there, so that I may preach the gospel to save their souls." 6313. ZEAL, missionary, Cost of. I am about to die for the Ba-ganda (the people of U-ganda), and have purchased the road to them with my life. -Bishop Hannington. was complaining that the British-especially Highland regiments-did not know when they w beaten, the Duke gave his last and longed-fea "Up, Guards, and at them!" and the cheer 2rolled along the lines of our army like a pai thunder awoke Napoleon for the first time to master tactics of his foe, and the terrible certai of his own defeat.-Dr. Cumming. 6318. ZEAL, Results of. When Baxter an Kidderminster there was about one family : street which worshipped God at home. Wha went away there were some streets in which was not more than one family on a side that de. do it; and this was the case even with inns public-houses. While some divines were what. ling about the divine right of Episcopacy rh bytery, or splitting hairs about reprobation free-will, Baxter was always visiting from kra house, and beseeching men, for Christ's sake, to * reconciled to God and flee from the wrath to cz ... 6314. ZEAL, Misunderstood. A man who declared he thought I was doing more harm than good by speaking to everybody about Christ told me I had seriously offended one of his friends by speaking to him in the street about his soul. Well, it happened in this way. I had not spoken to any one that day, and on my way home I was on the lookout, and saw a man leaning against a lamp-post, looking very lonesome. Thinking he might be a stranger, I just stepped up to him and said, "My friend, are you a Christian?" on which he turned round, and looking at me with a scowl, he cursed me, and said it was not my business. And that was why his friend told me he thought I was doing-Rev. J. C. Ryle, A.B. more harm than good, and setting men against religion instead of making them converts. My answer was, that I was sorry if it was so; but the fault was from the head, and not from the heart. "Well," said my friend, "I believe you are in earnest; but you have too much zeal. What is zeal without knowledge?" Well," I replied, "I would rather have zeal without knowledge than knowledge without zeal." Well, months rolled away, and one Sunday morning, about daybreak, a bitter cold winter's morning, I heard a rap at my door. "Who's there?" I said. "It's a stranger," answered a voice which I did not recognise. "What do you want?" "I want you to talk to me about my soul." I got up and let in the stranger, wan and pale. "Do you remember, sir,” he said, “meeting a man under a lamp-post three months ago, at ten o'clock at night? "Yes," said I, "I do." "Well," said he, "I am that man. I have had no peace since that night. I could not sleep at all, and I thought I would come to you and ask you what I must do ;" and so I talked to him, and showed him the way to Jesus, and he found peace with God.-Moody. 6315. ZEAL, misunderstood. In the course of conversation my uncle said, "I pray God these Methodists may never get the upper hand; if they do we shall have dreadful work." One present replied, "Why, what do you think they will do?" "Do!" said he; "why, they will murder us all."John Pawson. 6316. ZEAL, Perseverance in. Mungo Park's dispatch to Lord Camden with regard to discovering the further course and outlet of the Niger, closes with these heroic words-"Though all the Europeans who are with me should die, and though I were myself half dead, I would still persevere." He perished in the attempt. 6317. ZEAL, restrained for wise purposes. Some of our soldiers (at Waterloo), chafed at being so held in, fancied at times there was fear or hesitation in the breast of their great commander. There was none. But there was a cool and wellweighed estimate of the issue and the only way to reach it. He not only allowed but encouraged the French to expend their enthusiasm and exhaust their strength; and while the outwitted Emperor 6319. ZEAL, Source of. Somebody has said Arnold of Rugby that "the central fact of his perience was his close, conscious, and ever-rele union and friendship with the Lord Jesus Chris and that in the overflowing fulness of his br every expression of affection which might pass is tween earthly friends passed between him and Divine Man, whom, as a Friend, he had in heara to whom with an exhaustless enjoyment he d And it was this which was the inspiration of t life, the source of his remarkable courage and za 6320. ZEAL, stimulated by adversity. brother and I were once ploughing corne Kentucky farm. I was driving the horse, and in was holding the plough. The horse was lazy, b one occasion rushed across the field, so that I, wit my long legs, could scarcely keep pace with h I found an enormous chin-fly fastened on him, i knocked it off. My brother asked me what I oi that for. I told him I didn't want the old has bitten in that way. 'Why," said my brothe "that's all that made him go.”—President Linous (condensed). 66 6321. ZEAL, Stimulating effects of, illustrated As a remarkable effect of the opening of the New Outfall (Nene Outfall, constructed by Telford), a few hours the lowering of the waters was fe throughout the whole of the Fen-level. The sluggs and stagnant drains, cuts, and leams in far dista places began actually to flow; and the sensatin created was such that at Thorney, near Peter borough, some fifteen miles from the sea, the i telligence penetrated even to the congregation the sitting in church-for it was Sunday morning-th "the waters were running!" when immediately th whole flocked out, parson and all, to see the grat sight and acknowledge the blessings of scienceSmiles. 6322. ZEAL, The Christian's. When one desired to know what kind of a man Basil was, there was presented to him in a dream, saith the history, a pillar of fire with this motto, "Talis est Basilia “ -"He is all on fire, a-light for God."-Brooks. 6323. ZEAL, to be concentrated in one direction. Fowell Buxton was accustomed to say that he triej to be "a whole man to one thing at a time;" hence his success in life.-Leisure Hour. 6324. ZEAL, without knowledge. John Pawson had charge of City Road Chapel after Wesley's death, and occupied the adjacent parsonage, Wesley's London home. He expurgated its library with iconoclastic zeal. Wesley's intimate friend and executor, the Rev. Henry Moore, says that "among and destroyed was a fine quarto edition of Shakespeare's Plays, presented to Mr. Wesley by a gentleman in Dublin, the margin of which was filled with critical notes by Mr. Wesley himself. The good man judged them, and the work itself, as among the things which tended not to edification !'”– Steven's History of Methodism. the books which Mr. Pawson laid violent hands on 6325. ZEAL, Worldly, and its results. Had some of those who are pleased to call themselves my friends been at any pains to deserve the character, and told me ingenuously what I had to expect in the capacity of an author, I should, in all probability, have spared myself the incredible labour and chagrin I have since undergone.-Smollett. 6326. ZEAL, Worldly and missionary, contrasted. A young Brahman put this question to the Rev. E. Lewis, of Bellary-"Do the Christian people of England really believe that it would be a good thing for the people of India to become Christians?" "Why, yes, to be sure they do," he replied. "What I mean is," continued the Brahman, "do they in their hearts believe that the Hindoos would be better and happier if they were converted to Christianity?" Certainly they do," said Mr. Lewis. "Why, then, do they act in such a strange way? Why do they send so few to preach their religion? When there are vacancies in the Civil Service there are numerous applicants at once; when there is a military expedition a hundred officers volunteer for it; in commercial enterprises, also, you are full of activity, and always have a strong staff. But it is different with your religion. I see one missionary with his wife here, and 150 miles away is another, and 100 miles in another direction is a third. How can the Christians of England expect to convert the people of India from their hoary faith with so little effort on their part?" -Chronicle of London Missionary Society. 6327. ZEAL, Worldly, needs to be stimulated. The villager, to overcome his rivals in a contest for leaping, retires back some steps, collects all his exertion into his mind and clears the eventful bound. One of our admirals in the reign of Eliza beth, held as a maxim, that a height of passion, amounting to frenzy, was necessary to qualify a man for the command of a fleet; and Nelson, day of battle, at the sight of those emblems of glory, decorated by all his honours about him, on the emulates himself. This euthusiasm was necessary for his genius and made it effective.—I. D'Israeli. 6328. ZEALOT, Excuse of. We are told that when Catherine de Médici desired to overcome the hesitation of her son, Charles IX., and to draw from the wretched King his consent to the massacre, afterwards known as that of St. Bartholomew, she urged on him with effect a proverb which she had brought with her from her own land, and assuredly one of the most convenient maxims for tyrants that was ever framed-"Sometimes clemency is cruelty and cruelty clemency."-Trench. morning on the brow of Olivet, and looked down 6329. ZION, Beauty of. When I stood that on the city crowning those battlemented heights, encircled by those deep and dark ravines, I involuntarily exclaimed, "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion. And as I gazed, the red rays of the rising sun shed a halo round the top of the castle of David; then they tipped with gold each tapering minaret, and gilded each dome of mosque and church, and at length bathed in one flood of ruddy light the terraced roofs of the city, and the grass and foliage, the cupolas, pavements, and colossal walls of the Haram. No human being could be disappointed who first saw Jerusalem from Olivet."-Porter. 6330. ZION, Love of. From that high point one gets, when coming up by the Bethhoron road, that view of Jerusalem on the distant sky-line which Richard the Lion-hearted refused to gaze upon, saying, as he covered his eyes, "O Lord God, I pray I may never see Thy Holy City if so be that I may not rescue it from the hands of Thine enemies!" That hill of Mizpeh is truly, as old Sir John Maundeville calls it, "a very fair and delicious place;" and he adds, "It is called Mount Joy because it gives joy to pilgrims' hearts, for from that place men first see Jerusalem."-Henry Harper. INDEX OF CROSS-REFERENCES. ABASEMENT, Self-, a source of hon- Self-, Christian, 2916, 2924, should be thorough, 2914 Acceptance of Christ urged, 856, in Christ illustrated, 944, 961 in men's birth, 610 knowledge gained by, 3274 zeal stimulated by, 6300, 6320 success of an, 4941 a revealer of character, 5268 Bible a stay in, 491 God a refuge in, 5272, 5695 sent of God, 2820, 5273 use of, 2782, 5702 and nature, 3911-13 Christian, 28, 4874 in death, 1546 with fearlessness, 6278 Atonement and sin, 5197, 2500, in Christ, 5399, 5402-5, 5408, reconciliation by, 900, 4575 Atonement, the sinner's need of, | Blessings of grace, 2588-93, 2603 3661-5, 4580, 4586 Awe in listening to the gospel, 2201 BAPTISM and regeneration, 4608 and nature, 3911-3, 3932-5 of naturalness, 3942 and the Bible, 481-603, 4962- and the decrees, 1572 in death, 855, 885, 931, 1466- - Christian, 750-1, 757 universality of, 143 Calvinism and the, 705 necessity for, 4765 wisdom of, 4972, 4992-3, 4995 independence a, 3042 con- of holiness, 2832-4 of religion, 4657 of the Spirit, 2838-42 of God, 2458, 2468 of grace, 2593, 2598 CANT and religion, 6050 and zeal, 6277 Cheerfulness and humility, 2919 Choice, a final, 1564-5, 1569 and afflictions, 117, 5273-5, and aged, 154 and assurance, 307, 4430 and good deeds, 2517, 2523 and humanity, 2905, 4934 and judgment, 3194, 4753 and kindness, 3239 and sinners, 5220, 5227, and soul, 5280, 5304, 5307 and truth, 5724 and works, 6100 call of, 696-7, 3815, 4931 662 Christ, communion with, 3164-7 manhood in, 3636 salvation in, 4885, 4937, 5399 speaking for, 5329 strength in, 5378 sufferings for, 4433, 5440 suffering of, 5276, 5439 5437, union in, 5784-5, 5807 zeal in preaching, 6305 and moralist contrasted, 3848 envy in, 1921 Church, Christ and the, 849, | Death and passion, 4075 4887-9 divisions drive men from, equality in, 1926 union in the, 5788-9 unity of the, 5812 Commencement, life only a, 3410 Consciousness of forgiveness, 2260, Consecration and asceticism, 300 Conversation and Christ, 845 and substitution, 4584, 5145, and terror, 5534 fear a means of, 1501 failure, compromise the secret Conqueror, Christ a, 829 of, 1170 - forgiveness of, 2248 labour, fruit of, 2309 liberty, 3332 life and bigotry, 604 life, appropriateness in, 273 and sinner, 5218, 5232-5 duty, the private, 1790 Christians and light, 3464 death of, 1529-37, 1545-6 and doctrine of atonement, and humility, 2922 and the sepulchre, 5080 Corruption claims the beautiful, 420 Country, heaven our, 2765 Creed, desire shapes the, 1627, Creeds and prayer, 4232, 4284 and truth, 1600, 1708-9, 5726, and the Trinity, 56, 84-8 DANGER and heroism, 2184 and prayer, 4293 Dead, praise amid the, 4198 and Christ, 885, 5054-7, 5423 - and illness, 3007 and life, 3355, 3359, 4901 and pleasure, 4155 and the gospel, 2530 and uncharitableness, 5765 Bible a comfort in, 484-5 Christ in, 913, 931, 1859-9) comfort in, 1140-2, 4809, 542 2756 desired by aged, 157 life recalled in, 3421, 4943 not to be bribed, 3844 preparation for, 2761, 4415, ready for, 4559, 4724, 42 reconciliation through, 4775 triumph in, 5708 young should be prepared for, Decision, necessity for, 15814 Defects, envy magnifies, 1924 cheerfulness under, 770, 52 worship under, 6199 Discipline and self-denial, 503 things, no appetite for, 253 Divinity and Christ, 934 Doers and hearers, 2679 and the Bible, 19, 571, 6011 Duties and doctrines, 1401, 1 knowledge of, 3280 |