LESSON XIII.—SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1897.
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Golden Text.—"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." Matt. 5:16.
LESSON 1.—First Converts in Europe. Acts 16:6-15. Golden Text: "The entrance of thy words giveth light." Ps. 119:130. The time of this lesson is about A.D. 52, and the lesson deals with the beginning of the Gospel work in Europe. Paul on this European missionary journey is accompanied by Silas, Timothy, and Luke, and in going forth upon it is answering the Macedonian cry, "Come over and help us."
LESSON 2.—Paul and the Philippian Jailer. Acts 16:22-34. Golden Text: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." Acts 16:31. This lesson includes the punishment which Paul and Silas received at the hands of the magistrates, their imprisonment, their songs and prayers during the night, the earthquake by which the prison doors were thrown open, the fear of the jailer and his attempt to commit suicide, Paul's comforting words, the conversion of the jailer, and the baptism of himself and his family.
LESSON 3.—Paul at Thessalonica and Berea. Acts 17:1-12. Golden Text: "They received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily." Acts 17:11. In this lesson several ways are mentioned in which the cause of Christ is advanced: by preaching Christ; by the use of the Scriptures; by the opposition of wicked and unprincipled men; and by searching the Scriptures. The house of Jason was besieged by the mob, and, not finding Paul and Silas, they compelled Jason to give security for the departure of the missionaries from that city. They went to Berea, where they were more graciously received, and many were joined to their ranks.
LESSON 4.—Paul Preaching in Athens. Acts 17:22-34. Golden Text: "God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." John 4:24. This was the first preaching of the Gospel message in Athens, and the date is believed to have been about A.D. 52. Paul in this lesson uses that wonderful argument in regard to the "unknown god," showing who is the true God, how he is acceptably worshiped, and his desire that all men everywhere should repent. Paul at this time preaches of the day of judgment, when all are to be judged by that Man "whom he hath ordained."
LESSON 5.—Paul's Ministry in Corinth. Acts 18:1-11. Golden Text: "Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." 1 Cor. 3:11. Paul, coming to Corinth, abides with Aquila and Priscilla, and while preaching the Gospel, also works at his trade of tent-making, reasoning with the Jews and Greeks every Sabbath day in the synagogue. Here he received such opposition from the Jews that he decided to turn to the Gentiles. Paul dwelt in this place a year and six months, teaching the Word every Sabbath day, in the house of a Gentile by the name of Titus Justus.
LESSON 6.—Working and Waiting for Christ. 1 Thess. 4:9 to 5:2. Golden Text: "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." John 14:3. Paul in this lesson scripture commends the Thessalonians for the spirit of brotherly love, and exhorts them to continue and increase in this characteristic. He then sets at rest forever the controversy in regard to the resurrection of the dead, showing that the righteous will be raised at the second coming of Christ, and, together with those who are translated without seeing death, ascend to meet the Lord in the air. He also states the fact that the coming of Christ will be at a time when the world is not prepared to meet him, as the thief comes unawares to secure his booty.
LESSON 7.—Abstaining for the Sake of Others. 1 Cor. 8:1-13. Golden Text: "For none of us liveth to himself." Rom. 14:7. This lesson includes the story of the founding of the church at Corinth (Acts 18:1-7) and the first ten chapters of 1 Corinthians. In this scripture the apostle is setting the minds of the early Christians at rest concerning the eating of meats, especially meats offered to idols, the pith of the subject being summed up in Paul's words, "Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh forevermore, that I make not my brother to stumble."
LESSON 8.—The Excellence of Christian Love. 1 Cor. 13:1-13. Golden Text: "But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love." 1 Cor. 13:13. This lesson dwells upon the subject of charity, or love. The apostle here shows the hollowness of all show, or pretensions, or argument, when lacking the essential principle of love. The other graces or principles or gifts may fail; love abides forever.
LESSON 9.—Paul Opposed at Ephesus. Acts 19:21-34. Golden Text: "Take heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness." Luke 12:15. The ground upon which this attack upon the work of Paul was based was an entirely selfish one. Paul's teachings reduced the demands for idols wherever he might go, and the craft of the idol-makers was in danger. The other ground, that of bringing the goddess Diana into disrepute, was evidently a secondary one, and introduced to induce the rank and file of the people to side with the silversmiths in their attack upon Paul.
LESSON 10.—Gentiles Giving for Jewish Christians. 2 Cor. 9:1-11. Golden Text: "For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich." 2 Cor. 8:9. Paul here commends the Corinthians for their liberality to the poor, and sends messengers before him that their donations for the poor might be in readiness when he arrived. After telling them the kind of gift which is acceptable in the sight of God, Paul tells them that this grace of giving shall cause them to be increased in that with which to give, bringing with it the blessing of God.
LESSON 11.—Christian Living. Rom. 12:9-21. Golden Text: "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." Rom. 12:21. The whole lesson scripture is composed of short, concise phrases, teaching the Christian how to work worthily in the sight of God and the world. He is to love without hypocrisy, abhor the evil, cleave to the good, be fervent, patient, humble, sympathetic, and ever ready to forgive his enemies.
LESSON 12.—Paul's Address to the Ephesian Elders. Acts 20:22-35. Golden Text: "Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive." Acts 20:35. The incidents of this lesson occurred while Paul was carrying to Jerusalem the collection for the poor of the church at that place. He was going to Jerusalem bound in the spirit, knowing that bonds and afflictions awaited him. He exhorts the bishops to faithfully perform the work allotted to them in the church, and warns the church of the "grievous wolves" which should enter after his departure, teaching perverse doctrine, and drawing away disciples after them.
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FOREIGN.
—It is reported that the Spanish Government is making an inspection of the coast defenses of the United States.
—A rebellion is now in progress in the district of Yang-Chan, China. The malcontents are said to number 10,000.
—The bubonic plague has broken out in the city of Foo-chow, China, and the people are said to be dying very rapidly.
—In a great labor strike in Budapest, Hungary, August 23, two hundred persons were more or less seriously injured.
—On August 27, the branch of the Dominion Bank at Napanee, Ontario, was robbed of $32,000. The burglars were not apprehended.
—On August 27, under cover of the darkness, another large and well-equipped expedition left Tampa, Florida, to join the insurgents in Cuba.
—The French Government is now arranging for a loan of nearly $300,000,000, the greater part of which will be devoted to building up the navy.
—The Korean Government has sent out the information that the ports of Chenonpo and Mokpo will be opened to foreign trade on October 1.
—On the same mail with the advices from Manila, stating that the Philippine rebellion is ended, come stirring accounts of renewed and severe fighting.
—Italy has threatened war with Morocco unless the crew of the Italian brig Fiducia, which was recently captured by Moorish pirates, are immediately released.
—The Portuguese bark Rosita Fario was captured recently off the coast of Morocco by pirates, and, besides plundering the vessel, the captain and crew were carried off.
—The gunboats of the Anglo-Egyptian expedition on the Nile have passed the fourth cataract, and the expedition is preparing for a dash into the region of the Dervishes.
—An alleged anarchistic plot for the assassination of Spain's queen regent has been unearthed in London, and twenty Barcelona detectives have been detailed to locate the plotters.
—A destructive earthquake, accompanied by a tidal wave, occurred in Japan on August 5. Two hundred persons were drowned and 5,000 houses were demolished or swept to sea.
—The police of Constantinople continue to make wholesale arrests of persons suspected of complicity in the bomb-explosion plot recently brought to the attention of the Turkish officials.
—The English police posts on the Samana range in India were captured on the night of August 28 by the rebellious Afridis tribes. The rebels have captured two important mountain passes.
—The Austrian minister of agriculture, in his estimate of the wheat yield of the entire world for the present year, states that on the wheat crop there will be a shortage of 50,800,000 hundred weight.
—Severe fighting continues between the Kurds and Armenians, on the Persian frontier. It is stated that the Kurds were defeated in a recent engagement, with the loss of their leader and 300 men.
—The peace negotiations between the powers and Turkey have now been taken out of the hands of the ambassadors, and the cabinets of the various countries interested will deal with the difficulty direct.
—The sugar planters of Java are threatened with the complete extinction of their sugar crops. A disease which they can neither explain nor control is laying waste thousands of acres of the sugar-cane.
—At a cabinet council held in Madrid, August 30, it was decided to call out the next class of reserves of the Spanish army, numbering 80,000. Half of these will be sent to Cuba and the Philippines.
—The government of Spain is arranging a fresh credit with the view of strengthening her navy. The navigation tax will be the security for the loan. She will immediately construct one large iron-clad and six cruisers.
—On the 22d of August the Cuban general Banderas attacked the fortified town of Tapaste, Havana province, captured the garrison, looted the Spanish stores of provisions and drugs, hanged fifteen guerrillas, and departed.
—Spain is said to be laying the groundwork for the presentation of an enormous claim for damages against the United States on account of the many filibustering expeditions fitted out in this country to assist the insurgents.
—Twelve persons were killed and a number injured at an election riot in Merida, Yucatan, on August 14. The police and soldiers fired into an assembly of citizens who had met to protest against the re-election of the present governor.
—A Spanish column of 1,200 men attacked a Cuban fortress at Sabana de Becorro recently, and report its capture by a midnight surprise. The troops had fourteen killed and thirty-six wounded, while the Cuban loss is placed at sixty killed.
—The revolution in Uruguay seems to be in no way affected by the assassination of President Borda. Fighting continues, and the rebels claim that if the president's probable successor is elected, the end of the revolution will be farther off than before.
—A report from Honolulu states that prominent anti-annexationists are arranging for a monster mass-meeting of natives to take place at the time that the American senators are in Honolulu, the object of the congregation being to create sentiment unfavorable to annexation.
—General Azcarraga, prime minister of Spain, has declared the confidence of the government in the political and military plans of General Weyler in Cuba, and states further that if the United States makes any demonstration, Spain will "do her duty;" that is, she will declare war.
—The Indian rebels that are causing so much trouble for the English in India are said to be well armed with Lee-Metford and Martini rifles. The sultan is manifesting great interest in the spread of the rebellion, and is kept informed by telegraph of every development in the situation.
—A Japanese newspaper, published in Yokohama, states that the Japanese commissioner to the conference to be held in Washington, on the sealing question, will be instructed to side with representatives of the United States in plans for the protection of the seal herds of Alaskan waters.
—General Weyler has called in his troops from chasing the elusive rebels, and they will be concentrated in the larger towns, until the hot and rainy season is over. This decision had hardly been made before a call was issued by the heads of the Cuban Republic for a meeting of their government on September 2.
—The British post at Gazerbund, Beloochistan, which was held by native levies, was attacked on the night of August 28 by the Brahuis, and the entire garrison killed. An outbreak is also reported among the fanatical Mohammedans on the Malabar coast, and many new signs of disaffection are reported along the Indian frontier.
—By order of General Weyler all the cattle in Cuba are being seized by the soldiers for the support of the army. According to the proclamation, cattle owners are to receive a compensation of $1.50 per head for all cattle so taken; but the cattle are herded in such a manner that identification is impossible, and the money is said to be going into the pockets of the Spanish officials.
—It has now developed that Japan is secretly negotiating with the Diet of the Greater Republic of Central America, to have all trans-oceanic treaties between those States and the United States abrogated, and concessions for the building of the Nicaragua Canal transferred to the Japanese Government. Some of the Central American States are said to favor this, because the United States Government did not recognize the establishment of the Greater Republic.
—The return of President Faure, of France, from his meeting with the czar was celebrated with wild enthusiasm by the French on August 31, and it is stated that this date will hereafter be celebrated throughout the republic as Alliance Day. Three minutes after the presidential party had passed Madeline Church a bomb was exploded within the inclosure, but no one was injured. The bomb was similar in construction to the one exploded on the day of the president's departure.
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—Seven persons were fatally poisoned recently in Calloway County, Kentucky, by eating a poisoned melon stolen from a neighbor's melon patch.
—Great numbers of very fine pearls are now being found along White River, Arkansas, near Mount Adams, and the river for miles is lined with pearl hunters.
—Five prisoners in the Leadville, Colorado, jail overpowered their jailer, locked him in a cell, and with the keys still in their possession, succeeded in escaping.
—Residents of Wheeling, West Virginia, have recently presented the gunboat Wheeling, now completed at San Francisco, with an elegant silver and crystal service.
—The burning of a furniture warehouse in Pittsburg, Penn., on August 26, caused a damage to the building and adjoining property estimated at $165,000. Two firemen were killed by falling walls.
—An attempt to open the Champion mines near McDonald, Penn., on August 27, proved a failure. Five hundred women attacked the working miners with sticks and stones, and compelled them to leave the mine.
—A contest took place at Chicago on September 1 between a bicycle skater and a bicycle rider. The bicycle skate, which was but recently perfected, proved a dangerous rival for the "silent steed," the skater winning the race.
—Mohammed Nouri Bey, of the Turkish foreign office in Constantinople, states that the Armenian revolutionists are all pupils and protégés of the American mission schools at Marsvan, Bitlis, Erzeroum, and Van, and that the activity of these schools is a curse to both Armenia and Turkey.
—The corporation of Brown University has voted unanimously to ask President Andrews to withdraw his resignation. The request was accompanied by a letter expressing the confidence of the corporation in the president's ability and management.
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PALESTINE: ITS HISTORICAL AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.
IX. ESDR AELON.
This great triangle of plain, lying between the hills of Samaria and those of Galilee, was held by the Canaanites till Deborah won it for Israel. It continued to be traversed by foreign war and traffic, and to the end was the classic battlefield of the history of the Bible. The natural entrances to it are the three corners of the triangle — the pass of the Kishon at Tel el-Kasis, the glen between Tabor and Nazareth, and the valley south of En-gannim or Jenin, with the entrance from Jordan Valley at Jezreel, and that from Sharon at Megiddo, the modern Lejjun. The plain is extremely fertile, but boggy and almost impassable in winter. It has never had towns upon it, and only one or two villages, a sufficient testimony to its defencelessness.
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X. GALILEE AND THE LAKE.
1. THE PROVINCE.—Originally the Galilee of the Gentiles lay between Esdraelon (which it comprised on the south) and the river Kasimiyeh or Leontes on the north, the Maritime Plain on the west, and the Lake of Galilee, including the eastern coast of Itlis, on the east. Exclusive of that it measured about 50 miles north and south by 25 to 35 east and west. It fell into three belts running east and west—Esdraelon; Lower Galilee, a series of parallel ranges, none over 1850 feet, crossing from the plateau along Tiberias to Haifa and Acre; and Upper Galilee, a series of plateaus surrounded by hills from 2000 to 4000 feet. The line between the two Galilees ran from the north end of the lake and to the south of Safed, between Kefr Anân and Er-Rameh westward to Acre.
2. ITS FEATURES.—To her dependence on Lebanon, Galilee owes her much water and fertility. The country is well wooded, with stretches of good corn-land. There are many volcanic elements in the geology, and earthquakes are frequent. Great roads pass chiefly from west to east, and also from north to south. The greatest thoroughfare is the so-called Way of the Sea, connecting Damascus with the Levant. It seems to have skirted the north coast of the lake and passed through Capernaum, crossing Jordan by the present Bridge of the Daughters of Jacob. These are the roads which appear so frequently in the parables of our Lord. Nazareth lay within sight of several, in a basin on the hills, just above Esdraelon.
3. THE LAKE.—The life of Galilee was concentrated on her lake. It lies in a great ditch 680 feet below the level of the sea. The atmosphere is hot and heavy, but broken by sudden and violent storms. The lake is in shape a pear or a harp, nearly 13 miles long, by 8 broad at the bulging end. Trees are hardly to be seen either on the narrow coast-lines east or west, or on the sloping moors to the north, or on the plain of Gennesaret to the north and west. But in our Lord's time there must have been great woods, and Gennesaret, now mostly a marsh, must have been luxuriously fertile.
There were at least nine considerable towns round the lake. On the west lay Tiberias, the new capital of Herod Antipas, with Magdala on Gennesaret, and Taricheæ where the fish were cured, probably to the south. On the west shore, after it trends east to the mouth of the Jordan, are the sites of Capernaum, Chorazin a little inland, and Bethsaida on the east of Jordan. There was only one Bethsaida, called "of Galilee," though it lay east of Jordan, for the name of the province extended right round the lake.
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