Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 July 1901 — Page 11

SPECIAL NOTICE.

For Sale—Farm Loans.

Low rate of interest, Xo commission charged— no expense of any kind.

Also one top Ijimgy, nearly new: one 2-yeur-•olU colt, one set of double harness (buggy). one Hamilton organ.

Fire insurance. nil kinds: notary public work: money loaned on chattels, small amounts.

E. M. BP EWER & CO.,

116Vs South Washington St.

W. K.WALLACE

Agent for the Connecticut Fire Insurance Co., of Hartford American Fire Insurance Co., ot New York Girard Fire Insurance Company, of Philadelphia: London Assurance Corporation, of London: Grand Rapids Fire Insurance Co., of Michigan. Office in Joel Block with R. E. Bryant,

South Wash. St., Crawfordsville.

See CAPT. H.B. SAYLER,

...THE...

General Auctioneer,

Before Contracting Your Sale.

Write or telephone for dates. Telephone OD line 20, free system, New Market, Ind.

"Central Grocery."

The Place forStaple aad Fancy

Groceries

A complete line of fancy Cakes, Fruits, Cigars •and Tobacco, and Candies. Also Price & Lucas Vinegars, consisting of four-year old crab,white wine and pure cider.

Try our special brand of coal oil—no milky or smokyiflues. Lowest prices on best grade of flour in town. We l.oast not of our honesty above any other honest man, but come to our store and bo convinced of our low prices, big weights and good goods. Rcspt., ...

W. E. STRAIN.

DARLINGTON, IND.

Estate of George Johnson, deceased. OTICE OF APPOINTMENT.

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Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and duly qualified as administrator with wi'l annexed of the estate of George Johnson, late of Montgomery county, Indiana, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent, JOSEPHINE JOHNSON,

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Administrator.

Dated June 20,1901-f-21-3t

Estate John W. Kirkpatrick, deceased. OTICE OF APPOINTMENT.

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Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and duly qualified as administrator of the estate of John W. Kirkpotrick, late of Montgomery county, Indiana, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent.

WILLIAM H. WILSON, Administrator.

Dated June 20. 1901—3t

Pustule Joseph F. Tuttle, deceased.. TOTICE OF APPOINTMENT.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned lias been appointed and duly qualified with will annexed of the estate of Joseph F. Tuttle, late •'of Montgomery county, Indiana, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent.

CHARLES L. THOMAS, Administra or.

Dated June 20, 1901—3t

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DM1NISTRATOR'S SALE.

Notice is hereby given that James D. Wilson, administrator of the estate of George W. Shields, deceased, will on Monday, August 19, at 11 o'clock a. m., on said land, situated in Coul Creek township. 1 mile north of Round Hill, and about 9 miles northwest of Crawfordsville, offer for sale at private sale to the highest bidder, the following described real estate, to-w-it: The northwest .quarter of the southwest quarter or section 24, township 20 north, ranue 5 west, containing 40 acres more or less, in Montgomery county, state of Indiana.

TERMS.

One-half of the purchase price of said land to be paid cash in haud. A credit of nine months to be given for the balance of said purchase price. The purchaser to give his note for the same with interest at 6 per cent from date, and secured by first mortgage on said real estate, or all cash. JAMES D. WILSON, 6-21-3t Administrator.

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OTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS, ETC.

In the matter of the estate of Nancy Finch, deceased, in the Montgomery circuit court.April term, 1901.

Notice is hereby given that Asbury Linn, as administrator of the estate of Nanoy Finch, deceased, has presented and filed his accounts and vouchers in final settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said circuit court on the 16th day of September, 1901, at which time nil heirs, creditors or legatees of said estate are required to appear in said court and show cause if any there be, why said accounts and vouchers should not be approved, and the heirs and distributees of said estate are also notified to be in said court at the time aforesaid and make proof of heirship.

Dated this 22nd day of June, 1901. 7-6 2t ASBURY LINN, Administrator.

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OTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS, ETC.

In the matter of the estate of Hannah Clossin, deceased, in the Montgomery circuit court, April term, 1901.

Notice is hereby given that Findley R. Clossin, as executor of the estate of Hannah Clossin, deceased, has presented and filed his accounts and vouchers in final settlement, of said estate and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said circuit court on the 16th day of September, 1901. at which time all heirs, creditors or legatees of said estate are required to appear in said court and show cause if any there be, why said accounts and vouchers should not be approved, and the heirs and distributes of said estate are also notified to be in said court at the time aforesaid and make proof of heirship.

Dated this 24th day of June, 1901. FINDLEY R. CLOSSIN, 6-28-2t Executor.

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OTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS.

State of Indiana, Montgomery county. In the Montgomery circuit court, September teim, 1901.

Gilbert H. Hamilton et al. vs. Joseph E Hamilton. Complaint No. 18,732. Come now the plaintiffs by William C. Mitchell and Jno. M. LaRue, their attorneys, and file their complaint herein, in attachment, together with un affidavit that said defendant Joseph E. Hamilton is not a resident of the state of Indiana.

Notice is therefore hereby given said defendant that unless he be and appear on the 1st day of the next term of the Montgomery circuit court, the same being the 16th day of September, A. D., 1901, at the court house in Crawfordsville, in said county and state, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in bis absence.

Witness my name, and the seal of said court, affixed at Crawfordsville this 24th day of June, A. D.. 1901. DOMONT KENNEDY, 6-28-8t Clerk.

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jocu naci not forgotten it: neither had lie forgotten the lesson that Ibis fair aristocrat had read him in the morning. He sainted his chief again, set the eliess box down upon the ledge of the marble balustrade and stood 6ilent, without once glancing at the fair and haughty face that was more brilliant still in the African starlight than it had been in the noon sun of the chasseurs' chambree. Courtesy was forbidden him as insult from a corporal to a nobly born beauty. The earrings wore passed from hand to hand as the marquis' six or eight guests, listlessly willing to be amused in the warmth of the evening after their dinner, occupied themselves with the ivory chess armies, cut with a skill and a linisii worthy a Roman studio. I'raiso enough was awarded to the art, but only one glanced at the artist with a touch of wondering pity, softening her pride—she who hail rejected the gift of tliose mimic squadrons. "You were surely a sculptor once?" she asked him, with that graceful, distant kindness which she might have shown some Arab outcast. "Never, niadame." "Indeed! Then who taught you such exquisite art'/" "It cannot claim to be called an art, madame."

She looked at him with an increased interest. The accent of his voice told her that this man. whatever lie might be now, had once been a gentleman. "Oh, yes it is perfect of its kind. Who was your master in it?" "A common teacher, madame—necessity."

There was a very sweet gleam ot compassion in the luster of her dark, dreaming eyes. "Does necessity often teach so well?" "In the ranks of our army, madame, I think it does often, indeed, much better." "Victor knows that neither he nor hi? men hnye any right to waste their time on such trash." Chateauroy said carelessly, "but the truth is they love tlit canteen so well that they will do any thing to add enough to their pay to buy brandy."

She whom he .had called the princess looked with a doubting surprise at the sculptor of the white Arab king she held. "That man does not carve for brandy," she thought. "It must be a solace to many a weary hour in the barracks to be able to produce such beautiful trifles as these," she said aloud. "Surely you encourage such pursuits, colonel?" "Not I," said Chateauroy, with a dash of his camp tone that lie could not withhold. "There are but two arts oi virtues for a trooper to my tastefighting and obedience." on should bo in the Russian service, 1. de Chateauroy," said the lady, with a smile that, slight as it was. made the marquis' eyes flash fire. "Almost I wish I had been," he an swered her. "Men are made to keep their grades there, and privates whe think themselves fine gentlemen receive the lash they merit." "How he hates his corporal thought miladi, while she laid aside ihe wnite king once more. "Xay." interposed Chateauroy. recovering his momentary self abandonment "since you like the bagatelles do me honor enough to keep them." "Oh, no I offered your soldier his own price for them this morning, and he refused any."

Chateauroy swung round, '-..v/ "Ah! You dared refuse your bits of ivory when you were honored by an offer for them

Cecil stood silent. His eye met his chiefs steadily. Chateauroy had seen that look when his chasseur had bearded him in the solitude of his tent and demanded back the Pearl of the Desert.

The princess glanced at both. Then she stooped her elegant head slightly to the marquis. "Do not blame your corporal unjustly through me, I pray you. He refused any price, but he offered them to me very gracefully as a gift, though, of course, it was not possible that I should accept them so." "The man is the most Insolent fellow in the service," muttered her host as he motioned Cecil back off the terrace. "Get you gone, sir, and leave your toys here or I will have them broken up by a hammer."

The words were low, that they should not offend the ears of the great ladies who were his listeners, but they were coarsely savage in their whispered command, and the princess heard them. "He has brought his chasseur here only to humiliate him." thought miladi with the same thought that flashed through the mind of the little Friend of the Flag where she hid among her rhododendrons. Now, the dainty aristocrat was very proud, but she was not so proud but that justice was stronger than pride. "Wait," she said, moving a little toward them, while she let her eyes rest on the carver of the sculptures with a grave compassion, though she addressed his chief. "You wholly mistake me. I laid no blame whatever on your corporal. Let him take the chessmen back with him. I would on no account rob him of them. I can well understand that he does not care to part with such masterpieces of his art, and that he would not appraise them by their worth In gold only shows that he is a true artist, as doubtless also he is a true soldier."

The words were spoken with a gracious courtesy, the clear, cold tone of

her habitual Tnanner just marking In them still the difference of caste between her and the man for whom she interceded, as she would equally have interceded for a dog who should have been threatened with the lash bceause ho had displeased her. That very tone struck a sharper blow to Cecil than the insolence of his commander had power to deal him. His face flushed a little. He lifted his cap to her with a grave reverence and moved away. "I thank you. madame. Keep them, if you will so far honor me."

The words reached only her ear. In another instant he had passed away down the terrace steps, obedient to his chief's dismissal. "Ah, have no kind scruples in keeping them, madame," Chateauroy laughed to her as she still hold in her hand doubtfully the white sheik of the chess Arabs. "I will see that Rel-a-faire-peur, as they call him, does not suffer by losing these trumperies, which, I believe, old Zist-et-Zest, a veteran of ours and a wonderful carver, had really far more to do wi-.h producing than he. You must not let your gracious pity be moved by such fellows as these troopers of mine. They are the most ingenious rascals in the world and know as well how to produce a dramatic effect in your presence as they do how to drink and to swear when they are out of it." "Very possibly," she said, with an indolent indifference. "But that man was no actor, and I never saw a gentleman if he lias not been one." "Like enough," answered the marquis. "I believe many 'gentlemen' come in our ranks who have tied their native countries and broken all laws from the Decalogue to the Code Napoleon. So long as they light well we don't ask their past criminalities." "Of what country is your corporal?" "I have not. an idea. I imagine his past must have been something very black indeed, for the slightest trace of it has never that I know of been allowed to let slip from liini. lie encourages the men in every insubordination, buys their favor with every sort of stage trick, things himself the finest gentleman in the whole brigades of Africa and ought to have been shot long ago if he had had his real deserts."

She let her glance dwell on him with a contemplation that was half contemptuous amusement, half unexpressed dissent. "I wonder he has not been since you have the ruling of his fate," she said, with a slight smile lingering about the proud, rich softness of her lips. "So do I."

There was a gaunt, grim, stern significance in the three monosyllables that escaped him unconsciously. It made her turn and look at him more closely. "How has he offended you?" she asked.

Chateauroy laughed off the question. "Iu a thousand ways, madame chiefly because I received my regimental training under one who followed the traditions of the armies of Egypt and the Rhine and have, I confess, little tolerance in consequence of a rebel who plays the martyr and a soldier who is too effeminate an idler to do anything except attitudinize in interesting situations to awaken sympathy." "I am not much interested in military discussions," she said coldly, "but I imagine, if you will pardon me for saying so. that you do your corporal some little injustice here. I shall not keep the chessmen without making him fitting repayment for them. Since he declines money you will tell me what form that had better take to be of real and welcome service to a Chasseur d'Afrique."

Chateauroy. more incensed that he chose or dared to show, bowed courteously, but with a grim, ironic smile. "If you really insist, give liim a napoleon or two whenever you see liim. He will be very happy to take it and spend it for drink, though he played the aristocrat today. But you are too good to him. He is one of the very worst of my insubordinates, and you are cruel to me in refusing to deign to accept my trooper's worthless bagatelles at my hands."

She bent her superb head silently, whether in acquiescence or rejection he could not well resolve with himself, and turned to the staff officers, among them the heir of a princely semiroyal French house.

Couched down among her rose hued covert, Cigarette had watched and heard, her teeth set tightly, her breath coming and going swiftly, her hand clinched close on the butts of her pistols. She had never looked at a beautiful, high bred woman before, holding them iu gay, satirical disdain. But now she studied one through all the line, quickened, unerring instincts of jealousy, and there is no instinct in the world that gives such thorough appreciation of the very rival it reviles. She saw the courtly negligence, the regal grace, the fair, brilliant loveliness, the delicious, serene languor of a pure aristocrat for the very first time to note them, and they made her heart sick with a new and deadly sense. She dropped her head suddenly, like a wounded bird, and the racy, vindictive camp oaths died off her lips. She thought of herself as she had danced that mad bacchic bamboula amid the crowd of shouting, stamping, drunken, half Infuriated soldiery, and for th« moment she hated herself more ever than she hated that patrician yonder. "I know what he meant now!" sh« pondered, and her spirited, sparkling, brunette face was dark and weary. She looked once, twice, thrice, more inquiringly, envyingly, thirstingly then she turned, and wound herself back under the cover of the 'shrubs, not joyously and mischievously, as she had come, but almost as slowly, almost as sadly, as a hare that the greyhounds have coursed drags itself through the grasses and ferns.

Once through the cactus hedge her old spirit returned. She shook herself

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angrily with petulant self scorn she swore a little, and Celt that the fierce, familiar words did her good, like brandy poured down her throat she tossed her head like a colt that rebels against the gall of the curb then fleet as a fawn she dashed down the moonlit road at topmost speed. "All. but she can't do what 1 do!" she thought.

And she ran the faster and sang a drinking song of the spaliis all the louder, because still at her heart a dull pain was aching.

CHAPTER VII.

I inDPKNLY, as she went, CigaI yj rette heard a shout on the still ISSpmSl night air —very still now that the lights and the melodies and the laughter of Chateaur.oy's villa lay far behind, and the town of Algiers was yet distant, with its lamps glittering down by the sea.

The shout was: "Help, soldiers! For Franco!" And Cigarette knew the voice, ringing melodiously and calmly still, though it gave the sound of alarm. "Cigarette is coming!" she cried in answer. She had cried it many a time over the heat of battlefields and when the wounded men in the dead of the sickly night writhed under the knife of the camp thieves, if she had gone like the wind before, she went like the lightning now. A few yards onward she saw a confused knot of horses and of riders struggling one with another in a cloud of white dust, silvery and hazy in the radiance of the moon.

The center figure was Cecil's the four others were Arabs, armed to the teeth and mad with drink. They had knocked aside and trampled over a woruout old colonel of age too feeble

A. confused knot of horses and of riders. for him to totter in time from their path. Cecil had reined up and shouted to them to pause. They, inflamed with the perilous drink and senseless with fury, were too blind to see and too furious to care that they were faced by a soldier of France, but rode down on him at once, with their curled sabers flashing round their heads. His horse stood the shock gallantly, and lie sought at first only to parry their thrusts, but. he soon saw that if he struck not, and struck not surely, a few moments more of that moonlight night were all that he would live. He wished- to avoid bloodshed, but it was no longer a matter of choice with him, as his shoulder was grazed by a thrust which, but for a swerve of his horse, would have pierced his lungs, and the four riders, yelling like madmen, forced the animal back on his haunches and assaulted him with breathless violence. He swept his own arm back and brought his saber down straight through the sword arm of the foremost. The limb was cleft through as if the stroke of an ax had severed it, and. thrice infuriated, the Arabs closed in on him. The points of their weapons were piercing his harness when, sharp and swift, one on another, three shots hissed past liim. The nearest of his assailants fell stone dead, and the others, wounded and startled, loosed their hold, shook their reins and tore off down the lonely road, while the dead man's horse, shakiug his burden from him out of the stirrups, followed them at a headlong gallop through a cloud of dust. "That was a pretty cut through the arm. Better had it been through the throat. Never do things by halves, friend Victor," said Cigarette carelessly as she thrust her pistols back into her sash and looked with the tranquil appreciation of a connoisseur on the brown, brawny, naked limb where it lay severed on the sand, with the hilt of the weapon still hanging in the sinewy fingers. Cecil threw himself from his saddle and gazed at her in bewildered amazement. He had thought those sure, cool, death dealing shots had come from some spahis or chasseur. "I owe you my life!" he said rapidly "But, good heavens, you have shot the fellow dead"—

Cigarette shrugged her shoulders, with a contemptuous glance at the Bedouin's corpse. "To be sure. I am not a bungler." "Happily for me, or I had been where he lies now. But wait. Let me look. There may be breath in him yet."

Cigarette laughed, offended and Scornful as with the offense and scorn of ene whose first science was impeached. "Look and welcome, but if you find fcny life in that Arab make a laugh of It before all the army tomorrow."

She was at her fiercest. Cecil, disregarding h«?r protest, stooped and raised the fallen Bedouin. He saw at a glance that she was right. The lean, dark, lustful face was set in the rigidity of death. The bullet had passed straight through the temples. "Did you never see a dead man before?" demanded Cigarette impatiently as he lingered. Even in this moment he had more thought of this Arab than he had of her.

He laid the body down and looked at

ner with a glance that, rightly on wroiv.:lv. she thought had a. rebuke in it. "Very many. P.ut it is never a pleasant, sight. And they were in drink. The did not know what they did." "'What divine pity! (iood powder and bail were sore \lf.sted, it seems. You would have preferred to lie then: yourself, it appears. I bog your pardon for interfering with the preference." ller eyes were flashing, her lips very scorv.fui r.iul wrathfuh

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gratiliide! "Wait, wait," said Cecil rapidly, laying his hand oil her shoulder as she flung herself away. "My dear child, do not think me ungrateful. 1 know well enough 1 should be a dead man myself had it n:i been for your gallant assistance. l'.i'lieve me, 1 than) you frmn my heart." "I'ut you think me 'utisexed.' all the same!"

The word had innkied in her. She could launch it now with telling reprisal. lie smiled, but he saw that his phrase, which she had overheard, had not alone incensed but had wounded her. v-.K'

Whir a liith^f^rhhps," lie said gehfi.v. "i .)\- should it be otherwise? And. for that matter. I have seen many a great lady look and iaegb her soft, cruel laughter while the pheasants were falling by hundreds or the stags being irn by tlie h., ::ids. And they had not a lithe oi" your courage." 'it is w, 11 for you that I was unsex ed enoi.rh to be able to send an ounce of lead ini.i a drunkard!" she pursued. v.\th immeasurable disdain. "If 1 had been like that dainty aristocrat down tl.ere. it had been worst1 for you. 1 should have screamed and fainted and 1 ft yet: to l.e killed while 1 made a tableau. Oh-he. that is to bo 'feminine.' is not?" "\. IK .e did you see that lady?" ho a:'ked in reme surprise. "Ob. 1 was there!" answered Ciga-rc-t". with a toss of her head southward to where the villa lay. "I went to see how you would keep your pronii«"." "Y.'ell, you saw 1 kept it."

She gave her little teeth a sharp click li". the click of a trigger. "Yes. And I would have forgiven you if you had broken it." "Would ,u ,1 should not have forgiven myself.'' "Ah, you are pist. like Marquise. And you will end like him." "Very probably." "Why did you give those chessmen to that silver pheasant?" she asked him abruptly. "Silver pheasant?" "Yes. See how she sweeps, sweeps sweeps so languid, so brilliant, so use less—ball! Why did you give them?" "She admired thoin. It was not much to give." "Ah. you would not have giveu them to a daughter of the people." "Why not?" "Why not? Because her hands woulc be hard and brown and coarse, not tit for those ivory puppets, but miladi't are while like the ivory and cannot soil it. She will handle them so gracefully for five minutes and then buy a new toy and let her lapdog break yours!" "Like enough." He said it with lib habitual gentle temper, but there was a shadow of pain in the words. Tin chessmen had become in some sort like living tilings to liim through long asso ciation. Cigarette, quick to sting, but as quick to repent usjng her sting, saw the regret in liim. With the rapid, un calculating liberality of an utterly un selfish and intensely impulsive nature she hastened to make amends by say lug what was like gall on her tongue ii the utterance. "And yet," she said quickly, "perhaps she will value them more than that. 1 know nothing of the aristocrats—not I When you were gone, she eliamplonec you against the Black Hawk. She tolc him that if you had not been a gentle man before you came Into the rank! she had never seen one. She spoke well. If you had but heard her!" "She did?"

She saw his glance brighten as i' turned on her In a surprised gratifica tlon. "Well, what Is there so wonderful?"

Cigarette asked it with a certain pet ulance and doggedness, taking a name sake out of her breast pocket, biting it end off and striking a fusee. A wort from this aristocrat was more welcome to him than a bullet that had saved hli life!

Iler generosity had gone very far and, like most generosity, got nothing for its pains. "Well! Well!" thought his champion as she made her waj through the gay. lighted streets. "1 swore to have my vengeance on him is a droll vengeance to save his life!' "Ilola, Cigarette!" cried the zouave Tata, leaning out of the little case ment. of the As du Pique, as she passed it. "Come in. We have thf devil's own fun here"— "No doubt!" retorted the Friend ol the Flag. "It woulel lie odd if the mas ter fiddler woukl not fiddle for his own!" "Come in. my pretty one!" entreatee. Tata, stretching out his bra»wny arms "You will die of laughing if you heai Gris-Oris tonight. Such a song!" "A pretty song, yes, for a pigsty!' said Cigarette, with a glance into th« chamber, and she shook his hand ofi her and went on elown the street. A night or twe before a new song fron Gris-Gris woulel have been a paradis to her, anei she would have vaulted through the window at a single bound into the pandemonium. Now, she did not know why, she found no charm in it. And she went quietly home to her little straw bed in her garret and curleil herself up like a kitten to sleep but for the iirs(t time In her young life sleep did not come readily to her, and when it diel come for the first time found a restless sigh upon her laughing mouth as she murmured, dreamlug. "IIow beautiful she is!"

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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

LESSON I, THIRD QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, JULY 7.

Te.\t ot Ihr Ill-Knoll, (ien. I. 1 to ii. .'J. Memory Verse*, ileS, —7—(iolden Text, Gen. i, 1—Commentary I'repnred by tlie Rev. 1). M. Sleurim.

(Copyright, 11X11, liy American Tress Association.] It is very refreshing to turn after so long a time ia our studies to the begin-.-• uing of this heavenly hook, God's own beginning of Ilis own book, hut how to say just a little of what ought to he said eta so large and important portion iu so brief a space is difficult. The Bible begins ainl ends with a perfect Ct5ndition ot tilings mi earth Mien, and ii Rev. xxi and xxii), no sin, no curse, no sorrow, no sulTciing. no devil visible. Gen. iii introduces us to the adversary, and Rev. xx tells of his final destiny. 1. A sublime and simple statement of how the world was made. Compare Ps. xxxiii, (1, ,1 or. xxxii, IT. As to the one by whom God did it all see .iolin i, 1-." ('ol. i, The word here translated bid is a plural word, and we may see here the Trinity. Not: only find comfort in the power of our Lord anil Saviour. bin what you cannot begiii with God do not begin at all, whether a hook or let er or aiisaetion.

W aste nil void and darkness isee K. .) ale not suggestive ol God. and I.sa. \lv, 'IN. It. Y.t says that God did not make ihe earth a waste. The first versa is a dateless verso and tedls us of what: God did perhaps tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago. The second verse tells us of how (lungs were some 5,000 years ago when God began to bring order and beauty and fruitfulness out of the chaos and darkness. The interval between the first and second verses gives: room for all the geological periods which may lie desired. 3-.~. 'I lie words "and God said," used ten times in ihis chapter, tell us of the won] of God by which or by whom all things were made. The Spirit of God is the great worker and the word of God is the great, instrument by which God aecomplishes all things. So the two phrases, "the Spirit of God moved" and "God said," toll how God does all His work in nature or in grace. As to light coming by the word, see II Cor. iv, Ps. cxi.v, 130, and on the division between light and darkness see 11 Cor. vi, 11.. 0-8. The second day's work is a firmament or expanse, noL something solid, but something thin or rare," elivieling waters above from waters below. 1 am willing to believe that the-se six elays were six ordinary elays, as any simple person would suppose „from Ex. xx, 11, and that Goel elid on each day just what He says llfl elid. The simplest way eif reading Scripture is the best (.Math, xi, Tlie practical lessons for the

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all through this portion are very simple anei helpful. Verse 2 describes the heart and life of every unsaved person, and the first day's work is suggestive of the new birth anil the division that at once begins to be made manifest ill the life. The second elay's work suggests how the life is to bo nourished not by waters below, but by waters above, and is illustrated by Jer. ii, 13 John iv, 13, 14 ltev. xxi, xxii, 17. 9-13. On the third day the elry land is made to appear, and lie covers it with grass, herbs and trees. The suggestion for the helii'ver is that of a resurrection life and fruitfulness and is set forth in such passages as Col. iii, 1—J Phil, i, 11 iii, 10 John xv. 1-11. The seed and fruit after his kind whose seed is iu itself reniinds us that tlesh produces only that which is lleshly, and the spiritual can only come by the Spirit. Grape elo not. grow on thorns, nor tigs on thistles (John iii, 5 Math, vii, 1G). The association of the third day and resurrection is seen in the stories of Isaac and Jonah and the marriage in Cana (Gen. xxii, 4 Math, xii, 40 John ii, 1), also in IIos. vi, 2. 14-1!). On the fourth day the sun, moou and Muia are appointed for signs, seasons. days and years, to be lights in the firniftinent ami to rule over the day and night. We think of them in coake etbm with seasons, elays ami years, hut are» not apt to consider that they are sigus, and when attention is calleel to Jer. xxxi, 3u, 3li xxxTii. 20, 21, anei that Israel is always a nation before God some people are greatly nstonisheel. The sua turns our attention to the Lord God as onr sun and shield and to the time when the righteous shall shine forth as the sun (Ps. ixxxiv, 11 Math, xiii, 43). The moon, which is said to be a ruin ot nature and refle.'cts upem us the light of tlie sun, tells us how we are to let our light shine' that Goel may be gloriGcd, by living in Ilis light and abiding iu His love, by seeing Jesus only. 20-23. The fifth tlay shows us the waters and the air, with abundance of fishes and fowl, and command given them to be fruitful and multiply anei fill the waters and multiply in the earth. The fifth day is assoeiiated with blessing anei abundant multiplication, for here the words are first useel, and we cannot but think of

Prov. x, 22. It. V.. "Tlie blessing of the Lord maketh rich, and toll addeth nothing thereto of His blessing which gave Israel a three years' crop in the sixth year and feel abundantly 5,000 men with five loaves. 24-31. On the sixth day cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth are made, and man in the image of God, male and female, to have dominion over all: man made of the dust of the earth, a full grown, perfect man, and woman maele of a part of man's body and given to liim to be a helpmeet for him anei He called their name Adam (chapters ii and v, 1, 2). The Spirit tells us by Paul in Eph. v, 30-32, that Adam and Eve are typical of Christ and the church, and the Spirit elsewhere tcaclies us that as Eve was buildeel out of Adam by his slee (Gen. ii, 21, 22, margin), so by virtue of the death and resurrection of Christ, the true Eve, the church is now being builded out of Him, and, when completed, shall be brought to Him, and there shall be a marriage and then the kiagdom (Rev. sir, 7 Dan. vii, 27). ii, 1-3. This portion tells us that on the seventh day God ended and rested from His work and blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. We have the practical teaching in Heb. iv, where wo leara that we can only enter into rest when we cease from our own works as God did from I-Iis. Thus we may daily enjoy a coastant Sabbath while we wait for the rest that remaineth. As to keeping one day in seven wholly for God, I know of »o better instruction than Tsa. lviii, 13, 14. In this section of Genesis the only name of Deity is God used just 35 times, or by 7, signifying abundant perfection., and when God becomes all in all in us, as He is in this portion, we shall be abundantly perfected.