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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 - - $2.50 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. VOL. XXXVII. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, DECEMBER 30, 1914. NO. 21. if ' hi r'li i ' f v V5 im, I'.'v' "V ii' Ir!' 'I'V IPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER Happenings of This and Other Nations For Seven Days Are Given. THE NEWS JJFJHE SOUTH What Is Taking Place in the South land Will Be Found in Brief Paragraphs. European War News Christmas brought no relief to the European armies. The British and Belgians engaged in hand-to-hand conflicts with the Ger mans in west Belgium Christmas Day. The Franco-English troops claim successes along the center and east ern lines. The Germans report that' they have taken the second British trenches in Belgium. A violent revolution has broken out in Albania against Essad Pasha, who was established as ruler by Turkey. The palace at Tirana has been pillag ed and burned. The Italian government has landed sailors from warships at Avlona, Al bania, to restore order and protect foreigners and peaceful inhabitants. It is stated in diplomatic circles that Italy's intervention in Albania may embroil her with her recent foe, Turkey, and holds possibilities of far reaching results. A German aeroplane was sighted off South End, Sheerness, England. Several rounds were fired from anti air craft guns, and the intruders were soon chased away. It is reported at Dover, England, that German aeroplanes have been sighted. No damage is reported. Russia claims to have taken since the war began 357,406 prisoners. It is stated that the Slavs taken prisoners by the Russians have asked for Russian naturalization in order that they may be sent against the Turks. The imperial diet of Japan was dis solved by the emperor because it re jected army expansion measures pro posed by the government. The allies in the west, the Germans in Poland and the Russians in East Prussia and Galicia continue offen sive operations. The advantages gain, ed by each is reported to be almost imperceptible. The war in Poland has shifted slightly to the south. The Germans have failed to pierce the Russian lines, but have forced Grand Duke Nicholas to withdraw from before Cracow. The Russians have resumed the of fensive against the Austro-German forces in Galicia. The allies in the west, although scoring some success, are meeting with stubborn resistance. In the council chamber of an an cient Flemish town hall, from which he is directing, under German shell fire, the resistance of his war-worn lit tle army blocking the road to Dun kirk and Calais, King Albert of the Belgians told of the stand his soldiers are making against the German in vaders. King Albert requested the press to convey to the people of the United States his deep gratitude for their efforts to feed his subjects un der German military rule. The Germans have again invaded Angola, Portuguese West Africa. This was announced in the chamber of dep uties at Lisbon by the minister of colonies, who said the German's had made a fresh attack on the military post at Naulila, in the province of An gola. Lieutenant Crenshaw, naval radio officer of the Panama canal zone, ca bled the navy department that the wireless apparatus of the British steamer Protesiiaus, in Balboa har bor, was dismantled 'by canal zone po lice December 10, after it was found she had been sending code messages. The vessel is; a merchant steamer Gabriel Hanotaux, former foreign minister, expresses what appears to be the prevailing view in France concern ing the proposal that Japan send an army to European battlefields. Mr. Hanotaux takes the view that evefa though Japan should send no more than 250,000 men, scarcely large enough to exert a decisive influence, she would always consider, in the event of a victory for the allies, that played an important part in set tling the war. The British cruisers Lancaster and lii'l'clk and the battleship Glory, which v.-- not been heard from for some :me, reappeared off the entrance of New York harbor. They steamed " ithin five miles of the Sandy Hook HAhtship, then southeast. The military attache of the German embassy at Washington has justified riie killing of women and children by the imperial German navy at Scarbor ough and Whitby on the ground that these places were defended within the meaning of The Hague convention Premier Viviani, stating the views cf the French government concerning the war to the chamber of deputies, said: "France, acting in accord with her allies, will not sheathe her arms until after taking vengeance for out raged right; until she has united, for all time, to the French fatherland, the provinces ravished from her by force; restored heroic Belgians to the fullness of her material life and her political independence, and until Prussian mili tarism has' been crushed, to the end that it bo possible to reconstruct, on a basis of justice, a Europe regener ated." The first cargo of cotton to Germa ny since the war began departed for Bremen on the American Pathfinder. The cargo is valued at $455,000, and contains nearly 7,000 bales. The hatches were sealed in the presence of the French consul. The freight rates on shipments of cotton out of Galveston, Texas, to Germany are the highest ever paid out of that port, being $3 per one hun dred pounds. A landslide caused by heavy rains partly covered Valmontone, Italy, a city of 4,000, thirty miles to the south east of Rome. Forty persons were buried beneath the ruins. The people of the United States and Great Britain observed the one hun dredth anniversary of the signing of the treaty of Ghent that marks a cen tury of peace among the English speaking nations. That Provisional President Eulalio Gutierrez had quit Mexico City due to enmity between him and Felipe Ange les and Zapatista chiefs, was reported to T. R. Beltran, Constitutionalist con sul at San Antonio, Texas. The mes sage said the capital was governed by a commission composed equally of Zapata "and Villa adherents. Preparations are being made for the election of another provisional presi dent of Mexico on January 10, 1915. Peace along the entire Mexican bor der is a possibility, as the result of conferences between Gen. Hugh L. Scott, United States chief of Staff,, and two Mexican leaders of Sonora. European nations have placed con tracts in the United States for more than three hundred million dollars' worth of supplies since the beginning of the war, it is reported in financial circles. N The reports from the financial cir cles of the United States are to the effect that this country is upon the "greatest period of prosperity it has seen in many years." A movement to rid New York City of gunmen, following repeated acts of lawlessness, such as the murder last month of Barnet Baff, a wealthy poul try dealer, is to be started. Sale of the New York American League baseball club and its reorgani zation under the leadership of "Wild Bill" Donovan, constituting one of the biggest transactions in the history of the league, has been virtually complet ed in Chicago. President Wilson has taken no stand on pending bills to prohibit export of war munitions to belligerents in Eu rope, and told callers he had not ex pressed any opinion to congressmen. General Carranza and his party, en route from "Vera Cruz to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, narrowly escaped death when a wild locomotive was sent crashing into his train by hostile troops. United States custom house reports from the thirteen districts, handling 86 per cent of the nation's foreign trade, show a balance in favor of the Unit ed States for the week ended Decem ber 19 of $27,028,263, an increase of approximately $7,000,000 over the bal ance for the previous .week. In memory of Timothy D. Sullivan, who wis known as "Big Tim," on the Bowery, in New York City, where ha was the chief political leader for many years, hundreds of homeless men en joyed a feast on Christmas and went away with a ticket for a new pair of shoes, the gift of the dead leader's half brother, Patrick H. Sullivan. In some of the most far-reaching and important cases ever handled, the Alabama railroad commission permit ted railroads operating in Alabama to make a 10 per cent increase in intra state rates on thirty-three common commodities. The national prohibition amendment to the federal Constitution, proposed by Representative Richmond P. Hob son of Alabama, failed in the house by 61 votes. A change of 31 votes would have furnished the necessary two-thirds majority, 197 members vot ing for and 189 against prohibition. Prohibition leaders all over the country are jubilant over the result of the vote in the house on the Hob son amendment. They say they had not expected such a good showing on the first attempt. In the vote on the Hobson prohibi tion amendment to the federal Com stitution, party lines were absolutely wiped out. Those voting for the amendment included 114 Democrats, 67 Republicans, 11 Progressives and 4 Progressive Republicans. Harry K. Thaw's fight against extra, dition from New Hampshire has been denied by the United States Supreme court. William Travers Jerome, for mer district attorney of New York City, who prosecuted the two Thaw trials, acted as special deputy attor ney general of New York by appoint ment of former Governor Sulzer. Mr. Jerome made the argument to the Su preme court which secured Thaw's re turn to New York, where he will very probably be recommitted to Matter wan. Lying face upward in the chill driz zle, the body of C. C. Walker, a young mining engineer of Atlanta, was found dead in a lonely road near Lithonia, Ga. Walker had drawn $800 from an Atlanta bank and had informed per sons he intended investing the money in a quarry. Admiral Dewey's famous flagship, the Olympia, has been prepared to sail for San Francisco, where she will be one of the features of interest at the Panama-Pacific exposition. ,The Olympia will be escorted through the canal to her destination by the Pan ther as tender and twelve torpedo boat destroyers. A daughter of Gen. Victoriano Huer ta, former president of Mexico, was married at Barcelona, Spain, to Gen eral Quiroz, General Huerta's aide. President Wilson spent Christmas at the White House, where he dined quietly with his family. LITERACY TEST IS IN FOR ARGUMENT IMMIGRATION BILL BEGINS HARD FIGHT AFTER SHORT HOLIDAY RECESS. MANY OTHER MEASURES Naval and Military Bills Expected to Cause Lengthy Debate in Both Houses. Washington, With leaders in both houses determined to push through all neccessary legislation and avert an extra session after March 4, Con gress reconvened after one of the shortest holiday recesses on record. The appropriation bills and gener al measures are expected to be clear ed up quickly by the House. The Sen ate, however still has before it practi cally the. entire legislation program outlined at the re-opening of the ses sion, in addition to the immigration bill and the appropriation measures. There is a growing disposition on the part of some Democrates to side track or defeat the immigration bill. Senator Lewis after a recent confer ence with the President threw down the guage of battle over the literacy test issue which the President oppos es. Some Senators believe enough votes can be found to strike out the provision, which it is admitted, would operate to defeat the bill. Senator Smith of South Carolina, chairman of the Immigration Committee, proposes, however to continue the fight for the bill, literacy test and all. Leaders in both houses anticipate prolonged discussion over the naval and military appropriation bills. The Government ship purchase bill re ported to the Senate before the ad journment, is awaiting an opportuni ty for discussion. The postoffice appropriation bill is the pending business in the House with the Indian, legislative, executive and judicial and the rivers and har bors appropriation bills following. The House Agricultural Committee has just completed its agricultral ap propriation bill with a total of $22, 627,712 for the Department of Agri culture, an increase of almost of $2, 000,000 over the estimate submitted by the department. FLEETS OF AIR ARE ACTIVE. Russions Use Artillery. Czar Joins Leaders at Front. London. The airmen of the bellig erent countries spent a busy Christ mas holiday. While a solitary Ger man flew over the Thames estuary and dropped a single bomb which fell in a roadway and did no damage, a con voy of seven British naval seaplanes visited the German naval base at Cux haven and dropped bombs on ships and the gas works. All but one of the British airmen returned safely to theships which convoyed them. Sim ilar activity was displayed along the battle front, German airmen paying a surprise visit to Nancy; French avia tors to Metz; British to Brussels and other Belgian towns' occupied by the Germans, and German airmen to Pol ish cities. As usual, accounts of the damage done differ. While bombs were drop ped during these flights, most of the flights were for reconnoitering. Except in the Argonne and Alsace, where the French have made some progress, and outside of artillery practice, the battles in the west for the last two days largely consisted of German attacks, to counter those" of the Allies and to prevent the Allies from organizing the ground they had gained. Philippine Trouble Unimportant. Washington Details of the native uprisings in the Phillipines last week were given in a cablegram received by the War Department from Governor General Harrison. The report mini mized the incident. Filipinos assem bled in Manila and Novotas Christmas Eve, it stated, and at Laguna de Bay and attempted to make trouble. Forty men were arrested and one shot by a policeman. Governor Harrison repprted that the disorders had been suppressed; that everything was quiet, and efforts were being .made to arrest the leaders; the chief of whom, he said, was believed to be- a man under sentence of im prisonment for homicide. He added that nobody of any influence or stand ing was concerned and described the movement as "small and unsuccess ful." It was connected he said, with the campagn of Ricarte, who has con ducted a revolutionary propaganda from Hong Kong for several years "appealing to the most ignorant class es of Filipinos." Noted Editor and Mason. Dead. Troy, N. Y. Col.. Arthur Mac Arthur, grand master of the Grand Encampment, Knights Templar of the United States, died suddenly of ap poplexy at his home here. He was 64 years old. Colonel MacArthur was editor and proprietor of The Troy Northern Bud get and was widely known as a news paper man. He was Ta prominent Re publican. Governor Morton appointed him to his military staff and he was re'atned in that capacity by Governor Black. v LABOR REPORT OF NORTH CAROLINA COMPLETEST POSSIBLE SUM MARY OF LABOR AND INDUS TRIAL CONDITIONS. TAR HEEL CAPITOL NEWS General News of North Carolina Col lected and " Condensed . From the State Capital That Will Profe of Interest to All Our Readers. Raleigh. The twenty-eighth annual report of the commissioner of labor and printing recently issued from the de partment has been received every where as one of the complete&t possi ble summaries of the laboring condi tions in North Carolina as well as of industries from the standpoint of the manufacturers. The report besides a complete directory of the state offices contains a revised list of the labor laws of North Carolina and a classified list of the industries of the state. "Condition of Farmers" is the title of one of the leading chapters of the report. That shows in summary that there has been an increase in the value of farm land in eighty-eight counties and no change in twelve. There are, reporting to the depart ment for 1914, 755 miscellaneous factories, with $88,811,810 capital, using 88,590 horsepower, producing an output valued at $97,062,107. These factories employ 38,655 per sons. Two hundred and ninety-six cotton mills report, employing $54,482,622 capital, using 3,704,709 spindles, 62,056 looms, operated by 143,237 horsepower. There are employed in these mills 54,960 people. Output, $80,602,74. The number of knitting mills re porting is 75, Increase of 17 over last year. The capital here employed is $4,762,196, nearly a million more than last year. There are 144,840 spindles, 10,760 knitting machines and 1,000 sewing machines in use in these mills; 20,163 horsepower and 8,227 employees, reporting output of $7,771,080. , .The woolen mills reporting are 6 in number with capital of $171,000; employing 13,812 spindles; 262 looms; 25 cards ; horsepower, 805. Output $755,000; employing 542 persons. Four silk mills, with capital of $23,000, spindles employed 47,540, looms 492, horsepower 1,110. Output $678,750. 842 presons employed. Four cordage mills, with capital of $460,000; spindles employed 15,936; braiders, 250; cards, 52; Jiorsepower, 735. Output, $1,211,467. Employing 440 persons. The furniture factories are 84 in number, with capital of $3,327,205, using 10,078 horsepower, employing 8,786 persons. There are reported 325 publications in North Carolina. This number in cludes daily, semi-weekly, weekly and other, with a combined circula tion of 1,512,559 copies. The report shows also wages in the different trades, in all the industries covered, hours constituting a day's work, otgether with numerous dfe tails. The appendix shows an' alphabeti cal index of manufacturers, classified under names of articles manufac tured, together with list of news papers and various other appropriate relative facts and observations. Labor Will Ask Nothing. Chairman D. K. Wright of the leg islative committee of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and other la bor organizations, who is always es pecially active during legislative ses sions, here, for and against measures as they effect the labor interests, said that for once there will be most probably not a single bit of legisla tion of any sort asked for at this ses sion by the interests he represents, but that they are geting ready to make the strongest fight they can against a number of measures that are expected to come from other sources and that would be detriment al to the interest he represents. Reoairing Secretary's Office. Workmen have begun a complete renovation dtnd refinish for the offices of the secretary of state in the Capi tol building that will include hard wood floors and refinishing the walls and new white enamel for the wind dows and paneled blinds. The offices of the governor, state treasurer and auditor have had a similar overhaul ing within the past two years, and the work in Ihe department of state is greatly needed" to put these on an at tractive and creditable footing with the other departments. Wants 250 Children Cared For. Dr. J. . Y. Joyner, state superinten dent of public instruction, just back from Kinston where he attended the annual meeting of the board of direc tors of the State School for the Fee-ble-Minded, says the board determin ed to press upon the legislature the necesity of provision through in creased apropriations for increase of the capacity of the school from 100 to 250 childern, the institution being now taxed to its limit, with 150 urg ent applications for admission on file. North Carolina's Waterways Money. Washington. The annual river and harbor appropriation bill, carrying $34,138,580 for waterway improve ments throughout the country, was " completed by the house rivers and harbors committee. Army engineers estimates were reduced by nearly $20, 000,000 to maintain work on existing for work, on projects which already have been begun, making no provision for new undertakings. After the defeat of the river and harbor bill at the last session of Con gress and the appropriation of $20, 000,000 to maintain work on xisting projects, the board of engineers sub mitted estimates aggregating $53,000, 000. These the committee, according to Chairman Sparkman "pared to the bone." All big improvement projects were' involved in the committee's efforts to cut the appropriations. Among the appropriations in the annual rivers and harbors bill, as completed, are. "Virginia: Mataponi and Pamunkey rivers, $6,000; Rappahannoch, $10,000; James $100,000: inland waterway Norfolk, Va, to Beaufort Inlet North Carolina $600,000. North Carolina: Beaufort harbor, $17,000; Beaufort Inlet $5,000; Morehead City, $8,800; Scuppernong river. $5,400; Pamlico and Tar rivers, $35,000; Neuse and Trent rivers, $32,000; waterway Pam lico Sound to Beaufort Inlet, $8,000; New river and waterway to Beaufort harbor. $37,000; Northeast. Black and Cane Fear rivers above Wilmington, open , channel work, $13,000; Cane Fear river above Wilmington locks and dams, $173,000; Cape Fear river at and below Wilmington, $205,000; Waccamaw river, $55,500. South Carolina: Winyah Bay, $50,000; Santee. Wa teree and Congaree rivers, $20,000. Tennessee: French Broad and Little Pigeon rivers, $40,000. Southern Girls Aid Farmers. x Washington, D. C Daughters of Southern farmers who have been members of the United States depart ment of agriculture's garden and can ning clubs have been -able to give their fathers practical . demonstra tions of the value of crop diversifiia tion during the present bad cotton year. The actual products which the girls have put up are proving invalu able assets in many farm homes where the cotton crop has not brought the customary returns and many farm ers are now substituting whole acres of onions and tomatoes in place of cotton after seeing the success wheih the young women have made with these crops. Two sisters in North Carolina have established such a reputation for their canned fruits and vetables that they cannot fill the demand.' The rules of the agent in charge of the North Carolina work makes it neces sary that the name and address of every club member go on every can she puts on the market. "Give me a can of Mabel Norris tomatoes," or "Give me a can of Agnes Norris peaches," requests the housewife of the grocer in the section where these two sisters sell their products. These young women no longer put up their product in glass, but in tins, their name on the outside being sufficient guarantee for the appearance of the products. The North Carolina girls are being taught to be business wo men as well as to put up superior products. Craig's Message a Party Document. Nearly all the state institutions and boards have filed their annual or bi ennial reports with. Governor Craig for the general assembly, and the governor is beginning to cast the first rougbt draft of his message to the legislature in connection with which these renorts of boards and institu tions will be transmitted to the law making body. The governor has given no intima tion as to the character of his forth coming message, except to say that it will be anchored in Democratic prin ciples and the Democratic platform and party pledges. He expresses the belief after a study of the personnel of th legislators-elect that the assem bly will be a safe, sane and at the same time a sufficiently aggressive body of men anxious to do the will of the people and promote their best interests. ..Big Advance in Health Work. The state department of health is nich gratified over the big advance in health work reported from Vance county where Dr. D. C. Absher is serving as whole-time health officer, and the department predicts big things through- his specialized efforts. Doctor Absher, it is pointed out, holds the record for efficient work under the Rockefeller Sanitation Commis sion service in this state through the establishment of the Salemburg com munity, Sampson county, that claims the world record for equipment. Lower Insurance Rates For State. General gratification is beins ex pressed at the recognition of North Carolina's right to special insurance rate concessions by the Southeastern Tariff Association as manifested in the recent promulgation of reductions in insurance rates on classes of fire risks, generally that touch the rank and file of the people. Reductions are as follows : Fifteen per cent in the fi nal rating on shingle or wooden-roof dwelling houses, private garages, barns and stables, located in cities and towns. North Carolina Happenings COMING EVENTS. Annual Live Stock Meeting, StatesviUe January iv-zi, iis. Tri-State Medical Association, Charles ton. S. C Feb. 17-1S, 195. Strength of Navy, is Query. The proposition of the enlargement of the United States Navy, stated in the form of a query "Resolved, That the United States Navy, should be greatly enlarged," is the second of a series of questions submitted by the University Bureau of the Extension to the high schools of the state for public debate. The library of the University Is the recipient of a gift of three hundred volumes of books and bound periodicals from the library of William Boylan, of Raleigh. The gift is made by Mr. Boylan in mem ory of his son, William James Boylan, who was a student at the University from 1904 to 1907. Among the vol umes of periodicals and books are a number of early newspapers. A copy o fthe Raleigh Minerva of 1812, and early copies of the Edinburg Heview and the Annual Register are includ ed in the valuable periodicals. . Farming in Harnett. Considerable local interest is cen tered upon Never Fail Farm, that wonderful stretch of fertile Harnett soil owned by J. A. Harps, a compar atively recent acquisition to Harnett county's citizenship. Mr. Harps comes from Ohio and is using the agricultu ral knowledge gained in that state to much profit in this locality whose soils he thinks to be the most won derfully productive in the country. 2,119 Charters Were Issued. During the two years just closed there were charters for 72 banking in stitutions under the state law and there were charters for 2,119 corpor ations. There were 300 land grants is sued that brought in fees to the state aggregating $9,379. 14,877 Automobiles in State. The number of automobiles in North Carolina has increased from 9,018 in 1910 to 14,877 fot the fiscal year end ing December 1, 1914, and under the automobile tax enacted by the 1913 legislature the revenue to the state from these was $98,640. There were licenss issued during the past year for 1,300 motorcycles. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BRIEFS. Ex-Governor Glenn addressed a mass meeting at Charlotte recently on the subject of national prohibitionr A big barn and contents and garage and auto belonging to J. O. Gardner of Charlotte were destroyed by fire recently. David Stern, a well known Greens boro attorney, died suddenly at his home recently. Superintendent Dobbins of the Hen rietta mills entertained his overseers at a supper recently. This is an an nual event. Nearly 300 patrons of the Shelby exchange of the Piedmont Telephone and Telegraph Co., have signed a pe tition to Manager R. B. Babington of Gastonia asking that their telephones be cut out January 1, if the proposed increased raise of 50 cents a 'phone is insisted on. Holly shipments brought East Caro lina shippers more than $30,000 this year. Warsaw tobacco market has closed havjng sold nearly 3,000,000 pounds of tobacco. 1 Commissioner Young of the insur ance department mailed out large numbers of the holiday . bulletins of the department. These went to superintendents of Sunday schools, to school teacters, and to business men and merchants over the state. Robert V. Brawley, for postmaster at StatesviUe, and David T. Clark, postmaster at Weldon have been con firmed. J. E. Love, a tailor of Concord, has sent President Woodrow Wilson a suit of clothes manufactured and made in Concord. With the suit was a let ter expressing the hope that the President would accept the gift as a token of esteem from a native born German who has resided here for sev eral years. The Greenville tobacco market has sold nearly 20,000,000 pounds of to bacco this season and there is yet to bacco in the hands of the farmers. . Comparative figures of receipts and exports of cotton for the port of Wil mington for this year and for 1913 show a vast difference in favor of last year. The total receipts this season beginning September 1 totals 77,667 bales as compared with 300,335 bales for the same period in 1913. Letters written at the direction of the Queen of England were received at Ashville recently in which thanks were extended to Mrs. E. Davidson, Mrs. George Rodgers and other wom en of this city for the funds sent from here to assist in relieving the suffer ing of the refugees. Kinston is to have a union depot after all, it was announced recently, G. V. Cowper, a well-known lawyer, was informed by Clerk A. J. Maxwell of the Corporation Commission that the commission ha sagreed that the station is a necessity. Realizing that some thing must be done before the beginning of the next season to secure a better distribution of lettuce and other trucking products raised in the Wilmington section, it was decided at a meeting of the lead ing truqkers of New Hanover county a few days ago to appoint a board of seven directors. INiTDNATIONAL Lesson (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting: Director of Sunday School Course.) LESSON FOR JANUARY 3 GOD'S PATIENCE WITH ISRAEL. v LESSON TEXT Judges 2:7-19. GOLDEN TEXT I will heal their back sliding:, I will love them freely. Hos. 14:4. This year we again return to the history of the chosen people and fol- low them through the period of tho judges, the days of the monarchy un- ' uci oaui, iavm auu uuivuiuu, etui divided kingdom in the times of Eli jah, Amos, Hosea and Jonah, down to the time of Daniel during the cap- tivity. I. Another Generation, w. 7-10. During the days of Joshua Israel served Jehovah, but his influence did ' not last long after his death. Ever and anon God must needs raise up a Joshua to lead his church. We have another "Joshua" Jesus who is ever with his people and we do not need any earthly leader (Ps. 62:5; Phil. 2:12). Still God is working through human agents and in every crisis raises tin his snirit-clothed leaders. No doubt this "another gen eration" honored Joshua as a hero but they did not follow in his obedi- miss God's mighty deeds among men by calling them myths and traditions, or to deny the "accuracy of the rec ords," Doubtless the Israelites felt their obligations to their neighbors and fellow-tribesmen, but they lost a realizing sense of their obligations to God. Sin of Idolatry. II. They forsook the Lord, w. . 11:13. Backsliding Israel is a prov erb. Over and again there was a re turn to true worship and just as often a forsaking. For centuries Je hovah bore with, forgave, restored and punished this "stiffnecked" peo ple, until the final overthrow and cap tivity burned into their consciousness the sin of idolatry. The reason for this was their disobedience in not putting out of the land "the gods of the peoples that were round about them." Liberality of this sort always results in spiritual ruin. A nation's ideals about God not alone determine, its moral status but eventually its I 1 MVMvA.nl nrAlr.fA AC YBrolf piljr dual d 11 Ll icuipuiai nciiaic ao Their way was not evil in their own sight and doubtless they were con- sidered very progressive, and their course an evidence of greater wisdom than that of their fathers, but it was "evil in the sight of the Lord." We do not understand that these Israelites took up the worship of Baal, the sun god, with all of its abominations at once, but rather sought a combination, a compromise worship, which of course led to the inevitable forsaking of God. Verse 12 Indicates the base Ingratitude of such a course for he it was "which, brought them out of the land of Egypt" (Titus 2:14; 2 Pet 2:1). III. The Anger of the Lord, w. 14, 15. There is no anger like that of outraged love. We are apt to forget the other attributes of God, those of justice, holiness and purity and that God can not look upon iniquity (Hab. 1:13). The light men enjoy only heightens and makes more black their offenses. God's anger can "wax "hot" and here he "delivered them into the hands of the spoilers that spoiled them." God Keeps His Promises. IV. And the Lord Raised'' Up Judges, R. V. vv. 16-19. These were men who felt the bitterness of the distress of their nation. God keeps to the letter his promises, both of blessing and of punishment, but "In wrath he remembers mercy." These judges had higher aspirations than simply to judge, for they "saved" the people. We who live in this present dispensation of grace have one who is now the savior but who shall yet be. the judge. That these righteous leaders of the people had a difficult task Is suggested by verse 17.. The hearts of the people "went a whor ing," lusted after the things repre sented by Baal and Ashtarotb, which history tells us were too vije tq be enumerated. The judges secured for the people of Israel their rights ac cording to the mercy of Jehovah. At the same time they were rulers and as such secured for individuals their rights. ' ' . . The worship of Jehovah always taught and impressed moral ( and spiritual truth and required the' con fessing and forsaking of evil." These judges were God-endowed and did not prostitute their gifts. S'bey were God led, saw Israel's need and had cour- ntro fnith arA 7Pnl pnoiieh' to SHOW Israel that the first thing theyriee4ed;; to do was to forsake the, evil and re- ( turn to a life of obedience to God. Their equipment was in that "the Lord was with the judge" (v.. XTt4sA fen risiA nrao with thnSA WtlOTTl . J.1 iriivU tuai UUU ng " . - "V he "raised up." Of course not all of the time, nor all of xne iana 11 i!.M ... o.r A tAlT10. Jill uuiea wab luua auu punished as is clearly . suggested by ' the stories of Ruth, Hannah and ' Samuel. As Jehovah was with the judges, as they were exercising fidel ity in their obedience of his word, they brought to the people deliver ance as long as they lived (v. 19).. The word "repented," which .is iir verse 18, is one which signifies grief and sorrow.