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LESSON III. --OCTOBER 17, 1909.
Paul a Prisoner -Before 'Felix.
Acts 24: 10-27, e •
Oo' mentary L The chci,rg es against
Pial (vs. 1-9). Withie five days the high
priest, Ananias, together with. repiesene,
atives from the Sanhedrin, aecantprinied
by a prafessioual. grater,. Tertullius, ar-
rived in Caesarea to present their
charges age est Paul, Tertul'lius began
by flattering Felix, as one'veio had done
Trewt and noble deeds and *h3 had eat-
ly advanced the government. This was
eat in keeping with the truth, for "both
,I"asephus . and Taoitus represent him as
me of the mast corrupt And oppressive
.rulers ever sent by the Romans into
Judea," Terbullus then presented three
charges against Pani- They were, 1. Se-
dition, or treason agairvst the Roman
F'ovenv)¢n'ent. 2. Heresy. 3. Sacrilege
,wet prafaaing the temple. Triose who
were with Tertullus all assented that
these things were ,'true.
II. Paul's defense (vs, 10-21). 10. Paul
....answered -Although twice before
•Paul head spoken whet he called .a de-
fense -M.0; before 0„. vest crowded Jews
• in the . temple area, and again before the
assembled Sanhedrin -yet this is this first
actual defense, as he now standsebeforo
an imperial tribunal, the governor repre-
senting the person and authority of the
eri>pes'oz:-Butler. Forasmuch ea I know
-It is remarkable that Paull did not be-
gin his speech, as Tertullus bad done, by
any flattering addeess, or by any of the
arts of i'hetoriic. He founded his plea
on the justice of lois cause, and on the
fact that Felix had had so much expere
once in the affairs of Judea that he 'vie
well qualified to understand the merits
of the case, and to- judge impartially,
Paul was well acquainted with his. char-
acter, and would not by flattering words
declare that which was not strictly true.
-Barnes. Many years -For the com-
paratively long period of six ar seven
years Felix !rad been in Jerusalem and
Caesarea. A judge -A magistrate, or
one appointed to administer the affairs
of government. More cheerfully answer
-Because of Felix's unusual familiarity
with Jewish questions. The fact of his
knowledge is e;ttested in v. 22. 11. May -
est understand -From the shortness of
his stay in Jerusalem, any offense com-
mitted there must have been recent.
There gourd be no difficulty in obtaining
witnesses and proofs. -Cook. Twelve
days -From the time Paul left Caesarea,
until his return, it was only nine days.
Only eight of the twelve days had been
spent in Jerusalem. His design in men-
tioning the number of days was to show
the improbability that in so short a time
he -could have produced a tumult. To
worship -He went on purpose to wor-
ship and had no thought of producing a
tumult, or of profaning the temple.
12, 13. Neither found me, eta -In term
of unqualified denial he meets the first
charge -of sedition. Worship, not insur-
rection, was the object of Ms visit to
Jerusalem. He was arrested while won
tbipping and had not even spoken in pub.
lie. Neither can they prove -He chal-
lenges investigation. They had made
vague, wild. assertions, hoping the gov-
ernor might be influenced to condemn
him without trial, as doubtless he would
have done but for his Roman citizenship.
They very well knew that their charges
could net' be sustained under the Roman
low. Accusation is not proof.
14. This I confess -This verse and
the following contain Paul's reply to
the accusation of Tertullus that he was
s ringleader of the sect of the Nazar-
enes. He boldly and joyously confesses
that he is a Christian, but at the sante
time declines to acknowledge the op-
probrious terms used by Tertullus.-
Lange. The way -"The way" is here
used by Paul to signify the Christian
religion (see chap. 9:2). Heresy- "A
sect." -R. V. The word used is the
same that Tertullus used in verse 5,
when making Ms charge. They had
called the Christians a "sect," and Paul
does not disown the name. So worship
-See R. V. It is as if he said: "After
the way which they call false and er-
roneous, but which is according' to the
inward light given me, worship I my
ancestors adored." 15. Hope toward God
-Having a hope of the resurrection of
the dead. 16. I exercise myself- He
strives as the athletic or warrior, only
his struggle and warfare is within his
soul. His supreme aim and constant
effort was to keep a clear conscience.
Conscience -"The eonscienoe does not
tell us what is right, but urges us to
do what we know to be right, and re-
bukes us for doing what we know to be
wrong." -Hurlbut.
17. After many years -Paul refers to
the four years which had elapsed since
his last visit. to Jerusalem (chap. 18:
22). -Meyer. He came as the almoner
of help, not as the fomenter of disturb-
ance and source of injury to the nation.
This incidental statement is the only
allusion in the Acts to the faet that
Paul had been engaged' for four years
in gathering collections from all the
Gentile churches in aid of the poor
Christian Jews of Judea. In the epis-
tles Paul frequently , refers to this.
matter. -Butler. He came to bring of-
ferings, and therefore he had no thought'
of profaning the temple.
18.21. Jews from ,Asia -"Paul justly
complains that the very persons who
alone could testify against him were ab-
sent, and showed that there was really
no well-founded charge against him.
They alone'could testify as to anything
that occurred in the temple; and as they
were not present that charge ought to
be dismissed" Or else -"Paul turns
with a• bold challenge to the Sadducean
.views present. Ile demands their own
personal testimony upon the facts that
occurred when he stood before the San
hedrie. With a keen thrust he asks
if
the utterance of the hated truth of
the resurrection was not the only charge
of eval coy b they could bei
nb
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Li. lmprisoninient at'Uaesaiea (22-27:)
e2, 23, When Felix heard -The govern.
or -virtually decided the case in favor of
Nut. But he wished to keep'the good
will of the Jews. So he delayed bis fin-
al answer, in the meaueeldle allowing
Peel much liberty, in "the company "cel
his friends- Havieg -, knowledgs.
1'elix knew more than rnost Roman rul-
ers about Christianity. lee evidently
keew the character of the disciples alid
that what Paul said was true. 24. After
certain days -Felix cane in the audi-
ence -chamber with his wife, Drusilia,
and the prisoner was summoned before
them, Thus Paul had an oportunity in
his bonds of preaching the gospel, and
such an' opportunity as he could hardly
otherwise have obtained.
25. Reasoned of righteousness, etc. -
Paul preaches as a faithful apostle
should have preached to.auoh hearers.
They sent for him to hear about Christ.
They heard much more than they cared
to hear. Felix trembled -In view of his
past sins, and the judgment to come.
Go thy way -Felix was troubled, but iii-
stead of asking the way of peace, he
sent the messenger of warning away.
Convenient -Tire sinner is always look-
ing for a "convenient season" to turn to
God. -.26. He hoped, etc. -He hoped that.
Paul would pay for his freedom.
27. Left Paul bound -Felix was desire
ous of gaining favor with the Jews as
he retires from the governorship, and
acordingly withdrew the special privi-
leges Paul had been allowed.
° Questions, -.-Who came to Caesarea to
testify against Paul? How did Tertul-
lns begin? What charges did he bring
against Paul? Why had Paul gone up
to Jerusalem? How did Paul answer;
his accusers? What privileges did Philip
grant Paul? Before whom was Paul aum-
moned to speak of Christ? Of what did
he reason? What was the character of
his hearers? How did the truth affect
Felix?
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. '
Paul Defends the Faith.
I. Paul speaks. "Forasmuch as I
know" (v. 10.) Tertullus began his ac-
cusation of Paul with abject flattery
(vs. 2.4.) Paul respected Felix's office
and what it represented, but did not
flatter the bad man in the office. He
was "subject into the .higher powers"
(Ram. 13: 1.) He spoke truly and
availed himself of a plain fact, when he
said, "As I know that thou hast been
of many years a judge unto this nation,
I do the more cheerfullly answer for
myself" (v. 10.) A great roan will hon-
estly praise; he will never flatter. Jesus
commended (Matt. 8: 10; John 4: 17) ;
he never flattered.
II. Paul reasons (v. 25). To the judge,
in public, the prisoner gave the defer-
ence due to his office; to the sinner, in
private, the preacher dared to give the
warning that his official character and
his private conduct would both come in-
to judgment. To this unjust extortioner,
this defrauder of widows, this plunderer
,of Children, this buyer and ,seller of jud-
:eial decisions, "he reasoned of righte-
ousness." To the woman, who had lost
everything for which a wife and mother
ought to live, whose passionate desires
had never been checked, he dared to
speak of self-control, self-restraint, self-
government. To this tyrannical prince,
this unjust judge, he dared to tell of
"a judgment to come," until the man
"trembled" at the sight of the great
white throne and the opened books
whose record was red with the blood of
"private murder and public maccacre."
During the temperance crusade in
Brooklyn, Louise C. Reynolds and a
friend of hers, visited a liquor saloon.
Turning to the bar -tender, she said, "Do
you know there is a terrible woe in the
Bible pronounced against triose who sell
liquor?" and quited to him Hab. 2. 15.
"That is not in the Bible," he said al-
most fiercely. She opened her Bible and
pointed to the ''verse. He snatched the
book from her, and pale and trembling
Toad the words. Two days afterward the
liquor saloon was closed. The fearless
words of the holy woman smote his con-
science, and he gave up the unrighteous
traffic. At Paul's courageous words Fel-
ix "trembled," but he would not yield.
He said, "Go thy way," to the Spirit of
God, and "wait for a convenient season"
to the Christ of God. "God.. .now coin-
mandeth all men everywhere to repent"
(Acts 17.30). Those who have a right to
command expect prompt obedience. God
has a right to expect instant obedience
as Creator and Redeemer. That people
delay instead of decline to become Chris-
tians is an admission of God's„ eternal
right to their obedience and a'proplam-
ation that they deliberately intend to
trample upon his claim and longer sin
against the love that bought them with
the price of blood. This is cowardly, un-
grateful, rebellious.
III. Felix trembles (v. 25). "Paul was
not the only ono who was being weighed
or judged in this lesson. Felix also was
fear of the consequence of his sin. Many
times men have committed sin which leas
ation that they deliberately int -end to
trample upon his claim and 'Imager sin
against the love that bought them with
the price of blood. This is cowardly, un-
grateful, rebellious.
III. Felix trembles (v. 25). "Paul was
not the only one who was being weigh-
ed or judged in this lesson. Felix also
was in the balances. His conscience was
accusing him for his sin. He trembled
for fear of the consequence of his sin.
Many times men have committed sin
which has made them afraid all their
lives, and •they have been unable to die
fn peace." Felix trembled over his
sin, but put off the remedy for curing
them. If he had only listened to Paul
ani received Christ they would have all
been pardoned; bub he loved his sins
so much that he put it off until' some
other time, and that time probably 'nev-
er came. How foolish for boys and girls
or for any ono to put off becoming
Christians. Christians do not treiittile
when they hear about right living and
the judgment to came. They know that
to die will be their gain.
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TORONTO, 'MARKETS. ,
LIVE STOCK. •"
The railways reported 58 car fouls of
live stock at the City Market for Wed-
nesday's market.
There was little ehango in price's in
any class of live ' atock, witi3•'a steady
but quiet trade all rolfedsr `
Butchers. -George Rowntree bought
for the Harris Abattoir Co 230 • cattlg ;
butchers' steerseend heiferse14.20 to .$5
per cwt. e. cows, $1.50 to $4.40; bills,
• $2.50 to $4 per 'cwt. •
Feeders. -Harry Murby reports prices
and trade steady at Tuesday's quotations
Mr. Murky bought 4 loads at $2.75 to
$3.75; and 1 load Manitoba feeders, 900
lbs. each, at $3.65 per cwt.
Milkers and Springers, -Trade in milk-
ers and springers was generally good.
Fred Rowntree bought 15 milkers and
'springers at $48 to $68 eaoh. Mr. Rown-
tree sold a selected load of choice milk-
ers and springers to Mr. Armitage,. of
Lachine Rapids, at an average of $58
each.
Veal Calves-Pricea for veal calves
were inclined to be strong at $3 to $6.-
50, and $7 per cwt. D. Rowntree bought
40 for Wesley Dunn at $8 each, and A.
Pugsley bought 30 calves for Harris
Abattoir Co., at $3 to $7 per cwt.
Sheep and Lambs. -Trade in sheep
and lambs was steady, with prices un-
changed. A. Pugsley bohght for Har-
ris Abattoir Co, 350 lambs at $5.25 to
$5.80 per cwt.; 120 sheep, $3.75 to $4
per cwt. D. Rowntree bought,- Wes-
ley Dunn 900 lambs at $5:75 per.ewt„
average price; 100 sheep, at $3.80 per
cwt,, average price.
Hogs. -Prices unehanged for hogs, at
$8 for selects, fed and watered, and $7.-
75 for f.o.b. cars atcountry points.
FARMERS' MARKET.
The offerings of wheat to -day were
200 bushels, which sold at $1 to $1.01
for fall. Barley, unchanged, 200 bushels
selling at 58 to 60c.
Hay, quiet and unchanged, with sales
of 25 loads at $16 to $20 a ton for tim-
othy, and at $8 to $10 for clover. Straw,
easier, a load of bundled selling at $14
a ton; loose sold at 88.
Dressed hogs are easier, with p°rices
from $10.75 to $11.
Wheat, white, new ....$ 1 00 $ 0 00
Do., red, new „ - . .. 1 00 0 00
Do., goose . - . .. .. 0 96 0'00
Oat's, new, bush .. .. , , 0 42 0 43
Barley, bush .. - - .. . . 0 58 0 59
Rye, bush . , , .. 0 08 0 70
Hay, timothy, ton - , , .. 16 00 20 00
Do., clover, ton .. , . , . 8 00 10 00
Straw, per ton .. . o• .16 00 0 OQ
Seeds-
klsike, fartcy, bush' 6 75
Do., No. 1 :. .. 6 50
Do., No. 2. .. 25 ' 5 50
Do., No. 3.. 4 85 . 5 00
Red clover, bush . , 7 00 7 50
Timothy .. 1 40 1 60
Dressed hogs .. .. „ .• 10 75 11 00
Butter, dairy .. . , , , , 0 23 0 28
Do., inferior .. . , . , 0 20 0 21
Eggs, dozen... . - ... , 0 30 0 32
Chickens, lb.. .. 0 14 0 15
Ducks, ib.. , . .... , 0 13 0 15
Turkeys, Ib.. .. 0 20 0 22
Geese, lb.. ..... 0 11 0 12
Fowl, lb... , , , . , , , 0 10 0 11
Apples, bbl.... , , , , . , , 1 00 2 50
Potatoes, load, bag . , 0 60 0 70
Celery, dozen .. , , , 0 30 0 35
Onions, bag .. ., ,... , 1 40 1 50
Cauliflower. dozen .. 0 75 1 25
Cabbage, dozen .. .. 0 60 0 75
Beef, hindquarters . . 10 00 10 50
Do., forequarters , , , , 5 00 6 00
Do., choice, carcass . . 8 00 8 75
Do,, medium, carcass . 7 00 8 00
Mutton, per cwt.... 8 00 9 50
Veal, prime, per cwt 8 00 10 50
Lamb, per cwt. . .. , . 9 00 10 00
HORSE EXCHANGE.
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West Toronto -Trade on the Horse
Exchange showed signs of recovery this
week from the dullness of the summer
season, although it will be a few weeks
yet before the normalestateof activity
will be resumed on this market.
On Monday and to -day about 150
horses were sold, including some of the
finest heavy draught stock ever seen
here. There were aver a hundred young
heavy draughts which weighed from 1,-
450 to 1,700 pounds each. The good de-
mand for lumber and railroad horses
helped to dispose of a large number of
the heavy animals at high prices.
The general range of prices remained
at about the same level as last week, as
follows: Heavy draughts, $180 to $220;
general purpose, $140 to $175; wagon
and express horses, $150 to $200; driv-
ers, $100 to 8160; serviceably sound, $35
to $70.
OTHER MARKETS
WINNIPEG WIIEAT MARKET.
Wheat-Ootober 061-2c, December. 64c,
May 98 7-8e.
Oats-Octover 34e, December 3e 7-8c,
May 36e. •
THE CHEESE MARKETS,
Macke, Ont.---To-thy 050 boxes Cheese
boarded; all ' sold at 113.8e.
Teterboro, Ont.-Te-ckty `3,188 colored
offered; all sold at 113.8c.
Woodstock, Ont.--efo-day .911 white,
1,400 colored; 11 3-8c bid; no sales.
BRITISH CATTLE MARKETS.
• London. London cables ,for cattle, are
lower, at 12 to 13 3.4e par Ib. for Cana-
dian steoru, dressed weight; refrigerator
beef is quoted at 11 1.4 to 11 1-2e per lb,
MONTREAL LIVE STOCK.
Monlree l: About • 1,200 head of but-
chers'
utchers' cattle, 150 calves, 35 mileh. cows,
000 Sheep and lambs, and 800 hogs were
offered for sale at the mast End Abat-
tole this foreseen. 'Trade was fair, with. •
,theeprloce of cattle about the saute as on
Monday, !rut kv fhb end'huge are higher.
Prime beeves sak at e3-4 to 5e per lb:;
pretty good 'animal*, 31.2 to • 41-2e;
ormus,tn stook, 2 to 3 1-4e per lb About
a dozen lean old, c ow., wive sold at $9.50
each, of 1'1-4e p•.i Ib. Calves soldat
from it toli 1-2e per lb. Sheep sold at
.1-2 to 3P-4.0 pro.• Ib.; iambi at 5:3-4 to,
Se per ib: Gooch lots of fat hogs sold
at 9 1-4 to 91-2c nor, Ib.
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SHEARING SHEEP BS' MACHINE.•
Western Ranchmen Dispensing With
Hand Work.
N. Y. Sun: The great sheep camp of
the United States is now in the North-
west. The rhea, ing of the twenty er
)iiore million sheeli that produce wool,
like the garnering of wheat and other
big crops, requires the employment for
a more or les; shortened period of'a
large number oar man, The local labor
supply is entirely insufficient and were
it not for the existence of a partly
organized body of nomads, who start in
at the south and work their way. north
as the season broadens, great difficulty
would be met with.
Many of these shearers are easterners,
New York furnishing quite a number-.
Before reaching Montana or Wyoming
they have relieved many thousands . of
sheep of their fleeces. They begin down
in Texas or perhaps Arizona and work
north, taking in Kansas, Nebraska, Utah,
Wyoming and the Dakotas before they
land in Montana.
Many of them also come from the
West. This gang starts in in Cali henia,
and after shearing its way through
Oregon, Washington and 'Main re::elus
Montana to aid in garnering on common
ground the greatest crop o? wool in any
section.
These men are well paid and most of
them end the season with from $5500 In
$800 in their pockets. All are experts,
Most of them still use the wrist thong
and hand shears, but in the last few
years shearing by machinery has calm
in vogue and is rapidly supersedingiell
other methods.
The better hand shearers average 100
sheep a day, and there are a few who
have a record of 200 in twelve hours. It
is hard work. A man must stand with
legs stiff for honrs, he must lean over
until he can almost reach his toes and
he must all the time be holding down a
struggling, frightened animal.
These hand workers are paid at the
rate of seven or eight cents for each
fleece tied up and delivered to the
sacker. The grading is done in advancd
of the shearing, so that subsequent trou-
ble is avoided.
After the shearing hag been accom-
plished the wool is sacked in long bale -
like burlap forms and turned over to the
freighters. Montana is not gridironed
with railroads, and it is a long drive
from many of the ranches to the rail-
way depot or wool market. Two and
sometimes three heavily laden wagons
are coupled together and with eight or
ten horses attached the outfit starts
across the hills. It is hard, slow going,
and if the rain comes and the roads get
gummy the freighters often have to go
into camp and wait for the sun to pave
the way. Sometimes wool has to be
hauled in this fashion for 125 miles.
In the last four or five years the
shearing machine has pnehed to the
front. An ingenious mechanic has de-
vised a shear which c'an be worked
either by hand or mechanical power, and
which has proven a tremendous econ-
omy. The machine is declared by sheep
men to be a far
e s ahead of the old hand
shears as the self -binder is in advance of
the old-fashioned cradle. R. M. Marquis.,
a Montana young gran, holds the world's
record bath for hind and for machine
shearing. At • Bower Brothers' ranch
near Martindale, Mont., 3m sheared 300
seven pound (to the fleece) waiters ingl
14 hours 46 minutes, taking off 2,650
pounds of wool with a machine. This
record will likely stand for a long time.
Marquis has been at the business for
about eight years and has often shorn
200 sheep a day and over ley hand,
and on the machine has several times
gone above 300. His average work in
\.lontan,a last season ran from 175 to
2.155 sheep a day, in nine and ten hour
clays. In one shearing season, 'not in -
eluding the fall work, he sheared 17,013
Flreep.
The man's work is almost as mechan-
ical as that of the machine he uses. He
starts in by grabbing the animal by the
right hind leg with his left hand, turn-
ing it easily over on its back. He then
pulls it into an upright position, with
its hindquarters on the ground and the
body resting between his legs. He begins
by parting the wool at the forward end
of the brisket and starts the clippers
going. Bent over at an angle of 70 or 80
cegrees, he keeps firm hold of the sheep
with his knees, turning the animal as
though it were in a vice and keeping the
skin stretched tight. When half way
through he has attained the position
of having partly stepped back, 'While the
sheep•is flat on its side. It is no trick
for him to finish the animal in two nlin•
utes, and he has turned out as many ae
twenty-eight in an hour..
Besides the advantage in time and la-
bor cost the machine does not hack or
cut the sheep, and it is possible to get
from a half to a pound and a half more
wool off each amnia]. The staple is
longer and this means a better price.
Usually it is not desirable •to send hand
sheared sheep to the market until a
week after the clip, as it takes that
long to feed them into presentable shape.
This is avoided by the use of the tire•
ebatiikal contrivance, which lacteal th.e
animal evenly clipped and free from cuts.
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The hand power machine is. in almost
universal use among the smaller flock
piasters who cannot afford a power
plant or are unal3te to get the servioes
of experienced shearing experts, who
keep date and route books much like the
average theatrical company manager.
The usual model consists of ra large
wheel, fastened to an upright beam in
the barn. On the face of this wheel
teeth are generated on an automatic ma-
chine that insures absolute accuracy.
This gear is enclosed' in a stationray
frame and drives a hardened steel cut
pinion, to which is connected a universal
joint flexible shaft. The pinion shaft is
fitted with a small turned balance wheel,
which, running at a high speed, gives
steadiness to the machine at all times.
The shears, which greatly, resemble at
the end a pair of barbers' clippers, fit
on to the end of this jointed shaft, and
this is operated much like the power de-
vices in dentists' shops for the drilling
or cleaning of teeth. With a boy to
turn the big wheel by a convenient han-
dle and a man to operate the shears it is
not much of a trick to denude the sheep.
The power plant machine is growing
in favor. Makers of various devices in
the last year on their own initiative and
for their own profit have established
power plants at points in the sheep belt,
The 'result has been that big sheep men
have taken to installing them with gaso-
line engines far motive power. Many of
these plants have as high as fifty shear-
ing machines, with power furnished from
overhead shafting and gearing. The
newest departure in this line is an elec-
trically driven affair, with direct con•
nections, so that the instant a machine
is stopped to change cutters or combs or
so that another sheep may be caught or
let go the power is cut off absolutely
from telt one, while the others keep at
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trouble public so you may publish
this letter." -Mus. Cis. BAncr.ey,
E.F.D.,Graniteville, Vt.
No other medicine for woman's ills
has received such wide -spread and un-
qualified endorsement. No other med-
icine we know of has such a record
of cures of female ills as has Lydia E.
P1nkham's Vegetable Compound.
For more than 30 years 11 has been
curing female complaints such' aa
inflammation ulceration, local weak-
nesses, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, indigestion
and nervous prostration, and it is
unequalled for carrying women safely
through the period of change of life.
It costs but little to try ydia E.
Pinkhamas Vegetable Compound, and,
as bdrs. Barclay says, I t is "worth moun-
tains of gold to suffering women,