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PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1881 trouble on his heart because of the ' ego rattles away like an etnpty kettle. I have met with men and women who I we might specify other cases, but- poor suffering ones of earth. The The heart that opens itself to take in were not thought much of by the super- these will suffice. In this commercial age, the question poor starving friendless beggar at his the suffering, the weak, the troubled, | ficial and excitement-loving throng, , There is a principle involved aud “ Will it pay ?” The possibility of gate didn't even move him enough to the desolate, has but little chance to j who were never heard to blow their disregarded by these men in such accumulating a great amount in a relieve his wants. This rich man ' sound much. Some persons are all ; own trumpet, who were content to be conduct. “ 1 will do a thing if-1 have short life time, is a great stimulant, died by and by. He died rich, and say and no do. Jim Tomkins was a misunderstood and falsely judged, so full assurance that it will not be and men of great power are running a was buried. Lazarus died also, and ■ specimen ef this class. I never heard that they maintained a conscience found out on me,” seems to be the race, striving to excell. In this strug now our Lord lifts the veil, and tells ! Jim refuse to do anything ; he was void of offense both towards God and dominant rule with such men. The whole thing is untrue and sin- gle for great wealth, and the power it us to look yonder. There, the soul the foremost and most eager in accept towards man; and their service for l ful in the sight of God. They fear Christ, conducted patiently and in ing offered plans and calls for service. brings, men are apt to overlook other still exists. Jesus did nof mean by men more thar^ they fear God. How" silence, has been the very life and He held no end of honorary offices, interests^ aud especially the soul s “ lost soul ” annihilation. No, he had these men can preach one thing and salvation of the church and schools, i but his favorite offices were secretar eternal interests. just before, in the parable of the practice to the contrary, and be good! I wish such pure unselfish — workers j iats; and somehow he got elected into Reader, will you apply this question I prodigal son, presented a lost soul, Christians, I do not understand. were not in the minority.. How much ■ to religion ■ Ask yourself, M ill it I which was found afterward. All the them, for no man more fluently and more noble would be all Christian [ pay to be a Christian If a man intends to practice a thing 1 time he was lost he lived-in that far ! warmly advocated any new scheme Once, when Jesus was on earth, he off country, but he was away from ¡ than did Jim. A man who saw so labor, if every worker were so full of 1 it is much better for him not to con performed u stupendous miracle which his Father. He was dead, also, in the much good in it, and so many advan Christ and his will that the noise of' demn it. “ I swear, but I will not al ’ seemed to interest the multitudes same sense. This death was not an tages to be reached by i^—more far an empty soul, the sound of self, could low my boys to swear,” is a want of more than his other mighty woiks. nihilation, neither will the second than the promoters dreamed of, in never be heard. As the sun rise», and manhood. For a man to do a thing He made bread, out of a few-foaves, to death be. This rich man now is in fact—surely he is the best we can find the light of day calmly, stlrely, that he knows to be wrong, is for feed 5000'persons; and as a result a I torment, so Jesus taught, while the to fill the highly important and most silently sweeps the- chill darkness; him to sacrifice his manhood and his great many followed him. Jesus per poor man has changed sides; he is experimental office of secretary. Alas down the hill slopes,' across the ! religion. He is not honest with him for the confiding projectors of the new valleys, vnd over the seas, till day has self, nor with his fellow man. He ceived the/ had come because they now comforted. — hau eaten o.f the breau, anil he pro Here, flfen, is the answer, presented ■ scheme ' Jim unhesitatingly accepts taken the place of night over half the cannot therefore be honest in his reli ceeded to teach them “ to labor for the to view, to the question, “ What shall 1 the honor, and, that is all. Jim un- world at a time, so would the service gious life. The profession is a sham, a meat which endureth unto eternal it profit a man if lip gain the whole i dertook the collectorship for a society of the church silently and irresistibly solemn, hollow mockery. life.” But they persisted in the desire world and lose, his own soul?” The at a crisis in its history when, for its sweep back superstition, ignorance, j Men forget that God knows them, of knowing the art of making biead teaching of Jesus is peculiar in. this; stability and credit, it was necessary selfishness, and sin, until the world , and that they will be held accounta by this short process. They asked, he makes us see, spreads out before that all the tardy, overdue subscrip was free and full of the glory of God I ble for all their deeds, whether man “ What shall we do-that a« might the mind the truth We do not ar tions should be gathered in, and per if that church was free and full of the knows their true life or not. We work the works of God : Doubtless rive at it by a process of logic. He haps a few more new ones had best glory of God if that church wire itself cannot conceal our evil deeds from they reasoned, within themselves, that lifts us up, and draws aside the cur be secured. £>ad to say that, when full of the God of glory. 'There would I Him, the Searcher of ajl hearts. ..What I if they could only, learn the ait ol tain and we gaze upon it. Seeing the the next meeting came, when the be no toiSQ, but there would be a wo really are, we ought to be before making bread-in this way it would truth, let us be wise, and convert the members hoped triumphantly to wipe blessed change seen and felt. Let us all men. All shams and hypocrisies „pay biy. They would’not, any longer, " unrighteous mammon ’’ into _tbc cur off the liabilities, and stait afresh, see to it that the warning note of the ought to be cas-t away forever. We be under the., original curse, the ne rency of the soul’s country, before we without burden of. debt- or dishonor, proverb may have personal ami prac ought to show our colors, and bo true ó cessity-of eating bread by the sweat go hence. Then we will have the there was no Jim present—only a tical use, as we read that “ Empty to men, or assure our places on the short note brought by a lad from the vessels make most •nuise/’.-^-A’nr/iisA other side.— Ex. of their faces. If they had been in ¡.true riches. ----- • ~, new Band 7>r Hope which Jim had Paper. possession of scientific facts, as now,( J. H. M c C ollough . ...... V been asked to organize, saying, that they could have reasoned ; we are sur “ I am Not Known.” The Seven Wonders of the World. “Empty Vessels Make Most pressure of engagements had prevented rounded by'an ocean of. food. lhe , Noise. ” the application to a single subscriber ! air and water is food; a large per Many times persons do things be-, The ancient world had its seven Jim wasvon the Sunday school roll, Of cause they, are almost certain that cent is nutricieus matter. Food is > Polly Parker was a widow. She wonders, which were much talked * drawn from these great reservoirs by had been a widow longer than she had course, a» a teacher. The patient, they are not known. They would be about, and which people traveled vegetation and assimilated for animal enjoyed the blessings of married life ; long suffering superintendent had, ashamed to do the same things in hundreds of miles to see. But the I life ; and now, this man has found out but, if you heard her talk, (and had however, to find the class a teacher the town at their own homes. “It seven wonders of ot>< time are more hew to draw it directly from the air, I not previously had acquaintance with three Sundays out of five. The name will not bo found out, and therefore I useful and quite as remarkable. T and give it to us in a palatable and her), you would think “ the dear de- of Jim Tomkins figured in the church will do it,” has been in the minds of The seven wonders of the world digestable form. We want to know parted ” had only just bidden her fare book, and appeared upon the sub many persons. How is it that men Were : - j / scription list of every agency in thé can go to places, and engage in busi how to work this way. well and gone into quieter resting First, the Kgvptiap pyramids ; the But Jesus taught them to believe places. Those, however, who had church’s sphere of operation. But ness that they would scorn at home, largest of these is 693 feet square and on him whom the Father had sent, known Polly for the nine years of her Jim's pastor was not long in noting 1 cannot understand. 460 feet high, and its base covers 11 and they should have the true bread widowhood, and had also known her that Jim was all tall: and nodo; his A story was told me not Ions since acres of ground. place in the church was as often of a prominent preacher and editor which came down from heaven. during the three years in which she Second, the Mausoleum erected to empty as it was filled. In fact, Jim attending a circus in Chicago. He On another occasion, Jesus called could claim Aaron Parker as her law Mausolus, a king of Caria, by his the people together and asked a ful husband, were apt to smilfe in visited every church and chapel within opposed all such things at home and widow, Artemisia; it was 63 feet long a wide circle, and was as< muffh at in his paper. For a quarter of a cen question, " What shall it profit a mau wardly while she expatiated upon the and 35 feet, high. - if he shall gain the whole world and virtues of the dead, and the one-time home in one place as the other. Jim tury his voice had been raised against Third, the Temple of Diana, at lose his own soul ?” "Or what shall was a very empty vessel, hence4 the such innovations and wickedness. But felicity which she had herself enjoyed. Ephesus ; this was 5^6 feet in length --------- •” ~ -----------~~‘i— a man jpve in exchange for his souTT when he was away from home, where and 220 feet in breadth The facts would scarcely recognize Here is the world’s great question of their dressing if they were conscious There is not much noise where there •“I am not known,” he spends" the Fourth, the wall and hanging gar loss and gain applied, in view of two , beings, as they heard themselves is a real and valuable treasure packed Lord’s money ” and patronizes the dens of Babylon; these walls are - toorids. described. And Aaron, if he could away. I can not hear much sound, circus during the day, and at night stated by Herodotus to have been 87 Wise business men often invest hear from that deep quiet which, after as I look upon the beautiful Hower, takes another with him. If he had feet thick, 250 feet high, and 50 miles time and money with the view of gain three years of incessant noise, he had gradually opening its perfume foun thought the dear people would have in length, and the statement is deemed in after years. The Savior only ex- j happily gained, would be astonished tains and giving its fragrance to the known it—well, he would have stay credible by modem antiquarians. tends the time to the next world. He even more than his surviving friends gently whispering breeze. The ripen ed away. I suppose he did not think Fifth, the Colossus at Rhodes-;~this asks us to base our calculations on the were, to hear ef the wonderful ex ing fruits that smile in the quiet sun while listening to the foolish harangue was a brazen statue of Apollo, 105 whole period of life. We acknowledge cellent qualities whichdijs spouse had shine make no noise as they prepare of the clown, “ 1 am now doing this, feet in height standing at the mouth the wisdom of sacrificing ease, and in- I always known him to possess; and to pleasure and feasting for the taste. all in the name of the Lord Jesus; of the harbor of Rhodes. vesting money noir, for the benefit of hear also of the deep and tender affec All real growth is silent. True, deep, that Jesus, if on earth, would He pa Sixth, the statue of Jupiter Olym after year». All successful business tion and exalted reverence with unselfish love ncecs no loud protesta tronize a thing of this kind ?” He pus, at Athens, which was made of men do this. The wisdom, which was , which he had always been by her re tions, and could not utter them were may have gone “ to see the dear ani ivory and gold, and was Wonderful for greater than Solomon’s, looks further. ■ they required. I have set a higher mals Who knows what his inten its beauty rather than its size. Solomon was a very wise man in the garded. As a fact, poor Aaron had value upon the silent'pressure of a tion was ? But then I cannot under passed to his'rest with a sigh of relief Seventh, the Pharos of Ptolemy field which lay " under the sun ;” and dear hand than upon a whole volume stand nis position, aud this circus go Philadelphus; this was a light-houso that at last his much-enduring wife he is careful to tell us, in ail his writ would be free from such a worthless, of assurances and assertions that have ing. He either sinned in going, A 500 feet high, on the island of Pharos, ings, that he is considering things or even worse than worthless, com come glibly from the lips of another his teaching that others should not go at Alexandra, in Egypt ; a wood fire, “ under the sun;’’ but Jesus came to panion as she had always insisted he person ; for an empty vessel makes to such places was untrue. being kept burning on its summit tell us of things above the sun. He J Another man, a preacher, goes to during the night to guide,ships into #■ was to her; and he himself would be most noise. Loud professions of friend I came to show us that true wisdom free from the unwearied, unending, ship are suspicious. True friendship one of our cities and patronizes the the harbor. was a course of conduct with reference stream of fault-finding and petulalK reveals itself in unostentatious deeds, theater, or some place of amusement. The seven wonders of the world to the whole future. The wisdom of dissatisfaction with everything he said but will generally be confu&d and He is a Way from home and " 1 am now are : The art of printing ; optical Jesus reaches on into eternity. This | or did, or did not say or do. The stammering if required to advertise not known,” and what harm is there instruments, such as telescopes and application of the world’s great ques truth was that Polly,did not mean itself in words. Sympathy is silent in it ? He would hate to see the microscopes ; gun-powder ; the steam- tion of profit and loss, was new ; men one-tenth of what she said to and of oftencr than vocal, but you can feel members of his church patronize such engipe ; labor-saving machinery ; the had not been accustomed to look her husband when he was alive, and its presence when no sound escapes institutions. He would much rather electric telegraph ; and the photo further than the grave. The wisest she did not mean one-fiftieth of what the lips, and its soothing power in they4would not go there; but' when graph.— Ex. of them shaped their business so as to i she said about him, and her married that quiet sacred calm is almost he is away from home he can go, and cover this period. Or if they looked experience, and her present feelings of Divine. If a man is full of God he enjoy the play with a great deal of further, it was in the interest of their, Consumption Cured. loss and desolation, now that he was has not over much to say about his solid comfort S’* children in this world. religion, the theme is too sacred, too Here comes a temperance man, a In the parable of the rich man and dead. " Empty vessels make most precious, too great and awful, too real An old physician' retired from practice practice brother in the church, to the city ; he having had placed in bis hands by an East Lazarus we may see the whole field of noise.” Polly is a representative of a to be expressed in words ; but there does not feel very well, and he thinks India missionary the formula of a simple human existence brought into view. very large class of persons of both remedy, for the speedy and per- is a light in his eye, a calm on his a little brandy dr wine will help his vegetable uiaueut cure tor consumption, bronchitis^' ‘ We may see the answer to the Lord’s sexes, and of social positions. There brow, a joy in his smile, a beauty in head 1 He has lost his appetite since catarrh, asthma, and all throat and lung, question brought out by striking con are, unfortunately, many empty also a positive and radical cure' his character, a holy power in his life, leaving home ! It will cost a dollar affections, for nervous debility and all nervous oomx ■ trasts. First, we have a man who ▼easels—human vessels—that ought that silently but irresistibly glorify or two to get a prescription from an plaints, after having tested its wonderfn» has the whole world, or at least, so to be full and running over. If I hear God. powers in thousands of cases, has- M. D, and therefore he just steps into curative felt it hie duty te make it known to his- much of it as he could enjoy. " He an individual who can scarcely get The best service for Christ and his a clean, decent saloon, and j>ays over suffering fallows. Actuated by this mo* faired sumptuously every day.” How through a sentence without intro and a desire to relievo human suffer a dime or so for his medicine. At tive, ing, I will send, free of charge, to all who- much more can oar money kings of ducing the first person singular, I am church is the least obtrusive. Those who make m<>st fuss, and demand home he would not condescend to be deaire it, this recipe, with full direction» to-day do ? Then, “ he was clothed pretty sure of an empty vessel, and preparing aud using, in German. guilty of such a mean thing. At for French, or English. Sent by mail by ad These am regretfully aware that I am in for most notice, and claim most acknowl in purple and fine linen, edgment, are the least valuable of all home he talks of the evils <>t intem dressing with stamp, naming this paper. were the finest fabrics ef that. age. noise. Selfish people are not full W. Hhsrar, 14V rower's Block, Roch the laborers in the vineyard of Jeaua. perance and dram drink ing. And so W. ester. N. T. Then he wasn’t the man to take people, and their little insignificant Loss and Gain. --------------- r «. ------------