Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 17, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 October 1908 — Page 3

A® Escapade^ A POST MARITAL (< ROMANCE n J BY CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY /LLLTdTXAT/OMS SY M . A O RP\Y WALTERS n 5z WMt (copyright; /voq by g I « ik \Wi2

SYNOPSIS. The Escapade opens, not in the romance preceding the marriage of Ellen Slocum, a Puritan miss, and Lord Carrington of England, but in their life after settling in England. The scene is placed, just following the revolution, in Carrington castle in England. The Carringtons, after a house party, engaged in a family tilt, caused by jealousy. Lord Carrington and his wife each made charges of faithlessness against the other in continuation of the quarrel. First objecting against playing cards with the guests, Lady Carrington agreed to cut cards with Strathgate. whose attentions to Eben had become a sore point with Carrington. The loss of SIOO,OOO failed to perturb her, and her husband then cut for his wife’s I. O. U. and his honor, Carrington winning. The incident closed except that a liking for each other apparently arose between Lady Carrington and Lord Strathgate. CHAPTER IV.—Continued. They had come to the edge of the terrace. Through a rift in the foliage they had a fair view of the center of the arbor. Through the same rift the moonlight fell and displayed two figures. One with his back toward her was her husband. The other facing the couple was Lady Cecily. They were close together talking earnestly. Ellen clenched her hands and incautiously stepped into the moonlight. Lady Cecily caught a glimpse of her before Strathgate drew her back. Here was her opportunity. The distance was too great to enable the watchers to hear what was being said, but they could see. “My dear Bernard,” she said, “I may call you that for old times’ sake?”

“Yes, yes,” said Carrington, “would that those old times might come again!” “It would please me,” said Lady Cecily. “I cannot bear to see you yoked with such a rude, uncultured hoyden.” “Nay,” he began protestingly. “And she played that game with Strathgate. It was all a matter of prearrangement No money was to pass. She hath no need to give Strathgate money. His purse and all he has are at her disposal.” My lord gritted his teeth and clenched his hands. “I would like to kill him,” he said, “and by heaven I shall before long, or he me, and then she can take him with my blood on his hands." “I would not have you die, Bernard,” said Lady Cecily tenderly, at that moment catching sight of the other two. “Don’t think that your life is wasted because a foolish, wicked woman has well nigh wrecked it. You are very dear to —me.” “You are the only true heart I have •ever known,” protested Carrington. And then Lady Cecily palpably fell Against him. What else could a gentleman do under the circumstances but enfold her in his arms? The arms ’■*of Lady Cecily stole upward. She liftedher face to his. Xiss me,” she murmured, faintly. And although Carrington had not intetnded anything of that kind, yet being tempted, he hesitated and was lost. He kissed her full and fair in the moonlight. “Have you seen enough, Lady Carrington?” whispered Strathgate from the other side. “Enough!” said Ellen, choking with jealous rage. “My lord, I leave this castle to-night. May I depend upon you to help me?” “I shall help you,” said Strathgate, turning and leading her away, “with all that I have. My life, my fortune, my sacred honor are yours.” “You mistake me, my lord, I go back to Philadelphia. There is a ship belonging to me, a merchant ship in the harbor of Portsmouth nearly ready to sail for America. If you will take me there and see me on board, I shall be everlastingly grateful to you.” My lord thought deeply. Lady El-

len evidently considered his proffered service purely a disinterested one. It would hardly oe wise to undeceive her now. Once he got her away and in his power, it would go hard with him if he could not persuade her, or constrain her, to his own wishes. His role at present was to agree with whatever she proposed. “I will do my best to carry out your wishes,” he said, heartily. And as Ellen stumbled and fell at the foot of the steps he took advantage of the occasion to support her with his arm. ‘‘You are weak, ill, faint,” he said, almost carrying her up the steps in the bright moonlight before she had a chance to protest. Carrington coming across the mail caught a full, view of Hm incident. „ “What would you have me do? said Strathgate as he and Lady Ellen reached the top of the terrace.

“I would not have you lay hands on 1 me again, my lord. I am in full vigor and able to serve myself in that. “Forgive me!’ said Strathgate. I thought you were faint.” “No more of it,” returned Ellen. 1 would have you meet me at two of the clock here to-night on the terrace equipped for traveling. „ “Do you ride away, madam? “I shall take my lord’s traveling carriage. Can you drive, Lord Strathgate?” „ “I am the best whip in England, he said boastfully. _ At this juncture Carrington and Lady Cecily joined the others on the terrace. “Have you been taking the air, Lady Carrington, after your exertions in the dance?” queried Lady Cecily with mocking sweetness. “We came to seek Carrington and yourself,” interposed Strathgate swiftly. CHAPTER V. A Midnight Conversation. Once more the little boudoir. Once more Ellon and Bernard alom» to <ether.

XV ell, madam,” began Carrington, coldly, under violent constraint, ali though passion was seething and bub- ; bling l,n his veins, “do you think that ; you have disgraced me sufficiently to- • night?” i “But I was only obeying your in- ; structions.” ! “My instructions!” exclaimed my • lord; “and pray what were they?” i “To be like other women; to dance, J to play, to—” . “You exceeded them, I think,” in- ' terrupied Carrington, sneeringly. “That many things are permitted to a man, to a husband, which are forbid to a woman, his wife.” “I recognize no distinction between us, sir.” “This,” said my lord, loftily, “is beside the question. What possessed you to play with Strathgate to-night?” “The .money,” returned his wife, ' was mine. I had a right to risk it. I might ask what possessed you to play?” “Nonsense!” said Carrington, fiercely. “I know well enough that your game with Strathgate was only play. It was simply a plan concocted between you to mock me and amuse yourselves.” “My lord, you insult me,” cried Ellen, her face flaming. “It is fact that carries the insult, madam. I make the charge on good authority. You were overheard ar-

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ranging the details,” persisted my lord, carried beyond the facts by his indignation. “Upon whose authority?” inouired Ellen. “Lady Cecily’s.” “And you can take her word against mine?” responded his wife, bitterly. ; “Very well, my lord, I shall not condescend to justify myself further.” “ ’Twould be useless to attempt it.” “Indeed, and what made you risk ’ your castle in a matter in which noth- ; ing was involved?” “Pardon me,” returned Carrington, j loftily. “There was something in- t volved, something of which you reck j little.” < “And that was?” aonor and the honor of my debt an'honesUWtne i-w-—--Think you I could allow that to stand

against you while I had a penny ’ a “It was not love then that made you interpose?” „ “Love!” sneered Carrington. How could I love a woman whose chief j joy is to mock me, to humiliate me, to . heap ridicule upon me, to disgrace “You have said enough, my lorl. “Madam, this passes beyond all bonds. The scene to-night was disgraceful. You insulted all my guests, you publicly braved me, you h aun ^d your money In my race. JOU your person disgracefully in that aba - doped hornpipe, which you danced with that Puritan bit of sanctimoniousness at the harpsichord—--I have said before," cried Ellen, “that you can stop right there The English gentleman's code, I take i from my experience of it at home here, allows you to say anything you please to me or about me, but you will I please leave my friends out of the .I discussion.” “There Is one friend that I shall bring in the discussion.” "And who is that?” “Strathgate.” e “And what has he done. v “What has he done? My God. gasped my lord, choking with rage.

o nun I “He has always treated me Tike a gentleman,” returned Ellen, “but per-, haps that’s because he’s not married to me.” “You insult my friends,” cried Carrington, trying to give the conversation a different turn. “I only follow your lead, my lord.” “Yes, I saw his consideration in carrying you up the terrace steps a few moments after you eavesdropped. What heard you In the arbor?” "Not one word,” answered Ellen. But I saw you in the moonlight, and that was enough, my lord. I swear to you that unless you promise me on your word that you will dismiss Lady Cecily to-morrow I shall never be wife to you again.” “I cannot be discourteous to my guests,” returned Carrington with sudden dignity. “And does courtesy to your guests involve taking them in your arms and kissing them? “There is one guest that I shall dismiss in the morning, ay, two,” returned my lord, white with anger. “And who are those, pray?” “Strathgate and Seton.” “My friend and your friend. That’s well thought on, and you will have me defenseless, then, at your mercy, compelled to look upon your love- ■ making with that abandoned woman. But I’ll not stand it. I’ll go back to America!” “You would never dare.” "Would I not?” cried Ellen, manfully. “Watch me in the morning.” j It was one by the great clock in the ' hall when she withdrew’ from her boudoir and entered her own bedroom. ' Opening a closet she drew therefrom underneath a pile of feminine apparel a certain sailor's dress w’hich she had sometimes used in cruising and boating expeditions with her husband since her marriage, and which she had often used before in long cruises on her father’s ships. There were stout, heavy buckskin shoes, soft, w’oolen stockings, trousers wide and flaring at the knee and belted at the waist, a soft shirt of blue, a rough pea-jacket Slipping off her own clothes, she trans-

formed herself with rapid fingers into a sailor lad. She undid her hair and tied it behind in a man’s queue. From the same closet she took a slender sword and a pair of heavy pistols. She went back softly into the boudoir and sat down at her desk. From a secret drawer she drew a purse fille I with gold pieces, sovereigns of England. On the table lay a cheque book. Her balance at the <ank she found was a trifle over £20,000, the I amount she owed my lord. Fortunately, there was another exit from her suite of apartments besides that which led through my lord’s dressing room. She unlocked the door and stepped into the corridor Deborah was a light sleeper. .mi 1 .. i; “Oh!” said Deborah. “And where '

are you going? “Back to America.” “But Sir Charles?” I “If Sir Charles cares anything for you,” said Ellen authoritatively, “he will follow you to the end of the world.” “With whom do you go?" “Lord Strathgate." “Oh, Ellen!” exclaimed Deborah in I

horror-stricken accents. “Peace, girl!” said Lady Ellen, “he । acts, or he shall act, as my coach- ; man alone, but I must have you with me. We can talk no longer. Dress yourself. Would that I had boy s clothes for you!” “I should never wear them! never!” “Well, dress yourself in the clothes in which you came from America, then. Do you know where they are?' “I have them always at hand.” “And I will assist you," said Ellen. Fortune favored them. They stole down the stairs through the gieat hall and found the door unbarred, much to Ellen’s satisfaction, for it indicated that Strathgate had been before them. “Is that you, my lord?” she asked in a low voice. “Yes,” answered Strathgate. “Did ’ you think I would fail you?” (TO BE CONTINUED.)

I (INDLNA STATE NEWS^I Hap lings of General Interest in All Part if the Hoosier Commonwealth. ■■ ■ J s

FRIENDS HOLD AN AL MEETING Yearly Committee Ministry and Oversi< Richmond.—The b ’ of ministers . of Indiana yearly m ing, sitting as the meeting on minisi and oversight, held session in Eas Main Street Friends’ church, prminary to the I formal opening of t[ business ses- ; sions of the yearly njtirg. The deliberations of the mgkF on ministry and oversight weiW^arded as of great importance tone church in j general. Only matte| pertaining to the spiritual growth re considered, but as this is the re' object of the church organization, le conditions that exist relative to e religious development are alwayslrefully looked into. The yearly meetin on ministry and oversight, as po*ed out by the । discipline and form (government of . the Quaker church, I composed of ; the members of quaf^h meetings on ministry and oversigl^t shall carefully consider subject which have I reference to the spinal needs of the church and may re; c^ts judgment to the yearly meetii.^B- its action. In the quarterly meet® on ministry and oversight there m most important duty to be peri-med by the body when it shall ha*been alleged that the teachings or j ctices of any minister has been of s versive character. If the causes of the <nplaint made are substantiated and s h causes cannot be removed, the nnthly meeting is then advised by the tarterly meeting on ministry and o rsight to depose _ the minister. It nay be said.

however, that it is t y infrequent when any such case c les to the attention of a quarterly i eting on ministry and oversight Ie ministry of tho Friends’ church ra ly is assailed for any alleged devit on from the doctrinal teachings of he denomination. There have bee instances in recent years where conjegations have differed in greater or k-degree with the interpretation placfon the doctrinal teachings of th< Friends, but in no case, it is assend, has there been a charge of undoctnjal teachings > sustained. Bottle Cause ofSiiit. Shelbyville. —• Chargtg she had sustained injuries to te extent of SSOO. Miss Tillie Hutto of Waldron has brought suit for ,hat amount against Sanford McCollv of the same place. Stepping from ae rear vestibule to the steps of acar a whisky , bottle was thrown. Itlhad been intended for the conduclr, but struck । Miss Hutton. . Run Students’Car. Anderson. —A questin that has been up for considqutlon for the past week between tlAifficials of the Indiana Union Tracti^Company and i the patrons along the ^erurban line who have children^ schools was taken u^i - Manager H. A. Nichol. It was p'Wted to run a students’ car. * * County Will Pavj^treet. Arcadia. — Main sUft in Arcadia. almost a mile in ength, will be improved under the mw gravel road law at a cost of $18,(00. The viewers filed their report vith the auditor and recommended the improvement be made. This makes the second macadamized street in the county. Tries to Annul Franchise. Marion. — The city council of Gas City instructed its attorney to begin action to annul the franchise of the Indiana Union Traction Company because the company has failed to maintain a 30-minute.schedule for its ears between Marion ?nd Gas City as provided for by the franchise. Missing Hoosier Found. Franklin.—Eugene Dilley of Trafalgar, who has beeii missing from his home the last tyo months, has

been found. Dilley wis assaulted several years ago and his! skull fractured. It is thought his injuries were responsible for his disappearance. Woman Lives Despite Fall. Wabash. — Mrs. Mary Newbern, the woman who tfas found unconscious at the foot of the Big Four ' bluff, may live, although her jaw is broken and she has Aimerous broken bones. She asserts She tumbled off the bluffs, falling 10® feet. Oldest lnsurance®Agent Dead. Columbus. — Fran| Pfeiffer, the oldest agent of' 4 German Life ' ■ the world, died lea when a young v ai -

UI UI Foot In Rail; wj New Albany. —CaW ln a frog on the X Kj|)ed track near Birdseye, . [ dng ber foo( lock, o a ain .mhern railroad and killed by a freigh along a tew minutes . train that came Hotel at Seym ater Seymour. —The C _ in this city was C Burns by tire. It " as Munrercial hotel structure am nu B mO st destroyed ! damage to e ° ■ wo-story frame about $6,000, with ■ raifi(Jly The . , —and contents is Commercial Gh )Q() ihsurance Richmond. — At the committee arra g Mcet ganization o a j meeting of Commercial u y Ing for the orthe meeting would b Foderetion of November <>• - was a imounced nf the state will be , , ~ , „ or me . unr » mid tbe wee ^ o j ~ Ae larger cities Health Officer Clo | presentc . # ’ Columbus.—SecW_ of diphtheria B^unday Schools. । the city boaid oW o f many cases Kirkpatrick, on > toy secr etary of Sunday school. | alth Dr A M Mrat there be no

OPTION TALK IN TIPPECANOE. Effort May Be Made to Close Ono Hundred Saloons. Lafayette.—Public opinion here was divided as to the question of whether Tippecanoe county will go “dry” when I a special election under the local op- ! tion law’ is held. The fact that this is ! the home of Purdue university is ad- 1 vanced by the anti-saloon leaders as a reason why the saloons in Lafayette should be eliminated. There are 100 saloons in Lafayette, and they represent an investment of . several hundred thousand dollars. I The saloons pay a large sum into the ' city and county treasury each year. | The anti-saloon leaders have not yet • started work on the petition for a special election, but it is understood they will begin the work soon. There are about 11,000 voters in the county, and the petition will require about 2,300 names. It is believed there will be difficulty in getting this number. W. H. Stinespring, the Prohibition leader of the county, is preparing for the circulation of the petition. The temperance element regards the war on the saloons as not yet won, and will continue to fight until the result sought for has been accomplished. The saloon people have made no ■ move, nor has one been considered 1 jointly by any of the saloon proprietors. The friends of the saloon men ' are advising them to say nothing, but let the law take its course. They are warning the saloon men to be good,] obey the law and await the verdict. J The observance of the law Sunday was | unusually good.

Compromises with Hurty. Danville.—William Hollingsworth, trustee of Middle township, Hendricks county, who brought a mandamus suit to compel the advisory I board of the township to appropriate । $18,400 to erect a new school building in Pittsboro, and who, in turn, was i sued by the advisory board for an ac- 1 counting for $6,000 alleged to have been misused by the trustee, is sac- i ing a number of new suits. In the face of all these difficulties Trustee Hollingsworth succeeded in com- ' promising his troubles with Dr. Hurty i of the state board of health. Hold Carnival and Reunion. Leesburg. —ln connection with the annual reunion of the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Indiana regiment held here the business men of Leesburg gave a carnival, which was attended by several thousand peo- | pie. The regimental election resulted ’ jas follows: President, Charles Cran- ] dall. Angola: vice-president, Andrew i Hart. Angola: secretary, E. G. Melen- ; dy, Fremont; treasurer, P. A. Josay, ] Ligonier. The next reunion will be ) held at Angola. Perkins Heads State Toilers. Vincennes. —The State Federation ! . .of I.abm Wednesday reelected ' Edgar Perkins of Indianapolis president, adopted a resolution declaring James E. Watson. Republican candidate for governor, unfriendly to labor and adopted a resolution denouncing Gov. Hrtily for his action in calling • a special session of the legislature to pass a county local option bill. Slayer Goes to "Pen” for Life. Tipton.—Martin Gleason, the Lake Erie section foreman who killed Charles Woods, one of his crew, at Kempton, this county, the evening of September 3 by repeatedly striking ' him on the head with a heavy spade, - was brought into court and upon plead- ’ ing guilty to the charge was given a life sentence by Judge Elliott. He was i taken to Michigan City Monday. i Falls from Building and Is Killed. Bedford. — Mrs. Florence Bratton received word from Goldfield. Nev., of the death of her only son. Roy • Bratton, 25 years old. Young Bratton i was a structural iron worker and while

on a large building at Goldfield fell to , the ground and was instantly killed, j The family formerly lived in Indianap- i . olis. The burial will take place at i । Crawfordsville. I < Held Innocent of Murder. Greencastle. — Charles Sims, ar- i rested for intoxication following the murder of Otis Hendren, the agent for j the T. H. E. & I. Traction Company, ! was released. The officers were con- I vinced he was in no way connected ; witl the crime. Says Husband Fired at Feet. South Bend. —Charging her husband, Vernon Stevenson Granger, shot at her feet with a revolver because she would not dance, Gertrude Bertha Granger, formerly of Walkerton, brought suit for divorce in the ■ circuit court. Wed at Baptist Meeting, Martinsville. —J. C. Ramage and i Mrs. Celia Gumm of Monroe conn- j ty, were married at the Hili house in i this city. The bridegroom has been thrice married and this is the second marriage for the bride. Meet on Ocean Voyage. Crawfordsville. — The happy culmination to “an ocean liner romance" will be the marriage of Miss Letitia Parks of Crawfordsville and Samuel Louis Burlingham of Willimantic, Conn. Kosciusko Sees Snow. Warsaw.—Snow fell for 15 mtn utes in the south part of Kosciusko county, between Silver Lake avd Claypool. The storm was local and War ; saw saw only a few flakes, i’he mercury dropped to 34 degrees. Gets Life Term for Murder. Evansville. — Clint Redman, colored, was found guilty of seconddegree murder here and sentenced to the state prison for life. He was charged with the murder of Mrs. Eva Biechlein, a white woman. <

I plsrrswiTn By the Way. Ez No gentleman would step on his mother-in-law's false teeth just to get even. Some men have the altruistic spirit, and others are just plain end-seat hogs. & Mr. and Mrs. Cole, of Pennsylvania, are the proud parents of twins —one j hard and the other soft. I suppose. ☆ ☆ ☆ Radium has been reduced in price I to $1,000,000 an ounce. They will get i that blamed stuff on the 10-cent counter yet. ☆ ☆ <- If a man had everything he wanted, j life would be about as interesting as ] a dry chip. It is incentive and desire I that add zest to the chase and joy to I the capture. ☆ ☆ ☆ Two admirers wrote an editor the j same day. One wanted him always to write the humorous things, while ' the other importuned him to turn out I more of his serious matter. The ed- ! itor printed one alongside the other and kept right on pleasing all of the people part of the time. o o o The Harbingers. The rustle of the crimson leaf. The frou-frou of the breeze. The smell of burning forest land. The soughing of the trees— All mark the Autumn time of red j When smoky skies are overhead!

In bayou nooks the wave is still. And mirrored all the stream. From out the shallows scintillates The minnows’ silv'ry gleam. Tiie sun is red as molten Are Above tho Autumn's smoldering pyre! ■ ■ The blackbirds in the maple grove. With raucous minstrelsy, I Are flocking for the southern fly Across the ether sea— All Nature changes in the Fall At Winter’s monitory call! Now soon about the blazing hearth, Shut in from cold and snow, We denizens of earth shall reign And hear the North Wind blow—- ] And blessed be he whose fire is bright ' When Autumn fades in Winter’s might! ] But doubly blessed is hfe who sees I That lowly fires are lit • For those whose hearths are cold and bare Where want and worry sit! Ah, comfort is a joyous thing When conscience has no Inward sting! o o o Number Thirteen. When I went to buy a sleeping car ticket recently, the clerk handed me I a check for lower thirteen. I refused i it. A friend of mine who dotes on thirteens and twenty-threes, begged ! for the berth and got it. That night | when we retired I discovered that i thirteen was a fine berth in the mid- ! die of the car, while my number ; packed me away in the end over the ; trucks. Every time the train went

around a curve or struck a rough | track, I slopped about like a red apple in a tub on Hallowe'en night! lam , glad my friend took number thirteen, i though. He slept well and probably । , saved the train from being wrecked, i j as it might have been had I accepted it. O O © Give Me My Dream. I. Nothing of gloryEarth’s gold and its gleam: Still my soul’s prayer is—- “ Give me my dream!” 11. Though in the darkness No star sheds its beam. Take all the star-worlds—- " Give me my dream!” HI. Cold all the splendors Os heaven would seem. Crying to God still — "Give me my dream!” —Frank L. Stanton. O © © Serious. When a woman begins to dream dreams of a man and make him ths hero therein, it is time she began hemming her napkins! o o o Still Here. The only reason some pious old ras- I cals hang on so long is because the good die young! Cheese Kept for Ceremonies. Saaen cheese is made in Switzerland from cow’s milk. It is the custom to make a saaen cheese at the birth of a child and eat it at the burial feast or even at the burial feast of a son of the child for whom»it is made. Natural Curiosity. Small Harold noticed th.tt a stylish young man who was calling on his sister wore shoes that tapered to a point. “Say," queried the little fellow. “is your toes all cutted off but one?”

' । , GOD’S PROMISE j TO DAVID I Sunday School Le»*on lor Oct. 11, 1908 I Specially Arranged for This Paper ■ LESSON TEXT. —1 Chronicles 17:1-14. Memory verses 13. 14. GOLDEN TEXT.—“There hath not failed one word of all his good promises.” —1 Kings 8:56. TlME.—About the middle of David’s reign. Not long after the ark was brought to Jerusalem. PLACE.—Jerusalem. PROPHETS.— Nathan, now first mentioned; and Gad who had been with David in ids exile. The second period of David’s reign. Comment and Suggestive Thought. David, in his magnificent palace of cedar, looked out upon the place of worship for the nation and saw only a tent, which must soon decay, as the Mosaic tent had decayed. It did not I seem right and fitting that any private house, even a king’s should be more ■ beautiful and costly than God's house. It did not honor God nor religion The I prophet Haggai (1:4), five centuries later, uttered the Lord’s rebuke to his people, “Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this ! house lie waste?” i The king, with a noble longing for the good of his people and the honor ! of Cod, desired to build a temple that ; would worthily express the nation’s feelings toward their God and 1 strengthen their religious moral life. ; Accordingly he consulted with Nathan I the prophet. V. 2. “Nathan said ... Do all । that is in thine heart; for God is with thee.” David's desire was right. i V. 3. “The same night, .. . the I word of God came to Nathan.” In a vision (2 Sam. 7:17.) The prophet w’as right in the assurI ance that the object of David’s desire I was pleasing to God, but there was need of light upon the best way of accomplishing it. God had a better answer to David’s prayer than David

Imagined. V. 4. “Thou shalt not.” Emphasize the pronoun—“THOU shalt not build me a house to dwell in.” It shall be built, but not by David’s hands. There is a deep lesson for us in God’s treatment of David’s plan. We are tempted to do a right thing in a wrong way, or a second best way. God approved of Jacob’s possessing the birthright, but not of his method of obtaining it. The early Christians were right in their expectation of the fact of the early coming again of Christ, but not necessarily of the exact method of his coming. God approves of our desire for the conversion of men, for the unity of the church, for the reformation of the land from cer- ‘ tain evils, but that does not necessarij ly carry with it his approval of every method and saying of revivalists and , reformers. Instead of David’s building a house for God, God will build a house for David. “I tell thee . . . the Lord : will build thee an house.” The emphasis is on thee. His descendants shall be on the throne for evermore. V. 14. “I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever.” The real kingdom of God consists of his people, gradually increasing in numbers, in character, in power for good, till the kingdoai- shall the wide; wide world, the spiritual temple in which God dwells, and is worshiped by all creation for evermore. Through the whole history of Judah there was but one dynasty, while in the Northern Kingdom there were seven different dynasties in their 19 ] kings. “After the destruction of the temple i and the extinction of David’s dynasty j in Jerusalem, the writer in Chronicles I and the post-exilian Prophets regard ; the promise as still in force, and still in process of fulfillment to the seed ■ of David, with no limit to its eternal : operation.” This was the period of transition from the formal to the spiritual, but none the less real, kingdom and inheritance of David. The complete fulfillment was in Jesus Christ, | “great David’s greater Son.” In the works of Keil, “The posterity of David oould only last forever by running out in a person who lives forever; that is, by culminating in the Messiah, who lives forever, and of whose kingdom

there is no end." “The prediction of Balaam, of a scepter and star arising out of Jacob, is now to be unfolded in the scepter of David's line" The New Testament repeatedly speaks of Jesus as the son of David, and inheritor of the promises (Luke 1:31-33; 20:41-44; Acts 2:29-31; 13:22, 23.) Soon after Christ’s death, authority and almost existence as a separate nation was taken away from the Jews, at the destruction of Jerusalem. But before this time Christ set up his kingdom, which was David s kingdom, in another form, for David’s kingdom was in his time the visible kingdom of God in the world. And thus David's kingdom, through his descendant and heir, still continues, and will abide forever, bringing all nations and peoples under its sway, and more than realizing all the visions of glory which filled the Jewish heart. Practical Points. God will answer our sincere prayers, but often in a better way than we had planned for ourselves. Note the glorious blessings God promised to bestow in place of the small one he refused, a spiritual temple for one of stone; an eternal temple instead of a decaying one; a house built by God instead of one for himMost of these blessings it was impossible for David to receive in their fullness during his lifetime. And the very blessings he had asked for were granted in a better way, at a better time. New Explosive Agency. A new discovery in the ignition of explosives is creating great interest in Germany, where its use is increasing. It has been found that an alloy of iron and cerium, or any other of the rare earths (such as are used in the manufacture of gas mantles) will create luminous sparks on being struck by some metal tool, such as a knife-edge or a file, the sparks being sufficient to ignite not only gas. but even a wick saturated with alcohol, naphtha, etc. It is claimed that these iron alloys are efficient in igniting all sorts of explosives, the utility varying according to the ] e-centage of iro