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SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS

LESSON 12.—SEPTEMBER 17.—DANIEL IN BABYLON.

Lesson Scripture, Dan. 1: 8-20, A. R. V.

(8) "BUT Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's dainties, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. (9) Now God made Daniel to find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs. (10) And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your food and your drink; for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths that are of your own age? so would ye endanger my head with the king. (11) Then said Daniel to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: (12) Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. (13) Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the youths that eat of the king's dainties; and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.

(14) "So he hearkened unto them in this matter, and proved them ten days. (15) And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths that did eat of the king's dainties. (16) So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they should drink, and gave them pulse.

(17) "Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. (18) And at the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. (19) And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king. (20) And in every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his realm."

Golden Text.—"Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself." Verse 8.

SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.

(1) What did Daniel purpose in his heart? What request did he make? Verse 8. Note 1. (2) How did God especially work for His young servant? Verse 9. Note 2. (3) What reply did the prince make to Daniel's request? Verse 10. Note 3. (4) Who were immediately associated with Daniel in the king's school? Under whose special charge were these students placed? Verse 11. (5) What test did Daniel propose to the steward? Verse 12. Note 4. (6) What showed Daniel's faith in the superiority of the vegetarian diet? Verse 13. (7) How did the steward regard Daniel's proposition? Verse 14. (8) At the end of the ten days, what was the result of the test? Verse 15. Note 5. (9) How did the steward manifest his satisfaction with the result? Verse 16. Note 6. (10) What further blessing did God add to His faithful children? What special gift was bestowed upon Daniel? Verse 17. Note 7. (11) At the end of the school course, before whom were the students brought for examination? Verse 18. (12) How did Daniel and his three companions compare with the other students in scholarship? And how were they rewarded? Verse 19. Note 8. (13) How did these young Hebrews compare in wisdom with the older scholars and magicians of Babylon? Verse 20. Note 9.

NOTES.

1. Daniel was one of the young princes who had been brought to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar with the first instalment of Jewish captives. The king selected some of the fairest and most intellectual of these men to be specially educated for his service in the kingdom. They were to be fed in royal style, and to have every supposed advantage. But there were things prepared by the king's cooks that Daniel, as a conscientious Jew, could not conscientiously eat or drink. So he "purposed in his heart," at all hazard, "not to defile himself," and made a request not to be required to do so. Daniel was evidently a rare exception in the royal family that had become so corrupt, and had so corrupted the people, that God had felt obliged to subject them to the chastisement of bondage. But he had learned the counsel of the wise man, "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." Prov. 4: 23.

2. Because Daniel had set his heart to do right at any cost, the Lord paved the way for him. No doubt Daniel made his request in such a respectful manner that he in turn won the respect of the prince, who was then influenced by the Spirit of God to look with favor upon him. A defiant attitude in the captive would have steeled the heart of the prince against any impression by the Spirit. A very little impertinence on Daniel's part would have quenched the Spirit in the prince's heart, and grieved it toward Daniel. 1 Thess. 5: 19; Eph. 4: 30.

3. The prince had good reason to fear such a king as Nebuchadnezzar; for neither would the prince nor Daniel have stood long before him, had his fury been once aroused by disobedience of his order. Besides, the prince, like the king, was actuated by what he supposed was for the good of the young men, both physically and mentally.

4. "Pulse."—The Cambridge Bible says, "Rather, vegetable food in general; there is no reason for restricting the Hebrew word used to leguminous fruits, such as beans and peas, which is what the term 'pulse' properly denotes." Water is the drink nature supplies for all her creatures, and is therefore the best. If this diet were lacking in nutritive qualities, it would begin to be manifest in ten days.

5. The striking result of the ten-days' test was no doubt due to the blessing of God upon the diet more than to the diet itself; because it was probably little, if any, change from the young men's ordinary food. There is no doubt that they had, as Jesus said to His disciples, "meat to eat" that the steward knew not of; for they fed on the Word of God, and their "meat" was to do His will. See John 4: 31-34.

6. The steward had no more fear regarding the diet question. There was no danger of the appearance of the young men bringing his action into question. He evidently saw, too, that their God was intervening in their behalf.

7. The God of Daniel and his companions not only blessed them physically for their fidelity to His cause, but His blessing upon them intellectually and spiritually was added in great measure.

8. Standing before the king was a position of high honor. They were personal attendants, assistants, counselors. To attain such a position, after an educational course of only three years (verse 5), in a strange country, being obliged to master a strange language also, was a most remarkable feat of learning.

9. Thus a great temperance victory was won by four young men under the most trying circumstances, because they depended upon God for help. And this is the only way in which any Christian victory can be won. "Without Me ye can do nothing," says the Master. Daniel succeeded because he was greatly beloved; and he was greatly beloved because of his faith and consequent obedience.

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TWO PRACTICAL HINTS.

By Rev. J. C. Walker

WHEN I was a boy, I never could keep a pocket-knife any length of time. I cared enough, and tried hard enough, but in vain, till I spoke about it to a man who had a knife which he carried for a number of years.

He gave me a quizzical look, and said, "Never lay your knife down, and you'll never lose it."

I thought at first he was joking; but I had earned the money to buy a new knife; so I took him in earnest, and I kept that knife more than a year. Then one day I forgot, laid down the knife, went off and left it, and never saw it again. But I have often kept a knife two or three years, just by observing

this rule; and I never waste a minute in hunting for my knife. When I want it, it's always there in my right-hand trousers pocket.

There is another good little rule, which, if I had learned it in boyhood, would have been of great value to me. "When you make a mistake in writing, stop at once, and write the thing correctly, over and over several times."

It is a pity to scold boys for such things as these, when all they need is to be told how to correct their tendency to lose and blunder. I discovered the rule about correcting mistakes too late in life to profit by it; but once, in a time of comparative leisure, I tried it with good results for the time being.—Rev. J. C. Walker.

EDUCATION IN THE HOME. NO. 17.

By Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle

BY MRS. L. D. AVERY-STUTTLE.

FOR a moment Grandma Hartman did not reply. A dreamy look came into her dear, blue eyes, which had become misty with tears. It was very quiet in the room, and the ticking of the clock on the mantel was the only sound to be heard.

'How did I fix it up with my husband?' repeated grandma, at last. 'Well, to tell you the truth, I was sorely ashamed, as indeed I ought to have been; so that, when meeting closed, and we again set out over the snowy, winding footpath through the woods for home and children, I had not courage to speak of my newly-formed resolution.'

'But what did grandpa have to say to you?' queried Mattie.

'Not a single word, Mattie, not a single word. He dare not, you see, for fear of rousing my wrath, which he feared was only slumbering, ready to break out anew and with greater vengeance. So the journey home was made in silence, save for an occasional commonplace remark. He from fear, and I from shame, not daring to venture a word to express to the other the true state of our feelings.'

'Did you find the children all right when you got back?' interrupted Beth.

'O yes, my dear,' smiled grandma; 'we found four little forms fast asleep under the blankets, crosswise of the bed, just as I had placed them. But as I bent to kiss the innocent little sleepers, I could not but think how different were my feelings than when I had kissed them good night at parting. Well, this was Tuesday evening. Wednesday and Thursday passed, and, tho I still attended the meetings, I had spoken no word of my decision to my husband. I was very weak and foolish, and I realized it perfectly. But I could not summon courage to speak. Indeed, I was afraid that in my cruel and senseless anger, I had driven quite away those good impressions which the Spirit of God had placed in his heart. He would very likely oppose me bitterly, I reasoned, even as I had threatened to do by him; and keenly did I realize that I deserved it all.'

'At last, Friday evening came. Never shall I forget the red eye of the winter's sun as it shone through the bare branches of the trees, and then sunk behind the old barn. All day long that Friday had been to me indeed a preparation day. My baking and mending were done, and everything was in readiness for the holy Sabbath so far as I could make it so. I also noticed that your grandpa was earlier with his chores and his milking, and I wondered why. Still I lacked the courage to confess my wrong, and bravely admit that I was preparing to rest from my labor as God did from His. At last, I took the youngest child in my lap and sat down in the one rocking-chair of which our cabin could boast.'

'I then noticed that my husband was also seated, quietly reading the Bible. This was unusual with us, for we were busy people, and did not ordinarily sit down until much later. I stared at my husband in silence for a moment, and he at me; finally he spoke:'

'Wife, what are you doing?'

'What are you doing, my husband?' I echoed.

'O grandma! what did he say?' asked Elsie.

'Say! why, of course our secret was out at last, and we could only clasp each other's hands in the gathering twilight, and weep tears of gratitude and thanksgiving to God, and thus we began keeping our first Sabbath,—on Christmas eve, 1852.'

Grandma's voice grew husky, and she bent and kissed the upturned face of little Beth, who, as usual, was ready with a question:

'Did papa keep the Sabbath, too, with you, grandma?'

'Your papa was a mere babe, but Aunt Jennie, the oldest, was a little girl younger than you,—not more than five years old.'

'Did this little girl understand or notice the change?' asked Mrs. Jones. 'I am curious to know how you managed the children. Still, I suppose if they were all so young they did not realize the change. Had they been older, you might have had some trouble.'

'It is my one regret and sorrow,' sighed grandma, 'that I did not explain to little Jennie the Bible reasons for the change we had made. Tho I then considered her too young to understand, I now fully believe that she would have comprehended the plain Scripture perfectly. She was a very conscientious child, and would never work at her knitting, or even play, on Sunday, and so, when I asked her to perform her accustomed tasks on what she had regarded sacred time, she protested vigorously.'

'Could auntie knit stockings when she was littler than I?' queried Beth.

'O yes; children were brought up in those days to be busy, almost from babyhood.'

'But how did you finally manage her?' queried Mrs. Wilbur.

'I regret to say that I simply insisted upon her doing her usual tasks, without giving her a good and sufficient reason for so doing. The child had great reverence for the Bible, even then, and I could and should have made everything plain to her. I firmly believe that even very young children can comprehend a plain 'Thus saith the Lord.''

'I would like to ask if many others who attended those meetings began the observance of the seventh day,' said Mrs. Wilbur.

'Yes; there was quite a large company. But time is a great tester of sincerity; and so, after a while, there were not so many. Some were ready to declare that we would give up, because we were in such a hurry. But we told them that we had decided to do as the psalmist did, when he says, 'I made haste, and delayed not to keep Thy commandments.''

Mrs. Wilbur seemed nervous and ill at ease at grandma's reply, but said nothing.

'I imagine it must take much true courage, does it not, Mr. Hartman, to begin the keeping of a day which almost the entire Christian world antagonize?' said Mr. Jones.

'I suppose it does,' replied Brother Hartman, 'but as I have never kept any other, it is easier for me, I think; and I have always been thankful that it is so, lest I might not have had the courage to obey otherwise.'

'But now it is best to close our study for this evening, which we will do with a word of prayer, and by singing the hymn grandma told us about tonight, which is her favorite:

'Mark that pilgrim, lowly bending.''

(To be continued.)

LEAN HARD.

CHILD of My love, lean hard! And let Me feel the pressure of thy care; I know thy burden, I fashioned it, Poised it in My own hand, and made its weight Precisely that which I saw best for thee; And, when I placed it on thy shrinking form, I said, "I shall be near, and while thou leanest On Me, this burden shall not be thine." So shall I keep within My 'circling arms The child of My own love; here lay it down, Nor fear to weary Him who made, upholds, And guides the universe. Yet closer come; Thou art not near enough. Thy care, thy self, Lay both on Me, that I may feel My child Reposing on My heart; thou lovest Me, I doubt it not, then, loving Me, lean hard. —Selected.

HOW HE ANSWERED INFIDELITY.

An instance of a blind man's familiarity with the Bible, which ought to bring the blush to some cheeks that enclose eyes flashing with light, was related by Robert E. Speer in one of his Northfield addresses.

Last year we had a meeting with some Korean Christians who had known the Gospel but a few years. I said to them: "Now, you know that not everybody in America believes in this Gospel. The majority of the people in our country are not followers of Jesus; and, as to this Bible, there are a great many who do not believe in it; and some day they will come here, and they will tell you these things. Is your faith in Christ and this Bible dependent on your belief that a great nation, mightier and wiser than you, believes in Christ and the Bible? Or does it rest on other grounds? What will you say, when men come and question your faith in Christ and His Word?"

There was a young man sitting down on the floor, who had been blind from his early childhood, with the marks of the disease that had made him blind all over his face. He raised his head, and said:

"I will tell you what I would say. I would answer him in the words of the nineteenth and twentieth verses of the fourth chapter of Acts: 'Whether it be right in the sight of God to harken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we can not but speak the things which we have seen and heard.'"

I said, "Do you know all your Bible as well as that?" He could not read, and they have no raised-letter Bibles in Korea.

I asked, "Can you tell me what is in the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke?"

"Certainly," he said, "that's the chapter that has the parable of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the prodigal son."

"Do you know in what chapter of Matthew is the feeding of the five thousand?"

"Certainly," he answered, "It's in the fourteenth."

I thought it was the twelfth, but I turned to the fourteenth, and found that the blind man had located it correctly.

He had learned all he knew about Christ's life from his friends, who sat on the floor of the little room in which he lived, and read to him, translating out of an old Chinese Bible the whole life of Christ.

I asked him what he liked best of all.

"O," he replied, "I like the ninth chapter of the Gospel of John, that tells the story of the blind man to whom Christ restored sight."

I asked him what he looked forward to most.

"Well," he said, "I look forward most to Christ's meeting me at the gates of that Beulah Land. I wouldn't dare go up to see the Father alone, a blind man from Korea, but I shall wait at the gate until Christ comes and takes my hand, and leads me up to His Father and mine."

I don't know when I was so rebuked as to my own knowledge of the Bible as by that poor, blind Korean, who had been less than three years a disciple of Christ.—Northwestern Christian Advocate.

A CIGAR SCIENTIFICALLY DISSECTED.

In Which Is Found Only Evil.

To THE world in general a cigar is merely a tightly-rolled packet, having brittle fragments of dry leaves within, and a smooth, silky leaf for its outer wrapper. When it is burnt, and the pleasantly-flavored smoke inhaled, habitual smokers claim for it a soothing luxury that quiets the irritable, nervous organism, relieves weariness, and entices repose. Science, scouting so superficial a description, examines first, the smoke; second, the leaf; third, the ash. In the smoke is discovered water in vaporous state, soot (free carbon), carbonic acid and carbonic oxide, and a vaporous substance condensed into oily nicotine. These are the general divisions which Vohl and Eulenberg have still further split up; and, in so doing, have found acetic, formic, butyric, valeric, and propionic acids, prussic acid, creosote and carbolic acid, ammonia, sulphureted hydrogen, pyridine, viridine, picoline, lutidine, collodine, parvoline, coridine, and rubedene. These last are a series of oily bases belonging to the homologues of aniline, first discovered in coal tar. Applying chemical tests to the leaves other chemists have found nicotia, tobacco, camphor or nicotianine, a bitter extractive matter, gum, chlorophyll, malate of lime, sundry albuminoids, malic acid, woody fiber, and various salts. The feathery white ash, which in its cohesion and whiteness is indicative of the good cigar, yields potash, soda, magnesia, lime, phosphoric acid, sulphuric acid, silica, and chlorine. This as to a good cigar; as to a poor cigar, here is the list from an English parliamentary report on adulterations in tobacco: Sugar, alum, flour or meal, rhubarb leaves, saltpeter, fuller's earth, starch, malt-commings, chromate of lead, peat moss, molasses, burdock leaves, common salt, endive leaves, lamp-black, gum, red dye, a black dye composed of vegetable red, iron and licorice, scraps of newspaper, cinnamonstick, cabbage leaves, and straw brown paper.

Returning now to the smoke, or rather its ingredients, Dr. B. W. Richardson, in his "Diseases of Modern Life," considers the effect of the same on the body at considerable length, basing his conclusions on actual investigations. He tells us that water, of course, is harmless; free carbon acts mechanically as an irritant, and tends to discolor the secretions and the teeth. Ammonia bites the tongue, exercises a solvent influence on the blood, excites the salivary glands, and thus causes a desire to drink while smoking. The tendency of carbonic acid is to produce sleepiness, headache, and lassitude. When a cigar is smoked badly, that is, when the combustion of the tobacco is slow and incomplete, carbonic oxide is produced in small quantities, and is an active poisoning agent, resulting in irregular motion of the heart, vomiting, convulsions of the muscles, and drowsiness. The nicotine tends to cause tremor, palpitation of the heart, and paralysis. The volatile empyreumatic substance produces a sense of oppression, and taints the breath and surroundings of the smoker with a well-known "stale tobacco-smoke" smell. The bitter extract causes that sharp nauseous taste peculiar to a re-lighted cigar or old pipe.—The Hesperian.

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DRUNKENNESS AMONG WOMEN.

ALCOHOLISM is no longer an exclusively masculine vice, as is pointed out by Dr. A. Jansen in a recent article in the Blatter fur Volksgesundheitspflege, of Berlin. Dr. Jansen says that, "according to the official report for the city of New York, in the second quarter of the year 1904, there were 3,057 arrests for drunkenness among women. In a report from England for the same period we find that, in spite of all efforts to check the evil, the taste for liquor among women is increasing. In 1891, 740 women and 1,327 men died of delirium tremens; but, in 1900, there were 1,575 women and 2,063 men who died of the disease. The number of women who have thus died a drunkard's death has increased 100 per cent. This contrast is still more forcible when one thinks that the number of deaths among women in 1883 from the same cause was 397.

"The report from Ireland for 1891 shows 19 deaths among women from delirium tremens; but, in 1900, there were 41, or an increase of 100 per cent. In the case of men, during the same period, the increase was from 112 to 140. In a report of the Prussian authorities for a portion of 1902, out of 6,259 male alcoholics, 1,364 were delirious, and out of 716 women, 108 had delirium tremens.

"Many women have only a vague idea as to what constitutes alcoholic indulgence. The lightest beer contains 3 to 5 per cent. of alcohol; the lightest wines, 9 to 10 per cent.; the so-called invalid's wine, 12 to 16 per cent., and so on. The sweet liquors, which contain a high percentage of alcohol, are widely used by women, and, in certain sections of Germany, cognac is a favorite beverage. In addition to these drinks, women frequently use alcohol when they do not know it."

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The Apocalypse

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"The Apocalypse."—This is the anglicization of the Greek term which stands at the head of the last book of the Bible. It is the term that scholars often use. Its very sound seems mystical and dark to the ordinary reader. Then we read of apocalyptic symbols, and apocalyptic visions. Why not use the good English translation, "The Revelation," God's disclosure of wonderful truth, something which God has revealed to—not hidden from—His children? Do you not want the blessing: "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein." Rev. 1:3.

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