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CHAPTER XVIII.—Continued.
"The deputies?” Dolores repeated
slowly. The softened color and gentle
expression disappeared from her face;
$ she drew her hands away from Dora's
clinging fingers; she pushed back the
k hair that had slipped down on her
I forehead. Then the deputies had been
f searching for her father. That was
rwhat those men were there for that
morning when they stopped and asked
of her where he was.
And If those men of the law came
for him when he was not there, when
every one knew that he was not there,
and sought for him over on the oppo
site mountain among its dangers,
would they not come at any time for
him to prove their case? Might they
not even insist upon taking him over
to the town in spite of his condition?
ITncons( iously her fingers closed over
the flowers in her lap, crushing them
relentlessly.
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and as Dora wiped away the red stains
of the blossoms from her cousin's
bands, she said, with a sweet laugh:
“Dolores, what is the matter? See
what you have done to the poor, pret
h ty flowers—you have killed them;
their blood is on your hands, and your
hands have stained mine.’
The effect of her words on Dolores
was startling. She drew away her
hands sternly and arose to her feet,
clutching the door post to steady her
self; her face was white, and her eyes
wide and terrified. Young Green, re
turning from up the mountain, heard
Dora’s last words and turned away
with a face as pallid as Dolores'.
Dora arose quickly, and clasped her
hands around her cousin's arm, raising
her sweet, penitent face to hers.
“Dolores, Dolores, I did not mean
that—I was only joking—1 could not
have meant it—I would not have said
such a thing for the world—I forgot
you were not used to me, and-’’
The words ended in a vio.et fit of
coughing that racked the slender
frame pitifully. Raising her handker
chief to her lips she sank upon the
step.
Young Green entered the house un
noticed and spoke to Mrs. Allen, who
came out at once and sat down beside
Dora, placing her arm around her with
low, tender words of comfort.
Young Green came out with a cup
of water, and Mrs. Alien thanked him
with a grateful glance, but as she took
it and placed it to Dora’s lips she
glanced at Dolores, ami her glance
was full of hate; while young Green
himself for the moment dared not
meet her eyes for fear of betraying
what was in his mind and heart.
“Will she lie down and rest?” asked
Dolores, presently, still standing at a
distance from her, speaking as though
her lips were stiff.
At sound of her voice Dora opened
her eyes slowly and looked up at her
with a faint smile; but Mrs. Allen,
without replying, motioned to Charlie,
who, understanding her wish, crossed
over to the bedroom and tapped light
ly on the door. Dr. Dunwiddie opened
it at once, and after a whispered word
or two he went out to the girl, while
young Green entered the quiet room.
Johnson lay in a stupor among the
pillows, his sunken eyes closed, his
cruel lips apart, showing the discol
ored teeth within; his short white
beard was coarse and thin, and lent
additional repulsiveness to the narrow
face. The young man stood at the
bedside looking long and earnestly at
the face of the other, until the expres
sion of wonder and horror slowly
gave place to one of pity.
"Poor fellow,"he said to himself;
“poor fellow! Surely he has suffered
r
"Dolores, I Did Not Mean That."
enough already; why not leave him In
peace to God and his conscience;
‘Forgive as ye would be forgiven.’
Friend, go in peace. Truly, l have
ned of forgiveness, and should not
pull down the bridge over which I
myself must pass. But how such a
woman as she could have come from
such a nature as his is a problem.
My poor, tender-hearted girl, how she
suffered just now and I could do noth
ing!"
Dr. Dunwiddie meanwhile went out
to the group in the sunny doorway.
Hi3 grave, dark face was full of kind
ness as he bent over the frail girl,
and spoke to Mrs. Allen.
"She must lie down at once.” he said,
"and be kept perfectly quiet for a
while. No, you must not walk,” as
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she attempted to rise. "Allow me, Miss
Johnson.”
He raised her in his arms as though
she were in truth a child, and carried
her to the settle between the south
windows. She did not speak until
Mrs. Allen brought her beef tea and
fed her with tender care; then, half
rising among the pillows, whiter than
they, she asked faintly with a wistful
ness in her eyes that sent an angry
pang through the woman's heart:
“Where is—Dolores—Nurse Allen?
I—want—Dolores.”
Mrs. Allen called sharply in a voice
that caused Dora to look up at her in
wonder:
“Come in at once, Dolores; Dora
wishes you.
Dr. Dunwiddie hearing the words
and catering sight of the woman's
face, crosesd the room and spoke to
Dolores, his voice low with kindness.
She started when he addressed her,
and turned obediently with one swift,
startled glance up into his face, and
entered the room half hesitatingly.
Dora put out her hand as she
crossed the room.
“Dolores!” she said, entreatlnglv.
Dr. Dunwiddie turned quickly away
and entered the inner room where his
friend was waiting for him.
By and by, when she was better,
I Dora sat up among the pillows, and
| drew Dolores down beside her, hold
; ing her hands caressingly between her
own, smoothing the tense, slender
Angers now and then with pathetic
tenderness as though to atone or
soften her careless, wounding words.
She leaned her pure, pale face against
the gray window casing that the soft,
low wind with its subtle odor of pines
should blow upon her. Her large gray
eyes, grown black with a half shy
love and pleading, rested on her cous
in's grave face. And she did not
know that the slender shred of pale
blue ribbon lay safely hidden in the
depths of the doctor's pocket as he
re-entered the sick room beyond.
They tallied long there at the cool
south window, she, smallor girl, hold
ing her cousin's hands closely in hers,
telling her of the world beyond the
chained mountains, of the life that
throbbed and pulsed out of her sight.
Dolores listened in silence, wonder
ing more and more how this girl could
care to love her, could care to have her
for her cousin.
"We will paint together, Dolores,”
she said, “and sew and play. You
shall sing and I will accompany you
on my guitar, and you shall sing and
accompany yourself, for the guitar
will just suit your voice; and how you
would look in an old gold gown with
warm colored roses about you, play
ing a guitar, its broad ribbon across
your shoulders, your eyes—just as
they are now. Oh, such a soul as
there is in them at this minute, Do
lores Johnson! The men will love you,
and the women—must. Dolores, Do
lores, I cannot wait. I wish I might
take you right now.”
She paused, breathless, smiling, sit
ting erect, holding Dolores by her two
young arms, her sweet face flushed
with excitement.
At that moment Dr. Dunwiddie
opened the bedroom door and spoke
to Mrs. Allen, and she entered with
him, young Creen coming out.
Dora flushed as she saw him. and
she aroused from the settle, shaking
Her urau suuuuy.
“Mr. Green. I beg your pardon for
detaining you—I do. indeed. Truly, I
! did not think."
He smiled reassuringly at her.
“It has been pleasant to me. Miss
Johnson—so pleasant that I had for
gotten the raso on at eleven at home.
It is now ten minutes of that hour,
and If you will pardon my leaving you
I will send the carriage for you at
any time you name.”
Dolores did not move or speak. The
case on hand. Her ears seemed sharp
to catch and hold such sentences.
These words only were clear, the rest
were distant and Jumbled. Even when
he spoke to her she seemed Incapable
of hearing or replying. That her si
lence was caused by anything he said
he did not imagine, but be was grow
ing accustomed to her silence.
“I wish I could stay with you al
ways," Dora said softly when the
young man had gone, “but I cannot
leave father. Dolores, you know. You
do not blame me, I am sure. And I
will come over every day or whenever
I can. Father would have come over
with me this morning, but Judge
Green wished him to be In court. They
have a strange case on hand, and I am
so interested in it; aren't you, Do
lores? About the laming of young Mr.
Green’s beautiful mare, you know? I
believe they have some new evidence
1 to be heard this morning. Young Mr.
Green was to have been there early to
attend to some important matter be
fore court opened, and here I have
detained him.”
Still Dolores did not move or speak.
In a vague manner the thought pre
sented itself to her that one of the
marble gods Dora had been telling her
about could scarcely be more like
stone than she, and she wondered, too,
in that strange half sense if these
marble men and women were capable
of suffering as human men and wom
en? And Dora continued in her Ipw
voice, rising and pulling Dolores by
the hand for her to follow.
“Let us go out of doors, cousin
mine; It Is so beautiful there with the
pines and the mountains. 2 feel as
| ih<nfh God were very near in the si
lence of the hills, and ‘to be alone
with silence is to be alone with God;’
but I think he is somehow’ nearer in
the hearts of his humanity. You have
! not even t church here, Dolores. Why,
| what do you do with no church, nor
• schools, nor anything?"
And Dolores, driven at last to speak,
, asked mechanical!/; "Why should we
j have a church, and what is a church?”
CHAPTER XIX.
Time’s Developments.
Johnson slowly recovered; the days
passed, and the weeks, while he lin
gered weak and complaining. Dolores’
presence annoyed him, and drove him
to fits of temper, until Dr. Dunwiddie
advised her to remain away from him
as much as possible.
Dr. Dunwiddie regularly drove over
to see Johnson once a week, and Mrs.
Allen remained in the low. unpainted
house in the miust of its desolate gar
den, filling the rooms with her pres
ence, but daily growing more hardened
tow’ard the quiet girl who was winning
Dora's affection away from her, she
"It Is So Beautiful There.”
told herself, In excuse for her un
friendly feeling, but the girl herself,,
buried in other thoughts, believed It
was from the kindness of her heart
that she talked to her so often during
the long evenings of the life outside
of the quiet settlement and of the man
ners she would there he expected to
copy, and she accepted in 6ilence the
many words of advice as to her lack
of pride in allowing young Green to
see so clearly her feelings toward him,
and the cautioning uttered with a
kindly smile or soft touch on her arm
against allowing herself to be so in
fluenced by almost an utter stranger
who was kind to her only out of pity,
and who could never care for bar
other than as the merest acquaintance,
she, the daughter of the blacksmith
who was waited for to prove the malice
in the laming of his mare.
The woman knew well the stories
adrift In the settlement that had
somehow come to her she scarcely
knew how herself, and of the girl’s
dread of what might follow the prov
ing of the case waiting in the town
for her father’s presence. That the
girl had never done her harm to cause
this feeling of hatred she would not
believe. Had she not won Dofa's heart
in a fashion she could never do? Could
she accept this unmurmuringly? Was
there nothing she could do to hurt the
girl in Dora's eyes? And if that were
impossible—and she soon learned that
it was—was it impossible for lier to
wound the girl herself in every way
conceivable to a narrow mind.
(To be continued.)
PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE DARK.
German Professor Says Light is Not
Needed for Making Pictures.
The light is not needed for the
printing of photographs is a discov
ery w hich has been made by I)r. Wil
helm Oswald, professor of chemistry in
the University of Leipsic. He produces
the required changes In the sensitizafl
paper by the use of silver on nega
tives treated with a solution of per
oxide of hydrogen. The presence of
silver causes the elements of the solu
tion to react against each other. In
a very short time in those places
where there is silver in the negative
the solution will disappear; In tho
other spots remain. This invisible pic
ture is then transferred to gelatine
paper and finally developed by iron
sulphate in solution. Gallic acid is
then applied and the result Is a genu
ine ink picture. Dr. Oswald declares
that in this method the sensitized
paper will keep indefinitely and the
silver can be used over any number of
times. He says the process is far
cheaper and quicker than any now In
use, besides requiring no light. By It
any design or drawing can be quickly
copied.
One At a Time.
A fond father was giving advice to
his young son the other day. Among
other things he said: “If you try to
do more than one thing at a time
you can't do anything well.”
“Oh, yes. I can,” said the young
hopeful. “I’ve tried. I did three
things the other day, all at one time,
and did ’em all well.”
“How was that?” asked the father.
“Well, you see, I swung on the gate
and whistled and threw a stone at
Tommy Brown—and hit him, too.”
Had Often Been Kicked.
"John Jones, the patient who came
in a little while ago,’’ said the attend
ant in the out-patient department,
"didn’t give his occupation.”
“What was the nature of his trou
ble?" asked the resklent physician.
“Injury at the base of the spine.”
“Put him down as a book agent”
I
TITE EXTRA SESSION
NECESSITY FOR IT SEEMS TO SE
DISAPPEARING.
There Is No Probability of Agreement
on Currency Legislation, and Noth
ing U to Be Gained by Forcing
Action on the Cuban Treaty.
The necessity for an extra session
teems to bo disappearing. It was
given out some weeks ago that the
President had determined upon Nov.
9 as the date on which Congress
should assemble in extraordinary ses
sion to consider currency legislation
and the consummation of the Cuban
•eclprocity treaty. Since then reports
have been current of an intention to
name a date early in October. There
's gratifying reason to anticipate that
the earlier date will not be the one
teleeted. Members of both Houses of
Congress are as a rule strongly averse
to assembling in extra session at all,
much loss at a date when state and
local politics require attention. In
many of the state legislatures are to
be elected which are to choose
Suited States senators. In all of the
states elections of one sort or an
other are to be hold, lienee the strong
objection to an October session.
It is understood that a large major
ity of senators and representatives are
also opposed to an extra session in
November. They argue that inas
much as Congress is able to assemble
the first week in December for the
regular session, they should not be
called to Washington in November
unless some pressing emergency
exists which requires prompt action.
They can perceive no such emergency,
iney know of no legislation which
could not lie as well or better attended
to at the regular session which be
gins early in December. Currency
legislation, they maintain, presents no
such urgency, and the Cuban question
contains any reference to tariff revts
Ion it will be about as follows: “Wi
favor lowering the tariff on sue!
articles as may he deemed unentltlof
to protection and raising the scheduh
on such other articles as need furthei
succor.” This vague and delightfully
indefinite declaration would be broac
enough to permit the gathering of al
sorts of tariff Republicans. All could
equally "euthu/.e” and after the vio
tory Indulge in tui exciting family
fight over the interpretation of thi
ambiguous plank. l.et us lose nc
sleep, however, in contemplating th«
possibility of the Republican party
adopting a tariff revision plank menac
lug to the present schedule of rates.—
Terre Haute Tribune.
A Peculiar Proposition.
"There never was and there nevei
will be a soup house during a Repub
lican administration,” says the Vintor
liagle. "Can we not afford ever
soup?"—Oelwein Record (Dem.).
Under the McKinley and Roosevelt
administrations the Record has en
joyed the largest measure of pros
perity 1n its history. Its columns are
filled to overflowing with advertising
its subscription list has never been so
fat, and doubtless the output of its
job department has been correspond
lngiy augmented. Yet, strangely
enough, in the face of conclusive evi
dence right at home of the prevalence
of prosperity, it sneers at a conditios
the actuality of which it is too sen
slide to attempt to deny. The average
Democratic newspaper these days is
a peculiar proposition.—Manchester
(la.) Press.
Best Tariff for Revenue.
The customs receipts during the
last fiscal year amounted to |283,891,
719. Their magnitude sug gests that
the best tariff for revenue is a pro
tective tariff and not a tariff for rev
enue only. Whenever the free traders
have attempted to frame a tariff on
the latter lines it lias Invariably re
THIS OLD HEN WILL “SET” NEXT YEAR AS USUAL.
i»A
Involves no exigency justifying the
unusual and hazardous proceeding of
an extra session. So marked is the
difference of opinion as to the proper
measure for imparting elasticity to the
currency that there is no prospect of
an agreement, and hence no prospect
that final action could be had on a
currency bill prior to the time for the
regular session. As to the Cuban
treaty, if American growers of sugar
end tobacco are to be robbed of the
protection guaranteed to them in the
Ulngley tariff and solemnly pledged to
them In the national Republican plat
form, they can be as effectively robbed
in December or January as iu October
or November.
Extra sessions of Congress are seri
ous things. All Presidents heretofore
have resorted to them with great re
luctance. Even in the presence of so
grave a condition as that which exist
ed in the early part of 1897, when hun
dreds of millions worth of foreign
goods were being hurried to this coun
try In anticipation of the higher duties
certain to be Imposed by the Repub
lican party; and when all labor and
industry clamored for a speedy res
toration of adequate protection, even
under these circumstances President
McKinley was loath to call an extra
session, and only consented to do so
as the result of strong pressure and
strenuous urgency on the part of the
business interests. If President Mc
Kinley was reluctant, to break prece
dents and summon Congress into ex
traordinary session to pass the Ding
I ley tariff in 1897, how much more re
luctant should President Roosevelt be
to take a step so fraught with risks
on the eve of a great Presidential
election!
Currency legislation being practi
cally impossible because of the failure
of those leading in the movement to
agree upon any plan, an extra session
either in October or in November
need not and should not be called on
account of the currency. As to the
Cuban question, if there is to be a
fight over it inside the Republican
party in Congress, surely there should
be no precipitate haste in bringing
on that fight Let us have peace as
long as we cun.
Tar'ff Revision.
Many Democratic, some independ
ent and a scattering few Republican
newspapers ovanr the country are in
sisting that the Republican paity In Its
next platform declare for tariff re
vision. In the meantime Uncle Mark
Hanna and hie associate standpatters
Just laugh. It Is pretty safo to as
gume that if the Sepubllcan platform
... I
suited in a deficit. High duties prop
erly applied promote production In our
own country, and through the conse
quent prosperity, enable us to in
crease our Imports of articles which
we do not really need, but which, with
the perversity of human nature, we
are willing to pay more dearly for
on that account.—San Francisco
Chronicle.
Trade Statistics.
English papers, to prove that Great
Britain is not retrograding under free
trade, assert that the aggregate for
eign trade of their country is $155 per
capita, while that of the United
States is only $45 per capita. Hence
Great Britain is three or more times
as prosperous as the United States.
Let us look at one item in the propo
sition. We are, in round figures, buy
ing $100,000,000 worth of foreign
sugar year by year and, equally, ex
porting a like value with which to pay
for the sugar. Sugar adds to our sta
tistical evidence of prosperity $200,
000,000, or $2.50 per capita per annum.
If wo made all of our sugar and paid
our own farmers $100,000,000 for it, w«
would by this standard of prosperity
all lose $2.50 per year!
The Democratic Position.
Whatever the Democrats of Iowa
stand for as to the Tariff is represent
ed in the demand for ‘‘a tariff
for revenue only." What they allege
with reference to trust made goods is
no more than appeal to prejudice.
What they are after is to get rid of
protective duties altogether. The
Democratic position is that the way
to correct abuses Is to destroy busi
ness. That is not the Republican posi
tion. The distinction is easily marked.
—Sioux City Journal.
No Change.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
says the nomination of Mr. Cleveland,
or one of his kind, would be due to
the returning sanity of the Southern
Democracy, after an aberration of
seven years. As most of the Southern
States vote the Democratic ticket
without question, any change in polit
ical sanity, one way or the other,
In that sertion is imperceptible.—St
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Fairness.
The Sioux City Journal, which clips
every mean thing that any editor
writes about Bob Cousins' speech, has
never printed the speech in full and
probably never will. Yet Uncle
George will lecture before the next
editorial association on "Fairness In
Journalism.’’—Ln»i Moines Capita.’.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON II., OCT. 11 -GODS COVE
NANT WITH DAVID,
Golden Text—“Thy Throne Shall Be
Established for Ever”—2 Samuel
7-16—Longings for God's Kingdom,
and Their Fulfillment.
1. David's Longing for the Religious
Development of Ills Kingdom.—Vs. l-;s.
The Kingdom was now fairly launched,
with favoring wind and tide, to move on
to its fulness of usefulness and glory.
The king, with a noble longing for the
good of his people and the Honor of Clod,
deslnd to build a temple that would
worthily express the nation's feelings to
ward their God and strengthen their re
ligious and moral life. Accordingly he con
sulted with Nathan the prophet. The
proposal struck (he prophet favorably,
and he bade him Godspeed, for God ap
proved of It.
II. A Seeming Denial; with a H a lew
of the Past Which Strengthens David's
Faith.—Vs. 1-11. A Seeming Denial. 4.
"That" (the same) "night. . . . the ,
word of the Lord eume unto Nathan.” by
a vision (v. 17). The prophet was right
in the assurance that the object of Da
vid's desire was pleasing to God. hut there
was need of light upon the last way of
accomplishing it. God had n better an
swer to David's prayer than he imagined.
6. "Shalt thou build me an house for
mo to dwell In?" This expression is
equivalent to a negative, and Implies that
lie shall not build the house, as is stated
lit 1 Citron. 17: t. It is quite possible that
David laid too much stress on the building
of tlie outward temple, and there was
danger of not emphasizing the religious
life for which the temple stood. David
was not essential, hut God was.
8. ”1 took thee.’* Mis life was a plan
of God hitherto, and from the past David
was to learn lessens of trust for the fu
ture. All David’s greatness had its source
in God. His life was controlled by God.
as the life of a child is guided by Ills
father. From the sheepcote," i. e.. fold.
God exalted the shepherd boy to be king.
10. “I will appoint.” or prepare (better,
have appointed, us some render it), "a
place." That is, by subduing their en
cmUs he made room for a safe, unen
dnngered expansion In itio promised land.
"And will plant them. And move no
more.” Met ter. shall he disturbed no more.
"Neither shall Hie children of wickedness
afflict them any more." They might at
tack Israel, us some of them did after
this, but they could not conquer and op
press them.
Practical. God often answers our pray
ers in the way he answered David's de
sire to build the temple; when It is not
.heal to grant the exact thing we desire
he gives us something better In Its place.
III. The Threefold Fulfilment of Pa
Md's Desire. God's Covenant with David.
—Vs. 11-16. Prof. Ihnry H. Smith re
gards vs. 8-16 (except v. 11) as rhythmi
cal. and puts them hi poetical form.
, First Specification of This Covenant.
The House of David to Ho Established
‘Forever (vs. 11. 12, 18).
"Me will make thee an house." A fam
ily, a race of persons of one stock. "I
will set up thy seed after thee." David's
descendants should continue the succea
islon, "and I will establish” (make firm
and enduring) "his kingdom." The lino
of descendants shall never cease.
Ho v. 16. "Thy kingdom shall be estab
lished for ever.” "The dynasty of David
Is an everlasting dynasty."
The Fulfilment. (1) In Solomon, his son
and successor, who recognizes the fulfil
ment of tills promise in his elevation to
the throne (1 Kings 8:15-20). (2) In the
succession of kings. "After the destruc
tion of the temple and the extinction of
David's dynasty In Jerusalem, the writer
In Chronicles and the post-exilian proph
ets regard the promise as still in force,
and still In process of fulfilment to the
seed of David, with no limit to Its eternal
operation." (3) The complete fulfilment
was in Jesus Christ, "great David's great
er Son.” In the words of Kell. “The pos
terity of David could only last forever by
running out in a person who lives for
ever; that is. by culminating in the Mes
siah, who lives forever, and of whose
kingdom there Is no end.” The New Tes
tament repeatedly speaks of Jesus as the
son of David, and inheritor of the prom
ises tl.uke 1:31-33; 20:41-44; Acts 2:23
31; 13:22, 23).
Hecond Specification of the Covenant.
David's Heed Should Mulld the Temple
(v. 13).
14. Iio shall hullo on house for my
name.” The glorious temple that David
desired to build was built l»y his son fciol
omon, while David himself had the priv
ilege of inuking grout preparations for
this temple, at least one hundred and
fifty million dollars In gold, besides vast
quantities of other material.
Hut this temple was but one expression
and symbol of Clod's spiritual temple,
"built upon the foundation of the apostles
and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being
the chief cornerstone; In whom all the
building, fitly framed together, groweth
unto an holy temple In the Lord; In whom
ye also are bullded together for an habita
tion of God through the Spirit” (Hph.
2:20-22). "God built for David a house
—even a temple—by the incarnation of
Christ, who came from his seed. For
Christ calls his own body, which he took
from the blessed Virgin Mary, of the seed
of David, a temple: 'Destroy this temple,
and In three days I will build it up again.
He spake of the temple of his body’ "
(John 2:21).—Theodoret. Thus David's
son Solomon built the temple at Jerus
alem. David's gienter Son built the spir
itual temple of the whole world.
The Third Specification. The Relation
of Sonshlp Established (vs. 14. 15).
14. "I will be his father, and he shall
be my son." "Israel at the Exodus had
been taken up Into the relation of sonshlp
to Jehovah. . . . Now thlH relation ol
sonshlp is applied to David and his seed
In a peculiar and higher sense.” (1) It
applies to Solomon ‘‘who by his historical
transactions this temple, his wide king
dom, his glories, his sufferings) points
the way to the ultimnte realization In the
Messiah.” "This relation of sonshlp in
volves two special phases, chastisement
and mercy. The chastisement is on ac
count of sin, and In order to its removal.
It Is chastisement by paternal love. . . ,
But it Is a chastisement ot redemption.”—
Professor Briggs.
15. “But my mercy shall not depart
away from him, as I took It from Saul."
In Saul’s case, not only was he himself
punished, but the kingdom was taken
from his family. This relation of sonship
applied to Israel during her whole his
tory, which Is the best commentary on
these verses. This promise was complete
ly fulfilled only In Jesus Christ. In Jesus,
the Sou of God. Is God’s fatherhood best
made known, and through him to all who
love and obey him.
Why Christians Should Be Joyful.
Dr. R. A. Torrey, speaking of the
Christian's duty to be ever joyful in
the Lord, says: "The Christian life is
a life of constant joy. It Is the be
liever's privilege, as well as his duty,
to rejoice, and to rejoice all tho time.
The Christian who is not rejoicing all
the time is not only disobeying God.
but bringing dishonor on Jesus Christ.
No Christian ever has any good ex
cuse for not rejoicing. Rut note the
sphere of the believers' joy ‘in the
Lord.’ He Is the source and the ob
ject of our joy.”
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