Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 38, Number 19, Jasper, Dubois County, 17 January 1896 — Page 7
WEEKLY COURIER.
C. DOAXK, Publisher.
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JASrKIl.
INDIANA.
WHEN I AM
OLD. Arc. within ir.o
t there a realm culled
realm of Time? And ')' w,,iU H,n ln u'jsmer bloom or winter rimf. May Its ilxed boundaries be told? flow may I know the Uindmurk sot btislde the way? .Wh't warilt-r stand th. when I cross the Mae. t Now art thou old." I note the jMitalnK shadows of the llytriir
The tlahtns and the railing of revolving TU chimes ln starry bei frlei '.ollec.. Hut In my heart I fcl no wltherinK, no doCftV Hot U undlmmod and Joy unjuench-l. Then who may say That I am old?
Tet. And
far behind, the backward-sttctchlntf path I tnioe: close before, the hills whoso sun-nH e-lr.M.- 1 n'
Whyre evening spreads h;rcouuh f BoM. How lons-so-eVr oM B coming rosy delay. , . . X know, barring death only, sometime I must say: Now am I oM." Tis well. After the summer Hush, the autumn Blow. After the autumn, winter's jmretransnsuring !now, AiUolt hla friendly touch be cold.
After youth's r.stle. breathless mitista. a
iy bow the white head o'er tho staff, and
prntvfu!' fay: "Now am I old." Then, as I turn to sean thr fields I've sown ilay no rliorn-httrveot there, of wrontff o: follies grown tv itouH. iiiw. mv evoa behold.
Hut gardens, uladdenlng him who follow s in the way.
And the well-rltHmd sheaf, that men rr.it V
bless my day, Though I urn old. r
a ... mv heart, lot not time's rost.
lvcea thti thy youth; thy warm affection.
va.rsa.-r tili. Ht... ritiar In tho co.u.
T-rtvn not. mlae eyes; we must go smlllr.g
An mir use.
Tcnnie. speak thy best good cheer, thin
nonw la uern may any: "Ab. h 1 old!"
im, lifft'fl hours! of labor
.Act. ttvl. hertss ae, decrepit, senile,
mV iMwrs would shrivel, lleav
r..uti.ho!v blteht. tho nwulrtertns,
.Un WV.
And call me In my streasth. while yet 'tl joy to my That I amtoM Into no vall-y's shadow tm tho weary fn. lint up- the radiant heiuht. wlwre usht serenely i rmm i.iir. niMi vMons fnlrttnrol'i
There ? th(t bound of Age. th landmark
by the way. ThM elands the warder, as I cress
tin, to say: Here none Is obi." U.n rmf. George Huntlnston. in Chleato Interior.
"Howdy?" answered mtm nnd wife In ehoius. "Powerful hot?" "Yea, powerful." No more Is said until Joe fills and lights Iiis pipe nntl takes n seat on a near-by stump. Then the woman, her eyes on his feet, quietly a.sks: " Reckon him ortor ilo it, .beV" "Of e'e him irter," replietl .loe. "Ye, fur Khore," adds the hunbanil. "It'll be the ole inanV" said tho woman after a patoe lit.stin two minute. "The ole man, of eo'se," replied Joe. "Yes, the ole man," added the hus-
l-iinil. One of the dojr la.ily arose atid vjilhed oerund lieked Joe's hnnd.iiml . . . .1 1 IV.
in return ne pnneu me miuuui n i.. .1. in 11 half hind way. It wuk live minutes before anyone spoke n-uln. The. wife had frrown pale-faced, and her lindens trembled as she plied the noodles. There was KHiiethinjr like . . ... . 1 !.1 .
imxietv in ner iom nr nut-
"I wish Jim wouldn't do it. I don t he thin hillin,." "I lev to kill," '-iMilied Joe, an he took
the ihy' ear in Hin hand.
Yes.hev to kill,"nthled the husband,
is lie nroc and yawned and tretehed
his limbs.
.Joe hehl the litie out to him, and he
took it and hefted it and examined its
s-ovend parts and nmltleil his head with yntisfaetion.
Yo kin drap him at 40 rod.s," Haul
Joe. as be niiHlied.tlie doy away.
Fron: 'M to 0." anhwered Jim, as he
btoufrht the weapon up und signitfu
nlonir the barrel.
"(lot to make suah work". "Yes. snah work. Come fur it to-
inorrer.
"Keekon 1 will. Hay to yo' nil.' When the ealler had gone his way
the husband sat down ami lre.sniy tilled his nine and made another exam
ination of the rifle. A
broken by the wife's query:
nviuifs the J'nssin
"Same as befo"."
M'lu. olt Jim n Tavlor and our two
"Y?. lie wants damnyes, v.ou't pay." "(Jwine ter kill him?" "Kur shore." "Wish yo' wouldn't." "Got ter." That ctuled the ccnvcrantlon.
FOR CAMPAIGN PURPOSESONLY. UtdeeU of the I'ltmiu Ul I.rulnUtlei ow I'l'iiding I5cfor t'oiiKr. Peoplu of this country who are forward enough to jezul a newspaper once a day or even onee a week are not j;oinj; to be fooled by the fol-de-rol now j,sIiijT on at Washington. The performunee uioii which eoiurcss is now entering is Insincere and Ineffective. It is a
pretense and u sham. The committee
DISHONEST
SCHEMERS.
t
du
Ki)BlIcmn rtlfrrer Tryl
Their Work. Kverv rcnublieau plan for incrc;
the revenue is dishonest and a whotae to Randhnp and rob the jeopln of tlif country. No great increane. if any. Is required. Rut the Ixnogliuiry deßc-U is nuule a jirefxt for the kind of tiirilT leirlfilntion ib;nandea by the rapaUy r . . Tluv
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AND LITERARY.
. - . f I .... V AC-
on wava and means seems to have Bat I declare tlmt thecountri is 1 1..
1 citmiu ri'iitiiHtmieos anil x.ne h-k
the eountrv'H necessity ns their racai-
lontr sileuee was
Mill'
on Christinas (lav for the purpose o:
produoinir an effect upon the public rdnd. Itwnst.be worstea.so. of jingoism ia eeoi.omieH that, has boon cen in a buy time. Men of gravity nml exjerl cnee are i'ligayinp in a jxilitical circus ac.. They are merely preparing1 for campaign document, which is to run something after this fashion: "Wo tried to relieve the distress of the treasury and the revenue (liflioulties, but the administration stood in our way. Wo presented the- remedy, but it wn-s not accepted."
The gentlemen who are engineer
ing tho present scheme in the house
in, v no cvTii'otatlon that, it will ever
become a law. 1 f t hey thought it w ould
tbev would probably not be. for it
mm..... ,,inf.K Siif wl'.nt is de-
i 111 , v ....... m - glared to be a serious condition with a They ciphers'
cheat) article of pettifoggery. They!
have no well matured plan of relief, and if t.h-y had they would not put it in operation for the benefit of a democratic
administration.
r.vnrvhndv knows what the course 01
the adminis'tration on finance. hau been. t
We shall not go over an oui discussion.
in carrying out a policy winch the republican party created Mr. Cleveland
has been issuing nonus uimer iwresumption law to get gold to maintain a e-old reserve of $100.000,000 in the
treasury. He has been adding to the
i.ldii. hulehU'dness to "maintain a
i.redit." that has not been threatened.
He luis been criticised in IwUi parties
for his course. lie lately advtseu congress that there was another crisis, and urcred legislation that would help him
. . . 1 . ... . r..?C!
to keep the gom siock up. v
iv opiortunity.
From every jiart ot ine wu.
when its patriotic enthusiasm awakened and there was a probability
that men, ships and money nrgxit do
needed to fight its battles on Jntui auu Fea there thronged to the capitol the agent.s, solicitors and other mcmlwrs of the lobby gang to mge increased taxation, not for the public benefit, out for their own. The most impudent and the roost greedy of the throngs thawmrrouiukd the Purees of revenue legislation were the w ool men, clamoring for a renewal of the. wool tax, which would incluue the old tax- on clothing carols, hats
nnd caps and other wooi jffuuuu.
d out thai me w u
clothing tariff produced in prosperous
vears a revenue of 540.wu.ww. . - r . .1..., V.. ni f.rl- llnl-
covered ui) ine iacv im v.....
and 1 had previously been advised that there
inr of nublie revenue produced by the
l fnrifr ten dollars or 20 wcnl Into
the pockets of the protected manuiacturers. . . ,
Tiw. n.hocates of this c-igantic inuin
n,,.1 Kieal attemntetl to uisgut
character by declaring that It i ota
ntoration of the McKinley tarm
schexltile," and that it is a plan to produce revenue mcrcly-not for pro'eeTl,.. fillnf-ntion is fabe. If the
LI W . 1 a . . I'- . t,.TC5nl.v tariiT or SO or GO per cent. of.
the ilcKinlev tariff rates should be restored it would le for protection nnd ,mr fr.r revenue. Nine-tenths of all
(1,.. laves collected or more would go
Tho rieb lumber men, the nabobs of
the tiiue forests, are also besieging the
eanitol for a renewal of protection.
THE MOTTO OF THE FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
fei
When
tin:
9t ''cil' ... i 5.-.' v'-; : 0Yjiil
HAD TO KILL.
J Bit of Lifo and Death In Cumberland Mount-nine.
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CAl'dN beside tiie rude trail loading iii the slope of a mountain two or three aer'Sof h.dfeultivated ground poverty within nnd poverty without. An old .v.id lialf-tarved mule
wandering about three or four dags lying in the sun n mountaineer and his wife nmdvimr t h (. i r
----- - --- j. pije-s on the doorstep. It Is Ignorance in olitttdit--contentment in poverty. Jt i.i half an hour since the wife joined her husband, and yet not a word has passed between them. She knits and smokes and raises her eyes only at I . ig interval.!. He smokes and thinks .mi!
Iiis gun1 is on the tree-tops across .ie road. Queer people, tboi-e mount. linrs of the Cumberland. They are ftolcal. -dient, wary, morose. They -ne clvravs thinking nml thinking. They Mtm suspicious even of each other. They wme and go they live they die, 1... it 41 tln.r .dnss of neoiile. They
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PERSONAL
Mrs. Kllab-th Preston DavU, mt VVabhinj-rton. is one of tliepnuluully in-ereadnj-niiiaber of women who know more nlnnit inatheniatics tinin N re-quin-d in Uirgsiin-eountertnni.sactlons. She Is alMiut t complete tho calculationsof tbeepbeinerisoraluntnaeof the sun, a seleatitie publication of the United States obM-natory. These calculations brintf this work up tothe20tk century. Prince Ilismarek. in a recent Inter
view, s-aid of Tom Ochiltree's message r.f roiuloleiiee from congress on the
deatli of Kisker: "es. I reznetiilK-r the affair. I-asker was an able little man,
though lie was often wroiig-neadeil and tried to interfere with the logical devel
opment of things. I was ashed to de
liver that resolution to nie reieasi.iK, and was nft willing to play the part of
messenger. That was the whole ot tue
dispute."
Mr. UolKTt Harr. who. as "uui.e
Sharp." is a popular author in the 0111
world and the new. haf, tno 1.0110011
Ameriean tells us, just liecomen landed
nmnrietor in Kncland. having bought a
larire pieiv of ground 011 the top of the
Surrey Ullis, ami 1 uiuhuhk .1 ...- Komi res. idenee for himself. He Is quite
a coMnoixilitan as far as land-holding . . . . .. tl !.!..
gws. having a winter piac 111 r ui m.t
and a large gnis farm anti resiueiiee on the Canadian bank of the Detroit
river.
The duchess of York has won the
affection of every one alsmt üaimorai
bv her kiadlv manners and her will
ingness to have her little son jro in and out among the people-- The Brit
ish Weekly tells a story of a worKing-
man who was heard tellmgr a menu on
the night the duke and duchess arrived in the Highlands: "I got a bonnet frac the dook and a bow frae the
.1. ,!,.... nml I know it was forme. lor
there wasna nnither man in the road." J 'irst editions of ltolert Umis Stevenson an-already fetching- high prices. At the recent sale of Philip Uillert lhimerton's library and etchings, which brought in only $.1.370, a presentation oop of "An Inland Voyagre," 1S7S, was sold for SIS. and the first edition of the "New Arabian Nights." two volumes, for F. Seymour If aden's "l.i tides sur Fcau forte" sold for $150. the highest price obtained. Hamerton's own books and manuscripts obtaining very low bids. ' It 3ia ben asserted that tbe late
Fdward i:erett was "dij-sippoinieu 111 Abraham Lincoln's wonderful speech
at Gettysburg, ami swkv ui-arsiginn-Ivof it to Mr. Seward at thetime. As a matter of fact, Mr. Everett wrote to President Lincoln the day afler: "Permit me to express my great admiration of the thoughts eNpVeeU by you with sueb elmir.-iit simplicity and :ipiro-priatene.-s at the consecration of the cemetery. 1 should 1 plnd if I could tkitter myself that I came as near to the central idea of th" occasion in two
hours as you did in two minutes.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
tMttmtfttleaal l it Jmiry 1, -Mlnl.try mt J.i ttUt-Lul Sjurolully Arramjrcd from I'eloubet's Nots. CI01 pen Tkxt. Behold tho Umli of Go4 which laketh away tho In of tho world. J Thb 'skction include a picture of the whole lifo of John an tho forerunner of
Christ
ho hr.d exhntisted h:s pipe he knocked the ashes out 'nml rose up nnd entered the cabin. There w whisky in the cupboard and he helped himself to a drink. When he reappeared at the door he stood for a moment looking about, und "the hnlf-oleop dogs roused up and
came gamboling about his feet. ... .... -..!
Hiw ine now
,'" (ittericd the wife.
Lave their ways.
V- Aid
- rf
?5
nnd their ways de-
mi
"Yes. gwme now. He kicked the do; nsid-nnd went oil
u the trail. The wonmu sat with her eyes on her w ork, and lie cast no backyard glance. The dogs followed for a few rods and Until gave it up and returned to their dusty beds. Two miles no tin- trail was, Taylor's cabin. It was the same sort of a hovel same poor acres grown up to weeds same poverty of pocket and intellect. A woman sat smoking on the doorstep, but she was alone. Her husband had gone down the trail with his ritle on his shoulder. "(Swine to kill Jim Creen.'" she
asked, as he was ready to go. "Reckon so," he replied, as he moved away. Two cabins two wivei on the doorstopstwo men with titles on the trail
between. At that height above the sea ..mind travels a long distance. Roth
women heard the crack of a rille by rind
by. but both smoked on. After an hour or two Tnvlor returned home. When
t... 1....1 )t.ri,ti.il bis nine and taken a seat
III- ii.m ..fi , beside her the wife toked: ' onvc him down thar".'"
..v.... t..f i.hn down thar'." was the
ft VP. . renlv.
m ,.. nifi.e hours biter a man
was no trouble ift the matter of the revenue. The v.avs and means committee, however, under tho dirction of the speaker, proposes a tariff bill which they know cannot become nawanda bond bill which is not. essentially diiTcrent from the law under which bonds arc now issued. The Kilver men in the -en-
ute. without regard 10 pu.. - to defeat any measure tha has a bond provisioning nnd they will. What is to come out of all tins , W. ho
can discover a prospect 01 a n-uo.
What'iä the use of trifling with propositions that have, no significance hi tlieia .
it ninv be of the greatest, iinjwi t-
HUWOROUS.
1
c-iircss a principle through the legislative machinery, even if that principle nn.,.,nt. nt. the time lieeome a law. 1 he
republican party in theeampaignof this ,innnunii the democratic UiritT
. . .... 1.
in bitter terms, and insisted tnat repuuliean legislation on that subject was the
onlv eafe refuge for the country. I ncy ore now In overwhelming possession of
the. house, and it is their duty to pnu a
tariff bill on the high protection lines ihev have advocated. It is their part.
to do this as a matter of party faith and
principle. This popgun tariff proposi-
mi-t i s mauesnni 10 mom 1 ...v
made in the president's message is not
n redemption of tlie promises imii in the campaign. It is mere straddling and sprawling nbout, and an offense to
public intelligence. cmeiuiuui .u-
quirer.
If the republicans of the house i.n.t nnssed a measure scaling down the
extravagant expenditures of the gov-
stop,cl before the other cabin und said 'jn w to the woman smoking her pipe on the rf v wnU tlpy wouUi
have done n commendable act. Putting c -n iinn.000 additional taxation upon
the people will not liens popular nor .... .t,ri,t..ous n method of making "both
'.wi0iiioot" as would the reduction of
1.,,. The eovernment has nbund-
nnt revenues. The taxes of the pcop.e inetim! of too little. Ine
4w; "'- f . - . .....v.i.. lu iimi. too much money isoc
State Register
. I
Tills is a more audacious demano
possible than that of the wool men. The lumber interest is one of the richest interests in the country. Tariff or no tariff, their profits are enormous, into private pockets. One-tenth or less would go into the public treasury. There are more millionaires aznong the lumbciincn of the country in propor
tion to the entire number than there r,T-.. ntnnm? cTiv other class of manu-
faetnrers. I P.ut it is not material which, protected interest, which monopoly fattened on the tnxes paid by the people is mcst aggressive and rapacious in this emergency when the country is in The midst of a struggle with its foesof all kinds
with Kn gland claiming- and ready to enforce by its armies and llccU vast territorial rights on this continent, with tho gold sharks attacking the specie reserve and the public eredit at all points, with every form of domestic and foreign enmity. This is the emergency which the piratical protected interests hr-ie chosen as a time to enforce on coagrc-ss their demands for new subsidies, nw
bounties, new extortions unticr w.i. falM? color of revenue taxation. Ch
en go Chronicle.
doorstep:
"Jim's bin poppen. Tp thar".'" she miked, the trill. "Yes. up thar'." "Lvin' dead?" "Yes. ly'm dead. Hood "liavenin toyoV N. Y
pointing up
eavenin'." Sun.
ITE EXAMlXKt) XT SUVIlltAI- V.. ....1 fr.T fsitberto won. Itv and by
it,.. sneaks. Without taking his
cyca from the tree-tops or the pipe iror.i his mouth, he says: Moe'a :i-comin" "Itechon he nrV replies the wife. without looking up. . ( ... - quarter of h mile down the trail 1 b man walking slowly and e.irrv h.g- u rillo on his shoulder. Neither of those on the dooistep have wen him. but .o.iok cars have detected the
.......,! ..f Wsteiw among the stonen.
Thcv do not look after speaking. Tln-ir o non dm until he
Ftaiuls before them nnd lets the bntt of
his ritle fall to the ground. -Howdy?" aavuthe new arrival.
lT.ferretl ItU Wit.
ioked less 1 would have been
!.;u1.m!" So said Mdney Smith, and
he doubtless told the truth, lb-was a ....... .1' flt bis and Mchohirshii), but the
people got. into the habit of looking U, ..... .ement and entertniiuiicnt,
nun mi , .(.....
and when he talked or wroie sn i-nn.
ho disappointed them, x v t e ..-
willing to oivdil n man w. . . tv in ;uioU8tinil diverse lines of Intelh'ctual endeavor. They are wvere critics of the writings of n sp"iiker, the speeches of a writer, t m Jirose of 11 poet, the poetry of a prow writer, the j.ikca of a sage and the philesophy ot n joker. Sidnev Smith found only ffw triiders when he put his wisdom on paper. W hat thcv wanted from him was not wisdom, but the da.r.llng lhishcs of lih wit and humor. Atlanta Constitution.
trouble Is
lag sp,,nt""I1"no!!, CHep.).
OPINIONS AND POINTERS. McKinley at once climbed into
Grovcr s band wngon, anu ki
on the czar. Iowa btatc J.egisier
fV.ottA.
The man ami tnc occiimuu ,
again when Clcvelnnti ntui me -
y.uelan matter came togcwwi.
niinghnm (Ala.) 2ncwk. The ronuhlicans are cletei mined
to make Uic iwople pay a higher price j
for their clothing anil other nree of life. Illinois State P,egistr. lresldent Cleveland will not compromise with republican leaders in congress, but will declare war to the knife against their tariff and bond bills. ..
Y. Herald.
Tbe confidence of the n'pv:""'"
congress In prescribing for the financial ills from which we are suffering is that of the doctor who lind keen called in eonmltatlon.und with whom the patient Pleaded: "Hut, doctor, you are killing me." "My dear sir," said the ..i.-ti,.lnn. "von keen uuiet. 1 know 1
differ from 'those other doctor as to
wh.UM the matter with you. nntoMH' will show which of . . : -v- v Ti. ..."til
rignt. -t. ft jy 1 It mnv bo that Sjval.er Ilced ,
made up hbi eommitts with the avowed purpose of showing the country that there is nothing too good for the Ute of Maiuc-Chlcago Timcs-IIcrald.
but tbe
ua was
rotnodv the
tho re'sult of republican legislation.-
Columbus Press. The republican plan if to tax wool nnd lumber to inereae the cost of clothing and of building, and the protected Interest will get ten dollars of th revenue where the public treamiry gel ten cout-s.-Chiengo Chronicle. ' "The repeal of the McKinley tnritT." raws a republican organ,
"brought us the mid lipo the gold ic- j
rerv." This is in important piece ot
new in:onnaiion. 1 1' p". .v Milted from the "raid uon the gold reserve" liegen In the fcprinjf of 1503, while the McKinley tariff na, not re-
pealed until the latter part of 1S4 j Louisville Courier-JourniiL
TTayriek "I want you to -nll out some .if my sky teeth." Dentist "Wliich one i bothering youV" Hay"Xcver you mind about that. hen you et to t he right one I I1 knowit quick enough."- X. Y. AVorld. 3Ir. Henpeck (aniotisly) "Can I bring- proceedings in court, Mr. Itlackstone. to sot aside my wife's will?" I.awver "Whv, your wife isn't dead, man, is sb.r -Mr. llenpeek "N'o: that's just the trouble." Sotuervillu Journal. "Where does this road go?" asked the stranger who was taking n ride on the elevated railway. "It goes eventually into the hands of a receiver. replied the gloomy passenger sitting next to liim. who hapitcned to a stockholder in the road. Chicago Tribune. "You are worth your weight in gold tomo.darling!" he murmured. "Then do go homo early, (ieorge. dear," she replied, wearily. "I've lost ten pounds since we became engaged, just sitting up with you. We can't afford such e.v t ntvagance." 1 1 arj-er's I tazar. Farmer's Hoy "Father, kin I go
a . . - . . ITT ...
to the minstrels to-iurm vviin uiram Homespun?" Farmer- "Xaw. 'Tain't niore'a a month since yer went t' the top o' the hill to .' t lie eclipse of the moon. Tears to me yew wanter be on the go the hull time." Chtistian Lender. "Yes." said Hicky Stalate with a wttisfied smile, "that'young woman is very fond of me." "How do you know?" "I was eallinjg 011 her yesterday evening and do you know she was so thoiightful of my comfort that she worried for two hours for fear I would
miss the last rar." Washington Star.
"William, she said, gently, ami yet in nceutK of reproof, "yf lenietnier that I gave you sevend letters to mail last week, don't youV "Y-ycs; I remember It." "Ht this is the first time you have remembered it since I grsue "them to you, int it.?" "1 I must confess that it i. How do you know?" "1 put ft postal ard addressed to myself among the lot, and it hasn't yet reached me. It only costs a centand I find that it is a very effective way of keeping check on the
rest of my mail. ow, near, 11 v"u
out
ngton
Star,
PAnit-t.nLAccot'NTs. Matt 3: 1-17: Mark
1: l-ll; John 1:10-4'. rnoriiEciKS.-Isa. 40:3-5: "ttK3.4..";vv Latku accounts. Matt. 14: 112: Mar.t c: t'j-z9. Timb. John hesan to preach ln the summer of A. D. 26: preached nearly two year, of which a year and three months were coincident with the ministry of Jesus. I'lace. John preached in the wild. thinlJnhahlted region lylnK west of the Oc a.. sa and the lower Jordan. The tmiulsm o Jesus was at llethabara. the fords of htl Jordan, nve miles northeast of Jericho. UXl'LAXATOIlV. John- IMixts Out tue Mkssiaii. Ho does this in three ways. (1) To the people by a description, as here, (t!) lly a declaration, to the deputation of the
priests from Jerusalem (John 1: 1U--7). (3) To his disaiplcs, after tho baptism of Jesus (John 1: 35, 30). 15. "Were in expectation:" waiting to rec what was coining, who and where the .Messiah was. ".Mused:" reasoned, questioned, argued. "Whether he were the Christ:" John was such a great prophet, the greatest of all prophets, with such noble and kingly qualities, that they questioned whether He were not uctually the exacted Messiah. 1G. "I indeed baptize with water:" 1 administer the outward ordinance and siga. "The latchef." The lace of thong by which tho sandals were fastened. wir xoVinso. shoes (sandals) I am not
worthy to unloose." As stockings were not w örn, the feet would become soiled; end when persons entered a house tho sandals were taken off and laid aside, so that the feet might be washed. This work belonged to the very lowest servants, and thus John expressed how much worthier the Coining One was than he. "He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost:" ("Ghost" is old Knglish for spirit.) The mightiest power in the universe for renewing the heart nnd hrinn-hie In the Kingdom of God. "And
with fire:" The symbol of the Holy Spirit. The sun is fire, the source of nil light and heat, purifying, healthgiving, the source of beauty, comfort, life, fruitfulness, and all cheer, and all jHivver. 17. "Whose fan is in His hand:" The fan is not a fan in our sense; it is a broad, light, wooden shovel, with which the grain is thrown up to the breeze, so that the wind may carry off the lighter chaff while the heavier grain sinks down clean. "And He will thoroughly . . 1 . ............ .I... ..rtnil
purge: Lieanse, sei.iiu.o from the bad. "His tloor:" Threshing lloor, which is usually a circular area ot beaten earth surrounded by a lowbank. Here the grain is separated from the straw bv a sledge drawn by auimals. 18. "Many other things:" He used every possible form of expression, illustration and point of view, In order to impress the truth upon the people.
"Preached he:" The word means "preached good things," "preached the Gospel." 19 "Herod . . . being reproved by Him." This story is placed here by Luke 1o complete the account of John before entering ujion the ministry of Jesus. A fuller account is given in Mark 0:14-t0. "Reproved ... for Herodins . . . and for nil the evil things." Herod was then living in open adultery. He had gained Herodias by the basest perfidy. 20. "He shut up John in prison," according to Josephus in the castle of Maeherus, seven miles northeast of the Head sea. We turn back again In the history to tne sixth or seventh month of John's ministry, probably January. D. CO, at Uethabara, a ford of the Jordan. IM. "Now when all the people were
baptized." Hither after the tiapusm of the great crowds during the early iKirtbn of John's ministry, or at the close of some day when John had baitized all the multitudes who desired It. "Jesus also being baptized." He came from Nazareth at this tinia (Mark). Matthew says that Jesus was baptized inordcr"to fulfill all righteousness:" Hy His baptism Jesus took a nitbHo. stand on the right side. It was
a nubile renunciation of sin and profes-
a most captiAll along tho
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tainr.ient ns will ent.ill poor fare upoa the family for a week af tvr-N. Y. World.
siou of religion. "And praying." Noto how two great blessings came to ,7cru3 during prayer. The descent of the Holy Spirit, und the transfiguration. "The heaven was opened:" Probably thero was some supernatural appearance in the sky; not during, but after the bap tism. 2'. "The Holy Ghost descended In a bodily shape like a dove:" It was not a dove, but in the form of
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ages it is the power of His gentleness, und tenderness, nnd meekness II Is love, in short that has been victorious." Morrison. "A voice . . . from Heaven." Three "times during our Lord's earthly ministry was a voice heard from Heaven: fl) At His baptism; (12) at His trans
figuration (Mark 0:7); (3)in the courts
of tho temple during Passion week (John 12:25). "Thotr art My beloved Son." Thus God proclaimed Him as the
Messiah, and the way w as prepared for
Jesus to enter upon His mission. We neid a baptism of the Holy Spirit mil of tire. God's power nnd love, that will consume our sins, make our heart 11 warm and burning with love,, and our kouls (juickened with new life. iMt.vrricAt. ßucc.r.sTio.NS. It was good news that such a Saviour ns Is here dcscrilicd was coming. Only Mich a one could bring in the Kingdom of Heaven. All persons nro either wheat or chaff We can '.ccidu wliich we will be, by the
help of Christ. Our -diicf duty is to point men to Jesus. We must portray Ilim us lie ia. There nre those who seem to reject Christ, who yet really reject only the caricature or misrepresentation of Him.
Labor, you know, la oravcr. Baj rd Taylor.