you can, that you and they may be of the number of those who " in a good and perfect heart, hearing the word, keep it and bring forth fruit in patience."
Quinquagesima Sunday.
Self-sacrifice.
"Behold, we go up to Jerusalem and the Son of man shall be scourged and put to death, but the third day He shall rise again." — Luke xviii. 31-33.
SYNOPSIS.
Ex. : Text.
I. Tribulations: 1. Israelites. 2. Our guilt greater. 3. Our worldliness.
II. Drunkenness: 1. History and guilt. 2. Sea-donkey. 3. Devil ever active.
III. Salvation: 1. One small door. 2. Circe. 3. The blacksmith.
Per. : 1. The cross. 2. Door of jubilee. 3. Foolish virgins.
SERMON.
Brethren, now is the season when we, too, start for the heavenly Jerusalem, through the penitential Lenten exercises and the arduous duties of a mission, and it is God's design that our human nature should be scourged and disciplined, — that it should die to the world, but that after these days it should rise again to a new life of grace. Our nature craves for laborless reward — a thornless rose — but do what we will, the cross comes first, and afterwards, perhaps, the crown. On that day when our first parents, wailing like lost souls, fled from their earthly paradise,
