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ming, Ga. t as second class matter.
The gas that is burned over being
engaged costs more, reckons the
New York Press, than the wedding
presents are worth.
The legislature of Texas has ex
tended a most cordial invitation to
President Taft to visit the state. If,
during the process of enlarging the
White House, the president’s quarters
should be at all cramped, suggests the
Ixuiisville Courier-Journal, he will
find plenty of room in Texas.
There is nothing novel in the decree
issued by the pastor of an American
church against the big hats, says a
writer in a Vienna paper. Toward the
end of the 13th century great broad
brimmed hats .were fashionable in
Australia. They were of such huge
dimensions that a face under one of
them could not be recognized.
According to the San Francisco
Call the older divorce capitals have
a formidable rival on the Pacific
Slope. “Los Angeles,” says that jour
nal, “has become a close competitor
with Chicago, St. Louis and Philadel
phia for the divorce record and has
New York and San Francisco beaten
to a frazzle. In January Los Angeles
had 115 petitions for divorce, while
San Francisco had but 98, and in the
past ten years the Los Angeles courts
have granted 5362 divorces.”
This is the remarkable story the
Kennebec Journal gets from Morrill
in the state of Maine: “Miss Adelaide
Merriam, the little 4-year-old daughter
of Herman Merriam, was liding down
hill a few rods above the dam near
her father’s mill, the other day, when
her sister was thrown from the sled
over the bank into the river. The old
er sister made an outcry, and the fa
ther who was at work in the mill, as
well as others, hastened to the res
cue. He jumped into the river and
shortly saw her floating under the
water and caught her as she neared
the sluiceway. The little girl had
floated 120 feet under water, 40 feet
of the distance under ice which
reached from shore to shore. She
says that while she was traveling un
der ice and water she saw a snake
and a frog.”
A more or less novel reason for
state prohibition is advanced by the
Memphis Commercial Appeal. “If pro
hibition,” it says, “by closing so many
city business house, could drive most
of the men thus thrown out of work
back to the farms, it would accom
plish one great good.” Then this news
paper harks back to the old days
when it was a badge of honor, almost
of aristocracy, to live in the manor
houses of the big plantations, and
give one’s best energies to agricul
ture: Farming was the occupation of
a gentleman, and the man who
planned the spring plowing or the au
tumn ingathering could quote Latin
and write polite verse. Life on the
plantations was typically southern
life, with its abundance, its lavish hos
pitality, its black and wb’j/e threads
running side by side, but never
blending in the social warp. The he
roes and heroines of the old south
were chosen from the wide-hailed
houses out on the farms, where dwelt
in a large measure, the country’s real
aristocracy. Today these beautiful old
homes are falling to decay and the
family names that were as landmarks
are never, in many instances, heard
m the old haunts.
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
MENTS FOR MAY id.
Subject: Paul’s First Missionary
Journey - Iconium and Lystra,
Acts 14:1-28—Golden Text:
Psalm 96:5 —Commentary.
TIME.—4 6 A. D. PLACE. —Lys-
tra.
EXPOSITION. —I- A Cripple front
His Birth Made Whole, 8-10. It was
a case of real lameness. The man had
never walked. The case was beyond
man’s skill, hopeless. But there are
no hopeless cases with Christ. There
was no magnetic touch, no treatment,
just a look, a word, and then a per
fect and not an imaginary cure. Paul
did not attempt to heal every lame
man he met. God directed his atten
tion to this man, and gave him to see
that he had faith to be healed. How
did he get it? By hearing Paul speak
( Ro. 10:17). Something of this kind
was needed to gain Paul a hearing in
Antioch. Paul thoroughly studied
and understood the case before lie
spoke the word. He commanded the
man to do the naturdlly impossible,
but “all things are possible to him
that believeth” I Mk. 9:23). Hie
man oroved his faith by obedience.
H. ‘ Paul and Barnabas Worshiped
as Gods, 11-18. The people were now
ready not only to listen to Paul, but
to worship him. The human heart
always wants a man to worship. Men
are always ready to render unto the
instruments God uses the adoration
and gratitude that belong only to God
Himself. Underneath the heathen
idea that, the gods visited the earth
“in the likeness of men” there was a
great and glorious truth (Jno. 1:14;
Phil. 2:6, 7). The actions of these
Lystrans seem very ignorant and
foolish to us. but do not many Chris
tians bow down and lay their offer
ings and garlands at the feet of men
God greatly uses, as if the man was
himself something? Paul and Bar
nabas quickly showed the stuff they
were made of. As soon as they saw
what, the people were up to, they re
fused their proffered homage with
mingled horror and sorrow. Paul
and Barnabas would permit no mis
taken notions about themselves. They
would have it clearly understood that
they were of the same stuff as other
men. "Why do ye these things?”
These Lycaonians had probably never
stopped to ask that question. They
just did them without asking. It is a
great thing to get people to asking
themselves why they do the things
thev do. It. is a great thing to get
people to thinking; it leads to re
pentance (Ps. 119:59; Luke 15:1,,
18). It is. indeed, “good tidings” (v.
15, R. V.) to proclaim unto a man
that he can turn from idols unto a
God who lives, who has a mighty
power, and who is ready to hear and
help those who trust and serve Him.
The idols of the Lycaonians were
"vain things,” because they could not
hear, nor act, nor answer, nor help,
nor save (Is. 45:20; 46:7: Jer. 10:5,
14; 14:22). The idols of the world
to-day are different in form, but es
sentially the same in character. But
the God of the Bible is “the living
God.” Not the god of the rationalist
and deist, a god who once lived and
worked, but the God who lives and
works to-day; the God who hears and
answers prayer, am# saves. He
"made the heaven and the earth and
the sea, and all that in them is,” and
therefore, “there is nothing too hard
for” Him (Jer. 32:17). Conversion
is simply turning “to God from idols
to serve the living and true God” (1
Thess. 1:9). Conversion, therefore,
is a very rational thing. God has
never in the darkest heathenism left
Himself “without witness” (Ps. 19:
1-G; Rom. 1:20). His care for men
in doing them good, and giving rain
from heaven, fruitful seasons, filling
their hearts "with food and glad
ness,” has borne witness to His fath
erly love and forgiveness (comp.
Matt. 5:44. 45; Luke 6:35, 36). Even
with these wonderful words Paul
found it very difficult to keep them
back from their purposed idolatry,
and it is hard to keep men and wom
en from idolatry to-day.
111. Paul Stoned by Man. Raised
by the Lord, 19-22. How little de
pendence is to he placed upon popu
lar favor. It worshiped to-day,
stoned to-morrow. It was fortunate
for Paul that he was not depending
upon man’s favor, but God s (1 Cor.
4:3. 4). This was not the only ex
perience of this kind that Paul had
(2 Cor. 11:25, 27). This is the sort
of treatment ail who are loyal to
Christ and His truth may expect in
this God-hating world (2 Tim. 3:12;
Jno. 15:18-20). But there are abun
dant compensations (2 Tim. 2:12:
Rom. S: 18; Matt. 5:10-12). There
are some who think that it was white
in this condition of apparent death at
Lystra that Paul was "caught up to
the third heaven and heard unspeak
able words” (2 Cor. 12:2-4). This
treatment did not stop Paul from
preaching, lie got up and went back
into the city, and then on to Uerbe,
where he preached the gospel, and
then hack again to Lystra. Oh, for
men of such courage, persistence and
unquenchable love tor Christ and
man! Abundant success attended his
preaching in Derbe. It is not enough
to bring men to Christ; we must
strengthen and build up the young
converts (v. 22). This is the point
of failure in much modern evan
gelistic work. It is not enough that
men start in the faith; they must
"continue in the faith” (Jno. S: 3i,
32; 15:4-6, 9, 10; Col. 1:22, 23;
Rev. 2:10).
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