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and prairie known to eastern people
only a few short years ago as the Wild
West a veritable fairyland has sprung
into existence, with scarcely a louder
herald than the swish of the saw or
the sound of the hammer. The Trans-
“Mississippi Exposition at Omaha,
Neb., which was opened by telegraph
by President McKinley, in Washing-
ton, on June 1st, has grown into pro-
portions far beyond its original con-
ception, until it stands to-day stamped
with an international character, count-
ing its friends in every section of the
globe. Day by day it has developed
into a living reality, and the magnifi-
cent buildings are typical of the art,
the science, the enterprise and the
progress of the West. i:
The project, as -it first found ex-
pression, contemplated a great fair to
manifest to the world the resources of
the territory west of the Mississippi
River. Gradually its scope broadened.
Congress recognized its National
character; foreign. countries appre-
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auditorium, with a seating capdcity of
twenty-five hundred, rears its front,
and abutting the western end of this
grand canal the United States Govern-
ment Building stands, a majestic
structure, overlooking the broad
basin, surmounted by a handsome
dome with a statue of Liberty bearing
aloft the flaming torch cf progress
and enlightenment. The lagoon,
which is widened here by excavating
a trefoil, is nearly 400 feet in width
and forms a water-amphitheatre,
which, with the cnlonnades surround-
ing it, easily forms one of the
prettiest effects to be found in the ex-
position.
Lining the lagoon on either side
and reflected into its waters stand the
buildings devoted to arts and. me-
chanics. That of Mines and Mining
and the Machinery and Electricity
Building are splendid structures. The
lagoon - itself has many novel
features made possible by the rapid
improvement in the methods of elec-
ISLAND OF ST. THOMAS.
A Splendid Base For Fleet Operations in
the Caribbean.
“There is not any doubt,” said a
foreign officer of high rank at present
| in this country, ‘‘thatit has been a set-
some time between
the Danish Government and the
American Administration that St.
Thomas will pass under the dominion.
of the Flag of the United States, It
will be aéquired by purchase just as
soon as the war with Spain is over.
“If the arrangements had been com-
pleted before the opening of hostili-
ties, the possession of St. Thomas
would have been of incalculable value
to America just now. It would be a
splendid base of operations for the
fleets in the West Indies and would
contribute much to assert American
dominion in the Caribbean. Conced-
ing even that Porto Rico will be
held by the United States, St.
Thomas easily could be made a little
Gibraltar.”
Denmark’s possessions in the West
Indies consist of the islands of St.
Thomas and Santa Cruz, also called
St. Croix and St. John. The most
important of these is St. Thomas,
which isabout the same size as Man-
hattan Island, being twelve miles
long and three in its gseatest width.
St. Thomas is of great importance,
both commercially and strategically,
having one of‘the best harbors in the
West Indies -and possessing coaling,
tled poiut for
tric lighting. At the east end are
dry and floating dock and ship repair
ciated the value of the opportunities
offered; State after State fell in .line,
demanding space for proper represen-
tation until, when it was opened, it
had assumed the magnitude and im-
portance of a World's Fair.
The site selected is just north of the
city of Omaha, on a plateau, and a
visit to it is like a trip to fairyland.
On every side is the element of orig-
inality. It is a copy of nothing ever
before attempted in this field. From
the beautiful auditorium at the east-
ern extremity down to the magnificent
building abutting the western end of
the lagoon and dedicated to the
United States Government every de-
tail strikes the eye as being unique
and original. In one respect only
does it suggest Chicago. It is a white
city, every building being finished in
the material known as ‘‘staff.” In
every other respect the ‘‘dream city”
of the Trans-Mississippi and Interna-
tional Exposition is like nothing ever
before planned and accomplished in
America. Every crown, cap, figure
and pilaster is cast from models en-
tirely new, rich and tasteful, and all
are typical of the culture, the refine-
ment, the progress and the resources
of the West.
Besides the usual buildings devoted
to the arts, trades, sciences and natural
resources of the West, nearly every
State west of the Mississippi River
has erected its own representative
structure.
In the Grand court at the Trans-Mis-
sissippi Exposition, looking east from
the island which occupies the center
of the lagoon, one is impressed by the
artistic architectural effects before him.
When the great Government building,
with its massive dome and flanking
colonnades, was built at the west end
overlooking the court, it was thought
difficult, in view of the fact that a
viaduct at the east must connect the
bluff and main tracts, to finish that
end in a like artistic and imposing
manner. But the architects happily
solved the difficulty in making the
viaduct not only a thing of beauty and
usefulness, but one of the most artis-
tic conceits on the grounds. The vis-
itor may go by boat the entire length
of the basin from the Government
building to the Sherman avenue via-
duct, passing many of the main build-
ings. Arriving at the east end he will
see a beautiful green sward rising in
terraces, adorned with sculpture and
shrubbery, before him. Beyond this,
and facing him is a great hemicycle
stairway, thirty feet in width, adorned
on either side with a tower, which is
crowned by a kiosk or minaret.
Sweeping out on either side and con-
necting these towers with others of
like design are graceful arches, Back
of all this and rising in five gently
graduated towers, and crowned with
statues of heroic design, are the two
great viaduct restaurants. The tow-
ers and stairs are tinted to anold ivory
shade, decorated with dull Pompeiian
colors.
Beyond and across the viaduct, the/
bluff tract has been transformed intp
a park, where the various state build-
ings are located and which also is the
site of the great Horticuiiural build-
ing and some of the larger structures
of the amusement section.
located electric water grottoes, the
Blue Grotto of Capri and the Mam-
moth Cave. ;
The educational features of the ex-
position have not been overlooked.
They are in the hands of representa-
tive Western women, to whom has
been assigned the management of
philosophic and scientific congresses,
the Boys and Girls’ Building, as well
as all branches of woman’s work.
They will have charge of the exhibits
of the work of public schools, kinder-
gartens, art, reform, industrial and all
schools of special instruction.
Not the least important feature of
the great exposition is the ethnologi-
cal exhibit. It is possible that never
again will an effort of this character
be enabled to secure an Indian ex-
hibit ot the proportions contemplated
by this. The Indian race is rapidly
disappearing, and the opportunity to
study clear-cut types of every known
tribe will be hailed with delight by
every lover of ethnology.
ing facilities that surpass anything ir
that section, even including Havana.
In times not so longago St. Thomas
was the emporium of the Caribbear
Sea, but the enormous expansion of
the stream navigation enabled the
other islands to enjoy direct and rapid
communication with the northern
countries and caused the loss of the
bulk of this trade to St. Thomas.
The island would be an especially
valuable possession to the United
States, as it has immense coaling
depots and a floating dock capable of
accommodating the largest ships that
frequent those waters.
Santa Cruz is wholly given up to
agriculture, being especially famed for
its sugar and rum. St. John is of lit-
tle or no consequence, being very
scantily populated.
The inhabitants of the Danish
Islands are still in favor of-annexation
to the United States, since they know
that their fortunes are more closely
allied with ours than with those of any
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ST. THOMAS.
(View of the Danish island and its ideal harbor.)
And the.Midway. The management
has provided a programme of unique
and wholesome attractions, and is
adding to it daily. Novel and mer-
itorious show features are encouraged,
and the visitor will not lack amuse-
ment. Foreign villages are in abun-
dance. An exact reproduction of
Cripple Creek in miniature is exhib-
ited.” This concession alone occupies
15,000 square feet and requires 300
people to produce it. The Afro-
American village ° typifies = every
phase of their life. A novel example
of engineering skill is Sherman’s Um-
brella, by which passengers are ele-
vated to a height of 300 feet and re-
volved within a circle of 250 feet.
The Moorish village will be here; so
will the Irish, Tyrolean and Chinese
villages, and many others. Nothing
will be left undone to contribute to
the satisfaction and pleasure of the
visitors.
The Pope does his private writing
with a gold pen, but the pontifical sig-
nature is always written with a pen
wade from the feather of a white dove.
At the castern end of the lagoon the
—Pittsburg Dispatch.
European nation. Even among the
Danish officials there is the'same strong
feeling that it would result to the ben-
efit of all concerned, for the rank and
file would be relieved from service so far
from the home country, and the higher
officers and officials would be retired
on ample pensions. The Government
is at present expensive and somewhat
oppressive. The annual deficit to
Denmark is from $50,000 to $100,000,
and there are no means of alleviating
the financial distress. Like the in-
habitants of all the islands of these
seas, the people see that their only
salvation lies in closer political con-
nection with the United States, since
that would imply increased commercial
advantages and resultant prosperity.
As the people all speak English even
the Danish officials, there would be nao
violence to national or racial preju-
dices, and the transfer could be effected
with very little friction.
In an oratorical contest at the Idaho
University for the Watkins: medal
Jennie Hughes, the only colored stu-
dentin the institution, was the winner.
-siraply overwhelming; and then,
SFANINS BY ENENT DIVINE
Subject: “A Helpful Religion’ —Refoyms
of Worship Urged — Some Practical
Suggestions For Bringing It About
Sing the Old, Old Songs.
Text: “Send Thee help from tho sane-
tuary.”—Psalm 20: 2.
If you should ask fifty different men
what the church is, they would give you
fifty different ‘answers. One man would
say, ‘It is a convention of hypocrites.”
Another, “It as en ‘assembly of people
who feel themselves a great deal better
than others.” Another, ‘‘It is a place for
gossip, where wolverine dispositions de-
vour each other.” Another, it is a place
for the cultivation of superstition and
eant.”” Another, ‘‘It is an arsenal where
theologians go to get pikes and muskets
and shot.” Another, “It is an art galiery,
where men go to admire grand articles,
and exquis®e fresco and musical works.
and the Dantesque in gloomy imagery.”
Another man would say, “It is the best
place on earth except my own home.” ‘If
I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right
hand forget her cunning.”
Now, whatever the church is, my text
tells you what it ougnt to be: a great,
practical, homely, omnipotent help. “Send
thee help from the sanctuary.” The pew
ought to yield restfulness for the body.
The color of the upholstery ought to yieid
pleasure to the eye. The entire &ervice
ought to yield strength for the toil and
struggle of every-day life. The Sab-
bath ought to be harnessed to all
the six days of the week, drawing them
in the right direction. The church
ought to be a magnet, visibly . and
mightily affecting all -.the homes of
the worshipers. Every man gets roughly
jostled, gets abused, gets cut, gets in-
sulted, gets slighted, gets exasperated.
By the time the Sabbath comes he has an
accumutation of six days of annoyance,
and that is a starveling church service
which has not strength enough to take
that accumulated annoyance and hurl it
into perdition. The business man sits
down in church headachy from the week's
engagements. Perhaps he wishes he had
tarried at home on the lounge with the
newspapers and the slippers. That man
wants to. be cooled off, and graciously di-
verted, The first waveof the religious ser-
vice ought to dash clear over the hurricane
decks, and leave him dripping with holy
and glad and heavenly emotion. ‘Send
thee help from the sanctuary.”
In the first place, sanctuary help ought
to.come from the music. A woman dying
(n England persisted in singing to the last
moment. The attendants tried to per-
suade her to stop, saying it would exhaust
her and make her disease worse. She an-
swered: ‘I must sing; Iam only practicing
for the heavenly choir.” Music on earth is
a rehearsal for musie in heaven.
But I am not speaking of the next world.
Sabbath song ought tc cet all the week to
musie. We want not more harmony, not
more artistic expression, but more volume
in our church musie. The English dissent-
in churches far surpass our American
churches in this respect. An English au-
.dience of one thousand people will give
more volume of sacred song than an
American audience of two thousand peo-
ple. I do not know what the reason is.
Oh, you ought to have heard them sing in
Surrey chapel. I had the opportunity of
preaching the anniversary—I think the
ninetieth anniversary—sermon in Row-
land Hill’s old chapel, and when they
lifted their voices in sacred song it was
in the
evening of the same day, in Agricultural
Hall, many thousand voices lifted in dox-
olcgy. It was like the voice of many
waters, and like the’voice of many thun-
derings, and like the voice of heaven.
We hear a great deal of the art of sing-
ing, of music asan entertainment, of music
as a recreation. It is high time we heard
something of music as a help, a practical
help. In order to do this we must have
only a few hymns. New tunes and new
hymns every Sunday make poor congrega-
tional singing. "Fifty hymns are enough
for fifty years. The Episcopal Church
prays the sume prayers every Sabbath, and
vear after year, and century after century.
For that reason they have the hearty re-
sponses. Let us take a bint from that fact,
and let us sing the same sorgs Sabbath
after Sabbath. Only in that way we come
to the full force of the exercise.
Again I remark, that sanctuary help
ought to come from the sermon. Of a
thousand people in any audience, how
many want sympathetic help? Do you
guess a hundred? Do you guess five hun-
dred? You have guessed wrong. I will
tell you just the proportion. Out of a
thousand people in any audience there are
just one thousand who need sympathetic
help. These young people want it just as
much as the old. The old people some-
times ceem to think they have a monopoly
of the rheumatis n and the neuraleias, and
the headaches, and the physical disorders
of the world; but I tell you there are no
worse heartaches than are felt by some of
the young people. I have noticed among
all classes of men that some of the severest
battles and the tcughest werk come be-
fore thirty. Therefore, wemust have our
sermons and our exhortations in prayer
meeting all sympathetic with the young.
And so with these people further on in life.
What do these doetors and lawyers and
merchants and mechanics care about the
abstractions of religion? What they want
ishelptobearthe whimgicalities of patients,
the brow-beating of legal opponents, the
unfairness of customers who have plenty
of fault finding for every imperfection of
handiwork, but no praise for twenty execel-
lencies.
While all of n sermon may 1:ot be heipful
alike to all, if it be a Christian sermon,
reached by a Christian man, there will be
Pre for every one somewhere. We ga in-
to .an apothecary’s store. Ye see others
being waited on; we do not complain be-
cause we do not immediately get the medi-
eine; we know our turn will come after a
while. And so while all parts of a sermon
may not be appropriate to our case, if we
wait prayerfully, before the sermon is
through, we shall have the divine preserip-
tion. I say to young men who are going
to preach the Gospel: we want in our ser-
mons not more metaphysics, nor more
imagination, nor more logic, nor more pro-
fundity. What we want in our sermons
and Christian exhortations as more sym-
pathy. ‘
I say to the young men who are entering
the ministry, we must put on more force,
more energy.and into our religious services
more vivacity, if we want the people to
come. You look into a church court of any
denomination of Christians. First, you will
find themen of large common-sense and
earnest look. The eduéation of their minds,
the piety of their »earts, the holiness of
their lives qualify them for their work.
Then you will find in every church court of
every denomination a group of men who
utterly amaze you with the fact that such
semi-imbecility can get any pulpits to
preach in! Those are the men who give
forlorn statistics about church decadence.
Frogs never croak in running water; al-
ways in stagnant. ‘But I say to all Christ-
an workers, to all Sunday-school teachers,
to all Evangelists, to all ministers of the
Gospel, if we want our Sunday-schools, and
our prayer-meetings, and our churches to
gather the people, we must freshen up.
The simple fact is, the people are tired of
the humdrum of religionists. Religious
humdrum is the worst of all humdrum.
You say over and over again, “Come to
Jesus,” until the phrase means absolutely
nothing. Why do you not tell them a story
which will make them come to Jesus in five
minutes?
Amain I remark that sanctuary help
ought to come through the prayers of all
the people, The door of the eternal store-
house is hung on one hinge, a gold hinge,
the hinge of prayer, and when the whole
sudience lay nold of that docr. it must
come open. There are many people
spending their first Sabbath after some
great «bereavement. What will your
prayer do for them? How will it help the
tomb in that man’s heart? Here are peo.
ple who have not been in- church for ten
years; what will your prayer do for them
by rolling over their soul holy memories?
Here are people in crises of awful tempta.
tion. They are on the verge of despair, ot
wild blundering, or theft or suicides What
will your prayer do for them in the way of
giving them strength to resist?
In most of our churches we have three
prayers—the opening prayer, what iz
called the “long prayer,” and the closing
prayer. There are many people whe
spend their flrst prayer in arranging their
apparel after entrance, and spend the sec.
ond prayer, the “long prayer,” in wishing
it were through, and spend the last
prayer in preparing to start for homa
The most insignificant part of every re-
ligious service is the sermon. The more
important parts are the Seripture lesson
and the prayer. The sermon is only a man
talking to a man. The Scripture lesson is
God talking to man. Prayer is man talk.
ing to God. Oh, if. we understood the
grandeur and the pathos of this exercise
of prayer, instead of being a dull exercise
we would imagine that the room was full
of divine and angelic appearances.
But, my friends, the old style church will
not do the work. We might as well now
try to take all the passengers from Wash-
ington to New York by stage coach, or all
the passengers from Albany to Buffalo by
canal boat, or do all the battling of the
world with bow and arrow, as with the old
style of church to meet the exigencies of
this day. Unless the church in our day
will adapt itself to the time, it will become
extinet. The people reading newspapers
and books all the week, in alert, pictur
esque and resounding style, will have no’
patience with Sabbath bumdrum.
But while halt of the doors of the church
are to be set open toward this world, the
other half of the doors of tke church must
be set open toward the next. You and I
tarry here only a brief space. We want
somebody to teach us how to get
out of this life at the right time
and in the right way. Some fall out of
life, some go stumbiing out of life, some
go groaning ‘out of life, some g<¢
cursing ‘out of life. We want ‘to. gc
singing. rising, rejoicing, triumphing,
We want half the doors of the church set
in that direction. We want half the pray:
ers that way, half the sermons that way.
We want to know how to get ashore from
the tumult of this world into the land of
everlasting peace. We do not want to stand
doubting and shivering when we go away
from this world; we want our anticipation
aroused to the highest piteh. We want te
have the exhilaration of a dying child io
England, the father telling me the story,
When he said to her. “Is the path nar.
row?” she answered, “The path i3 narrow:
it is so narrow that I can not walk arm in
arm with Christ, so Jesus goes shead, and
He says, ‘Mary, follow.”” Through the
church gates set heavenward how many of
your friends and mine have goue? "The
last time they were out of the house they
came to church. The earthly pilgrimage
ended at the pillar of public worship, and
then they marched out to a
brighter assemblage. Some of them were so
old they could not walk without a cane or
two erutches; now they have eternal
juvenescence. Or they were so young
they could not walk except as the ma.
ternal hand guided them; now they bound
with the hilarities celestial. - The last tine
we saw them they were wasted with mala-
rial or pulmonic disorder: but now they
have no fatigue, and no difficulty of res-
piration in the pure air of heaven. How I
wonder when you and I will cross over!
Some of you have had about enough of the
thumping and flailing of this life. A
draught from the fountains of heaven
would do you good. Complete release you
could stand very well. If you got on the
other side, and had permission to come
back, you would not come. Though you
were invited to come back and join your
friends on earth, you would say, ‘No, let
me tarry here until they come; I shall not
risk going back; if a man reaches heaven
he had better stay here.”
Ob, I join hands with you in that uplift-
ed splendor.
In Freybourg, Switzerland, there is the
trunk of a tree four hundred years old.
That tree was planted to commemorate an
event. About ten miles from the city the
Swiss conquered the Burgundians, and a
young man wanted to take the tidings te
the city. He took a tree branch and rau
with such speed the ten miles, that when
he reached the city waving the tree
branch he had only strength to ery, “Vie:
tory!” and dropped dead. Thetree branch
that he carried was planted, and it grew tc
be a great tree twenty feet in ecircumfer-
ence, and the remaius of it are there te
this day. My hearer; when you have
fought your last battle with sin and death
and hell, and they have been routed in the
conflict, it will be a joy worthy of celebra-
tion. You will fly to the city and cry
“Victory!” and drop at the feet of the grout
King. Then the palm branchofthe earthly
race will be planted to become the out
branching tree of everlasting rejoicing:
When shall these eyes Thy heaven-built
wills,
And pearly gates behold,
v bulwarks with salvation strong,
And streets of shining gold?
CLAIMS AGAINST SPAIN.
vast Sums Wanted Because of I11-Treavw
. ment in Cuba.
It will be good news for the many per.
sons interested directly or indirectly in
claims acainst the Spanish Government
growing out of ill-treatment in Cuba, or
loss of property sustalned there, to know
that the State Department at Washington
has not lost sight of them, and that their
interests are to be fully conserved when it
comes to a final settlement betweon the
United States and Spain, These claims on
fille in the State Department now amount
to an aggregate of £16,000,000, and it is the
purpose, when a treaty of peace is drawn,
to provide therein for their settlement
either directly or through the more usual
means of a joint claims ¢ommission.
BIGGEST GCUN IN THE WORLD.
One Now Under Way Expected to Throw
a 2300-Pound Projectile.
Orders have been received by Command.
ant Mordecai, of the Watervliet (N. XY.)
Arsenal, from the War Department, direct
ing bim to hasten the completion of the
sixteen-inch coast defence gun now being
built under the Government’s plans.
The gun, which will be the biggest ir
tho world, is to constitute part of the de
tense of New York Harbor. The efficiency
is only problematical as yet. It is expect.
ed to hurl a 2300-pound projectile with s
velocity of 2000 feet per second, a distance
of 3500 yards and through thirty inches ol
solid steel.
Work upon it will be carried on day and
night.
MOB AVENGES GIRL'S DEATH.
Lecker, the Slayer of Bertha ITuffmeister
Lynched by Kansas Farmers,
GrEAT BEND, Kan. (Special).—In the pub
lic square fronting on the principal busi
ness street of this city a murderer wa:
lynched at 8 o’clock Tuesday evening by
mob of probably five hundred person. I!
is estimated that at least one thousand
men witnessed the tragedy. The vietimr
was John Becker, who on April 8killec
Myrtle Huffmeister, the sixteen-year-ol¢
daughter of William Hufmeister, a far
mer living between Great Bend and Ellin
wood. '
Becker was employed by the farmer anc
professed passionate love for the daughte
and shot her when she refused to accep!
his love.
The total length of the world’s telegrap}
system has now reached 4,908,921 miles.
bigger anc
- knew Him better and
THE SIBBHTH SCHOOL LESSOR
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JUNE 26. '
Review of the Lessons For the Second
Quarter—Golden Text: Jude 21—Com-
mentary on the Quarter’s Lessons by
the Rev. D. M. Stearns.
LessoN 1.—The Woman of Canaan (Math.
Xv., 21-31). Golden Text, Math, xv., 25,
‘“Then she came and worshiped Him, say-
ing, Lord, help me.” It would seem as if
our Lord went away from the unbelief and
questionings and reasonings of the scribes
and Pharisees tc be refreshed by the strong
and simple faith of this Syro-Phoenician
woman. Even His disciples were not al--
ways a comfort to Him, for in verse 16 He
said to them, Are ye also yet without un-
derstanding? But He whose eyes run to
and fro throughout the whole earth to show
Himself strong on behalf of every heart
that is wholly for Him (II Chron. xvi., 9)
saw the faith in the heart of this woman
and took this long journey to bless her and
be refreshed by her.
Lesson II.—The Resurrection of Jesus
(Mark xvi., 1-8). Golden Text, I Cor. xv.,
20, “Now is Christ risen from the dead and
become the first fruits of them that slept.”
The regular lesson for this day in Math.
xvi., 21-28, on the sufferings of Jesus fore-
told, would also make a good Easter lesson,
for He foretold His resurrection as well as
His sufferings. Neither His life nor His
death can give us any benefit apart from
His resurrection, as is fully set forth in I
Cor. xv., 14-18.
Lesson III.—The Transfiguration (Math.
xvii., 1-9). Golden Text, John i., 14, **We
beheld His glory, the glory as of the only
begotten of the TWather.” This was the
fulfillment of that which He said concern-
ing some of them not tasting death till
they had seen the Son of Man coming in
His kingdom. The centre of His kingdom
will be the risen and translated saints rep-
resented. py Moses and Elijah, and a
righteous Israel represented by Peter,
James and John.
LessoNx IV.—A Lesson on Forgiveness
(Math. xviii., 21-35). Golden "fext, Luke
vi., 37, ‘Forgive and yo shall be forgiven.”
Forgiving one another even as God for
Christ’s sake hath forgiven vou (Eph. iv.,
32) is the way the Spirit states it by Paul.
Peter, to whom our Lord was talking, was
a saved man and a disciple® of Christ, and
should therefore exercise forgivenessto all,
even to the extent of seventy times seven,
else he would lose much by it both in the
matter of present fellowship with God and
also future privileges.
Lessox V.—The Triumphal Entry (Math.
xxi.» 6-16). Golden text, Math. xxi., 9;
“Hosanna to the Son of Davia. Blessed is
He that cometh in the name of the Lord.”
This might be called His last public offer
of Himself to Israel as her King, tHe ful-
filled the Seripture which saith, “Behold,
thy King cometh.” He literaliy fulfilled
Zech. ix.. 9, as to the manner of His entry.
How could they fail to see it? Here was
forgiveness-to—the uttermost on His par
but they knew not the day of their visita-
tion, so He wept over them, longing to
bless them, and saying, “I would, but ye
would not? (Luke Xxix., 41-44; Math,
xxiii., 37).
LessoN VI.—-The Marriage Feast (Math.
xxii., 1-14). Golden text, Luke xiv., 17,
“Come, for all things are now ready.”
Those whom He longed to bless and came
to save would not receive Him, made light
of His invitations and «ven slew His ser-
vants. Yet He had pity upon them and
loved them and laid down His life for
them and asks, ‘What could have been
done more that I have not done?” (Isa. v.,
4). “Is it nothing to you all ye that pass
by?” (Lam. i., 12).
LessoN VII.—Watchfulness (Math. xxiv.,
42-51). Golden text, ' Math. xxiv., 42,
“Watch therefore, for ye know not what
hour your Lord doth come.” Just as
plainly as He taught that He would die
and rise again from the dead, so did He
also teach that He would come again when
not expected, and that all who were wise
would be looking for Him any hour, but at
work up to the time of His return, ocenpy-
ing till He come. He expects to find us not
only waiting, but doing (verse 46).
LessoNx VIII.—The Day of Judgment
(Math. xxv., 31-46). Golden text, Math.
xvi., 27, “He shall reward every man ac-
cording to His works.” Along with this
text it would be well to place Rev. xxii,,
12; Luke xiv., 14; I Cor. iii., 14, 15. Unless
we distinguish between the judgment seat
of Christ for believers and their works
(Rom. xiv., 10; II Cor. v., 10), the judg-
ment of nations for their treatment of Is-
rael, as set forth in our lesson, and the
judgment of the great white throne for
all who do not take part in the first resur-
rection (Rev. xx., 5, 11-15).
ox IX.—The Lord’s Supper (Math.
xxvi., 17-30). Golden Text, I Cor, xi., 26,
“As often as ye eat this bread and drink
this cup, ve do show the Lord's death till
He come.” From the exodus until His own
exodus (Luke ix., 31, Greek) as the True
Passover Lamb, the Passover was the great
feast commemorative of Israel's deliver-
ance from Egypt, and has a still future out-
look (Luke xxii., 15, 16), but on the night
before He suffered He took bread and wine,
symbols of His body and blood, and gave
us a new feast to be kept in remembrance
of Him till He shall come again.
Lesson X.--Jesus Condemned (Math.
xxvii., 11-26). Golden Text, I Tim. i., 15,
“Christ Jesus came into the world to save
sinners.” Pilate’s questions and perplexi-
ties are still the great ones, “Barahbbas or
Jesus,” and ‘*What shall I do with Jesus?”
As then so now the majority choose Barab-
bas, and if they ever think of Jesus it is of-
ten only to wish that there was not eny
such person.
LEessox XI.—Jesus Crucified (Math.
xxvii., 35-50). Golden Text, I Cor. xv., 3,
“Christ died for our sins, according to the
Seriptures.” There was no other way by
which atonement could be made. A sinless
man was required and to that end He be-
came a man. Becaase we are flesh and
blood He took the same (Heb. ii., 14), and
lived in a body like ours, sin excepted, for
over thirty years,
LessoN XII.---The Risen Lord (Math.
xxviii., 8-20). Golden Text, Rev. i., 18, “I
am He that liveth and was dead, and, be-
hold, I am aliye for evermore.” A risen
Christ at God’s right hand having all power
in Heaven and on earth is the great truth
we glory in, and pray with Paul, “That I
may know Him and the power of His resur-
rection.” If ourlives showed His risen life
in calm and elear reflection patiently suf-
fering or cheerfully doing all that comes to
us to bear or do,we would accomplish more
for Him, or rather He would accomplish
more through us to His glory. Ifonly we
pelieved His love
more fully, we would be constrained to
“Go quickly and tell” those who do not
know Him.—Lesson Helper.
One by Ex. Governor Peck.
Ex-Governor Peck tells a story about
his visit to Green Bay, Wis. He haa
been asked to speak at a Good Temp-
lars’ affair there.
“When 1 stood,” Mr. Peck teils, “1
looked about for some water. ZA mug
had been placed beside me, and how it
could have happened at a temperance
convention I do not know, but it was a
beer mug filled with water. Well, it
was a warm day, and where there is
convention food spread’ out on a warm
day there are likely to be files. There
were flies, and one had lighted trust-
ingly on the surface of the water in
that mug. I saw him as I lifted it, and
I did the most natural and humane
thing that I could think of—blew him
off the water. Well, they cheered for
five minutes. ‘And to this day I sup-
pose you can’t persuade a Green Bay
man that anybody from Milwaukee
can drink a glass of water, even at a
temperance convention, without first,
blowing off the foam.”