Walkerton Independent, Volume 34, Number 33, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 29 January 1909 — Page 3

Escapade romance r ° K»k n) BY CYRUS TOWSEND BEADY 1 JLLUdTMT/ONcS BY M I ^WW S B RAtf WALTERS nsn CT ^COPYRIGHT, /9OQ £>Y “ I B, VJ? 7 ^ G CVt'AP/'MM.) S I

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, stler a house party, engaged in a family t'Jt, caused by jealousy. The attentions r ,°^ d Carrington to Lady Cecily and Lord Strathgate to Lady Carrington compelled the latter to vow that she would leave the castle. Preparing to flee. Lady Carrington and her chum Deborah, an American girl, met Lord Strathgate at two a. in., he agreeing to see them safely -away. He attempted to take her to his •castle, but she left him stunned in the road when the carriage met With an accident. She and Debbie then struck out tor, Portsmouth, where she intended to Hight, cords Carrington and Seton tset out in pursuit. Seton rented a fast vessel and started in pursuit. Strathgate, 'bleeding from fall, dashed on to Portsniouth, for which Carrington, Ellen and Seton were also headed by different iroutes. Strathgate arrived in Portsmouth in advance of the others, finding that Ellen's ship had sailed before her. ■Strathgate and Carrington each hired a small yacht to pursue the wrong vessel, upon which each supposed Ellen had sailed. Seton overtook the fugitives near Portsmouth, but his craft ran aground, Just as capture was imminent. Ellen won the chase by boarding American vessel and foiling her pursuers. Carrington and Strathgate, thrown together by former’s wrecking of latter’s vessel, engaged in an impromptu duel, neither being hurt. A war vessel, commanded by an admiral friend of Seton, then started out in pursuit of the women fugitives, Seton confessing love for Debbie. Flagship Britannia overtook the fugitives during the night. The two women escaped by again Liking to the sea in a small boat. Lord Carrington is ordered to sea with his ship tout refuses to go until after meeting Strathgate in a duel. They fight in the ■grounds of Lord Blythedale’s castle. Encounter is watched by Ellen and Debbie who have reached land and are in ■hiding. CHAPTER XlX.—Continued. “Pray now, Debbie,” whispered 'Ellen, “as you never prayed before!” This time neither woman hid her face. The prayers were all in the lieart. Save for that ejaculation not a lip moved between them. They stared as the bird charmed by the snake stares at his tormentor. Carrington was a stronger man than Strathgate. He had lived in the gay -world at times, as the other had, but there had been long periods on the sea. He had gained a power of wrist that the other trembled to feel as the blade pressed heavily against his own. But battles with swords are not necessarily gained by strength of arm. The victory is not always to the strong, sometimes it goes to the swift. With incredible quickness Strathgate engaged his point and lunged ■desperately forward. Carrington parried with all the swiftness of which he was capable, and just managed to ward the blow. The blade of his adversary’s sword ripped throgh the side of his shirt, bui. no blood followed the 'thrust. He had escaped ,unharmed. Strathgate smiled. “The next time!” he said softly to ■himself under his breath. The next instant he warded easily a furious return attack by Carrington, and thereafter for perhaps a minute there followed a succession of thrusts and parries with marvelous rapidity. Ellen knew something about sword jjlay. She was no mean fencer herself, and she saw with an anguished heart that Lord Strathgate was forcing the attack, and that her husband had all he could possibly do to keep from being spitted upon his adversary’s nimble sword. Rumor had not -exaggerated Strathgate’s wonderful mastery. His blade was like a lambent flame and played like lightning about her husband’s weapon. Desperate as was the task, however, Carrington just managed to avoid these deadly thrusts. His shirt had been cut in half a dozen places, and a thin splotch of blood showed where one of the thrusts had grazed the skin, but he was practically scatheless. He confined himself after that first return to defense, not from choice, but because there was nothing else to do. Strathgate pressed him unmercifully and gave him no opportunity whatsoever for a return. It was thrust, thrust, thrust! with the rapidity of thought itself. Indeed, so fierce, so sustained, so desperate was Strathgate’s attack that the perspiration beaded upon his forehead, his breath came quick. Ellen, who had eyes for everything, noted it, so, too, did Carrington. As for my lord, he had stood to it like the man and sailor that he was. He had not given ground one Instant, and although in the excitement of the contest Strathgate had pressed him hardOF and approached much Uearer, my lord had stood as if he were rooted to the spot. It was a magnificent example of determination coupled with a high degree of skill, for no mean fencer could have stood at swords’ •points with Strathgate without having been thrust through a dozen times, unless his skill had nearly matched the other’s or equaled it. The two men approached so closely that further fencing became impossible. With a swift movement Strathgate forced aside Carrington’s ■sword and sprang back out of reach. He dropped his sword for a moment ■and stood panting slightly. Carrington spoke now. “Has my lord exhausted his attack?” he said softly. Strathgate’s answer was a resumption of his guard and another hard and direct lunge for his enemy’s heart. Carrington smiled as he parried. He had been in some doubt as to his ability to sustain Strathgate’s attack. He was no stranger to the field of honor, but he had never faced a sword so imbued with venomous life as that that slivered along his blade this morning. Yet he imagined that Strathgate had done his best. He had shot his bolt. He could do no better than he had done, and there began to come into Carrington’s mind a sense of mastery. Again he met Strathgate’s furious attack. This time it seemed to Carrington that the onslaught was less rapid and less dangerous. Probably

this was a misapprehension and the fact that Carrington parried the vicious thrusts more easily may have been due to a growing sense of familiarity with Strathgate's method. Btu Strathgate was not yet spent. There were certain dangerous thrusts he knew of, dangerous in that they exposed the one who used them to a counter-attack, and dangerous from their unexpectedness to one against whom they were made; consequently, Strathgate was usually doubtful about employing them, but Carrington had confined his attention simply to parryJnr n lyr tlhl , y,,i , ,7-7; gate, thinking rapidly, determined that it would be safe to employ this unusual stroke. After a marvelous burst of speed in which he seemed to have regained all his power, he suddenly dropped almost upon one knee, leaving his body uncovered, and thrust terrifically upward. If Carrington had been returning stroke for stroke, that moment had been Strathgate's last. As it was, the parry was rather slowly executed and Strathgate’s point got fairly home in Carrington's side. It was not a thrust through the body, nor was it a graze. It was betwixt the two. Strathgate sprang violently back-

\ ICCMA \ — If jo3\ bWw v?>7 Strathgate Attacked as Furiously as Ever.

ward as Carrington made an ineffective reply wtih his weapon. The two faced each other once more. “Stop, gentlemen,” cried Blythedale . and Parkman in one moment, intervening between the two. “Nevinson!” called out Parkman. The surgeon came bounding forward. “ ’Tis naught,” cried Carrington, waving them aside. “See!” “Only a flesh wound,” said Nevinson, examining it quickly. “Back, gentlemen, you are giving Lord Strathgate a breathing space.” “I am of the opinion that enough has been done,” began Blythedale, “for honor—” “Not while one of us lives,” answered Carrington. “My lord speaks for me,” cried Strathgate; “away, gentlemen!” And once more the two men fell on guard. Wiiy Ellen Lad uot fainted at that moment she could not tell. The world swam before her vision, but by an effort she commanded herself. The battle was not over, and she must see it until the end. She had confidence yet. My lord’s wound was not a serious one and certainly now Strathgate had shot the bolt. But no, Strathgate attacked as furiously as ever, but this time my lord’s tactics were different. As if the sight , of his own blood had maddened him, , he was not content to parry, but he himself assumed the offensive. Like diamonds the points of the blades sparkled in circles of light. The ring of steel on steel and the grating as one ' blade fell upon another blade was continuous. It was bewildering to Ellen, be- • wildering to everyone except the two men. Blythedale and Parkham stood staring as if their eyes would be , strained from their heads. Their breaths came shorter and shorter. , Even the cool, phlegmatic doctor came forward and stood gazing. Ellen and . Deborah had long since passed the : stage of expression. They lay scarcely breathing, their eyes following as [ they could every movement of the straining men, of the flashing sword. 1 There was no advantage for either i! of the combatants yet, save that ; thrust of Strathgate's, that is, no out- - I ward advantage; but Strathgate was - i beginning to pay the penalty of his i : life and of his desperate endeavors iu r the commencement of the attack. His

breath came shorter, the sweat stood thick upon his brow. Carrington grew cooler after the first flush of passion consequent upon his slight wound. Hia : strength grew greater. He pressed Strathgate harder. But the earl was not yet done. Nerving himself, summoning all his resofution to his aid, in a series of brilliant onslaughts he sought to bring to a sudden end an affair for which, if it should be much ; more prolonged, he knew his strength would be unequal. But Carrington met him with a wrist of steel and a blade quicker than the light itself. How it was done, no one could see, but after a series of rapid thrusts and disengagements, the

, spectators saw Strathgate suddenly throw up his arms. His blade fell wavering to the ground. Those who stared saw two feet of bloody steel thrusting out from his back. Carrington had seized an opportunity and had lunged with such force and power and directness that the quillons of the hilt of his rapier had actually struck the breast of Stratbgate as he ran him through the right shoulder over his guard. The thrust just grazed the I lung. Carrington strove to withdraw his weapon, succeeded partially, when Strathgate collapsed uttterly and snapping oHW the projecting end of the blade behind his back as he fell upon it. He strove horribly for a moment to rise and then settled back biting his lips to stifle a groan of agony. Carrington stood over him with hand upraised. Which had the whiter face it would be hard to say. “Strathgate!” cried my lord, bend- j ing over him. “Carrington,” murmured Strathgate in his agony, fairly wrenching the I j words from his lips, “you’re a damned i fool. The woman loves you—not— ' | me!” | He stopped. j By this time Blythedale and the doctor were by Strathgate’s side. Park-

man also woke to action. H£ ran to Carrington’s side and drew him [ back. “A damned fool!" cried my lord, hoarsely, ‘‘ay, that I’ve been.” Parkman said nothing. He fetched Carrington’s coat, waistcoat, sword j and shoes and assisted him to put them on. “We had best go now, Bernard,” he said when Carrington was clothed. “Find out how he is yonder before w r e leave,” said Carrington, looking toward the g^oup busied about po-or Strathgate. Presently Parkman came back with news. “He’s desperately hurt. Your blade just grazed the lung.” “Will he pull through?” “Nevinson doesn’t know. He hopes so. God! it was a terrible thrust. I thought he had you at first. I never saw such play, but, man, you were his master.” (TO BE CONTINUED.) Saving on Drink. That men will drink less while they have something to look at or to listen to is proved by the sobriety which attends public amusements in England. No-consumption of alcoholic refreshments is allowed in the auditorium, and it is rare that the patrons leave their seats for a drink at the bars — indeed, many of these resorts are conducted on strictly temperance lines. At the theaters, too, the consumption of alcoholic refreshments during the entr’actes has latterly been reduced to a minimum. Midway in the pantomimes, the descent of the curtain is contemporaneous with the appearance of trim waitresses and the tea tray. Even in the theater bars the lords of । creation prefer “the cup that cheers” to whisky and soda. Health and Cooking, Good cooking is rapidly becoming a lost art. They who prepare the food for the world decide the health ot the world. You have only to go on some errand amid the hotels of the United States and Great Britain to appreciate the fact that a vast multitude of the human race are slaughtered by incompetent cookery. Though a young woman may have taken lessons in music, and may have taken lessons in painting, and lessons in astronomy, she is not well educated unless ahs has taken lessons in dou^k

REPUBLIC BONDERS' HER CREW SAVE BY REVENUE CUTTER ( lESfHAM. — THRILLING DI *MA OF SEA Passengers of Los Liner and of Florida, That lammed Her, Brought Ashor —Owe Lives to Wir less. — New York—The White Star liner Republic, rammed earlj’ Saturday morning bj' the Ita ian liner Florida, off Nantucket, Ma S-> sank at 8:30 Sunday night. As, w hours later the Baltic arrived in thi port bringing the 1,300 and more pas engers from both the vessels concern 1 in the most remarkable drama o^ he sea the world has known for marJ years. The gallant woriT of a boat's crew from the United S 'tes revenue cutter Gresham in tai off Capt. Sealby and a detail of ' Wof the Republic who remained o oard that vessel almogt th x ^jnoment , spoken' of particularly ss t spatches received here. r No less than seve^ _ean liners—the Baltic, New York, Furnessia, Lorraine and Lucania, and tt a two crippled ships, Florida and Re aublic —figured in the stirring story. Tie 442 passengers and some members ofc the crew of the Republic underwent two transfers on the open sea, first to Ithe crippled Florida on Saturday moaning and again early Sunday to the more commodious Baltic, which brought also the 900 and more passengers from the disabled Florida. With this great human cargo of rescued persons, besides her own list of 930 passengers, the Baltic arrived off Sandy Hook about 11 o’clock Sunday night. The Florida, her bdw rent from the terrific impact with the Republic, slowly steered, under her own steam, for this port, convoyed by the American liner New York. , Until an early hour Sunday it was believed the crashing' together of the two big ships off fog-iound Nantucket Saturday morning ha<| not resulted in death or injury to a single passenger or member of the crews. Shortly after midnight, however, the wireless telegraph, that mysterious force which had apprised the world of the Republic’s distress and quickly brought other i ships to her aid, flashed the news that, two passengers on the Republic had been killed and two others injured. Late in the day another wireless mesI sage told of four deaths on board the : Florida, either of members of the crew |or steerage passengers., The identity ;of these was not made, clear. The message from Capt. Ranson of the Bal--1 tic to the White Star Company In this ; city gave the names o£ the dead pasi sengers as Mrs. Eugene Lynch of ■ Boston and W. J. Mooney, a banker of I Langdon, N. D. The mjured are Mrs. i M. M. Murphy, wife |f f the financial ■ agent of the Union Central Ljfr> Tnsur-y^r-Jhqmpany-of Gra4r‘ Forks, N. D.. and Eugene Lynch of Boston. THREE PERiSljfc^Collision Between Twi Section Takes Place at Alto< na, Pa. Altoona, Pa. — In n impenetrable fog, the second section of the St. Louis express westbound crashed | into the first section at Summer Hill, 25 miles west of this city, Saturday, killing three persons and injuring six, ] one probably fatally. The list of killed and Injured follows: Dead: S. L. Taylor, Brooklyn, N. Y., employed by Charles E. Rung, broker, of New York. M. J. Kelly, a Pullman car conductor, Jersey City. Robert Booth, colored, a Pullman porter, Philadelphia, j Four Men Biown (to Pieces. Newark, N. J. —Four men were [ killed and ten others injured, one fatally, Wednesday, when several tons of dynamite in one cripe buildings of the Forcite Powder works at Lake Hopatcong blew up. The detonation of the huge mass of explosives shook I the country for miles arpund and blew the building containing it to atoms. Billik Saved from) Death. Springfield, Ill.—Gov? Charles Deneen Friday night commuted to life imprisonment the sentence of deatt which had been pronounced on h/ • man Billik of Chicagoj who was - . idemned to hang for the murdf of Mary Vrzal, whom he^ poisoned >ith other members of th' family, it was charged. New Ski-Jurr " >cord. Chippewa Falls, °w world’s record of 138 fee> ft is said, was made Su ^rhoon at the Northwestern S’ ^nament by Oscar Gunderson oL pewa Falls. The previous world> r record was 135 feet, made by Gjestvang at Modun, Norway, in T '^ Mr. Taft Sails t Panama. Charleston, S. C. — r trip of Pres-ident-elect Taft and p j <.y to Panama began at 8:30 o'clock ?, nday morning when Mr. and Mrs. T; boarded the cruiser North Carolin in Charleston harbor. The trip will dat New Orleans. Lincoln’s County oes Dry. Hodgenville, Ky.—ln election Sat urday, Laßue, Abrah'' Lincoln’s native county, voted dry . y a majority of 1,085, the vote bein over four to one against license. Twenty-Fifth Victim >f Wreck. Glenwood Springs, C(’ —W. H. Jeffries, one of the freight tigineers who i was injured in the wre k on the Denver & Rio Grande railway near Dotsero last Friday night, lied Thursday, making the twenty-fifth nctim of the I catastrophe. Confirms Cheney’s Successor. Washington.—The semte Thursday : confirmed the nominationof Stuart K. Lupton of Tennessee to )e consul at । Messina, Italy, vice Arthw S. Cheney, killed in the earthquake.

'NEGRO LYNCHED IN MOBILE — J PUT TO DEATH BY MOB FOR KILLING OFFICER. Leaders Walk Into Jail and Cover . Sheriff’s Assistants with Revolvers —Crime Is Quiet. Mobile, Ala. — So quietly did they go about their work that th€ usual serenity of Mobile slightly disturbed when Saturday *• handful of determined men took 9 ' negro from the county jail and lynch" , him almost in the heart of the city’s residence district. The victim, Douglas Roberson, a mulatto, powerful o£ build, and for years regarded as a desperate negro, who on Thursday shot and killed a eputy Sheriff Philip Fateh and wont "led another officer, was led from his “ ell in the county jail to the scene of i lynching so quietly that residents along the path of the mob’s march were undisturbed. The mob had intended, it is thought, taking Roberson to the scene of his crime, but on account of his cries, in spite of an effort to gag him, his canL tors r^ngeTi hhn~ to a 1 tree on" Iliff ■ southeast corner of St. Emmanuel and 1 Church streets, just one block removed from Government, Mobile’s ! most prominent thoroughfare. ! According to one authority, two men ; I walked into the jail and covered Dep- ; 1 uty Sheriffs Hugh Gillis and I. Krous I l with revolvers and commanded them ( to throw up their hands, accompany- i 1 ing their order with a demand that • they open the door leading to the ’ i cells. The deputies, powerless, and i i caught unawares, obeyed without re- i 1 sistance. Probably 20 more iu the I meantime had gone upstairs, leaving the two men to guard the deputies. - Later two of these came back down ’ and demanded the keys to Roberson’s ' cell, which were given them. ’ Gillis and Krous were then left alone and ordered not to leave their > seats or use the telephone under pen- , alty of death. The mob, securing the , man, quietly left the jail and started - to the scene of the crime. I AWFUL LAKE FIRE HORROR. About Seventy Men Perish in Disaster i Off Chicago. Chicago.—Death in frightful form—- - a choice between incineration or l drowning in the ice-clogged lake —descended on probably 70 men at eight ■ o’clock Wednesday morning when fire t attacked the temporary crib of the 1 new southwest land and water tunnel . a mile and a half off Seventy-third - street. » As nearly as can be learned, 120 r men, mostly employes of George W. r Jackson (Inc.), were in the crib at the j time. Os these 47 are known to have . been burned to death, as that number 5 of bodies, so charred and mutilated as . to make identification practically imf possible, were recovered. f Still others —number unknown and . probably never to be revealed —lost 1 their lives while battling with the icy . waters which surrounded the blazing Ctihlake in the vain hope that they might survive till help should arrive. With the exception of the Iroquois disaster, which stands high in the list s of world horrors, it was the most ruthless slaughter Chicago ever has ever known. 3 The cause of the fire and responsibility for the disaster remain undeteri mined. A rigid inquiry has been be- , gun by Coroner Hoffman and the po- , lice. Bloody Tragedy in Prison. Pittsburg. Pa.—An insane convict patient in the hospital of the western penitentiary here attacked his convict . nurse Sunday, stabbing him perhaps fatally. A guard called by the nurse shot the madman twice. The latter, hidden in the smoke, sprang at the guard, fatally stabbing him. The j guard then fired twice more, wounding the insane prisoner so that he died soon afterward. 3 Say Benzoate of Soda Is Safe. 3 Washington.—That benzoate of soda 5 used as a food preservative is not inf jurious to health is the judgment of 3 the referee board of consulting exi perts, of which Dr. Ira Remsen, presir dent of Johns Hopkins university, is r chairman. This conclusion, which has . been approved by Secretary Wilson, reverses the findings of Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chem- ; ^ try - Tennessee Drys Score Again. / Nashville, Tenn. —At 5:40 o’clock - Thursday afternoon the lower house of f the legislature, by a vote of 60 to 36, i passed, on final reading, the bill to 3 prohibit the manufacture of intoxicants in Tennessee after January 1, 1910. The bill has already passed the sen--3 ate and now goes to the governor, who is expected to veto it. t r Primate of All Canada Dead. Toronto, Ont. —Most Rev. Arthur 5 Sweatman, archbishop of Toronto and t primate of all Canada, died Sunday afternoon of pneumonia. Biological Station for lowa. Muscatine, —United States ComL missioner of Fisheries George M. Bowj ers of Washington Friday decided to > establish a biological station for the i propagation of clams and fish eight . miles above Muscatine. Wheeler Won’t Come to Michigan. Berkeley, Cal. —President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of Cal- . ifornia announced Friday that he ■ would not accept the invitation to be- ) come to the head of the University of Michigan. Sues for $500,000 Insurance. Muskogee, Okla.—Mrs. Susie M. Bur- > dette, widow of the late Joshua Bur- ■ dette, a wealthy pioneer merchant of • Creek county, who was the victim of , a mysterious assassination at Eufala, > Okla., in 1906, filed suit for the recovery of $500,000 insurance upon Burdette’s life. Col. Francis J. Parker Dies. Boston. —Col. Francis Jewett Parker, ; formerly prominent in military, civil , and political circles of Boston, died Thursday, aged 84 years.

The Trial of | Peter and John I । Sunday School Lesson for Jan. 31, 1909 8 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT.—Acts 4:5-20. Memory verses 11. 12. GOLDEN TEXT.—They were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness. TIME.—The same afternoon as the last I lesson, and the following morning. A few | weeks or months, possibly a year or more after rentecost. PEACES.—Solomon’s porch in the temple court; a prison; the hall of the sanhedrim near the temple; a private room in the city. Comment and Suggestive Thought. The miracle of healing the well known lame beggar; Peter’s sermon proclaiming Jesus as the expected । Messiah, and charging the Jews, espe- I cially their rulers, with the crime of murdering him, but calling on them to repent and be saved; and the fact that thousands became the disciples of wus and joined the new, enthusiastic community, all this aroused the lead- . ers to put ~ <>••-> was “turning the world upsidy down. ’ (1) The Jewish authorities found that the new religious movement was i the “installation of a new station for i the distribution of currents of influI ential opinion,” and they determined to cut the wires, and stop the flow of j the current; but the only results were ■ a shock to themselves, and more pow- ; er and more lights. (2) “Fools! they j thought if they could but wring the neck of the crowing cock it would j never b^ day.”- • While these 5,000 were all Jews, ■ they were something more; a new ; stamp was on them (Stifler), a new ; perfume, a new atmosphere was around them, a new light shone in I their characters. They became new forces in the world. There was some such change in them as transformed Peter and John, the fishermen, into apostles who changed the face of the ■ world. The Comfort of the Imprisoned Apostles.—“ The speakers went to prison; their words took wings, and flew to the uttermost parts of the earth. Here is a beautiful marvel. What vi- j I tality is in a spoken word! No wonder that men like Joubert and EmerI son toil like slaves to put a thought i into perfect language! Who would : not be content to go to prison, or to death, if he could leave something like ■ the Twenty-third Psalm or the Beat!- i tudes, or the thirteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians, as his legacy to the world? Behind those prison bars the | apostles comforted themselves by re- , membering that they had uttered words which w’ould not return to Jesus Christ void, but would accomplish the work whereunto he had sent them.” — Charles Frederic Goss. The hall of the sanhedrim, according to both the latest great cyclopedias, was within the temple court. The sanhedrim sat in a semi-circle, with the president in the center, while opposite were three benches for the scholars of the sanhedrists^ who thus _ practically learned law. V. 8. “Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost.” In fulfillment of Christ’s promise (Matt. 10:19, 20). Thus Peter was given courage to speak the truth, and guided to the choice of the right things to say, and the best way of saying them. This was his first experience in speaking before this august assembly, and he, an unlearned fisherman, may well have quailed before such a tribunal with such power over his fortunes, even while he rejoiced at the opportunity to preach the Gospel to them. “Peter, ‘filled with the Holy Ghost,’ is a thousand Peters: Peter multiplied by the j very Deity. Peter—a straw blown away by the mocking wind, by himself. But Peter ‘filled with the Holy Ghost’ । was a man of war, a mighty captain, a soldier not to be put down; clothed with heavenly panoply, eloquent With heaven’s thunder, gracious with heaven’s love.” “Ye rulers . . . and : elders." Peter is respectful, but these I very titles imply that they should be I leaders in every good work, and favor I all that would help the people. V. 11. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders.” Peter applies to the sanhedrim the Psalm (118:22), which he had heard the Master use to a deputation from this same sanhedrim. This symbolic imagery “seems to have been drawn ! from one of the stones, quarried, hewn, and marked, away from the site of the temple, which the builders, ignorant of j the head architect's plans, or finding on it no mark, had put on one side as having no place in the building, but ; which was found afterward to be that on which the completeness of the j structure depended, "the head of the corner” —on which, as the chief cor- ; ner stone, the two walls met and were ; bonded together.”—Plumptre. \ . 23. On their return "to their own , i company,” they all joined in a hymn ' ' of praise, quoting Psa. 146:6 and Psa. | 2:1, 2, perhaps singing the whole of these psalms. Past deliverances of God’s people gave assurance of triumph now. ; Peter and John tower up to heroic ' i height. Suffering for Christ strikes ; ; out sweeter music in more heavenly strains than mere peace can awaken. * I Then they all joined with one heart J in prayer. Note what they prayed for, for courage to go on doing their duty; for marvelous works showing the goodness and power of their Master, Jesus, God s Son. They pray not for themselves, but for their cause. The answer was clearly made known. The Holy Spirit came upon them as at Pentecost. They spake the ' word of God with boldness. There was a new unity, a new impulse of gener- i I osity, new grace, new power. Friendly Enemies.—ln a sermon by j 1 Rev. W. C. Piggott in the London Sun- I ■ day School Chronicle, on “Friendly : : Enemies,” I find these words: “Sor- j row, pain, trial, are real enemies of man, and the perfect life which he , ■ hopes for cannot come till these are ; banished; but often those things in life which seem most evidently hostile I to our peace may be our protection against greater evils.” We learn not only obedience, learn joy itself through the tW^gs which we suffer, and as a modm^Pwriter has said, the fear of the is the beginning of pleasure.

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