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-+ A. G. RHODES & CO., *
-NTHE * BOSS ♦ FURNITURE ♦ DEALERS>
017 BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, GA
p. Our prices cannot be duplicated by any dealer in Georgia. Why? Because vie buy for our seventeen Furniture"St >u ;
scattered through the Southern States, and as we are thus obliged to buy very largely it stands to reason we buy cheep-* r.
We lespectfully submit a few prices as follows:
Genuine Silk Plush Parlor Suites from $35 to $45. 50 Bureaus with 12-20 German Glass, only $6.
$50 for a ro piece solid Walnut Marble top Bevel plate Toilet Suit of 500 Chairs all styles, from 50 cents up.
Furniture. I 50 Imitation marble-top French Dressers, 17-30 t’lass only $9.
10 piece maple marble top Suit for only $38. 50 marble-top French Dressers 17-30 glass only $14.
$30 for 110 piece Imitation marble-top Toilet Suit. 250 well made Colton Top mattresses only $2 50.
good, strong Bedsteads from $1 50 up. 300 Bed Springs (12 styles), from $1 25 up.
$8 for nice cooking stove, complete. F'ull size No. 7 cooking stove, complete, only $10. #.■****
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We Crirry the finest line ot Parlor Suites, Lounges, Hat Racks, Baby Carriages, Pictures, Willow, Cane and Kan y
Lockers, Fancy Tables, Lamp Stands, &c., to be found in Columbus. We guarantee to please and will roll you 2 > ]a r
ent cheaper than any house in this part of the country. Look to your interest and don’t buy a single article 01 J 'ur. : l r '
ntil you get our terms and prices.
A. G. RHODES & CO., 1017 Broad Street, Columbus, Ga.
CHRIST’S LAST WARNING.
Wesson h, second quarter, in¬
ternational SERIES, APRIL 8.
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U^ext of tfce Lesson, Matt, xxiii., 27-39.
1 1 Goltle . Text, Psalms li, 10—Memorize
Verses 37, 3S and 89—Comment by Itev.
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Lesson Helper Quarterly, by permission of
■ II. S. Huilinanr Philadelphia, publisher.]
| Notes.-—V. 27. Hypneri tes, persons who act
T>f rt not ir own. * Whited sepulchers,
from respect to the dead and to
Bafoid legal defilement. V. 29. Tombs, re
«paired out of pretended respect, garnish,
■decorate, beautify. V. 32. Fill ye up, Jesus
not wish them to go*on in sin, but ho
Jfaiew thef- would go on and V. may refer to
'plots against himself. 33. Serpents,
JBipers, like snakes in cunning and deadly
Can ye escape? implies certainty
■af thew doom, V. 34. Prophets, inspired
Wise men. men of natural wisdom,
I ilce Solomon. Scribes, those who copied and
■ aught the wisdom of others. V. 35. Zach
D rias, so#11 C’frron. xxiv, 20-22, or Zech. i, 1.
■ '. 33. Generation, age. V. 37. Jerusalem,
stands for its people. V. 38. Desolate,
as laid waste by Romans A. D. 70.
■■ V. 27. The sternest words of condemna
on that ever fell from Jesus’lips are re
>rded in this chapter. They are worse than
# curse from Ebal 'or menace from fiery
* ophet. He spoke not in anger, but in grief,
at goodness abused. and love liad been so ill re
Bf hted and His holy wrath was now
M ndled, since they sinned beyond the limit
aTod’s own mercy. He is our worst enemy
■mo once'was our best friend. The bitterest
■ rop in the cup of eternal woe is “the wrath
lf the Lamb”—of the loving Saviour. His
Jpords %y were are founded stern and on uncompromising, justice, preceded for by
■ ■|ercy fThe and Pharisees love, as a party date from the
Blue of the Maccabees. Literal obedience to
m[e written dho law and founders tradition of was the their party ruling were
Wniuine reformers, but their descendants de
{lheir generated hypocrisy into that prevented which was their false repentance. and evil,
1 The Scribes as a body were organized in
of Ezra, they were learned in and
re teaciieri* of the law, and were employed
j adges, transcribers and expounders of tlie
V. 28-29. Jesus makes a distinction be
tween the appearance and reality of godliness,
The pharisees honored the prophets by deco
rating their graves but would not observo
their teachings or imitate their-lives. Wiiat
taiavesty of religion Is 1
V. 30. There no need of assuming that
the Pharisees did not mean what they said,
but their lives gave the lie to their words.
There is a tendency of each generation amid
its own sins to condemn the wroDg doing of
the past.
V. 31. The Pharisees were reproducing
the same evil traits of character of their
fathers, whom they condemned. They were
ready to kill the Christ of whom the prophets
^ad written. They were in heart one with
their fathers, walking in their footsteps.
And yet to cover their and their father’s
wickedness beautified the tombs of the mur
dered prophets. They were self convicted
hypocrites. Sin is hereditary, and our daily
acts and words betray our so ns hip.
V. 32-33. Every merciful means exhausted,
the Jewish people are consigned to their own
ways. They are left of God—left to them
selves. When the hour of divine abandon
meat comes to a soul, it goes on to fill up the
measure of its iniquity. The language is of
terrible import. They had committed in
iquity upon iniquity, God had left them.
Their committal of one more ghastly crime,
and there was nothing left for their country
but destruction, and for themselves, “ser
I»ent3, vipers” as they had proved themselves
to be, but the* “damnation of hell.” Ttio
severity of our Lord’s language is a prece¬
dent for rebuke, but no precedent for such
authority and power of rebuke. He had a
divine attribute to see the character as it
was, and a divine authority to pronounce its
nature, and a right to inflict punishment
which no mere mortal has.
y. 34-85. Christ undoubtedly had in mind
here the treatment he was eventually to re
ceive from the Jews.
y. 30. There jt> a cumulative force in sin.
The p ma i punishment at last succeeds the
j on g series of sins. Men by sin can make the
guilt of past ages their own. Josephus gives
a uiost heartrending account of the fuliiii
me nt of this prediction, how 600,000 dead
bodies were carried out of the gates of Jeru
saleui, and how “tha fires of burning houses
wcre quenched with human blood.”
y. 37. The thundering “woes” give way to
a plaint of tenderest emotion for the doomed
c i t y. The Lord deeply regrets that they had
spurned the offers of mercy made them, not
only by hlmzelf while in Hie flesh, but in all
ages his servants. “How often,” implies
the “I would,” frequent-bffc^s the diving of his side, pardon and and grace.
is “ye would
not,” is tho human side. The whole scheme
of salvation ^the conjing q( .Ckrijst, his,
istry among men and his death for them,
show that Hod desires their salvation. The
reason that they are not saver 1 is that they
will not come to him. The bitterest ingredi
ent in the cup of the wicked is that they de
stroyed themselves,
V. 38. Jesus left the temple on this ocea
sion never again to enter it. Once it was
called “My house,” “My father’s house,” now
he speaks of it as “your house.” A teinplo
without Jesus’ presence meant desolation for
it, dispersion of the Jews and the ruin of
their land. Julian, the apostate, attempted
to rebuild and restore the temple, but failed.
Its doom is sealed till Jesus comes again,
V. 39. Our Lord now closed his public min
istry among them. They saw him no more
in his Messiaic work and operation. After
his resurrection he appeared only to chosen
witnesses. The statement is made that ho
will not be seen again till bis second coming
in glorious majesty, when tho restoration of
Israel shall take place. When their eo.iver
sion has taken place, then shall they hail him
as their king. When tho Lord came to Jeru
salem, the Jews did not use the words
“Blessed bo he tuat cometh,” etc., but asked,
“Who is this?” The Jews will yet own Christ
as their Messiah, and yet shout their glad
hosannas to him. Tho rejected Christ shtUi
yet be welcomed,
Housekeeping in Lomlon.
“Keeping house in London,” writes a cor¬
respondent, ■■■ “is accompanied with conditions OH
very dlffctVlVt from American housekeeping.
It is the tenant, not tho landlord, who
all taxes (except the property tax) in Eng¬
land, and consequently tlie deluded Ameri¬
can who thinks he has got such a dear little
house so cheap is horrified to find at tlie end
of the quarter that he in in for vestry rates,
jxx*r rates, inhabited house duty, water tax,
income income tax. tax, local local charities charities and and lords lord) and and
commons know what besides. Those bring
the rent ir> to a figure i®. he never dreamed of.”
—Boston t~. . Transcript. A, „
T!»ii:g» Are Not What They .Seem.
This is a contradictory world. The forger
always appreciates tho value 0/ a good name.
—Boston Gdketto.
Dr. BIGGIE
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