The National tribune., 1892-02-11
SUNDAY MEDITATION.

Practical Duties Taught by Study OF the
international sunday-schoOl Lesson APP
pointed for Feb. FL, 1892. Jer.. 80: 1881.
Zone reading these notes should first carefully
study the paragraph from the Holy Scriptures as
indicated Rboye.l
SUBJECTS: ]. THE Book DESTROYED. III.
THE Book REWRITTEN.
Preliminary.
Important documents should be preserved.
Very significant statements should be put into
permanent form. Verbal declarations are sub
jcct to mutilatiOns. One understands best that
which ho not only hears but also sees. Then,
jeremiah was practically n prisoner. tN. 81
He was shut mp" He was, as we might say,
put on the limits. If he could have gone IN
person TO the Temple and have made the state
ments, they would undoubtedly have been ac-
curate Since he must intrust the message 70
delegate. il was necessary the facts DO put IN
written form. We SEQ ample reasons why
word was sent TO jeremiah directing him TO re-
cord all his prophecies.
We notice tY. 81 how careful God Is TO fore
warn people OF impending dangers and give the
evil chance to reform and escape harm. Tho
land of Judah was in a desperate condition.
The people had suffered seriously in conse-
quenco Of their sins. Thorough reformation
was their only method Of avoiding oyerhauginR
dangers. To give them chance 10 turn from
their evil cOurscs-to seize from them, IT they
persevered in evil all oxcuse-G0d takes pre-
caution to have King, Princes and people all
explicitly informed.
Dcfsitions.
/. The Roll. (y. 81 CT V. 2) Notice
link was used. lY. l5l The Roll was called
a book" tY. 49, We read in v. % OF
"penknife." In those days writer's used reeds
for pens, aud there would DO frequent occasion
to sharpen and mend them. Printing was an
art utterly unknown. We may date the origin
Of the art Of printing in the year 1870, and refer
it to Lawrence Roster. In early times written
matter was on parchments. basil. papyrus,
carthcn slabs, etc. Those on parchment or
ycllum were not kept in separate leaves. Tho
pieces we're fastened end 20 end, forming very
long manuscript. roller was attached at each
end. As the document was read it was I'M
wound from one roller and wound over the
other. liz there were no roller the writing was
read and could easily wind on itself. The
places where leaves joined were readily notice
able. that one could tear OF leaf after leaf as
he read. Sometimes the people used the word
/ leaf as we do the term paragraph. A few
manuscripts exist with leaves fasteaed as we do
/ our book leaves, one after the other separate.
2. Fire on the hearth burning" (V. 22.l
Toward the comfort Of humanity, evolution OF
/ heating methods has contributed a very large
I share. In Egypt, MesOpotamia, etc, pots full
\ OF burning Goals are placed in rooms 10 give OF
/ their heat. They are not put within apart
/ meuts until the smoke has ceased. leaving tho
Goals brilliant. What is known as the Spanish
| Jrd=eTito is pan Of hot Goals brought into a
/ room 10 raise its temperature. traveller says,
I "ThetmHOOT, common throughout Armenia and
/ Syria is a cylindrical hole sunk about three
\ feet i'm the ground in some part OF the room,
/ with and air fac entering in at the bottom.
\ The open skyiight alone gives escape TO the
\ smoke. To transform this into the taHHOOr, a
Il a - ID. q .
f when we'll heated, TO stop the draft. A
square frame a foot high is then placed above
it. and over this is spread thick coyerlet,
| which retains all the heat. Under this the
members Of the family thrust their legs and
arms" The expressions, " the family hearth,
/ the home fireside," would lose much signih-
/ canoe under such circumstances. Much could
/ not DO done i'm the way OF heating houses till
/ chimneys were built, and 10 Is fact that we
must date such improvement in the year 1896.
| Under Edward l. q man was executed for burn
/ ing what we now understand as coal. The
/ House Of Commons forbade the use OF such
"noxious fuel" We notice excavations at
BaiR, Italy, show that ancently hot water
was introduced there into residences the heat
ing having been done outside. The introduce
iion Of fireplaces, stoves, furnaces, steam, etc,
has added amazingly to our modern civilization,
( REFRESHING croakers and pessmists.
3. Rent their garments. ". 2L) Ia eastern
countries it was the custom to show outward y
the feelings Of grief, shame, etc, by tearing
garments, hair, etc. lGen., 81 81; XII, 81
:; Err, 9:3; Job, l 30; Joel, 2 10; st. Mt.
&c: 90; Acts, II II; 1G:22.) In great excite
ment there is n tendency prompting TO the
tearing out OF the hair and even to the mutt
lation Of some parts Of the body. One notice:
in the literature of the passions many illustra
tiOEs.
4. Ninth month. Tvs. Q, 22) The Hebrew
months were Nissan III, Swan, Tammuz, Alb
Elul, TisTi, Bul, Chisleu, Tebeth, Shebat. Adar
The ninth month was Chisleu. That month
corresponds to One-haIf Of our November aud
one half Of December The Jewish year begins
about March 10.