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TL« i mn < n Inr nnliln mile, and Jeans will be thei r king. All of affairs , without a parallel in the on- the same , proporti on as the warrior 's a/faith; I shall treat them separa tely : ' HieheSt of all iA leavening Power.—Latest 'U.S. Gov't Repor tl llr nlllrilCdn ISlflullllj l tnifl iB P°Baiu1o in church language , in oient world. Most remarkable in all power and importa nce Increase , in the first , Tdr ah and then Mitzvoth. : * . . , v . . . . . .I IIU ni l iui iu u u reality however , it is oil impossible. It this is that the prophets , of whom the mili tary despotism '.; It is natoral enough II

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ISAA C M . WISE - - - - Editor. toUowB that lu church linage Mr. laud of Israel was full-according to therefore , that the assassins of the Pente ta oh to^SSffin ^hi &JR El l" KaKI

fflfif '_ ' ___ Tris understands tho prophets correctly, the sources before us—p ot only found kings were their own warriors ;' , . . ets and the H»giographa.( 8). -Bnt tht s is . ^^^MvBf^A ..¦ „ ' '| #! pPB wLI fl"B2K ;" '

T f^O \AVT «5"Fi* * H O in ordinary, realistic , practical languag e those murderous proceedings heaven 's The division of the land in this king- only for the , purpose of - olasslfldation. . ^M^ A^«i P^ p^^^'¦ • ¦ J h ¦' - ' . ' ' ' < W ' ; Cv.l^HsV Wiaii « t-u., he dws not uu(]orfltnud the Bible, and just retribution on thoso wicked men, dom was the beginning of this disaster, {£",£}?? trne . that in a certM Vmeasure ¦ m» ^0; :M :Sm(A| i l^ '-M M r i"! «1 Wr,;.,,,*.,.*, ,n P F"*""' ™'; we Jews are rather matter of fact aud in one instance at least , in the as- It broke a strong imtiou in hvo weaW ^

¦ ". W^BfV ^^^-!L '^H^OWVO cPOfBce- N W Cor Fiftluuu l Vine Sto.. Pe°Ple' sasninat ion of the king of Syria and the hostile factions. The apost acy inten ded' of ¦ Moses having been- as. this Rabbis flL

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l ^. 3$2§2SiiJ35 F3 M ^K-1*T^^'J. . _L . " . 1- , ¦ . : — ' * * ''• massacres by Jehu , the prophet Elishft , to make to make the division permanent avow, much blearer ' thiu ttbat of his sue- -' ~ " ' » L j f r M'm ITCIV DllRf ' 'Cincinnati , 0., November 21, 1895. THE KINGDOMS OF. ISRAEL AND: n« directed by the prophet Elij ah (1. produced hatred and fanatioism against ^ SSmS S^^^&

' AWflW™ , : ****?.& ;.,— — JUDAH. Kings . SiX . ID , 10), was the instigator of the kings wid their supporters. This led had - the Bcr SS-aufchority of the Torai ' ' ¦•

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to a suffocating military despotism , and itself /Num. *ii./0-8, - Dent; xxxW. lQ), : && the Scnptnral aut hority for the; ¦ : : ' II. ,our lecture of Friday evening last , at Bllsha and other prophets and their dis- this again to that fearful rcgioide.phang e J*}1

ou the other : han d.they could not b9llef iu resurrection , both the Pro phets contributions to Biblical Exeaeah b, » '4KBSCRIPT I0N PK 1CE , PER YEA R - - - U 00 . K K B Y TBm_Jlp ,„ Cinoiuuati ciplos in times of disaster stood firmly by of dynast y dolph von Iherin* " H*-

™ » r ? Yv s; o ° :; eu ™-^s-^ *- «,• ^oZ^ u^ *otkPesiace to Eara pe . Oflg Year - - - ¦ U (TO rRel Having discussed the century of **« ™ 8e« whether we can find a key to rusalem fell in consequence of their sins tr aductions between the - Pr ophets and aTmuoh wlight ias that derive d from the Vor SMhichitn .. d& Ind p europater, tounikatk s of ADVBBTis.xn. saul , David and Solomon , and the causes unlock this mysterious anomalv. only; they fell because they were located ^l0

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Bt"ru 'Ul,b, ' M 'ir "" K"" mr "- """" sA " - ' """ in .In dah and Israel , the lecturer dwelt . , . , , . . , . aud Assyna-Baby lon, each-greedy to ^m and "I ^vitioali sa^ and Prophet : S'^Sadl SSSdSfr ^ the term Totah inWstingnotes on and exposfi °ita,, s . - r . A V A . n K K n s . M K S - . s ,.. on thl) According to the sources before as in 8WaiW the mar itime western Asia, ism.which modern criticism has broug ht K tffic * or^'instru otion and Biblical themes whioh/deservo attenti onk B«*.. o» ft ,,,.ii.-,lii„„ .

wynastiks am) rk qicides Kings and Chromole s, apostooy was the Sooner or later Pal estine had to Snoonmb light, the Rabbis were as little opnV wta therefore wide enough to embrac e both on account of the auth or 's celeliritj l-o^^ TV.rr Tn.r mV^in'i * ^ ;nwT/ „ "

Tk , , oauae of ™™V tioa *& aU its disasters. .„ aJ .,, the natioi lfl abont theiiL : Bdous w ithe Apostles, With theR abbis the whole of the Sorintnres. faa) - ,. »*$ rS^ 0 ,al *>»,., niiiii 'r.. »-i.«i« w »vr ,.r.. pu i.iM, ,.. ! i> , t i„- He said this: In .Tndah one dynasty Samnel 6aut David , and Solomon.-in : - ¦-.- ¦i . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . the Prophe ts for med only a complement in a certain manner it Is extende d even I deem it parti Owarly . necessary to caU. ^«kiu (an isiuKi.iT t : .,iii > iik ii.ii.i i.iiiu r r , ui a j^j (.jj o i-hroiie for iiaarlv flve hun- ^, ,' \ * u- • i j ¦ " ' ¦ ' ¦ > * ' . or. even a commentary to the Torfth , hB1,nn a >h« Hmit u of ¦' : the Sorint ores. attention to tnem i neoanse, beine th»^""r ¦'¦'"" »'fr"" tr7yt2 t riZrTz2^, he

tr ! PM l- ?T T8? S0ME W^*8 0ir S- SCHEO^ ^oh^ todeed W^, ¦..« - doSiKSri«|-. BosweSSolo:1 work of - one , wbo waa riot a . Pm^Z. ltt MJ «Ma K »y .f tt e tiTtrtte wt. i« ntk *™ .^' "J

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H^ m^b^ to/^.,^ orvtio, they mlghUasUy escape notice;. 'Hi«r lwr.na fcrt «iiiNnnr»niv < r ir»tothikt with the exception of (-. years of Queen noftnit igh Paganism in , the land. The . . ; ¦ . ^ . P

¦ ,, -¦. may almost call it ,-wi ta which the Rab- fhelr masters too'closely, theysaid :, "I t , -In harm (>ny with the gener al pnnxwe '.¦u nrttotri ki ld th *. r ahitai i»» iv i>uti wtkat ttaj Athalial i's reign . During and shortly natioa had become Mosaic in religion The Rbbeft . Clfir ke Company (book- J^' ^^ u01^^^ *¦ ° Torfth . which; we . are desirous of

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.- iS S^S^ii^ffi '^^vlir and his nurse , corroborated by the h,gh dor. Solomon , the first rationalist upon information on Jewish literature , all gS-^JS^H^^^M^' me) 1(84) thus Wrjng theVd axioui,- ^^

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Mt opay for o^e year. ana .Deneved, simpiy pecause 11 was nn1 tho conrt^ , The people looked to: tbe pn onr table by authors or publishers , el's: Jm\tatw Dei , consisting chiefly^^ in : aa(Wer j ,jm Dy i-eoibne verses from ; the " Again: "Cain slays Abel. What j*:- t»»iiiisir iTioN.i^t Kto. ,.,1 hr thL- wrh ,T, »ni de™tood -; n0|w but a scion .of David gorgeon8 , tem le oi Jehovah . When, Still we know the Renew well' , and can fl^Lneaa .«11 > and aappUia s' to Is«"llits, Bible , bat wbuld . feel it incumbent on this precisely intended t6 teU ns? . If xhe;.K!Kffi^M&Vl,Si?ri ; ¦ conldmaintain himself upon that thrcn e. nfter Ws deBtb hfa anfl ^

say of . jt W6 . baTO nothing :s3maar toit ^SSSS ^&S^-^&A f him to give him , some spirita al or a le- f»Sl«*Wg-b^ n-iumeii unluiii for ^iinkHi fur uMuiiiut Vuii ut fit is therefore ouite uncertain , :that „i„M n^»,i ™J i*„. ei„i«W,r,n 'i,- mii» «/«,'* w^is u 1 - t *

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^6! upon jnaryel—first K0rical explanation of a verse from the matae the ieinons- orune of fratrici de,; «^-ii,i ,rwit,c StoJ ihe t ri iHiHiicr . , l" » ™ I™

' continued upholding . Solomon s policy in the-English language and but one in proclaims that pr inciple of loving one's SorinttireR - m-would:" trei itF him 'to some why . specially emphasize the ciroom. ,^_ , ' •

„,»• . , ¦ " • • from flnd after king- Jehoaah any body for twenty years ,- they were foUowed by Fre nch, and non e in German , at present- neighbor as one'8self(Lev,xix. ¦») ¦whi ch J£ g| S"bMrSc bS K atanoes ^'tb&e -of i th 'e brothera '" aN^^JTEMS.

was a descendant of king Dav# by, the law.a^

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25' ^d, overcame , that evn periods in a good .English and ,pppnlar seem to imply, :tjhat at a certain ,period .iW Brn W.^Mta ^na.a.d^amend early ". appearance . of agric ulture ? htregvectiva addre iseB, before the tlmo specified, except «ms very jenousn, tun a inter uu influence. ; There were no Davidian an-, diction. The number before ns we find , there were people who held the.narra- , Lthrb uth der Amaia vmnichai.jtdigiont Qttchichtt, brother 's ¦ murder symbolizes -the fact "ii*tyr/ V'*rlt.-.Seioie }iona%y aoou U> <iii T,: Amaziali ) and he was guilty of having tecedents for the kingdom of Israel . Je- besides reviews of new publications in tiTea..of .the , Bible in: slight estimation , V»L ' : ,¦- . - . .. ¦;• -; that husbandry- rthe most efficient meth- 'n£S Pk.-B,fore :Mond .y noon «o ^nei tke slaughter

of the prophet roboam i ,3 a poHtical mea8nM i : out the field of, Hebrai c ,( Rabbinica and SSlKteS ?<&!*a&ft£S ^l! ^

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^Temple imount , ;(2 thMads of conneoti oh :with Jerusalem , English , tran slations of Hebrew poems ever re™ct su^athough?v Sh'S- -ndnoth ingeise. ^^ eacbi ng^a^i^har- .

S2nt^^t^t-Zt *«^>ai«T»lei-B«io™ Kondiy iwoiito i06 E. Chronicles . xxiv.; 31), althongh he was the house of David , the templ e of Solo-; from the - SpanisfrMoori sh period by nation. To them the whole of the To- notorize d a Kn*-|lN-ts Bee gaad iaa nd ibn Etra ing of flocks and herds . '

Kentnoky St., between lit and Brook Sit. , the pon.of thevery high priest who made mon and it8 - entire priesthood ; :; fasti- some distinguished Jewesses in England; f^ represented , the-word :of God , die- to Eiodua XXIV, ia.^w. „\v„fl, "On land suitable for pasture and till- ¦^fS^SSSSSSi&J ^&i

the boy king of Judah. - ioaed ^^8. symbols after , the original essa ahd treatises on. Rabbinic

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M^JS ^^«-'.^.W art nil .. - . . .- ,. - . , ... • . :, *;: ¦[The mBJiciou s acousation aga nst l^

;made ' a : new court Th^logy, by S. So^ 6 Bee Kxod. B^ah . XXXi. g-^£*g, Abel must give

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efor " ^elites to be "the people that killed^the religion ( a - 8tate . ^u^h perfectly of Spinotfsm, " by J. Freudenthal ; the htetory. of . humanity " written , ih ad- '^«^torii wtoe,iiegntah . si . , B«b» Ba- Iheriiig might also" have added that

;'B»ium ore. ~Beiore Monda y noon to M. R., prophets " is a positive falsehood . For forei to .-y, le Tha : conrt ,.. PbiloDeaii Text of the Septnagiht ," by van

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¦« ¦ . . the shepherd' s easy -and enviable mod» |Bo«a5 , j,aM HppMM Unlve i»ijy . ; - . iu Jndah only two prophets in the ten and the ; state KaV one rehgion and P C Convbe are • "Jews in-China " bv ^Ad-am,' ^^L* ^7°' ¦ tbie 7 8ee Jeb ^?*. «-b; Lev. Kabbah, I. of existenoe, in its sharp contras t to the¦- ¦ ' - ' '¦ ¦ ¦

¦ ¦ • ¦ •— r~" «mtnrie<i of iu existence were slain ' this ?u , ,: ?

one reugion anu

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Jew s.in vnina, ny Genesis , in which the dignity of man is 8 see the well-known punni about KieUel toilsome and distastef ul oconpation ofMR. bamvel w. GOLDBEBG, centnnes , or its existence were siain , mis the people had another. This is evident A. ..Nenba ner, aria "I bn Ezra m En- indioated by the fact of his having twen in 8ba0b«eJi , n b, and.rfenaoboth. is a. The the field labourer is shad owed fortil i«.b. r.«uUri, »«er.d1t.d buain... r.p M. Zachariah and one Uriah (see . in. Jere - from th6 powerful influence of the pro- gland ,*' by M. Friedlander ; plenty of owatjd ih;the. image of God. teaches. U^ sSS ^ S^ Ji MamSlli Cain 's hatred of his hroth er- (l)'MDtat ^va and correepoodent of »u of our miah), and both were assassinated by Phets tipdn that people to the " very end oriirin al matter for one dollar. The ^P0

?8 to; Ben Atai j-«ven -a-greater . -which tbey aid not try to reconolic was mat Another wide and brilliantly develop-

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cut Bhiloh in the .me of Jeroboam to Aded , rank in the republic of letters. , The dio:- W^Sl Wiff f - ^S S !^ ^ at S^,^T^iiSS«-ffift S SS S ^&SS S S SSS S i- ¦"' ¦ ' ' oft by the heathen queen Jezebel (l a prop het of the Lord; in the time ,of tion of 11118' Review can best be judged by ducesftom; the repetitions in Gen, xxiy. Sjvkto '&aM.v.j .toipz^ Originators of the higher civilization

• JEWISH OALH TDAB. * kings xyiii, 4 j which led to ther slahghter Pekach (2. Chron. xxviU. 9). Think of the articles we hereby . present to our' the theory that : the (wnyeraation of , the 3\h S?.Sna ,WJC1 'ed M »nM8eh w*9 ThTa is Iheri hg's explanation of the vers *- . . ¦¦¦•'¦

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wl? Micajahn . Amos, Hosea and the nnmer- other Rabbi remarks that , the Torah as .j0 8 [fre f>,' " the Semites both agric ultur e and town!WneaaBy. Dec. ls .'NewMoon . Tebet. changes of dynasties and regicides were oxa Sene Hanneb iim, aU of whom were . - , »• a legal oode wonld only have Mmmenoed :,'uta ^iu . Meohi ita. s7 » - and p.rai- are.veiy ancient , and date irom the b*-.Fi,toy, Deo. 27,..Fwt oi Tebet. . nn^ ^E^. , to- ibit rM. Vi ' ' ¦. : . ginning o*biatory. - ' ¦-

-" ¦ , " „j. ' ¦ ' parison to Jndah , but also in comparison of the naa lms which were avidentlv ™» .. t 4w » W?V °' 'J»wb is set forth ,. but Gpd's oh- ' ¦« This la idi fact only the opinion of one "In add itioh to this assnmption of theThnnday, Jan. i6...New Moon , Shebat. . .. f - R . „>,„,„ '„ «,.» H™» onlr oriB oi tne psalms wnicn . were evitteptiy the "ia w . jept was to show his people the power of teacher in the Taimnd. and le oonHad jcted J n early antiquity of cities, the lewnd alsofaturda y/Feb 16...»New Moon , Adar. . t o Byna , where all tha tvme

^only_on.e _writton _ fll Northern Israel (like Psalms Th Law deriveB it8 authority from niswork , "that he- may give them:t .he the next fpllowlng.paa.afeln the T.lmnd.-rW. ^i^^ -^ ^r&SSSfy J ^-'vShl!* ' W" change and Tegioide is noticed (l kings A2 4S ) , The people had a'religion and the kingdom. For -ihjB, according to the inheritance of the heathen.(16) (Ps.' oxi. .w^.oeoeBia Eabbab , lxxxv-, siire . sia; servmg bl the Closest-attention , vhu-"

^dM. fcfNelvMoon. Nlaean. . viii, 15.) .The 240 years of its existence the coui.t had another; , one which the Rabbis , is the meaning of the scriptural 6), a thus, m.the end; justify the later .! ^7:7|rt;- ' ' : ' •that ^r 'wM 'ffie-^Sunday Mar .29 v...Pi»<jver , 1st day. opens with the people 's choice of Jero- - _]e v ^ and sr> Tvere the kin« words , "I am the ;.;L6rd ; thy God.'V or Um tf t caaqmp to.{Vi) , . - > 4 Ttagi^obaoim.^b;

and

par allela. - Opi toWn8t . The . aim and '"object -of th*-ISu yXril 4..... "«over ) 7th <ii;y. . boahi who reiK bed 22 years and was J ^- 1: ¦ ¦

¦Ti«B-- . the ™« "the Lord your God," with which cer- r^The B«)k of

^Genesis, which contain / .Hwtar,4«wto *r 71.^,^ 1, 720. , , / 8tatement - that Cain the tiller of th.Taesda/ April 14.....;»New Moon , Iyar. Mam. wno re,gnea yearn1 ana was hated , .so tha t regicide was. not looked j ^ gron psiof iaws are introduced (e .g. the history of thisnianif estation of Grod 'a 16 :Gene«t s Rabbah , LX . ,:;: ground also founded a oity. is to n«grlday, Mayil...Lft) t b Omer succeeaea oy nis son JNa oao. .ne reignea npon aa a Bpeciai crime , if the king was Exod . xxfl. 3 and Lev. xviii..2) ; that is, powere .as revealed .in theacf of .oreaUon ^ie; Heath eri. u not.in the text n-13 meaae mind as indubitabl e as that of the detafl

u^«^i^ri™^ .t ?BK^n?v?" two years and was assas

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by one otherwise ' tniscMevoua to the country. God makes , his people . consciouB of. the as weU as in. tbehistbry of the patriarchs , "natio ns" in thi. case the seven , twtiona ot of his oconpation :;noted in the story otMm^inM Wv^«l^i« Si; of his chief captains , Baashaj whUe in Th a Wft ^th jndtth were mnMn nr.ns tool his claims on, them because , of jnd leads up to the .-itoiy of the Exodua canea n.^w. . - . his brotherV murder, ' .*S~3M f c::::. ?£*Vw£ the midst of the army besieging Gibthon ¦

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bis Idngdom . flay: J re^gypt ,s, :accor tog to Borne - Rab- n See Tanohnm ved. Bnber . t , < a. cp. tta- l-Cain 's mental superiori ty over Abel

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l« »^«? . *>»¦ *** two dynasties , and the ing nnto thim r" Ydu have received my bw, the owk of the covenan t which Mo- "'» to Qeneaia 1, i,- r evidenced in lifs chofoe 0* agri oalture •»Sunday, inly l9.,-..Pait of Ab. of the Philistines; and the. assassin is bmk of the people still-looked toward Jdngdohi .-in.lbTe.V ''' 'Tes .'.' and " Yes" ses read to the people {Escd. - xxiv. 7) is 8ee Mechiita.<i3.b. Cp.Mid ra ahShirHaah. a profession / is again manifested in theMonday, An«. !O......Wew Moon; EUuL the founder of the second dynasty.: No jejuflalem. Ahab with his.v'ery prudent answers iBrael . wherefore God says , "If -even, before .the act of revelation To irlm , M on Min p^a. , . ; 7 . , weighty discovery that the town iaaTuesda y, Sept. 8...;...NewTear , 6657v popular choice, no popular consent is md .WAhnminff wifB-Wn hel marie th« at- yon have.received my kingdom , yon re- oome ^to-the possession of this book » Bef > Zau t , aou<^iemtUchercrt r aiffe; t.s \'2ni heoessity to himV (p. 111). Compare al-•pbaerved alBo preceding day. y

efl- It ia ^te'fow military bar- ^

C schemmg wife Jezebel made the at

^,79 now my decreeB ...(1) - (the boolt ;.of -Geneais), which unlocked ed.), .nd sohne rer ;.Gl*ft,;cte,n j li8U f.,P ... Bd the remarks oh tie Sacrifices of Can.. *'pb«erved following day. noiiceu. iib oruie loroo, muimrjr .um tempt to direct , popular -attention to- •~ „^;„V

tlnK ^. '.hnnt n,a t »m «- before them one of the inner chambers so See Exodn a Rabbah xli and Abel (n 888 &o ^¦• ' " • • ' • ¦ ' ' - ' " barism - yo it :80eB . continually; to . the warda TyrB and Phoenicia , lo withdraw nSS^SSdeffl- Srt '-Xa oi the W(or revealed to themthe ,holy "JS SSi Sxvii. and Tan ttf S£&c^Taetral notes oh tb»Mfu ABTHOB boHENi the president of very end of this kingdom , the .peenje are it from Jerusalem , and introduced with %^rSK n% ZSffl Sfef ^S *SgSSS ,tt scriptur

al acconnls of the Flood'(£ 1«

the Board of Deputies in London , re-' nowhere- the meeting, upon . Mount fire md mm& worehip ol Baal Revie^i brief exposition , of ite .,real K^^&^ Wn ¦

^'"" ' h ' -, ¦ ,, i f y ^ 'K^SS? " °°* ¦

iignedhis position ! No successor chosen Carmel excepted-th o warrior class. Astarte with an the sensuality and ' licen- SSffi,?^?ffi£Cff i?S' Sa^^Xrlhe SUrn t,?n^ffl^l^o^. r? e£rd«w ' ^gbsSS^Fdth^d Fifthyet. . reigns in the land. tiousnes s connected with-it. It not only £L. feel -ng am0ng ^eologians; -that G^t7Jl • (1

I.8> = " " ¦¦ ¦•: -< ¦¦' ¦ '," - ,¦

¦ -\. >r°P" tlle .mJ * wii. n»p ^3T»¦ miri -n?!. Comman dments are copious. - .

r, « - ' " .% u - '¦ • V Baa8ha r gne yeal8 ' °aP ^3 ^t improve the situation , bu t made "if the Psalter be indeed bt pcst :exilic or- p5SS^,.

e'S S2^™ ^h«W I**"5, ^

' The CAa<!W 7fl"adaA' did not Of - these I - select as noteworthy hisOotott Babmi carried his point also was in Thir /ab. He made an attempt it maoh wor8e, ft called forth that igin , then H Is certain: that Judaism or ™S",iSS^!m«^riSlV ^"'^P*' ^ t» *ta roi*^w. . ' ¦' . explanation of the additi on to the Filth ,

in the Reichstag against Dr. Lueger and to transpose it to Ram ah but failed to ^emorabie Elijah patriotism , with its Soribi sm .cannot navejeen wholly the it other than ' merely: leg^l elemente. .23 flee Ba«w Pra W ^o*with the Rev.8. ging; ^

mmand™? "& order that it msy '

his ant ^Semitic colleagues. The latter accomplish it; His son Ailah succeeds fl n ,mdonbted iv d'6banch Bd e^ t^nj we have thought.

(2)

- . .. Moreover , the term ' Torah is not always «'b Tr anaiat toii , p. 1*9. In .d^BID 'B»i Xifi be well withJhee

^anoVthat you mayliT *

moved the i^eUationof

the govern- him, he re i^

two years Another t"lJ!ffSSL tS& . * &&>SBR5S£P SSS 1SSfftSS& ^

ft "^^^"

* ^ Sg^^aSment on the eubject of tbe non-<!onfir- warri or, Z^n, the captain of half the blit it o^t the life of the Omri dynasty the darkne88 .of>whiob. is madeUe mbre «*™ Tto ^SiriS ^5S*whiah the j *^ C^51D 'CS, xiv4 and Dr.. Mueller- , hon ou? to yottr parent/; then yoor chil-¦ mation of . Dr. Bueger as burgomaster of cavalry, slays the . drunk en king, ex- u yearB .after Ahab's death , when Jehu H^'^i^^ ^J^rfri tobWB ' -latoifxSP^h^^ Vrit ma<» - m' - dien will refuse you.respect. The evilei-

Vienna , and the subsequent dissolution terminates the whole house of Baasha , „»,.' ,-„„ foJ f i,a jOT„f„ *„mf i, - ^.iVi; hgioua documents calculated to throw Bnddevotion as on the Pentateuch We 25 Sbabbath , isb b. ample set will be copied by your descend-of ;the City Connci i, to which they and rei gns seven days , when two other STS^KMT KSS % tt^£&#t S^VS^

AV^S^^-SXf ^ XS S^^commended urgency. The Reichstag captains rm against him, Omri and

the Baal and Astarte worship was miracle, snppo'sed to have taken place' SS^ta "ikS toe Z tofsbo?-' 11:"?l£^'Sij*. * f -

? ** ^ reluctant to prfvfde ior yon in oWrejected it with a vast mujonty. Shont- Thibni , Zimri sets the royal palace on ftdyanced b aW, ,on.in,law Jd his abotit the-year «0 of oar era , ggf 3 0mewha??n thf£ SS' gSffi *M ^

'^ *tS

he was only an opponent of the Jews, father of the third dyna sty.by the grace £j £ St^Sah Tw2 S nS^^ t J i*ia»jSaM«fi Stt t ^JZ t t ^Scaused the president to have the galleries and choice of his fellow warriors. ^n and the boy king Jehoa sh under which gavo, birth to Christianity cpnld is a well known faot.d?) as likewise that '¦' 37 SeeJor ua balmiMegHlah .JO d.and toe corn .: wbole nation and that the promise of

cleared. It is evident now that the Omri reigns twelve years. The palace the euidance of the hiirh nriest exHn- "ot have been entirely devoid of :»t least the Talmud Chaoham or the disciple of mentar ies. cp. alio ilj lnionide ?' Miah nah To- - Jong- We -refers , not to each Israelite ,Tteichstag supports the prime minister in Thir /ah beine destroved Omri trans- !!^rrLTJlTft7 »S a sprinkling

of great ,sage8, . (tr eat.saint8 , the wise, had to beautify :himselt with »h n.3i;nVn^?3 r !??n. n, 18 and the hjCT but rather to

^Israe 's engthy tenure 0

in his attemnt s to sntmres s the anti « T1u Being destroyed , Omri trans goished the evil effects of that apostacy great religious enthusiasts. But . noth- the kpowledg * of the twenty-fo ur books : -ami: Th^paaaage- to the etWot that the Ca^aan. Iherin g dismisses as devoid ofn nis attempts to suppress the auti- ferred the seat of government to the and for, 137 years following nothing is ing of the kind is generally allowed. We of whioh ther Bible consists even foundation ; oh the ground that , accord-Semitic cra,6 of the imperial cap.tal. oity of shomeron (gamaria ) which he heard of Baal and Astarte in Jud ah. '««n just enocgh of the time to prepare gj£ eiornV he«elf wTth"t^n^-four : «"£ ^ SaJT a^/nauh'teliy0' lM to th^fw' th * \

d ^— ~*~ built up and fortified. It was called so When king Ahaz returnin g from Dama- ^ 'or the strange modes of . Paul s.in- different kinds of ornaments ,(20) That , ^

d''2"S«°^r t^?^p^,,lnl£t,tol.GbrlBtlaJ}- 5 fl^

tha^yo™ ™* ¦'.ff?1'i?5fe-«,.„„ : ,.. n 7J- ... .„ m. ,„ - D . .. ., C I _, . , . . n umi uuk auu rw uriuug uuiu uanui terpretation of the . Scnptin res, the nar- . this injunction was srMotlvfnlflllfid bv yv'^onXnWein ?be S

of ter the owner 0 tliat laud whose name ens heathenized by the Assyrian King ro | particularism of .Peter , and Raines, {S.ffiffi& ' .ffi ever. '/ T^at Ihering .is totally wrongat New London thisTVonntv a st^fe was shein6r - A11 that « known about Tiglath Pileser , attempted to corrupt his and the legalistic and " Judaic heresies wh!ch the Rabbis quoted the Pr ophets even the auth .^lty of the Ucaafah himaetf will here may be

gatherecf , at a glance, fro man^; w^^huS. T^iBto

1

»>to is, that the wars between Judah people , and besides the Baal and Astarte into which the fira t ph^ were and the Hagiogr aphV . P

^ ^&^£fi2i« ^™f'^^ S;'charged with not beirig orthodox . Some and Israel ceased , which had been car- worshi p, introduced also the worship of J^u^I^^^SSS^ 'SS .; A striking instance may be seen in the moat .Suo be un^emood Vp£l5fc,lii'j"re. Vi.O. ir. 8 and similar passage s. 4)

time ago several members of the Chnrch ried nn th ese 50 voars Ahnh tbs snn «„wi, i. 1, v.i7» , „" „ Church had to defend'herself. In one j iechilta, a small work of not more than Bhai mi Berac noth . sb and parallel s, where the On tha Fourth Commandment Iheri ngSrred char Res agafnTheir pastor 7 T , u ¦ , J *

M°l ,m V^°7 °f H,n°ffl ' Wotd .«he whole age is a;preparation for seventy Octavo pages when stri pped from P»Pta U «o u» ii».tor»qul«a to brl n, hta ta- has a onriou s hypothesis . Most peenhsr-:STfc W Cwffi rf °Bn' 'UHi,lede<, his father and with all their old and obsolete the Anti -Christ. " it9 commentaries fit has abont^^ne thon- Prfm'tnr ,rom the ^ n^^ B CPln ly. he explains the words in Dent: v. 16, .a leaning toward Unitari ouism and a reigned 22 years. His son Ahazioh died Couaanitish abomination , (2. Chron. Now it cannot be denied that the re- sand citations from the Prop hets and the. '"'B- the prophet with out aucna .legltlmaH on "Tho u shalt remember that thou WM'Connci l was called for Tnesdav, Nov. 12 , after a reign- of two years , and his xxviii , 1-4) there arose Isaiah ligions history of the intervening age Hagiographa j, , Bf»fh\Vf?ortPmad6 1 ^ ^to hear the case. The Counci l found second son Joh oram reieued after him in his majestic power with his cotem- between the Macoabean e and J esus is " The sinners in Israel ," the Rabbis the Pentateuch already indicated th e wach lnga should rest on the Sabbath , bearin g «that Mr. Vincent was sliirhtlv tainted ,.. _ o>i • j f . ,, ... „„ n ^ =. „ t-„i;»„j *u t _ « „?' very obscure. For its literary Hf .bre w complain ', "contend that the Prophets of «"> Kethuhln. aeo Weber , n. the refer ence mind that.even in Egypt he was perm it , ,with Oni t arianisiii ™ d recommended ™ J eaT

\ ThlS dynasty bcld ont 4S pora

,nes' ueutral fed the nugilta effect remains-wh ioh alone enable us to form an d the Hagiograph a are not Torah. bat <«i «ii*m»tb.oa.

m to re8b ;fr0In his hard toil , evertthat he sin-er his connection with tho -voars « wUea another warri or , whoso on the people and raised th o reformatory a clear jud gment—are ' very scan ty, only are they not already refu ted by Daniel /2l This waa not accepte d an the (reneral belief- seventh day of tbe week. Iher ing brief;New London Church ns soon as he conld name was .lehu .stationed with tho army king Hezftriab , who stopped effectua lly a few sayings having come down. to. us (ix. in) who said , " Neither have we ^'" ^10f ^*5 f t wi^aubM Uu^od bvbfhB K?A ly wmark s (p- 143):- . ^'.The Israelit e!seek uu< "her locution. What the pastor at Ramath Gilead came down upon that court and state religion which was from that period. But if Babbinism be- obeyed the voice of the Lord onr God , to A'«i, and tm JB iief ceased in the beBfnniQ? i," overseers whd Buperintehded their taew ,will do is not known. «„„ .:„ ui,„ ... . , , , ., „., „»,„,„;„„, •„., >„ ,u„ „ i„ „t tUo the. logical aud legitimate outcome, of walk in his Toroth which he set before «»»eco U .i reuturv , wh ea ti. Jo aim * exclaimed (2 Mos. i.' II) allowed them cessnhon

_,. ,. .. . .. . Yamuna like u liberated fury , slew the an abomination to the people of the LegalTfim the theologyio f the Babbis in -lis by his, servants tho prophets. " Hence, V,p n:3 ,'n' ;c?: rN-w. from their labours one day everywee t."1 lie council w not very wise, we think , king of Israel aud his entire family, hia prophets. In the kingdom of Isr ael .how- its moat promineut ahd .spiritnal features the Rabbis proceed-to say. Asaph' s ex- 21 This seem* m be a mtat &k -i i . . . Further on (p. 140) he adds: "The EgyP'It ia not very wise to be engaged in mother Jez ebel included , massacred all ever , it was nmatter of self- preservati on shoul d bo allowed to throw some book- olamation in Ps. lxxviii., "Give ear , O alway a refeM tn theTho Mh, atfd 'Mt ii aMd ^re ' tiah task-masters showed bo mercy »heresy hnuti u ;- . [« the second place, wor shipors aud priests of Baal , slew alsu to uphold the aposta cy of Jeroboam , so light pn that obscure period. Examined my people, to my Toroth .(21 23) Note. fa wtoP ro p ta wor Rag iw„,hr.-w. the Jewish bondmen ,hnt ^et they nl

^;t h«v oui'ht t» Uimw that th pm nm fu« -.u .j .i, +1,0 v t t a \. a 1 th. un 4....K, .i.l =? <--,! bT tlu9 llGllt we shall find that Legalism in passing, that this Pfialtn, whichclaunH ao aanbedria . oib; see alao Mech iiu al b um) ed them the seventh day of rest , bta ntnoy ou„ M to kno * that there am few Ahoziah , the king of J udah , and several the Jehu dynasty-t he most successful wa8 nei ther the evil thing commonly to be Torah , is nothing bat a resume of «b. np. Biau . aa aonve .pp . Wa nd i? .' nd ing from this totally unfounde d hypo*,minister s ot timt denominatio n {any- of the Davidinu priucss , and became the rulers that kingdom had ^-coul d not imagined nor led to the bad consequences Israel' s history. With tlio Rabbinic si T!it« nir«(a i« a alight mfatnice The Tanaa thesis , Ihering chaliengeff tho religio^ .how thoy arri hard t .> Hud ) wh-i huve founder of the fourth dynasty think of relinquishing it; it would cost assumed by onr theologians. Nor has it Jews , the Hftgiogrnpha forme d an inte- <m qimf from th eTho whonly, /imoraimq note character of - the Mosaic. Sabba th , and - ¦no leaning toward rnltari uui sm. Jahu reigned 28 years ; his son Je hou- them their identity and independence to" ever constit uted the :.whple religion of gral part of their holy Scripture s. . The J » *£ ™ jj«^«» «Vh«?ah K'fft I^5J™5?- t0 *»tP-nd11 (P ' ^Id as. _ . . , . . / , , , . , t, „ . u , „ , the Jew, as defined by most modern prophets ot truth and righteousness «¦« Biieti .-w. Sabbath was originally only intended , n»

, „ " * " . . . clmz l l y8»™ J his grandson Joash lb do it, bo that aposta cy remained m eritics ¦ were, as can be seen by the benediction tb « rn^™« »7rn9 ''Y'''f£w', H '*,3 ' notB "- fo«' n secnlur holiday for physiool recreat ionRk v . A. L Tins of Des Moines , Iowa, years ; his great-gra ndson Jeroboam II. Israel to tbe end , which made the relig- . It must first be stated that the term pre cedin g the weekly lesson from the iPW ™s weber•[ » w] " huerl Tr BeiMB ^he 'oDDoJ ' and not a feligious'festivai on which J

6- ¦¦ends us with lua comp liments his pam- (in whoso days Jonah ben Amithi lived) ions people the deadly enemies of tbe Law , or Nomns , is uot a correct reudor- Prop hets, God' s chosen , in the same way tunlty uf tn (ufn K tlm remark , thht tlier e la rnel might have the oppor tunit y of gw-phlej (fo r freedistribn tioiL ), ' - called The reitt ned 41 vonrs and reenntnred all th.. reiauiug and Kover ninc classes No iuB of the Hebre w word Torah. The as the Torah , OS his servant Moses , and ?£ fSn " HDnreeUi T m* n?ba,Tcf ell".la °' riiying God; it was the Chnrc h whiC PR-sterittinn of I Sra »l th , ie W , in cw, , 1 1 i - , I ?' *

rBU, P ta ™a ail Um . u , '" ? . ." ' u tt legalistic element , which might ri ghtly his. people Isra el-the depositary of rev- ane aon tbe ,prt? [ ,a ? &} ,^a l J£2%Z: first transformed it into

the Lord 's Day.Ri ^toriiti on of Ura el . thi Jews m oan- lafarl which belonged to the kingdom of sooner had tha herae king Jeroboa m II be calJed the Law , represents -only one elation.(23) Inolde n times they had-even '«.. ftwtou ^ fa C^f W.Jjo a conception and ah institu tion of wlucfe y .aim, .luiwvaii .lesus tlieir Kiu ^. The Israel in the time uf David and Solomon , of the Jehu dynasty passed Tiway, then aide of tho Torah. 5 To the Jew the word a special benediction befo re they began "ooto atory Vor8iifl*

wl,iV^

,Tlc,:1'u rtlrtaC t,e or even the Apostles had not the remotest

end of the title is blasphemous , a down- J udah excepted. Yet when his sou and his sou was assassinat ed , aud in U2-yea r8 Torah means a teaching or an instruo - to read either , the Prop hets or the Hagio- lii-tory. bit were consid ered " hi- fly afl

H°i!aw nth« idea,.'1 -I-only-mention- thisJo show int o

righ t violation of the thi rd command- successor Zachariah had ™i<r „w ! „iv after three more kincti fell in £he same tion of any ki n d.(3) It may be either a grapha , rauniug thus : •• Blessed art ¦"ba '*neu of God' «ci«im B upon his people.' 80 what absnrditie s deficient knowledge «'in«iit It. th» nn-nl nirn o srill w„ An ., .r

ef 0r

^01jarlau UaQ ™'R n«« «\ arrer inree more King t , reu in cue same ra] princi , detailed injuuc- thou , onr Lord God. who hast command- ,

,S w^,'

,iK5l*l°' ^™«5'T Pwv« iifcTita the sources can mislead even so sound ainout ii. the Decalogu e, btill we do not mont -h s, Shalum slew him and reigned manner. No doubt , many of the people Tion. whether it be found in the Penta - ed ns torea d the holy writings. "< 24) This ST5V S?« i^

n',0fl^ M! ''i!|5 « ? stndenTand-in his own

branc h-so pro- .ceusnre him f..r it , for he speaks tha six months. He was also slai n by Men- also apostati zed , but the kings suffer ed tench or in other parts of the Scriptures was quite in accordance with their prin- Ribbi ,, h-d such speculation. for the vftr ioua found and acute a scholar as Ihenug oa-lanpna ge of the churc h, as lie learned it uhom ban Gedi , who established the the worst consequenc es. —or even outside of the canon. The oiple regarding prophecy as " the word J ne> B„i',BV"1'>

^from childhood np. Besides this , M r. fifth dvnastv it i, mit» ™h,»i (n . „ ., . .u« iMtapositiou iu which . Tdrah and iliu- of God .'^aC ) and t he contin nation of his ^WTo^omi teee,ba veT tVevt^ M lr^ How

little he nene

tra ted into the spf '

Tri o is so nff ocrMumti ilT dii.nMPd tnwar .i, « ¦ t , ' q prosum e, that the ,0 Teaching and Oomman dmentB , are voice heardon Mount Sinai ,( 20) a voioe call ed the a ,ot of Pr Sor H ymn BmH t iUf SInof to Bible and "»•Tm i» so aff 0t M,, «tely disposed towa rds Me U «hem reigned' ton years , and bis more the kings , courtiers , rulers and to be found in the Rabbinic literature , which willcease only-vltb the Messianic dot«WiU0itatJr ?^WB ,w

^ «^the bruehtes . that we would not da re to son Pekachiah two years , when another their defenders were hated by that large implies already that , thb>former means times , when the ear th will be full of the ™ f % f &^^ \,*W*>*£. - ° ffiSnt oh the Monotheism of j-marrel with him. He . as he und er- warr ior , Pehac h ben Remaliah , ussassiu- class of people represented by the pronn- 2,ome"lin$ n\°,re tban ^T^the ' !*»¦<*> knowledge

of God: and

all .the people of •»l>Uon » [Biba Bathr a, i, ,j. iB «Sl tti ?ffi' the Hebre m To aocoun t for -his won r.rri0?'i.t;r^r';:' sult mo"rb.tto "™; ~*~^~*4~&^'*tt3Engst ajsa«'5». rassranraata asff(,*t"*Ks.asss?fjews some 01 tuese aays win be gath - reign ed twenty years , to be assassinated armies and fortifications. This led to it: "they borrow from each other , as Prophets , and the Hagibgr apha being a Knn™M Th' ,,„ ' . ,. , ™onto cal,et » «»s^°^P™*p k^rhokties on whicheror together the ten or more millions by the last king of that kingdom , Hosh- that militar y despotis m which can con- wisdom and uude ra taudirig T-ohnrity and ^6%f ^Vgowh -that the . former !^P *™ *Z 8$£^%&& ^ 60. ' for ni^. infor mat ion and ;of them willliterall y mhal.it the land of oah ben Allah , the last of the kings of trol everythi ng except the army • in loTtegtodness-themoonand thoBtar s" «W,?i^^»>^.^t'S*^,ft* ^StorWdeu to^fiiftl ^SPalestine , which consists of 40 ooo square Israel, »w«i, HlHln^iIl «»• but they arey not identical B) To use the imm^^it^^ ill^.a».mf ^ Vm ter if,nci&a ti^.-wr 1 HBSlogrftph T e3MeJ ,uf- ^The reader inay -with ;, adva nta ge ».

mites that i. fBO to th « -„„«. <ru - k ,^, , wMoh.licentiou sneBs, violence,- ambition m6derh .phrase ology.vto,-. the Rabbinic the - same; way; as -W sa Beraohot h «a a - ,: riLrLti^rS 'Smarks On the social and;.milt s, that m (.DO to the square I This ww certa inly an rmomalous state and hloodt hir sty recUessness, grow> few » ^ v Sav^xxiY. '' % ^U^^onh^wi

CoieLv-) ' ,