DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON
Seven in the Bible.
“God bhicssel the seventh day." Genesis
2:3.
THE mathematics of the Bible is
noticeable; the geometry and the arith-
metic; the square in Ezekiel; the circle
spoken of in Isaiah: the curve alluded
to in Job: the rule of fractions men
tioned in Daniel: the rule of loss and
gain in Mark, where Christ asks the
people to cipher out by that rule what
it would **profit a man If he gain the
whole world and lose his soul.” But
there is one mathematical figure that is
CROWNED ABOVE ALL OTHERS
in the Bible: it is the numeral seven,
which the Arabians got from India,
and all following ages have taken from
the Arabians, It stands betweeen the
figure six and the figure eight, In the
Bible all the other numerals bow to it
Over three hnndred timesis it mention-
ed in the Scriptures, either alone or
compounded with other words. In
Genes!s the we: k is rounded into seven
days, and I use my text because there
this numeral is for the first time intro-
dueed in a journey which halts not uuo-
ti] in the close of the Book of Revela-
tions its monument is built into the
will of heaven in chrysolite, which, iu
the strata of precious stones, is the
seventh,
A CURIOUS RECURRENCE,
ln the Bible we find that Jacob bad
to serve seven years to get Rachel, but
she was well worth it: and, foretelling
the vears of prosperity and famine in
Pharaoh's time, the seven fat oxen
were eaten up of the seven lean oxen;
and wisdom is said to be built on seven
pillars: and the ark was left with the
Philistines seven years: and Naaman,
for the cure of his leprosy, plunged in
the Jordan seven times: the dead child,
when Elisha breathed into its mouth,
signalled its arrival back into conscious-
ness by speezing seven times: to the
house that Ezekiel saw in vision, there
were seven steps: the walls of Jericho,
before they fell down, were compassed
seven days: Zachariah describes a stone
with s-ven eves: to cleanse a Jeprous
house, tiie door must be sprinkled with
pigeons’ blood seven times: in Caanan
were overthrown seven nations: on one
occasion Christ cast out seven devils:
on a mountain He fed a multitude of
people with seven loaves, the fragments
left filling seven baskets: and the clos-
ing passages of the Bible are magnilic-
ent and overwhelming with the im-
agery made up of seven churches, seven
stars, seven candlesticks, seven seals,
seven augels, and seven heads, and
seven © and seven horns, and
seven spirits, and seven vials, and seven
plagues, and seven thunders.
Y ea, the numeral seven seems
A FAVORITE WITH THE DIVINE MIND
Towns
outside as well as inside the Bible, for
are there not seven prismatic colors?
And when God with the rainbow wrote
the comforting thought that the world
WOU er have another deluge, He
wrote it vi the scroll of the sky iu ink
of seveu lle grouped into the
Pleiades seven stars Rowe, the capi-
tal of the world, sat on seven |
When God would make the most
telligent thing om earth, the
countenance, He fashioned
seven teaturt the two ears,
eyes, the Lwo nostrils, and the mouth.
Yeu, our body lasts only seven years,
and we gradually sbed it for another
body after another seven years, and =o
ou. for we are, as to our bodies, septen-
nial an So the numeral
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imals, seven
ranges through nature and through
revelation. It is the numberof perfect-
sid 80 I use it while 1 speak of the
seven candlesticks, the seven stars, the
seve 1 thie seven thunders,
on,
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CHE SEVEN CANDLESTICKS
were and are the churches, Mark you,
the churches never were, aod never can
be, candles. They are only candle.
sticks, They are not
they arc to hold the hight. A room in
the night might have in it five hundred
candlesticks, and yet you could not see
yout hand before your face. The only
use of a candlestick, and the ouly use
of a church, is to hold up the light.
You sve it is a dark world, the night of
sin, the night of persecution, the night
of poverty, the nigh® of sickness, the
night of death; aye, about fifty nights
have interlocked their shadows. The
whole mace goes stumbling over pros.
trated hopes and fallen fortunes and
empty flour-barrels and desolated cra-
dies and death-beds, Oh, how much
we have
USE FOR ALL THE SEVEN
candlesticks, with lights blazing from
the top of each one of them! Light of
pardon for all sin! Light of comfort
for all trouble! Light of encourage-
ment for all despondency! Light of
sternal riches for all poverty! Light of
rescue for all persecution! Light of
reunion for all the bereft! Light of
heaven for all she dying! And that
hight is Christ, who is the Light that
shall yet irradiate the hemispheres,
But, mark you, when I say churches
are not candles, but candlesticks, I cast
no slur on candlesticks, I believe in
beautiful candlesticks. The candle-
sticks that God ordered for the ancient
tabernacie were seinething exquisite,
. They were a«dream’ of beauty carved
out of loveliness, They were made of
hammered gold, stood fo a foot of gold,
and had six branches of gold Llcoming
all along in six lilies of gold each, and
lips of gold, from which the candles
lifted their holy fire, And the best
houses in ant shy ought to be the
-churches—Lhe buili, the best venti-
lated, the best sw the best window-
ed, and the best chandeliered. Log-
cabins may do in neighborhoods where
most of the people live in log-cabins;
but let there be palatial churches for
regions W of the people live
in palaces. ‘De not have a better place
for youmelf than for your Lord and
King. Do not live in a parlor and put
your ¥ a #
“0 TOHRIST IN A KITCHEN,
These seven candlesticks of which i
speak were not made out of pewter or
iron; they wele candlesticks,
and gold is
metal.
in church they must look dull, in order
to be rev-rentinl, and many whose
faces in other kinds of assemblages
show all the different phases of emo-
tion, have tn church no more expression
than the back wheel of a hearse,
Brighten up and be responsive. If you
feel like weeping, weep. If you feel
like smiling, smile, If you feel indig-
nant at some wrong assailed from the
pulpit, frown, Do not leave your nat
uralness and resihency home because it
is Sunday morning. If as officers of a
church you meet people at the church-
door with a black look, and have the
music black, and the minister in black
preach a black sermon, and from invo-
cation to benediction have the impres-
sion black, few will come; and those
who do come will wish they had not
come at all,
Golden candlesticks! Scour up the
six lilies on each branch, and know that
the more lovely and bright they are,
the more fit they are to hold the light.
But a Christless light 18 a damage to
the world rather than & gool. Crome
well stabled his cavalry horses in Sk
Paul's Cathedral, and many now use
the church as a place in which to stable
worldliness. A worldly church 1s
A CANDLESTICK WITHOUT THE (
DLE,
and it had its protolype in St, Sophia,
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but transform
uses by Mohammed the
Built out of colored marble;
with twenty-four
Constantine,
Second.
a cupola
| ajc: galleries supported by eight col-
| umns of porphyry and sixty-seven col-
| umns of green jasper; nine bronze doors
| with alto-relievo work, fascinating to
the eye of any witist; vases anil vest.
{ ments encrusted with all manner of
| precious stones. Four walls tire
with indescribable splendor, Though
| labor was cheap, the building cost vue
| million five hundred thousand dollars,
| Ecclesiastical structure, almost super-
{ natural in pomp and majesty.
Mobammedanism tore down from the
walls of that building all the saintly
{ and Christly images, and high up in
the dome the figure of the cross was
| rubbed that the crescent of the bar-
bir might be substituted,
A great but no Christ! A
gorgeous %, but no candle!
Ten iurches would not
give the world much | as one
home-made tallow candle by which
i night some grandmother ib the ©
put her spectacles anl
Psalms of David in large
with the churches, by all means!
dreds of them, thousand f
the more the be
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Up
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them, and
lot
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type,
ne
be a blaze o i
thie world brighter
iast shadow bas disappeared, A
last of children of
il have reached the land where
have no need of or
dle, neither light of the sun,
Lord God giveth them light, ao
and ever.”
Turn now in your Bible to
STARS,
the suffering
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shall reign forever
I'fiE SEVEN
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Christian church
tars bave been nunting
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wide
or an Albert Barnes; and the
were in pursuit of the other
their own and some
| could never again find it. Alas for the
i heresy The best way to de-
stroy error is to preach the truth, The
i best way to scalier darkness is to strike
There is in immensity room
wugh for all the stars, and in the
church room enough for all the minis.
{ ters. The ministers who give up righte-
| ousness aud the truth will get punish-
| ment enough anyhow, for they are **the
wandering stars for whom is reserved
the blackness of darkness for ever,”
I should like, as a minister, when I
am dying, to be able truthfully to say
4 ¥
tars
fave Yas
stars lost
vide %
Oris, ol them
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huntersi
{fallen at the head of his column and
to General Wolseley, who came to cone
dole with him: *1 led them straight;
| didn’t I lead them straight, General?"’
God has put us ministers as captains in
this battie-fleld of truth against error.
Great at last will be our chagrin if we
fall leading the people the wrong way;
but great will be our gladness if, when
the battle is. over, we can hand our
sword back to our great Commander,
saying: ‘‘Lonl Jesus! We led the
people straight; did't we lead them
straight?”
THE SEVEN SEALS,
St. Jobn in vision saw a scroll with
seven seals, and he heard an augel cry:
“Who is worthy to loose the seals there-
of?’ Take eight or ten sheets of fools.
cap paper, paste them together and roll
them into a scroll, and have the scroll
at seven different places sealed with
sealing wax, You unroll the scroll till
you come to one of these seals, and then
you can go no further until you break
that seal; then unroll #gain until you
come to another seal, 4nd you can go
on no further until you break that seal;
then you go on until all the seven seals
are broken, and the coitents of the en-
tire scroll are revealed. Now, that
scroll with seven seals bield by the angel
was the prophecy of what was to come
on the earth; it meant that the knowl-
edge of the future was with God, and
po man and no angel was worthy to
it; but the Bible says Christ open-
it and broke all the seven seals,
He broke the first seal and unrolled
the scroll, and there was a painting of
a white horse, and that meant pros.
perity and triumph for the Roman Em-
pire, and 80 it really came to pass that
for ninety years virtuous em Is suc-
ceeded others Nerva, Trajan, and
Antonius, Christ in the vision broke
the second seal and unrolled again, and
there was a painting of ared horse, and
that meant b , and so it really
came to pass, and the next ninety years
were red with assassinations and wars,
Then Christ broke the third seal and
there was a paluting of
which ino all literature
means famine, oppression, and taxation;
and so it really came to pass, Christ
went on until He broke all the seven
seals and opened all the scroll. Well,
the future of all of us is a sealed scroll,
and I am glad that no one but Christ
can open it,
There is another mighty seven of the
Bible, viz.,
THE SEVEN THUNDERS,
What those thunders meant we are not
told, and there has been much guessing
about them; but they are to come, Wwe
are told, before the end of all things,
and the world cannot get along without
them. Thunder is the speech of light.
ning. There are evils in our world which
must be thundered down, and which will
require at least seven volleys to pros-
trace them, We are all doing nice,
delicate, soft-handed work, In churches
and reformatory institutions, against
the evils of the world, and much of it
amounts to a teaspoon dipping out the
Atlantic Ocean, or a clam-shell digging
away at a mountain, or a tack hammer
smiting the Gibraltar. What Is needed
is thunder-bolts, and at least seven of
them. There isthe long hine of frawd-
ulent commercial establishments; every
stone in the foundation, and every brick
in the wall, and every nail in the rafter
made out of dishonesty; skeletons of
| poorly paid sewing gisls’ arms in every
| beam of that establishment; human
| nerves worked into every figure of that
| embroidery; blood in the deep dye of
| that - proffered upholstery; billions of
dollars of
| ACCUMULATED FRAUD
| entrenched iu massive storehouses, and
| stock companies manipulated by un
scrupulous men, until the monopoly is
aefiant of all earth and heaven, How
maxim: Honesty is the best
Or by soft 1iepetition of
{on the
policy?
| gol
we would have them do to us?’ No,
it will not be done that way. What
needed, and will come, is the
thunders,
There 18 drunkenness backed up by a
| capital mightier than in any other busi-
| ness, Intoxicating liquors enough in
i this country to float a Davy.
| grain to the amount of 67,950,000
bushels annually destroyed to make the
{ deadly liquid. Breweries, distilleries,
gin shops, rum palaces, 1qUOr associa.
| tions, our nation spending annually
| seven hundred and forty millions of
| dollars for rum, resul mnkrupiey
{ disease, pauperism, ith, assassi
death, illimitable woe, What
| them? High Licens Y
laws? No. Chi
sion? No. T
nothing else wil
Y onder are intrenches
INFIDELITY AN
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ing presses busy day a here
thelr their
drunken Tom Paines and libertine Vol-
taires of the present as well as the past,
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the seven thunders of the Almighty?
Don't let us try to wield them ourselves,
they are too heavy and to fiery for us to
| handle; but God can and God will; and
things often
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means are exhausted, then judgment
| will begin. Thunderbolts? Depend
upon it, that what is not done under
the flash of the seven
i thunders,
| potent numeral seven, where the Bible
leaves it, imbedded in
hat was ever built, or will be coustruct-
| ed, the wall of heaven, Itis
THE SEVEN STRATA
| of precious stones that make up that
| wall,
| stones in that wall, the Bible cries out
| “the seventh chrysolite!l”
| lite is an exquisite green, and in that
| seventh layer of the heavenly wall shall
| be preserved forever the dominant
| color of the earth we once inhabited. I
| have sometimes been saddened at the
thought that this world, according to
Science and Revelation, is to be blotted
out of existence, for it is such a beauti-
ful world, But here in this layer of the
heavenly wall, where the numeral seven
is to be embedded, this strata of green
| is to be photographed, and embalmed
| and perpetuated, the chor of the grass
that covers the earth, the color of the
foliage thai fills the forest, the color of
the deep sea. One glance at that green
chrysolite, a million years after this
planet has been extinguished, will bring
and spring, and we will say to those
who were born blind on earth, and
never saw at all in this world, after they
have obtained full eyesight in heaven:
“If you would know how the earth ap-
peared in June and August, look at
that seventh layer of the heavenly wall,
the green of the chrysolite,"’
And while we stand there and talk,
spirit with spirit, that old color of the
earth which had more sway thag all the
other colors put ther, will bring
back to us our earthly experiences, and
noticing that this green chrysolite is the
seventh layer of
CHRISTALIZED MAGNIFICENCE
we may bethink ourselves of thedomin-
ation of that numeral seven over all
merals, and thank God that in
thunders having done their work have
reverberation, and that the num.
ceased
eral seven, which did such tremendous
work in the history of nations on earth,
lus been given such a high place in that
Niagara of colors, the wall of heaven,
sthe first foundation of which is jasper;
the second, sapphire; the third, a chal.
cedony; the fourth, emerald; the fifth,
sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the
seventh, chrysolite.
“When shall these eyes thy heaven-bullt walls
And pearly gates behold;
Thy bulwarks with salvation strong,
And streets of sh ning gold?
——— A ——
ANIMALS AND MUSIC.
The Tunefulness of viny Loiterers of
a Summer's Day.
Some animals abhor music, at least
some music; but most animals love
music, A cow likes nothing better
than singing and whistling, and her
milk flows gladly for a chap that will
sing to her, as she turns her head and
kisses him with her tongue. A dog, so
far 48 I know, hates music, except sing»
ing and whistling, A piano sets him
on edge, and a drum or fife makes him
howl. Horses, 1 believe, love martial
music best, Every horse is naturally a
war horse, and likes parade and the
dash of military life. Next to this he
gine, I know of uo decent music that
he dislikes, Cats, unlike dogs, like
pianos and organs, Of course, we un-
musical taste, although few have real
skill. I know of but two real masters
of song in our northern states, the bob-
olink and catbird; although there are
many more really sweet s ngers.
like the dew of the early,
| ing. One always associates them with
| waterfalls aud the music of silvery in-
struments, catbind is the
| vel of all musicians. He Is
i about what he will
But what led me to sit down to write
| was the music of the “tiny
| loiterers of a susnmer’s day.” It isa
mistake to suppose the chief occupa-
| tion of these dipteras and hymenopteras
is eating and werking—it is making
music. You shoud go out
time and sit downon a coc
the middle of the day; and
Li
asd you
give yourself to listening,
| ed to you a new world.
not be thinking
But the LIATr~
able to do
insects
in baving
¢ of bay in
again
in the evel if you
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ao! other
your eyes and
the sweel hi
HOW Conscious
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in part, i .
lions of them, Then
| all sorts of fies and worl
in the trees and
lay your
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a vast a number of
musk makers
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They hve no other musical in-
struments, but! am quite sure they en-
# motion, but ti
owdter, rae real m
sir wig covers as instruments,
he wigies to pipe the crickel
{ raises these coters and
gether lengthwse, so that they work as
a boy's cornstdk fiddle works. I con-
fess the musié is not sweet, b is
better than a Scotish bagpipe or
dy gurdy. Bui the fun
music is in ib element of ventrilos-
I shotid like to see you select
{ one of these felows just now and go
| directly to him following up his music,
{ You will go lif a dozen ways
{you find him. Nearly all tie insects
| have this poker, and i is no doubt
| used in self pritection,
joy not only ¢ sound.
ut it
| quism,
| an instrument more like the sheepskin
| drums of the Africans, or a primitive
{ taboret.
| triangular spage, over which is situat~
| ed a thin menbrane,
shutting of the wing covers, more or
| less rapidly, produces the notes that
| sound like kitydid. Only once
| awhile there i8as distinct a katy didn’t.
Perhaps both’ are true. Crickets and
| katydids of bolh sexes are musicians,
| and all night kng are to be heard calls
| ing and respauding like the shepherd
boys of easterflands, The cicades are
musical only ib the male sex, and that
| is quite enough; for if both sexes could
beat the ketts drums we should be
dinned deaf wiih the noise, On their
sides are memiranes plaited over each
other and covesing hollows, These are
beaten with copls that relax and con-
tract as boys pill rubber bands in con-
tact with a restunding material. These
fellows keep it ap all day, however, and
as they ave abuadant there is no lack of
thelr music.
1 have by no means recounted all the
musical instruments one can hear at
midday or of svenings in July or Au-
gust, Many & the tiny bugs have
power to emit singing sounds, From
the to the least forms of life
there is some way of expressing emo-
tion. So Iliketo sit on these hillocks
of hay and liten--just listen. It ms
love that, after all, fills nature
to it Only when love fai
shriek indicates the pi
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
Buspay, Novesnea 11, 1585,
——— ———
Calelys Inheritance,
LESSON TEXT.
Josh. 14 5-15. Memory verses, 10.13,
LESSON PLAN.
Toric oF THE QUARTEN:
Promises Fulfilled,
God's
There ratled not aught of any good thing
which the Lord had spoken the
house of Israel ; all came to puss, —Josh.
21 : 45.
witlo
Lesson
ward,
Toric: Receiving the
1, The Reward Promised, va. 6.4,
2. The Reward Cisimedd, va. 9-12
8 The Heward Heceived, ve. 13.15,
GOLDEN TEXT:
and do good; so shall thou dwell in the
land, and verily thou shalt be yed,—1sa.
“oy.
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Lesson
Outline:
DAILY Hoye READINGS!
M.—Josh, 14 :1-15. Recs
reward,
T Josh, 13:
itance,
W.—Num,
earned,
T.—Num. 14:1
ined,
F.- Num,
membered.
Deut, 1:
membered,
me] 811, 3-45.
fulness to Israel,
rye 1 +
villg Li
15 Mi
Polls
13
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3
213
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LESSON ANALYSIS
I. THE REWALD PROMISED
1. Israel's Weakness :
My breaturen
the people melt
rht
14 : 1).
Our brethren
melt { Deut
The hearts of
became as (3
Caleb's Fidelity ©
i}
Lie
walled
IHL God's Graciousness
Thou ki
i wt
HE
I. God's Promise Remen bered
i i 1 3 Yul
REWARD CLAINEI]
ine
wiedged:
Behold, the Lord hath kept me alive
10).
{| His mercies are gt
! 1 will sing of the mercies of the Lord
for ever Sik.
Who crownetl
| mercies {Psa
Great are thy tender
(Psa. 119 : 156).
{IL Ged's promises Claimed
i Now therefore give me Lhis mous
| whereof the Lord spake (12).
{ Thou hast j this
unto thy servant (2 Sam, 7
' O Lord..... keep with thy servant....
that which thou hast promised (1
Kings 8 :
| O Lord God, let thy promise
tablished {2 Chron, 1 : 9).
| She counted him faithful
promised (Heb, 11 : 11).
1. ‘““T'he land....shall be an
tance to thee, ....because
The land of promise; (2) The cer-
tainty of inheritance; (3) The ground
of bestowal.
2 “The Lond hath kept me alive.”
(1) Continued life a gift of God; (2)
Continued life a spur to praise,
3. “It may be that the Lord will be
with me, and I shall drive them
| JI. Godl’s Mercies Ackno
merce
sromised good thing
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ed help; (3) Anticipated victory.
{1f, THE REWARD RECEIVED,
1. The Reward Bestowed:
And Joshua....gave lebron unto
Caleb (13).
Hebron was built seven years before
Zoan in Egypt (Num, 13 : 22).
Unto Caleb... .he gave a portion,....
(the same is Hebron) (Josh. 15 : 13).
They gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses
had spoken {(Judg. 1 : 20).
The fields of the city, and the villages
thereof, they gave to Caleb, (1 Chron, |
6 : 56). i
iL The Reward Enjoyed: :
Hebron became the inheritance of)
Caleb. .. .unto this day (14).
Ye shall dwell in the land in safety
{Lav, 25 : 18).
w harkeneth unto me shail dwell
securely (Prov. 1 : 33).
The wu t shall dwell in the land
(Prov. 2 : 21).
He shall go out thence no more (Rev.
TIL Reward Enlarged:
And the land had rest from war (15).
I will give peace in the land (Lev, 26:6
The Ew will ee people wi
pence (Psa, 20 : 11).
He maketh peace in thy borders (Psa,
147 : 14).
My covenant was with him of life and
peace (Mal, 2:5).
1. “Joshua blessed him.” {The source
of blessing: (2) The nature of bless.
ing; (3) The channel of blessing; (4)
The grounds of blessing; (6) The re-
sults of blessing.
2, “The inberitance of Caleb, . . . . unto
this day.” (1) A rich inheritance;
(2) A chosen inheritance; (3) A de-
served inheritance; (4) An abiding
inheritance,
3. “And the land had rest froin war.’
(1) Israel's toes; (2) Israel's con
quests; (3) Israel's rest,
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HERBEREOXN IN BIBLE HISTORY.
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Num, 13:2
The patriarchs
18: 35 :
Burial place of
2, 17-20
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{ Abslom began
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LESSON SURROUNDINGS,
The defeat at Al was at
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son of Achan (Josh, 7:14
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Le Hebrew word transiated*‘godown,”
as applied to the sun’s would
better be rendered ‘come,’ in the sen
of ome This explanation
treated quite fully by a recent writer in
I'he Church is worthy
consideration by schol
From chapter 10 : 28 to 12 : 24 there
is a brief : various
cessful campaligus, in the south,
and then in the north. These seem 10
havecovered a period of about seven
vears: some of them probably occur-
ring afier the present lesson, but group.
ed together for convenient narration,
In chapter 13 we | a promise and
cominand respecting the yet remaining
territory. This territory is promised
and allotted to the tribes occupying the
territory west of the Jordau (chap. 13 :
1-7). There follows, as a recapitula-
tion, a description of the territory east
already in possession of
and the balf tribe that
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| the two tribes
The place of the lesson is first at
teen at Hebron, a very ancleni city,
sheba,~about twenty Roman miles
The time was in the forty-
seventh year after the exodus, forty-
five vears after the spies returned to
(see vs. 7-10). This
would be in the sixth year of the con-
quest, which was not yet complete,
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Woman's “No” in Greenland.
In Greenland It is an accepled fact
in social philosophy that a woman's
“No” means “Yes”! The priest calls
upon the young woman and pleads the
cause of her lover, assuring her that he
is a good man, that be catches many
seals, &c, It 1s the custom of the
woman to reject ail proposals at Orst,
but to yield at last in unwilling assent,
If the priest thinks she is too obstinate,
he generally remarks, “Ab, well, it is
no matter. I can easily find another
woman who will have sach a good pro-
vider!” and turns to leave, which ac-
tion brings the stubborn maiden to
terms at once,
The scintillation of stars, Montigny
asserts, increase during auroras, the
marked in winter,
in the
tensity of the storm.
Considerable
obscurity bangs about the whole ob
ject