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mit Sunbotj-Scftoof INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR APRIL 18. Subject: The Conversion of Saul, Acts 0:1-80—Golden Text: Acts, 0:4 —Commit Verses 15, 16—Com mentary on the Ijesson. TIME. —A. D. 37 (?) PLACE.— Jerusalem. Damascus. EXPOSITION.—I. Saul the Mur derous Enemy of .Jesus, 1, 2. Saul’s Intense anger against Jesus and His disciples was not a matter of a single hour or day. The extent to which he carried his hatred in action we see in ch. 22:19; 26:10, 11. In this Saul had persuaded himself that he was doing right (ch. 26:9). It is a striking illustration of how a man who intends to be conscientious can be thoroughly and awfully wrong. 11. Saul tlie Humbled Penitent, 3- ». The Lord allowed Saul to go a long way in his mad career. But at the proper moment He put forth His hand and saved the little flocks in Damascus. Probably Ananias had prayed, though he could hardly be lieve when he heard. The Lord often acts “suddenly.” The “light out of heaven” that shone around Saul was the light of Christ’s resurrection glory (v. 17; 1 Cor. 15:8). It was “about noon” (ch. 22:6), and the glare of the ea&tern noon is exceed ingly bright, but the glory of this was “above the brightness of the sun” (ch. 26:13). Our Jesus is ex ceeding glorious. The stout-hearted persecutor is thoroughly humbled (v. 4). There are many to-day who speak great, swelling words against our Lord, who, if they should get one look at Him as He is, would “fall to the earth" before Him (Phil. 2:10, 11). Evidently, for all his zeal in persecuting the church, Saul had many a goading thought that he might be wrong, and Jesus indeed the Lord (26:14, R. V.). A start ling question (v. 4). He puts it to every one to-day who is persecuting His people. Note how tenderly Jesus identifies llimself with His disciples (v. 5; comp. Matt. 25:35-40, 42-45; Eph. 5:30). What an awful mo ment it must have been in Saul’s life when it fully broke upon him that th - glorious One who stood before him was indeed Jesus, whom he had so bitterly hated and so relentlessly persecuted. What an awful moment it. will be for many now living when they see Jesus in the glory, and real ize that it is He whom they have spurned and persecuted. The light Saul saw was no mere subjective vis ion or effect of sunstroke; the others saw it, too (ch. 22:9), and heard the voice. When we look at the original the apparent contradiction between v 7 and ch. 22:9 entirely disappears. In this passage “the voice” is in the genitive case, which with the verb translated “hearing” indicates the person (or thing) heard speaking the message. In Acts 22:9 “the voice” is in the accusative ease, which indi cates the message which is heard. There was no hurrying of Saul into the light. It is not a bad thing for a man to have time to think and to re view the enormity of his sin. 111. Ananias, the Obedient Disci ple, 10-16. Ananias was simply "a certain disciple.” This destroys the doctrine of the Mormon church (and of many others) that the laying on of an apostle’s hands was necessary to receiving the Holy Spirit. Ananias was a ready instrument to the Lord's •call. But when the definite direc tions came Ananias was staggered. He quite overlooked what Jesus had just told him about the change that had been wrought in Saul. Saul, the terrible, fills his whole vision and he protests. Jesus enters into no dis cussion with Ananias. “Go thy way,” He says, and then He tells what Saul of Tarsus really was—“a chosen ves sel unto Me.” How wonderful are God's ways, to transform the bitter enemy into “the chosen vessel.” Rut this former persecutor must himseif suffer for the sake of that name he •once hated. This, too, a gracious act on Jesus' part to permit Saul to suf fer for Him, and to-day the suffer ings that Saul once inflicted upon 'Christ are quite forgotten in the suf ferings he endured for Christ. IV. Saul, the Bold Witness For Jesus, 17-19. Ananias protests no longer. Readily and promptly and heartily he obeys. The moment he sees Saul be tenderly lays his hands upon him and exclaims, “Brother Saul.” There were no men on earth that Saul had hated as he did disci ples of the Lord. There was no man on earth that Ananias had dreaded as he did Saul. But this was all changed. Faith in one Lord had made them brothers. “And be filled with the Holy Ghost.” The Lord had said nothing about that to Ana nias (v. 12). But the Lord had said “he is a chosen vessel to carry My name before the Gentiles,” etc., and Ananias knew lie could not do that properly unless he was endued with power from on high (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4, 5; ch. 10:38). Saul did just what every man ought to do as soon as he is saved and Spirit-filled (v. 20). There is no indication that Saul at this time received miraculous gifts through beiug filled with the Holy Spirit. He took God’s word for it that he was so filled, and went ahead, and the filling with the Spirit manifested itself in the power with which he preached (v. 22). The Good Grows. How indestructibly the good grows and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil! •Carlyle. for Ladles ills J-22 LESS LIQUOR REVENUE Prohibition Said Not to Be the Cause of the Decrease. REPORT OF COMMISSIONER Reasons for Decreased Consumption cf Liquor and Consequent Falling Off in Revenue Collecitons. * Washington, D. C. —Prohibition ha 3 had Its effect, but the spread of the prohibition wave is not by any means tL j main cause of the decreased con sumption of liquor in this country, according to Colonel John G. Capers, commissioner of internal revenue. In discussing this subject Cbmmij sioner Capers named three separate causes ahead of prohibition as re sponsible, in his opinion, for putting this result. These are: the influence of the recent panic; the unsettled condition of the llq # or trade, pending the final settlement of the conflict over the marking and branding of liquors under the pure food and drug's act; uncertainty as to the tariff law and its effect on the liquor trade, and finally—prohibition. • Colonel Capers said * there was no doubt about the fact that In recent years the consumption of liquor had decreased, in other words, as he ex pressed it, the amount of distilled spirits and fermented liquors with drawn from distilleries and bonded warehouses had shown a decrease. This was proven by the actual sta tistics of the production and with drawal of liquors, and also by the receipts of his office. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908. the receipts of the bureau were $251,665,950, a decrease as compared with the collections of the preceding year, of $18,000,000 in round numbers. Fujt her more, the receipts for the first quarter of the current fiscal year show a decrease of $7,000,000. If this de crease is maintained, the total re ceipts for this year will fall still be low last year to the tune of $28,- 000,000. Colonel Capers, however, be- Jieves the amount wil be made up,, and that the receipts this year will l reach $250,000,000. Of course the largest item in the receipts was from the tax on liquors, j Distilled spirits yielded the govern ment $133,626,276; fermented liquors, , $58,747,680, and tobacco $49,862,764. Other articles on which the govern-, ment collects an internal revenue duty are oleomargarine, adulterated butter and renovated butter, but the receipts from these sources is com-! paratively small. A study of the receipts for the past ten years shows some interesting facts. Beginning with 1899, the re ceipts of the internal revenue bureau increased for two years, then de creased for the seven years succeed ing. Only twice in ten years have the receipts been as high as they were in 1899, when they reached $273, 484,573. In the past fiscal year they | decreased to $251,665,950. The re- j ceipts of last year were $22,000,000 * less than the receipts of ten years : ago. It must be remembered that the ! war taxes laid by act of June 13, 1898, J helped to increase the receipts of the 1 bureau for the ensuing three years. By the subsequent act of March 2, 1901, which took effect on the first day of July of the same year, the rev enue was decreased. By an act ap proved April 12, 1902, taking effect July 1 of that year, a further and largely increased reduction in re- j ceipts was made. By aboloishing these war duties the revenues of the ! country were reduced $100,000,000. There was, however, an increase of revenue from taxes laid on distilled spirits and other objects not affected by war revenue legislation. It was in 1902 that the tax act was passed whieh practically eliminated oleomargarine and adulterated butter from the market by placing a tax of 10 cents a pound on these products. Less liquor was withdrawn from the general bonded warehouses for consumption last year. For the year ending June 30, 1908, the amount was 14,327,472 gallons less than for the previous year, or only 119,703,594 gal lons of tax paid spirits distilled from materials other than fruits were with drawn. A great many people will take issue with Commissioner Capers’ statement that prohibition has had but little, it anything, to do with this result. The total production of distilled spirits in 1907 was 174,712,218 and in 1908, 133,889,563. Every year for the past decade, the production of spirits has exceeded the amount withdrawn for all purposes, and at the close of 1907 there had accumulated in distil lery and general bonded warehouses a stock of 245,438,816 original gauge gallons. Then the, liquor men took counsel among themselves and decid ed to curtail production. Great suffering is the lot of all women, who neglect the health of their wo manly organs. No reason to do so. any more than to neglect a sore throat, colic, or any other disease, that the right kind of medicine will [cure. Take Wine of Cardui for all your womanly ills. It can never do harm, and is certain to do good. Mrs. Sallie H. Blair, of Johnson City, Tenn., writes: “I had suffered from womanly troubles for six teen months, and had four doctors, but they could not help me, until 1 began to take Wine of Cardui. Now I think lam about well.” At all reliable druggists, in $ 1.00 bottles. 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The taieut for misery is the fountain of prog ress. It is only when men can pic ture to themselves what they lack ar.d what they want, and can work up enough genuine dissatisfaction, that they accomplish things worth while.” SOUTHERN MEMBERS PLEASED. Tariff Fight Was Won for the South by Representatives. Washington, IJ. C. —Southern repre sentatives in congress expressed un bounded delight at the successful out come of the fight to put on the free list articles entering into the manu facture of commercial fertilizers. Since the southern cotton farmers are the country’s largest users of fer tilizers, they would have been harder hit than any others by the original provision in the Payne tariff bill put ting a 20 per cent ad valorem duty on imports of sulphate of potash and muriate of potash. But luckily for the south, this pro vision was stricken from the bill, and these commodities will continue to be imported free of duty. The same thing is true of kainit. This action of the house will relieve the manufacturers of fertilizers from any necessity or reasonable excuse for an advance in the cost of price of fertilizers. SOUTHERN STEEL COMPANY SOLD. Bankrupt Company Brings $5,111,000 in Birmingham. Birmingham, Ala. —The Southern Steel Company tbankrupt) was sold at public outcry in front of the Bir mingham court house. The reorganization committee, through W. W. Miller of New York, bought in the propertiea The properties as a whole brought a toiil of $6,111,000. John W. Tom linson, filed notice that the sale would have to care for the pending litigation against it. HELENA MODJESKA DEAD. Famous Polish Actress Passes Away At Her California Home. Los Angeles, Cal. —Madame Helena Modjeska. the famous Polish trage dienne, and one of the most noted actresses of the Ameacan stage, died at her island home at Bay City, Orange county, at the age of 65, af ter an illness of about two months. For several days she had been uncon scious. Bright’s disease complicatea with heart disease, was the immedi ate cause of the death. fund Eor Destitute Mothers. Los Angeles, Cal. —Her sympathies moved bv what she witnessed as the wife of an Episcopal rector, Mrs. Ba ker P. Lee has determined to start a movement in the interest of desti tute mothers which is designed to be come national. Mrs. Lee has enlisted under her banner Mrs. Chalmers Smith, presi dent of the Mothers’ Congress, which has done much for the relief of in digent motherhood. Hundreds of cases have been relieved and the “mothers’ fund” as an annual part of the “mothers’ day” celebra tion, says Mrs. Lee, will undoubtedly prove one of the most sacred chan ties to which the people contributed. Crime to Kiss Child. Boston, Mass. —“A mother who al lows a stranger to kiss her child is just as much a criminal as the wom an who places her child in the path of a runaway animal in order that it may be killed,” declared Mrs. Mar garet Grant, formerly an English hos pital nurse. Allowing strangers to kiss one’s child is even more repre hensible than those who kiss and fondle dogs. Child Charged With Murder. Clinton, S. C. —Though only six years old, Fred Bell is a prisoner in the Union county jail with the grim charge of murder resting against him. It is charged that the child shot and killed Ethel Thomas, who was only three years of age, and because of this, the murder charge was brought. WAR ON THE MOSQUITO Southern Health Authorities to Open an Early Campaign. FLY ALSO AN UNDESIRABLE Boards of Health Throughout the South Will Join in Fight to Exterminate the Pests. New Orleans, La.—The entire south has notified the festive mosquito and the übiquitous house fly ttiat they are undesirable citizens, and that un der the circumstances will not be permitted to reside in or frequent the inhabited communities. But the authorities have not been satisfied with declarations. Not much. They have not forgotten the lesson taught them in 1905, when the jellow fever came. So, all over the south, in the small er villages, as well as in the bigger cities, the health authorities are open ing an early campaign against the disseminators of all the deadly dis eases—the mosquitoes and the house fly. It has been demonstrated that the mosquito is not the only disease spreader. He —or she, rather —does spread yellow fever. But the house fly has been tried and convicted of the crime of disseminating malaria, typhoid fever and several other dis eases no less deadly. Under the direction of Dr. J. S. White, the famous marine hospital surgeon, who fought and whipped the yellow fever in 1905, a regular set of laws and precautions have been de vised. These are practically the same in all the southern cities and states. To begin with, all tanks of water, cisterns or vessels which hold water or which might be filled with water after a rain must be covered and screened with a screen of at least 18 meshes cf wire to the inch. Stand ing water on lots or commons is not permitted. All shallow lots must be drained and kept dry, or the owner is subject to a severe penalty. All stables must have air-tight recepta cles for refuse, and this refuse must be removed each week. Where there are large natural bodies of water, which y. is impossible to drain, then the surface must be disinfected and oiled at frequent and regular inter vals. Even the water use.d in the sprinkling carts is heavily charged with the strongest disinfectants. But the authorities do not stop even here. They go into the restaurants, cafes, butcher shops, dairy depots and bakeries. They force the proporietors to screen their premises with copper screens and to screen the recepta cles in which food is kept and pre pared. In the public and parochial schools, the teachers regularly and insistent ly impress upon the children the dan ger of contamination and the neces sity of obeying the rules laid down by the health authorities. This not only insures care on the part of the next generation, but the children are gradually instructing and converting their parents to a belief in the great doctrines of sanitation. Of course, in the cities, a regularly organized force of sanitary police en force the laws. In the smaller cities the health preserving rules are looked after by state officers. In connection with this campaign it is interesting to note that those years in which a vigorous and care ful campaign was waged against these winged pests, showed a greatly de creased death rate and a most con> forting and encouraging decrease in the number of deadly diseases. Several of the larger cities have stringent anti-weed ordinances, which make it a crime to permit the growtn of weeds under penalty of fine and imprisonment. In some places the weeds must be cut when 5 inches tall, in others greater latitude is per mitted. The board of health in one city ex changes ideas with others, and thus a uniform system of defense against disease is being gradually worked out. ALASKA-YUKON STAMPS. Design for Special Issue is Approved By Postmaster General. Washington, D. C. Postmaster General Hitchcock has approved one of a number of designs submitted for a special issue of stamps commem orative of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. 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