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Methinks i hear the voices of the blessed as they stand _ Singing in the sunshine of the far-off $111- less land: . 011. would that I were with them, amid ’ the shining throng, . . . . hlingling in their \\ orship, joming in their song. my toil friends that started with me have cute: ed long ago; _ . One by one they left me struggling With the foe: . Their pilgrimage was shorter. their tri- nmph sooner won; How lovingly they‘ll hail me when all my toil is done l The \Vith them the blessed angels, that know no grief nor sin. ' I see them by the portals prepared to let me in: 0 Lord. I wait Thy pleasure, rl‘hy time and way are best, But I‘m wasted, worn, Father, bid me rest 1 W. L. .»l/r*rv'r.u/»" r, in the Christian at Work. and weary: O. Pesssssmo FOSSESSIONS A New Sermon by Pastor C. H. Spurgeon. “ But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverâ€" ance. and there shall be holiness ; and the house of Jacob shall possms their possess- ions.” Obad. l7. Blessing and Judgment Combined-The Joy and Terror of Christ’s Second Comingâ€"A Promise holding Good for all Time. This is a remarkable passage. Its word- ing is singular. It begins with a “ but,” because the previous verses have been de- nouncing judgments upon Edwin. When God comes forth to punish His enemies, He also comes forth to bless His friends. When Pharaoh is overthrown in the Red Sea, it is that Israel may pass onward to Canaan; when Amalek is overcome, it is that Israel may be at ‘ e'ice. There is a black cloud, as well as the silvery rain. The acceptable year of the Lord is the day of vengeance of our God. This combin- ation so Constantly occurs that the Psalmist said, “ I will sing of mercy and judgment.” The sword of vengeance is displayed at the same time as the sceptre of grace. In that last great day, that COMING or THE LORD, which is the joy and expectation of His people, will be Confusion to His adver- saries. To the ungodly, “ the day of the Lord Will be darkness, and not light.” God grant to you and to me that we may know on which side we stand, and may be found in Christ, wearing His righteous- ness, accepted in the Beloved, so that whenever the Lord cometh forth with plagues for His adversaries, He may have a favor toward us. I make no doubt that this promise has been fulfilled already, and that there was a time when the house of Israel, restored from captivity, came back to Zion, and Edom was utterly consumed. ,“ The house of Jacob shall be a. fire, and. the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esta»: for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them ; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau ; for the Lord hath spoken it." But the former fulfilment of a. promise does not make it useless, like a cheque which has been paid; the promise may be presented again, and it will again be honored. God’s rules of action are immutable, and hence what He difi to one company of His people He will do to others of them. The temporary res- toration of the captives to Jerusalem can only have fulfilled the promise upon a very small scale ; it has a wider meaning than such an event could exhaust. The Lord is prepared to do the same on a larger scale for all those who put their trust in Him. I. First of all, consider A PRIVILEGE to be desired. The land of Canaan had been granted to Israel by the Lord of all. Each family had a lot and portion which belonged to it for ever, being entailed up- on it by a covenant of salt. Through their sins, the tribes were carried into captivity the land was taken from them by their conquerors, and they could no longer pos- sess their possessions. Now, the promise comes to them by the prophet Obadiah : “ The house of J acob shall possess their possessions.” A property may be my law- ful possession, and yet, for divers reasons, I may not be able to get at it ; it may be in the hands of one who defrauds me of it, or I may be far away and unable to reach it. The words are singular, but their meaning is distinct : “ They shall possess their possessions.” Let us use the words as applicable to souls who shall be led to take what is pro- mised to believers. “ The house of J aCob shall possess their possessi«;ms.” We set before many of you, every Sabbath day, the great possessions of eternal life, of pardon, of justification, of the new birth, sanctification, and all the other treasures of the covenant; but though they are set before you, and you long after them, many of you feel unable to grasp them as your own. You know that the tenure of those possessions is faith ; but either you do not understand what faith is, or you, for some other reason, fail to exercise it, and so you do not appropriate what the gospel freely gives to you. You are either confused by ignorance, or dazed by fear as to your sin, or held back by ”the temptations of the devil. I pray that you may have grace a... memos. .w u- .‘_.____._.â€"-â€"-â€"â€"-â€"~â€"...â€".. -.‘»â€"....,_..-â€". ._.7. . m. . so that you may come to possess your possessions, You who now believe were once stran- gers to such an extraordinary joy as that which comes by faith. You wandered up and down in sin, knowing nothing of what free grace and dying love had done for you : but now you have come to God, and you have ventured by faith to take pos- session of what the Lord so freely offers in the gospel; and behold, it is revealed to you that THESE THINGS WERE YOURS in the purpose of God, even from ever- lasting. Now is it fulfilled to youâ€"“The house of Jacob shall possess their posses- sions." If you have now the confidence to believe in Jesus Christ, and to say, " My beloved is mine, and I am His,” then you shall know that in grasping bless- ings, you do but come to your own ; you possess your possessions. ‘ Let us go a step further. Beloved friends, many by faith have laid hold upon the covenant possessions, but yet they do not to the full possess them. The text leads me to pray that believers may enjoy fully what they have grasped by filth. Christ is mine ; but, beloved, who among us knows all that is ours in Christ 2 He is a casket, which is all ours, but we'do not open its doors, and take outall its treasures. Our possessions in Christ are very wide ; but we need to be hidden, like Abraham, to lift up our eyes to the north, and to the south, and to the east, and to the west, that we may form a clearer idea of the goodly land which the Lord our God has given us. I fear we do not by enjoyment possess our possessions. Alas I with many be- lievers, times of actual enjoyment are rare : they can talk about the blessing, but they do not habitually rejoice in it themselves. “ Oh, yes,” they say, “ it is a very delightful thing to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.” But do they en- joy the PEACH WHICH Flows FROM CLEANSING '3 Have they “ received the atonement,” and with it that peace with God which follows upon justification by faith ? Do they de- light in “ the peace of God which passeth all understanding l" You know, dear brethren, that it is your high privilege to have access to the mercy-scat; but do you use that access, and come often and boldly to the throne of grace '3 Do you avail your- selves of your opportunities? Do you make the utmost use of prayer? In other holy matters. do you really stand where God would. have you stand l Are you as rich as Christ has made you 7 A man may have-large posse sions, and yet be practi- cally poor, because he is iuiscrly in his ex- psi‘iditure. Is it not So with many a child of God 3’ All things are ours, and yet We live as if nothing were ours. Let our prayer be that We may use and enjoy to the utmost all that‘ the Lord has given us in His grace. and so possess our posses- sions. Go a step further. We possess our pos- sessrons when we hold firmly what we en- THE WATCHMAN, IINDSAY, THURSDAY, (MAY, 8, .1890 * dil t t k hat Jesus freel ' ives, us ! What can He not do? .Is anything . spee y o a e w y 9; too hard for the Lord 2 That you may see If this church, which has enjoyed so much the force of the passage, let me Work out its meaning. ‘ We have been'saved; for “Upon mount Zion shall be deliverance,” and we have found it so. In Christ Jesus we have been saved. The Revised Version has it, “ In mount Zion there shall be those that escape.” We have escaped from sm, death, and hell. Delitzsch reads it, “ UP- on mount Zion will be that which has been saved.” Yes, we have been saved, saved from spiritual death, saved from punishment, saved from sin itself, saved unto the glory of our God ! Because of this deliverance, let us go up and publish salvation, and proclaim the name of our Deliverer. Hearken unto His voice, ye captives, that ye also may be delivered ! Look to Him, ye perish‘ing, that ye may be saved 1 We are few,“ comparatively. I reminded you of that reading of the textâ€"“ Upon mount Zion shall be an escaped remnant.” I will not make guesses as to what the number of God’s chosen will be in the end; but at present, taking the most charit- able view of things, the saved ones are as a. handful of corn on the top of the moun- tians, or as the gleanings of the vintage. The world lioth in the wicked one, but those who are in Christ Jesus are a small remnant. That cheering word, “ Fear not, little flock, it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom,” is sTILL APPLICABLE TO THE CHURCH. Yet let us not despair : if God has saved us, though we be but a few, He will ac- complish His purposes by us. He saveth not by many nor by few : His own right arm gettcth unto Him the victory. Ye are able to possess the land, few as ye are. Only go forth in the same spirit as the twelve did when the Holy Ghost rested upon them at Pentecost ; and few as you may be, you can yet subdue the nations to Christ. Notice this, that we are set for the de- liverance of others. The Lord’s purpose of grace to any man does not end with the personality of that one man. He chooses one man with a view to others. Brethren, we ought to go in and possess the land, and win the peOple for Jesus, for therefore are we chosen. Has He saved you? Has He taken you out from among the fallen mass of mankind? Has He chosen you by His discriminating grace? Oh. then, you are not your own, you are His for- ever. and you are not to live for your- selves, but for “is 521101)". and for the ungodly will reject yo'" testimony, audit “I‘ll“!!! known 0f HIS SHIV‘Jtlun WWW"; will be no wonder that they do So. They your fellow-men ; wherefore, beloved, take heart and courage, and let your souls be big with high enterprise and noble pur- pose. Say to yourselves, “ It shail be true, ‘tlic house of Jacob shall posScss their possessions,’ for we know of a truth that there is deliverance upon mount Zion.” I'll. Our final Word is perhaps the-most important of all. I call your attention to a third matter, TH E CHARACTER TO BE CONSPICCOUS. joy. Tow many Christians hold their bleSS- “ Upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, iugs with a feeble hand; they expect where and rim-e shall he) flu/Iiflwss.” they ought to enjoy, and think Where they ought to know. They are never sure, and thus they do not “possess their posses-. sions.” They are not sufficiently at home with spiritual things to' be said to possess them. It is a grand thing when the grace of God enables a man to say, “ I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him.” When happy feel- ings vanish, faith abides the same. Be it night or be it day, our soul waits upon God; for our expectation is from Him. I have not come to the end of my tether yet. I will fix another meaning upon these words, and apply them to souls realizing things to come. Brethren, we have pomuicns which we have not yet seen, and cannot as yet. enter upon. WE BELIEVE IN THE SECOND COMING of our Lord from heaven, and in the glory that shall follow. We believe in the resur- rection of the dead, and the eternrl bliss of the godly in heaven. We believe that we shall dwell with Christ for ever and ever. Can we possess these possessions even now ? We cannot now rise from the dead, for we are not yet buried ; we can- not yet walk the golden streets, for we have not passed through the gate of pearl. Yet, by the realizations of faith, we may make these things to be so near that we may measurably enjoy them even now, and so already possess our possessions. “ He that raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” Though we are not actually in heaven, yet in union with our Lord we are virtually there. Even here we may possess our possessions by enjoying a period of rest, “ as the days of heaven up- on the earth.” Already we have the ear- nest of the inheritance in the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and we have obtained that inheritance in Christ. More and more may we enjoy the peace, the rest, the purity, the victory of heaven, and thus possess our possessions. One other meaning, and upon this I am going to lay emphasis: we long to see souls winning others for Jesus. The whole ' world, belongs to Christ, and in His name we are to posess it for Him. As yet we see not all things put lder Him; but the enemy abides in His strongholds. “ There is very much land yet to be possessed,” and we must press on our conquest in the name of Jesus. We must carry the War into the enemy’s country, and storm fort after fort for Jesus. This land is a part of Christ’s own kingdom ; let us take it. Is this to be done l It must be done I We must not be satisfied till millions bow at our Lord’s feetâ€"until Jesus, by the grace of God, possesses the east and the west, the north and the south. I regard this as a. promise to us : “ The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.” II So much upon the main part of our discourse : there are two other thin as to be handled, and, first, comes thisâ€" g A FAVOR TO BE REMEMBERED : “ Upon mount Zion shall be deliverance.” This fact should help us to possess our, possessions. See what God has done for , we to do with themes which are foreign It is through holiness that the house of Jacob shall enter into that possession of which I have spoken at so great length. If there be no holiness, then there has been no deliver- ance, and there shall be no possessing of possessions, Holiness is a link which is essential to the golden chain of blessings. If we are without holiness, we shall not see the Lord on our side. To give you the bearing of the words before us, I remark, first, that it might be translated, “Upon mount Zion shall be deliveranCe, and there shall be a sanc- tuary,” or, “ a holy place," an inviolate sanctuary of God. The poo 10 of God are the temple of God. The butch of God should be God’s peculiar dwellingâ€"place, wherein He walks as a king in his own palace THE TEMPLE 03' THE GODHELD, is first of all, the person of Christ. and next the Church of the living God. “This is my rest ; here will I dwell, for I have desired it." With what dignity is the church invested, when it is in very deed the temple of God ! Unless we can re- alize this, we shall not possess our posses- sions. If your church membership isa mere trifle to you, if you think that a church is simply a community of people who meet together for religious purposes, you miss the mark. The church must be the sanctuary of Godâ€"the place where God reveals Himself; and if it is not so, the men and women who make up that church have never tasted the divine de- liverance, neither will they possess their possessions. Without the presence of God in the church, it has no power to subdue the world to the faith. The great thing that makes God’s people a holy people is the presence of God with them. He sanctifies both the place of His abode and those that come near to Him. It is holy ground where Jehovah reveals himself, though it be but in a. bush. God is everywhere ; but He is not everywhere as He is in His church. There is a special, gracious presence of God in the midst of His chosen people ; and this it is that makes them ‘f holiness unto the Lord.” The Church needs reviv- ing at home. We hear men talk of “ get- ting up a revival." What idle talk is this ! If the Church of God becomes spiritually quickened, the revival will come, but not else. Let us carefully see to our holiness, and God will see to our success. Next to this, there must be holy teach- ing: “ there shall be holiness.” All the teaching that goes forth from us must be God‘s holy truth, and not the dream of human wisdom. Instrumentality must be fitted for what it aims at, and soul-saving sermons must deal with sin and salvation, and with the blood of Jesus. What have to our design 'l If I were to come hither and talk to you about strikes, or home rule, or socialism, and should then pray to God to convert souls by my discourse, ' would it not be a mockery, or worse"? I think so. Zion must. have holy preaching if she is to have conquering power. 7 There must be holiness in‘tbe‘ferm of HOLY PLEADING. of divine favor, could be in every member aroused to mighty intercession for the souls of men, should we not see great things? If every member were in earnest in praying for the visitations of God, and if every one pleaded day and, night for the display of divine power, and added to his pleading that which would prove_1t to be sincere, namely, his own ind1v1dual efi‘ort, what a day would break upon us i It would be a. morning without cléuds ! I see no'reason why it should not be so. One thing moreâ€"there must be holy living. Prayer-meetings : what are they if they are held by a number of people who do not serve the Lord at home? Preaching: what is that, if the preacher preaches what he has never experienced, and is not prepared to practice 'I Teaching in Sabbath-schools: what is that, if the children are taught by frivolous pprsrérnsi whose lives are destitute of piety o .. will not bless us, to the effecting of His‘ 0111' $3 5 Bed-room set for $2 3, purposes of salvation, unless we are cloth- ed with holiness as with a garment. Zion’s priests must put on their snow-white gar- ments of holy living if they are to offer an ‘ acceptable sacrifice before Jehovah. If I might plead on my knees, with tears in Come and see our great Bargains in We will sell for the next 36 DAYS our selected stock at prices that wil’ _ 1' \Z. (‘.l 1:110‘l'v‘ ’ - _“ 1 J ldSLOi;_;~,n by, Our $30 one for $23. Our $20 one for $15. my eyes, I would beseech every brother ‘ . M .. here to be holy. E; , ' ' - f / I' a / ’ f‘ / 1 , ‘ Suffer the word of exhortation. As we dgVyZ/ZZ7Zb 272 p} 0 0713072 (/7 27;? 72/17:! . . _. qt. so eagerly desire that we may have a great ~' increase to this church through numerous conversions, let us lay this to x ur hearts, that we must be holy; for if we are not holy we shall NOT BE FIT TO BE BLESSED. The unholy worker is not really in earnest. Do you not know, yourselves, that when you have listened to a clever preacher who has no spirituality, but is a mere actor, and known so be of worldly habits, his preaching has no power in it for you ? What he said was all very well, but it fell flat: he was s clever and eloquent man but he did not touch you. When I heard George Miller, some years ago, there was nothing of oratory in what he said, but then there was George Miller behind it, and every syllablshad weight. That bless- ed man spoke as one who had experience of what he said. His long life of faith in God made every We’d powerful with the heart and conscience. Teachers of Bible- claases and schools, a holy life must be your power in your classes, or your words will be to your children as idle tales 2 If they see your lives to be unholy, the n.k w ant to reject it; they are looking out for escuscs for rejecting it, and they Wlll gladly find an argument in your unlmllow- ed Conversation. They will say, “ The man does not believe it liimSelf, or else he Would not live as he does." Shall the taught excel the teacher? You lose your leverage of power if you fail in holiness. What is more, saints cannot pray for 3‘ blessing on a work which is not holy. If you Work for God in an unholy way, or work for God rightly, yet, nevertheless, are inconsistent in your ordinary life, the , people of God will be grieved, and willI ‘ - __, we: we. .. find it impossible to pray for you. i I849-l 853 :53 T é: L) '3; CAN ANY GOOD COME to a ministry for which we cannot pray? Unless the people of God see in a man downright consecration to God, and holi- ness of spirit and life, they cannot feel union of heart which produces interces- sion. Lastly, God Hlmself will not own a ministry which is not accompanied by holy character. How can God set His seal to an unholy life ? Ah, brothers l if we can go into the world and sin as others do all the days of the week, it will be vain to all over us the garb of sanctity on the nday, and say, “I am witness for Christ." What does God think of such conduct? Does he call on evil men to be His witnesses? He hates hypocrisy, and, therefore he cannot append the “ signs following " to a ministry which is impure. Oh my brethren, we desire bone: from the Lord in conversions. Oh you that are not yet believers in Jesus, how much I wish that you were so! Mav you be led to believe at once in Him whose death must be your lifi, who liliust Himself be our salvation. ook to im ‘ . . . _ _ j and live! find you that are Christ’slbeg \Vhen suCh 3' surlmsmg Step 15 taken It ma)" be ungu * you to remember the remarkable expres- sumed that the al'thlCS 50 treated pOSFCSS merits {31‘ E‘zbO‘. \ , , f 11:28.? aim! of the text, and may you “13053888 From a Copy of the journal mentioned we find tho; .i ..--:';:7c: 5 your possessions l” Amen. the exhibit of - 020674 /l/CG£Z may (3" 50/2, of Montreal, has been so favored, a DRAWING-B-OOM CHATT“ "-sâ€" RESULTS FROM THE COLIN DEPZES. It is cxceeclnigly rare to find English journals noticing the MANUFA CTURES OF CANADA in any form, and certainly unusual that a special pictorial iiiuwei' Sui should be made and inserted in the reading columns of such a case? the Cabinet maker and Art Furnisher, of i . Canadian Made Furniture Exhibited at the LATE COLIN DEEIES , I The Names of the Months. In looking up the peculiar names given each of the 12 months of the year, it be- comes necessary for us to go back to the old Romans, who haVe imposed upon us a set of names equally as absurd as those of the Norsemen, the Scandinavians, and Saxons applied to the week. January is named from Janus, the god of doors and and centre table, of which the above cut is a fee simile. 71‘; " ~' «Lao gates, because the month opens the year. for commendation and 1313159. The table is made 0 03:51", i could look back on the past year and for- ward to the coming. February is from febrile, to purify, March was originally the first month, and was named for Mars, the god of war. which brass claws are attached, and the chair is of that kind Au. m5 Wire-backed, upholstered very richly in Crimson and Old Gold Brocatelle. April is fro“? “Perm, to Open, because Both of these articles, as we have already stated. formed '7; 1.33955. ththd-s (gpen m that mlmth.‘ McGarvey’s larO‘e exhibit, which; by the wax: has received >. g 5.7 othfl ay 18 mm Mala, a. goddess. . b . . . , _ . , w June is from Juno, the patron of mar- eulogiums from both English and Canadian newspapers. .. , cf ““1. riage, and is therefore the favorite month manufactured here under the personal supervision of the A??? for weddings- _ such tables are now in their showrooms. as well as specin‘a‘ t~ - “ Agg‘fl; $3: Rigsgufgrc‘iglfis 0633:3333 chairs in various styles of covering. They are, in Sllt‘I‘L. . .9353 that high class furniture which has been made by them 11'. . q : S if?“ and which can .be seen every day in their SPACIOUS WAREROC'EES. Messrs. McGARVEY may well be heartily congratulated 7: dust/Cal prominence thus given to theirsgoods by those critics of high at many factures on the other side of the Atlantic, and upon the llOElOl‘ coll ferred on their house by such complimentary notice as that herein OWEN MCGARVEY 8: SUN, Â¥ :84; :35: and 1853 None Dam: Street. MW , August had but 30 days, and February 29 in the common year and 30 in leap years. Augustus was jealous that Juliud’s month should have more days than his own, therefore took one from February and added it to August. . September, October, November, and December are so called because they were originally the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth months of the year. The names are ina propriate and misnomers as now app 16d. Orchestra Leader (to lady a plicant)â€" A011 1 Himmell You’re der ve erl Game along in mit der rehearsal ! 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