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THE ASHBDRN ADVANCE. II. D. SMITH. EDITOR. POULAN. JL >^AAX»lkivFVVXn.X>TWOU»».m 1|iTTY(i-oV>virnv-rrro-oj». -m m % *. 'V^COUJOJOJlJIAAAXV.'-AMJUAU. •xmxcovxjxTjoccoxorvr ^ T| Was thought to be a false report, but was found to be true. flews broke out among the people of Worth county that McGirt* & MePhaul Were selling Goods cheaper than any other merchants in the county, which was investigated and found correct. flow we ash the people of Worth and adjoin 1 ng counties to come and examine our line of A m We Carry a Side Hue of Wash Pots, Dinner Pots, Stoves, Stove Furniture, Plows, Plow (^ear AM All Fail Utensils, FURNITURE! FURNITURE! FUKNITU RE! O270«3l5.e373r —AND ALL— Heavy Groceries. CLOTHING! We have a large lot of Clothing selected for the Fall Trade, and we want to sell them rapidly. We have put them at very low prices. We can save you enough of money on one suit of Clothes to pay you for coming to Poulan. When you want Hats, come to see us. When you want Shoes, come tc see us. When you want Suits, come tc see us. When you want Harness, come to see us. When yon want Groceries, come to Bee us. When you want Stoves, come tc Bee ns. When you want Furniture, come to see ns. We have good and polite salesmen, eo that when you come to see us, goods will be thrown down to you for your examination. We carry everything in the HARD¬ WARE LINE from a handsome File to a Grind Rock. tobacco. Everything from a pinch of SnufF tc a box of Tobacco. Call and examine our Goods and gel prices. We will take pleasure in showing you. We have one of the best RICE MILLS in the country. Bring your rough rice and let us hull it. Have your corn ground here. We will gin your cotton for you and then buy it or ship it from our ware¬ house free of drayage. Turn your face this way and make our store headquarters for trade. McGirt & MePhaul. REV. Dli. TALMAGE. THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUN¬ DAY DISCOURSE. The Disciples on tho Lake of Galilee—A Draft of Discouragement—Tlic Disad¬ vantage of an Unfortunate Name—So 1110 Mistakes That Clon-I the Karly Life, Text; "The wind was contrary" Mathew xlv., 24. As I Well know by oxpottaitiM r,n T.akc Galilee, one hour all ItiIIv be calm and the next hour Vhe winds an‘,1 waves will : he so boisterous that you uru in doubt as to whether you will land on thcMtdte or on the bottom of tlm d>'pp. The disciples in the text wort Vaught in such a stress of weather and the sails hent and the ship plunged, for “the wind was contrary,” There is in one ol the European straits a place where, whichever way you pall, the winds are opposing. There art people who nil their life seem sailing In the teeth of the wind. All things seem against them. It may be said of their condition as of that, contrary.” of tho disciples lu my text, "the wind was A great multitude of phoplP Are under seeming in the swAlthlest dlsddvttfttftSd, and t will to-duv, their Anglo-Saxon that I cim manage, treat cases not as a nurse counts out eight or ten drops of a'preserip- tion ami stirs thorn in u half glass of water, but as when a man lias b.r A u'/,stake taken a large belladonna, amount of strychnine or paris green or and the patient is walked rapidly til he round the room ajnl shaken up un¬ gets wide awake, Many of *eti have taken a large draught Of thS poison of dis¬ couragement., and I come out by the order of the Divine Physician to rouse you out of that Eir?t, latharey, many people aro Under the disad¬ vantage ot nu unfortunate Wild nrtuVi given them by parpnl# thought they were doing a £0od children thing. Sometimes at the baptism of while I I have held, held up one hand in prayer have «p the other hand In . nnli'rtillPiit that parents should have Weighted tho babe with gush •i dissonant and repulsive nomenclature. I have not so much wondered that some children should cry out nt the christening should font as take,» that others titl’d Unit yvlth will siKdi be Sihilltig the face lifetime. burden of thstf It is outragoous to afflict children with an undesirable nanio because it happened to be possessed by a parent or a rich unele from whom favors, tiro ox- pected who or end somo Ilk- pfpntfUddt life in disgrace. rulin of the It day mav is no excuse, because they are Scripture names, to call a child Jehoiakim or Tig!ath-Pil- sheba. eser. I baptized one by the name Bath- Why, under all tho circumambient heaven., any parent should loose want to give to a child the name of that rrealuro of Scripture times I cannot Imagine; I have oiton felt nt the baptismal td nlHtr, when names were annoUSedd the, like saying, as did the RPV. Dr. Richards, of Morris¬ town, N. J., when a child was handed him for baptism and the name given, “Hadn’t you better call it something else?” Impose not upon tlmt babe rt liSrbd sug¬ gestive of flippancy o* mbAhhess. There Is no excuse for fdMR assault and battery on tho cfAdle When our language is opulent with names musical and suggestive In meaning, such ns John, meaning n-eithlbg “the gra¬ cious gift of household^’ God,” or Henry-, “the chief of a yf Alfred, moaning "good couUfiUlbf," or Joshua, meaning “God, out Salvation,” or meaning Ambrose, meaning “immortal,” or Andrew, “star," “manly,” or Esther, meaning or Abigail, meaning “my father’s Victoria, joy," flieaning ov Anna,mean¬ ing “grace,” or “beautiful ‘vic¬ tory,” or MatgareL Rosalie, meaning i'.H-aning ns a rose,” Ida, meaftih# or “a pearl,” or “illustrious,” ''godlike,” Amelia, or meaning Clara, meaning “busy,” or of Bertha, of moaning “beautiful,” just good and that hun¬ dreds other names as are a help rather than a hindrance, But sometimes the great hindrance in life is not in tho given name, but lu the family name. While legislatures thebe tire willing to lift such iueubuw, are families that keep a name Which mortgages all the gen¬ erations with a great disadvantage. relation You Say, “I wonder if he is any to So- and-so,” mentioning somo family celebra¬ ted for crime or deception. It is a wonder to mo that iu all such families saylug some spirited his young man does not rise, to brothers and sisters, "If you want to keep this nuisance or scandallzatlon of a name, I will keep it no longer than until by quickest course of law I can sioiigll bIT this gangrene,” The city directory has hun¬ dreds of names the mere pronunciation obstacle. If ol which has been n life-long you have started life under a name which either through ridiculous orthography incumbrance, or vicious suggestion has been tin re* solve that tlw next generation shall not bo so weighted. It is not demeaning to ehaftgb a name. Saul of Tarsus became Paul the Apostle. Hadassah, “the myrtle,’ became Esther, “the star.” We mve m America, and 1 suppose It is so In all conn- tries, names which ought to bo abolished and C8i be and will bo abolished for tno reason that they are a libel and a slander. But if for aav person you are submerged either by a given name or by a family nttino that you must bear, God will help you to overcome the outrage by a life consecrated to the good and useful. Yon may erase the curse from the name. If it once stood for meanness, you - •; i; i rnnko It stand for generosity. If once it stood for pride, you can make it stand Tor humanity. If it once stood for fraud, you can make It stand for honesty. If once it stood for wickedness, you can make it stand for purity^ nere have been multitudes ( > f ’ ' . Y men and women have mag - quered the disasters of tho name innlotod uponthem. Again, people labor under tno mis- . many incompetent physical equipment. fortune of Wo are by our Creator so economically built that we ennnot afford the obliterat ion of any physical faculty. We want our t wo eyes, our two ears, our two hands, our two feet, our eight fingers ami two thumbs, Yet what multitudes ot people have but one eye or but one fool! The ordinary casualties of life have been quadrupled, quintupled, soxtupled, aye, centupled, In our time by the Civil War, and at the Mortn and Mouth a great multitude are lighting the battle of life with half, or less than ball, the needed physical armaments. I do not wonder at tho pathos of a (soldier during the war, who, when told that he must have his baud amputated, said, “Doctor, can I you save it?” and when told that it was lm- possible, said, “Well, then, goodby, oui hand. I hate to part with you. You nave done mo a good service for many years, but it seems vou must go, Goodby.” A celebrated surgeon told me of a scene in the clinical department of one of the xtpw York hospitals, when a poor man with wounded leg was brought in before tho ,, Tho Students to be operated on. surgeon pointing out this and that to the stu- was the wounded leg, and dents and handling proceed to amputation when wm nhcrnt to from the table and thu nnnr mnri lenncd said, “Gentlemen, hobbled to the door and hut by the Tnmsorrv to disappoint with you, my leg on. win nt God I will die pbys- \vhnt Wbat a a terrilie terrinc loss iu is the loss of our ‘ C battle of Creov was decided The ^TK.n« way the tbe ,T Toug't ag w« DY and that bn ufc't ing the French horse-/, a their ri Lrs to tin; ground. Ami wh n you cripple this body, which is - v animal on which the sou rides, you may somclimes defeat the soul. thl* phyMe*» hv | ca | suffer from „ . 6 Yet how many cheer, my brother. taking oil! Good somehow. T£ Will make it up to ,«m J prncc, the sympathy ol h jo, "» r sasssas^Sas ASllBUKN, WORTH CO.. GA,. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 8. 1897. lone by men of silbtfiteied physical or- canh.ntloi). s, S. I'reston, limping tii: gtvut orator d the southwest, went all Ills life, mt I lu re was no foot put down upon any >l«tform ifillhiodt, o( h|s diit iWlnoveu that rbscliiiubul so fai¬ ls his was so drat lint ho eout Loot hear tlw crash of the or- ■hesira rendering his oratorios. Thomas die t'arlyUi, tlw dyspeptic martyr, mint was otthe given commission liteCntUl'e. to drive out world's Hid Rev. Thomas ’Hoekton, of Philadelphia, with one lung raised his audience nearer heaven than most ministers eitii tnliin them with two lungs. lit thd litliikM, tltH iiiMirauoe com panics, the eommorelal establishments, the relormatory associations, the churohes, there arc io-ilny tens, douhied of thdusiiiuls ilpivltli of men and women i-hmtitmtlsm or subject to' the neuralgias or with only eft ragmeais of limbs, the rest of which they the Wilderness, at riintlanoogu and or South Mountain worth ot the world, and they io are l\ie ehnreli, more o moi;o ami more to Olid lliali those ot us who have never so much as had a linger joint stif¬ fened by a felon. Put to full use all the fnenlllosthntre- -tances ualn and with charge Ihc on detefifliniltldii all opposing clreum- John of of Bohemia, battle who cried .wat, but, totally I’liihl, if ml yet at t "I pt-itv nud beseech you to lend mo so far Into tho light that 1 may strike one good blow with tills sword of mlnel" Do not think so much of whnl faculties you have loot its of wluU (acuities remnllh I oil li.ive dnuugn left to make yourself felt lnthreo worlds, while you heaven, help the earth from and balk hell and win 0 nud Arise Hr your depleted discouragements, ertp led men wonicit or y special ihysieal luciilties, and son what, by the help of God, yon enn accomplish! Another form of disadvantage under which many lftbov Is lack of early educa¬ tion. There will be no excuse for ignor- ;n<.*o iu tlw best ib-rteJatliHL Fred schools tnd Illimitable opportunity of education vill make Ignorance a crime, I believe in •otn pnlsorv edneatinn, pit! M;e!* nqd Children those parents who -du-Jatiomil negloyt fn Under advantages have but one right left, and that is the penitentiary. lint Un-re are, multitudes of men and women In •nidllfo who Imvc had no opportunity. Free schools had not yet been established, and vast nnlltlthdbls liioy hud llltlij rjp lie school lit. ill. feel It when, a? Christian men, they come to speak or occasions, pray in religious assemblies political or public educational, They patriotic or or feel are i lent because H»e< dd Hot odd!potent. I’hny oifij nothing to English grammar, or tcography, or belles lyttros. They would •ot know a participle from a pronoun if hey met It many times a day. Many of the cost successful merchants of America nml ■l high political places cannot ivrlto an ao- nirato letter on any theme,, They rt.ro o.om- •U-t-'iy dependent sMtogftlphefs, upon dorks, and depn- les. and #litdilvy td milke things right.. 1 Stitftlf r>iAn Wlui In other ■■■ears Iti this eilv made Ids fortune by writ- big speeches for congressmen or llxlng hem up for Tho Congressional Record after hey wore of this delivered, The millionaire II- Mteracy country Is beVrind measure¬ ment: Not a word have I to say against neenr- ic.y of speech or fine elocution or high men¬ tal culture, Get all these yon can. But I lo say to those who wero brought up in the -lay of poor schoobhotlses and Ignorant schoolmasters and no opportunity: You may have so much of good In yoursou! and so much of heaven in your everyday life that you will bo mightier for good than any who wont through tho curriculum of Har¬ vard or Yale orOxford.yot never graduated in t,he,school,of Christ, When you got up to the gate of heaved, no one will ask you whether you can parse the first chapter of Genesis, but whether you have learned the fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom, nor whether you know how to square tho circle, but whether you have lived a square lifo In a round world. Mount Zion Is higher than multitudes Mount Parnassus. But what other there are un¬ der other disadvantages! Here is ft Chris¬ tian woman whose husband thinks religion a sham, and while the wife prays the chil¬ dren one way Hie husband swears them an¬ other. Or here is a Christian man who Is trying to do his best for God and tho church, and his wife holds him hack and says on I be way homo from prayer meet¬ ing, where lie gave testimony for Christ,: “What a fool yon made of yourself! I hope hereafter you will keep still.” And when he would be benevolent and givo $50 she criticises ilo him for not giving (ifty Cents. I must justice find publicly thank God that T never proposed at home to give any¬ thing for any cause of Immunity or religion hut the other partner in the domestic firm npprdvnd ability it, and and faith when In flod It seemed beyond my was necessary she bad three-fourths the faith, hut I know men who, when they contribute to charitable objects, are afraid tlmt the wife shall find it out. What a withering curse stick a woman must, be to a good man! Then there are others under tho great disadvantage of poverty. Who ought to got things cheapest? You say those who have little means. But they pay more. You buy coal by tlm ton; thoy buy ft by the bucket. You buy flour by the barrel; they buy it. by the pound. cash; Yon they got apparol dear cheap be¬ because you pay pay cause they have to get trusted. And tho Bible was right when it said, “The destruc¬ tion of tho poof is their poverty.” Then, there are those who mado a mis¬ take In early life, and that overshadows all their days. "Doyou not know that thfit man was once in prison?" Is whispered. Or, “Do you know that that man once attempted suicide?” Or, "Do you knowthatthat man absconded?” Or, “Do you know that (|mt mftn WIW oncn discharged for dfs- honesty?” deed Perhaps in the man’s there life, was and only that one wrong one haunts the subsequent half century of his existence. others have unfortunate predominance some mental faculty, and their rashness th rows them Into wild enterprises, or their [ ro pjft a tion maltos them decline great op- p or t un |ty, or there is a vein of melancholy [ n the,Ir disposition that defeats them, or they have an impression endowment of ovormirth that cn „ geg th B of Insincerity, others have a mighty obstacle In their p firl)olm | appearance, for which that thoy are not responsible. They forget Ood f HS hioned their features, and their com- p|,, x ( on am p their stature, the size ol t | ipjr noso nn( j memth and hands and f eet nnd Kav e them their gait and tft e j r general appearance, and they forget ttla( . mua h of tho world’s best work and t h e church’s best work lias Paul been done Apostle by homely people, and that the p, sa (,i to have been hump-hacked and his 0 y PS [g| lt weakened by ophthalmia, while mwiy of the finest in appearance have passed their time before flattering looking K i Bgge8 „ r studdying killing attitudes aD( j j u ( j(sp| a y|ng tho richness of ward- ro bcs—not one ribbon or vest or saek or K | ovo or shoestring of which they have ha(i bra |„ g to ,. arn for themselves, others had wrong proclivities from the start . They were born after wrong, he Is born and again, that a tloks to one even They have ft natural crankiness that I* 275 yf . Hrg 0 [ft. i t ,. am e over with their great- [fathers from Scotland, or Wales, or France. It was born on the banks of the Thames, or the Clyde, or the Tiber, or the Bbtoe, and has survived all the plagues and epidemics of many generations, and Is living to-day on tho banks of tho I’otomnc, or the Hudson, or the Androscoggin, or the Savannah, or the La Plata. And when a man tries to stop this evil ancestral proclivity he is like a man on a rock In the rapids of Niagara, holding on with a grip from which the swift currents are trying to sweep film into the abyss beyond. Oh, this world is an overburdened world, and overworked world. It is an awfully tire 1 world. It is a dreadfully unfortunate world. Scientists are trying to find out the cause of these earthquakes in all lands, cisatlantic and transatlantic. Home say this and some say that. I have taken tin- diagnosis of what fs the matter with tin arth. It has so many burdens on It ami -o many fires within it. it has a lit. It can¬ not stand such a circumference and such a diameter, fiom #«S boll of Vesuvius will npcnT and thou nil will be ill liwb'o lev tin' natural world. Hut wont, tlmt lniv.6 about nicked tbnmofill all Nation.-*. woo* " and r Vf'I'nona for UOOO vonr .4 science nothing Hut Knowl- oilgo, arid radny people ’Gltt )<UoW the most are tlw itii-st ilnopntfortml'A phuftletH r.-lli't for nil . In till- way ot voice disadvantage* iuul all woe*. tin- itllr tlmt in worth listening to on t Ms subject id the vnli-i-i of (IlirlnllanRv, which in the voloo of Almighty (uni. Whether iUs:i<h'untng» I have under men¬ tioned the particular distinctly do 1 which von labor or hot. I cliii'c, lit i hr mimo of my God, tlmt hero in u way out audit way >H< for all of you. You cannot he any worse ofT than illitt t hvistiau young woman who wan In tin- P.-mbertOff mill* wlii-h they foil come year* ago, ami singing, from under the 'fallen timbers. -die (r Was heard "I am going homo 'Ho no more." Take good flournge from tlmt Bible, all of illcaniwifi who.-m I'l'iinilccs Tlii'i lire for those 111 Hud pra- 1 ,- ;ir" tw-ttnr claye.for you, either on earth or Hi heufdii. t poi my, haul under your chin and lift your farm Into the coining dawn. Have Goa on your side, nml then you have for reserve troops nil tltd rtrinlej) of heaven, (lie smallest com- pany of tfbidll irt Sjh.i'f'U oharlots lightnings and tlm of smallest their bt|gade til,dull, tin 1 heaven An ancient driivt.n fiwo'rd; feSff <>‘vorj>ovb*Hn.K warrior u" host armed come ntafh dovyn upon his samll oohipiU-y horse ho of and rpounting hIs thro** d Wilful of *i»nd In the fttr. crying, "Lot their faces po coVdN’t! ’** , tH eopfu- ston.” And both armies hoard His voice,; and history nays It seemed as though tho dliflt liian.V thrown in the Mr had become so itsgstn et suporniifuriit. deliverance, amt the weak overcame the f*if»h*v. thesni.il? ; h'la the Immense host fell back, and number matched on. Have faith in flod, and, though nil the allied forces of dlseourngnmoot Jn scorn to come against of you battle ritriij dtld thole laugh ilollance and contempt resounds through all the ynMevs ill and iirid mountains, impprtiui.«tb you might by fflitlt fled (if Dtayor pick up a handful of the very udst yobt humiliation and throw it into the air, and it shall become angels of victory over all the armies of earth and hell. The voices of your adversaries, human and satanic, shall be covered with dofluiiefo'r: confusion, while you shall bo not only but morethan conqueror, through tlmt grace which lifts so often made the fallen helmet of an over¬ thrown antagonist the footstool of a Chris¬ tian victory' NATURE’S FINE PORTRAITS. Women's Pictures on Crabshells in the Mexican Cult. In the Gulf of Mexico all the crabs of a certain spedes have women's forms (tautened on, the backs of their shells in lias relief. The portrait is very distinct, and it is almost the same in every crab. It represent* n woman of handsome face and remarkably generous propoftkM*. Tho head is near that of the crab, and the .feet near the orifice of the shell, Tilt- woman looks like one of those German peasants who i>iit oh numerous ancestral petticoats and cumbrous jewelry. When the raise! figure on the crab’s shell is picked nut with colors the ef¬ fect ts very curious and according to some notions pretty. iti These crabs are good eating. It. startling to look down at the food on your plate and see this female figure on a crab shell. While summering at Ocean Springs, Miss., on the borders of the Gulf of Mexico, hot long ago; Mr. H. O. Trudell, Ninth avenue, was struck by the pecu¬ liar formation of tho shells of tho crabs that were served for dinner. He saw at once the outlines of a woman’s form on the back of the shell, and im¬ mediately began to make a collection of different species of crabs, and found the samo resemblance to a human form oil the hacks ilf them till: The habits of this peculiar species of crali are interesting. From the very beginning of life the crab manifests a pugnacious disposition, and is ever ready for a fight with an antagonist. The younger members of I lie family remain hidden in the mud near the water’s edge, and await the coming of tho land crab, known as fiddlers, who go down to the water to drink. The crab in hiding makes a dash for his unsuspecting cousin with the ferocity of a tiger. All crabs have cannibalistic propen¬ sities, but where they are evenly matched these encounters seldom prove fata!. The shedding process through which a crab passes dt Stated intervals is very curious. Several days before the crab makes this change it accumulates considerable fat, on which it subsists for rpiite a period after the shedding of its coat has taken place. It is ut¬ terly helpless after tills occurs, and it is compelled to lie still until it has sufficient strength to got about. The female crab is much better cared for than her male brethren during this period. Each female crab is accom¬ panied by a hard shell ir.ftle, who guards her against the attacks of an¬ tagonists until the, shell is hardened.—• New York Journal. X-Rays and Cold. The vision of a minor, the chief part of whose equipment consists of an X- ray machine is seen by Tesla. He be¬ lieves that mountains may be radio¬ graphed and gold located without the trouble of excavation. Such mining, he says, is possible to a limited extent at the Klondike, but only to a limited degree, because of one almost toy ap¬ paratus for producing thorn. He thinks that as it is only a question of tubes and currents, at aqy moment a. way may be found for producing rays that will penetrate hills and moun¬ tains, perhaps the earth Itself. A noted metallurgist has a radiograph of quartz with gold imbedded in the cen¬ tre and concealed from the naked eye. He believes that much labor can be saved and a great deal more gold mined at Klondike if the beds and mounds of sand and gravel are searched by X-rays as they are thrown up. Then only the richest dirt need be wished. In France there are on the average seven dogs to every hundred Inhabit¬ ants. Paris, however, has only four to the hundred—134,000 in all. Ijist year the United States exported ? 12,000,000 worth of hams - 1 : 10 , 000 ,- 000 pounds—of which England bought 103,000,000. ME S.UJHATII SCHOOL IN TER NATION AL LESSON COMMENTS FOR OCTOBER 10. f.essoit Tout: •‘Drttll •• t’rlsonr-r ot .Torlisa- 1 Art# **H.. I i-.'IO—Uotilen Text: I Peter It/i «»n tin? Day's T.eSaoil li.v lb’V< •». I>f. Sl.-arns, 17 , ts. “Make haste amt get tln-fl (pack- lv out nf fft-rusjilem. for thoy will not rtv c'-ivo thy ti-stniii'n? cMmu-niiiig Mo." In our last" lesson Paul Wild Spirit'ft (>tl IDs wny to . -rusob-in in spile of (be Warning that he' should not SO (.chapter xxi., 4, 11, V 2 ). ID- b lit H( : f been many dnys in Je¬ rusalem when the' .fo-vs 'it Asia laid hold of Illra la the tonipio, drew lifirt out and would bnve !:f!‘‘>d olii’e' him bad In- not blind been ros'-ned soldiers'and by the g,“plain the with euotie. a Up Of earrleil Into asked permission of the eaptaln to sffCaU to tl-:' p"<’p|e. anil having obtained it be addressed tlieiii (if Hebrew from tho castle stairs. He described liis former life and the milliner of liis conversion, mu! tili.a n«w Jtt- ,.,iino to the Lord's message to him at rusalmn. The child of Ood who is willing to I/O wholly the Lord's, may be sure of the I,,.rd's ftlliilftftoe In all angel things, IroUl and beaveu H it nhmild ite'eessitfV Hiatweif (Iti or tin, /;g*',l Atv< s.-ffd, will Lord, site they to It, know that 19 20 '‘ t fn 1 Imprisoned and beat r*ety synagogue Iff all right thert fhoit. believed on Tlu-e.” it but it for us Id ooiifr.-'-* 4o' God all oilr sins, is not for us to argil0 Ot Venison With Him when lie commands us to ,lo anything or go anywhere. Ho knows where and how He car' make the most use of us. lie knows who will recefFtf testimony through this one or through that one', mid it is for us to say, "Here am I, send mo wliel'd Tito* wilt and when Thou wilt." 21. “And Ho said unto me, Depart, for l will scitht t he'd far banco unto tho gentiles.” of the IV,- ertnnot expect that full blessing Lord ttttless Wo rife ready for that work to which lie HrfS < Riled tts (Acts xlli„ 21. May it not bo tluit many litfnfstora who cannot seem to ilnd an open iloof til ttmio are be¬ ing cftliod far lienee to some of the milliotlB who have never heard of Olirtst and cannot hoar until somo one shall toil them? Let eft,ill Ghristlan ask, "Am l really willing and obedient, fliid does my heart say hon¬ estly,'Lord, Whitt Wilt Xhoti have me to do?’ ” i Away with follow (fern the 99. • stfob ft earth, tor tl It' tiHS ill tlirtt lm should set live. be- Tlmt the same privilege* be foro uncir<mmeisod pontiles n# intolerable, mi incised Jtnvs was to thorn and it was for this Fame thing that wan callod t o account (chapter xi., >• uni not sure but the same spirit people iu « of worse form Is seen denomination to-day when look down upon one church or work not done by them- and make ill tie of sei veil ■ T'lfbrtmbftloin Ot oburclies or boards or societies to’ exebl bite,If other Instead of all uniting E honor Christ rtud cOtWplete His cluire'li fs tainted citptitifl Willi the Sominmnlod same spirit. that'he 211 24. “Tho elrfof should bo examined Hy SdoUi'ging tlmt be might know wherefore tlu-y erbs.I so against him.” Tmfl bad been speaking In Hebrew (xxIL, ti). of which centurions language probably neither captain, word, nml tho nor soldiers Understood fifth? a bring from was that a «U|Tering might Haul him a confession of Lift wrongdoing. was certainly having a rough time of it, b>r 11.' bad been beaten by the Jews fxxf.# 2) and wan now threatened with scourging by tho gentiles. lawful for to scourge a 25. Ih it you iinoondomned? irmii Hint Is n Homan and Tills in- Mid t*i fli*' oentvirlon who Htood hy while the soldlefe Emm I him with t bongs preparatory to scourging It hit- While 1 mil was willing lo H'l(Ter nil tlmt Wd:* neces¬ sary for Christ's sake, and unjustly, l ? I, lu re was something wholly mien., 1 " 1 for. from which Ids Roman citizenship m'KHt tlio deliver him. I mn writing thin oil North Piv-lllc Ocean on my way to Japan as I start tdl ltiytour found (lie world for Him tlmt I servo. 1 tittfrf with mo a pass¬ port from the Secretary (If Stale or the United States Oovr-riiment asking till Na¬ tions not only to allow me safely and freely to pass, but in case of need to give me all lawful aid nml protection. Ah a ohiltrol Ood and citizen of heaven I feel free to accept and carry this and use it as occa¬ sion may require, feeling no luck of faith In so doing. Whitt thou doeSt, for this 211. “Take heed wild man Is u Human.' 1 Thus (lie centurion to the captain. As far as heaven (s itbovtt the earth, so far are tho privileges of heavenly citizenship above all those of earth. The devil could not touch Job, neither could be have Minion i’etor without asking permission of flod (Jolt L, HI; Luke xxIL, 31, II. V.J, and 1m that touclieth a child of Ood touclieth the apple of lli« «V» (Zci'li. II., H). Let us rejoice In our heaven¬ ly privileges aud walk worthy of them. 27. “Then the chief captain came and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.” Ho a believer should bo ready always to glvoJo every one tin* nsk- etli 'as definite an answer concoming tits standing in Christ. Haul did not think or hope tlmt he was a Roman citizen. He knew it and said yes. Any one who lias truly accepted Christ is accepted forgiveness in Him and lias redemption, even the of sins (Eph. L, 6, 7;, and should never hesitate to confess it to tho glory of Hod, It is not honoring to Ood to think or hope that we are saved. We should know it (I John v., 12, 13), and live it and evt r gladly aoknowlwlK*) It-. captain answered, 24. “And Him ohl<if With a great sum obtained i this freedom. Ami Paul said, Rut f was freeborn.” Tim heavenly citizenship cannot bf? bought by money, or good works, fir any merit what ¬ ever on our [/art. “Neither tludrsliver nor their gold shall be abb? to deliver them.” “Not by works of righteousness, which wo have done” f/eph. I., J«; Titus fib, flp Hoc also Rom. lv., 5; Eph. II., B, 9. The only way to become a child ot flod, an heir ot Hod and a citizen of heaven Is by a new birth a birth from above, even as our Lord said in John ill-, 3, 5, 7, and I believe a careful Htudy of Jus. I., 14; I I'ct. i,, 2d Eph.v.,2«, with John vl., «3, will make it very plain that tiie new birth is wrought In us by the word of Ood and the Hpirlt of Ood concerning our Lord Jesus Christ. 29 30. Paul was saved from scourging at that time, and we will in some way be saved from all that it Is not best for us to endure (I Cor. x., 13). The captain war still in doubt ns to the real cause of the uproar, and so called the chief priests and council together that he might set Paul before them. Rut Paul's testimony before the council caused such a disturbance that the chief captain bad to rescue him again and brin^ him to t!i(? cfifctlo. 'I hon folio w(ol trio discovery of tio- plot to kiii through I'aui’H nopliow, and his hoio^ sont undor h tfuard of soldiers to Ve\lx, tho Governor at Cn sar'Mi. Notice how In the midst of all this and of J'auTs seeming disobedience In goiriff to Jerusalem at tills ti mo the Lord was with him Lesson Helper. SOME ground for it. Mr. Darley I have been reading an article which takes the ground that human beings are simply aggregations of microbes, formed of pilefl-up bacilli, in other words. 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