Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 28, Number 48, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 29 January 1908 — Page 7

"buildingthe" TEMPLE On of the Twelve Starts# of Solomon. BY THE "HIGHWAY AND BYWAY” PREACHER Scripture Authority. 1 Kluge chapters 6, 7 and 8.

SERMON ETTE. “Behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the Lord my God, as the Lord spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, shall build an house unto my name.” The high and noble ambition of David, to find realization In the willing service of Solomon the son. It is a splendid thing for a father to have visions of noble, exalted service which Arid their realization In the son. What greater legacy could a father leave than the commission to the discharge of a great mission? It Is a grand thing to find a son whose filial love and obedience holds him steadfast to the working out of the father’s will. How better could the son display the true qualities of sonship than in purposing to consummate the great work for which the father had planned? In this respect Solomon was a striking type of the -Christ, who came delighting to do the will of the Father who had sent him. The one plan of his life was the consummation of the supreme plan of salvation, purposed in the heart of God from the beginning. If Solomon was to build a temple of wood and stone for the dwelling place of God, Christ was to build a temple, not made with hands, eternal In the heavens. His task was the transforming of the human life into the temple beautiful for the indwelling of the blessed Paraclete, the holy representative of both God the Father and God the Bon. “There was neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of Iron heard In the house, while It was building.”—Thus reverently, did the building of God’s house proceed. All the material was brought to the temple site corn, pietely fitted and finished, so that all that yyas necessary was the placing of stone upon stone, and beam upon beam, each fitting perfectly Into its place. May we not gather from this the inspiring, helpful thought that we who are being bullded as living stones into God’s temple are being shaped and fashioned and prepared to fit perfectly into the completed structure when all the parts are at iast assembled. Here in this life we know not what niche we are to fill, that remains to be revealed. But like the stone iq the quarry far below the temple was hewn and smoothed and grooved ready to find its place at last In the splendid temple which was to be reared, so we, here In the earthly pilgrimage, are receiving that disciC" te which shall knock off the rp comers, and smooth the rough surfaces and groove the life with the pattern of God's will so as to at last make it fit into its place In the completed temple.

THE BTORY. HEAPS upon heaps of glittering gold and shining Bllver. Scarcely a Croesus could havo looked upon richer treasure than that -which greeted the eyes of King Solomon that morning as he had been led to the secret store house hy the prophet Nathan. "And all this my father David gathered?” questioned Solomon, as with a sort of awed wonder he contemplated the great piles of yellow and white metal. "Yea,” replied the aged man of God, thoughtfully watching the face of the young king, “it was the one passion of his life that he might gather the treasure which should be reared into a dwelling place for his God.” "He hath surely made my task an easy one,” responded Solomon, meditatively. “Then thou dost accept the commission ?” questioned the prophet, almost eagerly. “Yea, thou knowest that from the first day that God gave me to sit upon the throne of David my. father, this thought has been ever before me.” “But it Js already the fourth year of thy reign.” "True, but wljat place had the building of a temple to the God Os Israel until the certainty of the kingdom was established in my hands? These have not been idle years.” "Nay,” hastily rejoined... Nathan, “I meant not to chTcfevhee with neglect for I know how .faithful thou hast been in the discharge of all that God would have thee do, but my old heart longs with an intense longing to see the house of God reared even as David, thy father, - Panned it should "Then am I glad that I came this

morning to speak with theq concerning the beginning of the work,” Solomon responded, heartily. "And I see by thy face that thou hast some good news In connection therewith.” “That I have, thou good Nathan, and thon shalt speedily know that the thing which my father David so earnestly desired is to come to pass. See!” he exclaimed, thrusting Into his hands the message which he had received that morning from Hiram, king of Tyre. “See, the timbers of cedar and the timbers of flr are even now being hewn and prepared for their place In the temple.” • “’Tis well. I knew that Hiram’s heart was toward thee in this thing." “And even now the workers In stone are cutting out the blocks which shall be used in the building.” “Thou art swift indeed, when thou hast once begun the work." “Yea, the project absorbs my every ambition. What a great privilege that to me should have come the task of building a dwelling place for the great God of Israel. My heart does magnify him this morning. No treasure is too great to be used in his house, and so I rejoice as I see these heaps upon heaps of gold and silver. Verily it shall be nn .house of gold which shall be reared to my Lord.” “In this, ftien, it will be no different from the gorgeous temples which are reared to the gods whose images of gold and silver and precious stones are the works of men’s hands.” “Thou hast but spoken of the thing which Is upon my heart, and about which I have come to talk with thee. The mere wealth of cedar timbers and gold and silver and precious stones cannot provide a suitable dwelling place for the great God of Israel. There is none like unto him among all the gods of the nations round about, and the house which should be built unto his name and for his dwelling place should be different from those reared to the names of these other gods." “True,” responded the old prophet, fervidly, entering whole-heartedly into the spirit which evidently possessed the young king. . “But in what respect can we mark the dwelling place of our God with the reverence and devotion which is due his great and exalted name? For the power and majesty of the name of our God has gone out Into all the earth, bo that whithersoever any of our people go they are known as the chosen people of the one and mighty God.”

“True,” again fervidly responded Nathan, and then added in appreciative tone, as he laid his hand upon the young man’s shoulder: “And thou, my son, by thy loyalty to the God of David thy father, and thy ears to walk in all his statutes, hast exalted the name of the Lord whithersoever the fame of thy kingdom hast gone.” A glad light sprang into the face of the young king. These words of the prophet sounded sweet? in his ears, and without any thought of personal pride he responded: "Tea, the Lord hath been much to me, and his blessing hath surely rested upon me and my people. And for this reason would I rear his temple so that it shall be known through all the earth as the temple of the only and true God, the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Israel.” “And shall not this be brought to pass by the spirit of devotion which thou dost bring to the work? Fbr thou must know that the work which we do becomes marked and glorified by the spirit with which it is performed.” “Thou hast uttered just the thought that is in my heart and what could show more clearly the reverence due our holy God than that his temple should be reared in silent dignity and grandeur?” “I do not catch your meaning, I think.” “It is just this. Each stone and each timber and all the fittings thereto shall be so shapen and fitted that there shall not be sound of hammer or saw or other tool heard upon the temple site. To that lofty rock overlooking the beautiful valley shall be brought all the materials fitted and prepared to grow into a building where our God shall be pleased to dwell In the' midst of' his people. No building before has been reared in this way, and the people shall know that the temple of the God of Israel is indeed holy.” “It will be marvelous,” ejaculated Nathan, earnestly. “Yea, but possible, for the Spirit of God shall move in the work to the enlightenment of his servant hi planning the work and in his workmen who shall prepare all the parts to fit one within the other.” “And thou hast my blessing in all this,” Nathan. “And there will be none in an Israel who will so earnestly give himself in thought and prayer to this thing than your old friend mid father in Israel, Nathan.” “Thank you,” responded the king, simply. “And now I shall give myself to the work.” Enterprising Missionary Exposition. The great missionary exposition held at Swansea, Wales, recently, was attended by more than 20,000 persons and it was held in the vast hall built for the annual musical festival called the “Eisteddfod Pavilion.” There are six "courts”. formed, representing India, China, Africa, the South ‘ Seas, Madagascar and New Guinea. The actual scenes of these countries were admirably reproduced under the direction of missionaries now visiting in or retired to Great Britain, and thousands who before the exhibition had little knowledge -of the great results obtained, are now awake to the mean ing of the missionary enterprise.

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Commissioner Smith vs. The Standard Oil Go. From the Railway World, January j, 1908.

Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, whose zeal in the cause of-Economic refornj has been In no wise abated by the panic which he and his kind did so much to bring on, is out with an answer to President Moffett, of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. The publication of this answer, it is officially given out, was delayed several weeks, “for business reasons,” because it was not deemed advisable to further excite the public mind, which was profoundly disturbed by the crisis. Now that the storm clouds have rolled by, however, the Commissioner rushes again into the fray. Our readers remember that the chief points in the defence of the Standard Oil Company, as presented by President Moffett, were (1) that the date of six cents on oil from Whiting to East St Louis has been issued to the Standard Oil Company as the lawful raraby employes of, the Alton, (2) that the 18-cent rate on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission was a class and. not a commodity rate, never being intended to apply to oil, (3) that oil was shipped in large quantities between Whiting and East St Louis over the Chicago ft Eastern Illinois at 6% cents per hundred pounds, which has been filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission as the lawful rate, and (4) that the 18-cent rate on oil was entirely out of proportion to lawful rates on other commodities between these points of a similar character, and of greater value, such, for example, as linseed oil, the lawful rate on which was eight cents. President Moffett also stated that thousands of tons of freight had been sent by other shippers' between these points under substantially the same conditions as governed the shipments of the Standard Oil Company. This defence Os the Standard Oil Company was widely quoted and has undoubtedly exerted a powerful Influence upon the public mind. Naturally the Administration, which has staked the success of its campaign against the “trusts” upon the result of its attack upon this company, endeavors to offset this influence, and hence the new deliverance of Commissioner Smith. We need hardly to point out that his rebuttal argument is extremely weak, although as strong, no doubt, as the circumstances would warrant. He aqpwers the points made by President Moffett substantially as follows: (1) The Standard Oil Company had a traffic department, and should have known that the six-cent rate had not been filed, (2) no answer, (3) the Chicago ft Eastern Illinois rate was a secret rate because It read, not from Whiting, but from Dolton, which is described as “a village of about 1,500 population just outside of Chicago. Its only claim to note is that it has been for many years the point of origin fbr this and similar secret rates.’ r The Commissioner admits in describing this rate that there was a note attached stating that the rate could Also be used from Whiting. The press has quite generally hailed this statement of the Commissioner of Corporations as a conclusive refutation of what is evidently*" recognized as the strongest rebuttal argument advanced by the Standard. In fact, it is as weak and inconclusive as the remainder of bis argument The lines of the Chicago ft Eastern Illinois do not run into

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large shippers in the territory had been guilty. Considering the fact that these shippers included the packers and elevator men of Chicago the action of the grand jury in calling upon President Moffett to furnish evidence of their wrong-doing may be interpreted as a demand for an elaboration of the obvious; but the fact that a rate-book containing these freight fates for other shippers was offered in evidence during the trial and ruled out by Judge Landis, was kept out of sight. President Moffett would not, of course, accept the invitation of the grand jury although he might have been pardoned if he had referred them to various official Investigations by the Interstate Commerce Commission and other departments of the Government We come back, therefore, to the conclusion of the whole matter, which is that the Standard Oil Company of Indiana was fined an amount equal to seven or eight times the value of its entire property, because its traffic department did not verify the statement of the Alton rate clerk, that the six-cent commodity rate on oil had been properly filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission. There is no evidence, and none was introduced at the trial, that any shipper of oil from Chicago territory had been interfered with by the 18-cent rate nor that the failure of the Alton to file its sixcent rate had resulted in any discrimination against any Independent shipper,—-we must take this on the word of the Commissioner of Corporations and of Judge Landis. Neither is it denied even by Mr. Smith that the “independent” shipper of oil, whom he pictures a* being driven out of business by this discrimination of the Alton, could have shipped all the oil die desired to ship from Whiting via Dolton over the lines of the Chicago ft Eastern Illinois to East St. Louis, In short. President Moffett’s defence is still good, and we predict will be so declared by the higher court. The Standard Oil Company has been charged with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors. Beginning with the famous Rice of Marietta, passing down to that apostle of popular liberties, Henry Demarest Lloyd, with his Wealth Against the Commonwealth, descending by easy stages to Miss Tarbell's offensive personalities, we finally reach, the nether depths of unfair and baseless misrepresentation in the report of the Commissioner of Corporations. The Standard has been charged with every form of commercial piracy and with most of the crimes on the corporation calendar. After long years of strenuous attack, under the leadership of the President of the United States,, the corporation is at last dragged to the bar of justice to answer for its misdoings. The whole strength of the Government is directed against it, and at lash we are told, the Standard Oil Company is to pay the penalty of its crimes, and it is finally convicted of having failed to verify the statement of a rate clerk and is forthwith fined a prodigious sum, measured by the car. Under the old criminal law, the theft of property worth more than ■ shilling was punishable by death. Under* the Interpretation of the interstate Commerce law by Theodore Roosevelt and Judge Kenesaw Landis, a technical error of a traffic official is made the excuse for the confiscation of a vast amount of property. .