THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURQ, PA.
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The Real
Adventure
A NOVEL
By
Henrr Kltchell Webster
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CHAPTER XIV Continued.
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"Vou won't even give mo the poor
satisfaction of knowing what you're
doing," he Raid.
"I'd love to," she mild, "to be oMe to
write to you, hour from you every tlsty.
Hut I don't believe you want to know.
I think It would be too hard for you.
Because you'd have to promise not to
try to get me back not to come und
rescue me If I got Into trouble and
things went badly and I didn't know
where to turn. Could you promise
that, Roddy?"
Fie gnve a gronn and buried his fucc
In his bands. Thou:
"No," he Bald furiously. "Of course
I couldn't. See you Buffering and
stand by with my hands In my pockets
and watch 1" Ho sprung up and seized
her by the arms in u grip that actually
left bruises, and fairly Bhook her In the
agony of his entreaty. "Tell me it's a
nightmare, Rose," ho said. "Tell me it
Isn't true. Wuke me up out of It."
lint under the Indomitable resolution
of her blue eyes he turned away. This
was the lust appeal of that sort that
he made.
"I'll promise," she said presently, "to
be sensible not to take -any risks I
don't huve to take. I'll regurd my life,
and my health and all, as something
I'm keeping in trust for you. I'll take
plenty of warm, sensible clothes when
I go; lots of shoes and stockings
things like that; und, if you'll let me
I'll borrow a hundred dollurs to start
myself off with. It isn't a trogedy,
Itoddy not that part of It You
wouldn't be n frit id for anyone else as
tig and strong and healthy as I."
Graduully, out of a welter of scenes
like that, the thing got Itself recog
nized as something that was to happen.
But the parting cume at last In a little
different way from any they had f tire
seen. Ilodney came home from his ofllce
. early one afternoon, with a telegram
thnt summoned him to New York to a
onferenee of counsel In a big public
utility case he hod been working on
for months. He must leave; If he were
Kolng at all, at Ave o'clock. He rnn
siicked the house, vainly ut first, for
Hose, and found her at Inst In the
Irunk room dusty, disheveled, sobbing
quietly over something she hugged in
tier arms. But she dried her eyes and
came over to him and asked him what
It was that had brought him home so
early.
i lie showed her the telegram. "I'll
have to leave In an hour," he said,
Mhe puled at that, and sat down
ralTier giddily on the trunk. "You
must go," she suld, "of course. And
Roddy, I guess that'll be the easiest
way. I'll get my telegram tonight
pretend to get It from I'ortlu. And
you can give me the. hundred dollars,
and then, when you come buck, I'll be
gone."
The thing she had been holding In
her hands slipped to the floor. He
etooned and picked It up stared at It
with a sort of half-wakened recogni
tion. "I f-found It," she explained, "among
some old things Portia sent over when
she moved. Do you know what It Is?
It's one of the notebooks that got wet
thut first night when we were put oft
the street car. And Roddy, look !"
She opened It tfc nn almost blank
page, and with a weak little luugh
Hlntcd to the thing thut was written
there: "March 15. lt12 1"
"Your birthday, you see, and the day
me met each other."
And then, down below, the onry note
she hud mmle during the wholo of thut
lecture, he read: "Never murry a ninn
with u passion for principles."
"Thnt's the trouble wltli-us, you see,"
she said. "If you were Just an ordi
nary man without any big passions or
'anything, It wouldn't matter much If
your life got spoiled. But with us,
you see, we've got to try for the big
gest thing there Is. Oh, Roddy, Roddy
darling! Hold me tight for just a
minute, and then I'll come and help
you puck."
CHAPTER XV.
ROSE ALDRICH LEAVES HER HUSBAND AND THE TWINS
AND GOES FORTH INTO THE UNKNOWN WORLD TO
MAKE A LIVING AND LEARN LIFE'S VALUES
SYNOPSIS. Hose Stanton, a young woman living In modest cir
cumstances, marries wealthy Rodney Aldrlch and for more than a
year lives In luxury and laxlness. This life disgusts her. She plane
to do something useful, but feels thut the profession of motherhood
Is big enough for any woman, and looks forward eagerly ta the birth
of her baby. She has twins, however, and their care Is taken entire
ly out of her hands by a professional nurse. Intense dissatisfaction
with the useless life of luxury returns to Rose. She determines to go
out and earn her living; to make good on her own hook. She and her
doting husband have some bitter scenes over the wife's "whim." What
she goes nnd does Is described in this Installment.
out upon from' her grimy window, the
difference between it and that which
she hud been wont to contemplute
through Florence McCrea's exquisitely
leaded casements was simply planet
ary. And yet, queerly enough, In terms of
literal llneul measurement, tho dis
tance between the windows themselves
wus.less thun a thousand yards. And,
such Is tho enormous soclul and splr
Ituul distance between North Clurk
street and The Drive, she wus as safely
hidden here, OS completely out of the
orbit of any of her friends, or even of
her friends' servants, us sbo could
have been In New York or Sun Frun
clsco. Of course, wherever she went, what
ever she did, thore'd always be the risk
that someone who could carry back
news to Rodney's friends would rec
ognize her. It was a risk that hud to
be taken. At the same time she'd
protect the secret as well as she could.
There were two people, though, It
couldn't be kept from Portia ami ijfr
mother. The story given out to Rod
nev's friends being that Rose was In
California with her mother and Portia,
left the chunce always open for some
contretemps which would lead to her
mother's discovering the truth In a sur
prising and shocking way.
But the truth Itself, confidently stat
ed, not as a tragic ending, but as the
splendid, hopeful beginning of a life of
truer happiness for Rose and nor nus
band, needn't be a shock. So this was
what Rose had borne down upon her
In her letter to Portia.
... I have found ths big thing couldn't
ha h! without a. flelit." she wrote. "You
shouldn't be surprised, because you've
probably found out for yourself that noth
ing worth having comes very easily. But
you're not to worry about me, nor be
afraid for me, because I'm going to win.
I'm making the fitflrt, somehow, for you
as well as for myself. I want you to
know that I think that realising I was
living your life as well as mine, is what
has given me the courage to start . . .
"I've got some plans, but I'm not going
to tell you what they ore. Hut I'll write
to you every week and tell you what I've
done, and I want you to write to Kodney.
I want to be sure that you understand
this: Kodney Isn't .to blame for what's
happened. We haven't quarreled, and I
believe we're further In love with each
other than we've ever been before. . I
know I am with him Break this
thing to mother as 'gently as you like, but
tell her everything before you stop
This letter written and dispatched,
she had worked out the details of her
departure with a good deal of care.
In her own house, before the servants,
she had tried to act Just as she would
have done hud her pretended telegram
really come from Portlu. Her bag was
packed, her trunk was gone, her motor
waiting at tho door to take her to the
station, when the maid Doris brought
the twins home from their airing. This
wusn't chunce, but preurrangement
"Give them to me," Rose said, "and
then you mny go up and tell Mrs.
Rustou she may have them in a few
minutes."
She took them Into her bedroom and
laid them side by side on her bed.
They had thriven finely Justified, so
opening from the street level up
on the foot of a broadlsh stulr
which took you up rather suddenly.
At tho heud of the stulrway, tilted
buck in a kitchen chair beneath a
slnglo gus Jet whose light he was try
ing to muko sufiice for the perusul of
a green newspuper, sat a man, under
orders, no doubt, to keep Intruders
away. Tho thing to do was to go
by as If, for such as she, watch
uion didn't exist The rhythmic pound
ing of feet and the frayed chords
from a worn-out piano, convinced her
she was In the right place.
Her stratagem succeeded. The man
glanced up and, though she felt he
didn't return to his paper again, ho
made no attempt to stop her. She
walked steadily ahead to another open
door at the far end of the room,
through which sounds and light came
In.
Rose paused for n steadying breath
before she went through that farther
door, her eyes sturry with resolution,
her cheeks, Just for the moment, a lit
tlo pale.
The room was hot and not well
lighted. In tho fnrther wall of It was
a proscenium arch nnd a raised stage.
On the stage, right and left, were two
Irregular groups of girls, with a few
men. awkwardly, Koso thought, aw
nosed among them. All were swaying
a little to mark the rhythm of tho niU'
sic ludustrlously pounded out by
sweaty young nmn at the piano a
swarthy, thick young man in n.s un
dortihlrt. There were a few more
people sprawled in different parte of
the hall.
It was all a little vague to her at
first, hpenuse her attention was fo
cused unon a single figure a compact,
ather slender, figure, and tall, Rose
loueht of a man In a bluo serge
it, who stood at the exact center of
e stage and tho extreme edge of the
totllchts. Ho was counting, aloud
.he bars of the music not beating
time at all, nor yielding to the rhythm
In any way: standing; on the contrary
rather tensely still. That was tho
quality about him, Indeed, that riveted
Rose's attention and held her, as still
as he was. In the doorway an ex
self, when she discovered she was go- hllarating sort of Intensity that had
ing to have to use that towel for a communicated Itself to the swaying
week nnd took nn annrulslng look at erouns on-the stage.
herself. Then she nodded confidently You could, tell from the way he
there was nothing the matter with her counted that something was gathering
looks and resumed her ulster, her itself up, getting ready to nuppen
rubbers, and her umbrella, for It was "Three . . . Four . . . l'lve
the kind of December day which called . . . Six . . . Seven Now I"
for nil three. Then, glowingly con- he shouted on the eightn Dar, nnu wuu
anions thnt sho wus saving a nickel by the word one of the groups trans
so doing, she set off downtown afoot formed itself. One of the men bowed
to get a Job. She meant to get It to one of tho girls and began waltzing
lowed a porter to carry her bag Into
the waiting room. There she tipped
the .porter, picked up the bag herself,
and walked out tho other door ; crossed
over to Clurk street and took a street
car. At Chicago avenue sho got off,
und walked north, keeping her eyes
open for plucards advertising rooms
to let. It was at the end of about hulf
a mile thut she found the hutchet
faced landlady, paid her three dollars,
nnd locked her door, as a symbol, per
haps, of the hlgger, heavier door that
she had lockvl upon her past life.
Strongest ttmong all the welter of
emotions boiling up within her, was a
perfectly enormous relief. The thing
which, when she had first faced It as
the only thoroughfare to the reul life
tho so passionately wanted, had
seemed such a veritable nightmare,
wns an accomplished fact. Tho week
of acute agony sho hnd lived through
while she was forcing her sudden res
olution upon Rodney had been all but
unendurable with tho enforced con
templation of the moment of pnrtln
which ,thcy brought so relentlessly
nearer." There had been a terror, too,
lest when the moment actually came,
she couldn't do It Well, and ndw It
hnd come and gone! The surgery of
the thing was over. ,
Rose dusted the mirror with a towel
a reckless act as she saw for her-
thut very afternoon. And, partly be-
cause she meant to so very definitely,
she did.
On the last Sundny before Rose went
away she nau stuuiea me uriunuuc
seetlon of the morning paper witn
The World Alone.
"Here's the first week's rent then,"
paid Rose, handing the landlady three
dolkirs, "and I think you'd better give
me a receipt showing till when It's
paid for."
The landlndy had tight gray hair
nnd a hard-bitten hatchet face. She
hnd no charms, one would have said,
of person, mind or manner. But It
wus nevertheless true thut Rose was
renting this room largely on the
strength of the landlady. She was so
much more humanly possible thun any
of the others at whose placarded doors
Rose hnd knocked or rung . . .1
Tho landlady went away to write out
a receipt. Rose closed the door after
her and locked It.
She didn't pnrtlculorly want to keep
anybody out. But, In a sense In which
It hnd never been quite true before.
this wns her room, a room whore any
one lacking her sneclfl; luvltatlon to
enter would be an Intruder a condl
tlon which had not obtained either In
her mother's houso or In Rodney's.
Sho smiled widely over the absurdity
of Indulging In a pleasurable feeling of
possession In a squalid little cubbyhole
like this. Tho wall paper was stained
and faded ; there was an Iron bed tho
mattress on the bed was lumpy. There
was a dingy-looking oak bureau with a
small mirror; u murble-topped black
walnut washstnnd and a pitcher stand
Ins In a bowl on top of It
Am tor the hurrying life she looked
ur as thut went Harriet's decision
In favor of bottle feeding. Had sho
died bnck there In that bed of pain,
never come out of the ether at all,
they'd sUU be Just like this plump,
nlticld. methodical. Rose had thougut
of thut u hundred times, but It wasn't
whnt she was thinking of now,
The . thing that caught her as she
was looking down on them, wns
wnve of sudden pity. She saw thera
sudenly us persons with the long road
all ahead of them, as a boy and a girl,
a youth .and a maid, a nmn and
woman.
She'd never thought of thera like
that before. The buby she had iooueu
forward to the baby she hadn't had
had never been thought of that way
either. It was to be something to pro-
lde her, Rose, with an occupation ; to
make nn aicnemic cnune m wo w
substance of her life. The transmuta
tion hadn't taken place. She surmised
now, dimly, thut she hadn't deserved
It should,
"You've never had a mother at
all, you poor little mites," she said,
"But you're going to have one some
day. You're going to be able to come
to her wfth your troubles, because
she'll have had troubles herself. She'll
help you hear your hurts, because
she's had hurts of her own., And
she'll be able to teach you to stand
the gaff, because she's stood It her
self.
For the first time since they were
born, she was thinking of their need
of her rather than of her need of them,
and with that thought came, for the
first time, the surge of passionate ma
ternal love that she had waited tor
so long In vain. There was, suddenly,
an Intolerable ache In her breast that
could only have been sntlsfled by crusn
Ing thera up against her breast; niss-
inir their hands their feet.
Rose stood there quivering, giuay
with the force of It "Oh, you dar
lings!" she said. "But wait wait un
til I deserve It 1" And, without touch
Ing them at all, she went to the door
nnd oncned It Mrs. Ruston nnd Doris
wer hoth' waiting In the hall
"I must co now," she said, "Good-by,
Keep thera carefully for me." Her
voice was steady, and, though her eyes
were bright, there was no trace of
tears upon her cheeks. But there was
a kind of elory shining In her face
thnt un too much for Doris, who
turned away and sobbed loudly. Even
Mrs itnston'8 eves were wet
"Good-by." snld Rose again, and
went down composedly enough to her
car.
She rode down to tho station, shook
hands with Otto, tho chauneur. at
TonTI have to wait Mil he's through
rehearsing." said the young man, and
then ho came over to Rose.
The vestiges of the smile the duch
ess hnd provoked were still visible
about her mouth when he came up.
"May I wait and see Mr. Oalbralth
after the rehearsal?" she asked. "If
I won't be In the way?"
"Sure," said the young man. "He
won't be long now. He's been rehears
ing since two." Then, rather explo
sively, "Have a chair."
Ho struck Rose as being a little
flustered and uncertain somehow.
It was a long hour that Rose sat
ttiere In a little folding chair an hour
that In spite of all her will could do,
took some of the crlspness ont of her
courugc.
When at last a little after six
o'clock, Oalbralth suld: "Quurtcr to
eight everybody," and dismissed thera
with a-nod for a curry to whut were
evidently dressing rooms at the other
side of tho bull, the ship of Rose's
hones had utterly gone to pieces. Sho
hud a plank to keep herself afloat on.
It was tho determination to stay there
until ho should tell her In so ranny
words that he hadn't any use for her.
The deprecatory young man was
talklug to hlni now, about her nnd the
duchess evidently, for he peered out
Into the hall, then vaulted down from
the stage and came toward them.
Tho duchess got up, and, with a
good deal of manner, went over to
meet him. Roso didn't hear whnt the
duchess suld. But when John Oal
bralth answered her, his voice easily
filled the room; "You toll Mr. I'lko,
If that's his nume, wo haven't any
vacancies In tho chorus at present If
we find we need you, we can let you
know."
Ho snld It not unkindly, but ho ex
ercised some power of making It evi
dent that as he finished speaking,
the duchess, for hlra, simply ceased to
exist Then, with disconcerting sud
denness, he looked straight at Roso
and said : "What do you want?"
She'd thought him tall, but he
wasn't He was looking on a perfect
level Into her eyes.
"I want a Job In the chorus," suld
Rose.
"You heard whnt I said to that oth
er woman, I suppose?"
"Yes," said Rose, "but ..."
"But you thought you'd let me say
It to you again."
"Yes," sho said. , And, queerly
enough, she felt her courage coming
back.
SDNWSfflOOL
Lesson
Director of
the Moody
(By E. O. SELLERS, Acting
the Sunday School Course ii
Bible Institute of Chicago.)
(Copyright, 117. Western Nwppr Union.)
LESSON FOR JULY 22
SENNACHERIB IN
JUDAH.
DAY8 OP
LEHSON TEXT II Kings 19:20-22, 28-3T.
GOLDEN TEXT God Is our refuge and
strength, a vory present help In trouble.
Psa. :L
with her ; another couplo formed, then
another.
Rose watched breathlessly, hoping
tho maneuver wouldn't go wrong for
no reason la tho world but thnt the
man there at the footlights was so
good deal of cure, und was rewarded tautly determined that It shouuiu t.
flndlnor nmonz the news notes Determination tnumpneu. i no oilm
an Item referring to a new musical her was concluded to John Gulbrulth's
evident satisfaction. "Very goon, ne
said. "If you'll nil do exactly wnat
you did that time from now on, 111
not compluln." Without pause ho went
"Everybody on the stage big
girls all the big girls I" And to tno
young man at the piano, "We'll do 'Af
ternoon Tea.' "
There was a momentary pause then,
filled with subdued chatter, while the
girls and men realigned themselves for
the new number.
Rose looked them over. The girls
weren't on on average, extravagantly
beautiful, though, with the ndded
charm of make-up allowed for, there
were, no doubt, many the audiences
would consider so. They were dressed
In pretty much anything that would
allow perfect freedom to their bodies,
especially their arms and legs; bath
ing suits mostly, or middy blouses nnd
bloomers. Rose noted this with satis
faction. Her old university gymna
sium costume would do perfectly. Any
thing, apparently, would do, because,
as her eye adjusted Itself to details.
sho discovered romper suits, plna
fores, chemises, overalls all equally
taken for granted.
Gnlhralth struck his hands together
for silence, and scrutinized the now
motionless group on the stage.
"We're one shy," he said, "who's
missing?" And then answered his own
nuestlon: "Grant!" He wheeled
around nnd his eyes senrched the hall
Rose became aware, for the first
time, that a mutter of conversation hnd
been going on Incessantly since she
had come In, In one of tho recessed
window seats behind her. Now when
Gulbrulth's gnzo plunged In that di
rection, sho turned and looked too,
A big blonde chorus girl was In there
with a mnn, a girl who, with twenty
Rose Aldrich's luck In hunting
a Job in the chorus of a musical
comedy and what happens after
ward is described with thrilling
emphasis in the next installment
i8p
He Was Counting Aloud the Bart of
the Music
comedy which was to be produced
at the Globe theater Immediately
after the Christmas holidays. "The
Girl Up-Stalrs" was the title of It It
wus spoken of as one of the regular
Globe production so it was probuble -,,,,,. trninnd off her. nnd that sulky
Jimmy Wallace's experience with the loolj out of uer ttCei wouid have been
production of an earlier number in me . hlirv Sne had roused herself with
series would at least give her some- ft Bort of ,ieflnnt deliberation at tho
thing to go by. B0Una 0f the director's voice, but she
Granted that she was going to be a stlli nnd her back to him and went on
chorus girl for a while, she could hard- talking to the mnn.
ly find a better pjnee than one 01 me 'Qrant 1" said John Galbralth again
Globe productions to be a chorus girl nn y, time his voice had a cuttlnj
In. According to Jimmy, It was a ae- edee wui you take your place on
cent enough little place, and yet It stage, or shall I suspend rehearsal
possessed the advantage or Deing, unm you're ready?"
spiritually, as wen as nctuatiy, west. or. For answer she turned and began
Clark street Rodney's friends were waikinir slowly across the room. She
less likely to go there, ana so nave a 8tarted walking slowly, but under cat-
chance of recognizing her, than to any bralth's eye she quickened her pace,
other theater In the city. Involuntarily, It seemed, until It wns a
The news Item In the paper told her ludicrous sort of run. Presently she
that the production was In rehearsal, emerged upon the stage, looking rath-
and It mentioned the name of the dlrec- er artificially unconcerned, and the re-
tor. John Galbralth, referring to him hear sal went on again,
as one of the three most prominent But Just before he gave the signal
musical-comedy directors In the conn- to the pianist to go ahead, Galbralth
try. with a nod summoned a young man
When she asked at the box omce at fr0m the wings and said something to
the Globe theater where they were re- him, whereupon, clearly carrying out
hearsing "Tho Girl Up-Stalrs" today, his orders, he vaulted down from the
the nicely manicured young man in- stage nnd came walking toward the
side answered automatically, "Worm doorway where Rose was still stand
End hall." Ing.
"rm sfrnld." said Rose, smiling a But he didn't come straight to her
uttip. "I'll have to ask where North he brought up before a woman sit-
End hall Is." ting In a folding chntr a little farther
NTt nt nil " snld the voune man alone the wall, who drew nerscir, ae-
Idiotically, and he told her the ad- fenslvely erect when she saw him turn
dress only a block or two from Rose's toward her, assumed a look of calculat
ed alsdnm, tappeu a 1001 bu-vc,
the whole, nn Imitation of a duchess
being kept waiting,
But the limp young mnn didn't seem
disconcerted, and Inquired in so many
words what her business was. The
duchess said In a harsh, high voice
that she wanted to see the director
a very particular friend of his had
room.
CHAPTER XVI.
The First Day.
With her umbrella over her shoul
der, Rose set sail northward again
through the rain, absurdly cheered,
ft, ntrnne to the North End hall
was a pair o white painted doors I begged her to do so.
FARM MElt
Cultivate for the Soldiers
Front " "l
1 VHU
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
SINGING CALLED LOST ART
i
It Is Now Confined Chiefly to Profes
sionals, Drunkards and Phono
graphs, Says Writer.
SInzlne. ns far as most people nre
concerned. Is a lost art. 1 Thousands
attend operas, recitals and musical
comedies, tens of thousnnds wind up
phonographs; but ns for singing them
selves Informally at their work or piny
they have forgotten how. In times
rmst neonle of nil ranks sang together
ns a matter of course. Sailors sang at
their work, peasants, shepherds, cow
boys all had their favorite and ap
propriate songs. The songs or can
dren at trnmes. the lullabies of moth
ers ore in the collected ballads and
folklore of many peoples, says the In
dlanapolls News.
"The pastimes nnd the labors of the
husbandman nnd the shepherd," says
Andrew Lane, "were long ago a kind
of natural opera. Each task had ns
own song; plowing, seeding, harvest,
burial all had their appropriate Dai
luds or dirges. The wholo soul of the
Dcasant class breathes in their bur
dens as tho great sea resounds In the
shell cast up on the shore."
Nowadays the whirl of machinery
makes all the noise. The workers in
mills might find It unsatisfying to sing
at their work, but It Is doubtful If they
would sing even If their voices could
be heard; while singing In an ofllce or
store would pretty surely be stoppeu
by the "boss" or the police. Thou
snnds congregate every night In the
silence of moving picture theaters, and
even In the churches where singing by
the congregation used to be customary
the attendants now usually listen in
silence to a puld singer.
Singing In this ago Is largely con
fined to tho professional performer,
drunken men nnd gramophones.
Crows Holding Their Own..
There has been hostility between the
farmers and the crows ever sltice there
were farmers In New England, but the
number of crows, so far as anyone
knows, has not decreased. They nre
efficient they are ablo to care for
themselves and nre likely to hold their
own. no matter how much the popuia
tlon may increase. More man mat,
desDlte the severity of winter, each
crow looks sloek and well-fed, perfect
ly at homo and contented with Its sur
roundings. The. English sparrows and
the starlings may seek shelter during
severe weather, but, no matter how
cold or stormy It may be, one finds
tha crow dolns business as usual. If
the quatl and ruffed grouse were as
hardy and Intelligent and possessed
with an equally catholic taste for food,
a whole volume of gnme laws might
be done away with.
0Utanra nf the Wind.
Tests on a model of the naval collfer
Neptune mndo In the wind tunnel of
the Washington navy yard by ivnvoi
Constructor William M'cEutee show
that If this vessel were steaming
against a 30-mile wind at 14 knots nn
hour It would require about 770 horse
power to overcome the resistance of
the wind. This Is about no per cent
of the power necessary to propel her
through the water.
Some Weather ftlgns.
A deep blue color of the sky, even
when seen through clouds, Indicates
fair weather; a growing whiteness, m
awroadung storm, , -
Last week's lesson was a great pic
ture of the reform of the nut Ion. To
day we have another picture which
needs to be curefully put before the
children. It Is a nntionul picture of a
uler nnd the invasion of his country.
In reality It reveals tho principles
which are the same today, and which
affect the lives of boys and girls as
well ns men ; the dangers, temptations,
the need of prayer, the need of a lire
of fallli In God, tho care of n heuvenly
futlier, dellverunce and victory. It Is
n grent thing for any nation or uny
Individual to have such a marvelous
experience of' God's salvation. It oc
curred probably B. C. 701, the latter
part of Ilezeklah's reign. Assyria on
the north wns enlarging its uoraeis
und seeking to overcome Judea. Read
parallel accounts In II Kings 18; U
Chron. 32 nnd Ixa. 30:37. We hnve on
the Taylor cylinder an account by Ken
natherlb of the victory over Hezekluh,
found in Nineveh In 1830 und now In
tho British museum.
I. The Situation. When the great
Saigon died at Nineveh, the Syrian
governments sought to assert their In
dependence. It wus a good time for
Ilezeklnh also to assert his Independ
ence. Accordingly they refused to pay
the customary tribute to Assyria, t or
a time Sennucherlb was too busy at
tending to other portions of the em
pire to pay much attention to tne city
of Jerusalem. Luter, however, ne sun
dned the cities on the coast and threat
cued I'gvpt Itself. While besieging
Lnklsh he sent a large body of troops
to cumiuer Judea and take the city or
Jerusalem for It was not safe to tene
such a large fortress behind him on
his inarch into Egypt.
II. The Supplication (vv. 20-)
God does things beeuusc we pray
There wus more power In Hezeklah's
nrnver than there was In his nrmy,
Through his prayers ho laid lSo.OW
of his enemies In the grave. Hezeklah's
(iod saved his people out of the hand
of Sennacherib (v. ID), God did It. une
great reason why he heard llezeklahs
prayer was because It was lor liod s
own gloft that Hezekluh usked (v. l'J).
One great reason why so many or our
prayers are not answered Is because
they ore selllsji seeking our own
gratification und not God's honor
(James 4:3 R. v.). Rending nis
clothes nnd putting on sackcloth, He
zekluh went to the house of God while
his messengers sought out the prophet
Isaiah. From II Chron. 32:20 we find
thnt Isaluh Joined with Hezekluh In
his earnest prayer (Matt 13:19, 20),
thus the king nnd prophet worked ns
well as pruyed. They showed their
faith by their work (James 2:17, 18).
At tho same time they wulted upon
God for nn answer, not because God
wus unwilling to bestow good things,
or must be Importuned, but that his
gifts' may bring the greater benefit.
Ho sometimes delays his answer,
thereby fitting us to receive them be
cnuse of the Intensity of our desire
nnd to appreciate the things he hns
to bestow. God Is as ready to say to
us us to Hezekluh, "Thy pruyer is
heard," If wo will not meet the condi
tions of prevailing pruyer (I John
3:22; I John 5:14; Rom. 8:20.27).
III. God's Glorious Deliverance (vv.
23-37). God permitted the Assyrians
to attack nnd they thus Imagined they
were having their own will und could
do as they pleased, but when his "rod"
had done Its work, they found the dif
ference. The God ngalnst whom they
raved guided them ns with a "bridle"
'and turned thera back to Assyria. Sen
nacherib considered himself more than
a match for God (Ch. 18:23-25) but
had to return like a conquered beast
of burden with God's "hook" In his
nose nnd bridle on his lips. God nl
lows the enemies of his people to go a
certain length In order thnt his people
may he humbled nnd seek him. Then
ho puts forth his hand nnd says, "liiis
fnr and no further." Jehovah gives us
the same promise ho gave Hezekluh,
"I will defend this city." Is not the
city of Jerusalem that God defends
more safe than a city defended by nn
urtny? (Psn. 40:5, 0; 27:1). God had
promised David that his kingdom
should not perish, for in it lay the
hope of tho world and his plans for
the redemption of mankind. Not be
cause of the peoplo did God defend the
city, but because of his oath. This Is
a most drnmutlc picture, the my
terlous destruction of tho Assyrlun
army (vv. 35, 30). The Lord sent his
angel, literally his "messenger," who
applied his own plan for the accom
plishment of his purpose. In Psa,
104:4 the "winds" are said to be Qod's
messengers ami In II Snin..24:10, "the
plague." Whatever the means of de
struction, It was of God, and when It
smote the camp of the Assyrians "be
hold the devastation, behold they were
ull dead corpses." How empty was Sen
nacherlb's boast and how potent were
Hezeklah's prayers. Noiselessly, all
unseen, the angel of Jehovah moved
through that Assyrian camp "that
night and when tho survivors awoke
In the morning, behold the devasta
tion." Jehovah had kept his word
and manifested his power. It is a dnn
gerous thing for men to trifle with
God (Psa. 70:5-7). This Is but a faint
foreshadowing of the Judgment which
must soon come upon all who defy
God.
cylinder to which reference hns been
made. Why? Because It was a great
crisis In Israel's history like tho exodus
and tho return from captivity. It Is a
great thing for any'natlon or anj Indi
vidual to hnve such a marvelous expe
rience of God's salvation (see Psa.
40).
food has become ni... v,Jl
who have a knowiB,i
means in the nreservnti..
have made a study of th. 1?
tlons, and the requirement
country, that It Is bcdnnin ,J I
the entire nation. The "
whose duty It Is to stmi.
and compare it with thec
sees a raDldlv rn,,i
the other, and, when the Jf
nnnanmnttnn .. .
u ueaiiw.,,
output, where will tU9 nati '
is time the people were arj
there is danger ahead tin' J;
telllgence of the people tsuJj
tho fnrta Tim im. a
...v, ,.,,, m J
laad tlinn nn n .
.tow .uuu uu u.t-mi! one, tad tj
work It has to perform' iJ
iscu un iuou jiiwiui'ing It, m
of less efficiency today thn
ago. His strength has bw.
iiviu me minis, win) BTe 00W
ranks of the consumer Instead
of the producer. There lltl.
ratio here that run only h."
stood when confronted Hj
puiiing ugures presented b; t
charge of tho conservation
army has to be fed, depeada,
for, the navy has to lure
and we cannot sit Mly bjufZ
women ana cmiurea of the e
nppnea tha Gnn l!.,.,.. m
a great call for aeilve parfe
the matter of providing
those wno are lu:t ut hotnta
oi mis worn nave a rtsjc
placed upon them fully as pe
the man at the front whota
to protect the homed, uieiur-1
the honor of tlio.-e. who are let
The producer should tlul
this ; there, should be ecoooc;
only of labor. Lvery acre t
able land should be prolan;
vantage should ho taken o! el
light hour. It must not be i
how much can wo make, It
a case of "light" with ttoser.
gone overseas, hut Inourwi;,
win the war. Where that in
vades will be found the if.-.
patriotic American. There bk
culty In securing land In ir
states. It may he reutedoneu:!
or purchased at low prices, il
should be little ditUi; r
wlth bankers to get the
funds to carry nn operatic
you not be able t get hK
in your own state, West
offers an Immense wide Ml
ntidns at tho lowest posA
Americans are welcomed r:
Homesteads of I'D i:
arms,
may be had on easy wn
other lands may be piwh:!
prices on easy term Hi
all kinds of small gralu p
The prospects for a 1017
cellent, and It looks Mil
would bo as pond a retail
time In the past, and wia:
lzed thnt there have beet
forty and forty-five busW'1
over large areas this
couraglng. Now thut tin f
tries are allies und theaw
mon one there should be '
In accepting whatever o
be the best In order to
production so necessar,
should It not be met, wu
rlous menace. Particular!
dlan lands, whether W
homestead, may be had
to any Canadian Governs
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