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:31 Be silent to God, let Him 11 LUTHER. ’13:] le_ssgn aft thou learr‘xgng. “'J “"’"'â€" "’* , v 0 tried and weaxg soul 3 His ways art thou iscerning Who works to make thee whole ‘3 In the haven of submission - Art thou satisfied and still? Art thou clinging to the Father, ’Neath the shadow of His will 1 Now while His arms enfold thee, Think well, He loveth best. Be still and He shall mould thee, For His heritage of rest. The vessel must be shapen For the joys of Paradise, 'Bie soul must have her training For the service of the skies ; And if the great Refine: In furnaces of pain Would do His work more truly, Count all his dealing“. gain. For He Himself hath told thee Of tribulations here ; Be still and let Him mould thee For the changeless there. From vintagespf sorrow ‘ ‘nv... - -â€"_-wc_ , Are deepest- joys distilled, And the cup outstretched for healing Is oft at Marah filled. God leads to joy through weeping, To quietness through strife, Through yielding into conquest. Through death to endless life. Be still, he hath enrolled thee For the kingdom and the crown ; Be silent, let Him mould thee Who calleth thee His own. Such silence is communion, Such stillness is a shrine; The fellowship of sufl‘ering An ordinance divine. And the secrets of abiding Most fully are declared To those who with the Master Gethsemane have shared. Then trust Him to uphold thee, ’Mid the shadows and the "loom; Be still and He shall mould t ee For His Presence and for Home. For Resurrection stillness There is Resurrection Power: And the prayer and praise of trusting May glorify each hour; And common days are holy, And years an Eastertide, For those who with the Risen One In Risen life abide. Then let His true love fold thee, Keep silent at His word ; Be still and He shall mould thee ; 0 rest thee in the Lord. It was the evening : in all probability it was the evening of a Sabbath-day. The J ews were so tender not to break the Sabbath that they did not even bring forth the sick to the Saviour until the even was come. The Saviour would gladly have healed them on the Sabbath-day, for that was to him a high day for holy work, but they did not think it right, and so they kept back their sick till the day was ended. If any of you have thought that the time has not come for you to approach, the Saviour, you have labored under a great error, for He would not have you delay for a single hour; but I hope you are now satisfied that you have waited long enough and that at last the evening A New Sermon by Pastor C. H. Spurgeon. “ When the even was come, they brought unto Him many that were posess- ed with devils : and He cast out the spirits with His word, and healed all that were sick : that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sickness.” Matt. 8 : 16,17. Whether it was a. Sabbath evening or n'rt, the day has been spent. in diligent labor; for our iS_av‘i_our tookueare, when HELP FOR YOUR SICKNESS Jesus. the people would listen to Him on the seventh day, to preach With all His might. As soon as the sun was up, He began to tell out saving truth. He was tired when evening was come, and He might have sought rest ; but insted cf that, they BROUGHT THE SICK T0 HIM to heal, and He must close up a weary day by a yet more arduous task. Until dark- ness had covered the earth, He must con- tinue still to scatter blessings right and left. At this hour our blessed Master has hid aside all weariness ; and now at even- tide He is waiting to bless. Whatever has been done during the day, yet, if some poor, weary soul has spurned the voice divine through all the former hours, He is waiting stnll to save, ere yet the sun has quite gone down. When even was come, they brcught untc Him' those that were sick. What a strange sight that evening saw 2 They brought forth to the Saviour those that were possessed of evil spirits, and those that were sick. They brought them on their mattresses, and laid them in the streets. It must, have been a very difficult thing to bring out some that were possess- Ulllll‘r; In"! Us 1“,}. vuv uva-v v - u v-v viiiâ€"IV“ ed, because they struggled and raved: but nevertheless they brought them. The streets were turned into a hospital, and in the still evening air you could hear the cries of those poor creatures who were possessed of exil spirits, and the moans of those in acute pain. 1t was asad sight, to look upon ; and as far as Christ’s eye could see, every nook and corner were oc- cu; dead with these sick people. But what 3 "10110118 thing: it must have been to see Him, the divine Physician with tears of pity in His eyes, and yet with beaming joy on His countenance, suflering intense- 1y all the while becausa of their suffer- ing, and yet joyous because He was able to bless them. That was one of the hap- Â¥iest ex enings that ever ended day in alestine. I. Let us notice, first, our Lord’s works of healing. On that occasion, and on others, he cured ALL $0318 01" SICKNESS. ‘ I think I am right in saying that: there SUNDAY READING. iii which you should come t6 .4; -v A PITEOUS SIGHT, wean). Stillness. 6.. let Him mould thee.â€" . v .5 \o which the Saviouy did not heal. ‘They "uluu Vuv V‘Vv-v _- may be known by new names, for they say the doctors have invented adozen new diseases lately, but they are only old dis- eases to which they have given new names. Our great-grandfathers died of diseases the names of which they never knew, or else they had other names than those which are given to them now. But as L,_ -1-....... LN“. “and: Han slump. man has always been much the same, most diseases have continued as long as the human race. We have to be very grateful that leprosy, which was the great. scourge of the. Jews, is almost ex- tinct now; but in our Saviour’s day it seems to have been exceedingly common. But leprosy and all forms of disease came under the Saviour’s power, and fled at his word. Now the parallel of that is thisâ€"Jesus Christ can forgive sins of all sorts. There are different grades of srn. Some are ex- ceedingly defiling and loathsome. Other sins are scarcely hurtful to the general commonwealth, and so are often almost unnoticed. Yet any sin will ruin a soul for ever. It may be thought to be little, but as a little prick with a poisoned arrow will heat all the blood, and bring on death, so is sin Such a venomous dieasa that the least of it is fatal. But from whatever kind of sin you are sufl‘ering, I would en- courage you to come to Jesus with it, be it what it may. Is yours an extreme case 2 Have you been grossly guilty ? Come with it, then, for our Lord healed the worst diseases. On the other hand, have you been kept out of gross sin from your early youth ’1 Have you been preserved from outward vice '2 It may be that YOUR CHIEF SIN is the forgetting of God, and living with- out love to Christâ€"a deadly sin. let me tell you ; but bring it to the Saviour. Have you been idle? Have you been proud ? Have you been lascivious? Have you been untruthful? Have you been profane"? Have you been malicious? I cannot tell but God knowethâ€"who can read your heart as readily as we read a book. But whatever the sin may be re- member that all manner of sin and of blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men. “ The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” Oh, hear this, and look up to the Saviour, and pray Him of His great mercy to exercise the healing art of His redeeming love on you, this evening, now that the sun has set ! They brought to Jesus all sorts of diseases. Note, next. that Jesus can deal with special cases of devilry. Possession with evil spirits was prob ,hly peculiar to that age. I sometimes think that, when the Saviour came down on earth, the devil had the impudence to ask to be let loose, that he and all his servants might, come on earth, and in person might meet the Saviour. Satan is still busy, going about seekingr whom he may devour ; but not exactly in the particular way in \thCh he raged in Christ’s day. He cannot take possession of men’s bodies as he did then. So the Saviour met Satan foot to foot, and face to face; but. the devil madea poor fight of it, for whenever the Lord Jesus made His appearance, the devil wanted to be off; and if he did not want to go, the Saviour soon moved him by saying," “ Come out of him.” The parallel to that is this. There aré‘ some men that we meet with, in whom the devil evidently reigns ; and there are such women, too-for when women are bad, they can be bad, and there can be no mistake about it. The devil can make more mischief out of a woman than out of a man when he thoroughly gets possession of her. Well, whether men or we men, there are some who might be called “ THE DEVIL’S owx.” One man is a. drunkard : there is no holding him ; he must drink on ; he seems to be infatuated by it. He takes the pledge, and abstains for a little while ; but by and by the devil gets hold of, him again, and he goes back to his taps. Though he has drunk himself into delirium tremeus, and to death’s door, yet still he gives way to this loathsome vice. Others are pessessed with the .leviI of lascivious- ness, and it does not. matter what they sufl'er, they will be always defiling them- selves, ruining body and soul by their in- iquity. We know persons who seem to have a devil in them in the matter of pas- sion. They are but a. little provoked, and they lose all command of themselves, and you would think that they ought to be put ‘ in a. padded room in Bethlehem Hospital, jand kept there till they -cooled down. ‘ Otherwise.they might do mischief to them- selves and to others. Surely some men, who can scarcely speak without swearing, have the devil in them. How one’s blood runs chill, in going down our streets, to hear how commonly our workingmen de- grade themselves with filthy conversation l It is not exactly cursing ' it is less honest, and more vile ! Is there any hope for such 2 These are the very peufile in \vhon Jesus has often displayed His healing power. I could tell you to-night of lions that have been turned to lambs, men of furious passions who have become gentle, and quiet, and loving, men of profane speech who would be shocked at the very remem- brance of what they once said, and whose voices have been often heard in prayer : men and Women, too, who loved the wages of iniquity, and lost their charac- ter, and dcfiled themselves ; but they are washed and they are sanctified. I have blessed the name ot God when giving the right hand of Christian fellowship to ran- somed ones to whom we could not have given our right hand a little while ago for ~ it would have been wrcng to join with them in the wickedness of their pursuits. {Oh. yes, my Master still casts devils out Uh. yes, my Master sun casts nevus out of men I If there are any such here to- night, let your cry for help go up to our blessed Master. Come again, great Lord, and cast out the evil spirit from men, and get to thyself the victory in many a. heart: to the praise of the glory of thy grace ! The remarkable point about this mira- cle-working was that all were healed, and THERE WAS N 0 FAILURE. When a man brings out a. patent medi- cine, he publishes verificatitms- of the ,n; THE WATCH MAN. "LR- i'. 2231'“ yer of rises, and hej‘advertises them. I sup- poserthey arétgénuine. I should not like to be hangedif they were not. I suppose, therefore, they are all accurate and au- thentic. But there is one thing which 1 you never knew a. medicine advertiser do: 1 he never advertises the failures of the medicineâ€"the number of persons that have been induced to buy ’ the remedy, and have derived no good from it : if these were all advertised it might occupy more room in the newspaper than those who write of a cure. My Lord Jesus Christ is a Physician who never had a failure yetâ€"net er once I Never did a soul wash in Christ’s blood without being made whiter than snow. Never did a man besotted with the worst of vice, trust in Jesus without receiving power to conquer his evil habits. He must save you if you trust in Him. As surely as He lives He must save you, for He has put it, “ Him ‘ that cometh to me I will in no wise cast 1 out.” I will repeat it, “ Him that cometh l to me I will in no wise cast out.” You i have never come, if He has not received {you ; for He must save those who trust in l Him. Notice, that His word was the sole medicine He used: “ He cast out the spirits with His word.” No other medi- cine, no charms, no long performances, no striking of His hand over the place ; but He spake, and it was done. He said to the devil, “Come out of him,” and it came out. He said to the disease, “ Go," and away it went. In that way the Lord saves men todayâ€"by His word. While I am speaking it to-night, or when you shall be reading it, His word will be the power of God unto salvation. I am glad that you are here to hear it, for faith cometh by hearing. I shall be glad if you diligently read it, for reading is a kind of hearing, and many are brought to the Saviour thereby. Jesus Christ does not need to put you through a long purgatory, and keep you for months getting ready to be saved. He has only this night to open your ear to hear His word, and when you hear it He can bless it to your soul sothnt you shall live. II. May God give you a hearing ear, and save you while I speak, seenn'dly, of our Lord'; personal power to heal’! Whence came it that He was able to save? We are pointed to THE SECRET OF HIS POW'ER by these Words, “ That it might be ful- filled which was spoken by Esaias, the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirm- ities, and bare our sicknesses.” Christ was able to heal the diseases of men be- cause He bare them Himself. Du not think that our Lord Jesus was actually diseased : He suffered greatly, but I read not that any disease was upon Him. Proh- ably there \‘ZiS nu man in whom there was less tendency to natural disease than in Him. His pure and blessed body was nut subject to the diseases which are brought on men through sin being in them. How, then, did He take upon him our sicknesses and our sorrows? First. He bare our sieknesses by intense sympathy. \V hen Christ looked at all those sick people, He did, as it Were, take all their sickness upon Himself. You know what I mean. If you talk with a person who is very ill, and you feel for him, you seem to lay his pains upon your- self, and then you have power to Comfort him. When I am seeing troubled people, I enter into one sorrowful case after another till I am more sad than any of them. I try as hard as far as I canto have fellowship with the case of each one. in order to be able to speak a word of comfort to him; and I can say, from per sonal e (perience, that I know of nothing that wears the soul down so fast as the outflow of sincere sympathy with the ser- rowing, desponding, depressed ones. I have sometimes been the means in God’s hand of helping a man who suffered with a desponding spirit; but the help I ha've rendered has cost me dearly. Hours after, I have been myself depressed. and I have felt an inability to shake it off. You and I have not the thousam’th part of the sympathy that was in Christ. He sym- pathized with all the aggregate of human Woe, and so sympathlzed that He made His heart a great reservoir, into which all streams of grief poured themselves. My master is just the same now. Though 1 He is in heaven, He is just as tender as He was on ealth. I never heard of any- body losing tenderness by going to ht aven. ‘ People get better by going there; and so is Christ, if it were possible, even more tender than when on earth. Think of this. Somebody might not sympathize with you poor sinner, but Jesus does. You would not like to tell some people what you have done, for they would turn upon their heel and give you a. wide berth, but it is not so with Jesus. He looks upon sin, not with the eye of a judge, but with the eye of a physician. He looks at it as a disease, and He deals with it that He may heal it. He has great sympathy with sinners, though He has no sympathy with sin. He takes- the sinner’s sorrows to Himself. THE IN VIIATION . “Ah!” says one, “no man careth for my soul.” Dear friend, man or woman, who- ever you may be, One greatly cares for you, and He speaks to you to-night by these lips. Oh, that these lips were bet- ter fitted to be used by him! He says, “Come unto Me, and 1 will give you rest.” He bids you take of the water of life freely. He is ready at this moment to bestow salvation. “Nobody knows my case!” cries one. But Jesus Knows it. He knows that dark spot in it. He knows , that dark spot which will not come away. \ He knows that filthy thing which you re- member to-night, and shiver as you re- member it. He knows it all, and yet he says, “Return, thou blacksliding daugh- ter.” He bids the vilest of the vale come to Him, for he has sympathy with them Still. 0 Jesus took upon Himself our sicknesses by His championship of our humanity. Satan misled our first parents, and the powers of darkness held us captive. In consequence of sin we have become sick and infirm, and liable to suffer. Now when our Lord Jesus came on earth. he as qnnd as said, “I am the Seed of the wo- 11441., “Ll -z LINDSAY, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 1890. ‘u bruise thu head 1“- b V of man’s adverSarg.” So Christ, in t} at respect, took upon Himself all the conse- quences which come of sin. He stood forth as the chémpion of faller. manhood, to fight Satan and cast him out of men’s bodies; to battle with disease and to over- throw: the evil which lies at the root of it, that men might be made healthy. He is our Champion still. I delight to preach Him to you, ye suffering, ye sor- rowing, ye sinful, ye lost, ye castaways! One has come who has taken up your. cause. the sinner’s Redeemer, next-of-kin to man, who has come to avenge Him of His adversary, and to buy back his lost: in- heritance. Behold in Jesus the Champion of sinners, the David who comes and de- fies the Goliath that‘has long afflicted men. Oh, I wish you would trust our glorious Champion! But here is the pith of the whole mat- ter. The reason why Jesus is able to heal All the mlschief that; sin has wrought in thisâ€"because He Himself took our sin upon Him by His Sin is the root of our infirmities and dis- eases; and so, in taking the root, He took all the bltter fruit which that root did ”bear. “All we like sheep have gone astray: we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” Hearken, then, ye guilty ones! Hear how freely God can forgive, and yet not injure His justice. If you trust God, you may be sure that you are among the number of those whose sins were laid on Christ. “But did He suffer in my stead?” I must answer this question by another, “Dost thou believe that Jesus is the Christ? Wilt thou trust thy soul with Him?” Well if thou dost, thy transgressions are not thine, for they were laid on Him. They are not on thee, for like everything else, they cannot be in two places at the one time, and if they were laid on Christ, they are not laid on you. But what did Jesus do with the sins that were laid on Him? Can they not come back to us? No, nev- er; for he tOok them to the sepulchre, and there be buried them for ever. And now, what saith the Scripture? “In those days and in that time, saith the Lord, the in- iquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah and they shall not be found.” “I have blotted out asa thick cloud, thy trans- gressions; and. as a cloud, thy sins.” “Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.” Our sins are gone. Christ has carried them away. “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our transgressions from us. Beliewrsare the seed fur whom the natmy has been mined. The) are the semi to whum the piomise is sure. It is not to thusc whn are of “urks, but to thuse 11110 are of faith. Those that me bmn .ng 1111 of the Spirit of God, through faith which 18 in Christ Jesusâ€"these are “redeemed £10111 among men. ’ Suppose I awed ten thousand pounds; if :1 friend I owed ten thousand pounds; if a friend should call on my creditor, and pay that ten thousand pounds for me, I should then :nve the creditor nothing. I could meet him with a smiling face. {e may to-mor- row morning bring his account books if he likes. and say, “There, you see, there are ten thousand pounds down there against you.” I Would joyful!y answm'. “Yes; but: look on the other side. You have been paid. Here are THE “'ORDS AT THE FOOT OF YOUR BILL, ‘Received in full of all demands.’ " Now when Jesus took the sins of believers upon Himself, He discharged them by His death; and every man that believes has the receipt in full in our Lords resurrection. “Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God.” Yea, those that believe in Christ have the complete for- giveness of every sin. As for me, I like to sing with Kentâ€"â€" Here‘s pardon for trans . essions past, It matters not how blac their cast: And 0 my soul, with wonder view, For sins to come here’s pardon too ! All blotted out at once with one stroke of the sacred pen-0bliterated once for all. God does not again lay to the charge of men what he has once forgiven them. He does not forgive them half their sins, and visit them for the rest; but, once given the blessing is irrevocable;as it is written: “The gifts and calling of God are without repentance.” He never draws back, nor repents of what He has done. He saves, and the salvation which saves is everlast- ing salvation. N ow I see why Christ can heal. Dear heart, you have come. here to-night full of the disease of sin, and you are saying, 'Will He heal me?” Look to Hun! Look, to Him! The morning that I found Christ I did not think to find Him. I went to hear the word as I had heard it before, but I did not hope to find Jesus there and then. Yet I did find Him. When I heard that there was nothing to be done but simply to 103k to Jesus; and when the ex- hortation came so sharp, and shrill, and clear, “Look I look! look!” I looked, and I bear witness to the change that passed over meâ€"such a. change as though I died and rose again. And such a. chmge my hearer, shall pass over. thee if thou be- lievest. There is life for a look at the Crucified One; There is life at this moment for thee. God give thee the look, and give thee the life, even now, for Jesus Christ’ 5 sake' Amen. The Hamilton Oddfellows are prepar- ing for an anmversary celebration of the order to be held in that city shortly. Ex-(J‘rovernor Foraker, of Ohio, said on Saturday that during the strained relations of 1887 over the Canadian fisheries ques- tion, he was asked by the War Depart- ment: how many men he could rush upon the Canadian frontier in case of an emer- gency. The Washington correspondent of the Mail says the information Governor Foraker refers to was asked by circular sent to all the governors, and was for the purpose of acquiring statistical know- ledge regarding the new militia force. and had no connection whatever with the fishcri :3 question. SACRED SUBSTITUTION. Our $35 Bed-room Sfiétif911$3i Come along and you will gel: a, Bargain. * ANflERSG?§, Eé‘fi Ell cw seq“ OWEN MCGARVEY Son. eve MANUFACTURES OF CANADA |849-l853 NMRE IMEE STE: in any form, and certainly unusual that a special pictorial illustrazion He ieav should be made and inserted in the reading columns of such a papcr as ’ the Cabinet maker and Art F urnisher, of When such a surprising step is taken it may be unquestionab‘ sumed that the articles so treated possess merits far above the 0; From a copy of the journal mentioned we find that a per: the exhibit of and centre table, of which the above cut is a fac simile, bei11« SCCCZG for commendation and praise. The table is made of ebOm """ . “$05 of free monumental scrollwork carving; the leg similarlx tn I0 which brass claws are attached, and the chair 1s bof that kind 1c it wire-backed, upholstered very richly in Both of these articles, as we have already stated, formed part of 31‘5- McGarvey’s large exhibit, which, by the way, has received scrim. [116‘ eulogiums from both English and Canadian newspapers, and I: manufactured here under the personal supervision of the firm. 0‘ such tables are now in their showrooms, as well as specimens < 1' ~ -':‘:ffar_ chairs in various styles of covering. They are, in short, exam- 01 that high class furniture which has been made by them for 802:? ‘ [48-13- and which can be seen every day in their Messrs. MCGARVEY may well be heartily congratulated a: :‘z‘. _ £231 prominence thus given to their goods by those critics of high at; manu- factures on the other side of the Atlantic, and upon the 1101102' con- ferred on their house by such complimentary notice as that laccm instanced. 'veryz‘kzkzg in froflorl‘z’om for Me mad 3 0 days. will sell for the next 30 DAYS our well known and Well- selected stock at pnces that will astonish every one. 010674 McCai/vey <9" 50;; RESULTS FROM THE COLINDERIES. SPACIOUS WAREROOMQ Canadian Made Furniture ATE COLINDEBIE “- FURNITURE. of Montreal, has been so favored, a DRAWING-ROOM CH Our $30 one for $23. Crimson and Old Gold Brocatelle. Wholesale and Retail, It is exceedingly rare to find English journals noticing1r the ome and see our great Bargains in A Canadian Chair 8: Table. Our $20 one for $15. Exhibited at the ‘7’ V 1 .\.av \ Vb- .. '3 m1 ' >4» “1 Ju. Kent St., Lindsay. as“ -‘Igu a AC 00¢