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Ifas thought to be a false
re porl, but was found to be
true.
Hews broke out among the
vwlc of Worth county that
1
MePhaul
fere selling Goods cheaper
than any other merchants in the
county , which was investigated
ml found correct .
How we ask the people of
forth and adjoining counties
to come and examine our line of
tea flflise.
We Carry a Side Line of
Wash Pots, -
Dinner Pots,
Stoves,
Stove Furniture,
Plows,
Plow Gear
. Hi All Farmii Utensils.
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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 io Poulan.
When you want Hats, come to
see us.
When you want Shoes, come to
See us.
When you want Suits, come tc
s ?e us.
When you want Harness, come to
*68 US.
When want Groceries, coma ♦"
von
ggg US co^
When you want Stoves,
®ee us.
When you want Furniture, come to
see us.
We have good and polite salesmen,
so that when von come to seo us
Roods will be thrown down to you for
Jour examination. HAKL
We carry everything in the -
WARE LINE from a handsome File
*° a Grind Rock.
t ob acco.
Everything from a pinch of Snuff te
a riox of Tobacco. and Xe1
S our rtnnrU Goons fl
Pnces. We ill take pleasure 10
£
ehnwinffvr.il ^ .You.
w of the - befl , ,
Wo have one Bring 7<>“ r
NIDUS in the country.
rough rice ^ ® <iii(T and let it us hull it.
o
Have your corn ground here. and
We will if„Lp gin your cotton for you
•ta b,. « from on, «««■
tonse free of drajage. and make
'Turn .1? vonr face this 7„® way fj trade
o- -r r store headquarte. , s foi •
Me Girt & JIcPliauL
REV. Dll. TAL1IAGF,
THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUN-
day discourse,
Mlffhty Influence of Prayer r, lr
World'* Good—It Chn'ie, From Secret
Place*—The Christian Homo tho Fo
lain of Pious ii ii-
and Gracious I iUUicukos.
midnight, and 2 o’clock in the
I' 90 »“ malm'll,e“u r kness "very thick a ',"i
in« nrmy I’Mrsutt iif t]le'elie.| i
wssariffi ..........Soul sp»a**-{-}
powetfui because iflvGibin. such W * alis 1 *
had never before ntted.
f®°l nnf n, 7 the th .®y lted were Sea hluo rolling and through beaiUl-
fill ful ami fl flowing like other waters bm as
tho Egyptians look up to them built into
"alls now on one side And now mi the
other, they must H v ,« lWefl ffoWrtlbtt wv
poWerthat lifiel A ,rob ' lbl0 t,lat ‘1>9 same
Ut 11,10111 n P might sud.lonlv
m, cloud 1 ;? i‘ hung i Um P over rostrilte this - chasm A great between lantern the of
two walls, l ie door of that Untetn u,,-
thundor like that which cheers tho earth
aiter a drought, promising the refreshing
shower, but charged and .surcharged Wit?,
f <lo<3 llU Tlu ' ''sypfiiiii captains
lost i «Mh«‘* their preflee - cl • df mind, and the horses
ortod and would not answer
to tfteir w. bit gj and tho chariot wheels got in-
cerloeked and torn off, anil tho chariofcooM
were all hurled the host. headlong, and the lied Sea fell
on The confusing and con¬
founding thunder Israelites: was in answer te the
prayer of the With their backs
il dd their feet bleeding and
their bodies decrepit with the suffering of
Whole generations, they had asked Almighty
God to onsepnlcher their Egyptian pur¬
suers in one great sarcophagus, and the
splash dropped and the roar of tho Bed Sea as it
to its natural bed were only the
shuttingof is thesarcoplmgus on a deadliest:
That the meaning of the,text, Wlisii God
says; “I answered Dies in. the secret place
of thunder;” thunder,
Now, all up and down tho Bible,
is tho symbol of power. Small wits depre¬
ciate the thunder, and say, “It is the
lightning ly thinks that strikes.” But God evident¬
the thunder of some importance
or He would not make so much of It, That
man must be without Imagination e.ndwith-
out sensitiveness and without religion wild
can, without emotion, see Did convention
of summer clouds called to order by the
falling gAvrtl of the thunderbolt. There is
nothing in the natural world that awes and
solemnizes me as the thunder. The Egyp¬
this tian plague of hail was accompanied While with
full .diapason of the heaven.
Samuel and liis men were making a burnt
offering o£ a lamb, and the riiilistioes were
about to attack them, it was by terrorising
thunder they were diseomlltedi Job, who
was a combination of the Dantesquo and
tiie beration Miltonic, was solemnized by this rever¬ “The
Of the heavens, and cried:
thunder of His power, who can mulct-
stand?” and He challenges the Universe by
saying: “Cau’st thou, thunder with a voice
like Him?” and ltd throws Rosa Bonheur’s
“Horse Fair” into the shade by the Bible
photograph of a war horse, When he de¬
scribes his neok as “clothed with thunder.”
Because of the power of James and John,
they were called “tho sons of thunder.”
The law given on the basaltic crags of
Mount Sinai was emphasied round with this cloudy
ebullition. The skies all flbdiit St.
Johu at l’atmos woro full of til6 thunder of
war, and tho thunder of Christly triumph,
and tho thunder of resurrection, and tho
thunder of eternity.
But my text
in tho secret placo ot thunder, it
there is some mystery about the
To the undents the cause of this
ing the earth with litud sound must
been more of a mystery than it is to
lightnings, which were to them
monsters ranging through tho skies, in
time ]lftve been domesticated. We
electricity to vehiolos and we cage it
lamps, and every schoolboy knows some-
thing about the fact that it is the passage
electricity from cloud to cloud that
the heavenly racket which we call thun¬
der, BUt, after all that chemistry lias
taught the world, there are mysteries in
[ this skyey resonance, and my text, true and
tho time of the psalmist, is true now,
always will be true, that there is some
cret about the place of thunder.
Now, right along by natural law,
is always a spiritual law. As there is
secret place of natural thunder, there is
a secret place of moral thunder. In other
words, the religious power that you see
abroad in the church and in the world
a hiding place, and In many cases it is
never discovered at all. I will use a simil¬
itude. I can give only tho dim outline of
a particular case, for many of the remark¬
able circumstances I have forgotten. Many
years ago there was a large church which
was characterized by strange and unac¬
countable conversions. There were no
fS„rS
Everybody knew him and liked him for
rantry^To^plettse his parents he was every
Sabbath morning in c [ lu ^ b '
there wtts a ringing of the door be b t e,
pastor of that church, lmplo I r ->
Whelmed with repentance, passed into complete - re^
and advice and tklltho. A
formation of heart and life, ask
borhood was astonished and
was this? His father and mother ha •
nothing to him about his
On another side of the same church s , m
old miser. He paid his pew rent b
hard on the poor and had no interest Jioopto n y
philanthropy. Piles of money And
said: “What a struggle he will have, w -
he quits this life, to part with his bo .
and mortgages.” One day ^ 'vrote tohis
“Please to-call immediateiy. 1
minister: of great mporUnce about
have a matter When thei pasto^
which I want to see could you. not speak lor eo
■came in the man he gathered setr con
cion, but after awhile
trol enough lived to say: this world too long. r i
“I have for be
want to know if you think I enu ^
and, if so, I wish you wo j j
Upon his soul the light only S Djze(1 jn
the old miser, not ri bene-
heart but in life, ',, „ lU( , r
and toward all td ® re at ch.ori-
factions, - r!ul vnd
day he became a lir .„ ,
ties of tho '\ bat f
bountiful almoner. everybody a , ld one
this change as , tPlli int
giving au ^ » „,
was capablo of part s me
answer. In another Sabbath a beauyi ,,. au tiful
church sat Sabbath by who was a great
and talented woman, She went to ehur .1 1
ip,, ( i,, r respectable thing to do,
cause hat was neighborhood a wher '
and in the hardly respectable ® . ^
it was the-last aeL aij
•Worldly was she to Lad y* , olICfJ
family worldly, bhe a (id
her flnfet gei®ans that were ;, ,
the th......stllest favors ^ bnreh v ,. r
and ‘ nd thougn she c '
the iven- a liked to bear any st >ry . V llK ,s
never ‘ji'dous '‘b‘^ omoti kjnd
•
and j as f to r r Uvely ,gar. W.n^,
u vu cosrij'gayjty
she »“*.“JSSSrt& roullds Ot '
25H.J.U.
fh-aUdv down the stairs in tears.
came bow shy a* 1 0 ; K
nd t m. Jal who!.- story and she tearo i sin
ft slept , "r fo r . v nights, ind she won-
was goiot. I W r, u bir.ot ,-omc arouir.
and tray’will.' H £ILdtoouJh
ASIIBUJRN, WORTH CO., GA.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 22, 1897.
yon noticed tlm eliin'me ' i]! W,ln r '. , 11 0
satlsfactofy world caused It?" Andn’i tl,‘i ‘ m '.‘ k
t\Vd f. ?° s vm °! r
I k'vakeuingin veitrr lluiucA ihev. s innnv°sneh
luted that church ,S y ? chb Un "'
cases r n i
he ? f ft.lectcA f f f by such H considerations due Dloriiglit xVoitld
con verted, Tho wore
pastor and the officers of
the churoh were on tho lookout for the
solution of tills religious phenomenon,
IVHere is it?” they said, "and who is it,
hint svhnt is it!:'
At explained. idsUlie discovery was made ami rill
was A poor old Christian wo-
c,K,Tn -e-e
rfdiisH it' asfi.’T”', r 11,S V " 1 llV , - Q tn re to
tlm s't ■ , V n , 1 Ult y 1 U '}' { 1 “
hnhitnfeonLJ? t 1 r M?' , 1 bw * n f " V"'
in,.Ho,iW,.^“ L.,1 ’ I'tdods f! lt i in g a that ! *«*SW*t» church. She Ior
, T m ft J!. or preseni',
' T ?" lftn
m m m ’ might , not know Dm per-
* , 's , m • l pray fdr that pdftdit
" l 47 »*»!• All
i rpi,dj,T,l , W'T'O foMbnt prvsen -,iu--t
■ t one. Mie waited and waited for com-
munipn days to s»’C when the candidates
['» had '""m’h'rfhlp Mte ?d up whether her pray-
brs those ntrtrveleiis beeii effoetaiali, It turned df edniersMu out Hint
1 iUsMileas
,
iiOrb the result of that old woman's pray¬
ers as sat in the gallery Sabbath by Sabbath,
bent and wizened and poor mid unnoticed.
A little cloud of consecrated humanity hov¬
ering in the galleries. That was the secret
placc.of den, litUtneWn; the thUnflar; ntygteflddh There fiduvde Is aqnki tdf hid¬ itl-
liiost all the moral and religious power de¬
monstrated. Not one out of ten million
prayers ever strikes a human ear. On pub¬
lic occasions a minister of religion voices
the supplications of ail the of an Congregation assemblage, but the In
silence, prayers Tiienji not second century are
is a in a
Wljea ilads pfayCts titOm are not rtscdtidlni*, Pitt itiy-
of lire not even as loud ns a
whisper, for God hears a thought as plainly suppli¬
as a vocalization. That silence of
cation-hemispheric and perpetual—is tho
secret place of thunder.
The dnv will come—God hasten it—wlrnn
jesty, people the will multipotenceof And out the velocity, the We brag ma¬
Unified prayer,
about mir express miles traiUs v-iiiO.ll piit
its* ad#d d thousand mvay :a twenty-
four hours, but here is something by which
in a moment wo may confront people 5000
miles away. We brag about our telephones,
but hero is something that beats tho tele¬
phone in utterance and reply, for God says,
“Before they mill, I will hear.” Wo brag
about the phonograph, in which a man can
speak, and his words and the tones of his
voice can be kept for ages, and by the turn¬
ing of a tirdtiU the Words may come forth
lipoii the ears of another century, into but
prayer allows us to speak words the
ears of everlasting remembrance and on
the other side of eternities they will be
heard. Oh, ye who are wasting your breath
and wasting your nerves and wasting your
lungs wishing for this good world, and why that do good
for the church and the you
not go into tne secret place of thunder? is bounti¬
“But,” sayi? some ono, “that a
ful theory, yet It docs not work in my case,
for I am iu a cloud of trouble or a cloiiil
of persecution or a cloud of pdverty dr a
cloud of perplexity;” How glad I am
that yod tdld me that. That is exactly the
place cloud to which that my God text answered refers. It Israel—the was from
a through Red
cloud over the chasm out the
Sea—the cloud that was tight to tho Israe¬
lites anil darkness to tho Egyptians. It
was from a cloud, a tremendous cloud,
that God made reply. It was a cloud that
was a secret plneo of thunder,. He you
cannot got away from the consolation of
my text by talking that hear way. it. “Ianswered Let all the
people under « cloud
thee in the secret place of thunder.”
This subject helps mo to explain some
things you have not understood about cer¬
tain useful men and women. Many of them
have not a superabundance of education.
If you had their brain in a postmortem ex¬
amination and you could weigh it it would
not weigh any heavier tliau the average.
They have not anything especially They imprcR- not
sive’in personal appoarauCo. They pretend are to
very fluent of tongue. mental faculty
nothing unusual in their or so¬
cial influence, but you feel power,
you are elevated in their presence, you are
a better man or a better woman having
confronted them. You know that in in¬
tellectual endowment you are their su¬
perior, while in the matter of moral ami
religions influence they are vastly find the your su¬
perior. Why is this? To reve¬ back
lation of this secret you must go
thirty or forty or perhaps sixty years to
the homestead where this man was
brought up. It is a winter morning, and
the tallow candle is lighted and tiie
(Ires kindled, sometimes the shavings
hardly enough to start the wood. The
mother is preparing the breakfast,tho blue-
edged dishes are on the table, and tho ltd of
tiie kettle on the hearth rattles with tho
steam. The father is at the barn feeding
the stock—the oats thrown info the horses’
bin and the cattle crunching the corn. The
children, earlier than they would like and
after being called twice, are gathered at
the table. The blessing of God is asked on
tho food, and, the meal over, the family Bi¬
ble Is put upon the white tablecloth and a
chapter is read and a prayer made, which
includes all I he Interests for this world and
tenUon*to SffiTfH not much at-
the * about the
yea . wi the old folks live
^ long ns children and their
their prayer is for their
“'nay y in mi'l day out, month out, decade in and in month and
decade out, the sons and daughters of that
f, vm ily y are remembered in earnest prayer,
Qw , t an(1 M u anfl they ean-
nl oet awav from it. Two funerals after
Awhile—not n that more there than two is more years than apart, that for
a seldom father's going and
p™ 0 f time between put out of
mother’s going—two funerals
8is ]‘,t tho old folks. The daughters are in
« wlmro they are incarnations of good
• '^^itry » / and piety. another The a merchant, sons, per-
a[ ' on(J ft f raler , another physician
wotner th mechanic, ^ thfi Oogp0 a ,, flll
*“®‘" „ s „ ,
tent ad(n(re(J) honored. What a
- for R00d those seven sons and
P hter3 , Where did they get the power?
b ^ hools and the seminaries and
gf , those these have
^ oh, no, may
bellied. From their superior mental en-
do ^ men t? No; i caliber. I do not From think accidental they had efr- un-
menta had nothing o
cumgt ances? No, they
called good luck. and . rile ., to .
will take train .
I think we a
the depot nearest to ^e liomest md fr »m
those men and wom-n star d.
train halts. J>et us stop a few min it,sat ^
the village graveyard and see the tomb-
of the parents. A ,s th , on w
years of age md the other
and the epitapu sa... t a
a usc f u l life they died a Christ afl
0 n over the country road we ride
mad a little rough, and once down in
^ ^ ^ ^ thft .shafts, wheels iiut out at again imt
without breaking the the farm-
we (fome to the lane in front of
house. out of the wagon and . open
m e.-gei while drive through. Here
gate you rbfch those boy* and
the arbor under used to play, but It
girls many years ago ■,
,,„|te out of order now, for the prop.rtjir orchard, i,
• riu-r 'ei - »> js Yonder lfon<ier is is t Hie hb or .ifir
u-iiere ............ they used to to thrash thrash vhe the trees trees, lor for
' sometbnes oMor.-, tb-y were quite
1
XFS ..vliir-h thev used te sit. Therein
room^nwt ,,; n j n w ;,ieli » thev ^ bad family pray-
kne lt -the father
• ’ 0 mother there, and the boys and
tfie • ,-,t to the fountain
jdiw vv !ia ,.. g « last,
Si and gracious Wuw*
I'llsli f° more enough, Is because do others do iio't prir^
r us and wo not prav for our-
w ”"' ah - Every minister could tell
V m m ?' 1 V HiyjljDff m u ' story i*.- of because sermons, of sermons funerals
SZ.tr and side . , beds, aunoyiim e- In the parish,
sermons ... .....* .......
l God. And then iff ger-
n'dns prepared with groat care, and
research ami Kilt lirilliterniptrtdj powei'ie.s, yet those
sermons difference falling probably flat or Thai
was in tho amount, of
private prayer offered for the success of
those services,
pulpit jDh! |ivay are ihe fi;r .ciirsci us! OtGod Root sermons on it pnlyi’fli’sS In tho
| parish. , People In sdV. silt , ' '■Tli.'it vx but. fs fs fljn five matter mutter
& ss;
and !;i1 they are trying to help Moses and Paul
" 1 l “ i "' P«t ol ineouslstemdef and cou-
tradleilons by fixing up lb, Bible.” tip* As
well let the musicians go to work to 11s
Haydn's "Creation” or Handel's J'lsraol in
Egypt,” or let tlm painters go to flxing up
Uaphacl's lixing “Transfiguration,” Ghristopher or Wren’s arehtteets St.
( (,i id „p
Paiil’s,. Blit t Will tell you whatlsthomat-
for ThVte .lire ted. many HnrtWvortod
niinistr:g, I Indr Junirts have never boon 1
eliaugeil bv the gram of God. ,A mere tn-
teHoctual ministry is the rtoadwt fall-
ure this side, of perdition. Alas
for the (Jtmpt’l ami of Icicles] From ftosmattes, apol¬
ogetics, hcinicncullcs and rim
goo 1 Lord deliver us! They trying to
get their power from transcendental the¬
ology, or splitting from profound exegesis, or from and
the art of hairs between north
northwest ijhle, instead of getting their
pdWef ffrhw tile sec,ret plneo of thunder.
We want the power a uiriri fjc'ts Whop in' at (3
alone, Dio door looked, on his knees,
midnight, with such a burden of souls up¬
on him that makes him ery out. first in
lamentation and then in raptures. Wo want
something of the consecration of John
Knoy, wild, When his wife heard him pray-
frig in tlifl CPlil .flight.in another room, and
said to him, “How can yod endrtnger when your
life praying there in the cold you
ought to bo asleep?” responded, “Womanl
How can I sleop when my country is not I
saved? Lord God givo mo Scotland or
die!” Christ,
Dear brethren and sisters in our
opportunity for usefulness will soou Uplifted be
gdriih.rtfld wri of shall jiiditnioiit* have pur before fanes which
to the throne will wo b.d
must givo account.. thunder, That day there ailthothun¬
no secret place of for
ders will ba out. There will bo tho thunder
of tho tumbling rooks. There will bo
the thunder of the bursting graves.
Tliero will be the thunder of the de¬
scending chariots, There will be the
thunder of tho parting heavens. Booml
Boorfll But all that din and uproar and
crash Wilt iind Us auaffrighted, and will
leave uS undismayed, It w<! iiitvp made
Christ our confidence, and, ns after ttri
August shower when the whole heavens
have been an unllmbered battery cannon¬
ading the earth, tho Wields are more green,
and the sunrise is the more radiant,and tho
waters are tho more opaline, so tho thun¬
ders of the last day will mako tho trenH of
life appear more emerald, and the jasper sapphire of
tiie wall more crimson, and the
seas the more shimmering and tho sunrise
of eternal thunders gladness dissdiving the mort! nature empurpledi will bd
The of
followed by a celestial psalmody, tho sound
of which St. John on l’atmos described,
when he said, “I heard a voice like voice of
mighty thundorlngsl"
TRULY A COSMOPOLITAN TOWN.
It,Ml Jacket, Mich., IVI Mi HOOO I’ojmlation
rtihl TliiH.V NntiriniRitifls;
Wlmt is perhaps the most cosmopolitan
town in tlin United States, If not In the
world, is the little city of Red Jacket,
Houghton County, Mich. Tho town is un¬
dermined and honeycombed hy vast artery-
like shafts, drifts, cross-cuts, levels and
slopes. Each twenty-four hours sees a
fortune brought to surface in this little
mining town. The adult foreign residents
of the town outnumber tho native-born
more than a hundred to one.
Rod Jacket, the town proper, has a popu¬
lation of 111)00, including no loss than thirty
different lmtionaltUos, represented ns fol¬
lows: Americans, Welsh, French, German,
English, Italian, Au.vrian, Russian, Hootch,
Finlanders, Fullsli, Hungarian, Irish,
Arabians, Greeks, Swedes, Danes, lh-tglans, Norwe¬
gians, Swiss, Africans, Brazilians, Persians,
Dulch, Jews, Spaniards, Turks,
Chinese, Mexicans and Moors.
MANY BURIED ALIVE.
Prizes For a Solution ol' the Problem to
15e Ohereil In Italy.
The subject of premature burial Isjust
now attracting groat Interest In Italy, ac¬
cording to a report of United States Con¬
sul Mantlus, at Turin. ‘
He says Glut realizing that there is atpros-
ent no infallible test that may be applied
to prevent the horrifying eases of persons
buried alive, a number of prominent physi¬
cians and laymen are at work preparing
reports on the subject.
These will be made the striking feature
of the Medical Department of the National
Exposition next April at Turin. Reports
of a similar kind are expected from all over
the world.
Prizes will be offered for the best solu¬
tion of the problem, and the Consul says
inestimable good to the cause will result If
the people of the United States interest
themselves in It.
CUT HIS CORN AT NIGHT. ^
I'ennsyJ.yanfa ' FarmorM riejtnantJy 8ur-
a Sick Neighbor.
Washington Sands, of East Robeson,
Berks County, was the most surprised
farmer in Pennsylvania the other morning.
Mr. Sands has been in ill health for some
time, and in consequence ills farm wprk
has not been attended to as it should have
been. Ills corn, in an immense field, being
over ripe, required speedy this shocking, but
farm labor is scarce and work was
neglected.
All ids day.Friday poor health Mr. permitted, Hands worked and quit as hard very
ns
tired that night, After the moon had risen
about tbfrty neighbors gathered in bis corn
field and industriously worked until after
midnight, when the corn was all in shocks.
Next morning, when Mr. Hands went to the
Held, be was astonished to find bis task
completed.
Georgia’s Prosperous G. A. It. Colony,
Ift 1895 tt number of Indiana Grand Army
men resolved to colonize in Irwin County,
Georgia, upon the spot where Jefferson
pi uv |s was arrested as lie was trying to es-
cap „_ They founded they the have town of Fitzgerald, strong
Within two years grown so
t ] jat they are now moving the county site
fro[n itB old place, Irwinvllle, to Fitzgerald,
assessed valuation of the county in
1*95 , va9 something more than *1,000,000,
w t,tch has been increased in the last two
; » t nearly LLLJ *3,000,000.
- _
Ser,e * of 8hock,,, »
Gustave Muller surrendered himself to
t jj e p O jfc 0 of Rotterdam, Holland, confess-
ing the murder of his wife and ehUd. As
,, f00 f of the truth of his confei Won he pro-
dueed from his pocket ioar huauin ears,
and found the police bodies. on searching subsequently bis honae
two Muller
_ coafes-d that be had also killed his par-
and »*rtri fourteen fonru.Mi wives mitral whom t. he hud
married Ip various parte of tie- world.
Sheep Raising. Rooming.
Sheep raising in eastern Oregon has !m-
Iambs proved In to such quantity an extent could that be whereas
; any at bought it head, a
year comoaad ago seventy-flv.....- *t.50
; they wulous now a head, vital end lierd-
are not to sell at price,
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
TOR OCTOBER 24.
Lesson Text: ‘•Paul llefore King Agrili-
pn," V, 1 s xxvl., Itl-tfJ—Golden Text■
Matthew x., .'l'!—Co to men I ary on tho
bf Die l>ny hy tier. Stearns.
Fostua Miceo.leii Foils, Ami both Paul's woro
willing t" please t.Uo Jew's nt ox-
peiisd ( vxiv.,27; xxv., ID. Paul luvd appealed to
toCnsar; then fere Hie ease logo
Rome. KlngAgrlppa e\mvliig' to (’n’mired, ho
Feiittls slates the case lo him Its far as
UnnWH it, which is that it concerns ''one
.Totals, ti ll'' was dead, but whom Paul af-
firilii il io bo alive" i >.v„ l!V>. Paul Agrippndc- brought
idf'irtlt G? hertr for himself, is
ifovtli In flic (ifcsenoe of \grip]»rt, mid Bernice, princi-
Fesl us and the chief e.'/plnlnq
pal men iiiinself. of the city and nlloU'Cd to speak
Ft He states briefly his early
■history rid iln enemy of Jesus, and then
more fully his bon version on tho way to
jiaumseus and his coiUllilnahot from tho
ffiovd Himself.
It). “Wtieroupon, O King Agrlppa, vision.” T was
pel disobedient, unto tho heavenly
Iflieu lie heard one speaking to him from
Jou.vc.ii, silyiOK “t am Jesus, whom thou
.lorsocutost,” ho could no imigor doubt but
jfesus ilirft lto lied Niiifitfbfli been greatly actually mistaken nllvo and and that, ill
of was
heaven, and at oninl lie yielded to Him,
Having. “Lord, what wilt IhoU hrtvo mo to
d( ; ?'' Wo cannot expoet .such a vision or a
voice from heaven, but tho word of God
should bo to us /is ibneli a voioo
heaven as that which ho lioafil.
>J0. “Uwpwnt anil turn to God nttd do
works meet for roiiontnnoo.” Tlris ho
prortuhed ovorywhore, proclaiming that
God was m that Pirrist, tho God o’rilv manifest to turn in tho to
posh, and way <.W Hi,
Hod was to turn to Ghvisi (I til., had.
and then lot your life prove that ydu
really turned to Him, for while no wotks
of ours can suvo us, yet if saved by His
finished work wo will surely show It by our
V>ofUf. . lifoAe Jews caught
21. “For eiiuses tho
mo iu tho temple amt Went about to kill
pic.” Jesus was tho cutiso of ftll flndr
hatred. Thorn are gods many and turds
many In Christendom ns well us in heath¬
endom, but them js only ono living and
true God. who so loved us as to give His
only begotten Kon for us, and when wo re¬
ceive llim Ho mid His (Spirit, will bo mani-
li'nt in tis and will provoke more or loss
opposition from Dio World a'nd also from
religious people who do not f rilly know
Him, for the eariml mind, whether reli¬
gious or otherwise, is enmity against God
(Rom. viii., 7). prophets he
22.23. “From Moses and the
continually proelslined that It had been
foretold that the Messiah should suffer and
die and rise from Dm dead before Ho eould
lie lsriiol’S M essiali'or a light to the gent lies.”
So also out Lord Iiiinself, foi Moses and tho
prophets set forth {lint His sufferings must
precede His glory (Luko x.Hvi, 25 27). Wfl
receive Him, and by Ills llnlshod Work ore
saved eternally, but if we would reign \Vlilt
Him in glory we must lie content to suffer
with Him this little while, and by life mid
doctrine proclaim Him to all the world
(Math, x., 87-33; Rom, vill., 17; IITim. II.,
24. ‘‘Paul, tlnnl art beside fchCo mud.*’ thyself. Ho Much had
learning doth mnk<i wisdom of
not been Hpoakiiw; the 'men, hut
had obeen telling oarnoatly the oboty of
Jomum and t.<» thin day thono who are much
In Iovo with Jesus and carried away with
Him arc- accounted beside themselves.
They said of (Midst, “lift had a devil and is
mad” (John x., 20). The, prophets testified
that people said, "Tho mnn of the Spirit is
mud." "lie that dojMirteth from evil is ac¬
counted mad” (If os, lx., 7, margin, and
Isa. lix., 15, margin), nobleFesttifl,
25, 2(*. "I nn'i not mad, most
but. speak forth the words of truth and so¬
berness.” Yet those are the very words
that are not palatable to men of tho world.
Tho time will come, is even uoweomo, when
many who hear the name of Christ will not
endure sound doctrine. They have thereof a form
of godliness, but deny the Ukn power Kestiis, they
(II Tim. iv., 8; III,, 5).
know all about it, but they will not yield
to it and be obedient to if:. They know all
about Him who is the only Haviour, but
will no! submit to Him or he ruled by Him.
27. “King Agrippa, believes!; thou the
prophets? I know that thou belie vest. ’*
From verse three ft would appear that the
king was well acquainted with the Jews
and their affairs and the promises eoneern-
ing them and their Messiah, but It Is not
what we know that helps us, but. only the
knowledge we make use of. ft Is not the
food we look at; and cun talk about and
even prepare for others that bene/ils our¬
selves, but only (hat widen we personally
appropriate. We must receive Him.
28. “Them Agrippa said unto Jhiul, Al¬
most thou persuades!; me to be a (Jhris-
thui,” Another translation Is, "Lightly
art though persuading thyself that thou
eunst make me a (ihrisUau.” The wojrd
"(/hristiau,” so eomnion with us, is not a
word much used in the JJiblo, being only
found in two other places (Arts xl., 2d; J
Pet.lv,, H >). The word “saint” or “be¬
liever” or “brethren” Is much more com¬
mon.
25). "I would to Hod that not only thou,
but also all that hear me this day, were
both almost and altogether such addressing as i am,
except these bonds.” He, was
the king and the governor and the chief
captains and mighty men, and yet felt that
with the exception of his bonds he was hot¬
ter off than they and that wlmt he had they
might wed 'desire to have,. What could it
he? VVJiut but this, that l heir position transient, and
honor were, but temporary and
while he, though for a time their prisoner,
was one with llim who was at Hod’s right
hand, a joint, heir with Christ, a king and
a priest unto Cod (Horn, viii., J7; Kev. I., 5,
0; v., 5), 10), and that he would surely In
din*, time enjoy His heavenly kingdom.
80, ill. “This man doetb nothing worthy
of death or of bonds.” This wyn the, con¬
clusion of the king and governor and. the
other#* as they went aside after Paul had
finished. 1 Pilate bore the same testimony
concerning our Lord Jesus, and yet the
Jews had Jesus crucified and Stephen
stoned and James slain, and they would
have killed Paul. Oh, how they hated
Jesus of Nazaret b!
82. “This man might have been set at
liberty if he. had not appealed unto Ca.sar,”
Hhall we say, What a pity he appealed Father, to
L;- sar? Or shaii we say, “Yes, my
this is so, heeauso that Thou, bast found it
good?” < M nth. ,vi., HO, French Testament).
Sometimes God does directly, and some¬
times He permits to be done, but HeaJways
overrules and control# for His glory and
the highest good of Hi# people whom He
unchangeably Jove# even In their per¬
verseness. if Paul erred, as I think from
the testimony, in going to Jerusalem at
tills time, the Lord still loved him, ap¬
peared to him anil will surely get him tv
Rome, as be said. Lesson Helper.
Professor Morehcad, of the Ohio
State University, and two other men
are soon to begin a systematic hunt
for a buried treasure supposed to com¬
prise one hundred pounds of pure gold,
that was hidden away hy two French¬
men on their way from the Great
Lakes to New Orleans during the sev¬
enteenth century. Tradition has it
that the treasure was buried at the
foot of an oak tree near the site of
Bucyrus, O.; that the two men died
while with the Indians, and that the
latter, fearing the spirits of the dead
men, would never reveal the hiding
nlace.
Kentucky claims that she can grow
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