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-Ml S from n1hfirl Ft-nm All C&frai&f u Stabbed With -a JPorfc) a ,; Durham, YSpeciaLVJToe ' Carter, citizen' t of r Roxboro j Kis under treats -ment at the watts Hospital:, on ac count' of. three . stabs1 in the , abdomen thai; he received - in his . home " town - - i last week,' the stabbing being done by .Lacy Wilson, a Durham young man who is now at work; in Roxlpro, : a ' fork being used - in .inflicting V , the wounds." The condition of Carter is such as to give hopg that , the wounds . wiii not - prove fatal. The wounds, however, are very v painful, 'the prongs if -2 the i, eating fork renter ing,tbe cavity- of the stomach -at threeK places. It will be several days before the full nature of the wounds "can ? be . determined. It was --lateVifc the aftern6onthat ' the stabbing iWas Otone.. Wilson.; and Carter got into a dispute of some nature-ana the re sult was that Wilson .grabbed a. fork off the '-tabid. . at the boarding house and - used itt-!,i After being stabbed Carter-walked for some distance and then r, fell fo the ground.'- He lost considerable blood on account "of the vrnTiTiila : Tf -ic -rororvl Vioto flint- flip V Willi ' A.VAlhr VVU UVA W W V - . 1 . . - ... t . fuss ; and JifisutLoccured on account of a woman who t lives in Roxboro. . ITorth Carolina Veterans w mston-oaiem. especial. Tne : an nual reunion of North Carolina Con federate Veterans'' Association v will be held in this city -August 19th" andi 20th.- Thes'dates were definitely det . cided upon vat;.a joint meeting of the Norfleet 'Camp and a committee from y the board of trade held in the Win ston Council chamber last week..... A , central - -! committee ' composed of. Messrs: F; Liipf ert, E. C, Norfleet; VZ. T..Bynum, Maj. T. J, Brown and Dr. J. A Blum; was named.- It - will require- $3,QpO -or more to entertain the- visitors: as ; there, will be. .bout 100 here, - and, a large portion of : the ampunt :. Was '.raised at the meet ing last week. Dr- R- E. Transom : was named as treasurer. ' The Twin City will provide abundant enter tainment for the visitors and promis ees to give the veterans a good .time very minute of their stay, in Winston-Salem, i 'v i. ; . f 'fc?of , SSA Tragedy; in Raleigh. Seaboard engineejj" whose wife-' and sixv children' Kve at Roanoke, wasshot by Turner Smith, ' an eighteen-yearr old boy, and ,died an hour later, ha. ing bled to death. Stultz was at tempting to enter or had entered the home of Smithy for the purpose of visiting Vthe sister of the, boy,, : who had fired at the man 'earlier in the night. The tragedy occurred at 2125, and tulz, mortally wounded, walked a distance of four hundred yards and fell in a heap at the Seaboard sta ' tion,f and L-despite the efforts; of phy sicians, expired at ; 3 , o "clock. - The dead man was scheduled to go out with' train No. 81 at 3 o'clock, andi had on his overalls when found. Smith surrendered and is in" the guard house. An inquest will be held later and it is probable that the boy will be exonorated. liiliiRtoti Reunion. -The "v Warehouse for Charlotte. Charlotte, Special. The plan . re cently promulgated by the local Far-. mersl "Union to secure funds ' to erect a system' of warehouses: in ; the coun ty this fall is meeting with: general .favor among the farmers. There was a meeting Thursday of the commit tee appointed to draft a plan and work: will begin at once upon secur ing ' subscriptions. The proposition is to erect one central, warehouse .in the" city with a capacity of at least 2,000 bales and then other smaller houses Jn other localities throughout the county. The purpose of such a system is to enable weak -farmers t keep their cotton off the market in the early fall when ihe price is de pressed. It is believed that the com pany which will 'be formed to ope rate such a concern will . be am ply strong enough to. manage it suc cessfully.. ' v ' : " '".' - ' . Increase of. $40,000. , "V?Inston-Salem, T - Special. There . I i. ' XI . J : was.-an mcrease ox luny ixiousaiiu dollars in the internal revenue . re - ceipts for the fiscal year ending1 June 30, 1S0S, over the previous year. This means that there were over six hun dred thousand more pounds of manu factured tobacco shipped from this city by " local manufacturers to the v ports of the country- than: last year. : Kev. D. -Clay Lily, D. D., who has been- making his home in Winston- J . iSalem .since his resignation of the jpastorate of the yFirst Presbyterian Tfnlh his family, for Kentucky where A they go to make their new home. ZjBalla of -Lightning; Played Around . Sirk Bed. , Reldsville, : Special. What came ear being' a serious accident hap pened - at the heme of Mr. 'S.' G. Woods at ,Purley, when lightning ' struck .' the "desk telephone in Miss Hand Woods' room- and balls of fire played over the room and across the tthPrP VI IKS VVOOUSS 1 V burning' three largo holes in the bed clothing. Miss 'Mamie Woods, a -hft : invalid. - 'showed her. - nerve by cutting the , telephone wire ' with a knife while the lightning was '-Tunning along it, anft even tried to f 1ittW thft 'nhone out or doors. It i:,"WaS IOriUilaltJ 1UUCCU .ua.i, . uv vviw Prof. Thompson Re-Elected. ; Statesville, Special. Prof.- D. Matt Thompson, 'who has had . tharge of the Statesville graded schools for years and has managed the ; institu tion entirelyj satisfactory, has again been elected superintendent for an other, year, anl the following named have . been selected members of the faculty of the school- for the .next session : Prof. H.. E. Craven,- princi pal; Misses Kate Finlev, Aniue Lois Henly, Claudia Poindexter," Edna Brooks, Jessie Massey, Lottie Glass, Clara Gillon; Elinor- Murr, Lottie Linton, Nell, Armfield and Lula Craven: Miss Armfield of States ville, and Miss Craven of Concord are the only new members of the faculty. Many Applications for School Snper . intendency. High Point, Special. The school board had a meeting to seleet a man to succeed Dr; George H. Crowell, resigned, to fill the superintendeney of the High . Point graded , schools. There was 4quite a number 'i of , appli cations .which have been boiled i f 'n to six and from which the 1 school board will make a selection some time this week. Dr. Croweil goes t Epworth University, Oklahoma Citv, Okla., to which he has been elected vice chancellor. Cotton Mill Operative Loses a Finger. Durham, s SpeciaL-rEmmett John son, a young white" "man -who has been working for the. East .Durham Cotton . Mill for " a ; shortv( while, ' was painfullyAhurt late Thursday afternoon.- He ' was at "? work ' on'one of the 'machines when : his hand V .was' caught andi the v third finger on the left hand practically - mashed off. - -Big Robbery in Ashcville. . ' Asheville, Special. Morris Gros, of New . York., who with - Mrs. , Gross, is stopping here for ? a few. days en route to the' Pacific' Coast to take a steamer for the Orient was ' robbed of over v ten . thousand dollars. . . Gross had the pocket book with , the money in his possession at night. In the inoming it was gone. The book con tained nine 450 bills and 7a letter- of credit for two thousand-pounds sterl- ' ing bought by Gross in New York be fore; starting- for the Orient. : Detec tives are .at work on the case. .' To Serve Second Sentence. Greensboro, Special. T.V..M. An gell, convicted four years ago of de frauding the government out of a hundred thousand dollars, has been taken to the Atlanta penitentiary to serve a second sentence, of Jour years for defrauding the government out of two hundred' -thousand dollars which has still to be served. Tar Heel N6tes. The State convention of dentists met in Charlotte last week and bad an interesting session. - 0 ; r The ''rural fetter, carriers had their meeting in Wilmington Friday and Saturday: - . The superintendent of the third ("iivisiori, of theSeabord Air Line has moved his offices to Monroe. Btat i 'ecutivo W CoffiitteeWhicliL 'H lletl preensbbro,tBesiegedl; Witli g luTrifcatioi Selects; Charlotte fTor 'the Meeting Place of the State Re-' Y, publican Convention, and - Names I tbe . . 26tli::, of, August :as the Date. Sabbath School Institute Held at Ab - erdeen. 'Aberdeen, Special. The third Mr nual meeting of the Western District Sabbath 'School Institute" of Fayette ville Presbytery has r been in session here since Monday morning. The in stitute, under the , management of Rev.. J. B. Carpenter, field secretary and Rev. J. K. Roberts, ; schools in Fayettevile Presbytery, is by far the most -successful "ah'd" instructive that iras ever ' been held. ."Revi MessrSL Carpenter and Roberts: are' experi enced '- and expert in Sabbath school, work. 'f ' '.'n " GreensboroiX J$peciaL:--e epubli-i can! Sitaite ;bnven tion for1 the' nbini-; nation "of : candidates' for f Governor and' other TJSktte offices will be held in Charlotte :Angust"26th,iThisjwas decidid at a mee ting of the -State ' exeeative committee held here Fri- day , afternoon, . the vote . on - the meeting ? place standing' as follows i Charlotte 11, . Ashevilie 3, and Greensbordk . 2. . - Charlotte's invita tion was "extended by a delegation of thirty men, representing the ; com merciai, political and social life of the city, and it was ei'ident from the moment the Queen City people v ar rived here that they intended to capture the convention. - . - After .the vote had been taken on the meeting place the committee dis cussed several matters in executive session, relating .to the distribution of patronage, . the personel of the State ticket,' etc. The appointment of postmasters at" Mooresville anci Old ' Fort Was "considered but no conclusion was reached. The committee authorized the ap pointment within the next ten days of a committee of seven, to . make sug gestions for the platform to- be re ported to the Charlotte- convention Later Chairman Adams and Secre tary Persons' were added to this com mittee.' Secretary ' Pearson intro duced a resolution inviting Hon. W. H. Taft ; to attend , the State conven tion and the Greensboro centennial, and the same was adopted y a unanimous vote. Kew Court House Dedicated. . Shelby, : Special. Cleveland coun ty's handsome new court house has , just been completed. This furnished an extra occasion for celebration and a large per cent, of Cleveland county's citizenship gathered at Shelby Saturday for the double pur pose of participating in the usual Fourth of July celebrations anc'j to dedicate the new temple of justice. The new court house is pronounced by men who know as the finest and most convenient court -house in -the State. Its walls are constructed 'of the famous Indiana limestone and its roof supports a small dome. It is located on a large Square in the -centre of the town and is constructed with four fronts and four main en trances. 1 ' "The court room on the sec ond floor seats about "one thousand people. The exercises were opened! by a short address1 of welcome by Mr. C. R. Hoey, who also read the report of the county commissioners, whicn gave a detailed account of the construction of - the new court house. The' total cost of the building com plete is a little more than $75,000. Rural Carriers Adjourn. Wilmington, Special The fifth annual convention of the North Caro lina .Rural" Carriers'- Association1 came to a elose with the Fourth of July festivities Saturday afternoon after sessions continuing through1 two days in the United States court; room.' Considerably, more than a bxmdred ablegates and ( members ; of their families rwere in attendance and delighted with the entertainment re-t ceived. : The convention adjourned to meet next year in Charlotte. The following .officers were elected : ' Pres ident. C. H. Bains. Nashville ; vice president, A. J. Hunter, ; Charlotte ; secretary and treasurer, J. W. Brooks, Roxboro; executive committe C. XT. Monday, Asheville ; Sion H. Rogers, Monroe ; : E. D. Pearsall, Rocky Point, delegate to national convention at Omaha, J. W. Brooks. Roxboro ; alternate, V. T. Howell . Peaehland. ' - - .Silver v Service Presented.' . Beaufort, . Special. On Friday- af ternoon at 3 o'clock the splendid sil ver service, was presented ..to the. "cruiser North v Carolina,'. , Lieutenant , Governor Winston being master of . eremonies and making a very; pretty address. . : 1 here were manv v noted persons present. ' The service8 is ma nificent and the officers' of ; the North Carolina . declare'; that no. other ship lias a finer. , -"' - m . ' North .Carolina Confederate Reunion. The Confederate -reunion of the veterans of this State will be held on the 19th' and 20th of August at Winston-Salem. .Major H. A. Lon don, the Adjutant-General of, the North Carolina Division of the Unit ed Confederate Veterans has made, application to the railroad companies for the usual one cent a mile rate for the occasion, ; which .will enable the veterans to attend at small ex.- pense and the pitizens of Winston Salem are making great preparations for the . entertainment pf the vet erans, and intend to make it the greatest A Confe irate reunion ever held in this State. A' program of the exercises will be out in due time. On the first day; of the reunion will be held the annual election of the division and brigade commanders. On the same day ad dresses will tbe made by prominent veterars and thnt nisrht an entertain ment for their benefit will be given by the citizens of Winston-Salem. On the second day of the reunion will be the' grand parade which 'wil no doubt attract a large crowd. : - MURAT HAtSlEAD IS DEAD Widely-Known' Newspaper . and.Maga-; IziirWrite Dies at'Hoine iit M Cincinnati at I the i:!Ae?of79ai a War Correspondent During the Civil StruggTe and Won Internati 'bnar ilenownv 'l1 . i iM MAi&S Cincinnati, v O., Special.--jMurat Halstead, one of the leaders in -Amer-r ican jouralism for. oyer half a cen tury . and widely known as . a vigor ous editorial and magazine writer, : died at his home ' in ; this city Thurs-; day afternoon in his 79th year. At his; bedside H were his wife, v his -son Rbertand i one '-daughter, Mrs. ' Ar-. thur Stem, i JMr. Halstead had been failing in strength for several months; and Thursday suffered ' from cere bral hemerrhagei. YY-'Y " V Mr. ant'J - Mrs. Halstead celebrated , their golden wedding . anniversary a. little more , -than a year ago. 'The sudden death of his son ' Marshall, a few months ago ' was a severe shock to ,-, Mr. ; Halstead. Albert ; Halstead another son, is " American consul at Birmingham, . Eng. . rU;Y V Mr. Halstead was one of the great editors of the last half of the nine teenth century and one of the strong est tributes - to his incisiveness as a writer was in 1889 ,r when his nomi nation by : President Harrison to be American , minister to Germany . was rejected by the United States Senate because of articles he had published charging corruption to some member of that body. ' ' ' - He was a native of Butler county, Ohio, and after a shQrt service on a literary weekly, he in ; 1853, became connected with- The Cincinnati Com mercial of which he became owner in 1865. . Nearly twenty years later his paper was consolidated with The Gazette and he was editor-in-chief of the combined newspaper -until; years afterwards. , For ' a time he was editor of The Brooklyn Standard Union and during the last ten years he has figured largely as " a magazine and special writer, besitfss issuing a f number of books on current matters of historical . interest. ; In the civil war Mr. Halstead personally report' ed many ' battles being rated as a War correspondent of the first calibre 1 and later in tne bpanisn-American war he added to his reputation in that' line.;;!, -;"V'-V7" For fifty years he attended and re ported all Republican national con ventions. - - roal-Eoadsl . .y.;.3 :-.X'.::-'. ..-.-...:.: -.' :t;ji- v .f:-:''-. - - - Loss From Bad Roads. : "A somewhat novel case was brought m the Washington County; courts yes terday. It- Is that of a!; farmer ;who sues for damages because the; public roads in his" section of the ' county were'impassable. He had h ay to sell and had a market for it In town,' but could : not make delivery. . His suit is to recover the amount he" lost by reason of . his inability to get the hay to market.i ' v;'-" .:. '.'" .: r ' ?fMZ: - it. is not proposed here to discuss the legal aspect of this claim. That may belef t to the courts of competent jurisdiction. But the case is ; .in structive in its economic aspect. Cit izens of rural communities vbeyond numbering suffer .heavy losses ? an nually because the highways are unfit for the transportation to - market of the commodities they have to sell. In some cases' the fault is their own, for they will not willingly, contribute to road improvement. In other cases the taxes i they pay are squandered with hardly . a pretense of making passable V roadways. In too many cases the men who undertake to su pervise the road making have , no knowledge of the subject, and, "ap parently, ; not ; enough of - common sense to know that water will not run up hill. One of the most frequent de fects in the roads is lack of drainage, the water being so directed' as to tear up the roadway, or to" stand-' in pud dles. , , Scientific road building has been undertaken by the State and by a I few 'counties. But it must be appar- en,t to ail inat it win require maujr years for the State to create a system of good roads. Its aim is principally, to educate localities to the advantage in having good roads and- in the "best methods of building ; them. . .The townships must co-operate , and . they, must work on their own account, whether they be held liable for dam ages by the courts or not. They blight to build roads rightT ?ittsburg pis patch. r -''r-:vi . - r' r-: - Six Die in a Collision. Knobhoster, Mo., Special The fast California special trains from St. Louis, on the Missouri Pacific rail road, collided with the equally fast St. : Louis team from .Kansas City two miles east of here early Thurs day. Six persons were killed, all on the' train from Kansas City, and at least 50 were injured. The dead :.' Michael J. Burke, lineman, 28 years old, Poplar Bluff,, Mo. S. R. T Inglish, lumberman, "OleanV Fred Story, lineman, Franklin, Kv. W. J. Frisbie, . St; Louis, salesman. John Hood, lineman, Hurle Mo. W. H. Hardin, negro mail clerk, St. Louis. A strange train dispatcher at Se dalia issued an order for the trains to .meet at, Knobnoster. Later this order was changed and the meeting place fixed at Lemonte,- 7 miles east of here. Why the, orders miscarried will be officially . investigated. , Revolutionists Attack Mexican Post El Paso, Texas, Special. Revolu tionists attacked the Mexican post at v Palomas, ' Chichuabua, one hun dred miles west of El Paso and were repulsed after a battle, with the gar ison. According to advices received by the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad, their foreman at Mimbres, N. M., is a prisoner in the hands of the' revoltionists. Immigration and: customs; inspectors have been called in for duty at Columbus, N. M., across the border from Palomas. ' ... Telegraphic -Briefs. , , '. . The National j Educational Assoeir ation began ;a .big .- convention y . in Cleveland', '-.'.j " : , . . - -:., Secretary, Taft returned to . bis desk v in the War Department and passed a strenuous- day. ' " - - A commercial house in Colon was boycoied for allowing rthet nse :of United'i'States flags, as" wasnrags.c ' Troops were ordered to the Texas border to preserve tbe - neutrality laws inWexico's behalf. , " ' .' - ' Will Sell Odell Mills. J - Greensboro, SpeciaL-r-The creditors of the . Odell Cotton . Mills at ' Con cord, N." C, ' which v have been .: under receivership '(for two years, met last week and ? arreed to the sale of .the property .for he purpose of, reorgaui- xation. ; Half a million dollars is in volved. . . Prominent Floridian Kills His Wife. Pensacola, Fla., ; Special. Clifford Touart' ,a member of a prominent gulf coast 'family, shot and probably fatally wounded, his wife . at.Bagdad,; Fla., . late . Thursday. The couple, it is said, quarreled about a visit to Pensacola , proposed by Mrs. .JTouart and Touart shot her three -times. Touart 's friends say he is insane, i The Roads. It is difficult to take up any State newspaper these days without reading of teams stuck in the mud. . A very amusing paragraph in this journal the other day told of a -man of eighty years who had walked ten miles be cause he did not want to try to make his horse take the impossible journey. The fun of the thing was that the truth was behind it. The average country road is practically impassable at this season of the year. " " : : If the Legislature met in the early spring, the efforts to get good - roads appropriations would not require half as much exertion. When the frost is all out of the ground and wheeling is good, it is hard for people to recollect how abominable the traveling was a short time before. To-day -everybody that tries to move about on. wheels, from a funeral procession to a wed ding party, is liable to land in a mud hole, wagons up to the hubs, horses helpless, passengers; equally helpless as to progress, but able to express their sentiments. Now is the time for people to study the good roads ques tion and to form the impressions that they must carry with them all the year. vIf . they want to be able to use the. roads all the yearv round, they must insist on having roads tha"?Sn be -driven upon and will sustain the load. Every mile of good roads leads to better conditions of living. . The State has at last started in up on this improvement on a reasonably broad and intelligent system. The sooner the results appear the better, and each good bit of road is an in centive to another like it. Let the good work go on. Hartford Gourant T "1. Embezzled -State Funds. New Orleans, jLa.,r Special. Fer dinand Dudenhefer, formerly: State collectorj in New Orleans, wast recently-found guilty in the Criminal District : court of embezzling about $66,000 of State funds. Sentence was deferred. Dudenhefer disappeared from New Orleans about a year ago and it was charged by a Baltimore bonding company that the shortage in his oflBflice was known by State of ficials before he left . The bonding company refused . to , pay Dudenhef er 's ; bond and ' a , suit followed in which : hte bonding" company lost. . -.1. ,- v. ). . - - - ' : ;.'-;v-..-:'; '"';...' :- .-u:. - -rn.:. .;.K'' ;:i;v A "Bomb in a Tenement. 1 - NewYork, Special.-A'bomb in.the hallway of a . tenement partially - -wrecked the building Threatening letters, signed Black Hand," - had been received by the owner,? Frances co Spinelli, and three police officers were ' guarding the place ; when r the bomb ' exploded.' V One policeman was knocked down by the explosion. A -panic followed amdng the tenements. Why a Benefit. Good roads are a benefit to the farmers because they render trans portation of farm products easier; they, facilitate travel and shorten the time to and from town or city mar kets; they are humane in that they lighten the draft for c' horses ; they make driving, on pleasure or business trips, more enjoyable; they foster a neighborly spirit through communi cation; they are an aid to the Federal Government in establishing free rural delivery mail routes; theyf are busl nessr promoters,' ' and :a" crpdit,to any cpmmunity, State-, or nation - and finally are an index , to the intelli gence prosperity and activity of the people. , ,v ' ' ' All these points are in legitimate support of the construction and main tenance of good roads. .Many other reasons might be cited in their favor. It does seem anomalous that amid all our boasted national progress, this great necessity of modern 'civiliza tion should be kept so far in the back ground. - ' - ' - The nation needs better and more substantial highways, and it is hope ful to see indications that this sub ject will sb'on' receive more attention from, our national and State law-makers than heretofore. The importance of good rural highways is being more thoroughly recognized ; by . business men and legislators than ever, before, and the farmers needino argument to convince tthem that: better roads will Improve their business materially . '.''. "'' .; ;;..', '''' w's 1 yV--v ':! v.- INTESNATIONAi: LESSON C03I- --T MJ2NTS FOR JULY 12. Smokeless Powder Machines. . : ; One of the -most successful enter prises in Brunswick, Germany, lathe manufacture of machines for the pro duction - of smokeless , powder. A Brunswick, firm; has recently received orders from the Imperial War Minis try of Austria - for a complete" nitrate plant for the Austro-Hungarian -powder factory, at" Bluman.' near Felix- Suibiect,? Saul Chosen. King, 1' Sam- ' ! N uel 9 'and 10 Golden' Text, 2 Sam. 23:3Commit Verse 24 . v ) Read 1 Sam. 1 1 Commentary. . "thhb.- 1900 ; b. c, S!vpace-- ' Mizpeh. - --v5c-;v"v1'?'' '-;.';' :C-t:-. A ;' ! EXPOSITION. I. Sanl r,: Chosen King, 17-23., Jehovah hg.d already pointed Saul out as the c ne whom He had'Chesen tb be king pvler Israel (cf. ch. 9:17) , and Samuel 4 had made known this choice1 of God unto Saul .(ch.v9:20,:21r-:lO:i)'.v-Norw':there is to be a formal and public choice by lot.!-, Samuel called the people to gether but not unto himself, "unto the LORD." . They were , to meet the LORD face to face that day and to hear a message from Him. Are-our gatherings together unto the Lord or unto some man?- The place of meet- !nap nroa' nha that Tiart hoon VinlfnTiroil : . y . iyvu .UM... 11 WV." htxr ' tmrnei-t' o-atVior-Jnirs t .TiiHcos 9 01 1 Sam. 7 :5, 6). Samuel agaki re proves them for asking for sfking f (cf. ch. 8; 7-9, 19; 12 : 12, 17-lT. But the reproof was not Samuel's but God's; God calls to their remem brance how? He had saved them I and brought them up, out of the' land of bitterness, aild bondage. How gross was the Ingratitude of a people that could reject such a God, "and how great was their, folly that they should desire some human king and deliverer instead of Hinu ! , But. their ingrati tude dnd' folly was nothing in com parison with that of those who reject such, a Deliverer and Lord as Jesus Christ has proven Himself to be. - It 13 ,xne;.metnoa joi uoa in reasoning with;; men. . to ?;call to their remem brance His loving kindness towards them, in order that they may see their own ingratitude and folly in the light of His abounding grace (cf. Ju. ; 2:1; 6:8, 9). It' was a fourfold de liverance that Jehovah had wrought for them. (1) He had brought them up out of Egypt; the land of bondage, plagues and darkness. ( 2 ) V He had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians; that hand had been a heavy one. And the ,hand out : of which Christ delivers us to-day is a heavy one. ( 3 ) ' He had delivered them out of the hand of all kingdoms. He had brought, them to civil liberty and; self-government, end now they The only " way to be ' delivered from the oppression of all earthly kings is to have God for our King. (4) He had delivered them out of the hand of all that oppressed them (cf. 'Luke 1:74., 75); No earthly king could do that. " Their; obstinacy and folly, in this matter was a foreshadowing of how men would treat Christ ( cf. Acts 7:51, 52). Samuel told them their awful guilt without mincing, words. "Ye have this day rejected your God." This is a frightful indictment,, but it is one that, can .be justly brought against every one to-day who. fs re jecting Christ. In the face of all God has done they still said, "Give us a man. Set a . king over us." The in visible God is not enough for the un believing hearts The lot was in those days one of the divinely appointed ways of discovering the mind of; the Lord (Prov. 16:33; 18:18; Josh. 7:16-18; 1 Sam. 14:41; Acts 1:24 26).; But there is no use of the lot after the" giving of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. When the tribe of Ben jamin was taken they might, have seen, had they been familiar with the Scriptures, that the choice was neces sarily a temporary one; for the per-, manent king of Israel was to come is scarcely a sadder story in theBible. or In history," than that of Saul. n. How the People Deceived Their King, 2427. Samuel-was very enthusiastic, .over the ; man ? chosen. "See ye him' whom the LORD hath chosen," he cried. With, far deeper meaning may 'we , point to Jesus and say, "See ye: .Him ; whom God hath chosen" (.cf.. Acts 2:36). . Samuel went on to say,-"There . is none like r him' It was - true, - but how much truer -is it of Jesus, that there i3 none like-Him (Song 5 : 10 Ks The" people were enthusiastic, too ; they "shout ed." But. like so, many shouters, there. ; their enthusiasm ended; the greater part of them went "every, man to his house: " They had a leader now. and he CQuld do the fighting. They were likei paany; jnoderU churches, they-; shout v for ( the ; new , pastor and then go home and' leave bim te do the fighting; Saul assrumed to uiiuoch , jcu :,uu giui jf ntr;'. Weill-" waited for; the call of providence to do his duty. It soon came (ch;j 11:1 11) : Not all the people were, apa thetic. ;. There was a faithful . little company, "a band of men whose hearts God had touched"-, (cf; Ezr. 1:5, R. V.). It Is always the band whose hearts God has touched who do the fighting r and win the victories. But there was' another sqrt of men in Israel, "Sons of worthlessness." Their descendants still live.. These men mocked. -, They ; asked questions, too. The sons of Belial are always great at asking hard questions, and their fav orite question is, "how?" So these sons of Belial ' asked, "how shall this man save us?" That Is just what the sons of Belial to-day are asking about "Christ. They showed .their contempt by bringing him no present in ac knowledgement' of his' kingship. In the same way many to-day show their contempt for Christ ,r Saul showed his . wisdom - and humility and meek ness, by being , silent under slishts and mockeiy, . ' , . - - SERMONS -IN SHIPS: ' "I think it's a shame .that wine ; should ibe used at : launchings. .We temperance women" are going to try to stop it," , ; - 'After alllnstead of kicking about it, why not, use the' custom to' noint ; :'i i'How do: you' mean? ' - J . . "Why, simply " by " drawing" attention to the" fact that after- her -first taste of wine the j ship immediately ".takes to water and 'sticks to it ever after." cmjslou iranscript. ; . , 1 ;
Rockingham Post-Dispatch (Rockingham, N.C.)
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