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One less on earth ! Its pains, its sorrows, and its toils to share One less the pilgrim’s daily cross to bear, One more the crown of ransomed souls to One more in heaven ! Another thought to brighten cloudy days, Another theme of thankfulness and praise, Another link on high our souls to raise To home and heaven 1 One less at home 2 One voxce of welcome hushed, a] more One word of farewell spoken; shore Where parting comes not, one son moreâ€" One more m heaven ! One less at home !_ nally Lord J esus, grant us 811 a Lime with Thee At home in heaven ! One more at home 2 That. home where separation cannot be, That home where none are missed etc One less at home I The charmed circle brokenâ€"a dear face Missed day by day from its accustomed Chill as the earth-born mist the tnougm: would rise And wrap our footsteps round and dim One more at home ! This is not home, where cramped in earthy mould Our sight of Christ is dim, cur love is cold, But there, where face to face we shall be- bold. A New Sermon by Pastor C. H. Spurgeon. “ We have not a high priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our Vin-u firmities; but was in all points tempted‘ likeaswe are, yet without sin.” Heb. 4 :15. l The High Priest’s Office Continuedâ€"Al Greater High Priest Than Aaronâ€"‘ Tenderness a Distinguished Trait- Belovecl, we have a High Priest. All that Israel had under the law we still re- tain ; only we have the substance, of which they had only the shadow. “ We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle :”. We have a sacrifice, which, being once offered. for- ever avails; we have “ One greater than the temple,” and He is to us the mercy- seat and the High Priest. Take it for granted that all the blessings of the law remain under the gospel. Observe here than the apostle delights to dwell upon the majesty and glory of our High Priest. What does He say? “ Seeing then that we have a. great High Priest,” as if Aaron and all his sons were little personages compared with Him. Thaw men were all faulty ; but we have a. “ great High Priest,” who is absolutely perfect. These men did not humbly represent Him, as in a dew-drop the sun may be reflected ; but He is the true High Priest between God and man, and so the epithet “ great ” is put before His name as it could not be before any other. Paul delights to dwell upon these points of glory. But when he has done so, it seems to occur to him that when we con- sider the greatness of our High Priest some poor trembling sinners may be afraid to draw nigh to Him ; and the apostle ever has a longing eye towards drawing souls to Jesus. Therefore, he falls back upon our Lord’s tenderness. Great as He is. our High Priest is not one who “ cannot be touched with the feeling of our in- firmities.” Let no man be afraid of Him who is the embodiment of gentleness and compassion. Though conscious of‘ your own infirmities. you may feel free to come to Him, who will not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax. I want to speak so tenderly that even the des- pairing may look: up, and_1_nay feel a draw- ing toQardE our beioved Masizer who is so graciously touched with a. feeling of our infirmities. I. So I am going to begin my sermon by saying of our blessed Lord, He has as- sumed It was intended, first, that by the high priest God should commune With men. That needs a person of great tenderness. A mind that is capable of listening to God, and understanding, in a measure, what He teaches, had need to be very tender. so as to interpret the lofty sense into the lowly language of humanity. If the man is to come from among the infinites down to the ignorance and narrow capacities of mortal men, he had need to be tender as a nurse to her children. ‘Vhat he had grasped from the Lord he must so put that the people could grasp it and act upon it. This is What our Lord has done in the ten- derest manner. He reveals the Father. The things of God which He knoweth He makes known unto us by HIS Holy Spirit, as we are able to bear them. We are to learn of Him. But a high priest took the other side also; he was to communicate with God from men. Here, also, he needed the tenderest spirit to rule his faculties and to move his afl‘ections.‘ He must needs sit down and hear all the trembling petitions of troubledmothers who had come from the utmost end of, Israel laden with their 21368 I “ONE LESS AT HOME.” SUNDAY READING. Is home and heaven I One more in heaven l At home in heaven I A VERY TENDER OFFICE. Tender High Priest. one soul landed the thought and ever- eter- the domestic burdens ; he must listen to an the complaints of the oppressed, the woes of the afflicted, the trials of the poor, the perplexities of the distracted ; and then, as a man of God, he was ordained to take all these things in prayer before the Most 77‘--..L LLA M1 ULIUQU “nub... -__ râ€""u , High, and in fitter language to present the requests of the brcken in heart. What a tender oflice! How few could carry it out! Is it not gracious on our Lord’s part to undertake so tender an office for those who need it so greatly. and have no other way of access to the God of grace ‘2 But if I understand the high priest’s oflice aright, he had many things to do which come under this general descrip- tion, but which might not suggest them- selves, if you did not have the items set before you. The high priest was one who had to deal with sin and judgment for the people. This is a very tender post to eccupy. No mere man is fitted to hear, as a rule, the confessions of all sorts of people, and certainly, he should not seek to do so. Yet the man whom God calls to feed His flock is forced, at times, to enter into the soul-conflicts of his fellow- men, and to hear the mournful story of their wanderings ; and he needs great ten- derness in so doing. We have a. High Priest into whose car We may pour all the confessions of our penitence Without fear. Go and do so. No doubt the high priest was resorted to, that he might console the sorrowful. It must have been a great relief for those who were of a. sorrowful spirit, to go unto the sanctuary of the Lord, and srt at the feet of a mar. of God, Whu could remlnd the stricken one of the promises made to meet such sorrow. Only to tell the story was helpful. Mourners often get more comfort from telling their griefs than they do from the remarks of those to whom they unbosom themselves. Go to J esug, dear friend, if a sharp grief is new gnaw- ing at your heart. If It be a trouble which you could not tell to your father or your husband, go to Jesus with it. Pour out the wormwood and the gall before Him : He knows their bitterness, and He will surely make them to be swallowed up in victory. It was the high priest’s business to in- struct and to reprove the people. To iii-i struct is delightful ; but to reprove is diffi- cult. Only a tender spirit can wisely uttei‘ rebuke. Israel’s high priest needed to be meek as Moses in his rebukes of the err- ing. Our Lord Jesus Christ tells us our faults in tones of love. His rebukes never break the heart. He never upbraids in bitterness, though he does so in faithful- ness. Oh, the tenderness of Christ ! I feel my subject deeply, but I cannot speak of it as I would. II. Now, secondly, as our Lord Jesus has a tender office, so, next, HE HAS A TENDER FEELING. “ We have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmi- ties.” lou are touched, and He is touch- ed at the same time. A pang shoots through my he art : that hang has been felt by my Lord also. A grief has stirred the waters of my Spirit, and the spirit of the great High Priest has moved in harmony therewith. They say. but I know not that it is true, that when the strings of one 1 harp are touched, if there be another harp 1 in the room, it gently responds in unison, ‘ though not touched by any hand ; assur- , edly_ it is so with the believer and his Lofd. THE PLEA OF INFIRMITY. Note well that word “ infirmities "â€" “ touched with the feeling of our infirmi- ties.” If it had only said sorrows, there would have been a sound of the sublime about it ; but He stoops to “ infirmities.” He is not only touched with the feeling of the heroic endurance of the martyrs, but He sympathizes Wlth those of you who are no heroes. but can only plead, “ the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Hold fast this truth, for it may greatly tend to your consolation another day. Jesus is touched, not with the feeling of your strength, but of your in- firmity. How comes this about, brethren '1 Let us think of it awhile; Our Lord has a tender nature. Some people are not sym- pathetic, and never will be ; their spirit is not generous. We are all made of clay : but some clay is stifl'er and more gritty than another ; and very hard grit it is in some cases. Some men have no more feeling than granite. They will say about the collection to-day, “ I shall not give anything to the hospitals. Let the people take care of themselves. If they were more thrifty they would have a little laid by for a rainy day, and would not need to have hospitals provided for them.” This gentleman can supply wagon-loads of the same sort of hard material. I know you, my friend, I have known you too, a long time. I was going to say, “ I would be happy to attend your funeral :” but I will not say so, lest it seem that I am harden- ing myself under your influence : and be- sides, there are so many of your order. ‘ that one more or less is of no great con- sequence. Our Lord is tender by nature. Our Lord is not only tender of nature but quick of understanding as to the in- firmities of men. Want of sense often prevents men being sensitive and sympa- thetic. IF you have never suffered under disease, you need a little imagination to realize it, so as to be touched with the feeling or it. I noticed a very able ad- dress delivered by Mr. Hutchison before the Lord Mayor last Friday, in which he advises a person who mourns his lack of sympathy to go for a week to his usual city vocation with a black patch over one eye. “ If this does not effect the busi- ness,” he says, “let him choose some leisure day in bright spring, and resolutely fur twenty-four 'hours keep .1. bandage firmly placed over both eyes. His organ- ization is, I fear, in this directién, well- nigh hopeless, if next morning he does not reel inclined to send a. liberal dona- tion to some hospital, that has for its mission the prevention of blindness.” I have no doubt that improvable persons might be all the better for some such attempt to gain fellow-feeling The same THE CONSOLER. listen to all THE WATCHMAN. doctor thinks that the wearing of a truss, pr spinal apparatus tor one day might I will not urge these modes of_ cure ; hut the principle is good, and 1t mlght be tried in other directions. .Suppose the squire of the parish, who thinks. ten or twelve shillings abundant wages for a. week, should say to his lady, “ We have always said that our agricultural laborers have quite enough to live upon ; let us try their fare. We will leave this house for a Week and take one of the old cottages in the village ; and live, all of us, on .the wage we pay our men.” What a capital school for social economy ! How well would some people know the value of our silver curency, and of the copper coinage also ! Only we should like members. of parlia- ment to have a longer experience than one week, lest it might be a pleasant change from feasting to fasting. Say six mcnths for the honorable member I This might foster sympathy. Our blessed Lord had real experience ; and, beside that, the faculty of being able to put Himself into the place of sufferers, and so to be “ ac- quainted with grief.” His quick under- standing made Him realize, as High Priest the sorrows of His people. BLATANT SUFFERERS. Too many people are so wrapped up in their own grief that they have no room in their souls for sympathy. Do you not know them? The first thing when they rise in the morning, is the story of the night they have passed. Ah, dear I and they have not quite eaten a hearty break- fast, before their usual pain is somewhere or other coming over them. They must have the special care and pity of the whole household. All the day long the one great; business is to keep every- body were of how much the great suf- ferer- 1s enduring. It is this person’s patent right to monopolize all the sympathy which the market can supply, and then there will be none to spare for the rest of the afflicted. If you are greatly taken up with self, the-re is not enough of you to run over to anybody else. How different this from our Lord. who never cried, “ Have ity on upon Me ! Have pity up- dn Me, ' my friends! Men who are wrapped up in their own glories are not sympathetic. Is it not a fine thing to spend a life in contemplating one’s own magnificence ? Those who are amazed at their own greatness have no thought to spare for the suffering. “ No,” says the man, “ the masses obey the laws of supply and demand, and get on as well as they can. Let them do as I have done I might have been as poor as they are. if I had shown as little push and enterprise ‘ as they do.” The gentleman talks on a. great scale, and he has no sympathy for the small woes of common life. His sym- pathy is wanted at home ; and his charity begins there, and is so satisfied with its beginning that it never goes any further. Our Lord is at the opposite pole from all this. He never glorified Himself : He “ made Himself 6f no reputatiom and took upon Him the form of a. servant ;” thus displaying the tenderness of His heart. III. I must now notice very briefly: in the third place, that our Lord had A TENDER TRAINING. Hear what He says of it. “ He was in all: points tempted like as we are, yet with- out sin.” Beloved, our Lord was tried as we are ; that is one meanin of the pas- sage. As to all manner of d/ily ills, he was subject to them all. Hungry, weary, faint, without a place whereon to lay His head, He was tried in all the points to which poverty exposes its victims. Our Lord has been tried mentally. “0h,” says one, “ I do not think anybody has been tried as I have been by cruel unkind- ness.” Say not so, tor Jesus was forsaken of all, and betrayed bythe :friend in whom He trusted. As to sphitual distress, our Lord has been these also. Where any sin- ‘ less foot could go. He has gone. The abyss has heard Him cry, “ My God 1! my God ! why hast thou forsaken Me 2” Tried in all points from above and from below, from without and from within, He can sympathize with every form of tribula- tion. But the text says tempted, sand that bears a. darker meaning than “ tried.” Yet remember that in the wilderness He was The evil one said, "‘ If thou be the Son of God.” Most of us know how he can hiss that “if” into our ear. “ If thou be the Son of God.” Upon our Lord that “ if ” fell painfully but harmlessly. Then came the temptation to help Himself and anti- cipate the providence of God by selfish action : “ Command that these stones be made bread.” We, too, have had the rash act suggested to us. The tempter hath said, “ You could get out of your difficulties by doing a wrong thingâ€"do it, It is not a very wrong thing either ; in- deed, it is questionable whether it might not be justifiable under the circumstances. In vain will you wait for the Lord ; put out your own hand and provide for your- self. The way of faith in God is slow, and you are in pressing need.” Our Lord came just there. When no bread in the house is made the background of a great temptation, remember that our Lord has undergone the counterpart of that tempta- tion. The fiendâ€"how often I have Wondered at him lâ€"dared to say to Christ, “ All these things Will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me.” Picture the Lord of angels, with all the royalty of heaven shining on His brow, and the black fiend daring to say. “ Fall down and worship me I” It may be that a like temptation is coming home to you: live for gold, live for fame, live for pleasure ; in some form or other, worship the devil and renounce faith in God. “Worship me, ” says the prince of evil : “ take to the new doctrines, practice the current worldlinesses, leave the Word of God for the wisdom of the philosophers :” in some form will the temptation come ; but even though the fiend could fulfil his promise, and all the world should be ours. we are bound to resist unto the death, and we are TEMPTED TO BELIEVE. TO TENDERKESS. Li‘N‘DSAY, THURSDAY JULY 2 encouraged to do so by the fact that we are upon the old ground Where our Redeemer fought and conquered. He can enter into the distress which this temptation is caus- ing you ; for He has felt the s-une. 1 -L As I read the verseâ€"“ In all points tempt- ed like as we are, yet Without sin," I thought I heard you say, “ But that is just the pinch of the matter. He cannot sym- pathize with me in sin, and that is my great trouble.” Brother, do not wish that your Lord had become a sinner like your- self ? Abhor the idea I It would be blas- phemy if understood and indulged. You see at once that you cannot wish any- thing of the kind. But listen to me ; do not imagine that if the Lord Jesus had sinned He would have been‘any more ten- der toward you ; for sin is always of a hardening nature. If the Christ of God could have sinned. He would have lost the perfection of His sympathetic nature. It needs perfectness of lie-{rt to lay self all aside, and to be touched with a feeling of the infirmities of others. Hearken again : do you not think that sympathy in sin would be a poisonous sweet ’4 A child, for instance, has done wrong, and he has been wisely chastened by his father: I have known cases in which a. foolish mother has sympathized with the child. This may seem affectionate but it is wickedly IV. Iam happy to point. Our Lord has INJURIOUS TO THE CHILD. Such conduct Would surely lead the child to love the evil which it is needful he should hate. Have you not felt yourself that. in unbelieving moments, it would have been a great evil for a Christian brother to have petted you in your un- belief ; and that it was far better for you to have heard a bracing word of upbraid- ing. We ought not to wish for sympathy in wrong. We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins. I have done when I have said thisâ€"if our Lord was thus sympathetic, let us be tender to our fellow-men. Let us. not re- strain our tender feelings, but encourage them. Love is the brightest of the graces and most sweetly adorns the gospel. Love to the sorrowing, the suffering, the needy is a charming flower, which grows in the garden of a renewed heart. Cultivate it I Make your love practical ! Will you allow the poor to pine in their narrow rooms '. Shall they perish for lack of surgical care and medical help? Do you call yraurself followers of the tender Jesus? Do you hope to be saved through His compassion? On this Hospital Sundav I charge rich J Christians to delay no longer, but to be touched Wlth the fpJeling of the sufferings Of those who are. made of one flesh with thern. Let 311 of us do cur best. I will ‘ 110‘: 11131115. you by pleading with you as i though you were unwilling. You are Gage; tnvqive for His dear séke who sym- pathizes with you tenderly, and helps you so graciously. Let the collection be made at once. A spepial cablegram to the Mail says an open_ an meetmg, attended by 12,000 workmgmen, was held at Sheffield, Eng. yesteaday, tWhtegn strong resolutions weré passe pro es m a ainst th ' Tariff bill. g g e McKmley An outbreak of leprosy is reported from Anticosti. There have been two cases, one of which has already resulted fatally. A Trunk Road. Little Boyâ€"Pa, what is a trunk railroad! Fatherâ€"Well, my son, I expect the railroad that goes to Smtoga is a trunk line.-â€"Tenl A Little Learning. Mrs. Brown--Y on don’t seem to have a very high opinion of your husband’s ability. Mm Malapropâ€"No, he’s a very ignorant man. Last night he spoke of person: acting in concert, when he should have known they only sang at such entertainmenta â€"Epoch. Shch Be Satisfied. Tuggs (jeweler)â€"This ring I bought from you a week ago for 18 karat, I have been told is one-third alloy. “But There Are Things.” “Never cry over spilled milk, dearest.” Penelopeâ€"But if the milk happens to be condensed and you get a. cold slab or two on your new skirt?â€"American Grocer. Buggs (jeweler)â€"But, my dear friend, con- sider how much gold there is in it.â€"Jeweller’s Weekly. “I have had a delightful evening,” he said. as he took his hat and rose to go. “May 1 call again?" As he walked out into the hall he saw in the mirror of the habrack a reflection of the roguish girl slyly throwing a kiss at him, and he turned back. He was a Kansas young man, and he got it. ~Chicago Tribune. “I shall be glad to seeyou,” she replied with a. blush. “I must have that in the original package,” he whispered. Bostonian. Our Thermometer. Jonesâ€"Poor Arthur’s gone up. Brownâ€"Arthur who? J onesâ€"Arthur Mometer. â€"- Washington Sheâ€"‘ ‘John, You have been eating cloves. ” Heâ€"-“No, Mary, I merely took a drink."â€" TENDER PERFECTNESS. That Decision Again. He was Truthfnl. come to my 1333t 1890. We will sell for the next 30 DAYS our well known selected stock at prices that will astonish (:ngt; Our $3 5 Bed-room set for Come along and Bargain. Se qu e‘. OWE WW M“: N McGARVEYSonIeveIY When such a surprising step is taken it may be unques ionabh as- sumed that the articles so treated possess merits far abox c the ordinary From a copy of the journal mentioned we find that a portion 0f the exhibit of and centre table, of which the above cut is a fac simii t 113111 sclectefi for commendation and praise. The table is made of 61301)} 111th sides of free monumental scrollwork carving; the leg, similz-n 1 treated, 10 which brass claws are attached, and the chair is of that 431.? known a: wire-backed, upholstered very richly in in any form, and certainly unusual that a special pictorial illustration should be made and inserted in the reading columns of such a paperas the Cabinet maker and Art Furnisher, of Both of these articles, as we have already stated, formed will-7; oi'Mcssrs. McGarvey’s large exhibit, which, by the way, has receiver": scx oral 0ther eulogiums from both English and Canadian newspapers. and both were manufactured here under the personal supervision of tin. Jirrt. TWO of such tables are now in their showrooms, as well as spec'mezs ci'sirnilar chairs 1n various styles of covering. They are, in short. exaxnplesof that high class furniture which has been made by they: fit <<3mc years. (AsLt prominence thus given to their goods by those critics of high .art maflu' factures on the other side of the Atlantic, and upon 91:: honor 503’ ferred on their house by such complimentary notic: as, that hcrem nstanced. Messrs. McGARVEY'may well be heartily congrfinlmul 1116 special l849-I853 NOTRE DAME STREET MANUFA CTURES 0F CAL/NEDA 'veryz‘ézhg in fimpom‘z'om 707/ 27% 028/674 McGamey (9“ 50/2, SPACIOUS WAREROGE‘IZS. RESULTS FROM THE COLINDERIES. Canadian Made Furniture FURNITURE of Montreal, has been so favored, DRAWING-ROOM CI Our $30 one for $23. ATE COLINDERIS. Wholesale and Retail, MONTREAL“ It is exceedingly rare to find English journals noticing the ome and see our great Bargains in turniture which has been rriade by them fr < and which can be seen every day in thru- 1849 1351 and 1353 Notre Dame Street. Monti?“ OWEN MGGARVEV L EON, Our $20 one for A Canadian Chair Table. EDERSON, NUGEET 8: 00. 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