Ligonier Banner., Volume 30, Number 12, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 July 1895 — Page 2

Dl o - 4 . \."' The Zigonier Banner, LIGONIER. : @ INDIANA. ' Borm the empress of Russia and the duchess of Edinburgh have in their possession a set of sables which cost considerably over £12,000. They can not be matched anywhere’in the world.

CALIFORNIA raises some big and notable crops other than peaches and pears. A hundred carloads of red onious, each car containing 24,000 pounds, have lately been shipped from Stockton alone at the rate of ten or a dozen carloads a day. :

TrE republic of Argentina has offered three prizes for designs for a legislative building, open to architects .throughout the world. The prizes are $20,000, $lO,OOO and $5,000. 'The architect who receives the first prize is to have the execution of the work. /

THE German emperor’s imperial train cost §750,000 and took three years to construct. There are altogether twelve cars, including two nursery sarriages. The reception saloon contains several pieces of statuary, and cach of the sleeping cars is fitted with a bath. S

From the humblest beginning, own® ing nothing but the privilege to stand on the curbstone and talk salvation to sinners, the Salvation army of New York city now owns a large new building, containing stores and’ offices and an assembly room large enough to seat 2,500 people. ;

THis is locust year for the states of lowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio and Georgia. The latter state will have the thirteen-year brood, last seen in 1882, and the other states will have the seventeen-year brood, which appeared in 1878. This insect is not properly a locust at all, bul a cicada.

ArTnovueH he is 85 years old, Senator Morrill, of Vermont, is said to have announced that he will accept another re-election at the end of his present term. His fifth term in the senate will expige in March, 1807. Up to date he has served twenty-e,i?ht years in the senate and twelve vears in the house.

THE new fish hatchery, built on one of the islands in the Sault rapids in Michigan, will be the finest in the world when completed. It will have a capacity of 45,000,000 whitefish and 5,000,000 trout. Ponds will be built around iy, and the facilities for propagating fish can not be excelled anywhere.

. IN the manufacture of watch glasses balls are usually blown to a size of about two feet in diameter, and at the exhibition of 1889 there was shown a ball of considerably over a yard in diameter, arrived at by a system in which compressed air is employed. No less than three thousand watch glasses were obtained from this bubkle.

At Aix la Chapelle the great relics, which are not often shown, will be exhibited during next July. They comprise the garment of the Virgin Mary, the swaddling clothes of the infant Jesus, the cloth wrapped around His loins on the cross, and the cloth in which the head of John the Baptist was wrapped after he was beheaded.

CoNTROLLER ECKELS holds in high regard an old farmer who started him in ‘business at the tender age of eight years as an apple merchant. The farmer’s low prices and long credit enabled the boy to make a handsome profit in nickels and dimes. Mr. Eckels returns his gratitude for this in seeing that the old farmer’s son, who is a lawyer, gets some of his department’s law business occasionally.

AN election law. recently enacted in South Australia permits women to vote through the post office whenever ill health or distance from the pollingplace may make itdifficult to attend-in person. The gallantry of this aet is modified somewhat by the statement that the provision for voting by mail was inserted in the bill by its enemies to defeat it and was accepted for the purpose of baffling the oppdsition.

Ir the alleged law in reference to a sheriff’s responsibility for the safekeeping of prisoners is carried out, Sheriff Serviss, of New Brunswick, from whose custody eight prisoners escaped, is in a bad pickle. Not only is he liable to a fine of $5OO for each prisoner who got away, but, it is said, can be made to stand trial for one of them stated to be a murderer. Itisreported, however, that the authorities will not enforce the proxy trial, but will hold Serviss for the money.

Tue action of the Notre Dame university (Roman Catholic) in conferring the degree of LL. D. on the wellknown Congregational clergyman, Rev. Washington (ladden, is almost unprecedented,' and will, doubtless, excite wide comment. While no one could be further removed intellectuals ly from Ronianism than Dr. Gladden, he has always been conspicuously fair in his treatment of the church, and it was, doubtless, in recognition of’ this fact that the university honored him.

It is probable that before long the trains on the elevated railroads of New York will be run by eleetricity. The company now has under consideration a contract with the Westinghouse people for the use of the electro-mag-netic traction system. Mr. Westing« house, commenting on the subject. professed to believe that the near future will have some astonishing developments in the use of electricity. There may be some delay, so that it can be determined whether the cost of producing the electric current by .« coal is greater than the cost of producing steam, - ; | e————— .. AN ingenious application of the magnet is found in a tack hammer recently invented. The head of the hammer is of ordinary shape, but the pointed end is divided into two prongs nearly touching each other. These prongs are magnetized like poles of an ordis nary horseshoe magnet, and when the ‘hammer is introduced into a paper of tacks it picks up one'and holds it with' the hudP against i&b‘;ﬂag&ﬁﬁﬁ tip. A light blow fixes the tack in the wall and it may then be driven in with the other :ﬁﬁﬁtm W . This doen e A SsR O S e s e

Epitome of the Week, INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. ' * FROM WASHINGTON. IN the United States the visible supply of grain on the 24th was: Wheat, 46,225,000 bushels; corn, 9,499,000 bushels; oats, 7,976,000 bu%hels; rye, 137,000 bushels; barley, 130,000 bushels. i

IN Allegheny, Pa., Anton Metzgar, aged 81, a reputed anarchist, committed suicide by placing a bomb in his ear and touching it off. The whole side of his head was blown off. THROUGHOUT the country the condition of crops was reported as favorable.

THE democrats who favor free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 are asked to meet in Washington on August 14 to organize for the purpose of controlling the action of the national democratic convention of 1896. |

ExPeENDITURKES for the four years of civilian administration of the weather bureau are estimated at $3,398,090.

THE EAST.

IN the Old South meeting house, Boston, a mass meeting was held to begin a campaign to secure 5,000,000 signatures to a petition for a new government for Armenia. THE wine firm of John Osborn, Son & Co., failed in New York for $1,330,000, i : ;

ORDERS were given to the cruiser Atlanta to leave New York harbor to enforce the neutrality laws in Cuban waters. G

CoLuMBIA defeated Cornell and Pennsylvania in the 4-mile college boat race at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., making the distance in 21 minutes and 25 seconds. - :

. THE governor pardoned Mary Druse, who was serving a life sentence in Auburn, N. Y., for the murder of her father in Herkimer county ten years ago. Her mother was hanged as the principal in the crime. : AN explosion of a demijohn of alcohol in a saloon in New York fatally burned Charles Miller, Abraham Miller and Katie Shay. ‘ : At Pittsburgh the Telephone ' Protective Association of America, formed in opposition to the Bell Telephone company, was organized with J. E. Keelyn, of Chicago, as president.

THE one hundred and first commencement of Williams college was held at Williamstown, Mass. An unusual number of alumni were in attendance. ;

ON the British steamer Daylight the first cargo of Egyptian sugar ever brought to this country arrived at Laurel, Del. ;

THE international supreme lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars opened in Boston. The total membership of the order in this country is now 560,605. . TaE Irish National Federation of America issued an appeal for money to carry on the home rule campaign in Ireland. ;

.JoHEN Tursick and Anthony Paoli,* rivals for the affection of Rosina Dubach, fought a duel in the woods near Shamokin, Pa.,using clubs for weapons, and both were fatally hurt.

JouN S. JouxsoN made the fastest time on record in a competitive professional bicycle race at Bethlehem, Pa. It wasa half-mile handicap, and Johnson rode the distance in 1:034. AT Put-in-Bay island s tornado tore down walls and uprooted trees, and summer campers on the island were terror-stricken. , .

WEST AND' SOUTH.

THE death of Milo J. Chase, president of the Chase Brothers Piano company and also of the Chickering Piano company, occurred in Chicago, aged 63

) years. - [ ; ' | AT Red Lake, S. D., a dry lake bed containing 3,500 acres was filled with water to the depth of 8 inches by a cloudburst. SEVERAL - barns were wrecked and . horses killed by a tornado’ near Albert Lea, Minn. ; . ‘GEN. WALTER Q. GRESHAM in his - will left the entire estate, valued at . $51,000, to Mrs. Gresham. ' l TeE death of Wood Springfield, known from ocean to ocean as a jockey, ’ trainer and owner, and in later years | as a turf writer, occurred at Lexington, Ky., aged 64 years. - A MoB lynched John Frye, a dissolute young white man at Gretna, La., for burning the cabins of colored people. ° A MoB -‘in Colleton county, S. C., lynched Bill Stokes (colored) who attempted an assault on a white woman. THe Nebraska supreme court says that where brakemen are injured by the carelessness of another brakeman, they are fellow-servants and the railroad company is not liable. & NeARrR Aiken, 8. C., a freight train was derailed and Brakeman Hugh - Weatherford, Fireman Cherry and Albert Brown, a negro, were killed. FroMm nearly all of the river towns between Minneapolis and New Orleans business men.met in the Minnesota city to discuss the projf.ct of opening’ the ‘Mississippi for ndvigation up- to the extreme mnorthern portion of Minnesota. TR ¢ DEMOCRATS of Ohio will hold their state convention at Springfield on August 20 and 21. ; : Tak execution of John Molnar took place at Columbus, O. Molnar and two ‘other Hungarisns killed Daniel Gehring at Cleveland because Gehring objected to Molner marrying his daughter. : - : c At the age of nearly 61 years Philip | Phillips, composer and singer of sacred musie, died at his home in Delaware, | 0., from'attacks of grip terminating in consum.ption. . : ‘ _ Tug firm pf Haywood & Son, bankers at Clinton, la., failed for $160,000, assets, $275,000. . el Ox the South Park road in Colorado the Alpine tunnel, said to be the highest railroad tunnel in the world, was reopened. It had been snowed up for five years. ) i IN a shooting affair at South Enid, 0.7, Ci}y Marshal Williams and! R |W. Pattérson, register of the United States land office, were both killed. = ”Puk legislature of Illinois convened in special session at Springfield. A MINIATURE cannon exploded at Omaha and E. N. Dedreich was killed and George Watt was fatally injured. Rl ddde vnllusalti b S hoae: i '1:3« “;M’um NB. bi e j i Blatichatd, 10 years %g;n& tle, Wash. e *Az Balrd, Tex., u cyelone destroged L SRR Wy Ay W WY RTINS SRR R VN wm‘?sm* three perAlas ik e e s oo O Lt bt gl T T e s

~ Bom Sn{-rn, @ TOM:% and BobJesse, train hands, were killed in a freight wreck on the Central railroad near Milledgeville, Ga. _ . L A&Rlﬁlrmnd, Ind., William Kouth fatally wounded his wife, set fire to the house, and then cut his own throat and died. | L '; Frames idestroyed the plant of the St. Mary’s (0.) Woolen Manufacturing company and seven adjacent buildings. Total loss, $lOO,OOO. : : : KENTUCKY democrats in session at Louisville| nominated Gen. P. W. Hardin for governor and R. T. Tyler for lieutenant governor. The platform indorses Cleveland’s administration and favorsa gold standard. A minority report favors the coinage of both ‘gold and silver as the primary money of the country into legal tender dol.lars. Lol b : 1

INa thuxfldgrstorm at Falkland, Ala., Thomas and George Washington were killed by lightning and James Hackney met a like fate at Lincoln. A FALLING tree killed William Methvin at Smith’s Mills, Ala., and his wife was killed at about the same time in a runaway accident. ' Ix a fire at Minneapolis that caused a loss of $lOO,OOO to McDonald Bros., dealers in crockery, chinaware, glassware and silverware, six firemen were killed and ten hurt. 4 IN the penitentiary at Columbus, 0., Michael McDonough, aged 60, was hanged for the murder of his wife at Kenton on September 8, 1894. -

AT Denver the B. & M. Packing company wenti into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $lOO.OOO.

TaE death of Rev. Tiberius Jones oc¢curred at Richmond, Va., aged 74 years. He was one of the most famous Baptist preachers in the south. L TaE Kentucky democrats in convention at Louisville nominated a ticket as follows: For governor, P. Watt Hardin; lieutenant governor, R. T. Tyler; treasurer, R. C. Ford; auditor, L. C. Norman; register land office, G. B. Swangpo; attorney general, W. J. Hendrick; | secretary of state, Henry S. Hale; superintendent of public instruetion, Ed Porter Thompson; commissioner of agriculture, I. B. Hall. TrE divorce colony of Fargo, N. D., was augmented by the arrival of Mrs. J. J. Corbett, wife of the champion heavy-weight pugilist. : » SENATORS TURPIE and Voorhees prepared papers to file in court to test the last Indiana legislative apportionment. | , i

MEeMBERS of the family found $9,000 in greenbacks in an old skirt belonging to the late Mrs. Augusta Keller, of Lexington, Mo. v IN Nebraska the democratic state central committee representing the Cleveland wing of that party issued a call for a |state convention to be held at Lincoln September 5. - ALL the houses at Keysville, Ga., were either demolished or badly wrecked by a cyclone. : FramEs destroyed four blocks in the heart of the manufacturing district of San Francisco, involving a loss of $l,500,000 in 'property and sacrificing one e, = o A §

A MoB took Tom Bowen (colored), in jail at Brook Haven, Miss.,, charged with assanlt on Miss Lizzie Britt, from the sheriff and hanged him. ~ TuE Ohio supreme court declared the law taxing inheritance by direct heirs unconstitutional.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENGCE.

At Przemysl, Austria, twenty-six hussars were convicted of the murder of a quartermaster and three noncommissioned officers, and ten of the cenvicted men were shot and the other sixteen were sentenced to life imprisonment. | : :

ml\idggl«‘;;tlian 100 houses were burned at Vishnee-Volotchok, Russia, and many of the inhabitants perished.

~ LoORD SALISBURY named a new British cabinet and his choice was approved by the queen. - . :

'REBELS in Cuba captured the garrisons at Kl Muleto and San Geronimo and burned both the towns.

WAR between Russia and Japan over Corea would, it was said, break out in less than three months. ; -

IN London the fifth meeting of the international railway congress was opened by the prince of Wales.

LATER NEWS.

THERE were 256 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 28th, against 228 the week previous and 214 in the corresponding time in 1894. -

Frost visited Dickey county, N. D., damaging ficorn,.‘ potatoes and flax. IN a fight at Spartansburg, S. C., between State Constables Pettigrew and Toland and two moonshiners named Fisher and Durham the latter were killed and the constables were fatally injored, .| 4 . Joux LEHAN, aged 98, died near Berkeley Springs, W. Va. He served in every war in which the United States has been engaged, beginning with 1812. | | B

THE lambermen of Stillwater, Minn., were said to have cheated the government out of $400,000 by fraudulent log measurements. : ' “Bap ToM”’ SMITH, a member of the French faction in mountain warfare, and the murderer of eight men, was hanged at Jackson, Ky. : WINTER wheat does not mnake a very | good showing in the June crop report of the statistician of the department of | agriculture at Washington. o YALE won the ’varsity 4-mile race at New London, Conn., by ten lengths, beating Harvard by thirty-five seconds. The official time was: Yale, 21:30; Harvard, 22:05. : 'THE reservoir at Chatcher, Col., hold. ing 25,000,000 gallons of water, gave way and swept over all the country, doing great-damage. s Tom BowkN, a negro who committed Bn outrage npon a blind white lady at i Brookhaven, Miss, was captured by a | mob and hanged. o A risHING smack on the way to the grounds went down near Placentia, N. F., and William Bolt, William Bolt, | Jr., William Bolt, his nephew, and John Kbrhyx were drowned. ’ - Tur population of Jersey City, N. J., according to the state census just com- | pleted, is 182,981, ‘ o ‘ ’ ;Sm‘vr,t ersons were killed and sev- | eral wounded by the explosion of & boiler of a steam launch belonging to the German warship Friedrich Wilhelm killed ‘&;8?&'«10% of lightning at theirhome near Lowell, Mass. . | ’fﬁ?:; anges. at the leading cleartg Ises in the United States during. the week ended on the 28th aggregated $1,010,483,041, -against $1,076,419,460 the pared with the correspondicg week in IV WIS i s A 0 e e e el e el e R e B e e R

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DECORATIVE HINTS.

How the Summer Sitting-Room Can Be Furuished Cozily. : JCOPYRIGHT. 1895.]

The sitting-room, although the most used room in the house, is generally badly furnished. Here the odds and ends of furniture, worn rugs and hideous vases, gaudy tidies and scarfs from Aunt Jane and Cousin Maria, find a resting-place. With so many resources at hand—cotton duck in all hues and designs, Japanese crepes and rugs, not to mention the many dainty bits of china of native manufacture—such a state of affairs is highly unnecessary even on the plea of economy. A housewife ' possessing unusual taste, but a slim purse for its indulgence, has evolved a sitting-room that combines comfort and cheerfulness as well as beauty. The wall paper, a quiet tone of Pompeiian red, has g frieze of interlacing rings of dull gold, the ceiling being a roseate cream. The ugly slate mantel was neatly boxed in wood and an over mantel—two uprights supporting a shelf--put up. Small shelves were fitted between the uprights, and a narrow beading tacked on the edges to conceal the joinings. Then the mantel was stained brown to mateh the woodwork and sea-green tiles set around the latrobe. Books, a few pieces of good china and bright fans ornamented the mantel shelves. A pole draped with dull blue cotton duck powdered with tiny wreaths of green and red extended from side wall to chimney breast. Lk /

The woman who has never tried this cotton duck for draperies will be surprised at its possibilities. It is soft, yet thick enough to dispense with linings—always an item—and lends itself most ' readily to decoration with either needle ' or brush, while exceedingly economical - and easy to launder. G But to resume: This cozy corner was fitted up with a desk having all the paraplernalia for letter writing,a chair, scrap-basket and hanging-rack of " handy reference books. A nove] desk ornament was a quaint little Jap peep--ing over the top of an old-fashioned alabaster vase, around which a calendar was tied with scarlet ribbons.| On the other side of the mantel the big old sofa, re-covered in the dull blue duck and well supplied with cushions, was placed crosswise; a two-shelved t corner cabinet (made of wood and stained) hung above it and held books ) and a plaster bust of Minerva. A Japanese jute rug in dark tones of brown, blue and red nearly covered the floor. [ The special wants of the different members of the family were well considered inthe arrangement of this room. The _children had the far end for their study _corner, equipped with a table, book shelves and their favorite pictures. The man of the house had his pet chair and table with drawer for his beloved pipes | andkbm. A sawbuck mzdlz a ::irons .rack for his newspapers. A low divan, which was really a box' wﬁgx a hinged lid, wg :ttod up as’'a huge works - basket for the mistress. . . | - Another ?umiﬁ&‘l‘ sitting-room. is Afurnished as a print room.. The E alls, ‘are lang with a plain rich yellow twining stems and ledves, in pale

dull reds and greens. Thé woodwork, ' fldor and beaded picture rod are stained a deep yellow pine. The original mantel was taken ci)own and the open fireplace set with small glazed terracotta bricks to within five feet of the ceiling. Two fluted columns of yellow pine at €ach end support the overmantel, having small cabinets, shelf and rail, on which china, old pewter and some bits of red glass are charmingly grouped. A wide low divan fills up one recess by the fireplace, and makes one ideal reading nook.- A curtain of duck, irregularly patterned in cream, dull red and green, hangs from arod above the divan, which is covered with pale dull red and well slf’pplied with pillows, A.dwarf bookcase built into the other recess with drawers and pigeon holes above, serves as writing desk. Old prints and engravings, simply framed in- beaded wood, stained chestnut, are grouped irregularly on the wall space, heads in one group, landscapes in another, ete. Portieres of the figured duck with bands of dull red at the windows and doors, sash curtains of barred yellow and white muslin at the windows, boxes of scarlet gera£iums and mignonette, easy chairs, a table and a floor rug of dull greens, reds and cream complete the furnishing of this attractive room. These print rooms, which are a .feature of English country houses, are ‘becoming very popular in America, affording lovers of prints an opportunity to display their tredsures. While the Bartolozzi’s,” Cosway’s and other tempting prints at the art dealers are beyond the average pocketbook, yet some very charming pictures may be found by hunting among the old maga.zines in the second-hand book shops. The up-to-date housekeeper, seeking for novel and artistic effects, will find valuable aids in these old prints. Nothing will give a more distinctive air fio ‘ an apartment, especially if she selects the work of some one engraver, period ~or subject. Such a room will give the - Napoleon worshiper a charming oppartunity for displaying her collection of Napoleon prints. ‘ {

An Unromantic Helpmate. : “My dear, how do you spell ‘peal? ™ asked the poet. ‘I am writing a line about the pealing of the brazen bells.” “I can't tell,” said his wife, ‘‘until you tell me whether you are writing about chimes or bronze statues.”—lndianapolis Journal. ;

A Wish, - ; Alberta—l do wish it were not the custom to wear the engagement ring only on the third finger of one’s left hand. : - e Alethea—So do I. I can't get. more than half my engagement rings on at one time now.—Life. ' A Unlgue Class. = _ “And what is that building?” inquired the visitorin the great twentiett century metropolis. '~ ¢ _ **Oh, that,” replied his host, ‘“‘that’s the asylum ‘&:&@10 who refuse tc ride bicycles."—Chicago Record. ° May—What malkes youthink that his lordship won’t propose tome? = . ~ Brother Dick—l met him down at the ecounty clerk’s office ‘bent double over a copy of Uncle Ducat's will. — N, ¥. LB G e T R L T A

. 1R BPNORT SEnooL. . International Lesson for July 7, 1895—The ' Ten Commandments—Exodus 20:1-17, - ISpecially Arranged from Peloubet’s Notes.] A %&t,bmg TEXT.—Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy strength, and with ail thy mind; and thy ceighbor as thyself,—Luke 10:27. L PARALLEL REPORT of the Decalogue in Deuteronomy 5:6-21. - ] TIME of this lesson, May, B. C. 1491.. Fifty ‘days after leaving Egypt, according to the common chronoiogy. Ui : PLAGR.—The Dpeople were encamped in a plain, probably Er Rahah, at the foot of Mount Sinai, which is probably the peak Ras-safsafeh of Jebel Mousa; -in the southern.part of the Sinaitic peninsulsl between the = northern branches of the Red sea. e CONNECTION. —We now return, after a year in the beautiful life of Christ, to the earlier portions of the History of Redemption. We left the children of Israel just after their crossing of the Red sea. We take up their history at the beginning of the training as a nation and a people of God- ; ' THE COVENANT OF THE TEN WORDS. - In the Old Testament the decalogue is never termed the law, or commandments, but ‘“‘covenant” (8. v. margin of Ex. 384:28; Deut, 4:14), or “testimony,” ‘bearing witness to the covenant, or the ‘‘ten words” of the covenant. ‘‘They are the simple words of God’s loving covenant with His people, and not arbitrary commandings of God to His subjects.” ‘They are ‘‘a loving covenant that binds two parties in mutual affection and fidelity,” ‘“having its statement of promises on the one hand, and responsibilities on the other.” ‘‘A covenant among the orientals is; and always has been, a sacred compact binding two parties in loving agreement.”’ In certain cases, ‘‘a written compact is' signed by each party and given to the other with the stamp of the writer’s blood upon it as a part of the. ceremony of covenanting; and this writing is carefully encased in a small packet or casket, and guarded by its holder as his very life.” So Moses sprinkled blood upon the book of the covenant, (Heb. 9:19), and the stone record of it was inclosed 1n a casket or ark (Ex. 40:20).—H. C. Trumbull. | L

THE IMPRESSIVE MODE OF MAKING THE: |[COVENANT. . ' .- e Amid thunders, and lightnings, and thick clouds upon the mountains, which quaked and smoked like a furnace, with “the voice of a trumpet exceedingloud,” the words of this covenant were uttered by God (vs. 1, 22). Afterwards they were written by the finger of God on two tables of stone. The size of these tables may be judged from two alabaster slabs, each nine by thirteen inches (written on both sides and containing five hundred and seventy signs, about the same number as in the Ten Commandments); which have been found in an ark at Balewat, east of Mosul.—Prof. Green. | The object was to give all theimpressive solemnity possible to the covenant, to show its utmost importance, the awful danger in disregarding ' it; and to make. it permanent’in the nation as it was eternal in its nature. “The code from Sinai was a revelation from Heaven.” ‘lts completeness and purity are as much above the average insight of 800 B. C. as of 1500 B. C.” GOD’S PART OF THE COVENANT. . Vs. 1, 2.—*“God spake all these words,” in three ways: (1) by the voice; (2) by writing them on the tablets of stone; and (3) He has written them on the very nature of man. Still, it is necessary that they should be definitely expressed, becanse it would have taken ages for man to discover them, if he ever did, and they needed the Divine authority behind them to make them effective. .

“I am the Lord:” Jehovah, the ever-: lasting, self-existent, eternal, I am thy | God.. Thiseverlasting, omnipotent God istheir God, who has chosen them, created them, and will care forthem. This" is God’s covenant promise to Israel, ‘“‘to be their loving, guarding, guiding God for all time to come.” He shows this by what He has already done. ‘‘Which have brought thee out of the land of, Egypt.” All they possessed and.- ay;‘ they could hope for were from God. . | MAN’S PART OF THE COVENANT. “There follow the covenant agreements of God’s people as ‘the party of the ' second part’ in this loving compact.”—Trumbull. The promises on God’s part cannot be performed except on certain necessary conditionson their part. The ten words express thoseconditions. ; : S

. Characteristics. — (1) They: express great principles of true living., They are not Jewish, but Divine, enact.ments. (2) They must be distinguished from the civil enactments, which are the application of the principles -to varied circumstances as far as it was possible to carry them out in civil law. The principles and the ideal must be perfect. (8) As principles, they are adapted to the training of free men in obedience and love. Civil enactments restrain from injuring others and guide by definite laws till righteousness becomes a habit and an inward law. (4) They are eternal. They ‘can never be outgrown. Saints and angels live in accordance with them in Heaven. They can never be repealed unless the very nature of God and of creation should change. e

Their Penalty.—No definite penalty is attached; but disobedience to them, since they are a part of the covenant, is to forfeit the fulfillment of God’s part, and that is the worst possible penalty. Their sum, as given by Christ in Matthew 22:37-40, quoted from Deuteronomy 6:5;-10:12; Leyiticus 19:18, is love to God with all the heart, and love of our neighbor as ourselves. These precepts are not only the sum, but the fountain whence obedience to all commandments flows. -

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