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Tjjjg ur Irom the clatter of- the linotyjic machine, What a world of worthy niaiter we can glean! From the merry Yuletide atorv To the bra lie song of glory; From the hymn of joy and gladness, To the tale of woe and sadness. In the clatter, clatter, clatter, in the never ceasing chatter, - ' < In the chatter of the linotype machine! Hear the rattle! ? Hear the rattle, rattle, rattle, lake the musketry of battle. As it tells of surging thousands on the frozen Asian sands? As it tells of shrapnels' sh-ieking, A9 it tells of camps' dire reeking. As it speaks of warring columns in the Oriental lands. i nunaenng louder, louder, louder, Till you seem to smell the.powder. ISeem to see the soldiers flying. Falling wounded, bleeding, dying? Begging for a cup of watei All is told?the cheers, the slaughter, In the rattle of the linotype machine. Then the singing! Then the gentle, gentle singing Of the little children bringing Gifts to many hungry humans in the gruesome laucs and ways! Tu the offal-crowded centers. Where no sunlight ever enters. Where little ones arc born in vice, and vicious end their days. We can hear the childish singing From the pure hearts biithly springing. As the matrices are dropping from the slotted machine, \ Like the sound of water fallingLike a feathered songster's callingla the singing of the linotype machine. Then the laughter! Then the dear, contagious laughter, ^ ? X ? ? * XhlWftStt ^ ^ By Heleni ??????????! >101*, ARRY Ellen Hosiuer! |( Hj | Marry a perfect beggar! ? M ? Why, Herbert de Lisle, ~K are you a fool, or crazy, or what, that y ;u dare to talk to me about that girl?" Antl old Kalph de Lisle brought his clinched fist down on the r.arble-top table beside which he was silting with nn energeuc movement quae uhumjui to him. while his low brow contracted and his spare, bloodless face grew purple with rage. "Then you will not consent?" said lie, -calmly. "Never!" and the old, white-haired father fairly roared the word. "Have I toiled and economized all these years to see my money thrown away on a pauper? We shall see about that, sir. I always said yon had not r. particle of the de Lisle pride. You are Randall all over. There's your mother, now; I've no doubt she would rejoice to see yon tied for life to that girl. I considered my promise to her dying father fulfilled when I brought her home to i feejLand clothe her, and it was no plan ~~v""r&P'iiM^ihat she should be educated i and taugnCS^fill a daughter's place in -the family, where, by rights; she should < -haTe been only a menial. Still. I did not object as I should, and now the un; grateful minx wants to step in as the future Mistress de Lisle, does she? ; Away from me! and remember, Isabel .Denver is the woman you are to marry; and mind, too, that you have j , nothing more to say to that bs by-faced i . creature of my bounty." Herbert moved toward the door in 1 - scornful silence, which but aggravated lbe old man the more. ? Springing to his feet, he exclaimed, Tebemently: "I shall watch you, sir. There must 'be uo more billing and cooing, I can tell you that. If you but so much as speak again to that girl. I will cut you 'off with a dollar!" For a moment an angry tide swept ^ across the face of the younger do ( Lisle.v When it passed, his face was 1a trifle paler than before, and his lips were slightly compressed, but there ' was a mocking gleam of mischief in his eyes as he answered: - "Father, I shall marry Ellen yet, and With your full permission." ! The old man was more than ever enraged, and bis voice sounded hollow and sepulchral, and every word be uttered was cut off with a pugilistic ges tore of bis clenched nst. "When I give my consent to your marriage with Ellen Hosmer I shall he either an idiot or a lunatic, and she shall be at once installed mistress of de Lisle Hall." Ralph de Lisle was not to be hoodwinked by any pretty devices of the young man or his mother. He followed Herbert about the bouse like his shadow. Mrs. de Lisle was vexed; her son was angry. ? "As old as I am," he muttered? "nearly thirty?to be followed about like a baby that's in danger of tumbling into the fire." Ellen grew morbidly sensitive under this constant espionage, ami! would run away whenever she saw Herbert approaching. If Mrs. de Lisle took Ellen under her wing for a walk, and glanced casually on departing at her son. the old man understood perfectly well that the glcnee "meant something." and Herbert was kept as closely under his eye as a cat ever kept the prey she had doomed for her dinner. Rut after a time Mrs. de Lisle desisted from her strange maueuvres. Herbert gave up all attempts to converse privately with Ellen, and began absenting himself from the house ior whole days at a time. Not long after this, Ralph de Lisle's ?ft-repeated assertion that El'eu was lickle and volatile seemed to meet with corroboration, for a new wooer, who came in the loose garb of a sailor, mid who constantly wore a broadbrimmed hat, seemed to have completely turned the young girl's head. How or whence he came Ralph did not Know, wis wire assured cun xuar the sailor had been properly introduced by a mutual friend, and he .was too rejoiced f the turn affairs had taken to ask many questions. Hew glad the old man felt that his son Rtayed away from home so much. He was uneasy every time he saw the sailor's broad hat o^shadowing Ellon's little sundown in the garden, lest Hert>ert should return and impede the progress of this, to him at leost, desirable courtship. . The sailor's devotion to Ellen became L \ m ii sotVpe. Faster, faster, ever faster, like a pelting summer rain! Merry words, in leaden matter, Speak to us above the clatter? Laugn away our morbid fancies and the demon darts of pain. Speak not of fair Luna's phases, But of daffodils and daisies; Of some happy situation, of some mirthprovoking scene, Till our hearts east out the hateful And we're trulv, truly grateful For the lauuhter of the linotvne machine. Then the dirges! Then the solemn, mournful dirges, As the plunger deftly merges In the molten, unskimmed metal in the superheated pot! Lo! it tells in sombre measure Of the fleeting life of treasure. Tells of visions of that land the joy of which magi knoweth not. Who has passed thro' death's dark portal, .. Who must stand before nis Maker with a soul uneouthly mean. His had been a record gory. And we marvel at the story In the dirges of the linotype machine. From the clatter of the linotype machine, What a world of worthy matter we can glean! As the skillful operator. With a mystic sort of ease. Nimbly passes o'er the keyboard, With its symbol-written keys; How the matrices come dropping. And the spacebands. never stopping, Like a scented summer shower In a leafy elfin bower? Oil, the mighty, mighty power in the linotype machine! And what thoughts we gain each hour From the clatter, clatter, clatter, From the never-ceasing chatter. From the chatter of the linotype machine! ?Sun!ocks, in the Bowler. a Father. ** * ? Dixon. ^ more and more apparent, and Herbert absented himself more than ever, and made no attempt to regain Ellen's wandering affections when he was at home. Mrs. de Lisle watched the progress of the sailor's love-making complacently. and the old man was perfectly delighted both with Ellon and her suitor, and began contemplating purchasing a certain cozy cottage he knew of as a bridal gift to his ward. Ralph de Lisle was seated in his library one evening, thinking delightedly how, with Ellen married, it would be an easy thing to bring about the much-desired match betwben Herbert and Isabel Denver, when a servant entered to say that Miss Ellen's beau wanted to see him. The sailor entered and bowed awkwardly enough to the dignitied man who rose to receive him. The broadbrimmed hat. which not .one of the family had yet seen him remove, kept its place even in the august presence of Ralph de Lisle, who wondered mentally whether he wore it in bed. and concluded that custom on shipboard U1UM liuve UWU lUt' L'UliOlflilt *> irtuiiij, of his hat a habit with the sailor. "You ward, Miss Ellen, is Aery beautiful and good," began the young man, stammeringly, and no doubt blushingly, though little of his whiskered face was visible. Old Ralph rubbed his hands together gleefully, and determined to help the embarrassed lover. "That's a fact," said he: "she is landsome, and a better girl never lived. You wish my consent to marry her?" The sailor hung his head. "Yes, if you please." "She's the same as a daughter to us. rou'see, and we shall miss her terribly. But her happiness is the main thing. If the dear girl loves you. and wishes to marry you, I haven't the least objection. Sailors are good, whole-sonied fellows, I know, and you'll be kind to our darling/* "I'll try my best to make her happy." said the lot-er, in a mumbling tone: "but I'm not a sailor, as these clothes make you think. I got them under price, so I bought them. I am poor, and have to economize. But I am young and strong, and will take care that your ward does not lack for the comforts of life." Then, after a short pause, he added: "I feared you might withhold your consent on account of my poverty." "Poverty! Nonsense!" said old Ralph, magnanimously, "Not consent because you are poor? Why, riches should never be weighed against the heart and Its affections: and if you are not a sailor, as we supposed, you are a noble fellow, I am sure; and let you be who you will, I believe you are worthy to be Ellen's husband, and you shall have her, too, since you are both agreed, in spite of poverty or anything else. So you see, I have great confidence in you." "H'm!" muttered the young man. and with a repetition of his Awkward obeisance, he left the room. Ralph "de Lisle, through his wife, supplied Ellen's purse handsomely for the purchase of her wedding trousseau, but as she was to marry a poor man she preferred not to spend money so foolishly, she said. So her bridal dress was simply a white mull, and very sweet and pretty she looked, as with her eyes cast down and her cheeks redder than the reddest rose, she stood in ? "*?? * ?l??rt KAAm rtf /I A T ' clrt Hit* ^ll'Ul Uia?lUg-lWUl V4, UV Hall in the presence of a very few friends of her own and the family's, who were met to witness the marriage. The bridegroom gave her loving glances from under the inevitable broad-brimmed hat, which he shocked Ralph de Lisle by actually getting married in. "It's the most outlandish thing 1 ever heard of. and some one ought to tell him," muttered old Ralph, as the ceremony was about to be performed; "but if Mrs. de Lisle and Ellen can stand it, I'm sure I can. But he don't go to the table with that thing on his head, if I have to knock it off with my eaue. I'll teach the ignoramus a little decorum." The words were pronounced which made Ellen Mrs. Somebody?old Ralph neither knew nor cared what her new name might be as long as she was well out of the way of his son. As the little company were about being led to the dining-room to partake of the wedding dinner. Ralph stepped up to the groom and said, as politely as his rising cbolor would let him: "You will oblige me, sir, and bestow mmmmpw r? ?? a trifle more respect on your bride am tlie company present, if you remov your hat." "Certainly, sir. What a forgetfu fellow I am, and what a boor the; must all think me," returned the new made husband, in a tone which startle* Ralph strangely. Iii a trice the great, unsightly ha was off, and the beard which had com pletely concealed the lower part of thi quandom sailor's face was gone, am Ralph de Lisle looked into the pro vokingly calm face of his son. Befor the old man, in his amazement am chagrin, could utter a word, Horber had taken him by the arm and drawi him aside. "Now, father," said he, with comien gravity, "don't say a word that wil make it unpleasant for my wife in he new capacity as my wife. You knov I married lier with your consent, an< besides you know that 'riches shouh never be weighed against the hear and its affections.'" Ralph de Lisle came near choking a first with rage and disappointment, an< we are very sure that the quantity o good things provided for the weddiiu feast was not much diminished or theii quality appreciated by the gloomy-vis aged "head of the house," but he fol owed his son's advice and said nothing and soon learned to listen to his wife'i oft-repeated rehearsal of the old adage "What can't be cured must be en dured," with something like acquies cence in the decrees of Hymen. In a short time he became more thai reconciled to his son's choice, and whei he heard of the marriage of Isabel Den vcr he went so far as to say that In actually felt sorry tor her husband, a: Usabel was such a Tartar, and in n< way comparable to Ellen, his scii'i wife.?New York Weekly. r?QE^TIFIC^ The University of Washington pro poses to establish a permanent inarini station at a point to be decided on. a Puget Sound. During the present sum nier a temporary station was estab lished nt Friday Harbor, in charge o Professor Trevor Iviueaid and Dr. T. C Frye. The Westinghouse-Parsons 000 horse power steaui turbine engine at tin World's Fair ran from June 20 to De ce-.aber 2 without once stopping, nt i speed of oGOO revolutions a minute Wkei taken down the engine shown! signs of wear from this remarkabh performance. Dr. Charles Waldstein gtfe a lecture recently at the Royal Academy, sayf Nature, of London, on Hereulaneuu; and the proposed international excavation. Mr. Waldstein remarked thai from Heroulancum many beautiful works might be expected. The citj aud district of Herculaneum were overwneimea who voicanic material but this is not the impenetrably hard lava commonly supposed. Geologists have shown that, apart from actual contact with air. the material Is perfectly friable and manageable for the excavator. Among the most interesting ethuologic exhibitions at the St. Louis World's Fair was a group of pygmies from the Wissmann Falls region of the Congo Free State. Although they do not look as small as the imaginations of many readers of books of African travel have perhaps pictured them, yet they plainly belong to a diminutive race of mankind. A writer in Science, comparing the various measurements of these pygmies, and others allied to them, arrives at the conclusion that the average height of these small men is o Jittlrv inn thnn fnnr piffllt inches. or about one foot less than thai of the normal man. Attacks of fits may appear bnt a few times in a long life, or they may number hundreds and even thousands in twenty-four hours. There are four chief forms, viz.: (1) a sudden severe fit. with loss of consciousness and muscular control; (2) a mild fit, with partial unconsciousness; (3) a spasm in a single leg or arm or group of muscles, and (4) a temporary blank in the memory. Feebie-mindeduess usually follows epilepsy, instantly developing in fully twenty per cent, of the cases, Considering the oft-claimed relationship between genius and epilepsy, Dr, W. P. Spratling, a specialist in epilepsy, contends that the disease always impairs the mental powers, and thai Caesar, Napoleon, Mohammed, Swedenborg and other great epileptics must have become affected when their strength was on Ihe wane. Actual Cost of Protection. "Would you be willing to pay some thing to know of a sure plan for eir cumventing a robber when he comes into your place of business late al night and tries to hold you up?" asked a man in a suit of faded black, wlic had stepped into a north side drus store. "Sure." said the druggist, staring al him with good humored incredulity. "Well, I have devised a method thai can't possibly fail. I'll tell you all ol it but one particular, and if it looks promising you pay me a dollar, ami I'll give you the whole scheme. If il doesn't look all right you can say so and save your dollar. There will be no harm done. Does that sound fair?" "Yes; go ahead." Tho nallot- n-hicnoroU in his f>flr for the next two or three minutes. "That's all but the final and most important part of it," he said. "Is it worth a dollar to know the rest?" "Yes; here's your money." the drug gist responded, handing it over and listening with entig^atisfaction to the unfolding of the ^ Re plot. What was this Jm's device for out witting the murderous thug who boldlj invades your sto^ or office and robi you while you ^Tit? This is the question you ask, per haps. Dear friend, do^^you see that tc give it away in the plblic prints would not only forewarn the hold-up men and thus defeat the ends of justice but would be taking the bread out ol the mouth of a man in a suit of faded black who is trying to earn an honesi living??Chicago Tribune^ t / . L Pi "1 1 The Kins'* Bo?lno?* Urgent. PIUWJ E are ambassadors of c rrent npnnip. l#rjlJ? IU lliCOC ?v they are justly entitled. If continuous lines of improved inter state highways are to be constructed where shall the beginning be made' Minnfestly should It not be two great est cities of this continent, New Tort and Chicago, be first joined In this tie that binds? The greatest good to the greatesl number is a principle we can never ig no|e, and since there is more traffic travel and communication between these two cities than between any othei two cities on this continent, it is manifest that this great highway?we will call it the king's highway?should firsl of all be the one constructed. When this great highway shall hnvf been so constructed, it will stand through the ages as an enduring monu ment to the cause of good roads, bringing renown to the great cities thus , linked . together, and reflecting honor , to this great nation within whose do, uiain it was constructed. , Who will say that this highway was , not in the mind of the aged Hebrew , seer, when, standing on J^idea's bills, looking with prophetic vision down the centuries, he exclaimed: "Prepare , ye the way and make straight the highway; let every valley be exalted and | ever?* mountain and hill be made low: , let the crooked be made straight, the , rough places smooth, and let a highway be there that the wayfaring man, though a fool, shall not err therein." From the securing of such continuous lines of improved interstate highways we pledge our time, our means and the best efforts at our command.?From a cnn/i Pn-iHs fVmvpntion SDeech, nuotcd in the New York Tribnne. Pro~re?? of the Movement. ! Mr. Martin Dodge, the good roads expert of the Department of Agriculture, lias reviewed the progress recently made in the movement for better high* ' ways, and the showing is a most satisfactory one. Maryland, the Virginias, the Carolinas and Alabama are the ' Southern States that are making good ' progress in the movement. Mr. Dodge explains that the growth of the rural ' free delivery has forced attention to the farmers and county authorities to J the imperative need of road improve ment, a need that has been felt for many years, but which has been neg' lected until supplying it was made one of the requisites in the establishment of the rural mail service. Deep interest is being taken in the question, now u u - - KfAiinhf nn In n hllcinPSS I LI III J L Lltl i UlXli UlVUfjUV U|/ Am* M way. an^countyand State associations are being formed in nearly every State in the Union for the consideration and adoption of the best plans for road Improvement. In this work the Federal Government has taken an active interest and lent every assistance possible with the limited funds available for the purpose. Experiments have been con ducted and the results explained to the local and State associations. The de partment has made a study of soil conditions, rainfall and Other elements that must be considered in different loeali ties in the work of permanent road improvement, and the demand from all parts of the country for information of this character emphasizes the inter est in the subject. Several railroads have joined in the work by sending out t special trains, carrying expert road ; builders and modern road maKing ma ' chinery, and constructing sections ol model roads at different points along their lines. Farmers have taken keenest interest in this work, and the ef: forts of the railroads are greatly ap predated by the department. The cor itry roads of the South, excepting oco - sional well kept turnpikes between 1 cities and larger towns, have long beer alm<?-?t a disgrace, retarding the develops at of farms and plantations and about doubling the natural cost ol ! transporting products of the farm tc the market. It is gratifying to know * that radical relief Is promised* E British officers can. not take a course I in ballooning unless they are "good t sailors" and not over 100 pounds in .weight. I T We are liere as ambassn dors of the great king, and 1 ^ (uTz. that king is none othei than the common plain poo pie of these United States, and in thif IImanTier of securing continuous lines ol ^ improved interstate highways we >af tirm that the king's business demands j haste. The day of parleying and temporizing is past, and those in authority who at tempt to thwart the will of the people or who are indifferent to this great project of road improvement will be swept from power with the besom ot "* destruction in the hands of an outraged r people as effectively as did the Mastei when lie drove from the temple thos< who were profaning the holy pia.-e, and the places that know them now * shall know them no more forever. It has been said that the present Con grass is a "do nothing Congress.*' I! this bo so, we demand that this "d< nothing Congress" awake from its letli 1 argy and get its car to the ground thai 1 it may hear the groaning of the lam unelerftthe burdens of these barbarous | mud^hads, which are compelling th< " I po^e?the burden bearers?to mnk< ] i brftks without straw, and then we asl 5 j them to look up that they will be wise i enough to hear and heed the demand : of the people and forthwith pass a bil creating a bureau of good roads in tb< Department of Agriculture carrying : sufficient appropriation so that those i' now in authority in the public roads ! inquiry office may be able to meet tin I demands of the people and build foi ! them with their aid and co-operatioi continuous lines of improved interstate ? highways, that the vast capital in [ rested in agriculture may be relievei of the heavy burdens of transporta tion?which now so heavily oppress it r that the rural districts may enjoy the benefits of intercommunication, bettei ' educational, social and religious privi leges, in fact, every advantage ane: blessing which continuous lines of im ^ proved interstate highways would norenlft tn fill C\f wlllct = ??RTH IUE LESSONS MARCH TWENTY-SIXTH. j The Missionary Call.?Matt. 28. 1?; Acts 1. 8: 1 Cor. 16. 9. The work of the church is not selfexistence and perpetuation only, but world-wide conquest. The early church ?so understood it, and in the 1 first century went out to the uttermost parts of \thc world as they knew it. The gospel belongs not to one race. ' nor to any one nation, but to "all " nations." In apostolic days they were witnesses "in Jerusalem, in all Ju ; dea, in Samaria, and to the uttermost \ parts of the earth." The apostles . literally and speedily obeyed the ; great commission. The last selection has reference to the open doors of , opportunity, which were never so sig ' nally hiviting as to-day. The whole world is open now to the missionar ? ies. Not only docs the miss.' >nary ' call come to us from the Word, but ? Providence has opened every nation ' and laid on the Protestant church thj I responsibility of going to the ends of : the earth as an evangel of Christ. . But as in Paul's day there are "many adversaries." Opposing forces 1 face the church; but the promise of victory is with us. Let us hear and heed the missionary call! \ Many in our modern churches have 1 no vivid personal conception of the } missionary call. They do not believe that their duty is to evangelize the t world. They need missionary con I viction. Bisjiop McCabe always in? sisted when missionary secretary that everyone needed a second con version, a conversion to missions. Not only are many unconvicted, but many actually oppose the work of missions. They need to study this great commission. One imperative need in church and in League is to ? get our people to really believe in the i missionary idea, to hear the miss> lonary call. 3 There is a pressing duty tq get > under the burden and to give some . fairly creditable answer to this call, j Instead of giving a thoughtless dollar and imagining our duty done, we need to give by tens and hundreds. Instead of playing at missions we need I to get down to business and do some thing worthy of a great church of large ability. We would not deprecate what the church is doing, but surely we have not yet measured up . to opportunity and ability. Thousands 1 of our best young students need to be sent to the foreign field. Many . churches could support alone a mis1 sionaryjin the field who are now giv1 ing only a few dollars. If we are to really obey this call we must multi ply by the ten, twenty, and hundred . fold our offerings for missions. We ? must push this work. Organize mis sion study classes! Circulate mis: sionary libraries and literature! ? Talk missions, think of missions, dream about them, get really in t earnest, and then we hope to lead ' the church to obey the great commission. We trust that this lesson may be a real inspiration to every 1 cnapier. i?ook ai me open aoor " Consider your duty. Do it quickly. ! CM MM TOPICS. t MARCH TWENTY-SIXTH. i "Christian Endeavor Comradeship: With Other Churches at Home and with Distant Lands." Acts 17^2428; John 17:20, 21. Scripture Verses.?Mai. 3:16; John 13:35; Acts 1:14; 2:1, 42; Gal. 6:10; ' Eph. 2:19; Phil. 2:3-6; 1 Thess. 5: 11-13; 2 Thess. 1:3; 2 Peter 1:1, 2. Lesson Thoughts. It is an unnatural and an unfortunate condition when there is l?.ck of | happy comradeship and sympathetic fellowship among members of one family; but God "hath made of one blood all nations of men." What tie binds us more closely in 1 family fellowship than that of de1 pendence upon and love for a com! mon parentage. In God we all live and move and have our being, i Selections. No distance breaks the ties of blood; Brothers are brothers evermore; Nor wrong, nor wrath of deadliest mood ' That magic may o'erpower. So Is it with true Christian hearts; Their mutual share in Jesus' blood An everlasting bond imparts , Of holiest brotherhood. > 0 might we all our lineage prove, [ Give and forgive do good and love, By soft endearments in kind Strife I Lightening the load of daily life! , ?John Kelbe. | One of the most beautiful things about Frances Wilhird was her calm way of Ignoring differences of belief in all those that were working in any ' way for the good of the world. When ! some worker would differ from her she would say, "Never mind that, we can go a long way together." That would be a good motto for all Christians for their relations with one another. ?| Men never can be Joined in brotherhood by good plans, nor can they be Joined by a common gain they are I seeking; they can be joined together only by having some common oDjecc | of admiration and affection. It Is those that love God and wonder at His gracious ways that love one another.?Kingsley. ? Bishop Hurst suggests that there can be true union only as each part that enters Into the union is at its best, t The anchor Is not held by the chain, but by each link of the chain, and I the anchor falls If a single link Is i imperfect. i An Office Idyl. . Sing a song of shorthand, ' A notebook full of "pi"; t Four and twenty letters [ To be written by and by. When the Girl Is ready. ' And the keys begin to sing. What a pretty pile of work ? She to the Man will bring. The Man is in his sanctum, Trying to make money; . Talking to a customer In tones as sweet as honey. > The Boy? Ah, he's a pirate, ' r\..? ?? v?o dtnrmv sea. UUl Vll V,4?\. , 1 The Girl is basy with her worlq. i As hapny as can be. Alas for life's swift changes!' I The Man no sale could make. His heart is very heavy ! And his looks would make you quake. > The Boy has hid the story On which he fondly dotes, The Girl is on the verge of tearsShe cannot read her notes. .?c. O. L. in Cincinnati Commercial k Tribune. t i No man's back breaks under t&e burdens of otbera, f v / I THE SUND AY SCHOOL i international lesson comments for march 26. ; (terlcw of 1he Twelve Prtctdlns Lessons For the Kim Quarter? Uead John !. 35-J1 ? Golden l'ext, John xi., 31? Summary. I Lesson I. Topic: The wonderful divine j Saviour. Place: Ephesus. John's gospel j was written between 80 and 90 A. D. John was the only apostle living at that time. He refers to Christ as the Word oi God; all things were made by Him; He was the life ami the light of men; reference is made to John the Baptist, the forerunner of j Christ; He was "not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that light;" Jesus was the true light. II. Topic: 'ihe believers true attitude toward his Lord. Place: Bethabara. A crisis had arisen in John's ministry; the Sanhedrin sent a deputation front Jerusalem to ask John who he was; John said he was not the Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet about wholn Moses had written, but ~ ? npvine fmm flio tdla derness, "Make straight the way of the Lord." John baptized with water; Christ would baptize with the Holy Spirit; John testified concern ins; Jesus and called Him the Lamb of God; John did not know Christ until the time of his baptism when the Holy Gnosl in liie form of a dove cume upon him, and the Father said, "This is My beloved Son in whom I am I well pleased." III. Topic: Jesus wins His first disciSles. Place: Bethabara. John pointed e?us out to two disciples who followed Jesus; Jesus turned and said. "What seek ye?" They asked. Christ where He dwelt: Jesus said. "ComeVpd see;" Andrew found his brother Simon and brought him to Jesus; it is supposed also that John found his brother James; Jesus found Philip; Philip found Xathanael; when Philip told Xathanael that they had found the Messiah, Xathanael raised an objection; Xathanael was soon convinced that Jesus was the Messiah. IV. Topic; Christ's first miracle. Place: Cana of Galilee. A wedding feast was being held: Christ's mother had been invited, and Christ and His disciples were invited; they needed wine at the feast; Christ's mother called attention to the fact; He instructed the servants to fill six water pot3 with water; they were then told to draw out and bear to the governor of the feast; the governor praised the wine; in this miracle Christ showed forth His glory; the disciples believed that He was the Messiah. V._ Topic: Gateways into the kingdom | of God. Flace: .Jerusalem, rucociemus came to Jesus by night; the subject of miracles was introduced: Jesus said, "Ye must be born again;" vtfieodemns failed to understand; Christ brought an illustration of the wind; also referred to the serpent Moses made in the wilderness; said that the Son of Man must be lifted up that whosoever believeth in Him should have eternal life. VI. Topic: Vital laws of spiritual work. Place: At Jacob's well in Samaria. Jesus goes through Samaria; stops at Jacob's well; meets a woman; asks a drink; she expresses surprise; Jesus speaks of the gift of God?iiving water; she desires it; Jesus asks her to call her husband; she says she has none; has had five; calls Jesus a prophet: asks about place of worship; true worship must be in spirit and in truth. VII. Topic: Christ's power to restore to life. Place: Cana in Galilee. The Galileans received Christ gladly. A nobleman of Capernaum heard that Jesus had come into Galilee and hastens to Him to entreat Him to come and heal his son; Jesuj told him to return and that his son was healed; the man believed Christ's words; the son began to recover at the very hour Jesus had said, ''Thy son liveth." VIII. Topic: The Lordship of Jesus Christ. Place: Jesus went to Jerusalem to attend the feast of the Passover; Jesus saw an infirm man at the pool of Bethcsda, who had been sick thirty-eight years; asked him if he desired to be made whole; the man replied that he had no one to put him into tne poo!; Jesus told him to nse, take up his bed and walk; the man did as u- 1?,J hc ?aa v.uiuuiaiiucu. IX. Topic: Jesus supplying human need. Place: Near Bethsaida on the northeast shore of the Sea of Galilee. Jesus and His disciples went into a desert place to be nlone; great multitudes followed them; Jesus taught them and healed their sick; in the aftenoon the disciples suggested that the multitude should be sent away to buy food; Jesus decided to feed them there; a lad was found with five* loaves and two fishes; five thousand men were fed besides women and children. X. Topic: Jesus proves Himself the God-Saviour. Place: Jerusalem. It was the last day-of the feast of the Tabernacles: there wa9 a great ceremony in connection with bringing water from the pool of Siloam; near the close of the ceremony Jesus cried. "If any man thirst, let hin come unto Me and drink;" He spake of the gift of the Holy Spirit. XI. Topic: Christ's teaching respecting sin. Place: Jerusalem. Jesus delivered four discourses during His stay in Jerusalem at the time of the feast of the Tabernacles; this discourse was delivered in the court of the women, and may be divided into two parts: 1. Christ is the Son of God. 2. He has supreme authority even above Abraham. Those who accept Jesus Christ will know the truth, and the truth will make them free. The world-Saviour's doctrine respecting sin. 1. Sin leads to hypocrisy, deceives men, is slavery, is contranr to God. 2. It is cured by the word of Christ, by the truth of Christ, by the blood of Christ. XII. Topic: Jesus Christ the light of men. Place: Jerusalem. Jesus saw a blind man; the disciples asked Christ who had sinned, this man or his parents; Jesus replied that neither this man nor his parents had sinned: makes clav of SDittle: anoints the blind man's eyes; commands the man to go to the pool of Siloam and wash- he obeys; comes back seeing; his neighbors are stirred; he gives an account of his healing; is taken to the Pharisees; Jesus accused of desecrating the Sabbath. The world-Saviour is the life and light of men. The lesson shows that light (1) is needed. (2) is offered. 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