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Sunday School Lesson—Young
Peoples Topic
Edited by Wm. I. Ellis
BLOTTING OUT A NATION'S LIFE
The International Sunday School Les
son for August 27, is “Judah Carried
Captive to Babylon,” Jeremiah 39.
A wav« of hysteria and fear pass-
>(i over awakened China a few
months ago at the report that the ua-
fir>n was to be divided among the
PoTkers. Koreaa trapic sorrow over
its impending, and now fulfilled ab
sorption by Japan was an unforgot-
table spectacle. Finland and Poland
absorbed into greater nations but
St ill not reconciled, excite the pity of
all students of European history.
The dramatic persistence of Armenia's
hf’pe for a separate existence reveals
the strength of the passion for na
tionalism. Ireland has shown the
world how the same fervid spirit can i
l:^e through the years, unquenched ■
and undiminished. The world is full j
nf great stories of intense devotion
tn a nation blotted out of existence.
Noiie is more dramtic or apneallng
t^an fhis one which the Sunday i
ft>'hools study — the extinction of the;
ancienf kingdom of Judah. |
A poetical, patriotic, soil-loving
pei'i'Ie, the Jews loved the land of
•heir Inheritance — the Promised'
Land, divinely given and liard won—
Wi ll fhe peculiar ardor of their sun-;
warmed temperament. They gave to
literature its first poeirv of pa
trit»t’?m.
"If I forger thee. O Jerusalem,
L^t mv right hand forget her cun-^
ning.” j
>o providentially had they been ■
pf-o-'erved and provided for that the
.lews could scarcely entertain th« ■
'dea of naMonal extinction. That
tt'.?»y should be wrested from the s»oil.
where their hearts were rooted, that;
the t '^v of I’avid should fall, and'
tha* 'he icmi>U* .-•hould be razed,
wrrp tafalifies beyond belief. That.,
however, is Just what happened wi'h
bo.Tc'r piled upon horror.
When War Was Unmitigated.
• ’r.p way to measure the privivss
of the race is to consider thr a titr.de
of the world toward war. Nowadays
s .‘J'rnng and growing body of senti-
m**n» is against all war and bv uni-
verM’. consent a body of human us-;
ages have grown up In connection
with th« practice of what is called I
"civilized warfare." The rights of non--
combatants. the respect for the
wounded, the good treatment of the
prisoners, all are distinctly Christian |
aspects of an unchristian business, j
B’lt in the days of which we read j
—'»’hen Jerusalem fell to the Baby-1
forces, after a siege of a year!
a::d a half—war meant sheer, unre-!
s'rained savagery. Women and chil-j
dr^n were slain, and w-orse than j
Captives were tortured and {
b: ijded. even as In The case of Kingj
Z.-d-k;ah. Exile ar.d slavery succeed-;
^he levy of tribtite and oppres-'
L H-.mlliation? and suffering such ;
a-i are simply incredible 'o the pres-!
en' day were the lot of the defeated.
'V:n?ider the fate of the perverse]
a:,d bl ;nder1ng king who ■wa.s The last j
’0 8l* ':pon David's throne. Zedekiah
had the counsels of Jeremi- j
ah He had P’i» himself under the:
sway of *he "»'ar party. His repudia
tion of Jehovah had been the culmi-
r.s'ing factor in the overthrow of the
TiTv Then, when the Rtar\ed In-
matop of Jerusalem were unable long-
*-r to withstand the besiegers, the I
kir.g and his soldiers fled down to'
thf’ plain of Jericho, where they were '
raptured. Zedekiah was taken north
to Hamth where, in the presence of
Nebuchadnezzar himself, he viewed
his punishment. His sons were slain
before his eyes; and then with that
hideous, haunting picture fresh upon
his memory, his eyes were put out.
!x)aded with two chains he was car
ried off to decorate the triumph of
his conquereor at Babylon.
Patace, Priests and Nobles Perish.
Those conquerors of the anrient
world made a complete job of their i
cruel undertakings. When Jerusalem
fell, the palaces were looted and then
burned; the temple was stripped of
its treasures and all that remained
of the magnificence of Solomon’s
reign was carried off to Babylon,
whil« the building Itself was razed
by fire. The chief priest and his as
sistants, and the leaders of the court
were slain before Nebuchadnezzar’s
face, to glut his appetite for blood.
The houses of the people were burn
ed, the walls of the city broken
down, and all the forms of destrtic-
tion that Oriental Ingenuity cotild de
vise were exccutted against the stub
born city.
T..eavlng only the poorest of the
country folk to help themselves to
the land and whatever they oould
glean after this grim harvesting, the)
victors returned to Babylon with the
captive* whom they were briaring in
to exile. To this day exile remains
a favorite form of punishment In
these same lands. Even the late Sul
tan of Turkey now lives in exile; and
I have met several officials, now in
Vcwer under the Constitution, who
have been exiled by Abdul Hamid.
The horror of it In olden days Is in-
comprehcnslve to us; though I want
no worse interpretation of it than I
have Been on the faces of detach
ments of Siberian exiles.
Up through their own dear land
the exiles were driven, laggards ^be
ing hastened by spear butts or spear
points. Across the beautiful moun
tains of I^bannon, and into the fertile
valley of the Orontes—the same jour-
tiey may now be made by rail —
where they Joined Nebuchadnezzar
himself at perhaps what is now the
city of Homes. Thence they went
across the stony wastes, stopping pos
sibly at Tadmor, or Palmyra, the city
in the desert which is still a wonder
ful ruin, and then to the bank of the
Euphrates, down which some of them
probably fluted on goat-skin rafts.
The heat was terrific, waxing greater
as they drew near to Babylon. The
physical suffering of the exiles, and
their broken spirits and the remorse
that finawed at their hearts, made
the journey one that tinged their
thinking for decades.
Into the Great Babylon.
The immigrant from rural Europe
w ho sees New York and its splendors
for the first time is less Impressed by
its magnificence than were the He
brews who entered ignomlniously in
to that wonderful capital of the
world, Babylon, with its palaces,
hanging gardens, great temples and
triumphal arches. Alas, for the burn
ing shame of it! These proud He
brews were part of the popular spec
tacle and entertainment. They were
derided and jested about by the
throngs of curious Chaldeans. “How
are the mighty fallen."
I have seen the ruins of the via
sacra in Babylon, that runs from the
Temple of Ishtar to the great Tem
ple of Marduke, through or past the
palace of Nebuchadnezzar. The
great unicorns and sacred bulls —
which are still as clear-cut on the
walls as when their sightless eyes
vere turned upon the processions of
captives — and the blue enamelled
liens and walls, and the asphalt pave
ments, all meant little to the discon
solate company of Hebrews whose
broken hearts sobbed the refrain
that they were slaves and exiles. On
ly the friends of the earlier captives,
waiting to comfort them, gave them
any light in their gloom.
Learning the Great Lesson.
Not at once, even in this severe
scliool, did the Jews learn the great
lesson of loyalty to the one God.
They were caught up in the whirl of
popular idolatry for a time and the
German archaeologists at Babylon
told me that the only traces of the
Hebrews they have found are incan
tation bowls, dug from graves, and
covered with Hebrew' inscriptions;
such as I have at the present mo
ment in my possession. But eventu
ally, be exile taught the Jews what
they had failed to learn from a suc
cession of ffraeious providences and
clear-voiced prophets, that Jehovah is
a king who demands single allegi
ance; and that “Righteousness exi^lt-
eth a nation but sin is a reproach to
any people." They were to spend
seventy years In this severe school
of exile; thenceforth they would
wander no more after false gods. To
this day the Jew’s of Mesopotamia re
main true to the God of their fathers.
History is the best homily. The
fate of nations dead is the truest
warning to nations living. The
tragedy of the blotting out of Judah’s
life will have been studied in vain If
it does not set men and women, boys
and girls, to vigorous heart-searching
with respect to their own nations.
Are the seeds of destruction, which
grew so banefully in the life of the
ancient Hebrews, still in our midst?
Are we turning from single-hearted
allegiance to the one true God to the
popular idols of our time?
“Judge of the nations, spare us yet.
Lest we forget! I^st we forget!’’
NEW LEAVES IN ANCIENT LANDS.
Terse Comments Upon Uniform Pray
er Meeting Topics of the Young Peo
ple’s Societies — Christian Endeav
or, Etc., for August 27th, "A Mis
sionary Journey Around the World;
Viii Missions in Persia and Turkey,”
Acts 4: 13-31.
All the Bible history from Abram’s
departure out of Ur of the Chaldees
to John’s vision on Patmos, is laid
within the hounds of the present em
pires of Turkey and Persia, except
ing only Paul’s visit to Greece.
Kg.vpt, be it remebreded, is nominal
ly a part of Turkey. Persia’s part
is slight, being confined to the exile
of the .Tews therein, notably the ex
periences of Daniel and Esther.
Both Persia and Turkey are Moham
medan lands, and the crescent now
flies where the star of Judaism once
shone, and the cross was first erect
ed.
A historic connection with early
Christianity Insures nothing for there
is no more religiously benighted land
on earth onay than Turkey, the
home of the patriarchs, prophets,
apostles and martyrs; the scene of
revelation and of the life and death
of Je&us Christ.
THE LAX-FOS WAY
If you had a medicine that would
strengthen the liver, the stomach, the
kidneys and the bowels, and at the
Mm« time make you strong with a
systematic tonic, don’t you believe you
would soon be well?
That’s “The Lax-Fos Way.’’
We ask you >o buy the first bottle on
the money-back plan, and you will ask
your druggist to sell you the second.
It keepQ your whole insides right.
There is nothing else made like Lax-
Certain big facts can not bo blink
ed even by the persons who are
more keen to prove the purity of /all
religione than trey are to practice
any, A few ruch persons—at a safe
distance from Islamic countries, and
amid the tolerant atmosphere .of
Christianity — are fond of glorifying
Mohammedanism. All of which may
I'ass only with those who have not
Feen or heard or smelt Moslem socie
ty. The incontrovertible fact is
that ci\illzat*on has been decadent
for a thousand years past in the lands
♦hat are under the sway of the Proph
et. I have been there and know and
could write a long article upon this
subject. The nearest approach to
sheer, stark, naked savagery, I have
ever seen anywhere, waa in the re-
g tr of the lower Tigris, where the
Arab found a high order of civiliza
tion and has turned it into a danger
ous desert.
The Crusaders had a great, though
inadequate ideal; had it been great
enough to save them from personal
Jealousies and rivalries they would
h.nve held the Holy I^nd which they
conquered, and the progressive ideals
^ f Christian Eurjpe would today be
dominated in the land over which
the Turk reigns. In like manner, it
is largely the smallness and sectari
anism of organized Christianity which
prevents it from conquering and re
taining the lands which are its spec
ial heritage.
It is less important to recover
Christ’s sepulchre than it Is to impart
Christ’s life.
Turkey contains many miseions.
The American Board has wrought
great work in Asia Minor and Meso
potamia. Its missions are today a
greater Influence than the American
legation and consulates for the
spread of the Western Ideals which
are so profoundly Influencing the na
tion. In Syria the Northern Presbyter
ian Church has an old and powerful
mission, including the Mission Press
at Beirut, where the Scriptures have
been translated and piiblished in
Arabic. The American Friends have a
mission near Jerusalem, and there are
various small enterprises of a mission
ary character in the Holy Land that
draw their support from this country.
Down in Southern Arabia and Mesopo
tamia the Dutch Reformed Church is
splendidly working for t^e Arabs. The
British Church Missionary Society, and
the Scotch Presbyterians, have mis
sions in diverse parts of Turkey, and
the latter in particular minister to the
Jews.
Persia, that poor and backward
land, with such a romantic history,
and now in the throes of a blind
groping after the new life which is
the heritage of nations as of individ
uals, has few misions, chiefly those
of the American Presbyterian Church.
There has been fruitful work done
w'ith individuals, but the nation as a
w'hole. has been almost neglected by
the Christianity of the West.
■ Lovers of Oriental rugs will be in
terested to note that the names of
many of the famous Persian rugs —
which are alw’ays place names —
are the names also of the location of
Protestant mission stations—as Ham-
adan Kerman Shiroz, Kazein and
Ispahan.
In Persia arose, about half a century
ago, and in Turkey has developed, a
schism of Islam called Babism, or Be-
haism, which has spread to America
and Europe. Its cardinal doctrine is
tolerance and it has done much to
ameliorate the fanaticism of Moham
medanism.
One of the saddest spectacles of the
Near East is the plight of the ancient
Christian churches—the Greek Catho
lic Church, the Armenian Catholic
Church, the Roman Catholic Church,
the Syrian Church, the. Chal
dean Church and the Coptic Church.
These disciples of the Name have
held aloft the cross through long and
bitter centuries, though their knowl
edge and love and spirituality have
grown dim. They have endured un
measured persecutions from the Mos
lems; no branches of Christendom
can show more glorious records in
this respect than they. Yet today their
ignorance and superstition and nau-
tual antlpothles grieve the heart of ev
ery friend of Christ. One of the great
missionary problems of the twentieth
century is how to bring these anicent
churches into alignment with the
present-day Christianity of Europe
and America.
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SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
In this world it is not what we
take up but what we give up that
makes us rich.—Henry Ward Beecher.
There are nettles everywhere,
But smooth green grasses are more
common still;
The blue of heaven is larger than the
cloud.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
They the royal-hearted are who
nobly love the noblest, yet have grace
for needy, suffering lives in lowliest
places.—George Ellot.
The world delights in sunny peo
ple ♦ * • * The old are
hungering for love more than for
bread. The air of joy is very cheap;
and if you can help the poor on with
a garment of praise, it will be better
for them than blankets.—Henry Drum
mond.
If there be in front of us any pain
ful duty, strengthen us with the grace
of courage; if any act of mercy, teach
us tenderness and patience.—Robert
Louis Stevenson.
“Where there is faith there Is love;
Where there is love there is peace;
Where there is peace there is God;^
Where there is God there is no need.”
Duty, be it a small matter or a
great, is duty still, and it is only they
who do their duty in every-day and
trivial matters who fulfill it on great
occasions.—Charles Kingsley.
FALLS VICTIM TO THIEVES.
S. W. Bends, of Coal City, Ala., has
a jtistifiable grievance. Two thieves
stole his health for twelve years. They
were a liver and kidney trouble. Then
Dr. King’s New Life Pills throttled
them. He’s well now. Unrivaled for
Constipation, Malaria. Headache, Dys
pepsia, 25c. W. L. Hand & Co.
Capture of Illicit Still.
Special to The News.
Rockingham, N. C., Aug. 25.—Depu
ty Sheriffs Shores, McKay and Mc
Donald captured about two miles from
Hoffman, N. C., a 20-gallon whiskey
still and 30-gallons of whiskey that
was being run by Lawrence Latham
andvhos 12-year-old adopted son. They
were running at full blast when the
deputies walked up on them. They
put out to nm but were captured and
brought here and placed in jail, the
little boy being left in the custody of
the sheriff until they could get a pre
liminary hearing which will be given
tomorrow before Commissioner W. H.
Covington.
Wigg—“That fellow Bjones seems
determined to attract attention some
how or other. Wagg—"“I wonder if
that is why he wears squeaky shoes.”
Special to The Xews.
Concord, Aug. 25.—Hannah Jones,
the old negro woman who was thrown
into a well near Millingport about mid
night Sunday night on her way home
from church, died at her home Tues
day morning and was buried in the
graveyard at Morning Star church, the
church which she had just left when
the brutal murderers attacked her and
her son who accompanied her. She
died without making known the three
men who are responsible for ^ her
death, but one fellow, Sam Walker,
a grandson, has been arrested and
identified by the old woman’s son as
one of the as sailers, and Is now In
jail at Albemarle. The son of the
old woman Is a deaf mute, and Is un
able to tell anything about what hap
pened as well as the names of the
murderers.
The men making the attack upon
the two people, thought that they had
made their job complete, and that the
old woman was dead, and they went
to her home and ransacked it from
one end to the other, taking anything
and everything that they wanted.
Sam Walker, grandson of Hannah
Jones, had been heard to say that he
was going to have the old woman’s
land, and this, together with circum
stantial evidence, leads to the belief
that he is one of the gang.
Frank Goodman, the negro who
struck Will Morris on the head with a
stick Tuesday afternoon while at
work on the ditch for the new pipe
line to Cold Water creek, was cap
tured Wednesday afternoon near Sal
isbury, and Officer Benfield has been
sent after him. He will be brought
back here and will be given a hearing
Saturday.
Friends of the movement now on
foot in this city for the erection of a
Y. M. C. A. here are hard at work
on the proposition. Several of the
young men of the city have interested
themselves in the business.
Train No. 37, one of the fastest
trains on the Southern road, was com
pelled to stop on its southward jour
ney this morning between Greensboro
and Salisbury for lack of water in
the boiler. A message was sent to
Spencer, and a relief train was imme
diately sent out to the distressed en
gine with a supply of water. On ac
count of the severe drought in this
section of the country, it is no easy
matter for the Southern to supply wa
ter for its trains, and they often have
to run some little distance without a
renewed supply of water. This in
stance, however, is, so far as known,
the first time that a train has been
forced to stop on the road in a help
less condition.
THE GOVERNOR HERE.
APPALACHIAN LEAGUE IS
ALL MUDDLED UP NOW.
Asheville, Aug. 25.—The affairs of
the Appalachian league are in a mud
dle. There are hints of favoritism.
At *' director’s meeting at Johnson
Cl" Wednesday Asheville protested
against the action of the president in
forfeiting to Cleveland a game to
have been played with Asheville be
cause the Asheville team did not
reach Cleveland in time for calling
the game. The team was delayed on
the way and the umpire was with it.
However the directors of the league
upheld the action of the president.
Bristol had a grievance against Um
pire Donnahue and threatened to
draw out of the league if he were not
canned. This was a personal matter
between Donnahue and the Bristol
manager. The directors upheld Bris
tol, however, and Donnahue, said to
be the best umpire in the league,
will have to go.
All of which will have the effect of
causing Asheville to make a strong
try for the Carolina league, where
rules are more firmly established.
The fact that Asheville is in a league
with five Tennessee towns and that
she has occupied the top of the col
umn most of the season is consid
ered by Asheville people as the rea
son for Asheville getting the short
end of the deal.
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Big Table of Laces that will attract
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Included are Fine Vais, Cotton Torchons, Wide Cluny
Insertings and Edges in a variety of pretty patterns.
It’s to be a clearance of broken lines that were up to 20c
Choice for 10c Yd.
Governor Kitchen spent last night
at the Central on his way to Davidson
where he speaks today at the mer
chants’ picnic. He was taken to Da
vidson by Mr. C. O. Kuester. They
went in a auto.
Can’t look well, eat well or feel well
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Don’t use harsh physics. The reac
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stomach, cure constipation.
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