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his “ firstly ” pretty well. Then
feeling very warm himself, and see-
inghis congregation growing listless,
he interrupted himself with the re­
mark : “ That is the end of ‘ firstly,’
and it’s soTvamToTlay that I think
the secondly and thirdly will keep
for a cooler Sunday.” So the con­
gregation went its way and Mr.
Spurgeon went his way.
Principal Cairns has been deliver­
ing an oration in Glasgow on tne
Luther celebration, and mentioned
~ thatJhrty.„-y rxara , ago,. in. Tan field
Hall, in the first General Assembly
of the Free Church, he had seen Dr.
Merle d’Aubigne, in addressing Dr.
Chalmers, who stood up to receive
him, take out a pocket Bible, and
begin his address by solemnly read­
In China the Roman Catholic
ing Romans 10 : 5-9. This, said Church has 41 bishops, 1,006 priests
Dr. Cairn, was like a charge to the (452 native Chinamen), 64 colleges,
whole Scottish Christianity to hold 34 convents, and a Catholic popula-
fast the great cardinal article of sal-
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features as it had abolished the
crushing of men and women under
the wheels of the car of Juggernaut.
If the Christian women of America,
England and Scotland, should unite
Th •"memônS^zîHT^
ernment to abolish these wrongs,
they would do a timely and digni­
fied act. Woman in India suffers
from the neglect of the education
of daughters, the arbitrariness of
divorce, the coarsest and severest
physical toil, infanticide, and poly­
gamy. The British Government is
responsible for more polygamy than
Wisgsamaga
is thus done to the passage to whi
we recall attention. That it is
mere clipping of a few words from
their context goes without saying.
The words are but a single clau
• nr.w c ontin uo us —di s eowr s e—th
discourse being the longest recorded
prayer uttered by Jesus while on
earth. So that we are not deali
with a self-contained proverb or an
axiom complete in itself; but with
words which give and receive light
, from the occasion and scope of the
prayer of whieh they form a part.
As soon as this is noted, and refer-
of the words, two decisive facts
with the living Church of the Con­
Mrs. Mattie Booth, a colored wo­
come to light. The first is, that
tinent in all its branches.
man, has opened a school for women
before the prayer is ended the
in her husband’s parish in Selma,
speaker does pray for the world;
A correspondent writing to the Ala. In the three months of the
twice over his petition rises in the
London Times says : “ It is an ad- school, she has welppmed forty who
w mill’s b eha l f7"^¡wi g e over the
m'iTted factTTTaT among thTT clergy were unable to go elsewhere. She
world is borne up before the Father
of the Church of England tnere is writes, “ One old woman, seventy- afninations, the abolition by law of
of lights, that there may be givenit
an amount of personal poverty sim­ five years of age, came tottering in child marriages,a pure gospel taught
to the whole community, native the greatest boon Divine mercy
ply appalling. It is, I believe, also
B™?*’"
e, and could bestow. And this broad issu
admitted that to tue hardworking, - said, ‘ Why,
Sister Grant! you are
thoroughly efficient and intellectual too old to go to school;’ ‘I know,’ a new fashion to be set by imperial lies in the very clinjftx of the
prayer; and therefore, of right, con­
clergy, disestablishment would, in she said,‘my time is almost out here, courts and the upper classes.
ditions all that has gone before.
a pecuniary sense, prove a blessing but I would like to learn just to
Mutilated Scripture.
That is one fact, which there is no
instead of a curse; for purchase spell the word God; then I shall be
“ Save me from my friends !” is a getting over—that the Master does
would eease, and the people them­ satisfied? ”
prayer which, if the Bible eould pray for the world before he hasr
selves would in some form or other
done. So that already the obvious
have more power in the appoint­
It is stated that 19,000 persons, speak, it might oft times offer; and
ment of clergy to livings than they including 600 avowed infidels, were in no respect more than ift regard qualification of the earlier and nar­
rower petition ia suggested ; ‘‘ Just
■converted rinrrng the ' pLst eigtif
years through the preaching of Ma­ it is quoted. Scraps of Scripture at this moment, in what I am here
The reports of colportage made to
torn from their connection, are ad- saying, I am not praying for the
jor Penn, the Texas evangelist.
the October meeting of the Board
world.”.And this leads htiaighlJiQ
dueed as equivalentto ft ‘- Th-
of "Managers of the American- Bi ble
Rev. John George Wood, M. A., saith the Lord;” and the conse­ the second fact, which guides us to
Society, shows that in August 245 F. L. S., the distinguished natural­
quence is that the Lord is repre­ our Lord’s intent in momentarily
colporteurs visited 75,184 families, ist, has accepted appointments to
sented as saying irreconcilable excluding the world. For the
and supplied with Scriptures 7,272 deliver lectures in Lowell Institute,
things, and the Bible is made to thought, “ I at this particular time
i liee-that were desti tele of -them-, Boston, ana Cooper Institute, New
appear as a storehouse of mutually am not pray ing Toir the world ’’ car­
and 3,702 destitute individuals be­ York. He sailed for Boston on the
destructive oracles. It is needless ries with it the further idea, " in
sides. The value of books sold was 17th ult.
to say that the result of such the particular thing for which I am
$11,832, and of those given away
now asking I pray not for the
The North Classes of Long Island handling of the Holy Word is very
$2,201. Four new Bible Societies
sad. Anything can be proved by world.” We are indebted to one of
were recognized as auxiliary, one in of the Reform Church, at its meet­
such a style of quotation ; one con­ the princes of living expositors—Dr.
Dakota, one in Montana, and two ing last week in the South Bush­
sequence of which is, nothing is James Morison of Glasgow—for the
in Texas. The total receipts in wick Reformed Church, adopted a
proved. And, in fact, it is by no bright suggestion that what our
September were $39,606.55. The resolution calling attention to the
means an uncommon remark, “ Oh, Lord was at this moment praying
approaching
four
hundredth
anni
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number of volumes issued was 96,-
for would not have been a blessing
versary of the birth ofLu the r,~an~d you may make -the* Bi ble prove
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to the world—quite the reverse. He
recommending the churches to hold anything.” So you may, as many
was praying for unity—a blessing
The editor of the Central Baptist special services in honor of it. The folks handle it.
having seen it stated that Mr Spur­ Classis of New York, at its stated
We wonder how many times of immense value for His disciples,
geon had said he would rather be a meeting, in the Collegiate Church, within the space of a generation but just the very thing the world
cannibal than a close communion on the 16th inst., also resolved to our Lord’s words, recorded in John did not need. Union is strength,
but strength in evil
would be to the
Baptist, wrote to him concerning ask all ministtua to preach upon 17, “ 1 pray not for the world?_________________
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the life and work of Martin Luther have been Exhibited as though} world a curse and not a blessing,
Mr. Spurgeon said:
never on Sunday, November 11.
they were hard to reconcile with Paradoxical as it may appear, it is
thought so, and certainly never said
other passages of 'Scripture affirm­ nevertheless true, that the world
so. I have not the slightest wish
W oman ’ s W ork for W omen in ing the universality of Divine love. | must be broken up in order to be
to be one or the other; but I rejoice I ndia .— «-Rev. Joseph Cook spoke Only the other week one of our sacred. Individuals must be de­
in being a loving brother to the lat­ recently at Chautauqua on “ Wo- correspondents permitted himself tached from it. Men must be re-
ter.” ■Lt is.related of the qama Mf.[m&n’s.Warklnr..VVnnmn.4P Lagan tosetthe- above-named utterance enerated. —They m uet individ ually
Spurgeon that he surprised his con­ Lands.” He spoke of child mar­ of thS Christ in antithesis to an­ come out of the world and be separ­
gregation one Sunday last summer riage and enforced widowhood in other text asserting God’s love to ate. The world does not need unity,
in the following mannerHe began} India, .de.dar.ing.Jhak..ihe.™Biiti3h4 all mern .But now, let us think for at least in -the- first instance. it
his sermon as usual, and got through Government should reform, these a moment what a grievous wrong needs reconstruction; and in order
Cook pointed out as the remedies
the teaching of women by female
missionaries, homes for temporary
assistance to women, female medical
missionaries, female schools, the'ad-