DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
Queer Christians.
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“And he was angry and would not go in’
Lasko 16: 28,
*‘Is the elder son of the parable so
ansympathetic and so cold that he is
mot worthy of recognition? The fact
is that we ministers pursue the younger
son. You can hear the flapping of his
rags in many a :sermonic breeze, and
the cranching of the pods for which he
was an unsuccessful contestant, I con-
fiess that for a long time I was unable
to train the camera obscura upon the
elder son of the parable. I never could
get a negative for a photograph. There
was not enough light in the gallery, or
the chemicals were poor, or the sitter
mnoved in the preture, But now I think
1 have him. Nota side-face, or a three-
quurters, or the mere bust, but
A FULL-LENGTH PORTRAIT,
@s he appears to me, The father in the
arable of the prodigal had nothing to
rag of in his two sons, The one was a
rake, and the other a churl. I find
nothing admirable in the dissoluteness
of the one, and I find nothing attrac-
tive in the acrid sobriety of the other.
The one goes down over the larboard
side, and the other goes down over the
starboard side; but they both go down.
From the window of the old home-
stead bursts the minstrelsy. The floor
quakes with the feet of the rustics,
whose dancer is always vigorous and
gesounding. The neig'bors have heard
of the return of the younger son from
his wanderings, and they have gather-
ed together. The house is full of con-
gratulators, I suppose the tables are
loaded with luxuries, Not only the
one kind of meat mentioned, but its
concomitants, “Clap!” go the cym-
Dals, “thrum!” go the harps, ‘‘click!”
go the chalices, up and down go the
feet inside, while outside is a most
sorry spectacle. The senior son stands
at the corner of the house,
A FRIGID PIHLEGMATIC.
He has just come in from the fields in
yery substantial apparel. Seeing some
wild exhilarations around the old man-
sion, be asks of a servant passing by
with a goatskin of wine on his shoulder
what all the fuss is about, One would
have thought that, on hearing that his
younger brother had got back, he would
have gone into the house and rejoiced,
and if he were not conscientiously op-
posed to dancing, that he would have
joined in tie Oriental schottische. No.
There he stands. His brow lowers,
His lip curls with contempt. He
stamps the ground with indignation.
He sees nothing at all to attract. The
odors of the feast coming out on the air
do not sharnen his appetite. The lively
music does not put any spring into his
step. He is in a terrible pout. He
criticises the expense, the injustice,
and the morais of the entertainment,
The father rushes out barehexded,
and coaxes him to come in, Jie will
got go in. Ie scolds the futiier.
goes in! pasquinade ufainst
younger Lrother,
the
you put a premium ca vagabondism, I
stayed at home znd worked om the
farm. You nefer made a party for
that woulda’t have cost half as much
fit 16 be seen, and what a time you
piake over him! Hebreaks your héart,
and you, pay him for it. That calf to
which we have been giving extra feed
during all these weeks wouldn't be so
fat and sleek If I had known to what
use you were going to put it! That
vagabond deserves to be cowhiled in-
stead of banqueted, Veal is too good
for him!” That evening, while the
younger son sat telling his father about
his adventures, and asking about what
had occurred on the place since his de-
parture, the senior brother goes to bed
disgusted, and slams the door alter
him.
THAT SENIOR BROTHER STILL LIVES,
You can see him any Sunday, any day
of the week. At a meeting of minis.
uestion, “Who is that elder son?’ and
rummacher answered, **I know him;
[ saw hum yesterday.” And when
they insisted upon knowing whom he
meant, he said, “Myself; when I saw
the account of the conversion of a most
4bnoxious man, 1 was irritated.”
Tirst this senior brother of the text
gands Tor the self congratulatory, self-
satisfied, self-worshipful man. With the
game breath in which he vituperates
against his younger brother he utiers a
pan gyrie for himself. The self-right-
sous man of my text, like every other
self-righteous man, was full of faults,
He was an iugrate, for he did not ap-
jate the home blessings which
he had all those years, He was dis-
obedient, for when the father told him
to come in be stayed out, He was a
. liay, for he sald that the recreaut son
. bad devoured his father’s living, when
the fathér, so far frem being reduced
“to pentiry, had a homestead left, had
instruments of music, had jewels, had
a mansion, and instead of being a pau-
per, was a prince. This senior brother,
with 80 many faults of his own, was
merciless fu his criticism of the younger
brother,
THE ONLY PERFECT PEOPLE
‘that I have ever known were utterly
about himself, but much about Christ
and heaven, gets kindlier and more
gentle and more useful, until one day
nis soul spreads a wing, and he flies
away to eternal rest, and everybody
mourns his departure. The other
higher-life man goes around with a
Bible conspicuously under his arm, goes
from church to church, a sort of gen-
eral evangelist, is
A NUISANCE
to his own pastor when he Is at home,
and a nuisance to other pastors when
he is away from home; runs up to some
man who is counting out a roll of bank-
bills, or running up a difficult line of
figures, aud asks him how his soul is;
makes religion a dose of ipecacuanha;
standing in a religious meeting making
an address, he has a patronizing way,
as though ordinary Christians were
clear away down below him, so he had
to talk at the top of his voice in order
to make them hear, but at the same
time encouraging them to hope on, that
by climbing many years they may after
a while come up within sight of the
place where he now stands! I tell you
plainly that a rearing, roystering,
bouncing sinner is not so repulsive to
me as that higher-life malformation.
The former may repent; the latter
never goes over his pharisaism. The
younger brother of the parable caw
back, but the senior brother stands out-
side entirely oblivious of his own delin-
quencles and deficits, pronouncing his
own eulogium, Oh, how much easier
1t is to blame others than to blame our-
selves! Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamn-
ed the serpent, the serpent blamed the
devil, the senior brother blamed the
younger brother, and nons of them
blamed themselves.
INCREDULOUS CHRISTIANS,
Again, the senior brother of my text
stands for all those who are faithless
about the reformation of the dissipated
and the dissolute, In the very tones of
his voice you can hear the fact that he
has no faith that the reformation of the
younger son is genuine. His entire
manuer seems to say, ‘That boy has
come back for more money. Ie got a
third of the property; now he has come
back for another third, He will never
be con’ ented to stay on the farm. He
will fai . I would go in too pad
rejoice with: lie others if I though this
thing was genuine, but it is zx sham,
That boy is a confirmed inelfiate and
debauchee.”” Alas! my fri¢nds, for the
incredulity in the Church of Christ in
regard to the reclamation of the recre-
ant. You say a mza has been a strong
drinker. I say, “Yes, but he has re-
formed.” **O%." you say, with a lu-
gubrious farce, ‘1 hope you are not mis-
taken, I lope you are not mistaken.”
| his eonversion, for soon he will be un
converted, I fear.
| « party for that returned prodigal, oi
{ strike the timbrel too loud; and if you
| kill a calf, Kill
{ luxuriating in the paddock.”
the reason
HOME
It
| infidelity in the church of God on this
i subject.
| streets of heaven that has not in
| prodigal that has feturned and staid
| home, There could be unrolled before
you a scroll of a bundred thousand
| names—the names of prodigals who
came back, for ever reformed. Who
was John Bunyan?
igal. Who was Richard
returned prodigal. Who
Whitefield, the thunderer?
ed prodigal. And I could go out in all
directions in this audience and find on
either side those who, once far asiray
for many years, have been faithful, and
their eternal salvation Is as sure as
though they had been ten years in
heaven, Amd yet, some of you have
not enough faith in their return.
i to their father’s house,
Jaxter? A
was George
A return.
with a prodigal. You do not know
how to pray for him. You do not
know how to greet him. He wants to
gail in the warm gulf-stream of Chris
tian sympathy. You are i
| THE ICEBERG AGAINST WHICH HE
STRIKES j
and shivers, You say he has been a
prodigal, I know it. But you are the
sour, unresponsive, censorious, satur+
nine, cranky, elder brother, and if you
are going to heaven one would think)
some people would be tempted to go to
perdition to get away from you. The
hunters say that if a deer be shot the
other deer shove him out of their com+
pany, and the general rule is, awa
with the man who has been wounded
with sin. Now, I say, the more bones
a man has broken the more need he hay
of a hospital, and that the mere a man
has been bruised and cut with sin, the
more need he has to be carried into
human and divine sympathy. But for
such men there is not much room in
this world-—~the men who waut to come
back after wandering. Plenty of room
for elegant sinners, sinners in velvet
and satin and lace, for sinners high-
salaried, for kid-gloved and patent
leather sinners, for sinners fixed up by
hairdresser, pomatumed and lavender-
ed and cologned and frizzled and erimp-
ed and “banged” sinners—plenty of
room! Such we mest elegantly at the
door of our churches, and we invite
them into the best seats with Chester-
fieldian gallantries; we usher them into
the house of God, and put soft ottomans
under their feet, and put a git-edgad
prayerbook in their band, pass the
contribution box before them with an
air of apology, while , the generous
souls take out the exqu -
nale, and open it, and with diamonded-
push down beyond the ten-dollar
jeces and delicately pick out as an
expression of gratitude their
to the Loed of one cent, For
sinhems, plenty of room, plenty of room.
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tongue, and his shrieking yet immortal
spirit—=—no room. .
Oh, if this younger son of the para-
ble bad not gone so far off, it he had
not dropped so low In wassall, the pro-
test would not have been so severe;
but going clear over the precipice as the
younger son did, the elder son is angry
and will not go in.
On, be not so hard in your eriticlsm
of the fallen, lest thou thyself also be
tempted. A stranger, one Sunday,
staggered up and down the alsles of my
church,
DISTURBING THE SERVICE,
until the service had to stop, until he
was taken from the room. He was a
minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
of a sister denomination, That man
had preached the Gospel, that man had
broken the bread of the Holy Commun-
ion for the people. From what a height
to what a depth! Oh, I was glad
thers was no smiling in the room when
that man was taken out, his poor wife
following him with his hat in her band
and his coat on her arm. It was as
solemn to me as two funerals—the
funeral of the body and the funeral of
the soul, Boware, lest thou also be
tempted,
An invalid went to South America
for his health, and one day sat sunning
himself on the beach, when he saw
something crawling up the beach, wrig-
gling towards him, and he was affright-
ed. He thought it was a wild beast, or
a reptile, and he took his pistol from
his pocket. Then he saw it was nota
wild beast. 1t was a man, an immortal
man, a man made in God's own image;
and the poor wretch crawled up to be
feet of the invalid and asked for strong
drink, and the invalid took bis wine
flask from his pocket and gave the poer
wretch something to dripk, and then
vider the stimulus he rose and gave
his history. He had Leen
A MERCHANT IN GLASGOW,
Scotland. He %ad gone down under
so reduced %0 poverty, that he was lying
ia a boat just off the beach, “Why,”
said the invalid, *“I knew a merchant
in Ciasgow once,” a merchant by such
pad such a name, and the poor wretch
straightened up and sad, *'1 am that
man.” “Let him that thinketh he
standeth take heed lest he fall.’’
Again, I remark that the senior
brother of my text stands for the spirdd
of envy and jealousy. The senior broth-
er thought that all the honor they did
to the returned brother was a wrong to
him,
and I ought to have had the ring, and I
ought to have had the banquet, and I
ought to have had the garlands.” Alas
tor this spirit of envy and j=alousy com-
ing down through the ages! Cain
ud David,
Haman and Mordecal, Oh
Orlando and Angelica, Caligula
and
Torquatus, Caesar and Pompey, Colun
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ses, and the brother he slew because Le
was a better marksman, Dionysius and
Jealousy among
and Geoffrey
Fran.
anxious to see a picture of Ra-
Raphael sends him a picture,
Francis, seeing it, falls in a fit of jeal-
ousy, from wuich he dies. Jealousy
authors: How seidom contem-
each other, Xenop-
painters: Closterman
3,
would
RELIGIOUS JEALOUSY;
rain
during a drought, no rain coming.
and the rain comes. Then the
kept the drought on, so as to keep them
praying; but that the Christians began
with their prayers that He sent rain
right away, so He would not hear any
more of their applications. Ob, this
let us stamp it out from all our
hearts,
A wrestles was so envious of Theo-
genes, the prince of wrestlers, that he
could not be cousoled in any way; and
after Theogenes died, and a statue was
lifted to him in a public place, his en-
vious antagonist went out overy night
and wrestled with the statue, until one
night ho threw it, and it fell on him
and crushed him to death, So jealousy
is not only absurd, but its killing to
the body, and it is killing to the soul,
How seldom it is you find one merchant
speaking well of a merchant in the same
line of business! How seldom it is you
hear of a physician speaking well of a
hysician on the same block! Oh, my
riends, the world is large enough for
all of us. Let us rejoice at the success
of ethers. The next best thing to own-
ing a garden ourselves, Is to look over
the fence and admire the flowers. The
next best thing to riding in fine equip-
age, is to stand on the street and ad-
mire the prancing span. The next best
thing to having a banquet given to our-
selves, is having a banquet given to our
prodigal brother that has come home to
his father’s house,
Besides that, if we do not get as
much honor and as much attention as
others, we ought to congratulate our-
selves on what we escape in the way of
assault,
THE FRENCH OENERAL,
riding on horseback at the head of his
troops, heard a soldier complain and
say, ‘It is very easy for the general to
command us forward, while he rides
and we walk.” Then the general dis-
mounted and compelled the complain-
ing soldier to get on the horse. Coming
through a ravine, a bullet from a
ter struck the rider, and he
fell The the general said, “How
much safer it is to walk than to ride!"
that this
pupers, pouting at the church, pouting
at the government, pouting at the high
heaven! Their spleen is too large, their
liver does not work, their digestion is
broken down, There are two cruets in
their castor always sure to be well sup-
plied
VINEGAR AND RED PEPPER]
Oh, come away from that mood. Stir
a little saccharine into yeur disposition,
While you avoid the dissoluteness of
the younger son, avoid also the irascib-
ility and the petulance, and the pouting
spirit of the elder son, and imitate the
father, who had embraces for the return-
ing prodigal, and coaxing words for the
splenstic malcontent,
All the tace of this pouting elder son
is put before us in order that we might
better see the radiant and forgiving face
of the father. Contrasts are mighty.
The artist in sketching the field of
Waterloo, years after the battle put a
dove in the mouth of the cannon. Rs-
phael, in one of his cartoons, beside the
face of a wretch put the face of a happy
and innocent child, And so the sour
face of this irascible and disgusted
elder brother is brought eut, in order
that in the contrast we ruay better un-
derstand the forgiving and the radiant
face of God, This is the meaning of it
—that God is rezdy to take back any-
body that is zorry, to take him clear
back, to take him back forever, and for-
ever, and forever, to take him back
with a foving hug, to put a kiss on his
parcied lip, a ring on his bloated hand,
a easy shoe on his chafed foot, a gar-
iand on his bleeding temples, and
heaven in hissoul. Oh, 1 fall flat ou
that mercy! Come, my brother, and let
us get down into the dust, resolved
never to rise until the Father's forgiv-
ing hand shall Jift us,
OH, WHAT A GOD WE HAVE]
Bring your doxologles, Come, earth
you not feel the Father's arm
around your neck?Do you not feel the
your cheek? Surrender, younger son!
Surrender elder son! Surrender, alll Ob,
go in to-day and sit at the banquet, Take
aslice of the fatted ealf, and afterward,
when you are seated, with one hand in
the hand of the returned brother, and
the other hand in the hand of the re-
make merry, and be
is alive again; and was lost, and is
a
Th Number of the Stars
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The total ni of stars
see will depend very
of the
one can
There he
i ere about
in ordinarily Of
ever, Call ever soe more
than a fraction at any time, Le-
hal sphere is always be-
If we could see a star
are int
whole celestial
£2 od eye,
Wwe
one
cause i half of the
low the horizon
of the whole number,
visihie on
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and only the brightest
AS a resait of
it is not likely that
{ite
ones can there
tion,
al a
00K other stars are so near the Soul
Pole that they never rise in
tudes, Hence, out of GOOD supposed 10
be visible, only 4000 ever come within
the range of our vision, unless we make
a journey towards the equalor,
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
Suspay, Berreunxn 2, 188%,
The Spices Sent Into Canaan.
LESSON TEXT,
Nuan, 18: 17-38. Memory vores, 9-01)
LESSON PLAX,
Toric OF THE QUARTER:
Covenant Relations with Israel.
God's
GoLpEX TEXT YOR THE QUARTER:
Only be strong and very courageous, to
observe to do according to all the law,
which Moses my servant commanded thee:
turn not from i to the right hand or to
the loft, that twu mayest have good suce
cess whither soever thou goest—Josh, 1:7.
Lesson Toric: Encouraged on Lie
Way.
Lesson f
Outline: {
Exploration, vs, 17.92,
Discovery, va, 25.99.
Encouragement, va. 350.52,
GOLDEN Text : Let us go up at
once, and p-ssess it; for we are well able
to overcome it.—Num, 13 : 30,
Day Hove READINGS:
M.—Num. 13 : 17-35.
sent into Canaan.
T.—-Num. 13 : 1-16.
Spies,
W.—Num, 14 1-25,
among the people,
T.—Num. 14 : 206-45,
inflicted.
F.—Gen, 13 : 1-18,
ised to Abram.
8. Deut. 1 : 19-46,
from Canaan,
B~-Deut. 8 : 1-20,
aroused,
The spies
Trouble
Gratitude
LESSON ANALYSIS,
I. EXPLORATION.
I. The Land .
The land of Canaan (17).
Abram. ...went forth to go in
land of Canaan (Gen, 12 : 5).
I will give unto thee...
Canaan (Gen, 17 : B).
Canaan, which I give unto the children
of Israel (Num. 13 : 2).
The land which I sware untojAbraham
(Num, 32: 11%
IL The Residents :
the people that dwelleth there-
the
to
in {18},
The Canaanite and the Perizzite dwell-
edd then in the land (Gen. 13 : 7).
of the
{ye
hornet. . . .shall
24 : 9).
drive
(Exod, 23 ;
Canaanites
out
Canaanite ani.
19.
land of Canaan (Acts 13:
III: The Visitors:
Bo they went
land (21
wh by
wad 3 $4 y .
and spied out the
Send a man
Th
te ELLE
LO Inurtnel
men. .
Let
may search the la
I took twelve men «
us send men
3. “Be ve of good courage, §
of the fr "”
trie Gn
Pir
uit land.
it for God's work; |
turn in God's work.
OVERY.
ai the
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far exceeding our present ones were
made, they would no doubt show new
stars of the twentieth and twenty-first,
elo, magnitudes, But it 1s highly
One cluster of
figs (23).
of the choice fruits of the land
43 : 11).
yey 1a FETT OTA TY
BTADPES, . . . PpOlLegTAL~-
YOur vi sels {Gen
vae
sun (Deut, 33 : 14).
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
(Gal, 5:
peace
22).
bearing twelve manner
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of fruits (Rev.
cessive orders of stars would net in-
crease in the same ratio as is observed
in the eights, nimth, aud
tudes, for example, The enormous
fabor of estimating the number of stars
of such classes will long prevent the ac-
cumulation of statistics on this ques.
special regions of the sky, which have
been searchingly examined by various
telescopes of spccessively locreasing
apertures, the number of new stars
found is by no means in proportion to
the increased instrumental power. If
this is found to be true elsewhere, the
conclusion may be that, after all, the
stellar system can be experimentally
shown to be of flnite extent and to con.
tain only a finite number of stars. In
the whole sky an eye of average power
will see about 6000 stars, as 1 have just
said. With a telescope this number is
greatly increased, and the most power-
ful telescopes of modern times will
show moro than 60,000,00) stars, Of
this number, not one out of one hun-
dred Las ever been catalogued at all
v + « Inall, 314,926 stars, from the
first to the 9} magnitudes, are contain-
ed in the northern sky; or about €U0,-
000 in both hemispheres. All of these
can bo seen with S<inch object-glass,
Modern and Ancient Ink.
merit of our common writ.
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Surely it floweth with milk and honey
(27).
flowing with milk and
honey (Exod. 3 : Bl.
...18 an exceeding good land
(Num. 14 : 7).
A good land which the Lord our God
giveth unto us (Deut, 1:25).
A land of wheat and barley, and vines
and fig trees (Deut. 8 :8),
111, Formidable Foes:
Howbeit the people that dwell in the
land are strong (28).
We were In our own sight as grasshop-
pers (Num. 13 : 33).
Nations. ...greater and mightier than
thou (Deus, 4 : 38).
Cities great and fenced,....a people
great and tall (Deut. 9: 1, 2).
The devil, as a roaring lion,. ...seeking
whom he may devour (1 Pet. 5 : 8).
1. “A branch with one cluster of
grapes.” (1) Fruits of the natural
Canaan; (2) Fruits of the spiritual
Canaah; (3) Fruits of the Leavenly
Canaan,
2, “Brought back word unto them.”
1) The expectant congregation; (2)
he returning spies; (1) The diver-
gent reports; (4) The calamitous
results,
3, “Howbeit the people that dwell in
the land are stroug.’ (1) An attrac.
tive land; (2) A forbidding popula~
tion.—{1} Allurements; (2) Dis.
couragements,
fil. ENCOURAGEMENT.
1. A Discouraging Report:
They brought up an evil report of the
J il ainst
ringing up an evil report ag the
a 14 : 36),
Those men that did bring up an evil re-
port of the land (Num. 14 : 37).
Wherefore discourage ve the heart
of Israel? (Num. 33:7).
They all would have made us afraid,
ying, that it be not done (Neh.
IL A Stirring Call:
Lot us go up at once, and possess it
Do is on the Jords du, Jet him
come unto me (Exod. 32: 20).
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Neither fas 36 Se ponies Sty we
re he aout chi Janda
ow over
Josh, 1:2), ”
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The Lord is with us: fear thers nof
(Num, 14 : 9).
The Lora thy God, ... he shall fight
for vou (Deut. 1 : 30).
The Lore your God is with thee (Josh.
4 19).
(Acts 27 : 22),
1. “Let us go up at once, and possess
it,” (1) Forward movement; (2)
Imanediate action; (8) Complete
conquest,
2. “We are weii able todvercome it."
{1) God is for us; (2) Who isagainst
us?
3. “They brought up an evil report of
the land.” (1} Overlooking the
good; (2) Exaggerating the evil; (3]
Doubting the promises; (4) Forget
ful of God,
LESSON BIBLE READING,
THE LANXD OF CANAAN.
Boundaries (Gen, 15 : 18; Deut, 1:7
Josh, 1: 4).
Fertility (Exod. 3:8; Num. 13:27 ;
Deut, 8 : 7-0 ; 11 : 10-12).
Mineral wealth (Deut, 8 : 9; 33 : 23).
Original inhabitants (Gen. 10: 15-20 ;
Deut. 7:1).
25 : Deut. 18 : 12).
Promised to Abraham
13:15:17 : BL.
(Gen. 12 : 7;
+15 ; Exod. 15:
14; lev, 26 : 4 13:10;
Psa, 106:24 isa. 8 : 8;
9:3:Heb, 11: 9).
1:4),
LESSON SURROUNDINGS,
The general description of the divine
guidance during the journeyings of the
children of Israel, contained in the last
lesson, is followed by an account of the
signals by trumpets for assemblies, for
alarms, and for feast days (Num. 10:
1-10). Even these are given a religious
significance, With Nuwbers, 10:
ada
Sinai begins, The time was on Lhe
twentieth day of the second month, in
the second year, about eleven inouths
after the giving of the decalcgue,
The details respecting the order of
incident fol.
invitation
13-28), An interesting
yws (Num, 10 : 20.32):
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the
lo accompany the chosen people into
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the promised land, and share in
The first journey was of three cays;
and the solemn formulas at the removal
and resting of the ark are inserted at
(Num. 10 : 33-36). Chapler
11 gives new evicousce of the unruliness
of the people: murmured, and
onsumed by fire at Taberal
“the mixed multitude”
sh-pots of Egypt, and
cry
SO1ne
in the four flesh
1 Moses to appoint
share his burdens,
» flesh to eat { Num,
he doubt of Moses is an-
Bi upon tie
that bad not
the (Num, 11 :
Joshua would forbid
them, Moses responds in noble language
Num, 11 : 28, 20 ; comp. Mark 0:
40). The supply of flesh comes again
in the form of quails (comp. Exod, 16 :
13), but punishment atlenus the fulfill
went of the promise (Num 11 : 30.335).
A new revolt against the authority
Miriam and Aaron
The former seems
ning Lhe peol
: 16-20). 1
swered: Lhe
seventy, even uj
assernbled with
of
8} lescends
on Lwo
others
A
i
»f the wife of Moses,
1 leprosy, but healed,
after seven days of separation, at the
n to Moses, and of
Moses to the Lord (Num. 12).
The journey had been directly toward
Canaan, east of north from Mount
Sinai, Crossing the wide district called
the wilderness of Paran, which lies
along the southern frontier of the
promised land, the people camp at
13 : 26 ; Deut,
From this place the
spies were seut out. Their names are
given in chapter 13 : 4-16; one from
each tribe, The time of their setting
out was probably in June, and of their
return in August (see v, 20), of the
second year,
The place of the incidents of this les
gon is Kedesh-baruea, a pivotal point
in the southern boundary line of
Canaan. Its location was long in dis
pute; but 1s identification with the
place still bearing its equivalent name
in Arabic, Qadees, in the heart of the
‘Azazimeh mountains, is now practi
cally agreed upon by the scholars of the
world generally. The plain of Qadees
is an extensive hill-encircled camping-
ground, commanding the approaches to
Canaan from the south apd west and
south-east, Its just such a strategic
position for the reconneitring of Canaan
as would be selected by trained soldiers
moved by jealousy
1:19 & seq.)
When Annoyed by Musquitoes,
From country places all around New
York I hear a wail of agony anent the
ferocious musquito, which this summer
seems to have broken his record for fre
quency and virulence of executive abil
ity. It seems that the peculiar climatic
jes of this uncomfortable summer
have just suited the musquito’s peculiar
fancy. Anyhow he is out iu force, and
the discoverer of a preparation which
will prevent his attacking hands, face
or ankles is sure of an abiding reward
both mow and in the hereafter, My
own experience teaches me that the
nearest h to this desirable come
pound is extract of penny royal, which
uld be plentifully smeared on all ex-
portions of the person, The odor
unpleasant, and as the extract
largely of alcohol, evaporation
Apoedy aha pleasant coolness results,
ho will pt his probit n nag
or iy To the RB working
bites nothing is more effectual than
common washi soda, moistened and
ne ot,
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