The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 18, 1885, Page 6

religion, and the only successfu VIRTUES REWARD. sault ever made on Chris istency of its . The Beautiful Story of Joseph Re- poieun ee os viewed. : “See, I Have Set Thee Over Ali the Land of Egypt.’ You Can't Keep a Good Man Down. March &.—Dr. Tal- ¢ sernon, on th cterist om Dungeon to Palace, had for its text Genesis x 47: ee 2 “And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, always cotecn J Oec ‘See, I have set over all the land | | = the : Sh Pages of Egypt.’ *’ Youcan not keep a | threatene rc hrysostom Cee death, tt “Tell the Em- ge. good man down, said Dr. Tal Z nie press I fear nothing but sin. God has decreed tor him a_ certain ‘ se E point of elevation. He will bring | # Scene 35 tat compets eee him to that though it cost him a {on of the world. There was some- thousand worlds. You sometimes ig in Agrippa and Felix which find men fearful they will not be vanded their respect tor Paul, the properly appreciated. Every man | T? Bpminst BOMCEIACDS: I oe | comes to be valued at just what he not they would willingly have yield- is worth. You cannot write him | €d their office and dignity tor a thou- sane true heroism part of that which beamed in the eye and beat in the heart of that unconquerable apes- up, and you can net write him down. These facts are powerfully illustrat ed in my subject. It would be an e insult to suppose that vou were not tle. Paul did not cower before Fe- all familiar with the life of Joseph. lix; Felix cowered before Paul. The How his jealous brother threw him infidel and worldling are compelled into a pit, but seeiug a caravan of to honor in their hearts, although Arabian merchants trudging along they may not eulogize with their ontheir camels, with spices and] ps a Christian firm in persecution, gums that loaded the air with aroma cheerfu! in poverty, trusttul in losses sold their brother to these merchants, who carried him down into Egypt: Joseph there sold to Potiphar, a man of influence and office. How by Joseph’s integrity he raised himse!t to high position in the realm the false charge of a vile wretch he the triumphant in death. I find Christian men in all profes- sions and occupations, and I find them respected and honored and suc- John Frederick O berlin al- distress ; cessful. leviating Howard, passing from dungeon to lazaretto with healing tor the body and the soul: Elizabeth Fry going under ignorance and was hurled into penitentiary. Flow in prison he commanded re spect and confidence. How by the interpretation of Pharaoh’s dream he to the profligacy of Newgate prison to shake its obduracy. as the was freed and became the chief man angel came to the prison = at m the realm, the Bismarck of his Philippi, driving open : the doors country. Howin time ot famine and snapping loose the chain, as well as the lives of thousands of toilowers of Jesus who have devoted themselves to the temporal and spir- itual welfare of the race, are monu- ments of the Christian religion that shall not crumble while the world lasts. A man said to mein the cars: ‘What is religion? Judging from the character of many professors of religion I de not adanre religion.” I “Now, suppose we went to Joseph had the control of a magnifi cent storehouse which he had filled during the seven years ot plenty. How when his brothers, who had thrown bim into the pit and sold him into captivity, applied for corn he sent them home with the beasts of burden borne down under the hett ot the corn sacks. How the sin against their brother which had so long been hidden came out at last and was re- turned by that brother’s forgiveness | #9 artist in the city of Rome, and said: and kindness— while in his gallery asked him, THE ONLY REVENGE HE TOOK. ‘What is the art of painting?’ would You see in the that | he take us out in a low alley and first place, the world is compelled to honor Christian character. Potinhar was show us a mere daub of a pretender at painting? or he take us only a man of the world, yet Joseph | down into the corridors and show us rose in his estimation until all the | tv¢ Reubens, and the Raphels, and the Michael Angelos: When we mitted to his charge. From his ser- asked him, ‘what is the art of paint- vant no honor or confidence was | ing?’ he would point to the works ot withheld. When Joseph was inj these great masiers and say, that 1s prison he soon won the heart of the} Painting. Now, you propose to find keeper, and though placed there for the mere caricature of religion, to would affairs of that great house were com- being a scoundrel, he soon conyinced | S¢¢k atter that which is the mere the jailer that he was an innocent | pretension of aholy fife, and you and trustworthy man, and, released call that religion. J point you to the spleedid nies and women wkom general superintendent of prison at- | this Gospel has biessed and lifted faire. Wherever Joseph was placed | a2d crowned. Look at the master- whether in the house of Potiphar, or | Pieces ot Divine grace if you want to 2 prisoner in the penitentiary, he be- came the first man everywhere, and is anillustration of the truth I lay from close confinament, he became know what religion is We le that the result of persecution Ise from this story af Joser down, that the world is compelledto | 1s elevation. Had it not been for honor Christian character. There | kis being sold into Egyptian bond- are those who affect to despise a re- ious brothers, and prsonment. Joseph never ligious lite. They speak of it as a r have become Governor. system of phlebotomy by which tue man 1s bled of his courage and _no- | erybody accepts the promise, *tbless- | * bility. They say he has bemeaned | are they that are persecuted for himself. They pretend to have no hteous ness sake, ior theirs is the more confidence him = since conversion than betc his cor sion. But all this There is a great deal « the chure and there is of hypocrisy outside the c ts impossible for i ide mire and cont that he has really God, ar You can: Lord God dis wh st despi Z Gy Ev-| Hei- 1 | ers. en Stirk, the Scotch martyr, stoned to deat Persecution is elevation. execution we have rejoice to-day; Be brave now; be gether forever. I wi ¢ : hall nt for we shall soon Father the heroines. nent and part denomi have be spread the more l was ever than John Wesley—t cari- ! catured and slandered u dav | he stocd in a pulpit in Lon .» and | lamanarose in the wucience and} Italy, when Am tool corner ast might,’? | court, leaped out fr **You were drunk Iz Wesley said, and John You had bet the room and said; said: will get | God, the whole catalogue is now j ter be consulting how you complete. I have been charged | your army back :"’ and it was found with evervthing but that!’’ I {that Frams I. and not Ameril was the fool. Instead of consulti as | ij lowers were hooted at and maligned | to the best way ot getting into sin j and led by every detestable name } that fernal ingenuity could invent, | you had better consult as to whether but the hotter the persecution the | you will be able to get out ot i more rapidly they spread, until you | the world does not expose you, you know what a great host they have will tell it yourself. There is an become, and what a tremendous | awtul power in an aroused con force tor God and the truth tt science. A highwaymen plunged Id as he rode along te | | do | out upon W! | i wielding all the world over. not wonder they celebrate their cen- | On horseback, a sack of money a the horse, money he had raised tennial in Baltimore. It was perse- | nd the gh cution that gave Scotland to Pre tor orphan asv terianism. It was persecution | wayman put his hand on and gave our land fireat to civil lberty Whitefield turned to said; and afterward to rehgious freedom, | **Touch that if you ¢ -that ; Yes, Iimght go further back jlongs to the Lord Jesus Christ.’ say it was persecution that gave | mea the :uffiaa slunk into the forst. world the great salvatioa of the gos- | Consey ce! Conscience! The ru pel. The ribald mockery, the hung- jfian had a pi but Whitefield erg and thirsting, the unjust charge | shook at him the finger of doom. 1ominous death, when all the | Do not think you can hide any great the 1¢ force of hell’s fury was hurled against introduction of | brother. it will slip off the lip, or some she¢ht j and protracted sin im your heart, my In an unguarded moment the Cross, was the that religion which is yet to be the action may forthe moment set this door that you wanted to earth’s deliverance and our eternal The State salvation. sometimes said tothe church: ‘*Come, take [| closed. But suppose that in this life my hand, and I will Selp you.’ | you hide it and you get along with What was the result? The church | this transgression burning in your went back und it lost its estate of | heart, asaship on tire within for holiness, andit became ineffect.ve. | days hinders the flames from burst- At other times the State said to. the | ing eut by keeping down the hatch- church: ‘‘I will crush you ’’ What | es, yet at last inthe judgment that has been the result? After the | imtquity will blaze out before God storms have spent their fury the and the vniverse. church, so tar trom having lost any Learn also from this subject that there is an inseparable connection between all events however remote. The universe 1s only one thought of God. seemed ofits force, bas worth infinitely more atter Read all that increased and is the sault than betore. and you will find true. Those things which church is tar more indebted to. the | tragmentary and issolated are onlv opposition of civil yoverument than | different parts of that great thought. to its approval. The fires of the | How far apart seemed those two stake have only been the torches | events; Joseph sold to the Arabian merchants and hisrulership ot Egypt mysterious which Christ heid in His hand, the hy the hgbt of which has marched to her present glorious po- what a church yet you see in way God conaected the two into one sition. In the sound of racks and| plan. So the events are linked to- implements of torture I hear the | gether. You who are aged men rumbling of the Gospel chariot. |look back and group together a of martyrdom have] theusand things in your e that church | The scaffolds been the stairs by which the ce seemed 1solated hain of events mounted. One undivided Learn also from our subject that] reaches from the garden of Eden to sins will come to exposure. Long, | the cross «f Calvary, and thus up to long ago had those brothers sold | the kingdom of heaven. There isa Joseph into Egypt. They had made | relation between the smallest insect the old father believe that his favor— They had sup- hums in the summer air and the can God ite chil | was dead archangel on his throne. pressed the crime and it was a pro- | trace a direct ance found secret well kept by the broth- its nest secret 15 out. at his son ts |] to s« which w window, w t | fected you but are magnificent t > world changes, but he undivided mas- to event and cen this story tae pro ot laying up tor the future. x the seven years plenty Jo h prepared for the tamine, and | w itcame he had a crowded | house. The lite of most men | in a wordly respect 1s divided into | enty and tamine. It 1s seldom any man passes through life years of plen- without at least sev ty. seven years of plenty. Dur those seven years your business bears a rich harvest. You hardly know where all the money comes trom it comes so fast. Every bargain you make seems to turn into gold. You You are with large dividends. contract tew astonished You how men can be content with a small few bad debts. wonder business, gathering in only a hundred dollars winle you reap thou Those are the seven years sands. ot plenty. Now Joseph has time to prepare for famine, for to almost every man there do come seven years of fami You will be sick, you will be unfortunate, vou will be defrauded, there will be hard times; you will be disappointed, aud you have store-house upon which to fall back struck. We denving vou may be tamine have no admiration tor thi and one’ selt all personal cousfort luxury the hoarding up: this grasping, grasping for mere pleasure of for the mere pleasure of seeing how large a pile you can get; this always being poor because, as soon as a dollar comes in, it is sent out to see if ic can find another dollar, so. that it can carry it home on its back. We have a contempt for ail those things; but there is an intelligent and noble we mined forecast whrth love to ad see in men who have families’ a: kindred depending upon the blessings of education and hore. them tor cts for a les God sends us to the i son which, while they do not. stint themselves in the present do not tor- get therr dutv to torecast the tuture Bndisputed Ia BROAD CLAIM of belng tte “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; con- | VERY BEST OPERATING, whicn, ruler sider her ways and be wise; having no guide, overseer or ; provideth her meatim summer and harvest ”’ Now. there are two ways of Jeying g up money. One ot these ss to it in stock and deposit it in gathereth her tood in put bank. and invest it on bond and mortgage. EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURING CO. | The other way to lay up money 1s giving it away. He is the safest who makes both of these invest- ments. There are in thts house men who, if they lose every dollar they have in the world, would be million aires for eternity. 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