SUDAY SCHOOL.
QSaasnn VII.?Third Quarter, For
.Aug. 15,1915.
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WISE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. J
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Tftni rrff'fhe 'Lesson, I Kings xii, 25-33. j
JWmssory Verses, 28, 29?Golden Text, I
fSit.xa, 4, 5a?Commentary Prepared j
\ ?Rev. D. M. Steams. 1
" "SJEfean -we hear Jeroboam saying In
^ 1 t>A 5
i.JDSc JWtart, x>u>v suau luc nuifiuvui ic^JLnt,-:to
the house of David, * they I
Ikill me and go again to Reho- '
'StestEL, king of Judah" (verses 26, 27), f
-nrnE jsmnember that God had said to !
aaac if he would walk in His ways and <
<J?n3giit in His.6ight, He would be with
-sad build him a sure house (xi, 37, 1
3ii., irce cannot see any evidence in :
-JaawJboaiB of any faith in God or any
Sasxct for Him. When he took counsel
zkuii. .made the calves of gold and set
r?&*ana .up at Bethel and Dan for Israel
r?a< 'Tjporship, saying, "Behold thy gods,
<Jf> Ssrael, which brought thee up out of
^and of Egypt" (verses 28, 20), he
.Spwvoi himself an idoiator ana a nar
rra.it s. true child of the devil. He prehis
own way to God's way, i
-rtacfejaess rather than light, the service
/fiie devil rather than that of God.
JFEa; . fcacrilices and his feasts, his altar
zbuL Siis incense, were all the device
?aC Lis own heart (verse 33), and it is
of him again and again through I
fcfre story of the ten tribes, "Jero Smsjeo,
the son of Nebat, who made !
XsjcmS. to sin." He never turned from
2ze6*ttH way, but did worse and worse.
^aaaZ.After reigning twenty-two years he ;
^md was succeeded by his son ,
JBa-Saib, who followed in his father's .
;Ziati?3teps (xiv, 20; xv, 2^, 2G). Rehoreigned
in Judah seventeen
jpieanre, tout he also did evil in the sight
r^he Lord, and led the people into
;&?btilzy and into all the abominations
xtTthe nations which the Lord cast out <
f.BcSare the children of Israel (xiv, 21 ^Th'u-is
a story of long ago, but is be
j ? ~n I1
r .r*?~vg ~rept>iACU uu an oiuco ucivic vui
<*g?ss today, and as truly as the time
tone*? when both the ten tribes and the
t?wv? tribes went into captivity for their 1
tfitBE, so the time will come, is even
smav drawing near, when the Lord will
ajsat out of His mouth the professing I
because of her sins and set up
T3Eg kingdom of righteousness and
jtweop. on this earth (Rev. iii. 14-22).
"^ESse church, the company of believers,
vffie Eipected to represent Jesus Christ
<un tfhis earth, as Israel was expected
ft? represent the Lord God of Israel;
':t? -sTalk in His ways and do right in
3E?is sight From the beginning God
j?ebe wrought by His Spirit and Hiswarti
and His own power. Thus He
-crests-d all things In the beginning, and
VTa rooMroH nil thlners flftpr thft
<scSxstrophe (Gen. i. 1; ii. 3; Ps. xxxiil,
ILn all the history of Israel He re<.'S??nied,
He fed. He guided. He said
S31s apostles. "It Is not ye that
rrtjEoik, but the Spirit of your Father
speaketh in you" (Matt. x, 20).
Ut as written of Stephen. "They were
iruat iiWe to resist the wisdom and the
5?35#rlt by which he spake" (Acts vi, 10).
W2?en we consider the worldly abom*a*S?*ons
which are found In the
?rjbisn&es of our day and the false
' fcsssdbnig, such as the denial of the vir
birth, the deity of Christ, His
upica^reus atonement (His suffering for
<nr ales In our stead). His literal resursriseJfcion
from the dead, present ministry
intercession for His people1. *and
. ?.!Bra?anir asrain for His own and later
His own to set up His kingdom,
'tines it not seem as if many of the
lT??5ers of our day are, with their in?
Trotsed light, worse In their Idolatry
-isssfc -ambelief than were Jeroboam and
"3&?fo6boam? In all ages God has had i
3EBts??rvn faithful ones, though always ,
'lew comparatively. One day as
-fcroboaxn stood by his altar at Bethel
ftM Trorn Incense there came a man of
-out of Judah with a message from
"Lord, and he said that one would
<nanK from the house David, called Jo- '
is&rfs, who would burn the bones of the
UsSse -priests upon that altar; and as a ,
stfga. that It would be so the altar was
\ '3b?5E rent and the allies scattered.
-Sertfboam attempted to lay hold of
f'-Sae man of God, but his hand dried
?md he could not draw it back
?aershi until the man of God prayed for
'uIbee- Then he asked the man of God
"Sis'go'home with him that he might re- i
SJBnsgfc 'Him with food and give him a (
^mc-ariS1 Tni+ ho ronlifxl thnt hp wns
'i*tearged "try the Lord not to do this.
S&wrcly after this an old prophet of
'33^?fiel, who had been told by his sons
vac ?Kls Incident, saddled his ass and
SVirafl the man of God sitting nnder
rss. -9TLk and Invited him home, but the 1
CTssn of God replied as he did to Jerovtwam.
Then the old prophet said that i
-s?. angel had told him to come for ,
' 5-Movand to bring him home. (But the
rg& man lied.) To this the man of God
l^lelded and went home with the old '
*3?*spnet. as tney sat at taDie a strange
.sxwssnge came through the old prophet,
was fulfilled -when.the man of '
left his house, for a lion met him 1
i-imfi "killed him, but did not eat him i
. :xs3 did not harm the ass on which he <
t ^s5e. This story is fully recorded in ,
x ? Swings xiii. The fulfillment of the .
1 Z75SC1 of God's prediction some 300
; veers later is found in II Kings xxiii.
. .Xsto the death of the man of God for
* Ttsobedience I have often wondered
' .7Tl!?aurhad it in mind when he wrote
3aGu i, 8, 9. According to those words
wj2cre are many who are under that
arse because they do not preach the (
-Staple gospel. We must hear only
God the Lord has said (Ps. lxxxy,
' *.{? *.nd be deaf to all else.
SOIL BUILDING, A JOB YOU CAN- ,
NOT AFFORD TO SHIRK.
The Progressive Farmer.
For the farmer of the South we
:old that there are few greater responsibilities
than that of carina for
:he land; not only caring for it, but
naking it better and better as the
/ears go by. Indeed, so great is
ihis responsibility, that we affirm
that the farmer who is not a soilouilder,
rather than a soil-robber, is
iiot, however splendid hjs other qualities
may be, a good citizen.
No country has ever been or ever
will be greater than its common people,?the
people whose feet daily
oress the bosom of Mother Earth;
and no farming people can ever be
f?reat unless the lands they live upon
are fat and fruitful. Where the
rjoor, barren lands are, there will you
uver find a poor, barren people?
i oor in the common comforts that
Tiake life better and more wholesome
barren of all aspiration and hope of
better things. Where the rich and
fruitful lands are, there are ever
found good homes, good schools, vigorous,
hopeful men and women with
"faces turned toward the rising sun.'
It is given to but few men to be
preat, as greatness is commonly reckoned;
but if true greatness lies in
service, in doing well our share of
the world's work, and, when we go,
ieavjng behind us a world a little
I etter for our having lived in it, in
contributing our bit to the welfare
and happiness of the present generalion
and all the generations yet to
be?if this be the sort of service that
makes for greatness, then, no less
than poets and painters, no less than
.varriors and statesmen, is the soilbuilding
farmer a great man, worthy
to be ranked with the greatest benefactors
of mankind.
Hitherto, particularly in the South,
where heavy rainfall and mild winters
are factors in depleting soil fertility,
soil buildiner has not been easy:
on the other hand, it has been
Loth difficult and expensive. But
lhe coming of the -winter-growing
clovers and vetches, with the absoiUte
certainty that they will thrive
practically everjhvhere in the South,
has. brought soil-building possibilities
hardly dreamed of twenty years
r.go. No longer is it necessary to
buy nitrogen, the most expensive of
all plant foods; no longer need we be
without humus, the magic key that
Unlocks nature's great plant food
storehouses.
What boundless possibilites there
:tre in these great crops! What
r.plendid hopes and visions of better
r.oils, better crops, better people and
uetter living! Through them the
Southern farmer, as no other farmer
n all America, has a truly wonderful
opportunity. Would you double
your corn and cotton yields? Would
JAU Mif rnnv ? % 1-,~1.ro
JWW vuv J V/ 1VI VU16C1 U1119 III nail ;
Would you ward off drouth and flood,
,\nd insure your crops? Would you
build better homes, good roads, good
schools? Would you have a part in
making your community and the
South greater and better? Would
you leave, as a monument to your
life's work, a bit of God's earth better
than you found it?
Would you do all these, then grow
Clovers.
THE SIEGE OF WARSAW.
London, July 30.? (Correspondence
of the Associated Press)?The
story of the siege of Warsaw is told
for the first time by a Polish gentleman,
son of a large landowner in the
outskirts of the city, who has just ar!
ived her?, and who speaks as i n eyewitness
fresh from the scene, his estate
being to-day the artillery park
t)f the Russian centre from which
their heavy field guns are manoeuvered
for the defence of the city. His
-ecital for the Associated Press is a
record of his own personal observations
and he scrupulously refrains
from any reference to general conditions
not coming under his own
eye.
"Warsaw! Is it a city of terror
^.nd confusion, people ask me. Not
at all; human relations go on as
usual and human nature finds its usual
outlet. Warsaw is the background
for a million Russian troops.
This makes it the centre for a great
number of Russian officers and strangers
who give it a cosmopolitan apnoaronPD
Af onimafiAn ^
vx UUIIUMWIVII OliU even VI
sraiety. The well-to-do people living
east of the city have passed through
to points of safety in the west. The
landowning peasantry?for in Po'and
the peasants own land?have
not the means of flight and are stranded
in the city, but keep ouz of
sight. So that the city, with its
many officers in gay uniform, its
strangers and refugees, is transformed
from its usual peaceful aspect and
has taken on the appearance of a
metropolis.
Amusement Places Crowded.
"The streets are thronged. The
theatres are open and crowded. The
restaurants have throngs at their
tables and on the street terraces. The
cinematograph showa are packed. /
There are bands and concerts. The *
feeling of terror does not seem to I
have struck the crowds. It is like the
life of London, which goes on with
little thought of the Zeppelins. Only
once has there been panic?when
the Russian bank closed its doors and
all other banks followed. Ready
money could not be had and every-,
one was in dread of the stoppage of
funds and the interruption of the
usual means of business and exchange.
But that panicky period t
has all passed, the banks are open
and business is proceeding normally,
but with a terrible economic change
in prices, particularly in foodstuffs. ^
Warsaw is absolutely dependent for
its food supplies on two railways.
But these are now in the hands of the
military, who need them for the
movement of troops, and the food
for the troops. Poland itself supplies
nothing, for the fields are burned
and yield nothing. |1
"The German army has shown no <
quarter to the country, but there has i
been no wanton destruction except i
t Kalisez. At my place they stop- >
ped ten days, taking all the cows and
much clover, but not destroying. '
They paid by slip of paper, which 1
means they never paid. They took 1
our best horses for the artillery and '
{ ave a wounded horse and a slip for 3
100 marks. But they kept repeat- 1
ing, 'Everything is paid for.' i1
"The Germans carry no tents and 1
have no food supplies with them, so 1
that as the cavalry, artillery and in- 1
fantry swarmed over our place they j
lived in our houses and out-houses, 1
and drew their food from the coun- i
try, chiefly cows and livestock, J
slaughtering the best milch cows for J
iooc!, and sparing only pedigreed 1
stock. Thus the country was de- (
nud*d of all its supplies and ordinary
stock. But they did not wantonly
destroy except for a stated J
cause. They suspected the village
next to us of concealing Cossacks in 1
the cellars and the village was burn- '
cd down, not a thing remaining but !
the chimneys. A Polish village is 1
not like an English; it is a long row '
of peasant farm-holds, built in a '
quadrangle, with clay walls and '
thatched roofs. ..1
Russians Take What's Left.
."Then came the Russians, forcing 1
'.he Germans back and taking any- j
thing that was left. It led to some
-trange scenes. While at supper a 1
peasant came to make a complaint to ;
.he colonel that the Russians had ta- '
ken six of his cows. Tr.e colonel
was angry, and summoned his underofficer
who had taken the cows, de- !
manding an explanation.
" 'Yes,' came the ready reply from 1
the accused officer, "I took the cows. '
But they were German cows. Yesterday
the Germans took them from J
this man and they were no longer 1
his. We have taken only German (
cows.' |
"And the colonel agreed that he
could not interfere with the taking of
cows that had become German by the
passing of the German army. So '
the poor peasants had their houses J
and barns burned a.nd their stock ta-'
ken by the Germans, and then if,1
anything remained it was taken by '
the Russians on the ground they were '
taking what had been in the hands 1
of the Germans.
"Our piace is now about te;? English
miles from the fighting line and \
is a vast camp. The artillery is '
parked all over the grounds and sent '
forward as reserves are called for. 1
Our stocks of oats, wheat, rye, clover j
and straw has been taken for the ar- J ?
my, and nearly all the livestock.!
Heavy caissons are brought froir. the!'
railway station iour miies away, witn '
great stocks of ammunition, and set j'
up ready to go forward. We are"
on best macadamized road directly 1
from Warsaw to Berlin, so that this 5
road is chosen as the principv' artillery
thoroughfare for the reserves. {
"And there we are to-day, crowded
among soldiers, with the Russians ^
first there, then the Germans, and
now the Russians again; with the 1"
fighting only ten miles away, with
Warsaw not far off, animated and ex<
pectant, but not depressed or terror- .
ized." 1
. J
]
Never accuse a man of being hon- ,
est until you know the amount of ,
money he has been offered to keep .
his face closed. ,
It is our belief that a man has just
as much right to spend his hard- \
earned money for cigars as his wife I
has to spend it for face bleach.
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SOUTHERN BANKERS I
10 FINANCE COTTON
VILL TAKE CARE OF CROP UNTIL
MARKET ABSORBS PRESENT
SURPLUS.
I'exas Adopts
Warehouse Plan
Conference On Cotton?Men Called
to M?et in Galveston Augi'tt 20,
to Discuss Marketing New Crop.
Galveston, Aug. 8.?A move on
;he pari; of the bankers of the South
o finance the surplus in this year's
:otton crop until such a time as the
market will absorb all ofFerirgs is
rapidly taking definite shape. A call
is being sent out by J. Hirsch, presilent
of the Texas Bankers' Association,
for a meeting of representatives
of clearing house organizations
hi cotton centers of the South, at
Galveston on August 14, for the purpose
of contemplating plans for the
proper warehousing and financing of
the surplus in the crop Plans as at
orespnt outlined contemplate the caring
for at least half of this year's
production, if necessary
Presidents of the Bankers' Associations
of the cotton States have been
invited to attend. Governors of the
federal Reserve Banks of St. Louis,
Richmond, Atlanta, and Dallas are expected
to be present at the conference.
Texas Builds Warehouses.
Texas cankers, according to Mr.
hirsch, already have plans unde>* way
'or caring for fully half the crop in
.his State. A number of small ware
tiouses, witn maiviuuai capacity ior
storing 1,000 bales of cotton, are being
constructed by the bankers out
if tfieir own funds. These warehouses
cost $1,250 each,, or $1.25 per
bale for each bale stored. Gi ewers
who store in these houses will be taxed
this $1.25 per bale, the amount to
oe paid when the cotton is sold. After
this year the warehouses will be'ong
to the men who stored the cotton,
the bankers getting only a nominal
storage charge for their trouble.
[n the meantime money will be advanced
on this stored cotton at usual
rates. Already warehouses suffici?nt
to care for 1,000.000 bales are
under way, and the bankers expect
to increase this capacity to 2,000,000
'tales.
The action of the Federal Reserve
Board in throwing the resources of
the Federal, reserve banks behind the
:otton crop has insured ample funds
ior financing the crop.
Would Regulate Movement.
The conference at Galveston has
for its purpose the bringing of bankers
in other sections of the belt into
line with the plans. Texas and the
Western belt already have their plans *
under way. The object now is to "
*et bankers in t"ae eastern belt to M
oin the plan and thus cover the entire
cotton belt. ^
The object of the bankers is not to
valorize cotton, but simply to make th
onditions such that growers will not m
;.e forced to turn loose their product th
nt ruinous prices when the crush in
:f the movement to market is too of
*reat for supply sources to absorb.
Hie major portion of the cotton crop ^
aecomes ready for market in a period Sc
if about 90 days, whereas its con- 011
umption is spread out through the ?n
nure year, jr- is to ieea tms supply
out just as the consumers de- he
nand it that the plans of the bankers ^
ire being perfected. th
England's policy toward shipments ar
>f cotton to Germany and Austria c0
ind contiguous neutral countries ho
promises to make the movement of ar
the staple to the world's spindles
slower probably than has ever been
he caS'S. At the same time, how- co
ever, judging from last year's con- ^
umption and the present crop promire,
nearly, if not quite, all the sun- th.
p!v will, be used before the scu*cn
br.s drawn to an end. If ?cowers :ire ^
Diinbled to ho'd their stocks unlil
?uch a time as the world rxe i3 them
? fairly satisfactory price should le cr'
realized. ye
it
U. S. FOREIGN TRADE fa
ADVISER QUITS POST mi
if
Washington, Aug. 9.?Robert F. th;
Pose, foreign adviser, has sent his cr<
ti ?j i ti? ,
eai^iiauuii iu rrebiueni/ wusun. xie stl
iad handled most of the difficult and
ielicate international trade problems las
;hat have confronted the Govern- en;
nent in the last few months. th<
He was an exceptionally close thj
!riend of former Secretary of State as
N. J. Bryan. In this connection he of
nade it positive, in a statement he ou
rave out, that his friendship with ma
3ryan had nothing to do with his cot
esignation. '
3m
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R. AIKEN WRITES ON
THE COTTON SITUATION
(Continued irom page 1.)
re citizen of Oklahoma who forerly
lived in Greenwood county
is state, informs me that the crop
Oklahoma in sections may be shorl
normal by 40 per cent.
In 1914 there were approximately
'teen thousand mules shipped intc
>uth Carolina. In 1915 there were
ily about fifteen hundred shipped
to this state. While we have no
ita as to the number of mules and
irses shipped out of the state tc
e war zone, it would be safe to say
at several thousand would not be
i excessive estimate. However, the
tton bear may ignore it, decreased
rse power means decreased acreage
id decreased cotton production. ]
11 a?a infn fVin Acfimafo/1 roHlin.
11 JIV/ b gv liJ VV bliv VUWiiliMWVM
>n of cotton acreage planted tc
rn and grain further than to say
at in Suth Carolina any man who
,s traveled over the state knows
at the figures published by the New
)rk cotton exchange are ridiculouslow.
It is not likely that South
irolina stands alone in these evinces
that foreshadow the shortest
op. this country has produced in
ars. The new crop will be short;
would be safe to predict that it will
II short of 12,000,000 bales. So
ich for the American supply.
It is said that there is a red insect,
possible more destructive to cotton
an the boll weevil, and that the
3p in India is being literally de oyed
by this insect.
While I would favor, as I did in the
it congress, any measure that will
able the South to gradually market
2 cotton crpo, I am frank to say
it I do not believe the danger is
grave as then, if the earlier days
the market can be tided over with
t the producer taking iright at the
ide-to-order scares with which the
;ton gamblers are so ready.
The president can force England
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to allow our cotton the freedom of
[ neutral ports, and this will make it H
easier for Germany, whom we cannot B
force, to accede to our demands. If fl
. cotton is allowed this freedom prices H
, will surely be satisfactory, for the
i law of supply and demand affecting H
; this crop will be just the reverse of M
that affecting the 1914 crop. H
President Wilson is right ig his H
attitude toward both Germany and H
! England in demanding freedom of mS
1 the seas and congress will stand
i square behind him. ,
' Respectfully, H
Wyatt Aiken. , SB
Abbeville, S. C. |H
I AND AND SEA ATTACK H
ON TURKISH TROOPS H
Amsterdam, Aug. 8.?Via Lo'n- mm
don.?A and and sea attack cn the
Turkish positions on Gallipoli penin- JMI
rula is announced in an official Con- BBfl
1 si antinople communication received
here today. The Turkish war office H
admits loss of ground, but asserts |9|
that in another engagement the KH
Turks captured some trenches Rfl
| RUSSIANS DETERMINED TC H
FIGHT TO THE LAST
Petrograd, Aug. 8.? (Via London)?The
general committees appointed
to organize industries for
military purposes began their labors ^Hj
yesterday Representatives of all HB
T)arts of the empire attended the HH
committee meetings. HB
Addressing the committees, M. Hfl
Riabouchinsky, the Moskow millionaire
said: HH
"We shall retire, if necessary, as
far as the Oral mountains. We shall ^^9
light to the last man, but we shall HH
cain vietnrv "
A little learning is said to be a
dangerous thing?and it is just about
as unsafe to know it all.