DR
TALMAGE'S SERMON:
How to Conquer.
“When shall 1 awake, I willseekit yet again.”
Prov. 23: 5.
Wrrn an insight into human nature
such as no other man ever reached, Solo-
mon, in my text, sketches the mental
operations of one who, having stepped
ASIDE FROM THE PATH
of rectitude, desires to return. With a
wish for something better, he says:
«When shall 1 awake? when shall I
come out of this hormd nightmare of
iniquity?” But seized upon by uneradi-
cated habit, and forced down-hillby his
passions, he cries out, “I will seek it
yet again. I will try it once more.
Our libraries are adorned with an
elegant literature addressed to young
men, pointing out to them all the dan-
gers and perils of life—complete maps
of the voyage, showing all the rocks, the
quicksands, the shoals. But Suppose fn
man has already made shipwreck; sup-
yose he is already off the track; suppose
he has already gone astray
HOW 18 HE TO GET BACK?
That is a field comparatively untouch-
ed. I propose to address myself this
evening to I'here are those m
this audience with every passion
of their agomzed soul, are ready to hear
this They compare them-
selves with what thoy were ten years
avo. and ery out from the b mdage 1n
which they are incarcerated. Now, if
there be any in this house,come with an
earnest purpose, yet feeling they are
bevond the pale of Christian sympathy,
and that the sermon can hardly be ex-
pected to address them, then, at this
moment, I give them my right hand, and
call them brother. Lookup! Ti
glorious and triumphant hope for y«
vet. 1 trumpet of Gospel
deliverance. The Chureh is ready to
spread a banquet at your return, and
the hierarchs of heaven to fall into line
of bannered procession at the news of
your emancipation. So far as God may
help me, I propose to show what are
the obstacles to your return, 1 how
to surmount th so obstacles.
THE FIRST DIFFICULTY
such.
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sound the
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in the way of your return is the force of
moral gravitation. Just there is s
natural law which brings down to the
earth anything which you throw into
the /IT, so there a corresponding
org) gravitation. In other words, it
is edgier to go down than it 1s to go up;
it easier to do wrong than it is to de
right. Call to mind the comrades of
your boyhood days—some of them good,
some of them bad.
you? Call to mind the anecdotes that
you have heard in the last five or ten
years—some of them are pure, andsome
of them impure. Which the more |
easily sticks to your memory? During
the years of your life you have formed
certain courses of conduct—some of them |
good, some of them bad To which
style of habit did you the more easily
yield? Ah! my friends, we have to take
but a moment of self inspection to find
out there isin all our souls a force of
moral gravitation. But that gravitation
may be resisted. Just as yon may pick
up from the earth something and hold
jt in your hand toward heaven, just so |
py the power of God's grace, a
may be La towprd »eace, toward |
pardof, todas, halen. Force of moral |
gravitation in every but |
power in God's grace to that |
force of moral gravijation. |
The next thing in the way of your re- |
turn is the power of evil habit. I know
there are those who YOTY easy
for them to give up evil habits. Ido
not believe them. Here is a man given
to intoxication. He knows it is disgrac- |
ing his family, destroying his property, t
ruining him body, mind and soul. If
that man, being an intelligent man, and |
loving his family, could easily give up
that habit, would he not The |
fact that he does not give it up proves |
it is hard to give it up. It 18a very
easy thing to sail down-stream, the tide
carrying you with great force; but sup-
pose you turn
THE BOAT UP-STREAM!
is it casy then to row it? As longas we |
rield to the evil inclinations in our
carts and our bad habits, we are sail-
ing down-stream; but the moment we
try to turn, we put our boat in the
rapids just above Niagara, and try to |
row up-stream. Take a man given to
the habit of using tobacco, as most of
ou do, and let him resolve to stop, and
o finds it very difficult. Twenty
years ago I quit that habit, and I would
as soon dare put my right hand in the |
fire as once to indulge in it. Why? |
Because it was such a terrible struggle |
to get over it
Now. let a man be advised by his phy- |
sician to give up the use of tobacco. He
oes around not knowing what to do
with himself. He cannot add up a line |
of figures. He cannot sleep nights. It
seems as if the world had turned up-
side down. He fecls his business is
going to ruin. Where he was kind and
obliging he is scolding and frétful. The
composure that characterized him has
iven way to fretful restlessness, and he
as become a complete fidget. What
power is it that has rolled a wave of woe
over the earth and shaken a portent in
the heavens? He has tried to stop
smoking! After a while he sys, “I am
going to do as I please. The doctor
doesn’t understand me. I'm going back
to the old habit.
And he returns. Everything assumes
its usual composure. His business
seems to brighten. The world becomes
an attractive place to live in. His
children seeing the difference, hail the
return of their father's genial disposi,
tion. What wave of opr has dashed
blue into the sky, and greenness into
the mountain foliage, and the glow of
sapphire into the sunset? What en-
chantment has 118d a world of beauty
and joy on his soul? He has gone back
to smoking. Oh, the fact is, as we all
know, that
HABIT 18 A TASK-MASTER;
as long as we obey it, it does not chas-
tise us; but let us resist, and we find we
are to be lashed with seorpion whips,
and bound with ship eable, and thrown
into the track of bone-breaking Jugger-
nauts. During the war of 1812 there
as
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one of us,
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one
coming down through the rapids, and
through the awful night of temptation,
toward the etercal plunge. Oh, how
hard it is to arrest them! God only
can arrest them.
Suppose a man, after five or ten or
twenty years of evil doing, resolves to
do right. Why all the forces of dark-
ness are allied against him. He cannot
sleep nights. He gets down on his
knees in the midnight anderies: “God
help me!” He bites his lip. He grinds
his teeth. He clenches his fist in a de-
termination to keep his purpose. He
dare not look at the bottles in the win-
dows of a wine store, Itis one long,
bitter, exhaustive, hand-to-hand fight
with an inflamed, tantalizing, and mer-
ciless habit. When he thinks he is en-
tirely free , the old inclinations pounce
upon him like a pack of hounds with
their muzzles tearing away at the flanks
of one poor reindeer. In Paris there is
a sculptured representation of Bacchus,
the god of ly He is riding on a
panther at full leap. Oh, how sugges
tive! Let every one who is speeding on
bad ways understand he is not riding a
docile and well-broken steed, but he is
riding a monster, wildand blood-thirsty,
going at a death leap.
How many there are who resolve on g
better life, and say: ‘When shall I
awake?” but, seized on by thei
habity, ery: ‘I will try it once
I will seek it yet again!” Years ago,
there were Princeton students
who were skating, and the ice was very
thin, and some one warned the company
back air hole, and
warned entirely to lL
place. But one young man with brava
do, after all the rest had stopped, cried
ont: “One and more!” He swept
around, and went down, and w
brought out a My
| ther and tens of thous
| ands of me ¢ their souls in
way, [tis “one round more.
1 have al o say that if a man wants
to return from evil practices,
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SOCIETY REPULSES HIM.
Desiring to reform, he
will shaks my old
will find Christian companionshi
And he appears at the church door son
Sabbath day, and the usher greets
with a look as much as to say: *“‘W
you hgrg? You gre the last man I
oxpecte i to Sop it chareh! Come,
this seat right down by the door,’
stead of saying: “Good morning; I am
glad to you here. Come; I will give
you a first-rate seat, right up by the
{ pulpit.” Well
{ discouraged,
i and some
BAYS
off Associates,
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Be Vi
enters a prayer meeting,
Christian man, with
zeal than common sense, says
you;
| and I suppose there is merey
THE MAN,
chilled, throws himself on his dignity.
ver enter into the
Perhaps notquite
ully discouraged about reformation, he
sidles up by some highly respectabl
more
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Gilad
| tor send
for you
YOUNG DISGUSTED,
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Will he
house of God again.
f
f
street, and immediately the respectable
man has an errand
Well, the prodigal,
return, takes some member
1 hand,
The Christian young man looks at him,
looks at the faded apparel and the marks
nstead of giving him a
y of the hand, fers him
is of the long fingers of the
which is equal to striking a
Oh, how few Christ
ian people understand how
and gospel ti i
hand-shaking!
have felt the
down some other
wishing to
ir tries to.
Warn grij hie
left hand,
man in the face!
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Sometimes, i
need of encouragement,
Christian man has
heartily by the hand, have ¥
thrilling throt every fibre of your
body, mi
taken
jot felt
Mi I
vou
ign
nd, and soul an encouragement
not know anything at all about this un
man tries
from evil courses he runs against
when a to re
turn
REPULSIONS INNUMERABLE,
We say of some man, he lives a block
or two fre the church, or half a mile
from the church. There are people in
our erowded cities who live a thousand
Vast deserts of in
difference between them and the b
Ihe fact is, we must keep our
na
Ese
serish. Christ
sinners,
tens of thousands j uat
with publicans and
there come to the house of God
with marks of dissipation upon
people almost throw up their hands
as much as to Asn't
How these dainty, fastid-
onr churches are
I don't know,
nnless they have an especial train of
cars, cushioned and upholstered, cach
RV
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shocking
cspin f Rrasfians in all
heaven,
with publicans and sinners
Oh! ye who curl your Lip of scorn at
the fallen, 1 tell you plainly, if you had
been surrounded by the same influences,
tared, and the refined, and the Christ
ian, yon would have been a erouching
wretch in stable or ditch,
filth and abomination. It is not be
cause you are naturally any better, but
because the merey of God has protected
you. Who are you that, brought up in
Christian circles, and watched by
Christian parentage you should be so
hard on the fallen?
I think men also are often
from return by the fact that
are too anxious about their
ship, and too anxious about their de-
nomination, and they rush ont when
they see a man about to give up his sin
and return to God, and ask him how he
is going to be baptised, whether by
sprinkling or immersion, and what kind
of a church he is going to join. Oh,
my friends, it is
A POOR TIME TO TALK
about Presbyterian eatechisms, and
Episcopal liturgies, and Methodist love-
feasts, and baptisteries to a man that is
coming out of the darkness of min into
the glorious light of the Gospel. Why,
it reminds me of a man drowning in
the sea, snd alife-boat puts out for
him, and the man in the boat says to
the man out of the boat: “Now, if 1
get you ashore, are you going to live on
my street?” First get him ashore, and
then talk about the non-essentials of re-
ligion. Who cares what church he
hindered
churches
member.
wae a ship set on fire just above Niagara
Falls, and then, cut loose from its
m it éeame on down through the
and tossed over the Fal It
was said to have been a scene brilliant
joins, if he only joins Christ and starts
for heaven? Oh! you ought to hav
my brother, an illumined face an
hearty grip for every one that tries to
turn from his evil way. Take hold of
same book with him, though his dis-
beyond a pompare. : ell there are
evil habit,
wipations shake the book, remembering
that “he that converteth a sinner from
the error of his ways shall save a soul
from death and hide a multitude of
sins,
Now, 1 have shown you these ob-
stacles because I want you to undar-
stand I know all the difficulties in the
way; but I am now to tell yon how Han-
nibal may scale the Alps, and how
THE SHACKLES MAY BE UNRIVETED,
and how the paths of virtue forsaken
may be regained. First of all, my
brother, throw yourself on God. Gro
to Aim frankly and earnestly, vnd tell
Him these habits yon have, snd ask
Him, if there is any help in all the re-
sources of omnipotent to give it
to you. Do not go with a long rigma
role people eall prayer, made up of
vohs,” and “ahs,” and “forever and
ever, amens”’! Go to God and ery for
help! help! help! and if you cannot ery
for help, just look and hive. I remem
ber, in the late war, I was at Antietam,
and I went into the hospitals after the
battle, and said to a man: ‘Where are
you hurt?” He made no answer, but
held up his arm, swollen and L
| I saw where he hurt. 1} imple
| fact is, when a man has a wounded soul,
| all he has to do is to hold it up before
| a sympathetic Lord, and get 1t hi aled
t does not take any long prayer. Just
| hold up the we and, Oh, 1t1 i
thing, when an i DErvons an
| and exhausted, of from h
ways, to fecl that God puts two omnm-
potent around him,
| “Young man, [ will stand by
| mountains may depart,
be removed, but I will never
nd then, i
{18 too good t
Lieve
love,
sintered
Wis it
MINNA
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as the soul think:
v be true,
it, and looks uj
(God lifts his right hand
affidavit, Mmylng
i saith the Lord (rod, I have
death of him that diet
(rod for rospel as
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A PULL LOA¥ FOR EVERY (
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I remember
| Street Hospatal, in Philade
| opened during the war,
{ came, saying: ‘‘There will
hundred w=» muded
i ready to take care of them
| my church there went in so
or thirty men and women
| thes poor wounded fellows As they
| came, some from one part of the lan i,
asked
when
or
ud
men
from another, no «
1 Oregon, or
from Minne
| sota, or from New York. There
| wounded soldier, and the only question
was ho take off the rags the most
gently, the bandage, and
administer the cordial And when
soul comes to God, He ni
where vi from or what your
cestry was. He ling for all your wi
Pardon for all your
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whether this man was from
from
Massachusettes, or
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if you want
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bad companions, or giv
is not ten bad «
a man, nor Nn
three bad companions,
companions but One
there for that ¥
the stree :
him,
urging him
violently
they foreed him to go in?
summer and the door was left
open, and | saw the process Chey held
him fast, and they put the cup to his
lips, and they forced down the strong
drink. What chance is there for such a
young man?
I counsel yon also, seek Christian sd
vice, Eveey Christian man is bound to
help yon if you find no other human
ear willing n to your y of
struggle come to me, and I will, by
every sympath my heart, and every
prayer, and every toil of hand,
beside vou in the struggle for
i hope to have my
forgiven and h pe to be ac
utted at the judgment-soat of Christ,
will not betray you. First of all seek
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SEEK CHRISTIAN COUNSEL,
Gather up all the energies of body,
| mind, and soul, and appealing to God
for success, declare, this day, everlast-
| gaming practices, all houses of sin.
| Half-and-half work will amount to
| nothing: it must be a Watesloo. Shrink
back now, and you are lost. Push on,
| and you are saved! A Spartan general
i foll at the very moment of victory, but
he dipped his finger in his own blood,
and wrote on a rock, near which he was
dying, ‘Sparta has con/uered. " Though
your struggle to get rid of sin may seem
to be almost a death struggle, you can
dip your finger in your own blood, and
write on the Rock of Ages: ‘Victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ!”
Oh, what glorious news it would be
for some of these young men to send
home to their parents in the country!
They go to the post-office every day or
two to see if there are any letters from
you,
Nothing would please them half so
much as the news you might send home
to-morrow that yon had given your
heart to God. I know how it is in the
country. The night comes on. The
cattle stand under the rack, through
which burst the trusses of hay. The
horses, just having frisked up through
the meadow at the nightfall, stand
knee-deep in the bright straw that in-
vites them to lie down and rest. The
porch of the hovel is full of fowl. In.
THE OLD FARM-HOUSE AT NIGHT
no candle is lighted, for the flames ela
hands about the grom backlog, an
shake the shadow of the group up and
down the wall. Father and mother sit
there for Yalf an hour, saying nothing.
I wonder what they are thinking of!
After a while the father breaks the sil.
ence and says: “Well, I wonder where
our boy is in town to-night?” And the
mother answers: “In no bad place, I
warrant you; we always could trust him
when he was home, and since he has
been away there have been so many
prayers offered for him we can trust
iim still.” Then at 8 o'clock —for they
retire early in the country--at 8o'cloe
they kneel down, and commend you to
that God who watches in country and
in town, on the land, and on the soa,
| Some one said to a Grecian general:
| “What was the proudest moment of
| your life?” He thought
{ and said:
fi moment,
C“YHE PROUDEST MOMENT
of my life was when I sent word home
| to my parents that 1 had gained the
victory.” And the proudest and most
brilliant moment in your life will be
the moment when you ean send
to your parents in the country that vou
have conquered your « vil habits by
race of (rod,
tor.
Oh! de spise
fe tae will
neither
and become eternal
pate roal
whi i Oi hinve
father nor mother, and you
go around the place where the y used to
+] 3 find then 3
HORG, and gone irom hn
me from the neighborhood
ond for lorgiveness
not
come
anxiety,
nu, and
Bs YOu nay
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the mound 1g the cunrevard, thes
not answer
wa will
hair that
brow
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And then yo
of
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| tenderness, he
werful enon
who has bre
your father's God and your
1 be your (vod forever!
-—-—
The Health of College Girls
Fnghsh
in a recent letle
mournfully eone
{
correspondent of the
rather
health and
3 s. The “sweet
girl-graduate,” according to this ob
server, exists only in the poet's fancy
In reality, girl-graduate, looming
the English public, contradicts
of conturies, and 1fstead
round, rosy, d plump,
i a pale, scTawn) wings warded
with short hair and ota
as a rule; wearing her wenght
and Latin
does pot realize
sod, which
seed sol 10 thie
raclves, unless ob
alt the oolleo
RAIN, ' iat
Th
Fe
ir, speaks
ry the
“rang
beanty college
oir
giv
the
on ‘ial
traditions
being
lovely,
and
cles,
inert, ww
Oreck on shoulders bow
wl the
. Ni th
fallen into a happi r ion
] have attended recent
wot hoon pained by
vies bos w
Benis, Gave
waists, round shoulders
or angular elbows,
Tb
¢ the ¢
., the @
carned
the contrary,
#1
tise
rs,
health
consequent ratio of go dd
nong the diligent
dlege girls of our country is
marked, as to be 8 cans
gratulation Athletic enltare among
the young men not more popular
than attention to gymnastic and
thenic exercises by the
and Vassar, Well sley,
Swarthmore, Wells,
colleges {i women,
their college hone
L004 3 i
the
ave
rate of
looks
and
and so
ia
calis-
Mawr,
Smith and other
are out
those who have sound bodies as well as
sound minds, to take charge of the fu
yotnes of the land
overstudy, to which is
excitements of socml life,
quently happens when a girl pursues
her edncational work at home, maj
break down health and exhaust nervoud
is an evident fact. That lack of
ex , in attention to diet, depriva
tion of sleep, and too much piano pra
tice. or other straining for sccompl
ments of little use to the
may and do combine
invalid, we all know
girl at college is usually very fortunate
as to healthful conditions, and carries
in her bright fac and elastic step the
rym
or sending
added
ax fre
tissue,
Trois
h
average gins
y render her an
dat the American
rain hemphysique. ME 8S.
a
Reliable Formulas,
This prescription will be found in-
valuable in many instances, It is a
fever mixture for children. Sweet
spirits of nitre, a half ounce; eamphor
water, six drachms; spirits of minder-
| erus, a half ounce; simple syrup, an
ounce. The dose is a teaspoonful
every two or three hours fora child
over the age of one year,
This combination promptly relieves
belching of wind and flatulencey. To
| two drachms of the tincture of nux
| vomica and two drachms of the aromatic
spirits of ammonia, add three ounces
of the syrup of ginger. Take a tea
| spoonful of this mixture in a table-
| spoonful of water an hour or two after
{ench meal, This combination is only
| for adults.
| This formula makes an excellent do-
| mestic healing salve for ulcers, foul and
| ranning sores, and for all chronic erup-
| tions characterized by the appearance
| of watery matter.
Take of honey, beeswax and lard,
two ounces each by weight; add to
these one ounce of earbolated cosmoline,
and an ounce and a half of the ointment
of the oxide of zine. Melt over a slow
fire and stir well together. Apply three
or four times a day as a salve.
LEARNING AND KNOWING, ~Child-
ren object to nothing, probably so much
as the drudgery of learning, although
some boys are per almost as restive
under the process of having their faces
washed, . ‘
SUNDAY 3CHOOL LESSON,
Busnay Auvoust 11, 1935,
Samuel's Farewell Address.
LESSON TEXT.
{1 Bam. 12 : 1-15. Memory verses, I4, 15)
LESSON PLAN,
Toric or THE QUARTER :
and Dizoledience
Chedicnoy
Gorpexy Texr ror the Quapren: De.
hold, than sacrifice
and to hearken than the fat of rans,
1 Bam. 15 :
19 ia better
ale
3
hp
{MW {ie HOCK
Lizsson Tori Urged,
Obedience iustrated
8) ue wed jay
{ries
Gonpex Text
and serie Ji
heart: for consider how
hath done for
cor the
all
aqreatl thing
Sam. 12 : 24
Only | Lord,
fm tn truth with
Jie
wou. 3
LESSON
ANALYSIS.
OBEDIENCE 1.34 IRATE
1. T
And
Venerable Leader :
Fre
I oppressed
Walking in
Lord blam
all things
Acta 20 : 35).
Not having spot
Ept
ielens,
In
yo
1nd
Heb. 7
The Emphatic
Thou hast not defraud «1 nus,
Presse fas (4
Now I EIN
(en
There
perfect
Well done,
thing
Holy, .
from sinners
iil
26
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Commendation:
Bor op
“pd
IMAOBREDIFNCE ILLUSTRATED
i. A Favored People
The Lord sent Mos
ight forth vour fa
I will os this p>
3:2
O Israel
33 : 29
He brought them forth
gold (Psa. 105 : 37
1 brought thee up out of t
Lgypt (Mie. 6 1 4
11. A Sad Forgetting:
They forgat the Lord t
Beware lest thou forget t
i »
If thou shalt
\
i
(Exod.
who 1s like uz thee! (Deut.
with silver and
land of
3
LE
heir God (9),
he Lord (Deut.
tS
forget the Lord
Deut. 5 : 19
the Lord
vg shall
surely perish
is forgat their God
Judg. 3 : 7)
Forget
103 : 2
11. A Grievous Cry:
They ered unto the
We have sinned (10
Exan ervied wth an exceeding
and bitter cry (Gen, 34).
] were sore afraid: and
Exod. 14 : 10),
we ity oried out (1 Sam. 4 : 13)
en they eried unto the Lord in their
rouble (Psa. 107 : 6).
«It is the Lord that appointed,
and that brought.” (1% De
liverers appointed; (2) Deliverance
brought.—(1) The Lord's appoint
ment, —deliverers; (2) The Lord's
gift, deliverance.
“Stand still, that I may plead with
you.” (1) A panse commanded; (2)
A plea Jrojouad —{1) Life's hurry
checked; (2) God's canse pleaded
“They forgat the Lord their God,
and he sold them.” (1) The Lord
forgotten by men; (2) Men aban.
doned by the Lord.—(1) The seed,
forgetfulness; (2) The fruit,-
abandonment.
111, OBEDIENCE URGED.
i. Nature of Obedience:
Fear the Lord, and serve him, and
hearken (14).
Fear the Lord, . .. .walk in all his ways,
_...serve the Lord (Dent. 10 : 12).
Fear the Lord, and serve him in sin-
cerity (Josh, 24 : 14).
Serve him in truth with all your heart
(1 Sam. 12 : 1).
Oh that my people would hearken,....
would walk! ( 81 : 13).
{1. Rewards of Obedience:
IH ye ,.«.both ye and also the
King. . . . . well (14),
rac
not
not all his fits (Psa
Lord, and said,
great
3
-
cred
If ye will oo x 1 shall be apeculiar
Blond). 5 ne
: 27).
shall eat the good
the land (lee. 1 +19). 00d ul
Hearken, aah? my voice, and I will be
treasare )
shall hearken (Deut.
14... .obedient,
your (Jor. 7 : 23).
111. Penalties of Disobedience:
If ye will uot, . . . then shall the hand
of the Lord be against you (15).
Bo shall ye perish; because ye
not harken (Deut. 8 : 20).
The curse, if ye shall not harken (
11 : 28).
Unto them that
(Bom. 2 nj
Ver
would
obey not,
tos
(2 Thess 1 : Ry.
1. “The Lord sent and delivered
"(1 Whom the Lord sent:
From what the Lord delivered
(1, The Bender; (2) The
The « rrand. *
2, “If ye will fear the Lord, and»
well.” (1) The
(2 The reward of
FCRIII them that obey
vii
Wor go
ANE,
hand of the
"Jehovah's o
Why displayed; (2
d; (3) When displays
pposi
LESSON BIBLE READING
VEAR,
GODLY
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LESSON SURROUNDINGS
attacked Jabesh-(31]
make a treaty }
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right Thes
site, during which
all Israel to th
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nonites
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was from the
direction Ire
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was Gilgal, wher
le thesr first encamp
the Jordan (Josh. 4
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natives as Jiljooli
ndings for 188K, {
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gest
manufacture 1a
Japau 1 the Lark ol a
all tree called the Mistama, which
os ap altitude of about one metre,
ihirtv-live centimetres and flowers In
winter, flourishing also in sterile soil.
| When the trunk has attained the de-
sired thickness, it is cut down almost
on a level with the ground, but in such
| 4 manner that new shoots spring up, to
in their turn cut down. A paper
superior quality is made from the
| Korna, another small tree of the mul.
| berry family which can attain the
| height of 5 metres, twenty-five cenli-
| metres, This plant was, only a short
{time ago, imported from China into
{ Japan, where il is now mach cu
| vated. The plants are rooted at a dis-
| tance of sixty centimetres apari, and
| often in the form of a hedge to sepa-
| rate the fields one from the other. The
| well-developed branches are cuf off in
| October, five years after the planting,
{ The paper is made from both trees in
the following manner: the little
| branches are macerated im water fora
fortnight, and by this timee the outer
| portion of the bark has fallen off, so
| that the material underneath it may be
washed and dried. It is exposed for
three or four hours to the action of
steam and of boiling water, and Is then
beaten with sticks until it forms a fine
paste, which is treated with the same
processes as those employed in Europe,
The Korna paper is very resistive in
the direction of the fibres, and in order
to have the sheets equally solid through
out, one is placed upon the other that
the fibres may cross. Thus are manu.
factured those very resistive papers
that serve to cover parasols and umbrel-
las, and sometimes to replace leather.
Another paper is made from the Gampi
as strong as that manufactured from
the Korna, but finer, softer, and more
transparent.
Japanese Paper. — The stron
MN IDOnest paper
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;
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Bird-lime is made by boiling the mid-
dle bark of the holly seven or eight
bours in water; drain it and lay it in
heaps in the ground, covered with
siones for two or three weeks, till re.
duced to a mucilage. Beat thisin a
mortar, wash it in rain waber, and
knead until free from extraneous mate
ter. Put itinto earthen pots, and in
four or five days it will be fit for use,
An inferior kind is made by boiling lin.
seed oil for some hours, until it be
comes a viscid mass,
A
Orders have been received at the
Portsmouth Navy Yard to put the
historic frigate Constitution in condi
tion to be towed to the Washington
Navy Yard,
The wealth of Frederick Doagiass,
Unite i States Minister to 1H ae
timated at $300,000, Hayt,