Pacific Christian messenger., January 24, 1879, Page 2, Image 2

PACIFIC CHRISTIAN
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FRIDAY, JAN. 24,
MESSENGER,
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1879.
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Moabites, Ammonites, Arabs, and the spiritual work and ordering of the the other, and Willson to Edinburgh i waiting for her dearly beloved Kitty
mongrel Samaritans, could annoy and soul in godlihess, in the eighth the to fill the chair of professor of moral I Mile*, she rushed precipitately home-
persecute the Jews without any at­ study of the word, in the ninth the philosophy at the University. The i The new hat, which had occupied all
Joshua, Nehemiah, and Daniel tempt at interference on the part of Christian’s faith confessing its weak­ house in which Paradise Lost was i her thought and attention before the
It was a ness, in the tenth the covenant- rela­ written has vanished long ago, and a I f morning service, was thrown care-
stand forth as the most s[K>tless the central authority.
characters in sacred history, of those gigantic task that lay before Nehe­ tion emphasized, in the eleventh the we know of it is that Milton sat at its i lessly aside; the gloves were wrung.
who lives are described at length. miah. A great city was to be forti­ systematizing of the advanced soul in door smoking, with his favorite daugh­ • from hai; nervous fingers; a fresh,
Of these three, no fault is recorded. fied in the presence of its bitterest the godly life, in the twelfth the ter and amanuensis beside him crisp note-book, with purple covers,
They all lived in trying times which foes, and that with his own people thapkful acknowledgment of God in Rousseau, Jeffery, Hood, Charles Lamb > which lay on the table in her own
called for decided action, but main­ largely indifferent, or in sympathy everything, and in the thirteenth the had no homes in which their great , room, was eagerly seized, and Miss-
tained throughout the integrity of with the enemy.' To rouse the Jews sad exhibition of the Christian’s fall works wei e written, in the same sense i Kathie sat down to remember what
their souls. Nehemiah partook of from their apathy, to fill them with a and need of the renewed influences of that Dickens and Scott had, and the i she could of the sermon.
rooms in attic stories or tenement
The little note-book, together with
the character of the other two. He pious patriotism, to give them zeal the Spirit.
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4
houses
have
been
profaned'
over
anc
When,
on
a
close
examination
of
a prettily bound volume of Thomas
was a commander of armed men, like and courage to expel the corruption,
Joshua, and he was a high state and defy the heathen plotters, was the book, we see how exactly this over again, no doubt, just as Abbots- k Kempis, had been two of Kathie’s-
officer in a Gentile kingdom, like far harder than to conduct an open outline is filled up, -we can hardly be- Jord.'the residence of Scott, was turned Christmas gifts from her mother. The
Daniel. He had the valdr of the war at the head of a willing army. lievp that such a spiritual application over to strangers when financial dif­ little note accompanying them had1
former, and the moral courage- of the It is far easier to lead soldiers than to was not intended in the recorded ficulties pinched its owner. Contrast« said:
with these is the home of Washington
“ Will dear Kathie put the Thomas
lead the hearts and thoughts of a history.
latter.
•Irving,
at
Irvington,
still
held
by
his
It
is
probable
that
Bunyan
took
hrs
it
Kempis
with her Bible, and read1
supine
people.
'
We are first introduced to him at
family
;
Tennyson
’
s
modest
cottage
in
“
Mansoul
”
from
the
study
of
this
thoughtfully
a few paragraphs in each
With
wonderful
magnetism,
1
added
Susa, where he occupied the lofty
the
Isle
of
Wight,
Longfellow
’
s
house
book.
To
one
who
will
read
it
de
­
every
day.
The little note-book
to
his
indomitable
perseverance,
this
station of cupbearer to Artaxerxes
in
Cambridge,
the
residence
ofEmerson,
voutly,
there
is
a
power
beneath
that
might
be
used
to
jot down any help-
pious
hero
pushed
his
mighty
task
(Longimanus), son of Xerxes, and king
and
the
lovely
villa
at
Soslyn
in
which
of
the
interesting
narrative,
which
ful
ideas
which
may
come to. her from
and
arrayed
the
chiefs
of
the
people
of Persia. Ninety years have passed
William
Cullen
Bryant
spent
the
long
will
instruct
and
comfort
the
heart
sermons,
books,
or
real
life.”
since the first monarch of Artaxerxes’ (even including those most hostile in
warm
evening
of
his
days.
amid
the
adversities
of
this
earthly
This
idea
of
keeping
a note-book
race permitted those of the Jews who heart to his holy enterprise) in solid
As
a
matter
of
fact,
genius
leaves
state,
teaching
it
,of
the
all-sufficiency
was
an
inspiration
to
a
girl
of Kathie’s
wished, to return and build their phalanx for building the walls and
few
material
monuments
behind
it,
ex
­
of
God
in
the
utter
weakness
of
man.
enthusiastic temperament, and she
temple and city. Only fifty thousand guarding the workers from attack.
cept where it is breathed into marble had been on the qai vive, ever since
of the millions of the Captivity With sleepless vigilance he watched —S. S. Times.
or on canvas. True, that Athenodorus she had received it, to find something
showed patriotism and piety enough every point of his work, urged every
and
his father live in the Laocoon, worthy of its pages.
From Mr.
to take advantage of this royal order man by his example and precept,
Authors’ Homes.
and- Phidias, Michael Angelo. Da H------ s sermon, she was sure she
with its large and liberal assistance. creating emulation and enthusiasm
Some of our readers may remember Tinci, Rubens and Christopher Wren could cull some gems of thought ‘r
These rebuilt the temple under the where before all was apathy, and so
the
lecture upon Dickehs, delivered by are still before us in their works. But hence her eager attention, and her
astounded
the
outside
foes
by
the
guidance of Joshua, the high-priest,
Edmund
Yates on the occasion of his of their active lives, apart from their haste to reach home before the best
rapid
accomplishment
of
his
purpose.
and Zerubabel (of the old royal line)
visit
to
this
country, and the picture labors like most of the geniuses of the thoughts had escaped her memory.
In
the
midst
of
this
energetic
pre-
as civil governor. But with the
of
the
house
and
grounds which he ex­ world they have left no trace. It is
Let us peep over her shoulder and ,
sure
of
the
wall-building,
when
any
temple rebuilt, they have lost their
to
be
regretted
that
literary
men,
either
hibited
on
the
stage.
It
was
very
see
what she writes.
,
other
mtn
would
have
absolved
him
­
enthusiasm. The walls and fortifica--
because
of
their
indifference
to
materi
­
characteristic.
The
house,
a
plain,
1. Text: We spend our years as a
tions of the city are in the ruin and self from thinking of any other <Juty
^dilapidation in which the Babylonians his grand soul undertook a thorough substantial brick structure, fronted on al possessions or their inability in most tale that is told.—Psalm 90: 9.
2. Meaning of text : We spend our
left them, a hundred and forty-two reform of the social life of Jerusalem. a lawn on which a merry party of instances to acquire them, should, ex­
cept
in
their
writings,
leave
so
few
ladies
and
gentlemen
were
enjoyingthe
years
in a self-absorbed, absent­
Debts
that
had
been
fastened
upon
years before. Instead of keeping
monuments,
for
who,
as
“
Satan
”
Mont
­
excitement
of
flirtation
and
croquet
;
minded
service. We do not awake to
the
people
by
the
fraud,
greed,
and
themselves separate from the heathen
gomery
expressed
it
—
”
against
an
angle
of
the
house
leaned
the
realities
of life, or think what we
violence
of
the
nobles,
were
annulled,
tribes who press upon them, especially
Can
tread
the
ground'by
genins
often
trod
can
do
for
others.
its
master,
enjoying
the
evident
enjoy
­
mortgages
freed,
slavery
abolished,
from the side of Samaria, they are
Nor feel a nature more akin to God ?
3. Remark: Each year stamps the -
yielding to the pernicious influences and all alliance by marriage with the ment of his guests and sipping a glass
To
say
that
they
leave
no
monument
quality
of our character.
of
wine.<
The
picture
was
extremely
of these pagan foreigners, and making heathen prohibited.
would
be
untrue,
for
words
like
Hor
­
characteristic,
and
familiarized
those
4. Remark : The best preparation
In all this ne acted in no timid or
alliances with them in marriage and
commerce. Both the temporal and halting manner, but with irresistible who saw it with Dickens and his ace’s are " monuments more durable I'or future emergencies is quiet fidelity
than brass,” but their material traces to present duty.
spiritual conditions of the Jews at decision, yielding not an irtfch to the work completely,
are
speedily obliterated. Hence the
This property was left to his eldest
5. Remark: In the retrospect, the
Jerusalem are sad for a pious soul wealth or nobility of those, whom he
regret
one
feels
at
learning
that
a
land
­
’
salmist
says, “ we spend our years.”
sen
and
namesake,
whose
recent
busi
­
rebuked.
to contemplate, Nehemiah, at Susa,
mark
so
famous
as
Gadshill
in
the
his-'
ness
failures
have
necessitated
a
sale
of
'n
looking
forward to the future, he
When
the
high-priest
’
s
family
and
is so pained by the special informa­
tory
of
English
literature
is
to
be
re
­
the
house
and
grounds
which
will
thus
says,
“
So
teach us to number our
those
who
bore
the
sacred
title
of
tion he received on these points from
moved,
for
Gadshill
without
the
name
pass
from
the
Dickens
family
within
days,
that
we
may apply our hearts
prophets
resisted
him,
he
hesitated
his brother Hanani, who has lately
of
Dickens
and
the
famous
sortie
by
nine
years
of
the
owner
’
s
death.
How
­
unto
wisdom.
”
not
for
a
moment,
but
swept
down
arrived from the long jonmey to
When her work was done, Kathie
Jerusalem, that his sorrow interferes upon these exalted personages like an ever, such a fate seems to be the usual Falstaff and his companion cutpurse
of
the
blood,
is
nothing.
In
a
minor
one
so
far
as
great
literary
men
are
ooked
over the neatly written page
and crushed their opposi­
with the cheerful conduct of his office avalanche,
1
way
it
was
something
german
to
Hol
­
concerned.
The
house
where
Shake-
i
with
great
satisfaction at its appear­
in ths royal palace, and arrests the tion by his promptness and decision.
land
House,
where
literary
genius
ance.
attention <5f the monarch. Then fol­ When he cast forth all the household speare lived at f^tafford-on-Avonisnow
“ There
she said to herself; " I
low the inquiry on the part of the 1 stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber of owned by the corporation, but itceased made its headquarters; where Greville
house of God, which the depraved to belong to the family very soon aftei1 tells us of his meeting with Macaulay; think I have done well to remember
king and tho explanation on thp impart the
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had preparedfor the his death. Newstead abby, the home and where poets, novelists and states- i str much; and it aH applies to me
of Nehemiah. The result is that high-priest
I
men met on equal ground. Its master every bit! I know I am absorbed in
Nehemiah is sent as tirshatha or Ammonite, and when he chased the of Lord Byron’s domestic life, still ex­
’s son from him because he ists, but is owned by none of his blood. on his death-bed contributed at least myself, and do not wake up to the
governor of- the Jewish colony in high-priest
1
had
married
Sanballat’s daughter, he At Twickenham still stands, and such one epigram, illustrative of the aspira- ] realities of life, or think what 1 can
Judea, with special privileges from 1
tions of the house :
do for others. Thomas a Kempis,
the king to assist his feeble corfl- ' was a grand picture of holy indigna­ cockney excursionists as know any­
Nephaw
of
Fox
and
friend
of
Gray,
too, says so much about self-forgetful­
thing
about
the
author
of
the
“
Dunci-
patriots. It is very probable that ( tion and godly firmness, commanding
Enough my meed of fame ;
ness
that it just frightens me! 1
ad
”
coniinu^
to
steal
wands
from
the
Nehemiah was of the Jewish royal < our admiration and applause.
If those who knew me best can say
wonder if my wise little mother didn’t
With all this heroic vigor and ex­ willows which overhang the bank of
family, and that some of the branches
I tarnished neither name.
give
me the book for that very
of this family were retained in the 1 ecutive power, Nehemiah was a man the Thames, but none of his family
—Brooklyn Eagle.
reason. Oh, I must learn to number
East by Cyrus and his successors for 1 of tender sensibilities. His heart was have had a title to it for many a long
with the' sufferings of his year; Burn's house with all its historic How the Sermon Helped Kathie. my days, and apply my heart unto
state reasons, while the rest were touched
1
wisdom
poor
brethren
; and in his movement traditions remains standing, but it is a
allowed to return to Jerusalem. This 1
BY ELIZABETH WJNTHBOP.
Here Kathie gave a deep sigh, as
tavern,
not
the
nursery
of
some
of
the
for
their
relief
he
refused
himself
to
would account for the presence of so 1
if,
like the patriarch Jacob, " the days
warmest
and
purest
sentiments
that
be
a
burden
to
the
state,
while
he
In
a
prominent
pew
of
a
fashion-
godly a man as Nehemiah at Susa, 1
of
the years of her pilgrimage ” had
ever
found
expression
in
verse
;
Smol
­
freely
poured
out
his
own
stores for
able city church sat Kathie Spenser,
when we should have expected him 1
been
one hundred and thirty years,
lett
’
s
house
in
Dumbartonshire
is
still
support of others.
on the last Sunday morning of the
to be in Judea, amid the religious the
1
instead
of sixteen.
His prayers to God, in which he in possession of his family, and forms year. Outside it was dark December,
privileges of the temple.
Then the busy thoughts ran on
upon the divine eye to behold an exception to the general rule. with a frosty, leaden sky, and a sharp,
The journey from Susa to Jerusa- calls
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wickedness of his enemies and his Thackeray’s house in Chelsea, is still cutting wind. Inside all was light again: “ I know, too, I’m always
lem by Tadmor, or by Tiphsah, is the
1
righteousness, aie not revengeful occupied by his family, if we mistake and warmth, and Kathie herself ilanning for great emergencies. It
over a thousand miles long, and at the own
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usual rate of oriental traveling would 1 nor conceited, but the earnest prayers not, but the habits of the genial author looked as fresh and dainty as an would be so grand to be a visitor of
prisons, like Elizabeth Fry; or to go
occupy at least forty-five days. With < of a true soul in the midst of fierce of " Pendennis.” were scarcely of the apple-blossom in spring.
where no false charity or false domestic type which would throw
As she fixed her great, dancing, about explaining the Bible to people,
the natural causes to retard so long a trials,
1
can have place. They are much sentiment around his dwelling. brown eyes on the minister, and ike Miss Smiley. Even to have a
journey, we may safely call it a two humility
I
like
the
ejaculations
of David and He was essentially a club man, which listened intently to the sermon, they class in the mission school would be
months’ travel.
Paul
under
similar
circumstances,
the Dickens waB not. Indeed, Dickens grew strangely soft, and an earnest, something; but Mr. H------ says that
Ezra,
his caravan of seven
—
——, with
—
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i.hmiaand person«, thirteen ygftcs ,!®Bß3.a£® J’fa brave spirit that trust» was luxurious in his domestic habits thpughttjd.]QftL^e..ftvsx tlic. laughs. .ik?....^s.L.J^.Ea.raliQn,...fo^
in
God
’
s
truth.
things
is
quiet
fidelity
to
present
to a remarkable degree, extravagant ing face. Kathie loved her pastor.
previously, was four months on his
It is interesting to see how ad­ in his sumptious style of living, in his He bad guided her into the fold of duty.
journey from Babylon to Jerusalem.
“ Then I suppose the next question
Nehemiah, as a man of high rank, mirably the Book of Nehemiah tells furniture, his personal adornments, tho Good Shepherd, and, when there,
and in the additions and improvements he never forgot that the lambs needed is, What is my • present duty ?’ Oh,
was escorted by a body of horsemen, the story of the soul’s renewal.
In the first chapter is the convic­ made at Gadshill, while Thackeray to be fed as well as the sheep. His I know I I’m so often late to lunch,
who probably continued with him at
tion and confession of sin and wret­ was extremely simple. Grassmere sermons were sufficiently practical or my hair isn’t neat, or I'm too lively
Jerusalem as a guard of honor.
Oriental governments have never chedness, in the second the determina­ where the “Lakes," as Louthy, Words­ and forcible to make his older hearers for Sunday. I will just fix my hair a
exercised much control over the in­ tion to rebuild with God’s grace, in worth and their frie nds were called by wise; but they were also so simple little, and try to be prompt at lunch,
ternal strifes of nationalities beneath the third the actual rebuilding of the Byron, will ever be identified hr that a young girt of. sixteen, ’ like an«l somewhat subdued, besides. That
their jurisdiction. So long^ as the soul’s defenses in sanctification, in thought with these two poets, whoso Kathie, could cayry home with her will please, papa, I know.”
provinces, pay their tribute, little the fourth the attacks upon the soul simple, tranquil lives are pictured in many thoughts and suggestions to
* Now, what is the next * present
effort has been made to preserve from without, in the fifth the assaults their verse, but De Quincy and Wilson, help her in the duties of her every -duty ?’ ” thought Kathie, when lunch
from within, in the sixth the sly who entered largely into the associa­ day life.
peace or ensure justice.
was over. " Oh, dear ! Itaust I begin
Kathie made her way into the open to study my Sunday school lessons
So we find that with all Nehemiah's temptations of the adversary in the tions of the place, went their respectivé
endorsement by the king, the sur­ guise of reasonableness, in the seventh ways, the one to frequent the country air with much more haste than usual, now ? It does seem as if it was
rounding ' provinces, composed of the successful accomplishment of the at large and be thé welcome guest of when the service was over. Not even enough to study all the week; but if
Nehemiah.
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