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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON III, SECOND QUARTER, INTER
NATIONAL SERIES, APRIL 16.
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Text of the Lesion, John xtil, 1-17.
Memory Venn, 14-17—Golden Text,
John xili, 15—Commentary Prepared
by the Rev. D. M. Steam*.
[Copyright, 1899, by D. M. Stearns.)
1. “Having loved His o\\n which were
In the world, He loved them unto th*
end.” How good it is that He never
ceases to love us! He never finds out any
thing new about us, but before ever He
told us of His love He knew us thorough
ly, and He loves us with an everlasting
love (Jer. xxxi, 8). He came from the
Father into the world. He is now about
to return to the Father, and He has some
last words and lessons for His disciples,
many of which are full of assurances of
His love, such as chapter xv, 9.
B. At one time the devil used the ser
pent, but since Eve listened to him the
devil has always been able to find men and
women enough for his purposes. He puts
before us evil thoughts, and if we receive
an evil thought then he will show us how
to oarry it into an evil deed, and ho will
come into us himself and consummate it.
In this verse he puts the thought into
Judas’ heart, and in verse S7 he comes in
himself.
8. Jesus was conscious that all power
and all tilings were His; that He came
from God and was going to God, and be
cause of what He was He did what He
did. He did not try to make Himself equal
with God, for Ho was equal with God, one
with the Father. If we have received
Him, we are children of God by faith in
Him, heirs of God and joint heirs with
Christ (Rom. viii, 16, 17), and as we be
lieve this wo will be enabled to do or bear
cheerfully whatever He sends us.
4. Laying aside His garments is sug
gestive of the glory which He laid aside
when He came to earth for us, and girding
Himself with a towel makes us think of
Him as our great high priest, ever minis
tering to and serving us. He is still girt
about the breast with a golden girdle
(Rev. i, 18) and is at God’s right hand for
us as well as in the midst of the churches.
B. Washing and wiping the disciples’
feet—how dumb with astonishment they
must have been, and what an opportunity
for blessed service some one lost I How
slow we are to see the opportunities until
they have passed. He never lost one.
6. “Lord, dost Thou wash my feet?”
With amazement Simon has watched Him
passing from one to another, but now that
his own turn has come he cannot stand it
and thus cries out, adding, “Thou shalt
never wash my feet” (verso 8). To see our
Lord Jesus taking the place of the most
menial servant was too much for Peter
and perhaps made him wish that he had
been quick enough to do this instead of
his Lord and Master.
7. “ What I do thou knowest not now,
but thou shalt know hereafter.” The
hereafter does not necessarily refer to
heaven and the life to come, but to a later
period in this present life. We often have
some light as the years pass on upon God’s
dealings with us, but doubtless the full
light will not come till the morning, and
many things may remain dark till then.
8. ‘‘If I wash thee not, thou hast no
part with Me.” As to this washing see
chapter iii, 6; I Cor. vi, 11; Titus iii, 6;
Rev. i, 6; Eph. v, 26. We cannot have
part with Christ till Ho has niado us meet,
but it is His work, and His alone, that
can give us this necessary cleansing.
9. Simon, not understanding, now asks
for more than our Lord was doing. Possibly
he had some thought in mentioning hands
and head as well as feet of the blood and
oil upon the ear and hand and foot in the
consecration of the priests and the cleans
ing of the leper (Lev. viii, 24; xiv, 26, 28).
10. “Cloan every whit. ” What a word
concerning such as Peter and John and
the others! Yet it is true of every sincere
believer. Sanctified as well as justified by
the one offering of Jesus Christ once for
all—yes, perfected forever and complete
in Him (Heb. x, 10, 14; Col. il, 10). This
is our standing in Christ through His fin
ished work. As to our daily life wo need
constant cleansing. The feet suggest our
contact with the world.
11. “Yo arc not all clean.” Judas never
had been a true disciple. He was only of
the number of the twelve, not of the
twelve. Those who go out from the num
ber of Christ’s followers never to return
make it manifest that they never were
truo followers (I John ii, 19). Those who
are true disciples can never perish (John
x, 27, 28). The Lord knoweth them that
are His.
12. “ Know ye what I have done to you?’ ’
They certainly knew that He had washed
and wiped their feet, but that was only
the outward act. Did they understand its
meaning? He made known His ways un
to Moses, His acts unto the children of Is
rael (Ps. ciii, 7).
13. “Ye call Me Master and Lord, and
ye say well, for so I am. ’' Paul loved to
say, “God, whoso I am and whom I serve”
(Acts xxvii, 23). Elijah said, “The Lord
God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand”
(I Kings xvii, 1). On another occasion
our Lord said, “One is your Master, even
Christ, and all ye are brethren” (Math,
xxiii, 8).
14-10. "l have given you an example,
that ye should do as I have done to you. ”
We cannot be saved by trying to imitate
Christ, for there is no salvation except by
His blood. “The life of the flesh is in the
blood, and I have given it to you upon the
altar to make an atonement for your
souls, for it is the blood that maketh an
atonement for the soul” (Lev. xvil, 11).
But He saves us by His blood that we
may follow Him as our example and man
ifest His life in these mortal bodies. Not
saved by any doing of ours, but saved that
We may do. “We are His workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus unto good works,
which God hath before prepared that we
should walk in them” (Eph. ii, 10). Noth
ing will make us more apt to see quickly
these good works which He has for us to
do than a study of the life of our Lord in
the four gospels, always supposing that
we are filled with the Spirit both to study
and to act. Many are willing to do some
great thing, but to lay aside our official
robes and stoop to serve those whom we
consider beneath us—this requires more
grace than rnpst of us seem to have.
17. “If ye know these things, happy are
ye if ye do them.” Elsewhere He said,
“Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord,
Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of
heaven, but he that doeth the will of My
Fathar which is in heaven” (Math, vii,
81). “Be ye doers of the word and not
hearers only, deceiving your own selves”
(Jas 1, 22) “Therefore to him that
knoweth to do good and doeth it not, to
him it is sin” (Jas. iv, 17). “This is a
faithful saying, and these things I will
that thou affirm constantly that they
which have believed be careful to main
tain good works. These things are good
and profitable unto men” (Titus ill, 8).
ORCHARD CULTURE.
E#e«t« of Clenn Cultivation and of
Cropping.
Whether orchards shall be cropped or
given clean cultivation, how cultiva
tion shall be done, whether it shall be
continued throughout the season and
similar problems depend very largely
on local conditions of soil, climate and
the like. Various experiment stations
have conducted experiments to find out
what methods give best results and why
they do so. As stated in farmers’ bul
letin No. 87, a study was made at the
Nebraska station of the effect of cnlti
a
FIG. I—CULTIVATED AND UNCULTIVATED,
vation on the growth of apple trees, the
size of frnit and the water contents of
the soil. The report says: “The trees
i» cultivated ground suffered noticeably
less from the drought and hot winds of
summer than those in sod ground. The
foliage was darker and more vigorous
in appearance, and there was no yel
lowing and dropping of the leaves or
wilting during hot windy days, both of
which occurred with uncultivated trees.
Apples from cultivated land averaged
nearly 14 per cent larger in weight than
those from pasture land and over 17
per cent larger than those from mowed
land.” The average percentages of
moisture in the first 20 inches of the
soil in different portions of the orchard
in the latter part of October were:
“Mowed portion, 14; pasture portion,
14.7; portion cultivated till August,
17, and portion cultivated the entire
season, 20.4.”
Observations on grass land near the
orchard showed that alfalfa only two
years old took the moisture from the
soil as completely as an old June grass
sod. These facts show how very neces
sary cultivation is in a dry climate.
That the same is true in dry seasons in
moister climates is shown by observa
tions at the Cornell (N. V.) station.
The California station has recently
reported an instance of the beneficial
effect of cultivation on the growth and
fruitfulness of orchards. Apricots grown
in adjacent fields under exactly the
same conditions, except for cultivation,
showed great difference in behavior.
See Fig. 1, where A represents a culti
vated and B an uncultivated apricot
tree in a dry season. The soil of the re
gion in which the orchards are located
has a rather loose texture. One orchard
was cultivated several inches deep, and
the other was uncultivated. During one
season the trees in the cultivated field
made a wood growth of over three feet,
while those in the uncultivated field
made a growth of not over three inches.
There was also a great difference in the
fruit. The average percentage of mois
ture in the first six feet of soil was 6.3
in the cultivated orchard and 4.2 in the
other one. A recent bulletin of the Il
linois station reports marked benefit
from clean cultivation of an orchard. In
1890 three rows each of Ben Davis and
Grimes Golden apples were planted, the
trees being set 15 feet apart each way.
These were divided into four plats, the
first being given clean cultivation and
the second, third and fourth being crop
ped with oats, clover and blue grass,
respectively (Fig. 2). The same treat
ment was continued each year after
planting. The trees grown on the grass
plats were decidedly inferior to those
grown on the cultivated plat as regards
height, diameter of trunk, vigor and
abundance of foliage, etc. For instance,
in the case of the Ben Davis trees the
diameter of the trunks one foot above
the surface of the soil was about twice
as great in the case of the cultivated
plat as in case of that in grass. Simi
larly the height of the trees in the two
plats averaged 18% and 11 feet, and
the diameter of the tops 15% and 8%
feet respectively. In growth and vigor
of the trees the clover plat ranked next
after the cultivated, and the oats rank
ed between the clover and the blue
grass plats. Fig. 2 shows the effect of
the different systems of culture on the
growth of apple trees—A, clean culti
vation ; B, cropped with oats; C, crop
ped with clover; D, cropped with blue
grass.
The injury caused by growing grass
in young orchards is shown very em
J*. .
FIG. II—DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OF CULTURE.
phatically by an experiment conducted
at the Utah station. Parts of an orchard
were seeded to alfalfa, timothy, clover
and a mixture of timothy and clover
soon after the trees were set, and other
parts were cultivated, all being irri
gated alike. Over half of the trees in
the grass plats died and were reset
twice, while the cultivated trees lived
and grew well. It is not to be expected
that growing grass in young orchards
is always as injurious as it proved to be
at the Utah station, yet the reported
experiences of fruit growers and experi
menters everywhere show the impor
tance of carefully cultivating young or
chards. Even in a climate as moist at
that of England grass proves very detri
mental to young trees. Notwithstand
ing all this it must not be understood
that clean cultivation is best in all cases.
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in a Shoe Store.
Because—
Everybody
Buys Shoes.
They’re a necessity
You’re looking for
the best value for
the least money.
You’ll get it
HERE.
OUR NEW STORE
IS THE MOST
UP=TO=DATE
SHOE STORE
IN MORRISTOWN.
D. B. BOCK OVEN.
Successor to Condon Estate.
Babbitt Building.
Established Yesterday, 18—
W.T. COGHLAN,
PAINTER
WALL PAPER,
WipWlpES
Iq Stock aqd made to Order.
CORNICE POLES.
Personal Attention 1 Reasonable Prices 1
Telephone 258 a.
H. ENSNIINGER,
. *. . • ■ , _
studl°-17 w. Part Piatt,
Two Doors From Post Office.
DAVID H. WILDAY,
Carpenter and Builder.
ESTABLISHED 1872.
CARPENTER WORK IN AI.L 1TB
BRANCHES.
Estimates cheerfully given on all kinds
work In my line.
Office and Sh jp on Morris Street, below the
Depot.
All orders left at Shop or mailed to
DAVID H. WILDAY,
Box 868. • Morristown. N, J.,
Will receive prompt and perecna) attention
Wear '
Royal
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Corsets.
fDG SALE GY l EAD»**D DEALERS.
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If so, do not use common tarred paper for any
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Use Neponaet Paper. It is odorless, clean, and
economical, and although thinner than tarred paper
has greater strength, toughness, and
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r or outside covering use Neponset
Red Rope Fabric. It is a splendid
substitute for shingles and clapboards,
and does not cost nearly as much.
For repairing old buildings, leaky
roofs, for making warm hot-beds,
green-houses, sheds, barns, henhouses,
etc., Neponset Fabric does the
business. Absolutely waterproof, wind
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| TRADE MARK
For full information and samples
apply to
GEORGE E. VORHEES
Morristown, N.J.
Hardware and Iron Merchant.
STURGIS BROTHERS,
THE BUILDING CONTRACTORS
MASONRY IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.
HIGH GRADE STONE AND BRICK WORK A SPECIALTY.
Residence 54 and 56 Early Street.
P. O. Box 116, - Morristown, N. J.
HALL’S
7 South Street.
Here will be found positively
the largest stock of furniture
in Morristown at prices that
are consistent with quality.
Why should you go to the
city for any article of furni
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Furniture made after any
pattern desired. Upholster
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please the most fastidious.
An inspection of the com
plete line of furniture is in
vited.
P. M. HALL
7 South Street.
_
JOSEPH LUSARDI,
20 Park Place, South.
DEALER IN
OWES, LEMS, WES, ElO.
NUTS. RAISINS.
Choice Confectionery,
ICE CREAM SODA
5 Cents a Glass.
GI6HBS OF THE FINEST BIHND8.
In i Magas
FOR SALE
Wanting to reduce my Livery Business, I
will offer For Kale at my stables, 107 florria
Street, Morristown, N. J„
SEVERAL GOOD ROAD HORSES,
Also Some Good
FARM AND BUSINESS HORSES,
Also Some
BUGGIES, SURREYS AND
OTHER CARRIAGES.
ANDREW RILEY.
W. T. ENSLEE
Moving Vans
—AND—
Baggage Transfer
Furniture Removed to all
Parts of ihe Country.
RESIDENCE, - - 160 MORRIS STREET
OFFICE, - - - 47 MORRIS STREET
Telephone l» a. 1600
Flowers
Variety
The choicest and best
for any and all occa
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Ferns, Carnations,'Pot
ted Flowers for Table
Decoration and Plants
and Foliage of all kinds.
Handsome designs
for social events or fu
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signs made. Nowhere
else can a greater variety
be found.
I lHOLTON
84 Soiitfl street
TOWN, M.
Established 1830.
George E. Voorhees,
MORRISTOWN. N. J.
Hardware ago Iron piercgagt.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS,
FERTILIZERS and SEEDS
Paints, Oils, Glass, Etc.,
.. HOUSE KEEPING GOODS, ..
..LAND AND DRAIN TILE..
FARM MACHINERY.
Contractors, Supplies, Etc.
REMINGTON & EAGLE BICYCLES.
J. E. WELSH,
Part Mies
MORRIS STREET,
Near the Park,
MORRISTOWN, N. J.
HORSES BOARDED.
Handsome Carriages and Coaches,
Single or Double, with Care
ful Drivers, on order.
H09 Telephone 71.
GREENWOOD & OeCOSTER
Contractors and Builders.
Careful Estimates Given on all kinds of
Carpenter Work.
PROMPT AND PERSONAL ATTENTION
GIVEN ALL ORDERS.
Shop on Spring Street, near Morris,
P. O. Box 87. Morristown, N. J.
Quo. W. Ghxxnwood. FbxdH. DxGobtik
Best Scranton Coal, all sizes except Pea, $4.85
Best Lehigh Coal, all sizes except Pea, 5.25
Above prices subject to discount of 10 cents per ton for
. . . cash in ten days. . . ,
Kindling Wood per load, - - - $2.00
Block Wood per load, - - - 1.75
We are Minute Hen in the Matter of Delivery.
DALRYMPLE-HASTINGS CO.
YARDS AND OFFICE, 57-63 ELM STREET,
Telephone No. 24. - Morrletown, N. J.
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REflOVAL SALE
About April 1st I will remove to the storo latey occu
pied by J. Searing Johnson, on Park Place, and in
order to reduce my stock before moving, will make a
reduction in all my lines, including—
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver Table
Ware, Silver Novelties, Optical Goods, etc.
This will be a rare opportunity, as many bargain*
will be offered.
A Competent Optician Always on Hand—No Charge for Examination.
22 Washington Street.
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