DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON
Danger for the Ballot-Box.
——
“Pwo cubits and a half was the length of it,
and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and &
cubit and a half the height of it." —Ex. 31: 1
Look at it—the sacred chest of the
ancients. It was about five feet long,
three feet wide, and three feet high, It
was within and out of pure gold, On
the top of it stood two angels facing
each other with outspread wings. In
that sacred box was the law, and there
were in it a great many precious stones,
With that box went the fate of the na-
tion. Carried in front of the host, the
waters of the Jordan parted. Divinely
sharged, costly,
PRECIOUS, MOMENTOUS pox!
No unholy hands might lay hold of it,
1t was called the ark of the covenant,
But you will understand it was a box,
the most precious box of the ages.
Where is it now? Gone forever, Not a
erypt of church or museum of the
world has a fragment of it, But is not
this nation God's chosen people? Have
we not passed through the Red Sea?
Have we not been led with a pillar of
fire by night? Has this nation no ark
of the covenant? Yes, the ballot-box,
the sacred chest of the nation, the Ark
of the American covenant, In it is
the Jaw, mn it is the divine and the hu-
man will, in it is the fate of the nation.
Carried in front of our host again and
again, the waters of national trouble
have purted, Mighty ark of the coven
ant, the American ballot-box! Itis
A VERY OLD BOX,
In Athens, long before the art of
printing, the people dropped pebbles
into it to give expression to their senti-
ments. After that, beans were drop-
ped into it—a white bean for the affirm-
ative, a black bean for the negative.
After that, when they wished to vole a
man out of citizenship they would
write his name upon a shell and drop
that into the box. O’Connell and
Grote and Cobden and Macaulay and
f;ladstone fought great battles in the
introduction of the ballot-boxes in Eng-
land, and to-day it is one of the fast
pesses of that nation. It is
OF THE ( ORNL R-STONES
of our government, It is older than
the Constitution. In itis our pational
safety. Tell me what will be the fate
of the American ballot-box, the ark of
the American covenant, and I will teli
you what wiil be the fate of this nation,
Give the people once a year, or once in
four years, an opportunity to express
thelr political sentiments, and you practi-
cally avoid insurrection and revolution,
Either give them the ballot, or they
will take the sword, Without the bal-
fot-box there can be no free republican
institutions. Milton visiting in Italy
noticed that on the sides of Vesuvius
gardeners and farmers were at work
while the volcano was in eruption, and
he asked them :f they were safe, “Yes
said the farmers and the gardeners, *'it
is safe: all the danger 18 before the
sruption; then comes earthquake and
terror, b t as soon as the volcano
hegins to pour forth lava we all feel at
cest,”” It is the suppression of political
sentiment, the suppression of public
opinion, that makes moral earthquake
and national earthquake. Let public
opiuiou pour forth, and that gives sat-
isfaction, and that gives peace, and
that gives permanency Lo good govern-
ment. And yet, though the ballot-box
is the sacred chest and the ark of the
American covenant, you know as well
as I know it has its sworn antagonists,
and 1 purpose this morning, in God's
pame and as a Christian patriot, to set
before you the names of some of the
sworn enemies of this sacred chest, the
ark of the American covenant, the bal-
ot-box.
THE FOES OF THE BALLOT-BOX
First, I remark, ignorance 18 a mighty
foe. Other things being equal,
more intelligence a man
he is qualified to exercise
suffrage. You have been ten, filleen,
twenty, thirty years studying Ameri-
can institutions, you
all the creat questions about
home rule, and all the ed
questions, and everything in Awerican
fitics you are well acquainted with,
Fou consider yourself competent to
sast a vote in November, aud you are
sompetent, You wil take your posi-
tion in the line of electors, you will
wait for your turn to come, the judge
of election will announce your name,
youn will cast your vote aml pass out,
Well done.
But right behind you there will come
a man who cannot spell the name of
comptroller or attorney or mayor. He
cannot write, or if he can write he uses
a sinall **1”’ for the personal pronoun.
fie could not tell on which side of the
Alleghany Mountains Ohio ia Edu-
sated canary birds know more than he,
He will cast his vote, and it will bal.
ance your vote, llis
JIGNORANUE IS MIGHTY
as your intelligence. That is not right,
All wen of fair mind will acknowledge
that that is not right. Until a man
can read the Declaration of Independ-
ence and the Constitution of the United
States, and calculate the interest on
the American debt, and know the dif-
ference between a republican form of
government and a monarchy or a de-
spotism, he is unfit to exercise the right
of suffrage at any ballot-box between
Key West and Alaska.
In 1872, in England, there were 2,-
£00,000 children who ought to have
been in school, There were only 1,333,
000, in othef words about fifty per cent.,
and of the fifty per cent, more than
five per cent. got anything worthy the
name an education, Now, take
that foreign ! and add it to
our American jgnorance, and there will
be in November thousands and thous
ands of people who are no more quali-
fied to exercise the right of suffrage
than to lecture on astronomy. [low
are thise things to be corrected’ By
laws of :
COMPULSORY EDUCATION
well executed. 1 in for a law
which, after giving fair warming tor a
few years, shall make fgnorance a crime.
There is no excuse for ignorance on
{hese subjects in this land, wheres the
schools
ONE
ar iff and
Son
who come up to vote have any capacity
tobe monarc! s in a land where we are
all monarchs. One of the most awful
foes of the American ballot-box to-day
is popular ignorance. Educate the
people, give them an opportunity to
know and understand what they do.
If they will not take the education,
deny them the vote.
Another powerful toe of this sacred
chest is
INTIMIDATION.
Corporations sometimes demand that
their employees vote in this and that
way. It is skilfully done. It is not
positively in so many words demanded,
but the employee understands he will
be frozen out of the establishment un-
less he votes as the firm do, So you
can go into villages where there are
establishments with hundreds and
thousands of employees, and having
found out the politics of the head men
in the factory, you can tell which way
the election is going. Now, that 1s
damnable! If in any precinct in the
United States a man cannot vole as he
pleases, there is something awfully
wrong.
How do you Lreat that employee who
votes differently from what you do?
Oh, you say you do not interfere with
his right of suffrage. But you call
him into your private office, and you
find fault with his work, and after a
while you tell him there is an uncle, or
an aunt, or a niece, or a nephew that
must have that position, You do not
say it is because he voted this or that
way, but he knowsand God knows it 1s,
If that man has given to you in bard
work an equivalent for the wages you
pay him, you have no right to ask any-
thing else of him. He sold you his
work: he did not sell you his political
or religious principles. But you know
as well as I do there Is sometimes on
that sacred chest, the ark of the Ameri-
can covenant, a shadow corporate or
monopolistic,
I do not wonder at the vehemence of
Lord Chief-Justice Holt, of England,
when he said, “Let the people vote
fairly, Interference with a man’s vote
is in bebalf of this or that party, 1
give you notice that if an offender
against the law comes before me, 1 will
charge the jury to make him pay well
for it.’? NN» shadow, plutocratic or
mobocratic or capitalistic. Every man
voting in his own way—=God and his
own conscience the only dictator.
Another powerful foe of that sacred
chest, the ark of the American coven
ant, is
BRIBERY.
You know something
dreds of thousands of dollars that were
expended to carry Indiana in 1550.
You know something of the vast sums
of money expended in Brooklyn and
New York in other years to carry
elections, And there will be more
money used in bribery this autumn’s
election than in any previous election.
It is often the case that a man 13 nom-
inated for oflice
capacity to provide money for the elec-
of the hun-
to command money from others
know the names of men who have at
different times gone into the Guberna-
torial chair of Congressional office, buy-
ing their way all through. I tell you
no New. Your patriotic heart has
Leen pained again and again with it.
Very often it is not money that
bribes, but it is office. **You make me
officer; you make me Governor, and 1'll
make you Sufveyor-General; you make
me Mayor, and I'll put you on the
Water Board; you give me position,
and I'll give you position.” That is
the form of bribe often nod often in
these great cities, I do not say it is in
our city, but you know again and again
| throughout the land these have been
the forms of bribe offered, So itis
comes to an office to which he has been
to the sole of foot mortgaged with
pledges, and the man who goes to Al-
bany or to Washington to get an office
is applyiug for some position which was
given away three montis before elec-
0: Twolong lines ot worm fence,
one worm fence reaching to Albany
and the other to Washington, and there
t
b
| fence, aud they are equally poised, and
they are waiting to see on which side
there is most emolument, aud on this
side they get down. Dut bribery Kicks
both ways. It kicks the man that of-
fers it, and the man that takesit. Bri-
bery to-day you will admit to be one of
the mightiest foes of the American bal-
lot-box.
Another powerful foe of the sacred
chest, the ark of the American coven-
ant, the ballot-box, is
TIE ROWDY AXD DRUNKEN CAUCUS,
The lallot-box does not give any
choice to a man when the nominations
are made in the back part of a grog-
gery. When the elector comes up he
has to choose between two evils
nominees such a scaly, greasy, and
stenchful crew they had no choice,
You say, vote for somebody outside.
Then they throw away their vole.
Christian men of New York and
Brooklyn, honorable men, patriotic
men, go and take possession of the cau-
cuses, First having saturated your
pocket-handkerchief with cologne or
some other disinfectant, go down to the
caucus and take possession of it in the
name of the Lord God Almighty and
the American people, though after you
come back you should have to hang
your hatand coat in the back yard for
ventilation.
In some of the States polities have got-
tenso low that the nominees no more need
good morals than they do a bath-tub,
Snatch tbe ballot-box from such men,
Where is the David who will go forth
and bring the ark of the covenant back
from Kiriath-jearim? Do you not think
politics have got to a pretty low ebb in
our day when a Tweed could be sent to
the Legislature of New York, and a
John Morrissey, the prince of gamblers,
could be sent to Congress?
HOW ARE THESE THINGS TO BE RE-
MEDIED?
Some say by a property qualificailon.
They say after a mau gets a certain
amount of property-—a certain wmount
of real estate—he is financially interest.
ed in good goverzninent, and he becomes
cautious and conservative, 1 reply, a
property qualification would shut oft
vos
from the ballot-bax a greal many of the
best men in this land, Literary men
are almost always poor. A pen 1s a
good implement to muke the world bet~
ter, but 1t is a very poor jmplement to
get a livelihood ordinarily. 1 have
known scores ot literary men who never
owned a foot of ground, and never will
own a foot of ground until they get un-
der it. Professors of colleges, teachers
of schools, editors of newspapers, minige
ters of religion, qualified in every possi-
ble way to vote, yet no worldly success.
There has been many a man who has
not had a house on earth who will have
a mansion in heaven.
There are many who through acci-
dents of fortune have come to great
success while they are profound in thelr
stupidity, as profound in their stupidity
as a man of large fortune with whom 1
was crossing the ocean, who told me he
was going to see the dykes of Scetland!
When a member of my family asked a
lady on her return from Europe if she
had scen Mont Blane, she replied:
“Well, really, I don’t know; is that in
Europe?” Ignorance by the square
foot. Property qualification will not
do. The only way these evils will be
eradica'ed will be by more thorough
legal defence of the ballot-box, and a
more thorough moralization and Christ-
ianization of the people. That ar of
the covenant was carried into captivity
to Kirjuth-jearim, but one day the
people hooked oxen to a cart, and they
put this ark on the cart, and the cart
was taken to Jerusalem—the ark of the
covenant coming with the shouting and
thanksgiving of the people. And though
American covenant, our sacred chest,
Las been carried again and again into
captivity by fraud and iniquity. and
spurious voting, 1 pelleve it will be
brought back yet by prayer and by
Christian consecration, and be set down
in the midst of the temple of Christian
patriotism, Whose responsibility?
Yours and mine,
A POOR S50LDIER
went to a hairdresser in London,
wanted to get back to the army. He
had overrun his furlough, and he want
ed some help to get back in quick tran-
sit. The money was given to the poor
soldier, who said to the man who had
offered the kindness:
to give you in return but this little
worn-out recipe for making Ulacking.”
He gave it, not thinking there was any
| value In it especially, and man
| who took it did not suppose there was
any special value in it; but it yielded the
man who took it $2,600,000, Wis
the foundation of one of the gi
| estates in England. And that
| vole, that msignificant vote which you
{ take out of our pocket insignificant in
| your sight and insignificant in the sight
| of others—may start an influence that
He
the
and
jitiie
Government,
I charge
i citizens, to
REMEMBER YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
on the first Tuesday of November.
will begin early, the snowstorm
| suffrages. It will snow all day
on until noon, snow on until
The flakes will fall in every town and
| village and neighborhood, the while
| flakes. The octogenarian will come up,
| his hand trembling, and with spectacled
eve he will scrutinize the vote and drop
{itand pass on. The young man Who
has been waiting for his time will come
| up, and proudly and blushingly deposit
| his first vote and pass on. The capital
| ist will come up with
| finger, and the laborer with hard
| and the one vote will be as good as the
| other. Sunow-siorm of suffrages, and
you, then, as American
It
of
| anche that will slide down in expression
| of the will of the people. Stand oul
| the way of it! In the awful sweep of
| zo down a thousand feet under,
You have not only a vole, you have a
| prayer. The prayer may be mightier
than the vote. Oh, as cilizens of this
! beautiful eity, and of this State, and of
| this nation. let us do our whole duty.
| government than that which God has
i given.
THE STARS ON FLAG
| are not the stars of a thickening night,
| but the stars sprinkled amid the bars of
{ morning cloud. We are going to have
one government on this entire contin.
ent. Let the despotisms of Asia keep
| their feet off the Pacific coast, and let
| the tyrannies of Europe keep their fect
off the Atlantic coast, We are going
to have one government, Mexico will
| follow Texas into the Union, and
Christianity and civilization wiil stand
side by side in the halls of the Montezu-
mas. And if pot in our day, then in
the day of our children, Yucatan and
Central America will come in domin-
jon, while on the north Canada will be
ours, not by conquest—oh, no, Ameri
| can and Euglish swords may never clash
oULnL
| blades—but we will woo our fair neigh«
bor of the North, and then England will
| say to Canada:
ing, will say: “Giant of the West, go
take your bride,” Aud then from Daf-
fin’s Bay to the Caribbean there will be
one government under one flag, with
one destiny—-a free, undisputed, Chris
tianized American continent. God save
the city of Brooklyn! God save the com-
monwealth of New York!
Gop SAVE Tne Uxiox!
AAI SMO
A Swindled Carp.
The tanks in the fine fish exhibition
made by the U, 8. Fish Commissioner
at the American Institute Fair have In-
candescent lights dipped into the water.
The other night a big German carp,
secing what he took for a somewhat
obese glow worm monkeying about his
head, made a jump for it with the idea
of taking it in with what the daily press
would call a “fell swoop.” The swoop
felled all right, but the fell didn’t
swoop as was expected; the little globe
slipping from his mouth and bobbing
about on its wires with tantalizing
whirr! Ruminating for a moment
over this absurd conduct on the part of
the glow worm, Mr. made one
more effort, this time get the little
globe into his mouth and unable
to swallow or let was about being
curefully hereafter.
SYMBOLISM OF RINGS,
pm
The Modern Wedding Ring and Is
Ancient History and Significance.
er ————
“ And as this round
Is nowhere found
To flaw, or else to sever,
So let our love
As endless prove,
And pure as gold forever.”
The poet Herrick, when he wrote the
above lines had no consideration for
the jewelers of his day. The wedding
ring of the nineteenth century, or at
feast the latter portion of the nine-
teenth century, is of a more ornate
character, both in style and cost, than
the ring Herrick sang of. According
to a prominent Chicago jeweler both
the betrothal and the wedding ring of
the day is a criterion, hot of the amount
of affection both were designed to
typify. but rather represent the finan-
eial standing of the male fance. The
number and value of the diamonds 18
now the gauge, not the plain circlet
band ot virgin gold that the boys of old
at the bid of the minister with trembl-
ing fingers and erimson-hued face man-
aged to encircle, after several fruitiess
efforts, the finger of her who, as a rule,
was vastly studier in nerve than be.
This ring lore 188 curious historical
research, and as the embryo lover should
be posted we Liere give some of the lore
on the mystic symbolism of rings,
In former times it was esteemed
highly improper for single persons to
wear rings, unless they were judges,
doctors elected toa deliberative assem-
bly. For all butthe big wigs named,
| such an orpamet was considered as
| prima facie evideice of vanity, lasciv-
| jousness and pre, and was looks d up-
{ on as a great plee of presumption on
the part of the vearer. ‘I'he rule was
finally relaxed sufficiently tw allow
afflanced people ‘0 wear the decoration,
narrisge ceremgny was beld.
| theus and forged by Tubal Cain, By
| the way, that ggne old blacksmith, Tu-
bal Cain must ave been, in
| parlance, a dindy. He kept banging
mer. Accord to the
r
tired of forgids plowshares from swords
and swords fon plowshares he rested
mmselfl by Ming Promethens’
turned the firt wedding ring.
Arabians hava legend that King
| mon possessed Iagic ring that a
time Le inadvet y dropped into the
whereugel, with of
his widin }
aufigot himsel
und gel wives,
nll ring’ was originally a
shen mdéely., Poet Herrick writes
On
SEA,
ring,
mon went
several |
The
{ love LE
of it:
i “Tho sendest tmen trae oving-koot, bul 1
R-tutned a fog of Jimumais lo fmply
Thy love hadbut one knol, mine a trip
tye”
loss
{ook
parried
One of the pi imeval rings, sup
fhe Lit of the *\
ecently found in Surrey,
nuw the
0ne
| Queen,’ wa)
| England. |
| Museum.
Charles L§nb one night
party i oddity
widow, sitthg
it
if
is
ab
of a handsome
near him, wearnng
y her thumb,
4
ed on her he
OMe
“For pleaaire past and joys to
I weardhiis ring upon my thumb.’
j
Under ths the
sp saded
stuttering poct re-
t
“You've andber thumb, my lady dear,
And anotifer lover sitting near,
Who'd gil his chance of the world to
oothe
To place ®iog on that olber thumb.”
The youlg folks may be assured that
the ring is fow the proper thing. They
| come a trifk high, but you will sooner
or later (pd that you must invest,
trust is fofned.
woe Sm
Quaint Epitaph.
—————————————
| committed o collect and publish orig-
inal family records and memorial in-
scription ¢f the old families of the
county.
covered th following curious inscrip-
tion on whit is said to be the oldest
tombstond in the county:
“flere lyeth the body of
Major Thomas Francies,
Who deceased ye 19th of March,
Anno 185, Aged 42 years,
“Tho now ha Silence 1 am Lowly Laid,
fia: it's thie place for Mortalis made.
griew,
Morn ye nf more, but dos ye self Relieve,
And then & time I hope youl plainly see
Sach futun comforts as are blessing mee;
here,
Rejoyoe & think that wee shall once ap-
pearé
At that ghat day when all shall sum.
mons be,
Noue to bet Exempted in this Etervitie,
Cause thon ta soe grieve ye noe more
In fear tht God should the afflict most
sore,
Even to dekh, and all to let you see
Such grievh to him offensive bee.”
We hal it on the authority of tradi-
tion that Najor Francis was drowned,
and it is nighly probable that this is
one of the rare cases in which tradi-
tion has afoundation in fact, as it ap-
pears by the Probate records that he
“was by sudden accident rived of
his life,” without having eo a will,
and that part of his ‘“‘wearing appar
rell” was much *“‘Damnified by lying
under water about three week."
LuMBAso, ETC. — Dr. Constantin
Paul advies a flannel wrung out of
turpenting and applied for less than
an hour, th prevent vesication, for the
relief of lnmbago, pleurodynia, inter
costal neuralgia, torticollis, ete,
——
HOARSEN ERS, ~ For hoarseness, beat
Eat of it freely and the
win
Y SCHOOL LESSON.
Bunpay, Novesnenr 25, 1858,
The Covenant Renewed.
LESSON TEXT.
Josh. 24 10 28.
I
N
SU
HN
Memory vorses, 26: 28)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric or THE QUARTER]
Promises Fulfilled,
God's
GoLpex TEXT FoR THE QUARTER:
There tatled not aught of any good thing
which the Lord had spoken unto the
house of Israel ; all came Lo Pass. ~ Josh.
21 : 45.
Toric:
LESSON Reacoepting the
Service,
{ 1. The
{Lesson 13.
Outline
Character
20,
1 % The Vow of Israel, v& 2
| & The Stone of Wiiness, va. 25.28
GoLbeEN TEXT :
will we serve, and hie voice
—Josh, 24 : 24,
DAILY HoME READINGS:
M. Josh, 24. 10-28,
the service,
T.~Jos. 23 :
exhortation.
W.Josh, 24
their vows,
T.--Josh. 24
AWAY.
F.—1 Kings 18 :
ance called for.
1 Kings 18 : 22-40,
ance completed.
£.—Rom. 12 :1-2L
ing.
of Jehovah,
125
will we obey.
Reaccepting
1-16. Joshua's final
: 1-18.
Passi
Of 2%
23-00, H 4
1-21,
? 2 SEL
Heac cepts
S. Reaccept-
Wholl y sery-
——————— TL —————
LESSCN ANALYSIS,
I. THE CHARA
I. Holy :
He is an hols
the Lord
19 : 2).
Who is able t
this holy God? (1 Sam, 6:
"he Lord i (Psa, 99 : ¢
God the Holy One is san tified inrigh
cusness (Isa, 5 :
{ 11. Jealous :
TER OF JENOVA
o stand before the Lor
2A)
our God is holy
14
He is a jealous God (19
I the Lord thy God am a jeal
(Exod, 20: 5).
Lord, whose
jealous God (E
be
as Cod
TT
A ii
{ 1
will jealous
Ezek, 39 :
The Lord i8
IIE. Just,
If ye
turn and 1
i The Lord thy
(Deut. 4 : :
shall the
forsal
Sa
‘He is an holy God; |
God.” (1) God's a
fitting (eenl’
tituting God's CHA
s4+id
attributes as afle
(xoel’s atinbul
IE nally.
| II. THE
1. Positively Affirmed:
The people said, . Nay;
rd (21).
n shall the Lond be
28 : 21).
| As for me and my house, we will serve
| * the Lord (Josh. 24
wwe also will serve the la
24 : 18).
| Thy servant will hen
unto the Lord (2 Kings & :
| 11. Emphatically Acoepted:
VOW OF
but we
God (Gen.
ms
rd (Josh,
eforth offer....
17).
Joshua said, .... Yo are witnesses
| And they said, We are witnesses (22),
| Thou hast avouched the Lord this day
to be thy God (Deut, 20 : 17.
{ The Lord do 80 to me,....if aught but
death part thee and me {Ruth 1 : 17).
that 1 love thee [John 21 : 17M.
! Far be it from me 1 , #ave in the
! Cross (zal. GO . i4 .
11L Solemnly Ratified:
So Joshua made a covenant with the
wople
The Lord made a covenant with Abram
| (Gen, 15 : 18).
i I have made a vovenant with thee and
i
|
tO glo y
an
{nd Je
with Israel (Exod, 34 : 27).
| I will make a new covenant
Israel (Heb, 8 : 8),
| Jesus the mediator of a new covenant
(Heb, 12 : 24).
1. “Nay; but we will serve the Lord.”
(1) An exalted aim; (2) A towering
faith: (3) A firm resolve,
“We are witnesses,” (1) The truth
witnessed: (2) The testimony bom;
(3) The conviction, produced.
vig Joshua made a covenant with
the people.” {1) The parties to the
covenant; (2) The purposes of the
covenant; (3) The outcome of the
covenant,
111. THE STONE OF WITNESS,
1. A Stone Erected:
He took a great stone, and set it up
there (26).
Jacob. ...took the stone....and set it
up for a pillar (Gen, 28 : I8.).
Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a
pillar (Gen. 31 : 45)
Jason et up a pillar in the place (Gen,
3:1 ).
Those twelve stones. ...did Joshua set
up in Gilgal (Josh, 4 : 20).
11. A Significance Attached:
A witness against you, Jest ye deny
our God (27),
his stone....shall be God's house
(Gen, 28 : 22).
This 1 is witness between me and
thee this day (Gen, 31 : 48),
What mean these stones?.... Israel
came over this Jordan (Josh, 4:21,
22),
Absalom. ...called the pillar after his
own name (2 Sam, 18 : 18).
111 The People Dismissed:
with....
[*rael departed thenee at that time,
every man 1o his tribe (Judge, 21 : 24).
And they went every man unto his own
house (Jobin 7 : 54).
1. “Joshua wrote these words.” {1}
That they might not be forgotten;
(2) That they might not be pervert.
ed: 12) That they might be perpet-
nated: (4) That they might be cbey-
od,
2. “Behold
ness ald
token;
this stone shall bw 2 wi
inst us.” (1) A visible
y A permanent reminders
pt warning.
“8g Joshua sent the people away.”
(1) Away, from the place of dedica-
tions (2) Away, bo the place of
17
vice,
1
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LESSON BIBLE READING,
i COVENANTS,
| Az:-eements between two parties (Gen.
1 3} : 02 ;
§ Confirm i Dy an
313.
{ God called on
50, 533.
Witnessed
| 51, 52).
| Witnessed by men
Ruth 4 : 9-11).
i Made with sacrifices
i
Jer, 34 : 18, 19).
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ay
by a pilia
Gen.
perpetuity
19 : 6).
tified by joining hands
a1 : Ezek. 17 : 18).
sacred obligation (Josh,
Psa. 15 . 4).
Violated by the wicked
2Tim, 3:4:
God made with man (Psa
Eph. 1:3, 4).
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it Lhe meaialon
Heb, 8: 6}.
LESSON SURROUNDINGS,
| The armed men of the two tribes ana
the half-tribe, whose inheritance was
east of the Jordan, on their return
home built an altar, probably on the
west side of the river (see Rev. Ver,
Josh, 22 : 11). When this was known
| to the rest of the people, they prepared
| “to go up against them to war?’ (Josh
22 + 123. An embassy was seni, how-
ever, and the assurance was given that
the altar was intended {or
{ but as ‘a wilness between
rd is God (Josh, 22:1
of peace,
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of Joshua, who was one
ten Gia,
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when Moses died,
years
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the exodus,
Laas—— I ASIANS
Observations of th» Eclipse
A great number of meteorologic: i
uring
{ at in Russia
Yee Wn
ipse
~
various places
Professor Hesehus now
sums them up in the same issue of the
of the Russian Physical and
Society (xx. 6). It appears
curves which be bas drawn
ing availed himself of observa-
ioena,
Chemical
from the
the eclipse resulted in lowering the al-
i
i
jum being reached a few min-
5to 10)alter the time of
the full eclipse. The fact is best ex-
plained by the condensation of vapor
in the atmosphere. The temperature
was lowered by an average of 196 C.
the shade—the minimum be
ten minutes after the
eclipse; and by about 8° 6 in the sun
the mini
ng
aii
1
ia
3
S
of the eclipse. The force of the wind
mosphere. The data as lo the influence
of the eclipse on the maguoetic needle
contradictory. The influence of
well pronounced. The Acacia armaia
folded its leaves, while the Nicotinna
and Mirabilis jaloppa opened their flow-
ers. In the marsiiy Spoils of Siberia,
such as Turinsk, the mosquitoes made
their appearance, as they usually doin
the evenings. The well-known facts as
to the uneasiness and fear which are
felt by higher animals were confirmed.
On the whole, the Physical Society ex-
pected more Important results when
it organized meteorological observa-
tions at so many stations provided with
physical instruments, but the weather
was unfavorable to the work of the ob-
Hilger's spectograph for pho-
spectrum of the corona, with the view
of detecting traces of carbon and car-
boniferous compounds, could not be
used on account of the weather,
What is a Tree,
Forest and Streaw says that Clas
question, though often asked, is not
easily answered. It adds: There are
shrubs so tall and so vigorous that they
may well be considered trees, and there
are trees so low and of such feeble
growth that they hardly deserve the
pame of trees, Really there is no hand
and fast line wlach separates a tree
from a shrub, and any classification of
plants which attempts to separate trees
from shrubs must be purely artificial,
and, therefore, unsatisfactory. The
best definition of » tree we have seen,
way towards
ng ing Question, was
ted by E. Fernow to lhe
jeal Club of the Awerican Associ
ation, at its recent meeting at Colum-
bus. “Trees are woody plants, the
seed of which has the inherent capacity
of producing naturally, within their
pative limits, one mam erect axis, not
divided near the ground, the primary
axis continuing to grow for a number
than the late-
ches dying
Fernow's definition
sound and philo-