The Clinton News Record, 1913-01-02, Page 7TBabvionian mythology, drought of
•�jj as diet -es or the abodes of dieties.
21 'sea-monasters—The Hebrew
word is one that is applied to rep-
tiles, crocodiles, and other aquatic
monsters.
Every living creature that mov
eth.—Both fishes and other crea-
tures that glide thro"dh the water
INTERNATIONAL I,ESSO1`1
JAN UAIEY 5.
mon I.—The Creation, Gen. 1. 1 of creep along its bed.
especially to domestic anima s,
thoueh sometimes denoting•
animals.
27. Created—The repetition of
' to 2. 3. Golden 'Text,
Gen. 1. 1.
Verse 1. In the beginning—Tho
eginning of the order of things this word adds to the solemnity
thich we see, raid in the midst of with which th' creation of man is
vl humanhistory unfolds introduced The author thus em -
new ward foe God, thuug„
luite as common in the Old Tes= I of God's creation of heavenandearth (verse
n than the
,ament as Yahweh (Eng., Jehovah),
the personal name of the'God of 1), or the formation of conscioas
Israel. The name here occurs in life (verse
ve seas )veru sand The flan
the plural, though used with a sen - I verdict pronounced uphn the
gular. verb, created (Heb. singular). I
This usage of the plural, which is whole work of creation.' m which
very common in the Old Testament, each portion was in perfect har-
m best explained as the "plural of mony with the rest.,
majesty," used to express great-
ness or dignity. The verb 'ere- THE HOPE OF lRilSai•i. a
ated" means, in the original, The di. incasing illness of the little
shaped, fashioned. It does not Tsrreviteh gave rise to the greatest
theeeameand that God created.uof anxiety in Russia. This charming
heavensgand the earth out of boyis the here of his country, and
productionnothing. But it does denote "the were he to die grave complications
tallybyf something afof a soy- wou'd urdoub+ed"y, aria in Russia,
tally new, gi the exercise power, a alto- The Tsarevitch is a great -grand-
ereigneteoriginative po son of Queen Victoria. The great
bythea transcending that possessed l est rejoicing prevailed in Russia at
by man." and his birth, for the Royal couple were
2. Waste and void—A compound
beginning to despair of a son. It is
related that where the first baby
proved to be a girl the Tsarina ex -
calmed: "Oh, I am glad it is a
girl. Now it belongs to us. Had it
been a boy it would have belonged
Russia." But the next three chil-
lick ns •
God—Elohim, the ordinary He-phasizes the fact that man's erea-
h not tion is a more wonderful revelation
25 Cattle—Here referring more
expression, signifying formless
ter, or chaos. The expression oc-
curs again in Isa. 34. 11, where it
is rendered confusion and empti-
ness, and in Jer. 4. 23, where it is
translated as in our lesson.
The deep --Primeval, undivided i to proved dren be girls, also, so
waters, conceived of by the writerto
as enveloping the chaotic earth.
Spirit of God.—The Divine En-
ergy which creates and sustains life
(Job 33. 4), and to which are at-
tributed the supernatural spiritual
spiritual gifts and extraordinary
powers of man: "I am full of power
band of
judgment, the t,ilrit of and of might" (Micah
3. 8).
Moved upon—Or, was brooding
upon.
God said, Let there be—Note the
conscious and deliberate purpose
as well as the omnipotence im-
plied in these wo:ls. We have
here the earliest foreshadowing of
the personal sense in which the
term "the Word" is used in 7oh•i
Pis 1 in the New 'Testament. Com-
pare also Psa. 33. s, "by the woe!
of Jehovah were the heavens
made."
Light -Here thought of as a
thing in itself, independent of the
heavenly luminaries. Compare
Job 38, 19, 20:
IWhere is the wav to the dwelling'
• of light?
And as for darkness, where is the
place thereof,
That thou shouldest take auto the
bound thereof,
And that thou
°too the houseshouldest s scern °
thereof
4. Good—Suitable for the work
for which it was designed.
b. One day—In the mind of the
priestly author unquestionably a
period of twenty-four hours.
7. The firmament—The vaulted
dome•. of the sky is thought of as
omething beaten out, or pressed
own firm, and forming a solid bar- u so
ier or partition between the waters Sydney dameon
tellsarraof the s mof
hich were above it and those on what primitive
he earth's surface. The earth it- even the modern hotels.
elf was conceived of as flat and "For our ignorancee4 pf ayssian we
ing over
ound like a disk, supported partly had the privilege ene for our .drier
v the encircling sea and partly by twice the legal obligrive
e vast abyss of waters constitut- to the hotel. The portersquite
ng -
g "the great deep" beneath the ly arranged the matter, and q
rth. Up from these subterranean cheerfully kept the difference. How
aters hidden channels conducted like the rest of the world, lofty bed.
e waters to the surface of the chambers and corridors of the ho-
rth. while through openings in tela make it just possible to live in
e solid firmament the waters from rooms that have double windows
ove descend from time to time in sealed with putty, which are never
e form of rain.(Compare Psa. opened from the beginning of win -
2: 136. 6; Job. 38. 16).ter till the spring thaw is in the air.
9, 10. Waters gathered to- As there are no open fires, the only
ther unto one place—That part ventilation is from the slightly het-
the chaotic waters still envelop -ter air of the corridors.
a the earth beneath the firma- "A framed notice on the walls in-
ent is now gathered together in-
secs • The EPhrew enncention of
e earth as relati.ely small, flat,
d round
bti rider grass. mind.
12.e in
b
Herbs—Larger plants such as
eetables and cereals.
Yielding seed_Capable of sell
opagation and at the same time
educing food for man.
Wherein—That is, in the fruit tea or .
elf. rings for alighted samovar and pre -
d Two great ligwtt—The sun ares his own beverage, if he is not
so, were for sig
d moon. Thesg itn the ns and seasons.nes Pares fortunate enough to possess a wife
do it for him.
hey are not, as in contemporary to "With the lady managing a fiery,
fuming samovar, and her lord smok-
ing innumerable cigarettes, with
perhaps avi itor tot help,
e p, one ton
easily imag'jn
hermetically scaled-windows—the
atmosphere in which .same worthy
ci�"C1�� Russians 'go to be,"
r� Uskub; too capital of the old Ser -
The Tsarevitch.
"he
ville
rigor
because
—whic
lifelike
made.
best arti
ords it
the Blu
He
Ilona
A
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3tauy Reem
Alm
Ma. War
paradoxical
several pa
pers," has
says the
boy was c
the Willesd
said by the
it of sleepi
the streets
neighburh
Before
peered to
plied to tl
by a nod.
order that
might be f
in the hop
wave migl
up. It n
develop i
sleepers c
main.
Margar
the Paris
from Mo
Wednesd
not wale
wenttoa
slept ung
awake sl
but had
been bli
in cold
she had
There
Arten,
in Fr
thirty -
•for fon
waking
eightee
five y
day fr
that when a boy was • born the joy
of the nation knew no bounds. The
Tsarcvitch is guarded with the
greatest care, and the futur of this
handsome, merry little bdy is far
from being an enviable one.
RUSSIA HATES FBL• AIR.
Windows in hotels Arc Hermetical-
ly Sealed, Says Traveller.
Writing of the great Russian city
f Odessa in Harper's Magazine,
We•
When
day?
of fact
spirit
danger
where
but a
forum the visitor of all the pr
or dried
leges he is graciously permitted to 1 someth
pay extra for, among them the joy ease, w
of being clean at the rate of ten to be
copecks for a jug of hot water or the the vii
fifty copecks for a "bath; splend
greatest mystery of all was a samo- doer
var at twenty-five copecks. In time acteri,
it was discovered that your true The 8
Russian, having a taste for much tends
then warm refreshment, we to
cal el
more
more
tion,
holes,
tery:
It
and
until
than
are
The
van'
take
mari
if h
of
in r
a to
of c
Pur'
if
of t
"THE BEST YET."
J u st
S
he
Old Servia Capital Restored.
visa empire; now for the moment
Christman restored to the new Servia, is asso-
ciated with one of the few cal' love
affairs of a Turkish sultana It was
hero; after the fatalfield of Kos
-
wort➢iy sour; that Bajazet arranged terms
Ste -
mf sacs. with the Servian king
the last while back.
y for
coplo our best -yet
d better selected.
and in every way more p
Ste-
p en.
encu with our intentions. • stipulations was that Stephen
should handover his sister, the ariar
d •J1EApyq' which will 1nCgn Lady Despina, as alio to the sul-
tan. It was a lucky deal for the bus
we, to the smallest •lteni. Servians, for it ie written that "of ata
all his wives the sultan held the I v
e fort welwill promise to let Lady 17rspina clearest, .and for her
k that. Will represent the latest cake restored her brother the city.
sand castle of Semcndria and Colum -
barium, in Servia. She allured him
to drink wine, forbidden the Turks'
by their laws, and caused him to de-
light in sumptuous banquets, which
hie predee�assors never did."
N T I K
results of despising corer
h One of the most important
Extravagance is one of
Of Marriltgge Licenses. and if you value peace of
®elf -respect steer clear
Ch
res
the
do
Bili
an