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Suggestive
Questions
On the Sunday School Lesson by
Rev. DR.. T. S. LiDScott for
the international Press Bible
OuestiO Club.
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Copyright, 1910. by Rev. T. S. Linscott, DID,.

nHERsEs 1-2-When sin is working
W wreck and ruin, how do you ex-
plain that men keep on in their
disobedience to God, as Zedekiah did?
How did Zedekiah become King Of
Judah?
What, If any, relation was Zedekiah to
the King Of Babylon? (See II Kings.
24:17)
What makes people disregard one whom
they believe to be true prophet, as many
of these Jews did jeremiah?
Verses 3-+Jerusalem was now besieged
with a powerful army and Zedekiah, in
fear. sent to ask jeremiah to pray to God
for them; was there merit or demerit in
this request from such a man? Why?
Does God answer the prayers of the
wicked for the success Of their projects
or the prayers of good people in their be-
half?
How should man be treated who Is
constantly pointing out national sins and
forecastinS their disastrous consequences
Is he ii traitor or patriot?
Verses 5-10--Zedekiah, in spite Of his
oath to the King of Babylon. had rebelled
against him and made a league with the
King of Egypt: what did God say through
jeremiah should be the result?
What is the demerit of the sin to break
an oath or betray trust?
What reason Is there to believe that
there comes i time in the life OF an in
dividual when his fate Is sealed and his
doom certain?
Verse 1.-THE Chaldean King Of Babylon
raised the siege of Jerusalem so that
Pharaohs army of relief returned to
Egypt, possibly driven back by the Chal-
deans. This gave Jerusalem short re-
spite What should the wicked do while
God withholds his judgments?
Verses 12-1f-What was the probable
object Of jeremiah in leaving Jerusalem,
now he had the opportunity?
Was there any ground at all for accus-
ing jeremiah of being traitor? (See
chapter 3S.)
Which is generally the worse, "a lie
out of whole cloth or one based upon
facts perverted?
Verses 1J-16-Why, in view of Gods
almighty power, does He permit his ser
wants to suffer for their very faithful
ness?
Verse 17-Likely by this time the Chal-
dean army had reinvested the city and
then Zedekiah, the king, gets Jeremiah
out of prison to consult him. Is it us
ual thing for bad men when in prosperity
to reject good people and when in ad-
versity consult them or ask their prayers?
Give your reasons.
,, jeremiah told the king the blunt truth.
Why should we always do that with sin
ners?
Verses 1S-21-Does good man ever get
where he may not suffer hunger, cold or
other bodily discomforts, or when he does
not desire bodily comforts as do other
men?
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mooern Builning
04anten.

A modern building is to be provided for
st. Agnes Chapel congregation and
movement is now on foot to raise at
least $1,000 additional to the $1,2O0 In
hand. Rev. C. w. Whitmore, first curate
of Trinity parish, in which St Agnes is
included is in charge of the work and
expects to raise the needed funds shortly.
A new location, il is said, will be chosen.
In the absence of Rev. w. V. Malta
lieu, pastor of the Union Methodist Epis-
copaI Church, Rev. Samuel V. Leech will
deliver his discourse entitled 'Immor-
tality the Crowning Endowment of Man" :"
tomorrow at IL am. He has been the
pastor OF a number Of the most promi-
nent Methodist churches in the country
and when stationed at Albany. N. Y.
was chaplain of the New York state SEN
ate.
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Tomorrow morning. at the Church Of
the Covenant. Rev. ]. F. Fitschen of
Ithaca, n. Y. will preach. There will
be the usual 7:3O o'clock musical service
at the tent, corner Park road and Mount
Pleasant street, led by Mr.. John
Bowie. tenor; assisted by members of
the United States Marine Band, and Miss
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~ HE pulpit of Hamline Methodist
D Episcopal Church will be supplied
~ for tomorrow and next Sunday,
In the absence of the pastor, Rev. Joseph
NJ. M. Gray, by the Rev. A. +. Campbell,
pastor of the Beekman Hill Methodist
Episcopal Church. New York city
DR.. Campbell was formerly a member
of the Baltimore conference. having serv-
ed pastorates in Baltimore and elsewhere.
Two years ago, he was invited to the
pastorate of Tabernacle Methodist Epis-
copaI Church, Brooklyn. N. Y. to which
charge he was transferred. and where ne
effected the consolidation of the Taber-
nacle Church with the First Church,
making what is regarded a very strong
organization He is widely known In this
part of Methodism. as we'll as In other
places for his success as an evangelist,
having had engagements in many of the
larger evangelistic campaigns OF the
church, In recent years. AT present. he Is
enga ged in the services at Emory Grove
camp meeting, Reisterstown, Nd
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Religious Persecution.

Because Jeremiah was faithful to hts
God he was misjudged They considered
that the prophet was traitor when, dur
ing the raising OF the siege, he sought
to go out by the north gate to his farm
to receive his share of the crops. The
prophet had declared that the city would
fall into the hands OF the ChaldeanS, and
that ''he that abideth in this city shall
die by the sword, the famine and the
pestilence, but he that goeth forth to
the Chaldeans shall live" The prophet S
denial of being traitor was not ac-
cepted by the keeper of the gate, where
only friends of the Egyptians were placed
on guard. There was no one to help the
prophet in his peril. The princes in our
last lesson defended him, but the rulers
in today's cast him into prison, for no
other reason than that he was faithful
to his commission as a prophet. The
missionary records of all denominations
have suffered in order to advance the
kingdom of Christ The blood of the
martyrs has always been the seed of the
church. To be sent of God is often a
call to suffer for His glory: The faith
full witnesses of God. including the Son
of God Himself. have been called upon
to pass through the fires of religious
persecution,
The Goddess leaders of all ages have
had no desire to hear the truth It was
the sting of unwelcome truth which so
exasperated the leaders of our Lords time
that on the strength of a trumped-up
charge they nailed the Master to the
cross. The disciple is not above his Lord,
but the country, city or class who reject
and condemn the prophet, preacher or
priest because they have revealed Gods
will and spoken the divine truth will bring
destruction upon themselves. Judah fell
because they refused to heed jeremiah s
message. God will punish all who seek %
discourage, defeat or DESTROY the work of
His faithful ministers. Christ identified
Himself with his servants when He de-
clared HE that despiseth you despiseth
Me-"
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Brotberboon of
ST. Qn0reh1.

~ HE services in the Episcopal Chapel
VI at Glen Echo are being conducted
during the month of August by
Mr.. William B. Dent, president of the
Washington Brotherhood Assembly.
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The preliminary program for the ma
tional brotherhood convention for the
United States and Canada, to be held in
Buffalo. N. Y, October 1922, has just
been published, and contains the names,
as speakers and leaders of the several
topics, of some of the most prominent
bishops, priests and laymen Of the Amer
lean church and the church In Canada.
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praper.
Bp Dr. Games %. Clapton

~ UR Father! we thank Thee
" for the gift OF tears. When
Joy cannot sing and sorrow can
not speak JOY and sorrow can cry.
How they comfort us! They are
like the rain on burning day,
when the heavens are as brass
and the earth a burning furnace
rain which cleans the air, freshens
the blossoms and fills the springs
in the valleys and on the hillsides.
They are pearls wrung from ag-
ony, fashioned by the heart from
its life-blood. They are Thy gift
to stretching nerves, Thy solace
to an overburdened heart, Thy
benediction on a sympathetic
spirit.
We thank Thee, our Father, for
our tears! When Thou madest
the eye Thou didst not forget
that we should breathe, and
so Thou didst fashion the
tear-gland; Thou rememberedst
that we should sorrow, and there
fore Thou didst connect eye and
heart that Our burdens might be
wept away on Thy bosom. So,
we thank Thee that when JOY and
grief are too great for words, they
can weep, and afterward Thou
hast promised us fearless
heaven, where there are no causes
OF weeping.
Like David, we have prayed in
our grief, "put Thou my tears
into Thy bottle; like Jesus, we
have wept by the graves of oul
dead; like Washington, we have
wept over national disasters; like
Paul, we have wept over the
wrongdoing of the world; like
John, we have cried for JOY as we
caught glimpses of heaven.
Make us compassionate, that
when we behold tears on the faces
of little children, sorrowing wom-
en- and penitent men we may re-
joice with those that do rejoice
and weep with those that weep
Give us, and all who sorrow, the
confident assurance that though
weeping may endure for a night
JOY cometh in the morning.
Wipe away every tear from every
face when sorrow has done It's
perfect work in the heart by max
ing it submissive to God and SYM
pathetic with men. For the gift
of nature-the tears that relieve
the overcharged heart-and for the
gift of grace-the hope of JOY
without sorrow-we thank Thee
morning, noon and night Give
us good eyesight that we may trace
the rainbow through the rain and
see the breaking of the cloudless
dawn, in whose light we shall be-
hold Christ face to face; and al
Our Emmaus may we recover al
that we have lost in our Jerusa-
lem, seeing Him whom we love
and whose SCARED hands, touch
ing our faces, shall Danish gloom
and weeping forever. Amen.
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Blessed Sufferings.

1t was not easy for the prophet to pass
the weary days alone in the dungeon to
which they had lowered him because they
We're afraid to take his life. He rejoiced
because it was his privilege to suffer for
the glory of his God. The Lord drew
near to him and revealed the final triumph
and return after period of seventy years
of exile for the nation. The Lord drew
near unto Peter and Silas while they were
in prison and enabled them to sing at
midnight glory song. The apostle Paul
in the epiStles while prisoner reveals the
presence of God with him. His revelations
have strengthened the church throughout
all it's history. Bunyan's visions came to
him while in prison. The bars Of the jail
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Prayer Halls in Russia.
From Sunday at Home.

In the villages of Russia the prayer
hail. is the common 'izba' or cottage of
Stundist mujik, or shed attached TO
a very primitive farmstead surrounded by
prodigious quantities OF mud. dust or
snow. according to the season of the
year. separate building erected ex-
pressly for worship among the rural evan
gelicals of Russia is a luxury yet to be
provided in the great majority OF cases.
The meeting place, whether 'iZba" or
outhouse. has walls Of earth. 1t is with
out ceiling. The noor is the bare earth,
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A Maximum Age for Marriage.
From the London Chronicle

From the London Chronicle
According to Russian law no person
over eighty years Of age can enter the
bonds OF matrimony. All civilized coun-
tries fix a minimum age for marriage.
but nowadays apparently only in Russia
is a maximum age laid down. The law
in ancient Rome was strict on this point.
no man over sixty or woman over fifty
being allowed to marry.
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Alexannria County 5unhap 5cbool
a88oriatiom to meet.

the Virginia secretary of state. Thomas
c. Diggs Music will be furnished by
the Alexandria County Choral Society.
The delegates from a distance will be
given lunch between the sessions.
1t is desired that every school in the
county be represented. The election of
officers and paying the pledge for the
year will be important business features
of the convention. A. S. Woodland is
president and Mrs. T. B. Young secre-
tary.
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False Hopes.

The approach Of the Egyptians called
for the exercise of the strategy that
made Nebuchadnezzar one of the
worlds greatest military leaders. He
quickly raised the siege. marched to
meet the army of Pharaoh, whom he
defeated and forced to retreat into
Egypt The fanatics accepted il as an
omen. God had delivered Jerusalem by
summoning SennecAerib to meet Tir-
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tomorrow. The service it is pointed out
will be Of special interest to the members
of the congregation because of the fact
that Rev. Mr.. Derrick was a member of
the church when boy.
He is at present on a visit to relatives
In this city, and expects shortly to re-
turn again to Georgia to take up his work
in Augusta
Since taking charge of the Augusta
Church several years ago. Rev. Mr.. Der
rick has been especially successful in
building up the work and his progress in
the southern city is a source of no little
pride to the members of his mother
church, who have known him for years.
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trodden hard by many feet through the
lapse of long years. and worn into Jumps
and hollows The walls are Hme-washed
and destitute of decoration or adornment,
There are rough wooden benches around
and across the room. The place is usually
packed to suffocation with men, women
and children. crowded on the seats,
thronging the doorways. and budding to-
gether on the top of the huge stove.
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~ HE annual meeting Of the Alex
Ol. andria County Sunday School As
sociation will be held in the Balls
ton, Va, Presbyterian Church next Fri
day. Meetings will be held at $3.50 and
8 o'clock.
Reports of delegates and departmental
superintendents will occupy the time of
the afternoon session, and in the even
ing the convention will be addressed by
Evening star., 1911-08-19

At Virginia Beach the town council
has sounded the virtue Of the community
and, finding nothing to condemn, has
voted unanimously to abolish the police
department September !.
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: 4 Xpa8tor and qfopleXZBE;{} :
A sensitive plant in garden grew.
And the young winds fed 1t with silver dew.

Anne c. Holden. accompanist. Rev. DR..
Fftschen will preach at the o'clock serv-
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former pastor
to preafb Dere
Reh. k. s.. Omens of
mapnesboro, VA,
dWill Be at first
BAPTIST Gburfb 90
fnnrrntu.

~ HE First Baptist Church pulpit II
Dl, to be occupied tomorrow morning
by Rev. X. $. Owens formerly
pastor OF the Maryland Avenue Baptiss
Church Of this city and now In charge
of the Waynesboro. Va, church Of tilae
denomination. \ large number OF NM
Owens friends from various Baptist
churches OF the city. 1t is said. will ats
teEd the First Church to hear him.
Capt. Powell Grady OF the First Church.
has recently returned from a visit I'd
Waynesboro and reports that Rev. Mr.
Owens has been especially successful
since taking charge of the church there
several months ago. The church is an
especially splendid building. admirably
suited for the work. il is said. and the
Sunday morning services are usually ats
tended by from 500 to 900 worshipers-
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Don't Be a 5ensitibe aDlant.
Bp the Cburtbman.

n~HE poet Shelley begins of his striking
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0Qill preacb at
lutber Cburfb
Tonrorrom

Reb. g. Bomman Derrifk
of Georgia, 0Gbo IS
to 0ffupp pulpit,@ @as
formerly Memher of
Total Cbureb.
~ Ev. J. BOWMAN DERRICK. pas
* tor of the First English Lutheran
~ Church of Augusta, Ga, Is to
occupy the pulpit of the Luther Place Me-
mortal Church at the II o'clock service
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-14
NORTH LYME
Mrs. Edward LaPIace a Patient a,
Bacless HospitaI-PersonsI Items.

James l.. Raymond and Mrs Mary
Tcsdick who have been i'll the past
week, are improving.
Token to Backus Hospital.
The many friends of Mrs. Edward
EsPfece were sorry TO learn OF her Sc
rSosle Illness the last of last week
which proved to be appendicitis. DR.
ringiey. with q nurse from Norwich
came out Monday to perform an opera
ton. but found her condition SO seri-
Gus that they took her to the Backus
hospital Norwich, for treatment. Mr..
LAPiace and Mr.. and Mrs. Alma La
Place are also in Norwich.
Mrs. l.. o. Gates and Mrs. Lucy Wet
more vtcfted at G. III. Strong's Satur-
day, rs did Miss Angelina Beckwith of
Hamburg and Rev. and Mrs. Francis
PurSss ON Tuesday.
Motored to East Lyme.
". n Sfsson. Jr., and Mrs. William
Stsyon notored to East Lyme Tuesday;
also Mrs. Lucy Wetmore who has gone
20 New London and Pawtueket, after
which she will go to Edgwood, n. J..
whero she expects to spend the winter
vfth friends.
Henry Legion and Family, who have
occupied w. NJ. Sisson's tenement
house for q number Of years past, have
moved TO Nausatack, where they ex-
pect to locate for the present.
CORTLAND MAYNARD has hredd the
tenement, and expects to work in
Woodznont distillery this winter.
Ralph Ctbson Is Ill with pneumonia.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-14
PAGES NINE TO SIXTEEN

officers were chosen: President Mrs.
Frank A. Thompson; vice presidents,
for church aid department, Mrs. l.. f.
Park, Mrs. Elmer e. Maine; for Home
Mission department. Mrs. j. FL. Adams;
for Foreign Missions department, Mrs.
Lucian Drury; secretary, Mrs. w. II.
Hillard; treasurer, Mrs. George II.
Stone: directresses, Mrs. George A.
Thompson, Mrs. l.. f. Park, Mrs. u. \.
White, Miss Lila G.. Thompson. The
business session was followed py re-
freshments and a social hour.
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Stone went
to New York Wednesday night. They
will spend Sunday with relatives in
Bridgeport.
Social and Personal.
Mrs. Dwight E. Hewitt is visiting in
Westport.
of her sister in Northampton, Mass.
Mrs William D. Breaker of Brook
1yn, N. Y, was a caller in town We'd
nesday.
Mrs. c. E. Hewitt and Mr.. and Mrs.
George w. Tryon We're guests sunday
ton.
Mrs Alice Tuell of New London is
visiting Mrs. FL M. Perkins.
Prof. Samel Train Dutton of New
York has been in town this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John D. Avery and
MISS Aimee Avery aIlended the deWitt-
Woodward wedding in Norwich last
Saturday.
Delegates to Convention.
Rev. and Mrs. J. II. Adams, Rev. Lu-
clan Drury and Mrs. Chester S. Maine
will be delegates from the local Bap-
fist church to the Baptist state con-
vention at Waterbury Oct 1913.
Rev. ]. Fl. Adams and Rev. Lucian
Drury attended the conference of Bap-
fist pastors and Sunday school super
intendents at Jewett City Monday.
Rev. Lucian Drury will preach in Nj
antic Sunday.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-14
LEDYARD
Local Grange Guests of Preston City
SocIety-Events of the Week.

Rev. w. F. Whites address on Sun
day morning vas Surely the wrath Of
man shall please thee Rev. Mr..
White delivered an excellent address
and was closely listened to by a good
sized audience.
J. B. Gray Broke a. Rib.
James d. Gray met with an accident
recently, being caught between the
wheel and the body of cart. Mr..
Gray had one rib broken. He will
not be able to work for some time.
Visit Preston City Grange.
Members of Ledyard grange to the
number of 20 went to Preston City on
Tuesday evening and conducted the
exercises of the evening. For the lit
erary hour, Mrs. Fannie Clark, lee
turer of Ledyard grange, had charge
served by the Preston City grange and
all pronounced Ledyard grange good
entertainers.
Mrs. Nicholas Allyn OF New York, a
former resident of this town, is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. George Henry
Babcock.
Mrs. Thomas Linton of Norwich is
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel E,
Gray.
s. S. Brown Mackenzie of Mystic was
the guest of his sister, Mrs. Enos NJ.
Gray, Saturday night and Sunday
ed the Stafford Springs fair Thurs
| day.
Emmons White, who returned from
Yale on account of illness, is still
confined to his home.
Eva Rogers, who has been staying
with Mrs. John NJ. Gray for the past
year, is now staying in New London
with Mrs. Albert Rogers, attending
the evening sessions of the New Lon
don business college.
School Committee Organizes.
A meeting of the new town school
committee was held at the residence OF
Samuel E. Hokiridge Thursday even
ing. All the members of the board
were present. Charles d. Geer was
chosen chairman and Thomas P. Nor
man secretary. Three committees were
formed, building committee, a teach
ers' committee and a supply commit
tee. Joseph e. 1Holdridge and Billings
L. Avery wore elected the building
committee; Thomas P. Norman and
Charles ID. Geer the teachers commit
tee, and Calvin r. Main and Samuel Il.
Holdridge the supply committee. Reg
ular meetings Will be held every two
months at the residence of the chair
man.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-14
EASTERN CONNECTICUT and WESTERN RHODE ISLAND
LISBON
Harvest Supper at Parsonase-Thresh.
ing Oats.

Miss Augusta Learned is visiting at
the home of her brother, Charles P.
Learned, in Franklin, Mass.
Miss Nellie Nell returned Wednes-
day from visit of several days with
relatives in Wi1limantic.
Charles Strong of Lebanon was in
town Monday.
Mrs. j. B. Palmer, IT,, has been the
guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
David Snow, at Mansfield Depot.
Several farmers in the southern part
of the town have had their oats
threshed this week by Charles Benja-
min of Preston City with his gasoline
engine and beater.
Sunday evening an interesting mis-
sionary talk on Africa was given by
Miss Lucy Baldwin.
Attended Funeral.
Relatives and friends from here who
attended the funeral of Hon. Caleb
Bishop, in South Plainfield, Monday,
We're: Mrs. Maria Lovett, Mrs. Emma
Hyde, Mr.. and Mrs. J. HI. Kennedy, Mr..
and Mrs. F. e. Hyde. Mrs. S. 3. Had
ley. Miss Lucy Baldwin, Whiting Fitch,
Mrs. Harry Hull, Mrs. A. E. Learned,
Mrs. Augustus Read and Mrs. Ransom
Read.
A harvest supper was given at the
parsonage last Friday evening by the
young people of the church.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-14
Face peeling Easy
Blonde or Brunette

1.-THE blondes complexion fades
carly, because her skin is extraordi-
narily thin and fine says Nine. Lima
Cavalieri, perhaps the most famous
living beauty. The brunette's, as a
rule, is the reverse. The skin is thick
er and has tendency to an oily ap-
pearance."
For either the faded blondes skin
or the brunette's oily or sallow COM
plexion. the best remedy is ordinary
mercolized wax. Used daily, this will
give one an entirely new complexion
within about a weeks time. Tho wax
gradually absorbs the worn-out sur
face skin, with all its defects, a little
each day, without affecting the deli
cate underslzin in the least. The latter
will have the exquisitely beautiful
glow of youth-indeed, one may read
lily lose ten or fifteen years from her
age, so far as appearance goes, by a
course of this simple treatment. Mer-
eolized wax. securable at any drug
store, is applied like cold cream.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-14
OCcUM AND VERSAILLES
Half Holiday on Columbus Day-social
Evening in Honor of New Haven
Guests.

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D. Freeman
and daughter, Miss Clara Freeman. of
Hyde Park, Mass. were guests of Oc-
cum friends Thursday.
The Occun school. in common with
the other schools in town, held a half
day session Thursday.
Ernest c. Leonard has been absent
from his duties at the Totokett store
during the past week, being callea-to
Wauregan by the illness and death of
his father, Thomas Leonard.
Mrs. F. B. Bushnell entertained the
members of her Sunday school class
Thursday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Kinder enter
tanned a party of friends on Thursday
evening in honor of Miss Marie Schaef
er and Daniel PJutzel of New Haven.
Miss Schaefer and Mr.. Putzel have
been guests at the Kinder home during
the entire week.