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A Wandering
Weatherby Has Fought is C
He's British Consul at no;
Northern Rigors Better '
SDanish Blockade Off San1
' Col. Lionel R. Stuart Weatherby,
;who is his Britannic Majesty's Consul
at Nome. Alaska, is at the Waldorf,
jbaving just returned from a brief
yisit to London, whither he went to
show his friends over there a nugget
lie had picked up In the North and to
renew old associations for a brief
(time.
But the fashions of Piccadilly and
Pall Mall did not appeal to the Col!
onel at all. Most of his life during
the last twenty years has been passed
away from England, for he has
sought adventure in India and South
'Africa, and again In Cuba during the
last insurrection. So he clings to the
rwide brimmed felt hat of the West
j and a short coat. In manner he is
genial and he speaks in a full, round
voice, and he hasn't lost the broad
"a" of his younger days, though his
forehead has grown and grown. The
Colonel makes no attempt to conceal
this either, for what hair he has left
he wears closely cropped, in contrast
With the length of his mustache.
"I went to the Northwest in *98
first," said Col. Weatherbv. "First I
tried the Dawson country, but in 1900
I came back and went down into
South America to explore the head.waters
of the Amazon. I have never
told about it yet. In fact I am keeping
quiet about that until I get ready
to tell what I found. I was down
there two years.
f "There are few old timers left in
Alaska. Most of those who went up
there in the early days got out after
making their pile. Alaska is still the
richest gold country in the world, but
of course the Territory has undergone
tremendous changes.
"During the last Cuban insurrection
I was in charge of a filibustering
expedition in the Horsa, a little fruit
steamer, and took a lot of rifles and
ammunition down there for the rebels.
One night we ran up near the
southern coast, but when we made
out a vessel which the Cuban major
.with me said was a Spanish gunboat
we made off shore again. Next night
we came back and came in sight of a
black cloud which the major said was
the island and we prepared to land
our cargo in boats. A field piece was
the most important part of the outfit,
and I got that and the ammunition
belonging to it safely into the first
boat, and told the major to hold on
until the last boat left. Well, after
a few of the other boats fcad been
loaded the steamer started away and
I pulled in our hawsers and found
they had been cut. The Horsa afterward
arrived in Jamaica, was found
to have arms on board and was sent
up here with her captain, under arrest.
I "We found ourselves in a predicament.
What we were told was land
turned out to be only a cloud, and instead
of being a couple of miles off
shore we were fully thirty. To make
things worse, a storm came up and
we spent the night pitching up and
down. We couldn't see the stars,
and so couldn't make out which way
to steer. The crews of the other
W boats threw their cargoes overboard,
except one that was commanded by a
colonel. Next morning we could not
see land at all. I had put a tarpaulin
into the boat to cover the gun, and
we rigged this up with a sail, and
using this and the oars we made for
where we thought the land "was. As
we had been told we were so near the
land we had not put any water or
food into the boat, and on the second
day the man upon whom we depended
to show us the way to Gomez's camp
,went mad and tried to kill several of
us. so we had to tie him up. We
made out land on the second day, and
rowed for all we were worth, and that
night, the moon being clear, we hove
in sight of what seemed the entrance
to a beautiful bay.
"All at once two men-o'-war appeared,
coming out of the opening.
It was the harbor of Santiago. I immediately
ordered the tarpaulin down
BASEBALL'S GR"
How Hans Wagner, tin
First Job on
Hugh S. Fullerton, the well-known
baseball expert, contributes an interesting
sketch about Hans Wagner,
"'the greatest baseball player in the
world." to the American Magazine.
Mr. Fullerton gives the following ac
^ count of how vvagner got ms nrsc
' pay job at playing baseball:
"The career of Wagner in baseball
has been interesting. I-Ie was reared
(n Carnegie, Pa., before it "was Carnegie.
and he and his brothers played
the game there. John (I wonder
how many admirers of Honus, or
Hans, know his name is John P?)
was not a good player as a boy. The
brothers thought he was a bit too
awkward, and barred him except
when be wanted to pitch. His arms
were tremendously long, and they assert
around his home that when he
Was a 'kid.' and his legs were even
more bowed than they are now, he
could wai\ along and wck up apples
without stooping. TrEat immense
length of arm has been one of the
physical advantages that has gone to
make him the greatest of all players.
Besides, he has shoulders almost as
wide as his arms are long, and he
could throw a ball with terrific speed.
Because he could throw so hard, all
the other boys boasted 'no catcher
could hold John,' and thereupon made
bim pitcher.
"Presently Al, who was John's
older brother, became a professional
player, and got a job playing third
base for a team at Sieubenville, Ohio.
George Moreland. who now is the
Rhief baseball statistician of the country,
was seized with a mania for owning
and managing teams, and he had
bought the Steubenville club and
hired Al Wagner. Moreland needed
ft Ditcher in the summer of 1895. sjtf
Colonel, He
uba and Frozen in Alaska?
me Now and He Likes the
rhan the Tropics?Ran a
tiago With Arms.
and the men and I got under it. hoping
that as we thus presented almost
a flat appearance upon the water we
would not be noticed, and we were
not, though one of the warships
passed within 500 yards of us before
turning east. The other turned west.
As soon as they got far enough away
we changed our course and rowed
along the coast until we found a bit
of beach. There we buried the field
piece and the breech block in sand
and brush, destroyed the trail and
running the boat out to sea stove a
hole in her.
"We were all pretty weak, but I
made the men go to sleep while I
started to do sentry duty. I strolled
up and down and must have gone to
sleep while walking, for suddenly I
came up against a rock that was sticking
up out of the sand and thought I
had run up against a Spaniard. At
daylight we started out over the hills
looking for water, but found none
until three o'clock of that afternoon,
when reaching the top of a little
range, we looked down and saw a
beautiful stream at our feet. We
rushed down to drink, but the water
was salt.
"Well, I told the men to lie down,
placing them in a strategic position,
nnH tpiiinc them to fieht if the Span
iards came, and started off alone to
find water. In half an hour I came
across a friendly Cuban who quickly
got us out of our distress.
"This was in '95. I fought down
there with the insurgents until '98,
but it was poor fighting. Fully
eighty per cent, of the victories we
were credited with we won by our j
superiority of foot power. We really J
ran away. We had to run because
our men had no arms.
"Yes, I like Alaska betted than the
tropics. We have a great deal of
sport up there. One great event is
the yearly dog race from Nome to
Candle, a distance of 406 miles. The
one last year was a corker. They
started out in a blizzard, and this
continued for fifteen hours after the
start. The winner, in spite of it, finished
the journey in eighty hours.
The Hon. Fox Ramsay, a young Englishman,
who is my partner, was passing
his first winter there, but he had
entered with a team of nine dogs.
He got out three miles and then his
dogs got away from him. He came
back to Nome pulling his sled himself.
Then he got his dogs together
again and made another start. Well,
he got lost out at sea on the ice. He
was missing for a couple of days, but
he found the course again, and
reached Candle safely. Then when
| he found he hadn't won he went on
further north to shoot polar bears.
His pluck made him vastly popular
with the men up there."?New York
Sun.
The Great American Nut.
By E. A. GOEWEY.
Indianapolis baseball fans paid
$6000 for their peanuts at Washington
Park la# season, and they consumed
fifteen tons of the popular delicacy.
The shells from fifteen tons of
peanuts would 'cover .the entire surface
of the park. Fifteen tons are
equivalent to 30,000 pounds, which
equal 120,000 bags of four ounces
each. At five cents a bag the purchase
price of fifteen tons would be
$6000. Talk about a show of true
sporting blood! Can you beat the
above??Leslie's.
Used to Paying.
When the waiter veered arouna sne
took out her pocketbook.
"For heaven's sake," the man with
her cried. "What do you mean?
Aren't you dining with me?"
"I forgot," she apologized. "I be- j
long to so many Dutch treat clubs It's
got to be second nature."?New York
Presa.
EATEST PLAYER
ie Pirates' Star. Got His
the Diamond.
; could not find one to complete his i
I Ditching staff until A1 Wagner came !
to him and said. 'Why don't you give
my brother John a chance?' 'Can he
pitch?' asked Moreland. 'I don't
know." replied AI. 'But it won't cost
much for you to find out.'
"Honus was playing on the lots
around Carnegie and Moreland wrote,
asking him if he would sign a contract
to pitch for Steubenville, and
the second day thereafter there came
a posial card on which was written,
'Yes. When do you want me?'
' Wagner ignored the salary question
entirely, and Moreland called Al
into consultation. 'What will your
brother want?' he asked. 'Oh, anything
will suit him,' replied AI.
"The salary limit of the Steubenville
team was 3S00 a month, and
-Moreland was within $35 of the limit
set by the league, 30 he wrote offering
John Wagner $35 a month to
pitch for him. The following day
came another laconic card: 'All right.
Will accept.'
'Moreland telegraphed Wagner to 1
report immediately and wired a rail- j
t-/^o rl orrlc-r for i inn Tho I
.V,. ,
telegram was sent at eight o'clock In
the morning, and the first train leaving
Pittsburg for Steubenville started
at noon, reaching Steubenville at
about 1.30. Shortly before one j
o'clock, Claude Ritchey, who was
playing his first professional engagement.
said: 'Here comes the big
Dutchman,' and Hans Wagner, covered
with cinders, sauntered up to
begin his baseball career."
In the United States the percentage
of railroads which are not engaged
in carriage of the mails is very
small.
IN
J. AUSTEN CH.
(Mouth-piece and Successor of His Inv<
Imperial
Sandpaper Plane.
Another invention of interest to
carpenters, joiners and men of kin- ]
dred trades is the sandpaper plane i
designed by a Louisiana man. This 1
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implement, as shown in the illustra- !
tion, closely resembles an orthodox; i
plane, but instead of having a blade f
underneath it has a smooth base cov- j
ered with a layer of sandpaper, which j
polishes off rough surfaces with great :
rapidity and absolute uniformity. It
also has the advantage of doing the j
work without pousning tne sKin on
che knuckles of the person using it.
The two knobs seen in the cut unscrew
and the baseboard, which fits in
grooves in the body of the plane and
slides backward and forward when
released, can be taken out and covered
with a fresh piece of sandpaper
when the old piece is worn down.
Thus recovered the base is put back, i
the knobs screwed up tight again to
hold it firmly, and the carpenter
scrapes away with ease and rapidity.
?Boston Post.
15!!===^ ARSENAL OF A~j
Armed like the porcupine, but
studded with sharp metal spikes bene
of Paris, known as Apaches, have rece
the public, which used to regard their
other day two detectives went into a v
Liaboeuf. As soon as they had seized 1
by the hidden spikes on the miscreant
go. The Apache then stabbed one of tb
other dead. The police will be chary a
ers hereafter for fear of the porcupine <
Wagon Winds Up. t
If children cannot have automo- 4
biles of their own to run, they can at I
least have a wagon thc.t will run sev- I
eral blocks on its own power and give ?
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BUGEYE.
A.MBERLAIN.
ilid Father as Leader of the British
ists.)
Hammer Holds Nails.
Who has not pounded his thu:aib in
place of a nail while trying to harnner
the latter into some place difficult
to reach or Home corner where it was
bard to get both hand and hammer?
& North Dakota man has gotten
around this difficulty with aft ingenious
invention of an attachment for
che heads of hammers whiqh holds
the nail just beneath the head and
drives it- irifr> nlare without difficulty.
The attachment consists of a loop
:>? metal and a slight groove and recess
under the hammer head. The
nail fits in this, and all that, need be
clone is to give one blow as If the nail
svere held in position with tljfi fingers.
This blow will suffice to fix the nail
In place, and the hammer can then be
withdrawn, the loop in the head being
large enough to permit of the passage
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of the head of the nail, ani the nail
can be pounded all the ws.y In with
no trouble at all. In this way the
thumb and fingers of the carpentei
are In no danger.?Boston Post.
PAWS^\PACHE.
invisibly, their arms ana shouiaen
sath their coats, the young brigands
ntly defied the police and frightened
pranks with some indulgence. The
fine shop to arrest an Apache named
lim their hands were frightfully tori
's arms and they were forced, to let
e detectives eight times and shot the
bout laying hands on Apache prisonjquipment.?Le
Monde Illustre.
hem all the fun of speeding for a litle
while. This vehicle was invented
>y an Ohio woman, and its motive
lower is i. spring. The wagon is a
itrongly built affair with two seats
ind a steering apparatus be operited
from the front aeat. Underneath
he body is a strong spring, which is
vound from the back by means of a
nultiple gear. After the spring has
>een wound tight the boys get aboard
ind release the brake which keeps the
vheels still. Instantly the vehicle
ihoots forward at an exhilarating
peed and runs for several hundred
ards before it slows down to a stop,
fhe brake, before mentioned, en
Ll)les tile occupants 01 tne wagon to
top it. in a short space if there is any
langer of running down a poor old
tpple woman or butting a trolley car
iff the track.
Canada has 100,000 Indians among
ler population of 6,000,000. The
;overnment has isolated them, as
vards of the nation, in reserres,
^hich are scattered all ov?r the Doninion.
THE PULPIT. [
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR. CHARLES W. M'CORMICK.
Theme: Faith.
Brooklyn, N. Y.?Dr. Charles W.
McCormick, pastor of the Nostrand
Avenue M. E. Church, preached Sunday
morning the sixth in a series of
notable sermons on "The Fruits of
the Spirit." The special subject was
"Faith." The text was from Galatians
5:22: "Now the fruit of the
Spirit is faith." Dr. McCormick said:
What is faith? Perhaps no one
can answer. Certainly no one will
be able to give a scientific definition.
For faith is one of those ultimate impulses
of the soul which defies accurate
metes and bounds. Like love,
it is so wrought into the fiber of personality
that it cannot be separated
and viewed apart. Yet faith is one1
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ties. The old question, which is
greater, faith or love, may never find
its answer. Each is great and in certain
aspects supremely so, and each
conditions ,the other. Without faith
there can be rib love, and without
love there can be no faith. Yet It
would seem as if faith has a certain
priority In that it holds up the light
for love to walk by. If love and faith
are one in their initial manifestation,
they travel but little way hand in
hand. Soon faith takes a step ahead
and becomes the guide of love,
though sometimes faith falls back on
love when It is itself menaced. Likewise
the question, which is^^l^er,
faith or reason, may be difflcultS.^
answer. Reason in its low ranges?
has to do with facts and phenomena
and their arrangement. But reason
in its high ranges draws mighty inferences,
makes great generalizations
and reaches conclusions that may defy
demonstration for generations, if
not forever. Here reason merges Into
faith and faith finds its foothold In
reason. It seems that faith Is after
all hardly other than the highest utterance
of reason. Especially does
this seem true when we remember
that reason In the large meaning always
assumes some great and indemonstrable
principle. It seems easy
to say that a grain of wheat will produce
its thirty or sixty fold of wheat
when planted in congenial soil, but
the great assumption underlying this
simple statement is that the laws of
nature are uniform in their operation
and this is demonstrable only to
faith.
But what is faith? Can we get any
nearer to an understanding of it? At
any rate, we may clarify our thought
by determining the use we will make
of the word. The term faith is applied
either to the act of believing or
to the content of belief; that is, to
belief as a function of the soul or to
what the individual believes. The
latter meaning is found in the phrase,
"the faith once delivered to the
saints." Here Paul has in mind the
great body of Christian doctrine re
ceivea irorn unnst ana geaerau; accepted
by the church of that day. On
the other hand, when Paul exhorted
the Philippian jailer to believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ, he referred to
I an act on the part of the jailer though
he did not forget that the Christ upon
whom the jailer was to believe was
the Christ of the Gospels, and therefore
possessed well-known and accepted
characteristic?. We .have
taken a short step toward 'understanding
what faith is when we make
this distinction and limit ourselves to
faith as an action of the soul. But
we need to make clear also that faith
is not the action of some special soul .
power. It is nothing less than the
act of the whole spiritual nature.
This conception excludes any definition
of faith which makes it a mere
intellectual process. Pure intellect
is only a theoretical concept. It is
not found in reality. All intellectual
processes are the outgrowth of the Individual
soul as it is, and no soul can
be separated for a single instant from
its feeling, its trend and its accumulated
volitions or habits. Faith, then,
can be nothing less than the action of
the whole nature of man. In like
manner, a distinction must be drawn
I between a transient and a permanent
I activity. Faith in the New Testament
sense is not a single act complete in
itself. It is a constant and enduring
movement or trend of the soul.
In the interest of further clearness,
it may be noted also that faith as an
action may relate either to facts or
persons. We may believe either that
certain statements are true, or we
may believe in a person. Faith in
the Christian sense involves both
facts and a person. Here we must
speak very guardedly. There is much
in the present trend of theological
thinking, which finds its echo in popular
thought, that tends to looseness,
and, it would seem, to vagueness.
When we are told that faith has to do
with God as a person, or with Jesus
Christ as a person without regard to
any definition or clear historic setting,
we are asked to do either the
impossible or the absurd; perhaps
both. It is hard to think of God
without giving to Him some definite
qualities. If we know Him at all, we
must know Him as we know our fel
lows, tDrougn nis uiiiuncsLctLiuua.
That is, through the display of His
qualities. The "unknowable" of Herbert
Spencer may be a fine refuge for
intellectual incompetence when the
mind has failed in its vain endeavor
to account for the universe and explain
its processes. It is worth something
to fall back upon the assertion
that there is an unknown and perhaps
unknowable power working
everywhere and always in nature,
which on the whole makes for righteousness.
But that conclusion grows
out of the inability of the human intellect
to go any further in its search.
And this assertion, empty as it is, is
the assertion of faith and not of the
intellect. It is a postulate which man
must make because he is made as he
is. But it is impossible either to love
or to believe in a postulate. Faith
must find for its full exercise much
more than a mere force without quality
or attribute. The personality of
Jesus Christ means something If we
accept as substantially true the Gospel
narrative, illuminated and enforced
by the progress of Christian
history. But if deny the Gospels, or
with Schmiedel reduce the biography
of Jesus to two or three sentences of
the most ordinary sort, it does not
seem credible that Jesus as a person
shall long survive. Whatever else
may be true, it is true that the Christ
in whom the world believes, and believing
has found a regenerating
power from age to age. is the Christ
I of the Gospels. In all our present
' day-thinking, it is this Christ whose
image stands before us, whom we
love and in whom we trust. A Christ
who has no history and whose life
therefore presents no facts for credence
would be a vanishing Christ.
Nevertheless, the faith of which the
New Testament speaks relates chiefly
to persons. Christianity is not funda
mentally a creed, but the manifestation
of God In Christ Jesus, to which
man may respond trustfully and loyally,
and it is this response which we
call faith. The mission of Christ is
to bring us to God, that we may love
Him and believe in Him, and, therefore,
serve Him. And I am persuaded
that many a man finds God in
Christ with whose technical theology
I could not agree. If all men had to
believe the same creed, salvation
would be impossible to many of us
Tirhn nnf find Ifc difficult to believe
in the same God and the same Christ
with difference of definition.
What, then, is faith? Four our
purposes to-day as it relates to God
it is the continued and loyal movement
of the entire soul of a man toward
God as the revealer of truth and
the authoritative Lord of life.
We may note also two other meanings
of faith which grow out of this
larger meaning, for faith not only
comprises the entire nature of the individual,
but also the whole field of
his activities. Faith in God Implies
faith in our fellowmen as the creatiou
of God, or from the Christian point
of view, the children of God.. By this
we may not mean a foolish disregard
of all distinctions of character, nor
the assertion that all men are equally
to be relied upon; but it does mean
a recognition of humanity as involved
in the purpose of a trustworthy
God, and therefore, itself
worthy of confidence. He who believes
in God as his Father, believes
also in man as his brother. Faith in
God implies also good faith on the
part 01 tne oenever. to accept iioa
as the giver of light and the Lord of
life is to acknowledge ourselves
bound to be utterly sincere in our relations
to Him. And to acknowledge
the brotherhood of man, including
ourselves, is to enthrone the principle
of good faith among men. In a
wor,?.. faith is the expression of the
soul's I">ve of truth and its loyalty to
truth; to God who is truth and whose
plans, though not understood by us,
are the embodiment of His truth; to
man, who, cre?> ted In the image of
God and -redeemed by God's only begotten
Son, preserves yet amid the
ruinous results of hi? sin, some traces
of the Father's image-, and the capacity
for unlimited development; to self
as the creature of the true God and
as part of the constituted" 'order of
things where truth forms the only reliable
basis of harmonious action.""
Faith thus defined bulks large. foi
is seen to be not merely the transient
activity of a single phase of man's
lotm-o tlio 4nfo11ont hut tho rnnttn*
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ued movement of man's entire being,
intellect, sensibilities, will, toward
truth and ultimately toward the God
of truth. It is not for a day nor an
hour, but for all time and for all eternity.
It is not limited to a single faculty
of the human soul, but involves
the wbole soul. It has not for its object
a limited area of truth, but
reaches out toward all truth, even the
infinite God of truth.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to
draw a clear line of distinction between
what is called "natural" and
what is called "religious" faith. To
one who believes as I do that man Is
a religious being through and
through, the faith which arises in the
ordinary so-called "secular" processes
of life and has to do with practical
daily affairs is itself a fruit of the
spirit. By this I mean that man is a
creation of the Almighty, upon whose
soul and its consequent activities God
has stamped His own nature. Furthermore,
God has interwoven Himself
in the very fabric of the universe.
If, as we have said, faith is necessary
to all progress, then the exercise of
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iaiin Oil HIW J^ctrV V1 man uionia^o
something of the divine nature within
him. It is because God has sent forth
His spirit into the heart of man that
man is able to think God's thoughts
after Him in the universe^ and to
reach forward with those 'majestic
reaches of confident expectation
which have wrought the great accomplishments
in the material and intellectual
development of human life in
relation to the world outside of man.
Yet, it must be conceded that religious
faith Is of a higher order than
this general faith because it deals
with a higher order of facts. The
moral nature of man is his crowning
possession. The apprehension of God
marks the highest reach of his moral
intelligence. Fellowship with God is
at once his crowning glory and supreme
privilege. To believe in God is
the highest attribute to faith and the
exercise of this attribute is conditioned
by personal fellowship with
God. As with every one else, God
must first be known and then believed.
When one knows God, especially
as a personal friend and
Saviour, it is not difficult to believe
what otherwise would he most incomprehensible,
nor to trust God
where without such knowledge trust
would be impossible. This knowledge
of God is made possible through
the Holy Spirit whom God hath sent
Into the hearts-of those who believe,
crying, "Abba, i'ather."
In like manner it is this knowledge
of God which underlies and conditions
faith in our fellowmen and
good faith on the part of ourselves.
If God has faith in man, the believer
in God must have also, and if God
has faith in man, then the individual
who realizes that God has faith in
him must make a fitting response of
good faith.
Great heights give wide visions to
open eyes. It is only when the spirit
of God leads men to those exalted experiences
where he knows and feels
that God is, that the very ground
about him becomes holy ground and
? ? ./> V/M.!Tnn le rvitcVloH linolf Sfl thflt lie
can behold the infinite glory beyond.
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No Trials, No Strength of Character.
"I will allure her and bring het
into the wilderness, and speak comfortably
unto her. and I will give he;
vineyards from thence," that is from
the soil that comes from her wilderness
experience. So, beloved, if you
had an easy path you would become a
coward; and run away every time you
saw a Philistine. The people that
have no trials and discipline are just
like this, they are soft and cowardly.
And the one God wants to make
strong to undergo the journey to
Canaan, He has .to make hardy by
discipline and training. He leadB
you by tho hard way that you may
be harnessed, may be trained as a
soldier to fight the battles of your
life, educated for your work by the
very things you are going through
now.?A. B. Simpson.
Era of Enormous Goodness.
If we live in an era of greed and
graft, we also live in an era of enormous
goodness, unparalleled philanthropy,
increasing intelligence and
crowing ethical standards. Can
there be any doubt which forces will
win??Milton Reed.
Creed.
A creed is that which a man thinks
in his heart, and what he thinks inheart
he is and does.
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The
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM- j
MENTS FOB APRIL 24. i \\ ,:M
Subject: Warning and Invitation,;
Matt. 11:20-30?Commit "j. f : .
Verses 28-30.
GOLDEN TEXT.?"Come unto Me, . ' ^
all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest." Matt.
11:28.
TIME.?Midsummer, A. D. 28.
PLACE.?Capernaum.
EXPOSITION.?I. Warnings of
Unutterable Woe to the Impenitent* ' *'
20-24. The works of God are a call
to repentance (ct Ro. 2:4; Actf, XTih,'
30, 31). The greater and more maii^.
ifest the works the louder the call tx*
repentance. If we see great work? of ,
God and do not repent, we bring:
greater guilt and condemnation upon;; 7.
ourselves. Chorazin and Bethsai<laf >
I had been witnesses to marveion?Y
workings of God's grace and power In.:,
Jesus Christ. These should hare', .
brought them to repentance and the
acceptance of Jesus Christ as the 8a-*'
viour and Lord. But they had not re-r
pented. They had closed their eyea >??
and hardened their hearts and that
which was intended for their salvation
became .their condemnation.
ChriBt accepted brings salvation and:
eternal life; Christ rejected bringa
greater condemnation and more intol- jz
erable judgment and penalty (Helb?
10:28, 29). Their impenitence was
utterly without excuse and Jegus up~ :>3
braided them Tor It. But we have
more light than Chorazln and Bethsaida.
How then must Jesus regar/I
those who do not reftent among u8?;
Sodom was a very guilty city. Its
vileness has become the synonym -cf
all that is most Indescribably loath- i'
some in vice, but the guilt of New j
York and Chicago, London and other
American and English cities is greats
er than that of Sodom; for these clt- ; v'\j
ies have rejected greater light. The . ]
amount of light given and rejected is I
the measure of the guilt of the na- ' : ;]
tion and of the Individual. Caper* /$p?
naum thought it 'would surely be ex j
alted to heaven because of the great i
gillie oesioweu upuu ll, uut <icgua , <rn|
said nils would drag it down to hades*
becausa that boasted grace was fle- .
eplsed a'ru^ neglected. Our blessings
as a nation will drag ua down to 1
hades unlesfet we repent. Jesus contemplated
thfeM;oming judgment of . rl
Chorazln and B&hsalda with unut- . j.39H
terable sorrow ("M. Matt. 23:37). I
How great must be' .the sorrow with, -tjjpa
which He contemplate.the Judgment .
?*%***% AAIMA A?I man onif noHAna """
DVUU vu WUiO VU liuo UiUU UUM ?
of to-day who reject the tfondroua - .- Jfl
light given them. Jesue puts the re- $3
jection of Hlrpself as the supreme sin 9
and the one meriting heaviest con- .J
demnation, another proof, of Hia 'J
deity. Jesus is the supreme manifes- 1
tation of truth and God. The rejec-. " TRjA
tlon of Him is, therefore, the final
revelation of a heart wedded to dark- VI
ness, error and sin; it is the supreme* V-3SM
decisive, damning sin (cf. Jno. 3:18,
IT. Promises of Unspeakable Joy
to Those Who Come to Jesus, 25-30.
Tn v. 25 v? find one of the most im- ioffll
portaht principles upon which God x:g
deals with men in the revelation ot vSjg
His truth. If we are to ggt God's in-.V'r^
finite wiBdom we muBt renounce our . ^
finite wisdom. The man who is full- roS
of his own wisdom cannot have God's. V?
(cf. Is. 5:21;;,i'?0B!.r 1:1,8-27)., If w*j$|
are to be wise with the true wisdpm,
we must take our place as fools to-Wore&f
taught, by the All-wise (i Cor.' 3:1&.
20)/ Jesus ChriBt rejoiced in thfr>-^
Spirit and thanked God that thiaJg so 'f ^
(Luke 10:21, R. V.). The 27th vento 5$
contains a .tremendous statement,
the authority committed to Jesua^ aM^^
is to be taken in the broadest:and - r
most absolute sense (Matt. ''' &*
Jno. 3:35; 13:3; 17:2; Eph. 1:2023
Ph!1 5>-1 ft 11: Hftb. 2:8-10: Act*
10:86). God has actually committed .f.fl
*he whole universe, celestial as well
as terrestrial, into the hands'of Jesus
Christ. We have a wonderful and M
mighty Saviour, He is also a wise /
Saviour, He thoroughly knows God. S
He alone does, and those to whom He ' . H
wills to reveal Him. How foolish
then are those who seek to know God H
by study of philosophy or theoso- U|
phy, or comparative religion. Out- H
aide of the revelation Jesus Christ r '/SM
makes of the Father, God is, indeed, - H
as the agnostic says, "the Unknowable."
But there is one who knows J|
God and who is ready to give to any * ' H|
one who will believe on Him an un- B|
| derstanding that he also may know flR|
j God (1 Jno. 6:20). The words of v. |H
28 are among the most wonderful IH
i that ever fell from the lips of Him
1 who spake as never man spake. Here
! i- TTI- J.U.. U.UVi
agaiu nib ueiiy auiuca uut u 115111, auu
clear. What presumption or lunacy H|
it would have been in Jesus to have
said this if He were mere man. But
that it is neither presumption nor lu- H|
nacy is amply proven by the fact that 9Q
thousands upon thousands have put :.BH
these words to the test of actual ex- H|
periment and found them absolutely H
true. Jesus does give rest. Note
four .things in this wonderful invi^ laHfl
! tation: (1) Who invites?Jesus. (2)
> Whom He invites?all that labor and
; are heavy laden. Commentators have ^H|
i sought to set various limitations upon Hfi
this, e. g., "those who labor under
burden of guilt." It includes those, Jgg
; but is not limited to them. It means
I just what it says, "All that labor."
; Christ invites every one that has a M
Irurden. It may be sin, remorse, Bfl
doubt, sorrow, sickness. No matter !bH|
what, overburdened man, Jesus says, r^Efl
"Come." (3) To what He invites?
rest. That is what the human heart 9H8
craves, that is what Jesus gives. (4) HH
The condition, "Come." That is all. HHI
Note also to Whom we are to "Come," Hfifl
"unto Me," not unto a creed, not unto aKm
a church, unto a person, and that WW
person, Jesus Himself. Not to a ESSH
priest, not to a pastor, net to some BEH
great theologian, not to the Pope,
"unto Me," right straight to Jesus, |H|
lie only can give rest, but He can. HB
If you haven't rest, it is because you
haven't come to Jesus. Come now.
Then Jesus proceeds to tell of a deep- ^^9
er rest still?rest in service. "Take
My yoke upon you," surrender absolutely
to His will (Jno. 14:21-23; HBB
j 15:10-14). HH
| To Study Law at Seventy-three. flflj
J. W. Jones, seventy-three years of
r.ge, of Glouster, Ohio, certified to the
Supreme Conrt at Columbus, Ohio, Nj
(hat lie had begun the study of law HH
j preparatory to admission to the bar.
I Three years' study is required, so
! that he will be seventy-six when admilted
to practice, even with the best
l,ic n-nrl
I oui.v.cdo ni mo ??*? i mm^m
' Nicaragua Insurgents Beaten. . H9R
Nicaragua insurgents have virtu* HBH
ally admitted that the rebellion i^H
crushed.
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