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VOL. XXXVII.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY,. N. C, OCTOBER 14, 1914.
NO. 10.
The War
SUMMARY OF THE
EUROPEAN WAR
FOR ONE WEEK READ AT A GLANCE
October 4. Haying repulsed the
German attacks presumably In the vi
cinity of Roye, the French, according
to an official communication issued
at Paris, have resumed the offensive
at several points, while other posi
tions on their left have been main
tained. The great effort of the allies to en
velop the German right may be said
to be in operation again, and ic is be
lieved the whole French column from
Roye northward to Arras is moving
eastward against the German position.-.
It is the same operation that has'
been tried repeatedly for the last
three weeks in an attempt to reach
the German lines of communication
and either encircle the German army
forming the right wing or force it to
fall back to Belgium and Luxemburg.
The Germans have had a long time
in which to make their positions se
cure, so there is a lot of hard fighting
ahead for both the . attacking forces
and the defenders. The defensive
role is apparently being assumed by
the invaders.
Heretofore fortresses have not stood
long after the big German siege guns
have been brought up. But Antwerp
is in a different category for in addi
tion to being stronger than any fort
ress yet attacked, there is a consid
erable space in which the field army
can operate against the besieging
forces.
The battle is still raging along the
East Prussian frontier, and according
to Berlin reports the Germans have
scored a victory over the Russians
who had pierced their center at Au
gustowo. October 5. Only brief reference
concerning actual fighting is made by
the French war office in its latest re
port on the conflict in Northern
France. "The general situation 1b
stationary," it says.
In the eastern war zone the Rus
sians report that having conquered
the Germans in Russian Poland, two
Russian armies are invading East
Prussia with Allenstein as their ob
jective. In the South, on the Adriatic,
French men-of-war are reported again
to be bombarding the Ausrtian port
of Cattaro.
As yet the situation surrounding the
forts at Antwerp, which are under
bombardment by the Germans, has
not been cleared up definitely. The
Germans still callm they have captur
ed several of the outer fortifications
while the Belgians declare the de
fences remain intact.
Great Britain is investigating coal
shipments from the United States un
der the suspician that the cargoes in
stead of reaching ports to which they
are consigned, reach German warships
at sea.
The Prince of Wales' relief fund
has reached $15,000,000.
French cavalry executed a daring
raid back of the German lines where
they blew up a railroad tunnel and
escaped.
General Jean Rousseu of the French
cavalry died yesterday of wounds.
October 6. A news dispatch from
Bordeaux announces that a number of
important changes have been made in
Germany's" army commanders.
An epidemic of dysentery has brok
en out among the Austrian troops in
Bohemia and Moravia.
Winston Spencer Churchill, first
lord of the admiralty, is said to be at
Antewrep consulting with the Belgian
chief of staff.
The Washington government is still
without official advices concerning the
landing of Japanese blujeackets on
the island of Jaluit. in the Marshall
archipelago in the Pacific ocean.
A second Russian army is now
threatening the town of Huszt, In
eastern Hungary, according to a news
dispatch from Rome. Huszt is 40
miles from the boundary of Galicia,
which is near the crest of the Carpa
thian mountains.
Twenty-four American nurses and
six doctors, members of the Red Cross
units assigned to Russia, are at Stock
holm, Sweden, on their way to Petro
grad. ,A force of 90 French architects and
3.000 workmen stands ready in Paris
to go forth into the war zone to re
pair damage done by shell and flame.
October 7, The German general
staff announced today that the fight
ing on the German right wing had
been successful.
Another wireless dispatch from Ber
lin says it is reported in government
circles that two more forts at Antwerp,
Forts Kessel and Brocchen, have fal
len before the Germans. Capitulation
of the city is regarded in Berlin as
close at hand.
A Pekin dispatch quotes a German
ews agency as saying that Japanese
forces have occupied the Island of Yap
of -be Carolin group in the Pacific.
A report from Petrograd says Rus
sian heavy artillery is bombarding
Przemysl in Galicia and that Aus
trian field pieces that atempted to
relieve the fortress were defeated and
compelled to retire. ,
German official statement said the
v.ew Russian advance against East
Prussia had been checked and that
Russian force had been defeated In
in
Brief
Russian Poland.
Tokyo announces that the war of
fice believes that the Japanese hav
sunk a German cruiser and two Ger
man gunboat by Kiaochow bay.
An official statement issued at Vien
na says that German and Austrian
forces surprised the enemy in Rus
sian Poland and drove the Russians
back across the Vitula.
A Rotterdam correspondent reports
that a new plan to convoke the Berne
bureau in the interests of peace, while
not successful, has been received with
much sympathy. '
President Poincare, accompanied by
Premier Vivlanl and the minister of
war, M. Millerand, has returned to
Paris after a visit to the battle front.
It has been reported that the French
government would return to Paris.
A British submarine had made an
other raid close to the German ren
dezvous in the North Sea, and has
torpedoed a torpedo boat and it is re
ported that a cruiser was also at
itacked. f
October 8. Shells began to fall in
Antwerp and from reports coming
through Holland the railway stations,
the palace of justice and several oil
tanks have been damaged.
At the same time six Zeppelin di
rigibles flew ever the city, dropping
bombs, but it has been impossible as
yet to ascertain the damage they have
done. -
The French authorities have seized
food supplies, valued at between $1,
500,000 and $2,000,000 which had been
deposited on the docks at Havre by a
German firm. The action was taken
to prevent the supplies being sent
abroad.
The Russians have completed the
administrative organization of the
conquered regions around Lemberg,
which has been made into a province
divided into thirteen districts.
A German aeroplane flying over Pa
ris and the suburbs of Aubervilliers
and Saint Dennis at 9 o'clock this
morning, dropped two bombs, one of
which wounded three persons. The
other did no harm.
October 9. There is nothing to re
port from the East Prussian frontier.
The Norwegian steamer Modig,
carrying 1,800 tons of coal from Eng
land to Russi?, has been captured by
a German torpedo boat and brought
into Swinemunde.
German banks state that applica
tions for participation in the German
war loan have been received from
neutral countries.
In the siege operations against Ant
werp, the Germans are using no less
than 200 guns of 11, 12, 16-inch cali
bre, some of them having a range of
over eight miles.
The Austrian general staff an
nounces the complete break up of the
Russian invasion of Hungary. The
recent attacks on Przemysl were re
pulsed with terrible loss to the ene
my. The defence of the fort is being
conducted by the garrison with' the
greatest skill.
The Russians have been cleared
from the Carpathians to the western
ridge of Wynkow. The Austrian troops
have retaken Marmaros Sziget, Hun
gary. A dispatch from Cetinje, Montene
gro, says the troops are suffering se
verely, especially at night, owing to
the cold. Snow already" covers the
peak of the mountains.
The government is assembly exact
information regarding the identity' of
70,000 German prisoners now in
Frnch hands with th object of ex
changing this data with the German
authorities for similar facts regard
ing French prisoners.
October 10. In a dispatch from
Amsterdam the correspondent of the
Reuter Telegram Company says
message from Berlin conveys a re
port issued from general army head
quarters dated October 10, at 11 a. m.,
and saying that the entire fortress of
Antwerp, including all the forts, is
Iri possession of the Germans.
Despatches from Berlin state that
the capitulation of Antwerp has caus
ed unprecedeted enthusiasm through
out Germany where the general opin
ion is that the fall of the Belgian city
marks the beginning of the end.
Sabre and lance came into play
many times today. The French, Brit
ish and German. Hussars, lancers,
dragoons and cuirassiers in enormous
numbers, came into contact near Lile.
There were no brilliant charges by
long lines of horsemen to record, but
the British and French often crossed
swords with the blue-gray clad Ger
mans. According to a Feuter dispatch from
Bucharest, the death of King Charles,
of Roumania, occurred at ,6:30 a. m.
today at his country seat at Shiaia, in
Walachia.
Information received this evening
from the general headquarters only
mentions encounters between the two
cavalry forces to the southwest of
Lill, a violent action to the south, to
the east and to the north of Arras, and
very .vigorous attacks from the enemy
on the heights of the Meuse.
The combat on the East Prussian
frontier continues with the same ob
stinancy. The German troops are re
tiring from Lyck and are blowing up
the brideea behind.
v
AMMUNITION
III
DANGER
SAVED IN
WOOD AT GREGY
British Soldiers Performed a Gal
lant Feat During Fighting
In the Forest.
INFANTRY CARRIED BRANCHES
Swift and Bold Attack That Suc
ceeded Wounded Sergeant Tells,
of Brilliant Work of King's
Own Royal Lancashire
Regiment at Mons.
A dispatch from Lagny, Seine-et-Marne,
describes the devastation of
the forest of Crecy. Blasted trees are
standing stark and decapitated. Others,
amazingly shattered by shells, lie on
ground. The roads are covered with
the deep marks of the wheels of the
heavy gun wagons and the ground
shows hundreds of thousands of hoof
marks where the cavalry and artillery
thundered by.
In telling of an incident in the for
est of Crecy the correspondent says
"The French and British alike
swarmed about the wood with axes,
knives, saws and even sabers. They
had a wide area down in next to no
time Line after line of infantry, each
man carrying a thickly foliaged branch,
moved forward in close order toward
the enemy, while behind, amid lopped
tree trunks, our artillery got into posi
tion with machine guns and thirteen
pounders to cover the wood. As it
moved forward all was a-rustle. The
attack which followed was as rapid,
as fierce and as bold as anything that
has been done in this huge campaign
and won all the success which it
merited. '
Saved the Ammunition.
"The mysterious, slow moving wood
soon showed that there was more than
umbrage in its texture. It snarled
feme and spat bullets while overhead
the shells of the French and British
artillery sred screamingly to their
mark. But one incident nearly upset
the show. Just under the ridge of a
hill, right off the forest, large quanti
ties of our ammunition were piled
ready for sudden service and appar
ently well screened out of harm's way.
The oncoming French cavalry making
a detour for purposes of their own
struck the hill and rode along it for
some distance. For a few minutes
they showed themselves on the sky
line in the bright sunshine. There
was no mistaking the vivid scarlet of
their breeches, and they were spotted
at once by the German artillery. The
Kaiser's artillerymen here were crack
shots and they lost no time in finding
the range.
"Presently the shells began to drop
thick and fast over the ridge, falling
so near our precious ammunition as
to make the situation remarkably un
pleasant. Small parties of our boys
swarmed up the hill stripped to the
waist and lugjged the heavy boxes out
of the way ofdisaster. The men tell
me it was the hottest and most flam
ing corner that they have ever been
in,' but they came through, and so did
the ammunition.
"By evening the enemy had been
repulsed, the Marne was clear of them
and the fight was rolling farther and
farther east of the capital."
Lanterns Betrayed Germans.
The correspondent relates another
incident which occurred in one of the
smaller woods to the southeast of
Crecy. He says:
"It was held by the enemy, but al
though the wood gave good cover for
a time our patrols during the night
by great daring smelt them out and
carried the news of their whereabouts
to the cavalry on one side and the in
fantry on the other.
"Incautiously enough the Germans
moved about with stable lanterns to
guide them, unaware that trouble was
so near. . Suddenly they found their
twinkling glow-worms a "mark for the
foe of whose proximity they had been
blissfully unaware. They were smit
ten woefully at midnight. A storm of
bullets from our Maxims screamed
through the sleeping trees like a tor
nado. "The next morning scores of lan
terns were picked up in the wood with
their glasses shattered. A cavalry
charge finally cleared the tragic little
wood. Our losses were slight, but the
Germans suffered severely.
"Twenty prisoners taken in the
melee were herded together in a clear
ing. Their rifles had not been taken
from them, but were stacked near by.
In a rash moment they got the idea
that they were but loosely guarded
and made a combined rush for their
rifles. They will never make an
other." How King's Own Fought.
The first connected narrative of the
severe fighting in which the King's
Own Royal Lancashire regiment was
engaged when in killed and wounded
the regiment had 11 officers put out
of action, is told by a sergeant of the
regiment who has 'arrived home
wounded.
The King's Own, with the Lanca
shire Fusileers and the, Middlesex
regiment were ordered to cover the re-
ireat of part of the allied forces from
Mons. On Tuesday, August 25, they
left the position in which they had
been entrenched to take new ground,
and were marching through the night,
finding themselves at daybreak be
tween Cambrai and Le Cateau. Sev
eral thousand Frenchmen and a High
land regiment had passed down their
lines, and the King's Own were tak
ing breakfast when the German ar
tillery boomed forth. Several shells
fell in the vicinity of the trenches
without doing much harm, but the
enemy's artillery was much superior
in numbers to that of the allies, and
they poured a raking shrapnel fire be
fore the English guns began to speak.
There was no doubt, either, about the
enemy' range finding, and under cov
er of the guns the enemy came in the
proportion of six to one.
Men were mowed down like nine
pins by the burstiD shrapnel, and it
seemed as if the King's Own had been
singled out by the special fury of the
onslaught. Colonel Dykes fell at an
early stage of the engagement while
shouting encouragement to his men.
Fighting continued furiously until
half-past nine. Then there was a
lull, and the enemy, seemingly re-enforced,
made good their advance and
another five hours' desperate conflict
ensued.
Brilliant Bayonet Charges. '.
The allies fought the advance inch
by inch, fighting becoming so close
that the King's Own got home with
several dashing bayonet charges, one
of the most brilliant of which was
led by Clutterbuck, formerly a ranker
of the Yorkshire light infantry, who,
with a handful of men routed four
times the number under his command.
He paid the price of b,is gallantry
with his life, but the casualties to his
men were singularly light. The ser
geant said: "It was just like Clutter
buck." Lieutenant's Glorious Death.
"Then," continued the sergeant,
"there, was Lieutenant Steel-Perkins,
who died one of the grandest deaths
a British officer could wish for. He
was lifted out of the trenches wound
ed four times, but protesting, Crawled
back again till he was mortally
wounded."
Proceeding, the sergeant said: "The
first man knocked over was one of
the most popular of the Rugby foot
ballers in the Dover garrison. He was
shot through the mouth.
"A German aeroplane which came
over our position on the day preced
ing the battle was accounted for;, as
sailed by a shower of bullets from
more than one regiment, its recon
noitering career had a sudden stop.
The enemy swooped down on us so
quickly at" the finish that we were un
able to remove all our dead and
wounded. Stretcher bearers were
shot down, and I, who had been
wounded with a shrapnel bullet in the
muscle of the left arm, was taking a
message for the doctor from the field
hospital when a shell came and demol
ished the roof.
"All our King's Own dead are bur
ied in France, a few miles from the
frontier. We saw many burned vil
lages, and our artillery helped along
many old women and children who
were fleeing before the enemy."
M. RENAUD GOES TO WAR
Famous Baritone of the Paris Opera
Enlists as Private in French ,
Army.
A tall, handsome man,' hair snow
white, face clean shaven, aged about
fifty-five years, carefully but simply
dressed, walked into the antechamber
of General Michel, military governor
of Paris. Handing his card to the
orderly at the door he asked that it
be sent in to the general. A few
minutes later a young officer appeared.
"Is this M. Renaud?"
'"'It is."
"Mj Maurice Renaud of the opera?"
"The same,"
"Delighted to meet you! You wish
to see the general? Come in at once."
"What can I do for you, M. Renaud?"
asked the general.
"I wish to go to the front," was
the barytone's calm response.
The$e was a moment of silence.
Then General Michel took Renaud
by both hands, saying: "My friend, I
congratulate you. May you do your
self and your, country honor."
Next day Maurice Renaud started
at five in the morning for Verdun in
the uniform of a private soldier
Renaud, the elegant, the debonair. He
didn't have to go, but he wanted to
atone for a foolish youthful escapade
which caused him to evade part of
his military service many years ago.
"Ca Ira" as British March.
The King's Own Yorkshire light in
fantry which suffered appalling mor-1
tality among its officers in Belgium
uses as its regimental march past "Ca
Ira," the guillotine song of the French
revolutionists. During one of the
French campaigns the Yorkshires cap
tured a French regiment with its full
band, and adopted the tune as a me
morial of that event.
Cost of Naval Warfare.
If a single dreadnaught battle squad
ron of eight ships were ordered to
steam at full speed for 24 hours and
to fire each gun and each torpedo
tube once, the cost to. the nation
would be approximately $1,000,000, al
lowing nothing for the depreciation
of material.
Spy Used His Wooden Leg.
A wooden-legged man arrested just
before the war at Friedrichfelde,
near Dusseldorf, on suspicion of es
pionage for France, was searched and
important military documents and in
fantry bullets which, It is alleged, ha
had stolen from barracks were found
hidden in his wooden leg.
GENSORS DRAW VEIL
OVER BIG BATTLE
ALLLIES CLAIM TO HAVE REPUS
ED GERMAN CAVALRY AND
ADVANCED. ,
ANTWERP QUIET AFTER FALL
Amnesty Promised All Who Are Or
derly in Belgian City. Austrians
Claim Gains in the East.
London. With the conclusion of
that phase of the war of the nations,
which came with the fall of Antwerp,
the censorship again has drawn a
veil over the fighting in the greater
part of the European continent.
The French communication deals
only with the series of battles which
has been in progress for. four weeks
from the east to west in France with
an ever-extending line which now
reaches northward from the elbow at
Noyon to and across the Belgian, bor
der at Armentieres.
The statement says the allies have
held their positions everywhere and
that German cavalry, which was at
tempting to envelop the allies' left
wing, and had seized points of passage
on the Lys, east of Aire, was defeated
yesterday and retired northeast into
the Armentieres district. .
At the same time the Germans" de
livered a vigorous attack on the right
bank of the Ancre River between Ar
ras and the Oise, without making any
progress. ,
This indicates that the battle in
Picardy, comprising the department
of Somme and part of Oise, Pas de
Calais and Aisne in which the cavalry
is participating on a scale not seen in
previous modern wars, extends over a
considerable area. Here are many
miles of open country, where horse
men can maneuver with advantage. .
Between the Oise and Rheims, par
ticularly in the region northwest of
Soissons where the British forces are
entrenched, further progress has been
made. Itf thus seems probable that
the Germans have abandoned some
of their strongly entrenched positions
in this neighborhood. It is reported
that sanitary reasons have compelled
this. The trenches in which the troops
have been living for weeks have be
come breeding places for disease.
The Germans have resumed their
night attacks between Craonne and
Rheims, which, according to French
accounts, have been repulsed. From
Rheims to the Meuse nothing of im
portance has occurred of late, but in
the Apremont district of the Woevre
to the east of St. Mihiel, the Germans
made violent attacks during the night
of October 9 and the following day.
Apremont was taken by the Ger
mans, but was retaken by the French
and remains in their hands. The
Germans apparently are determined
to maintain as far as possible their
positions here, where they have
pierced the line of fortification be
tween Verdun and Toul along the Riv
er Meuse. Should they be successful
against th ' allies elsewhere this
doubtless would be the route by which
they would endeavor to enter the
heart of France.
Two German aeroplanes, which
seem to choose Sundays for their
visits, flew over Paris. They dropped
a score of bombs, which killed three
persons and wounded 20, but did no
material damage.
Part of the Antwerp garrison and
two thousand of the British naval vol
unteers, who crossed into Holland
and laid down their arms, have been
interned and will have to remain there
until the end of the war. Some of the
Germans also unwillingly crossed the
frontier, and were treated similarly.
Of refugees there appears to be no
,end. The Dutch towns are crowded
with people who left their homes in
Belgium " "
Hollanders are finding difficulty in
providing for them. The Germans,
however, have invited the refugees
to return to their own country, prom
ising them fair treatment.
England also continues to be a
place of refuge for many fugitives,
wounded officers and men, who are
crossing from Ostend on the regular
steamers.
Of the battles in Galicia and Poland
the Russian staff has decided to say
nothing for the present, but the Aus
trians declare a recent attack on
Przemysl was repulsed and that the
Russians have evacuated trenches on
the western front, which the Austri
ans occupied.
The Austrians also claim victories
over the Russian at Lancut and Dy
now in Galicia. It is known that they
have received reinforcements. This,
Petrograd admits, has compelled a
change in the plans of the Russian
army.
The Montenegrins claim a victory
over the Austrians in Bosnia, ' where
they say the Austrians tried to cut
off the Montenegrin army proceeding
to Sarajem, but were defeated with
heavy losses.
More alarming reports come from
laly of the spread of cholera in Aus
tralia. The Roumanian government
hasthought it necessary to take pre
cautions for the protection of the
Austrian legation at Bucharest. Tur
key, too, is making preparations of a
war-like character. The young Turks
are said to be largely under the in
fluence of the Germans.
F II
DIES; NEPHEW KING
RULER OF SEVEN MILLION PEO
PLE SUCCUMBS TO HIS
ILLNESS.
HAD A ROMANTIC CAREER
Was Foregn Prince of Hohenzollen
House. Husband of Poetess "Car
man Sylva' Whom He Loved. .
Amsterdam, via London. A tele
gram received here from Vienna says
that King Charles Of Roumania is
dead. ,
Charles I, was Roumania's first
king. rThe story of his career span
ning 75 years, is that of a German
Prince elected to govern a Latin peo
ple, out of which experience Rouman
ians or those who have followed the
fortunes of that buffer etate will re
call nuch that is stirring if not ro
mantic. Prince Charles was born ' a Hohon
zollorn, an older branch of the family
than that of Emperor William of Ger
many, but none the less proud of its
blood. He was the son of Prince
Charles Anthony of Hohonzollorn
Sigmarington, who vountarily resigned
the Hohonzollorn regentship 'in favor
of the Prussian crown and subsequent
ly became Prime Minister of Prussia.
It was while Charles was serving,
at the age of 27 years, as an officer of
high rank in the Prussian guard, that
the Turkish provinces of Wallachia
and Moldavia united to call them
selves Roumania and, casting their
eyes about Europe for a foreign
Prince to govern them since no na
tive Prince had been successful
took the advice of Napoleon III, and
invited young Charles to be their
Prince. ,
With Austria at that time preparing
to fight Prussia, young Charles, de
parture for Roumania was such a
perilous undertaking that he made it
secretly. He disguised himself as a
Russian merchant bound for Odessa
and sailed down the Danube, jumping
ashore on Roumanian territory on
May 20, 1866, and made his way to
the palace at Bucharest where he was
proclaimed Prince three days later.
Napoleon III had told him. that noth
ing was more difficult than to govern
a Latin race. The young Prince soon
found that he had been well advised
in this respect. He was homesick and
beset with innumerable difficulties,
growing out of the fact that the coun
try was struggling with a new consti
tution that gave the people an unac
customed liberty and that he made no
secret of his purpose to plant among
then the civilization of Germany,
though he sincerely desired to become
the best Roumanian of them all. His
great confidence In the virtue of
Hohonzollern, brought him energy
and patience, which later won the
hearts of his people.
THREE MEN KILLED IN WRECK.
.1
And Fourteen Injured When1 20-Ton
Boulder Crashes Into Day Coach.
Grand Junction, Col. Three per
sons were killed and 14 injured, sev
eral seriously, when a 20-ton boulder,
falling from a precipice, crashed into
the day coach and smoker of Denver
& Rio Grande passenger train No.
3, 18 miles east of this city.
The dead:
H. R. Hollinsberry, Peublo, Col.
Thdmas C. Tinkens, Grand Junction,
Col.
Harry Braddock, Chicago.
The train was running fast when
a rock struck the coupling between
the tender and the smoking car part
ing the train. Before the airbrakes
had brought the rear section to a
stop a huge boulder crashed on the
smoking car and the day coach, shat
tering the roofs and crumbling the
steel sides. Twenty assengers in the
two cars escaped injury.
At the point whee the wreck oc
curred, the tracks closely parallel
Grand River ,the cliffs rising sheer
above the river bank. Much of the
wreckage of the two cars was precipi
tated into the stream.
United States Takes Stand.
Washington. The United States
government will make no further
move in the Mexican situation and
will reserve announcement of its fu
ture policy towards the Mexican, cen
tral government until General Carran
za, the first Constitutionalist chief,
has given formal guarantee of full pro
tection to aliens and Mexicans, irre
spective of their political affiliations,
and promises not to re-impose customs
duties collected by Americans during
the occupation of Vera Cruz. This was
the declaration of state officials.
Cottonseed Oil Not Contraband.
Washington. Continuing its p.olicy
of forging out a complete code for
regulation of shipments of American
products, not only to neutral but to
belligertn countries, the state depart
ment announced a decision relating to
exports of cotton seed oil. The deci
sion marks a distinct advance in the
exemption of semi-contraband goods
from seizure when carried in American
bottoms. This declaration, in effect,
is that American trade in cottonseed
oil in neutral bottoms is not subject
to seizure or detention.
16
A
MEMfflONAL.
SlDMCBOOL
Lesson
(By E. O. SELLERS, Director Sunday
School Course,' Moody Bible Institute,
Chicago.) j
LESSON FOR OCTOBER 18
IN THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE.
LESSON TEXT Mark 14:32-42. See also1
Luke 22:39-46.
GOLDEN TEXT Watch and pray, that;
ye enter not into temptation. Matt. 26:41;
R. V.
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.The account of Peter's boast (vi
29-30), a common but highly signifl-j
cant story, forms the connecting link,
in Mark's Gospel, between this andj
last Sunday's lesson. After singing
the hymn v. 5 (the Hallelujah),)
Jesus and his disciples left the up-1
per room. ,
I. Into the Garden, vv. 32-35. No'
other passage in history so moves the
human heart with reverential awe.'
Somewhere' outside Jesus left eight
disciples: He took three, his closest .
friends, and resolutely entered the
darkness. Our record tells us that he
was "amazed and sor,e troubled" and
there is a hint of his humanity sug
gested by the fact that he should con-i
fess the same to the disciples. These
three had been with him on the Mount
of Transfiguration there to behold his
glory. Now they are to see the depths
of Divine self-abnegation. He trod
the winepress alone, however, for
he "went forward a little" (v. 35),
The Master's Prayer.
II. Praying, vv. 36-38. The Mas
ter's prayer was In reality a prayer
of triumph; a prayer which enables
us to apprehend, in part at least, his
suffering and a suggestion of his com
ing glory. It is easier to appreci
ate and to understand his prayer
than it is to comprehend his glory.
The resolute abandonment of himself
to the will of his Father is one of the
awe-inspiring facts of history.
Jesus asked for this cup, drank It
and passed on to Calvary. In the
midst of his agony he is strength
ened, Luke 22:43. Returning, he
founcLthe three disciples sleeping. Pe
ter, who had made such boastful avow
als of fealty (vv. 29, 30) and who is
about to undergo, and to fall, is ad
dressed in' tender reproach, "Simon,
sleepest thou. Couldest thou not
watch one hour?" Then addressing
the three, he said, "watch, and pray
that ye enter not Into temptation;
the spirit indeed is willing, but the
flesh is weak."
Found No Comforters. '
III. Again praying, vvi 39-42. Agali
he passes into the loneliness of that
midnight hour. Again we hear his tri
umphant paean of prayer. This time
he returns and finds the disciples
heavy with deep sleep. This Is a
fulfillment of Ps. 69:20, "I looked for
comforters and found none." Hfs
gentle reproach goes unanswered. For
a third time he enters the trial and
returning commands the disciples to
sleep on and take their rest
There Is little doubt that between
his permission "sleep on" and the
declaration "It is enough" that the
Savior, In wakeful loneliness,
watched over the sleeping disciples.
At last he roused them for the en
emy, headed by Judas, were at hand.
Their dearly bought sleep was short
and we can imagine the confusion
caused by the torch-bearing mob. The
Man of sorrows is calm In this hour
after his victory in prayer. The dis
ciples, not likewise strengthened, flee
away.
The Supreme Value of this story lies
in the effect it may produce upon
each one who comes to know it. To
one it does not speak at all, to an
other, It melts the heart and brings
tears to the eye.
While he felt the sense of all through
which he was passing, yet he did not
once hesitate, John 12:27, 28, never
for one moment faltered in his co
operation with the complete will of
God. Again we are compelled to bow
the head with reverence before his
marvelous patience with the disci
ples. Nowhere else have we found a
record that will surpass this picture,
especially the latter end, as we see
him patiently waiting and watching;
while they slept The words of the
Psalmist are brought to mind:
Like as a father pltieth His children-.
So the Lord pitieth them that fear Him.
For He knoweth our frame.
He remembereth that we are dust.
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Conscious of his approaching pas
sion, conscious of the strain of the
coming hours of that fateful last day,
halting on the pathway of his sorrows,
he gives his disciples time for repose.
While, we contrast his self-sacrifice
and their selfishness, yet, when we
study our own' lives, we hardly dare
to criticize. We are, however, im
pressed with the marvelous privilege
they allowed to slip from them.
The Golden Text was spoken after
the ' first period of prayer. These
words were spoken in tender compas
sion and in full recognition of the
weakness of the disciples. He knew
them altogether, the whole truth about
each one. That they desired fellow
ship with him we feel confident, yet
they, even as we so often likewise,,
failed. Let us then endeavor to ob
serve and obey his injunction, "Keep
awake, and pray ye enter not into
temptation." Not that we shall be
kept from temptation, but as In the dis
ciples' prayer, we should pray. "Lead
us not into temptation.' ,