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CHAPTER Xn. 12
Continued.
But for the next few days he enjoyed
an inexpressible relief; the
vaguely tremenduous test which
would try his nerve and knowledge
to the utmost loomed before him no
more; he need not now repress the
softer feelings and mortify his flesh;
he could be as sentimental as his
heart desired?and he was.
Not that he had forgotten Campion
and his affairs altogether; on the
contrary he was anxious to help him
now that he was no longer hampered
by his Mahatma.
And by frequent study of the message
which had been "precipitated"
by means of the Babu, Nebelseu had
arrived at a new reading, which supplied
a solution at once more practicable
and more equitable than the
first, and put the master's judgment
In a better light.
He was so delighted at his own ingenuity
that he was determined to
go to Campion at once and impart his
discovery, but while he was preparing
to do so there came a sharp rap
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"You com at a goot time," said Nebelsen,
cheerfully.
Campion said nothing; he only
only stood and looked. Possibly he
was struck by the change in the mystic's
appearance, for the ex-Chela had
returned to the garb of ordinary citizens,
and had sacrificed his curls
and the greater part of his beard,
leaving his ocher-colored hair rather
short and rather spiky. He had destroyed
his own picturesqueness without
even attaining the conventionality
such a sacrifice deserved.
"Ach," he said, "I forget?you haf
not seen me since I renounced the
Mahatma."
"No," said Campion, "and I wish
to heaven I had never seen you before!
When did I ask you to interfere
between Miss Elsworth and
myself? Read that?I found it when
I came back to town last night."
He tossed a note on the table be
fore Nebelsen, who read:
"I don't know what object you
may have had in trying to induce me,
through Mr. Nebelsen, to take back
my present, but I am sure now that
It was not a very creditable one. I
shall not ask you to return the idol,
because if you don't want it yourself
I want it even less. If you really
think yourself still bound by what I
was so foolish as to make you promise,
of course you are nothing of the
kind, and are quite at liberty to get
rid of it by all means, as soon as ever
you please!"
"I do not understands" said Nebelsen,
as he laid it down.
"It was more than a mistake when
you took upon yourself to mention
my affairs to Miss Elsworth. I was
going to write to her, but you have
put an end to all that.' Now after
this, Nebelsen, I'll trouble you to
leave me to manage my own business."
"I say only this; the real advics
that my Mahatma wrote "
"I don't care to know it. I wish
I had never been idiot enough to confide
in you," said the angry Canpion;
"rnn'va mnro Viavm hv vnn r
meddling and muddling than that
miserable old idol could if it was
everything you say it is. And I've
had enough of it. I am free to turn
that thing loose as soon as I please,
now, and I can do that "without anybody's
asisstance. And in future,
perhaps, you'll be kind enough not
to interfere."
The poor Chela was deeply hurt;
he had meant to serve Campion; he
did not even yet quite understand
how he had offended, so that he could
offer no defense. But, as Campion
concluded, Nebelsen's pride and anger
were kindled at last. He had meant
till then to give the painter the benefit
of his latest discovery, but if he
would not be warned, why, after all
it was no longer any business of his.
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interest in maintaining the credit of
theosophy? If the Mahatma allowed
himself to blunder, he might correct
his errors for himself?it was Karma.
So his eyes blazed red like a hungry
dog's as he said, heatedly, "You
are ungrateful and a pighead. Certainly,
I do not any more trouble myself
with you. You haf refused to
listen to what I dry to say. Very
well, I shall not again speak. I vash
my hand at you."
Campion, too, was not dissatisfied
with the result of his visit. He had
freed his mind and disembarrassed
himself of the muddle-headed mysticism
in which he was ashamed of
having placed such little confidence as
he had felt.
The next thing to be done was to
get rid of the idol, as he now felt
himself at liberty to do. He was betrinnlnc
tr? fool loco ciinorotitinns
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about it; its behavior had, so far as
he knew, been most exemplary since
he had been away up the Thames,
and he had almost argued himself
out of the notion that it could possess
any sort of intelligence, but for all
that he was determined not to have
it about him any longer.
It was apparently on its best behavior,
in the hope of being allowed
to stay; but that could not be; not
again would he expose himself to a
demoralizing dread. Harmless or potent,
the thing must go, and this time
no one should have a chance of assisting
it to find him again!
He had meant to wait till nightfall
before carrying out his plan, but after
painting all the morning, he felt so
giddy and confused that he determined
to get the deed done while lie
was still capable of action. He
placed the idol inside a small leather
bag and strapped it down, after which
he walked out with his burden to
ward North Bank.
It vas a lovely afternoon, so hot
that the warm air fell Iii:? ;; caress.
?.:id as Campion leaned over ilie parapet
of the canal bridge ii<* enjoyed
full possession of his faculties again.
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[ and only waited to be quite secure
his purpose; for the spectacle of a
well-dressed young man deliberately
casting a bag into a canal might attract
notice, and even suspicion.
Very few people were about, however;
the children were all at home
lying down after their dinners, no
carriages had yet appeared in the
drive, only one errand-boy loitered
by the palings, and he had his back
turned, and no barge glided through
the oily-green water under the hanging
foliage. A universal siesta
seemed to obtain in that non-commercial
region.
Now was his time. It was horribly
like drowning a kitten, but he let the
bag fall as if by accident, and saw
it sink with a sudden splash. Then,
as the last ripple radiated from the
place it had struck and spread to
either bank, he turned away, with a
sigh of relief.
He had done it at last. If the idol
had been capable of understanding
its situation, it would surely have
I made some resistance before submit
ting to be confined in a watery pris- ^
on, like Djinn Solomon sealed up in
the coffer.
Somehow he did not feel inclined
to risk a return of his headache by
going back to his hot studio, with the
[ sickly smell of paints and mastic, and
he turned into the park, thinking he
might pass away the afternoon there;
but the lake reflected a dazzling glare,
and the turf was dotted with basking
tramps, and in the shade under the
trees he was haunted by torturing
memories of his lost love.
He did not stay there long, and, as
i he turned into Marylebone, a passing
omnibus carrying an advertisement of
the military tournament at Islington
suggested a method of killing time,
and so it came about that an hour or
so later he was underneath the gallery
which surrounds the AgriculturI
al Hall, picking his way through the
dim and narrow space filled with a
motley crowd of masked and leatherjacketed
competitors, life-guardsmen,
looking unfamiliar to civilian eyes, in
caps, shell-jackets, and white buckskins;
artillery guns, harnessed and
unharnessed, and policemen. From
above and all around rolled thunders
of applause, but nothing could be
seen until he came to a large gangway,
through which he looked up the
vast hall with its chocolate plain vanishing
in a haze of light, above
which rose dim tiers of heads and the
blue panes of the erudely tinted arch
of glass and iron.
In the arena the artillery contest
roan -inflt finichlnp- nnil thf> winnine'
team was driving round at the gallop, y
deftly shaving the posts, and plowing ^
up the tan in brown spurts at all the c
corners; he stood at the gangway for
a time, watching the brightly touched
uniforms, the glancing coats of the
horses, and the lead-colored gun, as
they flashed in and out of the broad
shafts of light.
He was moving away, when he fancied
he saw in the stream of people
who were passing him the face which
was never long out of his thoughts;
it was only for a second, and then
there was a cry that the team was
coming out, and an order to stand
back from the gangway.
The warning was promptly obeyed;
the crowd divided, hastily retreating
to a safe distance, with the single exception
of a girl who did not seem to
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what was coming. There she stood c
alone in the opening, looking dreamily
back as if in search of someone, j
and close upon her the team was bear- t
ing down, while, owing to the sharpness
of the corner, the officers in ?
command would see nothing till too t
late.
And the girl, as Campion saw at ?
once, with a thrill of horror, was z
Sybil Elsworth! He called to her to
stand back; nobody else seemed to a
have eyes for her danger till then,
when a general shout was raised. j
Whether she was confused by that, -f
or by a mutual recognition, or her x
deadly peril, could not be known, but 5
she advanced with uncertain steps
into yet more direct danger and then
stopped, fascinated by fear and evidently
powerless to move a step.
Campion brushed aside some bystanders
who stood in his way, and q
rushing out into the open space ^
caught her and drew her back, just ^
as the heavy gun swept by with the
rattle of gear and clank of metal r
through the gangway, and pulled up
sharp some yards beyond the spot ?
where Sybil had been standing. Another
second?and, well as the team ^
was handled?nothing could have e
saved Sybil from a sudden and ter
rible death. *
He kept his arm nound her, and, if
at first she seemed inclined to reject
the support, she submitted after a
quick side-glance at his face, which e
was softened by a reverent joy, J
though the shadow of his recent horror
still lingered upon it.
And the stream of people moved }
on, backward and forward, and few c
knew how nearly they had missed as- "
sisting at a tragedy; in fact, no one .
took any further notice, except a milif
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mediately in the greatest anxiety and
he had the excuse of being Sybil's father.
"Good God!" he said, "it was the
nearest thing?I saw it all, and was
coming as well as I could in that
crush. You would have been killed
before I could get anywhere near
you but for this gentleman?why,
you know him?he broke off, as if
suddenly enlightened by something in
her expression.
"Cant't you guess who it is, papa?"
paid Sybil, with the faintest smile;
and a light broke over the colonel's
-ice as lie shook Campion's disenof-*
^ lwmrl w-i'th fnrvnr
"Why to be sure!" lie cried, "of
course?to thiuk we should have met 1
like this. Well, my little girl, under <
I'rovid.-nc0" (he jerked this in as a t
kind of safeguard), "owes her life to i
you. i was just taking her down for 1
i cup of tea, and we got separated
jomehow, and the next time I saw her
ihe was?well, we won't talk about
t. Couldn't have made your acluaintance
at a better moment! And
low," added the colonel, with a sly
:hi*ckle at His own tact ana peneira.;ion,
"I had better go back and tell
ny sister where you are, eh? You
;ake her somewhere for a good strong
;up of tea, and that will put her all
ight again. Sybil will tell you where
;o find us afterward."
And before either Ronald or Sybil
:ould say a word, the colonel had
;one off and left them together. Sybil
:ould stand and walk without assistince
now, and was little the worse for
:he shock. She drew away slightly
md stood looking at him under her
long eyelashes, as if she expected him
;o speak.
"Sybil," said Campion, "I suppose
[ ought to say?Miss Elsworth?it's
lot my fault that I'm forced upon you
n this way?you must admit that."
"Is it very painful for you?" she
>aid, half amused and half wistful.
"Tell me what you wish me to do,
Sybil."
"You were told to take me somewhere
where there was tea," she said,
neekly.
A wild, incredulous joy seized Campion
at her words, for he saw clearly
hat. for some reason, she was angry
ivith liim no longer.
And leaving the reunited pair at
:his stage, the story must go back for
i few moments, if only to account for
:he colonel's singular complaisance.
He had only returned from India
vithin the last two days, and Mrs.
staniland had insisted upon his comng
with them that afternoon; she
iad taken four seats, two of them at
some distance from the others, and
he fourth seat was to be occupied by
Lionel Babcock.
For the time had come, in her opinon,
when Babcock might propose to
Sybil with perfect confidence, and
Mrs. Staniland, being an old lady who
iked her own ways even in details,
iad arranged that her niece should be
von in the course of this particular
ifternoon, and in some part of the
Agricultural Hall.
The colonel was strictly enjoined
lot to monopolize his daughter,
vhich, as he was growing fonder and
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hought hard. He had rejoiced greats'
to hear that Campion's engagement
was broken off, less on account
)f its undesirability than of the opportunity
it left for making his
laughter's acquaintance before a
over could step in between them?
md now a fresh lover was at hand
ilready, and the colonel felt an injured
man.
However, his sister was so ardent
n her advocacy of Babcocfc, and discoursed
so earnestly on the necessity
)f protecting Sybil from falling again
nto Campion's clutches, that the
:olonel yielded at last. "If you say
ie's a good felloe," he conceded?
'well, I shall see him at this tournanent
affair, and then we can talk
ibout it."
Presently Mrs. Staniland saw her
>rother coming along the chairs
seaming. "Become of Sybil?" he
;aid, in answer to her inquiries; "oh,
t's all right, she's in good hands.
iVhom should we meet downstairs
)ut this young Babcock, and?I renembered
your orders?Hilary, and
t struck me, by Gad, they'd get on
>etter without a third party. Wasn't
hat right, eh? And I like the felow,
I must say; he deserves her for
iis pluck." And with this the colonel
old the incident of the gangway. "If
ihe had fallen, nothing could have
aved either of 'em; it was touch and
;o, by Gad! Think of losing my litle
Sybil just when?and in that
vay!"
"Horace, it's wonderful, a special
3rovidence, really, and you've done
luite the right thing! Lionel will
lave something to tell us when he
:omes back.",
So in high good humor Mrs. Staniand
watched the light cavalry, as
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ifford cover behind which they dis:harged
their carbines, and her conent
lasted until she saw a welljloved
hand held out and Babcock,
ilaborately attired, was standing over
tgainst her chair.
"Well?is it all right?" she asked,
tnxiously.
"Oh, yes, thanks. Couldn't get
iere, before, don't you know." He
lad delayed from policy, thinking it
veil that Sybil should begin by missng
him, and unwise to appear too
tager.
To be Continued.
Morgan and the Stutterer.
A young reporter on the New York
>un, who stuttered fearfully,was sent
>ne day to try to get a. statement
rom Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan.
"Who and what are you?" denanded
Mr. Morgan.
In moments of surprise or nervous
excitement the reporter's stammering
ilways became acute, so he stood
vith jaws locked, vainly trying to
;peak.
Mr. Morgan began to fume, and
inally he sputtered:
"What in tne aevu are yuu;
The reporter's sense of humor did
lot share the clogging up of his
:peech, and, after much facial conortion,
he managed to gurgle out:
"I-I-I?aaaa-m an elocutionist."
Mr. Morgan saw the joke, he grimy
related and when the reporter's
ipeech-consciousness returned he got
he statement.?Saturday Evening
?ost.
He Knew.
The pretty teacher was trying to
;xplain the difference between good
nndiict and bad. "Good actions,"
>he explained, "are the lovely flowers.
3ad ones are the weeds. Now can
iny little boy or girl tell me the difference
between flowers and weeds?
kVhat are flowers? What are weeds?"
"Weeds," said Walter, who had
)een struggling with the sorrel in his
nother's garden, "are the plants
hat want to grow, and flowers are
he ones that don't."?Youth's Companion.
Legacy Prom a Cat.
A cat named Pinkeye has died at
iVilkes-Barre, Pa., leaving an estate
)f $20,000 to a sister cat. Each of
lie cats inherited $20,000 last year
'rom B. F. Dillev, an eccentric milionaire.?Pittsburg
Dispatch.
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World's Riches
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Tilting Bed Spring.
A Chicago man has endeavored to
I mol^ wr.mr.n'c. qmrlr oflgj- hv design
ing the tilting bed spring shown here.
In this bedstead the spring is pivoted
to one side of the frame and is connected
.at both ends with spring
clamps. When the bed spring is
raised the clamps hold it in a raised
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position, so that the entire overhauling
of the bedstead becomes an easy
matter. An additional advantage lies
in the fact that the floor beneath the
bedstead can also be easily cleaned
without the necessity of pushing the
bed to all parts of the room-to get at
it.
Famous Caned Pulpits.
St. Gudule, the cathedral church of
Brussels, has a carved pulpit, representing
is carved wood the expulsion
from paradise. Among the animals
are the bear, the dog, cat, eagle, vulture,
peacock, owl, dove, ape, etc.
There is an equally fine one in Antwerp
cathedral. The decoration is of
lavish and striking character, figures,
FOREIGN
The Wife?"Fancy, John, they an
I wonder if it's any different from th?
The Husband?"Probably has moi
Tray For Odd3 and Ends.
One of the many necessities required
by the dressmaker and the
tailor is a tray, or other article for
holding pins, needles, buttons, hooks
and eyes, etc. A plate or saucer often
serves the purpose, with the result
that all the articles in the disk
| intermingle and must be fished out
| when needed. An infinitely better
j accessory for the purpose is the tray
shown in the accompanying illustration.
It is made of pressed glass and
contains partitions which divide it
into four compartments adapted for
articles of various kinds. Only one
partition can be introduced, increasing
the size of the compartments.
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ON THE GOLF LINKS.
birds and beasts being mixecl in artistic
profusion. The church of St.
Andrew at Antwerp contains a very
elaborately carved wood pulpit, representing
the calling of Peter and
Andrew. The figures are of life size,
standing in a boat. Beside them is a
net with fishes. Wilton Church, near
Salisbury, possesses finest pulpit in
England. It is made of choice marble,
most beautifully carved. In
Worcester cathedral is a pulpit of
carved marble, the gift of the late
Earl of Dudley. A pulpit which certainly
ranks among the finest in the
world is that possessed by the church
Df St. Mary, Radcliffe, Bristol, England.
In the church Oxford street.
Manchester, there is a marble pulpit
with panels of beautiful mosaics.
Each panel contains the portrait of
a saint worked in Venetian marble.
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Jet of Water at Grenoble, France,
Which Cannot Be Cut Through
With a Sword.
?Strand Magazine.
In Australia there are nearly 247/
000 more men than women.
HUMOR.
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5 getting out a woman's dictionary,
s others?"
*e words in it."?London Telegraph.
The latter provides a convenien.
means of separating the pins and buttons
so that they can be instantly
procured when desired.
A Railroad of Curves.
The first railroad west of the Alleghanies
was built from Lexington to <
Frankfort, Ky., in 1831. The road I
was laid out with as many curves a a I
possible, the engineers declaring thai
this was an advantage. The cars :
were in two stories, the lower foi
women and children, the upper for
men, four persons being seated in
each compartment. The cars were
at first drawn by mules, but aftei
a time a locomotive was made by a
Lexington mechanic. The tender was J
a big box for wood, and a hogshead
was provided for water which was
drawn in buckets from convenienl
wells. In place of a cowcatcher there
were two poles in front fitted witfc
hickory brooms for sweeping the
track.
The grand hall of the recent Bordeaux
E{position will be re-erected
for the Marseilles E::po:ition. '
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"JESUS ONLY."
(Matt. 17:8.)
Naught that I do
Can my salvation win,
JNo strivings or my own
Can purge away my sin;
But "Jesus only" sned His blood for me,
To wash away my sins and set me ?r?e.
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No look within
To feelings of my own,
Can make salvation sure
Or for my sins atone;
The Lord on Christ the sins of all hath
laid,
And "Jesus only" hath atonement made.
No creed of mine,
Howe'er correct it be,
Can save my soul and give
Eternal life to me;
Through "Jesus only" comes the gift Divine,
Through Him alone eternal life is mine.
No need to wait!
E'en while I waiting stand
The years may pass,
And death be nigh at hand:
Now, Saviour of the lost, I come to Thee,
With "Jesus only" for my only plea.
?W. D., in London Christian.
God's Work For Man.
v What is written in the law? How
readest thou??Luke 10:26.
Macaulay in one of his reviews
says, "The deeper and more complex
parts of human nature can be exhibited
by means of words alone." To
many of us they are mirrors, histories.
Every new science adds many
new words to our language. Every
new discovery, every war adds a few
more. Each one of these new words
enlarges our knowledge.
But words do not increase our
knowledge of men morally or in the
language of the heart. Moral science
may have become more elaborate, but
the vital and instinctive principles
which are for the guidance and development
of manhood and character
have not been improved. All those
words called the Ten Commandments,
spoken at least 4000 years ago, describe
man just as fully and exhaustively
to-day as they did then.
So also is this true of the laws ol
the heart. If one of the Pharaohs
looked in upon us he would be bewildered
at the multitudinous changed
in social, civic, commercial and indus? ??U
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llicli aiiau a, /ct wuai a &icaui ut ***telligent
recognition and appreciation
would come into his eyes the moment
he looked upon two lovers, or a moth,
er nursing her baby, or into the faces
of sorrow by an open grave! Thest
are the same throughout all ages.
They are like the physical laws oi
steam and of air and of electricity and
of motion; they are always there?
man does not invent them; he is their
discoverer.
Thus it is that man never progresses
by trying to invent moral
truth. When he seeks to discover it,
follow it, live it, make it the supreme
object in life, then he finds himself
close to the divine. Presence, touching
the things of God, breathing the
spirit of God. And he needs not to
go far afield, for he finds it in himself,
in his relationship with his fellows,
and in God's word.
It is too often assumed that moral
laws are restrictions, fences, guards,
but the truth is that it is sin that is
the restriction, it is sin that retards
manhood growth, it is sin that causes
the retarding complications in life, it
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clouds his vision, dulls his ear, confuses
and blights his affections.
Whereas his hearty, loyal response to
the moral and spiritual laws of God
gives him freedom. It is in them that
he finds bis true self, his manhood,
the joy of living, calling into play his
noblest powers.
The nation's laws are not restrictions,
fences curtailing personal liberty;
they may be that to the criminal,
but to the good citizen they are
the means by which he reaches his
best citizenship. We cannot imagine
a citizenship without laws any more
than we can imagine a manhood without
laws, and so moral law is an essential
part of every human life. This
may be proved by looking upon manhood's
failures as well as upon manhood's
successes. They have corae by
breaking through the provisions God
has provided.
Therefore Jesus did not merely express
a religious truth, but one of the
profoundest, deepest, furthest reaching
of all moral principles, when He
said to the young lawyer, "How readest
thou? * * * This do and thou
shalt live." Through that doorway
he would find abundant life, he would
find his true self, for just within it he
would find God the source of truth
and life, he would find Christ the
ideal, the renewer, the pattern, the
inspiration to the only life worth living?the
life of God in the human
soul. ? The Rev. John R. Mackay,
North Presbyterian Church, New
York, in the Sunday Herald.
Germ of Divinity.
Every soul has in it the germ of divinity.
This germ will develop as
sure as God is God, for it is always
brooded over by the Most High. That
weak, wicked, dissipated wretch will
disappear, and the Son of God will
appear. The sinner will become the
saint by the necessity of his own being,
which is from God.?Ursula N.
Gestefeld.
Spirituall Life.
With no wide-reaching affection
and no uplifting ideal, we make of
our life a treadmill and of our duty j
an unwelcome drudgery. We dis;laim
the highest endowment of the
soul and deny our sonsbip to God
Karrow faiths and narrow hopes pul
fetters on the spirit, and small affec- j
'vions keep small the heart.?Philin !
S. Moxom.
The Bible Never Misleads.
Of the profitableness of the sway
of the Bible over individuals, myriad?
have borne witness. "My heart has
deceived me a thousand times," said
Mr. Moody, "but that book has never
deceived me once."
Do Your Duty.
"To enjoy communion with God,
you must be found in the way of duty.
If you play the truant, no wonder
you are afraid af being whipped."?
i'oulady.
Ships Four Tons of Snakes.
A shipment of four tons of live j
rattlesnakes was made by F. B. Armstrong
from his snake farm, near
Brownsville, Texas. The reptiles are
consigned to muesnms and circus performers
throughout the North and
East All nf the snakes were made
harmless by the removal of their
fangs and the extraction of their !
poison before shipment.
rovcrty m JVew York.
Investigation by settlement work- '
ers showed that extreme poverty is
widespread on the east side, New
York City.
I lilt I
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JULY 20.
Subject: Saul Rejected by the Lord,
1 Samuel 15?Golden Text, Josh.
24:24?Commit Verse 22?Read
Chapters 13, 14?Commentary.
TIME.?A. D. 1091 B. C. PLACE. l>
?Gilgal.
EXPOSITION.?I. Samuel Rebukes
King Saul, 13-19. God had revealed
His purpose to make Saul king first
to Samuel, and to Samuel God first
revealed His purpose to depose Saul
because of his disobedience. There
was no other man in all Israel whom
God could so trust and of whom He
could make such a confidant. Samuel
grieved greatly over Jehovah's re
c Virt cnonf tVlO Whole
J6CUUI1 UL QClUl) 11C opcub i?Mv
night in tears and prayer (v. 11),
but he rose early to perform the duty
that God had put upon him, unwelcome
as it was. He will deliver God's
message and deliver it at once. Saul
greets Samuel with a great parade of
piety. A guilty conscience often leads
men to louder hallelujahs. Saul uttered
a bare-faced lie, but it is not
likely that he admitted even to himself
that it was a lie. Many a man
fancies that he is sincere when he
says, "I have performed the commandment
of the LORD," though in
his inmost heart he knows that he has
done nothing of the kind. Samuel
was not in the least deceived by Saul's
loud professions. It is impossible to
deceive the man who is in God's confidence.
Furthermore, the bleating
of the sheep and the lowing of the
oxen betrayed Saul's falsehood. There
is no use trying to hide our sins .
(Prov. 28:13; Nu. 32:23). The only
way to get our sins covered out of
the sight of man is to open them to
the gaze of God (Ps. 32:1, 5: 1 Jno.
1:9). In all that had to do with
obedience Saul sas's "I" and "we,"
in all that had to do with dlsobedW
ence Saul says "they" and "the people."
It is always the other fellow
that is to blame, but if it is a question
of credit, that belongs to us. The
basest sinner can always invent a
good construction of his vilest deeds.
Saul would make an act of grossest
disobedience to be an act of devotion.
It is not uncommon for rebels against
the holy will of God to decorate the
gratification of their lust with the
pretense of religion. Why Saul and
the people really spared the cattle is
evident (vs. 9 and 19). To give a
part of one's ill-gotten wealth to the
service of God will not set one's disobedience
right with God (vs. 22, 23).
Samuel did not venture to tell Saul
what he thought of his actions. He .
did something infinitely better, he
told him what God Himself had said.
Saul listened. s Samuel always com
manded respectful attention, because
men had learned that he spoko not
his own mind but the mind of God.
Samuel first recalls to Saul's mind tha
wonderful grace of God towards him.
The Bible constantly enforces our
duty towards God and our guilt Id
disobeying God by bringing to our attention
God's goodness towards U8._
It was when Saul was humble, when
he was little in his own eyes, that
God exalted him (Lu. 14:11). Jehovah
had appointed him to, the very
first place, and he had repaid God by
gross disobedience. What ingratitude!
But not so great as ours when
we disobey the God who has made us"
His own heirs. Saul's commission
was to destroy the Amalekites "utterly."
The Amalekites were a type
of the flesh, and God will have no H
mercy on the flesh. It must be put to H
death, the death of the cross (Gal. H
5:24; cf. 3:13). Many professed
Christians deal with the flesh just a? H
Saul dealt with Amalek. God sets H
them aside just as He set Saul aside. H
samuel sweeps away all Saul's soph- H
istries with a single question, "Why H
didst thou not obey the voice of the H
LORD?" No possible reasoning can
excuse disobedience to God. H|
II. Saul's Worthless Excusc, -0- H
23. Saul put on a very bold face and H
stoutly asserted that he had "obeyed B
the voice of the LORD." He hoped B
to lie himself out of his difficulty, but B
he failed lamentably. He has many B
imitators, but none ever succeed. Be- B
fore God got through with Saul 'he B
was forced to say "I have siuned" (v. B
$0). Every sinner has to come to B
this point sooner or later. The soonei B
he comes to it the better. One should B
never disobey God; but if one doee B
- J ' ' J- J- A
disobey, toe imug lu uu j& iu waive u
clean breast of it at once. Saul ad- |H
mits that the sheep and the oxen H9
should have been utterly destroyed,
but again says that it was the peopl j
that had spared "the chief" of them.
| and that too with a good purpose, JH
"to sacrifice unto the LORD." Then
he adds, with the vain hope of conciliating
Samuel, "thy God." If Saul |B
had been as cunning as some of our
modern scholars who find something
inconvenient in the word of God, he
would have told Samuel, "I do not Bfl
believe in a deadly literalism in interpreting
the word of God. I have kept
the spirit of God's command, even if
not the very letter." Many in our
own day are seeeking to subst'tnte
sacrifices and services of their own
invention for simple obedieuce to the
plain commands of God. God does
not ask us to invent, but to hearken
and obey. Witchcraft (in all its
forms) and "idolatry and Teraphim" H
are exceedingly hateful to God, but ^Bj
"rebellion" and "stubbornness" are^H
just as hateful. All disobedience toj^H
what God has said is "rebellion" and BH
"stubbornness." There was just on?
cause of Saul's ruin, he had "rejected H|
the word of the Lord." EH
Twenty Die in Know. pflp
A remarkable disaster has over- H
taken the exploring expedition of^H
Duke Adolf Friedrich, of Mecklenburg,
in the volcanic region in the^H
extreme northwestern corner of Ger- HH
man East Africa. In the crater of^H
Branca, one of the lower mountains,
the party was overtaken by a terrible HH
snowstorm and twenty of the black HH
contingent, nearly half of the expedi- H9
tion, were frozen to death about
ninety miles south of the Equator. HH
The report has the official Indorsement
of Duke Adolf Friedrich, whoflH
subscribed his name to it and it was^E
written in his behalf during his ill-^H
ness.
.Parcels 1'ost to France. BH
A parcels post agreement betweeoHB
this country and France, effective
August 15, was signed at Washing-HH
ton. Packages up to four pounds and^H
six ounces will be carried at the rateHBB
of twelve cents a pound. Later the^H
maximum weight will be increaseaHM
to eleven pounds. EH|
Jlrazil Purchases 120 Batteries.
Orazil has purchased from the^HD
Krupii works, in Germany, 120 bat-^^M