e DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
Barn-Like Birthplaces,
“Ve ghall find the babe wrapped in swaddl-
tng-clothes, lying in amanger. And suddenly
there was with the angel a multitude of the
heavenly host.—Luke 2 : 12, 13.
AT miduight from one of the galler-
les of the sky a chant broke. To an
ardinary observer there was no reason
for such a celestial demonstration, A
poor man and wife—travellers, Joseph
and Mary by name—had lodged in an
outhouse of an unimportant village,
The supreme hour of solemnity had pass-
ed, and upon the pallid forehead and
cheek of Mary God had set the dignity,
the grandeur, the tenderness, the divine
significance of motherhood.
But such scenes had often occurred
in Bethlehem, yet never before had a
star been unfixed, or had a baton of
light marshaled over the hills winged
orchestra, If there had been such bril-
liant and mighty recognition at an ad-
vent in the House of Pharaoh, or at an
advent In the Ilouse of Cwmsar, or the
House of Hapsburg, or the House of
Stuart, we would not so much have
wondered; but a barn seems too poor
a centre for such delicate and archange-
lic circumference, The stage seems
too small for so great an act, the music
too grand ror such unappreciative audl-
tors, the window of the stable too rude
to be serenaded by other worlds,
No, sir! No, madam! It is my joy
this morning to tell you
WHAT WAS BORN THAT NIGHT
fn the village barn; and as I want to
make my discourse accumulative and
climuctenie, I began, in the first piace,
bytelling you that that night in the Beth
leliem manger was born encouragement
for all the poorly started. He had only
two friends—they His parents, No
satin-lined cradle, no delicate atten-
tions, but straw, and the cattle, and
the coarse joke and banter of the camel-
drivers, No wonder the medimval
painters represent the oxen as kneeling
before the infant Jesus, for there were
no men there at that time to worship,
From the depths of what poverty He
rose until to-day He is honored in all
Christendom, and sits on the imperial
throne in heaven!
What name is mightiest to-day in
Christendom? Jesus. Who has more
friends on earth than any other
being? Jesus. Before whom do the
most thousands kneel, in chapel and
church and cathedral, this hour? Jesus,
For whom could one hundred million
souls be marshaled, ready to fight or
die? Jesus, From what depth of pov-
erty to what height of renown! And
so let all those who are poorly started
remember that they cannot be more
poorly born, or more disadvantageous-
ly, than this Christ. Let them look up
to His example while they have time
and eternity to imitate it.
Do you know that the vast majority
of
THE WORLD'S DELIVERERS
had barn-like birthplaces? Luther, the
emancipaior of religion, born among
mines; Shakespeare, the emancipator of
literature, born in an humble home at
Stratford-on-Avon; Columbus, the dis.
coverer of a world, born mn poverty in
Genoa; Hogarth, the discoverer of how |
to make art accumulative and adminis.
trative of virtue, born in a humble
home in Westmoreland; Kitto and
Prideaux, whose keys unlocked new
apartments in the Holy Scriptures,
which had never been entered, born in
want. Yea, 1 bave to tell you that
nine out ten of the world’s delivers,
pine cut of ten of the world’s messiahs
~tle messiahs of science, the messiahs
of law, the messiahs of medicine, the
messiuhs of poverty, the messiahs of |
grand benevolence — were born in
want. I suppose that when Herschel,
the great astronomer, was born in the
home of a poor musician, not cnly one
star, but all the stars he afterward dis-
covered, pointed down to his manger,
I suppose when Haydn, the German
nomposer, was born in the humble
home of a poor wheelwright, that all
the angels of music chanted over the
manger. Oh what encouragement for
those who are poorly started! Ye who
think yourselves far down, aspire to go
high up!
I stir your holy ambitions to-day,
and 1 want to tell you, although the
whole world may be opposed to you,
and inside and outside of your occupa- |
tions or professions there may be those
who would binder your ascent, on your
side and enlisted in your behalf are the
sympathetic heart and the almighty
army of Que who, one Christmas night,
about eighteen hundred and elghty-
eight years ago, was wrapped in swad-
dling-clothes and laid in s manger,
Oh, what magnificent encouragement
for the poorly started!
Again, I have to tell you that in that
village baru that night was born
GOOD-WILL TO MEX;
svhetlhier yout call it Kindness, or forbear-
ance, or forgiveness, or geniality, or
affection, or love, It was no sport of
high heaven te send its favorite to that
humiliation, Ib was sacrifice for a re-
bellious world, Alter the calamity in
Paradise, not oniv.did. the ox begin to
gore, and the adder to sting, aud the
elephant to smite with his tusk, and
the lion to put to bad use tooth and
paw, but under the very tree from
which the forbidden fruit wus plucked
were hatched out war and revenge and
malice and envy and jealousy, and the
whole brood of cockatrices,
But against that scene 1 set the Beth-
delist wmacager, which says: ‘‘Bless
ther than curse, endure rather than
Aassgult,” and that Christmas night puts
guteviadictiveness, Itsays: ‘‘Sheathe
_ Your Sword, dismount your guns, dis
‘mintel your balleries, turn the war-
ship Constellation, that carried shot
and shell, into a grain ship to take food
to famishing Ireland, your cavalry
horses to the plough, use your deadly
gunpowder. in blasting rocks and in
patriotic celebration stop your lawsuits,
quit writing anonymous extract
the sting from your sarcasm, |
© wit coruscate but never burn, drop all
the harsh words out of your vocabulary
meestivad-will to i t i i
“Oh!” you say, “I can’t exercise it;
1 WOI'L eXerciue i amu! Che la hi
er ee
» wo
tian, If you forgive not men thelr
trespasses, Low can ycu expect your
Heavenly lather to forgive you? For-
give them if they ask your forgiveness,
and forgive them anyhow. Shake
bands allaround. **Good-will to men.”’
“Oh, my Lord Jesus, drop that spirit
into our hearts this Christmas hour!
I tell you
WHAT THE WORLD WANTS
more than anything else—more helping
hands, more sympathetic hearts, more
kind words that never die, more dispo-
sition to give other people a ride, and
to carry the heavy end of the load and
give other people the light end, and to
ascribe good motives instead of bad,
and to find our happiness in making
others happy. Out of that Bethlehem
crib let the bear and the lion eat straw
like an ox. “Good-will to men,” That
principle will yet settle all controversies,
and under it the world will keep on Im-
proving until there will be only two an-
tagonists in all the earth, and they will,
side by side, take the jubilant sleigh-
ride intimated by the prophet when he
said: ‘*‘Holiness shall be on the bells
of the horses,”
Again, I remarked that, born that
Christmas night in the village bain was
sympathetic
UNION WITH OTHER WORLDS,
The only scepticism I have ever had
about Christianity was an astronomical
scepticism which said: **Why would
(God, out of the heavens and amid the
Jupiters and Saturns of the universe,
have chosen our little bit of a world for
the achievements of His only begot-
ten Son, when He might have had a
vaster scale and vaster worlds?’ Bat
my scepticism is all gone as I come to
the manger, and watch its surround-
ings, Now I see all the worlds are
sisters, and that when one weeps they
all weep, and when one sings they all
sing. From that supernatural group-
ing in the cloud-banks over Bethlehem,
and from the especial trains that ran
down to the scene, I find that our world
1s beautifully and gloriously sarround-
ed,
THE METEORS ARE WITH US,
for one of them ran to point down to
the birthplace. The heavens are with
us, because at the thought of our re-
demption they roll hosannas out of the
miduighe sky. Ob, yes; I do not know
but our world may be better surround-
ed than we bave sometimes imagined;
and when a child is born angels fetch
is, and when it dies angels take it, and
when an old man bends under the
weights of years angels uphold him,
and when a heart breaks angels soothe
it, Angels in the hospital to take care
of the sick, Angels in the cemetery to
watch our dead. Augels 1m church
ready to fly heavenward with the news
of repentant souls, Angels above the
world, Angels under the world!
Angels all around the world!
Raub the dust of human imperfection
to understand that the music of that
night was
NOT A COMPLETE BONG,
but only the stringing of the instru.
ments for a great chorus of two worlds,
the bass to be carried by earthly nations
saved* and the soprano by kingdoms of
glory won, Oh, heaven, heaven, heaven!
I shall meet you there. After all our
imperfections are gone, I shall meet
you there, I look out to-day, through
the mist of years, through the fog that
rises from the cold Jordan, through the
wide open door of solid pearl, to that
reunion, I expect to eee you there as
certainly as 1see you here, What a
time we shall have in high converse,
talking over sins pardoned, and sorrows
comforted, and battles triumphant!
Iam going in, I am going to take
all my family with me. Iam going to
take all my church with me, I am
going to take all my friends and neigh-
bors with me. I have so much faith in
manger and cross, I feel sure of it, I
am going to coax you in. I am going
to push you in. Dy holy stratagem I
am golng to surprise you in. Yea, with
all the concentrated energy of my na-
ture—pbysical, mental, spiritual, and
immortal—I am going to compel you to
go in. I like youso well 1 want to
spend eternity with you!
Some of your children have already
gone, Some time ago I buried one of
them, and though people passing along
the street and seeing crape on the door-
bell may have said, **It is
ONLY A CHILD,”
vet when the broken-hearted father
came to solicit my servicé he sald:
“Come around and comfort us, for
though she was only fifteen months old
we loved her so much.” Ah! it does
not take long for a child to get its arms
around the parent's whole nature,
What a Christmas morning 1t will
make when those with whom you used
to keep the holidays are all around you
in heaven! Silver-haired old [father
young again, and mother, who had so
many aches and pains and decrepitudes,
well again, and all your brothers and
sisters and the little ones, How glad
waiting, The last thine they saw your
face it was covered with tears and dis-
tress, and pallid from long watching,
and one of them I can imagine to-day,
with one band holding fast the shining
gate, and the other hand swung out
toward you, saying:
“Steer this way, father, steer straight for
me;
Here safe in heaven I am waiting for thee,”
Oh, those Bethlehem angels, when
they went back after the concert that
night over the hills, forgot to shut the
door;
ALL THE SECRZT 18 OUT.
No more use of trying to hide trom us
the glories to come, It is too late to |
shut the gate, Itis blocked wide open
out of our eyes, and look into the |
heavens and see angels of pity, angels of |
mercy, angels of pardon, angels of help, |
angels crowned, angels charioted. The
world defended by angels, girdled by
angels, cohorted by angels—clouds of
angels, Hear David cry out: “The
chariots of God are twenty thousand, |
Even thousands of angels.’ Bat the
mightiest angel stood not that night in
the clouds over Dethlehem; the mighti-
est Angel that night lay among the
cattle—the Angel of the new covenant, |
As the clean white linen, sent in by
motherly villager, was being
Child Emperor, not a cherub, not a
seraph, not an angel, not a world, but
wept and thrilled and shouted, Oh,
yes, our world has plenty of sympathi-
zers! Our world is only a silver rung
of a great ladder, at the top of which is
our Father's house, No more stellar
solitariness for our world, not a friend- |
less planet spun out into space to freeze, |
but a world in the bosom of divine ma-
ternity. A star harnessed to a manger,
Again, 1 remark that that night,
born in that village barn, was
THE OFFENDER'S HOPE,
Some sermonizers way say I ought to
have projected this thought at the be-
ginning of the sermon. Oh, nol I |
wanted you to rise toward it, 1 want-
the jaspers and the emeralds and the
chrysalis before I showed you the Kohi-
noor—the crown jewel of the ages. Ohl
that jewel had a very poor setling. The
cub of the Lear is born amid the grand
the lion takes its first step from the
jungle of luxuriant leaf and wild-flower,
the kid of the goat 1s born in cavern,
chandeliered with stalactite, and pillar-
ed with stalagmite, Christ was born in
a bare barn, Yet that nativity was the
offender's hope. Over the door of |
heaven are written these words:
“None but the sinless enter here’
“Oh, horror,” you say, ‘‘that shuts
us all out!” No. Christ came to the
world in one door, and He departed
through another door, He came
t brough the door of the manger, and
He departed through the door of the
sepulchre,
HIS OWN BUSINESS
was 50 to wish away our sin that ove
second after we are dead there will be
no more sins about us than about the
eternal God, 1 know that is putting it
strongly, but that is what I understand
by full remission, All erased, all wash-
ed away, all scoured out, all gone!
That undergrinding and overarching
and frradiating and imparadising possi-
bility for you, and for me, and for the
race was given on that Christmas fight,
Do you wonder we bring flowers to-
day to celebrate such an event? Do you
wonder that we take organ und cornet
and youthful voice and queenly soloist
to celebrate it? Do you wonder that
Raphael and Rubens and Titian and
G lotto, and Ghirlandajo, ad all the old
Italian and German painters, give the
mightiest stroke of the pencil to sketch
the Madonna Mary and her boy?
Oh! now 1 see what the manger was,
Not so high the gilded and jeweled and
embroidered cradle of the Henrys of
England, or the Louis of France, or
the Fredericks of Prussia. Now I find,
out of that Bethlehem crib fed not so
BE te asf Jo white
ow
find the swaddling-clothes enlarging
for a conqueror. Now I find that the
«Qf you are a very
with hosannas marching this way, and
What |
almost unmans me is the thought that |
and I have been, If it bad been pro- |
vided only for those who had always
thought right, and spoken right, and |
acted right, you and 1 would have had |
no interest in it, had noshare in it; you
and I would have stuck to the raft, mid- |
ocean, and let the ship sail by, carrying |
perfect passengers from life on earth to
a perfect life in heaven, Ohl I have
heard the commander of that ship is the |
sympa-
thetic One who hushed the tempest |
around the boat on Galllee, and I have |
heard that all Lhe passengers on the |
And so
ask the captain two questions: **Who |
art thou? and whence?’ and He says:
Oh! bright Chirist- |
Wreathe all the |
Rousse all the anthems,
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
given, merry with the idea of sorrows
come, Oh! lift that Christ from the |
manger and lay Him down in all our |
hearts, We may not bring to Him as |
costly a present as the Magi brought, |
but we bring to His feet and to the |
manger to-day the frankincense of our |
joy, the pearls of our tears, the kiss of |
our love, the prostration of our worship,
Down at His feel, ail churches, all
ages, all earth, all heaven, Down at
His feet the four-and-twenty elders on
tude that no man can number.” Down
Michael, the archangel! Down all worlds
at His feet and worship! “Glory to God
will to men!”
S—————
Lost Money Found Through a Dream.
You cannot convince Mrs, James
Burr of Mouroe that there is no truth
in dreams, Hecenutly she visited a store
at Stepney Depot to do some trading.
She had in her purse a ten-dollar gold
piece, but she dil nol take it out, as
she bad other money, On arriving
home the gold piece was missing and
the loss worried her greatly. That
night she had a dream, In which she
saw the interior of the grocery pictured
plainly. Inoue corner stood an open
box of oranges and this seemed to ate
tract her gaze especially, The dream
made a deep impression on Mrs, Bare’s
mind, though, hér family laughed at
ber about it, She harnessed her horse
after breakfast and drove to the store,
There she told of the loss of her money
but it had not been seen. She re
her dream to the storekeeper and asked
him to look in the orange box. He
very kindly took out the fruit and
there, down in one corner, lay the miss.
ing colon. Mrs, Burr then remembered
that she had examined the oranges and
probably had the open purse in ber hand
at the time,
Larboard,
The ltalians derive starboard from
westa bo “this side,” and larboard,
From aia brda, “it se” ove:
into sta and borda,
‘that
Their resemblance caused go many mis.
takes that, by order of the Admiralty
Board, larboard is now thrown over
| board and port substituted, “Port the
under’ of ih wie
lm,’ is even mentioned in Arthur
's voyage in 1580, ;
The Rescue of Emin.
The rescue of Emin by Stanley may
now be assumed with a reasonable de-
gree of certainty, Tho positive an-
nouncement that both explorers had
arrived in the lower Aruwhimi has been
confirmed by despatches to the King of
the Belgians and the Government of the
Congo State. While details are lack-
ing, it may safely be inferred that the
advices received at St, Thomas are of
luter date than these from Zanzibar.
sStanley’s first message may have been
inaccurately translated by Tippoo Tib,
as we have previously suggested, and
Emin may have departed from Wadelal
with him, The independent account
given by the Arab traders points to this
conclusion, Stanley is reported to have
arrived at Wadelai on January 20. A
fortnight afterwards the Mahdi’s pomp.
ous summons to surrender was received
by Emin,and towards themiddleof April
tidings came of the approach of the hos-
tile expedition in Gordon's steamers,
This Arab account breaks off abruptly
with the statement that Stanley was
preparing to send a detachment in
search of his rear guard, and was urg-
ing Emin to accompany him. At the
end of May, when he started for the
Aruwhimi, he may have succeeded in
convineing the Austrian of the hopeless.
ness of making a stand against the
Mahdists, In that event they would
have started together, Stanley with the
advance guard and Emin bringing up
the rear. Then, again, it is possible
that Stanley left Wadelal, after recely-
ing a promise from Emin that be would
follow the same line or retreat if the
Mahdists continued their advance up
the river. The explorers may have met
a few weeks after Tippoo Tib's carriers
set out from the Falls Station for Zane
zibar.
The story of the Arab traders tends
strongly to discredit the moving tale
which Osman Digna related to Geperal
Grenfell, At the end of April Emin is
asserted to have been at Wadelal, and
lying north of this capital, It seems
incredible that he should have reversed
his tactics after Stanley's departure late
in May, and have advanced to Lado,
two hundred miles down the river, in
order to make a stand there, Oman
Salehi’s official report of the capture of
Emin and the unknown white traveller
on October 11 will pot bear serious ex-
been at Wadelai when Stanly set out
from the Nile, and to have called in all
his outposts,
/ ¢
tog €i
The dis.
or
laying, if not preventing al
assauit upon the dervishes
seemed at first glance to corroborate
partially the wily Arab’s story,
there are now the strongest reasons for
t 1
v 5
tures and heroic sacrifices
Stanley's well-know aversion to bloo
shed would undoubtedly have led
decline entering into fen
i
a defen
Noes,
when Cgzhting could be avoided by a
On the eve of his
§
ties on the road to Emin’s capital,
mission was purely
of Equatorial Africa by unnecessary
“Fighting is folly if it can
he exclaimed before
left London, and then added, *‘1 preler
diplomacy.” Presumably, be employed
Wadelai and attempting to defend the
the end, He was in a position to offer a
Arabs who
By diplomacy
trian’s reluctance to leave the Provinces
to their fate, Livingston, when found
clined at first to accepl his rescuer’s
offers, may have proved moiv reasonable
in the end. The march from the
Aruwhimi to Wadelai was so intrepid
and gallant a struggle against seemingly
be justified by Ewin’s deliverance,
ed him to accede to Stanley’s solicita-
tions, for his consent to retreat with
crown with complete success one of the
noblest and most chivalrous relief ex-
peditions in the annals of adventure.
————
All 1n a Half Century.
The discovery of the electric telegraph,
The discovery ol photography.
navigation,
The annexation of Texas,
The war with Mexico, and the ac-
quisition of California, with the dis.
coveries of gold that followed,
The French revolute ut 1848,
The rise and fall of Napoleon 111,
and the establishment of the French
Republic,
"he laying of the ocean cables,
The great civil war and abolition of
slavery in the United States,
The unification of Italy.
The great Franco-German war and
the unification of Germany.
The overthrow of the Pope's tem-
poral power,
The emancipation of the Russian
serfs,
The extention of Russian power into
Central Asia.
The discovery of the sources of the
Nile and Niger, and the exploration of
interior
The discovery of the telephone,
The growth of Life Insurance fiom
nothing to a million policy-holders, six
hundred million dollars of assets, and
two and a half bition dollars of insar
ance in force, Eh
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
BUNDAY JANUARY 20, 1930.
Healing of the Leper.
LESSON TEXT.
Mark 1° 3545. Memory verses, 40-41)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric OF THE QUARTER!
Muyhty Worker,
Jesus the
GoLpex TEXT vor TRE QUARTER:
Believe me that 1 am in the Father, and
the Futher in me: or else belveve me for
the very works’ sake.~John 14 : 11.
Lesson Toric: The Prayerful Dil-
{gence of Jesus.
{ 1. His Personal Devotion, va. 85.78,
lesson | 2. His Generous Zeal, v8. 8-42,
Cutitpe: © 4 His Sell-forgetfal Humility.
i 4545,
GOLDEN TEXT: As soon as he had
spoken, tmmediately the leprosy departed
Yo him, and he was cleansed, —Mark
1:42
Day Home READINGS:
M.—Mark1 : 35-45, The prayerful
diligence of Jesus,
T.—lev, 14 : 1-32
cleansing.
W.—Num.
leper,
T.—2 Kings
cleansed,
F.—Luke 17
cleansing,
8.—Heb, 2 : 1-18,
tic Jesus,
S.~—Heb, 4
Jesus,
LESSON ANALYSIS,
1. HIS PERSONAL DEVOTION,
Prompt :
A great while before day, he rose up
1 went out (35).
ang
I myself will awake right early (Psa,
vi,
The law of
12 1-16. Minam a
1-14.
Naaman
1-19. Praise for
The sympathe-
1-16. The helpful
bi : B).
0 God, thou art my God; early
seek thee (Psa. 63 : 1).
With wy spirit within me will I seek
thee early (Isa. 26 : 9).
Those that seek me diligently shall find
me (Prov. 8:17).
IL. Prayerful:
| He....departed into a desert
{ and there prayed (35).
| He went up into the mountain apart to
| pray (Matt, 14 : 23)
| He withdrew himself in the deserts, and
prayed {Luke 5; 16),
| He continued all night in prayer to God
Luke 6 : 12).
Being
earnestly
will
place,
an agony, be prayed more
Luke 22
HI. Persistent:
Let the
1 that 1 may preach there also
| Jesus went about in all Galilee,
ing (Matt. 4:23
| I must preach
in
us go....into next
»
towns,
teach-
aod tidings, do
i
Luke 4 : 43).
to-day and to-
i the olher cities also
{I must goo
Morrow {
{ Who went
10 :
1. (‘He rose up and went out,....
jesert place,
(1) His time of §
ol
and there prayed.
(4) His purpose in prayer.
“All are seeking thee.” (1)
iy
1 “) he seeking:
RA
f forth.” {1
onsciousness of his apg
(2) Pursuit of his appointed end.
il. HIB GENEROUS ZEAL.
L Broad:
| He went their
throughout all Galilee (39),
{ Jesus went about all the cities. .
ing in their synagogues { Matt,
synagogues
into
G9 - 30
Galiles (Luke 4 : 44).
(John 6
{I have spoken openly
{John 18 : 20).
I. Sympathetic:
Being moved with
| ....touched ham (41).
: OB).
the
fo
compassion,
them (Matt, 9 ; 36).
I have compassion on
{ Matt. 15 : 32).
Jesus wept (John 11 : 35).
We have not a high priest that cannot
be touched (eb. 4 : 15).
111 Saving:
straightway
from him (42).
He arose, and straightway took up the
bed (Mark 2 : 12),
And his hand was restored (Mark 3 : 5).
Straightway the damsel rose up, and
walked {Mark 5 : 42).
He is able to save to the uttermost (Heb
7:25).
1. “He went, ....preaching and cast-
ing out devils,” (1) Missionary ac-
tivity; (2) Pertinent preaching; (3)
Holy helpfulness,
the
the leprosy
clean.” (1) Willingness of Jesus
tested; (2) Ability of Jesus affirmed,
3. “Straightway the leprosy departed
{1} The healing command; (2) The
] responsive cleansing.
| 111. M18 SELF-FORGETFUL
1. Landation of Him Forbidden:
See thou tell no man (Matt, 8 : 4).
They should tell no man that he was the
Christ (Matt, 16 : 20).
Tell the vision to no man Matt. 17 : 9)
Do not even enter into the village
(Mark 8 : 26).
11. Honor to Moses Commanded:
Offer for thy cleansing the things
which Moses command+d Sg
This shall be the law of the leper (Lev.
14 : 2).
Take from him....iwo living clean
birds (Lev, 14 : 4).
Un the eighth day he shall take two he-
lambs without blemish (Lev, 14 : 10),
If he be poor,....he shall take one he-
lamb (Lev. 14 : 21).
11). Labors for Him Maltiptied:
came to him from every quar
ter (40).
There came unto him great multitudes
(Matt, 15 : 30).
There was no longer room for them, no,
not even about the door {Mark 2 : 2),
followed
2. “Offer for thy cleansing the things
which Moses commanded.” (1) The
demand of Moses; (2) The command
of Jesus,
“They came to him fron every
quarter,” (1) The gathering multi
tudes; (2) The central attraction
(8) The impelling motives,
3.
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LESSON BIBLE READING,
LEPROSY.
A prevalent disease (Luke 4:27 17:12),
Regarded as incurable (2 Kings 5:7).
Produced ceremonial uncleanness (Lev.
13 8, 11, 22, 44).
Necessitated separation (Num, 5 :
12 : 10, 13-15),
Jepers dwelt together (2 Kings 7:3
Luke 17 : 12).
Cut off from God’s house
26 : 21).
Excluded from priesthood (Lev.
2-4).
Miraculously healed (Num, 12 : 13, 14
2 Kings 5 : 8-14 ; Matt, 10 : 8 ; Luke
b:12, 13:17: 13, 14).
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LESSON BUBRBROUNDINGS.
The present lesson follows immedi.
ately the events narrated in the last,
Matthew places the healing of the leper
after the Sermon on the Mount; but
this is obviously a deviation from the
chronciogical order. So Luke, who
usually agrees with Maurk in this period
of the history, interposes the miracul-
ous draught of fishes between the
events at Capernaum and the bealing
of the leper (Luke 5 : 1-11); bul that
miracle was probably in connection
| with the call of the four fishermen,
| The earlier part of the less n refers
to a preceding tour through Galilee; at
some point in the journey (probably not
Capernaum) the leper was healed.
The time was early in 780, A. D. 27 ;
according to Robinson, it was a short
time before the Passover; according lo
Andrews, it was a short time after that
i feast,
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CURIOUS RESULTS WITHFIGURES
! Some Odd vombinations Obtained by
Multiplications by Nine.
D. M. Johnson, of Chester, Pa.,
| writes to the New York Tribune as fol-
flows: 1 do not there is any
‘witchery” in the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
(8, 7, 8, 9, multiplied by 45, or 1 any of
think
‘
45,
the variations of the proposition of the
| “Expert Accountant,” noted in your
extract from the Buffalo Express in the
Tribune of November If there is
| any magic, 1t is In the figure 9, and net
| especially In 45, for you will find all
| the witchery by multiplying the above
| figures, either, forward or backward,
| by any of these figures, 9, 18, JG, 45, 54,
163, 72 or Bl. Probably the reason of
the apparently curious resull of these
| multiplications will appear 10 a math-
| ematically inclined mind by this simple
i Hlustration:
1234567
34
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81 equals 9
2 equals 9
equals 9
equals 9
equals 9
equals 9
equals 9
equals 9
equals 9
11101 equals®
Explanation: One less to carry each
{ move to left, which is balanced by one
| greater in right-hand figure of product,
because the total of each is 9 less,
{Reverse.)
087654321
9
9 equals 9
equals 9
equals 9
equals 9
equals 9
equals 0
ebuals 9
equals 9
equals 9
i8
27
36
45
54
63
9
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ws
i S885 8888 88 9equals 8]
{ One more to carry each move to left,
| which is balanced by one less in right-
| hand figures of product, because it is 9
| more total
And one may amuse himself Ly mul-
| tiplying this sequence of figures by the
| other figures, of which 9 is a multiple,
| up to 81, with similar resuits. If the
| multiplier is greater than 9, the differ.
lence in amount to carry forward, in-
| stead of being one less or one more as
{ above, will be equal to the number of
{times © will go into the multiplier.
{ Multiplied by 18, we have 9 twos and a
| cipher. Reversed, we have 9 sevens,
8 and 1. Multiplied by 81, we have 9
| nines and a cipher. Reversed, we have
| 9 ciphers and 8 and 1.
In the same way the philosophy of
the fact that the sequence, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
1g, 7, 8 9, multiplied by 8, produces 9,
8 7, 6,05 4,3, 1, 2, may be shown.
“One of Us Mast Die.”
A tragic occurrence took place at a
small farm called Hendre Mochtre,
near Newtown, Montgomerysire, re-
cently. The tenant of the farm, a man
named Abrabam Morris, with his son