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Members cl the First Regiment Hare Hzd Enough War. WOULD LIKE MUSTER OUT Tlielr Knlrjr Into tli« (.'Ilf of Mitullit •ml Ilir herthti Itcuilereil There Private l.ynUe of Turk Kills K Do.il iiiho With mu Aci'IdrnUI Mint. The following correspondence to file Lincoln Journal from Nebraska's First regiment, now doing duty in Manila, will he road with Interest. It bcaru date In August: "Well, have you heard yet when we are going home?” says our brave sol dier Notching up his sorry-looklng overalls to another brave warrior who Is trying to tie up the ends of an old pair of drawers so thut they will an swer as well for socks. And they are not the only ones. That Is the only and all-absorbing topic with us now. Once we wondered when we would gel to the Philippines. Then we put In u month wondering when we would get. Into Manila. When at list we stood Inside Its frowning walls we wondered how the thing hod been (lone. We wondered then what we would do with the Hpanlards, and we wondered what Undo Ham would do with t:s. Finally we stopped speculating upon ull else and have been wondering ever since when we were to be sent home. Alto gether with the common soldier this Is a very wonderful world. One of the hoys remarked the other day that he was afraid the govern ment wan going to try turning us Into Filipinos. Judging from the coats of sunburn and the coats of native make which the Nebraska boys are wearing the changing process Is not likely to take so very long a time. Others have ventured the proposition that the army Is to be kept here for an unknown length of time pending possible Inter national derangements. Whenever this supposition Is mentioned It calls forth n general wall of woe, for almost with out exception the boys are anxious to get home ns quickly ns possible. Home one very aptly expresssed the sentiment of the regiment when he remarked, "I enlisted to light, and when there Is no more of that, I want to get hack to plow corn.” Barrack life at best Is not present. It savors too much of Incarcerafon to suit your In dependent, volunteer soldier. In the face of danger lie will bear restraint In the Interest of discipline and play his part with the precision of a well constructed machine (that Is If Ills of ficers don't, get rattled|. In the bar racks, however, It Is different. There Is likely to be, "discipline be hanged,” and when restraint Is put unon him he holds Indignation meetings the same as any other American citizen. He urralgns the government and In dicts his officers Just as though he * ere at homo, and then subsides, eats his hardtack, smokes a cigarette and goes to sleep In a corner. The following I found the other day on a stray bit of puper, evidently torn from the page of a diary belonging to one of our boys. Because of the cir cumstances under which It was writ ten It becomes well worth the repro auction. "Before the lnsldp gates of Manila, and Inside Its frowning walla, noon. August 13. IH98, (an unlucky day for Alphonso XIII.) “People of Nebraska: We, of the vlctorloua army of the United Staten and Dewey took u big city which aeema r#t moan-grown walla, amelia bad In every ulley-llke atreet, nnd hasn't a bite of bread within Ita eonflnea. "We don't know yet Juat how much 1n pound precloua blood of our broth era It haa coat UR. Three thouaand of the Spaniah aoldlera crowd the walla and baatlona, gazing all moutha and eyea at the boya of the First Nebraaka as they atand renting before their gates while one of our boya from California Ilea dying at our feet, struck by one of the bulleta from the enemy’s last fire. We have heard that other regi ments have loat but know not to what extent. (One’a aenaibllltlea become deadened to auch things in times of war.) "Kven though It la true that we aa a regiment t >ok very little active part In the capt ire of »’ <• city, neither also did any ol the .and forces. Yet wo were prepared to contend every Inch of ground with the enemy and would have covered ourselveH with gore and glory if he had but given ua a chance." Heading the above recalls forcefully the dav when we all formed In line of battle Juat within gun range of the fated city and rested while Admiral Dewey’s fleet drew up to bombard Ita undent walls. Then came flfty-llvo minutes of roaring from the giant guns tauch a performance as amply supplied our wanting Fourth of July celebra tion.) Although we rested near the bay, Intervening trees bid the cruisers ao that our view of the firing was much obscured. Lieutenant Corcoran of com pany A was stationed aa signal officer on the beach and was In a position to witness both the firing nnd the plucea where the mlaalea struck, lie says that It wns n sight 'hat he would not have missed for uuyi.ilng. 11 dges, ditches, barb-wire fences, broken bot tles, sharpened stakes and masked bar ricades of curth hiding sharpshooters would have demoralized any assault, making the loss of life fearful and turning the battle into a carnage Viewing these works I think m 11 of us experienced a sense of satisfaction In leallzlng that we would never h« called upon to attach such a formidable position in the dead of ltl”bt, but marched unchallenged around its un covered flank next the bsach. Hp« ulutlng floating wild con lectures •ml gaping about us like children we marched on and up the sand of the beach and toward Manila Ou the first ramparts the guns were silent, ami there proudly floated the American flag flow we cheered when we saw It. and further on what applause we gave that now hlaturh* baud of IViluriiln which rising to th« exigency of the occasion played "Hot ’time" aa we went mar* hlng by Then roue more wails Lines of walls square* of walls, walls standing and walla shattered and all surmount ed by ugly rows of lagged glass hot list sunk Into the mortar Kvery on* ! of Bufflcivnt importance to keep a tom i cat or mangy <1 >g has a huge atone ! nail thrown about his small patch of : ground. And while we were marching with I Nebraska leading the "roc tsion that : flanked all these walls by wading the skirts of the aea, roving parties of the enemy begun to tire, their bullets whis tling close over our heads so that our officers ordered 11s and themselves to lie down behind low stone parapets for | protection. We soon resumed our | march, however, with the bullets pat ; terlng Into the sea all about us. To i the bullets and firing *.e paid little 1 attention but prepared ourselves with 1 no small measure of exultation t;> fight j our way through every street of the city, When w» found that there was to he no fighting we were grievously ! disappointed. Had the Spaniards pos sessed the nerve to make a last des perate stand there would have been a struggle unparalleled In the annals of history. With ns well Into the city the enemy might have surrounded us and In a house to house fight take such revenge as they never had before. With us mixed up In the elty Dewey could have done nothing. Whatever the cost however, we would have won In the end a victory to he proud of. As you know, though, we didn’t Arc a shot that day. Our guns Itching In our hands were of no more value than Shovels. Before we were nware of It we stood before Manila’s garrison, and our fighting chances were over. Friday afternoon, August 22, about f, o’clock Mylton Lynda of company A, accidentally shot and killed u native boatman. Mo didn’t know Ills gun was loaded. Young Lynde was resting with two companies about thirty feet from where a canal flows Into the river i'uslg. The three were waiting for the corporal of the guard to post them on the new relief. While they waited two Filipino boatmen paddled In a little canoe up to the side of the canal next to the hoys. The water being low only their heads appeared over the stone abutment. One of the guards called the attention of his companions to the excellent turget which they pre sented, whereupon Lynde brought hlu gun to hlH shoulder, aimed at the man In the stern and pulled the trigger. The gun was fired and the native dropped to the bottom of the boat. "My Hod," cried Lynde before the report had died away, "who put that, load In my gun?" Kven then the three did not realize that any harm had been done, but when they saw the man lying In the boat dead, the unfortunate soldier broke down entirely. A crowd of natives quickly gathered and were with difficulty kept back by the guards. While Lynde was being conducted to quarters many followed crowding closely about his escorts with sullen angry mutterlngs, but at tempted no act of violence. Lynde, nearly heart-broken, was confined at regimental headquarters and the next morning the remains of the native escorted by the regimental band and First hatalllon were given a burial with military honors; and his friends generally were made to under stand the nature of the accident, to gether with the keen regret It caused both officers and men, Mylton Lynde contends that some one unknown to him must have loaded his rifle, for he says that lie has not put a cartridge Into It since coming Into the city. He has always been of exemplary character. He ha> always done his duty as a soldier and a man, thereby holding the respect of all who knew him. He will he tried by court martial on the charge of negligence In the use of firearms. His father Is a minister of the gos pel at York. Kiponlllon Fliiniirlally a Unecees. ICveryono Interested In tho welfare of the western country will be pleased to hear of the wonderful financial suc cess of the Tranu-MIssiaHlppl Expwsi tlon, now nearing the close of Its five montha’ run In Omaha. If Its gates were closed today, there la money enough In the bank to pay every dollar of Indebtedness and return to the stockholders large portion of the Htock subscriptions. If there Is any truth in the old saying that “nothing sue reeds like success," the month of Octo ber should be marked by a prosperity unprecedented in the history of expo tlons. According to the books of Secretary Wakefield, the finances of the exposi tion on September 26 stood as follows: Cash balance in bank.$128,001 All liabilities. 68,000 Net balance. .$ 60,000 For some time past all bills have been paid whenever presented with the proper voucher.! and the cash surplus has steadily accumulated. When the above figures wore given out the ex poaltlon had thirty-six days to run. October, on account of the peace jubi lee celebration, and other attractive features, is expected to draw by far the greatest crowds of any of the five months of the exposition season The exposition will close Novem ber 1. (Irrnt Hay for Veteran*. In s'-me respects the most striking feature of peuco Jubilee week at the exposition ut Omaha will he the friend ly meeting of the Blue and Cray on "North and South Handshaking Day," October llili. and on "Army and Nuvy Day" and "Veteran Soldiers’ Day," Oc tober 12th. Ureat efforts huvn been made to secure a large attendance of fe.u ral and confederate veterans for this occasion, and there Is no doubt [hut the gathering will he one of the most memorable of Its kind In the his tory of the country. The tlrund Army of the ItepubUr. through Its comman der In chief, the Women's Belief Corps, through Its natlonul president, and the I laughters of the Coufederaey, through their natlousl president, have been Invited to be preseut, and the In vitations havw been given very wide publicity. A uutnlier of piotuluent speakers have accepted invitations to deliver addresses at cam pit res to be held morning and evening of the two da>a named It will tie a fitting ac companiment to the celebration over the close oi the war of KM that the men who bore the brunt of the Haht In the early sixties shall stand upon the same platform and address the par ticipants In that great struggle I The oil run which was recently sunk asai Hunter lit the bluffs will he worked A Stuck mm paliy has been incorporated sad preparations tu sink wslta wilt be begun linmediatsly TALMAGE’S SEBMON, “THE HOUNDED REINDEER" SUNDAY S SUBJECT. "As tli« Hurt Punteth Aftir fh* Hm«r llroski, Ho ft’antAth Mj Soul After Tlivti, O (Jodi" rmlim, Chap. XMI, VerM I. Washington, I), C., Oct. 2.—Dr. Tal inage, drawing his Illustrations from a deer-hunt, In this discourse calls all the punued ami troubled of the earth to come and Blake their thirst at the deep river of Divine comfort. Text: Psalms 42: 1: “Ah the hart pantetb after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.” David, who must Home tlmo have seen a deer-hunt, points us here to a hunted stag making for the water. The fascinating animal called In my text the hart Is the same animal that In sacred and profane literature Is called the stag, the roebuck, the hind, tho gazelle, the reindeer. In Central Syria, In Hlble times, there were whole pasture-fields of them, as Solomon sug gesta when he says, "I charge you by the hinds of the field.” Their untlers Jutted from the long grass os they lay down. No hunter who has been long In “John Brown's tract” will wonder that In the Bible they were classed among clean animals, for the dews, the showers, the lakes washed them an clean as the sky. When Isaac, the pa triarch, longed for venison, Esau shot nnd brought home a roebuck. Isaiah compares the sprlghtllness of the re stored cripple of millennial times to the long and quick jump of the stag, naylng, “The lame shall leap as tho hurt.” Solomon expressed his disgust at a hunter who having shot a deer la too lazy to cook It, saying, "The sloth ful man, roasteth not that which he took in hunting.” But one duy, David, while far from the homo from which he had been driven, and sitting near the mouth of a lonely cave where he bad lodged, and on the banks of a pond or river, hears a pack of hounds In swift pursuit. Be cause of the prevloua alienee of the forest the clangor startles him, and he says to himself: “I wonder what those dogs are nfter?” Then there Is a crackling In the brushwood, and tho loud breathing of some rushing won der of the woods, and the antlers of a deer rend the leaves of the thicket, and by an Instinct which all hunters rec ognize the creature plunges Into a pool or lake or river to cool Its thirst, and at tho same time by Its capacity for swifter and longer swimming to get away from the foaming harriers. Da vid says to himself: “Aha, that Is my self! Saul after me. Absalom after me, enemies without number nfter me; I am chased; their bloody muzzles at my heels, barking at my good name, barking after my body, barking after my soul. Oh, the hounds, the hounds! But look there,” says David to him self; “that reindeer has eplushed Into the water. It puts its hot lipH and nos trils Into the cool wave that washes Its lathered flanks, and It swims away from the fiery canines, and It Is free at last. Oh, that I might llnd In the deep, wide lake of God's mercy and consolation escape from my pursuers! Oh, for the waters of life and rescue! ‘As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after the?, O God,’" j no Adironuacka aro now populous with hunters, and the deer aro being alaln by the score. Taking one sum mer with a hunter, I thought I would like to see whether iny text was accu rate In Its allusion, and as I heard the doge baying a little wny off and sup posed they were on the track of a deer, I said to one of the hunters In rough corduroy: "Do the deer always make for water when they are pursued?" He said: "Oh, yes, MlBter; you see they are a hot and thirsty animal, and they know where the water Is, and when they hear danger In the dletance they lift their antlers and sniff the breexe and start for the Racquet or Boon or Baranac; and we get Into our cedar shell boat or stand by the ‘runway’ with rifle loaded and ready to blaze away.’’ My friends, that la one reason why I like the Bible so much—Its allusions are so true to nature. Its partridges are real partridges, Its ostrlchea real ostriches, and its reindeer real rein deer. I do not wonder that this an tlered glory of the text makes the hunter's eye sparkle and his cheek glow and his respiration quicken. To say nothing of Its usefulness, although It is the most useful of all game, Its flesh delicious. Its skin turned into hu man apparel. Its sinews fashioned Into bow-strings. Its antlers putting han dles on cutlery, and the shavings of its horn used re a pungent restorative, the name taken from the hart and called hart.'•horn. But putting aside Its use fulness!, this enchanting creature seems made out of gracefulness and elasticity. What an eye, with a liquid brightness as If guthered up front a hundred lakes at sunset! The horns, a coronal branching Into every possi ble curve, and after It seems complete ascending luto other projections of ex qulslteness, a tree of polished bone, uplifted In pride, or swung down for awful combat. The hart Is velocity em bodied. Timidity impersonated. The enchantment of the woods. Ita eye lustrous lu life and pathetic In death The splendid aulmat a complete fhythm of muscle, and bone, and color, and attitude, and loromolloa. whether couched In the gras* among the shad nwa or a living bolt shot through tIt forest, or turning at hay to attack the hounds or rearing for lie last fail un der the buckshot of the trapper It Is a splendid appearance that the paint er’a pent il falls to sketch, and only a hunter s dream on a pillow of hem lock at the foot of Mt ttegia ts able to picture. Whan, twenty tnilee ftom any eattlement It corns* down at evea tide to ike lake # edge to drink among the Illy pod* and, with It* sharp-edged hoof, shatters the crystal of Long l.ake, It 1* very picturesque. But only when, after miles of pursuit, with heaving sides and lolling tongue and eye* swimming In death the stag leaps from the cliff Into tipper Saranac, can you realize how much David had suf fered from hid troubles, and how much he wanted God when he expressed hlmaelf in the words of the text: “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, ro pnnteth my soul after thee, O God.” Well, now, let, all those who have coming after them the lean hounds of poverty, or the black hound* of perse cution. or !he spotted hounds of vicis situde, or the pale hounds of denth, or who are In any wise pursued, run to the wide, deep, glorious lake of divine solace and rescue. The moot of the men and women whom I happened to know at different times, If not now, huve had trouble after them, sharp muzzled troubles, swift troubles, all devouring troubles. Maqy of you have made the mistake of trying to fight them. Somebody meanly attacked you and you attacked them: or they over reached you in a bargain, and you tried, In Wall street parlanr*, to get a corner on them, or you have had a bereavement, and, Instead of being submissive you arc fighting that be reavement; you chnrge on the doctors who failed to effect a cure; or you charge on the carelessness of the rail road company through which the acci dent occurred; or you are a chronic In valid, and you fret, and worry, and ■cold, and wonder why you cannot he well like other people, and you angrily blame the neuralgia, or the laryngitis, or the ague, or the sick headache. The fact Is, you are a deer at bay. Instead of running to the water* of divine con solation, and slaking your thirst and cooling your body and soul In the good cheer of the Gospel, and swimming away Into the mighty deepn of God's love, you are fighting a whole kennel of harriers. I saw In the Adirondack* a dog lying Heroes the road, and he seemed un able to get up, and I said to some hunt er* near by, "What Is the matter with that dog?" They answered, “A deer hurt him,” And I saw he had a great swollen paw and a battered head, showing whrre the untlers struck him. And the probability Is that some of you might give n mighty clip to your pursuer*, you might damnge their bus iness, you might worry them Into Ill health, you might hurt them as much as they have hurt you, but. after all, It Is not worth while. You only have hurt a hound. Better be off for the Upper Saranac, Into which the moun tains of God's etprnal strength look down and moor their shadows. As for your physical disorders, the worst strychnine you can take Is fret fuluess, and the best medicine Is religion. I know peoplo who were only a little disordered, yet have fretted themselves Into com plete valetudinarianism, while others put their trust In God and corae up from the very shadow of death, and have lived comfortably twenty-five years with only one lung. A man with one lung, but God with him, Is better off than a godless man with two lungs. » (law whole chains of lakes In the Adlrondacks. and from one height you can see thirty, anil thpre are said to be over eight hundrrd In the great wil derness of New York, So near are they to each other that your mountain guide picks up and carries the boat from lake to lake, the small dlstame between them for that reaaon called a ''carry.’* Anil the realm of God's Word Is one long chain of bright, re freshing lakes; each promise a lake, a vpry short carry between them, and though for ages the pursued have been drinking out of them, they nre full up to the top of the green banks, and the same David describes them, and they sreni so near together that In three different places he speaks of them as a continuous river, saying: “There Is a river, the strenma whereof shall make glad the city of God;'* “Thou shalt make them drink of the rivers of thy pleasure*;” “Thou greatly enrlchest It with the river of God, which Ib full of water.” Hut many of you hav* turned your tiack on that supply, and confront vour trouble, and you are floured with yi nr circumstances, and you are fighting so ciety and you are lighting a pursuing world, and troubles. Instead of driv ing yoi !n!o the cool lake of heav® ,ly comfort, have made you stop and turn around and lower your hcud, and It Is simply antler against tooth. I do not blame you. Probably under the same circumstances 1 would have done worse. Hut you aro all wrong. You need to do uh the reindeer does In February and March—It sheds its borne. The Kabbtnleal writers allude to this resignation of antlers by ih« stag when they Ray of a mun who ven tures his money In risky enterprises, he has hung It on the stag's home, and a proverb In the far Fast tells a man who has foolishly lost hie fortune to go and find where the deer sheds her horns. My brother, quit the au tagoulam of your clrcu lust a tires, quit mlsunthrophy. quit complaint, quit pitching into your pursuers, tie aa wIms as. nest spring, will lie all the d*er of the Adirondack*. Shed your horn*. Through Jesus Christ nuke this tiou your tlod and you can withstand any thing and everything, and that which uff rights others will Inspire you. A* In time of an earthquake when an old Christian womrn was asked whether she wa* scared answered: "No, | am glad that I have a Uod who cau shake ! th* world;” or, as !u a financial panic, ■ when a Christian merchant was asked If he did not fear he would break. ! answered. "Yes. I shall break when the Aft let h Psalm breaks la I he day of trouble. | will deliver thee and 1 «h 11 shall glorify me,” oh. Christian men and woman pursued of annoy • aacea sad esaaperalluna. renumber thal this hunt, whether a still bunt >r a hunt la full cry. will auoa ha f— over! If ever a whelp looks aahimed It Is and ready to sink out of sight when In the Adlrondacks a de<r by one tremendous plunge Into Big Top per Lake gets away from him. The disappointed ranine swims In a little way, but, defeated, swims out again and cringes with humiliated yawn at the feet of his master. And how abash ed and ashamed will all your earthly troubles be when you have dashed Into the river from under the throne of God and the heights and depths of heaven ure between you and your pur suers! We are told In Revelation 22:15: “Without are dogs.'' by which I conclude there Is a whole kennel of hounds outside the gate of heaven, or. as when a master goes In through a door, his dog lies on the steps waiting i>r him to rotno out, ao the troubles of this life may follow us to the shin ing door, but they cannot get In. "Without are <loga!’’ I have seen dogs and owned dogs that I would not bo chagrined to see In the heavenly city. Some of the grand old watchdogs who are the constabulary of the homeg In solitary places, and for years have been the only protection for wife and child; Home of the shepherd dogs that drive hack the wolves and bark away the flocks from going too near the preelplee; anil some of (he dogs whose neck and paw Landseer, the painter, has made Immortal, would not find me shutting them out from the gate of shining pearl. Some of those old St. Tlernard dogs that have lifted perish ing travelers out of the Alpine snow; the dog that John Brown, the Scotch essayist, saw ready to spring at the surgeon lest In removing the cancer he too much hurt the poor woman whom the dog felt hound to protect, and dogs that we carcsaed In our childhood days, or that In later time lay down on the rug In seeming sympathy when our homes were desolated, I say. If some soul entering heaven should happen to leave the gate ajar, and these faith ful creatures should quietly walk In, It would not at nil disturb my heaven. But ail those human or brutal hounds that have chased and torn and lacerat ed the world, yea, all that now bite or worry or tear to pieces, shall he prohibited, "Without are dogs!” No place there for harsh critics or back biters or despollera of the reputation of others. Oh, when Home of you get there It will be like what a hunter tells of when pushing his canoe far up north In Ihe winter and amid the Ice-floes, and a hundred miles, as he thought, from any other human helnga! lie was startled one day os he heard a stepping on the lee, and he cocked the rifle ready to meet anything that earn* nenr. He found a man. barefooted and I Insane from long exnosure, approach ing him. Taking him Into Ills canoe and kindling Area to warm him, he re stored him and found out where he had lived, and took him to hla home, find found all the village In grent ei elfement. A hundred men were search ing for this lost man, and hla fam ily and friends rushed out to meet him; and, ns hod been agreed nt his flrst appearance, hells were rung and guns were fired, and banquets spread. Well, when some of you step out of tills wilderness, where you have been chilled and torn and sometimes lost amid the Icebergs, Into the warm greet ings of all the villages of the glorified, and your friends rush out to give you welcoming kiss, the news that there Is another soul forever saved wll} call the caterers of heaven to spread the banquet, and the bellmen to lay hold of the rope In the tower, and while tbo chalices click at the feast, and the hells clang from the turrets, It will be a scene so uplifting F pray God I may be there to take part In the celestial merriment. "Until the day break and the shadows flee away, he thou like a roe or a young hart upon the moun tains of Bether.” Mr. Curtou'i Salary. The Indian vice royallty wub In time paat regarded aa the one (treat, flnanclal prl»e among satrapies, hut It la under stood to have become, in part, no doubt, by reason of the fall In the rupee, much reduced In value. Jhe salary (f 125,000) is not iargc for a functionary who has to maintain bo much pomp and circumstance, but the allowances for expenses are on a very liberal scale. In the case of other governorships It is almost impossible to "do the thing well” and to effect any saving out of the salary. It may he observed that wealthy men very rarely accept these positions. In fact, it may be questioned whether a wealthy man has ever held the vice royalty of India. Lord Brust-y, Lord Jersey and I/ml Aberdeen, among governors, are rare exceptions, and the first named, as governor of Victoria, when the salary had been reduced from $50,000 to $35, mjo, refused to take It if a further re duction were made. No (evidence, A man wus on trial lu Western Am erica on a ( barge of catching a certain tish that weighed less than two pounds. The constable who made the arrest testified to latching the prisoner with the fish In hts possession “Where are the fish?" asked the lawyer fur the defendant. "Why, they wouldn't keep," answered the officer. "What did you j du with them." "Well, l knew that i they wouldn't keep, see I—disposed of] them." "Hut what did >ou do with them?" "My wife rouked them." "And you ate them?" "Yes." "Your Honor I ask that his rase be dismissed." "•'barge dismissed and defendant dis charged," ruled the Justice of th« Peace, "on ground that the arresting officer ate the evldence."-"Tll-lllta. Ske l eal wl Hue. Her Mother -"I saw him klsa you, I am terribly shucked' I did nut (or t moment lmagln»*:i. would dare lot take such a liberty!" Herself "Nor i i i nia in t«. i | bet him he I dareh l!' Mehuboth Sunday llereld. i THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON II. OCT. 0. 2 CHRON. VII: l-IO. Holden Teit “In Alt Thy Waya Ac knowledge lllm, aa<l lla Khali Hired Tliy Hath*—Pro*. 3: 0"—.lelionbapuat’* Uuoil Kol(o, Tin* aertlon Include* the work of Je hoahaphat for a quarter of a century, and It* Influence on the kingdom of Ju dah <2 Chron., chapa. 17 to 20). Huggeatlona to Teacher*,—The aeoond prrlod of the hlatory of Judah, like tho tlret, l» one of reformation and proaperl ty under n good king who nought to build up hla people in true religion llrat, and then, aa a natural concomitant, In rdu* cation, Juatlce, anil peaceful proaperlty. Here, too, ah In the cnee of Aaa, there wbh a flaw In the diamond, a lly In the apothecary’* ointment. We naturally etudy the whole life of Jehoahaphat, and not merely the few aelected veraoa, or we ahall in Ira the meaning of thta quar ter of a century. We ahould ever keep In view what wa* going on In the other kingdom. The map and the chart ara helpful. Illatorlcal Netting.—Time -Jehoahaphat r* gned twerity-flve year*, from li. O. *14 to wttt, or. Itev. Chron. 174-SM. Place The kingdom of Judah. Itulera Jehoahaphat, king of Judah; A hah, of Iarael; Menhad ad I., of Hyrla. Homer may have, ac cording to Hcrndotua, lived not far from the lime of Jehoahaphat. l’ropheta— Kll Jah, In larad, Jehu, the non of flananl, Jehaclrl, and Mlcnlah, In Judah, HI* name meuna "Jehovah la Judge;’* wa* the won of Ana anil Asuhah. lie be gan to reign when lie waa Jf. yeara old. mid relgn*d twenty.five yeara. Ilia waa one of the heat and moat proaperoua relgna In all Judali'a eglatence. li give* ua an IhKlght Into the true road to proa perlty, untl by hla one failure warna ug iigalnat on* of our chief danger*. I. "He etrengthened hlnrmelf again*! larael.” Which nation hnd attacked hla father Akm. He defended hi* border* In auch u way that thara waa llttla danger of attack. 2 "lie placed forces," garrisoned with troops, "In all the fenced,” fortified, "ct •••* of Judah." Th* fortifications which had been begun by Bolnmon, curried on hy Itehohoaii*. and with Icaa vigor hy Abljali and Aaa, Jfhoshaphat continued on tli* largest seal*. He built "palaces" (or "caatl*#") Hnii "cities of atore" throughout Judah; and following tho pre cedent "wisely" a*t by ftehoboain, he plMc.-d In them hia alx younger aona (chap. 21: 2, I), ua well na other "prince*," choaen from the "boat" (chap. IT: 7).~ Hlnnlcy. "Bet garrlaoua." Military pouts, with commander**, aoldlera, and auppllea. In alrateglo places, In addition to tho dtlea referred to above, "in th* cltlea I of Kphrulm,” I’rohnbly on the southern border* near Ida own kingdom. "Which Aaa hla father had (aken." They were lliat taken by Aaa'* father Abljali (chap. 12: 19), but held, defended, and strength ened by Aaa, who probably aided hla father In capturing them, ao that, they went In hla name 2. "The Lord tvan with Jehoshaphat." Strengthened, blessed, defended, prosper ed him. Whoever la on th* lord’s aid* is on the aid* of blessing. "He walked In the Drat way* of his father David." Ill* active, devoted, curliest, religious ways. In all (he first part of hi* reign till he fell In the matter of Uriah. "And sought not unto Itaallm." ilaallm, the plural of Baal, Is uaed on account of th* grsat number of Images of Huai, and the var ious forms under which he was worship ed. Dual and Its licentious worship had many attractions for the people, t. "But sought to the Lord " To seek to the lg>rd Is to strive to find out what (Jod'a will la. and then to do It with all the heart. "And not after the doings of Israel." "H* observed with scrupulous fidelity, and employed hla royal Influence to support, the divine Institutions as en acted by Moses, abhorring that spurious and unlawful calf worship that formed now the estahllahed religion In Israel."— D. Brown, D. D. ». "Al| Judah brought . . , presents." I. #., ‘free-will offering*,” In addition to th* regular tuxes. They expressed their loyalty and good-will In this way. "Hlch es and honor In abundance." His pros perity waa greater than that of any king since the day# of David and Holornon (1 Chron. 29: 2*; 2 (,’hron. 1: 12). 2. “Ills heart waa lifted up.” Not with pride, but wUh courage and hope. Je. hoshnphat waa emboldened, by hla sense of tho dlvlno favor reatlng upon him, to go farther than ho had ventured at first. Ho Degan hy ssttlng an example of faith fulness to Jehovah. Ho proceeded to use his heat eufleftyor* to extlrpato Idolatry, —Cook. r‘Took away high places ami groves." Or pillars of Astnroth. In chap. 20 : 33, It Is said that "the high places were not taken away (all of them); for as yet the people had not pre pared their hearts unto tho Ood of their fathers.” f 7. "Bent to hla princes." The peculiar yon*{rujtlon, which doe# not elsewhere occur, seem* to bo u*ed In order to mark that the prince* were 3iot sent as teach ers themselves, but only had the duty committed to them of seeing that tho people were taught. The actual teachers wero the priests and Lev! tea *f the next \ erse.— Cook. 7, H. The five princes, nine !,evlte*, and two priests, named In these verses are otherwise unknown.—/.ochlsr. Hut It Is a good thing to have such names go down the ages and "echo through tho corridors of time." 9. "And they taught In Judah." They hud a campaign of education. It wus pi actu ally a Sunday-school work. Schools were Instituted us the only means of making the reformation thorough and permanent. "Vice will always find op portunities; It Is little use to suppress evil Institutions unless tho people are educated out of evil propensities. He would take away the Inclination as well as the opportunity for corrupt rites." The text-book was th# "hook of the law of the l-ord.” All of th* Bible that had th#n been written. There was no printing, and copies were scarce and ex pensive. “W* may be sure it was a grand anil noble enterprise, and may trust that It bore along with It waves of the waters of salvation,"—Cowles. 10. The fruits of the king's policy wer* seen In many directions. (|) "The fsar of th* laird fell upon all the kingdom*." They realised th# power of his blessing, and ths strength of his defense, so that they dared not attack Judah, but brought ! presents of |>*aee Instead (v. II), (J|) It i brought buslnoae and prosperity (vs. 12. | ID, so that Jehoshaphat * reign wa* long i remembered as one of proverbial spleu dor HONfcV FROM THE ROCK. ){*roi*tu ranuot b* estimated by th* dollar. diva oo quarter lu tin: It will y|«« non* to you. War ’’tro* the tyrant littld* out. ro vrating the slav*. There ar* many valuablM a hero the wayfuier lay* down hi* l«^. Th* i>* of ala will not h* qu*ooh«4 by th* uw of a rot* water apray. Handle* with diamonds and tough* j *IU tailor*, all to th* *aa>* hall.
