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THE ASHBURN ADVANCE. H. D. SMITH. EDITOR. POULAN a Tin Imlatlirii City I fPas thought to be a false report , but was found to true. News broke cut 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. Bow we ask the people of Worth and adjoin ng counties to come an l examine our line n noise. j A We Carry a hide Line of Wash Pots, Dinner Pots, Stoves, Stove Furniture, Plows, Plow Gear Aid ill Fanning Utensils. FURNITURE! FURNITURE! -FURNITURE! < 03 ro*ol?L ery —AND ALL— Heavy Groceries. CLOTHING! We have a large lot of rinihinri LLOinilly oUtLLtm wIprtM /u 10r the Fall Iraae, ana nnrl we i n/> n\nr)t warn tW uwbiu Roll them rapidly. We have pu f them at very low pr.ces. 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.ns. want bnoes, rxrxmQ come c Whe i|pyou see us. Suits, come tc When you want see us. come tc When you want Harness, see ns. Groceries, come to When von want - pe us Stores, come to When you want see us. Furniture, .. come to When you waut BP ’have jT<wd and polite salesmen, Mohave xv*« go* 1 that wK n y otl como t0 fiee ’ ld i SO be thrown down to you for _ nn j, nomination. w iJ) ^Fncw L, TTprtRE LINE from, M ° a e i° nanclsoniG m “??• I il€ -o a Grind Rock. T013 ACCO. Everything from a pinch of Bnnrf tc ft Lot of Tobacco Call r. ii and i examine ^ onr Goods iml and ml gel prices. ti e will take pleasure in showing you. best RICF ti- have pne nnn of n f the fi.p nest ujui MILLS m the epuntiy. bring yo it rough rice and let ns hull it. j Have vonr corn ' ground here. n/1 We -ertll gin ■ your _ cotton fo -Art , , then buy it or ship it from our ware- house “ free of dravage. end mnkfl i Turn your face this way and make our store headquarters for trade. I & MePhaul. ; McGirt ; REV. DR. TALMAGF, THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUN DAY DISCOURSE. Story of (lie Three Taverns—Tlin Itnlrt Wrought by t lcimir—t'l'lutsOrt IVrtve of Dissipation lias Destroyed Store Sails ors Than llic Ocean—Mankind's Curse. Text: “They camo to meet us ns far ns Acts Appit xxviiiit Forum 15, and the Three Taverns.”— Seventeen! veilcks south of Rome, Italy, there way tl village of unfortunate name and bibulous suggestion; A tavern is it is~vu teirt of or ttid bntelrttjTiiatijm; oiltindalumont and..Id «iur provision time, is a of intoxicants. One such place you would thin!; would liava been enough for that Italian village. Jfol There were three of tlleiii, lliiil bbfilsefttldm with d'dors cl pc it fob vutoftiitnmcut lldS tie 'tlio wdud tel liiitk-ed si luntlating drinks. You remember the condition of Noah on one occasion, and of Abigail’s husband, Nabal, and tbo story,if the BaisitAfhsac's Mri.bjU.MMj Mast; And BeiilidJnd; Slid h'eV Wine In prohibition AIM WUKtc t’braktit |)!l8 Oh enactment thousands of years before Neal Dow was born; and infbimmafcoiWliqiBd no doubt there, were Whole shelves.Of tele tne lit.these lie: w’o!ill gAV:i name to the village where Pan I’s friends came to meet him; namely, the Three Taverns. In vain I Search ancient geography for somo satis¬ fying account of tlult village, Two uidem i-oadii tin? came from tile sea epast to tlult one from A'tlilm and tlfc other frdm I’m oli, tile Inst to:'.I hWin,^ llidoiie whlcii Paul iravWltbl, liibre were, no doubt, in that Viilago chanics' houses of meroUandlse and me¬ shoes and professional effl,ees; Imt hothing is kllpwn ef thdmi All tVd lihOW Of thrlt Village ts that it had a profiision of Lllls -tbo Three Taverns; Paul did not cheese any one of thesC thycnis its tIt,I place to moM BIS ltiolids; Ho certainly Wan Very abstemious, but they made the selection. He had enlarged about keeping the body mule!-, though once he ut-eScHlxid for a young tlieOlogldM btlldputA stimu¬ bat lating Cobdial for a stomachic disorder; ho told him to take only a smalt doso— "a little wine for thy stomach’s sake.” Ono of the worst things about these; temptaUqU Three Taverris tor was thepd that ntffid they hitd liii'4 jtist eSpeciil come MliofS, Fedpie who had just landed at Aetium or- ruteoli were soon tempted by these three hotels, which were only a little Way Up from the beach; Those who arc disordered Of thesoit (fob it is a physical disofgArtiaei'), gradual instead of waiting for tlio apt take return artificial of physical equipoise, arc to means to brace up; Of the one million sailers itpW tin Did sett, the how Three few of Taverns! tlldiU Coiningasiiore will escape After surviving hurri¬ canes, of cyclones, icebergs, collisions, many them are wrecked in harbor. I warrant that if a calculation sailors Were made Of Hid Com* pitrsiive mint her a? lost at sea ami lest ashore, those drowned by tlio crimson Wave those of dissipation would far outnumber drowned by the sitlt wdtCr. Alas! down Unit to the * he mfjje majority of those who twice go sea in ships should have Before to they pass the Three Taverns, namely: go out and after they come in. That fact was what aroused Father Taylor, the great sailors’ pt:eilChf'f, at Hid Kaflors’ Bethel, Charlestown Boston, ho said, and at “All a public the meeting at tlie drunkard-making, soill-de.strrtyiito machinery of business is in perfect rumd'lg Older, from the low grog holes on Hie docks, kept open to Establishments ruin itljt poor sailor hoys, to the great in Still House Square, and When we ask men wiiat is to be (lone about it, they say ‘you can’t help it,’ and yet there is Bunker Hill, and you say you can’t stop it; and up might there dnMVCi are Loxlngfdit add Concord,” We Father Tay¬ lor’s romnrl* by saving, “Tbo trouble is not that Wd Can’t stop it, hut that we won't Stop it.” We must have more generations slain before the world will fully wake up to the evil. That which tempted tlio travel¬ ers of old who came up from thd seaports of Aetium and Fnteoii is now the i'Ufn of seafaring men as they come up from tlio coasts Three of all Hie continents, namely, the Taverns. There are streets in seme Of our cities Where there arc three or four taverns on every is Mooli; aye, where every the other house a tavern. You can take Arabic num¬ eral of my text, the three, and put on the right hand side of it ono cipher, and two ciphers, and four ciphers, and that re-in- forcement of numerals will not express the statistics of American rummerics. Even If it were a good, healthy superbly business, nutritious, supplying it a necessity, is an article mightily overdone, and a business there are three, taverns whoro there ought to The b» wily one. another fact is, there are, in sense, Three Taverns now; tlio gorgeous tavern for tin; affluent, the medium tavern for the working classes, aud the tavern of the slums, and they stand in line, and many people, beginning with the first, come down, through the second, and come out at the third. At the first of the tliFeO tav¬ erns, tins wines are of Celebrated vintage, and tin whiskies are said to be puro, and they al'e quaffed from cut glass, at marble Side-tables, under pictures pull approaching off their master-pieces. The patrons kid gloves, and hand their silk hats to tlio waiter, and push back their hair with a hand on one fin K°r of Which is a cameo But those patrons are apt to stop visiting that place. It is not the money that a man paya f0[ . , h . ink!>i for wlult nr e a few hundred Sey emmg^taverntand they 'come do arc w n £^0°^$ tlio small table rougher and tlio castor is standing on it is of German silver and the air has been kept over from the night be¬ fore and that which they .sip from tlio pewter mug has a larger percentage of ben* zine, ambergris, creo.-ote, henbane,strych* piaster n i Qei prussic acid, coculus indicus, The of pan’s, copperas, and nightshade. day, patron may be seen almost every and perhaps many times the same day at this tavern the second, but lie is pro. paring to graduate. Brain, liver, imart nerves, are rapidly giving way. in his tavern the second has its dismal echo business destroyed and family scattered anil woes that choke one’s vocabulary. and besotted group inside. He will bo ( ] ra( -p f .j 0 „t 0 f ,i 00 rs about 2 o’clock in the morning and left on tlie sidewalk, because the bartender wants to shut up. The poor victim has taken the regular course in the college of degradation. He lias his blotched diploma written on liisswoilen, bruised, and of physiognomy. Ho is a regular graduate seem to ruin bio with two roils of thunder, one of which says, “Look not upon the wine when it is red. when it moveth itself aright in the cvp, for at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingetb like an adder.” The other thunder roll says, “All drunkards sha11 have tbeir place in the lake that burneth with fire and with brimstone.” f nm ,, )aiJ to )!nd jn th)3 BCe ne of tho text that there is such a thing as declining successfully great Tavernlan temptations. and did I can see from wiiat Paul said after ho |iad trav ,. Icd the following had aeven- teen miles of his journey, that J ■ re- ceived no damage at the Throe Taverns. How much he jvas tempted I superior know not. to Do not suppose that he was temptation. That particular the temptation grandest, h as destroyed many of mightiest, noblest statesmen, philosophers, of and heroes, ,,j* clergymen, ‘7f apostles and law religion. me<J1 ne ari : ,„ v ,. r „ment Paul was not it physically not in well mock un'i^r deprecia- any eir- cumstances; was bod ft tionthat he said he was “in v presence weak. ’ It seems that his eyesight through was so poor thatdie did his writing an ASH BURN, WORTH CO., GA.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 2!). 1897. anjamionsis, llllng for lie mentions It Is Epfsltl?; somb- the remarkable fintt Ms •lnwtoit manship, one to 1’lillomon, was in tils own pen¬ With saying: Ham):’’ "I, Paul, have boon written thrown it from my own lto lutil lii.s horse, lid liad blhui •'lothnl.' ltd had been oiulungoonod, lie had had Ills nerves Athens pulled the on by prenehlhg Noliotavly at to .most nu- Ititlt jilpndo fe d( th»j all most the brilliantly earth, ibid ptofligutti at Our- assemblage, ami bcnii llbV.led ilpnii !,d (lid Ephesian worshipers of Diana, tried for his life before Felix, charged by Fe.stus witli being insane, and crawled up on the boacli drenched In Urn shipwreck, nnd Jittfeh i'f file lime had lui ij'Qp ha: idea it oil his wrist. itnd'.if any man with innbat''fimnlus, t)i* j'li'sloal Paul needed it, lint (ill exhaustion, ho gel ppst the Three Taverns mnfam.agm], and stpnpnd ilrdcfll into Homo all. ready tor the iremeieuidd to which, he wits subjected. Oh! How many mighty men. feeling that they must brace up after extraordinary service, and prepare them* selves for other a«yt(ic", have culled on tbo spirit ot wire for inspiration, litpl.sin. itltirr a few years have been saeridod on the of a Moloch, who sits on a throne of human carcasses. Shall I call the names of fifty pf the victims, al! of them Illustrious ii> Articidciiii histerft *,01 ,Tt would,,noj! fli«»t bo wise, or kind, or Christian to call names ip public, but Oh, you, call .thorn spkqvdtd out of your own memory. jf-'t how mn,ny tiiri; " 'i'M t(,U pirat Mb' Three Taverns, Long ago an arch (lend arrived in ovit world, and ho built an invisible cauldron of temptation. He built that enuMroii strong and stout for all ages and all nations. First hr. 8f squeezed the into cauldron of .paradise: the juices, forbidden fruit dl-HillntiiW then he gathered fo.i ; If. ti £rb;n the harvest llebls and the orchards of thd hemispheres; then lie poured into this caul¬ dron capsicum and logwood and assault and biitttpT and vitriol nn.1 opium and rum and murder and sviluliuric riciu aud tlh'ft and potitsh and .cochineal and red carrots and pdyerty Bdiilpothid, drid dcuith and il' Hops; Bu(, it was a di : y .'bid lrhMfi JG* iholstened arefi and it must he liquefied, and the so the fiend poured into the. cauldron blood of tweiitV thousand indk. Assassinations, ii ehdvel Uiat And lie then the Redd had brought iip from the furnaces beneath, add ho put the shovel into this great: cauldron and began to stir, and the cauldron began to heave and. rock and boll and sputter and Hiss nnd ft .smoke, and the nations gathered firdiliid With Cups duel tJdknrds ar\d demijohns and kegs, and there was enough for all, and the arch fiend cried: “Aha! Champion fiend ami! Who has done more than I have for coffins and graveyards and pfisdiis world? And and the populating tips of Is the emptied lost when badldroti I’ll fill it again,, and dud I’ll stir it again'., and it will,smoke (idothetf firiidke-. rtgtitii ilie .siridke tlipt S:xidke tofiiipnt—' will join of that a.scendeth for ever and over. [ drove fifty ships on the rocks of Newfoundland and the Skerries and the Goodwins, I have ruined more Senators than councils. will gather lieKt wirttor in thd riatloual [ have ruined more Lords, thrtn will be gathered in .the House dwllnaGly of Peers. df'irik . The cup oiit bleilclied ,whi‘*n I. i.<i it human skull, and the upholstery of my palace is so rich a crimson because it is dyed in human gore, and the mosaic of my floors is made up of the hones of chil¬ dren dashe l to death by drunken parents, and my favorite music, sweeter than To Deuni <u* triumphal daughters march—my turned favorite music is the cry of oiitat midnight on tlio street bdemise .father lias come hUnared-voiced home H : .mi d edrovisdl. tint! thd seven- shriek, of the sinking steamer because the captain was not him¬ self when ho put the ship on tlio wrong course. Champion fiend am T! I have kindled more fires, I have wrung out more agonies, I have stretched out more mid¬ night shadows, f. luivn opened more Gol- gcth.lS, I I,uve; rolled morn Juggernauts, f have damned more souls, than tiny other emissary of diabolism. Champion fiend am I. Ha! ha! ha! ha!” But what: a glad time when tlie world comes to its last Three Taverns’for the sate of intoxicants. Now there are so many ol thorn that statistics nre only a more or less accurate glions as to their number, We sit with Intif-ciosed eyes and undis¬ turbed nerves Hi. it.nd tllefd hear tiiilt Hint ill 1872 hi tlie 4840 Veiled lit Os were |uv\yerie!», distiildrios, aud 171,000 retail dealers, and that truthfully possibly by this time these llgures may be doubled. The fact is that those establishments arc innumerable, and the discussion is always dishearten¬ ing, and the Impression is abroad that tha plague is so mighty and universal it can never he cured, nnd the most, of sermons on tills subject closo with tha Book ot Lamentations, and not with tlio Book of Revelations. Excuse me from adopting any such infidel theory. The Bible reiter¬ ates it until thoro is no more power in inspiration to make it plainer that the earth is to he, not. half, deemed. or three-quarters, that but wholly re¬ On rook I take my triumphant stand and join in the cho¬ rus of Hosannahs. One of tlio most advantageous move* fflents la the fight direction is taking this tvhoie subject into the education of the young. On tlio same school-desk with the grammar, the geography, the arithmetic nro books tolling tlio lads and lasses of ten and twelve and fifteen years of ago what are drink, the physiological does with effects of strong what it the tissue of the liver and tho ventricles of the brain: and whereas other generations did not realize tlie evil until their own bodies were blasted, we are to have a generation taught what the viper is Indore it stings them, what the hyena is before it rends them, how deep is the abyss before it (swallows them. Oh) boards of education, teachers in schools, professors in colleges, Legislatures, am] Congresses, widen and augment that work, and you hasten tho complete overthrow of this evil. It will go down. I have tlie word of Al¬ mighty God for that in tho assured extirpa¬ tion of all sin. But shall wo have a share in tlie universal victory? Tho liquor saloons will drop from tho hundreds of thousands into thousands the score of intothe thousands, and then from tlie hundreds, and then from the hundreds Into the tens, and from tho tens to Three. The first of these last three taverns will be where tho educated and philosophic and the high-up will take their dram, hut that class, aware of the power of the example they have bedn set- ting, will turn their hack upon tlie evil cus¬ tom and be satisfied with two natural bev¬ erages that God Intended for the stimulus of the race—tbo Java coffee plantations furnishing the best of the one and the Chin¬ ese tea fields the best of the other. And somo day tlie barroom will be crowded with people nt the vendue and tho auctioneer’s mallet will pound at tho sale of the appur¬ tenances. The second of these last three taverns will take down its flaming sign and ex¬ tinguish its red light aud clos ■ ils doorc,for the working class will have concluded to buy their own horses and furnish their own beautiful homes and replenish finely the wardrobe of their own wives and daugh¬ ters, instead of providing selling tlie with distillers, wardrobes the I,rowers, and liquor and mirrors and carriages. And the next tiinetlmt second tavern is opened it will be a drug store, or a bakery, or adry goods establlshmeut^r a school. Then there will bo only one mire of the Three dissipating Taverns left. I don’t know in i^vol what coun¬ try, or city, or nelghberhoo i be, hut look at It, for it fs the very last. The last Inebriate will have staggered up to ils counter nnd put down hi- pennies for Ids dram. Its last horrible adulteration xvill be and mixed inflame and the quaffed brain. to Th^last eat out tin; drunkard vitals will have, stumbled rlowRts front steps. The last spasms of delirium tremens can* ed by It will be struggl 'd through. The old rookery will torn down, and with its demolition will close the earth’s ifi einlna- The last of the dissipating Three of all the world will be in thor¬ oughly blotted out aa were the Three Taverns of m v text. Tn this battle the visible troops are not so mighty Q3 the invisible. The Gospel eampiiigd began with till) supernatural— the miolog!;* chant that woke tint shop- lierdf*, the the |tu«d)>ct ptituuil sert,,;^: IfjM b'efjt’bo'rn 1 eyesight wilL'ont given whore obiilefifteif tint pptte nevve, the sun grhvlfii frgirf the nyondby loosing heavens, the law of don )*■“ gulp as Christ ascended: and us tile Gospel eatapritgU began With with tlio supernatural, it will close the supernatural; ami tlm and lightnings the winds ami the nnd earth¬ tile waves quakes will eouio In on the right side nnd agaitief 'lto vjrong #<li Vide'; and (lift- as* coudod world champions return, iib{ whether them. tlio sees thorn or does ?Ce Ido not think tiint those great souls de¬ parted are going to do nothing hereafter Imt slug psiflitls, ttnd ami plav walk lmrps, and of breads' frankincense sea« lrtfssjthl glass re!ri;*i«"t w'itlf fri lire. tlio The they fullllled wlilid body will lie eclipsed by their post-mortem 1 Mb'-dori,’ With fecrtUies quickened and volooitieif multiplied; lliiil * f niify have boon to that our dying reformer rofoiTtfa When 1m said: '■J long to be free!” There may bo bigger worlds than ffbp'p'iimitiottis tills to h i redeem; overthrown 1, and more (Rgantlp leld weriit C'Vely sfyd to (« itrid discip¬ than hero Wtil* hV firolirrtjhtirj' dtp, line gotten may ifVi'ni; drill for a campaign in some other nnd erqwm'cfBoroos perhaps*'.no other constellation. Hut the mol lioroines, because spheres, of tliplf’ tffmatSf will riot it fotgoi jltfeypineiito this old in greater World whdrC they t’jHireli prayed arid siilWed ibid tri¬ umphed.' militant hnd‘ Church triumphant, biif twfi dfvlstofijs Of tire same army right wing and left tvififf; One army of the living God, At Ilia command we bow. Part of the host have crossed the flood And part ate crossing now. THE COLDEST COUNTRY. In WHi'chOjansli. Ninety fregfe?s Siberia, Bo!ew the Mercury Zero. Drops to Symon’s MeteoroiOKieal Maftil/.liie gives an intcre«tlnfe Hccwnnt of ‘’Life in (lie Coldest Country in tile Wnrld," wliich’bas been taken froir the bttlle- ttn of tlie Ko^at Dcotri’aphtcnf Society of Iriitsk. The name of llic tdoce is Werchojansk, in Siberia, longitude Fik degrees 51 minutes east., latitude 07 degreo H4 minutcR north, where the lowest temperatufS tit minus Du do grees Fahrenheit has been olwdi’*'<’» and (lie mean of January is minus is degrees Fahrenheit. It is Inhabited by about i0;50<) perfkma of the Jakut nnd Lamat. races; In a liirge paid of this region, accord¬ ing to Professor Kot'alik, the sir is so dry and the winds are so rare that (Tic 1 intensity of the cold cannot be fully realized. In tlio most distant part of Ihe East, there are sometimes terrible stormfii which are most fatal to life in their eonseqUciicf’S. Dlirlftg tin* sum¬ mer time the temperature ocasionallV rises to St! degrees Fahrenheit in the shade, while il freezes at night. The latter part, of the season is often marked by Copious rains and extensive inundations. Which invariably lav waste a VaSl ocrekgo hf land and prove to lie a serious obstacle to tllfi culti¬ vation of the '-nil. Vegetation is very scarce. There are practically no trees only wide, open meadows. The peo¬ ple hunt fur-bearing animals, fish and raise cattle arid reindeer. Jr requires about eight cows to support, ii fathilyi four being milked in the summer and two in the winter. The cattle are very small in size, and are fed liny in the winter, Occasionally they are allowed to go out. when there if! the slightest break in the weather, hut their teats are always carefully covered up. Milk is the principal food: This is some¬ times supplemented with hares, which are quite abundant, hut not very rei- isliable. The houses are constructed of wood, covered with clay, and as a rule, con¬ sist of only one room, in which Ihe people and (ttilmnln live together. The upper and wealthier classes .'ire better provided with lodgings and food. Ad a race they are excessively punctilious concerning points of honor, such us tlie place at. the table and the proper place at festivals. Clocks for the Deaf. One of the interesting Items of the State expense charges for July, says the St. Paul Globe, appears in I he cur¬ rent lists of the State school for the deaf at Faribault. It is an Item of .$25” for a clock, which is remarkable in more elements than in that of its expensive character. But this mechanism is certainly a wonder, for it is so aranged that is calls the pupils’ attention to the school programme and the calendar, in spite of the fact that they are all deaf and the usual alarms do not affect (.hem in the least. Of course one clock would riot be visible to all the pupils, so there are ten secondary clocks, with Id-inch dials, which tel^ the teachers and scholars ^vho cannot see the main dock wli'yLifi in fractions mathematics Fs i now due cqgH^Hbio up on fingers, scholars in Mi.g- lish grartt^^^^ml iMk their lesson leaflets. clooW The secondary arc incliK in the original item of $252, as are i 5-inch fire-gongs, tlie utility of which in a school for the deaf has aroused the curiosity of some of the State de¬ partments, which fear that the prece¬ dent. thus established may result, in the establishment of the purchase of Meissoniers and Bougtiereans for the dormitory in the school for the blind, and standard works on the Integral calculus in the school foi^bi 4^! minded library. Water Hyacinth*|nd W’mtens Drainage. A new danger t from liie prevalence of Uu water hyacinth in Florida rivers. Many of the larger towns in the state have their new< r outlets in the rivers, and the plant! cheek the passage of the sewage to the giving rise to fears that this m.ty result in malarial troubles, or worse, Whtle tlie people might have patlene': to await the efforts of the hyacinth- navigation, considerations rot ». tr own health and for trie reputation of the state as a winter sanitarium prompt them to urge radical measured for the abatement of the nuisance, even to the employment of drags and tug boats to tow the plants out to sea. THIS SA1S1UTM SCIIOOI. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR OCTOBER 31. t.essnn Text: “Paul's Voyage and Ship* wreck," Acts xxvtf., I if-dd—Golden Text: .4er* xxvtl., !t5-Ponmii*nkirr on tlie Pay's f.esk.Vwl'v Kev. I>. M. Stearin. 1 : 1 . “And when the ftouffi blew soft¬ ly, supporting that they had obfitlrwi their purpose, looking thence they sailed close i>V Ctri- Paul, with Aristarchus, a to nner # felio W HhWoT r. and afterward a fellow prisoner (A Us Ah*..- (-‘>1. iv., 10), is now at son on Ills way* to Home. They touched at sidom and thence uOrtr Cyprus Asia to Myra Oil the mainland of Lyeiu. L 11 Minor. There lie ty.w transferred to a ship of Aloeri’U'iltiiti bound fot Italy, arm .after many days Ot sailing routldod the tuwt end «)f Creto ami rdrtdhoo the' Fair Havens, Op. *ho south coast of Cftftub (tdtlwed Mere they sptmt muPlf time until Pnul them jiot to venture if/f*M»er on account of the •mason, but the master tfr>d owner ami tim mrtjufdl.v advised t>> try and reTit'b tbo port of f’lUudfC, a little farther west: lu Proto, and il liifof, there. Ho with a liglu v^iud they started, kVVphif? as uaar the land tin possible. Paul is in Ifw hands, humaulv speaking, oftho.se who knott* t>**t (hv I, hut NO is redlly in the bands of God titi 4 ertii Mim tet mutingt*. hunt 14, 15. A fhl^htv wind from the nro.se,’'against WldUMihe Compelled ship could not hear l!|” Piril fhey with to let: Jior run before i(. Ift^ this di'Ifett of God or t he devil that they were thus out to'sort? We know that Satan is the prince <if Yhe power of the air, nnd that lie caused the wfild that blew (}(»W 11 the house upon Job's child reft find killed them (Job!., 12. PG.but ho could net do It vMHitot! nngeirf God's permission. control the winds, God con¬ and trols the ^Ift* wind word even the siormy toUllls His (Uev. vii., 1; Ps. cxlviii., H). must see God alone. * id, 17. Tlio storm increased. Under thd ]ee of |,IM island of (llauda they get the small boat on bottfd which had evidently lpe»i» tile tpwiug itsteru. lower Tliey sonehow sail and under- let gird ;altlp itmier f fltotl tlio luvr drive b'/ifU poles. What, about the tlje condition of the prtsrfiUigefrt among 271’ ‘ ? odhr supposi'd on board? ( Verse 87.) Hrtilors are not io f* m'I anything, never to know they are sick 111! tb«y are dead, i»ut many ordinary people do get awfully sick »ad in a storm. This must have been ft Shn»: And yet there were some on it very (.leaf tn the i.ord Jesus, 1H, 1!). “ib\cV;edbigly iiO tO08od with a word tem¬ pest.” Well, there is rtf»« to say a about this unless you have t/dett hi such circumstances yourself, it was a I.Htd case, MUti many doubtless wished Mint there Wit# no tfhJfrt sea (Rev. xxb, 13. Yet even under 6udti ein'urn.staiices the Prineeof Peaeeean epntr-d one’s heart. In health or sickness, life -h- death, we can be quiet in Ills loving care. should saved 20 . “All hope that U'H bo was then taken awny.” Hurfily tbay flmce in at their wits’ end (Ps. evil., 27), - or, awn!-' an the margin, “All their wisdom , was JowcM up." The case was, as far as human ityen could think see, Utterly Shiner hopeless. having It makes hope one of the no and without tid'd ill the "without World (Kpli. il., 12), or, as in Horn, v., (J, laHt strength.” only Jhit there is a Havlour for the t end for such, lie said, “I came not to call the righteous, ''ll"t but sinners, to roptuitaneo.” stood 21; after long abstinence Paul fori H hi the midst of them.” They had fasted for fourteen day# (verso 88), and in a d have felt fori of n indeed and ready for a word o! (hj;Ufort from ijny one Who might have it -for them. None but God could help or comfort them, and Gi* servant is ready to be the messenger, ife is the leather of me/vies and the God of all comfort (II (Jor, i.. Gin/ 8), but we cannot fully appreciate) it or till We get into strait places. 22. “And now f exhort you to bo of good cheer, for there sllilll be no loss of any man’s life among you, hut at tlio ship.” shall lie emphasized it by adding, “There of not an hair fall from the head o*f any you,” and he took broad and gave thanks to God in the presence of them all and be¬ gun to eat (vei'fie.M 84, stood 8f>). this night 28, “Tor there by me and I e angel <d God, whose 1 flip Whom rye.” This and the next two verses ar<) _ MM’ t he very heart of this lesson. Take — e words, included. "God, whose I)la J am,” and which think of what is property, Ills Child, He will certainly care for, whom lie will certainly see to, loved by i f10 Lord Jesus as the father loves Him (John xV., 0 ), b Might with the precious blood of Christ, and therefore as precious to (Jod as that blood is; a part of Christ Himself, a member of His body. We need not hesi¬ tate la May, iteavbri "The most enrtji, high God, the pos¬ and se,.sou of find is owns me,” take nil the comfort there for us. Then consider “whom i serve,” and remember that we cannot servo God and Mammon; j .either can we serve Christ and please men (Math, vi., 24; Gal. i., 10). 21. “Haying, Fear not, Pauli Thou must be brought before C'fcsar, and, lo, God hath given time all them that sail witht hee,” This is a confirmation of the .Lord’s testimony to him in Jerusalem “Thou must bear witness at Rome "musts” (chap¬ ter xxili., Jl). The Lord's are as sure as God Himself, whether “ye must be born again” or "all things must be fulfilled.” Every pur¬ pose of tlio Lord shall be performed, and /ill His thoughts shall come to pass (Jer. II. 21); Isa. xfv., 24). it was the Lord's purpose that Fail! should ho His witness at Rome, and therefore it was as good as done, although in this storm every¬ thing seemed against it. How blessed are the "fear nots”m God from the first one Jn Gen. xv., 1, to the last in Revelation! iiis perfect Jove casts out all fear, and the soul that rests in Him can truly say, “What time i am afraid I will trust in Thee. “Wherefore, I will trust and not,he he of afraid.” good cheer, 25. sirs, for J believe God, that if; shall ho even as it was told me.” Verso 44 savs, “And so It came to pass.” Whatever God says is as sure as if it. had already cornu to pass, so v/o should say continually, "I believe God." The iir-i, “believe” in the Bible is in Gen. xv., (5, where it Is said of Abraham, “He believed in the Lord, and Ho counted it to Him for righteousness.” It might bo lit¬ erally translated "Abraham arnened God,” dr said nrxrcft to God. Ho did Jeremiah hRig nUerwurd. Hee Jer. xf., 5, in the mar- gin. 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