SUNDAY'S SERMON.
REPUTATION AND REALITY
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unseen. Then in your case, or mine, does the Master's judgment ratifs this common assumption?
The following are the handicaps Does He perceive in us those heavenly affections, that devout for the fifth gymkhana Club and watchfal spirit, that single-meeting- Notes of a sermon by the Rev. eyed and earnest life which give Or J. Kirk Maconachie at Union, reality to the reputation ? Church on Sunday morning must He judge that the name, as "To the angel of the Church in in the case of Sardis, does not Scutchbox Sardis write: These things describe us that the habits of Smokebox
and manner of life it Gentle Cat saith He that bath the seven mind
are dying down Bend Or spirits of God, and the seven pre-supposes
us, becoming distasteful Malcolm stars: I know thy works, that in thou hast a name that thou livest to us? The case of one who is Alexander
is more Burning Daylight and thou art dead."-Rev. 3 1. "dead while he liveth'
Maybe It was charged against the perilous than where the deadness Church in Pergamum that it is evident to all. had "some" who held by evil A religious reputation acts as a doctrine, against Thyatira that kind of shield against wholesome The Card' it tolerated
who made warning and criticism. The calls Kirkdale herself a centre of mors! error. to the backslider do not reach the Leander But
"the Church inner ear of the member of good Sardis is
Lovejoy which
few names" standing. He listens with danger- has
Dalesman which have not defiled their ous approval when appeals are
Morning Star garments. Such is its unhappy made to the unconverted, rebukes distinction. To be in it and addressed to the scoffer, instruc-Ringwood
tion laid before the ignorant. Snuffbox remain undefiled is to win a victory, and to inherit the Lord's Having fled out of the City of promise. "I will in no wise blot Destruction it is always possible Scotchbox his name out of the book of life settle in the Town of Decell, to The Card and I will confess his name to take Sardis for one's dwelling
Kirkdale before the Father and before His after forsaking Sodom.
Leander ... This morning's message is a angels. What a Church To
Lovejoy belong to it is, as it were, to be searching one, for it brings us suspect at the gate of heaven. It close into the presence of the Dalesman is the Nazareth of the Churches, Lord where unrealities do not Whitelang out of which can scarcely come stand. "Before my God." the Rheostat Church lines continue, "I have found no Excelsior any good thing, the which has a name to live. and, works of thine fulfilled. The Sabox
works of this unreal Church is dead, and to which is addressed the gravest message of the whole were. like its profession, unreal. Thor may have been pretentious. "dead-alive they may have been numerous. What is Church? For answer we should At anyrate they were such as to Grayboy ordinarily be told of a Church draw general approval and give Leander
name for being White Chalk whose, buildings are out of repair, the Church a whose services are infrequent, very much alive. But as God Whitefanc dull, unpunctual, where there judges they lacked the one thing Excelsior "nothing on." nothing that would have completed them.estat to indicate interest or enter None of them were fulfilled prise. The sketch might because all of them came short
The labour Pink Eye be correct, but it would not be of the glory of God.
Scotchbox that of the Church in Sardis: was prayerless, shall we say? It would be that of a Church the prayer itself soulless more Gentle Cat which had a name to be dead, likely. And so the Church in Rochester moribund in the sight of all men. Sardis builded upon wand. like Malcolm But the mortal wound of Sardis many another since. and whilst Alexander
were calling to was hidden. Signs of seeming men
Burning Daylight "Behold what vitality were obvious. Only He one another,
Bend Or who hath the seven spirits of manner of stones and what man-
Maybe God." the searching eyes which ner of buildings," up on the hills see through all disguises, was the floods were gathering which acquainted with its real condition. test all buman structures end The frequent opposition be-discern between the specious and tween Christ's judgment and that the solid. of men is strikingly suggested by such a case as this.
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Listen then to Him Who looks not on the outward appearance, And as we listen let no despair. "Be watchful," says the Master, and stablish the things which remain, which were ready
It is good to be well reputed. No man should despise the good opinion of his fellows. But to have a name to live, yet to be without life, to, he reputed a to die." Christian, to be honoured, perhaps. Where there is life there is a devout, zealous Church hope, we say. and the merest man, looked up to as antspark of vitality is something for exemplary religious
person, the soul's Physician to work upon. and yet to deserve none of it-He queaches not the smoking one who comes into such a post-flax: those dying embers may be tich must either deceive himself fanned
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Two men entered the same compartment of a crowded train. at Liverpool-street Station the They had not seen other day. one another before. During the journey one requested the other to take your elbow out of my ribs." The other replied that his elbow was not there, which caus-
ed the man with the affected ribs
to say he would pull his nose.
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At Edmonton, when they left the train. they had a fight, and, as glow by the they would not desist, breath from on arrested. Both were fined at as he imposes upon others, or quickening experience the misery of the high. "Held fast that thou hast." Tottenham Police-court.
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and colic. Fair." produced a: the Theatre especially liable to colds, cramp Royal fast night, sold well. It is of great importance at these
It
is One at hand was possible to win through live, and would retain it long who receives the confession of as conquerors, "having escaped
it though should
to the contrite and can pour new the corruption which is in the apply. The angel of Church."life upon such as are ready to world through lust." "And they, for instance. the pastor, perish. "But if theu shalt not says the Lord, "shall walk with of thewatchthus the repeated solemn me in white, for they are worthy. bishop flock. Of him it is presumed, and charge" I will come," says the He that overcometh shall thus reasonably, that he is in some Lord. "as a thief, and thou shalt be arrayed in white garments." fair degree a follower of the not know what hour I shall come They shall step the step of the Master he serves, that he lives by upon thee." The slumbering soul free, clothed in the livery of! the revelation he expounds, that which will not ruase itself must heaven, companions of the spot- he strives to be what he calls at last awake unawares, having less Saviour, the "lamb withour upon others to be. These mes slep: till the hour of disillusion blemish" who Himself overcame
bids us be was a bright and snappy issue,dangerous seasons to look after the Churches sages to
are strikes in the realm of reality, and the world, and
Happy ended. of good cheer.
re- too, and the large number of sub-the baby's stomach, neglect being addressed in the first instance to the day of grace
ward of the faithful to be for scrioers thoroughly enjoyed itso liable to lead to serious results. the chief pastors of the respective Lighten our eyes, Lord. lest we
ever holy and undefiled, to be free contents. There was plenty in it The digestion must be kept in good flocks. and of all the even sleep the sleep of death."
to make one laugh, but nothing order, the bowels must be kept this is the one which There were, we read on-and it from spot or wrinkle or any such may give us ministers most is the sole relief in the sterness thing, to be clothed with purity common-place or in bad taste: regular, if the little one's health as with a garment. The race in fact, top quality was the hall- and progress are to be safeguard- prayerfully to think. It reminds of the message" a few names",
Sardis, which had over, which here has been run with mark of the production.
ed, and for this purpose there is us of the risks of a professional even in
Versatility is the watchward of nothing so good as Baby's Own defiled their position, an official standing in not
garments, patience, it remains to walk at Church indeed large in the broad pastures of this little band of merry-choral Tablets, the Canadian children's the Church of Christ. It reminds It is a lost
at least a emancipated being: such is the items, real opera, jokes galore remedy. These pleasant-tasting has not us that pointing the way is not which
and the latest developments in little Tablets sweeten the stom- the faithful, to glory and the rest of heaven, walking in it, that studying the remnant of
Look up, soul sorely tempt dancing, to mention only a few ach, regulate the bowels, break Scriptures is Dot necessarily prove that even the worst
Behold of the outstanding features of the up colds and make baby thrive. feeding on them, that enforcingvironment need not be too much ed, severely pressed.
the victors who bill of fare presented. And all of They are guaranteed-and thie the truth can be separated from for the soul of man plus the among loving it, and that preaching power of grace in Christ. Amid overcame some who came from it is good, too. The stage effects guarantee is backed by a Govern- Christ is easier than living Him the worst corruptions of the cor- the very citadels of sin and centres and the smart frocking of the ment Analyst's certificate-to con- No complaint or attack cuts ruptest ages of Christanity there of all defilement, who passed un ladies are a revelation of what tain not the slightest particle of a minister
a have ever been some, few or more, scathed between the twin conta enterprise and thoroughness for opiate, narcotic, or other injurious 30 close B.S
detail can accomplish.
drug, and to be equally harmless people's generous confidence in kept scatheless. Unharmed, they gions of a corrupt society and a
To recite all the good things and belpful to the youngest infant hisintegrity. No possible criticism welk in the mids: of the decadent Church. If they, men of
that were provided last night| sets bim to self-examination as furnace, and there is one beside like passions with ourselves, have does the knowledge, if it comes them, like unto the Son of been counted worthy of the palm would all more space than we have as to the child of 8 years old and
at our command. We should like to him, that he is esteemed highly Man. If you would enquire of victory, what man of us may
Baby's Own Tablets have been to say, however, that the in-successfully used for years in in love for his work's sake, and concerning the power of God look not take heart to follow in their
And listen, ere you leave, novation of including a couple of Canada, the United States and more for Christ's sake. Brethren, not on the outward signs by which train?
a remedy for in- pray for us. that, having a name men rashly affirm that "the to this final reasseurance from scenes from grand opera greatly elsewhere as
everybody.
fantile indigestion, colic, constip- to live, we do indeed live, that, Church" is "dead" or "alive." Con-the Captain of our Salvation, delighted being in Christian office, we be sider these blameless ones, souls given as to one who, beset by Trovatore" was the choice lastation, simple fever, diarrhoea, were colds and worms. They make and remain Christian; that we which fear God and eschew evil, surrounding sta, trembles for his right, and the selections never let the reputation be sub-of whom it is true that in the own apprehended lapse and loss: magnificently rendered by Miss teething easy, quickly bring Eileen Boyd, Miss Thelma Lawn natural soothing sleep to pain- stituted for the reality, nor fall raidst of death they are in life, I will in nowise blot his name into soulless routine while busy that in Christ's name they can out of the book of life." Thus and Mr. Sydney Mannering, racked infants, prove their efficacy handle serpents, and if they drink speaks He who is faithful. He with the assistance of the chorus from the first dose. Obtainable about holy things.
concerted from chemists, also from The What is true of us ministers many deadly things it shall by no whe is true, and He adds this Besides
items, most of the members Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 96 holds also of others. Being means hurt them: Even in Sardis crowning declaration "I will con-
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Here then is the choice. before work of Miss Madgo Grif There is, let us say, a class, pure ritual and undefiled" with- & home
circle out which in the lives of its us unfaithfulness, with at the fith, Mr. Sydney Mannering and a of acquaintances, which takes it members no Church has more most a reputation for the reality for granted that you are living than a name that it lives, whether which we do not possess; or according to the gospel, a life its ceremonial be reassuringly fidelity, and a name worthy to be which is hid with Christ in God," "low" or fashionably "high" or confessed when secrets are un- you are believed to be holding indifferently inclusive. Even in folded, and things and men are at as they are and as self and the world in a secondary Sardis, a place which was a bye last seen place, and to have your heart word among the ancients for the they appear in the eyes of the turned towards the eternal and voluptuousness of its ways, it 'Saviour and His eninta.
circle,
of
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Mr. George Graystone being of the piano and the funny stuff extremely high merit. The pass-supplied by Mr. Leslie Holmes ing years seem to have no effect and Mr. George Titchener were on Mr. Mannering's voice, which further outstanding features in a wonderfully preserves its quality programme full of harmony, and and richness. The clever dancing humour, even if some of the items of Mr. Steve Laurie, the smart were not absolutely new to a work of Miss Shirley Cooke at Hongkong audience.”
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