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INTERNATIONAL LESSON NO. XII.
SEPTEMBER 20, 1903.
Abstinence From Evil. -4 Pot.
Dorementta.ry— T. The true Lite (vs.
i., 2). 1. Florasm•ucii ,— Compare 3,
IS. The apostle pointe us to Christ's
suefferings a,s an exempts . Arm
yourselves.—,With a resolution such
as animated him to suffer all the
evils to which you may be exposed
in 'the body,, and ;particularly to suf-
fer death if called lay Gpd to do so
for your religion. For this wi11 be
armor -proof against all of your en-
ernes.—Benson. Re than Bath suf-
ered, etc.—It is only ►by, o severe con
flirt in which you must be armed
With a. readiness to suffer with Christ
that the plower of sin over you can
be 'made to cease. Ars long as we
are in the •flesh, we shall need to
fight against sin ; but we shall con-
tinue to conquer through Christ.
2. No longer should live.—Refer•-
ring to the preceding ci,awse, "arm
yourselves with the same mind that
was in Christ, in order to Jive no
longer in the flesh—to the lusts of
men, but to the will of God." We
cannot deliver ourselves •from the
filth of sin; but ,when we are re-
newed, taking on a likenese of Christ,
then .we are armed against the lusts
and defilements of the world. To
the will of God.—This will be a. new
life. The only true way to live is
to live in harmony with the will of
God. What he wu,lis is best and to
the Christian is "good and accept-
able." (Rom. 12, 2.)
II. The oke life (v,s. 3, 4). May suf-
fice—A .gentle way of .saying we
,have, ,spent too long a time in our
sins. Of the Gentiles—he term
Gentiles here means evil ones; in-
temperate, wicked and wanton ; in-
dulging in every sin forbidden by
God and man. Excess of wine, etc.—
lnitemperance was e curse in the
apostle's day as well as in our our
own. He utters against it condem-
nation of no uncertain sound. Ev-
ery person and especially every 'man
,of God should be outspoken; against
Intemperance. Abominable idolatries
—"In an age when sensuality was
wrought into all formes of literature
and art was blazoned shamelessly
in the decorations of private douses
and enshrined in the temples of the
gods the contrast of a chaste and
godly conversation in the Christian
community witnessed for the saving
and cleansing power of the gospel.
4. Think It .strange—It is strange
;bo a carnal man to see the child of
God disdain the pleasures off sin ; he
krow.s not the higher and purer
purer pleasures that the Christian
is called to.—Leighton. Excess of riot
—Rather, "same sloi..gh, of debauch-
ery." Speaking evil of you — The
tricked and dissolute always have' a
sneer for those who refuse, to share
In their evil dotage
111. An account to bo rendered to
God (ve. 5, 6). 5. Shall give account
--Ile batch the day set ; and it shall
shall surely come, though they think
It far off. Ready to judge—See chap.
I. 6. As tire aeration of the godly is
fully arranged, so is the judgment
of their cultminators, whether living
or dead.
6. The gospel preached, also—They
that formerly received the gospel
received It upon these terms. And
they' are now dead. All the pain of dy-
ing ie over for them. If .they had not
did to their sins by thie gospel they
had died in them, and ,;o died eter-
nally. It is therefore a wise preven-
tion to have sin 'judged and put to
dearth In us before we die. If we will
not pant with sin, if we tile in it and
with it we seal' perish forever ; but
U h die firett, before us, then we live
forever.: Butler. Live to God —A
bitter fountain seeds forth bitter
waters; a sweet fountain waters
that are sweet. A soul living' in God
will elbow that life by action. If the
heart be right in the sight of Jeho-
vah the outward man will reflect
his image.
eXV. Various exhortations (vs. 7-11).
(l.. End .at hand—"This might have
been saidat any point of the world's
'durationBe sober, and watch unto
prayer --Sobriety is the friend of
watohifulnese, and prayer of both.
When the affections are kept quiet-
ly under control and care hs taken
that even in lawful thing they fol-
low the world pant lightly; when nee-
eslsary dattiee of this life are done
faithfully, yet with a mond free and
disengaged, then the maul can more
easily turn to spiritual things and
and be ready continually for divine
meditation and prayer.
8. Above all things—Paul puts love
at the head of the Christian graces,
in his matchless chapter on; charity
(I. Cor. 18). Peter likewise does the
same. Paul goes so Earl as to say,
" Love is the fulfilling of the law."
Charity must bo as the crown, or
tho outer garment. Cover...... Sins—
It delights not in undue disclosing
of brethren's failings, and dotht not
expose them willingly to the eyes
of others.
9-11. Hbsptitality—As would often
be necessary toward tire sufrering
Without grudging Not murmur -
at the coot or trouble. The gift
—Endowment of any kind, but es-
pecially that conferred by the. Holy'
Spirit — money, ability, influence, or
whiatever God has given. Good stew-
ards—Wtratevcr we have is to be
ereinistered" to others as God may
direct. We are his stewardst What
we mall our own, came. from God; and
belongs to God, and we should, as
" good stowa,rde," use It to leis
glory.
P,RACT(CeL SURVEY. (
The ministry of suffering occupies
a prominent place and perform% an
essential and necessary part in th'e
work of human redeniprtiorr andt,.sal
vation•. In carrying forward to a
srccessful completion' God's purposed
and plane for the redemption of man
there was necessarily metalled on the
patriarchs and prophets the types
Of ;the Jewish' dispensation and on
the Son of God—tie antitype of the
Christian, dispensation„ an ant
told amount of ,suffering. The Pier-
son wlrb would " Josue to do evil"
and. "learn to do well" must pass
through' an ordeal of suffering so
intense as to be con a red, in the
Scripture's to the experience and
passion of Jesus Christ, wh'o was
preeminently the "manof sorrows"
and who ",suffered for sins,the fust
for the urrnjust, that He might
bring us to God." The term suffer,
or its equivalent seaside out very
conespfcuously in this "first epistle
general of Peter," as it relates to
Christ and flis followers.
Three things are involved in man
abstaining from evil: 1. The cruci-
fixion of the selfish life. The princi-
ple of evil, denominated "our old
man" (Rom. vi. 6, Eple iv. 22, Cal.
iii. 9), the flesh" (IGa1i vr. 24). This
Lo the source from whence all evil
proceeds (Matt. xvt 19); and ties is
the personality that must suffer and
sooner or Later die in order 'that the
individual may abstain from evil
(Matt. xvi. 25, Rom,. vi, 5, ;Gat. 11.
19, 20). G. The practice of self-de-
nial. The principles of self-denial are
capable of a broad and delep applica-
tion as 'they stand related to (a) in-
herent selfishness and Its ramifica-
tions and relations when we take the
initial. step in the Christian life (Mark
viii. 34, 85, Luke xis, 26), and also
In (b) the destruction of inherited
depravity (John xii. 24, 25, Rom, xiii.
14, Col. Iii, 5). '(c) The bodily appe-
tites and passions must be kept under
due restraint, if we would abstain
from evil. Paul remarks in regard
to his own practice, "I buffet (Greek,
bruise) my body, and bring it into
bondage ; lest by any means, after
that I have preached to others, I
myself should be rejected" (I. Cor, ix.
27, R. Vi) 3. The being fully identi-
fied with the Lord Jesus in antagon-
ism to all evil and in earnestly and
persistently laboring to promote ,the
principles and purity of His kingdom
In the earth. Jesus was aggressively
good as well as quiescently good.
He was the Lion of the tribe of Judah
as well as the Laan,b of God. We must
"abhor that which is evil" as well
as "cleave to that which is good"
(Rom. xii, 9).
We find that "the doctors don't
agree" in their construction of the
two difficult points in the lesson
found in verses one and six. We can
only da the best we ca,n to construe
them in accordance with the tenor
of Scripture. We will give the opinion
of twu divines on verse six widen
seem to har,rmonize with the teach-
ings of the Bible. "For. this purpose
hath the Gospel been preached even
to the d,e„ad (i .e., the Gentiles), that
although they might be condemned,
Indeed, by men In the flesh (tbeir per-
secutors), yet they might live eter-
nally by God in the spirit." "The
word 'dead' here must be taken to
mean those who are dead while they
live. But even with this alteration,
It is difficult to see clearly what the
verse means. Now it is said that the
construction of the Greek allows of
the insertion of the word 'although';
just as in a passage' in Rom. vi. 17,
which we never read without men-
tally inserting the word 'although.'
If that be so, the meaning is evident:
"Fear to tills end was the Gospel
preached, even to them who were
dead in sins, that [although] they
might be judged, condemned, perse-
anted, put to death according to men
In the nettle they might live ac,tord-
Lng to God in the spirit.' Spiritual
life is God'e end with es, let men do
to us what thee may. And the spir-
itual life Is often developed by means
of what mein do to me. Every act of
perisecution is to be followed 'by a
deeper peape, aholier purity, a higher
power." Jamgs Craig.
Miss Agnes Miller, of Chicago,
speaks to young women about
dangers of the Menstrual Period
— how they can avoid pain,
suffering and remove the cause.
"I suffered or six years with dys-
menorrhea (pained periods), so much so
that I dreaded every month, as I knew
it meant three or four days of intense
pain. The doctor said this was due
to an inflamed condition of the uterine
appendages caused by repeated and
neglected colds and feet wetting.
"If young girls only realized how
dangerous it is to take cold at this
critical time, much suffering would be
spared them. • Thank God for Lydia
L. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-
pound, that was the only medicine
which helped Inc any. Within three
weeks after X started to take it, I
noticed a merited improvement in my
general health, and at the time of my
neat monthly period the pain had
diminished considerably. I kept up
the treatment and was cured a month
later. I am like another person since
I am in perfect health"—Miss Aexers
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the condition of woman's health.
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TURKEY'S STRONG ARMY.
An Organization That Can Turn Over
1,000,000 Men into the Field.
At the time of writing, when the
B;,lirnri pefiiesula, is virtually an
armed Camp, and the despatch of
Markle, troops, including many Ase
eeic battalions, to gusted the fron-
tierta, continues without cessation,
the defensive and offeusive capabil-
ities of the Ottoman Empire may fit-
ly be ealield,er'ed. Luring the war
with Graepe in 18,97 the Sultan mobil-
ized 600,000 men without any greet
effort ; but, while that campaign
brought out the rapidity of mobiliza-
tion and the devotion and endurance
of the Turkish soldier, it also reveal-
ed in high commands indectrsion and
lethargy, and 10 organization not a
few weak point,s. Since then new
lams and sweeping reforms have been
[gut into operation, with.the view to
perfecting the organization accord-
ing to the most approved German
methods; while the Sultan has de -
Waxed it his resolve to increa,,se the
war footing of iris er'miees to a total
of one and a half million,.. The organ-
ization of the Turkieb. army only
takes Mussnlnians into account. In
,spite of provisions to the contrary
1aa:i down in 1836, Cbristiaaos are still
excluded from the Ottoman military
eervice and are compelled to the pay-
ment of a au,batitution tax.
It Is only in the medic:el corp time
non-Musesulmaf officers, usua,Ily Ar-
nim:dans or Jewes, are found. Certain
Miliesulmans, suo,b a,s nahtivee of Con-
stantinople, the north of Albania,
Arabia., and Tripoli ,are also exempt
from military eervioe; while a targe
number of tee Asiatic tribes, Kurds
anti Arabs, representing a population
of over a million and a half, escape
regular recruiting either by legal ex-
emption or from their own refusal to
eu(bmit to it. ' C
For Ottoman subjects military ser-
vices is obligatory for twenty years,
viz., tram the age of n0 to 40, and
It is divided as follows : Six years
with the Nizam, or active army ;
eight years with tilt Relit, or reserve
army; and six years with the Must
tans, or Landstuurm. The ,service
with the colors is ac"ording to regu-
lation, three years tho remaining
three years of actio service being
spent in the Nizam reserve, but the
former period le frequently extended.
to four, five or even more years. The
registration list of recruits shows
that 120,000 men are liable to ser-
vice each year, but ,as a matter of
fact, only about 80,000 are incorpor-
ated into the army. A few years
back the Leakage was considerably
more.
The Nizam troops have a peace
strength of 216,530 and; a. was
strength of 374,3000, while in peace
or war the number of guns is the
came viz., 1,494. The Nizam com-
prise 820 infantry .battalions, 200
squadrons, 255 horse field, howitzer
and mountain batteries, 145 neige and
fortress artillery companies, .36 com-
panies of engineers, eight railway
and five telegraph companies, 24
companies of military train troops
and 63 companies of artificers and
workmen. Whore are 874 battalions
of Redif cavalry. In addition there
aro distributed through the whole
empire 136 battalions of gendarmerie
and 200 squadrons of mounted egn-
darmes.
Since 1891 endeavors have been
made to' utilize the more warlike of
the Kurd tribes by farming them into'
a special militia on the Cossack
model. This militia, called the Ham -
Idle, after the reigning Sultan, their
organizer, comprises 266 squadrons.
Every man furnisheas his own equip -
went fund mount and is armed with
a lance. So fax the Kamidie have
only succeeded in earning for them-
selves, an unenviable notoriety on
account of their outrages in Armenia,
and they form a dangerous element
in the army at large.
Laetly, there is—on paper at least
—a large local reserve called the
dlla.we. The latter are composed of
men, principally! Asiatics, exempt
hitherto from military! 'service, to-
gether with the overflow of the an-
nual contingent of Osmanli recruits.
There are said to be 666 battalions of
Laws, but In .peace tirne each battal-
ion consists of a permanent cadre
Of nine officers and twelve non -corn-
miesioried officers. The Mustafiz have
no organization of any kind except
in time of war ; nevertheless they,
are far from being a negligible quan-
tity, ,tor two divisions were muster-
ed wiltsease toward the end of the
recent wear with Greece.
The Nizaan 'etre splendid soldiers,
their long term of service adding
greatly; to their effectiveness, and the
Redif ere almost their equals, In-
deed, the portion most worthy of
note In the Turkish organization, .s
the Redif. These troops possess per-
manent cadres, composed of all the
officers necessarst for the mobiliza-
tion of the units, and Turkish offi-
cers consider it a distinction to be
appointed to the Relit. Each of the
seven military: districts Is divided in-
to Sou rdiylslonal areas, these again
being partitioned into subdivisions
corresponding to the different units
of the Redif, down to and including
the company. The Captains reside in
the Midst of their compkt,ny district,
and attend to the training of the
men, who aro called out u.euallyf Tor
one month every' two years.
At the present date the Ottoman
Empire can mobilize nineteen army
corps, twelve of which are Redif,
while the total armed strength, ex-
cluding the gendarmerie and the
MustaSfz, is a,s 'follows :
O.ificers ................... 19,000
320 battalions of Nizam in-
fantry ............ ........ 22;4,000
374 battalions of Redif in-
/entre 280,000
666 battalions ofIlawee in-
fantry' ..„.. 660,000
200 regiments of Nizam and
Redif eavalryj 25,000
225 batteries of horse, field
mountain and howitzer ar-
tillery ,. 28,000
145 companies of siege and
fortress artillery, ... et29,000
Technical troops ... ..... 10,000
266 squadrons of Hamidie
cavalry ...... ..-,. 35,000
Grand total ... ... ... .._...1,310,000
—From the St. James' Gazette.
THE TUBERCLES on the skin of scrofulous
people produce the hideous disease called
lupus Weaver's Cerate will save the skin.
Cleanse the blood with Weaver's Syrup.
WHY INDIANS au
LOVE THUNDER. 11
Among some tribes of Indians the
thunder is held in great reverence;
they sing songs to it, and have
dances in its honor.
As a reason for.doing this they(tell
the following story
Once upon a time threee young men
woke on the war path from their
homes, whan the youngest of them
had the misfortune to break his leg.
By Indian law it became the duty
of the other two warriors to carry
the youth safely to his home. So
they made a rude, litter and carried
him on it until they became tired.
Finally they came to a range of
mountains and, as the ;trail was
steep and it was hard work to carry
the youth any further, they laid the
litter down and went to one side,
where they held pouncii together.
"Let us leave our wpunded wars-
panion where he is,” said one. "It
is too much work to carry him far-
ther."
"Agreed," said the other. "We
will say that he way killed by the
enemy and no one will ever be the
wiser, for he will certainly die, if
ore leave him. here."
4o the wicked men threw the youth
into a deep cleft in the rocks and
went on their way home to the vil-
lage. When they had Dome there
they reported that the boy had died
from wounds received in a fight
with the enemy.
Great was the grief of the boy's
widowed mother, who wept and
groaned at the lose of her son.
Bat the youth wee not dead. As
he lay in the cleft In the rocks
where the wicked warriors had
thrown him, he saw, sitting It lit-
tle way off, a strange looking okl
main, who said to him,
"Ah, my son, who,t bave your,
friends done to you ?"
"They have left me here ttr die,"
I r.uippose," replied the youth with
crentnea's, for be was ashamed to
allow that be was afraid.
"Oh, you will not die if you will
agree to do as I require," said the
man, "I will make you well again,
but in turn you must be my slave,
and hunt for, me all the rest of your
life."
To this the youth agreed, as he
saw no other. way out of his predica-
ment ; and the old pian (who was not
an old man at all, but a porcupine
who had assumed the shape of an
old man) cured him of the hurts and
soon had hem hunting for him and
bringing home the game he killed
to the cleft in the rocks.
"Whenever you kill anything which
is too heavy for you to carry, call
rue anti I will come and help you,"
said the old man.
All winter the youth hunted for
hie master. One day when the spring
had tome the youth killed a big bear
which wars too heavy for him to
carry to the cleft in the rocks alone.
"Now I will go and call the old
man," he said.
But, just as he was stooping down
to feel of the bear and see how fet
he was, he heard a murmur of voices
behind him, and, turning In surprise.
beheld three men, or figures in the
al supe of men, who wore cloud -like
garments with wings.
"Who are you And what are you
doing in this wilderness where no
man ever corneae' cried the youth.
Then they told hina that they were
the Thunderers, whose mission it was
to go about over the earth doing
good, and destroying `)rings which
harried. mankind. ,Yost now' they
were after the old man who lived
in the cleft in the recite, who was
no old man at all, but a wicked por-
cupine, as they would presently prove
to him.
'Ann hack," they Cakl, "anti tell
pyou to come and help, Wirth the
bear."
So the youth went and told the
old man that be must come and help
carry the bear home. But the old;
man said he con bi not go out if
there wasany sign of a cloud Tn
the sky.
The youth looked around and said
that the sky was clear. So the old
man came out and went with him to
where the carcass of the big bear
was lying. Then they it up the
bear, the old man constantly urging
the youth to make haste, and the
meat was placed on the old man's
shoulders as he directed, the youth
all the time being greatly astonished
at the strength he showed.
Loaded with the bear meat the old
man began to run toward the cleft
in the rooks as fast as he could, but '
cloud began to 'gather rapidly 3n
the sky and the thunder rumbled in
the distance.
The old man threw down his load
and ran faster and faster, but the
thunder rumbled nearer and nearer.
Then the old man assumed his
proper shape of a huge porcupine,
and went scampering away, shooting
his quills out behind him as he ran.
But the thunder followed him with
peal after peal until, finally, a bolt
of lightning struck him and de-
stroyed him.
Then the three Thunderers appear-
ed again and said to the youth : "Now
that our work here is done we will
carry you home to your mother,
who has been grieving for you all
the time."
So they gave him a cloud suit
with wings like their own, and the
four swept away through tbe air to
the Indian village where the youth's
widowed mother dwelt.
It was night when he found him-
self in bis mother's confleld, and,
going to the opening of the lodge, he
drew back the curtain which cov-
ered it and stood there in the moon-
light.
The widow started up and gazed
at him with terror, but he' said:
" Do not be frightened, mother ; it
is no ghost, but your long -lost son,
who has come back to take care of
you."
Then the widow wept tears of 'joy,
while he told her all his adventures,
and they lived happily ever ;after.
And that is why the Indians dance
and sing to the thunder.
Linguistic Laziness.
The laziest el all laziness, say's
Herbert IW. Horwili in the Critic, is
the practice of coining unnecessary!
new- words. It might have been sup-
posed, that, waren there is alreade
in existence a word which exactl. '
denotes tbe idea to be expressed, it
would be easier to fall back upon
this word than to invent another. In
fact, however, it often requires less
effort to construct a linguistic mon-
strosity, than to lied the term that
has been consecrated be good usage.
Take, for instance, such words as
e rtenguishwent, revealment, with-
drawment, devotement, denotement
and startlement. it is not difficult
to trace the mental process. The
word, extinguish, was in the epeak-
er',s mind. lie wanted a noun, and to
stick -meat" on to the verb was an
expedient nearer to band than the
search for "extinction." Occasionally,
the quick change is from the noun to
the verb. When a. mann saes, "to ad-
mintstra;te," we may; be sure. that he
first thought of "adm'iniatration,'4
and that he was then in too great
a burry to notice that the analogy;
tests ouch pairs as celebrate and
celebration, would mislead him. If one
were making a collection of linguis-
tic curios, one might add to it such
exhibits as propellation, affirmance,
client age, reminniscential, move-
less, traditionary, ieisuristic, un -
sympathy, and bishoply. In the mind
of the offender there seems almost
to be lurking akind of predatory!
false etiology, which grabs at his
expression and distorts them be-
fore be can help himself.
Is it too late to purify our speecbt
from these mischievous tendencies, or
must we be content to see a great
language turned into shoddy? Cer-
tainly the edfectivenese of English as
an organ of thought is weakened byl
the careless use off its vocabulary.
The creation of redundant words
really+ adds nothing to the resources
or a tongue, and the overworking of
some words, combined with, the un-
derworking of others, means actual
Impoverishment. Only a pedant world
object to the gradual expansion of
the dictionary by insane of the ad-
option of new idiome and terms.
When our ancient metaphors have •
lost their edge, we may be par-
doned if we turn even to colloquial -
toms for pointed expressions to take
their place. But there is no' pro -
through confusion. --Chicago Post.
The Charm of Automobile Touring
Despite the retire. and disagree-
able weather which has prevailed
over a large section of the country;
during the greater part of the past
season, there has been a remarkable
amount of touring accomplished,
much at it under very adverse cir-
cumstances, from which the sport
should derive great benefit. The
charm of automobiling lies loss in
the sport itself than in the unusual
contact with people and things, and.
conversely,', the touring automobil-
ist journeying leisurely; over country
lriighways and byways, stopping
wherever inclination may, declde.,(or
circumstanoes compel), brings the
charm al the now pastime and the
advantages of the new vehicle most
strikingly to the attention of the
people with whom he comes in con-
taet, and so does missionarye work
of a, vette substantial nature. Motet
eters the touring automobilist le us-
ually it law-abiding indl^i'idual, who
freeing within reasonable limits of
speed, and so does nmch to counter -
not the evil effect of the automobile
scorcher,—A'. P. Burolrell in. Leslie's
iWeekk s . t '.: ;