NEW HOPE FOR EXILED JEWS The International Sunday School Lesson for August 26 Is "The Captivity of Judah." —II Kings 25:1-21 By WILLIAM T. ELLIS BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS Back of the surge ana swing of the war, lie certain great interests which are quietly maturing plans made possible by the present univer sal upheaval. Every few days we read allusions to Zionism, and to its fu ture after peace has been signed. Out of the smoke of battle, out of the rivers' of blood, out of the starvation hnd suffering of the remnant who dwell In tho Promised I.and, out of the overturn of empires and social there is slowly emerging seema to be the fulfilment of Hlho ancient hope of Israel. The Jews Hii rc to have their chanee in the land the fathers. Probably It will come the procesner of democracy; the Jews will vote themselves authority in the land of precious One of the many unpre- and unexpected benefits is the it promises to bring to the ■i 'hoscn Peoplo so long scattered ■ This present day nnws of a pos- new beginning for the Jews link to the story of the decline. ■if the royal line, the fall of the last of Judah, and the destruction the city of Jerusalem—a story which the attention of thlrty- Hfive million Sunday school members Hs now concentrated. The two events part of one long national drama, most wonderful in all the iiistor> nations. And in every act the de- and the discerning beholder perceive as the principal actor From the going out of at the beckoning of God the present movement for the of the Jews to the Holy I.and, history of this people has, prl- a religious significance. Great David's 1/osser Son I We sing of "Great David's Greater Kon;" this tale concerns the last and of the least of his sons to occupy throne, Zedeltlah, so named by hil master, Nebuchadnezzar; a in a state, a craven weakling Hn spirit, one of the most unroyal Bons of the great king who ever sat the throno of Judah. Zcde- did not even fulfill the modern definition of an honest politi #"C)nc who will stay bought." to protect lits state, he was unable to keep faith with his He went back on Ills he went back on his position traditions, he went back on Ne- and he went back on Ho was what the collo- Hiuinl speech of the day calls a a man who repudiates his * I Mke king, like people. If Zede- was a poor sttck, the people whom he reigned, and who fell him, were a sorry lot. The na- was guilty along with the ruler, the record runs: "Moreover, all chiefs of the priests and the peo- trespassed very greatly after all ■he abominations of the nations, and polluted the house of Jehovah of God, and despised His and scoffed at His prophets, the wrath of Jehovah rose His people, until there was remedy." This nation—king, priests and people—had the end of its rope, and was a noof-e on it. A Deadly Disease I Or, to BUggotit a less violent end, ■ !"' Jeweish nation died of spiritual trophy. By ceasing to exercise its the nation lost It; for souls, the atrophied and troublesome ■Resinol KM will heal those p mosquito bites A touch of Resinol takes the itch and smart right out of mos quito-bites, and soothes and cools I sun-burned, wind-burned skin. I This gentle healing ointment seems to get right at the root of skin-troubles like eczema, ivy poisoning, heat-rash, and hives, clearing them away in a sur prisingly short time. Resinol is sold by all druggists. 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Station. ** FRIDAY EVENING, stomach called the appendix, may die through disuse. The fall of Jeru salem and the conquest of Nebuchad nezzar were merely Incidental. The death was there in the kingdom's body. It Is the stern law of nature and of God that any powers unußed become lost. The greatest tragedies < ? llr t' nlos are not those which And their way into the newspapers; they are the hidden tragedies of human spirits, as when a man discovers that he has by neglect lost his taste for all the higher things, and for God. Spiritual deadness is a calamity fur overshadowing the stoppage of breath, the disappearance from the body of the mysterious vital spark. Judah was not wholly dead, but so nearly so that only extreme measures could save the remnants. So God wiped her off His slate as a nation. In Ills dire punishment Je hovah was still dealing with the Chosen People t.s with His sons. He had to do a parent's hardest duty— punish His own. To lift up. He had first to cast down. Nothing short of national destruction and exile could teach the nation the sin and folly of idolatry. And, bitter as was the lesson, the Jews learned It; after the exile they never returned to this sin which had cursed the people from the days of the wilderness to the fall of the royal dynasty. After all, no price is too great to pay to learn the exceeding sinfulness of sin. America, say many voices, has been "soft." She has lost her spir itual sensitiveness' and ancient ideal ism. Luxury and self-indulgence have entered into her spirit like a canker. Now conies the surgery of war with its healing. We may lose many precious lives, but we shall surely find our souls. Even in the act of blotting out the national life for a time, we are given a rare indication of the long patience and eager affection of God, lor Jehovah pictured as "rising up early and sending, because He had compassion on His people.' The for bearance of God Is one of the divin est signs of His Godship. The Preacher's 'High Place Dignity and honor have attached to the comings and goings of high commissions of the allied nations on these shores, because they are tho plenipotentiaries of their countries. The man who conies with tho Voice of God on his Hps, as the ambassa dor of the Most High, should ever be accorded honor if His Master is to be pleased. One of the remarkable in dictments against Zedekiah is that "He humbled not himself for Jelio vas the prophet." That looks as if the preacher is greater than the king. So thought John Knox, when he thundered before Queen Mary. So think the brave prophets of to day, who, unafraid of evil in high places, do not withhold the "Thus Kaith the Lord," that has been de livered unto them. This fearless facing of sin, In rul ers and In people, is one of the mark ed signs of the new patriotism of the times. The state of mind of the best citizens is one of utter honesty with actual condition; they are willing to hear and tell the truth, however, ug ly, about church and state and count ing house and home. In the cause of true reform the part of the seer is pre-eminently important; we can get along without kings and presi dents and governors better than we can get along without genuine preachers of the truth of God. This word needs to be said in a day when there is a pronounced ten dency, as In Judah of old, to mock the messenger of God, to despise His Word and to scoff at His prophets. Every half-fledged youth about town, with never an original thought in his head, feels at perfect liberty to sit in judgment upon religion and the church and the ministry. The way the frivolous make light of those things before which the pro foundest minds in history have bow ed down reverently, reminds one that the weak and foolish Zedekiahs are not all dead yet. The person who lacks reverence, lacks the first essential of prer.tness. Essayists have seriously raised the nuestion in the light of recent reve lations in the social and commercial, as well as In the political world, whether the sense of honor among men and women is dying out. There is more than a little evidence for the affirmative side. The man who would break his business before he would break his word or break faith with the people, is not so conspicuous* as he once was—because he is more com-mon. The seriousness of the lack of high sense of honor is perceived only by the honorable: this Book which is man's best code of ethics writes It down In black. Zedeklah's breach of faith with Jehovah is linked, as a cardinal offense, with his broken pledge to Nebuchadnez zar. The specious reasoning may have been that his covenant was with an enemy; nevertheless, it was a covenant, and even God despises the man who can not be honorable even with liis foe. The officer who breaks his parole to a victor, is as guilty of conduct unbecoming to an officer and a gentleman as he who betrays his flag for the sake of his own fortune. This high sense of per sonal honor and duty was lacking In Saul, tho first of the kings of the Jews, and It was absent from the last; in both cases to the shame and suffering of the people. "Tho End Thereof" The end of it all, sin's sure issue was destruction. Nebuchednezzar took Jerusalem, wrought terrible de struction upon it and its people without regard to age, sex or sta tion, and made captive the fleeing king. Before he put out Zedeklah's eyes he made him witness the death of his sons, tlio last picture that should remain on the brain of the miserable monarch as he languished to death in prison. Tho royal treas uries and the temple furnishings were carried with the captives to Babylon. Even the Ark of the Cove nant disappears from his story at this time. The fierceness and the duration of this siege of Jerusalem and the com pleteness of its destruction are pic tured only in a few bold strokes by the Scriptures. Simplicity character izes this book, which alwavs sug gests more than it tells, thus becom ing the world's, greatest treasure house of Ideas. Pages and volumes of description could be written have be#n written—upon the fall of Jerusalem. But the bare narraitve is enough for the purpose of showing that "there is a way that seemeth right to man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." "The wreck of Judnh Is the picture l of the wreck of a lost soul. It Is hard to believe that physical beauty, mental attractiveness, and natural grace of youth can change into loathsomeness because there is asso ciated with these things no love of God. Yet Jerusalem, a city won drously beautiful, became a desola tion, an astonishment, a hissing and a curse. Sin enticing in its begin nlngs always Issues In repulsiveness and death. 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