Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 7 January 1898 — Page 6

WEEKLY JOURNAL.

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 7. 1897.

& aooi) many politicians all over the country are skating on thin ice.

THE December receipts of the Dingley law indicate that the good old, steady-going Republican surplus will be on hand for next Christmas.

PROBABI.T a larger number of people received holiday presents in the form of an advance in wages this year than on any former occasion in the history of the country.

THE year 1897 has gone and it seems but yesterday since first it was here. The old year is gone save its memories, which will remain forever. We hail the new with its uncertain record of good and evil, tempest and calm, sunshine and shower, night and day.

IT is now the Democratic game to beat Senator Hanna with Republican votes. If Democrats are running the Republican party in Ohio they may succeed. The uastarly part of this whole dirty business is that Governor Bushnell is in the treasonable scheme.

AT last the lei ter-carriers and express company employes are convinced that there is an improvement in business. So are some hundreds of thousands of workingmen and women over the country whose wages have been increased during the last two months.

WIIILK the Treasury officials have not quite forgotten what an actual Burplus looks like, they are scratching their heads and looking as much pleased as a boy who has found a long lost knife. The excess of the December receipts over the expenditures is something like a million dollars, small favors thankfully received. Larger ones will come later.

THE merry war against Secretary Gage, because of his financial propositions, goes on. Of course it comes from men who are opposed to] making dollars out of a dollar's worth of material. It cannot be expected that the class of men who insist upon something for nothing will be satisfied with a proposition to make the dollars of the country really worth what they profess to be.

UNDEB the call of the Republican State committee just issued, the new county central committeemen will be chosen Saturday, January 22, 1898. The new county committees will meet and organize by the election of the customary officers Saturday, Jan. 29, 1898. The new district committeemen will be chosen Tuesday, Feb. 1, 1898. The Ninth district meeting will be held at Noblesville. Montgomery county will send 22 delegates to that meeting.

THE silver men may be able to forgive some people some thiDgs, but Mark Hanna is not on their forgiveness list. They are now concentrating their attention and energies in an attempt to defeat Mr. Hanna for election to th« Senate, thus combining pleasure and profit, for, if they can prevent his election, they will make it certain that the Senate is to be controlled by the silver element during at least the first half of President McKinley's term.

IT would seem as though the people who are determined to find fault might omit to disturb the good cheer of the holiday season with their doleful tears. But they cannot afford to lose an opportunity, and therefore the country is still hearing about tbat reduction in wages in New England cotton mills, while not a word is said by these professional mourners about the hundreds of cases all over the country in which wages have been advanced during the past month.

THERE is no better barometer of the business condition of the country than the developments of the holiday season. When times are bad, Christmas gifts are few h.nd inexpensive when the people are prosperous and well employed the fact is apparent in the more numerous recognitions of the customs of the occasion. Shopkeepers, the express companies, and the postmasters of the country report the business of the holiday season unusually heavy, which shows that the promised improvement in business under Republican rule is being kept.

IT might be we'll for the free trade shriekers who are excitedly calling attention to the prospective reduction of wages in the New England cotton mills to take into consideration the facts before making too much noise about it, as it is certain that the public will do. These causes of the reduction are simple and easily understood. There has been an increase of between two and three million spindles in the cotton mills of the country during the past two years, largely in the South, and the mills of that section have so improved their facilities as to make it possible to" manufacture the Boer grades of cotton goods, in addition to the coarse grades which they have manufactured for years. The further fact that they are allowed, under the law, to run much longer hours and are able to get their labor at much less wages for those longer hours, coupled with their proximity to the cotton fields, has enabled them to place their goods upon the market at less than the actual cost in New England mills, thus forcing a reduction in wages in this single industry along the Eastern coast, where an increase of wages has been felt in many other industries, as is also the case among the manufacturing establishments all over the country. The reduction in wages in this single industry in a single section of the country is a thousand times overbalanced by the increase of wages and employment in the numerous other industries of all sections of the United States.

KOKOMO News: We notice that the chairman of the Ninth district Republican committee, Fred A. Sims, of Frankfort, has promptly complied with the order emanating from the State central committee relative to party reorganization. Fred Sims is a born politician and believes in close and efficient organization, and he not only begins the work early, but keeps it up-until the last vote has been polled. The Republicans of the Ninth district could not do better than to re-elect Fred, in the event that he is not a candidate for Congress, for which his friends are booming him. Should he enter the race the other candidates would find in him a very dangerous competitor, as he is very popular and equally as well qualified as any man who has held the place since the days of Godlove S. Orth. all probability the Democrats of tb5 old Ninth will nominate Dan Sims, of Covington, in which event it would be entirely proper for the Republicans to select Fred Sims, of Clinton county.

THE New Castle Courier, edited by that stalwart Republican, W. H. Elliot, Btands squarely on every plank of the St. Louis platform Here is what he has to say:

The platform adopted by the Republican National convention at St. Louis in 1896 contained this provision: "The civil service law was placed on the statute books by the Republican party, which has always sustained it, and we renew our repeated declarations that it shall be thoroughly and heartily and honestly enforced and extended wherever practicable." Now a'l Republicans who desire to spit upon that plank in token of their contempt for a solemn pledge of their party to the people, will please provide themselves with an ample supply of "dog-leg" and proceed to expectorate in the the usual manner. They may soil the plank but cannot obliterate it.

PRESIDENT JOHN W. GATES, of the Illinois Steel Company, predicts tbat 1898 will be the best business year known in the United States during the decade which it ends. The fact that the iron trade is always a clear and important index of business conditions generally and that the trade in that metal promises to be greater in 1898 than for a decade, encourages him in the behalf that there is to be great prosperity all along the line in the coming year. The pig iron turned out in December was more than in any other month in the history of the country, according to Mr. Gates, and the demand for iron and steel for home use and exportation is phenomenel. ..... ... ......

GEORGE B. LOCKWOOD is mistaken when he says that David Turpie was elected Senator to fill the unexpired term of Henry S. Lane. During the session of the Thirty-seventh Congress in 1SG2, Jesse D. Bright was expelled for disloyalty. Governor Morton then appointed Joseph A. Wright to serve until the meeting of the Legislature. When the Legislature met, it being Democratic, David Turpie was elected to fill the unexpired term of Bright. Thomas A. Hendricks was the successor of Turpie,'beginnning his term in 1803 and serving until 1869, when he was succeeded by D. D. Pratt. Oliver P. Morton succeeded Lane in 1807.

THE Chicago Tribune recounts the splendid services of Mr. Hanna in the last campaign, aud adds:

Then he was appointed Senator. He richly deserved the honor. What has he d-one to forfeit the confidence of the Ohio Republicans'.1 The Democrats, of course, denounce him, for they know his strength. But why should this Republican clique conspire to nut a weaker man in his place? Will that advance Republican interests in national politics? No! It will only show that Ohioans are not the shrewd politicians they have been credited with being. Why is this malicious back fire kept up? No one can tell.

THE tour of the Secretary of Agriculture through the South, made especially for the purpose of studying the conditions'and possibilities of that section, and the advantages of a diversification of its agricultural interests, is in marked contrast with the methods of his Democratic predecessor, and must strike the Democratic as well as Republican farmers of the South and the country in general as sure. It will be remembered that Mr. Wilson's Democratic predecessor, Secretary Morton, spent most of his time studying up plans to prevent the distribution of seeds to the farmers of the couutry, discouraging the beet sugar proposition and leaving no record of improvements in -agricultural conditions in any way. The first nine months of Secretary Wilson's administration have resulted in such development of the beet sugar interest and industryias to a&sure its rapid adoption and successful work, his plan of the distribution of seeds to the farmers of the country is an intelligent and likely to be accepted one, and his tour of the South, in which the diversification of agriculture has been neglected, shows that his work is likely to be of very great value to the agricultural interests, and, when supplemented with the demand for agricultural products whioh follows the revival of industries and the protective tariff, means prosperity for the farmers of whatever section.

THE favorite argument—in fact, the only argument—advanced by the enemies of the civil service law is that it creates a privileged class. The impression is sought to be conveyed that by it the great body of the people are shut out from the benefits of office are forced to stand back for a few who, making their way to the front by answerirg technical and irrevelent questions, settle down into a snug life tenure. This is untrue. It was the old system that created a privileged class. It was composed of the political managers, who formed a trust and farmed out the government's favors to their own advantag'e. If the civil service law were to be repealed to-day, and all the patronage of the government turned over, as formerly, to the managers, the action would prove a boomerang to those bringing it about. The scramble would be unprecedented, the managers, after making their selections, would find that they had disappointed twenty men where they had pleased one, and at the next Congress, elections the army of the disappointed would march upon them at the polls and overwhelm them. And they would richly deserve their fate. To repeal the law because of any defect in its ap plication would be supreme folly.

IN Indiana there are 113 National banks, 95 State banks, 5 savings banks and 4 trust companies. The statistics from these ^nancial institutions, made public recently by the Auditor of State, furnish resplendent proof of prosperity. On October 5, 1897, the 113 National banks had loans and discounts aggregatingS31,876,859, and the individual deposits amounted to $34,450,004. On October 30 the loans and discounts of the ninety-five State banks aggregated 810,017,677, [while the individual deposits were $10,909,602. On October 30 the outstanding loans of the savings banks aggregated 83,219,541, and the deposits $4,479,437. The outstanding loans of the trust companies aggregated 81,750,000, and the deposits 81.123.392. The grand total of loans and discounts of all these financial institutions is 846,864,077, while the individual deposits aggregate 850,962,436.

FROM a purely agricultural, free trade community, the South has within a few years developed bustling manufacturing centers where the spirit of protection to home industry runs strong in the minds of the people. The first part of this statement is evidenced by the fact that the cotton manufacturers of New England have been compelled to announce a reduction in the wages of their employes, while the fact that the protective sentiment is gaining ground is clearly shown by the increased and steadily increasing protective sentiment from the Southern States in Congress. The Republican protective representation in the present Congress is greater than in any previous year in the history of the country.

WHILE it is expected that Congress will discuss the various curreuoy measures which have been offered since it assembled, it is probable that it will find President McKinley's simple plan for the retention in the Treasury of the greenbacks redeemed in gold, coupled with a moderate increase in the national bank currency, the most acceptable proposition before it, or at least the one most likely to command sufficient strength for its adoption......

THE Director of the Mint, from information now at hand, says that there is substantial evidence that the world's product of gold for the calendar year 1897 will approximate if not exceed 8240,000,000, an increase of nearly 20 per cent over 1896. The gold product of the United States for 189G was $53,100,000 for 1897 it will approximate 861,500,000, an increase of 8S. 4000,000.

A PAPER read at the annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers stated that since the year 1870 the direct saving in the cost of steam power by the best types of compound engines is not less than 58 per cent. To this must be added a reduction in the same time of over 40 per cent in the cost of coal. Including all charges, the cost in 1870 of one horse power in a 1,000 horse power plant was 838.14 a year, and now should not be more than 816 31, though poor management often runs it up to $20. This saving, of which little has been heard, is one of great importance in manufacturing.

PRESIDENT MCKINI.EV'S Cuban policy, as outlined in his message, seems to be thoroughly acceptable to the people of the United States. No persons, except the chronic fault finders, have opened their lips against it, and the men who six months ago were insisting on instant and extreme action are no longer beard from.

THROAT CUT.

Saloou Oimrirl Will I'robnbly Kesult In the Death of One Participant. LYFORD, Ind., Jan. 3.—In a fight here late Saturday a man named Dougherty had his throat cut from ear to ear aud is not expected to live. The cutting was done by Charles Burton, alias "Kaintuck," a tough in the mining camp. The men quarreled in Klippe's saloon and adjourned to a hill to fight it out. Dougherty had a heavy niece of iron and Burton drew a razor. The first slash cut Dougherty's throat and then the men were separated. Burton was beaten up badly and says he used the razor iu self-defense.

KLOriS.UE.NT.

Miss Jessio I'ark aud JaiiieH Law Kun Away to (U*c Married. GREENWOOD, lud., .Tan, 15.—Miss Jessie Park, daughter of a prominent farmer near here, and James Law, son of a neighbor, eloped Saturday. They went to Indianapolis and took a train for Louisville. Mr. Park followed to the Capital city and sent out telegrams to head tlieiu off, but the couple outwitted him. Nothing has been heard from them. It is said that 20 years ago Mr. Park eloped with his wife.

JOHN J. XKWJIAM DEAD,

Wild Mombcr ol ilikhart Council and ()uc« I'romiiKiiit in Ohio. ELKIIAKT, lud., Jan. 8.—John .T. Newman, member of the city council, died Saturday of jaundice. He was 71 years old and had lived hero since 1875. Previous to coining here he was prominontly conuected with publjo affairs at Cincinnati and'Middletown, O. He was a delegate to the Ohio convention that nominated Governor Brough.

Stricken Kamily,

ALBANY, Ind., Jan. 3.—Tho Woodses are a strangely stricken family. A few weeks since P. S. Woods, proprietor of the Hotel Bariletr, and a prominent member of the Maocabee and Masonic lodges, died very suddenly. His eldest daughter was ill ar, the time aud could not. attend the funeral. A week ago the younger daughter was stricken and Friday she died. The distracted mother withstood her sorrows 114ml just before her daughter's death, when she became unconscious, and is now in a critical condition. The elder daughter is very low and fears for her recovery are expressed on all sides.

FIIIH'HII of Treasurer Kirtloy FOWLER, Ind., Jan. 3.—The funeral services of the late County Treasurer James Kirtley, who committed suicide by shooting hifnself Thursday night, were held at the M. E. church in Boswell, his old home. He was an Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias arid belonged to the A. O. U. W., all of which orders participated iu the exercises at the grave, the Odd Follows having charge.

Peculiar Snow Storm.

LAPORTE, Ind., Jan. 3.—A continuous snowstorm raged here all day Saturday and there is three feet of the beautiful on a level. A peculiarity of the storm is its limited ami, as it extends only six miles west, and 15 miles east of this city. The ice crop, which was about ready toliarvest, is said to be badly damaged.

Gil* Supply,

ELWOOD, Ind., Jan. 3.—A test of the gaswells in Ehvood has been made and shows the pressure to rauge from 218 to 235 pounds, thus refuting the assertion that the gas supply is approaching the collapsing point. The supply has only diminished slightly during the past three years.

Case Postponed.

COVINGTON, Ind., Jan. 3.—The trial of Dr. Stout for implication in the Grace McClamrock fatal abortion case, which has been pending in the Parke county court since last winter, has again been postponed by Judge White. He has writteu to the attorneys that he cannot hear the case before Tuesday, March 2.

Suddeu Death of Mrs. Tunguy* LOGAN SPOUT, Ind., Jan. 3.—Sarah B. Tanguy, aged 70, wife of one of the oldest dry goods merchants in this city, dropped dead last evening ot' heart failure. She was a sister of Colonel A. H. Bringliurt. of tho Forty-sixth Indiana.

Partook of Corned Beef.

HARTFORD (JITY, Ind., Jan. 3.—Henry Jones and family are sick from ptomaine poisoning. They ate heartily of corned beef, Mrs. Jones is dangerously ill.

No Sunday Labor in Russia,

Under a new imperial ukase in Russia labor upon Sundays or on the 14 great feast days of the Greek calendar is to be severely punished. Hours of labor are restricted to eight for Children and 11 for adults, and to 10 hours on Saturday.

BAD ROAD BENEFITS.

THEY KILL HORSES AND HELP KEEP UP THE PRICE.

They Also Keep the Farmers' Sons at Home and Out of Mischief—How to Make Poor Roads and Keep Them In

That Condition—Use Narrow Tires-

There is an absurd idea gaining ground here and elsewhere that better roads would be advantageous and that the present methods of building and maintaining them are out of date. In every age and in every country thero has been a class of agitators, disgruntled, dissatisfied, endeavoring to overthrow existing conditions. In Russia there are nihilists, who rebel against the tyranny of czar Spain is at present disturbed by Cuban patriots in Canada there are road reformers. Tlie last mentioned are turbulent, obnoxious and aim at a state of anarchy.

Bad roads are in every way desirable. They kill time. Farmers have too much time hanging on their hands. They don't know what to do with it all. Time is money. Farmers have so much money usually that they can afford fo kill time. They have time to burn. But they don't burn their money—just time.

We have enjoyed the benefits of bad roads so Ions that if they were converted into good roads wo wouldn't know how to use them. Every farmer would be as uncomfortable as a Fiji islander wearing a new suit of clothes and a fur overcoat. How they would perspire! In the meantime the horses perspire.

Bad roads kill horses and help to keep up the price. Good roads would encourage fast driving and would thereby encourage cruelty to horses. Fast driving is very immoral. With good roads every farmer's son would own a nice top buggy aud would be able to keep it clean long enough to drive into town, and they would want to spend half their time in town. Bad roads keep them at home. They have to "stick to the farm" because the farm sticks to them.

These are a few of the reasons why we want bad roads. But it does not complete the list by any means. Thero are many other matters respecting commerce, society and civilization which we have not space to even suggest. Of course, if they have been applied, in principle, to other matters besides the roads, we would still bo without the printing press and the steam railway. We would bo without religious and educational institutions. There would be no progress, no civilization. Tho savages of central Africa would send missionaries to us.

Still it is evident, that we want had roads. In making them the lirst point to observe is that water should be kept in the road as much as possible. Dig trenches along each side of the wagon track, but do not provide a fall or outlets to carry water out. of the trenches otherwise they will be drains. These trenches should hold water and permit, it to soak into the roadbed, keeping it soft. If the surface of the road should by any means get dry, the tires of vehicles will easily break through the crust, and sir.k into the soft foundation

The dirt from these trenches, composed of sod md clay, should be thrown into the center of the road so as to secure a good depth of mud. By keeping the. roadway fiat on the surface there will be little danger of aiding drainage to any extent by the greater height of the center. The sod, too, will decay, and is excellent to keep a road in a muddy condition.

If gravel must be used on the road, choose a quality containing plenty of sand and clay. This will retain moisture and will yield easily under traffic in wet weather. There should be plenty of big stoues to roll around under the feet of the horses and the wheels of tho vehicle. A rotten culvert, standing a foot or so above the surface of the road, is almost, necessary for the making of a bad road in its ideal state. They break the monotony, carriages and horses' legs.

A road grader is a good thing with which to mako bad roads, although in the hands of an unscrupulous person it may also be employed in making a good road. Care should be taken to chooso an operator who doesn't know how to make a good road, and the chances are that he will be successful in producing a bad one. Do not keep one man constantly employed on it, but pass it around for every one and any one to try his hand on. It is just, like a plow in this respect. Do not get an experienced man in the first instance, and see that no one gets any experience. When using it on a gravel road, always turn the dirt and sod from the shoulders of the road and the ditches in to the center of the road. If gravel can be covored by this means, let the maker of bad roads wear a blissful smile. He has crowned his efforts with success. If the gravel road was previously good, it will be ruined by this treatment.

Use narrow tires. Wide tires have a tendency to keep the surface smooth. Narrow tires cut into the road and are harder for tho horses to pull, but tho man who has the interests of bad roads truly at heart must not hesitate. Besides, the horses have to do tho pulling. The driver can sit on top of the load and smoke. What use are good roads, anyway? We must have time to smoke.

If these few principles are carefully followed out, our roads will remain pretty much as they are at present for a number of years.—Municipal Word.

j.- Keep Down the KutH. In maintaining a road one of the most important considerations is to prevent tho formation of ruts by keeping the surface so uniform that travel will bo distributed over it and not follow in beaten tracks.

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Massachusetts Highways.

In Massachusetts nearly 200 miles of state roads have been bunt under direction of the state highway commissioners.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

LESSON II, FIRST QUARTER, INTERS NATIONAL SERIES, JAN 9.

Tent of the Lesson, Math, iv, l-ll—Mem-ory Verses, *-11—Golden Text, Heb. li, 18 Commentary by the Kev. D. M.

Steams.

1. "Then was Jesus led up of tho Spirit Into the wilderness, to be tempted of the devil." From tho beginning to tho end Ho was under the guidance an4. control of the Holy Spirit most fully. 1'ho Father having testified to the fact that Ho was His beloved, well pleasing Son, the Spirit now leads Him into this great conflict

with tho devil, at the very beginning of His public work, that lie may meet the adversary face to face and overcome him. Aud now, in that He Himself hath suf fered, being tempted, Ho is able to succor them that arc tempted (Heb. ii, 18). He had been subject for 30 years to all the temptations of an ordinary human life, but this is something special, and, as Dr. Weston says, has to do with Him as Son of "Man," Son of God and tho Messiah. 2. "And when Ho hail fasted 40 days and 40 nights, Lie was afterward an hungered. Luke iv, 2, says, "In those days He did eat. nothing." This was not a newthing on the earth, for Moses passed through \t, twice and Klijah once (Deut. ix, 9, IS I Kings xix, 8). On tho Mount of Transfiguration we find the three who fasted 40 days. There must bo some wondrous significance connected with it which we have not yet hail revealed to us. In Mark xi, 12, we read of another occasion on which lie was hungry, and one of His

Him. God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth" (.lohn iv, 2 ), 24). The word of God is the only guide, the Holy Spirit tho only teacher, the Lord Jesus the only way to God the Father so to worship in spirit, and in truth means that in all thing* Jesus is acknowledged as Lord to tho glory of God tho Father, and that, all is done in accordance with the word and in tho power of the Spirit. 11. "Then tho devil leaveth Him, and behold angel, jame and ministered unto Him." Luke iv, 13, says that tho devil departed from Him for a season. How thankful we should be that our Lord did not conquer satan in what, we might call a miraculous way, but in such a way as He will through us conquer hint also. He has left us His sword, the Word of God, ai 1 wo are told in Epli. vi, 10, 17, that these, tho shield of faith and tho sword of the Spirit, will surely overcome the adversary.

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last utterances on the cross was, "I thirst" (John xix, 28), but what an awful thirst that must have been! '. And when the tempter came to Him he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones bo mado bread." God had testified, "This is My Beloved Son, "but the devil questions it to His face, with this "if." As in the garden of Eden he questions the word of God withhis "Yea, hath God said" (Gen. iii, 1), and has ever since been doing the same thing, so ho does not hesitate to face tho Son of God Himself with his devilish doubts Think it not strange, then, if he oft approaches you in this way, hut receive not his doubts it is bet tor not to listen to him 4. "But He answered and said, It iswrittcn, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Xot the gratification of our desires, but the will of God, is the great thing. .Inst as in our words we show our loved ones our hearts, so God in His word has given us His heart for us. and God is love. Shall we lie satisfied with Ills heart and Ilis way anil thus livo Willis word, or shall we insist on having ail things minister to our comfort at all costs"'"Then the devil taketh Him up info the Holy City and setteth Him on a pin u:le of the temple. I ip to Jerusalem, the city of the great king (chapter v, 35) Do not stop to ask how, hut simply believe and consider the temptation and tho victory and ask the Spirit to apply it to your own soul The wilderness, and the hun ger, and the stones suggest the hard and lonely and commonplace things in daily life, but the Holy City, the temple and a pinnacle, thereof suggest, holy things ami the heights thereof not so common, bur far more dangerous ground because wore holy. fi. "And saith unto Him, If Thou bethn Son of God, cast- Thyself down, for it is written, He shall give His angels charge: concerning Thee and in their hands they..' shall bear thee up, lest Jit. any time Thou dash Thy foot against a stone." Tho devil can quote Scripture, and sometimes quite freely and at great length, but never to glorify God nor to help a soul to know Him. He always perverts it with the pur pose of working ruin. The man who thinks that because he is a child of God and controlled by the Spirit therefore he cannot sin, nor even make a mistake. is on a pinnacle of the temple listening to the devil. He would do well to consider these words, "If a man think himself to ho something when he is nothing, he de ceiveth himself." "If any man think that he knowcth anything, ho knoweth noth ing yet as he ought to know" (Gal. vi, il: I Cor. viii, 2). 7. "Jesus said unto him, It is written' again, Thou shalt not. tempt the Lord thy God." Scripture never contradicts Scrip ture, but. explains it and instructs us how to avert its abuse. Jesus quoted it from?! the heart to the glory of God, believing every word, but the devil uses it only wickedly. We nitty be said to tempt God when we make a self willed demand for: His help, or in any way claim His prorn ises for selfish ei ds. Our Lord lived than tho Father migh* IXJ glorified, and taught us that when wc tire willing to livo thus we can ask what we will and receivo it. 8. "Again the devil taketh Him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth Him all the kingdoms of the world, and tho glory of them." The first temptation was to satisfy His physical need, to satisfy Himself, on the ground that He was en titled to it the second was to show Himself and what, a great one He was the third was to accept the world without the way of the cross. The prince of this worldsoffers it simply on condition that it be accepted as from him and that ho be thanked for it. 9. "And saith tmto Him, All these things will 1 give Thee if Thou wilt fall down and worship me." The time will come when the antichrist, tho man of sin, the beast of Rev. xiii, will accept this offer of satan and for a brief period will do wondrously, but, oh, how brief his do minion, how fearful his fall and how awful his eternal doom, the lake of fire and brimstone forever I (Rev. xix, 20.) 10. "Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, satan, for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve." "True worshipers worship tho Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father seoketh such to worship