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10 THE OHa^OTTB sr^ , OC i OBtR 13, loH Sunday School Lesson—Young Peoples l opic Edited by Wm. T, Ellis KING, SOME EXILES AND A HOMECOMING. fhf International Sunday School Les- Sf>a for Oct. 16 1* ‘‘The Return From I'aptlrlty.” Ezra 1: 11; 2: 64-70. One Persian monarch has been flg- urinjr in 'he newspapers of late, and he ha. presented rather an Ignoble 3l‘^ctacle. Now a more interested constituency—the twenty-eight mll- ion members of the Sunday schools of ^he world—will ihis week study about another Persian ruler, known in ' ture as he Great Kinr.” Cyrus The Great s one of the half dozen world rulers of all hi.story. The known earth was then in vassalage to Persia.What a descent to the weakness, anarchy and misen* of tbe Persia of today! The other nation that figures in ♦he story is the Jewish people: then, as now. a nation despite their lack of kinf. capital and organized govern ment. They were exiles in Babylonia and Per.=.ia. An Interesting analogy is the pr ^ !'.t-day fact that while many nations pven more eager than t ' c t rid of the Jews, they are ««teauil, increasing in importance, power, solidarity and national con sciousness. Even the Jews who have remained in Babylonia and Persia unto this dav—and they number hun dreds of thousands—are beginning to lift up their heads in newness of hope and self-confldence. The prophesied exile of the Jews made possible by the few who go abroad and the many who stay behind. “If j’ou cannot go, send,” was a cry raised in Babylonia by Ezra and his lieutenants nearly 2,500 years before it was heard in missionary meetings. The Restored Treasures. As the buried libraries of Babylonia are today being dug up to shed new light upon the beginnings of civiliza tion. and as the tombs of Eg^pt are yielding up their w’ell-kept records, so the treasures of the Jewish temple were restored to the returning exiles by Cyrus. "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform.” He had made Israel a nation by the bondage in Egypt; now He had cured them of Idolatry by the exile in Baby- Ion. So He had strangely preserved for them, in the hands of their ene mies, the utensils for temple use. They could not have kept these them selves; so Jehovah provided a Baby lonian storage vault for thoni. W’e may yet learn that He has likewise kept the Ark of the Covenant in the secret depths of Mount Moriah, to be restored in His own good time. The return—which a later lesson will enable us to study more in detail —was in sharp contrast to the journey from Jerusalem to Babylon. Then the Jews were captives in tears and mis ery, spoiled of all their possessions, was almost over. The promised re-! torn from their homes. Now they turn had been permitted by Cyrus., were a well-organized company, num- ’^ho had various reasons of policy forjbering above forty-two thousand, with wishing to pos.-ess the lovalty of the I more than seven thousand servants 'fws. and also to establish them once in ;he srrategic outpost of his kingdom ar Jerusalem. Back of the “Great King," of course, and moving They had the royal favor of the king of the known world. They were prop erly equipped, and had great treasure, both for their own use and for the re- my-feriouslv upon his will, was the‘building of the temple. The ywere 'xlng of Kines. The mightiest of;a broader-minded and more wordly- • ^ th i' only n servant to do the willjwise company than they had been half '’if ♦hr M-''!t Hiffli. (?0d shapes hi.tor\ :>>r His own sovereign piu'pose in the promotion of His kingdom. "Behind the dim unknown. S ande'h God within the shadow, iveei'ing vatrh above his own." Taught by Trouble. Experience is a schoolmaster who alwa>8 carries a rod. The Jews, un- 'vu;'12 ^0 icarn lessons in contrast was complete, soft r hool. ha;l been ^ent into Babylon was a great city. The whole ,e The sole and a%c^®;1 purpose o centered there, and sent its trih- ♦he exile was to teach i ute of trade and people in a rich and constant stream. Babylon was full of a century before. Their sojourn at the seat of the world's finest civiliza tion had taught them many lessons that would tinge all their future ex perience. Back Home. •‘Hard-headed” men would be likely to approve of the Jews who stayed in Babylon, rather than of those who went back to the ruined city of Mount Do You Open Your S louth Like a young bird and guip down whatever food or medicine may be offered you ? Or, do you .want to know som'^thing of the com position and character or that which you take mto ypur stomach whether as food or medicine? Most intelligent and sensible people now-a-days insist on knowing what they employ whether as food or as medicine. Dt. Pierce believes they have a perfect right to INSIST upon such knowledge. So he publishes, broadcast and on each bottle-'wrappen what bis medicines are made of and verifies it under oath. This he feels he can welt afford to do because the more the ingredients of which his medicines are made are studied and understood the more will their superior curative virtues be appreciated. For the cure of woman’s peculiar weaknesses and derangements, giving rise to frequent Madache, backache,' dragging-down pain or distress and kindred symptoms of weakness, Dr. Pierce s Favorite Prescription is a most efficient remedy. It is equally effective in giving strength to nursing mothers and in preparing the system of the expectant mother for baby’s coming, thus rendering childbirth safe and comparatively painless. The “Fa vorite Prescription” is a most potent, strengthening tonic to the general system and to the organs distinctly feminine in particular. It is also a soothing arid invigorating nerv ine and cures nervous exhaustion, nervous prostation, neuralgia, nysteria, spasms, chorea or St. Vitus’s dance, and other distressing nervous symptoms attendant upon functional and organic diseases of the distinctly feminine organs. A host of medical authorities of all the several schools of practice, recommend each of the several ingredients of which “Favorite Prescription” is made for the cure of the diseases for which it is claimed to be a cure. You may read what they szy for yourself by senmng a postal card request for a free booklet of extracts from the leading authorities, to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. i., and it will come to you by return post. ^ It s foolish and often dangerous to experiment with new or but slightly tested med- Kines—someiim^ urged upon the afflictea as “just as goojd” or better than “Favo^te Frescnption. The dishonest dealer sometimes insists that he knows what the proffered substitute is made of, but you don’t and it is decidedly for your^ interest that you should know what you are taking into your stomach and system expecting it to act as a curative, lo kim its only a difference of profit. Therefore, insist on having Dr. Pierce’s Fa vorite Prescription. ^ Send 31 one-cent stamps to pay cost of mailing only on a free copy of Dr. Piisrce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser, 1008 pages cloth-bound. Address Dr. Pierce as above minded and instable-hearted people the lesson of loyality to God. They had continually wandered after the heathen gods of their neighbors. N'ow the treat question was. had they ^earned the lesson designed for th«'m *n this severe school? To miss The meaning of adversity is like re- 'uring a precious letter because one V'-s not like the postman's looks, ■j--* sends no meaningless trials. “But » ha» m".-e a preacher out of you,” a clo?e friend to a clerg>man. re- 'wing a deep sorrow through which business, social and political oppor tunities. As the cases of Daniel and his friends proved, the right sort of man might any day fall under im perial favor and contract profitable al liances. So far as prudence could foresee, Babylon was safe from the ravages of war: who would dar^ at tack this so great city, the capit^ of the earth? The comforts, pleasures and luxuries of life abounded there. On the other hand Jerusalem was only a ruin. There were none of the I believe in the Bible because It witnessed the w’ork of the wondrous is attested by wiser men than I, and mysterious Spirit of w’hom its men in whose scholarship, mental acu- pages tell, and who breathes through men and intellectual integrity I have its words a life-giving power. One confidence. The ablest minds of the can not carefully and reverently study Christian era have worked upon the history without seeing above and be- subject of the authenticity and credi hind the movements of nations the in- bility of the Bible, and, with a very telligent purpose of an overruling Be- few exceptions, they have stood spon- ing. That Spirit is understandable sor for it, and have acepted it as the only to one '\^'ho knows the Bible, rule of their lives. No one mind is History, life and human nature are equal £o thorough research in all de- inexplicable apart from the workings partments of Bible study, so wonder- of this Spirit w’hose mind is revealed ful is this book, and all of us are»in the pages which He has inspired. bound to defer to specialists; and I upon their testimony we pin our faith.! I believe in a Book which delivers I men in temptation. ‘Wherewithal •L‘ast eve"“I stood before a black-, ^ young man cleanse his Fay? WTien my ill-schooled spirit is aflame Some nobler, ampler life to win, I’ll stop and say, “The aids to noble life are all within.” Matthew Arnold. A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the Gospel.—Whittier. By, taking heed thereto acordlng to ves- i Thy Word.” eve smith’s door And heard the anvll^ ring its per chime; ’ I Then looking in I ww upofi the floor! ^ believe In the Bible as the book of Old hammers worn with beating Gospel which redeems . w j A * rum. mere were none oi me thU 0' home, even o( th« old V” 1% » IVf ^ t^elr Jathers used to know, '“w”'*., . BuBlnes. opportunitl.5 would b. vj-liordurtns-he six ions > ears When and asrlcultural opportunities was an unsurressful candidate for ft f*»^=t c^>>*rge A leaser soul would ^_ve be«‘n /'m^ittered and spoiled by fS-t ord^a’: It w «» the refining of the tD’d of Dnd’s character. ^-rfore I was afflicted I went astray, Bj^ now I observe Thy word,” —rote the Psalmist. That was Israel’s '■“perience. In exile it learned that .-hovah alone is God. Never more i’d its heart wander after idols. The -.irterness of exile was sweetened by ♦his fruit: the Jew« learned to give God His rightful place. A Teller and a Doer. "Of which things also I was a part,” '^rote Caesar in his account of his Gallic wars. Ezra is the scribe whose writing we now study; he is the nar rator of this record. A historian, he probably compiled several of the sa cred books of the Jews; and in a large part of the volume which bears hie name he speaks in the first person. His is the testimonv of an eye-wit- nefe«. He was a participant in the ecenes he describes. He was a doer ap well as a teller. Down along the Tigris River below Bagdad I saw a great shrine, which was pointed out as Ezra’s tomb. The Jews believe that he returned to Ba bylonia and was buried there. So fcreat is the esteem in which his mem ory is held that the Jew§ from a wide region made annual pilgrimages to this shrine. Prayers for children espe cially are supposed to be efflcacioua when offered here. The descendants of the exiles who remained behind thus honor the memory of the leader of those who left. For many Jews did not go back home when’ opportunity offered. Only less. Robbers and hostile armies both were to be feared. Every man who w’ent back would be severely taxed in purse, body and mind for the rebuild ing project. That sort of reasoning would have kept Abraham in the prosperous city of Ur of the Chaldees: and the Pil grim Fathers in Holland. It was the old, old choice that was offered the exiles. They could have the best, at a high price. Up in Judea awaited varied hardships—but also the pure worship of God. They had to make choice between the material and the spiritual. Sentiment and spirituality caled them back to the old home, where they could honor Jehovah, by the restoration of His pure worship upon Mount Zion. Personal ease and profit bade them remain in Babylon. One out of six chose the better part: it is eternal wisdom to seek the free dom and growth of the soul, and to put the concerns of the spirit above the concerns of the body. THE BOOK AND THE BELIEF. Terse Comments Upon the Uniform Prayer Meeting Topic of the Young People’s Societies — Christian En deavor, Etc.—For October 15, “Why I Believe the Bible.” Romans, 10:17; 15:4. By William T. Ellis. years of time. “ *How many anvils have you had,’ said I. ‘To wear and batter all these ham mers so?’ ‘Just one,’ he answered, then with twinkling eye, ‘Ihe anvil wears the hammer out, you know.’ “And so the Bible, anvil of Go’d’s word. For ages skeptic blows have beat upon; And tho’ the noise of Paine, Vol taire, was heard. The anvil is unworn — the ham mer’s gone. “Apprentice blows of ignorance, for sooth. May awe with sound and bupding sparks death w^hirled- 'fhe Master holds and turns the iron. His Truth, And shapes it as He wills, to bless the world.’ ‘ ! men. Given to nations, it has made them over; transformed heathendom is a vindication of the Book of Good News. The difference between such a nation as Great Britain'or America and, say, Russia or Japan, is‘at'basis an open Bible. I believe the Bible because the more we know of the hidden history of contemporaneous events, the more definitely they testify to the essential corectness of even the incidental statements of this extraordinarily comprehensive Book. Monuments, clay tablets, rock walls, sculptures and pottery, all bear witnessr to the truth of the inspired Record. I who write these lines have trav eled over the Bible lands, and can tes tify to the correspondence between the story and its setting. Also I have seen Babylbn’s wy.stes and Assyria’s ruins and the Chosen People persist ing above them; and I have a new re spect for the prophecies of the Old Testament, so awesomely fulfilled. first person. In these troubled, material times, when social ills are mpre closely per ceived than ever before, and the whole world is rocking with a strange un rest, it is well to get a firm grasp on a few definite, fundamental remedies. Many have been giving thought to a diagnosis of the ailments of our day; .. few’ have seen the cure. Resolved into About one out of six returned to Pal- itg elements, the case calls primarily Mtine. The remainder had struck new the appreciation of the Book— roots Into this fertile soil, and had right conduct upon the part of the in found prosperity. Business was good dividual, inspired by a clear preaching in Babylonia. Besides, the exiles from new-fangled medi- foreign land time; but the way to health is plainly their brethren ^^om Judah, ^ey ^ marked in that ever-newest of books, Hoing well the Holy Scriptures. So the Christian over sentimental and si iritua t relation to the Bible. Let us cori- The Goera and the Senders. ^^® as suggested, in the The stay-at-homes helped the goera- fnrth That is the universal rule. _ I climbed the sacred mountain.' Bible believes in man. tl presents the 'PniWvama with bands of Japanese most hopeful of all social programmes. pHgrims, I learned that they were but j repreaentatives of their respective i i believe in the Bible because I have communities: the whole neighborhood put it to the test. That, in the long had united to pay the costs. Thus run, must be the final criterion. The Christian Endeavor . book we trust is the one which has conventions. So, also, it is w itn zion- met the needs of our own personal Um today; J«ws all over the earth e,,perience. t>ay for.the maintenance of their fel- low religionists who have *‘®tunied to j »i believe the Bible is Inaplred,” said Palestine. Practically ®^ i Mr. Moody, ‘because It Inspires me.’ In the Holy Land today receives a What a thought-starting volume this • uorTion” from abroad. is! Consider the mountains of books In this manner the more pious ana t^at owe their inspiration directly to devoted to the stimulus. Then think upon the helped home. The ImmenM sum e - thousands of sermona which ahe every eMtry for the Journe.v, e*t«l>lUhm®nt of life in the ^^’^omisea thousands of Sunday School I^Uid, were provided by tnose wno, lesson expositions. An exhauatlesa for various reasons, were unable to mine — a perennial spring — la this ro themselves. Similarly, ^ne great Book which ha» triumphed over the miaaiui^ry propaganda of today is centuries. I believe in the Bible because the I believe the Bible because It alone among books mirrora my own heart and meets my own nldden needs. I believe the Bible because of its own inherent evidence of a more than human origin. It testifies to itself by its correspondences, co-ordination and essential unity. No other book—or, to speak more acurately, library of books—so fits together, like trunk and branchea of a tree. I believe the Bible because I have seen it work. ‘The entrance of Thy Word giveth light;” I have seen souls so lightened, and cultured and purified I have seen it make bad men good, weak man strong, foolish men wise. The best books of Christian evidence are the redeemed lives all about us. My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I ana dull:—Horace Bush- nell. No wonder people can not speak in prayer-meeting when they daily read twenty columns of newspaper to one square inch of Bible.—H. L. Hastings. SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS. No honor, no reward, however great, can be equal to the subtle satis faction that a man feels when he can point to his work and say, “The task I promised to perform with all loyalty and honesty to the utmost of my abili ty is finished.”—tlenry M. Stanley. See a Few of the Novelties We Keep in Stock Tite-on key holdera, with ring. Can not slip off and lose your keys, Price only 10 bents each, with the ring. Key rings—a variety. 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The wonderful thing about a man Is his power to become.—E. I. Bosworth. The past and the future are &hadows. The present is ours for aye. To us It is given to build our heaven In the kingdom of today. —Anon. The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and from without, who bears the heavie?-*^^ burdens cheerfully, and whose reliance on truth, on vir tue, on God, Is most unfaltering.—W. E. Channing. Opportunities do not come with neir values stamped upon them; ev- uuwei 11111112 tin'llmai-un D Babcock '‘’allenged.-Maltbie I Headache" Chills Dy/pepsia^ Malarta: ■ ®o^ocK. 25c. at W. L. Hand & Co.’s. NEVER OLPf OF WORK. The busiest little things ever made are Dr. King’s New Life Pills. 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I believe Inth© Bible because through its pages walks the lovely figure of Jesus Christ, he Redeemer, who is more real and living and near than the next door neighbor or the man at the adjoining desk. If we ac cept the Christ of the Bible we^are bound to acept the Bible of Chrfst. ‘Search the Scriptures; for • • ♦ they are they which testify of me.” I believe the Bible because I have studied it; the orthodoxy of a man who knows nothing about the Book he defendis is of small account. . I believe the Bible because I have THERE NO TIME TO HESITATE now about getting in your Wii^er’s supply of coal. Winter is here, and your furnaee, range, fire-place or par lor store needs feeding with clean and bl|;h grade coal that produces plenty of heat to warm your home or busi ness place with. You can get the best A-1 ooal at Avant’s. Our kindling and stove wood is the »ery best Avant Wood Be Coal Company Phone 402, City Yard. Phone 558, Dilworth Yard. 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