoughts, a sense of dependence on God, and of accountability to him, and that we may lay early the foundation of a de¬ votional habit. In fact, our own devotions involve the same principle. We often utter our thanksgivings when our gratitude is more a conviction of the mind than an emotion of the heart. Wo offer our petitions when we are not conscious of any special sorrow or fear pressing upon us, and demanding instant help from above. We rise from our knees conscious that we have tried to lay an acceptable sacrifice upon the divine altar, and this consciousness often ssems to be the only present effect. Our wor¬ ship, nevertheless, is not in vain. Thus we grow in grace. Every act of honest devotion is as a golden wing, beating the air in upward flight, lifting us above the shadows of earth into the light of God. While we adore, and pray, and strive, day after day, faith increases, hope brightens, love grows warm, experience ripens, and the soul goes on " from strength to strength." Here, then, lies the duty, as well as the hope, of the parent and the teacher. We need not fear that we accomplish nothing, simply because the result of each day's care and toil is not at once seen. If we surround the child with a religious atmosphere, if we keep the youthful mind in close contact with divine truth, if we daily lay upon the young heart the claims of God and the love of Christ, if we give our children spiritual food with the daily bread, we may rationally hope for final suc¬ cess. " For," as saith the prophet, " precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line." And only when we obey is it lawful for us to hope. We should give as we receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation ; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. AN ASTRONOMER'S PRAYER. " fllHOU who, by the light of nature, hast JL kindled in us the longing after the light of thy grace, in order to raise us to the light of thy glory, thanks to thee, Creator and Lord, that thou lettest me rejoice in thy works. Lo 1 I have done the work of my life with that power of intellect which thou hast given. I have recorded to men the glory of thy works, as far as my mind could compre¬ hend their infinite majesty. My senses were awake to search, as far as I could, with purity and faithfulness. If I, a worm before thine eyes, and born in the bonds of sin, have brought forth anything that is unworthy of thy counsels, inspire me with thy Spirit, that I may correct it. If, by the wonderful beauty- of thy works, I have been led into boldness;, if I have sought my own honor among men as I advanced in the work which was des¬ tined to thine honor, pardon me in kindness and charity, and by thy grace grant that my teaching may be to tby glory and the welfare of all men. Praise ye the Lord, ye heavenly harmonies; and ye that understand the new harmonies, praise the Lord I Praise God, O my soul, as long as I live 1 From him, through him, and in him, is all—the material as well as the spiritual; all that we know, and all that we know not yet, for there is much to do that is undone."—Conclusion of "Kepler's Har¬ mony of the World."
Object Description
Title | Sunday-school times |
Replaces | Sunday-school journal (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1849) |
Subject | Newspapers Pennsylvania Philadelphia County Philadelphia ; Newspapers Pennsylvania Philadelphia. |
Description | A newspaper published by the American Sunday-School Union, and organization rooted in the First Day Society. Both organizations were missionary in nature, with the First Day Society formed to found and promote Sunday Schools in churches. The American Sunday-School Union was also a missionary organization. Reports on the founding and running of Sunday Schools, and contains advice on the studying of scripture. Reports from missions around the world are common. These issues are from the Civil War years, and include battlefield and battlefield hospital and missionary reports. Issues from January 4, 1862 to December 2, 1868, though not all issues are present. |
Place of Publication | Philadelphia, Pa. |
Contributors | American Sunday-School Union |
Date | 1865-08-19 |
Location Covered | Philadelphia, Pa. ; Philadelphia County (Pa.) |
Type | text |
Digital Format | image/jp2 |
Source | Philadelphia Pa. |
Language | eng |
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Contributing Institution | State Library of Pennsylvania |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Description
Title | Phila-Sunday-School_Times08191865-0001; Sunday-school times |
Replaces | Sunday-school journal (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1849) |
Subject | Newspapers Pennsylvania Philadelphia County Philadelphia ; Newspapers Pennsylvania Philadelphia. |
Description | A newspaper published by the American Sunday-School Union, and organization rooted in the First Day Society. Both organizations were missionary in nature, with the First Day Society formed to found and promote Sunday Schools in churches. The American Sunday-School Union was also a missionary organization. Reports on the founding and running of Sunday Schools, and contains advice on the studying of scripture. Reports from missions around the world are common. These issues are from the Civil War years, and include battlefield and battlefield hospital and missionary reports. Issues from January 4, 1862 to December 2, 1868, though not all issues are present. |
Contributors | American Sunday-School Union |
Location Covered | Philadelphia, Pa. ; Philadelphia County (Pa.) |
Type | text |
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Source | Philadelphia Pa. |
Language | eng |
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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY GENTS A YEAR.—PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 19, 1865
NUMBER 33.
THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL TIMES,
A Weekly Religions Paper.
Price OneDollar andFifty Cents aYear in Advance.
Philadelphia subscribers who wish the Paper served
•t their residence*, will be charged 60 cents additional.
Those who call at the office will receive it for One Dollar
and a half.
The Postage is 20 cents a year, which most be paid in
advance at the post-office where the subscriber resides.
Letters containing articles for publication, should be
addressed
Editors Sunday-School Times,
Philadelphia, Pbww'a.
Letters containing subscriptions to the Paper, or
orders for books, should be addressed
J. C. GARRIGUES & Co.,
148 South Fourth Street,
Philadelphia., Penn'a.
For tha Sunday-School Tuuea
Doiug for Jesus**
A Missionary Sermon.
By the Rev. Riohabd Newton, D. D.
Children's Sermons, No. 5—Pabt II.
THE first reason why we &hould*do all that
we can for Jesus is, because he has done so
much for us.
The second reason why we shoidd do so is, be¬
cause of the honor of doing for him.
When Queen Victoria rides to the house of
parliament on some great occasion, she wears
her royal robes, and the splendid crown of
England, all sparkling with its rich jewelry,
and she looks very grand. Suppose that you
were in the crowd admitted to the house of
parliament on one of those occasions.
You are standing not very far from the Queer.
By-and-by she looks towards you, and beck¬
ons you to come to her. You go up to the
throne where she is sitting, and she asks you
to get her a drink of water. (Of course the
Queen never would do anything of the kind,
for there are lords and ladies appointed to
wait upon her, and get for her everything she
wants. But I am fust supposing a case for
the sake of illustration. And when we are
supposing a case we have a. right to say any¬
thing that we please.) You hand the Queen a
drink in a golden cup, upon a golden waiter.
When she has done drinking she asks you to
please stand there and fan her. You stand
there and fan her till the business in parliament
is finished, and the Queen retires. Now, with
our plain American uotions, you might not
think so much of this, but if you were an
Englioh boy cr girl you wtraW-fchrHksrWbn--
derful deal of it. You had done something
for the Queen that she had asked you to do.
You would think that a great honor. Your
name would be published in the papers the
next day, as the boy or girl who fanned the
Queen when she was in the house of parlia¬
ment. People in England think it the great¬
est honor they can have to get near the Queen
and do anything for her. But what is Queen
Victoria, or what are all the monarchs in the
world put together, in comparison with Jesus?
Jesus is our King. He is the King of heaven
as well as of earth. The angels worship him.
He is the owner and ruler of all the worlds
in the universe. Who can tell what an honor
it is to be permitted to do anything for him ?
But when we have done anything for his poor,
suffering people, Jesus saye to us, "You have
done it unto me." Thia is real honor; it is
" the honor that cometh from God."
Some years ago there was a distinguished
military officer in England whose name was
Sir Ralph Abercrombie. He was a: pious man,
a member of the Presbyterian church. When
residing at the old family residence in Scot¬
land, he was appointed an elder in the parish
church in which he worshipped. One of the
duties of an elder in the Presbyterian church
is, on communion days, to carry the bread
and wine from the minister and put them into
the hands of the members. When this brave
and distinguished soldier heard of his appoint¬
ment to this office, he wrote a note to his mi¬
nister in these words :
" Reverend Sir—I have been entrusted by
my king with many honorable and important
offices in my profession as a soldier, and his
majesty has been pleased to reward my ser¬
vices with distinguished honors; but to be
permitted to put the bread and wine, the
tokens of my Saviour's dying love, into the
hands of one of the least of his followers, I
consider to be the highest honor I can receive
on this side of heaven." And the reason why
this brave soldier thought it such an honor
was. because he was doiDg it for Jesus.
Some years ago an humble but faithful
minister of the gospel went to Washington,
and called on the President. He did not call
to aek an office, but to seethe President. That
President was a Christian man. He and this
good minister had been brought together some
years before, under circumstances which made
them love each other very much and to become
real, warm-hearted friends for life. The Pre¬
sident received him very kindly, and insisted
on bi^ coming to stay at the White House
while he was in Washington. He was put to
lodge- in the room in which General Harrison
and General Taylor had died while they were
Presidents. There the President would some¬
times come to see him towards midnight, and
they would sit a long while talking together,
not about politics, but about religion—about
Jesus and his love, the things-he has done for
his people already, and the things he is going
to do tor them hereafter.
Oae morning, when the minister was going
♦Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866,
by J. 0. Garrigues A Co., in the Clerk's office of
the District Court of the United States for the Eastere
District of Pennsylvania.
out, the President told him he was going to
have a public reception at twelve o'clock,
when great crowds of people wculd come to
see him, and asked him to stay and help him
receive his company, Of course he did so
He returned to the library, and waited till near
neon. Then the President called for him, and
they walked together towards the splendid
East Room, in which the President is accus¬
tomed to receive his company. A great num¬
ber of people were already on the outside of
the house, waiting for the hour of admission.
The President and his friend, the humble
minister, were walking up and downthe room,
arm iu arm, each occupied with his own
thoughts. The minister was thinking of the
exalted position of the man at his side. He
was saying to himself, he is called to preside
over a vast and powerful country. Now he is
waiting for the entrance of some of the great¬
est and most distinguished people in the land,
who are coming to honor him by paying bim
their respects. What a happy man he must
bet He has reached the highest position in
the world. There is no nobler office than to
be the President of a great and prosperous
nation. The minister had not said a word.
He had only been quietly thinking these
thoughts. But the President seemed to un¬
derstand what he was thinking about, for he
kindly laid his arm en his friend's shoulder
and said : "Yet after all, my friend, the man
who preaches the gospel and wins men to heaven
has the highest office on earth." But the reason
why the office of the ministry is so honorable
is that it is an office, all the service of which
is done unto Jesus. But when others, who
are not ministers, do anything for Jesus, they
share in the same honor. When we make our
offerings to help the poor, the sick, the sor¬
rowing, or send the gospel to the heathen, we
seem to hear our Saviour say, " Ye have done
it unto me." There is great honor in this.
We should do what we can for Jesus because
cf the honor of doing for him. ,
Another reason why we should do for Jesus is,
because of the pleasure of doing for him.
When we love anybody very much, there is
no greater pleasure in the world tban to be
doing anything we can for that person. When
a mother hj&s a dear little baby to attend to,
she feela4jjBHkctly happy when nursing and
dressing rt^Bcking it to sleep, and doing
every thing fat it that she can. The baby may
be very crosf* and fretful, it may cry and
scream ever so mu|h, but the mother pets it
and fondles it, and haver gets tired of doing
fbrii. Yon go-to-tbwtSaother and ask hrer"to
go out on a pleasure party and leave her baby
with you, and if she is a real, true mother, she
will say to you, " Thank you, but I'd rather
not go. My greatest pleasure is to be with
my dear child and take care of it." And if
that mother is very poor and has to work hard
all day, how gladly she will do that work, be¬
cause she feels that she is doing it for her
darling child. And when she comes home at
night and takes the baby up in her arms, and
he looks up into those loving eyes and smiles,
she presses him to her bosom, and 0 what
pleasure she has when she thinks that what
she has been doing all day she has been doing
for that dear child. What a blessed thing it
is that God has made a mother's love for her
children so very strong. Our mothers have
so many things that are hard and disagreeable
to do for us, when we are little, that nothing
but their great love for us would lead them
to do those things. But a mother's love makes
everything that she does for her child a plea¬
sure.
And so it is with husbands and wives, and
brothers and sisters, when they really love
one another. You know we read in the Bible
about Jacob. When he was a young man he
went to make a visit to his uncle Laban, and
stayed there a long time. While he was
there he fell in love with his cousin Rachel,
who was a remarkably beautiful girl. Jacob
asked his uncle Laban if he might marry Ra¬
chel and have her for his wife. In those
Eastern countries it was customary then, and
is so still, for a young man, when he asked of
a father permission to marry his daughter, to
make a valuable present to the father. But
Jacob was a poor young man. He had a rich
father indeed, but he had set out to make his
own fortune, and was not willing to go and
ask bis father's help. He had no money to
give his uncle Laban; so he offered to work
for him for seven years as a shepherd. The
life of a shepherd in those days was very hard
and toilsome. He had to be out day and
night, winter and summer, taking care of his
flocks. And seven years were a long while to
keep on working all the time. And yet we
read that those seven long years seemed "but
a few days to Jacob, because of his love for
Rachel." When he was tired with his hard
work, when he was exposed to the heat of
summer or to the cold of winter, he .would think
to himself, " I am doiug this for my dear Ra¬
chel," and that thought would lighten his
labor and make everything he did a pleasure.
But no mother ever loved a child, nor hus¬
band ever loved a wife, as Jesus loves all his
people. And when we learn to know him
truly, we shall love him better than we love
any one else. And if we do love him so, this
will make it a pleasure for us to do anything
for him.
Some time ago a missionary meeting was
held at a small town iu England. At the close
of the meeting a poor widow woman, one of
the very poorest in the parish, went up to the
minister and offered him a sovereign, i. e., a
gold piece worth about five dollars. The
minister knew tbe deep poverty of her condi¬
tion, and declined to receive it. He told her
she should not think of giving so much, for
he knew Bhe could not afford it. The poor
woman looked sad, and seemed to be greatly
disappointed. "Ohl eir," she said, "I have
often given copper to my Saviour; and two^bering that " When a man's ways please the
or three times I have bad the pleasure of
giving silver; but it has been my earnest- de¬
sire to have the great happiness of giving some
gold to Je3us, once before I die. I have long
been engaged in saving every little mite that
I could spare that I might gire this sovereign
to Jesus to-night. 0, sir, you must take it
for Jesus' sake!"
Of course the minister could not resist such
an appeal. He took tbe widow's gold, and
best refutation of any reports the envious or
malicious may circulate to the disadvantage
of any one. He can commit all hia interests
into the Lord's hands in well doing, remem-
Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at
peace with him." L. L.
by the judicious management of this peace-, ** a11 times, not only when the sun shines,
maker. It was a very good sign for the place | |
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