Exeter Advocate, 1904-11-3, Page 6RECOGNIZES NO DISTINCTIO
The Divine Law Has Not One Criminal Code
for the Palace and Another for the Hut
KEnsered according to Act os tee Vat'
itaroorit of Canada, in OA year One
Thous/nal Nino Rundred sad Pour.
• by Wm, Bally, of Toronto, at the
)apartment of Agriculture, Ottawa-)
A despatch from LOS Angeles, Cal.,
says: lecv. Frank De Witt Talmage
preaehed from the following text:—
, "What sayest thou?"• '
Vr you studied constitutional
law? Without doubt it offers one of
the most appetizing feasts over spread
in the lemquet hall of the mental
epicurean. It follows with aliening
eyo the ramifications of a govern-
Ment's internal orgaaism, even AS a
medical student searehes oat the en-
tangled pathways of the nerves a,nd
muscles and arteries of the human
frame. It tells us where the brain
is, where the heart is and why the
arm is sinewy and strong. It tells
from whence ecimes the source which
creates tlie law and whence thepower
which execates the 'law.
In the kingdom of God we have
also a supreme authority. The coun-
cils of the churches limey fornaulate
'doctrines, make decrees and con -
street creeds and catechisms, but
high over all there is the will of the
greet King of kings. Christ is the
supreme ruler of his kingdom, and
his word is tlie test by which every
dogma and practice must be judged.
Let us consider some of the charac-
teristics of this government.
NOT AN ABSOLUTE MONAROEL
First, it is an. absolute monarchy,
We liave governments on earth that
we describe as absolute monarchies,
meaning that they have ens constitu-
tion. There are thousands of things
tvhicli the Russian czar would like to
do which he cannot do. In an in-
finitely higher sense is Christ the
absolute rifler in his kingdom. In
this wiadona and power he governs
'without check, and his word is the
law and life of his people. "I am
the Alpha and Omega, the beginning
and the ending, saith the Lord,
which is and was and which is to
come the Almighty.''.
A significant illustration of elirist's
originality and his freedom from cur-
rent principles an,c1 prejudices is given
in the -gospels, and it may lielp us
to understand his attitude if we
study the story. One day while
Jesus was teaching in the temple
surrounded by the people the scribes
and Pharisees tried to entrap him.
Righls into the temple where Jesus
was they dragged a trembling, fright-
ened, sobbing woman who had been
take e in adaltery. Right througl.
the crowds '�f listeners they pushed
her. Then tthey cried out in stentor-
ian tones so that all could hear:
"Mester, what shall we do svitli her?
Shall we stone her to death, as
Moses commanded, or shall we let
her go free?'Instead of Christ
condemning • or acquitting the poor
creature, as they all supposed he
must do, Christ by his actions as
well as by the word of lip con-
demned the men who were her ac-
• cusers. What was the meaning of
that judgment? We ca.nn.ot for a
moment suppose that a being so pure
as Christ thought lightly of so hein-
ous a sin. It must h:avebeen loath-
some and abhorrent to him, but we
may learn a lesson from the way in
which he treated the sinner and her
accusers, a lesson all the more weigh-
ty because it comes from Iiim who is
the embodied law of the kingdom of
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God.
NO DISTINCTTON AS TO SEX.'
The divine lavir, inthe first place,
makes no discrimination between the.
masceline and the.feminine sins. It
does not come to Man and smilingly
say, "Husband, you have a right to
be a libertine, while your wife must
tread the norms's path of virtue."
It does not say, "Brother, here in
the 'saloon of respeetability' you can
get drunk, but if your sister is found
in that saloon she will be disgraced
for life." It does not say that a
man can tell vile stories and fre-
quent the low race tracks and be the
companion of pugilistic thugs and
'dissolute characters and still be re-
spected, while a woman, having done
wrong, can never be allowed: to enter
again into the association of the
good and • the true and the respect-
able. But the divine law does say
this; "Oli, men, if the sin tliat this
WOMBS has committed is to he pun-
ished by stoning, every one of you
who thas committed the same sin de-
serves to be stoned also." A blase
ishems: from a inan's lips in the sight
of God is just as vile and culpable
as a blasphemy from a wonian's lips.
The sins of Ananias- and Aliab• ate
as evil .as the sins of Sapphira and
jerabel. And yet from time im-
memorial the world has always had
two criminal courts in which it has
judged lis moral • delinquents. The
ono is the "court of nterey" for nuts-
' culine offenders; the other is the
'"court of no hope," in whie.ii lynx -
eyed .Tecige Ilardheart sits upon the
beech, charging the. jury of "no re-
grets". and sentencing woman 'defend-
ant after Woman defendant to a life
ilium-Likelier:zit in the ."penitentlary of
despair,"
Ililea, JUSTLY WITIT THE El ZISING
The highe(st compliment which in
chivelrie times could be given rthout
a father Wes, "I -Tia daughters were
all vistuous and his sons were all
brave," But Why should not the
sons he trirtimus as well ns the-
elaughtere? And yet man -0 bitter
man, censorious' and guilty man ;-
thou art ready to con:clonal thy sis-
ter When thou are not reedy to con-
ches% thyself. Soeeph I'erker itt one
ef 'his groat addresses describes a
brother mthister sv14.0 had driven an
erring and yet repentant slaughter
aWety from his home. Joseph: Parker
pleaded end prayed with the angry
father to take her back. "But she
inas disgraced nay home," said he
"I cannot, I will not take her back."
"But, man," said Joseph Parker,
"in your younger days have not you
yourself also been guilty ef sin?"
"Yes," said the father, "but I ama
man wed she ia a woman. The
world judges man's sins differently
from a woman's sins." "That is
se," said Parker. "Men judges man's
mils• differently froni woman's sins,
but Christ judges botli the sins the
same. 'He that is without sin
among you, let lihrafirst cast a stone
at her.' And, parent, if you will
not be merciful to your daughter's
sins God will not be merciful with
you." Joseph Parker had divine
authority for his warning. Woman
condemned is man condenmecl. Wo-
man forgiven is man forgiven. No
more, no less. Oli, man, if you will
not deal gently w#11 an erring sis-
ter, God will never deal gently
with you,
NO DISTINCTION.
Do you believe God discriminates
betweeu the sins of the social class -
Ss? If you do, let me by the scene
of my text disabuse your mind of
that surmise. Come, let us push our
way through the multitudes crowd-
ing in the temple and find out who
compose that group. Who aro those
stroeg, fine looking men standing in
front of Christ? They are not in-
significant clerks. They aro not lab-
orers or farmers who have come in-
to town with dust begrimed clothes.
They are not hirelings el: beggars or
men and women who Mean perpetual
movings have become tramps • mid
vagabonds. Most of that group just
in front of Christ have keen intellec-
tual faces. They have in their phy-
sical movements the actions of sue-
cessftil men. They have in the
glance of their eyes the searching
power which bespeaks command!
"Those snen," wrote Dr. Strong,
"were the scribes. They were the
doctors of the law and the interpre-
ters of the Scripture." These other
men are the Pharisees. They were
so pazticular to keep themselves oet-
wardly unspotted from heathen cus-
toms that they carried extracts from
the Hebrew law about with them in
little boxes or phylacteries. They
had these boxes strapped co their
foreheads that all men might see
them. But when these men, these
leaders of Jerusalem, .were standing
there condemning a.pb"or outcast wo-
man for her sins Christ in, silence
was making agures upon the ground
with his fingers in which they might
read their own condemnation.
NO IMMUNITY GIVEN.
But I find in the next place an-
other trenchant lesson. The divine,
law does not accept zeal in bringing
others to justice as a ground for
ab-
solving the prosecutor of his own
wrongdoing. The scribes and Phar-
isees cannot atone for their sins by
denouncing- and condemning others.
Though a man might prove every
other man a living example of total
depravity and devote his like to the
exposure and arraignment of crime
inals, he must take his own place
at the bar and answer the indict-
ment of his own iniquities. Instanees
have been known of a criminal under
human government securing for
sell immunity immunity from punishment for
his own crimes.by betraying his lead-
er to the °filers of the law or even by
himself executing sentence on, that
leader, but such men are despised for
their "perfidy, evert by tless ceininunitY
that profits by.the' treachery: A
prirciple is applied in our courts
of justice when a man is alleived to
turn state's evidence. It sometimes
happens that there is no way of
convicting a notorious criminal but
by testienony of a confederate. That
confederate's evidence has to be pur-
chased, and the price paid is a par-
don for him of his own share in the
'crime. It is a heavy price to pay,
a miscarriage of justice, but it is a
result of the inadequacy of human
administration, and it has no place
uncles divine law.
FOR THE REPENTANT.
But, though the divine law was
an.d is so hard upon the unrepentant
sinner, how gentle, how loving, how
pardoning, how forgiving it was and
is to the repentant sinner who comes
asking for mercy at the foot of Jesus
Christ. • Sweeter than oven the
coming of a little child to be caress-
ed and forgiven by a loving mother
ls this picture in my text of a poor
coavicted outcast, trembling at the
feet of Christ and 'finding pardon and
peace and life. can see leer now
as the rough men are pushing her
up. Her face is scratched and
bleeding; she fights them step by
Stel) 1 see her as they fling her at
the alaster'e feet. There at first she
shrieks under his pure geze, expect-
ing that one so sinless will indorse
the condemnation of her accusers
and ia horror at her erime band her
over to the executioner. But, though
he Teethes her sin, he has COMPaS-
51011 for the repentant sinner. 1 see
her now, when all fear leavds her
and the bad Men turn their backs
upon her, • Now she looks up into
Chriet's faee with gratehil love.
Oh, my friends, though you may be
Scarred with the sins of an evil
past, though you may be .caSt out
by the world as one who ought to
die. mesas- and pardon in Christ you
will lied! Wall you not as a re-
Peritant 'sinner throw yourself at his
feet, where you will flud peace and
life and hope
And where did this broken hearted
Magdalene find her peace? Ali, yes,
it wits hi the temple! There the "di-
vine law of mercy" was revealed to
her. While Christ was teaching the
people the great lesson of God's
forgrson.ees of sin they brought her
to him.. In the temple Jesus turned
and said to her : "Neither do I con -
damn thee. Go end sin no more."
In the temple, in this building pf
worship of Jeans Christ, eh, sinful
Man, you may hear the voice of the
Master offering you pardon of sin!
You ean hear him, if, like the broken
hearted womau at the feet of Christ,
you are a repentant sinner; You can
if you will say, !Lord, save me and
eavb me now," That perdon through
°heist is the promise of the divine)
law. Will you take it? Will you re-
ceive it now?
130ERS' HIDDEN TREASURE.
Story of a Futile Sea.reli and of
Ultimate 'Recovery.
News was received at Krugersdorp
recently of the discovety in the- bush-
veld beyond Louis Trichardt's Drift
and the Spelonken of the famous bur-
ied teaser° which was 'secretly re-
moved from. the Pretoria Mint just
before Lord Robert's forces entered
the capital, and which form-
ed the romantic issue in the tragedy
culminating in the execution of ex -
Policeman Swarth. .The treasure
which consists of bar gold_ and coin,
approximately amounts to 60,000
ounces, and is valued at a quarter Of
a million sterling.
The story of its burial and recovery
is sensational itt the extreme. It is
a history of bloont. and crime, no
less. th,au,six men having lost their
lives in the 'burictl and thestibbaquent
search for the -gold, whiCh has lasted
since the declaration of peace. Of
the original party which was dis-
Patched to hide the gold not a sin-
gle soul is alive to -day. It appears,
that some twenty-four hours before
the occupation of Pretoria by the im-
perial forces, orders were received at
the mint from the late President
Kruger and Mr. Reitz, the then State
Secretary, to remove the greater Por-
tion of the gold which was extracted
from the Robinson, Rose Deep, Fer-
reira and other Mines to a secluded
spot in the bushveld, beyond Pieters-
berg.
It was known by the old Trans-
vaal officials that a. wagon with four
mules, Edcompanied by six specially
selected burghers, let Pretoria at
midnight with the gold, and van-
ished into the veld.' The ex -police-
man Swartz and the man whom. he
murdered, and for which he suffered
the last penalty, were among the
party. After burying the gold, four
of the wardens of thetreasure re-
joined the commandos: but a. luckless
Late seemed to have pursued them,
and they were all killed shortly af-
terward. For some time the search
appeared to have died out, and it
Was only through second or third
hand knowledge that a Kregersdorp
syndicate of six, including ex -Gens.
Kemp and Celliers, ex -Police Lieu-
tenant Van Zyl, W. D. Smith and S.
J. Kemp, cousin of the ex -General,
found out that there was State
treasure buried in the bushveld.
The party made repeated exploring
trips into the Low Country in the
bad season to escape observation,
and most of therm were stricken with
malarial fever. Each member took
a ditTerent direction, with the under-
standing that if any found the treas-
ure it was to be split up iuto equal
proportions. Only one member, how-
ever, found the burial place, and he
was ex -Gen. Celliers. The site was
between two peculiar trees. A red
fiagas a sign, was stuck up on one
of the trees, with a carcass of a
mule in between, one of the ribs of
the mule being imbedded in the
ground where the gold was buried.
On returning to Pietersburg, ex -Gen.
Colliers was prostrated with malarial
fever in the hospital, and while he
was hovering between life and death
he divulged part of his secret to _tho
other memth
members of e syndicate who,
however, after repeated searchings,
mately the syndicate broke up, de-
eiding to severally go their own
failed to find the 'spot. Some differ-
ences of opinion followed, and ulti-
The Government • authorities,, get-
ting:,wind of .-the-awhole . affair; Op-
proaehed an'eiceState official residing
ea' Kregersdorp, and he supplied
them with certain information,. and a
plan of the supposed site. While the
Government were acting on this in-
formation, Mr. S. J. Kemp, cousin
of the ex -General, had revived a
systematic search, with the result of
the discovery.
CONCERTS IN THE CAVE13.
English 'Town Finds Them Very
Cool in Summer.
The problem of providing entertain-
ment in cool and comfortable at-
mosphere during the hot weather has
been solved at Chislehurst, England.
by utilizing the Cavest.
These caves—which some authori-
ties contend are ancient hiding -places
and dwellings, wbile others say they
are nothing bet . old chalk workings
—are situated about 150 feet be-
neath Chiselhurst Common. En-
trance is obtained at a Tower ground
level near the railway station.
A stage has been erected, with foot-
lights, etc., the illuminating power
being cicctri0lt3t. The dressing -
rooms and green -room are part 'Of
what is knoWn as a Druidical temple
—a sort of underground Stonehenge,
with circular galleries—and the tem-
perature remains steady at 50 deg.
througheut the year, the concerts
provide entertainment laan atmos
phere which is a delightful change
from the recent oppreesive heat, The
novelty has' proved very attractive.
An amusing .point arose when ap-
plication was made to ebieleleurst
'Urban District Council fola niusic
and. dancing 1 cense. 'I he Coeval
reined that note of their'regulatione
as to construction of the "buildieg"
or provision of lire extinguishing ap-
pliance could be brought to bear,
and, after some disenssion they de-
cicied that it was a tetkpla rase,
which iso liceese Was required.
It is a good deal easier' to debate
On virtues you haven't got than it
is to demonstrate those you ought te
have.
Many a mart who prays for power
to lift a world shuts his eyes when
Inc SOO:4 a poor eremite struggling
with a heavy sett:hal. • •
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"TI -I113 FAMILY SLAVE,
I dropped ill QUO evening at a home
Where the mother had made a slave
of herself ever since her marriage
says. jp,. 8, Oilchriaa, She begets .by
waiting on her husband, ia a spirit
of wifely devotion, and continued it
until .he is the most helpless preat-
tire imaginable. If his paper, favor-
ito chair, lamp and table are not at
his disposal, he makes things 'un-
comfortable by sarcastic remarks or
sulks. While 1 sat there he allowed
his wife to put the coal on the lire,
close the window and open the door
when therootn became too warm.
Several times he sought occasion to
make disparaging remarks about wo-
men who got, out Of their spheres in
various ways and whose doings were
in consequence -extremely distasteful
to him.
Later itt the evening,'..one of the
Sons came in, laid his hat on the
couch, his umbrella, across a chair,
threw his overcoat °e'er an ottoman,
settled hi:nisch comfortably in a
chair, took several books from the
table and left them, .lying about,
glanced at the newspaper, then
threw it on the floor, and, after a
little talk on various unimportant
'subjects excused himself on the plea
of a 'headache, going to his room for
the night. I, knowing his mother
so well, know that she would take
care of every article he had thrown
down, just as she had done since
he was a "Small boy.
One of ' the daughters returning
from. a- neighbor's brought some par-
cels. These she unwrapped, tossed
the papers awl string onto the table,
pulled some loose threads from tho
goods she had bought and threw
them on the floor, then retired for
the night, taking with her the ma-
terials she had brought in but leav-
ing the debris for her mother to
pick up. I saw a look of distress
on the mother's face as she glanced
around the disordered and untidy
looking room but it probably never
occurred to her that she was in any
way responsible for such a state of
things.
I knew it had been many times
suggested to her to leave things
where they were until the children
took care of them, but this she never
had the heart to do. She seemed to
think, and often said, that they
were too tired, or busy, or going
somewhere, or that she could not
bear the disorder, and would much
rather put the place to rights than
wait for them. to do it. Everything
about that house was conducted on
this idea; and if ever there was a
slave to her family that woman was
one. She never got time for read-
ing or study, and her husband and
childree grew entirely away from
her, until she was nothing but
household drudge. .
If she had advaneed a brilliant
idea it would have been not with
astonishment or possibly: ridicule. :A.
knowledge on her part of current
events would have been a subject for
family amazement. At last, when
it was quite too late to remedy the
worst phases of this ,evil, this mis-
taken and neglected wife and mother
came ito realize that her life had been
a series of grave errors, and that in-
stead of keeping up with the times
and being the associate and cora-
panion of her family she was merely
a working, housekeeper on board
wages.
There is many another who is do-
ing the same thing. It is unjust to
your children, it is unjust to your-
self. Train the children to think it
a privilege to wait on you. Don't
rivet on yourself the shackles of the
family slave.
FOR AN INVALID.
An invalid who is confined to a
bed or couch will find it a•great con-
venience (when one side of the bed
is against the wall) to have a shelf
put up within easy reach. It should
be about 10 inches wide by two feet
long. Cover it with sateen, cretonne
or chintz, anything, indeed, that is
pretty and at the same time easily
laundered, as there should be no up-
holstery or drapery in an invalid's
room except such as can be fre-
quently made sweet and fresh with
soap and water. Ila.ve a lambre-
quin of the material used sto cover
the shelf extend around it, making
this about a foot or rather more
in depth, with a piece of the mater-
ial about six inches deep run around
the lower edge, neatly turned up,
and divided into pockets. . These
may be used for the brush and comb,
toothbrush, watch, hand mirror,
photographs and letters. The prin-
ciapl point to be considered in the
arrangement is the convenimice of
the invalid for whose comfort it is
to be provided.
Plenty of short kinrionas or pretty
dressing jackets should be in the
possession of every invalid., aud
these too shoUld be of easily laun-
dered material. Mother Hubbard
night gowns made from fast colored
pink, light bine or soft rose color,
are very nice. These should be made
with wide bishop sleeves and either
a soft stand-up, turn -over collar or
a thin crush stock. Such a gown
is almost uniVersally more becoming
to an invalid than plain white, and
largely saves the feeling of
dresSedness" from which many help-
less persons constantly suffer.
A pair of soft wool knitted or cro-
cheted bad socks ated 0 pair of knee
cape should be amoeg the furnishings
of the shelf pockets. Often, even in
Stireiner, these will prove of tattold
comfort to a chilly, invalid or one
with poet' circulation. Soaks ivhieli
fit closely up about the ankle are
the Most conafortable. An extra
comforter, light but wean,
Should always be theow11 acress the
foot of the bed,
On a table destined to stand near
the bed, keep fetish flowers, and every
necessity likely to Inc required in
fain tneas or any probable emergency.
The flowers should be Scentless or
nearly so, Very sensitive PerStnie
as,
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are sometunes ,peculiaxly susceptible
to perfumes, and the fragrance of
the tuberose (and some other exqui-
site blossoms). has been known to
cause not only depression, but in-
tense sadness. Nothing startling or
Saddening- should over be revealed to
a sick persou. Courage and cheerful-
ness, with abiding• faith, will do
more than medicine.
SELECTED RECIPES,
French Pancakes—Yolks of 2 eggs,
1 tablespoon olive oil, 2 eups flour,
teaspoon salt, 3 teaspoon ,baking
powder, milk and water to make .a
batter. Boat the yolks of the eggs
until very light, Add to the dour
with enough milk and Water to form
a batter. Thea stir in the oil and
salt, and stand asidesfor two hours.,
Just before using, add the baking
powder. Grease a frying pan, pour
in just enough batter to cover the
1.sottoin of the pan, brown on both
sides. Sprinkle with sugar and serve
at once,
• Potato Balls. --Pare and boil the
usual amount of potatoes. When
thoroughly cooked, pour off the wa-
ter and let the potatoes dry a little
on back part of stove. Now put
them through a potato ricer or mash
in any way preferred.For every
1 qt. of potatoes add ?•1 cup sweet
milk, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 heaping
teaspoon salt, smali. onionminced
fine or &kited, 1 teaspoon Pewciered
sage and pepper or ground celery, tb
suit the taste. Mix well, form into
balls and place in a well -butter pan,
Bake in a rather hot Oven tilt nicely
browned. Cold boiled or mashed po-
tatoes may be used. ,
Breakfast Pone—One cup boiled
hominy-, 1 cup white corn meal,
piece of butter sise of an egg, 2 cups
milk, 2 eggs well beaten and a little
salt. Stir well together and pont:
into a shallow pan. Bake 10 min-
utes in, a hot oven.
WITH SALSIFY.
Salsify is rightly named thomveg-
etable oyster." In all recipes for
cooking, if bits of codfish are added
the result will be a delicate flavor,
unrecognizable, but heightening the
oyster never to a surprising degree.
When the salsify is cooked‘the cod-
ftsh should be removed. '
Mock Oyster Soup Wash a& lb.
salt codfish and let simmer half an
hour iu 1 qt. water with I- dozen
salsify- cut into small pieces. Re-
move fish and season with salt and
pepper, adding 1 pt. milk and 2
tablespoons butter rubbed into 3 of
flour. Serve with oyster crackers.
Salsify Pot Pie : Cook salsify with
codfish, add butter and thickenas
gravy. Have ready a pan of nice
biscuit; split and pour gravy over
them. Serve at once:
Salsify is improved by- standing in
cold water a short time before cook-
ing. They should always be put to
cook in boiling water and salted at
theend of half an hour; they, cook
in about three-fourths of an hour.
4
BITS OF WISDOM,
'
There is no short cut to happiness.
A Tittle silence May save a lot of
sorrow.
When love labors it needs no fore-
man.
Too many men reckon time by pay-
days.
Repentance cannot tear' up the
roots of the past.
There is no joy gained except where
joy is given.
The opportunity is always ripe for
the man who is ready..
A man's Success depends on what,
he does with his failures.
Judge a man's success by the ene-1
thods he used in succeeaing.
Extravagant speeches are often!
very econonncal with the truth.
No man reaches the stage of
triumph by the stops of trial.
It would be lovely if others esti-
mated us as we estimate ourselves..
Nobody makes. any particular pro -
*sews by patting himself on the back.
—4.. man often thinks',the fellowwho
does. not agree with him a fool: •
Always think before you speak.
Before you write, think a lorig time.,
If .yott cannotplease yourself you
will never be able to Please anyone
tt is a pity that when people reach
the age. of . discretion. they do, net.
stay there.
So many people waste time! Do
you do it? Do you talk, and talk
a bAo unit anothing?
talks so loudly about
himself is ofteii like thunder. Big
noise, no damage.
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No matter how silly a woman may
be, she can always find a man who
will let her make a fool of him.
Sorrow makes friends of people
that never would be friends with the
light of happiness shining around
them
mhe fgorirleswho aro chasing a man
should see the warning in the face
of a woman who has caught one.
How we all dislike the child that
has its own way and is impudent!
All of us need a great deal of train-
ing.
The man who is always hoping for
the best may never reach it, but -he
has a happy time whistling on the
way.
We are not always on the bright
side of life, but we really need the
darkness sometimes—for resting pur-
p
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s
es
OLD GRE111C+—'0ALENDAR. ,
Ancient time -keeping has received
new light from two remarkable stones
latelY unearthed by the German ex-
plorers on the site of the old ionic
port of Miletes. These stones are
the remains of calendars, of which
one is shown to date from 109A..D.
The year was diVided into twelve zo-
diacal Signs, and against each Month
the motion of the remaining signs
was given, with a note predicting the
weatlierai On the left side were thir-
ty holes, a wooden peg being moved
forward one hole each day, thus giv-
ing the astronomical date. The new
find has made clear the meaning of
par,apegine,, or pegcalendar, a name
by Which other stoites haVe been ra-
mysterieusly known,
From plough -boy to Mayor was the
record of Alderman Gs Finch, of Tun-
bridge Wells, who died recently,.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
,F.1•••
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
NOV. 6.
Text of the Leseola II. Kings xi,.
1-16. Golden Text, Prov.
• XXi2C., 2,
No the sinfulness of
man, God works out His Purposes,
making even the wrath 'of man te.;.
praise Him. jehoshaphat took
Atha:Halt, daughter of Ahab, Israel's
most wicked king, as a wife for his
son Jehoram, arid in the lesson of
to -day we have sonic) of the results
of that ungodly alliance. Yet th*e'
Lord would not destroy Judah for ,
David' His servant's sake, as 1 -Ie •
promised him. to give him always a
light (IL Kings VW, 16-19), The
Lord permitted the Philistines and
Arabians to break itt upon judab
an.ci carry away Jehorm's substance
and his sons and his wives, leaving
him only Altaziahs the youngest, and
• I e himself died an awful death.
Ahaziah reigned only one year, -
during which his mother was 'his
counselor to do wickedly. s Then- he
was slain by John (IL Citron. xxi.
16; xxii. A, 8, 9). When this wick-
ed Athaliah, of, the house of . Ahab,
saw that her son wai dead, she at-
tempted to destroy 'all her son's
children and to exterminate all the
seed royal of the house of Judah,
and she well nigh succeeded. But
God Was watching Over His word to
perform it (Jet, 1, 12) and inclined .
the heart of jehoshabeath, Ahaziales,
sister, the wife of Jehoiada, the
priest, to take the little babe J.oash
land his nurse and hide them in the
house of God six years while Atha -
lash reigned over the land (verses
1-3; 11 Chron. xxii, 11, 12).
Prom the day that the Lord God
said to the devil, "I will put enmity
betwec n thee and the woman, be-
tweea thy seedand her seed; He
shall bruise thy liead and thou shalt
bruise His heel, (Gen. iii, 15), thero
had been a persistent attetnpt -Oti
the part of the devil to destroy the
seed royal, or, as it is in the margin
of verse of our lesson, "the seed of
the kingdom." This is one of the
main threads of truth running all
through the Bible. Cain„ a child of
the devil (I. John iii, 12), was per-
mitted to kill his osvn brother Abel,
one of the seed of the kingdom, but
God raised up Seth in his place.
The attempt of the king of Egypt
to kill all the rattle children in
Israel about the time that Moses
was born was another piece of the
devil's work on that line, as was al-
so the attempt of Herod to kill the
little babe in Bethlehem who had
'just been born the king of the Jews, ea_
by killing all the male children there' "-
of a • certain age. These 'are but
samples of the work of him .who
when he had caused the seed of the
woman to be 'crucified on, Calvary
and had His body sealed up in the
tomh. of 'Joseph and guarded,' by
Roman soldiers feuded perhaps that
he had frustrated the purpose . of
God. But the Son of Mary rose fit=
the dead and is seated at the rlightiL,
hand of a od until the time shali".
come for Him to reign," when. G:an.
iii. 15, and every other purpsise
of God shall be surely an.d litet. al-
ly fulfilled. One of the 1481
things we read of the devil in Set ip-
ture is that he went to make vas
with the remnant of the seed of 'the
woman which keep the cominated-
ments of God, and have the testi-
mony of Jesus Christ (Rev. achi., 37).
I do not 'wonder that the devil inAes
and tries to get rid of many parts •
of Scripture, and eepeeialls: the open-
ing and the closing chapters, for they
do so show lihn up and tell his.
doom.
• In.:thd seventh =year Jelioiada, the
priest gathered the rulers and the
captains and • brought themto the
house of the Lord and made, a cov-
enant with them and took an oath'
of them and showed them the king's .
son (verse 4), and he said unto than,
"Behold, the king's son shall reign,
as the Lord hath said of the sons
of David." Oh, the comfort that
here, is in the glorious faith that
"every purpose of tlie Lord shall itt
performed," both against His ene-
mies and for His people (Jar. hi., 29)s
no matter what people think or say
now how nueili thedevil may resist,
So evesy promise to Abraham and
to Da.vid shall be literally fulfilled.
The people shall be a righteous na-
tion in their owe land, and the Son
of Mary shall sit oa David's throne
at Jerusalem (Isa. ix., 6, 7; tX.,
21; Jor. iii., 17, 1.8;,xxxii., 41; Luke
L., 30-33).
This manifestation and crowning Oh
jOSSli were in the seventh year, and
there is at least a suggestion here
that as our Lord -Yews, the true
seed royal, the true and only seed ot
the woman, has been bidden about
6,000 years, except when lie dame
in hiumiliation only to be rejected
and Crucified, the time of His'inanifes,
tation may be the beginning of tlio
seventh thousand years since the
(Gem iii„ :15) • word was given to tho
great adversary, • Let those lanin
and scoff who dare to, but blessed
are all wlio believe, for there' slial.k
be a fulfillment of all things spoken
by 1.1ie Lord (Luke 1, 45). • Bather. -
let us rejoice and be glad and: give
honor to Rim, for the kingdom shall
come and we shall reign. WittiIThm
See verse 12 of our lesson, And let
tis also clap 'our heads and rejoice ill
Let tete fate of Atlittljah and the
final do onewee‘ all est cli s rose Meet
in Matt. xxv.,"NI, 46; Rev. xiv.,
10; xxi, 8; II, Thess. 1., 7-10) take
hold of the iniarta csf all coffer Whig
there is yet mercy for them if they;
will only turn in,steue peiiitennetc
Him who is not willing that anysi
should perish 01 Pet. .iii., 9). 3 ,6-1
holed:a the priest and ,Joitsit tli
king and all the people made a cola.;
Want Oat they wopid all be tlia
Lord's people, then they overthrowc
the altarof Baal arid slew 114
retieat, and the people rejoiced and
the city was quiet; (7i.. Ohrdn,
161-41).,