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help FROM C0W-TESTIN6 ASSOCIATIONS yyy Ml I Iff ff: rr HA Economical Producers of Human Food. the the or (By L. ANDERSON.) The cow testing association is a plan of co-operation among dairymen for the purpose of regularly and economically testing their cows for production of milk and butterfaL A usual estimate places the average production of cows at 175 pounds of butter per cow per year. In these days people who are familiar with dairying think in terms of biitterfat. and if the above average be translated to fat it makes about 150 pounds.

At 30 cents a pound, which has been the average price for the past three years, the annua! income per cow is $45.00. If the above figures are taken as a foundation, it is very apparent that there are many cows which are not paying the cost of their keeping. The use of the scales and the Babcock test has discovered in almost every herd tested some cows that do not pay the cost of keeping. If dairying is to be made as profitable a business as it ought to be and as it has a right to be under proper management, these robber cows must be apprehended. There is no means of knowing what a cow is producing without weighing and testing her milk at regular intervals.

A dairyman selling milk by volume may not be concerned in the butterfat content further than is necessary to keep up to legal standard, but one who is selling butterfat is vitally concerned in the dmount each cow produces. Each dairyman may test his own cows, but facing the condition squarely it is known that very few do. At a recent dairyman's meeting this point was a testing association was not necessary, because each man could test his own cows. The question was then asked: he a to How WEANING LITTLE PIGS May Be Done at Eight Weeks of Age When Desired. Two Years Old Should Produce Two Litters Yearly Without Any -Give Feeds Conducive to Best Milk Flow.

Troubli (By JOHN C. BURNS. Texas Experiment SUftlon.) As a general rule, we find it advisable to wean pigs at about ten weeks In the case of the especially well-developed pigs, sud of age. thrifty, when it is desired to breed the sow as early as possible again, pigs may be weaned at eight weeks old with As a rule, we do not good results, consider it to have a sow farrow before she is twelve months old. Or, in other words, it is generally considered best not to breed them until they are between eight and nine months old.

early often has the tendency to check the growth of the gilt and sometimes the effects are permanent. Fourteen or fifteen hours labor In bringing pigs is longer than ordinary, and would naturally be weakening on a young gilt. After weaning the litter your gilt has, I would advise not breeding her until she is about fifteen sixteen months old. She would tnua chance to mend up and and would bring you Breeding too or have a grow some a better litter. After reaching two years old any brood sow should bring two litters without any trouble.

mangel-wurzels and such succulent feeds are good for sows suckling pigs, as they are conducive to good milk flow. Whip-poorwill peas have good results as a forfor all kinds of hogs, and all Turnips. age crop especially brood sows and growing pigs. Ordinarily it is best to let hogs them and thus save the labor It Is best to graze graze of harvesting, the peas when the fruit is fully developed, but the vines still green, as in this case much of the vines as well as the peas will be consumed. Rather than to feed straight corn, tt would be best for you to dispose of some of it at one dollar per bushel, and in return get wheat shorts.

Good, wheat shorts are costing retail about $1.25 per 100 Equal parts of com and rich gray here at pounds. wheat shorts will give a very well balanced ration. About the only advantage in having corn ground for hogs Is that it can more readily bp mixed with other feeds in connection with IL Killing Cabbage Pests. Cabbage worms can be controlled In the same way as the potato bugs, but It is a hard matter sometimes to make the poison stick to cabbage leaves. Making the water very soapy helps a great deal In "sticking" the poison, bul a better way is to use what is called the "resin-lime sticker." This you will need to make yourself, we know of none of it on the market.

Derange Digestive System. A sudden change of feed deranges the bone's digestive Horses accustomed to alfalfa as a regular part of their ration are seldom troubled from its Crop Rotation. Crop rotation la only a major ctor in good husbandry, but alee a ot dealing with i I 1 Alfalfa. to tbn 4 many present have Babcock testers?" Twelve out of a gathering of fifty answered in the affirmative. In reply to the question, "How many of you who have testers use them?" only one answered In the afflrmativp.

The object of cow testing associations Is to make the use of scales and Babcock machines a community affair unite dairymen into a partnership for the purpose of employing a trained man to visit each herd at regular monthly intervals ahd weigh and test the milk of each cow. the end of the year, this man gives each dairyman a record of the individuals in his herd with little work or trouble to him and at the cost of a an to At about one dollar per cow. The tester weighs and samples the milk of each cowr at the evening and morning milking and tests the combined sample for butterfat. leaving, he makes calculations so that he may leave with the dairyman the record of each cow down to date. In European countries and some of the states in this country, one of the duties of a tester is to weigh and keep a record of food consumed by the The cost to the dairyman for Before cows.

complete testing varies from 80 cents to $1.50 a year for each cow. variation Is due to the number of in the associations and to the This cows size of individual herds. The first association In the United States was organized at Fremont, in 1905. This association had 31 members, and 239 cows completed the first year's test. Since that time similar associations have been organized In practically all of the leading dairy states of the Union, to the great advantage of dairymen everywhere.

BEST QUALITY OF PRODUCTS Often Happens That the Producer of Good Dairy Articles Does Not Find Ready Market. J- CADWALLADER, Louisiana Experiment Station.) Quality is the keynote to the successful marketing of dairy products. People always have and always will pay a premium for quality, therefore it is useless to expect to market dairy products successfully unless those products are of better quality than the average. Unfortunately it often happens that producers of gWod dairy produce do not always find a good market, but this does not signify that there ia not a demand for the product at a goeja price, but simply means a lack of business ability on the part of the farmer in securing a good market. He, too, often depends upon his home town or upon his immediate community for a market for his products and is too often satisfied to sell to the middleman and the grocery store.

In this day of the parcel post even perishable products can be sent great distances for a few cents, making it possible to sell such products as butter, cheese, direct from the farm to the consumer. There are hundreds of people in our towns and cities who would be only too glad to get dairy products direct from the farmer If the farmers who have these products fof sale would Insure them good uniform products. Ordinarily a grocery store receives anywhere from 5 to 7 cents for handling a pound of butter, butter which Is made from cream that Is even inferior to that from which the farmer made his butter which he sold to the grocer. Why doesn't the fanner keep this profit for himself? LEG WEAKNESS IN TURKEYS Trouble Is Generally Caused by Overfeeding of Fattening Foods and Lack of Exercise. (By PROF.

F. W. KAZMEIER. Texas Agricultural College.) Leg weakness In young turkeys is generally caused by overfeeding of very fattening foods and lack of exercise. Quite frequently it is also caused by the old turkey making them walk too much, causing them to tire in their It is also caused sometimes by their roosting on cold, damp ground, thus causing inflammation of the joints, which may develop rheumatism.

A proper remedy would, of course, be to remove the cause. Feed the young turkeys rather sparingly on good food, not too much at a time. Feed more pinhead wheat and oatmeal. Feed a little at a time and often. Do not overfeed.

If the old turkey hen is a kind that travels too far with the birds, prevent this as much as you can by yarding. Raise your turkeys on fresh ground each year. Provide good, clean dry quarters for them at night to Sweet Clover for Pasture. 'Sweet clover Is well suited to use as a pasture crop for hogs. If properly managed it should re-seed Itself every year and produce a large amount of succulent forage at a minF mum cost.

a Generous Feeding Needed. There Is no time the colt's UN tag than during the first year after tbn Cr 11 HATE TO GO WRITES SUICIDE Retired Merchant Pens Farewell Uotes as He Dies by Asphyxiation. FEARS INSANE ASYLUM Man Evidently Struggled With the Letters Until Completely Exhausted Approaching End in Phrasea of Eloquence. Philadelphia, H. Merithew.

a retired hardware merchant of Wilkes-Barre, and until recently an investor in real estate in Long Beach, committed suicide by inhaling gas in his room in a lodging house. He left four remarkable notes, written evidently while the gas was filling his lungs and benumbing his senses. The body was found and sent to the morgue. The text of the notes and the cramped condition of his fingers indicate that he struggled with the letters until completely exhausted. The tone of the notes indicated that he was about to be separated from his wife and sent to an insane asylum.

The notes are addressed to "My dearest, Fannie," and Lyle, supposed to be his son. Two months ago he returned from California, after an absence of eight years, and voluntarily Went to the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane for treatment for a nervous disease. Eloquent and Legible. The note written last is the most eloquent. In a fairly legible hand is written: "Remember, Lyle, I have not gone drunk (an allusion to a pint bottle of whisky he had consumed) but have just taken this whisky to make me sleep." Then follow several llne3 of illegible writing, followed by "My muscles are now growing numb," and then, "The light is growing dim." After another blank space the writer, his strength apparently almost gone, adds, "My last message is I love you." The third noie was written after the gas had been flowing from the jet some time.

It read: "I now-begin to leave this world. Oh, how I hate to I a i Writes Farewell Notes as He Dies of a Writes Farewell Notes as He Dies of Asphyxiation. go. I loved this world and its beauty. How beautiful everything.

But the agony of the cell. I love my dear Helen. Oh, Lyle, be true to her. Oh, could I have lived to see you both in a home. But not so.

I must go. Oh, why could I have not kept my business. No one knows' how I hate to leave this world and my loved ones." CHINESE HIDDEN IN SACKS Thriving Smuggling Business Cut Short by Arrest of Man for Speeding. Portland, E. Brock of Seattle, who was arrested recently while driving an unlicensed automobile carrying two Chinese concealed in canvas sacks, confessed that he has been engaged in a thriving Chinese smuggling business for seven months and that for each subject brought into the United States from Canada he received $200.

Brock was delivering the Chinese to the Hop Tick Co company of Portland. Ching Chong Kee, a merchant of Vancouver, B. was the Canadian agent in the deal. Brock said he picked up the Chinese seven miles north of the international boundary line Saturday night, walked them ten miles and used his automobile frotn Blaine the remainder of the distance. MISSED HONOR; TRIES TO DIE Bey Drinks Poison When He Learns He Must Take Examination in Mathematics.

New he learned that his name was not on the list of students exempt from taking an examination in mathematics because of exceptional proficiency in that study, Harry S. Levine, fifteen years old, of 204 Third street, Brooklyn, swallowed a solution of iodine in his classroom in the Boys' High school of thxt borough recently. The boy had phial of iodine In bis pocket which he bad bought to relieve a sprained Anger. As Instructor George Downing completed the reeding of the list the Ind put the bottle to his Upa and awallowed the contrats. Idhr.

Downing administered an antidote and yodng Levine was then taken to SL John's hoepltaL He was able to leave la a- abort 'a court. MB to wbo IS BOUND INC MINE IN Missouri Millionaire Is Saved From Death by the High Price of Ore. SL H. Worth, millionaire mine operator, of Joplin, and Indianapolis, owes his Ufe to the high price of sine. Held prisoner in an abandoned zinc mine, be had been left to perish, and doubtless would have done so had not two prospectors, Roy Caldwell and Sam Huston, gone into the old mine and discovered Worth, who had been there in the drift five days.

He was unconscious when found, but was soon revived. The high price of ore caused the prospectors to enter the drift in hope of finding zinc overlooked by former operators. Worth says he was accosted at a Joplin hotel by a stranger, who said i 'A He Had Been Left to Perish. he was desirous of looking at mining land. business partner.

Worth does not remember the names of the men, but says they drove with him to the abandoned mine. In a remote drift, he says, he was bound, gagged and tied to a piece of mine timber. The kidnapers attached a long fuse to one of his feet and another to the end of a box containing dynamite. The fuse was lighted, and one man told him The stranger introduced his "It will reach the dynamite in 12 hours, and, if the rats don't get you first, this will finish the job." The rescuers discovered that the had accidentalmen in walking a ly cut the fuse. SELF I km Dies on AnnlBereft of ister.

ister. a New years ago Greenwich village mourned with George Feldhausen. His wife and all his children had perished when the steamer General Slocum was burned. Recently the story of his grief was told again. Feldhausen's body was found in his place of business at 50 West Eighth street.

He had committed suicide by means of illuminating gas on the anniversary of the death of those he cared most'for. For many years Feldhausen had been the owner of a German cafe, with howling alleys attached. It was a meeting place for the neighbors who desired good beer and a game of cards. In the summer Feldhausen's figure was a familiar one as he stood 'at the doorway of bis place, coatless, but immaculate in a plaited linen shirt and old-fashioned black string tie. He was seen last the other evening at the doorway looking into the street and back through 'the years.

In the evening his cafe was closed and the next day friends found his body. at 7 at TWO WIVES IN ONE HOME Wisconsln Domestic Arrangements Interfered With by Arrest on Charge of Bigamy. La Crosse, D. Christian, who runs a hay farm here owned by of the biggest lumber interests In one the northwest, was arrested a few days ago, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to serve a term in the penitentiary of a year and a half for bigamy. Christian had two wives living in the same home with him.

Christian was married to Violet Levin January 11, 1914, In St. Paul, by Rev. A. C. Haase of that city.

He brought the woman to La Crosse. Shortly afterward Mary E. Krontz as a domestic. He became attached to her, according to letters, and, according to his confession, married her at Winona, April 11. 1914.

Christian took SUICIDE USES ELECTRICITY of Learning That Cancer Is Incurable. Man Climbs Polo and Grasps WireJohnstown, Buck, fortyeight years old, a wealthy contractor of Chester Springs, Cambria county, committed suicide the other afternoon by grasping a carrying 60,000 volts of electricity. Back, who had only recently returned from a Pittsburgh hospital, where be was told tt imdl be useless to attempt to era took eight chfl trip near home. Leaving the Chib pole of the on a climbed a I the to the OVER FOR MURDER R. D.

RUSHING. AGED SEVENTY. IS CHARGED WITH KILLING HI8 SON-IN-LAW. LONGSHOREMEN ARE UGLY Half a Hundred Union Men Make Effort to Attack Shrimp Schooners at Biloxi Using NonUnion Crews. Blue preliminary trial of P.

D. Rushing, charged with the murder of his son-in-law, Harvey Moore, was held here Aug. 9. It is charged that Rushing stabbed Moore to death on the night of July 30. Moore and his wife were living with Rushing and it is claimed that ill feeling had existed between the two for some time.

Moore was only in his twenties, while Rushing is nearly 70 years of age and in very feeble health. Rushing was bound over to await the action of the grand jury ud der a $2,000 bound. Longshoremen Ugly. a hundred members of the International Longshoremen's Association, armed and threatening to do damage to three shrimp schooners which were operating with non-union men, marched from here to Ocean Springs on Aug. 9.

and there prepared to meet the schooners when they appeared to take on ice for their trip to the Louisiana marsh lands. Instead of the fight which the longshoremen had planned, they there encountered Marshal Raymond and a force of armed deputies dispatched from Biloxi, who sent the strikers back to Biloxi without accomplishing their purpose. The schooners are being operated by the Foster Fountain Company. Federal aid may be invoked, as a struggle, should it come, might take place in government water territory. Negro Kills Section Boss.

W. Coruthers, section foreman of the Yazoo Mississippi Valley Railroad, living In this city, was assassinated by one of the negro section gang, George Finch, on August 5. A Winchester rifle was used and the victim was shot from behind. According to the report one of the negroes had been discharged and two of the gang made a plot to murder the foreman. The shooting occurred near Malvina, and when Justice of the Peace Robert Arnold went to investigate he was also turned back by the Winchester rifle.

He went to his office and got a gun, shooting at the negro two or three times without effect. A posse is searching for the murderer and his accomplice with the aid of the hounds. Meridian Murder Mystery. Meridian Murder Mystery. dead body of an un known negro was found Aug.

7 near A street and Twenty-sixth avenue, in the rear of the Meridian Grain Elevator Co. Coroner D. A. Ray held an inquest over the remains and returned a verdict that the negro came to his death from mashes and bruises upon his body from unknown causes. Every effort was made to ascertain the name of the dead man.

G. of First Greenville Bale. first bale of cotton at the crop of 1915, received here Aug. 7 by O. B.

Crittenden Co. from S. M. Spencer, a planter in the southern part of Washington county, was sold at auction in front of the Cotton Exchange to Edward Holland cotton buyers, for cents per pound. The bale weighed 555 pounds, and brought $129.04.

Wili Reclaim 3,000 acres. New Big Creek drainage commissioners, Silas Williams, E. A. Brown, J. E.

Tate, S. R. Knox, attorney, and C. S. Cullens, clerk, awarded the contract Aug.

9 for digging the canal to A. V. Wills Son of Paragould, at 8.85 cents per cubic yard. Nearly 3,000 acres of land will be reclaimed by this Two Die on Scaffold. public double hanging of Dit Seals and Peter Bolen, the two negroes who were convicted of murdering and robbing Willie Taylor, member of their same race and a porter for the Mobile Ohio Railroad here, took place on the morning of August 6, without a mishap, though spectacular Indeed.

The crowd numbered in the neighborhood of 5,000, some having come from the adjoining counties, including people of all colors and walks of life. Many white women intermingled in the crowd Mayor Undergoes Operation. W. D. Cutrer of this city underwent an operation at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis Aug.

9. The operation was successful. Mr. Cutrer's condition indicates that he will be able to returr home within the next few weeks. Levee Work Held Up.

government work on the levees in this vicinity is still held up on account of the high water, but the rapid fall of the river will soon make it possible to resume activity. Pearl River Vote. Pearl River county vote is as follows: Bilbo 1,069, Reily 265, Stovall 22,. Quin 89, Tally 169 Russell 1,028, Carter 374. Thought Son German's Victim.

Burnett, living neat brae, has received a letter from bis eon Orion, who was reported to bare down on the steamer Armenian, sank kg' a German submarine, stating that he was in England and would saB Set homo in about tiro weeks. REILTS FRIENDS CLAIM A CONTEST CHARGES ARE MADE OP IRREGULARITIES IN PONTOTOC COUNTY. BILBO HAS GOOD MAJORITY its Bunyan Carter for Ticket Failed to Get the Big Vote Expected. Rueeell Also Charges of irregularities and inconsistencies in the returns from Pontotoc and other counties will be made before the Democratic state eecutive committee by the Reily forces in an attempt to throw out returns which at present make Theo. G.

Bilbo governor-elect. Reports of irregularities in Pontotoc reached the headquarters of Marion W. Reily Aug. 5, and his friends declare that the matter wU! be fought out before the committee. Lieut-Gov.

Theodore G. Bilbo's victory over the combined opposition for the governorship of Mississippi has been conceded almost beyond question, even by leaders of the opposition, particularly those of Marion W. Reilly of Natchez, the runner-up. This has been determined from returns received by the secretary of state at Jackson, who at the closing of office hours on August 6 had heard from 57 counties. With every county heard from and returns practically complete.

Bilbo has won over Reily, Tally, Stovall and Quin by about 2,500 votes. E. Bunyan Carter has practically conceded defeat for lieutenant-governor by Lee M. Russell, after holding out since election day that he had defeated Senator Russell for the second place on the ticket. The state ticket will probably be as follows Governor, Theodore G.

Bilbo. Lieutenant-governor, Lee M. Rus sell. Auditor of public accounts, R. E.

Wilson. State treasurer, Dr. J. P. Taylor.

Insurance T. M. commissioner, Henry. Secretary of State, Joseph W. Power (unopposed).

Attorney-general, Ross A. Collins (unopposed). Clerk supreme court, George C. Myers. Commissioner of agriculture, H.

E. Blakeslee (unopposed). Superintendent of education, William H. Smith (unopposed). Adjutant-general, Evie C.

Scales (unopposed). For land commissioner Wood or Thompson will run It off August 24 with the present incumbent, M. A. Thompson will run It off August 24 with the present incumbent, M. A.

Brown. For state revenue agent Stokes V. Robertson is leading, but a run-off between him and Charles J. Moore Is certain. Races for railroad commissionerships in the three districts as well as contests for the penitentiary trustee ships are as yet undetermined.

is is Big Bilbo Rally Held. Anticipating the probable formel declaration by the state committee of the nomination of Theodore G. Bilbo for governor, Lee M. Russell, for lieutenant governor, and a number of others who went In on the "lineup" ticket, the Bilbo-Russell leaders here held a ratification rally here on the night of Aug. 9.

Governor-Elect Bilbo was presented with a few words of introductory by Will Ward, master of ceremonies, profound cheers when he arose from the chair beside Mrs. Bilbo. He was greeted with Anthrax Appears. a report of Dr. H.

Chadwick, city veterinarian and pure food inspector, that anthrax had appeared among some cattle herfls in and about Jackson, Dr. E. M. Ranck, state veterinarian, at Starkville, reached here Aug. 8 and at once began an investigation.

He concurred In Dr. Chadwick's diagnosis, pronouncing the suspected cattle to be Infected with anthrax, and steps were Immediately taken to place the catle under sringent quarantine. Dr. Ranck reported that the disease is not widespread, as apparently only a few sporadic cases have so far developed. Orders for the anthrax antitoxin were immediately sent off and as soon as this is received all cattle exposed to infection before the establishment of quarantine will be inoculated.

Gov. Brewer Pardons Two. Dan Maybee, who has been serving a life term in the penitentiary for killing Sam Reber, a young man of a prominent family, in a red light resort several years ago, was pardoned by Gov. Brewer Aug. 7, after the chief executive carefully considered a petition signed by several hundred citizens.

Tom Tyson, sent up from Lamar county in 1912 to serve a life term for criminal assault, also was par doned by Gov. Brewer. Edwards Denied Bail. After a preliminary examination which consumed some two hours in the city police court here Ahg. 6, Justice Manship held Jack J.

Edwards, who is charged with having shot and fatally wounded Lewis Sims as a result of a craps game, to the next Hinds County grand jury without baiL Hugo Nathan Pardoned. Hugo Nathan, a young man traced from Warren County last December to a two-year term tor forgery, was granted a pardon on Aug. SMSdUOL Lesson (Bjr E. O. 8ELLEB8.

Acting Director of Sunday School Coursa. The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) LESSON FOR AUGUST 15 JEROBOAM LEADS ISRAEL INTO SIN. LES80N Kings GOLDEN TEXT-Thou not make unto thee a graven Image, nor any likeness of anything that Is In heaven above, or that la In the earth beneath, or that Is In the water under the earth; thou shalt not bow down thyself down unto them, nor serve them. Ex. 20:4, 5a.

Whether Jeroboam incited Israel's rebellion or was summoned home because of his being known as an opponent to Israel, we cannot say. must have remembered prophecy and he had anothprophet on his side, Shematah though Ahijah afterwards deserted him In Egypt. Jeroboam had learned of the worship of the bull Apis and upon setting up his kingdom, saw at once the need of centering the religious life of the people elsewhere than in Jerusalem. I. ''Calves of Gold" vv.

25-30. Given these ten tribes by God (11:31) the people had chosen Jeroboam without seeming consultation with God, and the result was a tragic future for the Hebrews. David's monarchy lasted scarcely two generations. Rehoboam's second attempt at coercion (12:2124) is rebuked and he settles down in Judea but fortifies many cities (It Chron. I Kings Jeroboam likewise built cities.

chem and Penuel, but the result of the schism was a weakened people and Israel was the first to be carried into He Ahijah's er captivity and to extinction as a tion. Defensed cities are not adequate safety for a nation 2 Chron. Zech. 1:4, 5). Witness Liege and Antwerp.

As a matter of political prudence Jeroboam's scheme of removing the center of worship from Jerusalem succeeded admirably, center of gravity of a man and of a nation is that place where he centers his worship. The temple had no Image, and his setting up of his images of bulls was a backward step, though doubtless it was regarded as best for the nation. Jeroboam's fatal error was in deflecting the people from the invisible Jehovah to the visible creations of their own hands. Mankind always prefers to trust to their own devices and to plan their own deliverance rather than to trust in God. The evidence of our trust in God is to obey him.

Note Jeroboam took counsel, not did Rehoboam, of the aged or the young, hut "in his heart." We are not to lean to our own understanding but the Holy Spirit (John naThe as upon Man 1 "slow of heart" and that one at all familiar with Hebrew history should repeat the mistake Aaron made is scarcely to be understood (Ex. The errors and "isms" of today but of the false teach8). The errors and "isms" of today are but a repetition of the false teachings of former days dressed in a new garb, labeled with a new name; such is the deceltfulness of the human heart (Jer. Jeroboam's excuse plausible enough (v. 28) and apwas pealed to the ever-present weakness of the human heart to seek some easier way of serving God.

But man's way always becomes the hardest way. boam today would be classed as a and held up as a "broadminded man." Note his cunning appeal to sacred memories 28). II. "Priests of the Lowest" vr. 31-33.

Jeroboam's real concern was not that of the people but the permanency of his kingdom. Jeroboam was not introducing a new God but a new way of One step always leads to worship. another, and to fully establish this new way, and at the same time entirely to control the situation, he selected from among "all the people' priests who were to carry on Jehovah's worship. God had selected the of Levi and specially ordained sons them for this service (Num. When the devil introduces a new religion, or any falsa idea of Christ, or the Bible, he always appeals to sacred memories, or else claims a "modern expression of the truth." boam not only chose those who would be beholden to himself, but he also selected positions in his kingdom, at either end, each of which was easily accessible.

Thus to build and thus to select others than the sons of Aaron priests was expressly forbidden. But such is the natural perversity and stubbornness of the human heart that It readily follows Its leaders Into all sorts of apostasy and error Jeroboam also changed (v. 32) the feast ordained of God on the 15th day of the seventh month 23:33, 34) to one occurring in the eighth month. No possible appeal of local interests warranted any such substitution; to obey is better than to modify (Matt. Mark The last verse (v.

33) tells us whence all of these changes originated, "of his own It is not surprising that he finally assumed to himself the priest's office (I Sam. 13:12, 13; 2 Chron. a crowning act of apostasy and presumption. III. The Main Teaching.

Jeroboam's chief purpose was not the glory of God, but this new religion was for personal safety and glorification, cunningly devised program became the agent of his own and the nation's destruction 2 Kings .10:29, 31), and his opprobious title has become "Which made Israel to sin." Graft and trickery succeed for a time, -but only those who obey God in all things build on a solid and lasting foundation, is worth doing wrong for." Boys do not succeed by breaking the rules of the game. Bad habits and vice are but a defiance of God's laws. There is no sadder sight than that ef shipwrecked souls seeking their own gains at the cost of the rained bodies and souls of their fellow mes- To seek to clothe the calves of Egypt with modern religions inventions ts the most cussing device. Jeroas (Horn. (Lev.

His Nothing in this world.