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WEE-VWWM“? ~~-- -‘-- . or Sllllllill on new INTERNATIONAL LE SSON, MAY 28. Lesson IX.â€"â€"Micah’s universal peace, Mic. 4. 1-8. Golden Text, Mic. 4. 3. Verses 1-4. The future of Zion as the religious metropolis of the World. The passage has an almost exact parallel in Isa. 2. 2â€"4. The best opinion seems to be that both ,Isaiah and Micah must have taken the prophecy from some older source, the provision of a time of universal peace being a popular idea, of which this passage is the finest expression. 1. The latter days A vague ex- pression, denoting a rather remote future. The mountain of Jehovah’s house â€"â€"The mount upon which is situat- ed the Temple of the Lord. It is to be the seat of dominion of the Messiah. Its exaltation above other mountains and hills means its spirâ€" itual and temporal supremacy. Poli~ tically and religiously, Zion is to tower above all the governments of the earth. No topographical eleva- tion is meant. 2. Many nations shall goâ€"The heathen nations are to flow (1) to- ward Zion in a Steady stream, in order to be taught by the prophets like Micah and Isaiah, the ways and paths of the God of Jacob; that is, the revealed laws and maxims of the kingdom of God, whose religion has now come to be recognized as uni- versal. All this is to come about, not by force of arms, but as a great moral conquest. The nations there- fore retain their political independ- ence. 3. He will judgeâ€"Jehovah is to be the final arbiter, to whom are sub- mitted all disputes for his just and impartial judgment, and his decis- ions are to be accepted as irrever- sible. The result will be the ces- sation of war among the nations, a blessing of the Messianic era which picture of is often dwelt upon by the prophets. ' The transformation of swords and spears into agricultural implements shows how real this period of uni- versal peace is to be. The people of the country, whose _ spokesman Micah is for the time being, are to pursue their accustomed labors un- molested. When the true religion fills their hearts, they Will not think it necessary to preserve peace by the construction of costly battle- ships and menacing fortifications. The arsenals and navy-yards will be silent. and the mechanics will have gone back to the cultivation of the soil. 4. Every man under his vineâ€"-A picture of rural felicity. Wars and rumors of wars do not break in to disturb this satisfying quiet. 5. All the peoples walk â€"â€" That is, at the present time, in contrast to the future just depicted. But, how- ever other men walk, let the people of Jehovah continue in his name for ever and over. '6-8. The day of peace is far off. Meanwhile there await afflictions for Zion, and exile. 'lut God will restore them, and out of the righte- ous remnant make a mighty king- dom. 6. I will author that which is driv- en ewayâ€"By the Assyrians the peo- ple of God are to be taken away in captivity. And yet, lame and af- flicted as they shall be, there will be a remnant (7) of so much worth because of their fidelity to Jehovah, that he will be able out of them to make a strong nation. The tree will be cut» down, but life will still ex- ist in the vital stump. 8. Tower of the flockâ€"Jerusalem. The glory of these prophets is, that their faith is superior to earthly afflictions of the most stupendous kind. Purified of her sins by mani- fold trials, Zion is :0 arise greater than ever, with all the former glory of the days of David and Solomon. This is the single limitation of the [gophecy by which it comes short of the most modern hope of univer- sal peace. We cherish no thought of Zion as the center of Jehovah’s sovereignty. except as “Zion” is'to us a metaphorical way of speaking of that very sovereignty of Jehovah; and this spiritual sense the Old Tes- tament prophet did not, of course, entertain. He thought of Zion as the literal center of the reign of Jehovah in the new era. tools striations HOW COUNTRIES MARK AND GUARD THEIR FRONTIERS. Canada and United States hund- ary is Delimited By Posts and Stone Cairns. " Happy is the country which pos- sesses natural boundaries. We are better off in this respect than alâ€" most any other nation, for the whole of our 2,755 miles of frontier is guarded by the sea. Next comes Italy with 2,472 miles of coast-line, and the Alps like a wall across her northern boundary, says Pearson’s Weekly. ' Contrast theSe cases with those of Germany and Austria. The lat- for country has a frontier line of about 3,800 miles, of which 2,996 is land, every mile of which must be guarded against the encroachments of her neighbors. Germany is al- most equally badly off, for her sea coast line is only 744 miles, while y2,255 miles of land frontier border [upon Russia, Austria, Switzerland, France, Holland, and Belgium, and far the larger portion of this great distance is not protect-ed by mounâ€" tains, rivers, or any other natural boundary. The Germans guard their frontâ€" iers with unceasing vigilance, es- pecially that which faces France along the southern border of Elass~ Lothringen, and France is by no means behind in her precautions. As soon as the war of 1871 was over France began to build a huge chain of fortresses all the way from Belfort to Longwy. The steep Vosges mountains guard a portion of this frontier, but the rest is flat country, and the boundary line runs through FORESTS AND FIELDS. Where the line runs through woods a broad belt has been clearâ€" led, and is kept free of all underâ€" Igrowth. Along the centre, at dis- tances of about a quarter of a mile, are erected stone posts very like our ordinary mile stones. Whenâ€" ever a road runs along the frontier it is marked by tall wooden posts painted on one side with the French I[and upon the other with the Ger- man colors. Custom hous-es stand luot only on the railways, but upon all the main lines of traflic, and are well guarded by police and troops. Rows are of constant occurrence. Quite recently an Alsatian, who as a boy of eighteen had fought in the war of 1870, and had subse- quently settled on the French side of the border, was drinking at an inn on the German side when a German frontier guard saw him and chased him. The Alsatian, although nearly sixty years old, won the race, but when he got about a hundred yards across the line the German fired at .him twice. Out swarmed the French guards, and if an officer had not luckily been at hand a .fight would have been the result. I A FREVCHMAN SHOT. Some years ago a tragic incident occurred not far from Belfort. A French officer hunting a deer, in the excitement of the chase. gal- lop-ed across the frontier. A Gerâ€" man challenged, and, as the Frenchman did not stop, fired, and killed him on the spot. The French Government sent a pretty sharp note to Berlin, and we believe that compensation was paid by the Ger- man Government. The Russo-Gcrman frontier is marked in a siiniliar fashion, and here troubles are. of frequent oc- currence, for the hungry, illâ€"paid [Cossacks are constantly raiding over the border in search of poul- try and pigs. r »- .-~ .' The oldest frontier line in Europe is that which marks the boundary between Hanover and Holland, where it crosses the line. A row of pontoons lies all across the riv- er, chained bow and stern, the eastern halves of the boats are painted in German colors, and the western in Dutch. The result is, to say the least of it, striking. While the boundary between the United States and Canada follows for many hundreds of miles the liver St. Lawrence and the great lakes, there is a vast distance of prairie land beyond with no naturâ€" al demarcation. This is artificial- ly delimited by PILLARS or IRON AND ween placed a mile apart. These are supplied alternately by the Canadâ€" ian and United States Govern- ments, and run from Lake of the Woods to the Red River Valley. Beyond, mounds of earth and cairns of stone are used as marks. The pillars are hollow castings, Its Uses Hm, eight feet high, eight inch-es square at the base, four at the top. In- side are well seasoned cedar posts. Each pillar is inscribed in raised letters on the north, “Convention. of London,” on the south, “Oct. 20th, 1818.” The stone‘cairns are seven feet high, eight feet at the base, and shaped like a pyramid. Earth is used where stone is not available. The most famous of all bound- ary marks in song and story is the “Pillar of Farewell,” which marks the line. between Russia and Siber- ia. It stands between Ekaterin- burg in Russia and Tiumen in Sib- eria, and is on the main road along which tens of thousands of exiles [have passed. It is an obelisk of brick about sixteen feet in height. On the west side it bears in Rusâ€"] sian characters the word “Eu- rope,” and on the other “Asia.” Y $14 liltltffllllll fltHll‘l Not by “Treating the Symptoms but by Toning up the Stomach ' to do Nature’s Work Indigestion should not be neglect- ed, for by depriving the body of its proper nourishment it grows stead- ily worse. Neither stimulating medicines, which ruin the already weak stomach by making it Work be- yond its strength, should be used, excite a flow of the digestive fluids, and by disuse cause the stomach to grow weaker. Nowhere is the tonic treatment with Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills more clearly useful. Its prin- ciple is to enable the stomach to do its own work by building up the blood and giving tone to the nerves. When these are once more Ieconomical form of construction has .and its consequent rise in price, has .to assume the general aspect of a average farmer unless he has an i |be put are practically without limit, tllliill Slilll tilllfll‘ 3“. - ' “\“u nun Standard Article For Making Soap. For SoftcningWatcr. For Removing Paint. Ilcady for use in any' quantity. Useful for five hundred purposes; A can equals 20 lbs. SAL SODA. Use only the Best. Q'tvux “.1: For Disinfecting Sinks. Closets. Drains.ctc. CONCRETE ON THE FARM. by a medical health officer, with the ‘ result that it is traced back to its gc Been Largely Exten- cause and this cause removed. dell by a Series of Experiments The farmer must be his own me- dical health officer. He must look to the causes to be found on his own ‘farm. A great deal is now being done along these lines, and in many places,[particularly in the West, it has been found that a number of the causes of sickness can be avoid- ed by the use of concrete. A common sense View of the situ- ation shows that this simplyâ€"hand- [led material is peculiarly well adap- ted to measures of sanitation and in preventing germs from spreading. Possibly the place: visited more of- ten than any other by the farmer is his well. If it is so situated that unhealthful ground streams can extra large sum of money to spend leak mto the. (flilllKulg ‘Ya‘ter’ there on outlay. Wire fencing partially is every FQSSIblhty 0t tins unhealfh‘ solved the problem, but real" relief fulness being commumcated to the did not come until concrete was farmer and his family by the most proven by actual tests to be 'notidirBet route‘ Concyete“ gafvg‘fni: only practicable, but to possesslmu.(3h to remedy this‘ . . many advantages over wood as albull.t 0f concreteâ€"u” .SQhfl cyhnder building material. I set into the groundâ€"1t is 1mp0551ble ' lfor such leakage to occur. In the The uses to which concrete can; . . lsame way a concrete dairy prOVides lbut slim accommodation for disease, It is only a few years since con~ crete was generally accepted as a reliable building material, yet the difference which this convenient and made in the outlook of the farmer in these few years, has done much to revolutionize things on the farm. The growing scarcity of lumber gradually cause-d that commodity luxury. So much lumber is used on the farm for buildings and fences that its extremely high price has made it almost prohibitive to the more particularly on the farm. Alâ€" Mfg/f.-â€" : "- .W”"Azx 1:: Why < -‘ . , i. M. [Ills/ill)! It7'1//}'il. .Loloo/iir/ av I ‘ ; AHOGS EATING FROM A CONCRE TE FEEDING FIOOR. :ready the list includes forms of con- germs. These two simple brccau- restored to their nOI'mal health in- lstruction ranging from the large : tions are a long stride in the direc- -digestion disappears and the cure is permanent. In proof of these statements we give the experience impâ€"roofed barn down to a nest-eggetion of good health, as water and that deceives the wisest old lawyer ‘in the brood. milk, the latter even more than the These uses have been Of Mrs. Paid Gannon, Star City, lextended largely, by a series of ex- germ-distributing agencies and both Sask., who says: “For more than a ltensive experiments, year I suffered with all the terrible pains of indigestion, and my life was one of the greatest misery. did not seem to make any difference whether I ate or not, the pains were always there, often accompanied by a severe bloating and a belching of wind. I did not even get relief at night, and sometimes hardly got a bit of sleep in my misery: I tried many remedies said to cure indi- nor predigested foods, which do not gestion, but they did me not one particle of good and I fully expect- ed that I would always be afflicted in this way. At this time my bro~ tlier came home on a visit and he urged me to try Di . Williams’ Pink Pills and got six boxes for me. By the time I had taken four boxes I began to improve and could eat with some relish. I was greatly cheered, and continued taking the Pills until all traces of the trouble had disappeared and I could once more eat all kinds of food without the smallest inconvenience. We have since used Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills in our family for other trou- bles. I am so firmly convinced of their virtue as a family medicine that I have no hesitation in recom- mending them to all weak, ailing people.” Sold by all medicine dealers or by'mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, from The Dr. Wil liams’ Medicine 00., Brockville, Ont. .. d4 OLD‘ CENSUS TAKING. There is a record of a census in China as far back as the year 2042 B.C., and of one in Japan in the last century before Christ. Under the constitution of Solon, the citiâ€" zens of Athens were divided and re- gcstered in four classes, according to the amount of their taxable proâ€" pcrty. It concrete. former, are the commonest of the; 0 l are used frequently by the farmer and his family. , Not only has the modern fariner' studied out a method of guardingl against sickness from sources which| might, in the case of water and: milk, be termed, internal. He has gone a step further and has decidâ€" perties. ed that the barnyard must also be. If sickness occurs in a city to any, subjected to some changes if doc-'1 great extent, a searching investi-_tors’ pills and doctors’ bills are to gation usually follows, conducted be dodged. Already much has been accomâ€" plished on the farm by the use of Perhaps the greatest ar- gumth in its favor, and one which has developed only since concrete has actually been put into general use, i is its health-promoting pro- roes are medical doctors, 3,000 are, lawyers, and 80,000 tradesmen. ‘ .s’t Remarkable Change in Their (7011- dilien Since They Were Freed. '1‘ Forty-eight years ago President ‘ Lincoln signed a document which V liberated 3,500,000 black slaves in the Southern States. These neâ€" -'“’ groes and their ancestors had been kept in slavery during 244 years. At the liberation the negroes were without money, without an inch of land, without knowledge of any kind, and without any moral or religious education. A remarkable change has taken place during these forty-eight years. Without the assistance of, The only medicine a mother should give her little ones is one she can give and feel absolutely safe that not the slightest harm will resultâ€"a medicine that is guar~ anteed strictly free from injurious drugs. Such a medicine is Baby’s Own Tablets-every box is sold under such a guarantee and the, mother may feel perfectly safe in; giving them to even the new-born} babe. Concerning them Mrs. Al-l bert E. Wood, London, Ont., says :{ “I have found Baby’s Own Tablets: all that is claimed for them. Myi baby has had them from birth and will take them eagerly. I am sure, there is no better medicine for; ittlep ones.” The Tablets are sol by, medicine dealers or b mail at 25” cents a box from The r. Williams" Medicine 00., Brockville, Ont. ____.>X<_____. immigration, they have increased considerably. The knowledge of reading and writing has increased to 55 per cent. Three hundred uni- versities, colleges, _ academies, high schools, and seminaries are posv .ses'sed by the negroes. They pos- sess, and manage, forty-eight banks of a total capital of $2,500,- 000. They control 700,000 farms, and possess 230,000. They pay taxes on property valued at $975,000,000. More than 236,000 negroes are teachers in public and private schools, and 800,000 children in the . schools are black. The negroes have Assistantâ€"“Mrs. Jones complains; erected 25,000 churches, and there that her photographs don’t look are 35.000 negro priests and bish-llike hen” Photographerâ€"“Com- 095- TWO hun'dl‘ed thousand neg-[plainsl She ought to be grateful l" I