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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. I belle*# gag*
wwmM bn |lad tu empluy ymi as bis
butter?" she etelaimed nub the at
"•oat btndneag. dtnre a he ibost a..<
In mvapt blm as her husband bee sen
M«i*e t oner I* ere was rejulead lu sag
gewt to him other employment wbleb
If toga lucrative would M tenet afford
blm n livelihood Detroit Journal.
