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a th MA God dealt with Israel anciently very much as he deals with men toâ€"day. The chosen people had exceptional opporâ€" tunities for knowing God‘s wau; still they persisted in wrong doing. Among the prophets of God, sent to specially warn His Eeople. Amos spoke to them in terms they could not misunderstand. He seeks to gain their attention by comâ€" rring his message to a funeral dirge, a mentation for the dead. _ Israel, choâ€" sen of Zcd. zs a virg‘n "y her hustand, VI. _ Hypoctritical service _ rejected, (ve, 21â€"27). _ Feasts and sacrifices could not avort the threatened judgments, "Do you think to win Jehovah‘s favor by your religions services and ceremonial observances *"_ What he demands is not sacrifice or the noise of songs on your instruments of music, but justice and rightecusness. _ And he desires these to "roll on" (R. V.) through the land like a migchty torrent in one perpetual, irreâ€" sistible flow. _ Your hypocrisy is fatal. You and your idols will go into captivity together. noss they desized day when, as confer some â€" P rx unlin II. An exhortation to seek God (vs. 46). 4. Seek yoe meâ€"Cease your rebolâ€" lion against me, return to me with all your heart, and, though consigned to death, ye shall be rescued and live. Deâ€" plorable as your ease is, it is not utterly desperate.â€"Ularke. Shall liveâ€"Shall esâ€" cape the threatened destruction. 5. Seek INTERNATIONAL LESsON NO. XIL. sEPTEMEEIK 18. 1904. cured L be a st it." rael (vÂ¥s. iâ€"2). because lsracl continues to show no signs of repentance, Amos soes that certain and speedy destruction will come wpon the nation. He accordâ€" ingly proceeds to sing a funcral dirge. Israe! was spiritually dead; like a fallen virgin, she had debased herself and lost her purity. She was prostrate on the ground, unable to rise. having none to assist her. The prophet also declares that the strength of the nation was to be reduced to oneâ€"tenth of what it then was. "Such an announcement as this, made in the height of the prosperity seâ€" eured by Jeroboam II. would naturally be a startling one to those who heard abhin Sunday School. onnrentary PRACTICAL SURVEY n Iszeal Reproved.â€"Amos 5: i1 LMC me Am uture." in their blind "the day of the Lord," they supposed, God w great honor upon His â€" s warns them that in t 1 condition, the day of be a day cfi lamentat darkness with "no bri â€"I. A lamentation for Is ered (vs. 14, 153). 14. 1 the progphet uges them sins and turn to God. yet there is hope. God‘s merey is absolute and + one who will repent. avse of their prosperity id said (see R. V.) that em. RBut they were doâ€" 108 tells us what to do ally have His presence. !â€"The exhortation â€" of ated in stronger lanâ€" 1. love good, establish riy beâ€"This should not _ expresing doubt. God upon such as beed the Because Isracl continues nant of amentation "no bright Figk : :" woul )00 eir the Scldiers Overpowered and a Negro Prisâ€" oner Hanged by a Mob. Huntsville, _ Sept. 12â€"A mob seekâ€" ing to lynch Horace Mapes, colored, charged with the murder of John Waldâ€" rop, an aged man, toâ€"night broke through the lines of soldiers who had been called out to protect the jail in which Mapes is confined, and is in posâ€" session of the ground floor. _ The senâ€" tries were disarmed by the mob and an attempt is now being made to smoke out the soldiers and the sheriff. Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 7.â€"A special to the Advertiser from Huntsville says Horace Mapes was taken from the jail The ofifeers were elécted as follows: President, H. Shaw, Toronto; First Viceâ€" President, George Goldie, Ayr; Second Viceâ€"President, 8. W. Vogan, Walkerton; Treasurer, William Galbraith, Toronto; Secretary, C. B. Watts, Toronto; Exeeâ€" utive Committee, W. (i. Bailey, Hamilâ€" ton; H. Barrett, Port Hope; J. D. Flayâ€" elle, Lindsay; J. I. A. Hunt, London; M. McLaughlin, Toronto: H. L. Rice, St. Mary‘s. bim that speaketh uprightly." The faithâ€" ful minister. the unbiased statesman, the uncompromising reformer fare no better in our time. But who lives toâ€"day in the sight of God, and in the esteem of men, Amos or his persecutors? Faithful men never die. Could halfâ€"hearted and formal worship be held wp to more seathing deâ€" nunciation* Reastâ€"days were all right, so were solemn assemblies and burntâ€" offerings and meatâ€"offerings and peaceâ€" offerings and songs, but because their hearts were not in those things they were an dbomination to God. The songs became a mere "noise" that He would not hear. They would count to their credit the sacrifices and offerings for forty years in the wilderness, but God knew now that service was mixed with idolatry; therefore their punishment should be greater, because of their atâ€" tempt to palm it off on (God. Can we think God is any less particuldt toâ€"day than anciently* Certainly not. Can we then substitute grand church architecâ€" ture for heart offerinos®* Suraly not COan The Secretary, Mr. C. B. Watts, in his report, announced that he had correâ€" sponded with the British committee inâ€" vestigating preferential relations, and had strongly urged the admission of colâ€" onial flour on the same terms as colonâ€" ial grain, pointing out that a discrimâ€" ination against the flour would result in an increase in the price of breadâ€" stuffs to the comsumer, as the milling capacity of the United Kingdom was not sufficient to grind the flour to supâ€" ply their needs, and also pointing out that the milling industry in Great Briâ€" tain already enjoyed a certain amount of protection in the lower freight rates on grain. Discuss Apparent Shortage in the Wheat Crop. Toronto, Sept. 12.â€"No class of men throughout Ontario is better qualified to judge of grain crop conditions than the millers, and «ue reports which 75 of them brought to Toronto yesterday were anything but encouraging. If these estiâ€" mates are borne out by the returns from the harvest fields, Ontario will be in a bad way this winter for wheat. Wellâ€"posted men from twentyâ€"six counâ€" ties reported at the annual meeting of the Dominion Millers‘ Association yesâ€" terday that the crop of winter and spring wheat would be about oneâ€"third of the expected yield. Rust has apparâ€" ently spread over the whole country. The highest report given was a threeâ€" quarter crop, many went as low as oneâ€" quarter, and the greater number of esâ€" timates put it at oneâ€"third. _ * A few genaral truths gathered from this lesson. The ten tribes appear to have had a good reason for revolting from Rehoboam. From Judah‘s standâ€" point, God appeared to approve of it. But idolatry was sure to bring its disastrous results. Where are the ten tribes now? Lost. Why?* Idolatry. To worship anyâ€" thing but God brings equally disastrous results toâ€"day. _ "They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor (God pleads with them. "Seek ye me and ye shall live," "but seek not Bethel." Why * "Gilgal shall surely go into ‘capâ€" tivity and Bethel shall come to naught." Seek him that created the heavens, that the earth may bring forth its fruit; that strengthening the conquered and makes them the conquerorsâ€"*"The Lord is his name." "Seek good and not evil." "Hate the evil, and love the good," "it may be that the Lord God of Hosts will be graâ€" cious unto the remnant of Joseph." The sins of the people were such that they deserved the severest denunciations of the Almighty, yet with every outburst of his wrath is a pleading appeal to the house of Israel to return to God. (God points out the evils that will come upon them. The city that couid muster one thousand will be only one hundred strong. The places of idol worâ€" ship will be destroyed. He will break out like fire in the house of Joseph and . devour it. _ "Wailing shall be in all streets." Husbandmen shall be called to mourning; wailing shall be in all vineâ€" yards; your condition shall grow worse and worse: "Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damasecus," saith the Lord, whose name is the God of I hosts." Whom God Warns. _ "IThe House of Israel." _ God is always specific He points out definitely : “Y‘:: who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off rightcousness in the earth." There is such a thing as nominal justice which costs more than it is worth. Repeated adjournments of court are made to wear out a poor litigant. God knows when men seck justice by the shortest course. Another class is pointed out : those "treading" on the poor and taking from them their bread. By so doing they ean build fine residences and lay out exâ€" pensive grounds, but will God let such characters go on in their evil ways unâ€" rebuked * No. God knew better, and so did thev. is fallen. "She shall no more rise." With this startling statement our lesson is introduced. _ Let us notice. d AN ALABAMA LYNCHING. DOMINION MILLERS MEET. J. Emory Coleman _ "Drzar Mrs. Princnax:â€"I can truly say that you havo saved my life, and I cannot express my gratitude to you in words. «" Before I wrote to you telling how I felt, I had doctored for over two years steady and spent lots of money in medicine besides, but it all failed to do ms any good. My menses did not appear in that time, and Sime I suffered much Bain. I would daily have U o honth fainting spells, headache, backache and fls lt bearinidown pain, and was so weak that A2 h it was hard for me to do my work. i o "I used your medicine and treatment e BERD as directed, and after taking three bottleg ‘ P of Lydia E. 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It wfll not cure itse.f, and a hospital operation, with all its terrors, may casily result from neglect. oL m @"Drar Mrs. Prnanax:â€"I suffered for four years with what the doctors called Salpingitis (inflammation of the fallopian tubes) and ovaâ€" ritis, which are most distressing and painful ailments, affecting all the gurrounc%xfng pa‘x"ts:3 undermining the constitution, and" sapping the life Tinc J SUuL fass: Py ,k\' faint \i k »,;_ * // " bea-l'i F /{, ;.;' “di Â¥ o of L ‘ U & F SS t * D 7 ; 7p 7 Miss Hapgood tells how she was cured of Fallopian and Ovarian Inflammationâ€" and escaped an awful operation by using Lydia E. Pinkham‘s Vegetable Compound. Chicago Butchers Voting on Calling Off the Strike. EMPEROR WILLIAM WANTS TO PRESERVE THE PEACE. "CALADA" Ceylon Natural Green Tea composed only of fresh, fragrant tea leaves. It is to the Japan tea drinker what "SALADA‘" Black is to the black tea drinker. Sealed lead packets only. 25 and 40c perib. By all grocers. Of Exquisite Flavor and Absolute Purity money va the south 232,000. The average commercial value of $44.52 last year, and the total value of the crop â€"â€" at _ $617,501548, <â€" against $480,770,282 last year. Mr. Hester says that while the erop is smaller by seven hundred odd thousâ€" and bales than last year and is less by 1,263,000â€" bales, than the crap of 1898â€" 99, which was the largest ever marketâ€" ed, it has brought a better return in money values than any ever produced in local unions interested in the question of whether the stock yards strike shall be declared off or not is over and the Lballots are to be counted this morning. The result will be first made known to the Conference Board of the Allied Trades Council, and after that body has taken "final action" it will be known definiteâ€" ly what the strikers are going to do. "I think the proposition has been deâ€" feated," said President Donnelly. Cotton Crops. New Orleans, Sept. 12.â€"Secretary Hesâ€" ter‘s annual report was issued in . full yesterday. He puts the cotton crop of 1903â€"04, at 10,011,374 bales, a decrease of 716,185 under that of 1903. He says that compared with last year in round figâ€" ures the crop of Texas, including Indian Territory, has increased 45,000 baies. The erep of the group known as other gulf States bas declined 430,000, and â€" the group of Atlantic States has fallen off TORONTO The sight was too much for the preachâ€" er, who was directly seized with a vioâ€" lent fit of coughing and fled through the house toi the woodshed, where he manâ€" aged by superhuman effort to adjust himself to conditions before returning to his office.â€"Edith Sessions Tupper, Clergymen often have most amusing o'xpericnces at funerals. A clergyman I know was once summoned to a remote parish to conduct services over a man whose wife was too ill to leave her bed. So anxious, rowever was the widow to be present at the obsequies, that it was arranged that the service should be held at her bedside. Accordingly the coffin was placed by the sick woman‘s bed. When the minister entered the chamber he beheld a strange vision, Still bolsâ€" tered up in bed was the chief mourner, in her best nightgown, with a widow‘s bonnet upon her head and a long black veil streaming out on the pillows beâ€" hind her and with black silk gloves upâ€" on the hands that spread out on “t:e countnr}nne before her. ww 0 F1 % 7 i There has been a better inquiry for staple goods at Ottawa the past week. As the harvest progresses increasing interest is being shown in Winnipeg business circles in the final crop results, as much in a trade way depends on the crops. There have been many unfavorâ€" able reports, but they have come, to a large extent, from isolated sections and do not represent, as a whole, the genâ€" eral conditions of the wheat crop. The demand from trade centres in the proâ€" vince for staple goods continues to exâ€" pand in a good many departments, and there is confidence ° manifested in the future business conditions. Values are firmly he‘ld for staple goods. At Victoria and Vancouver trade eonâ€" ditions are satisfactory. The outlook for business is good. The movement to interior points during the next few weeks promises to show a good increase. gu. ( 0_ P ORCCSES 10 SHO I CDntu® whaty ndiirits â€" Inldralinisint deusmed The outlook for business seems to be very encouraging. week, as reported to Brads sorting demand in various of business is picking up, an ments are being made. The business is promisin=. London wholesale trade is very satisâ€" factory, and the voltme of business comâ€" pares well with previous years at this season. than represerted in some quarters. At Toronto this wee*t tnere has been marked improvement in wholesale trade. The travellers are in the city this week helping to receive the vis‘ ing buyers. The house sales have beeu very heavy this week. Next weelk renewed activity in buying for the fall an|\ winter tracde is expected. Values are firmly heid in most lines. Insolvencies in the Dominion of Canâ€" ada were somewhat more numerous in August than usual, but the â€" concerns were all smail, and the total liabilities fell considerably short of those in the preceding month or in the corresponding month last year. Losases were exceptionâ€" rlly light in manufacturing lines, and there was no single failure of great magnitude. Of all the classes into which these records are divided the dry goods traders sutfered â€" most â€" severely, while general stores and grocers provided the greatest. number of failures, which is eustomary. â€" Manufacturing insolvencies in Canada numbered â€"only 18, with a toâ€" tal indebtednmess of $129,907 ; trading failâ€" ures were 82 in number and $520,119 in amount. There were three other comâ€" mercial suspensions for $11,926, making ar aggregate of 103 dofaults and $851.â€" 952 liabilitics. In the corresponding month last year there were 99.failures. of £848,620,. of which 23 meanfacturers provided $518,438 and 65 traders owed $319,195. . The preceding month, Jaly, 19904, there wore 78 fa‘lures for $1040, 6140, of which 25 were in manufacturing 4nd involved $647.864. 8 RBracstrcet‘s on Tracds. w The wholesale â€"trade> situation nt‘ Mortreal is looling up. There has beoni quite a marked improvement in busiâ€" ness this week. Fall orders are more numerous in some departments. @rders from the Northwest are coming forward in fair volume, and this is taken to inâ€" dicate less: unfavorable 2rop mnditimu‘ than represenrted in some anarters Duluth .. St. Louts Toledo .. Detroit . Receipts of live stock, as is usual on Friâ€" day, were light, 10 cars, 555 cattle, 508 hogs, 3234 sheep and 3 calves. Outside of the sheep and hogs there was little doing. There was only one load of catâ€" tle delivered toâ€"day, but there were a few lots of the eastern stockers that were left unsold. Prices sold as low as $1.25 per owt. The run of hogs was light, but prices went 12%c per cwt. lower. Mr. Harris quotes selects at $5.37%4 and lights and fats at $5.12% per owt. Â¥ The wet morning ""°°""*" _ _/ cases | receipts of grain, and in most C28@ | are nominal. The only offering was & of old oats, which brought 42¢ & bush Hay dull, with only a few loads in prices are unchanged at quotations. Str pnominal. Dressed hbogs are firm, with light &gxoted at $8. heat, white, bush. sesaver« § AM6 Do., new, bUSB. ....>+ «+++*** 1 05 Do., red, bush. ... ++ +=* 1 7 Do., DOW, POQ. ...« «+++>*** 1 00 Do., Spring, bush. ...« «* 1 00 Do.. goose, bush. ...« +** 0 09 A 41 SHOCKED THE PARSON , per Leading Wheat Markets. Toronto Live Stock. Failures in Canada. | which 23 meanfacturers 33 and 65 traders owed preceding month, Jalyv, e 78 fa‘lures for $1,010, ) were in manufacturins outlook for Sept. Dec. $1,12%4 â€" $1.12) L154 _ 1.909% 1.08% â€" 1104 Li.u â€" LB somewbat with 1.13 a bushel _ prices a load $ 0 00 1 07 12 it 11 0C 12 00 0 85 0 16 0 41 WIRI ®~@rVyln ing goes wrong one may well pauss xd consider one‘s ‘own attiâ€" tude. application of Dr. Agnew‘s Ointment w:!! give you comfort. Applied every night for three to six nights and a cure if effected :2 the most stubborn cases of Blind, Bleeding, 0" Itching Piles. Dr. Agnew‘s Ointment cures Eczema and all itching and burning ski> diseases. It acts like magic. 35 cents â€"1o. The other question for conside was the aboiition of the party « tions. through which the party n controlled the selection of cand He saw no objection to two ballo preliminary, for the selection of dates by which any duly qualifi son would be allowed to announ self as a candidate. No one wo apt to send in his name unless he had support behiad him. The ballot would be for the election. A resolution was adopted, pro against the persistent attempt crease our military expenditure, ing such warlike preparations a unnecessary and unmcalled for, an ing upon the Dominion Governm submit the question of the pr military expenditure to the peoj fore enacting measures for the sa tore enacting measures for the sam The association also resolved th: was unalterably opposed to any inci in the present tarirfo rates. Toronto <report: The address by \ Goldwin Kmith to the convention, of : Farmers‘ Association in Victoria H: yesterday upon the question of the par system of government was interesting many respects. He suggested two thin, for the consideration of any committ appointed to prepare a scheme for : form; one was the adoption of the : erendum; he saw great use for that > tem. Take prohibition, for instauce, up the merits of which he would not c press an opinion; it was certainly a mat ter that should be taken out of the aren of party conflict and put Lbefore th country as a moral question by itseli. .',Kldney Duty.It is the particular function of the kidneys to filter out poisons which pass. through them into the" blood When the kidneys are discased they ~cannot do their whole duty, and shovld have the help and strength that South American Kidney Cure will afford in any &nd al forms of kidney disorder. It reliqves in 6 hours.â€"14. FARMERS‘ ASSOCIATION. Referendum, Double Baliot and and Militarism. The Crown Prince, it transpired, visitâ€" ed the Duchess and her mother at their lodge at Mueritz, on the Bailtic, _ and while taking a cup of tea he asked her to marry him. . Upon receiving the con sent of the Duchess, the Crown . Prince ealed for telegraph blamks and immediâ€" ately wired to the Emperor and Em Details of Engagement of German Crows Prince to Duchess Cecilia. Altona, Prussia, Sept. 12.â€"Details of the anouncement of the engagement of the Crown Prince Frederi¢ck Wililam to the Duchess Cecilia, sister of the reigning Grand Duke of _ Mecklenburgâ€"Schworin, show that the Emperor while dining with the notable people of Schleswigâ€"11o| stein last night received a telegram from the Crown Prince, who was at . Ge bensande, the home of the Duchess Coâ€" cilia and ber, mother, His Majesty thereupon arose, raised his glass and said that the en ment of his Rovai Highness amd t!‘e-%eu had just taben place, and called for a threefold hurrah for the couple. The banquetters greet. ed â€"the anouncement wit‘n tremendous cheers. ® p 90. Princeton, II1.â€"Three persons are . de from injuries received in last night‘s wro on the Rock Island. They are a man, su, posed to be named Donaldson, of Chicas an unidentified Italian, and another unide tified man, about 35 years old; all pass» gers. "Kidney Duty. :t Detroit.â€"James A., iÂ¥ gan‘s wellâ€"known railw contracting freight Ag« Buffalo line of steamers 'roronto.-â€"l'hoton-lphs Carlo Rossati, arrested nection with the Black that he is not the man for a month this summ ganize A society. Toronto.â€"Hon. John PryGen will visit the fair at London on Sept. 13th. London.â€"The rate of discount of the Bank of England was unchanged toâ€"day at 3 per pent sorcomes Montreal.â€"The Allan Line _ royal . mail steamer Parisian, from Liverpool, for Mon«â€" real, passed Heath Point at 10 a. m. toâ€"d1; Washington.â€"The comptroller of the T. s currency bhas issued a call for the condition of Notiona: Banks at the close of business Sept, 6th. Those Worrying Piles! â€"0* HOW FREDERICK PROPOSED, BOER GEN@RAZL SUED. -kn;Q'n railway men and g« ; freight agent for Detroit °/+ «teamers, is dead here. ~Photographs . received _ hore ati, arrested in New York in co th the Black Hand Society, sho not the man who was in Toron h this summer, attempting to o A. Roche, one of ne the little lady « it might be plea to know each ot meot day after C Ang weekâ€"ch ?" The younz mal "I perceive yo uation," he obs think the young shie. I wili be d nome. i aIm veute a co Adrian Me druggist o; may know « "Yesâ€"I bearsay, ma tisfied druggist high «ta "Certainiy, ® hand inside hi drew forth a c Antroduction." Accordingly, M Fmion forward . lorence, who ; iy, though with and ane agall glant t "Do sent)s He lef and _ pri young m eously a de n a broken ne from a brok affectionate « derly patted upon his ar take a secon ward, the momest ag you sared terday, ai thank you "That is voung ma ing his ca; be able to she so mu ed upoia \MUr. 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