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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1896)
| MHtHCHMMMMMMM 1 Tfli-M»GE'S SERMON, j Waablngton, D. C., Oct 4, 1896. -Wi r tend thla out, one of the moat unique r aermona Dr. Talraage ever preached I It la aa novel aa wtde-aweeplng and a practical. Hla aubject la, "Divine I Chlrograpby," the teat being: Luke, * It: M: "Rejoice becauae your namer t art written In heaven." Bk Chlrograpby, or the art of hand writ Blag, like the aclence of arouatlca. la In a ■ very unaatlsfactory atate. While con ■ atructlng a church, and told by aome \ archltecta that the voice would not be heard In a building abaped like that propoaed, I came In much anxiety to thla city and conaulted with Profeaaor Joaeph Henry, of the Smlthaonlan In dilution, about the law of acouatlca. Ho aald: "Go ahead and build your church In the abape propoaed. and 1 think It will be all right. I have atud led the luwa of aound perhapa more than any man of my time, and I have come ao far aa thla: Two audltorluma may aeem to be Juat exactly alike, and In one the acouatlca may be good and In the other bad.” In the aame unaat lafactory atage la chlrography. although f many declare they have reduced It to a aclence. There are thoae who aay they can read character by handwrit ing. It la aald that the way one wrltea the letter “I" deddea hla egotlam or modeaty, and the way one wrltea the n letter "0" deddea the height and f m w a a _ J-.l_ uiyiu vi uio ruiviiviin. an u*.v»».v« a cramped hand mean* a cramped na ture, and an easy, flowing hand a facile f and liberal spirit; but If there bo any thing In this science, there must be r some irules not yet announced, for If lomtrot the boldest and most aggres W sirs men have a delicate aid small pen manship, while some of the most timid sign their names with the height and width and scope of the name of John Hancock on the Immortal document. Some of the cleanest In person and thought present their blotted and spat tered page, and some of the roughest put before ue an Immaculate chlrog rapby. Not our character, but the copy-plate set before tie In our school boy day, decides the general style of our bandwriting. So also there I* a fashion In penmanship, and for one de cade the letters are exaggerated, and In the next minified: now erect and now aplant, now heavy and now fine. An autograph album Is always a surprise, and you find the penmanship contradicts the character of the writer*. But while the chirography of the earth le un certain, our blessed Lord In our text presents the chirography relestial. p When addressing the seventy disciples j’ standing before him, he said: "Rejoice k because your names arc written In •‘"■heaven." • • • When you come up and look for your name In the mighty tomes of eter nity and you are so happy as to find It there, you will notice that the pen manship la Christ's, and that the let ters were written with a trembling Hand. Not trembling with old age, for be had only passed three decades when he expired. It was soon after the thir tieth anniversary of hla birthday. Ixrok over all the business acounts you kept or the letters you wrote at thirty years of age, and If you were ordinarily strong and well, then there was no ft tremor In the chirography. Why the [ tremor In the hand that wrote your ■ name In heaven? Oh, It was a com r presslon of more troubles than ever smote anyone else, and all of them troubles assumed for others. Christ was prematurely old. He bad been ex posed to all the weathers of Palestine. He had slept out of doors, now In the night dew and now In the tempest. He had been soaked in the surf of Lake Galilee. Pillows for others, but he had not where to lay hU head. Hungry, he could not even get a flg on which to breakfast; or have you missed the pa thos of that verse. "In the morning, as he returned to the city, he hungered, and when he saw a flg tree In the way. b# came to It and found nothing there on." Oh. he was a hungry Christ, and nothing makes the hand tremble worst than hunger, for It pulls upon I the stomach, and the stomach pulls i upon the brain, and the brain pulls upon the nervee, and the agitated ntrvee make the hand quake. On the top of all thle exasperation cam# abuse. Whai sober man ever wanted to be ealleg * drunkard? but Christ wa* called one, What man, careful of the company he keeps, want# to be railed the associate of profligates* but he was So called What loyal man wants to be > charged with treason? but he wet charged with It. What man of devout Speech wants to be called a bias phemer? but be was eo termed. What man of aelf-respect wants to be struck ta the mouth' but that ta where tae> •truck him Ur to b* tho victim of rlloot ospectorellua? bur under that hr •looped Oh. ho woo a aura out C'hrtet I That to the roaooa ho died ao aeoa upon the true# Mail victim* of erueidatoa lived dar after dap dpoo tho erwoo, I hat Chr tat woo la tho court room ot II o'elwah of ooua oad had eiplred at I •'alack la lha aftoraoea of the earn* dap Kuhtractlaa from the throe hour* hotwaoa II aad I a'eiueh tbo time taboo to travel from the court room ta the piece of oaecutioa aad the time that moot have beea ukeo la c«tuap fwadp b»» tbo trapedi. there could ao* ha*« bee a uu.b more the a two hour* left Wb> Ibid i’hrtet live oolr two bout* up •• »bo wen. whoa where bod lived •tHp oi«bi bouraf Ah, bo woo ware out before bo §mt there aad >ou wua > dor. ah. child af Ued that. touhta« tote . lha vwiuatoa of boavea far fuut aom*. 1 flaaee It •») m« ha tahca far tbr a*me af terao abhor aa that la record ta U there * Veil tom* to bo 4 tee*'* **o I Nab oao of tbo millbeae aad bbltuea* bad u«*drtl|toao af the Aa«ll» toewd will doubt that It meaao poo aad ealr f*« tNi the •tortoua, the rapturuu* •ortit*4* of that oatraaco oa the boa*> ] enl.v roll. Not saved In n promiscuous j way. Not put Into a glorified mob. ' No, no! Though you came up,- the | worst sinner that was e.er saved, and | somebody, who knew you In this world | at one time as absolutely abandoned and dissolute, should say, "I never beard of your conversion and I do not believe you have a right to he here,” you could Just laugh a laugh of tri umph, and turning over the leaves con taining the names of the redeemed, •ay, "Read It for yourself. That Is my name, written out In full, and do you not recognize the handwriting? No young scribe of heaven entered that. No anonymous writer put It there. Do you not see the tremor In the line*? Do you not also see the bold ness of ths letters? Is It not as plain aa yonder throne, %s plain as yonder and the handwriting unmistakable? and the handwriting unmistakable*;, The crucified I-ord wrote It. there the day I repented and turned. Hear It! Hear Itl My name Is written there! There!” I have sometimes hern tempted to think that there will be so many of i:a In heaven that we will be lost In the crowd. No. Kaeh one of us will he ns distinctly picked out and recognized aa was Abel when he entered from earth, the very first sinner saved, and at the head of that long procession of sinners saved In all the centuries. My dear hearers, If we once get there, 1 do not want It left uncertain us to whether we are to stay there. After you and I get fairly settled there, In our heav’nly home, we do not want our title proved defective. We do not waul to he eject ed from the heavenly premises. We do not want some one to say. "This Is not your room In the house of many man sion*, and you have on Hn attire *hat you ought not to have taken from the heavenly wardrobe, and that Is not really your name on the books. If you bad more carefully examined the writing In the register at the gate, you would have found that the name wax not yours at all, but mine. Now move out, while I move In." Oh, what wretchedness, after one® worshipping In heavenly temples, to he compelled to turn your back on the music, ar.d after having joined the society of the blessed, to be forced to quit It forever, and after having clasped our long-lost kindred In heavenly embrace, to ifive another separation! What an agmy would there be In such a good-by to heaven! Olory he to Ood on high that our names will be so plainly written In those volumes that neither saint, nor cherub, nor seraph, nor archangel shrill doubt It for one moment, for five hun dred eternities. If there were room for so many. The oldest Inhabitant of heaven ran read it, and the child that left Its mother's lap last night for heaven can read It. You will not just look at your name and close the book, but vou will stand, arid soliloquize, anil say, "Is It not wonderful that my name Is there at all? How much It cost my l»rd .o get It there? Unworthy am I to have It In Hie same book with the sons and daughters of martrydom and with the choice spirits of all time! But there It Is. and so plain the word r.nd so plain all the letters!” And you will turn forward and backward the leaves and see other names there, perhaps your father's name, and your mother’s name, and your brother's name, and your sister’® name, and your wife’s name, and apostolic names, and say, “I am not surprised that those names are here recorded. They were better than I ever was. But astonishment overwhelming, that my name Is In this book!” And turning back to the page on which Is Inscribed your name, you will stand and look at It, until seeing that others are waiting to examine the records with reference to fhelr own names, you step back into the ranks of the redemed, with them to talk over the wonderment. Again. If you are so happy as to And your name in the volumes of eternity, you will find it written Indelibly. («o up to the State Department In this na tional capital and see the old treaties signed by the rulers of foreign nations Just before or Just after the beginning of this century, and you will find that some of the documents are so faded out that you ran reud only here and there a word. From the paper, yellow with age, or the parchment unrolled before you, time has effaced line after Hue. You have to guess at the name, and perhaps guess wrongly. Old Time Is represented as carrying a scythe, j with which he cuts down the genera tions. but he carries also chemicals with which he eals out whole para graphs from Importsnt document®. W® talk about Indelible Ink; but there Is no such thing as indelible Ink. It Is only a question of time, ihe complete auiurrailon ur nil ratldl) aigoaturru ■ltd fugrotatotnu. Uut your nam# put in tin biitiil) rtturd, nil lb* mil lanulunw at lw«n rnnnot dim M **• l*r you hat* boat) ao long In glort tbnt, did you not poooron kotpartabobi* °ry. you ouuld bi«o lorgotton ibo tUy of your ootrooco, your unnio t»o tbnt paga to ill glun m vividly no on tba in •t an I it »»• iroaod tbara by tba tugar •I tba Uroot Aiooar Tbara olll ba navr ganarnttooa conilag into bonvoo. and n tbouannd yaora from v»*. Iw* tbla or Moot otbor plooot amiia m*t aotrr tba *ooy UMoatootd r*a»d*b«a, and ibough your oo»a oara ooaa p**-» ly to tba booba auppaao It ata««td lad* out llwv mwM you prova ta tba u*a •auoara tbol l« bod vtai Mr* orttta* tbara ot Oil* lodalibta* la******* botog rooaatiad' itarolty M hal*W«* ao Hum tu ouy attauipt ot afoauio* bbdl b rain far •»** uplifting iM-g**' tbbo* roaordo tu baovau naav **‘l aod util gtva uut Tbara ara ro»»tda •baro tu obtab tba Mocurdtog Aogal nmau t*»oo our tint but It la o buob full »l *»»<* *o that *•«* uf iba urt« tog ibara turnout bo rood or ovao guaoo *d ot Tba doaordtog bogat did ibo a rttlog but our »ovlour put lo tbo blots; for did he not promise, "I will blot out their transgressions!” And If some one In heaven should remember some of our earthly Iniquities and ask Ood about them, the Lord would say, "Oh, I forgot them. I completely for got those sins, for I promised, 'Their sins and their Iniquities will I remem ber no more.’ ” In the Area that burn up our world all tbe safety deposits, and all the title-deeds, and all tbe balls of record, and all the libraries will disappear, worse than when tbe 200, 000 volumes and tbe 700.000 manu scripts of tbe Alexandrian Library went down under the torch of Omar, and not a leaf or word will escape tbe Asms In that last conAagratlon, which 1 think e '1 be witnessed by other planets, whose Inhabitant* will sx ; claim, "Look! There Is a world on ! Are." But there will be only one con Aagratlon In heaven, and (hat will not destroy but Irradiate! I mean the con Aagratlon of splendor* that blaze on the tower* am} domes, and temple* and thrones, and rubied and diamonded walls In the light of the sun that never sets. Indelible! There I* not on earth an autograph letter or signature of Christ. Tho only time he wrote out a word on earth, though he knew no well how to write, be wrote with reference to hav ing It *oon shuffled out by human foot, the time that he stooped down and with III* Anger wrote on tbe ground the hypocrisy of the Pharisees. But when he write* your name In the heavenly archives, as I believe he ha* or hope he may, It Is to *!ay (here *rom age to age, from cycle to cycle, from aeon to aeon. And so for all you Chris tian people I do what John (J. Whit tier, the dying pent, said he wanted anH0 In hi* home, l.ovclv man he was! I *at with him In r hay mow a whole summer afternoon, and heard him tell the story of 111* life. He had for many years been troubled wltb Insomnia and was a very poor sleeper, and he always bad the window curtain of his room up so at to see the first intimation of sunrise. When he wa* breathing his last, In the morning hour, In his horns In the Massachusetts village, the nurse thought that the light or the rising sun was too strong for him, and so pulled the window curtain down. The last thing the great Quaker poet did wa* lo wave his band to have the cur tain up. He wanted to depart In the full gush of the morning. And I thought It might be helpful and Inspir ing lo all f'hrlsllun aouls to have more light about the future, and so I pull up the curtain In the glorious sunrise of my text and say, “Rejoice that your names are written In heaven.” Bring on your doxologles! Wave your palms! Shout, your victories! Pull up all the curtain* of your bright expectations! Yea! hoist the window Itself, and let the perfume of the "morning glories" of the King's garden come In. and tho music of harps all a-tremble with uym phonlce, and tho sound of the surf of seas dusking to the foot of the ihron# of God and the Lamb. A llamlrril Miles ■» Hour. An electrical engineer has been ex hibiting In London the model of hit proposed single rail electric line for speeds of 150 miles an hour. The rail Is fixed on a V-shaped trestle, and runs up Into the body of the car, which, as It were*runs astride of it. The car runs on twelve bearing wheels, and seats 135 passengers, with space for their baggage. One of the difficulties met with In schemes for excessively high speed travel is the tendency of the car to run off the track. By /tin ning the rail within the car the laterul tendency of the train Is overcome. But in this late scheme the great difficulty seems to be the passenger. What would happen to the passenger when the train took a sharp curve while go ing at 150 miles an hour Is not ex plained.— Pittsburg Dispatch. Isn't it about as bad to rob a man of | his peace as It Is of his money? SOUTHWEST BREEZES. It l« surprising how worthless a man ran become. I Some people make us so tired that we can’t sleep at night. You can't fool the people half at esally as you think you can. You can always depend upon the neighbors seeing everything. There are an many laxy men that prises should be glvea to those who work. The only good thing we know about a bicycle la that It doesn't eat any thing Tlmre are so hard that when honest people Aud lost money iheae days, they II --W ll ta mora Iropollia tor b!* man to taU bahiad an anamy'a bank. (ban It la for amall man Whan a man f«ia drunk, ka bappaaa t.uuad at ataaily tha plaraa *kara ka ahauld am ha K«ary uamarriad *aman thlaha that if aha had a huahand (ha a.iuld ka michly caud la him Wa maka iu aaaaau* ha.dnr ky aa aumlng uaataaa ohii«atioaa la day ikal mm ka mat ta mar raw Ul nay man loan a Band «*• a and «a. hu« pour and ka kaa many af ika • * mpiuma af an nnnrt kiai iMaT Inna anythin# you km** your •all kaa caralaaa you am in pniinc la. k anythin* ran lama kl a dlalaaaa. It la lwp**a kta ta l»ll a tin a «l»la tan at «*hin* .naarad t mka fr»m a hay# dlf * »*C‘ fla ar ihk •» •'» ra > lartadM Ik* i «• par anna Wa kaaa tat'iad ikal ta* wa* waka dyiac mtaaaik dal did pma aaaa tntua Ikal m«mi *n*M* maka il*w’ Wkan Ika ami I* at laar da*r. para mil ka aarpriaad ka* anally yarn aa ikaaa kiw a*«r If y«* maka aa #•*»% * tka tmaiaaaal ! HELPING THE NEEDY. — j THE SALVATION ARMY WORK ING IN CHICAGO’S SLUMS. I Cnfortunatea Who Can Find No Work < hacrfully Carnd for l>jr tho lllfforont Fasts—CftTonlc Idlora Loft to tho Fo lio# Jnollroa. CHICAGO paper. In a recent article on the Salvation Army work In Chi cago, said: The Salvation Army will care neat winter for the homeless who have a little money or are willing to work. Those who have no money and are not will ing to work should he cared for by the city police and the police Jus tices, says Brigadier Brewer. Those who huve no place to go will And a warm supper, a dean bed and a hearty breakfast in the rest shelters which will be established by the array on the south and west sides, Flans for the shelters are well under way. It Is tho purpose of Brigadier Brewer to have one or two shelters on the south side and one on the west side. On the south side there will be room for from 1,000 to 1,200 men and women, and on the west side accommodations for 800 to 1,000. While tho locations have not yet been decided upon, It Is probable that the south side places will be In Clurk or Htate streets, not fur from the business district. On tho west side Madison street may be selected. Brig adier Brewer has a number of offers for buildings, some of which are partly equipped for lodging houses. Any de serving poor person can secure food and a night’s lodging at the shelters on application. To prevent the places be i iiK overrun wun iritnipn miu jmmn Hional beggars a charge of 10 or 15 cent* will be made for the night'* ac commodation. Kor those who are pen niless he will provide a way to earn their living. In connection with the shelters a labor bureau will be opened, and the work will keep in close touch with employers of labor In the city. The army will also lake up enterprises ol Its own, perhaps a wood yard or a coal yard, and, If possible, some small fac tory work. The amounts earned will be credited to lodging and boarding In the shelters, no money being paid out to the worker*. Following out the fundamental principle of the Salvation Army, religious meetings will be held every day at the shelters for those who care to attend. To aid In the establish ment of the shelters the Mercy-Box league has been organized. The ''mer cy” boxes Hre little tin boxes with a slut In the cover and a request for a deposit of 1 cent a week. About 20, 000 of these will be distributed tlirouGb out the city. "We want to shelter the hnmclest who deserve shelter and help,” said Brigadier Brewer, yesterday. “From all I can learn this will be one of the hardest winters Chicago has expe rienced for many years. I fiave con sulted with people of the city who arc Interested In this sort of work, and found that there Is no movement or foot to take care of the floating popu lation of sufferers In the winter. 8c the army will attempt it. We are par ticularly anxious to keep clear of the professional tramps and beggars whe will probably flock to the city during the winter. For this reason wo wil not have a free shelter. l,et the city take care of the vagrants. We wll try to relieve them of the care of the honest needy oops. Those in actual need and having others dependent up on them can And shelter and employ ment. I cannot emphasize too much my hope that the city authorities will work In harmony with us. When the rush to the city comes next fall lei them say to the vagrants: 'If you arc willing to work, go to the Salvation Army shelters or the similar Institu tions and you will find it. If you arc not willing to work get out of the citj or go to the city work house, where you will have to work.’ I wish It could go abroad that the city will harbor nc tramps. 1 think after the start the sheltera will be self-supporting. There Is the wood yard, always open for a trial. The army has made a success ol It In New Knglsnd. and In New York It pays an actual profit. Then I hope In time we can have some factory work la lamdon the artuy has brush, match soap aad carpet faetorlea, and they art I self-supporting.” •III.. 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But It Is not to bis con sumption, Ignorance of chlrography or old age that the Brown Palace hotel fox terrier owes his high distinction among canines, for distinguished he Is above all living and dead members of the genus and species. This dog is an eminently noteworthy animal, because of the rurcumstance that some time ago he became heir In his own right to a fortune of fBO.OOO. The money was willed to him by Ills master, a wealthy and aristocratic Philadelphian named Davis. He is In Colorado by advice of his physician a well known vegetar ian of the Quaker City, who hoped the mild rllmate and dry atmosphere would benefit the health of the opulent canine Invalid. With the fox terrier are the two Misses Davis, daughters of the animal's kind-hearted master; W. H. Reynolds, a friend of the family, and a maid whose duties are to nurse the dog, give him his cod liver oil, cough balsam and other medicines. They all — dog excepted, of course- registered from Philadelphia, although that was not tho point from which they lust started for Denver. Dike many mem bers of the human family, wealth and ease have not brought happiness to the four-footed legatee of the |D0,000 for tune. Day und night the poor brute, If such a term may be properly applied to a dog with n big bunk account, can he heard coughing in the moat dismal fashion, lie has now been afflicted with tuberculosis for nearly a year and Is steadily growing worse. Should ths balmy air of the Rocky Mountains fall to bring him relief, It Is highly prob able, though sad to contemplate, that the bulk of his terrlershlp's legacy will either go to buy him a gravestone, or revert to the state of Pennsylvania. It is understood that Mr. Ilavls, of Phil adelphia, fulled to make other provis ion In his will for the disposition of the $50,000 than thut It should be expend ed In caring for his commonplace pet. Mr. Davis is now dead. When In life and health be attached himself to the terrier, then a poverty-stricken pup. He soon grew to love the animal dearly, and In time they became constant com panions. In the service of his good master the fox terrier grew old. A* last the death sickness came upon Mr. Davis, and with almost human pre science the dog came to recognize It, A Philadelphian who claims to be ac quainted with the facts of the singular story, says that during the last Illness of hln master the faithful fox terrier neither ate, slept nor ceased to whine mournfully. Doubtless It was during his weary vigils and rigid fasting at that time that the fox terrier laid In his system the seeds of lung disease. Any way, it was thin and poor when bis master at last passed away. At the funeral the dog Ih said to have been a sincere mourner.—Denver Re publican. NEW IDEAS OF EXPLORATION. Bolisrt Stain, of tha United Stataa tiro, graphical Hurray, liar Oaa. Occasional polar exploration has us ually resulted In much suffering, with slight compensating accomplishment. Continuous polar exploration Is now proposed, with the expectation that more will be done and less suffered than under the old system of arctic travel and observation. Mr. Robert Stein, of the United States Geological survey, has elaborat ed a plan of arctic research which has rommended Itself to eminent explorers and men of science. The plan, in brief, is as follows: A base of operations Is to lie established at the entrance of Jones Sound, a spot In communication with the outer world, through the an nual vlslta of whalers. A small party of white men. with several Ksklmo fam ilies, would constitute the headquarter! force. From this point, where the explorers could live In comparative comfort, ex peditions would visit Ir. the course ol time, the west coasts of Kllesmere (.and. Orlnnell lutnd. tiaffln Land and other regions which Invite both by what Is known and by the unknown. Oen A. W. Oreeley declares that the weal coast of Kllesmere I .and la "the one Itel.l of expluratlou In all the an - tic that promises the largest results with the least amount of labor and dan gr i The National Geographic aerlst), the Imperial Royal Geoghraphlc soci ety, of Vienna, and the Anthropological society nf Washington approve of Mr. Mieln'n project. Reside ills cast In Ilfs anJ suffering. tda man*) wilt) far amir atgiarallua daa daaa graa« ll *111 Idarafara da a maitrr uf auigrlaa la taara Idal Ida t«aiimal»4 ram uf Ida drat aigadlllaa. irlaanad for Ittl. la waly 9&.WM Uar* |M I India ua mm »•**•'« la lM<i Akwui a »aar *gu a Wlcdita iHaa » man aaa a |ur> man al Ida trial mi a »m a««uaad af rmuMattmtll* fd» imt*aM>aU af Ida (uuntaftaiiaf atrv la *<tdaaa*. and Ida jurm aaamiaad lira *l**«al» Aflat Ida itlal aaa a tat da *aai data# and mada aunaa tuuaiar (•mail t<Mda dtmaalf Ha ana raugdi aaa r***mUr iflad and la naa la griwm ttoa aa waatn* tar »*tr> dollar aa daa am man gajw mi ul dadi da «u«aia ll a ala# ant al Mad agga dill Ida MlW THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON III—OCT. 18—SOLOMON THE WEALTHY AND WISE. • Golden T.n; "Them that Honor M* I Win Honor, and They That Duph* Me Khali lie Lightly Keleemen — yirw limotl LIO, T would not 1m worth while to ftprrvl much time on i atudy of Solo mon'* wealth ami glory, except for Nine leaaon* Mn experience trachea ua abo'.t the. uw and abua* of r l c h • a. arn' tIt# greet not leant# of ail,-that /A* chief Zood rC man > an not be found In ihnm. Aa thr < blef object of life they are vanity and vexation of aplrlt. a chasing of ahadowa, a feeding on liuaka. a dry anil deaert land where no water la. Till* lead* ua to the true riche*. The aecotul part of the lea aon, dracrlbjng hi* worldly wladom, a tar higher purtult than riche*, lead* u* to the *ame leaaon*,— llie right and wrong u»e of wl*dom, and the fact that the grratr.t wladom and knowledge cannot aatlafy tha aottl. Thla lead* tin to tha true wladom. Time. The flrat half of Solomon'* rr ign. It. C. 1015-WKi. Place, chiefly Jeruaalatn, but extend ing over the whole country. Holomon. Twenty to forty year* old. The vei l Ion Include* l he leaaon ami 1 King* 4: 2!>-34: 10: 14-20 and the porallel* 2 Chron. 1: 13-17; 0: 13-20. together wlih the example of Holomon'a wladom given In 1 King* 3: 13-20. To-day'* leaaon Include* 1 King* 4; 26 34, a* follow*: 2D. "Judah and larael " Clearly marked off from one another, though no aepara tlon had yet taken place. Cambridge Mlble. "Jrwell aafely." They wefe dm r ful In tlielr enjoyment of aboutullng plenty, evidence* the*e of a happy, peace ful and proaperou* admlnlalratlon Every man dwelt aafely under hi* vine that - nun mn • imiii, hiki umui i • •»■* llg tree, which grew In his garden They were no longer obliged lo dwell In fortl lled dlles for fear of their enemies, they spread themselves over all the country, which they everywhere cultivated; and had always the privilege of eating 1t># fruit* of l heir own labor*. In this wo» typified the spiritual peace, and Joy, end holy security of ull I ha faithful subject* of Messiah's kingdom— Homiletic Com* roenlary. a;-2*1. These verses describe the pro vision* for one branch of Holomong army, specially noted because It was new und because of Its greatness. All this wealth and prosperity »>i fraught with dangers and temptations It led .to great oppressions, to outre*ecus taxes, to vice, luxury, corruption, und lr» religion. 2li. And <Jod gave Holomon wisdom and understanding excel (ling much." HI* wis dom look many direction*. He had "large ness of heart.” that Is, great capacity, a "comprehensive, powerful mind,capabb ol grasping (lie knowledge of many gnd dif ficult subjects,'- poetry, philosophy, nat ural history Iri Its various branches.—he was master of lhern all."- Cambridge Bible. "As the sand that Is on the sea shore." The proverbial expression far greatness of every kind. ML "Excelled , . all the children ol the east," I. e„ the Chaldeans, and Ara bians, who from early times were noted for their astrological Investigations and for their wisdom. Job Is spoken of as among these children of the East <Joh I; »), anil the character of their wisdom ami scientific learning may he gathered t» Some degree from the speeches of his friends. Pythagoras Is ra'd to have visit ed Arabia und derived from thence some of the precepts of hi* philosophy. From the same quarter came "the wise men" unto Bethlehem when Christ was boro (Matt. 2: 1).—Cambridge Bible. "All the wisdom of Egypt." Kgypt was renowned as the seal of learning and sciences, and the existing monument*. 31. "Wiser . . . than Ethan," etc. In 1 Chronicles 2: 6 these four names ars given In the some order us sons of Zerah. which may he another name of Mahol mentioned In this verae. Or Mahol may be a common noun, signifying a dance, a chorus; the son* of Mahol signify per sons eminently skilled In poetry and music. 32. "Spake three thousand proverbs." Of which some are contained In the Book of Proverbs, to which his name I* given, hut these are not all Ida, nor would all that are attributed to him there approach the number In the text. The prpverb of the Hebrew was. as we see from those preserve*!, more of tho character of a parable, or wise comparison, than what we commonly call by that name. "IB* songs were a thousand and five." Psalm 72 Is ascribed to Holomon, and was prob ably his The "Hong of Holomon" Is now , regarded liy the majority of later crtttr* as later than Holomon, and rather eg* greasing his sentiments, or concerning •dm. than written by him. Bike, for in stance. the speeches of Brutus and Mark Antony In Hlmkespeare's Julius Caesar, still, as the Cambridge Bible expreaaes it. "their character I* Impressed upon this song." "Probably the hulk of Holomon s song* were of a secular character, and consequently were not Introduced tnta the Canon " Cook. 33 "Ami he Spal**- of Irees." tit. >1# gave descriptions of the whole vegetable world, unit discussed the virtues Of the various plants. For It ha* been always ot their medicinal properties that tho earli est works on plant* have treated. They were the remedies for all diseases, and a knowledge of ' aimplee." us they wee* called In England In old times, was count ed for the highest wisdom -Cambists Bible "(if beasts." He enjoyed rare op portunities for becoming familiar tvtth tho various specie* of bilk the an mal ami vegetable creation. Ills extended com merce with wit nation# brought fto him •poet me ns ot all rare I *eea, plants and animal# Pulpit Comma alary, High! for T» da> Bum Holomon s W ** dam. 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