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HIS WEAPONS.
Here htnn hie nt lot by th
At thrice a b indred f men’s feet
He hurled this challenge tr the ft i r,
And ii< tinned it with defe 11
To mi* hi }>< droi Him even no pnoi
And l he ictory weet!
He like a silver mor . his shield,
That fronted tin hundred foes,
Hut once, upon the tourney-field,
He cast it off to wear wound, my rose. healed;
Be fought and fell; his it
But mine, it grows and grows!
Froze to the scabbard, hangs his sword
That smote the doughty foe word, to dust,
Bis Foffotten taken, like his promised
in the years of rust; .
But. once jjy spoke; because I heard,
1 trust him still—T trust!
—Aloysius Coll, in Lippincott’s.
<&00<£0 THE
«Struggle on Swartz Kap« ♦
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* Cy MARK F, WILCOX.
With his curly flaxen hair and red
cheeks, Piet Joubert was not what
you would call pugnacious - looking.
He was big and fat, too, or at least
he appeared so; but those who had
had occasion to feel the grip of his
fingers said that the plump fiesli was
made of corded steel; and no one in
our little South African school cared
to pick a quarrel with him.
He was a good-natured young
giant, though, and rarely did we ever
see him in a passion; but then, as the
saying goes, he saw blood. One of
those times was when he fought the
leopard.
There were four of us, all stout,
country-bred youths of English ,or
Dutch parentage, Piet Joubert, David
Saalfleld, John Gebers and myself,
out for a Saturday holiday, bird
shooting in the bush on Swartz Kop, a
broad, fiat-topped hill five miles from
town. No one of us carried a gun;
for, in the first place, we could not
afford it, and in the second, there was
vastly more sport for us and more
^jchfffic e for die birds in using sling¬
shots.’ .......... .....
None of your factory-made elastics
buttoned on a cast-iron prong were
these; but thick, tough, genuine rub¬
ber in round red or gray cords the
size of a lead-pencil, which we bought
by the foot for ninepence, cut into
halves, equipped with leather thongs
and a pouch big enough to hold
acorns and fastened to a stout
wooden prong on which was carved
In little notches the record of the
game killed.
We were after rock-pigeon that
afternoon, among the squat mimosa
shrubs on the undulating hilltop,
which was nothing more than a huge
block of granite with precipices on
nil sides except the one toward the
school, where a steep, although con¬
tinuous, slope led to the summit. In
the excitement of the chase we wan¬
dered over the two square miles of
table-land, until on the side farthest
from town, we entered the thickest
part, of the bush and became sep¬
arated.
Still, we kept fairly close together,
for'when Piet shouted we all heard
him; but we all mistook it for the
cry he usually made after a success¬
ful shot, and we paid no further at¬
torn ion to him. It was only when
John Gebers happened to stumble on
him, about ten minutes later, and
raised a continued outcry that we
discovered anything out of the or¬
dinary.
David and l found John, with a
bloody nose, sparring with a wild,
disheveled-looking man, whom, all
tatters and gore, we hardly recog¬
nized as Piet Joubert.
“Vy not you comes veu I calls! - ’ he
roared, and made furiously at us.
Finally, by united opposition, we
managed to pound him into tame¬
ness and rationality, so that he was
able; in his quaint Dutch dialect, to
tell us of his experience.
! cannot begin to do justice to that
phraseology and the characteristic
gestures that, accompanied it; but
perhaps it will prove almost as in¬
teresting if I tell the story in plain,
straightforward English.
He had been crawling across a
bare, stony spot near the brow of the
hill in order to get within firing dis¬
tance of three brown birds in a shrub,
when, suddenly and without the
slightest warning, one of those small
South African leopards, now so rare
among the colonies, and yet all
more dangerous because of their in¬
creased wariness and stealth,
peared, climbing over the edge of
cliff.
The surprise was mutual, for
fresh breeze blowing in over the
had prevented 'he animal from
ing the human scent. It drew
at first, showing its teeth and
as any cat will do when
But it was evidently misled by
appearance of a human being
ing on ail fours, or maddened by
ger; for instead of retreating
it came, it made ready, all at
for an attack.
Piet understood the sudden,
acing flattening of the lithe body
the hare rock, and countered with
swift snap of his already loaded
He never knew where lie'hit
jbeast, but the effect was astounding.
With a hideous snarl, like the tear¬
ing of canvas, it came swift as a bul¬
let at him. His sling was lost, his
bent arras were thrown against his
sides, and there was the chunky,
warm body of the animal right
against his chest before he could
wink!
He had risen to his knees to make
the shot, and the impetus of the at¬
tack threw him back upon his hams;
but with a tremendous qffort he was
able to keep himself from going over
completely on his back, The beast
was ripping the shirt off him with
horrid digs of its claws, while its
tense, snapping jaws shot hot breath
into bis face and sought his jugular
vein. Just In time he caught its
shoulders with both hands, and by
sheet force of will and muscle kept
the head away from him.
Then it was that he remembered
us and called for help; for he found
that he had strength enough to keep
the animal, for a few seconds, at
least, from liis throat, and thought
that he could hold out until we came.
But the muscular strain must have
constricted his voice, for we heard
only a short exclamation, and that
was all. When we did arrive, the
fight was over.
Meanwhile an unexpected dig of
Ihe thing's claws caught him over the
eyebrow, and the gush of blood that
followed half-blinded and thoroughly
roused him; so that now he began to
struggle not only for life, but for re
venge. Still wrestling with the beast,
he managed to get up on his feet-, and
with a Herculean effdrt he tore it
from him and hurled it to the ground.
Before he could jump on it, however,
and crush it under his heavy veld
schoen, the leopard had sprung away.
It came back immediately, with a
high vault into the air toward Piet's
face. He met it with two powerful
swings of his fists on its bullet head
that would have stunpe^an ox; for
you must remember that he was a
large boy, even for his eighteen ye^rs,
and had the muscles of a heavy
weight prize-fighter, But the blows
caused the leopard simply to drop on
its feet, a yard from him, when with
incredible swiftness of rebound it
leaped again at him, this time catch¬
ing him with its jaws high up on the
right shoulder.
Fortunately the thick double seams
of his khaki jacket turned the ani¬
mal’s teeth, so that the bite was
hardly more than skin-deep; other¬
wise it might have proved the end
of the doughty Boer. As it was, Piet,
with something hot and sticky blind¬
ing his eyes and wetting his shirt,
and making him feel that the leopard
had got the better of him at last, was
maddened to desperation, and put all
of his great strength into one last
furious attempt to tear the vise-like
jaws loose. He gripped the neck, and
squeezing hard, jerked savagely away
from him.
The beast held .on with deadly per¬
tinacity, until the checking of its
wind caused it to gasp a little, when,
with a sickening tear of clothes and
flesh, it came away so suddenly that
it was propelled far out of Piet’s
grasp, and the recoil sent the boy fiat
on his back.
He was up again in an instant, rag¬
ing by now with the fury of the con¬
flict. Wiping his eyes on his sleeve,
he looked for his antagonist, and was
all the more exasperated when he
found that it had totally disappeared.
He was still blindly and frenziedly
hunting it, when John Gebers and the
rest of us appeared; and overwrought
as he was from the awful struggle,
he turned his mad fury upon us.
When he had finished his narrative,
David Saalfleld peered apprehensive¬
ly over the hill, and asked what had
become of the animal.
"I not know dot,” replied Piet, in
his dialect. "Maype he gone pack to
der cave.”
“I don’t believe that,” broke in
John Gebers, who was the oldest and
most experienced of our crowd. ”not
after fighting the way it did. It
doesn’t usually attack a man, but
when it does Which way were
you facing, Piet, when you pulled the
thing from you?”
“I not know,” said the Boer, nurs¬
ing his eyebrow,
“Well,” declared John, I believe
you must have been facing the preci¬
pice near the edge, and you threw it
clean over into the valley.”
“Why, dot’s so! I not dinks of
dot!” gasped Piet.
We all threw ourselves fiat and
craned over the edge of the cliff.
Only a few feet below was a fissure
in the rock that made a narrow ledge
on the sheer wall, and seemed to lead
into a natural cave. A few days later,
armed with a borrowed rifle, we ex¬
plored that crevice; but how we came
and saw and conquered the mate of
Piet’s leopard is another story. The
proof of the Boer’s tale, however, was
before our astonished eyes, as we
stared into the rocky valley far be¬
low. There, caught upon a jagged
boulder, was a bunch of dark-spotted
brown fur, which, even at that dis¬
tance, we recognized as the body of a
leopard.—From the Youth's Com¬
panion.
Of the seven best graduates abroad
recently examined in Pekin, China,
five had been educated in the United
States.
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Sunbatj-Scftoof j
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM¬
MENTS FOR JUNE 28.
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Subject: Temperance, Ephesians 5!
6-20 Golden Text, Eph. 5:18
—Commit Verses 15, 16—Com¬
mentary.
TIME.—A. D. 62. PLACE.—Rome.
EXPOSITION.—1. No Fellowship
With the Unfruitful Works of Dark¬
ness, 6-14. The believer in Christ is
a child of light (v. 8), there can be
no fellowship between light and dark¬
ness, the believer must therefore re¬
fuse all fellowship with the works of
darkness (cf, 2 Cor. 6:17). This set¬
tles our duty about the theatre, dance,
etc. etc. These works of darkness
bring forth no fruit for God (Rom.
6:21). So far from having fellow¬
ship with them we should “even re¬
prove them,’’ i. e., expose and rebuk©
j j their of its badness. work “in “Darkness” secret,” light does does much it3
I work in the open. The things done
! | by those who are “of the darkness”
j in secret it is disgraceful even to men
I i tion.v Many sins are better unde
scribed. Don’t let out the darkness,
j ' everything but Jet in the manifest, light . The and light that makes wh$h
is thus made manifest by turning the
light on to it becomes light itself (v.
13, R. V.) The believer who has
any fellowship with darkness is
asleep. The sinner is dead (cf. Eph.
2:1). God calls the sleeping believ¬
er, the one who is having fellowship
with ness, the to awake unfruitful .from works his sleep of c’pj-k- afid *
arise out from among the dead, J. e
from the sinners with whom; he’ is 1
fellowahipping, as a live man ai'ifiilSA*
corpses (cf. Ro. 13:11).
II. Understanding What the Will of
the Lord is, 15-17. It will not do to
carelessly take it for granted that our
walk is all right unless wes have
looked very minutely into it. There
are two kinds of walk, the walk of
the unwise and the walk of the wise.
In order to walk wisely we must “buy
up the opportunity” (v. 16 R. V.,
Marg.) As the far sighted merchant
buys up all that which he sees to be
of large and constantly increasing
value, so we must lay hold of every
swiftly passing opportunity of doing
good and of growth in the knowledge
of and likeness to God. The fact that
"the days are evil” is not a reason for
discouragement, but for more ear¬
nest improvement of every opportu¬
nity that offers. This is a reason for
not being “foolish” (v. 17, R. V., a
very strong word, literally “without
reason,” senseless). The only way to
avoid being foolish is by “under¬
standing what the will of the Lord
is.” The Lord here is Jesus (vs. 20
and 8),
III. Filled With the Spirit, 18-20.
Paul here takes up one especial form
of folly, a fruit of darkness that has
cursed every age since the days of
Noah, drunkenness (Gan. 9:20-25).
Perhaps Paul warns against this spe¬
cial form of folly because it is the
root of almost every other kind of
folly. But by God’s wondrous grace
one who has been a drunkard may
be “washed,” “sanctified,” “justified ,,
and may then inherit the kingdom of
God (1 Cor. 6:11). In drunkenness
there is “excess” or “riot” (R. V., in¬
corrigibleness, abandoned profligacy).
Any one who has had any experience
of life knows how true this is. The
drunkard becomes lost to every noble
I ambition and holy desire. Note that
it is drunkenness, not merely with
whisky and rum, but drunkenness
with wine that Paul warns against
and proposes as the cure for drunk¬
enness the only sure cure, being
“filled with the Spirit.” To be “filled
with the Spirit” means to have the
Holy Spirit take possession of the
whole being (Luke 1:41, 42, 67;
Acts 2:4; 4:8; 31:13, 9, 10). It is
nearly synonymous with being “bap¬
tized with the Holy Ghost,” except¬
ing that the expression being “bap¬
tized” with the Spirit is never used
of a second experience, while being
“filled” is (cf. Acts 1:5 with 2:1-4
and 10:44-46 with 11, 15, 16). When
one is “drunk with wine,” wine takes
possession of every faculty, and when
one is "filled with the Spirit” the
Spirit takes possession of ^very fac¬
ulty. Intoxication is the devil’s coun¬
terfeit of being filled with the Spirit.
The effects of being filled with the
Spirit is that one is lifted on to a su¬
pernatural plane of life and activity.
The best way to keep a man from
having recourse to the devil’s stimu¬
lation is to have him filled with God’s.
He that knows the wine of heaven
(Is. 55:1) will not want the wine of
hell. The literal force of the words
translated “be filled with the Spirit”
is “be getting filled with (or in) the
Spirit,” i. e., be getting constantly
filled. One filling is not enough,
there must be a constant inpouring.
As to how to be “filled with the
Spirit” study Acts 2:38; 5:32; Luke
11:14; Acts 4:31; 8:15-17. When
one is filled with the Spirit he will be
full of joy and song (v. 19), there
will be melody not only upon his lips,
hut in his heart as well (cf. Is. 65:
14). But the songs will not be the
songs of this world, but “psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs.” The
Spirit-filled man is taken up with
God and Christ (Acts 2:4, 11; 4:31,
33) and his songs will be about
Christ. The Spirit-filled man will
also be filled with thanksgiving (v.
20). He will be returning thanks all
the time (ef. Ps. 34:1) and "for all
things. His Spirit-illumined soul
will see something to be thankful to
God for in everything (l Cor. 1:4; 1
Thess. 1:2, 3; 2; 13; 2 Thess. 1:3;
2:13; Acts 5:41; 16:25; Job 1:21).
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