CAPE MAY HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY Hi '9“4-

Our Church Directory. Am»iiA Th« Wor»hlpp«r» of The Different Denomlnntlo**. N - IV « cilCKC* THK AUntilT. Hev KdwJn C- Alcorn. MIbl»u?r-ln- ' Vl, *u*ili*y Strrlofc.: T Ml » »• Mo>r C®®: mnnton; 10. 30* tu. Morntna Pmyer nud Sermon; Rt»l r rs '' Sund*r**>o°*! P ro - Kv^jlnit l“r»vrr »ud Sermon. V'vmina Prky. r. t rid«y evvulnjpi *t s.ua 'other *ervfce» rt»'*tinon'uoe»i. rRf^OYTKKUK CHt'KCH. Hev. Arrttur W. Spooner. D. D., P»» >TO |»r»i»e ur rvlt-r in the lecture room every S»M«ih tnornlu*: »i » • o’clock Mornimt iiervlce *t 10 Kvettltut nervier «t T A). Mid

*. o’clocs.

Sruier Knile»vot“ rulay Sunfiey-'ehool <- i *' , A1i»,re crmUally’Jivlted.

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Ktmf'l K. CHtTBOU.

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which T think la the aaddeat word ever utfared by tuna. It’waa that which Kin* Afrtppa apnke to Paul when on the Homan tribunal of Cat-wren Philippi hr said; “Almost: Almost' thou prrsuadMit me to be a Cb^l•tlnu. ,, Ah, ysa, Klu* A*rtppa waa *o near the klnfdotn of God that Juat one atep forward would have placed the Roman ruler at the feet of Chrlat. Juat one step more would have rhanged him from m |MRan Into u bumble and repentant follower of the Naaarene. Rut that one atop waa never taken. Kin* Airrtpj>a waa “almost" persuaded to be 1 a Ctirlatbin, but hta ••almost” never brought him Into safely and eternal

I life.

Today 1 am foln*Jto try to help ■some 1 of you to overcome that saddest of «!) ! words, “almost.” I am going to slmw atoms of you that, like the scribe of my I text, who came to question Jesus, you ’ are “not fat from the klnmlom «>f God."

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ruiusxVlO BO. j but I am also going to show you that

! to be “almost" saved and yrt not saved

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I* .'clock.

Mid-week ipr»y. - r -•■rvlOr Wolneslay. eivouln* *t'A*'.'cl..ek. I’lss* we*: mgs. Tuesday. Tl.d»id*y : and Friday ■* c»*..*msT CIIV4H*. Rev. Ge4.ge Williams. ftaM'-r I'rwachtug-on Sunday moriiinjr'lt 10 80. In the oven.ne at S.tXL Sunday *r.toniin* Wvffktrs MiW.ing at

10.00 a. V'

S-und*} School atA'-Vur.'*.

Wednesday evenioj TV.ycr Mteting at

8 o'dodk. .

Yodtg People's Idecttr.g Ffufc.j even-

ing at* o’clock. -

Men'. Meeting 9«t;rtUy eveiT.tig at >

o'clock

MARvVvt cu re.

ly sueesaa la a satisfy I u* soettw or the reverse let me D-ad to you a eulogy UeJIven-d lately In reference to that Warwick of Americnp stuti-sman-•blp, that president maker. Marena A. iianna. In tin- memoriul inerting held In the Semite rbamber a abort time ag*. Senator Scott. Seimtor Uanna’a Uitituale friend, arose and spoke these wolds: “Mr. President. I shall never forget one early moraine when Senator Banna handed me a New York paper ■containing a eartoouof himself, pictured us a huge monster, clad In a suit covered over with dollar mark*, smoking an immense cigar and trampling under

naps not. My ancestors were all long lived. I guess I will be alao," Then you would complacently pat your cheat as you expanded yolir lungs three or four Inches, and you would say: "Well, my ■uncespir* never had a finer breath- i ing apparatus than I hare. Perhaps I shall die tonight. Perhaps not.” Bui' two years ago there tunic that sudden attack of Illness. It came almost without any warning at all. Yon remember how your cheek became as white as'that of a corpse and your lips turned blue and cold. You remember how that pneumonia stabbed nt your lungs, or how that typhoid made you

^ | Is to be last completely and utterly lost,

l Juat as much as were the poor fellows

, who wen Imprisoned s few years ago | In the iron hulk of the summers bum j

ing st the wharfs of Hoboken.- In New York harbor. Frantically they styod at the barred portholes. Frantically they stretched forth their amis through the Iros gratings. The aould see the blue waters of th* harbor. They could hear, the calls of the would be rescuer* bard nt work. 'But they were lost, entirely lost, though there was “only one step” between them and perfect safety Almost saved! Ye*? you are. How <lc 1 1 know It? I leafr how near yon _ have contF to salvation as I look it the" entries on those white pages sewed between the Old and the New Testa mem* ttt the family Bible By thia record of ■the family births a«nd deaths 1 find

Udlvlacctor. i»™r - Chrl«iu». Toor

■muts of divme schg-i iAu Sundays *>other wus a CtoWlan. lour sisters Naasesate. S aaftii* and brother* wert all Christians. 1 Smtday SchooilsitS^O i-; *. mnd also that yout-{wri-iits recouse<-rat Masarv, sermwo and feeardictiaa. Haas for--God’s service when

l thsy held yoa lie tin the sacred altar

■f on the day you wear tmptlied. It Is a

I very easy matter l&* you to become a t Christian, aria -audh a family history.

foot women and children, with their j ^ j^nt for w«-eks and eye* protruding from their socket* and j yo| , hovered In-tween life and d«*ath. their skeleton forms writhing in agony j y on reuiemlMV how a*thma choked you After I looked at it a moment he said to | unlll „ ua though you would me: ’Scott, that hurts. I have tried all | go , Im ^ w ttii the ngony. Aye. that

my life to put myself In the other fellow’s place. I have tried to help those in need and lighten the burdens of those less fortunate than myself. Yet I am here held up to the gaze of the world a* a murderer of women bnd children. I tell you. It hurts.’ And. Mr. President, looking up into that manly face I saw the tears coursing down his cheeks as he turned and si-

lently walked away.**

You think worldly snccess can bring true happiness? If it could, why did it not hrinti happiness to lames G Blaine, the “Henry Clay" of the hitter part of the past century? Murat Hal stead relates bow lie went to see Mr

Blaine In the Fifth Avenue hotel. New j | lnj j f orcr | n the power of numbers. York. The death pallor was on his ■ 8 || niarre i «t the wonderful nWJcheek. In a few, weeks his broken j ty Q{ ob^^trutlon to which the trap heart was to cease to beat Mr. Blaine j an(1 the i lu „ter*«of old were able, sat looking Into the blaring fire. Murat ■ to U)etr Tlauu | power*. For days Halstead could not say a word. His { an(] the Indian scouts were able heart was too full. After the two j ^ follow their enemies across the westfriends sat thus for ■ short time. Mr. | ^ ny ,t, e twisted blade* of

ness made out of you a changed man. When the minister now announce* the text. Lake, twelfth chapter nnd twen tieth verse. Thon fool. UU* nlgtit thy soul shall be required of tbce." you d.. not flljipantly say: “Perhaps. Per hup* not." You know it 1* not out-of the range of possibilities that this night you may be brought face to fare with God at the Judgment seat <*f <'hrl»t. Almost saved! Yes, you are. I know 1L Why? The many "sign* of the time” tell n* that hundred* and thousand* of Immortal men and women are now enrolling themselves h* t’hris tlan soldier* under the standard of the cross. And then- is a mighty propel

THE SUNDAY BIBLE SCHOOL. Lesson in ths InUruatioua! Bsries for July 17, 1&04—“Asa's Good SUign.” (Prepared by the “Highway and Byway" Preacher.) (Copyri«tA. isw. t>> J M B<Sa'.n-l t.tUSON TEXT (i Chron. 14:1-11: Mrmorj Vorse* Z-t) 1 Bv AIjl)«h »!*H wlthtit#fathers. aa<l they burir4 him lb the city o! DsvUl; »a<5 A*b fcU M>a rt4*r.t-i la fcP ti» Lis days the land was quiet ten j.iue » And As* did the! Which was C'-'d and right In the eye* of the l^»rd hi* God; * For hr took away the altar* ot U}e strange god». and the high t la-• * and brake down the Imugeo. and cut down it*> grove*. 4 And pomtnanded Judah to **-tk the Lord God o! their lather* and tc do the law and the commandment. 6 Also ht to-rk away -jut ol wi! the ctHas of Judah the high piocw and the image*; and the kingdom was quiet before him « And hr built tmeed cities in Judah; for the land hlMl rv*t. and he had no war the I>ord had given

while . pave

Jfli are invited Tc aUefid t.he evening instructions at’R^ gCvck-days, Masnat'T. a.m. Services every Sntday-Ywjning sx &. st. Jotnfkbr. k. «hubch. Corsair Washington«nd Franklin

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HAiy COiutnatnon, -SOO s- m. noonced); 10 3(1 a. am. -lhev£rst Snatwr. -A

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Morning Prayer ’.to.ai.«_ t

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fhe foltowing clergymtn are cxpscsedwo offigiate during tbe-sunga>«r of MM July 17. Rev. F. A. D. Ismnt. a O.. ’Rse tor St. David's Ghirch. Mama-vuo*.. PhUadelpbia. “air. Rev. Merbart-Saatt Smith. f». t.. Rector St. Margaret's CtnirSa. WashingaourDhC. “fEl. Rev. BAart-W. Forsyth. Recks St. PasTw Ohuru. PbUaMgmia Augr.7. Rt . Rec.Johcrfi.-Arboto«Bri«.DlL. Bishop of SmstIA reey. •SA4. Rev. J. IB.«W*U?r. A««snwrt Mt» ister Chorah *fv;he Holy Crimt;. PhilatWmbia. **S1. Rev. W. ’H.IE. Pow*». Rsgtn.Trinity Ohnicb. Towsow. Mi. ’?Ao. Her. Edwand B. Nivec. Kcesor Christ Ofanrcb JSalt imoce, MtL BepfcM Rt. Hew. l>igkton ColeMa.-SJC D . I.U TL.'Biahep of Dehswmrv. “11. Rev. F rwderidh A. JttscMIUoc. Minioter-mtCbarge Prteee-^Pswor CbapeL PhilaOkthliv. ” M. Rev. Thmnagtf. Taylor. Rector Church <4 the/Advent, Ki —

Square, Pa.

THE SKATS ABXmRK w T Al.t. SCBZ BKADLR ■KMOBXr.I. ( iirBCK Corner Diamood and Cmerxld Awmvs. Cape May Point. Tbe Rev. Dr. CaorpkCl. of PMUd**wb Minister in-Cbarge. Bivtue service of .. a. m. and * p. m. during-Julv awd Aocuxi. AESfOST FERSL AhEi-'

Rev. "Dr. Talmage Pleads With Those In This State.

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(Copyrtg.it. IBM. by Loom Klopach.J LOS ANGELES. C«i.. July 10.-'n»e preacher te- .this sermoa ghows by IUb» tration and incident that true and en--during hapiilneaa and aatisfactloii art riot to be found in worldly success, but in embracing the offer -of salvation through Christ. The text i» Mark xiL *4. “Tboa art jet far fsaagbe kingdom

<rf God."

Wbat is to y*m i all tbs English language? Bdgar Allan Poe. that brilliant grains of American literature, whose dissipations cn dongeoned him Ja a chamber of horrors as ghastly as that In which Thom as De Qolncey was eoenpeiivd to Uvt and wltoss raven of delirium tremero sounded bis death knell when be bad Just reached forty years of age. hams de the weed "nevermore'’ awful h Its sicnificnnce. ,ln It we bear the black bird of demuehicnt despair croaking a dlrga In It are beard the soIjs of breaking bsarts and ore assn tbs ghostlike borrors of a Being charnel

•» re- ss^w a i

erawrsr To many that word WO way* be the an Mart of ah words. Some have dsdarsd that ths Shflfl

• “BWA* othses “dasflk* standpoint never pays, and that ouiy It." But tadny I want » 4w Cbriat life U the Lappy lifs Well.

Tt» troe." say* aoir.e young man t» me. “I was horn In u Christian borne. I am not neat, hnwver. but very, very far from the kingdom of God. Wby. after I left my Chradlan home 1 seemed to be jpowsewseti not with sevra devils, but seventy time* seven devil* No sootier did I h-ave home and go away from mot her and father than 1 plunged into a Ilf- of dhsalpaUcm. 1 drank, f gambled..! bliiHphemed. I did everything J -ougb: not to ha' and I hfft imdon.-—very thing I ought to.have ‘done. Tt L* *aid Lysimaclius wrns (righting Getae he -was entrapped by bis tnlea In •the ifiaserl sands. Hta Tblnrt beenme mo sweat'*1 kit he offered rile whole k>ngtlaBi*fez>a«dr:nk of « Erau sold ibta ’riiittfrhibt for n IKJttaer. Hat -wo iwjoner bs m-r-hn* icliikeBibbckuirxt than 1 •Ah. wretched line, wbo for momessary jmtBkrtion ah on lost w* fereat m UngCom.’ Thonsfa l hare been brought op in a home, for-tbeimomentiiry Mttafyin* ag my ev?i Ac strew I have stifled aO those pore Infitw-nces of the i>aat. a man who. to quench hi* thirst, bus done nsowthan-So -barh-r away a kingdom. I have bartered away my Hfe." Not »o tantpbrstbpr: not so fast. Yam '.have flung yourself lots the qnagralnr if sin. loft by ywur very word* of derpalr I know you -Jxre near to the king■fcom. 1 bare ImC in my time nmch experience vrttli ynsng men. and I hare .vunetuae* found that, like the prodloil who VB his 'fother’s home for the far country, mnnj youngi men reared •ji the bos* -of Lome* haver flung thentoSives Into fhe aretlilng whirlpool of -on But fhene ynang mra were like •he prodhcnS sb*o in that Shey came husk to thetr father * home mfter they had spent tbesr ah. The gdklen cords of pi rental prayer wre now bugging st yoir heart. TDewt of slmu^s you may have been: —»st tn^irtle** of wayward Doy* may hat* been your bMsry, bat •odaj God is eaJlIng; yoor dead mother. yx ur redeemed -toother. Is -eslllng: your broken hearted father Is calling: “Come., come, comebeme! (Basil come borner Will yon boar the cry? Way off In that far country «f sin “thou art not tar from the kingdom of God.” Thou art Mt Bar from Christ bat noar, oa account 4ot yoor ssriy Christian borne training. Almost raved! Yaa. yws are. I kaaw It by trie unhappy looks that are ettsoied in the wrinkles of yoor teak When yon started ont Is life yaa thought the bright of a man’s happtosss could he estimated by the length of bis bank account Yon thought ths worldwide area of his Joy could be always circumscribed only by the hemispheric spread *>f bis fame. Bat now by bittar experience yon knew that wealth ami fame only bring addsd cares. Yon know that If a man lives for himself alone, if ba dora not seek the higher Joys of the sonL If be does sot Ur* for Christ, treking alao the of hta bn 4 her man. be can Sod

rth at alt

My baams may think 1 bars ovwr drawn Bm plctnrs to ssssrtlng that from s tom

Blaine heaved a dewp sigh a* he said. “Oh. Hal*tend. I could have stood it ail If I bad not lost my two bora." He finding then, ag Hanna found, and as a host «f famous men have found, that happiness and true satisfaction mot be obtained from the world. Ttw world mtareprewent* them, ridicules them and decries them. and. whether It give* them its prixus or not, it wounds

and torture* them.

Oh, rich (nan! i ap{>eal to your experience. Hare ydu not realized that happlnca* is not to wealth? Have there not come timer to your life when .eon have frit that money and honor power alike fail to glue you satl*lon? You are disappointed with your life Turn to Christ, who says aacb an you. “He that drinlretb of the water that I ahall give him shall never - thirst again." Gome to him. Ybou wrt not Tar from the kingdom of God. Almost-saved! Yaa. 1 know It Why? War -weeks, perhaps, yau have >>0*0 lyitng prostrate with a daneraus slcki .near the dividing line, the crossing of -which mean* the re-creotlou and the -spiritual in Hon and the redemption of life That sick had means ts you ita .a spiritual mmmt wkiat an invalid'

Christ's;font. In the second chapter of Marie are read abase Abe wondt totfdent which took place to CapsriDaom. Hr •aooner did the people of •that City hear that Jesus had come than the -umltitudaa begun to gather about him. They caowdsd into the room wbsre be was. They crowded the Trout yard of hta residence. On toe outskirts Of the crowd we me a couple of men carrying between them one who was rick of Xbe palsy. “Oh." they say to each other -if we can only bring on brotber to CDirist. he xrlll cure him. 1 think, from reading between the lines «3f this ebaptor. that the invalid blmwelf die not card whether be saw Christ tar not. He whs too idrir to care. His Unitw hung Hasp nnd heavy. Hta eyelids drooped; the eyes were glassy. His flabby and almast dead. But the is valid was nine-tenths 1 made no difference to the

> they could not push

•re crowds who were Jostling about the front Boor they -climbed up to the roof -of the bouse. They then let tows XbeTspes .and polled the rick i

tbs 4

the rick i by being invalid, at tbe Aret of Jesus Christ Bleknat baa bsen a spiritual Meantog to you, O man. aa tbe palsy was to toe invalid of old. It has placed you

you had no aymYou would petulantly aay: "Nine-t*n ths of these so culled’tor slid* If men and women would only get up and stop tb«r complaining and stop dosing Uremaeivos with medicines they would ba. aU right." tVbeu a church wouk! . Tbou fUoL this night thy soul shall he requhud at ‘

Ttm

would say to

. sains, and t

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tousht the Lord our Ooa. w- caw Him. and Hr halt given us rest on every s.dr So they built and prospered fc And Asa tad al» army of m-r. that ban- targets and apear*. out ol Judah; three hundred y.ousend. and out of Benjamin, that bare ahle^U and drew boas :»o bundled and fourscore tfcousuna*. a., tlicac

were mighty man of valor

B. And there cam* out against them Eerah the Ethiopian with an hoot of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariot*. and came unto Mareohah 10. Then Aau went out again*; him. and they set the battle In array In the valley of

2ept.athah at Mareahat.

11 And A*a cried unto the Lord Ma God. and said, Lord. It Is nothing with Thee to help, whether with many, or w.th tt*an tl.al have no power; help ua. O La.rd. our God. for we refct on Thee, and In Thy name we go against this multitude. O Lord. Thou art our God. let no man prevali

against Thee.

It Bo the Lord smote the Ethiopian* before Asa. and before Judah: and the Ethi-

opians fled.

THE LESSON includes * Chrcn chapters J4. U and 16, and 1 Kings 1ZA-U. GOLDEN TEXT —“Help u». O Lord oar God; for werewt on Thee.■’—* Chron 14:11. TIME —Beginning of Asa’s reign, tt B. C. to S14 B. C. Tbe battle with 2erah was probably In Asa's fourteenth year. PLACE —Jerusalem, where Asa reigned. The place where Zerah. the Invader, wus delected was 2j miles southwest of JerusaPERSON8 —A»a. ths king; Zeroh. the Ethiopian invader. Events in Judah During Asa's Reign. Frophet Asariafc encourages the king.— * Chron. tt:M. puts sway Idolatry —1 Chrcn 1C 7-14

gran* nnd by other minute signs they were able to teil how many Indians were in tbe war party ahead, bo’ many horse* and csjtle anff squaw* and papoose*. During tbe AurtroPrnssiaa war In IBflfi Archdok* Joseph of Austria was warned of an imminent night attack by a gypsy soldier who was able to foresee tbe advance of the pursuing host* by Watching the birtls fly over tbe Austrian encampment. This soldier said to Prince Joseph: Your highness, bird* *lecp ** well aa oen. These bird* would not be flying about at thta time of nlgbt if they bad not been disturbed. Tbe enemy to large numbers is marching through the woods and ha* frightened them. There

will soon be fighting on oyr.front linra." ^ . unho.> i«*us with Syria.-: Ghrcre-

But. though hunters and trappers have almost miraculous seeing powers in

reference to the natural world, it does not take an inspired vision to see that we are now living In a time of great religion* awakening. How else can yon account for the thousands wbo, as converts, are giving their heart* to Jesus Christ under tbe consecrated labors of tbe evangelistic committee of tbe Presbyterian church? How elge can yon account for tbe wonderful meetings of Campbell Morgan to America. and of Toriey and Alexander in Australia and England, and the crowded schools for Bible study to Winona and Northfield and Chautauqua and Moody's Institute of Chicago? Everywhere tbe vital question is upon every Bp, “Wbat shall I then do with Jesus, who la called the Christ?" Like Pilate before tbe Jewish people, you must decide the question In reference to Jesus. You must decide for Christ or against Christ. And to bringing,you up to this question I cannot be far wrong in stating that "thon art not far from the

kingdom of God."

But wby talk so much about tbe wonderful manifestations of the Holy Spirit's power In reference to tbe world at large? Have not we seen that power manifested in our own church? Men and women, can you sit stolidly to your pews when husbands and wives and children and young men and women are seeking Jesus Christ, while so many old people and middle aged people and young people are coming? God will never give ytm n better opportunity to seek him than Just now. Will you not come to the Saviour now? Tbe last time Dwight L. Moody ever preached waa at a great series of meeti bring held in Convention ball. Kansas CHy. Suddenly be broke down, and tbe doctors told him be moat stop work at ones. They bundled tbe great •vaugrilst up and started him east for his Nortfafield bom*. But though tbe doctors coaid silence his tongue, they could not keep still his pen. When they carried him to Northfleld, with weak Sugars be wrote ont a telegram to bis Kansas City friends wbo ? carrying on the meetings to bis •toad. Hie telegram went something like this: "Mr. 8o-«nd-*o. Kansas City: Have reached bone safely. Regret exceedingly bring forced to leave. Had

Preached on Thou art not far from tbe kingdom of God.’ My prayer I* that many may be Jed into the kingdom under Mr. Torrey's preaching " Qh. my friend*, the redeemed lips of the sainted evangelist are ptemltog' 1 with you from this text to thta service today That •em-divine paeror.whk-b brought thmuRHxhr and ira« of'thousands of etebots to tbe fountain of ml Hfe to pleading with yon ra

Propfcst Hananl’s Rebuke and end at Asa’s reign.—2 Chron. 16:7-14 Events in Israel During Asa’s Reign. Death' of J ere boom and reign b: hU ton. Kadab (two years*—1 Kings 14:81. and U-Jt, 36. Jrreboam died 1c second year of

Asa’s reign.

Baosha’s conspiracy and reign, and murder of ail of Jeroboam's bouse.—1 Kings

UT7 to UA

Death of Baasfca and two years' reign of

hta son Elah.-l Kings 16 AA a

Assassination of ISah an3 all Baksha’s

house by EUnri In twenty-seventh year ql Asa’s reign, and seven days* reign of ZtflilE

-1 Kings MA-IS. ^

Omrt chosen king. He destroy* hisrivata a

Zlmrl and TibnL—l Kings Uita-lfr

Death of Omri and beginning of A Lab's, reign in thirty -eighth year of Asa's reign, j Comparing Scripture with Scripture.

“Asa did good and right in tbe

*7®* of the Lord.”—Here to the test of all conduct . How does it appear toGod? Is It in harmony with Hto. Word? Will it meet HU approval?—

Lake 16:16.

“Took away the altars brokr-

down the Images and cut down £5

grove*."—The evil* of th e reign * ^ Momon ua 1

confronted a£'

“J tat leeproi ronMc-' Uon nnd Kronsrot „ m . onla u

eror dered , ucll

Bm n cienn heart and ri«hl pun™. ?!! c “ a »m—SdL 4:1!; Bph. 6:10. Dewerot, dirou»» railUro heroic remedlni. Tb. ontr thing to do with bin, whether natlonia or individual, is to put it awav 2 Cor. 6:17. _ •w^.— “Commanded Judah to seek th» Lord.”—This to the way of ail real blessing and prosperity. There to aose and striking connection between Uils verse and the statement In vane •: "So they built and prospered" Here Is cause and effect—Prov. 14:*4; Psalms S3:12. There are many promises to tbe seeker after God.—Matt

T:T-S; Matt 6:33; Heb. 11:6.

“To do the tow.”—But there was more to Asa's reform than froth and fireworks. The ten of Us gennlnewas In tbe doing. Seeking the Ixird Issued in doing for the .Lord. So the teat of our religion to in the doing.—Matt. 7:21; John 1«:15. “Thera came out against them." But tbe testing time came.—Heb. 12:

t; Jaa. 1:2-4. -

■Aaa cried unto tbe Lord "—“Oor extremity to God's opportunity."—J Cor.

12*; Rom. 6:21.

in Asa’s Prayer—(1) Confidence in God. ’Tt is nothing with Thee." etc (2) Appeal to God "Help ua 0 God." (3) Submission to* God. "We rest on Tbe*.*- (4? Ideatifi cutfcn with God. "In Thy name are go against this muitttode... .h* no ■isn prevail ajalnu T'we." “So the Lord imoU "—When v*elory came Asa did not claim tbe glory and credit thereof.—Pa *4:1.

' The question aev