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TALMAGE'S SEBMON. "MIGHTY HUNTERS" WAS LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. Wmi m Blgblr Haatar Bafora tba lorf — Oaaaala 10iS — Kplrltoal Aaabary Ml tba Arrow ot tba N OUR day, hunt Ing Is a sport; but In the lands and the times Infested with wild beasts. It was a matter of Ilfs or death with the people. It was very different from go ing ont on a sun shiny day with a patent breech-lold er, to shoot reed-blrds on tbe flats, when Pollua and Achilles and Dlome des went out to clear the land of Hons and tigers and bears. My teat sets forth Nimrod as a hero when It pre sents him with broad shoulders and shaggy apparel and sun-browned face, and arm bunched with muscle—"a mighty hunter before the Lord.” I think he used the bow and arrows with great success practising archery. I have thought If It is such a grand thing and such a brave thing to clear wild beasts out of a country, If It Is not a better and braver thing to bunt down aad destroy those great evils of society that are stalking tbe land with fierce aye and bloody paw, and sharp tusk aad quick spring. I have wondered If there Is not such a thing as Gospel archery, by which those who have been flying from tbe truth may be cap tured for God and heaven. The Lord Janus la bis sermon used tbe art of angling for an Illustration when he said: "I will make you Ushers of men.” And so I think I have authority for using bunting as an illustration of uudjjci iruiu, uuu i pimj may be many a man today who will begin to study Gospel arcbery, of whom It may, after a while, be said: "He was a mighty buster before the Lord." How much awkward Christian work there Is do”e In the world! How many good people there are who drive souls •way from Christ Instead of bringing them to blm! All tbelr fingers are thumbs—religious blunderers who upset more than they right. Their gun has a crooked barrel, and kicks as It goes off. They are like a clumsy comrade who goes along with skillful hunters: at the very moment when he ought to be most gulet, he la crackling an alder, or fall ing over a log and frightening away the game. How few Christian people have ever learned the lesson of which I read at the beginning of this service, bow that the Lord Jesus Christ at the well went from talking about a cup of water to the most practical religious truths, which won the woman's soul for God! Jesus In the wilderness was breaking bread to the people. 1 think tt was good bread; it was very light bread, and the yeast bad done Its work thoroughly. Christ, after he bad broken the bread, said to the people: "Beware of the yeast, or of the leaven, of the Pharisees.” Bo natural a tran sition it was; and bow easily they all understood him! But how few Chris tian people who understand bow to fasten the truths of God and religion to the souls of men. Truman Osborne, one of the evangelists who went through this country years ago, had a wonderful art in the right direction. He came to my father's bouse one day, and while we were all seated In the room, be said: “Mr. Talmage, are all your children Christians?” Father said: "Yes, all but DeWltt." Then Truman Osborne looked down into the fireplace, and began to tell a story of a storm that came on the moun tains, and all the sheep were in the foldi but there was one lamb outside that perished in the storm. Had he looked me in the eye, I should have been angered when he told that story ; but he looked Into the fireplace, and it was so pathetically and beautifully done that I never found any peace un til I was sure I was inside the fold. where the other sheep were. The archers of olden tlmee studied their art. They were precise In the ■utter. The old books gave precise directions as to how an archer should pe, and an to what an archer should do. He must stand er«ct and firm, his left foot a little In advance of the right foot. With his left hand he muat take held of the bow In the middle, and then with three fingers and the thumb •f his right hand be should lay hold ef the arrow and aSli It to the string— ee precise was the direction given But how clumsy we are about religious work! How little skill and care we •aarctse! How often our arrows miss tha mark! Ob. that there were more Institutions established In all the towns sad cities of our land.wbsre men might learn tha art of dolug good studying spiritual archery, and kuown a* "mighty hunter* before the Uordr la the first i * e. it yeu want to he effectual Is doing good you must he eery sure of your weapon. There was aamethlng very fascinating about the archery of uldsa times Perhaps yeu de net haew what they could de with the bow and arrow Why. the chiel battles faugUi by the Kngiteh Pleata gwosie were with the lung bow They would tube the eitee ef peliahed wood, wad feather It with tha plume ef a bird, wad then It would Ay from the hoe etnas ef plaited atlh The broad kelda ef Agta< eurt. aad Helway Muse. aaf Neville s r’roas heard the loud thrum ef the er her e huw-stnag New, my CNrtstUn friend#, we have a mightier area pea then that. It le the arrow el the tleepel. It le a aharp nmw; it M • etrw'gbi arrow it is fee the rod from the wtag ef a do«e ef Uod s tfpirtt, tt •lea hew a haw made eut ef the «>* i ef the erase A# far ee I raa eettmeie ar ealculaie ft has hreught down four hnridrsd miuiea souls Peal base how to bring the notch of that arrow on to that bow-string. and Its whirr waa beard through the Corinthian theaters, and through the courtroem, until the knees of Fell* knocked to gether. It was that arrow that stuck In Luther's heart when he cried eut, “Oh, my sins! Oh, my sins!" If It strike a man In the heed, It kills his scepticism; If It strike a man In tbe heel. It will turn his step; If It strike him In the heart, he throws up his hands, as did tbe Emperor Julian of old when wounded In the battle, crying, "O Galilean, Thou hast conquered!'* If you want te be a skillful In spirit ual archery, you must hunt In unfre quented and secluded pieces. Why does the hunted go three of four days In the Pennsylvania forests or over Raquette ],&ke Into tbe wilds of tbe Adlron darksT It Is the only way to do. The deer are shy, and one "bang” of the gun clears the forest. From tbe Cali fornia stage you see, as you go over the plains, here and there, a coyote trotting along, almost within range of the gun—sometimes quite within range of It. No one cares for that; it Is worthless. The good game Is hidden and secluded, livery hunter knowsthat. Ho, many of tbe souls that will be of most worth for Christ and of most value to the churcn are secluded. They do not come In your way. You will have to go where they ere. Yon der they are down In that cellar; yonder they are up in that garret. Far away from the door of aoy church the Oospel arrow has not been pointed at them. Tbe tract distributor and city missionary sometimes catch a glimpse of them, as a hunter through the trees gets a momentary tight of a partridge or a roebuck. The trouble la, we are waiting for the game to com# to u». We are not good hunters. We are stand ing In some street or highway expect ing that the timid antelope will come up and eat out of our hands. We are expecting that the pralrle-fowl will light on our church-steeple. It le not their habit. If the church should wait ten millions of year* for the world to come In and be saved. It will wait In vain. The world will not come. What the church wants now la to lift Ita feet from damaak ottomans, and put them In the stirrup*. We want a pul pit on wheels. The church wants not ao much cuahloni aa It wants saddle bags and arrows. We have got to put aside the gown and kid-glove#, and put on the hunting-shirt. We have been Ashing so long In the brooks that run under the shadow of the church that the Ash know us. that they avoid the hook, and escape aa soon aa we come to the bank, while yonder Is Upper Saranac and Big Tup per Lake, where the Arst ewlng of the Ooapel net would break It for the mul titude of the Aahee. There Is outside work to be done. What Is that I sec in the backwoods? It is a tent. The hunters have made a clearing and camped out. What do they care if they have wet feet, or If they have nothing but a pine branch for a pillow, nr for the northeast storm? If a moose In the darkness steps Into the lake to drink, they hear it right away. If a loon cry In the moonlight they hear It. So In the service of Ood we have exposed work. We have got to camp out and rough 1L We are putting all our care on the people who come to our churches. What are we doing for the thouaands upon thousands that do not come? Have they no souls? Are they sinless that they need no pardon? Are there no dead In their houses, that they need no comfort? Are they cut off from Ood, to go Into eternity—no wing to bear them, no light to cheer them, no welcome to greet them? I hear to-day surging up from the lower depths, a groan that comes through our Christian assemblages and through ou;' beautiful churches; and it blots out all this scene from my eyes today, as by the mists of a great Niagara, for the dash and the plunge of these great tor rents of life dropping down Into the fathomless and thundering abyas of suffering and woe. I sometimes think luui JUDl IMS VIWU WlWblVU UUt 11117 churches of Thyatlra and Corinth and Laodlcea, because of their sloth and stolidity, he will blot out American and English Christianity, and raise on the ruins a stalwart, wide-awake mission ary church, that can take the full meaning of that command. "Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature." 1 remark, further, if you want to auc ceed In spiritual archery you must have courage. If the hunter stand with trembling hand or shoulder that flinches with fear, instead of his taking the catamount, the catamount tak-*a him What would become of the Greenlander If, when out hunting for the bear, he should stand shivering with terror on an Icebers? What would have become of Du Ohntllu and Livingstone In the African thicket, with a faint heart and a weak knee? When a panther <omea within twenty laces ef you and it has its eye on you end It has squatted for the fearful spring, "Steady therer Courage, O vs spiritual archers! There are great monsters in iniquity prowling all around about the com munity Shall we out of the strength uf Gad go forth and rembst them* We not only nved more heart, hut more barthage. W hat is the church ef God. that it should fear to look In the eye any transgression* There Is the ilea gal ti«*r of druakvnaeea that prowl* •round, gad la*t«ad of attaching ,|, hew a«t| ef us tide under the chut,l» pew ef the tmmmueUMi table' There . te set much invested la tt that we are afraid le aeeat.lt It; millions of dollar* ; in barrels in vats in *ptg«>u in cork i eerowt, in «tn pe e re With mark!* door and ttaUat, top tab!**, and chase-i tee motets sad in the strychnia* eat the Hi weed and the tartaric avid an* the nut eemtca, met g« to make ui ottf pure Awn Me* a Uriah* I look** *tth wooderteg open on ibo H»ldel bo eg tun,” It to the gt*at liquor *n of German* which la eeld lo hat 3III hundred hugtheed* et wine an t Urea times Ig a hundred years I hat been Mled. But. aa I stood and looked at It, I aald to myxelf: “That la nothing—eight hundred hogsheads. \ykr our American vat holds two mtl lloa, fire hundred tbousagd barrel* of strong drink* and we keep two hun dred thousand men with nothing to do but to see that It la filled.” Ob! to at tack thta great monster of Intemper ance, and the kindred monstara of fraud and uncleanllneaa, requires you to rally all yoim Christian courage. Through the press, through the pulpit, through tbs platform, you must assault It Would to Ood that all bur Ameri can Christfana would band together, not for crack-brained fanaticism, but for holy Christian reform. I think It waa In 1793 that there went out from Lucknow, India, under the sovereign, the greatest hunting party that waa ever projected. There were ten thou sand armed men In that bunting party. There were camels and horses and ele phants. On some princes rods, and royal ladles, under ezqulette housings, end live hundred coollee waited upon the train, and the desolate pieces of India were Invaded by thle excursion, and the rhinoceros, the deer, and ele phant fell under the stroke of saber and bullet. After atohlle the party brought back trophies worth live thou sand rupees, having left the wllderneas of India ghastly with the slain bodies of wild beasts.' Would to Ood that In stead of here and there a straggler go ing out to light these great monsters of Iniquity In our country, the million membership of our churches would band together and hew In twain these great crimes that make the land fright ful with their roar, and are fattening upon the bodies and souls of Immortal men! Who Is ready for such a party IMRU »*uu Will UC • liilfUl/ UUlHVr for the Lord? • • • I am auro that there are soma here who at tome time have been hit by the Gospel arrow. You felt the wound of that conviction, and you plunged Into the world deeper; just as the itng, when the hounda are after It, plunges Into Scroon Lake, expecting In that way to'escape. Jesus ChrUt is on your track today, Impenitent man! not In wrath, but In mercy. O ye chased and panting souls! here Is the stream of God’s mercy and salvation, where you may cool your thirst! Stop that chase of sin today. By the red fountain that leaped from the heart of my Lord, I bid you atop. Ia there In all thla houae anyone whro can refuse the offer that comts from the heart of the dying Son of God? Why, do you know that there ere, In the banished world, aoula that, for that offer you get today, would fling the crown of the universe at your f«et, if they possessed It? But they wont out on the mountains, the storm took them, and they died. There la In a forest In Germany a place they call the ‘’deer-leap’’—two crags about eighteen feet apart, be tween them a fearful chaam. Thla is called the "deer-leap" because once a hunter waa on the track of a deer; It came to one of these crags; there wag no escape for It from the pursuit of the hunter, and In utter despair It gathered Itself up, and In the deuth agony at tempted to Jump across. Of course, It fell, aud was dashed on the rocks far beneath. Here is a path to heaven. It la plain, it Is safe. Jesus marks It out for every man to walk In. But here ts a man who says, "1 won t walk In that path; I willQake my own way." He comes on until be confronts the chasm that divides his soul from hea ven. Now hit last hour has come, and be resolves tbut he will leap that chasm from the heights of earth to tho heights of heaven. Stand back, now, and give him full awing for no soui ever did that successfully. Let him try. Jump! Jump! He misse.-t the mark and he goes down, depth below depth, "destroyed without remedy." Men! angels! devils! what shall we call that place of awful catastrophe ? Let It be known forever as the sinner's death-lean. HISTORICAL. Madagascar was so named by the early explorers, from the Malagasy, or Malays, who Inhabited It. Bayne, as far as can be gathered, wrote "Home. Sweet Home ' one dreary uj ill wiwwc* , loan, ins i mi ip inr 11 UUi his own home, and in poor circus stances. The are order of Presidents when in augurated was as follows; W. H Har rison, Buchanan, Taylor. Jackson, Adams. Monroe. Madison. Jefferson. Quincy, Adams. Washington. Johnson. B. Harrison, Hayes, Van Huren. Da cola. Tyler. Arthur. Fillmore, Polk. Garfield, Pierce, Cleveland. Grant. The boater wae numerous in node localities In the north of Wales in 8 o and again In IIW. There are recor s of them much later In Scotland. Ret • deer wire abundant In Scotland, aid were bunted In Caithness in the yet r 1138. Wild boars were n timer u; s when large tracts of wood gave ih« a harbor. •CRAPS FROM tVIHVWMIHl, The figure of Britannia Aral at | on the -upper coins in the toga , | Charles II. In Dmdou n publisher tan have , hook well tllu»irated throughoul B » from |134 is IB*. iainvluit eociety hss tietsieptd g *, erase midnight cycling emersion* u to ihe «Hy. In Uhsaedrc over Jo boo |«iet-i have been vaccinated and rev a* .nan during the pteasni out areas Three is oas Aim in P mn.«hai pulling eul a thousand Atst guns ever week lor the Afrtren trade A ievident el Mulweeyw says that n i to the present. taking the nhotn dir > turned men. shout eighty whits pe pie have been hilled, i A-voiding bs the taur Cy.lisl. th i i FuBaa some time r<« iniioduevd ||«< 11 'tee Inin hi« harem her the pus. eh men i i ef retrwetory vntt FARM (AND; garden. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. *•■»• I'pto-Dut* Hint* About Culttva ttoa of thu Holt and Yields Thuroof— lloatleulturo, Vltlrulturu and riorl •altarak T this season of the year cut worms do more or less dam age to nearly all crops, especially to tomatoes, cabbages and corn. When ever sod or grassy land Is left until spring before being plowed, any crop which may be planted on such land will be damaged by cut worms. The reason of this Is that the worms are nearly full grown In the spring, yet they need one good meal before forming Into pupae, a short time after which they come forth as night flying moths. The life history of the rut worms Is about this: The moths lay their eggs In grass throughout the summer months, and after a few days these eggs hatch into small worms which feed upon the grass. The worms cast off their skin from time to lime to ac commodate their Increase in size, and during the cooler weather of winter go deeper in the ground, being dormant for a time if the weather is very cold. Upon the approach of spring, the worms come forth for u finishing touch of growth and soon form pupae in the ground just below the surface. Home time after this the moths are produced, and, after mating, the females lay the eggs for another brood. With most species there Is thus but one brood a year. Most farmers are beginning to realize me many uuvantuges oi iaii plowing, and where sod land especial ly Is plowed In the fall It will greatly lessen the number of cut worms and other Insects on such land the follow ing spring. A good remedy for killing out the cut worms In the garden Is to make up a mixture consisting of a quantity of bran or corn meal moist ened with water, to which Is added a little Paris green and a little molasses or sugar, to give a sweetish taste. It Is the Paris green that kills the worms, and this should be very thoroughly mixed with the bran, so as to have u uniform mixture. A spoonful of this mixture should be placed near the plants Just before night on the day tbe plants are set out. Tbe cut worms work at night and will be killed by eating of the poisoned mixture. It Is much better, however, to place the mixture about In various part of a field a few days before planting, as it will then kill off tbe worms before any damage Is done. H. E. Weed, Entomologist Mississippi Experiment Station, Agricultural College, Miss. Origin or tb* Cabling*. Cabbage (Brasslca oleracea) Is one of the vegetables brought Into use at an early day, and although not so Indis pensable as the potato, is nevertheless an esculent highly esteemed and has assumed an Importance that gives it a prominent position, not only In the horticultural catalogue, but also In es timating the productions of our coun try. I have no statistics by which to estimate its value In this country, but when we learn that In I.ondon about one hundred million heads are annual ly sold, which, at five cents a head, would amount to $5,000,000 we may be prepared to estimate the amount raised In Illinois at a sum worthy of being taking Into consideration In es timating the value of our productions. Just when and where It was first brought Into use It is not possible to state now with certainty. A compara tively recent article In Hardwicke’s Science Gossip says that the plant from which tbe varieties in use In England originated is to be found along the southeast seacoast of England. But It Is certain that some of the varieties were early in UBe on the western side of the continent; also that kales or coleworts of some kind were long in use in Greece and Home, us they are 1 frequently mentioned by Greek and ‘ Homan writers and even directions: given tor lueir nmmiuvu. ii is uieu certain that various species uf Hrse sica are found In different parts of the world.—Cyrua Thomas. Aastrallan Kail Hush. In view of I he great Interest now be ing taken in Australian salt hush (Alrlplex seiuihacculum), the new for age plant for alkali soil*. Director Devol ol tha Experiment Station at Tucson. Arlsona. sends the following brief method of gtowiug It: The seeds are Rat, somewhat heart shaped. about I-lo Inch long and of a brow nish or reddish green color If cov ered In wet soil when fresh they are apt to rot, but sown before a ratn'and light ly covered with soil, or preferably cov ered with grass or weeds and kept moderately moist they will germinate I readily. They may be started in I boxse or hotbeds and transplanted i to ttie Retd. but plauis grown In this way ■ do not resist drought so well ns those i planted where they are to remain. While young the plants require water I lug two or three limes, hut when welt established they will resist quite severe | dtoughts Although a perennial plant ! it grows so rapidly that one cutting may | be obtained the Riel season and two the I following season It will grow Iw soil ! having mure alkali than any other pisnt { valuable for forage, sad unlike most plants growing upon such soil it has a prostrate habit, pruning la a height a! but a to If laches and spreading over i several square feel uf ground dingle pianta have keen known to teach a < spread of Id feet, this, .on, upon vert alkaline soil It is estimated that tram | to f tone per aero of dried has may i ha prod need ahesp and kage relish It j at eon and when anted with shout | a tie weight of ether bay horses and eat 1 lie eat It dtted, VarlctlM of RtrawlN.rrl««. It is almost impossible to advise the beginner what variety to plant. A variety which is very productive In one locality may prove the reverse In another, sometimes even in another field, soil, exposure and location being different No variety will do equally well on all soils. Reports in regard to varieties are very conflicting in differ ent localities. While one grower is satisfied and recommends a variety, an other is disgusted and is going to dis card it In general, we may say that those sorts which are successfully cul tivated over a large territory are most reliable; but he who goes a long ways from home to get advice In regard to varieties and treatment makes a seri ous mistake. These problems are purely local. The purpose for which we plant should be considered, I. e„ whether for home use or for market. For home use we may consider the characters of a variety In this manner: 1, quality, 2, yield, 3, hardiness. For market, this order ahould be reversed, thus: 1, hardiness, 2, yield, 3, quality. For market we want a firm berry of good size and color. Of the varieties grown on the Experimental Farm at Madison last summer, Warfield led them all In productiveness, yielding a third more than any other variety. Then cume Haverland. Cloud, Eureka, Lady Rusk, Van Deman, Wilson and Bubacb. This was the speond crop taken from these vines.—A. M. Ten Eyck. __ Chinch Hug Mkrs rint Land. It Is a plain inhabiting Insect, but it may Inhabit very limited, flat areas, in terspersed among more broken and ele vated areas. As illustrating this habit In Ohio, It may be stated that In 1894, It was found quite abundant In Cham paign, Logan and Hardin counties, with Its greatest abundance in the latter and Wyandot county to the northeast, the two latter being of a more level topo graphy than the two former. This is fully illustrated by maps In Bulletin 69, of the Ohio Exp. Btatlon. In 1896, th* area of greatest abundance included only Wyandot and a portion of Hardin counties, inampaign sunering nine, while to the south In Green and Clark counties, where, in 1894, It had been found sparingly, It did not occur In abundance at all, thus showing that ft had drifted to the lower and flatter lands to the east, except In Wyandot and a portion of Hardin, where these conditions already obtained, and over run a wide range of practically flat country having a day soil. A portion of the state laying to the west and north west of Lake Erie, being the ancient bed of the preglactal lake, and the soli sandy Instead of clayey, was little if at all Infested, whereas, the flat clay lands to the south and west were, In some localities literally overrun with these insects.—Ohio Bulletin. Why B«m Work In tho Dark. Bees go out all day gathering honey and work at night in the hive, building their combs as perfectly as If an elec tric light were there all the time. Why do they prefer to work in the dark? is often asked. Every one knows that honey is a liquid with no solid sugar in it. After standing, it gradually as sumes a crystalline appearance, or granulates, and ultimately becomes a solid mass. Honey has been experi mentally enclosed in well corked flasks, some of which were kept in perfect darkness, while the others were ex posed to the light. The result was that the portion exposed to the light soon crystalized while that kept In the dark remained unchanged. Here we see why the bees are so careful to obscure the glass windows which are placed in hives. The existence of the young de pends on the liquidity of the saccharine food presented to them, and if the light were allowed access to this, it would, in all probability, prove fatal to the inmates of the hive.—Ex. Tho Ktmwborrjr Hod. The new strawberry plant should not be allowed to bear fruit the first sea son. Tick off all fruit stems as soon as they appear. Three methods of train ing the strawberry are In use. The hill system, where all runners are removed. The narrow row. where only part of new runners are allowed to form plants; and the full matted row. where plunts are allowed to fill all the space, excepting a narrow path between rows. All have advocates and all have special merits. tit-penning on non, cumaie, variety and grower. The full matted row |m moat used, being eaaleat to manage. Guard against too many plant* In email ipare. They consume moisture, *ufrer from drouth and produce *mall berrle*. Kach plaut should have from four to *lx in cheg Miuare apace In which to grow and mature it* fruit*.- M A. Thayer. Extent of Tree Root*—It I* common ly Mid that the ruota of treea exteud each way a* tar aa their branch**. Hut tht* I* a very uncertain and unreliable rule. There are trees like the chestnut and pine*. which grow |H windy soil, which aend their root* far down Into the nubeoi:. and hat* *w few root* near the turfnee that the plow tan he run nearly up to them The elm, whlth grow* heat on low, wet land, ha* me»l of It* root* near the surface Hut it ran **nd root* down to a depth of a three-loot til* drala, a» we o*<* It 4iU« .| i« our v« »t a large elm near the upper end of a nswl» laid tile drain r*m pletely filling It after twu or three rear* to that lha 111* had all t* u* taken up Tha tree waa cut down ant the new GW Wid. with Ik* reenlt that the drain suffered no further whetru> lit** K* Nttrwaenoua Pwtiltwrt k hea a tall la rich in human It U *» Mam «>,*• •ary to make any further application uf nitrwgenou* Writltaera, and aa all nHrogenoaa f*tt»lu*r* at* vary quickly Mdwhto. a.rd ara aoen iw*t to the amt hy hoik Worthing and vu»aUiUin«. they •heuld never he uawd until the »r»p haa made a canatdarakW growth. It lha hull at I law wtth H* hash ta lha Ira there will ho a eaualt THE SUNPAY SCHOOL. LESSON II—SUNDAY JULY 12— DAVID IS KING. tlslitra TmIi "David Want oo and Grew Great, and the Lord Uod of Hoata Hm with Him" — Karood Samuel flilO. ODAT w« begin to atudy a new era In tbe unfold ing a4 the kingdom of Ood, aa embodied In the people of larael. Tbe man haa been prepared. The clrcumataneea are favor able. And now God give* a new opportunity to Ms people to become l hat re llgloua power In the world which he would have them be. The king dom developed greally In extant, hut thla »«« the leaat Important line If lie new life. There wo* a new organization of all Ita force*, a new religious life and ru w manlfeatatlnna of and mean* of Impreaalng that life upon the people, through zona and mimic, and organization of the rellgloua worker*. From ihlia leaaon we may l<arn not a little that will redound to the advantage of our own country and the rellglou* life which la II* central force. The Map. Trace liavld'a movement* on Ihc map. and • how by the altuatlon the advantuy of Jernaalem. Time. fl. C. 1049, seven and a half year* afler Halil * death and David’* becoming king of Judah. Place.--Hebron tint, and then Jernaalem. David. 37 or 2S year* old. Contemporary Event*.—Tyre wa* flourl«hlng under lllram, hut ut thla period, during the tenth and eleventh <«n turle* II. C., the A»»yrl*n powrr wan de preened. and Egypt declined In Influence be tween It. C. 120(1 and If. C. 990, the date of (he aerexslon of Sheahonk. Thu* an i ppor tunlty wa* made for the development of the kingdom of laraol. Today’a leaaon Include* 2 Samuel .V 1-12. 1. "Then came all the tribe* of l*r»el to David." He did not *eck thorn, hut they •ought him. They came by their < lder* (V. 31, repreaentlng. according to 1 Chroni cle* 12; 23-40, 339,000 warrior*. Thi y gave good re axon*. 2. "Thou wait he that leddext out.” etc. ^ All through hi* paid life, alnee the conflict with Goliath, David had ahown generalahlp, wledorn. aklll, forbearance, courage knowl edge ut men, and Iruat In God. Ho wa* divinely appointed, the one whom God oaw to be the heat one to be their king—"the laird aald to thee." He hud the right Idea* concerning the duties of u klhg. "Thou • halt feed." Literally, “Thou »halt chop nera ii. a a. I'omnmi is) a naiurai meiapnor to express the ruler's cere for hie people, "Thou sbalt be a captain over Israel," not only to lead the military force* when nicer rary, but to be tbe example and Icadir In every form of good work—to better ways to nobler conduct, to blgher llvex, to victory over all enemies. 3. "And king flavtd made a league with them." Thin league was probably a solemn contract, In which the king, on the one hand, promised him their allegiance. Some kind of a charter, defining the klng’x right*, was In existence II Ham. 10: 25); snd later on we find the people demanding some limi tation of these rights (1 King* 12: 2 ff). ThA Israelite monarchy was not an absolute and Irresponsible despotism.—Cambridge Bible. "Before the Lord.” It wa* a religious cere mony. "They anointed David king." This was his public coronation, with -a great ft act lasting three days II Citron. 12: 3». 40). 6. "I'nto the Jebusltes, the Inhabitants of the land." These were one tribe of the Canaanltes, descendants of Jehus, the third son of Canaan. They held the fortress of Mount Zion, surrounded on three sides hy deep valleys, and so controlled the illy, while the other portions were Inhabit# d by Jews and Canaanltes In common. "Which spake unto David, saying. Except thou take away the blind and the lame." Better aa In It. V., margin. "Thou xhalt not tome In hither, Jmt the blind and the lame shall turn thee *away." Their position wa* so strong that blind uud lame soldiers could defend It. 7. "David took the stronghold of Zk.n.” The manner of capture Is described In the next verse. Zion wa* 110 feet higher than Moriah, the site of the temple. S. "Whosoever getteth up to the gutter." or by the watercourse. David had quietly noticed that there wa* one way of reaching the citadel where few defenders would be watching, since no one expected an attack In that direction. "The lame and the blind." whom the Jcbusltes said were enough to de fend the stronghold, which assertion stirred David's indtgnution. Possibly they placed such soldiers upon the walls, and they were "hated of David's soul.” He could not bear the thought of such defenders keeping him from gaining possession. "He shall be chief and captain." So 1 Chronicles 11: 6. Pos sibly David wanted to find some one to supersede Jonh, but Joab took the hint, and with a few men captured the fortress. "Wherefore they said." It became a proverb. "The blind and the lame,” etc. Better as in It. V., "There are the blind and the lame; he cannot come Into the house.” And yet David did get Into the house. ». "Called It the city of David.” David added a city to the histury of the world—one of the three most influential cities the world anowu. n < in eiorm ink rate were 10 '•ling lu It with a paaalonate love," and it atlll la the type of the redeemed world, the [erfeeted city of liod with it* galea of pearl and all eel a of gold. 'Hull! round about from Mlllo," rather, The Mlllo," probably a toritfWMIon lhai defended the city on Ita only •.paged aide the north, lie lompletrd the defeneea. 10. ' And Havld went on, and grew great." The kingdom hurau upon the world In a aplendld development of material proap. rily and religion, progreaa The Lord tl d of hoala." The buata of heaven, the organ! •V for.ua of earth of every kind nature, and' •plritual. VVa# with him." 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