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A YOUNG MAM AND TEN AGUES fiy 'ntsnslva Farming M. M , Howard Makes His Little Farm, Wit!i iiis G-eenhouses, Produco $10,000 Each Year I E. I. r.UIUX'GTOX, HASRISBUnC, TA There is a man in West Nevrton, Has3., who is makiW a good living lor himself and his family from ten acres. This so t of thing, no doubt, would seem impossible to the farmer af the g.-eat West, and his hundreds 5f acres of rolling prairies, but in rensified farming is proving the sal tation of New England. The achievements of this West Newton man his race is II. M. Howard aave placed him in the front ranks 3f the advocates of that sort of farm tag which means raisins as much on Sen acres as. und?r old style meth ods, was vp is?! on fifty. Mr. How ard is in demand as a speaker at farmers' institutes and similar gath Bring?. ami his farm is known all aver New England, and far beyond. Mr. Howard is a young man, and is putting into practice the knowl edge he received during a course of Itudy at the Stale Agricultural Col lege at Amherst, supplemented by practical experience cn farms and market gardens in the vicinity of Roston. He is able to make his ten Seres yield more than $10,000 worth 9f produce, or over $1000 an acre, bi p. single season. Many market gardeners consider that they are do dig well when they get a yield amounting to $500 an acre, but Mr. Howard is by no mans satisfied with twice that amount, and expects to to considerably better than he has een able to do thus far. Sunny Slope, as the little farm is railed, is near the Brae Burn Golf Club in a very pleasant section. The land slopes away from the road in Such a way as to insure good drain age, and is cultivated ia the most thorough manner, sometimes as maiy as thirty men being at work au the ten acres. Mr. Howard began with almost no money, taking a five-year lease of the jroperty, which he subsequently pur chased, as he began to prosper in his enture. Lettuce in the hotbed and in the open field has been the leading crop. Indeed, lettuce has proved a mortgage lifter in the case of many a New England truckman. The returns from lettuce are sometimes enorm ous, although it is only fair to say that they are sometimes small. A head of lettuce takes a square foot of ground and two full crops may be grown on the same field. The price raries from one-half cent to six cents a. head at wholesale, but nobody can foretell the price with accuracy, nor & it safe to estimate the profits until the money is in hand. Sometimes a hailstorm will ruin a crop which was Just ready to pick. The two most important factors which affect the business are the weather and the con dition of the market. "No young man," said Mr. How ard, "should think of going into the market garden business if he is afraid of water or mud. The work of transplanting and often that of harvesting, as well, must be done when the weather is far from agree- aDie. ine prices or garden produce often are highest just after a season Ot bad weather, and the wise garden ar is alert to take advantaga of the fact. i "The market," continued Mr. How ard, "is always best when supplies are coming in slowly. The earlier we can get tha bulk of our crop to market the more money we can make. 1 am striving to produce all that can be produced on one piece of Ttand the size of this in one season. Nature strives to cover the ground with plauts of some kind, and if we farmers can cover it with edibles we ought to receive the reward due for our labor and time." Spinach is a prominent crop at Sunny Slope, and wonderful crops liave been produced as many as 1, 00 bushels to an acre, selling at twenty-five cents, a bushel. Other profitable ciops are radishes, toma toes, beans, cauliflower, corn and cel ery. There are seasons when the Boston market calls for unusually large quantities of certain vegetables. In May and June, for instance, lettuce and spinach have the call. On June 17 and July 4 there is a tremendous J demand for green peas and straw berries, while at Thanksgiving time everybody wants celery to grace the festive board. It is a wise gardener who keeps these facts in mind, and no little of the success which has come to Mr. Howard has been due to the fact that he has watched the market with an eagle eye .and has calculated the extent of its demands far in advance. The water supply is an important question on a farm like that owned by Mr. Howard, who has both town -water, which comes to his place un der high pressure, and a system of . his own, the water being pumped from a well by a hot air engine. Many farmers make a serious mis take by not keeping accurate ac ' counts. They might profitably take a leaf from the diary of the owner of Sunny Slope, who is so systematic "in ima lesiitti turn ne ia a.ui iu the amount of profit in a single hill f beans, which he places at fifteen eents, and the average of each toma to vine, the amount being thirty cents. Now, a tomato plant that fs..r.Ttt ItVa tViirfv flonfa fa nn 1nlre ft rt r ' so satisfactory a profit is secured enly by using immense amounts of fertilizer and by the most thorougn cultivation. During the winter Mr. Howard lays cut a plan for the coming sea son's work in a book, and follows it as closely r.s possible day by day throughout the season. He is like the manager of a great factory, and re gards his farm in much the same way that a manufacturer does his plant. He employes a good many Italians for the field work, and much of the weeding is done by hand. When the vegetables are gathered they are carefully picked over and cleaned, so that they will go to the market presenting an attractive ap pearance. Mr. Howard's activities are not confined to the summer months, for he has several large greenhouses, which occupy much of his attention during the winter. He formerly grew violets extensively, but is now going more largely into the production of winter .vegetables. Greenhouse plants are costly, and Mr. Howard's houses have been built one at a time, as his success., with vegetables grown in the open has warranted the increased in. vestment. Nsw York Tribune. Yhat a Wife Needs is Brains By WINIFRED BLACK. Mr. Charles M. Schwab says the ideal wife is the wife who can cook, darn and make good coffee. Right you are, Mr. Schwab when the ideal husband of that ideal wife is the ideal man who chops the wood, blacks his own boots and comes home from down town early on purpose to get the furnace ashes sifted before it's loo dark to sea in the basement. The ideal wife for any man in any station in life is a woman who has brains enough and sense enough and adaptability enough to do whatever work it is her duty to do in her own particular station in life or the sta tion to which her husband's position entitles her. The woman who marries a poor man and refuses to learn the things that a poor man's wife ought to know is just as silly and as selfish and of as little consequence in the world as the woman who marries a rich man and doesn't know enough to learn how to live up to her posi tion. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish probably nev er cooked a meal in her life but from the caustic good sense of some of her recent remarks on the woman question, I'll wager that she could learn how to do it in just about three days if she had to. And she'd cook it right, too, and have the time of her life doing it, and the steak would be broiled and not fried, and the coffee would taste like coffee and not like dishwater. It isn't going to school in the kit chen that makes a good housekeeper, Mr. Schwab, any more than it's run ning errands in an office that makes a good business man. The first requisite for any kind of success in any walk of life is brains. The woman who has brains enough can learn to cook and to cook wrell when the time comes that she ought to learn it. What on earth would you do with a cook for a housekeeper, Mr. Schwab, in your present condition in life? A woman who is married to a man of your success and money has no more business to cook her husband's meals than her husband would have to take time from his great business interests to kindle the furnace lire and sweep off the front sidewalk. Every station in life has its simple, perfectly defined duties. Women can't escape any more than men from the complicated system of our times. The woman who does her house keeping as her grandmother did it is just as much out of it to-day as the man who would try to compete with an express train service by running a train of ox teams. I believe in the domestic woman, and the reason I believe in her is that she seems as a rule to show the best power of adaptability and that, af ter all, is the touchstone of real prac tical usefulness. I never knew a good business wom an who didn't make a good house keeper when she had sense enough to put her mind on it. I never knew a, girl who couldn't and wouldn't do a thing at home who ever could or would do a thing away from home. Common sense and brains that's the whole business, Mr. Schwab.' From the New York American. Doctors' Incomes. The shrinking incomes of medical men furnish legitimate reasons foi serious apprehension. It may bf true that general economic condi tions are somewhat responsible foi the particularly noticeable impecu niosity of the profession at this time Physicians rarely get their money un til every one else is paid, and wher the grocer, butcher, florist and con fectioner have to wait, how can th doctor expect any consideration ? But that for at least five years th average medical income has beet steadily decreasing is the disconcert ing fact. To settle on any one causf or group of causes is impossible. J. little thought, however, will certainl: suggest, aside from the increasa o doctors and the growth of nev! "schools," some modern features o medical practice as possible factori in a condition that ia daily growinj worse instead of better. Not the least prominent are lodge and clul practice and the abuse of hospita charity. It is high time that the pro fession realized the growth of thes evils and took active steps to aver the dangers that threaten. Ameri can Medicine. V Sad Words. Of nil sad words These are the worst: "Back to the bench! You're out on first! " Washington Star, Where the Kissing is Done. ratience "What is the limousine?" Patrice "Why, the limousine if the conservatory of an automobile,' Yonkers Statesman. Feline. Miss Jenkins "How do you like tay new motoring costume?" Miss Wilkins "I think it suits you splendidly especially the mask an? At the Church Fair. ( Miss Gushing "Oh, Mr. Baldhead, you'll surely take a chance with me! " Baldhead (absently) "No. I've been married twice." Town Topics. Certainly Not. "I wonder who writes all this cheer-up philosophy?" "I'm not certain, but I think it is written by the men who haven't any thing to worry them." Detroit Free Press. A Desirable Quality. A barrister observed to a learned brother in court that he thought his whiskers very unprofessional. "You are right, " replied his friend, "a lawyer cannot be too barefaced.' Tit-Bits. In No Danger Hicks "My hair comes out in handfuls. If it keeps on I'll soon be bald." Wicks "Nonsense! If it keeps on j-ou can never be bald." Philadel phia Inquirer. Reconciled. Husband "Well, darling, I've had my life insured for $10,000." Wife "How very sensible of you! Now I shan't have to keep telling you to be so careful every place you ga to." Kansas City Journal Unkind. He (at the ball) "My dear, th vorld was but a desert to me befor I met you." She "I can readily believe It." He (surprised) "Why?" She "You dance like a camel." Chicago News. Synonyms. "That waiter's an idiot." "What's the matter now?" "I asked him to bring me a water cracker." "Well?" "And he brings me an ice pick." Cleveland Leader. A Slight Misunderstanding. "Do you take any periodicals?" asked the new clergyman on his first round of parish visits. "Well, I don't," replied the woman; "but my husband takes 'em frequent. I do wish you'd try to get him to sign the pledge." Judge. Begging Off. Dumley "Say, you'd better tae something for that cold, old man. Now " Wrise "Don't offer me any more, please. I've taken too much already." Dumley "Too much what?" Wise "Advice." Philadelphia Press. Facts in the Case. "So," jeered the friend as he watched the wreck before him, "you boasted nothing could happen to un seat you." "Yes," faintly returned the fallen rider, floundering under his kicking steed, "this is, indeed, a horse or me." Baltimore American. Juvenile Philosophy. "Pa, did you have to ask ma more than once to get her to promise to be yours?" "Yes. I think I asked her four or five times." "Gee! I guess you didn't give her much time to think between askings, did you?" Chicago Record-Herald. Small Choice. "I don't know," said the man who always fears the worst, "whether the country is more in danger at the hands of trust-promoters or self-seeking politicians." "Yes," answered Mr. Sirius Barker. "It's hard to tell which is worse a swollen fortune or a swelled head." Washington Star. A Sleepless Night. "Dese automobiles are a nuisance,' growled Dusty Dennis, as he frowned at a passing touring car. "What's de matter, pard?" asked Gritty George. "One of dem run you down?" No, but last night dey put me in a cell with a chauffeur, and I couldn't sleep for de smell of gasoline."' Chi cago News- THE PULPIT. K SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY DR. C. S. MACFARLAND. Theme: Jesus Imperial Spirit. Brooklyn, N. Y. Tn the Park Con gregptional Church. Eighth avenue and Second street. Sunday morning, the Rev. Charles S. Macfarland, Ph. D., of the Congregational Church of South Norwalk. Conn., author of "Thfl Infinite Affection." and other works, nrpached o. "The Imperial Srdrit of Jesus." The texts were frm John 14:27: "Peace I leave with yon; My pacfl I eive unto you; not as the world giveth. give I unto yon. hft rot. vour WVart be troubled, nMtr-Pr let it he afraid: " John 1:33: "Tn the world ye shall have tribula tion: but bo of good cheer. I have overcome the, world:" Matthew 10:34: "Think not that. I am come to Fend 'ieac.0 on earth; I came not to send penrp, but a sword." Dr. Mafarlard said: Jesus is rpassur'ng His disciples. H says to them: Be courageous, he bold, overcome tbf world. By the world He mns the temporal life. Be masters. He says ove- that life; let vour snirits overcome it. ' What a sublime picture! There He is, awaiting the nd. He is going down to apparent defeat, to human eyes. His lifo seems nought. The cross awaits Him. a cross between the crosses of two thieves. Barabbas is to b1 chosen instead of Himself. He no lonfre" has cny followers, ex cept those faithful fw, and even they are trembling, fearful and ready to flee. Yet He utters these st.ranerely contradictory words, "I am the Mas ter nf the world." We see here also the moral en" deur of Jesus. tb translation of His personality and His inner life into terms of moral power. As He was th great thinker, so He was the noble liver of the race. As He eains the mastery of lofty mind so He is the sovereign of n.U noble lives. His splendid lite is now centering fn the cross toward which it has been leading. From the beginning He has seen the end. Behind Him is a long trail of moral strength. From Him goes th imprpssion of a sovereign personality. He is the supreme ex ample of noble living, for the man hood of our day, with its alternating bravery and cowardice, with its noble resolve and weak compliance. Jesus becomes, first, the shamer and then the insnirer of human living. Having in scm measure appre hended the Rnlendid mind of the Mas ter and gathered something of the moral granour of His life, we seek to discover th. hidden secret of His outward splendor. Let us try to look into His soul and discover the mean ing of this maiestic. brave, strong, impelllnglv attractive manhood. Look agair at cur text, recall the sit uation under which it was uttered, remember that He is facing a cross, listen tt His words: "Peace I leave unto you," "Ba full of confidence," I have conquered the world." Another strange thing is the ccn tradictoriness of the Master. For upon another occasion did He not say, "Think not that I am come to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword?" Kow are we tc explain the paradox of these two contradictory texts? Shall we avail ourselves of the liberty of criticism and say that one appears In the Synoptic Gospels and is his torical, while the other appears in the Fourth Gospel and is unhistorical? Shall we decided that one of them is an Interpolation? This is alto gether too easy and ready a method. Let us wait and see if we may not bring them into harmony. First of all let us look at the sec ond text and see how true it is. He sent those disciples forth into the world. Did not they find the sword? Their story is a continuous one of persecution, imprisonment, death. If there was the one thing they did not find it was peace. Peter and John began at Jerusalem. They were told that they must not speak or teach in the name of Jesus. They went out, prayed for courage and went to preaching again. For it they were beaten with stripes. They received their hundredfold reward "with per secutions." What mockery are Jesus' words to Him! "Peace I leave with you." How fortunate if the Fourth Gospel were written very late and is unrelia ble! Does it not make our Lord guilty of false prophecy? The story goes on through succeed ing ages. The successors of these disciples live and die in Roman cata ombs and caves. They are hunted, hungered, despised, persecuted, suf fering unto death. How it must have mocked them: "Peace I leave with you." Jesus bequest was brokea, or at least this codicil revoked. But even all this is less perplexing than the utterance coming from the lips of the man who spoke it. Was it a mistaken prophecy of Jesus? Be cause His own life was so calm and peaceful did He suppose that His disciples' would be also? Look for a moment at the life of the man from whose lips these words come. Fol low Him in His weariness, in His re jection, in His disputes with carping critics, with His misunderstanding and quarreling disciples. Not a place to lay His head. Go with Him on the mountainside at night. Witness Him in the Garden, where He sweat, as it were, great drops of blood. Behold Him on Calvary between thieves. Watch Him crowned with thorns, buffeted, spat upon, mocked in dis dain. What a contrast and contra diction are His words: "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give unto you." Evidently we must accept the prophecy of our second text and deny the truth of the first. Before doing so let us go back and look at those disciples again and be hold another aspect of their life. Peter is there, it i3 true, in prison. But we read about the presence of an angel of the Lord and of a light in the midst of the darkness. Think of some of those littla gatherings in the upper rooms with the breaking of bread and prayers. Look at Paul with his visions ail full of beauty. Read his epistles, vibrant with joy and hope and faith. On the sinking 6hip he is the one buoyant spirit of them all. He goes into the midnight prison again where he sits thrust into the Kier ward with his feet fast in the stocke, and you hear him, with Silas, singing hymns. Go baok again and look at .the life of Jesus. Look beyond the outward vicissitudes. Seek to penetrate to the inner consciousness of the suffering man. There is "no thought of pes simism in His Gospel. He is ver lighted up by faith and hope and joy. Behold Him before Pilate! His coun tenance is untroubled. Pilate is the disturbed and restless one; the trou blesome dreams were those of the chamber of his household. Our paradox is partly solved. Both prophecies are true. He did send a sword on earth. He did at the same time leave Ills bequest of peace. But our real question is not an swered. Is it true of human life in general? When has come the finest literature, the literature of peace, joy, light, hope, inspiration, triumph? Has it come from men whose lives were free from suffering, pain and disappointment? Sometimes, per haps, but not very often. It has not come from those who lived in kiugs' palaces and wore soft raiment. Most of it has come out of the depths of dungeon, from blind poets, from disease-racked bodies. Jesus' prophecy is true. Th rea son it did not seem to be true was be cause we did not read it aright. Read it again: "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give unto you." My peace. "Not as the world." It means that this outward life is not our realest life. It means that our outward and inward life are in large measure independent of each other. It means that true peace does not come from external situations, but from something that is within us; our inward sense of our Tightness with God, our consciousness of tru purpose and true heart. It means the estimate of things by a view from above. It means .that Heaven is not a place to go to, but a condition to attain. It means that a man. within himself, may be like one enfolded in the comfort of his home while the storm, rages outside. The ultimate victory of human life is this triumph of the inward spirit over the outward life. I am trying to give to men a vital meaning for the cross. Look at the Master this morning, fresh from Geth semane, facing that cross, with not one brave soul to stand by Him to the end. Hear again the calm, majestic utterance, "I have conquered the world." Imagine yourself there witn the disciples, facing their life, and hear Him as He says to you, "You may suffer and yet dwell upon sub lime heights." "The storm of ruin may come and yet there need never be any truce of the spirit." It was just what He had been saying all along to them, "I will give you rest." He looked out on the city of His day; He saw men as we sea them to day, racing each other for wealth. looking upon each other with mutual suspicion. He was saying to them, "Do not be like the frail craft, like the little steam yacht; be like the great ocean steamer with her Iron 1 hull, as she moves on her way with J her ponderous throbs; do not let yourself be tossed about upon the ocean, but ride through her billows." He was bidding men as He bids you men to-day to seek and possess the great ultimate realities of life. He was saying, "Forget to watch your little engines and look out upon the ocean and up into the sky." Do not guard your business, your paltry pleasures and little interests while you forget to think about the deep things of life. Try this morning to catch His spirit as did the great Apostle Paul, who learned how to abound and also how to be abased, to rejoice in adversity and to let all the experiences of life give their lessons and their strength. Do not long for some soft pine-laden balmy southern air, but be made stronger by the bleak winds of the rock-bound coast. Get hold of something that is be yond the reach of men, some joy which no man taketh from you. Bo like the rock unmoved by the surging of the waters. When stricken down, rise again mightier than before. Such is the voice of these great gospels. My dear men (and women), the peace of Jesus Christ does not come through soma mythical contempla tion, nor through some vague experi ence. It comes by our sharing of the spirit of the Master, by the earnest following of duty, the noble facing of responsibility, the bold confronting of difficulties, the patient bearing of calumny, the quiet endurance of per secution, the brave carrying of sor row and the prayerful sanctifying of our joy3. Gethsemane and Calvary are the price of this spirit. Rest can only follow labor. The overcoming of outward things is the condition of inward peace. You men here, you young men here, religion is not simply something for women, or for you when you are sick or dying. In those closing days of Jesus they left this noble man to be admired and worshiped by a few faithful women. So you men have done; but now I ask you, do it humbly, do it modestly, do it knowing that you are not worthy to unloose the latchet of His shoes, but be His disciples, admire His character, do things "for His sake," give Him a great, manly affection. Objects For Prayer. A man who stood out among men as the embodiment of all that is clean, noble, gentle, humble and strong was Major Whittle, the Bible teacher and evangelist. Written on the fly-leaf of his Bible were these objects of daily prayer for himself. This may tell the secret of his noble character. To be kept from carnality and lusts of the flesh. To be delivered from a man-fearing spirit. To be delivered from vanity and conceit. To be made pure in imagination and thought. To have a deeper conviction of sin. To love the Lord Jesus Christ more devotedly. Pacific Baptist. Sustaining. A man conscious of enthusiasm for worthy aims is sustained under petty hostilities by the memory of great workers who had to fight their way, not without wounds, and who hover in his mind as patron saints, invisibly helping. George Eliot. The Right is Resistance. To insist on right is always to re sist the devil. &Ln70Qtr:(&cnoor INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR OCTOBER 11. Subject: God's Promises to David, 1 Chron. 17 Golden Text, 1 Kings 8:50 Commit Verses 13, 14 Road 2 Sam. 7 and Ps. SO. TIME. 1042 B. C. PLACE. Je rusalem. EXPOSITION. 1. "I have been with tb.ee whithersoever thou went est," vs. 1-10. Nathan took it for granted without consulting God that David's proposition to build a house for God would be acceptable unto Him. But God set Nathan right "the same night." In the first instance Nathan had spoken out of his own judgment, but now "the word of the Lord" came unto him. God will make His will known to those who sincere ly desire to know it (Am. 3:7). Je hovah speaks of David as "My ser vant," but refused to permit him to build a house for Kim. God accepts one kind of service from one man and another kind of service from an other man. The prime reason why God would not permit David to build His temple was because he had been a man of war and blood (ch. 22:7, 8; 28:3). Jehovah is the "God of peace." Israel had been pilgrims dwelling in tents and wandering from place to place; and Jehovah had dwelt In a tent with them. He had "walked with all the children of Is rael" (cf. 2 Cor. 6:16; Rev. 2:1). God has never complained at sharing His people's experience nor suggested to any of the judges that they should build an house of cedar for Him. God appreciated the love that prompted David to offer to build an house for Him, though He was obliged to de cline the offer. He had done great things for David, exalting him from the lowliest position to the most ex alted. It is ever God's way to exalt the lowly to a position among the highest (Ps. 113:7, 8; Lu. 1:52). Many of those who are to-day among the obscurest on the earth will some day sit among princes. God took David from being a ruler of sheep to be a ruler of His people. Fidelity in the humbler position had fitted him for the higher position. But not only had God exalted David to this posi tion. He had also "been with thee whithersoever thou wentest" (cf. 1 Sam. 18:14; 2 Sam. 22:30,34,38). And He promises to be with us also (Matt. 2S:20). He had cut off his enemies and made for him a great name, and that He will do for us (Isa. 55:3). What God did for David Is only a faint suggestion of what God can and will do for all who are in Christ (Eph. 1:18-22). God declared to David His purpose not only regard ing himself, but also regarding all Israel. This purpose of grace as an nounced in v. 10 had a partial ful fillment in the days of Solomon, but its complete fulfillment lies still in the future. It will be fulfilled to the very letter (Jer. 24:6;Ez. 37:25,27; Am. 9:14,15; Isa. 60:18; EZi 28:24). Israel's history has been ore of per secution and suffering, but-drW not always be so. Its temporary triumph under David and Solomon was but a faint type of the triumph that is to be theirs (Zech. 8:23). Prepare for the day when the Lord cometh again. II. I Will Raise Up Thy Seed After Thee, 12-10. Jehovah's goodness to David would not end with his de parture from this world. He should sleep with his fathers, not die (cf. 1 Thess. 4:14), but his seed that pro ceeded from himself should follow him upen the throne. Two precious "I wills" are to be noted: "I will raise up," "I will establish." The im mediate and partial fulfillment of this promise was in Solomon (1 K. 8:20; 5:5; 1 Chron. 22:9, 10; 28:6-10). But the final and complete fulfillment is in Jesus Christ (Ps. 69:29; Isa. 9:6, 7; 11:1-3, 10: Matt. 22:42-44; Acts 2:30). "He shall build Me an house" refers, of course, primarily to the building of the temple by Solo mon, but that, temple was only a type of the true temple or habitation of God. The seed of David who is build ing that is Jesus Christ (Zech. 6:12, 13: Matt. 16:18; Lu. 1:31-33; 1 Pet. 2:5; Eph. 2:22). Of Christ's king dom God says, "I will establish His throne forever" (cf. Isa. 9:7; Lu. 1: 32, 33; Gen. 49:10; Ps. 45:0; 72:5, 17-19; 89:33, 37; Dan. 2:44; 7:14; Heb. 1:8; Rev. 11:15). In a sense it would be true of Solomon's kingdom that Jehovah would establish it for ever (1 Chron. 2S:7). "I will be His Father, and He shall be My Son" is true in the fullest sense only of Jesus (Heb. 1:5; Matt. 3:17). Yet even this was true in a sense of Solomon (1 Chron. 28:6). "If he commit in iquity, etc.," applies primarily to Sol omon, but Jesus entered into the place of the sinner (2 Cor. 5:21), and this about the consequences of the sin of David's seed is applicable to Him (cf. Acts 13:34-37). "With the stripes of the children cf men," witb paternal chastisement, would Jehovah chasten Solomon, if he went astray. Solomon did go far astray, and God chastened him and brought him back. Every child of God at some time needs such chastisement. Blessed is he who receives it (Deut. 8:5; Job 5: 17; Ps. 94:12. 13; Prov. 3:11, 12;' Jer 30:11; Heb. 12:5-11; Rev. 3:10). God's severest chastisements of His people are entirely different from His judgments upon the world (1 Cor. 11:30-32). Was Solomon ever re stored to God's favor? Verse 13 an swers the question. Jehovah's love to David secured the perpetuity of his hcuse and city (1 K. 11:13, 34-36; Isa. 37:35). Says the Beseret News: The com mon house fly. once regarded as a merely harmless but annoying crea ture, bids lJtir, with the progress of knowledge as to its real habits and possibilities for evil, to be regarded as one of the worst enemies of man kind. In his place the fly is a good scavenger. But his place is never on the insfJe ef-vthe. dwelling house and much less upolKthe dining rooac f-vthe. dw upolK the tlmev table at meal tlme.i
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