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HOPE OF THE WORLD. TURN TOWARD CHRIST IN OUR ADVERSITIES. ■This R.r.n Alik* t* IWlfMnll aad Valltu-Ckrltlawllil. Sermon hr Or. TalA Buatlfal Plater* mt Ut B*S*«m*r._ ASHINOTON. DC., Dec. 22.- -Id hi* sermon to-day, Dr. Talmage cbosa tba universal thsms of the season — t b * Christmas - tide. Thu last selected was, "Now when Jesus ws* born In Bethlehem.” Matt. II, 1. At midnight from one of the galleries mt the sky n chant broke. To an ordl mary observer there was no reason for euob n oeleetlal demonstration A poor man and wife—travelers, Joseph and Mary by name had lodged In an out house of an unimportant village. Tbe aupreme hour of solemnity bad pa**ed. and upon the pallid forehead and cheek •f Mary, Oed had set the dignity, tbe grandeur, tbe tenderness, the everlast ing and divine significance of mother hood. But such scene* bad often occurred In Bethlehem, yet never before bad a star been unflsed, or had * baton of light marshalled over the hill* winged or chestra. If there bad been such a bril liant and mighty recognition at an ad vent In the bouse of I'haraoh, or at an advent In the bouse of Caesar, or the house of Hapsburg. or the house of Stuart, we would not so much have wondered; but • barn aeema too poor a •enter for sorb a delicate and aivban gellc circumference The stage seems too email for eo great an act, tbo music too grand for Hitch unappreciative au ditor*, the window* of the stablt loo rud* to be serenaded by other worlds. It la my Joy to tell you what was horn tbat nlgbt In tbo village barn; and as I want to make my dlecourae accumula tive and climacteric, I begin, In the first place by telling you that tbat nlgbt in the Bethlehem manger waa born en couragement for all the poorly etarted. Ha had only two friend* they hie par ent*. No aatln-llned cradle, no dell eate attention*, but straw, and tho cat tle, and the coarse Joke and bantar of the camel driver*. No wondar the mediaeval painter* represent the oxen as kneeling before the Infant Jesus, for •bare wore no men there nt that time to worship. From the depths of that pov erty ha rose until to-day he Is honored In all Chrlatendom, and alts on tbo Im perial throne In heaven. | Wbat name Is mightiest to-day In Chrlatendom? Jesus. Who has mors friends on earth than any other being? lesus. Before whom do the most thou sands kneel In chapel and church and cathedral this hour? Jesus. From what depths of poverty to wbat height •f renown! And so let all thoae who •re poorly started remember tbat they cannot bo more poorly born, or more Slsadvantageoualy, than tbla Cbrlat. Let them look up to hla example while they have time and eternity to Imitate ft. Do you know tbat the vast majority •f tha world's deliverers had barnltke Birthplace*? Luther, the emancipator •f rellglod, born among the mines. Shakespeare, the emancipator of litera ture, born In an humble home nt Strat ford-on-Avon. Columbus, the discov erer of a world, born In poverty at Ge •oa. Hogarth, the discoverer of how to make art accumulative and adminis trative of virtue, born In an humble Borne In Westmoreland. Kltto and Prtdeaux, whose keys unlocked new •jrn( kuicuva iu vuu *>vi/ wvi ipiu* vb Which bad never been entered, born In want. Yea, I have to tell you that nine •ut of ten of the world's deliverer* were Pom In want. I etlr your holy ambitions to-day. •ad I want to tell you, though the whole world may be opposed to you. and ln alde and outside of your occupations or professions there may be those who Would hinder your ascent, on your side •nd enlisted in your behalf are the sym pathetic heart and the almighty arm of One who one Christmas night about eighteen hundred and ninety-live years •go was wrapped lb swaddling clotbss •nd laid la a mauger. Ob, what mag •lBesnt sncoursgemsnt for ths poorly •Carted! Again. I have to tell you that la that Village barn that nlgbt was born good Will to man. whether you call It kind •tea. or forbearance, or forgiveness, or gealality, or affection, or love. It was •o sport of high heaven to send Its fa tartts lb that humiliation It was sac ftBc* far a reballious world After the salamtty la Paradis*, nut only did the •x be*\m t* gore, aad the adder to sting, •ad the elephant to amlta with bis tusk, •nd the Hon to put to bad usa tooth •ad paw, but under the very tr*« from •bub tke forbidden fruit waa plucked •era hatched aut war aad revaag* aad wallas aad aavy aad jsaleeav aad th* Whale bread of cockatrices Hut against teat man# t set th* Hath fabsm manger, which says “Hleas path** tbaa sura# sadurs rather thaa fsaaalt." aad that Christmas sight puts PM Walletlv***— It sat* '•heaths peer award, dtamaual yaue gua*. dl* ■wall* rear batteries, tura ths warship Onset- * rattan, that rants* shut aad Shall, lata a grata ship to take food ta fast tab, eg Irstsad, booh yaut eavalry human ta the plow, eaa your deadly pea pander la blasting rush* aad ta pain •Ue eeisbrattua stop your lawsuits, ■alt wrtttag asneymoue letter* esttact Bits atlng (taw rear eareasau 1st year •H ear mat* hut as*** hura, drew all |h« harfc ward# mi hi* imf twnbaUin »Bes> a 111 la wan * **<*•,** yatt way, “I >** I ssstvlas It, I •su t t'l ’rvtee It uatll they apologia* I waa 1 fcrgtvs them uatit they ask m* HHEKM&c r.a.tot j? ■ to forgtv* them." You ere no Chrla tlan then—I say jrou are no Chrlatlan, •r you are a very Inconilatent Chrlatlan. If you forgive not men their treapaaaea, how can you expect your Heavenly Father to forgive you? Forgive them If they ask your forgiveness, and for give them anyhow. Shake bands all around. "Good will to men." Oh, my I,ord Jeaue, drop that aplrlt Into all our hearts thla Christmas time. I tell you what the world wants more than anything else more helping hands, more aympathetlc hearts, more kind words that never die, more dispo sition to give ether people a ride, and to carry the heavy end of the load and give other people the light end, and to ascribe good motives Instead of bad. and to And our happiness In making ethers happy. Out of that Bethlehem crib let the bear and lion eat straw like an ox. "Good will to men." That principle will yet settle all controversies, and under It the world will keep on Improv ing until there wilt be only two antago nists la all the earth, and they will side by side take the Jubilant alelgh-rtde In timated by the prophet when he said, “Holiness shall be on the belle of the horses." Again, I remark that born tbat Christmas night In the village burn waa sympathetic union with other worlds. From tbat supernatural grouping of the cloud bank over Bethlehem, and from the especial tralna tuat ran down to the scene I And that our world Is beau tifully and gloriously and magnlAcently surrounded. The meteors are with us, for one of them rsn to point down to the blrth-plaee. The heavens are with ua, because at tba thought of our re demption they roll hosannas out of the rmunigni *»y. Ob, yea. 1 do not know but our world may b« better surrounded than we have sometime* Imagined, and when a child In born angel* bring It. and when It dies another takes It, Hnd when an old man benda under the weight of years angels uphold him. and when a heart breaks angela soothe it. Angela In the hospi tal to take ears of the alck. Angel* In the cemetery to watch our dead. Angela In the church ready to fly hea venward with the newa of repentant aoula. Angela above the world. An gela under the world. Angels all around the world. Hub the dust of human imperfection* out of your eyes, and look Into the heav ens and aee angela of pity, angela of mercy, angels of pardon, angela of help, angel* crowned, angela charioted. The world defended by angela, girdled by angels, cohorted by angels—clouds of angels. Hear David cry out, "Th# chariots of Ood are twenty thouaand. Evejj thousand* of angela." But the mlghtest angel stood not that night In the cloud* over Bethlehem; the might iest angel that night lay among the cat tle—the Angel of the new covenant. Aa the clean white linen waa being wrapped around that little form of that Child Emperor, not a cherub, not a ser aph, not an angel, not a world but wept and thrilled and shouted Ob. yes. our world has plenty of sympathizers' Our world Is only a silver rung of a great ladder at the top of which la our Father's bouse. No more stellar soli tariness for our world, no other friend less planets sput out Into space to freeze, but a world In the bosom of di vine maternity. A star harnessed to a manger Again, I remark that that night born In that village barn was the offender’s hope. Some sarmonlzers may say I ought to haul projected this thought at the beginning of the aermon. Oh, no! I wanted you to rise toward It. I wanted you to examine the cornelians and the Jasper* and the crystals before I showed you the Kohlnoor—the crown Jewel of the ages. Oh, that Jewel had a very poor setting! The cub of bear Is born amid the grand old pillars of tbs forest, the whelp of lion takes Its first step from the Jungle of luxuriant leaf and wild flower, the kid of goat Is born In cavern chandellered with stalactite and pillared with stalagmite. Christ was born In a bare barn. Yet that nativity was the offender's hope. Over the door of heaven are written these words: "None but the sinless may enter here." “Oh, horror," you say, "that shuts us all out!" No Christ came to the world In one door, and he departed through another door. Me came through the door of the man ger, and he departed through the door of the eepulrbre, snd hie one busi ness was so to wssh away our sin that after we are dead there wilt be no more aln shout us thsn shout the eternal Ood I know that W putting It strongly, but that Is wbst 1 understand by full re mission All erased all waabed away, all acoured out, all goue. That un dergtrdling and nverarehlna and Ir radiating and Imparadtatng possibility for you, and for me. and (or the whole race, that waa given that Chris'mas night l*i you wonder w« bring flower* to day to celebrate »u< t> on event’ Us you wonder that w* take ornan aod youthful vok* aad queenly selolst t* celebrate It* Ita you wonder that Raphael and Ruhena aad Tttlan and tllotto and Uhirloadajo. and all tha eld Italian and tieiman painters gave ike might!**! ttrun* of thetr genius to sketch the Madonna. Mary and hor hoy ? US' now I see what the manger waa Not oo high Iho glided aod Jeweled and embroidered cradle of the Henry* of Mngload. or in* laruls of t reat* at the freder • k* of Crusata Now I dad out that that M*tat*h*m cvtb tod not «o much the oa*n of the elalt ss the white her*** of Apocalyptic rtetoo Now I And the twaddling clolheo *alara‘ni and embiatoaiag into an tmpettol row* for a conqueror Now I And that the •tor oI that t'hrtetmao eight one >roty ihe diamonded medal of him who both the aynot under his feet Now I come to oodeitiend that the mo*!* et that night was not a completed song, but only the stringing of the Instruments for a great chorus of two worlds, the bass to be carried by earthly nations 1 saved, and the soprano by kingdoms of glory won. Oh, heaven, heaven, heaven' I shall , meet you there. After all our Imper fections are gone, I shall meet you there. I look out to-day. through the mists of years, through the fog that rises from the cold Jordan, through the wide open door of solid pearl to that re union. I expect to see you there as cer tainly as i see you here. What a time we shall have In high converse, talking over sins pardoned, and sorrows com forted, and battles triumphant! Home of your children have already gone, and though people passing along the street and seeing white crape on the doorbell may have said "It Is only a > child," yet when the broken-hearted father came to solicit my service, he said; ‘Tome around and comfort us. for we loved her so much.” Wbat a Christmas morning It will make when those with whom you used to keep the holidays are all around you la heaven! Silver-haired old father young again, and mother who had so many aches and pains and decrepitudes well again, and all your brothers and elbtcrs and the little ones. How glad they will be to see you' They have bean waiting The last time they saw your face It was covered with tears and ( distress, and pallid from long watch- i Ing, and one of them I ran Imagine to- ] day. with one hand holding fast the shining gate, and the other hand swung out toward you. saying: i Steer this way, father, steer straight I for mo; | < Here safe In heaven I am waiting for ; i tbee. Oh, those Bethlehem angels, when 1 they went back after the concert that night over the hills, forgot to shut the ■ 1 door' All the secret Is out. No more | ' use of trying to bide from us the glories j to come It Is too late to shut the guts. 1 It Is blocked wide open with hosannas ‘ marching this way. and hallelujahs marching that way In the splendor of ( the anticipation I feel as If I was dying ( not physically, for I never was more ( well- but In the transport of the Christ* j nms transfiguration. What almost unmans me Is the ( thought that It Is provided for such sin- t ners as you and I have been If It had < been provided only for those who had 1 always thought right, and spoken right, I and acted right, you and I would have t had no interest In It, had no share In It; 1 you and I would have stuck to the raft t mid-ocean, and let the ship sail by car- t rying perfect passengers from s perfect > life on earth to a perfect life In heaven. I But I have heard the Commander of f that ship Is the same great and glorious I and sympathetic One who hushed the I tempest around the boat on Galilee, and I I have heard that all the passengers on the ship are sinners saved by grace. I And so we hail the ship, and it bears ' down this way, and we come by ths ’ side of It and ask the captain two ques- r tlons: "Who art thou? and whence?" ‘ and ho fays: "I am captain of Balva- ’ tlon, and I am from the manger." Oh, 1 bright Christmas morning of my soul's 1 delight! Chime all the bells. Merry 1 Christmas! Merry with the thought of sins for- " given, merry with the Idea of sor- j rows comforted, merry with the rap- j tures to come. Oh. lift that Christ from the manger and lay him down In all our { hearts! We may not bring to him as H costly a present as the Magi brought, ,j Lut we bring to his feet and to the j manger to-day the frankincense of our j Joy. the prostration of our worship c Down at His feet, all churches, all ( ages. All eArth. all heaven Down at t His feet the four-and-twenty elders on r their faces. Down the "great multi- f tude that no man can number." Down t Michael, the arch-angel! Down all t worlds st Hla feet and worship. "Glory t to God In the highest, and on earth f peace, good-will to men!" WOMEN OF NOTE. Mrs John Joues. ona of Chicago's colored people, M worth >300,000. The wife of President Cleveland haa s most mellifluous voice, and an ad- 1 mlrer says "Her speech Is a continual song without words." . On) of the richest heiresses In the >( world Is l-adv Mary Hamilton Douglas, the U-yenr-old daughter of the late Duke of Hamilton, whoae Income la now about 1 Idu.OOO a year. Prinresa Waldemar. wife ef the youngest brother of the Princess of Wales. Is a courageous woman At Copenhagen recently, when a Are . started In a building adjoining bar res idence. abe borrowed a fireman's hel met. mounted a wall and aaelalsd In aa ilagutahlna the flame,; The ea Kmpreaa Krederlch of tier many In her early married Hfo. em broidered a piece of tapestry. on whlah all her shlldren hnelt when euahrmed, the lata Kutperor a eolhu rested apon It. the present Hermes Kmperor and the pria . sees Charlulta Hop hi* *»d Vic toria. were married standing on it Mrs Hetae) Itereato a plsoaaal (seed uselle«ted woman see horn in •tooth Aft'>« af Kbglish perentege lUNtMAI CAROM NO? hit. Printers al Toruato are aatoaiatag , the town. , The a»w btcfite ear bare uatoh at ana | ant with l two member*. All state prtall a *» Nsvada lours the arlaters uatoo label A |aoo Ootl Iron mill b*a been see, tad hr re operate*# el Riilahurgh. As lssl A aaitonel anti ■smiiri le«ges he« boas harmed at Msitmurao. Vie,, N > W Aa effort to he ap made to ■embus the foot sehttal tahor bed tee .1 tap «age , FArtM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. Rowe Ip-to-Hat* Hint. A limit Cultiva tion of the Soil anil Yields Thereof— Horticulture, Viticulture end Vn.rl rultore. OW LONO 8EBD8 will retain their vi tality *o as to ger minate and grow Into plnnta la a dis puted question among men of sci ence. Many persons still believe that wheat has been grown from seed found In Egyptian tiumtny cases, and that grain could is made to sprout from seed found n Pompeii and Herculaneum. An daborate and interesting series of ■xperlments made by Professor talo Qiglloll of the royal high ichool of agriculture, at Portlet, near Maples, as communicated to Nature, brows considerable light on the mat er. The seeds used were put away In he fall of 1877 and spring of 1878 and vere tested In August, 1894, the long ist time that any had been kept being i few days less than seventeen years, md the shortest fifteen years, nine nonths and a few days; the average va» about sixteen years and. a half, -ucerne seed was chiefly used and the 'esults really apply only to that plant, or the wheat, vetch, corlnder and oth it seeds tried happened to be put Into tolutlons that proved fatal to lucerne nn Th* mi* Inin umnll >ulbed tubes, Into which dry grass vas passed, and the tubes were then ealod and kept In the dark; others vere put Into alcohol, ether, chloroform ind other liquids, but the alcoholic so utions alone could be tested, as the 'ther liquids evaporated. Out of 320 seed* kept In nitrogen, 81 germinated; of 502 kept In arsenl iretted hydrogen, 851 germinated, as lid 224 out of 268 kept In carbon mon aide; 40 out of 60 lived that had been ;ept In strong alcohol, originally abao ute. Seeds kept In chloroform, In hy Irogen, In alcoholic solution of phenol, nd In carbon dioxide all died. With ther gases and solutions the results rere not so decisive; only 2 out of 293 n oxygen lived; 33 out of 609 In cblo Ine and hydrochloric acid; 1 out of 01 lucerne seeds and none out of 60 rheat seeds In sulphuretted hydrogen; out of 609 in nitric oxide. In alco ollc solutions. 16 seeds out of 79 kept n a solution of corrosive sublimate ermlnated; 1 out of 646 In that of sul hur dloxlde;41 out of 683 in that of sul ihuretted hydrogen, and 12 out of 288 n that of nltro oxide. Many of the germinating plants were ut Into flower pots, where they grew rell, flowered and seeded normally. Vhen the seeds were put away Pro esaor Olglioli was not aware of the evil ffect of even small proportions of lolsture; he thinks if he had taken lore care in excluding moisture from he seeds and from the gases, a much rrger number of seeds would have re ilned their vitality. There Is no rea on apparent why the seeds planted ould not have been kept Indefinitely i the solutions without further change, le has established that, for some seeds, t least, respiration or exchange with he surrounding medium is not neces ary for the preservation of germ life, 'here Is reason for believing that Iving matter may exist in a complete 1 passive state, without any chemical hange, and may maintain its special roperties for an indefinite time, as 1b he case with mineral and all lifelesu latter. In experimenting with seeds rom Pompeii and Herculaneum, he as not yet found any living grain; hey are too much carbonized to ad lit of much hope, especially those •om roiupeii, which nave uetn cx osed to the Blow action of moisture, r the seeds found In the granaries of ae "Casa d'Argo” at Herculaneum in 828 had been planted at once, a fair sst might have been bad, as they bad een preserved under favorable condl- ! ions; it is too late now, hb they have ; een so long exposed to light and air. i Kail Plowing Sod Ground.—Where j here Is a heavy old sod of natural i rasses the soil beneath It is to a great ! (tent protected from freeiing. When nee frozen It Is equally protected from tawing until warm weather comes In prlng. In this condition the grass >ots remain uninjured, and when the id Is turned under In spring they are nady to grow. Hut If the sod Is fall lowed with an open soil surface II feezes and thaws with the slightest Itaiigr In the weather. Before spring line the soli to the depth of the furrow [III be thoroughly mellowed sud many the grass roots will be destroysd. It akr* s grsst deal of difference to the iltlvstlon whether the sod Is turned tder In fall or spring There may bs uis loss front blowing or washing the irfsce of tall plowed sod. but this Is ore than balanced by the esse of cul ration and the greater availability of tat fertility Iks soil possesses. Hi ff'araa Teaching The New Mamp Mrs Agricultural college has devised ! |ilsn tor diffusing agricultural tutor < rttun that la worihy of nolle* a* s j g In th* onward march of farm sdu ton Th* faculty represent tag the 1 Mt.es related to sgritullur* hats nr »U*d a hind of lecture bureau to give j 11 esses before grange*, farmer* bs. horticultural i >etelle* and other ,l nut organisations the organisation j •anting th# tatlutlon paying mil* i| i meat* and lodgings no charge he q 114*44* fur Him* nr tcttiv#* *1 Ik* I** { nr \Ihiui (bud nit** *f (ti'iuif * ki ir*4f |»r*|>*r*4 Alt fi«*i Ik Ik* rtr j br ****** uttag Ik* Ik* IkAMIfe* , j at*ktk§ M* *•* ( i id t*|*u **4 Itt UHi *1 wk*m ik*r* , iki *1 Ik* ll*l kli 11 f KtNrlinf »n Orchnnl. The ground for an orchard should be well and deeply cultivated, and free from weeds, well drained, If the soil requires It, and most soils are better for draining,except sandy or light grav elly soils with a light subsoil, Such land may not require draining, but In every case It should be well worked and pulverized and enriched before planting. The work of preparation must be done during the summer, so as to be ready for fall or spring plant ing. Planting In the spring Is pre ferred, which will enable the trees to take Arm hold of the earth and to re sist the frost of next winter, but plant ing may be done successfully In the autumn by protecting the trees so ns to prevent the frost from heaving or mis placing them. Select young, healthy and vlglrous trees, and from a reliable nurseryman, and If possible from a soil similar to that In which you Intend to plant your orchard. The different kinds of ap ples will depend upon your own choice and the suitability of soil and climate. I should advise that the selection be made from the old, tried and reliable i kinds. The distance apart should not be less than thirty feet, so as to allow the trees room to spread their branches and to form a low and spreading head. Close planting has a tendency to force the trees to run up, and preventing the | fruit from obtaining Its proper color ing from the sun, and making It more dlfAcult to gather the fruit. At the dis tance of thirty feet apart It will require twenty-nine trees to the acre. Befor planting the tree, remove all bruised : and broken roots by cutting clean with ! a sharp knife. Lay out your ground In straight lines, so that your trees will be In line each way and at equal dis tances, thirty feet apnrt. Wm. Gray. Thayer's Harry llullrlln. For December, 1895. Any Intelligent farmer can grow ripe, luscious strawberries, ready for pick- \ Ing, at two cents per quart. With good cultivation, at least 100 bushels per acre should be grown. Two hundred bushels per acre Is not an unusual yield anil 300 Is often pro- - duced. Fruit that can be grown so cheaply j and will yield so much, should he con- j sldered a necessity In every family. No one can so well afford to have straw- j berries, every day In the season, as the farmer. No one can have them ho fresh front ; the vlneH, ho ripe, ho delicious, and at bo little cost, as the furmcr, and yet as a class none have so few. The cost of placing berries on the market depends somewhat on locations and the manner in which It Is done. For good berries, carefully picked In clean new boxes, well packed and hon- | estly measured, It may be estimated by ; tbe quart as follows: Cents per Qt. ; Cost of growing ready for picking..2 Picking.1V4 i Boxes.1 Cases, packing and delivery.1 Freight or express charges.1*4 . CommiHHiou for selling.1 Actual cost on market.8 The commercial grower must receive | his profit, after all these expenses arc paid. The farmer rnay have his berries at , first cost. He saves expense of picking nnd provides a pleasure for his wife j and children. lie saves boxes, cases, packing. 1 freight, express and commission. Every farmer In the country and : every owner of a house in the village : should grow “big berries and lots of them” for family use. He may thus have them fresh from the vines In summer, and canned, dried or preserved for winter. There Is no better food than ripe There is none more healthful, and at ! two or three cents per quart there Is none cheaper. A berry garden for next season should bo decided upon at once. The best preparation for It Is the reading of good books and papers. Subscribe for them now and thus pro vide the greatest pleasure for long win ter evenings. M. A. Thayei Sparta, WIs. (ieorgla I'each Orchard.—The foun dation of the orchard of the Hale, (ieorgia, Orehard Co.. Fort Valley. :ia.. was an old cotton plantation of lull acres, purchased In the summer of ISH‘>, and Quo ncrt*s were planted with » little over I0H.000 peach trees In the j winter of 1X91-112 It Is all laid out In blocks 1.000 feet long, and BOO feet wide, with avenues ruuiitug north and •oiuh .named after the peach growing •tales of Iht union, and streets running •ant and west, named after leading s Horticulturists of th« country. A resi dent superintendent, thirty or forty i i**gi o aaalatanta and sixteen mules have kept up moat thorough culture for the past three years. There was a full | bloom on the orchard la the aprlug of i I sot. but a heavy frost the last of i March destroyed all Ihe fruit pros pec la j Ihis year, ihe fourth summer after planting, nil tha trees aet a full amount if fruit, and during April and May, , forty to ttfty bands were employed In burning out the eurplu*. Kv Heine Improvement tn Teens. The 1 hog breeders of Texan are entitled le I i areal deal af the credit for the tw j 1 proved charade* of our Texas same fhey have educated the farmers lo xp predate geod bugs I have sees guile I stir made ta the netgkberhoed by the idvent of a pair of bee pigs It ta a i Itaguattng light to seo a Texas farmer | lo to the grocery store and gtva up hta lood cottas money foe a slug of tote* ihly hard looking bacon and I am eorty i a way that it ta a eight altogether too otMMioM Hut even ta Western Texaa I ha number* oho do out raise their oats I •even are growing gradually tee* — itarldge fleet Falsest I Shaheepear* mention* perfume* w s eommog u*e in bt* time. —tmmmm THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON I, FOR SUNDAY, JANU. ARY 8—LUKE, 1:8-17. Golden Teill “Thou Shalt Go Itefor* tho Face of Hi* f,ord lo Prepare HI* Way"—Lika I Stitt The Foremans* of .leant Chrlat. NTKODL'OTORTl To day* a.c lion Inrludea the whole chapter, Luke, 1: I no, hut th* portion* referring to Mary rattier belong to th* n*«t Inaaon. Time, October, # U. 0. to M A. n. Plane, th* angel vain* to Zacb arlaa In tli* tempi* at J*ni»al*tu. Th* birth of John waa nine where In tha hill country of Judea, where the hymns, tha Magnificat of Mary and the llenedlotua of Zacharies, were uttered. Th# plan for the** laaaona la somewhai different from that pur aued when we eiudled Luke In 1 W*o. It re quire* less of detailed eKposttton of veraea, but more of complete view of the auhjcct an a distinct portion of Ih* wonderful Life of Christ. It will he a aerla* of twenty-four car toon*. after the manner of the "Impreealonlet" alyl* of palming picture*, Kadi will exhibit a dlailnd phax- or development of Chrlat'* Ilf*. 1. Tha Flrxt Sign of the linwri The Pre paration of the World for tha Advent of Chrlat.- When Adam waa created Hod spoko to him, revealed himself to him, so that through their greal ancestor all peoples had •uni* knowledge of th# true (lod, Ihe Cre ator of all things. To till* wltneae Is horn# by every great religion, by the lately discov ered atone libraries of Aaayrla, and Ih# tombs of Fgypt, '1. Th* ftecond dlgn of lb# Lawn. A Holy Family and Other Parson* Watching and Praying for the Coming of tho Redeemer. Vs. fi-7, A group of holy por soiis Is given by Luke. Anna, Mlmeoii, Joe eph. Mary, Insides Zacharlas and F.ll/abeth, whose eyes were Inward the dawn, and whoa* heart* were ready to receive the light, ft.i There was In Ihe day* of Herod. <Herod IlieA Oreat. Ihe founder of tile Herodlan family and Ihe father of mo*l of Ihe Herod* men tlofll-fl In lll« \'nw Tar will llndll liftaap iIih In* fancy of Jesus.) A certain priest named Zaeh arlaa. (Th* Greek form of the Hebrew Zach arlah, the Maine um Zecharlah.) Of the course uf Abla. (Greek for Abljah.) And his wife was of t)i<* daughters of Aaron (and there fore In the line of Hie priesthood. The priests were the descendants of Aurop of the trloe of Levi. Itoth John's parents were of priest ly rank.) And her name wan Elisabeth. (Ho named after her ancestress. Kllsheba. Aaron's Wife.| *i. And they were both righteous be for God. (Not In appearance only, but In (he Inmost depths of (heir hearts, where [Jod's eye alone could see.; The fountain of action was pure. Walking Is a Hebrew meta phor for "living," "conducting oneself," In the various relations of men to each other and to God. Commandments. The moral law. Ordinance*. J’robably the ceremonial law, md the outward religious duties and rules >f living. Thus they were blameless toward Jod and man. Neither would find fault with them. 7. And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren; and they both were now well stricken In years. 8. And It came to pass, that, while he exe cuted the priest's office before God In the >rder of his course. '.*• According to the custom of the priest's »fflce, hi* lot was to burn Incense when he went Into the temple of the Ix>rd. 10. And the whole multitude of the people were praying without, at Hie time of Incense. 11. And there apepared unto him an angel if the I»rd, standing on the right side of the tltar of Incense. 12. And when Zachurlas saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. 13. Hut the angel said unto him, Fear not, ^ Sacharlas for thy prayer Is heard; and thy wife Klfsubeth shall hear thee a son, and hou shalt call his name John. 14. And thou shalt have Joy and gladness, tnd many shall rejoice at his birth. 16. And many of the children of Israel shall 1* turn to the Lord »ht*lr God. 17. And he shall go before him In the spirit tnd power of Kilns, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and Hie disobedient lo the wisdom of the Just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord, Ifi. For he shall be great In the sight of the ,ord. ami shall drink neither wine nor strong Irlnk. and he shall be (Hied with the Holy 3host, even from his mother's womb. Verse 17 Explained: He shall go before Him. before the Lord, to herald Ills advent md to prepare the way for Ills coming In the ;»erson of his Son. In the spirit and power if Ellas. Greek for Klljah. He wus not to )e Klljah restored to life, but one In Elijah's lali (lid. and with a similar power. Such Is ho promise In Malaehl, 3: 1; 4; 4-6. Rx dalned hy Christ In Matthew. 11; 14; 17: 10-13. To turn the hearts of (the) fathers to the) children. The reformation was to be 'elt first tn the home, binding all together n love and peace. The Hebrew adds "the ■hildren to their fslher." The hope uf the srorld Is In the Christian family. "Convert m adult, and you convert a unit; convert a hild. and you convert a multiplication table." I'ho star of Uethleheui rests over the home, rhe disobedient, the great mass of the peo ile who have turned away from Clod. To he, rather In, as H. V.. to walk In the wls lom of the Just. Itelng good Is the only •eal wisdom. Only her ways "are ways of deasautnesa and her paths are peace." IMs ibedteuce and sin are always folly. To make ■eady (continue os In H. V\> for the Lord s people prepared for film. Hy his call to te ’ entance, by Ills denunciation of sin, by his portrayal of the consequences of sin. he was :o make ready people who would be wise T •nough to receive the Savior. Ills llusy Hay. irate Manufacturer See here! I sent rou an advertisement saying my pianos vere "Inferior to uotie." Kditor Yes, sir. "You prluted it luferlor In toue." "Ob. well, uever mind; that's easily Ixed." "Kb? Kastly fixed?'' 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