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THE ASHBORN ADVANCE.
II. D. SMITH. EDITOR.
President Sends
in Message
Asks Congress to Pass a
Bill Declaring That
War Noav Exists*
HOUSE ACTS PROMPTLY!
The following bill reported by the
foreign affairs committee in the lower
house of congress Monday, was passed
immediately and without division:
“A bill declaring that war exists be¬
tween the United States of America
and the Kingdom Spain.
“Be it enacted, etc.,
“First—That war be and the same
is hereby declared to exist and that
war has existed since the 21st day of
April A. I)., 1898, including said day,
between the United States of America
and the kingdom of Spain.
“Second—That the president of the
United States he, and he hereby is
directed and empowered to use the
entire land and naval forces of the
United Stales and to call Into the
actual service of the United States the
militia of the several states, to such
extent as may he necessary to carry
this act into effect.”
A Washington special says: The
president Monday sent congress the
following message recommending a
declaration cf war against Spain:
The senate and house of represen¬
tatives of the United States of Amer¬
ica—I transmit to the congress for its
consideration and approval copies of
correspondence recently had with the
representatives of Spain in the United
States with the United State* Minister
at Madrid aud through the latter with
the government of Spain, showing the
action taken under joint resolution ap¬
proved April 20th, 1898, “for the rec¬
ognition of the independence of the
people of Cuba, demanding that the
government of Spain relinquish its au¬
thority and government in the island
of Cuba and to withdraw its laud and
naval forces from Cuba and Cuban
waters aud directing the president of
the United States to use the land and
naval forces of the United States to
carry these resolutions into effect."
Upon communicating to the Spanish
minister in Washington the demand
which it became the duty of the exec¬
utive to address to the government of
Spain iu obedience to said resolution,
the minister asked for his passports
and withdrew. The United States
minister at Madrid was in turn notified
by the Spanish minister for foreign
affairs that tiie withdrawal of the
Spanish representative from the United
States had terminated diplomatic rela¬
tions between the two countries and
that all official communications between
their respective representatives ceased
therewith.
I recommend to your especial atten¬
tion the note addressed to the United
States minister at Madrid by the Span¬
ish minister for foreign affairs on the
21st inst., whereby the foregoing no¬
tification was conveyed. It will be
perceived therefrom that the govern¬
ment of Spain, having recoguizance of
the joint resolution of the United
States congress, and in view of the
things which the president is thereby
required and authorized to do, re¬
sponds by treating the demands of
this government as measures of hos¬
tility, following at that instant imme¬
diate and complete severance of rela¬
tions by its nations, which, by the
usages of nations, accompanies an ex¬
istent state of -war between sovereign
powers.
The position of Spain being thus
made known and the demands of the
United States being denied with a
complete rupture of intercourse by the
act of Spaiu, I am constrained in exer¬
cise of the power and authority con¬
ferred upon me by the joint resolution
aforesaid to proclaim under date of
April 22, 1898, a blockade of certain
ports of the north coast of Cuba lying
between Cardenas and Bahia Honda
nnd of the port of Cienfnegos on the
south coast of Cuba; and, further, in
exercise of my constitutional powers
and using the authority conferred
ASHBURN. WORTH CO.. GA.. FRI DAY, APRIL 29. 189S.
upon me by the act of congress ap¬
proved April ‘22. 1808, to issue my
proclamation dated April 28, 1S98,
calling for volunteers in order to carry
into effect the said reselution of April
20, 1898.
Copies of these proclamations are
hereunto appended:
In view of the measures so taken
and and with view to the adoption of
such other measure as may be neces¬
sary to enable ine to earty out the ex-
t ressed will of the congress of the
United States in the premises, I will
recommend to your honorable consid¬
eration the adoption of a joint resolu-
tion declaring that a state of war ex¬
ist* between the United States of
America and the Kingdom of Spain,
a il I urge speedy action thereon to
the end that the definition of the na¬
tional status of the United States as a
belligerent power may be known, and
the assertion of all its rights and the
maintenance of all its duties in the
conduct of a public wirr may he as¬
sured.
(Signed) William McKinley.
Executive Mansion, Washington, April
25, 1898.
POINTS OF RENDEZVOUS
Designated l-'nr Mufttei-liig Troops of Tal-
unteer Army.
The rendezvous for the troops to be
mustered in the service of the volun¬
teer army in tho southern states has
been designated by Secretary Alger as
follows:
Alabama—Mobile.
Arkansas—Little Rock.
Florida—Tamps.
Georgia—Atlanta
Kentucky—Louisville.
Louisiana—New Orleans.
Maryland—Baltimore.
Mississippi—Jackson.
North Carolina—Raleigh.
South Carolina—Charleston.
Tennessee—Nashville.
Texas—Houston.
Virginia—Richmond.
West Virginia—Martiusburg.
For the purpose of recruiting for the
volunteer as well as for the regular
army the department will designate in
each state several cities where recruit¬
ing under the direction of army offi¬
cers will be carried ou.
The Hull bill provides for the in¬
crease of the regular army on a war
footing to about 60,000 men. In ad¬
dition to those recruiting stations it is
expeeted the war department will des¬
ignate boards of army officers will go
from place to place in the state en¬
gaged in recruiting duty.
TO RETURN" TO CUBA.
Virginian Will Accept Any Commission
President Tender* Him.
A Richmond dispatch states that it
is understood that General Lee will
mquestionably be made a major gen¬
eral in the United States volunteer
army and will lead a division or corps
in Cuba.
When asked if the Virginia troops
would be attached to his command, he
stated unhesitatingly they wonld be.
It has leaked out that he wired to
Secretary Alger Friday suggesting
that the troops destined for Cuba be
uniformed in the lightest possible
clothing.
SEAMEN REVOLTED.
EnBlneeril ,>r Spanish Moat* Disabled the
Machinery,
The British steamer Astoun arrived
at Galveston, Texas, Friday morning
from Las Palmas, Grand Canary, one
one of the Canary island group. The
commander of the vessel is Captain P.
H. Barnet.
The machinery of the several torpedo
boats and torpedo boat destroyers was
purposely disabled by the engineers of
the various craft.
Captain Barnet says he received this
information from an absolutely reliable
source. A plot was entered into by
the several engineers to do the work,
and successfully it was done.
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
It, Signed By President McKinley Along
With the Army Hill.
A Washington special says: The
volunteer army bill was signed by the
president Friday afternoon and a call
for 100,000 volunteers was signed at
the same time.
In many respects the call follows
the outlines of the first made by Pres¬
ident Lincoln on April 15, when he
asked for 75,000 men. number of
Necessarily there the are different a
changes because of pur-
poses for which volunteers are asked.
RAISING WAR FUNDS.
Chairman Dingley Introduces Jlavenuc
Measure In the House.
Chairman Dingley, of the ways and
means committee, Saturday afternoon
introduced in the house the war rev-
enue measure which the republican
members of the ways and means com¬
mittee have prepared. will
It is probable that this program
meet w ith opposition from the demo¬
crats, who have not been consulted in
its preparation. have already decided
The democrats
to offer an income tax amendment.
Chairman Dingley estimates that the
measure as framed will raise between
390,000,000 and 3100.000.000.
ill
Our Battleships
Guard Cuba.
Sampson’s Vessels are Lined Up
Off Shores of Cuba and Can
He Plainly Seen From
the Island.
The following proclamation an¬
nouncing a blockade of Cuban porta
was issued at Washington Friday:
BY TIIE PRESIDENT OP THE UNITED
states:
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, by a joint resolution pass¬
ed by tiie congress aud approved April
20, 1898, aud communicated to the
government of Spain, it was demanded
that Baid government at once relin¬
quish its authority and government in
the island of Cuba, and withdraw its
land aud naval forces from Cuban
waters; and the president of the
United States is directed and empow¬
ered to use the entire land and naval
forces of the United States, aud to call
into actual service of the United States
the militia of the several states to such
extent ns might be necessary to carry
said resolution into effect; und
Whereas, in carrying into effect said
resolution, the president of the United
States deems it necessary to set on
foot and maintain a blockade of the
north coast of Cuba, including all
ports on said coas* between Cardenas
and Bahia Honda, and the port of
Cienfugos ou the south coast of Culm.
Now, therefore, I, William McKinley,
president of the United States, in order
to enforce the said resolution, do hereby
declare and proclaim that the United
States of America have instituted, and
will maintain ft blockade of the north
coast of Cuba, including ports on said
coast between Cardenas and Bahia
Honda, and the port of Cienfnegos, on
the south coast of.Cuba, aforesaid, in
pursuance of the laws of the United
States and the law of nations applica¬
ble to such eases. An efficient force
will he posted so as to prevent the en¬
trance nnd exit of vessels from the
ports aforesaid. Any neutral vessels
approaching any of said ports, or at¬
tempting to leave the same, without
notice or knowledge of the establish¬
ment of such blockade, will he duly
warned by the commander of the
the blockading forces who will endorse
on her register the fact, and the date
of such warning, where such endorse¬
ment was made; and if the same vessel
shall again attempt to enter any block¬
aded port, she will be captured and
sent to the nearest convenient port for
such proceedings against her and her
cargo as prize, as may be deemed ad¬
visable.
Neutral vessels lying in any of said
ports at the time of the establishment
of such blockade will be allowed thirty
days to issue therefrom.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done in the city of Washington this
22d day of April, A. D., 1898, and of
the independence of the United States,
the one hundred and twenty-second.
William McKinley.
By the President.
John Sherman, Secretary of State.
Acting under this proclamation the
entire fleet of the North Atlantic
squadron is lined up off the Cuban
coost and the blockade is on in earnest.
The ships of the fleet can easily be
seen by people on the Cuban shore.
SPANISH SHIP CAPTURED.
Gunboat Nashville Fire* First Shot and
Take* a Prize.
The first Spanish prize to be captur¬
ed by one of our ships was the steamer
Buena Ventura from Pascagoula, Miss.,
for Rotterdam, with lumber.
The Nashville fired a blank shot,
which the Spaniard ignored. This was
followed by a shot from a six pounder,
The Buena Ventura then surrendered
with her crew of twenty men.
The Nashville towed , , her into . ,
prize
the harbor at Key West and a prize
crew placed on board.
m The of , the ,, capture , of » the . 1 .
news _
Spaniard set the people of Key West
frantic with enthusiasm.
The Beuna Ventura is a tramp
steamer , hailing ... from , Burma, Spain,
She belonged to the Sarrinaga Line.
On March 29 she arrived at Pasca-
gonla, x Mias., , c * e from tt Havana, and was
on the way to Pensacola, Fla., to load
for Holland whan captured.
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
THE WHEAT DIVINE’S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Martyrdom «f Stephen the Theme
For nn Able Sermon — tlllmpses of
Heaven Through the Eyes ot the
Great Preacher — The Eternal Sleep.
Text: "Behold I seo tho heavens
opened,” etc.—Acts vil„ 56-60.
Stephen had been preaching « rousing
sermon, and the people could not stand It.
They resolved to do ns men sometimes
would like to do In ttiis day, If they dared,
with some plain preacher of righteousness
—kill him. The only way to silence this
man war to knock the breath out of him.
So they rushed Stephen out ot the gates of
tho city, and with curse and whoop and
bellow they brought him to the cliff, as was
the custom when they wanted to take away
life by stoning. Having brought him to
the edge of the cliff, they pushed him off.
After ho had fallen they came and looked
down, aud seeing that he was not yet (load
they began to drop stones upon him, stone
after stone. Amid this horrible rain of
missiles Stephen clambers up on bis knees
and folds his hands, while the blood drips
from his temples to his cheeks, from his
cheeks to his garments, from his garments
to the ground, and then, looking up, he
mnke.4 two prayers—one for himself and
one for his murderers. “Lord Jesus, re¬
ceive my spirit;” that was for himself.
“Lord, lay not this sin to their charge;”
that was for his assailants. Then from pain
and loss of blood lie swooned away and fell
asleep.
I want to show vou to-day live pictures—
Stephen gazing into heaven, Stephen look¬
ing at Christ, Stephen stoned, Stephen In
his dying prayer and Stephen asleep.
First look at Stephen gazing Into heaven.
Before you take a leap you want to know
where you are going to land. Before you
climb a ladder you want to know to wlmt
that point the ladder reaches. And It was right
Stephen, within a few moments of heav¬
en, should be gazlnghnto it. We would all do
well to be foundin the sumo posture. Thero
is enough in heaven to keep us gazing. A
man of largo wealth may have statuary in
the hall and paintings In tho sitting room
and works of art In all parts of tho house,
but he has the chief pictures in the art gal¬
lery, and there hour after hour you walk
with catalogue and glass and ever Increas¬
ing admiration. Well heaven Is tho gallery
where God lias gathered tho chief treas¬
ures of his realm. The whole universe is
his palace. In this lower room where we
stop there are many adornments, tessella¬
ted floor of amethyst, and on the winding
cloud stairs are stretched out canvases on
which commingle azure aud purple and
saffron and gold. But heaven Is tho gallery
There In which the chief glories nre gathered.
aro tho brightest robes. There are
the richest crowns. There aro the highest
exhilarations. John says of it, "Thekings
ot the earth shall bring tbelr honor and
glory into it.” And I see the procession
^forming, aud in the line come nil empires,
nnd the stars spring up into an arch for the
hosts to march under. The hosts keep
stop to the sound of earthquake and the
pitch of nvalnnche from the mountains,
and the flag they bear is tiie flame of a con¬
suming world, nnd and all heaven turns out
with burps trumpets and myriad voiced
acclamation of angelic dominion to wel¬
come them in, and so the kings of tlio earth
bring their honor nnd glory into it. Do
you wonder that good people often stand,
like Stephen, looking into heaven? We
have mnny friends there.
There is not a man In this house to¬
day so isolated In life but there Is someone
in heaven with whom he once shook hands.
As a man gets older tho number of his
celestial acquaintances very rapidly mul¬
tiplies. We have not bad one glimpse of
them since the night we kissed them good-
by, and tiiey went awav, Ami but still we stand
gazing friends nt heaven. when some of our
go across the sen, we stand on tho
(lock or on tho steam tug and watch them,
and after awhile tho bulk of the vessel
disappears, and then there is only a patch
of sail on tiie sky, nnd soon that is gone,
and they are all out of sight, and yet we
stand looking in the same direction, so
when our friends go way from us Into the
future world wo keep looking down
through tiie narrows, and gazing and gaz¬
ing, as though wo expected that they
would come out nnd stand on some cloud
and give us one glimpse of their blissful
and transfigured faces.
Pass on now and see Stephen looking
upon Christ. My text says lie saw the Son
of Mhu at thoright hand of God. Just how
Christ looked in this world, just how Ho
looks in heaven, wo cannot say. A writer
In the time of Christ says, describing tho
Saviour’s personal appearance, that He
had blue eyes and light complexion, and a
very graceful structure, but I suppose it
was all guesswork. The painters of the
different ages have tried to Imagine the
features of Christ and put them upon can¬
vas, but wo will have to wait until iwltli
our own eyes we see Him and witli our own
ears we can hear Him. And yet there is a
way of seeing and hearing Him now. I
have to tell you that unless you see and
hear Christ on earth you will uovorsoo and
hear Him In heaven. Look! There He Is!
Behold the Lamb of God! Can you not see
Him? Then pray to God to takethe scales
off your eyes. Look tliat way—try to look
that way. His voice comes down to you
this day—comes down to the blindest, to
the deafest soul, saying, “Look unto Me,
all ye ends of tiie earth, und bo ye saved,
for I am God, and tiiere Is none else."
Proclamation of universal emancipation
for all slaves! Proclamation of universal
amnesty for all rebels! Belshazzar gath¬
ered the Babylonish nobles to bis table;
George I. entertained the lords of England
at a banquet; Napoleon Sultan III. welcomed the
Czar of Russia and the of Turkey to
his feast; the Emperor, of Germany was
glad to have our mlnfster, George Ban-
croft, sit down with him at his table, but
tell me, ye who know most of the world’s
history, what other king ever asked the
abandoned und the forlorn and the wretch¬
ed and outcast to come nnd sit beside him?
Ob, wonderful invitation! You head can of take
it to-day and stand at the the
darkest alley in any city nnd say: “Como!
Clothes for your rugs, salve for your sores,
a throne for your eternal reigning." A
Christ that talks like tliat and acts like
that and pardons like that—do you wonder
that Stephen stood looking at Him? I
hope to spend eternity doing tiie sr.mq
thing. I must see Him.
I pass on now and look at Htephon
stoned. The world iias always wanted to
ge t rid of good men. Their very life Is an
assault upon wickedness. Out with
Stephen through the gates of tho city,
Down with him over the precipices. Let
every man eome up anil drop a stone upon
his head. But these men did not so much
kill Stephen as they killed themselves.
Every stone rebounded upon them. While
these murderers were transfixed by the
scorn of all good men, Stephen lives In the
admiration of all Christendom. Stephen
stoned, Imt Stephen alive Ho all good
men must be pelted. All who will live
godly in Jesus Christ must suffer persecu-
tion. It is no eulogyof-a man to say that
everybody likes him. Show me anyone
who is doing all Ills duty tostato or ehuren,
and X will show you uiou who uttorly
abhor him.
If all men speak wt'll of you. It is beoauso
you are aitbar a rapid laggard or a dolt, If a
stoamer makes progress through the
waves, the water will boll and foam all
around it. Brave si Idiers of Jesus Christ
will hear the carbines click. When I see a
man with voice and money and iutlucuoo
all on the right side, and some caricature
him, and sotnesneer at him, and some de¬
nounce him, and men who pretend to be
actuated by right motives conspire to crip¬
ple him, to cast him out, to destroy him, I
say, Bass “Stephen stoued,"
on now and see Stephen in Ills dying
eraver. Ilis first thought was not ’how
the stones hurt Ids head nor what would
become of his body. Ills llrst thought was
about his spirit. "Lord Jesus, receive my
spirit.” The murderer standing on the
trap door, the black execution, cap being drawn over
his head before the may grimace
about the future, but you and I have no
shame In confessing some anxiety about
where we are going to come out. You nro
not all body. There is within you a soul.
I see it gleam (rotn your eyes, aud I see it
irradiating your countenance. Sometimes
I am abashed before an audience, not be¬
cause I come under their physical eyesight,
but beoause I realize the truth that 1 stand
before so many Immortal spirits. The
probability Is tliat your body will at last
tltul a sepulcher in some of the cemeteries
that surround your town or city. There Is
no doubt that your obsequies will be
decent aud respectful, and vou will bo able
to pillow your head under the maple or the
Norway spruce or the cypress or the bloom¬
ing Hr. But this spirit about which
Stephen prayed what direction will that
take? What guide will escort It? What
gate will open to receive It? What cloud
will be cleft for Us pathway? After it has
got beyond the light of our sun will there
bo torches lighted for it the rest of the
wav? Will the soul have to travel through
long deserts before It reaches the good
land? If we should lose our pathway, will
there be a castle at whose gate we may
ask the way to the city? Oh, this myste¬ wings,
rious spirit within us! It has two
Imt It is in n cage now. It Is locked fust to
keep tt. but let the door of this cage open
the least and that soul is off. Eagle’s wing
ooubl not catch it. The lightnings are
not swift enough to take up with it. When
the soul leaves the body, It takes llfty
worlds nt a bound. And have I no anxiety
about It? Have you no auxiety about it?
I do not earn what you do with my body
when my soul is gone, or whether you
believe in cremation or Inhumation. I
shall sleep just as well in a wrapping of
sackclotli ns in satin lined witli eagle’s
down. But my soul -before tills day passes
I will find out where it will land. Thank
God for the intimation of my text, that
when we die Jesus takes us. That answers
ail questions for me. What though there
were massive liars between hero and tho
city of light, .lesus could remove them.
Wlmt though there were great Huliaras of
darkness, Jesus could illume thins, Wimt
though I get weary on the way, Christ
could lift me on His omnipotent shoulder.
What though there wore chasms to Then cross,
His hand could transport me. let
Stephen's prayer be my dying litany,
"Lord Jesus, rocoivo uiv spirit.”
We may bo too feeble to employ either
of tlie.se familiar forms, Imt tills prayer of
Htephon is so short, Is so concise, Is so Him-
ost, is so comprehensive, wo surely will bo
able to sav that -“Lord Jesus, receive my
spirit.” Oli, if that prayer Is answered,
how sweet it will be to die! This world Is
clever enough to us. Perhaps it has
treated us a great deal hotter than wo de¬
serve to bo treated, but if on the dying that pil¬
low there should breuk tho light of
better world we shall have no more regret
about leaving a small, dark, damp house
for one large, beautiful and capacious.
That dying minister In Philadelphia, some
years ago, beautifully depleted It when 111
the last moment he threw up Ids hands
and cried out, ”1 move Into tho light.”
Pass on now, and I will show you one
more picture, ainl that simplicity Is Htoplien peculiar asleep.
With a pathos and to
tho Scriptures the text says of Htephon,
“He fell asleep.” "Oh,” you say, "what a
place that was to sleep! A hard rook under
him, stones falling down upon him, tho
blood streaming, tho mob bowling. Wlmt
a place It was to sleepl” And yet my text
takes that symbol of slumber to describe
bis departure, so sweet was It, ho con¬
tented was It, so peaceful was It. Stephen
bad lived a very laborious life. His chief
work bad been to care for the poor. How
many loaves of bread ho distributed , how
many bare feet he had sandaled, how many
cots of sickness and distress he blessed
with ministries of kindness and love, I do
not know, but from tlie way he lived, and
the way ho preached, and the way he died
I know he was a laborious Christian. But
that is all over now. He has pressed the
cup to tho last fainting ilp. He has taken
the Inst Insult from tils enemies. The
last stone to whoso crushing weight he is
susceptible tun been hurled. Stephen Is
dead. Tliodisclples come. They take him
up. They wash away the blood from the
wounds. They straighten out the bruised
limbs. They brush back the tangled hair
from the brow, and then they pass around
to look upon the calm countenanco of him
who bad lived for the poor aud died for
the truth.
Stephen asleep! I saw such a one. He
against fought all abuse. his days They against traduced poverty Ids name. and
They rattled at the doorknob while lie was
dying with duus for debts ho could not pay,
vet the peace of God brooded over bis pil¬
low, and while the world faded heaven
dawned, and the deepening twilight of
earth’s night was only theopenlng twilight
of heaven’s morn. Not a sigh, not a tear;
not a struggle. Hush! Stephen asleep!
I have not the faculty to tell the weather.
I can never tell by the setting sun whether
there will he a drought or not. I cannot
tell by the blowing of the wind whether
it will bo fair weather or foul on the mor-
row. But I can prophesy, and I will
prophesy, what weather It will he when you,
the Christian, eome to die. You may have
It very rough now. It may be this week one
annoyance, the next another annoyance.
It may he this year one bereavement, tiie
next another bereavement. Before this
year has passed you may have to beg for
bread or ask for a Seattle of coal or a pair
of shoes, but at the last Christ will come
in and darkness >vill go out, and though
thero may be no baud to close your eyes,
aud no breast on wbloh to rest your dying
bead, and no candle to lift the night, tlio
odors of God’s hanging garden will regale
your soul, und at year bedside will halt
the chariots of the King. No more rents
to pay, no more agony hooause flour lias
gone up, no more struggle with “the
world, the flesh and the devil,” hut peace
—long, deep, everlasting peace. Htepheu
asleep! enough for morning.
You have soon one
No one can successfully examine more
than five pictures In a day. Therefore
we stop, having seen this cluster of divine
Raphaels—Stephen gazing into heaven,
Stephen looking at Christ, Htephen stoned,
Stephen iu hla dying prayer, Stephen
asleep!
THE I’OET EtlOBAU.
“Let who will do the country’s
fighting 1 I ask only to stay at home
and write the couJttry’# war song % !’
VOL. VI. NO. 38.
THE SABBATH SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR MAY I.
Lesson Text: “The Triumphal Entry,”
Matthew xxl., (t-10—<0.1.ten Text; Mat¬
thew xxb, t>—Commentary on the Les¬
son of the l>ny hy ltev. 1). M. Stearns.
6. "And the dlsotples them.” wont ami did as
Jesus commanded Tho tlmo had
come to ftilllll the prophecy of Zeoharlah,
quoted In the previous verso fronvZech. lx.,
and,like alt othor fulfillments of prophecy,
it shall bn literally fnllllled, the King or
Israel, the meek and lowly One, shall) rble
upon an ass colt into Jerusalem. Thero Is
a set time known to God for the fulfillment
of every prediction and a sufficient reason
for all seeming delays. It was when the
fullness of the time was eome that God
sent forth Ilia Hon, made of a woman, made
under the law, to redeem them that wuro
under the law (Gal. Iv., 4, 5). Everything
concerning 111m and Ills great redemption
shall take place at the appointed time.
7. "Anil brought tha ass and theoolt and
put on them their clothes, aud they set
Him thereon.” He had told them to go Into
the village, and as soon as ttiey entered it
they would fl ml a colt tied, which they were
to loose and bring their to Him. It Is written
tlmt they wont way and found even
as Ho had said unto them (Markxi., 2-4;
Luke xl.w, 80-32). The disciples did not
have to hire a colt and have it at the ap¬
pointed place at tho appointed time, lie
Himself arranged It all. When a king was
to have bp provided wonder for what Israel, kind Samuel of did would not
to a man
do and thou scour.tbe country to Hud him,
but the Lvl’.l said," "I will send thee a limn,
aud thou shall anoint him” (I Sam. lx., 10).
H. “And a very great multitude spread
their garments In tho way. Others cut
down branches from the trees and strewed
thorn In the way.” Not only their gar¬
ments on the colt, but also on the ground
to honor Him. The whole evont Is most
suggestive In a very practical and way lor
those who have eyes to soo oars to
hear. In Job xt., 12, man Is compared to
a wild ass colt. This oolt had never been
subdued, was found tied where two ways
met, was loosed and brought to Jesus, an
Instrument to carry Him, Itself hidden,
but Jesus exalted.
!). "And the multitudes that wont be¬
fore and that followed cried, saying: ;Ho-
snnna to the Son of David! Blessed is Ho
that eometli In the name of the Lord. Ho¬
sanna In the highest!” Their ery takes us
to l’s. exvtll., 25, 20, and verse 14 of that
psalm takes us to Isa. xll„ 2, and back to
Ex. xv., 2, and all carry us on to the ful¬
fillment of our Lord’s words in Math,
xxlll., 89, when they should Indeed wel
eome and rocoivo Him in the words of Isa.
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10. “And when lie was eome Into Je-
rwsnlom all the city was moved, saying,
Who is this?” Dr. Weston says tliut It
should he, "All tho city was shaken,” and
he calls attention to the same word in
Math, xxvll., 61; xxvlli., 4; Hob. xii., 26.
This last takes us buck to Hag. 11., 6, 7,
21, and onward to the time when Ho will
come in power and glory, not on un white ass
colt, but as a man of war upon the
horse, followed by all the armies of heaven
(llev. xlx., "And 11-16). multitude said, Tills is
11. (he
Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth of Galileo.”
But there was doubtless more In the testi¬
mony of one Nathaniel than In a multitude
of these voices when lie said: "Rabbi, thou
art the Hon of God. Thou art the King of
Israel” (John i., 49). What does your own
heart say? What is lie to you personally,
for lie expects from every one au answer to
tho question, What think ye of Christ? He
does not look for words merely, but for a
heart utterance.
12. "And Jesus wont into the temple and of
God and east out all them that sold
bought In tiie temple und overthrew the
tables of the money changers and tiie seats
of thorn that sold doves. Compare John
11., 13 16. It Is very significant and con¬
tains n most heart searching lesson that
He should do tiie same tiling both at tho
beginning nnd end of ills ministry. It re¬
minds us that in ns, who are temples of the
Holy Ghost, He desires truth in the inward
parts; that lie wants none of tiie entangle¬
ments of this world In fils people’s hearts,
hut that our lives should make It manifest
that, though iu the world, we are not of the
world, hut citizens of heaven and here for
ills service and pleasure only. It Is written,
13. “And said unto them,
My house shall he called the house of
prayer, hut ye have made It a den of
thieves.” Hpenklng of Christ in Hob. lil.,
6, the Hpirit says, "Whose house are we?”
and In Kpb. il." 21, 22, “An holy temple In
tho Lord, an habitation of God through
tho Hpirit,” aro the names given to the
church, which is His body. The church
collectively and every believer individually
is a house in which tho Hpirit desires to
make constant prayer on the lines of Math,
lx.. 83; Isa. Ixii., li, 7, nnd Uev. xxli., 20,
hut If, Instead of being wholly corresponding given up to
Him for such prayer and
service, we are given over to selfishness
and worldliuess and our own thoughts and
ways, are we not more guilty than Israel,
Inasmuch us our privileges are greater,
being “And His body? blind and the lamo to
14. tho came
Him in the temple, and Ho healed them.”
Not to make money nnd gather substance to
Is the great thing in life, hut to have
give to those who need (Kph. iv., 23). To
ho a means of bringing the grace of God
nnd the riches of His grace to those who
know It not anil know him not this Is life
Indeed. To ho a channel of blessing from 18),
tiie great and only fountain (Jur. II.,
to tiie poor and tiie perishing—this is
Chrlstllke.
15. "And when the chief priests and
scribes suw the wonderful things that He
did and the children crying In the temple David,
and saying, Hosanna to the Hon of
they were the fig sore tree displeased.” with leaves only Truly (verso they
were dealt
19), the tree that had been specially xiii., 6 9), the
with for husbandmen three years of (Luke Math, xxi., 38. Oh,
wicked
how patiently He had borne with them!
How lie would have blessed them if they
had only been willing! But they would not.
They would have none of Him.
16. “And said unto Him, nearest thou
what these say? And Jesus salth unto
them, Yea. Have ye never read, Out of tho
mou th of babes and sucklings thou hast
perfected praise?” I have wondered if they
were never ashamed afj He repeatedly which re¬
ferred them to their own Scriptures, they
they professed to honor so, or were
past all slmme und dead to alt hut their
own thoughts and ways? They would not
let Him make theta children of God, and
yet they vainly thought that they were
such. Ho He left them and went out of tho
city to Bethany audjlodged there (verse
17).—Lesson Helper.
Millions for Adulterations.
At the recent session of the pure
food congress facts were presented to
how that the people of this country
annually pay $90,000,000 for sawdust,
zand, soap, grease and similar adul¬
terations In their daily food.