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TALMAGE’S SERMON. A PLEA TO CONGRESS BEFORE IT ADJOURNS. Ika RtM *f Ood Ba Wriltn la Ik* CtuUlllln" H* l*|i-Oo4 Will Bit 111 Ik* Him Qmtlai la Mil Own Ti aad Way. ENATORH In this test stand for law makers. Joseph was the Lord Treasurer of the Egyptian government, and among other great things which he did, according to my text, was to teach bis senators wisdom; and if nny ■sen on earth ought to be endowed with wisdom, it Is senators, whether they Stand In congresses, parliaments, or reichstags, or assemblies, or legiala tures. By their decisions nations go up or down. Lawmakers are some times so tempted by prejudices, by sec tional preferences, by opportunity of personal advancement, and sometimes what Is best to do Is so doubtful that they ought to bo prayed for and en couraged In every possible way, Instead of severely criticised and blamed and excoriated, as Is much of the time the case. Our public men are so often the target to be shot at, merely because they obtain eminence which other men wanted but could not reach, that more Injustices are hurled at our national legislature than lbe people of the United States can possibly Imagine. The wholesale belying of our public men la simply damnable. By resi dence In Washington I have come to ..k kL.l I .... .... •n persistently misrepresented, and was of the best of them, the purest la tbelr lives and most faithful In the discharge of tbelr duties, are the worst defamed. Some day I want to preach • aermon from the text In II. Peter: “They are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. Whereas angels, which are greater In power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. But these, as natural brute besets, made to be taken and destroyed, apeak evil of the things that they un derstand not.” So constant and malig nant Is this depreciation and scandallza tlon in regard to our public men that all over the land there are those who »up pose that the city of Washington U the center of all corruption, while, what with Ita parks and its equestrian statu ary, and Its wide streets, and Its archi tectural symmetries, and Its lovely homes. It la not only the most beautiful city under the sun, but has the highest etyle of citizenahip. 1 have seen but one Intoxicated man In the more than elx months of my residence, and I do not think any man can give similar testimony of any other city on the American continent. The gavels of our two houses of na tional legislature will soon fall, and ad lournment of two bodies of men as tal ented, as upright, and as patriotic as ever graced the capitol, will take place. The two or three unfortunate out breaks which you have noticed only make more conspicuous the dignity, the fraternity, the eloquence, the fidelity which have characterized those two bodies during all the long months of Important and anxious deliberation. We put a halo around great men of the past because they were so rare In tbelr time. Our senate and house of repre sentatives have five such men where once they had one. But it wilt not he until after they are dead that they will get annreclated. The world find* It safer to praise the dead than the living, because the departed, having a heavy pile of marble above them, may not rise to becomo rivals. llut, before the gavels ’of adjournment drop and the doors of Capitol Hill shut, there are one or two things thut. ought to be done, and let mm pray God that they may be accomplished. More forcibly than ever before, congress has been Im plored to acknowledge God In our con stitution. The Methodist church, a church that Is always doing glorious things, has In Its recent Wilmington conference requested our congress tr amend the immortal document, which has been the foundation end wall and dome of our United Staten government by Inserting the words, ••Trusting in Almighty God.” If that aim ndt» < nt It made, It will not only please all tin good people of the country, bn: \ il please the hvoveus. It w >» only at oversight or u mental accident that th* fathers who made the constitution die not Insert a divinely worshipful ecu tenoe. They all. so far as the) amounted to anything, believe I n •‘God, the father Almighty the M.il . i of heaven utnl curt' n t In J< > i> Christ, his only begett<n lion."The eon stitution wool 1 hove b e# a I. time na it not been for the IMvitie inlet ft cn The members of th» con* cm ton coon agres on nothing until, In response u Iteaiamtn franklin s request ikat tb< meetings be opaued by prayer, the t.«i (ltd was catted »n to iu‘<i»'f«»« an help, and then the way «u cleared and lha states signed n document i historical fact that all tha fat-terrier, of noatern infidelity enpuot bark out « ettotrsrc! 1 knav that thara was at •smpUtrn to lha fact that lha promt sent men at those feel ttmea were guv. men Tom 1‘atna. a libertine and a aot #14 Ml halter# In , sr iking good tad ha wag dying, and th*« he shrieked au lug (hsl's mercy, and kitUan Allen (yarn ana at a bus* 4**j*>a.Uui# I ksv< rawestved Within a few days a cwnArma Ggf tha Incident I m* til iw it# 4 is l 4 garmaa, as *a>ii»g to hi# d> tn< klar that tha ksd h«u»r taka kn I I chrkatlu religion tkaa hi inhdeilty The art tv la mat m< gay a i “Tha Story ha* hoag dented hi <MM a# tha Aileg family, hat lha bfvg son family, some of whom wero with the dying girl. aiBrm that It Is substan tially true. In ouch a matter ona con firmation la worth more than many de nials." Bo aaya the article sent mo. There la no doubt that Ethan Allen waa the vulgareat aort of an Infidel, for, alt ting In a Preabyterlan church, hla ad mirer* aay he struck tbs pew In front of him and swore out loud, so as to disturb the meeting, and no gentleman would do that. I do not wonder that some of bis descendants are ashamed of him; but of course they could not help It, and are not to blams. But of all the decent men of ths revolution believed In Ood, and our American congreas, now assembled, will only echo the sen timents of the fathers when they en throne the name of Ood In the consti tution. We have now more reason for Inserting that acknowledgement of di vinity than our fathers bad. Since then the continent baa been peopled and great cities from tho Atlantic to the Pacific built, and all In peace, allow ing that ther# must have been super nal aupervlaal. Since then the war of 1812, and ours the victory! Since then great financial prostrations, out of which we came to greater prosperity than anything that preceded. Since then sanguinary 1862, 1863, 1861 and 1866, and notwithstanding the fact that ull the foreign despotisms were plan ning for our demolition, we are a united people and tomorrow you will find In both houses of congress the men who fought for the north and the south, now sitting side by side, armed with no weapon except the pen, with which they write home to their constituents who want to be appointed postmasters. The man who cannot see Ood in our Amer ican history la as blind of soul as he would be blind of body If he could not at 12 o’clock of an unclouded noon see tl.<, asm 4iKn kofitf.nfl Au ft milttf'f of gratitude to Almighty Clod, gentle men of the American congress, be pleased to Insert the four words sug gested by the Methodist conference! Not only because of the kindness of (lod to this nation In the past should such a reverential Insertion be made, but because of tbe fact that we are go ing to want Divine Interposition still further in our national history. This gold and silver question will never be settled until God settlee It. Thta ques tion of tariff and free trade will never be settled until God settles It. This question between the cast and west, which is getting hotter and hotter and looks toward a republic of the Pacific, will not be settled until God settles It, We needed God In the one hundred and twenty years of our past national life, and we will need Him still more In the next one hundred und twenty years. Lift up your heads ye everlasting gates of our glorious constitution, and let the King of Glory come In! Make one line of that Immortal document radiant with Omnipotence! Spell at least one word with Thrones! At tbe beginning, or at the close, or In the center, recog nize him from whom as a nation we have received all the blessing of the past and upon whom we are dependent for the future. Print that word "God,” or “lyord,” or "Eternal Father,” or "Ruler of Nations,"somewhere between the first word and the last. The Great Expounder of the constitution Bleeps at Marshfield, Massachusetts, tho Atlantic ocean still humming near his pillow of dust Its prolonged lullaby but Is there not some one now living, who, In the white marble palace of the nation on yonder hill, not ten minutes away, will become tbe Irradiator of the constitu tion by causing to be added the most tremendous word of our English vocab ulary; the name of that being before whom all nations must bow or go Into defeat and annihilation—“God?” Again before the approaching ad journment of our American congress, nr ui i ■ 11 >4 iiuu iwi • v ri i thut no appropriations be made to sec tarian schools, and that courtship r>e tween church and state In this country he forever broken up. That question al ready stems temporarily settled. 1 wish It might be completely and for ever settled. All schools and all in stitutions, as well nu all denominations, should stand on the. same level before American law. Kill crar Alexander of Rucslu, at his I'eu hofl Palace, naked me how many denomination., of tepy lo 11 there were in America, and 1 n iu d their names bs well ttr l could. Then he asked me the difference between them, and there I brolit down. Tin when I told him that no rtliglouii u« nemmatlon In Ameiica bad any privi leges above the others, be could hardly understand it. The Ortek church last ;:i it tit via. The Lutheran church »mt In Qermsny. The Episcopal church first In England. "h * t’ vth »!!e church fhtt lu t’ui's Vi»iismm»danism tost in r .tills Mtncple. Tne e. uicror w in dtrtd how It wa p.i.tthlc that all tfct 1 rit noalr; at Ik ns lit taurliu could stand i on the ksme phittorm. H it so H h, cad so let It ever V *. Lei there b- no I prrftreit,e bo |artdnlltjr, no tUiinpt to • • "i ;.e h hither ihau .m I other, v\ *ui i and Jefferson and i all the early pi vld»*»'» sod all Use > great eii.stncn of i,.e past, ktv* li'ut l thtir video sgalnsi ,»n> suvh y I If a school or lastlt .Man .ntvuoi *ttud s ithvni th* prop of nstL.nsi sppto.vfla i ins, ilia let in at ..'bind or Mini in i niistlks go ttusn tin ihe other rt N I ! ,I< M.V If9 Hit- it M ivM (iNtil) uf i iiiustrnt.ua «f vhuivh sa l s>si* united ! lot u* hn»e none of the htpuertsy snd ^ | deaurisitMihia hern of ihnt itlsti.m ua ■ * this std* *1 the giUaite, l»| that de< ! SmNsiIiis vaiue ui»l abend that au*s 1 . the ns ■*» for lb* vans* at Mod and bu< 1 | a an.ly llru is.uiiitoik an I .'strg* * tons selling kbit the a.hle.e by ' their awn itgbi iiw of wsetullnee*, and 1 I MM hy I he UvortllSM of ssniSMSb Aa >«u regard iha sriltiv snd perpvtu* Ity «4 nut tntOluMeus, heop poll’.i s *ul 1 nt religion > Pul h«, Ihnt I tut speaking nt ns Itnnnl ntfsirw from n ret,gurus sund 1 point. I bethink myself at Iks tact thnl % two other gavels will soon lift and fall, the one at St Louis and tho other at Chicago, end before these national con ventions adjourn, I aak that they ac knowledge Ood In the platforms. The men who construct those platforms are here this morning or will read these words. Let no political party think tt can do Ita duty unlesa It acknowledges that Ood who built this continent, and revealed It at the right time to the dis coverer, and who has reared here a prosperity whlob has been given to no other people. "Oh!" says some one, "there are people in this country who do not believe In a Ood, and It would be an Inault to them." Well, there are people In this country who do not be lieve In common decency, or common honesty, or any kind of government, preferring anarchy. Your very plat form Is an Insult to them. You ought not to regard a man who does not be lieve In Ood any more than you abould regard a man wbo refuses to believe In common decency. Your pocket-book Is not safe a moment In the preeence of un atheist. Ood Is the only source of good government. Why not, then, eay so, and let the chairman of the committee on resolutions in your national conven tion* take a pen full of ink and with bold hand head the document with one significant “Where as:" acknowledging the goodness of Ood In the past, and begging his kindness and protection for tho future. Why, my friends, this country belongs to Ood, and wo ought In every possible way to acknowledge it. From the moment that, on an October morning In 1492, Colum bus looked over the side of the ship and saw the carved staff which made him think he was neur un Inhabited coun try, and saw also a thorn and a cluster of berries (type of our History ever since, piercing sorrows and cluster of national Joys), until this hour our coun try has been bounded on the north, south, east aud west by the goodness of Ood. The Huguenots took posses sion of the Carolina*, In the name of Ood. William Penn settled Philadel phia, In the name of Ood. The Hol landers took possession of New York, In the name of Ood. The Pilgrim Fathers settled New Kngland, in the name of Ood. Preceding the first gun of Hunker Hill, at the voice of prayer all beads uncovered. In the war of 1812, an officer came to Oen. Andrew Jackson 'and said: "There is an un usual noise In the camp; it ought to be stopped.” General Jackson said, "What is the noise?" The officer said, "It is the voice of prayer and praise." Then the CeneraJ said, "Ood forbid that prayer and prulse should be an un usual noise in the encampment. You had better go and Join them.” Prayer at Valley Forge. Prayer at Monmouth. Prayer at Atlanta. Prayer at South Mountain. Prayer at Oettysburg. "Oh!" says some Infidel, “the northern people prayed on one side and the Southern people p yed on the other side, and so It did not amount to anything." And 1 have heard good Christian people con founded with the Infidel statement, when it Is as plain to me as my right hand. Yes; the Northern people prayed In one way, and the Southern people prayed In another way, and Ood an swered in his own way, giving to the North the re-establlshment of the gov ernment. and giving to the South larger opportunities, larger than she had ever anticipated, the harnessing of her rlvera In great manufacturing Interests, until the Mobile and the Tallupoosa and the Chattahoochee are Southern MerrlrnacB, and the unrolling of great Southern mine* of coal and Iron, of which the world knew nothing, and opening before her opportunities of wealth which will give ninety-nine ner tent more of affluence {has the ever possessed; and instead of the black hands of American slaves, there are the more industrious black hands of the coal and iron mines of the South which are achieving for her fabulous and un imagined wealth. And there are domes of white blossom* where spread the whlto ten's. And there are plough* In tho track where tho war wuRcns went. And 'hero are songs whers they lifted up Kucher* lament. LABOR NOTES. Eight hundred boston brewery work < v.< have left the K. of L. and joined the A. F. of L. ; The trades unionists of Los Angeles, Cal., ere boycotting* the Chiiiif and Jnpani restaurants. Swltaerlumi, a pure democratic form of government, has had hut litui ntrik<s in thirty-live year*, und of thi n.' ten were lockouts. The bindery girls employed at th« Roller printing • fflee. Canton, (),, w«nt on a strike the past week for eight butira. and after much arbitration the I'lrls won. When they iittlin'ed vs lets the \ uteri tan Federation of l«abor, last August, the American Attend' ufsortaLnu had a membership of but); uow they have I3.U a». Th« Amirtcan Kederatlun of Labor wt organised in tskl, ami n«,w i,.t» a tilth, bcr.hip of i,>uriy 7*o «» which la far above the blgu watt r mark of the K at L The Central Labor union of Fort Wayne, ltd,, tie. lar* d lit if tor of a n t ni- i|, >1 el« trl plant, .'ltd *h< 'Sect so that the Itahttng drut whi.n ttaw baa ike •>»»i»a«t , wop, lb d ita luackin lata in withdraw from the union Tka 1 ptolstet#' union, Indianapolis, la only oho month old ant haa Uh meatkora, a majority of the it ad* in tho nty The int lw>t*. waiter*. *a4 kari,es*ntakere ate mgatiUine sad tho union *•»«« to. m ta making tap* l pro, at >a in tkot «tu Far til, twelve (liable beglnwtag (vs* » an d eu.tmg on ion. i ttho tlngliah Twelfth .Ighl and tho French F.s* deo It,.*, o* Fvssl of tho Kin* ■>, the an cootera of tho ilPiffiol* and tho la>k,n IftM hold their Vuto (estival in at tha (Wry wt-aol of tho tun gw i For tho root of our v >»rd "ohool * and of tha Heanditavlaa ia|o‘ art ana and ua HM FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. lone Cp-to-Oete Hint* About t'ultlve tloa of the loll and Yl*l<l* Thereof— Horticulture. Viticulture and Fieri ealture. __ ARLY last spring, through the local papers we advised the farmers and ranchmen In Wyo ming, not to pur chase seeds or plants of sachallne until Ita value could be deter mined by the Ex periment Station. The plnnt has been so thoroughly advertised and such extravagant state ments have been made of Its hardiness, productiveness, and value as a forage plant, that we believe every farmer should bo advised of our results in growing It. One ounce of seed and twenty roots were purchased of A. Wane & Co., Philadelphia, for each Ex periment Farm. These have been giv en a careful trial In each place. At l.aramle the roots were planted In pots in the greenhouse in order to give them a good start before sotting them out In the field. These made small growth and though kept under the glass they died down to the ground at the end of six months. At Sheridan, slxty-one plunts came up from the seed* by the middle of August, the tallest reaching a height of eight Inches. None of the seed grew at the other farms and at no place did plants from the roots reach a height of more than twenty six Inches. In short, our trials Indicate that sachallne is not sufficiently hardy to be of practical value In any part of the state. According to reports, it has failed In Colorado, Kansas, New Mexi co and Texas. III uui would mention the fuel that the seed of another species of knotweed (Poly gonum cuspldatum), la aometlmea sold for true aachallne, and we ure not sure that our aeed and roots were not of this variety. In fact measurements of leaves on plants at Sheridan would Indicate that they are" false sachallne.” Whether we have grown the true sacha llne or not, we believe that any at tempt to grow It In this state will re sult only In loss of time and money. A clrcuar from the Department of Agriculture on sachallne, by I-amson Scribner, says: "Krom the native station of the plant, along moist river banks, upon an Island with a cold and very moist climate—and from the recommenda tions as to Its culture by horticulturists who have had experience In growing the plant, it Is very doubtful If It will prove a success lu the arid regions of the west; In fact it seems hardly proba ble that It can grow there at all." B. C. Buffum, Prof. Agriculture and Horticulture. Itot in Apple*, drape* anil Plum*. Bulletin 31 from the Missouri experi ment station, by J. C. Whitten, hor ticulturist, details the results of nu merous experiments In preventing rot In apples, grapes, plums, etc. The prac tical points brought out are condensed Into the following: During the past two years, systematic experiments have been carried on at the experiment station, at Columbia, in spraying for insects and fungous diseases in order to determine the gen era! efficacy of spraying, the most eco nomical strength of spraying mixtures, the number of applications necessary for the various fungous diseases, the best time to spray, and other unsettled points. Apple scab, the worst fungoua disease of the apple in this country, was very largely controlled in orchards sprayed once before the buds started in the spring, with copper sulphate (two pounds to fifty gallons of water) and four times, subsequently with bordeaux mixture. The bordeaux mixture was applied In various strengths from one pound to six pounds of copper sulphate and the same weight of lime, to fifty gallons of water. The three and four pound solutlous gave as good result* us the six-pound solution the tlrst sea son, and the second season, after sys tematic spraying was begun, the one and two-pound solutions were sufficient to hold the scab almost entirely In check, lu uuspruyed orchards, th« • i-ab ripens Us spores early in the sea son, and these spores germinate upon thu fruit and leaves, causing a second crop of the fungus that appears u» clouds or blotches on the apple In au i u:u:iOn sprayed trees, no truce cl this second crop of scab could be found while on unsprayed apples It was ul most universal. • • • Hut* t rot developed to only a tdlgb extent on tbs station grounds, about th< iiuie the fruit was fathered, tienerall) throughout the state It was very bad The only case tlx which we hud an op poriunity to test the efficacy ul the ber deaug mixture for this disease waa or I sotua yam* use trees. These trees wet* •piayed tas outlined! fur scab. At ilo lime of gathering >u autumn, the lot low lug percentages at fruit, spray#* I with two, twir and six pound solutions were affected with bitter rut I n sprayed trees It par vent affected sprayed with two pound solution |; lorr cent, lour pound solution 11 pei teat, and sis pound solution Ja psi i *,at affected gin*# this dtseoxe de doped so tat* la the season, no othei • xpartatewls »»r» carried «* to *h**l II except tu thoroughly spray law tr**< Just before the ftull gathered, will •mmoutuvol toppe# vaihuaale aulutiu* || is expe* t«d that this Will lessen thl amount if bHt*r rat next as*-—a It |xM mure exlenstta vtperlmeau twi Ihta d*strw*tits d.eeasa Will be pub i sued ia several *»*hards The black rot of the grape was more readily controlled by the use of bor deaux mixture than were most of the other fungous diseases. The plum rot was most successfully managed by spraying with the bordeaux mixture until the fruit reached nearly full size and then spraying weekly, during the ripening period with the ammoniacal copper carbonute solution. The reason for using the latter solution at that time was because It left no sediment on the fruit at the time of gathering, as did the bordeaux mixture. • • • We eomrtimea hear ef unsuccessful results from spraying, but these ex periments show, while all diseases can not be Immediately and totally eradi cated, that continued spraying will X|(njaJV3 ptq aq juq} uo|)Bis aqj OJ pJOM )UdH JdWOjSI l|!IJj )UdH|||»JU| dUf) 'JSdX qjBd Mt.(| PUB HHd| MOJSt O) pduouuuuj BdSBdKip snofonj dqi esnea sprayed according to directions, but that there was more scab on his sprayed than on his unsprayed trees. A careful examination of apples from bis orchard revealed the fact that they were badly burned (probably by Impure chemicals or too strong a mixture), but there was no trace of fungous disease In his fruit. Very common mistakes are the use of Impure chemicals, allowing the Ingre dients to settle so the first trees get none an dthe lust trees too much of the chemicals. Improper mixing of the solutions, uslg the wrong solution, and falling to spray at Just the proper time. The cost of these spraying mixtures and spray purnps Is very small, and the labor Involved 1* very slight. There Is no single Investment that will pay such profits on the general farm us syste matic spraying. Full particulars as to how to make up the different solutions, the time and best methods of applying them, will bo found In bulletin 31 of this station, which may be had, free of charge, by addressing the director of the experi ment station, Columbia, Mo, I’ropiMtil l.lve Murk ItrKuU t Iona. The senate committee on agriculture has authorized a favorable report upon the animal Industry bill. It Is a recod Ideation of the existing laws bearing upon the subject of animal and meat Inspection, with numerous Important additions. Among the additions arc provisions putting Inspection of meat products ami live stock, the extirpation of Infectious and contagious diseases, the regulations on the transportation of live stock, and the prevention of the exportation or importation of dis eased stock In the direct charge of the bureau of animal Industry. Stock ex posed to contagion, as well as those al ready affected, are Included within the Inhibitions of the bill. Transportation companies are forbidden, under a pen alty of $1,000, from receiving or ship ping Infected animals for Interstate commerce. The owners of cars or pens which have contained diseased cattle are required to disinfect them thor oughly. Veterinary Inspection of live stock whose meat Is to be exported Is exacted, and shippers of meat products are required to mark packages plainly so as to Indicate the species of the ani mal. No slaughter of animals at abat toirs having government Inspection U to be allowed on Sundays or holidays, or at night In the absence of an In spector. Inspectors are authorized to condemn such animals or carcasses as are found to be diseased, and, If neces sary, to destroy them. It Is made un lawful to Import carcasses of diseased cattle or other live stock which have not been Inspected or certified. The secretary of agriculture la authorized to maintain at the expense of the United swine carcasses at the time of slaugh ter whenever and wherever he may deem it expedient, and especially with reference *o hog meat intended for ex port. Provision is made for sending veterinary surgeons to districts where horses, cattle or hogs are suffering from infectious diseases. Penalties for disregard or disobedi ence of the law are provided in all cases and in several instances fines amount ing to $5,000 are imposed.—Farmers' Review. sixteen Year* n I'uullmnim. We have kept poultry for the past sixteen years, but did not make much of a business of it for the first four years. We have tried the iirahroas Cochins and Barred Plymouth Rocks, Wo like the Hatred Plymouth Hockt best, and for twelve years we hav« kept no other breed. We keep nothing but pure breeds and use them for stock and for market. Our housiug is not si good us it should lie, Just a single walled wooiien house with the cruvki battened, To my old fowls lu the win ter time I feed wheat, corn and oats et|ttsl parts, in the murniug. At iioon I feed wheat aud outs and give them milk when I have It. To the llltit chicks I feed corn bread. We sell (lit little ones as soou as we cun get them big euough fur market. We are oarefu not to ktep many of them till late III the (all, wheu the markets are glutted ! Our market Is Chicago, our hens havi : laid all of the past winter and do every ; winter except when It Is very cold Then ' we have to shut them up In their b<>u ■ i and that tuna stops their laying. Wi ' have lust a gnat many from different i I tlu- ■«*•#. In hatching we have used | Mb hens and Incubator* and have had go«el sue* ess either way, Aa to dew 1 tutiwd hens we alwaye do that with ih« . greatest rare and in many eases *« succeed tx curing the fowls. An ts I vatu ' uf bleed* I Wilt cay that I btVi j never had hens that prod need mors »g«a thaw the timed fit mouth M>« hi 11 and for early maturity I think they nr« i 1 the heel Mt experience shows that i i 1 he a hoo*e should he kept dry and ch-ns | sad that a ground hs-i ts the heat i i C. II, «t«hL i f luxfc* t ounty, lad , i The right hind of a Christ tan will I always do right. t THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON VIII., MAY 2+ JESUS IN THE TEMPLE. Golden Text: "The htone Which the Builders Rejected, the Hume line Be come the Head of the Comer"* Luke SO: 17. AKE NOTE THAT WR are now entering, up on the fourth and last division of the puhllo ministry of Jesus. Wo have been with him In Judea, In Gullies, In I'erea, and now we study the wonderful scenes of the last eventful week. Its Importance ran he seen from the fuel that more room la given to the story of this ono week In the Gospels thsn to any whole year of Jesus' min istry. This week occupies seven chapters of Matthew, five of Mark, live of Luke, and eight of John; In all. twenly-llve chapters, against three for the fltst year, twenty for tho second, and twenty-three for the third. The events of this week should he learned by heart, and by drill Mnd by blackboard they should he Impressed on the memory In vivid pictures. Their hearing on the work of t'hrlit should he 11 early pointed out. The first three days, which aro Includ'd In to-day's lesson, were employed In one great and powerful effort, exerted In every possible way, to Induce tho Jewish nation to accept Jesus as their Mes siah, and thus become that glorious nation, blessing the whole world, for which they hud been set apart. Jcsua rode Into Jerusalem as tho Prince of Peace. The populace hailed him us Messiah. He entered the temple as Its Lord and drove out the money-changers from his father's house, lie presented the truth In parables. To-day’s lesson Includes Luke. If® ®-19. 9. "A certain man," representing God him self. the owner of all things. "Planted a vlixc >ard." Palestine was a country of vineyards, and Jesus took his Illustration from a most familiar occurrence, Isaiah utc* a similar II lus;ration. "And let U forth to husbandmen.” It Is customary In the East, as In Ireland arid i i.. ..11>s»r t.«r»m Kurort* for OWn«P U> let out tilM of tale to husbandmen, 1. <•., to tfnantf. "And went Into n far country”', rather. a* In the It. V., another country, lie went abroad, lie left hla tenant* In charge with everything needful for their work, and than by hi* absence tested their faithfulness, und gave them opportunity to develop their ( huraeters and fulhl their duties, I his wsa "for a long time.” 10. "And at the season.” not any definite time, hut every occasion when Clod had rea son to expect the results, "lie sent a serv ant." The prophet* and all faithful priests and teacher*. "The husbandmen heat him.” The next one they not only heal., hut entreat ed him shamefully. The fruit the l.ord hod a right Io expect, the people did not give him. The nation u* a whole were very disappoint ing. 13. "My beloved”: dear In him a* his own self. This Is said to show the greatness of Hod’s love to man (John 3: Id). 14 "This is the heir." Christ Is the h<dr of all thing* (lleb. I 2). The Jewish nation should have beet) hla to rule, whllo they obeyed Itlin, the Messiah. In love. ”W u* kill him, that the Inheritance may be ours.” "This alludts to the Kostern custom, that. If an owner was not to be found, and the occupier pays the taxes for six year*, he can claim the property. The owner, in this ease, was In a far country, and had sent servant after servant, but hod not enforced hi* rights. Win n the legal heir appeared they were alarmed for their tenure, and hoped that by killing him, utiles* his father came In per son. the estate would become absolutely tbelr own.”--Canon Tristram. Id. "lie ahall come and destroy these hus bandmen.” Kin* c every possible method of saving them hud been rejected. The tree that no culture will enable to bring forth (suit must bo cut down. The wicked man whom - nothing can make better must perish. In " the summer of A. I). "0, forty year* ufeer this parable waa spoken. Jerusalem waa de stroyed and the temple was burned and laid In ruins by the Roman army under Titus, alt er the most terrible siege on record; 1)7,000 wero taken prisoners, and 1.100,000 perished. Vet these Jews, If they had been faithful, might have been the leading nation In the world, walking us kings and prince* among men ihe Joy of the whole earth, shedding Hie light of Hod’s truth and righteousness over the nation*. Hut they would not. they re jected the Messiah and perished. "And shall give the vineyard to others.” "The others ’ .. ,t.r-i.riKiInn church, tie- new kingdom of heaven, which took the place of the Jew ish nation after the destruction of Jerusalem. 17. "This then that is written.” in Psalm 11#: 22, 22 u psalm which the Jews applied to the Messiah. Peter twice applied it to him (Acts I: 11; 1 Pet. 1'; 7). "The stone which the builder* rejected.” "in the primary meaning of the jaalm the Illustration seem* to have been drawn from oue of the stones, quarried, hewn and marked, away from the site of the temple, which the builders, ignor ant of the head architect'* plan*, or finding on It no mark (such a* recent explorations in Jerusalem have shown to have been plated on the stones of Solomon'* temple In the place where they were quarried, to Indicate thelf position In the future structure of the fabric), had put on one side an having no place In the building, hut which was found afterward* to be that on which the complete ness of the structure depended—on which, as the chief corner-stone, the two walls met and wire bonded together.”— Plumptre. The ■ton# rejected was Jesus the MesMluh, and the kingdom and its blessings which would come with him. "Is become the l ead of (he cor ner.” The corner-stone on which tin* super structure reel*. The most Important stone in the building. The Messiah is t > suctetd and reign, his kingdom is to coate. no mallei’ mm v oppose*, | U. "Whosoever shell fall upon that stone," stumble* *t the humiliation of Jesus, and *o dots not a*cept his claims. "Htull be broken,'* shall sutler greet Injury, but may ) el be >su I by ic|u«ntaiicH and faith, " hut on whomsoever it shell fill,'* in Anal Judg ment and | ui.lnbmt nt, "it will grind him to powder,” in complete and iriemiHilabie de struction. 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