STOMACH TROUBLE
FOR FIVE YEARS
Majority of Friend* Thought Mr.
; _ Hughes Would Die, But
OH Helped Him to
Recovery.
Pomeroyton, Ky.—ln Interesting ad
vices from this place, Mr. A. J. Hughes
writes as fellows: "I was down wilh
stomach trouble for five (5) years, and
would have sick headache so bad, at
times, that I thought surely I would die.
I tried different treatments, but they
did not seem to do me any good. A
I got so bad, I could not eat or steep,
and all my friends, except one, thought I
would die. He advised me to try
Thedford's Black-Draught, and quit
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Washington Loom* Large a* s Center
of Interest—Legislatures Busy In
Many States—The Light* and
Shadows of the News.
War Bulletins §
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Petrograd described the flight of i
the Austrian army through the Car
pathians as becoming more disorder
ly, while Berlin officially admitted the
defeat and retreat of the Allies of
Germany. .
Berlin announced that the French
were concentrating forces for a gen
eral attack In the Voßges on a line
approximately ninety miles long au!
sxtendlng from Belforf to Nancy. .
John F. Bans, a correspondent of the
- Chicago Dally Newa, sent from Socha
cxew a despatch saying that In the bat
tle near there the Russians allowed
the, Germans to cross the Bzura Hivor,
then surrounded them and cut a whole
division to pieces.
German'y formally notified the Unit
ed States that American Consuls In
Belgium must be acceptable to fie
German military authorities and that
aome of the Consuls should be with
drawn. temporarily at least. •
Great activity Is being displayed
•long the battle front. German airmen
paying a surprise vlqlt to Nancy;
French aviators to British to
Brussels and other Belgian towns occu
pied by the Germans, and German air
men to Polish cities.
A convoy of seven British navy sea
planes visited the German naval base
at Cuxhaven and dropped bombs on
■hips ami the gas works. All but one
of the British airmen returned safely
to the ships which convoyed them.
Thousands of typhus cases among
the German troops in Poland Including
male nurses, are reported.
Dr. Karl Llebknecbt, the. Socialist
deputy, who voted against the latest
war budget In the Reichstag, has been
ordered to Join his regiment of re
serves ss a punishment for his anti
war attitude. \
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Washington jj
Secretary Itedfleld told President
Wllscttit and the Cabinet that exports i
from the United States during De
cember, until December 26, exceeded I
the Imports by 188,000,000.
Representative Mann, minority load- ]
er of House, has Introduced bill for
•clentlflc tariff revision.
President Wilson declares his sup
port of Jones bill for ultimate Philip- ]
pine independence will not be altered ,
by recent disturbances. ,
President Wilson In a note to Great ,
Britain protested against the unwar- |
ranted Interference of the British fleet
with the legitimate foreign trado of ,
the United States and demanded aa i
•arly Improvement In the treatment of |
Amrlcan commerce.
In reply to a report that he would i
resign from the Cabinet. Secretary ,
Bryan said. "I am not resigning again
or yet; please make the customary .
denial"
The Speaker and Mrs. Champ Clark ,
announced the engagement of their |
daughter, Genevieve, to James M. \
Thompson, of Nsw Orleans.
□ I
Aa a result of "Billy" Sunday cam- i
palgn In Das Moines, fa., all taloont
will be forced to close doors by Febru
ary It.
The Illinois Central Railroad bt's be
gun the construction of a 300,000
hospital at Chicago. ' ,
Justice Lamar of the United States ,
Supreme Court granted appeal to have
the petition of Leo M. Frank, prsieat- |
•d to the Supreme Court.
Archbishlp Rlordan, of the Catholic
nmrrti, dlnl hla hum. In H.n i
Cisco, aged 63.
Maj. Gen. John F. O'Ryan, command
ing the New York National Guard, an- ,
Bounced that the "pink tea" days of q
the National Ouard are over, and that
In the future more attention will be
paid to military than social training.
Harry Alvey, his wife, and three
children were burned to death whea
lira destroyed their home near Winter
Haven, Fla.
The law abolishing agencies, adopt
ed by the voters of Washington, waa
declared valid In a decision of the Uni
ted States Court of Appeals.
Equal suffragists of .Wilmington,
Del., put a wreath on the grave of
James Ashton Bayard, one of the sign
ers of the Treaty of Ohsnt, who Is '
burled there.
George Horn, aged 29, of Millvllle,
N. J., shot and killed six-year-old
Beatrice Bailey, aged si*. He fired
with the intention of shooting Alice
Fettit, whom he feared would jilt J
> taking other medicines. I decided to
take his advice; although I did not have
any«coa*dence in it. -
I have now been taking Black-Draught
for three months, and it has tured me—
haven't had those awful sick headaches
since I began using it.
- I am so thankful for what Biack
i Draught has done for me."
i Thedford's Black-Draught has been
I found a very valuable medicine for de
t rangements of the stomach and liver. It
. is composed of pure, vegetable herbs,
' contains no dangerous ingredients, and
acts gently, yet surely. It can be freely
used by young and old, and should be
kept in every family chest.
Get a package today.
Only a quarter. f-m
riussle Leder, fltieeu, living in New
York, committed suicide by Inhaling
gas after slie received word her family
had lost their home in Kzeszow,
Gallclo, by. the war.
Moulds for making counterfeit half
dollars were found In the cell of
Willißm rtrandon, who is serving a
sentence of five years In tho Mis
souri State Prison.
Four heed women were burned to
death and more than half a dozen
other persons were injured when
i flames swept the Cambridge City
Home In North Cambridge, Mass.
The will of Miss Caroline P. Whit
lock, of Atlantic City, N. J,, stipulated
that a negro band should follow the
nearner'fn her funeral procession play
ing lively airs
The creation of a S.tate constabulary
In New York, similar to the constabu
laries of Pennsylvania and other
slates, IK being advocated by The Mer
chants' Association,
j Thomas W. Davis, 70 years old, re
j cording grand secretary of the brand
Lodge of Massachusetts Maßons, died
jat his home In Belmont. He was a
33rd degree Mason.
I Dr. C. M. Hall, Inventor of the elec
. trolytlc process by which aluminum
was..reduced In cost from $25 to 18
cents per pound, died at'Dayiona, Fla.
Venezuela has formally proposed to
all the neutral governments of Europe
and Asia, as well as Ihe two Americas,
thai a conference be held In Washing
ton to revlae or supplement the rules
of international law respecting the
rights of neutrals In tho present war.
Beneficial results of the new welfare
system Introduced In Sing Sine prison
are already being shown, Warden
Thomas Mott Osborne told members
of tho West Side Y. M. C. A., In New
York. v
William O. McAdoo, Secretary of
tho Treasury, left Washington to act
as the representative of President Wil
son at the opening of the exposition at
San Diego.
Stanley Townsend, 27 years old. the
champion all-around athlete of the Y.
M. C. A., of South New Jersey, was
drowned when his sneak boat upset
near Atlantic City.
The Firm National Bank of Isllp. 1,.
1., closed Its doors after a run brought
about by (ho disappearance of 11. C.
Ilaff, cashier, who later returned.
Two negroes were beaten to death,
and several while men were shot and
wounded during race rioting at Fair
play, 8. C.
The number of marriage licenses 1>
sued In Chicago In 1914 shows a de
crease of 916 below the total of last
year.
L The lumber yards of the Pope A
Cottle Co., at Chelsea, Mass., were de
stroyed by Are. at a loss of $1.25,000.
The Amorlcan Red Cross hat Issued
an appeal for funds for aid of the
starving thousands In Mexico.
Assemblyman-elect Charles W. Os
trom of lloboken. N. J., announces he
will Introduce a bill taxing all bache
lors.
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Sporting
iiiiiiumOTimmnnnmniiipjiwwimiMiiiwiMii—
The services of Chief Bender have
been awarded to the Federal league
club of Haltlmor* The Indian inalut
ed upon going to"* the team that
sheltered his old time friend and side
partner, Eddie Plank.
Robert McLean, international Ice
skating champion holder of all ama
teur records from 22Q yards up to two
miles, announced that ho no tongw
was an amateur. McLean admitted
that he received $75 a week and other
perquisites for exhibition skating.
Dr. Frank Sexton, coach of the Har
vard baseball team, endorsed summer
ball for collegians and advocated an
annual round robin series between the
leading college nines of ths country
to decide the champlonshfp.
Chief Bender, former Athletic hero,
predicts that Wyckoff will be one of
the beet pitchers of the oountry within
the next two years. "All he lacks Is
control and that will come to him,"
says the Indian.
| Foreign j
Forty trains of German dead from
the western front have been sent to
Cbarlerol to be burned In furnaces.
The wine harvest In eastern Francs
.Is 1,484.000,000 gallons as against
1,080,000,000 gaUons In 1»12.
The Bank of France has declared a
-dividend of~9o fraucs a share for ths
second half of the fiscal year.
A dispatch from Petragrsd says thit
an order has been Issued there by
the Russian Government prohibiting
the sale of all alcoholic drinks in
the city. Including beer. This order
applies even to the clubs and high
grade restaurants.
. A Parisian weekly has offered Its
readers SI,OOO for the best forecast
of the post-bellum frontiers or the Eu
ropean countries, the award to be
msdo after a treaty of peace Is made.
The cruiser -Tennessse Is transport
ing about 600 refugees of different na
tionalities 'from Jaffa. Asia Minor, to
Alexandria, Egypt.
Five thousand horses have been pur
! chased In Argentine for the British
army by Cunningham Graham, a Gov
ernment sgent. )
Mauy arrests have been made at
ipekin, China, In the alleged plot to
depose President Yuan Shi K'aL"
'MARKETING WORLD'S
GREATEST PROBLEM
———
WE ARE LONG ON PROOUCTION,
SHORT ON DISTRIBUTION,
By Peter Radford
Lecturer National Farmers' Union;
The economic, distribution of farm
products Is today the world's greatest
problem and the war, while It has
brought Its hardships, has clearly em
phasized the Importance of distribu
tion as a factor In American agricul
ture and promises to give tho farm
ers the co-operation of the govern
ment and tho business men tho
solution of their marketing problem.
This result will, In a measure, com
pensate us for our war losses, for the
business interests and government
have been In the main assisting al
most exclusively on the production
side of agriculture. While the depart
ment of agriculture has been dumping
tons of literature on the farmer telling
him how to produce, the farmer has
been dumping tons of products in the
nation's garbage can for want of a
market.
The World Will Never 6tarve.
At no time since Adam and Eve
were driven from the Garden of Eden
have the inhabitants of this world
suffered from lack of production, but
some people have gone hungry from
the day of creation to this good hour
for the lack of proper distribution.
Slight variations In production have
forced a change In diet and one local
ity has felt the pinch of want, while
another surfeited, but the world as a
whole has ever been a land of plenty.
We now have less than one-tenth of
the tillable land of the earth's surface
under cultivation, and we not only
have this surplus area to draw on but
It Is safe to estimate that In case of
dire necessity one-half the earth's
population could at the present time
knock their living out of the trees
of the forest, gather tt from wild
vines and draw It from streams. No
one should become alarmed; the
world will never starve.
The consumer has" always feared
that the producer would not supply
him and his fright has found expres
sion on the statute books of our states
and nations and the farmer has been
urged to produce recklessly and with
out reference to a market, and regard
less of the demands of the consume?.
Back to the 8011.
The city people have been urging
each other to move back to the farm,
but very few of thertl have moved.
We welcome our city cousins back to
the soli and this earth's surface con
tains 16,092,160,000 Idle acres of till
able land where they can make a
living by tickling the earth with a
forked stick, but we do not need them
so far as Increasing production Is con
cerned; we now have all the producers
we can use. The city man has very
erroneous ideas of agricultural condi
tions. The commonly accepted theory
that we are short on production Is all
wrong. Our annual Increase In pro
duction far exceeds that of our In
crease In population.
The World at a Farm.
- Taking /he world as one big farm,
wo find two billion acres of land In
cultivation. Of this amount there Is
approximately 750,000,000 acres on the
western and 1,260,000.000 acres on the
eastern hemisphere, In cultivation.
This estimate, of course, does not In
clude grazing lands, forests, etc.,
where large quantities of meat are
produced.
The world's annual crop approxi
mates fifteen billion bushels of ce
reals, thirteen billion pounds of fibre
and sixty-five million tons of meat.
The average annual world crop for
the past Ave years, compared with the
previous Ave years, is as follows:
Past Half Previous Half
Crops— Decade. Decade.
Corn (Bu.) 8,934,174,000 3.403,655,000
Wheat(Bu.) 3,522,769,000 3,257,526,000
Oats (Bu.) 4,120,017,000 3,508,315.000
Cotton (Bales) 19,863,800 17.541,200
The world shows an average In
crease In cereal production of 13 per
cent during the past decade, compared
with the previous five years, while the
world's population shows an Increase
of only three per cent.
The gain In production tar exceeds
that of our Increase In population, and
ft Is safe to estimate that the farmer
can easily Increase production 25 per
cent If a remunerative market can be
found for the products. In textile
fibres the world shows an Increase
during the past half decade In produc
tion of H> per cent against a popula
tion Increaae of three per'eent.
The people of this nation should
address themselves to the subject of
Improved facilities for distribution.
Over-production and crop mortgage
force the farmers Into ruinous com
petition with each other. The remedy
lies In organisation and In coopera
tion in marketing.
PLAYGROUNDS FOR THE CITY
Statistics Show Lets Crims In Places
Where the Rsoreatlon Plan '
Obtains.
At a meeting of the City Club In
Philadelphia recently at which the
subject of municipal recreation was
undsr discussion one of the speakers
gave utterance to the Miltlment: "A
foot of playground Is worth an acre
of penal Institutions."
It Is difficult to gauge the value of
the playground, but In every city
where a playground or a system of
playgrounds has been eetabllshed the
testimony has been In Its favor as a
beneficent Institution. Host of our
American cttles did not give much
thought to the recreation Idea In the
beginning, but noae of them under
took to get along without prlfont.
Perhaps If the playgrounds were more
numerous the country might be able
to dispense with a few acres of Its
penal establishments.
That the playground had a civil
ising and elevating Influence Is not to
be doubted. Figures compiled In va
rious cities show that Juvenile of
fenses are fewest In localities where
recreation grounds are available.
They also show that there are fewer
accldenta and Injuries to children In
such neighborhoods. Children who
are "raised up In the streets" make
trouble for themselves and for other
persons. In clUes where there Is not
a playground system It Is Insvltable
that children will play In the at reels
—for it Is the nature of the child to
play-
No otty ever made a bad Investment
In buying a playground or In establish
ing a system of playgrounds.
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COMINQ EVENTS.
Annual Live Stock Meeting. Btate*ville
January j»]s.
Tri-Kmte Medical Association, Charlee
ton. 8. C.—Feb. 17-18. 1915.
Charlotte Banks Prosper.
Whatever reeling of restricted op
erations there is or has been exper
ienced in the realm of finance, H wltl
not be manifest early in January
, when the hundreds of shareholders in
the banks of Charlotte will receive
their usual dividend checks, the dis
bursement from this source from the
eight banking Institutions of Char
lotte amounting to |108,500. Checks
. are sent out from each of the banks
January 1. That the banks of th«
city are able to make this showing is
considered remarkable. The financial
houses of Charlotte have, of course,
j suffered some along with all other
| lines of business as a result of the
I war In Europe, but they have not
fallen under such lines as to force a
retrenchment in dividends. The
shareholders get Just as much
j profit from their holdings in Char
{ lotte banks this January as they did
last year when there was no dream
of distant trouble nor Indication of
forthcoming depression. ,
Build Branch House.
Morris & Co., Chicago packers, are
arranging to ereet and equip an up
to-date branch house in Winston-
Salem. While the plans have not yet
been perfected, It is stated that the
building will be erected near the union
station, will have a frontage of 51
feet on Fourth street, will extend
along the Southern railway 100 feet
and In the rear will have a width of
SO feet. The building will be three
Btorles high with a bnseftient and will
be constructed of red pressed brick,
giving It a modern and handsome ap
pearance. «
Aanlyze Dairy Product*.
In order that purchasers of cream
and Ice cream from cities other than
Ashevllle may see In what respects
Ashevllle products of this kind are
superior and where they are excelled,
the health officer has ordered that
analyses of the butterfat of the prod
uct received from out-of-town points
be made daily. The results of the
Investigations will be published each
month in the bulletin Issued by the
health department.
Burns With Loss of SIS,OOO.
The handsome country home of Dr.
T. P. Cheesbrough, two miles from
Ashevllle, on the Swannanoa river,
was destroyed by fire at an early hout
one morning recently, with a lotes of
$15,000, one-half of which is covered
by Insurance.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BRIEFB.
Dr. J. T. Johnson, aged 79, a Con
federate eteran of Hickory, died a few
days ago of pneumonia.
A new roof and other Improvements
are being made on the Wake county
court house.
Artl ur B. Van Buren, a populai
young Wilmington lawyer, died at hit
home recently.
A West Virginia negro was found
dead In the public highway near Wll
son. While In a drunken condition
he had frozen to death.
Owing to dissatisfaction thnong the
contestants regarding the awards, the
hill climb was outlawed at Ashevllle
The cold and lnclemtjftj. weather
Indefinitely postponed Wilson's com
munity Christmas tree.
There are no hard times In New.
bern. This Is a fact that Is undlsput
able and as much as the pessimist
ay rave, there Is ample evidence al
hand to prove that there has been
more money In circulation in New
bern and Craven counties during the
post four weeks than there was dur
Ing the same period last year.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ford, of Ashe
vllle recently-were presented with the
little girl who was found on thelt
doorsteps during the early part ol
last summer, snugly wrapped In warm
clothing and .tucked In a large basket
They made application to adopt the
child to Clerk of the Superior Court
John H. Cathey and the latter grant
ed them the permanent custody of the
child, who has been christened Vlr
glnla May.
Governor Craig Is spending a week
or more In Ashevllle.
Employees of the White Furniture
Company, of Mebane, gave the ofTlcers
a handsome present showing their
appreciation for 12 months* steady
employment.
The Wilmington postofflce did It
self proud In the handling of Christ
mas mail, breaking a number or good
record* and having reason to feel
good over Its holiday business, rush
ing as It wa*. During Christmas week
80,000 parcels passed through the of
(lce putward bound—more than 1,000
sacks.
Congressman Oudger's mother-in
law. Mrs. Carolina H. Hawkins, died
at Hendersonvllls a few days ago.
The Young Woman's Christian As
sociation of Wlniton-Salem has been
chartered by the secretary of state.
Ashevllle dealers, who dispose of
foodstuffs which are not peeled, wash
ed or cooked by the purchaser hare
been advised by Health Officer Cart
V. Reynolds that the law providing
that such articles shall be well wrap
ped before they leave the place of
bt>*'ne»; of the salesman will be
-•v!''!) enforced atter the first of the
rear.
Treatment for Sick Birds.
Quarantine or kill sick birds. If
you treat the sick, let It be done sway [
from the flock. Olve one grain soda, j
three grains subnltrate of blatnuth,
two grains of powdered cinchona
bark three times a day. This is to
check the diarrhea. After the diarrhea
has been checked give a good poultry
tonic. This last should also be fed
to the flock at large. Qlve turkeys
sick with It the same treatment.
Earth Fleers Beet
The West Virginia experiment sta
tion made a test of the comparative
merits of board floors and natural'
earth floors In the hen houses, with
the conclusion that cleanly-kept earth
floors were much the better.
Raise More Dueka.
Why not raise more ducks T They
bring excellent prices for thslr weight
and they are not easy subjects for dl»
ease.
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CHURCH
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. THE FARMERS THE CUBTODIANS
OF THE NATK)N'B MORALITY.
Co-operation of Church* School and
Press Essential to Community
Bulfdlng.
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By Peter Radford
Lecturer National Farmers' Union. *
The church, the press and the school
form a triple alliance of progress that
guides the destiny of every commun
ity, State and nation. Without them
civilization would wither and die and
through them life may attain its great
est blessing, power and knowledge.
The farmers of this nation are greatly
Indebted to this social triumvirate, tor
their uplifting influence, and on behalf
of the American plowmen I want to
thank those engaged In these high
callings for their able and efficient
service, and I shall offer to the press
a series of articles on co-operation
between these Important influences
and the farmers in the hope of In
creasing the efficiency of all by mu
tual understanding and organized ef
fort. We will take up, first, the rural
church
•The Farmers Are Great Church Build
er*.
The American farmer. Is the greatest
church builder the world has ever
known He Is the custodian of the
nation's morality; upon his shoulders
! rests the "ark of the covenant" and
he is more responsive to rellgiqus In
fluences than any other class of cit
izenship
The farmers ot this nation have
built 120,000 churches at a cost ot
$750,000,000, and the annual contrlbu- {
tlon ot the nation toward all church
Institutions approximates $200,000,000
per annum. The farmers of the Uni
ted states build 22 churches per day. j
There are 20,000,000 rural church com-1
munlcants on the farm, and 54 per!
cent ot the total membership of all
churches reside In the country.
The farm is the power-house of all
progress and the birthplace of all that
is noble. The Garden of Eden was
in the country and the man who would
get close to God must first get close
to nature
The Functions of a Rural Church.
If the rural churches today are go
ing to render a service which this age
demands, there must be co-operation
between the religious, social and eco
nomic life of the community.
The church to attain Its fullest meas
ure of success must enrich the Uvea
of the people In the community it!
serves; it must build character;' devel
op thought and Increase the efficiency
of human life. It must serve the so
cial, business and intellectual, as well
as the spiritual and moral side ot 11 re.
It religion does not make a man more
capable, more useful and more just,
what good is It? We want a practical
religion, one we can live by and farm
by, as well as die oy.
F»wer and Better Otiurches.
Blessed Is that rural community
which has but one place of worship.
While competition is the life of trade,
It is death to the rural church and
moral starvation to the community.
Petty sectarianism Is a scourge that
blights the Hfe, and the church preju
dice saps the vitality, of many com
munities. An over-churched commun
ity Is a crime against religion, a seri
ous handicap to society and a useless
tax upon agriculture.
Whl|e denominations are essential
and church pride .commendable, the
high teaching ot universal Christianity
must prevail It the rural church Is to
fulfill Its mission to agriculture.
We frequently have three or four
churches in a community which Is not
able to adequately support one. Small
congregations attend services once a
month and all fall to perform the re
ligious tunctions of the community.
The division of religious forces and
the breaking into fragments of moral
efforts is ofttlmes little less than a
calamity and deteats the very purpose
they seek to promote.
The evils of too many churches can
be minimized by cooperation The
social and economic life of a rural
community are respective units and
cannot.be successfully divided by de
nominational lines, and the churches
can only occupy this Important field
by co-operation and coordination.
The efficient country church will
definitely serve Its community by lead
ing in aJI worthy efforts at community '
building, In uniting the people in all j
cooperative endeavors for the gen
eral welfare of the community and in
arousing a real love for country life
and loyalty to the country home and
these results can only be successfully
accomplished by the united effort of
the press, the school, the church and
organised farmers y
Justice Thompklns, In the New
York Supreme Court at Newburgh, N.
Y„ granted an Injunction restraining
the New York Control Railroad from
Issuing $50,000,000 worth of 4 per cent
bond*.
Walter Smith, an American, of Buf
falo, N. Y, was shot and killed and
a companion, Charles Dorch, wounded
when fired on by Canadian troops
while hunting ducks near Fort Erie,
Ontario.
Major H' -ace O. Kemp, of Boston,
former State Benator, and Massachu
setts militia officer, was killed by the
fumes of his automobile which he was
endeavoring to get into shape.
Right transcontinental trains with
about 1,000 passengers from New York
and other eastern points were maroon
ed In southern Arlsona by Washout*
resulting from heaw rans.
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By vlrti e of so Older of the Superior Onort
of Alama-oe county, mede In a Special Pro
ceedlna* whereto alt the betra-al-law and the
widow of the late A. O- Cooper were made
Krtlee for the parpoee of Helling lor pirtt
m the real property of taid A. U. Cooper,
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SATURDAY, JAN. 80, 1915.
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Thu December Sod, 19U.
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| SUNDAY SGHOOL.
Lesson I.—First Quarter, For
i; Jan. 3,1815.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.
Text of the Lesion, Judg. ii, 7-19.
! Memory Verses, 11, 12—Golden Text,
Hos. xiv, 4—Commentary Prepared
j by Rev. D. M. Stearn*.
| The letuons of tbis .war Infill with j
five studies lu the book of .liulyejj, L
showing !lie failure of Israel, God's In- (
• terveutlou and mini's faithlessness. Ev
ery deliverer whom God raised up was
In some sense suggest! i'e of the great |
Deliverer, the l.ord Jesus Christ, and j
each one wrought In Hie power of the
lloly Spirit. .Joshua tells of the en-1
trance of Israel Into the promised land j
and its subjugation and division among
"the tribes, ending with Joshua's fare-.
' "well appeal to Israel to fear ihe Lord'
' anil serve tllmlti sincerity and In truth I
' and the determination of the people so |
i to do (Josh. xxlv. l£ -ii. One of his
■ grandest farewell words waft when he
i reminded the people that not one thing
I had failed of ail the good firings which
• the I.ord had spoken (Josh, xxili, Hi.
■ See the same blessed testimony in I
'j Kings. vIU. '"' O. and let each one lay ll
• to heart for his mvn special comfort.
I The section assigned us for this day's
! lesson Is a concise epitome of the iiook
■ of Judges, telling of Israel's persistent
I turning away from God ami of Ilis
t great patience with them. I>uvl(l simi
■ marlzcil the record in- these words:
i "Many times did Hi* deliver them, but
I they provoked Him with their counsel
I and were brought i«w for rlicit- iniipil
• ty. Nevertheless fie regarded llieir iif
■ motion when He heard their ci'y" l's.
I cvl, 4:!, 44: ixjc vill. 3-Si. I'D ui siituma
i rlzed Joshua anil Judges iu these words:
t "When He had destroyed seven nations
■j lu the land of Canaan lie divided their
i land to them by lot. And after that lie
I gave unto them Judges about tile space
■ of 4.V) years until Samuel the propl/K"
. j (Acts x 1 ii, lit. 20i.
The first chapter of Judges tells how
'! tribe after tribe had failed to drive out
II the people of the land as they had been
commanded, and our lesson chapter
I opens wltb the Lord's reproof for this
; sin, saying: "Ye have uot obeyed my
i voice. Why have ye done this?"
I (Verse 2.)
i Our lesson beglus by telling us that
while Joshua lived and also during the
lifetime of the elders that outlived
■ Joshua the people' served the Lord.
i The Lord and even one man can lead
i a host of people in the right direction.
■ Think of the worldwide- testimony to
the God of Daniel fey trie faithfulness
■ of himself and his three frleuds. See
i II Chron. xvi, !). and desire above all
; things a whole heart for Ilim,
The next "lesson verses tell of the
death and burial of Joshua, and these
three verses (7-9) are identical with
Josh, xxlv, 2'J-31. When the Spirit re
peats words He thus asks special at
i tentiou to them. The words that spe
cially hold me are "Joshua the servant
of the Lord" and "The people served
the Lord" and make ine wish to appro
priate more fully Ihe beautiful heart
words "Whose I am aijd whom I serve"
(Acts xxvll, 2!} i. Joshua ends with the
burial of tsvo other bodies, those of
Joseph after so long a time and Elea
rar, the sort of Aaron.
Bodies are buried, but people go on
living better without tlteni (if redeem
ed) until yie time of the resurrection
bodies lltiw pitiful to read of "a gen
eration which knew. not Ihe I,ord"
(verse 101. and they the descendants of
a people for whom the I-ord wrought
ns He had never wrought for any other
nation! They forsook the Lord God
of their fathers, did evil in His sight
and worshiped the idols tf the nations
which should have I teen destroyed by
them, for the Lord had "Thou
sbalt make no covenant wltb theui nor
shew mercy unto them. * for thou
art an holy people unto the Lord thy
God, • * * a special people unto Him
self above all people that are upon the
face of the earth" (Deut. vil, 2-0).
Such sowing brings sad reaping ac
cording to lesson verses 14. 15; chapter
111, 5-8, 12, 13, and records In chapters
following of similar turnings away
from God.
A very odd thumbs and toes story of
sowing and reaping Is found in chapter
1, 0, 7. Tie principle always stands,
"Whatsoever a man soweth that shall
he also reap" (Gal. vi, 7). Nevertheless
the Lord raised up judges, who deliv
ered them, for the Lord was with the
Judge (verses 10, 18: chapter 111, 0. 101.
We should think that, the Lord would
weary of forgiving and delivering
' a people whom He knew would after a
j time commit the same sins again, but
He is the same Lord who told Peter
to forgive until seventy times seven,
or until the end of Daniel's seventy
sevens. which means the coming of the
kingdom.
They would not hearken unto their
Judges; they turned quickly out of the
way; they ceased not from their own
doings nor from their stubborn way
(verses 17, 10). Long afterward It was
written of them, "Their doings will not
suffer them to turn onto their God"
(Hos. ▼, 4, margin).
In the days of tbelr kings they mock
ed the messengers of God and despised
His words sod misused His prophets
(II Chron. xxrvl,, 10). and when the
Messiah csmo In the fullness of time
they cruclfled Him. Yet He said: "How
often would I, * * • but ye would not"
"O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself,
but In Me i* thine help." "I will heal
their backilldlng; I will love them free
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