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333030000030030000GC300CCO' j|| ^hnll'ng $ar |tere3- | I1! A Tale o' the Santiago Canpa jn, Q ijl Exclusively For This Paper by Q; ?! OSCAR HATCH HAWLEY. Oi 2 L«t» Corporel:* Ii Infintrr, V.9. k. Q § “UJJip—fOWDER ^O^KEy" § 03300000000000000000000000 L / o he’s goiu’ to turn us into •* powder monkeys,” growled l j Lem, as be uubuckled his ammunition belt and threw it into the tent. “Well, I’d rather carry a gun.” “Uetter a litre monkey ass a deadt hero,” grunted Utter, digging bis elbows deep into the soft saud and smoking away in coiuplaeeut laziness. “Is that so? Well, I’ll have yon understand, you big, lazy Dutchman, that I didn’t enlist to carry either ammunition or gun, and if I’ve got to take tho one, I’d just as soon havo the other. As for this idea of turnin’ the baud into powder monkeys, it’s some thin’ entirely new. Iu case of battle it’s generally the rule for us to go with the doctor as hospital corps.” “Xo, dot iss no rule. V« is sup posed to go mit companies nnd carry guns, dot is vot ve iss supposed to do. 1 am well satistied mit dis arrange ments. Idt gifves me longer to lifve.” “1 wish he’d put me in a company, theu. This is such a rotten job.” “You better shut up or te Adjudaut will see dot von carry all te guns you like.” Ami after that very uttio was mm. It was the 30th of June, the day be fore tbe big battle of Hantiago. The — th Kcgiinent was encamped at La tliiasimos, and muster was just over. The members of the band had been wondering what disposition was to be made of them, liopiug all this while they would be attached to tho hospital corps. But the Adjutant hud set their minds at rest this day by giving them each one hundred aud tlfty rounds of ammunition and telliug them that their duty iu case of battle would be to stay near their regiment and replenish any companies which might run short of shells. While they outwardly scorned tho idea of carrying a belt of cartridges without a gun, they were iuwardly thankful that they had not been given their rifles and ordered to companies. It was 4 o'clock the next afternoon that an orderly on horseback came tearing down tho road from the front with orders for the --th baud to join its regiment at once. Home com panies were already without ammuni tion and others were very short. Han Juan Hill had been taken. El Cauey also was no longer iu posses sion of the Hpanish. From early morn the <liu of shriekiug shot and shell had beeu something beyond de scription. The —th baud had no dosiro to approach the firing line after having seen tho thoasauds of dead and wounded, some of them horribly mangled, brought back from the front. When the order came to take their ammunition to tho regi ment they were thrown into a tem poiary pauie. "Well, what are we to do?” said | Lem, ducking his head as a shell shrieked past. For a moment nooue answered. All stood with blanched faces listening to tho roar of the battle a mile away and wishing they wore a mile further iu the rear. Utter had been lying tu tho grouud smoking iu his usual la?y fashion, when tho orderly came up. With an apparent effort, he rose to his feet, and buckling on his belt of am motion said: Do? > e obey orders, (lot's vot vc do. Vo go up at vouee uud gifve 'em our ammunitions. Und vc got do times to moukcy round. You see dot cav airy officers go by init bis troops slmst now? Yell, he comes back in tifvo minutes and takes us all np in front; und how you likes dot? C'oine on, J now, and make douhto times, too." And Utter started off'upthe road at a good trot. He was immediately fol lowed by tho other men, wlu» did not . know what to muke of this speech from tho lazy, cowardly Dutchman. | "Maybe vo git a chance to come | . hack vonce," said Utter, as the others I overtook him. "Home men git vouu j dedt und ve bring him to t’e hospital* Dat takes time uud so ve may halve vono more day to lifve." Suddenly a shower of bullet* ' whistled shout the men's ears, uud ! they dropped to the ground and , crawled into the chapparal beside , the road with one accord Zip, zip. zip, o.-iuie the bullets mto the bush incessantly. "I say, fellows," shunted Lem. I "this i* geitiit' a little too hot, don t you think so'" "You bet," came the hearty reply from a dozen iron. "The sharpshooters ate plitn^iu st | •is," continued l.em, "sad I think Si'il be justified in skippiu'otil, if we can git out without hem' kills I " "Vot'd dolt Mh.ilpibooleta? Ib>t’ ’ j and Utter jumped to hit feet .pucker 1 than any one bad ever seen buu move before. ' Dot i** only "pent bullet* tdiae on quick, now, or (tot cavalrv troops "It don't make a>.y difference about tkat eat aliy troop, or whrlker thuee tulles* are from sbaipsk -dersor not, " interrupted Ike Heigeanl of the baud • nddeuly coming >*n» of hi« dazed con ■ dtltou "Yon lie down and skat your | trap of I'll put a •*« bole* into you, trap mysalf, jnst for paaetiea, and he toted rnrtl--*1 ** With kit titelrw "Mo on* taa nfrai It of dot p»tlolz, " • Hfcnt np'" "l.ia down'" -' ' tb» bang yoar*. Thesa and Ilka Mpredoont weta shoaled tif indignant mawbars of tka band who vara gatwu* to follow t*aia and tka Msrgeast tn Urn leaf. "Hea kara, Uttar/* sntd Lass la an asaaparatad voica, * what'# iha a»s id ns risking oar lives to carry this little ammunition up there. What good will it do five hundred men? Why, they ain’t six rounds apiece!” “Vot's t’o use, you say? Vot’s t’e use?” Utter was snorting with rage now. “If Caster liadt dthose few am munitions t’o Littlo Big Horn wouldt liafve made different histories, dot’s vot's t’e use!” Up ou the firing line, the Colonel of the —th was racing along from one trench to another, sweeping the en emy’s lines with his glasses and swear ing vigorously to himself. “See here, Hume,” he called ex citedly to the Adjutant, meeting that officer on a little crest of ground. “Dc you nee what those Greasers are up tc over there?” “I have not looked at the enemy’s line for the past few minutes,” re plied Hume, “lmt I guess they are still digging-” “Thunderation, Colonel!” and his glasses dropped to tho ground with a smash. “They are going to try to re take this hill!” .r.xaciiy, aim nmess our am muni tion train conics up inside of five minutes the tiling will be an accom plished fact. We never could stand them off with bayonets. It will be a terrible disaster; terrible, terrible.” “But it mayyetbe averted, Colonel. The pack train is on the way, and I expect the band to arrive at any min ute with three thousand rounds-” “The baud, that will be our salva tion if it only gets here in time. Three thousand rounds are not a great deal, but enough to withstand their attack. A minute later the Hpaniavds were pouring from their trenches down the hillsides in columns of fours at double quick time. As they neared tlie centre of the field, the head of the columu halted in liue of the skirm ishers, right and left, immediately opening a hot lire on the American works. They advanced rapidly, aud as they came, the — tli fixed bayonets, and prepared to give them a warm re ception. “Where’s the pack train? Where’s jour baud? Where's anything that will slop ’em?” shouted the Colonel. Hopping np and down in rage, as he watched the advance, “Why, there’s the band now,” re turned Hume, eicitedly, pointing to the foot of the bill in the rear, Aud sure enough, there they were, just emerging from the tall grass of the bottom, charging along with Utter in the lead, as if pursned by tho whole Spanish army. When they reached the top of the hill they were told to get rid of their ammnnition quickly, and then get undercover. It was a dangerous piece of work, distributing shells on top of that bill, with ballets flying over the crest thick as bail, but it was done some way or other in an incredibly short space of time. The Hpauiards had approached to withiu fifty yards and were yelling like madmen as they came rushing up the hill, confidentof victory, when Crash! A volley flashed from the American trenches. Crash! The Spanish line wavered. Crash! Crash! Two volleys in quick succession, and the enemy Aid belter skelter, leaving dead and wounded on the field. “Well, that band of yours is some good, after all, Hnme,” said the Col onel, after the last volley. “Let’s go and see if any of ’em got hart whiie saving the day.” Tho baud boys were found near the foot of the hill under a mango tree, all uninjured, save Utter, who had a first aid bandage around his chest. “Hello, Utter, yon hurt?” asked tho Adjutaut. No, not hurt, only wounded, re plied Utter, wuo was in no pain. “Here, boys, fix up u litter and gel him back to the hospital," commanded (he Adjutant. “Dot’s where I gedts t’e best of you fellows," said Utter with a ghastly grin. “I go to t o hospitals util stay until I gets veil.” He stopped to cough, and spit out a mouthful of blood, then continued: “Hy dot times t’e war iss ofver und T godt no more dangers of being kildt. 1 ^afve so much iouger to litve.” ‘What a coward.” sneered th* Adjutant, as ho and the t'olouel moved off. ‘ Don't mention it,” was the reply. V heu the improvised litter was finished, a dead iuau was carried iu it to the bottom of the lull, and there laid iu an unmarked grsve. That dead man was I'tter, powder monk y and- coward. On lit* A Vcnr Ktiglaud woman i* the i.wuei of a hen which appears to chooae her surroiiudiugs with a discriminating rye. Sodu after her present owner sc ■purr I the heu she discovered the creature’s fondness for stepping into Ihe house whenever she could effect au entrance, an ! laying an egg oti the down covei 1st which ornamented the bed iu the “best chamber ” Hue day the ben managed to g«» tu unobserved during a season of sweep lug, end her presence was only die eoverv I as she made her way nastily out of the site door, clucking with triumph, soma lime later As the boat room coverlet had been out of Ihe way during the sweeping, the mistrvse ul Ihe house locked about fur the egg wbi»b she felt sura had ham laid soman hate. Mm found H site, au boat * search »s Its* pl«sh mantel coveting in the par lot. where lbe hen must have eat iu state be twcea a ebina shepherdess and aglaet vase. Nothing on tea menial shelf had been distuibed. although lust how lk« hen had managed the deiteele bust neee will asset ha known. Youth r Demyan ton TALMAGE’S SERMON. ••THE WORLD AS IT WILL BE” SUNDAY S SUBJECT. _ I Text: II. 1’eter 3: 13.—A New Earth, Wherein Dwrlleth Itlf hteoatueaa— Story of the Net* Earth as M Will lie In Centuries to Come. Down In the struggle to make the world better and happier we sometimes get depressed with the obstacles to be overcome and the work to be accom plished. Will It not be a tonic; and tn Inspiration to look at the world as it will be when It lias been brought back to paradisaical condition? So let us for a few moments transport ourselves into the future and put ourselves for ward In the centurlM, and see the world in its rescued and perfected state, as we will see it If in those times we are permitted to revisit this planet, as I am sure we will. We all want to see the world after it has been thoroughly gospelized and all wrongs have been righted. We will want to come back, and we will come back, to look upon the refulgent consumma tion toward which we have been on larger or smaller scale tolling. Hav ing heard the opening of the orchestra, on whose strings some discords trav eled, we will want to hear the last triumphant bar of the perfected ora torio. Having seen the picture as the painter drew the first outlines on the canvas, we will want to seo it when It ir as complete as Reuben’s “Descent from the Cross,” or Michael Angelo's "Last Judgment.” Having seen the world under the gleam of the star of Bethlehem, we will want to see it when, under the full shining of the Bun of Righteousness, the towers Bhall strike twelve at noon. There will be nothing In that coming century of the world's perfectoin to hinder our terrestrial visit. Our power and velocity of locomotion will have improved Infinitely. It will not take us long to come here, however far ofT In God's universe heaven may be. The Bible declares that such visitation Is going on now. "Arc they not all min istering spirits sent forth to minister to those who shall be heirs of salva tion?” Surely, the gates of heaven will not be bolted, after the world is Edenized, so as to hinder the redeemed from descending for a tour of inspec tion and congratulation and triumph. You know with what interest we look upon ruins—ruins of Kenilworth castle, ruins of Melrose abbey, ruins of Rome, ruins of Pompeii. So this world in ruins is an enchantment to look at, but we want to see it when rebuilt, repillared, retowered, realtered, re dedicated. The exact date of the world's restoration I cannot foretell. It may be that through mighty awak enings it may take place in the middle of the near-by twentieth century. It may be at the opening of the Jwenty flrst century, but it would not be sur prising If it took more than 100 years to correct the ravages of sin which have raged for 6,000 years. The chief missionary and evangelistic enterprises were started In this century, and he not dismayed if it takes a couple of centuries to overcome evils that have had full swing for sixty centuries. I take no responsibility in saying on what page of the earthly calendar it will roll In, but God's eternal veracity is sworn to it that it will roll in; and as the redeemed in heaven do as they please, and have all the facilities of transit from world to world, you and I, my hearer or reader, will come and look at what my text calls "A new earth, wherein dwelleth righteous ness.” I Imagine that we are descending at that period of the world'R complete gospellzation. There will be no peril In such a descent. Great heights and depths have no alarm for glorified spirits. We can come down through chasms between worlds without growing dizzy, and across the spaces of half a universe without los ing our way. Down and farther down we come. As we approach this world we breathe the perfume of illimltablo gardens. Floraiizution that in the cen turies past was here and there walled In, lest reckless and dishonest pluck or despoil it. surges its billows of color acrorr the fields and up the hillsides, and that which was desert blossoms as tlr rose. All the foreheads of crag clowned with flowers; the feet of the mountain* slippered with (lowers. Oh! this perfume of the continents, this artuna of the hemisphere*! A* we ap ptnarh nearer we hear songs and laughter and hosannas, hut not one groan of dlstreaa. not one sob of be reavement. not one clank of chain. Alighted on the redeemed earth, we { are first acosted by the nplrtt of the twenty first century, who proposes to guide and show us all that we desire to see Without his guidance we would I loee our way, for the world Is so much j • hanged from the time when we lived in It, First of all. he potuta out to us a group uf ahaudoued buildings We ssh this spirit of the twenty-first cen tury, "W het ate those structures shorn wall* are falling down, and whose get.* are rusted on Ihe hlM*»’‘ Our j escort telle us 'Those were once penitentiaries filled with o®eu-ler* hot Ihe crime uf the world has died mil Theft and ar»un and violence have gullied the earth IVople have all they want and why should they appropriate the property uf other*, even If they had the deal vs * The marauders Ihe nseneeiae the hn*f*neere. the llrinlh the Nan* hah I he, the rutrsi. Ihe hau l<U are dead or tr*a*a*oted hr the puwer af the t'hrteitae rvltfiaa, end we we upright end henefieent and useful Prisons are of no mure e*e in till* world eicepi ee piece* to be flatted by .om»ii> seehets, as farther back In the annals of time tourists visited the fortress where the prisoner of Chillon was incarcerated, or Devil's island, where Dreyfus endured four years of cruelty.” After passing on amid columns and statues erected in memory of those who have been mighty for goodness in the world's history, the highest and the most exquisitely sculptured are those in honor of such as hAve been most effectual in saving life or improv ing life, rather than those renowned for destroying life, we come upon another group of buildings that must have been transformed from their original shape and adapted to other uses. "What is all this?” we ask our escort. He answers: “Those were almshouses and hospital:!, but accuracy in making and prudence In running, machinery of all sorts have almost abolished the list of casualties, and sobriety and Industry have nearly abolished pauperism, so that those buildings, which once were hospitals and almshouses, have been turned into beautiful homes for the less prospered; and If you will look in you will see the poorest table has abundance, and the smallest wardrobe luxury, and the harp, waiting to have Its strings thrummed, leaning against the piano, waiting for its keys to be fingered. Yes, we have on the shelves of our free libraries the full story of dispensaries, and crutches, and clinics, and surgery, and what a time of suffering there must have been on those battlefields of Sedan and Gettysburg and south Af rica one or two hundred years ago. Wo can hardly believe now that the science of wholesale murder and multi form assassination was so popular that in the United States in four years 500, 000 men on one side went forth to put to death GOO,000 men on the other side. "Hospitals and almshouses must have been a necessity once, but they would be useless now. And you see all the swamps have been drained. The sewerage of the great towns has been perfected. And the world’s climate is so Improved that there are no pneu monias to come out of the cold, or rheumatism out of the dampness, or fevers out of tho heat. Consumptions banished. Pneumonias banished. Diph theria banished. Ophthalmia banished. Neuralgias banished. As near as I can tell from what I have read, our atmos phere of this century is a mingling of the two months of May and October of the nineteenth century." And we believe what our escort says, for as we pass on we find health glow ing on every cheek and beaming in every eye, and springing in every step, and articulating in every utterance, and you and I whisper to each other as our escort has his attention drawn to some new sunrise upon the morn ing sky, and we say to each other. “Who would believe that this is the world that we lived in over a hundred years ago? Ix>ok at those men and women ns we pass on the road! How improved the human race! Such beauty! Such strength! Such grace fulness! Such geniality! Faces with out the mark of one sorrow! Cheeks that seem never to have been wet by one tear! A race sublimated! A new world born!” But I say to our escort: “Did all this merely happen so? Are all the good here spontaneously good? How did you get the old shipwrecked world afloat again, out of the breakers into the smooth seas?” "No, no,” responds our twenty-first century escort. “Do you see those towers? Those are the towers of churches, towers of reforma tory institutions, towers of Christian schools. Walk with me, and let us enter some of these temples.” Wo en ter, and I find that the music Is in the major key. and none of it in the minor. Gloria in Excelsis rising above Gloria in Excelsis. Tremolo stop in the or gan not so much used as the trumpet stop. More of Ariel than of Naomi. More chants than dirges. Not a thin song, the words of which no one under stands on tiie lip of the soloist, but mighty harmonies that roll from out side the door to chancel, and from floor to groined rafter, as though Handel had come out of the eighteenth century Info the twenty-first, and had his foot on the organ pedal, and Thomas Hast ings had come out of the eaily part of the m net cent li century Into the twen ty-first and were lending the voices. Music that moves the earth and makes heaver, listen. But I say to the twenty-firs' century escort: “I cannot understand this. Have these worshipers no sorrows, or have they forgotten their sorrows?” Our escort responds: “Sorrows’ Why. they had sorrows more than you could count, but by g divlue Illumination that the eighteenth and nineteenth ceuturles never enjoyed, they under stand the lines of sorrow, and are com forted with a supernatural condolence, such ae previous centuries never ei perleaced,” I ask again of the interpreter, “lias death been banished from the world?** The answer Is: No, but people die now only when the physical machin ery Is worn out. and they realise It Is tint* to go. and they are certainly and wllhuui doubt going into a world where they will be infinitely better off and are to live in a mansion .hat awaits their immediate ore itpetoy * “llol how Is all thla effected’" I a*k our escort Answer Hr ffooda of I'M pel power You »ho lived In the nineteenth cen tury never aaw a revival of religion to he compared with what occurred In the latter part of the twentieth and the seetv part hi iw«M«iy #*el ewgtury fhe prophecy has been fulfilled that | a nation shall he burn In a day’, that is. ten or twenty or forty miltim pea pie ronrerted in twenty four hours In wr church history we read of I he great awahealng la Ifi4f, whea hM egg coats were saved, hut that waa ualy g Ji<>pgf (h “L ing sb Ihsl mate then took Into the kingdom of Ood everything between the Atlantic und Pacific, between the Pyrenees and the Himalayas." The evils that good peo ple were in the nineteenth century try ing to destroy have been overcome by celestial forceB. What human weapon ry failed to accomplish, lias been done by omnipotent thunderbolts. • • • The good work was helped on by the fact that It became n general habit among millionaires and multi-million aires to provide churches and schools and institutions of mercy, not to be built after the testators were dead, but so that they might be present at the laying of the corner-stone, and at the dedication, and leave leas inducement for the heirs at law to prove in orphans' court that when the testators made their last will and testament they were crazy. The telegraphic wires in the air, and the cables under the sea, thrill with Christian Invitalton. Phonographs charged with gospel ser mens Htand In every neighborhood. The 5,000,000,000 of the world's In habitants In that century are 5,000, 000.000 disciples. "But," I say to our escort, the spirit of the twenty-first century, “you have shown us much; but what about tn .ternatlonal conditions? When we lived on earth it was a century that bled with Marengo, and Challons, and Lodl Brldge, und Lucknow, and Solferlno, and Leipslc, and Waterloo, and San Juan." Our escort replies: "Corns with me to this building of white mar ble and glittering dome." As we pass up and on we are taken into a room where the mightiest and best repre sentatives of all nations are assembled to settle International controversies. As we enter I hear the presiding officer opening the council of arbitration, reading the second chapter of Isaiah: "They shall beat their swords Into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Questions which In our long-past nineteenth century caused quarrel and bloodshed, as when Germany and France were de ciding about Alsace and Ixirainne, as when the United States and Spain were deciding about Cuba—such questions In this twenty-first century settled in five minutes, one drop of ink doing more than once could have been ac complished by a river of blood. • • • And now you and 1 have left -our escort as we ascend, for the law of gravitation has no power to detain ascending spirits. Up through im mensities, and by stellar and lunar and solar splendors, which cannot be de scribed by mortal tongue, we rise higher and higher, till we reach the shining gate as It opens for our re turn, and the questions greet us from 1 all sides: "What is the news? What did you find in that earthly tower? What have you to report in this eltJ! of the sun?” Prophetic, apostolic, saintly inquiry. And standing on the steps of the house with many man sions, we cry aloud the news: "Hear It, all ye glorified Christian workers of all the past centuries! We found your work on earth was successful, whether on earth you tolled with knit ting needle, or rung a trowel on a ris ing wall, or smote a shoe last, or en dowed a university, or swayed a scep ter; whether on earth you gave a cup of cold water in the name of a 01s i ipie, or at some pentecost preached 3,000 souls into the kingdom. In that world we have Just visited the deserts are all abloom, and the wildernesses are bright with fountains. Sin is ex tirpated. Crime is reformed. Disease is cured. The race is emancipated. '1 he earth is full of the knowledge of God, as the waters cover the sea.’ 'The redeemed of the Lord have come to Zion with songs and everlasting Joy upon their heads.’ ’The Lord God Omnipotent relgneth, and the king doms of the world have become the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ.’ 1-et the harpers of heaven strike the glad tidings from the strings of their harps, and the trumpeters put them in the mouth of their trumpets, and the orchestras roll them into the grand march of the eternities, and all the cathedral towers of the great capital of the unlverso chime them all over heaven.” And now I look up and see the cast ing down of the bejeweled and radiant crowns at the sacred feet of the en throned Jesus. Missionary Carey Is casting down before? those feet the ! crown of India saved. Missionary Jud j i-on Is casting down the crown of Hur | mah saved. Missionary A bee I cast ing down the crown of China ■raved. David Livingstone cast i Ing down at those feet the crown of Africa saved. Missionary tlrainerd i casting down the crown of this coun | try's aborigine* saved. Houl* that went 1 up from all the denominations In i America in holy rivalry, seeking which could soonest cast down the crown of ! this continent st the Savior's feet, snd I America saved. llut often you snd I who were com ' lanloua In that eipeditlon from heaven to earth, sealed on the green bank of the river that tolls through the para die* of God. will talk over the aceaea j we vttneeaed In that parenthesis uf heavenly bliaa. in that vacation from j the sktee. In our terrestrial visitation we who went early real dents In the i nineteenth realuty. escorted fcy the spirit of the twenty Brat century, when j w« saw what my teat d-**rtb*e an a ' new earth, wherein dwelieth tight monies* Glory l*> the lather and to the Boa and to the Holy Uhuat. as ,t » »» ... Utt i» now. and ever shall ho, world without sad Amen * The ala of pride la the ala of alas; a whUh alt •uneeunesi sins are la* eluded, as la I hair germ, they ate but the uufyluia# ul thU on* -Atthfciaho# TvaaiB THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON XIII, DECEMBER 24: ISAIAH 0: 2-7. Christ'. Coining Foretold In lin'd* Word.: “t’nto Von I. Horn Till. Day In tin* Cily of Davltl a Savior Which 1. Christ the Lord”—Luke it: 11. 2. “The people that walked In dark ness.” The people of Judah at this time were under the twofold darkness de scribed above. "The land of the shadow of death.” "Deadly shade, properly a title of the Hebrew Hades; a night like that of Hades."—t'heyne. They dwelt where death east Its shadow over them as a great mountain hides the light, and brings fill 11 und darkness Into the valley. The influence of death Is felt before death Itself comes. "This darkness Is a shadow of death because It leads to perdition. Just as the darkening of sight In the dy ing Is a prelude to the night of death."— 'Jodet. "Coming events cast their shad ows before." "Have seen a great light." '"'••c »lxiiit- io juuun hi Anas ■ iiiii“ ii»*7 light of great promises: First. That be fore a young woman could have a child, and the child grow up to know enough to choose between good and evil—that Is, within three years—both the allied kings they feared would be destroyed; us they were by the Assyrians. The child was named Immanuel (Ood with us), and was a living proof, a contlnuul sign, a growing sermon to the people that Ood was with them In unceasing love and salvation. This Immanuel was the sign and type of a greater Immanuel, who was to bring a greater deliverance, a child born that would forever be lbe assurance thut Ood Is with us; as n dawning ruy Is the sign and the type of the rising sun (lsu, vll; '-16.1. Second, The promise of the child, probably the same Immanuel referred to In the latter part of this lesson. Third. The promise hi Isa. xl; 1-10, that, as out from the stump of an oak that has been cut down there often springs up a new shoot that becomes a great tree, so there shoi\J<l arise from the humiliated condi tion of Judah a larger, wider kingdom. In David's greater son and the kingdom he should found. I "Thou hast multiplied the nation." Mo he saw It as he looked upon It In later days. "And not.” Most Inter preters think, with the It. V.. that the "not" should be "to it,” the Hebrew let ters being very nearly the same, and some transcriber made a mistake. In this case the whole sentence Is a phophecy of the good times referred to In v. 2. "They joy before thee." the giver of the Joy. "According to the Joy In harvest," when men see the fruits of their labors and promise of plenty. They had sown In tears, but reap In Joy. "As men rejoice when they divide the spoil,” triumphant over enemies and rich In goods. t "For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden.” First, of the Assyrians, who had “stretched out their wings"—great armies, and oppressed the land. Second, the yoke of sin, the oppressor Satan. "The staff of his shoulder." That part of the yoke which rested on the back of the neck und shoulders. "As In the day of Mldlan" (Judg. vll: 1-23). 5. "For every battle,’’ etc. Read as In R. V’. The old version misses the full sense and mars the exquisite beauty of this verse. All that belongs to war, the armor and the weapons of the soldier, and the garments drenched In the blood of the slain, shall be swept away with tire; the wur Itself shall die! «. "For unto us a child is born." Only through this child can war cease, und Israel s redemption lie made permanent. "The prophet Is unrolling a picture of the future.”—Cheyne. In the far distance the prophet foresaw the child who should be Immanuel, and the Redeemer of the world. With the elrcumstances of his birth we are well acquainted. It Is In teresting to notice how this prophee/ gradually dawned upon the world through the prophets. "The government shall be upon his shoulder." That Is, he should be the ruler, the king. "And hi. name.” A name stands for all that !s In the man, his character, his principles ami ms property. When we hear certain names the persons to whom they belong rise up before our minds. "Wonderful," because tils nature was wonderful, being human and divine; bis coming at all wus a wonderful manifestation of love; his deeds were wonderful, miracles, full of marvelous meaning as well as power; his words were wonderful; his atoning -■uve was wonderful; the kingdom he set up was wonderful. •‘Counsellor." One who has Ihe wisdom to guide himself and others. Jesus was the embodiment of tho wisdom of < Sod. "The mighty God." The word for "God" here Is not the usual "Klohlm," which Is sometimes used meta phorically, as for angels, we use "di vine’; but It Is “Kl,” “which, whenever It denotes (as It generally does, and In Isaiah always) divinity, does so In abso lute sense; It Is never used hyperbolleal ly or metaphorically.”—Cheyne. “The everlasting father," expressing the dlvlno love and pity for men, a love that can never fail, for It Is everlasting. “The prince of peace." The prince who rules In such a way that peace and prosperity abide In bis kingdom. i. Of the Increase of bis government and peace tiure shall be no end." II shall Increase In numbers, in power. In Ihe completeness of Its rule. It shall Increase in the blessings It bestows. It Is like the powers of nature, which are exhaustless There Is no limit to their application tothe uses of man. With all our marvelous In ventions and discoveries of what nature can do, we have yet gathered but a few rays from the world of light, a few sprays from the ocean of blessings God lias In store for man. "t’pon the throne I Uavld,” on which Jesus sits. All these blessings i onic from Ills rule In the hearts of men and In the community. "To order j It/’ govern, manage. rul« It. "Kstubllsh It. make It tlrm and enduring "With Judgment,’’ Just decisions, and "Justice," all manner of right between all classes and ull Individuals, "I1*roll) henceforth even forever" only such a kingdom can endure Nothing Is really settled till || Is set 1 led right. The powers of evil seem very strong but every one is doomed to full before I’hrlst The force* of Intern’ perance shall he destroyed organised up’ press ion shall he broken. heathenism shall fall, Inltilellty be overthrown, alav • rry reuse The prim* of darkness In datkvat t og land darkest Africa amt darkest America shall he torn from hla throne, and the light shall scatter the darkness, and the Man uf lUghieousnea* with howling In hla wings shall .hangs winter tola spring, ami night |ntu day "The seal at the la<rd " Ills earnestness Ihe Internally af hi* desire ’ Ths I old af koala, who has all created being*, t *e*w multitude* of angel*. Iks force* af nature, all organised Ilk* an army a hut -I* do hla will hole neatly ml Malta**. ^ ben, be bad **k*d her l«* h* I big alia, and *b* had answered go,that could never be k* «** utterly crushed I "I kbati »#**r smile again'" he pro leeted ’In lb*I event. 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