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COUNT LUCKNER
THE SEA DEVIL
Copyright by By LOWELL THOMAS
Doubleday, Dorau & Co.
Up the Danish coast to the Skagerrak
the disguised Seeadler sailed; then west¬
ward across the British mine fields and up
along the coasts of England and Scot¬
land. A terrific hurricane sprang up, and
under almost full sail Count Luckner and
bis companions started to run the British
blockade. They passed through its several
lines without seeing a ship, for all the
blockading vessels had sought shelter in
the lee of the islands.
CHAPTER III—Continued
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1 thought now that, under cover of
darkness and with the aid ot the
storm, we might shorten our voyage
to the Atlantic by cutting through
the channel between the Orkney Is¬
lands and the Shetlonds. I was about
to order the neim changed, when the
hurricane shifted abruptly from south¬
west to southeast. The change came
so suddenly that the twisting winds
nearly ripped our masts out by the
roots. Somehow, that seemed to be
a warning to us, a warning not to go
through that channel.
A sailor believes In signs. And
something told me to take a more
northerly course, nearer the Arctic
Circle and the Faroes. Later, we
learned that the German submarine
Bremen bad tried to pass through that
■channel and was Dever seen again.
The channel had recently been mined.
But for that sudden shift of the storm,
we too would have shared the fate of
the Bremen. With sails still full
spread, we continued north, nearer
and nearer the Polar zone. It grew
bitterly cold. The waves dashed over
us, and the water froze where If fell.
■Our timber cargo was so coated with
lee that not a stick of lumber could
be seen. The deck was like a skating
rink, and the ship’s bow one huge
cake of Ice. Everything froze, includ¬
ing the sails. The ropes became coat¬
ed and would no longer run through
the blocks. We tried to thaw them
with oxygen flame, but they froze
again the moment the flame was re¬
moved. Unable to change the sails,
we were helpless.
To turn on the motor would only
make matters worse, because that
would carry us toward the Pole ail
the faster. We knew that unless the
hand of God intervened within a few
-days we would be hopelessly caught
in the Polar pack and probably never
heard of again. So long ns the wind
blew from the south, we were sure to
continue on north. We were in the
region of eternal night now, except
for a few minutes each day. The sun
rose at eleven and set at half-past
eleven. If we continued this crazy,
frozen voyage to the North pole wo
would be smashed in the ice, by Joe.
Christmas eve came, and we prayed
God to send us the one Christmas pres¬
ent, the only one that could save us—
a north wind to blow us south. My
men in the hold, ray fighting crew,
huddled together to keep from freez¬
ing. The.', were prisoners, for the
waves and spray had swept over ev¬
erything until our secret hatches were
frozen as solid as concrete. My false
Norsemen on deck slid about on the
icy planks, and every man suffered
from frostbite. No one tried to turn
in to sleep. The tension on our
nerves was too great. Only one thing
was warm and steaming—the kettle of
grog. Yon landsmen have no idea of
what grog means to a sailor under
such conditions. No wonder seamen
call a glass of schnapps “an ice¬
breaker!”
As suddenly as it had come, the
south wind (lied down and a breeze
sprang up in the north. Our frozen
ship creaked, laid over, and came
around with the new wind, and our
hearts sang for joy. Each day we
seemed to thaw out a bit more. Soon
we passed to the east of Iceland and
re-entered the Atlantic. Axes and
picks were busy chipping away the
ice. It was hard work, but who cared
now that we were getting warm
again? We were through the blockade
and out of the Arctic—and now to
test the “Freedom of the Seas” and
give the allies a touch of high lifa
“By Joe.” I said to my boys, “and
they call it a blockade!”
You would have thought the fellow
In the lookout was answering me.
“Steamer ahoy,” he sang out.
What? A steamer in these parts?
I climbed aloft with ray glasses.
Sure enough, there was a British ar¬
mored cruiser steaming toward us at
full speed. She had the signal flying:
“Stand by of we fire!”
Such bad luck after such good luck!
This second Christmas present was
not so amusing. But now for our
test.
^Hustle you non-Norwegian chaps.
Get below deck! Throw water every¬
where to explain wiiy our papers are
blurred and wet- The storm we just
passed through will make it seem the
more natural. Schmidt, get into your
finery, liemember, from now on you
are the shy Mosefeena’ (Josephine),
the capiain’s wife. If they put a prize
crew aboard, we will capture the prize
crew. If they suspect we are an aux¬
iliary cruiser, bombs fore, midship,
and aft, and we blow up the ship l"
Now for a big quid of tobacco lr.
my mouth. I have never had the hab¬
it of chewing tobheco, but a Norwe¬
gian skipper would not be true to type
without his quid. Besides, a chew of
tobacco gives you time to think. If
somebody nsks you an embarrassing
question, yon can roll your quid
around In your mouth, pucker up your
lips slowly, and spit deliberately and
elegantly. I had practiced rolling the
quid and spitting until I thought my¬
self a past master at the art.
But that smell, by Joel The unex¬
pected always happens to mar the
best-laid plans—and help the worst.
We had been running our motor full
open. Because of the cargo of wood
that sealed the deck, there had not
been enough ventilation to get rid of
the fumes. The characteristic reek of
crude oil burning in a Diesel engine
seeped up through the secret en¬
trances placed In my cabin, and ev¬
erything smelled of it. What will the
search officer think when he smells a
Diesel engine aboard a sailing ship?
No ose to burn punk or sprinkle eau
de cologne.
‘‘Stuff a rug In the chimney of the
kerosene stove,” 1 yelled, “and turn
up the wicks of the oil lamps as high
as you can."
Stench against stench, kerosene
smoke against the fumes of the mo¬
tor. In live minutes my cabin smelled
to high heaven of kerosene smoke.
The Britisher had hove to now, and
we saw that she was the Avenger, an
armed merchant cruiser of some fif¬
teen thousand tons. She had big guns
trained on us, and her officers were
on the bridge looking us over with
their glasses.
The cruiser had put out a small
boat Two officers and sixteen sail¬
ors were rowing toward us. We must
receive them cordially, I thought. Go¬
ing to the gramophone I put on, “It’s
a Long Way to Tipperary.” That
will make the officers feel good. I also
told the cook to stand in the door of
the galley with a bottle of whisky in
his hand. I know the British I I know
what they like, and 1 guessed that
whiie the officer proceeded with bis
job, his jack-tars would go poking
about to see if they might find any¬
thing suspicious. 1 also suspected that
they would go to the galley and sing
out:
“’I there, Cookie, got any grog?’
Always give a British sailor a drink,
or a German sailor, or an American
sailor, or any kind of a sailor, for
that matter.
The boat was alongside. 1 began
to swear at my men. It was hard for
them to forget their naval habits, and,
with an officer coming aboard, they
were standing as stiffly as if at at¬
tention.
“Take the line, by Joe. Give a hand,
by Joe. Don’t stand there like wooden
men, by Joe.”
Then, too, it would sound natural to
hear a Norwegian skipper swearing at
bis men.
The search officer clambered aboard.
“Merry Christmas, Captain.”
“Merry Christmas, Mister Officer,”
I replied, using the kind of broken
English 1 thought a Norwegian skip¬
per would use. I talk English with
an accent, luckily about the same
brand you would hear in a Scandina¬
vian port. “But," I continued, “If you
want to see what kind of Christmas
cabin.’' we have had come along down to my
“A bit of a nasty blow tills past
week, eh, what!” agreed the officer,
“and from the look of your deck
you’ve had more than your share of
It. We went in behind the islands
and waited for her to blow over.”
“Yes, luckily for us.” ! thought.
“I most see your papers, captain.”
He got right down to business. Just
then tiie gramophone struck up
“Tipperary,” and he began to whistle
the tune while his men made for the
galley. I ushered the two officers to
the cabin. The one who stuck his
head in first retreated holding his
nose.
“What a h—II of a smell 1”
“Excuse me, Mister Officer, but my
stove is out of order. 1 could not
know you gentlemen were giving me
a visit today.”
“Oh, never mind, captain, that’s all
right, that’s all right.”
I had purposely hung my underwear
up to dry so it would be in their way
and so that, in stooping to get under
it, they would see the name “Knud
sen” embroidered on it- As the chief
search officer crossed the cabin he
suddenly saw my charming wife Jose¬
phine, with her blonde wig, her swol¬
len jaw, and the rug hiding her big
feet.
“Oh, excuse me.”
“That is my wife, Mister Officer.
She has been having a bad go with
the toothache.’’
He was chivalrous, just as most
Englishmen are. He might have been
talking to a court lady, fnstead of that
rascal Schmidt.
“Sorry, madam, to intrude like this,
but we must do our duty.”
“All right!" said my lovely but
somewhat distorted better half in n
high falsetto voice out of one corner
of her mouth.
“By Joe, captain, you haven’t much
cabin left, have you? You have been
through some rough weather!”
“I wouldn’t mind the rest, Mister
Officer, but look at my papers. They
are soaked, too."
CLEVELAND COURIER
“I can understand that, after the
weather you’ve had.”
“Yes, Mister Officer, it’s all right for
you to see them in this condition, be¬
cause you saw the storm yourself, but
later. If I meet some of yo'ur com¬
rades who didn't hit the blow that we
had. they may not take my word for
it That’s what’s worrying me.”
"Oh, don't worry, captain. I’ll give
you a memorandum explaining the
condition of your papers. You are
lucky to have saved your ship.”
That memorandum was Just what 1
wanted. There was no telling when
we might be searched again.
I had the papers scattered all over
the cabin to dry, and each time I
handed one to him I spat a stream
of tobacco juice on the cabin floor.
He examined the papers with a prac¬
ticed eye and made entries in his
notebook. Each page in his book was
for a ship, and I could see that thirty
or forty pages had been used already.
Yes, lie was an experienced officer.
When he came to the last document,
the one signed with the false signa¬
ture ot the British consul at Copen¬
hagen and sealed with a false British
Imperial seal, and read the formal
statement that the Irma's cargo of
lumber was destined for the use of
the British government in Australia,
he turned to me suddenly.
“These papers are all right, cap¬
tain.”
In the excitement of the moment 1
suddenly swallowed my chew of to¬
bacco. 1 was afraid this might give
our whole sham away. So 1 coughed
and coughed as though with a bad
cold, trying to cover up what had hap¬
pened. What would a British search
officer think if a Norwegian skipper
got seasick? My mate Leudemann
was stnndlng next to me bolding the
log book. I had told him to have it
ready in case the Britisher should
want to examine 1L Leudemann saw
there was something wrong with tne,
and was quick-witted enough to divert
the search officer's attention, by hand¬
ing him the book.
“Oh, yes, the log,” exclaimed the
otiicer, and opened the wet pages.
The quid of tobacco seemed to be
moving up and down my gullet. I
struggled with myself, and to show
an outward calm I said to Luedemnnn
in Norwegian:
“I wish I'd had that officer’s cainel’s
hair cape and hood. It would have
been fine to keep a fellow warm while
up there north of the Circle.”
“For rain and spray, too.” The
Englishman spoke up in Norwegian
to show that he knew tiie language.
You must admire tiow careful those
English are. The officer examined ev¬
ery page of the log.
“How is this, captain?” he ex¬
claimed. “You were laid up three
weeks and a half?"
There was a discrepancy in dates
which represented our waif after the
admiralty hq«l ordered us not to sail
because of the return of the subma¬
rine, Deutschland, and the consequent
increased vigilance of the blockade. I
had not thought of it. Here was the
one detail that we had neglected to
provide for in our elaborately de¬
tailed preparations. Even if I had
been in the best of health, I should ;
not have known what to reply. With
that' tobacco quid running around in- j
side of my body 1 could only pray to ;
God for help.
Again Leudemann saved the situa¬
tion. He was a little fellow and sim¬
ple-hearted, but a great character.
When bad times came, Leudemann
was at his best.
“We didn't lie there for pleasure,”
he said in his dry way as he looked up
at tiie big Englishman. “We had or¬
ders from our owner not to sail until
we got word.”
“How so?”
“Haven't you been warned then
about German cruisers?”
“What’s that?”
“Haven’t you heard about the
Moewe and auxiliary cruiser, See¬
adler?”
The search officer turned to me,
“What about this that your mate
is saying, captain?”
My stomach felt much better, now
that Leudemann had spoken. So I
thought I might as well give the Eng¬
lishman a good dose.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Health Secrets
More and more we are learning to
rely upon nature, rather than upon
medicines, for health. If we all fol¬
lowed nature’s laws, most of our se¬
rious diseases would disappear. Cer¬
tainly the so-called “diseases of eivT
lizatkal”—-affections of the heart and
nervous system—would be abolished,
Sunlight, fresh air, exercise, right
food, avoidance of worry, and thi
prompt repair of any injury or defect
—these are practically all anyone
needs to maintain perfect health.—Dr
Fred U. Albee in the American Mag¬
azine.
Tonsorial Note
“I hear that Louie is going to mar¬
ry Joe the barber’s daugiiter. Is them
money in it?”
“Yes, tier old man has been scrap
ing in the money for the last twenty
five years.”
Aid Strawberry
With Wild Ones
Four Promising Varieties
Are Found Suitable for
Home Preserving.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
All the strawberries in tiie United
States and most of those of the world
—that is, the tame ones—are descend¬
ants of two wild American strawber¬
ries, one a native of the Pacific coast
*01111 tiie other a native of the eastern
United States.
There are many other wild straw¬
berries, however, that did not take
part in developing our present kinds
In the untried wild ones may lurk
some valuable trait that can he bred
into our domestic varieties which may
make them even more desirable than
they now are. At any rate, plant
breeders are turning to the wild sorts
for improving the strawberry, espe¬
cially to develop new types hotter
adapted to such specific purposes as
canning, preserving, and candy mak¬
ing.
Four Promising Varieties.
George M. harrow, who is in charge
of strawberry-breeding work for (lie
United States Department of Agricul¬
ture, lias already achieved some suc¬
cess in this field. From the thousands
of crosses made lie lias selected four
promising varieties especially suited
for preserving. They are known only
by number as yet, and will need to be
tested for adaptation before they can
lie recommended for planting. The
breeding of preserving sorts is only
begun, tie says, and every region will
need its own particular variety.
Technique of Breeding.
The technique of breeding is rela¬
tively simple, Mr. harrow explains,
but the important and difficult part is
in making the selections. To breed
a new kind, no matter for what pur¬
pose, two parent varieties are crossed.
They may he wild or tame. The pol¬
len from tiie flower of one is placed
on the pistil of the flower of the oth¬
er. The seed developing from such a
cross is planted and every resultant
seedling grown to fruiting age before
selections are made. If there are
three acres of seedlings in fruiting
there may be 8,000 kinds, each differ¬
ent from the others. From this enor¬
mous number certain promising ones
are saved and each is propagated in a
separate short row. When they bear,
if there is sufficient fruit, canning and
preserving tests are made of the more
promising ones by canners and pre¬
servers with whom Mr. harrow lias
made co-operative arrangements.
Oyster Shell for Hens
of Great Importance
Profitable poultry raising
on the elimination of weak, unhealthy
chickens, subnormal egg production
and soft-shelled eggs. Of course, there
are many poultry feeds which
help to keep fowls healthy but there
is one mineral food which combined
with a balanced ralion and plenty of
sunlight will do away with all three of
the evils just mentioned. Tflis is
crushed oyster shell.
Tiie best form of crushed oyster
shell contains 98 per cent calcium car¬
bonate and therein lies its value to
poultry. The formation of the egg re¬
quires three distinct steps. The yolk
is made first. This passes to the next
stage where It is coated with the while
or albumen. The final step of the proc¬
ess is the formation of the shell. Egg¬
shell 'consists mainly of calcium car¬
bonate. It is therefore evident that
if the hen has not a sufficient supply
of this mineral in her system, fewer
eggs will be produced and those that
are produced may have soft shells. In
other words the calcium-carbonate in
the crushed oyster shell supplies the
egg shell material.
Much Money Is Lost by
Planting Inferior Seed
Thousands of dollars are lost every
year by planting seed of low vitality.
Seed of ail field crops should he tested
for germination before planting. This
is especially urgent now for corn and
sorghums. One cannot tell from tiie
appearance of seed how well it will
grow. Last year 141 lots out of tiie
5,000 lots of seed tested at the state
seed laboratory germinated from 0 to
50 per cent. This means that several
thousand acres would have been plant¬
ed to seed which would not grow.
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Agricultural Notes
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Infertile eggs keep longest.
* * *
Seed clover instead of alfalfa if the
subsoil is extremely acid.
* * *
Feed poultry yellow corn, cod-liver
oil. milk, and leafy feeds for vita
mines.
• * *
Keep your lawn open for tiie best
effect Flower beds set In the lawn
make tiie grounds seem smaller.
* * *
Retailers make best profits when
prices of produce are low. The farm¬
er gets more of the consumer’s money
when products are scarce and high
priced.
* * •
Tiie size of tiie egg a pullet lays has
been found to he, closely correlated
with the age of which she begins to
lay. Selection for very early maturity
in the smaller breeds is likely to re¬
duce the size of the egg of the flock.
Improved Uniform International
SundaySchool T Lesson v
(By REV. P. a. FITZWATER, D.D., Dean
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.)
((c), 1929, Western Newspaper Union.)
ATLANTA’S ASSETS
TOTAL $62 ,718,227
SHORT ROUTE WILL SOON BE
PAVED; POLICE ARE
ORGANIZED.
Will Grade Rosin; Unite to Get
Facts; Georgia Bankers Select
Savannah; Other Items.
Atlanta, Ga.—Financial details of
Atlanta’s city government, showing’
the municipality to be a corporation
with assets totaling $62,718,227.50 and
expenditures last year of $16,113,-
547.79, were made public recently
when City Controller B. Graham West
submitted his annual report, for 1928,
Available assets of the city, in¬
cluding cash, fi fas, sinking funds, and
trust funds, total $S,292,513.02, ac¬
cording to the ieport, while fixed as¬
sets such as land, buildings, fran¬
chises and equipment amount to $54,-
425,714.48, the report shows.
The total liabilities of the city, in¬
cluding a bonded debt of $18,545,100,
are $23,164,110.37. Deducted from the
total assets, tills leaves a general sur¬
plus for the city of $39,554,117.13. The
net indebtedness of the city at the
present time, computed by subtract¬
ing the available assets from the total
liabilities, amounts to $14,371,597.35.
Land owned by the city totals
$6,749,689.18 in value, the statement
of fixed assets shows. Buildings total
$10,551,265.52. Equipment, franchises
and personal property of the city is
valued at $37,124,759.78. Under this
section the largest item is permanent
street paving, totaling $11,031,029.91.
Equipment of the Waterworks’ De¬
partment is placed at $8,891,348.32,
while the waterworks franchise is in¬
cluded at $2,500,000.
Short Route Will Soon Be Paved
Moultrie, Ga.—Work closing the last
gap in the paving of the Florida Short
Route between Albany and Quitman,
a distance of about seventy-five miles,
will begin soon, it has been announced
here.
Police Are Organized
Atlanta, Ga.—An organization of po ¬
lice officers of the Southern Railway
was formed at a meeting recently at
the Henry Grady Hotel, which was
attended by more than 100 police of¬
ficers from various points on the sys¬
tem. -»
Will Grade Rosin
Savannah, Ga.—Producers, dealers
and users of rosin may call upon gov¬
ernment inspectors under the naval
stores act to grade any lot of rosin
in which they are interested, it was
said in a rcent bulletin issued from
Washington. A charge of seven cents
for eacli round barrel is made for this
work, the bulletin said.
Unite to Get Facts
Augusta, Ga.—Launching a systema¬
tized plan for organizing the economic
resources of twenty Georgia counties
was the object of a meeting here re¬
cently of representatives of the Geor¬
gia Association and the Georgia &
Florida Railroad.
Bankers Select Savannah
Atlanta, Ga.—Members of the Geor¬
gia Bankers’ Association and the
Country Bankers' Association of Geor¬
gia adjourned their joint annual con¬
vention recently at the Bilmore Hotel
after electing officers, selecting the
city for the next convention, adopting
reports and passing resolutions.
Gordon L. Groover, vice president
of the Citizens and Southern National
Bank, of Savannah, was elected presi¬
dent of the Georgia Bankers’ Associa¬
tion, and it was decided to hold the
next convention in Savannah. An event
of the convention program will be a
boat trip to New York where the an¬
nual banquet will be held.
Airplane Factory Started
Atlanta, Ga.—'Construction of the
Alanta Aircraft Corporation’s airplane
factory at Candler Field was started
recently, George H. Prudden, vice
president and technical advisor of the
company, announced after a confer¬
ence with Mayor I. N. Ragsdale.
Valdosta Bank Changes Hands
Savannah, Ga.—-The Citizens &
Southern National Bank ha3 absorbed
the Bank of Valdosta, according to
announcement made here recently by
Mills B. Lane, chairman of the board
of the Citizens & Southern.
Sleep Walking Fatal
Savannah, Ga.—The body of Cor¬
poral James D. Clemons, a soldier at
Fort Screven, Tyhee Island, left Sa¬
vannah recently for Walnut Grove,
Ala., where lie formerly lived and
where his parents reside. Corporal
Clemons died as the result of an un¬
usual accident. He apparently walked
in his sleep and walked through a
second story window. He sustained
fractures of the skull which caused
his death.
Lesson for June 16
JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE
BESSON TEXT—11 Kings 25:1-21.
GOLDEN TEXT—Righteousness ex
vlteth a nation, but sin is a reproach
to any people.
PRIMARY TOPIC—A Nation That
Forgot God.
JUNIOR TOPIC—A Nation That For¬
got God.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP¬
IC— Paying the Price of Sinning.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP¬
IC—National Accountability to God.
Zedekfati was made king of Judah
by tiie king of Babylon (11 Kings
24:17), hut in spite of this kindness
and tiie word of tiie Lord spoken to
him by Jeremiah (Jer. 34:17, IS, ef.
Jer. 53:3), lie rebelled against the king
of Babylon, lie relied upon tiie help
of Egypt, but all that Egypt could do
was to cause temporary interrupt iop
of the siege of Jerusalem.
I. The Siege of Jerusalem (vv. 1-3).
1. The time (vv. 1, 2).
It begun on the tenth day of the
tenth month of the ninth year of
Zedeklah’s reign and lasted about
eighteen months. The tenth month,
according to (lie Jewish calendar, cor¬
responds to our December, January,
as their calendar year began about
the middle of March. The reason
the exact time is given is that this
was to be an event of great impor¬
tance to tlie Jews in their exile.
2. Tke method (v. 1). Nebuehad
nezzar came with a large army and
encamped against Jerusalem and built
forts against it round about. It is
thought that siege wails were built
around the city, shutting it in. On
the tops of these walls forts were
built from which missiles of destruc¬
tion could be hurled by their engines
of war against tiie city.
3. The famine (v. 3).
Geikie says, “It was speedily fol¬
lowed, as is always the case, with an
outbreak of pestilence. Food was
well-nigh gone. There had long been
no bread. Mothers were at last driv¬
en to murder and eat their children
The richest citizens wandered about
searching for scraps in the dung
hills.” it is estimated that one-third
of the people of Jerusalem died oi
starvation.
II. Zedeklah’s Flight and Fate
(vv. 4-7).
1 . “The city was broker, up" (v. 4)
The Chaldeans had succeeded in
making an opening in (lie wall so
large that they could make their way
Into the city in spite of all that the
Hebrews could do.
2. Zedeklah’s flight (v. 4).
The king with his men of war fled
by night toward the plain. His ob¬
ject no doubt was to cross the Jor¬
dan at Jericho and hide In the motto
tains east of the river.
3. Zedekinh’s fate (vv. 5-7).
(1) lie was overtaken in the plains
of Jericho (v. 5). When ids flight
was discovered, the Chaldean army
pursued and captured him. (2) He
was brought to the king of Babylon
at Rililab (v. (!), a town north of Da
masons. It was the king's headquar¬
ters from which he directed his
armies against Tyre and Jerusalem
Zedekinh was tried as n criminal tie
fore Nebuchadnezzar. (3) His fate
(v. 7). Ilis sons were slain In his
sight; his eyes were put out; lie was
bound with fetters of brass and they
carried him to Babylon where he re
mitined prisoner until the day of his
death (Jer. 52:11).
III. Jerusalem Destroyed (vv.8-10)
The dismantling of the city was de
layed a month, perhaps awaiting In
struct ions from Nebuchadnezzar, who
was at Itiblah.
1. They burnt of tiie house of the
Lord (v. it).
Tills was tiie sacred temple built
ay Solomon, with additions and mod
itieatlons. Before burning It was de
spoiled-of all Its sacred contents.
2. Burnt the king’s house (v. 9).
This was doubtless the palace built
ny Solomon.
3. Burnt all the houses of Jerusa
lent (v. !)).
The implication is that ttie common
houses were left for the people
(v. 12).
4. They broke down the walls of
Jerusalem.
IV. The Disposition of the Temple
Furniture and Priests (vv. 13-21).
1. The temple furniture (vv. 13-17)
The pillars of brass and the brazen
sett were broken into pieces hy tiie
Babylonians and were carried tr
Babylon.
2. Certain officers and priests (vv
18-21).
Certain officers, priests and three
score men were taken to itiblah by
the king of Babylon, and were slain
From Small Beginnings
Prayei brings God Into what mer
are pleased to term the little affairs
of life. The lives of people are mad«
up of these small matters: yet how
often do great consequences coim
from small beginnings!—B. M Bounds
Color-Blind Towards God
Man is color-blind towards God. Tin
blue of God’s truth Is to him an arous
ing, angering red The soft, soothing
green oi His love becomes a noisy
irritating yellow.—Dr. S. D. Gordon
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