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About The Ashburn advance. (Ashburn, Ga.) 18??-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1897)
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JCI/Y 23, 1837. store. We want new cutfiomers added to am fist. ERead This Big Offer. , Eu V trading , $10.0“) 2':ti‘.:‘z.2v1 fare to TEEN: fw-w, cam mzsztmxxer or H mm; Tu graph cuatumer trading 32') m) mihvmfll 12m? 5.; ‘1‘5:':.,»; 1 m' mum, :4 5'5— 1,24%. turn firm; The: or 2'1ilruul 1!) per cent. flismnnt t-Xuce‘l frmu 1n regular prices. 02' the ‘x'uur punch“. «'hni: » m" N». nuw: c i=2 5- fun: 1:! s2: m per :"knfi. . 1- the nnn‘umtilv World 1:215 :my firm made a mum) .‘jbrmi “gm that; film :dynm' :1” :1”) mm mm;- ”Ami”: wmh MW MM Mm“ :5 Wm ”M Wigw‘fi‘. Luv L11; 11“ 17“." 52111.1: i“ t“ ymu‘ diffinam “Ii'llvt, }'t~'.‘x :‘Ex1ckuk,o:l: W 1X1 H ' x}: mi}; ’t 1. L‘Intl k”; «1}» {:1- mt. \‘fv,’ (rim; v ?z';‘\‘ (1:12:24: | «I iv. a. v.41}: 61) Finis 3 HATS. UNDERWEAR SHIRTS. he Everything u‘p-tofinte. 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K ,m \ esmqpngu o! ress mm s e wx execute your lTHIED. latest style. 21‘ any prlce named. his floor we carry GENTS, FURNISHING GOODS ' Here you “‘11) , find , a new stack 0f Fine at‘nl Medium Grmha» SFITS’ FIRST, Baspnuxnt. mm» W m“, mm: (moms of n” kinds. GLASSWARE (1;qu ERY. CANNED GOODS. WAGON MATERIAL. HAY, CORN, OA'Is’t BRXN, ' mg . Sl‘; ‘ 001‘ ‘ D. 313“" FlOOl'. ' Hm “m find general line of Small Articles_ Each 1mm stock you our of itself. Hardware,J Shays, Dry 6000’s. Notions, Glassware, Crockery. Groums. ‘ « ~ ) "~. Jillu'ri’l’ «1 n1 ., étdl‘lOHCY’y ‘ ‘ (171d ' Fancy a GOOdS; PADRICK BR0 E h -égfi» EN 3 S GRE. , , 4 ’ ' ' 0 x .1 Y * " w . __ - V . 11KV. I)R. TAIMAGE ' J * THE NOTEl) DIVINE’S SUN¬ DAY DISCOURSE. A Sermon inverted to the fJven; Arn»> or Men mid Women V. tuple .veil us Clerks In tin* Various Occupallom Words of Adi Ice and I'-ncouranemoiil, Tuxt: "Ami it Curtain tinman named Lydia, Thyiltivit, a soller of purple. Of the city Of which worshiped God, hoard us. whose heart tlie Lord opened.” Acts xvl,, li. “Sees! thou /t man diligent In Ills busi¬ ness? Uo shall stand before Kings. " Provotbs xxil., 2D. The first passage introduces to von hrflh Lydia., Is a, Christian (b mc-ivUnutcss. Her busi- to /il in purph elelhs Ar ^i]k.s» Sn<‘ is not a giggling nonentity, but a prac¬ tical woman, not ashamed to work for her living. All the other women of Philippi and Thvatira have been forgotten, but God has made immortal til our text Lydia, the Chrlstiau saleswoman. The other text shows you a man with head and hand and heart and foot all busy toiling on up until he gain;/ a princely success; “Scest tlioit a (min diligent in his business? Ho Khali tdaud before kings.” Great eueoiiragement in these two pas¬ sages for nieiiitnd women whd will he busy, but no solace for those who are waiting for good luck to show them, at the foot of the rainbow, a casket of buried gold. It is folly for anybody in this world to wait for sonmthiug to turn up. It will turn down. The law of thrift is sis inexorable as tlm law of the tides. Fortune, the magician, may wave her wand in that direction until castles and palaces come, but she will after a while tnwvt the same wand, find fill tlm ‘•pleaders Will Vanish into thin air. '.I here are certain styles of behavior which lead to usefulness, honor and per¬ manent. success, find there are certain styles of behavior which lead to dust,, dis¬ honor and moral default. I would like to tiro the ambition of young people. I have uo sympathy with those who would prepare young folks for life by whittling down * heir expectations; That man or woman wilU'e- Wild giiis vC'ril.1 life nothing L> ebilyeli oi stale Ih\ cowed down. The busiuetU of Christianity human Is not to quench but to di¬ rect ambition. Therefore it Is that 1 utter words of encouragement to those, who are occupied as clerks in tho stores and shops and banking house;; of tlm country. They are not an exceptional class. They belong to a great company this of tens of thou¬ sands who are in country, amid cir¬ cumstances which will either make or break l hem for Mum ami for eternity; fyltiuy of these peopld have already achieved . d Christian manliness and a Ohrlstlau wo manliness which will ho their passport to any position. I have seen their trials. | have watched I heir- perplex ities. There are evils abroad wide iv need to bo hunted down and dragged out into the noonday light. the first In place, T counsel clerks to remember that for the uioh! part their clerk,ship is only a school from which they Ore to ho graduated: Into H takes learned abo/H night y.eCr tc get takes one of ( lie phdVs aions. It. about eight years to gut to be a merchant. Home of you will he clerks fill your lives, but. the vast majority of you are only in a transient position. After awhile, some December day, tile head men of the Urn) will call yo i into the back office, and they will say ( A you: “Now, you have done well by us, we are going to do Well by you. Wo invite you to have an l/i- terest In our com rn. Vou will how to that edict vel'.y gracefully. Gelling into it street (hlrto gd home, Jill old Coin hide will meet: you diid say; “What makes yod look so happy to-night?" “Oh,” you will say, “nothing, nothing.” But in a few days your name will blossom on tlmsign. Either fn the store or bank where you are now, or in some other store or hank, you will take a higher position than that which you now occupy. Ho f feel I am now address big tim people World’s who will yet ami have tlmir hand Oil commerce you will turn it this way or that. Now clerks, but to he bankers, importers, insurance company directors, shippers, contractors, superin¬ tendents of railroads your voice mighty “on ’Change” standing foremost in the great lluamduJ and religious enterprises the of tho profession day. For, though tide we who are in may, on platform, plead for the philanthropies, after all, the mer¬ chants must cmne forward with their mil¬ lions to fluHfcdtu the movement. ♦jr/lnsibnt He therefore, position; p/lf.jeiil and diligent in tills Voli /ire how Where oil citn learn things you coin never learn in any other place. What you consider your disadvantages are your grand oppor¬ tunity. You see /in al’llu-mit Hither some d/iy conic down a prominent street with his son who has just graduated from tho uni¬ versity and establishing him in business, [Hitting #50,000 of ’ capital in Gm store. Weil, yon arc envious. You say: “Oh. i If I only bad a chance like that young man if business I only hud a father to put #50,000 In a for mo, then I would have obvious, some chance in tile world,” He not You have advantages over that young Well man Which In! Jirts not over you. As might 1 come down to the docks when a vessel is about to sail for Valparaiso and say, “Ld me pilot this ship out to sea.” Why, l would sink crew and cargo before I got out of the harbor simply because I know noth- ingabout pilotage. Wealthy sea captains put their sons before tho mast for the reason that they know it is the only place where they can learn to bo sue- cessfui sailors. It is only under drill that people get to understand pilotage and navigation, and 1 want you to umb istnnd that it takes no more skill to conduct aves- 8c*l out of harbor and across tim sea than to steer a commercial establishment clear of the rocks. You sec everyday the folly of people going into a business they know nothing about. A man makes a fortune in one patioii business, thinks there is another occu- more comfortable, goes into il and sinks all. Many of the commercial . slab. lishments of our cities are giving their clerks a mercantile education ns thorough as Yale or Harvard or Princeton are giving scientific attainments to tho students ma¬ triculated. The reason there arc so many men is foundering in business from year to year because I,heir early mercantile edu¬ cation was neglected. Ask tim men in high commercial circles, and they will teii you thev thank God for this severe discipline of their early clerkship. You can afford to endure, the wilderness march If it Is going to end in the vineyards and orchards of the promised land. Hut you say, “Will the womanly clerks Jn our stores have promotion?” Yes. Time is corning when women will be as well paid for their toll in mercantile circles as men are now p/ibi for their toll. 'Time is coming when a woman will be allowed to do thing she can do well. It is only a little while ago when women knew nothing of telegraphy, and they were kept out of great many commercial circles where they arc now welcome, and the time will go on until the woman who at one counter in a store sells f *5000 worth of goods In a year will get as high a salary as the man who at tlm other counter of the same store sells *5000 worth of goods. All honor to Lydia, the Gliristlan "ah*:-woman. The second couns'd 1 have to give clerks I that yon seek out what, arc the lawful regulations of your establishment, and then submit to them. Every well- ordcj od Dons'* i/as its usages. In military life, on ship'; in commercial life, there imid be ' r b-r and discipline. Those people who do not learn how to obey will never know how to command. 1 will tell you what young, emu will make, ruin llna/mial and moral. It is the young man who thrusts hi* thumb Into his vest and says; “Nobody shall dictate to me. I am my own must* r. ! will not submit to the reguJat ioiiH of this house.” Between an establishment in which all the employes are under thorough discipline and the establishment in which the difference employ* s do about they choose is the Ix't wo»u> muoooss mid failun* hofwoon rapid I uoeumulutbm and utter bankruptcy. Do I not time. Porno to tho 8 torn ton mimitoH after tho j Ho thoro within two Hooonds and lot, it ho two nooomln I'oforo Instoad of two sec¬ onds after. Do not think anythin# too In- signilleant to do woll. Do' not say,- ”H’m only just omu'," From tho down mont tho Important partic¬ t ransaotion In oommeivo to ular Htylo in which you tio a string around a bundle obey orders. Do not get easily disgusted. \Vhllo others in t ho store with may lounge or fret or complain you go touted ready hands spirit and cheerful work, face When and the bugle con- lho <o your sounds, j'ood fooldiei'/tsks no (pieMlIons, hut shoulders his kmipsdek, tills his etllltecu nod listens for the Command of ‘‘March!” DO hot, get the idea, that your interests and t hose of your employer be are jlntiigonls- His lie. His success Will your honor. embarrassment will be your dismay; Ex¬ pose' none of thi' frailties of tho linn. Toll no store seerets. Do not blab. Rebuff those persons \Vlui comci to tied out from clerks what ought bo never to bo kudwii Outside tho store, not bo among t hose young men who take on a mysterious air when some¬ thin,!,' is said against (lie linn that employs them, as much as to say, "I could toll you something if l would, but 1 won't." Do not he among those who imagine they can build themselves up by pulling somebody else dowii. He not ashamed to bo a subaltern. Again, ( Counsel all clerks U* eoliqUor tile trials Of their particular position.- One great trial for clerks is tho Ineonslderat.lon of customers. There, are people who are entirely polite everywhere else, hut gruff and dictatorial aud edhtemptIhlo when There I hoy come into a. store to buy anythin#.- are thousands of men and women who go from store to store to price things, without any idea of purchase. They goods are not brought satis- | lied until every roll of is down and they have pointed They out all all tho kinds real rtf or ld<l imaginary gloves ami defects. retch them try out on of shape, hi add they pllt ml till styles of cloak and walk td the inifror to flee how they look, and then they frail hut of the store, saying, “I 1 don't will not take It II all,” to¬ day,” which means, “ want at leaving the clerk amid a wreck of ribbons and laces and cloths to smooth out a thousand dollars’worth of goods—not a emit of which did that man or woman buy or expect to buy. Now, l call that a dis¬ honesty hn fhe part of tho customer. If a boy runs inton stoi-e dud takes rt t'oll info of cloth off the counter and sneaks? mil the street., yo u all join in the cry pell-mell, “.Stop thief!” When I see you go Into a store, not expecting H> buy anything, hut to price tilings, stealing tho time of tho (dork and stealing tho time of hlsomployor, 1 say, too, “.Stop thlefl” If l were asked which dims unpersons most needed (he grace of God amid their itiimlyrtUM, I would say, “Dry goods clerks.” A A\\ the hldigmdjou of customers about the high prices comes on’ tlldCTcrk. Tin* For instance: A great, war comes on. manufactories urn closed. The people go off to battle, The, price of goods rues up. A customer comes into a store. Goods have gone up. ‘‘How much 1st hat worth?” “A dol¬ lar.” ‘‘A dollar! Outrageous! A dollar!” Why who Is to blame for tie* fact that it lias got to he a dollar? Docs the Indignation go out to the manufacturers on the bunks of the Mcrriuide because indigimiloii they have closed up? No. Does the go out toward tho employer, who is at Ids coiinf.ry focal? No. It comes on I he clerk. Me got up the. war. 11 < - levied the taxes, lie puts up the rents. Of course, the clerk. Then there are all the trials which come t o clerks from t he treatment of inconsider¬ ate employers. have There are professed regard Oliris- their thvn men who no more for clerks than they have for tho scales on which the sugars are weighed, A clerk is no more than so much store furniture. No consideration for (hull- rights or interests. Not one word Of hneotlDlgomcni from llocdm-' sun¬ rise to sunset,, nor from January td ber. Hut when anything goes wrong with :i streak of dust on the counter or a box tho cover off I him dor showers of scolding. Mmi Imperious, capricious, cranky toward their clerks their whole manner m- much as to say, “ All the Interest 1 Imve iu you is to Hi‘0 Whin. I (hlii get out of .you.” Then there are all tlm trials of Incompetent Wage*, not in such times as these, when If a man gets half a salary for his services he ought to ho thankful, hut 1 mean in prosper¬ ous times. Homo of you remember when the war broke out, a,ml /ill merchandise went up, and merchants were made mil llomiires l/i six months by tho simple rise in the v.aluo of goods. Did the clerks gel, advantage of that rise? Sometimes, not always* 1 saw estates gathered in those hung times over which the cur,, t of God lias ever since, The cry of unpaid /non ami women ill llumd stores readied the Lord of H/ib/iot,b, dijd tile esfculd indignation Islim/m of God has b M e.a around those t/1 over si nee. Hashing In the upholstery, chandeliers, rumbling glowing from tlm the crimson in long roll of the tenpin alloy. Hindi men may build up palaces of merchandise im/ivon high, but after awhile a disaster will come along and will put one hand on this pillar and another hand on that pillar will and throw lUolf forward until down come tlm whole structure, crushing tlm tlm Worshipers /is grapes /ire mashed in winepress, Then there hoys ruined by lack of are compensation. it has been In for liow the many last twenty prosperous stores years that teach boys wre given just steall enough money to them bow to Home were seized upon by the pollen. The v/lst majority of „ instances , were not known, The head of the linn asked, Where is George now? ’ “Oh, he isn t here any more.” A lad might better starve to deal h 0,1 ,l blasted heath than take one farthing from his employer. Woo be to that employer ! ; who unnecessarily Then!ihftvo puts been a temptation great establish- in a hoy’ft way. In these cities, building mnr.de month j>/»- lacs, their owners dying worth miniousa/xl millions and millions, who made a vast amount of their estate out of'the blood and muscle and nerve ol half paid clerks. Encii mnn {lH well, i will not mention any name, hut I mean men who have gathered up vast ‘-HtAtes at the expense of the p;;oj;io who were ground under their heel. )h say roeh merchants, “il you don t like it here then go and get a better place!” As mu eh as to ray; “I’ve got you in my grip, and I mean to hold you. You can’t get any other place.” Oh, what a contrast between those men and Christian merchants who to-day are sympathetic with theJr clerks when they pay the salary, acting in this way: “Thin salary that 1 giv<ryou is not all my interest in you. You are an Immortal man; you are an immortal woman. I am Interest *d in your present and your everlasting welfare. ( want you to understand that if I am a j j little in higher Christian up In sympathy.” this store Go i am back beside for- J you iy lllfty to Arthur Tnppen’s | or years whose > tore in New York, a man worst enemies neve/ questioned brought his honesty, all the Every morning be the clerks and fhe accountants and weighers into a room for devotion, They sang, they prayed, they exhorted, On Monday morning the clerks were asked where thev had attended epureli on the previous Jay and what the sw/nons were about. It must have sounded strangely, that voice of praise along ty/c streets where the devotees of Mammon were counting their golden Ix-ads. You say, Arthur Tap- pen failed. Yes, Im was unfortunate, like a great many good men, but I understand lie met all bis obligations before be left tills j world, and know that lie died in before tho ponce the of tho gospel and that In is throne of God to-day forever blessed, if that be failing, 1 wish you might all fail, There are a great many young men and , young women who want a word of cneour- agement Christian encouragement. One smile of goo/l cheer would be worth more to them to-morrow morning of Jn their places of business than a present *15,000 ten years hence. Oil, I remember the appro- liension and the tremor of entering a pro- tension. I remember very well the man who greeted me in the ecclesiastical court • with the tip ends of tho long lingers of left hand, and I remember the other man who took my hziutl in botln/f hi.*? mul 8.abb' “U»>«1 bb*ss you, my brother. You hnvo on- iorv.l i» glorious profossion. Ho faithful t<» (Tod, ami llo will son you through.” Why, 1 feel this minute tlio thrill of that, handshaking, though the matt who gave mo the Christian grip hdsbrvn In heaven twenty years. Thorn are old nidi hero te-da.v who can look hack to forty years ago, When some one said a kind word to them. Now", old men, pay back what you get then. It is a groat art for old num to he able to encourage tho young. There are many young people Inland In our cities who have come from counties, from the granite' hills of tho fiortlt, from the savannas of t he south, from the prairies of tlm west. They are Imre to get t heir fortune. They are in hoarding houses where everybody seems to he think¬ and ing of himself. They want encouragement. companionship, they want Christian Give If to t hem. My word is to /ill clerks, lie mightier limn your temptations. A Sandwich Islander used to think when he slew an enemy all the strength of Mini enemy c/tnld into hi* own right arm. And 1 have to tell you that every misfortune you conquer Is so much added to your oWu moral power. With omnipotence for a lever and the throne of God for a fulcrum you can mov’d earth and heaven. While there are other young men putting the cup of sin to their iips you stoop down and drink will out rise of tho loUnlrtliis of God. and you Tho up strong to thrash the mountains, undents used to think that pearl* were fallen raindrops, which, touching tho surface of the sea, hardened into gems, then dropped to the bottom, I have t.o tell you to-day that, storms of trial have showered iniperlsliahle pearls into many a young man’s lap. Mli, young man, while you have goods to sell, romcmboi you have a soul to save, in a hospital a (’hristlatl captain, wronged a few days Indore, got delirious, and in the midnight hour ho sprang out on the lloor of the hospital, thinking lie was in the baltle, crying: “Gontrt on. boysl Forward 1 Charge!” Ah, he was Hilly buttling is the Imaginary specters oonfliet of his own brain! Hut it no into which 1 call you, yoilug iii/m, to-day. There are 10,000 spiritual foes that Would capture you. In tho name of God, up and at t horn! After the last store 1ms been closed, after tho last bank lias gone down, after tho shulllo (>f tho quick feet on the custom house stops ims stopped, after tho long line of niofvhuiitnien on the sea has taken sail of (lame, itl’te/ Washington and New York and London and Vienna have gone down into the grave where Thebes aud Babylon and Tyre lie burled, after the great lire bolls of the judgment day have tolled at the burning of a World >n that day all the affairs of ban king houses and stores will come up for inspect Ion, Oh, what an open¬ the ing of account books! Hide by side clerks and III* men who employ them. E very Invoice made out., nil tho 1/lboi.S of goods, all cert Itle./ifes of stock, all lists of prle.es all private marks of (lie linn now explained so the every¬ body can understand them. Ml maps of cities thal were imvcr built, but in whieli lots were sold all bargains, nil gougings, adulteration all snap judgments, all false entries, /ill of liquors wit h coppers and strychnine. All mixing of teas and sugars and coffees and sirups, with cheaper mate¬ rial, /ill embe/./Jemciits of trust funds. Ail swindlers In coal and iron and oil and silver and sl ocks. Gu that day when dm el! h*H of I his world /ire smoking in Mm l/ist rtuuMagrallou the trial will go on. ami «h»wti in ail avalanche of destruction will tfo those who w roll go I man or woman. Insulted (fod aud dolled tin* judgment. <>h, t hat will he a groaf day for you, honest Gliristlan (dark. No getting up early, or retiring late, no walking around wild) weary limbs, hut a mansion In which to live and n realm of light and love and joy over which to hold everlasting dominion* Hoist him up from glory to glory and from song to song and from t Ulk/m’ to throne, for while <>t hers go down Hilo the se/l With their gold like a millstone hanging to their uec.U, this one .shall come up the heights of amel.hysl and alabaster, holding in his right hand the pearl ing, of great price in a sparkling, glitter¬ naming easkd. OIL AND COAL IN ALASKA. (Iiiough to 8 up ply the World Sold to Have Been Pound There. A roinarkablo discovery is reported from Alaska. Home gold prospectors several mouths ago ran across what seemed to bo a lake of oil. H was fed by Innumerable springs, aud the suiToiinding mountains were full or e. iil. They brought samples to Mentl.lo, the tost.:-; proved l(. to hoof as high grade lie from roinsylvania wells. A. local company was formed returned and experts the sent up. They have on Topeka, and r lielr report has more than borne out the Jlrst statements. It Is M/iid there is enough oil and >:ti in the re¬ gion to supply tho world. It is close to tlm ocean; in fa"!., t he experts say that the oil oo /,ch out into the salt water, it is said that the Hlandard Oil Company has already made an offer for tlm property. The owners have Died claims on 8000 acres. SOUTH LEADS. Htnfenicnt Showing Hallway Cmisl ruction In the United Slates Thi ; Ve/ir. HtalIstles of railway building prepared Rail¬ for the first six months In 1HU7 by the way Age show the South in the iead. Out of a total of 022.50 miles bul.lt, Louisiana has 111 miles. In commenting on Its tables, tho paper says: “It Is to he noted that rail¬ way building was practically suspended Hiatus, and in tho New England and Middle tho work was chiefly conli/md to theMouth- ern HtntOH, where the ratio of area and population to railway mileage still eon- Utiucs large.” It is estimated that the Whole year’s record will show an aggregate) of 1800 or 2000 Julies of new road. Too Many Potatoes. Harvesting Is on In the potato patches along the Kaw Valley bottoms between Kansas City and Lawrence, Kansas aud the farmers say they cannot get enough help. On every sidetrack in this potato district ears are loading for shipment and the fields are full of men, women and boys digging and loading the tuber*. The yield usual this year has not been as heavy as tho on account of the dry weather, but acre¬ will age is larger than last year and there be no famine, Letters to Be Legibly Stamped. First Assistanf Hoxtinasfer-Goneral Heath ha; given orders whieli will lesson the amount of illegible stamping of mail by third aud fourth-class postmasters. Much complaint has been heard from persons u/mbb*, to tell the place at which a letter was mailed because the stamping machine used In marking It was old and left only an illegible mark. In the future postmasters will be obliged to see that letters arc stumped legibly. Shipping Sleet Bull* to India. Tho British steamship Hity of Dvmdou loaded 8500 tons of stocj rails at the Mary¬ land Hteel works, Sparrow’s Foint, for Cal¬ cutta, British India. The order is i’pr 7000 tons, and the oth» r 2500 t >ns will be lea led in a few days in the British steamship West¬ minister. l’eniiHj'lvniiifi'n Allen Tax law. Tlio new alien tax law of I'emisylvanla, Imposing H tax of throe cents a day on the employers of aliens, has resulted In a ^rout tush for “llrst paper*’’ In I’hihclelphla. (Tail In Silver. The Director of tho Mint has re,.estimated the value of foreign silver coins, and finds that during tho last three months the aver¬ age price of silver has fallen value from iO.OiBW per five ounces to ®0.01U39, VOL. V. NO. ;i0. i THE SAUHATH SCHOOL, ; 'NTERNATIONAL LESSOtl COMMENTS FOR JULY 25. Lesson “Paul IVearMug In \tht*im,* ( Acts X V i i., #?? .‘M— (pitdee Tr J: .Julio iv., 'A f—Commentary m\ the Iammoii of the IJji.v by tho Iter. It, A!. Sh ipdr. 22. “Then Paul stood i:t the midst, of Mars (till and said, Ye m*) of Athens, I perceive that In nil thin;*■% yi■ /ire too su¬ perstitious.'’ Tltef II, V. margin says, ‘‘Re¬ ligious.” It was something like numb of the ndigiou of to-day, Wiih'h is described in fsa. xxix., HI; H v';. xxxiiL, Hi; Math, xv., 7 D, a religiousness w i11 1 ■»ut: tiny real¬ ity, without; any forgiveness of sur- alt outward formality. Tim people's time w.i > Spent, in talking A the ne.vs of tin* day (verso 21 1 ; as Paul waited for Silas and Timothy 11 1H) he to eonm to him from 1 V *rea(verses to made goo I use of his time for his Master, both in Hv - y * u r > ;n>^ an l in the marketplace, a,nd e/ery day preached Jesus and the r e ui/Tectjoii. 2d. ‘‘ Whom therefor • ye ignorant ly wor¬ ship Him doela.ro I unto ait.ar you.” Ho said I,his wit!) reference to the !<*> the un¬ known G<»L for it would .•;«■-mi t.ha,|; in t,!i(’ir worship of many gods or idols they had an altar for one whom ; • ,sihly they might not have heard of as yet, hut if there was such /in one, they would like his favor also, liem js the one business of tim ehuivb. to make known to those, who never heard of Him tho oae only living and true God who ahum U worthy to he worshiped. 21. ‘‘God that ma ie tlm world and all things therein, seeing thn! He. is Lord of heaven mul earth, dwelled/ not. in temples made with hands." Prophets aud apostles dwelt much upon tlm great truth of crea¬ tion, (Mid emphasi/.ed that lb* whom they prea dmd w/h xliv.f the Creator of nil things.. See Isa. 21; Jor, x., 12; xx vii., )7; Acts Iv., 21. People may know of Him by His works. Hut no one can truly know Him exeept through Jesus Christ, who was God manifest in tlm (losh (Math, xi., 27; John I., IS; I Tim. iii., Hi). Life eternul 1 h to know Him (J'rtlin xvii,, :1). 25, “He, giveth to all life and breath am! /ill things.” Giving is liis great eharacter- istie, and Hit erow/iiug ad, was to give If is osvnly begotten Hon, or in other words, to give Himself as a sacrifice for oiirsins. Having given Himself, II" has given all things, for /ill tldngM are in Him. Tlm un¬ godly are dependent upon him for the very breath with whieli they bl/i.’-plmme His name, and the words of Daniel t ( > Pel slut'2/.ar are applicable, to them “Tho God In whose hand thy breath is and whose gro all thy ways has thou not glorified.” (Dud! V., 22). 2(J. “And hath made of om* blood /ill na¬ tions of men for to dwell on all tho face of tho earth,” Not only has ho determined tlm hounds of their habitation, but He has. done II with refere/me | o 11 is people Israel. (Dealt., xxxll., H), for if is His pleasure. make Israel the emitre and bless /ill nations through them. As //II on earth are Mis croutures and He love<l tlm world and gave Hlmselt’ for vho world, . ereiy it is Um gre.ul. business of those who know this to make it known to those who know it not. What else are we Imre for but to honor lliu.* and make Him known? 27. “That limy should seek tlm Lord.” look at fsa. Iv., 0,7; Zeph. )L, 2; Jer. xxi.x., , { , lll(l ^|, |U v |., JJ mi ^ « klng the I.ord, and observe every when* that His great de- sire is to have people turn to Him. By shr | we have turned our hades upon Him, and. misjudge Him, and misunderstand II ini, au q think and say hard things <■!' Him. The Sc,ript.ures enlighten us about Him and lead us to repent or changeounriindabout Him, and when we ki.ow Him many are glad to receive Him (John i., U, 12). 2T “I ■'•)/• in Him we live and move amf- havc our being.” II there I•• one thing that is not I; nown, it is t ho goodne.. v and love of God Those who bear the name of Christ are not, showing forth II is goodness as they might day by day, but are too apt to com¬ plain because of II is chad citings and thus lead others to think that lb* is not good. God is good, God is love, and if these truths were more manifest in His people more would want to know Him, for the goodness of God lends to repentance (item, li., I). 2D. “We ought, not to think that the God¬ head is like unto gold or silver or stone, graven by ar! and man’s device.” For It cannot be that, what we make made vis. Tlm work of men's hands cannot be man's creator, and yet what millions seem to think so as they bow down to idols of wood and stone. Hoe the folly of this fully set forth in fsa., xllv., D ID, and in verse 20 see the reason of such folly, “A. deceived heart hal.lv turned him aside.” 110. “And Me* times of tills Ignorance Go d winked at (It. V. overlooked), but noweom-- repent.” mandoth all men everywhere to God never makes light of w hi and never passes it by us if it were fc suffering, slow to nothing, but He is long should auger, not willing that any perish ill l»et. iii., D, 10). How It must grieve Him to be misunderstood as He is, to be thought unkind and cruel when He is wholly and only Jove! f < It any wonder that He commands all t" repent, but Is it not,a great wonder that He offers full and free forgiveness to ail who turn to Him? (ilos. xi v., I; Horn. Hi., 21.) day :tl. “Because He bath appointed righteous¬ a in whieli lie will judge the world in ness by that man whom lie hath ordained.” Tlm assurance of this is found in a risen Christ at God's right hand. I/i reference to tills day we must remember that a day sometimes mequH a thousand years (Ps. xe. f t; If pet. ill., H), and from other scriptures ■v gather that tho period of judgment will tho e.over at least 1001) ye/irs; tlm saints and living nations being judged at the begin¬ ning, aud the wicked dead /it thoend of tho thousand years. of the ;J2. “And when they heard resur¬ rection of the dead some mocked, and others said, Wo will hear time again of this matter.” Thu greatest and the crowning event in the work of our Lord Jesus Christ, His resurrection from flie /lead, is that wide!) seems to be the greatest stumbling block. I Cor. xv. sets forth very fully tho benefits of If is resurrection and what tho results would have been if He had not risen. them. :n, 81, “Ho Haul departed unto from Him and Howbelt certain men clave believed.” Tims lie went from expecting place to place as a faUhful witness, never seeking by all to save all in any place, (I but ('or. ix., 22). He means to save some understood that it was his commission to bear the name of Christ wherever the Spirit of Christ should lead him and lx*, perfectly sure that God's word would always accom¬ plish His pleasure and prosper In that whereto He semis it (isa.lv,, 11). It is a happy tiling for us when wo are willing to let our blessed Lord manage His own af¬ fairs aud accomplish what lie pleases rather than what w please. When we are revealed willing to plans fall and in with purposes Him and in His just clearly dwell with Him for III* work, seeking only -Lesson In all things to bo approved of Him. Helper. Lord Kelvin, in an address upon the earth as an abode fitted for life, has Kiiuuue/l up the evidence into what must be accepted as the latest dictum of science regarding this ob- scare point, Tho old idea was of it solid earth nearly 20,000,000,000 ycurH old, but modern science makes hii immense reduction in this estimate. lie was able to say with confidence Unit the earth solidified between 20,- (100,000 and 80,000,000 years ago. The latest estimate of the time re- oitired 4 for the formation of all strata since the beginning of the Cambrian rock is 17,000,000 years, Lord Kel- vin declares that the earth,, could not have been habitable more than 130,- 000,000 years.
