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THE ASHBURN ADVANCE. H. I). SMITH, I ir -m ygvxrvxcoxxDcoaawnr m tit Was thought it , . to , be , a repori 1 , ’ but was found J to trm - News broke out amono people of Worth county that McGirt & McPhaul Were selling Goods cheaper than any other merchants in the county , which was investigated and found correct. Bow we ask the people Worth and adjoining counties to come and examine our line We Carry a Side Line of Wash Pots, Dinner Pots, Stoves, i Stove Furniture, i t Plows, Plow Gear Ai All Frnii tails. FURNITURE! FURNITURE! FURNITURE! Crockery —AND ALL— Heavy Groceries. CLOTHING! We have a large lot of Clothing selected for the Fall Trade and we want to sell , put them rapidly. We have 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. Shoes, tc When you want come see us. Suits, tc When you want come see us. to When you want Harness, come see us. to When you want Groceries, come see us. to When you want Stoves, come see us. come to When you want Furniture, B0G US, polite salesmen We have good and so that when you come to see ns goods will he thrown down to you for your examination. the HART- m-Dr, We carry everything handsome in 1 lie WARE LINE from a lo a Grind Rock. Ton A.COO. Everything from a pinch of Snuff tc a box of Tobacco. Goods and , gel , Call and examine our pleasure prices. We will take showing you. of the best BICE We have one Bring y MILLS in the country. rough rice and let us hull i - Have vonr corn ground here. for We will ifor gin your cotton yo then buy shir it from our ware- house freo oi face draya^ this e - wav and make Turn your for trade. our star© headquarters McGirt & McPliaul. REV. DR. TAI.MAGE. TH.K NOTED DIVINE'S SUN* DAY DISCOURSE. The Pr K.ve «f Faith— The by When His Glory in Heaven Stierilieial Work is Ended. Text: "On his head were many croiyps," —Rev. xix., 12. would nut be i'OYcrentht! WefoUXwhUo th- worshipful em wa k beldnd s , hud under tho hovering splendor of grtto- tTi tal chiseled elWsd ''V into l ( |,illlU the ‘ eltftee '’''"' v "ed f With (lowers a capi¬ leaves, and 0 and near a marble;..... fuffo 'kERe-hairod philosophers an Vr ther “round mm. nn.i t Wlt i i 1 l '!Lur!.T questions they ll,| " ,1 oaimet ' v septuagenarian* answer, and ting p'o" their 1 Shirts hard down on the marble entiling A * luuy arise to go, they must feel like the boldness that allows twelve years of age to ask sovonty-ilye years of ago such puzzlers. Out of tliis building we follow Him into the Quarantanla. the mountain of teniptu- S U f sl, leto this day black with rob- bois dens. Look! Up 11m side of tpi« mountain come all tile forces ef perdition o effect our Chipftftia r. capture. imt n l- tnoagh wealietiBd by forty days and forty nights <■ f (Abstinence, He hurls all 1'aiule- meanim down the rocks, suggestive of bow Flo can hurl into hetplessims* all our temp¬ tations. And new we climb Aftej Hliil up the tough sides el n,e "MAdutain of Bcati- tudes and on the highest |m!pit of rocks, ^ of Galilee f to the atin right before of Hitn, Him, the and Lake He, preaches a sermon that yet will transform the world with its applied sentiment. Now, we follow our Oliieftaia mi Lake Galilee. AVo must keep to the beach, tor our feet , , are not . shod with MW 1 supernatural and wa remember what poor Work tV.lor made of it wlmn'hc tried (A walk tlm water, f Grist. Ottr leader, G oh tho top of the toss¬ ing waves, and H j s about half pas|; throo in the morning, and it is Urn darkest time J of nst lightning bofoj-e daybreak. we sec Him Bill by tlm Hashes on the Ci’fVgt 0£ the putting His feet orost L* <m\sf, walking wjivo, tho .stopping from sailors think wliito surf, Tho pest, but a ghost is striding the tem¬ tie cheers them into placidity sailors. showing.Himself to be a groat Christ for And He walks the Atlantic, and l aetdo, and Mndlterranead, Atid Adriatic now, and If exhausted And affrighted voy¬ agers wltt lisien frtr His voice at half past three vmock in the maW.tig, on any sea indefiu. at any IVHVr, they will hear His Voice of COiftpUssion and encouragement. As in December. 1899, 1 walked oil tho way from Bethany, and at tho foot of Mount Olivet, a halt mile front the Wall of Jerusalem, through the garden of Goth- semane, and under tlio eight venerable olive trees now standing, their pftfilblogi- cal ancestors having heca vcitnessoss of tho occurrences And crime spokCti oi, the scene of horror cAttte back to me, until I shud¬ dered With the historical rnmluisconce, lit following our Chieftain's march through the centuries, 1 find myself in a crowd in front, of Herod’s bailee in Jeru¬ salem, and on a movable pAvemeitf platfevT placed upon a tessellated rdtiilus I’ilate sits. And as pnfte A Vnar a condemned criminal pie cheo^ft b< Whether par,I'ditod, shall Til,ale lets the j M*.U~ it bo an assassin or the oar liberation Chieftain, and they all Unis cry cat for of tho as.sasHil, declar¬ ing they world, prefer, Dilate a rtHii’derer to the Saviour of the took a basin of water in front of these people and tried to Wash oft' tho blood of this murder from his hands, but he could not. They are still lifted, and I see them looking up all the with carnage, Kttll following our Chieftain, I ascend tho hill which General Gordon, the great Eng¬ lish explorer and arbiter, titst til Ado a clay tain, model for of. It is haf-d climbing for our Chief¬ He has hot only two heavy t * m hers to catty on His back, tho upright and horizontal pieces of the 'Cross, but lie is stjiTering from exhaustion caused by lack of food, mountain chills, desert heats, whippings maltreatment. with elmwood rods. Abd years of follow Now wb Mount bar Chieftain and to the Shoulder of Olivet, without WtngS He rises. All Heaven lifted a shout Of Welcome. In all the libretto of celestial oonjubilant music it was bard to find an nuthein enough to celebrate the joy saintly, cherubic, seraphic, archangelic, Chieftain doillc. in His But still wo follow our march through tho centuries, for invisibly He still walks the earth, and by tho eye of faith we still rollow Him. I hear His tread iu the sick room and in the abodes of bereavement. He marches on and the nations are gathering around Him. Tho islands of the sea are hearing HIS voice. The continents are feeling His power. America will lie His! Europe will be His! Asia will be His! One by one governments will fall into line and constitutions and literatures will adore His name. More honored and wor¬ shiped Is bo in this year of 1897 I ban at any time since the Vonr one,and the day hastens when all the nations will join one proces¬ sion, "following the Lamb whithersoever lie goetli.” Marching on! Marching on! This dear old world, whose hack has been scourged, whose eyes have been blinded, whose heart has been wrung will yet rival heaven. The planet's torn robe of pain and crime and dementia will come oil, am the white and spotless and glittering robe of holiness and happiness will come on. iho last wound will have stung for tho ,a.,t time; the last grief will have wiped its last tear; the last criminal will have re¬ Lb pented «f Ills last crime, and our world,that been a straggler among worlds-a lost star a wayward planet, a rebellious globe, miscreant satellite will hear the voice a plaint in Bethlehem that uttered childish ’in and agonized prayer Gel dying groan on Golgotha and as this voice cries, "Come,” our world w.l return from its wandering never again to stray. March¬ ing on! Marching on! THOUGHT AND ACTION. fn Chicago by Rev. A « SflI o Fdinburgli, Scotland. John McNeill, 1 . v ill (if Of tainn.irr,.., Text feet : “I unto thoiight J by on my ways ’ atn nriiet^ my and delayed not to l Thy j Com- haste -Psalm cxix., oo-o mandments. Testament storv o e This is the Old have the «ew K^ment Y?,t,,,i,| SOI) What you in set forth in wondrous detail by iirTord in His inimitable story, you have condensed into this brief e JP* to “® th '' nf who once lived, and Of whom . it’ll tmi'illed a man and expressed there,..YV' here, f ca ,Tendered temporal back again, and and eternal brought hies- ’ . .]( irn^hv , - sing oj hisreturn. • what I sometimes ,. w think one It Is just, have expee - ^ ^ {he ("ight oi ’lived g0[1 after he headstone and buried. * died was , jn tlio end of iong and did well, ana'. folli' ts and disas- the day Im redeenieu i . ^ ^ j( ile <J ters of the early l" • , ’ j nv down and with vears an't nom.i WKD f . ar . died and wasburiea. ma .],. (amenta- ned himto his nurian ‘ u , . that _ tions over mm, an i they put up t: as they do in taw ■ j; j •’ Jf _' I eannot headstone and ins-ri p( 0| than Inscnptlon - suitable think of an ^ rnflJ) w ,„ our present t-M turned his feel t< thought °^j£l'u on his kuijt '''D" ;‘j fijmman ma de haste dments. and ”,^ de- rr 1 ASHBURN. WORTH CO.. GA.. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1897. the ti spiritual Is- to oLngo tlu> rtifvut 1 —an entry In the Psalm. It diary is o( tho man who wrote biographical one of those little auto* hits that are Tsnlms mu! of the (Mo¬ ment* which (five tft the their per- nnpliU ialoiest. So here you have a little autobiographical which keep the Psalms olt— one la of state tliosp of thing* freshness for all a ({rent our hearts, I wonder If we keep a iliarv? If there is anythin); that nietl want to rihlloiiUlor, It Is llml tied is Writlllif Otirdiarv. Listen to tji< ('t'hlltJhlnj? Has Gqft of the odeastoil, pod, hejilmi do tin arras! had you think, to 'falterinto the diary of yourspiritnnl such an entry as we Had here,hv Ills grace, la the diary of the man who wrote the Psalms? I want to uot at the root of idea the of oxperltflental for religion; hrevilAck If is time entry was tits in. there and shftmefhl hilt opposite your name mine to a great extent, and It will need every entry v. liieh will avail to redeem tho record. That which I have named is the only entry that Will ilgAMs] save it ffdni ill lifting a damning tile indictineilt jhdgmenUs Ms the day When set and, the hddks lire epetied. The diaries ftj|| he UrodgMt (hit, and o|ir 6f eternal state will he fixed liy the record our diary that Clod, with Impar¬ tial pen, has kept. That will be reading for semo of us! This will redeem It I his red-letter entry—only this: "I thought on my ways, and turned my feel to Thy testi¬ monies, keep Thy l Commandments;'' made haste and delayed not to ltd IP If let liny nm’ tuni ((Way, saying: 'T am not ho! included;, for i htlvft riot wandered; t am a prodigal." AH we. like sheep, hav’e gone astray; wo have,, turned every one to ,hls owd wi'y." Borne of the iis dd blundering on through mud tltid mire of drunkenness, swearing, licentiousness and open sinning: that is ono way to tho far .country, Some of us go along tIn' inl ’ t lanii:';' 1 t'Oud of sormOtLlWAi so|(-righl copse liig! ess; that ..and (hunch-going, and is one way to the santo outer darkness nnl the same far country. beginning “I thought on my t ways.” Thu ple pride lies themselves, there. Now. have speak to doubt, peo¬ who I no "that they are thinkers, ipui they pride themselves that dnsi they is examine not td t>C thrown in their eyes, Alia what Is sot before t.lU'm." A preacher tii.iri of lib 1 Gospel asks for nothing better that, “i apeak unto Ahu Wisp Mob; jtlilgo ye what I say, to the law to the testimony.” "I thought on my ways.” The beginning lies iti serious though!(illness,. hHi’ileic; Religion Is giei'}’, not. ljlagle, is It Is tint H Is not jug- it not witchcraft, it is not being “hypnotized;” You it is not any oT these thing never put your intellect (o a higher use than when you turned its powers upon your own wavs! enlightened hv the surest guide, thl' Word think of God; tilat, t rather fear that many people intellect wilh While Vod need to take your you when you go science, to hear a lecture ,brine ,on. pi,iilp«iophy yditr tl'ldied : . or head on when, you ef!;r,,' can veil to hear the Gospel. Gel rid of that idea. Bring your host brains with you when you come" to hear God’s word. "I thought on my ways:” that is aiuVthal the beginning Is tlm of only all experimental thing! because religion, it let- gins tlterC, tiieiMfdfa, conversions are so uncommon among (is.. , "I thought," orlrselves. that is Hie ltCgiiiuiitg! to thinking think,for Do not let me do your for you. No, no; it is not "I thought thought on my own sermon,” Imt "r on my ways." Iu God’s providence f. may be a great help to you, or I may not be, but thing , has to done the he by youi'seivCs, It; is and yoUt the own thinking sotll that, ihilt, is will the issue at stake duite thems,:i save it. n’.nSt be by that soul’s powers ves. “I thought on my ways”—a man who thought for lilmself. fli.it was the bngln- liing with him of all is Ills hle.ny.lng-!. eelcntial Are you doing It? i’ll For there rtn tdioughl- lessiU .if all our lieiirts, naturally, ns re¬ gards the gospel. Yon will get men who sit under tho best preaching Intellectually, and from thn point of view of Interest And of power lo awaken emotions, the heart And the con- soionce and .and they sit, ami they sit. did,, and dnd they gt-oW white, Arid they grow they die. Arid Awakened leave Ad sign that ever once they rt el'O tip to think ftir tlidnisclVos about their eternal drift And destiny, Secondly, ha tells us he th,Right About himself. Ha ocased to think about other people, And fastened his gaze upon his own soul; he communed with his own spirit; lied, ho talked to his own heart u.pop his did this man who wrote the Psalms. '1',) our¬ selves interesting we Ought to he In every sense of tlm term creatures. And this text helps tho preacher. It relieves him of a great responsibility that ought iinvnr to bo put on him. I do not know your ways; you are a, deep mystery to me. You do not, know my ways. I ran only see thn surface current, and tho winds that blow and curl and crisp tlm water on the top of it, but of those deep, strong undercurrents that flow through what can I know? Think of your own ways, save your own soul. Do not expect me to work miracles, I don’t know your ways; 1 don’t know the secrets that He within your krin, If I did. God IcnoWS I WOttid Use tUcrri, tvoiild Go,J knows I Would pl‘eaoh them ymt to tiii you;J heart spread still them odt before thought: ydnr “God Al¬ stood With tills that mighty must have told man till my ways.” Your own ways! Two or three channels into which wo may ruu our independent, thinking: Who nm I? Where am I? Whore am X going? All that is covered by the expression, Tho "thinking of one’s ways.” Who am I? Bible and my own conscience give the only tied the sure answer to that question. Wlmt Is man? Ask philosophy; ask science, and, to their infinite shame, they are developed, not quite sure whether we are developed gradually not yet perfectly don’t monkeys or donkeys, maybe—they kttow which, back. not whether we are going up or They have not made up their minds yet. Who nm I? A “germ,” a "protoplasm.” give. I What pitiful answers these men know there is some good in them, but you have put them In a corner when you ask them to give u plain answer to a plain man on a plain and desperately, Intensely (per¬ sonal question, “What is man?” Who atri I? God’s Word says—my own conscience rings responsive to it I am an immortal soul. God breathed into our nostrils the breath of life, arid man became God’s a living soul. Thgre is in us a spark die tho of day 1 own die. kindling, and God shall That is to say I shall never die never, never. My body goes down, but my body is not I any more than my coat Is I. I can jo without one, I can do without far the ahead other. of The old heathen poet was s omo of these modern ones when he snld, “Non omnis morlar” (I shall not all die). I admire the bold spirit of that infidel who said, “Whether in heaven or hell, lie felt he was everlasting.” That is the <•«- sential soul of a man speaking out tor it- author God, and declaring its indestruct- j|q e nature. That is who we arc Immortal ou)g Think of ft. Born never, never, never to go out of the conscious exfsteue-. y ou know what Christ said about one uu- turned sinner. The only thing Christ that* 1 ) 3 an* hod ''Im 'never^heen horn?” ^ , ood al as! that could never, never com- his way. for he had been horn. jszszts. whjle ' z&sssr* out of the past ])ul0 ag0 a waV driftwood e here the f . ag t U j, jike on shores of time, and a little while hence n wave from the eternity that is corning will * f , iik1 ,. arrv us hack with itself into the eternity that is to be. Landed Imre for awhiieon this narrow neck of land, ho tween the two great seas, the eternity out „f which we eame, and the Here eternity to-day t« w h(ch soon we are going. and gone to-morrow. I from, ppou Clydeside, where come on- afternoon on a busy working day, upwar : of a )luu dred men on board a ship newly launched—upward of a hundred e ar pen t.-rs with their tools in their hands—snd .l.-ulv Went through into eternity. Lon- tinl)a |( v , |, v t-rritde things in righteou- t;,,d j- doing His best to sob-T us. “Oh, man. prepare for eternityT said an ancient, "Turn to GoU the day before jw die." Ills disciples said to Him; 'Vaster .1 we do not know tho day of our death. "Therefore," And He said "turn lo day;" id another though), another channel which we enn run the current ol our iliac* pendent thinking, hot. only who am If and whore am If hut where am I going? And (lie lllhie lolls t|s more I ban the vogue word olernilv. gdlug. , Tho lillliO HlldO tells us gives where lllft wo des* are Tile illStiliOtlV tlnatloii of every soul hearing me to-day, the pFodehet nil luolilded wild the audience. \\e must appear put in nn appearance Think before the judgment seat of Christ. of it, man, there in tho gallery, and woman down there, individual souls nil over! he place, you and I must takooiirturn, weave td drift across the blinding blaze yl light i'Jlrtt OtFihiniS front tile judgtttcul deal of Christ. We must, like sj'ecks in the sun, take our turn of appearing In fronl of the Judgment seat of Christ, to he Inler- penetviited, to be shot through and through illzft with everything, tll(lt V'derelUg tight Hint dglit wlU Over in that Heron every, black speck will side 1 on! wlflt horri¬ ble tlio dlstlnvtije'v, \i- 1 j mtiy be going stlre. to Then eternal doom! Wt> are uioi't Jesus, and yet, while T speak, tie* hearts of some of you cringe with fear or turn away with aversion. You do not likn Jesus. Notice further, that one text, describes a practical thinker, lie -timed Ills feet. After all. perhaps, thinking Is not so tin common. But pi'tmUoat thinking la very of rare, ntid It Is the measure of progress the' kingdom Of Odd tfntongsl it-. You afc. some of yeti, c meoriied tlhoilt your sildls, your ptosende here is a proof Of that; Perhaps tlpit Is laiii wlidt lititigs you here. tltid You would go tlWhy the cannot. It is tills: Your soul is in wrong way. and is wanting to be pul right for eternity. is That Is what brought you. Now, thl.* what ton, have to do next do eble fd k Ulirlat; Tlieie Is il turning pdlnt, and tho turning point is now. Tim turning point is tho Lord Jesus Christ lifted up in tho preaching of the Gospel. Turn tvllh Him, turn at Him, In your thoughts, in your purposes, In your plans, lu your Opinion of him. Relievo in Him and your Soli] is tlirnbdt have soiisit td believe \Vheti you had the common in the Lord Jesus Christ, from t hat destiny monpuit,yoiir determined tftiyy by tire-.ehitjiged the blessed tltid (Jtlti, your ! think I have used this illustration before: How. when wo took our Sabhath-seliool Children into tlio country, and the little opus ran raoes.! went tjwuy dovyn the Held aha became the turning point. that ! eHiitl they back to tho intending runners turning point, weroto run to me. 1 was the and tisoy were goal. to turn Well, round and Jesus go Is back the again to the life. so Oh! I wish I turning could All point church in your With Him, and innko impdsslbid the this it for you td move out Lord," of drYNb, place without Lord." saying to Him, "Yes. That Is what l am trying to do so td Mil your Bouts with thti image of Him, and tho idea of Him, and tlm presence of your Saviour, a really human being, and vet God—having a name like you, a being like you, and a personality as you have; not n mere myth ora phantom, but Christ Jesus, Wild lives, Who loVcs, Who wept, who died, WHO rose, who is coining again LONG LIFE IN NORWAY. Another View of a Question Much Dis- * pitted Nowadays. (■Spine figures have appeared recently based upon the retiinm to American insurance companies from their branch in Europe which show that in Norway the average length of life is greater than (n any other country in tile Will, aliii i!ii;i fiiet ift ascribed to the coolness and uniformity of the temperature in that country, it Inis long been conceded that the propor¬ tionate number of old men is rather grmtler In Norway than in other conn- tries pf which detailed liJcordH are kept; In a, table which appeared a few j’iitirS kgo it was shown that of I,HDD persons born, the number who lived beyond the age of So was us follows in the chiuitHos named: Hungary, 4-1; Italy, «f»; Spain and Switzerland, nil! Germany, TO; England, DU; Belgium, 101; Sweden, LID, and Norway, l'il. Accepting as correct this table, it. would appear that the duration of liu- man lifc in the two Scandinavian countries, Norway and Sweden, Is cer¬ tainly greater Limn II, is elsewhere, and it denial nf the l.rlilh of (he conten¬ tion set tip hi tilt* lifstiraiicd figures would lie difficult. But an examination into some rtf the facts of the case dis¬ closes some chtiditioits (Vhicii impair the ac.ctiracy of these figures. 'There is, in the t test place, very little immi¬ gration into either Norway or Sweden, and a very considerable immigration from these two countries. The class of oltjpr inhabitants, and, indeed, all those who have passed the age of 50, does not furnish many emigrants, and on Ibis account the'number of octo¬ genarians is unduly large In these countries. Again, Norway is conspicu¬ ously pastoral ms regards the pursulin of its inhabitants, ami life on the farm is certainly conducive to longevity - decidedly more so Ilian life In large cities. Norway its peculiar among the coun¬ tries of Europe in having few cll.le.s, either largo or small. Christiania claims a population of 15(t,D(lH, and Bergen a population of 50,ODD, hut in a country the total population of which is nearly 2,000,000, urban population is certainly inconsiderable. Moreover, (lie longevity of a people is not to be taken arbitrarily from the number of persons living beyond a given number of years, bill, rather from thn general duration of life, which is not longer In Norway than in other countries of Eu¬ rope, and is very little, if any, longer than the duration of life in New Eng¬ land, outside of tlie big cities and manufacturing towns. According to the established per¬ ceritageH of the life insurance cotn- Panics, of 1,100 persons in good health at the age of 21, 1,200 live to be 80, flIJ( ] j t j H computed that a person of 70 «» *ood health has . ....... chances in eight to be HO, and a person of Hu in good health has one chance in seven- r:.r, m r of DO has to reach 10*1 the insurance tables do not state. New York Sun. the KDUCATlo.v ao movement. “Well, all the schools anti colleges * are open, and , the educational . ,. . inove- merit is once mhre in full swing. ” ‘■Yes, all over the country football elevens have started to train.” diaovosis act. wkokg. ‘Your liusbatid soems to be a pretty easy-going sort, eh ?” Don t you believe nothin of the kind. Jt is the hardest work iu the world to start linu goin’ e at all 1” I 1'llK SAHHAT1I SCHOOL. | 1,1 NTERN ATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR „/.-r/-«ocn OCTUBtK . l/. ■> l.esson Text I "Paul Before the ltoinan 4io4ortior/ 4 Act* xxlv M lO-lJfi-Ooldon Tnxt: IhiiIiiIi *11.. 10—4'i»i»»iiu*n<iiry on i *•'moii by IU*V4 l>. M. Nli'iirnn. 10. After (tve (lava thl til Is tn>W bef ore Felix,- the governor, and is permitted his to speak the for himself in the presence of accusers, high priest and others who have come from Jerusalem lo condemn him (verse 1). They accused him of many things, but all their Hothisiithhls were false (Verses 8-91, and I hits lie hud Inereilfthl fellowship mischievous with things his Dol'd in that, I hoy spoke laid ills of him. imagined deceits and to charge things he knew not of fellowship (Fs. xxxvtll., l'Ji Ixix. -IP All milliner of with God and With Christ should bo prized h.v illm us ns a gift as much as to buMevo on (rhib In Fatll in); 11 - 1 ) 1 . With few words sweeps nWnv and all their aectisallons as Utterly untrue God without foundation. Hu knew that was with him, and be had no fear, lie could calmly face nil Ills accusers, and tho devil lllmseir, t heir eaptsln. with He him knew than in his soul Unit there were more Willi them III Kings vl., HD and could say: "Thouglimeeoiil !>' among lions, men whose teeth are Spoilt'S and arrows, and their Lmghd it slldt-p sWord, In'Thou oxaltod, <> God. Sly lleiltt is ll.tfld. I will sing and give i. praise'’ it t l*s. IvfI., t-71. I etc he begins to slate the real cause of their auger lliftiitist tint him, law lie and believed in the all things written ill prophets, and tluit made hint a very trou¬ blesome fellow to those religious mliuster itooplo, who did not believe tied, A in Ghleago said the other day (llrtl these peo¬ ple culling themselves Bible students Wore very troublesome, auti certainly they must be io such ministers as prefer their own ease, with lots of cricket and lawn tennis hud hunting ntl(l Mailing, rather than Bible study npd real work for God, deni lit.' ‘ 'Titer'd flh/ilI jlist lie ti resurrection of the both of the it ml this of tho unjust.” This was ami is even to day a tronldo- somo udo'G'loo to 1 eiitlfuidm many, though plainly Geu, taught even in IItn story of ill.,, and very clearly set forth III Dan. xib, Not that just ami unjust shall rise at tlio same time, for llev. xx., 5, (I, says that ;' tlib'iMitd scut's shall Intervene, and Scrip¬ to this there is net cicfiitG'iltctloii in all ture. for the hour of Joint L, W, will cover the thousand years as easily as tint hour of John v., 25, has already covered over 1800 years. Our Lord Jesus made a very evi¬ dent distinction .bet ween the two resurrec¬ tions when lie told a certain one of rewards til; tint resurrection of tlio just (Luke xlv., 14). hope of ... tho return i of , III Tllfi blessed Christ, the t'Cstlr>■ cHon of the righteous and their rewards for goDth'd at His com¬ ing for His saints is that which pOfillcs us from thedolllomentsand the entanglements Of this present evil world and makes us la¬ bor to bn over acceptable to Him. Every believer is accepted In Him (Eph, buouuse I., C), of this and that stands unchanged, Imt nil we Seek to ho deveptuhle to Him In things, and trust Him to Wdfk inns tlioso things which are well pleasing In Ills nfght (IL'b. xlii., 21). Into and brief statement 17-19. Here is a Ot tint ease as to why he was in Jerusalem rtltd why In the temple when they found film there, and who Ills accusers ought to have |.| ;: .e, If any; The Secret of tlio whole trouble was tlia'i, Wlilclt Haul well under¬ stood, for lie himself was otteo hoilt'tlly their one with the high priest and elders in hatred of Jesus and thn story of Ills rosur- reetion from the dead. If Jesus of Naza¬ reth vvtis really Israel’s Messiah, then the Nation was guilty <!t friii’lfylng their King, and that they would not submit to. I'nul had actually seen Him, and knew that it was even so, and that tho crucified Christ was really risen from the dead and was at tho right hand of God, Israel’s true and tinlj Messiah, Hon of David, Bon of Abra- 21 ), 21. “Touching tlm ('tSilfrcetloH of the fletldJ am Called lit question by you tills (lay. if. Wits tlull Which 1), set iUKf the council In an uproar (xxlii., 6, iliiu know it. It was the resurrection from the deild Wlo'dl witii (tower declared Him to be tlm Hon of God (Horn, i., I), and tlm full Import of tile groat filet M gospel, iltmlv set forth In 1 Oor. xv. There Is im nil sitlrntlmi, no forgive¬ ness of sins, no use In preaching, httground tot faith, no sense in baptism or any ordi¬ nance ot the church if Christ Im not risen. Jlls life and death were all In vain if lie be not risen. But He Is risen, and that secures everything for all who are Ills or are will¬ ing to become ills by faith In Him. 22, Wllilic Fell* evidently saw more clearly Into and tlm Inlslimss than tlm high and orlest Aiders Wished 11nti, he might, the man testimony; Who emild noW give the most Important chief UtJxt it* order, was the cap¬ tlm tain who bad twICn rescued him from infuriated Jews. There was, therefore, hottililg further to be done till Lysias tin) Blioilld come. The waiting times for people of God wlO'0 thO Work seems hln r tiered by tlm indifference or djithi Opposi¬ of thd tion of the enemies of God is one mysteries. It would seem from verse 27 that Paul was a prisoner at Ciesareu for two years. Might all this have been escaped If he had not insisted upon going to Jeru¬ salem just at that, time? Anyway, to rest in llw Lord and wait patiently for Him is surely good. kind free prisoner. He JM. Paul is a of Is'iunler guard, imt at liberty to see ell wUo come i»> Mm, Ho It was also on tlm way KomituU<l lit Kamo fJixvlii'H; xxviil., it]), and Paul (ldllbtl«HS made the boat pos¬ sible use of bis liberty for the glory <lt (!<Jd am) to magnify the Lord Ids life Jesus, and for the that end wan the whole aim of of till his leaching (Gal. II., 20; Phil. L, 20, 2IJ. Lot each one ask, Gan I say truly "For me to live Is Christ?” "1 live, yet not J, but Christ liveth in me?” “Christ shah be magnified,” Paul would be of this 21. How glad op¬ portunity to set forth the faith in Christ, and especially to a Jewess, for ono of Ills i«), mottoes was,'"To the Jew to first” think (Itom. out L, He dhl not need time or prepare bis discourse, for he was full of It, or rather of Christ, and always ready for such an opportunity. Every of God preacher that should be so full of the word when an opportunity to speak Is afforded he could trust the Hplrlt to tit the message iu Ids lips (Prov. xxfi., JH; Math, x., 20j. 25 ‘ “il»! ruiiHonud of ri^l»i»*ouHn«'HH, tem- . jK riinoj) aiui judgment to count.” Wo rnny imagine without difficulty, from his epis¬ tles, on what Hues he would reason and whence he would get his arguments. He always xvii.’ reasoned out of the HcrlpturcsfAets which 2), and never In the words man’s wisdom tcacheth (i Oor., if., \). 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