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“What. a friend we have in Jesus.” Sang a. little child one day; And a weary woman listened [o the darlings happy lay. All her life seemed dark and gloomy, And her heart was sad with care; Sweetly rang out bebyts treble, , L___ ’9 “Ivvvv-J .‘v-: v..- _.,, "All our sins and giiefs to bear.” She was pointing out the Saviour, Who could carry every woe; And the one who sadly listened Needed that dear Helper so! Sin and grief were heavy burdens For “fainting soul to bear; But the baby, singing, bade her “Take it to the Lord in prayer.” With a. simple, trusting spirit, Weak and worn she turned to God, Asking Christ to take her burden, As he was the sinner’s Lord. Jesus was the only refuge, He could take her sin and care, And He blessed the weary woman When she came to Him in prayer. And the happy ohild, ‘still singing, 1..- â€"Little knew she had a part In God’s wondrous work of bringing Beace unto a troubled heart. THE KNELL OF NINEVEH. our cruwdved cities ; but gardens wreathe the homes of private citizens with tropical blaze of colos, wet with the spray of fall- ing waters, and there are pasture fields, ‘ ' - ' ' J , A. 0n the banks of the Tigris there is a great capital, sixty miles in circumference surrounded by a wall broad enough to al- low three chariots to go abreast; fifteen hundred turrets, each two hundred feet high, carrying aloft the grandeur of the city. There are six hundred thousand inhabitants. The metropolis is not like “ Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.” Jonah 3 : 4. Iu' vvw‘vâ€"v, w on which cattle browse, in the very midst of the city. It is a delicious climate, even in midsummer never rising to more than seventy degrees. Through the gates of that city rolls the commerce of eastern and western Asia On its throne sits Sardanapalus. his every meal a banquet, his every day a coronation. There are polished walls of jasper and chalcedony, bewildering with arrow-head inscriptions and scenes of exciting chase and victor- ious battle. There are mansions adorned with bronze and vases and carved statues of ivory, and ceilings with mother-of pearl, and mantel enamelling, and floors with slabs of alabaster. There are other walls with sculptured flowers, and panell- ing of Lebanon cedar, and burnished cop- per, and doorways guarded by lions. The city roars with chariot wheels, and clatters with swift hoofs, and is all a-rush and ablaze with pomp and fashion and power. The river Tigris bounds the city on one side, and meat and turretted wall bound it on the other sides, and there it stands, defiant of earth and heaven. Fraud in her store-houses. Uncleaaness in her dwellings. Obscene display in her theatres. Iniquity everywhere. Nineveh the mag- nificent. Nineveh the vile Z NINEVEH THE boomer)! One day a plain-looking man comes through the gate into that city. He is sunburned, as though he had been under the browning process of a sea voyage. In- deed, he had been wrecked, and picked up by such a lifeboat as no other man ‘ - â€"Lâ€"1-’_ c..- .....a ma"... “y w -..-__ ever rode inâ€"a whale’s fins and flukes being to him both oars and rudder. The man had been trying to escape his duty of preaching a disagreeable sermon ; but now at last, his feet strike the seat of that city. No sooner had he passed under the shadow of the Wall and entered it than, clearing his throat for loud and distinct utterance. he begins ; and the water-ear- rier sets down his lug, and the charioteer out of the market-places and to the gates to listen to the strange sound. The king invites the man to tell the story amid the corridors of the palace. The courtiers throng in and out amid the statues and pictures and fountains, listening to THE STARTLIXG MESSAGE .‘ "‘ Yet forty days, and lNineveh shall be overthrown.” “ What is that fellow about 2" say some of the people. “ Is he a madman escaped from his keepers? He must be an alarmist. who is announcing his morbid fears. He ought to be arrest- ed, and put in the prison of the city.” But still the man moves on, and still the cry goes up : “ Yet forty days, and Nine- veh shall be overthrown.” There is no madness in his eye, there is no fanaticism in his manner, but only a Divine author- ity. and a terrible earnestness, which finally seizes the whole city. People rush from place to place and say : “ Have you seen that prophet '3 What dues he mean? Is it to he earthquake, or storm, or plague or besiegement of foreign enemy ?” -nv- â€"- -‘ reins in ”the steeasrrand the soldiers on the top of the wall break ranks to look and listen, while his voiee shivers through “lulu 113L611, vv Ian-v n-n-v - v-vv v--_v __~ __,_v 7 the avenue, and reverberates amid tile dwelling of putentate and peasant, as he cries out. “ Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be over-thrown Z” The people rush C..z"s, and \i210\ e.) 3‘) Godhardthatcry. Sardanapalus puts off his jewelled array and puts on mourning, and the whole city goes down on its knees, and street cries to street, 'u.d temple to temple and the fif~ teen hundred turrets join the dime : " Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.” A black covering is thrc‘wn over the horses and the sheep and the cat- tle. F oruge and water are kept from the dumb brutes so that their distressed bel- lowings may make a dolorous accompani- ment to of six hundred thousand souls. who wring their hands, and beat their temples, and throw themselves into the dust, and de- plnrc their Jain, crying out, “Yet: forty days, and Nineveh shall he nverthrnwr,” SUNDAY READING. The Blessmg of Song. Sermon by Dr. Talmage. THE LAMENTATIOZT from the affairs of eternal state, and lie- tened. He said : “ Stop ! I must go down and save that city. It is repenting and cries for help, and they°shall have it. and Nineveh shall live.” Then the pee le took down the timbrels. and loosened t e foot of the dance. and flung new light on the panels of alabaster, and started the suppressed fountains, and the children clapped their hands; and from Sardana- palus on the throne, clear down to the keeper of the ‘city gate, were brown-faced Jonah first went in with his thrilling mes- Uvuunn "luv u v“- __ sage, there were song and laughter and congratulation and festivity and jubilee. “ And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way ; and God re- pented of the evil that He had said He would do unto them ; and He did it not. THE LIMIT OF PROBATION. I learn, in the first nlace, from this sub- ject the precision and punctuality of the Divine arrangement. You will see that God decided exactly the day when Nine-~ veh’s lease of mercy should end. If Jonah preached that sermon on the first day of the month, then the doom was to fall upon N ineneh on the tenth day of the next month. So God decides what shall be the amount of our rebellion. Though there may be no sound in the heavens, He has determined the length of His en- durance of our sin. It may be forty days, it may be forty hours, it may be forty minutes, it may be forty seconds. The fact that the affairs of God’s government are infinite and multifarious is no reason why He should not attend to the minu~ tize. God no more certainly decided that on June 15, 1215, England should have her Magma Charm ; nor that on the 4th of July, 1776, the Declaration of Indepen- dence should go forth ; nor that at half- past 11 o’clock at night on the 14th of December, . I7 79, George Washington should die ; nor that forty days after Jonah preached that sermon, Nineveh’s chance for mercy should end unless she repented, than He has decided the .â€"-point between which you and I cannot pass and still obtain the Divine clemency. What careful walking this ought to make for those who are unsaved, lest. THE HOUR-GLASS OF OPPORTUNITY be almost empty 3 Men and women do not lose their souls through putting 03 re- pentance for ever, but only by putting it off one second after the time is up They propose to become Christians in mid-life. but they die in youth; or they propose in old age to be Christians, but they die in mid-life ; or on the forty-first. day they will attend to the matter, but on the fortieth Nineveh is overthrown. Standing on ship's deck amid a coil of chains, sailors roughly tell you to stand back if you do not Want your limbs broken, or by the chains be hurled over- board ; for they are going to let out the anchor, and when the anchor does go the chains make the deck smoke with their speed. As swiftly our time runs away from us. Now it seems coxled all around us in a pyramid of years and days and minutes. but they are going, and they will take us otl' with their lightning velocity. If I should by some supernatural revela- tion to-dziy tell you just how long or how brief will be your opportunity for repen- tance and salvation, you Would not believe me. You would say : “ I shall have ten- fold that time ; I shall have a hundred- fold that time.” But you will not have more : you will have less. You have put off repentance so long that you are going to be very much crowded in this matter of the soul‘s salvation. The corner of time that is left you is so small that you will hardly have room to turn around in it. You are like an accountant ,who has to have a certain number of figures added up by 4 o’clock, in the afternoon. It. is two full, round hours’ work, and it is a quarter past 3 o’clock, and yet he has not begun. You are like a. man in A CASE OF LIFE AND DEATH, five miles from the depot, and the train starts in thirty minutes. and you have not harnessed the horse. You are like a. man who comes to the bridge across the Nauga- tuck River in time of a freshen. The cii- cumstances are such that he must go across. The bridge quivers, the abutment begins to give way ; but he stands and halts and waits, until the bridge cracks in twain and goes down, hoping then that on the floating timbers he may get over to the ether shore. God is not looking inertly and unconcernedly upon the tosi- tion you occupy. Just as certainly be there is a bank to the East River, just so certainly there is a bank to the river of your opportunity. The margin is fixed. There will be a limit to God’s forbear- ance. "‘ Yet forty days, and N ineveh shall be overthrown.” Still further: I learn from'this sub- ject that religious warning may seem preposterous. Now, we think that our city is safe from all foreign invasion. We have Fort Hamilton, the Battery, Fort Lafayette, and half a dozen strongholds, but the city of Nineveh had fifteen hun- dred turrets, and they were all strong- holds. Then it had for a natural defence the Tigris, and it was not an easy thing for an army to swim across that river under the shadow of a wall on which stood a defending army ; and yet it was through that impregnable city that Jonah went, uttering the warning words of my text. It must. at .first have seemed preposterous to a. great many of the people. So it is now, that religious WARNING SEEMS AN ABSURIHTY. It is more to them a Joke than anything else. “ Repent? Prepare '! W as there ever a man with stronger health than I have '1 Vismn clear hearing alert. lungs stout, heart steady. Insurance companies tell me I shall have seventy years of life. My father and mot-her were both long- lived. Feel the muscle in my arm." Ah. my brother, it is not preposterous when I come out to tell you that you need to make preparation for the future. I have noticed that it is the invalids who live on. They take more care of their health, and so they outlive the robust and athletic. I hme noticed, in my circle of acquaintan- ces for the last few years, that five robust and athletic men go out of life to one in- valid. Death prides himself on the strength of the thistle he takes. " Boaéb THE WATCHMAN. LINDSAY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY I3. 1890. not thyself of the morrow, for thou know- est not what a day may bring forth.” Dr. Eddy, the eloquent missionary. secretary, died from swalloWinga= small flake of an oystershell, Emilius Lepidus lost his life by having his toe wounded. A splinter may be lancet sharp enough to bleed our life away. Look out ! The . slip of a railway train from the track, the rush of a runaway horse through the street, any one of ten thousand perils, may be upon you. “ In such a day and hour as ya think not, the Son of man cometh.” Your opportunity for repentance 18 almost over.” “ Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown." "gtill rfurther : V I learn from my subject ; that God gives every man A FAIR CHANCE FOR HIS LIFE. The iniquity of Nineveh was accumulat- ing. It had been rolling up and rolling up. There the city layâ€"~blotched, seeth- ing. festering under the sun. Why did not God put an end to its iniquity? Why did not God unsheath some sword of lightning from the scahbard of a storm- cloud, and slay it '1 Why did He not with some pry of an earthquake throw it into the tomb where Caracas and Lisbon now lie ? Why did He not submerge it with the scorn of His indignation, as He did Herculaneum and Pompeii? It was because He wanted to give the city a fair chance. You would have thought that thirty days would have been enough to repent in, or twenty days. or ten days. Aye, you would have said : “ If that city don’t quit its-sin in five days it never will.” But see the wide nmrgin. Listen to the generosity of time. “ Yet forty days ! to Nineveh. They had one prophet. You have heard the voices of fifty. They had one warning. You have had a thous- and. They had forty days. Some of you have had forty years. Sometimes the warnings of God have come upon your soul soft as the breath of lilies and frankin- cense, and then'agam as though hurled from a catapult of terrific providence. God has sometimes led you to see your unsaved condition while you were walk- ing amid perils, and your hair stood on end, and you stopped breathing ; you thought your last moment had come. Or, through protracted illness, He al- lowed you in many a midnight to think over this subjectâ€"when all was still save the ticking of the clock in the hall and the beating of your own mxious heart. Warned that. you were a sinner. Warned that you needed a Divine Saviour. Warn- cd of coming retribution. Warned of an eternity crowded with splendor 01' catas- trophe. Warned by the death of those with whom you were familiar. \VARNED DAY AFTER DAY, and month after month, and year after yearâ€" warned, warned, warned! ()1) my dear brother, if your soul is lost, in the day of judgment you will have to acknow- ledge “no man in Brooklyn ever had a better chance for heaven than I had. I was preached to, and prayed for, and di~ vinely solicited. I was shewn the right, and fully persuaded of it; but I did not act and I did not believe, and now, in the presence of a burning earth any a fly- ing heaven, I take the whole responsibility. Hear me, men I angels ! devils !-â€"I took the life of my own soul; and I did it so thoroughly that it is donefor everf‘, And now I trudge off over the hot desert and under the burning sky-â€"a suicide! A suicide 3 Yes, I think you have all been warned; but if, up until this very hour, you have happened to escape such intima- tion, to-day I ring it in your ears: “Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be over- thrown !” Be frank, my brother, and confess to- dny that God is giving you a. fair chanee for agfety, _a bet_1_:§r chfmce than He gave Still further: I learn from this subject that when the people repent, the Lord lets them 03'. While vet Nineveh was on its knees. and Ssrdanapalus sat in the ashes, and the unfed cattle were yet moan- ing the air. and the people were yet deplor- ing their sin, God reversed the judgment and said: “Those people have repented. Let them live!" And the news flew. The gardens saved. A belt of sixty miles of city saved. Let the news be flung from one wall t1: the other; from the east wall, clear over to the west wall. Let the bells ring. Let the cymbols clap. Let flags be flung out from all the fifteen hundred tur- rets. Let the king’s lamplighters kindle up the throne room, “And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that He had said that He would do unto them; and He did it not.” In short, WHEN A SINNER REPENTS. God repents. The one gives up his sins; the other gives up His judgments. The moment that a man turns to God, the re- latinn of the whole universe toward him is changed, and the storms, and the light- nings, and the thunders, and the earth- quakes, and the gmndeurs of the judg- ment day, and the realities of the eternal world, all become his co-adjutors. God and the angels come over on his side. Repent, give up your sin and turn to God and you will be saved. “Ah,” says some one, “that’s a tough thing to do.” “I have been drinking,” says some one; or, “I have been unchaste,” says Some one; or, “I have been blasphemous,” says an- otl er; or. “I have been Sabbath-breaker,” says another; or, I have a hard heart,” s-tys another, “and now you ask me to give up my sin. I cannot do itâ€" and I won’t do it." Then you will die. Thatis settled. But somebody else says: “I will give up my sin, and I will now take the Lord for my port-ion.” You will live. That is just as certainly settled You will l‘U-Llity either have to fling away sin or fling away heaven. The one is a huskâ€"- the other is a coronet. The one is a groan â€"â€"the other'is an anthem. The one is a stingâ€"the other is an illumination. , Christ’s fair complexion, of which his contemporaries wrote, is gone, and his face is red, and His hands are red, and His feet are red with the rushing blood of His own suffering endured to get you out of sin, and death, and hell. Oh, will you today implore Him to let. His suffering him the place of your ill-(lasert? lf you will, allih well, find you may begin v" twist garlands for your brow, for you are » ALREADY A VICTOR. All heaven comes surging upon your soul in the announcement: “There is no con- demnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.” Now, will you do it ‘1 I care nothing for a sermon unless it has an ap- plication, sad this is the applicatyon: will you do it? “Ah,” says some one. “1 be- lieve that is right. I mean some day to surrender the entirety of mv nature to laun- â€"__..-_ God. It is reasonable. I mean to be a Christian but not now.” That is what thousands of yOu are saying. I am afraid that if you do not give your heart to God --â€".~â€" __ d _ to-night, you never will. You may have heard of the ship Rebecca Goddard, that came near one of our ports one day in win- ter. They were all scoured up and ready for the landing, when coming almost into the harbour, and ice-flee took the ship and pushed it out to sea, and it drifted about two or three days, and there was great suffering, and one was frozen dead at his post. How near they got into the har- bour and yet they did not get in ! How many there are here to-day who feel they are almost in the harbour of God’s mercy. Why do you not come ashore, lest some ice floe of sin and worldliness drive you out again to sea, and you die in the rigging? I throw you this rope to-day. I hurl you this warning. Make fast to heaven now. This moment is vanishing. and with it may go everything; and so I run up and down through this audience with the ban- ner of the cross: Rally, immortal men, rally! “But," says some One in the house. "‘ I won’t take ynnr advice. I’ll risk it. I defy God! Hero I take my stand, and I asknn odds either (f earth or heaven.” Let me tell such tha: ynu are in an, battle where “Yet forty days?” Perhaps thirty days. Perhaps ten days. Perhaps three days. Perhaps one day. The horses that drag on that chariot of doom are luthered with the foam of a great speed, and their hoofs clip fire from the flimsy road, and their nostrils throb with the hot lmsce as they dash on Get out of the way or the wheels will roll over you. You cannot endure the ire of an incensed God. Throw yourselves down on your knees now and pelt the heavens with blood-red cries for mercy. The terminal chance is going; the last. chance is going, going. Oh, wake up before you Wake up among the lost. May God .4 lmighty, by His eternal Spirit,wake you up! THE CU BFEW BELL struck 9 o’clock at night, and she thought that if she could keep that bell from ring- ing for a little while her lover and friend Would be spared. And s) under the shad- ow of the night she crept. up into the tower and laid hold of the tongue of the bell. After awhile the sexton came up to the tower and put his hand on the rope and waited for the right moment to Come; and then by the light of his lantern and his watch he found it was 9 o’clock, and he seized the rope and he pulled. and the bell turned, but in silence, and the maid- en still held on to the tongue of the bell swingingr back and forth wildly through the belfry, and the curfew bell rang not, and so time was gained and pardon arrived and a precious life was saved. Oh, it seems to me as if there were those here doomed to death. You have condemned yourselxes. It seems to me as if the deathâ€"knell of your immortal soul were about to strike. The angel of God’s jus- tice has his hand on the rope, and yet I seize the tongue of that bell, and I hold on, hoping to gain a little time, and I cry out: “0 God not yet! not yet l” hoping that time may be gained, and pardon may fly from the throne. and your soul may live. May the God that saved Nineveh save you! But some of you have put it off so long that I fear your time is up. There is a story running indistinctly through my mind of a maiden whose love was doomed to be put. to dead) when Trouble Brewing Among the Tory and Unionist Orangemen of Ulster. LONDON, January 31.â€"A row is brew- ing among the Tory and Unionist Orange- men of Ulster which threatens to assume serious proportions and endanger the Min- isterial representation from Ulster in the House of Commons. The trouble is not of recent origin, but lately many things have combined to hasten the ine\ iteble culmination of ill-feeling in an open rup- ture. Mr. Thos. W. Russel, the Liberal Unionist member for South Throne, has repeatedly given e'. idence of his inde- pendence of party dictation when the policy of the Government or the trend of party interest run counter to his convic- ticns, and the attempts of his colleagues to call him to account and whip him into line have unifnrmly been unsuccessful. In a recent speech Mr. Russell, irritated at the Ulster men for blindly following their political masters, to the prejudice of their own interests, roundly denounced them as blackheads, and characterized the Ulster commoners as a. party of deadheads on the Conservative train. These strictures ar- oused the ire of Sir Charles E. Lewis, conservative member for North Antrim, who retorted in terms anything but com- plimentnry to the fearless member for Tyrone. As Sir Charles wears the collar of Major Saunderson, the leader of the Orange party in Parliament, his arraign- ment of Mr. Russell may be regarded as an authorized party measure. Mr. Russ- ell has many friends, and the quarrel may end in a split, of which the Nationalists will not be slow to take advantage. The first-class French cruiser Dubour- dien has gone to pieces on the west coast of Africa. The official declaration gives the stand- ing of the political partles in Prince Ed- ward Island at 16 Government and 14 Op- position. Fire Marshal Drew, of W nshington, states his opinion that the fire in Secretary Tracy’s house originated from the exyln- «ion of an oval oil lamp. A ROW IN THE CAMP. YOU WILL BE WORSTED. We will sell for the next 30 DAYS our well known and selected stock at prices that will astonish every one. Our $35 Bed-room set for $25. 0111‘ $30 one for $23. OUR 3 Our $20 one for $15. Tea. 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