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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, JUNE 23, 1915. NO. 46. mm IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER Happenings of This and Other Nations For Seven Days Are Given. THE NEWS J)FTHE SOUTH What Is Taking Place in the South, land Will Be Found in Brief Paragraphs. Foreign Francisco Lagos Chazaro, the latest president of Mexico, elected by the Villa-Zapata coalition, sent word, through the Brazilian minister at Mexico City, to President Wilson that he resented the president's warning note to both Villa and Carranza fac tions, and that if it meant a threat he would take action to mainain the dignity of the Mexican people. It -is said Chazaro's days are numbered, as he is not even in favor now with Villa. Both Villa and Carranza prais ed Wilson's course. King Constantine of Greece has not yet been informed of the recent elec tions which swept the former premier, Venizelos, back into office. On ac count of the present serious condition of the king, it is believed there will be no change in the ministry until late in August. General Villa has notified President Wilson of his offer to General Car ranza to hold a peace conference to end the Mexican revolution in order to prevent American intervention. General Villa's men have offered to meet General Carranza and want an armistice in which to settle their difficulties and rest their armies if the revolution is to continue. The meeting will probably be held in Mex ico City. European War German successes have again been reported in Galicia. Austro-German troops have crossed the Russian bor der and captured the town of Tarno grod. A battle now is raging for the possession of Lemberg. It has been officially admitted in parliament by Lord , Kitchener and Minister Balfour that the Anglo-French fleet have been entirely driven from the entrance of the Dardanelles by the Turkish and German submarines. The British war office admits defeat on the Gallipoli peninsula, and the evacuation of French and English troops who have temporarily aban doned their attack. Berlin announces the capture of Ger man and Austro-Hungarian troops of 1,610,000 prisoners of war from Au gust, 1914, until June, 1915. Of this number 1,200,000 are Russian prison ers. Austrians have attacked the Italian invaders and repulsed them at Mori. Another battle is raging near Re- verto. The London war office claims for the British troops the first pronounc ed victory in several weeks on the Franco-Belgian border, claiming to have driven the Germans from several miles of trenches. Another English steamer, the Strath nairn, was sunk by a German subma rine off the Scilly Islands. Twenty-two lives were lost. Dr. Anton Meyer-Gerhard, the Ger man citizen who created considerable commotion in America by comments immediately following the Lusitania disaster, has reached Berlin and pub licly stated the relations between the two countries are far from unfriendly. He says former Secretary Bryan's resignation was not due to President Wilsons note, but to a growing per sonal breach between the two over the president's proceeding in certain mat ters without consulting Mr. Bryan. It is predicted in Berlin by impar tial observers of the war that the pres ent war will mark the end of the Bel gian kingdom and that Germany will retain her control over both Belgium and Belgian Congo. Already ' the em pire has taken $1,250,000,000 from that nation. Asked in the house of commons whether the reports were true that the Anglo-French fleet had forced the Dardanelles, Premier Asquith admit ted there had been no decisive victory in those straits, either marine or mar tial, and that silence was being main tained about operations in that por tion of the war zone. The election of former Premier Veni zelos of Greece is taken in all the European capitals that the Greek king dom will enter the conflict on the side of the allies not later than the early fall. Austria is now reported to be dick ering with Servia. While her differ ences with that Balkan kingdom- pre cipitated the European war and Aus trian troops have twice captured Bel grade, the dual monarchy is now said to be secretly negotiating with Servia to divide Albania between Servia and Greece. Premier Asquith stated the Euro pean war was costing Great Britain $15,000,000 a day. Parliament has just voted another big war bond issue. The British trawler, Argyll, has been sunk by a German submarine off the English east coast. German jingoes who are clamoring for war with the United States have been sharply rebuked by Eugene Zim merman, director of the Lokal-Anzei-ger of Berlin. Herr Zimmerman has declared President Wilson's position is a clear and dignified one which can not help but command respect from All nations. Washington - That Robert Lansing ef Indiana, counselor of the state department and secretary ad interim, will become suc cessor to William Jennings Bryan, Is taken from a statement made by Pres ident Wilson that he would not go outside his official faiiiily for a pre mier in order to secure the services of a man who was already closely in touch with the foreign situation abroad. Cabinet members have en dorsed Mr. Lansing. While others have been mentioned his appointment is expected. President Wilson received a body of laboring women at the White House, who entered a formal protest against war either with Germany or Mexico. The president assured them every government official was desir ous of maintaining peace. President -Wilson has appointed Charles B. Williams of Georgia United States attorney for the Panama Canal zone. ' President Wilson, after laying the corner stone of the American Red Cross Memorial building, was made a member of the Washington local union of the Journeymen Stone Masons. Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft were also similarly honored. - Former Secretary of State Bryan returning from a brief vacation at Old Point Comfort stated he would make three public statements regal ing the European war situation. This statement he said would be in three parts, and will be his last on the sub ject for a while. Standing on the steps of the treas ury building, President Wilson ad dressed a great throng of people at the national Flag Day exercises. It is the first time an executive has ever been heard in a public address in the national capital except from the cap itol itself on inauguration days. The president was introduced by Secretary McAdoo. The president eulogized George Washington and Charles Thomson, the designers of the. Stars and Stripes. Domestic Charles Becker, former New . York police lieutenant under death sen tence convicted of inspiring the mur der' of Herman Rosenthal, has only one hope in executive clemency , or a supreme court appeal. It is not be lieved Governor Whitman, who secur ed Becker's conviction, will grant clemency. Harry Thaw won again in the New York court of appeals when Justice Hendrick was upheld in directing a jury trial to test Thaw's sanity. Date for the hearing has already been set. Senator Tillman of South Carolina, accompanied by his family, are visit ing the Panama canal en route to the San Francisco exposition. Two naval academy midshipmen, in the . investigation of examination scandals at Annapolis, admitted on the -stand that some of the cadets had resorted to stolen papers for their own advantage in exams. One witness testified that about half his class might be guilty of the charge. Rabbi Goldstein of New York made a plea against the continuation of capital punishment before the - pardon board at Albany. He declared "Dago Frank," one of the four gunmen in the Rosenthal case, went to his death, innocent of crime. Lee Cowart, former commissioner of immigration of Alabama, and John Cheney, of the state agricultural de partment, have been arrested on the charge of embezzling state funds. The Sons of Confederate Veterans have just concluded their session at Little Rock. Calvin Demarest of Chicago, fam ous as a billiard champion, attempted a crime when he tried to stab hi3 mother and wife and then cut his own throat. He was unsuccessful and all three are living. The Southern Cotton Seed Crushers' Association, in session at Tybee Isl and, Ga., adopted resolutions protest ing against British interference with American commerce. Mayor Thompson of Chicago has solved the strike situation by placing both labor leaders and traction offi cials under lock and key and forcing them to an agreement so as to renew business traffic in the nations' second city. The Chicago street car strike took on a serious aspect and promises to continue the rest of the summer. Sev eral acts of violence were reported. The Oklahoma labor commissioner has publicly advised laboring men not to come to Oklahoma this summer un less assured of work. Already the wheat fields are filled and 10,000 men who rushed into the state in the last month are out of employment. A Peace and Preparedno&s Confer ence, a branch of the National Secur ity League, in session in Boston, adopted a resolution urging President Wilson to call the attention of con gress to the pressing need for addi tional national defense. Congressman Meeker of St. Louis has been arrested on a charge of crim inal libel by Hugh Moore, editor of a Monett, Mo., paper. The congressman was released under bond. The examinations scandal at the United States naval academy, now be ing investigated by a court of Inquiry and involving the dismissal of seven cadets, has taken on a more serious aspect than ever. Among the chief witnesses called at the hearing was Rear Admiral Fullam, superintendent of . the academy. No mishaps or great disorder have vet been reported from the Chicago: street car strike. Surface lines have: had to suspend and only a few ele vated trains are in operation. Mayor Thompson predicts an early settle ment of the difficulties. LEO FRANK WILL NOT BE HANGED; SLATON ALTERS DEATH SENTENCE Macon, Ga. Leo M. Frank arrived In this city at 2:44 a. m., under heavy guard on his way to the state farm at Milledgeville, which is located in South Georgia, about 150 miles south of Atlanta. Sheriff Mangum of Fulton County, who had Frank In charge, said that Frank's sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Slaton. The sheriff and his prisoner were transferred to an automobile and im mediately left for the state farm, Frank was not handcuffed. Frank Nervous There were only a few persons at the railway station here when Frank and his custodions arrived. Frank appeared to be nervous and his gait was unsteady. He was pale and at times had to be steadied by Sheriff LEO M. FRANK Leo M. Frank, who was sentence to die for the murder of Mary Fagan is now in the state prison. His sen tence was commuted by Governor Slaton. Mangum and the deputies as he walk ed. Several persons recognized the prisoner as he left the train. Atlanta, Ga. Reports that Leo M. Frank had secretly been moved from the Fulton county jail and sent on a Central of Georgia train to the state farm at Milledgeville, Ga., persisted early in the morning. Ofllcials at the terminal station asserted that Frank was on a train leaving here shortly after midnight. Governor Slaton de clined to discuss the report and all ef forts to confirm it in official quarters were unavailing. The governor stated that Frank had been removed from Atlanta to the state farm at Milledgeville, Ga., by his order. Big Battleship Launched. New York. The new battleship Arizona was successfully launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The Arizona shares with her sister ship, the Pennsylvania, recently launched at Newport News, the honor of being the world's largest battleship. She went to the river with the .wine and water of her christening tricking in rivulets down her bow from two broken bottles that swung, bound to gether by a long red, white and blue cord of silk. Miss Esther Ross of Prescott, Ariz., the sponsor made a fair throw as the big hull quivered and slid slowly forward; the froth of the wine spattered her gown and the clothes of those in her party. From the grandstand the christen ing was witnessed by Secretary Dan iels, army and navy officers, Govern nor Hunt, Sefnatcr Ashurst and others Germans Angry Over Sinking U-29. Berlin, via London. A statement given out by the German Admiralty to the effect that the German submarine U-29 had been rammed and sunk by a British tank steamer after the vessel had been ordered to stop, is expected to have an important bearing on the German-American negotiations. Ger man naval officers and the public at large ask how it is. possible for Ger man submarines . to treat merchant men in the way requested by the United States of ships . displaying neutral flags in the war zone. Vetoes Full Crew Bill. . Harrisburg, Pa. Governor Brum baugh announced he had vetoed a bill designed to repeal the Pennsylvania full crew law. The bill was passed by the Legislature recently after an extensive publicity campaign. Under the terms of the measure which was opposed by railway employes and la bor organizations, the public service commission would have been empow ered to require railroads to employ an adequate number of men upon trains. The governor issued several state ments with the veto. TEUTONIC ALLIES SURE OF SUCCESS NOT. SINCE BEFORE BATTLE OF MARNE HAVE ALLIES BEEN SO CONFIDENT. KAISER TAKES UP COMMAND German Emperior Has Established His Headquarters as Near Front as is Practicable. " London. After seven weeks batter ing across Galicia during which the Russians have been thrown back more than 150 miles the Austro-Ger-mans are as close to Lemberg as were the Germans to Paris last Fall. Never perhaps since before the battle of the Marne, have the Teutonic Allies ap peared so confident of success. Hav ing failed in theor original plan of crushing France and then returning to Russia, they have reversed the order of their strategy and now judging by the expenditure of life and ammuni tion in Galicia they have pinned their whole faith on paralyzing the Russian army to permit the throwing of a tre mendous weight of men and metal into the west, there either to break through the Franco-British line or force an in terminable period of sanguinary war fare. A dispatch from Copenhagen says that the German Emperor himself has taken supreme command of the Gali cian campaign, establishing his head quarters in Silesia as near to the front as practicable. Mefenwhile the German official com munication reports the further prog ress of the German-Austrian troops toward Lemberg. It claims as well that the Russians have been cleared from parts of the Dneister. ANTI-GERMAN MOBS AT MOSCOW. Wreck 500 Stores; $20,000,000 Worth of Damage. Petrograd, via Londan. Moscow suffered damage to the amount of $20,000,000 during the recent anti German demonstrations in which near ly 500 stores and factories and more than 200 private lodgings were wreck ed. The infuriated mobs turned the city into wild disorder, according to eye-witnesses. From music stores, pianos and other musical instruments were hurled Into the streets until the piles of wreckage made traffic im possible. The rioters, heated with liquor found in the demolished wine stores, became reckless in their pillaging, burning many stores and apartments, the owners of which were Russians. Of the. total number, of buildings de stroyed only 113 belonged to Austro German subjects. The demonstrations beginning early on June 9 lasted more than 24 hours. Buildings were burned and crumbled to ashes, and the fire departments although active throughout the dis turbances found it Impossible to cope with the flames. Bryan Speaks at Carnegie Hall. New York William Jennings Bry an, addressing a labor peace meeting a: Carnegie Hall noro, attacked form er Presidents .'loose ve It and Taft as lending sponsors cf organizations which stood for tbe use of force in in ternational affairs, and which the for mer secretary of state declared, were inimical to the true interests of this country and to the cause of Interna tional peace. New Orleans Gets Federal Bank. Washington. After several week's consideration the federal reserve board intends to authorize the Atlanta Fed eral reserve bank to open a branch in New Orleans. No final vote has been taken on the propo-ial, but it was un derstood there is practically no oppo sition to it among the board members. Floods in Middle West. Kansas City. Twenty-four hours of only negligible rain in Eastern Kan sas and Western Missouri gave some relief from fears of large flood damage by waters of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers. 1 Automobiles for Rural Routes. Washington. Automobile rural mail delivery routes will be establish ed in many parts of the country be ginning August 2. It Was announced that orders had. been signed by Post master General Burleson authorizing the operation of 105 machines on that date. Preparations are being carried forward for installation of the automo bile in the rural mail service wherever the roads will permit. Already some carriers are using a -.tomobiles on their routes. Carranza Will Not Interfere. Laredo, Texas. Gustave Espinosa Mirales, private secretary to General Carranza and Genei al Alf aredo Ricaut, Carranza commander of Neuvo Laredo assured Gen. A. C. Devol of the Amer ican Red Cross, that Carranza officials would not oppose th i transportation of Red Cross supplies through territory controlled by the Constitutionalists. Tne Mexican officials declared, how ever that reports c food shortage in Mexico were greatl exaggerated. Two hundred refugees including Ameri cans arrived here . a omj day. GAMP DATES FOR T 0OST OF SUMMER MANEUVERS ESTIMATED TO REACH AT LEAST $77,550. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of North Carolina Peo ple Gathered Around the State Capitol. Raleigh. Adjutant General Young in Issuing the orders .for the encampment of the North Carolina National Guard during the summer estimated that the entire cost of the manoeuvres for the state troops will be $77,550. The average cost of transportation, pay and camp expenses of one regiment will be $15, 000, and all thi3 is borne by the feder al government. The Second Regiment will' be in camp at Camp Glenn July 6 to 12; the First Regiment will be there from July 20. to 28; the Third Regiment will be encamped from August 3 to 10; the sanitary troops will encamp at Tobyhanna, Pa., July 3 to 15; the cavalry troops A and B, of Asheville and Lincolnton, will encamp at Fort Oglethrope July 20 to 29; the coast artillery will be at Fort Caswell Aug aust 3 to 13; the Naval Reserves will take the summer battleship cruise July 3 to 15. Adjutant General Young stated that very little could be done at this late hour in the matter of securing an aeroplane for the summer encamp ments. This does not mean that the idea has been abandoned. A number of offers have been received by the Adjutant General from air men in North Carolina volunteering their services to the National Guard and a public subscription campaign has been proposed. Adjutant General Young is now ar ranging the details of the various en campments. Recently the water sys tem at Camp Gleen was improved by the addition of new pumping works. At the camp, there has also been re cently installed a complete equipment of wagons and harness for the field use of the Guard. It is the general opinion among all the National Guard officers and en listed men that the manoeuvres at the camps this summer will be entered into with more zest and enthusiasm than ever before.. The National Guard is more in the eyes of the nation now than it has been in past years and in most states the Guard is anxious to display its efficiency. Thousand Delegates Will Attend. The convention of glnners will meet in Raleigh, July 29, for the annual session and according to President V. Cockrum there will be more than a thousand delegates present. This is the largest organization of cotton ginners in the South and is made up of representatives of the in dustry from the southern states. The business of the convention in July will be the consideration of laws for the protection of ginners, the' pur chasing of bagging and the' direct from the factory, arranging for the fall seed crop, more co-operation and mutual fire protection. Representa tives of the association will be in Ral eigh shortly to arrange the details of the convention. Along with the convention will come a large display of machinery displayed by the various factories. Butter Market Brings Problem. -With the output of creameries in North Carolina estimated at sixteen times the output eight years ago, the State Department of Agriculture and Experiment Station is facing the ques tion of marketing products and to ar rive at some solution of the difficulty a meeting will be held in Statesville on July 23: This meeting will be at tended by creamery men from over the state and by representatives of the Department . of Agriculture and the Experiment Station. Those who have indicated their. intention of going at the present are Mr. W. R. Camp, Mr. Alvin J. Reed, and Dr. B. W. Kilgore. , M. L. Shipman Appointed Delegate. Governor Craig issued a commis sion to M. L. Shipman, Commissioner of Labor and Printing, as a delegate from this state to the annual conven tion of the Governmental Labor Of ficials of the United States to be held in Detroit begining June 28. Mr. Shipman will return by Atlantic City where he is a delegate from this state for the annual convention of the Anti Saloon League of America July 6 to 9. Governor Craig has also commissioned 20 delegates at large to this Atlantic City Anti-Saloon League convention. State Pharmacists Close Meeting. After a lively fight between Wrights ville, Morehead City and Asheville, Wrightsville Beach was finally select ed by the North Carolina Pharmaceu acal Association at its meeting at Dur iam as its meeting place next year. Morehead, City was finally withdrawn n favor pf Wrightsville and tha -vote rr&s taken on the seashore and the nountain :town. The fact that the last meeting of the Pharmaceutical Associ ation prior to this one was held in ;he mountains caused the decision to co to Wrightsville. N OAL GUARD Oppose Reduction in Revenue Force. A special news item from Washing ton states that Senator Simmons, Rep resentative Pou and International Rev enue Collectors J. W. Bailey and A. D. Watts came to Washington on vary ing missions. Of chief concern among all of them apparently, how ever, is the intention of the treasury department to cut the number of reve nue agents in each North Carolina district. From theree to five men less than the present number in each dis trict is the proposed allottment. Sena tor Simmons saw Commissioner W. H. Osborn regarding the proposed cut. He and Mr. Pou, with the two collec tors will see the commissioner in the near future. They will contend that they cannot carry out the Federal laws in North Carolina with less than their present number and will point to collections for the year of eight million dollars in the Western district and over five million in the east to support of their contention that the present number is not too great. One of the reasons advanced by the treasury department for desiring to cut rb.e number of agents, aside from reasons of economy, is that the U. S. government should not be ex. pected to take so large a part in en forcing the laws of North Carolina. It. is claimed that state and county of ficers should do more towards re pressing illicit distilling than they are now doing, since no revenue to the Federal government can come legally from the whiskey business In North Carolina. Especially since the quart law came into effect in the state, the government is losing money on every case of distilling it" unearths. Reduce Tare on Cotton Bales. Commissioner W. A. Graham is pre paring to communicate with all the commissioners of agriculture of the various states in the interest of a just tariff on cotton nagging and ties. Major Graham has already recom mended tp the secretary of agricul ture the calling of an international convention to consider the standardi zation of cotton bagging and ties. Prior to 1865, according to Major Graham, the weight of a bale of cot ton was generally 350 pounds. The cotton bagging and ties then as now weighed twenty-one or twenty-two pounds. Six per cent was fixed, there fore, as the tare. Since that time, the bale of, cotton has been increased to five hundred pounds. The tare re mains the same six per cent. As a result, about thirty pounds are now deducted as the tare, just eight pounds above the correct weight. Large Number Get Licenses As M.D's The report of Dr. W. S. Rankin and number of able papers on technical subjects was one of the features of :he convention of the North Carolina Medical Association. Dr. H. A. Royster released for publication the list of -he successful candidates for license to practice in North Carolina. The total number of applicants was 181. Of these 38 ask for reciprocity from other etates. Thirty-two were accepted and six rejected. Two ap plied for limited license and were -jepted. One hundred and forty came up for regular examination. Six were two-year men taking the primary branches and all of these passed. Of "he remaining 134 license was granted o 105 and 29 failed. Orange County Health Survey. The comprehensive survey of Or ange county's social, economic and tanitary conditions goes toward, tan gible results being acheived speedily! The health service of the United States Health Department has commision d into field service seven . sanitary officials and they are daily promot ing the health survey. Orange county homes are being rigidly inspected and the actual conditions found are being carefully recorded. The field agents re Tort to Prof. E. C. Branson that the 30-operation extended by the rural peo ple is characterized by a helpfulness and cordial spirit rarely ever witness ed in similar surveys. Mourn For Col. Jarvis. The flags on the Statehouse and other state buildings here were at half-mast on account of the death of former Governor Jarvis. The news of his death causing profound sorrow among state officials and others here and all give highest acclaim to his career as of incalculable usefulness to his state. Large numbers of state officers and citizens generally went to Greenville Sunday to attend the funeral. State Will Soon Do Lime Grinding. By the middle of July, North Caro lina will be ready to get into the lime grinding business for the farmers of the state. The plant recently secured by the Department of Agriculture, located near Pollocksville, in eastern North Carolina, is about ready for operation, As long as this plant will accommodate the demands of the state it will be used alone but when it becomes necessary otbar plants may be taken over. At the present time farmers may secure lime direct from the grinders. N. C. Troops to Participate. Adjt. Gen. Young issued the order for the encampment of hospital and ambulance corps of the state at Toby hanna, P., where manoeuvre s wiU be held. This participation in the camp of North Carolina troops has been authorized by the War Department--Ambulance Company No. 1 and Field Hospital Corps No. 1 will participate. The minimum of enlistment is two officers and twenty-two men for the hospital corps and two officers and twenty-eight men for the ambulance company. "".- SlDMHOOL Lesson (By J3. O. SELLERS, Acting Director ot esunaay acnooi course or Moody, Bible Institute, Chicago.) LESSON FOR JUNE 27 REVIEW, SECOND QUARTER. READING LESSON Psalm 78:65-72. GOLDEN TEXT I myself will b tha ehepherd of my sheep. Ezekiel 34:15. The approximate time covered by these lessens is from 1091 or 1078 B. C. to 1035 or 1023 B. C, somewhere between 50 and 60 years. The most prominent character is David. He is related to every lesson, except the first, either as an actor or an author. This fact gives us a center .about which to revolve our review. By mak ing assignments a week in advance a chapter summary of David's life can be presented as follows: Chapter I, Saul's disobedience, and its relation to David. II, The secluded shepherd boy and Samuel. The boy and the giant. IV, The musician and the king. - V, The boy and his friend. VI, The young man in exile. VII, -The young man as king. VIII, The king and the ark. EC, The king's great sin. . The re maining lessons will make excellent reading matter to be interspersed with the presentation of the various chap ters and we may call the whole pro eram "From Obscurltv to Power." An excellent suggestion Is made in "Peloubet's Selected Notes," of mak ing a large chart ruled vertically into five columns and horizontally into twelve spaces, one for each lesson. Label the vertical columns respective -ly, place, characters, intervening; events, key verse, and principal teach ing. Then have each of the sixty dif ferent spaces assigned to classes or to individuals who will each in turn, be ginning at the upper left hand corner with lesson one, fill In the different spaces in order until the whole chart is covered. If a blackboard is used these facts can be written within the different squares, otherwise care must be taken to have the facts written up on previously prepared pieces of card board, or paper, each to correspond to the dimensions Of the various squares on the large chart. As in the -case of the "chapter review," previous sug gested, Lessons III, XI and XII, being from the Psalms, may be read and no further attention be given to them so far as the chart Is concerned. For the younger classes a good story teller can give a running story of the lessons which will prove highly interesting. To drill the school or the separate classes, on some of the outstanding facts of the books of First and Second Samuel and the Psalms will prove, a profitable expenditure of time. For Illustration: Who are the heroes of First Samuel? Of Second Samuel? What chief events In the life of David are recorded in First Samuel? In Sec ond Samuel? Where is the record ot David and Goliath? If a running commentary Is desired the following? suggestions may help: Lesson I. Saul Is set aside, hence the need of David, "a man after God's own heart." Lesson II. Samuel's choice set aside and David the youngest son is select ed to be king. Lesson in. The wonderful shepherd psalm which is a "testimony" of David the shepherd king. (Have the school voofta it In er,neart 1 Lesson IV. A venture of faith, Je hovah's watchful care over David, and the downfall of a mighty foe. Lesson V. Saul's vain attempt to alav Tia-viA Tho rlnvplnniflPTit nf ... who "put their trust in Jehovah." Lesson VI. The love of David and Jonathan, an illustration of the sur rendered life and a type of the love for us of one who has said, "Hence forth I call , you not servants but friends." Lesson VII. Da vld"s , generosity to his persistent persecutor. David did not do to Saul what Saul tried to do to David. Though selected to bepoma t.ne king, David recognized in Saul one of God's chosen men and patiently bided his time till God should remove this recreant, disobedient servant and place him in the position of power. Lesson VIII. David exalted to be king, first over Judah and later over the entire nation. Also the record of his shrewd manner of making friends with all of the tribes of Israel. Lesson IX. David established Jeru salem to be both the civic and relig ious center of the nation. His Joy in worship and in God's service points forward to our. "chief shepherd." Lesson X. David was after all only Kuman. In the midst of his Idle lux ury' he succumbed to the allurement of temptation and committed an awful sin, an act that involved many others and made the sum total one fearful to behold. How are the mighty fallen! . The' higher they are the harder the fall. Let this part of the review consist of reading the psalms with but little, preferably no, comment. If what has gone before has been prayerfully - and vividly presented, comment on these two lessons is need less. ' They so clearly and cogently con- leave little more to be said, and the review will end with the psalmist's note of prayerfulness and his trust tnj Jehovah, the testimony of his personal knowledge and experience. '
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