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TIFTT0N,
lil'.V. DR.
TUB NOTE» ill VINE’S BUN-
L)AV DISCOURSE.
Ho Praises Lawyer*, mid Ordures That If
ll«* Were on Trial For IIIk 1,1 IV llr
Won Id Prefer a .Jury of IlnvrUterM
Bather Than One of Clergymen?
. TfcXT*. ‘Bring Zeuas Dm lawyer,” Titus
Hi.. 18.
The profession of tho law Is here intro*
duced, and within two days in Dm Capital
City JO] young men joined it, and at this
season in various purls of the land other
hundreds are taking their diploma,s forth *t
illustrious profession, and is if not appro¬
priate that l address sueh young men from
a moral and religion: standpoint, ns upon
them that milling are now represented rolling the responsibilities in of
Did text by
Zomls \Vd t)te lihvt ei’?
all ddnilre Dio berole and rigorous
side of Paul’s nature, as when he stands
coolly deliberate on tho deck of tlm corn
ship while the jack lavs of the Mediter¬
ranean are cowering in Dm cyclone; as
when ho stands undaunted amid Dm
marbles of the palace before thick necked
Nero, surrounded with his twelve cruel
Rotors; as when we find him earning his
livelihood with his own needle, sewing
haircloth and preaching iho gospel in the
Interstices; ffs when we Hud hint able to
take Which the fetched* thirty-nine Die btslles, ('very eonUniilng stroke of
Ills missionary blood, yet iff
Work; as Wheti wo lliid liini,
UellveHng togdrdless of temperance .the consequence to himself
il lecture to Felix,
Die Government inebriate. But sometimes
\ve catch a glimpse of Dm mild and genial
side of Paul’s nature. |( seems Dial he had
a friend who was a barrister by profession.
Bis name was Zen as, and he wanted to see
him. Perhaps he had formed the acquaint¬
ance of this lawyer in the courtroom. Per¬
haps sometimes, when ho wanted to ask
some question ih regard to Homan law, he
went to this Zenas the la wyer. Al any rate*
In' had a warm attachment fot ; the man;
and lit! provides for his comfortable escort
and entertainment ns be writes to Titus,
“Bring Zeims the lawyer.”
This man of my text, belonged to a pro¬
fession in which are many ardent suppor¬
ters of Christ and the gospel, among them
Bluekstone, the great, comnmnlatoron Eng¬
lish law, and Wilberforee, Die emancipator,
and tho late Benjamin F. Butler, attorney-
Chauneey, general of New York, leader and t he Philadelphia late Charles
tho of the
bar. and Chief Justices Marshall add Ten-
bdraeii and Campbell and Sir Thomas More,
IVlib died for the truth on tho scaffold, say¬
ing to his aghast executioner: “Pluck up
courage, man, and do your duty. My neck
is very short. Be careful, therefore, and
do not strike awry.”
Among the mightiest pleas that over
have been made by tongue of barrister
have been pleas in behalf of the Bible and
Ghri«tiftnlty, rta when Daniel tVehstoY stood
hi the Supreme Court at Washington plead¬
ing la the famous Girard will case, de¬
nouncing any attempt to educate the peo¬
ple without giving them at the same time
moral sentiment as “low, ribald and vulgar
deism and infidelity;” as when Samuel L.
Southard, of New Jersey, the leader of ;ho
forum in his day, stood on the platform at
Princeton college commencement, advocat¬
ing tho literary excellency of the Scrip¬
tures; as when Edmund Burke, In the fam¬
ous trial of Warren Bastings, not only in
behalf of elevated the English government, but in
bo half midst of morals, closed Ills speech
In the of the most august assemblage
ever gathered “1 impeach In ‘Westminster ball by say-
Warren Bastings in the
hitmd df ties Bouse Of Commons, whose
Impeach hdtionnl character he has dishonored; I
him in i the name Of the people of
India, whose rights r and liberties lid has
subverted; i impeach him in the naino of
pitman nature, which lie has disgraced.
In the name, of both sexes, arid of every
tank, and of every station, and of every
situation in the world, i impeach Warren
Hastings.”
Yet, notwithstanding nil the pleas which
that profession has made in behalf of God
and the church and the gospel and the
rights of man, there lias come down
through the generations among many peo¬
ple It. an Ho absurd long and wicked in Die prejudice time of against Oliver
ago as
Cromwell it was decided that lawyers might
not enter tile parliament house as members,
and they were called “sons of Zeruiali.”
The learned Dr. Johnson wrote an epitaph
for one of Diem in these words:
God works wonders now and then.
Here lies a lawyer, an honest man!
Two hundred years ago a treatise was Is¬
sued with the title, “Doomsday Approach¬
ing With Thunder and Fighlning for Law*
yers.” A prominent clergyman of the last
century wrote In regard to that profession
these words: “There Is among us a society of
men bred up from their youth in the art of
proving, according as they are paid, by
words multiplied for the purpose, that
white is black and black is white. Forex-
ample: If my neighbor has a mind to my
cow. lie hires a lawyer to prove that
he ought to have my cow from me. I must
hire another lawyer to defend my right, it
being against all rules of law that a man
should apeak for himself, in pleading they
do not dwell upon the merits of tho cause,
but upon circumstances, foreign thereto.
For instance, they do not take the shortest
methods to know what title my adversary
has to my cow, but whether tho cow bo red
or black, her horns Ring or short or the
like. After that they adjourn the cause
from time to time, and in twenty years they
eome to an issue. This society likewise has
a peculiar cant or jargon of their own, in
which all their laws are written, and tin 'S'!
they take especial care to multiply, where¬
by they have so confounded truth and false¬
hood that, it will take, twelve years to decide
Whether the Held left tome by my ances¬
tors for six generations belongs to me or to
one 300 miles otT.”
f say these things to show you that there
has been a prejudice going on down against
tlmt profession I from generation ground to genera¬ that
tion. account for it on tho
they compel men to pay debts that they do
not want to pay, and that they arraign
criminals who want to escape the conse¬
quences of their crime, and as long as that
is so, and It always will be so, just so long
there will be classes of men who will affect
at any rate to despise Die legal profession, but
I know not how It is in other countries,
I have had long and wide acquaintance
wlt/i men of that profession. I have found
them In all my parishes. I tarried in one
of their offices for three years, where there
came real estate lawyers, insurance lawyers,
criminal lawyers, marine lawyers, and I
have yet to ilnd n class of men more genial
or more straightforward. There are in that
ocupatlon, as in all our God occupations, men
utterly obnoxious to and man, but if J
were on trial for my integrity or my life and
1 wanted even handed justice administered
to me I would rather have my case submit¬
ted to ft jury of twelve lawyers than to n
jury of twelve clergymen. Tho legal pro¬
fession, I believe, lias less violence of preju¬
dice than is to be found in the sacred call¬
ing.
There is, however, no man who has more
tern ptations or graver responsibilities than
the barrister, and he wiio attempts to dis-
charge the duties of his position wJtn only
earthly resources Is making a very groat
mistake. Witness the scores of men wbc
have in that profession made eternal ship¬
wreck. Witness the men who, with tm
law of the land under their arm, have vio¬
lated every statute of the eternal God
Witness the men who have, argued shall plaoldlj srilvej
before earthly tribunals, who
Is dismay before the Judge of announcing quick anc
dead. Witness Lord Thuriow
his loyalty to earthly government In th<
sentence, “If I forget my earthly sovereign
may God forget me! ’ and yet stooping Lor< t<
unaccountable meannesses. Witness
Coke, the learned and the reckless. Wit
m*gs Hir George MacKerizie, the execratet
of all Hootch Covenanters, so that until thl
tlay in Gray Friars' churchyard, Edit*
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tho children whistle through the
tho tomb, crying:
Lift Bloody iho Mackenzie, conic out if you duur
snook and draw the bar,
N<» bfchoi pt-ofussion morn needs tho
$,rnee of God to dolivor tiioni lit tin'll
tempiations, to comfort them in thoit
trials, to sustain thorn til the discharge
of their the duty. While I would have you
bring merchant to Christ, nnd while
I .would have you bring tho farmer to
Christ, and while 1 would have you
bHn* the mechanic to Christ, 1 address
you now in the v^orvis of V’mSl to Titus,
‘‘Bring /jonasthe lawyer.” By so much as
his duties are delicate and great, by so
much does he need Christian stimulus and
safeguard. Wo all become clients. I do
not suppose there is a man fifty years of
ago who has been In active life wild has
not boon nllliotod with a lawsuit, Your
name is assaulted, and yon must have legal
uofectlou. Your boundary lino' is
nvndod, II. ami tho Courts must re-os
jlbli.sll Yotlr pittmif. is in
flu god upon, iin-1 veil niust iriaico' tho
olTonding niamifaeturer pay the tie' .pehalty.
Your t rensiires nn> taken, and t hief
must be apprehended. You want to make
vour will, and you do not want to follow
the example of those who, for the sake »»f
raving $10(1 from an attorney. Imperil *250.-
100 ami keep t |m generation following for
(went v years (piarreling about; the estate
unt il it Is all exhausted. You ar.mslruek at
by an assassin, and you must, Invoke for
ion (he penitentiaryi All idfv^es of per
ions in (hutrse of time became clients, and
tin*ref«)rc t hoy are till iulsu-est ed lit t ho nine-
a 1 itv and Christiail Integrity of flu* legal
profession; “Bring Zctuts the lawyer.“
Hut. how is aii attorney to (looido as |o
ivhul are the principles by n v1 1 i• *h he .should
?omluol. himself in regard lo his elienls?
An one ext reme l ( ord Brougham will up-
vear, saving: “ The innoc.enee or guilt of
fourclient is not hiug to you. You are to
tave your client regardless of the torment,
die suIToring, the de.strii'*tion of all others.
You are to know hut mm man in the world
your client. You are to save him though
rou should bring your country Into confu¬
sion. At all hazards you must, save your
•diont.’’ .So says Ford Brougham, Imt. no
right minded lawyer could adopt that son -
li merit.
Outlie other extreme Cicero will come
.0 you and sav, “You must never plea I the
mu,so of a bad man,” forgetful of the fuel,
dint, tho greatest villain on earth ought to
mvo a fair trial and that an attorney can-
tot be judge and ad VO<*at.(\ at t he seinu'
time. Tf was grand when Ford !•;r.o7< Inc
e»"rifled his attorney generalship for the
lake of defending Thomas Bairn' in his
publication of his book called “The Rights
if Man,” while at, t he same time, be, the
idvoeate, abhorred Thomas Paine's irre-
igious sentiments. Between those'! t wo
opposite theories of wlml: is right what
diall the attorney do? God alone can
lire,el, him. To that, chancery he must be
ippeilnel,. and ho will get an answer in an
hour. Blessed is that attorney between
whoso a Moo and the throne of God ( hero is
perpetual, 1 ‘everenthtl and prayerful oom-
minlcntion!* That attorney will never
make an Irreparable mistake. True to the
habits of your profession, you say, “Clte
is sonic authority on the sjubjoct.” Well, 1
potato you the decision of idle supreme
sourt of heaven, ‘‘If any lack wisdom, let
dm ask of God, who glvoth to all men lib¬
erally and upbraldeth not, and It shall ho
<lvon him.”
What a scone Is the office of a busy ul-
iornoyt In addition to the men who come
o you from right motives, bad men will
ionic to you. They hi will offer you a largo
fee for counsel the wrong direction.
They want to know front you how they
•an escape from solemn marital obligation.
They come to you wanting to know how
boy can fall advantageously for tfiom-
•<olvos. They come to you wanting to know
how they can make Die insurance com¬
pany pay for a destroyed house whbdi
they burned down with tlu-.fr own hands,
or they eome to you on the simple errand
of want! mg to t. (‘scape payment of their
honest debts. < Now, it Is no easy thing
to ndviso settlement wlmri by urging liti¬
gation you could strike a mine of remuner¬
not a very ogsy
dampen the ardor of an inliamnd contest ant
when you know through a prolonged law-
411 It you could got from Idm whatever you
asked. It. Is. no easy thing to attempt to
(llseournge 1 lie suit for the breaking of a
will in the surrogate’s court been use you
know tho I'• d id or was of sound mind and
body when he signed (.he document, 11 re
quires no small heroism to do as I once
heard nil attorney do In an office in a
western ell y.
I overheard tlio conversation when ho
Bah), “John, you can go on with tills law
mi it, and I will see you through ns well as
1 can, but I wautto tell you before, you start
that a lawsuit Is oquul to a (Ire.” Under
Die tremendous temptations that eome upon
Die legal profession there are scores of men
who have gone down, ami some of them
from being the pride of Die highest tribunal
of the Btato have become a disgrace to Dm
Tombs courtroom. Kvory attorney, In ad
dltion to the lunate sense of right, wants
the sustaining power of the old fashioned
religion of Jesus Christ. “Bring Zenus the
;awyer.”
Thorn are two or three forms of templ.a-
Don to subject. which Die legal profession all skepticism. Is espe¬
cially 'The first of business is that
Controversy is the lifetime of
occupation. Controversy may beIneidentul
or accidental with us, but with you It Is
perpetual. You gel, so used to pushing the
sharp question “Why?” and making uu-
aided reason superior to the emotions that
Die religion of Jesus Christ, which Is a sim ¬
ple matter «>f faith, and above human rea¬
son, although not contrary to It, has but,
little chance wit,b some of you. A brilliant
orator wrote a book, on the first page of
which lie announced the sentiment, “An
honest God is Die noblest work
of man.” Skepticism is the might¬
iest temptation of the legal profes¬
sion, and that man — who can stand
In that profession, resisting all Molicltu-
lions to infidelity, and can be as brave as
George Briggs of Massachusetts, who
stepped missionary from the gubernatorial chair to
the convention, to plead the
cause of a the dying race, then on cold his day, way
home, from convention, on a
took off Ills warm cloak and threw It o ver
the shoulders of a thinly clad missionary,
saying, “Take that and wear It; It will do
you more good than Jfc will me,” or, like
Judge MoFoan, who can step from the su¬
preme court room of the United Blairs on
to the anniversary plat form of the Ameri¬
can Hu nday-school union, Its most power¬
ful orator, deserves congratulation and en¬
comium.
O men of the legal profession, let me beg
of you to quit asking questions In regard
to religion and begin believing! The
mighty men of your profession, Htory and
Kent and Mansfield, became Christians, not
through their heads, but through their
hearts. “Except ye become as a little
child ye shall In no wise enter the kingdom
of God.” If you do not become a Ghristian,
O man of the legal profession, until you
can reason this whole thing out in regard
to God and Christ and the Immortality of
the soul, you will never become a Christian
;d all. Only believe. “Bring Zones the
lawyer.” mighty temptation for the legal
Another Tim
|,rof<-sslon It) Hnbbnth breaking. trial
hae been going on for ten or fifteen daye,
Tho evidence (h all In. It Is Saturday
night. Tho judge'll gavel fall)) on tlio dook
arid he says, “dr lor, adjourn tho court unth
10 o'clock Monday morning.” On Monday
morning the counselor la to Burn up the case,
ThoueandN of dollare, yon, depend tho reputation tho
„nd life of IjIh client, may will he spend upon tin
HtieccsH of hla pica. How
intervening Him,lay? There la not one law¬
yer'out of a hundred that can withstand tin
temptation to break the Lord's day undci
such circumstance)). And yet If ho does h,
hurts his own soul. What, my brother, yoi.
,-annot do before 12 o'clock Haturday night m
aU-r 12o'clock Hunday night Ood does not
want you to do at all. lies ides that you
want the 24 hours of Sabbath rest to giv*
you that electrical and magnetic fore*
which wLH bo worth more to you Dolor
tho JiBy tlirtn fill Bin elaboration of your
<’ft»o lnmontort on tho frioml M/b:ro<l Iho dfiy. httb ,fu My Ini tvoliaon. Imnto and
l>«* in
bin tntorcHtlng rominiHCt'ntMs of BuMtf
(Mioato, HJiyn that during tho lant caso that
goalInman trio«l in Now York tlio oourf;
Ihljobrnod iioGOthil. from Friday until Monday ori
uf Mu* Ulnofls of Mr. Ghoafco, l»xit
tho ohroiilolor says that on tlio intorvonlng
Sabbath he saw Mr. Ghoule in Dip old
“Brick church," listening to tlio How Hr.
Gardiner Spring.
I do not know whether, on tho following
day, lid fits Choatewon Ills cause or lost II.
hut f do know that his Hubbatie rest did
not dil hint ilnr harm. Kvory lawyer Is en-
litloiOo oto- drty's rest <ml. of seven. If lie
surremleis soul (Imt. f-ohs t(t(,a« flod, his
own and Ills client. Lent ( asIh-fOilglf
anil Sir Thomas lloinflly wero the leaders
nf the bar in their day. They both died
suicides. Wlllierforce acconnts for llielr
aberration of Intellect on tin' ground thill
they were unlnlcrmtttent In their work, and
lliey 4 never *niti roslixl on Sunday. “Poor fal¬
low!’ Wilborfordu hi regard to Oa.s-
tlerengh; “poor fellow, it Was moil*
idiBevvitned of the’ Babbitt Itl" Chief
luvtleo I lulu' java: ’When f doi not¬
protnu’ly keep Du I.«>r»I • and <ln\\ all tluV
f«'sl of Die week Is unhappy uiiMiicoo.s.S'
fill in my worldly employment.,” i quote'
lo-diiy from the highest sintuiebeok in the
universe, “Hnnu'iniicf' Dm Babbat.li day to'
keep it Indy.” Tim b'tfal g'Td b'man who’
breaks that, statute may seem for a T?b*le
to be advantaged, but in Die long run the’
nmi who observe Dlls law of (Jed will have
larger retainers, wider influence, greater
professional sii ’ci's.s than those men who
break the statutu. Observance of tho law
’d‘ God pifys not only spirllually I dollars and
‘ternaljv, bid, it pays in liar or
bank bills.
Another powerful temptation of llu legal
profession is to urtillcial stiinulus. No 1 one’
• xcc|)t t lio' o who' have addressed audb'iiceS
knows about tho nervous exhaustion that
mmol hues comes afterward. The tempta¬ logoi
tion U> strong drink approaches the
profession nl Dial very point. Then a trial
is coming on. Through tlio ill ventilated
muiG room tho barrister's health has been
loprossod for days and for weeks. Be
wants to rally Ids energy. Be Is tempted to
resort to' ffrljllcial Mf iniuluS; It Is either to
get liimscll’ up or let idrffseif down Dial.lids
tempi,(ition comes lipo'n liini. 'l 4 ho' ibtwor
d’ I lie Amcrican bnr, ruined in roputatiod
and mined in (‘state, said In his last mo¬
ments: ‘ This is the cud. 1 am dying on a
borrowed bed, covered with n borrowed
licet, In a house built by public middle charity,
hiry mo under that tree in Die of
he Mold, that 1 may not bo crowded; 1 al¬
lays have been crowded.”
Another powerful temptation of tho legal
u-ofesslon is to allow the absorbing duties
pf the profession to shut oi It thoughts Of
he great future. You know very well that
oil who have so oft<m tried others will after
while Ih> pul; on trial yourselves. ejectment, Death and
Dll serve on you a writ of
mi will be pul oIT these earthly premises.
Bv Dud; day uU Dm affairs of your life will
in presented in a “bill of particulars.” No
erliorari from a, higher court, for this Is
he higliesf court. Tin'dav when fjord Ex-
Iej' u'as tried for lijgh freason; moved the for day
vdien Die house "f C()iinjioiim Dio
jn])i'ju*hment of Ford F’ffva!; BnGlayu pdf whrnJ
lluvrle Fund Queen Caroline \ver< upon
rial; the day when Robert Emmet Was ar¬
aigned as an Insurgent; the day when
Jlennerhasset was brought Into the court
«Mi,ii because he had tried I » overthrow the
/nil" I Slates Government,and all the other
p'enl trial 1 : ol' the world are nothing rom-
larcd with the great, trial in which you and
shall appear, summoned before tho Judge
•f quick and dead. There will Im no phuid-
ng them “the statute of limitations,” no
Turning state’s evidence," trying to gel,
iff’ourselves while oilier.- 1 suffer; no “mov-
ng for a nonsuit." Tho ease will < jomo on
jmxorably, and we shall be tried. You,
ny brother, who have so often been udvo-
ile for others, will then need an advocate
or yourself. Have you sidectcil Him, the
„ord Ghancellor of Die Universe? If any
nan sin, we have an advocate, Jesus Christ
he rigid cons. II Is uncertain when your
iase will be milled on. “Be ye also ready.”
Ford Ashburton and Mr. Wallace were
ending barristers In their day. They jieCoro died
pout the same time, A few months
heir decease they happened to be In the
lame hotel in a village, the one counsel
London. join:; to They Devonshire, had both tho been other seized going to
wideii unoii
‘>y a disease they knew would be fa-
,iiI, and they requested that they be carried
nto t in* same room ami laid down on sofas,
fide by sld", that they might talk over old
dines and talk over tho future. Ho they
jvere carried In, and, talked lying there on up*
nosil" sofas, they over their old
umteslH at the bar, and then t.liej
;nlkc l of tho future world, upon which
.hoy must, soon enter. It was said to have
(ci'ii a very affecting and solemn Interview
nel,vv ; "ii Mr. Wallace and Ford Ashburton.
My subject to-day puts you side by side
with those men in your profession who
have departed tills life, Home of them skep¬
tical and rebellious, some of them penitent,
•hlhlllke and Glni.dIan. Those were wun-
b-ring stars for whom Is reserved the
blackness of darkness forever, while these
others went up from the courtroom of earth
to Die throne of eternal dominion. Through
Ulirisl; the advocate these got glorious
acquittal. In Die other case il was a hope¬
less lawsuit an unpiinlon" 1 sinner versus
J,n Ford God Almighty. Oh, wlmt disas¬
trous lillgation! Behold, ho comes! The
fudge, Die Judge, the clouds of heaven,
the judicial ermine, thegreat white throne,
Die judicial bench, I,he archangel's voice
that shall wake the dead, the crier, “Gome.
yo blessed; deparI;, ye urs"d!”Die “And 1 acquittal tho
O’ the eondcmnnlion. saw
lend, small and great, stand before God
ind Die books were- opened,"
LIVED WELL UN SIX CtNT MEALS.
in Fifty-One Day* Four Students Ex¬
pended Only flfcffs.uo.
Cheap living andj*ood living Is what the
four students of the Y. M. O. A. who Training
School in Kprlngileld, Mass., have
boarded themselves for the last eight
weeks, with the, aid of one of Ed ward At¬
kinson’s Aladdin ovens, have hud. An av¬
erage cost p"r meal for each person of six
emits, a/i average their week’s having board wholesome of &F2IJ,
did not preclude
and apputl/Jng fare.
How they lived can be judged by the
bills of fare. For breakfast they usua'Jy
md milk, cocoa, bread and butter and
some cereal. Roasts, stews, soups, baked
beans or eggs constituted the chief arti¬
cles for dinner, and tho cooking began di¬
rectly after breakfast. Dessert consisted
of some kind of pudding, with dates and
figs. For supper, bread and butter, cake
and some fruit sauce, with Jomonudo, made
up the bill of far".
From April 22 to June Iff an account of
everything purchased was kept in itemized
form. This demonstrated that the total
expense during that period was only
gffS.ffO.
FIGHTING GRASSHOPPERS.
A Bounty of Fifty Cents a Bushel to He Of¬
fered for the Insects.
State Irrigation Commissioner returned Cochrane,
of South Dakota, has just from
Edmunds County, where ho has boon di¬
recting measures to destroy the grasshop¬
pers, which have alarmed settlors there
and lo Brown County. Professor Saunders,
of the State Agricultural College, Is on tho
ground superintending the work. Four¬
teen “hopper doners'' are In use. Crude
petroleum is shipped by tho railway free
and used in the work. One can gather
about a bushel of grasshoppers in twenty
minutes. They move across the road like
u big gray blanket, Tho and Commissioners have already done
much damage. will
offer a bounty of fifty cents a bushel for the
luaects.
Cirri, Spi.Htoi'K by I*o|iiilur Vot«.
N«xt Hejit«ml)*:r, (ortho third tlrno,Houth
Carolina will olect a United btutoe Sonatoi
' v a popular Voto.
VOL. V. TO). 47-
i illi SABBATH SCHOOL.
1 LESSEN COMMENTS
INTERNATIONAL
FOR JULY 4.
L»*hpoh ToVIj ‘‘S’IihI ronvrMs »» Knropc,*
Ads x \ 1., «; tr#—.F'OMrn Te*F “ I ho
Kutranee of Thy filvuik
Psalms cxlx., I :J0—ThO <
. 7. they hail Cfnnogh-
«. No«, tM.en gone
out l’hfvgl/i 1 1ml flu— glon of (Inlntia, arol
wore forbldd-m of tie- IIol > (Hiosf to pr.-ik-ii
the-word in A 11, after they wer- Hnbynfa, eome to
Mysla, they ......ave.I (•< go Into
l"H the Spirit Miltcred tli- >ti r-ot. Our
hist apostles lesson in 111!- the 1 book eonfen-nce Intro/l'p-cd J-rumi n . ic
Hi" nl iff
h'in, from hbn-b 1'nul and Piniabn-, with
Silas and Olliers, rcliri-nnd to Anl loch a ini
continued there leeching and pr- aching
the \v<>r»l of tho Dot'd 'V't.' v..
After some time liny si art-1 on their
second missionary lour. Barnabas taking:
Mark and .sailin'' for Cyprus, and Gaul,
taking SB as and Marling through Hvria
and Cnbd.'i. continuing and <M*Mishing
tho ehur'Ye-s. At EyM nv, v; mwe Gsal lead
been stoned and left, for dead <>u his Hi t.
tour. Im take* Tint'dhv with him, of whom
be afterward snvs. *T have no man so dear
unto fiie’ ( Phil! if., *-.<>. margin). As they
eojitinucd jou rrCvir;: ;nid and preaching
through Phrygiu Galatia Du v thought
ro Gun southward and. afterward north¬
ward a»id glvrt imt the glad tidings in Asia and
BUltytiin, weld in each ease prevented
by the Spirit from'so doing. Thu Spirit:
sent them forth on IDs MsimFordin'*!,
and, being willing to |>eeo/tl* died by Dim,
Bo controlled them and i<»r jtonio good
reason kept llieni al this time i.'opi g"B'g
into Duse two provinces, that lie •night
scud them elsewhere.
H. “And they, missing by Mysla, canio’
down toTroas." Blndered on Die right and
left, they found that the open door was
straight ahead, find so kept on to the sea at
Timas. “Thine car shuii tear a word !>'*-
bind thee, saying: This is tin'way. Walk
ye in it when ye turn to the right hand amt
when ye turn to tin'* left” (Isa. xxx.,21).
To he sure t hat the Ford has a purpose in
your life, according to Eph. II,, iff, arid that
lie will surely perform if according to Isa,w
xiv\, 24, make one <juiet before .Him, not
dating to murmur even though With ach¬
ing heart and streaming eyes wo say,
“Even ho, Father," “My Jesus, as Thou
frilt.”
1), “And a vision appeared to Paul in tho
night. There ntood a man of Macedonia
and prayed him, saying, Como over into
Macedonia and help us.” In a dream or
vision of the night God has often spoken to
men (Job xxxiiF, 15) and will yet, if neces¬
sary, though lie generally by Bi^
Hpirit cither in 11 in word or in tliduy^nts oif
dally life. Tho right al titude is to ‘GVgtcIi
tho way" and “Watch to sen what Ho
say” (Nab. if., J; Bab. il., 1), then meekly
Walk in the way which lie opens before us,
“Doing As occasion servo us, for God is
with us” (I Ham. x., 7).
10. “And after he had seen tlio vision Im¬
mediately we endeavored to go Into Mace¬
donia, assuredly gathering that the Lord
bad called us for to preach tho guided gospel by unto tho
them.” Being willing to bo
Hpirit, they were sure this was the earnestly Spirit’s
guiding* If we are willing and
desirous to bo led of tlio Spirit, wo may b‘»
perfectly sure that every hindrance ami
(ivory opening is of Dim. Notice that they
knew what half, the people of Macedonia
needed, and that was just what they had to
give the gospel or good tidings of tlio
grace of God. They wore not on a lectur¬
ing or an entertaining tour, but only and
wholly on business for God, to win souls to
Christ.
IF “Therefore, loosing from Troas, wo
came witli a straight course to Snmotimi-
e.in, and tho next day to NenpoUs." This
lesson «houId ho taught, with the map be¬
fore tho scholars that they may see that
.Paul and his company now ero.s.-cd from
tho continent of Asia to Europe; that Ne-
apolis was the seaport about of Philippi, and 8a-
mothrncin an island half way from
Troas to Neapolls. As In many another in¬
stance In Die Scriptures, tlio. incidents of
the voyage or journey are wholly omitted.
Thoy set forth arid they arrived are all tho
Spirit sees 1)1; to record. From tho heaven¬
ly standpoint, they journeylngs take Hash no of light-* time,
for run and,return as a
ning (lv/,ek. I., 1 F)
12. “And from t,hence to Philippi, whihe
Im the chief city of that part of Macedonia
and a colony, and wo wore in that, city abid¬
ing certain days," There seems to ha no
welcome for them, no one specially expect¬
ing them, and yet they are in the doubtb land to
which they had been called, and s^
they gave themselves up to prayer that tho
same Hpirit who brought I hem t hither would
now use imt them. They not only abode in tho
city, they abode In Gbrisi.
Iff. “And on the Habbath wo went out
of the city )>.y a riverside, where prayer was
want, to be mad*', and we sat down and
spake unto the women which resorted
thither," It would seem, then, that Die
Hast preaching of the gospel in Europe was
at n woman’s prayer mec! ifig. Mary, the
mother of our Lord, and other women were
assembled with the apostles for prayer dur¬
ing Die waiting days between Bin ascen¬
sion and Pentecost (Acts F, it), it is Hpirit prob¬
able that, upon the women also the
came as tongues of /Ire, and as them worn
present in the city at that lime strangers
from Rome, there may also have been some
from Macedonia. Uowovcr, it oiinn about,
here are some worshipper# of the true God
who had evidently been, crying to God for
more light, and now God has sent It. '1 ho
same God who sent Gabriel to Daniel and
Hlmon J.’cter to Cornelius sent Paul and
8Uas to Macedonia.
14. • “And a certain woman named Lydia,
a seller of purple, of tho city of Thyatlrn,
which worshiped God, heard us; whose
heart the Lord opened, that she attended
unto the things which were spoken of
Paul.” Here is a business woman from
Asia, for Thyatira was in Asia (Rev. i., 11),
who was for tho time Jiving in Philippi,
and was evidently one of tin . c c chosen in
Christ before the foundation of tho world
(Eph. i., 4; it Tim. F, U). It was worth
while going to Europe; to ilnd her. She
was probably another hungry soul like
Cornelius, Wherever on earth the eye:;’ of
the Lord see a real thirst for Him, He will
find a way to supply that thirst. “Blessed
are they that hunger, for they shall 'be
filled. 1 T “He satlHlloth the longing soul."
15. “And when she was baptized and her
household, she besought us, saying, If ye
have judged me to be faithful to the Lord,
come into rny house and abide there. And
she constrained us." Her heart became
a home, for the Lord and her house a home
for His disciples. There wore probably
four at least in Paul’s party, for Timothy
had joined them at Lystra, and it looks as
If I.uke had “they” joined them at Troas. Con¬
trast the of versos 6 to 8 with tho
“we’ of verses 10. IF Contrast tho spirit
possessing the damsel of verses 1C to 18
with the HoJy Hpirit now possessing Lydia
and her household, and remember wo are
controlled the by devil.—Lesson one or the other, Helper. either tho
Lord or
a small nerd or twenty Buffalo is
owned l»y tho Island Improvement
Company, and kept on Antelope
Island, in the midst of the Great Halt
Lake, where the animals have been
grazing for three years in a semi wild
state. The island is thirty miles long
and six miles wide, furnishing the ani¬
mals with an ideal home, where they
are not interfered with by any one.
The grasses are on the island are rich
and luxuriant, the natural watering
places numerous, and the configura¬
tion of the surface rough and varied
enough to suit the desires of the
buffaloes. The animals seem to dd
well there, and during the present
year four calves were born.