“LEV DR. TALMAGE
@he Brooklyn nvine's Sanday
Sermon,
sulbject: “The Burden Bearer,”
Text: “Cast (hy burden uron the Lord,
and tie shall sustain thee" — Psalm iv. 23,
David was here taking his ows meiicine,
J auvboiy bad onhim heavy weights, David
d toem, and vet out of nis own ex serieace
he advises you and me as to the Less wav of
geting rid of buriens. This in & worid of
roen bearing. Co aing into the house of
praver there may be no sirn of srdness or
sorrow, but whee is the man wh) hss uot a
conflict? Where is the sonl shat bas not a
étruzgie? And there is nota day of all the
Feur wnen my text is not g.oricus'y appro-
priate, and there is nsver an sulisnce as
sombled on the planst waers the text doss
not fit the ocoasior: ‘Cast thy tmrdenu on
the Lord, and He shall sustain thee.” in the
far east wells of water are so in reqaent taas
“when a man owns a well he basa property of
very great values, and sometimes battles hava
been tought for the possession of one weil of
wvater; vut there is one weil that every man
owas—a deep well, a peresuial well, a wall
of tears, 1f a man has not a burden on this
Shauider, he hasa vurdea oa the otaar shoul
ar.
Theday I left home to look after myssif
. and for myself, in tha wazon my (ather sat
driving, and be said that day something
which bas kept with ms sll mv life: ‘De
Bite, ic is always safe to trust God. [ haves
ou may know that having bess sick far
Bitaen years, it was no easy thing for me to
support a family; bat always God came to
tharescue. I remember the time” he said,
“when [ didn't know what to do, ani [ saw
& man on borseback riding up toe farm lans,
and he announced to me that I had been
nominated for the monet lucrative office in
the gift of the poopie of the couaty, ani to
that office 1 was elected, and God in that
way met all my wants, and I tell you it is
Biways sale to trust Him,
Ou, my friends, woat we want is a practi.
cal religion! The religion people have is so
biga up you cannot reach it. [n the Straits
of dageilan, Ihave been told, there is a place
where whicoever way a captain puts his ship
be finds the wind azainst him, and there are
men who all their lives have been running in
the teeth of wind, and which way to turn
fbey do not know. Some of them may be
bere this morning, and I address then face
fo face, not perfunctorily, but as one brother
talks to anotoer brother, “Cast thy burden
upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee.”
First—There are a great many mea who
jave busiuses burdens. Whea we see a man
ei and perplexed and sanoyed in bus -
ners life we are apt to say: “He ought not
fo have attempted to carr much.” Ah
Bhat man may not be to at ali! When
# wan piants a business he does not know
Wwoat will be ite outgrowths woat will ba its
roots, what will be ite branches. There is
foany a man with keen foresight and large
iness faculty who bas beea flung into the
ust by unforeseen circumstances springing
upon him from ambush. When to buy,
when to sell, when to trust and to what
amount of credit, what will be the effact of
fhis new invention of machinery, what will
be tae effect of that lows of crop and a thop-
sand other questions perplex business wen
until the bair is silvered and deep wrinkies
are ploned in the cheek, and the stocks go
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stagger like drunken men
bere never has been a time when there
bave bon such rivalries in business as now,
ft is bardware against bardware, toois
agznins: books, chandlery against chandiery,
imported article against imported articia,
A thousand stores in combmt with anotoer
thousand stores Never suca an aivantare
of light, never such a variety of assortment,
never so much solen or of show window,
never so much adroitness of salewnen, never
#0 much acuteness of advertising, and amid
all the severities of rivalry in busines: how
many men break down! Uh, the burden on
the sbouider! Oh, the burien on the heart!
You hear that it is avarice whieu drives
these men of business through the str
and toat is the commonly accepled idea,
do-owt believe a word of it
Ab! my friend, do you say that God does
Do% care anything about your worldly basi-
ness? I tell you God knows more abou: it
than vou do. He knows all your perpiexi-
ties knows what mortgagee is about to
forec.ose; He knows what note you cannot
pe He knows what uansalable goods you
ve on your shelves; He knows all your
trials, trom the day you took hold of the first
yardstick down to the sale of the ast yard
of ribbon, and the God who
be king, and who helped Dan
minister, and who helped Havelock
soldier, will beip you to discharge
duties, He is going to 54 Jot through.
When loss comes, you find your prop-
erdy ong; just take this Book and put it
down by your ledger, and read of the eternal
possessions that will come to you throuzh
our Lord Jesus Christ. And when your
friends turn against you, just take the in-
sulting letter, put it down on the table, put
your Bible beside the insu ting letter, and
then read of the friendship of Him woo
“sticketh closer than a brother.”
A young accoutant in New York City got
bouest, and yet he could pot make his ao
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The world always had had a cross between
two thieves for the one who comes to save
ft. High and aaiy en! bas always
been followed by abuse, moss rublime
travedy of self sacrifice has come to bur
lesque. ‘The gracelul malt of virtue is als
ways followed by grimace and travesty,
The sweetest strain of ever written
hax come to ridiculous paroiy, aniss long
os thare are virtas and righeeusness in tae
world, there will bs something for iniqa ty
togrinat. All along the line of ths uyes
snd in all lands, the crv has been: *Not tals
man, but Baraboas. Now, Barabbas was a
robber.”
And what makes the persecutions of lie
worse is that they come from peope whon
ou bave helpei, from thoss to whom you
ave loaned mouey or have started in busi-
pest, or whom you rescued in some great
erisis, think it has been the h'story of all
our lives—the most acrimon.ous assault
has come iron those won we have pede
fited, whom we have heiped, and that makes
it all the harder to bear. A man is in dea
ger of becoming cynical,
A clergymaa of ths Universalist church
went into a neighborhood for the eseablish.
ment of a church of his denomination, and
he was anxious to find some one of that de
nomination, and hs was pointed to a cerlain
nouse ana went there, Me sal to the man
of the house, ''l understand you are a Uui-
versalist: I want vou to help me in the en-
ternrise.” “Well” said the man, “lama
| Universalist, but I have a peculiar kind of
Universalism.” “Well,” replied the other,
{ “I have been out in the world, and have
been cheated and s'andered and outragel
and abused until I believe in universal dam-
nation I”
Third—There are others who carry great
purdens of physical aliments, When su i-
den sickness has come, and flerce choleras and
malignant fevers take the castles of life by
storm, we appeal to God, but in thesschronie
ailments which wear out the strength day
after uay, and week after week, and year
after year, how little resorting to God for
solaca! Then people depen | upon their tonics
and their p asters and their cordials rathr
then upon heavenly stimulants, Oh, how
few people there are complstely well! Bowme
of you, by diot of perseverance and cars,
have kept living to this time; but bow you
have had to war against physical ailments!
Antediluvians, without medical college and
infirmary and apothecary shop, multiplied
their years by bundreds; but he who has
gone through the gantiet of disease in our
time, and has come to seventy years of age,
is a hero worthy of a palm
The world seems to be a great hospital,
and you run against rheumatisms and con
sumptions and scrofulas and neuralgias ani
scores of old diseases bantized by new noe
menciature., Oh, how heavy a burden sick
ness inl It takes the color out of the sky,
sweetness out of the fruit and the lustre out
of the night. When the limbs ache when
the respiration is pain’ul, when the mouth
is hot, when the ear roars with unhsaithy
and cheerful and assidaoud ‘Cast thy bur
den upon the Lord.” Does your head ac ie!
His wore the thorn. Do your feet hurt? His
were crushed of the spices. Is your side
painful? His was struck by the spear. No
ou
His weakness gave way under a cross
A prominent merchant of New York said
to a member of my family, “My mother
wants her case mentioned to Mr. Talmage”
This was the case. He sala: “My mother
had a dreadful abscess, from which she had
sulferead untol | agonies, and all surgery had
bam exhausted upon her, and wors: ani
| worse she grew until we called in a few
: Christian friends aad proceeded to pray
i about it. We commended her case to Bot
and the abscess began immediately to tw
cured, She is entirely well now, anal wits.
out knife and without any surgsry.” So that
{ case has cone to me, an | there ars asoore of
| other cases coming to our ears irom all paris
of the marth. Oh, ye woo are sick, goto
Christ! Ob, ye who are worn out with
{| agonies of body, “Cast thy burden upon the
i Lord, and He shall sustain thee ™
Another burden some have to carry isthe
| burden of brreavement. Ahl these are the
{ troubles that wear us out. If
| property, by additional industry perhaps we
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lose our gocd name, perhaps by relormation
i of morals we may achieve again resutation
for integrity; but who will
eradies and thes trunks of chil lish tors that
will never be used again. Alas me! for the
ampty chair and the silence in the halls that
never echo aguin to those familiar foot.
steps. Alas! for the cry of widowhood and
Fat Bitter Marabs in the willerness
what cities of the dead what long black
shadow from the wing of death, what eyes
with bereavement, what instruments of
mus ¢ shat now because there ares no fiagers
to play on them! [sthers no relief for such
souls? Ave let the soul ride into the hartor
of my text
The sou! that on Jesus bath leased for repose,
1 will not. | will not desert to us fom;
That soul, though all bell shali endeavor to shaks,
| IN never, uo Dever, no sever forsshe
Thers are many who cirry the burden of
| sin. Ah, we ali carry it until ia the appoint.
od way toat burden is lifted. Woe nead no
SOTENTIFIO AND INDUSTRIAL
A pump chamber weighing 6000
pounds has just been cast at Pittston,
enn.
Ohicago is preparing to send great
usntities of milling machinery to
Jhins to be used in the gold mines,
A horse power is a power capable ot
raising 88,000 pounds avoirdupois
through the space of one foot in one
winute,
A Frenchman has invented portable
tablots, by nibbing at which one may
. sustain life indefinitely, without the use
of any other food.
An English engineer proposes making
double shell boilers, maintaining a pres-
sure between them. By these means he
calculates that a muth higher pressure
can be carried than is possible even with
the coil bollers already in use.
The London (England) tower is so far
on its way to become an accomplished
fact that a site of 800 acres has been pur-
chased, One-half of the ground will be
used for the site of the tower and the
other half will be laid out in pleasure
grounds.
Mustard oil is being manufactured in
Germany for lubricating purposes. It is
said to be unaffected by cold above a
temperature of about fifteen degrees
Fahrenheit, and does not readily become
rancid or form fatty acids likely to st
tack metal,
At least a dozen actors and actresses
in England are practising their parts by
aid of the phonograph. They have thus,
as nearly as possible, the same oppor-
tunity as the audience of Judging of the
correctness of the emphasis aod kfec-
tioz used in any given passage.
& pew method for ventilatiog reil.
way carriages and preventing dust from
coering with the air has appeared in
Fraoce. The sir is made to traverse a
wmceptacle containing water, which cools
it and relieves it of dust, after which it
goes through another filtering before
satering the carriage
An coglaeer of Manchester, England,
Is introducing a povely in paper, viz,
sre said to bo practically indestructible
snd much cheaper than wood or malle-
ablo iron hafts, Placed under a steam-
bammer, sithough they can be flattened,
they cannot be split or cracked.
An ioveotion by which writing can
work of a Boston man, who has invented
a hard ink with which he writes (back-
ward) upon ordinary paper. That paper
is placed in a mould, melted iron is
poured in, and when the hardcued iron
is removed it is found that, while the
licat burned sway the paper, it did not
affect the ink, but left the impression of
the writing.
This is a scientific description of what
bappens when you light a fire. The
phosphorous on the match is raised by
friction to a temporature of 150 degrees
Fahrenhelt, at which it ignites; it
it is a sulphur match) to 500 degrees,
when the sulphur begins to burn; the
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! What a spectacie it would be if we could
tear off the mask of human defllament; or
army of the world's transgressions —the de.
ception, the fraud, and the rapine, and the
' murder, and the crime of all theese conturies!
Aye, if 1 could souni the trumpet of resurs
rection in the soul of the best roen in this
| audience, and ali the dead sins of the past
{ should come up, we could not endure the
| sight. Bin, grim and dire, has put its clutch
upon the lrmortal soul, and that clutch
will paver relax unless it be under the heel
of Him who came to destroy the works of
tae devil
i Oh, to have a mountain of sin on the soul!
! Is there no way to bave the burden moved!
Oh, yes. “Cast thy burden upon the Lord.”
! The sinless One came to take the couse
quences of our sin! And 1 know He is in
earnest. How do | know it? By the stream-
ing temples and the hands as He
bs, unto Me all r who are
wane
great Sahara desert of y
you are invited to the gardens
God, the trees of life aad the fountains of
MH water? Why be bouseiess and home
| lows forever when may become the sons
and daughters of the Lord God Almighty?
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Queer Beliefs
The Fijian eonnibal's emotions have
reference for the er part to food. He
worships the a who has
eight stomachs and is always eating,
The Tongans have a very curions dog-
ma to account for a day aud night being
twenty-four hours long. It used to be
less; the sun used to go down too quick.
So one day a maa caught it with a goose,
sod it had fo go slower thereafter,
The ancient Peruvians believed tha
the sun once came down to the earth and
Inid two cgge and then went back again,
From these two ge men spruog.
The American Indians had a dogma
that the sun was the one supreme god,
and the moon was his wife. One tribe
inhabiting a fearfully hot district wor.
shi moon sloue, sayiog that they
no use for the sun. -
In the days of Columbus selentific
mas : If a ship should reach Tu.
dia she would
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when the wood takes up the work and
produces a tempersture of 1000 degrees
at which the coal ignites.
Indian Canoe Building.
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“While visiting one of the small towns
slong Puget Sound,” said J. H. Mallett
of Helena, *' I was greatly interested 1c
It ix really wonderful how these abori-
with a few days’ work, convert an un-
wicldy log isto a trim and pretty canoe.
, “2 One Monday morning 1 saw a buck
buildiag a fireat the base of a large cedar
tree, and he told me that this was the
Erst step in the construction of a canoe
that he intended to use upon the follow-
I He kept the fire burning
merrily all that day and far into theuight,
when a wind came up and completed the
downfall of the monarch of the forest.
The next day the mam arose betimes, and
cut the trunk of the tree in twain at a
wint some fifteen feet from where it had
broken off, and thea with a dull hatchet
he hacked away until the log had as
sumed the shape of the desired canoe
In this work he was helped by hissquaw,
The old fellow thea built a fire on the
guiding the course
of the fire with deabs of clay, and in due
course of time the interior of the canoe
had been burned out. Malf a day's work
** Tho canoe was now, 1 thought, com
plete, though it appeared to be danger-
ously narrow of beam. This the Indian
soon remedicgl. He filled the shell twoy
thirds full of water, and into the fluid he
dropped haf a dozen stones that had
| been heating in the fire for nearly a day.
The water at once attained a boiling
poiat. and so softened the wood that the
uck aud squaw were coabled to draw
{ out the sides and thus supply the neces.
sary breadth of beam. Thwarts aud slats
were then placed in the canoe, and the
water and stoves thrown out. When the
steamed wood an to cool and con-
tract the thwarts held it back, aod the
sides heid the thwarts: and there the
canoe was, complete, without a nail, joint,
ur crevice, for it was made of one piece
of woud, The Siwash did pot enmplete
it us soon as Lie had promised, butit only
took him eight days."—{Spokase Falls
Review
It 1a well known that bl» and
animal oils are unsuitable for eylinder
lubrication, are recently in France whe o
colza oll w.# used 1t was found necoes-
sary to burn out the deposits in the
ports of the locomotive cylinders,
English manufacturers are Hench ing
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ONYX
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Bamething About its Working and
its Use in House Decoration.
Onyx is coming into general use for
decorative purposes. With the forma.
tion of on syndicate to work the Mexican
mincs and with the discovery of onyx in
other places, its use has extended until
it is becoming one of the most fashiona-
ble decorations in New York, says the
Bun of that city. Onyx isa peculiar for-
mation caused by drippings mixed with
mineral and earthy subsiences under
heat and pressure. This is not an exact
geological definition of it, but it tells
what it is, Onyx is usually discovered
in caves or other natural openings and
in a mineral neighborhood. The most
beautiful kind of onyx is formed by va.
rious kinds of minerals running through
it in streaks and tints,
Onyx is the same improvement over
fine marble that marble is over ordinary
stone. It also costs as much. more,
These are two reasons why people who
aro puttisg up fine houses ih this town
arc beginoing to use it, It differs from
marble in taking oun a higher degree of
polish, in being harder, with u greater
reflection,” a firmer grain, more refined
and delicate tints and prettier streaks,
Btreaked marble is not popular because
it is usually vot streaked in a nay to add
to its decorative effect. In onyx the
delicate green fern, reddish and brown
streaks appear beautifully on an ivory
background.
Onyx is got outin ns large blocks as
it can be quarried» “The quarrying has
to be done with wedges and saws, as it
cannot be blasted or Jug out with safety,
The grain and streaks are so delicate
that a blast might spoil thousands of
dollars’ worth. One cave of onyx was
ruined by the uso of powder, The than
who owned the cave startéd to get out
the onyx by the slow process of saws and
wedges. He got out several car loads,
when the thought struck him that he
could take all the onyx out of the cave
at one blast, So Le put his men to
work and drilled around the cave, sr.
shipped at once. The drill holes were
charged and the blast was exploded.
None of the onyx was fit for use except
in mosaics and such work. There was
This tsught the other onyx miners
a lesson, and po shocks and blasts or de-
tonations are allowed -in the cave or in
may ‘be cracked or that some small
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Onyx 1s worth ia the rough from $3 to
$13 per cubic foot. The price is not
steady, as it depends on the demand and
the length and shape of the block got
A man who buys a block
He does not know how it wil
polish. There may be cracks
inside of it which he does not see, and
the grain and streaks oa the outside may
The onyx in ita rough state looks like
other stalactites and stalagmites, though
it inight be taken for marble by any one
pot in the business. It is worked much
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and that the polishing is more difficult,
to $3 8 square foot, according to its ap.
ce.
Some dealers make onyx up in mantels,
but even though an onyx mantel is cost.
ly, the dealers do not like to make it up
in that shape, as they say that it vuiger.
beautiful for tables, mirrors,
and pasels. There are only four or five
dealers in it now la New York, bul when
the new syndicate begins shipping bere
steadily onyx will be pushed. It is ne
Ory fuse now tian the Saar 27nbie med
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How to Count Bank Bills.
“There are two kinds of bank billy,
said a man who has haudled 5 good many
of them. “There arc the national bank
bills and the Goverameot notes,
former bave vigoettes on each cud, the
latter on the left-hand end only. The
Treasury Department made a mistake in
putting the vignette on the left end of
the Goverament note, for this reason:
Take a bundic of these bills in a baok;
the bank clerk in counting such a bun-
dle places his left hand on the left end
of the bundle and counts the right end
with his right thumb and finger. The
vigoette is the most difficult thing to
counterfeit, and for that very reason it
is counterfeited most. In counting such
bills as | have been speaking about this
vignette is not scen by the bauk elerk,
aud he is more liable to count ju a
spurious note than if he saw the vignette,
The expert knows a Lad vignette almost
at a glance. I think if the Treasury
Department had thought of this the vig-
nette would have becu put on the right
end of the Lill."
=~. This was told to the cashicr of a Dear.
bota street bauk. He smiled when he
beard it. “lathe first place,” be said,
““bepk clerks do not count bills in the
way you mention. If they do they vie.
late orders. The instructions are that
they shall handle the bills so that each
one will come entirely within the raoge
of the eye. I presuine there are viola.
tions of this rule in every bank. Even
80, an ex has other means of detect.
ing a bad bill than looking at the vig.
nette. However, I am of the opinion
that the vignotte would bean additional
tafeguard if it wero on the right end of
the note. "=| Chicago Tribuve
Revolution ry documents have
discovered baked in rolls sold
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
BUNDAY, JURE 2. LOL
Captivity of Judah.
LEBSBON TEXT,
ECKings25 : 1.12 Memory verses: 44)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric ov tae Quanrzs: sinning
Gouoeny Texr ron THR QuanrER: |
Godliness is profitable unto all things. |
-1%im. 4 : 8 J
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Lessor Toric: Reaping Sin's Har-
1. Blege and Famine, vs.
18
Assault and Captivity,
ve. 47.
Desiruetion and Desola
tion, vs. 8 12
Lessox OvrLiNg: | 2
Goroex Texr: Come, and let us re-
turn unto the Lord, —Hos, 6 : 1,
Darmy Howe Reapinas :
M,—2 Kings 25: 1-12
sin's harvest.
T.—-Jer, 52: 1-16,
rative.
W.—2 Chron, 86 ;
lem destroyed
T.—Jder. 59: 1-10.
stroved.
F,—Psa. 137
the captives. i
8.—Pwsa. 127 : 1-6, Joy in deliver- |
ance. i
B.—lom, 6;1.23. Bpiritaal bond- |
age.
Reaping
Parallel nar-
11-21, Jeruss-
Jerusalem de-
1-9, Wailings of |
LESSON ANALYSIS,
1. BIEGE AND PAMINE, 1
I. Powerful Foes:
Nebuchadnezzar. .
his army (1),
The king sent. ...s great army unto
Jerusalem (2 Kings 18 : 17).
Shisbak. . ..came up sageinst Jerusalem |
(2 Chron. 12 : 9). i
He was purposed to fight against Jera- |
salem (2 Chron 82 : 2). i
..came, he and sll :
Chaldeans (2 Chron. 86 : 17).
Il. Cios2 Investment;
They built forts against it round
about (1.
They came by night, spd compassed
the o.ty about (2 Kings 6 : 14).
The city was besieged (2 Kings 24 :
10}.
Came. ...sll his army sgainst Jerusa-
l+m, and besieged it (Jer, 84 : 1),
Thine enemies shall. . . . keep thee in on
every side (Luke 19 : 43).
111. Fearful Famine:
There was no bread for the people of
the land (8).
There was a great famine in Samaria (2
Kings 6: 25.,
To give you cver to die by famine (2
Chron. 82: 11).
...with the
famine (Jer 27 : 8B).
The famine was sore in the city (Jer.
bl . 61.
1. Nebuehadnezzar king of Babylon
came sguinst Jerusalem.” (1)
the doomed city; (2) The pagan
conqueror; (3) The justifying cause.
~The doom of Jerusalem (1) In
prophecy; 2) In history.
2. “So the city was besieged.” The
siege of Jerusalem; (1) Its condue-
tors; (2) Its methods; (3) Its con-
tinuance; (4) Its horrors; (0) its
results.
#3. “The famine was sore in the city.”
{1} Power for the besiegers; (2)
Weakness for the besioged.—(1)
The sore famine; (2) The doomed
city.
Il. ASSAULT AND CAPTIVITY.
1. Successful Assault:
Then » breach was made in the city
(4).
Cities frnoed with high walls, gates, and
bers (Deut. 3 : bu
The army... brake down the walls of
Jerusalem (2 Kings 25 : 10.)
Her bulaarks are fallen, her walls are
thrown down (Jer. 50 : 15).
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down
{Heb, 11 : 30).
Universal Pano:
All his army was scattered from him
(5).
Kings of armies flee, they flee (Psa.
68 : 12).
Flee for safety... out of the midet of
Jerusalem (Jer. 6 : 1).
Then they fled, and went forth out of
the city by night (Jer. 39 : 4).
All men of war
52 : (i
111: Cruel Captivity:
They. ...put out the eyes of Zede-
kiah, and bound him in fetters (7).
Hs... bound him in fetters, to carry
him to Babylon (Jer. 89 : 7).
The king. ...pat him in n till the
day of his death (Jer. 52 : 11),
Yet shall he not see it, though he shall
die there (Ezek. 12: 13).
In the midst of Babylon he shall die
(Ezek. 17 : 16.)
1. “A breach was made,....and all
the men of war fled.” (1) Jernsa-
lem in peace; (2) Jerusalem in sin;
(8) Jerusalem under siege; (4) Jeo-
rusalem in defeat; (5) Jerusalem in
rains.
2. “All his army was scattered from
him.” (1) The king's dependence;
(2) The king's defeat; (3) The
king's disaster.
8. “They slew the sons... put ont
the eyes,....bound bhim,....oar.
ried him to Babylon.” Zedekiak’s
calamities; (1) His sons slain; a
His might destroyed; (3) His liv
fettered; (4) Mis captivity decreed,
IIL. DESTRUCTION AXD DESOLATION:
f. The Palaces Burned:
He burnt the House of the Lord, and
jue : the — of God,
They burnt vv 0nd
urnt all the paises {3 Cliton 30:19),
on
ae pa: 1 wamctuacy
ie Chaldeans bn He i
, 89:
A fire... .shall devour the palaces of
Jerusalom (Amos 2 : 8).
11. The Walle Destroyed:
1
of
Jerusalem
They... brake down the wall of Jorn
salem (2 Chron, 36 : 19).
I... .vewel the walls. ... which were
broken down (Neh. 2 : 13).
They have Iaid Jerusalem on hesps
(Psa, 79:1),
Jerusalem shall become heaps (Micak
8:12)
11. The People Enslaved:
The captain... left the poorest of
the land (12).
The multitude did Nebuzarsdan...,
carry away captive (2 Kings 25 : 11),
They were rervants to hum aud hissons
2 Chron. 36 : 20;
Turn. again our captivity, O Lord (Pea
26 : 4).
How shall we sing the Lord's song in a
strange land? (Pea, 137 : 4).
1, “Every great house burnt he with
fire.” The burning of Jerusalem;
(1) The temple; (2) The pilsce;
(3) Lhe mavsions.—(1) Conflagra-
tion; (2) Pu.i.hment; (3) Desols~
tion.
.““lhe army....brake down the
walls of Jerusalem round abont.”
(1) The hostile srmy; (2) The
ruined walls; (8) The exposed na
tion,
. “The captain... .left the poorest
of tue land.” (1; The captives
who were taken; (2) The capt.ves
who were leit.
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LESSON BIBLE HEADING.
CALAMITIES OF JERUSALEM,
25, i
5).
Plundered by Jenoash (2 Kings 14:
18, 14).
16 : Ou.
Besieged by Fennacherib (2 Kings 18 3
17 : 19 : 356-47),
Cavtared by Pharsoh Necoh (2 Kings
23 : 88-30.
Besieged by Nebuchadnezzar (2 Kings
24 : 10, 11).
Destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar (Jer,
89 : 1-8).
Hestoration hindered by Sanballas
{Mheb. 4:7, 8),
LESSON BURROUNDINGS
Ixrenvesise Hisvory.—The message
newal of the covenant. The jawover
with unex
gaged 1n 8 campaign against Assyria
and was wounded at Megiddo, dying in
Jeboabaz, his
Necoh three mouths after, snd his
brother, Bliskim, placed on the throne
He
was tributary to Egypt nati tue de‘eat
of Necoh by Nebuchadnezzar, when he
submitted to the latter king for three
As be then rebelled, his king-
vom was overrun by neaghboring tribes,
and himse'! alain, having reigued eleven
years. He treated Jeremiah very cruel
¥. because of his proplecice against
the jolicy be pursued, and most of the
known details 1espettlu € Lids reign are
recorded by that propher. Jehoinchin,
his son, was a child (either eight or
eight en years old) when ne began his
brief reign of three months, Nebach
sdnezzar himself attacked Jerusalem,
and Jeboiachin surr«ndered himse.f by
fleecing to the Babyloman camp. A de-
portation of ten thousand of the lead-
ing people followed, Jeboischiu him.
seif being kept a prisoner for thirty.
seven years in Babylon, and then re-
lessed and honored. He belonged to
| the Babylonian king, more weak than
| minh, he wus led hy the princes of
{ing rulers against Babylon, and in
‘Lhe result is narrated
; in the lesson.
{ Praoes.-—Babylon, the new capital
{ oldest cities in the world, and st this
, hime probably the largest. Jerosalem,
| The Arabah (Auth. Ver., “plain”) was
{ the depression to the east of Palestine,
Riblah is on the Urontes,
. uchadnezzar, who was bemeging Tyre
Tiun,—The usual chronology places
the beginning of the siege in B. C. 590,
and the destruction in 8B. C. 6 & Bad
the different reckoning of years in
Babylonian records leads to unocer-
tainty; so that one year later is deemed
more probable by Davis; and two years
by other authorities.
Prasoxs — Nebuchadnezzar (or Nee
buchadrezzar, as in Jeremiah 52), the
celebrated king of Babylon; Zedek:
king of Judah; the soldiers of
king; the sons of Zedekiah; Nebu are
dan, “the captian of rhe goard,” who
destroyed the cit: of Jerusalem.
ixciorsys, — The formal siege of
Jerusalem, with an immense aray; the
Jamine which Senate; the Wicadh by
besiegers; the escape of
and his soldiers by night; the fli
“by the way of the Arsbah;” :
suit and capture of Zedekiah in the
plains of Jericho; Le Is carried to Neb»
uchadnezzar at Kiblah; his sons are
are slain before his eyes, his own eyes
put out, and, laden with fettors, he 1
carried to Bab lon. About 8 mouth