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"MANY ARE CALLED BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN."
Matthew 22:114.?September 11.
^a W aw "f us tare, not fn the past sufficiently flbjCfStJ that none of the
I^L I leannen] of the Greet Tea. bet were g>v*cn In literal language?that
I tliey were all symlwdlcul; M we read, "Without a parable spake he
/ get unt> them "-Matt. 13:" i
In todav'4 Study we have another beautiful parabolic lesson respecting the
Kingdom. \\ | \1ght In.julr.? why the l'.lhle Is so full of these lessons concern?
ing the Kingdom? U It not because the Kingdom of <io4 is the only hope of
tlM world vre we not learning thU more and moral Faith in the coming
Kingdom of Oed under the whole gearem begin to -row dim within les* than
two ccnturv* r.ffer tho death of the Appetite. Instead of longing, hoping, to
become the Mdi of Christ, to he ass,., ated with him in hli glorioua Kingdom
for the overthrow of Sin and Satan id Death, and for the uplifting of mnn
klud dming a reign gf n thousand ye its, n new faith nnd a new hope cnnie in.
rontrerv to the Meriphire*. This gtkeertptaraJ gOOe instructed ChrlstJnus that
they should exoect an eerthly h ingd. m: of their own establishment, in whl< h
the pope* wenM reign a* represent.UI i'OS of Jesus, and the cardinals nnd bishops
as represent r \ of the npostles ami tho "Mttle flock," to whom the Kingdom
Is pmmi^l 1 nef.eeforth the work pf the ChUfea, to ?'build ono another up in
the most holy faith." gave place to the mi<crlpf ur:il ronrae Of neglecting the
Churrh snd lairing for tho world, under the iiiiuamm ed assumption that It
Is the duty of |ig t httn h to convert tl>?' world. As to how much Injury has
thus been d??ne it Is difficult to estimate Pot the sake of numbers standards
bare been lowered and worldllness has I.i rOfOgnbjed, until today Christen
dorn is ir\ s sad plight ss respects true do.n ines ind high mofg] standards.
As MtfSM U to he tho Creat King of earth during the period of his
Mediatorial It hi the Father*! fOOd Slsawre that he should have a
-Bride." And this (Joepel Age is set npart for the Unding nod development of
this Bride o!u*s of many members. The Kingdom Is the great prize which the
Father Is to bestow upon his Hon?to be shnred by the Church, the Bride of
Christ. The parable of today's Study outlines the call of thU Bride class or
K?ngdom ein-?* from Jesus' day down to the completion and gloritlcatlon of this
compsny. Nowhere is Jemis represented as calling his own Bride. This is
foreshown In Abraham, who typified tho Father, and Isaac, who typified Jesus;
and Abraham's eerrant, sent to call Rebecca to Ik? the Bride of Isaac, typified
the holy Spirit, whose work during this Gospel Age Is bringing to Christ the
Bride class-"the very elect"
Bo this parable shows that the King sent forth the call to the Marriage.
The Jewish people, the chlklren of Abraham, according to the flesh, had been
Invited to thin high honor from the time of the giving of the Law Covenant at
il. Century after century they waited for the announcement to be made to
that the nuptial feast was ready. Finally, when Jesus came, the an
reraent went to them, All things are now ready! Come to tho feast!
time, they had becoi s overcharged with the cares of this life- business,
re and religious schemes of their own coucoctlng. They manifested no
it In the announcement and even beat some of tho servants, the Apostles
Ibers, who sought to help rhem, and to draw their attention to the Great
'bich was their special privilege.
Tbe Almighty was wroth and sent the Koroan Armies and "destroyed those
murderers and burned up their City," Jerusalem, in A. 1). TO. Then the King
lid to his servsnts, The wedding must take place even though those who
ifdden ere not worthy. Go ye therefore luto the highways and as many
id bring to the marriage feast. As the city represented the Jewish
'so the highways represented the world In general?tho Gentiles?to
rthe message of the Kingdom was sent after fleshly Israel had first
Jed the offer snd but partially Improved It. Another statenent of the
de show* three different clasees:?
f) The Jewish rulers who rejected him.
Those called from smong tbe streets snd lanee of their city and gathered
to the spirit plsne by Jesus snd tbe Apostles.
(3) Then the report wae given. "We have done as thou hast commanded
and yet there is room." Then tbe message went forth to go everywhere among
Gentiles and urge them to come in, until the house should be filled?until
elect number for whom the feast was provided would he found. Our Study
states that the wedding wss furnished with guests?good and bsd. In other
words, the offer of a share with Christ in his Kingdom has attracted some
naturally very fallen, ss well ss some better favored by nature. But the ar?
rangements of the Greet Iflnf are auch that the "wedding garment" covers all
tbe blemishes of the most Imperfect as well as those of the least imperfect.
The latter part of our Study shows a discrimination and Judgment ultl
aaately to tske piece amongst thoee Invited to the wedding and accepted. As
none were permitted to enter in without a wedding gsrmeut - without an
acknowledgment of tbe merit ef Christ s sacrifice?so none will be permitted to
end participate in tbe wedding festival except those who maintain their
of confidence in Christ. Any who take off tho "wedding garment"
will be sure to be expelled from the privileges enjoyed and will go out from
tbe light wnd blessings afforded to this favored class. Into the "outer darkness"
of tbe world sad of nomlnsl Christianity, in which shortly there will be a
great time of trouble, symbolically represented by the "weeping snd gnashing
ef teeth "
Are we not even now In the time of this inspection of the guests? And are
aet sll Christian people who cast awsy their confidence in the sacrifice of
Christ end who eccept Evolutionary theories and Higher Criticism taking off
"the wedding garment," and will they not all eventually find themselves In
outer dsrkneas. In confusion, in bewilderment? And will they not be Badly dis
treeeed In the great time of trouble which tbe Scripture* declare to be near??
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"LIM; SAYS ROOSEVELT.
WIRES MOT REPLY TO X. Y.
.EVENING POST'S SCORCHING
ARRAIGNMENT.
"Ananias Club" Reorganised?Col?
onel's Ire Mightily Aroused And
il<* Says "Real Mean*' Things of
The Editorial Writer.
New York, Aug, ?l. ? Colonel
Roosevelt ha>? reorganlied the "An?
anias Club" and elected the Even?
ing Post to all the oflieos.
Iii the current issue of the Out?
look the Colonel replies to the Even?
ing Test's scorching editorial of Aug
ust 16, accusing the writer of "basest
dishonesty." and saying of him that
"little good (im 1m> derived from the
aamlatanoe of the liar."
"Th'1 statement of the Evening
Post," declares the Colonel "Is not
only false and malicious, is not only
In direct contradiction of the facts,
hut it is euch*that ii could only have
been made by a man who, knowing
the facts, deliberately intended to
pervert them. Buch an act stands
on the level with the worst act ever
performed by a corrupt member of
the Legislature or city official, and
stamps the writer with the same mor?
al brand that stamps the bribe tak?
er."
The Evening Post's article was
wired to Colonel Roosevelt while ho
was enroute to Cheyenne, Col. Up?
on reaching there he wired his repiv
to The outlook, which published it
under the caption "Medaclous Jour?
nalism."
The reply is as follows:
"The Evening Post is not in itself
sufficiently important to warrant an
answer, but as representing a class
with whose hostility it is necessary to
reckon in any genuine movement for
decent government it is worth while
to speak of it.
Wealthy Reformers.
"Tlo re are plenty of wealthy poo?
ps- In this country, and of intellect?
ual hangerson of wealthy people, who
are delighted to engage in any move?
ment for reform which does not
touch the wlck< wness of certain great
corporations and of eertain men of
great wealth.
"People of this class will be in fa?
vor of any aesthetic movement; they
will favor any movement against the
small grafting politician, against the
grafting labor leader, or any man of
that stamp; but they cannot be trust?
ed the minute that the reform as?
sumes sufficient dimensions to jeo?
pardize so much of the established
order of things as gives an unfair
and improper advantage to the great
corporation and to those directly and
indirectly responsive to Its wishes.
"The Evening Post and papers of
the same kind, and the people whose
views they represent, would favor
attacking a gang of small bosses
who wish to control the Republican
party: hut they would, as the Even?
ing Post has shown, far rather see
these small bosses win than see a
movement triumph which alms not
merely at the overthrow of the small
political boss, hut at depriving the
corporation of Its improper Influence
over politics, depriving the man of
wealth of any advantage beyond what
belongs to him as a simple American
citizen. They would be against cor?
porations only after such corporations
had been caught in the crudest, kind
of criminality.
"No Place For The Liar.
"I have never for one moment
counted upon the support >f the
Evening Tost or of those whom r
represents in the effort for cleanli?
ness and decency within the Repub?
lican party, because the Evening
post would support such a movement
only on condition that it was not pari
of a large movement for the better?
ment of social conditions. T'. it this
is not all.
"In the struggle for honest poltl
there is no more a place for the liar
there than there Ii for the thief, and
in a movement designed to put in
end to the dominion of the thief i ut
little good can be derived ?ron
aaslttanec of the liar.
Uses "Mar" Only "Scientifically."
"<)f course, objection will be u n
to my use of this language. My inn
wer Is that I am u>ing It mei
scientifically and deejcrlpth . i
because no other terms express ?. *
facts with the necessary pre laion
In the article in which the E enin*
post comes to the defense or' tho*<?
in present control of the Republican
party In New- York state, which it
has accepted to oppose In the pa I
Evening Post, through w h it r ?
itor personally wrote the artlel ? m .
tired every h rwwn form ? ?
daclty.
"Probably the Bvenlng Post "
gards the decalogue as outworn,
It it w ill turn to It and v. ill read th
eighth and ninth commandment*
will see thai bearing false wttn ? ;
condemned as strongly is ih
To ta ke bui one Instn nee
many in this article, the I
sa ys:
?? Mt w ns Roosoi p|(
i im.an to come to I It ?
j sen-, 1\\ ho tOOk his
votes in New Vorh ond r.v]
; w nrds w rote to "My U i
: - yes, iho same Rh rmnn
1 iho capitalists to w lu?m he
viously written, naytnt;: "You and
] are practical men."
"Foulest and Basest Lie.'1
"Not only is every Important state?
ment in this sentence false, hut the
writer who wrote it knew it was
false. As far as I was concerned,
every man visited the White House
openly, and Mr. Harriman among the
others. T took no money from Mr.
Harriman secretly or openly to
buy votes or for any other purpose.
Whoever wrote the article in the
Evening Tost in question knew that
this was the foulest and basest lie
when he wrote the sentence, for he
quotes the same letter in which I had
written to Mr. Harriman. as follows:
" 'What T have to say to you can
be said to you as well after election
as before, but T would like to see you
some time before T write my mes?
sage.'
"I am quoting without the letter
before me, but the quotation is sub?
stantially. If not verbally, accurate.
"That statement in this letter to
Harriman is. of course, on Its face,
absolutely incompatible with any
thought that I was asking him for
campaign funds, for It Is, of course,
out of the question that I could tell
him equally well what T had to say
after election if it referred In any
possible way to getting money before
election. This is so clear that any
pretense of misunderstanding is proof
positive of the basest dishonesty In
whoever wrote the article in ques?
tion.
"As a matter of fact, when Mr.
Harriman called it was to complain
that the National Committee would
not turn over, for the use of the
State campaign, in which he was In?
terested, funds to run that campaign,
and to ask me to tell Cortelyou to
give him aid for the State campaign.
Mr. Cortelyou is familiar with the
facts.
Bad as Bribe Taker.
"In other words, the statement of
the Evening Post is not only false and
malicious, is not only In direct con?
tradiction of the facts, but is such
1 that it could only have been made by
J a man who, knowing the facts, de?
liberately Intended to pervert them.
Such an act stands on the level of
infamy with the worst act ever per?
formed by a corrupt member of a
Legislature or a city official, and
stamps the writer with the same
moral brand that stamps the bribe
taker.
"I have seen only a telegraphic
abstract of the arMcle, apparently
containing Quotations from It. Prac?
tically every statement made in these
quotations is a falsehood.
"To but one more smali 1 allude.
The article speaks of my having at?
tacked cr rporations, and, referring
directly to my Ohio speeches, of my
having 'sought to inflame the mob and
make mischief.' In those speeches the
prime stand I took was against mob
violence as shown by the labor people
who are engaged in eontroversy with
a corporation. My statement was in
effect that the first duty of the State
and the first duty of the officials was
to put down disorder and to put down
mob violence, and that after such
action had been taken, then it was
the duty of the officials to Investi?
gate the corporation, and if it had
done wrong to make it pay the pen?
alty of the wrongs and to provide
against the wrongdoings in the fu?
ture.
"It is but another instance of the
peculiar baseness, the peculiar moral
obliquity of the Evening Post that It
should prevert the truth in so shame
less a fashion.
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
1 "Cheyenne, Wyo., Aug. 27. mo."
The Post's Editorial.
The editorial that so mightily
aroused Colonel Roosevelt's Ire was
eutith d "Modest Mr. Roosevelt," and
was as follows:
"We should like to think of Mr.
Roosevelt's performance yesterday as
those of the ever boyish. He reminds
oe- of a college athletic hero, who
after graduation simply cannot live
without the old, heart-filling cheers,
j i ud so show s himself on the football
I field in order to hear the glad sound
! oice more. It is two years sinee
Mr. Roosevelt had fed on the yells of
Mie crowd in railroad stations, and
yesterday he made up for long ab?
stention by gluttony. Yet, as we say,
<ve should prefer to think of all this
j is comic.
"T. II.'s" Amusing Sid*'.
I There is undeniably an amusing
-ide to Mr. Roosevelt's wayside ora?
tory. It recalls the political speaker
preserved in the amber of .Tames
White? omb Rlley's verse, who
i ilelt the banner up'ards from a irnll
In' iu tie- dust,
: \nd cut w>ose on monopoly, ami cus
? ??1 and ? UHSed and cussed.
Hut laughter cannol help passing
j into tnger und a sense of gross out?
rage when ihe real significance of
: Mr. Uoosevel't car-end harangues is
? iken in. I 'or here Is a private
... uiming lhal h? has supreme
?
i an '?' President shoving
?' ?? i i e.i I I 'i estdenl as if h<
, I ? ' tu t ii i fere is a mtt u
? . fore ? I- eh Itters about tie
i ? deal, ' < t w ho treats his ow n
? > ud u nd He- i hi> i of his ou n pari >
with absolute unfairness.
"Demagogue And Dictator."
"He pushes himself forward as the
only foundation of justice, announces
what 'I will do,' just as though his
being elected President next time
were already nettled, and bears him?
self throughout as a peculiarly repel?
lent combination of demagogue and
dictator.
"The thing goes beyond a display
of bad taste As such it is shocking,
but it is besides, an exhibition of
moral impudence. 'I will make the
corporations come to time,' shouted
Roosevelt to the mob. P.ut did he
not really mean that he would make
them romp down with the cash to
elect him. as he did before? For a|
man with Mr. Roosevelt's proved rec- I
ord It is simply disgusting humbug
for him to rant about the corpora?
tions, upon whose treasures he fawn-I
ed when he was President and want?
ed their money for his campaign.
Does he think that nobody has a
memory which goes back to the life
insurance investigations, and that
everybody has forgotten the $50,
000 taken from widows and orphans
and added to Theodore Roosevelt's
political corruption fund?
j 'Did he not take a big check from
the Reef Trust, and glad to get it?
And now he is going to make the
corporations come to time.
"Talks Big; Acts Mean."
"One can have respect for a sin?
cere radical, for an honest fanatic,
for an agitator or leveler who be?
lieves that he is doing God's will, but
it is hard to be patient with a man
who talks big but acts mean, whose
eye is always to the main chance po?
litically and who lets no friendship,
no generosity, no principle, no moral
scruple stand for a moment between
himself and the goal upon which he
has set his overmastering ambition.
"Such wild and whirling words as
Mr. Roosevelt uttered yesterday are
a curse to public life. They arouse
passion without directing it. They
give no one a clear idea of what the
speaker meant, except that he sought
to inflame the crowd and make mis?
chief. He fulminates against crook?
ed men. He is going to 'cinch' the
crooks. Why not be specific? Whom
does he mean? Even Mr. Roose?
velt cannot intend us to understand
that he will be detective, police, mag?
istrate, jury, jailer, all in one, and
will get after every burglar and
swindler in the land. No; his crooks
are political crooks. What he wants
the crowd to understand is that he
Is with them in their present wrath
against men who go into politics to \
make money, or who advance by po?
litical corruption, or who are noto?
rious and unscrupulous machine
politicians.
"Toadied To Platt; Praised Quay."
Yet this cahmpion of purity, this
roarer for political vlrture is the man
who was for years, when in public
life, hand in glove with the worst
political corruptlonlsts of his day;
who toadied to Platt, who praised
Quay, who paid court to Hanna.
"Under him as President, Aldrlch
rose to the height of his power, al?
ways on good terms with Roosevelt.
"It was Roosevelt, who, In 190S,
wrote an open letter urging the re?
election of Speaker Cannon, against
whom mutterlngi had then begun
to rise; it was Roosevelt who asked
Harrlman to come to the White
House seeretely, who took his money
to buy votes in New York, and who
afterward wrote to 'My Dear Sher?
man'?yes. the same Sherman?re?
viling the capitalist to whom he had
previously written, saying. 'You and
T are practical men.'
'If Roosevelt is the great eineher
of crooks, why didn't he cinch them
when he was shaking hands with
them ?
'?Indecent And Dangerous."
"it Is no pleasant duty to say
these things of Mr. Roosevelt. We
had hoped that time and reflection
bad sobered him and that his West?
ern speeches would show him capable
of taking an elevated political l sad
ership. But whatever he may d ? in
his set addresses, it Is plain that he.
means en route to stir the popular
heart by appeals in his very worst
vein. His baping back Into bis old
role is both Indecent and dangerous.
"It Is indecent because, In utter
disregard of all propilety and per?
sonal and political fair play, he rush?
es upon the next Presidency as it' it
were already his and boasts of the
great things he is going to do; it Is
dangerous because the more the mob
veils approval of his reckless
speech the more reckless it will be?
come. It is evident thai there arc
troublous times ahead of the sober
and steady people of this country In
dealing w 1111 this man w ho came ha> K
lo 'help solve our problems,' an t is
proceeding to do it bj making them
more dllticult than before. There is
nothing to do but to fa< e him square?
ly and t? II the truth about him. The
taste of tins quality, which In gave
yesterday, will, m> doubt, delight the
crowd, but it leaves sensible and pa?
triotic citizens aghast. They are
star I led by the thought thai a e m iy
fall im.? th. hands of this braggart
in w hit in. self-seeking ! - so 1' i w v
hit iiil v. it Ii In po< i c J
I Hirtain lei t
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The girl disappeared, reappearing
shortly with the junior member. He
was a young man with a sympathetic
face. The woman took to him in?
stantly.
"Oh, I Avant your advice," she quav?
ered.
"Certainly?come this way, mad?
am." replied the lawyer, and he led
her forthwith into his private office
and closed the door.
The woman, upon being seated,
produced a lace handkerchief, pre?
sumably in case of emergency, and
announced that she was unhappy.
"Ah!" said the lawyer.
"I want a divorce," said the woman.
She said nothing more, and the law?
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up the conversation.
"Oh, no. Indeed not. He scarcely
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"Ah. Well, is he in the habit of
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"Indeed he never has! "Oh, I as?
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me! I should say he never raised a
hand to me in his life."
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"Why, how can you suggest such a
thing?"
"Eh?merely trying to find out the
?er?truth of the matter. Does he
not support you?"
"Do I impress you as the kind of
woman who would consent to live
with a man who would fail to provide
for me?"
"You do not. Is he insane?"
"My husband?"
"May I ask, madam, then, on what
grounds you desire to procure a di?
vorce? So far as I can see there is
not the slightest reason for your get?
ting one."
The woman drew herself up haugh?
tily.
"Of course, there are no grounds!"
she replied. "I never said there were
any, did I? I said I wanted a divorce.
Now where are all the little schemes
you people have to get them?"
The member cleared his throat.
"Schemes?" he quavered. "Why
madam, we don't keep them here. I
am sorry, but we have no schemes at
all."
"Oh, said the woman, rising "Par?
don me, then, for detaining you so
long. I supposed I was visiting an
up-to-date law firm. Good day!"?
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