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7 THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A. London EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion - - $1.00 One Square, two insertions - $1.50 One Square, one month s - - $2.50 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. AY iti- VOL. XXXVII. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, NOVEMBER 25, 1914. NO. 16. mful etter that 4 liver liorn- feel- ;one, your irely and chil- Iising dan- ggist omel f the con the t the the miles hav " as But 1 and ption fmtry they them rable h the rd of mded ide a and danc oman :? I'd e s a fiction iastic Then, urged y her h my mes." t you Exit fcle 01 ay for Jjat it toria nd to me a r wife want s just o are ps the "are Puck. hrli .ft r AM merit. Jrlrutf. ' and d Hair.! res oniric. swelling ire relier 1-pntFred or to ar.ia, Ga. -1914- tdy. It Medicinal 4 The War in Brief SUMMARY OF THE EUROPEAN WAR FOR ONE WEEK READ AT A GLANCE November 23. Great battles are un der way between the Vistula and the Warta, in Russian Poland, with Gem. von Hindenburg and Grand Duke Nicholas as opposing comanders, and on-the Cracow-Czenstochawo front Petrograd reports merely that the fighting continues ( but from Vienna comes an official statement that the Austrian attack on the Russian army in the latter district is progressing favorably and that northeast of Czen stockowa two Russian battalians have surrendered. Latest official reports from Flan ders and France indicate that the opposing armies, except at isolated points, were resting, posibly because winter has interefer with active oper ations on an extensive scale. The French war office reports quiet at all points except in the Woevre district, where the Germans, who made five at tacks in mass in two hours were checked by French artillery fire. The Soialists in Copenhagen, who are in touch with the Socialists in Berlin, estimate the men engaged on the Russo-German frontiers at 7,000, 000, of whom 3,000,000 are Germans and Austrians and 4,000,000 are Rus sians. The Italian newspapers print dis patches from Syria and Palestine, saying the Turks and Germans are making strenuous efforts to induce the population of Egypt to rebel against Great Britain. Two sons of Gen. Christian DeWit, leader of rebel forces in South Africa, have surendered to a magistrate, ac cording to a Reuter dispatch from Cape Town. November 22 Two big battles' both of which may have decisive results, are raging .'in Poland, and a third of almost equal importance is progress ing in East Prussia. Of the three battles that now at its height, between the Vistula and Warta in which the Russians claim partial success is exciting the most interest. Weather conditions, the frozen ground and the situation of the battle field favor a battle decisive to a de gree not yet atained on any other field.. In East Prussia the Russian ad vance is moving slowly through the country surrounding Mazurian lakes. In Galicia fighting is continuing and the attack on Przemysl is said to be developing in a manner to indicate the end is near. All that region about Dixmude through which the Yser flows is inun dated and fighting appears to be tak ing place south of Ypres, where can nonading is in progress. There has been no important action on the French centre, but in the Ar gonne region the Germans have made vigorous attacks which the French say were repulsed. On the French right the Germans have retaken Chauvoncourt, part of which they destroyed a few days ago. German activity in the vioinity of Rheims has slackened. November 21. "Particularly quiet," is the description of operations in the Western zone given by the French war zone, although the usual artillery duels and attacks by infantry at va rious places were in progress. Tracy-Le-Val, a short distance northeast of Paris and at the crook of the elbow of the western battle front, was the scene of the principal infantry at tacks. Here the French reported they held back a German attempt to cap ture the town, inflicting lieavy cas ualties. ' . As for the East Petrograd has ad mitted a big reverse in Poland a re verse in which the Russian armies have been pushed back at least 50 miles from the German, border to wards Warsaw but Berlin remains reticent. "In the Eastern theatre the newly commenced battles are proceeding," is all the German war office says. A semi-official report says: "Reasons of strategy prevent disclosure of troop movements." That thes movements are "proceeding" is takn to mean that the Germans are still pressing against the Russians in an endeavor to drive them back into the Russian territory occupied a short time ago. Along the East Prussian border the Muscovites claim they are continu ously pressing forward and making inroads into German territory. Here also Germany makes claims. November 20. While all along the fighting lines in France and Belgium, and in East Prussia, Russian Poland and Galicia, fierce fighting continues and engagements have been won a.A lost at various placets, no where has a decisive result been achieved. In the West the same ding-dong fighting that has been proceeding for weeks along the entrenched line that extends from the North sea to the Swiss frontier is being waged here an artillery duel, there an infantry attack with lines, however, remain ing but slightly changed. In the East the battling is more in the nature of field operations. Here claims of victories are made by both the Teuton allies and the Russians aivl the Russians ?dmit at least one defeat, near BzouTe, Poland. Petro i 33 grad says that there the Germans forced back the Muscovite troops and gained a foothold near Lencyyca and Orion. Along the East Prussian frontier, however, Petrograd declares the Rus sians have made successive advances and claims that in Galicia they have captured the passes of the Carpathian mountains through which the Aus trians would be forced to wend their way back into Austria in case of a de cisive defeat. According to Eerlin the Russians were forced to retreat near Soldau. From Petrograd, however, comes the statement that a terrific battle of unexampled violence has been pro ceeding for four days around Soldau, the Russians endeavoring to avenge their former reverses at this place, throwing themselves upon the Ger mans with indescribable fury and car rying position after position by as sault, despite the internal fire of the Germans. November 19. A launch from the United States cruiser, Tennessee, which was entering the Gulf of Smyrna to arrange for the cruiser to come into the harbor, was fired upon by tho forts and compelled to return to the Ten nessee. Undeterred by wintry weather and floods, the Germans are still striving to break down the allies' defense along the Franco-Belgian frontier. Although the Berlin official report says the day was quiet there has been an almost continuous artillery duel, with occas ional infantry attacks, but apparent ly without either side making prog ress. The line from the coast to Nieuport, which has been receiving less atten tion since the Germans began trying to force the British out of Ypres, again has been subjected to a violent bombardment. South of Dixmude the Germans have been trying, under fire from the allies' cannon, to build works to check the flood which compelled them to evacuate part of their trancshe. In Galicia Emperor Nicholas' troops are driving the Austrains southward and westward and have engaged their rear guards at Dukla, at the foot of the Carpathian mountains. The Servians and Montenegrins con tinue to fall back before large Aus trian forces. It is stated from Vienna that Belgrade again is about to beat tacked. General Botha, commander of -the Union of South Africa forces, again has been engaged with General De Wet's rebel commanders, but the final result of the battle is not yet known. November 18. According to infor mation given officially to the press to day, reports reaching Berlin from Geneva set forth that the British tor pedo boat destroyer Falcon, the cruis er Brilliant and the sloop of war Rin aldo, have been disabled by German guns on the Belgian coast. The Russians on the border of east Prussia are reported marching through snow, clad in sheep skin jackets sim ilar to those the Japanese first wore in Manchouria. Blizzards have swept the trenches in Belgium and northern France, bringing great suffering. A large area of west Flanders around Dixmude has been flooded by the heavy rains. If the Germans have abandoned their furious battering ram efforts to thrust back the allies' lines and reach Calalis, their failure will constitute a distinct victory for the allies, it is as serted here, because the allies have not tried to accomplish more than to hold their own on the defensive. Petrograd reports the Russian cam paign developing favorably in east Prussia. From other sources it is re ported the inhabitants are fleeing be fore the menace of a second invasion. On the Polish frontier and in Galicia two enormous armies are massing for a battle which may decide the for tunes of the war In the east. The possibility is being discussed that the Austrians may abandon Cra cow without defence rather than sub mit the city to a destructive bombard ment. November 17. The admiralty an nounces the success of operations against the Turkish garrison of Sheikh Said on the Strait of Bab-El-Mandeb, at the entrance of the Gulf of Aden, and of the occupation of the Turkish torts at Turba by Indian trops, as sisted by the British cruiser Duke of Edinburgh. In some parts of England the storm has become a blizzard; on the sea a heavy gale rages; and the battlefields are getting their full share of wind and rain. For the most part the opposing armies have Deen content to shell each other at long range, but the Ger mans have made several attacks around Ypres, according to the French general staff, have been repulsed with heay losses. A battle of some proportion is go ing on between the Russians and Turks at Koprukeeui, in the Caucasus the result of which may have a mark ed bearing on the war in that part of the world. Elsewhere in the near East, there has been no engagement of hnnnrtance. i i DEFEAT OF RUSSIA TAKE 15,000 SOLDIERS IN EN GAGEMENT IN POLAND IS THE REPORT. BIG BATTLE IN PROGRESS Turks Meet Russians Near Beturn and Win Fight With Heavy Dam age to Enemy. The greatest activity of the warring factions still appears to be centered along the front in Russian Poland be tween the Vistula and Warthe Rivers, where the Germans are endeavoring to press back the Russians to War saw. What the exact situation there is, however, has not been divulged. Both Berlin and Petrograd admit that violent fighting continues. Berlin says there is no change in the situa tion while Petrograd declares the Rus sians have obtained "some partial suc cesses." , In the contests farther south in Poland and in Galicia a similar state of affairs apparently exists. Vienna declares the Austrian troops have cap tured 15,000 prisoners in lower Po land and that an important battle is proceeding near Donajes, Galicia, and in the Carpathians. It is claimed also that two Russian battalions surrendered northwest of Czenstochowa and that the Austriasn have resumed the offensive on the Cracow Przemysl line, Petrograd says that on the front of Czenstochowa lent of these was upon Ypres where the German guns knocked down the city hall and the market place. An official Paris report says the Allies demolished many lines of German trenches. Turkey, according to Berlin, has in flicted heavy losses on the Russians near Batum, Asiatic Russia. The Tur kish cruiser Hamidieh and torpedo boats bombarded Tuapse. The Ootto man forces on the Shat-el-Arah River declare they have defeated a British force and that a shot from a Turkish cruiser caused an explosion on a British gunboat. Vienna reports the Servians resist ing the Austrians in well-chosen po sitions near the Kelubara River which Cracow no essential changes have ta ken place but that in Galicia the Aus trains have evacuated Novy-Sandez. In the west there has been com parative quiet so far as infantry at tacks are concerned but heavy ar tillery duels continue. The most vio lent Austrians have crossed. Nish says the Servian retirement before the Austrians is "for strategic rea sons." Russia has mined the Russian lit toral of the Black Sea in many places six miles out from the coast. A news agency dispatch from Hol land quotes fishermen as declaring that the German fleet is preparing for a decisive action in the North Sea Britsh aviators have made a daring attempt to blow up the Zeppelin bal loon works at Friedrichshaten by dropping bombs. One Brritish aero plane was brought down by the Ger man guns and an aviator captured. A Petoria dispatch announces that the rebel general de -Wet's force in South Africa again has been defeated. A German steamer has arrived in Buenos Aires with the passengers and crew of a British steamer and the crew of a French ship It. is pos sible the German commerce destroy ing cruisers again have been active. SECRECY IS MAINTAINED. German Advance Apparently Pene trates Great Distance Into Poland. London. The veil of secrecy has been drawn over the battles between the Russians and the Austro-German forces. Headquarters of both armies confine themselves to briefest state ments, saying merely that fighting continued. News from unofficial sources, how ever, shows the German advance has penetrated farther into Poland than previously disclosed. Warsaw is threatened for a second time. Gen eral von Hindeburg's army has ad vanced as far as the LowiCz-Skier-niewice line. The battle in East Prussia seems to have died down but the Russians continue to advance in Galicia and still are fighting on the Czenstochowa Cracow front. The battle in Poland in the direc tion of Lowicz is the most critical one and the Germans have ,the greatest confidence in the outcome but Petro grad military observers declare Rus sia's overwhelming superiority in numbers again must tell, as when the Germans made their first attack on Warsaw. In Flanders and in France the armies seem to be enjoying a long deserved rest. An eye-witness, with British head quarters in a statement made public gives " confirmation of heavy German losses at Ypres. He speaks of de cimated battallions, of hundreds of dead left before the trenches and of batches of bodies found in farm houses. Casulty lists show that the British forces also ftave euffefed. The Servians are making a stand against the Austrians in well-chosen fortified positions on the Kolubara River, but as the Austrians command superior forces it seems apparent that unless Balkan States come into th war Servia is facing defeat. AUSTRIANS ARMY 'COTTON MAY PASS ALL OLD RECORDS GINNING REPORTS TO CENSUS BUREAU MAKE NEW RECORD POSSIBLE. NOW LARGEST IN HISTORY Total Ginned to November 14 This Year Amounts to 11,642,708 Bales. . Washington. Possibility of this year's cotton crop equaling or perhaps exceeding the greatest crop hereto fore grown was indicated in the cen sus bureau's fifth ginning report of the season, which showed the quantity of cotton ginned prior to November 14, was 14,624,708 bales, the largest on record. In the past seven years the average of the entire crop ginned to the end of this period was 75 per cent. On this basis the present crop would seem to be between 15,500,000 and 16,000,000 bales. The ginning for the period from November 1 to 14 established a rec ord of 1,795,626 bals, exceeding last year by 152,000 bales and 1911 by 458,000 bales. For the season, this year's .ginnings exceeded the record by 811,00 bales. In Alabama, Arkansas, Florida and Oklahoma new records for ginning to November 14 were established. Cotton ginned this year compared with 10,444,529 bales, or 74.7 per cent fo the entire crop, ginned prior to No vember 14 last year 10,299,646 bales or 76.4 per cent in 1912 and 11,313,236 bales, or 72.7 per cent in 1911. The average quantity of cotton ginned prior to November 14 in the past sev en years was 9,406,645 bales or 74.2 per cent of the crop. Ginnings prior to November 14, in North and South Carolina, with com parisons for the past three years of the entire crop ginned in those states prior to the date in the same year follow: North Carolina 1914 555,401 1913 493,360 1912 627,251 1911 716,200 South Carolina 1914 1,091,289 1913 995,398 1912 883,535 1911 1,163,984 The next ginning report of the cen sus bureau will be issued at 10 a. m. Tuesday, December 8, and will show the quantity of cotton ginned prior to November 30. TURKEY OFFERS EXPLANATION. Firing on Boat Was Not Unfriendly Act But Warning Against Mines. Washington Turkey has explain ed voluntarily to the United States through Ambassador Morgenthau that shots fired toward the American cruiser Tenness- -e's launch recently were intended merely as the cus tomary warning that the port of Symrna was mined and closed to navi gation. Although the explanation is in formal it was stated at the White House and the state and navy de partments that all danger of serious complications had disappeared. Ambassador Morgenthau reported that two members of the Ottoman cabinet had fully explained the occur rence and high officials here said his message was filed before instruc tions sent to him from Washington to discuss the subject officially with the grand vizier could have been receiv ed. President Wilson and his cabinet regard the informal explanation as a certain precursor of a satisfactory formal explanation and guarantee by the Turkish government for the pro tection of Americans and their inter ests. Federal Bank Has Quarter Billion. Washington The first statement of the condition of the 12 Federal re serve banks was made public bXthe federal reserve board. . It includes operations for the five preceding days and is preliminary to detailed statements hereafter to be issued weekly. Members of the board did not expect rediscounting operations to beas large. Cash on hand: Gold coin and cer tificates $203,415,000 legal tender sil ver certificates etc., $37,308,000; to tal $240,723,000; rediscounts $5,607, 000; all" other assets $95'000; total $246,425,000. Capital paid in, $18,072,-' 000; reserve deposits, $227,138,000; federal reserve notes in circulation, $1,215,000; total $246425,000. Gold reserve against all liabilities 87 per cent; cash reserve against all liabili ties 105 per cent; cash reserve against all liabilities after setting aside 40 per cent gold reserve against federal reserve notes in circulation 105, per cent. Cotton Prizes Given. Washington Awards in the cotton essay prize contest inaugurated as a part of the campaign to aid the cototn industry were announced. eBrthan Dutton, aged 15, of the Mercy Home Industrial school, Birmingham, re ceived first prize, $20; Abram Rabin owitz, 12, Brooklyn, and John Locke Green, Thomason, Ga. tied for sec ond honors, $10; Jonathan Daniels, 12, son of the secretary of the navy, an,d Frances Vincinguerea of New York tied for the third prize. COTTON MILLS IN STATE GROWING SINCE . 1896 THERE HAS BEEN STEAD WAVE OF PROGRESS IN THIS LINE. LATE STATE CAPITOL NEWS Review of the Latest News Gathered Around the State Capitol That Will Be of Interest to Our Readers Over North Carolina. ) Raleigh. While farmers and cotton mill men have been howling ruin and destruc tion, the Commissioner of Labor and Printing has been getting in real, sub stantial reports on the cotton mill in dustry of the state. The report is not quite ready in full yet, ,but enough of it is, to show a steady growth of the industry during the year. The temporary lull in the business conditions resultant upon the war cannot be, regularly figured up in an average of conditions. It is an arti ficial condition liable to pass away at any time, pringing in its wake a won derful avalanche of new business. According to the figures collected by Commissioner M. L. Shipman there has been an increase in the number of spindles for the state of North Carolina from 1896 to 1914 of 2,815, 917. Or, in other words, in the last eighteen years two-thirds of the spin dle capacity of the state has been created. A table has been constructed to show the advance. From 1896 to 1910 there was a steady growth. Not a single year up to that time failed to show a substantial gain over the preceding year. But in 1911 the num ber of spindles dropped from 3,457, 702 to 3,381,703. Then immediately began another steady wave of growth.' The onward march passed the 1910 record in 1913 by over 200,000 spin dles. The table follows: Year. Spindles. Looms 1896 888,792 20,742 1897 1,044,385 24,517 1898 1,055,686 24,535 1899 1,115,820 25,943 1900 1,297,771 29,689 1901 1,680,483 36,052 1902 1,743,431 38,501 1903 1,834,421 41,596 1904 2,178,964 48,612 1905 2,267,625 45,663 1906 2,558,114 52,747 1907 2,768,576 52,272 1908 3,110,099 54,812 1909 3.217.95L 55,692 1910 3.457.702 56,516 1911 3.381.703 56,997 1912 3,370,866 58,961 1913 3,636,419 63,869 1914 3,704,709 Governor Stuart Says Come Ahead. The threat of Governor Locke Craig to invade Virginia on Thanksgiving Day with his full staff did not phase the Virginia Governor. He stared the "first, furtherest and last" prop aganda of the Tar Heel delegation in the face and then said, 'Come ahead." He did not use those precise words but that is what he meant. "On my Teturn from a little sojourn in the rural districts of the state, I have your letter informing me of your purpose to honor our state by a visit on the occasion of the football game between the University of North Carolina and the University of Vir ginia to be played in Richmond on Thanksgiving Day. I am delighted to know that you are going to to pay us a visit, and with full knowledge of the dangerous character of North Caro lina soldiers as shown by their cele brated first, furtherst, and last prop aganda, I am going to take down the bars at the state line and take the consequence of the invasion of the un armed soldiery of the Old North State. We have a warm welcome awaiting you. I shall expect you to be my guest during your stay in this city. I would be glad if you would come up the night before and spend Wednes day with me, as I will be obliged to leave Richmond at eight-thirty on the evening of Thanksgiving Day." Will Ask More Money for A. & M. The executive committee, of the A. & M. College board of directors met and went over matters in connection with the needs of the college. It was decided to ask the incoming legisla ture for an increased appropriation for the maintenance of the institu tion, owing to the increased attend ance. The present, appropriation is $85,000 per annum. The committee will aVk for a $10,000 increase for the next two years, $5,000 each year. The committee will ask for an ap priation to erect two dormitories. $140,000 Worth of Revenue Stamps. Forty thousand dollars worth of revenue stamps were received In the office of Internal Revenue Collector J. W. Bailey. Mr. H. M. London, chief deputy collector stated that during the past several days there has been re ceived into that office in all about $140,000 worth of stamps. These will be distributed in compliance with the war tax, parts of which went into ef fect on November 1st, and may be obtained by postmasters in this dis trict from the collector's office, just as in the Spanish American war. Forest Fire Loss Over Half Million. As leading up to a yet more formid able campaign in the approaching legislature for advancement in, pro tection in this .state against tne de structive forest fires that have blight ed so many valuable timber regions in recent years, the annual report of for est fires during 1913 by State Forester J. S. Holmes is just issued by the North Carolina Geologcial and Eco nomic Survey. The report sets out that "fortun ately for North Carolina, there is very decdied growth of public opinion in favor of fire prevention which will undoubtedly soon result in securing definite assistance from the state," this statement being in accordance with a showing thatduring the year North Carolina lost through about the same number of fires 600 about 60 times as much timber as did the state of Washington which has a model forest protection system through co operation with the general govern ment. This in . the face of the fact that North Carolina's stand of timber is estimated only one-sixth of that in Washington state. The report gives in detail the forest fire losses in the mountain, Piedmont and coastal regions of this state with the losses and the cost of fighting fires. ' In the mountain region there were 126 fires that burned over 100,350 acres of forest destroying $30,693 worth of merchantable timber, $76, 425 worth of young growing timber, $39,612 worth of other valuable prod ucts and $10,120 worth of improve ments. In the Piedmont region embracing 41 counties there were 258 fires that destroyed $74,088 of merchantable timber, $193,225 of young growing timber, $34,786 of other products of value and $29,615 of improvements. There was expended for fire fighting in this region only $4,439. The 41 counties classed as coastal region counties had 167 fires reported, with an acreage of 71,298 burned over, destroying $66,041 of merchantable timber, $48,828 young growing timber, $86,966 of other products and $17, 800 of improvements. In this region $9,386 was spent in fire-fighting or protection. Will Conduct Fifteen Dairy Schools. Fifteen dairy schools will be con ducted during December jointly by the North Carolina Department of Agri culture and the A. and M.- College. Dates and places of these schools have been announced by Prof. Alvin J. Reed, in charge of Dairy Farming In vestigation. According to the custom two schools will in some instances be conducted on. the same day. The schools begin on November 30 and will close on December 23. The dates for the schools are as follows : Friendship school, Alamance coun ty, November 30th. Guthrie school, Forsyth county, De cember 1st. Patterson Farm school, Caldwell county, December 1st; Mocksville school, Davie county, December 2, 3 and 4. Miranda school, Rowan county, De cember 3rd. Salemburg school, Sampson county, December 7th. . Trap Hill school, Wilkes county, December 7th. Stem school, Granville county, De cember 9-10th. Jefferson school, Ashe county, De cember 9 th. Boone school, Watauga county, De cember 11th. Valle Cruses Industria school, Wa tauga county, December 12th. Granite Falls school, Caldwell coun ty, December. 14, 15 and 16th. Oak Hill , school, Caldwell county. December 17, 18 and 19th. Opinions of Supreme Court. Medlin vs. County Board of Educa tion, from Wake, no error, Clark, C. J. ; Simmons vs. Green, from New Han over, affirmed; Murphy vs. Insurance Company, from Cumberland, no error; Morgan vs. Benefit Association, from Forsyth, new trial; Hanford vs. South ern Railway, from Alamance, no error; Lefler vs. Lane, from Davidson, new trial; Miller vs. Telegraph Company, from Davidson, no error; A. E. Smith vs. Postal Telegraph Company, from Guilford, - new trial; Standard Trust Company vs. Bank, from Guilford, new trial; Montcastle vs. Wheeler, from Davidson, affirmed; Finch vs. Michael, from Davidson, affirmed; Bain vs. Lamb, from GuilfoTd, no er ror; Palmer vs. Dowder, from Stanley, error; James Sanitarium vs. Power Company, from Scotland, no error. 296 Cotton Mills in the State. The' annual report of the cotton mills show 296 in the state. Of the cotton mills 277 report capital ag gregating $54,482,662. The number of spindles reported is 3,704,709, looms 62,056, cards 8,913 these being oper ated by 143,237 horsepower, the ma jority being operated by electric cur rent with steam power second. The cotton mills consume approximately 371,823,28 pounds of cotton and the approximate yearly output is valued at $80,602,743. These mills employ 54,963 persons. Prizes for Fire Protection. Commissioner of Insurance James R. Young is perfecting plans for is suing a series of prizes to school chil dren of the state for the best reports on fire protection in their homes and as observed in their neighborhoods, the prizes to be awarded, one in each of the 100 counties and to be prob ably $3 each. There will be a require ment that a minimum number of schools in the county and a -minimum number of children in each of the schools competing enter the contest before a prize will be permitted. toDNATIONAL SlWrSOIOOL LESSON iBy E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director Sun day School Course, Moody Bible Insti tute, Chicago.) LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 29 CHRIST CRUCIFIED. LESSON TEXT Mark 15:22-39. (Luke 23:39-43). GOLDEN TEXT Surely he hath borne our grief and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Isa. 53:4. - Last Sunday we saw Jesus on trial before Gentile power. Today's lesson brings us to the central event of his saving mission to . men. We must read all four accounts of this event attentively, reverently, humbly, f,or it cannot be treated even as other events in the life of our Lord. I. The Procession to Calvary, v. 21. Twas a physically exhausted Christ that left the judgment hall. A night of vigil, mocking, buffeting and with out food since the previous evening left, him too weak to bear the cross. Then it was that a son of Africa, Simon of Cyrene, was ."impressed" to bear the burden. The Romans de manded that the victim bear his own cross. He accepted the human help, but refused the aid of the drug. Matt. 27:34. Luke gives us at this point the incident of the weeping woman. Mark 15:23 seems to indicate that Jesus had to be assisted to the place of the cross. On the Cross. II. The Place, Calvary, w. 22-27. Here we see him, the brightness of God's glory and the express image of his person, the incarnation of truth, in whom dwelt the fullness of the God head bodily "crucified." Sin has done Its worst. The Scriptures are fulfilled, Ps. 22:16, Zech. 12:10. It was neces sary for our salvation that he should die exactly as he did, Gal. 3:10, 13; John 3:14; Deut. 21:23. Even the parting of, his garments was prophe sied, Ps. 22:18. The presence of two malefactors had also been foretold, Isa. 53:9, 12. III. The Passers-by at Calvary, w. 29-32. The people and the priests joined in heaping scorn upon him. Even those that were crucified with him "reproached him." Yet he loved them all. There seem to have been no gibes for the two thieyes, John 15:19, II Tim. 3:12. The cry of the mob now s "save thyself" (v. 30)., 'Twas spoken in mockery, but they spoke a truth, nevertheless: It was necessary for " the good shepherd to give his life for the sheep, John 10:11, and by no means to use his power in saving himself. They did not believe on him after the resurrection of Laza rus; is it to be believed that they would have accepted him had he "saved himself?" To have saved him-. self would have been for him to take himself out of the hands of God an act of disobedience. IV. The Person on Calvary, w. 33 40. In the midst of this awful scene, in the confusion of the mingled cry of the mob, there Is sounded one note of triumph. As Jesus was thus "lifted up from the earth" (John 12:32), one of those, his companions, ceased to revile him, and cried out, "Art thou the Christ?" and, to be literal, "if so, save us." The other seems to have had his vision cleared, for he rebukes his fellow criminal by saying thaf their condemnation was a just reward for their deeds. Turning to Jesus he exclaims, "Remember me ... in thy kingdom." The answer was imme diate and significant, "Today shalt thou.be with me in paradise." This is a graphic illustration of the whole meaning and symbolism of the cross. In his" undying hour the Savior of men loosed this sinner from his sins and granted him the right to fellowship with him in the life beyond. Jesus hung upon the cross three hours, Bearing shame and scoffing rude. In my place condemned he stood Sealed rny pardon with his blood. Hallelujah what a savior. His Faith Triumphant. Then God drew the curtain, for even he could not look upon that scene (II Cor. 5:21; Heb. 1:13). We do not believe the eclipse theory, but rather that God caused the darkness, anoth er Illustration of the closeness of man and nature, Rom. 8:20, 21 R, V. The dying cry, "My God, my God, why hast thou fqrsaken me- was uttered When Jesus sensed 'the full and complete realization of being separated from the Father. Death is not annihilation, but separation, and Jesus was sepa rated from God the Father because of our sins, Isa. 53:6. Yet in that terri ble moment his faith does not waver, for he cries, "My God." Conscious of his personal innocence, but suffering for the sins of others, his faith is triumphant. This lesson suggests that all who study it yield themselves to a search ing self-examination. Such a manifes tation of divine love should call forth our utmost confidence and our un questioned trust in our divine redeem er. Therevelation of the enormity of man's sin as seen on Calvary ought to fill us with an uncompromising hatred of sin. The story of the Sa vior's sufferings ought to impel us to a constant conflict with sin. Those who witnessed the vent of that day saw him "stricken, smitten," but God was in him reconciling the world to himself.