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[THE ESCAPE FROM SELF ~ 6. Alsoâ€"BHere follows a list of six practices expressly prohibited. by the Deuteronomic code: (1) Made his children pass through the fireâ€" Ahaz was the first Judacan king to perform this rite, which conâ€" sisted in actually sacr‘fcinge and 4. Built altars in the house of Jehovahâ€"That is, altars to Baal and other foreign deities. The two courts (53) were the great court, ®r inner one, immeqiately surroundâ€" ing the temple, and the cour! inâ€" closing the palace. Worshipped all the hosts of heaâ€" ven â€"This deilying of the stars, sun, and moon was taken over from Assyria, and was something entirely new in Judah.. HFrom the frequent mention of this form of worship in the preâ€"exilic literature CMer 8. 2. 10. 18: ZHeph 1. 5. it is evident that it became immediateâ€" ly prevalent. The flat roofs of the houses afforded ample opportuniâ€" ties. 3. Built again the high placesâ€" Hezekiah had destroyed the counâ€" try sanctuaries as seats of corrupâ€" fion (2 Kings Is. 4, 29). The acâ€" count in Kings mentions altars to a single Baal, and "an Asherah‘" (evidently referring to some one Baal, like the Tyrian Baal of Ahab, and the erection of some single symbolic past representing the godâ€" dess Astarte. The Chronicler, on the other hand, has in mind disâ€" tinct Cangaanitish Baals at each place, with corresponding poles. AlH this was a restorationgof the practices of the house of Alhab (2 Kings 10. 1Is, and 1 Kings 16. 31). 8. Did that whichâ€"was evil â€" A common formula for sins connectâ€" ed with worship. In the verses which follow a catalogue of these sins is given, their chief condemâ€" nation being that they were a reâ€" petition of the abominations of the Canaanites. â€" This was especially true of the Baal and Asherah cults. Lesson IIT.â€"Manassceh‘s wickedness and penitence, 2 Chron. 33. 1â€"20 Golden Text, Isa. 1. 16, 17. Verse 1. Manasschâ€"The account in 2 Kings 21, from which the first ten verses of this chapter seem to have been taken, adds the name of Hephzibah, the king‘s mother. In work I respect myself and am at peace with the infinite without me and within me. When at work T am Dr. Jeykill. I would not dare to start out merely to live a life of ease; I would be afraid of Mr. Hyde. Work is simply the salvaâ€" tion of the soul, not possibly in ‘an evangelicalâ€"sense but at least in common sense, because it saves mo not from theological horrors I gnxow nothing about but from myâ€" se‘f, which is a horror that "comes home to men‘s business and bosâ€" omis."? & f TRE SUXDAY SEH00L LE 801 First and foremost is work. I work not because I like it, for I would rather spend money than earn it and I could loaf as thorâ€" oughly as the nextman; nor beâ€" cause I need to make a living, for any one can knock off work and be a parasite; some one will alâ€" ways look out for the lazy as well as for the sick; but because I am afraid not to work. : ‘"I have therefore my own cities of refuge, whither I flee to escape my implacable enemyâ€"myself. For this eminently respectaible me, that T dress up in as good clothes as I can buy and would have all peoâ€" ple think to be sober, high minded, selfâ€"controlled, and goodâ€"yea, that 1 bave even at times set up in pulâ€" pits and on platforms and made preach and lecture to honest folk, telling them WHAT THEY OUGHT TO DO. As there were three cities of reâ€" fuge in Jewry, so I will give but three of mine, though there are| others: For a man‘s intelligence may be better gauged by his knowledge of his own shortcomings than by his consciousness of his own strength. And the one person against whoso folly and enmity one needs most to guard is one‘s self. Among the ancient Jews they had cities of refuge, The rash murderer, not with malice aforeâ€" thought, might flee to any one of these and be safe from the wrath of the avenging kin. They were a wise people who thus had previsâ€" jon and made provision for their own weakness. Three Cities of Refuge to Fly to From This Enemy INTERNATIO N JULY 16. NAL LESSQN. l-‘~ 10â€"13â€"The captivity, repen ance, ! and restoration of the king.. For | various reasons, especially because |of the silence of Kings with regard Ito this part of the story, some have | regarded this as a sort of allegory l of Israel in exile. 11. The king of Assyria.â€"Esar baddon, or Asurbanipal. The Asâ€" syrian inscriptions mention Manasâ€" seh as a vassal. _ Perhaps he had been involved in an insurgent moveâ€" ment against the king, which was aided by some of the Palestine states. . The fetters by. which he was dragged to Babylon were proâ€" bably â€" hooks _(marginy thrust through the nostrils or lips. 13. Brought him again to Jerusaâ€" lemâ€"There is nothing improbable in this. Necho, king .of Egypt, reâ€" ceived similar treatment from Asâ€" urbanipal. % 9. Manasseh seduced Judahâ€"His influence for evil was stronger than that of any previous king of Judah. Many years after Jeremiah attriâ€" buted to ‘him the disasters which he prophesied should befall the naâ€" tion. 7. The graven image of the idolâ€" Jehovah had ordained that no name should forever be localized in the temple but his own, whereas this act made Asherah (perhaps the feâ€" male deity Astarte) the presiding genius of the house of God. burning the victims. In later yeirs {of the kingdom, this mode of worâ€" [ship was not.infrequent. The { valley of the sr(;n?é(»gg Hinnom (so called perhaps from some hero who encamped there), was situated ‘south and southwest of Jerusalem, and was the seat of human sacrifiâ€" %cial worship. Later it came to be termed “‘?fll@y of Slaughter."‘ (2) He practiced auguryâ€"This was done by observing the motions of the clouds (compare Lev. 19. 26 ; Judg. 9. 37, etc). (3) Used enchantments â€"Compare the story of Joseph (Gen. 44. 5)., The play of light up: on the l!iquid in a cup was regardâ€" ed as an omen. Other omens are included. (4) Practiced sorcery â€" See articles, Sorcery and Magic, in Hasting‘s Dictionary of the Bible. This was an extensive field, and in general signified some mode of obâ€" taining help from the deity by reâ€" course to magical arts. (5) and (6)| Manasseh also fostered people posâ€" sessed of supposed nowers of diâ€" vination, and who professed to have intercourse with the spirits of the dead (compare 1 Sam. 28. 7, and Acts 16. 16). _ Ventriloquism was one of the devices resorted to by these wizards (Isa. 8. 19). These cities of refuge and these arts and ways of saving one‘s light, perhaps, upon the reason why ‘there is inserted into the Lord‘s prayer the petition : "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil !‘‘ ° 1 A ._ The third city of refuge is called wile.. Any man would be ashamed to tell.how many vile and blackâ€" guard thoughts have made at him, only to be warded off by this heart wall. _ How sometimes her presâ€" ence and the touch of her hand give peace and avert a panic, as if an army with banners had movâ€" ced to the succor of a beleaguered ciby. § ‘A good bachelor must be either a strong and noble man or a bloodless paste. _ Most of us are neither one nor the other ; we are simply human, and a human man needs a wife as a locomotive needs an engineer, to prevent a wreck, as well as to make him go. An outer wallâ€"Outside theâ€"al R DR. FRANK CRANE Fassengers on Two Cars on Falis I{ail_way Had a Close Call. A despatch from Niagara Falls, Ont., says : There was a small landâ€" slide Sunday morning about ten o‘clock, when some fifty ton_ of earth and rock fell down the bank near the Devil‘s Hole. A carload of Shriners had just passed and anâ€" other car partially filled was just approaching where the rock fell. There was no damage excepting that the track was blocked a short time. Small Army of Help Expected From Great Britain. A despatch _ from â€" Winnipeg, Man., says: The three transconâ€" tinental systems are making claâ€" borate plans to handle the crop and to supply men for the harvest. The Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific have already taken steps to bring a small army from Great Britain and the early arâ€" rivals are expected from the East in a few days‘ time. The Canaâ€" dian Pacific Railway is looking to the south for the men, and special excursions have been arranged. Already many applications are beâ€" ing received for harvest hands, and, although the demand will be very heavy, it is expected that the railroads will be able to prevent a shortace. Father of Senator Fulford‘s Grandâ€" son Receives Fortunc. A despatch from Toronto says : The Provincial Treasurer‘s De:â€" partmeat received a cheque for $118,190 in succession dues upon the estate of George MacLean, the infant son ‘of Martha MacLean, daughter of the late Senator Fulâ€" ford. The late Senator willed oneâ€" third of his estate to his daughâ€" tber‘s chmld=. This~ amounted to $2,204,000. Theâ€"mother died shortâ€" ly after the child‘s Birth, and the baby died two hours later. _ The father, George MacLean, of Brockâ€" ville, becomes heir to the child‘s fortune. JUST â€"ESCAPED LANDSLIDE. A lot of bad money appears to have been turned out in Ontario reâ€" cently. and the Dominion police are investigating in several localiâ€" ties. A man named Watt was arrested in‘ Qrillia and convicted in connecâ€" tion with the prevalence of bad money, but some of the green goods is said to be in cireulation in Lindâ€" say, and other arrests may follow. Uxbridge, too, has had some of the stage cash. 7 Look Out for Bogus Bills Throughâ€" ; out Ontario. A ‘despatch from â€"Ottawa‘ says : Inspector Parkinson, of the Dominâ€" on police, has been in Lindsay inâ€" vestigating the circulation of bogus money, and may have to go back. The boat was towed out two miles in the lake and her moveâ€" ments afterward directed altoâ€" gether by means of wireless apâ€" paratus ashore. The boat threadâ€" ed her way unerringly through numerous craft without the slightâ€" est accident. The inventor of the . crewless boat is a school teacher named Christian Wirth. Craft Invented to be Opcrated by Wircless. A despatch from Berlin says: Experiments which have been goâ€" ing on for several days with a rudâ€" derless, crewless motorboat on the Wannsee, about twelve miles north of Berlin, have proved reâ€" markably successful. Amonâ€"Of his brief reign nothing is said, except that he followed in the evil ways of his father. 20. In his own houseâ€"2 Kings 21. 26 says he was buried in the garâ€" den of Uzza; doubtless one laid out by Uzzizh in the court of the paâ€" lace. In this garden Manasseh may have constructed a house. 18. The rest of the acts of Manâ€" assehâ€"â€"For such a long reign, cerâ€" tainly few deeds are recorded, and most of them reflect little credit upon this king. His prayer, or what purports to be, isyfound in the Apocrypha, just before 1 Macâ€" cabees. The words of the seers, or prophetic counsel given him, toâ€" gether with the prayer were to be found in the original book of kings, aâ€"much older document (unpre: served) than our Kings. 19. Hozaiâ€"The sayings of the seers. These historical data must have formed a part of the now lost records from which the Chronicler and the author of the Kines drow. ready existing rampart of the citaâ€" del, on the ridge "above the preâ€" sent Virgin‘s spring, Manasseh constructed another line of fortiâ€" fication, which he carried northâ€" ward past the temple mount and round its southern slops.". The fishâ€"gate was in the northern wall of the city. It is supposed fish passed through it from Tyre. Ophel was an artificial mound south of the temple inclosure. TO HANDLE THE CROPS PROVINCE GETS $118,190. STEERED CREWLESS BOAT. BAD MONEY. Avord office, avoid front seats and popularity. Never take any. office unless by means of it you can be of more service than otherwise. But if you want is to be strong, noble, rich in _character and in wisdom, a source of strength to all about you, coutented in your own heart and a blessing to every heart that shall touch yours, in other words if you waut to be great, come with me and I will show you the way. You must choose which of these two aims in life you are going in for.. If what you wâ€"~=4 is praise, applause, money z.l to be a prominent citizen, you need not read any further. You are going into the gambling business, for these prizes come mostly by chance and cireumstances. The second commandment is likeâ€" the first. It is : Never seek prom menee of a position of power. This is very important. The desire for place is directly opposed to and absolutely inconsistent with the desire for genuine greatness. You eannot eat your cake and have it too. Most people, for instance, do not want to be the captain of the ship for that means harder work than any man‘s aboard, it means staying up three or four days and nights without rest, walking the bridse during a fog, for while there is a fog a captain is not allowed to leave his post; it means entire reâ€" sponsibility for all the lives and goods on the vessel. Nobody wants that. What we want is to be called. captain, to have people point to ws and touch their hats when they meet us. Decide, therefore, that you will be a great man, whether you are called so or not. And the beautby of this is, that any of us can be great, and on one can hinder us. Being great can be acquired by certain fixed laws, and you can gain your object just as surely as you can saw a cord of wood. The laws that make human greataess are as accurate as the laws that make four out of tiwo and two. Beâ€" ing called great, on the other hand, l is nineâ€"teaths pure luck. Most every boy. wants to be great. He may not want to ‘be gooed ,or kind, but he wants to be great. Hence I will set down a few hints here that you may find of use. Make up your mind that what you want is to be great, not to be called great. Itb is Ruskin who points out the difference beâ€" tween these two things. We find in the Woman‘s World for June the following sensible reâ€" marks by Dr. Frank Crane : ‘‘Out of the trance came a baby voice in an Indian patter, propheâ€" sying things that were not so aand would have mattered very little anyway. Ten minutes of this and the ‘mejee lady shivered out of her trance, lsoked at the puffâ€"box and sighed absently. "‘Was it all right? she asked. ‘‘Lying freely, I sasd it was. She dumped the puffâ€"box into the drawâ€" er_of a dresser. ‘©‘You see,‘ she said, ‘money is such a filthy curse. It dirtiecs evâ€" erything it touches." ‘"‘The merit of this was its ness to me." "‘The box with the two dollars was plut on a mantlepiece, where she could see it out of the tail of her eye. She spread a deck of cards and looked at them, and shivered into a trance. (A good many card readers do that. It is impressive.) ; money.‘ To avert that contamination she extended a battered pulfâ€"box and toll me to ‘(put two dollars in that, but don‘t touch my fingers with it ‘Not long ago, in a strange town and a momeat of lesure, I sufferâ€" ed myself to be drawn for two dolâ€" lars by reason of a large sign that said Madame â€" Somethingorother was a card reader and a ‘medium.‘ She was fat and fluent, in a soiled kimono, and the first thing she said to me was : W. D. Eaton, in ‘"Prophets for Profit,""‘ which leads the July numâ€" ber of Canada Monthly, tells some curious thags about the mediums, clairvoyants and _ fortungâ€"tellers who give you ‘immediate future fifty cents, life reading one dolâ€" lar,"‘ and have elastic consciences. "I used to weaser,"‘ says Mr. Eaâ€" ton, Chow it was all these proâ€" phets were so dog poor. If they eoul1l propher,; for and give lifeâ€" saving advice to others, why did they all dwell along on the squalor line ? HOW A BOY CAN BE GREAT. THE POLLUTION OF MOXNXNE My religion won‘t let me tou Avâ€" Engineer‘s Leg Cut Of to Release Him. A despatch from Montreal says: The steamer Jeanneâ€" D‘Arce, runâ€" ning between Lachine and Caughâ€" nawasa, crowded with passengers Sunday, was the scene of a panlc which took all the ability of the ofâ€" ficers to quell. Just as the vessel was in the speediest part of the current screams were hsard from the engineâ€"room, and the yessel beâ€" gan fo turn bromdtside on. The en gineer, Louis Drolet, was caught by the foot in the machinery, and was b ing terribly mangled. Mearâ€" ing the screams two men pessing in 2 moftor boat clambered _ aboard and pushed their way througs the Mistaken for Bear and Was Inâ€" stantly Killed, A despatch from Fredericton, N. B., says: Mistaken for a bear in the thick woods and shot by a friend, Myles Cropley, of Fosterâ€" ville Parish, of North Lake, York County, was kuled. Word of the tragic accident reached here Wedâ€" nesday morning and from particuâ€" lars available it appears that three men, one of whom was Mr. Cropâ€" ley, were going through the woods across a point of land at North Lake towards the main road when they became wparated and one of the three, who carried a gun, fired at what he thought was a bear and shot and killed his friend.â€" _ With pne or two exceptions, | all those in the hospitals were expectâ€" ed to recover. All the patients are covered with bruises and cuts, showing the manner in which they were thrown about their cars when the train rolled down the embankp ment. When the Federal Express from Washington to Boston, leaped from. the ~embankment â€" on _ Tuesday morning â€"a day coach next to the luggage car was caught at the botâ€" tom of the heap and smashed into matchwood, and not a person inâ€" side escaped death or serious inâ€" jury. ‘The heavier Pullmans, five of them, that crashed down after it, held together, and the sleeping passengers inside, although badly shaken for the most part suffered noâ€" worse than broken bones and bruises. Twelve ; Persons are BDoead _ and Forty Injured. A despatch from _ Bridgeport, Conn., says: Twelve battered corpâ€" ses in vhe morgue, 44 sufferers in the hospitals, and a mountain of junk at the footuof a 20â€"foot. en bankment at the western end of the city, tell the tale of â€"the worst wreck in 58 years‘ history of the New York, New Haven and Hartâ€" ford Railway. v William James, the great philoâ€" sopher, gave a good piece of advice when he said, that every one ought to do two or three things ho does not like to do, just for pracâ€" tice, every day. The surest way to drift into feebleness and medioâ€" erity, if not indceed into meannesy and vice, is.to float. along doing only the things you want to do. your will. â€" The one . elemment in you that is going to save you in your crisis, that will come in many. a time as the last saving help to. get youout of a tight place, is your will.. Therefore, do not let it beâ€" come loose and flabby. by the roaring wall of fire which illuminates the sky for maay miles. The Town of Cochrane, at the junction of the B. aad N. O. Railâ€" way and the Graad Trunk Transâ€" continental, which was nearly wipâ€" From North Bay northward for three huadred m‘Jes and covernig a wode section sast and west the flames are bus; _: tizir work of destructoi aal + «t1, and minâ€" €f3, prospeâ€"tois aud setblers are in a despeâ€"ate plight, if they manâ€" age to ecscape wite their lives, for supplies, buildings and equipment are being wiped out of existence on â€" Tuesday, licking ‘Ahery path everythiang Fanned by a fierce the flames swooped villages and mining north country ana th perty will ran into im while the death roll n as Porcupiae distric Ne _ 2 000eCcy,. HCKINMS _uUp ln tieLt ‘fLery path everything before them. Fanned by a fierce gale of wind the flames swooped down on the villages and mining camps of the north country ana the loss of proâ€" perty will run into immense figures while the death roll must be great, as Porcupiane district, where the fire is at its worsb, contains thouw sands of prospectors whose camtp3s are scattered over a wide ares of country heavily tâ€"mibsered. EZCT 00 CAOUERRUT Northern Ontamo as a result of the continued heat aad lack «of rain. The whole countrty is burnâ€" ing up with bush fires every where. The fires have been burning for ever a week and â€"reached & climax A despatch from North Terrible ~disaster â€" o. CAUSHT IN MACHINESRY. wd. Beizing a knife one of A ROARNG WALL QF Tf Towns of Cochrane, South Poreupine and Pottsville Wiped Out TERRIBLE TRATIN WRECK. sSHOT BY OLD FRIEND. a North Bay says: r has overtaken 0 as a result of eat and lack ‘of them nax A despatch from Torormto says: Eddie Harvic, a boy of ahout thirâ€" teen years, was killed at tihre Howâ€" land avenue fire hall on Thursday morning by one of the horses brampling on him. _ f The horse was being washed outâ€" side the stable door, and breaking the strap by which he was tether ed, ran down the side passage whils xoung Harvie was coming alone. The boy.was knocked down. and being carmed into the station died in & faw mirutes. Drs. McXNab and SFilson were summoned at onâ€"c, but sey!ld do nothing to save his life: A despatch from Parrsboro, N. 8., says: A double drowning ocâ€" curred near Partridge Island Sunâ€" day afternoon. Two boys, one the only son of Clifford Gilbert, the other the eldest son of lus brother, Jas. C. Gilbert, were hathing in a swimming hole, when one of them got beyond his depth, and the other west to his assistance sa=%. vwas drawn into deep water. Tie boys were each about 12 years of age. Tragedy in Nova Sceotiaâ€"Ane Atâ€" tempted to Rescue the Other. ‘ A despatch from London says: Seven of Great Britain‘s newest zoceanâ€"going torpedoâ€"boat destroyâ€" uers have been put out o%f action by overstraining their hulls whils unâ€" der full speed trials in the heavy sea of the English Channel. The destroyers Acorn, Alarm, Rifleâ€" man, Nemesis, Lyra, Nymphe and Larne reached Portland in such a leaky condition that all available divers were requisitioned to close the gaps in their seams before docking. The trouble was the reâ€" sultb of the tremendous vibration of the powerful engines driving the littfle warships at a speed of 28 knots througsh the rough water. The rivots of the plates were startâ€" ed in all directions, opening gaps which caused the water to pour inâ€" to the oil hunkers and rendering the fuel useless. Aceident at Fire Hall Faftal in Torgento. A despatch from Toronto says: The bogus check artists are busy these hot days, and they have vieâ€" timized. even Superintendent of Provincial Police J. K. Rogers. A few days ago the propriector of the New American â€" Hotel, Hamilton, called up Mr. Rogers and said a check for $50, supposedly signed by Mr. Rogers, had been cashed for $33 by one of the hotelmen. _ The drawer represented himself as of the detective department, and the check was drawn on the Hamilton branch of the Bank of Montreal. A crop of complaints regcarding spurious checks has been rescived resently at the Provincial detective office, and an official warning has been issued. . Aljlarming Condition of Seven Britâ€" ish Destrovers. saved Drolet from being pulled farâ€" ther into the machinery by hackin off his foot and part of his leg. Af% ter much difficulty the engines were set to work again and the vessel brought safely to shore.. Head of Provincial Police Yictim of a Check Artist. PORGED SUPT. ROGERS‘ NAME sOQOY TH N. 0. agent‘s house, Johnston‘s poolâ€"room, Imperial Bank, Mcâ€" Kinnon‘s office, T. and N. O. Railâ€" way new passenger station and freight shed, all the rest being leyâ€" eled to the ground. Only five buildings are left standing in this prosperous town of 2,500 inhabiâ€" tants. At the Town of Cochrane everyâ€" thing is burned except the Trans continental Railway office, T. and ed out the other day by fire, was leveled to the ground toâ€"day. and the inhabitants are in a bad way for food and shelter and are askâ€" ing assistance from neighboring towns to the soutn . o The flames swept down on South Porcupine and Pottsville on Tnesâ€" day, and wiped out both towns so quickly that the inhabitants were driven into the lake, as no liv= ing thing could withstand the. fheree heat and fire, which burned the very ground. Gasolene boats removed refugees from both towns to Golden City, across the lake, where they were cared for, al= though the outskirts of that town were in flames and a desperate fight was being waged to save the place. The provision supply is only sufâ€" ficient for several days at Goldon City, and relief is being asked from outside points. : TOG WEAK FOR ENGINZES, TWO BOYS DROWNED. ‘RAGTPLED To BEATH, e