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M. Put when the Phartieti had hrarj
that lie had put the " uceei to silence,
they were gathered together.
15. Then one 01 th m, which WM n law
yer, apked Him a question, tempUng Him,
aytns.
38. Master, which is tin great command
Bnent in the law ?
37. Jesus Paid unto him. Thou Shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
With all thy soul, ami with all thy mind.
38. This la Ills Orat and great cunimand-BM-nt.
39. And the serond Is like unto It, Thou
Shalt love thy neighbor us thyself.
to. On these two commandment hang all
the law and the prophet.
41. While the Phariat ( s were gatlu red to
gether, Jesus askiu them,
4i Saying. What think ye of Christ!
whose son Is lit'.' Tin y say unto Him, The
sun of David.
43. He laith unto th. m, How then doth
David In spirit call Him Lord, la) :i :.
44. The Lord aatth unto my Lord, Bit thou
on my right hand, till 1 make thine enemies
thy footstool?
45. If David then c all Him Lord, how Is He
his sun?
46. And no man was able to answer Him
a word, neither durst any man Irom that
day Corth ask Hun any mon qui Btlona,
QOLDHJI TUX T. I. at think e 01
CurUi S Man. Hlll4Ji,
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The event! Studied in this lesson oc
curred on Tuesday, April 4, A. D, 3
This was the lust day (if Jesus' public
teaching, and the lesson proprelj in
cludes thst teaching which was occa
sioned by the opposition of the rulers.
Jesus relates three parables: (ij
of the two sons; () of the wicked
husbandman, and (.:) r the marrfag
of the king'a sun. The pharisees
question Jesus about tribute, the sad
ducees brin up the question of the
resurrection, and the lawyers chime in
with questions about the great com
mandment, The analysis d the les
son text takes up two points:
1. Question Concerning the Greatest
Commandment. Ver. :i4-io.
2. The Pharisees .k d a Question. Ver,
41-4U.
When .li'i.iii on,t,rt l II... laMnlfl
Lt Tuesday morning He met the chief
IdB priests nnd elders, who were very
angry at what, had been done during
f the last two days. They greatly de
1 sired to put Him to death, but did
I not dare do SO, They made friends
I With difTpri'nt ,.tn nf nonnld u.l,n -.it-
penernlly enemies of each other, but
were agreed in determining that Je
sus should not be king, nnd together
they planned to tangle Jesus in His
talk if possible. They appointed dif
ferent persons to try Him with hard
questions, hoping that His answers
would give them some chance to say
that lie had broken their laws.
But He KW through nil their cun-
L L A3v 'i,o i"
J Pile Him say or do something they
fc .fo'ild use against him. The first set
Br' messengers nsked Him by what
H right He had dared to cleanse the tem
sgL pie, and who gave Him authority to
kW teach there. He answered them by
FffL nsking a question they could not au
swer; then by speaking the parables
M of the Two Sons, the Wicked Husband
W men. and the -Marriage of the Rlnir'a
lnc nnaaKiana nnn i,i:,n ,,'..t.- 4
Son, in each of which He condemned
the Jews most severely for their
wicked rejection of Him, You will find
these in Matt. 21:28-42 ; 2:1:1-14. The
next set tried to entrap Him in re
gard to the tax paid to the Roman
emperor (Matt. 22:1G-2L). Then came
the next set with a silly question
about relationships after death (Matt.
22: 22-23).
Finally another group put the ques
tion in verses 35, 36 of our lesson.
The books of Jesus' time were all
Written by hand. The men who did
the writing were called scribes; also
lawyers, because besides writing? the
law they explained it. They thought
if Jesus singled out one command
ment as the chief, they could charge
Him with disrespect to all the others.
Jesus Himself had no need of any
other law than that of love. If in
stead of a rule for each sin we accept
one rule to "Love the Lord our God
with all our heart-.' that leaves no
room to love wrong things. So we
shall not need to be told not to do
them.
What the Jews were looking for was
a son of David, who should sit upon
the throne of bis father and restore
the glory of that earthly kingdom
which was now only a fast-fading
-memory. In the prophecies respecting
the Messiah there were clear flashes
of divinity, but they persistently shut
their eyes to them. What they want
ed was not God invested with all the
awful beauty of holiness, but a sort
of Jewish Cuesar surrounded with all
the pomp and circumstance of tem
poral power. They had wen but one
side of the Scriptures, nnd so when
Jesus turned up the other they were
Utterly confounded.
Jesus Christ is not only the Son of
David and the Son of Man, but the
words of Scripture and the wonderful
Works in history unmistakably pro
claim Him to be the onlv becotten
D
and well-beloved Son of God. )
Our Reaped.
Men don't want our pity, they want
our respect. They want the recogni
tion of common humanity. To help
the world we must have a deep respect,
man for man. Rev. A. S. Hoyt.
Memory a God-tilven I'licnlty.
There is a forgetting that is iust as
I sinful as neglecting. United Presby
terian. Needs the Great Phrslclan'a Care.
Moral darkness in mnr.il di., n,.
I Barn's Horn.
The indiscriminate Irsh will drive
n devils into the b y for one it
ives out.
A man is not supe Utttious because
oeuevea in the s apernatural.
80 tons as there are reamer-brained
flrls and broken-down couuts in the
woild there Will be
Uuilll Mimic nnil
niarriag-es betvvein
l'ht'lli Title.
good American
money and cheap foreign titles. And
so long as these marriages are "or-
railed" we shall find a familiar story
every now -ami again m mir imuiui.y
papers. The amounts aud the titles in
rolved may be changed, but the details
will be essentially tJie same, very truly
remarks the Saturday Kveuing Post.
It is easv to understand how the silly
daughters of weak mothers, feeding on
s , . , .
the novel of gush and good society,
. . . . ,
pns.sess.ing the fripperies of an edu-
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cation and initiated into the third de-
.... ...
cret of snobbishness through the open
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think a million none too dear for even
an uncertain count. Hut it will always
remain a mystery that men w hose dol
lars have been made by the ability to
gauge the weakness of other nun
should hand over their daughters to
foreigners whom they would not trust
in any capacity in their offices. Vet
they do it, and their experience costs
them any w here from Ave hundred thou
sand to five million, according to the
ability of their particular nobli men to
lose and to spend. Though nothing, no
matter how unsavory, seems to gag an
American family when it is trying to
swallow a title, it Usually has a reserve
of common sense which asserts itself
in the cud. We have grown so used to
reading of this almost inevitable end
that it has become the verii st common
place of scandal. Vet the uverogc
American never sees that threadbare
chronicle of neglect ami iil-t n at ment of
a countrywoman that he is not stirred
to wrath, simply because he isun BV( r
nge American with all that that implies
in his attitude toward womankind.
And better than musty patents of
played-out, frayed-out nobility is the
instinct of chivalry.
This is not a bad one. told in 1 lie Lon
don Express, of an American gentle
man who was recently stopping with
his wife at the Hotel Cecil. On their
first evening there he happened tore -
tire somewhat later than his spousi
Arriving at the door of what he im
agined to be his room and finding it
locked, he tapped ami called "Honey!"
No answer came, and he called again
and more loudly "Honey!" Still he gi I
no reply, anl, becoming somewhat un
easy, he shouted the endearing term
w ith his full lung pow er. This time a
reply came, and in a male voice: "Go
away, yen blithering id lot I This is a was nis0 U8ea Ior religious services,
bathroom, not a blooming beehive!" I vas Mtabllshed. The first year was a
, prosperous one. Fine crops Were raised
"I don't often see a thief or n bad ( and good prices secured for the prod
man with big ears and a large UCtS. A sawmill was built, a grist-
mouth," said a city magistrate from
the bench the other day, in comment
ing on the physiognomy of a 15-year-old
boy, charged with assaulting an
old apple man and then stealing his
wares. "I like to see a bov with ears."
observed the judge, "I am Inclined
to give you a chance, my boy, on tin
strength of your big mouth and gen
erous ears. You've got a good face
A man with little curs like a fox's or
a squirrel's won't always do. Thev
need watching."
"f-peakiiig of sales," says the Ken
nebec (Me.) Journal, "there have been
some stories told of the rummage
sales which have been so popular this
fall. At one such sale in a Maine city,
among the curious wares displayed
was a set of false teeth. And not
only diil several would-be customers
try them to see if they would lit, but
at last a customer bought them and
carried them oflf in triumph. This is
the solemn truth."
It is reported that 70 families of liorr
refugees are to form a settlement be
tween Hlcksvllle and Sosset, in Nas
sau county, Long Island. This project
is backed by the Hoer refuge aid com
mittee, com)osed chiefly of members of
old Dutch families in America, who
have relatives among the Hoer fighting
men and officials. A tract of land which
w ill permit the allotment of from 5 to 25
acres to each of the 7u families has been
purchased.
Among those people with somewhat i in" oml 'he goat tore down
peculiar ideas of morality must be in-the ,treet toward the woods at a reck
cluded that West Virginia minister who leM Pace- Some negroes living several
thought it a shameful sin to dunce, nnd
yet who did not hesitate to curry a pis-
tol and shoot down a man who pro-
tested against that view of the que
tiou.
A silk mill in Charlotte, N. C, is run
with negro Inbor entirely, a colored
man named Thurston being superin
tendent, He maintains discipline
among the hands, male or female, by
Whpping those who break rules.
The postal service establishment, of
the United States is the greatest busi
ness concern in the world. The reve
nue of the post office of New York is
more than $S, 000, 000 yearly, with a
net profit of $5,000,000.
A Chicago physician a few days ago
was paying $3 a square inch for skin
from the hands of 20 persons, which be
requires for grafting on a boy whose
hand was badly lacerated in a sand pa
per machine.
Michigan's law against betting on
ons makes the offense punishable
equal to the amount of the
1 The latest bulletin of the department
of labor contains three statistical t-
bles of uniis-iia! in-
The Mortality
of ClUea.
terest, show log the
oiimes. b d
0f deaths, during the last fiscal year,
m jjo cities having a population of 30V
qoo or more. Like all statistics, these
fl.Mlros sometimes re, mire to be ex-
plained, says Youth's Companion. For
Instance, the highest death rate of any
city in the country almost 35 to the
thousand is that of Charleston, while
New Orleans. Sav annah and Ran An.
tt .,, ,,, . ,. , . .
tWUO had a death of more than 25 to
iv. ,,,, ,,, ,, . .. . .
me thousand. Lut this does not prove
, , ,
,hat thej are unwholesome places,
v- ., , , , , ,
Each has a very large colored popula-
, . , .. , ,. ,,
t'on. and exceptional mortality swells
the genera! average. The really "dead
ly" cities are foreign ports, like lloui
bay, w here the death rate is sometimes
over C4 to the thousand. With the ex
ception of Rockford, IU the most
healthful cities teem to lie west of the
Mississippi, Seattle heads them, with
a death rate of only seven to the thou
sand. St. Joseph, Mo.; Portland, Ore.;
Lincoln, Keb.i Tacoma, Wash.) Sioux
City, la., and Rockford, 111., all have a
death rate of less than ten to the
thousand. The death rates of New
York, I,. union and P
nre over i'J to
the thousand. Coming to specific dis
eases Chelsea, Mass., shows the small
est percentage of deaths from consump
tion, nnd Houston. Tex., seems to lie
free from pneumonia. The fewest
death, fr in typh. Id took place in Pall
River, In thar lesion there was but one
death from diphtheria, nnd In more
than one-third of the cities no death
was cnuscd by malarial fever, it is In
teresting to note that Salt Lake City
records the largest number about n
to the thousand- of deaths from "old
"
s
"
that Auburn. N. V., had the
smallest proportionate number of
deaths by violence; that the fewest
deaths from heart disease took place in
San Antonio, and the fewest from apo
plexy in Spokane. Al -t every city,
in fact, lias "something to brag about,"
and as a whole the tables indicate that
1 our chief centers of population arc
healthful as well as prosperous.
About three years ago the Christian
Commonweal lh colony was founded in
Muscogee county, Ga., a few miles from
Columbus, by 40 men and women, with
rome children, fr Ohio. They were
an except tonally intelligent and wort by
body of i pie. Plain cottages were
built and a common dining hall, which
mill and a broom factory were profit
ably operated, and a dairy not only
fiiniisii.il the community with all the
milk ami butter needed, but afforded a
surplus for the market. Then new
in tubers came and t rouble began, Ma nv
shirked their work,
sip and scandal
became rife, debts were Incurred which
there was no money to meet, and now
it is announced that the colon v has
one :" I"
Tn the will of the late Charles Tl.
Hoyt, the playwright, an interesting
issue is made on Ihe subject of cousin
ship. The basis on which Mr. Hoyt
disposed of his fortune is thus de
fined in his will: "The testator lias
no relations nearer than cousins to
be considered, and his cousins nnd
distant relatives have never shown by
any net any desire for his friendship
or good will; hence he has deemed it
more consistent with fair dealing and
justice to dispose of his properly to
those who during' his life have bee,
his constant companions and well
wishers." There will be a contest
over the will, it is said, in which the
problem of cousins will be exhaus
tively handled1.
Some boys in Macon, Mo., recently
fed the contents of a box of seidlitz pow
dcrs to a goat belonging to a family
which had recently moved into the
neighborhood, 'I hen taking1 it for
granted that he was thirsty, they led
Hilly ton near-by trough and permitted
him to drink heartily. Soon the fiz-
miles out of town claim to have seen
Old Nick himself, as thev verily be-
' "suing aiong me roau in oroao
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uajrugm. jiis uiajesiy resemuieil an
enormous goat, they said, but they
recognized him as the devil, because,
he was spitting fire and brimstone.
Just previous to the recent election
a Tennessee editor foolishly ventured
on a forecast of coming events and
invited his readers to watch the re
sult and see how far he missed. In
his latest issue he manfully owned up
ns follows: "We are now nble to 6tato
we missed it by exactly the space be
tween the Atlantic and I'acific oceans
east and west and from the great
lakes to the Gulf of Mexico north and
south."
A real estate dealer of Kenosha, Wis.,
Is having papers prepared in a number
of novel suits which he intends to bring
against half a dozen well-to-do resi
dents of the city. He found that many
of the trees on one of his tracts of land
had been gnawed by horses to such an
extent that they are dying. He claims
t0 huve located the ownera of the
At last accounts, the deposits In th.
tarings banks of the United States
rhe rd of sa,. mounted, in round
nu in hers, to $2,200,
ins Itnnlua. '
(mm on an Impres
ive total, which represents an aver
ige of nearly $al for every man, worn
an and child in the country. An
analysis of the figures discloses
singular cone.' ration of savings
hanks. More thuti four-tilths of tin
deposits, or, to be more nearly exact,
a little more than s; per cent., are in
ihe li New England and middle
stutes, leaving than 13 per cent,
distributed among the other 34 states
There can be no question that savings,
hanks encourage thrift, says Youth's
Companion. People are a great deal
more likely to lay something by for a
rainy day if thej feel a reasonable ns
surance of timlini; it whin they need
it, with a pleasing addition of inter
est. These figures show that large
sections of the Country are entirely
without savings banks. It is the con
sideration of this fact which gives
weight to the argument for the estab
lishment of a postal savings-bank
system. There Is much to be said in
favor of that system; yet when we
examine the practical working of the
British post office savings bank,
which has been suggested as a model
for this country, the result does not
encourage imitation. For the last
four yean the bank has shown a year
ly and Increasing lo-v. nnd the Lon.
i don Times declares it Insolvent. In
i view of this fact, congress may well
hesitate to establish postal savings
! banks. Without wnltlnn for action in
that direction, communities which
lack institutions for savings mny
wisely devise means to found them,1
and to foster and safeguard them bv
state legislation.
The annua! report of the federal life
saving service is one that is read by
A Record t Itler- '' " nmi r",s
figure among the
im. , ,.
deportment pub.i-
I cations, and vet it deserves lo be w Idelv
read as a record of heroism and service
to humanity performed by the life
guardsmen who patrol our ocean and
lake coasts to save life and property,
justly observes the Chicago Tribune.
During the last fiscal year 700 ship
wrecked persons have received help
at the stations. The value of property
Imperiled was $0,737,280, and of prop
erly lost $2.L'45.isi u Out of 3,436 per
sona whose lives were in danger only
53 were lost. To accomplish these re
sults lias cost the government $i,5H5,
030, an insignificant sum when the
number of lives and Immense amount
of property exposed to loss are taken
into consideration. The men who per
I form these services are heroes, and vet
the general superintendent says that
certain of them "are among the poorest
paid servants of the government"- an
injustice which congress should re
; move. If any men deserve o lie well
paid it Is our coast life guardsmen.
Borrowing n convict fr state prison
to open a safe seems rather a start ling
i thing to do. A dispatch to the Chicago
Tribune from Columbus, )., tells of
such an occurrence: "In order to se
cure valuable papers belonging to her
dead husband, Col. J, Piokard, a civil
engineer, w ho died a few days ago, an
expert safe-blower, DOW a convict in
I tin? state penitentiary, was loaned to
Mrs. Pickard by the vv ardcii to open the
strong box in which the papers wore
kept. The prisoner was conveyed in a
closed carriage to the safe, which be
blew open, and was (hen returned iu
his cell. All Cui, Mckard's private pa
pers were locked up in the safe, and
the plan of securing the services of a
burglar was adopted. It took Ihe con
vict 12 minutes to open the safe."
it. Moore ran for justice of the peace
in Bourbon county, Kan., ai the recent
election, and was defeated. He pub
lishes an affidavit regarding his elec
tion expenses ami gels in ;l fling at
his successful rival in this fashion:
"I'niontown, Kan., Nov. 28, 1000: Not
having any blanks, and being a law
abiding citizen and a defeated can
didate for justice of the peace in Ma
rion township, I hereby certify under
oath that I did not expend one cent
to secure my election. 1 further swear
and firmly believe if I had spent $500,
and had two butcher shops to back me,
I could have beeu elected to a ti n-dollar
office."
A divorce petition filed in court at
Hutchinson, Kun., recites the story
of an extraordinary courtship. The
woman says she didn't want to marry
her husband, but one afternoon he and
his sister got her into a buggy and
drove about the country all night, the
pair taking turns in pleading with her
to consent to the marriage. At last,
near daylight, she consented out of
sheer exhaustion; and without giving
her a chance to repent the man drove
her back to Hutchinson and married
her.
A Baltimore department store of
fered its patrons a bargain-counter
Thanksgiving dinner of a dozen courses
for six people, all for the modest sum
of 07 cents. It was very filling for
the price, says n local exchange, and
likewise an Interesting illustration of
the development of modern shopkeep
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The recent census shows that about
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