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About The Ashburn advance. (Ashburn, Ga.) 18??-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1898)
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. YVV *| 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.
