Vii I- OTITP Ht MAC TOLD IN SHORT ORDER Heading. Clinton F. Kuhns, aged thirty-five yours, a farmer living In Lower Alsace, sustained lujurles lu a runaway ucciduut which caused uta death a half hour later. York. Miss A. L. Gardner has do nated one acre ot grouud to the city adjoining tho Farquhur Park. The new plot will make a direct opening to Madison avenue. Alletitown. Notice has been posted ut the Adeluldo Silk Mills, the largest llk plant In Pennsylvania, o a re duction iu wanes alter Jauuary 1 of from llfteen per ceut. to twenty per cent. Stonersville. Reuben V. Reluhart, eighty-four years old, the oldest real dent of town, was found dead in bed at the home of his Sl.ii, Junius, lie was the father of fourteen sous, of whom only one survives. York. Judge V. H. Winner, of the United States District Court, has re appointed J. Edward Vanderslooi referee in bankruptcy tor York coun ty. This Is Mr. Vundersloot's third term. Shenandoah The Schuylkill Couu ty Commissioners offered a reward of $200 for the arrest and conviction of the uurty or parties who murdered William Lluderinuth. a prominent citizen and a (ire boss at St. Nicholas' Colliery, while he was on his way home utter shopping here October 18. Pottsville. Clerk of the Courts, James McElhc-uney, who decided that Judge Reditu! should pay the costs ot the paper book In' the appeal of bU election case to the Superior.-Court, was reversed by Judge Shay, who de cided that Judge Uechtel Is uot com pelled to pay these costs. Mahanoy City. Tugging to remove a small piece of sharp coal, Martin Patruku, twenty-three years old, lost bis balance and pitched headlong 200 feet to his death at Tunnel Ridge col liery. In his fall his foot caught In the timbers and was torn off. Bethlehem. Arthur M. Black, of Providence, It. I., was trapped here by United States Secret Service Agent Fred Tate, of Philadelphia, on tho charge of munitieiudii)g as a detective In the employ ot the government. Black's scheme is said to have been to defraud hotel keepers. Pittsburgh. State Senator David A. Wilbert Is seriously ill at his home In lluzlewood and his friends have giave doubts fur his recovery. Senator Wil bert U suffering from a serious affec tion of the heart, and has been con fined to bis bed for about two weeks. Senator Wilbert has served eight years in the Pennsylvania State Sen ate, and has b?en very active in poli tics for many years. Pittsburgh. The Coal Mining In stitute of America, held a two days' session here. A. W. Calloway, of Punxatawney, Pa., was elected presi dent to succeed Samuel A. Taylor, of Pittsburgh. Laws relating to the operation of coal mines; employment of child labor and the many accidents in mines from slate falls were sub jects discussed by the 100 delegates. Pittsburgh. The w ill of Thoma3 N. Miller, the man who induced AnJrew Carnegie to enter the steel industry and who was his first business part I nor. was filed for probate here, Mr. Miller having been burled yesterday. It provides small bequests for a num ber of near lelatives and his house keeper and the remainder is left to the Woman's Hospital of Pittsburgh, founded by his wife. The estimated value of the estate is $2,000,000. Scranton. The young man arrested near Montrose, Susquehanna county, on suspicion ot being John Donato, the fugitive wanted for the quadruple murder near Troy, X. Y., says he is Morgan J. Williams, of !)'9 South Main avenue, this city, and that he Is Welsh, not Italian. Inquiry at the Williams home brings Information that the son. Morgan J., has been missiu;; since December 12. Ho an Bweis tho description of the youth under arrest iu Montrose. Gettysburg. Overlooking the spot where Abraham Lincoln made his famous Gettysburg address, a uunin mont im moralizing the martyr Presi dent and his speech here Is in course of erection In the national ci motery. is T Rhode Island grutut'.1 nnd bronze, of an The memorial is in the form exedru, with three ma.-.sive pedestals, one tit each er.d and one In tho center, with a bronze bu.-.t )f Lin coln to be placed on the center pedestal. Two bronze tablet, one I conlairing tho Gettysburg address, j are being placed on either side. It is I expected to have all the woilt com- j pleted within tho next few weeks. The c kt of the monument w ill be about $.1,000 and will be met by an ap propriation made by Congress some years ago. Altoona. Plans are being made to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the meeting of the loyal war Gov ernors In Altoona on September 24 and 25, 1SH2, and one of tho features will be an address by a prominent speaker. Catasauqtm. After having served continually as president o' the South wark Hose Company since 1ST3, David Davis, f irmer Recorder of Deeds of Lehigh County, retired, declining re election, lie was elected honorary president of the company and ex empted from dues for life. Rending. F.H, eighteen-yenr-old son of Frtliik Hart man, of Hoyertown, died of tetanus. The young Mil became 111 on December 14. nnd was lingering for three days when the physician noticed that symptoms of tetanus were developing. Two doctors mad" a thorough examination for wound--upon his person and there was foiiii to be ii'j history of any oil the entlr. body. The young ' man siifl'ere excruciating pain at short Intervals and the physicians were about to ad minister antitoxin when b expiree' In tV''r tire'-e'nco. H si j i- L i,ii --nt m - i' .?:w!r'w.,.. ..v, ..IB 11 f " 1 - J 1er . ,At ! t j ' m'" "f""" ' I "iZ. " -?'JLTL .- ill irraitTiT-M-l ' "i T ' ' r " .... 1 ' I wurll -. -- - - At -A. mriAr - x, is'- t r RKSHT, the city from which 4,000 Russians marched on Teheran to demand the dismissal of Treasurer-General Shunter. Is the capital of the Persian provlnco of Gnllan and Is sixteen mlleg from Enzell. on the Caspian sea. FINDS BABY WAIF Daughter of New York Banker Discovers Bundle on Steps. Child Thought Cries Were Those of Kitten Is Anxious . to Claim Ownership of Orphan De serted by Mother. New York. Ilrlght and early one morning little Rosemary Holllster, the eight-year-old daughter of Gcoree T. Holllster, banker. 107 Fast Sixty ninth street, raced breathlessly down stairs to the Uleplione and cal'.ed up Hellevue hospital. She could hardly wnlt for the con nection to be made, nnd then, with an eager catch In her voice, aslted: "How Is my baby today?" Delight radiated over her features ns she heard that the baby had slept soundly In the infants' ward. "Thank you;' I'm so glad," said lit tlo Kosemary. "You will be sure to take good care of her." she Implored. "And may I come to see It today? Yes? Oh. goody, goody." and she hum? up the receiver and raced about the house, hurrying mother, hurrying the governess, hurrying the conk, hurrying everybody, so that she might h off to the hospital as soon as pos sible to see the baby, and. maybe, hold It In her arms once more, as she did for the first time the other after noon. Little Rosemary found her baby Just like In the fairy book. This lit tle girl Is not like most rich little girls, but Is a sweet little home-body, and Is a great friend of the cook. One afternoon, when It was rain ing so bard that a little girl couldn't be In the park anyway, she went down Into the kitchen and stood watching the cook baste the roast. Suddenly, when the wind died down a little, there came the funniest little noise from right outside the window. "Oh. cook, what Is that sound?" ssked little Rosemary The cook didn't know, but thought It might be a little, stray pussy asking for shel ter Rosomnry rnn to the door and threw U w ide open "Come, pussy; come, pussy." called little RoBemary. but she didn't see anything So she pr.ked tier neaa through the door, not minding the rain, and there: on the mat, she saw a tiny little bundle. And there came again the funny little sound and the little bundle moved Little Rosemary Says She Was Humiliated Mew York Court Awards Woman $250 for Injured Feelings at Bathhouse. Albany, N. Y. The court of np pcala has decided that a woman who Is ejected from a Coney lulnnd bath Ins establishment after she has paid the price of admission Is entitled to recover damages lor the Indignity and wounded feelings suffered by , her when the was ejected The court nc rordlngly allirnis a verdict of t'-MO In a hull brnnjiht by Aiin S Aaron against William .1 Ward The' opinion In the case, written by Chief Justice Cullen. states that the llaiuMT. Intending to tak? a hith In the surf, bought a ticket rrom Hie do fondant's employ" for 25 cents, nnd t ok her position In a line of the de fendant's patrt-ns leading to a win J.!w nt which the ticket entitled her to receive a key lo a bathhouse. When she approached tha window u dispute arose between her nnd tb State Will Own Reelfoot Disputed Property Which Was the Scene of a Tennessee Tragedy to Ba Disposed Of. "The state of Tennessee Is going to buy Reelfoot lake nnd convert It Into r reservation for the pleasure and bonetlt of tho people." said K. J ftrayir of Memphis, according to the liiiltlmore American. Reelfoot lake, you will remember, wn? not long ago the Bceno of a trng-dy of nation wide iuto.cst. It Is a body of water In Obion county, in northwthtern Tennessee, not far from tho Kentmky llao. some thirty miles long and In parts live to ten tulles wide. The lake was not In existence priot to the Lisbon earthquake of ISM, and Is believed to have originated In the lelsnile disturbance Tlio years came and went and the farmer folk of t,io surrounding country went to tne tu Le to take out b;;ss, perch, pike and oilier eafih'.e fish, with whi-h Its wwteis ucuied. The Idea that there HEADQUARTERS OF RUSSIANS IN picked up the bundle and ran back to the kitchen with It. Reside tho varm stove she opened It and there wis the cutest little baby, dressed In a while silk dress, silk cap and veil. And the baby had the loveliest black lialr, nnd the cutest big. blue eyes, nnd It cooed nnd gurgled ns the warmlii reached Its little body. The cook said It couldn't tie more .tlinn a month old. Little Rosemary clarped her bnnds with glee and ran upstairs to the re certlon hall shouting: "Mamma! Mamma! Come quirk! Somebody's brought us a baby!" All over the house they henrd Rose mary's cry, and all came running to be kitchen Mrs. Hoillsetr, Mr. Hol llster. Sisters Dorothy and Cntharlne, the butler, the footman anil all the servants They formed a ring around the little baby, and Rosemary and nil laughed as the little wnlf caught Rosemary's finger In Its chubby little hand and cooed some more So they let Rosemary feed the baby with a spoon, while papa and mamma went upstairs to talk It over. Tretty soon Rosemary went up stairs again to find out If she could keep her baby, and as she passed Loses Fortune and Wife Callfornlan Reduced to Poverty, Due to Discharging Debts, Is Sued for Divorce. San Francisco. From the htgnost position In the commercial and fi'ian cial world to a condition of penury where he Is compelled to rook his own meals In a cheap lodging house that ha may be able to conserve his money to keep up his appearance before hit former associates, Hnrry Sherwood, formerly general manager of the Sper ry Milling company nnd vice president of the San Francisco Merchants' ex change, Is being sued by his wife for maintenance. Disheartened and broken nnd suffer Ing from a complication of physlcn' ills, Sherwood was In court and told the story of his downfall, the more pill nble because It Is apparently due to no . ' - i.i. i '. Mrs. Sherwood has been living on a homestead near Georgetown, El Dora do county, given to her by Sherwood wh.'n the left hira two years ago, be saj.i. defendant's employes as to the right of another person not in the line ,to have a ticket given to him In ad vance of her. As a result tho plaintiff was ejected from the promises, and the defendant's ngents refused to fur nish her with the accommodations to which she was entitled by her ticket. rpiiii the trial the deicnduiit con tended lhat the plaintiff was not en titled to recover more than thp price rf her ticket, and It Is tills question that Is considered by the rourt of appeals The plaintiff sued for breach of coniract and tho defendant insisted on t hnt ground that she was not entitled to damages for the In dicnliy of her expulsion In affirming the judgment .'or the plaintiff, the court says that the bathing estab lishment stands on the same footing as a place of amusement, and that one ejected Is entitled to damages for humiliation and Indignity. He who stalls In the hack Is never any good In a stand-up fight. was any private ownership wns never given a thought; It wns ns free as the sir of the heavens and any man who wlllodfo fish could help himself. "Hut there came a change. Shrewd lawyers hunted up the heirs of the owners of the land prior to the time it had been covered by water. There were still headlands nnd Jutting points bv which the old surveys could be s uht!Uiilnted. The courts confirmed tho titles thus (stnlillshed nnd so the lake came Into possession of aliens, who have purchased tho property for a song. The owners, seeing a chance for revenue. Usuod notices that public fishing must cense, nnd those who continued lo tako fish must pay for the privilege. This edict created a furor of Indignation on tho part of the people of the locality. Their fath eis before thorn had taken fish nt their pleasure and no mercenary Vlt hinder could uonio in and ibatigo tho old order. "So they laughed the notice PERSIA the vestibule she saw a girl, not mor thnn twenty, wearing a fur coat and black beaver hnt. peeping In throtigt the glass door, and there was an anxious look In her eyes. Rosemary rnn to the door, opened It, and asked: "Are you looking for a baby?" "No. my dear, I am waiting for n friend." answered the young woman, but there was a calch In her voice as she said It. Then she ran away. Then came a big policeman In a rubber coat lo take the bahy away. Rosemary cried as though her heart would break, but finally she kissed the baby good by nnd b'l the police man tako it when r.o promised to sniggle It under his rubber coat so It wouldn't get wet. Peg Leg His Pocketbook. Hot Springs, Ark. As ballast for hla wooden leg Harry Hlnton. when arros'ed. was found lo have a cavity In th-j wood completely filled with nickels, dimes and quarters, thp amount being more thnn $10. When taken to the s;utlon Hlnton readily submitted to a senrch, but when ordered to do so, refused to per mit his wooden leg to he removed This was. however, done by force, and the entire limb was found to be hollow and literally stuffed wLb small change. "That's my pocketbook." grinned the fellow, when asked about It. Sherwood brought action for divorce but when Mrs. Sherwood asked for a change of venue be asked that the suit be dismissed, for be bad not the mentis to contest the application. Then .Mrs Sherwood tiled an action for maintenance In El Dorado county The former associates of Sherwood .-av he was known as a man of the highest business Integrity, who dis charged every Just and some unjust ihilgations He is obviously a man of the finest sensibilities, and his unwil ling discussion of his misfortunes was is sad a recital as human misery could qlve rise to. It was the storyi of a proud man brought almost to dekpera Hen It was he story of n man proud of his reputation for business Integ rlty reduced nearly to penury. It was the story of a man proud of having contributed to 35 years of wedded hup plness, during which seven children were reared and married, draitgcd Into the humiliating llmellnht of tho divorce courts It wns the story of a man. proud of a vigorous body and mind, rc duccd to mental and physical distress PLAY BRIDGE TO SAVE GIRL Chicago Society Women Raised $330 for an Unfortunate Who Was Disowned by Father. Chicago. Prldge whist wns plned by IIOO society women the other day for the hetielit of a girl of the tdums the Identity of whom none' of lliein knew. The girl's reclamation had been already begun by (he TauIlM Father? The money raised, about $300. will he turned Into the fund to complete the reformation. The girl, who Is now njpeleen. Is said to have fallen In love two years m;o while attending a convent. She ran away from tchool nnd was mar rlod. Hr father, said to be a rich contractor, disowned her She was de sorted six months after her mairlnpe unit her father refused to take her hack. After efforts In other directions she gradually drifted Into the underworld She becnnie a victim of drugs and Dually told her story to Father Ferry He had her placed In a sanitarium whore she has been cured of the drug bal.it. scorn, fished as of yore and the trou ble srose. Judge Rankin and Judge Taylor, two well known and high class lawyers, wont Into the Reelfoot country to enforce the decree against poaching on behulf of their clients. A mob formed, seized both men In their hotels, killed .Rankin, and would have killed Taylor, who mndo a miraculous escape from the frenzied lynchers That, however, Is a matter of his tory. The stute of Tennessee will henceforth possess the disputed prop erty and no further troubles can nrl.-e " Hla Worry. "Clarence," said the American heiress hesitatingly. "1 think that you should he told nt once how my fathsr mtule his money. Our business men In this country have methods which to one of your puro soul, whose motto Is 'Noblesse oblige,' cannot but " "Cense, Mamie, cease," said the young lord reassuringly, "tell me no more However ho made his millions I can forgive, for your sa'te Hut er has he still got them ull right?" to j LuuUou Globe. PLAYERS MUST KEEP S03ER Connie Mack? Manager of Champion Athletics, Says Ball Toners Cannot Play and Drink. The following statement by Connie Mack, manager of the American U-ague baseball club of Philadelphia (tho "Atbloilos"). which last teason won the largest percentage of games iu the American league, Is of special Interest. It Is taken from a personal letter to the seoretnryof the Scien tific Temperance Federation replying to an Inquiry as to the customs or re quirements concerning drink among bmoball players. "There has been a groat change In baseball during the past fifteen years. This has been due In a great measure lo the class of men who are now ma king up baseball teams. In former years, pluyers did not roeefve very high salaries, and naturally we did not get the class of players whom we are getting today, as the salaries are now very high, and we huve in our profession. I might say fully 50 per cent, of college players. The balance of our players, with a very few ex ceptions, are well-educated men Al coholism Is practically eliminated from baobnll. For Instance, I have (wenty livo players. Of thut number. I llfteen don't know the taste of II- i tpiors. The few remaining, may. pos- I slhly. nftor a game of ball, take a glass of beer. They do not make a j practlco of this. Neither do we re strict thtm from doing so If they de sire. They know that we do not ap prove of their drinking, and the posi tions that they hold, nnd the salary tl.at they rocolve keep them from any such thought as becoming accustomed to drink I often get Into an argu ment caused by remarks that such and such a player had been seen tak ing a glss of beer. There Is no class of professional men that is watched so closely as tha baseball players. If seen taking a drink, a rumor Is Im mediately started that the player was teen drunk last night. This travels very swiftly and Is a great Injustice to the player, who would not under any circumstances take the second drink. I have had so many argu .nents that I usually put the matter In this way: Take twenty-five from the baseball profession, and the same number from any bank or brokerage house, and you will find that the per centile using Intoxicating liquors Is far greater with the latter I actually believe that In Jive years from this date at lerst 90 per cent, of the play ers will be strictly temperate." Sun day School Time. USE OF ALCOHOL DELUSIVE instead of Quickening Action of Brain Liquor Has Tendency to Retard It Few Experiments. Dr. Kraepelln of the Heidelberg University, has mndo extensive ex periments to determine the effect of alcohol upon brain action. He found that while the simple, automatic ac tions of the brain, such as reading aloud, were at llrst quickened by a small dose of alcohol, even these were rendered less trustworthy and accu rate, lie also found that processes Involving no more complex action than adding figures rapidly, or of performing problems In mental ar ithmetic, were hindered by even small doses of alcohol The re sult of these experiments came as a surprise to ur. iraepeun nun self, who had hitherto shared the popular belief that small doses of al cohol quickened the activity of his mind Hut when he came to measure with his unerring instruments the ex act time occupied, he found to his as tonishment thut more time wns re quired to perform theso operations than when ho did not use aho'iol though It seemed to him that the brain was noting more rapidly Siml lar experiments were tried upon oth ers, the snme results being gained In every Instance And, singularly enough, each one felt, when under the influence of alcohol, that be was do Ing hotter and more rapid work though tho tabulated results showed the reverse to be true Such Is ever the delusive effect of alcohol; and the delusion Is ns real as In those Inci dents mentioned nt the beginning of this article This effect Is not peculiar to alco hol. "The ordinary anesthetics used In surgery, as chloroform nnd ether." says Sir Victor Horseley. "make the patient feel thnt he possesses great muscular Btrength, and feels himself to bo maMng powerful efforts, which In reality are not In any way super human." ALCOHOL THE GREAT ENEMY Word of Warning Worth Heeding by Misguided Advocates of "True" Temperance Among Children. Noting the attempts of some advo cates of the drlnlt truffle in England to establish there the German beer garden and continental cafe, as a bet ter environment for social and fam ily drinking, Dr. Hereed of Lausanne, the tmlnont Swiss statistician, has this to tay of continental alcoholism: "It si ems difficult for one who knows the lncts to pretend that the Germau beer garden la the temple of peace which some ot its advocates In England be lieve It to be. . . . It would be a very foolish policy for England to try to Import the drinking customs which nil social reformers on the continent nre earnestly endeavoring to discour age. ... All who know the situa tion, not only in Switzerland, but on the continent as a whole; can only say: "It Is only too true; alcoholism is our great enemy." This word of wornlng Is worth heeding by the mis guided advocates of "true" temper ance, who would have children taught "to drink strong drink moderately umld rellned suroundingB." Message of Amos Is Needed Today By Rev. Henry A. Stimson, D. D., Pastor of Manhattan Congrega tional Church, Nw York. . , . . It was In the days of King Aniaziah of Judah and of Jerobam II. In Sa maria. These were both long and prosperous reigns In the middle of the eighth century before Christ. They were times of great luxury connected with the rapid growth of the two cap ital cities Jerusalem and Samaria. The old religious habits had been largely set asld by the Incoming of foreigners. The displacing of religion In the court had made wordllnoss fashionable, and with entire light loartedness the people had given .hemselves up to the pursuit ol plea ire and of wealth. Amos was a herdsman of small des rt sheep on the hills of Judah. some lozen miles to the south of Jerusalem. He describes himself as a "plncher of slid figs," which evidently he gather ed from time to time to supplement 5y thplr sale the small earnings of his poor flock. Alnne with his flock he had befors als eyes many a reinlndT of the Ood Df his fathers who had brought them J Dut of Egypt and. delivering them I from the wilderness, had led them I icross tho Jordan ami had given them i the promise of this land as their abld Ine Inheritance. And now God was ' .. .... U.A forgotten, anu m u. oie .,uU Into the ways of the heathen. ! AS from time to time ne wont (town to the town to sell his fleeces or his figs he was overwhelmed wun wnai he saw. Communing alone with God. the message of prophecy was given to him. It 'consists of three short ad dresses. The first pronounced the judgment of Jehovah upon the na tions, the second his Judgment upon his own people, warning them that he cause he hail known them and loved them, therefore he would visit them In chastisement. In the Cilrd. con taining our text, he warns them of their danger, exhorts them to return to Jehovah and recalls bis vision of the bios In trie i !ossednss that Is awaiting them distant future. "Bring your offerings." he says. "Keep your fasts, be followers of Je hovah In name God Is not deceived by hypocrisy. Religion Is character; he sees through your shams: he knows the perversion of your hearts. They that lie In beds of Ivory and stretch themselves on beds and couch es; that eat lnmbs out of the flock and sing Idb songs to the sound ol the viol; that drink wine In bowls and anoint thomselves with chief oils, and are not grieved with the alTlctlori Of Joseph, thev shall go Into captivi ty; their revelries shall pass away, for the Lord abhors the excellency of Jacob, and their houses shall be smlt ten." In his distress over the people he cries unto the Lord: "Oh. Lord Je hovah, forgive. I beseech thee, ana . fe ..Th(J cnurch tg all army 0n duty, he has a vision of the turning away I an arn)jr for tho christian conquest of of the divine Judgment. Then comes he worl(i by lov),g faithfulness." the text. The Lord stands with the Tj,ere nre great tvils to bu driven out plumb line In his hand and the plumb of our counlrv. ti, whole land Is wak line becomes the graphic figure of the . to roillze the need of civic right- llnal word or uod to ins people. So the plumb line was given to the prophet as the message to his people. We rejoice as we apply this test to the Christianity of today. Let us see what its word Is to us l.et us look first to the gospel that we have to preach. That npver was more distinctive than It Is now as the gospel of Jesus Christ. We have gone through the period In which under the Influence of the wonderful discoveries of science, rationalistic unbelief has swept over the land and turned many away from Jesus Christ. Hut that day was long passed and has been followed by another, In which men have been trying to find an acceptable substitute for Jesus Christ. They have been running here and there after any form of religion, or of worship that claimed to be new; now thought, or new philosophy, or now revelations, whether coming In tho name of some mystery of Persia or India, or some device masking as re ligion or science from RoHton. But nion already have found not only that they cannot live without religion, but that today no religion will satisfy a man other than that which reveals God. We have come back to the religion of the supornativ.-ul, of the miracles, and of the resurrection; In short, to tho religion of the crucified and risen Christ. Wo ninst have a religion that fits the facts of human existence. The Christian church also, however much It may have erred In the past. Is aiming to produce the Image of Christ In j men. It accepts the chal lenge to be a promoter of human wel fare, and In a very social way, but that Is not Its ultimate aim; Its aim always Is to make better men, and It cever was true, what has beta so often charged against It, that It Is so busy saving souls that It has not time to save men. Rather by means of Baving souls It has been sure that It was saving men, and everywhere to day the world Is awakening to see that it Is the gospel rather than com merce or education, or the refinement or cultured society, which is changing the world. Never Far 'om God. And Christ hns saiu. "Lo, I am with you always:" and that Is enough. For a Christian to "feel far 'away from God" Is to feel what Is not so. Such a feeling Is Indeed human, ns so many other misleading emotions nnd untrue thoughts are human: but the blessed fact Is that God never, leaves us, .even when we think he has done so or ought to do so His love Is greater than our Bin He never deserts even us deserters Let us gladly ester Into tho full consciousness of his jlorfoim and undefentable presence. Let Satan never again close our eyes to the presence of our Indwelling Lord. The Sunday School Times. Mmational SUKTSOIOOL Lesson LESSOR FOR DECEMBER 31 'REVIEW. OOLDEN TEXT-"If we contest ouf Ins, tin Is faithful and Just to forglvs us nur slna, and to clttansa us frum all un riuhteouanuss." I John l.. To go over all the leBsons separate ,y, one after' another, to repeat titles ind Golden Texts In order, to select certain truths we have learned this ;s not review. What we, need Is the movement of the whole period of the listory, to study Its meaning, to what It s leading, how each event, each charac :er, bears upon this end, to holp or to nlniler, to see God In the history, and :o learn the lessons the whole period teaches us. Reviewing is looking backward from ?omo tower or hlllton, over the land scape through which we have been '.raveling. The hills, tho valleys, the :ltles, the vlllnges, the forests, the for 'Ho fields, we have been seeing In de :all through the quarter we now see as me broad country, and we understand the meonlng and power of the land as i whole. , The principal countries where the ;vcnts took place should be noted on :be map, their relations lo one anota r, tho modern names of these lands I ;lvcn, and the events In each reported. ! "' flie lilble history Is made more real, jnJ U)0re ,ntere(it!nR wnon tlle rnn. emporary events Df secular hhitory rnnneetert with It tnlnli. it.iv (,,ool w)th Sum,ay Hrllo'olt Aml 0rl(. :he secular history throws light upon he Biblical history. The monuments, he remains of ancient times found in :he( ruins of their great cities within :he last century, add greatly to our knowledge and Interest. The history we are reviewing nnt irally falls Into four eras or periods. (1) The two streams of the divide 1 llngdom. (2) Tho sltig'e stream of Ju iah. (3, The Exile. (4) The Return led Restoration. I. F'rst Period. The Divided King dom. Judnh and Israel side by side, a joubli? experiment In the progress of '.he klt.gdom of God. This period ex tended Iroin 982-722. about MO years, ludah's territory contained about 3.400 square miles; Israel's 9,401. Judah'a :apltal was Jerusalem with Its tem ples; Israel's was Samaria, with two renters of false worship. Judah was more sheltered than Israel from close jontact with the heathen, both politi cally and religiously. Judah had mn dynasty of 11 kings and or.e queen, all Df the house of David; and Israel 11) kings and 9 dynasties. Judah bad several very good kirg, nnd grea' revivals of religion' and reforms of morals; while In Israel from the first was a deteiloratlon of varying de- Rre8S wU!) grea llel from Klijall anj Cllsha. The principles we have been study ing apply to our own times, but are worked out In ways adapted to modern eousness. mere is aiways m- m awakenirg new reforming zeal. For every step 'we gain gives us views of new needs, and new M-'als. Every Christian land ought to ho a perfect ex ample of the kingdom of God, nnd of Ihe blessings thnt abound In It. Every failure to live that life lessens Its In fluence over tho heathen nations. II. Second Period. Judah the Sole Kingdom. Length of Period, 13G years -from destruction of Samaria 722 to dual fail of Jerusalem and destruction if the temple In 58G. Every failure from the perfect life, every moral wrong, every fall Into Idolatry, dimin ished their power for good; and It was uecessnry that punishment should fol low such conduct, both to persuade them Into the ways of God and right eousness, nnd also to show the heath en that only obedience to God could lend to the blessings prepared for Gods people. HI Third Period. The Exile in Ihiby lon. Length of period, 70 years, Co:. nnd ESti 5 if!. A period of discipline, of sifting like wheat, of the refiner purifying lire. Tho Jews learned IUI' ueed of Cod. the value of religion, the blcssctiues-i -if the Word of God; they gained the broadening of their Ideas, and sympa thies tho Increase of their culture. Discipline, purifying In the furnace, the strength thnt comes from overcom ing, is the need ot all Individuals and churches today. IV. Tho Fourth Period. The Return. The New Spiritual Nation. This pe riod extends from the first return in f,;iii to the close of the Itlble history, . i 100 with an onward vision to tno com ing of Christ. Preparations for the coming of Christ. The forerunner. God's Way. "Give me to drink." John 4:7. Through what little things Ood ac complishes his wondrous works. "Give me to drink;" what a little word, an I yet note what God built upon It; tho conversion of one guilty soul, and through her.the drawing of multitudes to hear thf words of life from the Savior's own lips! How wonderful and yet how different from us. To accomplish great ends we use great means. God dees exactly the reverse. And why? Ilecause our ends are ac complished by tho mentis we use. God's are not. And what is God s ob ject In this? That we should mark not the visible end. but the Invisible; not the process, but the hand that W working; not the things seen ami temporal, but the mighty Worker un seen and eternal. As creatures ot SPIlRe we are arrested by the vlslbh ends. God would have us sco, not tlcu. but him; and therefore ho works by tho weakest means in order that, by observing the great disproportion between the means and tUa end, w may recosnlze his baud.
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