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f nE CHATHAM RECORD THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, on insertioa $1.00" One Square, two inaertio ' $1.50 . ,,Qn Square, one' men til . For Larger. Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. H. A. LONDON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription S1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance VOL. XXXV PITTStORO, CHATHAM COUNTY N jG., DlClMBlR 3. 1913 NO 17. bifHs notes for the busy in MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings bf Greatest Interest From All Parts of World. Southern. Shot accidentally while on a Thanks giving hunting trip, Johnnie Garst, 14 year? of age, son of John E. Garst, a n i t at candidate for recorder of the city of Atlanta, Ga., died in the Grady hospital the same day. Charles Bridwell, 10-year-old son ot Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Bridwell, residing or, the Mayson and Turner road, near the city of Atlanta, Ga., was instantly killed at two o'clock Thanksgiving Day in a pasture not far from his home, when a shotgun in the hands of his brother, Basil, aged 15, exploded, blow ing off the entire base of his skull. One hundred convicts at the state penitentiary and on chaingangs in the st. te of South Carolina were accorded executive clemency by Gov. Cole L. Klease in one day. Burglars blew open the safe in the postofftce at Douglasville, Ga. The safe was completely destroyed and a great deal of damage was done to the building, but the burglars did not se cure any money except a small amount cut of the cash drawer. Warren Clements, who has been on trial in the superior court at Valdosta, Ga.. charged with the murder of E. J. Griffin, was found guilty with a rec ommendation that be be sent to the penitentiary for life. He had been tried twice. The verdict was exactly the same as the first one. Thomas Martin Emerson, president of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad company, died at his home in Wilming ton. North Carolina, following an at tack of acute indigestion while on a trip of inspection over the system with members of the board cf direc tors. Mr. Emerson, attended by his physician and friends, reached Wil mington on a special train from the Scuth. and, while it was announced during the day that his condition was improved, there came a turn for the worse, and he died at eleven o'clock at night. He was taken ill at Durant, Ga., on an inspection tour. What was probably the largest car go of crossties ever shipped from any port in the world went forward from Brunswick on the steamship Evelyn. The cargo consisted of exactly 56,534 ties, every one of which were cut in this immediate vicinity and shipped to Brunswick, Ga. Sailing vessels, as well as steamers, have often sailed from Brunswick with as many as 40,000 or 45 000 ties, and on one or two occa sions large steamers have carried as many as 50,000, but this is the first time that the 50,000 mark has been passed in the history of the port of Brunswick. Secretary Daniels is preparing to begin the manufacture of cotton cloth ing for the navy in the Charleston, S. C, navy yard. General. Samuel Lewis Shank, mayor "of In dianapolis, Ind., has resigned as a re sult of labor troubles in that city and a threat of impeachment proceedings by a commitee of business men un less further disorders were averted. The sultan of Turkey was a losing litigant in the appellate division of the supreme court of the state of New York. A woman died intestate in Con stantinople, and the sultan claimed money left to her in New York, but he lost his suit. William Wilson. Finley, president of the Southern railway and a leading figure in movements for the develop ment of the South, died in Washing ton, as a result of a stroke tf apoplexy suffered a few hours before. He did not regain consciousness after he was stricken. Mr. Finley's family and friends and associates were wholly un prepared for his sudden death. Scarce ly past the prime of life, he was vig orous and energetic, and seemingly in the bist of life, until a moment before he was felled by the stroke. He was h rn in 1S53 in Pass Christian, Mis sissippi. r -r three weeks, Pittsburg, Pa., autor.iobilists have been flirting with death as they drove along Grant boule vard, the favorite motor tracks be tween the fashionable east and down town Pittsburg, according to the po lice. During that time patrolmen have collected 120 sticks of dynamite, ap parently scattered systematically along the road. They located another lot in the boulevard, and arrest Herman Leirlman, alleging he knew something ci the robbery of a contractor's maga zine from which the dynamite was stolen some time ago, and the police had been looking for the thief. Two intrepid navigators of the air, Lieuts. Hugh M. Kelly and Eric L. El lington, U. S. A., attached to the camp of the First aero corps, San Diego, Cal., were instantly killed at North Island, near that city, when they fell from an altitude of eighty or more feet in a dual control biplane. With in eight minutes after Lieutenant El lington had waved his hand as a sig nal to the mechanicians to let go the biplane, the army aviator and his bro ther officer were dead. The engine was working perfectly and the late i officers ascended to a height of 300 Itet. Ottoman Zar Adusht Hanish, "high priest of Maadaznan" and leader of the Maadaznan cult of sun worshipers, said to number about fourteen thou sand in different cities, was found guilty by a Federal jury in Chicago of sending objectionable literature by express in violation of the interstate commerce laws. The verdict brands as unfit for circulation the textbook of the cult. The book was read to the jury, and almost no other evidence was offered by either side. Fearing arrest by the Mexican au thorities on the charge of having as sisted in the recent escape to the Unit ed States battleship Rhode Island of Evaristo and Daniel Madero, J. F. Woodward, Jr., a member of the Amer ican colony at Vera Cruz, Mexico, and formerly of Monterey, is under the protection of the American flag aboard the battleship Michigan. Capt. Edward E. Capehart, commanding the Michi gan, is the senior officer of the squad ron at Vera Cruz. Rebel scouts have reported to Gen. Francisco Villa at Juarez that they have sighted the Federal outposts at Villa Ahumada, 84 miles south of Jua rez. The presence of the Federal forces at Villa Ahumada has caused no little concern in Juarez, as the rebel officers do not know definitely "whether they are the troops which re treated from Tierra Blanca after their defeat or are reinforcements from Chi huahua, again moving north to engage Villa. Thousands of dollars' worth of provisions were transferred from El Paso, Texas, to Juarez to be loaded on Villa's trains. Jose Santos .Zelaya, the former president of Nicaragua, arrested in bed at midnight on charges of having committed murder in Nicaragua, was held without bail for examination in New York City. Pending the arrival of a request for extradition to Nica ragua, he was remanded to prison. General Zelaya was arrested as a fugi tive from Justice on complaint of Rog er B. Wood, an assistant United States attorney. Mr. Wood charged that a warrant for Zelaya's apprehension for murder had been issued in Nicaragua, Ernest W. Darrow, a contracting ma son of Patchogue, Long Island, near New York City, celebrated Thanksgiv ing Day by taking his pick of over four hundred women who had offered to be his life mate. Darrow had been ad vertising for a wife since last May and the several hundred applicants not only besieged him by letter, by tel egraph and by telephone, but many visited him in person. Miss Julia Stagg, an English girl who landed in .Canada from England, won and the couple were married. Thanksgiving af ternoon. Darrow is a widower with four children. The theft of more than two hundred thousand dollars' worth of Union Pa cific Railroad company and General Electric company securities from the Farmers' Loan and Trust company of New York City became known when James E. Foye, 35 years old, a former $75 a month clerk of the trust com pany, was arrested as he stepped from a train in Philadelphia. The English government is taking up the question of the construction of a tunnel under the English channel, and Premier Asquith has invited the admiralty the war office and the board of trade to examine into the question and prepare full reports for submission to the committee on impe rial defense, which will decide as to its practicability. Washington. George Washington's surveying done in 1751 when, as a lad of 19, he ran lines with chain and compass through the wilderness of the Virginia hills for Lord Fairfax, has been checked up by government surveyors who have just made their reports and who found the work of the immortal patriot per fect. -Washington's survey blazes cut into the trunks of trees and long grown over have been rediscovered, and all are several feet higher from the ground than those the woodsmen of today would make. Some authori ties contend Washington made them from the saddle with an ax. A new phase of the cost of living problem was brought to the attention of the department of agriculture. T. P. Gill, secretary of the Irish board of agriculture, told Secretary Hous ton that speculators in the large cit ies of the United States were actively buying up this year's short American potato crop and planning to hold out for high prices, counting on the ex isting quarantine against potatoes from many foreign countries to aid them in their undertaking. Mr. Gill is in Washington to urge the removal of the embargo on potatoes from Ire land. President Wilson has nominated the three following named gentlemen fr American members of the Philip pine commission: Secretary of public instructions an i vice governor of -the Philippine Islands, Henderson S. Mar tin of Kansas; Secretary of com merce and police, Clinton L. Riggs of Baltimore, Md ; Secretary of the in terior, Winfred T. Denison of New York. Mr. Henderson is a lawyer and chairman the state board of public utilities of Kansas and lives at Topeka. He was for a long time chairman of the Democratic state com mittee of Kansas. Bruised and shaken, but otherwise uninjured, Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the United States army, received congratulations at the war department that a bad fall from his horse had not resulted more seri ously. General Wood- and his daugh ter were cantering across the parade ground at Fort Myer, Va., when the officer spurred his horse at a ditch. His charger, a high-spirited animal, unexpectedly leaped high in the air, rearing as it rose and throwing Gen eral Wood heavily to the ground, ren dering him unconscious. He quickly OF HNjHU CITIES CLAIM THAT PROPOSED RATES WOULD BE VERY UNJUST TO THEM. THEY ASK FOR REDUCTIONS Colonel Travis Brings Back Copy of The Petition cf the Virginia Cities. Making Fight For Corresponding Reduction. Raleigh. Chaiman Travis, of the tforth Carolina corporation commis sion, returning from Washington re cently brought with him a' copy of the petition on the part of Virginia cities intervening before the interstate com merce commission in the matter of the petition of railroad companies and North Carolina for permission to vio late the long and short haul clause i in applying the reduced interstate freight rates agreed upon by the special session of the North Caro lina legislature and the carriers. The Virginia cities are making a fight for corresponding reductions in local freight rates from Virginia to North Carolina points as compared with the proposed rates from .the West to Carolina points that are made on less than the combination of the locals. The jetition cites and presents as a special exhibit in the interest" of the Virginia cities' con tentions the Justice resolution pass ed by the regular session and re iterated by the special session of the North Carolina legislature that it is the fixed policy of the State of North Carolina that there should be no ex ceptions to the principle of the long and short haul clause of the Federal commerce act and specifes the at titude of North Carolina, with this resolution on her. statute books, be fore the Interstate commerce commis sion and joining in petition for viola tion of long and short haul prnciple. The Virginia cities' petition sets out that the North Carolina Justice intrastate rate act passed by the re cent special session as an exhibit to show additional freight rate discrimi nations that Virginia cities would suffer if the new rates, intrastate and interstate, for North Carolina, are to be applied. It sets out that first-lass rate from Lynchburg to Golds boro is 61 cents compared with 36 1-2 cents proposed for Goldsboro. Lynchburg to Charlotte is 68 cents for the Virginia city compared with 54 1-2 cents for Charlotte. The fact is that the Virginia cities are using the special North Caro lina resolution declaring against vio lation of the long and short haul principle and the intrastate rate act. Big Plans Developing. The Thornton Lead & Steel Cor poration, with head offices in Hickory, have purchased the North Carolina Partridge Smelting Company and the Partidge Metallurgical & Manufactur ing Co., from Messrs. Drs. J. H. Kin caid and R. P. Oppenheimer of Knox ville, Tenn. It is proposed to operate these smelting furnaces in Knoxville, i Tenn., Charlotte and probably in St. Louis or Chicago. Colonel Thorntoi was unanimously elected president of both companies. R. W. Curtis of this city vice president and W. X. Reid, cashier of the Hk-kory Banking & Trust Co., treasurer. Disband Ambulance Co. No. 1. Adjutant General Young of the North Carolina National Guard has issued an order disbanding Ambu lance Company No. 1 of Raleigh for failure of the enlisted men to turn out to drills and observe other regu lations. Commissioner Graham at Association. Commissioner of Agricuture W. A. Graham went to Louisville Ky., to at ! tend the annual meeting of the South i era States Association of Commis i doners of Agriculture that held there recently a three-days' session. Major Graham is president of the associa tion. Rate Commission Meet Dec. 17. The Special Freight Rate Commis sion appointed by Governor Craig to pass upon the new intrastate freight rates fixed in the Justice act met re cently in the Governor's office and or ganized with Judge M. H. Justice as chairman, the other members being Dr. W. L. Poteat and A. A. Thompson. After organization the commission called in Governor Craig and conferr ed with him for some time. Chairman Justice gave out the statement that the commission takes recess to De cember 16. McDowel to Get $10 a Day Job. Early in January a fine job, revenue ag nt for the collection of the in come tax in North Carolina, will be given out here. The post is dignified, and in every way genteel, and pays $10' a day and expenses. The posi tion has been, or will be offered to Manly McDowell of Morganton. If Mr. McDowell declines it, somebody else will get it. Senator Overman would like for Mr. McDowell to take it. This is the last word in the Overman-McDowell controversy. This will make three revenue men for Morgan- CONTENTION CROPS SHOULD BE INSURED v President Alexander Says Crops Should Be Insured by Individual Efforts. Raleigh One of the gratifying signs of the times, according to President H. , Q. Alexander of the North Caro lina division of the Farmers' Unhon is the attention being given to modern methods in agriculture diversifica tion and rotation of crops, tillage, seed selection, intensive cultivation, and last but by no means least, co-operative marketing, without which all the previous processes would be nulli fied to a large extent. In this great awakening the farmers of Mecklen burg county have taken a leading part and the recent efforts in the direction of collective marketing of cotton has been only another sign of the times indicating the general trend of events. It is Dr. Alexander's belief that the people of the state, having built solid ly upon the basis of the bed rock of prosperity will move onward and up ward in the direction of achieving the greatest good for the greatest number, educational workers have been para mount. "The Fall and Winter seasons are vitally important in the farm develop ment," declares Doctor Alexander, "for during these periods the cam paign for the coming year's work should be mapped out. The making of a crop is something more than the mere planting of the seed and the har vesting of the product, just as the construction of a house is something more than the mere nailing of the planks together and the putting on of a rogf. This is very elementary the A. B. C.s of the industry but there should be more attention to prelimi nary details. A well-ordered and care fully thought-out plan is just as neces sary with the farmer. as it is with the contractor who is about to build a home. There is need of more at tention to architectural arrangements on the farm as well as in other lines of business. The farmer should be an architect as well as a cultivator. It is only in this manner that the yield may be assured or "insured" if the latter term is preferred. Modern Farming in Harnett. Notwithstanding the fact Harnett has not produced as large a crop this year as the farmers expected, t this shortage is in a great measure from providential causes rather than from the lack of sufficient fertilizing or in telligent cultivation. That there has been produced a crop of corn well above the average and a fair crop of cotton is largely due to the intelligent use of fertilizer and advanced meth ods of cultivation. The results ob tained this year, which has been one of extreme seasons, have been ac complished by improved methods in farming. The following increases of yield, given by W. H. Turlington, the demonstrator in charge of the work of the east side of t'e Cape Fear Riv er of this county, will giv some idea of the character of work which has been accomplished. Marion Ennis grew 92 1-2 bushels of corn on an acre of land formerly producing about 16 ! bushels, using 550 pounds of fertilizer to the acre. P. Wood by sing 1,000 pounds of fertilizer produced 74 bush els an acre against ordinary average of 20 bushels. W. J. Godwin by using 2,000 pounds of fertilizer produced 100 bushels an acre against an ordinary average of 25 bushels. W. U Ennis by using 1,100 pounds of fertilizer produced 84 bushels an acre against an average under ordinary conditions of 14 bushels. Ben Matthes without the Use of any commercial fertilizer, but after crimson clover produced 90 bushels an acre against an ordinary average of 26 bushels. Soil Survey in East Carolina. Members of a soil survey party working in eastern Carolina have completed preliminary surveys in Le noir and Greene Counties ' for the United States Geological Survey. Two members of the corps were left to take elevations at various points in the vicinity of Kinston. Judge Bragaw Resigns. Judge Stephen ,C. Bragaw, Judge of the Superior Court of North Carolina in the first district, sent in his resig nation to the Governor recently. Tne Judge gave poor health as his reason for resigning. Whiskey Traffic Bomb Explodes. The second chapter in the investi gation into the alleged illicit traffic in liquor in Asheville and Buncombe county was written recently wrhen Su perior Court Judge Frank Carter, sit ting as a committing magistrate ex ploded a bomb by orderin the im mediate arrest of John H Lange and Guy Green, owners and proprietors of the Langren Hotel and the Century Drug Store; J. L. Alexander, proprie tor of the Battery Park Hotel; and J. Baylis Rector, manager of the Lari ggren, and Isadore Grant, colored. Drainage Is Very Valuable. "It is a pity that every man in North Carolina who owns property that is susceptible to improvement through drainage and every one who Is interested in the general welfare of the state could not have attended the recent sessions of the North Caro line Drainage Association in Char lotte," recently declared a business man who attended every session : of the convention. "The reports . from the drainage districts of the state showing what has already been ac complished were simply astounding. GREATEST CRAIG SAYS GREATEST BLESS ING WOULD BE RUNNNG WA TER IN FARM HOMES. CRAIG TALKS TO TEACHERS In Opening Address to North Caro lina Teachers' Assembly He Tells Teachers to Be Good Examples. Against Wearing Slit Skirts. Raleigh. Governor Craig declared in addressing the opening session of the North Carolina Teachers' Assem bly recently that the greatest blessing for the 80 per cent farming class in this state that he could imagine is that of having running water in coun try homes, and that the next greatest blessing would be to have screens in the windows of the homes to keep out the ffies. Plenty of water, with no flies would mean clean, sanitary homes. . He insisted that the teachers in the state, approaching the homes of all j the people, exert the influences that ! bring these improvements to pass. He said teachers ought to be the best of j examples among the people, and that ' they ought to dress in the best fashion not in extreme slit skirt fashion, but the most approved style of the period. The assembly was convened for the thirteenth annual session in the audi torium by President A. (j. Reynolds with a large attendance. J. W. Bailey, collector of Internal, revenue, was to hace welcomed the teachers, but he was delayed int Washington on official business and Charles J. Parker wel comed them instead. - The response was by Supt. J. Y. Joyner. He said he considered it a special honor to speak for the great body of teachers of North Carolina and paid tribute to Raleigh, thr. old and the new, and predicted that the assembly will continue to meet in the capital city from year to year. The principal address of the open ing session was by Dr. J. E. Eggleston, president of the" Virginia Polytechni cal Institute, formerly superintendent of the Asheville schools and state su perintendent of the Virginia public schools. His theme was "How to Link Education With Life." He ap pealed for a practical education for the rural schools that will deal through mathematics and all the oth er studies with the practical farm life problems. The demonstration work for the farmers, the students in the schools and for the teachers must be extended and arranged in such a way as to combine the school and the home and farm life with a zeal and directness that will , impart greatest effectiveness for real progress. Desperate Nepro Captured. Salisbury. After being ' at liberty for two weeks Shelly Hunt, a desper ate negro who escaped from Rowan jail by jumping out of a door while Deputy Sheriff James McKinzie, Jr., fought another negro, was captured in Roanoke recently. The capture was made by Baldwin's detective force and Hunt is being held for the Rowan au thorities.' Sheriff McKinzie has wired for him to be sent to North Carolina without requisition papers. Veterans House Burned. Kinston. News reached this city of the destruction by fire of the home of Benjamin Rouse, an aged veteran of the Confederate war near Seven Springs. Mr. Rouse, 84 years of age, Is totally blind and deaf. With him in the house when it was set on nrt by a defective flue were his wife and a 14-year-old daughter, while other sons and daughters were away. The girl led the old man out. Durham's White Way. Durham. Main street merchants are paying in their assessment for lighting up Main street and making it a real white way for the last two weeks of December. The money is being collected by the Commercial Club, and the object is to make the white way only a temporary affair. At least, the contract with the trac tion company is only for lighting the street for two weeks. Want Farm School at Bahama. Durham. Col. Benehan Cameron has offered to give the Bahama School $10 in cash and 10 acres of land for the purpose of establishing a farm life school at Bahama. The offer has been accepted and is being used as a nucleus for the collection of other money for this school in the northern part of the county. Those in charge of the work have already collected quite a sum for this "school and say that there is no doubt that Bahama will have a farm life school by the be ginning of the next School year. Nails Arrested in Durham. Durham. John Nails, a white boy wanted in High Point on the charge of homicide, was picked up by Durham officers recently, although the father of the young man was in the cjty and was making an effort to get his son out of town before he -could be arrested. Ed Craven, another white boy, was the victim, of the fight with Nails. The two men got into sbme kind of dispute in a restaurant No vember 8, and a fight ensued. Craven was injured in this figbt and died recently. :EWS OF NORTH CAROLINA Latest News of General Interest That Has Been Collected From Many . Towns and Counties. Statesville. The city of Statesville recently contracted for a modern wa ter pump 'with a daily capacity of 1,000,000 gallons. - Hamlet. The Sydnor-Clark Com pany is the neme of a new wholesale grocery company which has just been chartered and will begin business In Hamlet December 1. . Hamlet. The schedule of the new train to be put on by the Seaboard from Hamlet to Wilmington December 1 shows that the train will leave Ham let at 6 a. m. and return from Wil mington at 10:30 p. m. . Mt. Airy. The handsome granite Presbyterian church of "this city, which has been in course of construc tion for the past two years, is rapid ly nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy in a few days. Statesville The new ticket window for the exchange of mileage, recently installed at the Statesville passenger station of the Southern by the cor poration commission, was opened re-, cently to the traveling public. Durham. The old Corcoran Hotel , has been leased by the incorporators . of the Mercy hospital and, according i to the announcement, of present plans i the hospital will be open for business about the first of the year. Waxhaw. Fred J. Bowden and Will Crow, two young white men. were killed in Bullface shaft of the Howie Mine near Waxhaw several days ag&. Bowden was aged 25 and married.1 Crow aged 23 and unmarried. Clinton. The health ' authorities of Sampson county have issued the first number of the "The Sampson County Health Bulletin," the first periodical of its kind to be published in a strict ly rural county In this part of the state. ;. Raleigh Raleigh was without wa' er supply for seven hours one day re cently due to the necessity of discon necting the water, plant and the city in order to install the - valves in the new and larger water main for con necting the plant with the city. Mebane. The local tobacco market has had the best business this sea son of any equal period since it was established. In fact, the sales since the opening, September 15, have brought the farmers more money than did the sales of the whole season last year. Washington. Collectors A. D. Watts and J. W. Bailey, two of North Caro lina's leading bachelors, will have to pay income tax for being single. A bachelor has to pay if he gets a sal ary of more than $3,000. Messrs. Watts and Bailey come in this class. Cliffside. Mr. James Wall. 70 years old, an old Confederate soldier, died recently at the home of his son, Colum bus Wall, at this place. He was born in 1835 and lived all his life in the High Shoals settlement, near here. He served the entire four years as a Confederate soldier and saw much service in Virginia. Asheville. According to Col. T. Gil bert Wood of the land and industrial department of the Southern Railway Company, there is immediate prospect of a big development of a natural limestone deposit in Madison county by, a Virginia concern. f Greensboro. Former Mayor L. J. Brandt, who is candidate for the Greensboro postoffice, has gone to work getting endorsements for the of fice and already has a strong backing. So far no one else has announced his candidacy, but there will be others to seek the place. Salisbury. Suffering from injuries caused by the explosion of a war relic at Memphis, Mr. H. I. Chilson.'a form er resident of Rowan county, is at his home near Salisbury for a few weeks. While he was inspecting an old sheh It exploded and a portion of one hand was torn off and the other badly in jured. Spencer. A remarkable yield of 120 bushels of corn to the acre was made on the plantation of the Dorsett Land Company near Spencer, this year. The corn is known as Dorsett's Long White, and this is said to be the best yield ever produced in Rowan county. Three bushels of the corn in the car shelled out two bushels of grain weiehing 67 pounds each. Washington. Ben" Ormond, the white man who was so fearfully mangled in a cutting affray in the city several days ago by Joseph Mills, died at the - Washington hospital. Asheville. The county board of education recently awarded a con tract for the construction of a modern concrete school building in Leicester township. . Fayetteville. Senator Lee S. Over man, in a letter to Mr. J. B. Under wood, has signified his intention to appoint John J). Williams, Jr., of this city, a page in the United States sen ate. Salisbury. Mr. Charles D. Warlick, a well-known traveling man of Salis bury, lost an eye by being struck with a nail , at his home recently. He was makiag some minor repairs about the house and in driving a nail it split, ane-half passing through the eye-ball. High Point. G. F. Cecil is the win ner of the prize offered by the Wa chovia Loan & Trust Co., for the best acre of tobacco, but, although this prize' is $50 in gold, it amounts to lit tle in. comparison with the motiey the acre's product.sold . for. The 1,335 pounds grown on the plot brought $496.88.. : A - MOMTIONE SUMS Lesson ":'5.:;. By E. O. SELLERS, Director of Evening' Department, , The Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) LESSON FOR DECEMBER 7 THE FALL OF JERICHO. LESSON TEXT Joshua 6:8-11. 14-20. GOLDEN TEXT "All things are pos sible to him that believeth." Mark ;23. There is a wonderful teaching ml the story of the two memorials (Ch." 4) that JosMua erected after Israel ! had passed over the Jordan. One la xeii to U3 overwneimea Dy tne river; the other is erected in Gilgal. They mark the distinctit between Christ's death under judgment in 'the j believer's place, and the believer's perfect deliverance from judgment. See Ps. 42:7 and 88:7; Josh. 12:31-33. The stones in the Jordan stand typic ally for Ps. 22:1-18. j In chapter five is the record of the reproach of unbelief, "rolled jiway" (v. 9) the cessation of che manna (v. 12) and the appearance of the "cap ,tain of the Lord's host'' (vv. 13-15) junto Joshua as he was making a. re connaissance before Jericho. I. God's Orders, vv. 1-5. The fame tof the Israelites had preceded them (ch.' 2:9) and that this was added too by the miraculous deliverance at the Jordan is suggested in verse one. Verse two suggests that again they must proceed upon the bare word of Jehovah, and humanly speaking, how utterly absurd appear the divine or ders. Jehovah's Word Followed. . II. Joshua's Instructions, vv. 6-8. A reading of this section reveals the fact that Joshua diligently followed out the word of Jehovah. Preceding the people was the ark, and we need to remember what it contained .and that it is a type of Christ. Following the armed men and the priests came the silent host (v. 10). No other Bound than that of the trumpet (v. 13). J The walls of Jericho are not to fall by the use of the ordinary imple-. ments of war, see 2 Cor. 10:4, and the resultant victory was In no -way , to give opportunity for human boast j Ing, Eph. 2:9; I Cor. 1:26-29. Joshua . did not set forth a "more reasonable j method;" he did not alter God's or ders; that he had no right to do, nor have we, Rev. 22:18, 19; John 3:2; Matt. 15:6. The implements and the methods were , foolish to those In Jericho and to all unbelievers, see I Cor. 1:21-25. It was the priests who led with the "jubilee trumpets," typi cal of the gospel which Paul tells is the "power of God," Rom 1:16. III. The Obedient People, vv. 9-1 6. One great act of distrust and dis obedience led to those years of aim- comiort ana resulting in aeain 10 an (save two, Caleb and Joshua) who crossed the Red Sea with Moses. ! Here we have the contrast. Seven days of patient, obedient marching, according to specific orders, is fol- . lowed by victory and possession, j What a strange sight this cavalcade- must have made. The trumpet blow ing priests;, the ark, symbolic of Je hovah's presence and typical of Christ; the silent multitude. . Verily this new generation Is being tested ere they enter into their promised in heritance. On the seventh day they arose earlier and were subjected to a i seven-fold test. Our fiercest testing is generally just before the moment of our greatest victory. Saved by Faith. Faith used means ordered of God, foolish' to man and wrought a great victory- Faithful obedience is here wonderfully contrasted with former unfaithfulness. Joshua directs the spies to search' out Rahab and she and. her household are saved accord- i ing to promise, vv. 22-25. She also (was saved by faith, Heb. 11:31, and , became one of the line from which . Christ came, Matt. 1:5. The only part of the wall that remained stand ing was that where Rahab's house stood, vv. 22, see chapter 2:15. I The teaching is very plain. As the Israelites depended wholly upon God, his discipline, held back all passion l and covetousness, they entered into" i the fruits of a victory that made easy ' many subsequent ones. Their acts of j faith were a more severe test than those more visible and carnal means of fighting battles. As these people of God had crossed : the Jordan; submitted to the rite of circumcision, took their first march In this land of promise and captured this walled city which stood in the i way of their progress, the unbelief of forty years was rebuked. This was a day of vindication for Caleb and Joshua, a day of proving that God was able to give victory to the people in whom he delighted. The Golden Text illustrates what It is to believe, when we recall the story from which it Is taken obedi ent faith in spite of appearances. No one can deny the absurdity of- a peo ple walking around the walls of a city blowing rams' horns and expect ing to possess it. Faith In both of these Incidents depended upon the word of God and did the apparently foolish thing, thereby demonstrating its wisdom, and his power. Faith is revealed also as the power to wait and to persist. Faith is co operation with God in the accomplish ment of his purposes. I t k ' M : t i' t a
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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Dec. 3, 1913, edition 1
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