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— B Ls
DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON:
The March Homeward.
“Pursue; for thou shalt surely overtake
Wem, und without fail recover ail.” —1 Saul,
0:8,
TERE 18 intense excitement in the
village of Ziklag. David and his men
are bidding good-bye to their families,
ind are off for the wars. In that little
village of Ziklag the defenceless ones
will be left until the warriors, flushed
with victory, come home, But will the
defenceless ones be safe? ‘The soft
arms of children are around the necks
of the bronzed warriors, until they
shake themselves free and start, and
handkerchiefs and flags are waved, and
kisses thrown, until the armed men
vanish beyond the hills, David and
his men soon get
THROUGH WITH THEIR CAMPAIGN,
and start homeward. Every night on
theigeway home, no sooner does the
soldie AL hia head on the knapsack,
u \% his dream he hears the welcome
of the wife, and the shout of the child.
Oh, what long stories they will have to
tell their families, of how they dodged
the battle-axe! and then will roll up
their sleeve and show the half-healed
wound. With glad, quick step they
march on, David and his men, for they
are marching home, Now they come
up to the last hill which overlooks Zik-
lag, and they expect in a moment to
we the dwelling places of their loved
snes. They look, and as they look
their clieeks turn pale, and their lip
quivers, and their band involuntarily
comes down on the hilt of the sword
“Where is Ziklag? Where are our
homes?! they ery. Alas! the curling
smoke above the ruin tells the tx agedy.
The Amalekites have come down and
sonsumed the village, and carried the
mothers and the wives and the children
of David and bis men into captivity.
The swarthy warriors stand for a few
moments tranalixed with horror. Then
their eyes glance to each other, and
they burst into uncontrollable weeping;
for when .
A STRONG WARRIOR WEEPS,
the grief is appalling. 1t seems as if
the emotion might tear him to pieces.
They *“‘wept until they had no more
power to weep.” But soon their sor
row turns into rage, and David In-
quires of the Lord what he shall do,
and receives the reply: “Pursue: for
thou shalt overtake them, and, without
fail, recover all.” He swings his sword
high in air, and the march becomes a
“double-quick.”” Two hundred of
David’s men stop by the brook Besor,
faint with fatigue and grief, They
sannot go a step farther. They are left
there; but the other four hundred men
under David, with a sort of panther
step march on in sorrow and in rage.
They find by the side of the road a half-
dead Egyptian, and they resuscitate
tim, and compel him to tell the whole
story. He says: **Yonder they went,
the captors and the captives,’ pointing
in the Cu Forward, ye four
hundred brave n!
Very socn David and his enraged
sompany come upon the Amalekitish
host. Yonder
and children and mothers, under an
Amalekitish guard, Here are the offi-
cers of the Amalekitish army holding a
banquet. The cups are full, the music
is roused, tlic dance begins, The Am-
alekitish hos: cheer and cheer and cheer
over their victory, But without note
of bugle or warning of trumpet David
and his four hundred men burst upon
the scene, suddenly as Robert Druce
hurled his Scotchmen upon the revelers
at Bannockburn, David and Lis men
look up; = cing their loved ones in cap-
fivity, under Amalekitish guard,
throws thein into a very fury of determ-
ination— for you know how men will
fight when they fight for thelr wives
and children. Ah, there are lightnings
in their eye, and every finger is a spear,
and their voice 18 like the shout of the
whirlwind. Amidst the upset tankards
and the costly viands crushed under
foot, ' the wounded Amalekites lie
{their blood mingling with their wine)
shrieking for wercy. No sooner 40
DAVID AND HIS MEN WIN
the victory, than they throw their
swords down into the dust—what do
they want with swords now?-—and the
broken families come together amidst
& great shout of joy that makes the
parting scepe in Ziklag seem very in-
sipid wu the comparison. The rough
old warrior has to use some persuasion
pefore he can get his child to come to
Lim vow, after so long an absence; but
soon the little finger traces the familiar
wrinkle across the scarred face, And
sheu the empty tankards are set up,
and they are, tilled with the best wine
fro the bill , and David and his men,
the husbands, the wives, the brothers,
the sisters, drink to the overthrow of
the Amalekites, and 10 the rebuilding
of Ziklag. So. O lord, let thine en.
etnies perish!
Now they are coin
and ins men and their
A LONG PROCESSION,
men, women, and children, loaded with
jewels und robes and with all kinds of
trophies that the Amalekites bad gath-
ered up in years of congueést-—overy-
thing now in the hands of David and
his men, When they come by the
brook Besor, the place where stayed
the men sick #ud incompetent to travel,
home—Davxl
of treasures ure divided among the sick
as well usamong the well, Surely, the
i exhausted ought to have
some of the treasures, Here is a robe
Shi poled dying k rd a
; w for 4 ying man. E »
Pardtal of gold fur the i trum.
peter. 1
it by telegram
wid Le wom wt of bis coming.
there are Amulekitish disasters, and
there are
AMALERKITISH DISEASES,
that sometimes come down upon one’s
home, making as devastating work as
the day when Ziklag took fire. There
are families in my congregation whose
homes have been broken up. No bat-
tering-ram smote in the door, no icon-
oclast crumbled the statues, no flame
leaped amidst the curtaing; but so far
as all the joy and merriment that once
belonged to that louse are concerned,
the home has departed, Armed dis-
eases came down upon the quietness of
the scene-—scarlet fevers, or pleurisies,
or consumptions, or undefined disorders
came and seized upon sume members
of that family, and carried them away.
Ziklag in ashes! And you go about,
sometimes weeping, and sometimes en-
raged, wanting to get back your loved
ones as much as David and his men
wanted to reconstruct their despoiled
households, Ziklag in ashes!
Some of you went off from home,
You counted the days of your ab.ence,
Every day seemed as long as a week.
Oh, how glad you were when the time
came for you to go aboard the steam-
boat or rail-car and start for hou!
You arcived. You went up the strect
where vour dwelling was, and in th
bell, and, behold! it was wrapped with
the signal of bereavement, and you
found that Amalekitish Death, which
has devastated a thousand other house.
holds, had blasted yours. You go
about weeping amidst the desolation of
your once happy home, thinking of the
bright eyes closed, and the noble hearts
stopped, and the gentle hands folded,
and you weep until you have no more
power to ween. Ziklag in ashes!
A gentleman went to a friend of
mine in the city of Washington, and
asked that through him he might get a
consulship to some foreign port. My
friend said to him: **What do you
want to go away from your beautiful
home for, intoa foreign port?’ “Oh”
he replied, **my home is gone! My six
children are dead! I must gel away,
gir, I can’t stand it in this country
any longer.” Ziklag in ashes!
Why these long shadows of bereave-
ment across thas audience? Why is it
that in aku. very assemblage black
is
THE PREDOMINANT COLOR
of the apparel? Is it because you do
not like saffron, or brown, or velvet?
Oh, no! Yousay: **‘The world is not
so bright to us as it once was"; and
there 18 a story of silent voices, and of
still feet, and of loved ones gone, and
when vou look over the Lills, expecting
only beauty and loveliness, you find
only devastation and woe. Ziklag in
ashes!
In Ulster County, New York, the
village church was decorated until the
wildering. The maidens of the village
had emptied the place of flowers upon
one marriage altar, One of their own
number was affianced to a minster of
Clirist, who had come to take her to
nis home. With hands joined, amidst
a congratulatory audience, the vows
were taken, In three days from that
heaven. The
down into the
exchanged earth for
wedding march broke
funeral dirge.
flowers now for the coffin ld, because
hour.
THE DEAD MINISTER
of Chirist is brought to another village.
He had gone out from them less than a
week before in his strength; now he
comes home lifeless, The whole church
bewailed him. The solemn procession
moved aroand to look upon the still face
that once had beamed with messages of
salvation. Litue children were lifted
ap to look at im. And some of those
whom he bad comforted in days of sor-
row, when they passed that silent form,
made the place dreadful with * their
weeping. Another village emptied of
its flowers—some of them put in the
shape of a cross to symbolize his hope,
others put in the shape of a crown to
symbolize his triumph, A bufidred
lizhts blown out im one strong gust
from the door of a sepulchre! Ziklag
in ashes!
I preach this sermon to-day because
I want to rally you as David rallied his
men, for
THE RECOVERY OF THE LOVED
and the lost, I want mot only to win
heaven, but I want all this congrega-
tion to go along with me, I feel that
somehow I have a responsibility in your
arriving at that great city. I have on
other Subbaths used other induce-
ments. I mean to-day, for the sake of
variety, hoping to reach your heart, to
try another kind of inducement, Do
you really want to join the companion.
ship of your loved ones who have gone?
Are you as anxious to join them as
David and his men were to join their
families? Then I am here, in the name
of God, to say that you may, and to tell
you how.
1 remark, in the first place, if you
want to join your loved ofies in glory
you
MUST TRAVEL TITE SAME WAY
they went. No sooner bad the half-
dead Egyptian been resuscitated than
he the way the. captors and the
captives had gone, and David and his
men Satlowed after. So our Christian
f have gone into another country,
and if we want to reach their compan-
jonship we must take the same road.
They repented; we must They
"They
pragsl; we must pray. hey trusted
in ; weomust trust in Christ,
Shey Hyed a Jeligious life; we must
a religious life, They were: in
some like ourselves, 1 know,
: there is a halo
1 have
pats that these captives trod
A TROUBLED PATI,
and that David and his men had to go
over the same difficult way. While
these captives were being taken off,
they said: *‘Oh, we are #o tired; we
are so sick; we are so hungry!” But
the men who had charge of them sald:
“Stop this crying. Go onl!” David
and his men also found it a hard way,
They had to travel it. Our friends
have gone into glory, and it is through
much tribulation that we are to enter
into the kingdom. How our loved ones
used to have to struggle! how their old
hearts ached! how sometimes they had
a tussle for bread! In our childhood
we wondered why there were so many
wrinkles on their faces, We did not
know that what were called “‘crow’s
feet” on their faces were the marks of
the raven of trouble.
Did you never hear the old people,
seated by the evening stand, talk over
their early trials, their hardships, the
accidents, the burials, the disappoint-
ments, the empty flour-barrel when
there were so many hungry ones to
feed, the sickness almost unto death,
where the next dose of morphine decid-
ed between ghastly bereavement and an
unbroken home-cirele? Oh, yes! it was
trouble that whitened their hair. It
was trouble that shook the cup in their
hands, It was trouble that washed the
tears until they needed spectacles. It
was trouble that made the cane a nec-
essity of their journey. Do you never
remember seeing your old mother sit-
ting, on some rainy day, looking out of
the window, her elbow on the window-
not seeing the falling shower at all
(you well know she was looking into
the distant past), until the apron came
up to her eyes, because the memory was
too much for her?
“Ofte the big, unbidden tear,
Stealing down the furrowed cheek,
Told in eloquence sincere,
Tales of woe they could not speak.
“But this scene of weeping o'er,
Past this scone of toll and pain,
They shall feel distress no more,
Never, never woep again.”
“Who are these under the altar?” the
question was asked; and the response
came: **These are they which came out
their robes, and made them white in
the blood of the Lamb.” Our friends
went by a path of tears into glory. De
not surprised If we have to travel the
same pathway.
I remark again, if we want to win
the society of our friends 1n heaven, we
will not only have to travel a path of
faith and a path of tribulation, but we
will also
HAVE TO BATTLE
for their companionship. David and
Lis men never wanted sharp swords and
invalperable shields and thick Lreast-
plates so much as they wanted then on
Amalekites, If they had lost that bat.
tle, they never would bave got their
families back. [I sappose one glance at
their loved ones in captivity hurled
them the battle with tenfold
courage and energy. They said: “We
must win it! Evervihing depends upon
it! Let each one take a man on point of
into
Spear or aword! We must win it” And
1 have to tell you that between us and
Austeriitz, there is a Gettysburg, there
isa Waterloo. War with the world,
war with the flesh, war with the devil
We have either to conquer our troubles,
or our troubles will conquer us, David
Amalekites will siay David,
And yet 1s not the fort to Le taken
besiegement? Look! who are they on
the bright hilisof heaven yonder? There
they are, those who sat at your own
table, the chair now wvacani, Tuere
they are, those whom you rocked in in-
whose life your life was bound up.
There they are, their brows more radi-
ant than ever before you saw it, their
lips for the kiss of heavenly greeting,
their cheek roseate with the health of
eternal summer, their
HANDS BECKONING YOU
up the steep, their feet bounding with
the mirth of heaven. The pailor of
their last sickness gone out of their
face, never more to be sick, never more
to cough, never more to limp, never
more to be old, never more to weep.
They are watching from those heights
to see if through Christ you can take
that fort, and whether you will rush in
upon them-vietors, They know that
upon this battle depends whether you
will ever join their society. Up! strike
harder! Charge more bravely! Remem-
ber that every inch you gain puts you
so much farther on toward that heaven
ly reunion,
if this morning, while I speak, you
could hear the cannonade of a foreign
navy, coming through the *‘Narrows,”
which was to despoll our eity, and if
they really should succeed in carrying
our tamilies away from us, how long
would we take before we resolved to go
after them? Every weapon, whether
fresh from Springfield, or old and rusty
in the garret, would be brought out;
and we would urge on, and, coming
in front of the foe, we would look at
them, and then look at our families,
and'the ery would be:
“yICTORY OR DEATH
and when the ammunition was gone,
we would take the captors on the point
of the bayonet, or under the breech of
the gun, If you would make such a
struggle for the geiting back of your
earthly friends, will you not make as
much struggle for the gaining of the
eternal companionship of your heavenly
friends? Oh, yes! we must join them.
We must sit in their holy society. We
are alive,
were dead?
should
was dead, You would inquire next
door where he had moved to, Our de-
parted Christian friends have only
taken another house, The secret is
that they are richer now than they once
were, and can afford a better residence,
They once drank out of earthen-
ware; they now drink from the King's
chalice, *‘Joseph 1s yet alive,’ and
Jacob will go up and see him, Livieg?
are they? Why, ifa man can live in
this damp, dark dungeon of earthly
captivity, can he not live where he
breathes the bracing atmosphere of the
mountains of heaven? Oh, yes,
THEY ARE LIVING!
Do you think that Paul is so near
dead now as he was when he was living
in the Roman dungeon? Do you think
that Frederick Robertson, of Brighton,
is as near dead now as he was when,
year after year, he slept seated on the
floor, his head on the bottom of a chalr,
because he could find ease in no other
position? Do you think that Robert
Hi is as near dead now as when, on
his couch, he tossed in physical tortures?
No. Death gave them the few black
drops that cured them, That is all
death does to a Christian—cure him, 1
know that what I have said implies
that they are living. There 1s no ques-
tion about that, The only question
this morning is whether you will ever
join them.
But I must not forget those two hun-
dred men who fainted by the brook
Besor. They could not take another
step farther. Their feet were sore;
their head ached; their entire nature
was exhausted. Besides that, they
were broken-hearted because thelr homes
were gone, Ziklag in ashes! And yet
David, when he comes up to them,
divides the spoils among them. He
says they shall have some of the jewels,
some of the robes, some of Lhe treasures,
I look over this audience this morning,
land I find atleast two hundred who
{ have
FAINTED BY THE BROOK
| Be wor—the brook of tears, You feel
| further, as though you could never look
up again. Bat lam golng to imitate
{ David, and divide among you some
glorious trophies, Here is a robe: “All
things work together for good, to those
who love God." Wrap yourself in that
| glorious promise, llere is for your
neck astring of pearls, made out of
| erystallized tears: '‘Weeplng may en-
| morning.” Here is a coronet: *‘De
{ thou faithful unto death, and I will
{ God's mercy.
wells of salvation, Soothe your wounds
{ with the balsam that exudes from the
{ trees of life
you off, oh, 1
broken-hearted w
brook Besor!
man, oh,
woan, fainting by tle
role |
roken-hearted
A shepherd finds that his mus
| pipe is bruised. He says: “]
| any more music out of this instrument;
so 1 will just break it, and 1 wii
this reed away, | I will gel
other reed, and Iw play music oun
that.” Bat God says He will pot cast
you off because all the ousic has ge
soul ;
»
ei
i
: ie
far as 1 can
CASE,
YOU WANT DIVIN USING,
hom
will I com-
fort you, God will see you all the way
through, oh, troubled soul, and when
you come down to the Jordan of death
you will find it to be as thin a brook as
Besor; for Dz. R
80
And in your last moment
minisiel
frightened about the story of the hor.
rors around the deathbed, Tell her
| there is not a word of truth in it, for I
ain there now, and Jesus is with me,
{and I find it a happy way; nol because
I am a good man, for I am not; I am
{ nothing but a poor, miserable sinner;
but 1 have an Almighty Saviour, and
| both of His arms are around we,”
May God Almighty, through the
| us into the companionship of dur loved
{ones who have alresdy enter~l the
| heavenly land, and enter the presence
| of Christ, whom, not having seen, we
love; and so David shall recover all,
“sand as his part is that goeth down to
| the battle, so shall his part be that tar.
rioth by the stuff.”
sin oss IN IS
A Scheme for Harbor Defense,
According to a report In some of
the Philadelphia newspapers, a large
company, backed by millions of
dollars, has proposed to the Secretary
| of the Navy a striking and possibly
effrctive scheme for the defense of that
harbor and the harbors of other cities
from the attacks of an enemy's fleet by
shooting ignited petroleum at the un.
friendly ships from the bottom of the
river and burning them up. The rear
admiral has been directed to study
closely the harbor of Philadelphia and
its approaches. The petroleum defense
scheme, the originators of which have
induced the government to make this
preliminary examination of the Phila
delphia harbor, is a brilliant one in
more respects than one. A company
has been organized at Washington to
develop the plan and to show its prae-
ticability.
It is proposed to sink perforated iron
pipes in the river bed and the ap-
to the harbor, through which
petroleum can be forced to the surface
OE ta why a. Be a
h pressure. In this way a ferce
stream of blazing oi! can be sent down
on the enemy's fleet to destroy it or
drive it away.
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
Soxpay Fesruany 10, 1830,
The Fierce Demoniac,
LESSON TEXT.
Mark 5: 1-20, Memory verses, 15-30)
LESSON PLA N.
Toric OF THE QUARTER:
Muhty Worker,
Jesus the
GoLpEN TEXT FOR THE QUARTER:
Belweve me that I am in the Father, and
the Futher fn me: or else belveve me for
the very works’ sake.~John 14 : 11
Lesson Toric:
slaved,
r 1, Enslaved, va 15,
Freed, va, 6-14
Renewed, va. 15-20,
GoLpESX TEXT: Go home to thy
friends, and tell them how great things
the Lord hath done for thee, and hath
nad compassion on thee.—~Mark 5 : 19.
Dany HouMe READINGS:
M.—Mark 5 : 1-20,
enslaved,
T.—Matt. 8:28 to 9:1.
thew’s parallel narrative,
W.—Luke 8 : 26-40, Luke's paral-
lel narrative,
T.—Rom. 3:
sin,
F.—Rom. 0:
broken.
8.—John 8 : 31-51.
deliverance,
8.-—Gal. b
liberty.
Lesson | 4
Cutline: | 5
Freeing the
Mat-
1-20. Enslaved by
1-23. Sin’s bondage
The of
way
The life of
1-26.
- lif m———
LESSON ANALYSIS
I. ENSLAYED,
I. Ruled by Demons :
A man with an unclean spirit (2).
There met him two possessed with devils
(Matt, 8 : 28).
Seven other spirits... .enter
dwell there (Matt, 12 : 45).
My name is Legion; for we are many
(Mark 5: 9).
lecover themselves out of the snare of
the devil (2 Tim, 2 : 26).
11. Separated from Friends:
Who had his dwelling in the tombs
(a
They that did see me without fled from
me (Psa. 31:11).
| No man careth for m
4
in
y soul (Psa. 142 :
41).
..and abode not
! Luke 8 : 27).
| IIL Injuries of Self:
He was....cutl
| stones (5).
{ Deceitful men shall
days (Psa. 55
| He that sinnet
devils. .
y 3
sin is death
net him
il SPIT
Del
(310
PRACE
yerer,
3) Man, the co
man had MT
1) Satanic power; (2) Human
ity: (3) Divine help.
sr himself with stones ™
v Satan: (2) Rained
descued by Christ,
11. FREED,
| I. The Liberator Recognized:
What have 1 to do with ti
thou Son of... .God? (7).
| What have we todo with thee,
son of God? (Matt, 8 : 28).
| { know thee who thou art, the
One of God {Mark 1 : 24).
[ have seen....that this is the
God {Jolin 1: 34).
LIf....the Son shall make you free, ye
shall be free indeed (John 8 : 36}.
{IL The lLdberating Command!
Come forth, thou unclean spirit, out
| of the man (8).
He said unto them, Go (Matt, 8 : 32).
| Hold thy peace, and come out of him
{| (Mark 1 : 25).
| Son, thy sins are forgiven (Mark 2 : 5).
In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
| walk {Acts 3:6).
| HHI. The Laberation Effected:
And the unclean spiritscame out (13).
They came out, and went into the swine
(Matt. 8 :
| The unclean spirit. ..
I (Mark 1: 20).
| Being made free from sin (Rom. 6 : 18).
With freedom did Christ set us free
(Gal. & : 1}
1. “When he saw Jesus from afar, he
ran and worshipped him.” (Recog-
nition; (2) Haste; (3) Appeal; (4)
Response,
2. “Come forth, thou unclean spirit,
out of the man.” (1) The spirit
recognized; (2 The command issued;
(3) The man freed,
8. “And they came to see what it was
that had come to pass.”’ (1) A peer-
jess Worker; (2) A mighty work;
(3) A curious crowd,
Il. RENEWED,
1. Reason Restored:
Clothed and in his right mind (15),
Sitting, ....in his right mind, at the
feet ef Jesus (Luke 8 : 35).
When he came to himself he said {Luke
15 : 17).
The ind of the flesh is enmity against
God (Rom, 8 : 7).
Be renewed in the spirit of your mind
(Eph. 4 : 23).
11. Feliowship S.ught:
He besought him that he might be
with him (18),
I will follow thee withersoever thou
(Matt, 8 : 19),
The man. ...prayed him that be might
be with him (Luke 8 : 38).
They constrained ping, saying, Abide
with us (Luke 24 129),
Lord, why cannot I follow thee even
now? (John 13 : 37).
111, Praises Proclaimed:
He. . . . began to publish. . . . how great
things Jesus had done (20).
He wet Sut, nd bigan to publish it
Sof end
EW iia
am
a ligtNg
bin ¢
i UY S88
go
i
J¢ SIN
J
on
aaL
32).
*
.
2, “That he might be with him.”
Fellowship with Jesus; (1) In bodily
companionsitip; (2) In spiritual
companionship; (3) In heavenly come
panionship,
8. **Go,....and tell.’ (1) An appoint.
ed mission: (2) A ready message; (3)
An accessible audience,
co AU ve
LESSON BIBLE READING.
CHRIST'S WORK WITH DEMONS.
He cast out demons (Matt, 4 : 24:8:
16: Mark 1:32 30;9:25; Luke
6: 18).
Sometimes, many from one
(Mark 5: 9 ; Luke 8 : 2, 20).
person
His power attributed to Satan (Matt,
0:34 :12:24 ; Luke 11 : 15).
11 : 17-22).
Demons knew him (Matt, 8 : 29 ; Mark
1:24 34:;3:11;5:6,7 ; Lake 4:
4).
Effects of demons on men Matt, 8: 25;
12:92: Mark 1:23; 5 : 2-5; 9: 17.22;
L.uke4 : 34; 11 : 14).
Effects of demons on swine (Malt, 8:
0-323.
The outcoming of demons {Mark 1
26:9: 26, 27: Luke 4 : 35; 9: 42).
Men empowered to cast them out (Matt,
7:22:10:1, 8: Mark 3:15:6 : 13;
0:28 29: Luke 9:49; Acts 10
11, 12).
Results of casting out demons
5:15: Luked : 36, 37).
Work of the cured (Mark 5 : 18.20),
Perils of the cored (Luke 11 : 24-25).
A stuvendous failure {Acts 19 : 13-1
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LESSON SURROUNDINGS,
The great discourse in parables is res
ported most fully in Matthew, though
probably many parables were uttered
on that occasion which have pot been
recorded (Mark 4: 33,34). Mark gives
but three. The second (Mark 4:20
| 20)is peculiar to his narrative, selling
| forth the gradual growth of the king-
| dom of God. Notice that the miracles
| peculiar to this Gospel were gradual
| cures (Mark 7 : 32-35; 8 : 22.26). Chap,
| ter 4 : 21-24 contains some sayings sim-
| ilar to those in the Sermon on the
| Mount. The voyage across the lake
| took place on the evening of that day
| (Mark 4 : 35, 30); and the miraculous
| sitting of the tempest is narrated by all
| three evangelists (Matt. 8 :23.27; Mark
| 4: 837-41; Luke 8:22.25). The landing
| on the other shore probably took place
early on the next day.
| The place was on the east shore of
| the lake in the country of the *‘Gera-
| senes” (Mark, Rev. Ver.), which is
| also calied the country of the “Gad.
| arenes’ (Matt, Rev, Ver.}, and of
| the “Gergesenes” (Luke, Rev. Ver,
marg.). The confusion in the readings
has lex much discussion as to lhe
i Dr. Thomas thinks there was
lace called Gerss {or some 8iin-
south of Wady «8 BSemak,
idway down the easlern shore,
that the name “‘Gergesenes’ was
derived from this. The locality which
i ] jdentified ments all
Lhe various narra~
is favored by the
: 20,
(Mark 1:
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the require nents of
and his theory
| argument, be fails to indicate with ex-
| actness),
The time was the day after the dis-
course in parables, in the later half of
| 781, year of Rome—A. D. 25
Parallel passages: Matthew 8
Luke 8 : 26-29.
28.84.
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Simple Rules of Fliguette,
Don’t repeat the scandal of the day,
| They are old. lnveni new ones
Never be witty at the expense of an-
other. He may command a larger
| credit than yourself,
Don’t lounge in company. If you
| must at all, lounge on the chairs or
i sofa.
| A boy should always tip his hat when
meeting older persons or a gust of
wind.
| Let ladies pass through a door first.
It may be slippery, so you had better
! wait and ree, :
| Eat as fast and as slow as the rest,
| As fast to get your share. For the
| same reason as slow, not to encourage
| any possible superior into a contest.
Finish the course with the others.
You cannot well do otherwise, for ater
| thev have finished it bow car you con-
| tinue?
Cover the mouth with the hand or
| napkin (both if nature has made it nec-
| emsary) while removing anything from
it, as tho hand.
| A gentleman usu lly wacates his seat
| for a lady if he sees a beller one unoc-
| cupied, This, however, is not always
necessary if the lady is his “best gurl”
and no one else is present,
Never leave home with unkind words
on your lips. Stay till you have said
| them,
The etiquette of calls depends a good
| deal on whether you are calling on the
minister or calling the crows,
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A Tough Rat Story.
A naval officer says: I have always
felt some regard for a rat since my
cruise in the constellation, We were
fitting for sea at Norfolk, and taking
in water and provisions; a plank was
resting on the sill of one of the ports
which communicated with the wharf,
On a bright, moonlight evening we dis-
covered two rals on the plank coming
into the ship. The foremost was lead-
i he other by a straw, ene end of
which each held in his mouth. We
managed to capture them both, and
found, to our surprise, that the one led
by the other was stone blind. His faith-