"He is ree Give him ab- solution." The cure bent, to look unto their indges.. -- -- One peace tiger sad soe. aed a arene in bringing. the people together, but as soon as the denger wae ever,' . "Twill WAR AS IT Is d the cover morning we heard loud voices talking on the other side of the gar- yeen, and heads in spiked helme he: fled on all sides with fright- = cries. a street yg ty a women, le ae © F : noise of une firing, made tha terri- t to the ber of minor judges, who are ae in the following story of a simple a down as nearly or not named country agra set German officer Seti 6a- her luted the priest and retired We went °c our way. At: ni . . They pushed | we ern Nancy." Our mi of ie an the ora of ialing bua 3 a ow' baanont, : gud into it the glowing ember i ir pi ed ee "he inbabitente sought refuge in| imo, # Todi ae thee toot. Other © their cellars, nial or ver ites diere rlled dancing around the the far! THE SUNDAY SC SCHOIL STUDY a on vithon we fk that our hone ed and le out. They led ee o they d , almost ved. It is a} the firing, the the: : & Gere not g irepet; it is fiction, so colossal that| headlong gallop of animals yates per nae, ioe ik oe aed pi pon rosragee Fae' ooo tore, INTERNATIONAL LESSON, ae ae aoe leade: iia io we can hardly believe it true. Suf-| from their stables. ey dared not igi choking. auake in "G@EMor lope out, jammed aguinsd each JANUARY 3. judges, that 5 ameal geri hen ee { fering in mass does not touch our/go out. Above all they kp dm an throats, the pont of falling plasball pother, packed with the backs of ju --I will neither leave you oe i 8, but the story of one poor|fear of being discovered, and | and stones toppling down. =others.on our chests. We were for- Pe nor forsake you." A steady stream ber ee ee . "zal "ie to ee a ane ag ooeih close A we were still living. Tlie Pbidden to move or sleep. And} Lesson I. God's Patience with Is- Socemany from phy ny to speak, mo wall of the. henhouse had jue ust: givem}even.to eat, Tor they left us without way and by the : hadj).@ morsel of food. _ We were dying of agra ae poultry tumbled into: hours, days, did this of my mind. pe slight us were shut in a cellar, -women, © rael. Judges 2. 7-19. Golden Text, Hos. 14. Verse 7. And the people served story of one poor woman who has known war affects us terribly. Its gows indisputably that God oni has bee people, that he simplicity and directness is superb. n with his . unger. + hag never raised up a man for any An officer came along. He had a Translated by Robert W. Sneddon.] War was hardly declared before peared in No- German woldiers ap' meny. working in the fields. It was har- vest time, and the men with bent backs were cutting the corn; the women were binding the sheaves. Harsh voices behind them start: 'Have you seen the French?' They turned round. soldiers, with revolvers hands. They spoke angrily looked about them with lances. They had el "Have you seen the French ?" Nobody had- seen the ' . troops. So the Bavarians retired, crouching and gliding through the ome and disappeared into the lit tle w Next day and for days after pa- trols of Uhlans scoured the country, pilaging and robbing as pleased. The four One day all the village was m made There stood a dozen great red-faced Bavarian in t= z watchful come out of a ittle wood and crept across the ids. French they gendarmes of Nomeny wanted to stop the exploits dren, old folk. fon 'night when it was dark we made up our minds to go out. Without making a noise we raised the trap-door which opened on street. Nobody there. Quick, quick, let us get out of here. bal were seen, and voices cried to : "Heraus! Heraus Get out!" Gewman soldiers with revolvers in pel hands came running from all si Gas out!" We came out. Wo- men and children ge We fell on our knees and with joined hands pleaded "Pity! "Pity We're not soldiers." Stall the voices ordered, "Heraus !" hardly out revolver aot, | D "atves him ye old man of seventy, then before the eyes of his mother, a lad of fifteen. His mother cried, "He's not a French soldier--he's not a soldier," but he was _ killed all the same. Everyone was stricken with fear. Some tried to escape, orn leap- ing ditches, climbing walls, but the soldiers fired on them and they fell. of those highway robbers, They| That made the soldiers very angry. risked r rks and ventured| They dalled out words which we threats. That made the Bavarians laugh. It was too amuse themselves they made managed to get away The Germans were masters of the country. Nomeny and all about it was theirs. They were exacting masters, _Thépeasants were indig- nant, seeing their homes pillaged, their fields laid waste, their stores stolen, They could not understand why our soldiers did not come. One day the French did come. The inhabitants were beside them- Their eyes were The selves hag joy. filled with tears of ; threw flowers'u. them and: them with cakes and' deities, The women held out their aprons full of J chocolate, fruit, tobacco and cigar- funny, so to the gendarmes prisoners. One of them did not caceeniyhd, and they push- ed us back against a wall. We thought our last minute had come. Some officers passed. We threw ourselves on our knees and showed them our little children. They turned away their h scattered us with shoves of the feet and reviled us. One of them had pity on us. "Let them go," he said to the sol- diers, and to us, "If you don't want to be shot, get out of here where you wish." We h uld carry us e shut ied away as. fast as our € ran to le 'ne ts daughter eid ticr tf Gren boy of fourteen, a aa 'of welve, and a seven-months' old baby. ettes. grocer threw his store {little later an old man of seventy- open to them our came to join us, . The sokhere were implored : "Pity "Have you room for me?' he us, We are 50 unhappy. Protect us. | asked. Don't abandon us. "Yes, come in, the more the And they answered: "Don't be] merrier. afraid, we'll defend you. We'll) I don't know how many days we stay with you."' Alas! they had to leave us. On the 12th of August for the first tame artillery rumbled near No- meny and first one shell, then an- other, fell on the school-house, into a the Red Cross flag. transformed protected by The Germans were bombarding the town. It was their intimation that they were coming to visit the town They pillage. desire which they pieces came to light, an inborn an- cestral mania. They demanded twenty-five watches, A search was made, There weren't twenty-five watches in Nomeny. hospital and came soon and began to Immediately this strange have for time- After trouble were shut up under ground. We heard the German soldiers coming and going, in the house above our heads. We knew their heavy steps, and without seeing we guessed what they were doing. They were taking out and carrying away my furni- ture, pillaging and clearing out my house. And I saw through a crack that they 'had all my things outside, all my poor little things, my mat- tresses, my pillows, my dresses and those of my daughter, all my linen, even the baby's little shirts and the baby carriage. I saw other soldiers busy pillag- ing in other houses, top to bottom. in the kitchen, the bedrooms .. . smoking their pipes, drinking, sing- four were found at the watch-|ing, shouting. They were filling maker's, poor steel] watches, old| their pockets to bursting with mon- and weary, They were given to|ey and jewelery that they found. these dangerous maniacs who were| They were carrying away every- eatisfied and took them. *Then- in] thing--furniture, sheets, bedding, the wrecked houses they took the bandages prepared for the wounded and all the medicines. They drag- ged ten French soldiers out of their beds and took them away in' spite of their cries of suffe 'ring. "We'll come back for the others to-morrow," they announce But next day the other wounded were gone. Some good people had pat sem in a safe place during the ni Three days later, the cannons be- gan to boom in. This time it was our own big guns talking. The inhabitants of Nomeny, hiding in their cellars, listened with mingled hope and fear. Towa the close of the day om soldiers re-entered Nomeny. They were too few, and some hours later they retreated, to mg the next day and again -re- And the Germans returned Bud they too retired. This hide and teek lasted five days, Pp Our cavalry hunted the Uh- , and patrols 'meeting exchang- aie last on the ferting of the 20th Fuck us. "rman shrapnel cokinad in e and fell upon Nomeny. It an avalanche. y knocked wn walls, tore off -roofs, split battered houses, and set he to the ruins. The inhabitants, terrified by this i of iron and fire, did not w where to turn or what to do. Is} days and days. linen, even women's undere lothes. They were taking off the window shutters, putting everything in a cart. We watched them with tears in our eyes, rage in our hearts. But what was it in comparison with the misery we were enduring in this black hole, in this profound night, where we could not see each other, moving like blind people with cur arms outstretched so as not to bump into each other or bruise our- selves on the walls. We spoke in a whisper, mouth to ear, as if each word that we. had to say was a se- cret for our ears alone. We had only water to drink, plums to eat. It was enough for us, but for the children! My daughter had no more milk, we had only wa- ter to nourish her little one, and it made him si . Our little girl kept saying, 'I'm so hungry, mamma, £o hungry," and crying. To console her I said, "Don't ery, reap ue ees will come and bring canay said that, but I wished in my heart that those gentlemen would never eome. We lived this way for One afternoon I heard a strang sound in the street. It was like volleys of firing, like the crackle of quiekfires. "My God,' I thought, the4 cct| French 2 oe come aie are fighting "then T 'fell down and began to Monsieur ery aa = ene was|? softly Sed wari I saw 'te ] the shoes ith mu a ere ' 'piece of luck, I thought. We will -have eggs. But next day at, daybreak the eoek re crowed. ; "This beast is g to give usaf away," ead my ateed, and he cut its throat. chickens, clucking mournfully. too," said my husband, "she will betray us." 9 Then a hen began to call heft 'little round piece of glass fixed in one eye. He was tall, and raised "himself on tiptoe to look taller. = looked at us a long time as if he 'were aflcanann' his soldiers, and said "Have the "tthe children all they want? And those ladies? Do'they need anything ?" Hi ice was soft as butter but And he cut her throat. He se them they made beating their wi: p screeching. And then my daug! ter's little one d for days and was almost a skel began to ery, to ery of sal" would not stop crying. To cal wa took a mouthful of water, reat a 5 ier minutes in the mouth to rm it, and mouth to mouth made the Hi little one take it. But when it| ut it out again the next minutes it egan to cry again "This little one is going to kill us," said my husba: One day at last--ah, how afraid was that day:! we heard great heavy steps stop in front of our air hole. We waited with baited breaths, and then, my God, the trapdoor slow ly, slowly opened. A shaft of light showed in our darkness. "Heraus! Heraus!" cried a voice. the cellar . we held our breaths. But our teeth| chattered and we trembled in every limb. The children were enfolded in my skirt, and I pressed. the baby nst my breast as tight as- rT af nd a day. We were huddled in a corner of]. We dare not move, and | fel his heart was full of spleen, for : t _ back was turned we heard at. L They' Te all soldiers." rench need nothing. ¢ We stayed like this for a night Now and again one of 8, worn out with fatigue and sleep. let fall their head on the shoulder or back of a neighbor. A blow from a rifle butt roused them. I prevent- ed--the horrible thing--my 'ones from sleeping. We expected anions, a M. Muller, who had come to spend his vacation at No- meny where the war had surprised him, saved us from death. He spoke German perfectly. He talked with tthe officers and succeeded in ap- peasing them y-"You won't do that," he sad to them. 'Think what a horrible page you oie add to the history of wa butts and kicks. We went crown, Nomeny on fire. 'Don't look to right or left," we bad been told, 'Don't tum round, again could to keep it quiet. soldier . came said something I did not Tae Lor stand, came forward a little in the dark with his arms out, then he made a half turn, went back to the open door, spoke who had remained above, went up} and away. Only then did we dare to breathe. the soldiers were far enough away we determined to leave our cellar. But who would go out first. We ar- gued for half an hour, myself, my daughter and my husband. In turn each of us went to the stairs, but sopyon on the first step and came back. We were afraid. Finally the the old man ventured, mounted the stairs, looked about him and dis- appeared, We heard his footsteps going away in the distance. No cries, no firing. He was safe. Our courage returned to us. There was no more reason for de-|' lay. I went out first carrying the baby in my arms, my daughter fol- lowed with the other two children, then my husband. We took a few steps in the street. My heart was beating with joy. We ran at full speed to a big orchard at the end of the town. Two or three hundred in- 'habitants of Nomeny were lying there flat under the treeé. We lay down beside them. We said noth- ing. We hardly dared to breathe: From time to time bullets whistled over our heads. Some she!ls burst beside us. We never stirred, with our noses to the ground. We pass- ed two days and two nights like this. i: Once at nightfall I felt someone | rub up against me softly. A small hand caressed my face and a weak voice murmured: 'I'm hungry, I'm hungry, and my head is so sore." I turned my he ad, and recognized one of my little nieces. "Hush! I said to her, "etay there and don't make any noise: I will give you ny to eat, all in moot time to his comrade | aia if you don't want to be open. near. the fountain. His chest was rushed, he was stripped of 'his clothes, 'half naked. sores: thirty of them lay along a . At the corner of a street, six little pigs were cucking a dead Then after a little when we thought] Sow. When we came to the end of the steps. We saw again the same hor- rors. At last we came to a house called the Mission Cross. Fale cried a non-commission- ed officer. Then the party stopped. M. Mul- er got up on a milestone and said: "T have secured your liberty. They are going to put us on the way to ancy. We are going to set out, but nobody must turn back or we shall be shot. Come along now." We went on our way. M. Muller the way, carrying a white hand- kerchief like a flag tied to a stick. Behind him came the cure of No- meny and another cure, The sol- diers escorted us to a kilometer from the town. When they left us they wanted to take the children from us and take them with them, ut the priests intervened, and af- el long discussion the soldiers re- £. pe A little further cn we saw French wounded in a field. ing us pass, some of them raised themselves up and signed to us, to call us and ask aid, but we dared not go to them At. Manoncourt, which was full of rGerman ¢ soldiers, we were stepped. An officer came up and made the cure step out of the ranks. He pointed to a stretcher on the ground m front of a house. You could guess the chape of a body under the @over which was over it: from head to foct. The face was hidden. All that was visible was the cover stir- 'ting a little, rising' and falling. eee French officer," said the Ger- many Hear- be shot every minute. One of our to ee oorway--th 5 aT luw'a Besa eclfior lying E town, we were made to retrace our ian Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and |; all the days of the elders that out- lived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of Jehovah, that he had wrought for Israel.--Joshua was so strong a servant of Jehovah that he ri only kept the people of Israe) rue to Jehovah during hi. own life, were associated with him that they too kept Israel true to their God. This mark of Joshua's leadership stands out very strong. It is also to be noted that Joshua and his elders had seen the great works of Jehovah that he.had wrought for Israel. Because they served Jeho- vah, they were able to see what Jehovah was doing ; their eyes were open. People in rebellion against or indifferent to God have their ayes closed and are not able 9. Tn the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill-coun- try of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.--Timnath-heres is the Timnath-serah of Josh. 19. 50; 24. 30. This city of Joshua has been placed at Kefr Haris, nine miles south-easterly from Shechem. 10. Another generation that --_ not Jehovah.--The succeeding eration after Joshua and his elders were less and less true to the reli- gion of Jehovah, and soit was in- evitable that a time would come when the Israelites had entirely re- ceded from the religion of their fathers. 11. Served the Baalim.--Baalim is the plural of Baal and means more than one god or lord. There are many evidences that, Israel was 'of more the Old Testament never permitted the people of those days, nor do they permit 'us, to forget that God was kind to the early Israelites in Egypt. 13. Baal means owner or lord, and is used of both gods and men. Baal, however, was more particularly the god of the Tyrians. Ashtaroth is fhe whan! of Ashtoreth, who was the Erinogel goddess of the Zidon- 4, And the anger of Jehovah was kindled . . . and he delivered them . and he seid them... so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies--This is a picturesque description of the writer. Of course, when the Israel- ites became weakened through re- ligious corruption, they were not able any longer to withstand their enemies, and as Jehovah would no longer have any protection or in- fluence over them, as they were exercising their cwn free will against him, it was natural that they should be. beaten by their enemies and so weakened that they could no longer fight for theif honor and safety. We can well un- derstand that the children cf Israel in their time of misery and conse- quent repentance realized that the anger of Jehovah was upon them. 16. And Jehovah raised up judges who saved them.--A remnant of the righteous is always left among the people. History shows no peri -when there was total and absolute apostasy. And out cf this remnant always has appeared a_ leader, strong in religious conviction and insight, and capable. to rally the backslidden people to the standard of the true Ged. This was the great werk of the judges ey saved their people at critical times. They saved them because they could bring them back to a belief in God, to a worship of God and, hence, strengthen their arms to strike the ser ©o influenced the elders who|j whol piaine and: lowlsnds, and opposes particular position and left him to own, resources. The rs in the world's history have been great ecause een with them. When they turned from or when other influences dominated them, their greatness began to wane, and finally disap 19. B when the that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their. fathers.--The perversity of the Israelites is ettongly shown here. Every retrogration or backsliding was worse and further than the preceding one. +. WEATHER AND STRATEGY. Cold Not Altogether Unfavorable to Fighting. That the coming of winter will have its effects on the strategy of the contending armies of Europe is but natural, but contrary to the general opinion, the results of cold weather will not be altogether un- favorable. This is pointed out by a writer in the Scientific American, who says: From the strategical point of view, wintry weather is not an un- mixed evil. In western Europe the worst weather for military opera- tions'prevails in autumn, when the rainfall is at its maximum. Cold weather sets the roads, makes the sodden fields practicable for march- ing, and the bridges over small bodies of water. Only in the moun- tain passes are these advantages offset 'by the obstruction due to snow. In the interior of the Con- tinent--e.g., on the East Prussian and Austrian frontiers--heavy snowfall ,occurs even over the an obstacle to military movements. Here also, the intense cold freezes over the larger rivers; thus the Vis- tula is normally frozen at Warsaw from late December to early March. n the other hand, when not frozen over but filled with . floating ice, these streams become impassable even by boat, . Again, it is difficult or impossible to dig trenches in frozen-soil, such as may be found in the dead of win- ter in the interior of the Continent. Under such conditions armies have, however, sometimes used blocks of ice to good advantage in byilding breastworks. A Future General. 'Good-bye, Mick. God guard you! And if you beat the Germans half.as well as you beat me you'l! becoming home a general," were the farewell words cf an Irish Fusi- lier's wife, which a correspondent says he overheard. is. Plenty of Time. Oakley--Wasn"t the tailor willing to give you time! Owens--Give me time? He said I'd get six months if he covld have his way. Yet the deaf and dumb can hear and speak the language of love. Irritable Schoolmaster -- Now, then, stupid, what's the next word! What comes after cheese? Dul! Boy--A mouse, ¢ir. . "Which one of the Ten Command ments did Adam break when he ate « the apple!" asked the Sunday School teacher. "He didn't break any. replied one little fellow. "Cause there wasn't any then.' Teacher--Tell me what lesson can be learned from the parable otf the prodigal son? Small pupil "And yet they hearkened not fortable. 4) pra; i. the heat became insupport- o ens 'German Prisoners at Bergon, in Nortiees. Holland, Enjoying their Marching Exercises, (thinking of the jhusks)--It teaches pecple to stay where they are com-