JANUARY, 1885.
THE PRESENT
TRUTH.
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22, How much did each contain? 1 Kings 7: .
23. What purpose did they serve? 2 Chron, 4: 6.
24, How many candlesticks were made ? Verse 7.
25. Where were they sat?
26. How many tables where made? Verse 8.
27. Where were they put, and how arranged ?
28. In what part of the temple were they put?
29, For what purpose were the tables used?
Verso 19.
30. How many basins of gold were made ?
31. Was there any altar of incense in the holy
place? Verse 19.
32, What is it called in this place ?
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LESSON XXNXV.
(For Furst Sabbath in February.)
DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE.
1. AvteER all the work far the house of the Lord was
finished, what did Solomon bring into it? 2 Chron.
BREE
2 What else
Verses 2-5.
3. Where did they put the ark ?
4. What was in the ark at this time ?
5. What was the first act of worship ?
12, 13.
6, By what sign did God then take possesion of the
sanctuary 2 Verses 13 and 14.
7. What proof did the Lord give that he accepted
the temple as his sanctuary 2 Repeat 2 Chron. 7: 1.
H. Did he give in words any assurance of this ac-
ceptance 2 2 Chron, 7: 12, 16,
9. Did the Lord give special directions in regard to
tho manner in which this sanctuary was to be builg?
1 Chron, 28: 11-13, 19,
10. Of what was it a
Solomon 9: 8.
11. Ts this temple called the sanctuary? 2 Chron,
261 16-18. ’
14. How long did the Lord say he would put his
name in this sanctuary 2 1 Kings 4: 3.
13. What were the conditions of this promise?
Verse 4.
14, What consequences were predicted if Solomon
and his decendants should not keep the command-
ments of God? Verses 6-4.
was brought into the temple?
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2 Chron, Ver
1 Kings 8:9.
4 Chron. 5:
resemblance 2 Wisdom of
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THT LESSONS.
ON
LEON XXXL
18a. 6 1 Fifty thousand and threescore
aul ten men. —This translation seems evidently
wrong, and is caused by a transposition of the words.
As Beth-shemesh was but on small village, it is improb-
able, that it should contain as many inhabitants as
are here mentioned to bo slain. The interpretation
of Bochart is far more reasonable, He smote threescore
and ten men, fifty out of a thousand: meaning that
God was so indulgent as not to slay all that were
guilty, but only seventy of them.—Dp. Patrick.
Josephus says seventy men. The addition of a single
letter, which may have been omitted, would make
the passage read: *“ And he smote of the people
seventy men, equal to tifty thousand men: that is,
they were the elders or governors of the people.—
Clarke. The passage is very difficult, but these are
the most plausible interpretations.
LESSON XXXII,
18a 7:20 For it was twenty years,—This
is not to be understood nf the whole time that the
ack remained there: for it continued in this place till
she time of David, 2 Sam. 6: 3, about forty-six years.
“Thus the expression, “it was twenty years,” refers to
ithe timo when * the house of Israel lamented after
whe Lord,” — Dp. Patrick.
LESSON XXXIV,
1 Kixas 6: 2. And the length thereof was
threescore cubits.—It is the opinion of Bp. Ciun-
berland and Dr. Clarke, and others, that the sacred
cubit was here used, which measures ncarly 1 foot
10 inches. This would make the temple about 110
feet long, 36 wide, and 53 high. Others believe the
common clibit to have been used measuring one foot
and six inches.
NOTES
LESSON XXXV,
1 Kixos 8: 9. There was nothing in the ark
save the two tables of stone.—See notes on Les-
son xxi. in Pruspxt Trorn No, 6,
Questiox 9. The passage referved to, in Wisdom
of Solomon,” reads this: Thou hast commanded
me to build a temple upon thy holy mount, and an
altar in the city wherein thot dwellest, resemblance
of the holy tabernacle, which thou hast prepared
from the boginning.” This is in harmony with the
words of the apostle in Heb, 8: 5, and 0: 24.
{nrenesrive fraus.
—The total number of ‘ship-wrecks for the year up
to Nov, 15, was 1,335.
—At the marriage of Miss Astor, in New York, the
presents were valued at £50,000, the bride's necklace
alone costing £15,000.
—The dynamite outrage at Edenburn, County Korry,
Ireland, has been the cause of much excitment., Its
perpetrator is unknown,
~~Tlere has been a terrible outbreak of trichinosis
in St. Andreasberg, a little town in the Hartz Moun-
tains, the centre of the canary bird business.
—The monument to the memory of Gieorge Washing-
ton, at Washington, U. 8. A., now finished, is 550
feet high, the nghest structure in the world.
—A fatal opidemic has been raging in Viginia and
Kentucky, which is supposed to have been caused by
drinking impure water. It is reported that as many
ws 2,000 persons have died.
-A three-master, the Pochard, bound from Cork to
Taverpool, sunk in a squall Dee. 7. Crew of 23 all
lost. Steamer Alliance wrecked off Cornwall const
Deeb, All hands 16, supposed to be lost.
-Many outrages have been committed on Christians
by Chinese mobs. In one province, four Catholic and
five Protestant churches have been destroyed.
Priests have been beaten and women ravished.
—At Wolverhampton, a woman has been sentenced
to three months’ hard labor for telling fortunes. Onc
of her victims (a woman) had a serious quarrel with
ker husband, and another (a young girl) committed
suicide.
An inquest has been held on the little child which
was buried alive near Belfast, and for which the
parents stand charged with murder. The doctor
stated that the ehild’s death was caused by the im-
pure air it inhaled during the time it was in the coflin.
The child, it will be remembered, was still alive when
the enitin had been exhumed.
Alone the Russian frontier for a distance of 200
miles Furopean engineers are constructing for the
Chinexe Government fortresses on the newest model.
The reiterated complaints of robberies by the Chinese
are disregarded at Pekin. When the Russian author:
ities protest, they either receive no answer or an in-
sulting one.—— Daily News, Dec. 2.
— Hitherto Chinese robbers making incursions into
the Amour country and taken by the Russian police
have been delivered to the Chinese authorities to be
punished, but notoriously they were always released
directly. Now the Government has decided that such
offenders shall be dealt with by the Russian laws,
The Chinese authorities are much exasperated,
—Mrrpounsg, Nov. 14,—The British Protectorate
over all the southern coasts of New Guinea tn the
eastward of the 141st meridian of east longitude was
proctaimed in New Guineas on Dec. 9, with great
cereruony by the Commodore of the Australian sta-
tion. Fifty native chiefs were present, and five
iritish war vessels lay off the shore.
—A Dutch lugger was wrecked Oct, 28, off the
Yorkshire const. Only two out of a crew of fifteen
being saved. These were rescued by the smack
General Wolseley of Grimsby, after having clung to
the stemhead, the only part above water, two days
and nights. One poor {ellow hud become insane, and
refusing to be rescued, plunged into the sea, and was
drowned. The courage of the rescuers was highly
praiseworthy.
—~During the months of July, August, and Septem.
ber, there were killed by lightning in the British Isles
35 persons: injured, 91, Outside of these killed and
injured, the damage done is somewhere from £10,000
to £30,000. Thare have been struck 20 churches, 112
houses, 10 cottages, 12 barns and sheds, 11 factories,
42 chimney stacks, 32 ricks. The News thinks that
this summer ‘has been exceptionully disastrous.”
Nearly all the damage was done in four or five days.
—-The poor “sick man’ of the East, Turkey, is
having trouble with his army. Soldiers have mutined
because of arrears in pay. Many Albanian chiefs have
been arrested under the belief that they are taking
measures to declare for annexation to Greece,
Throughout the Empire there is general dissatisfac-
tion at the order to send all the taxes to the capital to
meet pressing wants, and to leave the public servants
unpaid. Many replies have come in that anarchy and
something worse will be the result.
—orNersxatt, Oct. 31-—The Synod of the Ohio
Presbyterian Church, in session here, his adopted the
report of the Standing Committee on observanee of
the Sabbath and Temperance, in which the following
resehition oceurs : ¢ That the increased desecration of
the sabbath calls for prayer and for united and vigorous
effort on the part of all good and law-abiding citizens to
secure ao faithful observance of that saered day, the
reat ond to be attained being the sacredness of the
Sabbath and the entire prohibition of the manufacture
and sale of mtoxicating liquors as beverages.” By
sabbath is here meant Sunday, but where is its
“sacredness” ?
—~Cardinal Manning, says the Christian Leader,
“refuses to appear any more on the alliance platform
until Sir Wilfrid Lawson apologises for having, at a
recent demonstration against the House of Lords,
alluded to the superstitious pilgrimage by the Duke of
Norfolk to a holy well to obtain the cure of his child's
blindness.” We wonder if he will do so.
—St. John, the prohibition candidate for the prosi-
dency of the United States, was burned in effigy on the
streets of Ottawnand Sterling, Kansas, on the evening
of Nov. 8, and by the students of the University at
Syracuse, N. Y., onthe evening of Nov. 11. Students
of Syracuse University, controlled by the M. E.
denomination, burning in effigy the moral candidate of
a moral party because his following caused the defeat
of a political trickster and jobber!!! Consistency, thou
art a jewel!
--Duluth a mining town in Colorado, U. S. A,
burned Nov. 6, Loss 190,000 dollars, also several lives.
[5 is supposed to be done through revenge.—Tiight
wreckers were drowned off Pictou Island, near Nova
Scotia, Nov. 17.--Railway accident in Hanau, Ger-
many, Nov. 14, resulted in the death of 12 and injur-
ing of 20. Cause, carelessness of officials. Nov. 27,
the screw-steamer Durango was run into by the iron
barque Luke Brinee of Liverpool, in the English
Channel, and sank, the crew of 20 hands being
lost. The Durango was the property of Messrs. RB. W.
Jones and Co Newport ( Monmouth), and was charted
to carry rails from Dunkirk to Genoa.—In the great
storm of Sept. 15, in Japan, the entire city of Yoko-
hama way completely wrecked. Fifty-three vessels
were lost and 12 missing. Over 350 persons were
killed or drowned.
—The Daily News gives the rosult of tho German
elections as follows: ** The sixth Reichstag of the
Gorman Empire will be opened next Thursday by the
Timperor William in person. The results of all the
clections being known now it is at last possible to
form an estimate of the composition of the new German
Parliament. The following figures give the present
strength of the different parties aus compared with the
last Reichstag. Conservatives 72, gain 20; Free
Conservatives 29, gain 5; Ultramontanes 100, gain
2; National Liberals 54, gain 9; German Liberals
64, loss 32: South German Democrats 7, loss 2;
social Democrats 24, gain 11; Poles 16, loss 2;
Danes 1, loss 1; Guelphs 8, and Alsatians 15, both
remaining unchanged. The most conspicuous results
of the recent clections are therefore the heavy losses
of the German Liberals, who have lost one-third their
seats, and the great increase of the Social Demo-
crats who have nearly doubled their number.”
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